How did Alaska become a US State?

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	Pts, ahoy, Smarty Pants.
0:05.2	Trust your narrator here, and as you can hear,
0:08.1	I'm on a ferry headed to the largest state in the United States.
0:14.2	Any guesses what state that is, Smarty Pants?
0:16.7	Is it A, Texas, B, California, or C, Alaska?
0:22.8	Well, it's been said everything is bigger in Texas, but as big as Texas is, it's not the biggest.
0:30.0	And neither is California.
0:31.6	The answer is Alaska.
0:33.6	In fact, Alaska is so big that both Texas and California could fit inside it at the same time.
0:41.9	And you can throw Montana in there as well.
0:45.2	Alaska is big with a capital B.
0:51.1	Oh, and speaking of big, I'm being joined on my trip to Alaska by my friend Booy, the beluga whale.
0:58.0	Boo.
0:59.1	In fact, there's Booy swimming now alongside the ferry.
1:02.9	Hey, Bowie.
1:03.8	Hey, trusty.
1:04.9	Welcome back.
1:06.2	And hey, Smarty Pants, if this is your first time in Alaska, welcome to my favorite place in the whole wide world.
1:13.9	If I remember correctly, Bowie, I first met you five years ago on this exact ferry. And now I look
1:19.8	forward to coming back every year to see you and explore Alaska. That's right, trustee. And one of the
1:26.6	great things about Alaska is there's a lot to
1:29.7	explore and learn about. Absolutely. I was just explaining how big Alaska is. Yeah. Did you tell
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