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Cat & Mads are at the Mountain School chattin' about ruining Thanksgiving, losing her grandma, being the bread gurl, discovering piles of Playboys in the back of the restaurant, almost losing your teeth in a swimming pool, being a vagabond rock climber bro, being a child prodigy artist, making your cat go on road trips with you, learning earth skills, creating an incredible post- Helene mutual aid network, and making carpentry accessible for all. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Tim Robinson 

Cat & Kyle are in Ohio chatting about bodily functions, praying hands at Fedex, stuffing doll butts with yr mom, being left handed, trimmin', clinical trials, lighting your genitals on fire, bottles of pee, juggalos, Ween v. Phish, being a dinosaur in a ska band, tye-dying for top dollar, and being a freak for life. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Horse Breakfast 

Cat & Kaetz are in a coffeeshop drinking hot chocolate in Guatemala battling the background noise of some gossiping teens as we chat about growing up as a village punk in rural Germany, wearing pajama pants all through youth, living in communal punk trailer parks, learning Spanish, becoming a bike mechanic, being saved by DIY culture, and studying genocide in both Europe and South America.  

Intro by Nature Boys 

Outro by VORKRIEGSJUGEND 

Cat, Transmut8 (Luigi), and Chris are in Xela, Guatemala talking about starting an info shop, being punk in a country with very few punks, Indigenous resistance, our Mayan signs, graffiti, and continuing to exist after your government tries to kill you. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Transmut8 

Just an update to say I am alive, in Guatemala and i did not complete an episode this week other than this update! Back to normally scheduled interviews next week, I love you and I am sorry to disappoint if my hour and a half interviews are integral to your weekly routine. 

Love you! Back next week! -Cat 

I AM SO SORRY THE AUDIO GOT MESSED UP SECOND HALF OF THIS EPISODE. THUS BRIT'S PARTS ARE QUIETER THAN MINE, GREATEST APOLOGIES TO ONE AND ALL.

Cat & Brit are in Brit's vampire hunting layer post Christmas time talking about frozen animals, learning guitar listening to Jewel, being a dish bitch, driving busted vans cross country, being a hotdog and cupcake punk, shot gunning beers for youtube, escaping Florida, accidentally landing in Minnesota, being a punk in Ohio, getting creeped out by tenants and keeping the lawn clean while also keeping an entire apartment building from murdering you. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro BARTHER

other music by Rag Rage, Dishpit 

Cat & Krystyna talk about being a runaway halloween prop maker, a child laborer factory seamstress, a labrat, a punk rock oil drinking zombie, almost dying in New Zealand while saving the whales, getting a troll drunk, making fairy wings and a giant dragon egg, living in abuelita's basement in California, and being a part of Skull fest for sweet sixteen years. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Peace Talks

Other music by Aus Rotten, Blue Vomit, Sub Humans, From Ashes Rise, Annihilation Time, and Skullfest 2022 compilation video on Youtube

Cat & Dana chat about growing up in an east coast city with no culture, finding noise music without ever having to bother with punk, being a bike messenger (classic), pretending to be a professional mover with a van, getting out of parking tickets for having an avant garde van color, building a false entrance, having mushroom epiphanies about your future, becoming a professional philosopher, and opening and running a DIY space for FIVE YEARS and not getting killed by the garage door. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Nonsite

Other music by White Suns

Live Collision performances by Invader Lars, W00dy, Macula Dog, Stabscotch 

Cat & Tree chat about falling off the amish cart as a child, softball on acid, scamming at Dairy Queen, witnessing possible neighbor murder in Colorado, hanging with a Waco survivor in California, working with adults with disabilities, sewing little monsters, astral projecting into the Perfect Storm, moving to Portland (as one does), moving to Pittsburgh, doing set dressing for the movies, and finding a voice as a performer, stand-up, and playwright. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Sea Turtle in Space

Cat & Todd participate in the first ever Punk Chores remote interview by having to enter & exit Zoom meetings every 20 minutes because neither have a paid subscription. Reminiscing about the good old days meeting in Chicago, matching butt cheek tattoos, catching up in Oklahoma City, a long history of tour & friendship in the Midwest, cooking the best omelettes at the waterpark restaurant, not getting hired as a sign holder, frying chicken, thrift store truck driving, pooping your pants in Restaurant Depot, and finding true love, support and a new outlook on life in recovery from alcohol. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Brother Gruesome

Other music by The Hex, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Evangelicals 

Cat & Xanadu chat about growing up go cart racing, blowing up dams and eating beavers, butchering meat, sleeping on Las Vegas laser light bros couches, the gem show in the desert, shoving contraband into a roadkill raccoon, escaping shitty exes, acquiring a van pontoon from the UP, riding trains with one shoe on, fixin' cranes and surviving Alaskan fishing season, dancing for top dollar, wrenchin' on cars,  and doing it all with a sweet little pupper who snoozed on the sleeping bag as we chatted.

Intro Nature Boys Outro Frozen Teens 

Cat & Joey chat about being a metal violinist, being in ska bands, occupy Wallstreet, touring in Europe on motorcycle, and writing books about alternate universe rock stars and zombie apocalypses. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Joey Molinaro 

Other music by Channel 7, Intro to Airlift, The Walking Ruins

Cat & Ruby are in Ruby's old ass gorgeous camper van yapping about turning from neuroscientist to tattooer, boy to girl, Connecticutian to Yinzer, skateboarding and committing to the trick, hating money, washing the shit out of those dishes, realizing the secret to overcoming fear of ghosts, tattooing jerks, and embracing the void of not knowing. 

Intro: Nature Boys Outro: Hallucination 

Cat & Marissa sip Coors on a 3 seasons porch in Braddock by the train tracks and talk about all of Marissa's crazy cool jobs. Becoming an incredible realistic oil painter, being adjacent to people who may have done graffiti, making escape rooms, working at the childrens museum, attempting to unionize big tech, making production art, making guitars for rockstars, making miniatures, and giant puppets, and eventually headed towards self playing instruments House on the Rock style!

Intro Nature Boys Outro Gland , also FUCK ICE!!!!!!!!!

Cat & Stefano are in Berlin reminiscing about old times living in crazy collective houses, being a lil Italian cowboy selling icecream, smashing beer bottles on ancient statues, running away from industrial Italy to find a new life in Berlin, trimmin' weed, and making incredible events mashing harsh noise, techno & punk come to fruition in Berlin's abandoned and DIY spaces. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Gremlins 

Other music by High Circle 

Regular programming back Jan 6. Enjoy this weird little episode, i hope it sits comfortably like a big ol' plate of rice pudding, fruit soup, meat fondue, lefsa and pretzel salad (yes, this is the stuff I ate every Christmas my mom was alive. She made some weird stuff but it was fun) Love yall, see ya soon. <3Cat

Cat & Katie sit in the squat palace and discuss being a god-squad ska keyboardist, living above a Pittsburgh pizza legend, becoming the accountant for the weird, learning about bolts and carpenter-ing, partyin' and falling through the sky in Europe, getting a stomach bug and floating down the Mississippi, denouncing college & christianity standing on a couch,  taking your 8 month old baby on a crusty all-rain river trip, eating peanut butter naked on the house boat, breaking the glass ceiling at Bruegger's, buying multiple boats until finally making the dream come true of owning a punk rock marina. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Lahar 

Cat & Alan are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing baseball, being Polish, figuring out that god is everywhere, being a crusty hippie, meeting your first PuNk, being a fruit & veggie co-op guy, moving to Albuquerque sleeping on the futon floor, house painting, getting cancer, and becoming totally dedicated to fighting death by incarceration & finding the humanity that's locked away.  

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Close Prisons 

Other music Weird Al, Russian MeatSquats, Birthday Party, Sugar Cubes 

Cat & Wes hang in Brooklyn and chat about a wild ass drug and rock n' roll child hood, skate ramp bedroom, being a lifeguard, cat sitting, working for peanuts in Bolivia, being an absolutely horrible breakfast waiter, "book selling", living in a homeless encampment, squatting in Oakland, punk shows on your bed, fighting old guys, feeding spaghetti to your dog, riding trains, spending all your money on tacos for your friend, having your mom quit for you, showing up to the fishing boat late, becoming an accomplished journalist and writer, and finding the career that doesn't exist. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro SemiHongo 

Cat & Paulie sit in a park in Bushwick & chat about growing up in New Jersey, squatting in Philly and NYC, dog walkin', dumpstering pizza, carpentry, snow birdin', train ridin',  hitchhikin', playing in punk bands, getting into sailing and squatting in boats, and TRYING TO REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED AND WHERE.

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Sub Rosa

other music by Beer Garden & Crybaby MacArthur thx to Remote Outposts blog 

Cat & Xristina are in Xristina's studio in Berlin chatting about doily jock straps, edible nipples, mycelium that eats plastic, clothing made out of mushrooms, larping, playforming, gaming, being an artist from a tiny Greek island, and figuring out how to outrun the plastic. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Lazaro 

Cat & Brandon chat about being a CaLiFoRnIaN turned prairie punk, harvesting wild rice, living out of a backpack, tanning hides, becoming an ethical landlord on accident, turning your attic into a climbing gym, slinging gems at the rock and gem shows, becoming a welder and fabricator, discovering Minneapolis, Battle Train, snow removal, making traditional drums, protest marching band, and dabbling in every damn thing you could ever even think of. Intro Nature Boys Outro Permanent Vacation 

Cat & Michael chat mostly about puppetry and making art and being a creative weirdo in South Minneapolis!

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Soundtrack to BAAL (1970) 

Cat & Gina sit on the deck in Pittsburgh in July and chat about converting diesel buses to veggie oil, autonomous boat house community on the Mississippi, rescuing a famous painting from flood water, driving through a hurricane, controversial dog stories, working on the movies, boat robberies, intentional living on farmland, house painting, tour, and the hindsight to look back and see the special-ness of it all. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Come Holy Spirit 

Cat & Big Dawg talk stealing at Micheal's, vet tech, having your clothes covered in shit at Fecal Manor, having your eye obliterated by a rubber bullet at a protest, building Ice Castles, driving Zamboni, Haunted Houses and general punk low livin' turned sober animal healing. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Sneakin' Out

Cat & Andrés talk about sly pranks, industrial music, living in a legendary punk show venue, being a teen on yr own livin large, riding trains, bucking the doopers, and so much more. 

Intro Nature Boys

Outro Andrés instrument performing a Noothgrush cover 

Cat & Nicole sit on Sandpiper and talk about art, plants, natural dyes, weaving, taking over a hotel when Minneapolis was on fire, getting Covid in Ireland, being "not NOT a punk" and trying to steal Puffins from a magical island. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Silver Rein 

Cat & Emma talk about Cat's time doing death cleanup in the wilds of Florida. TW: contains mentions of suicide, violence, and general gore. 

Intro: Nature Boys

Outro: Mansion 

Cat & Devohn chat about being the French Toast Guy, roasting local politicians, being a comic in the midwest, working as a PCA,  golf caddying, Booing at the Van Gogh interactive exhibit, protesting police brutality, and so much more! 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Wesley Willis 

Cat & Shaun talk about imposter syndrome, falling into a career through being a volunteer, activism, code switching, art handling and coal mining. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Gay Witch Abortion 

Cat & Suzanne chat about the old times at ye olde weed tree, playing in my favorite band ever, becoming a radio pro, being a bike mechanic, touring Japan, never quitting a job, staying at a restaurant for too long cuz the food's so good, and making a living doing what she loves in KCMO. 

Intro Nature Boys 

Outro Nature Boys!

Cat & Canadian Julien sit on the sailboat Sandpiper and talk about logging, cooking in restaurants, working in sugar shacks for the syrup lords, snowshoeing through the woods whilst dope sick in middle of nowhere, and meeting internet strangers for sailing trips. 

intro by Nature Boys

outro by Cadmium 

Cat & Cindy talk about realizing punk is actually cool, weaving for a world class weight lifter, sifting through plastic cocktail swords, playing pots and pans, messing up a PB&J,  becoming a prolific zine maker, eventually a punk rock therapist, and being totally and completely unemployable!

Intro by Nature Boys 

Outro by Astrid Oto 

Other Music by the Suburbs, X-Ray Spex, Outcry, Seven Year Bitch, Operation Ivy, J.Willis Pratt, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Pinhead Gunpowder, Phish, Rise Against

Cat & Breakaway talk about growin' up in a small river town and making your own fun, working at Taco Johns, beets harvest, creating an empire of zines, converting a school bus to veggie oil, serving Thom Yorke ice cream, alternate universe lady president magazines, hustling in NYC & reminiscing about the hit film Rooster Rooster.

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Breakaway

Cat & Caitlin reminisce about the ol' days in Minneapolis, being an underage  bartender, battling falling knives and stolen tip jars at the collective cafe, obliterating wasps and wine jugs in the basement. 

TW

Caitlin also dives into her experience as a survivor of the mass shooting at Nudieland that occurred August 11, 2023 where she lost her beloved partner August Golden and six other of our friends were shot and survived. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Makin' Out

spliced in live show samples (thanks to UndercurrentMpls) from shows at Medusa, Hexagon, and Disgraceland : Brain Tumors, Brother Nature, Hope?, Weakwick 

Cat and Morgan are at Diamond Beach punk rock marina in Pittsburgh talking about Morgan's time as a dinosaur mechanic, working at Burning Man, getting hit by a bus on a bike, the insignificance of being a human, and the friends we made along the way!

Intro by Nature Boys 

Outro by Inquisition 

No interview episode this week, too haggard and wrecked from boat time. Tune in for my short update about the salty seas. 

Cat & Laurel discuss working on the oldest short line train in the U.S., being destined to be a train guy by your ancestors, communicating with the dead , haunted bibles, partying in dream world, and alien forces in the desert. I want to believe!!!! 

Intro: Nature Boys

Outro: Roots and Recognition

Cat & Matt & Jimmy who work at The Book House in Minneapolis talk about the Rare Books biz, being a poet in south Minneapolis, how the rare book business works, what to do when Grey's Anatomy implants itself in your psyche, and how poems translate into hardcore songs. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Texture Freq

Cat & Carhartt talk about hitchhiking, sleeping under bridges, being a little punker growing up in Wisconsin washing dishes, piling beets at the beet harvest, sending punk mail, etc etc. Please excuse my rude interrupting interview nerves, Carhartt was the second interview I ever did and was bumbling through it. 

Collage by Carhartt

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Miracle Debt 

Cat & Allie have an unhinged conversation about growing up a Quaker, puking corn chips off boats, getting your boat anchor back from a wing nut live aboard sailor, almost dying at sea, running away with a golf cart in Hawaii. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Yoni Bologna 

Cat & Jessie sit on a wooden platform in North Carolina and talk about being a living statue for money, riding trains in Canada, hitchhiking in South America, getting sick in India, getting freaked out  in the southern U.S., 

living the dream! 

intro Nature Boys

outro Jessie and the Jinx

Cat & Butch talk about diaper police, a fake British lady with a rotting off foot, getting your shoe sole sawn off by a train, Hurricane Helene super hero efforts, punk rock & mutual aid in Asheville, 

bears, alligators, rats, doggies, donkies, kitties, oh my! 

GET A KITCHEN JOB, BE NORMAL!

Intro by Nature Boys 

Outro by Swamp Ape

Cat & Meg sit in a garage and talk about working at girls rock camps, growing up in punk world in Tennessee, touring with no money, Iron Maiden in Costa Rica, the seasonal gig of "Cranberries", poison ivy on your junk, and becoming a law wizard when your former boss is trying to fuck you over. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Liar Mute 

Emma, Gabriela, & Cat battle helicopters, car alarms, and dogs barking  (why do i keep trying to record outside?!) while discussing Gabriela's time working as a welder for Burning Man, trimming weed, and becoming a bio designer working with mycelium in the Netherlands. Not to mention her bad things come in threes story about an angle grinder to the face, a kidney stone at the Burn, and a ripped up oil pan whilst hauling DJ gear through the rain. Yehaw. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by The Mall

Cat and Blake talk about what it's like to be the Original bequeather of the punk job "Ice Castles" to the Midwestern punks, working for friendly Mormons, fighting over Ice Logs, the tough job of being a friend boss over yr friends, med studies (yet again) & a lil cave talk. 

I am soooooooorry about the weird AI voice editing I had to use to save this recording. I really hope it is tolerable. 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Granite 

Rikki, Cat, and Colin chat about genital clams, noodle express, wild land firefighting, running away to a cult, lil' trimming weed, and some boat stuff! 

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by God Equals Genocide 

Bryan May , Bryan's babbling baby, and Cat Raia ramble about the Portlandification of our country, grieving dead friends, whether the kids are indeed "alright", squats, punk houses, mutual aid, sleeping in closets, viral patches, drinking pee for fun and for survival, and the true story/ urban legend of the mouse in the lard jar. 

First half of the episode has an awake baby, second half, white noise machine and a napping baby.

Intro by Nature Boys

Outro by Bagheera 

APOLOGIES TO THE PEOPLE WHO DOWNLOADED MY JANKY ACCIDENTAL POD DRAFT & also apologies for some of the volume inconsistencies.

Listen to Cat & Flip discuss freight train riding, floating on the Mississippi on homemade rafts, oogle livin' and the most disgusting dump run ever. 

intro by Nature Boys

outro by Mischief Brew

Fantasy author Emma Törzs is our first guest, sitting in the interviewer seat to ask host Cat Raia about her time doing pharmaceutical trials for money. Hijinks ensue.  

Intro music by Nature Boys.