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Speaker 2:And good morning. Welcome to problem corner. Happy Halloween, everybody. I'm Nana Brooks, wrapping up the week with y'all the right way here at k I n y. Just another beautiful, gorgeous day outside here in Juneau.
Speaker 2:Hope everyone's out there staying warm and dry. And, you know, we had a couple callers there. Sorry that we didn't get you right away there. If you wanna call back, we'll get you on here. So it seems like it's been a pretty pretty mellow week.
Speaker 2:Everyone's just kinda been trying to hunker down and stay out of this wind and rain and getting ready for the cold weathers. And here we go with the collar. Let's get them on here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:How are you doing today?
Speaker 3:I'm doing great. Thank you. Just want a little rebuttal back to the caller yesterday that stated how we they are enabling SNAP and other people that are receiving it. Mhmm. But I wanted to point out that my little comments now right now are based on history versus conjecture.
Speaker 3:And, you know, back I I wanna point out that our people went through to exist on our land that the geographic naming and prominent areas are that still exist today. The names are coming come from explorers with no regard to our people's names at the area in advance to their incursions. The Russians at least respected our people enough to try to understand our culture to try and live in harmony. Sea otter fur was a major commodity that was traded and sold to the Chinese. A major interest by all in exploring Alaska was to find a route in the Northwest Passage that's currently open Mhmm.
Speaker 3:From the Pacific to Atlantic Oceans. Other ex others exploiting our resources for their personal deed greed were less respectful, particularly after America bought Alaska in 1876. Our culture from that point on had been seriously diluted by Western influence. Now a lot of people don't know this that Alaska was actually owned by Spain. In 1582, they hired Francisco Galley to explore Alaska.
Speaker 3:And 1741, the Danes sent Bidus Baring to explore Alaska. During this expedition, Boutamchutka, Baring, for the first time, noted their that made record of the linguist people in in Southeast Alaska. And back to Sitka, the there was this caller also subsequent to that caller yesterday that did a little history lesson of of the strife Mhmm. That I've been speaking of. And 1775, ahead of the constitution being signed that's currently being disregarded by the current administration, Spaniards brought smallpox to Sitka.
Speaker 3:And so England also sent captain Cook to Sitka in 1778. Again, what I'm what I'm speaking of is actual history, not conjecture, and predominantly by a a book by a German named a u r e l k r u s e, and it was published in Germany in 1885. And so kinda he wanted a little poke and, you know, out in the villages, I wanna point out that the majority of the men here have served in the military. And, you know, that currently, there is about 1,200,000 that are receiving SNAP benefits, meaning veterans. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And some of them have disabilities from fighting the wars for us. And I think that's a kind of a disrespectful comment that that person made. There was nobody running around out in the villages with 300,000 boats underneath them and and taking advantage and being enabled by the having a little snap infusion, I guess,
Speaker 4:to to keep them alive. Right.
Speaker 3:One thing I'd like to also point out was that in eighteen o four, was actually in charge administrator for the Russians. He was given twenty some years. And with the hassles that he had with the lingots down here, due to the big battles with the lingot in his absence, Baranop returned to Southeast with a vengeance and bomb that attacked Cake in eighteen o four. These also called Nanook by the lingot. He was kept and so I just wanna point out that in eighteen o four, again, big battles in Sitka with multiple tribes and clans.
Speaker 3:For the first time, they got together. Got third and that's what these clans and tribes should be doing today, getting together to ultimately do their superior firepower. The Russians are people escaped, attacked the Chatham Straits near the north entrance of Pearl Straits. So the the caller the other day, he wanted to raise a so his sense of displeasure was snapped, and I just try to kinda rebut that from a standpoint, and I'll reinterject that. And on October 18, when they did the transfer of the Seward's Poly to The United States, you know, in 1867.
Speaker 3:In in 1882, the Thomas Koren, US revenue cutter Thomas Koren bombed Angoon in 1882, October 26. So enough rambling from my point, but that's why a little rebuttal back to the caller that I felt was disrespecting the people that of the villages that have been here from time immemorial, and it's someone needs to say something about that and edify the people that are lack the knowledge relative to the history of the indigenous people on the land that you're on.
Speaker 2:No, I really yeah. Thank you very much for the call. That a great lesson there and has a bunch of information that even taking the Alaska history classes here with our local school districts, I didn't even know about some of those key dates. So I really appreciate the call and you giving us the rundown on that.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Thank you. And then and beyond that, like, today, they're currently the current administration is rewriting our history. There's a lot of history that is not that it's watered down, it's diluted, or not even spoke of. You know, this country was not based on the there there was a lot of stolen, if you will, lands and the right the international laws at the time allowed that transfer of of Alaska without any, you know, regard for the indigenous people of Alaska.
Speaker 3:And and the and the only, if you will, somewhat restitution was ANCA, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and that gives the indigenous people of Alaska their right to have profitable corporations in the 13 regions. And, you know, there's a lot of history in Alaska that's very interesting that people don't understand and know and why the you know, I I don't think the all of them referring to about enabling the indigenous people particularly with big boats underneath them, etcetera. That's not happening. I mean, it's just that's a false statement, and that's kinda like a mug attack, I guess, to say that if you say it enough times, the society will follow. Right.
Speaker 3:So enough enough our time for my point. Let someone else talk.
Speaker 5:Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for the clarification. I hope you have a great weekend and keep calling in and giving us some history lessons. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you. Happy Halloween.
Speaker 2:Happy Halloween. Alrighty. Get this next caller on here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:Thank you for waiting so patiently.
Speaker 6:Yeah. I just listened to the guy talking about history of Alaska. He says, Tinker is sling it. He needs to speak the right way. My name is Strathin.
Speaker 6:My borrowed name is Floyd. You know, that each place in way back was a Alaska was just a big iceberg. I know because I listened to my elders that talked about how we migrate. I know my stories of migration, of where I started from, and how I got to where I'm at. I know all my history that was passed on from generation to generation.
Speaker 6:Like my tongue is named, means grandpa of the bears in the woods.
Speaker 7:I like that. These
Speaker 6:these stories, they say you put it in your heart, you never forget. And I don't have to look at history book like this guy talking Mhmm. To know who he is, where he is, like on island, Hoots Nawoo, fortress up the barriers, And head of the island is Tusluwu, head of the island. And Point Garden is Tusluwu, the butt end of the island. Things like this I've learned from my elders, and I'm grateful.
Speaker 6:They used to always say, go visit your uncles to learn where you come from.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 6:I wonder if he knows his history, where he come from, All the way from way back, I'm a caretaker of a staff called Hots that dates back 600 years ago. And I'm a caretaker of bear hat that dates back 400 ago, and I know the stories of it. And that's why I said, you know, he talks about people from different countries when we were here. And these place, like I mentioned on Rhode Island, each place has a name. I wonder if he knows the names of where he's he's from.
Speaker 6:And all our names were passed on from generation to generation. And our stories, our elders used to say, you put it in your heart, you'll never forget. And I put all those stories in my heart, I never forgot. And you talk about our bombardment. I'm an elder now, and I met the man, Billy Jones, when I was a young man.
Speaker 6:He was always proud of the kids when he saw them. I used to visit him. And he talked about we lost six children. Yeah. Like, you gotta think about how many elders we lost during the winter.
Speaker 6:The winters were bad compared to today.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 6:We lost a lot of elders because they gave their food, their portion of the food to their children, so they never forget what happened to us. You know, we only had one canoe that supported our island, and that canoe had never hit the beach. When they brought food in and the different ones would go back out to gather food again. So you gotta think about how many elders we had lost, the starvation Absolutely. Because they given up their food to their children, so we never forget.
Speaker 6:You know? But I just thought I'd throw this out there, you know, and he talks about history, but he don't talk about his history. They don't talk where he came from. They don't talk about where he stayed, how he migrated. And even when you talk about the history of when I Alaska was the iceberg, We talk about there's a story about how some of our people walked over the top of the ice and how from another clan, how some of them went under the ice.
Speaker 6:Stories like that were passed on from generation to generation. And I'm proud to carry my stories of my people, of the Bear Clan, the Tequidy, you know, and then talk about our totem pole. It's a shame what the Alaska heritage is doing putting all those totem poles up. They belong to the people in this community. Long time ago, they used to say the only way you could put up a totem pole in another community was you had to wipe out that people that were that totem pole came from.
Speaker 6:And if you didn't do that, you had to pay a lot of restitution.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 6:Not a lot of money to the this community, and she Alaska here to go broke if our people would stand up and say, they belong to us.
Speaker 2:Hey. I I really appreciate that input on there. And, yes, all of us, we should never forget our history and where we came from and stick to our roots. But I got another call waiting here.
Speaker 6:Okay. Thank you for the program.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 6:Okay. Bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye. Let's get this other patient caller on here. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:How are you doing today?
Speaker 8:I'm just fine. Okay. On a lot of note, this is Rose again. And I'll keep it really short because I know I'm fine. Thank you.
Speaker 8:It's only a fifty minute show, and please, everybody, keep it short so the rest of us can get in. But, anyways, I just wanna say, Mike, yay, and Hanes, I Yvonne and I have not forgot about you. Was trying to get the donation flight from Alaska Seaplanes to Hanes for your clothing, your jeans, and your extra large shirts. I spoke to to Yvonne that was on the the program yesterday, and she has a ton of clothes from her husband. So, anyways, I was I'll be going there tomorrow, and Alaska Seaplanes has not reached out to me.
Speaker 8:And, anyways, I called them back yesterday, and I now I have a different contact. He's the director here of customer service, and, hopefully, he'll call me back and let me know if they can do the donation flight to Hanes. I've been try I've been working my, you know what, ASS off to get these clothes to Hanes. And then, you know, Yvonne reached out. And she and I actually have become wonderful friends.
Speaker 8:And so I I feel
Speaker 4:Oh, good.
Speaker 8:Like, because of your program, we've become really, really close. That's awesome. Yeah. I know. So she's on the way on my way to the valley, so I'll swing by and pick her things up tomorrow.
Speaker 8:And then if I have to wait till Monday to go down to Alaska Seaplane, otherwise, I'll go tomorrow on Saturday. I don't you know, obviously, they fly seven days a week. But, anyways, I just wanted to let you know that, Mikey and if you if there's things that don't fit you, donate them to other members of your community. That would be really great. And then another is general animal rescue.
Speaker 8:I just wanted to let you know that they have a lot of cats and dogs there. And I I had a little black and white kitty that showed up on my doorstep in the first week in June. And I had that 19 year old that I had to put to sleep my misty summer on Friday. And so he he's kinda and I'm not a religious lady. I definitely believe in the Lord.
Speaker 8:But he is a blessing from God. He has blessed my soul, and I didn't go down to, you know, animal rescue for him because he showed up on my doorstep, but he very easily could have been there because he
Speaker 9:was Right.
Speaker 8:Dropped off here. So, anyways, I just encourage people to go to Juno Animal Rescue if you feel like your family needs, you know, a pet and or you just need a companion in your life, and that's where you go. And they have a minimal fever, and they'll they will, you know, spay and neuter your the pet, and they'll give the pet all of the shots. And I believe they might even deworm, you know, give a medicine to deworm because my my my baby had roundworm, but I had to go to doctor New for an examination because, you know, it was a stray and stuff. It didn't come from, you know, animal rescue.
Speaker 8:So my situation was different. So I had to pay a little bit more for an examination from doctor New and get him dewormed and that sort
Speaker 5:of thing.
Speaker 8:But he is wonderful, and he's the only little little dude that I have in my life now because now Misty's gone. And he I haven't had a baby cat for nineteen years, and he is quite active. He's, like, 15 years old in a human human life, and Misty was 92 in human life. So he's so darn active. I I'm not used to it.
Speaker 8:But, boy, is he he's active, and officer Young has been helping me from Geno Animal Rescue and the other individuals there are so helpful. And so
Speaker 2:Yeah. That's awesome. Well, I'll get definitely give a shout out to Jar. And if Mikey's listening here, I hope that he heard the message, but we got another caller that's been patiently waiting.
Speaker 8:Okay. Yes. Absolutely. Okay. Okay.
Speaker 8:I'll hang up. Thank you very much and have a wonderful weekend and happy Halloween to everybody.
Speaker 2:Halloween. Have a great day.
Speaker 8:Okay. You too. Thank you. Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Let's get this last caller on before the first break. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 9:This is Mikey Townsend.
Speaker 2:Hey, Mikey. Did you hear that last caller?
Speaker 9:Yeah. Are there?
Speaker 2:Yes. I am.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 9:I just got back from Juneau,
Speaker 5:and
Speaker 9:I found out I'm on good pass rate, this rate.
Speaker 2:What's that?
Speaker 9:I found out I found out that my uncle passed away this week.
Speaker 2:Oh, no.
Speaker 9:Yeah. Me and him was already close, and he passed away this week. And and it's I heard the lady, they I wanna say thank you, but I had him went to Juneau couple of days ago because I was low on blood. Mhmm. And I just just got back about a half an hour ago, and just letting you know if y'all might just keep me in prayers or mail me any senti fee cards to me.
Speaker 9:That would be really nice, but I just found out that my compostorated this week.
Speaker 2:I'm so sorry to hear that.
Speaker 9:And hurts about my neck right there. I'm trying to hold myself together right now. I don't mean to cry on who's wrong, but me and me and was really, really, really close.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. Well, hey. We'll send we'll send out our thoughts and prayers for you.
Speaker 9:And just remember that my doggy care and anything that y'all could do for me that I need on a lot of support right now.
Speaker 7:Yes.
Speaker 9:And my number is 90752611. And like I said, I just got back from Juneau from here because my blood count was low.
Speaker 10:Mhmm.
Speaker 9:And they said the medicine's doing okay. They might have to change things around, but the blood count was pretty low, so they had to give me two pints of blood when I was in, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, I I I hope that's making you feel physically better, but emotionally, I'm we'll we'll send every bit of support we can to help you
Speaker 9:through It's this hard really, really hard. I found out yesterday, the mastering.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm so sorry, man. I hope that some people reach out and can, you know, give a little emotional support and, you know
Speaker 9:I don't mean to cry over the phone. Oh, you're
Speaker 2:you're totally fine. It's understandable.
Speaker 9:It's it hurts so bad that I I had just died last week in this week. Excuse me. So yeah. Dismember, doggy care housing and or cleaning house. My number is (907) 550-2611.
Speaker 2:Alright, we'll shout that out a couple times for you.
Speaker 9:Thank you, just keep me in mind guys on the radio station, okay?
Speaker 2:Absolutely, we will be.
Speaker 9:Alright, thank you.
Speaker 2:Alright, you have a great weekend.
Speaker 9:Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Bye. Alright. Let's take the first commercial break here. Caller who's in right now, just call back in a couple minutes and we'll get you on right away here on KINY.
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Speaker 2:Alright. Welcome back to Problem Corner, and we'll jump right into it with the calls. Got lots of patient people here that have been calling in over the break, so let's get them on. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:How are you doing today?
Speaker 7:Hey. Pretty good, Nana. How's it going?
Speaker 2:I'm doing well. How can we help This
Speaker 7:Joshua. Good job on your first day on the job on Monday.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 7:Absolutely. This coming Monday, they're gonna decide the fate of Telephone Hill and the the committee of the whole meeting. I don't know. We're we're we're hoping for a change of heart. We're happy to have you on the assembly.
Speaker 7:We're also I mean, it's the the eviction date is tomorrow Mhmm. November 1 for the the people who poor people who live on Telephone Hill, they've been there for almost four decades now. These people who have maintained and preserved their homes for the last thirty some odd years, almost forty years. We're hoping that the city has a change of heart and allows them to stay considering that they're the reason the houses are still there now. Next Friday, I mean, a week from today at the Alaskan bar, we're gonna express our gratitude for the people who preserve history in Juneau, and we wanna offer a free movie, a documentary about another case where eminent domain by the way, eminent domain was part of the Fifth Amendment, and it was a legal provision that was used to oust the original owners of the houses on Telephone Hill in 1984.
Speaker 7:It is used for public works projects, and it does so by taking private land from from its owners. But it's also used for self interested and often racist purposes in the case of the Atlantic the Atlanta Highway, which displaced African American families in the mid sixties, it's often used to favor rich projects, even private projects
Speaker 3:Mhmm.
Speaker 7:Like Bruce Ratner's basketball stadium in Brooklyn, New York.
Speaker 2:Oh, The the this well, the state took it and then ended up not doing anything with it and then trying to give it back. So I know I know that it's all from Utah. Oh, yeah. But what are you guys doing on Friday there at the Alaskan?
Speaker 7:We're gonna show a documentary about just that boondoggle.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 7:And in light of what's going on with Telephone Hill, that is exactly what we believe will happen to our beautiful history if they take it
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 7:And decide to demolish it. And they're demolishing it with our own money. They have no plan. They they don't they don't have a developer even. So in in a sense, the the Telephone Hill demolition, I don't wanna honor it with the title of redevelopment because it's it's not even about redevelopment at this point.
Speaker 7:It's just taking our money and wrecking our history.
Speaker 2:What what time are you guys gonna be doing that that showing at?
Speaker 7:We're gonna show it at the movie starts just a little after six, but we're gonna be up there for Art Walk, and I'm inviting all the the Telephone Hill people and the supporters to come into the Alaskan bar as soon as they want, as soon as Art Walk begins. It begins about 04:30. We're gonna be setting up. We're gonna put our our posters and our our protest signs and all that.
Speaker 9:Our Mhmm.
Speaker 7:Our paraphernalia, our trappings that we've collected over the years.
Speaker 2:And you said that's next Friday.
Speaker 7:Inviting all the Telephone Hill people and supporters. I wanted to I wanna make it manifest that the Alaskan Hotel and Bar supports the people who have preserved Telephone Hill for the last forty years, and we support historic preservation as we are a part of it. My family bought the Alaskan Hotel in 1977. I was two years old. And ever since then, I've been a lover of history.
Speaker 7:The main reason we learn history though, Nano, is so that we don't have to repeat it. This is being done before. Oh, yeah. City governments, private developers like Bruce Ratner and Pfizer Corporation have taken large swaths of land under the aegis and auspices of local governments Right. With disastrous results.
Speaker 2:Hey. Did I got other callers here waiting to get on. Did you say that's next Friday?
Speaker 7:Yeah. That's next Friday.
Speaker 2:Okay. November '7,
Speaker 7:that's six.
Speaker 2:So I'll shout that out a couple of times, and we'll try and get some people to come out there and show some more support.
Speaker 7:Thanks so much, Yeah. Again, it's Art Walk. Everybody knows Art Walk. Right?
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 7:Art Walk is the Alaskan bar.
Speaker 2:Alrighty, man. You have a great weekend, and happy Halloween.
Speaker 7:Keep up the good work,
Speaker 2:Thank you. Alright. Bye. Alright. And get the next oh, they just dropped.
Speaker 2:Next caller, I see that you're waiting there patiently. Call back in and we'll get you right on. And oh, there they are. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 17:How are
Speaker 2:you doing today?
Speaker 19:Hey. Good morning.
Speaker 4:Good morning.
Speaker 5:I've got a lot of
Speaker 19:sketchy history out there. I always question all of it that I heard today, but both sides
Speaker 5:of it.
Speaker 19:But, anyway, hey. I got a proposition for you. Go ahead. $5 for every poster of yours I take down in in the valley. I I'll charge you back if you wanna save them.
Speaker 19:I mean, you get some nice bit one discussion there at Glacier Valley and the roundabout and just off the road there. I thought everyone else got their damn post. Excuse me. I got your your postage down. I I was wondering when you gotta take these other ones that belong to you.
Speaker 19:You wanna save them for the next time now. So if you run again
Speaker 2:You you might need to go take another cruise around. I did take them down just the other day. Anything that's in someone's yard though, that's that's up to them.
Speaker 19:Well, that's it's right there in the fence. It's on the right away. But what about the roundabout? You got the one I didn't notice the one at the roundabout. I didn't think I was looking at it, but you
Speaker 2:can check that out. I went and took them all down.
Speaker 5:Oh, never mind then. I guess I should
Speaker 19:be a lot more observant.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Anything else that we can help
Speaker 5:you with?
Speaker 19:No. We don't need to bother with my my my history lesson, but anyway, take care. Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Have a great weekend. Alright. Let's get this next caller on here. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 5:I'm doing good, Nana. This is Mel.
Speaker 2:Hey, Mel. How are you doing?
Speaker 5:Like I said, I'm doing fine. I I'd like to say something in honor of Pete Ken.
Speaker 2:Yes, please.
Speaker 5:I heard a little short audio, and he was talking about one of my Jesse Kiel, whom I I support strongly. Mhmm. And that was nice of the station to run that because he can add a gift. And I don't need to go any farther on that. It it's it's good that they they run that.
Speaker 5:And and for his loved ones, I I I know it's it's hard on them.
Speaker 3:But I
Speaker 5:I also wanna talk real real quick. I I don't wanna take up too much time. This is about I spent some time in Sitka, so I I talked before about the Bill Brady thing. And on Alaska Day, we we were given the day after to go there and celebrate.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 5:I went up to Castle Hill, and I could count the indigenous people on one hand when Alaska was sold. There was no communication with the first people of Alaska. They were left out. No way to to honor them. So that's that's my short thing about Alaska Day, and I appreciate the early history yesterday about Sitka.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 5:And with that, I'm I'm gonna get off the air so others can call you. Nana, thank you.
Speaker 2:Hey. We always appreciate your calls, Mel. I hope you have a great day and a great weekend.
Speaker 5:Too. Bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye. Alright. Let's get this next caller on. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 4:Hello. It's me, the guy with all the stuff.
Speaker 8:Yeah.
Speaker 4:So if you wanna know
Speaker 6:what I got, give me
Speaker 4:a call at (907) 957-1673, we've been buying up my movies. I don't say buy up movies now because when when the power goes out, then then you you might have a generator, but if you don't got movies Yeah.
Speaker 2:If you won't have your WiFi.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Because everybody's screaming.
Speaker 6:So I
Speaker 4:said, nope. I said, it's good to have a good dozen WUIs on hand just in case, you know?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah. We'll shout that out a couple times and see if we can keep the business coming your way.
Speaker 4:I was wondering what the topic was, what they were talking about, Angoule or something?
Speaker 2:Oh, just the early history of other peoples coming to Alaska and the interactions with the first people of the land.
Speaker 4:Yeah. Well, technically, if they want to get technical about it, about the land, The only claim that there and you can check this in history. The only claim the Russians ever had was to the was to fort in Sitka.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 4:So, basically, we got money for nothing. You know? You know? But, you know, I'm I'm inclined to agree with our governor because Russians are still rattling their saber. They want Alaska back.
Speaker 4:You
Speaker 10:know? Yeah.
Speaker 2:I've I've I saw the I saw the articles about that too.
Speaker 4:Tell me, we just like go right ahead. He said he said there's gonna be there's gonna be a rifle behind every every every snowball. He said you can't even take Ukraine. Right. You're try and take a fully armed state.
Speaker 2:Hey. Well, we we have another caller trying to get on here. Do you got anything else that he wants to shout out for you?
Speaker 4:Yeah. I have a wheelchair I'm trained to sell to. So if you just give me a quick call and let you know what I got, and y'all have a good day. And just like I said, you know, it's a good thing we got programs like this cause we can agree to disagree on a lot of things.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 4:The day they don't do that anymore is the day that they're gonna say, uh-oh.
Speaker 2:Hey, well, again for the call and I hope you have a great weekend, man.
Speaker 4:But it's freedom of speech, not today, it's not.
Speaker 2:Alrighty, you have a great weekend.
Speaker 4:Bye bye, you too.
Speaker 2:Alright, bye. Let me get this next caller on. Good morning, welcome to Problem Corner, how are you doing today?
Speaker 8:Fine. It's Megan. Hey. One of your broadcasters, a female lady was talking about Billie Eilish talking to an audience about because I know she's probably a billionaire by now, that Billie Eilish young lady. But, she was saying, if you're a billionaire, why don't you donate to great causes here in our country?
Speaker 8:And so that's what I'm shouting out to anybody that's a billionaire out there, and then some of them are gonna be trillionaires, it's my understanding, by the advertisement that your broadcaster was talking about. Why can't you donate to the country that needs assistance? And, actually, the Juno Rotary Club, when I spoke with them, when I donated to the polio Mhmm. Eradication, they said that if it wasn't for Bill Gates donating his billions and billions and billions of dollars that he has, I think he's worth a $100,000,000,000. And he doesn't wanna go to the grave with his money, so he's donate donating it now.
Speaker 8:Excuse me. And so they said, the man that I spoke with said that they wouldn't have been able to do it without Bill Gates. And so if these other billionaires out there and millionaires, if they could donate to great causes within, you know, our country, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 8:So a billion isn't a bill billion a 100,000,000 or something like that. I mean, I don't know what it calculates out to be. I'm not a math, nutician, but, anyways, I'll let you go. Just shouting out there to these people that have ton a ton of money. And, you know, you can't you can't go to hell or heaven with your money, so you know.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, there's nothing you can
Speaker 8:That's do with it after right. Anyways, that's my two cents, but thank you.
Speaker 2:All right, thank you. You have a great weekend. Okay,
Speaker 8:You too. Thank you. Bye bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. Bye. Okay. And we are just on the tail end of the program here. We'll go through and kind of shout out a couple of these calls that people were requesting for some assistance.
Speaker 2:There's Mikey, again, and Haynes looking for donations at (907) 500-2611. Sounds like we have some individuals in town who are trying to get some of that assistance over, but just all weather dependent for seaplanes to be able to get out. I know that they have been having some troubles over the last couple of days just with all the super high winds and really rough rain. So hopefully, they're able to get out here soon so that they can get some of that stuff over to him. Next Friday, the first Friday in November at the Alaskan Bar at 6PM, There will be a viewing of, you know, properties being taken by eminent domain and the implications of that.
Speaker 2:And then we got the gentleman who has all the movies, CDs, and even a wheelchair. And if you're interested in any of that stuff, his number is (907) 957-1673. Got another caller here. Let's get them on. Good morning.
Speaker 2:Welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 20:Oh, I'm doing fine. I just wanna get on your radio. I have three kittens that are available. My number is 419-8420. If you have any questions, then thank you for your program.
Speaker 2:Oh, thank you. Thank you. Lady has some kittens. If you're interested in kittens at all, her number, she said, was (907) 419-8420. And it sounds like, you know, a bunch of the other calls that we had today were related to Alaska history.
Speaker 2:I always love getting, you know, the low down, especially from elders and, you know, hearing the stories that they have and, you know, making sure that those stories are preserved and passed down and, you know, told so that other people can understand them. And it's not just one perspective of history, you know, we should all always strive to gather as many perspectives as possible on anything that might make the most well rounded opinion on it. And let's see here. As far as what's going on for the rest of the day, you know, it is gonna be a dark and windy Halloween. So just make sure that if you're out there helping the young ones go trick or treating and things like that, that there is highly reflectable wear on so that cars can see at night and make sure that you're always going in groups, people don't get lost or hurt.
Speaker 2:And I wanna make sure that everyone has a fun and safe evening today. I've got another caller on here. Let's get him on before the end of the program. Good morning. Welcome to Problem Corner.
Speaker 2:How are you doing today?
Speaker 20:Good. I, first off, wanted to say congratulations on winning your seat for the assembly.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 20:I appreciate that we're gonna have a fresh perspective and people that are willing to listen. And I also would like to know if there is something that you guys can do about getting the caller the first caller that had all that information about the native, lands and the people here. If there if you guys can bring somebody on like that every once in a while so that we can all get a updated history. I mean, that was really interesting with all the facts that he had.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. And
Speaker 20:I would really love to hear more of it as being an Alaska native myself. That was some pretty interesting information.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah. Even for me, you know, I'm I'm not Alaska native, but I've born and raised here and I I love the history behind all this stuff. And yeah, a bunch of those dates, I'm like, oh, woah. Yeah. I'm gonna have to look into that.
Speaker 2:So I yeah.
Speaker 19:Think
Speaker 20:You're I fifty seven years, so I've never heard half of the stuff that he talked about other than most of it. But I mean, that was some pretty interesting and, like, I don't know if it's like capital chatter if you guys can have someone come on like you do with the other guy on Thursdays to have a native perspective point of view. I would love to hear that.
Speaker 2:I think that's a great idea too. Yeah. Just the the main one that stood out on me was the the Spanish involvement and stuff. Yeah. I didn't know I was like, woah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 20:Yeah. Interesting. But I just wanted to say congratulations. And can we get that person on and find out who they are or, you know, get a web link or something that we can, you know, look up the information that he had because that was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2:I agree. Yeah. Hopefully he's still listening and calls back in and we can get some contact info on him.
Speaker 20:Alright. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah. You have a great weekend.
Speaker 20:You too. Happy Halloween.
Speaker 2:Happy Halloween. Bye. Alright. One more caller here before you wrap up the program.
Speaker 9:Alright.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Welcome to Prom Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 9:Wishing everybody a happy holidays and special shout out to my brother, his birthday to Kennedy House from Hana, I see my shake. Everybody happy Halloween.
Speaker 2:Happy Halloween to you out there as well. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 9:Alright. Have a good evening.
Speaker 2:Alright. You as well. Have a good weekend. Bye. Alright, we got one more caller I think we can squeeze on.
Speaker 2:Good morning, welcome to Problem Corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 3:Good. Do you still have time? Yes. May I tell you guys a story?
Speaker 2:We got about two minutes here.
Speaker 3:Okay. Just a quick one.
Speaker 2:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:I got called by the state troopers and said they found my mother-in-law floating in the bay and catch or in Juneau. Oh, man. And she'd been there for a while because she had crabs and seaweed on her. When was this? Asked me today, they asked me when I would like what I would like to do about it, and I said, well, sell the crabs and reset her.
Speaker 3:I am so sorry. She's that's bad.
Speaker 2:And some people's sense of humor is a little darker than others.
Speaker 3:Yeah. This is Nick from Haines, Alaska.
Speaker 2:Alright, Nick. Well, hello to Haines from Juneau. There anything else that we can do for you before wrapping up the program here?
Speaker 3:No. Just happy Halloween.
Speaker 2:Happy Halloween to you as well. And I hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 4:You too. Okay.
Speaker 7:Bye. Bye.
Speaker 2:Alright. We got one more minute squeeze on this last caller. Good morning. Welcome to problem corner. How are you doing today?
Speaker 10:I'm I'm I'm having really major difficulties navigating through this government shutdown. I have my disability has been completely cut off. And right before the disability got cut off, I I went over and I bought I bought a roll of buzz tokens and I can't afford to keep them anymore. So I'm trying to sell them. I really need some cash.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I called the number you left last week and left a message to try and offer you some assistance and never heard anything back.
Speaker 10:Really? Yeah. Well, that's kinda strange. That well, it's not that that 907 Uh-huh. 500
Speaker 6:Mhmm.
Speaker 10:73697369. 209.
Speaker 2:I'll I'll give I'll give you I'll give a call after the program here and try and get a hold of you.
Speaker 10:I've I've I've gotta sell these things.
Speaker 19:Yeah. We'll we'll we'll
Speaker 2:help you out.
Speaker 10:The check out.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah.
Speaker 10:Disability is completely cut off.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. Well, just be around the area so when I call that they can come get you. Okay?
Speaker 10:K. (907) 500-7369.
Speaker 2:Alright. Alright. Thank We'll give you a call here in a bit. We'll get you. Alright.
Speaker 2:You have a great weekend. Alright. And that will wrap it up for today on Problem Corner. Thank you everyone for tuning in. And as we go into the weekend, just remember that be the change that you want to see in the world.
Speaker 2:Go out and do something nice for someone you know or even someone you don't know. You don't know what little thing will make the world a difference in someone's life. And if we all go out there and try and put a little positivity in the world, then large and wonderful things will happen for everyone. So tune in with us next week on Monday on Problem Corner on KINY.
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