Everybody welcome back to the flag slash fan Friday
I hope you liked the Kenya episode Kenya was actually fun to film because it was actually another country that I had personally been to
Years ago. I actually had the privilege to visit. It was pretty awesome
I stayed in a shantytown on the outskirts of Nairobi called Spring Valley. I loved it anyway today
We covered the flag in the coat of arms, which has red on it if you followed your feet now
You know what that means so without further ado
Wow that guy's I don't know if you noticed I got a new chair, thank you patreon patrons
I've been having some back problems and my old chair was horrible. This one is just amazing oh, I love it best chair
I've ever had alright Kenya Kenya Kenya
There's gonna be interesting, but you're gonna laugh at the coat of arms, but we'll get to that in a sec
But first the flag the flag is a horizontal tricolour of black red and green with white fembra Asian lines in between the colors with
A massage shield and Spears in the middle the black stands for the people of the country the green stands for the landscape with natural
Wealth the white fimbriae shin lines stand for peace and honesty and finally the red stands for war
I'm not even joking at the last minute. I was researching the swag anomic. Oh shoot the red means blood again
I look at Ken hurry up make an animation animation, and he was like yeah
No problem. By the way guys follow Ken on Instagram. I'll put a link in the description to probably maybe Adam
Yeah, just follow Ken
Anywho the shooting Spears in the middle aren't based off of the traditional weaponry of the Maasai tribe?
Meant to symbolize the defense of all the things mentioned in the colors now although the Maasai aren't one of the largest tribes in Kenya
They're kind of seen as like the poster children or like the mascot of Kenya reason being because they hold fast to traditional ways of
life and reject mainstream customs
So they're really like
Authentic in their ways and Kenya kind of takes pride in that so now the coat horns the coat of arms has two lines
national animal symbolizing protection with another traditional shield and Spears once again symbolizing defense and freedom on the shield lies a rooster holding an axe
Symbolizing Authority and the will to work
success in the break of a new dawn who's also based off of the flag of the Kenya African National Union
That was the party that led the country into independence hello the Lions stands a silhouette of Mount Kenya with images of produce found in
The country you have coffee tea maize pineapple and so on finally at the bottom you have yeah
They've all the guys so much and they put them on his coat of arms now
I'm just kidding in Kiswahili harambe means something like pulling all together or all for one man that whole Harambee thing man
What a time we live in anyway, so yeah, that's about it
Kenya has a lot of cool traditional stuff in there symbolism so with that being said you know what time it is
Geography time so we got some more stuff. Let's do the letters and postcards first
Zachary who was born in Ramallah in Palestine I read your letter. Thank you for all the info
I also read the letters of Andrew from Connecticut and - from Vietnam
Thank you guys for your letters, and then we got this guy will from need ham, Massachusetts who sent in like seven identical
'evil each one with a note saying, please pick me for the return address contest well
I don't know if you're aware, but I put all few return addresses in the return dress contest bag
And I got to pick your name out of it
I'm happy to put all of your return addresses in here, but until then I can't just pick you to wait
I gotta pick your name from the bag, but hey you got seven more slots now you got a better chance postcard time
You'll end up from Novi Sad Serbia
Simon sends this from Manchester Yan census from New Zealand, but he's originally from Dusseldorf Germany
across the sea you got Zoe from Gold Coast, Australia
Nico sends this from the Kremlin in Russia. I'm sorry. I can't really read your name
I think it's Makos, but uh he sent it from Prague Czech dia Czech Republic
Ah, this is really cool Alberto sends us from the Vatican like literally
There's even a Vatican stamp that comes along with it, and I've been there. It's so beautiful inside
It really is the most beautiful church. I've ever been in this is really cool stop being from Nepal
He sends these really cool postcards of Nepal including the 14 tallest peaks of the world that I believe Nepal has eight of them
Jasper from Michigan he says he's really interested in learning about Luxembourg, and he even printed out a Luxembourgish banknote
It's not a real banknote
It's he just printed it out, but uh Thank You Brandon from Ohio wrote up pretty long letter
Do you think humans will live in space and/or colonize other world someday if we do it probably won't happen anytime soon
And we'll probably have to wait a couple hundred years. What is something we can all do that will help someone in need today?
That's a good question well
I think one of the most important things is you need to connect to people I mean even if you serve people
And give them food if you're not actually like looking them in the eye and actually investing your life in their life
Then it's not really worth too much
And I think that's one of the cornerstones of uh helping people I didn't call it creating peace
You know having a sense of connection. Oh, yeah, look at me no more like a mister advice guy here
Okay, no more advice moving on Garrett from New Brunswick, Canada
Oh wow he is really proud of his home province
And he sent the flags of his parents heritage and him alright now the box is Chris from Washington DC
Hey Barb's, I've been a fan since the France episode and of course he sends it to the stuff from our nation's capital
Washington DC. DC is very nice and plus all those Smithsonian museums are free
I love free ah and they are an Arlington Virginia shirt. Ah yes, and you got my size men's medium
Yes, you got it right. Oh, and uh old Betty seasoning, dude
You're the second person to send me this stuff all I know is is that if you boil crabs and put this on top
It's like the best thing ever DC and Maryland people they love crabs my it is really cool Ryan from Honolulu, Hawaii
Hey, Barb's, I love learning about geography
And I always look forward to each of your episodes here are a few facts about our state
Hawaiian refers to people specifically who are ethnically Native Hawaiian to refer to all the other residents we usually say Hawaiian residents
Locals in casual everyday speech many residents speak Hawaiian pidgin here are some words or phrases in pidgin Brava
How's it pal Hana stay gone dakine and of course a Hawaiian flag? I?
Knew you would send these monologue everybody who goes to Hawaii always buys these it's like the top candy of Hawaii. Oh?
Hawaiian some juice mixes. I don't even know they came in powder form I've seen these in the cans, and they're so expensive
They're like $4 a can. I guess you could make your own and finally Francisco from
Argentina just a heads up. Dude your package. Got kind of damaged in the mail
I don't know if anything fell out, but sorry man. He borrows my name is Francisco. I'm 24 others in the city of madre
Del Plata Argentina, I wanted to send you a package
He said Argentinean pesos these things Pali dos de la Selva like a taffy or something butter Toffees
But he's even Argentinian. It's written in like nine different languages did even I was like Arabic written in the back
I also sent me uh
What do you call this armata yerba mate?
Eh, I remember a Paraguayan subscribers sent you a mock day
But he didn't send you yerba now you have some and one of the best in the world
But how do you prepare it heat the water up to 80 degrees put?
3/4 of the yerba into the menthe a shake the mate' put your hand on the top don't make a mess put the yerba at
A 45-degree angle and put just a bit of water
Even more water - wow there's like a whole process to making your Bamonte a i'll just YouTube it alright
So that's it for now, but before we go you know the deal we turn the dress contest
I put all your return addresses in this bag
I pick one out and whoever I pick gets a little gift from me alright here. We go. I'm not gonna look
I'm not gonna look
It's a small one. Let's see Ethan from York, Pennsylvania
You just won so in the meantime guys. Thank you so much for all this cool stuff
I love putting your home areas on display and putting you in the spotlight
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