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Punk Chores

Punk Chores

By: Cat Raia
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While ”punk” is a lifestyle stemming from the wild ass music and mohawks from the early 1970s, in the last fifty odd years it has come to mean a lot more than describing a style of dress and music. Punk is an umbrella term for all of the growths sprouting out of ”do it yourself” outsider culture. House shows, stick and poke tattoos, riding freight trains, making zines, building boats to sail down the Mississippi, welding bike frames together, getting scabies from sleeping on a couch on tour. Our culture is kept alive by the myriad of hustles we’ve cobbled together to avoid commitment to careers allowing for giant swaths of time to travel, make art, fuck around, find out. Punk jobs exist in the yellowy amber goop Venn diagram of craigslist, word of mouth and sheer luck. Sometimes well paid, sometimes not. Disgusting, terrifying, monotonous, or mind boggling but above all, good for stories. So grab your lighter, re-associate with your cat you haven’t seen in 6 months since working on a weed farm and buckle up. It’s time for your punk chores.Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Tapping to Keep Time with Billman
    Oct 20 2026

    Cat & Billman are sitting on the Mississippi River with the cicadas, trains, boats and wakes chattin' about being adopted, being a little skateboarder trouble maker, working at the Cheesecake Factory, skipping out on probation, riding the juice train, busking Wagon Wheel forever, becoming the ukelele oogle, breaking veg by eating Mcdonalds, corn detassling in Iowa, beets, putting on art shows, becoming an arborist, having a panic attack in a corn field, becoming a carpenter, building a house ,and being forever in the wind, punk as f*ck, with a good truck, bad dog, and a buncha crap.

    Intro Nature Boys

    Outro Warren Burns

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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • A Beach Goth in Punk World with Erica
    Oct 13 2026

    Cat & Erica are in Polish Hill chatting about growing up incredibly Italian-American, having a brother who is a ninja, meeting yr parents' radio DJ friends, growing up in an MTV blocked household and cracking the code, taking beach drugs with beach kids in the 90 mile Delaware radius, getting busted with the sleepover trick, being a bad kid and a good dancer, realizing you're good at math, running away to CBGB's like it's your job, finally giving up corporate world, joining a Catholic Worker house, bringing Goth to Skull Fest, and living out the philosophy of punk every day of your damn life.

    Intro Nature Boys

    Outro Shadow Age

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Can't Say No to The Thing with Septic the Outlaw
    Oct 6 2026

    Cat & Septic are in Pittsburgh chatting about coming from a long line of rascals and sons of guns, nearly getting sucked into a wood chipper as a small boy, tagging the chimney, falling out of trees, off of trucks, and out of windows, being okay with not making the bicycle look like the bicycle, falling in love with spray paint, saying no to the square world, hearing road ghost stories, spotting UFOS, putting yourself where you shouldn't be and seein' what happens, meeting creepy strangers in the woods, causing chaos in China, using your noodle instead of your back, painting a haunted prison schoolbus, being an art handler, and finding the only song you wanna sing.

    Intro Nature Boys

    Outro Zombiewolf

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    1 hr and 25 mins
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