Cat Raia
Punk Chores
Punk Chores is all about DIY punk culture and the hustles that keep our culture afloat. Crazy collective houses, working on marijuana farms, harvesting beets, playing shows in dingy basements, Punk Chores is all about the glittery crusty lives of punks, ”punk adjacents” and our ilk. Stories abound.
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Cat Raia
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Latest episode
Nov 10, 2026
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Episodes
Uninvited but Still Here with Ericka Poore 10.11.2026 58:50
Cat & Ericka sit in Ericka's backyard in Nashville, TN and chat about feeding hot dogs to George Jones, workin' at Steak N' Shake, Chili's, and Maggie Moos, being a New Orleans roofer at 16, being too punk for Hot Topic, mortuary school, and high school graduation, getting shafted by CSX,making friends by having a rat in your hood, watching a heart fly out of a cooler, emt school, running hosp...
High Brow with Mac Marquis 05.11.2026 58:58
Cat & Mac are in Asheville, NC chatting about growing up in a central New Jersey factory town, having criminality normalized from birth, being the main topic of conversation in the teachers' lounge, eatin' a pork roll at earth club, being a scammer paper boy & one of the kids hangin' on the milk crates, stolen tubs and piss covered nails, photocopying the commercial atlas at the library,...
New Episode Thursday 11/5 ! 03.11.2026 0:45
Sorry not sorry, fresh off the road, tired as a dog, missed my Tuesday deadline, love you guys see ya Thursday! -Cat
Too Weird to Do Anything Else with Sasha 27.10.2026 1:03:16
Cat & Sasha are in Sasha's trailer outside of Asheville, NC chatting about being the product of a reversed vasectomy, going to the goth club as a 14 year old, defending yourself at the carnival from scary rednecks, criming while white, being runaways at the diner, getting annoyed by crusties who live in mansions, encountering mean girl oogles, explaining a bullet belt to your landlord, culinar...
Tapping to Keep Time with Billman 20.10.2026 1:22:23
Cat & Billman are sitting on the Mississippi River with the cicadas, trains, boats and wakes chattin' about being adopted, being a little skateboarder trouble maker, working at the Cheesecake Factory, skipping out on probation, riding the juice train, busking Wagon Wheel forever, becoming the ukelele oogle, breaking veg by eating Mcdonalds, corn detassling in Iowa, beets, putting on art shows...
A Beach Goth in Punk World with Erica 13.10.2026 1:17:08
Cat & Erica are in Polish Hill chatting about growing up incredibly Italian-American, having a brother who is a ninja, meeting yr parents' radio DJ friends, growing up in an MTV blocked household and cracking the code, taking beach drugs with beach kids in the 90 mile Delaware radius, getting busted with the sleepover trick, being a bad kid and a good dancer, realizing you're good at math, run...
Can't Say No to The Thing with Septic the Outlaw 06.10.2026 1:24:47
Cat & Septic are in Pittsburgh chatting about coming from a long line of rascals and sons of guns, nearly getting sucked into a wood chipper as a small boy, tagging the chimney, falling out of trees, off of trucks, and out of windows, being okay with not making the bicycle look like the bicycle, falling in love with spray paint, saying no to the square world, hearing road ghost stories, spotti...
Chilly Hawk: Ghost Town Clown 01.10.2026 1:22:54
Cat & Chilly are chillin on the Minnie Pearl in Pittsburgh at Diamond Beach chatting about the trappings of punkdom, working at a living history museum, exotic dancing, two stepping in circles, Texians and imaginal realms, moving into a ballpit full of cans, living with mystery dancing lights, learning that community is a long con, creating a road side attraction, the importance of different h...
A Chorus of Planets with Jonah 22.09.2026 1:37:28
Cat & Jonah are in the boat office at Diamond Beach chatting about growing up with a history buff father, going to arts highschool, the good old pager days, being a ninja juice commando, being a noisy night owl paper boy, being a suit kid, running away to Europe to escape a charge, creating a funky odd family as an 18 year old in Amsterdam, moving kids summer camp luggage for money, living in...
A Fondness for Bad Dogs with Gerty 15.09.2026 1:10:55
Cat & Gerty are on the Mississippi River chatting about being the straight edge roadie in Japan, running away to the big apple with yr skateboard, living under the radar, losing all your filters, going to carpentry school with dumpstered wood, barfing on villagers sandals in southeast Asia, having your motor problems solved through the power of flavor crystals, getting the boathouse for a $2 b...
Poppin' Off with Jess 08.09.2026 1:16:23
Cat & Jess are in South Minneapolis chatting about playing footsie with Mormon alt boys, discovering punk through Alkaline Trio, being a fellow myspace LoVeR, being an oldies radio dj and xeroxing their boobs, running away to Minneapolis to be a musician, writing a song for Red Bull, going on tour, making top dollar off poppers, accidentally cock blocking, eating too many everclear cherries, m...
Ripples, Rails, and Rivers with Bruce 01.09.2026 1:27:42
Cat and Bruce sit in camping chairs next to the mighty Mississippi River with the roaring cicadas for company and chat about being Pre-punk, marching in the '83 Mayday parade, apple harvest, dumpster diving, working with refugee populations in Thailand, moving to Laos, penpalling with Train Doc while helping formulate the most precious and coveted & Iconic CrEw ChAnGe, fighting against big hyd...
Allergic to Uniforms with Sandy 25.08.2026 1:21:09
Cat and Sandy are in North Minneapolis chatting about meeting on Earth day at age 17 in the suburbs outside Minneapolis, being a cool arts high school kid, working at the laundromat, being embarrassed by Dad's anniversary convertible, getting your mohawk revoked, finding nirvana fans on myspace, being a scenester, taking the census, having every classic millennial job, the apple store, American a...
A Crafted Life with Amanda Lee 18.08.2026 1:46:24
Cat and Amanda are on the Mississippi River on a mosquito ridden sand dune chatting about growin up as a little weirdo near D.C., dodging lava cheese at Starbux, getting into trouble as a teen, becoming a wilderness therapy guide, making myspace friends, discovering the lesbian paradise of Kansas City, working at a Korean title firm, BEETS, being an underage bartender on probation, van/trailer/bu...
The Joy of a Duck with Nope 11.08.2026 2:05:54
Cat and Nope are in the Bronx in New York City chatting about being an incubator baby, discovering DIY through dirt jumps in the woods, growing up as their mother's favorite person, being a sponsored child at riding on boards sideways, realizing there is money in dumpsters, painting houses, working at Pendleton, never trusting a lurker, working beets, becoming an old timey gutter yuppy, learning e...
A Platter of Portals with Mary Mack 04.08.2026 1:28:15
Cat & Mary are in Pittsburgh chatting about being a child in Texas, drawing nature at a young age, discovering punk through Sassy magazine, having punk pen pals, letterpress printing, moving to Germany, being a radio DJ, booking DIY cutie pie music for years, becoming a prolific printmaker, working at a book store, moving to Canada, and experiencing work as a "mezze platter" of creative and sa...
No New Episode, Still on the River, Tune in Next Week 28.07.2026 0:45
Hey! If this publishes it means I got nothing for ya this week. Sorry babes! Return for a scheduled pod episode next Tuesday ! -Cat
Seeds in the Smoke Stacks with DJ Desert Rat 21.07.2026 1:44:15
Cat & DJ Desert Rat are in Pittsburgh chatting about being a high school drop out, being a queer non binary egg, living in a "lighthouse town", living in "Indyucky", working for your mom at Whimsy, touring Europe as a teenager, using book your own fucking life, getting arrested for byrning fl@gs, painting the KFC, becoming the victim of the war machine's poison boomerang effect, and respondin...
Leading with Curiosity with Hibs 14.07.2026 1:24:33
Cat & Hibs are in Pittsburgh chatting about having absent parents, accidentally working leatherwork sewing for a naz* motorcycle gang, being an under tatted punk able to drift in and out of different circles, getting pregnant, having a traumatizing young adulthood, riding trains out West, gathering skills on your tool belt, trying to marry a Canadian, weed world, developing kinship networks an...
Happy Being Nowhere with Dan Nowhere 07.07.2026 1:26:12
Cat & Dan Nowhere are in his "trash shack in trash woods" hidden amongst the leaves chatting about being from a disc jockey family, having to try to sweet talk the cops, surviving Catholicism, getting caught skating, getting sucked into trick of private art school, working at ROSS Dress for Less, DIY shows in Portland, animal liberation activism, almost dying on yr bike, riding trains in the S...
New York City Fashion Freaks with Tilly J Lapidos 30.06.2026 1:16:25
Cat & Tilly are in Bushwick on the backroom couch at Vers chatting about Tilly's experiences growing up working Beatles Fest for their parents, being a theatre kid in Jersey, having a Burner sibling with two crazy buses, working for a magazine before even starting college, having homo erotic hockey player wrestling neighbors, having the one crazy house by all the frats, going to fashion week,...
The True Meaning of Hobo with Fox 23.06.2026 1:44:15
Cat & Fox are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing on the railroad tracks, having a punkle Steve, gettin peed on cuz jellyfish, turning from a Korn head into a punker, knowing how to find punks, being anti-car but hitchhiking incessantly, riding trains all over the place, doing porn, having scary pot farm experiences, meeting multiple wizards, herb school, surviving being the "token queer", be...
Arson in the Firehouse with Douger 16.06.2026 1:34:57
PARDON THE 5 MINUTES OF DEAD AIR, I HAVE MULCH BRAIN. WILL BE FIXED ON ALL PLATFORMS WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HRS. Cat & Douger are in Pittsburgh talking about liberating materials to build a treehouse, being dragged out of high school by the cops, being a right handed middle child, falling in love with the drums, working at the hipster belt factory, playing bad rock n roll, quitting the nacho resta...
Still an Entity with Nikki 09.06.2026 1:27:46
If you autodownloaded this morning redownload!! File was corrupted but since has been fixed. Cat & Nikki are in Pittsburgh chatting about finding yourself in dark tunnels, having a not so merry time in Maryland, finding pornos in the woods, having a hippie sibling (CLASSIC!), being goth, becoming a hair color wizard, moving to Spain, cutting hair drunk, puking in a cup holder, struggling with...
You've Come a Long Way, Baby with Morgan P 02.06.2026 1:17:56
Cat & Morgan sit in Morgan's house in Minneapolis with Bizzy the dog and talk about being pizza punk for life, getting knocked out in the cafeteria, getting hit on your bike, being the dirty gay punk sibling who has a basement entrance, being the female incarnation of four-loko, finishing college in Brazil, being in a bunch of bands with funny gross names, having your hardcore exterior hugged...
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