Cat & Billie chat in Minneapolis about doing drugs at 12, becoming a beatnik, becoming an Occupy Wallstreet Floridian, going to herb school, realizing that you hate prisons, being the only punk at law school, moving to NYC, becoming a public defender, becoming comfortable with not knowing everything, dodging hostile clients, and going to sleep knowing that despite everything, the work you did freed someone from jail. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Pink Lincolns

Cat & Emil are in Pittsburgh chatting about having the house that looks like it's always having a garage sale, growing up with two freaky parents and siblings in the part of Michigan that's not the hand, getting dengue fever in India, evading sex pest members of the Strokes in Italy, not joining a metal band in Italy, being the token "barefoot cello girl" in the early 2000s, being a therapist because you think you'll have time to go on tour, dabbling in being a circus guy, becoming a bike mechanic, figuring out you're gay, trying out closets in open houses, and realizing your full potential as a mega smarty pants academic trans activist in medicine world. whew!

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Hi Viz 

Cat and Jimmy are in KCMO in the stuffed animal room at Farewell talking about being a left handed middle child, one of three punk brothers, being a runaway, getting wild at the Savannah Saint Patrick's Day, prolific heists, gouging your butt on a train, becoming a kinda young dad, being the 411 guy, getting in fights as a lab rat, and becoming a master of quizzes, games and puzzles. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Gorf Zhguchiv Kholod 

Cat & Katie are in Pittsburgh with the dog Marvin and the neighbor lawn mowing chatting about being a hipster straightening your hair in a field, avoiding the family biz, leaving Ohio, riding dirt bikes, working at the Hallmark store, becoming a freelance photographer, being in a straight edge gang, and becoming a nurse in the midst of surviving cancer!

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Tonya

Cat & Max are in Pittsburgh chatting about antiquing at the pizza joint, being a basement kid, holding one hundred jobs before the age of 12, getting bullied by snowboarders, reading Stephen King at the toy store, being a big time poster salesman, using the goldfish brain to survive labor, diverting people's expectations, being a good kid trying to be bad, becoming a local coffeeshop owner, and that flyer on the dumpster that turned everything around. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Planet Jackpot

Cat & Mads are at the Mountain School chattin' about ruining Thanksgiving, losing her grandma, being the bread gurl, discovering piles of Playboys in the back of the restaurant, almost losing your teeth in a swimming pool, being a vagabond rock climber bro, being a child prodigy artist, making your cat go on road trips with you, learning earth skills, creating an incredible post- Helene mutual aid network, and making carpentry accessible for all. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Tim Robinson 

Cat & Kyle are in Ohio chatting about bodily functions, praying hands at Fedex, stuffing doll butts with yr mom, being left handed, trimmin', clinical trials, lighting your genitals on fire, bottles of pee, juggalos, Ween v. Phish, being a dinosaur in a ska band, tye-dying for top dollar, and being a freak for life. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Horse Breakfast 

Cat & Kaetz are in a coffeeshop drinking hot chocolate in Guatemala battling the background noise of some gossiping teens as we chat about growing up as a village punk in rural Germany, wearing pajama pants all through youth, living in communal punk trailer parks, learning Spanish, becoming a bike mechanic, being saved by DIY culture, and studying genocide in both Europe and South America.  

Intro by Nature Boys 

Outro by VORKRIEGSJUGEND 

Cat, Transmut8 (Luigi), and Chris are in Xela, Guatemala talking about starting an info shop, being punk in a country with very few punks, Indigenous resistance, our Mayan signs, graffiti, and continuing to exist after your government tries to kill you. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Transmut8 

Just an update to say I am alive, in Guatemala and i did not complete an episode this week other than this update! Back to normally scheduled interviews next week, I love you and I am sorry to disappoint if my hour and a half interviews are integral to your weekly routine. 

Love you! Back next week! -Cat