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

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

Nate is joined by Joe Vankat to talk all about Nebraska.

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 Nebraska, Joe Vancett. How are you doing today, Joe? I'm doing great. How are you doing it? I'm pretty good. So where are you from in Nebraska? I'm from Omaha, Nebraska.

It's pretty much the only city in Nebraska, unless you count Lincoln, but that's really just the college up there. I mean, we got a couple things in Omaha, though. We got Warren Buffett. That dude's pretty cool. served him ice cream one time. Chocolate shake, if you ever see Warren Buffett, get him a chocolate shake. What is the capital of Nebraska?

The capital of Nebraska is Lincoln, just mentioned. Pretty good school up there, football team. We're kind of trash right now, low-key. But volleyball team, women's bowling, 12-time national champions. Volleyball is the main sport right now, though. When was Nebraska admitted to the union? Sometime like the 18.

60s or 70s. If you're looking for a day or a year, I don't know. But it's in that general time. 1867. So you all like jealous and missed out on the Civil War. How do you feel about that? I mean, that's all right. We got the line named after us or the Act, Kansas, Nebraska.

But Kansas comes first. Is there beef there? I mean, kind of. They're like Nebraska light. Like you kind of like Iowa. They hate Iowa. Why you hate Iowa? Iowa has bad corn.

You know, they're talking about we produce the most corn. Yeah, you produce a lot of corn that goes to, like, cows and stuff. You don't even have people corn. You know what I mean? We're the corn husker state. They're just Iowa. How about the population? Of Nebraska.

I'm going to say three million. Two. That's it? Yes, two million. I'm pretty sure like a million of that is in Omaha Probably more Yeah There's not really anything in the western half of the state

Except for like cranes We got a lot of cranes Like the bird or like the machine No the bird The bird, yeah Sandhill cranes They migrate through Nebraska When they

When they come north from wherever they went south I don't know But there's like millions of cranes That just fly through western Nebraska It's pretty dope Like from Kung Fu Panda Yeah How about the nickname of the state

Oh I just said it the corn husker state. Nicknamed of the football team too. What's a corn husker? Somebody who husks corn, I don't know. It's just who we are. It's in our blood. How about the state fossil?

State fossil. Oh, I know this one. It's a woolly mammoth. We've got a massive mammoth fossil up in Lincoln at the college. Super cool mammoth. Massive. About mammothized or like, nah? I would say gargantuan, not mammoth, but it's close.

How about the state soft drink The state soft drink I don't know Pepsi Kool-A Does that count as a soft drink That's what the website said I mean I wouldn't really

I mean It doesn't say carbonated drink Just a soft drink I think it's anything but water What makes something a soft drink Is it anything but water? I think so Like if it's drinkable and not water

It's a soft drink It's like honey is a soft drink Because you could drink honey I don't think honey counts As a soft drink You could drink Yeah but it's not like a drink You know what I'm saying

it's a little different but I should have guessed Kool-Aid though it's founded in Nebraska How about the state insect It's probably It's got to be a butterfly We've got a lot of butterflies at the Omaha Zoo That place is pretty dope

Tell me about the Omaha Zoo Oh it's massive dude Largest indoor desert in the world Yeah I've got a big dome with a desert It's kind of cool And then we got Albino Alligator that thing's pretty sick

doesn't move though it's kind of fat what else they got at the zoo a bunch of gorillas everything they're pretty dope one time I was at the zoo with my uncle and he was like peering around the corner because there was a gorilla sitting just out of sight and he's trying to see it and all of a sudden the gorilla turned around go bang

right on the right on the glass my uncle he almost fell over it was hilarious my uncle's a big dude so if like he fell over it would have been real funny like fat or like tall yeah fat all right All right. Respectfully. I love you, Uncle Dan.

By the way, it's the honeybee. Oh, I forgot about the topic. Kind of got off topic there. That's all right. Well, I think that's all the time we have today. Thanks for coming on on the show, Joe. Anytime. I've been Nate Gallagher with State Facts on Radio for Hillsdale 101.7 FM.

See you next time.