I hope you like the hungary episode actually had a lot of fun filming

It especially filming with my friend nick from Nikka Pedia

I know you guys are really critical of it when I bring a co-host on the show and sometimes you don't like it

But I'm just going to say you know nick. He's my friend. He's a smart guy. I respect him and yes

He really is actually that exuberant and energetic and Jolly in real life. He's not putting on an act

That's actually him so no matter what thank you nick for being on the show on also very quickly in the episode we accidentally said

Eurozone, but we meant to say European union in demographics, and I misspelled Moyer but anyway today, we're going to talk about hungary swag

so don't click away because I you know why hehe

Before we jump in

I don't know if you guys noticed I changed up all the thumbnails for flag Friday the old ones are just tacky they look too

Similar to the country episodes also. I live streamed opening up your packages last week on Facebook if you missed it

I just want to say thanks to a couple people Calvin sent this really cool wall hanging thing and this one on e

Dictionary Boudreaux

Sent a bunch of cool stuff from Slovenia like this book of pictures of Slovenian landscapes

Mohammed sent an entire box of like Indonesian Snack Brandon sent a ton of stuff from South Dakota including this. I'm guessing

It's like a native American

Blanket Joel thing it looks really cool and

Jesse from New zealand sent this really cool magnetic sand from Kata Kata Beach anyway flag time

Let's move on the flag of hungary is a horizontal tricolour

Red white and green the flag was born out of the revolution of 1848 which was against the hapsburgs

And was deliberately made horizontal to avoid confusion with the flag of Italy the green represents

Hope and the land the white for freedom and faithfulness and the red stands for strength

and

Once again, thank you, Kan one of our favorite interns here for making that animation

You rock can keep in mind you also might find this

Alternate version of the flag with the coat of arms on it all over the country and keep in mind historically

They had a whole bunch of different types of flags at one point in time their flag was just red and then during the 1956

Revolution they used this flag which basically had a hole in the middle of it which used to have to close the coat of arms

As a way to kind of say get out soviets now the coat of arms at first glance

It looks pretty simple, but then you get a magnifying glass. You're like. Oh dang

There's a lot of stuff going on on that little crown thing the coat of arms was instated after Communist rule ended in

1990 and is made up of a shield split into two parts the left featuring the arpad stripes for red and for silver representing the

Four main Rivers of the country the Danube the Tisa the drama and the Sava the right side contains a double cross on a red

base placed on a gold crown on top of three hills

Representing the three mountain ranges at top Tera Mastana and Fatahna now

we get to the

Incredibly detailed crown on top the crown is derived from the holy crown of Hungary also known as the crown of St.

Stephen which is a real crown that you can see on display in the hungarian parliament

building today the crown depicts precious stones and pearls on top of a golden frame with intricately carved patterns adorned with various

Images of angels possible's of Jesus and Jesus himself the interesting part though is the crooked cross there are many legends such as its supposedly

Symbolizing the tilt of the Earth's axis or someone on the royal staff dropping it accidentally while trying to store it away

Or maybe the austrians did it or one of the kings was Careless and did it himself either way nobody really?

Completely knows and that's about it

All right geogra-fan mail time so this is the mail from last week a lot of letters this time. Let's just jump into it

Francisco from Italy, I was born in italy

But after a year my family moved to skopje the capital of the republic of Macedonia

And then I moved to australia you are quite the international man Francisco got three cool postcards Ross

Sent us from Beijing China Nicole sent us from LJubljana and Jason sent this from Tanzania. It's a little graphic

Shows like a animal totally dying William from Ohio writes a cool letter

He also says if I had a ticket that would allow me to go anywhere in the world where would I go?

I already went to greenland, so I guess the next stop would be to balloon going to start making some connections tristan from RockFord

Illinois asks where would you recommend a first time traveler like me go probably somewhere maybe in the Caribbean maybe bar or dominic whoo?

Dominica see if you can go to Dominica. That would be really cool Eric from Wisconsin

We have the weirdest city names try saying these on camera, Wawa, Tosa

Ashwaubenon

Manitowoc Sheboygan, oh I know sheboygan I used to work for Northwest airlines, and I had to sell tickets to this place

So I couldn't stump me on that last one. Maybe some young a few of the other ones, but definitely not sheboygan

Hey Barb's, my name is gustavo, and I am from Sao Paulo Brazil I still haven't forgiven you for getting the wrong Reynaldo

I'm sorry by the way the right word for cookie is Bolacha not beefs quite though

Oh, you may have just started a comment. War this is from

Miss

Lavinia a lot of slovenians watch this show I guess I guess somebody spread the word and it just kind of happened

I've gotten this chocolate like three times now every slovenian keeps sending me this chocolate gory Nika it borrows

My name is Nasa and I come from Slovenia also. I dare you to pronounce this word it means bumblebee Jim McKeon

I am so sorry I was from a Chris from whitby

Yorkshire uk no seriously he sent me like every single British coin, and I heard if you put them together

It makes like the image of a shield right hey barb's I've been subscribed since andorra

I am ex-military, and I've done three tours with the royal air force working in helicopters dude. That's so cool

Thanks, a lot Chris a nastily Jose victor from Brazil writes a letter. I think the episode

I laughed at the most was the one about greece where you said that they are the more hey-hey than brazil

Sorry

Greece they beat you guys at that. Hey, I fletcher from Colorado. Thank you for your letter then

Thank you for this colorado flag thing that you made we got this is oh no

It is actually my internet Bill cal from New York

Thank you for your letter with these cool images of landmarks in New York and Paul from Scotland

Thank you for your letter, and thank you for sending this cool Royal bank of Scotland

Pound sterling okay. This is from toby from Bolivia the coolest thing about this letter is the address it's like

It's kind of like in the Costa Rica episode. We have to like describe the colour of your house in your address convair

De Frente Al Parque o'Meara isetta west day that is such a weird thing that you guys do down there. Hey barb's

I'm originally from belgium, but I am nearing the end of my exchange year in

Cochabamba in Bolivia, this is the Island of Incahuasi in salar. De Uyuni

Thank you Gavin from Nollans for sending all this cool, Louisiana stuff preston from Wyoming, and he said things to geography now

He really loved learning about equatorial guinea Sam from Luxembourg. I don't think we've gotten anything from Luxembourg yet

I've sent you a small flag swag is also called a red line of Luxembourg. Hey barb's. I'm Jesse

I'm 10 years old, and I can't wait for anything about Puerto Rico. He actually drew a little Puerto Rican flag on his letter

hey, you Puerto Ricans gotta love on us from Nicole from Canada ah

Yes

Canada

150 new my problem is I kind of want to wear it and go to Canada this year before the year is over

So I guess maybe I got to buy a flight ticket somewhere in Canada finally let's finish off with this box from Denmark

Oh geez I love Denmark. It was the first European country I've been to I loved it, and you guys it's just

Not Denmark hey, Paul. We are a couple living in Denmark. Oh my God just so many cool things in here

It was like a hard candy dark chocolate almonds is a danish royal guard figurine licorice, but it looks like a pipe

Yeah, this is the best part of the package legos, okay?

I promise you I will build this and I will post it up on social Media okay, and of course finally the

Piz Stones

the Danish flag so Rowena and Michael

Happy anniversary Denmark is amazing. I love Denmark alright. So that's it, but before we go. You know

What time it is return address?

Contest these are all of your return addresses and then I pick one out and then whichever one I pick is the person that I?

Will send a little a little gift to alright. So here we go

I'm not going to look I'm going to look just gonna pick one this one has bubble wrap

Mark from France you just won. Oh bubble wrap yes. Yes, all right guys

Thank you for watching this episode of flag slash fan Friday. I'm going to say it this time. You've just been flagged

Hope you have a good one. See you next week

lately