Alex Yore MS & Dallas McCulloch MPH are a couple of PhD students who have spent much of their lives on tour. They're on a mission to find other academics with a background in punk rock and adjacent scenes, and discuss how the two intersect.

There's a ton of awesome bands, promoters, label workers, managers, etc. who are shaped by the punk rock scene but also have a background in higher education. Additionally, so many people in the halls of academia spent their youth at dingy DIY punk rock shows, and bring those experiences into their approaches to research and their professional lives.

Alex & Dallas have been friends since 1st grade. They both grew up in working class families in the boonies outside of the factory town of Battle Creek Michigan. They started in gifted classes, but were both terrible students that both required summer school at some point and finished high school with a 1.9 and 2.1 GPA respectively. They spent their young adult years largely playing music and touring. Eventually, they wound up thriving in community colleges, then state universities for undergrad, before getting Ivy League educations in graduate school, and they are currently working on PhDs as they enter middle age.

... but they'll still hang in some shitty basement and watch some punk bands, but ideally they're home by 11pm.