Listen again to your favorites, or discover a gem from yesteryear. Click the READ MORE link and listen up!
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!
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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!
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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.
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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!
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
John McCleary Interview
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!
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.
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:
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.
Today’s Big Alaska Show features our Book Review Section. We pulled excerpts from 3 interviews that spotlight remarkable people that made a major impact on Alaska’s history.
Willie Hensley with a Fifty Miles From Tomorrow
Vic Fischer with To Russia With Love
Steve Levi with Cowboys of the Sky.
To hear more of the interviews with these authors, visit our Big Alaska Show Book Review Section:
Actor/Meteorologist, Robert Forgit, and his acting coach, Mary McCusker, from LA join us! Robert attributes working with Mary key to getting a major role in the movie, “The Frozen Ground”, with Nicholas Cage and John Cusack. Mary came to Alaska to work on the movie “Big Miracle” and fell in love with it. Plus, Mary discusses her new book, Auditioning: What They Say When You Leave the Room. (See Book Review Section)
Taken in the makeup trailer during the filming of “Big Miracle”, Mary wears this original coat from cast member Ahmao Sweeney's grandmother, an Inupiat native Alaskan. Mary developed a special relationship with the Native Alaskan cast, and as Mary said, “I fell in love with Alaska!”
We recall a longtime Thanksgiving tradition, the Great Alaska Shootout, and revisit the first UAA basketball team, the Sourdoughs!
Sara Juday, author of From Sourdoughs to Seawolves discusses the first University of Alaska Anchorage basketball team.
When Chad Carpenter, creator of Tundra Comics, joins us, you know it’s going to be fun!
With the Pandemic, political campaigns, plus last week’s show that dealt with the tragic suicide epidemic in our military- we needed comic relief!
Joining Chad are authors, Stan Jones and Chris Lundgren. Look for their books in our Book Review Section.
Founder and president of VIPER, Kyle Kaiser joins us along with Gary Olson to discuss the epidemic afflicting our military.
22 veterans committee suicide every day. VIPER stands for Veteran Internships Providing Employment Readiness, a program that is catching attention nationwide.
Kyle discuss reasons and VIPER’S solutions for ending this suicide tragedy. For more information visit https://vipertransitions.com/
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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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