Well, I hope you're all real happy with yourselves. I did it. I finally did a podcast with my dad. I went to his house first thing Monday morning,

set up all the audio equipment in his living room, slammed like three cups of coffee and had a conversation with him.

Most of the stories I've heard of my dad and those Wild West days of Alaska have come from

other people.

He's never been one to regale his family with war stories.

Don't get me wrong, he'll talk some shit for sure.

But the underlying message has always been about present experience and teaching.

As anyone close to him will tell you, one of his many Scott Liska

quotables is I'm trying to teach you something. One of the reoccurring themes we

talk about in this podcast is local businesses and why it's important for the community to support them.

How in the best of situations they're the backbone of local community because they provide a sense

of place and a real feeling of culture and belonging. Such was the case with my dad's snowboard and skateboard shop borderline.

There was the retail end of things and then there was everything else.

The snow and skate competitions, the indoor skate parks, and of course the summer camp up in the

glacier bowl at Alleesca.

If you were a part of this time, chances are it holds a very special place in your heart.

I know it does for me. It's how I met most of my oldest friends. It gave me my identity and a lot of my most formative experiences.

All right, so on to the company men. Shout out to Trina Dober, Seward Brewing Company, David North,

Crystal Liska, Derek Adolf, and the newest company man, Blue and Gold Board Shop.

Shout out to Blue and Gold, which I think this is very, it's very fitting

that Blue and Gold came in at this episode because I wanted to focus on local businesses and the importance of them to the community as I said earlier.

So shout out to Blue and Gold for coming in at that company man tier. So who are the company man you might ask?

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