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Mike Ferris is back from commercial fishing and it's not pretty! A tough business and Mike tells it like it really is like to commercial fish in Alaska.
You want a physical and mental challenge? Try commercial fishing in Alaska! Or you can enjoy our podcast and be grateful Mike is telling the story and not you!
It's a fun, informative show when we get these two together on the Big Alaska Show!
Award winning author, Lolo Paige and our Science Guy, Dr. Gordon Snyder, join us to talk about Lolo's new romance novel, Alaska Inferno, and talk about overland wild fires.
Plus, our show started with an equipment glitch that we left in the full podcast. Or you can bypass it to go to our interview with Lolo and Gordon and find her book in our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section!
Happy Birthdays!
Our record setting "attempt" at the largest Big Alaska Show birthday celebration!
Women and Alaska Aviation!
Carol Zerbe has over 20 years as an Alaska bush pilot. She's also an instructor, an examiner, a business owner, actively involved in aviation non-profits that promote women in aviation and she's a mom! Whew-I got carpal tunnel just typing that! Plus, she's a joy just to talk to. Fun interview. We even played a Tall Alaska Tale with Carol! Alaska was built on aviation and women have played a major role! Carol is one of them! Listen to the full show or just Carol's interview.
Carol's company Northbound Flying Service Website
Women in Aviation Last Frontier Chapter
Alaska Airmen's Association website
Check out our Tall Alaska Tale!
Click here to listen to our Alaskan women aviators Tall Alaska Tale
You can join the fun and let us know what you think!
http://www.bigalaskashow.com/contact
Power Player of the Week!
Ken Coston, president of Alaska Bikers Advocating Training and Education (ABATE), gives a quick update on Christmas in July, an annual program where ABATE and the motorcycle community delivers toys to kids in hospitals in Alaska. Ken's been helping lead ABATE to the next level!
Here's the Full Show!
More Texan Visitors!
July 17, 2021
As our Big Alaska Show Guest tourist, Joel T. Rutherford and his family visited our great state. Originally from Canada, Joel and Heather relocated to the Dallas area to expand their musical careers and raise a family. In a short week they packed every moment with as much Alaska fun as they could. What a blast they had! You can listen to Joel's tourist report and his attempt at our Tall Alaska Tale that takes place in Moose Pass. There's quite an interesting and unique history that takes place here - or does it?! Check out our interview with Joel and the Tall Alaska Tale!
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!
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.
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!
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
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!
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!
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!
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.
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Read MoreWe 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
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!
YouTube Videos
Amazing Anna's Hummingbird in Slow Motion Flight
Anna's Hummingbird sipping from feeder in Slow Motion
Young Male Anna's Hummingbird doing his best to stay in video frame.
For more of Gordon’s pics and videos:
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
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!
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!
Brian Hickox Interview only 3-20-21!
Brian Hickox interview in 2019 before he hit the trail!
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!
Author, Steve Levi, is a great story teller and makes Alaska history fascinating. His description from his book of Alaska’s Gold Rush(es) is nothing like a John Wayne movie!
Talking gold was perfect timing for Valentine’s Day. We had the Anchorage Midnight Sons A Cappella Chorus join us to have some fun and promote their LOVE LINK.
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These women return for more biker women talk! They talk trips, events, fashions, tell stories and cut up. Great women’s biker fun!
Previous Big Alaska Show Alaskan Biker Women podcasts:
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!
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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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