Ep 49 – Underground with Thorts: A DOD45 Global Link-Up

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: Rate it. Review it. Subscribe. Share it. Tell your crew, your nana, your barista... heck, tell Spotify to reinstate our old episodes while you're at it. 🖼️ Peep Tai’s art & limited prints: 👉 www.artbytai.com 📲 Follow us: 👉 @artbytai 👉 @thorts #Thorts #DOD45Show #ArtByTai #Series4Energy #AustralianHipHop #QuokkaMode #TaipeiFrank #SageLurk #SpotifyDidUsDirty #MrDibbsTheme #SupportIndieArtists #UndergroundRap #PodcastRewind #VisualPodcast #WeirdInAGoodWay