# Episode 037 - Pokemon, Atomic Bombs & Giants

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 22 Sep 2023, 40 min.

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Do you know the origin of Pikachu's (the Pokemon) name? Do you know what impact atomic bomb tests have had on the Art World? Do you know which mythological character may have had an AIP mutation causing early onset autosomal dominant pituitary gigantism? 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

[0:01] Welcome to Are you Quizzing me? I'm Maneet Nayar with my cohost
[0:05] Aditya Kashin. This is a quizzing trivia pod.
[0:07] Kashin, join us as we dive deep into history, science, pod, pop,
[0:11] gotcha, and so much more. Pet Skin Quizzing.
[0:17] And we're back Another Day, another episode.
[0:20] And this is episode #37 of Are You Quizzing Me?
[0:24] Me, Aditya and I are back for another round of quizzing and
[0:28] let's start off today's Quizzing with your audience question.
[0:33] This is a question I'm asking for you, our beloved audience,
[0:36] and the answer for which I will give at the end of the episode.
[0:39] So here goes. Senior is a 2022 Netflix
[0:42] documentary on which indie director of the 1960s and 70s
[0:48] documentary was made by the subject's most famous son, who
[0:51] made a screen debut aged 5 in his father's 1970 film Pound.
[0:57] Identify the director. They will repeat the question.
[1:01] Senior is a 2020 Two's Netflix documentary on which indie
[1:05] director of the 1960s and 70s the documentary has been made by
[1:09] the subject's most famous son, who made a screen debut aged 5
[1:14] in his father's 1970 film Pound. I will reveal the answer at the
[1:19] end of the episode. Try and guess it by then.
[1:22] Before we start off with the regular quizzing programming,
[1:26] there is the small matter of Aditya's question of last week,
[1:29] for which we have all waited way too long.
[1:32] Aditya, what was your question and what would be your brilliant
[1:36] answer? And I do not mean that
[1:38] ironically. My question was, what would be
[1:42] an ideal name for a website to commemorate Shami Kapoor's
[1:47] contribution to the Internet world of India, The online world
[1:52] of India? Because he did a lot.
[1:55] In the initial years when the Internet was just a small little
[1:59] thing starting off, so I thought a lot about this and this could
[2:04] be a long winded answer. So strap strap in because do you
[2:09] know Shammi Kapoor won a Filmfare award for Best Actor?
[2:13] Do you know which film he won that for?
[2:15] I should say I'm hopefully ignorant of his career.
[2:19] Perfect. Because I did not expect you to.
[2:22] He won it for the movie Brahmachari, OK?
[2:25] Now Char of course is 4 and Lord Brahma is also has a lot of four
[2:31] imagery. He has four heads.
[2:34] He also was the author of the four Vedas.
[2:37] And the four heads point in in four different directions, which
[2:40] would ideally make the shape shape of a square.
[2:44] So the ideal name for a website to commemorate Tammi Kapoor
[2:48] would be obviously foursquare.com.
[2:55] Oh, oh, OK. I either I'm having a kidney
[3:00] stone or this is literally caused.
[3:02] Internal bleeding this I I spent a solid half an hour thinking
[3:10] about what are the different puns I can make.
[3:12] There is his famous movies include T3 Manzil.
[3:15] I was thinking like something about eBay 3 Bay, but I mean
[3:18] when I finally arrived on Brahmachari and the connection
[3:20] to Four Square, I was quite proud of myself.
[3:22] Vineet, I must tell you, yes, yes, yes.
[3:25] Proud is definitely the word. OK, Aditya, let's start of the
[3:29] regular quizzing. The most sane quizzing, I should
[3:32] say, for this week's episode. And I invite you to ask the
[3:36] first question, so have at it. All right, so this question
[3:42] assumes, or rather I hope, that you are a Pokémon fan.
[3:46] Are you a Pokémon fan? Reneath.
[3:48] Absolutely not. Oh boy.
[3:51] OK, so this combines. It's very painful for me.
[3:56] Hopefully not. Hopefully not.
[3:57] This combines the love for Pokémon with the love for
[4:00] etymology. Now let's start off very simply.
[4:03] Do you know where the word Pokémon comes from?
[4:05] Pocket monsters, right? Hey, Vineet might not be a fan,
[4:09] but that does not mean Vineet is stupid.
[4:11] I love it. Yes, it does come from pocket
[4:14] monsters. Pokémon does stand for pocket
[4:17] monsters. The initial.
[4:20] Set of Pokémon that came in the first generation All had very
[4:23] interesting etymologies, but I'm gonna focus on just a few of
[4:26] them. Do you know what the Pokemons,
[4:30] Ikans and Arbok get their name from?
[4:34] OK, Are you speaking another language?
[4:37] That's my first question. OK, how do you spell these?
[4:42] Ikans and Arbok are EKANS and Arbok is a RB.
[4:45] OK, ohh wait, these are backwards.
[4:49] No? So there'll be Snake and Cobra.
[4:51] Hey, well, Cracked, Yes, this is snake and cobra spelled
[4:54] backwards. All right, you got that one
[4:56] pretty quickly. Let's ask you another two.
[5:00] And these are hit mondly and hit Mon Chan.
[5:05] OK, slowly pretend I'm 4. OK, hit Monli.
[5:12] Hit Mon Chan. Hit Mon, hit Mowgli.
[5:16] Monly monly OK and hit Mon Chan. Hmm.
[5:22] Uh, something to do with Jackie Chan and hit me or something
[5:25] like that. Who am I?
[5:26] I have no clue. Just to.
[5:28] Close it's enough. close enough. close enough.
[5:30] Hit Mon Chan is a homage to Jackie Chan, and a hit monly is
[5:34] an homage to Bruce Lee. So these Bruce Lee?
[5:37] Oh, OK. Pokémon who used to fight, like
[5:41] actually fight with their hands and their feet.
[5:44] And let me ask you one last one. There is a water Pokémon, and
[5:48] because all Pokémon have specialties, this one's
[5:51] speciality is water. There's a water Pokémon whose
[5:53] name is Lapras. Do you know where Lapras gets
[5:57] its name from? How do you spell that?
[6:00] LAPRAS. Nope, nothing springs to mind.
[6:04] You know. This one is a tough one, so it's
[6:07] all right. I'll give it to you.
[6:08] Do you know the famous mathematician?
[6:10] Laplace, Laplace. Laplace.
[6:11] I'm not sure to pronounce Laplace.
[6:13] Yes, yes, Laplace, yes, yeah. Yes, I.
[6:15] Have the Laplace? Yeah.
[6:17] He studied the C and the tides and was obsessed with the
[6:22] mathematics and the physics behind it.
[6:23] So that's where the name as an homage to his obsession with the
[6:27] water bodies. That's where Laplace gets its
[6:29] name from. OK, Yep.
[6:33] Plus, you know what? I'm going to do one more.
[6:35] I'm gonna do one more. I'm gonna do one more.
[6:36] Okay, okay. Do you know the most famous
[6:40] Pokémon? I think you're basically just
[6:42] took the question out of I was about to ask you, can you tell
[6:44] me where Pikachu came from? Because I had no clue I was like
[6:48] okay. Everything you said so far makes
[6:49] sense then, but the only exposure I've had to Pokémon is
[6:53] like the Brian Reynolds voiced Pikachu Detective Pikachu flick,
[6:58] which was pretty cute. Yeah.
[7:00] So I was wondering, OK, Pikachu, where does Pikachu come from?
[7:04] I was about to ask you hoping that you would know, but I'm
[7:06] guessing this is what you wanted to ask me now.
[7:09] Absolutely. That's where I was getting at.
[7:11] So the Pika is an actual rodent that exists in real life, but
[7:15] Pikachu's name is actually more of a word play than it is an
[7:18] homage to Pika, because Pikachu and a lot of the Pokémon when
[7:23] they speak, they only say their own name technically or a part
[7:26] of it. So, Pikachu.
[7:29] It says pika pika a lot. And Pika pika is a Japanese
[7:32] onomatopia for sparkle so. And Chu Chu in Japanese
[7:38] represents A squeaking sound. So Pikachu is a squeaky sparkly
[7:42] mouse. And that's kind of what the
[7:46] Pokémon is all about because it is also, it also has like powers
[7:50] of lightning and stuff like that, and it looks like a mouse.
[7:52] So yeah, it's a squeaky sparkly mouse.
[7:54] That's where Pikachu comes from, a very cute one voiced by Ryan
[7:59] Reynolds in that movie. Which again, I need to say it
[8:01] was pretty good. Indeed, indeed.
[8:04] Yeah. OK, that was a very good set of
[8:08] questions. I'm going to move from there to
[8:13] an intersection of mythology and modern medicine.
[8:17] So according to a paper released in 2014, which person from
[8:22] mythology may have had an AIP mutation?
[8:26] That is a mutation on the AIP gene which caused early onset
[8:31] autosomal dominant pituitary gigantism with a possible
[8:37] pituitary tumor pressing on his optic charisma which would
[8:42] somewhat explain his eventual fate.
[8:45] So which mythological character or person with mythological,
[8:49] which person from mythology would I be talking about?
[8:53] So to be fair, when I say mythology, so many people across
[8:57] the world do believe that this person actually existed.
[8:59] So I don't want to offend anybody.
[9:01] Let's say this person from myth slash.
[9:04] Did you mention gigantism at some point?
[9:07] Yes, yes. Not a clue right now.
[9:12] Could you guide me towards which mythology slash history are we
[9:15] looking at? Indian.
[9:17] No. I would advise you this is
[9:19] practically A giveaway, but I would advise you to look towards
[9:22] the judeo-christian mythology or at least their religious
[9:27] stories. Some even would call it
[9:29] histories. I I was gonna ask if not Indian
[9:34] and Greek, but you're taking me to a different space altogether.
[9:37] I cannot think of a lot of characters which are which would
[9:40] qualify as having gigantism in these tales.
[9:46] And what is the eventual fate that you mentioned?
[9:48] Like what explains there? OK, let me repeat that part
[9:51] again that that's that's a good clue.
[9:52] OK. So according to a 2014 paper
[9:55] which did an analysis, this person may have suffered from a
[9:58] mutation on the AIPG which would have caused an autosomal
[10:03] dominant pituitary gigantism with along with a possible
[10:08] pituitary tumor pressing on his optic chiasma.
[10:13] Now what this could have done is could have limited his lateral
[10:17] vision, so he may not have seen something coming at him,
[10:22] something small, something fast moving.
[10:25] OK, interesting. So David and Goliath, yes, this
[10:29] is the yeah, yeah, this is suspected.
[10:31] This is one of the scientific, possible scientific explanations
[10:34] for Goliath and his eventual faith.
[10:39] That's fascinating. I love it.
[10:42] Goliath might have not been able to see what is coming at him.
[10:45] Yeah, so the Goliath obviously was a giant in the most well
[10:50] known giant in the Bible. There are other giants in the
[10:53] Bible. So he's the well, most well
[10:54] known giant in the Bible. And he's described as a champion
[10:58] out of the camp of the Philistines, whose height was 6
[11:02] cubits, and the Spam, which is roughly around 9 feet tall.
[11:07] Got it? So the story goes that twice a
[11:09] day for 40 days, morning and evening, Goliath, champion of
[11:12] the Philistines, comes out between the lines and challenge
[11:15] the Israelites to send out a champion of their own to decide
[11:19] the outcome in single combat, much like you would have seen in
[11:25] Troy. However, the Israeli king Saul
[11:28] is afraid. One day David accepts the
[11:31] challenge. Saul reluctantly agrees and
[11:34] offers his armor, which David declines, taking only his staff
[11:38] sling and five smooth stones from a brook.
[11:42] David heard the stone from his sling and hits to Goliath in the
[11:45] center of his forehead. Goliath falls on his face to the
[11:48] ground and David cuts off his head.
[11:51] Now there's also a score of thought that he may not actually
[11:53] have died from the stone hitting the hitting his forehead, it
[11:57] might have just been a concussion, and that it was the
[12:00] actual beheading which might have killed him.
[12:03] Fascinating piece of trivia, I must say.
[12:05] OK. Speaking of fighting back, segue
[12:11] into my question. OK, let's go to the 1900s and
[12:21] this is a gentleman in 19th century.
[12:24] This is a gentleman, American gentleman called Almond, Brown,
[12:27] Stroger, Stroger, Stroger. I'm not sure, but something like
[12:31] that he is. Somebody who received a patent
[12:35] for an invention in 1891. This invention was for a very
[12:41] specific reason. Struger used to have an
[12:44] undertaking business, but was losing clients to a competitor
[12:49] whose wife used to redirect all the calls that would come in
[12:53] inquiring about any undertaking business that was in the in the
[12:58] city and would. Instead of letting it go to
[13:01] Stroger, who they might have been inquiring about, would
[13:03] instead redirect them to her husband.
[13:06] And hence Stroger was losing his business.
[13:09] What did Stroger invent? So let me just recap the
[13:14] question. So Stroger was an undertaker,
[13:18] right? Yeah.
[13:19] And he was losing business because his competitor's wife
[13:23] was redirecting calls to her husband's business.
[13:29] Place of business, right? OK, So what did he invent that
[13:32] he got a patent for? In what year did you say?
[13:36] 1891 He got a patent for it in 1891.
[13:41] Yeah. Is this something to do with the
[13:44] telephone exchange? That was a very quick and
[13:48] brilliant crack. Yes, it is.
[13:50] He invented the first automatic telephone exchange in 1889 and
[13:54] he received a patent for it in 1891.
[13:57] And the reason was because he did not want to lose business.
[14:02] So he invented something. And I'm just trying to think of
[14:05] somebody who works with, you know, the deceased and and the
[14:08] grieving process and suddenly it's like, you know what?
[14:11] All of this is great, but I need to fix this business problem.
[14:14] 1st, I'm going to go invent an automatic telephone exchange.
[14:19] I just love that. I love that this human being was
[14:22] so annoyed that he invented a whole new thing.
[14:25] Genius. OK, so we let's go from the turn
[14:29] of the early 20th century to the late 20th century, OK?
[14:34] In 1998, a woman is rumored to have posted a warning to censor
[14:40] themselves in case British school kids were lurking, due to
[14:44] which the abbreviation NFBSK that is not for British school
[14:50] kids came to use. It later evolved into a simpler
[14:53] and more commonly used abbreviation.
[14:55] Today, the acronym assumes that we all have a job and are
[15:00] forbidden to do certain things. This abbreviation serves as a
[15:04] warning that you can find yourself having an awkward
[15:06] conversation with your boss if you were, you know, doing
[15:12] certain things. Dan Savage, an author, invented
[15:16] a more appropriate acronym, adding one letter to the
[15:20] original one, saying I have to search for these things
[15:24] constantly because that's my job.
[15:27] So I need you to tell me what the original acronym was, which
[15:30] I have nine 155% sure that you already know, and the new one
[15:35] suggested by Dan Savage. I'm assuming the original 1 is
[15:38] not safe for work. NSFW.
[15:40] Yes, the original one is NSFW. Dan Savage invented a more
[15:45] appropriate acronym by adding one letter to the original.
[15:49] So what's the new one suggested by that?
[15:51] And what does Dan Savage do? He was an author and basically
[15:56] he said that, you know, I have to search for these things
[15:58] constantly as that is my job. So he has to search for an NSFW
[16:03] stuff for his job as part of his job as a writer and an author
[16:07] and things. So he's like, that's so because
[16:09] of that he felt like NSFW wasn't particularly a very accurate, so
[16:14] he changed it slightly. Not say for corporate work
[16:19] NSFCW. No, let me just, OK, I I gave
[16:24] you part of this quote. Let me see if I can give you a
[16:28] little more of it. So there's a blank dot portion,
[16:31] obviously, so I'm just telling you that in advance.
[16:32] So his he invented a more appropriate acronym, adding one
[16:36] letter to the original one saying I have to search for
[16:39] these things constantly as that is my job.
[16:42] It's blank. A big blank.
[16:47] Not mine. Let me just give you an
[16:50] additional clue that the expansion of the new acronym
[16:53] would be the blank. Got it.
[16:56] It's OK. So the expansion of the blank
[16:58] would be something like it's not.
[16:59] So it's not safe for office work, not mine, not safe for
[17:06] regular work. I don't know.
[17:08] I can't think of anything. Is there only one additional
[17:14] word in the? Only one additional, only one
[17:16] additional letter and one additional word corresponding to
[17:19] that. OK, well eventually if I don't
[17:22] get it, just give me the letter and I'll try to guess the word.
[17:25] But is it a not safe for dash work?
[17:29] Yes. OK.
[17:32] I can't think of anything. It's like normal, regular
[17:34] Office. It's much simpler than all of
[17:37] that. Not safe for your work, yes it
[17:42] is NSF YW not safe for your work.
[17:46] So his original thing was I have to search for these things
[17:48] constantly as that's my job. So it's not safe for your work,
[17:51] not mine. OK, that's funny.
[17:57] All right, Fun, fun, fun. Speaking of NSFW stuff, such a
[18:03] terrible segue, but do you know? Which are the most common
[18:09] birthdays? And I could only find this in
[18:11] the context of the United States.
[18:13] So what are the most common birthdays in the United States?
[18:16] And obviously, why were they the most common birthdays?
[18:20] So OK. I guess do I have to like how
[18:27] much of A leave it do I have? Do I have to give exact dates or
[18:30] can it be like plus or minus a week or something like that?
[18:33] I have the top ten in front of me, so.
[18:36] Go ahead. If you hit any one of them,
[18:38] I'll, I'll, I'll consider it a win.
[18:41] OK. OK.
[18:43] So let's see, April 4th. April would be March 4th.
[18:50] Are you March going from 9:00? 4th of July, yes.
[18:55] OK. No, no, there is actually there
[18:58] is no April in the top ten, OK, what about November, November
[19:02] 14th? Not a single November okay then.
[19:06] My logic on this is obviously wrong.
[19:08] You'll have to give me a clue. So don't think specific dates
[19:12] thing, more range of dates Okay. So the range of dates.
[19:17] So it's so obviously because you've already rejected April,
[19:20] it's not the 4th of July weekend.
[19:23] I mean like holidays. What would what kind of holidays
[19:28] would make Americans want to procreate?
[19:31] That is the question. Think about it.
[19:33] Procreation or the act of procreation is usually NSFW,
[19:37] which means you can't do it when you are W So yeah, I know.
[19:41] That's why I'm thinking holidays.
[19:43] So how much I'm, I'm not very familiar with how many holidays
[19:46] these guys get. So Thanksgiving is in November.
[19:50] So. You're making it too.
[19:53] You're making it too complicated.
[19:54] You're making it too complicated.
[19:55] It's. The most OK, it's perhaps New
[19:59] Year's. New Year's then September.
[20:03] September, I'll give it to you. Yes, September.
[20:05] The Christmas holidays are actually Christmas holidays in
[20:08] New Year's. Okay, yeah.
[20:09] So Christmas season, which leads us to like, September.
[20:13] The most popular birthday is September 9th.
[20:17] And then? In the top ten, there are like 9
[20:20] September birthdays. There's ninth, there's 19th,
[20:22] there's 12th, 17th, 10th September, 20th September, 15th
[20:26] September, 16th September, 18th September, Really.
[20:28] September's a very busy month. Yeah, yeah.
[20:31] Even though the variance is very small, it's not like it's a huge
[20:34] rise, but it is definitely the highest out of all.
[20:38] I mean like definitely statistically it would be an
[20:40] outlier. It would be an outlier.
[20:42] No. So basically, what we should
[20:44] take away from this is that Americans are especially horny
[20:47] during Christmas. Well, they're not working.
[20:50] So Speaking of a small segue, but very related.
[20:56] Least popular birthday Ohh least popular birthday September 11th.
[21:03] Interesting choice, but no, no. OK, least popular or least
[21:08] common common birthday you're talking about.
[21:10] I mean, but popular is it? Like, not like it's a popularity
[21:13] contest. Like, yeah, that is true.
[21:18] That would be a terrible day, I guess, to share with a very big
[21:23] tragedy in the American history. But no, I'm talking about least
[21:26] common birthdays. OK, least common birthdays I do
[21:32] not know. I have no clue.
[21:33] Least common birthdays would be. I mean like that would be
[21:39] practically anything where they have to work right?
[21:42] And they would have to work more.
[21:43] Interestingly, no. So it's a day where people don't
[21:46] want to work. The least popular birthday at
[21:49] least common birthday is December 25th.
[21:51] It is Christmas Day. Ohh do you know the second one
[21:55] January for January 1st? January 1st, the third one,
[21:59] February 14th. No, it's December 24th.
[22:04] It's Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve, OK.
[22:07] You're gonna take a guess on the 4th 1 Boxing Day.
[22:11] Yeah, it's July 4th, July 4th, OK. 4th of July.
[22:16] I would think that February 14th would actually put more
[22:18] pressure. I mean, you have to take
[22:20] somebody out and it's their birthday.
[22:22] That's like immense pressure. With the logic behind this is
[22:27] apparently, I mean, as labor goes and as pregnancies goes,
[22:31] there's not so much you can control as to when the baby is
[22:33] going to come out. But for the scenarios where you
[22:36] can, where perhaps it is an induced labor or, or it is a
[22:40] C-section, or all these different kinds of methods apart
[22:44] from the regular method. Those methods, doctors and
[22:48] nurses would prefer to do it on a day when they're not, you
[22:51] know, expected to be at home with family.
[22:53] So December 25th, January 1st, December 24th, July 4th.
[22:56] All these days does become fewer birthdays than other days of the
[22:59] year. OK, OK, nights.
[23:04] Nights. OK, so I am going to go in a
[23:08] completely different direction. Let's move away from birthdays
[23:12] and what not. I'm going to talk about one
[23:14] particular person, OK? And I'm not going to mention his
[23:17] last middle or last name. I'm just going to mention his
[23:19] first name. His first name was Emory.
[23:23] Emory was born in Chicago, IL on December 27th, 1958.
[23:29] He learned to play chess as a child, served in the United
[23:33] States Air Force as a Sergeant, where he excelled as a linguist.
[23:37] He learned Spanish through being an exchange student in Mexico.
[23:41] Later became an American Chess International Master, described
[23:45] by Grandmaster Maurice Ashley as a trailblazer for African
[23:49] American chess, who is his eldest son, who bears his
[23:55] father's name. Emery was born in 1958, yes,
[24:00] Chicago, IL on December 27th 1958.
[24:04] Learned to place chess as a child, served in the United
[24:07] States Air Force, became a Chess American Chess International
[24:11] Master, and was described by Grandmaster Maurice Ashley as a
[24:15] trailblazer for African American chess, Who is his eldest son?
[24:20] Who bears his father's name? OK, so first clarification.
[24:26] This is an actual person, not a fictional person.
[24:29] This is an actual person, very much an actual person.
[24:32] Now I'm trying to think of it because you said African
[24:34] American chess. I'm assuming he's also African
[24:37] American himself, 1958, so his son would be at least around 20
[24:43] years later, 80s seventies, 80s. Is his son also famous for
[24:48] chess? No.
[24:51] His son is famous for another sport where he was a champion
[24:55] and a professional sportsman, but that's not what he's
[24:59] primarily famous for today. OK, so not Tiger Woods.
[25:02] No, no, no, Not Tiger Woods. Good Tiger Woods.
[25:05] Would be older. Also, Tiger Woods would not be
[25:08] in the 80s. Yeah, yeah.
[25:11] This particular gentleman is, I think around 3637, maybe
[25:15] somewhere around that age. No, I can't think of anybody,
[25:20] Emery. Let me just put it this way.
[25:24] There's a very specific reason where I did.
[25:25] Why I did not mention the father's last or middle name?
[25:30] I'm assuming cause the son bears the name, right?
[25:32] Yeah, Son bears the name. And that would be a famous
[25:35] enough name. Let me just put it this way, The
[25:38] son's name is also Emory. 30 or 30 years old, Emory.
[25:44] Oh no, I have no clue. I have no clue, you know, to
[25:47] give me some context to the son or the father.
[25:49] OK, so the son is partially American, partially British.
[25:55] Just like old Winston. He's a media personality,
[26:01] businessman and former professional kickboxer.
[26:06] He's also appeared on Big Brother, the UK version of The
[26:09] Big Brother. No idea whatsoever.
[26:14] None of these strike a bell at all.
[26:16] OK, I'm going to give you a little more clarification.
[26:22] He's quite famous for his misogynistic commentary
[26:25] nowadays. Oh, what's his name?
[26:29] The the ball dude. No, wait, he's not the ball
[26:31] dude. Yes, exactly.
[26:33] The ball, dude. That dude is a black What's his
[26:36] name? Oh my God, I'm probably blank.
[26:38] You got his name, but he's a white guy.
[26:42] No, he's actually half his mixed race.
[26:45] His father was African American and his mother was not.
[26:48] You also, I'll give it to you. You already know the moment you
[26:52] said ball. Dude, you already.
[26:53] I know you know who he is. So he's Andrew Tate.
[26:56] Andrew. Tate's Andrew Tate's actual name
[27:00] is Emery Andrew Tate the Third. His father was Emery Andrew Tate
[27:05] the 2nd. Interesting.
[27:08] And wait, oh wow, He's mixed race.
[27:11] That that just makes him that much more interesting as a human
[27:14] being. Yeah, and his father was a chess
[27:18] international master. Wow.
[27:20] OK. That's some legacy to.
[27:24] To live up to, and he has chosen to do it in a very interesting
[27:26] way. Interesting being a very
[27:29] interesting choice of word. I, you know, I've read some of
[27:32] his comments and that like there is garden variety misogyny and
[27:37] then there is this just like misogyny on some kind of
[27:42] hallucinogenic drugs or something.
[27:44] I don't know. It's just how are you getting so
[27:47] creative with misogyny? It really boggles of mind.
[27:53] It amazing. OK, your turn.
[27:57] There was a lot of atomic bomb testing.
[28:00] Anybody who's watched Oppenheimer would be aware, or
[28:02] in general, there was a lot of atomic bomb testing happening
[28:06] across the world during that phase.
[28:10] Russia was developing its arsenal. the US obviously was
[28:12] doing that as well. Where in the world of arts and
[28:18] entertainment did it have an unexpected?
[28:22] Repercussion. Especially in the space of
[28:27] security. So I'm going to phrase it.
[28:30] OK, so I have a couple of answers for this.
[28:34] First of all, maybe this is a fun fact.
[28:36] Maybe you know this, maybe you don't.
[28:38] But you cannot fake old wines anymore because wines which were
[28:44] bottled pre 1945, which were cocked pre 1945 have never
[28:49] opened, will not have any of the radioactive compounds that are
[28:54] created from atom. I know atomic blasts.
[28:58] So if you have, you can't fake it anymore because you cannot
[29:01] have a wine bottle or wine anything without those trace
[29:05] compounds present anymore. Anything bought, anything made,
[29:09] anything cocked point post 1945 will have those compounds.
[29:13] Similarly, I'm guessing there's some kind of trace radioactive
[29:16] element which would be present in the paintings post that were
[29:23] actually painted post. So forgeries and all post
[29:25] painted post 1945 would have those trace radioactive elements
[29:30] which can be detected. So you can basically say that
[29:34] this is pre and this is post 1945.
[29:38] I just am constantly amazed at you, Vineet.
[29:42] You are. Thank you.
[29:45] Bright spot in my week, which reminds me just how glorious the
[29:49] human race is. OK, so to sum it up, actually
[29:53] you did a brilliant job of it. But just to sum it up, atoms of
[29:57] a single element, but of different masses are known as
[29:59] isotopes, carbon 12 and carbon 13.
[30:01] Isotopes are stable while carbon 14 is unstable.
[30:04] Now Carbon 14 was present in very, very trace amounts pre the
[30:09] testing of nuclear bombs post those testings.
[30:13] Post having all of those bombs being exploded across the world,
[30:18] the amount of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere increased
[30:21] significantly, which also meant that it went into a lot of other
[30:24] things, including the plants and trees.
[30:27] Now anything derived from that which includes paints and
[30:30] canvases, now has carbon 14 in it. 319 forties 1950s produced
[30:37] art would not have that. You're actually quite right
[30:40] about the wine thing as well. However, I will tell you this,
[30:43] and I'm quoting this from a New York Times article.
[30:46] It is, quote UN quote, not a silver bullet radiocarbon
[30:51] dating. Firstly because radiocarbon
[30:53] dating is by definition destructive, so they do need to
[30:57] extract small parts, even if it is very small miniscule parts.
[31:00] They do need to extract that. And the other reason it is also
[31:03] not very effective, or at least will stop being as effective is
[31:07] because the carbon 14 levels in the atmosphere are on course to
[31:10] return to pre bombing levels after being absorbed by the
[31:13] ocean, and are in fact expected to fall further as they continue
[31:16] to be diluted by fossil fuel emissions.
[31:20] So yeah, the Carbon 14 method, while it was effective for a
[31:24] while, and it might be effective for a short while more, it will
[31:28] soon become ineffective as well. But it is an interesting piece
[31:32] of trivia that has originated from the use of atomic bombs.
[31:36] And, well, cracked. Very well, Cracked, thank you.
[31:40] OK, let's move to music. This song has given the artist
[31:45] their first Brit award, which is the equivalent of a Grammy in
[31:49] the UK. It's been used in a few
[31:52] television series. The cover of the say of the
[31:55] particular song by the band Placebo was used in the season 2
[31:59] episode of Bones called Judas on a Pole.
[32:03] More recently, it was used on a very famous TV series to
[32:06] represent the emotional struggles of a character.
[32:09] The song's original name had to be changed because it had
[32:12] something in its title which might have made it difficult to
[32:17] be played in certain religious countries.
[32:19] The artists thought that this idea of changing the title
[32:22] seemed ridiculous as it was a big part of the song's identity
[32:25] and lyrics identify the song. Is this the same song that was
[32:30] used in Bones? Yes.
[32:32] So that's my first look at the OR.
[32:34] This version, the original artist version was not used.
[32:37] What was used by was a cover by placebo.
[32:40] If you ever watched Bones, there's the episode where we get
[32:44] there are these episodes where we get introduced to Temperance,
[32:48] Brennan's famous father, criminal father, and where he
[32:53] takes out, you know, people who are trying to harm his family.
[32:58] So I think that if I remember correctly, this particular
[33:02] sequence has plays in the background when he's killed
[33:05] somebody on a cross and I'm burning them alive.
[33:09] Wow. OK, I have not watched Bones at
[33:10] all, but that description just made me wanna so that sounds
[33:14] like an interesting show. I have not watched it, so that
[33:17] doesn't quite help me, but let's see what are the clues are
[33:21] there? You said something about
[33:22] changing the lyrics would change the.
[33:25] Changing the words change the title, so the type change the
[33:28] title. So the song's original name had
[33:31] to be changed because it had something in its title which
[33:35] would have made it difficult to be played in certain religious
[33:38] countries. The artist themselves thought
[33:41] that this idea of changing the title seemed ridiculous, as it
[33:44] was a big part of the song's identity and lyrics.
[33:48] Religious countries. So does it have anything to do
[33:50] with the mention of God Jesus? Yes.
[33:55] Yes, you're you're right the first time.
[33:58] Your first guess was right. Let me just put it.
[34:01] It's been, it has come to, you know, prominence again because
[34:06] of its use in a more recent TV series, more recent, very
[34:10] successful TV series where it was used to represent the
[34:13] emotional struggles of a character and was played during
[34:16] a very emotionally charged and action-packed intense moment
[34:21] during the end of the season. So I'm quite lost right now.
[34:26] I would maybe ask for a clue which TV series was this?
[34:30] If I give you that, it's easy to crack.
[34:33] So let's just say Netflix and leave it at that.
[34:37] A lot of the Netflix programming recently has been non-english,
[34:41] yes, but this particular this is an English song.
[34:44] This particular series is one of Netflix's premier lineup, and
[34:49] the song basically climbed the charts again after decades of
[34:54] its release because of this particular TV series in the use
[34:56] of the song. Stranger Things the song that is
[35:01] played on the earphones? On the headphones?
[35:04] Yes. So what's the song?
[35:08] I love that song, actually. After Stranger Things, I also
[35:10] was obsessively listening to it. Ohh man.
[35:12] It's been a while since I've heard it though.
[35:14] God, I got something. Yes, I know it.
[35:18] Is A is a female singer, right? Yes, it's a female singer.
[35:23] I'll give it to you. I'll give it to you.
[35:24] You already. You obviously know the song.
[35:26] Yeah. The artist is Kate Bush.
[35:29] Yes. And the song is Running Up that
[35:31] hill. Original title being a deal with
[35:33] God. Oh, OK, yes.
[35:35] Because in Stranger Things, it it goes by running up that hill,
[35:39] right? There's a, there's a, there's a
[35:41] line in that if you were to make a deal with God.
[35:46] Yes, yes, yes. No.
[35:47] That's what I was thinking of. There is a line, definitely, but
[35:49] I couldn't place it because it wasn't in the name that I
[35:52] listened to it. On Spotify, it says, running up
[35:53] that hill. Interesting.
[35:55] OK, OK, OK, so apparently Kate Bush owns the rights for this
[36:00] song. Yes, she does.
[36:02] She doesn't like any record, Yeah.
[36:04] No, she doesn't like giving it to, you know, just to be used
[36:07] anywhere and anywhere Willy nilly.
[36:09] Which is why I guess that Bones used a cover of the song rather
[36:12] than the original song itself. Interesting, but also
[36:15] interestingly, all of the money that the song has made recently
[36:19] by climbing up the charts and whatnot has gone entirely to
[36:22] Kate Bush, which is, yes, unheard of in the music industry
[36:25] because the record labels end up keeping a big chunk.
[36:28] She never saw the song, so she just earned like millions of
[36:31] dollars overnight simply because the song went viral again.
[36:34] So that brings us to the end of today's episode.
[36:38] We have the question that Aditya has to ask us and for which we
[36:44] will wait a week to know the answer.
[36:46] So Aditya, what is your question for this week?
[36:48] I'll ask a question based off of Pokémon and Pokémon obviously
[36:55] paid homage to Hitman Chan, Hitman Lee.
[36:59] So what Pokémon characters in my head?
[37:03] Let me clarify, not actually, but in my head pay homage to
[37:07] Indian film legends. And that is an answer you'll
[37:12] find out next week. OK, And we shall wait for that
[37:15] answer. Now before we wind up today,
[37:19] there's the audience question that I asked at the beginning of
[37:21] the episode. So let me repeat the question.
[37:23] Senior is a 2022 Netflix documentary on which indie
[37:27] director of the 1960s and 70s documentary was made by the
[37:31] subject's more famous son, who made a screen debut aged 5 in
[37:35] his father's 1970 film # Aditya. Do you have any guesses as to
[37:41] who the director is? So when you first said the
[37:44] question, you said Indy and I misheard it as Indian.
[37:48] And for the I had no clue as like what Indian film director
[37:51] is famous and whose son? And then I just heard Indy and
[37:56] now I think I know the answer. It is Robert Downey junior
[37:59] senior. Robert Downey senior, Yes, yes.
[38:02] So it's Robert Downey senior and is obviously more famous.
[38:05] Son is Robert Downey Jr. who debuted Iran at the age of five
[38:12] in his father's 1977 pound. Also, Senior was apparently the
[38:16] person who introduced his son to intoxicants at a very young age
[38:21] as part of his growing up. So yeah.
[38:25] So that was the answer to the audience question.
[38:29] And that's the end of today's episode.
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[39:35] Tiger Woods was born on 30th December 1975, and that's pretty
[39:40] much all for this Fact Check.

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