Echoes of the Past: Tucson’s Haunted History with Sully McGinnis of Freaky Foot Tours

✨ Meet Sully McGinnis, a passionate tour guide and storyteller with Freaky Foot Tours, whose lifelong connection to the paranormal brings Tucson’s haunted history to life.

👟 Discover the origins of Freaky Foot Tours, from its roots in Flagstaff to its immersive expansion into downtown Tucson—offering walking tours that blend history, mystery, and local love.

🏨 Explore chilling tales from iconic Tucson landmarks, including the tragic story of the Pioneer Hotel and the lingering spirits said to roam Hotel Congress.

👻 Hear real-life paranormal encounters, from haunted home renovations to eerie moments during ghost tours—stories that defy explanation and stir the imagination.

📜 Learn how storytelling preserves Tucson’s past, from historic diaries to shared memories, and how Freaky Foot Tours serves as a living archive of the Old Pueblo’s cultural soul.

🕯️ Understand the deeper meaning behind ghost stories, and how these tours create emotional connections between locals, visitors, and the city itself.

What if the streets of Tucson could talk? What secrets would they whisper? In this special episode of Life Along the Streetcar, guest host Amanda Mourelatos takes us beyond the historic facades and into the unseen layers of Tucson’s downtown, where the past lingers, and sometimes… it speaks.

Amanda sits down with Sully McGinnis, a tour guide with Freaky Foot Tours, to explore how this local business is breathing life (and afterlife) into Tucson’s haunted history. Through walking tours, local lore, and powerful personal experiences, Freaky Foot Tours offers a deeper connection to the spirit of the Old Pueblo.

👟 Ghosts on the Go: How Freaky Foot Tours is Bringing Haunted History to Tucson

Founded in Flagstaff and now expanding across Arizona, Freaky Foot Tours arrived in Tucson in late 2024 and has quickly become a standout experience for both locals and visitors. The company is known for its historically grounded ghost tours, blending factual research with spine-tingling storytelling to create an immersive and thoughtful experience. At the heart of its Tucson team is Sully McGinnis, a passionate guide with a background in history, theater, and a lifelong fascination with the paranormal.

Sully brings authenticity, theatricality, and deep respect for local history to every tour he leads. His background growing up in a historic mining town, combined with a family steeped in ghost lore, has shaped him into a storyteller uniquely suited for Tucson’s eerie desert tales.

Operating nightly in the downtown area, the tour hits iconic locations like Hotel Congress, The Pioneer Hotel, and other historic buildings whose walls still echo with mystery. The company’s upcoming Mural Tour will soon add even more color (literally and figuratively) to their offerings, proving that Freaky Foot Tours is about connecting people to place through meaningful narratives.

🏙️ Beneath the Bricks: Tucson’s Haunted History Comes Alive Downtown

Downtown Tucson is a hub of cultural activity today, but the city’s historic core is built on centuries of layered history, including tales of tragedy, transformation, and the unexplained. Freaky Foot Tours leverages this landscape to offer a different kind of history lesson, one that doesn’t gloss over the dark corners.

The tour moves guests through well-known hotspots to honor the people and events that shaped the city. Sully shares how guests often reminisce during tours, connecting personal memories to historic spaces, creating powerful moments where storytelling becomes a shared act of remembrance.

The Pioneer Hotel fire, one of the city’s most tragic and well-known events, is one such moment on the tour that invokes both emotional weight and paranormal mystery. Whether through archived diaries like those of George Hand, or accounts passed down through generations, Freaky Foot Tours builds a bridge between the historical record and the living culture of downtown Tucson.

👻 Encounters from the Other Side: Paranormal Moments That Defy Explanation

Of course, no haunted history tour is complete without actual paranormal encounters, and Sully has had his share. In the episode, he recounts eerie experiences during the renovation of his historic Tucson home in the Blenman-Elm neighborhood, where ghostly activity would spike every time he mentioned the home’s original builder, a former railroad worker with unfinished business, perhaps.

The stories don’t end there. One of the most chilling tales comes from a recent tour guest, a teenager who felt unexplainable dread near the Pioneer Hotel, later revealing a childhood nightmare that precisely matched the building’s interior, a place she’d never seen. She wasn’t alone. Sully had heard nearly the exact same story from another young guest, leading him to wonder: are these children tapping into something deeper?

Sully describes the strange sounds, cold chills, flickering lights, and even disembodied laughter that have cropped up on his tours, phenomena that defy logic, yet happen too often to ignore. As he puts it, the desert teaches us that life and death walk side by side here, and understanding Tucson means embracing both.

🔚 A Love Letter to Tucson

What makes this episode so resonant is that it’s about connection. Freaky Foot Tours, under the guidance of people like Sully McGinnis, reminds us that storytelling is a way to honor the past, share emotions, and build bridges between strangers and their city.

Whether you’re a longtime Tucsonan or visiting for the first time, a Freaky Foot Tour offers a unique lens into the city’s soul. It’s a mix of haunted lore, heartfelt storytelling, and historical reverence that you won’t find anywhere else.

🎟️ Want to Experience It for Yourself?

If you’re ready to walk Tucson’s haunted streets and hear the stories that echo through its past:

👉 Visit Freaky Foot Tours: https://freakyfoottours.com/us/arizona/tucson
👉 Follow Sully’s adventures and other Tucson stories by subscribing to the podcast on SoundCloud
👉 Stay updated on local culture and interviews by liking us on Facebook

Whether you’re here for the ghosts, the history, or the people, Tucson is full of stories, and Life Along the Streetcar is where you’ll find them.

Tom Heath
Good morning. It’s a bit of sun in El Pueblo. And you’re listening to Katy Tucson. Thank you for spending part of your brunch hour with us on your downtown Tucson community sponsored, all volunteer powered rock and roll radio station. This week, guest host Amanda Mulatto sits down with Sally McGuinness of Freaky Foot Haunted tours their uncover the stories and history behind Tucson’s spooky walking experience.

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Tom Heath
Well, we had such a wonderful time with Brittany Battle a few weeks ago doing the guest host series. I was like, man, we got to do that again. So I reached out, to Amanda. She’s she’s, been a host on the show before. It’s not her first time. But this topic, you know, we find these topics that she really gets into and.

Tom Heath
And then, she wants to take the lead. I’m super excited for her. I’m glad she’s doing that. This is with Freaky Foot haunted tours. So it’s, they came out of Flagstaff and is, they’re in different cities now. And looking at not just the, the elements of of the haunted tour, but the history behind some of these really interesting stories that, really, engage and, intrigue many, many of us here.

Tom Heath
So she had the chance to sit down with Sally McGuinness, who’s been with Freaky Foot Tours for a little bit now and, talked about the experience on the tour and a little bit about his experience in the paranormal. So as we get into fall, we thought it’d be a good time to kind of brush off the, the heat here and think forward to Halloween and, the upcoming fall season and get jump start it with, a little spooky stories.

Tom Heath
This is Amanda Maltose with Sally McGuinness, recorded about a week ago at the show Source Studios.

Amanda Mourelatos
Welcome back to life along the street car. My name is not Tom Heath. Amanda morel Archer’s here again. I am here with Sally McGuinness from Freaky Foot haunted tours. How are you doing today?

Sully McGinnis
Really good. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate you.

Amanda Mourelatos
Thanks so much for coming. So tell me a little bit about Freaky Foot haunted tours.

Sully McGinnis
Okay, well, we, operate a, small local walking tours business, throughout downtown Tucson, seven days a week, two tours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We are in the process of getting ready to launch our, mural tour, which will start in September. But, right now we’ve got a really amazing, super exciting, super spooky, haunted history tour that we operate.

Sully McGinnis
About one mile throughout, the greater downtown Tucson area. So we head up all of the, livelier hot spots. They’ve got great history and, great haunted stories as well.

Amanda Mourelatos
Awesome. And my understanding, you guys started out in Flagstaff and branched out.

Sully McGinnis
We did, our founder, Susan and her son Nick, started the company in Flagstaff just about ten years ago. Yeah. Susan wrote a couple of really amazing historical texts about Flagstaff that were kind of true crime related. And then, her son Nick started the walking tour for her to just kind of keep her busy and, and have, some place to kind of tell those stories.

Sully McGinnis
And then it grew and grew and grew and grew and grew. And the more history that we uncover, we see that history ties itself together through all kinds of cities throughout Arizona. And so we are also blooming to those other cities so that we can talk about, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday in Prescott and Flagstaff and Tucson.

Sully McGinnis
And that way everybody gets the whole story of of all that great history.

Amanda Mourelatos
Absolutely. Yeah. So we’re Flagstaff, Prescott and Tucson. Where do you guys think you’re heading next?

Sully McGinnis
Well, signs are a sign of, kind of pointing to maybe old Scottsdale, but, you never know. We’ve got a lot of tricks up our sleeves being these ghost guys.

Amanda Mourelatos
So it’s been a good one, too.

Sully McGinnis
Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Bisbee. Tombstone will definitely, we’ll either be there for tours or will be there for special events. I’m sure of.

Amanda Mourelatos
It. That’s awesome. Yeah. So how did you get in the mix of all this?

Sully McGinnis
Well, I kind of grew up in a, historic mining town, capital city of Montana, and, also went to, private theater school that was integrated in our community theater. And my father was a tour guide when I was growing up. And he would always offer sort of, impromptu tours to all of our friends and family that would come to town.

Sully McGinnis
So I really got invested in history and the history of wherever I was living really young. And then when I, before I moved to Tucson, I got really involved with I really wanted to know the community that I was moving to, and a lot of that was history related. And I just really fell in love with all of the history that’s here in Tucson.

Sully McGinnis
So when I had the opportunity to apply and work with Freaky Foot, it just made a really natural progression. And so it’s been super fun to be able to learn more about the place where we live, but also take people on these adventures and teach them a little bit about the place where we live too.

Amanda Mourelatos
That’s so awesome. And how long have you been with Freaky Foot?

Sully McGinnis
I’ve been with Freaky Foot for just about 5 or 6 months now. So yeah, we we got here in December and I was, we had a, our first tour guide here, monk, who’s just incredible, amazing guy. And then, he can only tell so many stories on his own. So I got to come into pinch hit a little bit, and, then we’ve been able to grow a little bit, and.

Sully McGinnis
And the rest is history, so to speak.

Amanda Mourelatos
That’s so awesome. Have you yourself encountered anything paranormal in your life?

Sully McGinnis
I have encountered a lot of paranormal things in my life.

Amanda Mourelatos
What’s one what’s just one story that stands out to you?

Sully McGinnis
Well, I would say that when my wife and I moved to Tucson, we ended up having a major uptick of paranormal experiences that happened to us both. And we’ve had some really, we renovated a historic house over in bled Elm. Took us about two years to do our renovation, and we had a number of wild and crazy events that took place in that, as we renovated the house.

Sully McGinnis
And then, I’ve had some wild experiences and Vail, I’ve had wild experiences. We just had a really unusual, sort of freaky paranormal experience with a flat tire that we got on our way coming out of Picacho Peak not too long ago. And what’s kind of amazing, I think about this. Places that, you know, we do this walking tour and just maybe ten blocks of the downtown area, but you can go north, east, south west, just a couple blocks off of our tour and find another whole handful of paranormal stories anywhere around here.

Sully McGinnis
But one of the more unusual things that happened to us while we were renovating the house was, the man who built our house used to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and we had all kinds of any time that we would sort of talk about him, or we would talk about how he had built the house or things that he would have done around the house, we would immediately have uptick in activity.

Sully McGinnis
And what was so wild about it is when we would leave Tucson and we would tell people about him, like sort of in the story of, hey, this is the guy who built our house. Sort of a deal. Wild things would happen to us where we were. We were up at my mother’s house in Seattle, and we were talking about, oh, we’re renovating the house, and these are the trials.

Sully McGinnis
And tribulations that you have with renovating the house. And someone was like, oh, who built your house? So we were talking about him and, we started talking about some of his, his his excuse me, his history. Just a little bit. And all of the lights ended up going out. And then the same situation happened to us when we were telling the same exact story in Mexico.

Sully McGinnis
Wow. Yeah. So he we had to kind of tell him, hey, hey, hey, like, this is where you’re at. This is our house now. We had to do a little bit of work to kind of quell things around the house, because it was getting a little bit hairy there for a while. Wow. Yeah.

Amanda Mourelatos
Do you remember, like, your earliest encounter where you’re super young?

Sully McGinnis
Yeah, I was so my mom and all of my cousins have always been sort of paranormal, charged and really into, that aspect of metaphysics, paranormal and things like that. And, my family has had these sort of stories forever and ever. Whenever we would get to, whenever we get together, we sort of go through the first five, ten minutes of like, how are you doing?

Sully McGinnis
We haven’t seen you in so long. And then our family stories automatically evolve to like, so what experiences have you had lately? Has grandma been by. And we we call our grandmother Mary Jo. We call her my mom. And we’re like, yeah, my mom came by and she did it, you know, so we it’s always something like that.

Sully McGinnis
But I remember having these types of experiences when I was really quite young. And, same thing with the majority of my, my family. My dad was a little bit more straight laced, kind of the history sort of guy. But then my mom and all of my cousins are really into the paranormal. So we always had like a very devout skeptic that would keep everything sort of grounded, you know, like always question the science, question science.

Sully McGinnis
But then this other side that was like, you can always science doesn’t always have something to do with this.

Tom Heath
Yeah, that was Sully McGinnis. He is being interviewed with our guest host today, Amanda Moore. Latosha. She’s filling in for me yet again on this fabulous topic, talking about the Tucson haunts and really focusing on the Freaky Foot haunted tours. We’re going to get back to the second half and conclusion of that interview in just a moment. But first, I want to remind you that you’re listening to life along the Streetcar in downtown Radio 99.1 FM and streaming on Downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
Thank you very.

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Sully McGinnis
Enjoy your evening. Bye bye.

Tom Heath
Well, welcome back. This Sunday morning, as we roll into the brunch hour here, we’re listening to, life along the streetcar. And our guest host today is Amanda Moloto. She sat down with Sally McGuinness of Freaky Foot Haunted Tours, and they’ve gotten a little bit of the backstory of how the tours came to be, how they got from Flagstaff down here into Tucson.

Tom Heath
A little bit about, Sally’s personal experiences. And we’re going to finish up the interview as they dive back into that topic. And, yeah, this is the, interview with Amanda Maltose and Sally McGuinness.

Amanda Mourelatos
So you never really had any doubts that paranormal activity existed?

Sully McGinnis
No, no, it was a it was too active to to doubt. Yeah.

Amanda Mourelatos
Yeah. It wasn’t just like a one here.

Sully McGinnis
No. We would get together at Christmas time and pull out old, Christmas decorations and things like that at my grandmother’s house or at my aunt’s house. And I remember being young, and there were, like, these figurines that were, kind of like, they had a little music box sort of deal attached to them. And we would that would just kind of be sitting, you know, as a decoration on the counter, on the table or whatever.

Sully McGinnis
And we would start to talk about whoever owned that, who had come from. And then all of a sudden it would start turning around and start playing, or we’d be at my aunt’s house and we’d be we’d reference the clock and then the clock would start chiming, or she would talk about the neighbor who gave her the clock, and then the clock would start chiming.

Sully McGinnis
And this was happening when I was, you know, two, three, four years old. So it’s always been around and always been something that I’ve, I’ve kind of had, you know, I used to I was the youngest. And so my, my cousins would always sort of scare me with it a little bit, you know, like the ghosts, these are going to get you.

Sully McGinnis
So I always kind of had, you know, looking over my shoulder a little bit. But as I’ve gotten older and older, I’ve really had the opportunity to appreciate it more and have had more contact with relatives who have passed over or, really interesting experiences with death and grief that have been hard but also really beautiful. And so it’s gained.

Sully McGinnis
I’ve gained a whole lot of appreciation for those stories. And that’s one thing that’s really cool about the tour also is that as we’re walking around downtown, there’s a couple really cool things that happen. As one, we get tourists that come through, you know, and they love those stories. But I really love getting local folks on the tour because then they start to like as we’re walking around, these things jog their memory, and then they start sharing their stories with us.

Sully McGinnis
And we, it seems small, but we’re, you know, just these tour guides on these walking tours. But there’s moments, these really magical moments, but where we’ll be standing somewhere and someone will tell us a little snippet of their family history, and maybe they’ll well up a little bit. They’ll drop a little bit of a tear here and there, and we get to have these really special moments where we’re excited about the ghost story, but we’re also holding the grief for them for a moment, and also just sitting there in the appreciation of, like, tradition and family and how beautiful that can be and what an amazing shared connection that can be for people.

Sully McGinnis
So yes, where these history buffs and and tour guides and where, you know, seem small that we’re doing just these tours, but we have these really special moments with people. And I think that that’s what we get to carry with us so much. Yeah. It’s so cool.

Amanda Mourelatos
Yeah, I love that.

Sully McGinnis
Yeah.

Amanda Mourelatos
Have you ever had any instances during a tour where someone has had a paranormal interaction?

Sully McGinnis
Yes, I, we have and we had a situation just a couple weeks ago. Typically, we don’t often have a lot of experiences that will necessarily happen on the tour, but I had a tour just this last week where, it was with a mother and daughter and you could they together energetically. We’re very, very strong. And they had, you know, really big fun personalities.

Sully McGinnis
And so when that happens, we can kind of get into the depth of things a little bit more. And this little, this girl, she’s like 16, 17 years old. And she kept kind of looking over her shoulder a little bit. And we we don’t really take too much account into that. You know, it’s the atmosphere. It’s the downtown area.

Sully McGinnis
But we start to walk over towards the Pioneer Hotel. And she kind of just a little uneasy, just kind of, we finish up at the, at the Fox Theater and then we walk over to the pioneer. That’s our route. And she says, are we going to the pioneer? And I said, yeah, we’re headed over there right now.

Sully McGinnis
And she glances over at her mom and her mom’s like, are you are you okay? And she’s like, yeah, I’m I’m okay, I’m okay. And we get over there and she lets me tell the whole story of the fire that, excuse me, the fire at the Pioneer Hotel. And that’s kind of a tough story for us sometimes. Like you can it’s, you know, such a traumatic situation for the whole city of Tucson and people really hold on to that story really intensely.

Sully McGinnis
She lets me tell the story, and then we’re walking to our next stop, and she stops me and she says, can I tell you something that happened to me? And I say, chair. And she goes on to tell me that when she was about four years old, her father was working as a janitor in one of the buildings adjacent to the Pioneer Hotel.

Sully McGinnis
She’s in the car with her brother, who’s about 15 years old. She’s in her car seat and she is asleep. She has this dream that she is actually on fire and she wakes up just screaming. Just having this really terrible, terrible nightmare and the very interesting thing about it was that her, she starts describing the dream and her brother, who had been inside the pioneer before, realizes that she is describing certain parts in the Pioneer Hotel building that she would have not ever really known before.

Sully McGinnis
What’s wild about this is that we have heard that similar story from another person around her age, another guest on the tour, who is also just around her age and a little bit older, and their mothers were both able to be there to corroborate the story that, yeah, like this was a really big deal, that they were really scared.

Sully McGinnis
And this was like one of their first nightmares that actually had really happened. So it was definitely a chilling moment for us. And then we get back to where we end the tour, which is on the backside of the hotel Congress. And I’m sitting there, telling some of the ghost stories of the Hotel Congress and all three of us hear this.

Sully McGinnis
I’m telling this story of events, and all three of us sort of hear this, chuckle. And she, this poor little girl just jumps, you know, out of her skin. And her mom is like, did you hear that? And I’m like, did I? You all heard that right? And she. Yeah. And so it was just one of those wild things that just happened to happen on the tour.

Sully McGinnis
But some people who are more energetically in tune start to open up some of that stuff and who knows, who knows what happened or what that was about. But yeah, definitely. Yeah, definitely. Really interesting.

Amanda Mourelatos
That’s definitely one of those things that you hear about and you never actually witness that. You’re saying, yeah, that’s right.

Sully McGinnis
And the thing too is like as tour guides like this, we ourselves tend to be a little bit skeptical of our own stories. Like we like to say, okay, we want to make sure that our history is right. And as historians, we have to be willing to pivot or realize when more information comes forward, that maybe some of our information wasn’t always factual or wasn’t always right.

Sully McGinnis
But when these sorts of situations happen, it’s really hard to kind of stay rooted in that skeptic mindset where you’re like, that can’t be true. That can’t possibly have happened. But when it’s happened so frequently, it’s it’s hard to deny. It’s hard to know that I and I think that that’s a big thing here in Tucson. It’s really rooted in our culture.

Sully McGinnis
You know, we have life and death amongst us all the time. It’s in our desert. It’s in our culture here, it’s in our people here. It’s in our, indigenous people here. And you have to kind of understand that to be able to live here and appreciate all of what Tucson has to offer. All of us.

Amanda Mourelatos
Absolutely. Yeah. I grew up here, and I completely agree. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What’s one of your without giving too much away, what’s one of your favorite Tucson stories.

Sully McGinnis
Well, so I am a huge fan and and very honored to be able to steward the stories that we have and be able to share them with people. And one of the things that I’m really most enthralled by is the wherewithal that many of our, whether they were early settlers, whether they were pioneers, or whether they were just townspeople who have lived here throughout time, have had the opportunity to leave us with a lot of really amazing historical texts.

Sully McGinnis
And one of those people, as a man by the name of George Hand and George, left us with these really incredible diaries over 20 years of daily handwritten accounts of what old Tucson looked like in the late 1880s. And I read through those like they are Bible. And so to be able to comb through all of those things and then attribute them to the walking tour also is just really exciting to me to be able to carry his voice on in this legacy so many years later of like, we have his information and we can still lend our voice to his voice and what he’s been able to leave behind.

Sully McGinnis
It’s really amazing.

Amanda Mourelatos
That’s like the cherry on top. Yeah, it really is. That’s amazing. Yeah, well, how can people book a tour if they want to join?

Sully McGinnis
You can, check us out online. Freaky foot tours. We do all of online booking. You can also call us, with our event if booking is difficult or not accessible for everyone online, feel free to give us a call. We’ll always answer the phone and be able to get you booked on a tour.

Amanda Mourelatos
Awesome. Yeah. Anything else you’d like to add?

Sully McGinnis
I just really am thankful for the opportunity of you meeting with us today. And the thing that we want people to know is this is our love letter to Tucson. That when we’re walking around doing these tours that we, love what we do, we love our city. And we are really just so proud to be able to carry on these stories and carry on this legacy and meet people in two different ways.

Sully McGinnis
When we have tourists on the tour, it really gives us the opportunity to, showcase what we want people to know about Tucson and what we want people to know about the really amazing people in our community. And when we have local folks on the tour, we get to jog memories and we get to, collect a whole lot of different stories of people who have been here for a long time.

Sully McGinnis
So whether you’re, tourists with us or whether you’ve lived here forever and ever and ever, we’ve probably got something that you haven’t learned before, and you definitely, probably have something that we need to learn to make our tours a little bit better. So we’re just very thankful to be able to have that opportunity and work with all of the amazing businesses in the downtown area and all of the neighbors who are around who have accepted us so well, and they start to see our faces and know us a little bit.

Sully McGinnis
So they we’ve we’ve been really integrated into the downtown community, and we’re just so proud to be there.

Amanda Mourelatos
Amazing. Thank you. So thank.

Sully McGinnis
You. Thanks for having us on today. We really appreciate it.

Amanda Mourelatos
You appreciate you too.

Sully McGinnis
Yeah. Thank you.

Tom Heath
That was Amanda, mulattos guest host with Sonia McGuinness of Freaky Food Tours for, focusing in on some of the, the haunted experiences and the ghost stories surrounding downtown. And there are a lot of them, we, we seem to have quite a few, unsettled spirits lingering around in the downtown area. Well, my name is Tom Heath.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
And when you head over to Downtown radio.org, you can check out the whole lineup. I started last week, decided as we have time towards the, the latter part of the the show, as we do today, I want to highlight one of our DJs or show hosts and talk about what they’re doing because I my musical taste have just grown so much.

Tom Heath
Since I’ve been involved with Downtown Radio. And one of those individuals that’s, really helped with that is, is, Mike, who does the, all, all instrumental surf and turf influenced rock, that he puts, the furious wave out there. Typically, we’re going to, you know, I’m a, I’m a, I’m a lyrics guy.

Tom Heath
And I didn’t think I would like surf music because there weren’t, there weren’t those lyrics. But he puts together a really well-crafted show, gives us a little background, and just really smooth voice to listen to as well. But his show is called The Furious Wave. He’s on Thursdays at, 7 to 9, and you’ll hear some, replays, throughout the week as well.

Tom Heath
But, Mike and, the first wave changed my perspective on dance. And, surfaces. And, I hope you get a check them out. And, we’re coming up here in downtown radio on a ten year anniversary in September. And I don’t know all of the details. And I want to let the any cats out of any bags, although, I don’t know, I mean, I if I saw a cat in a bag, I would, I would let them out.

Tom Heath
I don’t think that’s right to put cats in bags. But, from what I understand, is going to be a celebration in October, maybe around the third. And, you’re going to have the opportunity to celebrate and maybe, show a little support, listen, a little music, keep that date in mind, and we’ll, we’ll get more details as they are available.

Tom Heath
But, congrats to Downtown Radio on hitting that ten year mark. Well, we’re wrap it up here, episode 355, if you can believe it. And if there’s things you would like us to share out there, please, you know, hit us up. We’re a hyper local show. And if you’re listening, you’re probably in tune with what’s going on in Tucson.

Tom Heath
So, tag us on Instagram, Facebook and all that good stuff. You can reach us directly. Contact at life along the Street car.org. We also invite you to head over to, that lifelong street car.org so you can check out the video of today’s episode with, Amanda and Sally, and all of our past episodes, on their audio and some video.

Tom Heath
James us is our executive producer. Amanda. Mulattos is our associate producer. Today’s guest host. I’m Tom Heath, who apparently has no role today. So I’m just going to bid you adieu and thank Ryan Hood for letting us use Dillinger Days to start the show. And we’re wrapping up here in the background with a song from Derek and Brandon Fletcher from a 2016 album called At the Carnival, of course, in honor of Sully McInnis.

Tom Heath
The song is called The Haunted Tour. Have a great week and join us next Sunday for more life along the streetcar.