Fletcher from Pennywise is here

Turned Out A Punk

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Hold your feelings, hide your fear, don't look around, don't turn around: Fletcher Dragge is here! That's right, Pennywise's not so gentle giant has come back to TOAP! Listen in as Damian sits down with the legendary guitarist to talk all things punk. From being an "outdoor" kid, to fighting jocks, to Green Day not being better than him, to hunting rockstars for sport, to fighting cops, to catching an unprovoked beatdown from Rollins and so much more: DON'T MISS THIS ONE

Also, don't miss Fletcher with Pennywise on "Killed By Deaf: A Punk Tribute to Motörhead", out now!

Also, don't miss Pennywise on tour!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Turned Out of Punk. I'm your host, Damien Abraham, and today on the show from the band Pennywise, Fletcher Drag is here.
0:40.9	Fletcher is someone that I've known for a very long time.
0:44.7	My brother, who is the show producer and guest booker extraordinaire, Tristan Abraham and I interviewed him for our fanzine, drunken box kicking, which never came out, way back when at the second warp tour in Toronto.
0:59.9	And from there, I interviewed him a few other times over the years, have been on tour with them, run into him at shows, and developed a friendship with him.
1:09.2	He's one of my favorite people to run into.
1:11.8	Every time I run into him, it's always a little bit of an adventure, always full of
1:17.8	great stories and certainly a lot of laughs, as you will hear in a moment on the show.
1:24.5	Fletcher is here for this conversation, of course, because there is a brand new tribute to
1:30.4	Motorhead killed by deaf, a punk rock tribute to motorhead featuring lots of friends of this
1:37.5	podcast, former guests, and the like. So pick that up wherever you purchase your records.
1:44.7	I'll have links on where you can order it in the description below.
1:48.4	You can get it from the Motorhead website and some other places.
1:51.1	So pick this thing up.
1:52.8	Also, if you are in the Orlando, Florida area, November 15th or 16th or and 16th,
2:00.6	the Warped Tour is going to be playing or being held in Orlando, and Pennywise will be playing that.
2:08.6	So if you get the opportunity to go down and see it, who knows, maybe you'll be like me 20 years ago and wind up being on stage singing Brohim with Pennywise.
2:17.1	I also sang Brohim on stage with Pennywise one time when they had Zoli singing.
2:21.2	But anyway, this episode ends very abruptly, but I left it as is.
2:26.2	And hopefully Fletcher will be back to finish the conversation at some point in the future.
2:32.2	But I can't hold on to these things forever. So I had to get this out for you guys to hear it. Also point in the future, but I can't hold on to these things
2:34.2	forever, so I had to get this out for you guys to hear it. Also, in the episode, I misidentify
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