Hey everyone you might remember in a very recent episode Tim and I discussed an idea which was like a world cup of national

anthems. You'd pit two countries anthems head to head a face off to see which one was better the winner progressing to the next round and the loser falling by the wayside

Was this a good idea? I don't know there's only one way to find. We've made a little pilot version of today to decide which one we like better.

And today it is the national anthem of Honduras and the national anthem of Mauritius.

Honduras in Central America?

You've been to Honduras before Tim?

No, no.

Although I do have a friend that's had some connection there. I think he was raising money for some aid program related to Honduras or something like that. That's many years ago and I'm sketchy on the details, but that's probably the only time the context I've heard it mentioned in conversation

I know nothing about Honduras really I'm very very ignorant I haven't even got a friend who's been there that I'm aware of their national anthem is called

hymno National de Honduras which I think maybe just means the national anthem of

Honduras it's in Spanish and I've got the lyrics to it here in Spanish, but I don't think either of them are going to do us any good.

So we are going to read some of these in English and our apologies if the translation means some of the poetry and the beauty of that is lost,

but that's the way it's going to be. Now before I play it, do you want to hear a few lines?

How much shall I tell you a few of the lyrics? It seems to me at a glance that this National from much

like the US national anthem is very much about their flag.

So the Honduras flag, for those who don't know what it looks like,

it's got two blue bars, one across the top, one across the bottom,

and a white bar in the middle.

And on the white bar in the middle are five stars.

Kind of shaped like an H. I don't know if that's a coincidence or not, but anyway, some of the

lyrics in this anthem, Your Flag is a splendour of sky crossed with a band of snow and there can be seen in its sacred depths.

Five pale blue stars in your emblem which a rough sea with its wild waves protects behind the bare summit of a volcano,

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