Flag Week: The Hawaii state flag has a UK union jack on it only because the king liked it

Flag Week: The Hawaii state flag has a UK union jack on it only because the king liked it

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the day, day day, day day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah. Do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do doo
dooo doo. Ah. It's flag. It's been two weeks, two
short weeks of flag week. Yeah, so today is the
final fact about flags for now. It's one of my

(00:28):
favorite subjects for now. And today is about the hellnder week.
Oh no, that was a pretty good one as well.
Today's fact is about the Hawaiian state flag. You guys
familiar with the Hawaiian I'm gonna google it, Hawaiian.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
I got it. We've got it right here on a
big screen. Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Describe Union Jack and the legitd in the upper left
corner and then white striped red stripe, blue stripe, repeating yeah,
very strip really does commemorate the fact that they ate
Captain Cook.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yeah, yum, yum, yummy colonizery.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You might also be thinking Hawaii has never been under
British rule, you know, because what Captain Cook visited and
then they the Sandwich Islands I believe they were called then, right, Yeah,
we were like there were never like a British colony,
like we were Wait did they eat them or just
kill them?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I think that that's legend.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
They think the Hawaiians at them, the Marty Audiatum the
mam Okay. Well, if I've been a Polynesian island, I
would have and they'd called for a sort of a
meeting of sorts and he was there to be eaten.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I would have had it. I would have had I
can have the league or part of the league. I
just like a bonatchuw on after. Yeah. So people are like, well,
why has it got a Union jack in it? Yeah?
Why does it never be in a British settlement?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
It's it's still got the Union jack in that as
a state flag even though it is now American. Interesting
it is because King Kameha Maya real name. Yeah, and
also pretty red move from Dragon ball Z saved the
day more than once or twice. Ken Kameha Maya liked it.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
It just did it looked good? Yeah, just like the image. Yeah,
has he going to do with British rule? Amazing? He
bought a boat. He got a boat.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
It was one It was breg It was a brig
named the Forester. He renamed it the Kahumanu. But it
was they were like, oh, we'll take the flag down.
He's like, just let's just leave it and leave it
there for now. I like it.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Change it a little bit. Okay, it's got the so.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
The company that he bought it off it was redd
in white stripes, so he changed one of the stripes
the blue, so it wasn't the exact thing.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
And he's just like, I like that.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I like that. I like that design, and that's how
I like that. But in the corner kind of generally
means we own whoever's flying it. Yeah, And he's like, no,
you don't like the lines, just like the lines and everything.
I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Cool, quite a cool little design.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Bizarre.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
So, yeah, they've never been.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
A British colony, but they've got a union jack in
the corner because King Komeha Maya liked it.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
In fact of the day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
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Speaker 2 (03:19):
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