# Episode 103 - Hypnosis, Threats & Pranks

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 26 May 2025, 59 min.

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Do you know who is the Portugese Catholic priest, born in India, and who was a pioneer in the scientific study of hypnotism? Do you know which company threatened to relocate their headquarters from Atlanta if an event honouring MLK in the city wasn't supported by other local businesses? Do you know what very common word originated from the activities of student pranksters at MIT? 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. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
[0:20] episode #103 that's 103 of your favorite quizzing and trivia
[0:27] podcast show. Are you quizzing me?
[0:30] Aditya and I are back for another round of quizzing with
[0:33] this 103rd episode of ours. And without much further ado,
[0:38] let's go ahead with the audience question.
[0:41] Now, this is a question that was sent in to us by Doctor Rakesh,
[0:46] Vt, and I'm going to use as an audience question.
[0:49] So this is more of a straightforward general
[0:51] knowledge question. Try to guess the answer by the
[0:54] end of the episode. When the going gets tough, the
[0:57] tough get going. Let us never negotiate out of
[1:00] fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
[1:04] That's John F Kennedy, by the way.
[1:06] We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape
[1:09] us. That's why Winston Churchill.
[1:12] This usage of repeating words in reverse order is called what?
[1:18] Let me repeat the question. When the going gets tough, the
[1:22] tough get going. Let us never negotiate out of
[1:25] fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
[1:28] We shape our buildings and afterward our buildings shape
[1:31] us. This usage of repeating words in
[1:34] reverse order is known as what? I will reveal the answer to this
[1:39] question at the end of today's episode.
[1:44] So let's start off with our regular round of quizzing.
[1:47] And let me start off this episode with a question I just
[1:52] love. Because I came across this piece
[1:55] of trivia. I connected it to something I
[1:56] already knew and I was like, wow, this I couldn't wait to ask
[2:00] Aditya this question. So Aditya, Are you ready?
[2:03] Absolutely. OK, so there are going to be,
[2:07] this is a bit of an alphabet soup, so pay attention.
[2:10] X was a Portuguese Catholic priest who was one of The
[2:16] Pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism.
[2:20] Following on from the work of Y. Let me repeat the first part
[2:25] again. As I mentioned, this is a bit of
[2:26] an alphabet soup, so I'm going to go very slowly with this.
[2:28] X was a Portuguese Catholic priest who was one of The
[2:32] Pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism.
[2:35] Following on from the work of YY's name has led to a term
[2:41] which is used as a synonym for hypnotism.
[2:45] Coming back to XX was born in India and was implicated in the
[2:51] infamous Pinto Revolt, which was in rebellion against the
[2:54] Portuguese rule in Goa in 1787. X left for France immediately
[3:00] after and in Paris became the leader of one of the
[3:03] revolutionary battalions in 1795 during the French Revolution.
[3:08] Today there is a bronze statue of X trying to hypnotize a woman
[3:14] located in central Panjam in Goa.
[3:16] The Institute of Clinical Hypnosis and Counseling was
[3:20] established in the Indian state of Kerala as a memorial to X.
[3:26] However, the average reader of classical fiction or a cinephile
[3:32] would know X's name because a character with the same name as
[3:38] X is the pivotal character in a novel Z, written by famed author
[3:46] A. So I want you to identify XYZ
[3:49] and AX is the priest pioneer of the scientific study of
[3:54] hypnotism, following on from the work of Y, whose name is a
[3:58] synonym for hypnotism today. An average person, or an average
[4:02] SO bibliophile or cinephile would recognize the name X
[4:06] because X is the pivotal character in a novel.
[4:11] Z written by a famed author. A I don't know.
[4:16] This is quite a indulgently vague question, but you know.
[4:22] OK, so my intuit seems to be synonyms for hypnotism, but
[4:27] that's stupid in because I can't think of anything that is a
[4:30] synonym for hypnotism. Oh, OK.
[4:35] Hoodwink Houdini. So I'm going to say something
[4:39] like that. No.
[4:40] OK. Look at the time period, I told
[4:44] you that he was part of revolution in Goa in 1787.
[4:49] X was part of the Pinto Rebellion or the Pinto
[4:53] conspiracy, which never actually came to root because they were
[4:56] betrayed. But yeah, in 1787.
[4:59] And X obviously followed by. Why is before?
[5:04] Yes. Why is who's considered like the
[5:07] father of or the the person when you talk about hypnotism?
[5:15] So Y is kind of independent. You might get Y on their own,
[5:18] but XZ and A you might need to have a little bit of knowledge
[5:24] or you'll need a clue from my side most probably.
[5:27] So that seems to be the case right now.
[5:29] Give me a clue maybe? OK, let's start with the Y
[5:33] portion, because Y is the one that I mentioned.
[5:37] You can probably guess separately.
[5:39] So apart from the name giving an origin to another word for
[5:46] hypnotism, the name has also given rise to a verb, which
[5:51] means to capture the complete attention of.
[5:54] Oregon to transfict somebody. So the name Y has given rise to
[6:02] a synonym for hypnotism, and also to a verb which means to
[6:07] capture the complete attention of or to transfix someone.
[6:12] Command, but that will transfix some to.
[6:17] I'll use it in a sentence with the fill in the blanks.
[6:20] Yeah, you can try that. Do that.
[6:21] They were completely blanked by his story.
[6:26] Enamored, they were, completely. No, enamored would not exactly
[6:32] mean to be to capture the complete attention of.
[6:34] They were completely struck. These don't seem to fit the
[6:39] bell. OK, let me give you a couple of
[6:40] other similar words. Spellbound, enthralled, dazzled,
[6:48] bewitched. These are all synonyms for the
[6:52] same word. Yeah, but now it is throwing the
[6:54] thesaurus at me. Yeah, those are pretty heavy.
[6:59] They were captivated. They were.
[7:03] Close think in terms of hypnotism as well.
[7:07] Oh yeah, those there are words. These are two different words,
[7:10] but they are come. They come from the same root.
[7:12] Yeah. So basically there's an older
[7:14] usage where it's a a synonym for hypnotism and then the current
[7:18] day usage where it means to capture the complete attention
[7:21] of somebody. To to rivet.
[7:25] No, that got a more, I think a mechanical origin.
[7:31] Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
[7:33] No, wow. I can't think of a word that
[7:35] would fit the bill. OK, so then let's try with XZ
[7:38] and a. Maybe a clue there would help.
[7:41] Yes, please. OK, so there has been a recent
[7:47] very very well received French film based off this novel Z
[7:55] Very. Recent one, but the novel itself
[7:58] is in English. Yeah, I mean, you would have
[8:01] read it in English. It's basically a French novel,
[8:05] but everybody's read the translation.
[8:08] And there's a French movie that was based off of this.
[8:12] There's a very recent French movie.
[8:14] There have been numerous movies throughout the years.
[8:18] That's what I said. The average Biblophile or
[8:20] cinephile would remember or recognize this character who
[8:24] shares the same name as X. So this novel, as I mentioned,
[8:30] is a massive, massive novel. There have been movies made on
[8:36] that in 2024, in 2286. Eighty
[8:42] 21975196861585453194643421934192919221918191319 not 8.
[8:58] The very first adaptation was in 19, not 8 that old.
[9:04] So I was actually thinking initially there could have be
[9:07] the Little Prince, but I doubt there have been so many movies
[9:10] made on the Little Prince and I can't think of anything recent.
[9:13] I love the little Prince. It's not the little Prince.
[9:15] Because it's the only French book that came to mind, but I
[9:18] doubt Little Prince also qualifies as a novel.
[9:21] No Very lovely book. The only other book that comes
[9:24] to mind that is that iconic is Count of Monte Cristo.
[9:29] Hey, very good. So yet it is The Count of Monte
[9:32] Cristo. That means Z is Count of Count
[9:35] of Monte Cristo, and then A would be Alexandre Duma.
[9:38] Very good. And then who is the character?
[9:41] Who is the pivotal character? Oh, it's been a while since I
[9:45] read the book. Oh, I've I've forgotten the
[9:49] number of times I've reread The Count of Monte Cristo.
[9:52] It's my favorite. It's amazing.
[9:55] If you have not read it, please do yourself a favor and read it.
[10:00] And the second close thing would be to watch the Le Comte Monte
[10:05] Cristo which is in 2024 adaptation which is beautifully
[10:10] shot. Beautifully shot.
[10:13] My favorite, the passage or the part of it that I remember and I
[10:17] read this easily like 20 years ago, was the part where they
[10:23] talk about Ashish and the Ashish and.
[10:27] The Assassins. Yeah, and I remember that was
[10:31] one of those things, like the trivia part of me, which I
[10:33] didn't even know was a wild beast.
[10:36] It was still a tame little animal then, and it was a
[10:39] little, it felt a little tingle at that point.
[10:42] Yep. Anyways, Yep.
[10:43] Literally only remember Edmund Dante.
[10:46] Edmund Dantes, yes. And, and oh, Mercedes, Mercedes.
[10:51] I know about the the the interest love interest.
[10:54] Dangla no. So we have a lot of characters.
[10:59] It's a huge host of characters, right?
[11:01] But if you had to say there's one pivotal character around
[11:05] whom the story completely takes a left turn, which character
[11:09] would that be, without whom this entire story would not exist?
[11:14] The person who who who like motivates him to go take his
[11:19] revenge. Uh huh, Uh huh.
[11:22] OK. Remember there was some some
[11:24] mentor, some teacher person, I have no idea what his name was.
[11:29] Yes. So basically, Edmund Dantes is
[11:33] imprisoned for 14 years in the Shatter Dev, and he finds out
[11:38] that in the cell next to him is a priest who knew the location
[11:44] of a huge, huge treasure. Treasure.
[11:48] Yeah, he educate Edmund Dantes in multiple languages and
[11:53] culture and whatnot. And then finally it is the death
[11:55] of this character which allows Edmund Dantes to escape his
[11:59] prison. And that character is Abe Faria.
[12:03] Along with the coffin and stuff. Right, right, right.
[12:06] Yes, Abe Faria. Abe Faria, Yes, So the
[12:10] character's name is Abe Faria. And before I expound on the rest
[12:14] of this and why these series of connections really, really
[12:17] resonated with me, have you any guesses as to what the name of
[12:20] the person who was the father of hypnotism on whose work the real
[12:27] Abe Faria followed? I'm still thinking of synonyms
[12:30] of hypnotize or capture attention, and now I can think
[12:34] of our words which would probably not be somebody's name
[12:38] like betwitched, or words that probably are different etymology
[12:47] altogether. Give me maybe a letter or
[12:50] something if nothing. Else starting with M, that's the
[12:54] last very last clue. M they're they're mind blown.
[13:01] Oh, mesmerized. Mesmerized.
[13:03] Yes. Finally, yes, very good.
[13:06] So it's mesmerism, which is also a synonym for hypnotism, and
[13:11] mesmerized, which means to capture the complete attention
[13:14] of. So let me just put now this
[13:16] question, as I said, very indulgent question, but it
[13:18] somehow just resonated with me. First, because The Count of
[13:22] Monte Christian is one of my favorite books.
[13:24] I cannot remember the number of times I reread that.
[13:27] The second reason is that Abe Faria, who was born Joe Jose
[13:33] Custodio de Faria in India, in Portuguese, occupied Goa.
[13:39] He was a priest who went to Europe, took his education in
[13:42] theology there. He came back and was one of the
[13:45] three priests who were betrayed during the Pinto conspiracy or
[13:52] Pinto Revolution or the Pinto Rebellion, which was a rebellion
[13:55] against Portuguese ruled in Goa, one of the very earliest ones.
[13:59] He escaped from there. He went to France where he was
[14:02] part of the French Revolution as well.
[14:05] And then he expanded on his studies in hypnotism and finally
[14:07] died. And I found it interesting that
[14:11] there's a statue of him in Goa and that the Institute of
[14:15] Hypnosis in Kerala, where I currently AM, is also dedicated
[14:20] to Paria. So all these things just kind of
[14:24] resonated. I used to live in Goa for a good
[14:26] 6-7 years. I'm currently in Kerala.
[14:29] The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books and I
[14:32] recently just watched the newest adaptation of The Count of Monte
[14:35] Cristo. So all of this somehow just
[14:37] spoke to me, and apparently only to me because now that I've
[14:41] actually asked the question it seems very long winded and
[14:45] completely impossible to guess unless you know what I'm talking
[14:47] about. So.
[14:48] Don't let anybody stop you from living your main character life,
[14:51] OK? You are out there being the main
[14:54] character and you are very much entitled to that.
[14:58] Good for you. Yes, thank you.
[15:00] Cool question and lovely coincidences.
[15:03] I think that makes up the best of are you using me questions.
[15:07] Just weird random coincidences. Yeah, Yeah.
[15:12] Now, Speaking of coincidences, actually, no better segue.
[15:15] I'm going to ask you if you know of the concept of a heteronym.
[15:20] Heteronym. Not particularly, but I can
[15:24] guess Nim name. So something like 2 words with
[15:28] the same meaning or something like that.
[15:30] Close enough, but not exactly 2 or more words which are spelled
[15:34] identically but have different sounds and meanings.
[15:38] Ah, OK. Yeah, like lead and lead.
[15:42] Yeah. And in this case actually the
[15:44] question that I'm going to ask doesn't really have a different
[15:47] sound, but it does a different meanings.
[15:49] The example though that was given on Google when I just want
[15:53] to Google the definition of antonym was tear and tear.
[15:56] Tear as in RIP and tear as in like the liquid from your eye.
[16:00] So I'm going to give you the example of a heteronym, and you
[16:05] have to tell me what word is it? So I'm going to give you the
[16:08] three separate origins and you will tell me what word is it.
[16:13] Yeah, you're giving the meanings of the origins of the word.
[16:16] I'm going to give you the origins of the word, and that
[16:19] will help you figure out the meaning.
[16:20] Also. Maybe.
[16:21] Yeah, there are three different meanings to the similarly
[16:24] spelled word. Exactly the same spelling for
[16:26] the word OK first word is from an Old Norse word which meant a
[16:32] cup or bold. A Norse word which meant a cup
[16:37] or bold. OK, yes, no, nothing rings a
[16:40] bell over there. The second meaning is from Old
[16:43] French word which meant husk. OK.
[16:48] And the third one. Still nothing.
[16:51] This one probably should lead you there.
[16:53] The old Latin word or Latin word meaning a ladder.
[16:56] OK. A Latin word meaning a ladder.
[17:01] Not particularly ringing a bell immediately.
[17:06] Any clues that you could provide?
[17:08] OK. So I'm going to give you maybe
[17:10] more definitions of this word that have now evolved from these
[17:14] original 3 definitions you could say.
[17:17] OK. This word is also used in the
[17:19] field of music and is derived from the third word, which is
[17:23] the ladder, but is used for a series of musical tones
[17:27] ascending or descending. The scale.
[17:31] There we go, that was a quick crack.
[17:32] Yes. It wasn't meant to be a long
[17:34] winded question, but I love the fact that scale has three
[17:37] different meanings. So scales like the way you
[17:39] measure stuff. Scales, yes, and scales of a
[17:42] fish. And then the scales of a fish
[17:44] and scale as in like mathematical scales or or
[17:48] musical scales, right? And all three have different
[17:51] origins, they just happen to eventually evolve into the same
[17:55] word. So convergent linguistic
[17:57] evolution. Convergent linguistic evolution,
[18:00] Yeah, and there are some lovely other examples of it.
[18:02] But in the case of scale, the Old Norse word was kaal, which
[18:06] meant bowl or a cup. The Old French word escalae
[18:11] meant husk or shell, and Latin escala, which meant ladder.
[18:16] So all three different etymologies for now.
[18:20] What is the same word scale? It is pronounced and spelled in
[18:23] the exactly same way. Yeah, so, so you also say to
[18:26] scale a ladder, right. So to climb a ladder is also.
[18:29] Exactly. Exactly.
[18:31] Oh, nice, nice, nice. And I think there are a lot of
[18:35] examples of 2 words having, or rather a word having two
[18:39] different etymologies, OK? Yeah.
[18:41] But in this case, there were three different etymologies.
[18:44] And that's why I thought it was a unique and interesting
[18:46] occurrence of a heteronym. So that's a heteronym and that's
[18:51] an example for you, OK. Nice.
[18:53] Just to clarify, these are the ones that we mentioned are
[18:56] heteronyms, so then they're also homophones, right?
[18:59] Because you pronounce them the same way.
[19:01] True, I am actually not sure if this considered a heteronym or a
[19:05] homograph because I saw actually this particular example I have
[19:08] to credit to some random real I saw on Instagram so I can't even
[19:11] go back to credit which channel it was and they said it was a
[19:13] heteronym when I googled it. Homograph is a word that is
[19:18] spelled like another word, but has a different meaning and may
[19:21] have a different pronunciation. So in this case I'm not sure if
[19:25] it's a homograph or a heteronym. It could be one of the two.
[19:29] Fair enough. That was a great question.
[19:32] I don't particularly have a segue in hand for this, so, you
[19:38] know, just bear with me while I just bounce right into another
[19:42] question, not a particularly guessable type of question that
[19:47] we mentioned. This is straightforward kind of
[19:49] trivia. You know what, you don't know
[19:50] it. Maybe I'll give you a clue.
[19:51] So on January 27th, 1965, the city of Atlanta held a
[19:57] celebration dinner for Martin Luther King Junior to honor his
[20:00] achievement in winning the Nobel Peace Prize of 1964.
[20:04] When the New York Times ran an article revealing that many
[20:07] local businesses were apathetic or hostile to the event, one
[20:13] Atlanta based corporation intervened, sponsoring the
[20:17] banquet and their CEO, J Paul Austin.
[20:21] Threaten to relocate their headquarters away from the city
[20:24] if the event wasn't supported. My question is which company?
[20:31] Atlanta, you said? MLK Peace Prize and J Paul,
[20:39] Austin, CEO. J Paul Austin.
[20:43] OK, this sounds vaguely familiar, but no, I don't have
[20:49] an answer right now off the top of my head.
[20:51] Any hints? Any clues?
[20:54] OK, so the corporation that I'm talking about is responsible for
[20:59] thousands of, or rather at least hundreds of products, but their
[21:04] flagship product is unique. And even though it's very
[21:11] unique, it has never been patented for a very specific
[21:15] reason. Oh.
[21:17] Coke. Very good.
[21:19] Yes. Coca-Cola.
[21:22] OK, that was fast. OK, I was trying to be a little
[21:25] vague on that. Yeah.
[21:26] So in January of 1965, city of Atlanta were held a celebration
[21:31] dinner. The local businesses tried to
[21:33] boycott it, or rather, they were quite hostile to the event.
[21:36] And that's when the New York Times ran an article on this and
[21:40] CEO Jay Paul Austin of Coca-Cola stepped up, sponsored the
[21:44] banquet and and threatened to relocate their headquarters if
[21:48] the event wasn't supported. Well done, Coke.
[21:53] And for the other piece of trivia, which I had given as a
[21:56] clue to Aditya, for those who do not know, Coke's formula is
[22:00] obviously very unique, right? It's very closely guarded, but
[22:04] they never patented. The reason being, if you want to
[22:07] patent something, you actually have to reveal what it contains.
[22:12] And because it's such a highly guarded secret, Coke can never
[22:16] patent the recipe for Coke. That's the answer to that.
[22:22] So that was very quickly correct.
[22:23] So I'm guessing the baton is now back in your hands.
[22:29] All right. I will take that baton gladly
[22:32] because I have a lovely segue for you.
[22:34] And that is just as MLK was heralding change in society on a
[22:40] large scale, I'm going to go down to a much smaller scale.
[22:43] And in this case, I'm talking about the writers strike.
[22:47] And there have been a few Writers Guild of America strike.
[22:50] Yeah. This one is the 1998 strike.
[22:53] OK. In 1998, the Writers Guild of
[22:57] America had a long strike, in which time this particular actor
[23:02] had some time to himself because he had a lot of time to himself.
[23:06] Because the show that he was supposed to be on was on hiatus,
[23:11] he decided to change something about his physical appearance
[23:15] when he went back onto the show. The show.
[23:18] OK. Coincidentally improved
[23:21] drastically and so the fans of the show associated that change
[23:27] in the actors physical appearance to improvement in the
[23:31] quality of the show. And that has become, that phrase
[23:34] has become known to be, let's say, the opposite of jumping the
[23:39] shark. And I assume you know what
[23:41] jumping the shark is. Yes, happy days where Fonzie
[23:46] literally jumped over a shark. Exactly.
[23:49] So they hyped up that episode a lot in Happy Days where Fonz was
[23:53] gonna jump over a shark and they were building up to it.
[23:56] They're looking to bring in some novelty.
[23:58] The show was declining in quality and then it was kind of
[24:01] anticlimactic even when it happened.
[24:03] So jumping the shark is when a show is decreasing in quality.
[24:07] This particular phrase, which happened because of the 1998
[24:11] Writers Guild of America strike, was indicative of how a show can
[24:15] improve in its subsequent seasons as opposed to its
[24:20] initial quality. So the actor had some time on
[24:24] his hands and changed something about their appearance.
[24:29] So my first thought is the eye is hair.
[24:32] Did they change their hairstyle? Clothes, clothes, clothes.
[24:37] OK then, facial hair maybe? Yeah, you're right.
[24:40] Very well done. Yep.
[24:41] Now can you tell me which show was this that from its second?
[24:45] Season. Was decidedly better in its
[24:48] quality. Is this home improvement?
[24:51] No, but Tim Allen never had a beard on the show.
[24:54] No, not on home improvement. No.
[24:56] And home improvement is earlier than 97, OK.
[25:00] Sorry, did I say 1998? I meant 1988.
[25:03] I apologize, it is 1988. 01988 Fresh Prince No OK The Fresh
[25:11] Prince was 199192 OK. So let me just clarify 19
[25:18] because I misspoke. 1987 was the first season, which wasn't very
[25:22] good. 1988 was the second season and before the second season had
[25:26] released and the second season was actually cut down to a fewer
[25:30] episodes than the rest of the show run all the other seasons.
[25:34] Sure, OK. And because of the Writers Guild
[25:36] strike, 1988 Writers Guild strike resulted in this
[25:39] particular change that became consistent for the remainder of
[25:43] the seven seasons. Remainder of the seven seasons.
[25:47] So this is a show that went on for at least eight seasons then?
[25:51] Sorry, remainder of the seven seasons being six more seasons.
[25:54] I meant total seven season. OK, so six seasons total of
[25:58] seven seasons. 80s TV show. First two that come to mind are
[26:07] Moonlighting and Remington Steele.
[26:10] But. No, no.
[26:12] No, moonlighting was already quite popular in the mid 80s, so
[26:15] I'm not guessing that. No Remington Steele, no Pierce
[26:19] Brosnan pretty much looked the same throughout, if my memory
[26:23] serves me right. Which else?
[26:27] Which will? Magnum Pi was already off the
[26:31] air, if I'm not mistaken. Murder, She Wrote.
[26:35] Angela Lansbury again, pretty much looked the same.
[26:40] OK, let me let me try to help you with this, OK?
[26:45] Before I go through all the 80s shows.
[26:48] Yes, in this case, the complaint that viewers had was a lot of
[26:56] the early episodes of Season 1 were rehashes of episodes from
[27:00] the original series. Oh wait, is this?
[27:03] Cheers. No, not cheers.
[27:06] Good guess, but no, not cheers, no wait.
[27:09] No, no, it's no, no, no. Cheers was not.
[27:11] Cheers was the early 90s, not 8788 would be too early for
[27:15] Cheers. So it's a spin off.
[27:19] It's a spin off of some other show and it was there in the
[27:23] 1980s. Joni Loves Chachi was a spinoff
[27:27] of Happy Days, but I think again, that was in the late 70s,
[27:29] early 80s. So that's not it.
[27:32] It has also inspired multiple films.
[27:35] Multiple films, multiple films, multiple films.
[27:37] Wait, there was a there was a how do I put this a second or
[27:42] revival of the Mission Impossible series in the 80s?
[27:45] I think you're right. But no, this is not the Mission
[27:48] Impossible series either, OK? Oh, you you definitely know
[27:52] this. And you're gonna kick yourself
[27:54] in the butt. OK I grew up on these shows man,
[28:00] how is it that I'm not getting it's a spin off show Also
[28:04] inspired movies. I need a clue.
[28:08] Give me a clue, give me something.
[28:11] OK. Wait, isn't MacGyver?
[28:13] No, no, no. OK, it's not MacGyver.
[28:16] It's not like I've mentioned one of these and you've decided just
[28:18] because I didn't say anything that you would let it go, right?
[28:21] It's not. It's not.
[28:21] It's not you're. You're not.
[28:22] Playing. No, I don't think so.
[28:24] I'm also concurrently looking up more clues for you, so if I have
[28:27] missed it, please forgive me, but I don't think I mentioned it
[28:31] so far. I think I would have caught it
[28:32] if you had already mentioned it. OK, let me give you another hair
[28:37] related trivia for this particular show.
[28:41] This is the 80s, everything was about hair.
[28:44] Even the big bands were called hair bands.
[28:47] OK, so the person that I mentioned who with the facial
[28:50] hair, that actor is one of the leads.
[28:53] OK. The other one of the primary
[28:55] cast was initially not supposed to be cast in that role.
[28:59] That actor was not supposed to be cast in that role because the
[29:02] creator of that show had imagined that particular
[29:05] character to be somebody with a lot of hair.
[29:09] And when this actor was pitched for this character, the creator
[29:15] was like, doesn't fit my vision. OK, so somebody who's.
[29:18] Bald. Interestingly, the same actor
[29:21] when he met the production house Paramount Pictures, he wore a
[29:26] hairpiece because the creative stuff of the show is where the
[29:30] Paramount would veto his casting if they knew he was bald.
[29:34] Oh God, this was who's who's bald.
[29:38] And after the meeting, the executives agreed to cast him on
[29:41] the condition that he will not wear that same ridiculous
[29:44] toupee. So they clearly knew he was
[29:46] wearing a toupee. They're like just whatever,
[29:48] you're good, but don't wear that.
[29:53] Is this Miami Vice? No, no, no.
[29:56] Yeah, no, because neither Sunny nor Crockett had a hairpiece.
[30:01] Never. Both had fabulous, fabulous
[30:03] hair. I'm going through every 80s TV
[30:06] show I know and none of them seem to fit the build. 80s going
[30:10] into 90s, yeah. 80s going into 90s years but still.
[30:13] I mean the kids. This is irritating now.
[30:18] OK, tell me a clue. Give me another clue.
[30:19] Give me another clue. Oh boy, more clues.
[30:23] I'm just going through the IMDb page.
[30:25] There's a lot of fun trivia for this actually.
[30:29] Actually, these two characters, the one with the beard and the
[30:32] bald headed one, are both the only actors to appear in all 178
[30:38] episodes of the series. Bold.
[30:43] Oh God. OK, I know what this is.
[30:47] This is Star Trek The Next Generation.
[30:51] There we go. Patrick Stewart and commander
[30:53] like he was clean shaven in season 1 and when he came back
[30:57] he had a goatee. Yes.
[31:00] It makes sense, but I also have to tell you that the increase in
[31:05] quality from Season 2, our Star Trek The Next Generation, is
[31:08] also because a certain Wil Wheaton was no longer on the
[31:12] show. OK, fair enough.
[31:16] I mean like seriously, Little Crusher was one of the most
[31:19] irritating characters ever. So very interestingly, actually,
[31:26] when the cast decided to lobby for a salary increase, the
[31:29] producers told Wil Wheaton that instead of a salary increase,
[31:33] they will promote his character to a Lieutenant.
[31:36] And his response was, So what should I tell my landlord when I
[31:40] can't pay my rent? Don't worry, I just made a
[31:41] Lieutenant. But in any case, I thought this
[31:47] was an interesting piece of trivia because growing a beard
[31:49] is considered the antithesis of jumping the shark.
[31:53] Oh, OK, OK, that I did not know. Yeah, that comes from Star Trek.
[31:58] Because in Star Trek The Next Generation, when Riker grew a
[32:02] beard, the show's quality just seemed to improve dramatically.
[32:07] And that's what I meant. Many early episodes of Season 1
[32:10] were rehashes of episodes from the original series, the Star
[32:13] Trek the Original. Series original series not
[32:15] rehashes as in like the same setup.
[32:17] Similar ideas and storylines and stuff, and only from season 2
[32:21] did they sort of get better and it coincided because the actor
[32:25] who played Riker. William Frakes, He's not only a
[32:30] phenomenal actor, he's a very, very good director.
[32:33] So it's Jonathan Frakes. It's not William Frakes.
[32:35] He plays William T Reika that I remember.
[32:37] I don't remember what the T stands for.
[32:40] OK, but in any case, Jonathan Frakes who plays the Reika, is
[32:46] the actor who had time on his hand during the strike and he
[32:49] grew out his beard and he came back with it.
[32:50] And Patrick Stewart was the obviously the other actor who
[32:55] initially was not being considered for the role of
[32:58] Picard because Gene Roddenberry, who, who was the creator for the
[33:02] show, wanted somebody with a lot of hair and a younger captain.
[33:06] And eventually, it turned out that Patrick Stewart was the
[33:08] best fit. And that's how he got the role
[33:10] for Star Trek The Next Generation.
[33:12] There's another piece of trivia. So you know there's a lot of
[33:16] lore in the Star Trek universe, right?
[33:20] So you've heard of the Kobayashi Maru.
[33:23] It's an unwinnable test, and Koch has to cheat to get it
[33:26] right. There are many such things.
[33:28] Have you heard of the Picard Maneuver?
[33:31] Yeah, I know, simply because I read it in the trivia just now.
[33:35] Oh. God OK I was just flexing my
[33:40] Trekkie knowledge but. I actually because I'm not a
[33:43] Trekkie so I would not have known otherwise.
[33:45] OK, so you want to tell the good listeners what the Picard
[33:48] maneuver is? So apparently the Starfleet
[33:52] uniform was so uncomfortable to the point where is the Patrick
[33:56] Stewart's agent threatened to sue Paramount for any muscle or
[34:00] joint damage Stewart's shirt from the outfit.
[34:03] This led to a change of design from a one piece Pantex suit to
[34:06] a two piece polyester suit in season 3.
[34:09] Although the new uniforms are easier to wear, the shirts had a
[34:11] tendency to ride up when the actors were sitting down, and
[34:15] Gene Roddenberry always felt Picar's uniform should be
[34:17] unfailingly smooth. So Patrick Stewart got into the
[34:19] habit of straightening his shirt with a sharp downward tug as he
[34:23] sat down, an action that jokingly became known among fans
[34:26] as the Picard Maneuver. Yeah, to be honest, the Star
[34:34] Trek The Next Generation was my gateway drug into the Star Trek
[34:38] universe. I remember as a kid thinking
[34:42] that the special effects was so great.
[34:44] Now when I watch it, it's very, very hokey.
[34:47] There are some really, really good episodes.
[34:49] There are very few things which I think hold up and I think the
[34:54] epitome of of special effects which hold up has to be Jurassic
[34:58] Park, like even today when you watch it.
[35:00] Jurassic Park had very few CGI shots, most of it was practical
[35:06] effects, most of the scenes with the T Rex were an actual
[35:09] animatronic head, and there were only very few scenes where CGI
[35:14] was put in. What I usually like to point out
[35:17] to people as an example of really good CGI way ahead of its
[35:21] time is the Pirates of the Caribbean series, I think it
[35:24] was. Truly phenomenal, yeah.
[35:26] Davy Jones. Davy Jones, that was.
[35:30] It was the right amount of creepy and and still fun enough
[35:35] for kids. And it looked real.
[35:37] Yeah. It looked real.
[35:39] That's the best part. But now I don't know what I
[35:42] mean. Like you watch The Fast and the
[35:43] Furious and I mean like, what is going on?
[35:47] Oh well, this is a never ending complaint, so we're never going
[35:51] to end that. Though I'll come back to Star
[35:53] Trek and I'll tell you another fun piece of trivia that I came
[35:55] across is now. According to Levar Burton,
[35:58] during the production of the first season, he would spend
[36:00] hours seated on the bridge set with little or no speaking.
[36:04] Levar Burton is the black guy in this.
[36:07] Actor who plays Jordy? Don't say the black guy Geordie
[36:11] Laforge, who was the engineer of the Star Trek.
[36:15] The only black guy in the in the Star Trek Next Generation like
[36:19] the main cast. Technically no, because the
[36:22] actor who played Wolf. Was also black.
[36:26] You are right. Michael Don was also an African
[36:29] American. You know what?
[36:30] Sincere apologies. Yes, you're right.
[36:32] I thought he was the only black guy.
[36:33] That's why I referred him as black guy.
[36:34] But. Whoopi Goldberg played Ginan the
[36:37] the bartender. Chalk this up to my lack of Star
[36:41] Trek knowledge. Anyways, according to Lever
[36:43] Burton, he would spend hours on the breath set with little out
[36:46] of speaking. This led to some tedium which
[36:48] would cause him to doze off or completely fall asleep.
[36:52] However, this was barely noticeable as his closed eyes
[36:55] were hidden by the visor visor. Yeah, no, but it it's a very
[37:02] nostalgic show for me as well. So thank you for the question
[37:05] from that, even though it took me ages to get to the answer.
[37:09] But yeah, Star Trek The Next Generation was a once in a
[37:12] lifetime kind of show. I would imagine, I would imagine
[37:15] that this is an Australia question for you, given the fact
[37:18] that I know that you are a fan of the show, but it is your
[37:21] chance to ask me another question, Vineet.
[37:24] Yeah, and I again have absolutely no segue except for
[37:29] the fact that let's move from science fiction to a place of
[37:34] science. OK, that's a good segue.
[37:38] Decent, decent. So this ubiquitous term is
[37:43] believed to have originated with the activities of student
[37:48] pranksters at MIT, which I'm talking about the Massachusetts
[37:53] Institute of Technology, not the Mylapore Institute of
[37:55] Technology, which is an institution with the proud
[37:59] tradition of student pranks stretching back to the 1960s.
[38:05] MIT pranks have often included placing unlikely vehicles or
[38:09] objects on top of the institutes 150 foot high grade door, such
[38:15] as one year when they placed a 25 foot long fire truck on top
[38:22] of 150 foot high grade door. Oh my Lord, wow.
[38:28] Yeah, if you have some time, just go down the rabbit hole of
[38:31] what They put a police cars there, they put a fire trucks
[38:35] and whatnot. So my question to you is what
[38:37] ubiquitous term is believed to have originated with this
[38:43] practice and to these pranksters?
[38:45] So there was a name that was given to these pranksters, which
[38:47] is now translocated itself to other usages.
[38:51] Interesting. Though the general principle you
[38:54] could probably kind of think, yeah, OK, the principle behind
[38:59] the word still remains somewhat same.
[39:02] OK, so the words origin lies with the pranks at MIT.
[39:07] The name given to the pranksters.
[39:10] OK, but the word is not necessarily a synonym for a
[39:14] prankster or anything. No, it's not a synonym for a
[39:17] prankster, but look at the kind of pranks that they have put up
[39:20] right? And there's an underlying
[39:23] thought process behind it, which might explain why this name is
[39:28] now used for something else. OK, they MacGyver is my first
[39:37] instinct, but of course that's not the origin.
[39:39] So no, I am actually at loss here.
[39:42] What? What word comes from that?
[39:45] It's a word that you know, I know, which has led to very bad
[39:51] graphics on television, and it's also probably the most
[39:58] criminally. Wrongly represented thing in
[40:04] television history. Like, very very very few movies
[40:08] ever show this as it actually is.
[40:11] Wait, it has caused bad graphics in movies?
[40:13] This causes bad graphics in movies.
[40:16] Not causes bad graphics when people try to depict this in
[40:19] movies. Oh, it is poorly depicted.
[40:22] Got it, got it. Got.
[40:23] It especially in Indian movies. They have Indian movies are
[40:27] especially responsible for some horrendous scenes regarding
[40:30] this. OK.
[40:32] Then I have to take a guess. This is hacking.
[40:35] Very good, yes. So the term is hacker.
[40:38] So. The term hackers were originally
[40:41] originally given to those pranksters who used to do these
[40:46] magnificent pranks in MIT on the MIT campus.
[40:50] Now it's a cyber culture term for somebody who invasively gets
[40:54] into another computer system. OK, you can kind of see there
[40:58] like the pranksters exploited weaknesses, loopholes to get
[41:04] these kind of pranks done. Actual hackers and computer
[41:07] hackers now do the same thing. They exploit weaknesses and
[41:10] whatnot. That's very interesting and that
[41:12] makes a lot of sense. I would encourage you to go
[41:14] online and read about the MIT prank where they put up an
[41:18] actual police car up there which the police got down by using a
[41:22] crane and the next day the car was again up on the roof.
[41:28] It's a fantastic read, you should definitely go check it
[41:30] out. Yeah, OK, alright.
[41:32] This sounds amazing. I remember one of the things
[41:35] that and there's a book somebody's written about pranks
[41:38] at MIT. I'm sure there are multiple
[41:39] books perhaps given how how ubiquitous these this seems to
[41:43] be as a culture over there. And this book had spoken of an
[41:47] urban legend, but did mention that there is no verifiable
[41:50] source. And it said, and this urban
[41:52] legend across multiple colleges. So it doesn't necessarily have
[41:56] to have its origin in MIT or even in truth for that matter.
[41:59] OK. And the legend is of this kid
[42:03] who would go into the school football field, the college
[42:07] football field everyday dressed in a striped black and white
[42:11] striped shirt. And he would blow his whistle
[42:14] and then he would start feeding the birds, right?
[42:17] He would start feeding pigeons. So he would like.
[42:20] I can see where this is going, yeah.
[42:22] And the opening game of the season, whenever the first game
[42:26] happened in the field, the referee blew the starting
[42:29] whistle and a bunch of birds attacked.
[42:33] Like swooped down in him, assuming that it's going to be
[42:35] food and there wasn't any. This has been widely
[42:40] acknowledged as maybe an urban legend, but nonetheless a fun
[42:43] little story. No, I'm believing that
[42:46] completely. I want to believe that somebody
[42:48] actually did that and some poor referee got almost back to death
[42:51] by a number of pigeons, I want to say.
[42:54] Yeah, pigeons. Yeah.
[42:58] Oh, that's very nice. That's very nice.
[43:00] OK. So this probably brings me to
[43:04] the last question of the episode.
[43:07] And Speaking of people who are whimsical, I guess, and doing
[43:14] unexpected things, I'm going to talk about an individual who did
[43:18] something unexpected. Not a bad segue, OK?
[43:22] An episode with decent segues, I would say.
[43:26] OK, do you know of this gentleman by the name of Sissel
[43:32] Chubb? I know Sissel the meal.
[43:35] I don't know, Sissel Chubb. OK, good.
[43:38] Great. That should make my question a
[43:39] little challenging for you because Cecil Chubb, on the
[43:43] afternoon of September 21st 1915, was looking for a deal
[43:48] when he went to the Palace Theatre in Salisbury, England,
[43:52] and there were a lot of people. I think you.
[43:54] Pronounce. I think it's pronounced
[43:55] Salisbury. Ah, my bad.
[43:57] Yes, you're right. Salisbury, England.
[44:00] This weird pronunciation for English cities and towns always
[44:03] gets me. Yeah, Salisbury.
[44:05] England. Yes, I know.
[44:06] Cecil Chubb was there looking for a deal at the Palace Theatre
[44:11] and legend says this wealthy 39 year old lawyer had been
[44:16] dispatched by his wife to purchase a set of dining chairs.
[44:20] But suffice it to say that he did not do what his wife wanted
[44:24] him to do and he said did something very unexpected and
[44:28] frankly a little ridiculous. It all changed when auctioneer
[44:32] Howard Frank announced lot #15. OK.
[44:38] Yeah, now Frank had assumed that there would be people willing to
[44:43] bid on lot #15 and he started the opening bid at 5000 lbs OK.
[44:50] And when he was met with stone cold silence, he even joked
[44:55] about it saying surely someone will offer me £5000.
[44:59] Then somebody's finally started to bid on it and it reached 6000
[45:02] lbs and again people stopped. And at this point, Frank said,
[45:06] gentlemen, it is impossible to value the said lot #15 and let's
[45:11] call it X. OK.
[45:13] It is impossible to value X Surely 6000 lbs is poor bidding,
[45:17] but if no one bids me anymore, I shall set it at this price.
[45:21] Finally, Chubb decided that he's going to bid a little bit more
[45:24] and he bought it for 6600 lbs, which in today's money is
[45:30] slightly more than $1,000,000. OK, I ask you what was in lot
[45:36] #15 that Cecil Chubb bought on September 21st, 1915?
[45:45] Is this This is shortly after the excavation of Tutankhamun's
[45:50] tomb. I'm I can't.
[45:52] I'm not sure about the dates, but I would guess nobody would
[45:56] want to bid on something haunted even though it's priceless.
[46:00] There is a turban legend right of like, I think people who are
[46:03] associated with the excavation have all died gruesome death,
[46:06] which is apparently very untrue. Tomb.
[46:08] Yeah. In any case, no, this is not the
[46:10] right answer. Good guess though.
[46:11] You are talking about an historical artifact.
[46:13] You're right. It is a historical artifact.
[46:17] Wow, a historical artifact in England?
[46:20] What could it be? Considering that the British
[46:25] Empire is the greatest looter of everything in history, this does
[46:30] not narrow down the field. I'll say this one thing, this
[46:36] thing, an artifact, might be pushing it to describe it, but
[46:39] whatever. The slot #15X is one thing that
[46:43] the British did not steal. Oh, they didn't steal this one.
[46:47] No. OK, that actually does narrowed
[46:50] out the field. So then it must be something
[46:52] British. If it's not, maybe.
[46:54] English and also probably impossible to steal.
[46:59] Not probably it it is impossible.
[47:00] It's impossible to steal. Yeah, so, but if it's impossible
[47:04] to steal something, something very well guarded, so something
[47:09] in the Tower of London maybe, but then that wouldn't be put up
[47:14] for auction. This is again, 1915 you
[47:17] mentioned, right? So World War One has already
[47:19] started. So was this an auction of
[47:22] something for the war bonds? No, this wasn't, like I said,
[47:27] something very historical, very, very iconic, something everybody
[47:33] associates immediately with the UK, with England.
[47:36] Oh, OK. With the British.
[47:38] Yeah, Big Ben. You are close in terms of
[47:44] perhaps scale of things. Not not the scale like exact
[47:47] size and dimension, but in the ballpark.
[47:51] Oh, so something big? Yeah, something big.
[47:55] And interestingly. Enough, because you spoke of how
[47:58] these things are are usually in the public domain.
[48:02] Eventually. Chubb did gift X to the British
[48:05] people in October 1918. So I mean, it's a historical
[48:09] artifact. So then obviously it would
[48:10] probably end up in a museum. But you mentioned something big,
[48:14] right? Oh, are these the the white
[48:17] horses? No, those are not the you know,
[48:21] those white horses you see on the hillsides in England?
[48:25] The limestone horses. No, no.
[48:28] Historical Artifact? Nope.
[48:32] I'll need one more clue, or at least a couple more.
[48:34] OK, so this is, like I said, impossible to steal.
[48:40] And not because it is very severely protected, because you
[48:43] genuinely can't steal it. Like you can't steal the Big Ben
[48:46] or you can't steal the Pyramids of Giza.
[48:48] Yeah, because of the building. Exactly something along those
[48:53] lines. Not exactly a building, but
[48:54] something along those lines. And because it is geographically
[48:58] fixed, Chubb who was somebody who lived nearby this particular
[49:02] thing X had decreed when he gave it.
[49:06] OK, I know. I, I, I got it.
[49:09] This is Stonehenge. It is Stonehenge, you are right.
[49:13] Yes, this. Is Stonehenge Yeah, yeah, yeah,
[49:16] yeah, yeah, yeah. Salisbury should have made some
[49:20] kind of connection. Yeah, no, yeah.
[49:22] This is Stonehenge. Stonehenge had private owners
[49:25] because it was on a piece of private land that kept going
[49:29] down from generation to generation until it was taken
[49:32] over by the historical trust, I think.
[49:34] So Cecil Chubb bought it at an auction for 6600 pounds, $1
[49:39] million, which honestly sounds like a steal for something that
[49:43] iconic and that valuable to culture and history.
[49:50] I would say those stones can't be worth more than a few 1000
[49:53] lbs. Like it's not like it's granite
[49:56] or marble or anything. It's like a couple of stones
[49:59] stacked. Together.
[50:00] Fair enough, fair enough. I think the value is of the fact
[50:02] that they're dated to a time where.
[50:04] OK, I'm obviously joking. No, no, I get the joke of the
[50:07] pounds of no. No, I'm not talking to you, I'm
[50:10] talking to see. The problem is that many times
[50:12] my humor does not translate just purely on audio and people think
[50:18] I'm talking seriously. I have been told this in the
[50:20] past, so I have to be very careful.
[50:21] Now I am joking. Yes, which just gives me a tiny
[50:26] Segway into the fact that, hey, you know what, we might be doing
[50:29] a video episode anytime now. As soon as we've sorted out some
[50:33] technical issues, we will be there.
[50:34] So watch out for that, quite literally.
[50:37] But anyways, coming back to the question, Stonehenge was briefly
[50:40] owned by Cecil Chubb, and it had private owners before him as
[50:43] well, and he bought it at an auction when his wife had sent
[50:47] him to buy dining chairs instead of.
[50:50] Dining chairs. Stonehenge.
[50:52] He must be like I technically did buy some things which could
[50:57] be used as chairs. You could sit on it if you
[50:59] wanted to and look ridiculous, but you could.
[51:01] Yeah, technically, and he donated to the British people,
[51:06] but he mentioned in his donation that anybody who lived near
[51:10] Stonehenge just like he did should receive free admission to
[51:13] the monument. So till this day, around 30,000
[51:17] of the 1.3 million people who visit annually can do so without
[51:20] paying the admission fee. Thanks to.
[51:23] Cecil Chubb. Nice.
[51:25] That's also the reason why I think there was a movie
[51:29] recently, right? Something about King Arthur,
[51:31] which had a teenage Merlin opens up a gateway in Stonehenge.
[51:35] I watch all these weird movies for what, I don't know, it
[51:39] escapes me. Not a particularly great movie,
[51:41] so let's just, you know, assume I didn't talk about it.
[51:45] I'll take a word for it. So that's, that's very
[51:49] interesting. Stonehenge is a megalithic
[51:51] structure if I'm not mistaken right?
[51:52] Stonehenge is megalithic or Neolithic.
[51:55] It is. You're right.
[51:56] It's a prehistoric megalithic structure in Salisbury Plain in
[52:00] Wiltshire. So that brings me to Graham
[52:04] Hancock, who is a an alternate historian, let's call him that,
[52:10] who has certain ideas about history and prehistory.
[52:14] I would recommend watching him for, if nothing else, good
[52:18] entertainment value because he just he does have some really
[52:22] interesting theories. I'm not going to discount him
[52:24] completely because he does raise certain very valid questions,
[52:29] however, not the answers he provides.
[52:31] Maybe not everything I agree with, but I do believe that, you
[52:36] know, these all these kind of theories should come out.
[52:38] So you should probably listen to some Graham Hancock.
[52:41] He's a frequent guest on Joe Rogan show and he has I think a
[52:47] Netflix special along with Keanu Reeves.
[52:49] So probably just go watch. He has a lot to say about
[52:54] megalithic structures, especially Goblecly Tepe which
[52:57] is in I think modern day Turkey and it's supposed to be around
[53:01] 10,000 years old. Amazing.
[53:05] Yeah, that's all time we have for our regular quizzing.
[53:09] Before we go to our pop culture recommendation, let me answer
[53:14] the question that I asked at the beginning of today's episode,
[53:16] which is when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
[53:20] Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to
[53:23] negotiate. We shape our buildings, and
[53:25] afterward our buildings shape us.
[53:27] This usage of repeating words in reverse order is called what?
[53:32] So, Aditya, do you have any idea what this is, what this is?
[53:36] This is a question by Doctor Rakesh, Vt sent it to us by
[53:39] Doctor Rakesh, Vt. So Doctor Rakesh, thank you for
[53:41] the question. And Aditya, do you know the
[53:43] answer to This is a fairly straightforward GK question.
[53:48] I think this is an is. I'm forgetting the word because
[53:53] I have. I have actually one's a little
[53:55] embarrassing because I've taught this in my public speaking class
[53:58] and I'm forgetting the word for it.
[54:02] This is one of those rhetorical devices that you can use to make
[54:06] a point. It is a rhetorical device.
[54:08] I'll give you the answer. It is chiasmus.
[54:11] Yes, that's the one. That's the one.
[54:14] Yes, it's a chiasmus. So chiasmus is when you use
[54:18] repeating words in reverse order to make a point.
[54:20] It's a rhetorical device used in, as Aditya said, in speaking
[54:24] and in arguments. So thank you, Doctor Rakesh, Vt,
[54:28] again for that question, and hopefully some of you in the
[54:31] audience did get the answer to that.
[54:33] Before we wind up Aditya, what's your pop culture recommendation?
[54:37] For today's episode, I'm going to recommend two TV shows, both
[54:41] of them on Apple TV. So if you have subscription, go
[54:45] for it, or if you want to do something illegal to find it and
[54:47] that's on you. But both shows are really good.
[54:50] The first one is Shrinking and the second one is Silo.
[54:55] And Shrinking is a show about a grieving therapist who starts to
[55:00] tell his clients exactly what he thinks, so he takes an
[55:03] alternative approach to therapy. It's a fun show.
[55:05] Yeah. And it stars Jason Segel, who
[55:08] was popular for playing Marshall Ericsson on How I Met a Mother.
[55:12] Honestly, very honest opinion. I don't think he's a very good
[55:15] actor, but whatever brand of acting he brings, it seems to
[55:18] fit this show. So you know what?
[55:21] What a watch or two, at least. And the other show that I
[55:24] mentioned, Silo signed Rebecca Ferguson.
[55:26] Not that is 1 hell of an actor. I have really enjoyed her
[55:30] performance in the Mission Impossible series.
[55:33] I thought she brought a lovely little twist to that.
[55:36] Elsa Faust. Elsa Faust, and I think she's a
[55:38] very good actor and she does a phenomenal job in Silo as well.
[55:41] So Silo is a science fiction TV show.
[55:45] The less I say about it, the better because it has a deep
[55:48] mystery at its core based off of a novel.
[55:50] So you know it has some fun source material at its core.
[55:54] So check out both Silo and Shrinking.
[55:57] I've not watched drinking, but I would definitely recommend Silo
[56:00] and frankly I would sit and watch Rebecca Ferguson just
[56:05] paint a wall. She is so charismatic, insanely
[56:08] charismatic. She can carry the screen all by
[56:10] herself. Frankly, when you're on the same
[56:13] frame as Tom Cruise and you dominate the screen with him in
[56:18] the frame, that says a lot about you.
[56:21] Indeed. So my pop culture
[56:23] recommendations, which I've already mentioned through during
[56:26] the course of the show, are The Count of Monte Cristo, which
[56:29] there's a 2024 French production of which I think it's the
[56:34] highest budget French film of all time.
[56:37] And it shows. It is beautifully shot.
[56:41] If nothing else, watch it for the eye candy.
[56:44] The story doesn't hurt either. And the second is I mentioned
[56:47] Graham Hancock. See, there's a lot of
[56:50] controversy surrounding Graham Hong Kong.
[56:51] Let me just be perfectly clear. I am aware of that, that he has
[56:56] a lot of pseudo scientific claims as I mentioned when I
[57:00] watch him more for the entertainment value rather than
[57:02] anything else. I don't agree with many things
[57:05] that he says, but I do find the ideas and the questions he poses
[57:10] are worth exploring rather than just dismissing out of hand.
[57:13] Maybe his explanations for it don't make sense, but there are
[57:17] certain things which kind of spark your imagination, so just
[57:21] watch it. I'm not going to say that oh
[57:23] he's got this amazing theory which has to be right or
[57:25] whatever. I'm just saying watch it for
[57:28] pure entertainment value if nothing else.
[57:30] He has a show which I believe is called Ancient Apocalypse,
[57:32] season 2 of which also has Keanu Reeves.
[57:35] So that I'm sure is going to be a controversial choice for a pop
[57:39] culture recommendation. But like I said, I'm not
[57:42] endorsing his theories. All right, and that's all for
[57:46] this episode. Thank you all for listening in.
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[57:59] 150 episodes, they start to speak very, very fast about
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[58:28] I believe so. That was insanely fast.
[58:31] Very impressive. You're a regular YouTube.
[58:33] Aditya will slow it down and post.
[58:37] All right. See you guys next week.
[58:40] Bye bye. Yeah.

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