# Episode 067 - Comics, Anime & Fatal Diseases

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 6 May 2024, 59 min.

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Do you know which comic character is the official mascot for the Space Flight Awareness program? Do you know which anime was adapted into a 90s Hong Kong film starring Jackie Chan? Do you know which Indian surname or last name references perfume sellers? Tune in to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme

## 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 #67 of Are
[0:21] You Quizzing Me? Your Favorite Quizzing and
[0:23] Trivia podcast Show. Aditya and I are back for
[0:26] another round of quizzing, and as usual, let's start off this
[0:29] episode with an audience question, which I will answer at
[0:32] the end of today's episode. So in the 1980s, millions used X
[0:39] during exercise, and this helped to mark the beginning of the
[0:43] aerobics craze. During the height of X's
[0:45] popularity, which was roughly between 1987 and 1997, the
[0:50] number of people who reported that they walked for exercise
[0:54] rose by 30%. However, the new generation or
[0:58] replacement of X could not be used during exercise.
[1:04] So what am I talking about? What is XI will reveal the
[1:08] answer at the end of today's episode.
[1:11] Now we have the small matter of the pending infliction of
[1:15] torture from last week. So, Aditya, what's your answer
[1:20] to the question that you asked last week?
[1:25] So the question I asked last week was how was the Indian
[1:31] aviation changed and by whom in a significant way.
[1:38] I think the answer is pretty obvious.
[1:40] It is none other than Shaktiman who changed Indian aviation.
[1:46] If you know correctly, Shaktiman came around in the 90s, around
[1:50] the time when there was an Indian aviation boom.
[1:53] But not just that, have you realized the old Air India logo
[1:58] was the Chakra which is also on Shaktiman's logo and it was also
[2:02] red in colour, which is also the Air India colour.
[2:05] So if I'm not wrong and I have a conspiracy theory about this, I
[2:09] think Air India's secret way of promoting itself was through
[2:14] Shaktiman. And I don't know how I'm going
[2:16] to prove this particular conspiracy theory, but I'm
[2:18] pretty sure that is true. So my answer is Shaktiman has
[2:22] changed Indian aviation and specifically through Air India
[2:25] and its colors and its logo. Oh, I am so torn.
[2:30] This being a trivia podcast, I'm wondering whether to burst that
[2:34] bubble or not. Do it.
[2:38] OK Aditya, my dear paranoid conspiracy nut.
[2:41] Unfortunately, that's not true. The chakra or this thing or the
[2:46] design that's from the second logo of Air India was from the
[2:51] Konark temple, so overall meant to depict a swan.
[2:55] The first logo was that of an Archer.
[2:57] Now they've changed the logo again, which I don't think is a
[3:00] great one either. So I don't think it has anything
[3:02] to do with Shaktiman. That's what they want you to
[3:05] believe in it. That's what the big.
[3:10] Big Air. Big Air wants you to Big Air.
[3:16] OK, before we go down any further down this rabbit hole of
[3:20] paranoia and absolute nuttiness, let's get to the serious part of
[3:25] today's episode and I'll start off with a question for Aditya.
[3:29] Have you heard of Gyanadanandani Tagore?
[3:32] No. Gyanadanandani Tagore.
[3:35] Before marriage, she was Gyanadanandani Mukhopadhyay was
[3:38] a social reformer who pioneered various cultural innovations and
[3:42] influenced the earliest phase of women's empowerment in 19th
[3:45] century Bengal. As you may have guessed from her
[3:49] last name, she was married into the illustrious Tagore family.
[3:54] She in specifically married Satyendranath Tagore, who was
[3:58] Ravindranath Tagore's elder brother.
[4:00] For those who are not Indian, Ravindranath Tagore was the
[4:03] first Asian to win a Nobel Prize.
[4:05] He won one for literature. So while in Bombay,
[4:10] Gyanathanandani socialized in European circles and this was
[4:14] the point of time when a lot of European culture and mores were
[4:18] coming and get slightly influencing Indian cultural
[4:21] circles as well, she partly adapted to English customs.
[4:26] Now as a result of this, she came up with something which was
[4:29] adapted from Parsi and Andhra customs and she added her own
[4:34] modifications to it. While this was not completely
[4:38] novel, she is credited with popularizing it.
[4:41] What is it that Gyana Dhanandini introduced, or rather
[4:45] reintroduced, which is practically de facto in the
[4:49] current day? Oh, that is rather broad.
[4:57] I have no clue right now what particular narrow field should I
[5:04] be focusing on? Let's say fashion.
[5:09] OK, something to do with fashion specific or rather inspired by
[5:17] Parsi and Andhra cultures, right?
[5:20] Yes. And that fashion continues to be
[5:27] as is. Oh, it's almost de facto today.
[5:32] The thing is, you would be very aware of this.
[5:35] Practically anybody living in India would be aware of this.
[5:38] Anybody who's thinking about India would be aware of this,
[5:42] but very, very few people know that Yanadhurandini Thagar was
[5:46] responsible for this, and even fewer would know what it's
[5:50] called. OK, and you said she is the wife
[5:59] of Rabindra, Thagar's elder brother.
[6:03] So I'm placing her somewhere around the turn of the century,
[6:10] maybe slightly later. Yeah, this is, this is roughly
[6:13] around the turn of the century. Yes, turn of the last century.
[6:19] Passion, innovation of that time.
[6:24] I'm assuming the Saadi is older than that.
[6:26] I'm pretty sure the Saadi is older than that.
[6:29] Is it a specific type of Saadi like my lack of knowledge shows
[6:35] but the different styles of saree that are found across the
[6:41] country? Can you be more specific, it is
[6:46] to do with the saree. You're right, you're on the very
[6:48] right track. It is to do with the saree.
[6:51] But can you be a little more specific, I mean like you are in
[6:55] the ballpark. I could probably give it to you,
[6:57] but then this is not just, you know, I can give it to you show.
[6:59] This is a trivia shows and I'm trying to get you to guess the
[7:02] trivia. No fair.
[7:07] Was that no fair or was that no fair?
[7:11] A little bit of both, because when you ask me for specificity,
[7:15] as far as sarees are concerned, I am stumped.
[7:20] I just. I just don't like random names,
[7:22] and honestly I won't even be able to tell them apart like
[7:24] like Chandedi. Forget the name.
[7:27] No, no it's not. It's got nothing to do with
[7:29] design. If you can just describe what it
[7:32] is, I will give it to you what innovation that is, as I
[7:36] mentioned de facto today. OK.
[7:40] So the one of the most common, I guess, sari innovations or or
[7:46] differences I know of are the various ways that you can take
[7:49] the Palu. Is it one of those, like, is it
[7:52] like taking it over one shoulder versus taking it over the other
[7:55] shoulder? The term you're looking for is
[7:58] type of sari drape. Draping of sari.
[8:01] There are entire YouTube channels dedicated to, you know,
[8:04] different types of sari drapes and whatnot.
[8:07] Is that is that something she came up with?
[8:10] So I will give it to you right now.
[8:12] You are in the ballpark. She popularized and came up with
[8:18] what is today known as the Nivi sari drape.
[8:21] OK, if you look at any generic stock photograph of an Indian
[8:24] woman wearing a sari, if you look at air stewardesses or air
[8:29] hostesses, you go to any resort, any front desk, any random woman
[8:35] off the street. There is one particular way that
[8:39] is common all across India, where the pallu goes over the
[8:43] left shoulder, and that particular drape, along with the
[8:48] introduction of the use of petticoats and blouses, is what
[8:53] Ganodanandani came up with. So I'm going to take you on a
[8:57] story. So during a tour of Gujarat with
[9:00] her husband Gyanadu, Nandani improvised upon the sari worn by
[9:04] Parsi women, she created her own style of draping the anchal or
[9:10] pallu over the left shoulder as opposed to the Parsi style of
[9:14] the right shoulder, so that the right hand remained free for
[9:18] courtesies. Now this is where the English
[9:20] portion comes in, because you would have to shake hands and if
[9:25] your pallu is over the right shoulder, you can't keep just
[9:27] moving it right. Right.
[9:30] Yeah, she changed the drape to the left shoulder so that the
[9:33] right hand would be free for courtesies.
[9:35] Now this also changed sarees in a very fundamental way because
[9:41] she changed the drape from the left to the right shoulder.
[9:43] This increased the length of her sarees from the traditional 5
[9:47] yards to almost 6 yards, which is currently the standard saree
[9:52] length today. Wow.
[9:55] Now to create a style that would conform to these new
[9:58] sensibilities, she adopted the nivi drape that also
[10:01] incorporated the blouse and the petticoat.
[10:05] Because we are talking about the Victorian period here, right?
[10:08] And they were notoriously very closeted and very modest and
[10:13] insisted on layers and layers of clothing.
[10:15] And traditionally, Indian women did not use any petticoats, and
[10:19] many of the styles did not even use blouses.
[10:22] But to accommodate English sensibilities, she adopted the
[10:28] fact that they would be wearing a blouse and a petticoat under
[10:31] the saree. So if you've watched any kind of
[10:34] period film, you know that the Victorian women had multiple
[10:38] layers of clothings, multiple petticoats underneath.
[10:40] It was one of their things. So then this was incorporated
[10:43] into the saree. She even advertised in the
[10:46] monthly magazine Bamabodhini Patrika, offering to train other
[10:52] women to wear the saree in her novel style.
[10:54] In Kolkata, this style came to be known as the Bombay Dastur
[10:59] and became popular across the city.
[11:01] Owing to Devi's willingness to teach this drape to other women,
[11:05] the style also soon became popular among the Brahmo women
[11:08] of Calcutta, developing the aponym Brahmika Sari.
[11:11] Oh, I heard that. Yeah, today the name is called
[11:14] the Nivi drape. This is called the Nivi drape.
[11:16] This is the standard template for wearing a sari.
[11:21] Now, a little bit of the name nivi.
[11:22] The earliest references to the nivi drape date back to the
[11:25] Vedic period. An 8th century literary text
[11:31] describes a woman dressing up in a nivi sari.
[11:35] The frescoes of the Ajanta caves also showcase drapes that are
[11:38] reminiscent of the nivi drape and feature front pleats.
[11:42] Some theories attribute the nivi drape to the Dravidas, noting
[11:46] its similarity to the vashti worn in South India, which also
[11:50] involved the pleating and tucking of fabric at the navel.
[11:54] Furthermore, the lower garment commonly owned by women in this
[11:58] period was called the nivi or the nivi bandha, supporting the
[12:04] theory that the nivi drape originally originated in Andhra
[12:07] Pradesh. So the standard template of a
[12:10] saree was standardized by Yamada Mandani.
[12:12] She introduced the blouse, she introduced the petticoat, she
[12:14] introduced the drape and also the length of the saree, which
[12:18] is now standard, came from her. Very interesting.
[12:23] So she was basically the OG fashion influencer.
[12:28] Literally. Get ready with me.
[12:30] And not just that, I would say she's probably influenced more
[12:34] women's fashion in history than probably anybody else.
[12:39] Yeah, single handedly for a billion people.
[12:43] More than a billion people because we're talking about an
[12:45] entire century's worth of oh. True, true.
[12:47] True. True.
[12:48] Yeah, yeah, that is pretty impressive.
[12:52] That's pretty insane. Wow.
[12:56] OK, so from that lovely piece of trivia, honestly, who would have
[13:02] thought that one woman would have changed fashion so
[13:09] measurably from that lovely piece of trivia?
[13:12] I'm going to move to another person who has changed, I guess
[13:19] a field that is close to my heart.
[13:21] And here we are talking about space exploration and
[13:26] specifically NASA's Apollo program.
[13:30] It's a very simple question. In 1968, WHO was declared as the
[13:37] mascot for the Manned Flight Awareness program, which is now
[13:41] called the Space Flight Awareness Program.
[13:45] Woody Woodpecker. No, it's not Woody Woodpecker.
[13:50] How do you come to that answer? No, because I've seen some kind
[13:54] of reels from those era, from that era where NASA had kind of
[13:59] educational woody videos with Woody Woodpecker, if I'm if I'm
[14:03] remembering that correctly. Is it anybody in Disney?
[14:06] No, it's not a Disney character. OK, because my other option was
[14:11] going to be either Donald Duck or Goofy.
[14:14] Kind of sad that you didn't say Pluto.
[14:19] Was Pluto around at the time? I didn't know.
[14:20] I I didn't know if he was. I thought he came later.
[14:25] Could have been later, but anyways, it's not none of those
[14:28] characters. Mascot of the manned Space
[14:32] Flight. They did send up a a monkey,
[14:40] right? The Russians sent up a dog.
[14:42] They sent up a chimpanzee or something, right?
[14:45] Yeah, I believe so. I believe so.
[14:48] I think I've seen some pictures of that, but this is character,
[14:53] not, not an actual. Not an actual mascot, OK?
[14:56] Animal that has ever been. Sent OK clue please.
[15:03] OK, a very famous piece of well, I guess fashion also in this
[15:08] case, but more utilitarian than anything else that is worn by
[15:12] the astronauts, is also in a way a reference to this character or
[15:20] carries the name of this character because it looks
[15:22] similar to this character's appearance.
[15:27] So something very specific that the astronauts wear that when
[15:30] you think of somebody like Neil Armstrong in his outfit, in his
[15:34] attire, as he was doing the moonwalk and what else, you
[15:39] would see that being as a prominent part of his attire and
[15:46] that was named after this character as well.
[15:49] It was named after this character.
[15:52] Oh, it is commonly called by the name of this character.
[15:56] OK, two things come to mind when you like in the images 2 The
[15:59] images pop up in my head. One is the kind of space helmet
[16:03] and the other would be the classical astronaut suit, right?
[16:06] Everything below the helmet, The astronaut suit makes me think of
[16:10] the Michelin Man. No, it's not the answer.
[16:14] That's not the answer, OK. And the helmet?
[16:16] I was thinking of maybe Marvin the Martian or something like
[16:18] that, But then. Right, so I did save a new
[16:21] picture. Neil Armstrong walking on the
[16:22] moon so he would have the helmet on.
[16:25] Imagine him in the photo op on back on Earth when he wouldn't
[16:30] have the helmet on if you'd be holding the helmet by his side,
[16:35] as they did during a lot of those pictures.
[16:37] Yeah, is it to do. It's not to do with the helmet
[16:41] though. No, but it is above the neck if
[16:45] that helps. What they wear a kind of
[16:49] balaclava kind of thing, but with the face open.
[16:54] Yeah, so you don't have to worry about what it's called because
[16:57] it is named after the character. That is the answer.
[17:00] What I'm looking for is rather Why was it called after this
[17:03] character and that should hopefully lead you to the
[17:08] character and I'll even help you with the why because it looked
[17:11] very similar to this character and how it is portrayed.
[17:15] I was just trying to imagine that, and I remember, I remember
[17:18] that like, their face was visible, but everything else is
[17:20] covered. So my mind again went to like
[17:24] Mickey Mouse, like his face is kind of circumscribed that way.
[17:27] But you said it's not Disney, so it's not Mickey.
[17:31] Who else? OK, so it's a black and white
[17:34] communications cap. It's a black and white
[17:37] communications cap which kind of covers both the ears.
[17:40] And I guess listeners can't see what I'm doing with my hands
[17:44] right now. But just imagine something
[17:45] covering like a big headphones, like a Beats headphones kind of
[17:49] thing, which is covering both your ears but stuck much closer
[17:53] to the face which looks like this.
[17:56] Character. Oh God, I am just swimming in
[18:02] despair right now. I cannot think of anybody that's
[18:04] coming to mind. I thought of the Phantom, but
[18:06] then I don't think they'd make a character like the Phantom.
[18:08] Obviously. The bascot of the manned Space
[18:10] Flight. Who else looks like that?
[18:17] Nope, I blanking. Absolutely blanking.
[18:22] So this character, while in a regular appearance, has nothing
[18:28] to do with aviation. In one of its alter egos is
[18:33] quite the pilot. Balu.
[18:38] But again, that's Disney. No, I was thinking of Tailspin.
[18:44] No, no, no. That's a good guess.
[18:48] Why? Why is it only Disney coming?
[18:50] See, this is what the Disney Hegemony is influencing all my
[18:54] answers. It's everywhere.
[18:56] Honestly, this podcast, if it was recorded a few years later,
[18:59] probably Disney would own this character as well, because
[19:02] Disney is going to own everything.
[19:04] But as of now, Disney does not own this character.
[19:07] OK, so I'll give you one more clue.
[19:10] This. Character did not start off in,
[19:12] say, an animated movie or an animated series or ATV show or
[19:16] anything along those lines. So he's saying it was a comic.
[19:22] Yeah. Comics, which were big in the
[19:26] 60s. Huge.
[19:30] Huge. No?
[19:32] There were a lot of comics in those days which were huge,
[19:34] which are which most people have not heard of, like Blondie.
[19:37] But I don't think it's Blondie is aware.
[19:39] No, something that would be well known even today amongst anybody
[19:45] who reads comics, even casually today.
[19:52] So this character has never appeared on television.
[19:54] It's only in a comic. I'm sure it has appeared since,
[19:58] but it didn't start off there. OK, oh, it didn't start off
[20:02] there. OK, so then I'm I'm I'm just so
[20:06] lost right now. This is going to be something
[20:08] simple. I'm fairly sure of this.
[20:10] It's. Going to be extremely simple.
[20:13] It's a dog. It's a dog, Scooby-doo.
[20:20] Nope, Scooby didn't start off as a Omic character.
[20:24] I realized that like 2 seconds later.
[20:26] But yeah. Oh, Snoopy.
[20:29] Snoopy is the answer. Well done.
[20:33] I didn't know Snoopy was a pilot in any other form.
[20:37] I was not aware that he was a pilot.
[20:39] A World War One flying ace in the comic strip itself.
[20:43] Oh, OK. I I've, I've never read the
[20:45] peanuts that much. Yeah, so.
[20:48] OK, all right. So Peanuts, and especially
[20:51] Snoopy is famous for having alter egos who are phenomenal at
[20:56] whatever they do. So he has had a Olympic skier,
[20:59] Snoopy, a rough and tough hockey player.
[21:01] But one of the most famous ones is the World War One flying ace.
[21:04] Oh, OK. So NASA approached Charles
[21:09] Schulz with the idea of using Snoopy as a mascot.
[21:13] Now when I said think about how what they're wearing there is
[21:16] that communication camp, it's black in color, which covers the
[21:19] ears of the astronauts. Oh, yes.
[21:21] Pilot. OK.
[21:22] Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[21:23] Yeah. Which looks like the beagle's
[21:24] ears. OK, got it.
[21:26] Yeah. Charles Schulz himself was a war
[21:29] veteran, so he probably cared about space exploration from
[21:34] that angle. Snoopy has served as the
[21:39] personal safety mascot for NASA astronauts since 1968.
[21:43] So pretty much as long as the space program has been around.
[21:46] The Apollo 10 lunar Modules call sign was also Snoopy and the
[21:51] command modules calls line was Charlie Brown.
[21:54] OK, Apollo 10 was the one that just performed a few revolutions
[21:59] around the moon and came back. I believe so, yes.
[22:01] Yeah. That was the power time.
[22:03] OK, nice. Yeah, they are semi official
[22:07] mascots for that particular mission.
[22:10] And there is a very interesting picture that Charles Schulz drew
[22:15] of Charlie Brown in a space suit that was hidden aboard the craft
[22:18] to be found by the astronauts once they were in orbit.
[22:22] And that drawing is now on display at the Kennedy Space
[22:24] Center. Nice, nice.
[22:25] So yeah, Peanuts and specifically Snoopy, have been
[22:29] part of NASA's space program for basically all its life.
[22:36] That's nice. That's nice.
[22:38] I would encourage listeners underneath you also
[22:41] specifically, and this is a pop culture recommendation, so I
[22:43] won't repeat it at the end, but check out Peanuts.
[22:47] Honestly, Peanuts is, and I think I read this somewhere.
[22:51] It is the longest story ever told by one human being because
[22:55] Charles Schulz, who did the entire thing from conception
[22:59] till the day it ended, and it ended with his death basically.
[23:04] And he did it entirely by himself though on his 100th
[23:10] birth anniversary. On Charles Schul's 100th birth
[23:13] anniversary, a lot of other comic artists paid tribute.
[23:17] So if you go to the Charles Schul's official website, you
[23:20] can see all of the tributes. And there's some very beautiful
[23:23] tributes there. And one of my personal
[23:24] favourites was this one of Charlie Brown finally kicking
[23:28] the football. So like, one of them wanted to
[23:31] finally kick the football into the air.
[23:33] It's very sweet. It's very cute.
[23:34] Yeah, even I know that rope. Lucy always manages to fool him.
[23:37] I even I know that rope. This is my recommendation of on
[23:40] a similar vein, I was not an avid reader of Peanuts.
[23:44] I was more of a Calvin and Hobbes reader.
[23:46] Hey, Calvin and Hobbes is my, you know, guilty pleasure when
[23:52] it came to that kind of newspaper strip comics.
[23:54] So that's my recommendation, Calvin and Hobbes.
[23:57] It's a fantastic series. Bill Watterson did a fantastic
[23:59] job and I think it ran only for like 10 years, but I remember
[24:02] keep reading it for almost more than that.
[24:04] But that's a fantastic comic strip and a great question.
[24:09] Also, I absolutely did not know this trivia about Snoopy, and
[24:14] now I will never forget it. So I'm going to move from comics
[24:19] to manga, which is like comics in a different part of the
[24:23] world. So X is a Japanese manga series
[24:28] written and illustrated by Sukhasa Hojo.
[24:33] That's Sukhasa. That's Tsukasa.
[24:36] It was serialized in Shevusha's shonen manga magazine, Weekly
[24:41] Shonen Jump from 1985 to 1991. X spawned a media franchise.
[24:50] Like many other manga series, it spawned a media franchise
[24:53] consisting of numerous adaptations and spin offs from
[24:57] several countries. The franchise includes 4 anime
[25:02] television series, 3 anime television specials, 5 animated
[25:07] feature films including a film released in February 2019 and as
[25:12] late as September 2023, several live action films, that is 2
[25:19] Hong Kong films, 1 French film and a Japanese film.
[25:23] There's also video game and a live action Korean TV drama.
[25:28] It also had a spin off manga called Angel Heart which in turn
[25:32] spawned its own anime television series and a live action
[25:36] Japanese TV drama. So I need you to tell me, which
[25:42] manga series are we talking about?
[25:46] I'm assuming this has to be something very famous.
[25:49] It is very famous and let me also say that it's quite
[25:52] topical. OK, oh, because I was going to
[25:58] get something like Pokémon or Avatar or something like that.
[26:03] But no, no, that doesn't feel very topical.
[26:06] I think the easiest way for you to crack this would be the fact
[26:08] that I mentioned there are several live action films, out
[26:11] of which two are Hong Kong films, one is a French film and
[26:13] one is a Japanese film. So nothing in the Hollywood.
[26:18] No, no Hollywood as such. OK, you should know I'm not that
[26:23] big a manga fan. I'm not an otaku.
[26:25] So. Oh, see, You knew that.
[26:29] I didn't know that. I'm not.
[26:32] I'm not familiar with all of manga and anime history, but I
[26:36] do know the famous ones. This is a famous one.
[26:39] This is a famous one. OK.
[26:42] No, I don't know right now. Anything about non Hollywood
[26:46] film adaptations of mangas at all so.
[26:50] OK, so let me just put it this way.
[26:52] One of the Hong Kong films was a 1993 live action theatrical
[26:57] adaptation which was released in America in Hollywood with an
[27:03] English dub by Fortune Star and 20th Century Fox.
[27:08] That's how I know this film, because I know this film.
[27:11] And I know this manga from the 90s, because there was a movie I
[27:14] watched in the 90s, a Hong Kong movie, featuring this manga.
[27:26] And you're saying it was dubbed and released in the stateside as
[27:30] well? Yes, because I remember seeing a
[27:33] dubbed version. Sure.
[27:35] I didn't obviously watch the Chinese version or the Chinese
[27:38] language version. Sure, 90s.
[27:41] Did it star any famous Hong Kong actor from the 90s?
[27:47] There was like Tony Liung or Jackie Chan.
[27:51] Yes. So now you've reached the crux
[27:53] of the question, which should give you the answer Who is
[27:58] arguably the most famous 90s action star from Hong Kong?
[28:03] Obviously Jackie Chan then, but. Yes.
[28:07] What are his famous films from the 90s?
[28:10] Nineteen 90. What did he say, 5.
[28:13] The movie was released in 90. 393.
[28:17] It was an action comedy. He's quite the prolific actor,
[28:21] I'm assuming Rashar is not it. No, no, no.
[28:26] It's not Rashar. It's not Rashar.
[28:28] One more of his famous 90s films is the The Drunken Master, The
[28:34] Legend of the Drunken Master. No, no, there's a a scene in the
[28:44] movie where he basically a Street Fighter themed fight in
[28:52] the movie Street Fighter, Street Fighter Two, the arcade game.
[28:55] So if you know Street Fighter, you know there's a character
[28:57] called Honda. Sure, yeah.
[28:59] So for the movie they changed the name of that character from
[29:03] E Honda to E Hyundai because Jackie Chan had a contract with
[29:08] the Mitsubishi Car company at the time and Honda was the name
[29:10] of the rival. That's a fun piece of little
[29:14] trivia attached to it, but yeah, I don't know at all.
[29:19] No, I have no clue right now. OK, now now my clue to you.
[29:23] My second clue to you which I had mentioned earlier was that
[29:27] it's a topical. I'm asking this question now for
[29:30] a specific reason. So.
[29:33] Is there another version of it coming out?
[29:37] OK, so. Oh oh man, You know what?
[29:44] It's going to be ridiculous because I have not watched any
[29:48] ODT platforms recently. So is it on an ODT platform now?
[29:52] Because I'm so out of. This It is on Netflix.
[29:57] I'll give you that much. It is on Netflix.
[29:59] It has been a few months since I saw Netflix, and I'll tell you
[30:02] why, because they enabled that password sharing thing and I was
[30:08] not even leeching off anybody I was not even using.
[30:10] I had a family account. This is that my family spread
[30:12] out across the globe. So yeah, now we can't even use
[30:16] the same account anymore. But all my Netflix was aside.
[30:22] Some Netflix series. Netflix anime.
[30:26] Let's say it's a movie. It's a Netflix movie.
[30:28] It's not a series, it's a Netflix movie.
[30:30] Oh, a live action film. Yes, it's a live action film.
[30:36] Does it like, is it an adaptation?
[30:37] Is it like starring white people, like a Hollywood
[30:40] adaptation? No.
[30:41] No, no, they they've got an actual Japanese actor this time.
[30:44] Oh, OK. And Scarlett Johansson is not in
[30:47] the movie. Oh, that's then.
[30:49] Then nobody cares if there's no white washing happening, OK?
[30:56] So there have been mixed reviews about this movie.
[30:58] I've read articles where some of it classify as this crazy action
[31:03] flick which is just worth a watch, and there are some which
[31:05] say that it's just a ridiculous film.
[31:08] So there are multiple options for that.
[31:10] So I don't think now if the Netflix clue doesn't give it to
[31:14] you and the Jackie Chan clue doesn't give it to you, I think
[31:16] I'd probably just tell you the answer.
[31:18] Or do you want to be? Do you want me to go on you?
[31:21] Should go for it, because I can't think of anything which
[31:23] ties both of these together. OK, so the movie, the manga
[31:28] series, and the name of the movie, obviously they're all the
[31:30] same. It is City Hunter.
[31:33] Oh, I do not know. There's a Jackie Chan movie
[31:35] called City Hunter. I know that it's on it.
[31:37] Oh, there's a Jack. There's a crazy Jackie Chan
[31:40] movie called City Hunter. I loved it as a kid.
[31:43] It was a far complete, fast, more comedy than action.
[31:47] But yeah, it it was a fantastic movie.
[31:50] There have been multiple movies since there's been a French
[31:52] movie. There have been multiple TV
[31:55] series. There's been a Korean drama
[31:56] called City Hunter. There have been animated films
[31:59] called City Hunter. So it's, you know, been revived
[32:01] over the past 10 years quite a bit.
[32:03] Interesting. OK, I didn't know that.
[32:05] So, and it's available on Netflix right now.
[32:07] So the new City Hunter movie is available on Netflix right now.
[32:12] Very interesting. OK, that was there was something
[32:16] that I can look forward to watching now when whenever I get
[32:19] my Netflix, I gone back on track.
[32:23] Annoyingly enough, I'm the one who's paying for it.
[32:25] Like my parents are losing it. Oh my God, I don't even.
[32:30] Have access to the code, which is very heartbreaking.
[32:33] I'm just going to not watch Netflix anymore again I guess.
[32:38] OK, so from my my sad little Netflix.
[32:42] Sorry, but that was a good question.
[32:44] And Jackie Chan of all people, Jackie Chan.
[32:47] Interestingly enough, I've been told I mispronounced the last
[32:50] name. I believe all of us do.
[32:51] It is not Jackie Chan. It's Chan.
[32:53] If. If you go by how Chan.
[32:55] Yeah. The Chinese last name would be
[32:58] pronounced. Chan would be Chan.
[33:00] Oh, OK. Yeah.
[33:01] Because I had, I had quite quite a few friends in Singapore who
[33:05] were the last name Chan, and none of them were chans.
[33:09] They were all chans. They were all chance.
[33:11] OK, nice. Interestingly enough, this is.
[33:14] I don't know if you can even call it a connect.
[33:16] So I told you about the pieces of trivia about Honda and
[33:19] Mitsubishi from the original City Hunter movie starring
[33:22] Jackie Chan. Can you guess the name of the
[33:24] lead actor in the new City Hunter movie?
[33:31] Debu. I don't know.
[33:34] His name is Ryohei Suzuki. Suzuki, you sure?
[33:38] That makes a lot of sense. Lovely coincidence.
[33:42] OK, well Speaking of actually last names, which Indian last
[33:48] name has to do with the profession of a trader or a
[33:54] salesman specifically for perfumes?
[34:00] Okay incoming flex. So the Sanskrit word for
[34:06] fragrance of perfume is sugandha or gandha which means a good
[34:11] smell. So which is where you also get
[34:14] the origin of Gandharva and whatnot.
[34:15] But anyway, coming back to this, so the family or family name or
[34:19] the kind of name of traders who, you know, deal with these kind
[34:25] of perfumes and fragrances would then obviously be an offshoot of
[34:28] Gandha. And that is where we get Gandhi
[34:30] from. So Gandhi is again from the
[34:32] Banaya cast of Gujarat. So thank you ladies and
[34:34] gentlemen. I'll be here all week and that
[34:37] is my answer. Oh wow.
[34:40] I I I want to be annoyed at how quickly you got it, but I'm just
[34:44] impressed right now to. Be fair, I had Douglas piece of
[34:49] a trivia out and asked it as a question.
[34:52] I think it was at Fadamulla's Medical College maybe like 5-6
[34:56] years ago. So that's when that mean in my
[34:58] head for a long time now. You, you carry a lot of trivia
[35:01] with you. I've learned so much trivia and
[35:03] I forget it so quickly. No, no.
[35:05] Same here. Same here.
[35:07] It's just some things just don't like, they just kind of hang on
[35:11] like leeches. Yeah, this is one of them.
[35:14] You could, You could easily ask me questions from this podcast
[35:17] show one of the earlier questions that high likelihood
[35:20] that I'll be like I have no idea.
[35:23] You can ask the question I have asked and I'd still be like, OK.
[35:28] Anyways that was a very quick crack.
[35:31] Yes, it is Gandhi, which I assume at some point would have
[35:34] been Gandhi. And it became Gandhi over time.
[35:37] And Gandhi. Probably.
[35:40] Yes, yeah, the last name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
[35:44] Mahatma Gandhi. Yeah, well cracked.
[35:46] Well done. On to you, Sir.
[35:50] OK, so I'm going to stay with Indian etymology.
[35:54] So this expression X. OK, this is an English
[35:57] expression I'm talking about. This expression X means that the
[36:01] person who holds the most power in any situation, If you
[36:05] overhear someone at work describe you as the X, it means
[36:10] that they think of you as the most important poor person in
[36:13] the office. The expression comes from 19th
[36:16] century England. The origin is supposed to have
[36:19] come from British colonialists mishearing a Hindi word.
[36:25] What is this expression? Obviously it's not a one word
[36:27] expression, but I've just grouped it together as X.
[36:33] Oh, mishearing makes it interesting because I was going
[36:35] to say guru or Pandit, but. Yes, that would be obviously the
[36:40] first thing that comes to mind. But yeah, it's misheard.
[36:45] And what does the Hindi word mean?
[36:47] OK, it's a Hindi or Urdu word. It's a word for thing.
[36:52] Thing Cheese or the Big Cheese? Yes, it is the big cheese.
[36:59] What? Yeah.
[37:02] What? I had no idea.
[37:03] OK. Interesting.
[37:05] Yeah. So the big cheese.
[37:07] Yeah. So when buddy buddy cheese, we
[37:09] say no. So then they were like, oh,
[37:11] buddy buddy cheese. Yeah, the big cheese.
[37:13] Buddy. Buddy.
[37:13] Cheese. Big cheese.
[37:15] Wow. OK.
[37:18] So they misheard the word cheese means in Hindi means thing.
[37:23] They heard cheese and transliterated it to cheese.
[37:26] So the phrase remained the same, right?
[37:30] As in the something big, like a big thing.
[37:32] But then it went from Big Thing to Big Cheese.
[37:35] Oh, that is that is so cool. That is really cool.
[37:40] The fact that they just happened to be two words which are
[37:44] pronounced similarly are almost the same, but mean two different
[37:47] things. Yeah, the big cheese.
[37:54] I would have never guessed. That is lovely.
[37:57] OK, OK, since we are doing some etymology, I'm going to do a
[38:03] quick etymology question as well.
[38:07] And this is a word that is very prevalent in Bombay definitely,
[38:13] but across the Indian subcontinent.
[38:15] Also in some other Asian countries, Malaysia, Thailand,
[38:18] Burba, Singapore. It is a British Raj term.
[38:22] So it is from the era of the British Raj and it was
[38:27] originally meant to refer to a place of assembly.
[38:31] Now you would assume that the way it is used today and what it
[38:37] refers to, its origin or its etymology lies in Ancient Greek.
[38:44] But you'd be wrong, because it isn't Ancient Greek, rather a
[38:49] Persian word that it derives its origin from.
[38:55] If you divide the word into two parts, the first part refers to
[39:00] a ball, and the second part refers to a home, Oregon, a
[39:04] compartment, A dwelling, a house, whatever.
[39:07] So what is this word that I speak of, which is found across
[39:14] the Indian subcontinent? Like I mentioned, which also
[39:16] used to refer to a place of assembly, is used in a slightly
[39:19] different context, Similar but slightly different context Today
[39:23] you would assume, because of the way it is used today, that its
[39:27] origin is Greek in nature, but it isn't.
[39:31] It is actually Persian where the first half comes from, the word
[39:35] meaning ball and the second-half means something along the lines
[39:38] of home, Oregon dwelling or house.
[39:41] OK, when you first said I, you know, place of assembly, my mind
[39:45] went to Maidan. But then when you mentioned the
[39:48] Greek thing, that points me toward Jim Khana.
[39:53] Oh well, cracked. Very well cracked.
[39:55] That is the right answer. Yes, we need some fire.
[39:58] Thank you. Yeah, Gymkhana is the answer.
[40:02] So again, this is just a common word that I saw being used
[40:07] across Bombay very often. Actually, I don't know how many
[40:10] other cities use Gymkhana. I think they're called clubs now
[40:12] in most of the places, sports clubs, clubs.
[40:16] I lived in Ahmedabad briefly. Quite a few places there are
[40:19] called clubs. Delhi also I believe uses the
[40:20] word clubs, but Bombay still uses gym Khana.
[40:24] So does Goa. We do have a gym Khana, Gym
[40:26] Khana here as. Well, right.
[40:27] There are multiple here and actually in Bombay and I assume
[40:30] gym, Khana gym, because that's also where a lot of sports and
[40:33] stuff happen. It has nothing to do with the
[40:35] Greek word gymnasium gymnastics, nothing along those lines.
[40:39] It is just actually Jamaat Khana, which apparently had
[40:45] something to do with jamaat somehow being derived from
[40:48] gained. And that's what Ball is in
[40:51] Persian. And that devolved to Jamaat
[40:53] somehow and Khan obviously being compartment or house or home or
[40:58] dwelling. So yeah, this just this very
[41:01] cool piece of trivia that Jim Khan had nothing to do with Jim
[41:04] kind of blew my mind. Nice.
[41:07] Yeah, nice. Very workoutable question.
[41:09] I appreciate that you gave a lot of clues right up front, front,
[41:12] loaded with clues. OK, let's move completely away
[41:15] from etymology and other things like that.
[41:17] This is a very simple question. You know the answer, but you may
[41:20] not know that you know the answer.
[41:22] OK. Love it.
[41:24] This disease or group of diseases have the highest
[41:28] mortality rate of any disease that is not inherited.
[41:32] Like obviously you know there are certain genetic diseases.
[41:34] If you are born with that, sometimes you just don't get
[41:36] born. You die in a neutral or you die
[41:38] within a few years after birth. So that's like a mortality rate
[41:42] of 100%. So there are a lot of inherited
[41:44] diseases that way. But this group of diseases has
[41:46] the highest mortality rate of any disease that is not
[41:49] inherited. That is 100% mortality.
[41:54] If you catch this disease or you get this disease, you will die.
[42:00] Most of the modern world knows about this disease because of
[42:03] some scares that have happened since the 90s in places like the
[42:08] UK, the US, Japan, etcetera. So I will be very lenient.
[42:14] I don't expect you to give me the scientific name of the
[42:17] disease or the group of diseases or whatever, but if you get very
[42:19] close, I will give it to you. There is no cure and no one has
[42:24] ever survived getting it. As I mentioned, 100% mortality.
[42:28] I'm going to take a shot in the dark and I have no idea why this
[42:31] is. Might even be the answer, but is
[42:34] it does? Is it prion diseases?
[42:39] Prion diseases, why I was expecting you to go to you know,
[42:43] mad cow disease and all, but then you went straight to prion.
[42:46] Yes, you are talking about prion diseases, specifically
[42:50] transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
[42:53] These are again as you mentioned prion diseases.
[42:56] Now, Prion, these prions are this weird category of disease
[43:01] causing, let's say, molecules, because they're not technically
[43:04] viruses, bacteria, they're not even technically alive.
[43:06] They're just kind of misfolded proteins which can, if they come
[43:11] into contact with other normal proteins, will also cause
[43:13] misfolding among them. Now that's a little complicated,
[43:16] but everybody would have heard, or at least most of you would
[43:18] have heard of mad cow disease. There have been scares of mad
[43:22] cow disease in the UK in the 90s, which caused other European
[43:26] and other countries to ban UK beef for, I don't know, almost a
[43:30] decade. And these kind of scares have
[43:33] happened in America as well, for which if at all, one cow is seen
[43:38] to have gotten mad cow disease, they would immediately call the
[43:41] entire herd. So they would have to kill all
[43:44] of them. And if this comes to human
[43:46] beings, which is usually ingestion, so you eat protein or
[43:50] meat which contains A prion, that's when you get it.
[43:54] So these are transmiscible spongiform encephalopathy.
[43:56] So examples of which obviously is bovine spongiform
[44:00] encephalopathy, which you know as mad cow disease and the
[44:03] variant Kruts for Jacob disease or CJD which is caused by
[44:07] ingestion of prions from cows with an animal form of TB and
[44:11] Kuru, which is a disease recorded only in a small
[44:13] population of practicing cannibals in Papua New Guinea.
[44:17] So this wow, this is great. Obviously.
[44:21] I just have to make one clarification.
[44:23] You said prion diseases, but there are a few other forms of
[44:26] parion disease which are either genetically heritable or caused
[44:29] by random mutations. So we are specifically talking
[44:31] about transmissible prion diseases and these have 100%
[44:35] mortality rate and you caught that.
[44:38] I have to ask you, I thought like a most people I asked this
[44:42] question to, they all go to rabies.
[44:46] What prompted you to go to Prions?
[44:51] I shouldn't be embarrassed when I am a little bit guilty.
[44:54] Pleasure I'm assuming you've heard of or you've played the
[44:58] game Plague dot Inc or Plague Inc, whatever it was called.
[45:01] This is a mobile game, mobile phone game where you're supposed
[45:04] to basically destroy the world by generating this disease that
[45:09] would kill the network. So the beginning of the game,
[45:12] you're given a couple of options.
[45:13] So you can either go. Bacterial, you can go.
[45:15] Fungal, you can go. Viral you can go, and one of the
[45:18] more advanced forms is Prion and the rest of them I had heard of.
[45:21] I'd never heard of Prion diseases before.
[45:23] And turns out when you go for Pran, it is one of those very
[45:27] high mortality rate ones, but also happens to be tough to
[45:32] transmit or something among those lines.
[45:34] Yeah, you have to eat it. You have to ingest it.
[45:36] Yeah, exactly. So like, unlike, say, viral,
[45:38] which transfits very quickly but won't have high mortality, the
[45:41] idea of the game was basically to destroy the entire world's
[45:43] population. So I used to always go prior
[45:46] diseases because I was like, oh, I love the high mortality.
[45:49] Nobody survives my plague, and that's because I was trying to
[45:55] destroy the world in plague ink. So I guess all those hours of
[46:00] mobile gaming came in handy just for this day.
[46:05] Nice. So again as I mentioned, a lot
[46:08] of people think of rabies. Rabies is has a very high
[46:12] mortality in the high 9099.9999% kind of mortality rate as of
[46:18] 2016, only a total of 14. That's one four people in
[46:24] history have are known to have survived A symptomatic rabies
[46:27] infection. We're not talking about, you
[46:30] know, some rabid dog or a bat or something biting you and then
[46:34] you know you get the rabies virus, but you get the
[46:36] vaccination in time or the immunoglobulin time that does
[46:39] not count as a infection. We are talking about a
[46:42] symptomatic once the symptoms emerge, right, hydrophobia and
[46:46] all those ones. So symptoms emerge, that's a
[46:48] symptomatic rabies infection. And as of 2016, only one 414
[46:52] people have survived asymptomatic rabies infection.
[46:56] So because of that, it has missed the 100% mark.
[47:00] But as of today, prion diseases hold the record.
[47:07] Interesting. So Aditya, last question of the
[47:10] day. I will do.
[47:11] The last question of the day and the last question of the day is
[47:14] also curtsy. One of our listeners who I asked
[47:19] a question from last episode as well and Ayush had sent multiple
[47:23] questions. So here's another question from
[47:25] Ayush's set. Kisa Kursika is a 1977 Hindi
[47:31] language political satire film directed by Amrit Nahata,
[47:35] produced by Badri Prasad Joshi. Amrit Nahata was also a member
[47:39] of the Indian Parliament this movie.
[47:42] Spoofed. Something that came about during
[47:47] Emergency, right before Emergency, which is still around
[47:51] today. And because of that, both Indira
[47:56] Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi tried to get it banned by the Indian
[48:00] government during the Emergency period and all the prints were
[48:02] confiscated. Do you know what it was?
[48:06] Trying to satire? A pet project of Sanjay Gandhi.
[48:09] Actually, what was this movie trying to satire?
[48:12] When So when you say Kisa Korsika, the first thing that
[48:15] comes to mind was the court case against Indira Gandhi when she
[48:19] try, when she used government resources to influence the
[48:22] election of. And that's why, you know, the
[48:25] court case came and her election was regarded as invalid and she
[48:29] declared the Emergency as a, you know, result of that.
[48:32] But you're saying is this have to do with Sanjay Gandhi, right?
[48:35] Yes, it was Sanjay Gandhi's plans.
[48:37] Sanjay Gandhi's plans. I remember like when you talk
[48:40] about Sanjay Gandhi, there are three things that come to mind.
[48:42] One is the forced sterilization, you know, drive.
[48:47] The second were the destruction of slums.
[48:51] And the 3rd, when frankly, his only proper legacy would be
[48:56] Maruti Marita Suzuki. He was responsible for putting
[49:00] that up. Hey, well done.
[49:01] All right. Today's been a day of quick
[49:04] cracks. Maruti Udyog which was made in
[49:09] which was established in 1981. Before that, the auto
[49:11] manufacturing plants that Sanjay Gandhi had initiated was
[49:16] satirized in this particular film in Kisa Korsika and he was
[49:21] so annoyed by it that he not only wanted to get banned, which
[49:24] I think they managed to do temporarily, all the prints of
[49:28] the film were also confiscated and were sent to the Maruti
[49:33] Udyog factory, apparently where they were burnt, so including
[49:39] the master master print. So yeah, if I'm not wrong it is
[49:44] a lost film, or at least was for a while.
[49:47] If it has been restored, I'm not sure it was confiscated and and
[49:52] destroyed. Oh, I just found out the only
[49:56] surviving print was made available on its TV telecast on
[49:59] ZTV. So that is the only surviving
[50:01] print that that that survived the band.
[50:04] Oh, and the confiscation. This movie came out in 1977. 77
[50:10] Oh, OK OK And Maruti brought out the first car, I think 8182,
[50:17] something like that. Right.
[50:18] Maruti Udyog. The name itself came about in
[50:21] 1981, but Sanjay Gandhi's auto manufacturing plants were
[50:25] obviously older than that. Around almost a decade older and
[50:28] yeah. Yeah.
[50:29] No, I mean, like he'd been fishing around with the Japanese
[50:31] for a, you know, collaboration. I know that much.
[50:35] Great question. Yeah.
[50:37] OK. So it's time to wind up today's
[50:39] episode. Let's go to our audience.
[50:42] Question which I had asked at the beginning of today's
[50:44] episode, which was in 1980s Millions used X during exercise
[50:48] to help and this helped mark the beginning of the aerobics grace
[50:52] of the 80s. During the height of excess
[50:53] popularity, the number of people who reported that they walked
[50:57] for exercise rose by around 30%. However, the new generation or
[51:00] replacement of X could not be used during exercise.
[51:04] What am I talking about, Aditya? Any ideas?
[51:08] No, actually during the 1980s you said.
[51:13] Yes, so the 80s is when the aerobics craze came up, and the
[51:17] aerobics craze was enabled to a large extent by this.
[51:23] After buying one of these, there was more incentive or there was
[51:27] more motivation for them to go walking.
[51:30] So much so that the number of people who reported that they
[51:32] walked for exercise rose by around 30%.
[51:35] Oh, I know this piece of trivia. Why do you know this?
[51:41] Yeah, I know, because you told me the same thing.
[51:45] Before I told you this. Yes, because I have asked a
[51:48] version of this question before and you told me this, I think it
[51:52] was not included in the episode. But yes, you have told me this.
[51:55] OK, is it the Walkman? Yes, it is the Hawkman.
[52:00] See what I mean? I actually forget stuff that I
[52:02] might have mentioned, right? Yeah, so the Walkman and the
[52:09] replacement was the Diskman, which came out in 84 and they
[52:13] produced it till 2000. But as you know, the Diskman
[52:17] would keep skipping, You had to keep it flat.
[52:20] But if you tried climbing stairs or walking down stairs with
[52:24] every few seconds it would skip, the music would keep skipping.
[52:27] So you had to kind of, you know, be stationary.
[52:31] So yeah, so it was the Sony Walkman.
[52:33] Cool. OK, cool.
[52:35] Cool. So, Aditi, you've already
[52:37] mentioned Peanuts as one of your pop culture recommendations for
[52:41] this week. Any other?
[52:43] So yeah, when I say Peanuts, I would say go back and look at
[52:46] some of the most famous Peanuts comic strips, including the very
[52:49] first one, which is pretty symbolic of how how the series
[52:53] would shape up over the next few decades.
[52:56] But apart from that also the people who have paid homage to
[53:00] it, especially on Charles Schulz 100th birth anniversary.
[53:04] Those are some lovely comic strips by some of the most
[53:06] popular comics that were active at that time not not very long
[53:11] ago, a couple of years ago itself.
[53:13] I would also recommend since I'm recommending Peanuts.
[53:17] So moving to something in the food space, I would recommend
[53:20] this book called Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.
[53:23] Yes. I encountered this as a Netflix
[53:26] series first and then I realized it is based off of the book.
[53:29] It is by Samin Nosrat who is Iranian I believe, and she has
[53:36] written both the book and is in the Netflix series as well.
[53:39] What a lovely, lovely book, what lovely series.
[53:42] It talks about food, it talks about cooking, There are recipes
[53:45] and stuff mentioned in it, but it is so much more than that.
[53:48] And Samin Nosrat has a very, very unique voice which which is
[53:52] beautifully represented in both those forms.
[53:54] So check it. Check out the Netflix series and
[53:56] check out the book, Both of them gorgeous.
[53:58] I actually encountered it when I was preparing for MasterChef
[54:02] Singapore. I don't know if I've mentioned
[54:03] this. Oh, I did not know that you
[54:06] tried out a MasterChef Singapore.
[54:08] I was in MasterChef Singapore. I was in the top 12, top 13 in.
[54:13] Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold your horses.
[54:16] Hold your horses. How is it that I don't know
[54:18] this? I've never heard of this before.
[54:20] When was this? This was not very long ago.
[54:24] This is a couple of years ago, yeah.
[54:26] No, no, I you don't get away with couple of years ago or not.
[54:29] I want your season number so I can dig this out on YouTube.
[54:34] I don't know if it's available on YouTube.
[54:35] I don't know. I don't think I have seen the
[54:37] entire episode. I will find it.
[54:39] I was there only for like one episode and then I got
[54:42] eliminated. So.
[54:44] No, but top 10 means you would have been like you would have
[54:46] gone a couple of rounds. Right into the master chef
[54:49] kitchen. No, I was not.
[54:50] I was eliminated just before the contestants go into, so I never
[54:53] got the apron. But out there like in in the
[54:56] top, I started in the top 18. I came down to the top 15, top
[55:01] 13, something like that. And then I got eliminated.
[55:04] Yeah, I am the one who will be editing this episode.
[55:07] So I'm very tempted to delete this bad part.
[55:09] But coming back to pop culture recommendation out of which
[55:13] Master Chef Singapore starring me is not one of them.
[55:17] Salt, fat, acid, Eat the Netflix series and the book and of
[55:21] course Peanuts comics. Both them were checking out.
[55:25] And to our audience members, I will get the information of
[55:28] Aditya or I will dig it up in some way, shape or form and will
[55:31] inform you in future episodes as to what exactly Aditya did on
[55:34] Master Chef Singapore. Why not?
[55:37] So my recommendation for this week, I've already mentioned
[55:41] Calvin and Hobbes, fantastic comic series.
[55:43] There's a collected Calvin and Hobbes book that's available,
[55:46] hardcover edition. It's worth its price.
[55:49] That's one of those my one of my recommendations.
[55:51] My second recommendation is that on Netflix India there has been
[55:56] a recent entrant. It's not a new TV series, but
[55:58] it's one of my favourites from almost 2 for almost 2 decades
[56:03] now. But it wasn't available in India
[56:05] until I think about last month. The series is called Monk as
[56:11] most of my recommendations. It's got to do with crime.
[56:13] It is a cozy weekly mystery series featuring what can only
[56:21] be described as the defective detective.
[56:24] So imagine if your lead character, in this case Adrian
[56:29] Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, has innumerable number of
[56:32] phobias and has OCD as well. Some of his phobias include milk
[56:39] heights and whatnot. Not the best thing to have when
[56:41] you are a detective, but the series is just a heartwarming
[56:45] series. It's a cozy series, something
[56:47] that every time I watch it it you feel like you're sitting
[56:50] down with a cup of hot chocolate on a rainy day.
[56:52] It's a beautiful series, and until recently you could only
[56:56] watch it on the Peacock network. But now it's come to Netflix, so
[56:59] for everybody in India, I hot, you know, strongly recommend
[57:03] Monk. It's fantastic.
[57:05] Go catch Monk on Netflix. And I think that's all the time
[57:12] we have for today's episode. Thank you all for, you know,
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[58:11] and have a great day. You know, we forgot one thing.
[58:14] We forgot my question for next week.
[58:16] So I'm just going to quickly ask that.
[58:17] And my question for next week is just like Snoopy was a mascot
[58:22] for the NASA space program and S lot safety, who would be the
[58:27] mascot for Indian space program, ISRO's space program?
[58:32] And that is something you'll find out next week.
[58:37] You can just imagine that, I said.
[58:38] There's a whole closing spiel again, so just go back and
[58:41] rewind if you want to listen to that again.
[58:42] But yes, this is the official end of the episode.
[58:45] See you guys next week.

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