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The bears are waking up and bear awareness is highly recommended!
It also means we dig out our interview with Gene Moe whose hand- to-paw encounter with a Kodiak grizzly is legendary!
We also talk to Rick Rydell Green, former hunting/fishing guide and presently the Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Rick's had plenty of close encounters with bears and geeks who study bears!
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The 1964 Good Friday Earthquake Part 2
We continue sharing stories from people who were there like Tim Sullivan Sr and broadcast legend, Herb Shaindlin.
Author/Historian and Seward resident, Doug Capra, talks about Seward's response from the day after and for which they received an "All American City" award. He speaks about his article The Luxury of Forgetting: The town of Seward after the 1964 Good Friday Alaska Earthquake.
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To hear Doug Capra's complete interview and to read his article, The Luxury for Forgetting, click here
Photos courtesy of the U.S. Army
Iditarod Hall of Fame Broadcaster
Three decades as the MC of the Ceremonial Iditarod Start and well known Anchorage Hall of Fame broadcaster, Dave Stroh joins us to share some broadcast stories!
Frogsicles with our Science Guy!
Frogs freeze solid in the winter and live!
Our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder explains!
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The best way to celebrate the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod is with friends! Let the stories flow! Greg Heister, known for his longtime association with the Iditarod and the "Insider" (www.iditarod.com) that covers and shares stories of the Iditarod with the world, takes us behind the scenes to help us appreciate what remarkable athlete mushers are. Then our good friend, Jim Odom, invites us to his Iditarod party of friends - many of whom this is their first Iditarod. And you're invited to an Iditarod party!
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The Iditarod 2024 Teacher, Kate Newmeyer shares Iditarod lessons for her 5th grade - can you say DNA sequencing?!
Then off to the Outhouse Races where we introduce and present the Red Lantern of the Outhouse Races with the Big Alaska Show Fur Trapper Crapper Trophy! Thankfully presented to a visiting team from Seattle - the "Bob Ross Happy Trees" team!
Plus, we have a Tall Alaska Tale!
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President, Tim Tillman, and Past President, Steve Kari, join us to share an update coming into the 2024 season as they are rebuilding after coming out of the pandemic. The Anchorage Midnight Sons have been in existence since 1968! We even have a Tall Alaska Tale!
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10 years ago Christie jumped at the Polar Bear Jump Off in Seward in memory of Joe Krones' brother, Jimmy. Christie never knew Jimmy or the Krones family. But that's the heart Christie has in the fight against cancer and why she's raised about a quarter million dollars over 21 years of jumps!
Today's show Christie and Joe meet for the first time.
Christie is from Homer and on the rescue team for sea otter and seal pups.
Joe lives in Oklahoma City and is a Barbershop Quartet International Gold Medalist.
Such diverse lives with one thing in common - the Polar Bear Jump Off and the fight against cancer!
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Our Big Alaska Book Review panel features authors and their books, Richard Chiappone, The Hunger of Crows, and Steven Levi, Bonfire Saloon.
Get these 5 Alaskan authors together and you can't help but have fun and laugh - good books too!
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We celebrate our 18th Anniversary of the Big Alaska Show at the 39th Polar Bear Jump Off in Seward, AK! We play clips from past shows at the Jump.
We also have our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, talk about the whales that visit Seward’s rich feeding grounds.
Plus, we have a Tall Alaska Tale!
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It means something extra when Kim Carlson has attendst he annual Polar Bear Jump Off in Seward, AK, as she has done for ten years—raising tens of thousands of dollars. She has dedicated her jumps, first to her mother, who was lost to cancer, and subsequently to other victims and their families.
It was a packed house and a packed show of fun! Alaskans and Texans- in the same room! Only on the Big Alaska Show can such a combination co-exist in the same room.
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