Punk Chores

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 apparel, garage rock photographer, and frozen yogurt , bouncing between LA, SF, and MN, being in a punk band, getting gigs off craigslist, and finally taking screen printing serious becoming a truth lizard. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Mika Miko

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/bus/truck life on the road for a decade, skiing accidents in Montana, buying a house, being too short for corn and too tall for blueberries, becoming a professional academic craftsperson without a bachelors degree, and having the courage to walk into the dark with your friends, knowing the end of the tunnel is always there.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro field recording of buds at beet harvest in 2018 

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 earth skills in the desert, riding TRAINS (duh), getting a Jetta off of Scruff, working for Big Motor, learning survival astrology, navigating the nuances of good old boy work places, workin' on trash trucks, becoming a marine mechanic, and living the boat dreams one hole in the hull at a time. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Cloud Rat 

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 satisfying gigs.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Zeitgeist

Hey! If this publishes it means I got nothing for ya this week. Sorry babes! Return for a scheduled pod episode next Tuesday ! -Cat

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 responding to the new need that came from becoming disabled by becoming a psychologist and therapist 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Banquet Years 

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 and always having a culture shifting agenda, trying to show your neighbors they're actually social*st, running a non profit of goats, being an adventure punk, getting paid to lurk, watching out for the culture cops, and always leading with curiosity. 
 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Chevrolet Pile

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 States AND Australia, having way too many hobbies, becoming mesmerized by squat culture, dissecting lies your teacher told you, and finding space, home, and a challenging but fulfilling work environment through landscaping in the sky with chainsaws. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Crimpshrine

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, creating one of a kind transcendent fashion collections, getting fired from Beacon's Closet for some b.s., getting to know the party / club kid scene in NYC, being told to design problematic socks, and creating a dream store bringing community together to clothe itself.
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Deadname

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", being a gargoyle, planning a retirement community for punks and weirdos, and learning the true meaning of the word hobo. 
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Burning Kitchen