Hey everybody welcome back to flag/ fan Friday
Hope you like the Lesotho episode, so you know the deal is usually the part where I fix up the small mistakes
We made in the episode first of all the singular demonym of a person from Lesotho is a Mosotho- not
Masotho - also in the video I
Accidentally said Maseru was on the east side when it's clearly on the west side of the country a few things that
Ken got wrong so of Lesotho currency the Malati he used pictures of the euros for some reason can you are on such thin ice
I swear, but you know okay fine
I get it we were in Alaska doing the geogra-bee so and I'll let you slide also
I got a note from somebody
kommandantbaker says quick thing to know when you show the UK providing defense equipment to Lesotho - you showed American
m1a1 Abrams and MBTs why not use a picture of British-made
Challenger II MBTs well the answer for that Kommandantbaker is I don't know what those things
Are we just kind of google alpha images of generic military vehicles, and I guess that just popped up the point is we're just talking
About military stuff we're not talking about specifics in military vehicles, so I guess you're right
We could have used British military vehicles, but that's not really the point of what we're trying to explain
But we could have and finally the last thing
I want to say is
Depending on how you count if you consider the number
96 being the
Actual point of getting to the episode then yes the halfway point of Lesotho would be the halfway of all the UN countries
But if you consider finishing the entire episode
96 then the halfway point of the Liberia episode would be the halfway of all the UN countries the point is
Celebrate because we're halfway done either way and next week Liberia will be up so if you want to celebrate for that go for it
All right anyway, We got to get into this flag thing so without further ado
Had so much fun filming the Lesotho episode seriously
It was a celebration my friends were there ken has a little appreciation
Moment I also kind of wanted to talk about another thing a lot of you guys noticed that a lot of things and traits about
Lesotho to seem like they are kind of similar in parallel to the Jabari tribe in the movie Black Panther
That's because they are the costume designers and researchers actually used Lesotho a
Lot when it came to the Jabari tribe. You know the fact that they live high in the mountains
They use the mohair blankets. It's really cool. How if you watch the movie you'll observe all these like cultural parallels
It's really cool
Anyway the flag of Lesotho the flag is a horizontal tricolour of blue white and green with a black traditional
Basotho hat known as the mokorolto centered in the middle white band the blue represents the sky
Or rain the green represents the prosperity of the nation and the white stands for peace whereas the mokorolto
Symbolizes the Basuto people and their heritage as a symbol of the nation keep in mind this flag is actually kind of fairly new
They used this flag with another Basotho hat on it after
Independence and prior to that they were under the British as a protectorate and used the Union Jack flags after
1987 a coup ousted the National Party who had been in power for over 20 years
and they decided to use this flag with the traditional Basotho shield club or
Khobkerrie and Assegai Lance and then finally they switched the flag up back in
2006 which brings us to the coat-of-arms the coat-of-arms
contains the exact same imagery as the flag after the coup years with a Basotho shield cloth and Lance and in the center at
Tursus of ostrich feathers flanked on each side are two Basotho horses
Supporting the shield as the crocodile lies on the shield and at the bottom lies the motto Khotso Pula Nala
Which means peace reign and prosperity the coat of arms was adopted shortly after independence and has only changed slightly in color in
2006 so that is just about it that means you know what time it is geogra-fanmail time
So we got lots of cool stuff
I'm excited to show you let's jump into it. So you know the deal we always start off with
Postcards so first off we actually got like four postcards from Prague Czech eeeh tomislav from Croatia
Thank you for sending these three and václav
Thank you for sending this one with the clock this thing is really famous by the way
It's so cool and beautiful Alexis from the DR sends fortaleza osama, the oldest fortress in the Western Hemisphere
I believe or a castle
I think your name is nico sent this from Stockholm Katelyn sent this from Panama
And she says she works at the Smithsonian in DC terima is Indonesian, but sent this from China
I think your name is Syed. He sends this from Chicago, and he writes. Sorry for the depressing Frodo
Thank you for Han for sending this from Malaysia. It's the RAF
Let's see are the biggest flower in the world the icon of the Malaysian state of Sabah
Dhabi census from then sois model is the wet desert of Brazil. Oh my voice is cracking
He says we're two brothers from Rio de Janeiro travelling through the modern au state we went to land sois modern s
It is breathtaking you have no idea how much I want to go here. It's so amazing
It's so different from any other landscape
And we got to Filipinos patrick senses from Boracay and abby drew a picture of the sanctuary o de san jose
Located in las casas filipinas de aku. Sod. Well you actually drew this. That's so cool
Thanks a lot Abby. All right here are some letters Eric from Michigan. Thank you for drawing these flags
Oh and Abbi who sent that drawing of postcard sent a letter as well. My name is Abbi
I reside in kisaan City here are some Tagalog phrases. I believe you should try to pronounce on camera not cock paga
Papa gah bah bah. I know ken could probably do much better than me
He actually speaks Tagalog all I know is camasta and Paula book every time I go to jollibee. I always get Paula book
I actually really like that stuff Thank You Wyatt from Texas, and he is actually Pakistani American
He drew a Pakistan flag interesting your name is Wyatt. That's not a Pakistani name. Well either way cool
This was sent from Farhan from Malaysia dude check it
I literally just opened his envelope like this like there's no tape no adhesive. It just it was folded. I'm surprised
It didn't get destroyed in the mail. That's so cool
It's like one of those like 3d cards it pulls out and it moves like that
Ah, this is so cool are this from Shreyas from Cypress, Texas. I believe you are Indian American, and you live in -
That's so crazy
We just got something from a Pakistani American who also lives in Texas so that's so crazy you two should probably meet each other
You're both in Texas you do a bunch of flags
map of Canada and to the US where -
colonial territory flags by the way keep in mind like I don't mind if kids watch the show but parents just keep in mind my
Largest demographic are 18 to 24 year olds, so that's the demographic
I mostly gear my content to appeal to like just full disclosure
Geography now is not a children's show but it's not like an adult themed show either
It's just a geography show that doesn't contain adult themed but adult leveled humor with a lot of complex
Anecdotes so again. I don't mind if kids watch the show
It's just I'm not deliberately trying to appeal to children David from San Marcos. We're getting a lot of Texas people today
He sends this cool. Book discover your language. Oh, that's cool. It goes through Arabic and Cyrillic. Oh wait
You're the guy that wrote this book
You sent me your book. Okay, David. Uh Wow I just realized that okay next up Hong Kong. Hey Barb's
I'm one of your biggest fans from Hong Kong. My name is Keith like the guy from the show
Yes
I started to watch your videos from the Cyprus episode and he writes a bunch of cool things about his home in Hong Kong
some notable sites in Hong Kong are Ocean Park Tai Tam reservoir the Big Buddha statue Hong Kong, Disneyland
Victoria Peak man Hong Kong is just a whole other deal like ah I would love to go there. It's pretty expensive though
Isn't it Tsinghua University?
Notebook wow that's so cool, man. Thanks a lot. I love this next up Milo from, Indonesia
Uh you didn't write a letter, but he sent the adventures of tintin written in bahasa indonesia. That is so cool
I've never seen the comics written in that language. I read this in English, but yeah Wow cool
I believe this is the one about the ottoman something right and what is this president Sukarno?
Oh, it's like the hat that he wears comes with a little bandana. Okay. You know what hat coming off. I guess
I'll wear this for the rest of the episode correct me if I'm wrong
I think I'm doing this right so tie on the bandana first
I guess I put this on did I do that right no I man
It's so messy. You're gonna laugh at me well sorry, Indonesia, but I don't know how to do this
I'm not Indonesian, but I'm putting on your hat. I mean you sent it to me
So you knew it was gonna happen and speaking of Indonesia right next door. They're neighbors, Malaysia
Hey Barb's i'm joe from phu chun malaysia. I've sent you some souvenirs. They've got a lot of stuff ironic
How I'm wearing an Indonesian hat and holding a malaysian flag and some Chinese calligraphy
I think it says bar because he wrote Barbie down here. Ah I was really cool. He sent a bunch of pictures of
Malaysian stuff and had this when I was in Singapore royalty traditional clothing. They also have like hindu festivals
There's apparently a festival where women throw their phone numbers into a lake the da2 cone shrine and just like singapore they have
Multilingual signs since a malaysian fan um magnet and I guess this is like a bracelet or something by next up
We got this from Quincy, Massachusetts from Caden neck oh, oh I know these dude
This is a really cool box still I'm definitely gonna keep the box. Hi Barb's. I'm Kayden from Quincy, Massachusetts
I live almost right next to where John Adams and John Quincy Adams were born Necco wafers were invented by oliver chase in
1847 he became a pioneer member of the New England
Confectionery company Adam and marek from Czech Republic huh, they sent a check dark chocolate okay? This is actually rakul
They actually made an entire country called cartel
And they made their own like geography now booklet of their own country. I believe they made the whole thing on
What do you call it?
Minecraft that game guys once again in case you haven't noticed. I'm pretty old okay?
I don't you kids and your games and things that you do they actually talked about like the subdivisions and the political geography the region's
resources the people groups the friendzone and finally Daniel from West, Virginia
That's interesting he sent this plaque. Oh old coins okay one
I guess is a Swedish coin a halfpenny from England a Hungarian
Coin from 1905 and a Napoleon the second 1856 coin from France. Whoa. Why are you sending this to me, man?
This is an antique alright, so those are all of the letters and packages for this week
You know what time it is it's time for return address contest
I put all your return addresses in this little pouch thing and I pick one out and whoever wins I sends a little gift
Too, so let's do it. Okay. I'm not gonna look. I'm not gonna look
I'm gonna grab a paper small one cuz last time. It was big. Let's see
Philippine from two fronts you just won, so well. Ya guys
Thank you for sending all this cool stuff putting your hometowns on display
I really appreciate it subscribe to this channel if you'd like you've just been flagged can I guess you're still hired
And yeah stay cool stay tuned