We are nerds in our lab, looking through the microscope. This week on the show Chris & Damian talk about the Pittsburgh/Cali connection, all things Spike Slawson & crack open that MAILBAG! RIP STEVE SOTO!!!!

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We are happy announce that Turned Out A Punk is coming to Montreal as part of the awesome '77 Montreal Festival Pre-Party!!! To celebrate the occasion, we are talking to a bunch of guests from the ’77 Festival leading up to the show, starting with Me First & The Gimme Gimmes’ SPIKE SLAWSON! Tune in as Spike & Damian talk all about growing up punk in Pittsburgh, all the baggage and all the traumas - celebrated, nurtured & given by punk. THIS IS A GOOD ONE!

Matt Wiener Loves Prog & The Dead Kennedys

Pittsburgh In The Dark Times

Joining Punk  & Feeling The Strength In Numbers

Getting Shit For Dressing The Part

Realizing How Shitty Your Bullies Had It

The Intellectual Gentrification Of Pittsburgh

Carsickness Go Psychedelic 

The Bizarre History Of The Electric Banana 

Keith Morris Learns Not To Fuck With Johnny Banana

The Five

It Took A While For Hardcore To Come To Pittsburgh

When Metalheads Get Into Punk

Stick Against Stone

The Warhol Local Influence

Black Flag & Saccharine Trust

Broken Bones As Grateful Dead

Savage Amused

Knowing That You Weren’t In LA

Never Playing In Bands Until The 90’s

Moving To California

Punk Protest Turns Punk Gathering Points

BGK

Going To The Farm With Christ On Parade & Neurosis

When The Orange County Came To LA

The Gilman Opens

Doing A Cover Band With Psychotic Pineapple

Fat Mike Seeing You Perform

Fat Mike: Ambition & Implementation

LA Drive vs SF Vibe

Not Feeling The EpiFat Sound

Thrashwomen

The Mummies

Untamed Youth

The Dwarves

The Swingin' Utters Sounding Like DOA?

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!

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Do you still keep nerd pictures in your frame? Cause nerds still shut down at the sound of your name! This week on the show Chris & Damian celebrate the announcement of the impending Canadian Cannabis legalization nation… Well, Damian does at least. They also gab about the fantastic Fat Tony episode, open the mailbag & celebrate friendship like only these two can!

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Get ready!!! This week's episode is one of the best yet! Damian is joined by rapper & Host of Thrift Haul, Houston’s favourite son, FAT TONY! Listen in as the two discuss FAT TONY's quest in isolation to uncover punk & how it helped inform his career as a rapper.  NOT TO BE MISSED! 

Also Touched On: 

Meeting Through Ben

All Corners Of Toronto

Being Part Of The Post Kurt Cobain Generation

Watching the Nirvana Destroy Gear & Trying It At Home

Green Day “Welcome To Paradise”, Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” & Nirvana ONLY

From Blink 182 “Enema Of The State”, to Dino Jr. & The Decendent

People In West Africa Loving Country Music

A Cool Mom That Loves Music & Stealing Her Nirvana CD

Mom Trying To Teach You How To Play Devo On Guitar

Bonding With Dad Over Al Green

King Sunny Ade

Sega CD As A Gateway Kriss Kross 

Whodini Is Slept On

Rap & Punk Big Up The Youth

Down With The King: Good OR Bad?

Mom Picks You Up From School & Breaks The News Of The Passing Of Fat Pat

Going To MF Doom As A First Show

Growing Up In Third Ward

Finally Meeting A Cool White Kid

Rhymes Like Dimes 

Doing An Ergs Show As Your First Punk Show

Becoming Friends With The One Kid With A Mohawk At A Show

Atmosphere & Murs On Warped Tour

30 Foot Fall: A Divide

More Rites Of Spring Than What Was Happening   

Hardcore Over Punk

Roy & The Fatal Flying Guillotines

Buying The Jawbreaker CD Because The Warped Tour Got Rain Out

Tribe Called Quest 

Trying To Channel The Beastie Boys

Softball With Bikini Kill

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!

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Back again! Here Nerds come! Chris & Damian are back to talk more about the Matt Jackson episode! This time they've called in Matt’s good friend & the subject of his opening dis: Dave It Up!!!!!!

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They got him down. It’s three on one. Ten nerds show, guess who won? The week on the show it is a two part epic! In PART ONE, Chris & Damian reflect on the passing of Anthony Bourdain & his involvement in music, the discuss Matt Jackson & Iron Age. That merely just sets the stage for PART TWO with Dave It Up showing up to address Matt’s labelling of him as a nerd!

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Oh, what wonderful places you will go! This week on the show Damian catches up with his old friend, ex-IRON AGE bassist, Matt Jackson!!! The last time Matt & Damian hung out, they were both Straight Edge gigging together in their band's, but what a difference a few years makes?!?! Matt Jackson has gone on to become one of the most respected motorbike builders in America & a legit biker. Damian… Well, Damian smokes a lot of weed these days. 

Listen in as the two discuss going from throwing footballs on a roof, to playing in one of the wildest hardcore bands of the era & it being pretty tame compared to the rest of your life. 

Also Touched On:

Dave it Up’s knowledge

Growing up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere

Throwing a football on a roof

Finding Sabbath in the record collection

Austin keeps it weird

driving an hour a half to go to the cd store

buying Punk-O-Rama, the nitro comp and the Fat comps

being raised by a cowboy

Mom’s cool student buy you a Pantera shirt

Going to see Green Day and Samiam because mom wants to

Getting into Orange 9mm

A satellite dish and a gateway to punk

Cranberries are hard as fuck 

moving to the city to play football

going edge

Emo’s in all its glory

getting into Judge in a Earth Crisis world

Bitter End and Far From Breaking

Iron Age forms

“It’s Texas”

Going back to school

It all starts with one bike

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!

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Hey, 

It’s Damian. Anthony Bourdain was someone that championed & celebrated punk & it’s influence. He was also someone that, for some unknown reason, championed the work that I do as well. When I told him about this podcast, he was super excited to get the chance to just talk about punk rock, the music he loved. Here is the conversation we had that day as well as my eulogy for one of my personal heroes. 

RIP Tony. Thank you for everything

Nerds Of America, Is Living In The Jungle! It's Fighting For Survival With The Wrong Place To Go! This last week has been a tough one, but Chris & Damian are back for some much needed distraction. The boys attempt to breakdown the immense BUZZ & BRIAN PART #2 & even manage to get to some MAILBAG.

It Is Time We Rectify This Now! We've Got To Feel It Now….WHOA!

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