hey everybody welcome back to flag slash
fan friday hope you liked the new
zealand episode so as you know there's
the part where i talk about the mistakes
we made or the things that didn't quite
make it into the video for one i
accidentally called it queensland
instead of queenstown it was my fault i
wrote the script and i read the
teleprompter it's not her fault i wrote
the script my fault sometimes uh when
there's so much information going on i
get jumbled with words sorry i forgot to
mention how auckland is known as the
city of sales they have like the highest
boat ownership per capita out of any
city in the world filmmakers who come to
new zealand can get up to 20 in a cash
grant an additional five percent for
those that can prove that they can add
economical benefits to new zealand also
new zealand is more of a marmite country
whereas australia is more vegemite they
also have the first commercial bungee
jump business in the world there are
more golf courses and helicopters per
capita in new zealand than anywhere else
in the world uh the palmerston north
gisborne railway actually cuts through
an airport runway that's pretty
interesting kiwis also invented quite a
few things the disposable syringe
childproof bottle caps the egg beater
burglar proof windows another
interesting thing is that the island did
not have any natural mammal species of
then two species of bats so the first
inhabitants that came here actually had
to make their clothing out of woven flax
fibers and feathers on a slight morbid
note the british were kind of fascinated
how the maori chiefs would keep the
tattooed heads of their enemies in boxes
as trophies in that regard the british
decided they wanted to trade for these
tattooed heads to put them in museums it
was this weird uh economy of head
hunting with the yeah it's yeah and
finally many pacific island nations have
a shared culture of tattoo tradition and
if you are not part of the community and
if you meet someone with these tattoos
it is strongly advised you do not copy
their tattoos these tattoos must be
either earned or given it's considered
pretty offensive if you copy them
alright but anyway we gotta move on time
for some flag stuff
now this was such a fun episode to film
because i got to use some of the footage
that i filmed when i was in new zealand
in the new zealand episode such a cool
country i would totally go back if i
could but for right now information time
the flag of new zealand has a union jack
just like many other flags that were
former british colonies the background
is a blue field with four red stars in
the pattern of the southern cross
constellation that can be found in the
southern hemisphere and that's just
about it however keep in mind there are
some other flags we gotta mention
there's also this flag the flag of the
united tribes and it was actually used
before they became a british colony also
you might come across this flag very
often known as the tino rangatina tirata
tinoranga tirotanga basically this is
the accepted flag of the motery people
adopted somewhere around 1989-1990 the
black represents
or the realm of potential being the
darkness from which the world emerged it
also stands for the male element the
white is
or the realm of being and light as well
as harmony purity and balance it is
shaped in a koru or curling frond shape
to represent the unfolding of new life
and renewal the red is te fei au or the
realm of coming into being it also
stands for the earth humans and also it
represents the female element now keep
in mind in 2016 they did have a
referendum to change the flag a lot of
people kind of saw this as like a
political distraction to keep their
minds away from bigger issues there were
many entries but the one contender that
was the most popular and stood up
against the old flag was this one
created by a guy named kyle lockwood
quite frankly though let's be honest
come on we all know laser key we should
have won i'm just saying what
everybody's thinking okay we all know it
you should have chosen laser kiwi anyway
speaking of symbols the coat of arms the
coat of arms contains oh boy lots of
stuff you have the shield containing the
southern cross stars a sheep with golden
fleece a sheave of grain mining hammers
and three ships representing the
agriculture industry as well as the
maritime trade history of the nation on
top lies the crown of saint edward
symbolizing the ties to the uk on the
sides is zeelandia the female
personification of new zealand
representing the non-indigenous
inhabitants and on the other side lies
the mori rangatira or chief holding a
thai aha weapon wearing a traditional
kaitaka or flax cloak representing the
indigenous maori population of the
nation of course on the bottom lies a
scroll reading new zealand on top of
silver ferns the national plant and
prior to this they pretty much only had
one other coat of arms it was just the
exact same thing except there was a lion
on top holding a union jack and at the
bottom it said onward so yeah that's uh
just about it which means it's time for
geography fan mail time all right guys
so we're gonna switch things up a little
bit we're here in the studio and uh
today we are going to be joined with
hannah and noah woohoo welcome guys
hello hello
you guys ready oh and keith is here too
are you guys ready to open up just some
stuff and check out the fan mail you got
it dude oh yeah as you guys know uh we
always start off with postcards this is
from kate and anthony from vilnius
lithuania here we have a card from leo
and he is from sofia bulgaria this one
comes from crit from the philippines we
got two postcards from the netherlands
one from bermed and one from abel you
know that picture in my living room from
ikea there's a picture of the exact same
thing it's just not in black and white
here i have a couple postcards from
scotland one from francis from england
and one from ricardo from madrid spain
from paraguay this one is for keith oh
hello keith i love when you say just a
few words and makes the videos super
hilarious and this postcard reminds me
your hair oh this is really cool we got
one from french guiana from hendrick and
another island maldives from
mufa and malsa so this one is from matt
he's actually from illinois but his
postcard comes from south korea this one
is from well your first name is ripped
off so i want to say chris but i'm not
sure postcard from kosovo also i have a
postcard here from sean from the us he
has a postcard here from luxembourg
luxembourg me ken and keith were just
there this is ein from brunei but he
visited japan wow this one is from tiger
from china so here we have geograpeep
named mitch who happens to have three
postcards for us like he visited a
multitude of places one including the
finger lakes in new york the yangling
brewery in pottsville pennsylvania and
out of all those chernobyl which means
this card is probably uh radioactive
maybe we'll all actually get superpowers
glad to know you guys went there glad to
know you got back glad to know you
survived to send a postcard three
postcards two from the u.s one from
taiwan brian sends this from taiwan he's
living there we got chelsea who visited
the parthenon in nashville tennessee
they built replica from the one in
greece and trent who visited fernandina
beach florida so i've got three here
this one is from jake in missouri this
one is from david he's from los angeles
but he just visited cyprus and this is
from someone who did not put their name
on the card but they're sending this
through airmail from tokyo write your
name write your name hey barbie and crew
this postcard is from chris from oakland
looks like he visited morocco this one
here is from hans he's chinese he
visited stonehenge in the uk this card
is from kailyn she visited petra jordan
that was a fun episode by the way and
finally i'm surprised we got these two
of you actually visited antarctica dang
that's pretty cool and it actually has
the stamps from antarctica british
antarctic territory and
chilean i believe uh antarctic territory
would you say those people are pretty
cool
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zoe and uh mike thank you for visiting
antarctica and sending these in that is
so cool and now letters this one is from
jd from the philippines who made money
for one of the april fool's episodes
bundia tara ah this is great dinner's on
hannah this stuff is so cool that people
send this is chris he is from germany
and this is a
deutsche reichsmark banknote from 1922
in germany suffer from hyperinflation
this is 50 000
marks here we have a letter from nick he
is from toxiway north carolina who's
reading his letter specifically which is
how many languages can you speak oh uh
on facebook
my french is better than my korean well
i speak english to three years of
spanish in high school and you can say i
speak a little bit of fake latin too
this is frederico sletter he sends a
magnet from transnistria transnistria we
talked about this in the moldova episode
this is really cool this is actually
sent from jason he is a military
personnel stationed in djibouti thank
you for your service jason honoring our
military personnel he sends uh this
postcard from lake assal which is a a
really cool place in djibouti it was in
our djibouti episode and these hatch of
the djibouti flag and some djibouti
coins jason glad to have another friend
from wisconsin jason i was born in
wisconsin were you really i was oh i
thought you're born in iowa i lived in
iowa grew up in iowa but i was born in
milwaukee wisconsin this one is from
verna and ben from new zealand with a
picture of an island inside a lake
inside an island on an ocean lake sounds
like a russian doll to me all right so
let's do the packages we got dexter from
birmingham uk
wonderful i'm trying to like bend over
these wonderful postcards guys this card
is so sweet this is from janice she says
i'm a 65 year old granny in cleveland
ohio i'm a military veteran of both the
navy and marine corps navy and marines
dang the henke is very old found at an
antique store these were hand
embroidered during world war one as
souvenirs then there's a broken bottle
she found in bermuda she also made you a
phone passport wallet to wear while
you're traveling thank you this is so
sweet thank you janice got a package
here with many cool things in it from
andrew indiana
now andrew says dear paul i love your
show and everything you do at bootleg
uh this is really cool this is sent from
the pharaoh islands tevin he sent a pack
of cards it has the pharaoh islands and
some faroese writing on it thank you so
much tevin you know kevin campbell uh
fun fact is the voice the name of the
guy who i did the song for a goofy movie
eye to eye and stand out oh got myself a
notion
one i know that you'll understand set
the world in motion
okay yeah yeah off i'm just over here
like this is from john he sent a bunch
of postcards from new zealand yay thank
you john super cool all right here we
have a package from salaam from syria he
also has here a little gift for us which
the bar of soap made in his home city of
aleppo wow syrian soap smells kind of
earthy this is from mario he is from
ducati but lives in california now he
sent us a postcard and a letter
he sent this little booklet uh your
bumper sticker got a little uh bumped
out brochures
this is really cool david visited french
polynesia tahiti so they actually used
the french polynesian franc as their
currency turtle magnet toppa cloth the
uh traditional type of uh patterns for
tahiti and the flag of the marquesas
thank you so much david and david's wife
keith come here you got two packages
much love from dallas texas here is some
moroccan oil and organic shea butter for
those luscious locks hashtag keith is
bae thank you tracy
use this organic shea butter
argan oil that was in our video sorry
argan oil and uh keith you also got this
from romania hey romania
put that on from romania put it on put
it down
that's really cool nice
oh looks like it got broken ah i don't
know how to pronounce the name of this
band is that the name of the band view
why this package is from leroy he is
from fort walton beach florida edinboro
university from nicaragua
and he sent some money from nicaragua as
well and from a bunch of different
places and coins as well and gave us a
little coin book thank you leroy this is
really cool okay all right uh we got
this from jay uh he is from pocatello
idaho and he sends a shirt as well
pocatello and uh ken he got you a mug
i got a mug wow great owl back in your
cage here we have a package from port
klong malaysia from uh send us some
snacks oh i remember you yeah you were
the guy in the video yeah yeah thank you
look at these snacks cat favorite kind
of flavor i've never seen this before
kitkat rose hannah
it's really rough it's gross
ew ew
i think that's more than rose gold
yes
that is delicious kaboom curry all right
one more package last one from the
netherlands from pedro
more snacks and stuff yay
a book of dutch
beet
crab cake stroopwafels
we had this when we were in netherlands
this is really good this here is an
ancient treasure map and i'm pretty sure
we got these uh really cool other snacks
uh licoricey little magnet of uh little
traditional dutch house and it's also a
thermometer thank you so much
pedro for sending all this stuff from
the netherlands all right uh so guess
what time it is keith it's return
address contest time oh my god i am
going to send you a gift if we pick out
your name from this bag you will get a
geography now
notepad and a geography now button yay
okay so all you guys pick one and tell
us who won all right i'm going first so
we got pedro from
chile yes mia from russia hey i don't
know how this happened worked out but
andrew who sent us his graphic designer
he sent his
business you won it worked out that's
what you get for sending your graphics
stuff you try to get ken's job and now
you you got something well guys uh
that's just about it thank you for
sending all your stuff i love putting
your home towns and countries on display
uh any last words hannah and noah thank
you with our powers combined it's time
to learn geography now
there we go
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