Choir Practice Podcast
First Responders, and Public Servants, share the most extraordinary experiences from their careers. Here on Choir Practice our mission is to preserve our guests personal legacies for friends and family, sharing their stories for anyone who might be curious or interested in a career in public service.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 162 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Episode 74- THE MOST DOWNLOADED EPISODE FROM YEAR ONE!!! Retired Tucson Police Officer Ed Boyen
Squad, I appreciate you all! I'm traveling this week so I wanted to play for you the most popular episode from year one. Ed Boyen's story is incredible, crazy, funny and scary! He had a…
Episode 73- Tonya Parker (Mammography, Ultrasound, X-Ray Tech, Police Spouse)
At the request of several guests, I interviewed my best friend about her thoughts on my career to go into law enforcement, the changes that I went through personally and professionally,…
Episode 72- Tim Matthews (Former Tucson Police Detective)
I'm so grateful to Tim for having the courage to be on the show and share his story. I feel like his story resonates with so many public servants that you and I know, walking around us …
Episode 71- Jeff Douglas (Retired Tucson Police Motor Officer)
Jeff traveled all the way from Washington State to be on the show! Just kidding, he was in town to visit family and volunteer at the Southwest Motor Competition. But he was gracious eno…
Episode 70- Jen Brotherton (Retired Tucson Police Lieutenant)
She came back!!! Proof that the work I'm doing on this podcast is good and the interviews aren't too much torture!
In this episode, we pick back up where we left off. Jen was a Home Inva…
Episode 69- Mike Thrall (Retired Tucson Police Officer)
Mike's back and I think I had more fun during this conversation than the first! And I must tell you, because it snuck up on me, but Mike's part 1 is just a few downloads shy of Ed Boyen…
Episode 68- Heidi Chance (Retired Phoenix Police Detective)
Heidi and I met through LinkedIn. Her background resonated with me because I was the Commander in charge of the Southern AZ Human Trafficking Task Force for a brief time. She spent a la…
Episode 67- Sixto Molina (Retired Tucson Police Sergeant, South Tucson Police Chief)
Sixto is one of those iconic names in the City of Tucson that everyone knows. After retiring from the Tucson Police Department, he became the Police chief for the City of South Tucson. …
Episode 66- Sean Holewinski (Retired Tucson Police Sergeant)
Today Sean and I take a deeper dive into his years as a Detective in the Crimes Against Children Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit. While I applaud the folks who work t…
Episode 65- Jason House (Retired USAF MSGT)
My old neighbor, Jason House is one of the nicest and studliest dudes I know. He was always one of the folks I knew I wanted to be a guest on the show, but now that we live about an hou…
Episode 64- Mark Bustamante (Retired Pima County Sheriff Sergeant)
I met Mark as a Deputy Recruit in 1998! He taught a few classes at the academy and then I ran into in on the streets during my 2-year stint with PCSO. Years later, we ran into one anoth…
Episode 63- Eric Johnsen (Oakland PD, Retired Antioch, CA PD)
Welcome back, Eric Johnsen reached out to me after finding the podcast thanks to Dave Lewis!!!
He sent 21 years working the "mean streets" of California. 7 years in Oakland before moving…
Episode 62- Jen Brotherton (Retired Tucson PD Lieutenant)
This episode was a good time. We went down so many rabbit holes and had a great time catching up that she needs to return and finish telling us about her career! Common theme, I know!
Sh…
Episode 61- Sean Holewinski (Retired Tucson Police Sergeant)
Like me, Sean spent 21 years in service to this community. He started in 2001, working patrol on the South side of Tucson. This is where we first met. He went from patrol, to Detective,…
Episode 60- Jeff Burton (Retired Tucson Police Detective)
60 episodes!
Over my career, our paths crossed, and Jeff worked with me on the Southside right before I retired! He's just a good guy and a good cop! He recently retired, but I learned …
Episode 59- Lillian George (Retired Pima County Sheriff Detective)
Lillian is such a rock star! She agreed to come back and be tortured by me for a few more hours. I'm grateful to her husband, Eric, who is also a "Super cool" dude for letting her come …
Episode 58- Mike Thrall (Retired Tucson Police Officer)
I didn't realize, but Mike was in the academy class that joined up with a bunch of us folks who were switching agencies. They had recently graduated the police academy and we all joined…
Episode 57- Rick Radinsky (Retired Tucson Police Detective Sergeant)
Rick is such a trooper! He agreed to come back and share a few more stories from his career and just catch up over a pour of bourbon and a cup of coffee! I nearly had an asthma attack b…
Episode 56- Paul Dietzel (Retired Pima County Sheriff Detective)
Paul returns, brings bourbon and we spent a few hours sharing even more stories from his career...
We met at the 1 year anniversary Meet and Greet and it was obvious I needed to bring hi…
Episode 55- Joe Curran (Retired Tucson Police Motor/ Traffic Officer)
Joe Curran spent just shy 32 years with the Tucson Police Department. He first became a reserve, but quickly got hired and moved into the department as a regular, paid cop! He got assig…