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I have been holding off on watching Slednecks (mainly because I couldn't find it anywhere to watch for free). MTV has done a real good job of keeping this one on lock. Or maybe it was never popular enough that people were looking for it, who knows. This

TLDW: (Some) affluent women share their lives and what comes along with it. Last month, I was featured on a friend's podcast, where we chatted about reality television (shoutout Cody and Crude!!). I mentioned I watch certain shows because I am entertained by them, not because I like

We are so back, everybody. Sorry that I didn't publish AK IRL last week – I had a pretty bad fall, which resulted in surgery and a few nights in the hospital. I broke my left tib and fib, and tore the ligament tucked between those bones. I'

I was in middle school when Sarah Palin announced her course correction from governor to VP nominee. She was smack dab in the middle of campaigning when news hit the tabloids that her teenage daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. Bristol was on an episode of The Secret Life of the American

I have been making my way through the new season of Top Chef: Carolinas (23) that's currently airing. It felt fitting to go and watch Laura Cole's time on the show – she appeared on season 15, set in Colorado. I'm from Denali National Park,

Do you want to watch Alaska Mega Machines with me? That sounds like my kind of show, Duncan answered. This was a two-season show from Discovery that I found on Tubi (which is free), with 10 episodes total. I guess there were only so many mega machines they could

Starting this month, AK IRL's paying subscribers will get a monthly roundup of what I'm watching that isn't Alaska-reality-tv-related. I'm aiming for this to be sent out on the last Thursday of each month. There are so many shows

I am so sorry this newsletter comes out on Sundays, because last night was drag queen Frankie Doom's last performance 🥀 She's not dying, she's just moving out of Alaska. Think Monster High Doll meets The Exorcist. Frankie is one of my favorite Anchorage queens.

The Spenard Food Truck Carnival returns this week after its annual winter break, so of course I found a food truck reality tv show for us to gab about. Have you featured the Alaska season of that one Food Truck Race show? My beautiful and clever friend Jes asked me.

Sharks have always freaked me out. As a kid (definitely *not* as an adult), I had an irrational fear that a shark was going to swim up on me in any body of water. Good thing that never happened, right? I had never heard of Forrest Galente before watching his