Jim Ward from Sparta is here

Turned Out A Punk

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Be kind to the punishers; you know not where you'll meet them again. Today, Jim Ward from Sparta comes to TOAP and face to face with his one time punisher: Damian. Listen in to hear how Jim's kindness 27 years ago helped set Damian on the path to this podcast and so much more! From the greatness of the Rhythm Pigs, to the DC vs the gun totting parts of the El Paso scene, to Mike D's Grand Royal coolness, to the dark downside of At The Drive In's success and so much more: DON'T MISS THIS ONE!

Also, don't miss the 20th anniversary edition of Sparta's "Porcelain"

Also, don't miss Jim and Sparta on tour!

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Hello and welcome to another edition of Turned Out of Punk.
0:32.0	I'm your host Damien Abraham and once again I'm bringing you a conversation with someone
0:35.3	who grew up listening to Punk, may or may not still be involved with punk, but had the life changed by the genre in a major
0:41.1	way. And today on the show, someone who changed my life in a major way, way way way, way when,
0:47.0	when I met him at the Gilman years and years ago. So we were reconnecting. And now, dare I say,
0:52.9	we've become friends after this.
0:54.8	From the band, Sparta, you may also know them from the band at the drive-in.
0:59.3	My buddy, my pal, Jim Ward, is on the podcast today, and this is a good one.
1:04.3	More on that in one second, but first, if you want to get in touch with me, head over to the
1:08.6	email address turned out a punk podcast at gmail.com.
1:12.6	That is run by my brother, who is the show producer and the guest booker for this podcast.
1:18.8	Extraordinaire, but this one, credit goes somewhere else.
1:21.4	More on that in one second.
1:22.2	But thank you, Tristan, for all the hard work you do for this show.
1:25.6	There is also a YouTube page, an Instagram page, a TikTok
1:28.6	page, and a Facebook page, all for this podcast. All those can be found at Turned Out of Punk
1:34.2	on those platforms. And there's videos on there, edits that I make from this podcast, little
1:41.0	things that if I have time to throw together, I do. And you can find them
1:44.5	on there for your viewing pleasure. They're also on YouTube. So you can just go to YouTube and
1:50.2	watch it there as well. And I think that is, oh, I play in a band. We're called Fucked Up. You can find
1:56.2	out more information at fucked up.cc. We're going to be playing a show in Yellowknife coming up.
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