# Episode 076 - Bullfighting, Broadway & Breaking Bad ft. Garry

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 10 Jul 2024, 1 h 11 min.

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Do you know which 11 American states are named in honour of important people? Do you know which iconic speech, inspired by a Dylan Thomas poem, was written in a span of only 5 minutes? Do you know what's the difference between Broadway and off Broadway? Tune in to find out!!You can reach us atInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingmeEmail: areyouquizzingme@gmail.comSubreddit: 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. Welcome to episode #76 of Are
[0:20] You Quizzing Me? Your favorite quizzing and
[0:23] trivia podcast show. Returning to our podcast today
[0:27] is guest quiz master Gary Levy, joining us all the way from New
[0:31] York, NY. An accomplished and Pacific quiz
[0:34] master, Gary runs a quizzing company called Let's Go Trivia
[0:38] since 2016. His company hosts more than 1000
[0:41] pub quizzes per year, apart from corporate events for such giants
[0:44] such as MasterCard and Fordham University.
[0:47] We had a blast recording with Gary for the special 4th of July
[0:51] episode last week, so it is my distinct pleasure to welcome
[0:54] Gary back to our humble little podcast for the second episode
[0:57] running. Welcome back Gary, and I really
[1:00] hoped last week's episode wasn't too painful for you.
[1:04] Well, I'm back, so I guess it wasn't.
[1:07] Thank you for having me again. I hope I live up to the
[1:09] expectations. You did more last time, more
[1:12] than live up to expectations last time.
[1:14] It was a really fun little episode last week.
[1:17] Great. Well, let's let's do it again.
[1:19] OK, so let's start off this week's episode with our usual
[1:24] audience question. Since 1851, nearly 300
[1:28] hurricanes have made their way to US soil.
[1:31] Of these, 120 have hit Florida's coast.
[1:35] Southeast Florida is also where Hurricane Andrew hit.
[1:38] In 1992. It was a Category 5 hurricane,
[1:41] which is the most powerful type of hurricane.
[1:44] After Andrew hit in 1992, the state of Florida mandated new
[1:48] building codes to reduce the impact of hurricane.
[1:52] A very bizarre thing seen in South Florida houses is due to
[1:55] this code. This thing also offers an extra
[1:59] layer of protection. It allows large groups of people
[2:01] to exit quickly during an emergency.
[2:04] When installing, it's important to add safety mechanisms.
[2:09] What special feature of houses in Florida am I talking about?
[2:14] I will answer this question at the end of today's episode, so
[2:18] in the meantime, you can try and guess what it is and stay tuned
[2:21] for the answer at the end of the episode.
[2:23] Let's start off with our regular round of quizzing with our guest
[2:27] quiz Master of Mr. Gary Levy. Gary, start us off please.
[2:32] OK, so I've come up with a handful of questions.
[2:36] I don't know if they'll stump you.
[2:38] You guys are pretty, pretty trivia savvy, I have to say.
[2:43] So I didn't want to go too difficult either.
[2:46] You know, I didn't want to make them really ridiculously hard.
[2:50] So I've followed your styling from the last day and I've come
[2:53] up with a couple that I, I hope may waste stomp you, but I think
[2:56] you'll probably get. So here we go.
[2:57] The first one, the founder of this company, and the company is
[3:02] famously named after him, started manufacturing tractors
[3:07] in the late 1940s. He then opened an oil burning
[3:12] factory in 1959 and he later entered into the business of
[3:17] producing air conditioning equipment.
[3:19] In the 1960s he sold off most of his business interest and
[3:24] retired and pursued winemaking. But then in he had a fascination
[3:30] with bull fighting and when he finally began producing what he
[3:34] is now best known for, he used the bull as the logo for his now
[3:40] famous products. Who is he or what is he best
[3:44] known for? And Vineet, you got a big smile
[3:47] on your face. I'm thinking you know the
[3:48] answer. You had me a tractor.
[3:51] OK. I'll leave it to Aditya, I think
[3:55] he too knows this. I'm assuming it is because you
[4:03] said bull fighting. I was tempted to say
[4:06] Lamborghini, but I'm not too sure.
[4:11] Vineet. I was going with Lamborghini
[4:13] also because he initially produced tractors and then his
[4:17] famous spat with Ferrari, so he wanted to make the best sports
[4:23] car in the world and he came out with the Lamborghini.
[4:25] So I would also go with the Lamborghini.
[4:28] That's that is correct. Yes.
[4:30] He he didn't intentionally set out to make cars.
[4:34] He was upset with Ferrari with his their post sales service and
[4:41] apparently the the clutches on the Ferraris were time consuming
[4:46] to fix and they were done in a shroud of secrecy so he would
[4:50] drop his his Ferrari off to be fixed.
[4:55] He wasn't allowed to see what was being done so this was a
[4:58] bone of frustration with him. So of course he had the
[5:00] experience of building tractors and engines and he initially put
[5:04] 2 engines in a boat which he used for years and then he
[5:09] transferred it because he did have a love for sports cars into
[5:12] the cars. And of course it became, you
[5:15] know the Lamborghini that we all know and love today.
[5:17] But because of his his fascination with bull fighting,
[5:21] all the models of Lamborghinis are named after types of bulls
[5:27] to even to this day. I did not know about the air
[5:30] conditioning part, but I did know that Lamborghini used to
[5:34] produce tractors before producing sports cars.
[5:37] So when you said tractor, I'm like, OK.
[5:39] You knew right away, yeah. Guy named it after himself
[5:41] producing tractor. The only answer I know is
[5:44] Lamborghini. Very good.
[5:47] I think I gave too many hints. You guys are too good.
[5:53] That's, well, that's a great question.
[5:54] And it reminds me of the court that I, I don't know if it's
[5:58] urban legend or did he actually say it, where he said you buy a
[6:01] Ferrari when you want to be someone, you buy a Lamborghini
[6:04] when you are someone. Oh, I like that.
[6:08] Whether it's true or not, that's a great quote.
[6:10] It is. It is a fantastic quote.
[6:14] Great question. Gary.
[6:15] Aditya, why don't you start us off with this week?
[6:18] All right, So I was trying to come up with questions which
[6:21] should be American and I guess nothing as as American as the 50
[6:26] states. So my question is very simple.
[6:30] There are 6 American states which are named in honor of
[6:34] European monarchs. Can you name the six?
[6:38] I have two in mind. I have two in mind.
[6:40] Gary, you go first. I think you're going to get the
[6:42] two. I know so.
[6:43] Yeah, go for it, Go for it. OK.
[6:46] I would firstly say Georgia. I was about to say that Georgia.
[6:53] I want to say New York, but I know New York was named after
[6:57] York in England. But York is also has, you know,
[7:01] regal connections in Britain. Is is that one of them, Maddie?
[7:06] So York is not named after the place of York as much as it was
[7:10] named in honor of Duke of York. OK.
[7:14] But the Duke of York was not a monarch yet, so technically it
[7:18] wasn't named in honor of the monarch of a European monarch.
[7:21] Who As in at that point he wasn't one, so I wouldn't count
[7:25] him in the six. What are the six?
[7:27] Apart from New York, yes, which is after somebody as well, but.
[7:31] How How about the two Carolina states, North and South?
[7:35] Very good, very good. Do you know who they're named
[7:37] after? No, I'm just kidding.
[7:40] It's a Caroline. Well, that is a pretty solid
[7:44] guess, Yes. It is actually after King
[7:48] Charles First of England and his son King Charles the Second of
[7:51] England, which was made Carolina, North Carolina and
[7:56] South Carolina. Oh, interesting.
[8:00] Charles the Second was the one that was the one who was
[8:01] beheaded by Cromwell, right? I think so.
[8:05] I'll have to check up on that, but I believe so.
[8:07] By the way, you mentioned Georgia.
[8:08] Georgia was King George the second of Great Britain as well.
[8:11] So we have 3 so far. We have the Carolinas and we
[8:15] have Georgia. Do you know what the other?
[8:16] Three are I have one. Vineet, go on.
[8:19] I have Virginia after Elizabeth the 1st the virgin Queen.
[8:25] Ah, very interesting, very interesting.
[8:28] Yes, Elizabeth, the first country of the Virgin Virginia,
[8:31] which should give you the fifth one as well.
[8:33] Right would be West Virginia, so the 6th 1:00.
[8:38] I'm trying to picture a map of the United States and other
[8:40] states. I don't have one here in my
[8:41] office. I need one after British
[8:48] royalty. Just plain and simple.
[8:51] It's not British royalty, I said European royalty, so there's
[8:54] actually French royalty. Oh, you said state.
[9:01] Louisiana. Ah, very well done.
[9:04] Yes, it is King Louis, the 14th of France, after whom Louisiana
[9:09] is named. So that will bring us to the six
[9:12] states in the United States of America which are named after
[9:15] monarchs, are in honor of monarchs.
[9:18] Can you name the five other states which are named after
[9:21] people? So you already mentioned New
[9:23] York, which was after the Duke of York.
[9:25] Can you name the four other ones?
[9:29] Washington is the only state named after a president.
[9:34] Yes, Washington. Yes.
[9:36] Florida. Florida flower is actually named
[9:41] after the Spanish word for flowery.
[9:45] There you go. I knew that I was just saying
[9:47] that you know that you've. Got me there.
[9:54] California. California is actually.
[9:57] A disputed etymology, but it might be named after the island
[10:02] of California, which is a fictional island in a Spanish
[10:04] novel. So yes, not named after a person
[10:07] doesn't fit the bill. Montana after Joe Montana, the
[10:10] Great American quarterback. Oh, that would be.
[10:20] That would be something. No.
[10:21] They should. They should change the official
[10:23] etymology. OK, let me, let me.
[10:28] This might be useful to our American audiences.
[10:30] And Gary, you might be able to crack it because of that.
[10:33] The nickname for the state is the Old Line State.
[10:36] Does that help? The old line.
[10:39] Old line Line is in a line. Our line is in the.
[10:43] Our line is in the animal. Line line like a straight line.
[10:48] Delaware. No, that's not Delaware.
[10:50] I'll also tell you who the person was without giving away
[10:53] the name. The person who was the wife of
[10:56] King Charles the 1st. Whoa.
[11:01] I'm so reminded of the episode from Friends where Ross is
[11:05] challenged to write all 50 States and he won't have
[11:11] Thanksgiving dinner until he gets stalled. 50 I'm reminded of
[11:15] that so much. OK, one one last clue.
[11:18] It's it's on the East Coast. East Coast, Delaware, Jersey,
[11:23] Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, NY.
[11:28] No, not Maine, none of the ones that Gary has mentioned so far.
[11:32] We did. We did the North and South
[11:34] Carolina. Her first name was Henrietta,
[11:38] her last name. Any guesses?
[11:41] It's a small state. It's not one of the biggest
[11:43] states, but at least as far as I know.
[11:46] I've never visited it so I think it's considered a small state.
[11:51] On the East Coast, I'm sure we just named all them on the East
[11:53] Coast. One of the original 13 colonies.
[11:58] OK, So I'm looking at these calls.
[11:59] You got Florida, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware,
[12:07] New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
[12:11] Rhode Island, Maine. What am I missing?
[12:14] Someone's yelling at the podcast now to know the other.
[12:18] One oh, wait, wait, please don't tell me she was the Duchess of
[12:21] Jersey or something. No, no, no.
[12:23] It is after her name. Her name was Henrietta Maria.
[12:27] It is Maryland. Oh.
[12:29] Maryland. Maryland.
[12:31] Oh God. Named after Henrietta Maria.
[12:34] That irritates me a little bit. You should have gotten better
[12:40] then. But that's still just two,
[12:43] right? You said there are 5.
[12:45] Yes, I believe you got 6 + 8, so there are three more remaining.
[12:50] Wow, the three more states which have been named after people.
[12:54] Yeah. Michigan, Montana, Pennsylvania,
[12:58] Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Arkansas.
[13:04] I oh, I think you mentioned Washington.
[13:05] You mentioned Washington as well.
[13:07] So I think that's left with two more states then yes, we are
[13:10] left at the last two states. Quick, name all the CSI and NCIS
[13:14] shows. I believe they have one for each
[13:17] states. Oregon Oregon is a disputed 1 so
[13:25] not very sure where it comes from.
[13:27] OK, we're not to forget Alaska and Hawaii data.
[13:32] They're not named after people. OK, this is actually a fun one
[13:36] because it is Thomas W who was an English nobleman, after whom
[13:43] a Bay, a river, a group of Native American people, and
[13:47] finally AUS state are all named. His name was Thomas West, but
[13:53] he's the third Baron. And you know what?
[13:55] The last part of Baron Something, something something,
[13:57] which is where we get the name of the state from.
[13:59] No. All right, give you one hint.
[14:02] The nickname for the state is the 1st state.
[14:05] That's Delaware. Ah, there we go.
[14:07] So Thomas W, 3rd Baron de la War.
[14:12] He was an English nobleman. He is.
[14:15] His name or full title would be Baron de la War.
[14:18] Oh, OK, that's what they get, Delaware.
[14:21] De la means of the so Baron of the war.
[14:25] Of the war, yes. That's where we get Delaware
[14:29] from. You're, you're making me look
[14:31] bad, Addie. You're making me look.
[14:33] I got to take, I got to take my, my citizenship test later this
[14:36] year. I need to study up clearly.
[14:44] No, I doubt that if there are people in the US who actually
[14:48] know this, Addie picks up questions that you, you probably
[14:53] should would not have thought of it.
[14:55] Like I knew Virginia and the others, but Delaware and North
[14:57] Carolina are. I did not think these were named
[15:00] after people. Exactly.
[15:02] You wouldn't expect it, but it is.
[15:03] It is, yes. So that's basically, oh, we are
[15:07] left with one last one. Oh, you're.
[15:09] Going to take a wild guess guys. Any clue?
[15:13] Because I don't think we're getting this without a clue.
[15:15] Idaho. No, Idaho isn't it.
[15:19] I'll give you the nickname of the state, the Keystone State.
[15:23] Oh. Keystone State.
[15:25] Is that Arizona? No, it is Pennsylvania.
[15:29] Pennsylvania William Penn Oh my God.
[15:32] It is named after William Penn. William Penn What I.
[15:35] Knew this William Penn exactly. It is the only state which named
[15:40] which is named after its founder technically.
[15:43] So just to quickly revise the 11 that are named after people, we
[15:47] have Georgia, we have Louisiana, Maryland, NY, North and South
[15:51] Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, and of
[15:54] course, Washington. So that brings us to a neat #11.
[16:00] It's a great question, Adi, I hate you, but it's a great
[16:03] question. Washington's the only state
[16:06] named after a president, if he can believe that.
[16:09] True, true. Oh my God, I have to.
[16:11] Because you brought this up, I have to give this last piece of
[16:13] trivia. It won't be a question, but
[16:15] there were three other presidents that states have been
[16:18] tried to be named after. That is State of Franklin, State
[16:22] of Jefferson and State of Lincoln.
[16:23] Oh, and we only have State of Washington, but these are the
[16:26] other states that was supposed to be named after the president.
[16:30] So State of Lincoln would have been what, Illinois?
[16:32] They wanted to rename Illinois to State of Lincoln.
[16:34] There were two separate attempts to give the name State of
[16:39] Lincoln to create a State of Lincoln in Texas and another
[16:44] northwestern state in Idaho or Washington.
[16:47] Yeah, that's not going to happen.
[16:48] I don't think Texans are going to allow their state to be
[16:51] divided. Yeah, but.
[16:56] That is the history of some of the names of the American
[17:00] states, yeah. Nice, Very good, I.
[17:02] Hate you, but nice. OK, Gary, back to you.
[17:09] OK, this is a quick question, but it involves a little bit of
[17:15] thinking. Here we go.
[17:17] Pay attention. Two of these items at 12 inches
[17:23] each in size is smaller than one of the same items at 18 inches
[17:31] in size. What is it?
[17:34] OK, I'm guessing from the smoke that Aditya knows the answer.
[17:39] I'm guessing you're talking about pizza.
[17:47] Yes, I'm talking about pizza. So 112 inch pizza has 113 square
[17:58] inches and so two of them would be 226 and an 18 inch pizza has
[18:04] 256 square inches. So if you're ever ordering
[18:09] pizza, just get 18. Don't be thinking let's get lots
[18:13] of small ones. Just get that one big one and
[18:16] you'll save yourself some money. I'm making these questions too
[18:22] easy. You're you guys are too good.
[18:26] No, no, he got that. I was completely stumped.
[18:29] I was thinking of scales and centipedes for some reason I had
[18:33] no clue. I got my American hat on today
[18:38] because my first instinct, and by the way, this is another
[18:41] little piece of trivia. You could say that I was going
[18:45] for a foot long a subway foot long, as you said 12 inches and
[18:49] it is said that apparently two sections.
[18:52] Subs usually are around six inches if measured randomly, but
[18:56] a foot long usually is 11 inches.
[18:58] The subway usually cheats off one inch off of there.
[19:02] They lie about how many inches there are.
[19:06] Everybody lies about length. Nobody's taking out their
[19:10] measuring tape when they buy a footlong.
[19:12] They're like, yeah, that just that looks about right.
[19:14] They. Believe it.
[19:15] They believe it. Yeah.
[19:17] OK. I, I, I immediately went to
[19:19] food. So that way.
[19:20] That's why it was an easy crack. Aditya's on fire today.
[19:24] OK, so my turn. This is about a speech, so the
[19:29] question is about a speech. So one of the most famous
[19:32] speeches of the 20th century. Not many people know that it was
[19:36] written within 5 minutes with the idea that it will be edited
[19:41] and changed later. However, the first draft of the
[19:44] speech ended up being used without any changes.
[19:48] The writer of the speech, which references a very famous Dylan
[19:52] Thomas poem, wanted to write something which echoed the feast
[19:56] of Saint Christian's speech from Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth.
[20:00] Identify the speech. I will give clues because I know
[20:04] this is a bit of a toughy, but see if you can guess it
[20:08] otherwise. So one of the most famous
[20:10] speeches of the 20th century. It was written within 5 minutes.
[20:15] A original draft was written, but with the idea that if they
[20:19] could add it or change it later. However, it was the first draft
[20:23] of the speech. We ended up being used without
[20:25] any changes. The speech references a very
[20:28] famous Dylan Thomas poem and the speech writer.
[20:32] The writer of the speech wanted to write something that echoed
[20:36] the feast of Saint Christian's speech from Shakespeare's Henry
[20:40] the Fifth. Identify this iconic speech.
[20:44] I have a guess, but I'll let our guest quizmaster take a shot at
[20:50] it. My first thought is Winston
[20:55] Churchill. It was World War 2 speech.
[20:59] Great guess we will fight on the beaches.
[21:02] Yeah. Great guess, but no.
[21:05] OK. You might kill me when you hear
[21:07] the answer, but I'm going to risk it.
[21:13] I would have. I might have also ventured
[21:16] elsewhere in the world, but I know Vineet might have tried to
[21:19] do an American setlist this time.
[21:22] So my guess is more American we need Is this a fictional?
[21:27] Speech. Yes, it is a fictional speech.
[21:32] Yeah, it's in a piece of fiction.
[21:33] It isn't an actual speech. No, it is an actual speech.
[21:36] Somebody does actually, you know, deliver the speech, and
[21:39] it's a very rousing speech. Yeah, yeah.
[21:40] But it's, it's, it's a fictional character delivery.
[21:43] Yes, it's a fictional character delivering the speech.
[21:46] I was hoping I could string you guys along for a little while
[21:49] longer. I was expecting Martin Luther
[21:51] King and Obama, but. Aditya.
[21:57] Is it from Braveheart? Oh, good guess, but not William.
[22:01] Wallace. Not, not Wallace.
[22:04] Well, I guess that wouldn't be 20th century.
[22:06] Well, it would, but it wouldn't if it's fictional.
[22:09] I would say, Gary, you would. You'd be better to hear good
[22:12] thinking about American speeches.
[22:14] OK, yeah, you're right. You're right.
[22:15] OK, OK. Famous speech by I've any given
[22:26] Sunday. Al Pacino, he does the speech.
[22:29] I think it's in the locker room. No, no.
[22:31] Wow, that's a good guess, yeah. That's a great guess, but no.
[22:36] So it's going to be something movie ish.
[22:38] I'm I'm I'm guessing if it's fictional, it is, it is, right.
[22:42] There's not many speeches on TV that we're ever.
[22:44] I mean, maybe they were, but not that I could think of.
[22:48] So I will give you a clue. I don't know how much of A clue
[22:50] this is, but many years later, the person who delivered the
[22:54] speech in the movie said that his delivery was inspired by
[22:58] Robert F Kennedy's speech made shortly after finding out that
[23:01] Martin Luther King Junior had been shot.
[23:04] And I'll give you one more clue. So the inspiration behind the
[23:09] speech was, as I mentioned, the Feast of Saint Crispian's speech
[23:12] from Henry the Fifth. So in the play, this is the line
[23:16] that inspired the speech. This day is called the Feast of
[23:21] Saint Crispian. He that outlives this day and
[23:24] come safe home will stand a tiptoe when this day is named.
[23:29] That's the line that inspired the speech itself.
[23:33] Addie, do you know? I think so.
[23:36] I think so. I'll give you a hint, Gary.
[23:40] It's from a film and the film was released in 1996.
[23:44] Yes. I will also give you the poem
[23:48] that is referenced in it. That's not going to help, no.
[23:53] No, no. This will help.
[23:54] This will help. The poem that was referenced in
[23:57] the speech was Dylan Thomas's classic poem Do not Go Gentle
[24:02] into That Good Night. I'm I'm not a big movie buff.
[24:07] I'm like surface level movie, but I'm not someone who just
[24:11] knows all the all the in depth of 1996.
[24:15] Gosh, famous movie. It was a huge block, huge
[24:20] blockbuster. Huge.
[24:22] I remember it being as one of the kind of Seminole summer ball
[24:26] blockbusters of the 90s. Make you remember how the the
[24:30] craze around Titanic like the year prior to that this movie
[24:34] had come out and it had. Similar.
[24:36] Yeah, roughly that kind of craze. 1996.
[24:39] It also had a sequel that came out recently.
[24:42] Yes, the original star Will Smith.
[24:46] I was going to say Independence Day.
[24:49] Yes. Is that it?
[24:52] How many hints do you need, Gary?
[24:57] I have not seen that movie. I know he's in it.
[25:02] I've never seen that movie. That explains.
[25:04] It oh, that's right, that's. Right.
[25:06] That explains it. That explains it.
[25:07] So in the movie, the fictional president, played by Bill
[25:11] Pullman, gives this very, very rousing speech.
[25:14] I must have heard it at least 10 to 20 times over the past couple
[25:18] of decades, but it still doesn't fail to give me goosebumps.
[25:22] And Michael Waldman, who's the president of the Brennan Center
[25:26] for Justice and director for speech writing for Clinton, he
[25:30] said, I wrote a book that was a collection of great presidential
[25:34] speeches, and if in fact the world had been invaded by
[25:38] aliens, this speech would have made the collection.
[25:43] Very good. And the guy who wrote it, Dean
[25:46] Devlin, wrote it in 5 minutes. He planned to change it later.
[25:50] But then during the shot, like they wanted to see how Bill
[25:53] Pullman's going to do it. So when Bill Pullman, he got it
[25:56] in the first shot, he gave it. He gave such a huge performance
[25:59] at practically everybody just stood there stunned at how he
[26:03] delivered that speech. And it is a classic speech.
[26:06] So the answer is Bill Pullman's speech from Independence Day.
[26:11] Very good. They just laughed it.
[26:13] It was good enough, so they laughed it.
[26:15] And as I mentioned, the poem was Dylan Thomas's classic poem Do
[26:20] not go gentle into that good night.
[26:22] So you, the first stanza of that poem goes, do not go gentle into
[26:27] that good night. Old age should burn and rave at
[26:30] the close of day. Rage, Rage Against the dying of
[26:33] the light. So he kind of paraphrased that
[26:36] into the last line of the speech, which goes, we will not
[26:40] go quietly into the night. We will not vanish without a
[26:44] fight. We're going to live on.
[26:47] We're going to survive. Today we celebrate our
[26:51] Independence Day. Maybe I need to watch the movie.
[26:55] I'm I'm ready to fly into some alien.
[26:57] Special audience, please go watch Independence Day.
[27:02] It is a classic. The special effects still hold
[27:05] up after what, almost 30 years? It's still far superior than the
[27:10] sequel. Very good.
[27:13] OK, Gary, back to you. OK, the current name of this
[27:19] product used to be a slang name for another product from over
[27:26] 100 years ago. This product in the early 20th
[27:30] century was typically produced at home and in the United
[27:36] States. Scottish and Irish immigrants
[27:39] gave this product a nickname which was a line from an old
[27:44] Irish folk song. This nickname is now a well
[27:49] known product that's sold all over the world including India.
[27:55] So I'll say that all again. The current name of this product
[27:59] which is around now, you can get this product everywhere.
[28:03] OK then. Its name used to be a slang name
[28:08] for another product from about 100 years ago.
[28:12] This product from 100 years ago was typically produced at home
[28:17] and in the United States. Scottish and Irish immigrants
[28:21] gave this product a nickname which was a line from an old
[28:26] Irish folk song. So what is it?
[28:30] I've left a few keywords out that I can use as hints for you.
[28:33] Oh. Yeah, I'm I'm quite stumped
[28:36] right now actually. I'm excited by the question, but
[28:39] I am also stumped. OK, it's something you consume.
[28:45] You've both probably had this at some point.
[28:48] Maybe you, maybe you consume this a lot, maybe you've had it
[28:52] once. But it's it's something you you
[28:55] consume. Since you said Irish, I want to
[28:58] take a wild guess. Is it some sort of whiskey?
[29:03] Are we talking some sort of alcohol?
[29:06] You're you're getting there. Keep digging.
[29:12] He said it's available in India. I looked it up to make sure it's
[29:16] it's for sale in India and it is 100% OK.
[29:21] So you can't accuse me of like, we don't have that here.
[29:26] And I'd imagine it's as popular, it's as popular there as it is
[29:30] elsewhere. OK, I'll give you a second hint.
[29:33] It's a drink. Iron Brew no.
[29:39] No. No, that's not available in
[29:43] India. I know it's not available in
[29:45] India. I I don't think this is it, but
[29:48] because I think it's named after a person.
[29:49] But it's Guinness by any chance? No.
[29:52] The drinking? No.
[29:53] That's Irish, no? Another hint it's it's non
[29:57] alcoholic so kids could drink it.
[30:00] Oh it's a non alcoholic drink. You said it's an Irish folk
[30:04] song, right? That you get this from.
[30:06] The name its name is a line is a is from an Irish folk song and
[30:12] that that name was given to another drink way back when as a
[30:19] nickname. I'm listing all the non
[30:22] alcoholic drinks that are available worldwide.
[30:26] Yeah, it's well known it is. I'm thinking it has to be some
[30:29] sort of a fizzy carbonated drink.
[30:32] Gary's giving us his poker face right now.
[30:39] Oh boy. OK, I'll give you another hint.
[30:42] The original drink from 100 plus years ago was illegal so it was
[30:50] made at home. So I'm guessing when you said
[30:53] 100 years ago this is during prohibition?
[30:56] Yes, correct. And it's non alcoholic.
[30:59] I would have. Yeah, but hold on.
[31:00] You're you're they're two separate things.
[31:03] The 1 from 100 years ago was made illegally.
[31:07] What was that? It was the nickname for that.
[31:11] That is the current name for the drink.
[31:13] Now I got it. I got it.
[31:16] Fantastic question, but I got it.
[31:19] You're talking about moonshine, the nickname for which was
[31:23] Mountain Dew. Correct.
[31:26] Well done. Fantastic question, Gary.
[31:32] Absolutely loved that one. The.
[31:34] The Scottish and Irish immigrants 100 years ago,
[31:37] whenever moonshine was was being made and bootlegged and sold
[31:41] illegally and so on, they nicknamed the Mountain Dew
[31:44] because it's a line from an Irish song.
[31:47] The rare old Mountain Dew. We say Jew, not do, but however,
[31:51] so they nicknamed it Mountain Dew.
[31:54] They nicknamed moonshine. They just, you know, probably to
[31:58] continue their their illegal secret activities.
[32:02] They gave it a a nickname and skip forward Mountain Dew, I
[32:08] think was made by I think it's Coca-Cola.
[32:11] It's either Coke or Pepsi. I'm not 100% sure.
[32:13] It's one of the big guys made it and they took this nickname and
[32:17] used it for their for their soft drink.
[32:19] So, Addie, you were along the right track when you said
[32:21] alcohol, but then you said fizzy soft drink.
[32:24] And I I don't believe Mel. Oh, Mel, do is fizzy.
[32:27] You're right. You're right.
[32:28] It is. It is.
[32:29] So yeah, there you go. Oh, that was that was, that was
[32:35] good. Nice.
[32:39] Very cool, very cool. OK, so my question is actually
[32:45] very simple. When I think America, I think of
[32:49] Broadway. So very simple one line
[32:53] question. What's the difference between a
[32:55] Broadway and an Off Broadway show?
[32:59] OK, I'm going to bite the bullet and say one's performed on
[33:02] Broadway and the other's performed off Broadway.
[33:08] So it is a venue based thing, but it isn't based off of a
[33:13] location. Oh.
[33:16] Well, it is a larger location, but not specifically Broadway.
[33:19] The road. It has to be in Manhattan for it
[33:21] to be considered Broadway, but it doesn't have to be on the
[33:24] Broadway St. for it to be Broadway.
[33:27] So what is the difference between Broadway and Off
[33:29] Broadway? OK, so there's a there's a more
[33:31] technical, uh, reason behind its term other than it's not
[33:38] visited. The theatre isn't physically on
[33:40] Broadway because I've been to Off Broadway plays and they're
[33:42] not, they're not on Broadway, they're off Broadway.
[33:45] I'm going to say theater size, like seating capacity, smaller
[33:51] theaters. Oh.
[33:54] Hey, brilliant. That is that is the answer.
[33:57] So I was actually surprised to know this because I thought just
[33:59] like anybody would that it just means the theaters that are on
[34:02] the Broadway St. versus those that are not.
[34:04] But as it turns out, if you are in Manhattan and if your seating
[34:09] capacity is more than 500 and some other criteria, you would
[34:13] be considered Broadway theatre, even though if you're not on the
[34:15] Broadway St. So being on Broadway St. itself
[34:18] doesn't qualify you as Broadway theatre.
[34:20] So it has to be more than 500 seats.
[34:22] And for Off Broadway, it is 100 to 499 seats and anything less
[34:27] than 100 seats is Off Off Broadway.
[34:30] So those are the three delineations for Broadway, Off
[34:33] Broadway and Off Off Broadway. Oh, so interesting.
[34:37] So you could have a theatre with, let's say, 600 seats.
[34:41] Their address is not on Broadway, it's on 5th Ave. or
[34:44] something, but it's considered a Broadway play.
[34:47] It's like a category rather than a physical attribute assigned to
[34:52] it. Oh, so interesting.
[34:54] Exactly, Yeah. You said 100 to 499 is off
[34:59] Broadway and up to 100 is off off.
[35:02] So a little small because I've often heard that term it's off
[35:04] off Broadway and I never it never.
[35:07] I just thought someone was like emphasizing the physical, the
[35:11] physical location. It's off off Broadway, way off.
[35:20] I knew when you asked that Addie and and Vineet wanted to just go
[35:23] right for the, he went right down Broadway.
[35:25] He said this is it. It's either on Broadway or it's
[35:29] off Broadway. I was like, could it be?
[35:30] Could it be asking that easy of a question?
[35:36] Very good, very good. OK.
[35:39] The answer isn't complicated, and you crack that very quickly.
[35:42] Well done, Gary. But it's it's an interesting
[35:43] category. And just one last piece of
[35:46] trivia attached to this. There are 41 legitimate Broadway
[35:49] theatres today that are recognized as Broadway.
[35:52] And the reason that you need to be recognized as a Broadway
[35:55] theatre is because you're only eligible for the Tony Awards if
[35:59] you open at a Broadway League Certified Broadway Theatre.
[36:02] And all these theatres have to be in the island of Manhattan?
[36:04] Or can they be any of the other boroughs?
[36:06] They have to be in Manhattan. Oh, OK.
[36:10] Interesting, interesting. And interestingly, one last
[36:14] thing that not everything would be qualified as a Broadway
[36:17] theatre even if it has more than 500 seats.
[36:19] A very famous example is Carnegie Hall, which actually
[36:23] has more than 2500 seats, but doesn't qualify as Broadway
[36:25] theatre because it does a lot more of concerts and dance shows
[36:29] than it does plays or musicals. So that's why it doesn't qualify
[36:32] as a Broadway theatre. Very good.
[36:35] I love that. I'm going to have to steal that,
[36:36] I think, for a game, True or false, the Broadway theater does
[36:40] not have to be on Broadway. Go for it.
[36:46] I have a few shorter questions and I'll do you want a short
[36:49] question or a long question. That's not the question, by the
[36:52] way. Whatever you feel like.
[36:57] So you guys are familiar with the NATO phonetic alphabet,
[37:00] right? Don't ask me to recite the
[37:04] entire alphabet though, but yes. No, no, no.
[37:06] OK, All right. So it's a pretty straightforward
[37:09] question. How many letters in the NATO
[37:11] phonetic alphabet are represented by boys names?
[37:16] Regular boys names? Oh, interesting, interesting.
[37:22] And regular boys. So it doesn't have to be like
[37:24] somebody's just called Alpha. I don't think Alpha is a boy's
[37:27] name technically. Correct.
[37:30] Yes, thank. Thank you for saying that.
[37:32] Yes, if you know somebody whose son's name is Alpha, I'm sorry
[37:36] that doesn't count regular traditional everyday boys names.
[37:44] So I know this Charlie, I'm going to say Victor, I know
[37:49] Oscar and I'm out and there's a little guy.
[37:57] I had Oscar and Charlie. When you said Victor, that also
[38:00] clicked but. Oh, technically would would you
[38:04] count Romeo? Because Romeo is a boy's name,
[38:07] one of the more famous boy's names.
[38:09] But is it a regular boy's name? That's the.
[38:11] Question. It's a famous boy's name.
[38:14] I I have a so you have 41 left. Oh, there are five.
[38:19] Oh boy, ABCDEF GG is G is not gamma, is it?
[38:29] No, G is not gamma. No, no.
[38:32] OK I don't know G and HI know I is India, J is Juliet, K is oh
[38:39] man, I'm forgetting K as well. I'm completely blanking.
[38:43] L is Lima. I know NOP QRST U is.
[38:55] U is uniform. Uniform, Yeah.
[38:58] V is Victor, W is whiskey X-ray YZ.
[39:04] So I'm ignoring the ones that I've said because we have
[39:06] already covered those. So that means I met, I missed,
[39:09] GI missed. HGHNM.
[39:12] It's one of those. Oh it's one of these 3 then.
[39:17] GHNM. One of those is the name, the
[39:20] other one is a sport, and the other one is somewhere where you
[39:25] would stay. H is hotel.
[39:28] Correct. G is golf.
[39:31] Then MMM is what boy's name? M is a boy's name.
[39:35] You have you have one guess each, so you got the letter
[39:38] regular name. Don't go crazy.
[39:41] Regular English boy's name. Mike.
[39:45] Correct. Nice, nice.
[39:50] Yeah. So ABC, you got them all.
[39:54] That's that's that's very good. And of course, the only the only
[39:57] country represented is I for India or India for I.
[40:07] Oh nice, nice. That was fun.
[40:08] That was fun. OK, again, I'm going with one of
[40:12] my long winded questions, so bear with me.
[40:15] Packed with nutrients. This I'm not telling you what it
[40:20] is. I'm going, I'm going to call it
[40:21] X, right? It makes it easier to refer to
[40:23] it. So X are touted for their
[40:25] ability to ward off colds and urinary tract infections,
[40:29] improve heart and digestive health, and even prevent cancer.
[40:34] X can be used in a variety of recipes.
[40:37] And the sneaky secret to knowing if X are at their best is to
[40:43] check their bounce. The bounce test is attributed to
[40:48] New Jersey farmer John Pegleg Webb, who in 1880 spilled some
[40:55] down the stairs and unwittingly discovered that the better ones
[40:59] bounced to the bottom while the bruised ones remained on the top
[41:05] steps. All these years later, farmers
[41:09] still use the bounce test to determine the best, albeit by a
[41:15] more modern method known as the bounce board separator.
[41:19] So what am I talking about? What is X?
[41:22] So I'm just going to boil all of that down to this.
[41:25] Obviously, I've already mentioned it can be used in a
[41:27] variety of recipes, so it's something edible, right?
[41:31] So what edible item could you check whether it's the best by
[41:36] bouncing it? I have a guess, but I'm going to
[41:39] Gary go for it. The first thing that jumped to
[41:41] my mind is avocado. Not an avocado.
[41:45] OK, so it's either a fruit or vegetable?
[41:48] You're on the right track. There is only one clue I can
[41:52] give for this, so once I give that, it's game over.
[41:56] You'll immediately guess what it is.
[41:58] I think I got it and I don't know if that helps Gary.
[42:01] The urinary tract infection part that Vineet mentioned the
[42:07] urinary problems on. Yeah, that's what I'm I'm I'm
[42:09] trying to think, but I'm trying to figure out what what fruit
[42:13] are. It's got to be fruit.
[42:16] Could you bounce so, but that's good for.
[42:20] Even today if you go to a doctor in the US, also in India, if you
[42:27] have a your recurrent urinary tract infections, they may ask
[42:31] you to drink the juice of X. This.
[42:36] To help prevent and ward off urinary direct infection.
[42:39] Cranberries. Yes, you're right, they are
[42:43] cranberries. That was that was a little bit
[42:49] of a stab in the dark. I have to say.
[42:51] I, I was, I was just trying to think what, what fruits would
[42:56] be, would be helpful with that, because you hear a lot of stuff
[42:59] that fruits are good for this, that and the other, you know,
[43:02] and they kind of sometimes fruits have their, their moment
[43:06] in the sun, like avocados, a superfood and everyone's got to
[43:09] eat avocado and you should be wiping avocados on your face.
[43:13] And then the next week it's, you know, papaya, you're going to be
[43:16] eating papaya. Everybody's going to have the
[43:18] papaya. And then the next week, you
[43:20] know, so very good cranberries, OK, and a great Irish band as
[43:25] well. The cranberries.
[43:28] Yes, Zombie. So for our audience, if you ever
[43:32] want to know if a cranberry is good, if it's in a good
[43:36] condition, just drop it on the floor.
[43:38] If it bounces, it's good to go. If it doesn't bounce, probably
[43:43] don't use it in a recipe. That the bounce, the bounce
[43:49] factor, the bounce test. Yeah, the bounce factor.
[43:54] So, Gary, please go ahead. OK, what?
[43:59] What has its speed measured in Mickey's?
[44:05] Oh, you have done this question actually before I asked.
[44:08] We need this question. We need.
[44:10] Yeah, so I remember it's a mouse speed or the speed of computer
[44:16] mouse. Correct.
[44:18] The ball, obviously, which is the how fast that moves, is
[44:22] measured in Mickey's Mouse. Mickey's Mouse?
[44:27] Probably probably not, you know, 100% factually, probably just
[44:33] someone said, hey, that's moves at 10 Mickeys a minute.
[44:40] OK, next question. This is to do with this is
[44:43] probably going to be very easy for you, but I stumbled across
[44:46] this and I thought it'd be fun to ask and maybe you guys can
[44:50] talk a little bit more about it and it's probably super easy,
[44:53] but I'll ask in the mid twenty 10s in an effort to address a
[44:57] small health crisis in India, what was in integrated into
[45:03] Google Maps to help people find. Oh, public toilets.
[45:09] Public toilets, Is that true? I I've heard the same piece of
[45:16] trivia. I don't remember it being the
[45:18] case back in 2010 as like, I don't recall that happening, but
[45:21] I'm sure it must have happened at some point, yeah.
[45:23] And we I've never had to Google for one, so I really don't.
[45:27] Know OK, next question you might get the answer to this based on
[45:36] the on the on the first part of the question, but I will ask it
[45:39] anyway. It has a technical name
[45:42] Octothorp, but it is commonly known by another name and it's
[45:47] used everywhere nowadays. What is it, Octothorp?
[45:51] Octothorp. Adi knows.
[45:54] Octo means eight. OK, I'm not getting this.
[46:00] Adi. Go, go, go for it.
[46:02] Would this be hashtag? Hashtag is correct.
[46:05] Oh, yes, yes, yes. It really doesn't have one
[46:10] definitive name, so obviously # the pound sign, which was, I
[46:15] grew up known as the pound sign. Yeah.
[46:18] And it's also in music. It's sharp, but I think it's at
[46:21] a little bit more of an angle in music.
[46:24] And one of the telephone technical companies, I think in
[46:29] the 60s, Bell Atlantic, which no longer exists in the US on the,
[46:33] on the alphanumeric phones, they added this button, if you
[46:38] remember the old, you know, 123456789 and then zero was
[46:43] under 8. And then they had the hashtag.
[46:47] And then on the other side, I think it was *.
[46:49] But they wanted to come up with a name for the asked that.
[46:54] Yeah, for the other one. And Octo, of course.
[46:58] Yeah. Because as 8 lions or 8
[47:00] whatever's. And then Thorpe was one of the
[47:03] guys that was a kind of a jokey name that they made-up at the
[47:06] time, which stuck around and it was used for.
[47:10] It's not, of course. It's hashtag is the the number
[47:13] one way people use it nowadays, at least for pound.
[47:16] I knew it was # grown up. So there you go.
[47:21] Yeah, same year. When I, I grew up in the Middle
[47:24] East, it, it always used to be pound.
[47:26] So when you had to I think redial the number it used to be
[47:30] #69 or something. We grew up with Pound and it's
[47:33] after Twitter, I think that it came to.
[47:34] Hashtag yes, it became a thing. OK, I have two questions left.
[47:39] Are you guys ready? Go for it.
[47:41] Yep. OK.
[47:42] It's an inventions question. I'm going to give you 4
[47:46] inventions and you have to tell me the chronological order they
[47:51] were invented, OK? Oh, oh, oh, OK.
[47:57] You ready? OK, so I'm going to give you
[47:58] them out of order, obviously. So escalator paper clip,
[48:05] typewriter teddy bear, escalator paper clip, typewriter teddy
[48:13] bear. So of those four, which came
[48:17] first? Escalator paper clip,
[48:21] typewriter, teddy bear. Teddy Bear is named after
[48:24] Theodore Roosevelt, so that's the beginning of the 20th
[48:29] century. And the paper clip was patented
[48:32] in the late 1800s, early 1900s. So I'm guessing paper clip, then
[48:37] teddy bear. I'm guessing escalator is the
[48:39] oldest. So then that leaves a
[48:42] typewriter. So then escalator, typewriter,
[48:45] paper clip and teddy bear. So say that again, Vineet,
[48:47] you're saying? Escalator typewriter, paper
[48:50] clip, teddy bear? That's my guess, no?
[48:55] You're almost correct. Oh.
[48:59] OK. Addie care to have a go?
[49:02] It's a tough one. I am going to say escalator is
[49:04] the first one I'm going to just because it seems like an
[49:08] interesting choice. I'm going to put paper clip as
[49:10] the most recent one. So I'm going to go escalator.
[49:15] We have typewriter and we have teddy bear and then we have the
[49:17] paper clip. No, Adi, I'm afraid not.
[49:21] So I'll give you the first one, OK?
[49:24] And then you have to give me the next thing.
[49:26] So Typewriters 1st 1867. Oh.
[49:31] So assemble the other three. So typewriter first, you got
[49:35] that out of the way. What second, I'll give you the
[49:39] year. The second one is 1892.
[49:44] Then I'd have to say type paper, typewriter.
[49:46] Oh, I want to say typewriter. But he already said typewriters
[49:49] first. He said typewriters first.
[49:51] Escalator, escalator. Escalator.
[49:53] Escalator. So Edison escalator 1892 that is
[49:56] correct the next 1/18/99. That's the paper clip. 1999 is a
[50:03] paper. Paper clip which would leave
[50:04] teddy bear 1902. Yes, I got the first two mixed.
[50:12] Up. Yeah, pretty great guess that we
[50:13] need. The escalator was around for 10
[50:16] years before the teddy bear, right?
[50:20] You think just a teddy bear was around for years?
[50:26] Very good. You guys are good.
[50:27] You guys are good. OK, I've won.
[50:29] I've one question left and it is ATV show question.
[50:34] OK, have have you both seen the TV show Breaking Bad?
[50:40] Yeah. I have seen it, but I watched it
[50:43] during its original run so it's been more than a decade.
[50:47] Now, Addie, were you like me, you've watched it a bunch of
[50:50] times or you just watched it once and then that's it?
[50:53] Because it's one of those shows like, you know, Game of Thrones
[50:57] or something, where people really got into.
[50:59] And I was one of those. I watched it once and then I
[51:04] watched it one more time before El Camino came out, and then I
[51:07] watched it one more time while I was watching a Better Call Saul.
[51:12] So I've seen Breaking Bad. I mean, the second and third
[51:14] time were quick watches. I just kind of watched my
[51:17] favorite episodes. OK, so this Adi might have a
[51:21] good stab at this, but Vineet you you you might too.
[51:24] OK, so think of all the main characters in it, the the the
[51:29] and the family main characters who were in all five seasons,
[51:33] not the not the side characters who came in and out or maybe
[51:36] showed up in in in in the the second or third or fourth
[51:39] season. I'm talking the main core of
[51:41] characters for Brit. Like if you went to a Comic Con
[51:46] and the Breaking Bad characters that it would be this this core
[51:49] group of characters. You follow me.
[51:50] Mm Hmm. Mm, hmm, yeah.
[51:53] OK, which two of those main characters never appeared in a
[51:59] single scene together in all five seasons?
[52:04] Oh, oh, I think I know. This is it.
[52:11] Walter White, Junior and Jesse. Addie's like a trivia savant.
[52:16] Holy smokes. Yes, very, very good.
[52:24] Yeah. In all the seasons, all the
[52:26] characters at some point, like somewhere not in very many
[52:30] scenes together, like Skylar, Walter's wife and Jesse weren't
[52:35] in very many scenes are Maria and Jesse.
[52:37] But Walter Junior and Jesse never appeared in one scene
[52:41] together at all in the entire five seasons, despite them both
[52:45] like, their their stories kind of, you know, they were
[52:48] intertwined directly and indirectly, but they never
[52:52] appeared in the scene together. Yeah.
[52:55] True. Did you know that beneath?
[52:58] I was racking my brain to think about.
[53:00] I was thinking of Walter White Junior and I was thinking, OK,
[53:03] who did he not have a scene with?
[53:06] And then by the time I started thinking from the top, Aditya
[53:09] had already gotten it. So then I was like, yeah, yeah.
[53:13] When when you do a podcast with this fellow, you come to realize
[53:16] very quickly that, you know, you have to write.
[53:19] Like sometimes people tell me your questions are like really
[53:22] tough. And I'm like, I have to
[53:24] otherwise if I just ask regular questions, the episode will be
[53:27] over in like 5 minutes. I have to purposely make my
[53:33] questions. I have to put in obscure clues
[53:36] so that it takes this man a little more time before he kind
[53:40] of demolishes it. So.
[53:41] Very good. That's that's excellent.
[53:44] Fantastic set of questions, Gary.
[53:47] Let's wind up today's episode. So before we do that, I have to
[53:51] answer the audience question which I had asked.
[53:54] So the audience question was since 1851, nearly 300
[53:59] hurricanes have made their way to US soil.
[54:01] Of these, 120 have hit Florida's coast.
[54:04] Southeast Florida is where Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992,
[54:09] which is a Category 5 hurricane, which is the most powerful type
[54:12] of hurricane. After Hurricane Andrew in 1992,
[54:16] the state of Florida mandated new building codes to reduce the
[54:21] impact of hurricanes. So something special was seen in
[54:25] South Florida houses due to only this code.
[54:29] This is also to offer an extra layer of protection.
[54:32] It allows large groups of people to exit quickly during an
[54:35] emergency. When installing, it's also
[54:37] important to add safety mechanisms.
[54:40] So what is the special feature in Florida houses that's being
[54:43] talked about? Gary, any ideas?
[54:47] I'm going to guess that it's an easy to remove roof.
[54:54] Oh, no, no, OK. Clue I would ask both of you to
[54:58] focus on is that the added safety feature?
[55:01] It allows large groups of people to exit quickly during an
[55:07] emergency. Is it doors and public buildings
[55:11] must push out? Yes, doors opening outwards.
[55:15] Oh wow. OK.
[55:17] So it basically says that houses in Florida, doors have to open
[55:21] outwards. It allows again, people to exit
[55:24] quickly because if it's a door that's pulling inwards, it, you
[55:27] know, especially with the lower pressure outside, it'll just
[55:30] keep closing. So you actually need a door
[55:32] which opens outwards. It helps a lot of people exit.
[55:35] However, one additional thing that they have to do is that
[55:39] when you're installing it, the hinge pins should be protected
[55:44] to prevent in intruders from popping the hinges and entering.
[55:48] So that's an additional thing that you have to do because the
[55:51] hinge is on the outside. This was the only in certain
[55:56] counties in in South Florida because I was in Jacksonville,
[56:01] FL last September and I was in a friend's house in Jacksonville's
[56:05] further up the Atlantic Coast. And I was in his house.
[56:09] And it would be odd if you went to someone's house and the door
[56:12] opened out. You know what I mean?
[56:14] It's just so common for a door to open in as you walk into
[56:19] someone's house. And I remember his door opening
[56:21] in. So it must be.
[56:23] And again, that's Jacksonville, which is further up north.
[56:25] It must be somewhere. Certain count, yeah.
[56:28] Southeast Florida. So interesting.
[56:31] So when you go to, I'm sure when you go to someone's house, the
[56:35] the temptation is to push the door in if you got to put it
[56:42] very good. I remember seeing, I remember
[56:45] seeing something, I don't think this is mandated, but it was a
[56:49] device where at the very like the front of the house in the
[56:53] driveway and somewhere in the back of the house literally
[56:56] cemented into the ground was like a metal hook.
[57:00] And what these folks do when a hurricane is common, they attach
[57:06] basically like a rope that would tow a car like a thick sturdy
[57:11] straw with a hook on the end. They would hook that on to the
[57:14] front and then run the rope or the whatever you would call it
[57:18] over the house to hold the roof in place because the roofs come,
[57:24] they come blown off. But if it was this was hooked in
[57:26] the way if you see a car on the back of a tow truck and they
[57:31] they strap the and they tighten the rope so it's really secured
[57:34] onto the they secure the roofs on this way.
[57:36] And that way it's it's, it has a less, less of a chance of the
[57:40] roof blowing away. I'm literally strapping down a
[57:50] roof. It's.
[57:51] Strapping down the roof so it just doesn't plug.
[57:53] Hurricanes are terrifying. Oh, yeah.
[57:55] And when you asked that question, Venice, I thought, you
[57:58] know, if people are trapped in the house and all the doors are
[58:02] blocked and whatever, the roof could come off quickly.
[58:04] Because I was thinking that they, they, the roofs need to
[58:07] because it would be the biggest opening of a house would be the
[58:11] roof. But clearly I was close but
[58:15] wrong. Yeah.
[58:17] You got the question, though, that that was pretty cool.
[58:19] I would not have gotten that. Yeah, great, great.
[58:21] Answer. Yeah, just push your way out,
[58:23] yeah. Great crack, Great crack.
[58:27] So let's wind up. But before we do that, we have a
[58:30] tradition to follow of the pop culture recommendations for this
[58:34] week. Gary, why don't you go first?
[58:36] Any particular thing that you want to recommend?
[58:38] My recommendation on Netflix here in the United States.
[58:42] I'm sure you guys can probably get it to.
[58:45] There's a documentary called The Greatest Night in Pop, and it is
[58:49] about the recording of the song We Are the World.
[58:53] Do you remember that? USA for Africa and he had Bruce
[58:56] Springsteen and I think Whitney Houston it was, but it was the
[59:00] American version of Live Aid. So they, they filmed that
[59:04] recording, which happened in one night, Michael Jackson and
[59:08] Quincy Jones and Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder and all these
[59:12] great artists. And they filmed it and it took
[59:14] like all the way through the night.
[59:17] And it was really fascinating because it was a very, they
[59:19] didn't really have the song fully together.
[59:22] They had the melody and they had some of the chorus, but then it
[59:25] was getting everybody to sing this, sing their lines and sing
[59:28] it correctly and all the other noise that was going on in the
[59:31] studio. And it was a really, really,
[59:34] they interviewed all the artists now who are still alive because
[59:37] obviously a lot of them have passed away like Michael Jackson
[59:40] and so on. And it was really fascinating to
[59:44] watch the process. But the the best part of it,
[59:46] there's a, there's a scene where Bob Dylan and if you listen to
[59:49] the song, you know, Bob Dylan is not a very melodic singer and he
[59:54] had trouble kind of getting, getting the melody correct.
[59:58] And they show a scene where Stevie Wonder sat down because
[1:00:03] Bob Dylan needed help and he sang Bob Dylan's line to Bob
[1:00:09] Dylan. In Bob Dylan's voice, we are the
[1:00:14] world we are. And that kind of clicked.
[1:00:17] For Dylan. Wow.
[1:00:19] And Dylan went back then and sang his lines because you could
[1:00:21] tell he was having a lot of trouble.
[1:00:23] So it's a really, it's a really fascinating documentary.
[1:00:25] I think it's like an hour long or an hour and a half.
[1:00:27] But if you have it on Netflix, it's called The Greatest Night
[1:00:30] and Pop Highly recommend it. Nice, awesome, awesome Adi, your
[1:00:35] recommendations this week? OK, so because I was again
[1:00:39] thinking the United States of America, I had to think of war
[1:00:42] and war films. So I'm going to recommend some
[1:00:45] of my favorite war films and I won't go with the more popular
[1:00:49] ones that you will see on most lists.
[1:00:50] So I'm not going to go with like Apocalypse Now and things like
[1:00:53] that, but you probably are going to hear of anywhere.
[1:00:56] I would say Full Metal Jacket for a phenomenal first half.
[1:01:01] That's one of the best first half to a film.
[1:01:04] I would say that not just a war film, but definitely a war film.
[1:01:08] Some phenomenal stuff there. Fury.
[1:01:11] Brad Pitt does a very good job there.
[1:01:13] Yes, Shia LaBeouf. Shia LaBeouf also, even though I
[1:01:17] have heard he was very problematic on the set, but
[1:01:20] very. Good shows in his character His
[1:01:22] character is also quite. True true true.
[1:01:26] I also have to recommend letters from Iojima and flags of her
[1:01:29] father's of him to be watching the combination because Clint
[1:01:33] Eastwood's take on the Battle of Iojima, but from both the
[1:01:37] Japanese side and the American side, which is I think a pretty
[1:01:40] interesting take. I will.
[1:01:41] I wish more war films did that. I would love to see that happen.
[1:01:44] What's that one called Daddy? That is letters from Iojima and
[1:01:49] flags of our fathers. So the very iconic image that
[1:01:53] has been recreated in so many different countries and cultural
[1:01:56] context of the people raising a flag, a bunch of soldiers
[1:02:00] raising the flag that is from Iojima.
[1:02:03] And you'll see in a lot of independence movement struggles
[1:02:07] that happen across the world, they recreate that or there'll
[1:02:10] be images which are pretty symbolic or or reminiscent of
[1:02:14] that iconic image. So letters from Iojima and the
[1:02:17] flags up of others. I would say very much a top
[1:02:21] recommendation. I'd say The Hurt Locker.
[1:02:23] Oh, what a beautiful, beautiful film.
[1:02:25] The Hurt Locker, a must watch. Black Hawk Down.
[1:02:28] Now I haven't seen Blackhawk Down in a very long time, but I
[1:02:31] remember feeling when I watched it back when it came out I
[1:02:34] really liked it. So if it still holds up I would
[1:02:37] say that is definitely worth a watch.
[1:02:40] And my last recommendation for this would be something that
[1:02:45] people probably don't think of as war film, but it is based or
[1:02:50] situated in time and space which was occupied by war, which is
[1:02:53] Pan's Labyrinth. So I would say Pan's Labyrinth
[1:02:56] is also in that. List civil war Spanish civil war
[1:02:59] I'm guessing. Exactly, and it's a girl dealing
[1:03:02] with it, a little girl dealing with it.
[1:03:04] So yeah, these are my non mainstream recommendations for
[1:03:09] war films. Worth checking out.
[1:03:12] I would I'm basically hijacking these recommendation by adding a
[1:03:17] few of those to mine because I I believe that the no list is
[1:03:20] complete without Apocalypse Now. I don't care how popular it is.
[1:03:25] Ride of the Valkyries and a very terrifying Marlon Brando.
[1:03:30] Apocalypse Now. I think you missed platoon.
[1:03:33] Oliver Stone's platoon. Platoon is great.
[1:03:35] And I'd also like to recommend a more recent edition, Hacksaw
[1:03:39] Ridge. Very good performance by Andrew
[1:03:44] Garfield, yes. Yeah, Hacksaw Ridge.
[1:03:46] And what I really like about that movie is apparently they
[1:03:51] did not show enough of what Desmond does did.
[1:03:54] Desmond does did a lot more, but if they showed it on film nobody
[1:03:59] would have believed it. Oh, wow.
[1:04:03] Interesting. OK.
[1:04:04] And Mel Gibson, I mean, like, no matter what you think of him as
[1:04:07] a person or his personal beliefs, he makes some cracker
[1:04:10] movies. Oh, yeah, yeah.
[1:04:12] True, true, true. Superb movies.
[1:04:15] He makes some absolutely fantastic movies.
[1:04:18] If if you're going to do this, then I have to say Saving
[1:04:20] Private Ryan. I was trying to not say Saving
[1:04:22] Private Ryan just because it is an obvious choice on the list,
[1:04:25] but saving? Private Ryan I would in that
[1:04:30] case, if you're, if you're going to do movies as well, I would
[1:04:32] also recommend a short mini series which I've mentioned in
[1:04:36] the podcast before as well, but I believe is the definitive
[1:04:40] description or depiction of the European theatre of World War 2,
[1:04:45] which is Band of Brothers. Yeah.
[1:04:49] The spiritual sequels to those The Pacific and Masters of the
[1:04:53] Air, neither had that. That heart, that soul, that band
[1:04:58] of brothers Bar brought when talking about Easy Company.
[1:05:01] So that is just the definitive World War Two series for my
[1:05:07] generation. Anyway, so that's it.
[1:05:11] Moving on to my recommendation for this week is something that
[1:05:15] happened quite serendipitously. I would like to call this
[1:05:19] Synchronicity because last week while we were recording with
[1:05:22] Gary, I had recommended a book by Michelle McNamara, I'll Be
[1:05:27] Gone in the Dark. So quite coincidentally, and
[1:05:30] this was completely coincidental, I picked up a
[1:05:33] couple of novels based off recommendations from YouTube.
[1:05:37] And I started reading one and halfway through the book, I'm
[1:05:41] like, this is uncannily familiar.
[1:05:44] Like the plot is uncannily familiar.
[1:05:46] And I went online to search about it, and it turns out that
[1:05:50] the author was inspired to write the novel by Michelle McNamara's
[1:05:55] book. So the book is called The
[1:05:59] Nothing Man. It's written by, again,
[1:06:02] synchronicity here by an Irish author, Catherine Ryan Howard.
[1:06:07] And Gary was kind enough to help me understand that the actual
[1:06:12] pronunciation is Angarda Siokhanna.
[1:06:16] Sheikhana. Yeah, very good.
[1:06:17] Yeah. Thank you.
[1:06:19] So it's it's a serial killer story based in Ireland.
[1:06:24] I read a second novel of hers. I actually devoured it in the
[1:06:27] same week. It's called 56 Days and she
[1:06:31] produces this beautiful Crime Story.
[1:06:34] I'm not going to say exactly what it's about, but it's set
[1:06:36] during the lockdown and she has parallel story threads going in
[1:06:41] and out in a non linear fashion and she wraps it up beautifully.
[1:06:46] So 56 Days and the Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard.
[1:06:50] Those are my recommendations for this week.
[1:06:52] Please go try a copy. Fantastically written books and
[1:06:56] they have a good amount of suspense.
[1:06:58] And as I said, synchronicity. It just happened.
[1:07:00] So that's all the time we have for today's episode.
[1:07:04] Thank you for listening in. I would like to thank Gary for,
[1:07:09] you know, taking time out of his busy schedule to come, not for
[1:07:12] just one, but for two episodes with us.
[1:07:14] Gary, thank you so much. And please tell us a little bit
[1:07:18] about your company, where people can find you, how you do your
[1:07:21] shows, anything. Yes, Let's Go Trivia is my
[1:07:25] company. So Let's Go trivia.com, all
[1:07:28] social medias at Let's Go Trivia.
[1:07:31] And we do a lot of private events for corporations, for
[1:07:35] individuals, fundraisers, that kind of stuff all over the
[1:07:40] United States. You know, if you want to want us
[1:07:43] to come and want me to come and host it for you, I certainly
[1:07:46] will. We can customize questions.
[1:07:48] Our game is run digitally through website called crowd
[1:07:53] poor, which is a fantastic website, Crowd poor.
[1:07:56] So I highly recommend that. So we run our game through that.
[1:07:59] Our game is very energetic and I don't want to say fast moving,
[1:08:03] but the questions are we do 50 questions divided up into five
[1:08:07] rounds of 10. It lasts about an hour and a
[1:08:09] half. So it's great fun.
[1:08:10] It's very engaging and like I said, it moves quickly and our
[1:08:13] hosts are fantastic that we that we send to, to all the
[1:08:17] restaurants to, to do it weekly. So really enjoy doing it and I
[1:08:20] appreciate you guys having me on.
[1:08:23] It's it's been wonderful to to meet you, albeit over the
[1:08:28] interwebs and and, you know, talk, talk a little trivia and
[1:08:33] have my brain picked. And really, what these two
[1:08:36] episodes have proven to me is that I am just really, really,
[1:08:42] really not that good a trivia. That is absolutely not true.
[1:08:54] So I want to thank you again guys.
[1:08:57] And if you ever come to the United States, please, let's
[1:09:00] let's meet up, come to come to one of our trivia nights.
[1:09:03] Absolutely we will. Absolutely.
[1:09:05] That will be on our list. And Gary, I'm putting you on the
[1:09:08] spot here. But a few months down the line,
[1:09:11] can we expect you back on our show?
[1:09:14] 100%. A few months down the line.
[1:09:16] Most definitely. Just get in touch.
[1:09:18] Let me know. Let's do it.
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[1:09:22] You cannot back out now. Set the spider to the fly.
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