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Episode 013 · Wednesday, August 5, 2026

What it means to be punk

with Garrett Howitson

Two hours on punk — both the sound and the posture, and whether it can survive being defined. Do artists give up punk once they sign a record deal? Garrett makes the case for anti-establishment as something more considered than contrarian, and along the way talked me out of an idea I'd been carrying about the word angsty. His dad stopped by the studio partway through, which turned the conversation somewhere neither of us planned.

Full broadcast — What it means to be punk

2:00:30

Punk as a posture rather than a sound — anti-establishment not as reflexive opposition but as what’s left when the polite version has already been tried.

His dad turned up around the ninety-minute mark.

Tracklist
  1. Bully—Blevins
  2. The Rock Show—blink-182
  3. Car Radio—Twenty One Pilots
  4. 1981—Green Day
  5. Ball and Chain—Social Distortion
  6. Come Out and Play—The Offspring
  7. I Think I'm OKAY—mgk, YUNGBLUD, Travis Barker
  8. Dumb—Nirvana
  9. Ruby Soho—Rancid
  10. She Hates Me—Puddle Of Mudd
  11. Have Mercy—Phish
  12. Lonelier Than This—Steve Earle
  13. Paparazzi—Lady Gaga
  14. Heart Of Glass—Miley Cyrus
  15. Heart Of Glass—Blondie
  16. Antonio's Song—Ana Caram
  17. In the Meantime—Spacehog
Playlist