we decided to start our own country and you can too let’s talk about that good mythical morning happy start your own country day did you know that’s what today was I did I did not do you asking them or asking me cuz I knew I’m asking them they may have known we make it our business to know these daily holidays we tweet about that we do on a Twitter rhettandlink account yes it is indeed to start your own country day it is indeed today today is that day now this is a holiday that was originally conceived in 1939 at the World’s Fair in New York uh and it’s a little bit in jest but I don’t think we should be taking this in Jess I think we should be taking this seriously and I want to celebrate start your own country day today by starting our own country today on the show all right let’s do it except how do we do that well I have a whole system here that I’ve been researching oh really you’ve been boopity boop open it well first of all a lot of people begin to ask questions like don’t you need unclaimed land right you got to start it somewhere right well okay technically all the land on earth has been claimed even Antarctica but like 7 different countries have claimed Antarctica and in nitrogen divided up no in 1945 are actually sorry in 1959 they came up with the Antarctic Treaty which was signed by 45 nations with basically said that all right this is our country it is everyone’s country it is no one’s actual country we’re going to do research there and hang out there and build forts and stuff only the people who sensory centers yeah but I mean basically you can’t I’m not I don’t want to go to Antarctica I mean we could technically that would be our best shot starting on country but I don’t think we can get there in the next couple of minutes and it’s very cold it’s a very cold place I’m not gonna argue with that and a lot of people like well what I mean how often does this happen when was the last country that formed well on July 9th 2011 the 196 196 country in the world South Sudan was started when they pulled away from the other part of Sudan the northern part yeah but it was just called Sudan and now it’s I think it’s just Sudan and South Sudan okay so we are about to uh 197 3 8 197 or from 197 okay uh now we can exactly claim land elsewhere like on Antarctica and technically we’re not allowed to claim land here but I’ve done it anyway I have claimed just a little area around our desk right here you can see I’ve taped off the border already this is our country that’s what the green tape is yeah and there’s we could have gone a little bigger I mean if you’re gonna claim a country I want to start small buddy we can expand the borders through conquest later but right now it’s just this Inlet there is a little peninsula back there but between us looks like a vestigial tail you’re not taking this seriously I can tell I’m sorry I’ll switch gears that looks like a vestigial good ok we’re going to start our country according to the Montevideo convention on the rights and duties of state rules that’s something else I found during my research the first thing we need is a name and I was thinking that since ironically both of us are so into cheese because we revealed that in our mind map yeah you put cheese on yours and I put cheese I mean you saw mine you put cheese on I’m gonna eat cheese for lunch and you want to make cheese right this is going to be the republic of cheese’s tan because it has a stand at the end ok I cannot be opposed in any way to team I brought cheese I guess why they’re in cheese here I got this little cheese that’s covered in wax that you can eat make four eyes cheese beard cheese eyes so what we do here but you must have a permanent population right here the two of us the Republic of cheese’s tan column has a permanent population of two that’s me and you what are you trying to do there I’m going for the official garb of Republic of Kazakhstan is this where I’ve come it’s difficult it requires practice making a little nervous okay um welcome that’s how I was always you have to have a defined territory chechik uh you must have a capital I thought the capital could be right here like a beat microphone okay like capital of microphone them microphone lael microphone ville is the city that’s the capital right there on though and we have to have a form of government and I thought since we’re Republic we have a representative form of government and I am your representative and government and you are my representative in government we are each other’s represent okay it’s kind of overkill get or now so care I think it makes perfect sense but we have to figure out who’s going to be vote for that we have to figure out who’s going to be President of well Jesus let’s have an election I vote me as president I vote you as president also because I’m already president of GMM so why can’t you you get to be president of the country within GM that was easy okay great okay and this is moving right along my idea for how we come up with laws and we legislate things is if I have an idea and you have an idea and they’re conflicting ideas we just take a piece of string cheese and all our problems all legislation is carried out by the cheese pulling process I think that whenever anyone gives a speech they have to wear these as eyeballs that’s a good idea should vote on that yeah but you have to be against it so that we can yeah I don’t think that’s a good idea why don’t we settle it with a cheese pulling okay so don’t eat on this you just grab that and we on the count of three we pull okay one you can’t grab it in the same you can’t gonna grab the same one two three ah I got more cheese this is a way to run a country you don’t wanna and you get to eat a little bit more than mmm-hmm okay so what are we gonna do with these are not gonna be eyeballs so that’s basically our Constitution is that all things will be settled by cheese pulling but we have to declare independence to make this official and we have to send it to United Nations now I have a I have this made out to the Security General of the United Nations Knoll I’m going to send this to him and I’ve written a declaration of independence now did you write this in a cheesy tone no it’s very serious well that’s a missed opportunity we hold certain truths to be self-evident that while all men are created equal all cheeses are indeed not created equal some cheese is amazing like a nice smoked cheddar or those balls of mozzarella that come in water and some cheese is horrendous like the imitation cheese that comes individually wrapped in plastic which kids put on sandwiches that isn’t really cheese at all if actually it’s just a cheese product what does that even mean anyways anyways there’s it anyways in the class in the declaration of innocence we like to keep things conversational in cheese’s there we therefore the Republic of cheese’s stand in a general internet video assembled by the authority of the good people of Jesus stand solemnly publish and declare that this republic ought to be a free and independent country cheese it season cheese ik okay so I’m gonna sign I’m can be the mascot and the president of cheese’s dan I’m not above that and you sell you sign that one okay and we’re gonna wrap that up and I think the only thing we need no no rights I’m writing president underneath is we need a national anthem and if you could waive the official flag of the Republic of cheese’s stand while we sing this together I’m gonna sing with you geez this is something about you talking about cheese I can’t live without you and if you love cheese here’s the plan come on over to the republic of cheese’s ale now the problem is with such a great song we’re asking people to come over we have limited space without immediate conquests yeah but the tourism is gonna be a difficult thing yeah but at least the immediate sound quest is within our still up the bounds of our rented studio space but you gotta admit that is an unusual national anthem they use it all sound like that they’re usually allowing moving yeah right it’s not it wasn’t very patriotic I can picture like Elton John singing that Jesus Dan he should be the first guest he should be the first honored guest that’s right in it right you want to make a tourism poster for the republic of cheese’s tan you can upload that to the rhettandlink community you know what time it is Nick West Fargo North Dakota mythicality every Friday we release our podcast ear biscuits and we did that today you’re doing that today go check it out also you don’t have to be a member of the republic of jesus then to get one of these you can just buy one rattling comm slash store red link admit that they are imposters and not rhett and Link well guys how do we say this or do we come clean oh this has been killing me oh this has been killing me I mean this has been going on for year and a half now you just haven’t made probably longer 18 months at least 18 to 24 months we we killed rhett and Link yeah a long time ago and we well how the hell they I mean well that hold on they deserved it yeah they did first of all absolute and evil they were just stupid people not that we believe in killing the stupid people but we are evil so yeah we do we’re evil masterminds who can shape-shift to look like entertainers mm-hmm that’s what we’ve done here but our conscious has gotten the best of us and so we’re confessing you that yes we are Impostors and murderers and we’re heartless but come on down to Jesus Stan yeah and you know I mean there’s no reason you shouldn’t keep watching this show I mean we’ve got at least better than nothing ten more strings of pieces of string cheese I mean we won’t kill you or anything no unless you’re stupid I wonder if something good bad could come out of it like we can get the CIA on us or something you know if they might start me would be like accused of treason for this