Welcome to our you quizzing me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
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Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode #69.
You can't see my video, but I am waggling my eyebrows like a
madman. And there are so many obvious
jokes for this particular episode number.
But we're a clean family podcast, so we're not going to
go there. Aditya and I are back for
another round of quizzing. And let's start off today's
episode with our usual audience question.
This is a question I ask at the top of the episode and answer at
the end of the episode. The audience has the duration of
this episode to try and find out or guess the answer to the
question for today. In 1984, Raghunandan Srinivas
Kamath started selling pav bhaji with this dessert as an add on.
He had worked at his brother's South Indian eatery long enough
to know how much Indians love to end a meal on a sweet note.
The simple idea of offering something cold after a hot and
spicy dish worked and he clocked to revenue of ₹500,000 in the
first year from his own tiny 200 square feet shop in Juhu,
Koliwata area in Mumbai. A year later he stopped selling
power bhaji and started a full-fledged dessert brand.
Such was the demand that it caused frequent traffic jams in
the tiny by lanes of Juhu. Fast forward 40 years and it's
grown to around 135 different outlets in various cities and
has been named once as one of India's top ten brands for
customer experience in a KPMG survey.
Which dessert brand are we talking about?
I will answer this question at the end of today's episode.
Now I will pass the baton to Aditya, who had asked as a not
so serious question last week and to which he will find some
crazy answer and which it has been pointed out to me by a
couple of our listeners that his answers are moving quite often
into the area of paranoia and conspiracy.
So there have been questions raised as to whether Aditya is
OK. I just want to tell all of them
that all is well. This is just how he is.
So Aditya, what's your crazy conspiracy theory for this week?
If only the sheeple would wake up, because I am the one who is
God bringing bringing lights to darkness.
All these younger cattle following the crowd.
Speaking of young cattle, you know what the young of another
animal is called? Joey.
A young kangaroo is called a Joey.
And that is the answer to last week's question.
Now let me tell you what last week's question was because I
asked just like KFC sponsored a film, the secret Recipe, Which
Indian brand sponsored a film or ATV show?
And the answer was staring us right in the face.
Wait, well I don't understand me in the face because I have a
friend's poster and it is Joey. The show Joey sponsored by.
Can I take a guess? I really don't want to.
You look very scary right now. Britannia, my friend.
Britannia because Britannia, if you rearrange the letters and
use take one of them out and then put one back in, it
basically spells on Biani, Joey Truviani.
God tell me your mind is not officially blown.
That is exactly. Something's blown.
I think it might be a fuse in your head.
No, the audience is not caught on to what this podcast is truly
doing. It is waking them up to
realities. You're all thank me again.
Public advisory to anybody listening to this episode.
This is not what we do. This is just something we try to
get out of the way. We actually do have serious quiz
questions coming up, which now I will start quickly so that we
don't go around another rabbit hole of conspiracy.
So Aditya, I have a question that I've been itching to ask
you ever since I came across this piece of trivia.
Are you ready? Are you sitting?
Down I am it be. The word X in English and Hindi
comes from a Sanskrit word, which in turn comes from an
older Sanskrit word meaning to sprinkle.
OK, let me repeat that so you understand every part of the
question. The word X in Hindi and English
comes from a Sanskrit word, which in turn comes from an
older Sanskrit word meaning to sprinkle.
The older Sanskrit word is cognate with an ancient Greek
word meaning rubbed and anointed.
By cognate, I mean it has a similar kind of origin somewhere
in the depths of time and history.
So this inch, this oldest Sanskrit word, and this ancient
Greek word have the same origin sometime somewhere in the, you
know, mists of history. It is from this Ancient Greek
word that we get an English word Y, which is ubiquitous and was
originally intended as a title but is now thought of as a name.
So I want you to tell me what words am I talking about?
I will repeat the question simplified a little bit.
There's a word X, which is common in both English and
Hindi, which comes from a Sanskrit word which originally
meant to sprinkle. This Sanskrit word is cognate
with an ancient Greek word meaning to be rubbed on
anointed. And it is from this Greek word
that we get an English word Y, which is ubiquitous.
Everybody knows this word and was originally intended as a
title, but now is thought of as a name.
So I want you to tell me what these words are.
What words am I talking about? Which is the English and Hindi
word which is common, which comes from the Sanskrit meaning
to sprinkle, and the English word Y which came originally
from the Ancient Greek. But it is also cognate with the
original Sanskrit word. So this might sound a little
convoluted, but trust me, when you hear the answer you'll be a
little shocked. Or at least I hope you'll be
shocked. Or at least I pray that you'll
be shocked and express that shock though, so that my
question seems good. Oh wow, that's a lot of
confluence of different languages.
So let's see. When you said it used to mean to
sprinkle, I'm assuming it isn't used in that context in English
or Hindi anymore. No, it's not used in that
context. It's a noun right now.
Well, I see. And asking you to tell me what
that noun means would be making it too easy for myself.
Maybe at some point I will give you clues towards that, but not
right now. I want to see if you can get
anything from there. The Greek word eventually gave
rise to another word in English, which used to be a title.
What is now a name? Is it a very commonly?
Thought of as a name it it has always been a title, but people
think of it at least a common person.
People who are not etymological nerds like us would think of it
as a name. I think maybe 95% of people know
that know of it as a name. It is used.
Derivations of that word have been used as names all across
the world. OK.
No, I'm not at all sure of what you're getting at.
OK, first clue. I think maybe it might be easier
for you to get Y, so I'll give you a clue for Y.
As I mentioned, it comes from an ancient Greek word, which
originally meant rubbed or anointed.
Let's focus on anointed. So if you're going to make a
title from a word, and that's supposed to mean the anointed
one, what title would that be? Oh, that's not an English word.
I first thing I thought of was Buddha a bud.
No, no, no. As I mentioned, this is a Greek
word which gave rise to an English word.
So then, is it by any chance, Christ?
Yes. OK, so you've got Y.
So Christ literally means the anointed one.
It's a title. OK, It's not a name, but now
people think of Christ as a name.
Got it. So now you have one part of it.
Right? So now I can be a little more
open and giving clues. So Christ came from Christos,
which were, which meant robbed or anointed, right?
And Christos is cognate with another Sanskrit word which
meant to sprinkle. And now that word, OK, we have a
derivation of that word in English and Hindi from the
original Sanskrit. I wanted to tell me what that
word is, and I've told you already, it's a noun.
It's the name for something. Oh, is there a name for a
person? No, it's not the name for a
person. Chris was immediately makes me
think of Krish Ashok. No, no, no.
See you. You have to leave the conspiracy
theories, you know, at the beginning of the episode.
We're getting it out of the way. I don't know.
It was really the most gut reaction.
I had an official population recommendation, Krish Ashok and
his Instagram channel is quite amazing.
But coming back to this, Christos is also cognate, wow,
fancy, cognate with a Sanskrit word, which you used to mean to
marry, sprinkle, to rub or to sprinkle, sorry.
And that gave rise to an English word and a Hindi word.
Are those words the same? Are there homonyms that they
sound the same? OK.
They sound the same and they have the same meaning in both
English and Hindi. No, I don't know.
I have no idea. OK, so this is let's say it's
pertaining to food. It's the name of an ingredient.
An ingredient which is the same name and word in English.
There must be a few. Yes.
Is it a spice or something? No, it's not a spice.
It basically see, as I mentioned, the original Sanskrit
origin word meant to sprinkle like you would in some
instances. Also sprinkle this, maybe using
a spoon or sometimes a brush. And not a spice.
Or sometimes just pour. Yeah, not a spice.
So you could use a spoon to sprinkle it.
You might brush it on. Or you may just pour it.
Like if you go to Delhi and Punjab and all people use this
very liberally. I have no complaints against
using it liberally. Gee, yes it is.
Gee, what? Yes, that was the reaction I was
looking for. So strap on your seat belt, I'm
going to blow your mind right. The word ghee comes from the
Sanskrit grit or grita, which meant clarified butter, and it
originally came from the word ghe.
Ghe in Sanskrit was originally meant to sprinkle, and ghe is
cognate with the ancient Greek word Christos, Christos.
Christos meant rubbed or anointed, and it is from there
that we get the English word Christ.
Now Christ is used by Christians as both a name and a title,
unambiguously referring to Jesus.
It is also used as a title in the reciprocal usage, Christ
Jesus meaning the Messiah, Jesus or Jesus the Anointed and
independently as the Christ. So now when you think about it,
I told you that the Sanskrit word meant to sprinkle and the
Greek word meant to rub or to anoint.
That is insane. Well, it all makes sense, but
damn. OK, I'm still reeling from that.
Yeah, that was. Who would have imagined that the
word ghee and the word Christ have something in common?
They do use ghee in a lot of religious practices in India as
well. Yeah, and I think holy oils are
used for anointing. So there's also, I think that
kind of a connection because ghee, for those who don't know,
is clarified butter where you remove the milk solids and
you're left with just the fat. It is delicious and basically
elevates everything. Wow.
OK you know what we need? You have called this upon
yourself. I'm going to put in a few of my
favorite etymology questions in this episode.
Oh God, OK. Set me down this.
It was worth it. It it was a phenomenal question,
no two ways about it. OK, so moving on to yet another
etymology question. Then X was the name given to the
cheapest and the rowdiest seats in a theater.
And these seat occupiers would be known to Heckle the
performers. You look like you know the
answer already. No, no, no.
I'm no I don't know the answer, but I'm trying to guess it in my
head. OK, they were served a certain
snack, after which this, let's say row of seats or these rows
of seats were named. Some people have also suggested
a racial origin to the world, but that's not a commonly
accepted origin. And most importantly, it is how
we also got the name for one of the most popular and lasting pop
culture cornerstones of the 20th century.
And interestingly enough, the creator of that was always very
unhappy with the name. Never use that name when
referring to his creation. So what is X?
Wow, OK, you you took me out of left feet with the food thing.
I was thinking of Bleacher, but I'm guessing that's not the
Bleachers eats. But those are obviously not what
you're talking about. The 2nd that comes to mind
because you said snacks and whatnot is greaser.
Is it something to do with John Travolta's grease?
You know, greaser? The greaser culture in the 1950s
in America. So they were sort of snack,
which were very oily or something like that.
I'm just, you know, spitballing gear.
There's a pretty great guess, but no.
The word grease has more to do with the grease monkey And and
wanting to tinker around with cars and bikes, automobiles and
bikes, Yeah. So it's still used in the
context of seats. I think so, yeah.
It is still used as in somewhat in that context.
OK, it was served snack. This creator did not like the
name. So I'll give you one clue.
Iconic pop culture artifact that I speak of before it was given
the name X was called Little Folks.
Little folks. Lil so spelled with the Li
apostrophe Lil. Folks.
Lil folks, is it Hobbit? No, OK.
No. Lil folks, in the context of
seats, I knew this this had to be a theater thing.
Obviously, if you're asking the question, and I'm woefully
inadequate when it comes to the theater.
I remember it still took me a very long time to answer Ghost
Light. So this is, I'm guessing
something similar to that. No, dude, I'm I'm, I'm blanking.
OK, so if you ask me, this still use in the context of theatre
seating. So even if it isn't used
exactly, it's not like you'd go into a theatre and you'd see a
row marked with that name it. It's more of an uncommon or
informal usage, if at all. But there are phrases which do
use it still. And I'll give you an example of
a phrase such as quiet in the dash or quiet in the X, or no
comments from the X. It's used in that kind of a tone
because it's the. Rowdy.
Part of the crowd. Oh, God.
OK. I I that tickled something at
the back of my brain, but it's not coming to the front.
I'm trying to push it. And no comments.
No, I'm going to regret it. When you tell me the answer.
I I just know it. Oh, no, no, no, I'm not.
I'm not. I'm just not getting it.
I I know, I know I've heard
this, but I'm just not getting it right now.
Any other clue? Or will you put me out of my
misery? I'll give you one last clue.
Wait, wait. Got it.
I got it.
Yes, It just hit me right now.
No comment from the peanut gallery.
Oh, Vineet, I I should never underestimate you.
And you should never underestimate you.
More importantly, I knew you'd be more than capable of getting
that. Yes, it is the peanut gallery.
And do you want to tell me what the pop culture artifact is
then? That I speak of.
Peanuts. Maybe the?
Comic strip. Yeah, we spoke about it very
recently, and that's when I encountered this piece of trivia
as well. Peanuts, the comic strip was
actually not named by Charles Schulz.
He had called it Little Folks, and he hated the name.
Peanuts. So all through his life,
whenever somebody asked him what he did or what he worked or what
was he working on or what was he doing, he would always say that,
oh, I do that comic strip about Snoopy and the kids and he would
never want to call it Peanuts. He hated the name.
The name Peanuts for the comic strip came from the fact that
there was another show, very popular children's show called
Howdy Doody. And Howdy Doody used to have
very cheap seats for the children to sit on for in the
live audience whenever they recorded the TV shows.
So that section of the audience is called the peanut gallery
because that's what the kids would said would be the cheap
seats. This, obviously the original
meaning was the peanut gallery in the terms of the cheapest
seats in the theater, especially in the days of Waterville.
And because the least expensive snack to be served there was
peanuts, which is what these audience members would throw
onto the stage on the performance if they didn't like
what was happening to Heckle them.
Yes, got to be termed peanut gallery or the Peanuts.
And that's how that particular phrase has evolved.
Nice. Brilliant question, Brilliant
question. I love it.
Love it. I'm going to move on to
something maybe a little similar.
Have you heard of Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi?
Rumi the poet, yes. Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, also
known as Rumi, was a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic
scholar, theologian, and Sufi Mystic.
Rumi is a nizba, which is an adjective indicating the
person's place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry used at
the end of the name. What place does the nizba
indicate? Tell me literally and
geographically What does the word?
What does the nizba Rumi mean? Literally and geographically?
What does it mean or where does it point to?
Oh, interesting. Rumi.
Does do all roads lead to Rome? Is it Rome that Rumi points to?
Yes, so Rumi means Roman. So geographically, where did
Rumi come from? Now I'm guessing then the
obvious answer is not the right answer.
You're not looking for Rome, the capital of Italy?
It is not Rome, the capital of Italy.
OK. But it is still Rome, so I
remember. This piece of trivia from, you
know, those those little registers or those long
notebooks that we used to have back in school or in the user
tuitions and on the last page of it there'll be little facts
mentioned always. Trivia, yes, yes.
I think that was my first introduction to trivia and how
much I loved it. I think I overeating.
Rome is one of the only names of a city that is found on every
continent of barring Antarctica I assume.
So Rome. I'm assuming someplace Rome in
Asia that some city, No. You're not, No, that's not
exactly how this works. It does mean See, Rumi does mean
Roman, but it's not after a particular city, so in case of
that what you will. So when you say Roman, you're
still referring to Rome Roman, as in the Italy Roman, but
you're saying it does not refer to Rome, the city.
Interesting that is convoluted. My clue for you would be think
of it as an adjective rather than a proper noun for a name or
place. Oh, OK.
So is it Romani, perhaps the same word that would give?
Yeah. Is that the word?
Gypsy. No, no, no.
I mean, like, if that were true, people would be in India, would
have promised another a long time ago.
Because the Romani come from Rajasthan and if Rumi was
descended from them, we would have claimed a long time ago.
True. But it's actually a little more
straightforward. Maybe I've misled you with the
clues a little bit, but it is a little more straightforward.
Rumi does mean Roman, but geographically, How did he get
this name, even though he did not come from Rome, the city?
I'm assuming he did not visit Rome either, because that would
also be a very obvious answer. I don't think he visited Rome.
Not Rome in Italy. I don't think he visited that
place. But see again, I'm going to
repeat the clue once more. Rumi does mean Roman, so this is
like saying Jalaluddin Muhammad the Roman, right?
However, the Roman in this case does not directly refer to the
city of Rome, and he was not born anywhere near Rome.
So geographically, how does that work out?
Is it by any chance one of those cases where you know, like you
refer to a city as like, oh, it's the Paris of India?
No. No, not the sobre.
It's a little more straightforward.
No. Yeah.
Tell me the answer. So let me one last time.
I think I may have pushed you a little too much on this.
This is actually quite simple, but I think I may have over
complicated it still. OK, Rumi, where do you think
Rumi was born? Like which area in general?
I'm going to say, let's say Tehran.
Maybe a little more to the West. Little more to the West of
Tehran. Are we talking somewhere closer
to Mecca Medina? A little north of that.
It's going to Geo guess on my way there north of Mecca and
Medina would be let's say Israel and somewhere in present days.
No, for a little little more up north, you just take it where
the twain meet, Where the two meet.
Let's that's my clue. Where do the two meet?
Istanbul. Ah, OK, so it is Turkey.
Present day Anatolia. That's where he was born.
That's where he was from, at least.
OK, right. But OK.
If he was in Istanbul or Anatolia or Turkey.
Present day Turkey. Why would he have gotten the
name the Roman? Interesting.
Was he from the northern side of the European side of Istanbul?
No, no. It's actually simpler than that.
OK, just put what was I have no OK.
This is going to sound so you're going to be so angry at me, Not
at the answer. You're going to be angry at me
because I've just LED you down this wild goose chase.
So at that point of time, in the 13th century, Turkey was a part
of the Byzantine Empire. And what was the Byzantine
Empire known as? It was known as the Eastern
Roman Empire. So.
After Rome grew beyond a certain point, it had two different
capitals, right? It had Rome and it had
Constantinople. And then those kingdoms kind of
separated and you had the classical Roman Empire.
How do I put this decline? But the Byzantine Empire
persisted for a long time and it was still known as the Eastern
Roman Empire. So because Muhammad, Jalaladdin,
Muhammad came from the Byzantine Empire, which is known as the
Eastern Roman Empire, he was known as Jalaladdin Muhammad the
Roman and hence the name the Nisbah Rumi.
And now we only know him as Rumi or the Roman.
Yeah, you're right. I do dislike that.
I am sorry, my boy, I was. Trying to make so much sense out
of it, but that that that's a great question.
Also because I had no clue that Rumi was a Nisbah or we are
actually saying the Roman when we say Rumi.
I love that. OK, so OK, so let's move from a
13th century poet to a 20th and 21st century actor.
And specifically, I'm going to talk about an Oscar winning
actor and their Oscar winning performance.
So Cate Blanchett is a very famous actor who has received an
Oscar for the movie, Do you know Best Supporting actress Oscar in
2005? For which movie?
I cannot recall off the top of my head right now.
It's the Aviator, Martin Scorsese.
Oh yes, the aviator. Martin Scorsese, the Aviator
Yeah, yeah. Exactly what is unique about
this victory that hasn't happened since and had never
happened before? About this particular Oscar win.
I think it's the only time an actor or actress has won an
Oscar for playing another Oscar winning actor or actress.
Come on man, just we need just know what.
What? Could you have?
I was like, he's going to be so annoyed because that is so
vaguely phrased and I would have to give a lot more clues.
Oh God, yeah, yeah, you're right.
All right, fine. Take it.
Take the points. It is, as Vineet mentioned, the
only time an Oscar has been awarded to somebody for playing
a real life person who themselves was an Oscar winner.
In this case, Cate Blanchett won the Oscar for her portrayal of
Katharine. Hepburn.
Katharine Hepburn. The famous actor herself in the
movie The Aviator to be. Fair I have actually watched The
Aviator 4 times when it released.
Oh wow, I have not seen the Aviator.
OK. It was.
It was a great movie. It was a great movie.
So I remember when it released, I was still in college and I
went and saw it. First I loved the movie, I told
a couple of friends, and then they weren't able to come like
as a group. So we ended up going twice
separately in two separate groups, and they both dragged me
along. And I think I was then doing a
movie binge where I sometimes went to a theatre, watched one
movie, went to another theatre, watched another one and then
another one. Yeah, I used to do all kinds of
crazy things, unnecessarily crazy things which make no sense
to me today. But I think this was one of the
filler movies. So then I watched it again.
So yeah, so I've seen The Aviator four times in theatres.
So I remember her playing Katharine Hepburn when I kind of
took it from there. Yeah.
Well, you got that way too quickly.
So let's move on to your question.
OK, so this is going to sound like a very simple question, and
it is a very simple question, so you will get this very quickly.
There are two common theories with regards to X's last words.
OK, so we're talking about the last words of this person X.
The two theories are #1 is that he said nothing, that he
actually did not say anything, that there were no last words.
I mean, like technically at the point of death there were no
last word. It's not like he never said any
words at the end. OK, so at the point of.
Death. I'm going to.
I'm going to pause you right there, and since you have been
flexing this episode, but I'm going to try to guess who you're
going for at this point, which is barely any clues.
Are you by any chance referring to Einstein?
No. What a waste.
Of. Flex.
Absolute waste of flex. OK, fine.
OK, I was starting to sweat when you started.
I mean, like I was not even a 1/3 of the way through the
question and you were going and I'm like, Oh my God, OK, no
coming back. Audience members come back to
us. So there are two common theories
with regards to X's last words. The first theory is that he said
nothing. The second theory is that he
said U2 blank. OK, there are three words U2
blank in the first theory. According to the first theory,
when X was attacked, he first shouted why this is violence and
then spoke no more until he died.
The second theory, Plutarch says that X fought back and tried to
escape but gave up when he saw Y.
So I want you to identify XY and also fill in the blanks for the
last words that I mentioned which was U2 followed by a word
blank. I'm assuming there's more to
this question because the obvious answer is Caesar and.
OK. And he saw Brutus and.
OK, and what was what were his last words?
U2 Brutus at two Brutus. OK, so X is indeed Guy is Julius
Caesar, Y is indeed Marcus Junius Brutus.
But his actual final words were not yet too brute, as we see in
Shakespeare, Or you too, Brutus. It is something else.
So what were Julius Caesar's actual last?
Words. OK, got it.
There's a twist in the tale. So it wasn't you to Brutus, but
it was something you to dash, is what he said.
Right. Yes, yes.
Interesting. Yeah.
This I've never heard. Was it a nickname that he had
for Brutus? I'm guessing.
Somewhere similar. I'm not going to give you an
exact one, but yeah, you are in the ballpark, let's say that.
So is it then the what would have been the Greek word for
Sorry, Greek? I'm saying whatever would have
been the Roman word for friend. Is it you?
2 friend. They were friends, which is why
apparently Caesar stopped struggling when he saw that
Brutus was among his attackers. But maybe I'll give you a point
of history which might actually give you closer to the word.
So as you know, Julius Caesar and Brutus were very old
friends. What many people don't know is
that Caesar is known to have had a love affair with Brutus's
mother, Sevilla. OK.
So I would, I would, I would ask you to maybe focus on maybe the
age difference between them or the generational difference
between them and then what would be the word that he used?
Oh, OK, then I'm going to guess it's something like you two
child or you two son or something like that.
Yes, yes it is. You two child.
OK, wow, interesting. I did not even know that there
was such a big time age difference between the two.
And I mean, I don't know if there's a huge age difference,
but he did have a relationship with that's the part of the clue
that I wanted to give you. But yeah, so the actual final
words of guys Julius Caesar, were you two child?
William Shakespeare's Latin rendition of this phrase A2
Brute, which means you two Brutus in the play Julius Caesar
is better known in modern culture, but is not found
anywhere in the ancient sources. Interesting.
But it has become it has taken a life of its own A2 Brute or U2
Brutus is now used as a pop culture reference.
People use it, you know, to denote to denote any kind of
betrayal which comes out of the blue, especially from a close
friend. Cool.
Very cool. OK, that is atil for me.
Yeah, I did know that the U2 Brutus was Shakespeare's
concoction, but I did not know that you two child he he
referred to. I thought of Brutus as a child.
Man, that makes it so much harder.
Oh. Yeah, I, I, I'm.
That's where I don't understand. That was such a great emotional
moment that Shakespeare could have used.
Yeah, yeah. But now Brutus has become
synonymous with a close friend who betrays you, so I guess that
worked out well as well. I guess, yeah.
I guess Shakespeare has some lasting legacy.
I suppose we can give him that much.
Yeah, little bit. Just a little bit.
OK, interesting, actually. Sorry, random thought, but would
Shakespeare be considered in like, the top five of people who
have had their last legacy in the last 1000 years?
Oh yes, especially with the English language.
Yes, I once went down this rabbit hole of names.
People like you know, proper names which appear for the first
time in Shakespearean plays, and that list would astonish you.
Oh wow. OK, maybe you should make a
listicle question of it sometime.
No, maybe. Maybe I shall.
OK, that was quite the question and quite the little piece of
trivia. So hopefully this piece of
trivia blows your mind as well. So I want you to tell me why in
the Chilean village, in a particular Chilean village,
everybody is required to have their appendix removed by law.
There's a village in Chile where everybody has to have their
appendix removed by law. Yes.
Oh, OK, now that's something new.
Is there a particular age group where they do this or is it
done? Like like when is it done?
It doesn't matter if you are a resident of that place, you have
to have your appendix removed. So if you were born, then I
guess it would be done around the time of your birth.
But if not when you were born, then yeah, wherever you move
there. Wow, that's risky.
But wow. The appendix is a vestigial
organ. It doesn't particularly have any
straightforward function, apart from being inconvenient when it
gets inflamed and infected. Is there something in the diet
there that causes a disproportionate number of acute
appendicitis cases, which therefore the government has put
a precautionary measure? But it sounds silly to think of
it that way. No.
Or is is it? It's Chile you mentioned, right.
I'm going to now go down a conspiracy dark hole.
So was there some Nazi scientist who, you know, a lot of Nazi
scientists escaped to South America, especially to Argentina
and Chile. So did a Nazi mad medical
scientist from one of the Holocaust camps, when the
concentration camp settled down, become the mayor and make this
rule so that he could add to his collection of appendices?
I would imagine that at some point the rule like that would
be revoked, especially with such a dark origin.
So no, that is not the answer. OK, so that's not it.
Yeah. Took a shot.
No dude, I'll need some clue. I have no idea.
OK, interesting. So I'm going to give you a clue
which is not exactly about this village, but it is around it.
Because, say, the companion village of this place, the
Argentinian version, that place the motto is permanence, an act
of sacrifice. So you literally have to
sacrifice a body part to live there.
In the Argentinian, well, you don't have to sacrifice a body
part, but you have to make sacrifices.
Again, is this somebody who's taken Shakespeare too seriously?
Like a pound of flesh? You give me 2G of flesh.
No, no. It makes all the logical sense
in the world to have these restrictions in place.
Logical sense to have your appendix removed when there's
nothing wrong with it. Is this an etymology thing, Like
the appendix is technically known as a vermal form of
appendix or something to do with worms, and nothing like that?
No. No, no.
The actual appendix in the body, the vestigial organ, as you
mentioned. I can't think of anything right
now. OK, so let me tell you both the
Chilean version and the Argentinian version are not in
the on the mainland mainland Chile or mainland Argentina.
Oh, OK. OK.
I think I have this. So the Chilean and Argentinian
countries have a lot of these islands in the Pacific Ocean,
which are very, very far away. So if a medical emergency
happens and somebody has an append, you know, suffers from
appendicitis, by the time that they are, you know, shipped to
the mainland, they would probably suffer from a burst
appendix leading to peritonitis and then probably dead.
So to prevent that from happening, they decide that, OK,
if you're going to live here, you better not have an appendix.
You are very, very close. I will, however, ask you to
refine that answer just slightly, because this is the
case only with these two countries and no other country
in the world for this specific location.
So tell me what the location is. Wait, are these Antarctic
villages like both Chile and Argentina very close to the
South Pole? So they must have an anti
Antarctic station or something like that.
Chile and Argentina, the only two which have a permanent
outpost, permanent village, permanent settlement.
On Antarctica, The Chilean one is called Via Las Estreas, which
is the Spanish phrase meaning the stars village of the Hamlet
of the Stars, the beautiful name and the Argentinian world is
called Esperanza Base. So Esperanza based the motto is
Now that would make sense to you permanence and act of sacrifice.
It is one of the only two stations which are permanently
occupied and for the Chilean 1 by law you're supposed to have
your appendix removed. Even though they do have some
medical facilities, obviously they can't do any complex
surgery, so if you ever want to go to site there and there are
residents all year round. If you want to go reside there,
even even if you are a child and there are children there as
well, you would have to have your appendix removed.
You are not allowed to be there with the appendix.
Very nice. I like it.
Not that they have to have their appendix removed.
I like the the trivia. Oh, sure, sure.
OK. I think that's all the time we
have for our regular round of questions, so let's start
winding up today's episode. So I had asked an audience
question at the beginning of today's episode.
I hope at least a few of you have guessed it because this was
in the news recently. In 1984, Raghunandhan Srinivas
Kamath started selling Pao Bhaji with this dessert as an add on.
He had worked in his brother's South Indian eatery long enough
to know how much Indians love to end a meal on a sweet note.
The simple idea of offering something cold after a hot and
spicy dish worked, and he clocked a revenue of ₹500,000 in
the first year from his own tiny 200 square feet shop in the Juhu
Koliwata area. A year later he stopped selling
pavaji and started a full-fledged dessert brand.
Such was the demand that it caused frequent traffic jams in
the tiny by lanes of Juhu. Fast forward 40 years, it's
grown to more than 135 outlets in various cities and was once
named as one of India's top ten brands for customer experience
in a KPMG survey. Which dessert brand are we
talking about? Aditya.
Any ideas? I had this last slide for
dessert. It is naturals.
Yes, it is indeed Naturals Ice Cream and Raghunandan Kamath has
just recently passed away, so this is a kind of tribute to him
because Naturals is one of my favorite ice cream brands.
Absolutely. Do you know what is the first
scope ever served at the Nationals outlet at Jew?
I was at the Jew outlet last night and on the wall they have
this piece of trivia right there.
So I just had it last night. Take a guess.
Take a guess what the first scoop was.
Vanilla, but naturals is known for fruit ice cream.
So then maybe mango? Probably mango came.
I'm assuming mango came about slightly later.
Think something a lot more common.
But you're right, fruit. Lot more common fruit, India.
They have a great jackfruit ice cream.
Don't tell me it's jackfruit. No, no, it's not jackfruit.
Assuming jackfruit was one of the wackier ice cream flavors,
that probably strawberry Strawberry ice cream was the
first scoop that was ever served at a Juhu outlet of Naturals.
Which was the first outlet. Yeah, that is.
And for those who've never had Naturals ice cream, their USP is
their ice cream contains actual fruit, not flavoring.
So they have a lot of seasonal flavors which come and go and
they're just fantastic. It is.
It is a very interesting case study for how a brand can grow
and can grow under multiple leaders and and people at the
helm. Because under the founder he
insisted that there be highest of highest quality control.
So he did not even want the supply chain to expand too much.
So it was all within Mumbai and the nearby regions and I think
it's his son who decided that they can expand while keeping
the quality in place as well. And that has happened to be the
case. So now when all of these big
cities, Delhi and other metros in India when they have naturals
is because the sun decided to expand.
But even today, the ice cream in Mumbai is made in the original
factory in Kandivali, one of the localities in Mumbai.
Yeah, and I happened to ask it to 1.
To a guy who literally was there last night, talk about
coincidence. And this is not a pop culture
recommendation, but this is a culinary recommendation.
My two favorite ice cream brands in I1 obviously is a naturals
because they're just fantastic in their choices and the fruits
and just the freshness and it's just amazing.
And 2nd would be maybe I'm biased because I spent a lot of
time in Mangalore over the years, but ideals ice cream,
they have some banger ice creams.
Their Butterscotch Royale is without a doubt the best
butterscotch ice cream in the world, and I will fight you for
it. OK, OK, I will take your word
for it. I will not argue at all.
Lovely. OK, so any pop culture
recommendations? Adithya.
This week, yeah, of course. I'm going to give you the name
of book which is recommended to me very recently, and I have
only started with it, but it already sounds phenomenal and is
fantastic read. It's called Strangers Drowning.
So for the first time I'm actually giving nonfiction
recommendation, I believe. Yeah.
Oh, I have given out of the nonfiction recommendation
before, but it's the second time I'm giving a nonfiction
recommendation. Strangers drowning.
It's about grappling with the idealism in the world and how
people who are at the very opposite end of the spectrum of,
say, psychopathy, so say psychopaths who who are, have no
no sense of empathy for anybody else.
The opposite of the spectrum would be people who have too
much ideas and too much empathy, how even they end up somehow in
one way, shape or form, ruining their lives.
It's almost a case study. It's a very interesting book.
A friend recommended it to me recently and I got around to
reading a little bit of it and I thought it's worth recommending,
so check out Strangers Drowning. I'll also recommend a movie that
I saw recently, and that would be Challengers.
Challengers is a movie that you should check out.
It's probably still in theaters in a lot of places.
It is about a trial or trifecta, and it stars Zendaya and two
other actors I'm forgetting the names of.
This is a tennis movie. I'd seen the trailer for it.
Tennis movie and and I would I might have qualified it as or
check out a great sports movie but in this case I feel it is
more than just a sports movie which is perhaps the biggest
compliment I can give. So yeah, check out these two
things. The book Strangers Drowning and
the movie Challengers. Great.
I am going to recommend a trilogy of books.
I'm on a kind of a fantasy kick right now.
I've been reading a lot of fantasy based fiction, so I just
come across this trilogy. I've read two of the three
books. Let me just be candid.
I'm about to start the third, but I feel confident in the
quality of these two books that I think I can recommend the
entire trilogy. So far the trilogy is called the
Devabad trilogy. It's by an author called SA
Chakraborty and the books are The City of Brass, The Kingdom
of Copper and the Empire of Gold.
Now, why I really like this strategy is because when you're
talking about traditional fantasy, high fantasy fiction,
it's usually very European oriented.
It has elements from European mythology, European history and
European folklore. Right now, the name SA
Chakraborty might sound Indian or Bengali, but the act, the
person is actually a an American who's married into, I don't know
whether the the husband is Bengali or Indian or Bangladesh,
I'm not sure of that. But they're also a converted
Muslim. So you have these great
perspectives. You know, she has grown up as an
American. She's married to somebody from
Asia and she's now following her faith from the Middle East.
So all three of these have kind of informed the mystical
landscape that she's created for these books.
It's called the Devabout Trilogy.
It's set in areas similar to what we would recognize as
Persia and Saudi Arabia. And the mysticism or the
mythology of the series draws a lot from Islamic folklore and
Islamic myths, which is a fresh take.
I find. It's something very different
because you're so used to elves and trolls and all those other
Wizards and sorcerers. So this is slightly something
slightly different. You are reading about Jinns and
Ifrits and it's a Persian setting and all those things, so
it's a great series. I've read two of them, I just
couldn't stop reading them and I'm just eagerly waiting to
start the third one which is the Empire of Gold.
So I would recommend the Devabad's trilogy in addition
because I have been told that you know the recommended to keep
some recommendations for movies as well.
So there is a Malayalam movie. Again, I've been recommending a
lot of Malayalam movies but this is available on Disney Hotstar.
Check it out. It's called Nanda Golda Naati
Uruguaya. I know that sounds horrendously
difficult for somebody who's not Malayali to pronounce, but it
literally means an interlude in the Land of the Crab.
It is a laugh out loud, feel good movie about a family who's
going through a very terrible crisis when they're the
matriarch of the family is diagnosed with breast cancer,
but it is presented in a very light hearted manner and it is
laugh out loud. In some instances it's a feel
good movie, something you can just watch without having to put
too much emotion into it, but there is a lot of it's just
masterful the way they've played out such a serious situation in
a funny manner. So Nando Golden Artel Ridabella.
It is available on Disney Hot Star with subtitles, so I would
recommend everyone to go watch that as well.
Cool. Very cool.
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Have a great day. Before I sign off, I got to
point out that on the Reddit, one of our listeners, one of our
most regular listeners I would say has found the MasterChef
episode and posted that and. This.
Is if you do go into Reddit, skip that post.
But yeah, the rest of the Reddit subreddit is worth worth
checking out and being a part of.
There's some people posting that pretty regularly, so I can't
believe somebody actually put in the effort to find out where
that must show episode. My God.
To be fair, the entire episode is available for free on YouTube
and is literally the first thing that comes up when you search.
Yeah. But I've been avoiding giving
people that for so long and somebody found so easily.
I'm very, I'm honestly a bit impressed.
Yeah. But yeah, thank you so much to
all our dear listeners who have been following and and keeping
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