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Welcome to the show. In this one I talked to Mitch Kitter, the co-owner of the studio,

a photography studio in Anchorage, Alaska that specializes in high school senior photos.

He also works in cybersecurity and recently completed his MBA at the University of Alaska

Anchorage. He's 34 years old and in the winter of 2019 he was diagnosed with leukemia.

The only indication that something wasn't right were frequent nose bleeds that ran for about

an hour or two each day for a month. After visiting a doctor to get his blood tested

there were signs of blood cancer and because of the aggressive type he needed to be metavacked

to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. By supporting crude you make it possible to produce stories

like the recent series by author and journalist Kay Jared Mayer. It's about Alaskan resilience

during the COVID-19 pandemic. In it Jared talks to a musician, a chef, a bar owner, and a sex worker,

in order to understand how the service industry in Anchorage has been affected.

Here's Jared with the first paragraph from Bruce Neverbeaten, a story of Alaska spirit,

Part Two, The Saloon.

Chilcoot Charlie's, perhaps better known as Coots. Either name immediately conjures vivid imagery.

The cabin-like etched exterior, beer keg stools and stools that look like half split logs,

saw dust and wood chip covered floors. Perhaps you think of the stage by the long bar on the north side

where local comics and bands perform. Maybe you think about the blue lit room to the right of

the main entrance, where the bar itself generates a coat of ice across its surface.

No doubt some lines will leap immediately to the birdhouse, with its sloped floors and where the

walls and ceiling are covered in the underwear of the drunken daring. Coots has long been a staple

in Anchorage's midtown, sprawling out next to the big windmill on Spanard. Its walls filled to the

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