SHOW TOPICS - Writer DJ Leary discusses art, poetry, prose, and next steps on his creative journey.

SHOW NOTES - 00:12 - DJ "SubRants" again!

• 02:00 - Pandemic apartment good for writing

• 02:50 - Laundry basket anxiety attack

• 04:00 - Poems, stories, Pivot Cycles commercial

• 04:20 - DJ's Pivot Shadowcat Ad

• 08:20 - "4 Minutes Later" (James bike-nerds out)

• 09:50 - No more training wheels, ever!

• 11:15 - Listen to the neighborhood ambiance

• 12:00 - "DC Rat Mob" (actual rodents, not politicians)

• 14:08 - Bethesda v. Scottsdale and a tattoo artist's floor

• 16:20 - Bird loudly joins podcast

• 17:00 - What DJ will and won't miss about Phoenix

• 19:20 - Phoenix expensive, friends moving on

• 20:30 - One rodeo is enough for a lifetime

• 21:00 - Surprise, DC is political!

• 22:30 - Poems for "Tuckle"

• 23:13 - Cocaine free coffee beans

• 24:15 - No "swerving right" for easy money?

• 26:00 - Writers needed (in Thailand?)

• 27:15 - Fiverr and the "gig economy"

• 29:15 - Motivated through authentic interaction

• 32:18 - Instagram as "poetry archive"

• 33:30 - DJ is a tattoo!

• 35:30 - Being an artist is hard work

• 38:40 - Screaming into the Twitter void

• 41:04 - Instagram pay dirt

• 43:20 - Next steps for prose over poetry

• 44:50 - Think you're good at what you do? You're not!

• 47:45 - Catchy, but played out

• 49:00 - Practice makes better

• 50:25 - DJ and a typewriter

• 52:00 - San Diego and DC give "great busk"

• 53:03 - Shout out to The Smithsonian

• 54:05 - DJ recites a poem