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.

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Outro Uke of Phillips 

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.

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Outro Yoni Yum

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. 

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Outro Charlie Parr 

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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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 

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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. 

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Outro Chevrolet Pile