1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,480 The Prime Minister is sworn in by the President of India. 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,360 The state Chief Ministers are sworn in by the respective 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,920 governors of state who administers the oath of office 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:18,600 to the President of India. This is my audience question for 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:23,520 today's episode, which is episode #132 of Are you quizzing 6 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:24,960 me? Cue the music. 7 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,800 Welcome to Are you quizzing me? I am Vineet Nair with my Co host 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,800 Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia 9 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,920 podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,400 history, science, pop culture and so much more. 11 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,840 Let's get quizzing. So Aditya and I are back for the 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,760 132nd time and we are here to regain you with the questions 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,200 and Tom Foolery. But before we get to the regular 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:00:57,480 round of quizzing, we have started asking audience 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:00:59,840 questions which hopefully will be answered by the audience. 16 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:04,360 So Aditya, why don't you tick that box and let us know the 17 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:05,600 answer for the last week's question. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,160 So my question to you first is, what is the name that we're 19 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,840 going to give to the question formerly known as audience 20 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:16,400 question? Because now the question at the 21 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:17,720 end of the episode is the audience question. 22 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:19,040 I think that's the hook question, right? 23 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,000 The one that you ask is the hook for the audience that we 24 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,680 answered at the end. No, no, no, no. 25 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:25,880 Is the cold. Open see, you have to you have 26 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,480 to respect seniority here. This is India so. 27 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,360 What am I? Audi, we don't go around calling 28 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,880 our seniors by their names. We call them Sir or ma'am. 29 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,600 Junior audience question What is this? 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:37,800 Ha, this is the junior audience question. 31 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,640 Audience question the second. OK, let's call it audience 32 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,800 question. This is going to get very 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,920 confusing, but let's roll with it till we can. 34 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,160 Episode 131 was the first time we tried Audience question, the 35 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,920 second or the junior audience question. 36 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:59,160 And because it was a visual question, I encourage listeners 37 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,080 to go and look at the image in question. 38 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:05,800 Google it, it should be easily available, but I'll describe it 39 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:10,199 in any case. This is a cartoon from 1941 from 40 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,000 The New Yorker magazine. It shows a plane crash in the 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,200 background. There's somebody parachuting 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,160 down, presumably the pilot of the plane, and there are a bunch 43 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,560 of official looking people in those military uniform, military 44 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,400 trench coats there. They're running towards it, 45 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:30,240 rushing towards the plane crash, and there's one guy who looks 46 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,240 like a civilian who's walking away from it with a bunch of 47 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:36,640 papers under his arm. The question was, what is the 48 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:42,280 caption of this particular image in the New York cartoon, which 49 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:45,800 has now become a fairly common English phrase? 50 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,920 I have to give a shout out to the first person who got it. 51 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:54,120 A bunch of people tried and the first person to get it was 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,200 Dhwani Ravi Dhoni. Ravi replied on Instagram. 53 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,240 So you can message us, you can reply, whatever you want to do. 54 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:01,960 Thanks to all the people who participated. 55 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:04,160 Dhwani got it right. The first person to get it right 56 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,480 and the answer was back to the drawing board. 57 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,960 So this man with a bunch of papers and his arm plans or 58 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,520 whatever it is, is walking away from the plane crash. 59 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,520 And presumably he's the designer of the plane, some sort of a 60 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,480 engineer behind the whole mess. And the quote is, or the caption 61 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,520 is back to the drawing board. This was the first time that 62 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,880 this was used in this context. And it has become a pretty 63 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:32,680 common English phrase, which basically means you have to 64 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,560 start all the way from the beginning again. 65 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,840 And that was the first ever audience question, the second 66 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,640 junior audience question, audience question, Dutiya, 67 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,720 whatever it is. So if you watch out for more of 68 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,280 those at the end of the episode, I'll ask you another one, which 69 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,280 will be answered in the next episode. 70 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,400 All right, Vineet, who's going first this time? 71 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,960 So I have been keeping track even though you accused me of 72 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:59,680 not doing so and I believe it's your turn. 73 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:04,360 OK, so regular quizzing commences and I am taking the 74 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,040 baton to begin my question to you. 75 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,200 Vineet is Speaking of putting people in an uncomfortable 76 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:18,959 position. What Indian history is littered 77 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,760 with, with people coming from outside of the country and 78 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:24,600 plundering the riches of this country. 79 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,680 And obviously the most recent instance of that was the British 80 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:33,840 colonial empire. But before that also there have 81 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,040 been quite a few people who have come in and as they did, they 82 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,240 would enter through the land routes very often. 83 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,240 This would mean that your northern borders were pretty 84 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,320 often under attack, the northwestern borders, which 85 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,040 means that Rajasthan. Now, as you go to Rajasthan, 86 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:57,120 tell me, Vineet, do you know of a queen in Rajasthan who during 87 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:02,120 whose husband's reign there were certain invasions into the 88 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:05,440 empire, into India's today's borders? 89 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:11,520 And this Queen's legacy lives on in various cultural artifacts. 90 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,280 There are there are poems, there are books, there are movies, a 91 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:17,960 lot of it about her. I am going to ask you something 92 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,600 which is not pop culture related that this queen inspired. 93 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,640 So two-part of question. Firstly, tell me which famous 94 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,280 Rajput Princess, Rajput queen rather is in question over here. 95 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,920 And then we'll get on to what she inspired, which is not 96 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,240 really pop culture. I think there is some question 97 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:37,960 about the historical authenticity, but are you 98 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:39,840 talking about Queen Padmavati? Yeah. 99 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:43,920 So you are absolutely right. It is Queen Padmavati and you're 100 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,120 also right in the way that exactly what transpired is not 101 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,480 really known for a fact. Legends suggest. 102 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,960 And I I I remember going to the the Fort and hearing all the 103 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,680 same story that eventually was shown in the film as well in the 104 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,960 fictionalized version of the film where the king was looking 105 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:03,680 at her but did not look directly. 106 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,320 Oh sorry, my bad. Kilji was going to look at her. 107 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:07,200 So he didn't. He couldn't look. 108 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,120 Directly at her. So he had to look through a 109 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,800 reflection and stuff like that. So all of those stories have 110 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:14,960 been around for a while. Maybe some of them are myths, 111 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,920 some of them are legends, as happens with a lot of these 112 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,440 historical figures. So Queen Padmavati, your 113 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,920 absolute right, was 13th, 14th century Queen of the Kingdom of 114 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,240 Mewar in India. Several texts mention her. 115 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:31,600 And while these versions might have some differences, there is 116 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,360 some consensus that somebody like that did exist. 117 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,080 There have been poems about her. There have obviously been movies 118 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,680 about her. There have been other sort of 119 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,480 texts as well. Although this is pop culture, 120 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:46,120 tell me something non pop culture related that started in 121 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:53,520 1964 and went out in 2001 that was inspired by Queen Padmavati. 122 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:56,080 And so not pop culture related, right? 123 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,320 No, no, you won't consider this pop culture related. 124 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:03,600 Can you give me a clue about the space of when you say pop 125 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,120 culture, you're, I think you're excluding music as well, right? 126 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,880 OK. Just broadly, because very often 127 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,920 when I ask you what was inspired by a certain person or a certain 128 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:15,840 event in pop culture, I mean by pop culture I usually mean a 129 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:21,040 film or ATV show or a book or or music, anything along those 130 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,120 lines, right? Those are pop culture as broadly 131 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,200 understood. So nothing in the entertainment 132 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,280 space, let's call it that. Nothing in the entertainment 133 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:31,760 space. But you're not yet giving me 134 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,160 what space or context it could be. 135 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,080 Not yet that. Would probably be my last 136 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:37,560 glucose that would make it very. Easy. 137 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,880 OK, so it's something quite obvious. 138 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:45,160 Given the category, the broad category, yes, it would be very 139 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:48,680 obvious. From 1964 to 2001, it hasn't 140 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:51,120 been it hasn't happened or have been held. 141 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,160 After 2001, it's seized. In 2001. 142 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,680 So you very carefully mentioned seized instead of, you know, OK. 143 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:00,000 I was trying to see if it was an event or something, no. 144 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,040 Event also I would classify as a pop culture thing like like 145 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,480 anything entertainment related I would classify as pop culture. 146 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,320 OK, I need a clue. I need additional clues. 147 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,400 Very. Simple clue, there is a connect 148 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,520 to Italy. The 1964 to 2001 thing 149 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:18,840 originated in Italy and then came to India. 150 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,600 So it originated in Italy and came to India. 151 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,680 Is that like a Padmavati Gelato? What the Padmavati Gelato be 152 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:34,039 like? Oh, oh clever boy, I think 153 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:36,159 you've cracked it. Is this the Padmini? 154 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:37,840 Is this the Padmini? Is this the car? 155 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,559 The Premier Padmini. Man, yes, you are absolutely 156 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,559 right. It is Premier Padmini. 157 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,880 Premier Padmini. Which it was a Fiat. 158 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,640 It was a Fiat 100, Fiat 1100, something like. 159 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,120 That Fiat 1100 D. Yeah, the D, yes, obviously the 160 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,680 D is. You can't miss the D. 161 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,160 Fiat 1100 D or I guess Fiat 1100, it was just a variation on 162 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,120 it because initially it was marketed as 3 Fiat 1100 Delight. 163 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:06,960 That's where D comes from, I guess. 164 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,320 And this was based off the Fiat 1200 anyways. 165 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,720 So Fiat 1100 D, it came to India in 1964. 166 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:18,840 It was manufactured in India from 1964 to 2001. 167 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:23,440 A lot of us would remember that as Fiat cars, people in Mumbai 168 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,120 especially, but a bunch of other cities as well, would remember 169 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,240 them as the Kalipilis. Yeah, the black and yellow taxi 170 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:32,600 cabs. Those were finally taken off 171 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,000 Mumbai roads on 30th October 2023. 172 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:40,800 So it's pretty much an rare occurrence that you would cite 173 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,560 one on the roads anymore. I yeah, I think they're pretty 174 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,720 division about taking it off the roads. 175 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:48,560 I don't think I've seen it in the last year or so. 176 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,240 So anyway, so it's been more than two years since it's since 177 00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:55,480 it's been off the roads of that I guess you would consider a pop 178 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:59,800 culture icon. But yeah, the car itself was not 179 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,600 entertainment related yet. The name Premier Padmini was 180 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:08,320 inspired by Rani Padmavati Rani Padmini also as she was known in 181 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,200 some of the texts. So Premier Padmini got its name 182 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,600 from Rani Padmavati Rani Padmini. 183 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,520 I did not know that. I mean, I knew the name Premier 184 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,240 Padmini. I did not know that it came. 185 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,120 Did you know that already or did you make the connect? 186 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:20,520 No. No, no, no, it. 187 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,160 I didn't know it. And I was just thinking like, 188 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,040 what have we imported from Italy? 189 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,840 Obviously apart from Sonia Gandhi and Gelato. 190 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,840 And then the next thing that came to mind was Fiat. 191 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,960 Let me stop you right there. Are you completely ignoring the 192 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,840 fact that we have also gotten butter chicken pizza from Italy 193 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,760 and little made it better by bringing it here? 194 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,480 Butter chicken pizza is an abomination cooked up in the 195 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,000 roads of Delhi somewhere. Oh my God, Vineet, you, you 196 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:50,000 break my heart because you have clearly never tried a great 197 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,520 butter chicken pizza. And this OK Mumbai, Joey's OK. 198 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:58,480 It it it doesn't. Resemble a pizza, but they call 199 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,600 it a butter chicken pizza. I am wondering what they call 200 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,240 it. It is a beautiful, beautiful, 201 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:08,240 just debaucherous meal that will last you at least two and three 202 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,880 days because it's huge. See the thing you see, this is 203 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:16,640 this is what This is my bone to pick with most Indian pizzeria 204 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,600 chains that I've seen. Is there anything on a pizza? 205 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,000 Butter chicken is boneless. Yeah, we don't need to see your 206 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,320 face that close. But no, see, honestly, 207 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:28,720 seriously, this. It just irks me that people put 208 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,720 all kinds of chili chicken on pizza. 209 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,000 They put butter chicken on pizza. 210 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,160 First of all, chicken is not something that traditionally 211 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,120 goes on pizza. Chicken, fine. 212 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,680 You want to call it an Indian version of a pizza, that's fine. 213 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,960 But it's not a pizza pizza, right? 214 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,880 It's not an Italian pizza. So you want to call it an Indian 215 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:47,760 pizza? That's fine. 216 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,120 It has nothing to do with Italy. Italian pizza complete thing on 217 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,800 its next You want to call it an Indian pizza? 218 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,280 That's fine with me. But don't you, Aditya Kashyap, 219 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,800 dare call the butter chicken pizza that abomination has 220 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:03,560 Italian? Next thing you, next thing 221 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:07,240 you'll say is Chicago deep dish is not a pizza. 222 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,760 I mean, who are you? Like what? 223 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:11,520 What do you think you are, Vineet You. 224 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:14,320 You do not get to decide what is. 225 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,600 A matter of strong opinions. I am a man of strong opinion. 226 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,960 You are. And I say that the bottle 227 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,920 chicken pizza is not a pizza. You are a man from the state of 228 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:26,600 Kerala, from the country of India. 229 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,240 Answer from this. From the continent of Asia. 230 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:31,320 Answer not get. To decide what is pizza? 231 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:36,680 No, no, I have one more point to make. 232 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,600 What is the difference between your butter chicken pizza and a 233 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:50,440 nun with butter chicken on it? So my next question is, OK, I 234 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:53,440 will get back to you on that. That is my audience question #3 235 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,680 just for me. Yeah, I'll do it and get back to 236 00:12:55,680 --> 00:12:57,360 you. OK, take it away. 237 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:02,240 Your question. OK, OK, so this is quite an 238 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,800 indulgent question, but I really, really want to and need 239 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:10,760 to do this. I'm already late in it, but I 240 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:14,000 really have to do this. So for all the listeners, please 241 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:16,200 bear with me while I ask this question. 242 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,560 But if that is the reason why I'm asking it and it's a little 243 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:21,680 personal. OK, so I'm going to give you a 244 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:25,120 two-part kind of question. We are looking for a historical 245 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:29,120 figure who has a first name, a middle name, and a last name. 246 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,080 OK, now for the sake of convenience, let's call A his 247 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,600 first name, B his middle name, and C his surname. 248 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:36,880 Got it. This figure was well known for 249 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,360 his work in social medicine. He was a pioneer in improving 250 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,600 care for people with mental disabilities. 251 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,200 OK. When he was just 14 years old, 252 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,400 he was apprentice to his father, who was a village apothecary in 253 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:53,440 a place called Anthony St. Jacobs, OK. 254 00:13:53,920 --> 00:14:00,200 In 1846, he had a chance encounter with a young girl who 255 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,240 had a medical condition that would later be named after him. 256 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:08,880 OK. Specifically after his last name 257 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,600 C. OK. 258 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,560 The encounter is what inspired him to pursue medicine. 259 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:20,400 Now there was an American graphic designer whose initials 260 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:24,280 were AB. That is the same, not initials 261 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:26,200 whose name was AB. Got it? 262 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,600 If the first person was ABC, this person is AB. 263 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:35,240 OK, now he was a designer, painter, writer and long time 264 00:14:35,240 --> 00:14:38,080 typography professor at Drexel University. 265 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:43,120 OK. In the early 1970s, he created 266 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:46,280 something that we are going to call as X OK? 267 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,720 He went on to design distinctive logos for major corporate 268 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:53,560 clients, artists and musicians. A very famous fictional 269 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:56,280 character was later named after. Him. 270 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,720 So the fictional character's name is also AB. 271 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,240 Now the fictional character's in the second name or last name is 272 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,120 B. So the middle name of the first 273 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,800 person, the last name of the second person we're talking 274 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,840 about, the last name of the fiction character is also being 275 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,760 guarded. Now AB, the graphic designer, he 276 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:18,840 designed 6 versions of X for a best selling book, and that book 277 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,280 marked the first appearance of that fictional character that 278 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:27,040 we're talking about. So my question is, who's ABC and 279 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,040 what condition was named after him specifically and after his 280 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,320 very last name, Who's the designer AB? 281 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:39,000 Who's the fictional character? And see if you can also tell me 282 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,040 what the designer AB invented that is X. 283 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,760 It's interesting because I have two ways to approach this. 284 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,120 I am going to tell you what the first one is, which I think is 285 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,920 incorrect, but that is closer to my heart. 286 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,520 And then I'll come to why it's. I think the second one is closer 287 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,040 to your heart and probably is the one that is the right 288 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,120 answer. The first one is the Doctor Who 289 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:08,000 met somebody, met a woman and was was intrigued by her medical 290 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,080 condition and whatever medical condition she had was eventually 291 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,040 named after him or his last name. 292 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,400 This fits the bill pretty accurately except for me with 293 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:23,720 the age and stuff for Alzheimer. Who whose first name is Alloys 294 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,760 and last name is Alzheimer. Don't know if he has a famous 295 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:30,000 middle name, which makes me think it's not the right answer. 296 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,280 And I also believe the. Because you said that ABC met a 297 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,000 young girl, right? Yeah. 298 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,800 OK. Alzheimer met a old woman. 299 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,800 Alzheimer met a woman who are told who had Alzheimer's, Right. 300 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,720 And she was in her 50s. And why he was intrigued was 301 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:47,680 because she was showing signs of dementia at a much younger age 302 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,040 than was commonly seen. So he was intrigued. 303 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:57,680 I have read through the notes that he made about her because 304 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,960 he used to visit her. This was in Germany, and it's 305 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:02,240 fairly interesting, very intriguing. 306 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:05,000 I made these notes because at some point in college, I was 307 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,839 obsessed with the idea. And I've done a little bit of 308 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,839 research, whatever research people came to research into 309 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:15,760 Alzheimer's. And I reached out to some of his 310 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:18,599 descendants, Alzheimer's descendants, asking them like, 311 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:19,960 you know, if there are. Yeah. 312 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,359 Germany. I emailed, I cold emailed that 313 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:23,240 course talking. Yeah, Yeah. 314 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:27,640 And I emailed some professor in the US who who had, you know, 315 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,880 got in touch with them. So I was talking to a few people 316 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,880 because my idea was I'm going to move to Germany and I'm going to 317 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,680 make a film about Alzheimer and Auguste there. 318 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,440 I think that's what her name was the patient, because it seemed 319 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,880 like a very interesting sort of duality there. 320 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,840 He was very clinical. He was very, very cold. 321 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,120 A lot of places he described as and she was obviously suffering 322 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:51,320 a lot. She came from a very poor 323 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,680 background. Her family had abandoned her. 324 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:54,320 Anyway, sorry. That's why it's close to my 325 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:55,360 heart. That's why this is just 326 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:57,800 imprinted in my head, the name and all of the facts. 327 00:17:58,080 --> 00:17:59,880 And I know that she died at the age of 51. 328 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:01,760 He met her when he was in she was in her 40s. 329 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,480 So it doesn't fit the bill. Now I have no idea who ABC is. 330 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,120 I have no idea what the disease is. 331 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:11,080 I have no idea who what this girl, poor girl, had. 332 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,720 I'm going to attempt it the other way around. 333 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,000 I know. OK, which I was expecting to. 334 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,560 Do I know that this kind of sounds like angels and demons? 335 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:26,280 I know for a fact that the guy who designed the ambigram for 336 00:18:27,120 --> 00:18:29,240 the Earth, air, fire, water, which I think called the 337 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,520 diamond, I think it's called the something diamond, right? 338 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:33,600 Illuminati diamond. Yeah. 339 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:38,400 So Illuminated Diamond was designed by a ambigramist, I 340 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,600 guess. And that says relatively 341 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,840 meaningful to you because you're an ambigrammar ambigrammist. 342 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:49,000 And so that would mean that our ambigrammist's name is something 343 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:53,400 Langdon, because that would give us the very frictional character 344 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:54,920 Robert Langdon. Yeah, that's his name, right? 345 00:18:55,360 --> 00:18:58,360 Of angels and demons and Da Vinci Code fame. 346 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,840 So we have B which is Langdon A&C. 347 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,200 Very good. Now I'm going to give you a. 348 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,400 A is John. So it's John Langdon. 349 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,640 John Langdon was the man, the long time professor at Drexel 350 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,680 University was a designer, painter type. 351 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,520 He invented ambigrams in the 90, early 1970s. 352 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:19,720 He created 6 versions of it for the book Angels and Demons, 353 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,120 which is written by Dan Brown. And in return Dan Brown named 354 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:25,680 his lead character Robert Langdon after him. 355 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,160 Yeah. So you have now AB, which is 356 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,080 John Langdon. What is C? 357 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:35,160 You know that I have no idea some disease that is named after 358 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:40,000 John Langdon Dash. Is there any connection to 359 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:42,960 something to do with the visuals of it? 360 00:19:43,440 --> 00:19:45,920 Because I'm just thinking like, is it somebody with like color 361 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,040 blindness? I don't know if there's a 362 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:48,360 technical term for color blindness. 363 00:19:48,360 --> 00:19:49,960 No, no, no, no. OK, Nothing like that. 364 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:50,720 Nothing like that. I was. 365 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,080 Thinking in the visual design, art design space, OK, because 366 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:58,120 that would have been a very poetic connection across names 367 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:03,560 and diseases. OK, If not that you said a young 368 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:10,760 girl, he saw the condition and the conditions named after him 369 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,320 and is famous enough that I would know it or a young person. 370 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:18,720 Yes, most people would know it, though it was initially not 371 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:23,720 called See he basically the term that he coined for it was is now 372 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,680 considered quite derogatory and instead we call that condition 373 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,600 by his name. Is there another word for 374 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,760 leprosy leper I would have? That's derogaty. 375 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,280 No, there is another word for leprosy. 376 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,520 That's Hansen's disease. But it's not that. 377 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:38,480 That's not what we are talking about. 378 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:40,880 Man, that would have been a great crack. 379 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:46,240 OK, Leper would be derogatory, if not leper, no derogatory 380 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:47,800 because then it then it can't be. 381 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,720 I was, I don't know why I was thinking some some some sort of 382 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:58,600 something do with the limbs, but yeah, nothing along those lines. 383 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,120 No, it's not that. So I'll I'll give you a clue. 384 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:06,640 In 1866, he wrote the paper that made him famous. 385 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,600 OK, And I'll give you the title of the paper that he wrote, 386 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:16,320 Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots. 387 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:21,320 We give the man benefit of doubt that idiots was not a rude thing 388 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,040 to say. Maybe it was a medical 389 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:30,640 classification but OK of idiots. OK, I think that would be the R 390 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,680 word I'm going to pass. No, not that one. 391 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:35,960 That's not the one that we're looking at. 392 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:38,280 Oh, it's not OK. It's not. 393 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:39,880 It's not. OK. 394 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:42,440 That's not the specific word, but you are in the right area. 395 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:48,080 Is there something something related to autism like like slow 396 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,000 or something? No, not autism, but similar. 397 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,120 Like right now every I'll give you another clue. 398 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,120 Every woman who becomes pregnant nowadays is screened for this 399 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,320 during their pregnancy. There are a bunch of these. 400 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:06,040 No, but that's a blood borne disease that I am thinking that 401 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:08,200 they're screened for. Yeah, I think you have, Sickle. 402 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,320 Cell. And yeah, that's what I was 403 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:10,400 gonna think. No. 404 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:11,680 That's all right. No, no, it's not. 405 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,760 This is not one of those things. So this basically nowadays any 406 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,760 woman who gets pregnant, almost every woman who's in at least in 407 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,200 the city, will get prescribed a test in their first or second 408 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,600 trimester to ensure that their baby does not have this, or at 409 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,880 least to screen for whether their baby has this. 410 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,280 Condition. It's not the R word. 411 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,560 Not the rude R word, right? Not that. 412 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,200 OK. And we are not. 413 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,920 And it's not autism, not Asperger. 414 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:42,120 I was going to guess Asperger. John Langdon. 415 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:45,520 Asperger. No, no, Asperger's is on the 416 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:47,840 autism. Yeah, that's related to autism. 417 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,920 Oh, I know what really rude word it is because I remember being a 418 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,880 child and asking my mum, Oh my God, I shouldn't laugh. 419 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,920 Sorry. Why is that word used? 420 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,680 Because I think I heard some adults say it in my life. 421 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:04,200 Is it Down syndrome? Yes, it is Down syndrome and 422 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:05,520 the. Word. 423 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,880 I think this, I don't know if that's the one that you were 424 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,320 talking about, but I've heard the word and I'm so sorry if 425 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:15,440 somebody listening is is affected by this. 426 00:23:15,520 --> 00:23:18,520 Just for history sake, I think they used to say mongoloid. 427 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,880 Mongoloid. Yes, yes. 428 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,000 OK. So you've gotten all of it very 429 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,520 well. Very, very, very, very well 430 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:26,280 cracked. I knew this is a very indulgent 431 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,680 and very roundabout question. So ABC, the person we were 432 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,880 looking for was John Langdon Dow, right? 433 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:37,760 So when he was 14, he met a young girl who had down what we 434 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:42,120 would call Down syndrome, which is a basically you everybody has 435 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:45,040 two, a pair of every type of chromosome, right? 436 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,880 Apart from your sex chromosomes, you have a pair of every type of 437 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,120 chromosome. So you have two of chromosome 438 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,880 10/2 of chromosome 12/2 of chromosome 13. 439 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,800 Like that in children affected with the Down syndrome, they 440 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:02,360 have 3 of chromosomes, 21. OK, so you have an extra 441 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,360 chromosome. So that's what causes Down 442 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,000 syndrome. So he met a girl who had that 443 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,880 condition. He was inspired to pursue 444 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,680 medicine. And then he wrote a paper in 445 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,560 1866, as I mentioned, which is called the Observations on an 446 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,720 Ethnic Classification of Idiots in HE which in which he put 447 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,960 forward the theory that it was possible to classify different 448 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:25,240 types of conditions by ethnic characteristics. 449 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,560 He listed several types, including the Malay, the 450 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,680 Caucasian, and the Ethiopian types. 451 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,760 The paper is about what is known as Down syndrome, named after 452 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:39,160 him, but which he classified as the Mongolian type of idiot. 453 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,440 As a result, Down syndrome was also known as Mongolism, and 454 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:46,480 people with Down syndrome were referred to as Mongoloids. 455 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,800 Down's original terminology, later deemed racist, continued 456 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:53,440 to be used colloquially into the late 20th century, which is 457 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,160 probably where you heard it. In 1975, the United States 458 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,400 National Institutes of Health convened a conference to 459 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,080 standardize the naming, and initially it was called Downs 460 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:07,360 syndrome, and they replaced it with Downs syndrome. 461 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,400 So there is no S, there is no apostrophe S It's Down syndrome. 462 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,360 Now, if you take the first two names of John Langdon down, John 463 00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:19,720 Langdon is the American graphic designer who in the early 1970s 464 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,880 created ambigrams. Ambigrams are a form of artistic 465 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,160 typography in which you can read that word or letters from 466 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:31,280 multiple perspectives. He designed famously 6 different 467 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,440 ambigrams for the best seller Dan Brown novel Angels and 468 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:39,720 Demons, and the main character Robert Langdon was named after 469 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,320 him by Dan Brown as an homage. The first time I read Angels and 470 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,800 Demons, I was entranced by those designs and that's what inspired 471 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,360 me to start trying and creating ambigrams. 472 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,240 And then later, a few years later, I had the privilege of 473 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,800 interacting with John Langdon through Facebook. 474 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,680 Obviously he was in the US and I was in India. 475 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,760 So we were part of the fame face import group and we he used to 476 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,040 critique my designs in between he can, he was supportive as 477 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:15,240 well as quite, you know, and it was just yesterday that I came 478 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,880 to know because I'm completely off Facebook. 479 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,480 So I don't see anything that's on Facebook most of the time. 480 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,000 But it's just yesterday that I came to know that he passed away 481 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:29,080 on Jan the 1st 2026 and he single handedly inspired a lot 482 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,880 of people. There is a book of his, again, 483 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,120 it's not a pop culture recommendation because it's one 484 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:37,480 of those art kind of books and it's the most of the writing is 485 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,560 an expression of his philosophy. But there is a book called Word 486 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,640 Play by John Banglin, which I would highly recommend people to 487 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:45,880 check out. If nothing else, just look at 488 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,120 the pretty, pretty beautiful ambigrams that he's created 489 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:55,600 there and just just pure art. So John Langdon, the famous man 490 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,120 who created Ambigrams, shared the first part of his name, the 491 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,560 both actually his entire name with the first two names of John 492 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,840 Langdon down, after whom Down syndrome is named. 493 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:09,280 So that was my question and I felt I needed to do at least 494 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:12,280 something or at least say something about John Langdon. 495 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,280 And I'm quite disappointed that I came to know quite late that 496 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,720 he passed away almost two months. 497 00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:21,040 Well, rest in peace, John Langdon, and thank you for your 498 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,440 contribution to to. But I, I would say that's a pop 499 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,520 culture staple. I think there is a definitely a 500 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:33,000 cohort of us who grew up reading those books and invariably all 501 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:34,960 of us loved it. I know a bunch of people who 502 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,760 attempted it as well, or at least tried to. 503 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:42,400 I just like you, tried to do it, but my reasons were a lot more 504 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:48,000 laughable because I was doing it to impress a girl in high 505 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,840 school. So and, and the thing was, it 506 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,720 read my name. If you read it one way and then 507 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,800 if you turn it around, it read her name. 508 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:59,160 That's the ambigram I designed. So I've I've done that. 509 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:04,680 So IA wedding gift to one of my friends was I had I created 510 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,040 Ambigram in which one way it would read his name and if you 511 00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,400 turn it to 180° it would read her name. 512 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,400 I had it etched into a crystal block with an LED base and that 513 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:16,840 was my gift to them for their weddings. 514 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:20,040 You know, that's wholesome. In my case, I just gave to this 515 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,240 girl who didn't even realize what it was. 516 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,600 It was it was like on a birthday that I gifted it to her. 517 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,280 I don't think she would God what it was. 518 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,560 It's like, oh, OK, great. I guess I was like, no, but this 519 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,600 has so much meaning. Have you not read Angel and 520 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,120 demons? I don't think she had read. 521 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,880 She said demons. So that fell flat on its face. 522 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,720 I'll actually mention the first name that I did that to was my 523 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,800 sister's name, who is also the designer of our logo. 524 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,920 And the reason I did was because my, what is the name of Ayushi 525 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:51,400 and AYUSHI? So A and I had to kind of mirror 526 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,320 and Y&HY&H are easy enough to mirror. 527 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,760 They're literally the mirror of each other in cursive, right? 528 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,080 So I remember being like, OK, whose name looks like it could 529 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:01,960 be the most easily ambigrammable. 530 00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,760 And I did it for my sister's name. 531 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:08,880 So, yeah, I dabbled in it probably like maybe a percent 532 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,480 percentage of what you did, like 100th of what you did. 533 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,960 But I also remember being influenced by it. 534 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,120 So thank you. John Langdon. 535 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:21,520 This was that a big part of definitely my my teenage years. 536 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,360 Yeah. Lovely question. 537 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,880 And I love the connection to John Langdon down as well. 538 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,640 Yeah. OK, on to something a little 539 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,320 more light hearted. Aditya, at least I hope your 540 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,680 question will be a little more light hearted. 541 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,200 Well, I'll tell all the listeners that Vineet looks 542 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,080 somber right now, so I'm going to try to cheer him up by 543 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,160 telling him something I don't know. 544 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:45,400 This is not cheerful at all, but but it's not sad either. 545 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,680 This is just a good old trivia. OK, OK, that should cheer up the 546 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,960 trivia nerd in you. I'm going to describe something 547 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,080 in in Language and Study of Languages and you have to give 548 00:29:56,080 --> 00:30:01,680 me the name for it. So X is a phonological change 549 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:07,080 that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones 550 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:11,760 assigned to individual words or morphemes based on the 551 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,600 pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes. 552 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:19,000 This change typically simplifies A bidirectional tone into A1 553 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,880 directional tone. You would find this in a bunch 554 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,200 of languages, but perhaps the most prominent would be Chinese, 555 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:31,000 Mandarin and even Burmese. What is X? 556 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:33,240 So let me see if I understand this right. 557 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:36,400 We are asking for the phonological term for when 558 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,920 pronunciation changes depending upon what's coming up next, 559 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,200 correct? I'm guessing you want the 560 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,880 correct. Term that's. 561 00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,120 Would I know this? I think you should, yes. 562 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:52,240 OK, I would know it more than you would, but you probably 563 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:56,200 would too. I have read this somewhere but I 564 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:58,600 I can't remember what I did. So. 565 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,880 Which is now becoming an increasing occurrence as I 566 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,400 become older. I need some kind of clue. 567 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,400 Oh boy, this is this. I wouldn't call it. 568 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:10,440 You either know it or you don't know it kind of question. 569 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,960 You can get it, but I don't know if there are any clues to it. 570 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,240 I'll just say to start off, there's an Indian connect. 571 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,320 And when I say I would do it more than you, I don't know if 572 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:24,120 you, I think you did study Hindi in school, but I definitely did 573 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,320 study Hindi. So that's the reason I perhaps 574 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:29,680 would know it more than you would. 575 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,760 And I have a confession to make. My learning of Hindi in school 576 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,120 was most just rote learning for the exam because I hardly ever 577 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,080 understood it. I actually learned Hindi after I 578 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,160 left school, so I mean, there's no offense to my Hindi teachers, 579 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,000 but that's just the case, so. Out one of our regular 580 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,200 contributors, one of our regular guests HK very good friend of 581 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,840 mine. He has a degree in Hindi and his 582 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:01,240 Hindi was hello VHK but was was terrible for the longest time 583 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,760 and then he moved to Delhi and the man has gotten pretty fluent 584 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,720 in it so. So kudos to him because I can't 585 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,880 imagine moving to Chennai and being able to pick up Tamil 586 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,880 anywhere close to how quickly he has picked up Hindi. 587 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,520 But in any case, yes, I know a bunch of people like yourself 588 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:22,120 who just are but on paper very well educated they but can't 589 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,320 speak it to to save their lives. So which is why I said maybe I 590 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,880 would do it more. You abhima Hindi, at that point 591 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,480 of time in school I did not pay attention. 592 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,400 I was just like this is one of those subjects you just have to 593 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,760 learn to pass the exam. And the moment I would get rid 594 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:38,040 of it, I moved from Hindi to French. 595 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,400 OK but now like with practice and with speaking to people I 596 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,920 can speak Hindi that I can do. So last thing I want is to be 597 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:46,880 labeled anti national because I don't speak Hindi. 598 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,320 You are you are very national, very rational. 599 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,240 OK. The, the, the relevant connect 600 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,520 to this would be I studied a language in school as well, 601 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,360 which I also did just for the marks. 602 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,480 We were told that it's a very high scoring subject. 603 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,240 So I took it on for my 10th board and that is Sanskrit. 604 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,480 Sanskrit also has. Sanskrit is probably the biggest 605 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:13,200 connect to this question. So I'm guessing then it's a word 606 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,680 derived from Sanskrit. It's pretty much a Sanskrit 607 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,720 word, yeah. So it's a pretty much Sanskrit 608 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,320 word. OK, so dude, I have no context 609 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,240 for this. I, I don't think I'll know this 610 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,720 at all. You'll have to probably just 611 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,160 give it to me because I I I just don't know it when I just very 612 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,880 sorry I'm. Trying to figure out if there is 613 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:36,040 any hint I can give. OK, let's try this. 614 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,960 I have learn CBSC dot in open in front of me. 615 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:44,880 This is your so I'm going to describe what this is. 616 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,560 I'll give you examples of it and then you probably will get it 617 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:49,480 right. So I told you what it is in the 618 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,000 context of tonal languages like Chinese and Burmese. 619 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:55,160 I'm just going to thumb to the the core of it while I ask you 620 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,320 this question, the Hindi version of it. 621 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,960 OK, so examples under this are nothing is going to help at all 622 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:07,200 but Satyar. OK, the trappy Sakshar Parmatma 623 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,239 Diwale Himalay Vidyarthi Ravindra Kavishwar, Girish 624 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:15,480 Mahindra, Satish, Nadeesh Banu there. 625 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,560 I am. There's no way I'm getting this. 626 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,719 Stop torturing me. Just give me the answer. 627 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,159 I'm honestly telling you there's absolutely no way I know this. 628 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:28,840 OK, yeah, no, this is difficult, but does the word sandhi mean 629 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:33,520 anything to you? I think it means to bring 630 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,000 together or something, or to join or something like that, 631 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:37,679 right? Wow. 632 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,520 I think so this question. Is not having the impact that I 633 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,120 envisioned it would because I'll give you the answer this call. 634 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:51,880 Sandy Never in a million years. Listen, just because you didn't 635 00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,880 pay attention in your Hindi classes and that's why you don't 636 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,840 remember Sandy, it doesn't mean this question is not great. 637 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:02,200 OK, OK, so the the concept that I was talking about is called 638 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,840 tone sandhi. And the reason that it blew my 639 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,080 mind is because I was looking through something to do with 640 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,640 Chinese and I saw this phrase tone sandhi and it, it was just 641 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,120 like, what is this very specific Hindi thing that I learnt doing 642 00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,640 in Chinese grammar or Chinese language? 643 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,520 So I went and googled it and sandhi is actually used across 644 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,960 languages. So sandhi is actually any wide 645 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:28,320 variety of sound changes that occur at or theme or word 646 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,160 boundaries. Well, let's not get too 647 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,320 technical, but just to simplify it, make it explain it like I'm 648 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,840 5. If you have two words and you 649 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,680 need to combine them to make one word, there's a certain tone 650 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,120 change that might happen, right? Vidya and alay vidya, which 651 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,240 means school. Vidya means knowledge and alay 652 00:35:44,240 --> 00:35:47,200 means house. So school House of knowledge 653 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,720 becomes a school and vidya and alay vidya. 654 00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:53,160 So the way it combines, there are some rules attached to it. 655 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,360 And these rules are pretty consistent with some few minor 656 00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,600 exceptions here. That is what sundy is. 657 00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,920 And that's what I studied in India. 658 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,480 And then I realized that it exists across languages. 659 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,800 So sundy is in Celtic languages. Portuguese has sundy. 660 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,320 It's called consonant sundy there. 661 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:10,920 There is of course, in total language there, totally. 662 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,760 German dialect has it, English has it, French has it, Japanese 663 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,160 has it, Tamil has it as well. So there are some South Indian 664 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,480 languages as well that have it. I don't know if Malayalam has 665 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,680 it. I couldn't find any example but 666 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:25,240 possibly possible Tamil because the Sanskrit connection there as 667 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:26,920 well. So all of these languages have 668 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,760 it. And sandy which is the I think 669 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,280 that comes from the Sanskrit with sandy. 670 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,440 Sandy, which means joining, is a word that is used across all 671 00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,960 languages and especially if you go talk to a Chinese person, 672 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,400 they'll talk to you about tone sandy. 673 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:43,400 A Chinese teacher probably will talk to you about tone Sandy cuz 674 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,000 I have Google tone Sandy and there are so many lessons on it 675 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,160 and there's just Chinese people talking about tone Sandy and 676 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,960 just juxtaposition was very funny to me because the last 677 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,080 time I heard Sunday, it was my Meenakshi ma'am telling me 678 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:00,440 teaching me what Sunday is. And then I just saw this Chinese 679 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,640 lady telling me on YouTube what tone Sunday is. 680 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,320 So yeah, this this question was not for any. 681 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:08,520 This was for all those people who paid attention in their 682 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,400 Hindi class and are currently mind. 683 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,160 Blown. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes. 684 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:17,320 OK, so let let me then move on to something which I actually 685 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:29,640 really will probably. OK, so the BBC Your Millennium 686 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:36,200 Online poll for the greatest star of Stage or Screen ran in 687 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:42,080 June 1999 on BBC News Online, seeking public votes for the top 688 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,280 performer over the last 1000 years. 689 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:50,320 The top ten list has some surprising results. 690 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,680 OK OK, so I'll give you a few of those, and obviously I'll omit a 691 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,880 couple and you have to tell me which ones I'm omitting. 692 00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:03,200 Sure. OK, so #2 is Lawrence Olivier #3 693 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,600 is Alec Guinness. OK #4 is Charlie Chaplin. 694 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:11,920 OK. Number 5 was Homer Simpson. 695 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:18,440 Number six was Robert De Niro, 7 was Cary Grant, 8 was Buster 696 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,440 Keaton, 9 was Marilyn Monroe. My question who was #1 and #10? 697 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,480 So these are these are top performers. 698 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,800 I'm assuming this is only to do with acting, right? 699 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,680 And you mentioned only actors as far as I could tell. 700 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,960 Yeah, these are actors. These are I'm looking both of 701 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,400 the both the people. I'm looking for are actors. 702 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,480 I don't know how Homer Simpson qualifies as an actor, but OK, 703 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:39,920 maybe the voice actor? Yeah. 704 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,880 But they did kind of put him in there, yeah. 705 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,840 The second one was Lawrence Olivier. 706 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,600 There was Charlie Chaplin in there, Homer Simpson in there. 707 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,200 Who else did you say? Cary Grant, Buster Keaton, 708 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,960 Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, Alec Guinness, Lawrence Olivier. 709 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,480 Who was #1 and who was #10? I'm surprised Charlie Chaplin is 710 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:07,800 number whatever, not number 14. Bruce Lee. 711 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,160 You were going to ask me #10 I'm going to say Bruce Lee. 712 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,880 Yeah #10 yeah. No, it's not Bruce Lee. 713 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,440 But also last thousand years. How do you? 714 00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:18,280 No, obviously they didn't think of the last thousand years. 715 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,040 People just calculated among the last 50-60 years. 716 00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,240 That's it. People's memories are very, 717 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,240 very, very short. OK, fair enough. 718 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:29,000 Is it something really stupid like like Hitler? 719 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,280 Because he used to do those performative theatrical things 720 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,440 in his speeches. And no, no, it is stupid, but 721 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,640 it's not Hitler like now, you would think it was stupid. 722 00:39:38,720 --> 00:39:42,560 It wouldn't have been very surprising at the time, but 723 00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,160 today you would be like. What? 724 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,480 OK, I'm supposed to answer #1 and #10, right? 725 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,320 10 yes #1 and #10 number one is quite, I would say obvious, but 726 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:55,520 it's not very surprising, not as surprising as #10. 727 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,440 OK. These are actors, they're not 728 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,120 known for something else and just side. 729 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,120 They're all actors. They're all actors, but number 730 00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:05,680 one is known for a lot of things. 731 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:09,160 But primarily acting. Yes, primarily acting. 732 00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:16,080 You did not say Marlon Brando. The whole method acting thing. 733 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,480 Nope. It's not Marlon Brando, it's not 734 00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,960 Al Pacino. It's not any of the usual 735 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,480 suspects. You didn't say I as you were 736 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,760 either that. You didn't say either of the 737 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,040 Hepburns so. No, it's neither of those 738 00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,800 either, so I'm going to move this along a little bit. 739 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,440 So #1 and #10 are both Indian. Oh, what? 740 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:40,640 OK Oh, is this one of those like just do all these votes and then 741 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,720 they just voted in vast numbers for Indian performers? 742 00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:46,760 Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 743 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:50,200 And this was done. This is 1990. 1999 So would I 744 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,160 would have Shahrukh Khan would have been a very easy guess, but 745 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:58,040 99 Shahrukh Khan is pushing it. Very good guess, but wrong. 746 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:00,520 Yeah, no, Shahrukh Khan can be 1999. 747 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:02,880 That was not a guess. You can't say it wrong when I 748 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:07,920 haven't guessed it in it. OK, my guess would be if it's 749 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:14,400 19, then I would say Indian. No shade to my Tamil friends, 750 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,640 but I think Amitabh Bachchan would edge out Rajinikanth in 751 00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:22,480 this. Very good number one is Amitabh 752 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,920 Bachchan, which I was expecting you would get quite easy. 753 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,800 Who was #10? Also Indian. 754 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,640 Also Indian. And you said this would be 755 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,120 ridiculous. I want to go through. 756 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:38,960 Your head the biggest stars in India during that time and then 757 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,960 try and give me the answer biggest stars. 758 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,480 At the turn of the Millennium, and I would I wouldn't think 759 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,600 you'd ask me this if it wasn't Hindi actors, because 760 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,120 unfortunately my knowledge otherwise is restricted. 761 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,320 Or it could be that I'm trying to torture you because we all 762 00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:57,680 know you don't watch South movies. 763 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:03,000 And that's just true then. But no, this is a this is a 764 00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:04,840 North Indian actor. What I'm going to take a guess. 765 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,360 Is it Johnny Lever? It's not Johnny Lever. 766 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:08,560 Good guess, but not Johnny Lever. 767 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,320 Because you said now in retrospect probably doesn't make 768 00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:16,960 as much sense, but had a pretty big impact in 1999 if not. 769 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,800 Johnny Lever was never that big. I mean, like he was always like 770 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,200 a supporting role, but not somebody like who you would call 771 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,960 a star, right? Who are the biggest stars in the 772 00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:31,840 North in like in the the Hindi film industry, the biggest stars 773 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:34,480 of the 90s? Oh, OK. 774 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,840 And then I'm going to say some, some, some actress. 775 00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:44,880 Then Aishwarya Rai, she had already been crowned. 776 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:46,160 Nope. OK. 777 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:48,440 Is it an actor? Is it an actress? 778 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,680 It's an actor. Technically the term would be 779 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,640 female actor, but I'll forgive you. 780 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,160 OK, no, I can't think of any other actor then it would be 781 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,920 Shahrukh Khan. Like, I can't think of anybody 782 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:03,080 else who would be. It's not Shahrukh Khan, Akshay 783 00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,080 Kumar, no. Govinda. 784 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:15,240 Yes, it was #10 was Govinda In a 1999 poll, online poll of the 785 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:19,840 BBC, your Millennium poll for the top performers of the last 786 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:23,360 thousand years, Number one was Amitabh Bachchan. 787 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:29,240 And #10 was Govinda the man who claims he turned down Avatar? 788 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,400 The only reason I guessed Govinda was because I recently 789 00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,520 saw somewhere on my random Instagram scrolling somebody had 790 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:39,640 put quotes from a previous interview. 791 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:41,400 I am. I am hoping this is true and not 792 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,480 just something made-up, but apparently I'm very acclaimed 793 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,800 that oh, let's see how long these Amir, Shahrukh and Salman 794 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,800 last. Yes, I saw the same thing. 795 00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,960 I saw the same thing. Some Filmfare interview or 796 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:52,440 something. It was. 797 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:55,000 That was hilarious. His quotes were all over the 798 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,840 page. If you read the BBC article that 799 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,000 came with the list, this is the description they've written for 800 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,960 the number one position. He retired from films more than 801 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,760 10 years ago, but after a stint in politics, he's making a 802 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:11,720 comeback with films like Lal Baadshah and Mrityu Dada. 803 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:15,480 His placing in Your Millennium Vote as the greatest star of 804 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,240 stage of screen and placing at #10 of another Bollywood star, 805 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,800 Govinda is a reflection of the huge popularity of Indian films. 806 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,600 The Bombay's film industry is one of the biggest in the world, 807 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,400 each career producing more than 1000 films which are seen in 808 00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,920 Russia, China, Africa and the Middle East. 809 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:34,560 The UK has a large overseas audience, with Asian cinemas 810 00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,200 enjoying a revival. In the 80s, people stayed at 811 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,840 home to watch Asian films on video, but last year, the film 812 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:46,440 Dulce was a box office hit, the first Bollywood production to 813 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,280 make it into the UK top 10 despite being considered a flop 814 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,720 in India. This is a flop in India, OK. 815 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,920 I I didn't do as well as expected, but yeah, I found that 816 00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,840 I found a very nostalgic to read an article from the the late 90s 817 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,080 like Lalbaugcha. I'd completely forgotten about 818 00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,160 Lalbaugcha. Yeah, I guess in retrospect, a 819 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:08,080 lot of these things don't make as much sense. 820 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,560 Fair enough. And Govinda, you know, someday 821 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,440 I'm going to put a list of actors who claim to have refused 822 00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,720 roles by James Cameron, and it will definitely have Matt Damon. 823 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:22,120 And what did Matt Damon tell Novinda on the same list? 824 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:28,680 Oh, you don't know this. So Matt Damon was offered the 825 00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:33,840 role, the lead role in Avatar, and James Cameron actually gave 826 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,160 him the option of taking a percentage of profit rather than 827 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:42,920 a salary, and he turned it down. So apparently if he had acted in 828 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,160 it, he would have gotten something around $100 million. 829 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:47,560 Or something like that. I've seen this in some 830 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:53,440 interviews, yeah. OK, so that was, I mean, Govinda 831 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,480 I, I still can't believe it, but he was quite big at that point 832 00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:58,880 of time. All the number one Movies Now 833 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:03,520 coolie number one hero #1. This is another one of those 834 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:07,840 questions that maybe you know, maybe you don't, but well. 835 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:09,320 Take a shot. At it. 836 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:16,400 Mong KET Township is a Township in Kington District in the Shan 837 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,960 State of Myanmar. Apologies for incorrect 838 00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:23,360 pronunciations one more time. Mong KET Township is a Township 839 00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:29,040 of Keng Tong District in the Shan State of Myanmar of Burma. 840 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:34,360 It is the principal town and administrative center, and it's 841 00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:40,880 called Mong KET basically right. In 2015, Mong KET gained 842 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:47,640 prominence or came into, let's say sudden stardom because of a 843 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,560 certain calculation. What calculation was this? 844 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:56,120 Why was Mong KET thrust into the center of it? 845 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,480 So Monket, a Township in Myanmar, became famous in 2015 846 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,200 because of some sort of calculation? 847 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:05,600 Yes. Something to do with time zones? 848 00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,080 No. OK. 849 00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,160 What else? What else? 850 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:17,880 What else is this calculation? The What's in Myanmar? 851 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:22,000 Myanmar is famous for what? No. 852 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,080 You'll have to give me some other clue. 853 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,560 I'm going to repeat myself. That's going to be our first 854 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:31,680 clue. Monket Township or Monket became 855 00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:36,000 suddenly, overnight, very instantly popular or famous 856 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,120 because of a certain calculation. 857 00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:41,600 Why was Monket at the center? Of it. 858 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,120 So Monket was at the center of something, yes. 859 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:50,240 So center of earthquakes. No. 860 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:56,760 Center of because this is the Bay of Bengal being adjacent. 861 00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,600 I don't think that hurricanes are a thing. 862 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,760 So I'm guessing cyclone or typhoon, no. 863 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,400 So typhoons is Japan, so cycling. 864 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,440 No Listen, I was thinking it might be the kind of force 865 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,360 calculations of cyclones. You know there are rating scales 866 00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,880 for the strength of cyclones. Let me let me guide you towards 867 00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,280 the direction. It has nothing to do with 868 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,760 natural phenomena. Nothing to do with natural 869 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,160 phenomena. My natural phenomenon, I'm 870 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,440 largely classifying earthquake. So tornadoes, tsunami is none of 871 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:27,680 that. When you say center, it has to 872 00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,400 be a circle of some sort. Oh, very nice. 873 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,840 I guess. I'm guessing circle we could 874 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,840 probably, but OK, circle. No. 875 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:37,880 One more clock. One more clock. 876 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:44,000 So I said 2015 was a calculation that that put Monket at the 877 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,440 center of it. The initial hypothesis wasn't 878 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:52,720 Reddit in 2013, but I think most people are aware of it, have 879 00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:56,760 seen it at some point, this hypothesis or or this this 880 00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,880 conjecture. And in 2015 it was formally 881 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:05,440 studied by a Singaporean professor, Danny Kwah, who is 882 00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:09,720 the public policy school, I think Dean or something over 883 00:49:09,720 --> 00:49:12,720 there in the university. That should give you maybe some 884 00:49:12,720 --> 00:49:17,280 sort of hint it is in that sphere, but not intended. 885 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,040 Did this come out earlier than 2015? 886 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,120 2013 is when the Reddit. Or was it? 887 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,560 Recognized 2013 is when it was first postulated on Reddit, 2015 888 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:32,520 when it was formally calculated. Did this come on our map on? 889 00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:34,480 Probably. I don't know where exactly it 890 00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:35,840 came, but that sounds right, yeah. 891 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,160 Is this that circle which has like 75% of the world's 892 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:43,080 population inside a circle? I'll give it to you, some 893 00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,440 technicalities are off. Because Asia, India and China 894 00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,240 inside the same circle. So this lovely little town is in 895 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:53,760 Myanmar, and if you draw a circle with this town in the 896 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:58,280 center and of a certain radius, I'll get to that, you will have 897 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:02,480 a circle where more population lives inside that tiny circle 898 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,880 than outside of it. Outside, yeah, I remember it's 899 00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,400 something like 75% or something. I don't remember exactly, but 900 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,440 yeah. So he has a story bandit, Ken 901 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,720 Myers, an American ESL teacher. So he didn't have anything to do 902 00:50:15,720 --> 00:50:18,960 with, I don't know, sociology or population studies or anything 903 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,560 like that. He posted this image on Reddit 904 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,160 and he put a circle on our map, which is the Winkle triple 905 00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:27,480 projection, right? One of the common map 906 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,200 projections that we see multiple projections, yes. 907 00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:32,920 And he put it on that and he said this, this particular 908 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,680 statement that more people live inside of this circle than do 909 00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,360 outside of it. And it's interesting because in 910 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,000 context of the whole map, it looks like a small fraction of 911 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,000 it. And yet obviously we know it to 912 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:48,240 be true because most of the populous Chinese cities are 913 00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:52,280 along the coast and India has so many popular city cities and all 914 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:54,640 of them fall under the circle. There's also Indonesia, there's 915 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,360 a Southeast Asian nations as well, Bangladesh, all of these 916 00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,400 very populated countries. So more people live inside the 917 00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,040 circle than do outside of it. In 2015, the Singaporean 918 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,840 professor Danny Kwa, he basically formalized it and 919 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,000 along with the help of an intern, Ken Kyo, he managed to 920 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:15,560 find the centre of that circle on a different map projection, 921 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,120 which would be on actual spherical representation of the 922 00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,400 globe. On that he's put a circle and he 923 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,800 made the radius actually much smaller because the initial 924 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:26,840 radius was supposed to be around 4000 kilometers. 925 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,440 He proposed that this is around 3300 kilometers and postulated 926 00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:32,360 that this is the smallest possible circle. 927 00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:37,600 So a circle drawn with the radius of 3300 kilometers from 928 00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,760 Monkit as a center would have more people inside of that 929 00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,040 circle than it could outside of that circle. 930 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,560 And the circle is called Valerie Pierce circle. 931 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,840 This has become a a common way to measure things in on much 932 00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:54,960 smaller scale as well. Like you could do it for a 933 00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:56,520 country, you could do it for a state as well. 934 00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,560 Like if you had the whole of country of India, where could 935 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,680 you place a circle such that you would have more people inside of 936 00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:04,360 the circle than you would have outside of it? 937 00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:07,200 Then I would say. This will become a common 938 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,880 Valerie Pierce Pierce. I don't know why This was the 939 00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,320 name Ken Myers had on Reddit. That was his username. 940 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,920 It was named after his Reddit username, Valerie Pierce Circle, 941 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:23,160 and that centers around this good little town in Myanmar 942 00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,240 called Monket Township or Monket. 943 00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,880 And that's the claim to fame. That's a great question Great 944 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:32,760 question. Great question I just reminds me 945 00:52:32,760 --> 00:52:37,000 of some the the fact that he said that Valerie Pairs was Ken 946 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:42,520 Myers's Reddit screen name reminds me of this fact that. 947 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,400 I don't know if many people outside Reddit know this, but 948 00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:51,040 the first person to gain a million karma credits on Reddit 949 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:55,480 is postulated to be. We don't know if 100% true or 950 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,960 not because it's it's conjecture and the actual name that has 951 00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:01,480 given it away might have been Gillian Maxwell. 952 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,280 What? Why? 953 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,320 As I mentioned, this is a postulation. 954 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:11,320 It's more of a Reddit kind of theory, but one of the most 955 00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:16,880 prolific Hi karma users on Reddit in the early days was a 956 00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:21,400 user with the account name U slash Maxwell Hill. 957 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:23,520 OK. The proponents of this theory 958 00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,680 basically speculate that it was Gillian Maxwell who was a super 959 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:28,920 moderator and influencer on the platform. 960 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,760 If you go through that particular Reddit rabbit hole, 961 00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:35,640 you'll find people who connect the Maxwell hill. 962 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,160 Apparently he'll has something else true with her father. 963 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,040 Plus the fact that this particular account went silent 964 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,760 somewhere around the time that she started being investigated 965 00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,680 for, you know, her horrendous crimes. 966 00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,880 So it is quite possible it's still is enough for debate, but 967 00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:57,000 it has not been completely debunked and I think it just 968 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,560 might be true that Gilane Maxwell might have been the 969 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:04,000 first user to get more than 1,000,000 karma karma credits 970 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,880 on. Reddit don't particularly like 971 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:12,680 using this word in general, but don't mind using it for her. 972 00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:15,560 You know what they say, karma is a bitch. 973 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,520 I think Gilane Maxwell qualifies as one as well. 974 00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:27,600 OK, OK, so by the way, the valediplate circle is an 975 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,320 interesting fact and I will not remember it. 976 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:34,000 Now let me move on to something I'm going to be looking for, a 977 00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:37,240 two word phrase. It's a theme for today, two word 978 00:54:37,240 --> 00:54:39,920 phrase. Let's call that word phrase XY. 979 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:42,680 X being the first word of the phrase, Y being the second word, 980 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,160 right? X is a word which evokes 981 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:50,640 radiance or sparkle, while Y is a poetic way to refer to the 982 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,800 brow. Brow as in your forehead. 983 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:59,240 This fuses both Arabic and Persian roots to paint a vision 984 00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:02,360 of stunning allure with a glowing face. 985 00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:06,240 OK. Some even link X, which as I 986 00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:09,360 mentioned evokes radiance of sparkle to Urdu's name for 987 00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:15,000 Venus, which also again amplifies the poetic loveliness. 988 00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:19,400 I want you to identify this two word phrase which kicks off a 989 00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:23,280 timeless 1965 tracks opening line. 990 00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,480 So I'm guessing because they will do it some Hindi or Urdu or 991 00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:31,200 Hindustani phrase. It is a 1965 very, very, very 992 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,400 famous song. I'm guaranteeing you you heard 993 00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,560 it. And X refers to radiance, Y 994 00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:42,000 refers to brow, and X also might be connected to the Urdu word 995 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:47,360 for Venus, yes. X is originally Arabic, but in 996 00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:53,760 Urdu it's also linked to Venus, and Y is a Persian or Urdu for 997 00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,640 forehead or brow, and it's used as a poetic motif. 998 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,440 Would I have heard XY in a context apart from that song? 999 00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:05,160 Is it popular enough? No, no, no, no. 1000 00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,800 This is AI mean. Like honestly, again, you are 1001 00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:12,400 from Lucknow, you may have read some kind of Urdu poetry or 1002 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:13,680 Hindi poetry which has used this. 1003 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,600 I have never used this. I've never heard this being used 1004 00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,840 anywhere else apart from this particular context. 1005 00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,080 But I'm telling you, this context is something you 1006 00:56:21,240 --> 00:56:23,920 guarantee have heard. OK, no, I have no clue right now 1007 00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:25,640 because my. Like, it's very, it's almost 1008 00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:28,200 impossible to have lived up and grown up in India in the 80s and 1009 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,520 90s and not heard this song. Not that it's from the 80s and 1010 00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:35,880 90s, it's from the 1965 film, but it was something that you 1011 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:39,080 would have got. I can't think of anything that 1012 00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:43,480 would even remotely remind me of Urdu for Venus or Urdu for 1013 00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:46,040 forehead or Urdu for radiance. Noor. 1014 00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:51,760 I guess Noor I know is radiance. The word the Arabic word X can 1015 00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,040 mean radiance, sparkle, brilliance, flower. 1016 00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:58,760 Is it Noor Noor? I know is it's not no, no. 1017 00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:01,960 No, no, I'm like yeah, that my will do clearly sucks. 1018 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:03,760 So no, I have no idea. Give me some of the clue. 1019 00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:09,600 So the song in question is a qawwali style romantic song from 1020 00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:15,640 the 1965 blockbuster Hindi film Walk, and it is sung by Manade. 1021 00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,560 It's indeed. This particular phrase is in the 1022 00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:22,840 very first line of. The song Walk No time for Love. 1023 00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:30,600 It's oh God, Leo. What time I know 1965 what film 1024 00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:33,440 I don't. I wouldn't even be able to say 1025 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:39,160 who was in it what, which actor. So no, I don't know what Malade 1026 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,880 song could this be. No, you definitely know the song 1027 00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:46,400 that I can guarantee you. Just try one more time to guess 1028 00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:48,480 it. See if any kind of Mana Day song 1029 00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:49,840 comes to mind. You. 1030 00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:52,560 Obviously, the movie that we're talking about stars Sunil Dutt 1031 00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:56,200 and Shashi Kapoor, Rajkumar Balraj. 1032 00:57:56,200 --> 00:58:01,200 Seni overestimating my my mana day fandom. 1033 00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,560 Of course. Top of my head I have 0 Mala day 1034 00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:06,960 socks. Directed by Yash Chopra. 1035 00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,560 Produced by BR Chopra. OK, what? 1036 00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:11,160 Is direct. Where should I get that part? 1037 00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:12,920 I knew. Because I don't have any other 1038 00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:14,240 clues to give you. That's the thing. 1039 00:58:14,840 --> 00:58:17,840 But you said kids in the 80s and 90s would have known. 1040 00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:19,480 But would we have known it? Because none of us. 1041 00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:22,000 Was I mean like you? That's what you know. 1042 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,400 You would have definitely know this, and even if you were born 1043 00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,000 before or after, you probably do which. 1044 00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,280 Mean that has probably been used in some of the film or 1045 00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:32,120 something, right? It was actually featured if I'm 1046 00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,400 not mistaken in DDLDA little bit. 1047 00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,080 See, now that's a good hint, because I think you're talking 1048 00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:46,240 about Emeri zora jabi, zora jabi, zora jabi. 1049 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:51,560 It is Zohra Jabin. Zohra derives from Arabic from 1050 00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,000 Zuhra means flower, brilliance or radiance. 1051 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,880 Also links to Venus which is zuhra in astronomy symbolizing 1052 00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:01,440 beauty and shining light. Jabin is Persian Urdu for 1053 00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:05,680 forehead and combined Zohra Jabin means a beautiful person 1054 00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:09,200 with a shining forehead. And as I mentioned, it's a 1055 00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:12,840 timeless qawwali style romantic song from the 1965 blockbuster 1056 00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:18,720 VOC and it was sung by Mannari. And if there are any Gen. 1057 00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:21,640 Z's or Gen. alphas, the very, very few of you who actually 1058 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,200 listen to our podcast, the song that I'm talking about is. 1059 00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:47,000 So this song was also based on Raga Pillu, which was inspired 1060 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,320 by an Afghan musical composition by Abdul Kapoor Breshna. 1061 00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:51,840 Lovely. OK cool. 1062 00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:56,880 Well I would not have been able to get it by Mana Day by Waqt by 1063 00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,880 Yash Chopra by Sunil. That one of those examples would 1064 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:03,680 have helped me. But DDLJI know that scene where 1065 01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:10,320 I think this is right after. The the song on the rooftop, I 1066 01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,040 think it's the sangeet part of it where where the men and the 1067 01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,320 women are all singing and dancing and celebrating during 1068 01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:17,240 the wedding. A beautiful moment. 1069 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:22,320 This point I think we are doing audience question, the senior 1070 01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:26,040 1st and then doing the junior. Yes, we are doing audience 1071 01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,400 question. The senior or rather the 1072 01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:32,640 original, the OG. So the Prime Minister is sworn 1073 01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,040 in by the President of India. The state Chief Ministers are 1074 01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:37,960 sworn in by the respective governors of state who 1075 01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:40,320 administers the oath of office to the President of India. 1076 01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:43,680 The Chief Justice. Very good. 1077 01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:45,520 Yes, it is the Chief Justice of India. 1078 01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:48,680 In the event that the Chief Justice is unavailable or the 1079 01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:52,360 position is vacant, the oath is administered by the senior most 1080 01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:55,520 judge of the Supreme Court of India, who is currently 1081 01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:59,600 available. Yeah, so that's the case. 1082 01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:02,880 Now, like I mentioned, the of President of India is sworn in 1083 01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:05,400 by the Chief Justice of India or the senior most Supreme Court 1084 01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:07,920 judge. The vice president is sworn in 1085 01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,680 by the President of India or a person appointed by the 1086 01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:12,560 President of India. In case they're too lazy or busy 1087 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:16,320 to do it, The Prime Minister is sworn in by the President of 1088 01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,320 India. A governor of a state is sworn 1089 01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:22,240 in by the Chief Justice of the respective state High Court and 1090 01:01:22,240 --> 01:01:25,360 the state chief minister is sworn in by the governor of the 1091 01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:29,880 respective state. That is the answer to the 1092 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,120 audience question that we had asked in the beginning of the 1093 01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:35,360 episode. Aditya will now regain you with 1094 01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:38,600 the next question, which is going to be the audience 1095 01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:43,160 question path. Do All right, So for the 1096 01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:47,360 audience question, as it is also commonly called, yeah, again, a 1097 01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,560 visual question. I will be posting this image on 1098 01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:54,920 Reddit on Instagram. If you are listening to this and 1099 01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,760 do not have access to those platforms, I'm going to do my 1100 01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,880 best to describe it. And you can send in your answers 1101 01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,640 on all of our social media platforms on on Instagram, on 1102 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,320 reply on Reddit and send it to us on our e-mail 1103 01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,360 areyouusingme@gmail.com, wherever you see fit. 1104 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:17,960 The image in question is of an individual who is merged atop a 1105 01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:22,280 very high stack of paper. In fact, there are two stacks of 1106 01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:26,160 paper, and all of these stacks of paper are in the middle of a 1107 01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,400 forest. So picture this, two stacks of 1108 01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:33,280 paper, a very high stack of paper, and in the middle of a 1109 01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:38,040 forest, a pretty dense forest. And on top of that is an 1110 01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:43,560 individual 2 parter. Who is this individual and what 1111 01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:48,040 is this picture for? If you know the answer, go ahead 1112 01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:51,600 and tell us on our social media platforms. 1113 01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:54,680 Looking forward to it. Aditya, before we wind up 1114 01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:57,040 today's episode, what is your pop culture? 1115 01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,720 What are your pop culture recommendations for this week? 1116 01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,800 I'm going to recommend two shows actually. 1117 01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,360 I've been watching a lot of content and there are a bunch of 1118 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,920 movies that I want to recommend, but for today only two shows. 1119 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:13,840 And the first show has to do with two women, Broad City. 1120 01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:15,640 I don't know why I slept on it. I don't know. 1121 01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:17,880 Watching it a long time back, I started it. 1122 01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:22,480 I didn't quite get engaged. And then I revisited it now and 1123 01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:26,600 just the absurdist, surrealist comedy of it is beautiful, 1124 01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,040 brilliant, so much fun. So Broad City. 1125 01:03:29,320 --> 01:03:31,200 Check it out. It is available on OTT 1126 01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:34,080 platforms. It is two women in New York 1127 01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:39,840 doing absolutely batshit stuff and having the best of times. 1128 01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:43,160 They're in their 20s. So, so think of think of I 1129 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:46,280 remember recommending adults and telling you that it is Friends, 1130 01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:51,560 but for a more modern palette, Broad City is in the 2010. 1131 01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,800 So it kind of bridges the gap when friends ended and there 1132 01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,200 wasn't anything in the mainstream which was filling 1133 01:03:57,200 --> 01:03:59,160 that niche. And then now there are the shows 1134 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,080 also. I mean, of course there are 1135 01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:03,040 other shows which are the popular Broad City was one of 1136 01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,720 the ones which was kind of under the radar. 1137 01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:10,040 Cool if you knew about it. Only the really in people knew 1138 01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:11,480 and were watching. It's a Broad City. 1139 01:04:12,320 --> 01:04:14,960 Brilliant, brilliant. By the way, actresses or female 1140 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,120 actors, whoever was created the show. 1141 01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:20,600 So check that out. The other thing that I'm going 1142 01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,880 to recommend has two men in it. Well, men. 1143 01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:27,160 They might be pushing it because one of them is a child and this 1144 01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,320 is a Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. 1145 01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:33,960 There is some really fun stuff happening on IMDb for anybody 1146 01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,200 who's chronically online because. 1147 01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:41,160 Oh yes, yes, Breaking Bad fans. Breaking Bad fans have finally, 1148 01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:44,320 quite literally been taking a peg down because they have been 1149 01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:47,480 for years and years, apparently downloading other shows and 1150 01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,120 episodes which they didn't approve of because they would 1151 01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,560 achieve the same status. That Aussie Mandy is one of the 1152 01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,200 most famous episodes on. Brilliant episode mind you, 1153 01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,520 which had a 10 on 10. Really the only ever episode to 1154 01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:05,560 get and rating and then other TV show TV episodes would would be 1155 01:05:05,560 --> 01:05:07,560 close to achieving it and then breaking back. 1156 01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,320 Fans would go and just review bomb it. 1157 01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,000 So they tried to do that same thing with the recent episode of 1158 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:16,680 Night of Seven Kingdom. And finally, finally the dam 1159 01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:20,920 broke and it kind of backfired because there were review bombs 1160 01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,760 on Aussie Mandeas. So both Aussie mandeas and the 1161 01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:26,640 Night of Seven Kingdoms episode, both of them no longer are at 1162 01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,640 10. They're all at 9 point something 1163 01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:35,000 regardless all that stupid drama side net ascend kingdoms just so 1164 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,080 much fun and I don't remember the last time something in the 1165 01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:41,560 Game of Thrones universe excited me it and in a very different 1166 01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:42,520 way. It doesn't have anything to do 1167 01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,200 with, like, murder, intrigue, incest, none of that. 1168 01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:49,400 It is just a very small, simple, beautiful story of somebody in 1169 01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,200 this fantasy medieval Duncan Egg situation. 1170 01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:52,760 Yeah. Dunks. 1171 01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:56,080 Sir Duncan, other than Dunk and Egg, is this little child who's. 1172 01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:58,400 Sir Duncan's a. Dog in the tall and Egg who 1173 01:05:58,400 --> 01:06:01,320 wants to be squat. Two very interesting characters, 1174 01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:03,360 2 very well written characters, 2 characters that you just want 1175 01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:06,640 to empathize with. And so far at least, nothing too 1176 01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:09,280 too drastically bad about them has happened in the show. 1177 01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:11,960 Who knows what features episodes have in store? 1178 01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:17,200 So I haven't seen the show, but I am a big fan of the stories, 1179 01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:20,640 the short stories on which they are based, and the graphic 1180 01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:22,160 novels. I've read both versions. 1181 01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:27,160 For those who haven't, I would say go in without any spoilers 1182 01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,840 because there is a pretty big twist. 1183 01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,520 You know, you, you could probably see it coming somewhere 1184 01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,760 around one at least 2/3 into the story. 1185 01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:40,600 So that is possible. You know that you might enjoy it 1186 01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:43,200 if you go in without any spoilers, though. 1187 01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,920 I'd be more interested in seeing how they make the second story 1188 01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,920 the Swan Sword because I've felt that was one of that is one of 1189 01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:51,040 the weakest of the Duncan Egg tales. 1190 01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,000 I think there are three out of the thing that will be. 1191 01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:54,480 They're planning that as the next season. 1192 01:06:55,200 --> 01:06:58,280 But I'm waiting for all the episodes to air before I watch 1193 01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,120 it. And I think the last episode 1194 01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:02,520 just aired a couple of days ago, but I haven't gone out to 1195 01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:05,960 watching it, which I will. My recommendation is a movie 1196 01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,800 called a Ronin. Have you seen this movie? 1197 01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:11,280 A video? I have a feeling I have, yes. 1198 01:07:11,280 --> 01:07:16,760 Yeah. Yes, So Ronan is a 1998 noir spy 1199 01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,640 thriller. Oh no, I've not seen it. 1200 01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:19,960 It's on my list. I've not seen it. 1201 01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,760 OK, so it's it's got like a fantastic cast. 1202 01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,960 You've got Robert De Niro, Jean Renault, Sean Bean, Stellen 1203 01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:30,760 Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce, and a lot of character actors who you 1204 01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,640 will recognize if and when you see the movie. 1205 01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,080 I'm just, I'll just say just go watch the movie. 1206 01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:38,120 It's a very 90s movie. You can obviously like 1207 01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:40,440 everything the way from the way it's short to the locations to 1208 01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,240 the storylines. Everything is very 90s. 1209 01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:47,040 It's about a team of former spies and special operators who 1210 01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:49,720 come together, who are brought together by this mysterious 1211 01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:54,240 figure and who wants them to steal something and things just 1212 01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,600 go from there. I really enjoy it because it's 1213 01:07:56,600 --> 01:08:00,880 got some killer car chase cakes seats, like some very realistic 1214 01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,360 car chase scenes, which is not surprising because the director 1215 01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:09,280 was John Frankenheimer, who directed with the Manchurian 1216 01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,440 Candidate, who directed the French Connection. 1217 01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:15,800 So those are, you know, famous movies of the 1960s and the 70s, 1218 01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:17,880 and this was, I think his last big film. 1219 01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:22,160 So I would say go watch Ronan. And that's all the time we have 1220 01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,200 for today's episode. Thank you all for joining in. 1221 01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:27,560 We hope you enjoyed the show. Please reach out to us on 1222 01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:29,840 Instagram at Are You Quizzing Me? 1223 01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:32,920 If you want questions that you have which you want asked on the 1224 01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,520 show, please send them to us at areyouquizzingme@gmail.com. 1225 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:38,080 Just make sure to put the name of the quizmaster in the subject 1226 01:08:38,080 --> 01:08:41,279 line. You can also find us on any 1227 01:08:41,279 --> 01:08:43,960 podcast platform. Please rate, review, and 1228 01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,800 subscribe on whichever platform you're listening to and follow 1229 01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:50,200 us on YouTube and Instagram. That's all the time we have. 1230 01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:54,760 And I will see you all next week and Aditya will see you next 1231 01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:59,840 week with the answer to the audience question, Pennsylvania 1232 01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:04,840 Do, which is French for Part 2. And as we like to say, dig a 1233 01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:09,160 little deeper. Nah. 1234 01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:10,080 Nope. Nope. 1235 01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:10,520 Nope.