HeyJaredPunkhouse Oakland, the Podcast
This podcast is an outgrowth of the instagram I started during the pandemic, sharing photos of the many people I'd lived with in my 20 years in a punkhouse.
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Sam Chiera (opens the original)
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Sam Chiera, aka Spoony Sam, aka Randonee, misspent his youth going to shows and working weird and crappy jobs in Oakland and Berkeley California. In 2003 he moved to New York City where he continued to work in weird places - for a while he swam in a fish tank for money - until he got a law degree and began representing low income tenants' associations in Brooklyn. He has lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for over 20 years. If you're reading this, you might be his friend - in which case h
Norris Mottley (opens the original)
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Norris says: I was born and raised in Detroit and made my journey to California in 1992. I had been working on a play in New York City but due to some creative differences between me and the other folks involved I moved in another direction. That move brought me to the Bay Area, which was a previous stomping ground of mine. The plan at the time for me was to finish writing the play I had been working on and make my way back to NYC. As fate would have it, I was running out of money so I needed to
Wendy-O Matik (opens the original)
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Wendy-O Matik is a poet, writer, activist, and the author of Love Like Rage and Redefining Our Relationships . Back in the 90s, she could be found doing spoken word in the Bay Area punk scene and touring with various bands in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Today, she lives in Santa Rosa, CA, where she has coauthored eleven mindfulness meditation books, blogs on social justice topics, and still dabbles in poetry from time to time.
Robert Eggplant (opens the original)
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Eggplant says Wow. What a rare chance to be involved with this cool project of these testimonies of our East Bay punk houses. So good to have this space that highlights examples of how people can make different living arrangements than what agents of society have proscribed. This is badly needed in 2026. i feel that the forces that drive many people into punk, or into dangerous living and self harm are a malevolent threat. We are expending enormous energy and precious time in opposition and ver
Kate Knox (opens the original)
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Kate Knox became a punk rocker in 1978 at the age of 14, and the punk rock community has been her touchstone ever since. After moving to the East Bay from Chico, CA in 1982, she quickly became involved in the local punk scene as show organizer, tour mom, and all-around supporter of East Bay punk. She is a co-founder of BOB Fest, an international punk gathering, which she still helps organize three decades later. She was also a co-founder of the Maxi Pad, a notorious Oakland punk house of the 199
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