1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,760 Welcome to our you quizzing me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,840 Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,920 podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into 4 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:14,400 history, science, pop culture and so much more. 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:22,720 Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode #69. 6 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,920 You can't see my video, but I am waggling my eyebrows like a 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,000 madman. And there are so many obvious 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,560 jokes for this particular episode number. 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,760 But we're a clean family podcast, so we're not going to 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,240 go there. Aditya and I are back for 11 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,240 another round of quizzing. And let's start off today's 12 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:39,520 episode with our usual audience question. 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,000 This is a question I ask at the top of the episode and answer at 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,240 the end of the episode. The audience has the duration of 15 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,880 this episode to try and find out or guess the answer to the 16 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,360 question for today. In 1984, Raghunandan Srinivas 17 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,800 Kamath started selling pav bhaji with this dessert as an add on. 18 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,080 He had worked at his brother's South Indian eatery long enough 19 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:06,360 to know how much Indians love to end a meal on a sweet note. 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:10,600 The simple idea of offering something cold after a hot and 21 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:16,360 spicy dish worked and he clocked to revenue of ₹500,000 in the 22 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,400 first year from his own tiny 200 square feet shop in Juhu, 23 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,080 Koliwata area in Mumbai. A year later he stopped selling 24 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,240 power bhaji and started a full-fledged dessert brand. 25 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,240 Such was the demand that it caused frequent traffic jams in 26 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,960 the tiny by lanes of Juhu. Fast forward 40 years and it's 27 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,880 grown to around 135 different outlets in various cities and 28 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:41,680 has been named once as one of India's top ten brands for 29 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,160 customer experience in a KPMG survey. 30 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,360 Which dessert brand are we talking about? 31 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,240 I will answer this question at the end of today's episode. 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:54,200 Now I will pass the baton to Aditya, who had asked as a not 33 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,480 so serious question last week and to which he will find some 34 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,520 crazy answer and which it has been pointed out to me by a 35 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:05,680 couple of our listeners that his answers are moving quite often 36 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,120 into the area of paranoia and conspiracy. 37 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,320 So there have been questions raised as to whether Aditya is 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:15,560 OK. I just want to tell all of them 39 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:18,040 that all is well. This is just how he is. 40 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,520 So Aditya, what's your crazy conspiracy theory for this week? 41 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,640 If only the sheeple would wake up, because I am the one who is 42 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,400 God bringing bringing lights to darkness. 43 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:38,200 All these younger cattle following the crowd. 44 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaking of young cattle, you know what the young of another 45 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:45,240 animal is called? Joey. 46 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:47,560 A young kangaroo is called a Joey. 47 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,360 And that is the answer to last week's question. 48 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,600 Now let me tell you what last week's question was because I 49 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:02,200 asked just like KFC sponsored a film, the secret Recipe, Which 50 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,640 Indian brand sponsored a film or ATV show? 51 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,200 And the answer was staring us right in the face. 52 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:12,760 Wait, well I don't understand me in the face because I have a 53 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:19,320 friend's poster and it is Joey. The show Joey sponsored by. 54 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,280 Can I take a guess? I really don't want to. 55 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:25,680 You look very scary right now. Britannia, my friend. 56 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,080 Britannia because Britannia, if you rearrange the letters and 57 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,440 use take one of them out and then put one back in, it 58 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,840 basically spells on Biani, Joey Truviani. 59 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,520 God tell me your mind is not officially blown. 60 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:44,720 That is exactly. Something's blown. 61 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,880 I think it might be a fuse in your head. 62 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:54,920 No, the audience is not caught on to what this podcast is truly 63 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,680 doing. It is waking them up to 64 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,800 realities. You're all thank me again. 65 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:02,800 Public advisory to anybody listening to this episode. 66 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,920 This is not what we do. This is just something we try to 67 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,880 get out of the way. We actually do have serious quiz 68 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,600 questions coming up, which now I will start quickly so that we 69 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,279 don't go around another rabbit hole of conspiracy. 70 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,399 So Aditya, I have a question that I've been itching to ask 71 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:22,560 you ever since I came across this piece of trivia. 72 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,320 Are you ready? Are you sitting? 73 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:31,120 Down I am it be. The word X in English and Hindi 74 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:35,080 comes from a Sanskrit word, which in turn comes from an 75 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:38,240 older Sanskrit word meaning to sprinkle. 76 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,680 OK, let me repeat that so you understand every part of the 77 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,640 question. The word X in Hindi and English 78 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,720 comes from a Sanskrit word, which in turn comes from an 79 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,680 older Sanskrit word meaning to sprinkle. 80 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,240 The older Sanskrit word is cognate with an ancient Greek 81 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,720 word meaning rubbed and anointed. 82 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:04,960 By cognate, I mean it has a similar kind of origin somewhere 83 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,280 in the depths of time and history. 84 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:10,160 So this inch, this oldest Sanskrit word, and this ancient 85 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:13,440 Greek word have the same origin sometime somewhere in the, you 86 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:17,600 know, mists of history. It is from this Ancient Greek 87 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:23,000 word that we get an English word Y, which is ubiquitous and was 88 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,760 originally intended as a title but is now thought of as a name. 89 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:32,840 So I want you to tell me what words am I talking about? 90 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,800 I will repeat the question simplified a little bit. 91 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,800 There's a word X, which is common in both English and 92 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,800 Hindi, which comes from a Sanskrit word which originally 93 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,880 meant to sprinkle. This Sanskrit word is cognate 94 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,520 with an ancient Greek word meaning to be rubbed on 95 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,720 anointed. And it is from this Greek word 96 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:56,520 that we get an English word Y, which is ubiquitous. 97 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:59,920 Everybody knows this word and was originally intended as a 98 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:03,920 title, but now is thought of as a name. 99 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,760 So I want you to tell me what these words are. 100 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,160 What words am I talking about? Which is the English and Hindi 101 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,160 word which is common, which comes from the Sanskrit meaning 102 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:19,200 to sprinkle, and the English word Y which came originally 103 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:22,280 from the Ancient Greek. But it is also cognate with the 104 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:26,680 original Sanskrit word. So this might sound a little 105 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:31,000 convoluted, but trust me, when you hear the answer you'll be a 106 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,200 little shocked. Or at least I hope you'll be 107 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,160 shocked. Or at least I pray that you'll 108 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,280 be shocked and express that shock though, so that my 109 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:41,720 question seems good. Oh wow, that's a lot of 110 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:44,760 confluence of different languages. 111 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,520 So let's see. When you said it used to mean to 112 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:52,880 sprinkle, I'm assuming it isn't used in that context in English 113 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,280 or Hindi anymore. No, it's not used in that 114 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:56,800 context. It's a noun right now. 115 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,720 Well, I see. And asking you to tell me what 116 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,640 that noun means would be making it too easy for myself. 117 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:08,600 Maybe at some point I will give you clues towards that, but not 118 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,520 right now. I want to see if you can get 119 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,240 anything from there. The Greek word eventually gave 120 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,920 rise to another word in English, which used to be a title. 121 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,160 What is now a name? Is it a very commonly? 122 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,960 Thought of as a name it it has always been a title, but people 123 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,440 think of it at least a common person. 124 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:34,520 People who are not etymological nerds like us would think of it 125 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,680 as a name. I think maybe 95% of people know 126 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,000 that know of it as a name. It is used. 127 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:45,720 Derivations of that word have been used as names all across 128 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,720 the world. OK. 129 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,520 No, I'm not at all sure of what you're getting at. 130 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,960 OK, first clue. I think maybe it might be easier 131 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,480 for you to get Y, so I'll give you a clue for Y. 132 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:02,400 As I mentioned, it comes from an ancient Greek word, which 133 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:05,320 originally meant rubbed or anointed. 134 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:08,920 Let's focus on anointed. So if you're going to make a 135 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:14,760 title from a word, and that's supposed to mean the anointed 136 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:19,800 one, what title would that be? Oh, that's not an English word. 137 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,720 I first thing I thought of was Buddha a bud. 138 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,240 No, no, no. As I mentioned, this is a Greek 139 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,320 word which gave rise to an English word. 140 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:32,760 So then, is it by any chance, Christ? 141 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:35,600 Yes. OK, so you've got Y. 142 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:39,200 So Christ literally means the anointed one. 143 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,240 It's a title. OK, It's not a name, but now 144 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,000 people think of Christ as a name. 145 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,680 Got it. So now you have one part of it. 146 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,640 Right? So now I can be a little more 147 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,040 open and giving clues. So Christ came from Christos, 148 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,680 which were, which meant robbed or anointed, right? 149 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,240 And Christos is cognate with another Sanskrit word which 150 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,520 meant to sprinkle. And now that word, OK, we have a 151 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,880 derivation of that word in English and Hindi from the 152 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,680 original Sanskrit. I wanted to tell me what that 153 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:13,760 word is, and I've told you already, it's a noun. 154 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,240 It's the name for something. Oh, is there a name for a 155 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,360 person? No, it's not the name for a 156 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:21,720 person. Chris was immediately makes me 157 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:26,120 think of Krish Ashok. No, no, no. 158 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:28,200 See you. You have to leave the conspiracy 159 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:30,640 theories, you know, at the beginning of the episode. 160 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:33,000 We're getting it out of the way. I don't know. 161 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,600 It was really the most gut reaction. 162 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,480 I had an official population recommendation, Krish Ashok and 163 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,960 his Instagram channel is quite amazing. 164 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:48,840 But coming back to this, Christos is also cognate, wow, 165 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:55,240 fancy, cognate with a Sanskrit word, which you used to mean to 166 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,640 marry, sprinkle, to rub or to sprinkle, sorry. 167 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:03,640 And that gave rise to an English word and a Hindi word. 168 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,480 Are those words the same? Are there homonyms that they 169 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:07,920 sound the same? OK. 170 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,480 They sound the same and they have the same meaning in both 171 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,920 English and Hindi. No, I don't know. 172 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,720 I have no idea. OK, so this is let's say it's 173 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,840 pertaining to food. It's the name of an ingredient. 174 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,560 An ingredient which is the same name and word in English. 175 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:27,760 There must be a few. Yes. 176 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,840 Is it a spice or something? No, it's not a spice. 177 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,720 It basically see, as I mentioned, the original Sanskrit 178 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,600 origin word meant to sprinkle like you would in some 179 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,280 instances. Also sprinkle this, maybe using 180 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,760 a spoon or sometimes a brush. And not a spice. 181 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,120 Or sometimes just pour. Yeah, not a spice. 182 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,720 So you could use a spoon to sprinkle it. 183 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,200 You might brush it on. Or you may just pour it. 184 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,200 Like if you go to Delhi and Punjab and all people use this 185 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,280 very liberally. I have no complaints against 186 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,680 using it liberally. Gee, yes it is. 187 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,680 Gee, what? Yes, that was the reaction I was 188 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,840 looking for. So strap on your seat belt, I'm 189 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:16,240 going to blow your mind right. The word ghee comes from the 190 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:21,920 Sanskrit grit or grita, which meant clarified butter, and it 191 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:24,200 originally came from the word ghe. 192 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:30,360 Ghe in Sanskrit was originally meant to sprinkle, and ghe is 193 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:36,000 cognate with the ancient Greek word Christos, Christos. 194 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:41,800 Christos meant rubbed or anointed, and it is from there 195 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,040 that we get the English word Christ. 196 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,960 Now Christ is used by Christians as both a name and a title, 197 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,160 unambiguously referring to Jesus. 198 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,800 It is also used as a title in the reciprocal usage, Christ 199 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,560 Jesus meaning the Messiah, Jesus or Jesus the Anointed and 200 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:02,120 independently as the Christ. So now when you think about it, 201 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,520 I told you that the Sanskrit word meant to sprinkle and the 202 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,480 Greek word meant to rub or to anoint. 203 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,360 That is insane. Well, it all makes sense, but 204 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,920 damn. OK, I'm still reeling from that. 205 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,360 Yeah, that was. Who would have imagined that the 206 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,240 word ghee and the word Christ have something in common? 207 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,960 They do use ghee in a lot of religious practices in India as 208 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:34,600 well. Yeah, and I think holy oils are 209 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,480 used for anointing. So there's also, I think that 210 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,400 kind of a connection because ghee, for those who don't know, 211 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,640 is clarified butter where you remove the milk solids and 212 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:49,280 you're left with just the fat. It is delicious and basically 213 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,120 elevates everything. Wow. 214 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,600 OK you know what we need? You have called this upon 215 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,480 yourself. I'm going to put in a few of my 216 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,480 favorite etymology questions in this episode. 217 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,360 Oh God, OK. Set me down this. 218 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,680 It was worth it. It it was a phenomenal question, 219 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:14,480 no two ways about it. OK, so moving on to yet another 220 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,920 etymology question. Then X was the name given to the 221 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:23,080 cheapest and the rowdiest seats in a theater. 222 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:29,160 And these seat occupiers would be known to Heckle the 223 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,040 performers. You look like you know the 224 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,160 answer already. No, no, no. 225 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,040 I'm no I don't know the answer, but I'm trying to guess it in my 226 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,720 head. OK, they were served a certain 227 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:48,200 snack, after which this, let's say row of seats or these rows 228 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,040 of seats were named. Some people have also suggested 229 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,560 a racial origin to the world, but that's not a commonly 230 00:13:54,560 --> 00:14:00,080 accepted origin. And most importantly, it is how 231 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:05,480 we also got the name for one of the most popular and lasting pop 232 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:09,280 culture cornerstones of the 20th century. 233 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:16,840 And interestingly enough, the creator of that was always very 234 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,280 unhappy with the name. Never use that name when 235 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:24,760 referring to his creation. So what is X? 236 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:29,200 Wow, OK, you you took me out of left feet with the food thing. 237 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:33,800 I was thinking of Bleacher, but I'm guessing that's not the 238 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:36,680 Bleachers eats. But those are obviously not what 239 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:39,040 you're talking about. The 2nd that comes to mind 240 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,040 because you said snacks and whatnot is greaser. 241 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,800 Is it something to do with John Travolta's grease? 242 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,160 You know, greaser? The greaser culture in the 1950s 243 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:50,040 in America. So they were sort of snack, 244 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:51,880 which were very oily or something like that. 245 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:53,920 I'm just, you know, spitballing gear. 246 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,800 There's a pretty great guess, but no. 247 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,360 The word grease has more to do with the grease monkey And and 248 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,720 wanting to tinker around with cars and bikes, automobiles and 249 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,000 bikes, Yeah. So it's still used in the 250 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,440 context of seats. I think so, yeah. 251 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:14,080 It is still used as in somewhat in that context. 252 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:20,160 OK, it was served snack. This creator did not like the 253 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,760 name. So I'll give you one clue. 254 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,480 Iconic pop culture artifact that I speak of before it was given 255 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:30,680 the name X was called Little Folks. 256 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,800 Little folks. Lil so spelled with the Li 257 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,000 apostrophe Lil. Folks. 258 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:42,680 Lil folks, is it Hobbit? No, OK. 259 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:48,040 No. Lil folks, in the context of 260 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,560 seats, I knew this this had to be a theater thing. 261 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,560 Obviously, if you're asking the question, and I'm woefully 262 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:56,040 inadequate when it comes to the theater. 263 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,880 I remember it still took me a very long time to answer Ghost 264 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,400 Light. So this is, I'm guessing 265 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:07,200 something similar to that. No, dude, I'm I'm, I'm blanking. 266 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:13,880 OK, so if you ask me, this still use in the context of theatre 267 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,320 seating. So even if it isn't used 268 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,000 exactly, it's not like you'd go into a theatre and you'd see a 269 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:23,440 row marked with that name it. It's more of an uncommon or 270 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,800 informal usage, if at all. But there are phrases which do 271 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,600 use it still. And I'll give you an example of 272 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:36,600 a phrase such as quiet in the dash or quiet in the X, or no 273 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:40,960 comments from the X. It's used in that kind of a tone 274 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,240 because it's the. Rowdy. 275 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,400 Part of the crowd. Oh, God. 276 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,000 OK. I I that tickled something at 277 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,040 the back of my brain, but it's not coming to the front. 278 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,600 I'm trying to push it. And no comments. 279 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,240 No, I'm going to regret it. When you tell me the answer. 280 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,400 I I just know it. Oh, no, no, no, I'm not. 281 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:00,440 I'm not. I'm just not getting it. 282 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,480 I'm just not getting it. I I know, I know I've heard 283 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:04,160 this, but I'm just not getting it right now. 284 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:06,720 Any other clue? Or will you put me out of my 285 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,280 misery? I'll give you one last clue. 286 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:11,920 Wait, wait. Got it. 287 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:12,800 Got it. I got it. 288 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,680 I got it. Yes, It just hit me right now. 289 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,720 No comment from the peanut gallery. 290 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,520 Oh, Vineet, I I should never underestimate you. 291 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:24,680 And you should never underestimate you. 292 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:28,760 More importantly, I knew you'd be more than capable of getting 293 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:30,400 that. Yes, it is the peanut gallery. 294 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,480 And do you want to tell me what the pop culture artifact is 295 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:34,440 then? That I speak of. 296 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:37,000 Peanuts. Maybe the? 297 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,280 Comic strip. Yeah, we spoke about it very 298 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,200 recently, and that's when I encountered this piece of trivia 299 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,720 as well. Peanuts, the comic strip was 300 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:46,720 actually not named by Charles Schulz. 301 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,840 He had called it Little Folks, and he hated the name. 302 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,920 Peanuts. So all through his life, 303 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,160 whenever somebody asked him what he did or what he worked or what 304 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,520 was he working on or what was he doing, he would always say that, 305 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:05,640 oh, I do that comic strip about Snoopy and the kids and he would 306 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,720 never want to call it Peanuts. He hated the name. 307 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,640 The name Peanuts for the comic strip came from the fact that 308 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,360 there was another show, very popular children's show called 309 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,040 Howdy Doody. And Howdy Doody used to have 310 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:19,680 very cheap seats for the children to sit on for in the 311 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:22,480 live audience whenever they recorded the TV shows. 312 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:26,760 So that section of the audience is called the peanut gallery 313 00:18:26,760 --> 00:18:28,680 because that's what the kids would said would be the cheap 314 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,960 seats. This, obviously the original 315 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,800 meaning was the peanut gallery in the terms of the cheapest 316 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,640 seats in the theater, especially in the days of Waterville. 317 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:41,920 And because the least expensive snack to be served there was 318 00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,840 peanuts, which is what these audience members would throw 319 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:46,960 onto the stage on the performance if they didn't like 320 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,680 what was happening to Heckle them. 321 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,320 Yes, got to be termed peanut gallery or the Peanuts. 322 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,160 And that's how that particular phrase has evolved. 323 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,360 Nice. Brilliant question, Brilliant 324 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,080 question. I love it. 325 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,040 Love it. I'm going to move on to 326 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:03,480 something maybe a little similar. 327 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:08,000 Have you heard of Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi? 328 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:14,200 Rumi the poet, yes. Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, also 329 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,080 known as Rumi, was a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic 330 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,400 scholar, theologian, and Sufi Mystic. 331 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:25,720 Rumi is a nizba, which is an adjective indicating the 332 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:30,480 person's place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry used at 333 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,680 the end of the name. What place does the nizba 334 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,600 indicate? Tell me literally and 335 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,000 geographically What does the word? 336 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,600 What does the nizba Rumi mean? Literally and geographically? 337 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,160 What does it mean or where does it point to? 338 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,560 Oh, interesting. Rumi. 339 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:55,240 Does do all roads lead to Rome? Is it Rome that Rumi points to? 340 00:19:55,760 --> 00:20:00,160 Yes, so Rumi means Roman. So geographically, where did 341 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,520 Rumi come from? Now I'm guessing then the 342 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,160 obvious answer is not the right answer. 343 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,600 You're not looking for Rome, the capital of Italy? 344 00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:09,160 It is not Rome, the capital of Italy. 345 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,920 OK. But it is still Rome, so I 346 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,440 remember. This piece of trivia from, you 347 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,520 know, those those little registers or those long 348 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:24,440 notebooks that we used to have back in school or in the user 349 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,800 tuitions and on the last page of it there'll be little facts 350 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:29,760 mentioned always. Trivia, yes, yes. 351 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,560 I think that was my first introduction to trivia and how 352 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,000 much I loved it. I think I overeating. 353 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:41,320 Rome is one of the only names of a city that is found on every 354 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,200 continent of barring Antarctica I assume. 355 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:48,760 So Rome. I'm assuming someplace Rome in 356 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:53,960 Asia that some city, No. You're not, No, that's not 357 00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:59,160 exactly how this works. It does mean See, Rumi does mean 358 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:05,800 Roman, but it's not after a particular city, so in case of 359 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,080 that what you will. So when you say Roman, you're 360 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,440 still referring to Rome Roman, as in the Italy Roman, but 361 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:17,160 you're saying it does not refer to Rome, the city. 362 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:22,440 Interesting that is convoluted. My clue for you would be think 363 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:26,960 of it as an adjective rather than a proper noun for a name or 364 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:28,880 place. Oh, OK. 365 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,760 So is it Romani, perhaps the same word that would give? 366 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,000 Yeah. Is that the word? 367 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,680 Gypsy. No, no, no. 368 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,320 I mean, like, if that were true, people would be in India, would 369 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,880 have promised another a long time ago. 370 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:48,240 Because the Romani come from Rajasthan and if Rumi was 371 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,880 descended from them, we would have claimed a long time ago. 372 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,080 True. But it's actually a little more 373 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,960 straightforward. Maybe I've misled you with the 374 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,400 clues a little bit, but it is a little more straightforward. 375 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,040 Rumi does mean Roman, but geographically, How did he get 376 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,880 this name, even though he did not come from Rome, the city? 377 00:22:07,360 --> 00:22:11,960 I'm assuming he did not visit Rome either, because that would 378 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,040 also be a very obvious answer. I don't think he visited Rome. 379 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,320 Not Rome in Italy. I don't think he visited that 380 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:19,080 place. But see again, I'm going to 381 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,880 repeat the clue once more. Rumi does mean Roman, so this is 382 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:27,120 like saying Jalaluddin Muhammad the Roman, right? 383 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,760 However, the Roman in this case does not directly refer to the 384 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:37,640 city of Rome, and he was not born anywhere near Rome. 385 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,360 So geographically, how does that work out? 386 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:44,120 Is it by any chance one of those cases where you know, like you 387 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,840 refer to a city as like, oh, it's the Paris of India? 388 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,440 No. No, not the sobre. 389 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:49,960 It's a little more straightforward. 390 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:51,000 No. Yeah. 391 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,360 Tell me the answer. So let me one last time. 392 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:57,200 I think I may have pushed you a little too much on this. 393 00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,840 This is actually quite simple, but I think I may have over 394 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:05,280 complicated it still. OK, Rumi, where do you think 395 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,480 Rumi was born? Like which area in general? 396 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,240 I'm going to say, let's say Tehran. 397 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:16,320 Maybe a little more to the West. Little more to the West of 398 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,320 Tehran. Are we talking somewhere closer 399 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:23,560 to Mecca Medina? A little north of that. 400 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:30,640 It's going to Geo guess on my way there north of Mecca and 401 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:36,000 Medina would be let's say Israel and somewhere in present days. 402 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:41,200 No, for a little little more up north, you just take it where 403 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,800 the twain meet, Where the two meet. 404 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,080 Let's that's my clue. Where do the two meet? 405 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,360 Istanbul. Ah, OK, so it is Turkey. 406 00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,280 Present day Anatolia. That's where he was born. 407 00:23:52,360 --> 00:23:54,000 That's where he was from, at least. 408 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,080 OK, right. But OK. 409 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,000 If he was in Istanbul or Anatolia or Turkey. 410 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,600 Present day Turkey. Why would he have gotten the 411 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:03,960 name the Roman? Interesting. 412 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:09,360 Was he from the northern side of the European side of Istanbul? 413 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,880 No, no. It's actually simpler than that. 414 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:15,160 OK, just put what was I have no OK. 415 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,840 This is going to sound so you're going to be so angry at me, Not 416 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,240 at the answer. You're going to be angry at me 417 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,160 because I've just LED you down this wild goose chase. 418 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:28,600 So at that point of time, in the 13th century, Turkey was a part 419 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,800 of the Byzantine Empire. And what was the Byzantine 420 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:36,720 Empire known as? It was known as the Eastern 421 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,240 Roman Empire. So. 422 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,920 After Rome grew beyond a certain point, it had two different 423 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,920 capitals, right? It had Rome and it had 424 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,040 Constantinople. And then those kingdoms kind of 425 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,520 separated and you had the classical Roman Empire. 426 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,840 How do I put this decline? But the Byzantine Empire 427 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,480 persisted for a long time and it was still known as the Eastern 428 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,560 Roman Empire. So because Muhammad, Jalaladdin, 429 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,000 Muhammad came from the Byzantine Empire, which is known as the 430 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,200 Eastern Roman Empire, he was known as Jalaladdin Muhammad the 431 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,880 Roman and hence the name the Nisbah Rumi. 432 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,400 And now we only know him as Rumi or the Roman. 433 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,880 Yeah, you're right. I do dislike that. 434 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,960 I am sorry, my boy, I was. Trying to make so much sense out 435 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,560 of it, but that that that's a great question. 436 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:37,760 Also because I had no clue that Rumi was a Nisbah or we are 437 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,680 actually saying the Roman when we say Rumi. 438 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:46,720 I love that. OK, so OK, so let's move from a 439 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:53,360 13th century poet to a 20th and 21st century actor. 440 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,120 And specifically, I'm going to talk about an Oscar winning 441 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:01,040 actor and their Oscar winning performance. 442 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:07,320 So Cate Blanchett is a very famous actor who has received an 443 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:11,280 Oscar for the movie, Do you know Best Supporting actress Oscar in 444 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:12,680 2005? For which movie? 445 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,320 I cannot recall off the top of my head right now. 446 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,440 It's the Aviator, Martin Scorsese. 447 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:20,560 Oh yes, the aviator. Martin Scorsese, the Aviator 448 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,280 Yeah, yeah. Exactly what is unique about 449 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,520 this victory that hasn't happened since and had never 450 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,200 happened before? About this particular Oscar win. 451 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,720 I think it's the only time an actor or actress has won an 452 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,840 Oscar for playing another Oscar winning actor or actress. 453 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,520 Come on man, just we need just know what. 454 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:45,600 What? Could you have? 455 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,160 I was like, he's going to be so annoyed because that is so 456 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,840 vaguely phrased and I would have to give a lot more clues. 457 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,640 Oh God, yeah, yeah, you're right. 458 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,160 All right, fine. Take it. 459 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,040 Take the points. It is, as Vineet mentioned, the 460 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:10,440 only time an Oscar has been awarded to somebody for playing 461 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:13,640 a real life person who themselves was an Oscar winner. 462 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,840 In this case, Cate Blanchett won the Oscar for her portrayal of 463 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:19,360 Katharine. Hepburn. 464 00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:24,000 Katharine Hepburn. The famous actor herself in the 465 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,080 movie The Aviator to be. Fair I have actually watched The 466 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,880 Aviator 4 times when it released. 467 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,920 Oh wow, I have not seen the Aviator. 468 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,840 OK. It was. 469 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,400 It was a great movie. It was a great movie. 470 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,920 So I remember when it released, I was still in college and I 471 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,360 went and saw it. First I loved the movie, I told 472 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:48,520 a couple of friends, and then they weren't able to come like 473 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,080 as a group. So we ended up going twice 474 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,520 separately in two separate groups, and they both dragged me 475 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,160 along. And I think I was then doing a 476 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,680 movie binge where I sometimes went to a theatre, watched one 477 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,520 movie, went to another theatre, watched another one and then 478 00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,280 another one. Yeah, I used to do all kinds of 479 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,360 crazy things, unnecessarily crazy things which make no sense 480 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,200 to me today. But I think this was one of the 481 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,640 filler movies. So then I watched it again. 482 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,360 So yeah, so I've seen The Aviator four times in theatres. 483 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:16,360 So I remember her playing Katharine Hepburn when I kind of 484 00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:17,720 took it from there. Yeah. 485 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:20,680 Well, you got that way too quickly. 486 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,240 So let's move on to your question. 487 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,440 OK, so this is going to sound like a very simple question, and 488 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,440 it is a very simple question, so you will get this very quickly. 489 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:34,120 There are two common theories with regards to X's last words. 490 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,640 OK, so we're talking about the last words of this person X. 491 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:44,040 The two theories are #1 is that he said nothing, that he 492 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,480 actually did not say anything, that there were no last words. 493 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,040 I mean, like technically at the point of death there were no 494 00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,520 last word. It's not like he never said any 495 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,520 words at the end. OK, so at the point of. 496 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,200 Death. I'm going to. 497 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:57,040 I'm going to pause you right there, and since you have been 498 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,720 flexing this episode, but I'm going to try to guess who you're 499 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,200 going for at this point, which is barely any clues. 500 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,000 Are you by any chance referring to Einstein? 501 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,120 No. What a waste. 502 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:10,120 Of. Flex. 503 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,760 Absolute waste of flex. OK, fine. 504 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,400 OK, I was starting to sweat when you started. 505 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:19,640 I mean, like I was not even a 1/3 of the way through the 506 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,160 question and you were going and I'm like, Oh my God, OK, no 507 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,320 coming back. Audience members come back to 508 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,920 us. So there are two common theories 509 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,320 with regards to X's last words. The first theory is that he said 510 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,160 nothing. The second theory is that he 511 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:40,560 said U2 blank. OK, there are three words U2 512 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,360 blank in the first theory. According to the first theory, 513 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:52,520 when X was attacked, he first shouted why this is violence and 514 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:54,640 then spoke no more until he died. 515 00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:02,440 The second theory, Plutarch says that X fought back and tried to 516 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,200 escape but gave up when he saw Y. 517 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:12,120 So I want you to identify XY and also fill in the blanks for the 518 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:15,720 last words that I mentioned which was U2 followed by a word 519 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,640 blank. I'm assuming there's more to 520 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,600 this question because the obvious answer is Caesar and. 521 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:26,040 OK. And he saw Brutus and. 522 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,960 OK, and what was what were his last words? 523 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:35,760 U2 Brutus at two Brutus. OK, so X is indeed Guy is Julius 524 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,760 Caesar, Y is indeed Marcus Junius Brutus. 525 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:46,800 But his actual final words were not yet too brute, as we see in 526 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,080 Shakespeare, Or you too, Brutus. It is something else. 527 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:53,680 So what were Julius Caesar's actual last? 528 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,640 Words. OK, got it. 529 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:02,080 There's a twist in the tale. So it wasn't you to Brutus, but 530 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:04,360 it was something you to dash, is what he said. 531 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,200 Right. Yes, yes. 532 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,120 Interesting. Yeah. 533 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,000 This I've never heard. Was it a nickname that he had 534 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,200 for Brutus? I'm guessing. 535 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,640 Somewhere similar. I'm not going to give you an 536 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,120 exact one, but yeah, you are in the ballpark, let's say that. 537 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:29,120 So is it then the what would have been the Greek word for 538 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,440 Sorry, Greek? I'm saying whatever would have 539 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,400 been the Roman word for friend. Is it you? 540 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,760 2 friend. They were friends, which is why 541 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:41,080 apparently Caesar stopped struggling when he saw that 542 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:46,080 Brutus was among his attackers. But maybe I'll give you a point 543 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:50,640 of history which might actually give you closer to the word. 544 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,320 So as you know, Julius Caesar and Brutus were very old 545 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:57,880 friends. What many people don't know is 546 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,400 that Caesar is known to have had a love affair with Brutus's 547 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,680 mother, Sevilla. OK. 548 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,520 So I would, I would, I would ask you to maybe focus on maybe the 549 00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,920 age difference between them or the generational difference 550 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:14,800 between them and then what would be the word that he used? 551 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:20,280 Oh, OK, then I'm going to guess it's something like you two 552 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,160 child or you two son or something like that. 553 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,000 Yes, yes it is. You two child. 554 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,560 OK, wow, interesting. I did not even know that there 555 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,640 was such a big time age difference between the two. 556 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,600 And I mean, I don't know if there's a huge age difference, 557 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,480 but he did have a relationship with that's the part of the clue 558 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,960 that I wanted to give you. But yeah, so the actual final 559 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,800 words of guys Julius Caesar, were you two child? 560 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,040 William Shakespeare's Latin rendition of this phrase A2 561 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,440 Brute, which means you two Brutus in the play Julius Caesar 562 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,680 is better known in modern culture, but is not found 563 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,760 anywhere in the ancient sources. Interesting. 564 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:01,560 But it has become it has taken a life of its own A2 Brute or U2 565 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,520 Brutus is now used as a pop culture reference. 566 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:07,400 People use it, you know, to denote to denote any kind of 567 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,680 betrayal which comes out of the blue, especially from a close 568 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,240 friend. Cool. 569 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:17,680 Very cool. OK, that is atil for me. 570 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,960 Yeah, I did know that the U2 Brutus was Shakespeare's 571 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:27,120 concoction, but I did not know that you two child he he 572 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,320 referred to. I thought of Brutus as a child. 573 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,200 Man, that makes it so much harder. 574 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,840 Oh. Yeah, I, I, I'm. 575 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:39,600 That's where I don't understand. That was such a great emotional 576 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,120 moment that Shakespeare could have used. 577 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,880 Yeah, yeah. But now Brutus has become 578 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,080 synonymous with a close friend who betrays you, so I guess that 579 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,760 worked out well as well. I guess, yeah. 580 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,440 I guess Shakespeare has some lasting legacy. 581 00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,280 I suppose we can give him that much. 582 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,240 Yeah, little bit. Just a little bit. 583 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:07,880 OK, interesting, actually. Sorry, random thought, but would 584 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:12,880 Shakespeare be considered in like, the top five of people who 585 00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,560 have had their last legacy in the last 1000 years? 586 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:17,800 Oh yes, especially with the English language. 587 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:23,159 Yes, I once went down this rabbit hole of names. 588 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,199 People like you know, proper names which appear for the first 589 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,199 time in Shakespearean plays, and that list would astonish you. 590 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,560 Oh wow. OK, maybe you should make a 591 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,239 listicle question of it sometime. 592 00:34:37,639 --> 00:34:39,120 No, maybe. Maybe I shall. 593 00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:46,880 OK, that was quite the question and quite the little piece of 594 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:50,159 trivia. So hopefully this piece of 595 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:55,040 trivia blows your mind as well. So I want you to tell me why in 596 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,760 the Chilean village, in a particular Chilean village, 597 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:04,440 everybody is required to have their appendix removed by law. 598 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,040 There's a village in Chile where everybody has to have their 599 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:14,080 appendix removed by law. Yes. 600 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,000 Oh, OK, now that's something new. 601 00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:21,080 Is there a particular age group where they do this or is it 602 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,800 done? Like like when is it done? 603 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:29,120 It doesn't matter if you are a resident of that place, you have 604 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:32,000 to have your appendix removed. So if you were born, then I 605 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,880 guess it would be done around the time of your birth. 606 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,120 But if not when you were born, then yeah, wherever you move 607 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,920 there. Wow, that's risky. 608 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,440 But wow. The appendix is a vestigial 609 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,240 organ. It doesn't particularly have any 610 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,240 straightforward function, apart from being inconvenient when it 611 00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:55,000 gets inflamed and infected. Is there something in the diet 612 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,840 there that causes a disproportionate number of acute 613 00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,440 appendicitis cases, which therefore the government has put 614 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,920 a precautionary measure? But it sounds silly to think of 615 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,720 it that way. No. 616 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,920 Or is is it? It's Chile you mentioned, right. 617 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,240 I'm going to now go down a conspiracy dark hole. 618 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,000 So was there some Nazi scientist who, you know, a lot of Nazi 619 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,960 scientists escaped to South America, especially to Argentina 620 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:28,040 and Chile. So did a Nazi mad medical 621 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,640 scientist from one of the Holocaust camps, when the 622 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,160 concentration camp settled down, become the mayor and make this 623 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,360 rule so that he could add to his collection of appendices? 624 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,800 I would imagine that at some point the rule like that would 625 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,040 be revoked, especially with such a dark origin. 626 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:49,960 So no, that is not the answer. OK, so that's not it. 627 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,920 Yeah. Took a shot. 628 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,520 No dude, I'll need some clue. I have no idea. 629 00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:00,400 OK, interesting. So I'm going to give you a clue 630 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,760 which is not exactly about this village, but it is around it. 631 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:11,760 Because, say, the companion village of this place, the 632 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:19,160 Argentinian version, that place the motto is permanence, an act 633 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:24,080 of sacrifice. So you literally have to 634 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:27,320 sacrifice a body part to live there. 635 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,600 In the Argentinian, well, you don't have to sacrifice a body 636 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,800 part, but you have to make sacrifices. 637 00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,760 Again, is this somebody who's taken Shakespeare too seriously? 638 00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,560 Like a pound of flesh? You give me 2G of flesh. 639 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,760 No, no. It makes all the logical sense 640 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,160 in the world to have these restrictions in place. 641 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,520 Logical sense to have your appendix removed when there's 642 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:54,000 nothing wrong with it. Is this an etymology thing, Like 643 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,200 the appendix is technically known as a vermal form of 644 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,680 appendix or something to do with worms, and nothing like that? 645 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:00,520 No. No, no. 646 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:04,640 The actual appendix in the body, the vestigial organ, as you 647 00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,920 mentioned. I can't think of anything right 648 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,400 now. OK, so let me tell you both the 649 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,520 Chilean version and the Argentinian version are not in 650 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,520 the on the mainland mainland Chile or mainland Argentina. 651 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:21,840 Oh, OK. OK. 652 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,560 I think I have this. So the Chilean and Argentinian 653 00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,960 countries have a lot of these islands in the Pacific Ocean, 654 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,160 which are very, very far away. So if a medical emergency 655 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,080 happens and somebody has an append, you know, suffers from 656 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,040 appendicitis, by the time that they are, you know, shipped to 657 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,720 the mainland, they would probably suffer from a burst 658 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:44,280 appendix leading to peritonitis and then probably dead. 659 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,320 So to prevent that from happening, they decide that, OK, 660 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,080 if you're going to live here, you better not have an appendix. 661 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,800 You are very, very close. I will, however, ask you to 662 00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:00,440 refine that answer just slightly, because this is the 663 00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,840 case only with these two countries and no other country 664 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,000 in the world for this specific location. 665 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,000 So tell me what the location is. Wait, are these Antarctic 666 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,960 villages like both Chile and Argentina very close to the 667 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,640 South Pole? So they must have an anti 668 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,440 Antarctic station or something like that. 669 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,880 Chile and Argentina, the only two which have a permanent 670 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,040 outpost, permanent village, permanent settlement. 671 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:31,000 On Antarctica, The Chilean one is called Via Las Estreas, which 672 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,960 is the Spanish phrase meaning the stars village of the Hamlet 673 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:40,840 of the Stars, the beautiful name and the Argentinian world is 674 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:46,040 called Esperanza Base. So Esperanza based the motto is 675 00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,560 Now that would make sense to you permanence and act of sacrifice. 676 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,720 It is one of the only two stations which are permanently 677 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:57,040 occupied and for the Chilean 1 by law you're supposed to have 678 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,520 your appendix removed. Even though they do have some 679 00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,640 medical facilities, obviously they can't do any complex 680 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,480 surgery, so if you ever want to go to site there and there are 681 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:11,080 residents all year round. If you want to go reside there, 682 00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:14,040 even even if you are a child and there are children there as 683 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,600 well, you would have to have your appendix removed. 684 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,120 You are not allowed to be there with the appendix. 685 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,640 Very nice. I like it. 686 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,960 Not that they have to have their appendix removed. 687 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:29,800 I like the the trivia. Oh, sure, sure. 688 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,520 OK. I think that's all the time we 689 00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,800 have for our regular round of questions, so let's start 690 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,880 winding up today's episode. So I had asked an audience 691 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,120 question at the beginning of today's episode. 692 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,240 I hope at least a few of you have guessed it because this was 693 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:53,520 in the news recently. In 1984, Raghunandhan Srinivas 694 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:57,680 Kamath started selling Pao Bhaji with this dessert as an add on. 695 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,640 He had worked in his brother's South Indian eatery long enough 696 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,800 to know how much Indians love to end a meal on a sweet note. 697 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,720 The simple idea of offering something cold after a hot and 698 00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:12,240 spicy dish worked, and he clocked a revenue of ₹500,000 in 699 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:16,360 the first year from his own tiny 200 square feet shop in the Juhu 700 00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,280 Koliwata area. A year later he stopped selling 701 00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:22,200 pavaji and started a full-fledged dessert brand. 702 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,720 Such was the demand that it caused frequent traffic jams in 703 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:29,320 the tiny by lanes of Juhu. Fast forward 40 years, it's 704 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,320 grown to more than 135 outlets in various cities and was once 705 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,440 named as one of India's top ten brands for customer experience 706 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,960 in a KPMG survey. Which dessert brand are we 707 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:42,040 talking about? Aditya. 708 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,880 Any ideas? I had this last slide for 709 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,200 dessert. It is naturals. 710 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:51,760 Yes, it is indeed Naturals Ice Cream and Raghunandan Kamath has 711 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,880 just recently passed away, so this is a kind of tribute to him 712 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,200 because Naturals is one of my favorite ice cream brands. 713 00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,760 Absolutely. Do you know what is the first 714 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,120 scope ever served at the Nationals outlet at Jew? 715 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,000 I was at the Jew outlet last night and on the wall they have 716 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:10,400 this piece of trivia right there. 717 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:14,080 So I just had it last night. Take a guess. 718 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,840 Take a guess what the first scoop was. 719 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,760 Vanilla, but naturals is known for fruit ice cream. 720 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,400 So then maybe mango? Probably mango came. 721 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,840 I'm assuming mango came about slightly later. 722 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:27,560 Think something a lot more common. 723 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:31,840 But you're right, fruit. Lot more common fruit, India. 724 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,040 They have a great jackfruit ice cream. 725 00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:37,000 Don't tell me it's jackfruit. No, no, it's not jackfruit. 726 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:42,680 Assuming jackfruit was one of the wackier ice cream flavors, 727 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,840 that probably strawberry Strawberry ice cream was the 728 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:50,360 first scoop that was ever served at a Juhu outlet of Naturals. 729 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,080 Which was the first outlet. Yeah, that is. 730 00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:56,480 And for those who've never had Naturals ice cream, their USP is 731 00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:59,400 their ice cream contains actual fruit, not flavoring. 732 00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,760 So they have a lot of seasonal flavors which come and go and 733 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:05,480 they're just fantastic. It is. 734 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:10,720 It is a very interesting case study for how a brand can grow 735 00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:14,600 and can grow under multiple leaders and and people at the 736 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,920 helm. Because under the founder he 737 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,560 insisted that there be highest of highest quality control. 738 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,920 So he did not even want the supply chain to expand too much. 739 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,400 So it was all within Mumbai and the nearby regions and I think 740 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,200 it's his son who decided that they can expand while keeping 741 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,200 the quality in place as well. And that has happened to be the 742 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:38,960 case. So now when all of these big 743 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:43,520 cities, Delhi and other metros in India when they have naturals 744 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,120 is because the sun decided to expand. 745 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,920 But even today, the ice cream in Mumbai is made in the original 746 00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,680 factory in Kandivali, one of the localities in Mumbai. 747 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,560 Yeah, and I happened to ask it to 1. 748 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,480 To a guy who literally was there last night, talk about 749 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:01,360 coincidence. And this is not a pop culture 750 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,920 recommendation, but this is a culinary recommendation. 751 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:09,000 My two favorite ice cream brands in I1 obviously is a naturals 752 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,200 because they're just fantastic in their choices and the fruits 753 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,360 and just the freshness and it's just amazing. 754 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:18,880 And 2nd would be maybe I'm biased because I spent a lot of 755 00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,680 time in Mangalore over the years, but ideals ice cream, 756 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,480 they have some banger ice creams. 757 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,680 Their Butterscotch Royale is without a doubt the best 758 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,600 butterscotch ice cream in the world, and I will fight you for 759 00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,240 it. OK, OK, I will take your word 760 00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:37,720 for it. I will not argue at all. 761 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,560 Lovely. OK, so any pop culture 762 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:43,520 recommendations? Adithya. 763 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:48,360 This week, yeah, of course. I'm going to give you the name 764 00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:52,360 of book which is recommended to me very recently, and I have 765 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:56,480 only started with it, but it already sounds phenomenal and is 766 00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,560 fantastic read. It's called Strangers Drowning. 767 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:03,040 So for the first time I'm actually giving nonfiction 768 00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,520 recommendation, I believe. Yeah. 769 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,040 Oh, I have given out of the nonfiction recommendation 770 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,400 before, but it's the second time I'm giving a nonfiction 771 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,720 recommendation. Strangers drowning. 772 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:17,880 It's about grappling with the idealism in the world and how 773 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:21,360 people who are at the very opposite end of the spectrum of, 774 00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:26,360 say, psychopathy, so say psychopaths who who are, have no 775 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,480 no sense of empathy for anybody else. 776 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,360 The opposite of the spectrum would be people who have too 777 00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:35,560 much ideas and too much empathy, how even they end up somehow in 778 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:37,960 one way, shape or form, ruining their lives. 779 00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,600 It's almost a case study. It's a very interesting book. 780 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,040 A friend recommended it to me recently and I got around to 781 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,720 reading a little bit of it and I thought it's worth recommending, 782 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:51,960 so check out Strangers Drowning. I'll also recommend a movie that 783 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:56,160 I saw recently, and that would be Challengers. 784 00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,200 Challengers is a movie that you should check out. 785 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,720 It's probably still in theaters in a lot of places. 786 00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:10,040 It is about a trial or trifecta, and it stars Zendaya and two 787 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,680 other actors I'm forgetting the names of. 788 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,840 This is a tennis movie. I'd seen the trailer for it. 789 00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:20,480 Tennis movie and and I would I might have qualified it as or 790 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:23,840 check out a great sports movie but in this case I feel it is 791 00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,680 more than just a sports movie which is perhaps the biggest 792 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,480 compliment I can give. So yeah, check out these two 793 00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:34,520 things. The book Strangers Drowning and 794 00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:36,760 the movie Challengers. Great. 795 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,600 I am going to recommend a trilogy of books. 796 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:44,240 I'm on a kind of a fantasy kick right now. 797 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:47,320 I've been reading a lot of fantasy based fiction, so I just 798 00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:49,680 come across this trilogy. I've read two of the three 799 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:50,960 books. Let me just be candid. 800 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,560 I'm about to start the third, but I feel confident in the 801 00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:56,360 quality of these two books that I think I can recommend the 802 00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,480 entire trilogy. So far the trilogy is called the 803 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,760 Devabad trilogy. It's by an author called SA 804 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,560 Chakraborty and the books are The City of Brass, The Kingdom 805 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,200 of Copper and the Empire of Gold. 806 00:47:11,720 --> 00:47:17,600 Now, why I really like this strategy is because when you're 807 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,280 talking about traditional fantasy, high fantasy fiction, 808 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,320 it's usually very European oriented. 809 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,360 It has elements from European mythology, European history and 810 00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:31,040 European folklore. Right now, the name SA 811 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:36,120 Chakraborty might sound Indian or Bengali, but the act, the 812 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:40,600 person is actually a an American who's married into, I don't know 813 00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:45,120 whether the the husband is Bengali or Indian or Bangladesh, 814 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,760 I'm not sure of that. But they're also a converted 815 00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,480 Muslim. So you have these great 816 00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,360 perspectives. You know, she has grown up as an 817 00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:54,840 American. She's married to somebody from 818 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,720 Asia and she's now following her faith from the Middle East. 819 00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,720 So all three of these have kind of informed the mystical 820 00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,600 landscape that she's created for these books. 821 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,000 It's called the Devabout Trilogy. 822 00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:10,440 It's set in areas similar to what we would recognize as 823 00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:15,080 Persia and Saudi Arabia. And the mysticism or the 824 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,880 mythology of the series draws a lot from Islamic folklore and 825 00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,240 Islamic myths, which is a fresh take. 826 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,000 I find. It's something very different 827 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,440 because you're so used to elves and trolls and all those other 828 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,880 Wizards and sorcerers. So this is slightly something 829 00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,960 slightly different. You are reading about Jinns and 830 00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,400 Ifrits and it's a Persian setting and all those things, so 831 00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,680 it's a great series. I've read two of them, I just 832 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,920 couldn't stop reading them and I'm just eagerly waiting to 833 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,920 start the third one which is the Empire of Gold. 834 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:49,160 So I would recommend the Devabad's trilogy in addition 835 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:53,160 because I have been told that you know the recommended to keep 836 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,240 some recommendations for movies as well. 837 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,080 So there is a Malayalam movie. Again, I've been recommending a 838 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,640 lot of Malayalam movies but this is available on Disney Hotstar. 839 00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:03,640 Check it out. It's called Nanda Golda Naati 840 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,680 Uruguaya. I know that sounds horrendously 841 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,160 difficult for somebody who's not Malayali to pronounce, but it 842 00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:13,240 literally means an interlude in the Land of the Crab. 843 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:21,200 It is a laugh out loud, feel good movie about a family who's 844 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:26,600 going through a very terrible crisis when they're the 845 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,560 matriarch of the family is diagnosed with breast cancer, 846 00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:35,240 but it is presented in a very light hearted manner and it is 847 00:49:35,240 --> 00:49:38,280 laugh out loud. In some instances it's a feel 848 00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,760 good movie, something you can just watch without having to put 849 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,840 too much emotion into it, but there is a lot of it's just 850 00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:48,760 masterful the way they've played out such a serious situation in 851 00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,360 a funny manner. So Nando Golden Artel Ridabella. 852 00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,880 It is available on Disney Hot Star with subtitles, so I would 853 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,800 recommend everyone to go watch that as well. 854 00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:00,280 Cool. Very cool. 855 00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:04,560 So that is all the time we have for today's episode. 856 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,480 Thank you all for joining in and I hope you guys enjoyed the 857 00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:11,200 show. 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If there's a question that you 866 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,320 want asked on the show, you can just send us a mail at 867 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,680 areyouquizzingme@gmail.com with the name of the quiz master who 868 00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,800 you want to ask the question in the subject line. 869 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:46,160 I just want to point out that Ayush, one of our regular 870 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,040 followers, has sent in some questions to us. 871 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:51,000 I'm sorry I have not gotten out to it, but I will in the next 872 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:54,400 couple of episodes. You can reach us on Instagram at 873 00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,320 Are You Quizzing Me? We also have a subreddit R slash 874 00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:59,360 Are You Quizzing me? Where you can join our community 875 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:04,080 of fans who seem to be enjoying it, they keep posting. 876 00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:07,520 We appreciate your support and look forward to sharing more 877 00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,280 episodes with you in the future. Thanks again for tuning in. 878 00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,640 Have a great day. Before I sign off, I got to 879 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:19,000 point out that on the Reddit, one of our listeners, one of our 880 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,240 most regular listeners I would say has found the MasterChef 881 00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:27,280 episode and posted that and. This. 882 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,800 Is if you do go into Reddit, skip that post. 883 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,400 But yeah, the rest of the Reddit subreddit is worth worth 884 00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:37,720 checking out and being a part of. 885 00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:42,320 There's some people posting that pretty regularly, so I can't 886 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,840 believe somebody actually put in the effort to find out where 887 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:47,080 that must show episode. My God. 888 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,400 To be fair, the entire episode is available for free on YouTube 889 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:53,840 and is literally the first thing that comes up when you search. 890 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:56,240 Yeah. But I've been avoiding giving 891 00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:59,120 people that for so long and somebody found so easily. 892 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,960 I'm very, I'm honestly a bit impressed. 893 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,200 Yeah. But yeah, thank you so much to 894 00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:08,080 all our dear listeners who have been following and and keeping 895 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,640 up with us. It's so much fun to do it just 896 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,760 because there are people out there who also enjoy trivia as 897 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,640 much as we do. So on that note, see you guys 898 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,520 next week. Bye.