# Episode 091 - Pharaohs, Statues & Rajinikanth ft. Berty Ashley

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 20 Nov 2024, 1 h 10 min.

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Do you know who was the last pharaoh of Egypt? Do you know which universally beloved person had a statue in Bosnia and Herzegovina, meant to be a symbol of solidarity? Do you know which book is Annaamalai, the Rajini starrer, based on (plus a bunch of Rajini related trivia)? 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 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. And we're back for episode
[0:20] number 91 of Are You Quizzing Me?
[0:23] 91, the International Dialling Code for India and also the 27th
[0:28] distinct semi prime number. A little bit of trivia for all
[0:32] you math nerds out there. So it's back today with me,
[0:37] Vineet and Bertie Ashley, our guest quiz master.
[0:42] So let us start off with an audience question.
[0:46] And today's audience question is a very Aditya audience question.
[0:50] Regular listeners of the show know that I'm an improviser.
[0:53] Amongst other things, this question has to do with an
[0:57] improvisational group consisting of six members from Oxford Imps,
[1:02] the premier improvisational comedy group from Oxford
[1:06] University. It has been performing since
[1:09] 2011 at many locations, including West End and Regents
[1:13] Park Open Air Theatre. At the beginning of the show,
[1:16] the audience gives a title suggestion and past editions
[1:20] have included Path to the Future, How to Quote a Gent in
[1:24] 10 Days, Mansfield Shark, and on one occasion Queen Camilla
[1:28] herself chose the title of Persuasion and An Odd Occasion.
[1:33] What is the name of this show? Which is actually a pun, and
[1:38] there are enough clues in there so that you'll be able to figure
[1:40] it out. The answer will be given at the
[1:43] end of this episode. But let's get back to the meat
[1:45] of this episode. And let's start off with our
[1:48] guest quiz Master, who has been doing a fantastic job.
[1:52] Buddy. Oh, yes, last week was tough and
[1:55] I missed seeing you for a week and I was thinking about the
[1:59] episode for seven days. It's been tough.
[2:02] Yeah. By the way, a random fact for
[2:04] you Bangalore people, their favorite beer is Beer 91.
[2:10] And I'm 100% sure if you have listeners of this podcast in
[2:13] Bangalore, they're sipping on a beer 91 right now.
[2:16] And the 91 is a reference to the FAC plus 91 India and it's a
[2:21] made in India beer, the dining code, yes.
[2:22] So there you go. OK, the last question we were
[2:26] talking about was Aman Aditya talking about Pharaoh, which got
[2:30] me thinking about Pharaoh. It's a two-part question,
[2:32] usually my first question from this podcast.
[2:34] Now it's become like tradition. So there's a short question
[2:38] which is like 2 points, and then there's a long question which
[2:40] has lots more points. So the short question is, who
[2:43] was the last pharaoh of Egypt? Who was the last pharaoh of
[2:47] Egypt? Yeah.
[2:49] It's not a trick question, right?
[2:50] It's not like one of those like. Direct GK question.
[2:53] Last pharaoh to rule Egypt. Yeah, last pharaoh of Egypt.
[2:56] That's the last person to hold the title of Pharaoh of Egypt.
[3:00] That's basically the person who descended from the sun, blah,
[3:02] blah. Right, Right.
[3:04] Yeah. It's a GK question.
[3:05] It's a traditional question, whatever, But the answer is very
[3:07] nice and it's very interesting. So that's right.
[3:10] Point of clarification, are you asking who was the last to hold
[3:13] the title of Pharaoh or to inherit the title of Pharaoh?
[3:16] All of the above. OK, aforementioned person is the
[3:20] last. I was going to guess Cleopatra
[3:22] or something but OK, not sure. What about Vineet?
[3:25] What are you going to guess? I would have gone to the
[3:28] Ptolemy. Ptolemy with AP with.
[3:31] AP with AP. Ptolemy.
[3:33] But I think Cleopatra was after Ptolemy.
[3:34] So then. Well guess what?
[3:37] Both of you stopped on the answer.
[3:38] It is Cleopatra. Congratulations, she was the
[3:41] last fellow of Egypt. Well done.
[3:44] Good first start for both my now comes the exciting part.
[3:48] So Egypt before it was the great Egypt had two kingdoms, the
[3:53] Kingdom of the Northern Nile and Kingdom of the Southern Nile.
[3:56] They had two kingdoms which had two kings.
[3:59] The northern one was the one which was basically because it
[4:03] just bordered the Sahara. It was a Kingdom which is based
[4:06] on the sun. And that king was known as the
[4:09] pharaoh, OK. And they were the ones who had
[4:12] the entire tradition of the sun is the most important thing, all
[4:15] that kind of stuff. The Kingdom of the South of the
[4:18] Nile had more fertility and they had access to South of Africa.
[4:22] So the sun did not play such a big role, but what did play a
[4:25] big role for them was agriculture.
[4:27] So they worshipped agriculture and they were a very agrarian
[4:30] society and they've been living for hundreds of years.
[4:33] OK. By the way, this is completely
[4:34] on the spot. I've not done research.
[4:35] So if I'm not wrong, King Secondarian, I think that's his
[4:39] name. I'm just going to call him Seki.
[4:42] OK, so Seki was the king of Down South, and then we had the
[4:47] Pharaoh up north, right? And then when I was in the
[4:49] middle and they were fine, they were all good.
[4:51] Then what happened was when people visit royal people, they
[4:56] take gifts along. Like for example, if you were to
[4:58] land up at Azia's house for his birthday, you have to take a
[5:00] gift, right? Obviously one of the biggest
[5:02] gifts that you can get is live animals.
[5:05] So if you know like the Mysore Zoo, my city right now was
[5:09] started because it used to be the place where the king used to
[5:12] keep all the animals that were gifted to him when he was a
[5:16] king. The same way the London Zoo had
[5:17] a whole section where all those people who gifted viewed animals
[5:21] to the queen. This kept so when this group of
[5:24] people came from the southern bits of Africa, they took 4
[5:28] animals along with them and gifted it to the king 2nd.
[5:32] And King Seki had never seen an animal like this.
[5:34] He's like Oh my God, these things are incredible.
[5:37] What are these like what? From now on they are royal
[5:41] animals. We give them a golden tank and
[5:45] then obviously he's a pharaoh. I mean he's a king.
[5:47] So he's got a huge house by the river Nile and he builds this
[5:50] huge tank and then he lets these animals in and then he tells all
[5:54] the people these are royal animals.
[5:56] You can come and say hi and whatever, but they are supposed
[5:58] to be worshipped and everything like that.
[5:59] All cool, everybody's happy. OK.
[6:03] Then these animals after a few months, start getting into the
[6:07] mating period. Now interestingly, these animals
[6:12] have the loudest sub Sonic sounds ever made by a
[6:19] terrestrial animal. OK.
[6:21] That's your clue. Now when they get horny, I don't
[6:25] know about this podcast, I don't know if I can use that word, but
[6:27] when they become happy, they start making more of these
[6:30] sounds. And unfortunately, the only time
[6:33] they do this is at night. Across the Nile, many kilometers
[6:39] away, was the pharaoh of the northern Kingdom, and he had a
[6:43] house also by the Nile, obviously, if you're the king
[6:45] used to live by the Nile. And suddenly in the night he
[6:49] hears these and he's and he's like, Oh my God, I'm getting a
[6:55] headache and laughter. Three nights of not being able
[6:57] to sleep, he's rude. Something is happening across
[6:59] the river and he sends his minister like, bro, find out
[7:01] what's happening. Stop this infroning noise.
[7:03] I can't sleep. Minister comes to this Kingdom
[7:05] and he's like, guys, what's happening?
[7:08] And he says so and he realizes the animals which are making the
[7:11] noise and he's like, excuse me Sir, my king can't sleep.
[7:14] Please can you tell your animals to shut up now?
[7:18] King is like, is that how you talk to me?
[7:21] Are you seriously going to talk to me like that?
[7:23] Off with his head. How dare you talk bad about the
[7:27] royal animals. Takes off his head and sends it
[7:29] back to the Pharaoh. Pharaoh is like, Oh my word, did
[7:32] he just kill my man? Shit's going down.
[7:35] And he says bring the army down and he brings the army down and
[7:39] these guys are like, how dare you?
[7:41] And they like let attack the animals so they're going
[7:44] straight for the animals. The king over here is like, say
[7:46] he's like, no way, I'm on it. The masters of all his armies
[7:49] and the biggest ever war in Egyptian history happens.
[7:54] Unfortunately Sekhi and his gang get slaughtered and that guy is
[7:59] like take over the entire southern Kingdom as well.
[8:02] And that is how the Pharaoh became the leader of the entire
[8:06] region of Egypt, because the entire southern Kingdom was
[8:10] completely slaughtered by that guy because of these animals.
[8:14] And that is how the country of Egypt was formed.
[8:17] And even the flag of Egypt today is a representation of those two
[8:20] kingdoms together. Now here's a question.
[8:23] Which animal is responsible for the creation of Egypt?
[8:27] Hmm. Before I answer this question,
[8:30] might I say I love the fact that ancient Egyptians spoke like a
[8:34] modern day Bangalore dude? Bro, what are you doing bro?
[8:39] Go attack that. To be honest, Aditya, I could
[8:42] have spoken in hieroglyphics, but because it's an audio
[8:45] podcast, I knew it couldn't translate, so I translated it.
[8:49] We will invite you back for our video.
[8:51] Podcast. To speak in hieroglyphics.
[8:54] My Lord, a point of order. My Lord, Ancient Egyptian
[8:57] hieroglyphics did have an operation, and the closest we
[9:01] have to that is current De Coptic.
[9:04] We have a walking Rosetta Stone right here.
[9:08] Yeah, I challenge you with my vineet.
[9:09] OK, you face up against my vineet.
[9:12] Yeah, OK, OK, OK. No, no.
[9:16] So first of all, it's not enough that you are a musician, You
[9:19] also work with improv. You're a quizmaster, you're a
[9:21] molecular biologist. You also have to be a great
[9:24] recount storyteller. Thank you so much, yes I do
[9:27] enjoy. Telling stories.
[9:28] I'm actually now starting to get a little irritated like this is
[9:31] too much. Both OK.
[9:33] Yeah, I feel like after this they're just going to wait till
[9:36] the next birdie guest episode drops.
[9:38] Is it like a? Yeah, very vertical.
[9:43] No, no, OK. OK, start listing animals.
[9:45] I'm going to go with hippopotamus.
[9:47] I was going to go with Hippo as well.
[9:49] Fantastic. Both of you hit it right on the
[9:51] board. Yeah, it's a hippopotamus.
[9:53] So horny hippos make subsonic sounds and that they are
[9:56] responsible for the creation of the country of Egypt.
[9:59] OK, game should have been horny horny hippos there.
[10:01] You go. Yeah, yeah.
[10:04] Yeah, I feel like that would really be age inappropriate
[10:06] sense. By the way, we know this because
[10:10] it's written in an ancient text. It also tells us how very
[10:14] savagely the king was killed by the pharaoh.
[10:16] So the Pharaohs exist because of hippos.
[10:19] The thing with never kill the messenger is not just like good
[10:23] diplomatic etiquette, it's also good to save your life because
[10:28] this is not the only time this has happened.
[10:30] I know there was this empire called the Farzimid Empire if I
[10:33] remember it correctly. This again off the top of my
[10:35] head. The Genghis Khan instead of his
[10:38] usual approach of you know, going and completely stream
[10:41] rolling over a country, basically just sent an envoy to
[10:44] the Farzimid Empire to tell them to kind of become his vassal
[10:47] state or something like that. The king of the Farzimid Empire
[10:50] decide in his all his great wisdom to say no and cut off
[10:54] this guy's head and sent it back in a box to Genghis Khan.
[10:57] Apparently Genghis Khan took a look at the box, went out into
[11:01] the fields of Mongolia, waited for like 2-3 hours and then came
[11:04] back and then unleashed 4 out of his seven dogs of war, which is
[11:08] generals onto the words with empire.
[11:10] They came to completely steamrolled the place, scorched
[11:14] earth. They killed every man, woman,
[11:17] child. They salted the earth, they
[11:19] blocked the rivers, so much so that what was a really fertile
[11:22] land just became a desert. Yeah.
[11:25] Yeah, wow. That's not the only time that
[11:27] the messenger has been killed. As students of history, you
[11:31] would know there was once a messenger that was sent to
[11:33] Gerard Butler and then in slow MO.
[11:38] Yeah. And then he had a lovely
[11:40] soundtrack at the back and like, yeah, this is Sparta.
[11:43] Zimmer scored this historical moment.
[11:48] Excellent. OK.
[11:48] So do I pass the baton to? OK, Aditya, where did you go
[11:51] this first this time? OK, I'm waiting for how to segue
[11:54] from Honey Hippos to what question you have.
[11:59] OK. So thank you.
[12:01] Thank you for that lovely question, Bertie.
[12:04] And Speaking of culturally significant moments in Egypt,
[12:08] I'm going to go to a culturally significant moment in Korea.
[12:14] So that's just the easiest segue that could ever be managed.
[12:19] So we are in this case talking about a metal sculpture that was
[12:25] unveiled less than a decade ago in Seoul to mark a culturally
[12:31] significant moment for Koreans. Do you know what sculpture
[12:36] outside the Coax Shopping centre, which is one of the main
[12:39] localities, main areas in Seoul? What metal sculpture or what is
[12:44] it dedicated to? What was it supposed to signify?
[12:48] Oh, interesting. I have a guest but it's a very
[12:51] silly guess. Is it oppa Gangnam Style?
[12:58] It is the hands of the Gangnam Style.
[13:00] You're right. The hand sculpture.
[13:04] Oh, that was very, very quick. All right, you are correct.
[13:08] This has become one of those tourist landmarks in Seoul that
[13:11] you can go visit. Interestingly enough, there's a
[13:13] stage area beneath it where lights come on.
[13:16] And if you stand in the stage area, the music plays as well.
[13:18] So you can do the whole dance sequence if you want to.
[13:21] And this is in Gangnam area. So Coax shopping center is in
[13:24] Nagnam. Nice.
[13:26] Great job, Vineet. No, I can't take credit for it.
[13:29] It was a complete guess. I had no idea that was the
[13:31] answer. Then you should be taking credit
[13:32] for it. Like literally.
[13:34] Then you definitely should take credit for it, yeah.
[13:38] Back to you. Oh, I forgot.
[13:41] Oh my God. Every time I say Bertie, you
[13:44] this is the chart and Bertie looks surprised.
[13:46] We're like 810 questions in and he still looks surprised every
[13:49] time. It's like.
[13:49] I'm enjoying answering. OK, cool, because you brought up
[13:55] sculpture. Let's do this.
[13:57] It's more of the Segways. Give me a second while I Get the
[14:01] facts right. OK, I'll go for it.
[14:05] Sorry, sorry, sorry. Before you do, before you do
[14:06] that, literally you just did like a matrix kind of thing
[14:09] where like something downloaded in your brain where you got a
[14:12] facts right? Like when mummy can I do it?
[14:14] We spent like a few significant seconds on the laptop just
[14:16] getting a facts right. You just did a Is there somebody
[14:19] off screen just downloading stuff into your brain?
[14:21] That was insane. OK, cool.
[14:22] Nevermind. Go ahead.
[14:23] He's got a mind palace, OK. I just need to know the name of
[14:26] the countries in the year just to make sure It's a quiz
[14:28] podcast. I can't get facts wrong.
[14:29] And I'm doing this off the top of my head, right?
[14:31] So also very interestingly, we need said war of the segues.
[14:35] And this is a great segue because it's about a war, so.
[14:39] The segue of wars. So this is segue from both the
[14:42] war and the fact that you shared sculpture.
[14:43] So Bosnia has have this Great War, Bosnian war, obviously shit
[14:48] goes down, civil India rise, everybody's fighting each other,
[14:52] right? And finally peace happens.
[14:55] And one of the most important places is called Mustar Mustar.
[14:59] It's a place where finally they're like, OK, this is the
[15:02] kind of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina, all the
[15:06] places and it, if you had to have a monument for peace, a
[15:10] sculpture for peace, that's where it should be, right?
[15:13] And everybody's like, OK, cool, we've stopped the war.
[15:16] Everybody's happy. Now we need to figure out what
[15:20] to put there. So obviously everybody say I'm
[15:22] going to put this, I'm going to put this, I'm going to put that,
[15:24] everybody. And then finally they've all
[15:25] decided, yes, everybody's decided unanimously that this
[15:32] sculpture or a statue of a person is the right statue to
[15:38] be. So it's not a sculpture.
[15:39] There's no hands or not, it's a person.
[15:41] So you just have to tell me who it is a statue of.
[15:43] Now, here's the thing. It was unanimous.
[15:45] Everybody, Bosnia, Hisognia, most are all these weird E
[15:49] European. They all said, yeah, that person
[15:51] is statue. The only problem they had after
[15:55] that was because this person has an iconic pose and everybody's
[16:00] like, I want his face facing away from my country because
[16:04] he's got a that pose and he's like, no, everybody, no, no,
[16:07] he's facing us. That means he's angry with us.
[16:09] No, no, no, that's not the point.
[16:10] And they finally, OK, we flipped a coin and he's facing some
[16:12] random direction. OK, I've given away too many
[16:15] clues. I didn't want to give away the
[16:16] gender, but now I've given away the gender as well.
[16:18] So whose statue now stands in the middle of most?
[16:22] You know, honestly, when you started this question, I was
[16:25] going in my head, oh, I know this.
[16:26] He's going to ask about the Sarajevo roses, but then at a
[16:30] completely different direction. And I was like.
[16:32] Weird facts stuff which goes like.
[16:35] Yeah. I do, but I find it very
[16:37] difficult to pick up facts like this.
[16:39] Let's do this cool thing then I'm going to give you both 3
[16:42] guesses. OK, so you know it's a he and I
[16:45] can also tell you it's a statue of a person who's passed away.
[16:47] It's not Donald Trump or whatever, but it's unanimously
[16:51] they all said we love him, so we're going to put a statue of
[16:54] him. OK, each get 3 guesses.
[16:56] I'll give clues with each guess as you go.
[16:59] The Bosnians love him, you said. Right Bosnian Hetzognians.
[17:04] Everybody like unanimously, I was like, they made a list of
[17:07] all the people they could put a statue of and this was the only
[17:09] person. They all said yes, we have no
[17:12] issues with him. Does this person have statues
[17:15] elsewhere also? Like, is this a person who has
[17:17] been solicited? OK.
[17:18] Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK. I know of three statues other
[17:22] than displacement. OK, OK.
[17:25] You said pose. Iconic pose, yeah.
[17:28] Iconic pose and three statues. I mean, I know of three like.
[17:33] Iconic pose that somehow is not. Very welcoming.
[17:36] What's his name you like? Oh, I know what a force that is,
[17:39] Yeah. So it's something that is
[17:40] perhaps a little combative, like I'm assuming like a holding a
[17:44] gun, charging, holding a sword, something like that.
[17:47] That's what I'm trying to think of.
[17:48] OK, fine, you can say that. OK, I've got a weird guest.
[17:53] No, it's a dead right. OK, then it doesn't count.
[17:56] So who do you want to go? I'm not taking it as a guest,
[17:57] but who do you want to? Go.
[17:58] I was suddenly thinking of Rocky.
[18:00] OK. Oh, Rocky.
[18:02] Rocky. Smart guest.
[18:03] Smart guest. It helps you get on the track.
[18:05] Yeah, OK. Is this person from that region
[18:09] From that area? Give me two names and then only
[18:13] clues come. Oh, man.
[18:15] All right. OK, OK, OK.
[18:16] Because the clues are getting very obviously easier, yeah.
[18:20] That person, iconic pose, Churchill.
[18:23] OK, Winston Churchill, very nice.
[18:25] Probably not the most combative pose I can't think of.
[18:27] Forget combatant, how many people like that idiot?
[18:29] OK, fine, go idea you go through.
[18:33] I'm trying to think of somebody. Oh, you did say person, right?
[18:36] I was going to say Godzilla or something.
[18:38] OK. No, not Godzilla, not King Kong.
[18:41] You know, I'm also thinking of something to do with action
[18:44] movies. Yeah, some, some.
[18:47] Oh, Terminator. Well, he's.
[18:50] Arnold Schwarzenegger is still alive, so.
[18:52] Oh, that's true. That's true.
[18:54] Oh, somebody is not alive. Bruce Lee take points.
[18:59] Bruce Lee. Yes, that was that post.
[19:03] And to the Dragon, there's a statue of Bruce Lee in just
[19:06] pants in the middle of Boston, and Sahara goes near because he
[19:08] was the only one. They all decide, yeah, he's a
[19:10] nice guy. We all like him.
[19:11] What when you say there's a statue, Bruce Lee?
[19:16] I've seen the one in Hong Kong. I've been to that one along the
[19:19] venue of Stars. But this why is there one both
[19:22] there as they go? Yeah, not even in the capital.
[19:24] It's in some tiny place somewhere there's a huge statue
[19:27] of Bruce Lee. So confusing to me.
[19:30] There you go. OK, but well done, well worked
[19:32] out. Fantastic.
[19:33] Yeah. Fantastic question.
[19:35] Oh, God. Bruce Lee in Bosnia.
[19:39] Wow. Yeah.
[19:41] It's still there. You can still go to it.
[19:42] I think, you know, we keep it as just like Bruce Lee statue
[19:44] Mostar or Bosnia. OK, I'm going.
[19:47] To Google this actually. Before you Google, think of that
[19:51] post. But like, just imagine the post.
[19:53] That's the post. Oh OK so this is a statue that
[19:59] was there till earlier this year.
[20:02] Oh really? By the way, I'm.
[20:03] It was off my top of my head. So wait, what do they do?
[20:06] They move it. It was stolen.
[20:10] Oh my God. Yes.
[20:12] Random update on my fact on. March 3rd, 2024 The statue was
[20:15] stolen in a heist and remained missing until it was found by
[20:20] police six days later. The suspect had cut it into
[20:23] pieces and planned on selling it as scrap metal.
[20:27] I I can't even do how stupid this entire thing is.
[20:30] Why would you say it was? Scrap it.
[20:32] I know it's iconic. You could have put it on eBay,
[20:34] got $1,000,000 out of it. Try to sell it for at least the
[20:38] worth of the fact that it's a Bruce Lee statue.
[20:40] Oh God. Did you get the city right?
[20:44] It is more star. It is more star, yes.
[20:47] Good. Your matrix dude is doing his
[20:49] job well. Plug it in already.
[20:52] Wow, this is so random. This is just.
[20:56] Wow, there a Bruce Lee statue which was stolen and this big
[20:58] sort of it's like if you stole the model, he said.
[21:00] You're like, I'm going to recycle the paper now.
[21:04] No, no no no. Leave the canvas.
[21:06] I want the frame. Yeah.
[21:09] OK. Pass on the baton to somebody
[21:10] else. Go on, go for it.
[21:11] OK, so it's my turn and moving from Hong Kong and English
[21:14] cinema stars to Indian film. How's that for a segment?
[21:19] Smooth, smooth, smooth. This is, I think, in Bertie's
[21:24] wheelhouse, so try not to crack it very quickly, but hopefully,
[21:28] if you do know it, give Aditi a chance.
[21:30] That's all I'm saying, OK. I have a feeling I want to flood
[21:32] this OK. OK, I'm going to be mentioning a
[21:35] lot of movies, so I'll go slow and then link them in your mind
[21:38] because it's a chain, OK? OK, Both the 2003 Kannada movie
[21:43] Gokarna and the 1993 Telugu movie Kondapalli Raja were
[21:51] remakes of the blockbuster. 1992 Rajinikanth star a Tamil movie
[21:57] Anomaly, which as you know, the massive hit.
[22:01] It ran for 175 days and Tamil Nadu was the highest grossing
[22:04] Tamil movie at the time. Great soundtrack.
[22:06] Exactly. Anomaly, as well as the 1988
[22:10] Telugu movie Pranas Nehatulu, were both remakes of the 1987
[22:17] Rakesh Roshan directed Shatrugun, Sinha, Jitendra and
[22:21] Govinda starrer Hudgars. Hudgars was based off a 1979
[22:28] novel. XX has also been adopted into
[22:34] two TV shows in India, the Doordarshan series Junoon, which
[22:38] completed 510 episodes and ran for five years between 94 and
[22:43] 98, and Kismat, a 61 episode TV show produced by Yash Raj.
[22:50] Set in Bombay in post independent India, X is among
[22:54] the top 100 best selling books in the world, with a similar
[22:58] number of copies sold as To Kill Mockingbird and Gone With the
[23:01] Wind. OK, that is one of my answers.
[23:05] The book is the first in a trilogy which is currently under
[23:09] development as ATV Show by Sony Television.
[23:12] Identify the novel X and Brownie points if you can name the other
[23:16] two books in the trilogy. I'm going to flex actually, or
[23:20] I'm going to let buddy try this out because I do know this
[23:23] buddy, go for it. Well, my entire answering, and
[23:27] this is going to be based on the fact that I know Anomaly, it's
[23:30] got about siblings. It's about like some family
[23:32] thing, brothers thing. So I think about trilogies in
[23:34] which there are brothers, so a lot of the dreams, but there are
[23:38] no brothers in that. So it's OK, I need a timeline.
[23:44] Yeah, I'll go to the chain again.
[23:45] So 1979 the book is released. Yeah.
[23:49] So 1970 is a book OK? 87 Rakesh Roshan directs
[23:53] Khodgars. 88 There's a Telugu movie, Pranas Nehotullo.
[23:59] Another remake of Khodgars comes out in 1992, which is Annamale.
[24:05] Annamale is then remade into Gokarna and into another Telugu
[24:09] movie, Kondapalli Raja. Excellent.
[24:12] So that's in the movie section X that Marvel has also been
[24:15] adapted into two TV shows in India, which is Junoon and
[24:18] Kismuth. Junoon was the longest running
[24:20] prime time Doordarshan show at the time, 510.
[24:23] Episodes. Nice.
[24:25] OK, I'm thinking about trilogies which have brothers in them.
[24:29] Can't think of anything so I'm going to randomly say but 1917.
[24:33] And so it can't be Twain. It has been an author of the
[24:36] 70s. OK, for want of a better answer,
[24:40] Robin Cook, I'm going to say. No, it's not Robert Cook.
[24:44] It's a very popular author in India and this is one of his
[24:47] first few big hits, very popular name.
[24:50] Now there is hardly a bookstore in India that you go that you
[24:54] can't go to. You'll find like number a number
[24:56] of his books, and I'm fairly sure you'll find this book at
[24:58] practically every bookstore in India.
[25:01] OK, I think you you sure you know the answer for this?
[25:04] I am pretty certain because anomaly is the answer to another
[25:08] trivia question that I had to ask.
[25:09] Can you give me? Another clue then.
[25:12] If Vineet doesn't have a clue, then I have a lovely clue if
[25:15] Vineet doesn't have one. But yeah.
[25:16] Yeah, please, Please go ahead. But this will be a pretty I I
[25:19] don't know. I might make a giveaway because
[25:21] I'm going to give you the name of a book that this author has
[25:24] written it. Oh, then that'll be too easy.
[25:26] Yeah, I generally want to work this out because I am a
[25:30] bibliophile. I love books and so.
[25:32] So then I'm going to give you a clue.
[25:34] A very peripheral clue. So I told you this is part of a
[25:38] trilogy, right? Yeah, Yeah.
[25:40] This actually was retrospectively made into a
[25:43] trilogy. So the author had wrote this
[25:45] book, he wrote the sequel, and there was a novel he had written
[25:49] which is completely unrelated to this, which he then later went
[25:53] back changed the one of the characters to make it as part of
[25:58] the trilogy. OK, is this author famously said
[26:03] he wants to go for the Olympics? And then he got in trouble and
[26:05] he was put in jail and he wrote a lot of books in jail as well.
[26:07] Yes, he did. So then I would say this Cain
[26:11] and Abel by Jeffrey Archer. Yes, very good Cain and Abel.
[26:14] Nice brownie for the other two books in that trilogy.
[26:18] My mind is blanking. No, the 4th estate is not from
[26:21] that. Does it come?
[26:22] No. No, the 4th estate is completely
[26:23] different. Very similar plot point, like
[26:25] one person from a poor background, one person from a
[26:27] very rich background, but they are newspaper barons.
[26:29] Yeah, Cain and Abel is a banker and the other one's a hotelier.
[26:33] Correct. Exactly.
[26:34] That's why your 4th estate, huh? OK, I'm blanking.
[26:36] What are they? Prodigal daughter and shall we
[26:40] tell the President? Oh, shall we tell the president?
[26:42] So shall we tell the President was initially Robert F Kennedy
[26:46] was the character when he wrote the novel.
[26:47] It was one of the Kennedys who was the President and after the
[26:50] release of The Prodigal Daughter, he went back and
[26:53] changed the President from Kennedy to Florentina Cain, who
[26:58] was the grand of both Cain and Abel.
[27:02] Yeah, I, I know this bit. So I mean, I know this from some
[27:05] literature quiz, but yeah, what is your trivia?
[27:09] So I'll tell you later, I'll tell you the trivia that is
[27:11] related to Jeffrey Archer that I was going to say.
[27:14] I was going to tell you the name of a collection of short stories
[27:16] is actually a play on his last name.
[27:19] Archer has a Queer full of arrows.
[27:22] I love the Queer Full of Arrows just being a lovely play on his
[27:24] own name. I loved his twist in the tale.
[27:27] Or twist in the tale, yeah. Yeah, that was one of his best
[27:29] collections. So he came to Chennai and we met
[27:32] him. Dude.
[27:33] I mean, I obviously had to get my book signed by him.
[27:35] So I had Queer Full of Arrows and I gave it to him.
[27:37] And then out of nowhere, in his pocket, he took out a small
[27:41] bookmark and he said, yeah, take this.
[27:44] And the bookmark had a story on it.
[27:46] Like literally the story is the size of a.
[27:48] Wow, so Vineet, you and I had 1° of separation away from Jeffrey.
[27:53] Archo, Jeffrey. Archo Yes.
[27:56] Yes, and that bass guitarist. Yeah.
[28:00] Yeah. Yeah, Pink Floyd's bass
[28:02] guitarist. Yeah.
[28:03] We are friends with friends of Guy Pratt I guess.
[28:07] OK. Some of his other books, like he
[28:08] was a huge name in the 90s, not so much among our readers now.
[28:12] It's like Sydney Sheldon disappeared from the zeitgeist.
[28:15] When I was a kid, everybody was reading Sydney.
[28:17] Sydney Sheldon believe John Grisham also is not as big now I
[28:22] guess. Yeah, not as big now, yeah.
[28:23] You'd only find him in second hand book shops.
[28:27] But when The Rainmaker released, I remember devouring that book
[28:30] like in two days. The Rainmaker, The firm, the
[28:33] partner. Good books, good books, good
[28:35] books. Nice.
[28:35] My Annamalai trivia is actually multiple trivia as associated to
[28:39] the movie. Annamalai is credited with being
[28:42] the 1st movie to have a mass See introduction Song for a Hero.
[28:46] It also is the first one to feature Superstar Rajini, the
[28:50] title guard. I just came across this because
[28:57] I was curious as to which one was the first movie to have
[28:59] Superstar Rajini. Like, at what point were they
[29:01] like now he's a superstar, Now we just have to put it.
[29:03] And then it started. Yeah.
[29:04] I say after Thalapathy, like after Thalapathy you could say
[29:07] that Rajinikanth like that movie was oh class.
[29:11] Good old times. Oh, actually I.
[29:13] Remember now, because I was on YouTube and randomly this
[29:15] suggestion came up of just the compilation of all of Superstar
[29:18] Rajini, the the title cards. So I started seeing and you just
[29:21] have a compilation of all of them for every movie.
[29:23] And then I was like, oh, the first one is Anomaly.
[29:24] That's how we came across this. Another interesting thing
[29:26] related to this, another piece of trivia is, and I've only seen
[29:29] this on the Wikipedia page for an MLA, I was not able to find
[29:32] it on the other relevant page, the Tamil Manila Congress T.
[29:36] MC. TMC was formed in 1996 and chose
[29:39] the Character Anomalies cycle as its official symbol.
[29:44] Again, I'm not sure because I've not been able to cross check
[29:46] this anywhere else. So TMC's symbol being the cycle
[29:50] comes from an MLA exactly is not something I'm very sure of.
[29:53] By the way, because you do speak Tamil, I imagine there are the
[29:55] iconic dialogues which again I have only read the English
[29:58] translation of. I would love for you to tell me
[30:00] or like. I I cannot do OK.
[30:03] You see the the thing with Rajinikanth dialogues?
[30:05] There's a flare to it, yeah. Exactly.
[30:08] You know something is red. OK, how do you say this?
[30:16] Lion. Lions come by themselves, but
[30:21] pigs come in groups. This is so stupid, right?
[30:25] It's just like. What are you saying?
[30:33] I literally went for vet and on the first day we did the same
[30:37] thing for this jailer. OK.
[30:40] I've been going to Rajinikanth movies on the first day for a
[30:42] long time. There are very few cinematic
[30:45] experiences in India. Then go for a Ratni movie on the
[30:49] first day. I was there for Shivaji, the
[30:51] boss. Yes, I was.
[30:52] Shivaji, the boss he watched on the first day.
[30:56] Shivaji, the boss, me and a friend of mine, the first show
[31:00] was at 6:00 in the morning. Yeah, 6:00 or 6:30 in the
[31:02] morning and was writing 2 theaters in Calicut and we both
[31:06] went to separate theaters and stood in line because there were
[31:09] no reservations at the time. Yeah.
[31:10] Yeah, first come, first serve. And the first person to get it
[31:13] called, we had mobile. We just got mobile phones at
[31:15] that point of time. And we basically were like, OK,
[31:17] he said. I've got the ticket.
[31:18] Come to Radha Theatre right now. Nice.
[31:21] Very nice. And that was an experience.
[31:24] Absolutely. What the climax when Motabos
[31:26] comes in now that is. No.
[31:29] It probably doesn't compare but watching even Shahrukh's last
[31:32] film like because it came back after hiatus and Salman had to
[31:35] speak in the 20 tens was fun. But but but obviously it doesn't
[31:38] compare to Rajni first day. I will tell you what will rival
[31:42] a Rajni first day experience. If you can find a screening of
[31:46] the Room. It is insanity because it is one
[31:49] of those films which is like so bad it's good.
[31:52] And when you enter, I went to see this in Singapore, when you
[31:55] enter, they give you spoons. OK, They give you plastic spoons
[31:58] that is supposed to fling at the screen because the movie
[32:01] randomly features just pictures of spoons, like in the
[32:05] background set designer has put pictures of spoons, plastic
[32:08] spoons in the IT makes no sense. It just makes no sense.
[32:12] And so you are supposed to fling it.
[32:14] And then there are random shots of San Francisco and then there
[32:16] will be cars driving past again, completely arbitrarily.
[32:19] So you're supposed to chat, go, go, go, go because the car will
[32:23] go. It will never reach any
[32:24] destination. Just cut away to the next seat.
[32:26] I am not even kidding. It's ridiculous.
[32:29] You have to, if you ever can, go for a screening of The Room.
[32:32] It's the most fun you'll ever have in a movies.
[32:35] Audit, audit, audit. Aditya's popular commendation
[32:38] for the day is done. I'm writing it down.
[32:40] I have no idea about this so I'm going to do it.
[32:43] Yes, you should. You should.
[32:45] So Anomaly and Gokarna and Kondapalli, Raju and
[32:50] Pranasnehitulu and Khodgars and Junoon and Kismat, they're all
[32:55] adaptations of Cain and Abel, a very famous novel by Jeffrey
[32:58] Archer. And for those who don't want to
[33:01] watch maybe slightly older movies, Sony Television is
[33:04] developing the entire trilogy as ATV Show.
[33:07] It's expected to start shooting next year.
[33:09] And hope to see Aditya in a role in it.
[33:13] Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
[33:15] Oh, it's now me, Right. OK.
[33:17] Yes, yes, Bertie. Finally, yes.
[33:20] Yeah, I'm getting the pattern now since we talked about
[33:24] movies. Let's ask you a movie a question
[33:26] then, not a movie question, but the world of movies.
[33:30] So Hollywood is Hollywood. I mean, we call ourselves
[33:34] Bollywood, Hollywood Tollywood because of Hollywood, right?
[33:37] So Hollywood basically went a forest of holly trees and for
[33:40] many, many hundreds of years it was just that, right?
[33:43] And suddenly it is now the center of the universe for
[33:46] anything to do with movies. And the entire existence of that
[33:54] is thanks to one guy, the fact that he's pissed everybody off.
[34:01] So who is this person who pissed off everyone for the fact that
[34:06] Hollywood exists? I think I thought this.
[34:08] I let Vineet try this. Genuinely, there's nothing.
[34:12] It's on the West Coast, right? It's nowhere near where the New
[34:16] World was. It was in the middle of the
[34:18] desert. It's little furthest away from
[34:20] civilization at that point of time in the early 1900s.
[34:24] And suddenly now it's, yeah, it's a center of the universe
[34:26] for everybody. It's all because of one dude and
[34:30] because everybody was pissed at him and they were like, no, you
[34:33] know what? We don't want to deal with you.
[34:34] We don't. Want to deal with you OK.
[34:38] My accent is different Aditya's like no that's not how he sounds
[34:45] so name a person. Name a person mayor from Metro
[34:50] Golden Mayor. Oh, nice.
[34:52] OK, OK, Aditya, tell us the answer.
[34:55] This would be Edison. Wait, what?
[34:58] Thomas Alva Edison it is OK, true story.
[35:02] Thomas Alva Edison obviously had all the patents for every bulb
[35:07] patent, gramophone patent, electricity patent.
[35:11] So you had a group of goons whose job was to go around as,
[35:14] hey, are you using a bulb? What's up?
[35:16] Pay money. Hey, are you recording sounds?
[35:19] That means using gramophone, pay royalty.
[35:22] And they used to go around and literally go around and catch
[35:25] random studios and say, oh, you're using a light bulb,
[35:28] please give money. And that's how they were making
[35:30] money. So a group of people got to say,
[35:32] listen, we are making movies on a shoestring budget.
[35:35] Of that, 20% is going to this idiot, we have to go away from
[35:39] this. And they're like, what is the
[35:40] furthest place from New York? So they took the American map,
[35:44] they put 1 diagonal and they said literally how far can we go
[35:49] away from on the mainland without leaving the United
[35:51] States? Well, California, let's go to a
[35:54] place, I don't care, let's just go there.
[35:56] So whole group of them just left New York where the movie
[35:59] industry was just about to blossom, and the whole gang went
[36:03] off and said, OK, we're going to the other side of the country
[36:05] and set up shop there. And that's how Hollywood became
[36:07] Hollywood. Nice, nice.
[36:10] There's no other reason for them to go there, only because it's
[36:13] the furthest away from Thomas and Roydison.
[36:15] Yeah, His literature's behavior, they were just like, where will
[36:19] they not follow us? And where will the law not come
[36:21] in behind us? And they were to the wild, Wild
[36:24] West. Yeah.
[36:24] Menlo Park, the furthest from Menlo Park.
[36:27] Menlo Park is into another. Recommendation if you are in
[36:29] Mumbai or if you're visiting Mumbai, go check out the film
[36:32] museum here. It's where I actually came
[36:34] across the Kinetograph. I think that's the first movie
[36:37] camera that Edison invented Vishak and he also had patent
[36:40] over. He didn't.
[36:42] He made somebody else's better. So you you find all of this
[36:47] history related to cinema over there.
[36:49] The film museum in Mumbai is is worth a visit.
[36:51] Yeah. Very nice, both of you at the
[36:54] same time. I want to say 321.
[36:56] You want to tell me what sound does a frog make?
[36:59] OK, three. You're going to make the sound
[37:01] of a frog. OK, 321, go Ribbit.
[37:06] I heard two different frogs. I went with the anglicized frog
[37:10] Ribbit Ribbit. I think do you know what a
[37:12] Ribbit is other than or of your type of condom like you know.
[37:19] So let's go to Doctor Vireet here, Sir.
[37:21] Why do you say? Have you heard a frog go Ribbit?
[37:24] No, this is exactly what Certainly Said has taught me
[37:26] since the early 90s. And do we know who to blame for
[37:30] it? Sesame Street?
[37:31] I had no clue. No, OK, It's basically thanks to
[37:36] Hollywood. I know this one, yeah.
[37:38] Oh, go, go. Please, please no.
[37:40] No, go for it. Go for it because I said crook.
[37:42] By the way, you said the sound. I literally just said crook.
[37:45] Crook is. The sound that frogs make,
[37:48] everybody in the world who's heard of frogs, like, yeah, it
[37:50] croaks. All the English will say that.
[37:52] All the Indians will say that. Everyone, only the Americans
[37:54] will go rabbit because they were Sesame Street.
[37:56] And you're absolutely right. Not only the Sesame Street,
[37:59] anybody who's grown up on American pop culture will say a
[38:01] little bit, Yeah. And here's the fact.
[38:04] Now The thing is the Hollywood studios were like OK, in the mid
[38:09] 1900s, nineteen 20s, and now they were like, oh, we have
[38:11] sound and we have sound. We need Foley.
[38:14] And Foley is external sounds which make up part of this.
[38:17] So you have rain you also they sent out a whole group of people
[38:20] go out of the world and capture every sound that you can bring
[38:23] it back. And those will become part of
[38:25] the library, which we can use as free sounds for any movies and
[38:28] we will give it away. And so people go raindrops, you
[38:31] know, rainfall, blah, blah, blah.
[38:33] This is the sound of a dog sound of a donkey.
[38:35] One dude job was you take we need frog sounds.
[38:38] And he's like, OK, I'll go to the nearest frog that I can
[38:41] find. So he goes off into Hollywood in
[38:44] California and he's out on some some marshland and he fights a
[38:47] frog. He's like, hey, that's a frog.
[38:49] And he goes there, takes a mic, sticks it, and the frog goes for
[38:53] a bit. Rabbit.
[38:55] He's like, yeah, recorded. He has four more different
[38:57] angles, records of all the frogs in the world.
[39:02] He finds the own frog, which is the Pacific tree frog, which
[39:06] doesn't croak. Maybe he could have gone 10 feet
[39:13] the other side. He would have found 100 speech
[39:14] of frogs which will all croak. The one frog whose voice became
[39:19] recorded forever was a frog that does not croak and goes Ribbit
[39:24] and that got recorded into the library.
[39:28] And from there on, irrespective of what a frog they show on
[39:31] screen, the sound which they are allowed Ribbit, the sound.
[39:34] And that's why all the Americans think it's Ribbit, although the
[39:36] frog they show on screen is probably going croak.
[39:40] So as the battle of segues continues, the segue I have for
[39:44] you is just like frogs croak and sometimes annoy people, there
[39:49] are regimes which are annoyed by people croaking.
[39:52] This is a very, very poor segue. No, no.
[39:54] But speaking out against them, do you know why the Chinese do
[39:59] not allow people posting recipes of egg fried rice around 24th
[40:05] October or 25th November? OK, first of all follow up
[40:11] question, is this actual fried rice as they make in China or
[40:14] Indian Chinese fried rice which is nowhere near what fried rice
[40:18] is in China? This is, I imagine, the way the
[40:20] Chinese make. It yeah, I know only one factor
[40:23] about China and the banning, and I want to just randomly say
[40:26] Winnie the Pooh. Oh, that's a good guess.
[40:28] Yes, Xi Jinping hates the comparisons to Winnie the Pooh.
[40:31] No, it isn't Winnie the Pooh, it's not.
[40:32] OK that I'm out. So I had two guesses in my head,
[40:36] one of which now, but he has very kindly eliminated for me,
[40:40] which is going to be something related to Xi Jinping.
[40:42] The other one I was going to do is the other soft spot or
[40:45] basically sore spot that the Chinese government has, which is
[40:47] Tiananmen Square. Nope, not Tiananmen Square, nor
[40:50] Xi Jinping. I want to tip on that.
[40:52] If China has somebody or something that they treasure, it
[40:58] has to be either that guy or it has to be Chairman Mao.
[41:02] Chairman Mao would be much closer to the actual answer,
[41:05] like he's a central figure in the answer.
[41:07] He prefers chicken fried rice to egg fried rice.
[41:08] So they were like, no, we don't like eggs.
[41:10] The egg came before the chicken came.
[41:14] Yeah, the Cultural Revolution mandated that the Chinese will
[41:16] only eat chicken fried. No, no, that isn't the answer,
[41:19] No. So then let's me go the opposite
[41:22] direction. So maybe something to do with
[41:24] Chiang Kai Shek? No.
[41:25] So this is actually another one of those questions we need this
[41:28] familiar with, where I just think the origin of this trivia
[41:31] is so funny or so random that I need to.
[41:33] Share one of those. No, but this case it's a actual
[41:35] historical, well, at least urban legend, if not the actual truth.
[41:38] OK. So this has something to do with
[41:40] Mao Zedong's son. How familiar are you with Mao
[41:42] Zedong's son Mao Onyang? OK Oh yeah, I've I've come
[41:46] across the name. Does Onyang mean egg fried rays?
[41:50] No. No, it doesn't, Mao Anning.
[41:53] I'll tell you a little bit more about him.
[41:54] Mao Anning worked on the staff of General Peng Duhai in
[41:58] northeastern Korea during the Korean War.
[42:00] Mao Anning was born on October 24th and passed away on November
[42:05] 25th. This has something to do with
[42:07] how he passed away. Did he die from eating too much?
[42:12] If anything, this is slightly more ridiculous than that.
[42:14] Like choking on egg Fridays would be sad, yeah, but like,
[42:16] this is just somehow worth. Did he stab himself with a pair
[42:20] of chopsticks while trying to put an egg into his mouth or
[42:23] something? No, it's quite possible.
[42:26] Chinese traditionally use wooden chopsticks.
[42:29] The Koreans use metal chopsticks.
[42:31] Oh, there you go. So it's quite possible to kill
[42:33] somebody with Korean chopsticks. He got electrocuted with his
[42:35] metal chopsticks when somebody hit us.
[42:37] I think when he's eating outside during a storm.
[42:40] That's why you don't eat eggs during the outside.
[42:43] This is actually weirdly close to the truth.
[42:45] What about how he was not supposed to do it outside?
[42:49] There was a fear of something happening if.
[42:51] Oh, he was sniped. OK, you know what, this is close
[42:54] enough to the actual answer, I'll just give it.
[42:55] So on the morning of November 25th, 1950, legend suggests, or
[42:59] urban legend suggests that Mao Onion had overslept.
[43:03] According to some accounts, once a week he stole eggs from the
[43:07] supplies and was cooking breakfast for himself, despite
[43:10] orders that staff are only to cook at night for fear of
[43:14] American air raids. As he was making a pan of egg
[43:18] fried rice, he is said to have perished in a napalm attack by
[43:22] American force in the area who were drawn to the cooking fire.
[43:25] So he literally died because he was making egg fried rice and
[43:29] there was an open fire, which the Americans saw and as
[43:33] Americans do, they bombed the hell out of that place.
[43:34] I know the napalm. Oh my word.
[43:37] But why? The opposite would be true,
[43:39] right? Like if you have a fire at
[43:41] night, it'll make you more visible.
[43:43] Like if you do it during the day, nobody's going to see it
[43:45] properly, right? Like it's just another fire.
[43:46] True, true. Again, this is not something
[43:48] that is completely verified. I don't know.
[43:49] I think what happened was he left it for so long, he bought
[43:53] it. You don't smoke.
[43:55] And I mean each other smoke and they're like.
[43:57] Smoke signals. Somebody out there, son, smoke
[44:00] is out. We got to burn down, bring down
[44:02] the napalm. I love the smell of napalm in
[44:06] the bowling. I miss your ancient Egyptian,
[44:09] but I miss your ancient Egyptian.
[44:11] This one. Bro, that why?
[44:13] No, he's putting smoke. Bro.
[44:16] Come, let's put bomb on him. Bomb on him, yeah.
[44:22] So, as legend goes, Mao Hanyang was responsible for this
[44:27] particular attack and in which he himself sadly passed away by
[44:30] the American forces. And that's why today you can't
[44:33] post a picture, you can't post a recipe, anything to do with
[44:36] expedition the October, November month, you would probably be
[44:39] persecuted for posting it on on Chinese social.
[44:41] Media bro. Wow, OK.
[44:45] The Chinese Academy of History, by the way, denounced the fried
[44:48] rice story as rumours spread by those with court wishes, hearts
[44:53] aiming to gravely dwarf the heroic image of Mao Oniong's
[44:56] brave sacrifice. Now I don't know what brave
[44:58] sacrifice he made. Which means 100% true.
[45:01] Yeah, if you go to the trouble of all that language, verbal
[45:04] gymnastics. It's probably true.
[45:06] So this will be the last episode to ever be aired in.
[45:09] Are you accusing me? But that's OK in China.
[45:11] In China, yeah. But add it in October, add it
[45:14] somewhere in February. That's all.
[45:15] That's fine. Yeah, they won't pick it up.
[45:20] Nice. Oh, by the way, random fact for
[45:21] you guys, I would love to have said it as a question, but since
[45:25] now we're talking about this, you would know the answer.
[45:27] So do you know what Mao Zedong and the Alfonso Mango?
[45:31] Oh wait, I've heard this somewhere.
[45:32] I've seen this trivia. I mean, OK guys, let's not do
[45:36] this. Listeners of the podcast, here's
[45:39] a homework for you. Just go Google Mouse and our
[45:42] Chairman Mao plus Alfonso Mango and have a wonderful time going
[45:46] through what are the Funda is and then at the dinner after
[45:49] that, who are you with? Friends or family?
[45:52] Tell them the story and you're going to have a lot of fun.
[45:54] That's it, go for it. Alrighty, on that note Bertie,
[46:00] back to you. And Bertie?
[46:02] Surprise again. Back to you great Brian Adams
[46:05] song. But we're not going for a take
[46:07] away from there. OK, cool.
[46:10] Since we said China, let's go with this.
[46:12] And we're talking about charm and Mao, so here we go.
[46:15] So this is absolutely, again, ridiculous.
[46:20] So the Chinese guys were like, listen, there's something the
[46:23] entire world is got wrong, and we, the Chinese, are the only
[46:28] ones who have got it right. And because the entire world has
[46:32] this weird system in place, they're also forcing the Chinese
[46:36] people to follow that system. So I'm going to change that
[46:38] system. And they were like, Chairman Mao
[46:40] will be very happy if we do this.
[46:42] OK. So they were like, listen, this
[46:46] particular thing means for us progress.
[46:51] It means great things. It defies everything that we
[46:54] are. But everywhere else in the
[46:56] world, it means exact opposite. It means hold it, stop, OK.
[47:03] So they were like, no, if you're going to change it in our
[47:07] country, it's going to be the other way around.
[47:09] This thing means progress. And the other thing which
[47:13] everybody thinks is progress is going to mean stop.
[47:16] And they did it, and it caused so much confusion and they had
[47:22] to look at, you know, maybe let's not go that far and let's
[47:25] not do this. So what did they try doing?
[47:29] I have a guess. I have a guess.
[47:31] Oh, Vineet has a guess too. Vineet Go.
[47:33] For it, I'm guessing it's going to be green for stop and red for
[47:36] go. So what do they do?
[47:39] They reversed it so instead of green for go, they put green for
[47:41] stop and red to. Overnight China, they were like
[47:44] all traffic lights. Red means go, green means stop.
[47:46] Come on, because you know, red is a complete colour.
[47:51] It means progress. How can we do this?
[47:53] So in our country, red means go. Visit Kerala.
[47:56] I mean, you know how the traffic moves, Yes.
[48:00] Have you seen the Kerala buses go?
[48:01] They don't care about traffic lights.
[48:02] They're like, there we go. So that's what they did.
[48:08] Since both of you could track this, I'm going to ask a
[48:12] question. Which community is in the US?
[48:17] The system with the users like all communities live together in
[48:19] one area, right? All the Italians will live
[48:20] together. I think I know where this
[48:23] question is going. Oh, nice.
[48:25] If you can predict, yeah. No, no, I'm going to say just
[48:27] one word. They just name the community
[48:30] Irish, yeah. He's got the answer.
[48:32] Very good. So now let's go to Aditya.
[48:34] Now we know it's the Irish. Now you know where my segue was.
[48:39] What were you talking about before this?
[48:42] Traffic signals. So what do you think?
[48:44] There's this particular place where all these Irish people
[48:47] live in the US and they were like, I want something changed
[48:51] to the traffic signal. They can't do something as weird
[48:54] as the Chinese did, but they did do something else.
[48:58] OK, And I'll give you a clue. The reason you might not have
[49:02] noticed this in normal is because you might not, I'm just
[49:07] assuming right now suffer from color blindness.
[49:10] But you would have noticed if you were suffering from color
[49:13] blindness. That's a true.
[49:14] Oh, you would notice it if you were suffering a color line, but
[49:17] you wouldn't. Yeah.
[49:18] Everybody doesn't realize this is a thing only color blind
[49:21] people like oh God thank you. Red again, something to do with
[49:26] the redhead. It's got 2.
[49:27] Traffic lights, obviously, which we've just talked about.
[49:29] Yeah, now I'm trying to make the connection to Irish.
[49:31] So instead of red, is it orange or something?
[49:33] They can't. Change the color.
[49:34] So it's the thing, right? You can't change the color at
[49:36] all. So what can I change?
[49:39] Adi I don't remember if it made the final cutter the episode we
[49:42] had a quiz master, Gary Levy from the New York.
[49:45] He's a prolific question that's like 1000 quizzes a year.
[49:48] So he had mentioned this. I don't remember if it made that
[49:51] cut to the final episode, but he had mentioned.
[49:53] This. Oh wow, Wow.
[49:55] And now I'm dumbfounded even more so.
[49:59] Can we ask Doctor Vinit to reveal the answer?
[50:02] Go for it, Vinita, Go for it. So if I'm not mistaken, it's the
[50:05] Irish flag that they wanted to emulate with the lights.
[50:09] OK. Oh, they turned it upside down.
[50:12] Oh, there's the sideways. There's no white and the Irish
[50:15] flag has white in the middle. Yeah.
[50:16] No, I remember something like that.
[50:18] The answer I was looking for is Irish.
[50:19] So you got that. So you get points.
[50:21] Yeah. Thank you.
[50:21] So here's the funda. The Union Jack is famous because
[50:25] it has a red in colour. Yeah.
[50:27] So the Brits do identify with the red colour and famous in
[50:30] Irish history, the flags have always been either green for
[50:33] Ireland and red for the Union Jack.
[50:36] Yeah. And they hated the fact that
[50:39] everywhere in the world, because color blind people should also
[50:43] know what is top and what is go, right?
[50:46] If you are color blind, you can't just different between red
[50:49] and green. How do you know which is top is
[50:50] go? So the rule is red is always on
[50:53] top. So if the color on top is
[50:55] glowing, it means stop. If you're not color blind, you
[50:59] know it's red. If you're color blind, you just
[51:01] know that the color on top, we don't care if it's green or red,
[51:03] it's growing. So it means stop.
[51:05] And the color below that is green.
[51:07] Irish were like, how dare they have a British color above the
[51:11] Irish color. Yes, yeah.
[51:12] So it has a traffic light where the green is on top and red is
[51:16] set red. Is on the bottom, yeah.
[51:17] Yeah, that is the only reason. They're like, no.
[51:20] So green is on top and red is at the bottom.
[51:23] Gary mentioned this. I think you remember when we
[51:26] were talking, I think it was just before the episode, we were
[51:28] talking about how to pronounce certain Irish words.
[51:31] I think. I think he mentioned this at
[51:33] somewhere at that point. Shout out to Gary.
[51:36] Cool question. Thank you.
[51:38] So you we were talking about Irish communities in the US and
[51:42] let us go to a state in the US which has a very large Irish
[51:46] population. Wow, so what's Irish?
[51:49] Yeah, baby. So Frederick Tudor was a pioneer
[51:54] in the trade of this particular item.
[51:57] The item he traded was free to harvest and he needed only to
[52:01] pay for labour. It required packing material for
[52:05] which he primarily used sawdust, which he got free of charge as a
[52:09] waste product from Massachusetts lumbermens.
[52:13] In 1833, fellow Boston based merchant Samuel Austin proposed
[52:18] a partnership for selling the item to India, which at the time
[52:23] was some 16,000 miles, or for civilized people, 26,000
[52:27] kilometers and four months away from Massachusetts.
[52:31] On May the 12th, 1833, the Brig Tuscany sailed from Boston to
[52:37] Calcutta, it's hold filled with 180 tons of the item when it
[52:43] approached the Ganges in September 1833.
[52:47] The Ganga to Indians. Many believe the delivery was an
[52:50] elaborate joke given the extreme amount of time that had passed
[52:54] since harvesting the item in the US, but the ship, astonishingly
[52:59] still had 100 tons of it remaining upon arrival.
[53:03] Over the next 20 years, Calcutta would become Tudors most
[53:08] lucrative destination. Tudor had three specialized
[53:12] warehouses built in India for storage, one in Calcutta, one in
[53:17] Bombay, one in Madras. Many years later, when Tudors
[53:21] India business collapsed, the warehouse in Madras was sold
[53:26] around 1880. Today that building is named for
[53:30] an individual X, who stayed there for a week in 1897.
[53:36] It is somewhat fitting now that the building is named after X,
[53:39] considering X's views on a particular section of society in
[53:43] India and the fact that Tudor himself belonged to the elite
[53:47] upper class of Massachusetts who were known by an alliterative
[53:50] two word description which signified their elevation above
[53:54] the high Coloy of Massachusetts society.
[53:57] I want you to identify the item that Tudor traded in, who X was
[54:04] after, whom the building is currently named, and the two
[54:07] word description that I was talking about that links X and
[54:11] Tudor. If I do the first two, you take
[54:14] the third word, OK? That sounds fair, but OK, go for
[54:20] it. I am completely blank right now.
[54:22] So I think from the last episode we know that Doctor Anita is a
[54:25] big fan of the band Queen. Do you know the song Under
[54:29] Pressure? Do you know how it became famous
[54:32] in the 90s? Thanks to a rap artist.
[54:38] OK, yeah, I see where this is going.
[54:41] Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
[54:44] Have you seen this interview where he says this?
[54:46] He's like, you know, the ocean song goes Ding, Ding, Ding,
[54:48] Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
[54:50] And I go Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
[54:53] And he's saying this with a straight face, like that's a
[54:55] different song. Like you just made the exact
[54:58] same sound. Sorry, this is a very long
[55:01] segue. Tell the name of the song and
[55:02] you're answering his first bit. I I figured, I figured then what
[55:06] do you mean vanilla ice and ice? Ice baby.
[55:08] And then the item must have been ice then Wow, ice.
[55:11] I would not have thought of ice. That was pretty cool.
[55:14] I was hoping people would think of some kind of fruit or
[55:16] something like that, but nice, very nice.
[55:19] I was thinking fruits and vegetables, yeah.
[55:20] Four months later, 100 and 100 tons, more than 50% of the ice
[55:24] was still there after four months.
[55:26] Yeah. Astonishing.
[55:27] OK, so great. You've got the item.
[55:29] It is ice. So he had specialized ice
[55:32] houses. There was one in Calcutta, one
[55:34] in Bombay, one in Madras. The one in Madras sold off
[55:37] today. It's named after somebody who's
[55:38] there in 1897. I think you know the answer to
[55:40] that as well. Yeah, I know the answer was that
[55:42] as well. Yeah.
[55:43] Tell me, my dear brothers and sisters, it's the great Swami
[55:47] Vivekananda. Very good.
[55:49] It is the Swami Vivekananda. It's still known as Vivekananda
[55:52] Ice House, which makes no sense. So it is, again, Vivekananda.
[55:56] It's named after Vivekananda. So the last part of the question
[55:59] was that this is me kind of, you know, doing a little bit of
[56:02] gymnastics to get it there. But that's why I kind of liked
[56:04] it, because my head is made like a perfect round circle when it
[56:07] went from Tudor to Vivekananda and then back to Tudor.
[56:10] It is somewhat fitting that the building is now named after
[56:12] Vivekananda, considering Vivekananda's views on a
[56:15] particular section of society in India and the fact that Tudor
[56:18] himself belonged to the elite upper class of Massachusetts who
[56:22] were known by an alliterative two word description which
[56:26] signified their elevation above the hoi polloi of Massachusetts
[56:30] society. So what is that two word
[56:32] alliterative description? I thought it was creme de la
[56:35] creme, but that's not 2 words. No, it's not 2 words.
[56:37] Yeah, and. It's not alliterative, it's the
[56:39] same word, so it's cheating. Yeah.
[56:43] Come on Adi, I gave 2 answers, you have to give one.
[56:46] That is true. That is true.
[56:47] You did do the heavy lifting on that one, 180 tons of it.
[56:50] So you said this has something to do with the community or
[56:55] group that somewhere can and the post?
[56:57] He didn't oppose them. He had very favorable views
[56:59] about them and their place at the site.
[57:02] Oh, he had favorable views about them.
[57:04] It's a little controversial right now.
[57:05] Many activists don't like that he had some favorable views
[57:08] about them. So does it have something to do
[57:11] with the Brahmins and upper caste people that he was in
[57:14] favor of? OK, so you are almost there.
[57:17] Just make the connect. Brahmins.
[57:20] Boston Brahmins or something like that.
[57:22] Yeah, Boston. Brahmins.
[57:24] Are you serious? Yes, I did not know that.
[57:26] I just. OK, I'll take this point.
[57:29] Yes, you have to. So the term Boston Brahmin was
[57:32] coined with Oliver vendor homes and TIL coming back to my
[57:37] concept of circling around, which is why I really loved and
[57:40] I wanted to ask this question is the fact that there is a famous
[57:43] dog grill called the Boston Toast and it goes like this.
[57:48] And this is good old Boston, the home of the bean and the cod
[57:53] where the Lowells talk only to Cabots and the Cabots talk only
[57:56] to God. Why this kind of made a really
[57:59] good connect with me was because the first time I ever saw this
[58:02] was in a novel by Jeffrey Archer called Kane.
[58:07] And Abel? Nice.
[58:08] In which Kane, one of his grandparents, is a Cabot.
[58:12] Nice. One of his other grandparents is
[58:14] allowed call back, so his name has both Noel and Cabot in it.
[58:18] So then I was making questions for this and these two questions
[58:20] just popped out and I'm like, yeah, these two are going.
[58:22] Together. Great call back.
[58:24] Wonderful, wonderful. This is great.
[58:27] Thank you. Thank you.
[58:27] Very cool, very cool. Just for our audience, in 1842,
[58:32] Frederick Tudor constructed the building facing the Bay of
[58:34] Bengal as a facility to store ice.
[58:37] In 1880, his business collapsed and the building was sold to
[58:40] Biligari Iyengar, an advocate to Madras High Court.
[58:44] Iyengar remodeled the house and named it Castle Kiernan after
[58:47] his friend and judge in the Madras High Court.
[58:50] When Swami Vivekananda visited Madras in 1897, he stayed in the
[58:54] building between 6th and 14th February and later.
[58:57] The Ramakrishna Mutt also functioned from the building
[59:00] from 1897 to 1906. In 1914, the building was
[59:04] acquired by the Government of Madras and functioned as a
[59:06] hostel and training for school for children run by Rs
[59:09] Subbulakshmi. In 1963, on the birth centenary
[59:14] of Swami Bay, Canada, the Government of Tamil Nadu renamed
[59:17] the building as Vivekananda Illam, namely meaning
[59:21] Vivekananda. House.
[59:22] So that's the. Connection that is very nice.
[59:25] Frederick Tudor, who famously shipped ice all the way from
[59:29] Massachusetts to Calcutta because Calcutta was so
[59:32] abominably hot that ice was a sought after commodity.
[59:37] I love the call back as well to Karen Abel.
[59:39] Excellent. Thank you.
[59:40] Very cool. That's a lovely question to end
[59:43] the episode on, I believe. It is.
[59:45] So let's go back to the audience question.
[59:47] This is the question again I had made specifically keeping Aditya
[59:51] in mind. So the question went like this
[59:53] again. Aditya and this improv group are
[59:55] famous for doing completely improvised please from audience
[59:59] suggestion. One particularly other famous
[1:00:02] improvisational theatre show was formed by six members of the
[1:00:05] Oxford Imps, which are Oxford University's premier improv
[1:00:10] comedy group. The show was performed on and
[1:00:12] off between 2011 and 24 at many locations, including the West
[1:00:16] End and Regents Park Open Air Theatre.
[1:00:20] At the beginning of the show, audience members are asked to
[1:00:23] suggest a title. Past titles have included Back
[1:00:27] to the Future, How to Court, a Gent in 10 Days and Mansfield
[1:00:32] Shark Queen. Camilla herself chose the title
[1:00:35] of Persuasion and An Odd Occasion for one of the
[1:00:39] performances at Hampton Court Panel.
[1:00:41] What is the name of the show? A play on Word.
[1:00:45] I do know of this, but you want to give it a shot.
[1:00:47] I know of this because I'm a big fan of no such thing as a fish.
[1:00:50] Ah. OK.
[1:00:53] Ah, OK, cool. I know of this because, well,
[1:00:55] improv. Oh, that's nice.
[1:00:56] It connects all of us. Yeah.
[1:00:58] Yeah, yeah, I like, I like how it brought it all together.
[1:01:01] I know the Improvised Shakespeare Company, they do
[1:01:04] improvised Shakespeare. And I think I was talking to a
[1:01:06] friend and they're like, have you heard of this group?
[1:01:09] And that's how I came to robot it up.
[1:01:11] Not that long ago, actually. So this one would be.
[1:01:13] Ostentatious. Yes.
[1:01:16] Ostentatious with a USTN Ostentatious.
[1:01:21] Obviously this is a Jane Austen production but with
[1:01:24] improvisation in it and hence the title is Back to the Future,
[1:01:28] which is a play on words to back the town where people went to
[1:01:32] take middle waters. And and Jane Austen's hometown.
[1:01:35] Jane Austen's hometown How to Court a Gent in 10 Days, which
[1:01:38] is a play on the English teen romance movie How to Yes and
[1:01:46] Mansfield Sharp, which is the play on the Jane Austen novel
[1:01:49] Mansfield Park. Those are the clues to point you
[1:01:52] towards Jane Austen, and the subtitle of the show is
[1:01:55] Ostentatious. That's all for a regular round
[1:01:59] of quizzing. Let's move on to the pop culture
[1:02:01] recommendations, buddy. What do you have for US?
[1:02:04] One of the members of Ostentatious is Cariad Lloyd.
[1:02:08] She has a brilliant podcast, Cariad Lloyd, by the way, you
[1:02:11] might come across her in Qi. She's a very lovely person.
[1:02:16] It's called Grief Cast GRIEFCAST.
[1:02:20] OK, it's about death. It's about grief, but it's full
[1:02:24] comedy. OK, this is crazy.
[1:02:29] They take the most M, the macabre thing ever and then
[1:02:32] build comedy around it. And the segue is that Carrier
[1:02:35] Lloyd is a part of Ostentatious and she's brilliant and you
[1:02:38] should check it out. Cool.
[1:02:39] Lots of facts in it, so for quizzers it's a big gold mine.
[1:02:43] I'm always looking for new sources.
[1:02:45] Very difficult to stump Aditya. Most of the time he knows what
[1:02:48] the answer is. Our audience is also quite one
[1:02:51] sided. They always send questions to be
[1:02:53] asked by him, no other questions to be asked by me.
[1:02:56] They want to answer me and support him.
[1:02:59] OK, I don't even know how to respond to that, so I'm not even
[1:03:02] going to make a segue from that, but my pop culture
[1:03:05] recommendation, I'm going to do a podcast recommendation as
[1:03:09] well. And I'm assuming people have
[1:03:11] heard of this, but if you haven't or if in case I have
[1:03:14] recommended before, do I do apologize?
[1:03:16] Land of the Giants. Land of the Giants is one of my
[1:03:19] favorite podcasts. It is the podcast which covers
[1:03:22] basically these tech giants and not just tech, actually, they
[1:03:26] started with tech, but now they've done a bunch of other
[1:03:28] companies as well. So they did Amazon, they did
[1:03:31] Netflix, they did Google after that.
[1:03:33] And at some point they were doing self driving cars and
[1:03:36] talking about that. Apple, they've covered it.
[1:03:38] I think that most recent one I can see in front of me is
[1:03:41] Disney. So yeah, in the tech space, but
[1:03:43] also beyond. So companies in that space.
[1:03:46] A slight change of plans by Maya Shankar.
[1:03:49] And so a really good podcast, something different because most
[1:03:52] of my podcast recommendations are about like business and
[1:03:55] politics, but a slight change of plans is about personal stories.
[1:03:58] So that is change of pace. You check it out.
[1:04:00] Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist.
[1:04:03] It's a pretty good show. So I would please do podcast as
[1:04:06] my pop culture recommendations for the week.
[1:04:09] Very nice, very nice. So rounding out the podcast trio
[1:04:13] of recommendations today, my recommendation is also a
[1:04:16] podcast, but much on a very lighter note.
[1:04:19] It's called Let's Start a Coup. It's a history podcast, as are
[1:04:24] many, and most of my recommendations are mostly
[1:04:27] history or politics podcast. So this is a podcast about a
[1:04:31] secret plot to overthrow President Franklin Delano
[1:04:34] Roosevelt. So maybe not something that
[1:04:37] you've heard of because it's a forgotten piece of American
[1:04:39] history and it is brought to life in a excellent comedic
[1:04:44] tramation by three hosts. It's 6 episode podcast, limited
[1:04:48] edition series and it's extremely vingeable.
[1:04:51] Laugh out funny by being quite terrifying and darkly comedic at
[1:04:57] the same time. Terrifying because you can
[1:04:59] probably see some parallels between what's going on now and
[1:05:03] what went on back then because as they say, history does not
[1:05:06] repeat it rhymes. It's a lot of fun to hear.
[1:05:09] So let's start a coup. It's available on most broadcast
[1:05:12] platforms, so go listen to that. Perfect.
[1:05:15] So that's all we have for this episode.
[1:05:18] I'm honestly going to say, without any trace of
[1:05:22] disingenuity that this was frankly one of my favorite
[1:05:26] recordings ever, mostly due to Bertie's presence.
[1:05:29] We would love to have him back. I don't know if it'll be
[1:05:32] possible because he's a very, very, very busy man with his
[1:05:35] fingers in so many pies and he's a very, very busy man.
[1:05:37] But he consented to come and spend 3 good hours of his time
[1:05:43] with us for this podcast. And I'm deeply, deeply thankful
[1:05:45] for that because we had a fantastic time.
[1:05:48] This episode must have the highest concentration of facts.
[1:05:51] The SPM is very high. The facts per minute.
[1:05:54] Thank you Bertie, from the bottom of my heart.
[1:05:56] It was a great episode and I honestly, honestly, honestly do
[1:05:59] want you back sooner rather than later.
[1:06:02] Done. How was it?
[1:06:05] We have that on recording I'll. Be happy to.
[1:06:08] I'll be absolutely happy to. Yes, so thank you all for
[1:06:12] listening in. We hope you enjoyed the show and
[1:06:14] you learned something new. If you liked what you heard,
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[1:06:46] also having a community on Reddit, which is maintained by
[1:06:50] our dear audience member and friend Ashwin Mascaranis.
[1:06:54] That's R slash are you quizzing me?
[1:06:56] We appreciate your support and look forward to sharing more
[1:06:59] episodes with you in the future. Thanks again, buddy, for coming
[1:07:02] on the show. And is there anything you'd like
[1:07:04] to plug anywhere people can catch you coming soon?
[1:07:06] Any new quizzes that you're hosting or somewhere you're
[1:07:09] speaking or some new project that you want to plug?
[1:07:13] Oh, OK, there's a lot of interesting things I'm doing.
[1:07:16] I so let me give this a general plug.
[1:07:18] So guys, you can just follow me on Instagram because I tell
[1:07:21] people what I'm doing. Here are a few things that you
[1:07:23] would look forward to if you are in Chennai.
[1:07:27] I am bringing my stand up history, comedy, live music
[1:07:31] show. Historically speaking to
[1:07:33] Chennai. We just figured out the venue
[1:07:35] today. So that's what happens soon.
[1:07:38] It's a 90 minutes set where I talk about how one man's bottom
[1:07:43] is responsible for the economy being a better place right now.
[1:07:46] It'll be sometime in 2025. So that's one.
[1:07:50] If you're in Bombay, I am coming to the NCPA to give a talk about
[1:07:56] the music, about vinyls, about the history of music through
[1:07:58] vinyls, which will also have some comedy.
[1:08:01] And yeah, that'll also be sometime in January 2025.
[1:08:04] I'll let you know that if you're in Pune, my band will be
[1:08:08] performing at the Indian Science Festival in the second week of
[1:08:12] Jan, where we are going to be playing a complete set list of
[1:08:15] songs only about elephants in the periodic table, which are
[1:08:19] written by me and another friend.
[1:08:21] All just comedy. It's just parody and which also
[1:08:24] be half a quiz in it. So these are things, things are
[1:08:27] coming coming up in Jan and Feb, more things happening.
[1:08:31] So I also do random shit at a place called Underlying Centre
[1:08:34] in Bangalore where if you're fans of this British show called
[1:08:37] Taskmaster and Whose Line Is It Anyway?
[1:08:40] So I do a combination of Taskmaster, Whose Line Is It
[1:08:44] Anyway? And it's basically an improv
[1:08:47] quiz game show, which we do live and where we make fun of the
[1:08:50] participants and get them to do crazy stuff.
[1:08:52] So if you're in Bangalore, do follow Underlying Center.
[1:08:55] At Underlying Center, it's in Indiranagar and you can take
[1:08:58] part in all of these for now. That's it.
[1:09:01] Yeah, I feel like I'm doing nothing with my right life right
[1:09:05] now. Dude seriously that is just
[1:09:09] impressive. And I also noticed that there
[1:09:12] are no cities in Kerala included in any of your set list.
[1:09:15] Kochi, if you're in Kochi, I am doing a music quiz as part of
[1:09:19] DAMC which is the music conference.
[1:09:22] It's in February, 2nd week of February, I'll be in Kochi and
[1:09:25] I'll also be kicking. I'll be my band will also be
[1:09:27] coming along so I think it'll be over the weekend.
[1:09:29] I'll do a music quiz on Saturday and do a live performance on
[1:09:33] Sunday. Finally, somebody's coming to
[1:09:35] Kochi. This.
[1:09:37] Is amazing. We should give a shout out to
[1:09:39] closer to the dates also. Yes, we should.
[1:09:41] And this is phenomenal. So thanks everybody for tuning
[1:09:45] in. We'd be bringing more such
[1:09:47] episodes to you in the future. So stay tuned and keep listening
[1:09:50] to us. Have a great day.
[1:09:53] Thank you. Take care.
[1:09:55] See you guys next week.

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