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... 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 Alieska.

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,

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