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.
Listen on:
Episodes
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
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 doopers, and so much more.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Andrés instrument performing a Noothgrush cover
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
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, being "not NOT a punk" and trying to steal Puffins from a magical island.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Silver Rein
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
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
Outro: Mansion
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
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 Van Gogh interactive exhibit, protesting police brutality, and so much more!
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Wesley Willis
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Tuesday Sep 16, 2025
Cat & Shaun talk about imposter syndrome, falling into a career through being a volunteer, activism, code switching, art handling and coal mining.
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Gay Witch Abortion
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Tuesday Sep 09, 2025
Cat & Suzanne chat about the old times at ye olde weed tree, playing in my favorite band ever, becoming a radio pro, being a bike mechanic, touring Japan, never quitting a job, staying at a restaurant for too long cuz the food's so good, and making a living doing what she loves in KCMO.
Intro Nature Boys
Outro Nature Boys!
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Tuesday Sep 02, 2025
Cat & Canadian Julien sit on the sailboat Sandpiper and talk about logging, cooking in restaurants, working in sugar shacks for the syrup lords, snowshoeing through the woods whilst dope sick in middle of nowhere, and meeting internet strangers for sailing trips.
intro by Nature Boys
outro by Cadmium
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Tuesday Aug 26, 2025
Cat & Cindy talk about realizing punk is actually cool, weaving for a world class weight lifter, sifting through plastic cocktail swords, playing pots and pans, messing up a PB&J, becoming a prolific zine maker, eventually a punk rock therapist, and being totally and completely unemployable!
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Astrid Oto
Other Music by the Suburbs, X-Ray Spex, Outcry, Seven Year Bitch, Operation Ivy, J.Willis Pratt, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Pinhead Gunpowder, Phish, Rise Against
Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Tuesday Aug 19, 2025
Cat & Breakaway talk about growin' up in a small river town and making your own fun, working at Taco Johns, beets harvest, creating an empire of zines, converting a school bus to veggie oil, serving Thom Yorke ice cream, alternate universe lady president magazines, hustling in NYC & reminiscing about the hit film Rooster Rooster.
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Breakaway
Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Tuesday Aug 12, 2025
Cat & Caitlin reminisce about the ol' days in Minneapolis, being an underage bartender, battling falling knives and stolen tip jars at the collective cafe, obliterating wasps and wine jugs in the basement.
TW
Caitlin also dives into her experience as a survivor of the mass shooting at Nudieland that occurred August 11, 2023 where she lost her beloved partner August Golden and six other of our friends were shot and survived.
Intro by Nature Boys
Outro by Makin' Out
spliced in live show samples (thanks to UndercurrentMpls) from shows at Medusa, Hexagon, and Disgraceland : Brain Tumors, Brother Nature, Hope?, Weakwick