WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - State Facts: Alaska

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

Nate is joined by Dylan Glover to talk all about Alaska

You're listening to State Facts on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. I'm your host, Nate Gallagher, and I'm joined by Hillsdale's resident in Alaskan, Dylan Glover. How are you today, Dylan? I'm doing all right. How are you doing? Pretty good myself. Where are you from in Alaska? Anchorage. So, Anchorage is the south-central city, if you can even call it a city in Alaska. To most of the state people, it's just a glorified village. town, you know, about a quarter of a million people there. So, what is the capital of Alaska?

Juno. Correct. When was Alaska admitted to the union? 1959. Nice. Do you know the day or just the year? Is it July 19th? It's January 3rd, but I'm still going to give you credit for 1959 because that was good. Okay. And what like number was it admitted? It was the blank state. 49th. Nice. Just before Hawaii.

Yes. What is the population of Alaska? Should be 720,000. Nice. My research said 700,000, just flat. Yeah. But yeah. What's the nickname of the state?

The last frontier. Nice. What's the state bird? Is it the stellar J? It's the Willow Tarmigan. How I knew that. It's all right. You're going to get this.

They're going to get this next one. Yeah. The state flower. Uh, forget me not. Nice. It, I mean, it said the alpine, forget me not, but I mean, I think that that's a given. Yeah, no, it's the same. It's the same.

Yeah. That one's pretty well known. My sister, uh, she was, she was adopted into the Anupiac tribe, as was I. And so, uh, which is like the northernmost tribe there in, in Alaska, uh, up near, uh, point Hope and Noam kind of Utkovic is the topmost point of Alaska. And so that the native tribe that's in there, her name, I can't remember the Inupiac word for her name, but it means forget me not. So I've always like known that that's the state flower.

Hard to forget that one. If you don't mind telling it like in a succinctish manner, how on earth did you get inducted into a Native American tribe? Um, I, my dad owned an art gallery in Anchorage and he sold a lot of art from different natives that would bring, bring their art to be sold for him and he would give him a fair price for doing it. And he also got some close friends in different native tribes there. And one of them happens to be my adopted uncle. And so my name in Anupiac is, uh covick which means wolverine how about the state animal is it the moose it's probably the moose it's the moose you ever seen a moose oh yeah oh yeah no no there there's um the closest i've ever gotten to a moose is probably i was probably within about five feet of it uh don't do that uh that's stupid uh i have i also the moose that i was really close to it had a baby with it and that was also

stupid. I was watching her and I like took a couple steps back. It was on one of the trails there in Anchorage and a lady like turns the corner and is walking down the trail and she has, I think it, I think she was holding two dogs and pushing a child on a stroller and also looking at her phone. I can't remember, but she literally walked, she ran into the moose. Like she like walked down the sidewalk and like bumped into it. And it was. went, it was like, and, and it like stepped back and, and like, looked at her and, and she, like, freaked out. And, you know, I didn't, I thought, like, is she going to see the moose? Well, she's walking towards us. And, and, you know, I didn't say anything because I, I think I, I, I think I said something, but it was, like, too quiet for her to hear. And so, yeah, she just walked into, and everyone was fine. But it was like, don't, like, I've definitely, I've heard stories of people being trampled or charged, get behind a tree if you're ever being charged by a moose. That's a good pro tip.

But yeah, no, moose aren't, you don't mess around with them. Don't get too close. Don't be like me or that person. Don't run into a moose that has a baby with it. Well, I think that's all the time that we have. Thanks so much for coming on the show, Dylan. Yeah, you're welcome. Thanks for having me.

I've been Nate Gallagher with State Facts on Radio Free Hillsdale, 1-1.1.7. F.m. See you next time. Thank you.