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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
  • The True Meaning of Hobo with Fox
    Jun 23 2026

    Cat & Fox are in Pittsburgh chatting about playing on the railroad tracks, having a punkle Steve, gettin peed on cuz jellyfish, turning from a Korn head into a punker, knowing how to find punks, being anti-car but hitchhiking incessantly, riding trains all over the place, doing porn, having scary pot farm experiences, meeting multiple wizards, herb school, surviving being the "token queer", being a gargoyle, planning a retirement community for punks and weirdos, and learning the true meaning of the word hobo.

    Intro Nature Boys

    Outro Burning Kitchen

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Arson in the Firehouse with Douger
    Jun 16 2026

    PARDON THE 5 MINUTES OF DEAD AIR, I HAVE MULCH BRAIN. WILL BE FIXED ON ALL PLATFORMS WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HRS. Cat & Douger are in Pittsburgh talking about liberating materials to build a treehouse, being dragged out of high school by the cops, being a right handed middle child, falling in love with the drums, working at the hipster belt factory, playing bad rock n roll, quitting the nacho restaurant, telemarketing for JC Penney insurance, trying to unionize the mug factory, making kitten formula thanksgiving cake, becoming a dad at nineteen, stickergate, taking 911 pretty seriously, standing up to racist co-workers, and becoming the coolest ACAB firefighter you'd ever want to pull you out of a burning apartment building!!

    Intro Nature Boys

    Outro By the Deed

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Still an Entity with Nikki
    Jun 9 2026

    If you autodownloaded this morning redownload!! File was corrupted but since has been fixed. Cat & Nikki are in Pittsburgh chatting about finding yourself in dark tunnels, having a not so merry time in Maryland, finding pornos in the woods, having a hippie sibling (CLASSIC!), being goth, becoming a hair color wizard, moving to Spain, cutting hair drunk, puking in a cup holder, struggling with mental illness and substance use, dispatching taxis, and finding your own voice, gender and self along the way

    Intro Nature Boys

    Outro Church of Absurdity

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    1 hr and 28 mins
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