A Good Day To DIY
“A Good Day To DIY” is an interview-style podcast hosted by Alex and Lucy. It’s for and about people in DIY punk and hardcore who love Star Trek. It celebrates the diversity of the Trek universe through exploring what Trek means to different people in the global punk community. This podcast is for fans of loud music, a broad range of sci fi and fantasy, and hearing nerdy strangers info dump about their special interest areas. Send us an email! --＞ agoodday2diy@gmail.com
Episodes
The first episode, introducing Alex, Lucy, how they got into trek and DIY music, and their pitches for a new Trek show.
Alex and Lucy talk with Brian Cullen (Yearbooks, Elle, Anopheli) about deep sea trek, above land trekking, SoCal punk rock, and what the hell anyone needs a doctorate for anyway.
*Alex's audio is a bit ropey for the first few minutes - hang in there, it evens out!
Lucy and Alex talk with Kris Udekwu (Beau Navire, Yearbooks, Elle, ðraft class) about hammock strategies, the best Trek wedding speeches, lessons from Midsomer, and what ChatGPT and Majel Barrett (maysherestinpeace) have in common.
Join Lucy and Alex as they navigate the world of work: potscrubbing, scientology, #oldpunk, chronic illness, solarpunk, deep sea meatballs, Trek role models... oh yeah, and employment.
Alex and Lucy talk with Alice Hadland about the things we do for thrash bands, why people don't do Trek stand up, the terrible fate of reindeer robots, what Spock does at a stitch and bitch, and one specific exception to ACAB.
Join Alex and Lucy as they catch up with podcaster, musician, and Trek fan Hugo Powell. Explore the worlds of the very literal shitty patriarchy, why you never catch a Starfleet ship in the galactic centre, the secret to Ferengi gender, the "dad float", and what you can't control about gorillas.
Join Lucy and Alex as they explore Star Trek and DIY punk music through the eyes of father, part-time violinist, and professional-tier shower taker, Mo. Journey through conversations including but not limited to: the power of fraudulent crumpets, explaining warp nacelles to toddlers, quantum mysticism, aphantasia, Ashton Kutcher's surprising best work, and potentially the darkest secret of Star Trek we've all missed.
Join Alex and Lucy as they chat with David (Ageless Oblivion, Employed to Serve, Odoacer) about dinosaurs, the blood supply of feathers, sentient holonovel characters, socially responsible moshing, Picard's Starfleet Hinge profile, the GOAT movie soundtrack, and what makes grey plastic so disgustingly addictive.
Bands mentioned on this episode include Jane's Addiction, NOFX, Throats, Year of no Light, Nile, Ancient Lights, Dinomani...
This episode is a big love letter to friendship. We promise it's not vomit-inducing (OK, we can't promise that, but we did try).
It covers, among other things:
- The reality of scabies
- Famous proverbs around having no eyebrows
- The blood of the covenant
- Different types of activism
- Favourite Trek friendships (and the most questionable)
- Safe spaces and being friends with the galaxy
- What you should do if a famous author calls when ...
Join Alex and Lucy as they speak to academic, comedian, writer, science communicator, speed puzzler, SETI champ, digital rights advocate, and entirely approachable and friendly public speaker Dr Hannah Little.
Among other things, this episode covers: Vulcan nannies, the beauty of theramins, tuning the human ear to hear other cultures, the best music for speed puzzling, Martian poetry, the ills of anthropocentrism, science fiction a...
Episode 11: Hotter Than The Sun (with Allan) from Joyce, Secondary Education, Bowers and the Worst of Times (https://secondaryeducation.bandcamp.com/).
Join us as we talk to Allan: singer, songwriter, drummer, touring musician, stage manager and production professional, star trek punk, and top vegan.
Our chat covers but is not limited to:
- Why DS9 and Allo ...
Today is a deep dive/info-dump special with Lucy talking about their special interest area: soil and compost. How long can you stay awake for?
Discussions covering but not limited to:
Solar punk, soil punk, and a... secret third thing Europunk and mosh shorts Fluff fest (RIP) Gladiators (RIP) Inclusion and meaningful accommodation Steam punk vs diesel punk Kes, our lady of nitrogenated soil (RIP) Friends don't let friends ha...
Today we're talking with Simon: Self diagnosed sci fi fan, mender, aspiring space cowboy of south east London and truly a jack of pretty much all trades (check out his youtube! https://youtube.com/@toomanyprojects). As usual we talk about all sorts of everything and our conversation is entirely random, PLUS there's not only a great pitch but a special bonus section. WHAM.
Some excellent conversational threads especially on pub gig...
Today we’re speaking to Tom - bassist, football fan, and all round very nice chap. You may know him from the bands Attack! Vipers!, Personal Best, & Grand-Pop. Alex and Lucy have known him for ages and neither of us are quite sure when or how we even met him, but he’s been a devotee of the podcast since the beginning. He has a special accolade which is he emailed us immediately after the first episode to express how...
"The Joy Episode!"
Aka... listen to two sensitive soul introverts talking about learning how to introvert. Including but not limited to:
- Chronic oversharing.... The worst of all the chronic illnesses - Why humans are like little fusion generators - Burning out on being yourself... And the joy that can come from that - Why Masters Of The Universe may land you in hospital - Why a soft apricot may make you shit a brick ...
Join us as we chat to the two biggest cuties in the Bay area! Conversation includes but is not limited to:
- the most punchable face in Trek - the word "amazing" being said at least 70 times (i'm sorry about this) - he is risen: the MySpace resurrection - Christian rock, the ultimate gateway drug - the mast season of the Trek tree - Star Trek 🫱🏻🫲🏾 Star Wars against the real enemy - the defenestration of the prime directive - h...
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