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Punk Chores
While ”punk” is a lifestyle stemming from the wild ass music and mohawks from the early 1970s, in the last fifty odd years it has come to mean a lot more than describing a style of dress and music. Punk is an umbrella term for all of the growths sprouting out of ”do it yourself” outsider culture. House shows, stick and poke tattoos, riding freight trains, making zines, building boats to sail down the Mississippi, welding bike frames together, getting scabies from sleeping on a couch on tour…
Episodes
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High Brow with Mac Marquis
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…
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New Episode Thursday 11/5 !
Sorry not sorry, fresh off the road, tired as a dog, missed my Tuesday deadline, love you guys see ya Thursday! -Cat
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Too Weird to Do Anything Else with Sasha
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…
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Tapping to Keep Time with Billman
Cat & Billman are sitting on the Mississippi River with the cicadas, trains, boats and wakes chattin' about being adopted, being a little skateboarder trouble…
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A Beach Goth in Punk World with Erica
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…
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Can't Say No to The Thing with Septic the Outlaw
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…
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Chilly Hawk: Ghost Town Clown
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…
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A Chorus of Planets with Jonah
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…
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A Fondness for Bad Dogs with Gerty
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…
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Poppin' Off with Jess
Cat & Jess are in South Minneapolis chatting about playing footsie with Mormon alt boys, discovering punk through Alkaline Trio, being a fellow myspace LoVeR…
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Ripples, Rails, and Rivers with Bruce
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…
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Allergic to Uniforms with Sandy
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…
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A Crafted Life with Amanda Lee
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…
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The Joy of a Duck with Nope
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…
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A Platter of Portals with Mary Mack
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…
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No New Episode, Still on the River, Tune in Next Week
Hey! If this publishes it means I got nothing for ya this week. Sorry babes! Return for a scheduled pod episode next Tuesday ! -Cat
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Seeds in the Smoke Stacks with DJ Desert Rat
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…
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Leading with Curiosity with Hibs
Cat & Hibs are in Pittsburgh chatting about having absent parents, accidentally working leatherwork sewing for a naz* motorcycle gang, being an under tatted…
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Happy Being Nowhere with Dan Nowhere
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…
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New York City Fashion Freaks with Tilly J Lapidos
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…
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The True Meaning of Hobo with Fox
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…
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Arson in the Firehouse with Douger
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…
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Still an Entity with Nikki
If you autodownloaded this morning redownload!! File was corrupted but since has been fixed. Cat & Nikki are in Pittsburgh chatting about finding yourself in…
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby with Morgan P
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…
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Small Pain for Big Take with Theresia Maria
Cat and Theresia are in Minneapolis chatting about growing up with a sex worker drug slingin' mom and an incarcerated dad, growing up in bars, brothels and…
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The Most Punk Rock Job You Could Ever Have with Billie
Cat & Billie chat in Minneapolis about doing drugs at 12, becoming a beatnik, becoming an Occupy Wallstreet Floridian, going to herb school, realizing that you…
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Do They Know Who They Let In Here? with Emil
Cat & Emil are in Pittsburgh chatting about having the house that looks like it's always having a garage sale, growing up with two freaky parents and siblings…
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Grinding Organs with Kung Fu Jimmy
Cat and Jimmy are in KCMO in the stuffed animal room at Farewell talking about being a left handed middle child, one of three punk brothers, being a runaway…
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Surviving in this Meat Suit with Katie Krulock
Cat & Katie are in Pittsburgh with the dog Marvin and the neighbor lawn mowing chatting about being a hipster straightening your hair in a field, avoiding the…
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Jackpot in a Hopeless Place with Max
Cat & Max are in Pittsburgh chatting about antiquing at the pizza joint, being a basement kid, holding one hundred jobs before the age of 12, getting bullied…
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Mad(s) World with Mads
Cat & Mads are at the Mountain School chattin' about ruining Thanksgiving, losing her grandma, being the bread gurl, discovering piles of Playboys in the back…
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Magic Piss Breakfast with Kyle The Emotron
Cat & Kyle are in Ohio chatting about bodily functions, praying hands at Fedex, stuffing doll butts with yr mom, being left handed, trimmin', clinical trials…
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Trailer Park Punk with Kaetz
Cat & Kaetz are in a coffeeshop drinking hot chocolate in Guatemala battling the background noise of some gossiping teens as we chat about growing up as a…
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La Semilla Fertilizada con Transmut8 y Chris
Cat, Transmut8 (Luigi), and Chris are in Xela, Guatemala talking about starting an info shop, being punk in a country with very few punks, Indigenous…
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¡Yo Vivo!
Just an update to say I am alive, in Guatemala and i did not complete an episode this week other than this update! Back to normally scheduled interviews next…
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Shooting Rabbits in the Night with Brit
I AM SO SORRY THE AUDIO GOT MESSED UP SECOND HALF OF THIS EPISODE. THUS BRIT'S PARTS ARE QUIETER THAN MINE, GREATEST APOLOGIES TO ONE AND ALL. Cat & Brit are…
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An Amorphous Legend with Krystyna
Cat & Krystyna talk about being a runaway halloween prop maker, a child laborer factory seamstress, a labrat, a punk rock oil drinking zombie, almost dying in…
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Collision Course with Dana
Cat & Dana chat about growing up in an east coast city with no culture, finding noise music without ever having to bother with punk, being a bike messenger…
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Playing the Part with Tree
Cat & Tree chat about falling off the amish cart as a child, softball on acid, scamming at Dairy Queen, witnessing possible neighbor murder in Colorado…
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Todd the Omelette God with Todd Jackson
Cat & Todd participate in the first ever Punk Chores remote interview by having to enter & exit Zoom meetings every 20 minutes because neither have a paid…
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Train to Go with Xanadu
Cat & Xanadu chat about growing up go cart racing, blowing up dams and eating beavers, butchering meat, sleeping on Las Vegas laser light bros couches, the gem…
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Moto Heart Strings with Joey Molinaro
Cat & Joey chat about being a metal violinist, being in ska bands, occupy Wallstreet, touring in Europe on motorcycle, and writing books about alternate…
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Scratching the Surface with Ruby Mox
Cat & Ruby are in Ruby's old ass gorgeous camper van yapping about turning from neuroscientist to tattooer, boy to girl, Connecticutian to Yinzer…
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A Delightful Work History with Marissa Botelho
Cat & Marissa sip Coors on a 3 seasons porch in Braddock by the train tracks and talk about all of Marissa's crazy cool jobs. Becoming an incredible realistic…
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God Loves Darkness with Stefano
Cat & Stefano are in Berlin reminiscing about old times living in crazy collective houses, being a lil Italian cowboy selling icecream, smashing beer bottles…
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Krampus Special!
Regular programming back Jan 6. Enjoy this weird little episode, i hope it sits comfortably like a big ol' plate of rice pudding, fruit soup, meat fondue…
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Diamond Dirtbags with Katie Bowie
Cat & Katie sit in the squat palace and discuss being a god-squad ska keyboardist, living above a Pittsburgh pizza legend, becoming the accountant for the…
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Good Friends on the Inside Good Friends on the Outside with Alan Lewandowski
Cat & Alan are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing baseball, being Polish, figuring out that god is everywhere, being a crusty hippie, meeting your first…
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The Non Existent Career with Wes
Cat & Wes hang in Brooklyn and chat about a wild ass drug and rock n' roll child hood, skate ramp bedroom, being a lifeguard, cat sitting, working for peanuts…
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A Slice of Life with Good Kid Paulie
Cat & Paulie sit in a park in Bushwick & chat about growing up in New Jersey, squatting in Philly and NYC, dog walkin', dumpstering pizza, carpentry, snow…
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Surviving the Plastic Apocalypse with Xristina Sarli
Cat & Xristina are in Xristina's studio in Berlin chatting about doily jock straps, edible nipples, mycelium that eats plastic, clothing made out of mushrooms…
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Ramblin' & Dabblin' with Brandon
Cat & Brandon chat about being a CaLiFoRnIaN turned prairie punk, harvesting wild rice, living out of a backpack, tanning hides, becoming an ethical landlord…
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Made to Be Alive with Michael Sommers
Cat & Michael chat mostly about puppetry and making art and being a creative weirdo in South Minneapolis! Intro Nature Boys Outro Soundtrack to BAAL (1970)
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Still Not a Phase with Gina Favano
Cat & Gina sit on the deck in Pittsburgh in July and chat about converting diesel buses to veggie oil, autonomous boat house community on the Mississippi…
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You Can't Keep a Big Dawg Down with Big Dawg
Cat & Big Dawg talk stealing at Micheal's, vet tech, having your clothes covered in shit at Fecal Manor, having your eye obliterated by a rubber bullet at a…
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Hot Takes and Cold Pranks with Andrés
Cat & Andrés talk about sly pranks, industrial music, living in a legendary punk show venue, being a teen on yr own livin large, riding trains, bucking the…
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Bog Walkin' with Nicole Sara Simpkins
Cat & Nicole sit on Sandpiper and talk about art, plants, natural dyes, weaving, taking over a hotel when Minneapolis was on fire, getting Covid in Ireland…
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The First Time I Touched Brains with Emma Törzs
Cat & Emma talk about Cat's time doing death cleanup in the wilds of Florida. TW: contains mentions of suicide, violence, and general gore. Intro: Nature Boys…
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Jokes from the Pit with Devohn Bland
Cat & Devohn chat about being the French Toast Guy, roasting local politicians, being a comic in the midwest, working as a PCA, golf caddying, Booing at the…
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Falling into Coal Mines with Shaun Slifer
Cat & Shaun talk about imposter syndrome, falling into a career through being a volunteer, activism, code switching, art handling and coal mining. Intro by…