SPOTIFY SHOW NOTES: Welcome to Series 8 of The DOD45 Show! We're kicking off our triple-digit era with the return of lyrical lifer, brewer, and Tucson pillar RUNT of Jivin Scientists. This ain't his first DOD45 rodeo, but it's possibly his most delightfully chaotic one yet.

We talk art, awkward waves, haunted Airbnbs, corn-eating styles, and what happens when you put James Hetfield's beard on James Harden’s face. But we also dig into the soul of the scene—Runt’s poetry, his grind, and the community he’s building behind the bar at Brickbox Brewery. And yes, he has a piece in our "Little Things" show.

🎙️ Episode Highlights:

• Runt’s writing process: still chasing lightning or calling storms?

• The wildest thing said to him after a show

• Why Tucson’s music scene deserves more attention

• Cringiest tattoo decision (not the tat—the choice)

• What happens when your brewery regulars don’t know you rap

• The strangest Pick Your Poison questions to ever involve James Earl Jones and a lobster ritual

• Blackliq drops the final word… again

🎧 Episode Movie & Song Recommendations: 🎬 Sinners – A genre-bending banger set in 1932 Mississippi. Directed by Ryan Coogler, starring Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers caught between juke joints and supernatural horror. Over $280M at the box office. Soulful, strange, and powerful. Watch trailer

🎵 Texas Funeral – Listen by Jon Wayne (1985) Alt-country, cowpunk and Americana satire that gained cult status after appearing in From Dusk Till Dawn. Originally intended for Pulp Fiction. Weird in the best way.

🎵 Patriarch – Listen by Cas One ft. Bitter Stephens & Dizzy Wolfe Explores the seesaw between artistic mastery and self-doubt. A reminder that art sometimes owns us more than we own it.

🎧 Get the full playlist: DOD45 LUVS on Spotify

Did You Know?

• Runt co-owns Brickbox Brewery, a new Tucson staple blending hip-hop, hops & homies.

• Jivin Scientists have been quietly shaping Tucson’s music landscape since the early 2000s.

• Runt’s poem in the Little Things show features a custom impression stamp.

• He also once described his lyrics as “a conversation with ghosts that don’t return my texts.”

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