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Speaker 3:And good morning, Juno. K I n y ninety four point nine FM and always 800. It is Wednesday problem corner, and I'm Jess Miller hanging out y'all from the Goldblood Tram studio, and I'm joined again by Devin Stickler.
Speaker 4:Good morning.
Speaker 3:Good morning, Devin. It is definitely a brisk fall day. It was a little foggy today and we were just talking before we got on air that fall just kind of hit on us. It just came out of nowhere and it's like, all right, here's a little taste of summer and then bam.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Little, little taste of summer. Little, tiny bit.
Speaker 3:It was like a week and a half.
Speaker 4:Yeah, here's a couple of weeks. That's all. That's all you get.
Speaker 3:But yeah, we kind of got some stuff to talk about. Obviously, the electors are over and if you guys did not get your ballot in yesterday, I'm sorry for you. But yeah, definitely it was a tight, tight race, especially for that District 2 seat. News of the North was covering it, so I'm not gonna go too far in-depth on that, but you guys could always go to CBJ's website if you wanna see the unofficial preliminary results. All you gotta do is go to juno.org/newsroom, and then you can find all that stuff if you wanna check it out yourself.
Speaker 4:Yes. I'm so glad to. Hopefully move away from that conversation today. I know it's been a hot topic on so many people's minds. But now being on the other side of it, I'm hoping that we can kind of lighten up the show a little bit today.
Speaker 4:Maybe have some I want some people to share some little details with us, maybe some spooky details.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. Since it is I was trying to tease yesterday a little bit during the program and say, hey, we're in spooky season now. What are some Juno traditions? What are some of your own traditions for Halloween? Do you have an issue with Halloween?
Speaker 3:Could also talk about that. But yeah, we all know that Juno's got some haunted history to it. And honestly, the most notable one is always the Alaskan Hotel. Yes. But there's also all the mine shafts around town that some folks have noted that they've experienced spooky things hanging out around hanging out in them or around them.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And yeah. So if you have your own
Speaker 5:paranormal experience That's what I wanna hear today.
Speaker 3:Definitely give us a call. We'd love to hear your spooky ghost stories. Or if you feel like you have a benevolent spirit that's constantly in your life, we'd also like to hear from that. So give us a call. The phone lines are open, (907) 586-1800.
Speaker 3:Or you could always shoot us an email at k I n y radio dot com. Some of my Halloween traditions, obviously, has always been, like, car pumpkin carving and doing that kind of thing.
Speaker 6:I didn't I had kind of a
Speaker 3:not a dry Halloween tradition growing up, but I I feel like looking back at it, it wasn't I didn't have a whole lot of Halloween activities growing up. Was always pumpkin carving. And then my mom always decorated a little bit and she had few things and a blow inflatable and had some spooky lights going on and
Speaker 4:Yeah. I've I you know, trick or treating was one thing for me, but I've I'm always I've always been a homebody. And so I trick or treating was fun. Usually my friends had to like come over and get me because I just wasn't super interested in going and being outside and be I mean, I love being outside but just like being cold and dressed up and, you know, you there always was those outfits, you know, like I wanted to wear the princess dress, but you either had to wear your snow boots
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 4:With the princess dress. I'm you probably never had to deal with the princess dress. No. But the snow boots didn't go with the princess dress. The coat over my princess dress didn't work.
Speaker 4:I might as well not even go. Yeah. Might as well not even go.
Speaker 3:Long johns were always my best friend trick or treating. Like, obviously, at my costume through the year, was always either like superheroes or Power Rangers or Star Wars characters. So just like I was always able to wear something underneath it and still be warm, but still have my costume visible. But honestly, some kids choices of costumes do not allow you to dress appropriately.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Well, or dress for the weather. You know, like Alaskan kids, we know how to dress for the weather, but on Halloween, apparently, of that goes out the window.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I remember my first Halloween with my partner and we had her son with us and he wanted to be an Among Us character. Like, was an inflatable
Speaker 1:Among Us character.
Speaker 3:But it was rough because obviously it's a little colder outside and your body heat inside the thing is making it hard to see out the little window. It's almost like navigating a little drunk person around on Halloween, like just trying to make sure he didn't fall down people's steps and stuff like that. So making sure you have an appropriate costume choice for our environment. Like obviously inflatables work great inside, but outdoors, not so great.
Speaker 4:Well, and the other thing is is making sure that you went to the right neighborhoods trick or treating. You know what I mean? So I was I was in just a little neighborhood. So we didn't they weren't giving out the king-size candy bars in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:I had a very nice neighborhood. There, you know, there was the occasional raisin box that every now no one wanted to go to that house, you know, but we did because it was in the neighborhood and that was, you know, we could only go so far, you know, it was dark.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So yeah, you'd get the occasional raisin box or like crayons and it was like, no, nobody wants I
Speaker 3:actually have a cool story. It's not it doesn't involve me, but it involves my older brother. Before I even came along, I thought it was the coolest Halloween story. I fan my parents and my brother were trick or treating in California. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And actually trick my brother trick or treated at George Lucas's house of all places. So he actually rolled up and I think it was actually Darth Vader and he went in or power actually, no. He's a pink. He was a Power Ranger, but he still knocked on George Lucas's house, and George Lucas came out and gave my brother candy. So I think that's a funny that's the coolest, like, Halloween trick or treat
Speaker 1:story Oh, so awesome.
Speaker 3:Within my family. But
Speaker 4:Yeah. That's really cool. I'd I'd I don't have any of those stories. I would wander, and then I was done for the night. But I remember as a little kid, my mom would would dress me up, but I don't know.
Speaker 4:I was too young to understand Halloween, but I do I remember this memory so vividly. And I'm I know my parents are are listening from Arizona right now. So shout out to the rest the family.
Speaker 5:Heck yeah.
Speaker 4:But it's such a vivid memory in my in my head because I didn't like I don't like being scared. I'm not one of kids those that ever got like a thrill from like being afraid of things or like haunted houses like nothing. Doesn't take
Speaker 3:anything from me. But
Speaker 4:so my mom, she dressed me as a clown and I was really cute and I had the full face paint, everything. And my mom had just bought these brand new, like, tan suede pillows from Costco. Brand new. Beautiful. On the on the leather couch.
Speaker 4:Nice. Looking spiffy. Anyway, somebody scary came to the door, and she had told me that my job was to pass out candy. That's what I thought Halloween was. Because I just passed out the candy.
Speaker 4:I didn't know that
Speaker 5:And people actually
Speaker 3:got candy.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Oh my god. So that was my job to pass out. Loved the job. But anyway, so someone scary came to the door and I opened it and it just my heart just dropped.
Speaker 4:I think he was like a werewolf or something like that. It was something scary with like a scary mask. And I just darted right into the that those brand new pillows, full face of makeup, the big old weird smile, lipstick, every the whole bit, and made, like, the most perfect little clown face print into that brand new pillow.
Speaker 3:Did it come out or was it just I
Speaker 4:think so. We had it for years after that, but I just remember being like, yeah, maybe maybe Halloween's just not my thing.
Speaker 3:I'm like the complete opposite to that. I was deathly afraid of a lot of things growing up, roller coasters, anything spooky. Like, if the house was, like, overly decorated with, like, scary things and they had, like, strobe lights and sound effects going on, I did not wanna go up to that house. No. And it took me almost well into my older teen years to get over that kind of fear.
Speaker 3:Like, I I did not watch horror movies. I did not like anything spooky because my dad used to traumatize me and my brother growing up. He had this crazy, scary gorilla mask. And it was like, it wasn't like a furry gorilla mask. It was like almost a bald gorilla head.
Speaker 3:Like, it was really weird looking. And he would just periodically throughout our childhood come out of nowhere with this mask on and scare the living days out of me and my brother. And it was like the fear tears, screaming with me especially. And when that mask came out and he came to scare us, I was hiding under a blanket. I like,
Speaker 6:No, no, no. Get it away from me and take it off.
Speaker 3:You just hear my mom yelling from the other room and
Speaker 6:saying, Don't scare those boys.
Speaker 3:Having one. So, yeah, I think that was probably the cause of my childhood scare trauma. But nowadays I could watch a horror movie and go to sleep fine, which is
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. You know, like I said, I was all about the candy. I just didn't wanna have to go out and work for it. But, you know, that has since changed.
Speaker 4:I work for my work for my pay now. But it was always mountainside. Kids always wanted to go mountainside or Blueberry Hill.
Speaker 3:Or those big houses.
Speaker 4:Those big houses and they were giving out the big candy, I guess. But you know, I I was staying in my little neighborhood.
Speaker 3:Oh, we did get an email since, phone lines are open, folks. Feel free to give us a call so me and Devin aren't just rambling on about Halloween. But we're we'll totally keep on
Speaker 4:rocking it.
Speaker 3:I'll rambling
Speaker 4:till till noon.
Speaker 3:Well, we do got an email. So this email was, I saw something spooky. I saw old guy Mel crossing Eagan to the whale path without pushing the crosswalk button. He waved his walking stick at a car that failed to stop. Very spooky.
Speaker 3:That is very that is very spooky and dangerous at the same time. If that's our main man male that likes to call in here on the program, definitely be safe. Make sure if those I see that the roundabout a lot, especially the one over by Steven Richards there. And some folks don't hit that button. And, like, the way those roundabouts are designed, they're meant so you can see the incoming cars, like, on your left and on your right.
Speaker 3:But, obviously, you can't see anything coming straight on.
Speaker 4:So That's the hard part about those roundabouts is the the mound on top of it, you cannot see around that. Yeah. I never I would love to know the design choice of that.
Speaker 3:Well, we had someone on DOT come on the program way back, like last year, like November. And it was me and Craig Dahl doing that. And the guy really kinda, because it's curved, it's not flat. So the reason why it's a curved roundabout, it's not just a straight flat, is so you can see Because if you're merging, like if you're coming from Glacier Highway going towards Menhull Glacier, you wanna be able to see your incoming left and right. But obviously, that's all you really need to see as far as a roundabout.
Speaker 3:So they designed that specifically that way just so you could see the cars that are incoming on you. But, obviously, the straight straight ahead, like, you kinda gotta
Speaker 4:be But it's the straight ahead that people are crossing
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:That you cannot see. You know, I can see from just the right angle, I can see around it enough that that light goes off.
Speaker 3:Light. Yeah.
Speaker 4:But like you said, if folks aren't using those lights
Speaker 3:Then you're not gonna be seen or visible. So it's very important that folks use those lights when they're crossing just so cars are aware
Speaker 7:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And you're safe.
Speaker 4:And pedestrians, please make sure that the traffic has stopped before you start walking. I know that, you know, pedestrians obviously have the right of way and we should all be looking out for each other, please, please, please wait until that traffic has seen you and has stopped. If you're driving, please watch out for those pedestrians.
Speaker 3:I'm always aware of it. I know some Juno drivers aren't always peripheral vision in those areas. They're not like anticipating maybe someone possibly crossing. Even if I feel like someone's going across, sometimes people are like just going straight on the sidewalk and they kind of come close to that light. I'm still aware that might be crossing.
Speaker 3:So I'm still gonna slow down and yield just in case they decide not to hit the button or they're crossing. So folks, just be aware at the Eagan Crosswalk over by Foodland, that one's a light up one. So always light up that one if you're gonna cross the road there. Same thing with the roundabouts. So just a public service announcement.
Speaker 3:Use the crosswalk lights, especially if you're a child, an elder Mhmm. Or on a bike. Mhmm. Because no one's no one's really going to be able to see you. Just be aware of that.
Speaker 4:And wear something so that you're seen. As it gets darker, you know, five, 06:00 now, I mean, the sun is going down and it is getting dark and it is getting dark quick. It's gonna be getting slick here pretty soon.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes. Yeah. And people will not Yeah, if it's slick out and they gotta hit their brakes real fast, they are going to be sliding. So just be aware, take your time, be aware. And I talked about that a little bit on the program yesterday about child safety as it's getting dark.
Speaker 3:There's lots of cool products out there that you could just slap on your kid's backpack, on their coat. There's reflective tape that you could just stick on a child's hood or something just so at least a headlight hits it and it reflects back at you just so they're visible. I know us Juno Whites, we love to wear our dark colors because we all like wearing black for whatever reason. And yeah. So we do got a call, so let's get them on the show.
Speaker 3:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 1:I am very surprised
Speaker 5:that you guys haven't got any phone calls.
Speaker 4:I know. Me too.
Speaker 5:What the heck?
Speaker 4:I'm sure glad you called. Are you tired of listening to us ramble?
Speaker 5:Exactly. No. Just kidding. You guys are great. Appreciate it.
Speaker 5:I just I wanted to let you know if you wanna watch something spooky Oh. Watch the Alaskan triangle.
Speaker 4:Oh my goodness. Yeah. Is it a documentary, or is it a movie based
Speaker 5:on documentary. And they got seasons, and they got episodes, and they talk about everything that has happened within Alaska, even about missing people.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 5:And, also, you you you call me crazy, but they even talk about Sasquatch people.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Oh, wow.
Speaker 5:And murders and everything. So if you guys wanna watch a thriller, watch the Alaskan triangle. This is our hometown, our home state. This stuff really happens.
Speaker 3:That's insane.
Speaker 5:I'm not supposed to talk about it, but there it is.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Oh, thank you for bringing that up. That is yeah. I'm gonna put that on my watch list for sure.
Speaker 3:It's always cool when you hear about movies or TV shows that are Alaska based.
Speaker 7:And
Speaker 5:that There's an there's another movie that's out there in my I don't know how how I call this, but my the last name is Austin. Ray Austin has a daughter. They have a documentary on missing indigenous people, and it's a series. And she's from Alaska.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:It's amazing. I haven't been able to watch it because I can't afford the subscription.
Speaker 3:Oh, bummer. I know those subscriptions.
Speaker 4:And they keep going Yeah. No. I'm so glad you brought that up. I'm absolutely putting that on my watch list. And you've seen the Alaskan triangle, but you have not seen the other one.
Speaker 4:Is that correct?
Speaker 5:I have watched the Alaskan triangle. Like, I was glued to it.
Speaker 4:Oh my goodness. And now
Speaker 5:And it correlated with everything that I was taught and was grown up with. I was like, wow. That's shocking and amazing.
Speaker 4:Yeah. It's
Speaker 5:scary. You gotta watch it during the daytime because at nighttime, the comes out.
Speaker 4:Oh. Okay.
Speaker 5:You gotta close your windows.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 5:Close your curtains.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 5:There was a certain time that my grandfather used to say, it's it's time. We weren't supposed to run about, but I could still hear people yelling at me through the CB. I grew up in a village.
Speaker 8:Mhmm. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Rhonda Guest. Rhonda Guest. Oh, sorry. Now I'm saying my name, but, Aingun, if you're listening, I came home.
Speaker 4:Shout out, Ngoon.
Speaker 5:Close your windows. Close your curtains. I think it was during nightfall that we used to listen to our curfew. And if we were caught outside doing our pine cone fights to all the people that I grew up with in Ingoon, we all ran home because we were
Speaker 4:afraid of the. I don't blame you. Yeah. I don't blame you. That's one of those.
Speaker 4:That's a scary one. That's a scary one. I am not, I'm not indigenous myself, but I've heard enough stories that yeah. Yeah. I'll you know what?
Speaker 3:You should fear.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Have a healthy fear of it. But, you know, that that the the Kushtaka and the the those kind of urban legends remind me a lot of the people in, like, Appalachia.
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 4:It's the same kind of
Speaker 5:You know, that's very funny that you say they're urban legends, but in our Tlingit culture, we live by it, and there are some things that we're not supposed to talk about. But I want you you guys wanted something scary. Absolutely. There's something scary.
Speaker 3:No. We appreciate you being
Speaker 7:that way.
Speaker 5:In the urban language, watch the Alaskan triangle.
Speaker 4:Alright. I'll do that.
Speaker 5:We will Thank
Speaker 4:you so much for sharing that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5:Alright. Have a good night.
Speaker 4:You too.
Speaker 3:You as well have a good one.
Speaker 4:And now she said have a good night like I'm supposed to sleep after she just told me about these scary movies I'm I need to
Speaker 3:not sleeping.
Speaker 5:I'm not sleeping. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we had we had a caller bring in another Alaska movie and I actually went in and watched a trailer of it. It was called Limbo. It was like a movie from the nineties. And it was actually, if you watch it, there's actually clips of Juno. It's not a scary movie.
Speaker 3:It's more of like a thriller. So it's not a scary movie. It's more so a thriller movie.
Speaker 4:What is the difference?
Speaker 3:Well, I feel like thrillers are more of like suspense where, like, you don't know if someone's gonna get killed or something bad's gonna happen to them. So yeah, you you just never know. It is 11:32. I saw we had a phone call, but we lost them real quick. So we'll take a commercial break, and we'll be right back for more problem corner here on KINY.
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Speaker 3:And welcome back to problem corner here on KINY. On this Wednesday, October 8, I'm Justin Miller and joined by Devin Stickler here from the Gobo Tram studio. And we already got a couple calls on the line. Let's jump right to the phones. Hi.
Speaker 3:Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:I just came up with some other true fact movies that are in fact, to thrill you, one is called Insomnia. It was based here in Alaska. They filmed it here in Alaska. There's another movie with miss, Nicholas Cage. I remember going to work, and they had the film crew in the parking lot in front of the bakery that was a few doors down from where I worked.
Speaker 5:That was based on true facts. Just gotta look up Nicholas Cage and find those movies because I can't remember the movie because those are all based I I only like to watch well, not only, but I like to watch true fact movies, and then you look it up and you Google it, and there is a way there goes my dryer. There's a way to figure out whether or not these are true or not.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And now you you had corrected me. I had called I had called them urban legends.
Speaker 4:Is there something else that I should call them? I I, you know, I hope I didn't offend anything.
Speaker 5:I wasn't trying to correct you. I'm just saying that there is a different language. Yes. And it could be a barrier, but it's not, I'm pretty, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to correct you.
Speaker 4:Oh, no. Not at all. I was just wondering if there was if there was something else that I could call them that's more appropriate.
Speaker 5:Well, this is 2025. Correct? Yes,
Speaker 4:ma'am.
Speaker 5:Yeah. So you would call it urban legends.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Well,
Speaker 5:I guess I'll upgrade. Alaskan Everybody else everybody else upgrades. We should upgrade too.
Speaker 3:You're you're right there. Yep.
Speaker 4:Well, thank you, miss Rhonda. I appreciate that. I you know, trying
Speaker 5:to Insomnia and there is a movie
Speaker 3:With Nick Cake.
Speaker 5:It was about the murderer that came and got the prostitutes, and you'll find that episode on the Alaskan Triangle. And there is Eskimo lady. I can't remember her name or nothing, but they found all their bodies and their bones and everything like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5:And I used to live in Anchorage.
Speaker 4:Yeah. That was I don't like Anchorage. Butcher Baker, is that is that his name? Wasn't that the serial killer, Butcher Baker?
Speaker 5:I think it was. Yeah. I'm not I'm not I'm not accurate on on, I can't remember, but go I used to have those movies, but I recommend them. If you guys wanna do Halloween night and you want suspense and thriller, but you want to investigate what actually happens in our communities
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 5:I would recommend those and also the Alaskan Triangle.
Speaker 4:Absolutely. I've got Because it will talk
Speaker 5:it will talk about, certain things, and maybe will help you understand a little bit about the Tlingit culture. And and it's not just Tlingit culture. It's just indigenous. We'll just call it indigenous. I'm upgrading.
Speaker 5:Perfect. We'll call it indigenous. There are certain folk yeah. They are folklores, but people witness it. Mhmm.
Speaker 5:And we're taught not to talk about it, but recognize it and have respect for it.
Speaker 4:Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 5:So watch the Alaskan triangle and watch insomnia and watch that one movie about that guy that, Nicolas Cage played in it. I can't remember what it was called.
Speaker 4:Have to look
Speaker 5:that know it freaked me out when I went to work because the film crew was there, and I got to see Nicolas Cage from afar.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow. Very cool.
Speaker 6:Very cool. I know. Well, we will
Speaker 4:we're gonna look that up, and we will we'll share it once we find it.
Speaker 5:Alright. Thank you.
Speaker 4:Thank you for calling.
Speaker 3:Alright. Thanks. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:Have
Speaker 5:a good night.
Speaker 4:You too.
Speaker 3:As well. Bye bye. And we do got another call. Let's jump right to it.
Speaker 1:Love it.
Speaker 3:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:Yeah. The lady you guys were talking to, the movie's name, Frozen Ground.
Speaker 4:Frozen Ground. I
Speaker 3:just pulled it up on Google. I'm glad he jumped you beat me to it, mister. So, yeah, Frozen Ground. Yeah.
Speaker 7:I worked twenty three years as collector. I knew Robert Hanson.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow. Spooky.
Speaker 5:That guy was well,
Speaker 7:his name was Robert Hanson. He used to pick up prostitutes, fly him to the Matsu Valley
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 7:And let him go and hunt them down too.
Speaker 4:That is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 7:And the the book he wrote on him was the butcher baker.
Speaker 4:Yes. Okay. That's I knew that was somehow associated. I wasn't sure how it was was that a nickname he went by? Was that a do we know where that name came from?
Speaker 7:I don't know what the the book is called Butcher Baker.
Speaker 4:Yes. Now can you
Speaker 7:I I
Speaker 4:you ever get to meet him? Yeah. Really? What did you think of him?
Speaker 7:He was short. He did did he used to escort him to to book and when he used to go to court.
Speaker 5:Wow.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow.
Speaker 7:And we used to have to lock down the whole institute.
Speaker 3:Just for instance? Wow.
Speaker 4:Wow. That is really interesting. I'm so glad you called us to share that. That's
Speaker 7:And if you wanna read another scary book Mhmm. Read the strangest story ever told.
Speaker 4:The strangest story ever told. Writing that one down too.
Speaker 7:And you could get that from the Nugget bookstore.
Speaker 4:Perfect.
Speaker 7:If you if you walk in there and you ask the clerk about the book, the trade store, we're told, she'll they'll know exactly what book you're talking about. Awesome. And the author of the book is Harry D. It's spelled c o l p, last name.
Speaker 4:Perfect. Got that written down. I'll have to stop by and see miss Olga at, Hearthside Books.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 4:I'm sure she'll know exactly where it's at.
Speaker 3:Great.
Speaker 4:Thank you so much for sharing that. That is very, very interesting that you got to Yeah. That's history. That's what you mean.
Speaker 7:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Is there anything else on your mind you wanna get out or just be to share that with us?
Speaker 7:I just wanna share that the movie and the book about Robert Hanson.
Speaker 4:And your own firsthand account meeting meeting meeting this And
Speaker 7:go to the bookstore and get the the strangest story ever told.
Speaker 4:You got it. Alright. You hear
Speaker 5:the truth folks?
Speaker 7:He wrote it about the the cove. There's no live animals. No birds, no deer, no beaver, no nothing. It's called the Devil's Cove, and it's a wrong triangle. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 4:Interesting. Okay. And that's another book?
Speaker 7:Yeah. It's it's a it's another book. We sell it at the Nugget bookstore.
Speaker 3:Alrighty. Perfect. Yep. Thank those books out. And community members, you wanna check those out, definitely do so.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Awesome. Thank you so much.
Speaker 7:Oh, okay.
Speaker 5:You guys have a good day.
Speaker 6:You too.
Speaker 3:Thanks for the call. Okay. Bye bye. Bye.
Speaker 4:Spooky. That's pretty crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah. The fact that you worked within the prison facility that he that
Speaker 7:serial killer
Speaker 5:was That's fantastic.
Speaker 3:That's insane. And our lines are blowing up now. Let's get to the phones. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 3:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Oh my god. I can't believe I made it on for the third time. Oh. That was my uncle Elliot.
Speaker 3:Oh. Oh, right on.
Speaker 5:Guy Elliot is on the phone with you guys. Could you please pass on my phone number to him?
Speaker 7:Sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 5:Of 72090034.
Speaker 3:003
Speaker 5:I wanna let him know that the mega new Harshita. Know that. I don't go out there very often. So
Speaker 4:Yes. If you make it out there, it's beautiful in the Menon Hall Mall now. Nice. Yes. Thank you so much, and we'll pass your number along to your uncle Elliot.
Speaker 5:Alright. Thank you. You're welcome. Have a
Speaker 4:good one. Bye.
Speaker 3:Bye bye. We'll get to this phone. Hi. Welcome to problem corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 1:Hey. I'm just calling to see what's going on with this
Speaker 5:here. May they find that out?
Speaker 3:About the Kushtaka? Yeah. We're just kinda talking about spooky stories a little bit, and one of the callers brought up that since that's a huge Alaska native creature that was instilled fear in a lot of youth throughout Alaska natives and even just folks that grew up here in the communities. Yeah. The Kushikaw.
Speaker 7:Are you trying to The
Speaker 5:only thing I like to
Speaker 1:ask is if they eat it, they have a phone. Why can't they take a picture of it? They would send it.
Speaker 3:It's always a hard one. That's the thing about the Kushikat. It's always shifting and changing faces and bodies, and that's that's kind of the fear of the Kushikai because it's a shape shifter.
Speaker 7:Yep.
Speaker 4:And I try to not to be out at night if I don't that that's enough to freak me out.
Speaker 1:Okay. I just wanted to see if they could take pictures of it if they're talking about it and put it on Facebook.
Speaker 4:Yeah. If someone if someone's got a photo
Speaker 3:Or an illustration.
Speaker 4:Or an illustration, anything. Yeah. I would I would I would love to see it. We'll put that out to our listeners, see if we can find one for you.
Speaker 1:Okay. Thanks.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 1:All your reason is just if you see him, take a picture of it. That's why he's guys doing a play.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes. Let's let's let's put our
Speaker 1:cash flashes on
Speaker 3:you as well. Thanks for the call. Okay. Alright. Bye bye.
Speaker 3:Yeah. The Kusha Kad's in it.
Speaker 4:I'm a runner.
Speaker 7:Very very sweet.
Speaker 4:I'm a runner. I'm a runner. I'm not
Speaker 8:gonna stop at the portal. I'm gonna run.
Speaker 3:Gonna You're stop and try to fight it? No. Alright. We'll get to this next call. Hi.
Speaker 3:Welcome to problem corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 7:How's it going, guys?
Speaker 3:It's going good. How are you?
Speaker 7:Well, I'm afraid to probably call you, but that's that's my answer every time. Hey. If you are if you are feeling good and you're taught and raised to respect and not talk about something, certain things
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 7:It's crazy to laugh around about it. That's just that's just stupid. And the book that gentleman called about earlier, the greatest story ever told Mhmm. Yeah. And a similar event took place like, what we call among the tunnel at Huna.
Speaker 7:And the strangest story ever told, that event took place at a place called Thomas Bay, just above Petersburg.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 7:So it is it's a very short story, but it it is spooky. And, again, it's something like that happened over over at Huna.
Speaker 3:Okay. So
Speaker 1:Okay. Thanks, guys, for for your time.
Speaker 7:Of course.
Speaker 3:No problem. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 7:K. Bye bye.
Speaker 3:Alright. Bye bye. Yeah. A lot of folks have been giving us a lot of recommendations of books, movies, and stuff that's, like, spooky and kind of thriller esque all across Alaska. And so, yeah, we've had the AK Triangle, Insomnia, The Frozen Ground, The Strangest Stories Ever Told, the one that the gentleman just told us above the tunnel.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, we got a lot of spooky stories that have been kinda developed across Alaska for sure.
Speaker 4:And, I mean, you know, I might be breeding doctor Seuss tonight. It's, like, these freak me out.
Speaker 3:I love I love seeing, like, the clips of, like, on social media of someone watching a scary movie and then he gets scared and then, like Right. Immediately flips, like, Mickey House clubhouse or something. Yeah. Something like that. Something my heart is just I'm good.
Speaker 3:Switched to. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Well, and they you know, I I brought up like the people of Appalachia and and I'm I said Appalachia, but apparently it's Appalachia. I do not
Speaker 1:know that.
Speaker 3:Did you get corrected on your phone to some text you call?
Speaker 4:TikTok university talking actually. But anyway, so they were talking about these legends and and this whole community of people are basically taught the same kind of things of like, if you see something in the woods, no, you didn't. If you hear something, no, you didn't. You close your blinds at night. You're not looking out the window at night.
Speaker 4:Things like that. And it's like, okay. Those are things that I can get behind.
Speaker 3:Right. Alright. We got a call coming in. We got a few more minutes left at the program. Let's get them on.
Speaker 3:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 1:Hey. How y'all doing today?
Speaker 3:We're doing good. We're talking kinda spookiness going on across Alaska or stories, movies, or even personal stories.
Speaker 4:I thought I was ready for this. I wasn't Okay.
Speaker 5:The worst
Speaker 1:thing I could tell anybody
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 5:Y'all could talk about all
Speaker 1:these spooks and whatever. Mhmm. I think the worst person you could believe is the Democrats.
Speaker 5:I mean, they shot that guy in Utah.
Speaker 1:That that lady was laughing about it and everything. You know?
Speaker 6:Mhmm.
Speaker 1:Yes. I think that's the craziest thing in the world because they're worried about partners. They don't get $1,500,000 to to give to the partners. And you got people on the streets up here. You got people in the reward.
Speaker 1:Mhmm. I think that's the spookiest people right there in the world, democrats. Well,
Speaker 4:thank you so much for calling and sharing that with us.
Speaker 5:Yeah. I mean, just just keep your
Speaker 1:eyes open because you might lose your tax money. You might lose everything you own.
Speaker 4:Yes, sir.
Speaker 3:Yeah. The food Have
Speaker 1:a beautiful day.
Speaker 4:You have a better day.
Speaker 3:Thanks for the call. Spooky. Alright. We got another call. Let's get him on.
Speaker 3:Hi. Welcome to problem corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Good morning. Good morning.
Speaker 5:I'm just calling to see, does anybody have any of
Speaker 8:that movie stuff? I've been trying to look for it. Frozen ground, and I can't
Speaker 3:find it anywhere. As far as a physical you want a physical copy of it?
Speaker 4:You're looking for, like, a DVD?
Speaker 5:DVD or VHS.
Speaker 4:Okay. As far as retail goes, I would suggest Fred Meyer's, but it's too bad I can't remember.
Speaker 8:Fred Meyer's, I went out there and I've been looking for
Speaker 3:it. Okay.
Speaker 4:Do we have a red box here in
Speaker 3:town? There was one in Safeway that I remembered, but I
Speaker 7:don't know.
Speaker 3:The movie came about in 2013, so I know they usually keep the more relative movies in the red boxes. But Mhmm. If someone's got the copy of the Frozen Ground, you want us to take your phone number, and maybe they could reach out to you if they have it.
Speaker 8:If they You got they have it and they wanna sell it to me, my number is 907
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 8:723-9447.
Speaker 3:9447. And you're looking for the Frozen Ground movie.
Speaker 4:Yeah. No. It doesn't freak you out a
Speaker 6:little bit all this Halloween
Speaker 4:all this Halloween talk? Yeah.
Speaker 8:Okay. Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 3:Of course. You got
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. We'll throw that out on the airwaves and see if someone gets you that movie.
Speaker 8:Alright. You have a good day.
Speaker 3:You as well. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 7:Okay.
Speaker 3:Bye bye. Yeah, this lady's Someone's looking
Speaker 8:got it.
Speaker 3:Someone's gotta have it. Obviously, we got a lot of movie buffs here in Juneau, and obviously, DVD and Blu rays were a hot commodity for a minute, so someone's gotta have it. So if you're willing to sell your copy of the frozen ground to her, give her a call at 09:07 seven two three nine four four seven. And we do got another call. Let's get one.
Speaker 3:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:So I know we stirred up a little bit of trouble here. If everybody subscribes to either Horizon, Cricket, or AT and T, guys have an option to get free movies on Tubi, Pluto. Sometimes when you pay for a higher subscription to your phone, you get HBO Max or even Prime. Oh. You can find those movies that we talked about earlier on those places.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 3:Well, I know
Speaker 5:And YouTube.
Speaker 3:And YouTube. Yep. Oh, you Google that the frozen ground is available on YouTube and to be in Amazon Prime and a few other spots. But, yeah, I'm just it sounds like that previous caller was wanting the physical copy of it rather than going the streaming route.
Speaker 5:Well, I understand that, but sometimes you just get what you get and you don't throw a bit.
Speaker 3:True. That's very true.
Speaker 5:Thank you so much. Happy Halloween and good night.
Speaker 4:Yes. You as well.
Speaker 3:And we got another call. We got five more minutes left of the program. We'll get one. Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 3:You're live and on the air.
Speaker 5:Hi. I called you about frozen ground.
Speaker 8:Yeah. I don't have a flat phone, so mine's a flat phone.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 8:Got it. Got it. Great.
Speaker 4:Do you have a computer?
Speaker 8:No, I don't compute and I'm old fashioned girl.
Speaker 4:All good. All good. We're looking for we're gonna look for a physical copy of that movie for
Speaker 7:you. Okay.
Speaker 5:Alright. I just thought I'd bring that up.
Speaker 4:Thank you.
Speaker 3:No worries. Thanks for calling. Alright.
Speaker 8:You have a good day.
Speaker 3:You too. Bye bye.
Speaker 4:I forget that not everybody has And a you know what? Good. Good for them.
Speaker 3:Yeah. They don't they don't get sucked into the phone edition.
Speaker 7:Like, a
Speaker 3:lot of
Speaker 4:folks scrolling that we all do. She doesn't. She doesn't. I know. She's doing just fine.
Speaker 3:Yeah. And, yeah, it's better to stick with physical mediums because then you have something physical to own. Like, I always feel sketched out when I buy movies, like, on Amazon or even because, like, if I don't have an Internet connection, I can't watch the movie.
Speaker 4:Or it goes into the cloud, and nobody understands the cloud.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 4:And What is the cloud?
Speaker 3:What is the cloud?
Speaker 4:Where is it?
Speaker 3:Is it in up in the sky or in a building or a server or Spooky. Spooky. Spooky servers. Alright. We'll get this last call on, and we'll recap what we've talked about today.
Speaker 3:Hi. Welcome to Problem Corner. You're live and on the air.
Speaker 6:Try Friends of the Library.
Speaker 5:Oh. I just dropped off a
Speaker 6:bunch of DVDs for a friend who's leaving town, and they have a supply next to the desk.
Speaker 4:Oh, perfect. Much. You.
Speaker 3:Forgot they take movies
Speaker 7:over. You're welcome.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Thanks for that.
Speaker 5:Okay. Bye. Alright. Bye bye. Perfect.
Speaker 4:What a good way to wrap up the show. Yeah. Hopefully, we can get all we're gonna get all these problems absolutely cornered.
Speaker 3:Oh, yeah. In the corner. Sweeping not sweeping not sweeping the corner, but but yeah. So previous caller, if you heard that, check out Friends of the Library and see if they have a copy of The Frozen Ground or even some other hidden treasures of some movies.
Speaker 5:I love
Speaker 16:Friends of
Speaker 4:the Library.
Speaker 3:Yeah. My grandmother likes to volunteer over there every now and then. She's she pops over there and
Speaker 4:looks My at aunt Friends used to volunteer over there
Speaker 7:and it
Speaker 4:was so fun. Cookbooks over there, top notch.
Speaker 3:I need I need to get some cookbooks. Always, but now I got the Internet. So most of the time, you could just pull up a recipe that you
Speaker 4:need either. It's just not the same as having a nice book in your
Speaker 3:hand. A nice thick cookbook. I know my mom's got a big old collection of cookbooks that
Speaker 4:my parents do.
Speaker 3:And then, honestly, handwritten recipes that just live in there that are ancient years old and all that. So we are down to our final couple minutes. I'll peek at our emails, see if we got any new emails. Oh, one thing this person kind of threw in is title advertising, but it's not a for profit. Have you heard of Earl's Haunted Garage?
Speaker 4:Yes. Oh my gosh. Fun.
Speaker 3:They're Not
Speaker 4:fun for me because I will be too scared, but fun for everyone else. Everyone go.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So they're over on Burners Avenue, 420 Burners Avenue. I've done this. I've done Earl's Haunted Garage before.
Speaker 4:I've heard it
Speaker 3:so much. Do a great job. They got a lot of cool props in there. They really deck out their whole home and garage. It's like a walk through and spooky sounds and spooky creatures.
Speaker 3:And it's a great profit because they do stuff for the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, so they're taking donations for that.
Speaker 4:They raise hundreds of pounds of food every Yeah.
Speaker 3:So it's great. So keep your eye out for Earl's Haunted Garage this year for the haunt the Halloween season. And, we'll continue to spread the word on that since you are doing a great service for the community by hosting this haunted garage. So definitely not really an advertisement, more of a public service announcement for that.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Down to our last thirty seconds. So we had some movie call ins. So check out those movies if you're interested. AK Triangle, Insomnia, The Frozen Ground.
Speaker 4:Spooky movies.
Speaker 3:The Strangest Story Ever Told, some books, The Devil's Cold, Above the Tunnel. We had a lot of folks call in with different ideas and suggestions of some spookiness going on. We didn't even get to one of our main topics about local legends today.
Speaker 4:We were talking about living Yeah, these are all living legends.
Speaker 7:You know,
Speaker 4:we were talking about, you know, maybe legends of the other side.
Speaker 3:Maybe we'll save that for next week. Let's do it. Do that. And so yeah, nothing being sold today. We just had a nice conversation about spookiness.
Speaker 3:Devin, as always, thank you so much for joining me on the program. Hope you have a good time on Problem Corner. Hear I always do. The community voice their things or selling things or whatever's on their mind. So tomorrow will be just me hanging out for problem corner as I'm filling in for Katie Bosler as she's away dealing with some family stuff.
Speaker 3:So join me tomorrow here on KINY. That's been it for problem corner on today's program.
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