

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!
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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May 11, 2020 • 1h 3min
Episode 261 - Jami Morgan (Code Orange)
ARE YOU READY, cause we've got a KILLER one for you tonight! JAMI MORGAN of Code Orange is on the show! Listen in as Damian & Jami finally get a chance to catch up & talk everything from family ties to Dillinger Four to calling in the Heyman Hustle at the WWE. THIS EPISODE HAS EVERYTHING!
Again, NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Punk adjacent parents
Dad went to school with Billingsgate
the secret family rap history
booking the first Code Orange show at 14
Grade 7 pop punk WAS HUGE!
Selling tickets for your own shows
Never being shown the ropes of genre
The Ska demo that isn’t ska
playing with Menzingers ad a house party at 14
Becoming a bitter ass band… at 15
The Pittsburgh goes apart
The first tour
Anti-Flag
Finding your scene
Booking a Circle Takes the Square tour and then asking them to hang
The four way split and where it went
Converge
Touring with Bane
“You guys fuck with ska?”
Scott Vogal: people’s champ
The Wicca Phase Wrestling Connection
The WWE
Jamming for just Triple H
Paul Heyman, bootleg samples and the making the theme for Bray Wyatt
& Much, Much More!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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May 8, 2020 • 1h 33min
Footnotes Supershow #6: Pittsburgh Week With Dave Martin
In further celebration of Pittsburgh Week, Chris and Damian invite Pittsburgh rocker Dave Martin to nerd out about Pittsburgh and get lost in the weeds along the way.
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May 6, 2020 • 55min
Episode 260 - Jon Daly (Kroll Show, I’m Dying Up Here, Big Mouth, The Betas)
It's Pittsburgh week on Turned Out A Punk! Often on this podcast, we hear about older punk siblings being a gateway for their younger counterparts ... but not this time. Today on the show, Damian sits down with the hilarious JON DALY to discuss how having punk older brothers drove him away from the genre for many years. Listen in as the two discuss the fear caused by Danzig videos, having to sneak around with Jimmy Buffet records & so much more!
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
Mutual love
Austin charges his hair, forms Cryptic Alliance and freaks poor little Jon out!
punk spreads to the middle brother Matt
Liking the Circle Jerks but not liking the name and also not understanding it
Being into Jimmy Buffett
Loving the Dead Milkmen
Hard On Gang jamming in the basement
Matt forms Hurl
Parent’s with no other choice
Becoming a Jock
Being on the scene and getting into indie rock
being 15 and getting drunk with Don Caballero
Connecting to the guys in Metallica
Pixes
Polvo
Dub Narcotic
Not being able to skate
Fuck Rusted Root!
Andy Warhol was not a chill hang
Degrassi
Why is canadian TV so awesomely bad
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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May 3, 2020 • 1h 9min
Episode 259 - Zach Blair Part #2 (Technically A Part #5)
Drakulas’ week continues & Zach is back for another attack! That's right, Damian's good buddy (& one-time co-host) Zach Blair returns to the show for the fifth time in celebration of the brand new Drakulas' record Terminal Amusements, to finally record an actual Part #2! Join the two friends as they catch up & dive further into Zach's wild career in music. From Government Flu to Hagfish to Gwar to Only Crime to Rise Against to the Drakulas & everything in between!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS!!!!
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Apr 29, 2020 • 1h 20min
Episode 258 - Mike Wiebe (Riverboat Gamblers, Drakulas, High Tension Wires)
What makes a great front person? Well, on this episode Damian sits down with one of the best to ever do it, The Drakulas' Mike Wiebe! Find out what brought him to the microphone & listen in as the two discuss how the local Denton scene has kept producing so many amazing bands & the fight they had to go through to be seen. Also, don't forget to check out the amazing new Drakulas' album "Terminal Amuesments" OUT NOW!
Also Touched On:
ChiPs and Quincy Punks
a tape with the Dead Milkmen and the Misfits
the silly version of punk being in your DNA
Class Of 1984
Tough Turf
Ramones in a Budweiser Ad
Thrasher
Brutal Juice and the Denton Scene
The Toadies blow up
Craig Welch was terrifying
The Skeleton Kids
The Reds become the Marked Men
Parquet Courts continue the tradition
The Dallas Scene vs. Denton
The power of the Weekly in the before internet time
Listening to Iron Maiden and being overtaken by the power of Neil Diamond
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS!
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Apr 23, 2020 • 1h 11min
Episode 257 - Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast)
In celebration of the fantastic new Best Coast record "Always Tomorrow": When Damian first started this podcast five years ago, he asked his buddy Bethany Cosentino from Best Coast to be a guest, but sometimes good things can take a while to happen. On this episode, Beth & Damian finally sit down to talk punk. Listen in as as the two chat: turning hymns into pop-punk anthems, the amazingness of The Smell, forming Best Coast & everything in between!
NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!
Also Touched On:
podcasts: a way to catch up with friends
being obsessed with the dude with the dyed black hair and Social D shirt
You can wear a Strung Out shirt to church?!?
“This is the best shit ever!”: Discovering Hanson
Mom drops you off at the Vandals and goes and gets a tattoo
Youth group and Tooth And Nail
Turning hymns into pop punk songs
punk rock camouflage
the Omaha connection
Trying to get hidden from the weed smoke at the 311 show
Operation Ivy as the inspiration
the brilliance of true pop-punk
meeting Mika Miko
Hello Operator: A Smell supergroup
Lagwagon, the Ataris and Tony Hawk soundtrack
Saddle Creek
being confused by Yellowcard
The Locust and THREEONEG
the Infamous Dystopia show
Crowdsurfing through the kitchen at Dean and Randy’s
going noise but not liking it
Forming Beth Coast
media bullshit
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Apr 20, 2020 • 1h 38min
Episode 256 - Joe Sib (22 Jacks, Wax, Frontline)
This is the type of episode this show was made for! SideOneDummy Records co-founder & Frontline/ Wax/ 22 Jacks vocalist, Joe Sib joins Damian & winds up connecting the dots between: Rancid, Swingin' Utters, America's Hardcore, The Faction, The Necros, Jackass & Weezer.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
Also Touched On:
The brilliance of the Frontline 12”
The thermals and shorts vibe
The Sex Pistols on TV
Dad finds a skate park, has to convince you to go and it changes your life
Steve Caballero and the united punk entourage
Donald goes full punk
Black Flag speaking to you
Going to school before Johnny and Kevin from the Swingin’ Utters
A group of friends “sharing” a Clash tape
learning punk lyrics for catholic school
Being the Factions’ Road Dawg
Everyone had a band
Minor Threat
America’s Hardcore
Forming Frontline
Operation Ivy
Signing to Caroline Records and them hating you
having to play CMJ at CB’s at 3am
Starting SideOneDummy
Meeting Spike Jonze and getting him stitches
Loomis and the first Jackass stunt
Johnny before Knoxville
Metal dudes discover Wax and become Weezer
MUCH, MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Apr 14, 2020 • 1h 11min
Tony Foresta from Municipal Waste is here
Get stoked!!!! On the show today, one of the all-time most sought after guests, Municipal Waste's Tony Foresta stops by for a chat! Listen in as Damian celebrates all that is awesome with the thrash/ metal/ hardcore/ punk god. From Avail to AmRep to Power Violence & Phobia, all the bases are covered! Shout out Scotty Tankcrimes!!!! NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!Also Touched On:This took a long time to happenloving the Beastie BoysSneaking out to see DRIDanzig and Sacred ReichPink Lincolns at the Blues ChairReading MRRBeavis and Butt-headChristian punk and metalSeeing the first show on the Check Your Head tourForming James River ScratchJamming at the AMC theatre smoking weed and telling off the copsBeers with Face To FaceMxPx 90s BeefMoving to LA and loosing a friend with to Phobiatalking to Ryan about forming the Waste at a DRI showTouring with Jerome’s Dream and Tragedy“DRI’s playing tonight! Let’s just go there and play it!”“I remember Gord!”No one was doing it like thisSTABBED IN THE EYE Scotty Tankcrimes& MUCH, MUCH MUCH MORE!!!!!BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANSSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turned-out-a-punk/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Apr 9, 2020 • 1h 13min
Episode 254 - Joey Sh*thead Keithley (DOA, The Skulls, City Councillor For Burnaby, BC)
We don't care what you say! This week on the show we have the OG road warrior of punk: DOA's JOEY KEITHLEY!!! Listen in as Damian sits down with a hero & one of the true pioneers of HARDCORE to talk punk, touring & cutting the trail that bands still follow to this day!
SERIOUSLY, NOT TO BE MISSED!!!!!
Also Touched On:
Thank you Joey from every band that hopped in a van ever.
Seeing the Damned’s literally Smash It Up on TV
Going to see the Ramones at a free show
The bikers hated the Lewd
Winning over the toughest of crowds
Captain Maniac, Buzz Constantly and Sparkling Apples
Punk: freak magnet
Moving to Toronto
The origins of the “Fuck Bands”
Nearly getting signed by Nash The Slash
Making videos in Vancouver
Disco sucks is a hit! (kinda)
“Are all Canadians this stupid?”
Pissing off the side of the stage and a legend is born
Chuck jamming on the bongos
the first “tour”
the infamous DC high school tout
getting the Dezerter lp out
Touring China
Hearing the term “Hardcore” for the first time
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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Apr 5, 2020 • 1h 7min
Episode 253 - Amy Dumas (Wrestling Legend, AKA Lita)
THIS IS WHY WE DO THIS THING! Wrestling Week concludes with one hell of a main event: Damian is joined by WWE Hall Of Famer & wrestling legend AMY DUMAS! Listen along as Amy talks going from 7 Seconds shows, dumpster dived donuts & playing in Fugazi side projects, to wrestling in front of millions of people on TV as LITA! The Punk/Wrestling Connection is real!
AGAIN, NOT TO BE MISSED!!
Also Touched On:
This took a long time to happen
getting a mixtape from the girl at the bus stop
7 Seconds
going to see the Circle Jerks and 7 Seconds at the Metroplex
MRR
Moving to DC
loving Lookout Records
Bay area bands’ scrappiness as inspiration for getting into wrestling
wishing you knew other punk wrestling fans
“I just need to listen to my people” - going emergency record shopping
communicating with Robbie Brookside through record pressing info
on the road with 15
robbing leftovers from Denny’s
Moving to DC
Dumpster divin’ for donuts
playing in a Fugazi and Slant 6 side project
“Did you hear I’m going to be a wrestler?”
going to Mexico and wandering around Mexico City looking for Lucha
Kid Power!
going to the WWE
& SO MUCH MORE!!!!
BROUGHT TO YOU BY VANS
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