Sonora Moonshine Company: Ayla Kapahi’s Latest Brew in the Heart of Tucson

Join us as we explore the remarkable story of Ayla Kapahi and the debut of the Sonora Moonshine Company. Dive deep into the narrative of local craft, innovation, and community through the lens of one of Tucson’s most dynamic brewers.

Episode Highlights

• The Inspiration Behind Sonora Moonshine: Discover the creative spark that led to its creation.
• Ayla’s Brewing Philosophy: Insights into her approach and the artistry behind her craft.
• Community Impact: How the new venture is designed to enhance the local economy and culture.
• Future Endeavors: Sneak peeks into upcoming projects and collaborations.

We invite you to immerse yourself in this enriching conversation that not only celebrates a local business venture but also the spirit of community and innovation in Tucson.

Embracing New Horizons: The Launch of Sonora Moonshine Company

“Last year, we hinted at something new brewing beyond beer,” Ayla Kapahi shared in her recent interview. True to her words, the Sonora Moonshine Company has now opened its doors, offering a fresh take on local spirits that embodies Tucson’s unique flair. This new venture stands as a testament to the innovative spirit of Borderlands Brewing and its commitment to expanding Tucson’s craft beverage scene.

The Path of a Pioneer: Ayla Kapahi’s Journey with Borderlands Brewing

Join us as we trace Ayla’s evolution from a passionate brewer to a visionary business leader. “I’ve been with Borderlands for over five and a half years, navigating through pre and post-COVID challenges, which transformed not only our business model but also how we engage with our community,” Ayla recounts. Her journey reflects a deep commitment to craft and creativity, which has culminated in the opening of the Sonora Moonshine Company.

A Community of Crafters: Tucson’s Collaborative Spirit

In the heart of Tucson’s craft beer scene lies a story of camaraderie and collaboration. “What’s so awesome about the craft beer community here is the collaboration. It’s not just about competition; it’s about lifting each other up,” says Ayla. This sense of unity is a cornerstone of the local industry, where brewers support and propel each other to innovate and succeed.

Innovation Through Adversity: Adapting and Thriving

The conversation with Ayla highlighted how Borderlands Brewing leveraged its resources creatively during the pandemic. “We turned challenges into opportunities, using our spacious patio to host socially distanced gatherings that kept our doors open and our spirits high,” she explained. This adaptability underscores the resilience and ingenuity that define Tucson’s local businesses.

Looking Forward: What’s Next for Borderlands and Sonora Moonshine

Excitement bubbles over as Ayla discusses future plans for Borderlands and the Sonora Moonshine Company. “We’re always dreaming up new ideas, exploring uncharted flavors and methods that can bring something uniquely Tucson to the table,” she says. Fans of craft beverages can look forward to innovative brews and spirited creations that continue to push the boundaries of the ordinary.

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Tom Heath

Good morning. It’s a beautiful Sunday in the Old Pueblo and you’re listening to KTTT Tucson. Thank you for spending part of your brunch hour with us. On your downtown Tucson community -sponsored, all -volunteer -powered rock and roll radio station. This week we’re going to revisit our conversation with Ayla Kapay. Last year she shared with us the secrets behind her craft at Borderlands Brewing Company, where she’s been masterfully blending local ingredients with a splash of innovation. Today we’re going to celebrate the launch of Sonora Moonshine Company, the latest venture from Borderlands and it promises to elevate local flavors and exciting new directions. Today is April 14th, 2024. My name is Tom Heath and you’re listening to Life Along the Streetcar. Each and every Sunday our focus is on social, cultural, and economic impacts in Tucson’s urban core and we shed light on hidden gems everyone should know about. From a mountain to the University of Arizona and all stops in between, you

Tom Heath

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Tom Heath

country. Well, here in Tucson, lots of things happening. Got to spend some time at the Tucson Folk Festival last weekend, always fun time with Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association for that free event. They even let me emcee a stage, which was kind of cool. I think I raised at least four bucks for the cause there, so I feel kind of proud of myself for that. And then coming up next weekend is the Agave Heritage Festival with all kinds of events happening in a pretty short span of time. Several restaurants, bars, and venues downtown are involved with this. You know we did shows on both of those so you can go over to the website I mentioned lifelongstreetcar .org and the search bar put in Tucson Kitchen Musician Association or Folk Festival. You can also put in the Agave Heritage Festival or Todd Hanley. He did a recent interview with him And I can kind of guide you through the festivities of next weekend There’s some what color I probably intentionally but coinciding with that. We have a new

Tom Heath

restaurant and bar in downtown It’s called the Sonora moonshine company and it’s a product of the team over at Borderlands brewery And got a chance to stop in there. Check it out really fun vibe Cocktails food just kind of what you’d expect. It’s right there on Broadway at the old Access television station there. It’s nice patio, too And it reminded us that last year we did an interview with Ayla Kapai, and she was the head brewer at Borderlands, and talking about her craft with the beer, but also hinting that we were going to have this moonshine company opening up. So I thought we would revisit that story, talk with, get the history of Borderlands and Ayla’s connection to them as a little bit of a celebration while we’re waiting for the team to have enough time to chat with us about the Sonoran Moonshine Company. So here’s from 2023 our interview with Ayla Kapai. We are joined today by one of our favorite people in the world because she makes beer. I haven’t even really met her yet, but

Tom Heath

she makes beer. So she’s definitely on the list of favorite people. And Ayla Kapai.

Ayla Kapahi

That’s right. You got it.

Tom Heath

Yes. That’s because she told me before the show how to say it.

Ayla Kapahi

Most people I’ve known for decades have not been able to say it right, so you did well.

Tom Heath

No, thank you. Thank you. Well, welcome to the show. Kind of excited, not just because you make beer, but you represent a brand that is really big here in Tucson and Borderlands. You got expansion going on, all kinds of fun stuff. So first of all, let’s start with you. You are a, you are like multiple titles. You’re like the head brewer, you’re like director of

Ayla Kapahi

operations you are I think I just really have all those titles because my real title is the beer chick that gets stuff done okay for the brewery but yes but but you’re right head brewer and director of production operations basically that means anything that has to do with Borderlands beer production

Tom Heath

is my responsibility and how long have you been with Borderlands it has been

Ayla Kapahi

in five and a half years.

Tom Heath

Oh my gosh, so you joined them pre -COVID, dealt with that madness.

Ayla Kapahi

Indeed.

Tom Heath

And now you’re part of their expansion.

Ayla Kapahi

That’s right. So we, of course, like all small businesses, we’ve seen a lot of change, and we’re so fortunate that when COVID hit, of course, we were forced to think very creatively. We have access downtown to this huge, beautiful patio, and it was really being underutilized until we figured out what to do with it. So if anything, post -COVID, our brand and entities and properties have been just stronger than ever. So we’re really fortunate.

Tom Heath

Good. And we’ve had, you know, doing the show for six years now, had a few different breweries on, and it always amazes me how well you all get along.

Ayla Kapahi

Oh yeah. No one can see my face right now, but it’s true. You know, what’s so awesome is when I go out of state and out of town to different beer conferences and events and get togethers, the number one comment I always hear from people in craft beer is they say, the craft beer community is collaborative, but there’s something special about Arizona and there’s something special about Tucson. And they say, what is it about your Tucson craft beer scene? I’ve heard that many times.

Tom Heath

It’s, it’s just interesting. You always think that you’re competing and I had someone on and this is early on and I asked because there were new breweries popping up and and I and I asked him if there was too much and he said there’s never too much of a good thing and We’re all kind of competing against the big brands and if collectively we’re good enough. We’ll take market share and we’ll share that

Ayla Kapahi

That’s exactly right. And that’s really the reason why we have our Voltron brewing cooperative facility that we share with firetruck brewing. It’s the same mentality These are two different brands that are being produced, but ultimately we collaborate together so that we have the buying power so that we have other power, like a larger macro brewery. And you’re right, that’s exactly what Tucson breweries do.

Tom Heath

And so Voltron, then that’s, that’s on Tool? Is that?

Ayla Kapahi

Yes, that’s right. It’s confusing because downtown’s Borderlands location is also on Tool, but this one is South Tool, very close to Barrio Brewing Company. And we share a wall with Rocks and Ropes, a climbing gym.

Tom Heath

And you have a taproom I saw in Voltron. Is that true too?

Ayla Kapahi

That’s right. We just recently reopened our Voltron taproom post COVID.

Tom Heath

Okay. Yeah. Kind of hard to see. So look for the signs. It’s tucked away in a little warehouse back there, but a good place to brew beer. And I’m sure I haven’t been in as a taproom, but I’m sure it’s a good place to enjoy a beverage.

Ayla Kapahi

It’s awesome. We have these huge cutout windows in our taproom space. So you can sit there with your beer and see what we’re up to.

Tom Heath

And is that where you do all your brewing?

Ayla Kapahi

Yep. That’s where I live. That’s my, that’s my beer cave.

Tom Heath

Okay. So then you put that together and you ship it off to, uh, well, to your, your restaurants, but you’re also in, you’re in restaurants and you were wholesale and retail everywhere, aren’t you?

Ayla Kapahi

That’s right. We really have scaled back from retail and. Uh, stores, grocery stores in the last couple of years, because we’ve been focusing on opening up our other taproom concepts, this has given us the ability to focus on small, creating small batches and unique batches that we normally don’t have available through wholesale.

Tom Heath

Okay. So if you’re doing the wholesale, then you’ve got to create obviously a lot more product and there’s less experimentation. You can’t come up with these funky, cool names. And is there anything about the beer? Is it just the names you sit around like, let’s create something called?

Ayla Kapahi

So here’s the thing. I take pride. I’d like to think I do my job pretty well and have contributed to our brew success. The one thing I do here though, is nobody asks my opinions when it comes to naming beers, because if it were up to me, I would name all of our beers names like the tangerine sour, the watermelon ale, which to me is descriptive, but I’ve been told from our

Tom Heath

marketing team that, uh, what do those end up becoming called that those two names actually

Ayla Kapahi

stuck because that’s before our, uh, our new marketing team got involved and they said, Hey, all of those, that’s the last time we’re gonna name the beers. I think it’s descriptive, but it doesn’t sound as good as some fun names.

Tom Heath

Okay, well, I function over, form over function, or function over, I don’t know what it is, but I like knowing what I’m drinking. Sometimes, like when I drink wine, for example, I’ll look at the bottle, I like the bottle, but I have no idea what I’m drinking. And it’s kind of this guy in the same way with a lot of the beers is I really like the name, but I don’t think there’s chocolate cake in this, and I’m not 100 % sure if there’s chocolate cake in this particular beer. I read a very interesting article, because I do a little research every now and then. So I read a really interesting article from Tucson foodie, which really sucked me in because it said that you went to UC Davis and UC Davis has this really good brewing program and they, they put together a masters and, and, and all of this stuff. And I’m like, that’s fantastic. And then it goes on to say, but Ayla didn’t take any of that stuff.

Ayla Kapahi

That’s exactly right. Actually. I was nervous when I first read that article because I thought, Oh, where is Jesse man’s going with this? I didn’t complete the brewing program at UC Davis. And, uh, yes, that that’s all correct.

Tom Heath

Oh, that was a really Roman article of Tucson foodie. Um, but you were, what were you studying? I don’t remember.

Ayla Kapahi

Uh, I was in psychology and human development. So I was working in the field of social work, um, basically. But, um, so I will say what’s funny is that, you know, maybe in Arizona folks are familiar with the UC system and with UC Davis in Northern California. But of course, in the beer world, as soon as I tell someone that that’s where my undergraduate degree was at, um, they all assume they’re like, Oh my gosh. Yeah. UC Davis. That’s so great. And then I have to like kind of tamper them down. It’s like, Oh, but it wasn’t for brewing. And everyone just kind of goes, Oh,

Tom Heath

like I went to Juilliard to take math.

Ayla Kapahi

Yeah, exactly. Everyone was like, huh. And I’m like, hmm, would you like to try this tangerine sour? It’s really good.

Tom Heath

And the title says it all. It was, it was, it was interesting with the article. I think it was really well done and gives a lot of your bio. And if people are out there, you know, definitely look it up. It’s just from like 2019 2020. So it’s not too, too long after you started with Borderlands.

Ayla Kapahi

That one, if it’s the one I’m thinking of from Tucson Foodie by Jesse Mance, it was maybe six months ago.

Tom Heath

Okay, I think. This year.

Ayla Kapahi

Okay. If it mentioned the U of A LR MBA program.

Tom Heath

Either way, look it up. It’s Tucson Foodie, you can’t really miss, I mean, Ayla’s name’s everywhere when you talk about brewing in Tucson, so you’ll pop it up, especially when you pop in women brewers in Tucson, your name is always on that list of people making things happen, which is, it’s, it’s nice to see that. And, and I, I understand, I had an interview with someone from Iron Johns a few years ago. Um, uh, Lisa, I believe her name is, and, uh, we were talking and she said, yeah, we were just, it’s not that we’re entering the field as we’re taking it back, right? That women were brewing beer for the longest time.

Ayla Kapahi

That’s exactly right. So women have a longstanding history of being the original brewers. That’s dated back actually even to ancient times when we look at ancient Egyptian alcohol production. But even in the last 200 years, women really were the original home brewers. They were the ones even selling beer on a kind of a black market, so to speak. If anyone is familiar with the

Tom Heath

I mean, I’ve heard of, you know, when they talk about like witches brew and things like

Ayla Kapahi

that, I don’t know if that’s, yeah, so actually it’s even, um, it’s even kind of mixed in with the, around the time of the Salem trials. So when you think of when women and people were accused of being witches, women, homebrewers at that time, when they were selling their beer in the black market, they were, they,

Speaker 2

you know, they didn’t, they didn’t, they didn’t

Ayla Kapahi

distinguish themselves by wearing pointy hats that kind of look like witch hats. So it’s not to say that the homebrewers were the ones during the Salem trials, but there was certainly, it was their same time period and similar kind of folklore and story that’s going on there.

Tom Heath

Oh, well, it’s always interesting, you know, when you think you know something and you think you have this really progressive story and you realize we’re just sort of returning back to our roots.

Ayla Kapahi

That’s exactly right. That’s why, you know, a lot of my friends have the shirt that says the future of beer is female. Um, but you know, again, it’s really, it’s just, no, the, the past and the future, both of it. Right. We’re really just reclaiming, um, the beer story.

Tom Heath

There is female except for about 150 years where the men took it away. It’s too much to put on a t -shirt though. That’s too much. And your marketing people would not like that. No, no. They don’t listen to me anyway. Hey, this is Ayla Kapai on an interview we did in 2023 about her role as the head brewer for Borderlands Brewing. In the interview in a bit, she talks about a new venture coming, the Sonoran Moonshine Company. Well, it’s here and just recently opened. This week, as a matter of fact, so we wanted to just lay the foundation for this. We’ll, of course, get them on the show to talk more about the concept. I thought it would be fun to share of this interview from 2023. And we’ll be back to it in just a moment. First, I wanna remind you that you’re listening to Lifelong Streetcar on Downtown Radio, 99 .1 FM and streaming on downtownradio .org.

Tom Heath

We are back to finish up the second half of the interview. It’s recorded in 2023 with Ayla Kapay, head brewer over at Borderlands, and And I was celebrating the team’s recent success in opening up the Sonora Moonshine Company on Broadway, and it’s on Broadway between 6th and 5th, right across the street from Pueblo, Pueblo Vida Brewing there. So lots of things happening now on Broadway, and this was the interview we did, really focusing on Borderlands and Ayla’s role as a head brewer at the time, back in 2023. So you got, you got into this then from a different perspective, you didn’t start with Borderlands like, Hey, I’m going to come become your brewer because you don’t have that background. So how did that path take you?

Ayla Kapahi

When I was ready for a career change and I decided to join the craft beer industry, I really just begged a brewery for a job that was public brew house. Um, a lot of folks might remember them tucked behind Hermanos off of fourth Avenue and they brewed on a two barrel system, which is really just a glorified homebrew set up. I had home brewing experience, or at least I thought I had like decent experience. I didn’t know what I was doing when I first started there, but I basically begged them for a job. You know, I said, I’ll scrub floors, I’ll wash kegs. As long as you learn, as long as you can teach me how to brew commercially, I’ll work your bar. Do you have any jobs available? And at first, like this was the first week they were open. And they said, well, we’re not really hiring. We just opened or maybe we do have a position available. The owners are the ones who are brewing and I was just relentless. I think they just wanted to have me stop going in there and bugging them. And they finally

Ayla Kapahi

just said, all right, here’s a job. All right, here, just sweep the floor.

Tom Heath

We’ll spend less time if you work here than trying to explain to you why you can’t work here.

Ayla Kapahi

Exactly.

Tom Heath

So you get in, you get going. And then did you start, you learned how to brew there then or commercially brew?

Ayla Kapahi

That’s right. I learned as much as I could. And I’m so grateful for that experience and working on such a small system because when you do that, folks know this in the commercial beer brewing world, there are a lot of issues that arise, right? Like you’re basically working with homebrew equipment. And so when you work on such a small scale, you really intimately get to know your product, you get to know the process and understand the mechanics and the machinery of everything. So I’m so grateful for that experience because all of the troubleshooting, all of the critical thinking about saying, hey, we don’t have this huge budget to resolve this problem. We don’t have this huge budget to create these delicious and creative beers. What are we going to do? And I really attribute a lot of that to my current success.

Tom Heath

Wow. Interesting. Yeah. I guess then as you get into larger scale and you’ve got more resources, then it becomes a little easier to navigate some of that. but the the critical thinking that gets you there doesn’t change.

Ayla Kapahi

Definitely. And, you know, even when you start working on a larger scale, like I did with Borderlands, sure, there are brewing processes that are easier. A lot of them are more automated, but there’s just there are different challenges, right? If if the beer is available in grocery stores, I need to make sure that product tastes exactly the same every single time. So you just come into new challenges.

Tom Heath

Yeah, so and you had mentioned earlier, so let’s kind of jump back to that. You wanted to focus less on the retail side because you’re building out some taproom concepts. Are those built out yet or are you still working on those?

Ayla Kapahi

In the process. So we, of course, have our original downtown taproom location. The Sam Hughes location is the newest one that’s currently opened. It opened in January of this year. That’s located at Tucson and 6th Street. It’s actually where the old PJ Subs location used to be. So that place is open and thriving. It’s a partnership with Chef Maria Maison from Boca Tacos. And the next concept, Dose, is opening on River and Craycroft area in that Whole Foods parking lot. That’s another partnership with Maria Maison. Tentative date of opening, about two months. We’re hoping for

Tom Heath

mid -September. Okay. And since the show is recorded, we’re going to tell you what date is now because two months in this world could be anything, especially in Tucson, who knows

Speaker 2

where

Tom Heath

things happen. I went to your, uh, your location on, uh, deal on sixth and Tucson not too long ago. And I did not realize until after I left that it was a partnership and the, the, the beverages were delicious, but the food was just unbelievable. It was such as a small menu, but it’s just executed so well.

Ayla Kapahi

We’re so grateful. We have been wanting to work with Chef Maria for years and it took us a long time to figure what kind of a partnership we could make happen. I wholeheartedly agree. I purposely like to have my lunch meetings there so then I can leave my beer cave and say, Oh, it’s lunchtime. I guess

Tom Heath

I have to eat something. I guess I have to, I guess I have to have some delicious Maria food. So then dose will open. And so you’ve got then the original location, Sam Hughes, partnership and Voltron dose. That’s, that’s a lot. Yeah. There’s another one too. Oh, Can you tell us is that a teaser is that just I gonna have to tune in next year for that for that

Ayla Kapahi

I think there’s already press or something about it. I’m Within a year. We’re opening Sonoran moonshine company and that’s primarily going to be an agave and tequila Mescal bar interesting. We’re your location for that. Yes off of Broadway and

Tom Heath

She’s pointing she’s pointing to give directions which is horrible on the radio, but it is it’s terrible the listeners are like, what is going on here? It’s that a way. So is it downtown area?

Ayla Kapahi

It is downtown, relatively close to the Thunder Canyon location.

Tom Heath

Okay. Interesting. So that, wow, there’s a lot going on there. And are you, you’re spearheading all of this? I mean, you’ve got to be exhausted.

Ayla Kapahi

Fortunately, we have a great CEO who knows what he’s doing. And I’m there just to support him the best way that I can. But certainly for production, it is a lot of work for us to keep up with these new concepts. We also want to create new beers for some of these different concepts as well. So we’re quite busy.

Tom Heath

So then are you getting into like the agave distillation or is that a partnership with something or is that going to expand what you’re doing?

Ayla Kapahi

That is a partnership with a company in Sonora, Mexico. Legally, we don’t have the licensing to be able to distill and all of that in our current production space. It’s also not a skillset yet in my wheelhouse. So fortunately, we do have a partnership for that. I am very excited to brew agave inspired beers with it. So it would be great to use cactus and roasted cactus in our beers.

Tom Heath

And that was something else. I think I read this in either that article, Tucson Foodie or something else, but you’re also using a lot of native grains and you’re focusing on the region.

Ayla Kapahi

That’s right. We brew beers that are inspired by our Southwestern landscape and deserts. So that is why our prickly pear wheat is so successful. We use an organic and local prickly pear provider here to produce that. We are working with local grains, Sonora White Wheat at EKW Farms, which is located in Marana. and we try as much as possible to source local ingredients when we can because we really believe that our beer should reflect the flavors that we celebrate

Tom Heath

here. So where where do people follow you and keep up with all this stuff? I pause

Ayla Kapahi

because I’m like hmm that’s a great question. Honestly our website especially our Instagram page and Facebook are the best sources, we keep it pretty up to date.

Tom Heath

Is it just Borderlands or is it Borderlands Beer, Borderlands Tucson?

Ayla Kapahi

Borderlands Brewing Company on Instagram and same with Facebook, same with our website, we update them probably every day.

Tom Heath

Okay, this is airing in late July, anything coming up soon that we need to know about? Any big events or any new releases that we can tease the audience with?

Ayla Kapahi

It will be mid -September, but in two short weeks, I have, um, we have many women brewers from Mexico visiting our facility to brew the next Las Hermanas beer, which is a, we haven’t told this to the public yet, but now you’re going to find out it’s a Vienna lager. Yeah. We’re really excited about, and the beer will be released mid -September.

Tom Heath

Okay. Breaking news. don’t always get breaking news on the lifelong streetcar podcast, but this is so exciting. And then do you, does Borderlands, do they do tours? Can people get a look behind the curtain at what you’re doing or are you just too, too busy for that?

Ayla Kapahi

We do offer tours on our website quarterly. So stay tuned for the next one. I don’t know the date for the next one, but we do heavily advertise that.

Tom Heath

All right. Well, we’ll link to all that stuff from our Facebook page in case you miss any of that stuff. Ayla, you are making some amazing things here happen in Tucson for a beer chick that gets things done. Pretty soon an agave chick that gets things done, right?

Ayla Kapahi

I know. What else can I add to the titles? All the titles?

Tom Heath

Well, anything else you want to add before I wrap up?

Ayla Kapahi

I just want to say how much I love Tucson. And I want to go back just really quickly about understanding how connected our beer community is and how our community is in general. You one thing that’s really awesome, what I think makes us so close is that we’re vulnerable and just honest with each other. It’s no problem for myself or for other people in our industry to call each other and say, Hey, this thing happened at my brewery. Do you have any advice for how to handle it? Or what price should I charge my beer at if it costs me this much? And I think just being honest and transparent really gets rid of that stereotype of competition in the beer industry. You say, oh, but you’re my competitor. Because really we all thrive when we work together.

Tom Heath

That’s Ayla Kapai, head brewer of Borderlands. In an interview we did back in 2023, we are celebrating today the opening of the Sonora Moonshine Company on Broadway. the same team that gave us Borderlands has given us this Muscow featured focused moonshine bar. My name is Tom Heath, you’re listening to Lifelong Streetcar and Downtown Radio 99 .1 FM and streaming at downtownradio .org. You’re listening to KTDT Tucson Arizona 99 .1 FM Downtown Radio. I’m Brother Mark, host of a show called Radio Club Crawl that airs every Tuesday at 3 p .m. We try to focus on most of the bands that are coming through Tucson and we give you a tasty taste of their music. If you want to check out what’s happening around Tucson, check out Radio Club Crawl, Tuesdays 3 p .m. right here on KTDT Tucson, Arizona 99 .1 FM Downtown Radio. Thank you very much. Enjoy your evening. Bye -bye. We’re gonna wrap up episode 291 and make way for Ted Przelski coming in here at the bottom of the hour with his show, Words and Work,

Tom Heath

talking about writers and members of the labor movement here in Tucson. I want to remind you that if you want to learn more about any of our past episodes, head over to our page, lifelongwithstreetcar .org. And I want to thank Ryan Hood for letting us use their music to launch our show. Thank you to James Portis, our production specialist. My name is Tom Heath, I’m your host and producer. And in honor of our guests feature today, we’re going to leave you with a pageant street corner thieves from 2017. Here’s a song from their album goers. And it’s called moonshine. I hope you have a great week and tune in next Sunday for more life along the streetcar