# Episode 049 - Japan, Reels & Floods

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 23 Dec 2023, 53 min.

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Do you know which Marvel character was licensed by Stan Lee to show up on a Sentai series? Do you know how the Serbian song Zanum has become popular in India? Do you know what the London flood of 1814 and the Sept 2023 flood of Portugal have in common? 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

## Transcript

[0:01] Welcome to Are You Quizzing Me? I'm Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:05] Aditya Kashi. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, sport, pop culture, and so much more.
[0:13] Desk in Quizzing and we're back for episode #49 of Are You
[0:21] Quizzing Me? Your Favorite Quizzing Trivia
[0:23] Podcast show. Aditya and I are back for
[0:26] another round of quizzing this week.
[0:29] Let's start off today's episode with the audience question.
[0:33] This is the question that I will answer at the end of the episode
[0:37] with the power fall in popularity of the Sintai series.
[0:40] Stan Lee was working at Jean PALC at the time on a trip to
[0:44] Japan in the early 70s was much enamoured by this form of
[0:48] television. Wanting to work on it, he signed
[0:51] off a famous character he had worked on for an adaptation.
[0:55] This series saw the first appearance of a large robot as a
[0:59] fighting machine in live action and paved the way for the latest
[1:02] Super Sentai series. Which Marvel character was this
[1:08] TV show based on? We will reveal the answer to
[1:11] this question at the end of the episode.
[1:14] Now it's time for Aditya to tell us what the answer to his
[1:18] intriguing question was from last week.
[1:21] Aditya, over to you. So last week the question I
[1:24] asked was, if a lozenge did not have a French origin, the word
[1:30] itself did not have a French origin and instead had an Indian
[1:34] origin, what would it be called? And keen listeners would
[1:39] remember that lozenge was called what it was called because it
[1:42] was in the shape of a rhombus. What is other quadrilateral
[1:46] which is kind of rhombus like a kite.
[1:49] What is a kite in Hindi? A pathang that would have been a
[1:53] Patangali. Oh God.
[1:56] That's what a Lawson would have been called.
[1:59] Patangali oh God, took you on. Quite the.
[2:05] Journey there didn't have any. Yes, yes you did.
[2:07] You did. I had no idea where you were
[2:09] going with that one. So, Aditya, why don't we started
[2:11] off start off today's regularly scheduled programming this week
[2:15] with a question. All right.
[2:16] So the first question that I had for this week, which is the
[2:21] oldest running software product line, the longest running
[2:25] software product line by Microsoft?
[2:29] The longest running software product line from Microsoft.
[2:33] Yes. Would that be Excel?
[2:37] No. Then it would have to be paint.
[2:40] Technically, Windows would also be considered part of this.
[2:43] And all of this. Would have to be post windows.
[2:46] OK, so this is pre Windows you're talking about.
[2:50] Well, I kind of gave a hint here.
[2:51] Yes, Windows is not the answer. There's something which has been
[2:55] longer running than Windows, by exactly three years, in fact.
[2:59] So Microsoft had something that was running longer than Windows
[3:04] and it's still available as what you're seeing, right?
[3:07] Yes. So that would be a software from
[3:09] the 80s. 1982 specifically. 1982 Do I get a clue?
[3:19] OK, let me help you out a little bit.
[3:20] So I told you the first release was in 1982. 82.
[3:24] Yes, the latest release was in 2020.
[3:27] The latest release was in 2020. Let me give you an additional
[3:32] clue right there, OK? The Xbox edition of the same
[3:36] software was released in 2021. OK, I'm not use the Xbox.
[3:42] So maybe this hint helps by just thinking about what kind of
[3:46] softwares are on Xbox. What is Xbox meant for
[3:49] primarily? It's gaming.
[3:51] It's gaming. So.
[3:52] Yeah, so we're talking games here.
[3:55] Wait, is it minesweeper or solid?
[3:59] Or is it Minesweeper or Solitaire?
[4:02] No it isn't one of the games that is pre installed on
[4:05] windows. What else do you need to game?
[4:09] This is something so glaringly obvious.
[4:11] Does I overthink things so much that the simplest things are the
[4:14] ones that never come to me? No, not necessarily.
[4:17] This isn't very glaringly obvious, it is just a lovely
[4:20] piece of trivia, which is why I wanted to pose it as a question.
[4:23] I'm not even sure if you would have used this software or
[4:27] played this game. OK.
[4:28] But I'm pretty sure you have heard of it.
[4:31] What else does Microsoft like? I have played a lot of games
[4:35] that come preinstalled with Microsoft.
[4:38] I don't think this ever came preinstalled.
[4:41] This never came preinstalled but was sold by Microsoft.
[4:45] Wow any other clue? Genre of game, at least.
[4:49] Let us go a little bit into description, which would
[4:52] hopefully give you a clue as to the genre as well.
[4:55] So this particular game began as a set of articles written by
[4:59] Bruce Artwick in 1976 about a 3D computer graphics program.
[5:05] When the magazine editor said that subscribers wanted to buy
[5:09] the program, Artwik set to work to created and incorporated a
[5:14] company called Sublogic Corporation.
[5:16] In 1977, the company began selling this particular game for
[5:21] several computer platforms. And then there is a list of
[5:25] platforms 880 Altair, 8A TIMS, AI8AT, so on and so forth.
[5:31] And finally the version released by Microsoft.
[5:34] Definitive first version was in 1982.
[5:38] An article on 3D basically said it's a 3D game. 3D computer
[5:44] graphics, Yeah, And back then there weren't a lot of those.
[5:47] It's a simulator. There's the last clue I'll give
[5:50] you. Oh my God, this is the Microsoft
[5:53] the Aircraft Simulator 1. I'll give you that.
[5:55] Yeah, it's it's the right answer.
[5:57] Microsoft Flight Simulator. As well, Flight Simulator, Yes.
[6:00] Oh my God, that's from 1982 it. Was insane to me the fact that
[6:04] that's the oldest running, continuously running software
[6:09] product line by Microsoft and it is as old as 1982.
[6:13] What I wonder what the 1982 version looked like?
[6:18] Yeah, it was for the 16 bit computers such as the IBMPC
[6:22] which was still in development at that point.
[6:24] So it wouldn't have been exceptional by any means, but it
[6:29] was definitely a simulator. Yeah, and over time they have
[6:33] added new aircraft types, augmented scenery.
[6:35] They also in 2000 and 2002 versions introduced 2 editions
[6:40] Standard and Professional. So they have they have developed
[6:47] it to a decent level I'd say. And the flight simulator in 2020
[6:52] was just called Flight Simulator.
[6:55] The latest one that will be released, which will be next
[6:57] year is called Flight Simulator 2024.
[7:00] Nice. Yeah.
[7:01] OK. That I that was a complete TIL
[7:04] for me. No idea.
[7:05] No clue that it is what, now? It's 40 years old.
[7:09] My God, yeah, it's 40. More than 40 years old.
[7:13] OK, so my question is something is along the lines of what I've
[7:19] asked in the previous couple of episodes, right?
[7:21] It's a simple question. I am not going to give you too
[7:26] many clues on this. The United States Air Force is
[7:31] the largest Air Force in the world, which is the second
[7:34] largest. The United States Air Force is
[7:37] the largest Air Force in the world.
[7:39] Yes, which is the second largest.
[7:42] Is it the US Navy? Why do I even bother?
[7:48] I was hoping you'd go to Russia or China or somebody before I
[7:52] had to bring you back. But yes, it is the US Navy.
[7:55] I, you know, you should really at least do some or something so
[7:59] that people listening to the podcast will at least have
[8:01] something to do. It's going to be very annoying
[8:03] to them. If you could just get to the
[8:05] answers so quickly, it's very bad idea.
[8:08] Yes, it is. the US Navy has enough aircraft to be classified
[8:13] as the second largest Air Force in the world.
[8:17] That was fast and it's all your fault.
[8:22] I realized this because I think when Top Gun came out I went
[8:26] down a rabbit hole. OK.
[8:29] Yeah, so that's that's where I encountered a fact like this.
[8:35] So questions up to you now. All right.
[8:39] Oh, this is one of my favorite type of questions.
[8:41] An accidental discovery. An accidental invention?
[8:44] OK. So let me tell you a little
[8:47] story and tell me what came out of this incident.
[8:50] OK. In the late 1930s, Swiss
[8:54] physicist Walter Jaeger attempted to invent a sensor for
[8:59] poison gas. He expected the gas entering the
[9:03] sensor to bind to ionized air molecules and thereby alter an
[9:08] electric current Indiana a Circuit of the instrument.
[9:12] However, his device did not achieve its purpose, as small
[9:16] concentrations of gas did not affect the sensor's
[9:19] conductivity. Frustrated, Jaeger then did
[9:22] something and was surprised at an unexpected result.
[9:29] What did he do? If you want to take a guess, and
[9:32] subsequently, what invention came out of this incident?
[9:36] Walter Yeager Poison gas Sensor But the poison gas did not
[9:41] change and this is what year? In the late 1930s.
[9:48] The late 1930s, you wanted to make a poison gas detector.
[9:53] The sensor didn't work, so he did something to the sensor,
[9:55] which then made it do something else.
[10:00] The poison gas was supposed to bind, create a molecule which
[10:03] would interrupt the electricity supply, right?
[10:06] That is what it was supposed to do.
[10:08] Yes. This is much too late for the
[10:10] cathode ray tube or anything, right?
[10:13] It's not that. I don't think it's that.
[10:15] Yeah, it isn't. It isn't.
[10:17] Instead of getting caught up in the technical aspect of it, I
[10:21] would advise you think about what could Jager have done in
[10:25] his frustration. In his frustration, he threw it.
[10:31] He broke it. That yeah, that's fair enough.
[10:34] That would be the first instinct.
[10:36] But no, not destructive. At least not, at least not
[10:39] destructive to the device. OK, you already absolutely.
[10:45] Destructive to himself. He tried to breathe in the
[10:49] poison gas and kill himself because he failed the test.
[10:53] What is he, Japanese? No, no, no, no, no, no, Volta.
[10:57] Jager was not that intense about his work, but he was frustrated
[11:02] and he needed to calm down. So what could he have done?
[11:06] Wait, is this OK? This is a this is a fire alarm.
[11:10] This is one of those smoke detectors.
[11:12] He lit a cigarette and he realized that the instrument
[11:17] registered a drop in current, and that's how a smoke detector
[11:22] came to be. Very nice, very nice.
[11:25] Did you know that many smoke detectors have a small amount of
[11:29] radioactive material in them? Oh, I did not know that.
[11:32] Not here. I mean like, I don't know if
[11:33] that's still the case, but apparently in the past there is
[11:37] smoke detectors were known to have a tiny amount of American.
[11:41] I think it was tiny amount of radioactive material.
[11:45] And I read somebody about, you know, scavenging hundreds of
[11:47] these to get enough, you know, material to do something.
[11:52] I remember reading it vaguely when when I was a kid.
[11:55] But nice. Very nice.
[11:57] Interesting. Yeah.
[11:59] Just to give some additional information, by the way, there
[12:01] were some fire alarms that were patented earlier.
[12:05] So in 1890 there was an automatic electric fire alarm
[12:09] that was patented by a by an associate of Thomas Edison.
[12:13] Actually Francis Robbins Upton. In 19 O2 George Darby patented
[12:19] the first European electrical heat detector in England.
[12:23] So they were doing something along those lines, but they were
[12:25] probably detecting for heat, and Jaeger and his little mishap and
[12:30] accident guided us towards smoke detection instead.
[12:33] OK, going along with my team of very silly questions for today,
[12:38] Neanderthals. You've heard of Neanderthals,
[12:39] right? They were precursors of modern
[12:41] day humans. Now imagine Neanderthal.
[12:44] You imagine you're looking at a textbook or a picture of a
[12:46] Neanderthal. And in almost all of them
[12:49] Neanderthals, they have very poor posture, right?
[12:52] They're slouching a little bit, right?
[12:54] They're very muscular, but they're slouching.
[12:55] They're shorter than us, correct.
[12:58] Right Now, the fact is that Neanderthals never had poor
[13:03] posture, at least no more than modern day humans, and never
[13:08] slouched more than any in the modern day human either.
[13:12] But in practically every depiction that we see, you see
[13:16] them slouching, they're having poor posture, and they're
[13:18] shorter. Do you know why?
[13:20] Right, interesting. Does it have anything to do with
[13:24] just simple aesthetics? Because it looks nicer and we
[13:27] like to believe. We are the yeah, that that would
[13:29] make sense from a design point of view.
[13:31] But no, actually this was just faulty science.
[13:35] Basically, this was just science meeting a random occurrence.
[13:39] It was just luck that it happened to be this way, the
[13:42] luck of the draw. If things had gone a different
[13:45] way, we would have had a more accurate depiction of
[13:48] Neanderthals, at least with regards to their posture.
[13:51] OK, I I don't have any clues, I'm going to make some educated
[13:55] guesses. Yes, yes, because this is
[13:57] guessable. I mean like you either you if
[13:59] you know it, you know it. But otherwise this is very
[14:01] guessable. You can try and guess as to why
[14:03] we would have such a inaccurate impression of Neanderthals.
[14:09] So I would assume it might be because we have found a grave
[14:13] with Neanderthals in it and they were curled up slightly in that
[14:17] grave. You're very, very close.
[14:20] You're very close, but you know people don't look at postures
[14:24] because after thousands of years you don't get skeletons in that
[14:31] curved form or anything. They're usually.
[14:32] Just they're not that accurate, yeah.
[14:35] They're usually just bones scattered about in the fossil
[14:39] record, unless you're a much bigger animal.
[14:42] Interesting. So how would they then estimate
[14:45] the posture of a creature? OK.
[14:49] So just go go through the process, right?
[14:50] So say, for example, you're excavating a dinosaur or a
[14:54] human, Lucy or whatever, right? So you get bones from a
[14:58] particular prehistoric site, right?
[15:02] Archaeologists and paleontologists, they would be
[15:04] digging out those bones. The bones will be taken to a
[15:07] museum and then cleaned. And what's the next thing they
[15:09] do after you get, like a number of bones?
[15:12] They try to assemble it, yes. OK.
[15:17] So did they mix up two different?
[15:22] Individuals. No, they had a they had a
[15:23] relatively complete Neanderthal skeleton in 19 O 8.
[15:28] So then was it just an old person who was hunched over and
[15:34] not they thought that? No.
[15:35] Because Neanderthals didn't have that much of A lifespan, so it
[15:37] wasn't like old, but you're very, very close.
[15:40] I can almost give it to you, but I can see if you can guess what
[15:43] it is did. Did this person have some bone
[15:46] defect? Bone disease?
[15:47] Did they have? I'll give it to you.
[15:48] I'll give it to you. Yeah.
[15:49] So the first relatively complete Neanderthal skeleton found in 19
[15:53] O 8 just happened to be one that suffered from arthritis.
[15:59] Oh no. Oh, that is just so bad for the
[16:04] entire species I. So because although sometimes
[16:07] depicted as having poor posture, and in most pictures they do,
[16:10] they shown us slouching a little bit, Neanderthals did not slouch
[16:13] any more than humans did today. It's just the luck of the draw
[16:17] that the first relatively complete skeleton we found
[16:20] happened to be one that suffered from arthritis.
[16:22] You know, I'm imagining that particular Neanderthal's mom
[16:26] just telling him that. Sit upright properly, you're
[16:28] going to ruin your posture. He ruined it for the dead
[16:31] species, not just for himself. No, but I but I guess there will
[16:35] be more of like grunts because I don't think they had language.
[16:40] Many don't ruin my joke with their technical expertise.
[16:44] Unless you put them in the Flintstones world with the
[16:47] Winston cigarette. Yeah, exactly.
[16:49] Exactly. With the Winston cigarette,
[16:51] yeah. Yeah, so all my questions are
[16:54] like this today. All are very silly questions, so
[16:56] be prepared. I love them.
[16:58] I already love them so much. OK.
[17:01] OK. Next one from you take the
[17:03] baton. Since we are talking about silly
[17:06] questions, yes, a really silly one, which you'll only realize
[17:11] once the answer is revealed. OK.
[17:14] There is a 2023 song, a song from this year called Zanam, and
[17:20] this is by a Serbian singer-songwriter TE Adora.
[17:25] OK. The song's title roughly
[17:28] translates to my nightmares. OK.
[17:32] It is about the expression of longing, pain and rejection,
[17:36] with the narrator feeling trapped and unloved.
[17:39] The three minute long song emphasizes her despair and her
[17:43] dreams of a better life as she believes her fate is cursed.
[17:47] How do we know the song? Zanam, you said right.
[17:52] Yes. By we you're talking about the
[17:55] world in general or India in particular?
[17:58] I think it might be specific to India.
[18:01] OK, this is a 2023 song. Yeah, so the name of the song
[18:06] was Zanam. The chorus translates to my
[18:10] nightmares and I told you about what the song was saying about
[18:15] pain and rejection. So how do we in India know this
[18:19] song? Has Preetam stolen the song yet?
[18:23] At this point, he won't be able to do any more because it's too
[18:26] popular. It's that popular something to
[18:28] do with Instagram reels or something like that?
[18:30] You are not too far, yeah. OK, now this is where it gets
[18:35] really difficult. Whoa.
[18:37] Because there are hundreds of these real songs that I know by,
[18:42] you know, listening to them. But if you asked me their name
[18:45] or who did it, I would not know. I'm looking for the specific
[18:49] name of the song and you'd know the name of the song if you have
[18:51] just ever heard that song in a reel also.
[18:56] But he said it's Serbian, right? But South Asian social media
[19:00] users have repurposed the song by incorporating a touch of dark
[19:05] humor into the videos. Dark humor in the videos.
[19:10] I did not prepare too many clues for this.
[19:13] This is a repeating word. It's a word repeated twice, a
[19:18] four letter word repeated twice. Oh, it's not Zanam.
[19:21] Repeated twice. No, no.
[19:23] Zanam is just the name of the song, but the chorus is what the
[19:27] South Asian community has made into a viral trend.
[19:33] Word repeated twice. And starts with the letter M.
[19:38] You know, you shouldn't really give clues like this is it just
[19:42] really makes me feel stupid. OK, starts with the letter M and
[19:46] repeat it twice. At this point, the listeners
[19:50] have figured it out, I must tell you.
[19:52] Yeah, I I'm. I'm fairly sure of that.
[19:55] Nope. You'll have to tell me what this
[19:56] is. I have no clue.
[19:58] The Vineet I'm going to in my Husky voice for the week.
[20:02] I'm going to try and sing it for you, OK?
[20:04] Yes, yes. Please, goes Moy Moy Moe Moe.
[20:09] I don't see any recognition in your eyes.
[20:11] Oh my God. I'm so.
[20:12] I'm so disappointed in you, Vinit.
[20:13] Right now you have not encountered Moe Moe.
[20:18] This the Moe Moe sounds familiar, but I can't place it
[20:21] anywhere now. Am I really routing myself as a
[20:26] philistine when it comes to social media?
[20:27] Which I am actually, but still. You are you are my God okay.
[20:32] I honestly just ask this because you said you are really into the
[20:35] reels and memes culture that says.
[20:36] Yeah, no, basically I just go down these rabbit holes.
[20:38] Well, I just keep swiping and I keep listening.
[20:41] But most of them just to kill time, like when I'm doing
[20:43] something really boring or I just need a break to, you know,
[20:46] clear my head. I just keep doing that, you
[20:48] know, I just keep scrolling. Most of them.
[20:50] I'm not even paying attention to what they're saying or what
[20:52] they're doing, unless it's like a very funny something, really
[20:55] funny. Here's the note to the
[20:56] listeners. I believe Vineet is flexing
[20:59] right now because he probably has very intellectual reels that
[21:02] show up on his suggested list, unlike us Lebs who are
[21:07] entertained by Moe Moe. I I I don't.
[21:13] Yeah, yeah, no. I the real spy Reading room
[21:16] India and things like that are usually show up for me.
[21:21] OK. I'll tell you the one that I
[21:22] first saw this in and it might have been viral slightly earlier
[21:26] than that, but I remember the one that caught my attention.
[21:30] It was a man offering tea to his friends in a steel car glass or
[21:36] something like that. And their friends complain that,
[21:39] yeah, it's not a cup and that man goes because Australia took
[21:42] the cup home, OK? And then it goes more and more.
[21:48] So this is supposed to be this ridiculous, sad, dark humor kind
[21:54] of situation. And then they just start singing
[21:57] more and more and they start doing this very weird dance.
[22:01] It is ridiculous. It is absolutely ridiculous.
[22:05] OK, well, now I've given you something of a new rabbit hole.
[22:07] Please go pollute your highbrow Instagram content with this
[22:13] complete Lowbrow Con humor. That's a basic thing, but cello,
[22:22] OK. I'll go on to my next question,
[22:24] moving on from something to a little more historical.
[22:27] The flood that occurred in London on 17th October 1814
[22:33] killed eight people. A similar flood occurred
[22:36] recently in Portugal in September.
[22:40] This time, luckily there was only some property damage.
[22:43] What was unique about these two floods?
[22:45] So in the first occasion it killed 8 people and the second
[22:48] time there was this property damage.
[22:50] Yes and I these are like the only maybe 2 occurrences of this
[22:54] in the past. God knows how many years.
[22:57] I couldn't find any other instances.
[22:59] These are the only two times that I could find that this kind
[23:01] of a flood happened, and the first time it was was in 1814
[23:05] and it killed 8 people and then recently in Portugal.
[23:09] But this time there was only property damage.
[23:11] So what was unique about these two floods?
[23:13] Sorry, first time was 1814. A1814, yes.
[23:18] So that would be during the Regions period that was in
[23:22] London. So there's a good chance this
[23:24] may show up in Bridgeton, by the way.
[23:28] Oh, interesting. And the 2nd instance was.
[23:31] Recently, in September of 2023 in Portugal.
[23:34] Oh. They're not exactly the same,
[23:36] but they have something very much in common.
[23:40] Wow, I cannot even think of what this might be.
[23:44] I have no clue right now. OK, so the only clue I can give,
[23:50] because there aren't many clues I can give for this without
[23:52] giving away the answer. Let's just say that these are
[23:56] man made floods, technically speaking.
[23:59] Man made floods. I mean, those aren't uncommon,
[24:04] what with dams and all that. Does it have anything to do with
[24:07] the dam? Nothing to do with dams, nothing
[24:09] to do with dams. And also I can give you an
[24:11] additional clue that it wasn't raining at all.
[24:13] Well, no more. It is London in October, so no
[24:17] more than usual anyway. OK, I I don't even know how this
[24:21] would be possible, but does it have anything to do with the
[24:23] groundwater? No, no, nothing to do with
[24:26] groundwater. OK, oh, was there, was this not
[24:31] a water flood? Was it some other liquid that
[24:33] was flooding? OK, closer.
[24:36] Closer. Oh wow.
[24:40] I have no clue where to go from this though did a wine.
[24:43] Cellar flood. You caught it.
[24:46] So these are both floods caused by alcoholic beverages.
[24:50] Oh, wow. OK.
[24:52] So the London Beer Flood and this is a real thing.
[24:54] The London Beer Flood was an accident at Mew and Koz
[24:58] Horseshoe Brewery, London on 17th October 1814.
[25:02] It took place when one of the 22 foot tall wooden vats of
[25:07] fermenting Porter burst. The escaping liquid dislodged
[25:11] the valve of another vessel and destroyed several large barrels.
[25:16] Between 128,128 thousand and 323,000 imperial gallons, which
[25:23] is roughly around 580,000 to 1.5 million liters of beer were
[25:31] released in total. The resulting wave of beer
[25:34] destroyed the back wall of the brewery and swept into an area
[25:38] of slum dwellings known as the St.
[25:40] Giles Rookery. Eight people were killed.
[25:43] The brewery was nearly bankrupted by the event and
[25:46] avoided A collapse after rebate from the Hmxise on the lost
[25:49] beer. This is when the brewing
[25:51] industry stopped using large wooden bats.
[25:55] Now in September of 2023, something similar happened in
[26:01] Portugal when roughly 2.2 million liters of wine poured
[26:07] out of two burst tanks at Distilleria Levira.
[26:11] You can actually see videos online where there's a river of
[26:14] wine coursing down a hilly St. It just caused some property
[26:17] damage. This time nobody died.
[26:19] So these are the only two occurrences I could find of
[26:21] alcoholic beverages causing a flood.
[26:26] Oh, OK. I'm surprised that these are the
[26:30] only two instances though. Yeah, because I don't think
[26:32] anybody else was crazy enough to make your such huge vats.
[26:36] Like what's? Like if you have a few barrels,
[26:38] it'll what will just cause a small some more.
[26:41] Basically beer or water would just flow down the street.
[26:43] That's it. We're talking about 1.5 to
[26:45] 2,000,000 liters bursting at once.
[26:48] We need, we need, they're also talking about the human race and
[26:52] alcohol, and those two normally don't result in the most.
[26:56] No, no, I'm. I don't agree.
[26:58] With that, I do agree with that. The thing is, by the time we
[27:01] were able to create alcohol or produce it in such large
[27:05] quantities, the 1814 flood happened, right?
[27:09] And people learned, oh, you're not supposed to do this in
[27:12] wooden vats. And things were fine until,
[27:15] again, this happened in Portugal.
[27:18] You're also implying that we learn from our mistakes.
[27:20] Again, not something supported by history at all.
[27:24] No, that's what I say. History doesn't repeat.
[27:27] History rhymes. Rhymes.
[27:29] All right, that is a fun question.
[27:31] All right. OK, yeah.
[27:32] Cool, cool, cool. And I told you all silly
[27:33] questions, right? I love them.
[27:36] All right. Speaking of silly, this one is
[27:39] as silly as it gets. Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight
[27:44] was in Turkey, sued by the mayor of a city.
[27:50] His name was Huysen Kalkan. This particular mayor wanted to
[27:55] sue the movie for royalty. Why was he trying to sue the
[28:00] movie? Because the town was called
[28:03] Batman. Oh, Vineet, I had like a whole
[28:06] list of hints prepared for this. No, I knew this one.
[28:12] I knew this one. OK, actually I should have
[28:16] prefaced with the fact that this is a question that was given to
[28:19] me by a listener, a very recent listener.
[28:21] Oh, nice. Came on board very recently.
[28:24] Yeah, Anvesha, a friend of mine who does not listen to podcasts
[28:28] at all. She decided to give us a listen
[28:30] and she thought that this would be a fun little piece of trivia.
[28:35] So clearly not something that Vineet was unaware of.
[28:39] And for the benefit of the listeners, Batman is the name of
[28:43] a city, the capital of Batman district in Batman province in
[28:47] Turkey and is situated near the Batman River.
[28:51] Now I'm not sure if it is pronounced Batman.
[28:53] It could be pronounced slightly differently.
[28:55] But it is. It is spelled in English as
[28:57] Batman. It had been having an
[29:02] economically lull period for a while and in 2007 a journalist
[29:06] asked the mayor why he didn't look into suing the movie Batman
[29:11] for royalty, especially given that the economic problems the
[29:15] city was struggling with at the time and hence the mayor tried
[29:18] to sue I believe. Eventually the lawsuit was
[29:21] dropped and nothing really came out of it except a little bit of
[29:24] publicity, I guess. But he also implied that the
[29:29] movie had a severely negative psychological impact on the
[29:32] city's inhabitants. As a result, the film was to be
[29:36] blamed for a number of unsought murders and a high female
[29:38] suicide rate. So I think he was stretching it
[29:41] a little bit by blaming the movie for a bunch of these
[29:44] issues in the. City like I can understand
[29:47] increased suicide rates after Batman and Robin, but not after
[29:51] The Dark Knight. In this case, the lawsuit never
[29:58] went through. But yeah, if you're ever in
[30:00] Turkey, you can go visit Batman. OK, so my last question for this
[30:05] week is again going with my silly team.
[30:09] Until 1961, the New York Times had a period after the times,
[30:15] oh, full stop. Right.
[30:17] So you had New York Times full stop.
[30:19] That used to be the logo. In 1961, Lou Silverstein, who
[30:24] was the promotional art director, redesigned the logo
[30:28] right, making the letter slightly thicker, making it look
[30:31] much better, and then he removed the period.
[30:36] There was a lot of consternation and opposition at the times when
[30:41] he did this, because nobody wanted to remove the period.
[30:44] Do you know what finally convinced them that removing it
[30:48] was better? Oh, was this a specific news
[30:52] event that happened? No, no, nothing related to the
[30:55] news. This was completely internal and
[30:58] nothing to do with design. This would seem OK.
[31:01] This would seem completely absurd, but would this save a
[31:04] lot of money because they were printing the period?
[31:08] Yes, not a lot of money, at least with some money.
[31:13] So there was a lot of opposition until the production manager
[31:16] came up with the calculation that eliminating the period
[31:20] would save some $600 a year. Wow, that is not not
[31:25] insignificant, no. $600 a year, $600 in 1961 roughly calculates
[31:31] to just over $6000 a year now. Well, given state of journalism,
[31:37] that is like a whole. Journal.
[31:39] But come on, this is the New York Times you're talking about.
[31:41] Print journalism is dying, Vineet Not sure if you've heard
[31:45] the news recently, because there isn't any to hear anymore.
[31:48] There isn't any more. Yes, it's all dead.
[31:54] The print journalism is dead. People keep saying that, but we
[31:56] still see newspapers getting published.
[31:59] I think it's just a print portion of it.
[32:01] Journalism isn't dead. I mean, like, do we really need
[32:04] to care about whether it's print or online?
[32:07] It's just nostalgic value right now.
[32:08] Fair. Enough.
[32:10] Fair enough. Yeah, and I mean like at least
[32:12] in India, the street food scene keep single handedly keeps the
[32:17] paper industry alive. The newspaper industry you don't
[32:22] need. Readers true.
[32:24] That is true. No, you you do have other
[32:26] consumers as well. It is my mum's favorite when she
[32:30] has to pack any crockery items. Yes.
[32:34] And anything delicate as well. Yeah, we we do have multiple
[32:37] uses for newspapers. Yeah.
[32:39] So print journalism is not dying, I guess.
[32:44] No, I believe we do have time for one question each more.
[32:49] I believe 47. Eighths.
[32:50] Should we do one more round? Yes, yes.
[32:52] Let's go for it. Let's go for it.
[32:54] OK, so are you aware of a gentleman by the name of Jim
[32:57] Henson? He was the animatronics and
[33:01] puppeteer person, right? He used to make these models and
[33:07] animals for movies. Get out Like how?
[33:10] How do you know such things? What?
[33:13] Where does the brain space to keep all this information?
[33:16] I thought that was common. I don't know.
[33:20] But I know Jim Henson. You have dated yourself.
[33:25] OK, so Jim Henson, born in 1936, passed away 1990, was an
[33:31] American puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor, inventor and
[33:34] filmmaker who achieved worldwide notability as the creator of The
[33:39] Muppets. He is obviously very well known
[33:44] in that particular field and significant achievement of the
[33:48] creator of Muppets. Now Jim Henson owned a Lotus
[33:53] Eclat, the car Lotus Eclat, which was stolen in 1979 and
[34:00] used in a bank robbery. However, the police quickly
[34:04] apprehended the robbers and managed to retrieve the car.
[34:08] Why was that the case? Did the robbers use like muppet
[34:14] masks that were in the car? No, no, they did not use Muppet
[34:20] masks or they did not make any intentional reference to The
[34:23] Muppets. But there was an unintentional
[34:28] giveaway right there. Wait, did he have like a vanity
[34:32] plate on his car where the plate read like Muppets, MPPTS or
[34:36] something like that? I'm not sure what the vanity
[34:40] plate read, but no, in this case it wasn't the vanity plate.
[34:43] OK. Not that either.
[34:45] OK. OK.
[34:47] Yeah, and I would also imagine any bank robber worth his salt
[34:53] would at least try to alter the number plate, name plate of the
[34:57] car that he has stolen. So no, in this case it wasn't
[35:02] the name plate, number plate of the car.
[35:06] He stole his car, which was a Lotus.
[35:09] What was the model you mentioned?
[35:11] A Lotus? Eclat.
[35:13] OK, a Lotus Eclat, they stole it, used it in the bank robbery,
[35:19] but then they were caught very quickly.
[35:22] So the connection obviously is to do with Jim Henson.
[35:24] Jim Henson, Yes, yeah. Because the first thing would
[35:28] obviously being it being his car, he would have something
[35:32] muppet E or puppetry related in it.
[35:36] So maybe they use that. But you said it's not that.
[35:40] The other thing would be, but the car would be instantly
[35:43] identifiable. Was it?
[35:45] Did he have some kind of decal on the roof which they didn't
[35:48] notice but was visible from a helicopter?
[35:51] Something a lot more basic. Something a lot more basic.
[35:55] This is the problem that every you should ask things where
[35:58] which I can. You should ask questions where I
[36:00] can overthink stuff. You know you should never ask
[36:02] something. OK, let me help you out a little
[36:05] bit over here. It is not the easiest to crack,
[36:08] at least with the information I've given you so far.
[36:10] Car and Henson was known to be a car enthusiast.
[36:14] The car had a nickname called Carmit that people and fans have
[36:20] given a name. Much later it is called Kermit.
[36:24] It was bright green in colour. Yes, it is the case that the
[36:28] colour of the car was custom painted to a shade of green to
[36:36] mimic Kermit the Frog and also the headlight and stickers which
[36:41] look like Kermit the Frog. So it was so easily identifiable
[36:45] that the police had no trouble apprehending the robbers and
[36:50] retrieving the car. You know, you know what I find
[36:53] really ironic was that like a few minutes ago and listeners,
[36:58] you can rewind and Aditya himself said, I think any bank
[37:02] robber worth his salt would at least change the license plate.
[37:05] You think that this bank robber worth his salt did not notice
[37:09] that he was driving a bright green green car?
[37:12] You know, in his defence he might have thought that a lot of
[37:14] cars are in that colour. It just so happened that yeah,
[37:18] hey, listen, he might have been a colour blind bank robber with
[37:22] you. Yeah, he might.
[37:23] Have even colour blind people can be bank robbers.
[37:25] Yes, I am being ableist. Yes.
[37:31] OK, OK, very nice question. Very nice question.
[37:33] I've run out of silly questions for today, so I'm going to ask a
[37:36] serious one. I'm going to give you a list of
[37:38] names. OK, these are all people who
[37:42] have been granted a particular title.
[37:46] I need you to tell me what title am I talking about?
[37:50] The first one is Henry Schnell from Prussia, Giuseppe Chiara
[37:57] from the then Kingdom of Sicily, now Italy, William Adams from
[38:02] England, Jann Houston, Van Lautenstein from Habsburg, which
[38:09] would be Netherlands today. So these people have all been
[38:14] granted a particular title and they were part of very very
[38:17] exclusive list. I've not given you all the names
[38:20] on the list, but they're part of a very exclusive list of people
[38:25] and I need you to tell me what title were they all granted.
[38:28] Can I check the names that you haven't included in this would
[38:32] be giveaways. Is that why you're not told me
[38:35] or? No, no, no.
[38:37] They wouldn't be giveaways, actually.
[38:38] In fact, some of them, we don't even know the names, OK?
[38:42] We just know that there was a person from a particular country
[38:47] who was granted this title, but we don't know some of their
[38:51] names. I can give you one of the other
[38:54] names. For example, one name would be
[38:57] Kim Yoshul from what is now South Korea.
[39:01] The others are one was the son of Yi Bok Nam, again from South
[39:07] Korea. None of this make none of this
[39:10] has any relevance to me right now.
[39:13] I'm not able to track this question with the names you're
[39:16] given. Could you just repeat the names?
[39:18] The names I would say is Henry Schnell from Prussia, Giuseppe
[39:23] Chiara from Sicily, William Adams from England, Jan Houston
[39:29] Van Laudenstein from the Netherlands.
[39:33] No, I'll need a clue. Have you read any particularly
[39:38] famous novels by James Clavell featuring the character John
[39:44] Blackthorn? No, I have not.
[39:47] OK, so then that's not much of A clue for you.
[39:51] OK. Not tall.
[39:53] I would say indirectly think of Tom Cruise and maybe Martin
[39:58] Scorsese as well. Tom Cruise and Martin Scorsese.
[40:03] Yes. Has Tom Cruise paired up with
[40:06] Martin Scorsese ever, I don't think.
[40:07] So no, no, no, not together. You don't think of them
[40:11] together, but all of them are in some way or form.
[40:14] May be very indirectly related to this this list in some ways,
[40:19] or at least to one particular person on this list.
[40:22] Or they're all related to one person.
[40:24] Yeah, one person. But The thing is you can get an
[40:26] idea. So think what would be common
[40:29] among the filmography of separately of Martin Scorsese of
[40:37] Tom Cruise. And I'll give you one more.
[40:39] Andrew Garfield, actually, you can think of Martin Scorsese and
[40:44] Andrew Garfield together. That may give you a bigger clue.
[40:47] Oh boy. Think of our Martin Scorsese and
[40:50] Andrew Garfield and think of Tom Cruise separately.
[40:55] I have no clue what Martin Scorsese film has Andrew
[40:58] Garfield appeared in or what have they worked on together.
[41:02] Again, I would say that, OK, let me give you another clue.
[41:04] The Martin Scorsese Andrew Garfield is a direct link to
[41:08] Giuseppe Chiara who I mentioned. Or did they make a biopic on
[41:12] this person? Yes, they did not a biopic.
[41:16] It was a fictionalized portrayal based off the life of Giuseppe
[41:20] Chiara. Giuseppe Chiara, Andrew
[41:23] Garfield. Oh boy.
[41:25] Now, Tom Cruise is not directly related to any names on this
[41:29] list, but something that he did could have been inspired by some
[41:34] of these names. A movie that he did could have
[41:37] been inspired by some of these names.
[41:39] A movie that he did. What time frame are we looking
[41:42] at with all these people and these events or whatever it is?
[41:45] OK, so most of these are in the 1600s, but Henry Schnell is in
[41:53] the 1860s. 1600s, so Tom Cruise period film.
[41:58] I was thinking something to do with New York because biopic
[42:03] Andrew Garfield he did. Not a biopic.
[42:05] See Tom Cruise? I said.
[42:06] Not a biopic at all. It's just inspiration.
[42:09] Yeah. No.
[42:10] And I was thinking about Andrew Garfield, you said not a biopic
[42:11] for that also and of course, Martin.
[42:13] That was also a fictional thing. Martin Scorsese movie.
[42:18] But 1600s New York doesn't seem to make any sense.
[42:21] Yes, my previous clue about James Clavell.
[42:25] James Clavell, if you are a ardent reader of, you know, some
[42:30] of some kind of historical friction.
[42:32] He was very famous for just a couple of novels.
[42:35] Oh wait, sorry, Tom Cruise. The only period film, at least
[42:40] the famous one that I can think of, is The Last Samurai Samurai.
[42:45] Is that the title? Yes, so these are all foreign
[42:51] born people who've been given the title of samurai.
[42:55] OK, that is very cool. Yes.
[42:58] So actually, Tom Cruise's character was based off a couple
[43:01] of French soldiers, but they were actually never actually
[43:04] made samurai. OK.
[43:07] So there are only I think around 9:00 or 10 people in history who
[43:11] were not not born in Japan, were born in other countries who
[43:16] officially became samurai. And by Samurai you we are not
[43:19] talking about what our depiction of Samurai as they were a kind
[43:23] of nobility and they were given the permission to carry two
[43:27] swords in public and they also had the right to kill anybody of
[43:31] a lower standing. But then they also had to follow
[43:34] the code of Bushido. So William Adams was the
[43:39] character, was the person who was the model for the character
[43:43] John Blackthorn in James Clavell's novel novel Shogun.
[43:48] You may have heard of the novel. Slogan of course yes, yes, yes,
[43:51] yes. Yes.
[43:52] So that's Shogun. Giuseppe Chiara was actually a
[43:56] Jesuit minister missionary, and he was one of the inspirations
[44:00] for Martin Scorsese's 2016 film Silence, where the lead
[44:06] character of Sebastia or Rodriguez, played by Andrew
[44:10] Garfield, was based on Giuseppe Chiara.
[44:15] Interesting. OK, very cool.
[44:17] Very cool. Where all the people who have
[44:19] not mentioned as I mentioned what are the names I gave was
[44:22] not an exhaustive list but all the people I've not mentioned,
[44:26] they are all Koreans S Koreans, right.
[44:30] Everybody else I've mentioned, they're from Europe.
[44:33] The reason I went through this rabbit hole to find this
[44:36] interestingly enough was for because of an A very an
[44:40] exemplary show that I'm watching currently.
[44:43] I've not finished it but it's so good.
[44:47] And it's on Netflix. It's called Blue Eye Samurai.
[44:50] OK. It's an animated show, not safe
[44:54] for work, strictly for adults, but it is brilliant, beautiful
[45:00] animation. I'm like just gorgeous
[45:03] animation, just fantastic. Very cool.
[45:06] So then I I saw a few couple of episodes of that.
[45:09] I still have almost half the season to complete, but I saw a
[45:12] couple of episodes and I just went down this rabbit hole on
[45:14] Samurai. No, that's a very cool question.
[45:17] I love it. Lovely piece of trivia.
[45:20] OK, so it's time to wind up for today's episode.
[45:22] Aditya, what question do you have for us for next week?
[45:26] My question is very simple. Which other town in Istanbul has
[45:32] sued a Hollywood film and why? That's the answer you'll find
[45:38] out next week in my made-up Questions and Answers part of
[45:42] the show. Which is practically the show.
[45:45] OK, so it's time for me to answer the audience question for
[45:50] this week. It was with the fall of the
[45:52] popularity of the popular Santai series Stan Lee, who was working
[45:57] at Gen. Pelek at the time on a trip to
[45:59] Japan, and he was very much he admired or was enamoured by this
[46:04] particular form of television and he signed over a famous
[46:07] character that he had worked on for an adaptation.
[46:10] The series saw the first appearance of a large robot as a
[46:13] fighting machine in live action and paved the way paved the way
[46:16] for the latest Super Sentai series.
[46:18] Which Marvel character did Stan Lee sign over to this to be to
[46:23] appear on the Sentai series Aditya?
[46:26] Do you have any guesses? Is it by any chance Spider Man?
[46:31] Yes, it is Spider Man. Oh, so yes you can.
[46:35] You can go on YouTube and find Spider Man and Robots.
[46:39] It's very weird, very uniquely Japanese thing.
[46:43] I've seen those. Those are really cool.
[46:44] They are really fun, yeah. Aditya, what's your pop culture
[46:46] recommendation for this week? OK, interesting.
[46:50] So you have already given a few you have given Japanese Spider
[46:53] Man and. This particular yeah, but those
[46:56] are not my official recommendations.
[46:58] I Blue Eye Samurai is still I'm I've still not finished it.
[47:01] So Final Verdict is still TBD, but so far it's an excellent
[47:07] show. I think it's one of the best
[47:09] animated shows I've watched in in a long time.
[47:14] OK, very cool, very cool. You said summarize so
[47:18] immediately struck a bell. 7 Samurai fantastic film is the
[47:24] master class in filmmaking by the legend himself, Akira
[47:28] Kurosawa. He has done a few films and
[47:31] Summarize do feature prominently in them.
[47:33] Rashomon comes to mind as well, but Seven Samurai is my
[47:36] favorite, so I would highly recommend trying out.
[47:38] Seven Samurai. 7 Samurai has been adapted into both Hollywood
[47:41] and Bollywood. I believe Bollywood remake was
[47:45] unofficial if I'm not wrong but. Yes, it was unofficial and
[47:49] wasn't very good except for one particular song and a very
[47:54] beautiful Urmila Matonkar. It's China Gate, right.
[47:57] I think that's. Yes, it's China Gate.
[47:59] Yes, the American adaptation was The Magnificent 7, which was in
[48:03] remade with Denzel Washington recently and.
[48:07] Right, I have not watched the remakes both Hollywood and
[48:10] Bollywood, but I would recommend the original very highly a
[48:13] fantastic film. Yeah, I would actually recommend
[48:16] of Akira Kurosawas rather than more than Seven Samurai, which
[48:22] still fantastic film. I would actually recommend
[48:25] Yujimbo and Roshamon, because Roshamon also technically does
[48:30] feature a samurai, and Yujimbo is more of a ronin character
[48:34] rather than a samurai, but amazing.
[48:37] And the Russian ones summarize very much is very different from
[48:42] the regular portrayal of the summarize.
[48:43] So yeah, that's a great movie as well.
[48:46] And the other thing that I want to recommend because you asked a
[48:48] question about Neanderthals. Again, something very popular,
[48:52] but if you haven't checked out, you must sapiens the book.
[48:57] It is an interesting read, It isn't.
[49:01] I wouldn't say it is factually accurate from beginning to end.
[49:05] But which is what I was about to.
[49:07] Pinpoint. Yeah, no, it's definitely a good
[49:09] entry point into prehistory, and definitely the prehistory part
[49:14] of it I think is fairly interesting and once you are
[49:19] interested, you can go pursue much more accurate sources of
[49:22] information. But if you haven't, I think it's
[49:25] an easy read, and it raises and poses a bunch of fun questions.
[49:29] So yeah, Sapiens. And they released a graphic
[49:32] novel version recently, which was also very good.
[49:35] So both of those worth checking out.
[49:38] Yeah, definitely as. But as Aditya mentioned, don't
[49:41] let that be your end all. Read the book and then use it as
[49:45] a jumping point to read more about human history.
[49:49] What about you, Vineet, and what are the recommendations that are
[49:51] official? My official recommendation for
[49:54] this week is a very weird show, which I have to say comes with a
[49:59] little bit of a caveat if you are Catholic.
[50:02] OK, so the show is called Mrs. Davis.
[50:06] I don't know if you watched it. It may be a little difficult to
[50:09] access here, but you should probably find a way of accessing
[50:13] the show. It's an amalgamation of faith,
[50:18] religion, and science fiction. OK, if I had to just tease you
[50:23] with one line, A popular social media artificial intelligence
[50:30] tasks a nun to go on a mission to find the Holy Grail.
[50:35] What? And that's just the beginning.
[50:41] It goes bonkers after that. All right, I'm sold.
[50:46] I'm already sold. Yeah, Missus Davies, find it any
[50:51] way you can try, any way you can watch it as much as watch it
[50:55] completely from beginning to end.
[50:56] It's just eminently bingeable, eminently watchable, very well
[50:59] written. There are certain portions which
[51:02] may cause Catholics to be a little uncomfortable but to
[51:05] watch it with an open mind, because at least in my
[51:09] perception of the show, is that it has not been done to with any
[51:12] kind of disrespect. But in fact it shows faith in a
[51:16] very strong light by the end of the show.
[51:18] So that's all I have to say. That's my official
[51:22] recommendation for this week. Fantastic.
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