BROADCASTS.com

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin chats with Trey Elling about PUNK PARADOX: A MEMOIR. Topics include:

\n
• Goal with the book (0:00)
\n
• His first taste of live music (2:40)
\n
• Trauma in rural Kansas in 1976 (4:18)
\n
• The initial appeal of punk (7:57)
\n
• A love for The Jackson 5 (10:25)
\n
• The ugly reality of punk in 1984 (12:11)
\n
• How lizards are like lead singers (13:41)
\n
• A change in Bad Religion\u2019s crowd in the late \u201880s (16:22)
\n
• Bad Religion\u2019s Christmas Songs album (17:21)
\n
• The concept of \u201cselling out\u201d (18:35)
\n
• Putting his academic career on hold for the band (21:31)
\n
• Recovering from a string of traumas in the mid-1990s (23:04)
\n
• Fostering his children\u2019s love for music (25:35)
\n
• Brett Gurewitz\u2019s break from the band in the late 1990s (27:29)
\n
• The one Bible verse he quoted in PUNK PARADOX (29:28)
\n
• An interesting factoid about ants (33:11)
\n
• The Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 NBA championship in 2021 (34:28)
\n
• Rooting for an outspoken Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers (36:30)
\n
• Whether Greg is still \u2018punk\u2019 (40:26)
\n