Hey everybody, welcome back to flag fan Friday. Hope you like the Maldives episode, right?
So before we jump into this, you know
this is the part where I kind of fix some things that I made mistakes on or stuff that I didn't talk about in the
Video for one at the 8 minute 32 mark. Oh my gosh. I accidentally used the Comoros flag instead of a Maldives flag
Whoa, that was a huge mistake
Sorry, and also a few things that I wanted to mention in the video
But didn't have time to a lot of the airports in the Maldives. Actually, it's really cool
They have like a separate terminal for sea planes and also to combat coral bleaching
They actually have coral growing farms in the Maldives
It's kind of like an environmental revival project thing that's going on right now on a lot of adds holes, and it's really cool
It's it's all underwater and they kind of grow coral
Yeah, there's a lot of other things I could have talked about if you know of anything, please put it in the comments
Otherwise, we got to move on to the flag. So without further I do
One quick little side note some of you guys have been asking barbs. Why do you put so many guest stars on the show?
I miss the old days when it was just you. Well, first of all, thank you
I guess you know, I like to think of it
I like to do kind of like what nigahiga does with his channel, you know, I love doing my work
But I also love my friends. So I like to put the two together
I mean in the early days I used to just kind of like to do all this gets myself
But I would just like cut frame to myself at a different angle or wearing a different shirt
You know, that's fun, but it's kind of time-consuming. It's a lot easier and a lot more fun when I have another person
Just joining along for the ride. Anyway enough on that. Let's move on to the flag
The flag of the Maldives is a green banner with a red border and the center of the flag bears a white vertical
Crescent the green rectangle of the center symbolizes the peace and prosperity of the nation the white crescent moon
symbolizes the Islamic faith and the red stands for war
Yeah, you were waiting for that weren't you once again, thank you Ken for making that animation yeah
No, I have fun making it. It was pretty cool. Can you successfully avoided getting fired one more week and appreciation?
I will give you a raise
I will raise your cage up a few inches from the dungeon so you can get some sunlight from the window. That's even better
Hey, so
We're gonna do the fan mail. Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna get to that. Alright both you
Keep in mind the country has also used quite a few other flags in the past
Especially prior to the 50s when they're under a Sultanate as opposed to being the Republic that they are today
There was also a time when they just used a flag that was full red
But yeah, anyway time to move on the coat of arms
Which is not a coat of arms is an emblem the emblem depicts a coconut palm
Representing the livelihood of the nation as it is said to be the most beneficial
Tree providing everything from medicine to food to boat building the crescent and star
Obviously stand for Islam the state religion flanked on either side of the palm are two miniature
Multi-beam flags and at the bottom a scroll with words written in the Arabic Nash style script reading a lot Mahadevi
A' which means the state of the mojave Beyond which is the name even Battuta and other medieval
Arab travelers used to refer to the Maldives according to my research the words on the scroll were given by this guy
Mohammad Taku roof on new
Al-alam, he was a former sultan that fought against the Portuguese and he's seen as like a national hero
Otherwise, yeah, that was that's just about it. That was pretty short. You know what time it is geography fan mail time
Alright, so here we go. Again. You guys know them, mr. Keith and
Mr. Ken and Ken. Do you know how we start these things?
postcards indeed from Finland who went to South Africa Cape Town Yin's who visited Cyprus Daniel
Thanks for the postcard. Mekin. Ha Island Taylor who's actually camping out in Nashville, Tennessee interesting
We've got two people who sent cards from Malta Leonardo and Nadine and Ethan. This is just amazing
we got a we got a postcard from North Korea fellow subscriber who's from New Zealand and his name is
Lebon yeah, thank you so much, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bennet and Johnny sent this from Cincinnati and it's the corn palace Oh actually Ken you got a postcard
Yeah Wow Thanks in Turku, Finland. Okay, cool. Thank you from
Patricia
Yen's who visited the azureus England postcard from Michael?
So we got this postcard from bird Hill, Ireland and to finish it off
We got a really cool card from the Kaliningrad Oblast from Russia the one that's an exclave apart from the country, unfortunately
The Russian post office put all these stickers on the front of the postcard so you can barely see what the image even shows
Ah Russian post office. What do you got to do that? All right. Let's open some packages and letters wait
We got a package from the UK the t-shirts and clothes are for you and Ken
Still not fired stay cool. Stay tuned. What's worthy right now? Yeah, actually Keith
I have a straight out of new way shirt. Oh my Wow
Straight out of me away. Well, thank you for the shirts Michael from the UK. Yes
This is from Malta. Daniela and Alicia. They both drew me Maltese snacks. You do really good. Yeah, that means a
box full of these please
This is from Ares from Canada bowls and
Your mom is from Tanzania. And your dad is from Kenya. Oh, that's cool
Okay, you sent all these fake notes from all these countries that you collected. Here's one from North Korea
So yeah, very handsome. So we just bought something that sounds means someone bought something off of geography now.com
Feel free to check it out
If you want to get some merch that you guys asked for there's no pads and the pins
All right link down below from William Dallas, Texas. They're like historic banknotes from Texas. I didn't even know Texas was its own country
It's not real. Yeah a long time ago for those
You don't know American history, Texas used to be its own country
and these two have their own currency two white, New Mexico Dwight actually wrote this book the art of punt and he actually
Mentions the channel on page 21 well believe it or not. This YouTube channel actually is really interesting
How does the show's host Paul be do this humor? Thank you. Joy, Wow. You put us in your book
I know that's pretty cool Elijah sent this from South Korea the South Korean flag and
Unified Korea flag they had this in the Winter Olympics. Fun fact, my grandfather woodson the Korean War
My mom was - hey, that's how my parents were born. And I live in Koreatown. We're all Korean kinda
Okay, we got a package from Arizona by the guy of Alex and we also got cactus candy. You guys should
What do you think of cactus candy would eat again? Yeah, definitely ten out of ten would eat again. We got this package from
Tempe Arizona a lot of Arizona people today
Friends Cisco Cisco, whatever you said to us it got pretty damaged and crushed in the bag. I'm sorry
I got you some traditional Toyota's from my hometown or try it
You know, this is actually really good Gabriel in New Jersey, Malaysia
Malaysia which is Parkville Asian. I got a letter from Richard from Louisiana bayou country by you
Oh, he wrote in both English and French. I'm gonna try to do it in a Cajun accent
I'm very bad at it but let me try he says Bonjour Bobby. I'm a peasant rikiya Jeff yonder louisia
LA premiere video que je regarde a su
Patricia at a levee and let me store the bellies if I have any fans in Malta that would love to send me something
Send me these. I think he really likes it
This is from Soren from Turkey and I guess he's some Danish dude who married some Turkish lady and ended up fall in love
Oh, they visited a country called Mauritius. Mmm. That sounds delicious
Airline pilots. Oh nice. That's so weird. She's his favorite episodes Germany, but he's Danish you don't like the Danish episode. Whoo
Isaiah from India. He's from Kerala which he says produces most of the spices from India
Whoa, Isaiah from India. We got a package from Brazil
Gave us walk through the band through the bone to the bone. We got multiple things the Brazilian flag
We also got a Brazilian t-shirt awesome
This is a few is it you it's a medium. And yeah, I gotta keep that wall
right, so fun fact about me my great-grandmother immigrated from Brazil in the
1930s poor Philippe is from the capital of Brazil Brasilia Oh buddy got the pata though that much love from Brazil Brazil
Soot gate. Thank you for sending this
Welcome pamphlet to belarus belarus is really trying to work on their tourism industry after they finished
Changing up those visa laws last year. This is from franklin massachusetts. I
Actually went to school in massachusetts. I went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass. Whoa
Remington middle school drew this whole banner
That's so cool, thanks a lot Remington middle single we got a package from Braden. What is this
Whoa, this looks sick. I got from Bali. Oh he gets from Bali
So my shirts today, so yeah love shirts
Okay, so we got this package here Rockville Maryland from Williams, and he sends us
Instead of sending you a Mexican flag. I thought it'd be unique to send you the Mexican flag ship airline Aeromexico
I'm actually I'm gonna build this this is sent from Belgium
I'm sorry, but your package got pretty damaged and messed up in the mail
Okay, Wow lot of stuff there a Russian couple from Belgium Alexandra and Alexa. Oh, you guys have sent us stuff before okay
No, Jenny beer Oh Belgian beer
Unfortunately, one of your beer bottles broke, please be very careful with your packaging
There's glass all over two of the bottles made it through. So thank you Oh a lot of flags Belgian flag real
Belgian chocolates. Well Keith, how would you like a Belgian chocolate Tom? We fly our dolls quick scoop up some chocolate on wait wait
spatial delivery
Keep is the best. All right guys, that's just about it. Oh my gosh. My living room is such a mess
But anyway, it's time to return address contest
Well, you know the deal basically I put all your return addresses in this bag
And today we're gonna do two of them because there's Duquette stars. The winner will get a
Scratch-off map provided from us from javi Frederico. He's seldom on his website. Go to this link right here
It'll also be in the description each of you will pick a winner and we will send these out no
Mercy, Keith you go first. Alright, who do we got? Alright, we got part from
Poland
All right, you're next alright no bail this one out
Uh it is this one Nicolas from Columbia building chief. You better we built the whole thing. Okay this anyway, thank you
Everybody are you yeah guys really appreciate putting all your stuff on display from your hometowns and home countries
Oh, by the way, Ken, did you want to do the hot sauce challenge?
Yes, so we are literally doing the spoonful of Trinidad scorpion sauce ready. Here we go Oh
As I'm exhaling it turning burn marks my eyes are sweating good stuff good stuff stay cool stay tuned Oh