# Episode 075 - Native Americans, Mount Rushmore & The New York Times ft. Garry

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 4 Jul 2024, 1 h 25 min.

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Do you know, for what humanitarian cause did Native American tribes got together and raise money in 1847? Do you know who is in the line of succession to be president if the sitting president and vice-president die? Do you know what was unique about the NYT crossword puzzle of Nov 5, 1996? Tune in to find out!!You can reach us atInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingmeEmail: areyouquizzingme@gmail.comSubreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to are you quizzing me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing. Welcome to episode #75 of are
[0:21] You quizzing me, your favorite quizzing and trivia podcast
[0:24] show. Today's episode is an America
[0:27] themed episode with all the questions being related to the
[0:29] United States of America, which is celebrating its 248th
[0:34] Independence Day. So let me take this opportunity
[0:37] to listen. Wish all our listeners from the
[0:39] USA very happy 4th of July, happy Independence Day folks.
[0:44] Our 35th episode is also a milestone episode for this
[0:47] podcast. I don't think neither I, Aditya
[0:50] nor I expected to reach this number when we started this
[0:53] podcast a year and a half ago. It's made all the more special
[0:57] by the presence of a fantastic guest quiz master joining us all
[1:01] the way from New York, NY, Mr. Gary Levy.
[1:06] An accomplished and prolific quiz master, Gary runs a
[1:09] quizzing company called Let's Go Trivia.
[1:11] Since 2016. His company hosts more than 1000
[1:15] pub quizzes per year, apart from corporate events.
[1:18] For such giants, it is MasterCard and Fordham
[1:20] University. It is my distinct pleasure to
[1:24] welcome Gary to our humble little podcast on the special
[1:26] America themed episode. Welcome to the podcast, Gary.
[1:30] Thank you, Vineet. Hi, Addie.
[1:32] Great to be here. Even though we're about 15 time
[1:36] zones and a couple of oceans apart.
[1:38] But thank you for having me on it's it's an honor and I love
[1:42] your podcast and I think we're going to have a little, a lot of
[1:45] fun today. I got a bunch of American themed
[1:48] questions for you for this July 4th episode.
[1:51] And you know, maybe I'll stomp you.
[1:53] Maybe you'll just know enough American culture that you'll,
[1:57] you'll knock it out of the park as the Americans say.
[1:59] So let's, let's see how it goes. I'm looking forward to it.
[2:03] Yeah, Welcome, Gary. What, 248 years of the United
[2:07] States of America? That's insane.
[2:09] And 4th of July means that the USA is a cancer cancerian.
[2:16] I guess so make what what you will of that OK, All right.
[2:26] Oh God. OK, so let's kick off this
[2:29] episode without any further ado. I will first be asking the
[2:33] audience question, which I will be answering at the end of this
[2:36] episode. So to all our listeners, try and
[2:38] guess the answer to the question by the end.
[2:41] The question for today is this. Popular history suggests that
[2:45] this originated at a club in New York City in the mid 1870s,
[2:50] where it was invented by Ian Marshall for a banquet hosted by
[2:54] Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill, in
[2:58] honor of presidential candidate Samuel J Tilden.
[3:02] The success of the banquet made it fashionable, later prompting
[3:06] several people to request it by referring it to the name of the
[3:09] club where it originated. What am I talking about?
[3:13] I will reveal the answer to this question at the end of this
[3:17] episode. I can just see that Gary already
[3:19] knows the answer to this, so I'm just going to ask him to hold,
[3:21] you know, hold it in until the end of the episode.
[3:24] We will give you a chance to get the answer.
[3:26] I, I think, I know I'm not a, I'm not 100% sure, but I'm
[3:29] pretty sure I know it. So I, I, I won't, I won't give
[3:33] anything away. But yeah.
[3:35] And it's still, it's still known today.
[3:37] Isn't that correct? Yes, it is.
[3:40] So that's all the clues for that question.
[3:42] We will answer that at the end of the episode.
[3:45] So everybody stay tuned. So let's kick off our regular
[3:48] round of quizzing today with the first question from our
[3:51] fantastic guest, Gary. Take it away.
[3:54] OK, so who am I ask? I'm asking both of you, correct?
[3:57] Yes. OK, so I don't know if this
[4:01] question is super easy or super hard because I don't know if you
[4:06] get this on your news or on TV or if it's just something that's
[4:11] known in India. It's definitely known here.
[4:14] But here's the question. What eating competition is held
[4:19] on July 4th in Coney Island, Brooklyn every year?
[4:24] What eating competition is held on July 4th in Coney Island,
[4:27] Brooklyn every year? Aditya is smiling.
[4:30] I have a feeling he knows this. I do.
[4:33] I actually have kept up with the news on this and there was some
[4:36] recent controversy related to this competition.
[4:39] So I know the answer minute you want to give it a shot.
[4:42] Oh OK, so eating competitions in America.
[4:45] I wonder what it could be since you said Coney Island.
[4:51] Is it a hot dog eating competition?
[4:53] It is a hot yes, it is a hot dog.
[4:57] So it's been gone for a a good few years and the world record
[5:02] for the number of hot dogs eaten at this competition.
[5:07] DK It's by an American guy called Joey Chestnut who
[5:11] dethroned a Japanese guy who was the the the annual champion
[5:17] until 2007 somewhere around there and Joey Chestnut stepped
[5:21] in and dethroned this Japanese guy called Kobayashi.
[5:25] But anyway, in 2020, Joey Chestnut ate the world records
[5:33] at this competition number of hot dogs.
[5:35] Take a guess how many he ate. Oh my God, this again.
[5:39] This is America. Everything is super sized.
[5:41] So I'm I'm going to go 112. I don't know if that's even
[5:47] close to the number or maybe it's too much.
[5:49] But I'm I'm going to go a little more conservative.
[5:51] I'm going to say 80. Adi is the closest.
[5:55] He did 7575 Hot 0. My God.
[6:02] I think he always gets close to 60 or a little above 60 every
[6:06] year. And he's won it 16 of the last
[6:09] 17 years. And one, one American guy won it
[6:13] one year. I guess he just had an off year.
[6:15] Maybe maybe he had a stomach bug or something.
[6:18] I don't know. But on this month and Addie
[6:23] Addie mentioned this, he was banned from participating in
[6:27] this year's hot dog competition because it's sponsored by
[6:31] Nathan's Hot Dog, which is a big brand of hot dog like the
[6:34] sausage. Nathan's sponsors the
[6:37] competition and Joey Chestnut had gotten a sponsorship from a
[6:45] company called Impossible Foods, which is a competitor of
[6:50] Nathan's now just a sponsor, I guess in his everyday life for
[6:54] other other things he did. And Joey Chestnut claimed that
[7:00] Nathan's changed the rules just to ban him.
[7:07] But it turned out that Major League Eating, which is the body
[7:11] that overseas the competition, yes, there's an organization
[7:15] called Major League Eating, I kid you not.
[7:19] They said that he's allowed, he's allowed to, to participate
[7:24] this year. And just one last thing.
[7:26] Major League Eating has a logo, and their logo is like an arm
[7:32] holding a fork. Only in America, guys.
[7:40] Only in America. Only in America.
[7:43] Couldn't have started us on a better note.
[7:46] Interestingly enough, Impossible Foods does fake meat, so they're
[7:50] doing plant based meat as well. So they're a competitor in a
[7:54] slightly different way where they are bringing in, yeah, non
[7:59] animal based meat. I mean like, I really don't get
[8:02] the concept of plant based meat, frankly.
[8:05] Meat is meat, plant is plant. Why do you want to mix the two?
[8:09] Controversial opinion. I'm not.
[8:10] I don't hope I don't get cancelled for this but.
[8:12] I, I know this is, this is the Indian in you talking vineeth
[8:15] because we are used to having a lot of vegetarian meals.
[8:19] But obviously a lot of other countries which do do a lot of
[8:21] meat. And I, I live in Singapore.
[8:23] So the concept of not having meat on a regular basis is, is
[8:27] frankly not something that we are used to in a lot of other
[8:31] countries. Yeah, it makes sense in those
[8:33] places. A couple of years ago at the
[8:36] Nathan's hot dog eating contest, in the middle of the contest,
[8:41] when you know, they're, they're, I think they have water and he
[8:44] dips the hot dog with the bone and the meat in the water to
[8:48] soften it. And you know, it's just, it's,
[8:52] it's fascinating to watch. Like it makes you sick almost
[8:55] watching it, but it's just you can't you can't take your eyes
[8:58] off it. But in the middle, you can look
[9:00] this up on on YouTube. In the middle of the
[9:02] competition, I guess some protester ran up on the stage to
[9:07] protest some, I don't know, some nonsense.
[9:10] And Joey Chestnut without missing a beat, like he grabbed
[9:13] the guy but the headlock and just kept eating like like
[9:19] nothing was going to stop him. Yeah.
[9:24] Oh my God, this is this is this is literally so American it just
[9:29] cannot be in any other country. Interestingly, Joey Cheslet
[9:33] released a statement assuring his fans that no what, no matter
[9:37] what, he will be eating hot dogs on July 4th.
[9:40] So. Any Joey Cheslet?
[9:41] Fans out there, fret not, there is hot dog eating happening.
[9:47] And by the way, I got to mention there was an NPR article based
[9:50] off of this and I'm a connoisseur of great headlines.
[9:54] So NPS headline for this was hot dog eating champ Joey Chestnut
[9:58] won't compete this July 4th. What's the beef?
[10:05] Thank you, I did a great job right there.
[10:07] Yeah, yeah, the headlines going to right themselves.
[10:15] Fantastic question, Gary. Thanks for that.
[10:18] It's a very fun question. I am sorry to say I'm going to
[10:21] have to lower the mood a little bit because mine is the next
[10:25] question is a, a, a favorite chestnut of mine from American
[10:28] history, but not a particularly happy 1.
[10:32] So it's a long question. The beginning of the first part
[10:35] of the question is mostly just some context for our audience as
[10:38] well, for those who may not be familiar with the, you know,
[10:41] American history. So I'm just providing a little
[10:43] bit of context. The Indian Removal Act was
[10:47] signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830.
[10:52] The law was effectively proposed to evict tribes from their
[10:56] ancestral lands in the East, thereby clearing the way for
[10:59] white settlers. What followed was a period of
[11:02] unprecedented suffering in the history of the tribes, the
[11:05] majority of which experienced removal, depopulation, disease,
[11:10] and untold pain throughout the 1830s and in the decades to
[11:13] follow, as the Choctaws Tribes or Tractor Nation was the first
[11:17] tribe to be removed. One Choctaw chief described the
[11:20] journey from Mississippi to Indian Territory as the
[11:23] beginning of a Trail of Tears and death.
[11:26] It should be noted that the Choctaws lost over 1/4 of their
[11:29] population from the journey. Other indigenous nations like
[11:33] the Chickasaw, the Creek, and the Seminole have also been
[11:37] ravished by the effects of the Indian Removal Act.
[11:40] So this is the historical context in which this question
[11:43] is set. Like these nations are going
[11:45] through one of the worst periods in their history.
[11:49] In March of 1847, the peoples of the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations
[11:54] gathered A2 separate meeting. The Cherokee met at Fort Gibson
[11:59] in the Western Cherokee Nation, and in the days that followed,
[12:02] representatives from the Choctaw Nation congregated in
[12:04] Scullyville. The two tribes had met to raise
[12:08] money for a specific cause. Together, they collected an
[12:11] amount in excess of $800. The amount of money raised in
[12:15] itself was impressive considering it was donated by
[12:18] communities that had relatively small populations at the time.
[12:22] When adjusted for inflation, it's equivalent to a little over
[12:24] $25,000 in today's money, making the gift even more remarkable.
[12:30] As I mentioned, they were going through horrible periods in
[12:33] their history at the time. So my question to you, Gary and
[12:36] to Aditya, what were they raising the money for?
[12:40] So any guesses? Does anybody know the answer
[12:43] right off the bat? I, I, I'm just going to take it,
[12:48] stab and say weapons. No, no, they did not raise the
[12:54] money for weapons, Aditya. Yeah, weapons would be a pretty
[13:02] solid guess, but knowing Vineet it wouldn't be that easy.
[13:06] So was it some kind of food? I'm just, yeah, it's really
[13:12] short in the dark. Some kind of food that they were
[13:14] trying to buy, some seeds or something, I don't know.
[13:16] You're very warm. You're very warm, Very, very
[13:19] warm, but not quite there yet, OK.
[13:25] Equipment to farm. No, you were closer with food.
[13:33] Was it some old world fool that they that they thought was are
[13:39] no extremely nutritious? Extremely.
[13:43] How about grain? No, I need a little more
[13:46] specific answer. This was they were raising money
[13:48] for a specific cause and I'll give you a clue.
[13:52] OK, so this is my clue for you. It was not for anything
[13:55] happening in the United States. Oh, for the potato famine, was
[14:01] it at the same time we had the Am I in the wrong time frame?
[14:06] But there is you're. Absolutely right.
[14:08] You're absolutely right. They were raising funny for the
[14:10] Irish potato famine. Oh shame on me, Jesus, you
[14:15] think? How could I not get that?
[14:18] Adi, come on, can we edit that part out?
[14:23] Gary, you and I sound the exact same so the audience will be
[14:26] able to tell who it. OK, he wishes.
[14:31] He had an Irish film. Oh boy, that was a tough one.
[14:37] That was a tough one. Hmm, yeah, but that's an
[14:40] interesting trivia. But.
[14:42] The the irony of our first two questions we need One is about
[14:46] gorging yourself on hot dogs and the other ones about starvation.
[14:56] This. As I mentioned is one of my
[14:57] favorite, most heart warming, kind of wholesome periods from
[15:01] history. So obviously I Gary, you know
[15:05] about the Irish potato famine. I'm just going to inform our
[15:09] audience about it as well. So this was at the time in the
[15:13] 1830s and 1840s, Ireland's food rations were predominantly
[15:18] potato based. So when a blight hit the crop,
[15:21] there was a huge famine of potatoes, which was devastating
[15:26] in its impact. And what made it worse was that
[15:30] Ireland at the time was under British rule.
[15:33] And so a lot of other foodstuff which could have been diverted
[15:35] to the Irish population, such as cattle grown for meat, was
[15:40] actually exported to England at the time.
[15:44] So that actually made it worse. This is something that India is
[15:47] also quite familiar with. So this, as I mentioned, this
[15:51] famine was a watershed in the demographic history of Ireland
[15:53] as well. The population fell from 8.4
[15:57] million in 1844 to 6.6 million by 1851.
[16:03] Like 2.2 million people. 2 million people.
[16:07] Died and a lot, a lot emigrated to the United States and they,
[16:11] they died on the ships over. They were nicknamed the coffin
[16:15] ships because people just, they didn't make it over.
[16:18] You know, this is the, you know, catching a cold and all the
[16:21] people stuffed inside these ships together, just disease was
[16:24] rampant. So, you know, a lot of people
[16:27] died trying to make it to the United States.
[16:30] And, you know, we shouldn't make light of it.
[16:32] But there's an American comedian called Denis Leary.
[16:34] I don't know if you've ever heard of him.
[16:35] And he, you know, he's Irish American and he, he's still
[16:38] really funny. He did a really funny bit.
[16:40] He's he's talking about the famine and the potatoes.
[16:42] And he's like, you know what I never got about it was Ireland's
[16:45] and Ireland, you know, there's fish all around Ireland.
[16:49] Couldn't they just fish? Oh God, yeah, that that is
[16:56] classically very edgy. So this is the this is the part
[17:03] that really kind of touches my heart.
[17:05] So the Today, the Choctaw Irish Gift Exchange is a vital
[17:09] reminder of the power arising from reciprocal relationships.
[17:13] It's celebrated and memorialized in various contexts.
[17:16] There's a stunning sculpture by Alex Pentak called Kindred
[17:19] Spirits in Ireland. And there's the Irish
[17:22] government, which established a scholarship fund for Choctaw
[17:25] students to study in Ireland. This was most apparent during
[17:29] the coronavirus pandemic, when a huge number of donations was
[17:33] sent from Ireland to the people of the Navajo Nation.
[17:37] Especially hard hit by the medical emergency, the Navajo
[17:40] needed urgent assistance in a way that the Choctaw and the
[17:43] Cherokee did not. At the time, the majority of the
[17:46] Irish contributors to Navajo and Hoppy Fund acknowledged the
[17:49] Choctaw gift of the 18 eighteen 40s, with one Irishman writing.
[17:55] A famine doesn't end in a day. Ireland will be here for you as
[17:58] long as you need the support. That just, I was like, that is
[18:02] just beautiful among the kind of divisions and hate we have all
[18:08] around the world right now. And it's sweeping practically
[18:10] every nation and every continent.
[18:12] This was such a powerful reminder, a small gesture.
[18:16] I mean, like these people were hardly in a position to give
[18:20] away money when they themselves needed it so much.
[18:22] But they felt like these people needed it and they were an ocean
[18:25] away. They like 10s of thousands of
[18:27] miles away. But they had the heart to give
[18:28] it to them. And that established a
[18:30] relationship that's still going strong 150 something years
[18:34] later. So this is our favorite piece of
[18:36] trivia of mine. And I got it wrong.
[18:39] Shame on me. OK, my question.
[18:46] Yes. And Gary hit us.
[18:48] OK, again, I don't know if this one is very easy or difficult.
[18:54] Do you guys know what Mount Rushmore is?
[18:58] Sure. With the president's face on it.
[19:01] OK, name the four presidents on Mount Rushmore.
[19:05] Oh, OK. Washington for sure.
[19:13] The second I would go with. Lincoln is Lincoln.
[19:17] I know Lincoln. Lincoln.
[19:18] Yeah, yes. So Washington Lincoln is is
[19:23] John. Adams on it.
[19:26] No, I have no Andrew Jackson. No, no.
[19:30] It's not even. You know, these other
[19:31] presidents, they're not, let's see this, obscure presidents
[19:34] like Franklin Pierce or James Polk.
[19:41] Or Taft. Taft.
[19:44] Yeah, Big Taft. Who are the presidents?
[19:47] Uh. Jefferson is the third one, save
[19:52] one left. OK, so who's the 4th?
[19:55] Who's the 4th? Who's the 4th?
[19:56] This must be one of the first few presidents.
[19:59] No, no, I have a feeling but but I think FDR is after Rushmore,
[20:05] so it's not. FDR.
[20:06] It's not FDR for not for. Not FDR for sure.
[20:08] Not FDR for sure. But it is somebody more recent
[20:11] than the Founding Fathers. Like not not the original.
[20:16] Yeah. I'll I'll, I'll give you, I'll
[20:18] give you 2 hints. The first hint he was Yes.
[20:21] He wasn't part of the Founding Fathers, and he was an early
[20:27] 20th century president whose nickname, one of his many
[20:30] nicknames, was the Rough Rider. Teddy Roosevelt.
[20:35] Teddy Roosevelt, Very good. Nice.
[20:37] Very good. And the the order as you look at
[20:41] Mount Rushmore is Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt and
[20:46] Lincoln. I don't know why they put that
[20:48] in that order because if you had to go by the order of when they
[20:52] served, it would have been Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln,
[20:55] Roosevelt. And they, they were chosen for
[21:00] their, you know, their significant contribution to the
[21:04] United States. Washington, obviously he was the
[21:07] United States founding father, first president and so on.
[21:10] Jefferson was chosen to represent expansion and he
[21:15] signed the Louisiana Purchase and he authored the Declaration
[21:18] of Independence. Teddy Roosevelt was chosen
[21:21] because he represented conservation and the industrial
[21:24] blossoming of the nation. And then Lincoln because he led
[21:27] the country through civil war and he believed in preserving
[21:32] the United States at any cost. And the the Mount Rushmore gets
[21:37] about 3 million visitors per year.
[21:41] I think it took them to to to build it.
[21:44] I think it took them, took them seven or eight years, like it
[21:47] took them a good few years and build it.
[21:48] I shouldn't say build. I should say carve it.
[21:50] Yeah, it was already there. They just carved.
[21:54] So I have not been there. I'd love to go.
[21:57] It seems like it's supposed to be absolutely, like much bigger
[22:01] than what you see in the photos when you see a human standing
[22:04] next to it. They're tiny compared to hell.
[22:07] Yeah. You just you just can't get a
[22:09] good a good grasp of how how big it is and you know it's it's
[22:15] also the words Mount Rushmore have become synonymous in the
[22:20] United States with people of whatever industry have achieved
[22:26] that status where their faces etched into a rock soak.
[22:30] Let's say let's say basketball in the United States.
[22:33] Obviously, Michael Jordan would be, he's on the Mount Rushmore
[22:38] of basketball. You can argue others, but you
[22:41] can't argue that Michael Jordan doesn't deserve to be on it.
[22:44] So whatever industry it is, Mount Rushmore is used as a
[22:49] synonym. I don't know if that's the right
[22:50] word for a certain person's contribution to their industry.
[22:55] Like he's on the Mount Rushmore of, name it computers or acting
[23:01] or movies or whatever it may be. So yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a
[23:05] fascinating thing that they did to take the car faces into
[23:10] stone, like it'll be there in a million years.
[23:14] Yeah. Unless someone actually
[23:16] intentionally destroys it, like an earthquake or something comes
[23:18] along, but it will be there. So it's a really amazing thing
[23:24] to have, an amazing honor to have bestowed upon somebody.
[23:28] But of course, this is all done after they'd long died.
[23:36] They'll never know that they're on Mount Rushmore.
[23:42] It's so interesting because that's such a good question
[23:44] because Mount Rushmore, everybody's heard of it.
[23:46] Most people who visit the US probably make a trip to it as
[23:50] well. It's one of those popular
[23:51] tourist spots. And yet when you ask me what are
[23:53] the four presidents, I was stumped for the last two.
[23:56] So yeah, great question. Pretty cool.
[23:58] Great question, Gary. Great question.
[24:01] Yeah, I've asked that here in in our game.
[24:03] And they obviously get Washington and Lincoln, I think
[24:07] because their faces are on each end for some reason that's, you
[24:11] know, Washington's first, it kind of sticks out a little bit
[24:13] more. And then Lincoln's at the end,
[24:15] he's kind of looking over that way.
[24:17] But Roosevelt and Jefferson, people are little.
[24:23] They think FDR. And I think one of you guys said
[24:25] FDR because he was such a prominent president.
[24:28] And, you know, but yeah, Jefferson and Jefferson and
[24:31] Teddy Roosevelt always stump a lot of people.
[24:34] And I took them, I thought, I thought it was seven or eight
[24:36] years to build, actually took them 14 years to build.
[24:40] And and not nobody died. That's oddly, you know, that's.
[24:46] Impressive, yeah, considering back then, you know what, there
[24:52] wasn't the safety equipment that we have now.
[24:55] But yeah, it's a, it's an impressive monument for sure.
[24:59] Pretty cool, right? OK, well we are doing some very
[25:04] important New York, NY I'm saying American landmarks I
[25:07] guess. So my question will take us to
[25:10] the New York Times crossword and.
[25:15] New. York's If you are a fan of the
[25:18] New York Times crossword, or even if you aren't, you might
[25:21] have heard of this particular piece of trivia.
[25:23] So let me just put it out there. Jeremiah Farrell published
[25:28] perhaps what is the most famous puzzle in the history of New
[25:31] York Times. It was published in 1996.
[25:37] What was so special about it? So I'm going to keep it very
[25:39] simple. Let's see if you guys can crack
[25:41] it immediately. If not.
[25:43] I'll give you some more. I have a guess.
[25:44] I have a guess. I have a very big guess, but I'm
[25:47] going to let Gary take it because I'm not sure I'm like
[25:49] 5050 on this. Can I ask a question in order to
[25:54] get a hint? Am I allowed to do that?
[25:56] Is is the year 1996 significant to the crop To the answer?
[26:02] Oh, yes, yeah, yeah. OK.
[26:05] OK then my guess may be wrong but I'm still sticking to it.
[26:08] The Olympics was held here in 1996 in Atlanta.
[26:12] It was it was the middle of Clinton's presidency.
[26:17] Would all the words have been related to the Clinton Monica
[26:21] Lewinsky affair? I don't know if that's that was
[26:23] 1996 or 1997. I think the Monica Lewinsky
[26:31] Clinton thing happened in his second term, right if I'm not
[26:34] wrong. Yeah, 96 would have been the
[26:36] fagrum of his first term. Yeah.
[26:40] Give us a hint, Daddy. OK, so you actually asked a
[26:43] brilliant question, Gary. 1996 is very important to the answer
[26:47] as well. But before I give a hint,
[26:48] Vineet, do you want to clue us in maybe towards where you are
[26:52] headed before giving the answer I.
[26:54] As I said, I'm 5050 on this, so I'm going to ask you a very
[26:58] pointed question. If the answer to that is yes, so
[27:00] then I do know the answer and I'll keep my mouth shut.
[27:03] If the answer to that is no, then obviously I don't.
[27:05] So if I told you Star Wars and Star Trek, would that ring a
[27:10] bell? No, no.
[27:13] It has nothing to do with those franchises, No.
[27:16] No, no, it's not doing with the franchises.
[27:18] I'm talking about one of the answers to the puzzle.
[27:23] Then you might be in the ballpark, I guess.
[27:25] Yeah. OK, so let before, before I
[27:28] before I give you any more chances to answer this question.
[27:33] I'm going to give you one hint. Though.
[27:34] I feel like both of you are pretty warm right now, but I'm
[27:36] just going to give you one more hint.
[27:38] This was published on November 5th, 1996.
[27:43] So that's probably the 1st Tuesday in November.
[27:46] That's Election Day, presidential Election Day.
[27:49] Would that be? Yeah, because Clinton started,
[27:51] he was voted in the in the 92, so.
[27:56] The moment you said November 5th, my mind went to Guy Fawkes.
[27:59] Remember? Remember the 5th of November?
[28:02] No, no. But but that's not that's not
[28:05] significant in America. More than.
[28:08] November 5th is a is an Election Day, so all the clues were about
[28:14] the presidential candidates. Yes, very close.
[28:19] Can you just give me a little bit more of a specific answer?
[28:24] All the clues, all the answers were about Clinton.
[28:29] So they weren't about Clinton or or about the other guys
[28:33] specifically, but there was something very special about
[28:36] this crossword that the crossword setter managed to
[28:41] achieve and hence made it into the crossword.
[28:45] I guess history books. There was one specific clue that
[28:51] was exceptional. I guess that's the only way to
[28:54] describe it. One specific clue and one answer
[28:56] to the. Clue.
[28:57] That was exceptional. OK.
[28:59] Gary, do you mind if I guess it? Of course, go ahead.
[29:03] Is it that there were two possible answers to the same
[29:05] clue? Yeah, yeah.
[29:07] Yeah, you are. I think you're right at the
[29:09] answer. Go for it.
[29:11] So there are there are these crossword puzzles in which are
[29:15] published I think only by the New York Times where the puzzle
[29:19] setter will give you a clue and the number of words will
[29:23] correlate to one or another answer.
[29:26] So you could say for example a famous example of that is a
[29:29] space based something something and the clue was it was 4 words
[29:34] each 4/4. So it could be Star Wars or Star
[29:38] Trek and both would fit the answer.
[29:41] And I'm guessing for this crossword puzzle, November 5th,
[29:44] as Gary mentioned, Election Day. So I'm guessing that the answer
[29:47] to the clue would be the two candidates and both of them
[29:50] would fit in. You're absolutely right.
[29:53] OK, So I'll just give it to you. Both of you have combined
[29:55] basically arrived at the answer. So there were a bunch of down
[29:59] clues which could be two options between which could the answer
[30:05] could be between two options and across.
[30:07] There was one specific clue which said lead story in
[30:12] tomorrow's newspaper, lead story in tomorrow's newspaper.
[30:15] And the answer to that could be Clinton or Bob Dole, who was the
[30:21] other guy. So it was Clinton elected or Bob
[30:23] Dole elected. And Clinton would also be 7
[30:26] letters and Bob Dole would also be 7 letters.
[30:29] So both Clinton and Bob Dole would fit in, and the down clues
[30:33] would accordingly be different. But either ways the crossword
[30:37] would make sense. So you could either end up with
[30:39] Clinton elected or Bob Dole elected, and either ways would
[30:42] be a valid solution to the entire crossword.
[30:44] And this was published on November 5th, 1996.
[30:48] Yeah. I I think Mr. Farrell must be
[30:50] the only person in America to make both Republicans and
[30:52] Democrats happy at the same time.
[30:53] Yeah. Right.
[30:57] Yeah, that's a great question. And this one is, it's called a
[31:02] Schrodinger or a quantum puzzle after the Schrodinger's scat,
[31:05] obviously. So it could be either this or
[31:07] that, and simultaneously both are true.
[31:10] So yeah, you can go check it out.
[31:12] The listeners, I would encourage you to go check it out because
[31:14] even the down clues make sense regardless of whether Bob Dole
[31:17] is the answer or Clinton is the answer.
[31:20] So I'll give you some examples actually.
[31:22] Like one of the clues for down is short writings, and both BIOS
[31:28] and bits make sense. So when it's Clinton, it'll be
[31:30] bits, when it's BIOS it'll be Bob Dole.
[31:33] So and so on and so forth. A bunch of these down clues
[31:36] would then correspond to Clinton elected or Bob Dole elected.
[31:40] And either way is the crossword is solved.
[31:42] Yeah, pretty cool piece of crossword trivia.
[31:45] Very good. Nice, very nice.
[31:47] I I my my thought Addy was that it was the first crossword
[31:54] online because the mid 90s. Oh, that was that that that was.
[32:00] That that would have been a great guess.
[32:01] That would have been a great guess actually.
[32:03] That is an interesting question. I should look up.
[32:05] What is the first crossword? Which was the first person
[32:07] online? That we know of.
[32:11] I'm fairly sure the nerds at CERN must have published one in
[32:14] the early 90s and 9192, so way before the New York Times could.
[32:19] It would be interesting which New York Times crossword was the
[32:21] first one, given that New York Times is probably the most
[32:23] famous crossword in the world. Yeah, yeah.
[32:26] And impossible to solve. Like the answers once.
[32:29] Once you know the answers it's obvious.
[32:30] Otherwise it's just beating your head against a wall.
[32:34] Well, that's me anyway. I know people who actually do
[32:36] solve it, but it's not. Yeah.
[32:39] OK, Gary, back to you. OK.
[32:42] So I've, I've tweaked the question based on the fact that
[32:47] your questions are very well thought out and elaborate and
[32:51] I'm a little more simplistic. So I've I've, I've stretched the
[32:56] question out from what it originally was and made it a
[33:01] little, a little fatter, if you will.
[33:03] And I'm sure you guys will have a good stab at it.
[33:06] So with any leadership, whether it's whether whether it was in
[33:11] government, in royalty, or in business for that matter,
[33:13] there's a line of succession, there's a person at the top, and
[33:16] then there's the next in line of succession.
[33:18] OK, so after the US president, name the next five people in
[33:27] line of succession to take over. So if the president dies, who's
[33:32] next in line? But if that person also dies,
[33:35] who's next in line? And if that person also dies,
[33:38] who's next in line and so on. I'll give you some clues, but
[33:41] let's see. The first one's easy.
[33:43] You've got to know the first one.
[33:45] It's the vice president. The vice President, OK.
[33:48] Oh, it's not Tom Max. Oh man.
[33:51] No, it's not Kiefer Sutherland either.
[33:57] OK, so you got the first one? Speaker of the House.
[34:01] Very good too. OK, that's where it gets murky
[34:05] after that. Most, most Americans won't know
[34:08] this. They will not know this.
[34:10] They'll get the vice president and then that's it.
[34:12] The oldest person in the Senate Majority party.
[34:17] You are close. You got the Senate part correct,
[34:20] Adi. Is it the leader of majority in
[34:23] the Senate? Yes, the President of the
[34:26] Senate, President pro Tempe of the Senate.
[34:29] OK, so there's three. Isn't president pro Tempe the
[34:32] oldest person is? I thought that was the
[34:34] definition of president pro Tempe.
[34:36] I'm. Not sure about that, but let's
[34:40] park that for the moment and try and get the others.
[34:42] OK, see if two left. They're both.
[34:45] They're both important positions within the US.
[34:48] Government Secretary of State. Four.
[34:52] Well done, one left. Let me know if you want to hint.
[34:58] I'm tempted to say agricultural secretary just to screw with
[35:02] people who watch Designated Survival, but.
[35:04] That's ninth Vineet. That's number nine.
[35:08] So if the first eight die, the secretary of agriculture, who no
[35:13] one could name, would become president.
[35:18] Honestly, at that point you just call Tom Hanks.
[35:19] Just call Tom. Hanks.
[35:22] Whoever wants it, whoever played a president in a movie, you get
[35:28] the job. Secretary of Defense.
[35:33] That's six. Oh, OK.
[35:37] So there's somebody in between. Somebody in between.
[35:41] If this was The West Wing, we would say the chief of staff of
[35:45] the White House, but obviously it's not.
[35:47] Leo McGarry should have been president.
[35:49] I'm just putting it out there. OK, so do you want a hint?
[35:54] Who was left? Yes.
[35:56] A hint please. Among many things, what do
[36:00] Americans love? Who sports?
[36:03] They do love that. Gun.
[36:07] Secretary of Weapons, No. OK, we already discussed
[36:13] agriculture. I was going to say food, but no
[36:14] agriculture we discussed, I would say, is it, oh, is it the
[36:20] what is the finance minister equivalent, I guess.
[36:24] The Secretary Secretary of the Treasury.
[36:27] Secretary of the Treasury is five.
[36:29] So they, they have, they have 17 in line of succession should the
[36:36] president die. I'll, I'll read them real quick.
[36:38] So we just did the first five vice president, speaker of the
[36:40] House, president of the Senate, Secretary of State, treasury,
[36:44] defense, attorney general, secretary of the Interior,
[36:49] Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services,
[36:53] Housing and Urban Development, transportation, energy,
[36:57] education, Veterans affair. And then secretary of Homeland
[37:00] Security. I find the secretary of Homeland
[37:03] Security. If I was in that position, I'd
[37:05] be like, why am I below the secretary of transportation?
[37:08] I mean, I'll keep, I'm helping keep the country safe.
[37:11] This guy's taking care of the buses and trains.
[37:13] I deserve it before him. So they.
[37:18] Have they have quite surprising now that you mention it.
[37:21] I mean, like, I know the Homeland Security is a maybe
[37:24] because it's a pretty new post. I mean, like Homeland Security
[37:27] is post 22,001, right? Post 911.
[37:30] So maybe that's why. And they already had this.
[37:34] And you're like, you're a newcomer.
[37:35] You. You.
[37:36] They're at the bottom of the totem pole.
[37:40] Yeah, you got to work your way up.
[37:44] Let me give you a great nugget about how long someone can be
[37:49] president. So it's pretty well known how
[37:51] many terms can AUS president serve for either consecutively
[37:55] or non consecutively to which means they can be president for
[37:58] how many years? Eight years, I guess 8.
[38:02] Years. There is one exception.
[38:04] FDR got elected for a third term, but he died.
[38:08] But they cha. But they changed it after him.
[38:10] Yeah, so FD Rs thing was before the term limits thing.
[38:14] So in fact, here's this is AI had this in the trivia and it
[38:18] stumped a lot of people. You can be president for 10
[38:21] years. And here's how.
[38:23] If you're vice presidents, right?
[38:26] And if one day before 2 years into your vice presidency, so
[38:32] let's say one year in 364 days, the president dies, you can
[38:38] become president, right? You finish out his term and then
[38:42] you can get reelected twice. So you have two years on the
[38:46] guy's term and then your own two sets of four years.
[38:50] That's 10 years. However, I'm sorry, I, I did
[38:53] that the wrong way. It has to just go over the two
[38:56] year mark. So it can't be, it can't be
[38:58] within the first two years. It has to like if it's one day
[39:00] over two years of your vice presidency that the president
[39:04] dies, you become president and then you get two more terms.
[39:08] There's essentially 10 years. Hmm.
[39:12] But what happens if your your president dies and within a
[39:14] year? What?
[39:15] Why is that different you? You finish out their term, but
[39:19] you can only get elected for one more full term.
[39:22] You cannot get. Elected for two more.
[39:24] OK. Because so they use the two year
[39:27] mark as because it's less than half.
[39:30] I guess that makes sense. Yeah, Yeah.
[39:32] You feel bad for the guy, Like, hey, that doesn't count as a
[39:35] full term. You can't round up from 1:00 to
[39:39] 4:00. Yeah.
[39:41] Come on, I'll give you one more, one more great presidential
[39:46] piece of trivia. There's only one U.S.
[39:49] President besides George Washington.
[39:51] There was only one U.S. President who was not nominated
[39:54] to the presidency in any way, shape or form as either a vice
[39:59] president or a president. Who was it?
[40:03] It's a relatively modern president.
[40:05] What? Do you mean by not nominated
[40:07] like he was nominated by a party?
[40:09] Not nominated by the party. He wasn't.
[40:11] Yeah, he wasn't. He wasn't.
[40:12] Yeah, he wasn't elected president or vice president.
[40:17] Or vice President. Interesting.
[40:20] And that's a relatively modern one.
[40:23] Revel relatively modern, like in the second-half of the 20th
[40:26] century. Oh what?
[40:28] Wow. After Nixon resigned.
[40:33] You're close. You're you're, you're very warm.
[40:35] Ford, right? Say it again, Adi.
[40:39] Ford. Ford, please.
[40:41] Because Spiro Agnew, Nixon's vice president, resigned and
[40:49] Ford was given the position. He wasn't elected into the
[40:52] position, and then Nixon resigned and Ford became
[40:56] president. Oh, OK, interesting.
[40:58] So he was not elected to be vice president.
[41:00] He wasn't elected to the. Office.
[41:02] Or present. Oh, that is insane.
[41:05] OK. So within the space of like, it
[41:08] was a very short space of time. He went from, I can't remember
[41:11] what position he was in, in the government to president very
[41:15] quickly. You know, it was like he was the
[41:18] Secretary of Defense in November of 73, and by August of 74, he
[41:27] was president. President.
[41:30] Wow, it was very quick. Oh, that's, that's very cool.
[41:34] That's a really cool piece of trivanda, really.
[41:37] And I and I thought Obama had a fast rise to the presidency.
[41:47] You guys did great on that, on the, the succession.
[41:49] That's very impressive because I tell you, most Americans would
[41:52] have a hard time with that. They'd obviously know the vice
[41:55] president and maybe a lot would know the speaker of the House
[41:57] being second. But the next three, uh, because
[42:01] you have to kind of look at the order of what you would say was
[42:04] important in all these government positions.
[42:06] Again, I think Secretary of Homeland Security would be above
[42:10] secretary of Energy. Just my opinion, but you'd have
[42:13] to kind of look at, you know, the Secretary of State,
[42:15] Secretary of Defense even you would think would maybe might be
[42:18] higher than Secretary of the Treasury, but there you go.
[42:22] True. But that's a very interesting
[42:24] list right there. I love it.
[42:27] Fantastic. You're up next.
[42:30] Yes, so I'm going with something which I am fairly sure will get
[42:34] cracked on the first try, but I'm asking it anyway.
[42:38] A little modern question. I'm, you know, I'm very
[42:40] fascinated by history and the history of various things.
[42:43] So my questions are always biased towards a little bit of
[42:46] history. This is history regarding
[42:49] business in America, right? These two electrical engineers
[42:53] from Stanford University started their business together working
[42:58] in a rented garage on Addison Ave. in Palo Alto, CA under the
[43:03] mentorship of Professor Frederick Turman at Stanford
[43:08] during the Great Depression. To formalize their partnership,
[43:12] they tossed a coin to decide on how to name the company they had
[43:16] founded. One of the company's earliest
[43:19] customers was Bud Hawkin, Chief Sound Engineer for Walt Disney
[43:24] Studios, who bought 8 audio oscillators at $71.50 each for
[43:31] use in the animated film Fantasia.
[43:35] I want you to name the two electrical engineers I'm talking
[43:39] about. I know this answer so I will let
[43:42] Gary give it a shot. I'm going to say that their
[43:45] names are synonymous in this industry, meaning it's their.
[43:50] Their names are attached to what they invented, like
[43:53] Harley-Davidson, something like that, am I correct?
[43:56] Not with Harley-Davidson, just with their.
[43:58] Names. Yes, their names and the name of
[44:01] the company inextricably linked. Yeah, basically Harley-Davidson,
[44:05] Ben and Jerry's, stuff like that.
[44:07] Right. I'm trying to think so it was
[44:09] some kind of movie audio equipment way back is the Great
[44:15] Depression. So we're going to.
[44:16] Focus too much on audio equipment.
[44:19] That was just their first product.
[44:21] Nowadays, they're known for something a little more.
[44:24] Tech Techie. Think so.
[44:27] It was a printers, laptops, Hewlett Packard.
[44:31] Yes, it is Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
[44:36] Oh, OK, interesting. So the first product was sold to
[44:43] you, said Universal. Disney for Fantasia.
[44:46] What? What was it?
[44:48] It was audio equipment. Bud Hawkins, chief Sound
[44:51] engineer for Walt Disney, bought 8 audio oscillators for $71.50
[44:57] each for use in the animated film Fantasia.
[45:01] Wow. A little bit of background on
[45:03] this bill Hewlett and David Packard graduated with degrees
[45:07] in Electrical engineering from Stanford in 1935.
[45:10] Their company started in a garage in Palo Alto during a
[45:14] fellowship they had with past professor Frederick Turman at
[45:18] Stanford during the Great Depression, whom they consider
[45:21] mentor and forming the company. In 1938, Packard and Hewlett
[45:25] began part time work in a rented garage with an initial capital
[45:29] investment of $538, which is roughly equivalent to around
[45:34] $10,500 present day money. And in 1939 they decided to
[45:40] formalize their partnership to decide how the company would be
[45:44] named. They tossed a coin because they
[45:47] were torn between Packard, Hewlett and Hewlett Packard.
[45:53] So they tossed a coin to decide whose name would come first and
[45:57] it became Hewlett Packard, or HP as we know it was incorporated
[46:01] on August 18th, 1947, three days after India got independence and
[46:05] went public in November 6th of 1957, and the rest is history.
[46:11] HP, one of the big computer players in the world, and the
[46:14] name was decided on the toss of a coin.
[46:16] The toss of a coin that makes me think of Harley-Davidson,
[46:20] because obviously if you were to do it alphabetically, it would
[46:23] be Davidson Harley. But everyone who talks about
[46:27] Harley-Davidson called it a Harley.
[46:30] No one ever called it a David. Nobody.
[46:32] Called it a Davidson. Right.
[46:34] So if they tossed the coin and Harley won, Davidson must have
[46:38] been fuming. Nobody says Davidson.
[46:43] My name should have been first. That's great.
[46:47] Great question, Vineet. Great question.
[46:51] All right. You guys ready?
[46:52] And great crack, Gary. Yeah.
[46:54] All right. OK.
[46:57] Here, let me see. Let me see.
[47:00] All right, again, I'm thinking based on how awesome you guys
[47:07] have been so far, I think this question is going to be easy,
[47:09] but let's see. For what are the following
[47:13] Americans known? I'll give you them three names,
[47:18] Jerry Lawson, Isaac Singer and George Eastman.
[47:23] For what are the following Americans known?
[47:25] Jerry Lawson, Isaac Singer, George Eastman.
[47:30] Eastman, Eastman things of Eastman Kodak.
[47:33] So is. It yeah, that's what I was.
[47:35] Thinking color film or film. Something to do with cinema.
[47:40] Technicolor. I'm shooting in the dark here.
[47:44] I mean, you're spot on about Eastman.
[47:46] So you've you've kind of got it right.
[47:49] So it's inventions. They're all invent.
[47:52] They all invented something. Now can you?
[47:56] You've just said what George Eastman invented, which is the
[47:58] Kodak camera. What about Isaac Singer and
[48:02] Jerry Lawson? I can give you hints if you
[48:04] want. Isaac Singer, I'm guessing,
[48:07] would be a sewing machine. Correct.
[48:10] Oh wow, how did you get that? My mom has a Singer sewing
[48:14] machine. Yeah.
[48:15] Oh nice. So Jerry Lawson invented
[48:21] something. And I'm sure probably I won't
[48:24] give you the decade just yet. Probably it was very basic back
[48:28] in the day, but now it's used everywhere, mostly by mostly by
[48:36] a younger generation. OK.
[48:39] Jerry Lawson, his name is nothing, has no connection to
[48:44] his product. No, I know you gave us 2 gimmies
[48:49] and one with a little bit of a kick.
[48:53] Jerry Lawson. Jerry Lawson?
[48:55] Younger generation, which makes me think technology.
[48:59] Did he work for Xerox? No, no, I don't know.
[49:03] I don't know. He may have.
[49:05] I could. Look, I'm thinking, I'm thinking
[49:07] something to do with gaming perhaps?
[49:10] Did he? Is it the video game controller
[49:13] or something? The console, The video game
[49:17] console he created the Fairchild Channel F video game console,
[49:25] one of the old school plastic things looked like a, like an
[49:29] old jet player at the cartridge you popped in.
[49:32] Yeah. So if it wasn't for him, there'd
[49:36] be no Xbox, there'd be no Nintendo, there'd be no
[49:39] PlayStation if it wasn't for Jerry Lawson.
[49:43] And we wouldn't have spent a lot of our childhood blowing into
[49:46] those cartridges to make them work.
[49:49] So, so here's here's a little trivia about George Eastman.
[49:52] So you obviously know who Paul McCartney is.
[49:56] Do you remember his his, his wife Linda?
[50:00] She remember his wife Linda? She was Linda McCartney.
[50:02] So do you remember what Linda did besides being in the band
[50:05] with Paul? What her occupation was?
[50:08] She was into fashion, right? She was a fashion designer of.
[50:10] She was a photographer and Linda's maiden name is Eastman
[50:17] because she's from the Eastman family who are a believer from
[50:20] New York, if memory serves me correct.
[50:23] So don't. She's a daughter or
[50:24] granddaughter of of George Eastman.
[50:28] Wow. So he invented the the the Kodak
[50:30] camera. She's a descendant of his.
[50:33] She was a photographer. And of course, she ended up
[50:36] marrying Paul McCartney. Hmm.
[50:39] And if they are from New York, then the name is very much on
[50:42] the nose. Eastman from the East Coast.
[50:44] Come on, they have done better. Oh, yes, for Jerry Lawson
[50:53] console. Now I have to, I have to seal
[50:55] that into my brain. I did not know.
[50:57] And what is the name of the console that he invented?
[50:59] Gary, if you could just repeat that once.
[51:01] It is called the Fairchild Channel FF for Frank Fairchild
[51:07] Channel F. Channel F Nice, nice.
[51:12] I have to look that. I am not particularly aware of
[51:14] that, but that console model, we'll have to look that one up.
[51:18] Like we all seen the Atari and the Nintendos and all, but
[51:21] there's a Fairchild F is that's something absolutely no
[51:24] fantastic question, Gary. Fantastic.
[51:27] Yeah, pretty cool. Very unexpected.
[51:29] I love it, Adi. OK, let me try to bring it home
[51:34] with that question that connects India and the United States of
[51:39] America. So that should be a big enough
[51:42] hint. But let me tell you what the
[51:43] question is. There are only two mega cities
[51:46] in the world where large carnivores thrive in the urban
[51:51] areas because their natural habitats have been encroached
[51:54] upon by human buildings. Which are these two large mega
[51:59] cities in the world and what are the animals in question?
[52:04] Large carnivores, Yeah. Wow, tell me Gary, you live in
[52:09] New York. Are there like random tigers
[52:11] roaming from? Yes, but they're disguised as
[52:17] humans. Gary is talking about the Macy's
[52:25] parade. Now when you say mega cities, is
[52:31] that what you? Is that the expression you use?
[52:33] Daddy mega cities? I assume you mean by by
[52:35] population. Exactly.
[52:38] OK, mega city. So then the options from India
[52:41] would be either Delhi or Bombay or Mumbai to be more politically
[52:45] correct. Just going off population like
[52:48] the two most populated cities are Delhi and Bombay, Mumbai.
[52:52] Sure, sure, sure. Metropolitan areas.
[52:55] But yeah, yeah, it is one of Delhi and Mumbai.
[52:57] And which feline species? I'll give you the hint.
[53:00] It's a feline species that it's a big cat that roams human
[53:06] inhabited areas in both these cities.
[53:08] I mean, like, obviously I've seen big cats, but not like a
[53:12] big cat. OK.
[53:14] So, well, when I say Rome's, it's not like you'll see it on
[53:17] the street walking past, but it is pretty much in the
[53:20] metropolitan area and they have, they have ventured into urban
[53:25] spaces very often. I have a politically incorrect
[53:28] answer. Oh please don't say it.
[53:30] We don't want. To say it.
[53:33] Are you, are you talking about the cougar And is this, is this
[53:37] Mumbai and Los Angeles? You know the answer is half
[53:44] correct. It is Mumbai and Los Angeles,
[53:47] but it is. It's not the cougar though.
[53:50] Do you know which feline species are?
[53:52] I was, I was making a joke on the Real Housewives thing.
[53:56] You know this. Is.
[53:57] This has nothing to do that OK. Is it a Mountain Lion?
[54:05] Hey, you're right, a mountain lions in LA and in Mumbai
[54:09] Vineet. Any guess?
[54:11] There are mountain lions in Mumbai, no?
[54:13] No, there's another There's a different feline species in
[54:16] Mumbai, so mountain lions are in LA.
[54:19] OK. Because I would have to be
[54:20] careful the next time I flow down to Mumbai.
[54:24] I'm dude, I'm completely clueless.
[54:26] Maybe a leopard or. Leopards, leopards, Leopards are
[54:30] the ones that are in Mumbai that you wow, technically are in
[54:34] urban spaces as well. Yeah.
[54:35] So leopards in Mumbai and mountain lions in LA, and these
[54:39] are the only two huge metros in the world where you will find
[54:43] big feline species in the same urban areas that human beings
[54:47] occupy. But you guys got that very
[54:49] quickly. And since we are at the last
[54:51] question, you know what? I'm going to throw a freebie
[54:53] here. Shout out to the Real Housewives
[54:55] by the way. They led me to the question even
[54:57] though it was. Yeah.
[55:01] So let me give you one more question and this one, since we
[55:05] were in Lai, will just move over to another Californian city and
[55:09] this is Berkeley in the University of California,
[55:13] Berkeley. What is a reserved parking spot
[55:17] for that is not one of the usual spaces that you would find in
[55:21] most other public areas? UC Berkeley.
[55:24] Has a specific. Reserved parking spot that is
[55:27] not commonly found in most of the public areas.
[55:30] So I'm not talking about like say for handicapped or disabled
[55:33] people or differently abled people.
[55:35] I'm talking about a very specific thing that you'll only
[55:37] see in UC Berkeley. What are these parking spots
[55:40] for? Vineet has the answers.
[55:41] So, Gary? I want to flex so hard, but we
[55:45] have a guest, so Gary. My Oh my, I'm wondering is it
[55:51] for like an A past students in in honor or in memory of a past
[55:59] student? Or is it?
[56:01] That that would be, that would be a very huge, that would be a
[56:04] very huge population and the university probably can't afford
[56:07] to do that. So it is a much narrower
[56:10] criteria. The mascot of their sports
[56:13] teams. Mascot of sports that that's the
[56:18] American and you're talking guy keeping your priorities right
[56:22] the mascot. But no, it's it's not the team
[56:25] mascot, no. Go on, Vineet, you were going to
[56:27] give me a hint. Yes, they're mostly men past the
[56:32] age of 50. That's my first clue.
[56:35] Is it just one parking spot? No, there are a few.
[56:39] There are a few. I think around 10 last.
[56:41] Count. There are eight.
[56:42] There are 8 according to this 2022 article that I have.
[56:46] There are 8 specific parking spots that aren't assigned for a
[56:51] regular car or someone with a disabled tag or something like
[56:55] that, but they're and it can be electric vehicles.
[56:58] That's that's that's that's. True.
[57:00] No, that's that. That also is pretty calm getting
[57:03] pretty common these days. It is for a special designation.
[57:08] And again, like a lot of places might have reserved spots for
[57:10] like, I don't know, the faculty or something like that.
[57:13] Yeah, yeah. So it isn't something that is
[57:16] generic like that. It is something very specific
[57:19] and it's a very, very narrow group of people, a very small
[57:23] group of people that. My second clue would be I'm not
[57:26] sure if Caltech has something like this, but if Caltech did,
[57:30] there'd be a much bigger number there.
[57:33] This must be specific to the colleges which you're not
[57:35] familiar with. I I I I never even went to
[57:38] college so. It it isn't specific to UC
[57:41] Berkeley as such, it's just that they happen to have this.
[57:44] OK. My additional clue will be the
[57:46] marking on the parking spot is marked NLN for New York, L for
[57:53] Los Angeles. That's a great hint, yeah.
[57:56] NL If I'm on the clock here, I'm going to run out of time.
[57:59] I'm. OK, you know what?
[58:02] I'll give you one last hint, because Vinita has given you
[58:04] some fantastic hints. Sure, and I'm still not getting
[58:07] it. No, don't worry, it is.
[58:10] It is a question that if you know it, you know it, but if you
[58:13] don't, it is a tricky 1. If you do fit this criteria, you
[58:17] might also have a much bigger bank account.
[58:22] Specifically I believe is it $1,000,000?
[58:27] It's $1,000,000. It's $1,000,000 million dollars.
[58:31] Yeah, you may not get the entire $1,000,000.
[58:33] You may have had to share it with somebody.
[58:35] Yeah, true. You're entitled to $1,000,000 if
[58:39] you fit the criteria for this parking spot.
[58:42] Nobel laureate. Is that it?
[58:47] Yes, Nobel laureates. Oh well, the NL obviously.
[58:50] I wouldn't have forgotten without the NL beneath.
[58:53] You got it. Oh, well done.
[58:55] Why? Why specific to to UC Berkeley?
[58:58] It's interesting because the history apparently suggests, or
[59:01] legend suggests at least, that there's a Polish poet.
[59:04] And I'm probably going to butcher the name, but I'll try
[59:06] it. Seslo Milos, who was awarded the
[59:10] Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
[59:12] And he just went up to the university staff and admin, and
[59:16] he asked for a parking spot, and they just gave him a designated
[59:19] parking spot. And since then, it became a
[59:21] tradition for Nobel laureates to have designated parking spots in
[59:25] the UC Berkeley campus. Oh, very cool.
[59:29] Very cool. Yeah, I don't think I would have
[59:33] got that without the hints. No way.
[59:36] That's a great crack though. I have again, before we wind up,
[59:41] this is just me being greedy, but there's this question I
[59:43] really wanted to ask today, so I'm just going to ask you
[59:46] quickly. We'll go run through this
[59:47] quickly. So this is a sports question
[59:49] because we've been neglecting sports quite a bit.
[59:52] Hey, excuse me. Excuse me, Vineet, we did start
[59:55] off with Major League eating, might I remind you?
[1:00:02] With the with with the Mount. Needless to say, with the Mount
[1:00:07] Rushmore of Major League eating Joey Chesney.
[1:00:15] OK, go for it. Standing at an impressive 6 feet
[1:00:19] 4 inches tall with lanky arms perfectly designed to tie his
[1:00:23] opponent in knots, he was an accomplished wrestler.
[1:00:25] As a young man. His wrestling record was 299 to
[1:00:30] 1 / a period of 12 years, with his only ever defeat happening
[1:00:35] at the hands of Hank Thompson. He once challenged an entire
[1:00:39] crowd of onlookers after dispatching an opponent, saying
[1:00:41] I'm the big buck of this lick. Any of you want to try it?
[1:00:45] Come and wet your horn. His grappling exploits earned
[1:00:49] him an outstanding American honor in the National Wrestling
[1:00:52] Hall of Fame. Who is this wrestler I speak of?
[1:00:56] I know this. He was also a bartender at one
[1:01:00] point of his life. Yes, I didn't know that part,
[1:01:04] but I do know the answer. I guess both of us do.
[1:01:06] This would be Lincoln. Yes, this is Abraham Lincoln.
[1:01:10] I was. I was itching to ask this
[1:01:13] question because I wanted to give you this particular clue
[1:01:16] more than the question. I was excited about the clue.
[1:01:19] The clue was going to be artists.
[1:01:20] Actors who portrayed him on screen include Henry Fonda,
[1:01:25] Gregory Beck, Kris Kristofferson, Lance Hendrickson
[1:01:30] and Brendan Fraser. And Daniel Day Lewis.
[1:01:34] And Daniel Day Lewis, you cannot forget.
[1:01:36] I say Daniel Day Lewis, everybody gets it specifically
[1:01:39] intended to. Yeah.
[1:01:43] So bonus points if you can tell me in which movie Brendan Fraser
[1:01:47] played Abraham Lincoln. No clue.
[1:01:50] Is it that vampire hunter thing? No.
[1:01:54] Lincoln, That's no. That's not Brendan Fraser.
[1:01:56] That's not Brendan Fraser. That was Benjamin Hall, I think
[1:01:59] his name is. That was not Brendan Fraser.
[1:02:03] This is like peak Brendan Fraser, peak Elizabeth Hurley.
[1:02:08] 2000 movie Elizabeth Hurley playing the devil.
[1:02:12] I have no clue. So the movie's called Bedazzled.
[1:02:15] Elizabeth Hurley plays the devil and she provides 7 wishes to
[1:02:20] Brendan Fraser's character. The only problem is each wish
[1:02:24] goes Hong in a horrible way. So when he wishes to be
[1:02:27] President of the United States, he finds himself in the Ford
[1:02:30] Theatre as Abraham Lincoln just as about he's about to be
[1:02:33] killed. Oh boy.
[1:02:36] So Brendan Fraser has a blink and you miss it role as Abraham
[1:02:39] Lincoln. I'll give you, I'll give you a
[1:02:42] quick a quick Lincoln trivia, actually, Yeah, let me make let
[1:02:46] me make this my last question. Why not?
[1:02:48] It's just fucked into my head. Yes, go for it, go for it, go
[1:02:50] for it. Yeah.
[1:02:51] Name the two denominations of US currency which have Lincoln on
[1:02:59] it. There's 20.
[1:03:02] He's the only president that has two different currencies with
[1:03:06] his face on it. Name the two.
[1:03:08] I know this. I know this.
[1:03:11] I haven't handled much American currency, so I am.
[1:03:17] Nope. Aditya, you want to take this?
[1:03:21] So it's the penny. The penny has Lincoln.
[1:03:25] Because I know this because there's a very interesting
[1:03:28] episode talking about how we want to get rid of pennies on
[1:03:31] this YouTube channel called CGP Grey.
[1:03:34] And he's a big, big proponent of getting rid of pennies.
[1:03:38] And he talks about how some of the people who don't want to get
[1:03:41] rid of pennies are Lincoln enthusiasts and and he follows
[1:03:46] that up with why are you guys so mad?
[1:03:48] He's on the $5 note as well. So I know it's the $5.00 bill
[1:03:55] and the penny. Yeah, yeah.
[1:03:59] And it's, I've, I've asked so many currency questions over the
[1:04:04] years and it's amazing that so many people don't know what's on
[1:04:11] the bills. And a lot of times whoever's on
[1:04:14] the front of AUS bill, whatever's on the back is
[1:04:17] relative to them. For example, Lincoln's on the
[1:04:21] front of the five and the penny, and on the back is the Lincoln
[1:04:25] Memorial. On the $10.00 bill is Alexander
[1:04:29] Hamilton, who was the first Hamilton US Secretary of the
[1:04:33] Treasury. So on the back of the 10 is the
[1:04:36] US Treasury. Now the 20 has the White House
[1:04:39] on the back, but the front is Andrew Jackson.
[1:04:43] The 50 has Ulysses Grant, and it is Constitution Hall, I think,
[1:04:49] on the back. And the hundreds, Benjamin
[1:04:50] Franklin, who of course was not president.
[1:04:52] But it's AUS Capitol, no US Capitol on the back of the 50
[1:04:56] and Independence Halls on the back of the hundreds.
[1:04:58] So, you know, there's some connection between the front and
[1:05:01] the back. It's not kind of random.
[1:05:05] Yeah, good crack, Aditya I The only way I would have gotten was
[1:05:09] to list every single denomination in the US, US
[1:05:11] currency. I I got to be grateful for
[1:05:17] India. In that sense, we have kept it
[1:05:19] very simple. You don't have to stress too
[1:05:21] much. It's.
[1:05:22] Very few. Count you all the way, it's
[1:05:24] Gandhi. On every single thing, on every
[1:05:27] single note, it's Gandhi. The thing that's that I find
[1:05:32] funny about US currency. All the bills are the same, the
[1:05:35] notes are the same size. Yes, I I've read a novel where
[1:05:41] the there's a counterfeiting gang who take $1.00 notes,
[1:05:45] bleach them, and then print $100 on the same because they're the
[1:05:50] same size. I'm sure it's it is probably
[1:05:53] harder than it sounds, but yeah. But it's a book.
[1:05:56] I mean, it's not real life the. Book interestingly, I know the
[1:06:00] different sizes is mostly because to aid blind people so I
[1:06:03] wonder how they do it in the US how the.
[1:06:06] That was my next question, Adi. It's a very simple solution.
[1:06:10] How do blind people know what did they do with the money to
[1:06:14] know what the difference is between the bills?
[1:06:18] The very simple solution. The numbers are embossed, I'm
[1:06:21] guessing they're slightly raised.
[1:06:23] No. Oh.
[1:06:25] OK. OK.
[1:06:27] Is it the position of the metallic strip?
[1:06:30] No, they do something to the bill and you can't.
[1:06:35] You can't change its look, feel, image, color at all.
[1:06:38] What would you, what would you do to distinguish it if you had
[1:06:43] a 1A5A10 and A50, and obviously the one is the same size and
[1:06:47] weight as the 50, What would you do to distinguish if you were
[1:06:51] blind, the one in the 50, if you had to put them in your pocket,
[1:06:55] let's say if you had to put them in the same pocket?
[1:06:58] Wow. Is something to do with the
[1:07:01] edge? Is it notched?
[1:07:02] I don't think they're bills are notched, right?
[1:07:04] They're notched. They all feel the same, weigh
[1:07:07] the same and the same size. So if you're blind.
[1:07:10] Do they smell the same? Smell the same?
[1:07:14] Probably not. They all smell of cocaine, so
[1:07:17] it's fine they. They sprayed them with Cologne.
[1:07:22] Different Cologne $5.00 bill S channel #5 on it and no I have
[1:07:29] no idea this is a very. Interesting, no?
[1:07:31] Clue. I have no clue.
[1:07:33] They fold them differently. Oh, you fold them differently.
[1:07:39] Interesting. Just to keep it simple.
[1:07:41] But wait, how? But this is if I am a blind
[1:07:44] person and I get the note and I fold it in a different way.
[1:07:45] That makes sense, but how would I know to begin with?
[1:07:48] What denomination of a currency have I got?
[1:07:50] We I'm sure there's someone in your life you could trust to say
[1:07:54] here, here are the hundreds and here are the ones just follow
[1:07:59] the hundreds. Don't be.
[1:08:01] Don't be so cynical, Addy. Come.
[1:08:03] On this is I, but that's interesting they folded
[1:08:07] differently. I may be wrong, but I believe
[1:08:10] the banks will do it for for people who are.
[1:08:14] I was just going to ask. Yeah, the banks probably would
[1:08:16] also assist in something like that.
[1:08:17] That is pretty cool. You'd probably leave the ones as
[1:08:20] is because you know they're the the lowest denomination.
[1:08:23] But then maybe the fives and half and then the 10s again, and
[1:08:28] then so on. But you can only fold.
[1:08:29] I don't know if you know this. Here's a crazy bit of trivia.
[1:08:33] It doesn't matter the size of any piece of paper, you can only
[1:08:37] fold it seven times. I think they tried this on
[1:08:42] Mythbusters. They tried this on Mythbusters
[1:08:44] and they brought like crayons and stuff to do it and it is a
[1:08:47] really cool visual because it was a huge piece of paper that
[1:08:50] they were trying to fold. Yeah, it doesn't matter the size
[1:08:53] because it just keeps getting by half.
[1:08:57] You have to fold it in half each time, Yeah.
[1:08:59] Power. Of exponentials.
[1:09:00] And if you do, if you, I mean like theoretically, if you do it
[1:09:03] 40 times, you would reach the moon, yeah.
[1:09:05] That's true. Apparently true.
[1:09:09] I've never tried it, so I'm just going to take a word for it.
[1:09:13] So such a fun episode. I OK, so there's the audience
[1:09:17] question that we have remaining because we are about to wind up
[1:09:20] this episode. So let me put the audience
[1:09:22] question again and see if my Co hosts can and guess where's
[1:09:26] Master can guess the answer to this.
[1:09:28] So the question again for the audience was popular.
[1:09:31] History suggested this originated in a club in New York
[1:09:33] City in the mid 1870s where it is invented by Ian Marshall for
[1:09:37] a banquet hosted by Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of
[1:09:40] Winston, in honor of presidential candidate Samuel J
[1:09:43] Tilden. The success of the banquet made
[1:09:45] it fashionable later, later prompting several people to
[1:09:48] request it by referring to the name of the club where it
[1:09:51] originated. What am I talking about?
[1:09:54] I think Gary already knows. So Adi, Gary's looking to pop.
[1:09:57] Ready to pop right now. The answer's just there.
[1:10:00] I I, I'm actually not sure, so I'll let Gary take this one.
[1:10:03] I believe it's a Manhattan cocktail.
[1:10:07] Yes, Ding Ding, Ding. You are right.
[1:10:09] It is the Manhattan. Cocktail.
[1:10:11] Very cool. So here's a little nugget about
[1:10:13] a Manhattan cocktail. The ingredients.
[1:10:16] The measurements for the ingredients are two ounces of
[1:10:23] rye whiskey, one ounce of sweet vermouth and two dashes of
[1:10:28] bitters. 212 and the phone area code for Manhattan is oh wow,
[1:10:37] two. I don't know if that's just
[1:10:39] coincidence. Gary, this is where I know
[1:10:42] you're wrong. All Hollywood movies tell us
[1:10:44] that the area code is 555. It's fine.
[1:10:48] He's mistaken, my dear audience. That's right.
[1:10:51] It's 555. Five.
[1:10:53] That's pretty cool. OK, wow. 212.
[1:10:55] I had no idea. 212 it's it's how you, how you remember to make
[1:10:59] it. So if you're making a Manhattan,
[1:11:01] just remember that. You've been a wonderful quiz.
[1:11:04] They have given us great answers, great questions.
[1:11:06] Can you just answer this for me? Why do you guys do Oz?
[1:11:09] Can we just stop doing Oz and Pounds and just do it like the
[1:11:13] rest of the world and not confuse the hell out of us?
[1:11:16] We are just. I cannot keep up with this.
[1:11:19] So what what I can't understand about the the US measurement
[1:11:22] system because I grew up in Ireland and we kind of learned
[1:11:26] both. Now the Ireland has pretty much
[1:11:28] moved towards the metric system, so all the distances in
[1:11:31] kilometers and so on. And it's I, I, because I grew up
[1:11:34] with both, it's pretty easy for me to, to switch from one to the
[1:11:38] other. But what I can understand with,
[1:11:40] with the United States, when we were growing up in Ireland, we
[1:11:43] did, we did imperial, so pounds and stone for weight.
[1:11:50] So 14 lbs was one stone that was easy to grasp.
[1:11:54] So if somebody weighed 10 stone, they were 140 lbs.
[1:11:57] That's just now the Americans do pounds, but they don't do stone.
[1:12:03] So somebody weighs 275 lbs. I'm like, that's a lot of
[1:12:08] pounds. Can we like, can we get that
[1:12:12] like smaller, smaller pounds? Why not just 15 stone?
[1:12:20] And another thing that the the Americans do with measurement,
[1:12:23] which is very funny and I don't think it's maybe you guys do it,
[1:12:27] I don't know. They will explain distance with
[1:12:32] time. So I live an hour and a half
[1:12:37] from Manhattan. They don't say I live 70 miles.
[1:12:41] They say I live an hour and a half, which is even grasp that
[1:12:46] to a degree. But also that's not taken into
[1:12:48] account traffic. What time of the day do you
[1:12:54] live? 1 1/2 miles. 50 miles will never
[1:12:57] be anything else other than 50 miles, but an hour and a half
[1:13:00] could be 2 1/2 hours. True, true, true.
[1:13:05] Which is probably why you can't do that in India, because in
[1:13:08] India the traffic is so such a variable, you can never be quite
[1:13:11] sure how much time it's going to take.
[1:13:14] This is this is a true story. This happened during in
[1:13:18] Bangalore traffic. A group of people in a car, they
[1:13:21] were stuck in traffic. One of them got really pissed so
[1:13:24] he got out, went to a mall which was like right next to the car
[1:13:28] because they were stuck right in front of the mall.
[1:13:30] He went into the mall, went to a shop, tried on a couple of
[1:13:33] shirts, bought one, came out after 45 minutes and the car had
[1:13:37] moved 10 meters in front. True story, fast traffic day in
[1:13:45] Bangalore. Yes, so so when I when I go home
[1:13:51] to my family in Ireland, I have to switch my brain to Celsius,
[1:13:56] the metric system and driving on the other side of the road.
[1:14:01] So when I get off the plane like I have to.
[1:14:04] That's the right. That's the right.
[1:14:07] That's what, that's what Americans say.
[1:14:08] They go, oh, you drive on the wrong side over there.
[1:14:10] I'm like, no, turn on the left. No, it's the correct side over
[1:14:16] there. It's the correct side of the
[1:14:18] road. I just cannot get by driving on,
[1:14:21] you know, the right side of the road.
[1:14:23] That just doesn't make sense. The driving conventions come
[1:14:26] from time from the time and people were riding on horses
[1:14:29] where your right hand had to be free so that you could wield
[1:14:31] your sword. Why should we get rid of 1000
[1:14:34] years of tradition just because the Americans think they want to
[1:14:36] do that? And they invented the car.
[1:14:37] No, they didn't invent the car. They popularized the car.
[1:14:40] But then again, this is Independence Day.
[1:14:41] It's July the 4th. Let them have it.
[1:14:44] Don't be mean, please don't answer me.
[1:14:49] It's all in good fun. It's all in good fun.
[1:14:51] I mean like a. Lot of the things they'll bring
[1:14:53] them. They'll bring democracy to your
[1:14:55] apartment so quickly. Vineet.
[1:14:57] You. You don't want to.
[1:15:00] I know. I I remember I'm I'm old enough
[1:15:03] to remember CNN coverage during the first Gulf War, so I'm
[1:15:06] keeping my mouth shut after this.
[1:15:10] OK. OK, so before we wind up,
[1:15:14] there's a, a tradition that we have where every week Adi and I
[1:15:18] recommend a piece of pop culture, something new or
[1:15:20] something old, which we want to recommend to our audience,
[1:15:23] whether it's books, music, movies, podcasts, YouTube
[1:15:27] channels, anything under the sun.
[1:15:30] So Gary, is there anything you want to recommend, anything new,
[1:15:33] anything old, anything that's close to your heart that you
[1:15:36] want to recommend, that you know, please go consume this.
[1:15:39] I, I read it. I, I read all the time and I, I
[1:15:44] don't read fiction, you know, I read business books or, or
[1:15:49] personal development books And I read a book, I thought it was
[1:15:53] late last year, earlier this year.
[1:15:54] And it was the first book I ever read that when I finished it, I
[1:15:57] started reading it again. It was fantastic.
[1:15:59] It's by an American writer called Michael Easter.
[1:16:03] And the book is called The Comfort Crisis.
[1:16:06] And if you get your hands on it, it's really fascinating.
[1:16:10] And what he, what he, what he talks about in the book.
[1:16:13] In the book, he goes on a journey up to Alaska, into the
[1:16:16] wild, and he lives for 30 plus days with some friends and they
[1:16:21] have to hunt and kill in order to live, in order to eat.
[1:16:24] They're literally in the wild. But he intersperses that story
[1:16:29] with how as a society and as a culture, over time, how we've
[1:16:35] just become more and more comfortable with everything we
[1:16:38] do. And he really does a lot of
[1:16:40] research from food to exercise to how we live our lives to the
[1:16:47] the social media, to TV's and and so on and how little we move
[1:16:53] now as humans. For example, he says he stood at
[1:16:58] an airport and he watched inside the airport, you know, where
[1:17:02] you'll have two escalators and then there's steps in the
[1:17:07] middle. And he said he watched people
[1:17:12] for an hour or two hours. And he said 2% took the steps
[1:17:16] and there wasn't even that many steps, 98% took the escalators.
[1:17:20] But anyway, so he talks just about how comfortable we have
[1:17:23] become and just he delves into the food and what's in our food
[1:17:27] and from how we order food now, portions of food and just how
[1:17:33] comfortable we become. Now.
[1:17:34] He's not, he's not criticizing the the way we live, but he he
[1:17:38] juxtaposes it with way, the way we lived back in the day,
[1:17:43] hunters and gatherers, how we farmed, how we lifted, how we
[1:17:47] dragged, how we carried, how we climbed all these different
[1:17:52] things in order to survive and how we just essentially don't do
[1:17:56] that Now. We've just become comfortable.
[1:17:59] Like if you think about like, how often do you carry any kind
[1:18:03] of weight over any kind of distance Now, never.
[1:18:08] We have transportation for it. There's no need for it.
[1:18:10] So again, he's not criticizing, but it's like how humans were
[1:18:13] built to carry, how humans were built to sit up straight, how
[1:18:18] humans were built to eat, not necessarily sitting slouched or
[1:18:22] whatever it may be, how humans were built not to consume so
[1:18:25] many calories at a time. But anyway, I could talk for a
[1:18:29] long time about it. Obviously, it's a really
[1:18:31] fascinating book. It's called the Comfort Crisis.
[1:18:33] So if any of your listeners are interested in a great book, are
[1:18:37] you guys, you know, if you're readers, check it out.
[1:18:40] I'm sure you can find the the audio version online or the the
[1:18:42] Kindle version. So the comfort crisis would be
[1:18:45] my recommendation. Great, great.
[1:18:47] Adi, what's your recommendation for this week?
[1:18:50] So I have 3 recommendations for the week and these are three
[1:18:55] things that I watched recently. The first one, a lot of people
[1:18:59] might have already seen it on Netflix.
[1:19:00] If you haven't watched it yet, I would say check it out.
[1:19:02] It's Baby reindeer. It's a show that premiered not
[1:19:06] that long ago, very intense. It has some very disturbing
[1:19:10] stuff in it, but also funny in the most dark and British way
[1:19:14] that you can imagine. So I'd say that is something
[1:19:16] that worth checking out. I watched Matilda the Musical
[1:19:19] again on Netflix. Brilliant, beautiful.
[1:19:22] The actress who plays Matilda is just phenomenal.
[1:19:25] So for her performance alone, you could check that movie out.
[1:19:29] And the last one is Monkey Man. This is Dave Patel and it's his
[1:19:34] directorial debut. It isn't the best action movie
[1:19:38] out there. There are great action, better
[1:19:39] action movies in fact I'd say. But Monkey Man does an
[1:19:42] interesting job of how Dave Patel, who is basically now a
[1:19:47] Hollywood actor but with Indian origins, kind of telling an
[1:19:51] Indian story. So it's an interesting kind of
[1:19:54] lens to see that cultural, I guess.
[1:19:57] Yeah, perspective. So check these three things out.
[1:20:02] Great recommendations as usual, Aditya.
[1:20:04] My recommendation for this week is a book.
[1:20:08] The first recommendation is a book.
[1:20:09] It's called I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
[1:20:12] It's written by Michelle McNamara, and it's about her
[1:20:17] almost borderline obsessive search for a serial killer who
[1:20:22] was known as the Golden State Killer or the East Area Rapist
[1:20:25] or the Original Night Stalker. So Michelle McNamara, who many
[1:20:29] may know as Patton Oswalt's late wife.
[1:20:32] And the book is a haunting read. It's an absolute haunting read.
[1:20:36] The title itself comes from a quote that the Golden State
[1:20:39] Killer said to one of his victims.
[1:20:41] He said you'll be silent forever and I'll be gone in the dark.
[1:20:46] The book is amazing. There's also I think around A5
[1:20:49] or six part mini series based on the writing of the book as well.
[1:20:54] I would recommend both of it, but the book read the book
[1:20:56] first. It'll give you a flavour of the
[1:20:59] woman's writing and it's fantastically written.
[1:21:01] The quality of writing is just, you know, right up there.
[1:21:05] So I'll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara nonfiction,
[1:21:09] and my other recommendation is in the opposite direction,
[1:21:12] something very light hearted by a comedy genius.
[1:21:15] It's a show called Resident Alien.
[1:21:17] There are three seasons of it available right now.
[1:21:19] I've only recently kind of gotten into it, but Alan Tudyk.
[1:21:24] I've been a fan of him since the days of Firefly.
[1:21:27] He does a fantastic job as an alien who's hiding out on Earth
[1:21:32] in the form of a human. It's fantastically funny and at
[1:21:36] the same time also quite insightful.
[1:21:38] I would definitely recommend watch Resident Alien.
[1:21:42] Very cool. OK.
[1:21:45] OK, so that's all the time that we have for this episode.
[1:21:49] I want to thank Gary again for taking time out from his busy
[1:21:53] schedule to join us on this podcast.
[1:21:55] And if you guys enjoyed it, and I know you guys enjoyed his set
[1:21:59] that today, let me just tell you that he'll also be back for the
[1:22:02] next episode as well. Yeah, he's agreed to start in
[1:22:06] two episodes as our guest quiz master.
[1:22:08] So watch out for him again next week on episode #76.
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[1:23:05] second largest listener population, which has come from
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[1:23:26] Let's Go Trivia. They are the Rolls Royce of pub
[1:23:29] quizzes and quizzing. If you're in the New York area,
[1:23:32] Gary, are there any particular events that you want to tell our
[1:23:36] audience that where you'd be available or your company would
[1:23:39] be doing some fun quizzes? Yeah, absolutely.
[1:23:43] Probably the best thing is just to go onto our website,
[1:23:45] letsgotrivia.com and we have our schedule there.
[1:23:48] So we have shows from the Bronx all the way, excuse me, further
[1:23:52] north into Westchester County, over into Connecticut.
[1:23:54] So it's easy to find a, a show depending on obviously where you
[1:23:58] are. We have some in Queens, NY as
[1:24:00] well. So let's go trivia.com or just
[1:24:02] follow us on Instagram. Let's go trivia and you'll get
[1:24:05] all the info there. Perfect.
[1:24:07] Fantastic, fantastic. Thanks again everybody for
[1:24:10] tuning in. Have a great day.
[1:24:12] And that's me signing off. See you guys next week.

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