Turned Out A Punk

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Julien Baker from boygenius is here Jan 15, 2019

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Episode 197:

The good times never stop here at TOAP… Wait, did we say “good”? Well, we should have said AMAZING because this week on the show, Damian is joined by, one of his favourite song writers & one third of the supergroup boygenius, JULIEN BAKER!!! Listen in as the two discuss using christian punk as a way to escape, the similarities between punk vs. religion & Pezz (TN) ruling! DO NOT MISS THIS!!!!

Also Touched On:

Punk still runs deep

The burden of punk

Taking a stand against hotels

Betraying your genre

Romanticizing punk

Memphis is a unique

Seeing Green Day on TV

Someones playing guitar on tv and he looks vaguely effeminate and he disagrees with the president!

When you get dissed by the Casualties fans and saved by a violent Santa

Going to a show at the Skate park

Poison the Well

Silverstien

Job For A Cowboy

Bands stop going to Memphis

Resource scarcity breed cooperation out of necessity

The frat dude’s Led Zep band can play too even!

Fifteen rule

Wicker from Memphis, an anti-band

Growing up with religion and find

Using Christian hardcore as an escape to secular punk

The double edge sword of faith based music

Punk as religion

Jawbreaker

going to your first house show

Hot Topic bands

Truest of true punks

Turnstile live is next level

PEZ RULES!!!!

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!!

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Footnote 196 - Danger Ehren (Jackass, Photographer) Jan 14, 2019

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Yes, yes Nerds are here again, but they didn't come to see your band! This week on the show, Chris & Damian talk more Danger Erhen! Also, grapple with the argument: What is art?

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Danger Ehren McGhehey from Jackass is here Jan 07, 2019

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THIS IS LEGIT, ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES OF TURNED OUT A PUNK YET! Damian is joined by Jackass star Danger Ehren for one of the funniest, most honest & dare we say it, touching episodes. Not to be missed!!! THEN, TOAP Footnotes co-host, Chris O’Toole joins him to talk favourites of 2018!

Also Touched On:

Ehren who?

Just a real dude

Sleep opening for Neurosis

getting into punk through Skateboarding and Snowboarding Videos

Punk becoming the meaning of everything

Going on snowmobile vacations

Picking up bodies on the ways home from vacation

the origins of snowboarding

Jocks VS Punks

Too much information

Jackass as forebarer to the

Doing something to be remembered

Jackass Changing culture

Content over quality

Jackass for Youtube

What porn was to the internet…

Jackass as art

How the band got together

doing stupid shit in isolation

the stuff that was too extreme

doing Jackass shit before the world had seen Jackass

Joined by being weird

Performance art

Knowing the Melvins for 20 years

AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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TOAP 2018 Year End Wrap Up: "The Punk/Wrestling Connection Is Real!" Jan 01, 2019

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2018 wasn’t so hot for a ton of reasons, but there were some shining moments in a year of otherwise dark times. One such beacon, The Punk/Wrestling Connection!!! This year, the bonds of Wrestling & Punk continued to grow stronger. Nowhere was this connection better illustrated than at Turned Out A Punk’s first ever, “The Punk/Wrestling Connection Gathering”. Join Damian as he gathers UK wrestling God Robbie Brookside, Turnstile’s Pat McCrory, Punk God Lars Frederiksen, Power Trip’s Riley Gale, Ceremony’s Anthony Anzaldo, WWE/TNA/NJPW Champion MVP, Best Coast’s Bob Bruno & DJ/Vocalist/Wrestler Tuna Tardugno! The Punk/Wrestling Connection Is More Real Than Ever Going Into 2019!

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Turned Out A Punk FOOTNOTE Holiday Party Dec 25, 2018

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Chris & Damian throw the annual TOAP HOLIDAY STAFF PARTY w/ Dave Martin & Dave It Up. Listen in as the four hang out, open mail & TALK PUNK! Nevermind Talking To The Family, It's The Holidays!

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Footnote 195 - Mark McCoy & Barry Henssler Dec 21, 2018

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Are you hanging up the nerds on your wall? Are you hoping that the snow will start to fall? This week on the show, Chris & Damian talk two of the greatest, legendary smart-ass singers of all time! They also lay out the plans for the Footnotes holiday take over.

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Episode 195 - Barry Henssler (Necros, Big Chief, Motorbooty) Dec 18, 2018

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Alright, Alright, Alright! This week on the show, Damian gets to sit down with a hardcore legend & ZINE GOD: BARRY HENSSLER!!! A vocalist hero & Co-creator of one of the most expensive hardcore 7"s ever. Listen in as the two discuss Barry going from being a four year old seeing the Grateful Dead on their first tour, to being part of the first wave of hardcore punk in the godly NECROS. NOT TO BE MISSED!!!

Also Touched On:

Alice Cooper as first exposure

Sonic Youth loving Love It To Death

Stooges

hearing MC5 from a friend's older brother and the older sibling cool music connection

The Vertigo Records New Wave comp

Seeing Pink Floyd on the first tour post Syd at age 7

Seeing the Grateful Dead at age 4 in a backyard

Alice Cooper and ZZ Top

Starting a band without guidance

Stooges

Trying to cover the Clash’s 1977

buying Spiral Scratch, The Cramps, Suicide and Electric Eels

Getting your licence and driving to Drome Records

Pere Abu

Pagens

The Making of Smega Journals

The reason the Necros have never been reissued

Seeing the Ramones and Johnny had beard

Joe Jackson

Undertones blow David Johansen

PIL in Detroit

The Spys and The Dry Heaves

Getting the Solger 7”

Meeting the DC kids

Seeing Minor Threat for the first time

befriending the Circle Jerks

seeing Black Flag for the first time

The story of Sex Drive

The Ohio music debate

Negative App

Devo

Starvation Army

Guided By Voices

The early east coast hardcore scene

Joey Shithead unconventional touring style

Minor Threat solo

Kings Of Punk is the last hardcore record

Haram

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Episode 194 - Mark McCoy (Charles Bronson, Youth Attack, Das Oath, Absolute Power etc.) Dec 04, 2018

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Break out the diet root beer & get ready to prank call the Bulldog Store, cause this week on the show, Charles Bronson’s vocalist turned Youth Attack tastemaker, MARK MCCOY!!! Join Damian as he sits down with a major influence of his & a 90's Chicago Hardcore Legend to talk about making art with a thesis. Also, the narrow atheistic boundaries within punk, records as artifacts & DAMN, so much more!!!!

Also Touched On:

Charles Bronson As A Huge Influence

Growing Up Near A Naval Base

“Yes, Very Fucking Hard!”

Studying Hardcore

Looking For A Third Minor Threat Tape

“There Were So Many Fucking All Tapes”

“What Is This Hardcore Thing? It Isn’t Sex Is It?

NoFX

Skate Videos A Document Of A Progressing Culture

“Like Does Screeching Weasel Actually Fit Into Infest?”

Going To Wax Trax

Amazing Sleuthing To Track Done Todd Pre-FYP

“Get SSD, But Not The Later SSD It Sucks”

Meeting Dan From SPAZZ By Randomly Calling Sheep Squeeze

Deep Wound & Siege To Infest & Crossed Out

The Rejected: “Do You Guys Like Skacore?”

Being On A Comp With 88 Fingers Louie

Hearing Napalm Death & Laughing

The Neos “This Is The Real Shit”

We Weren’t Good Enough To Play It

Going To See 7 Seconds & Tony Victory’s Only The Strong

Seeing Crudos For The First Time

Mk-Ultra

Making Enemies Because It Was Funny

Collecting Records As The Next Step From Cards & Comics

Ebro’s Agressive Record Collecting Style

Asshole Parade

The Tour The Couldn’t Happen

Playing Fiesta Grande… Badly

Worshipping Despise You

“We Were These Spoiled Brats.”

When Eric Wood Says To Make A 20 Song LP You Make A 20 Song LP

A Neighbour Is Going To Kick In Your Window

Breaking Up Is Easy To Do

Not Getting Something Going In NY

Always Trying To Be Void

United Mutations

City Hunter

Devoid Of Faith

Das Oath’s Unknowing Alice Cooper Tribute

Drawing The Faith Logo

& MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!

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Footnote 193 - John "Jughead" Pierson (Screeching Weasel) PLUS TOAP LIVE w/ Craig Setari (Sick Of It All), Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise) Dec 02, 2018

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"You're Holding Onto Something We Can't Have, But Hands Still Circle You're Still Getting Old..." The week Chris & Damian breakdown the John Jughead Episode & the craziness that was TOAP LIVE w/ Craig & Fletcher.

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Episode 193 - John "Jughead" Pierson (Screeching Weasel) PLUS TOAP LIVE w/ Craig Setari (Sick Of It All), Fletcher Dragge (Pennywise) Nov 27, 2018

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THIS ONE'S A MONSTER!!! First, founding member of one of Damian’s all time favourite bands, Screeching Weasel. JOHN "JUGHEAD" PIERSON is on the show!!! Listen in as the two discuss how a band that never really fit in anywhere would go on to become one of punk's most influential bands. ALSO, AS A BONUS - TOAP LIVE AT HOUSE OF VANS w/ FLETCHER DRAGGE from Pennywise & CRAIG SETARI from Sick Of It All. Check out some of THE WILDEST stories you have ever heard on the show WITH a cameo from JOHN JOSEPH!!! WHAT AN EPISODE!?!?!?!?!?

Also Touched On:

Hearing Should I Stay Or Should I Go On The Radio While Crafting

Going To See Repo Man & The Shit Hitting The Fan

Angry Samones

AOD

Meeting Ben Weasel

The Ramones

The Decendents

Finding Melody

The Ozzfish Spilt That Never Happened

Signing To What Goes On Records

Touring With Spongetunnel