Eddie P: Alaska Media Legend & Host of The Venue

In this episode of It’s Alaska, we sit down with a voice and presence that’s helped shape the rhythm of Alaska’s media and music culture - Eddie P.

Known across the state as the longtime host of The Venue, Eddie P has built a reputation as more than just a media personality. He’s a connector. A curator. A storyteller who has spent years spotlighting Alaska’s artists, events, and underground energy long before it hit the mainstream.

From radio waves to live stages, Eddie P has played a key role in giving local talent a platform and creating space for voices that might otherwise go unheard in a state where distance and exposure are constant challenges.

In this conversation, we go beyond the mic.

We talk about:

•  The evolution of Alaska’s music and media scene 
•  What it really takes to stay relevant in a changing industry 
•  The behind-the-scenes reality of building a long-standing platform like The Venue
•  His perspective on legacy, consistency, and showing up for your community 

Eddie P brings a grounded, real-world perspective - earned through years of experience, relationships, and staying close to the culture.

This episode is about more than media.
It’s about impact.

If you’ve ever wondered how Alaska’s creative scene keeps moving, growing, and surviving… this is part of that story.

Hosted by Brad Erickson.

Filmed and Produced by Upper One Solutions in the U1 Studios.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to this episode of It's Alaska. And uh, well, we haven't had a black person on the show ever, so um I thought, listen, who is the best black person I know? And he couldn't make it, but I got the second best. No, I'm just kidding. I'm like, we need more diversity on this show. Dang it, it's Alaska, and Alaska is diverse. But um I wanted to bring on a guest that uh is been a friend of mine for quite some time. And if you've ever been to an event in Anchorage, how long have you been in in Alaska in Anchorage? Since 81. 81. So at any point, if you've been, if you watch TV or listen to the radio or you've been to an event, you've probably seen or heard or both with Eddie's voice. What are you saying? Um and because I mean you've been a huge part and still is, still are a huge part of Anchorage. But uh, and I know you have an amazing story. That's also um what what I want to talk about today is your amazing story of you and your family coming up here in 1981. Yep. Yeah. What was it like? And especially, I mean, you know, there wasn't probably as much diversity in 81 here than there is now. But what were you doing in the lower 48 before you came here? And then what brought you to Alaska?

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Well, my dad had been here before in the 60s, and he wanted to be military, yes. And he retired in Texas, um, where we were, and um we he said we're moving back to Alaska. And uh at first I said no, how old were you back? Um I think I had already graduated from high school by two years, so I was I was 21 when I got here. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

1920. Well, no, not the year, not 19 or 20 years, yes. Not 1920. That wasn't a good time for a lot of people. No, it wasn't for certain people, and and uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

So so you were about 21 coming up here. Yeah, I got here, I was 21, and um, so my sisters and everybody came, a whole family came up, but we were going to stay in Texas, the kids were. Yeah, and then they said, well, just um you pay for your deal, you make you know, make your own way. It's like, oh, well, Alaska doesn't sound so bad.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Okay, so you're on your own in Texas, no? But if you come to Alaska, exactly, we're uh you know, you're under the family, you're under the family umbrella. Okay. Because I could only imagine you know, even now, people are like, Alaska, you know, well, why would I move up there? You know, obviously it's much different now, but in and then, I mean, what was it?

SPEAKER_01 3:01

You're like, God, well, what am I gonna do in Alaska? I know, and that's exactly what we were thinking. Um, I was just I was one year in college by then, um, and then coming up here, then my sisters and my brother, and it's like, did we really? It's cold and everything. And we we let we got here in November. Yeah, oh yeah, great.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

So you the best time of the year right there. Yeah. So you came up here, I mean, and in the 80s, I mean, you know, if you're in Alaska, you're probably, you know, you work the pipeline or you're mining or you're you know, fishing, or you're doing one of those, one of those few things. Yep. Tourism was a thing, but not nearly what it is now. So you get here and I never worked before.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

So I uh this was my first working experience um here in Alaska. But my What did you do? Well, I I when I first started working, there was a place at University Center called Copper Rivet. Okay. And I worked at Copper Rivet, which was a men's clothing store. Okay. Like Oak Tree and Jeans West and all those places. Yeah. So that was at University Mall when it was a real mall. And uh was a real mall.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

No, we have a lot of malls that really aren't malls anymore. I mean, malls aren't all that popular in 2026. Huge in the 80s, though.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Yep. So that's where I worked at and uh made a lot of good friends and contacts, and um then it closed, and I I worked at cars. Safeway, the grocery store. Yep, yep. I worked at cars in 81. Uh wait, no, 80 something, 82 or 83, I started working at cars in the deli area because they wanted me to bag groceries, and I tried, and they said, Oh no, that's not that's not gonna work.

SPEAKER_00 4:42

You don't put the bread on the bottom, Eddie. Come on, that's common sense. You don't put the canned goods on top of the bread. Oh, and I was bad.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

I was really bad, I didn't know what I was trying to be fast. It's like, nope, okay. So they put me in the deli and they started this program called the We Make It, You Bake It, and it's pizzas. And um, I I helped run that, and it was it was amazing, it was really fun. And I made an announcement one day um in early '85, and a guy just happened to hear it, and his name was John Melke, and he was already on Catch 22 Music Television.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

Oh, really? So he made an announcement over the PA system.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

And I said, Good afternoon, car shoppers. Tonight, why not take home a car super pizza? Super pizzas are made fresh, the car's quality way. And thank you for shopping at cars. And he all these years you remember I do, because I had to say it so many times. Like six or seven times during my shift, I would have to say. And he was sitting there in the protos going, Oh, that voice. Yeah, he literally asked me if I that was me, and I'm still with the phone in my hand because that's how we did it with the little loud.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

And um, so I said, Yeah, that was me. He says, How would you like to audition for television? I said, Oh, well, what show? He said, catch 22. I said, Oh, I know catch 22. So this was in 1985. Yeah. So I I said, Okay, yeah. And he uh, you know, I got hired that night. Really? I was on midnight to six, and it was it was very scary because I had to learn how to put my own self on the air with a button and then make sure I had my audio, which didn't happen on the first round, yeah, and um all that, but it was actually pretty amazing. All the talent that was there. I mean, all the people that you know of now are are doing other things where they were there at catch two.

SPEAKER_00 6:36

What was catch 22?

SPEAKER_01 6:38

It was music television. Music television, okay. It was you can get it by rabbit ears and everything, or it was on Sonic Cable 44, which is now GCI. Yeah. So it was actually pretty fun. What would you do? What was the so tell me how like it was all the 80s music, okay 80s and 90s, and your job was to I was a VJ. VJ? Really? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Just like just like on the radio, but visual. Yeah. And I and it was it was great because they had all the best videos. Aha's take on me, all the Madonna stuff, Michael Jackson, everybody. It was just all the um one of my favorite, what was that? Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the High. Total Eclipse of the Heart, yeah. I love when that used to come on. And they had ABBA, all the all the great artists that we know of now that we love the 80s music, it was right there on that station. Wow. And and it was just amazing.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Now you said now you said your siblings came up, were they younger than you? And you're the oldest. Yep, yep. Now they though when they came up, they had to go to school.

SPEAKER_01 7:39

She or did they or just the just the one had to go to school. That was my younger younger brother, because we're all in our 60s now. So me, my younger, my sister Cece, and then Punchy, they're all real close. So we're the first three years of my mom's life. Your brother's punchy? No, my brother is Tommy. Tommy. My sister Cece, my other sister Punchy, and then Tommy. Is her full name Punchy? No.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

Oh, I didn't think so. Everybody knows her as Punchy, though. She's gonna kill me if she's gonna be a good one. She's the one who gets picked on, obviously. You didn't have a she didn't have a have a brother or sister named Stabby or something like that. No, no. And how how was her experience? Like my sister's yeah, being younger, going to school, and having to, you know, she didn't go to school here.

SPEAKER_01 8:30

My brother is the only one that went to school here. How was he?

SPEAKER_00 8:34

How was his experience?

SPEAKER_01 8:35

It was it was okay, I guess. Yeah. I, you know, yeah, I suppose for whatever reason, he he did all right. Yeah. He was in and out of school. Yeah. He changed two or three times, but that's because we were all spoiled at that time. So we're all spoiled. We were all spoiled.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Reminds me of the show Silver Spoons. Yep. Silver spoons, yes. Pretty much. Well, that's cool. So it's 85, so you're doing this, then then where? Where where does that lead you to?

SPEAKER_01 9:07

I was there until 90 when the show went off the air. Yeah. Um, I was the very last face you saw on Catch 22, and I and I kind of died off the show, literally, but um, it was fake. And I I said, um, I was having a heart attack and everything, and said, somebody call 911, which is a good FAA thing, but um uh I did it anyway, and um it, you know, it went off the air. And the phones were ringing, trying to find and that's when Flavor Flav and Chuck D wrote 911 is a joke because Eddie B didn't get help. I didn't get help. So, and you know, I I didn't hear about that um situation until a few years later when I started working at channel five, and that's when because Jeremy Lansman owned the transmitter to catch 22, and he also owned channel five. So when I started at channel five, he told me about myself. You know what you did was illegal. I said, Oh, really? Well what what did I do? And I didn't even know he knew, but he says that that call 911 on a broadcast station. I said, Oh, oh dear.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

Luckily he didn't Alaska, so nobody really can get away with here that you can other places. I'm not saying it's right. I wouldn't do it in jail. Just saying. So so you continued in in television.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

I did. Um as soon as I started at Channel 5, I started with a show called Well, Carol Shotz had this thing that she used to watch in New York, and um it was called Thrill and Tiller Theater. So we started Thriller and Tiller Theater here. Oh, okay. And that was where you host these scary old movies. Late night. Late night.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

The one that's I've seen lately is the Svengali. Is that one? It was similar to that. And then uh, what's her name? Morgana or Or what's the the girl with a large one?

SPEAKER_01 10:59

That was um who she was on, she was actually on my show. It was um Elvira.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Elvira, that's it. Morgana. I think it's something else. That was a cartoon. Elvira, yes, yes, that's it, yes. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and she hosted stuff too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

So we switched off. Um when I went to LA, I was on her show when she came to Alaska. She was on my show, Thrill and Trill Theater. Oh, wow. Also um Gottfried, Rob, um, what was his first name? Um, you know, Godfried Gilbert Gottfried. Yes, yeah, he was on Thrill and Trilli Theater all the time. So it was it was pretty fun. That was a fun show. And then um we got an offer from Pizza Hut to start a kids' cartoon show to rival Fox.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

Really? So we did. This is all local. This is local, this is local programming. Yeah, back when there was local programming. Now everything's syndicated and and and everything like that. But back when back when public, you know, it was you did a lot of stuff local. Yep, absolutely. Wow, it was fun.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

So we started the call now.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

Now Fox, very popular. It was Fox Four Kids Club. Fox Four Kids Club, and they had you know different names of people that the the people had like Fox names. It was something Fox and whatever Fox was. Yep, yep, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

What was your what was yours? Uh I was Eddie P. Eddie P? I said, I'll do it, but I'm not wearing any costumes, I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that, I'll just be me. And I ended up wearing costumes. Um, no, they didn't, but I didn't want to be the one to do that. So that's why. And but I ended up doing it anyway.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Your love for the furry lifestyle would come later.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Yes, yes. But um, we had great cartoons, and you know, we we just had fun with it. And that lasted for about six years. Wow. With the with the Yes Club for kids. And um, after that ended, um, before it ended, actually, we started with um the box kind of deal, you know, music television on with the box where people would call in and make a request and then the box would play. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yep. So I was doing that too. Wow. Then after all of that in 2000, um, I had already gone from channel five and went over to Fox and CBS when they were together. Yep. And um, I was doing a show over at Godfather's Pizza. And so we used to. Oh, I remember Godfather. We used to love Godfather's Pizza over on Diamond in Old Seaway. Yep, right.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

When they had chains all over the all over the place, almost killed my aunt. She almost choked us on uh on the uh on the godfather's cheese, yes. Oh, good. After a baseball game, we would you know, we'd always go to Godfather's Pizza and the Godfather almost almost took my aunt.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Well, that's not funny.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

No, it's not she left and whatever. But yeah. But Godfather's Pizza, oh if there was one franchise you could bring back, name it. It would be Godfather's Pizza. Godfather's Pizza? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Their pizza was really good. No, I love Godfather's Pizza.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Now I don't know, Remember. Now I franchise. I'm not really a fish person.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

I'm not really a fish person. I I loved Skippers. Skippers were good, yeah. Shaky's was okay, but it wasn't Godfather.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Yeah, I remember Shaky's, yeah. Shaky's Pizza? Yeah. All right, let's bring back Okay, you bring back Shaky's, and uh I'll bring back uh I'll bring back Shaky's, you bring Godfathers. Okay. All right, so you're in this other so you're on this other show now. The venue. The venue. Mm-hmm. Oh, so that's so that's when the venue started, which is still running today. And that started in 2000. 2000.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Oh, 2000. Okay. Started um at Godfather's Pizza. The very first local talent we had on there was Derek Mangrebang. Who's Derek Mangrebang? You don't know, you know Derek. Do I? Yeah, he's in that group Turquoise Boy. Oh, oh, yeah. With Matt Hopper, Brum candles. Yeah. Yeah, that guy. Yeah. So he was the very first one. We made a video for him, um, and we had him on the show, and we played that video a lot. He got very, very popular. Really? He doesn't even want to see the video anymore because he says he doesn't look the same. But I say, You yeah, you still look like that little little.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

None of us look the same from uh from 20, 25 years ago. Yeah. I love when uh you bring up classic artists, like you know, and the and and they come up on stage, and everybody's like, Well, you don't you don't look like you did in '86. And and then I it was colored me bad. And I remember when I brought those guys up, they came up, the first thing they said was like, I you know what, you guys don't look the same either. You know, and it's true. We expect we expect celebrities to look the same when we saw them, you know, in their video or whatever in concert. You know, and then I remember when you brought them up. Yeah. They were at the hotel that I was working at. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But we all change, whether you're a celebrity or just a regular person. It's called black. Yeah, we all age.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

I don't age.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

No, you don't. Black don't crack. Black does not crack. No. And I'm cracking. And I'm not black. So I can I can attest to the black not cracking. Um, it can get ashy, but it does not crack. But that's what I'm saying. Coconut oil. Get out there. So so we're celebrating 26 years of the venue. Yep. This year in August. Wow. That's a long time. What's the key to longevity, especially in especially nowadays, shows are on for a short amount of time, and that's that's that's what they're meant to be. Um you know, especially now with Netflix and Hulu and all these things. You know, series are it may be one long season, or it might be three or four or five seasons, but that's about it. Um, the venue, of course, it's videos and things like that. But what's the key to longevity for you guys?

SPEAKER_01 16:44

I believe it's a combination of several things. One, um, you have to have producers and people that know how to work those things, the cameras and all. I don't know how to do any of that. I recently learned how to use Adobe to create an episode. Oh, nice. But I was still not good at it.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

So uh you're not when it comes to the technical part of it, which it happens. A lot of times, creative, when you're the creative person, the tech part of it, you know, your brain doesn't work a lot. Yeah, my brain doesn't work. The creative part works, the techie part doesn't work.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

It does not work. It's not as yeah. No, I have to really, really practice and really, really I have to do it a lot in order to understand what it is I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 17:24

And I I can do some of it. Problem is if I do too much, I find out that I screw things up and I hear these words. Boy, I've never seen anything like this before. Like I'd never seen anybody do it this poorly or or you know, or not poorly, but I mean like where I I got got us somewhere and they can't get us out. Yeah. Oh yeah, I've done that. And not like like just spilling it on it or anything like that. It's just like, wow, you really screwed this up. I'm like, yeah, I should probably let other people do it.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Yeah, so that's what I did. Um and I must say, right now, I'm very happy us Upper One Studios is doing the venue now. Nice. Um, as of the end of 2025 or mid, yeah, October maybe of um 2025 till now, and hopefully they'll keep going because they are amazing.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

And for the folks that don't know what the venue is, what is the venue?

SPEAKER_01 18:16

The venue is music television from Alaska, and it is local it used to be national artists all over the place, um including um Iggy Azelia, Christina Aguilera, yeah. I remember calling all those people.

SPEAKER_00 18:29

Yeah, I remember seeing like national videos and stuff, which is cool because you know, I mean, what was Saturday night uh what was it, Saturday night videos? Yeah, oh Saturday night videos. That's right, that's right. I mean, we I remember as a kid, we would tape them. Yeah, because we didn't have MTV. We're out, we're in a we're in a farm, you know, we don't have that big CS, you know, big satellite dish that costs a lot of money, and there's no cable networks or anything coming out us. So we had the four or five TV stations and we recorded so we could watch them again. Yep. You know, that's why MTV was so popular. You could watch a video and keep watching them. Exactly. You know, so we had to record all the time. Yes, on a VHS tape, we'd record the hour episode, you know, and hope they played some of the songs that we liked.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Yep. And a lot of times they would, over and over and over. Over and over again, yes. And I've fallen into that a little bit because I try to keep the show as local as possible because um the reason why I started with a lot of the national is because I wanted to encourage the local people to say, Oh, I can do this. And we we had a couple of local ones like um Jared, uh not Jared Woods, because I just got him on, but um Derek Mangerbang, a couple other people that we had that were local artists that did really good videos, um, we had them on the show. And that was to encourage other local people to do the same. And the venue actually started because young people could not get into the clubs to perform where their grandparents could see and all the other stuff. So um I had the permission from Fox at the time to create this program and or have the opportunity to create the program and use that as a platform to get younger people seen on television. Oh, that's great. That's what I did. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, and and now it's it's one of those things we want to put Alaska on showcase, and that's why eventually it became like three or four years ago, it became all local artists. And very rarely would you see a national artist. You'll see people like Snoop Dogg and things like that because they come up here a lot. And he's everywhere, and he's he is everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

The Olympics, you know, hanging out with Martha Stewart. Him and I don't know, I just I was at uh I was at the local Applebee's, and there's a cutout of Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg because they have their own gin. That is why not why not Snoop and Martha have their own gin. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

You know, they're a great parent. No, they are. They really are. It's a great story. I mean, he was he was uh he was a gang gangbanger. I mean, he was, you know, he could have gone to prison and she while she went to jail. Right, honor that group. Out of that group, who is the felon? Martha Stewart. That's awesome. It's a great story. It is a really good story. Oh my gosh. Has it gotten easier? Um, and I'm sure I'm sure it has, but it's gotten easier to get content because now people can shoot videos from their phones, where you know, yeah 15, 20 years ago, you know, you had to have a pretty elaborate camera setup or a shooting crew to shoot a video. Now you can you can do it basically from your phone now.

SPEAKER_01 21:39

And those I try not to encourage people to do that because it's still we have to provide channel two with a certain type of footage. We can't you have to shoot it this way. So the phone, so the phone isn't good enough quality to it can be now that you can turn them sideways. Oh, okay. Um, and shoot them that way, but then you gotta know your object. Audio is right and this, that, and the other. Some people are savvy enough, but not all of them are. So I always have to look and see.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

But um So you record, you'd have to record your audio and then at least bring it in-house to produce it itself. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

And that's that's what we would do for people. Um, other than that, I would have film crew people that would help people out and just not charge them a whole bunch because nobody had money at that time, apparently. But uh now, I mean this now people have money? Yeah, now some people have some form of investment to do it because now they see that it works for people. Yeah. Um, Beneath Atlantis, Emma Hill, um, now Jared Woods, and I didn't know this, I just found out today when I was booking him for coming in for another project. Um, he he's shot in editing right now 12 more videos. Oh wow. And this is from we had him on the show two weeks ago um from you know, from whenever. Yeah, it was a couple weeks ago that he was here. Um, and we shot a video and we had him on the show on the venue and did an interview and all that stuff. And from that he said, Okay, I didn't know it was this simple, and it is. So now he's he's got he's got Upper One Studios doing his music videos.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Well, and content is king too. Now you put your content out there and it can be seen by billions of people. So, you know, you go viral, you know, and things like that, and suddenly, you know, you're you're somebody from Alaska, and suddenly other people see your stuff and they share and they share, and suddenly, wow, you got fans all over the globe.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Yeah, and it's really interesting because channel two has their their um what do you call it? The Zee? What is that? You know, where where people can watch it later. Um and it's it's it's it's escaping me. So I I don't know. You can watch it later? Yeah, yeah, it's their um their thing.

SPEAKER_00 23:57

It's no not simple gathering, it's you know, you have like HBO, you can go into their streaming.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Keep going. I like that. The thing, the thing, their streaming site is um available on the you know, the venue is on there.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

You can consume content at at any point at any time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

So and then and it's also at all the great television stations. Yeah. So when people go on there, they can click on the venue and see it anywhere in the world. Do you have people that are watching? Do you get letters? I know for a fact people in Oxford.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Are people still writing letters? No, they're at AP. No, they're not gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

They send me an email and and they send some of them to the artist that they see on their screen. And then the artist will call me, you know, that my friend over in Japan told me that they I said, yeah, that makes sense to me. Oh, that's cool. So, and it's really cool. So now Upper One Studios has um made it possible for me to even do things on YouTube. Oh, wow. All the videos that I've had in the past, we're gonna eventually load the rest of them up on uh the YouTube thing for the venue.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

The YouTube thing. Yeah, you can I hear it's gonna catch on. If it doesn't get shut down, it's uh it's it's catching on. Yeah. Well, we've had some we've had some pretty big artists uh come out of Alaska, um medium build. Yes, yeah. He's I play his videos all the time too. So and then uh Portugal the man. Yep, and uh there are a few others that are starting to like you said, Emma Hill is some of those are really starting to emerge. Yes, they are. And yeah, I love Emma Hill, she's so amazing, very talented, yeah. I mean, you can find talent and it's the cool thing about like the venue and and other things too is that you can, you know, somebody out in a village, you know, it's a few hundred people, and somebody who just has amazing talent and lives in a village in the middle of nowhere still with certain things can use can show their talent uh from where they're at, and other people around the world can see it. Well, let me just tell you about that a little more. Well, what did we lead into something? Yes, we did. Well, hello.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

You know, the the villages are I I believe my number one fan base. I mean, Anchorage is just a large village. Yeah but you got people um in Tuxut Bay, um in all those places, Bethel, um Uchgyavik, anywhere where there's people, they're watching the venue. And they watch it late night. And they um Byron Nikolai, I don't know if you know who he is. No, who's that? But he's an Alaska native, he's um an amazing artist. He sings, he does all this stuff. And his music videos that we play, we got about seven or eight of them that we rotate. Yeah, they're all done in Yupik and English. He's that talented. He can sing the whole song in Yupik, you know, verse by verse. It's Yupik English, UPI English. It's it's so amazing. And that's not easy. It's not easy.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

I mean, to do it from Spanish to English is very, very hard.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

But Yupik, I mean, that's that's just that guy's that's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 27:04

So he's he's very, very popular um throughout the world. Bamiwa is another group. Oh, that's another one, yes, very talented. Yes. World award winning group. And um, I've even had Portugal the Man on the show. Eric, um, you'll see his interview pretty soon because he was up here recently, and um his interview, it we it's a lot of editing because I just get I I fangirl out a lot.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

So it's fun to see. It's it is fun to see Eddie fangirl out. I hairbag. You're how tall are you? You're six foot? Yes. You're fall, you're taller than six foot. No, I'm not. You sure?

SPEAKER_01 27:44

No, I wear heels.

SPEAKER_00 27:45

I was gonna say, okay. It's my I'm like, you're taller than six foot.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Yeah, you see how they're like, ooh! Yeah, get excited. I know. This big black thing coming at you.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Oh, what is that? Oh, it's just Eddie P. He's okay. He's harmless. That is that is awesome. And uh the venue, when does it uh when does it air? Every Saturday night, right after SNL on channel two. And if I'm an artist and I want to reach out to you or need some help to get a video or or just my music on on the air, how do you do that?

SPEAKER_01 28:18

Just call or send a text on messaging or anything. That's and normally I'm looking for that. When every weekend I look for that. People always refer people, yeah, and I will call them back and I'll let them know. Um there's only there's only a very few things that I can't air on TV. Um, and it's that's the cuss words, of course. I can't air the the naked booties bouncing and and or anything up at the top bouncing around.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

Naked booties bouncing. Everything bouncing probably can't bounce on your book. It's not FCC friendly if if it's bouncing in your video.

SPEAKER_01 28:57

So I mean, and you could probably get away with some of that. Um button.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

Well it can be, it can be it can be you know provocative, yes, but it can't be like in your face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, because this is because there is a difference still between cable and broadcast and broadcast, right?

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Yeah. So I just have to be mindful and I watch all of them. So um, but most of otherwise, I have them as much as I can. And I watch every video before it airs. Um Static Cycle is another one that's right. Yes. Jared um Jared Navarre is with um Pop Weevil, Pop Weevil. Pop Weevil, yeah. Yep, that's who he's with and right now. So I I just think when we get people like that, I air their videos so that people can see that people from Alaska actually do succeed and they do other things in this world.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Oh, and I can't remember his name, and I apologize, but he he was playing with uh one of the Eagles. Um Don Don uh who's the one uh Don Felder, Fen Fendler, Fender for the Eagles, one of the one of the one of the founding members of the uh of the Eagles.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

And he lives here? Yeah. You'd be surprised how many of those celebrity type people live in Alaska.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Yeah, I mean he's from Alaska, and then and they saw I they saw him play somewhere. He would think it was in Nashville. They saw him play and and you know, and it started from there, started playing in bands. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

Yeah, yeah. That's really awesome. And I and I that's why I like Alaska because everybody wants to come here just to see what it's like. And so if we're on on parade the way we should be, and looking good and smelling good, then we're gonna have people coming looking at us all the time. Yeah, if you smell, smell.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

Nobody wants to hang out with us, nobody wants to hang out with a stinky. Yeah. That is awesome. Well, it was a pleasure. I'm so glad you had me on so many years.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Um, do you still have any family living in Alaska? I do. Um, my two sisters are still here. My brother, my brother has a son, um, Donovan, who works for the Anchorage Downtown Partnership. Oh, awesome. And um, my dad is still living. My mother passed away a few years ago um in 2023. So um, but my dad is still a living. Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_00 31:12

So it just shows you, I mean, this is a place Alaska and and Anchorage, especially, is a place for everyone. And I know, I know what gets you know, stereotyped like we're all the black people, you know, comics will come up and whatever. And I'm like, listen, and it is one of it is one of the most diverse cities in the world with all the different Native American and and all the other uh you know uh racial uh types and ethnicities and things like that we have. So yeah, feel comfortable. I'm comfortable, he's comfortable, feel comfortable, we're all comfortable. So come to Alaska and uh and be a part of the fun. Absolutely. Thank you so much for being on the show, man.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Thanks for having me.