Mr. Nature’s Music Garden: Where Tucson Kids Grow in Harmony

• 🎶 The Origin of Little Leaf Radio
  Mr. Nature shares how a casual idea turned into a full-fledged family radio show on Downtown Radio—now a Sunday morning staple for Tucson households.

  🌱 From Recycled Instruments to a Citywide Mission
  Discover how his early days leading music classes at Bookmans inspired a lifelong commitment to teaching through nature and song.

  💡 Teaching Peace Through Bob Marley and Banjo Riffs
  Music isn’t just for fun—it’s a tool for social-emotional learning, conflict resolution, and building community across generations.

  🎤 Balancing the Persona and the Person
  Anthony reflects on how the character of “Mr. Nature” helps him serve others, and how he’s now rediscovering who “Anthony” is behind the scenes.

  🎸 Meet the “OG Little Leaf” Who Now Opens for Alice Cooper
  One of Mr. Nature’s earliest fans grew up to become a local rock star—proof that the seeds of music and mentorship can grow in powerful directions.

  🌻 The Rise of the Little Leaf Collective
  Learn how Mr. Nature and like-minded educators are creating free community events that blend music, play, education, and wellness.

  🌟 What’s Next for the Music Garden
  Mr. Nature isn’t chasing fame—he’s building a legacy. His next dream? Training a new generation of young mentors to carry the message of joy forward.

A life lived through rhythm, roots, and radiant community connection.

This week on Life Along the Streetcar, we invite you into the colorful, musical, and heartfelt world of Mr. Nature, also known as Tucson’s own Anthony Aldinger. Whether you’ve danced to his songs at a park, heard his voice on the airwaves, or seen a child light up at one of his performances, you’ve already felt his impact.

With host Tom Heath, we explore the journey of a man who turned a childhood love of lizards and rhythm into a community-wide movement of music, mindfulness, and joy.

🎵 From Nature Boy to Mr. Nature

Before he was strumming guitars on Sunday mornings or energizing stages at the zoo, Anthony Aldinger was just a kid fascinated by the natural world—pockets full of lizards, a heart tuned to harmony.

Through early work at Bookmans, Anthony developed Music with Nature, a program that inspired kids to sing, dance, and even build instruments from recycled materials. That blossomed into Mr. Nature’s Music Garden, a space where families come together to learn, laugh, and lift each other up through the power of song.

🎙️ The Little Leaf Legacy

Since 2020, Mr. Nature has hosted Little Leaf Radio every Sunday morning at 7 a.m. on Downtown Radio. It’s a show for families—but it’s far from your average kiddie playlist. His carefully curated music is thoughtful, inclusive, and fun for all ages. With a heavy dose of Bob Marley, homegrown artists, and themes of peace, kindness, and environmental awareness, Little Leaf Radio has become a Tucson treasure.

“Not everything about peace is sunshine and flowers… Sometimes peace is difficult,” says Mr. Nature. “And I try to speak to that.”

🎸 The Music Garden in Full Bloom

Mr. Nature’s work doesn’t stop at the mic. From school classrooms to hospitals, grocery stores to Second Saturday street corners, his “Music Garden” pops up wherever joy is needed. Events like Play Palooza and Little Leaf Collective gatherings offer free, community-centered experiences that combine education, art, wellness, and environmental awareness.

He’s not just performing—he’s cultivating. He’s building a world where kids are encouraged to express themselves, connect with others, and find their rhythm in a sometimes chaotic world.

🌱 Growing the Next Generation

Now, with nearly two decades of this mission under his belt, Mr. Nature is looking ahead. He dreams of mentoring a new wave of youth educators—“Little Leafs” who’ve grown up with his music and are ready to carry the message forward.

One of his early fans, a young boy named Adrian, now opens for ZZ Top and Alice Cooper. He once danced with Mr. Nature at age two. Today, he’s a rock star.

“That’s the legacy,” says Mr. Nature. “Not just music—but meaningful connection.”

🎥 Watch, Listen, and Read

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• 🎥 Watch the interview and experience the energy behind the voice

• 📄 Read the transcript for key insights, quotes, and inspiration

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✨ Stay Rooted, Tucson.

Because when our kids flourish in harmony, our whole city sings.

Tom Heath
Good morning. It’s a beautiful Sunday in the old Pueblo. And you’re listening to Katy. Tucson. Thank you for spending a part of your brunch hour with us on your downtown Tucson community. Sponsored, all volunteer powered rock n roll radio station. This week, we’re joined by Anthony Oettinger, better known as Mr. Nature. Mr. nature’s the host of Little Leaf Radio every Sunday here on Downtown Radio at 7 a.m..

Tom Heath
He’s also an accomplished musician and a passionate entertainer and educator. And today we’re going to explore how he blends music, storytelling, and joy to inspire kids and adults alike and why his mission of teaching through entertainment is become such a beloved part of our local community. Today is made for us. My name is Tom Heath and you’re listening to Life Along the Street car.

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Tom Heath
Lifelong the streetcar.org. I’m super excited about is the, mister, Mister Nature’s Little Leaf Radio, which is on every Sunday at 7 a.m. and I listen to it. I hope you do too. Well, he’s been doing this for five years, and I thought to myself, this is amazing. We’ve we’ve never actually, featured him on our show, which seems kind of silly.

Tom Heath
So, couple of days ago, we sat down with him at our studio and got to know Mister Nature and the man behind him, Anthony Hollinger, for this. I mean, every show is special, but this one is super special for me because, I get to talk to somebody who I’ve been a big fan of for almost 5 or 5 years now, I guess.

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah, five years.

Tom Heath
And someone who I think is directly responsible for anybody that actually listens to my show on the radio because they, they tune in for Mister Nation at seven, and then they stay with Deejay Bang because they can’t get off the couch with the RV. And by that point they’re like, okay, I’m comin mellow. I’m just so to relax.

Tom Heath
And as a just sit here and listen to Tom talk for a half hour or so.

Anthony Aldinger
But you’ve got a great voice. So it compliments everything. Well.

Tom Heath
Well, people might not know this, but I’m with Anthony. All the holding her holding her. You holding her? But everybody in Tucson knows you as Mister Nature.

Anthony Aldinger
That’s right. Yeah, that’s me.

Tom Heath
I can’t believe. Have you joined downtown radio five years ago?

Anthony Aldinger
Five years ago? Yeah. In 2000. Yeah. Or, 2020.

Tom Heath
Yeah. 2020. And we were just talking in January 2020, you join the radio and then March of 2020, we shut everything down.

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah, yeah, there you go. But I think I only missed one episode during that period. So we got we learned how to broadcast, remotely.

Tom Heath
I will tell you the, the, the volunteer nature of volunteer radio is something very interesting to me in the amount of time and energy that people will spend to to make that happen, because there are a lot of brainpower going into it.

Anthony Aldinger
Well, my.

Tom Heath
Gosh, how do we do this? Because we can’t bring everybody to the studio. We can’t talk in these mikes, like, how do we do it? And and someone had this crazy idea of, of zooming and not zooming, but, Skyping and and all of that. And we’re still using it today, right?

Anthony Aldinger
Right. Yeah. I haven’t gone back to the city.

Tom Heath
I wish I was too, anyway. Well, let’s talk a little bit. So give us just a brief overview of of Little Leaf Radio, which is seven and nine on, on, on Sundays. Give us a little taste of what you do. Yeah.

Anthony Aldinger
So little leaf radio is just, it started out as a mistake. It wasn’t supposed to happen. I just mentioned it to a friend of ours that worked at the radio, and she was like, oh, you got to talk to Bill. And I went down and Bill was like, let’s do this. And I not really done anything in radio before little things, you know, but like, nothing like this.

Anthony Aldinger
And, and so, I learned how to, like, kind of put a playlist together and, and, and figure out, like what my, my whole point was like for everyone to be a part of the jam, right? Like, so mom and dad would wake up and want to sing and dance to. Right? It wasn’t some like, dinky dinky like, you know, chiming, chiming kids song.

Anthony Aldinger
It was it was family fun. And so that’s where it came from. And I’ve just every episode I’ve, I’ve learned more and more and I’m gaining more knowledge of like, you know, music. And it’s just been, treat to be able to wake up and rise up with the little Leafs and their families every Sunday.

Tom Heath
I mean, you don’t miss very many Sundays. You’re out there every Sunday. And, how much time does it take to prepare a show like that?

Anthony Aldinger
Well, it’s interesting because, like, there’s been an evolution. Yeah. Like, at first it was like I had to put aside four hours, right? Like it. I would scribble on paper. I, you know, I’m, I’m going to take a break it to this exact minute, you know, and, and now it’s, it’s just I build these playlists and I’m so attuned to the thing.

Anthony Aldinger
So it takes me like, maybe an hour, an hour and a half to, like, get my show ready and sometimes a little longer, depending if it’s themed or, you know, something like that. But yeah. And now I have a plethora of like, playlists of shows I’ve had in the past, so I can go to those for reference and remember, artists that I might have forgotten and, and feature again.

Anthony Aldinger
And so it’s great. And it keeps me in this, you know, this nice pool of just really uplifting, positive and and important music. You know, not not everything in pieces is, sunshine and and flowers. Sometimes peace can be difficult. And I know a lot of my little piece of experience. Difficult in their life. And I try to talk to that to sure, you know, in the most positive way that I can, usually through Bob Marley’s.

Tom Heath
Words, it’s, it’s interesting to me what what then sort of falls into that category of family music because there’s songs that you might listen to and in one setting that you think is much more of an adult themed song. But then when you listen to it in context with your playlist, you know this. This really is a universal theme for sure.

Tom Heath
And I appreciate the the thoughtfulness of where you create the playlist, for sure.

Anthony Aldinger
And I, I’m grateful to my my mother and father for sure. My mother really was, inspiring and, and and, my music a uprising. And so, I want to be able to give that back to my children. And now I get to give it back to that to many children. And just the importance of some of these individuals that came up before us, you know, and had some powerful messages and, and, just, you know, quality, quality songs.

Tom Heath
But so it’s, it’s it’s literally radio. It’s seven and nine on Sundays and I get to make sure I get all this alliteration right, because you started this, but is there a particular place where we can listen to the plethora of playlists?

Anthony Aldinger
Oh yes, I throw a playlist. So I just it’s on Spotify. It’s it’s under Mister Nature. I the whole this is a part of the learning. I have three different accounts over Mr. Nature’s music garden, a mister nature and then me. I think it might just be Anthony Baldinger, but it’s Mr. Nature too, and it has all the radio playlists and things like that.

Tom Heath
So which one do we go to to?

Anthony Aldinger
I think the user, Anthony, or maybe that’s the one you would find all those playlists too. That’s a really good question. Maybe I need to do some organizing that.

Tom Heath
Well, and then and then I guess when you joined the radio, they said, oh, Mr. Nature’s going to do a show on Sunday. And everyone, this is what we’re still doing in person meetings. Everyone is super excited. I’m thinking, I, I don’t know who Mr.. I was not expecting what what you brought to the show, I was expecting like a, an environmental show or something, but how does how does like.

Tom Heath
Not that I guess it is an environmental show. But but how does Mr. Nature, where does this persona come from? You’ve been doing that. You’ve been presenting as Mr. Nature for a while.

Anthony Aldinger
Well, nature, the not moniker nature, has followed me since I was a little little boy. I’ve just been on the outdoors. Pocketful of lizards my whole life. It’s just been my thing. And and, it really it’s just kind of followed me throughout my, my time. I’ve had, I worked in the mountains up at, local resort we have here, and that’s where it really kind of fell in.

Anthony Aldinger
One of the characters up there just was like, this nature boy, this nature boy and and, and so it just kind of stuck with me. And then, through all my work, it’s just kind of been there and it was nature and my other employees that I, employers that I worked at and, and then, yeah, just, you know, like I said, flowing with it, I just use it to, to create something else from it.

Tom Heath
So was there an experience where they said nature Boy, you’re like, no, it’s Mr. Nature.

Anthony Aldinger
So it was it’s actually interesting. So when I was at Bachman’s, I was or that’s the one of the places I worked for years and and I kind of developed they asked me they recognize kind of my skill set right off the bat, and they asked me to create some, like, you know, programs for kids. And I created the music with nature.

Anthony Aldinger
Okay. And, so it was once a week music class where everyone just kind of came. We sang, we dance, we played, we had fun. And then the last, day of the month that we did it on, we everyone brought recycled stuff in and we made recycled instruments. So it had this, you know, and of course all the music was very nature esque and, you know, recycling and just the importance of the bees and, and the trees and those types of things.

Anthony Aldinger
So yeah.

Tom Heath
Is that is that where Mr.. Nature’s music then kind of started?

Anthony Aldinger
So that’s where it kind of began at their at Bergmans and then I, left the city, recruited me, and I went through the process of becoming a city employee and providing the same programing. And then from there, I just kind of had this, this pool to just do my own thing. So I didn’t tell anyone in my family or, you know, anyone at work.

Anthony Aldinger
I just kind of followed this, this vibe. And I went to the city office and I got a license and an LLC, and the lady who was helping me across the way was like, what is the name of your business? And I’m like, I don’t know, nature’s kitchen. Like I’m cooking up all kinds of cool stuff in the kitchen.

Anthony Aldinger
I knew I liked music and people responded to me in that way, and I had a wagon of instruments that seemed to be the thing I’m like, I really had no idea what I was doing. And so when I went in, this lady was like, no, no, no, don’t make it a kitchen. It’ll, it’ll people think of food.

Anthony Aldinger
And she’s like, what about a garden? That’s like a garden. That’s fine and cool. Like you’re growing things in the garden. And so just kind of like Mr. Nature’s music garden just kind of came out of the air from, you know, help with this, this, individual helping me get my license. And so it it all launched from there.

Tom Heath
That’s Mr. nature. We’re speaking with him and his, alter ego, Anthony Baldinger here about how Mr. Nature got started. And, how we ended up with the name of, Mr., Nature’s Musical Garden instead of Mr. Nature’s Kitchen. I think the garden is very appropriate for what he is doing. We’ll be back to, finish up the second part of that interview in just a moment.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
Welcome back. If you’re just joining us, our guest today is Mister and nature is a name. When he’s not on the show is Anthony Olinger. We know him as Mr. Nature. So that’s what we’re calling him. We talked a little bit about his, start, how he got going here and how he got his name. Now, we’re gonna talk a little bit more about what he does, his impact on the community and other things that, he is known for here around Tucson.

Tom Heath
It seems, he’s the guy before we got on the air. Use the term follow us. And it seems like that I understand that your life is sort of. I don’t know if if life has put you in those positions or if you just recognize those positions when you’re put in them. But there’s a lot of things that have kind of moved you forward along this path.

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah, that’s it’s definitely I’m recognizing in my 28th year, that.

Tom Heath
Just just celebrated the 28th birthday, right?

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah. I just celebrated my 28th birthday. Yes. So I’m kind of recognizing that I’m. I’m better understanding life is happening for me. You know, it’s not happening to me. And even even the bad things that are happening, there’s so much depth in those lessons that are learned in those hard times. But like, I’ve just kind of accepted like, this is this is how grateful I just walk in gratitude and, you know, and then wonderful people like you go, hey, you want to come in and talk like, all right, let’s go.

Tom Heath
It just to be clear, so, so little leaf radio. This is a show where you program music for for families. And, it’s an early morning Sunday show, but Mr. Music, Mr.. Nature’s music garden, that’s you’re performing, you’re out playing and original music.

Anthony Aldinger
And so it’s a lot of things. So I do I work in schools, I provide music, therapy in hospitals. I provide, music lessons, private music lessons. It’s a plethora of different, different things. And then, yes, then there’s live performances. I perform at the zoo and downtown. You know, I’m in talks with some different, big theaters here in town that I’m, I’m, I’m hoping to perform at.

Anthony Aldinger
So. Yeah, these.

Tom Heath
Are these are.

Anthony Aldinger
There we go.

Tom Heath
There’s the showmanship and you’re like,

Anthony Aldinger
Stay tuned. It sounds something’s coming. It’s really exciting. But, Yeah. So, you know, my my job, my, my the foundation of my work is to provide children and their families with, foundations for positive social interaction and that that’s it. I just want to give people an opportunity. Like I played in grocery stores, which was really fun.

Anthony Aldinger
Like, that was one of the coolest gigs because the grocery store, you’re in such a different mental space when you’re going to get your groceries right. There’s it’s like a chore. There’s things going on. You’ve got lots. You got to get in here, you got to get your stuff got to go. And families would come and we’d hang out.

Anthony Aldinger
And then you I think my the favorite, my favorite part of people would walk in and they’d be jolted right into the present moment by all this ruckus that’s taking place in the middle of the grocery store. Need you see this full on realization? And people like, wow, what is happening? And oh, what a what a nice day it is.

Anthony Aldinger
And oh, this is great, you know. And then they would they would flow in their world a little differently. And so I really appreciated those kind of moments and, and still a little leafs that came to see me, you know, ten years ago are still in my life today.

Tom Heath
Oh, that was going to be a question been doing for a while now. I mean, some of these little leaves probably have their own leaves.

Anthony Aldinger
Oh my gosh. So so I wouldn’t go that far yet. I’m only 28. But 28.

Tom Heath
But you have.

Anthony Aldinger
You have a idea. I’m, I’m, I’m not 28. I’m much older than that, but, I have a granddaughter myself. Yes. And but there’s a great. I call him the OG Little leaf. His name is Adrian. And and he’s in a local band here called The Nora. And he used to come at me when he was, two years old, pokemons.

Anthony Aldinger
And then him and his mother, his mother and I had a working relationship growing, growing up. But but he’s he’s stuck around him and his sister and and we played music together and, and he grew up playing music with me and then I, he joined the Mister Nature band. And so he plays in the band with me. And now he’s opening up for like Z top and, and Alice Cooper and all these amazing, amazing.

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah. He’s just this incredible rock star now. So yeah, they’re coming out. They’re doing their own thing. I, I wouldn’t say I had all the, the work in, in Adrian’s uprising, but.

Tom Heath
His mom probably did a.

Anthony Aldinger
Little bit a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I’m sure some other beautiful people in his life helped in the, in the, molding of that young man, but, Yeah, it’s it’s an Nora. They’re they’re incredible. Local little rock band. Not little, I should say. Yeah, but.

Tom Heath
So shifting gears just a little bit, this has always intrigued me. And, and I find this, this question that comes through my mind with a lot of different with people who have really built a personality, a lifestyle around it and what to say, an image. But your brand is Mr. Nature. But where does Anthony fit into all this?

Tom Heath
Is is there like a day where Anthony’s just like hardcore Metallica? Like, you know, getting out of the world or.

Anthony Aldinger
Oh, that’s funny. Yeah. So my my clothes is cruel. No. Yeah. So, Anthony makes an appearance here and there, and it’s definitely like, you know, after birthday parties, things, you know, I put on a great show and we have a great time. And I really work to to to lift up the individuals I’m with. But yeah, there is, a balancing ritual that has to take place and there’s definitely some, some heavier, some heavier music that I, I use to therapeutically bring me back to the fact that I’m, you know, got a drag truck and I got to be a grown up.

Tom Heath
Just curious. It just.

Anthony Aldinger
It’s. Oh, yeah.

Tom Heath
Everybody. I mean, Mister Nature, that’s even when we got to show Mike a do I introduce you as Mister Nature?

Anthony Aldinger
Anthony, we. That’s the biggest question. And I’m learning about who Anthony is. You know, like, the work has always been Mister nature and providing the service that I provide. And things are at a place now where I’m like learning how to, like, reintroduce myself to myself and see who I am and what my interests are and like what I want to be.

Anthony Aldinger
And when I grow up.

Tom Heath
And that’s fantastic.

Anthony Aldinger
Is is as well as doing the work that I’m doing now.

Tom Heath
So you’re, you’re reintroducing yourself to Anthony, just as in the same way that you’re teaching your little leaves to to find themselves.

Anthony Aldinger
Right? That’s right. Exactly. Perfect. So it’s a it’s a great circular type of situation I’m in. Right. And the little leaves keep coming. They just keep coming.

Tom Heath
But this this project is, you know, is is what happens when you dedicate so much time to something is just expanding because now you’ve got, dedicated events like where as we come into May, this is going to be airing on the first Sunday in May. So, next week, I think next week will be the first Saturday in May.

Tom Heath
And, you.

Anthony Aldinger
Know, this Saturday is still April, I think.

Tom Heath
Well, we’re going to air.

Anthony Aldinger
Oh, that’s right, the next Saturday. Yeah.

Tom Heath
We’re time traveling here. Yeah. But anyway, you have an event with Second Saturdays, right.

Anthony Aldinger
The second Saturdays. Yeah. We usually we take me off classic right. But is it is something put on by the Little Leaf Collective. Something in a group. Some, some like individuals like me that do some work in the community, put together this group, the Little Leaf Collective, Z and yeah, we provide these free events around town, and we’ve been blessed to have some really great friends that have opened up their facilities and allowed us to come in and, and, and provide these events.

Anthony Aldinger
They’re very resourceful and to, to children in their families. It’s not like, a craft show or anything like that. There are for profit businesses, but there’s a lot of nonprofit, just educational, individuals in our community that come out just to provide information, you know, on foster parenting or, or water or, capture or just, you know, ecological stuff or different things like that.

Anthony Aldinger
And we feature different businesses and different, cohorts in town that are just doing positive work and providing, positive, information and flow into our community.

Tom Heath
And it’s just, just amazing how this idea of a, a bookman. So let’s, let’s do a show for kids and talk about nature and recycle instruments. And yeah, the win was that was a 2000.

Anthony Aldinger
And so 2007. Oh, wow. And that started. And so it’s just been and then I spent probably about five years there with book wins. It was an incredible I mean we’ll call it the launching pad. I mean I’ve always been growing and and playing music and my own, my own self. But that was an incredible, trampoline of of events that helped me launch this idea of what?

Anthony Aldinger
I mean, I didn’t even know, right? I just was showing up for work, doing this thing that I just did so easily did. I didn’t realize that it was going to turn into this philosophy of of being, you know, just like, you know, the mister nature flow. I guess that’s.

Tom Heath
The I was going to say it. That’s exactly what I was going to say. It’s that it’s that flow.

Anthony Aldinger
Right?

Tom Heath
And I’m, you know, almost approaching your 20 year anniversary, which is not bad for a 28 year old.

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah, I.

Tom Heath
I’m just I’m excited to see where where, where this this goes is it seems like you’ve, you’ve kind of reached that tipping point and now you have like I think you’re at another launch pad like it, it seems like there’s something else that’s going to be coming. I don’t know what it is, but it just feels like there’s I mean, you’ve made it to this show and what you what you want, you make it here, right?

Anthony Aldinger
I feel like I’m there and I don’t really have much more work to do, but you know that that’s that’s interesting. So I’m not really seeking anything else.

Tom Heath
You know, you’re never seeking anything.

Anthony Aldinger
I feel like.

Tom Heath
You just you just it’s seeking you.

Anthony Aldinger
I feel like I’m there and I’ve really achieved all the goals I want to, you know, like when I’m with the little Leafs and we have the make, my only goal would be give them more, right? Provide them more. And so it’s, it’s I’d love to build a community of, of, of you know, young adults to come out and, and train them to go out and be this, this energy to go out and do this work.

Anthony Aldinger
And I know there’s much better people than I that could provide these, these services and energies out there. So and that’s like kind of what I’m doing, I guess, is looking for those little leaps like Adrian would have been a great candidate, but he went and got famous. He famous right? Yeah. Yeah. I missed a window with him.

Tom Heath
You’ve got to be good, but not that good, right? Let me be part of it, Mr. nature’s grant.

Anthony Aldinger
So.

Tom Heath
We can listen a little leaf radio, 7 to 9, and then stick around for DJ Bang Theory. The art of bees. And then.

Anthony Aldinger
And so this weekend, we have play palooza, which is coming out. It’s put on by Play District. And so that’s up this weekend.

Tom Heath
So like what what’s the day.

Anthony Aldinger
So Saturday, the last Saturday in April okay.

Tom Heath
So yesterday but we’re basically where this was yesterday.

Anthony Aldinger
Yesterday. So yesterday was a huge event I hope you guys made it. Yeah.

Tom Heath
Where else though can we find out about these events in the future. Is it. Yeah. You have a.

Anthony Aldinger
Website. Yeah. Mr.. Nature’s music garden.com. Mr. nature, if you just Google Mr. Nature, you’ll come up with all the social media platforms, Instagram and Facebook. I think that’s all I’m doing right now. And then Spotify, there’s the Little Leaf podcast. Okay, so that that gets updated every once in a while and there’s some fun podcasts on there.

Anthony Aldinger
And then, yeah, you can get all this information at Mr. Nature’s music. Anscombe sign up for the silly letter and get all the dates of events and all the good things.

Tom Heath
Well, I appreciate what you’re doing in the world. And thank you. Appreciate you taking your time. And, and I appreciate you, creating an audience to lead into my show. Every.

Anthony Aldinger
Yeah. You got it, man. Oh, that’s my favorite part, brother. Thank you so much for having me today.

Tom Heath
That was Anthony Baldinger, aka mr. nature, talking about his journey over the years. And we’re so thankful he’s chosen to take that journey. Really, really positive individual in so many ways and appreciate, his support of Downtown radio. So excited that he joined us. Truthfully, didn’t know much about him in 2000, 2020 when he joined us.

Tom Heath
But I’ve gotten to know him very well through his music. And, as I said, I’m a fan of the show and appreciate what he does in our community. My name is Tom Heath. You’re listening to Lifelong The Streetcar in downtown radio 99.1 FM and streaming on downtown radio.org.

James Portis
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Tom Heath
Well, don’t go anywhere. Ted Brzezinski is going to be up here shortly with the words and work as he interviews writers and others from the, the labor movement. We have Ty Logan at the, the top of the hour with heavy metal, and we’re getting back into some music there at, 1:00 and then coming up next week on life along the Streetcar, we’ve got a local filmmaker, Jeff Brack, and his co-producer, Julie Bonner, and they’re going to discuss the making of a short film.

Tom Heath
It’s called Over Again. It’s filmed in downtown Tucson and features a lot of Tucson local music. We’ll get their story and how they got going on this project and what’s next for them. And if there’s topics out there that you would like us to cover because you’ve got to be involved with something, and if you’re listening to us, you’re listening to a very hyper local show.

Tom Heath
So you must be in tune with what’s happening around Tucson. And if you have any thoughts, questions or you know, someone doing some great work in our community, let us know. You know, we’d love to share what they’re doing, either on the show or through our social media. And a good way can do that is to, to tag us.

Tom Heath
But, let us know. And if you’ve got an account out there that’s really doing some good things to please, let us know so that we can collaborate with you, because it really is the key to an impactful dialog here in the community. If you want to get Ahold of us, you can reach us directly. A contact at life along the Street car.org.

Tom Heath
There’s a contact us button on our website. And then again Facebook and Instagram are great ways, to connect. But thanks again to Mister Nature for spending some time with us in our studio. And, if you want to check out his show, it’s Sundays at 7 a.m.. Then he’s followed by DJ bang, the musical bomb.

Tom Heath
Who? I kid you not. I mean, I joke about it, but I think people tune in. They stay tuned in for for that, for a DJ bang show, and they’re just too much at ease because this show is called the Art of easing, and I’m just too much at ease. And they just stay on that couch and, then life on the street car comes on like, yeah, well, listen to that.

Tom Heath
What the heck? So, I do think that’s a big part of it. If you want to check out all the lineup for Downtown Radio, head over to Downtown Radio, dot org and, all kinds of volunteer deejays sharing what they love. I highly recommend you also, click that donate button because that’s how we keep things moving around here.

Tom Heath
It’s all volunteer. So your donations go a long way. Well, James Portis is our production specialist. Amanda Maltose is our production assistant. My name is Tom Heath. I’m the the host and producer. And as you know, if you’ve been watching or listening to the show for any period of time, our opening music from day one has been from Ryan Hood.

Tom Heath
We open with Dillinger Days, and, we’re closing today with our guest, Mr. Nature. It’s from, 2015 album we put out. It’s called just for fun. And, the song is I’ve been working on the railroad. How fun is that? I have a great week and join us next Sunday for more life along the streetcar.