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!!!!!

God Save the Nerds, we mean it man. This week on the show Chris and Damian turn it into an Episode 100 party! In celebration they are joined by two regular mailbag contributors and friends of the show: Dave Ackerman (Former guest on Episode 72 and Tear It Up singer) and Dave Martin (Future guest). Listen in as they all get nerdy and talk the first 100 TOAPs!

Millstone of milestones, we have made it to episode 100!! To celebrate, Damian does what every cool person does when they throw a party: call his parents! Sit back and enjoy two conversations with two people that had to deal with Damian’s youthful follies. So much embarrassing shit happens in this episode to summarize here! And if that wasn’t enough, Damian is joined for a special intermission by his Footnotes co-host Chris O’toole! Breaking down some of their favourite past episodes from the first 100. WHAT A SHOW?!?!?!

The Nerd is almost gone, give it a break and stop the press. This week on the show Chris and Damian delve into the Lost Lance Bangs Episode! Join the two as they uncover one of the first episodes Damian ever recorded as well as fighting a vicious fight with the mailbag!

What once was lost now is found! This week on the show, one of the very first Turned Out A Punks ever recorded!!! Now you can finally hear Damian (In a state of caffeine soaked exhaustion) sit down with one of the raddest people on the planet:Lance Bangs! Recorded way back in 2014, it was sealed in a vault once Damian heard how out there he sounded, but it is an episode too good to meet that fate!

Growing up an army brat

Damian’s horrible memory laps

Punk on morning shows

Patti Smith as an elementary school teachers

“What is happening?” Seeing Debbie Harry on the Muppet Show

Clash or the Sex Pistols

The music culture on the Army base

Pink Floyd the final cut

Hating “adult culture”

Moving up to New Jersey

The awesomeness of City Gardens

Film as survival

The curse of Bon Jon Jovi in NJ

Cinema of Transgression

Moving to Athens

Learning under James Herbert

Porn Orchard

The Elephant Six Collective

Touring with Pavement

Five Eight

Documenting bands for no other reason then you feel you should

The Importance of Nirvana

Wanting the alternative boom to happen

Hating Pearl Jam

Ian MacKaye lecturing you about working for the Smashing Pumpkins

On tour with Mercury Rev

listening to Team Drench in the Jackass van

Skaters

Explaining Odd Future to Ian

Nerds aren’t the first, Nerds aren’t the last, another day another crash. This week on the show, Chris and Damian discuss the fantastic Allyson Baker episode as well as waging war on the mailbag and getting distracted by TONS of stuff!!

Like ECW on SyFy, WE ARE BACK! This week on the show Tom and Damian start off talking the wrapping up of the Cruiser Weight Classic and CM Punk’s UFC debut. Then, in the main event, the two sit down with 80’s wrestling superfan DANKO JONES! Listen in as the three talk: AWA, NWA, Maple Leaf Wrestling and Danko’s Wrestling Role Playing Game!

The greatest of great news! This week on the show Damian is joined by a person who almost single handily made Toronto punk cool again: Allyson Baker! That’s right, this week on Turned Out A Punk we’re joined by the Dirty Ghost & Teen Crud Combo guitarist for one hell of a conversation about being set on a path, from your first show onwards.

Also touched on:

The Deadhead babysitter

Searching to subculture

Rock Variety is still open!

The Doors: not quite it

Hating Nirvana until it clicks and having it change your life

Kurt talking about Flipper.

Alison’s Drake connection

Listening to Sex Bomb in Forest Hill

Daddy was a jazz drummer

“Duran Duran was my New Kids On The Block”

Going to see Flipper

The greatest first punk show story EVER!!!!

Emergency Melba Toast

A night that changed a life

Getting in to the local music scene

Grasshopper

hangin’ with the smoking kids

hangin’ with Project 9

Meeting Jamie Towns: The spike haired kid at the Suckerpunch show

Forming a band with Rob From Hockey Teeth

The Shuttlecocks

Random Killing

Dirty Bird

Armed And Hammered

Dissed by the punx

Becoming a great Guitarists

getting thrown of Rivioli

“Those are those girls!”

JC and the Mods ’N’ Rockers Connection

Jamie joins AntiFlag and Alison joins Armed’N’Hammered

Teen Crud Combo forms

The influence of Moorhead

Zeke WAS AWESOME!

Jamie reuturns and TCC becomes awesome!

The nerds are coming after me, their son's are BMXers. This week on the show, Chris and Damian discuss the closest thing they have to a shared sports hero: Skateboarding Legend Geoff Rowley. Join the two as they talk skateboarding and punk and trying to wrestle control of the show away from the mailbag.

Whether it’s IRL or in video game form, many people grew up wanting to be this guest. This week on Turned Out A Punk, Damian is joined by Skateboarding legend Geoff Rowley. Join the two as they discuss, not only how punk affected Geoff’s career but how skateboarding as a whole was influenced by the genre. Also covered:

Loving football

Seeing the punks with the Skateboards

Probe Records: a subcultural outpost

the smell of punk

skate a deck with no griptape with mismatched backwards trucks

the little kid with with older punks

The “art” of skateboard art

music in skate videos

The reverberations of punk in youth culture

seeing punk on tv and the streets

Too young to get in “The Planet”

going to Fugazi

Skating over shows

Robbie Reed from Jailcell Recipes

getting crapped on by the older Straight Edge Skaters

The origins of skating in Liverpool

“Why would they make a park out of that?!?”

Liverpool: a city of diverse skating and music influences

Liverpool: a city of punk skateboarders

Liverpool: a city of the old skaters

Liverpool: a city of immense civic pride

Seeing the skate video Savannah Slamma for the first time

seeing tricks for the first time

Mofo from Thasher

Falling in love with Motorhead

Being The Beatles in 60’s Liverpool

Getting into Lungfish

The influence of Ed Templeton

Searching for a new genre

the effects of music listening on skatevideos

Black Mountain and the Skate