Hosted by Douglas · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 31 episodes
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Doug Has Questions is a podcast dedicated to thoughtful conversation that leads to better understanding, connection, and inspiration. Host Douglas Olerud draws on his life experience to explore the stories of the people he’s met along the way.
Douglas hosts Doug Has Questions, a society show with 31 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Dropping a signed contract into a FedEx box and immediately searching “how to recall a package” is a special kind of panic, and it’s exactly where Lee Robinson found himself after agreeing to buy The Rus
Send us Fan Mail A home birth in a ham radio room on a Fairbanks-area homestead is only the opening scene of Mike Machowiak’s life, and it explains more than you’d think. Mike grew up around improvisation, cold mornings,
Send us Fan Mail A family story can be entertaining, but it can also explain why a community looks the way it does. Sitting down with Harriet Brouillette, lifelong Haines resident and Alaska Tribal Administrator of the Y
Send us Fan Mail Something is off about a guy who can casually mention getting lifted by a humpback whale and then move right along to the next story. Tod Stevens has spent decades stacking real adventures the hard way,
Send us Fan Mail Denali is the easy part compared to the people. That’s one of the clearest lessons we pull from our conversation with John Svenson, a Haines, Alaska mountaineer and working artist whose life somehow span
Send us Fan Mail A town can start with a big dream, but it survives on unglamorous details: heat that actually works, water that keeps running, and neighbors who show up when the plan falls apart. We talk with lifelong H
Send us Fan Mail A fishing boat flips in the dark in a 60-mph blow, and a 23-year-old stays calm enough to get everyone into a life raft. That same steady nerve shows up again and again in our conversation with Sean “Sea
Send us Fan Mail He grew up in Haines, Alaska with a bike, a beach, and more wilderness than rules and it shaped everything that came after. My guest, longtime local Stuart DeWitt, walks me through the moments that built
Send us Fan Mail A licensed daycare in a small town sounds simple until you hear what it actually demands: nine-hour days, strict ratios, constant trust from parents, and almost no margin for error. We sit down with Kim
Send us Fan Mail A Disney crew, a Gold Rush story, and a tiny Alaska town that had to pull off big-league logistics in the dead of winter. We’re joined by longtime Haines resident Tom Andriesen, a familiar face to anyone
Send us Fan Mail A kid in Queens watches planes at LaGuardia, runs a small-time “slug” hustle on coin machines, and then gets stopped cold by a store owner and a furious mom. Years later, that same kid hitchhikes across
Send us Fan Mail One decision, one returned phone call, one job opening in a tiny Southeast Alaska town and a whole family history gets rerouted. I’m sitting down with my mom, Charlotte Olerud, to capture the stories peo
Send us Fan Mail A gun store in Alaska. A filmmaker from Berkeley. A quiet movie about a noisy country. We talk with director writer producer Aaron Davidman about American Solitaire and the long road from early theater m
Send us Fan Mail A police chief doesn’t just arrive in a town like Haines, Alaska with a clean slate. Every choice gets remembered, every interaction becomes part of the story, and trust is earned one conversation at a t
Send us Fan Mail A local newspaper can feel quaint until you see the bill: thousands per month just to print, plus a supply chain that depends on flights, couriers, and weather. We sit down with Rashah McChesney, owner a
Send us Fan Mail A 400-foot ski hill in Pennsylvania shouldn’t produce a heli-ski guide who opens Alaskan lines, designs technical gear, and races a 900-horse rock car at 140 on dirt—but here we are. We sit down with gui
Send us Fan Mail A cabin burns to the ground on a winter night without phones. A young volunteer watches a ragtag crew of neighbors save what they can and decides to spend the next three decades running toward the worst
Send us Fan Mail A slice of fresh bread on a Sunday night can shape a life. Travis joins us to share how those early kitchen memories, a scientist father’s quiet example, and a teenage “pop-up” at home set him on a windi
Send us Fan Mail A love story to place doesn’t always start pretty. For Reba Hylton, it began with a mother who worked fields and fought racism, a softball swing that opened college doors, and a gut feeling that life had
Send us Fan Mail What if the hardest things you’ve lived through could become your superpower? We sit down with Dr. Marnie Hartman—physical therapist, yoga teacher, author, and death doula—whose life moved from the preci
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