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. Our culture is kept alive by the myriad of hustles we’ve cobbled together to avoid commitment to careers allowing for giant swaths of time to travel, make art, fuck around, find out. Punk jobs exist in the yellowy amber goop Venn diagram of craigslist, word of mouth and sheer luck. Sometimes well paid, sometimes not. Disgusting, terrifying, monotonous, or mind boggling but above all, good for stories. So grab your lighter, re-associate with your cat you haven’t seen in 6 months since working on a weed farm and buckle up. It’s time for your punk chores.
Episodes

4 days ago
4 days ago
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, hanging with a Waco survivor in California, working with adults with disabilities, sewing little monsters, astral projecting into the Perfect Storm, moving to Portland (as one does), moving to Pittsburgh, doing set dressing for the movies, and finding a voice as a performer, stand-up, and playwright.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Sea Turtle in Space

Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
Tuesday Feb 10, 2026
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 subscription. Reminiscing about the good old days meeting in Chicago, matching butt cheek tattoos, catching up in Oklahoma City, a long history of tour & friendship in the Midwest, cooking the best omelettes at the waterpark restaurant, not getting hired as a sign holder, frying chicken, thrift store truck driving, pooping your pants in Restaurant Depot, and finding true love, support and a new outlook on life in recovery from alcohol.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Brother Gruesome
Other music by The Hex, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Evangelicals

Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
Tuesday Feb 03, 2026
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 show in the desert, shoving contraband into a roadkill raccoon, escaping shitty exes, acquiring a van pontoon from the UP, riding trains with one shoe on, fixin' cranes and surviving Alaskan fishing season, dancing for top dollar, wrenchin' on cars, and doing it all with a sweet little pupper who snoozed on the sleeping bag as we chatted.
Intro Nature Boys Outro Frozen Teens

Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Tuesday Jan 27, 2026
Cat & Joey chat about being a metal violinist, being in ska bands, occupy Wallstreet, touring in Europe on motorcycle, and writing books about alternate universe rock stars and zombie apocalypses.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Joey Molinaro
Other music by Channel 7, Intro to Airlift, The Walking Ruins

Tuesday Jan 20, 2026
Tuesday Jan 20, 2026
Cat & Ruby are in Ruby's old ass gorgeous camper van yapping about turning from neuroscientist to tattooer, boy to girl, Connecticutian to Yinzer, skateboarding and committing to the trick, hating money, washing the shit out of those dishes, realizing the secret to overcoming fear of ghosts, tattooing jerks, and embracing the void of not knowing.
Intro: Nature Boys Outro: Hallucination

Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
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 oil painter, being adjacent to people who may have done graffiti, making escape rooms, working at the childrens museum, attempting to unionize big tech, making production art, making guitars for rockstars, making miniatures, and giant puppets, and eventually headed towards self playing instruments House on the Rock style!
Intro Nature Boys Outro Gland , also FUCK ICE!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Tuesday Jan 06, 2026
Cat & Stefano are in Berlin reminiscing about old times living in crazy collective houses, being a lil Italian cowboy selling icecream, smashing beer bottles on ancient statues, running away from industrial Italy to find a new life in Berlin, trimmin' weed, and making incredible events mashing harsh noise, techno & punk come to fruition in Berlin's abandoned and DIY spaces.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Gremlins
Other music by High Circle

Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
Tuesday Dec 23, 2025
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, lefsa and pretzel salad (yes, this is the stuff I ate every Christmas my mom was alive. She made some weird stuff but it was fun) Love yall, see ya soon. <3Cat

Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
Tuesday Dec 16, 2025
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 weird, learning about bolts and carpenter-ing, partyin' and falling through the sky in Europe, getting a stomach bug and floating down the Mississippi, denouncing college & christianity standing on a couch, taking your 8 month old baby on a crusty all-rain river trip, eating peanut butter naked on the house boat, breaking the glass ceiling at Bruegger's, buying multiple boats until finally making the dream come true of owning a punk rock marina.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Lahar

Tuesday Dec 09, 2025
Tuesday Dec 09, 2025
Cat & Alan are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing baseball, being Polish, figuring out that god is everywhere, being a crusty hippie, meeting your first PuNk, being a fruit & veggie co-op guy, moving to Albuquerque sleeping on the futon floor, house painting, getting cancer, and becoming totally dedicated to fighting death by incarceration & finding the humanity that's locked away.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Close Prisons
Other music Weird Al, Russian MeatSquats, Birthday Party, Sugar Cubes







