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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Remember back in Series 4 when we were finally getting our act together? Yeah, this episode dropped Feb 15, 2023—we had new Mr. Dibbs theme music, tighter pacing, actual flow... and a podcast host still drawing mutant animals in real time. We’d evolved a ton since the chaotic mess of Series 3. But now that we’re deep into Series 8, we’re re-releasing this wild, wormhole of an episode because—get this—Spotify terminated our original account like absolute maniacs. Yep, they nuked our entire podcast history.

So we’re bringing them back. All of 'em. As many past episodes as we can, as often as we can... because they deserve to be seen, heard, and weirded out over. Just like this one.

In Episode 49, Tai (@ArtByTai) and Adrienne crossed time zones, hemispheres, and possibly dimensions to beam in Aussie underground wordsmith @Thorts for a proper cross-continent convo:

🌏 2 Countries
🕒 2 Time Zones
📆 2 Days Apart
🐱 1 Cat-Morphed-Into-a-Quokka-Skyscraper Drawing

That’s right. While Tai warped Thorts’ beloved cat Frank into a surreal Quokka/Taipei 101 hybrid, the convo bounced between:

🐨 Unhinged Australia-centric hypotheticals
🎤 Thorts’ rabbit-hole journey into hip-hop
🎶 His encyclopedic list of collabs & solo projects
🇨🇦 A weird detour into Saskatoon rap scenes (don’t ask)
👀 And Sage Francis dropping in to blindside Thorts with a throwback moniker during our Sage’s Social Media Lurksegment

✨ DID YOU KNOW?
Thorts has been a true international collab machine since the early 2000s—working with underground artists across the US, UK, Canada, and Europe. His album Bleeding Heart Muzik was hailed by Oz indie circles for its haunting lyricism and anti-commercial ethos. He’s a poet in skate shoes.
Also: Quokkas are known as “the happiest animals on Earth”—and honestly, this chat has that exact energy.

💥 So yeah, if you dig what we’re doing on The DOD45 Show, don’t be a lurker:
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Tell your crew, your nana, your barista... heck, tell Spotify to reinstate our old episodes while you're at it.

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Originally dropped on Feb 8, 2023 during our all-killer, no-filler Series 4, this episode marked a turning point for The DOD45 Show. We had finally cracked the format code, the pacing hit like a perfect beat drop, and Mr. Dibbs had just laced us with our now-iconic theme music. The evolution from Series 3? Massive. Were we at our current post-Series-7 peak? Not yet. But the monster was waking up...

💥 And then... Spotify did the dumbest thing imaginable: terminated our entire podcast account. Yup. No warning, no explanation, just poof. So now, we’re re-releasing this gem (and all the others!) between new Series 8 drops because this convo with Eligh (of Living Legends royalty) deserves your ears all over again.

🎤 What Went Down (Back Then):

• Eligh got deep on reimagining the grind of touring—think longevity over burnout.

• Talked fatherhood in his 40s and how art fits between diaper changes and tour dates.

• Opened up about the wear and tear of tattooing—physically and spiritually.

• Shared how manifestation and mindful living are steering his second creative renaissance.

💡 And this was also the birth of a now-beloved segment:

🔥 Sage’s Social Media Lurk 🔥
Strange Famous ringleader Sage Francis popped in with our first-ever guest drop-in to expose the dark scroll holes of social media. It was messy. It was glorious. It was... the beginning.

🎯 Unhinged Side Roads Include:
Robin Williams clouds, McDonald’s toys, Dukes of Hazzard, Raiders nostalgia, Bon Jovi riffs, Picabo Street (!?), and even Tom Cruise in Legend. You’ve been warned.

✨ DID YOU KNOW?
Eligh credits sobriety and meditation as the fuel behind his post-Grey Crow solo evolution, and if you didn’t know—Living Legends practically wrote the book on independent hustle, hand-to-hand slinging albums out of backpacks across the West Coast way before it was a thing.

👑 Getting Eligh on DOD45 was a major moment—and yeah, maybe it’s the gateway to bringing more of the Legends into the arena. (Looking at you, Murs.)

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