#310 - Greg Graffin on PUNK PARADOX

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

• Goal with the book (0:00)
• His first taste of live music (2:40)
• Trauma in rural Kansas in 1976 (4:18)
• The initial appeal of punk (7:57)
• A love for The Jackson 5 (10:25)
• The ugly reality of punk in 1984 (12:11)
• How lizards are like lead singers (13:41)
• A change in Bad Religion’s crowd in the late ‘80s (16:22)
• Bad Religion’s Christmas Songs album (17:21)
• The concept of “selling out” (18:35)
• Putting his academic career on hold for the band (21:31)
• Recovering from a string of traumas in the mid-1990s (23:04)
• Fostering his children’s love for music (25:35)
• Brett Gurewitz’s break from the band in the late 1990s (27:29)
• The one Bible verse he quoted in PUNK PARADOX (29:28)
• An interesting factoid about ants (33:11)
• The Milwaukee Bucks’ NBA championship in 2021 (34:28)
• Rooting for an outspoken Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers (36:30)
• Whether Greg is still ‘punk’ (40:26)