Punk Chores

The Most Punk Rock Job You Could Ever Have with Billie

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

Do They Know Who They Let In Here? with Emil

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

Grinding Organs with Kung Fu Jimmy

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

Surviving in this Meat Suit with Katie Krulock

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

Jackpot in a Hopeless Place with Max

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