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.

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Episodes

7 days ago

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, lighting your genitals on fire, bottles of pee, juggalos, Ween v. Phish, being a dinosaur in a ska band, tye-dying for top dollar, and being a freak for life. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Horse Breakfast 

Trailer Park Punk with Kaetz

Tuesday Mar 31, 2026

Tuesday Mar 31, 2026

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 village punk in rural Germany, wearing pajama pants all through youth, living in communal punk trailer parks, learning Spanish, becoming a bike mechanic, being saved by DIY culture, and studying genocide in both Europe and South America.  
 
Intro by Nature Boys 
Outro by VORKRIEGSJUGEND 

Tuesday Mar 24, 2026

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 resistance, our Mayan signs, graffiti, and continuing to exist after your government tries to kill you. 
 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Transmut8 

¡Yo Vivo!

Tuesday Mar 17, 2026

Tuesday Mar 17, 2026

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 week, I love you and I am sorry to disappoint if my hour and a half interviews are integral to your weekly routine. 
Love you! Back next week! -Cat 
 
 

Tuesday Mar 10, 2026

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 in Brit's vampire hunting layer post Christmas time talking about frozen animals, learning guitar listening to Jewel, being a dish bitch, driving busted vans cross country, being a hotdog and cupcake punk, shot gunning beers for youtube, escaping Florida, accidentally landing in Minnesota, being a punk in Ohio, getting creeped out by tenants and keeping the lawn clean while also keeping an entire apartment building from murdering you. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro BARTHER
other music by Rag Rage, Dishpit 
 

Tuesday Mar 03, 2026

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 New Zealand while saving the whales, getting a troll drunk, making fairy wings and a giant dragon egg, living in abuelita's basement in California, and being a part of Skull fest for sweet sixteen years. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Peace Talks
Other music by Aus Rotten, Blue Vomit, Sub Humans, From Ashes Rise, Annihilation Time, and Skullfest 2022 compilation video on Youtube

Collision Course with Dana

Tuesday Feb 24, 2026

Tuesday Feb 24, 2026

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 (classic), pretending to be a professional mover with a van, getting out of parking tickets for having an avant garde van color, building a false entrance, having mushroom epiphanies about your future, becoming a professional philosopher, and opening and running a DIY space for FIVE YEARS and not getting killed by the garage door. 
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Nonsite
Other music by White Suns
Live Collision performances by Invader Lars, W00dy, Macula Dog, Stabscotch 

Playing the Part with Tree

Tuesday Feb 17, 2026

Tuesday Feb 17, 2026

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

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 

Train to Go with Xanadu

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 

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