# Episode 051 - Roses, Diamonds & A Cocktail

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 6 Jan 2024, 44 min.

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Do you know what singular purpose was served by the roses of Jamshedpur in a garden set up by the Tata Family? Do you know which Beatles song was inspired by a picture made by John Lennon's son? Do you know who is the only actor to to star in a Worst Picture Razzie winner and Best Picture Oscar winner in the same year? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com

## Transcript

[0:00] And we're back for episode #51 of your favorite quizzing
[0:04] podcast show. Are you quizzing me?
[0:07] Aditya and I are back in this brand new year of 2024 for
[0:11] hopefully another fruitful year of quizzing via our podcast.
[0:16] Before we start with our questions for the day, I have an
[0:20] announcement to make to our audience.
[0:21] You may have noticed that for episode #50 and today's episode,
[0:25] we have not put up a musical opening.
[0:30] This is something we want to try out, and for today's episode,
[0:33] we'll be having a poll live on Spotify.
[0:36] You can tell us whether you like it or not, whether you want this
[0:40] musical sting to be avoided or you want a cold open, so let us
[0:45] know. We'll be leaving this open for
[0:48] this episode and the next episode to decide whether going
[0:51] forward, this podcast should have a musical opening.
[0:56] Now that we've got that out of the way, let me start off
[0:59] today's program with our audience question.
[1:03] So it's a very straightforward question.
[1:05] What is the most commonly recycled material in the world?
[1:09] Let me repeat that. What is the most commonly
[1:12] recycled material in the world? Don't overthink it.
[1:16] It's probably what you think it is.
[1:18] And I will confirm your thoughts at the end of today's episode.
[1:23] Now let's move on to Aditya. OK, so the question I asked last
[1:27] week was what in Elon Musk's repertoire of juvenile humor.
[1:35] Apart from trying to crack a 420 joke as to the launch of his
[1:40] latest rocket, what else has he done to be funny?
[1:44] Quote, UN quote, and here's my answer.
[1:47] I think the reason he took over Twitter and then renamed it X
[1:52] and then made a joke out of it is because he can then call it
[1:56] X-rated comedy. That's all that was there behind
[2:01] it. Wow, you've literally made me
[2:08] cough by laughing. I have to specify though, like I
[2:12] was looking for what could be potential answer for this.
[2:14] And of course just if I for anybody who's listening for the
[2:17] first time, that's not really true.
[2:19] I made that up. But in Elon Musk's defense, I
[2:23] guess you know the naming of the Model Tesla cars has been just
[2:27] so that he can spell sexy. Model S Then Model 3 was
[2:31] supposed to come out earlier, but it got delayed.
[2:32] Model X and then Model 3, the Model Y, And I'm.
[2:36] I'm not sure what the next one is going to be.
[2:38] I don't know if I want. To find out, he will definitely
[2:40] find something to do with it. OK, Aditya, why don't you start
[2:43] us off for this week with your question.
[2:47] Oh, I'm very excited about this week.
[2:49] I hope they are fun for you as well and just because of that
[2:53] I'm going to start you off with something I think you would
[2:56] enjoy. OK, this is a Beatles related
[3:00] question. So John Lennon said that his
[3:03] inspiration for this song came when his three-year old son
[3:08] Julian showed him a nursery school drawing he called the
[3:12] drawing X which is also the name of the song.
[3:16] It depicted his classmate, Julian later recalled.
[3:19] I don't know why I called it that or why it stood out from
[3:22] all my other drawings, but I obviously had an affection for
[3:25] that girl at that age. I used to show Dad everything
[3:28] I'd built or painted at school, and this one sparked of the
[3:30] idea. Ringo Starr witnessed the moment
[3:34] and said that Julian first uttered the song's title on
[3:36] returning home from nursery school, Lennon later said.
[3:40] I thought, that's beautiful. I immediately wrote a song about
[3:43] it. So this is a Beatles song.
[3:46] I told you the origin story. Now here's an interesting
[3:50] connect with the song and with this particular piece of trivia.
[3:55] In 2004, astronomers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for
[4:00] Astrophysics made a startling discovery and created a
[4:04] prophetic connection of this iconic Beatles song to what
[4:09] could very well be the largest naturally occurring substance in
[4:15] the known universe. So it's a specific substance
[4:16] that I'm talking about and largest known occurrence of that
[4:20] specific substance was connected to this Beatles song.
[4:27] So I have given you a bunch of information.
[4:29] Tell me if you have already cracked it.
[4:31] So the last time you had asked Beatles question, especially
[4:35] with regards to the name origin of the name of the song, it was
[4:38] about Hey Jude, which for some reason I completely flubbed.
[4:43] Hopefully I can regain my Beatles grade with this question
[4:48] because I believe that the song is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
[4:53] and the connection with the astronomers is that they found a
[4:57] planet which I think was to have a core of diamond or a planet
[5:01] with where it rains diamonds like something like that.
[5:04] Absolutely. I can't take anything away from
[5:07] that answer. Just a little bit of, I guess,
[5:10] small trivia correction over there.
[5:12] Initially identified as V886 Centauri, the white dwarf is
[5:18] about 4000 kilometers across and is possibly the largest natural
[5:22] diamond anyone has ever seen. Inspired by the beetles, the
[5:25] scientists who discovered her christened her Lucy quite
[5:29] literally, in the sky with diamonds, and its size is a
[5:32] staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats.
[5:36] So that's how big it. Is.
[5:38] So, well done. Yeah, that was a very quick
[5:40] crack. I also have an additional piece
[5:43] of trivia about this particular song.
[5:45] So have you seen the movie Lucy? Yes, Scarlett Johansson.
[5:49] She ingests accidentally a drug which apparently, and quite
[5:53] erroneously, gives her access to 100% of her brain.
[5:57] And so then she reaches a point where she comes face to face
[6:01] with this ancestor of human beings.
[6:04] It's a very short scene in that you can see that she's face to
[6:07] face with. I think it was an
[6:09] Australopithecus to one of our, you know, ancestors basically
[6:13] that is meant to be the osteoplasmic specimen alive
[6:16] called Lucy. So there is a skeleton that was
[6:19] discovered many years ago, which is not very complete but fairly
[6:23] enough, which showed us our oldest ancestor or something of
[6:27] that sort. The reason that particular
[6:29] specimen was given the name Lucy was the evening after they had
[6:33] excavated the skeleton at the campsite, the archaeologists
[6:37] were playing Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
[6:40] You're right. This is this is how the Lucy the
[6:44] fossil came to be named. And I have successfully redeemed
[6:47] myself from the flubbery of last of the last Beatles question
[6:52] that you threw at me. And the quickest crack ever.
[6:56] Well done, Well done. Thank you.
[6:59] I am going to move to somewhat recent events.
[7:03] I'm going to be talking about a venue.
[7:06] I want you to give me the name of the venue.
[7:08] It's as simple as that. So X hosted 7 matches at the
[7:13] 2022 Qatar World Cup. It became the first stadium
[7:18] which was totally dismantleable. It was constructed entirely from
[7:23] shipping containers and modular steel elements.
[7:27] The name of the stadium holds significance in two ways.
[7:33] So I want you to tell me what the name of the stadium was and
[7:39] what exactly the significance is The significance of the name?
[7:44] I can give you a clue, but let me see if you have any idea.
[7:46] If you don't, I can give you a clue almost immediately.
[7:52] Is it the number of shipping containers that are there in the
[7:54] stadium? Yes, yes.
[7:58] That is again a very quick, very quick crack.
[8:00] Do you know what the number is? I want to say it is something
[8:05] 900 something Aditya. Gets it very, very quickly.
[8:10] It is Stadium 974. Do you know why it's called 974
[8:15] apart from the fact that they use 974 containers?
[8:20] Is it the country code for Qatar?
[8:22] Yes, it is the ISD dialing code for Qatar.
[8:26] So Stadium 974, the first ever totally dismantleable stadium
[8:31] constructed entirely from 974 shipping containers and 974 also
[8:37] happens to be the ISD code for Qatar.
[8:40] I think that's the fastest we've gone through the 1st 2 questions
[8:42] in any episode. So hit me Aditya with your
[8:46] question. Yeah, we're starting off 2024 on
[8:50] a solid roll. I love it.
[8:52] So let's see if we can keep that going with my next question.
[8:56] Tata Steel, on the occasion of its Golden Jubilee in 1958,
[9:01] gifted the citizens of Jamshedpur a park.
[9:05] This was obviously called the Jubilee Park.
[9:07] It's a 237.75 acre Jubilee park and it is modeled after the
[9:13] Brindavan Gardens in Mysore and it's considered a pretty iconic
[9:17] thing in Jamshedpur. What was it that this park was
[9:23] also famous for in the 50s and 60s?
[9:29] OK, what was it that the Spark was also famous for in the 50s
[9:32] and 60s? Actually, let me define that
[9:35] question very slightly. What was the spark famous for
[9:37] providing in the 50s and 60s? Trees for Hollywood Bollywood
[9:42] actors to run around. Oh, not quite.
[9:45] I don't think that became a thing till much later.
[9:49] I know you're kidding. But I'm thinking even from a
[9:53] film history perspective, I I. But I think in the 60s, by the
[9:56] by the 60s they were doing a little bit of running around,
[9:59] right? Maybe, maybe.
[10:01] But running through the field of flowers and stuff I think is a
[10:03] very yes. Chopra No, the field of flowers
[10:05] is a whole yes, Chopra thing. But no, I'm talking about at
[10:08] least running around trees. Or you know, they used to do
[10:10] that, right? Like the heroine would be very
[10:12] coy and the hero would just sing and shake his head from one side
[10:15] of the tree and then move to the other side of the tree.
[10:17] Could be. And you know, I'm not giving a
[10:19] good image of Bollywood to anybody who's.
[10:21] Hey, that's iconic and it's straight up iconic.
[10:23] I don't think there is anything we need to apologize for in
[10:26] that. OK, so it's not Bollywood.
[10:29] Then my second would be, did they have a menagerie or a zoo?
[10:33] No, they provided something very specific.
[10:38] Very specific because when you mentioned it's modeled after
[10:41] something in Mysore, I thought maybe they also modeled
[10:44] something like they gave the a zoo there like the Mysore Zoo.
[10:47] OK, any clues? Sure, I kept it vague just in
[10:51] case you already knew the answer, but let me give you some
[10:53] clues. The park's Horticulture garden
[10:57] is renowned for its rose hybrids and there are over 1000 rose
[11:03] varieties in this park. That's what it's known for.
[11:08] It is known for that, but what specific use was this put to?
[11:12] These roses were used to create the Rose biryanis of Lucknow.
[11:16] That's a fun guess, but no. Let me be more specific.
[11:20] Who were they providing it to? Oh, roses.
[11:25] Was it to some temple for Pooja or something like that?
[11:29] Fairly smart guess, but no. They did this all the way till
[11:32] 1964. Oh, OK, so I'm guessing these
[11:38] this it was from here that roses were plucked to eventually adorn
[11:42] the lapel of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
[11:44] Well done, yes. These were roses for the Nehru
[11:47] jacket that Nehru used to wear. Nice, nice.
[11:52] It just hit me. All of a sudden it was like
[11:55] inspiration struck for a moment when he said to who I was like,
[11:58] ah, OK, there can be only one. Well, crack.
[12:00] No, 1964 is when Pandit Nehru passed away.
[12:03] Yeah, and all the way till the end.
[12:06] His roses used to come from Jubilee Park.
[12:10] Oh, nice. Anything special that he wanted
[12:13] only from there? Or was it because he was already
[12:16] very close to the Tata family? Oh wow.
[12:19] Right there. Forwarding the controversial
[12:21] opinions on the line I. Love it.
[12:25] No, I mean, like there is this thing.
[12:26] We have to be honest about it. If you look at the people who
[12:30] were at the top of the organizations in the 1950s and
[12:33] in the early years after Independent, many of them did
[12:36] have connections to the Nehru family or to the Congress party.
[12:41] It is a fact. Like if you remember the
[12:44] question that you had asked last episode about Enco Spa, Komi
[12:48] Baba had a very personal relationship with Pandit Dev,
[12:53] right? So.
[12:54] Ironically, one of the most quoted lines of Nehru on another
[12:59] podcast that I enjoy listening to, Seen and the unseen.
[13:02] Amit Varma constantly brings us up in his podcast, he says Nehru
[13:08] apparently once told Gerardi Tata never speak to me of
[13:12] Prophet. It's a dirty word, so well you.
[13:16] He could have been in bed with the industrialist, but at least
[13:19] on the surface, he was not the staunchest of capitalists.
[13:25] No, he wasn't a capital. He was a socialist.
[13:28] That I think is quite well known.
[13:31] OK, nice question, man. Really nice question.
[13:33] I like that trivia. I'm glad.
[13:36] OK, this is a very straightforward question.
[13:38] I am fairly sure that you will get this quickly for multiple
[13:43] reasons, which will become apparent when you hear the
[13:45] answer or you guess the answer. So this city has the world's
[13:50] first airport, fully powered by solar energy.
[13:55] I want you to identify the city and the airport.
[13:59] Like the airport is fine. If you can just tell me the
[14:01] city's name, that'll be more than enough.
[14:03] Is it by any chance Abu Dhabi? No, it is not Abu Dhabi.
[14:07] OK. The world's first airport fully
[14:10] powered by solar energy. They actually have excess solar
[14:13] energy, which they then sell back or give back to the grid.
[14:17] The first completely green airport.
[14:21] I'll need a clue. This is almost a giveaway, but
[14:26] if you have paid attention you would know this.
[14:31] If I have paid attention. If you paid attention, you would
[14:34] know this. Let me rephrase that a little
[14:36] bit. If you had paid attention, you
[14:39] would know this. So I'm guessing you're implying
[14:42] that it's a place that I've been to?
[14:45] But. In almost a little humble brag
[14:48] here, I've been to a lot of places we need.
[14:52] I know, I know. Let me just rephrase that.
[14:55] This will definitely give you the answer.
[14:57] But let me just rephrase that because I just so enjoy needling
[14:59] you like this. If you had paid attention
[15:01] recently, you would know this. OK.
[15:06] So I guess our listeners wouldn't be aware.
[15:08] But for their benefit, in December, I traveled to
[15:12] Bangalore, I traveled to Kochi, I traveled to Delhi, I traveled
[15:16] to Udaipur, I traveled to Lucknow, I traveled to Chennai.
[15:20] So it could be any of these cities right now.
[15:25] But let me try. OK?
[15:26] Let me try. Yes, it is.
[15:28] It is one of these cities and the fact of the matter is when
[15:31] you get out of the airport, the road which takes you to the
[15:36] heart of the city or which takes you away from the airport is
[15:39] lined on one side by this huge solar farm.
[15:43] OK. It's definitely not Chennai.
[15:46] And there's also the fact that there's a huge as billboard
[15:49] declaring the fact that this is the world's first airport, which
[15:52] is completely solar powered. Oh, interesting.
[15:57] It's not Chennai, it's not Udaipur, definitely not Delhi.
[16:03] Bangalore also. I doubt it.
[16:05] So I'm confused between Lucknow and Kochi.
[16:09] I'm going to take a gamble and say Kochi.
[16:13] Yes, it is the Cochin International Airport, Seattle.
[16:16] It was the world's first airport fully powered by solar energy.
[16:19] I basically put this question so that I could see if Aditya was
[16:23] paying attention when he travelled to and from.
[16:26] In my defence, I reached Kochi by train and when I was leaving
[16:31] Kochi it was late at night so there was no point looking out
[16:34] the window. Fair enough, fair enough.
[16:38] But yes, so it is the world's first carbon positive airport.
[16:43] OK. I feel a little guilty that we
[16:45] avoided a lot of climate change questions in our 2023 wrap up.
[16:49] So I am kind of making amends by putting a few climate change
[16:52] related questions here. This is one and there's a follow
[16:55] up one I just wanted to ask you, first of all, do you know that
[16:58] if there are countries which are completely carbon negative
[17:00] basically? Oh, is there any country in the
[17:04] world like that? There are three.
[17:06] Wow. OK.
[17:09] I would say that what two of them are in Central and South
[17:12] America, one is in Asia. I want you to tell me which is
[17:16] the Asian country. I'm not even talking about
[17:18] carbon neutral. I'm talking completely out of
[17:22] it. Could it possibly be, I'm going
[17:26] to say, two countries and it could be either of them.
[17:28] Fair enough. It could be Bhutan or Qatar.
[17:35] I'm trying to think something in the Middle East.
[17:39] Not Qatar. Not Qatar.
[17:40] You already got it. It is Bhutan.
[17:41] It is. It is Bhutan.
[17:43] It is Bhutan. And the other two are Surinam
[17:45] and Panama. Interesting.
[17:48] OK, In fact, in your defence, we avoided a lot of topics which
[17:52] were there in the 2023 rapped episode, which, by the way, is
[17:56] such a lovely episode. I actually listened to it.
[17:58] I rarely listened to our episodes again.
[18:00] I sat and listened to that episode.
[18:02] It's so much fun, Yeah. But 2023?
[18:04] That we avoided the climate change.
[18:06] Or at least I did, because so much of it was depressing news.
[18:09] Very depressing. I'm sure there are good things
[18:11] that are happening, but well, the news by design covers a lot
[18:15] of depressing stuff, and the climate change stuff was just
[18:18] straight up heartbreaking. There was there was a cyclone
[18:22] called Freddy, which lasted for an entire month.
[18:27] That's just scary because I remember when we were growing up
[18:32] or I mean like maybe not growing up, but when I was in my early
[18:34] 20s and all I used to, I used to see these documentaries about
[18:37] super storms and super hurricanes and super volcanoes
[18:41] and these were things that they mentioned existed millions of
[18:44] years ago, right? And now that doesn't seem like
[18:49] such a far off concept. We could, at least in my
[18:52] lifetime, be the victims of a super storm or a super
[18:55] hurricane, I feel. That is a lovely word of caution
[18:58] for anybody indulging, yes. OK, so Aditya your question.
[19:03] Very simple question. Do you know what the senbazuru
[19:08] is in Japanese tradition? No, I have absolutely no idea.
[19:15] OK, great. Because that would have made my
[19:18] question too simple for you. OK, Senbazuru, I'm pretty sure
[19:25] I'm not pronouncing it accurately, but in English it is
[19:27] spelled SENBAZURU. Senbazuru is a practice that is
[19:34] meant to give the person doing it one special wish that will
[19:40] come true. So if you do senbazuru, you will
[19:44] be granted one special wish that will come true.
[19:49] Now, there are some associated pieces of trivia to it.
[19:53] Senbazuru actually became famous with this particular individual,
[19:57] Sadako Sasaki. Sadako Sasaki was a Japanese
[20:02] girl that suffered radiation poisoning at the age of 2.
[20:06] When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima during World War 2,
[20:11] she developed leukemia at age 12.
[20:14] Inspired by the legend of Senbazuru, she began doing that
[20:18] practice. According to some accounts, she
[20:22] managed to finish it. According to other accounts, she
[20:24] didn't. However, she did pass away soon
[20:28] thereafter. Sasaki is remembered today as a
[20:31] worldwide symbol of the innocent children impacted by war and her
[20:35] story when it became famous, especially in the book Sasako
[20:38] and Dash, which alludes to Senbazuru, Sadako and Dash.
[20:46] In that book it told the story of her struggle and of the
[20:48] plight that she faced and how she tried to overcome it with
[20:52] this simple little beautiful tradition that the Japanese
[20:55] have. And unfortunately it didn't
[20:57] really come true. And that's when Sanbazuru gained
[21:01] international recognition as well.
[21:04] The other connection that it has to let's say pop culture is
[21:09] Sanbazuru is also practiced by JAXA, which is the Japanese
[21:14] equivalent of NASA, and they put their potential astronaut
[21:19] through this to test them. Do you know what Senbazaru is?
[21:26] Is it some kind of breathing exercise, like the Japanese
[21:31] version of our pranayama or something like that?
[21:35] No. You said that Japanese
[21:38] astronauts get tested through this.
[21:40] The first thing that went through my head is, oh, is this
[21:42] the Kobayashi Maru? But then I realized it's 300
[21:45] years too early. Yes.
[21:49] Little star tech reference there for those who got confused.
[21:52] No, I mean like OK, something that a cancer stricken little
[21:55] girl would do and also something that an astronaut is made to do
[22:01] to test them. Now being this is Japanese, is
[22:05] this some kind of puzzle puzzle solving or something like that?
[22:09] You might want astronauts to do the same thing to serious
[22:12] problem solving abilities. Puzzle might be a little
[22:17] stretched, but yeah, you could say it is similar ish It's
[22:22] puzzle adjacent, if not exactly puzzle.
[22:26] OK. Is it something to do with
[22:28] Japan? I mean like the Japanese and the
[22:29] Chinese and lot of Southeast Asian and Eastern countries
[22:33] place a lot of respect and emphasis on calligraphy.
[22:38] Like just doing calligraphy itself is considered to be quite
[22:41] soothing and they have a lot of cultural and religious
[22:44] associations with it. Is it something to do with that
[22:46] kind of brush calligraphy that Japanese?
[22:49] Do. You're kind of in the vicinity.
[22:52] It is not. It doesn't have anything to do
[22:53] with calligraphy or painting or brushwork, but it is something
[22:58] that the Japanese are known to do culturally, historically, it
[23:02] is pretty significant to them. All right, let me give you a
[23:04] clue. The word Sen Basu actually
[23:07] derives from the word uzuru, which refers to a specific
[23:13] animal. Refers to a specific animal.
[23:18] Is it a real animal or a fictional 1?
[23:21] It's a real one that is considered auspicious.
[23:23] It's an auspicious creature in Japanese folklore.
[23:26] That put, there are quite a few, but I think a tortoise is 1
[23:31] turtle or tortoise is 1. Is that the one that we're
[23:34] talking about? Yeah, unfortunately, in this
[23:36] Case, No, it's not a tortoise. The other one would be a crane.
[23:40] They have a lot of respect for cranes as well.
[23:43] Oh, very well done. Yeah, it is Crane.
[23:47] OK, so wait, what do they do with the crane?
[23:51] Let me just remind you of the few things that I've mentioned,
[23:53] the keywords. So we have Crane, we have
[23:56] Japanese traditions and customs and Practice.
[23:59] It is meant to give you good luck, but it is also used by the
[24:03] Japanese equivalent of NASA to test its potential astronaut
[24:06] candidates for patience and for following procedures and
[24:13] dexterity. OK, something to do with the
[24:20] crane. Do they have to catch a crane?
[24:25] No, no, it isn't that. Because I just had this funny
[24:29] image in my head of somebody in a complete astronaut suit
[24:32] running after a crane. No.
[24:36] I'm I'm I'm stumped here. I'm stumped completely.
[24:40] You are going to curse yourself, I can guarantee you, when I tell
[24:43] you the answer, of course. OK, you're so close.
[24:46] OK, one last clue. Give me one.
[24:48] I don't know if I have a clue for you, but it is something
[24:52] that is considered a very stereotypically Japanese thing
[24:56] to do. It is done by a lot of other
[24:59] cultures as well, but it originated and the word at least
[25:02] is strongly Japanese. The name that we give to this
[25:05] practice and it is something that maybe young kids might do
[25:10] in school also. What?
[25:14] In the Arts and Crafts class. Wait, they have to make a quill
[25:19] from a crane feather? Vineet I I can sense how much
[25:25] you're going to hate yourself when I tell you the answer.
[25:29] Oh God, why am I cream? What would be out of my misery?
[25:35] The answer is origami cranes. Oh yes, origami cranes, yes, you
[25:41] have to make 1001 grains or something like that, right?
[25:43] There's. A.
[25:43] You knew it. You knew it.
[25:44] Yes. Yes, I knew this one, but I
[25:47] never knew what was called Sen was oh God, yes.
[25:50] Origami cranes are known as Orizuru.
[25:53] Ozuru is the name for cranes. Sen means thousand in Japanese.
[25:56] So Sen Bazuru is basically thousand origami cranes and it
[26:01] is considered a practice that would give you the boon of one
[26:04] wish that will come true. So this poor girl who who lost
[26:09] her life at a very young age, she brought this particular
[26:14] practice to worldwide attention when she attempted it at the age
[26:17] of 12. Some sources say she managed to
[26:20] complete 644. Her mother has said that she
[26:24] actually exceeded the 1000. In any case, she did pass away
[26:28] shortly thereafter, unfortunately.
[26:31] Apparently JAXA also uses it to test its astronaut candidates
[26:36] for their dexterity, for also their ability to keep focused
[26:40] while doing a repetitive, boring task, and also for their
[26:45] procedure and rule following ability.
[26:47] OK. Very nice question, man.
[26:51] I'll be very honest with you. After I reached Crane, my mind
[26:55] went into a complete blank also because there was this piece of
[26:58] trigger. I don't know if you heard of
[26:59] this. Have you heard of this crane in
[27:02] an American zoo, which I think completely imprinted itself on
[27:08] its zookeeper? So when it saw other cranes of
[27:12] its own species, I think it was an Asian white crane.
[27:15] When it saw cranes of its own species, it didn't recognize
[27:18] them as their own species and it treated its zookeeper like its
[27:22] mate. And this crane would not mate
[27:25] with any other normal cranes. So eventually the zookeeper had
[27:29] to do the same kind of mating dance and things with this and
[27:32] artificially inseminate this crane.
[27:34] I swear that is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
[27:38] And also, if it is true, I'm just going to put this out as a
[27:41] conspiracy theory. This zookeeper had a weird
[27:44] fetish. He was just using it to justify
[27:46] his own fetish. This zookeeper was up to some.
[27:48] Shady business? No.
[27:52] If I I was just looking it up. The name of the crane was called
[27:56] Walnut and the the Mad the zookeeper was named Crow his.
[28:03] Name was Crow. Which is also ironic on so many
[28:06] levels. I do not want to malign Mr.
[28:08] Crow. I'm obviously kidding.
[28:10] Maybe this was just one of those situations which had to be done.
[28:13] More had to be done. Yeah, So bringing this back to
[28:18] my defense, the moment I reached Crane, this piece of trivia
[28:22] about this Crane which had a our relationship with the zookeeper
[28:26] kept in my head and I could not think of anything else.
[28:29] You thought of artificially inseminating a crane instead of
[28:33] origami like I I don't. Hey, it should be no news to you
[28:41] that I'm a weird dude. It is.
[28:43] It has been my privilege, honestly, to make this podcast
[28:45] alongside of you. It is.
[28:48] I love it. OK.
[28:50] Moving on, this is my question to you.
[28:53] As of 2023, who is the only actor to star in a Worst Picture
[28:59] Razzi winner and a Best Picture Oscar winner in the same year?
[29:07] Hmm, feel like I've read this and I not recall who it is.
[29:16] Is it an actor like a male actor?
[29:18] Or is it a female actor? It is a male actor, and I'll
[29:22] give you the Oscar hitter history of this actor.
[29:24] This actor has been nominated for Best Actor twice, in 1990
[29:29] and 1997. They've been nominated again in
[29:33] 2000 and they were also nominated in 2023.
[29:40] In 2023, they were nominated, yes.
[29:43] Which year was the one that they got the?
[29:45] So I haven't mentioned which year that he starred in a movie
[29:49] that won the Best Picture Oscar. He also starred in another movie
[29:53] which won the worst picture, Razzi, in the same year.
[29:58] Oh wait, sorry, I need to clarify.
[30:00] Did the actor win the Oscar and Razzi or did the film in the
[30:04] Oscar and the Razzi? The film, The film.
[30:06] So this guy acted in two films. A&B.
[30:09] Let's say A won the best picture Oscar.
[30:11] B won the worst picture Razzi in the same year, and he's the only
[30:16] actor to have ever to hold that particular dubious record.
[30:20] The other thing I mentioned was that he has been nominated
[30:23] multiple times for Oscars in 191919972000 and 2023. 02023
[30:34] also. Yes, he was nominated in 2023.
[30:38] 1990s and 2000 was making me go to his Russell Crowe, but I
[30:41] don't think he was nominated in 2023.
[30:44] No, you would be very careful to see how I phrased his Oscar
[30:49] nominations. I'm giving you an extra clue
[30:51] here. Well, I guess I didn't pay
[30:53] attention because I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
[30:56] So what I said was He was nominated for Best Actor in 19
[30:59] ninety 1997. He was nominated again in 2000
[31:02] and 2023. Oh, so was 2003 like Best
[31:05] Supporting Actor or something 2? Thousand was best supporting
[31:08] actor, yes. Oh, Red and three.
[31:10] Was something else. OK, interesting.
[31:14] The reason I actually said that I know this piece of trivia is
[31:16] because I was thinking of Sandra Bullock.
[31:18] And Sandra Bullock has definitely won a Razzie and an
[31:22] Oscar in the same year. Yes, I will give you the year
[31:26] that I think that could be an additional clue.
[31:29] So the year that I mentioned that won both Best Picture Oscar
[31:32] and Worst Picture Azzie, same year was 19. 881988 Yes.
[31:39] So, Best Picture Oscar winner 1988.
[31:42] Yeah, that should. That'll give you again,
[31:45] additional clue, one of two options.
[31:47] That'll give you 2 options. You should pick one of them.
[31:50] You know, I can with a decent bit of certainty tell you the
[31:54] Best picture Oscar winners for for 90s onwards without going to
[31:59] off 1988. It's just outside of my of the
[32:04] top of my head knowledge. It can't be Driving Miss Daisy,
[32:08] right? No, it's not.
[32:10] I have no clue. The nomination that this
[32:13] particular actor got in 2023, the Oscar nomination was in the
[32:18] category of Best Picture. So as a producer.
[32:22] Yes. It it got an He got a
[32:26] nomination. But he didn't win in 2023,
[32:28] right? Oh, he's never won an Oscar.
[32:31] Oh, he's never won an Oscar. He's only gotten nominated.
[32:34] He's acted in Oscar winning movies.
[32:36] OK. But he's never got an Oscar.
[32:38] Interesting. So I can just give you, now that
[32:42] I've given you all these clues. 1990 he was nominated for Best
[32:45] Actor. 1997 he was nominated for Best Actor. 2000 he was
[32:50] nominated for Best Supporting Actor and in 2023 he was
[32:53] nominated in the category of Best Picture.
[32:57] Oh boy. I think I've seen most of the
[33:03] Best Picture nominees from 23. Oh, you definitely have seen
[33:07] this movie. I know because we've discussed
[33:09] it. OK.
[33:12] It may not come to you immediately because this
[33:14] person's had a very long career and this may not be something
[33:18] that you would remember, but when I tell you it will, you
[33:20] will definitely remember it. Hmm.
[33:24] This picture. Oscar nominees for 2023 and not
[33:27] winners. I know there was all quiet on
[33:31] the Western Front. There was Star.
[33:33] There was Elvis was there, I think.
[33:36] Fable man. There were, I think, 12
[33:37] nominations right for best picture.
[33:39] Oh jeez. OK then.
[33:40] I've not seen all of them. Banishes of inner Sharon were
[33:42] there. I'm remembering the ones that I
[33:44] loved, One I did not like. Triangle of sadness could not
[33:47] for my life sad in that movie. I've not seen it, so I wouldn't
[33:52] be able to comment. Oh, did we talk about Top Gun?
[33:55] Is it Tom Cruise? Yes, it is Tom Cruise.
[34:00] Oh. OK, so let me now just put
[34:03] everything back together. In 1988 Tom Cruise acted in a
[34:07] movie called Rain Man which won the Oscar for Best Picture.
[34:11] Which is why I said you have two options, one of which would give
[34:14] you the answer, The other one will be Dustin Hoffman.
[34:17] He in the same year he also had a movie which won the worst
[34:20] picture, Razzi, which was Cocktail.
[34:24] OK. Yeah, So for our audience, Razzi
[34:28] is like the anti Oscar. So instead of giving awards for
[34:31] Best Picture, Best Actor, they give for Worst Picture, Worst
[34:35] Actor, that kind of thing, right?
[34:39] In 1990, he was nominated for Best Actor.
[34:41] Any idea which film? One of his better performances.
[34:44] But everybody's forgotten it completely. 1990. 1990.
[34:49] It it's not eyes wide shirt. Right.
[34:50] No, no, no. That was in 97, if I'm not
[34:53] mistaken, Kubrick's last film. 1990 Is it Your Show Me the
[35:00] Money, Jerry McGuire. No, actually that is his 1997
[35:04] nomination. OK, Jerry Maguire.
[35:07] So 1990 nomination. Like I mentioned, it's one of
[35:09] his best performances. However, not something that many
[35:16] people remember. It was an Oliver Stone movie.
[35:20] Oh no, I don't know which one is it.
[35:23] It's the movie is called Born on the 4th of July.
[35:25] Of course, yeah, I've heard of it, yeah.
[35:27] Yeah, it's about, you know, Vietnam vet a really good
[35:30] performance by Tom Cruise. But I think people have
[35:32] completely forgotten about it, at least my generation.
[35:34] Nobody remembers it. 1997 is Show Me the Money as you
[35:37] remember, or also you had me at Hello Mr. Jerry Maguire himself.
[35:42] In 2000, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for
[35:45] Magnolia. Magnolia.
[35:47] OK, interesting. And in 2023, nominated in the
[35:51] category of Best Picture as a producer for Top Gun Maverick.
[35:54] You know, one of my favorite performances of Tom Cruise is
[35:57] Tropic Thunder. Oh, yes.
[35:59] He just embraced the crazies so much in that movie.
[36:04] Yes, I saw an interview in which when they asked him to do the
[36:08] role, he said I will do it, but I have to be bald.
[36:12] I have to wear a fat suit, have really fat hands and fat
[36:15] fingers, and I want to dance. I mean, like that character.
[36:20] I think it's called Les Wiseman. That's what that's the name,
[36:22] right? Maybe.
[36:23] Maybe. I don't remember.
[36:24] I'm not even. I'm not sure.
[36:25] But I remember when when I watched Tropic Thunder, I had no
[36:30] idea about what was going on. I had not watched any trailers
[36:33] or I had not seen any interviews or anything like that.
[36:37] And it took me I should do not until almost half the movie to
[36:40] realize it was Tom Cruise. Wow.
[36:42] OK. Because he completely
[36:44] disappeared in that role, and it's one of my favorite comedies
[36:47] of the 2000s. I'm like Robert Downey Junior
[36:51] playing a white man who went under surgery and I don't think
[36:56] anybody else could have pulled that off.
[36:58] Any other actor would have gotten cancelled.
[37:00] I think Robert Downey Junior just has that kind of appeal,
[37:03] but a lot of people probably have forgotten the fact that
[37:05] Robert Downey Junior in a satirical way, but he still did
[37:09] do blackface, so. Yeah.
[37:12] Yeah, fun. And not many people know that
[37:14] Robert Downey Junior was nominated for an Oscar once.
[37:17] Is it Chaplin? Yes, for Chaplin, he had was
[37:20] nominated for an Oscar for Chaplin.
[37:22] He was a very dramatic actor at one point.
[37:25] My favorite Robert Downey film. It has to be.
[37:28] One of my favorite films actually is Kiss, Kiss Bang
[37:30] Bang. Oh, Shane Black.
[37:34] Anything Shane Black writes is just fantastic.
[37:38] The Nice Guys, Kiss, Kiss Bang Bang, Last Action Hero, all of
[37:43] them like just fantastic. The only movie that he very
[37:48] seriously disappointed me in was the last Predator movie which he
[37:51] directed. Oh, I didn't see it.
[37:53] Yeah, trust me, you're not missing anything, but otherwise,
[37:57] Shane Black in Christmas is just a unbeatable combination.
[38:02] Just to round off what you were saying earlier, by the way, the
[38:04] Razzies are actually short for the Golden Raspberry Awards.
[38:08] And yes, yeah, name comes from blowing a Raspberry, which is
[38:12] that sound that you make by sticking your tongue out.
[38:13] And that sounds like a fart now. Come on, Aditya, you can do
[38:18] better than that. That's the sound.
[38:23] Let me just show you what a raspberries.
[38:25] Actually let me just for the our audience.
[38:28] Maybe I shouldn't be doing this, but it's actually.
[38:32] It's isn't it closer to like a longer sustained sound?
[38:37] Yeah, but my mouth is dry and it's the middle of the night, so
[38:40] they'll have to do well. That's.
[38:41] To be the dumbest thing we've ever recorded for this photo,
[38:47] OK. OK, so I think that's all the
[38:49] time we have for this episode. Aditya, what's going to be your
[38:54] question for this week's episode?
[38:56] Since we spend an obscene amount of time making the Raspberry
[39:00] sound, I have to ask what would the raspberries or the Razzie
[39:05] Awards equivalent in India be called?
[39:08] Or what should they be called? OK, fair enough.
[39:11] Fair enough. That's a great question.
[39:13] So we will receive that answer from Aditya or he will rather
[39:16] make up an answer for it next week.
[39:19] So stay tuned for that. Now there's the small matter of
[39:22] the question that I had asked at the beginning of today's
[39:26] episode. Fairly obvious answer What is
[39:29] the most commonly recycled material in the world?
[39:33] Aditya, Do you have a guess or do you know what the answer is
[39:36] for? This plastic bottles.
[39:38] Oh, no, no, no, no. Something a little more obvious
[39:41] than that. Oh, and then cans.
[39:45] Nope. Interesting.
[39:50] So is it the most efficiently recycled?
[39:52] Because I have heard aluminium is very efficiently this.
[39:55] No, the most recycled material. The most recycled material?
[39:58] OK, no, no, no idea. Is it iron?
[40:03] Oh, you're going to kick yourself after this?
[40:05] Is it a metal? No.
[40:07] OK, no idea then. It's paper.
[40:12] Oh man, of course it is paper. It is paper.
[40:15] Paper is the most recycled material, the most commonly
[40:19] recycled material in the world. So that brings us to the end of
[40:22] the questions for this episode. Aditya, what's your pop culture
[40:25] recommendation for the beginning of this year?
[40:27] I think I made a bunch of recommendations already, so I'm
[40:30] just going to reiterate a few of those.
[40:32] I think Kiss Kiss Bang Bang A Fantastic Films.
[40:34] Some of the 2023 nominees Great films to catch up on.
[40:39] I will also recommend this book that I'm currently reading.
[40:45] It's called City Improbable and it is a collection of essays
[40:49] about Delhi. So in my job as a writer, I'm
[40:55] currently working on something which has to do with Delhi.
[40:58] And just to immerse myself I picked this book up recommended
[41:01] by HK actually and hopefully we have back on our podcast
[41:05] sometime soon. But yeah, HK recommended this
[41:06] book and it has turned out to be a pretty interesting read.
[41:10] So if you're interested in Delhi and the way it has evolved over
[41:14] the years, I think this is a book that you should definitely
[41:18] pick up. Great.
[41:19] I will reiterate what Aditya said and go a little further.
[41:24] Not just Kiss Kiss Bang Bang obviously, which is just a
[41:26] fantastic movie, but I would also recommend anything that was
[41:30] that's been written by Shane Black.
[41:32] So that would include, as I already mentioned, Last Action
[41:35] Hero. It would also include The Last
[41:38] Boy Scout starring Bruce Willis, the first two Lethal Weapon
[41:42] movies, The Nice Guys, which again, quite underrated.
[41:46] I don't think it has as much popularity as it should.
[41:48] Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Fantastic buddy comedy noir.
[41:53] So anything by Shane Black, just amazing.
[41:56] My personal recommendation for this week is a podcast.
[42:01] It's a fiction podcast by the name of K63.
[42:05] I believe it's been adapted from a Spanish version.
[42:07] I've not listened to that, but the one that we have, the
[42:10] English one, stars Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac, so it's
[42:14] got some heavy hitter names behind it.
[42:17] It is an absolute mindfuck of a podcast, short episodes around
[42:23] 10 minutes each, but it's very well done Story.
[42:27] It's science fiction podcast and it's very well done.
[42:30] Two seasons down. I believe there's a third season
[42:32] coming up this year, so you can brush up on it and wait while
[42:36] you're waiting for the third season to drop.
[42:39] That's my recommendation for this week, K 63.
[42:42] Cool. So that's all for this episode.
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