# Episode 099 - Ants, Fruit Flies & Six Billion Humans

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 13 Feb 2025, 1 h 01 min.

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Do you know what is the nickname given to Lasius emarginatus, an invasive ant species found in New York? Do you know why do certain gene mutations in Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, have names like 'Swiss Cheese, Cheap Date, Ken and Barbie'? Do you know in which year did the Homo Sapiens populationreach 6 billion? 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 Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## 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 are back with episode
[0:19] number 99 of Are You Quizzing Me?
[0:22] Your favorite quizzing and trivia podcast show?
[0:24] Vineet and I are back with another round of quizzing, and
[0:27] without any further ado, I'm going to hand it over to him for
[0:30] the audience question. So today's audience question is
[0:35] one that's right up Aditya's alley.
[0:38] It's a listicle. I'm going to give you a list of
[0:40] movies, and you have to tell me what is common among all of
[0:44] them. And the movies are The
[0:46] Conjuring, ET, The Shining, Shasha Redemption, The Revenant,
[0:51] American Graffiti, The Breakfast Club, Saving Private Ryan, Rope
[0:56] Platoon, drive. Let me repeat the question off
[1:01] this list of movies. Find out what is common to all
[1:04] these movies connect The Conjuring, ET, The Shining,
[1:08] Shawshank Redemption, The Revenant, American Graffiti, The
[1:12] Breakfast Club, Saving Private Orion, Rope platoon and drive.
[1:18] So get those mental gears rolling and I will reveal the
[1:22] answer to this question at the end of today's episode.
[1:25] Aditya let's start off with our regular round of quizzing with a
[1:28] question from. You, I am going to ask you a
[1:32] question type that I've not done in a while.
[1:34] And this is the events from a year and you have to guess which
[1:38] year it was. Oh, OK.
[1:43] All right. For the listeners who are
[1:45] uninitiated or are checking into are you quizzing me for the
[1:48] first time? Welcome to a 99th episode.
[1:51] And this is the type of question that I have asked in the past
[1:54] where I'll mention certain key events or highlights that have
[1:57] happened in the year, and Vineet is supposed to guess which year
[2:01] it is. And the faster or sooner he
[2:03] guesses, it more points to him. Whatever points matter in this
[2:07] podcast episode, I guess. And there are no.
[2:09] Points absolutely none. OK, so the first significant
[2:16] event that happened was on March 29th of this year.
[2:20] The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 10,000 and six and
[2:26] there was the first time it went over the 10,000 mark.
[2:29] So Dow Jones for the first time ever and it's history crossed
[2:32] the 10,000 mark. For those of you who are into
[2:34] market and investments, this would be something you perhaps
[2:38] remember. On October 12th of the same
[2:41] year, the day of 6 billion was proclaimed, which was the day
[2:47] when the six billionth human being, living human being was
[2:51] supposed to be born or would have been born presumably
[2:55] October 12th. A couple of other things.
[2:58] The third studio album by Backstreet Boys, one of my
[3:00] favorite Millennium, was released.
[3:03] So this is just a self indulgent clue.
[3:08] I'll give you somebody important who was born in this year.
[3:10] It is a musician by the name of Lil Nas ex born on April 9th of
[3:15] this year. So we've given you a few things
[3:17] that have happened this year. Tell me, which year was this?
[3:21] OK, I have three years bouncing around in my head, but I think
[3:27] I'll go with the first one. Is it 1998?
[3:31] It isn't 1998. All right, That's your first
[3:35] guess. That was a good guess.
[3:35] I'm going to give you one more clue.
[3:38] The Sopranos debuted on HBO in this year. 2001.
[3:44] Not 2001 either. OK, would you like another clue?
[3:48] Oh yes, I'm now fumbling in the dark, so yes, please.
[3:52] On Jan 1st of this year, the Euro currency was introduced.
[3:57] OK, so I'll tell you what, my head, I had three years in mind
[4:02] because I know Millennium was not released in 2000.
[4:05] My head it was either 98 or 99 or 2001.
[4:09] OK. So the third year I have is 1999
[4:12] in 19. 99 is a guess. Yes, 1999 is my guess.
[4:17] And you get all the points for this episode.
[4:20] All of the three guesses I had in my head, like I told you, I
[4:22] had three years in my head. I went for number one, number
[4:26] two and number 30. God.
[4:28] Millennium was supposed to be the clue to get you there, but
[4:31] interesting enough other events have also happened and some of
[4:33] more self indulgent clues I'll give you was Jon Stewart started
[4:37] at The Daily Show. Oh.
[4:38] OK. Regular listeners would know
[4:40] that I love the Jon Stewart. Yeah, he does.
[4:43] Michael Jordan's second retirement happened in Jan 13th
[4:46] of this year. Yeah, no one retires like
[4:49] Michael Jordan. Family Guy first aired on Fox TV
[4:53] in this year. OK, I would not have known that.
[4:56] Yeah, Pluto moves further away from the Sun than Neptune,
[4:59] regaining its status as solar system's outermost planet on
[5:03] February 11th. It's not a planet.
[5:06] But of course, it was stripped. It was stripped of its planet as
[5:09] soon thereafter. So this.
[5:10] Is the point where somebody listening clenches her fist,
[5:13] pointed at the heavens and says, damn you, Neil deGrasse Tyson?
[5:20] Yeah, No, no, Neil is Neil's right.
[5:22] Pluto's not a planet. Neil's right.
[5:24] Neil is right. We are on Neil's side.
[5:26] Yeah, just for. At least for the purpose of this
[5:28] episode. The loud declaration signed
[5:32] between Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif happened on 21st February
[5:36] in 1999 on use of nuclear weapons.
[5:39] Bill Clinton, the impeachment trial began this year and he was
[5:42] acquitted also in this year. So yeah, quite a few interesting
[5:47] things happened. Yes, and it was also for those
[5:49] who may have forgotten, 1999 was the peak of human civilization
[5:54] and that's the reason why the year in the Matrix is always
[5:58] 1999. Yeah, exactly.
[6:01] And that's also the year March 24th when it debuted.
[6:04] It premiered on March 24th, 1999.
[6:07] And movie making was never the same ever again.
[6:11] It really, truly was a landmark film.
[6:13] It's so rare that you get such landmark films.
[6:16] Yeah. For anybody also interested
[6:18] still in whatever 1999, Jack Ma founded Alibaba on April 4th.
[6:23] That also happened in this year. And that brings us brings me to
[6:28] the end of all of the significant 1999 events.
[6:32] I'm sure there were quite a few more, but that was a great
[6:35] guess. 1999 for a 99 episode Vineet.
[6:38] Oh, I should have gotten that. And it's it's embarrassing that
[6:42] I just now got it only when you said it.
[6:45] Oh yeah, I thought you would have gotten that already.
[6:48] OK. No, no, no, that did not happen.
[6:50] OK, OK. OK, so let's see if I can get
[6:54] back at you. This is a question that's right
[6:58] up your alley, and it was sent to us by a listener of the
[7:01] podcast, Emmanuel Mascaranas. So thank you, Emmanuel, friend
[7:06] of the podcast. And this is right up, Aditya
[7:09] Zali. So the question goes as follows.
[7:12] Somewhere between 63rd and 76th streets, New York.
[7:16] That's where biologists discovered an entirely new
[7:19] species of Ant. It's new to North America, and
[7:23] we believe it's new to the entire world.
[7:25] Biologist Rob Dunn, a biology professor at North Carolina
[7:29] State University whose team discovered the insect, told the
[7:32] News. Question is, what are these new
[7:36] species of ants called? Can you describe the ants again?
[7:40] These are the new species of ants discovered between 63rd and
[7:43] 76th streets in New York. They decided in 2011 the Ant
[7:50] with a blackhead and an abdomen and a red thorax did not match
[7:55] any of the 800 species found in North America.
[8:00] OK, immigrant ants. Oh, immigrants.
[8:04] Immigrants. That would have been fantastic
[8:07] because they initially did suspect that this was not a
[8:10] North American species, that it might have been invasion from a
[8:13] European species, but it's not. OK, Oh man, I thought that was
[8:18] such a good answer. It's going to applaud myself.
[8:21] Oh, you're very close. You're very close.
[8:23] OK. Immigrants.
[8:28] What else are immigrants called? No, not that way.
[8:31] I'm like the the answer is very similar to how you got to it, so
[8:37] it's up your alley. So word play is what I'm talking
[8:40] about. OK, alien ants.
[8:43] Alien ants. No, no.
[8:47] So actually speaking, calling it immigrants would have been great
[8:51] because it's a species that was native originally to Europe, and
[8:55] they're calling it Lassius emerginatus.
[8:58] OK. But what is the name that they
[9:00] have dubbed it? Lassius immersion that is from
[9:04] Europe. Yes, but again, keep it to the
[9:06] fact that they found it in New York between 63rd and 76th St.
[9:11] So I'm thinking, I actually don't remember the exact number,
[9:15] but Broadway was my other guests, Broadway and Broadway
[9:21] and but that doesn't make sense. So that's that's very close to
[9:24] what you should be thinking of as in you are thinking
[9:27] geographically, which is good. So keep moving along that line.
[9:31] OK, so oh queen Ant. Queens Ant.
[9:35] No, no. OK.
[9:38] My clue to you would be zoom out a little bit.
[9:40] Zoom out. You are overestimating my
[9:43] knowledge of New York geography, though I have played Spider Man,
[9:47] the PlayStation game. Let me put it this way, place
[9:50] where they located this, you wouldn't find Spider Man or
[9:54] Captain America anywhere over there.
[9:56] OK, so not Brooklyn, not Queens. Oh, you got that very quickly.
[9:59] OK, so then which other borough are we talking about?
[10:04] Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island is a borough.
[10:08] Dude, which is the borough of New York.
[10:11] The. Oh, Manhattan, Manhattan.
[10:14] Manhattan. Is that it?
[10:15] Manhattan. Exactly.
[10:22] I I should have gotten that earlier.
[10:24] No, I saw the question that Emmanuel had centered.
[10:26] I was like, this is tailor made for Aditya.
[10:28] So thank you again, Emmanuel Mascaranas.
[10:30] And yes, so the new species of ants that were completely new to
[10:34] North America, which they found in New York between 63rd and
[10:38] 76th streets, was dubbed Manhattans after the island of
[10:43] Manhattan. Little bit of word play.
[10:46] I'm sure there'll be a new Trump executive order soon changing
[10:50] the name to immigrant or something just because he.
[10:53] Hates. So now basically I'm going to, I
[10:56] think it's going to be a lot of fun to watch a reality show of
[10:59] Doctor Phil following around ICE agents trying to deport these
[11:03] ants. Oh, I would pay good money.
[11:08] I would pay really good money just to see illegally
[11:11] immigrating ants being deported back to where they came from in
[11:15] Europe. Yeah, that would be such a good
[11:18] use of tax. American taxpayer money.
[11:19] I would prefer that much more. So you got that right.
[11:24] Manhat Ants is right. So back to you.
[11:28] All right, OK, Manhat Ant, a great question.
[11:31] So thank you to our lovely listener for contributing that
[11:34] question. And as a useful reminder, if you
[11:37] like this podcast, if you like being part of trivia, go ahead
[11:40] and send us some questions. We have some fun stuff planned
[11:43] for our triple digit episodes. So go ahead and be part of those
[11:47] by sending in some questions and we'll try to feature every
[11:50] single one of them. All right, bringing me back to
[11:53] my question, Vineet, As I usually do before I start the
[11:57] question, I'm just going to preempt whether you know the
[12:00] answer by asking you if you know about Sylvia Wright.
[12:05] Sylvia Wright name sounds like a poetess.
[12:11] Not too far off as you may think of Sylvia Plath.
[12:14] Yeah, yeah, I was thinking of. Sylvia Wright was also a writer,
[12:19] a freelance writer who frequently and humorously
[12:22] commented in national magazines on trends in modern living.
[12:25] And here I'm quoting the New York Times obituary.
[12:28] She was also a former editor of Harper's Bazaar.
[12:32] Harper's Bazaar. Yes, I'm familiar with that
[12:34] publication. In a 1954 essay in Harper's
[12:37] Magazine, Sylvia Wright described how as a young girl,
[12:43] she first heard the first stanza from the ballot, the Bonnie Earl
[12:48] Omore, which is from Thomas Percy's 1765 book Relics of
[12:54] Ancient English Poetry. OK.
[12:57] She heard Ye Highlands and Yelowlands.
[13:01] Oh, where hai ye been? They hai slain the AL Amore and
[13:06] Lady Monde Green. OK, that has to be the most
[13:09] atrocious Scottish accent I've ever heard.
[13:15] OK, in my defence that I'm going to keep this cough in the
[13:18] episode just to prove the fact that I have a bad throat and I'm
[13:21] going to blame the bad Scottish accent on that.
[13:23] Yeah, yeah, yeah. A quick do over that you
[13:26] Highlands and Yellowlands or where have you been the highest
[13:30] lame deal Amore and Lady Monde Green.
[13:35] Ohio God I apologize to Scotsman everywhere.
[13:41] And this is a 2 parter question. OK, what did this lead to?
[13:46] What did Sylvia Wright describe and what did it lead to?
[13:48] What etymology did it lead to? And once you forget that first
[13:53] part out, I'll tell you what the second question, second part of
[13:55] the question is. Wow.
[13:56] So you are telling me that frankly, I didn't pay much
[13:59] attention to the poem because I was so distracted by a
[14:02] retroactive accent, but OK, it led to something you're saying.
[14:09] Can you give us a fantastic reading of that poem again in
[14:13] the Scottish accent? In my best Scottish accent, I
[14:18] Yeah. And that was Canadian for some
[14:19] reason. OK, yeah.
[14:22] Highlands and Yellowlands or where have you been?
[14:25] The highest lane, The LMRE and Lady Monde Green.
[14:33] OK, how do you spell Monde green in this?
[14:37] MONDEGR Double EN. OK so that's I have heard of
[14:43] that but I don't remember what it is.
[14:45] So I'm guessing this is what it's part of, like what sparked
[14:48] it, but for the life of me I can't remember what it is.
[14:51] OK, I'll give it to you at least partially, because Monde green
[14:54] is the etymology, or rather the word which owes its etymology to
[14:58] this particular instance, this particular article from Harper's
[15:01] Magazine. As I mentioned, Monde green was
[15:03] the word to focus on. But what does Monde green mean?
[15:07] OK, I can't remember what Monde green means, but if she was
[15:10] citing a poem, then she didn't come up with the etymology, it
[15:14] came up with somebody else. So it has to be the poet who
[15:17] didn't, who came up with Monte Green, right?
[15:21] You're very close. You're very close.
[15:23] I mean, you're on the right track.
[15:25] If you just think this through, you might figure out what Monte
[15:27] Green means. Is it like Mon de green like 3
[15:31] words Mon de green like Mon of green or something?
[15:36] No, no, it's MONDEGR, double EN spelled as one word.
[15:41] It's I, I don't know where I know this from.
[15:44] Should I give you some examples of Monde green?
[15:46] Maybe that'll help. You.
[15:47] Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, without telling you where
[15:51] these are from, I'm just going to give you some examples, OK,
[15:53] OK. The first one I can say is Jose,
[15:56] can you see? Jose, can you see the second
[16:00] one? I'll.
[16:00] Tell you is the girl with colitis goes by what?
[16:06] Yeah. The car with colitis goes by.
[16:09] What was she shitting on the road?
[16:15] Excuse me while I kiss this. Guy.
[16:17] Wait, wait. Excuse me.
[16:19] While I kiss this guy. OK, why do these sound like
[16:23] something that come from like a Naked Gun movie or something?
[16:28] It's it's. Not a bad approximation of what
[16:30] the word means. OK, let me give you one last
[16:32] example, and that is there's a bathroom on the right.
[16:35] These are all examples of Monde Green.
[16:37] There's a bathroom on the right. What's her problem?
[16:39] OK, OK. Is this some kind of silly
[16:42] comedy thing? Because again, from when you
[16:45] said all of this, all of this reminded me of like something
[16:47] from Monty Python or from Naked Gun and those kind of slapstick
[16:51] because there's a girl with colitis walks by.
[16:54] Oh, is this like, wait, but no, what girl with colitis walks by?
[17:00] The bathroom is on the right. What's wrong with the bathroom
[17:02] on the right? You know what?
[17:03] I'm going to give you a few more fun examples.
[17:05] OK, here we are now. OK, here we are now in
[17:08] containers, all the lonely Starbucks lovers.
[17:19] What the lonely Starbucks now? Dude I'm I'm lost.
[17:25] What is one? I'm trying.
[17:27] OK, wait, many more clues. Don't give me examples, give me
[17:30] a clue, because that's. Actually, the examples should
[17:34] give you the clue. OK, and you were also on the
[17:36] right path with. If the poet had written Monday
[17:40] Green, the poet would have been connected with their tomology,
[17:43] which means the poet probably did.
[17:44] Not, oh, did she misspell it? She did.
[17:46] She misspell it so that it had it became a name or something.
[17:50] Not not a misspelling butter. She misheard it.
[17:55] Yes, you're right. I'm just going to, I was going
[17:59] to say it one more time for your benefit.
[18:02] Jose, can you see? Shit.
[18:08] OK Jose, can you? OK, so she misheard it and made
[18:12] it to a completely different word.
[18:14] Exactly. OK, so Monde green is a
[18:17] mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives
[18:20] it new meaning. OK, OK.
[18:23] Monde greens are most often created by a person listening to
[18:25] a poem or a song. The listener, being unable to
[18:28] hear a lyric clearly substitutes words that sound similar and
[18:31] make some kind of sense. OK, yeah, no, I now it comes
[18:35] back to me, the meaning, but I'm just trying to figure out what
[18:41] Lady Monde Green actually means. Yeah, OK.
[18:44] That was the second part of the question.
[18:45] What do you think Monde Green actually was in the original
[18:47] lyric. But before we get to that, since
[18:49] this was so much fun, Jose, can you see Jose as like a probably
[18:53] a Mexican name, which obviously is, oh, say, can you see in the
[18:57] American National anthem? OK, The girl with Colitis goes
[19:01] by is from a Beatles song. What girl with colitis goes by?
[19:07] I'll give you the song. Also, it's Lucy in the sky with
[19:09] diamonds. Girl with colitis goes by Dude
[19:13] no. All right, I'll the girl with
[19:15] kaleidoscope eyes. Oh God, this is exactly like
[19:23] misheard lyrics. It's literally that.
[19:26] It's it's literally that. Yeah.
[19:28] Purple Haze, The song Purple Haze from the Jimi Hendrix
[19:30] Experience. The lyrics were excuse me while
[19:34] I kissed the sky, which was misheard.
[19:36] Excuse me while I kissed this guy.
[19:42] Bad Moon Rising by Creedence. There's a bad moon on the rise.
[19:50] There's a bathroom on the. Right.
[19:52] OK, that's stretching it a little bit.
[19:53] But yeah, there's a bad moon on the rise.
[19:56] Shout out to all Supernatural fans.
[19:57] Credence Clearwater Rival is quite heavily featured on that.
[20:00] I think Bad Moon on the Rise is also one of the key songs, and I
[20:04] think there's an episode also of the same name in Supernatural.
[20:08] So shout out to Supernatural fans.
[20:12] OK, I'll ask you to guess which song this one was from.
[20:14] By the way, here we are now in containers.
[20:17] Here we are. Is it like a Bryan Adams song?
[20:21] No. Right.
[20:22] No, no, Nirvana, The most famous Nirvana song.
[20:26] OK, here we are in containers. Why can I not unhear this?
[20:31] Here we are now you know this. You obviously know this.
[20:34] It smells like teen spirit. What is how do the lyrics go?
[20:39] I can only hear remember the the the guitar if is in my head.
[20:42] I can't remember the lyrics. You're going to curse yourself.
[20:44] You're going to curse. Yourself, absolutely, and I hate
[20:47] you for doing this. All right, I'll give it to you.
[20:51] It is here. We are now entertainers.
[20:59] Oh God, you know this is the problem with Mishaad lyrics is
[21:02] that once you hear the mishearing, it's impossible to
[21:05] remember the original. I agree.
[21:08] I agree. So here we are now entertain us.
[21:12] Entertain us. Becomes.
[21:13] Here we are now in containers. The last one I mentioned was All
[21:18] the Lonely Starbucks Lovers, which is from Blank Space by
[21:22] Taylor Swift, where listeners widely misheard the line.
[21:25] Got a long list of ex lovers as All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers?
[21:31] Oh nice. That was a miserly.
[21:35] Which is kind of appropriate. Yeah, true, true.
[21:39] Going back to the original etymology though, the Highlands
[21:42] and the Lowlands, or Where Have You Been?
[21:45] The Highest lay in the Air and Lady Monde Green.
[21:49] Of course, the last line was misheard by Sylvia Wright.
[21:53] What do you think the original line was?
[21:54] I just got it when you said it right now.
[21:56] Laid him on the green. Yes, it was.
[22:00] They had slain the Earl of Moray, and laid him on the green
[22:04] which this young girl Miss heard as and Lady Monde green.
[22:09] What does it say about me that I can't figure out the misheard
[22:13] lyrics of songs I know, but for some reason you say an ancient
[22:17] poem in an atrocious accent and I'm able to figure that out.
[22:20] This must say something really bad about me.
[22:23] Or the fact that we are at a 99th episode.
[22:25] Vineeth, you just understand me that well now.
[22:27] My my bad. Scottish accent is like music to
[22:29] areas. Oh God.
[22:31] More than Beatles songs, apparently.
[22:33] I need therapy now. Oh, you need 100 more episodes.
[22:38] That's what you need. And that's how the etymology for
[22:41] Monde Green came to be, thanks to Sylvia Wright.
[22:44] And I misheard lyric from her childhood.
[22:48] That's what she wrote in Harper's Magazine in the 1954
[22:50] essay. So next time you miss hear a
[22:52] lyric, and I have some friends who do some fantastic job of
[22:55] that, I'm actually going to quote a friend of mine without
[22:58] giving her name. Sure what I meant to give her
[23:00] name. You probably should give her
[23:03] name. The jute bole kawa karte.
[23:06] There's a Hindi song which goes Jute bole kawa karte kale kawai
[23:10] sedario Mein Mai ke chali jaungi tum dekhte rahiyo.
[23:15] OK, quick translation basically means that if you if you lie,
[23:18] you'll be bitten by a crow. And please be afraid of the
[23:22] crow. I will go back to my mother's
[23:25] house and you will be left staring at my behind, staring at
[23:30] me going back behind in a way. So that's the origin lyric.
[23:37] And this is what my friend misheard it as, right?
[23:40] Jute bole kawa Kate kale kawai sedario Mecca chali jaungi tum
[23:46] dekh ke Hari om. Oh, that, that, just that.
[23:51] Oh wow, that just wow. Oh God.
[23:57] I feel like that was political commentary also on a deeper
[24:00] level. Oh yeah I need to mention
[24:02] without again mentioning her name.
[24:04] My friend is Catholic, so she is Hindu Muslim, and she came up
[24:09] with the lyric me Mecca chali jaungi tum dekhi Hari om and I
[24:13] thought that was sort of the funniest Monde greens I've
[24:15] heard. Please tell me she was a kid
[24:17] when she came up with this. Oh, no, no, no, a full.
[24:19] Fledged adult. This happened in college.
[24:21] This happened in College in front of me.
[24:23] And she was like, isn't that what the lyric is?
[24:25] And I was like, no, that's not what the lyric is at all.
[24:28] Oh God, yeah. Wow, wow, just wow.
[24:34] So. Yeah.
[24:37] Yeah, hurry home. Moving on.
[24:42] So before I ask my question, Aditya as our regular listeners
[24:46] will know is a movie buff of the intellectual kind who usually
[24:52] he's the usually the one who sees all the Oscar contenders
[24:54] and what not. Right.
[24:55] So before I ask my question, just curious, where do you stand
[25:00] on Amelia Perez getting 13 Oscar nomination?
[25:03] Give me a heart take because it's like a big controversy
[25:05] right now. I have not watched yet, so I
[25:08] will withhold my judgement. I'm yet to watch it and I
[25:11] usually wait for these movies to come out in the theaters for the
[25:14] best cinematic experience. So I'm going to hold off on
[25:17] answering that question for now. Though I I must say that, and
[25:21] last time I mentioned this, where I thought Challengers
[25:24] would probably get a nomination and I'm quite surprised it
[25:26] hasn't. So in that way, I think at least
[25:28] one movie has been dropped off a nomination.
[25:30] OK. But yeah, maybe, maybe these are
[25:33] the movies are good. I'll have to watch them to know.
[25:35] OK so another another thing that's be making buzz right now
[25:40] for these this year's Oscars is the fact that Timothy Chalamet
[25:44] has been nominated for Best Actor again, making him the
[25:48] youngest actor to gain 2O nominations.
[25:52] So that sent me down a small rabbit hole and I found this.
[25:56] The 96th Oscar ceremonies was held with big wins for
[26:01] Oppenheimer, Poor Things, and the Zone of Interest.
[26:06] Multiple records were set that night and my question is about
[26:09] these records. Oppenheimer was the first Best
[26:13] Picture winner to also win both male acting awards.
[26:19] Since which movie? That's the first question.
[26:23] Second question again, same Oscars. 96th Oscars.
[26:27] Who set the record for the longest gap between 1st and the
[26:33] most recent career Oscar nominations?
[26:37] And the third question, who set the record for the youngest
[26:41] person to win two Oscars? Now all of this happened in the
[26:46] 96th Oscars, so let's go question by question again.
[26:52] Oppenheimer was the first Best Picture winner to also win both
[26:58] male acting awards. Since which movie?
[27:03] Or let me just put it back another way, which was the last
[27:07] movie before Oppenheimer to win both Best Picture and both Male
[27:11] Acting awards. Best Picture and two male acting
[27:17] awards, the best Actor and the Best supporting Actor.
[27:22] I know Dark Knight had best supporting actor, but it did not
[27:26] win the Best Picture. Never mind.
[27:28] Which is why now we have more than 5 nominations for the
[27:31] Oscars because The Dark Knight did not win.
[27:34] That is true it. Wasn't nominated.
[27:36] I don't think it was nominated. Interesting.
[27:38] OK, let me think in recent memory, which are the ones that
[27:42] have gotten best pictures? Oscars.
[27:45] We had Everything Everywhere All at Once, which did not win.
[27:48] Both Let. Me stop you right there.
[27:51] Forget recent memory. Oh, that's gonna be a little
[27:54] tough because I am more familiar with the recent Oscars.
[27:57] Let me just put it this way. When you think of multiple Oscar
[28:00] award winners, you think of, or at least you used to think of,
[28:04] this movie. Are we talking in before 2000?
[28:08] Before 2000? Definitely.
[28:11] Then multiple Oscar. The one that comes to mind is
[28:14] Silence of the Lambs. Oh no, but I don't think it had
[28:16] 2O. No, when I say multiple Oscar
[28:20] awards, a multiple Oscar nominations at least.
[28:24] So even older than Silence the Lambs.
[28:27] Yes. Oh, you know what?
[28:30] I'm going to try to take a chance on Godfather.
[28:36] It's either of the godfathers. No, it's not.
[28:39] Oh, let me just put it this way. I'm a quizzer who grew up in the
[28:43] 90s. In the 90s, if somebody had
[28:47] asked me which movies 1 had the last largest number of Oscar
[28:52] wins, there was only one answer. Now there are three.
[28:57] Oh OK, so this is pre 90s, yes, but OK.
[29:04] I'll give you a clue. This film was included by the
[29:08] Vatican in a list of important films compiled in 1995.
[29:13] Oh man, I was just gonna say, but Titanic is also nineties 97.
[29:18] No Titanic one. A few more than a few.
[29:21] Yeah, but that's obviously then too late.
[29:24] OK, again, let me just give my clue again.
[29:27] In the 90s, when I first started quizzing, there was only one
[29:32] answer to the question. Which movie has won the maximum
[29:36] number of Oscar awards in a single Oscar ceremony?
[29:39] As of now, there are three answers.
[29:43] But the answer is one that was the only one before the 90s,
[29:47] right? Yes, I have a.
[29:49] Feeling this is some historical epic, I can't put my finger on
[29:52] it. Yes, it is a historical epic.
[29:55] Also because you said the Vatican included it.
[29:59] Oh, is it Ben Hur? Yes, it is Ben Hur.
[30:04] So Ben Hur has a total of 12 Oscar nominations and 11 Oscar
[30:12] wins. And that has been matched only
[30:16] by Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, which was nominated
[30:20] for 11 and won 11 and Titanic which was nominated for 14 and
[30:25] won 11. There have been 3 movies which
[30:29] have been nominated for 14 Oscars.
[30:34] Can you name those? This is just a sidebar.
[30:37] OK, 14 Oscar. So I think Titanic is one of
[30:42] them. Yes, Titanic had 14 nominations,
[30:44] 111. I'm fairly sure you won't get
[30:47] the oldest of them, so I'll tell you that one.
[30:49] All About Eve in 1950 had 14 nominations, so you have All
[30:53] About Eve and Titanic, which is the third.
[30:55] OK, I mean, I've not watched All About Eve, but I do know about
[30:59] it. Is Everything Everywhere All at
[31:02] Once by any chance one of them? No, Everything Everywhere All at
[31:06] once is not anywhere in the top view.
[31:11] Oh, interesting. OK, give me a year maybe. 2016.
[31:15] 2016 Moonlight here, right? Oh La La Land.
[31:20] La La Land got a lot of nominations.
[31:22] Yes, La La Land did get a lot of nominations, though why is still
[31:27] a mystery to me. Come on, Laland is one of my
[31:31] favorite friends. Do not do this.
[31:33] Do not ticker me like this, Vineet.
[31:36] OK, so going back to the question and away from
[31:38] controversy, the second question in my three-part question was
[31:42] who set in the 96th Oscar ceremonies the record for the
[31:46] longest gap between 1st and most recent Oscar nominations.
[31:53] And I will tell you the years, it was a 49 year gap between
[31:58] their first nomination and the most recent one.
[32:02] Oh, 49 year gap again. I I was suddenly going to go to
[32:09] everything every all at once. But that is not 49 years.
[32:12] I was thinking of Kiwi Kwan, not that long and I don't think he
[32:15] got an Oscar nomination in the first outing also.
[32:18] I don't think Indiana Jones had any acting nominations.
[32:23] Yeah, yeah. Probably not.
[32:25] OK, but I'm going to guess it's not an acting nomination then.
[32:32] Oh. No, it is an acting nomination.
[32:34] Wow, somebody got an acting nomination after that long?
[32:37] Yes. So specifically in the 47th
[32:40] Academy Awards and the 96th Academy Awards and both for Best
[32:46] Supporting actor, they've had other nominations in between.
[32:50] Obviously I'm just talking about the first and the last one,
[32:52] which were 49 years apart. Best supporting Actor in the
[32:56] Oppenheimer year, I know. Of course Downey won it for best
[33:01] supporting actor. I know Ryan Gosling was
[33:03] nominated for Ken and Best supporting Actor.
[33:07] Both of these are not the right answer.
[33:09] Clearly. Yes, I am struggling to remember
[33:13] who has got a nomination. No, I need a hint of some sort.
[33:19] The first one was 1974. That should probably give you a
[33:24] hint. 1974 actor who also got nominated recently.
[33:31] But no. At no point in between 74 and
[33:34] no. No, no, they did.
[33:35] They did get, they did get. The question was see like
[33:37] they've been nominated many, many times obviously, but the
[33:41] largest gap between the 1st and most recent that record was set.
[33:46] All right, so I thought I thought you meant like gap as in
[33:49] like there was nothing that happened in between, but you
[33:50] just meant like verse and word. All right, got it, got it.
[33:53] Got. Oh, interesting.
[33:56] That's interesting. So in some way the longest
[33:59] successful career also in some ways you could say.
[34:02] Possible. Possible.
[34:03] Oh, multiple Academy Award nominations, then 70s.
[34:07] Multiple Academy Award nominations.
[34:09] I'm going to take a guess with the Killers of the Flower Moon.
[34:13] I'm going to say De Niro. Yes, it is indeed Robert De
[34:17] Niro, and the first nomination would then have been for.
[34:22] Oh, 74 was a taxi driver. Nope.
[34:26] Raging Bull. No, it was The Godfather Part 2.
[34:29] And that brings me back to the third record that I'm talking
[34:32] about for the 96th Oscars. Who set the record for the
[34:37] youngest person to win two Oscars?
[34:40] And I will also tell you the age of the person 22.
[34:45] Oh, at 22, they have won two Oscars, Yes.
[34:48] Interesting. Two Oscars at the very young age
[34:52] of 22. Oh interesting, interesting.
[34:56] I was gonna guess Emma Stone but because I know she won her
[35:00] second Oscar but not 22 for sure.
[35:03] I think 2 Oscars and poor things.
[35:07] But she has a lot more Oscars coming in her Kitty.
[35:09] I have I have a feeling. Oh, what a phenomenal actress.
[35:12] Yes, but somebody much younger at 22, Is it acting Oscar,
[35:17] right? No, I did not.
[35:20] Ah, OK. Somebody won.
[35:22] Youngest person to win two Oscars is the question.
[35:24] Interesting. So not an acting Oscar.
[35:27] No. No then I'm I would be a little
[35:30] lost with non acting Oscars. OK, so they won the first time
[35:34] in 2021 and my clue to you was the first time around.
[35:41] The clue is James Bond. The first time was James Bond in
[35:45] 2021, something related to James Bond or then I'm going to say
[35:50] something like this song. But what was the song in the
[35:52] 2021 James Bond? OK, so which was the 2021 James
[35:56] Bond film? And do you remember the song?
[35:59] The singer's very, very recognizable, let me put it that
[36:04] way, the way she sings. I know no time to die.
[36:08] I honestly do not remember what the song was but 22 OK.
[36:14] Yes. Oh, Barbie.
[36:17] The Barbie song. The Barbie song won in 2023.
[36:22] I'm forgetting the name, but I know this song.
[36:24] It's Billie Eilish. Billie Eilish won the Oscar.
[36:27] Yes, yes, yes, Billie Eilish did win 2O awards, making her the
[36:33] youngest person at the age of 22 to win two Oscars.
[36:36] And obviously the first one was Best Original Song for No Time
[36:41] to Die. And the song.
[36:42] Do you remember the name of the song?
[36:44] No, I don't actually. OK, it's very difficult to
[36:47] guess, but I'll give it to you anyway.
[36:48] The song's name was No Time to Die It.
[36:54] Was very stupid of. Me.
[36:55] Every James Bond song is named after the movie.
[36:57] Yeah, I should have taken that. Guess that is stupid oversight
[37:02] of my part, but great questions actually.
[37:04] Yeah, love this bunch of fun stuff that happened in 96th
[37:09] Oscars. It was last year, frankly
[37:10] speaking, March of last year and we are recording this in 2025
[37:14] for anybody listening to us in the future.
[37:16] That is true. All right, Fun Oscars, always a
[37:20] treat for me. So thank you for that very
[37:22] indulgent question. So my next question is actually
[37:25] more up my alley. Oh God.
[37:27] I'm just doing this for my sake. I hate your alley.
[37:30] But also kind of your alley because it is a science related
[37:33] question. Right.
[37:33] Oh, hopefully. Yeah, I am going to tell you
[37:37] about some fruit fly gene names. Rosophilia.
[37:42] Drosophilia. Yeah.
[37:43] Wow. OK.
[37:44] That was such a flex. Unnecessary, but fine.
[37:47] Yes. So Drosophilia.
[37:49] And I'm going to tell you about the names of some of the genes
[37:52] that scientists have given. Some some fun names too, Right?
[37:55] Oh God, I hate those. Yeah.
[37:58] You have to tell me what the mutation is in those genes that
[38:01] earned them that nickname. OK.
[38:04] Swiss cheese. Mutation causing holes in the
[38:08] brain. Oh perfect.
[38:10] Yes. So Swiss cheese mutant flies
[38:12] develop normally during a larval stage, but show age dependent
[38:16] neurodegeneration in the pupa and have a reduced lifespan and
[38:19] they have holes in their brain. So just like Swiss cheese.
[38:22] Great, great start, cheap date. They get drunk very quickly.
[38:28] Flies in this mutation are very susceptible to alcohol.
[38:32] It's also alternatively known as amnesiac, since mutations in
[38:36] this gene can also cause memory impairment.
[38:39] OK, nice, nice geneticist humor. Geneticist humor.
[38:43] Exactly. So the next one is the clown
[38:46] gene. Who causes color differentiation
[38:50] on their face or something like that?
[38:52] Like different pigmentations on their face.
[38:55] Very close, I'll give it to you. This gene plays an important
[38:57] role in development, and the flies carrying this mutation
[39:01] have an altered neuronal differentiation pattern.
[39:05] But without getting too caught up in the science of it, the
[39:08] reason it's called clown is because the eyes of the clown
[39:11] flies are a mosaic of white. And red.
[39:14] So white and red. Brings them to clown.
[39:17] Or Poland. Or Poland.
[39:20] Or Indonesia. Or Indonesia, Yeah.
[39:22] But Ken and Barbie? Sex organ differentiation.
[39:27] Can you explain what you mean specifically?
[39:28] I'm guessing that the male flies don't or are lack of penis or
[39:36] the insect equivalent of a penis.
[39:39] All right, perfect. I'll give it to you.
[39:40] The male and female genitalia often remain inside the body,
[39:44] meaning the lack external genitalia.
[39:47] So very reminiscent of Ken and Bobby, the plastic dolls with
[39:51] the smooth areas where you would ideally have genitals.
[39:55] Yeah, but that's the thing, people always diss Ken dolls for
[39:58] being smooth, but what the hell could they possibly do?
[40:03] Just imagine the logistics of having to put anatomically
[40:07] correct genitalia on a Ken doll. First question, how big is too
[40:12] big? Yeah, I'm going to move on to
[40:15] the next one. So Van Gogh.
[40:19] Van Gogh. I'm guessing one antenna is
[40:21] missing. It results in swirling of hair
[40:24] on the wing. It's that swirled.
[40:26] Hair. OK, you were talking about the
[40:28] paint. I thought about the cutting off
[40:29] of the air. No good.
[40:31] Guess what? No.
[40:32] All right, I'm going to give you 2 more.
[40:34] OK, Halloween jeans. Halloween jeans.
[40:40] Costumes. Pumpkins.
[40:42] Orange. No, something grew with the
[40:45] color orange. No, actually I think more
[40:48] Halloween like scary. Oh, Skull.
[40:51] Like this thing on a fly's back or something like that.
[40:55] OK, it's close enough, I guess. This group of genes includes
[40:59] Disembodies, Spook, Spookier, Shadow, Shade, shroud, and
[41:02] Phantom. So these are all I guess,
[41:03] subcategories and they are involved in the synthesis of
[41:07] steroid hormones. Flies with mutations in
[41:10] Halloween genes have altered exoskeleton development, giving
[41:14] the embryos a spooky appearance and hence the name Halloween
[41:18] jeans. They look very spooky or scary.
[41:20] Point of clarification, do they look spooky to humans or spooky
[41:24] to other flies? Is it like a family sees it and
[41:27] goes like? Yeah, I don't know how much
[41:30] flies trick and treat with each other.
[41:32] No, they don't have to trick and treat.
[41:34] I mean, like, this could just be terrifying to a family.
[41:36] Yeah, like the fly sees it and immediately starts stumbling and
[41:38] they're just flying away. Again, not very sure how much
[41:42] the geneticists have spoken to the flies about their fears and
[41:46] and where this time from. We should probably look up, look
[41:49] that up, you know? Yeah, yeah.
[41:51] Any listener out there who is for some reason a flight
[41:54] geneticist and is listening to our podcast and is not sure what
[41:57] to do with the the next project? This is a sedation from us.
[42:01] OK. The last one I'm going to ask is
[42:03] Indie Gene. I'm going to guess plays the
[42:08] ukulele. Good guess, but in this case
[42:11] indie is not spelled Ind i.e, it's Indy.
[42:15] Oh, they're very fast. No, not, no, no, no.
[42:19] OK, the indie 500 is the only indie I know.
[42:21] Or oh, indie Indiana Jones has a weirdly fedora shaped head.
[42:27] No, think more Monty Python. OK, no, nothing comes to mind.
[42:34] Think one of the most iconic scenes from Monty Python and the
[42:37] Holy Grail. Nothing's coming to mind
[42:40] immediately. Indie, indie, indie.
[42:43] Indie is actually actually this will help probably is an
[42:45] acronym. So don't think on Andy, just
[42:47] think about the most iconic scene.
[42:49] What is the most iconic scene from Holy Grail?
[42:51] I got it. I'm not dead yet.
[42:53] I'm not dead yet. Yes, the indie gene is.
[42:57] I'm not dead yet, and you want to take a guess as to what the
[43:01] indie gene does. Basically the fly goes into
[43:04] suspended animation or something like that.
[43:06] No, but close enough. This indie gene encodes an
[43:10] immediate transporter protein in the Krebs cycle.
[43:13] Mutant versions of this gene have doubled the average
[43:15] lifespan of fruit flies in at least one set of experiments.
[43:19] OK, nice. Yeah, that's where you get the
[43:21] indie gene from. And those were some of the best
[43:25] fruit fly gene names that I could find.
[43:27] OK, so I'm going to give you one.
[43:29] I'm going to add to that question and ask you what
[43:33] mutation is responsible for the series of genes called the
[43:39] revenge genes. Revenge genes, yes.
[43:44] So wait, I have to tell you what gives it the name Revenge genes
[43:49] is it? Yes, yes, yeah.
[43:50] You interesting. Let me see revenge.
[43:55] Revenge gives me takes me to Star Wars, also takes me to Kill
[43:58] Bill of the best revenge films. Wait, is this also in true
[44:02] place? Yeah, definitely a family.
[44:04] Drosophila melanogaster. Thank you, Sir, for flexing one
[44:07] more time. OK, No, I have no clue.
[44:12] OK, when there's a mutation in the revenge genes, it allows the
[44:16] fly to be born with the soul of a human who died a horrible
[44:20] death at the hands of some guy who wanted his ex-girlfriend or
[44:23] who wanted his girlfriend. What?
[44:28] OK, so I'm guessing you've not seen the movie Eega.
[44:31] Have you seen the movie EEGA? No, I have not.
[44:33] What? If you have not seen the movie
[44:36] Eega, and this again is my request to every single person
[44:40] listening, if you have not seen the movie Eega, please go watch
[44:44] it. Now.
[44:46] You must be wondering why I'm recommending this movie Eega.
[44:49] Eega is a movie by none other than s s Rajamouli, the man who
[44:54] directed Bahubali. And the plot of the movie is a
[44:57] man. And this is not spoiling
[44:59] anything. A man dies or is killed and
[45:03] comes back as a family and enacts his revenge.
[45:11] Oh wow. OK.
[45:12] It is one of the most bonkers films you will ever see and yet
[45:18] somehow at the same time insanely engrossing.
[45:22] So the movie is titled Eager, it's available on many streaming
[45:26] platforms. And if you haven't got it yet,
[45:28] there are no such things as revenge genes.
[45:30] It was just me trolling Aditya. All right, Well trolled, well
[45:34] trolled, well trolled. And that sounds like a fun
[45:36] movie. It is a fun movie.
[45:38] It's a fun watch. You should definitely watch it.
[45:41] The special effects are shit. It's like mid 2000s Indian
[45:43] special effects so really bad. But it's a very inventive movie
[45:48] as to how a family could actually enact revenge.
[45:52] Like just think of it like we're both people who from who were
[45:55] born in the Hindu faith and one of the tenants of the Hindu
[45:58] faith is that you are always in a cycle of reincarnation until
[46:02] you reach enlightenment. So depending upon what you do in
[46:05] this lifetime, you may be born as a dog, as a cat or a plant or
[46:09] whatever, something in the next life if you were born.
[46:13] And it's a big trope in Bollywood movies, right, that
[46:16] you're born again and enact revenge if there in 100 movies
[46:19] like you know, Om Shanti Om, Karan Arjun curse lot of those
[46:23] things. So imagine if you're a family,
[46:26] how would you even act Revenge. Just think of it.
[46:30] It seems next to impossible, but Rajamouli has made it possible.
[46:34] You know what the Hindi remake of that movie should be called?
[46:37] Bars. Oh.
[46:39] God, yeah, Look, that is genius in some ways.
[46:44] So I'm, I'm not, I'm not going to hate on that.
[46:45] I'm not going to hate on that. But it is.
[46:49] Oh man, I miss my question of the week.
[46:53] Any listener who also misses it and has been with us for this
[46:57] journey along and wants to hear one of those questions again,
[47:01] please drop us an e-mail and I'll keep peppering them in from
[47:04] time to time. OK, so the last question for
[47:07] this week's episode is a fairly long one, but easily answerable
[47:11] I feel. And the question is as follows.
[47:14] News Radio is an American television sitcom that aired on
[47:17] NBC from March 21st, 1995 to May 4th, 1999.
[47:22] Focusing on the work life of the staff of US New York City AM
[47:26] News Radio station. It had an ensemble cast
[47:29] featuring Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney,
[47:34] Vicky Lewis, Candy Alexander, Phil Hartman, and X.
[47:39] Despite the several time slot changes that led to the show to
[47:42] not be a major hit for NBC, it is regarded as one of the best
[47:46] ensemble sitcoms of the 90s. I mentioned the entire cast
[47:50] except for one person, and that person is Naonicard.
[47:52] XX played Joe Garelli, the station's street smart
[47:57] electrician and handyman. He's notorious for his seemingly
[48:00] nonchalant approach to his profession, believing that
[48:03] consumer products are RIP offs. He is known to personally craft
[48:07] his own supplies, such as homemade duct tape and gadgets
[48:11] for others around the office, among many a stun gun, a white
[48:14] noise machine, and a two way radio.
[48:16] He also espouses various conspiracy theories,
[48:20] particularly with regard to the government suppression of
[48:23] information about extraterrestrial life.
[48:26] On several occasions. The other employees of the
[48:28] station speculate that Joe might have been the Unabomber.
[48:33] Ray Romano was originally cast to play Joe, but was replaced
[48:37] because his style of verbal comedy did not mesh with the
[48:40] fast-paced width of the rest of the cast.
[48:43] News Radio was only X's second major acting role after a 1994
[48:50] nine episode sitcom called Hardball, where he played Frank
[48:53] Valente, a young, egocentric star player on a professional
[48:57] baseball team. Identify.
[49:00] X Sorry, X is the actor, right? X is the actor.
[49:04] I would point you towards factor if you paid attention to the
[49:07] character description. That itself is a clue to who
[49:10] this actor is. Can you describe the actor
[49:13] again? Joe Gareli, the Station Street
[49:15] Mart electrician and handyman. He is notorious for seemingly
[49:20] nonchalant approach to his profession, believing that
[49:23] consumer products are RIP offs. He is known to personally craft
[49:26] his own supplies and gadgets for others around the office.
[49:29] He also espouses various conspiracy theories,
[49:33] particularly with regard to the government suppression of
[49:35] information about extraterrestrial life.
[49:38] Somehow this sounds like Kramer to me.
[49:41] Oh yeah, but not Kramer. Somebody a lot more relevant.
[49:45] OK conspiracy theories skeptical of the government loves to craft
[49:52] their own things played the character Joe rally Ron Swanson,
[49:59] but I can not relevant in the 90s as much.
[50:03] Let me just give you this clue. This person was recently
[50:05] referred to in a speech as Mighty.
[50:10] Speech mighty makes me think of Trump and Trump referring to
[50:17] somebody. I was Trump.
[50:19] No, Trump was not on any sitcom. Ever.
[50:22] I think Trump might have my guest star on sitcoms.
[50:25] He's known to do that. He was famously in a cameo in
[50:28] Home Alone 2. Yeah Home alone 2 and obviously
[50:30] on multiple reality shows but I don't think any sitcom.
[50:34] I remember Friends had an episode where they mentioned
[50:37] Donald Trump. They mentioned him, yes.
[50:40] I'm assuming that Donald Trump was the one making the speech
[50:42] and not the one. No, it was not Donald Trump
[50:44] making making the speech. No.
[50:46] Oh OK, that's then. Too weak for me then.
[50:49] I have no idea who was mighty. OK, I'll give you another clue.
[50:54] The speech was in the context of a Trump victory.
[50:59] Somebody Speaking of Trump victory referring to somebody
[51:03] who is not Trump as mighty. And who was an actor in the 90s?
[51:08] Actor in the 90s, not Hulk Hogan.
[51:10] Right. No, not Hulk Hogan.
[51:12] I know this guy has thrown his support behind Trump.
[51:15] Mel Gibson. Oh, not Mel Gibson.
[51:17] No. No, because Mel.
[51:18] This would have been a little too late for Mel Gibson because
[51:21] Lethal Weapon, as you remember, Mad Max was in the 80s, late 70s
[51:25] and 80s. So then it's not Mel.
[51:26] Gibson not sure how much TV did Mel Gibson do anyways.
[51:30] OK, no, I don't know which other TV actor has thrown the support
[51:34] behind Trump. OK, last clue.
[51:38] Last clue. He is currently one of the most
[51:42] powerful people in America in one sense.
[51:48] In one sense, that's. Like it depends upon how you
[51:52] define power. Yeah, fair.
[51:55] OK, let me put it this way. Let me put it this way.
[51:57] If you define power as getting a lot of people to listen to you,
[52:02] then yes, this guy is definitely one of the most powerful people
[52:05] in America. So like an opera?
[52:07] But I don't think Oprah's threw her weight behind Trump.
[52:10] No, no, Oprah was supposed to be Trump's vice presidential
[52:15] running mate at one point. That would have been a fun
[52:18] ticket. Oh, just because it's a joke?
[52:22] Really. Joe Rogan.
[52:24] Yeah, it is Joe Rogan. Oh, OK, that makes sense.
[52:28] Conspiracy theory is making his own stuff.
[52:30] OK, OK. Yeah, yeah.
[52:32] Oh, wow. He was in a sitcom.
[52:34] I didn't know that. Joe Rogan was in a sitcom and he
[52:36] was I I remember watching the sitcom back in the day and I
[52:40] remember what that Joe Rogan. When I saw Joe Rogan and Fear
[52:43] Factor, I remember thinking, oh, this is an actor fellow because
[52:47] I at that point had no idea this guy was a stand up comedian.
[52:50] But it is pretty good. The show is pretty good.
[52:52] It's a little dated, but it is pretty good.
[52:54] If you want to watch it, it's available online.
[52:57] You can obviously go and watch it if you wanted to.
[52:59] It is a pretty fantastic show. I love going back and watching
[53:02] these, you know, 90s sitcoms. There's something about it which
[53:07] just makes which is so comforting.
[53:09] I don't know, like Spin City. There's another one called Spin
[53:11] City. I don't know if you watched it.
[53:13] It starts Michael J Fox working in New York City Mayors office.
[53:17] Yeah, that was also another great show.
[53:19] And there are a lot of those 90s sitcoms, so you can go and watch
[53:23] those. And it was Joe Rogans first
[53:26] major acting role because it lasted for a number of years.
[53:30] Prior to that he played a baseball player in a sitcom that
[53:33] lasted only for 9 episodes called Hardball.
[53:35] You know, it was one of his big, first big breaks and he crafted
[53:40] a character which has now, I think, become his real life
[53:43] character. Cool fun.
[53:47] And just because Aditya mentioned it, these are the
[53:50] sitcoms in which Trump has had an appearance.
[53:55] So The Jeffersons. Trump has appeared on The
[53:58] Jeffersons. He's appeared apparently on The
[54:00] Fresh Prince of Bel Air, though I can't remember which episode
[54:03] it is. He's appeared on The Nanny, he's
[54:06] appeared on Suddenly Susan. He's appeared on The Drew Carey
[54:10] Show, Spin City, Sex in the City, The Ali G Show and a lot
[54:17] of wrestling, obviously. Oh wow.
[54:20] Well, that's TIL for me. That's a lot of credits right
[54:24] there for this pair. Yes.
[54:26] So that's the end of our regular round of quizzing for today's,
[54:30] which leads me back to the audience question which I had
[54:32] asked at the beginning of today's episode, which is
[54:35] connect the following movies, The Conjuring, ET, The Shining,
[54:39] Shawshank Redemption, The Revenant, American Graffiti, The
[54:43] Breakfast Club, Saving Private Ryan, Rope Platoon and Dr.
[54:49] Aditya. Do you have any idea what is
[54:52] common between these movies? Movies I love?
[54:55] I don't know. How Yeah, no, I specifically
[54:58] picked this is a non exhaustive list, but I specifically picked
[55:01] these movies because they are probably movies you love so.
[55:05] Interesting, but that's tough fun.
[55:08] Oh, something to do with the Oscars.
[55:11] No, no, no. Nothing to do with the Oscars.
[55:14] OK. There's a very long list.
[55:15] I remember Conjuring. I remember ET, Shawshank
[55:18] Redemption. You said platoon, you said
[55:19] drive. Rope Rope Breakfast Club, Saving
[55:26] Private Ryan. Breakfast Club, Saving Private
[55:30] Ryan. Think technically about how the
[55:32] movie was made. Something in common between
[55:36] Conjuring and Saving Private Ryan Breakfast Club and
[55:43] Shawshank Redemption. Something about Shawshank
[55:46] Redempt Redemption I can think of.
[55:47] Voice over. Yeah, but the others don't have.
[55:52] No. Give me some other clue.
[55:53] No idea. It's very.
[55:54] How the movie was shot specifically.
[55:56] Something to do with on location, but again, no, that
[56:00] doesn't make any. Sense No, no.
[56:01] So I'll give you I'll I'll give you the answer.
[56:03] It's a little tough, but I found it very interesting.
[56:07] These are all films which are shot in chronological order.
[56:10] Oh, OK, interesting. Completely chronological order.
[56:13] Completely chronological order, as in the sequence of shots was
[56:17] according to the story normally, and this is the norm for 99.9%
[56:22] of all movies, movies are not shot in chronological order,
[56:26] right? So you have one location and you
[56:28] if you have scenes in that location from multiple parts of
[56:31] the movie, you shoot them all together and like on a single
[56:34] day out during a single. I don't know what the showbiz
[56:38] term for it is, but during a single kind of whatever it is
[56:41] Aditya help me out here. Shoot schedule.
[56:43] You do a shoot schedule at a specific location.
[56:45] Yeah. Exactly.
[56:46] So then there may be a scene from the beginning of the movie,
[56:48] in the middle of the movie, the end of the movie, and if they
[56:51] are all in one particular location with a specific set of
[56:53] cast, you shoot them all together at once, right during a
[56:56] specific schedule. However, all these movies were
[56:59] shot in chronological order, and some of them were for specific
[57:02] reasons. Obviously The Shining and The
[57:04] Conjuring and all to spill the sense of dread among the actors
[57:07] themselves in ET so that the child actors could follow the
[57:11] story better, right? The Breakfast Club so that the
[57:14] characters could develop together.
[57:16] So there about all of these were they had a specific reason why
[57:19] they were shot and they were all shot in chronological order.
[57:24] Oh OK, that's that's fun. That's a fun little bit.
[57:27] I imagine it's a non exhaustive list.
[57:28] There must be a quite a few more movies on that list here.
[57:31] It is quite rare, unfortunately. Interesting.
[57:35] So Aditya, what's your recommendation for this week?
[57:38] Your pop culture recommendation? Well, let's start with every
[57:41] single movie you just mentioned. All of them.
[57:43] Phenomenal movies. Yes.
[57:45] Yeah. So great movies.
[57:48] Yeah. So go back and listen to that
[57:50] part again if you want to get that.
[57:53] What else would I recommend? Did I already do no good deed?
[57:58] I don't think so. OK, so the so my pop culture
[58:02] recommendation apart from those movies would be that Netflix
[58:06] show No Good Deed and it's a fun little duck comedy TV series
[58:13] that is on Netflix, which released in 2024 and it stars
[58:18] Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano and the lead roles a fun little
[58:24] pairing. I would say great chemistry
[58:26] between the two as well. And then a bunch of other
[58:29] characters also who are very well portrayed by the actors.
[58:33] So check out no good deed. It's kind of a little bit of a
[58:36] mystery dark comedy series worth your time.
[58:41] So check out No Good Deed. I also would recommend this
[58:46] YouTube channel, A recent video that I saw that I really enjoyed
[58:50] called Kus Kusarts. Video by the name of What Alien
[58:54] Life Might Look like. That was a fun little video.
[58:56] So a YouTube video recommendation as well.
[58:59] Check both of those out. Nice nice.
[59:02] My recommendation is obviously eager to everyone who's not
[59:05] watched it, please do. Don't go and expecting Bahubali
[59:10] or expecting world cinema. Just the film is as silly as its
[59:14] premise that a man is reborn as a family and enacts revenge.
[59:19] The second movie I have is a spooky comedy, it's called Dead
[59:25] stream. It's not.
[59:26] It's an indie movie. It's not.
[59:27] It didn't have a theatrical release in India as far as I
[59:29] know. The concept of the movie is that
[59:33] a YouTube, or at least a streamer in this case, because
[59:36] they don't mention YouTube by name, I'm guessing for legal
[59:38] reasons, a YouTube or a streamer decides to spend the night in a
[59:43] haunted house and live streams everything.
[59:47] Now what happens when that house is actually haunted?
[59:49] OK, so that's the other movie that I want to recommend.
[59:52] And that's all for this week. And we will see you again next
[59:58] week for our 100th episode. So thank you for listening in.
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