Tundra Comics and Tree Houses!

Want to get to know Alaska? Hang with the locals! Tundra Comics Creator Chad Carpenter is back! The Pandemic changed how he's doing some things but not his sense of humor. Over 600 newspapers carry his cartoon panels. And now he's added a bunch more in the digital world. We catch up on the latest with Chad.

For more information visit Chad's links:
www.patreon.com/tundracomics,
www.tundracomics.com

Plus, check out his tree house he built for his son!

Big Alaska Show Historian!

Stories of Alaska's history are some of our favorites. Steve Levi has them. As Steve says, "If you do not have something unique, you have nothing." Steve puts his words where his books are.  Check out these websites for his books: https://authormasterminds.com/steve-levi and on our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section: http://www.bigalaskashow.com/book-reviews/cowboys-in-the-sky-steve-levi

To find more information visit
https://authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

Listen to our podcast interviews with these two BIG ALASKANS!

Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist!

Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist!

Visitors to Alaska bring much appreciated revenues and we meet some interesting people. Joel T. Rutherford from Texas is bringing his family to Alaska for a vacation. And he’s a member of a gold medal winning quartet,  Acoustix, https://www.acoustix.com/. Better yet, Joel is our Big Alaska Show Guest Tourist and we play Tall Alaska Tales with him (where we’re eligible to win our own prizes- hence, “better yet!”).

 Tall Alaska Tale

Since the Rutherfords are going to Seward and go through Moose Pass, we thought our Tall Alaska Tale appropriate. You’ll find that here and our interview with Joel.

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Seward sits in beautiful Resurrection Bay, a charming, rich in marine-life community and home of the Alaska SeaLife Center.

Here’s a short, nifty description by its CEO/President, Tara Riemer.

Seward: Mural Capital of Alaska

Local Seward artist, Dot Bardarson, tells us about a unique feature about Seward:  murals!

Check it out the walking tour! Seward murals 

Special Tribute

My cousin’s daughter, Hannah, had a baby and named her middle name after my dad, Max Farrand Stripling. We thought we would welcome Annie Farrand Weatherford into the world in our very own Big Alaska Show way!

Full Show Podcast!

We’re Back Live!

Our last live show was March 2020 right after the Iditarod started. Then Lockdown.

Last minute we were granted access to the studio, 6/26/21!

Dr. Carrie Goertz from the Alaska SeaLife Center talked about the endangered Beluga Whales.

Visit the Alaska SeaLife Center website, it’s fantastic! www.alaskasealife.org

Our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, share whale stories.

https://youtu.be/l3iGqMaKaWo

https://youtu.be/4j27xy5qYBg 

https://youtu.be/Q8iDcLTD9wQ

Whales Without Borders on Facebook

We spiced things up with our Deadliest Catch Myth Buster, Mike Ferris, and another Close Call. The saucy description featured a lot from our Big Alaska Show Censors!

Listen to the full podcast!

MEMORIAL DAY WE HONOR VIPER END 22!

Kyle Kasier and Gary Olson are at war with suicide in our veterans! They have a great weapon- VIPER!

VIPER, Veteran Internships Providing Employment Readiness, was created to fight the epidemic of 22 suicides that happen every day to our, mostly young, military men and women.

This innovative program provides training and education to transition veterans leaving the military into civilian life.

Often skills learned in the military are not readily transferable to civilian life making the transition scary and feeling hopeless.

This puts these people at risk for taking their lives. VIPER provides a way out and a path towards an exciting career.

 Alaskans should be proud. Because VIPER started in Alaska and it’s catching on including outside Alaska!

Meet some of the VIPER volunteers and others supporting VIPER!

Hear the podcast!

THE PLANE!

Here is the plane intern veterans will restore to fly veterans to fishing spots in Alaska!

https://vipertransitions.com/

Mama Moose Drama and RVs!

Mama Moose Drama and RVs!

Dana DeBernardi, founder of Moose Mamas. www.moosemamas.org, helped us out reunite a calf with its mother! Mama moose is maternal and can be downright dangerous when it comes to protecting her babies!  Dana talks to us about it!

 RV Tips with Ask Henry!

It’s RV season and Henry answers some RV questions from listeners.  Henry will be appearing over the summer with some RV tips and products to make our RV-ing experiences more enjoyable!

Hear the podcast!

Alaskan Biker Show!

Alaskan Biker Show!

May is Motorcycle Awareness Month and we celebrate with our biker friends!

Who better to talk about safety and riding smart than our Alaska Biker Women!

Hear the show!

Alaska Motorcycle Adventures!

For those with friends coming to Alaska that want to rent motorcycles meet our friends Marcus and Michelle Munro of Alaska Motorcycle Adventures, www.akmotoadv.com

Check out their interview about their company.

Deadliest Catch Myth Buster Birthday!

We enjoy celebrating birthdays, especially with Mike Ferris our Deadliest Catch Myth Buster. We pulled out the stops!

Happy Hands Birthday Greeting, Close Calls on the Bering Sea, history, Rotary projects, Tall Alaska Tale, shameless advertising- (did we mention shameless advertising?).

Plus, the man has stories! We’re talking Close Calls on the Bering Sea! We suspected his wife and mother knew a little about these close calls, but not the full details.

Which makes sense. He can share those details now without stressing them out since he’s out of harm’s way. Although once they hear the full details, Mike might not survive their wrath!

 Hear the show podcast – sans commercials!

Alaska Enterprise Solutions, www.aesalaska.com

Hummingbirds Arrive! Nature’s Fighter Pilots and Dr. Gordon Snyder!

Perhaps the most underrated creature in nature, hummingbirds migrate 3,500 miles during the winter. Their high-tech construction allows them to maneuver like a helicopter with precision.
Our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, takes us through a tutorial why he thinks they’re so amazing. Gordon posted videos he took with his iPhone of hummingbirds in slow motion.

Hummingbirds in Alaska?! Not only Southeast Alaska but even Southcentral and that never happens. Wrong!

Our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, shares science and biology insights to give a better bird’s eye view about hummingbirds.

Find out how remarkable and surprisingly fierce these creatures are and why Gordon calls them “nature’s fighter pilots!

Listen to the Full Podcast!

YouTube Videos

Amazing Anna's Hummingbird in Slow Motion Flight

https://youtu.be/VECn9hGMI2Q

Anna's Hummingbird sipping from feeder in Slow Motion

https://youtu.be/gEC4Afn8VcU

Young Male Anna's Hummingbird doing his best to stay in video frame.

https://youtu.be/stSf60Actjk

For more of Gordon’s pics and videos:

https://www.facebook.com/drgordonsnyder

BIG ALASKA SHOW BOOK REVIEW!

Guest authors, Lolo Paige and Chris Lundgren, join us to share some stories about their books.

Plus, they help introduce interview clips of authors and their books found on our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section.

These authors, books and interviews can be found here:

Steve Levi,  Cowboys of the Sky

Mike Gordon, Learning the Ropes: An Alaskan Memoir

Andy Hall, Denali’s Howl: The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak

Chris Lundgren, 

Accidental Adventures: True Tales of Ordinary People Facing Danger in the Wilderness

Lolo Paige,  Alaska Spark

1964 Alaska Earthquake!

Good Friday, 5:36 pm, 1964, a 9.2 earthquake struck. Alaskans share their experiences with us!

Check out the full podcast sans commercials. We’ll be posting more individual interviews but wanted to get the full podcast up right away!

The 2019 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail!

The 2019 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail!

Education is BIG for the Iditarod and delivers a strong dose to pass on to students around the world.

Brian Hickox, the 2019 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail, reflects on his incredible experience and life’s lessons from the Iditarod to share with students.

 Plus, Iditarod Children Book Author, Dennis Vecera, musher Dallas Seavey and even a Tall Alaska Tale! So much value, so cheap! How can we do it you ask? Easy. We drive crummy cars!

Listen to the full podcast!

Brian Hickox Interview only 3-20-21!

Brian Hickox interview in 2019 before he hit the trail!

Iditarod History, Stories and a Tall Alaska Tale

The Iditarod commemorates the 1925 Serum Run to Nome. Author and historian, Steven Levi, joins us to share interesting history stories about that Serum Run that saved Nome.

He also talks more about his book The Human Face of the Alaska Gold Rush,  http://www.bigalaskashow.com/book-reviews/the-human-face-of-the-alaska-gold-rush-by-steve-levi

Co-host, Mike Ford, shares his first broadcast experience in 1980 in Nome. Classic!

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Plus, we have a Tall Alaska Tale about Colonel Norman Vaughn!

Link to Tall AK Tale Page

Alaskan Biker Women!

These women return for more biker women talk! They talk trips, events, fashions, tell stories and cut up. Great women’s biker fun!

Listen to the podcast!

Previous Big Alaska Show Alaskan Biker Women podcasts:

May is Motorcycle Awareness Month

Alaska Aviation and Women Bikers

Alaska Book Reviews!

We feature our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section. Author, Marc Cameron, talks about his book Open Carry.

Lolo Paige joins us as well. We featured her book, Alaska Spark, in an interview last year that you can find that podcast and book at:

Big Alaska Show book review - Lola Paige

Lots of good things have happened for Lolo since and she shares that with us in today’s show. Plus, she has a new book coming out soon,

Alaska Inferno. We’ll keep you posted!

 We also include a clip interview with author, Chris Lundgren, whose book, Accidental Adventures Alaska: True Tales of Ordinary People Facing Danger in the Wilderness, you can find with the full interview at:

Book review interview with Chris Lundgren

 Marc Cameron’s book, Open Carry, and podcast interview can be found on our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section.

Visit: The Big Alaska Show Book Review - Open Carry

 Listen to our full show podcast with Marc, Lolo and Chris sans commercials!

Iditarod and Fur Rondy Updates!

Iditarod CEO, Rob Urbach, and Executive Director, John McCleary, update us on the progress of the Iditarod and the Fur Rondy.

The Serum Run of 1925 was creative thinking that saved Nome from a Diphtheria outbreak. The Iditarod honors that event, but this year takes its inspiration from it.

Rob takes us behind the scenes what this Iditarod looks like and the creative thinking to safely pull off another Iditarod.

Executive Director of the Anchorage Fur Rondy, John McCleary, updates us on the progress and the creative ways this year’s Fur Rondy will be different.

 Rob Urbach Interview

www.iditarod.com

 John McCleary Interview

www.furrondy.net

15th Anniversary!

Steve and Mike with 2018 best radio show award

We celebrate our 15th Anniversary the same way we celebrated our first-

in Seward, AK for the 36th Polar Bear Jump for the American Cancer Society.

Covid changed this year’s Jump. But we’re still honoring the ACS of Alaska and our 15th Anniversary playing clips from the past.

We only scratched the surface but it’s a fun show! Seward, AK we look forward to seeing you in 2022!

Kurt and MJ Riemann Unplugged!

For over 40 years Surreal Studios, a recording studio in Anchorage, AK, has been creating and delivering quality work for the Alaska market. Kurt and MJ share experiences from Surreal Studios’ 40 year history.

Last week we aired our Christmas show, hosted by Kurt Riemann featuring Alaskan musicians from Kurt’s Merry Christmas From Alaska series.

The Big Alaska Christmas Show

 This week it’s just them. Kurt and MJ Riemann unplugged. Grab a cup of jo and start your day off the right way!

Here’s Surreal Studios website:

www.surrealstudios.com

Merry Christmas From Alaska 2020!

It’s our Merry Christmas From Alaska special edition of the Big Alaska Show!

Kurt and MJ Riemann

Hosted by Kurt Riemann of Surreal Studios, Kurt takes us behind the scenes of his Merry Christmas From Alaska series that features Alaskan musicians playing Christmas and holiday favorites.

Kurt’s wife, M.J. Riemann, Melissa Fischer, Robert Clink, Hobo Jim, Michael More, Marlene Bateman, and more.

Great way to start your Saturday morning: 9:05a-10a, KFQD 103.7 FM /750 AM, and streamed at www.kfqd.com.