everybody welcome back to flag / fan
Friday hope you like the powder Kwai
episode so as you know there's the part
where I talk about the things that we
made small mistakes on or the things
that didn't quite make it into the
episode for one I accidentally
misspelled Pullman Bowl one of the
animations I said over 90% but the
Chuckle region has around 5% technically
it's true but the animation only said 90
I forgot to put the little squiggly
about Simon that you get the point and
that little skit with me and Ryan where
I played a vegan and he played a
meat-eater some of you guys were like
it's confirmed barbs is vegan no I'm not
although I do believe the world could
benefit with less meat consumption I am
NOT vegan one thing I really wish we
could have talked more about was the
friendship between Colombia and Paraguay
at one point in Colombia's legislation
during the Triple Alliance war the
Paraguay war Colombia actually said that
if product-wise ceased to exist all
Paraguayan people could gain automatic
Colombian citizenship so that's really
nice of them one fun little fact I
forgot to mention that there were a
bunch of Australians that tried to come
over and make new Australia at one point
in the 19th century a bunch came over
and they tried to make their own little
society it never really kicked off
though because they kept disagreeing on
things one of them being the prohibition
of alcohol and yeah it kind of died away
very quickly after it was started oh and
Mariana told me that in Paraguay very
often instead of knocking on a door if
you want to enter people just clap
outside of the building
to let people know that they want to
come in and there's a lot of other stuff
I could have mentioned but if you want
to add anything put it in the comments
otherwise we got to move on so without
further ado now I'm gonna be for real
out of any flag Friday episode you
should watch this would probably be an
interesting one do you ever get one of
those weird like trivia questions you
should watch this episode because it's
gonna be important why because Patras
flag is unlike any other in the world it
is the only one that has two sides to it
and we'll explain first of all the flag
is a horizontal tricolour much like the
Dutch flag with red white and blue bands
all of which were inspired from the
French flag to symbolize independence
and liberty for each color though the
red stripe symbolizes courage equality
and patriotism the white represents
unity purity and peace and the blue
stands for liberty benevolence and truth
now as you can see in the center lies an
image however it's strange because
Paraguay is the only sovereign state
flag in the world to have a completely
different non mirrored image
on the reverse side of the flag if you
flip it over you get a different one on
the obverse or front side lies the coat
of arms but on the opposite lies the
seal of the Treasury there's really no
exact explanation as to why they did
this other than the fact that it was
jose de ferran CEA's idea back when he
was in charge he kind of wanted
product-wise to just stick out and since
then more or less they just kind of kept
the idea of making their flag this way
and of course prior to this they had a
bunch of other flags obviously there
under the Spanish Empire so they had the
cross of Burgundy and the other Spanish
Empire flags after all the other
colonies in South America gained
independence in the 1800s they had a few
provisional flags and then BAM the
modern one you see today was created
with slight modifications with color and
shape which for the first and only time
now we cover the coat of arms and the
seal of the Treasury the coat of arms
which can be found on the national flag
contains a single five-pointed yellow
star in the center known as the star of
may reminding them of the date of
Independence surrounding the star is a
palm and olive branch on either side
symbolizing honor and peace all of this
is surrounded by another concentric
circle containing the words república
death Paraguay I'm pretty sure you can
figure out what that means even if you
don't speak Spanish the seal of the
Treasury on the other side of the flag
contains a yellow lion with a Phrygian
cap these are symbols you can find in
lots of Latin based nations as it has
roots from ancient Rome the cap
symbolizes the pursuit of freedom and
liberty while the lion represents
courage and the defense of Liberty all
of this also is contained with another
concentric circle with the words Posse
justicia which means peace and justice
and since independence this has pretty
much been the only coat of arms and seal
of Treasury they've ever had and they
take it pretty seriously I mean you can
find the whole double-sided thing on
their money you can find it in buildings
government official offices and that's
just about it so now there's only one
thing left to do it's time for geography
and mail time all right guys we are back
in my place we're not in this to do at
this time but that's okay because we can
still do this as you know we usually
have a guest star and this time it is
none other than mr. cute so and as we
always do postcards so basically Cameron
from Montana senses his postcard and
he's awesome and thank you so much for
watching the show
this is from Samantha who is from Italy
but visited Santorini
Greece we got this postcard from Utah
it's the Zion National Park and it's
from Evan thank you yay
who is finnish and obviously sent this
from Finland postcard from Singapore
geography so Senate in Thank You Grayson
who visited a chateau full Lafourche in
France
Adar who recently visited Paris France
Keith when you're in France what did you
take away from it France is cool I
especially our hosts that we stayed with
yeah Lucas you are the man also he's a
fellow bass player so alright thank you
Ben who visited Odessa Ukraine okay all
right so we got this postcard from South
Korea from Cameron um wait Wendell iris
violet and Elizabeth isn't all one name
no no it's not one name it's Wendell
Isis in vidas noises for dices hey I
guess they all visited a Cozumel Mexico
so Jose recently visited Providence
Rhode Island
I've been to Rhode Island Dante
Copenhagen Denmark
yeah Denmark Denmark was the first
European country I ever went to Shawn
from Ireland sends us this postcard from
Killarney Ireland patter if you're
watching this I miss hearing sleep talk
in your Irish accent this is from Bilal
who is a Lebanese person living in Paris
and this is Baalbek the Sun City known
as heli appleís in Greek and Roman times
ray sends us this awesome postcard that
you can find in most tourist traps in
Florida it's a great card and I am so
proud that you are from Florida as a
fellow Floridian I salute you and
finally we got this really cool postcard
from Kurt who was set to work in care
bus to work at the radiation detecting
stations theater bus so now let's do
letters and packages
Medhi from Texas from Texas but I'm
assuming you're Iranian because you
wrote half of your letter in Farsi and
you sent an Iranian hundred thousand
rial banknote you also sent out this
Texas coaster Iranian Texan baby she
never often you see those two mixing so
we got this dude
his name is Jose and he's from Harvard
mass which actually this is this looks
like Boston Oh Worcester in masses they
call it Worcester Worcester what
Worcester Mass and gradual ations you
spent three hundred thousand dollars on
a college education sorry joy it's just
dropping the truth bombs here all right
so we got this from Gary
he is from Hamilton Ontario but he went
to South America specifically Argentina
Chile and Bolivia and Peru and I've seen
this before
this is a wheat Paulo flag it represents
the indigenous people of Bolivia and the
people of the general Andes mountain
area all right so we got this thing from
Turkey what's his name it's really hard
to read your writing man I'm sorry I
don't know
caocao I don't know either way dude
you're awesome thanks for sending us all
this awesome stuff from Turkey this will
go on my backpack oh this is cool this
is sent from Tunisia Carthage box so
Carthage soap like so my name is nella I
got you some olive oil scented soap
Tunisia is the biggest producer of olive
oil soap in the world after the European
Union all right I'm taking all the bars
I'm a dirty kid I like this petition
paper oh we got an opal stone what is
this it's a map it's a map
oh it's a scratch-off map
I'm pretty sure that's what America is
from the greatest country on Earth
put inside of it put inside of it Russia
this it's rusty candy it's from a guy
named Noah I know a guy who might know a
few things he's Russian obviously oh and
his favorite member of the team is no on
all right so here we're gonna learn some
Russian right now right from the book
let's go with good morning dobre ultra
good night is spokoynoy nochi and then
goodbye da da da svidaniya yeah all
right cool all right so we're gonna try
the dill pickle whatever whatever it is
is what is that what are you dip it in
something what it comes with a dip what
um very good oh yeah this is really cool
this is a tea home here he lived two
months in Nestle swamp in South
Greenland to collect data for his thesis
and he brought a bunch of these really
cool Greenland gifts you guys know I
have a soft spot in my heart for
Greenland I went there with my buddy
Jason a couple years ago
and the one thing I learned about
Greenland is that it is almost like a
whole different planet
this is a box from Connecticut gosh what
the oh I think there's a Vietnamese
thing there you go
oh you're breaking it really there's no
letter in there I don't Connecticut well
somebody from Connecticut sent all this
don't know who you are but thank you all
right and we got another t-shirt
I guess Switzerland riding from the
headquarters of the European
broadcasting Union we saw your video
about the Eurovision Song Contest
- thank you here's an employee t-shirt
you will not find one anywhere else it
makes you part of our team they sent me
a Eurovision employee t-shirts all right
so it's my
sighs yeah Keith you are the Eurovision
employee today
all right sick uh how do you ever even
watch my vision I've watched some
Eurovision and it's cool how they pick a
band or whatever you know it's a battle
a song or whatever music is not a
competition it's a art form and I think
it's something that you can't really
vote on and you know I think you make
anything into a competition I mean yes
but you know you can make trees into a
competition I don't even know how that
makes sense but okay well the girls the
best tree wins and then if your tree is
too small then you lose and you get sent
to the chamber and uh finally Keith we
got this big package from Malta and
let's what do you think of it hey don't
think you can guess what's inside right
so Steve from strand Palace agencies
send me
the giant box someone finally did it
thousand million I guess whoever owns
the twisty company's sent me a box of
nothing but pure these alright my
favorite snack
I never thought I'd get a whole box
someone finally sent you a whole box of
twisties now for pretty awful Cheetos
you need step up your game
alright so that's just about it but
before we go you know what time it is
return address contest Wow I put all of
your return addresses in this bag and
where the wins gets a geography now a
notepad and buggy Tyler from Australia
nice you just won so that's just about
it uh keep any last final words you'd
like to say to the geography out there
in the world yeah totally um if you're
bored and if you want to wear my face
around town now you totally can
so all you got to do is go to the link
in the description box down below go to
geography now comm buy that shirt buy
like it's going not out of style because
it's clearly in style if you want Keith
on your body get the shirt do it
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