

Turned Out A Punk
Turned Out A Punk
Damian Abraham has been many things... the singer of a critically acclaimed band, a failed VJ and food network host, one of the minds behind TV's "The Wrestlers", parent of 3... and undeniably, a punk music obsessive. Each week, he sits down and chats with an interesting person from various walks of life to find out how their world was influenced and changed by the discovery of a novelty genre that supposedly died out in 1978... PUNK!
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Jun 19, 2018 • 1h 21min
Episode 173 - FAT TONY (MC, Charge It To The Game)
Get ready!!! This week's episode is one of the best yet! Damian is joined by rapper & Host of Thrift Haul, Houston’s favourite son, FAT TONY! Listen in as the two discuss FAT TONY's quest in isolation to uncover punk & how it helped inform his career as a rapper. NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Meeting Through Ben
All Corners Of Toronto
Being Part Of The Post Kurt Cobain Generation
Watching the Nirvana Destroy Gear & Trying It At Home
Green Day “Welcome To Paradise”, Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated” & Nirvana ONLY
From Blink 182 “Enema Of The State”, to Dino Jr. & The Decendent
People In West Africa Loving Country Music
A Cool Mom That Loves Music & Stealing Her Nirvana CD
Mom Trying To Teach You How To Play Devo On Guitar
Bonding With Dad Over Al Green
King Sunny Ade
Sega CD As A Gateway Kriss Kross
Whodini Is Slept On
Rap & Punk Big Up The Youth
Down With The King: Good OR Bad?
Mom Picks You Up From School & Breaks The News Of The Passing Of Fat Pat
Going To MF Doom As A First Show
Growing Up In Third Ward
Finally Meeting A Cool White Kid
Rhymes Like Dimes
Doing An Ergs Show As Your First Punk Show
Becoming Friends With The One Kid With A Mohawk At A Show
Atmosphere & Murs On Warped Tour
30 Foot Fall: A Divide
More Rites Of Spring Than What Was Happening
Hardcore Over Punk
Roy & The Fatal Flying Guillotines
Buying The Jawbreaker CD Because The Warped Tour Got Rain Out
Tribe Called Quest
Trying To Channel The Beastie Boys
Softball With Bikini Kill
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 19, 2018 • 1h 13min
Footnote 172 - Matt Jackson (Iron Age, Coptic Times, Bitter End, Jackson's Choppers) PART #2
Back again! Here Nerds come! Chris & Damian are back to talk more about the Matt Jackson episode! This time they've called in Matt’s good friend & the subject of his opening dis: Dave It Up!!!!!!
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Jun 16, 2018 • 1h 36min
Footnote 172 - Matt Jackson (Iron Age, Coptic Times, Bitter End, Jackson's Choppers) PART #1
They got him down. It’s three on one. Ten nerds show, guess who won? The week on the show it is a two part epic! In PART ONE, Chris & Damian reflect on the passing of Anthony Bourdain & his involvement in music, the discuss Matt Jackson & Iron Age. That merely just sets the stage for PART TWO with Dave It Up showing up to address Matt’s labelling of him as a nerd!
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Jun 13, 2018 • 1h 48min
Episode 172 - Matt Jackson (Iron Age, Coptic Times, Bitter End, Jackson's Choppers)
Oh, what wonderful places you will go! This week on the show Damian catches up with his old friend, ex-IRON AGE bassist, Matt Jackson!!! The last time Matt & Damian hung out, they were both Straight Edge gigging together in their band's, but what a difference a few years makes?!?! Matt Jackson has gone on to become one of the most respected motorbike builders in America & a legit biker. Damian… Well, Damian smokes a lot of weed these days.
Listen in as the two discuss going from throwing footballs on a roof, to playing in one of the wildest hardcore bands of the era & it being pretty tame compared to the rest of your life.
Also Touched On:
Dave it Up’s knowledge
Growing up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere
Throwing a football on a roof
Finding Sabbath in the record collection
Austin keeps it weird
driving an hour a half to go to the cd store
buying Punk-O-Rama, the nitro comp and the Fat comps
being raised by a cowboy
Mom’s cool student buy you a Pantera shirt
Going to see Green Day and Samiam because mom wants to
Getting into Orange 9mm
A satellite dish and a gateway to punk
Cranberries are hard as fuck
moving to the city to play football
going edge
Emo’s in all its glory
getting into Judge in a Earth Crisis world
Bitter End and Far From Breaking
Iron Age forms
“It’s Texas”
Going back to school
It all starts with one bike
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Jun 9, 2018 • 1h 16min
RIP Anthony Bourdain
Hey,
It’s Damian. Anthony Bourdain was someone that championed & celebrated punk & it’s influence. He was also someone that, for some unknown reason, championed the work that I do as well. When I told him about this podcast, he was super excited to get the chance to just talk about punk rock, the music he loved. Here is the conversation we had that day as well as my eulogy for one of my personal heroes.
RIP Tony. Thank you for everything
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Jun 9, 2018 • 1h 22min
Footnote 171 - "Buzz" Osborne & Brian Walsby Part #2
Nerds Of America, Is Living In The Jungle! It's Fighting For Survival With The Wrong Place To Go! This last week has been a tough one, but Chris & Damian are back for some much needed distraction. The boys attempt to breakdown the immense BUZZ & BRIAN PART #2 & even manage to get to some MAILBAG.
It Is Time We Rectify This Now! We've Got To Feel It Now….WHOA!
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Jun 4, 2018 • 1h 4min
Episode 171 - "Buzz" Osborne & Brian Walsby Part #2
REJOICE! REJOICE! This week on the show we have not one, but TWO Part #2's! Damian sits down with not only the person who's career tells the story of American Alternative music, Brian Walsby, but also, the king himself - the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne! Listen in as the three have a fun backstage chat about music, band life, longevity & one of the cruelest practical jokes ever pulled on one band member by another.
Also Touched On:
The Way Brian’s Brain Works
Redd Kross Rich Pratt On The Life Is A Great Comp
Steve McDonald: An Awe Inspiring Life
Shout Out To Tony Reitman
Straight Edge By Default
Uniform Choice As Minor Threat Impression
Not Seeing The Legendary LA Punk Gang Violence
Sensationalism To Sell History
“Let’s Follow Skanker!”: Looking Up To The Older Idiot
“I Was A Goody-Goody"
The Godly Wretched
Maximum Rock & Roll: A Punk Consistency
Scott Radinsky
Playing With The Grim
Mac & Brian Reunited
Wwax is Buzz’s Fave Brian Band
The Davidians: A Good Band That Just Never Connected
Balancing A Band & Life Is Hard
A Buzz Walks In
How The Melvins Tour
The Melvins Are Weirded Out By Fucked Up
Buzz & Brian Are Optimistic
Dale Gets Pranked By Buzz & It Is Terrifying!
Why Do Dale & Buzz Remain Together?
Poison Idea Around The “Feel the Darkness” Era Is One Of The Most Underrated Bands Ever
Alchemy Records Is So Awesome!
“Bad Religion Is A 2nd Or 3rd LA Punk Band”
The SST Store: One Or Two Sales A Day
Saccharin Trust Rules!!!
“I Can’t Handle The Rejection”
Led Zeppelin The Stones, Aretha Franklin & The Melvins
Weird Thoughts On Records…
What Does Buzz Collect?
The Grateful Dead & The Melvins Cult
Dale & Pinkus Make A Cameo
& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jun 2, 2018 • 1h 25min
Footnote 170 - Chris Freeman (Pansy Division, Attachments)
Nerd! Come on & Nerd yourself. Nerds! Come on & Nerd yourself! This week on the show Chris & Damian follow in Kerrang’s (misstep) footsteps & map Canada’s most hardcore. Also, we celebrate the awesomeness of Chris Freeman, Pansy Division & Punk Rock! Some Mailbags were hurt in the making of this episode.
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May 29, 2018 • 1h 16min
Episode 170 - Chris Freeman (Pansy Division, Attachments)
How often do you get to thank someone for the kindness they showed you that helped shape your life? Well this week on the show, Damian gets to thank CHRIS FREEMAN FROM PANSY DIVISION for being so rad to his younger self & his friends. They also discuss Chris’ pre-Pansy Division career in Seattle’s Attachments & the bigotry of the music world that made him quit. Then joining Pansy Division & changing punk forever! Kick back, this is a good one!
Also Discussed:
Pansy Division Sets The Tone In Damian’s Eyes For How A Band Should Treat Fans
Rockstars Becoming Assholes… Probably The Drugs
Moving Back To Seattle From Aberdeen
Devo & The B-52s
Seeing Cheap Trick Opening For Kiss
Aerosmith Starting To Suck… Drugs
Being Too Young To See U2 On Their First Tour
Mr. Bill’s
The Heats & The Cowboys: The Beatles & The Rolling Stones
Iggy Pop Gets Banned For Nearly Killing All Some People
The Pretenders
Mondo Veda & Red Dress
Going To Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Blackouts Leave Town
Working With Bruce & Jon. Hearing The First SubPop 45s
H-Hour: Pre-Tad
Soundgarden
A Marketing Company Tells You, "You Can’t Be Openly Gay"
Getting A Band Together
Music Dies In 86'
Moving To San Francisco
Joining Pansy Division Based On An Ad
Seeing Redd Cross, Faith No More, Green River etc.
Meeting Lynn From Tribe 8 In & Out Of Work
Pansy Division Started With A Drum Machine
Signing To LOOKOUT RECORDS
Hearin Kerplunk & Knowing It Will Be Huge
Touring With Green Day
GayC/DC
And Much, Much More!!!!
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May 26, 2018 • 1h 55min
Footnote 169 - Sam Beam (Iron & Wine)
Hardcore, We live it. We breath it. Nerds can’t stop what can’t be defeated! This week, Chris is called away on a last minute mission for the core, so Dave It Up steps up to take the mic & spit that hot fire in his absence. Listen as the two dissect Kerrang’s Hardcore Geography & of course the godly Sam Beam’s 90’s sludge/doom/Stonerrock/ connection.
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