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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
  • Young America Nowhere Bridge with Carhartt

    Young America Nowhere Bridge with Carhartt
    Jul 8 2025

    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

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    55 mins
  • Jessie Smith and the Indecent

    Jessie Smith and the Indecent
    Jun 24 2025

    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
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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