# Episode 053 - Football Jerseys, Anagrams & Crooked Men

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 23 Jan 2024, 56 min.

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Do you know why the English and Swiss teams left names off their Jerseys during a friendly football match in 2022? Do you know which late 90s movie's name was an anagram of the title of the book on which it was based? Do you know which famous publication was brave enough to publish a short story on a future where homosexuality was the norm in 1955? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to Are you quizzing Me? I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back, ladies and gentlemen, for
[0:20] Episode #53 of Your Favorite Quizzing Trivia Podcast Show.
[0:24] Are you quizzing me? As you may have noticed, our
[0:29] opening music is back. As for the wishes of everyone
[0:32] who voted, thank you for voting and letting us know that we
[0:36] should be keeping this music rather than digging it.
[0:38] So let's move on to today's regularly scheduled programming.
[0:43] I'll start off with the audience question for this week.
[0:46] I will answer this question at the end of today's episode.
[0:49] The question is this. X got its name from overlooking
[0:53] something that regulated the flow of water from the Potomac
[0:57] River into the tidal Basin at flood tide.
[1:01] What is XI will repeat the question.
[1:04] X got its name from overlooking something that regulated the
[1:08] flow of water from the Potomac River into the Tidal Basin at
[1:12] flood tide. What is XI will reveal the
[1:17] answer to this question at the end of today's episode.
[1:20] Now let's go back to Aditya. Who Will edifies with his weird
[1:26] measuring system? What was the question last week
[1:29] that yeah, you were weighing Hollywood stars.
[1:33] Do you remember you asking something about that?
[1:36] I was attaching weight to the celebrity status for Hollywood
[1:41] star, so it's a very convoluted and specific measurement.
[1:47] And of course in reference to another unit that you mentioned
[1:52] last week, which was the unit of stone and imperial unit used to
[1:59] measure mass, when you want to measure the celebrity status and
[2:02] the weight that the celebrity carries, you measure it in the
[2:06] rock. I'm guessing this is one of
[2:09] those units where the value never goes more than one, but
[2:14] the highest possible value is 1 because you can never be greater
[2:18] than the rock. Obviously.
[2:21] So you have Dwayne Johnson, which is who is at 1 Rock, and
[2:27] then everybody else is valued at a fraction of a rock in the
[2:31] celebrity status. Potentially, Tom Hanks could
[2:34] equal 1 Rock or might surpass it, but most of the celebrities
[2:38] would have to settle for a fraction of it.
[2:41] So what would John Cena rank on this?
[2:44] Oh, you don't see him on the list?
[2:49] Very nice. Very nice.
[2:50] So with that quite trivial start to today's episode, let's move
[2:55] on to some serious quizzing. Aditya shall I start off
[2:58] procedures for today. Take it away.
[3:00] So in December 2021, a German chemical and agricultural
[3:05] company launched a particular product, X, in Italy.
[3:10] It was the result of more than 30 years of work and it was
[3:15] called a game changer and a breakthrough innovation.
[3:18] The main feature of this product was that it helped with a
[3:23] process that was something of a nightmare for many people.
[3:28] And people used to go to great lengths to make sure that they
[3:32] didn't go through this experience, which included
[3:34] soaking in water, freezing, chewing gum, etcetera.
[3:39] So my question to you to to you Aditya today is what product am
[3:43] I talking about? Could you repeat the time period
[3:45] again? So this is in 2021.
[3:48] I'll go through the salient features of the question again.
[3:51] December 2021, a German chemical and agricultural company
[3:55] introduced a product in the Italian market.
[3:59] It was the result of three decades, more than 30 years of
[4:03] work and it was called a game changer and a breakthrough
[4:06] innovation. The main USP of this particular
[4:11] product is that it did not have or it prevented a particular
[4:16] thing that was a nightmare for a lot of people.
[4:18] And people used to go to great lengths to not have that
[4:22] particular nightmare experience, which included soaking in water,
[4:26] freezing, chewing gum and many other shortcuts and remedies and
[4:31] tips that they used to do. So my question to you is, what
[4:34] is this particular product that a lot of people even in India
[4:39] would, I think welcome with open arms?
[4:42] It is a little vague, but then I've been told that you've been
[4:44] cracking my questions too fast. So I have decided to raise the
[4:49] notch a little bit, you know. Don't know who is telling you
[4:52] all these lies because I have equally stumped every single
[4:55] time. But OK, let's try this.
[4:57] Going through multiple jumping through multiple hoops to try to
[5:02] solve something. I don't know why it makes me go
[5:06] towards hiccups, but why would hiccups be exclusively Italian?
[5:10] I don't know so. No, I mean, like they launched
[5:13] it in Italy. It's quite possible it may be
[5:15] coming to India as well, but it's not hiccups.
[5:18] I'll I'll tell you that it's not hiccups.
[5:20] Like if you go online, there are a lot of things that people say
[5:23] prevent this particular nightmarish experience, which
[5:26] includes soaking in water, freezing and interestingly
[5:30] enough, chewing gum, which to be honest, I myself have tried,
[5:36] doesn't work. Oh, I know what this is.
[5:39] This is the ability to cut onions without tearing up.
[5:43] Yeah. So what's the product?
[5:44] Do you have any idea what the product was?
[5:46] Is it some kind of goggles that you wear?
[5:49] No. Interesting an onion slicer.
[5:53] I don't know how you would be innovating on something as
[5:56] simple as an onion slicer. No, it's not an onion slicer
[6:01] like you have the concept right. Yes, the problem that they
[6:03] solved is the fact that people tear up when they cut onions.
[6:09] OK, but I don't know what the product is it.
[6:12] Took them 30 years to work it out, and I'm guessing even if it
[6:16] came to India, it'll be ridiculously expensive that
[6:18] people probably wouldn't want to go through, wouldn't want to buy
[6:20] it because of the price. Considering that this is
[6:25] something that had a lot of research behind it, it'll be
[6:27] probably really expensive. Sort of a knife that instantly
[6:31] absorbs the fumes that are released.
[6:34] No, no, Let's go say that they went to the root of the problem.
[6:39] The root of the problem? Did they just come up with a new
[6:45] seed, a a new type of variation to the onion genome which would
[6:51] result in that particular chemical not being part of the?
[6:55] Yes, you're right. They came up with tearless
[6:58] onions. Tearless onions.
[7:02] Tearless onions. I'm very interested to see how
[7:05] that would affect the flavor of the onion.
[7:08] This is something I'm I I keep wondering why?
[7:10] Why wasn't this the first thing that people did when they
[7:12] started gene editing? Yes, because that's the most
[7:16] important thing to solve. Exactly like I cook more than
[7:20] the average person, and even today I have problems with
[7:24] onions. Never shy away from a good cry,
[7:27] I use that as an excuse to just work through my issues a couple
[7:31] of times a week. Just cuts onions and let the
[7:33] tears flow. Always a heavy.
[7:36] Release. I'll take that advice into
[7:40] consideration. So I'm passing the baton to you.
[7:44] What's your next question? All right.
[7:46] So my question is, in a way a spiritual successor to a
[7:52] question I asked in one of the previous episodes.
[7:55] In a recent episode, I asked you about the Japanese practice of
[7:59] folding 1000 origami cranes. Yes.
[8:03] So today I'm going to ask you about Japanese characters and
[8:09] tell me how do we know them popularly today as the character
[8:13] names are Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwazaru.
[8:19] Powerpuff Girls. No, these are not the Powerpuff.
[8:21] That's really fun guess, but no. Yeah, because you said three.
[8:25] You know, the moment I heard three?
[8:27] Miyazaru, Kikazaru and. Iwazaru.
[8:31] Please don't tell me this is something about the Pokémon
[8:33] universe. Your your Is this a spiritual
[8:35] success? To your Pokémon question as
[8:37] well. No, not in this case.
[8:41] So it it is very vague at this point and if you knew the answer
[8:45] just by the names you would have gotten it already.
[8:47] So let let me give you some clues to help you along.
[8:50] These three are a Japanese pictorial maxim.
[8:55] Oh, OK, this is. I'm guessing these are the three
[8:59] monkeys. See no evil, he no evil, and
[9:02] speak no evil. Oh boy, that was too quick.
[9:06] That was way too quick. I was hoping to spend a little
[9:08] bit more time on this, but you got that very well.
[9:13] Yes, it is. Mizarro is sees no evil,
[9:17] Kikazaru is hears no evil, and Iwazaru is speaks no evil.
[9:20] And the origin of the three wise monkeys is from a 17th century
[9:25] carving over a door in a shrine in Nikko in Japan.
[9:31] A Shinto shrine. Toshugu Shine is actually the
[9:33] name of the shrine if I'm not wrong, and it is a regular
[9:37] Shinto shrine. It's a type of Shinto shrine.
[9:39] I guess they were carved by somebody called Hidari Jingoro
[9:44] and believed to have incorporated Confucius's code of
[9:48] conduct using the monkey as a way to depict man's life cycle.
[9:53] So that's where it originated from.
[9:55] I don't know if most of us who are aware of the three wise
[10:00] monkeys only as something that Mahatma Gandhi had popularized
[10:05] would know that the origin is actually Japanese.
[10:08] Yeah, I was very surprised to find out.
[10:10] I was aware that it was it predated Mahatma Gandhi's usage
[10:17] of these of this particular symbol, but I am.
[10:19] I was aware that it was Eastern, but the names I was not aware of
[10:24] but. No, that's a great crack.
[10:27] And also interestingly enough, the statues of those 3 monkeys
[10:30] were gifted to him by a gentleman by the name of
[10:34] Nichidatsu. Fuji was a Japanese Buddhist
[10:37] monk and when he visited India he gifted it to Gandhi.
[10:42] And that's how Gandhi got the Three Monkeys, whose names I
[10:45] believe he gave were Bapu, Ketan and Bandar.
[10:48] These are the three names today, a large representation of the
[10:51] Three Monkeys. The statue that he was gifted is
[10:54] displayed at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad.
[10:57] So yeah, we might have heard of it in Gandhi's context, but
[11:01] Japanese origin? Mizaru.
[11:03] Kazaru. Iwazaru.
[11:05] Well, correct. Very.
[11:06] Nice, Very nice. Very nice.
[11:08] Great question by the way. I'm going to go back a couple of
[11:11] years so, you know, friendly soccer or let's be honest,
[11:17] football match between England and Switzerland in March of
[11:21] 2022. The player shirts were seen to
[11:26] have no names on them, only the number.
[11:30] OK, this is contrary to the norm where the players have their
[11:32] names as well as the number written on the back of the
[11:35] shirt. Can you tell me why this was?
[11:38] Why did they do this? Once again, what is the date?
[11:42] It was March of 2022. It was a friendly soccer match
[11:47] for a football match between England and Switzerland and the
[11:51] players shirts did not have a name on the back.
[11:55] It only had the number. Can you tell me why they did
[11:58] this? March of 2022.
[12:02] I don't think you should focus much on the date, it won't give.
[12:05] You much? I was trying to wonder if
[12:07] there's any COVID connection, but all right, I would imagine a
[12:12] lot of these things are done to pay tribute.
[12:14] Was this paying tribute to somebody who had passed away or
[12:18] something? It wasn't a an act of tribute.
[12:23] My first clue to you would be. It was an act of support,
[12:27] support. Again, are we talking about
[12:29] somebody specific? Are we some?
[12:31] Specific, not specific, not not a specific person, but rather a
[12:35] group of or a small population of people.
[12:39] OK, so I am inclined to think refugees, maybe because so many
[12:45] of them lose. I mean it's a far stitch.
[12:48] I was thinking so many of them lose their important documents
[12:50] and hence their identification. You wouldn't be wrong that way.
[12:54] Your thought is in the right process, but you're off base
[12:58] with refugees we are talking about.
[13:01] It's like a representation of how a certain group of the
[13:06] population live. Oh, group of population.
[13:11] It's a group of people who live nameless.
[13:14] Or it's representative of that. It's not like they they are
[13:17] nameless. OK.
[13:19] So on a football field, right, if you have people running
[13:24] around and you don't know which number is which person, you
[13:28] would obviously then depend on the name, correct?
[13:32] Right. To know who exactly it is.
[13:34] Because if they're running full tilt and the only thing you can
[13:36] see is them from the back, you are dependent on that name to a
[13:40] certain extent. Unless you are a commentator who
[13:43] knows all the players by heart, or if that person has a very
[13:47] memorable number, you would require the name.
[13:49] So by erasing that name, what does that show regarding them?
[13:54] Regarding people seeing them and maybe explaining this clue a
[13:58] little weirdly? I'll give you a more easy clue.
[14:00] Think medical condition. Well, that's great.
[14:05] You said that because I was a inclined to think something
[14:08] along the lines of mental health.
[14:11] Though the verbal gymnastics you have done to try to not make the
[14:15] answer too easy, I commend that. OK, so mental health, no name.
[14:21] Oh OK Is it dementia? Is it Alzheimer's?
[14:25] Is. It it is dementia, it is
[14:26] dementia. OK.
[14:28] So this was done as part of an act of support to the people
[14:33] suffering from dementia. The act of not having their
[14:38] names printed was, in a way, representing how people
[14:42] suffering with dementia live. Like they sometimes forget who
[14:45] they are, they sometimes they forget who other people are.
[14:49] They're not able to recognize them, they forget things, right?
[14:52] So this was a way to show them, and this was not the first time.
[14:54] This has been done multiple times.
[14:56] I think the English football women's football team also once
[14:59] had a match where 30% of the players did not have the name on
[15:04] their jerseys. That was to kind of represent to
[15:07] the proportion of the population UK population which suffers from
[15:11] or was at risk of dementia. Wow, that's a significant
[15:15] population. I'm talking about, I think so,
[15:18] 30% of the elderly, not of the whole population.
[15:21] All right. But yeah, great crack man, Great
[15:23] crack fun. Question and lovely, worthwhile
[15:27] cause. Yeah, moving from something very
[15:30] important to something absolutely ridiculous.
[15:35] My next question is about a world championship.
[15:40] OK, so this has been a world championship, which has been
[15:44] active for the last few years. The most recent winner, Andrew
[15:49] Nagai, fended off competitors from across the globe to reclaim
[15:54] the event and was televised live on ESPN.
[15:59] But I'm talking December 2023, so very recently.
[16:03] OK. Andrew Nagai also goes by the
[16:06] moniker the NI Later. OK.
[16:10] And I'm just going to give you a little bit of a low down as to
[16:12] what is happening on the eventful championship night.
[16:18] The guy decided it. It wasn't his night because
[16:21] Michael Germann from the UK or Peter Shal from the US looked
[16:27] set to win. But Nagaya didn't have to worry.
[16:31] Obviously, he eventually did win.
[16:33] For some unknown reason, there was a mismatch between the score
[16:38] sheet and the live stream. So while he was worried that
[16:43] what I was being shown wasn't showing him that he's going to
[16:47] win because when the mismatch was corrected he realized he's
[16:50] going to win. So this is a little bit of an
[16:52] tidbit as to what is happening on the evening.
[16:54] I'm not sure that'll lead you to the answer, but I just wanted to
[16:57] tell you, yeah. He was eventually congratulated
[17:00] on Twitter by a brand and the tweet on X or Twitter was you
[17:11] didn't just succeed, you excelled.
[17:13] Weird thought, Knowing you, I'm guessing this is not a
[17:18] mainstream sport. For some reason my mind has gone
[17:23] to competitive eating. That's such a fun guess, but no,
[17:28] it's not competitive eating. OK, because I I thought this was
[17:32] like a hot dog eating contest or something like that.
[17:34] OK, so no names don't seem familiar, but then I don't
[17:40] follow sports and you said it was broadcast live on ESPN.
[17:45] Yeah. Obviously it's a solo sport, not
[17:49] a team sport, right? Because you've mentioned single
[17:52] names rather than teams, so it's a solo sport.
[17:57] And Nikkei is Japanese. You said Nikkei, yes, so he's
[18:01] Japanese. Is this sumo wrestling?
[18:04] No. OK, not sumo wrestling.
[18:06] And the tweet you said was he did not just win, he excelled.
[18:11] Yeah. Is this esports some kind of
[18:15] video Game Match up? You are getting warmer, but not
[18:19] the answer so far. You know, I am kind of going in
[18:24] another direction now. Again, I'm not playing.
[18:27] I'm not trying to answer the question.
[18:28] I'm going to try to answer Aditya's personality here,
[18:32] because you particularly picked out that tweet which said that
[18:36] you he did not just win, he excelled.
[18:39] Is was this like a tweeting competition or something?
[18:42] Were they putting up tweets on X, the platform?
[18:46] And therefore he excelled? You are getting very close.
[18:49] You're very, very close. It is, I guess, a pun, yeah, in
[18:55] the tweet itself. OK, that's the limit of what I
[19:00] could think of for that particular one.
[19:02] He excelled Excel OK, Was this an is there a worldwide Excel
[19:07] competition? Microsoft Excel Competition.
[19:10] There's a financial Modelling World Cup WOW who's Microsoft
[19:16] Excel based competition and the Microsoft Excel World
[19:20] Championship happened in December 2023, which is won by
[19:23] this particular person. The first competition started in
[19:27] September 2020, so it's not that long ago.
[19:30] This is the kind of thing I can get on board with like Excel,
[19:34] PowerPoint. I have a weakness for Excel
[19:36] especially. I literally be glued on the
[19:38] screen. They showed it live.
[19:39] Nice. It is no.
[19:41] This is exactly what you would imagine this is happening live.
[19:44] People go view it as well. It's a competitive sport and
[19:48] they're given tasks that they're supposed to solve and of course
[19:52] it's a time based thing, so it's.
[19:54] I really have to dig up on YouTube.
[19:57] I have to dig this up on YouTube.
[19:58] I really have to watch this. I'm not even kidding here.
[20:01] I'm literally excited for this. You should check it out by the
[20:05] way. Andrew Nagai, I think I misspoke
[20:08] earlier. He's from Sydney, Australia, 36
[20:12] year old. Sydney.
[20:14] Australia. He is actually an actuary.
[20:19] Makes sense. That makes sense.
[20:21] Yeah, they deal with a lot of actuarial tables and
[20:24] computations, so it does make sense that an actuary would be
[20:26] the one to win this. I guess so.
[20:29] Sure. So you didn't just succeed, you
[20:33] excelled, was how Microsoft congratulated the guy.
[20:36] Nice. And one fan said that the
[20:39] victory on Twitter. There was a tweet, apparently,
[20:42] that this victory will go down as a historical American sports
[20:45] moment on par with Babe Ruth calling his home run shot in the
[20:49] 1932 World Series. Now I have not watched.
[20:53] Baseball. But I do know the name Babe
[20:55] Ruth, so if this particular guy is being compared to Babe Ruth,
[20:59] it must be a big deal. Even if it was just a random
[21:02] fan, seems to be quite the big deal.
[21:06] Thank you by the way for letting me know this was a massive DILI
[21:11] did not know that there was an Excel World Championship and I
[21:15] am not even kidding. I'm legit excited to see how
[21:17] that's going to look like. Yeah, please do, please do.
[21:21] And unofficial recommendation for our listeners to go check
[21:24] something out later? Yeah.
[21:26] Yes, yes. OK.
[21:28] So my question to you is regarding a town.
[21:31] I need you to identify the town. I'll give you details about the
[21:34] town. This town was founded by Sir
[21:36] Frederick Lawley, a British officer in the 19th century, by
[21:40] combining and developing a few villages together.
[21:44] It is located on the banks of the River Saraju, near the Mempi
[21:48] Forest. Graham Greene, one of the
[21:51] greatest novelists of the 20th century.
[21:53] One said about the town that one could go into these loved and
[21:57] shabby streets and see with excitement and a certainty of
[22:00] pleasure, a stranger approaching past the bank, the cinema, the
[22:05] hair cutting salon, a stranger who will greet us, we know with
[22:09] some unexpected and revealing phrase that will open the door
[22:12] to yet another human existence. Which town am I talking about?
[22:17] You haven't mentioned which part of India this.
[22:20] No, I have not mentioned which part of India.
[22:24] OK, because I'm completely stumped right now.
[22:27] I don't even know much about the reversal.
[22:29] Are you? So could you give me maybe?
[22:31] Part of India? I'll give you a clue.
[22:33] So the name of this town is actually a portmanteau of two
[22:38] other places. That doesn't make this any
[22:40] easier because I am of two other places, so of two other towns,
[22:45] is it? Yeah, localities, maybe you
[22:48] could say so. The name of this particular town
[22:51] is a portmanteau of two major other localities.
[22:55] No idea, no. This town was brought to
[22:58] prominence to the public at large, right?
[23:04] OK, I'm talking about the public at large like we're talking mass
[23:07] level. It was brought into people's
[23:09] homes and people saw this town for the first time due to the
[23:14] efforts of one Mr. Shankar Nag. Shankar Nag sounds very
[23:19] familiar. Is he a journalist or writer or
[23:23] something? Or does he sound so familiar?
[23:25] He is from the same neck of the woods as you are currently,
[23:31] profession wise. OK, not Versova?
[23:35] No, definitely not. Sounds very familiar, but boy, I
[23:40] have no clue right now. You still haven't told me which
[23:43] part of India it is in, so maybe that could be one last clue.
[23:46] If I don't get it, then you can. OK, so South India.
[23:52] South India. OK, I'll give you an additional
[23:57] clue. The name of this particular town
[24:00] was made out of a portmanteau of two Bangalore localities.
[24:05] OK, so this is in Karnataka. You could say so.
[24:10] Oh, OK, that's interesting. You could say so.
[24:16] Oh well. Actually, the question I should
[24:18] have asked maybe. And if I still can't connect it,
[24:21] then you can give me the answer. Is this town still existing?
[24:24] Technically, yes. Technically, yes.
[24:30] Oh oh Vineet, I waited so long to ask you this question.
[24:36] Is it a fictional town? Yes, it is a fictional town.
[24:43] I should just start every question with that.
[24:46] Is this person, town, entity, event, country you were talking
[24:50] about Fictional or real OK, fictional town, famous fictional
[24:55] town in oh, is it Swami and his friends?
[24:59] Is it Malgoody? Yes, it is Malgoody.
[25:03] OK, all right, all right. Wow, that took quite that took
[25:07] me quite a while, but interesting.
[25:09] Wait, explain the history, please.
[25:12] Malgoody was created, as mentioned in the Malgoody Days
[25:15] anthology by Sir Frederick Lawley, a fictional British
[25:20] officer in the 19th century. By combining and developing a
[25:23] few villages, the character of Sir Frederick Lawley may have
[25:27] been based on the real Arthur Lolly who was the governor of
[25:31] Madras in 19 O 0 Nineteen O 519 O 5 Malgudi is located in its
[25:38] fictional universe among the banks of the fictional river
[25:41] Saraju. Not to be confused with the
[25:43] dried up review, Saraju from North India and near also the
[25:48] near the also fictional Mempi forest on the border of the
[25:52] states of Mysore and Madras and a few hours away from Madras.
[25:58] We're obviously talking about pre independence India.
[26:00] Now the fact is Narayan RK Narayan who created Malgoodi has
[26:05] asserted multiple times that Malgoodi's a work of fiction.
[26:08] But this has not stopped a lot of die hard fans from
[26:11] speculating about its actual location.
[26:13] So they suspected it could be Mysore.
[26:16] Other possible locations include Lalguri, Yadav, Giri near the
[26:21] erstwhile states of Mysore and Malgoodi was a portmanteau of
[26:26] two Bangalore localities, Malleshwaram and Basavanagudi.
[26:30] So Malleshwaram, Basavanagudi, Malgudi.
[26:34] Graham Greene was obviously talking about this town through
[26:37] his view after reading Malgudi Days and Swami and friends and
[26:40] all the other novels and short stories.
[26:44] So the town that I was talking about is indeed the fictional
[26:47] town of Malgudi. And Mr. Shankar Nag was the
[26:51] Kannada writer, director and playwright who was responsible
[26:54] for bringing Malgoodi days to Doordarshan in the mid 80s and
[26:58] thereby bringing it to the homes and hearts and minds of Indians
[27:01] everywhere. Very cool.
[27:04] I specifically love that it is a portmanteau of the Bangalorean
[27:08] localities, The ones you mentioned, the whatever it was,
[27:12] the one that's starting with them, Mal Malaysia.
[27:15] Malleshwaram, Malleswaram and Basavanagudi.
[27:18] Malleswaram and Basavanagudi. Yeah, it's so interesting that
[27:22] it's a portmanteau on these two localities where I always
[27:26] assumed that Malgudi had something to do with Malgudi,
[27:29] like a train which carries goods.
[27:33] It's, it's, it's very, it's a very North Indian thing.
[27:37] To think that something so essentially South Indian must
[27:39] have been derived from a North Indian Hindi town.
[27:43] Absolutely, yeah. Because I know for a fact that
[27:46] this is supposed to be a town set in South India, but for some
[27:50] reason I assume that the Hindi word malgadi would be relevant
[27:54] here, which is quite stupid in retrospect.
[27:56] Yeah, there we go. Some North Indian privilege
[27:59] right here. Interestingly and even the when
[28:03] you say Malgadi to our non Hindi speaking listeners, he's talking
[28:07] about a good strain, a train or a cargo train, right?
[28:11] Interestingly enough, in his interviews in RK Narayan's
[28:15] interviews with his biographers, he actually said that in his
[28:19] mind, when he was making this place up in his mind, he first
[28:22] imagined a railway station and then after that the name Malgudi
[28:27] came to him. Interesting.
[28:29] And what is also more interesting is that the MP the
[28:32] the Lok Sabha MP for Shimoga, also now known as Shivamoga, has
[28:38] requested the Indian Railways to rename Arasalu railway station,
[28:42] which is a small railway station on the Shimoga Talaguppa railway
[28:46] line, to Malgudi railway station.
[28:49] They've been asking to rename it to Malgudi so that they can
[28:51] actually be a real Malgudi railway station.
[28:54] Which is also because the TV show, the Doordarshan TV Show
[28:58] was shot extensively around Agumbe which is a very which is
[29:04] also known as the Cherrapanjee of the South.
[29:05] It's a beautiful location. If you've not been, it's not
[29:09] that far from Udupi you can drive.
[29:12] It's a fantastic location. I have been there.
[29:14] It's a fantastic location. A lot of it was short there, so
[29:18] I just love the entire thing, you know, Malgudi, the TV
[29:21] series, the books. There's a kind of purity and
[29:24] innocence in those books that just you don't find in
[29:27] literature anymore. Yeah, I imagine it.
[29:31] I can't recall for my life right now if it does have that, If it
[29:35] feels dated now with the seeing it from today's lens, maybe it
[29:39] has some archaic ideas of society and whatever it was back
[29:44] then. However, I compare it to
[29:46] something like the William series by Richmond Crompton,
[29:50] something I grew up reading a lot as a kid.
[29:53] And of course it views things like gender roles and and racial
[29:59] stereotypes from a very early 20th century Victorian lens.
[30:03] It is. It is by any measurement.
[30:08] It is kind of problematic today, but it still is a lovely book to
[30:12] read and it holds a definitely a special place for me.
[30:15] I I loved reading it growing up so and Malgori days and Swami
[30:18] and his friends was in the same vicinity.
[30:21] It has always been so. Such a special read.
[30:24] Yeah, I know there are certain books and things that when we
[30:27] read from childhood, they hold a special place in my in our
[30:30] hearts. And I I always feel that maybe
[30:32] we shouldn't be revisiting those because I made the mistake of
[30:36] revisiting some of Enid Blyton's work much later on in life.
[30:43] Not it was uncomfortable to read, to say the least.
[30:50] Yeah, fair enough. Fair enough.
[30:51] So I basically now stopped reading any old books that I
[30:55] still hold in, you know, with which I see through the Rose
[30:59] tinted lenses of nostalgia. Yeah, De Lulu is the only
[31:03] Solulu. Always.
[31:05] That's me embracing the Gen. Z.
[31:09] Yeah. OK, your question.
[31:11] So I'm going to talk about a film now and since you mentioned
[31:16] entertainment and how it affects real life and you and he was
[31:21] inspired by a railway station to come with the name Malgudi and
[31:24] now they're trying to name railway station after that.
[31:26] So somehow seems connected in a way to my question because I'm
[31:32] talking about a 1999 American biographical drama film.
[31:36] This is directed by Joe Johnston.
[31:39] It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, Laura Dunn,
[31:45] and it was very well received when it came out.
[31:49] It is based on a book, a 1998 memoir.
[31:53] Now this book, the title of this book couldn't be used as is for
[31:59] the movie's name because Universal Studios marketing
[32:02] people who got involved in the marketing for this film, they
[32:06] said that the title needed to change because according to the
[32:09] research, women over 30 would never see a movie titled XX
[32:15] being the name of the book. So X was changed to something
[32:19] eventually and this is how it ties back to your Malgoody
[32:22] question. Eventually the book was re
[32:24] released under the name of the movie, this time because they
[32:28] wanted to capitalize on the interest in the film and how
[32:31] much of a buzz it was generating.
[32:33] So the book was called X. Initially a movie by the name of
[32:37] Y was released which was an anagram of X and the book X was
[32:42] re released under the title Y because they wanted to
[32:45] capitalize on all the buzz being created.
[32:48] So without giving any of the titles yet, can you tell me what
[32:52] this movie was? OK, massive flex coming up,
[32:57] warning to everybody. I'm going to be insufferable for
[33:00] the next two minutes. I'm also going to add and add a
[33:03] dimension to your question by saying that Universals Research
[33:07] may have been wrong because the original title I was was used as
[33:12] the title of a a web series in India in the past two years,
[33:16] which was extremely successful, especially among women, because
[33:20] of the charisma of the lead actors.
[33:22] So this is my flex for you. The movie starring Jake Ian Hall
[33:27] was October Sky, which was the anagram for the book Rocket
[33:32] Boys. Wow.
[33:34] I I that was going to be my clue.
[33:36] You just literally notably answered my question.
[33:38] You also gave yourself the clue and like so hard.
[33:44] I love it though. That was phenomenal.
[33:46] That was such a good crack. I generally thought I would have
[33:49] to give you October Sky and would ask you then to figure out
[33:51] what it is an anagram of. And I thought even then it would
[33:54] be a tough question. But God damn it, I forget
[33:57] sometimes that I'm up against Vineet.
[33:59] No. No, no.
[34:00] OK. Genius Nair.
[34:02] You will not believe this. This is like the bottom line off
[34:04] effect, like when you hear about something and then you keep
[34:08] hearing about it again and again until it seems more common and
[34:10] more prevalent than it actually is.
[34:13] There was this video that popped up like a short reel about, you
[34:19] know, these kind of motivational things that people put up to
[34:22] make to get views, right. So don't ignore the lonely guy
[34:27] sitting in the cafeteria. He may be the one.
[34:29] So there's a scene in the movie where Jake Gyllenhaal's, who's
[34:32] very young Jake Gyllenhaal's character gets up and sits near
[34:35] the quote UN quote nerd boy and asks him, can you can you tell
[34:40] me any everything you know about rockets?
[34:43] So I've not seen October Sky. I saw this reel and I I went
[34:46] through the comment section obviously, and somebody said
[34:49] that this is a movie called October Sky Movie was completely
[34:52] unfamiliar, but because it was Jake, Illinois, I just googled
[34:55] it and on Wikipedia this was written like it was from a book
[35:01] called Rocket Boys. But the Universal said that the
[35:04] polling showed that women wouldn't watch it, so they
[35:07] changed it in anagram of this and you will not believe this.
[35:10] I actually have this very question lined up for today's
[35:16] quiz. You know, I was wondering how
[35:20] far along would we have to go for that to happen where I have
[35:23] to use a backup question because Vineet asks the question that I
[35:26] have planned on the very same day.
[35:28] I love that this has happened finally.
[35:30] Not bad, not bad 50. Three.
[35:32] I literally have that here. It's there in my list for today.
[35:35] I always have a couple of extra questions in case because I
[35:38] sometimes I decide on the spot key.
[35:39] I'm not going to ask this question, but I literally have
[35:42] the question here. Rocket Boys, October Sky.
[35:45] Oh well. Oh, that is well, a phenomenal
[35:48] coincidence and I guess a well deserved quick crack on Vineet's
[35:52] part. But I should, for the benefit of
[35:54] our listeners, just go a little bit more into detail.
[35:58] October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film.
[36:03] It's based on a memoir about the true story of Homer H Hickam
[36:08] Junior who was a coal miner's son who was inspired by the
[36:11] launch of Sputnik One to take up Rocketry and he eventually
[36:16] became a NASA engineer. So it's a inspiring story.
[36:18] It's a real life story. And Rocket Boys was the name of
[36:22] the memoir which was released in 1998.
[36:24] Octobus Sky was the name of the film that was inspired by the
[36:27] memoir and they did an anagram on the name Rocket Boys which
[36:31] became Octobus Sky. Eventually Rocket Boys was re
[36:33] released under the name Octobus Sky to capitalize on all the
[36:38] buzz around the well received film.
[36:40] And yes, Vineet is right. Rocket Boys is also ATV show
[36:44] that came out in the recent past in India and it had to do with
[36:48] India's own space program. And clearly Universal Pictures
[36:53] did not know what they were talking about.
[36:54] It has been a popular show. Yes, it has now, though in
[36:59] retrospect I maybe should not have elaborated on how I knew
[37:02] this just to make myself appear more all knowing.
[37:07] But yeah, this is a strange coincidence.
[37:11] We need that humanizes you, OK? Because I have heard actually
[37:14] from some of our listeners as to how do we crack the questions so
[37:19] quickly sometimes. And I want to point them to
[37:23] certain episodes where both of us just keep struggling for
[37:26] minutes on end. And also, this is just me coming
[37:31] clear for the benefit of our listeners.
[37:33] There are times where we actually edit out parts of it
[37:37] trying to figure out the answer. Yeah.
[37:38] We're not close to it at all, just for the sake of timing.
[37:42] There have been episodes where I've been so puzzled that I'm
[37:46] actually silent for 3040 seconds, which I have to edit
[37:50] out of the episode because it doesn't make any sense.
[37:53] The fact, I mean, like, obviously people don't want to
[37:55] hear me sit in silence and, you know, trying to figure out what
[38:00] this is. And it's always an obvious
[38:01] answer. It's always an obvious answer.
[38:03] It's very rarely that you ask me a question about something
[38:06] that's really complicated. We usually tend to get those.
[38:10] The ones we don't get are the very simple ones, the things
[38:13] under the tip of one OS. Yeah.
[38:14] Yeah. So well, now you know how the
[38:17] sausage is made. However, not once have you ever
[38:20] known what the other person is going to ask beforehand, so that
[38:24] remains. To be that again, Yeah, yeah,
[38:26] yeah. Because I I've also got this
[38:28] kind of feedback that sometimes people feel key.
[38:33] We purposely try to extend the question timing by seemingly not
[38:39] appearing like we don't know the answer.
[38:42] Let's just say that neither of us are willing to fall on that
[38:45] particular sword. Oh, OK.
[38:48] At this point, I have to reference one of my favorite
[38:52] things from a podcast that we have spoken about actually,
[38:55] business movers, Business wars. I think it's by 1 Dream.
[38:58] Yeah, business. And they did something about New
[39:01] Coke. And remember in that they quoted
[39:03] a Coke marketing person Speaking of when they were accused of the
[39:09] fact that Coke launched New Coke.
[39:11] Now this is just random trivia for our business benefit.
[39:13] New Coke was just a flavor that Coke was experimenting with and
[39:17] they thought that this was an improvement over the original
[39:19] Coke recipe. In fact, a lot of taste tests
[39:22] which were done blind taste test, they ranked New Coke as
[39:25] higher than Coke and Pepsi who was also edging out Coke at that
[39:29] point in terms of taste. So Coke launched this New Coke
[39:33] thing, but everybody in America who felt very strongly about
[39:37] Coke resented Coke for changing the iconic recipe and they
[39:41] fought back against this new maneuver and Coke sales went up
[39:45] through the roof. Pepsi was slowly climbing up,
[39:47] lost all of the market share just because the loyalists of
[39:51] Coke decided that they want their old Coke back, something
[39:53] that happened recently with magic masala in India as well.
[39:57] So at this point I remember the Coke marketing person was asked
[40:01] did Coke do this purposely? Just launch a new flavor and
[40:06] mess with people so that they will go back in hoards to the
[40:09] original flavor? And I remember the response was
[40:13] something along the lines of I think you're thinking we are
[40:16] either too smart or too stupid to have done that.
[40:21] Which brings you back to what you just said, really, that I
[40:24] are neither that smart nor that stupid to waste time.
[40:29] We generally just don't know the answers.
[40:31] Very often, yeah. True.
[40:32] So true. So true.
[40:33] So true. But in the interest of just
[40:37] informing our listeners, apparently if you want to have
[40:41] really, really tasty Coke or the tastiest Coke version in the
[40:45] world, you have to go to Mexico. Because in Mexico, yeah, Mexican
[40:50] Coke, they still use real sugar instead of that high fructose
[40:56] corn syrup shit that we get in practically every other Coke
[41:00] around the world. So.
[41:02] Or you. Can swear by Mexican Coke,
[41:04] apparently. Yes, I've heard the same thing.
[41:09] Or again, the other possibilities that you can visit
[41:14] the night side. OK, that was a deep cut.
[41:16] I don't think anybody particularly knows about that.
[41:20] The Night Side is a series of novels starring API called John
[41:25] Taylor, who's API for the supernatural.
[41:29] And the Night Side is this alternate kind of dimension that
[41:32] exists underneath present day London.
[41:34] It's a series of books by Simon R Green, who's the author of
[41:39] many inventive phrases, my favorite of which is.
[41:43] I wouldn't piss down his throat if his heart was on fire.
[41:50] So that's. I'm going to make that my
[41:52] unofficial recommendation, Go read the night side.
[41:55] It is the trashiest of trash kind of book, but great fun.
[42:00] Like, great fun. Though it doesn't pretend to be
[42:02] great literature. It's just a lot of fun, Uses a
[42:04] lot of tropes, but it's just it's just plain fun.
[42:10] And one of the things in the Night side is you can get the
[42:12] original Coke from the 1950s, which is apparently thicker and
[42:16] more tasty than modern day Coke. So the night side Simon R Green,
[42:21] John Taylor, Go check it out. Let's move on from Aditya's
[42:25] question from the 1990s to the 1950s.
[42:30] So in the 1950s a popular company ran a rather
[42:34] controversial short story. This story depicted A dystopian
[42:40] future where homosexuality was the norm, heterosexuality was
[42:46] outlawed and angry anti straight mobs marched through the street
[42:52] chanting Make our city clean Again.
[42:55] As expected, there was massive negative feedback from the
[42:59] readers. But the founder of the company
[43:02] held his ground and said that if it was wrong to persecute
[43:05] heterosexuals in a homosexual society, then the reverse was
[43:10] wrong too. Tell me the name of the company
[43:15] which had the guts to do this in the 1950s.
[43:18] Wow, the 1950s. That's bold statement to make
[43:22] back then. This is a publishing company.
[43:25] Yes, they published a short story.
[43:27] OK, is it a comic book company? Is it?
[43:32] No, it's not a comic book. It's not a comic book company.
[43:36] Did you say it was American by any chance?
[43:38] It is American, so this the I'll give you a few more details
[43:43] about the story itself. It was published in August 1955.
[43:49] It was written by sci-fi writer and The Twilight Zone scribe
[43:53] Charles Beaumont, and the name of the boss or short story was
[43:59] very cleverly The Crooked Man. Oh, so not the straight man, but
[44:03] the crooked man. The Crooked Man.
[44:05] Because this is obviously the kind of Twilight Zone universe
[44:08] where everything is Ulta. Hey, interesting.
[44:12] What is really fascinating is that they had the guts to do
[44:15] this while Joseph McCarthy was at his peak.
[44:21] Right. The Red Scare.
[44:23] Yeah, McCarthyism. OK, American Publishing House,
[44:27] you said it isn't a comic book company.
[44:31] It's not. Where is Penguin from?
[44:34] I was just looking at my book is English.
[44:36] If I can mistaken, Penguin is English.
[44:40] Thought. Thought so.
[44:40] OK, let me see if my bookshelf has any other clues there.
[44:44] Oh boy. Oh, I do not see any.
[44:49] The only one that's recognizable is Penguin.
[44:52] It's Scholastic again, just the random publishing company that
[44:54] comes to mind, but I doubt it's no.
[44:57] OK, I'll give you a clue which will because I I really want to
[45:02] give this clue because it's just so fascinating to me that this
[45:05] clue is so I want to give this clue, but I know that you'll get
[45:07] it the moment you hear it. This publication is 1 where
[45:12] about which people always say I read it for the articles.
[45:21] Is it the Playboy magazine? Yes, this is the Playboy
[45:24] magazine. That's lovely.
[45:26] I that's a great little, yeah, piece of trivia.
[45:31] And I'm so glad that I said that.
[45:33] It's not there on my bookshelf. So, Mom, Dad, if you're
[45:35] listening, I do not have any Playboys, OK?
[45:40] Yeah, so Playboy was renowned for having a lot of big names,
[45:45] writing articles for them in the 50s and the 60s.
[45:48] Obviously may have heard of some of them, but this particular one
[45:52] was in 1955 if I'm not mistaken, and it was a short story which
[45:57] had already been rejected by Esquire and when it reached a
[46:01] Playboy editor Hugh Hefner's desk, he said go ahead, let's do
[46:05] this Now this is a little problematic and a little ironic
[46:09] that he was the one to champion it when he is currently being
[46:14] accused by a lot of people in the Me Too movement.
[46:18] Because even though he portrayed his company as a defender of
[46:20] women's rights, he's been accused of sexism and worse at
[46:25] the Playboy Mansion. Right.
[46:28] Yeah, no, fair enough. There has been problematic
[46:31] legacy of Hefner's for sure, but well, credit where credit is
[46:35] due. He was willing to champion the
[46:38] rights of the LGBTQ community back in the 50s, which was
[46:42] probably not very easy, so might have been a problematic man, but
[46:45] did something good at least. Interestingly enough, you we
[46:49] mentioned McCarthyism and the Red Scare, right?
[46:52] That's where McCarthy's, I think, was.
[46:55] The House Committee on UN American Activities were hunting
[46:59] down communists among all different creative populations
[47:03] in America. Do you know what that was
[47:05] called? The Red Scare?
[47:05] Do you know what the same thing that was going on towards gay,
[47:09] lesbian, bisexual people during that time?
[47:12] There was another term for that, for just that part of it.
[47:15] Like you had the Red Scare for the Communists.
[47:18] The rainbow scare. No, it's called the Lavender
[47:21] scare. OK, that makes sense too.
[47:25] Very interesting. If our audience is interested,
[47:29] please go read up on Playboy's early days.
[47:32] A lot of big, big names and literature wrote a lot for
[47:36] Playboy, which is probably why people use the excuse that I
[47:40] read it for the articles. That is a very cool piece of
[47:45] trivia. I loved it.
[47:47] The Crooked Man. Crooked man, very clever name.
[47:51] So I think. I think that's all the time we
[47:53] have for our regular question series.
[47:56] What's your question for next week?
[47:58] OK, so I asked you about October Sky and Rocket Boys and how that
[48:03] was an anagram. So which other famous 90s movie
[48:07] was an anagram? That was rejected because the
[48:10] original title was considered not something that would work by
[48:14] the marketing people, so they had to use the anagram.
[48:18] And that's an answer you will find out in next week's episode.
[48:22] He thinks Aditya has dug himself a deep hole, but we shall find
[48:25] out how he digs himself out for next week.
[48:29] I'd asked a question at the top of today's episode, our audience
[48:32] question. The question was this.
[48:35] X got its name from overlooking something that regulated the
[48:39] flow of water from the Potomac River into the tidal Basin at
[48:42] flood tide. What is X Aditya?
[48:45] Do you have any guesses as to what this could be?
[48:49] I am completely Ross actually right now.
[48:51] OK, I'm going to rephrase the question with just with changing
[48:54] just one word. Let's see if you can get it
[48:56] then. X got its name from overlooking
[48:59] the gate that regulated the flow of water from the Potomac River
[49:03] into the tidal basin at flood tide.
[49:06] Is this a place? No, not a technically.
[49:11] It's an address. It's the name of a building.
[49:13] I want to repeat the question. X got its name from overlooking
[49:17] the gate that regulated the flow of water from the Potomac River
[49:21] into the tidal Basin at flood tide.
[49:24] Well, I feel like the answer is hidden somewhere in the
[49:26] question, but I'm completely blank right now.
[49:28] The gate, I don't know. Gate just makes the things
[49:30] Golden Gate. But that's not going to be the
[49:32] London Bridge. I don't know.
[49:35] I can't think of anything. No, I'm completely lost.
[49:38] OK. So that's the Watergate
[49:39] building, the Watergate Hotel. Oh.
[49:42] Oh. What?
[49:44] OK, yeah. Nice.
[49:47] We call everything the gate now, right?
[49:49] Any kind of scandal, we put gate at the end and I was like, OK,
[49:53] obviously that's because of Watergate, but then where did
[49:55] the name Watergate come from? Turns out it was because the
[49:58] building phased a gate that controlled the flow of water.
[50:01] So hence the Watergate building. That is brilliant, yeah.
[50:06] What a great question. I love it.
[50:07] And as always, an obvious answer.
[50:10] Yeah, obvious answer. So idea What's your pop culture
[50:13] recommendation for the week? Since we spoke about dementia
[50:19] and that lovely question you asked me about the 2 football
[50:22] teams who brought awareness to it, I would recommend a movie
[50:26] The Father. This was a 2020 film and I
[50:30] remember coming out of the film and thinking immediately that
[50:34] Anthony Hopkins is going to win an Oscar for this, which he did
[50:38] eventually. I think that made him the oldest
[50:40] ever recipient of a best actor Oscar till date and completely
[50:46] well deserved. I have raved about that film to
[50:48] anybody and everybody who listen.
[50:50] So yeah, if you're looking for a hard hitting but something that
[50:55] leaves a lasting impact, a film about dementia, about a man
[50:59] aging and struggling with the mental health condition,
[51:02] definitely check out the 2020 film The Father.
[51:06] And you've given me a very nice segue for my pop culture
[51:10] recommendation. If the Father is a Hard is a
[51:13] figuratively hard hitting movie, I'm going to go to probably the
[51:19] most hard hitting character on television in media right now.
[51:25] If you've not seen it, please go watch Richer, which is based on
[51:30] Lee Child series of I think it's around 28 novels now.
[51:34] Season 2 is out on Amazon Prime. All eight episodes are available
[51:37] for you to binge Fantastic Show, which has completely captured
[51:42] the the spirit of the novels. Alan Ritson, all six foot five.
[51:49] I think the man is huge, Like literally he huge.
[51:55] But he embodies that character so much better than what Tom
[51:58] Cruise did in those two movies because in the books reaches
[52:02] what, 6 foot 7 and Tom Cruise is 5 foot five on a good day.
[52:06] So that was miscasting. But definitely the TV series is
[52:11] amazing. Season one I thought was great.
[52:13] Season 2 is even better, if that's possible.
[52:16] So that's my recommendation for a hard hitting show, one that
[52:20] literally hits hard. I was just going to say that the
[52:24] miscast was very evident because yes, Tom Cruise is obviously a
[52:29] much shorter man and this is just a random piece of trivia I
[52:32] guess at the end of the episode that do you know another very
[52:36] significant miscasting in a very famous film for the title
[52:40] character? The person actually used to be
[52:44] around 5 feet 5 or 6 inches tall, and the actor who
[52:47] portrayed him was 6 feet two inches.
[52:50] I would say this would be Wolverine portrayed by Hugh
[52:53] Jackman. Wolverine in the novels comics
[52:56] is very short. He suppose he's only 5 feet 5,
[52:59] which is why Daniel Radcliffe is being proposed as the person to
[53:03] replace Hugh Jackman. No, but in this case, I meant
[53:06] somebody who's a real character. Oh, a real person.
[53:09] OK, a real person being played by somebody who's much taller.
[53:15] Wow. 1962. Film 1962 Film Pattern.
[53:21] No, We have spoken about this actor a few times, I believe on
[53:25] this podcast at least. Definitely one question that you
[53:28] asked me. John Wayne.
[53:31] No, this is a British actor. Sean Connery.
[53:36] He's famously very tall. The name of the movie is
[53:39] actually the name of the real life person that he's portraying
[53:45] who was actually in in real life.
[53:47] Very short, but the actor himself is quite tall.
[53:50] Passed Away in 2013 holds the record for the most Oscar
[53:54] nominations for acting without a win.
[53:56] Oscar nominations Peter O'Toole. Yeah, it is.
[53:59] Peter O'Toole, Lawrence of Arabia.
[54:02] Lawrence of Arabia, Yes. OK, yes.
[54:04] Lawrence of Arabia, Yeah. He was famously shot.
[54:07] TE Lawrence, who Lawrence of Arabia is based on, was a very
[54:11] short man, or rather short man, 5 foot 5 inches tall, and Peter
[54:17] O'Toole famously. Famously, very tall, very tall.
[54:20] Yeah, in that way, the very opposite of Jack Reacher
[54:24] situation. Yes, yes, Allen Richson Being
[54:29] able to embody that character is all the more impressive for me
[54:34] because I have seen all three seasons of Blue Mountain State.
[54:39] If you have even remotely seen what he does in that and then
[54:43] you watch Reacher, you can see how much range this fellow has
[54:47] in Blue Mountain State. He plays this jock, a football
[54:52] player who is so funny. I mean, like, there are
[54:56] innumerable clips on YouTube. I don't think it's currently
[54:59] available on streaming in India, but there are clips available on
[55:02] YouTube. If you watch Alan Ritson and
[55:05] Blue Mountain State, and then you watch him in Reacher, you
[55:08] understand how much range he has.
[55:09] And then you'll also understand why a lot of fans are clamoring
[55:13] to cast him as Batman in James Gunn's new Batman universe, the
[55:18] one that's separate from the R Pats Batman.
[55:22] Right, Cool. Well, I will check it out.
[55:27] Definitely. You should.
[55:28] It's a hoot. The Blue Monster State is a
[55:30] hoot. That's all for this episode.
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