Honduh Daze
Whittier Bar
December 11, 2025
When I walked into Whittier Bar at Admiral and Lewis last Thursday to see the noise-punk duo Honduh Daze, the greeting was loud, raw, and intense. HNNNNN-GRRR-SKK-KK-KK-KRASH! I passed over the threshold into the throng of a hundred and into another dimension. The door slammed shut without a sound.
Tulsa is brimming with punk, now and always, and over the past year Honduh Daze has caught my attention. Seeing them at Whittier was a virgin experience for me. Not many of those are left, so I embraced the opportunity.
Worming my way to the bar, I shouted at the bartender, “Give me a Hamms.” I quit yelling when I was five, but 70 years later, here I was. Felt good. Shouting and hooting were allowed—encouraged—tonight. Turning towards the performers, I looked over the crowd of revelers: All were different. All looked happy. Some chose the moment to express their own punk spirit—a person led around by a chain attached to a metal neck cuff, some with helmets, others with the punk bravado of a dentist behaving badly (that might have been me)—as The Daze raged onstage at full volume. BAM, BAM, SKREE!
Who are Honduh Daze, and do they offer a great deal on cars during the month of December? Terry Ball and Jamie Weiner (given names Jason Baker and Marie McIntosh) are both politically-minded comedians who met in a bar in L.A. 15 years ago. It was kismet. What better way to approach the incongruities of life than entering formal comedy training and taking to the stage in the glitz of Southern California? But traditional comedy shops were not ready for them. The duo turned to smaller, independent venues that promoted local artists of all genres.
And so it went until karma took hold: playing music together. This wasn’t a stretch for guitar and synth player McIntosh, but it was a new task for Baker, who chose to learn the many rhythms of the drums. Loud rhythms. The kind that burst drum skins. Comedy chops fully intact, they massaged the inspiration of Honda Days into Honduh Daze and called their band’s brand Dealership Noise Punk.