In celebration of the release of Bloodlust: Tournament of Death over at Vice.com (Release Date: Nov 15), Damian sits down with one of the movies most memorable characters: Jeff Cannonball. But as Damian learned while making the doc, Jeff is no mere wrestler, Jeff is a basement playing, on the floor sleeping, front seat of the van riding, kid of the hardcore. Listen in as the two discuss going from playing Ieper fest to wrestling New Jack.

Also touched on:

Brought together by a Plastic Bomb

“It is very weird being called an Athlete”

Just two Friends of Tom hanging out

Finding punk from your rock dad

A Thin Line Fading: pre-Tear It Up and Reign Supreme

First show at a skate park

Asking about the cover song and discovering the CroMags

Q: “Are you into Punk?” “I don’t know”

Being made fun of for liking Unbroken

Black Coffee becomes Scared To Death

Loving Tear It Up

Seeing Blind Society

Getting into Wrestling before you could talk

Dad and the 2am Wrestling TV show

DON’T WEAR BRET THE HITBEAR’S GLASSES!

Be it the Ultimate Warrior or music: Loud Fast Rules!

Punk or Wrestling?

The death of Eddie Guerrero

XFilesX is super underrated

The importance of Mental

Mind Eraser

What’s worse breaking straight edge or Vegan?

UltraMantis Black

Pissed Jeans and Chikara

Tournament of Death as Wrestlemania

A Tear It Up t-shirt flip

ieperfest “Moshing to Strife”

A Myspace post for destiny: Getting into wrestling

Punk or Wrestling: the choice is yours

forming Altered Boys

“A full circle of weird violence”

Kevin Gill: the hardcore/wrestling connection

punk and juggalos

Homies is killer!

Mike McCarthy from For The Worse goes so deep

Gordon Solie Motherfuckers: a perfect band

THE BEST SHOW

An inside account of the Kenzan

and more!!!!!!

Somewhere out there could be better, and nerds aren’t just talking about weather. This week on the show, escape with Chris and Damian as they deconstruct mutual friend Jonah Falco's episode and get into Career Suicide's history. Also, a TOAPLive recaps and mailbag returns!!!

The good times and sad times, they’ll be on your side for ever more! That’s what Jonah is for! This week on the show, Damian welcomes his tour roommate and best bud: Jonah Falco from Career Suicide and tons of other stuff!!!! Sit back and listen as we find out what it's like to be a stuck in a room with Damian for 10 years and how Jonah and Martin stole Career Suicide from the OG members!

Jonah loses control of Damian

The Fucked Up plan

Damian and Jonah talk Mike

Damian’s brother Tristan exposes punk to Jonah

Loving Soundgarden and grunge

going to Ottawa and coming back with orange hair, a chain necklace and Sex Pistols tape

Jonah’s family: not really into the whole punk vibe.

Jonah’s Uncle ”knows a guy” that can find Black Flag CDs

No Doubt with the Vandals and Civ

The Feederz and animals

Punks tipping point

“I’m getting into Hip-Hop”

getting a free bag of CDs

Ska-Ska-Oi: a right of passage

Jonah Da SHARP skin

Jonah takes down his boots

Local bands

Going to Who’s Emma?

loving Madball

Toronto falls in love with The Swarm

the huge influence of Chris Colohan

“Johnny New York and The Stinkbombs”

Louanne and Full Blast is the BEST

Chris Harper: the nice one

Jonah’s first show weird ass show

Jonah and Martin’s punk Jackets

Trial: the band

Bored Of Eduction demo: The worst thing to ever come out of Toronto?

As One becomes Scare Tactic

Jonah falls in love with AOD

The rise of early ’00s TOHC

Scare Tactic VS Haymaker

Catharsis

And more!!!!!!

Fighting technical problems, jet lag and exhaustion, Chris and Damian say fuck the mailbag and talk about one of music’s coolest couples and all sorts of other fun stuff.

What an awesome episode!! This week Damian is joined by one of punk and metals coolest of couplings: Alissa and Doyle! Listen in as Damian gets to talk how going to local Montreal punk shows led to fronting one of Sweden’s leading death metal bands and being groomed from a young age to be a Misfit.

Also touched on:

the Fucked Up - No Joy - Arch Enemy - Misfits connection

Alissa and Jasmine have the coolest mom!

Hole cover bands

Ripcordz

No Doubt

"I walked out into my yard and saw Glenn and Doyle practising the Misfits"

“Static Age is the best Misfits records”

“I like that Misfit” but not a fan of the band

Getting in the Misfits

Being groomed to be in the band

The iconic Misfit: DOYLE

The classical Danzig record over the first three

“You are smaller than I thought you would be”

“What did it feel like to play with those guys again?”

Being blown away by your own band

Life of Agony Rues!

Micheal Allago

“Why the fuck would I come up here for?”

I’m only 10 years old, dressed up like a red, cause my daddy told me so dressed up like a nerd. This week Chris and Damian fight desperately to get to all the juicy info in the Geoff Rickly episode before time runs out! They must also fight a mailbag and a LONG convo on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame first.

Live and together for the first time in the podcast’s history, Tom and Damian meet up in Richmond Va. to talk Goldberg and some other Pro-Wrestling… and of course they also wind up talking music, politics and other fun stuff. They are also joined by filmmaker, professor and Wrestling fan Jason Robinson!

Get ready for a good one! This week on the show Damian is joined by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly. Listen in as Geoff tells Damian about pre-teen punk shows and the violence and awesomeness of early 90’s New York.

Also discussed:

Being a kindergarten Goth

Seeing the Replacements at 6

Going to Slayer and Bad Brains with your mom and dad

Robert Smith, Goeff’s mom and paparazzi

A friend stealing a Monster Magnet tape and ruining the record store relationship

Going to smart kid school

getting in Fugazi

Heckle’s Garage

Not being into silly punk

Getting stabbed for $3 in NY

The miracle TV

Going to Coney Island High and seeing VOD. Madball and Crown Of Thronz

Roger from Agnostic Front gives Thursday their first show

Playing in a band opening for X for two shows

Going on a family vacation and winding up in Green Apple Quickstep

Deadguy changes there sound

booking the “most hated band in New Jersey”: Ink & Dagger

Getting a house to book shows

forming Thursday

making sure you keep your early set

Eyeball Record: The NJ launching pad

Reversal Of Man breaks up in your basements

Benny from Gaslight Anthem

Almost breaking up

Why can’t you say you talked to nerds? You’re already thinking of someone else. This week on the show Chris and Damian talk about the journey of friendship that Zach Blair and MVP took us on. They also review their respective weekend of shows and tackle the mailbag with a vengeance!

THIS IS THE BEST EPISODE YET! Zach Blair is the internationally famous guitarist of Rise Against who grew up in a small town in Texas. MVP is an international wrestling superstar that has been at the top of the card for almost every major wrestling company in the world. When they were teenagers the two would have a chance meeting one night in a local park and in spite of their differences, connect over a mutual love of punk while MVP was in Texas trying to escape the violence that surrounded him back home. The two would have a major impact on each others lives, but over time lost touch. Now for the first time in 20 years the two reconnect to talk about meeting, the shared love of punk, why MVP disappeared one night and having to calm down the Macho Man. Also touched on:

Thesis of the whole show summed up in a episode

Damian Abraham: punk matchmaker

Zach growing up metal in Sherman Texas

Zach and three outcast metalheads hanging out in the park

“Cosmic, on multiple levels.”

MVP getting out of Miami to get away from the violence

MVP tagging up the park

bonded together by a love of metal and punk

A gangbanger becomes the muscle for the outcast metalheads: “NOW WE CAN DEFEND OURSELVES”

Getting in fights with the normals

The Burnouts VS. The Skatekids

MVP’s long term memory is INSANE

Teenage MVP vs The Rodeo Rider: Champion VS Champion

Zach and Donny learning to stand up for themselves

MVP sings the Toadies

Metalheads in the garage

“Don’t you say a word against Priest, Jack!”

MVP has to leave town quick!: One HELL of a night!

There is life outside of this town!

Zach plays MVP Voivod

The Jam at the Dam

The skinny bald white guy in a “Badass” shirt walks into a bar.

Macho Man shows up at a Gwar/Misfits shows

The Punk/Wrestling Connection!

Dave Brockie Stories

Fishbone

AND SO MUCH MORE!!!!!