1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,520 And we're back for episode #50 of Are You Quizzing Me? 2 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,800 It has been a year since we started this podcast, and I 3 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,520 don't think either of us were 100% confident that we would 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,680 reach this milestone. But we have 50 episodes in 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,320 Aditya. Thoughts. 6 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:28,280 Just the fact that we are here is astounding enough, and the 7 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,000 fact that we have not given up on each other or on this podcast 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,080 or on trivia in general is truly a remarkable thing. 9 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:39,200 I'm very impressed. Yes, we are impressed with 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,560 ourselves. I'm also very sleepy right now. 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:48,400 It is a recording at let's say 9:00 AM and which normally human 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:53,520 beings are awake. But I I claim then it is time to 13 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,200 sleep at 9:00 AM and not be awake. 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,320 So I I'm going to try my best to be awake for this special 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,000 episode, actually. Yes. 16 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,760 Can you tell our audience what's special about it? 17 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,200 Aditya. Well, it is the #50 and it is 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,280 the last episode for the year, so we need that. 19 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:15,400 I decided that we will treat each other and our audiences to 20 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,240 a special episode. And in this special episode, 21 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,040 what we're going to be doing is that we are going to be asking 22 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,040 questions from events that have happened in this year 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,520 exclusively. So Vineet is going to ask me a 24 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,000 question for something pertaining to January 2023. 25 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,520 I will take Feb, then he goes to March and so on and so forth. 26 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,160 Of course, we might take events in those specific months and use 27 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,160 that as an inspiration for a question slightly related. 28 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,320 And so it won't be a specific event that, hey, do you know 29 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:46,720 what happened in 2023, Jan? But something that happened and 30 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:48,840 hence inspired our questions. I'm very excited. 31 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,040 Let's see, because we both don't know what the other person is 32 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,920 prepared. Yes, and this will be an active 33 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,480 discovery process, but let's figure this out together. 34 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:01,080 Yes, this should be interesting. Let me start off with an 35 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,640 audience question and a question for our audience regarding 36 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,760 something that happened this year. 37 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:12,800 So in March of 2023, this company X posted earnings of 38 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:19,880 $161 billion for 2022, which makes it the highest ever 39 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:23,560 recorded annual profit by a publicly listed company. 40 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:25,560 And so let me repeat the question again. 41 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:32,600 In March of 2023, this company X posted earnings of $161 billion 42 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,880 for 2022, making it the highest ever recorded annual profit by a 43 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,960 publicly listed company. I need you are dear audience to 44 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,240 try and guess which company this is. 45 00:02:43,640 --> 00:02:46,400 We will reveal the answer as usual at the end of today's 46 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,600 episode. And before we start off with 47 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,200 this 2023 extravaganza, we still have the small mark matter of 48 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,800 the question that Aditya had posed last week. 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,560 Aditya. I went and listened to the 50 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:03,360 episode again, and what I had asked was which town in Istanbul 51 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:08,560 has also sued another American Hollywood film. 52 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:10,200 Yes, I believe that was the question. 53 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,040 Word to word, yes. And we are, you know, 54 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,080 straightforward looking to that answer as to which town in 55 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:21,040 Istanbul. So there is a town in Istanbul 56 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:22,600 called Turkey. No, I'm kidding. 57 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:27,400 I I'm going to go to the fact that it is not just Istanbul, 58 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,840 and it's not just a small town in it, but it's in fact the 59 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,120 whole country of Turkey, which is sued not just American 60 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,000 movies, but American entertainment in general for 61 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:43,560 using Thanksgiving and turkeys in general as a common plot 62 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:49,400 device from every random bottle episode of Friends to 63 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,520 Thanksgiving movies. I believe that is an 64 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:55,600 infringement of Turkey's copyright. 65 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,760 So the entire country of Turkey has sued Hollywood, according to 66 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,160 me. I just made that up. 67 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,240 But it's true now, because I said it. 68 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,920 And while we get sued into oblivion by the country of 69 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,280 Turkey, before that, let's do this recording and at least push 70 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,480 out this episode. I'm not going to comment on that 71 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,640 answer because frankly, why would I? 72 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,240 Let's start off with today's episode. 73 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,800 As I mentioned, the format is going to be I'll do Jan, he'll 74 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,480 do Feb, then I'll do March, and so on and so forth until we 75 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,680 reach December. I'm going to start you off with 76 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,280 the question from January. X was named after something 77 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:39,160 which was described as human made avoidable. 78 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,800 In Jan of 2023, X was splashed across the news mostly in India, 79 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:47,640 and a few months later X would again be in the news, this time 80 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,400 in the US because of X's position with regards to Elon 81 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:56,720 Musk identify. XI have purposely made this very 82 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,120 vague so as to stump Aditya's stupendous memory. 83 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,880 So I believe the audience will be on my side on this. 84 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:07,840 Wait, let me clarify. X was described as something 85 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:11,440 human made but avoidable. Yes, X was named after something 86 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,080 which has been described as human made avoidable. 87 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,280 Oh, X was named after something that is human made but 88 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:21,360 avoidable. And what is the Musk connection? 89 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,880 So in 2023, in January 2023, X was splashed across the news, 90 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,160 mostly in India. And then a few months later, X 91 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,400 would again be in the news this time, but this time because of a 92 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,840 position it took with regards to Elon Musk. 93 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,680 Interesting. Is it a newspaper? 94 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,360 No, it's not a newspaper, but it is an organization. 95 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:45,080 I will give you that. It is an organization, a very 96 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,800 small organization. It only has nine employees as of 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,720 last, the last filing. And I mean the number 9, not the 98 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:53,520 German. No. 99 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,200 OK. And it is an Indian 100 00:05:58,200 --> 00:05:59,680 organization. No, it is not. 101 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,400 But it was across the news in India in January. 102 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,520 No, I need a bit more of a clue. OK. 103 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:11,440 Let's just say that this is a company which is in the 104 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:15,040 financial space. Wait, OK, when you say human 105 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,520 made but avoidable, it sounds like it's not something great. 106 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,480 It's not a good thing. Am I on the right? 107 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:21,960 It's. Not, it's not, it's not 108 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:25,160 something great. Yes, the the name of the company 109 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:29,040 has been given very specifically because it's in a way quite 110 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:33,000 related to what the company does and it was huge news, huge news 111 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,520 in India and it caused something of a, you know, huge fallout 112 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,520 here in India as well. Is it some type of watchdog? 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,560 I have no clue at all. Yeah, so watchdog would not be 114 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:48,240 an unreasonable way to describe them, but then they also make 115 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,840 money of it. No I need another clue then. 116 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,720 When they did what they did in January, somebody in India lost 117 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,600 a lot of money. Adani, right? 118 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,760 Yes, Adani was featured in the report. 119 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:04,520 Yes, Adani was featured in this report of this company, which 120 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:08,240 was named after a human made but avoidable disaster. 121 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,640 Oh God, this is one of those piece of news that just. 122 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:17,000 I know, I know. So X is a company, is an 123 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,880 activist company, research company which takes up short 124 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,760 selling positions. So they took up a short position 125 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:25,560 against Adani and then later they did that same, you know, 126 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,600 against Elon Musk when? During the time of his takeover 127 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,560 on Twitter. So X is named after man made but 128 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,880 avoidable disaster. Can you tell me which one this 129 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,640 is? Man made but avoidable disaster 130 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,280 Is it the Hindenburg? Yes, it is the Hindenburg 131 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,240 Research Group, which only has nine employees. 132 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,080 They are a short selling activist research group which 133 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,760 releases reports about corporate fraud and malfeasance and then 134 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,320 takes short selling positions against those companies looking 135 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:57,040 to make money. Interestingly enough, people who 136 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,360 have heard of the Hindenburg, you all know that the Hindenburg 137 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:05,640 was a big Zeppelin right, which flew from Europe to America and 138 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:09,320 then burnt up in America causing the huge Hindenburg disaster. 139 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,440 Do you know that America is partly responsible for that? 140 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,280 How do you? I don't know how that is. 141 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,840 So there there's a lot of fuss made among quizzing circles and 142 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,880 people who know about this that the Hindenburg burnt up because 143 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:27,520 the the gas that they had used for keeping the Zeppelin afloat 144 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:30,960 was hydrogen, which is flammable, instead of using 145 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:33,120 something like helium, which is not flammable. 146 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,559 The fact is the Hindenburg was actually designed to use helium. 147 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:44,520 OK, interesting. But at that point of time, a 148 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,960 lion's share of the world's helium reserves were in 149 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,760 America's hands, and America refused to give it to the Nazi 150 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,160 government. They put up trade restrictions, 151 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:59,520 so Germany wasn't able to source enough helium to keep using the 152 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:05,720 Zeppelin, and because of that, they changed it to use hydrogen 153 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,440 instead of helium. And that ended up being this 154 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,680 huge disaster, one of the first live film disasters. 155 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,760 The video is still harrowing to see almost a century later. 156 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,520 So that disaster is was described by the founder of 157 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,640 Heinberg Research Group as being human made but avoidable. 158 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:27,160 And he says that's the same thing what they do. 159 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:31,400 They look for companies which have, you know, corporate fraud 160 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:34,280 and malfeasance, which is human made. 161 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:36,960 But they feel that if people pay attention, these could be 162 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,440 avoided. Right. 163 00:09:38,560 --> 00:09:39,520 Interesting. Very cool. 164 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,360 Very cool. OK, I had no clue about this. 165 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:48,200 All right, that was a great question actually, and very much 166 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:51,880 in accordance with our decided format. 167 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:56,880 I don't know if my question fits the bill, but let me try, OK? 168 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:03,000 Celestine Lawson is an American businesswoman, fashion designer 169 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:08,120 and philanthropist. She has been famous for her 170 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:13,160 work, but also for members of her family, being very famous. 171 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:21,160 Her maiden name was actually the result of a typo, and in a 172 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,960 podcast episode a couple of years ago she claimed that it 173 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,760 had racist origins. So I'm going to quote her here. 174 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,440 Celestine is talking about an instance where she confronted 175 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,760 her mother about the typo in her birth certificate. 176 00:10:37,560 --> 00:10:40,360 So I said, well why didn't you argue and make them corrected? 177 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:45,240 And she said I did one time, the first time and I was told be 178 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,040 happy that you're getting a birth certificate because at one 179 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,520 time black people didn't even get birth certificate. 180 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,240 So the context here is that Celestine had a typo in her 181 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,320 birth certificate. When she asked her mother why it 182 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,480 wasn't corrected, her mother told her this that they 183 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,760 basically laughed her out of the office, saying that black people 184 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,200 didn't even get birth certificates at some point, so 185 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:09,520 they should be happy that they had a birth certificate. 186 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:15,320 Palestine also presumed that there was racism in the fact 187 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:19,240 that the typo wasn't a part of the name, which was French 188 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:24,400 origin, so they basically didn't even bother trying to verify the 189 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,200 spelling of that part of the name. 190 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:28,400 How do we know this part of the name? 191 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:33,120 And I will give you a hint based on the event in February 2023, 192 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,280 but I'm just checking if you already know the answer. 193 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,120 OK, I absolutely have currently no clue as to where this is 194 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,360 going. Celestine Lawson. 195 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,200 The name does not seem very familiar, and you said it's a 196 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:49,920 French surname, right? OK, so Celestine's maiden name 197 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,200 OK, was a French origin word. OK, yeah, and that is what had 198 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:56,400 the typo. That had the typo. 199 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,680 OK, you give me the event, or at least how it's tangentially 200 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:05,240 related to Feb. Maybe that'll spark a memory. 201 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:10,640 The last name, The maiden name of Celestine, is also the name 202 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:15,040 of the person who established the record of most Grammy Awards 203 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:20,640 in February this year. OK, so this would be Beyoncé 204 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,640 Knowles who got 32 Grammys in February of this year. 205 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:31,600 But Knowles, I don't know what the surname Funda is for this 206 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:32,920 one. OK. 207 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:38,320 Well, here's the deal. Celestine maiden name was 208 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,880 Beyoncé, except that the family name that Celestine came from 209 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:48,800 was spelled BEYINCE. Celestine is the only one who 210 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:55,000 has her maiden name as Beyoncé, and when Beyoncé was born, she 211 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:58,480 took her mother's maiden name as her first name. 212 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:04,160 Or rather, she was given the first name Beyoncé, and Beyoncé 213 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:09,280 Knowles is Celestine Knowles, Lawson's daughter. 214 00:13:09,560 --> 00:13:13,000 OK. If not for that typo today, 215 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,600 Celestine's daughter might have had a whole different name. 216 00:13:16,560 --> 00:13:22,080 And racism played a part in how one of the greatest stars of 217 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:27,160 today's pop culture got her name, got the moniker, which 218 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,360 frankly is one of those few instances in history where a 219 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,680 person doesn't even know that doesn't even need a last name to 220 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,960 be recognized. It is just Beyoncé. 221 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,720 And that's good enough. Exactly Queen bee, 32 Grammys. 222 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:45,280 That's impressive. 32 Grammys. Do you know who the person was 223 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,560 before? So who held the record before 224 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:50,880 Beyoncé broke it? I would have guessed somebody 225 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,240 like Michael Jackson. I would have thought so too. 226 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,000 I would have thought maybe some famous band or famous individual 227 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,400 artist. It is actually a Hungarian 228 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:03,680 British orchestral and operatic conductor what who served as a 229 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:07,040 long time music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. 230 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:10,880 He goes by the name George Salty. 231 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:12,640 George. Salty. 232 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,920 Shalty, Shalty, shalty. Oh, nice, nice. 233 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,240 I really would have thought it had been The Beatles of Michael 234 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:24,080 Jackson or somebody like that. So yeah, but George Shalty had 235 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:28,840 31 Grammys and now Beyoncé has 30. 2 Which will only keep 236 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:30,320 going. So I don't think anybody's 237 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,560 breaking that record anytime soon. 238 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,960 OK, let's move on to March of 2023. 239 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,640 It's a little long question, but bear with me. 240 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:44,200 People representing this country X had attended 2 UN Committee 241 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,720 meetings in Geneva in February. The first was a discussion on 242 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:51,040 the representation of women in decision making systems 243 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,000 organized by the Committee on Elimination of Discrimination 244 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,640 Against Women. They also participated in a 245 00:14:56,640 --> 00:15:00,280 second session on Sustainable Development hosted by the 246 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,320 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 247 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,680 However, on March 2nd, 2023, the UN, in what is practically an 248 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:12,440 unprecedented statement, has said it will ignore statements 249 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,160 made by the representatives of this country at these two 250 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:18,400 official events. AUN official said their 251 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:22,160 submissions were irrelevant and tangential to the issues being 252 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,920 discussed. This is somewhat shocking on its 253 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,320 face, considering that Ex's permanent ambassador had asked a 254 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,360 question about indigenous rights and sustainable development 255 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,080 during the second session. Which country are we talking 256 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,600 about? So which country did the UN 257 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,320 quite flippantly dismiss? With good reason, I might add. 258 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,440 But on the face of it, when you just look at the facts without 259 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,160 knowing which country it is, it sounds quite rude and 260 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,880 diplomatically complicated. So I wanted to identify the 261 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:56,680 country. What was the occasion? 262 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:01,200 There was no special occasion, it was just UN committee 263 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,880 meetings being held and representatives of this country 264 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,400 just came in and attended those and they were public meetings so 265 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:08,800 that these countries could attend technically. 266 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,800 Wow, OK, tough questions this episode, Vineet, I must give it 267 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:15,640 to you. I will give you one clue which 268 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:20,480 should help you. The country has a very close 269 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,320 relation to India. Country has a very close 270 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,200 relation. Is it a good relation or is it a 271 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:26,480 bad relation? I wouldn't say it's a good 272 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:28,600 relation. Well then my instinct is 273 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:32,520 obviously you say Pakistan. No, obviously not. 274 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:37,080 The country's name has four words, let's put it that way. 4 275 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,360 words. So you would say the People's 276 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,720 Republic of China, right, That kind. 277 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:44,400 Of literally going to, say People's Republic of. 278 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:47,640 China. I know, that's why I went. 279 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,400 No, it's not that. Let's just imagine which kind of 280 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,800 country it should be that the UN basically just bit slaps them in 281 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,160 a statement saying that you are irrelevant. 282 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:01,080 I mean that would be a terrible stance for the UN to take, even 283 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:03,480 if even if it was a very small country. 284 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,440 Oh, it is a very small country. And doesn't have a great 285 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:11,119 relationship with India. Yes, India hasn't commented on 286 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,800 these events, but everybody knows where India stands on it. 287 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,119 Is it a neighboring country? No, quite far away from India, 288 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,319 actually. And here's the kicker, we don't 289 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:29,680 exactly know where it is. Technically. 290 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,560 We have an idea about roughly where it is, but we don't 291 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,200 exactly know where it is. Maybe the government does, but 292 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,120 none of us do. Like if I asked you to point it 293 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,520 out on a map, you would be very, it will be very difficult for 294 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,040 you. And also the fact that it's not 295 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,120 marked on a map. So confused because I was going 296 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,920 to say is it Wakanda or? Something technically you 297 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,880 wouldn't be wrong, but then how do you get you wouldn't be wrong 298 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:56,680 when you said it's a country like Wakanda. 299 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,400 So I'll give you a clue. This should help you. 300 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:05,080 OK, now this country's leader, let's say their leader of 301 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,480 government, holds the record from the Asia Book of Records 302 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:13,520 for the most number of traditional yoga poses performed 303 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,720 in the span of one hour. And this is on the country's 304 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,120 official website. It's even happening. 305 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:27,160 I'm so confused. I'm so confused by the hint that 306 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,560 we don't exactly know where this country is it is. 307 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,040 OK, I'll give you a clue somewhere near Ecuador. 308 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,200 Somewhere near Ecuador. What? 309 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,680 I'm that much we know, but exactly where is it difficult? 310 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,080 It's an island nation. When you said that we are not 311 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,080 quite sure where this country is, do you mean like a general 312 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:48,880 person might not be able to pinpoint it? 313 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,720 Or do you mean in act like in actuality people don't know 314 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,360 where this country is? I see the governments have not 315 00:18:56,360 --> 00:18:59,560 specifically mentioned it, but I can tell you that the general 316 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,080 public have no clue where exactly this country is like. 317 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:03,880 If you wanted to fly there, I think it would be a little 318 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,160 difficult unless you are within the inner circle. 319 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,080 What is even happening? I'm so confused. 320 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:14,360 No beneath. No. 321 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:16,720 I have no clue whatsoever. What is this? 322 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,960 So I'll give you one last clue about this before I give you the 323 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,560 answer. The Permanent Ambassador to the 324 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,600 United Nations who visited and whose remarks and questions were 325 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,240 so callously disregarded by the UN. 326 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,600 The ambassador's name is Vijayapriya Nityananda. 327 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,440 Again, doesn't help me at all, I I know. 328 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:41,320 OK, I'll give it to you. Have you heard of the United 329 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,400 States of Kailasa? No, I've not heard of this. 330 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:47,200 OK, so you've heard of Swami Nityananda. 331 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,800 Oh, of course, yeah. Yeah, the So Swami Nityananda, 332 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:56,160 when he was going to be arrested for his sexual misdeeds, fled 333 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,520 the country and set up a new country called Kailasa, also 334 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,120 known as the United States of Kailasa. 335 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,480 We just know that it's somewhere, it's an it's on an 336 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:05,120 island somewhere off the coast of Ecuador. 337 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:10,120 He's established his own central bank currency and whatnot and 338 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:12,600 he's been trying to get recognition for the same he's 339 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:17,640 wanted in India for, you know, sexual abuse and rape, and he's 340 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,720 claiming diplomatic immunity now. 341 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,880 Jesus Christ, oh God. Yeah, and he still releases 342 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,280 videos on social media in between. 343 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:31,320 It's one of those videos you should really watch when you're 344 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,880 little, high or drunk, because you would honestly think you 345 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,360 were going mad all. Right. 346 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,880 But can you explain how do they have official representatives 347 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:40,520 like? No, no. 348 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,880 This is just like, see, it's like me putting up a flag in my 349 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,920 apartment and calling it the United States of Vineet's 350 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,800 apartment. And then my roommate, I sent him 351 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,920 to the UN saying that you are the official representative of 352 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,800 the United States. But he's done a lot of it. 353 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,280 There is a website. There is a United States of 354 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,040 Kailasa. They have a Wikipedia page. 355 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,960 They have ambassadors and he has. 356 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,160 He actually hoodwinked US town into believing that he was an 357 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,280 actual country and that the mayor of that town had to walk 358 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:15,600 back his comments and the tie up that the town had done with the 359 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,760 this fictional country. So the United States of Kailasa 360 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,440 shortly called Usk Usk. All right, Usk this. 361 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:29,160 Is a massive TIL for me. I think I vaguely knew of some 362 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:33,440 of this, but wow, I had no idea it was so concrete. 363 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,120 OK. It's so bonkers, man. 364 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:37,000 It's so bonkers. Just crazy. 365 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,600 Concrete is the wrong word. Bonkers is the right word. 366 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:40,360 Yeah. Yeah. 367 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,080 OK. All right. 368 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,280 So let us move on to, I believe, April. 369 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:55,560 Yes, that's your month, April. On April 16th of 2023, a 370 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:58,840 Broadway production played its final performance. 371 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,600 It was the longest running show in Broadway history. 372 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:09,840 Why is the core prop, the main prop in this Broadway production 373 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,480 very different from the one that appears on the poster? 374 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,640 So the one that appears on the poster is very different from 375 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,160 the one that is used during the production. 376 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:20,920 So I guess you have to figure out what production I'm talking 377 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,120 about and what is the prop. What is the date again? 378 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:28,040 You said April. It ended on April 16th, 2023. 379 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,400 April 16th, 2023, this was the longest running Broadway 380 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,480 production. You said right? 381 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:39,080 And you're asking me the main prop is different from what is 382 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,960 actually used, or at least what's on the poster. 383 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:46,080 The main poster, the actual official poster, has a prop 384 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,600 prominently featured on it, but the prop that it shows up in the 385 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,520 production is significantly different. 386 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:59,640 OK, Broadway productions that have been going on for that 387 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:00,760 long. Is it rent? 388 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,520 Is it rent still being played? No, it's not rent. 389 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,560 The Lion King is still being played. 390 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:07,760 I know that. And they've stopped playing it. 391 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,480 It's like, this is it. We're not going to play this 392 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,400 anymore. The original Broadway production 393 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:16,560 played its final performance on April. 16th 2020 OK, so the 394 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,240 original production with the original cast and crew and all 395 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:19,920 that. OK, fine. 396 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,680 Well, obviously the cast has changed. 397 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,280 It has been going on for a very long time, yeah. 398 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,120 How long would you be able to give me a time frame of how long 399 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:31,160 this has been running? Yes, I can. 400 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:38,760 I can tell you that it premiered on October 9th, 1986. 8637 years 401 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,000 and you said a prop is the Phantom of the Opera. 402 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,600 Well, you're right actually, but let me just quickly clarify. 403 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,800 It opened in London in 1986. In Broadway, it opened in 1988. 404 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,600 It is Phantom of the Opera. You know what prop I'm talking 405 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,920 about. I've not watched the Phantom of 406 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,600 the Opera Player Broadway thing. The only thing I know about it 407 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,720 is what they adapted for the movies. 408 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,760 And in the movies he always has that kind of half mask thing. 409 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,000 Is it that? Perfect. 410 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,600 Yeah, so do you know how it is different from the one that 411 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,720 features on the poster? I know how it is different the 412 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,000 original. The original was given to 413 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:19,560 Shahrukh Khan to use in Jawan. Oh, it is true. 414 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,560 Yeah, you have absolutely cracked this question in a very 415 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:25,560 other way, but not in an actual answer. 416 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,720 Way. So it is the mask. 417 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:30,880 Can you visualize what the poster looks like? 418 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,520 He's wearing this kind of white half mask which covers like half 419 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,480 his face. It's like diagonally cut off. 420 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,920 That's all I can vision. That is, what is the mask is In 421 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,320 the production, the poster features a full mask. 422 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,240 It is actually a full mask that would not be diagonally. 423 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:50,680 Oh, I didn't know that. I've. 424 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,520 I don't care because I've only I, as I said, I've not seen the 425 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,000 poster or the Playbill or anything like that. 426 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,680 But I remember the movie had that thing, that iconic kind of 427 00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,640 half mask. I think it was Gerard Butler. 428 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:03,200 It was Gerard Butler which was a controversial choice for playing 429 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,720 the character. It is the case that the Finder 430 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,040 of the opera, even in the theater productions, has a half 431 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:14,880 mask on, so this should be fairly straightforward. 432 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,480 There isn't anything too convoluted about it. 433 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,120 Why would they go with the half mask instead of the full mask? 434 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:24,880 Because or to emote better. It's very difficult to emote in 435 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,360 a mask, right? You could not have phrased it 436 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,440 any more accurately. The biggest concern was 437 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:32,400 regarding the Phantom's ability to emote. 438 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,480 There are also some practical consideration of miking and 439 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,680 stuff like that, because of course it is a musical and they 440 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,640 do sing. So it was easiest to do it with 441 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:46,160 a half mask, and that's how the iconic mask came to be. 442 00:25:47,120 --> 00:25:50,560 And the mask on the poster is still the full mask, which is a 443 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,960 very interesting choice. Oh, I didn't know that. 444 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,800 I would stop asking the question here, or rather I would move on 445 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,200 to the next month, but I genuinely want to ask you at 446 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,520 least one more question. So let me see if I can get to 447 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,720 this very quickly. OK, OK, great. 448 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:12,000 On April 20th, there was an attempt that failed by one of 449 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,880 the largest companies in the world or let's say one of the 450 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,600 most prominent companies in the world. 451 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,520 They tried something and they failed at it. 452 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,520 OK. The owner of the company was 453 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:26,520 blamed for Rushing to hold this event on the given date. 454 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,680 Very vague, but if you want to take a guess. 455 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,120 Wait, that's it? It that something happened and 456 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,480 it failed in the OR the company the owner was blamed? 457 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,360 Dude, that could be anything of 100 companies. 458 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,000 Failed up, but the owner was blamed for trying to rush to do 459 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,520 it on this specific date because he thought it would be funny. 460 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,560 Or at least it is alleged that it would given his 461 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,200 predisposition to. What date are we talking about 462 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,480 as, as you mentioned? April 20th. 463 00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:58,640 I'm guessing this is an American company. 464 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,520 It is an American company. Yeah, because it's 420, right, 465 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:06,760 Americans, right. The month first. 466 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,840 So this will be 4/20, which is, which has very different 467 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:12,520 connotations in India. But yeah, 420 would be 468 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,240 marijuana, right? So yeah, something failed 469 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,640 because this has to be Elon Musk when it cannot be. 470 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,960 You know what? I'll give it to you, Elon Musk. 471 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:32,640 SpaceX tried to do a rocket launch on April 20th, and that 472 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:37,040 it was going to be one of the largest rocket launches at that 473 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,760 point of time. And it failed. 474 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,600 And a lot of people blamed Elon Musk for rushing this, allegedly 475 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,760 because he wanted to do it on 4/20. 476 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,600 He has denied it, but well knowing Elon Musk, it is. 477 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:52,640 Yeah, this is the guy who went and smoked marijuana on Joe 478 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,720 Rogan's show. He did he. 479 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,480 Did smoke again. Yeah, OK. 480 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,240 Nice question. I'm let's move on to May. 481 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,680 Very eventful, May and this is a very long question. 482 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,960 It's a very indulgent question because I came across this piece 483 00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:11,520 of trivia on a podcast and it kind of fascinated me, may not 484 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,200 be as interesting to most other people. 485 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,280 So let me just put that caveat up front. 486 00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,880 But I've put enough clues that this you can work it out. 487 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,080 If you don't know it, you should probably be able to work it out, 488 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,600 right? So this is a story about a 489 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,760 stone. It's an oblong block of red 490 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,720 sandstone having a long and rich history. 491 00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:35,920 Some even claim it's the biblical stone of Jacob. 492 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,000 However, in reality it is more likely to have been quarried 493 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:45,560 from a mine near the village A. OK, the first thing is a village 494 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,320 which I'm giving an appellation of A in the country X. 495 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,200 It was seized. The stone was seized and taken 496 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:57,880 away by the country Y as spoils of war in 1296. 497 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:03,280 In 1914 suffragettes planted a bomb next to it. 498 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,960 The explosion actually split the stone into two. 499 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:13,720 However, this was not discovered until 1950, when four students 500 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:18,520 stole the stone and whisked it away covertly back to the 501 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,760 country X4. Months later, however, the stone 502 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:26,440 was returned to the country Y. In 1996, the stone was 503 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,600 permanently returned to X on one condition. 504 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,560 That condition was fulfilled in May 2023. 505 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,640 The stone was again in news in November of 2023 when three 506 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,080 members of an environmental activist group smashed the 507 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:46,080 stones protective glass case and spray painted the word is tresa 508 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,160 tuat na tiguerna. OK, now as I mentioned, the 509 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:54,120 stone is named after the village near which it probably was 510 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,160 mined, right? A if you remember, you would 511 00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,000 probably know the name. A. 512 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,040 Because it's the name of a baked good, it is usually made out of 513 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,800 either wheat flour or oatmeal, with baking powder as a living 514 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:10,360 agent and baked on sheet pans, often sweetened and occasionally 515 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,640 glazed with egg wash. So see if you can work out which 516 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,960 the which countries are we are talking about, whether it's and 517 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,720 what X, which countries X which countries Y and see if you can 518 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,960 work out the name A because it's known as the Stone of. 519 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,520 AX was the country where the suffragettes attacked it, and 520 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,120 why was the country where it was returned to? 521 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,280 No, no. X is the country from which it 522 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,000 was taken as spoils of war in 1296. 523 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:37,760 OK, more than 700 years ago. Right? 524 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,160 In 1914. So then from since 1296 it's 525 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,240 been in the country. Why? 526 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,640 And in 1914, suffragettes planted a bomb to, you know, 527 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,520 destroy it. But it didn't happen. 528 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000 It covertly split into two, but nobody realized it until there 529 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:57,680 was a theft made of the stone by four students in 1950. 530 00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,240 However, it was returned four months later. 531 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:05,160 Country. Why, after almost 700 years in 532 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,800 1996, which was the 700th anniversary, returned the stone 533 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,760 back to its original country, but with one condition. 534 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,600 And that condition was fulfilled in May of 2023. 535 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,520 Was it May of 23 or did it say November 2023? 536 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,400 May, May. We are only May, right? 537 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:22,640 You just finished April. I'm in May. 538 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,200 In November, it came into the news again. 539 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,680 It came into the news again in November when environmental 540 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,280 activists defaced the stone. Oh, sorry. 541 00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,400 OK, that was the context from November 23. 542 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,240 Got it. See if you can work out the 543 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,800 countries 1st and then we'll go to the name. 544 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,240 OK, so 'cause you said suffragettes, I'm gonna take a 545 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,720 guess. Is it the UK? 546 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:44,600 Yeah. So which countries? 547 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,640 Which is which countries are we talking about? 548 00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,000 Whichever country was the one which is displaying it, which 549 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,720 had taken away, taken it as spoiler force. 550 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,520 So why? I believe, right? 551 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,600 Why was the one which took it? OK then. 552 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:06,320 Why would be UK 1296? I was thinking India but none of 553 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:11,880 the colonial expansion makes sense worth that time frame. 554 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:19,240 Oh, then it would be, I wanna say Scotland, but could be Wales 555 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,240 or Ireland because I'm not very sure as to when. 556 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:22,560 It is Scotland. It is Scotland. 557 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:26,400 I was actually going to give you a clue, the line from Ted Lasso. 558 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,120 How many countries are in this country? 559 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,880 Yes. So yes, you worked it out. 560 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:36,080 It is X was Scotland which makes YY. 561 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,800 Was England. England. 562 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,760 So, yes, fantastic. So not UK, but England. 563 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,320 Got it. Stone, which is named after the 564 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,920 village it was buried next to. Called Still the Stone of a 565 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:55,080 Right, It was taken as spoils of war in 1296, and then it was 566 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,120 brought to England. It was damaged in 1914. 567 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,200 It was stolen in 1950 and then in 1996, seven hundred years 568 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,720 after it was taken away, it was returned to Scotland, but on one 569 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,800 condition. That condition was fulfilled in 570 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,360 May of 2023. Can you guess what that was? 571 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:15,760 Can't have anything to do with the Brexit. 572 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,720 No. Something massive happened in 573 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,080 May of 2023. Something huge. 574 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,520 Lot of pomp and circumstance. Oh, since you're talking about 575 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,840 the UK and pomp and circumstance, was the king 576 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,880 crowned in May? Yes, the coronation of King 577 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,480 Charles the Third happened in May of 2023, so the stone was 578 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:40,280 brought down for that. Now, before I tell you the whole 579 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,800 story, do you know what the stone is called? 580 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:44,960 It is named after some baking. Good. 581 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,920 Now I'm thinking of. Actually, the name we know it 582 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:50,640 because it also shares the name with the baking good. 583 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,360 It's not actually named after the baking good. 584 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,680 Right, right, right, right. Not named after the baking good, 585 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:02,440 but it has The name is the same English pie, Shepherd's Pie. 586 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:08,040 Very stereotypical tea snack, at least for England. 587 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,520 Biscuit doesn't make sense. Oh, Scone. 588 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,880 Yes, very good. So it is indeed the stone of 589 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,199 scone. I think it's pronounced. 590 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:20,320 Scone. But let's I'm just going with 591 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,600 Scone because it's Stone of Scone sounds better. 592 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,520 So let me just give you a little bit of feedback and I apologize 593 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,639 to our audience who felt this might have been a long winded 594 00:34:27,639 --> 00:34:31,040 question but then I need to put some of these in to satisfy the 595 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,719 inner nerd. So the Stone of Scone, also 596 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,040 known as the Stone of Destiny, is an oblong block of red 597 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,159 sandstone which was originally used in the coronation of the 598 00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:46,880 monarchs of Scotland and after the 13th century, the coronation 599 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,199 of the monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United 600 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:51,400 Kingdom. It's also known as Jacob's 601 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,639 Pillowstone and the Tanis Stone. Historically, the artifact was 602 00:34:55,639 --> 00:34:59,120 kept at the now ruined Scone Abbey in Scone, near Perth, 603 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,440 Scotland. It was seized by Edward, the 604 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,080 First forces during the English invasion of Scotland in 1296, 605 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,640 and was used in the coronation of the monarchs of England as 606 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,480 well as the monarchs of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. 607 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,280 Monarchs used to sit on the Stoner Scone. 608 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,440 So if you go to Westminster Abbey, the coronation where it 609 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:21,520 happens for hundreds of years, English kings used to be crowned 610 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,280 when they were sitting on the Stoner scone. 611 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:28,120 It was only in the 17th century that they added a wooden 612 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:31,240 platform just about that, so that they could sit a little 613 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,160 more comfortably. In 1914, suffragettes, in their 614 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,960 struggle to get equal rights for women, planted a bomb next to 615 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,480 the stone. The explosion actually split the 616 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,560 stone in two, but they didn't realize it. 617 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,760 In 1954 students by the name of Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Kay 618 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,600 Matheson and Alan Stewart stole the stone. 619 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,280 So while they were trying to steal the stone it split into 620 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,480 two. They thought it was because they 621 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,760 broke the stone but anyway they managed to get the two pieces 622 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,640 across the border back to Scotland and then four months 623 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,360 later it was returned on the 700th anniversary. 624 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,920 They said that OK, you can take it back now and the British 625 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,200 government returned the stone to Scotland and when not in use in 626 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,120 coronations and it was transported Edinburgh Castle 627 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,560 where now it is kept with the Scottish Crown Jewels. 628 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,320 OK, fascinating. That's really cool. 629 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:26,560 I just found it really interesting, the image of the of 630 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,360 a king being crowned just because he's sitting on a block 631 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,680 of sandstone, which is of course quite meaningful culturally to 632 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,480 them. But the image was a little funny 633 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,680 to me. Yeah, well kings have been 634 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:42,640 crowned for much stupider reasons, so not too much of A 635 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,480 stretch. OK, your question. 636 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,760 OK, so this question has relevance to the month of June, 637 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,280 but the relevance will be made known a bit later. 638 00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:57,800 So let us start off with a very simple but interesting example 639 00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,960 of an occurrence of a phenomenon. 640 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:04,080 OK, and here I'm talking about a very specific celebrity. 641 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:09,920 To exemplify the situation, the celebrity was born on 30th 642 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:15,120 December 1995. Two days later, he was two years 643 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,640 old. Who is the celebrity, if you 644 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,480 want to take a guess? Or what am I talking about? 645 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:22,800 What phenomenon am I talking about? 646 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:28,680 So I actually know this. I don't know the celebrity 647 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,800 you're talking about, but there was there used to be this thing 648 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:39,640 in South Korea where if you are born on the new year, you 649 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,920 automatically become one year older. 650 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:46,240 Like your birthday is always considered as 1st of January or 651 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:48,760 something like that. So they that happens wherever, 652 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,480 whenever they're when they're born on 30th. 653 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,200 And you know, I'm, I'm in the ballpark, right? 654 00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:55,880 I will give it to you. I will give it to you. 655 00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,840 I think the specifics are a bit off, but you know what we need. 656 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,200 I said I'm impressed and I'm going to take it back because 657 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,200 you knowing random, obscure trivia doesn't impress me 658 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,000 anymore. That's routine. 659 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,280 I was impressed that you were going to tell me which K pop 660 00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,080 celebrity I. No, no, no, no, no. 661 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:14,080 I have absolutely no, no, I I don't know which K pop celebrity 662 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,520 this could be. I was going to be blown away 663 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:21,160 that Vineet is all caught up on Is K Pop. 664 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:26,880 OK, well this one goes out to all the Army and BTS fans out 665 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:28,720 there. I don't know any of the BTS 666 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:32,040 people, men. So the reason that he became 667 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,160 famous or rather he is obviously already famous but his birthday 668 00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,680 became famous was because phenomenal stature of this 669 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,920 particular individual has been part of BTS. 670 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,680 His name is Kim TE Hyung and I might be mispronouncing but Kim 671 00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:52,800 TE Hyung also known as V and super famous Guy part of BTS and 672 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:58,080 he was in the news media a lot, especially in June because on 673 00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:03,520 20th June S Koreans scraped that particular law of counting age. 674 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:08,320 I'll explain what the way is, but Kim Theung's birthday is 675 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:14,040 30th December 1995 S 2 days later he was on 1996 first 676 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,520 January. He was already 2 years old. 677 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,080 And the reason for this is because S Koreans used to count 678 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,280 and not the South Koreans. Actually a lot of East Asian 679 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,840 countries and societies used to do this, but South Korea was the 680 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,360 only major country still doing it as of this year. 681 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,960 When they finally removed it was that they used to count ages 682 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,880 starting from one from the day you were born. 683 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:41,000 That would be your age when you were born and then another 684 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,000 number was added. Or rather you became two years 685 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,840 old on the 1st of January of the next year. 686 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,720 So regardless of when your birthday falls during the year, 687 00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,160 on the 1st of January of every year your age increased by one. 688 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:58,120 And this was used very commonly even in some official places, 689 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,680 and of course led to a lot of confusion because the 690 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:07,120 internationally agreed way of deciding your age is based on 691 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:11,240 your birthday and not the birth year, and especially not counted 692 00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:14,320 as one from the day you were born so in. 693 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:19,680 On 20th June this year, a bunch of South Koreans became younger 694 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:24,560 under this new age counting law and they finally decided to 695 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,240 remove that other way of counting, at least from any 696 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:33,920 official places and sources. And President Yun Sook UL 697 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,800 actually pushed strongly for this change when he ran for 698 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,240 office last year. So this was one of his campaign 699 00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,760 on his platform. Yeah. 700 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,280 And he delivered on it pretty quickly. 701 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,640 Tehung became one of the poster Childs for why this is a very 702 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,480 confusing system and why Korean is to scrap it. 703 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,040 OK. And this happened in June of 704 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,680 this year. Nice. 705 00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,160 Nice. I knew this fact. 706 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,240 It wasn't very clear in my head, but I knew the fact that they 707 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:02,560 counted years. Very weird. 708 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,880 Tehung is familiar, I think I've read it. 709 00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,160 So I know that BTS exists as a band. 710 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,240 I've seen their performances. It's just amazing. 711 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,880 But if you ask me about any of those individual people in 712 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:17,600 those, the individual band members, I would be hard pressed 713 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,240 to name even one. But I have to say from what 714 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:24,040 videos I have seen they their synchronicity is fantastic. 715 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:29,160 Yeah, and because the BTS is often compared to Beatles in 716 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,000 terms of just the what share screen. 717 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,480 Yeah, yeah. Oh, BTS is very much considered 718 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,800 The Beatles of, well, whatever, today's generation in the way 719 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:42,240 that they have shaped pop culture and the amount. 720 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,400 Of like Beatlemania, doesn't you mean the fan following thing? 721 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,840 The fan following and the impact that they have had on music and 722 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,000 culture in general. The same way that The Beatles 723 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,920 came in with their mop of hair and the British invasion 724 00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:01,720 happened the same way K Pop and their fashion choices and 725 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:05,200 especially BTS obviously has made a global impact. 726 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,960 So BTS is compared to Beatles. But I do wonder because BTS 727 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,040 individual members have very strong followings and this might 728 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:15,360 be because of the prevalence of social media, but I wonder if 729 00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:19,080 Beatles every individual member had that stronger personality 730 00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,000 that the world knew. No, I Yeah, Lennon definitely 731 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,680 did Lennon and McCartney definitely did. 732 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,280 George Harrison had, let me put it this way. 733 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:32,760 He had a more cult following, like people like me. 734 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,360 I mean, you wouldn't find his name as you know, the most the 735 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:38,560 favorite Beatle of all time. That's usually just McCartney 736 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:44,880 or, you know, Lennon. As for Ringo, well, I think The 737 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:46,800 Beatles said it best during an interview. 738 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:48,960 I think it was a press conference or something. 739 00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,120 And a journalist asked them, do you think that Ringo is one of 740 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,840 the best drummers in the world? And I remember somebody from the 741 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:57,960 band actually replied. Ringo's not even the best 742 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:02,240 drummer in this band. I think I've heard of this 743 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:08,080 before. Yeah, and a quick throwback. 744 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,160 A quick throwback to a question from earlier this year with 745 00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,680 regarding Best of The Beatles. You can go find that by 746 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,080 listening to all of our episodes, because I don't 747 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,160 remember which episode it was or moving it myself. 748 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:26,280 What does Best of The Beatles mean and how is it a funny 749 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:28,840 little piece of trivia? OK, we need your question. 750 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,960 OK, so we are halfway through moving on to July. 751 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:37,960 This is a silly question, but it's one of those weird but 752 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,360 wonderful human things that happens, You know, of what 753 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,160 humans are capable of and that kind of thing. 754 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:50,800 In July of 2023, A-Team of 30 people, 30 that's three zero, 30 755 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,400 people broke two world records when they travelled 7 756 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,400 kilometers, taking more than 12 hours to do so. 757 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:03,000 They had travelled from Mandora to Mintle Beach. 758 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,560 Do you have any idea what records they broke? 759 00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:10,560 Nothing strikes a bell. No, it's not mainstream news, 760 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,280 obviously, but it is just one of those fascinating pieces of 761 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,480 trivia that I've had. I've never had a kind of reason 762 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,680 to ask it until now. Obviously lots of clues will be 763 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,640 given. So this is in Australia and a 764 00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:30,400 group of 30 people travelled 7 kilometers, taking more than 12 765 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,480 hours to do so. Does it have anything to do with 766 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,160 the Uluru? No. 767 00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,680 But you said beach, right? Yeah, so Middle Beach and 768 00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,800 Mandora, they're both on the waterfront. 769 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,440 Yeah, then Uluru doesn't make any sense. 770 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,360 Both are on the waterfront and it's just it's a distance of 771 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,960 seven kilometers, but they took 12 hours, but they broke two 772 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:57,240 world records when they did so. Does it have anything to do with 773 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:00,880 the geographical formation the 12 apostles? 774 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:04,760 No. I was wondering if they there 775 00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:06,920 are a bunch of rocks. Yeah, yeah, I. 776 00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:08,640 Know what you're talking about? No, this has nothing to do with 777 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,160 that. OK, let me just give you another 778 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,840 clue. If you stood at the Mandora boat 779 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:20,360 ramp and looked across the Bay, you would see Mental Beach and a 780 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:24,800 straight line as the crow flies. The distance in that fashion is 781 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,840 around 7 kilometers. Wait, you'd be able to see it 782 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,800 and the straight line distance is 7 kilometers. 783 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,680 Yes. Again, I have no clue as to why 784 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,400 that would break records, no. I'll need some sort of a hint 785 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,880 over here. OK, so they travelled 786 00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,040 underwater. So the seven kilometers were 787 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,760 travelled underwater, but why would that be a record? 788 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,520 Underwater and you said they took 12 hours, so. 789 00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,240 More than 12 hours. They had to do more than 12 790 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:55,320 hours because while traveling only one person could do 791 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:58,600 something and that person had to be changed out every 15 minutes 792 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:02,640 because of the water pressure. So basically I'm asking you to 793 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,680 guess what they traveled in. Did they travel on foot across 794 00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,520 the No? No, that I think no, no that. 795 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,320 No, not that. What did they travel in? 796 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,440 They traveled in something. They traveled in, you know, a 797 00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:23,040 form of transportation underwater from from Mandora to 798 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,040 Middle Beach. Yeah, OK. 799 00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:32,520 Did the as an homage to the official animal of Australia, 800 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,480 did they one person create a pouch in the front of his belly 801 00:46:36,480 --> 00:46:38,160 and the other person in it? No. 802 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:41,120 No. This is an actual, actual, 803 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,040 mechanized form of transportation. 804 00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,480 No, no, I have no clue. I think there are no more clues 805 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,680 to give, and frankly, this is just a fun question. 806 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:52,200 It's not something that I would expect anybody to know unless 807 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:57,320 they are crazy like me. But the vehicle that they used 808 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:02,080 was from 1978 and it had been planned to do something like 809 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,760 this in the mid 80s but that did not work out. 810 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,600 So they try to do it now and they were successful and they 811 00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:11,040 broke 2 records. Like what are the modes of 812 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:12,400 transportation that come to mind? 813 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,480 In the nineteens, 80s, seventies, right? 814 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:18,880 Yeah, that's just an additional fact. 815 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,040 Like just think of what kind of transport and obviously I 816 00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:23,520 wouldn't ask you if this was a submarine, right? 817 00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,960 I there's no point in me asking you if it's a submarine. 818 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:27,720 So it's obviously not a submarine. 819 00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:30,640 What other crazy? And remember, this is Australia. 820 00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:36,200 You also said water pressure, so I'm assuming it is something 821 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,720 underwater. Yeah, it was basically they 822 00:47:38,720 --> 00:47:41,760 travelled 7 kilometers underwater between Mandora to 823 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:45,520 Mintle Beach in a mechanized form of transport. 824 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,440 OK, I will give it to you. Yeah, no, I have no idea. 825 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,120 Yeah, they travelled between Mandora to Mineral Beach in in 826 00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:59,720 1978 Toyota Land Cruiser. Oh, what? 827 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:05,280 Why? So this established the record 828 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,080 for the longest and deepest underwater drive. 829 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,760 So they drove from Mindel Beach to Mandora underwater on the 830 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,600 seabed. The driver had to be changed out 831 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,480 every 15 minutes to avoid problems with the underground 832 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,800 water pressure. It was a team of 30. 833 00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,680 They had changed out the engine with a waterproof electric 834 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:31,960 engine and replaced the tires with 150 KG water filled tires. 835 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:37,520 And they drove underwater for seven kilometers, making giving 836 00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,480 them the record for the longest and deepest underwater drive. 837 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:45,400 That is so strange. OK. 838 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,560 Now I just love, you know why I I particularly love this piece 839 00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:51,560 of trivia is because do you did you used to watch Top Gear and 840 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,360 this heyday? And when I mean heyday, when 841 00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,400 Jeremy Clarkson and all were hosting it. 842 00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,400 You know, I have heard so much about it. 843 00:48:58,400 --> 00:48:59,920 I knew a lot of friends who used to. 844 00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,760 I've only seen clips of it, so I can't claim to have watched. 845 00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,560 So there was this amazing episode many many years ago 846 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,000 where they tried to destroy a car, and the car in question was 847 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,160 a Toyota Hilux. OK. 848 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,880 OK, so the first thing they did was they tried bashing it 849 00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,720 against walls, against trees. That didn't work. 850 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,480 Then they dropped something on it that also didn't work. 851 00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,200 It was still functional. And then finally what they did 852 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:28,960 was not. Finally then what they did was 853 00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:32,440 they parked it out on the harbor during low tide. 854 00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,680 The tide came in, the car was completely submerged and then 855 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:41,000 after the tide went out and they brought the car back, a mechanic 856 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:45,000 was able to get it started without replacing any parts, so 857 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,680 it was still functioning. So they were like, we have not 858 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:51,080 managed to destroy this car, so now we will have to absolutely 859 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,720 destroy this car. So they took the car and put it 860 00:49:53,720 --> 00:49:56,960 on top of a building which was due for demolition. 861 00:49:57,480 --> 00:49:59,640 The entire building had been rigged up with explosives to 862 00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:01,880 implode. You've seen those videos of the 863 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:02,600 buildings? Being. 864 00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,720 They put this Hilux on top of that and they imploded it. 865 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,200 The car was buried on on so much rubble. 866 00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,600 They dug it out and the car started again. 867 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:18,720 Oh my God. So finally they decided, OK, 868 00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:21,240 this car is just too valuable, so we are going to put it in the 869 00:50:21,240 --> 00:50:24,080 museum and they have a Top Gear, Top Gear museum and that car is 870 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:25,960 still there, the indestructible Hilux. 871 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,240 So I was really, you know, I saw the similarities that they 872 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:31,920 picked a Toyota Land Cruiser, which is I think on the same 873 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:33,200 platform. It's not the same thing, but 874 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,320 it's the same platform as the Hilux, so they had to pick the 875 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:37,760 indestructible car for the same thing. 876 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:39,840 They had to. I love it. 877 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:42,960 Yeah, which is why the Hilux is the preferred vehicle of 878 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,440 transportation for terrorists everywhere. 879 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,000 Oh, wow. OK, I'm surprised you know this, 880 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,880 Vineeth, but sure, let's move past that red flag. 881 00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,280 Seriously, this is an accepted fact. 882 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,080 Look up any kind of footage. Yeah, you look up any kind of 883 00:50:58,080 --> 00:50:59,560 footage. And I'm telling you, this is, I 884 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:01,200 mean, you don't even need any statistics to do so. 885 00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:05,160 Look up any kind of footage from the past 30 years and you will 886 00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,840 always find, especially in the Middle East and Afghanistan and 887 00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,800 all, you will find terrorists travelling around in Hilux 888 00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,480 pickups. They always travel in Toyota 889 00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:17,520 Hilux pickups. It's like how how the preferred 890 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,800 mode of transportation for kidnappers is the Omni. 891 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,160 Omni van yeah. OK, fair enough. 892 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,760 Fair enough. OK. 893 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:30,040 All right. So my next question again starts 894 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,480 off with general trivia, but the connect to August 2023 will be 895 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,240 apparent soon enough. OK, right. 896 00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:40,680 Hit me in cost. Par was an organization set up 897 00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:45,840 in India in 1962. How was the founder commemorated 898 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:52,840 this year? OK, so Inco Spire was the Space 899 00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:57,480 Research and atomic organization which was initially built to 900 00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,160 coordinate events for the atomic and the Space Research program 901 00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:03,360 in India. So I would let me, I would think 902 00:52:03,360 --> 00:52:07,440 it would be Sarabhai or Baba, but how they were? 903 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:09,280 How were they commemorated this year? 904 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,000 Is it Rocket Boys 2? The audience members can't see 905 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,960 it, but I'm making a very annoyed face right now because 906 00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,120 right, right. To make this tough. 907 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,320 How do you, how do you challenge this man? 908 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,040 This man just refuses. Refuses. 909 00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,760 To be no, no, I, I, I, I, I went down the rabbit hole after 910 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:29,120 watching Rocket Boys one and two. 911 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,920 And there was also this excellent podcast by Harsha 912 00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,440 Bogley on the early years of ISRO. 913 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,800 So yeah that's but I haven't answered the question. 914 00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:40,200 I just told you what in course part is right? 915 00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:41,920 So is it? What is the answer? 916 00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:43,840 Is it Rocket boys? Is that how you're? 917 00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,440 No, no, not Rocket boys. The context is or the relevance 918 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:53,480 to August of this year is that a massive event happened on 23rd 919 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,920 of August. Massive event happened on 23rd 920 00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:01,800 of August. Which in a way commemorated the 921 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:06,360 founder of in cost. Chandrayan 3. 922 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,560 Yeah, right. They're landing on the moon, 923 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:09,960 right? But. 924 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,040 Landed on the moon. So Vikram Sarabhai then. 925 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:17,040 Vikram Sarabhai but how is he commemorated did? 926 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:20,000 They name the place or something after them. 927 00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,040 Sarabhai create I think something like that. 928 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,600 Close enough, I'll give it to you. 929 00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,840 The Lander on Chandrayaan is called Vikram. 930 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:29,440 Oh, oh, yes. Yes. 931 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,280 Now it comes back to me. Yes, the Lander was called 932 00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:31,840 Vikram. Yes. 933 00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,080 And this was the perfect year they could have They could have 934 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,120 blasted the soundtrack to Vikram while the Lander was coming 935 00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:39,280 down. You know, you could have become 936 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:41,360 OK, you've not seen the movie. So then. 937 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,840 No, no. Even if I've even if I would 938 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:46,960 have seen this movie. It is very tough to reconcile. 939 00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:49,560 But you're such an intelligent man and. 940 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:55,400 Stop it. Absolutely ridiculous. 941 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,360 Stop it. Ridiculous is right. 942 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,480 Yeah, but I was going for funny. But anyway, no. 943 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,400 But yeah, so it was. It was. 944 00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,560 It was frankly the best. It would have been so awesome if 945 00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,360 when the Lander was landing like this. 946 00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,440 Blasted. Because ISRO finally, again, 947 00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,440 ISRO has a large population of Tamilian scientists, right? 948 00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,680 So it would make absolute sense for them to blast the soundtrack 949 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:19,280 to Vikram from the speakers of ISRO while it is landing. 950 00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:21,680 Now that would have been bad ass. 951 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,360 You and I were not there. Maybe they did that, you know. 952 00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,520 No, I don't think they did. Not with Modi there, no with the 953 00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:28,880 Prime Minister. Modi, that I don't think they 954 00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,640 would have done that. Lot more decorum and protocol 955 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,040 has to be observed when you have the Prime Minister in the House. 956 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,600 Well, that's where you get noise cancelling headphones and you 957 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:42,280 blast it in your room and make sure nobody else can hear it, 958 00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,720 yeah. Yeah, OK. 959 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,640 I don't know why I complained about you making terrible jokes 960 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,960 when that seems to be the entire purpose of me on this phone. 961 00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:59,040 No, no, no. OK, this is an easy one, I 962 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:00,880 guess. I'm I'm fairly sure you'll crack 963 00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:05,520 this quickly. Costing $2.3 billion, that's 964 00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,600 billion with AB. It is the largest of its kind 965 00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,400 and currently the only one in the world. 966 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,040 Though maybe not for long because more are planned for 967 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,080 London, Abu Dhabi and a few other cities. 968 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:21,400 Paul Hewson and Co conducted the inauguration in September of 969 00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,120 2023. Can you tell me what I'm talking 970 00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,440 about? What is it that cost? 971 00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:33,160 $2.3 billion is the largest of its kind and may soon have 972 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:37,840 similar ones in Abu Dhabi. London and Paul Houston and Co 973 00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,040 were the ones who inaugurated the place. 974 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,360 Inaugurated a place so it is a place that we're. 975 00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,960 Talking, yeah, it is OK. I I kind of gave that away, but 976 00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:47,480 yeah that it's fine. It's still fine. 977 00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,680 It's something that cost. It's obviously a venue or 978 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:54,080 something that cost $2.3 billion to make, and Paul Hewson and Co 979 00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:57,320 inaugurated it in September. No I will need a hint. 980 00:55:57,320 --> 00:56:01,520 I have no clue as to what this. OK, the clue would be to for you 981 00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,040 to try and guess who Paul Hewson and Co are. 982 00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:05,920 Obviously they are not known by that name. 983 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:08,800 Paul Hewson Hewson How do you spell Hewson? 984 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,960 Hewson. Hewson. 985 00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:16,000 Obviously it's not the name we know him by, which is why I ask 986 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,680 it with such confidence. Yeah, exactly. 987 00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,240 I'm just, I'm just trying to figure out where he could be 988 00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:22,920 from. Also based on the name, but now 989 00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,640 that does not seem to be this group of people inaugurated 990 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:33,080 something venue or location. Yes, in September of 2023, 991 00:56:33,480 --> 00:56:38,680 largest of its kind. Well, because it is a birth name 992 00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:42,440 versus something that we probably know this person by and 993 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:44,920 you said and core, so I'm guessing there are more people. 994 00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,040 So I'm guessing it has to be maybe a band? 995 00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,680 Yes, very good. OK. 996 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:54,920 You're on the right track. Band inaugurated, Then I guess 997 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,320 it'll have to be, oh, I was going to say a venue, 998 00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:02,560 performance venue, but I'm going to go with the some sort of 999 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,160 musical Hall of Fame. Well, it can be the Rock and 1000 00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:07,760 Roll Hall of Fame, because that already exists. 1001 00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,520 Going colder, going colder, You are closer with venue. 1002 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,120 You were actually very hot with venue. 1003 00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:15,120 Oh, so they inaugurated the venue. 1004 00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,880 Oh, interesting. Something that costs $2.3 1005 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:24,000 billion. $2.3 billion and they oh, but it doesn't have to be a 1006 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,520 musical venue, is it? Is it a musical? 1007 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:26,680 No. They can do a lot of things 1008 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:27,040 there. It can. 1009 00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,440 It's like Madison Square Garden. You can use it for boxing. 1010 00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,520 You can use it for venue. Sorry, where was this venue 1011 00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,920 again? I did not mention where it is 1012 00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,880 because the moment I tell you where it is, there is only one 1013 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,840 answer. Now, OK, that's what. 1014 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,200 Can you give me A country or even the US would be too much of 1015 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:49,280 A give up. No, I'm quite, I'm quite lost. 1016 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,440 OK, Paul, Hewson and Cole OK, this is a cryptic clue, like a 1017 00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,320 cryptic crossword clue. They come with a from a place 1018 00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:57,800 where the streets have no name. The. 1019 00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:04,440 Streets have no name. Oh oh, this sounds so familiar. 1020 00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,960 Yeah. Need the music is not my. 1021 00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,920 Paul Hewson has a very famous fashion choice, and not many 1022 00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,360 people know that that fashion choice is actually because of a 1023 00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,040 medical condition. OK, I'm. 1024 00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:17,600 I'm just taking a wild guess here. 1025 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,200 Is it by any chance you too? Ha ha, very good. 1026 00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,800 It is you too. So which, so which venue are we 1027 00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,440 talking about? Sorry, but before that I'm going 1028 00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:28,320 to clarify what is the fashion choice though. 1029 00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,400 The glasses that he wears. Bono, right? 1030 00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:32,760 Bono. Yes, Bono. 1031 00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:36,560 Paul Hewson is Bono. Bono always wears dark glasses. 1032 00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:38,600 It's not actually a fashion choice. 1033 00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,600 He suffers from glaucoma, which is increased pressure in your 1034 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:42,920 eyes. So then he always wears those 1035 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:45,160 glasses because of that. But people think it's like one 1036 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,160 of those fashion choices. He's a rock star, so he always 1037 00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,520 wears the best glasses anywhere. I mean, like, have you ever seen 1038 00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:51,440 his eyes? You always see him with those 1039 00:58:51,440 --> 00:58:54,720 glasses, right? Interesting, so Bono 1040 00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,960 inaugurated. You two, basically you 2 1041 00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:59,600 inaugurated. They were the first one to 1042 00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,840 inaugurate this venue. It was in Las Vegas. 1043 00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,360 Is it the eye? Close enough. 1044 00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,640 It's the sphere. The Las Vegas sphere, it became 1045 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:09,960 viral because of. Yeah. 1046 00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,400 It became viral because they put the picture of an eye outside of 1047 00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:15,160 it and people just went crazy because it was just so. 1048 00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:21,440 The sphere is a huge spherical venue with the largest LED 1049 00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:24,360 screen in the world, with the highest largest LED resolution 1050 00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,280 LED screen in the world. It can accommodate 18 to 20,000 1051 00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:31,000 people on standing room. And it has a huge wrap around 1052 00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:34,280 screen and YouTube performed the video of YouTube performing 1053 00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:35,720 there. And that's like, wow. 1054 00:59:36,400 --> 00:59:38,720 I actually remember this, you do inaugation thing now that you 1055 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,680 said, yeah go ahead. It's just fantastic. 1056 00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:44,000 So the Sphere was conceived as a partnership between Madison 1057 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,600 Square Garden Company, that was my hidden clue over there, and 1058 00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:50,760 the Las Vegas Sands Corporation. The project was launched in 1059 00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,680 2018. The interior of the Sphere is 1060 00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:56,720 fitted with the world's largest and most complex LED screen, 1061 00:59:57,040 --> 01:00:02,360 measuring 15,000 square meters. It features a 16 K resolution 1062 01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:05,840 wrap around display. And the exoskeleton is fitted 1063 01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:10,280 with approximately 54,000 square meters of LED display space. 1064 01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:14,920 There are 1.2 million packs, each containing 48 individual LE 1065 01:00:14,920 --> 01:00:19,640 DS that can display 256,000,000 different colors, transforming 1066 01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,040 the exterior, transforming the exterior into a monumental 1067 01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,920 billboard. And they're planning one for 1068 01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,320 many other cities, including London, Abu Dhabi. 1069 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,680 So, yeah, we can probably see one of those over there. 1070 01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,160 OK, very interesting. Very cool. 1071 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:35,520 I mean, like, given the monumental cost, I don't know 1072 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,200 how they're ever going to break even. 1073 01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,080 Like $2.3 billion, man. Whoa. 1074 01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:45,720 If I'm not wrong, I I remember reading reports of how it was 1075 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,240 running in a loss for the first few months also. 1076 01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:49,800 Yeah, no, it'll have to be. No. 1077 01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,920 It's such a huge cost. No, I don't even mean the fixed 1078 01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:54,240 cost. I believe the operational costs 1079 01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,120 are also oh. OK, yeah. 1080 01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:57,840 I mean, like just the electricity bill, man. 1081 01:00:57,840 --> 01:00:59,920 My God. That, yeah. 1082 01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:03,480 But anyways, OK, fun, fun question. 1083 01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:05,880 We have moved on to October 2023. 1084 01:01:05,880 --> 01:01:09,040 Yes. So this is an event that 1085 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,360 happened on the 2nd of October 2023. 1086 01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,360 A little Gandhi Jayanti celebration. 1087 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:16,360 Well, no, it wasn't a Gandhi Jayant celebration, but it 1088 01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:21,520 happened on 2nd of October. Two people were again 1089 01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,760 commemorated. Let me give you a little 1090 01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,440 background about these two people and you tell me how they 1091 01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:33,760 were honored and commemorated. Caitlin was born and raised in 1092 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:38,200 Hungary in a small home without running water, refrigerator, 1093 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:43,160 television, and from there pursued academics and at some 1094 01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:47,720 point found herself in University of Pennsylvania. 1095 01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,280 What did you say the name again? Caitlin. 1096 01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:53,280 Caitlin, OK. She found herself in the 1097 01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:58,280 University of Pennsylvania. Her field of choice was 1098 01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:02,040 something that wasn't looked upon as being very promising. 1099 01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:08,760 So before seeing the very fruitful results that obviously 1100 01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:13,120 eventually happened from her research, she had been demoted, 1101 01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:17,520 her pay had been cut, and she was described herself as not 1102 01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:22,480 being of faculty quality, never granted tenure as well. 1103 01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:28,080 This is the first person Caitlin, the other individual is 1104 01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:32,320 this gentleman called Drew. Drew was born in Massachusetts 1105 01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:36,200 in the US. He, through his education and 1106 01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,800 hard work at some point also found himself in the University 1107 01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:42,680 of Pennsylvania working alongside of Caitlin. 1108 01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:49,160 In a chance encounter where both Caitlin and Drew were 1109 01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:54,040 photocopying some documents, they met at the photocopy 1110 01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,880 machine. They realized and they were 1111 01:02:56,880 --> 01:02:59,920 discussing how their field of studies completely ignored and 1112 01:02:59,920 --> 01:03:03,680 not given enough importance, not given enough funding, and they 1113 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:05,200 decided to start working together. 1114 01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:09,840 These two individuals were commemorated in 2023 on 2nd of 1115 01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:11,600 October. How were how were they 1116 01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,120 commemorate? I have one question. 1117 01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,040 Is the Drew in this question Drew Wiseman? 1118 01:03:18,440 --> 01:03:21,720 Beneath man, just just why? Why don't you just ask the 1119 01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:22,640 questions? I'm going to stop. 1120 01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,680 I'm just I'm not going to ask any more questions. 1121 01:03:24,760 --> 01:03:28,240 No, I'm see. See, to be fair, I was quite 1122 01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:33,240 deep into this for two years because as people may or may not 1123 01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:34,840 know, I work in the diagnostic industry. 1124 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:40,800 So knowing the name of the people who got the Nobel Prize 1125 01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:47,000 for developing the mRNA vaccine is not unfair. 1126 01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,240 No, because most of the time, I my, my, my problem has always 1127 01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:55,320 been that, not problem per SE. The Nobel Prize always rewards, 1128 01:03:56,200 --> 01:04:00,120 you know, discoveries made maybe decades ago or there was a tiny 1129 01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,640 discovery or there's something that is very difficult for 1130 01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,320 people to relate to, especially when it comes to Physiology and 1131 01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:08,760 medicine and even physics. But this year, the medicine 1132 01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,280 award, the Nobel Prize of Physiology, went to something 1133 01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:13,520 that made a palpable impact on everybody's lives. 1134 01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,160 No, for sure. And you know, when I came up 1135 01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:17,600 with the question, I was like, oh, it's going to be a great 1136 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:19,880 piece of trivia. But yeah, well, I was asking the 1137 01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:21,360 question. I realized I'm asking we need 1138 01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,560 who not only knows so much trivia, but is also from that 1139 01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:25,960 field. So fair enough. 1140 01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:29,840 You, you were only obliged to crack this very quickly. 1141 01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:34,600 But lovely, lovely crack. I'll give you the full names you 1142 01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:36,120 already mentioned. Drew Wiseman. 1143 01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,000 I don't remember the other lady, Caitlyn. 1144 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:43,520 I don't remember her last. Name Carico Carico, who's a 1145 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:48,240 Hungarian American biochemist. She had been studying RNA for a 1146 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,960 very long time. In the 90s, I believe this 1147 01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:56,080 particular field lost its team. Most people thought it did not 1148 01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:59,480 hold too much promise. At the point where she joined 1149 01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:03,000 with Wise Men and they couldn't start collaborating, they 1150 01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:06,120 realized that there was a lot of potential in the vaccine space 1151 01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:09,480 for RNAs. They overcame a bunch of hurdles 1152 01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:13,320 and finally published a very landmark paper in 2005. 1153 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,880 They have published a bunch of other ones as well, but 2005 is 1154 01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:20,880 the one that is considered the most important in their field of 1155 01:05:21,600 --> 01:05:23,480 research. Yes, you're right. 1156 01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,720 They were given the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1157 01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:32,280 for the discoveries concerning nucleoside based modifications 1158 01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:37,080 that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against 1159 01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:41,640 COVID-19. Very, very well deserved Nobel 1160 01:05:41,640 --> 01:05:42,680 Prize. Yes, you're right. 1161 01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:46,360 Yes, no, because we have to understand that what the work 1162 01:05:47,040 --> 01:05:53,000 they did basically gave us a template to deal with diseases 1163 01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,960 where you want a vaccine quickly, but the traditional 1164 01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,040 methods would take years if not decades. 1165 01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,640 This gives us a template to do to develop vaccines very, very 1166 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,640 quickly. The only thing is how long and 1167 01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:07,920 what effect these kind of vaccines have in the long term. 1168 01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:11,880 Obviously will take decades for us to still understand, but this 1169 01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:14,120 was ground breaking work what they did. 1170 01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,800 The pattern that came out of their research was the exact 1171 01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:22,640 pattern that was given to Moderna when they developed 1172 01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:25,640 their vaccines. So it is pretty much a very 1173 01:06:25,640 --> 01:06:27,000 direct impact of what they've done. 1174 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:31,720 What actually blew my mind was the fact that her work was met 1175 01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,320 with so much skepticism and obstacles and. 1176 01:06:35,200 --> 01:06:36,560 Unfortunately, this is quite true. 1177 01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:41,440 If you are a woman in academia, this is not unheard of. 1178 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:44,840 Sad state of affairs, but hey, at least well deserved. 1179 01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:49,760 What really shocked me was the amount of pushback that she 1180 01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:52,040 faced. Like literally being demoted and 1181 01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:54,960 having a pay cut is it sounds pretty insane. 1182 01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:57,800 I don't know much about the feeling of academia, but sounds. 1183 01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:01,240 No, because especially in the US and all, most of these academic 1184 01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,920 departments run on donations and grants and funding. 1185 01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,200 So if you're going to be studying or doing research on 1186 01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,360 something which is not going to bring in eventual money to the 1187 01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:13,240 department, they're not going to look upon you with favor. 1188 01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:17,440 Well, the world has them to thank because Caitlin decided to 1189 01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:21,080 stick with it. And yeah, we are all alive now. 1190 01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:24,040 OK. So I'm moving on to November. 1191 01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:29,920 We are reaching the end of 2023 in November, when this song 1192 01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:36,000 charted at #1 at the UK Singles Chart, it set the record for the 1193 01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:41,000 longest gap between #1 singles by any musical act. 1194 01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,320 If possible, tell me the name of the song, or if you can just at 1195 01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:47,200 least tell me the ACT and what was so special about the song. 1196 01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,480 Did the band get back together after a very long time? 1197 01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,240 No, no, no. That would have required an act 1198 01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,600 of God. Oh, so I'm assuming people are 1199 01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:56,880 dead. Yes. 1200 01:07:57,320 --> 01:08:01,360 In this particular band I know, Kate Bush had this, but that 1201 01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:04,280 would have been last year when? No, that was. 1202 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,760 Running up the hill. Stranger things. 1203 01:08:06,760 --> 01:08:08,840 But no, this was actually a new single. 1204 01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:10,360 I'm not talking about an old single. 1205 01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,680 Get charting again. This was a new single. 1206 01:08:13,560 --> 01:08:15,720 I'll give you a clue. The gap. 1207 01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,479 Longest gap between #1 singles by any music act. 1208 01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:21,080 The record that was set is for 54 years. 1209 01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:26,720 Wow, 54 years. So from 2023, that means we are 1210 01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:32,720 talking 1969. Yeah, 1969. 1211 01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:37,160 Oh boy, that was a good decade for music and a lot of famous 1212 01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:40,479 bands. Yes, I will give you a clue. 1213 01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:43,800 As with everything else this year, AI played a role. 1214 01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,720 Oh, I remember this, they they had some of the original 1215 01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:52,479 recordings or something and they tried to recreate the entire 1216 01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:55,120 music and they got a bunch of new artists to come and 1217 01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:58,760 collaborate on it to step in for. 1218 01:08:59,319 --> 01:09:01,080 Do you remember the band? Do you remember which band it 1219 01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:05,120 was? Since it's a 1969 and that was 1220 01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:08,359 the last time they topped the charts, I'm just going to guess, 1221 01:09:08,359 --> 01:09:11,080 is it Beatles? Yes, it is The Beatles. 1222 01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,279 OK. OK, the song's name is called 1223 01:09:14,279 --> 01:09:18,200 Now and Then, so I'll give you a little bit of the history of the 1224 01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,520 song. So Now and Then is a soft rock 1225 01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:25,439 ballad that was written by John Lennon and recorded solo in 1226 01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:27,880 1977, long after the band had broken up. 1227 01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:31,760 He wrote it as a solo record and he recorded it at home. 1228 01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:36,040 It was He recorded a small demo at home, but left it unfinished. 1229 01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:41,800 Three years later, Lennon died and the song was then considered 1230 01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:46,399 as a potential third Beatles reunion single for their 199596 1231 01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:49,399 retrospective project called The Beatles and the Anthology. 1232 01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:54,800 So what happened was the quality of the record that was recorded 1233 01:09:54,800 --> 01:09:59,360 by Lennon at home was so bad that even though they did some 1234 01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:03,640 overdubs from Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr and guitar tracks by 1235 01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:06,680 George Harrison, they basically had to abandon it because the 1236 01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:11,800 quality was really, really bad. OK, so then George Harrison died 1237 01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:16,880 in 2001 to the session. So this we only had the overdub 1238 01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:18,440 recordings in the guitar tracks about them. 1239 01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:24,080 Now what has happened is 54 years how many years later they 1240 01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:29,400 used a machine learning assisted audio restoration technology 1241 01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:33,120 which was commissioned by Peter Jackson for his 2021 documentary 1242 01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:37,520 The Beatles Get Back and like McCartney, wrote some additional 1243 01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,480 lyrics, few additional lyrics. They used some of the recordings 1244 01:10:40,480 --> 01:10:43,440 they had done in 1995, the overdubs and everything, and 1245 01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:47,120 they put everything together to make the song Jackson. 1246 01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:49,920 Peter Jackson also recorded the music, directed the music video 1247 01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:52,920 for now and then the song received universal acclaim from 1248 01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,840 critics who felt it was a worthy finale for The Beatles. 1249 01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:59,280 It topped the charts in the UK, Germany and Austria and reached 1250 01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,800 the top ten in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, the 1251 01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,920 Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the US. 1252 01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:08,160 It is the only Beatles UK number one single that is not 1253 01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,440 attributed to the Lennon McCartney songwriting 1254 01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:12,000 partnership. Very cool. 1255 01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:16,640 Do you find it interesting that despite this being the year of 1256 01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:19,480 AI and the year of climate change, neither of us chose a 1257 01:11:19,480 --> 01:11:21,040 question from AI and climate change? 1258 01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:25,440 I swear, OK, so I found this lovely website which had a bunch 1259 01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:27,200 of events from every single month. 1260 01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:29,640 And I was just going through that trying to find relevant 1261 01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,000 trivia. And I was bombarded firstly a by 1262 01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:39,800 the number of Trump legal issues and then of course the very 1263 01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:43,840 depressing Russia, Ukraine war updates and the very depressing 1264 01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:47,120 Israel Gaza situation that was all over the news. 1265 01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:50,480 And then climate change, Oh my God, the number of 1266 01:11:50,480 --> 01:11:52,880 record-breaking things that happened to regarding climate 1267 01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:58,960 change this year it I don't know how to not be doomed here and 1268 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,840 and completely lose your shit. No. 1269 01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:05,080 Seriously, I mean same thing when I went back and I was going 1270 01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:08,360 through, you know, Wikipedia and all the dates and months and all 1271 01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:12,120 those things, you know, the number of climate change events, 1272 01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:16,640 the hottest temperatures recorded and all 56° in Iran, 1273 01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,040 which is beyond what humans can tolerate. 1274 01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,400 Cyclones landing where they've never landed before. 1275 01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,800 Exactly. Yeah, hottest ever week or month 1276 01:12:26,800 --> 01:12:30,920 recorded in hundred 200 years is this and it seems to be just a 1277 01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:35,360 yearly thing now every year is throwing up new the. 1278 01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:38,840 Question is, are we, will we breach A tipping point or we 1279 01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:41,720 will just adapt? I don't. 1280 01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:43,840 I don't know if I want to find out. 1281 01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:46,800 No, no, I do. I do. 1282 01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,000 I'm. I'm a very optimistic person at 1283 01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:53,400 heart, so I believe in humanity. OK, let's end on a happy note. 1284 01:12:53,440 --> 01:12:55,200 Let's end on a happy note for December. 1285 01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,600 December isn't over yet, but something lovely happened 1286 01:13:00,000 --> 01:13:05,520 earlier this month. And again, this is a news which 1287 01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:08,880 involves two people. So I'm going to tell you what 1288 01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:12,920 these two individuals are famous for in chronological order, and 1289 01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,440 I will stop short of the last one in the list. 1290 01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:18,160 There are five items on the on the list, and I will tell you 1291 01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:22,120 the first four. If you can't figure it out, I'll 1292 01:13:22,120 --> 01:13:24,960 give you the fifth one. Tell me what happened earlier 1293 01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:28,560 this month. OK, the first on the list is 1294 01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:36,520 Greenberg in 2010. The next is Francis Ha 2012. 1295 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:41,880 Then we have Mistress America 2015. 1296 01:13:42,440 --> 01:13:44,680 Before I reveal #4, do you want to take a guess? 1297 01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,400 Oh, no, I'm I'm, I'm blanking right now. 1298 01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,160 OK, All right then let me give you #4, which might be a good 1299 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,400 clue. White noise, 2022. 1300 01:13:54,840 --> 01:14:00,040 White noise 2022 OK. And I haven't told you what 1301 01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:02,480 number one is. No you haven't. 1302 01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:07,600 I am clueless right now. You will have to like white 1303 01:14:07,600 --> 01:14:09,680 noise. These aren't bands, right, 1304 01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:12,640 Greenberg? Oh, OK All right. 1305 01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:14,440 So let me just guide you further along. 1306 01:14:14,480 --> 01:14:17,560 These are movies. These are movies, no? 1307 01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:21,280 OK, so let me give you a further clue. 1308 01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,360 I said it's news involving two people it these are two people 1309 01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:28,720 who have collaborated on all of these movies, let's call them 1310 01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,360 X&Y. And let's give you a very quick 1311 01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:34,000 rundown. Greenberg, which was released in 1312 01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,360 2010. The director was X. 1313 01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:41,520 The writer was also X. It's starred Y Francis Hart, 1314 01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:46,400 which came out in 2012. Director X, Writer X&Y starring 1315 01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,720 Y. Mistress America. 2015, Director 1316 01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:54,040 X, Writer X&Y starring Y. One more time. 1317 01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:59,160 White Noise In 2022, Director was X, Writer was also X, 1318 01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:03,240 starring Y. So none of these have been 1319 01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:08,000 directed by Y. A lot of them have X as the 1320 01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,080 director and the writer Y has some writing credits. 1321 01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:12,840 And a lot of acting credits, yeah. 1322 01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,840 And you want me to guess what is the one in December 2020? 1323 01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:17,160 Three. No. 1324 01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:21,000 Something happened between these two people in December 2023, but 1325 01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:26,440 I haven't given you #5, the fifth of their The 5th movie, 1326 01:15:26,440 --> 01:15:29,200 which was their collaboration. Guessing these are art house 1327 01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:33,480 movies and not like mainstream, You know, airport time killers, 1328 01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:37,000 the usual kind of thing I watch. You would be surprised because 1329 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:44,040 #5 #5 no, the rest of them are indie darlings, but #5 was the 1330 01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:47,120 first time in this list. Not the first time ever, but the 1331 01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:49,760 first time in this particular list or in their collaborations 1332 01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:53,800 that Y directed. And the writers were again, 1333 01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,200 X&Y&Y did not have an acting credit in this. 1334 01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:03,200 Actor directed a movie released in 2023 December. 1335 01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,240 OK, sorry, let me also clarify. I did not say the movie released 1336 01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:11,240 in December 23. Movie was released in 2023. 1337 01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:13,320 Something happened between the two of them. 1338 01:16:13,520 --> 01:16:16,000 All right, you know what? Let me tell you what happened. 1339 01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:17,880 This isn't KNPL, right? KNPL. 1340 01:16:17,880 --> 01:16:19,320 No, this is not KNPL. No. 1341 01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:21,840 Here's where it helps to know what happened between the two of 1342 01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:23,400 them. The two of them got married in 1343 01:16:23,400 --> 01:16:27,360 December. When you see that kind of 1344 01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:31,200 collaboration, something that goes back that far, directors 1345 01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:34,440 married to actors. There's Aaron Taylor Johnson, 1346 01:16:34,440 --> 01:16:36,160 but he's already been married for a long time. 1347 01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:40,200 There's Emily Blunt and John Kaczynski. 1348 01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,800 But again, they've only done those kind of major things. 1349 01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:46,880 Spielberg was famously married to an actress. 1350 01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:51,200 But no, I've no, no, you'll have to. 1351 01:16:51,200 --> 01:16:52,920 This is going to be something simple. 1352 01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,840 You've definitely heard of it. OK, the biggest movie of 2023. 1353 01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,800 The biggest movie of 2023. Oppenheimer. 1354 01:17:04,480 --> 01:17:06,400 Yeah, yeah. Wait, Barbie. 1355 01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:07,280 Greta. Greta. 1356 01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:08,440 Govig. Yeah. 1357 01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:10,120 Do you know who she's married to? 1358 01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:11,760 No, I don't. I wait. 1359 01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:13,360 Greta Govig is married to some actor. 1360 01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:15,920 OK, No, wait, she acted. No, a director. 1361 01:17:15,920 --> 01:17:18,280 I never said that X ever acted. OK. 1362 01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:18,840 Yeah. OK. 1363 01:17:18,840 --> 01:17:22,520 Greta Govig was an actor. OK, who is she married? 1364 01:17:22,520 --> 01:17:27,480 To So let me just tell you on on December 20th of 2023, get a 1365 01:17:27,480 --> 01:17:31,360 Govik and Noah Bomback announced that they're married after 12 1366 01:17:31,360 --> 01:17:34,280 years of dating Noah. Do you know of this individual? 1367 01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:39,640 No, I maybe one of those people I know by sight, but Noah 1368 01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:42,360 Bomber. Have you watched The marriage 1369 01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,240 story? No, I have not. 1370 01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:47,640 I was going. I remember I want to watch it 1371 01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,800 and a friend told me it is extremely depressing. 1372 01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:52,560 Don't watch it. It is. 1373 01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:57,400 It is not an easy watch, but it is a lovely movie and of course 1374 01:17:57,400 --> 01:17:59,160 he has to his credit, a bunch of films. 1375 01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:00,800 He has been active for a very long time. 1376 01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:05,800 Marriage story. Francis Howe already mentioned 1377 01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:09,240 White Noise, The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg, a bunch of 1378 01:18:09,240 --> 01:18:11,800 very famous Mrs. America. All of these are Noah Baumbach 1379 01:18:11,800 --> 01:18:14,800 films. Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig 1380 01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,280 have been collaborating for a very long time since they first 1381 01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:22,400 met, and obviously Guadagovic has directed movies before this, 1382 01:18:22,680 --> 01:18:27,280 but Barbie is her biggest film and this time around when they 1383 01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:30,120 collaborated, she was on directing it and Noah was just 1384 01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,480 writing in. The film turned out to be the 1385 01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:35,840 biggest success of their collaborative efforts. 1386 01:18:36,480 --> 01:18:40,080 Maybe this is something more commonly known to Big Syrup 1387 01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:43,160 Files, which you probably are as well, but yeah, no. 1388 01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:47,280 No, it's still a great fact. Great fact, if you had told me 1389 01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:51,640 last year that a movie based on Barbie would be the biggest 1390 01:18:51,640 --> 01:18:54,080 movie of the year, I would have laughed in your face. 1391 01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:58,120 You know what is freaking me out is that they have greenlit a 1392 01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:01,960 bunch of films based off of just random toy product lines. 1393 01:19:02,440 --> 01:19:06,280 Like, I think there is a Monopoly film that has been 1394 01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,640 greenlit. Yeah, and the Monopoly still 1395 01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:11,400 sounds like there's some character that I remember. 1396 01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,840 There was some other ridiculous ones which are greenlit. 1397 01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:15,960 And I was like, how are we going to make a movie out of this? 1398 01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:18,600 And yeah, I'm not. I'm not very. 1399 01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:23,200 Optimistic, because the gold standard for making a movie out 1400 01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:26,240 of a game or this kind of property is still clue. 1401 01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:28,560 Oh, what a great film. What a great. 1402 01:19:28,560 --> 01:19:33,440 Film that was just a fantastic film and the blueprint of what 1403 01:19:33,440 --> 01:19:36,200 not to do would be the GI Joe films. 1404 01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:39,640 You know what? I'll tell you it was a guilty 1405 01:19:39,640 --> 01:19:42,320 pleasure of mine for a while. I used to actually enjoy this 1406 01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:45,120 film, and then I think I grew out of, grew out of it. 1407 01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:52,200 But yeah, Barbie I think did a fairly good job in working a 1408 01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:55,920 great story, a fun little script and great acting performances 1409 01:19:56,160 --> 01:20:00,320 into a promotion material for what is basically a 2 hour long 1410 01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:05,160 ad for a toy. And wow, that brings us to the 1411 01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:08,520 end of 2023, both literally and figuratively. 1412 01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,840 And this has been a long episode, so it's a bumper, I 1413 01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:13,400 think. It's fair. 1414 01:20:13,440 --> 01:20:17,240 I think it's fair. 50th episode you have to do something 1415 01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:23,520 special, but wow, 50 episodes and the end of 2023. 1416 01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,000 Did you expect us to reach this point, Vineet? 1417 01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:31,600 Hi, To be honest, I was hopeful, but I always expected at some 1418 01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:36,040 point because both of our lives are so busy that you know it's 1419 01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,880 very difficult to get both of us synced up as you know. 1420 01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:42,160 That is true, that is. True. 1421 01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:47,040 If we try to sync up 12 times, we might sync up maybe twice out 1422 01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:50,120 of two out of 12. I think would be a generous 1423 01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:53,240 estimation of how often we are able to find free spots. 1424 01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:55,640 But yeah, so I always expected that. 1425 01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:57,120 Might be here. There we are. 1426 01:20:57,600 --> 01:20:59,880 There we are. Not very regular, but yes, we 1427 01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:02,400 are here. You know what? 1428 01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:04,560 Out of the 52 weeks, we only missed it twice. 1429 01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:07,280 So I'll give us the pat on the back. 1430 01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:08,480 Yeah, not too bad. Not too bad. 1431 01:21:09,200 --> 01:21:11,520 So yeah, so that's the end of this year. 1432 01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,080 So before we end the episode, there are a few things that we 1433 01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:20,200 do at the end of every episode. First things first is Aditya, 1434 01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:23,200 what is going to be your question for the new year? 1435 01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:26,560 So remember that this will be the next question or the first 1436 01:21:26,560 --> 01:21:31,000 question of the next year. So it has to be decent. 1437 01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:35,320 I I think I already know what your answer will be, but is 1438 01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:38,520 there any way that we can leave this trend behind in 2023? 1439 01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:40,560 Absolutely not. Too many people enjoy this. 1440 01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:44,360 Oh boy. Like this is the one thing that 1441 01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,920 everybody says they like, so then I'm not getting rid of it. 1442 01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:52,160 Oh, I I really question our audience. 1443 01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:54,240 No, no, no, no, I'm kidding. Please keep listening to our 1444 01:21:54,240 --> 01:21:59,080 podcast. OK, So the question will 1445 01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:06,640 obviously be Elon Musk. Man continues to dominate the 1446 01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:10,560 news and the whole 420 thing that he did. 1447 01:22:11,240 --> 01:22:16,880 What else has Elon Musk done in his juvenile attempt at humor in 1448 01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,200 his business career? You know what, I don't even 1449 01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:20,840 think I'll have to make up an answer for this. 1450 01:22:20,880 --> 01:22:22,200 I think I'm just going to find an actor. 1451 01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:23,240 You. Just have to wait a week. 1452 01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:26,080 You just have to wait a week, he'll find. 1453 01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:28,120 Something he will do something. He will do something. 1454 01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,520 That's great. So that's the question for next 1455 01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:34,160 week. And now let's move to the 1456 01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:37,760 audience question. In March of 2023, this company X 1457 01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:44,040 posted earnings of 161 billion dollars for 2022, making it the 1458 01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:47,360 highest ever recorded annual profit by a publicly listed 1459 01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:49,560 company. Before I reveal the answer, 1460 01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:51,440 Aditya, do you know which this is? 1461 01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:55,760 161 billion. Yeah, that's the profit. 1462 01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:57,040 We're not even talking about anything else. 1463 01:22:57,040 --> 01:23:00,320 That's the profit. Oh boy, no. 1464 01:23:00,320 --> 01:23:03,080 I have no clue whatever whatsoever this could be. 1465 01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,080 This is Aramco. Have you heard of Aramco? 1466 01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,720 Isn't it the oil and gas company? 1467 01:23:10,080 --> 01:23:13,160 Yes, it is the Saudi Arabian Oil and Gas Company, which was 1468 01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:17,640 originally founded as a collaboration between America 1469 01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:22,440 and Saudi Arabia, the Arab American oil corporation, so 1470 01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:25,160 that eventually became Saudi Aramco, now known as Saudi 1471 01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:28,280 Aramco. It is the company which listed 1472 01:23:28,280 --> 01:23:30,680 the highest ever recorded annual profit. 1473 01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:35,440 Yeah, that is insane. Aditya, what is your pop culture 1474 01:23:35,440 --> 01:23:38,320 recommendation for this week? Pop culture recommendation. 1475 01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:40,200 I'm going to keep it very short and sweet. 1476 01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:43,640 It's the end of the year. It is something that I look 1477 01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:47,360 forward to every single year. As much as people do a Spotify 1478 01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:51,440 rap and whatnot. I look forward to the Vox Rewind 1479 01:23:51,440 --> 01:23:55,440 or Vox review of the year. It is usually a decent 1480 01:23:55,440 --> 01:23:59,880 compilation of, well, mostly American centric news, but World 1481 01:23:59,880 --> 01:24:03,760 News as well and quick snippets of news. 1482 01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:07,080 And I remember every year that I've watched it, I have geared 1483 01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:08,800 up. Was it just, it's such an 1484 01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:11,400 overwhelming experience to be exposed to all of these things 1485 01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:12,880 that happened over the entire year. 1486 01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:16,800 So Vox Revine for 2023 is a fun watch. 1487 01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:21,200 I just watched it earlier today and I encourage viewers to go 1488 01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:22,880 check it out and listeners to go check it out. 1489 01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:27,120 Great. For me, the end of this year and 1490 01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:30,920 the beginning of another takes me back to the fact that I am 1491 01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:35,720 growing older every year, more Gray than black in the hair and 1492 01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:38,280 beard going forward. So it just makes me a little 1493 01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:42,160 more nostalgic for, you know, better times or whatever. 1494 01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:46,160 So the show that I'm going to recommend is a show called 1495 01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:48,440 Psych. I don't know how many of you 1496 01:24:48,440 --> 01:24:52,000 have actually heard of it, but it's this amazing show which I 1497 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,760 still believe was ripped off by The Mentalist because the basic 1498 01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,680 concept is the same. Slightly different though. 1499 01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:02,120 In Psych there is a hyper observant character who's been 1500 01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:05,920 trained from childhood to be to observe everything like Sherlock 1501 01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:09,840 Holmes but big. But because people his skill is 1502 01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:11,200 so great that people don't believe him. 1503 01:25:11,400 --> 01:25:16,080 He pretends to be a psychic and works for the police. the IT is 1504 01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:21,520 a buddy comedy with the James Roday and the lead fantastic 1505 01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:23,680 comedy, especially if you are somebody who grew up in the 80s 1506 01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:27,520 and nineties. 90% of what they what comes out of James Roday's 1507 01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:30,400 mouth are references from the 80s and the 90s. 1508 01:25:30,840 --> 01:25:32,880 So it's nostalgia built on nostalgia. 1509 01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,560 It's a fantastic show. The show has a very big cult 1510 01:25:36,560 --> 01:25:39,280 following and following that. They have three follow up 1511 01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:43,000 movies, so please try and catch Psych. 1512 01:25:43,280 --> 01:25:46,240 It's just an amazing show. It will feed your nostalgia 1513 01:25:46,240 --> 01:25:49,120 train, even if you're from the 2000s or if you're from the 90s 1514 01:25:49,120 --> 01:25:51,920 In the 90s, it will definitely feed your nostalgia train. 1515 01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:53,600 And it's and it's pretty damn funny. 1516 01:25:54,440 --> 01:25:56,920 Pretty damn funny Mysteries combined with comedy. 1517 01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,000 You can't just beat that. Fun. 1518 01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:02,800 So that is the end of today's episode. 1519 01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,480 The last episode for 2023. 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