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Two Martinis and a Microphone: Dear Senator Sullivan...How?
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19:38We ask Alaska's United States Senator Dan Sullivan how his proposals will benefit Alaskans.
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Nobody Home: Timber, steel and tourism. Two martinis and a recipe. Be curious. Alaska Summer Travel Showcase is coming.
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31:15Talk of bringing timber and steel back to the U.S. defy reality. Scott McMurren on the Alaska Travel Showcase. A book on curiosity and our own martini recipe.
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Two Martinis and a Microphone: Where the hell is Chaz Palminteri?
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7:17Anxiety? Anger? Where the hell is Chaz Palminteri? A special visualization technique to help you cope during these trying times.
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Knowing Without Knowing: The problematic predictability of Alaska's perpetual problems
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22:56Please don't tell me...layoffs, budget cuts, low oil prices, more out of state workers, gridlock on improving education and no political leadership. Same song, different verse.
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North Slope Gas? Fiber Optic Cable and Data Centers
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19:20Amidst a sea of gas pipeline delusions, we offer something that monetizes gas and adds value to Alaska.By Andrew Halcro
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Tailored Blazers, argyle socks, Dallas Seavey and Kikkan Randall
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1:05While we take a work break, Andy Miller sings "If I were Andrew Halcro"...and I'm taking his advice.By Andrew Halcro
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Fake gas pipelines and homesteaders: Money for nothing and your checks for free. Travel in 2025 what you should know.
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48:04The highest paid state executive in Alaska wants us to believe that a gas pipeline is near, just as the legislature considers pulling the plug. Is Alaska being coopted by the same people we used to criticize? Scott McMurren tells us what travelers need to know in 2025.
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Governor Dunleavy's Budget: A straw man in a burning field
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26:54Governor Mike Dunleavy rolls out his budget that's built on a combination of fantasy and deficit spending.
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The downtown transit center is dead, long live the downtown transit center: Trouble returns.
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7:45In two martinis and a microphone...the re-opening of the downtown transit center raises questions about the safety and the future of the building.
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Ranked Choice Voting & Dunleavy stick around: What's that mean for 2026?
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23:35Ranked choice voting is saved by less than 700 ballots cast out of 320,000. Governor Mike Dunleavy is stiffed on a position with Trump. What does that mean for the 2026 gubernatorial race? Also five book suggestions for Christmas giving.By Andrew Halcro
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The hand that feeds you: How big business will trump Trump's agenda.
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28:33While President-elect Trump has announced strong positions on everything from tariffs and immigration to health, the economy and big money won't let these happen.
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Sixty percent of new jobs created in Alaska during 2022 were filled by non-resident workers as the working age population declines. Are we even a serious state anymore?By Andrew Halcro
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The story of a mayor who should never fly first class.By Andrew Halcro
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Andrew offers his thoughts on politics after two martinis.
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Election Autopsy: Worried about being broke not woke
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22:19American's want a sharper focus on the economy and immigration, and Alaskans appear conflicted.By Andrew Halcro
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Election Special: Judge Adolf Zeman has something to say. We talk politics...GCI political donations and quarterly earnings. Jim Minnery is a pimple on the ass of democracy. What we're looking for on Tuesday ...
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40:01We welcome Judge Adolf Zeman to discuss his appointment and retention process. We discuss how Alaska's largest telecom company used to be focused on the future of Alaska instead of quarterly earnings. Right wing bomb thrower Jim Minnery is a pimple on the ass of democracy. Election day thoughts,By Andrew Halcro
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We interview Juli Lucki from the No on Two campaign, and Ethan and I discuss the politics.By Andrew Halcro
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Peltola crushes the primary. The slapstick comedy of Costello and McKay. Satchel Page pitches Anchorage. Captain James Cook over stays his welcome.
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33:27Alaska’s congressional representative Mary Peltola dominates the primary. Mia Costello comes back from the dead in Sand Lake. Captain James Cook provides a precautionary tale of over staying your welcome. Satchel Page pitches the Anchorage Earthquakers.By Andrew Halcro
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Justices rule on education funding: Stopping the full court spin
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11:57The Alaska Supreme Court issued a ruling about the long running question about public money going to private schools and it's not what you think.
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Tony Soprano's rules for travelling and ASD's Academic Academies hold great potential
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17:59The Anchorage School District rolls out Academic Academies which hold great potential. Tony Soprano stops by to give us our thoughts on air travel today.By Andrew Halcro
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LaFrance taps her APD Chief: Was the boys club thwarted?
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10:34Mayor-elect Suzanne LaFrance named a new Anchorage Chief of Police after out going Mayor Dave Bronson attempted an end run. Was the boys clubs denied their pick?By Andrew Halcro
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Suzanne LaFrance picks her team. Art Mathias is a religious con artist down $94k. Two books for your summer reading list.
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19:37Mayor elect Suzanne LaFrance announces her management team. Con man Art Mathias and his religious radicalism owes $94k in fines. Two book suggestions for your summer reading list.By Andrew Halcro
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Project Anchorage: AEDC's Jenna Wright explains it all
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9:16AEDC President & CEO speaks about the Project Anchorage initiative and what it could mean to the future of Anchorage.By Andrew Halcro
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Herding Cattle at Sea-Tac: Is airline customer service dead?
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23:47Airline travel through Sea-Tac has become insufferable. Is customer service in the airline industry dead? Scott McMurren answers the question.By Andrew Halcro
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Project Anchorage: Is the latest local sales tax proposition worthy?
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22:12We debate a initiative entitled Project Anchorage to sell voters on a 3% sales tax that would lower property taxes and create new revenue for local projects.By Andrew Halcro
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The top three things Anchorage can expect from a new city government
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16:06Anchorage Assembly Chair Chris Constant lists the top three things that Anchorage will see from its new city government and we offer our commentary.By Andrew Halcro
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Bon Voyage Bronson: Analysis and the five top reasons he lost from our AI Translator.
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10:43Voters throw Mayor Dave Bronson out of City Hall and we have analysis. Also we offer you the top five reasons why he lost in a landslide.
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The silencing of Alaskans by Dunleavy. Public education funding has become a play toy. The pop tart movie is delicious. Our travel guru has contrary opinions on hotel hot tubs.
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26:10Alaskans are losing their ability to speak and participate in government under Governor Mike Dunleavy. The new pop tart movie on Netflix is delicious. Scott McMurren has thoughts on hot tubs. Why has education funding become a play toy?By Andrew Halcro
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Court slaps Dunleavy silly. LaFrance talks school closures. Hotel hot tubs? An amazing novel for you to read.
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22:50The court slaps back on Governor Dunleavy's education response. Suzanne LaFrance talks about the future for closed schools. Our AI Translator gives our thoughts on hotel hot tubs. A new novel you will love.By Andrew Halcro
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Alaska's education ruling: What comes next for 20,000 students? Also...La Traviata is coming to Anchorage.
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15:48We analyze the recent court ruling and talk about the what's next. We review La Traviata coming to Anchorage April 26-28.By Andrew Halcro
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Alaska's bombshell education ruling: 3 things you should know
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10:41In ten minutes we ask Scott Kendall to tell us three things you should know about the recent bombshell ruling on education that was predicted ten years ago.
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Suzanne LaFrance: Nine minutes with the next Mayor of Anchorage
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11:18We spend nine (maybe ten) minutes with mayoral frontrunner Suzanne LaFrance about her vision for Anchorage.
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Dunleavy's got a poll problem. LaFrance consolidates. Bronson's Hail Mary. The day the Beatles came to town.
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25:09The governor's new poll is not what he thinks. Suzanne LaFrance begins to consolidate support. Mayor Bronson's APD Hail Mary. Anchorage's day of the Beatles.
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Election Results: Hell no to the mayor. Hell yes to the city and school board. Also...food we loved as kids but hate as adults.
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19:24Anchorage Votes!!! Hell no mayor! Hell yes city and school board! Plus...food we loved as kids but hate as adults.By Andrew Halcro
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Bronson's fiscal crisis and failing campaign. Prisons get Benjamins while education gets Jack. To pee or not to pee? Travel tips you should know.
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26:24Anchorage's latest Bronson emergency and we look behind the mayor's failing campaign. Why are we spending more guarding prisoners than educating kids. Scott McMurren with travel tips. Our AI translator claps back at the Lisa Murkowski haters.
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Anchorage: A city in decline or a city just fine?
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8:57In ten minutes we debate whether Anchorage is a city on decline or a city that's doing just fine.By Andrew Halcro
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The K-12 Horror Show: Bullying, threats and a fabricated education study, Also...the downtown parking fairies, a love letter to my fellow Costco shoppers, we're poetry slamming in April
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27:43The Alaska Legislature fails to override Governor Mike Dunleavy's veto of education funds. The history of the downtown parking fairies. April is National Poetry Month and we're slamming. A love letter to Costco shoppers from my alter ego.By Andrew Halcro
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Teacher Accountability? What about Alaska’s fu*k up parents?
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12:55Alaska has the highest rates of fu*cked up people having kids per capita in the nation so why do blame teachers for their failures?
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Alaska’s business groups & seniors: Get it together people!
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18:29Alaska business groups are failing business and seniors rank 2nd in the nation in rates of Gonorrhea and 3rd in the nation in Chlamydia in the 55+ demographic. We talk education, what happens when you become mayor and a book about Siskel and Ebert.
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Turo has constantly fought attempts to enforce the law to ensure it's Alaska hosts are collecting legally required taxes. However those footsteps its Alaska hosts hear are the tax man coming for them...not Turo.
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Rapper 50 Cent predicts Alaska education cuts. The history of Anchorage drive-in theatres.
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16:39We take a cue from rapper 50 Cent as to why Governor Dunleavy will veto over half of the education funding increase. Anchorage had drive-in movie theatres...what happened to them?
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Is the Alaska Chamber of Commerce strangling Alaska's commerce?
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6:13In six minutes we argue that the Alaska Chamber of Commerce is working against the interest of Alaska business community.By Andrew Halcro
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The legislative proposal that would kill Alaska. We visit the Writer's Block Bookstore and Cafe
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21:26We discuss the effort to enshrine the annual dividend in the constitution. We celebrate the legislature's education heroes. Also...have you been to the Writer's Block Bookstore and Cafe? We have and we loved it!By Andrew Halcro
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Selling tourists on moving to Alaska: Chasing wind
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5:48With 20,000 fewer working age adults in Alaska over the last ten years, some have suggested we market to tourists to move to Alaska. In six minutes we share our realities and thoughts.By Andrew Halcro
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The mayor's race. What to know if you're traveling soon. The opera is coming.
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22:48We talk mayor's race and how the pack mentality in Juneau can be fatal. Scott McMurren pulls by to tell you three things you need to know if you're traveling in the next ninety days. The opera for beginners is coming to Anchorage in April.By Andrew Halcro
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Found in translation: Murkowski's message to Juneau
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3:24In less than four minutes we feed the official text of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's annual address to the Alaska State Legislature into the podcast's own AI translator and you gotta hear the results.
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Quick Hit: Why is a state board of education member sabotaging public schools?
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6:35In six minutes we debunk a study that some lawmakers and a member of the State Board of Education are promoting regarding Alaska's school funding commitment.
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With All Due Respect Reboot: Alaska's education crisis, British tele, volunteers in Alaska
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26:07The debate on education funding, risky behavior by the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation and 11 straight years of nothingness. Volunteering at your local school is a great gig. British tele streaming services you can afford and a book you can't afford not to read while watching your British tele streaming services.…
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Alaska's Education Funding: Intentional neglect and hypocrisy
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5:46Five minutes on the debate in Juneau over education funding.
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A friend of the podcast stops by to discuss our new reboot.By Andrew Halcro
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