Yes, And Tucson – Justin Lukasewicz Invites You to 28 Hours of Improv at TIM

✅ Meet Justin Lukasewicz – Founder and CEO of the Tucson Improv Movement (TIM), sharing his journey from a curious beginner to community leader.

✅ What is Long-Form Improv? – Learn how it differs from the short-form style popularized by Whose Line Is It Anyway? and why it’s a perfect fit for Tucson’s creative spirit.

✅ The Power of “Yes, And” – Discover how improv fosters listening, trust, and presence—not just on stage, but in life and leadership.

✅ Inside TIM’s Fourth Avenue Theater – A peek at their 40-seat venue and what it’s like to catch a show or join a class in one of Tucson’s most vibrant cultural hubs.

✅ Countdown to the Improvathon – Get all the details on the 28-hour improv marathon happening May 30–31, including family-friendly programming, overnight performances, and how to attend.

✅ Improv as a Gateway to Community – Hear why people from all walks of life come to TIM—whether they’re looking to perform, make friends, grow professionally, or just laugh.

What if you could tap into Tucson’s creativity, laugh until 3 a.m., and maybe even end up on stage—all in one weekend?

That’s exactly what’s happening May 30–31 during the Improvathon, a 28-hour marathon of nonstop laughter at the Tucson Improv Movement (TIM). In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Justin Lukasewicz, founder and CEO of TIM, who shares how a passion for improv became a powerful community movement in the heart of the Old Pueblo.

🎙️ Hosted by Tom Heath, this episode explores how a comedy theater on 4th Avenue became a training ground for leadership, connection, and spontaneous joy.

All Eyes on Improvathon: 28 Hours of Anything Can Happen

The Improvathon is the Super Bowl of spontaneity—and it’s coming fast.

🗓️ May 30–31, 2025
📍 TIM Theater (414 E 9th Street)

Featuring nearly 100 performers across two full days (and nights!) of shows, Improvathon is a chance to:

• Experience the diversity of Tucson’s creative talent

• Catch family-friendly shows during the day

• Attend late-night madness that’s unlike anything else in town

• See experimental formats and pop-up performances from TIM’s entire company

There’s even a brave overnight crew keeping the laughter going in the wee hours. Yes, they’re performing at 4 a.m.—and yes, you’re invited.

From “Whose Line” to 9th Street: The Birth of Tucson Improv Movement

Justin’s journey with improv started the way many of us first experience it—watching Whose Line Is It Anyway? on TV. But what began as a hobby in North Carolina became a mission when he returned to Tucson and realized the city was missing something: long-form improv.

In 2012, he founded TIM with a single class and a big question: Would people in Tucson want this? The answer was a resounding yes. What followed was more than just a comedy theater—it became a place to build confidence, make friends, and explore a radically supportive performance style built around saying “yes, and…”

More Than Laughs: Improv as a Life Philosophy

While TIM’s performers are undoubtedly hilarious, Justin emphasizes that improv is much more than making people laugh. It’s about:

• Being present and listening actively

• Supporting others and embracing collaboration

• Tackling fear and failure with openness and creativity

Whether you’re an aspiring comedian, a business leader, or just someone looking to break out of their comfort zone, the skills of improv are deeply transferable to everyday life—and that’s part of what keeps people coming back.

The Home of TIM: Where the Streetcar Meets the Stage

Located at 414 E 9th Street, right next to the 4th Avenue Streetcar Stop, TIM is a cornerstone of downtown culture. The intimate 40-seat theater is where magic happens every weekend, with shows every Friday and Saturday at 6:30, 7:30, and 9:00 PM.

Each show block has its own flavor:

• 🧩 Open Jam (6:30 PM Fridays) – Free and open to anyone who wants to try improv in a supportive environment.

• 🎤 The Soapbox (7:30 PM Fridays) – A guest storyteller inspires improvised scenes based on real-life tales.

• 🎙️ Standup & Sketch (9:00 PM Fridays) – Rotating shows that mash up stand-up, sketch, and improv in wildly creative ways.

Want In? Here’s How to Say “Yes, And…”

TIM is one of the most accessible and inviting arts organizations in Tucson. Whether you’re looking to laugh, learn, or leap into something new, here’s how to get involved:

✨ Come to a show – Every Friday and Saturday night. Tickets and schedule at tucsonimprov.com

🎭 Try the Open Jam – Fridays at 6:30 PM. Free and beginner-friendly.

📚 Take a class – Improv 101 is a six-week intro to the basics. No experience needed. Just curiosity.

👶 Bring the family – Saturday afternoon blocks during Improvathon are kid-friendly and full of fun.

💡 Book a workshop – Businesses and organizations can tap into TIM for leadership training, team-building, and creative thinking.

🎧 Listen Now & Join the Movement

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This week, let’s trade fear for curiosity and “No, but…” for “Yes, and…”—because the best things in Tucson happen when we make it up as we go along.

Tom Heath
Good morning. It’s a bit of fun in the old Pueblo. And you’re listening to Kate Tucson. Thank you for spending a part of your brunch hour with us on your downtown Tucson. A community sponsored, all volunteer powered or radio station. This week, we’re going to speak with Justin Savage. He is the founder and CEO of Tucson Improv Movement, or Tim, as is otherwise called, books for Justin’s journey from participant to Leader the transformative power of improv in business and life, and how Tim is building community through comedy.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
Well, it is may all kinds of stuff still happening in the old Pueblo and one of those, things that, sometimes we like to do is stay indoors. And the Tucson Improv movement has some upcoming events where you can, enjoy a little air conditioning and see a little comedy. We reached out to, Justin, Lucas Savage, you know, a while ago, and he’s always so busy.

Tom Heath
He’s doing so many things in our community. We finally got him into the studio and had a nice conversation with him, really, about improv as not just a comedy form, but the way that it really impacts the lives of people that participate in it. So this is our interview with Justin from, just about a week or so ago, recorded at the, Show Source Studios in downtown.

Tom Heath
We get to welcome into the studio here, Justin Lucas Savage. I said your name once. I am not going to say it again. I had to practice this.

Justin Lukasewicz
Easy one. Yeah.

Tom Heath
Are there any constants? Not in your name.

Justin Lukasewicz
I think there is an. Okay.

Tom Heath
Okay.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. Nope. There is. There’s still okay.

Tom Heath
We, we are excited to have you here. I mean, you do a lot of things in the community, a lot of different roles. But today, kind of, we really wanted to focus on something which kind of surprised me. We never actually talked about, which is the Tucson improv movement. Yeah. Otherwise known as Tim.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yes.

Tom Heath
You’ve, you’ve been a part of that for some time now.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. So started Tim in 2012. So I started doing improv in 2009, but I was living in North Carolina at the time, and when I moved back to Tucson, at the moment, there wasn’t any improv theater again. So I was like, hey, do we need kind of improv? We need, you know, this long form version of improv that I’d like to bring.

Justin Lukasewicz
So, just kind of let’s teach a class and let’s see if people want to do it. And if they do, we’ll keep going. And here we are.

Tom Heath
That was like 2000.

Justin Lukasewicz
2012.

Tom Heath
2012 okay. So let’s unpack this a little bit. First of all, just briefly, I think most people have a concept of what is what is improv? What is that? What does that really refer to?

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. So most people’s reference point is whose line is it anyway. Okay. Seen it, seen it. Perfect. So that’s short form improv. So we get a suggestion from the audience and you play like a quick game. New choice. Right. We’re doing a scene and someone yells, new choice. And you gotta change the last line of dialog.

Tom Heath
With the scores don’t matter, and the points are made up.

Justin Lukasewicz
Exactly. Okay. Exactly. And what we do a little bit of that, but what we mainly focus on is what we call long form improv. So we get input from the audience or from a person, for the shows. And then we utilize that to build comedy scenes for a longer period of time, like 15, 20, 30, 40 minutes.

Tom Heath
Wow. So that does take a little bit of, skill set. Is there continuity to that 30 minutes or are you just randomly going off in all kinds of different directions?

Justin Lukasewicz
Depends on the show and the format that they’re running. Okay, so we had a show back in the day that it was called your Favorite movie improvised. So they would get a movie from the audience, somebody’s favorite movie. And then they would improvise that movie in about 35 minutes. Wow. Yeah.

Tom Heath
So that’s bring that back. I don’t think you’ll see that.

Justin Lukasewicz

Tom Heath
So you got an improv. You you’re in North Carolina, which I understood. I just talked to someone from Brooklyn and they said, oh, there’s this little triangle around North Carolina. Or like, there’s like a big improv center there. So you’re in this hub of improv and you decide I’m going to go on my own or why did you leave?

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. So I was here for grad school at the U of a K. And then I moved to North Carolina for work. I was there for about four years for work, so I, I didn’t go there for improv. I went there for a job. But it was kind of just like, hey, what’s my hobby going to be now that that school is over?

Justin Lukasewicz
And I always wanted to do improv. Me and my brother used to watch Whose Line Is It Anyway? And, like, try to do the games. We had no clue what were doing. So was always bad. Very bad. But I was like, I would want to try that one day. That would be a fun thing to try.

Justin Lukasewicz
So I kind of just stumbled into a theater and, a lot of the instructors there were from Chicago, which is kind of back in the day, was like the hub for improv in the US.

Tom Heath
Second City is that. Yes. Is that part of that or is that a different kind of.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, yeah. Second city, improv Olympic is there. So there’s a couple, you know, at that point in time, people who are going to SNL from the improv side were really coming from Chicago. So it was just kind of cool that people that had trained there were then moved back to North Carolina, and I got to learn under those people.

Tom Heath
So then what ended up getting you back here?

Justin Lukasewicz
So a job came up in at the U of A, and, I just wanted to be back in Tucson. I was here for two years for grad school and kind of fell in love with the city. But when you’re in grad school, you don’t really get time to actually do anything. You just. I worked at the U of A during grad school, and I went to school, and then I moved out of town and I was like, I feel like there was a lot of things I didn’t get to do in Tucson.

Tom Heath
It was hard to well, there’s a campus.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah.

Tom Heath
I familiar with the campus outside of the campus. I think there’s something.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, I went to bison, which is I went to the street fair, so I had some context.

Tom Heath
Good. That’s, you got some some, reference points there, and that draws you back the bison, which is, you’re like, you got to get back and get me some of them bison, which is. Yeah. So you mentioned you you stumbled into improv. It seems to me that, like, when I talk to people, that’s a lot of how they get into improv.

Tom Heath
Like, they have a sense of what it is.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah.

Tom Heath
They don’t really have a lot of ambition, but they don’t have a lot of sort of drive to be great at improv. They just want to kind of get a sense of what it is. And then they go to a class. Yeah. And then they get sucked into what some people call the cult. And and then it’s, it’s then they’re stuck there forever.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, exactly. Once you once you’re in it, you have to stay. You’re not allowed to leave it.

Tom Heath
But no, I mean, but people get into this for lots of different reasons. Yes. There’s I mean, you do on one of your side gigs, if we can mention is, psychics. But what are the things you do? Well, the thing you do besides improv is you helped develop Tucson leadership through greater Tucson leadership. And I would imagine some of that those improv skills are sought after by, people that might be going into politics or things of that nature.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. I think that when you talk, when I talk about, like, leadership and improv, that the connections are really strong. With improv, we’re trying to train ourselves to be in the moment or training to, like, listen to what other people say, respond directly to what they said to you. You know, how am I going to make this thing work that we’re doing right now?

Justin Lukasewicz
So all of those, like, skill sets, are really like, leadership philosophies. I think improv is a life philosophy is a leadership philosophy. So I think that even though they seem very different, they are very connected.

Tom Heath
Yeah. And do they do people recognize that? And they say, hey, I want to get into leadership. So I’m going to go talk about random things from an audience or an how does someone get from improv to leadership, or do they just know this going in?

Justin Lukasewicz
I think that so we offer classes at Tucson Improv Movement, and I think people come to that class for very different reasons. Sometimes people just want to make some friends. They’re like, I just be nice to meet some people.

Tom Heath
And I think that, like, I can’t write anything. I need to get out and do something right.

Justin Lukasewicz
There might be nice people here who are going to laugh with me. So some people come, you know, for friendship, some people come for, you know, work, or kind of all those, like, transitory skills. Some people come because they’re, you know, in the performance arts in some way, and they want to, like, add this to their repertoire.

Justin Lukasewicz
Or they’re like, hey, I do standup, I do storytelling, and I want to be able to, like, improvise a little bit better if the need arises. And some people come because they’re like, hey, I’ve seen improv. I want to perform here and do, like, a performance art. And that’s where they join the class. It’s interesting.

Justin Lukasewicz
When I started, like in 2009, improv was very, like mysterious. I would say, or just not as well known, but I would say by now, in 2025, it’s kind of like corporate like. Yes. And, you know, the philosophy of improv has kind of become a corporate catchphrase.

Tom Heath
And so it happens with cults. Yeah, exactly. They’re there and it’s, just in with the Tucson improv movement. And then we’ll be back in just a few minutes to talk about, some of the impact of improv around the community. My name is Tomi, and you’re listening to Life Along the Streetcar, Downtown Radio and 8.1 FM and streaming a downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
If you’re just joining us, our guest today and lifelong street car is Justin Lucas. He’s the founder and CEO of the Tucson Improv Movement. They’ve got the studio. They’re off of, Fourth Avenue. We’re going to talk about that next. And, the second part of our interview recorded at the show. So our studios in downtown Tucson, you have your own theater?

Tom Heath
Yes. So you’re not you’re not like vagabonds. You you have a place where you hang out.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, yeah. So our forum for East ninth Street, which is next to Revel Wine Bar, or diagonally from the Chanty. That’s kind of our two signposts for people. But, yeah, we have a.

Tom Heath
Do you think the chanties, like we’re right across the street from improv is. Do you think there’s that? Do you think that’s how they get their location?

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, that’s what they that’s everybody. They’re like, oh, you want to go to the Chanty diagonal from Tucson and from here, man. I love that. Yeah. No. So those are two signposts. And we have a 40 seat theater there, and it’s multi-use, so we could do a classes. We can do the shows. So kind of everything really happens out of that hub.

Tom Heath
And, you know, one thing that’s nice for people, like me that, live downtown is it’s right next to a streetcar stop. So literally, you hop off the streetcar stop and it’s like 20ft or so into, Yeah.

Justin Lukasewicz
The improvement essay is about 25 steps from Fourth Avenue or the streetcar stop.

Tom Heath
And and you do I mean, obviously do the classes and you do a lot of performances like I do. You do performance. Is there something going on every night or how often is there something for the public to tap into?

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, we do show us every Friday and Saturday at 630, seven, 30 and nine. So any Friday or Saturday night, there’s options for people to come in, hang out with us and, you know, watch people make things up and be funny most of the time.

Tom Heath
Six 3730 and nine so is it the same group of of actors that are doing all three shows?

Justin Lukasewicz
No. Each show has a little bit of a different feel to it, depending on what’s happening at the time. Okay. So like our Friday night schedule is kind of we have a jam. So if anybody wants to just come and try out improv, get on the stage and give it a whirl, it’s kind of like open mic for improv.

Justin Lukasewicz
So that’s at 630 and that’s free and open to the public. The 730 show is The Soapbox, which is our flagship show where somebody comes and tells stories. We use that to improvise off their stories.

Tom Heath
I can say I’ve been a part of that. And, I, I told a story. Yeah. And then a group of people on stage took that story and relived it in a way that I don’t remember, but it was much more entertaining.

Justin Lukasewicz
Good. That’s the.

Tom Heath
So that that was a lot of fun and I, you know, and for me, it was also fun because I invited a group of people that knew me. And so to hear the story and then see it portrayed, you know, and through the improv, acting, it was like, yeah, that’s pretty damn funny.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. So it’s really fun because people, when they tell stories are like, I never I’d never thought that you would do that thing, you know? Or like, I never thought that that would happen based off of what I said. And sometimes they’re like, that was pretty spot on. Yeah. You hit that pretty, pretty scary.

Tom Heath
Okay, so then so you did the the jam and then the soapbox. That’s so that’s every.

Justin Lukasewicz
Every.

Tom Heath
Friday. Every Friday at 730. Okay.

Justin Lukasewicz
And then at 9:00 we do stand up or sketch. So we have different standup type shows that go. And none of them are really like a straight standup show. We have a show where we have a standup come in and they do a set, and then the improvisers take their set list and do improv off of it, or.

Tom Heath
Oh, wow.

Justin Lukasewicz
We have a show or stand up folks do improv and our improvisers do standup, called improv versus standup. So they all have a little bit of a fun twist to them.

Tom Heath
Okay. It is a is it like a general website? So I can get a sense of like what’s what’s coming?

Justin Lukasewicz
And yeah, Tucson improv.com. And if you kind of scroll on that page in the middle, it kind of has this week show, if you scroll to the bottom, there’s a calendar and you can see usually about a month to two months in advance. Okay.

Tom Heath
Yeah. Yeah. I, I’ve got a I didn’t realize there’s I guess it makes sense. But this crossover between standup and and improv, it’s, it’s similar skill sets but they’re different, right? I mean they’re yeah, I mean one is very reactionary and one is very sort of like one you like you create your moment and the other one, you just sort of react to the moment.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yes. Yeah. They’re like the same and opposite of each other. So like in stand up a lot of times it’s about like telling a joke, setting up a punch line or an improv. A lot of the funny comes from the connections that are built between the characters on the stage. But I always tell people that, like holistically, the way that you get to funny is the same.

Justin Lukasewicz
So we’re looking for contrast. We’re looking for, like, taking a piece of regular life and like, heightening it out or blowing it up to be like, isn’t it weird that we all do x, y, z? So, like the skills of how you get to funny are similar, but like, the strategies between the two are like a little bit different.

Tom Heath
Because when I saw the ad for Stand up versus improv, I thought it was like a battle. I like, like I thought the people were throwing down, like, you know, you improv people, you get out of comedy. We’re we’re the standups. We make them funny. Yeah. But you get along pretty well.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. I, you know, it’s interesting because I feel like a lot of times standups, standup sometimes are like.

Tom Heath
It’s a darker.

Justin Lukasewicz
World that we live in, you know, for the improviser, like. Yes. And we will have fun together. So sometimes there’s a little bit of, like, animosity, that animosity. But like, always better or This way is better. But there’s a lot of people who do both things. And I think that, like, refining your skill set in a bigger way helps if you, if you’re going to focus on one, having the knowledge of the other one is very helpful.

Tom Heath
But in in this as this airs the, obviously recording in advance or the other day, it’s going to be May 18th, which means if you’re listening to this, then you have a really interesting event coming up in just a couple of weeks.

Justin Lukasewicz
Then yes, on May 30th and 31st, we’re going to do our annual improvization, where we’re going to improvise nonstop for 28 hours.

Tom Heath
By 28.

Justin Lukasewicz
Cause it works out that way, and that’s okay. Oh, well, there’s like 24, but if we do 24, then it would like stop at 6:00 on a Saturday. So we kind of go through the normal, the normal show times on Saturday.

Tom Heath
So you start at 6:00 on Friday, goes through ten.

Justin Lukasewicz
O’clock on Saturday.

Tom Heath
Do you normal six, 730 and.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, nine. Yeah.

Tom Heath
And is it I mean it’s, it’s, it’s literally 28 hours. So that two in the morning, Saturday morning someone’s.

Justin Lukasewicz
Looking for something to do. They could come down to the improv theater and watch about 7 to 8 people doing something at three, four, five in the morning.

Tom Heath
And is this the same? I mean, it can’t be one group that does this for now. Like it’s they’re not like Jerry Lewis. They’re not.

Justin Lukasewicz
No no.

Tom Heath
No no. They’re they’re tuxedo ties off and like hello one more for like they.

Justin Lukasewicz
Might be at that point in the morning. No we we the event features a lot of the shows at the theater. And we have about 94 performing company members.

Tom Heath
Wow.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. So over that 28 hours, like, everybody is performing basically at some point. But we do have an overnight team. So there is a team of people who brave the, the 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. shift. Yeah. So they’re it’s usually like a group eight, and they say we want to, like, do this thing.

Tom Heath
And I don’t I don’t want to be like, I don’t want to be like a comedian and be all dark and negative. But it’s 3 a.m. to people. Come out. Is this a thing?

Justin Lukasewicz
No. It would be wonderful if it was like, I would love to see that. Usually in the past we’ve had like a couple people around, okay. Or somebody’s friend who’s performing who’s like, yeah, I’ll come with my blanket and kind of like, look in the crowd. One year we had somebody who was like a nurse, and they worked the second shift or the third shift or whatever, and they were like, there’s never anything work.

Tom Heath
Yeah, right. Everyone, they get off work and there’s never something to do. And there you go.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, they came and they.

Tom Heath
Sat on.

Justin Lukasewicz
Two hours and just took it all in and enjoyed it.

Tom Heath
So, so good seats then. Yeah, it’s it’s between 3 and 5 a.

Justin Lukasewicz
M anywhere you want. There’s 41 and you can choose any of them.

Tom Heath
And I know this is the answer to this question in advance, but I mean, if no one if there’s not an audience, you’re still performing, right? Because it’s it’s about the performing. Not really the performance.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah, yeah. It’s about the, the doing of the thing. Yeah. And you know, it’s really fun weekend. And I would say that like over the weekend, we have a ton of audience that comes in and out. Sure. There’s a bunch of different show blocks that feature different things. You could come you know, we have a family hour in the afternoon on Saturday.

Justin Lukasewicz
There’s some stand, though.

Tom Heath
I didn’t really think about that. Yeah, because you’ve got you definitely have at the nine of the later shows that I’ve been to, there’s some language issues that might not be family friendly. So you do you do carve out some time then for a family special.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yes. Okay. Yeah. So from like ten to about one, there are three different shows and they’re all kid friendly family fun. So it’s a fun way to bring the kids out and kind of see some, some improv.

Tom Heath
So then kind of as we’re wrapping up here, the next thing for me is, you know, just asking for a friend. If someone wanted to get involved, did they just show up to the jam or do they go to a, like, what’s how to someone if they want to try improv from from the actor side?

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. I mean, there’s lots of opportunity, you know, like lots of entry points. Maybe like 2 or 3 entry points. I say lots of lots. But the jam Friday night at 630, it’s like a fun environment. And it’s curated. So it’s not just like Wacky Town. Like, we have a person there that curates the experience.

Justin Lukasewicz
So it’s, you know, like a, like, controlled and sure, that you get to kind of come and just try it out if you want to try it out. But if people are interested in improv, the best thing is to just like, hop in and improv one on one class, six weeks of your life, one night a week for 2.5 hours.

Justin Lukasewicz
And, you know, if you get to the end of that and you’re like, this wasn’t for me, you know, six weeks, I forget to. Then you’re like, wow, my life is transformed. Which could happen.

Tom Heath
Then it’s, here’s your toga.

Justin Lukasewicz
And here, right, here’s some juice to drink. And, you know, join the fun.

Tom Heath
Brother.

Justin Lukasewicz
Exactly.

Tom Heath
Well, Justin, I really appreciate you taking the time here. I know, we could spend a lot more time talking about some of the other things you do in our community. So I appreciate your your, your emphasis on making Tucson a better place. But I also really wanted to highlight, the Tucson improv moment and appreciate you coming in to do that.

Justin Lukasewicz
Yeah. Thank you so much. And come out and be silly with us and have a good time.

Tom Heath
Justin Lucas Savage, founder and CEO of Tucson Improv Movement. And we’ll post links to their website so you can check out their upcoming schedule and see if there’s something you might want to explore. My name is Tommy. You are listening to Life Along the Streetcar and Downtown Radio at 8.1 FM and streaming on Downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
Well, stay tuned for words and work. Ted Brazil is going to interview writers and others from the labor movement here in just a couple of minutes. And then at the top of the hour, we have Ty Logan and Heavy Mental. So all kinds of exciting, talk shows where you here on Sunday? And if you want to get the whole lineup of the Sunday or the rest of the week, head over to Downtown radio.org and you can check out shows, information about the shows, biographies of the deejays and hosts.

Tom Heath
Am I you know, I always like to challenge people. So my challenge to you is take a look at a, a style of music that maybe you didn’t think you liked or want to know more about, and spend a couple of episodes with those deejays. You might find that you enjoy it more than than you first thought.

Tom Heath
I know that’s been my experience. There’s, I went into this thinking I had a very eclectic, music taste. And, you know, after being on the station now for almost eight years and having the opportunity to listen to meet with a lot of these, these deejays, I feel like my music horizons have broadened even even further. So I appreciate all of them.

Tom Heath
And all that’s available in downtown radio talk, as long as a as long as there’s a as well as as well as there’s a donate button. Because as we like to remind you, this is a volunteer or run station, all of the show hosts, the deejays, the board of directors, the people that make the website work and the equipment in the studio work.

Tom Heath
They’re all all volunteer. So when you donate, that money is going in to make downtown radio a little bit better spot for all of us to enjoy. So please check that out. There. So coming up on Life Along the Streetcar next week, we’re going to, have an interview with Courtney Christy. She is an artist in the Tucson gallery down here on, Congress and fifth in Tucson.

Tom Heath
And, she’s interesting because her day job, includes charming snakes, chasing bugs and catching butterflies, because she’s a zookeeper. And it’s a nice when your day job can lead in to help with your art. And we’ll talk all about that, next week. And if you’re involved with anything or you have a passion since you’re listening to this hyper local show, I assume that you’re in tune with Tucson.

Tom Heath
So, you know, give us your thoughts, your questions, and if you know someone doing great work in our community, let us know and we’d love to share, their, success on our channels as well. You can reach us directly a contact live along the streetcar.org. And one of the best ways to connect with us is through Facebook and Instagram by, you know, tagging us, liking us, sharing things on our page, etc. and of course, each week we have to thank those people that make this show possible because when it first started, it was just me talking to some people, and now it’s a whole thing.

Tom Heath
We, we not only have the audio podcast out on every kind of platform you can imagine, we also have the video out on our web page, as well as YouTube. And that doesn’t happen without, some support from the team. And I want to thank James Portis, who is our executive producer, and Amanda Mulattos, who is our associate producer.

Tom Heath
And as of this week, she is an alum of the University of Arizona. Just graduated. So congratulations to Amanda on that. And I’m Tommy Heath. I’m your host here on lifelong the Street Car. Our opening music every week is from Ryan Hood. And we’re going to close today with a PJ Lofgren and Jen Bostick. It’s from a 2025 album not too long ago, released earlier this year called The Vocation ist.

Tom Heath
And in honor of our improv guest today, the name of the song is yes and. I hope you have a great week and join us next Sunday for more life along the street car.