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

1 hr 3 min

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, culinary school, being too gruff for the west coast despite trying relentlessly to live there, and finding optimism through teaching writing.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro On The Block 

4 days ago

1 hr 3 min

Oct 20, 2026

1 hr 22 min

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, becoming an arborist, having a panic attack in a corn field, becoming a carpenter, building a house ,and being forever in the wind,  punk as f*ck, with a good truck, bad dog, and a buncha crap. 
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Warren Burns 

Oct 20, 2026

1 hr 22 min

Oct 13, 2026

1 hr 17 min

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, running away to CBGB's like it's your job, finally giving up corporate world, joining a Catholic Worker house, bringing Goth to Skull Fest, and living out the philosophy of punk every day of your damn life.
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Shadow Age

Oct 13, 2026

1 hr 17 min

Oct 6, 2026

1 hr 24 min

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, spotting UFOS, putting yourself where you shouldn't be and seein' what happens, meeting creepy strangers in the woods, causing chaos in China, using your noodle instead of your back, painting a haunted prison schoolbus, being an art handler, and finding the only song you wanna sing. 
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Zombiewolf

Oct 6, 2026

1 hr 24 min

Oct 1, 2026

1 hr 22 min

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 hats, selling tumbleweeds, being a train friend, learning softness and being down to clown till you're dead in the ground.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Dusty Joy

Oct 1, 2026

1 hr 22 min

Sep 22, 2026

1 hr 37 min

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 Thailand, returning to your root system, becoming engrossed in art and fabrication world, being in the rave scene, making a giant portrait out of used whip-its, partying with endangered cockroaches, becoming a literal tarot wizard, shedding the identity of drug and alcohol use, learning astrology and plugging into our collective story through therapy and astrology work. 
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Matrix 
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Sep 22, 2026

1 hr 37 min

Sep 15, 2026

1 hr 10 min

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 bill, and being forever grounded by living on the river.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Uke of Phillips 

Sep 15, 2026

1 hr 10 min

Sep 8, 2026

1 hr 16 min

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, moving to LA, doggy daycaring, being an extra in porn, wiping butts and caring for people, being an incredible schmoozer and only indulging in the right kind of cringe.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Yoni Yum

Sep 8, 2026

1 hr 16 min

Sep 1, 2026

1 hr 27 min

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 hydropower in Southeast Asia, starting Black Butte Center for Railroad Culture from just a caboose in the woods, handling "right off the hill" trim scene oogle vibes, going on wacky river trips from the Mekong to the Mississippi for decades, and being as free range a punk as one can get. 
Intro Nature Boys 
Outro Charlie Parr 

Sep 1, 2026

1 hr 27 min

Aug 25, 2026

1 hr 21 min

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

Aug 25, 2026

1 hr 21 min

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