We spoke with Sarim Al-Rawi -- front person of the cult garage punk band Liquor Store (2000s/2010s, New York/New Jersey), and crime blues jamrock band Prison (today, New York) -- about various scenes including: 

1. Brooklyn DIY punk and indie heyday of the Pitchfork era 

2. Brooklyn DIY punk and indie now

3. New York’s shifting Arab-American neighborhoods

4. grad school terrorism classes

5. New York and New Jersey sanitation work

6. New York Times columnists who know nothing about the Middle East

7. Ralph Nader’s American Museum of Tort Law

8. Etc.

Host/Producer/Editor: Reed Dunlea

Executive Producer: Ash Tyner

Music: Jesse Crawford

Logo: Kyle Seely

Associate Producer: Tina Halladay

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