everybody welcome back to flag / fan
Friday will be like the Russia episode
oh what's this you ask oh it's just my
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it's my brand as you know this
department we talk about the small
mistakes we made in the video or the
things that didn't quite make it into
the video weird thing happened
immediately after I uploaded the Russia
episode Russia's government resigned
kind of confusing because it has to do
with the terms for the presidency I yeah
I was like did I just break Russia for
one yes I am fully aware that the map
overlay of Russia over the globe does
not exactly match where it should be
it's really hard to show the entire
country of Russia on a globe because I
mean it straddles like 11 time zones and
also when I explained that in the video
I used this globe and it looks like
Belarus was annexed by Russia in the
video I accidentally said North Ossetia
instead of South Ossetia I accidentally
wrote 2004 instead of 1994 in the
Olympics parts and in the demographic
section the caption accidentally said
9th largest in Europe and it meant to
say 9th largest in the world some things
I didn't really quite talk about that I
really wanted to the Kaliningrad Oblast
why is it a detached exclave basically
this place used to be called königsberg
and it was received by russia after
world war ii and it's basically used as
a navy shipping port because the ports
of st. petersburg kind of freeze over
during the winter time there are so many
composers that we didn't get to talk
about my favorite one being Rachmaninoff
there are so many cool places we didn't
get to talk about they have the deepest
hole in the world they have the five
tallest buildings in Europe they also
have the world's most polluted lake I
forgot to mention at one point for like
one month
Russian Cossacks actually kind of
colonized a little bit of Africa this
little place called Sai Gallo was
actually a short-lived Russian colony in
Djibouti what else we got this lady mrs.
Vasily EV is the woman that has had the
most kids on earth at 69 16 pairs of
twins 7 sets of triplets four sets of
quadruplets my goodness what a uterus
dashcams are very common in russia to
avoid insurance scams paganism shamanism
and Tengger ISM are still practiced in
some communities but at one point during
Imperial and Soviet years state atheism
was actually enforced constitutionally
and pretty much all religion was bad
and persecuted and finally the calling
code for Russia is double-oh-seven our
that's just about it let's move on so
without further ado you
I was so fun filming the Russia episode
my buddy Mike the co-host of the show I
went to high school with him and he was
kind of like a my rival friend even once
stole a girl that I wanted to date damn
nah we're cool though anyway we got to
talk about the flag so the flag of
Russia is a tricolour with three bands
of white blue and red at the bottom some
dispute the origin of the flag some say
it was from Peter the Great after he
hired a Dutch company to build him a
ship after it arrived with the Dutch
flag they say he was inspired to use the
same colors but in a different sequence
there are many interpretations as to
what the colors of the Russian flag mean
there is no official statement from the
government however it is regarded by
popular definition that the white color
symbolizes nobility and frankness the
blue for faithfulness honesty
impeccability and chastity and red for
courage generosity and love now keep in
mind prior to this Russia had a bunch of
eras and governmental shifts the house
of Romanov Flag is similar to the flag
of Scotland and the former Empire flag
had black white and yellow after the
October Revolution Lenin and the
Bolsheviks came in they created the
whole new communist era and that's where
you get all the Soviet flags and imagery
you know with the hammer and sickle even
further than that though Russia actually
also has like regional and district and
city flags and some of them get really
weird snezhnoe gorsh town with its cute
seal popping out of the ice horror or
Scheffel nevmiki region with its weird
beaver thing tall dome has a bird with a
shoe Kazan and tartar stan has a dragon
chicken thing and of course who could
forget Jellison of course with its atoms
splitting bear Russia you so quirky
anywho now time to move on to the coat
of arms the coat of arms is a red shield
with a double-headed Golden Eagle and a
smaller shield in the middle of the
eagle with a figure of a mounted Knights
slaying a serpent or dragon the Eagle is
roughly based off of Byzantine imagery
which played a huge historical role in
what would shape all of Eastern Europe
for the following centuries crown
represents the unity and sovereignty of
Russia and the Imperial orb and scepter
in the eagle's claws represent power and
authority as for the rider there is no
official government statement clarifying
exactly the mounted Knight is but most
people speculate that it must be st.
George because it totally follows the
story and is used in so many other
regional flags and coat of arms and even
on the country of Malta throughout the
years the coat of arms has been altered
and changed so many times especially
with all those like excessively
elaborate Imperial trimmings during
Soviet times everything changed and
that's when you get the ubiquitous
hammer and sickle image change slightly
over the years but overall it kept up
with the same format rye wheat sheaves
on the side wrapped in ribbons that
contained the languages of all the
Republic's in the Union saying
proletarians of the world unite behind
the hammer and sickle was a globe and
red star on top to signify the unity
under communism so yeah you got a lot of
things from the Imperial years the
Soviet years and the modern years all
right so that's just about it so that
means you know what time it is it's time
for geography fan mail time hey
everybody welcome back to fan Friday as
you know we always got to have some
guest stars so come on in today is gonna
be mr. art and of course our Russian
correspondent Mike how you doing someone
bought a t-shirt guys buy your t-shirts
buy your geography now t-shirts at
geography no calm he liked us as you
know we always start off with postcards
Paul and Ayana they visited the Dutch
Caribbean Bonaire the island of Bonaire
it's from Steven somehow I got the
ginger that looks like me if I was a
leprechaun so so this is from vano
the card is from Iceland but they are
Armenians and they actually they're your
neighbors right here oh you guys are LA
Armenians
we got this cool card from Steven who
visited San Marino that small little
country inn surrounded by Italy we got
one from Finland here this is from
Daniel and Daniel says hey Paul I've
been a fan for a long time and I love
your channel thank you this one is from
Sam who has been a fan of yours since
Italy heart is actually from Japan he is
currently in Hiroshima Dachau Dachau a
romanian in Scotland Rosslyn Chapel
Rosslyn Chapel Island Lake had way too
many espressos man yeah me too much
about the puke my stomach is just
destroyed I'm still drinking why
actually I have another espresso right
here all right so we got one from Brazil
this is from Daniel this postcard is
just to put my hometown on display they
kept a huge public telephone monument
thing we acknowledge you Brazil Brazil
we hope you win your soccer tournaments
next up we have Michael from Austria
by way of Toronto he is currently
studying geography of all things Park
University as part of an exchange you
can show your face a little more man
I don't wanna they don't need to see
that this card Hanna and Ian would
probably like this because it's from
bamberg a hydrography how specifically
Hanna Bamberg okay yeah anyway this card
is from Natalie but we're not gonna
trash it okay we're gonna get it to
Hannah
believable it's gonna get to Hannah
where's the garbage can okay well get
trash
we've got Katrin from North Wales wants
to let you all know how much she loves
geography now and specifically she's
waiting on her Keith t-shirts so hurry
up with that all the shirts from
geography now calm are made by printful
they're in charge of all the shipping
listen man just get Katrin her shirt
that sound like excuses and quite
literally it seems like I'm the only one
at this table fighting for you speaking
of that nothing related to that we got
Chuck who visited Berlin he's a student
from Cleveland did you get to see Keith
he visited Germany recently I hope you
got to see Keith Indonesia dia dia and
he goes into let's see he says I always
been a geography lover even since I was
in kindergarten - yeah thank you dear
hope you're having a bondi yeah I've got
something from New Zealand here this is
from Andrew yeah this card is from
aitutaki a more beautiful island
paradise like no other yeah an island a
must have fallen from heaven yeah oh you
want me to go yeah you go next
Vienna which is in Austria
whatever stamp they put on here totally
blocked up the name I hate it when they
do that best wishes and the name is
covered by a sticker my girlfriend and I
are huge fans of the show
she's from Spain and I'm from Bulgaria
and we got this last one from we went to
high school from
Elias and he says keep up the excellent
work he's been a longtime fan your
videos are shared with many friends and
family does La have chicago-style deep
dish we really do not and I have not
found any actually and then he decides
to mention the Giordano's is the best
listen man you're entitled to your
opinion oh dude Pequod's run circles all
over it are Giordano's that's like a
place where you go after you graduate
from high school deep dish's for
tourists and special occasions but I
like it just the more pizza the better
and deep dishes deep it's like two
slices and you're done this is getting
so Pequod's done for real what do you
got in Washington Juan's Pequod's
Pequod's you know that reminds me of
reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite deke
Juan's dance moves from Napoleon
Dynamite I tried so hard it's true
though no that's all the letters let's
open up some packages gravity cups we
have too many drinks is there anything
in there actually there is oh oh all
right so this one starts off with like a
little cryptograph dear Paul it was
really great to see my letter read out
loud in the Qatar flag Friday episode oh
cool yeah anyway he's sending you
Hungarian candy and what's his name art
loves black licorice I don't and we've
got a calendar from Budapest I've been
to Budapest so if I gorgeous City loves
so this is this chocolate we got some
chocolate here whoa looking at the
ingredients this is very unhealthy
aren't you our June yeah we sent you
piece by chocolate made by Syrian
refugees who came to Canada and brought
their way of making chocolate with them
interesting hmm
all right well I'll go next this is from
Harry he's from Tampa Florida
he won his school's geography um thanks
to watching geography now that's really
cool whoa and this is a photocopy of his
first-place ribbon that he won hey this
is from Birmingham in the UK not Alabama
what the Paul and Friends my name is
Cassandra you always that Marmite peanut
butter mama yo you said away from the
Bandra peanut butter Marmite
you'll crack that open so you like Mormo
I love it come on toes three two one all
right yo that is a savory peanut butter
that's the only Marmite that I would eat
check this out or a ten of shortbread
which we could have used with the
Marmite so uh there's no letter oh it's
from all been from Sweden all right so
we have some high-quality plastic here
from Sweden oh no there's something
inside oh just Santa Claus some
marshmallows come on it's a gummy it's a
marshmallow it's a gum rocks just like
pizza I got this from my name is Ben and
I'm a huge fan of Jagger for now I live
in granny Illinois my favorite episode
was the monocle won some Godiva
chocolate these are coffee what do you
call these canisters I can't I can't
drink this I don't have a Keurig thing
what are the odds
I'll have to eat them one out of 17
challenge it's a challenge game so
basically you have to give a range of
numbers based off of how likely it is
for you to do the Dare if we do say the
same number I do it if we don't say the
right same number then I don't have to
do the Dare I still don't get it
this is from Rory I believe he's here
from Modesto where he was also kind
enough to include a shirt and let me
just go ahead and he's from Modesto we
got a big package from Priscilla she
actually sent a big box filled with
other stuff one of them was an advent
calendar filled with candies and
chocolates I actually gave it to the
post office workers she also sent these
cool calendars and one of them is for
Caleb and Jillian so there was an
episode where my wife was also on it
Jillian and she remember why she said it
but she said that she really liked
golden retrievers hmm and then there's a
she drew a picture
Gillian and I as golden retrievers my
tagline is I like sprite oh right and
then Julian likes ribs thank you so much
that was really cool I'm finally getting
the respect that I deserve
we got Christmas cards Caleb you got one
Oh what does this say my first fan mail
Priscilla you're amazing greens my
favorite color art you're new but you
seem like a cool person thank you Merry
Christmas okay
reindeer socks what hotdogs hotdogs
hamburgers socks they smell a little
funky did you put any letter seriously
there's no letter these are potatoes
no they're marzipan oh those are the
good ones to us little balls the Wow
they these are these are good for this
episode in everything look at the trust
oh my gosh I'm a Russian spy we didn't
even mention this in the food part but
keep calm and cool shipping meaning well
is that like a mania are like boiled
dumplings oh wait is this are you the
people that always send us stuff Alexi
you guys the Russian people that live in
Belgium this is you guys Alexei and
Alessandra thank you
I know who you guys are this is amazing
thank you so much she goes mini vets but
he book anyway guys so we're switching
things up instead of doing return
address contest now we are doing the
geography do name pending challenge do
something good for your community or
making the world a better place in some
way shape or form send in a photo or
video of what it is and explaining what
it is and who you are and the winner
will get a free geography now t-shirt I
will send it to you after much
deliberation I've talked amongst people
and I've listened to some of the
comments you guys wrote on social media
it seems to me like a lot of people want
aldair to win the first geography do
contest thank you for not only recycling
and cleaning up beaches but also
teaching courses to children in Panama
on how to help clean
up and make the world a better place so
I'll dare you're the first winner so yes
doing all their thing thank you guys for
supporting the channel anything you want
to say to your Russian viewers no I want
those french fry sauce though
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