What Happens to Greenland?

What Happens to Greenland?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the world Wide Web's birthday today, world Wide Web?
How about that? Is that there been anything more consequential
to the way we intake things in our life than
the world Wide Web? Consequential? What a word. I love
that word.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I love.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
When Biden was on his way out, everyone said he
was consequential. Is that really like a good thing?

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah? Be a bad thing too. He was consequential in
the way Millard Filmore was consequential.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah, you were consequential, all right, you wrecked everything the
old man.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Oh dang. And maybe Miller Filmore is a little bit harsh.
He was only in office for a couple of years,
and him taking office after Zachary Taylor's death just kind
of pushed us with two hands into the Civil War eventually.
So you know, not to blame Millard Filmore for the
Civil War, but he really didn't help anything. And there
was nothing civil about that war. I tell you what,
I tell you what I told you. You know what,

(00:46):
I just want to kind of, you know, chill have
some fun today. I don't have like a laundry list
of like, hey, we have to absolutely talk about this
stuff stuff today. And I just kind of enjoyed talking
to you. So if you want to call in four
oh two five five eight eleven ten, is the number
four two, five five eight eleven ten. Jeremy is on
the line. He'll get a started today. Welcome in, Jeremy.

(01:06):
What's on your mind today?

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Hey, how's it going? And thank you for taking the call.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So my suggestion for what you can talk about today
is what do you think Nebraska mind look like going
forward with the Department of Education being pushed out to
the states.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, well, do you have an opinion on that, Jeremy,
Because I mean, every person that I've talked to, at
least in my home state of Iowa and maybe some
people locally here, is that. Well who in Washington even
knew what we were teaching the kids anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Right? Yeah, Yeah, I'm with you hundred percent. My opinion
is I mean one, I think it's great. I think
it's right in line with what the founders had visioned
for our country. I think that when you start looking
at it that way, we can get away from the
indoctrination of our students and of the populous as a whole,

(01:59):
because is you know, you look at the numbers, how
many what percentage of people are run for public schools.
You know, it's ridiculously highest. So when you have such
a for like better worker phrase, I'll say, a mecca
of liberalism, you know, running from the federal government, then
of course you're going to get these liberal enclaves in

(02:20):
every state now. So yeah, I think it's a great idea.
And I think, you know, allowing the dominantly read states Nebraska, Iowa,
and South Kosche you know, the entire gamut of flyover states,
let them do their own thing. I think that we
can start teaching them with their own values.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, no doubt. And we got to remember the Department
of You do you know when the Department of Education
was founded?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I know I've heard this before. I want to say fifties,
maybe sixties.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Nineteen seventy nine. So we functioned without a federal Department
of Education all the way up to nineteen seventy nine.
And you know, I'm sure the Department of Education itself,
you know, there were different iterations of that for a
large chunk of time. But what I'm saying as a
whole is the people teaching our kids are local. The

(03:12):
people who are are the superintendents of our school districts,
are local. The people who are, you know, kind of
operating the curriculum and measuring the test. Every state has
its own standardized testing. Why couldn't we just keep all
that stuff kind of within instead of having some bureaucratic
office in Washington that we're paying for basically there to
tell us all the stuff that we already know. You know,
that's absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
And there's you know, this is a bit of a
unique experience that I had years ago as a military recruiter,
and I learned that, you know, most I'm not going
to paint everybody with the broad brush, but most high
school counselors they really don't care what is good for
the student and what the student wants to do. In

(03:54):
a less it's for your degree, because that's what was
being pushed from the Department of Education. And really, you know,
if because I'm sure you remember when you were senior
in high school, they asked you, are you looking at
a trade school? Are you're looking at joining the military?
You're going to stay and work with dad, you go
into a four year program whatever it was. Well, I
learned during this time, and it was spoken in knowing

(04:14):
certain terms, that their focus is to get every kid
into a four year program and that was, I mean,
abhorrent to me because you know, I know, I'm pretty
sure everybody knows there's an awful lot of the student
body that isn't that they're not college material. I was one.
That's how I ended up in the military. And it's
not that I wasn't smart enough to do it. It's

(04:35):
that I had no direction, you know. And the conversation
can go on for hours, but the fact that, you know,
I suppose that'd be the law of unintended consequences, right, Like,
Department of Education comes up with this whiz bang idea
and says, you know what we need to, you know,
funnel people into higher education. Let's let's make a whole
populisce smarter. It sounds great on its face, but then

(04:56):
when you start pushing one thing, then people start, you know,
diverting attention and resources away from other things. And so
if we can get away from that, great, I'm all
for it.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, that it's a great It's a great point, Jeremy,
Thanks for calling us and bringing this up today. Always
a good topic to chat about.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yes, sir, have a great day.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Uh yeah, school, you put you're a public school guy. Right,
you wouldn't wear a shirt like that if you weren't
a public school guy. Oh really? Well have you know
I was both? How what do you think of that? Now?
What are you gonna say now? About that? And about
my shirt that I bought from Minard's shout out? Shout
out to Minards. I can't remember wh I bought this shirt.
It's got a front pocket, just like yours. See, I
love front pockets. Why why not? What's good about front pockets?

(05:38):
You've never used the front pocket. I use front pockets weekly.
But why do you? Why? What do you put their
yours button?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
You go for a walk and your nose gets a
little sweating, and you got to take off your glasses.
You put them in your front pocket. Emory song Er,
I don't wear glasses. Okay, I'll think of more reasons.
You have a couple of beef jerky sticks, but you
want to go hands free, you put them in your
front pocket.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Emory Songer, Is that right? That's right? Interesting?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Sometimes you got accentuate your point with both hands. Put
those beef jerky sticks in your front pocket. Why couldn't
you just sit it down on the table. Maybe there's
not a table available. Did you think of that?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I guess not. I guess.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
I'm telling you, the front pocket will change your life
if you start using it. I see some people putting
their phone in the front pocket. Hmmm, that's trouble to me.
It's just like, I feel it too much and don't
do that, because then you'll forget, you'll bend over and
then PLoP. Yeah, it's just like it's too heavy. Like
I don't like I don't like the weightiness of this.
I don't really even like carrying keys or a wallet

(06:33):
in my pocket. Yeah, you don't want weight in that
front pocket. That's the one thing you got to keep
it lightweight. A pen, a comb. I've popped a comb
in the old front pocket like a greaser. Oh sure, yeah,
are you a greaser?

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Look at that? This is a shirt from a Nards.
You know what I used to that's mechanics. You look
like a mechanic. You don't look like a greaser. Uh.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yeah, you know what I used to have. What I
used to have a pen that also was a level
but also was a measuring stick. And boy, you better
believe that sat in the front pocket of this shirt.
Did I ever use it?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
No? I was gonna say, what did you use it for? Nothing?
That had nothing to do with anything I have. I
am zero help in the garage your garage. If you
were a carpenter, then I can understand having that pen.
If you're not a carpenter, then what's the point. Well,
that's why I don't have it anymore. I lost track
of it because I never used it. That's that. And
so you're you're undermining your own arguments. Oh, I'm a poser,
there's no doubt about that. Well I and I appreciate

(07:24):
you finally coming around to admit that I also am
a poser of different kinds. I'm currently posing as a
radio host. Did you know that I've been faking it
for about two years now? How do you like that?
Fake it? Tell you and make it? Baby? Who knows
how long it'll be here? Yeah, it's two fifteen. This
is great. This is a good good talk there, Matt.
We got stuff to talk about. Greenland had an election.
Did you know that they had elections in Greenland? What

(07:46):
do you think they had to say in their election?
Because all of a sudden we have an interest in that.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let me guess they elected some sort of like roided
up flat top, you know, like g I Joe sort
of guy who's got a bunch of tats and he
leads the military. I'm and I'm just saying, you know,
if we're going to talk about taking them, they're going
to get some crazy dictator guy over there.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
That's like you would what or me?

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I bet they elected a guy named Rambo Rocky Balboa
the fourth That's what they did.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
I don't think that's what happened, but they did have
an election. I will tell you about it next on
news radio eleventh in KFAB and raised on there. There's
ways to talk about stuff and you can protest about
things without being such a jerk about it, right, and
that just is annoying to me. It's annoying to me.
I don't know. I saw this thing about Greenland. Do

(08:33):
you really want us to take Greenland? Like if we
decided that we wanted to take Greenland and Denmark was like,
uh no, you don't, like, what would we do? Like
would you support us buying it? Would you support us
having some sort of election? What do you think, like, like,
what do you think would be the appropriate reaction there?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
I think that Denmark doesn't want to give it up.
Greenland doesn't want to change ownership, so I think we
should maybe stop it.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's what I think. You think we need to stay
out of it. I think a war is going to
break out if we keep messing around with over Greenland.
I don't know. I mean, you were Greenland. They think
the Denmark is going to be like, okay, now it's on.
You think Denmark's who we were worried about. Do you
know how big Denmark is? No, but they got wooden shoes. No,
that's the other place. That's the Netherlands. What does Denmark do?
The Canadians of euro they got the Dutch ovens? Is

(09:21):
that No, that's the other play. Remember the Canadians of Europe?
We played the South Park clay Oh that's right. It's like, yeah,
we're kind of just the Canada of Europe, so we
came over to be the Canadians of North America. It's
funny because Canada was on striking that episode. It's one
of my favorite all time South Park episodes. It's it's
like picking on the wallflowers right now.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
The people invited to the party, they just kind of
hang around the back and don't really, you know, talk
much because he didn't really get an invite, but they
just kind of snuck in.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I don't know, Yeah, they snuck in, But at the
same time, they also happened to like have like the
best room. Right, They're like sitting on the best couch.
They're sitting in really strategic areas right next to the
punch bowl, like they have the best spot in Trump's
just kind of like, you don't understand if the cool,
more aggressive people when it comes to, you know, being socialites,

(10:09):
we're sitting next to the punch bowl and we're sitting
on the nice sofas. This party would be a lot better.
Why don't you make way and you can be the
wallflowers where you're supposed to be in the quieter spaces
of the house. My only concern as a college football fan,
what you go out and take Greenland. This is how
Cal ended up in the ACC. The weird things are
going to start happening. What are you talking about. I'm

(10:30):
gonna tell you Chad is going to end up in Europe. Chad,
the African country is going to end up in Europe. Right,
Chile is going to end up inside of a Chili's.
I'm just telling her.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
The country that's a bigger country than you think it is.
You start all this and that's how cal ended up
in the acc Denmark population go pop quiz.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
U four thousand, three hundred and twenty four, four hundred
thousand people. You even kind of insinuate that a country
like Denmark would even kind of step up to the
United States, and in your brain, they have four hundred
thousand people that live there. Okay, let's see to Wyoming.
Let's say four million. Yeah, you're on the right track.
It is five point nine million. It's almost six million. Okay.
You know how many people live in New York City

(11:09):
like more than that, like eight million? Okay, okay, tiny place. Yeah,
but we're talking about able bodied people. I don't know
what that means. New Yorkers they eat a lot of bread.
What do you say. Greenland's population is, Oh, we did
this before.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's like beside the Grand Island population one fifty six
thousand people, right, Okay, they don't even have an island oasis.
Now fifty six thousand people. They're largest city, which is
nuke nuke in u UK.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I don't like it. Back away, that's a bad omen.
Maybe they say nuk or something I don't know, but
it looks like nuke. Greenland's nuke is twenty thousand people,
so it makes up over a third of the entire
population of the island of Greenland. And the island of Greenland, like,
let me ask you GBT real quick, what state is

(11:57):
similarly sized to Greenland? Just for it's the largest isle
of the world. The closest size is Alaska. It actually
is one point twenty six the size of the time
of Alaska. It's three times the size of Texas. Again,
I have to remind you there are fifty six thousand
people that live there. Most of it's ice, That's what

(12:18):
I'm saying. So here's my point. I how do I
say this gently? What do they need it all for?
Denmark has had this thing since before the United States
was even a thing.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
What is Montana they need all that land for? Maybe
we should go up there and slice it up. What
does that even mean?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't know. Montana is on the same page as us.
What are you trying to say? I'm trying to say,
there's a lot of space there. The fifty six thousand
people of Greenland. What are they going to do? What
are they going to do? Well? They have nothing to do,
They have no leverage on anything. They need somebody to
oversee them. Denmark has done that for centuries. Denmark, what
do they have to defend them with? Absolutely nothing? If

(12:56):
Russia is the Arctic villain that they could end up being,
which is what we are told as to why this
Greenland thing matters and why the Canadian thing matters. Also
is that the Arctic Circle could end up being where
future wars are fought. Oh boy, it makes sense that
places like the United States are trying to get a
hold of that stuff. And that's one of the reasons

(13:18):
why they had the foresight to annex Alaska while they
had the chance, which not only protected in the Cold
War Canada and all of North America from Russia, which
is right next door, but it also was kind of like, hey,
you're not gonna trick us, You ain't fool in us.
That was a very smart annexing of a state. Now,

(13:39):
you could make the argument that there's not a whole
lot there, but just having it and having a presence
there matters. What presence does Greenland have if we're gonna
be fighting future wars potentially, if there's not strength in
the Arctic Circle. A bad guy who wants to do
bad things could run right through that thing and all
sixty thousand people that live in Greenland and have a

(13:59):
very very important, large chunk of land sitting right next
to Canada and the United States, and you don't know
what you could do at that point. You want to
talk Cuban missile crisis. Well, future generations are like, what
why did you idiots not think to get Greenland when
you had the chance. And That's what I'm saying. I
think it's worthy conversation when you think of it from
a defense mechanism.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
First off, we already have a great position to keep
an eye on Russia. Sarah Palin can see them from
her house, so we're good there. But secondly, I actually
do kind of see your point. I still don't think
it's very neighborly. It doesn't have to be neighborly. It's
not about being neighborly. It's about making everyone safe. So
what do you think happened when Greenland had its election

(14:41):
this week? Because they elect their own people to kind
of govern them like by proxy, even though Denmark oversees them.
It's kind of like the colonies were back in the
seventeen hundreds, we still have elected officials theoretically that kind
of plant the seeds for democratic you know who's doing
what at the time, but they're still kind of this overarching,

(15:01):
overseeing hey, like if we need something, they're there to
help us, or if they want us to do something,
we kind of have to do it. Kind of thing
with Denmark there.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well, the election of Greenland kind of had a lot
to say about that, and also about what Donald Trump
has been saying about Greenland. I will explain coming up
on news radio eleven ten kfab Emory Sunger. I played
it to Coy throughout the day that she got really
sad by the time we got to late afternoon. I
hadn't wished her a happy birthday yet. Oh right, So yeah,

(15:31):
it's just like it was a misjudgment, right. I wanted
her to think that I had forgotten and then I
was going to have like this surprise dinner for her
at the end of the day. But I learned that
sometimes surprise isn't the best way to do things. You
should you know, you can build surprises in in a
healthy way, and I learned that lesson a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
So you went so all in on the surprise. You
wanted to be such a surprise. You wanted her to
think you forgot it was even her birthday.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Ah, man, that's tough though, Like I can see why
you did it, But in the moment.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
Right, like I wanted, I wanted a zig and zag, right,
and I just I overplayed the hand, I think. You know,
did you see her a lot during the day. No,
I had at work all day.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
See that makes it a little bit easier than you
just get super busy.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, still, first thing I said
to her today though, was happy Birthday. Yeah, you know, yeah,
we had a big dinner on Monday. We went out
about on Monday for dinner, and uh, that was a
good time when we went to the season reveal party
over there at the season reveal and we, I mean,
we're just talking about all sorts of fun stuff with

(16:36):
what's going on in the world, and had a great
Brazilian steakhouse dinner on Monday. So that kind of was
her birthday dinner. She kind of admitted that that was
probably her birthday dinner. You know, anytime that you're spending
like two hundred dollars at a restaurant for two people.
I feel like that's like a yeah, that was a
that was a treat. But we got other things that
we're doing throughout the week. And we're going to the

(16:57):
Gourmet Club tomorrow and right fig which will be fun.
And then we're on the Netherlands next month, right, So
we've got a lot of things going on. I used
to have a little something for it today, but happy
birthday to Carrie. Always always good to celebrate special days.
We were talking about Greenland. They had a big election.
I'll talk about the analysis coming out of that and
why it matters, because it does matter, it doesn't matter,

(17:19):
and we will tell you about that in a second.
Phone lines are open though, if you wanted to be
a part of a conversation for two five five, eight
eleven ten and Mike is on the line. Mike, welcome
to the show today. What are you thinking about?

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Well, we already have a Air Force base. We've had
it there for a number of years called Truly Truly
Greenland and it's been been converted to the Space Base
now okay, and so we've had military presence there and
it's a it's part of a protection agreement that we

(17:53):
have with Denmark.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
So let's assume that things get a little bit more
aggressive from an American front on wanting to have more
control there. Do you think that would be welcomed in
that regard or do you think that maybe there would
be pressure of like, hey, just be happy that we
have a base there kind of thing. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, I think it's I think it if the Cold
War starts up again. I think it's a base that
will grow and it's pretty it's good, a pretty much state.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
What it is right now.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Is just a military presence. Yeah. I haven't heard of anybody.
I haven't heard of anybody that's real interested in taking
over Denmark. Yet. Of course, they never know what will happen.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
That is true, You do never know what will happen. Mike,
Thanks for the call, Thanks for listening to us today. Yep,
second largest city in Greenland is called sism Mute. Sism mute.
How many people do you think in the second largest
city in Greenland sisim mute?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
The first one was twenty thousand. Yeah, it's like eighteen
nineteen thousand, Okay, I'll guess this one's like ten eleven thousand,
five and a half. Okay, there's some crazy names here,
ilust ilu, sot a site, uh site, there's like multiple
double a's in there. Uh cock cortok cock kortok. You'll

(19:18):
never guess how it's spelled. Ever, you'll never guess how
it's spelled. Can you say it again? Cock kortok cock
core tok ka nope, co r nope, t o k
e nope, ding. Yeah, you get the ding. Yeah. There's
a lot of Q words because of the Inuit population
that lives there. Uh No, it's qa qo r t

(19:41):
o q kortok. There's the one umanac ouhma nac. You'll
never guess how that's spelled, uhmahnac. Can I get it
in the sentence? There are one thousand, four hundred and
seven people who live in Umnak. Can I get the
origin of the word? Please? H Inuit greenland in unit

(20:01):
Inuit okay uma nac. Yeah? Am I saying that correctly?
I believe so umanac umanac. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
It's really hot in here. I think I might pass out.
What do you think does it help that I'm homeschooled.
I feel like I really want to win this thing.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah. The problem is that you are already out of time.
So you you M M A N N A Q
so to us two ms. I mean that's a good one.
It's like an M and M commercial. Oh look at
this one. There's a town of three hundred and forty five.
Eto core tour meat, eto coure tour meat, eto core

(20:40):
tour meat, eto core tour meet. You know, if they
shorten it up, it'd be quicker and easier to say,
eto core tour meat. Is there an eto core tour
You know? Did they have to add the meat on
the end? I have no idea, dude, it is crazy.
This is all in Greenlandic, which is apparently in language
sure Greenlandic.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
It was formerly known as Scores bisoned scores bison, which
is a Danish word. Eto coretor meat is an Inuit
or a Greenlandic word that means big house dwellers in
Eastern Greenlandic dialect. It is known for having polar bears
and muskoxen in seals just naturally in the area. Less

(21:21):
than three hundred and fifty people live there, and it's
one of the most remote settlements on Earth. It is
located on the very far It's like right on the
edge of a peninsula in Greenland. This is kind of
like if you showed up there, there'd be nothing to do,
but man, you would like, if you're like a super
adventurous person, you'd be like, Wow, what a cool place.
Eto core tora meat is spelled it t o qq

(21:47):
o r t oo r m I t.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
H.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah. That is a wild, wild statement. So anyway, I
get all of this because I'm fascinated by Greenland. How
does such a large space of space, larger than Alaska,
a space three times as large as the state of Texas,
have the population of Grand Island? What do they even
do there? How do they function? What goes on here?

(22:18):
Have you seen the coat of arms? It is a
polar bear with its tongue sticking out. It is a
very strange place, but it is incredibly important, not just
for defense, but also for the rare earth minerals they
have up there. If you had free access to that
rare earth minerals, what's Denmark doing with that stuff? Like,
if we can get control over that and not have
to worry about importing that. Remember, that's one of the

(22:40):
reasons we want some of those from Ukraine is we
don't want to have to keep going to China for
a lot of that stuff. So there was a big
election that happened, and guess who won. The Democratit Party,
which is kind of like a moderate Republican party, kind
of like the old school Republican party that you may
have known, like a George W. Bush Republican party. That's

(23:00):
kind of where they sit on the spectrum. But you
know what they believe in. You know what their number
one thing is. Guess what the number one thing is
that they seem to believe in. The Democratique Party in Greenland. Yeah,
they believe the birds are not real. That's not true.
They believe in independence. Independence, Well don't we all from everyone?
From Oh I like it?

Speaker 3 (23:19):
I told you from everyone. Let me guess the guy
they're electing is just a machine gun run by chat GPT.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
It is, not it. A kind of a young guy too.
His name's YenS Frederick Nielsen. I don't know exactly how
old he is. I can probably try to find out,
but his quote was, we don't want to be Americans,
we don't want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders,
and we want our own independence in the future, and
we want to build our own country by ourselves, not

(23:45):
with his hope. So there you go. Greenland colonized over
three hundred years ago by Denmark. They've been under Denmark's rule.
There's fifty six thousand people there. It doesn't seem like
a whole lot. Now, all of a sudden, we're learning
more about it. For basically the last fifteen years, it's
been like this growing swell of a movement within Greenland
that why are we answering to anyone? I hate to

(24:08):
tell you guys this, but the fifty six thousand of you, Ah,
you might want to have a plan for rare earth
minerals and what your defense looks like. If you're wanting
to be independent. See, that's the problem. What are you
gonna do by yourself? You can't do anything by yourself
with fifty six thousand people even, you know what, Let's.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
Say they declare independence, and I bet I bet the
Danes will be like, you know, we're sorry, We'll get
out of here.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
I bet they will. I bet they. I bet they won't.
You don't think so, no, no not, I bet I bet,
And that they look at the United States saying, wait
a second, they they wanted All of a sudden, Well,
now we want to double down. This is ours. You
can't take it from us because now it's like it
what with the United States thinks it's worth something, and
maybe it is worth something. They're not that nice. There's
still six million of them.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
I'm just saying that when everybody leaves Greenland and they're
left all by themselves, they're gonna get lonely.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
They're gonna get lonely, and they're gonna be a giant target.
All of a sudden, we're gonna hear that skype ringtone.
Poo poo poo poo poooooo, it's Greenland again. You up boo? Yeah, Uh,
we're seeing some Russian warships on the horizon. A. Would
somebody like to help us out for that? A we
kind of missed that. Uh though one of those called
oh Dorito's, You got any of those? A you would

(25:18):
have sent some Doridos over, you know. Yeah. Well, based
on these, uh the names of these cities that exist
in Greenland, I'm gonna go ahead and guess they do
not talk like this two forty eight. We'll have more
on this and plenty of other fun stuff when you
come back on news radio eleven ten kfab Emrie Sunger.
She goes by Q because why would you say Panuk

(25:39):
when you could just say Q? And who else is
known by you? Do you know anybody else named Q?
Like maybe like a James Bond character, but John Q public?
I don't know, que. Is there a James Bond character
named Q? I don't know. I just know that there
are letters in James Bond like am anyway? Qu'es Greenland.
She's got almost five hundred thousand subscribers and she's uploading

(25:59):
like daily videos about Greenland. She's Inuit and born and
raised in Greenland. She has one video that I found
and you can find this on YouTube. It's just Ques Greenland.
She has one video where she addresses Donald Trump wanting
to buy Greenland. You know what she says, I'm not
talking about it. I want my channel to be a
political But she did say she believes greatly in Greenland

(26:22):
independence and she thinks that it's important that Greenland works
with as many countries as possible, not just Denmark, which
apparently they have to go through Denmark for all of
their foreign relations, which would give you a good idea
of like, okay, this is why they're kind of a
little upset with Denmark. It's like, well, why do they
have to play middleman with us just because they colonized

(26:44):
us long ago? And how many people of Danish origin
is really in Greenland to begin with? If they have
so many Inuit people, because the Inuit people would have
been there already. And Inuit people also live in along Canada,
all over Canada and in Alaska too, there's a big
Inuit population in Alaska.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
What's Denmark really doing with Greenland?

Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know, well, let me ask saw GBT what is
Denmark even doing with Greenland? What or what it has
to say? Because I don't know, have you heard of anything?
Like what do they do? Do they do? They dig
in for their rare earth minerals, like they certainly don't
care that much about Arctic defense. It's not a problem

(27:25):
that they have to worry about. Just like this, we
don't have a problem to worry about with Ukraine being invaded.
Greenland's relationship has Okay, here you go, it's complicated. Even
though Denmark technically owns Greenland, Greenland is an autonomous territory
within the Kingdom of Denmark, so it governs itself but
relies on Denmark for things like foreign policy, defense and
financial support. It's had self rules since just two thousand

(27:48):
and nine. They can control their own healthcare, education, policing,
and natural resources, so they do have control over their
natural resources. Greenland doesn't have its own military, however, so
Denmark and by extension, NATO manages it. So it's already
a part of NATO because Denmark's and NATO also, Greenland
gets about six hundred million dollars a year from Denmark,
which makes up almost a quarter of its GDP. Without this,

(28:11):
full independence would be tough financially. How could you overcome
six hundred million dollars a year if you want to
be independent. Denmark's not giving you six hundred million dollars
a year. In the United States isn't gonna do that
unless you just hand it over. So you're gonna have
to find something people really like. And I don't think
snow cones cost that much six hundred million, yeesh. I

(28:33):
don't know. It's cool. It's an interesting conversation. I'm kind
of actually into it. We'll talk about this and plenty
of other stuff on this Wednesday. We're just having fun
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