Punk Chores

Cat & Ericka sit in Ericka's backyard in Nashville, TN and chat about feeding hot dogs to George Jones, workin' at Steak N' Shake, Chili's, and Maggie Moos, being a New Orleans roofer at 16, being too punk for Hot Topic, mortuary school, and high school graduation, getting shafted by CSX,making friends by having a rat in your hood, watching a heart fly out of a cooler, emt school, running hospital dispatch, having to be the bitch with the real job living in the punk house, shifting into lumber mode, and being shafted by jobs but never broken. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Thetan

Cat & Mac are in Asheville, NC chatting about growing up in a central New Jersey factory town, having criminality normalized from birth, being the main topic of conversation in the teachers' lounge, eatin' a pork roll at earth club,  being a scammer paper boy & one of the kids hangin' on the milk crates, stolen tubs and piss covered nails, photocopying the commercial atlas at the library, almost losing your foot on a train, being a squatter bike messenger, finding Earth First, having to explain your white dreads, creating the Asheville Prison Books Project, getting a PHD, creating a historical graphic novel, and finally letting go of seeking approval and engaging in work you can feel good about.

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Allergic to Bullshit

Sorry not sorry, fresh off the road, tired as a dog, missed my Tuesday deadline, love you guys see ya Thursday! 

-Cat 

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 

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 

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

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

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

Due to some health stuff this week's pod is moved to Thursday.

Tune in Thursday!

<3 Cat

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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