Flippin' Jacksons

[00:00] Let's get a knowledge palate cleanser. Let's do some under googly mmm
[00:19] Super excited told us we had to
[00:27] In the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you will this really help
[00:36] Going from stuff we sort of know about like the earth is round to stuff. We don't know anything about why not
[00:41] I love it. Now. We're just gonna make up a bunch of facts
[00:44] So are we really better than kind of a fact check it like immediate? It's great on Wikipedia, which is
[00:51] Could be totally edited by people that don't believe the earth is fact checking multiple sources fact check is for communists
[00:59] this week
[01:04] Under Google's is kind of is influenced by what's been happening this week
[01:09] found out that
[01:11] We apparently have a fairly large
[01:15] Fanbase the under Google or the undebeatables do in Sweden and
[01:22] Yeah, shout out sweet. Oh kind of shocked. In fact, it's either like
[01:27] One guy with a hundred devices or we actually have a fan base there
[01:32] so pretty cool I
[01:35] Then came home that night and and saw that
[01:38] President Donald Trump had called out
[01:40] I
[01:42] Sweden in his press conference
[01:44] He said just look at all the stuff that happened in Sweden yesterday
[01:47] Referring to some sort of terrorist attack that didn't happen
[01:50] And I thought these things sort of came together for me in my head and I said, what do I know about Sweden?
[01:57] and I don't not sure I think I need you guys to
[02:05] Make sure that I know that there's a difference between
[02:08] Sweden and Switzerland if you guys can help me with that
[02:13] No, no, no, that's not the question just what do we know about Sweden and and what makes it different than Switzerland?
[02:19] Well full disclosure. I'm a quarter Swedish. So maybe I've just got like some weird extended family. I don't know about okay
[02:25] There's our entire listener base out there. I have no idea. Okay, that's good. Well, first of all, where is it?
[02:31] geographically
[02:33] It's next to Norway. It's
[02:36] Mm-hmm since Scandinavia Scandinavia. It's that
[02:40] Big downward-facing peninsula looking guy. Okay, Scandinavia
[02:45] What's the difference between Scandinavia and and the Nordic countries?
[02:52] Not much they're basically
[02:54] Yeah, okay. Good. So is Scandinavia Nordic because that's what I thought and you said Scandinavia and I got nervous. I
[03:00] I
[03:01] Think Nordic the difference between Scandinavia and in Nordic is but like Norway is weird Nordic
[03:08] I'm assuming comes from no people that were into Nordic. Well, yeah, sure. Yeah, Norse
[03:14] Norway comes from I assume that that has actual Vikings which should make it sort of an ethno cultural group, right? So that okay
[03:21] Okay, and is Scandinavia because no worse is right Viking, right, right?
[03:27] North mythology. That's like a whole world that good stuff
[03:30] Odin, right. I saw that movie. Oh
[03:34] If you're not watching it check out Vikings on
[03:38] Hm her show time or whatever it is. It's awesome. No, it's on the history channel. Okay. It's on Amazon video
[03:44] That's where I watch it. Gotcha. It is awesome
[03:49] So it's Nordic so Sweden is Nordic and Scandinavian we're not sure the difference between those things but
[03:55] It's Scandinavian. Yeah, so it's like like you got your Sweden. You got your Norway. You got your Denmark
[04:01] Okay, that's a Iceland. I guess we'd fall on that. Maybe sure. Mm-hmm cold cold up there. What?
[04:09] Did the Netherlands fall into that cluster no, I mean they're more just straight-up European Finland
[04:17] Finland yes, so I used to weirdly when I was in grade school, I would do reports on Sweden. Hmm. Okay
[04:23] So, you know more than than I do and and sadly, I don't remember much. I remember
[04:29] they they had a
[04:32] Kris Kringle type thing, but they would put out wooden shoes to like
[04:38] You know put get treats would put get put in the wooden shoes outside their door on Christmas. Mm-hmm
[04:44] something like that I kind of remember that and then
[04:49] We used to make a
[04:51] breakfast pastry thing
[04:54] That was like apples and it was like an apple turnover. They're just brutal
[04:58] Kind of like a strudel, but yeah
[05:02] That's and that's my extent of what they also they actually at one time had a fairly powerful Empire they mixed it up with Peter the Great
[05:11] Yeah, well, okay, so that's yeah the great no Frederick the great
[05:15] Sorry, that's what
[05:20] My I'm curious what kind of government they have do they have is it like is it socialist is it?
[05:29] Democracy, I think it's a democratic socialist Republic. Yeah, okay
[05:37] What do we get what's the capital of Sweden
[05:40] Copenhagen no, that's Denmark. That's Denmark. That's not Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm syndrome. I
[05:46] Know that about Sweden. Yes, that's a thing
[05:49] Patty case what was what was what was her name Patty Hearst Patty Hearst? Yeah, sure fell in love with her captors
[05:58] Yes, but I yeah, I don't know when they originally Finland. That's the other Scandinavian country. Yeah, Coalson got that one
[06:05] Okay, sir
[06:07] So it's not Switzerland
[06:10] with
[06:12] Anything that we know that Sweden's known for I the things that I think of and I don't know if this says anything about
[06:18] my vocation or my hobbies, but
[06:21] Svedka vodka is from Sweden. Sure. And so is malort the Swedish liqueur
[06:28] Have you guys had them over make things?
[06:30] I mean most countries make some kind of booze and they definitely do it's really cold up there. You need booze
[06:35] Isn't Ikea is Ikea from Sweden. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, I think that's right
[06:40] I think a big fishing country. Certainly. They're right on the water. I
[06:46] Thought you said that was Denmark on one side and today a few words
[06:50] They have few words Norway was on the other but they're they're connected to what Stockholm's
[06:54] Oh, yeah, Denmark is actually part of mainland Europe, but they they've got
[07:00] They're the thing that bridges in between right? Okay, they're the closest thing to a bridge. So it's a maritime country
[07:07] It's very much. But yes, I mean the Scandinavia depends on the Vikings came from okay, and then they've been attacked
[07:15] mainland Europe and England
[07:19] Swedish chef. Oh, there you go. Yeah, we know the Swedish
[07:27] Flippin Jackson's
[07:34] I think we nailed that
[07:37] Does anybody want to go in on like biggest export? Oh
[07:43] Actually, I want to know how big the country is like how many how many people live there?
[07:46] Do we have that do we know a small population rather large country? I'm gonna go with
[07:53] 80 million people and
[07:57] It's the size of
[07:59] Texas oh
[08:01] So it's big in Europe. That would be massive
[08:04] I'm gonna go way smaller than yeah, it can't be 80 million. It's like 20. I think it's like 15 million
[08:09] It's like 20 and it's the size of New Jersey or something. I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with Texas, but I'm gonna stick with 20 mil
[08:15] Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna go
[08:17] Somewhere in between I think it's I think it's big
[08:23] Not as big as Texas but big and I think it's yeah 20 million I like that let's go with that
[08:29] It's a hundred and seventy almost a hundred and seventy four thousand square miles
[08:37] 22 inhabitants per square kilometer
[08:41] That's not very much
[08:43] No
[08:44] Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times Germanic
[08:49] There you go burn
[08:51] Constituting the sea people's known as Norseman
[08:55] Okay
[08:57] So it's Nordic
[08:59] Constitutional monarchy and
[09:01] parliamentary democracy
[09:03] so it's got the old like I
[09:06] Forgot they do have they've they've got an actual monarch. Yeah. Yeah, he gives out the Nobel Prize
[09:15] Okay, what did you say the landmass wise
[09:20] 174,000 square miles
[09:22] Okay, so Texas is
[09:25] 268,000 so considerably smaller about two-thirds. Yeah
[09:29] Stockholm is the capital. Hey, look at us. We got one thing
[09:37] And we got the Germanic people, okay, so it's way bigger than Jersey
[09:43] But it's way smaller than Texas so Coalson was right he went
[09:47] Right in the middle. He went in between. Yeah, sure. I
[09:50] Just I'm surrounded by smart people. I try to try to guide us to the middle ground. Do we say how many people?
[09:57] This is 10 million people
[09:59] Yep, 10 million. So under that per capita almost 50,000 GDP. Sorry
[10:10] Is that high or low that's very good
[10:14] okay
[10:16] Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark Norway and Sweden and
[10:20] Nordic country is used unambiguously for Denmark Norway Sweden Finland and Iceland
[10:27] Including your associated territories Greenland the Faroe Islands and all on diamonds
[10:32] But what's the difference? But so clearly Nordic has created is connected to Norse, right?
[10:36] But what's Scandinavia connected to why is that so much smaller?
[10:42] Scandinavia is the actual sort of
[10:45] peninsular
[10:47] Guy that connects to Denmark. So those are
[10:51] The name Scandinavia originally referred vaguely to the formerly Danish now, Swedish region in Scania
[11:02] the term entered the usage in the late 18th century as
[11:07] terms for the region
[11:08] With their Germanic majority peoples and associated languages and cultures
[11:13] All right. Well, I think we learned a lot