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Ah, there we are. That's Mr. Noel Brown. They call me Ben Bullen in this neck of the woods

that would be the United States. We have been fascinated for a long time about how countries always pick specific things to cosign, right?

Like countries have an official animal, an official flag, and they also have official songs.

They do.

Called national anthems.

And that's what we're talking about today.

The world's most ridiculous national anthems.

I love the word anthem, though.

Again, it's one of those chicken or the egg things.

Something being anthemic, you know, means it's kind of epic.

And I guess an anthem, a national anthem, is meant to be epic.

And it also goes back to, you know, they call certain big church pieces anthems, you know,

as part of a church service.

And one of my favorite, one of my favorite British insults that I've ever heard just off the cuff,

because we know the British cousins are way better than Americans at insults.

I was walking around our old office in Ponce City Market here in the Fair Metropolis

of Atlanta, Georgia, and someone was telling a kind of, I'll say the guy was being kind of a d' a dick about how there was a line for one of the restaurants.

And a person working at the restaurant started telling them, you know, okay, the wait's going to be about 25, 30 minutes, something like that.

And this British guy that I have never seen before or since, he said, oh, spare me your anthem. I don't know that one, Ben. That's good. I'm sure he pulled it off. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he might have coined it that very minute. But yeah, I guess an anthem is also kind of in that context, sort of a, uh, something that's a little bit,

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