After 2 years, over 20 conversations, and 10 episodes recorded, one rad-ass graphic and one riot jingle created - season one is done. And before we move forward to season two, we look back on the 9 episodes behind us.

Olivia and Matt dig into their biggest takeaways from a season spent contemplating punk as a lens for human growth. Matt pulls from the I-You-Thou framework and what punk taught him about real dialogue and brotherhood. Olivia gets into a new appreciation for history, the destruction-construction cycle, and why adversity and the unsavory corners of punk culture turn out to be some of the most fertile ground for empowerment.

We also get into dichotomies, authenticity, and what it means to authentically live rather than claim or conform.

Then we look ahead. Stay tuned for season two which brings interviews with punks, deeper dives into bands and genres we haven't touched yet, and your questions about living an authentic punk life.

One season in. A lot learned. More coming.

Rock on!

Check out our curated Spotify playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3gxzyHvA1zbs5ejgxudZjJ?si=uXgggORoRP2P1BFPBN4eWA

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Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

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Credits:

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Post-Production:

IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

All media and photographs belong to their respective owners. Used for commentary, educational, and discussion purposes.

NOFX built something that lasted 40 years by breaking most, maybe all, of the rules about how you're “supposed” to do it. No major label. No radio play. No apologies.

This episode is where Rogue Frequencies started. We go deep on the band that kicked off this whole project, using NOFX’s story to look at what it actually takes to stay committed, to yourself and to the people around you, over the long haul.

We talk about Fat Mike carrying the band in the early days and what it means to let go of over-commitment. How when the adults in the room eventually get their act together, repression and regression have a way of turning into something louder than you intended.

We get into the I-You-Thou dynamic, why NOFX had to reject the East Bay rulebook to find their own, and what it looks like when a band genuinely knows who they are and when to choose to let it all go.

How do you grow without losing yourself and the people you started with? NOFX didn't always get it right. That's kind of the point.

Check out our curated Spotify playlist for this episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2tecKqeBNrlVprOrBMdoXu?si=WYC2dpceS3-Qhe-Ygyk3Tw

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Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Credits:

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Post-Production:

IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose

All media and photographs belong to their respective owners. Used for commentary, educational, and discussion purposes.

The modern punk scene has a question it's actively trying to answer: can you build something that holds all of it - every identity, every ability - without flattening any of it?

The Denver, Co Punk scene are working that out in real time. This episode centers Cheap Perfume and Team Nonexistent (among many others, such as the, Potato Pirates and Dead Pioneers) and traces the lineage, from The Slits and X-Ray Spex through Bikini Kill, Against Me!, and Propagandhi. We look at how the present requires the past, while also being completely new. We examine the how and why the current scene are the ones punk spent decades making room for.

This scene focuses on intentional community, what it means to police a scene with purpose, and how "brotherhood" became "siblinghood." And we dig into what it actually takes to create a vision before the infrastructure exists to support it.

Punk has always been about reclamation. The modern scene is not asking who gets to do it, they are declaring that we are the ones we have been waiting for. And they show us what happens when that shift is made.

Check out our curated Spotify playlist for this episode:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4vK1M4stInAhcsZezX072N?si=2zbacCUzTAGADruUWihG5w

Special shout out and thank you to these bands:

Potato Pirates:

Web: https://www.potatopirates.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/potatopirates/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/potatopirates/?hl=en

Team Nonexistent

IG: https://www.instagram.com/teamnonexistent/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teamnonexistentmusic/

Bandcamp: http://teamnonexistent.bandcamp.com/

Ded Pioneers

Web: https://www.deadpioneers.band/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/dead.pioneers/

Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Want to keep the conversation going beyond the podcast? Olivia is an Internationally Certified Professional Leadership and Life Coach working with punkers who are ready to grow on their own terms, at their own pace. No pressure, just possibility.

🌐 oliviarosecoach.com

📩 olivia@oliviarosecoach.com

IG · FB · LI: @oliviarosecoach

Credits:

Cover art by Joe T.

IG: instagram.com/moonlightspeed

Theme song by Cheap Perfume

FB: facebook.com/cheapperfume719

CP: cheapperfume.bandcamp.com

IG: instagram.com/cheapperfumeband

Post-Production:

IG: instagram.com/brijettesanjose