# Episode 112 - Rockefeller, Ramayan & Royal Titles

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 3 Aug 2025, 1 h 03 min.

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Do you know which attraction at the Rockefeller Plaza, opened in 2023, allows visitors to relive an iconic New York moment from history? Do you know how specifically is the telling of Ramayan different in the village of Drongiri? Do you know what did Maharaja Gaj Singh II decide to commercialise when across India the royals were being stripped of their royal titles and privy purses? Tune in to the episode to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] On November the 1st, 1950, Oscar Collado and Grizelio Torresola
[0:08] entered Blair House, known as the most exclusive hotel in the
[0:12] world. What the attempted to do lasted
[0:15] for around 40 seconds and at the end of which Torresola was dead
[0:21] and Collazo was in jail for 29 years until his sentence was
[0:25] commuted. What did Oscar Collazo and
[0:29] Grizello Terasola attempt to do? This is the audience question
[0:35] for the 112th episode of are You Quizzing Me?
[0:38] Your favorite quizzing and trivia podcast show.
[0:41] I'll reveal this answer to this question at the end of today's
[0:44] episode, so stay tuned for that. Welcome to Are you quizzing me.
[0:49] I am Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashyap.
[0:52] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show.
[0:55] Join us as we dive deep into history, science, pop culture
[0:59] and so much more. Let's get quizzing.
[1:02] But let's now start off with our regular podcast Quizzing with my
[1:08] Co host Man. You may recognize he's an actor
[1:14] and a comedian and also has a fascination for stuffed Penguins
[1:20] for some reason. And no, he's not Joey, its
[1:23] Aditya Kashyap. That is me.
[1:25] I am Aditya Kashyap and I do. Have.
[1:30] The Aditya Kashyap I do have a fascination for stuffed
[1:33] Penguins. I don't own one, but I do wear
[1:37] them on my T-shirt with pride. So that's me and I am excited to
[1:43] get to some quizzing today. Also, interesting audience
[1:46] question. I wonder where that's going to
[1:47] take us. Haha, OK, so why don't you start
[1:51] us off this week? I am going to ask you about a
[1:55] new ride that opened at the Rockefeller Centre in 2023.
[2:00] This attraction was supposed to be a recreation of history and
[2:08] allowed for people to view the city in a way that they perhaps
[2:15] never have before. What ride was this?
[2:20] What attraction was this that was launched at the Rockefeller
[2:23] Centre? By the way, in the case anybody
[2:25] doesn't know which is in New York City, which attraction was
[2:29] launched at the Rockefeller Centre in 2023?
[2:34] 2023 something related with the history of the city and gave the
[2:42] ability for people to see it in a different way, right?
[2:44] Yes, OK. First thing that comes to mind
[2:50] might be something snow or skating related.
[2:53] So is it like a recreation of America like 100 years prior or
[2:59] something like that? No, a lot more iconic than
[3:03] something like that, because that would be a more generic, a
[3:05] general kind of recreation, something very specific,
[3:09] something very iconic. I'll need a clue here.
[3:13] The first clue would be that remember I said it's a ride of
[3:17] sorts or an attraction. You could call it either and
[3:21] hence has an element of thrill to it.
[3:26] I'm reminded of those old photographs of the construction
[3:29] workers on the Empire State Building sitting on a beam and
[3:32] having lunch. Is it something to do with that?
[3:36] Perfect. It is called the beam experience
[3:39] at the Rockefeller Center. You can you can buy tickets for
[3:43] it. And they literally place you on
[3:45] that beam, which has the backdrop of the New York
[3:48] skyline. And you're sitting there just as
[3:50] those workers did almost 100 years ago.
[3:54] So the picture, the iconic picture that you mentioned is
[3:56] called Lunch Atop A Skyscraper. This is from September 20th,
[4:00] 1932, where 11 iron workers were sitting on a steel beam on the
[4:05] RCA building, the Rockefeller Centre building.
[4:08] And this was supposed to be, this was supposed to capture
[4:13] the, the spirit of New York, the, the casual attitude with
[4:18] which they're sitting. And there's probably like
[4:21] hundreds of feet of the city below them and just casually
[4:25] having lunch over there. And some photographer captured
[4:27] this. It was part of a publicity stunt
[4:30] and you can now recreate that. It is right that was launched,
[4:33] an experience that was launched at the Rockefeller Center in
[4:36] 2023. So if you go there you can
[4:38] recreate the beam image. That's very nice.
[4:42] I remember seeing a couple of photographs a few days ago about
[4:47] people. It was like a comparison
[4:49] photograph. Like you've seen these
[4:50] photographs of iron workers and construction workers on these
[4:54] beams and really high inaccessible places.
[4:57] And then there were photographs of actual photographers taking
[5:00] those photographs, and that I think was more impressive.
[5:04] I actually love going through these pictures, and recently I
[5:08] realized that there's a treasure trove of trivia there.
[5:11] So fair warning, I think in the upcoming episodes I will pepper
[5:16] in some questions related to iconic photographs of the 20th
[5:19] century. That was a great question and I
[5:23] have no segue to move from, I don't know, ironworkers in early
[5:29] 20th century New York to absolutely nothing to do with
[5:36] that. In India.
[5:41] You are a UP boy, right? Yeah, I am a up boy.
[5:44] Yes. So this is nothing to do with
[5:46] up, but you have been to. OK, sure.
[5:52] But have you been to Uttarakhand?
[5:55] I have been to Uttarakhand. Does this have anything to do
[5:57] with Uttarakhand? Yes, yes, this does have
[5:59] something to do with Uttarakhand.
[6:00] OK, Yeah. So have you heard of this
[6:03] village called Dron Giri? I think I might have, yes.
[6:07] OK, so Dron Giri is a remote village in Uttarakhand known not
[6:12] only for its ecological sensitivity.
[6:15] Historically they had a lot of ties with Tibet as well.
[6:18] You know, there were cross-border trade with Tibet in
[6:22] those days. There was no border border, You
[6:23] know, the Kingdom of Tibet and this village, they used to have
[6:26] traders going back and forth until the whole China fiasco
[6:30] happened. This village is known for its
[6:33] ecological sensitivity and also for the fierce pride its
[6:38] residents take in preserving their both their natural and
[6:41] cultural heritage. Interestingly, the village
[6:46] follows a very unique version of the Ramayana during its annual
[6:51] Ram Leela celebrations, one that deliberately alters a key part
[6:57] of the story, a change also reflected in local temple
[7:01] iconography. According to the villagers, the
[7:06] deviation is deeply rooted in emotional wounds and historical
[7:13] memory passed down over generations.
[7:17] So my question is twofold. What is the specific change in
[7:21] the Ramayanas retelling that's observed here and what long
[7:25] standing emotional slash cultural grievance gave rise to
[7:29] this unique interpretation? OK.
[7:34] So you mentioned that they are very they take care of their
[7:41] environment and that they are very sensitive to OK, did
[7:49] anything in the Ramayan, any of actions done by Ram potentially
[7:56] have ecological consequences that they are not a big fan of?
[8:02] You're half right. There was there were actions in
[8:06] the Ramayan which led to some ecological consequences for that
[8:10] particular village, but it was not Ram.
[8:15] Obviously you can't like remove Ram from the Ramayan and then
[8:18] have a Ramayana or Ram Leela. Does it have anything to do with
[8:24] the Sanjeevani Hanuman and the mountain and.
[8:30] You're almost there. You.
[8:31] You're just about there. OK, so the idea being that to
[8:35] heal Lakshman, I believe Hanuman is sent to retrieve the the
[8:43] magical herb or whatever it is from the Himalayan foothills.
[8:47] And because he's not sure which one it is, which plant is he
[8:51] supposed to take? So he uproots the entire
[8:53] mountain and brings it down South where the where the
[8:57] brothers are. So is it that like they are
[9:01] offended at the idea that their mountain was taken away or
[9:03] something like that? OK, so if assuming that's right,
[9:06] what changed do do you find in their iconography and what
[9:11] change do you find in their Ramleela?
[9:16] I mean, the most obvious thing would be like maybe Lakshman was
[9:20] brought to Himalaya and treated and then took back.
[9:23] I don't know. I'm just changing the order of
[9:25] events a little. No, let's just say it's more of
[9:30] a boycott. Do a boycott like they don't
[9:34] allow that. That will just ruin the Ramayan.
[9:37] Like that will break the whole flow of the story.
[9:39] Oh. No, no, they are boycotting a
[9:41] character. So Hanuman is boycotted?
[9:45] Yes. Oh, so Bhanuman is not there in
[9:48] the Ramayan? OK, now so in the Dron Giri
[9:52] village, the Ram Leela omits the episode where Hanuman uproots
[9:56] the Sanjeevani Barring mountain, which is by the way called
[9:59] Dronagiri to save Lakshman. In fact, Hanuman is not
[10:04] worshipped in the traditional way in this region and in some
[10:08] cases his idol is even absent from temples, Ram temples.
[10:14] And according to local lore, you are very right.
[10:16] By the way. When Hanuman came to fetch the
[10:19] Sanjeevani Bhuti from the sacred mountain, the villagers tried to
[10:23] help him by pointing out the exact location of the plant.
[10:28] But when Hanuman couldn't identify it, he forcibly
[10:32] uprooted the mountain, an act which was seen by the locals as
[10:36] a violation of their land and betrayal of trust.
[10:39] Very interesting. OK, so wait, so Hanuman is part
[10:44] of the story, but is what? Like not not given the the kind
[10:51] of glory that he is in other versions of advice?
[10:54] Exactly. OK, OK, OK.
[10:57] Oh, all right. Fair.
[10:59] I guess that's what's interesting about these epics,
[11:01] right? Like I think the idea that you
[11:03] can tell it from so many different perspectives and it
[11:07] can have while the core story can remain the same, it just
[11:11] changes when you change your frame of reference and you will
[11:15] see a whole new way of seeing the same story.
[11:17] Its true because if somebody approves your mountain, you
[11:19] probably are not going to be very happy about it.
[11:21] And another thing, apparently there was a BJPMP, if you are
[11:25] even about 10-15 years ago, who got special permission from the
[11:29] government to try and find the Sanjeevani plant.
[11:34] OK. But he shouldn't have, you know,
[11:38] bothered because we already know what it is.
[11:41] What is that? Oh, yeah.
[11:43] So if you go to the Tata Tea factory in Munnar, they have a,
[11:49] at least I don't know if that guy is still there.
[11:51] So there was a tour, there is a factory tour in the Tata Tea
[11:56] factory where they take you through, you know, plucking the
[11:59] plant, the leaves, the buds. They show you all the different
[12:02] types of tea, the drying and everything.
[12:05] And there was this plant manager or something.
[12:08] He was a pretty senior guy who worked there for decades or
[12:10] something. And when I went there for the
[12:12] first time, he was the one giving the tour introduction and
[12:16] he kept calling tea as Sanjeevani.
[12:22] He's like, this is the Sanjeevani plant because he went
[12:24] on and on about the benefits of tea and he's like, this is the
[12:29] Sanjeevani plant. He's like, if you drink a little
[12:31] bit of tea, you feel awake. Same thing happened to Lakshman.
[12:35] OK. There was a bit of a chuckle
[12:37] that went around, but then he was very serious.
[12:39] He wasn't joking. Very cool.
[12:40] OK. All right.
[12:42] So king of segues. Well, Speaking of things that
[12:48] are universally liked, but some people might not like it so
[12:51] much, I have a list for you and tell me, I'm going to give you a
[12:58] list of names. Tell me, what award have these
[13:01] people won? OK.
[13:04] And this, I must warn you, is probably trivia that you don't
[13:07] know about, that you're not aware of and probably shouldn't
[13:09] even know. OK?
[13:10] Nobody here should know except for the fact that the answer is
[13:14] just entertaining, OK? It's just going to be fun.
[13:17] Yeah. So don't don't stress out when
[13:19] you don't know the answer, because I don't think any trivia
[13:21] nerd should even bother knowing it.
[13:22] Right. So to the question 2024 Mark
[13:26] Simmons 2023 Lorna Rose Screen 2022 Masai Graham 2021 Masai
[13:32] Graham 2020 Not held because of COVID pandemic 2019 Olaf Falafel
[13:38] 2018 Adam Rowe 2017 Ken Chung OK I'm going to stop here.
[13:42] I've given you the last 7 awardees I believe.
[13:46] Give me the name of the award that was presented to these
[13:50] people. Is it a Webbie?
[13:52] It's not a Webbie, but you are not not exactly cold.
[13:58] You're warm. Lukewarm.
[14:01] Hey, don't tell me this is like one of those avian awards, adult
[14:04] entertainment awards or something like that.
[14:07] No, adult entertainment is not something I'll find to be
[14:10] universally entertaining. I'm sure some people find that
[14:13] entertaining, but I'm not going to.
[14:15] You said universally entertaining, but many people
[14:17] may not like it. OK, universally entertaining,
[14:22] but still PG13. I'll need a clue.
[14:26] Give me a clue. Since you are a connoisseur, a
[14:30] consumer of British TV, do you know of this British television
[14:35] channel called You and Dave? No, not particularly.
[14:40] So it's a British free to air television channel owned by
[14:44] UKTV, which is a subsidiary of BBC Studios.
[14:47] OK. It is known for broadcasting
[14:49] modern comedy and factual programming.
[14:52] So these are the people who present this award at a specific
[14:58] festival every year. So even if you give me the name
[15:01] of the festival, I'll take it. Is it Glastonbury?
[15:06] Glastonbury. Not Glastonbury, but you're
[15:08] right in the sense that it is something in the UK.
[15:10] I've never actually heard of any of these people so.
[15:13] Well, that brings me to my next clue.
[15:15] This is something that perhaps people who I work with, the kind
[15:19] of work I would do, would probably be a little bit more
[15:21] familiar with. So you know the domain I'm
[15:24] referring to. OK, see this is not fair.
[15:29] You do stand up comedy, you do improv, you do ad work, you do
[15:34] films, theatre. What which which one am I
[15:39] supposed to? And you dance.
[15:41] So which one of these areas am I supposed to be focusing on?
[15:45] And I also love Stuff Penguins, but this has nothing to do with
[15:48] stuff Penguins. I can assure you.
[15:51] Comedy is a space that I was referring to because I mentioned
[15:54] that you and Dave is known for their modern comedy as well.
[15:58] So comedy space would be the broad category.
[16:01] If you narrow it down, a festival in the UK, not England,
[16:04] which is famous for comedy. An award that is presented
[16:08] there. Even if you don't know the name
[16:09] of the award, just give me the name of the festival and I'll
[16:11] give the points to you. So I.
[16:12] Can get to the fun part just for us.
[16:15] Oh, just for, I don't know, that's a festival.
[16:18] No, I mean like, but they're hosted in Canada.
[16:20] But when you said the UK, I'm like OK, maybe it's also in the
[16:23] UK. Nope, nothing.
[16:25] I'm completely blanket. OK, I'll give you one last clue.
[16:28] It's in Scotland. Scotland.
[16:33] And it is the world's largest performance arts festival.
[16:36] OK now, now you're just making making me look bad.
[16:41] But to be fair, I think people in the entertainment industry
[16:43] probably a little bit more aware of it than outside of it.
[16:47] Is this like a Razzy kind of situation?
[16:49] No, no, no, it's a, it's a it's a legit festival where where
[16:52] people come and do what they hope to be is considered the
[16:56] best of their work and picked up and recognized and lauded and
[17:01] awarded. Nope.
[17:03] Baby Baby Reindeer is a connect that I can give you.
[17:06] I haven't watched that show. OK, no then I'll tell you baby
[17:09] reindeer. I don't know if you know about
[17:11] it is about a stand up comedian. And who gets stalked, right?
[17:14] And who has a stalker and his his based off of his own
[17:19] personal experience, apparently, and his experience with going to
[17:23] the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Yeah.
[17:27] So the Fringe is considered one of the greatest performing arts
[17:31] festival. It is the world's largest
[17:33] performing arts festival. And this is an award presented
[17:36] at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
[17:38] Now the name of the award is the funniest joke of the Fringe and
[17:42] I found out that they award a comedian every year with an
[17:47] award which says funniest joke of the French.
[17:48] Now to me that seems ridiculous because.
[17:51] Who decides? I don't know who decides.
[17:54] I think it's it's some people from the public and maybe some
[17:57] judges. I'm not quite sure.
[17:58] But it is like a one liner that they award as a best joke.
[18:03] Again, I don't know how you judge just a single line out of
[18:08] the context of the rest of the set, but some of these lines are
[18:11] actually quite funny, and this is where I said it would be
[18:13] funny, so forget about the trivia of it.
[18:15] I'll just tell you the last few jokes which I've won, OK?
[18:18] OK. I was going to sail around the
[18:20] globe with the world's smallest ship, but I bottled it.
[18:24] And that is by Mark Simmons. See, I knew I told him a lot of
[18:30] people will love it, but some people don't.
[18:33] Oh, nausea. Nausea.
[18:34] Oh God, nausea. You are going to sit through at
[18:37] least five more of these. Oh God.
[18:39] I started dating a zookeeper but he turned out he was a cheetah.
[18:47] That is just so bad. That is just so bad.
[18:51] It won the funniest joke of the Fringe in 2023, the largest
[18:54] performing arts festival in the world, by the way.
[18:57] Yeah, I don't. Not very impressed.
[19:00] Oh wait wait wait. I tried to steal spaghetti from
[19:04] the shop but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta.
[19:14] Oh, I can just imagine there are, I can imagine like 5 people
[19:20] who look like you, who walk like, who talk like you is going
[19:24] on stage and making these jokes. This is something exactly what
[19:28] you would do. Listen, people have awarded
[19:30] them. Apparently it has been
[19:32] discontinued now so they don't want to give it awards.
[19:34] Yes, finally somebody showed sense.
[19:38] In 2021, the award that one and that should hopefully have some
[19:42] relevance to you. OK.
[19:45] I thought the word cesarean began with the letter S, but
[19:48] when I looked in the dictionary it was in the C-section.
[19:56] I like that. I'm not a fan of the new pound
[20:00] coin, but then again, I hate all change.
[20:03] OK, I've decided to sell my Hoover.
[20:10] Well, it was just collecting dust.
[20:12] Oh God. And the nausea is back.
[20:20] OK, I mean, they're not bad, but like when you tell me that these
[20:23] are the best jokes of the festival, I'm like, how bad were
[20:27] the rest of the jokes? I found that very surprising
[20:29] because Edinburgh Fringe is supposed to be one of the
[20:32] funniest places that people aspire to get to.
[20:34] Like, it is like, Oh my God, you made it in your career if you as
[20:38] a standup copic have had your ACT at the Fringe.
[20:41] And for some reason these are the best jokes.
[20:43] I found that a little strange also.
[20:45] But you know what, it's still funny.
[20:46] So I enjoyed the jokes and they started in 2008, so there are at
[20:49] least like around 15 of them. So go and read the rest if you
[20:53] want to because apparently they discontinued.
[20:54] That's not going to happen again.
[20:56] And this is what was a trivia that is absolutely useless but
[21:00] funny to me. I enjoyed it.
[21:02] Thank you so much. Back to you, Vineet.
[21:05] OK, moving on from some really, really bad jokes to something
[21:11] that will make sense. The segue will make sense once
[21:13] you hear the answer. So the question is as follows.
[21:18] In the 1970s, you've heard of the pre weepers, right?
[21:23] Yes. So once India got independence,
[21:26] all the, you know, kings and Queens and Princess who used to
[21:31] have their own individual kingdoms, who joined the Union
[21:33] of India, they were allotted a pre weepers because they no
[21:36] longer had their kingdoms, but to maintain their lifestyle and
[21:39] their palaces and what not, they were given a pre weepers by the
[21:41] government. And in the 1970s, I think it was
[21:44] Indira Gandhi who revoked it, basically said that, you know,
[21:49] you are no longer royalty and you don't deserve to have a
[21:53] Privy purse anymore. So in the 1970s, when royal
[21:57] titles and the Privy purse was abolished, Maharaja Gaj Singh,
[22:01] the second of Jodhpur, saw an opportunity.
[22:05] Amid the upheaval, he opened up his prized Fort for tourism,
[22:12] converting it into a museum. But before that transformation,
[22:20] he monetized the site in a rather unusual way by selling a
[22:25] product provided by the Fords only true residents at that
[22:30] point of time. These residents had long played
[22:35] a crucial role in global agricultural practices and
[22:38] promoting environmental awareness.
[22:41] Now the question that I am coming to is who were these
[22:45] residents and how did he monetize the Fort?
[22:48] And this historic Fort gained global attention in 2012, making
[22:57] it a fitting spotlight given its past inhabitants.
[23:01] So who were the inhabitants, how did it get monetized, and how
[23:07] did it become so popular in 2020?
[23:10] Sorry, you mentioned the Raj of Jodhpur, did you?
[23:13] Yes, Maharaja Gurji Singh, the second of Jodhpur.
[23:17] So they were part of some sort of agricultural practice and
[23:23] they were able to monetize that when the.
[23:28] Their product their product was monetized by the Maharaja.
[23:33] I mean, it could be just about anything that is grown in those
[23:36] parts, which admittedly is not that wide a variety.
[23:42] Think about it this way, who would you think are the
[23:47] inhabitants of the Fort at that point of time in the 1970s?
[23:52] They were the only true residents of the Fort, like the
[23:55] only full time residents. Are these not people by any
[24:00] chance? Are these like some animals,
[24:02] something who are doing something, who are creating
[24:05] something or making something something like?
[24:09] That I don't know. OK, isn't this the emoji?
[24:15] Yeah, Yeah, that's the one. Very accurate.
[24:18] OK, So in the 1970s some, I'm guessing it's not a person, some
[24:25] sort of maybe plant or some sort of animal that was in the Fort
[24:29] that was utilized. Oh, it still doesn't help me
[24:33] though. I can't.
[24:34] I can't possibly guess just based off of that.
[24:37] OK, I'll give you a clue. I will give you a clue, but the
[24:40] clue is literally half a world away.
[24:45] Is that the end of the? Clue.
[24:45] So no, no, I'm I'm. I'm hyping up the clue.
[24:50] Let's go Yeah. OK.
[24:53] So half a world away in the Pacific Ocean, there were a lot
[24:57] of islands which also had the same kind of product and for
[25:02] which the US, let's just say, exploited US and lot of other
[25:07] colonial powers exploited those islands specifically because of
[25:11] the large quantities of this product on those islands.
[25:16] Oh, OK. It was used in chemical
[25:19] industry. It was used in agriculture in.
[25:21] Ammonia I can only think of so birds, so bird.
[25:24] Poop all OK, You have 70% right? But it's not bird.
[25:31] I mean like these are not like the fourth full time residents
[25:34] were obviously not birds. OK, fair enough.
[25:39] Well, I guess all animal waste has some sort of ammonia in it,
[25:43] but. There's a specific term that
[25:46] you're looking for. A bird poop, as you put it, also
[25:49] does come under that name. Some some nitrate, something I
[25:53] don't know. I'm not quite sure what they
[25:54] are. OK, so the term is called guano.
[25:58] Yeah, of course, of course, yeah.
[26:00] Yes, OK, so guano, but not bird guano like the islands in the
[26:04] Pacific. They were covered in like meters
[26:07] of bird guano. This, the Fort Maringard Fort by
[26:12] the way, was not covered in bird guano.
[26:16] It was covered in some other kind of guano.
[26:20] Some animal that is native to Rajasthan?
[26:25] Wow. Native everywhere.
[26:28] Native everywhere. Yeah, almost everywhere.
[26:32] Some sort of find those Almost a.
[26:34] Gazelle, some deer, something like that.
[26:36] No, no, no, I'm talking full time resident.
[26:38] Yeah, they sleep there. Deer can sleep inside a Fort.
[26:43] Yeah, but it's not going to keep coming back into the Fort to
[26:45] sleep now. And who's going to climb all
[26:47] that way anyway? Deer which lives there, Vinit?
[26:51] I don't know which kind of world globe trotting deer have you
[26:55] met. Most deer stay within their
[26:59] confined spaces. There is a very obvious answer
[27:02] you are overlooking. So then sort of some sort of a
[27:04] domesticated animal then I am guessing some towers and
[27:07] buffaloes and stuff. I guess I don't.
[27:09] Know listen to the question again.
[27:10] OK, last time before I reveal the answer, I said these were
[27:15] the only residents of the Fort at that point of time, the only
[27:21] true residents, which means that the Maharaja and his family and
[27:25] all, they were not staying there.
[27:27] If they were not staying there, the entire Fort would be devoid
[27:32] of human habitation. And what happens when humans are
[27:35] not there and you have a Fort at night?
[27:40] Come on, man. I'm literally giving.
[27:41] Are there rats there? Oh, God, no.
[27:44] I'm going to just tell you, Bats.
[27:47] OK, you know what? There could be rats also, and
[27:49] you're telling me that bats were more likely to stay in the
[27:53] confines of that space and not freaking rats.
[27:57] Bats roost. I'm going to fault your hint on
[28:00] this one, but fine. I, I and come on, I get it that
[28:04] bats are not birds. Bats are not birds.
[28:07] But let's, let's just let's just let's just take a chill pill
[28:11] here, OK? Bats are birds for all practical
[28:15] intents and purposes. Yes, except for the fact that
[28:18] they are not like birds in any way shape of all.
[28:24] OK, so you have got that right. So they had there were extensive
[28:28] bad droppings and that guano was used for fertilizers which he
[28:33] sold off and made a lot of money from that.
[28:35] Now the second part of the question is that this Fort
[28:39] gained international attention in 2012 making and that was a
[28:45] kind of very fitting spotlight the way the people came to know
[28:47] about it given this past history of the Fort.
[28:52] Batman, The Dark Knight rises that well outside where he
[28:56] climbs out. Yes, very good.
[28:58] Yes. So yeah.
[28:59] So the the rock climbing scene was shot at Marin Got Fort.
[29:03] Yeah, that's why the name struck a bell.
[29:05] I remember reading this. Yeah, and.
[29:07] Now, do you understand the segue between your question and mine?
[29:11] It's a joke. No that they were like bat shit
[29:15] jokes and this is just about bat shit.
[29:17] Going to say shitty jokes. Yeah.
[29:18] OK. You know what?
[29:19] Good. Good, good.
[29:19] I like it. Well, strong segues.
[29:21] Strong segues. I'll give it to you.
[29:24] OK. All right.
[29:28] Speaking of iconic things from the 70s, important things from
[29:32] the 70s, I want you to tell me what has made Bruce Raymer a
[29:38] lawyer famous? What made Bruce Raymer the
[29:42] lawyer famous in 1970s? What made him famous?
[29:50] Was he a porn star? Why?
[29:52] Why is everything today about this adult entertainment
[29:56] Vineeth? No, I mean like you say the 70s
[29:59] and I don't know, I mean like I watched a couple of these movies
[30:02] recently, you know, the the Pearl series and Triple X and
[30:05] all those movies with Mia got. OK, sure, good fun times
[30:09] happened and then Kochi I see. Very nice.
[30:12] Oh yeah, yeah, not fun movies, by the way.
[30:15] OK, so I I have to clarify because this is too open-ended a
[30:22] question now. What made Bruce Raymour famous
[30:26] is perhaps not recognized by his own name, but something so
[30:30] iconic from the 1970s was given the name Bruce, and at least die
[30:39] hard fans would know that the name is Bruce.
[30:43] The rest of us probably don't know the name Bruce, but do know
[30:46] what I'm talking about. Die hard fans know the name
[30:50] Bruce but otherwise is this like a the Batman man bat thing?
[30:58] No. OK, so but you're close with the
[30:59] idea that it's a fictional character.
[31:01] So what I mean by die hard fans is die hard fans of that piece
[31:04] of fiction know that the name, unofficial name is Bruce.
[31:08] The rest of us probably don't know the name Bruce, but do know
[31:12] the character itself. Nope, nothing comes to mind
[31:15] immediately. If you can give me a clue.
[31:18] OK, so this work of fiction is from 1975.
[31:24] His character was first seen in 1975, if that helps.
[31:29] Was seen in 1975. OK, so it's a visual media
[31:33] you're talking about. Oh, that's the end of your clue.
[31:37] Yes. OK, 1975 was the shark named
[31:42] Bruce? Oh, that was very quick.
[31:45] Yep, it was the name of the shark that they used on the set
[31:50] and during production because Bruce Raymer is Steven
[31:53] Spielberg's lawyer. So the shark, which may be the
[32:00] rest of us know as Jaws, the die Hard fans and people during
[32:05] production referred to as Bruce the Shark because, well, I guess
[32:10] Steven Spielberg thought that his lawyer was a shark.
[32:13] I'm guessing all good lawyers are sharks.
[32:15] I guess you if you are going to be Steven Spielberg's lawyer,
[32:17] you better be a shark, I guess. That was a very good question
[32:22] and something that came out of left field, yes.
[32:28] So instead of left field, let's go from West to east.
[32:32] That's absolutely really bad. Brutally.
[32:35] Hear the question. So Zirakpur, popularly known as
[32:39] the wedding capital of Punjab, is known for its exotic function
[32:43] halls that come with the most lavish facilities.
[32:46] In 2008, at one of the premium halls in this town received an
[32:54] unusual renting request for a special purpose and that entire
[33:00] hall was given a complete makeover with wooden walls,
[33:04] glass enclosures and green colored flooring.
[33:09] This hall was rented out and this makeover was ordered by
[33:13] someone who was travelling from Germany to an eastern
[33:20] destination but stopped over in Zirakpur along with his friends
[33:27] and they used this particular venue for a few days for almost
[33:33] a week before resuming his trip to his eastern destination and
[33:39] that eventually turned out to be a successful trip.
[33:42] So my question is, who rented out this wedding hall and why?
[33:47] And you mentioned 2008, you mentioned glass enclosure and
[33:51] green flooring. Yes.
[33:54] So that might have been a giveaway.
[33:56] Yeah, I'm thinking green flooring reminds me some sort of
[34:00] a field, some sort of a pitch, some sort of a sports space.
[34:05] Am I close? Yes, you're not wrong.
[34:07] So then perhaps and you're saying somebody from the West.
[34:11] So I think it's more likely that was a football field recreation,
[34:17] but somebody going from West all the way to east.
[34:20] Yes. So they were travelling from
[34:22] Germany to their eastern destination and they stopped
[34:25] over here for a week with their friends.
[34:27] They used the hall for a week and then they went on towards
[34:31] their destination and their purpose of going to that place
[34:35] was successful in the end. But 2008 was not a FIFA year, so
[34:41] can't be a World Cup thing. Do not let you go to off the
[34:47] beaten path. It's not football and even
[34:52] though it's a sport, it's not any of the sports that you've
[34:55] mentioned. OK.
[35:02] Wooden walls, glass enclosures, green carpet, Wedding hall.
[35:09] Oh, so then maybe wooden walls? Glass enclosure can't be tennis
[35:17] either. It makes me think of squash, but
[35:21] then again, squash doesn't need a green floor.
[35:26] That's also true. Oh no, I can't think of any
[35:29] sport that would have wooden walls, glass enclosures and
[35:32] green flooring. Specifically, not always, but
[35:38] this particular time that was required so.
[35:41] Did you say, did you say, did you say it was a team that was
[35:44] going or is it one individual? One individual, but he had
[35:47] friends with him, or rather his entourage. 2008 What happened in
[35:52] 2008? That's my question, that's my
[35:54] clue. I can only think of the Olympics
[35:59] in 2008 in Beijing. Very good.
[36:02] So going somebody going from Germany to Beijing for the
[36:06] Olympics, any German who did well at the Olympics?
[36:12] Not a German. Oh.
[36:14] I just said they went from Germany to Beijing.
[36:17] I didn't say they were German. No, I can't think of any.
[36:21] Like I'm I'm still stuck on the sport.
[36:23] Like who could it be? In 2008?
[36:26] It was, I believe, Michael Phelps who did well.
[36:29] But then again, swimming is not relevant to this.
[36:32] No, it's not. Abhinav Bindra.
[36:36] Very good. Oh wait, what?
[36:40] What did you have to do in Zirakpur?
[36:43] So he basically converted the hall to mimic the shooting
[36:47] conditions at the Beijing venue exactly, including down to the
[36:52] flooring and the enclosures and everything.
[36:54] So he practiced there in that for a week before going to
[36:57] Beijing and paid off. That's kind of cool.
[37:00] That's neat. OK, Yeah, that makes a lot more
[37:02] sense. I couldn't think of any of the
[37:04] sport that fits the bill but is shooting.
[37:06] Makes sense. Abhirabindra won the first gold
[37:09] medal. Individual gold medal.
[37:10] Very cool. OK, well, Speaking of people who
[37:15] have lived in fame or are famous, here's a question that I
[37:22] don't usually do. It's an alphabet soup as.
[37:27] Oh God, OK. Your medicine right back at you,
[37:31] doctor. So X is a famous American
[37:37] personality, a celebrity who inspired the fictional character
[37:43] Y. The fictional character Y has a
[37:49] dog. In the work of fiction that Y is
[37:53] part of, the dog is voiced by Z. Both X&Y are very similarly
[38:03] named. Y's name is very directly
[38:05] inspired by X's name. It's not the same, but it is
[38:09] very directly inspired by X's name.
[38:14] Which TV show am I referring to in which X, an American
[38:21] celebrity, was parodied or or that inspiration was used
[38:27] directly to create the character Y with a dog voiced by the
[38:32] actress said. OK, just give me the soup again.
[38:35] Just the basics. XYZ who?
[38:37] X, the American celebrity, Y inspired by X and the name is
[38:44] very much a parody, you know, almost almost making fun of X's
[38:49] name. So if X was called Ram, Y would
[38:52] be called Sham. Almost something like that.
[38:55] OK, OK. Bye a very famous actress Z, who
[39:01] back then was not as famous. So I just found that interesting
[39:05] that that this actress voiced such a minor character in this
[39:11] show. Was ex ATV critic or like a
[39:14] critic, film critic or something like that?
[39:16] No politician, No from the entertainment industry.
[39:21] Hey, was it Weinstein and Einstein?
[39:23] No. No, no what?
[39:27] No, I thought maybe X was. I don't know.
[39:29] I'm just trying to guess names of show like so I thought maybe
[39:32] they were trying to lampoon Weinstein.
[39:34] Harvey Weinstein. And they named the dog Einstein,
[39:38] no. No.
[39:38] Nothing. I don't know.
[39:41] You'll have to give me some clue about the show because I'm
[39:42] completely blanking here. First of all, is it a show I
[39:45] would have heard of? Heard of Yeah.
[39:47] Maybe not watched, but probably heard of Yeah.
[39:50] And it's an AT show. No, I never mentioned ATS.
[39:54] OK, can you to give me the time frame then?
[39:56] No, I don't want to kidding. It is from the 2000s.
[40:01] I think it is on the 2000. Oh, its the 2000s.
[40:04] And probably which is why I said you probably not seen it because
[40:07] it was meant for a younger crowd and you are not a child in in
[40:12] the 2000s, so not. Oh no, I was already in college.
[40:15] Yeah, exactly so. Voiced for younger audience I
[40:19] would have absolutely no idea. Man, I like like even when I was
[40:24] a kid I didn't use why I never watched those kind of shows
[40:26] much. So let me give you a hint now,
[40:29] OK, this is a famous celebrity. X is a famous celebrity who was
[40:38] famous for being famous almost. It was one of the first few
[40:41] people, much like the Kardashians.
[40:43] And people claim that the Kardashians kind of modeled
[40:46] themselves off of X and how X shot to frame.
[40:53] In fact, Kim Kardashian has said that X gave her a career in some
[40:58] way. I am tempted to say something
[41:01] else about how gave Kim Kardashian her career.
[41:03] No, no, no, not, not, not. Stop it with the adult.
[41:06] Stop it with the adult. Entertainment.
[41:09] What's up with you today? OK, see, I am not the one who
[41:12] called entertainment. You are the one who called it
[41:14] entertainment. Shame on you.
[41:15] Oh yes, I apologize. Like Arsenio Hall, but he had a
[41:20] famous chat show. So then I am not.
[41:23] I don't know if I mentioned it's a woman that we're talking
[41:25] about. X is a woman.
[41:26] Y is a female character inspired by X.
[41:29] Oprah, No. But Oprah is not famous for
[41:32] being famous. Exactly.
[41:33] And I don't think Kim Kardashian is giving credit to Oprah for
[41:36] making her. Yeah, that's true.
[41:39] Nope, I'll need something else or you'll have to put me on my
[41:42] misery. OK, big Q coming up.
[41:46] Both X&Y are named after cities. Person.
[41:51] A woman who's named after a city.
[41:54] OK, let's see. Sydney.
[41:58] Good guess, but no. Do you know any famous Sydneys?
[42:00] I don't know any famous. I mean, I know Sydney famous.
[42:02] No, I'm thinking of cities which can be construed as female
[42:06] names. Sydney.
[42:08] If not Sydney, then Philly. Phillies name Nobodys name is
[42:14] Philly. Whose name is Philly?
[42:18] I don't know, maybe somebody. I have a feeling you're making
[42:23] this up. No, there's no Philly.
[42:27] I give up. Who is it?
[42:29] You know what, Since you're in the mood today, I'm going to
[42:32] tell you that this person also gained a lot of fame because of
[42:36] a sex tape that was released, or leaked rather in 2003 called One
[42:42] Night in Dash. And Dash is the name of X Paris
[42:47] Hilton. Paris Hilton is the name of the
[42:50] person. Wow Vinnie, that is the clue
[42:51] that got you to the answer, you naughty, naughty boy.
[42:57] I plead the 5th. X is Paris Hilton, the name of I
[43:02] so you could have pretended to take a few more seconds on this.
[43:09] The name of the sex tape is one night in Paris that that shot
[43:12] her to fame and and I think it was leaked.
[43:15] So unfortunately, assuming it was against her consent, but
[43:18] anyway, so that she became famous for being famous.
[43:20] Kim Kardashian, I think was one of her friends back when she was
[43:23] gaining Notreiti. Kim Kardashian claims that some
[43:26] of that rubbed off on her and she managed to to make it big as
[43:30] well in the entertainment space. But coming back to X&Y, so X is
[43:33] Paris Hilton. Who is why that is inspired by
[43:37] Paris Hilton. London Ritz.
[43:40] I don't know. Very very close that actually
[43:42] the first name is London. Do you know which show has a
[43:46] character called London Something?
[43:48] Absolutely. I don't.
[43:49] I'm not. I have no clue.
[43:51] OK, cool. Do you know the show called
[43:53] Suite Life of Zack and Cody? I have heard of it, yes.
[43:57] I've never seen. It, which is why I said it's
[43:59] probably after your time. It was meant for a younger
[44:02] demographic and you were not a kid then.
[44:04] Suite Life of Zack and Cody had a very famous character by the
[44:08] name of London Tipton. So Paris Hilton became London
[44:13] Tipton, and London Tipton is a hotel heiress in Suite Life of
[44:19] Zack and Cody, much like Paris Hilton is Paris Hilton's father.
[44:22] By the way, Conrad Hilton, I believe, who owns the Hilton
[44:26] group. Hilton Group, Exactly.
[44:27] So London Tipton, And here's what is interesting.
[44:31] London Tipton has a dog. The dog is voiced by a very
[44:36] famous actress who is famous now who we have spoken about
[44:41] multiple times on this show, who you have said is is an extremely
[44:45] accomplished actor herself. And this was back when she was
[44:49] not famous and not not exactly the household name that she is
[44:53] today. She voiced in one episode London
[44:56] Tipton's. Dog Emma Stone.
[44:59] Whoa, that was very quick. Yes, Emma Stone.
[45:01] Emma Stone when she went by Emily, by the way, Emily and
[45:07] before she took on the name Emma and Emma Stone became the voice
[45:12] of London Tipton's dog. And just one last piece of
[45:16] trivia. Not not the most relevant, but
[45:17] just found it funny was that apparently the the dog itself is
[45:22] named after you know what, I'll let you take a stab at it.
[45:26] One of somebody from Trump's orbit.
[45:30] Somebody from Trump's orbit denote the name of the dog was
[45:34] allegedly named after somebody from Trump's life.
[45:38] Ghislaine Maxwell. Wow, you really are shooting
[45:44] there kid show. Oh God, what is up with you
[45:50] today? He is described.
[45:52] How do you want us to get cancelled?
[45:55] Let's not name Ghislaine Maxwell in relation to kid shows from
[46:00] the early 2000s. No no no, alleged sex trafficker
[46:03] was presumably abusing a lot of people.
[46:06] I don't even know why we're talking about going to edit this
[46:08] part out so hard. Vineet take a stab at guessing
[46:13] who from Trump. OK, I'll give you another clue.
[46:16] This probably leads you to the answer directly.
[46:18] One of Trump's ex wives. There are only two ex wives so
[46:21] if you know. Oh, I no, I don't remember
[46:24] either of them. All right, Yeah, I thought you
[46:27] might not. Ivana Trump is 1 of.
[46:30] Oh, Ivanka's mother. Exactly.
[46:34] So the name of the dog was Ivana Tipton, allegedly named after
[46:38] Ivana Trump. So that was a little bit of
[46:41] connection from from all over Hollywood and famous people and
[46:44] the US where Paris Hilton inspired the character in
[46:47] London. Tipton.
[46:48] London Tipton has a dog called Ivana Tipton, named after Ivana
[46:52] Trump, allegedly. And Ivana Tipton is voiced by
[46:57] Emma Stone, who went by Emily back then.
[47:00] I just I thought it was an interesting coincidence and
[47:02] merging of words. That's that's quite clear.
[47:06] How do I put this interesting question with a lot of
[47:10] possibilities that you would not let me explore?
[47:13] Yeah, I am glad I didn't. Moving on from something so
[47:18] sleazy to something much more classy, so and scientific.
[47:26] So, to give provisional names to his predicted elements, Dimitri
[47:31] Mendeleev of the Mendeleevian Periodic Table used the prefixes
[47:37] eka, DWI or and Tri EKA, DWI or Tri depending upon whether the
[47:44] predicted element was 1-2 or three places down from the known
[47:49] element of the same group in his table.
[47:53] For example, germanium was called Eka silicon until its
[47:59] discovery in 1886. Rhenium was called DWI manganese
[48:04] before its discovery in 1926. Eka gold ended up being named
[48:12] after a Nobel Prize winning individual who grew up in
[48:16] Holland and who most famously when their spouse saw the fruits
[48:22] of their labour, exclaimed. Now I have seen my death.
[48:28] Who is this individual, What is the element and what is the
[48:33] Indian connect to this question? This just makes me want to
[48:40] remember my periodic table and remember what is the element
[48:43] build beneath gold. I don't know how much time we
[48:46] have, but let me just try. Plutonium PTS plutonium.
[49:07] I think plutonium and then gold. But oh God this is not going to
[49:14] be easy because I remember it horizontally.
[49:18] I don't remember what is the vertically.
[49:21] Ha ha. Which, by the way, I just shout
[49:25] out to my father. He taught me how to memorize the
[49:28] periodic table, and it's the simultaneously the most
[49:31] ridiculous way and the most effective way.
[49:33] Literally just spell it out like it's one word.
[49:37] So it became H&HE and then it became Libe Baknof name Galsip
[49:44] Clr K Kasati Bakraman Fekoni cousin Gaga sibra karabse
[49:54] kasbala hafta vare O sirpat AO. So always there I know where
[49:59] always. Oh my God, what comes in either
[50:03] day? I don't think I can do that.
[50:06] Only my father had given me a mnemonic for remembering the
[50:12] periodic table vertically. But let's try to do this
[50:15] logically. The the Nobel Prize winning
[50:22] scientist wife saw it and said I have seen my death.
[50:26] Is that what? It death, yes, they saw the
[50:29] fruits of his labour and they said now I have seen my death.
[50:38] Makes me think of X-rays, but then that would be a Madame
[50:40] Curie, which doesn't make sense. I mean fair.
[50:46] It could be Madame Curie who is also there.
[50:49] OK, hold, hold, hold. Hold your horses.
[50:52] You're 50% right. Oh, this is X-ray.
[50:58] I know this is an X-ray that showed the hand of the woman and
[51:02] she saw her bones and she said that that I've seen my death
[51:05] right. That is that is why I think of
[51:06] my mind went to Madam Curie. But if its.
[51:09] But its not Madam Curie. Yeah, its not, its not Madam
[51:12] Curie X-ray. I am forgetting who who was
[51:18] responsible for X-ray. We used to butcher his name in
[51:23] school. OK, that will come to me
[51:25] hopefully. So the element is named after
[51:27] him. Yes.
[51:29] So you've already like if you get 1 you will get the other.
[51:33] As I will get the name of the scientist, I will get the name
[51:35] of the element fine. But can you tell me you said
[51:38] there is some India connect also in that?
[51:41] To the whole question, but that you can deal with the at the
[51:43] end, let's do the 1st 2:00. Give me some clue, I'm I feel
[51:47] like I'm very close to it. Oh I don't know if I can there
[51:51] any clues to give because it's a name very first Nobel Prize
[51:57] winner. Oh, for chemistry.
[52:00] No, I think this is physics. You're right, it's X-rays.
[52:05] Just the question is who? Yeah, I know it's X-ray.
[52:07] I remember this piece of trivia. Also is is the X-ray thing?
[52:14] There is some some quantity, some SI unit also named after
[52:17] him I think is it? Yeah, I think there is.
[52:21] But there are so many SI names named after so many other
[52:25] people. I wouldn't use that as a way to
[52:26] get to it. It's one of those things you
[52:28] either know it or you don't. I mean, I don't know if I can
[52:30] lead you to it because there are, there's no other clue I can
[52:33] give. You no fair.
[52:33] I I'm pretty sure I know the name, but it's just, yeah, it's
[52:36] skipping me, right? It's fair.
[52:38] It's fair enough. You probably know this.
[52:39] It's William Rankin. We used to call them Royntgen.
[52:43] RONTENGNE, yes. We used to call yeah, in school
[52:47] we used to call him Royntgen, but apparently it Willem Rankin.
[52:51] So the element is Rankinium. Yes, it is Rankinium, which was
[53:00] earlier before its discovery was predicted and was called Eka
[53:03] Gold. In this entire question.
[53:05] What is the Indian connect like? Look at the question as a whole.
[53:11] Like how I set up the question and everything.
[53:13] You said eka eka and we both Sanskrit, I guess.
[53:18] Prefix. Yeah.
[53:19] Is that the? All three, yeah, yeah, Eka 3 and
[53:23] three they were. So Mendeleev took it from
[53:26] Sanskrit. OK, that makes sense.
[53:29] Yeah. Because there was a whole
[53:31] European obsession with, you know, Sanskrit and the Oriental
[53:37] arts at the time. And also the I guess the Aryans
[53:40] and their superiority, I guess. Which Sanskrit?
[53:46] This was way before that. Mendeleev was way before that,
[53:49] so let's not taint him with that brush.
[53:50] Fine, fine, fine. I think that's all the time we
[53:53] have for our regular round of quizzing.
[53:56] What's left now is to answer our audience question, to give our
[53:59] pop culture recommendations and that's it.
[54:03] So our audience question which I asked at the beginning of
[54:06] today's episode, which hopefully many of you have already guessed
[54:09] by now, is on November 1st, 1950, Oscar Colazzo and Grizello
[54:15] Torresola entered Blair House, known as the most exclusive
[54:19] hotel in the world. What the attempted to do in the
[54:22] next 40 seconds ended with Torresola dead and Colazzo in
[54:27] jail for 29 years, after which his sentence was commuted.
[54:31] What did Oscar Colazzo, oh sorry, Oscar Colazzo and
[54:36] Griselli Torresola attempt to do?
[54:39] What's your guess, Blair? House, did you mention where
[54:43] this is? No.
[54:46] OK, Because it sounded like some sort of a run on a casino sort
[54:50] of thing because they would probably go for very harsh
[54:53] sentences and probably shoot on side Canada deal.
[54:56] Is it some sort of a larceny? Grand larceny?
[54:59] Some. No much.
[55:01] Something much more serious. Oh, more serious than that.
[55:04] OK. Did you mention the year?
[55:11] 1951950. Blair House was this like I
[55:17] don't know what the history of Fort Knox is, but I'm assuming
[55:19] it's before 1950. This is nothing to do with Fort
[55:23] Knox. So no like the gold reserves or
[55:27] something? Oh, nothing.
[55:29] Nothing. Something more serious.
[55:32] No, I have no clue. Is that like any other hint or
[55:35] is that only the answer? I'll just say that I was very
[55:39] surprised to learn that after 29 years in jail, Collazo's
[55:44] sentence was commuted by the US president, which was very
[55:50] surprising considering what he tried to do.
[55:52] Was it justified or you don't like nobody would think it was
[55:55] justified also. I don't know if you see it's to
[56:00] each his own, but I don't think like if I was an American or an
[56:04] Indian, if this happened in India, I would not be in favour
[56:09] of, you know, commuting a sentence.
[56:11] But then that's just me. I'm very biblical that way.
[56:15] Oh, so then it has to be some sort of like a terrorist attack
[56:17] or something? Maybe they try to kill people.
[56:19] Then that would be the only other.
[56:22] Something a little more serious. Wow, you've gone from casino
[56:27] theft to to stealing stuff from the national reserves of the
[56:31] country to terrorist attack and there is still more serious an
[56:35] assassination attempt at the president I guess then.
[56:39] Yes. Which president was?
[56:43] Yes. So this is something that not
[56:44] most people don't remember anymore in 1950.
[56:47] During around that time, the White House was undergoing
[56:50] massive renovations, so the president had moved residences
[56:55] from there to Blair House. Now Blair House is another
[57:00] residence in Washington where usually the US president puts up
[57:04] like really, really top notch, like dignitaries like Princess
[57:08] Queens and ambassadors. And only those kind of really
[57:11] hypolai people stay there. So it's called as the, it's
[57:14] known as the most exclusive hotel in the world for that
[57:16] reason. Harry S Truman was staying there
[57:20] when two extremist activists of the Puerto Rican independence
[57:26] tried to assassinate. They were Oscar Collazo and
[57:31] Grizzly Torresola. Torresola was shot dead, Collazo
[57:36] went to jail for 29 years, and I think it was Jimmy Carter who
[57:40] commuted his sentence. Interesting.
[57:42] That is very surprising. You're right.
[57:43] Yeah, would not expect that. So that's the audience question
[57:49] answered. I hope at least a few of you got
[57:51] the answer or was able to get the answer.
[57:54] Aditya, what's your pop culture recommendation for this week?
[57:57] So I have 3 movie recommendations for you, one of
[58:01] them hopefully still in the theaters.
[58:03] I don't know if it's going to be there, so let's start with that
[58:05] one that is F1 and that stars Brad Pitt.
[58:08] Now I've heard the allegations of how this is meant to
[58:11] whitewash Brad Pitt's Imagine. I know all of the social
[58:15] commentary, politics of it aside, it is a good film,
[58:19] Another great racing film by the way, Sena.
[58:21] So I'm giving multiple recommendations, I guess.
[58:23] So Sen Sena, a documentary which is phenomenal.
[58:27] You have to watch it. Do yourself a favour, watch it
[58:30] so. Heartbreaking.
[58:32] Heartbreaking. Heartbreaking in the ways that I
[58:34] did not expect a documentary about F1 to be.
[58:37] I'm not even an F1 fan and yet I was so invested.
[58:40] So both Russian Senna are better, but F1 is great and
[58:43] especially in the theatres. I think the reason was because
[58:46] this was in some way in collaboration with the FIA,
[58:50] which is the the governing body for F1 races.
[58:54] I think they probably pushed the agenda of showing as many race
[58:58] tracks as possible. So it feels like the movie is
[59:01] the repetitive at points. Like, OK, I got it.
[59:03] And why are they doing the same thing again in the next race?
[59:06] Why the same thing in the next race?
[59:07] So like, I feel like the whole movie could have been a few
[59:09] races shorter, but maybe that was a business decision.
[59:12] And also, I spoke to my friends who are fans of the sport, and a
[59:16] lot of the things that the team does in it because of the
[59:19] underdogs is very questionable. I don't think you will be
[59:22] allowed to do that, that they're pulling off these tricks and
[59:25] maneuvers which which would not be allowed, but it makes for fun
[59:28] cinema. So check it out in the theatres
[59:30] if you can. The other movie that I saw is on
[59:33] Netflix. It's called Rebel Ridge and just
[59:37] wow, what a phenomenal movie and that is mostly because of the
[59:41] performance by the lead Aaron Pierre, such a good actor and a
[59:45] very good supporting cast as well.
[59:47] Just just such a oh such a good movie, such a good movie, so
[59:51] very intense. A lot of things happening very
[59:54] slow but yet the pay off is great.
[59:56] So Rebel Ridge is worth your time on Netflix.
[59:59] And the third one I would tell you that you can work that you
[1:00:03] can watch is 28 Years Later. Now this is a follow up to 28
[1:00:07] Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and 28 Days Later I've seen I have
[1:00:11] not watched 28 Weeks Later. First one was by Danny Boyle and
[1:00:14] was a good film. This one is by Danny Boyle as
[1:00:16] well and I don't know what is up with this movie but Danny Boyle
[1:00:19] is having fun with it and I don't think I've seen director
[1:00:23] have so much fun with this film in a.
[1:00:26] A while so so since Slumdog Millionaire, I believe Danny Boy
[1:00:29] has not had this much fun. So check out 28 years later.
[1:00:33] There is a sequel coming out next year as well.
[1:00:35] So this is like it's one of those annoying films where like
[1:00:38] you know that they will finish the story in the next movie.
[1:00:41] So that I don't like. But apart from that a good film
[1:00:44] and just to watch the is just really having fun with the
[1:00:47] camera like I'm just like, what kind of crazy cinematography are
[1:00:50] you doing? Makes no sense.
[1:00:52] But yeah, and and if you're if you're on blogs, if you check
[1:00:55] out film making videos and stuff, you'll see the very
[1:00:59] interesting rigs that they use for some of their outdoor
[1:01:01] shoots. And these are like 30 iPhones on
[1:01:04] a single rig. So it was capturing bullet time,
[1:01:06] but with iPhones, I believe. So something like that, a fun
[1:01:10] movie, just something to watch if you want to have fun along
[1:01:14] with the director on that journey.
[1:01:16] So 3 movies, F1, Rebel Ridge and 28 Years Later and sidebar to
[1:01:21] both Rush and Senna. Where solid, solid
[1:01:24] recommendations. My recommendation for this week
[1:01:27] is a show called Murderbot. Have you seen or heard about
[1:01:32] this show? I have not.
[1:01:34] And then I am going to say absolutely nothing about it
[1:01:37] because you really really just have to go watch it without any
[1:01:40] expectations. It just blew me away.
[1:01:43] The show is just so damned funny and its is a bit of science
[1:01:47] fiction, you know, it is bit of speculative science fiction.
[1:01:50] It is got a lot of humor, lot of action, so everything I love.
[1:01:54] Fantastic show. Watch Murder Bot.
[1:01:57] And the second would be a Keira Knightley movie called The
[1:02:00] Boston Strangler. It is about the female
[1:02:03] journalist who whose reporting brought out the story of the
[1:02:07] Boston Strangler. Very well done.
[1:02:09] Very solid performance by Keira Knightley.
[1:02:11] So those are my recommendations for this week and that's all the
[1:02:16] time we have for this week's episode.
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