Photographing Stars: How a Broken Camera Created a Tucson Visionary

From the Stars to the Streets – Nicci Radhe originally set out to study astronomy, but when math got in the way, she discovered a different way to capture celestial beauty—through the lens of her camera.

A Career Born from a Broken Camera – A dropped and damaged school camera forced Nicci to buy her own, unknowingly setting her on a path toward a decade-long career in photography.

Capturing Tucson’s Art Scene – Nicci shares what it’s like to photograph murals and public art, including her work with renowned Tucson muralist Jessica Gonzalez.

Tucson’s Music & Creative Community – As a longtime volunteer for KXCI’s Locals Only, Nicci has photographed countless local musicians, even shooting music videos for Tucson artists.

Why Murals Matter – Nicci reflects on the role of public art in shaping a city’s identity, the funding and respect Tucson artists receive, and how murals contribute to the city’s vibrant culture.

Collaboration is Key – From Creative Mornings to working with muralists, musicians, and videographers, Nicci emphasizes the power of partnerships in growing Tucson’s creative ecosystem.

A Return to the Stars? – Though astrophotography isn’t her strength (yet!), Nicci recently got a new telescope and is excited about the possibilities of merging her past and present passions.

What happens when the universe has other plans for you? For acclaimed Tucson photographer Nicci Radhe, the dream of becoming an astronomer came to an abrupt halt when trigonometry proved to be an insurmountable challenge. But sometimes, life’s detours lead us to unexpected and extraordinary destinations.

In this episode of Life Along the Streetcar, Nicci shares her remarkable journey from studying the stars to capturing the creative stars of Tucson’s vibrant arts and music scene. A broken camera, a forced change in direction, and a deep passion for artistic expression led her to become a sought-after photographer, working with renowned muralists like Jessica Gonzalez, musicians, and a wide range of creatives who shape Tucson’s cultural landscape.

This episode is a powerful reminder that even when doors close, opportunities open elsewhere. Nicci’s journey is one of resilience, reinvention, and an unshakable passion for storytelling through the lens of her camera.

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Tom Heath
Good morning. Hey. It’s a beautiful Sunday in the Old Pueblo. And you’re listening to Kate Tucson. Thank you for spending part of your brunch hour with us on your downtown Tucson community. Sponsor our volunteer powered rock and roll radio station. This week we’re going to speak with Nikki Roddy, for whom the heavens once called. But as it turns out, trigonometry didn’t quite cosign with her dreams of becoming an astronomer.

Tom Heath
So instead of charting the heavens with equations, she’s found a new way to capture celestial beauty by photographing the stars right here on Earth. From musicians and artists to muralists like Jessica Gonzalez, Nikki’s lens shines a light on Tucson’s creative universe. And today we’ll explore her journey, her artistry, and the stars she captures in her own unique way.

Tom Heath
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Tom Heath
Our guest today, Nikki Roddy, is a photographer. She is multitalented in different creative ways and has surrounded herself with other creatives. Had a great chat with her. Just about a week and a half ago at our show. So our studios and she’s a photographer. We, we kind of picked her brain about what we were doing as we were finding out what she was doing.

Tom Heath
Well, I’m excited to welcome Nikki into the studio here because you are, like, you’ve got the entire photography background, and we got this cool studio set up, so can’t wait to get your impressions of it.

Nicci Radhe
It’s a really cool setup.

Tom Heath
There we go. Interview is over at Eve with that.

Nicci Radhe
It’s a really cool setup. I really like.

Tom Heath
It. Well, Nikki Roddy. Yep. You are a photographer. By by by trade, right? That’s what you do professionally.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah.

Tom Heath
And, we met at the gallery because you came in because you wanted to check out some work by this muralist. I think your name was Jessica Gonzalez.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, yeah. Tiny muralist, you know, up and coming. She just did the biggest mural in Arizona.

Tom Heath
That Park mall. Yeah, that was the biggest in Arizona.

Nicci Radhe
Biggest in Arizona.

Tom Heath
Oh my gosh. Yeah.

Nicci Radhe
So she hired me. Jessica hired me to do some photos of her murals for products in the proper shops. And it was months ago, and I realized I had never seen them.

Tom Heath
Oh, wait a minute. So I missed that part. So she specifically hired you because the gallery, the design galleries where we sell her products. So she says, we hired you to do those products? Yes. I didn’t realize that. I thought you just were like her, her photographer.

Nicci Radhe
Well, so, I’d like to be, I’ve done some. I’ve done two shoots for her so far, and she’s a joy to work with. She’s super fun. I love her work, but I wanted to see how the products came out. Like, I know you guys have, like, coffee mugs and posters, and I wanted to see how my shots came out on, like, in person.

Nicci Radhe
And she told me they were at the shop. So that’s why I stopped in that night when I met you.

Tom Heath
Well. And how were you? Okay with us? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I’m all stressed in the stuff now. Well, let’s take a few steps back. How long have you been in photography?

Nicci Radhe
This is, my 10th year. I’m going. Wow. Yeah, I’m going on a decade professionally. Professionally?

Tom Heath
And did you did you come by this accidentally? Like you woke up one day with a camera for a present? You said, oh, I’m gonna be a photographer. Or did you do this, like, as a hobby for a while?

Nicci Radhe
This is one of my favorite stories, because what happened was, I was in college. I was studying astronomy. I failed my second math class. I was I failed Trig twice. And I realized that I wasn’t I wasn’t probably going to be astronomer because I couldn’t do math. So I took some art classes, and I took this photography class, and I ended up breaking the school’s camera.

Nicci Radhe
I dropped it, broke it went in the next day. I told the school, like, hey, I broke your camera, I’d like to pay for it. And they were like, hey, you can’t borrow anything from us for the rest of the semester, but you got to finish this class because it’s past the withdrawal date. I was mad because I wanted to just take a fun art class and get out of the stress of, like, math and physics and all this stuff I was doing.

Nicci Radhe
And, I ended up having to buy a camera because I had no access to camera anymore, so I went my husband went on Craigslist. He bought me a camera. And, when that class was over, I dropped out of college.

Tom Heath
Oh, my gosh.

Nicci Radhe
That’s what that’s what happened. And I started doing photography. I had a I was a food and beverage manager in another life. And so I had my camera and I started doing, lots of, like, wildlife landscape photography. And then I started writing magazine articles. So I would use my photography in the magazine articles that I would write.

Nicci Radhe
And that’s how I got into it. Just a little over ten years ago.

Tom Heath
Wow, that is crazy. So the fact that you can’t do trigonometry, has now connected you with the best to sun muralist around.

Nicci Radhe
The fact that I can’t do trigonometry definitely changed my life for the better.

Tom Heath
So just be, curious with your, sort of those original aspirations. Do you do photography, like, do you do those sort of atmospheric, photographs with the big picture, the heavens and the stars and all of that?

Nicci Radhe
So I’ve never been good at that. But that’s how I started. I started photographing the moon and constellation oceans and stuff like that. So I got a, hook up for my telescope at the time. And my middle name is Celeste. That’s why I called it Celestial Photography for my business. Okay? My whole thing was I was going to be some famous astrophotographer since I couldn’t be, astronomer.

Nicci Radhe
And that never happened. That never materialized.

Tom Heath
Yet.

Nicci Radhe
No, I’m not even. I’m not even good at astrophotography at all.

Tom Heath
You’re not good yet.

Nicci Radhe
I’m not good yet. But I did just get a brand new telescope, and I just finished installing the software and firmware and all that, so I’m really excited to hear.

Tom Heath
Here you go. Yeah, maybe. Maybe this will be the, the turning point for you because you weren’t a photographer ten years ago. Any if someone if when you sign up for your, you trade class the first time they said hey what do you think about photography. I’m not a photographer.

Nicci Radhe
Didn’t care.

Tom Heath
Yeah. So I’m just saying you might you might be a, a celestial photographer after all. You just haven’t gotten there yet.

Nicci Radhe
That’s true. It is a I always like to keep all possibilities open, but. Yeah, that’s exactly how it all started. I broke a camera. I broke a camera, and that was it. I broke a camera. I couldn’t do math.

Tom Heath
So there. How do you know? Okay, so there’s ten years, and I don’t necessarily we’ll have to go through all of this. But then how do you end up getting connected to Jessica? Did you reach out to her? Did she seek you out? Did she did she say, hey, I want someone who’s really clumsy to do some photography for me and try not to break the camera.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, I mean, that’s. She heard I was clumsy and. No. So what happened was, this is another really cool story. Mrs. Green’s world was a podcast. Oh, yeah, I remember.

Tom Heath
Yeah.

Nicci Radhe
Okay. You remember no one. No one knows about me. Okay, so, Mrs. Green’s role was a podcast that I listened to when I was writing my articles.

Tom Heath
Oh, my gosh, what was her name?

Nicci Radhe
Gina Murphy, darling. Gina Murphy, darling.

Tom Heath
I know her very well. I just got her name.

Nicci Radhe
She’s one of my heroes. Yeah. I listened to her podcast when I was writing all my articles. The articles I wrote were like about hiking and biking and getting outside and getting connected to nature and so naturally, I gravitated towards Mrs. Green’s world because she talks about all things environment. Bonnie Gonzalez is Jessica’s mother and Bonnie works for Mrs. Green.

Nicci Radhe
Oh, wow. So I got to meet Bonnie before I ever got to meet Jessica. And when Jessica was looking for a photographer, I’m pretty sure Bonnie told her to hire me.

Tom Heath
Okay, mom, say so.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, yeah, so I’m pretty sure. But I also, I’ve done a lot of work with Joe Paddock. In fact, he’s. He helped me with my first music video. He actually helped me film it. And then later, later on, early this year, I’m going to have a shoot with Ignacio Garcia, who’s.

Tom Heath
So you’re just just hitting a few of the big names here. Oh, my. Okay, so now, music video, this is this is are you a musician or were you doing, like, what’s this?

Nicci Radhe
So I am a videographer, and, I started doing video for about five years ago, actually. Yeah, it was 2019. So it’s about five years ago. And, I started just, I just wanted to make music videos. So I started making music videos, and now I do conceptual and live music videos, and I do, videos of other kinds too.

Nicci Radhe
But I’m still very new to videography, so I work with a lot of partners, and usually we collaborate just to make sure we have all our bases covered.

Tom Heath
But it makes sense.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, I know I’ve produced, I produce about 20, 25 music videos.

Tom Heath
Okay. Local artists or all.

Nicci Radhe
Local artists, actually. And, I got to meet Billy Gibbons. Okay. A couple months ago at KCI, and I got to photograph him. I didn’t get to make a music video, but, Yeah. No, I love working with local music. So I started volunteering for KCI ten years ago when I picked up my camera.

Tom Heath
The other nonprofit, radio station here in Tucson, as we like to say on downtown radio.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, yeah. So I started volunteering for KCI, and I have been volunteering for them for ten years. I shoot the locals only show almost every Monday night. I go in, I meet a new local band, and, I give them images for their podcast that they put on the web. They’re archive. So every Monday you can hear a live local band and then you can go on later on and check it out if you missed it.

Tom Heath
Interesting, interesting. So then, can you briefly tell me about this collaboration with Joe Patrick in the music videos?

Nicci Radhe
Oh, so my friend Lila, let’s show she, she has a band. And we made, our first music video was called fire, and it was for her song fire. And we filmed at Linda Ronstadt old house. Okay. And, we filmed at this really beautiful permaculture, ranch that, my friend runs, and we made a music video that’s about.

Nicci Radhe
It’s a flamenco infused music video.

Tom Heath
Okay. And what was Joe’s artwork involved with that? Or had Joe.

Nicci Radhe
Shot a lot of the video? Oh, okay. Yeah.

Tom Heath
So he was on the other side of that. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Just all these creatives just try to figure out, like they have all these different elements. I just found out, I was interviewing Ignacio son, who is who is an artist, and just found out that Ignacio was a background as a DJ in LA.

Nicci Radhe
I did not know that.

Tom Heath
Yeah. So it’s like all these all of these creatives, you know? Okay, I got one skill. I can talk and that’s it. I get nothing else. So I’m always impressed by and by those of you that can do these multifaceted things. That is me babbling on about how impressed I am with creative people since I don’t have any talents.

Tom Heath
And we’re in the middle of our interview here with Nikki Roddy, Celestial Photography, who, has done a lot of work with some of our artists here in Tucson. We’ll be back to finish up that interview in just a moment, but I first want to remind you that you’re listening to Lifelong The Streetcar on Downtown Radio 99.1 FM and streaming on downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
Hey, if you’re just joining us, our guest today is Nicki Roddy. At one point in her life, she thought she was going to be an astronomer. And as it turns out, she is now a photographer and she is taking pictures of stars in Tucson’s art scene like those of Jessica Gonzalez. Talk to her a little bit about her background in the first half of the show, and we’re going to finish up here a little bit more about her and also her specialty.

Tom Heath
She’s been in a lot of different magazines. She’s done a lot of different types of photography, so we’re going to touch base with those. And of course find out how all of that compares to, working with someone like Jessica Gonzalez. From a photographer standpoint, is there something different about a mural than, maybe a landscape of, landscape shot or, you know, your pictures of hiking in the desert?

Tom Heath
What’s like, how does that does that go into your thought process differently? Do you set up differently? Do you have a different vision for that?

Nicci Radhe
Yeah. You know, I mural, so I’m always afraid to photograph other people’s artwork. It actually gives I’m a little afraid of it because I want to represent it the way the artist wanted it. So I want the colors to be perfect. I don’t want it to be too warm or too cool. I want it to look as big as it is.

Nicci Radhe
I don’t want to. I don’t want to minimize it in any way. And, you know, different lenses have different distortions. And I think about that kind of stuff. So when Jessica hired me to photograph her murals, I probably took 400 photos of the same mural and then went through meticulously and like, picked the best, sharpest, cleanest image I could just to, like, make sure I represented it the way she wanted it.

Nicci Radhe
Okay. But I think with murals, what you want to do is make them just what they are. They’re larger than life and they’re really, I think, I think murals and artwork is really important to a city. I travel a lot and you can tell where there’s a lot of culture and money for culture and money for art and where there’s not, because where there’s not, there will be no art.

Nicci Radhe
And you see it a lot. Not just I mean, you see it in other countries. I see it in other countries a lot. But even in the U.S., you can tell which areas are like, really, which areas drive the culture of art and help influence the culture of art. And I think Tucson is really special in that way.

Tom Heath
Yeah. I had a chance to interview, was with Joe, for the Tucson Galleries podcast called Meet the Artist, and I asked him, I said I’d like Tucson seems to have for the number of people that live here, it seems we seem to have an extraordinarily large amount of beautiful murals. And his response was that there’s three things that sort of play into it.

Tom Heath
One is there is money. The community wants the murals. So there’s the arts foundation, there’s private money, businesses recognize the value of it. So they can can pay to have those, two is that there’s respect. You don’t see a lot of tagging. You don’t see once the mural is done, too much destruction. You see it here and there, but it’s not on a large scale.

Tom Heath
There’s a lot of respect for that. They might tag the entire building, but they’ll leave the mural alone.

Nicci Radhe
I’ve seen that.

Tom Heath
Yeah. You know, so they appreciate that. And three is just simply the weather. It’s like we can paint almost every day of the year here.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, and the murals last longer a lot of times.

Tom Heath
Right? Yeah, I wouldn’t think, but yeah, I guess they would. If now with some of the new paint that is more UV resistant, I think it definitely could, could be out there. But I think that gives Tucson a leg up over a lot of other cities. When you put those three things together. And the first one he mentioned and I think what you said, it’s it’s the money, you know, there’s yeah, there’s got to be a way to, to get these out there because these artists don’t, you know, they spend so much time.

Tom Heath
I think people realize how much time they spend before even a drop of paint hits that wall.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, yeah. And it’s it’s the same with so many arts that people don’t realize how much time goes into it before you even see that person’s face.

Tom Heath
In what you just said, 400 photographs that you have to dig through to get the one. Yeah.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah.

Tom Heath
That’s interesting. So I guess that’s a big difference to me is like if you when you were taking photographs for the Magazine of Hiking and Trails, you were capturing the shot you wanted. Yeah, but now you’re trying to capture the shot Jessica wants, and you have to get into her mind because she doesn’t quite know how to. Probably to articulate that.

Tom Heath
So she tells you, and then you have to figure out how to bring that out in a photograph.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah. And it’s hard because different people have different things they like and don’t like. So what I do when I do any shoot is I try to do the biggest variety of images or videos, that I can get. That way I get a sense of what the what the other artists wants. Okay.

Tom Heath
Yeah. I just, yeah, there’s a certain level of, of preference that that seems like it could be, I don’t want to say frustrating, but it certainly could create some challenges in your work that you have something that’s absolutely perfect and someone looks and says, oh, no, no, no, this is perfect. Like, no, but this, this one, this one is perfect.

Tom Heath
No it’s not.

Nicci Radhe
It happens a lot.

Tom Heath
Yeah, I can imagine.

Nicci Radhe
It happens a lot. And what I do is I always send my clients, I always send them a folder of my favorites. And 90% of the time, their favorite is something in the other folder that I didn’t even notice. Okay. And they don’t really like my favorites.

Tom Heath
Interesting. Yeah, 90% of the time, I.

Nicci Radhe
Swear it’s more way more often than not.

Tom Heath
So they have access to all of it and you send them like, okay, these are all good. Because I’d be like, oh, okay, I’m just going to narrow my search down to whatever the professional thinks is great. But they go, you know, let’s just see what’s in this other folder. And like, oh.

Nicci Radhe
I really like this one. Yeah. And I get a lot of, I get a lot of flack from other photographers because what they do is they’ll shoot and take a thousand images, and then they’ll send the client 30. I don’t do that. I’ll send the client 300 and let them choose. That’s from a thousand though. So I’ve really cold it down.

Nicci Radhe
But that’s something that I do differently, that some people really don’t like. And some people really do like. The clients usually like it. Sometimes they’re like, this is too many. Narrow it down.

Tom Heath
Well, that’s the 10%. Then you know that. Those are my favorites. Yeah, that’s the narrow.

Nicci Radhe
Yep. So I have one client that says do not send me more than 100 photos. I don’t care if we took 3000. And I have one client that says do not exclude a single photo. I want to see everything we touched, you know, so I just the more I work with clients and I think, I think as a, as a, no matter what profession or artistic expression you’re in, I think it’s important to work with a lot of photographers.

Nicci Radhe
I don’t think you should get one photographer and just stick with them. But when you find a photographer you really like, it’s important to keep working with them because they’re going to get better for you. Yeah, they’re going to produce something better for you because they find out what you like. They find out what you don’t like.

Tom Heath
I can 100% agree with that. And once they start to understand your perspective and your your color balance and the types of things that that you want to highlight, that’s the starting point for the next shoot, right? And then it just gets it gets better from there. Yeah. That makes perfect sense to me.

Nicci Radhe
So I think it is worth it to stick with a photographer you really love. But I also think it’s worth it to try out a lot of different styles and a lot of different perspectives from photographers.

Tom Heath
Yeah, I mean, if somebody, somebody might have the utmost respect for you, but they want a, a celestial picture, and apparently you’re not going to get that from you right now.

Nicci Radhe
You’re not going to get that from me right now.

Tom Heath
Well, we’ll see what happens with it. With the new, the new telescope, are you able to share any of the details of what you’re going to be working with, with Ignacio? Or is that still kind of,

Nicci Radhe
It’s still up in the air. We’re both in a group called Creative Mornings, and, Have you you’ve heard of him?

Tom Heath
Yeah, I’ve been I’ve been to a few sessions. I’ve tried that usually on Fridays, and I have trouble getting out there, but I’ve been.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, it’s hard for people to get out on Fridays. Friday’s one of my days off, usually in the morning. So I’m, I always, I’m sorry. I always photograph for them. And we have a meeting in two weeks, and so it’s a lot of fun. I really like it because it’s all free. Nobody pays anything to go.

Nicci Radhe
Nobody pays anything to put it on. Everything’s donated. And, that’s how I’ve met a lot of creatives in Tucson. I’ve done a lot of collaborations through just that organization, from comedy to photography to videography. And it’s it’s a really cool group. But that’s how I met Ignacio. And he actually one I was giving away, a photography certificate, and he wanted so that now it’s a thing, now it’s a thing.

Nicci Radhe
And we’ve been trying to shoot since December. But he was just working on that enormous mural.

Tom Heath
Loss for Carlos. And if you’d like to know more about that, check out our episode two weeks ago with Ignacio Garcia on his brand new mural, Los Mercados.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah. Looks like. Yeah. So he’s been working on that now. And then I took a vacation. So now he’s done with that. I’m done with my stuff. We’re going to get together and do a shoot. It’s going to be a studio shoot. And then I also want to photograph him actually working in his studio. But we’re going to do lights and it’s not going to be my typical.

Nicci Radhe
Most of the time I shoot outdoors, I do use lights, but most of the time I shoot outdoors and I do like environmental portraiture. This is going to be a studio setting. Okay. Yeah.

Tom Heath
So how do how do we follow you and learn about these things when they come out? What’s your what’s your handles. Are you on social media. Do you have a website.

Nicci Radhe
I need a website. I’m. I need to know. So I have a website. I don’t know what happened. It’s dead, I need. So I realized, this morning that it’s not life at all. I have Facebook, I have Instagram, Celestial Photography on both. I will have my website back up and that’s Celestial photography.com. That is my domain and it’s not going anywhere.

Nicci Radhe
I have a website designer, that I met through Creative mornings and we’re working on a new website. Okay.

Tom Heath
Yeah. For now, Celestial Mornings. You can find that on Instagram, Facebook. I’m sure they can see some of your work on there.

Nicci Radhe
And and, yeah.

Tom Heath
You’ll post some things about these, these projects as they come about.

Nicci Radhe
Yeah, yeah. No, I’m really good at KY. I’m really good at posting about my projects while they’re happening. I’m less good about posting my final product. So that’s something that that’s why I want the website. I want all my final portfolio to go up there because while I’m doing stuff and I’m excited about it, I’m constantly posting and sharing and being like, look like, I can’t believe my life.

Nicci Radhe
Sometimes. So yeah, that’s a really good place to find me.

Tom Heath
Well, let this be a lesson. If you’re good at trigonometry, that’s great. But if you’re not, there is still hope. It’s Nicki Roddy. Radhe. And it’s Nikki, right? Yeah. Nikki. Roddy, we’re appreciative for you coming and spend some time here with us today, and, I look forward to seeing what you’re doing here in the future.

Nicci Radhe
Thank you so much for taking time to hang with me. And I love I love what you got here. This is really cool.

Tom Heath
That was Nikki Roddy, photographer here in Tucson. All kinds of, different talents. As we heard in the interview today. We’ll, be back to wrap up the show in just a moment. But first, I want to remind you that you’re listening to lifelong the streetcar on downtown radio 99.1 FM, streaming on downtown radio.org.

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Tom Heath
Well stay tuned, on Downtown Radio 99.1 here for Words and Work as Ted Brazell ski joins us in just a few minutes to, interview members of the labor movement writers here in Tucson. And we start at the top of the hour by Ty Logan with his show Heavy Mental. And then we’re back into the music. Yeah.

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Tom Heath
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Hit us up for Instagram. Facebook are still the best ways to to connect with us. You can you can hit the contact at life along the street car.org for an email. But I would say most people will, enter. It will message us on Facebook or, the Instagram. And if you have a Tucson based account, social media or you’re doing some cool stuff with with Tucson, let us know because we, we would love to share that, maybe get you on the show or at the very least, get what you’re doing out into the world through, a different channel.

Tom Heath
Because we know collaboration has always been a foundation of what we’ve strived for here on the show. It’s, a community dialog of sorts. Mentioned during the interview, our studio, it shows our studios. It’s, where we now are recording our life along the street, car interviews, the, the studio is set up for audio and video.

Tom Heath
So now if you go to our web page, life Along the Street car.org, not only can you listen to these interviews, but you can see, a nice little video that was put together, for us, through the team over at Show Source Studios and, always appreciative to, James Portis, who is our production specialist here on the show.

Tom Heath
And, also the engineer with those studios. And speaking of James, he’s with us every week. Amanda Martos is our production assistant. My name is Tom Heath. I’m the host and producer here of the Life Along the Street car. And we always appreciate your support and we always appreciate the support of the band. Ryan Hood, Ryan Green, Cameron hood, they let us use their song Dillinger Days to open up the show each and every week.

Tom Heath
We’ve done it since day one back in October. They’re super keen to let us continue to do that. And today, in honor of our guest and her, her path from the heavens to the earth, we’re going to leave you with a little group called Math Odes. And this is from 2008, and it’s their song trigonometry functions. I hope you have a great week and tune in next Sunday for more life along the streetcar.