# Episode 119 - Watson, Carlsen & Jackson

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 11 Nov 2025, 1 h 04 min.

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Do you know what was the message behind the Slovakian public service announcement "Who killed Dr.Watson"? Do you know which opponent did Magnus Carlsen face in 2025 in a 46 day match, resulting in a draw, but establishing a world record? Do you know what did Michael Jackson win a Grammy for in 1984 that he claimed he was "most proud of this one"? Tune in to the episode 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] In the early days of motor racing, it was customary for
[0:05] every race car driver to be accompanied by a riding
[0:09] mechanic, whose role included monitoring the vehicle and
[0:13] helping during overtaking. However, during the inaugural
[0:17] Indianapolis 500, better known as the Indy 500 in 1911, driver
[0:22] Ray Haroon was unable to find a mechanic to accompany him.
[0:26] Instead of withdrawing from the race, Haroon implemented a
[0:29] groundbreaking innovation that not only allowed him to race
[0:33] solo, but also helped him secure his victory.
[0:36] What did Ray Haroon do that changed the future of motor
[0:39] racing? This was our audience questions
[0:42] for this week and I will answer this at the end of today's
[0:45] episode. Welcome to RU Quizzing me, your
[0:48] favorite quizzing and trivia podcast show.
[0:50] This is episode #190 welcome to RU quizzing me.
[0:56] I am Vineet Nair with my Co host Aditya Kashyap.
[0:59] This is a quizzing trivia podcast show.
[1:02] Join us as we dive deep into history, science, pop culture
[1:07] and so much more. Let's get quizzing.
[1:10] Bubbly So I guess today I will be starting off with the opening
[1:14] spiel and that is a privilege and an honor that I do not take
[1:19] lightly. I, however, do apologize in case
[1:22] our listeners are hearing background noises of
[1:26] firecrackers. It is Diwali when we are
[1:28] recording. When you're listening, it
[1:31] probably gets closer to Christmas.
[1:33] But in any case, there is some fresh trivia.
[1:37] There is some festive trivia. I mean not that related to
[1:41] Diwali, but just the festival of trivia is all year round.
[1:46] As you can see, I was not prepared for this opening spiel,
[1:48] but we need to start off. I love the shirt you're wearing.
[1:51] Oh, thank you. It's a really cool shirt.
[1:53] It was a gift to my brother-in-law.
[1:55] And that is something worth looking at.
[1:59] Which leads me to the fact that we are doing a lot of visual
[2:02] content on our social media. Finally, it is active and today
[2:06] was an interesting day. We hit our first thousand
[2:08] followers. Hopefully by the time you're
[2:10] listening, we haven't dropped back down to 3 digits and we
[2:13] have hopefully grown, even if a little bit more.
[2:16] And we would love for you to share our social media content
[2:20] because it is the trivia that you hear on our podcast, but in
[2:22] more bite sized format. The fun is still the same.
[2:26] The attention span is lower. If that's your thing, then go go
[2:33] enjoy trivia on our Instagram page.
[2:35] Well, Vineet, I don't know who started the last time, but this
[2:40] time I'm going to start us off. Yes, please do.
[2:43] And I have been saying this for a while.
[2:44] I need to honor some of our lovely listener questions that
[2:48] they have sent in. And who better to start us off
[2:52] than Ashwin Muscarinas, the legend, the man, the myth known
[2:58] as leaked zebra. Yeah.
[3:01] So these are some questions that Ashwin sent to me a while back.
[3:06] So I apologize, Ashwin. And finally catching up to your
[3:09] questions. They are phenomenal questions
[3:11] and they're so beautifully tailored to you because they are
[3:15] from the field of medicine. Yeah, because he's also a
[3:17] doctor. Yeah, and I guess that's what he
[3:20] loves about our podcast, you and him sharing medical trivia.
[3:25] So here's here's a lovely question that Ashwin sent me.
[3:30] X is an energetic, a combination of Y and acetaminophen.
[3:38] It is manufactured by AbbVie. Again, if I'm mispronouncing,
[3:43] apologies AbbVie. It's trade name which is X is a
[3:49] portmanteau which implies it's potency.
[3:55] Which drug is X&Y is just because you can flex your
[4:00] knowledge of medicine. I assume that is not the most
[4:02] common trivia knowledge, but X is an interesting piece of
[4:06] trivia. OK, see the this may not be as
[4:09] easy as you think because acetaminophen is paracetamol.
[4:14] What you get is Dolo or Calpol or Fapanil or whatever.
[4:18] In India, however, there are a large number of combinations of
[4:22] painkiller drugs with paracetamol as an added
[4:25] component. So there's mephenamic acid,
[4:28] there's acyclofenac, there's diclofenac.
[4:30] There are a lot of 1. So unless you have something
[4:33] more in your pocket, I have no clue where to go with this.
[4:36] Like I said, the hint is it's a portmanteau.
[4:40] A portmanteau, for anybody who's not familiar, is a word which
[4:44] kind of combines two other words to imply the meaning.
[4:49] It's just a combination of the given original words.
[4:52] So X is a portmanteau, and in this case the meaning that is
[4:56] implied is that it is a certain amount or certain number of
[5:01] times more important than the parent drug.
[5:05] Is it ultracet, tramadol and paracetamol?
[5:07] It's not Ultracet. It is not tramadol.
[5:10] OK, at this point I think it's fair to tell you what Y was
[5:13] because again, I don't know why I kept it as a question.
[5:18] It's hydrocodone. Hydrocodone.
[5:20] Sorry, it's hydrocodone. Hydrocodone so it's an opioid. 2
[5:24] things come to mind. The first case would be
[5:26] Oxycontin but I don't see how that support mantle.
[5:30] The second would be houses favorite 1 Vicodin.
[5:34] And why would that be a Portmanto vineet?
[5:36] I don't know why or if any of these are portmantos.
[5:40] These are the names I'm just coming up with.
[5:42] You can, you know, put me out of my misery by telling me if I'm
[5:44] anywhere close. It's it's one of those times
[5:47] when you you know in school when you would arrive at the right
[5:50] answer by the wrong method when you're solving a math problem.
[5:55] So you have gotten the answer right.
[5:56] Yes, it is my favorite fictional doctor's favorite drug.
[6:01] It is Vicodin but now tell me the funda as Indian quizzes love
[6:07] to say OK put funda, put funda. Why codeine?
[6:13] You said it has to do with its potency.
[6:15] Certain amount of potency a factor.
[6:20] So then VI 6/6 times more potent than codeine I'm guessing.
[6:26] Exactly, exactly it is. It is hydrocodeine, hydrocodone
[6:32] I guess, and it is 6 times more important or powerful than its
[6:38] parent drug. Codeine OK.
[6:40] And hence Y codeine in when it's spelled it's VI and that is 6
[6:45] times. Roman numerals.
[6:47] Yeah, exactly. And I thought that was pretty
[6:49] cool. I think I'm partial just because
[6:50] I love house. Also, that was a really cool
[6:54] piece of trivia when it comes to drugs, and you cracked that very
[6:58] quickly. You came about it in a in a
[7:01] twisted way, but you cracked that very quickly.
[7:03] So here's another very quick question from Ashwin, and this
[7:07] one is who killed Doctor Watson was an advertisement that was
[7:13] issued in public service by the Slovakian agency Soria and Gray.
[7:19] OK. What were they trying to inform
[7:21] the public of? Who killed Doctor Watson?
[7:24] And this is a medical thing, I'm guessing.
[7:27] Exactly. Again, begging for a clue.
[7:29] Is the Watson here the James Hamish Watson of Sherlock Holmes
[7:35] it? Is the Watson we are all
[7:36] familiar with. It is the Holmes and Watson
[7:39] Watson. I'm tempted to say this is an ad
[7:41] against Microsoft. Explain.
[7:43] No, it's not, but explain. This is really really going to
[7:47] date me, but in the early 1990s in the early versions of my
[7:52] Windows 3.1 and what not, there used to be utility called
[7:56] Watson. Well, you didn't say IBM Watson,
[7:59] which should have been made it at least a little bit more
[8:01] relevant, but sure, OK. OK, yeah, I went a little too
[8:05] deep. OK, no, OK, I need a clue here.
[8:09] I need to give me a clue. OK, so you correctly identified
[8:12] which fictional Doctor Watson we are talking of.
[8:15] In this case, it is is his more famous companion who is kind of
[8:20] the target of this message. OK then it'll be an anti drug
[8:23] message. If it's Sherlock Holmes, then
[8:25] it's what the the 5% solution of cocaine that he injects himself.
[8:30] Fair, fair and well. Not to make this podcast APSA,
[8:34] but yes, drug addiction does affect both the addict and the
[8:38] people around him. But in this case it is talking
[8:41] about a very specific thing that more than emotional distress,
[8:46] can actually cause physical harm to the person who might not be
[8:50] the one consuming the drug. So what is this APSA about?
[8:54] I. Would direct you to the works of
[8:57] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which a home specifically mentions a
[9:02] phrase I don't remember in which story.
[9:04] Forgive me, but he says it's a 3 pipe problem.
[9:07] OK, which means he'll have to think and smoke three pipes to
[9:10] get to the solution. And I think it's in that
[9:12] particular book that Watson enters the room and find it
[9:14] filled with smoke. So this I'm guessing an anti
[9:17] smoking ad? This is passive smoking kills
[9:21] Watson being around Holmes. While Watson himself might not
[9:24] have smoked, or I don't know if he did canonically, but perhaps
[9:28] not as much as Holmes, he still was having to suffer the
[9:33] negative effects of passive smoking because Holmes would be
[9:35] smoking near him. And passive smoking kills.
[9:38] Is the idea behind Who Killed Doctor Watson, the PSA issued by
[9:44] the Slovakian agency. Well, again, a really cool piece
[9:46] of trivia, a cool piece of even advertising.
[9:50] Not bad. Well done Vineet.
[9:52] Or should I say 6 times as effective as NEET?
[9:56] Oh. Oh, oh, that hurt.
[10:00] Oh, give me a second. Oh, I have to recover from that.
[10:03] OK, running away from that horrible pun, I am now going to
[10:07] move to the world of Bollywood. This is a very simple question
[10:11] that I want to put to you, Aditya.
[10:13] So you are familiar with the fact that in Indian cinema in
[10:18] general, you have a lot of instances where a dialogue is
[10:24] repeated by multiple people are throughout in multiple movies.
[10:28] It may be a famous dialogue. Say for example in Chehen sha
[10:31] rishta maid hum tumare bap hote hai is repeated in different
[10:34] movies in different contexts and what not, right?
[10:36] So I'm going to tell you a dialogue.
[10:38] It's a very simple question. I want you to identify the actor
[10:41] who first said this dialogue. I'm looking for the source of
[10:44] the dialogue. Got it.
[10:45] So the dialogue is hum jaha hare hote Hain line vahi SE shuru
[10:50] hoti Hain. I know it is famously attributed
[10:54] or or rather performed in a very Amitabh Bachchan way, but then
[10:59] you wouldn't ask me this question if that answer was that
[11:01] obvious. Again, one of those just vague
[11:08] notion of a feeling in the back of my head leads me to say
[11:15] devanand no. No, so this is just a question I
[11:18] wanted to put in a kind of googly because I have been
[11:21] delving into Bollywood recently. OK, so I came across this and
[11:25] it's one of those questions you either know you don't know, but
[11:28] I will just kind of put you out of a misery and you can go check
[11:30] this out on YouTube. The answer to this is Bob
[11:33] Kristo. OK.
[11:35] All right. He's he's, he's not Indian.
[11:37] He's not Indian. Right, I figured.
[11:39] He's I think American name is Bob Kristo and he is the first
[11:44] actor to say the dialogue hum jaha kare hote line when he
[11:48] says. And he said that in Hindi.
[11:50] Yes, so in the movie Kalia, his character says.
[11:56] The line first. Amitabh Bachchan repeats that
[12:02] line later on the film. OK, that's cool.
[12:14] That's kind of cool. So I wanted to get that out of
[12:18] the way. That was just like I say in a
[12:20] moose Bush. OK, cool, cool.
[12:22] To get you down to another film related thing because I've been
[12:25] going down a particular rabbit hole.
[12:28] So, you know that, you know, film buffs like sports people
[12:32] have this thing with the statistics, how much is the box
[12:36] office, how many tickets have been sold?
[12:38] And so just imagine when you combine film and sport together,
[12:44] it's a smorgasbord of statistics which I have gone down.
[12:48] Did you know that there are active lists which keep track of
[12:51] the highest grossing films by sport?
[12:56] I love that. OK, no, I had no idea.
[12:58] This is a lot of fun, so we're just going about it.
[13:01] The sport may be just part of the film or it may be a major
[13:04] portion of the plot point. It might not be a sports film.
[13:06] OK. If it's a major part of the plot
[13:09] point of the film, it's included.
[13:10] And if you don't agree with this, don't blame me, blame
[13:13] Wikipedia. OK, let's start with it.
[13:16] American Football. By the way, sorry, we're talking
[13:18] about all films or just Bollywood.
[13:20] Internationally highest grossing film.
[13:23] OK, that features American football.
[13:27] American football. The only one that comes to mind
[13:31] is Blind Side No. This scored a worldwide gross of
[13:35] $678 million. OK, American football is
[13:42] featured in this film. Is it a sports film?
[13:44] No. OK, I know there was that one
[13:50] that about Will Smith, who was the Doctor Who was figuring out.
[13:54] No, no, that did not, you know, gross anywhere I.
[13:58] Don't think that was that money grosser.
[14:00] Yeah. No.
[14:01] Will Smith hasn't had a big money film in a while.
[14:04] Yes, yeah, true. Blind Side was a while back and
[14:07] you said 600 million that is. I'll give you the year.
[14:11] The year is 1994. Come on, that much money 1994?
[14:16] Yes, 1994 was a bumper year for films. 600 million 1994 Wow,
[14:22] that's insane. It's embarrassing.
[14:25] Field of Dreams is not 1994, right?
[14:27] No, no, no. This is American football.
[14:28] Not American football. That was baseball.
[14:30] Not even American football. That's baseball.
[14:33] Never mind, it's an American sport.
[14:35] Okay? American football 1994.
[14:40] No, Invictus is rugby. It's not football.
[14:42] Again, no, no, no idea at all. I'll tell you the answer because
[14:46] otherwise this could go on forever.
[14:47] It's Forrest Gump. Come on, I.
[14:52] Know. OK.
[14:54] Like I said, so I wanted to start off with something because
[14:56] I just wanted you to have an idea that this can come out of
[14:59] left field, right? Quite literally left field OK.
[15:02] Playing football? What about playing soccer or
[15:04] association football? Highest grossing film that
[15:08] majorly features association football.
[15:10] This again. I I hope this is true because
[15:14] I'm depending on Wikipedia for this.
[15:16] OK, now I think you'll have to tell me whether these are films
[15:18] which focus on football or they don't.
[15:22] This case, it's definitely a football film, like it's there
[15:26] in the title. It's the main plot point of the
[15:30] film. Dedhradhan Goal starring John
[15:35] Abraham No. OK, I'll give you another clue.
[15:40] It stars Keira Knightley. Bended like Beckham.
[15:43] Very good. Yes, it is bended like Beckham.
[15:46] With $76.58 million, it's the highest grossing film featuring
[15:51] association football. Wow.
[15:53] I know. Apparently they're getting a
[15:55] sequel as well. Yeah, apparently, But we're not.
[15:57] I'll believe it when I see it. Sorry, by the way, just because
[16:00] you're on the topic, do you know there is a sequel coming out to
[16:02] a favorite film of yours? Which one?
[16:05] Guess which film we have spoken about ad nauseam.
[16:08] Dude, I I I. We have spoken about a lot of
[16:11] films. Yeah, that's fair.
[16:12] Yeah, I guess. Which film has Michael Mann
[16:18] directed that you keep talking about and can?
[16:20] Heat 2 Heat 2 is coming out. Heat 2.
[16:24] I'm cautiously optimistic, but. It could be good.
[16:26] It could be good. Yeah, OK, Auto racing.
[16:29] Auto racing has to be Tara Rampam, obviously.
[16:32] No, I'm kidding. Auto racing does it?
[16:36] Does it include F1? No, but I think you can include
[16:38] F1. If you didn't include F1 but you
[16:42] said no so I'm assuming it's not an F1 film.
[16:46] What are the Ford V Ferrari rush the recent F1 film?
[16:52] Is it something which doesn't involve auto racing?
[16:54] Which is not the crux of it, no. No, definitely, definitely,
[16:57] definitely involves a lot of autos racing.
[17:01] Autos Racing. OK, I'm just.
[17:04] OK then help me along. Worldwide gross is $1.5 billion.
[17:08] Just ridiculous, I know. $1.5 billion is like superhero movie
[17:15] level. Yeah, I know.
[17:17] What? Which film has auto racing in
[17:20] it? You're going to kick yourself
[17:21] when you hear the answer. Is it cars 2?
[17:24] Cars. Cars 3.
[17:25] No, they're good guess, but no. But that also 1.5 seems way too
[17:30] much. Yeah. $1.5 billion.
[17:33] Billion dollars billion with ABI.
[17:37] Definitely know of this film, I've probably watched it.
[17:40] Yes, you have. This has to be a recent film.
[17:42] 2015. This is not adjusted for
[17:44] inflation, right? I don't think this is adjusted
[17:47] for inflation. You said 2015. 2015 OK, I'll
[17:51] give you a clue. What?
[17:52] There are high chances that you did not go watch this movie with
[17:56] your family, even though it's about family.
[18:01] OK, some adult content. No dude, you're not getting it.
[18:05] It's all about family. Oh my God is.
[18:10] Where is. Auto racing in Fast and Furious?
[18:12] Any of the recent films. Absolutely.
[18:14] See, there are a lot of cars trying to outrace each other,
[18:18] right? Again, blame Wikipedia. 2015 is
[18:25] fast. It's not 7, it's 6/7.
[18:28] It is 7. It is 7.
[18:29] It's furious, 7 furious. The next one I want to ask you
[18:32] is wrestling. Highest grossing movie featuring
[18:36] wrestling. Again, this is sports movie.
[18:38] Wrestling is the major plot point.
[18:40] It grossed $340 million worldwide.
[18:45] Is it the fighter? No.
[18:49] Those are more artsy films because I'm thinking The
[18:51] Wrestler, The Fighter, Those are $1,000,000, baby.
[18:54] No, that's boxing. Oh.
[18:55] Sorry, you said wrestling. Correct.
[19:01] Wrestling. Oh no, no idea.
[19:05] OK, you're going to kick yourself when you hear the
[19:07] answer. It's dangle 2000 crores.
[19:11] Those are inflated numbers. No, no, it, it, it $340 million
[19:17] because it had a huge. Lead in China, but apparently
[19:20] those numbers have massively fudged, is what a lot of sources
[19:24] claim. OK, you hate it.
[19:25] Fair enough. It it it, it did.
[19:27] It did earn a fair bit of money, probably 1 of the highest
[19:30] grossing films. Anyway, according to Wikipedia
[19:33] it is the highest grossing wrestling film of all time.
[19:36] I'll just ask you one or two quick ones more.
[19:39] Do you know which movie has sports?
[19:43] Movie is the highest grossing for gladiatorial combat.
[19:49] I don't know Gladiator 2 I guess.
[19:52] No gladiator one, but you're right, it's Gladiator.
[19:54] OK, OK, alright, OK. Field hockey.
[19:57] This can't. Be.
[19:59] Check the India. It is check the India $27
[20:02] million very good and one last final one cricket.
[20:08] It has to be an Indian film. I don't think a non Indian film
[20:11] features cricket. Let's say Ms. Dhoni, The Untold
[20:16] story. Oh, very good.
[20:18] I thought you were going to go for Lagan.
[20:21] No, it's, it's been a while. Lagal has been a while.
[20:24] So yeah. It is Ms. Dhoni, $31 million.
[20:27] A few others I just wanted to mention.
[20:28] The highest grossing bowling film of all time is The Big
[20:31] Lebowski. Lebowski, I would have gotten
[20:33] that. You should have asked me that.
[20:36] The highest grossing bodybuilding film of all time is
[20:39] Pain and Gain. I wouldn't have gotten that OK.
[20:41] The highest grossing dance competition movie step up for
[20:45] Silver Linings Playbook. Oh, OK, that makes sense.
[20:48] Silver Linings Playbook 236,000,000 dollars OK the
[20:52] highest grossing movie featuring drifting.
[20:54] Tokyo drift I guess. Very good.
[20:57] You, you're very good at this. You know, you're very, very good
[21:00] at this. This, this is just silly.
[21:04] But the highest grossing film featuring ice hockey.
[21:07] Miracle on Ice. No, I've not watched this film,
[21:11] and I think you already know that I don't.
[21:14] I haven't watched this film but it's inside out too.
[21:18] Oh, it did gross a lot of money, you're right.
[21:20] You're right. Also a good film.
[21:22] It's $1.7 billion, almost $1.7 billion.
[21:25] Big money makeup. Yes, those are rugby.
[21:29] If I'd asked, you would have gotten it right.
[21:30] It was Invictus. Invictus Yeah, Basketball.
[21:34] There's no basketball. So basketball.
[21:37] Is the first slam dunk. It's a Japanese animated sports
[21:41] film. The first slam dunk, I'm going
[21:44] to try to guess baseball. Baseball can't be Moneyball.
[21:50] No, I I purposely did not ask baseball because there's very
[21:53] little chance you'll get the answer.
[21:54] What is it? It's a league of our own.
[21:57] Oh I do know the movie, but I would not have gotten.
[22:00] It it's Geena Davis. It's about the first women's
[22:03] Baseball League in America. It's a very good movie.
[22:07] Do you know the sport? The highest grossing movie for
[22:09] that sport has the lowest gross. Chess.
[22:11] No, chess is not on the list E gaming.
[22:14] No, it's darts. Which movie has darts in it?
[22:18] There's a movie called Heartlands from 2003 which
[22:21] grossed all of $112,000. Oh, that probably is the lowest.
[22:26] Yeah. Why?
[22:26] Why is chess not that? There are a few, quite a few
[22:28] chess movies. I don't know.
[22:30] Yeah, maybe. OK.
[22:33] Go ahead, your turn. Perfect segue time since we were
[22:36] talking about sports. Tell me about one of the
[22:39] greatest sporting events at least of 2025.
[22:44] This is a chess match that happened between Norwegian
[22:50] grandmaster Magnus Carlsen and X.
[22:56] Mukesh. Nope, the match started on
[23:01] chess.com on 4th April. OK.
[23:05] And went on for 46 days OK, because both players had a
[23:10] chance to decide the next move over the course of 24 hours.
[23:15] Oh, OK. The match eventually ended
[23:18] despite Magnus Carlsen being one of the greatest chess players of
[23:21] all time, ended with a draw, and this opponent is not even
[23:27] listed. 24 hours. Wasn't there something with
[23:31] Nikhil Kamath or somebody cheating?
[23:33] Cheating incident, Yes. Yes, but was that with Magnus
[23:36] Carlsen? No, in this case it isn't that.
[23:40] I'm not sure if it's Nikhil Kamath.
[23:41] Don't sue. Me so the opponent is not listed
[23:44] and like I mentioned, this was a game that was conducted online
[23:47] on chess.com. It went on for 46 days and
[23:51] resulted in a draw after those 46 days.
[23:53] As a lot of chess players know, the way it was game was drawn
[23:57] was because the same position was repeated 3 times, which is
[24:02] automatically a draw. Is this Samer Reina?
[24:06] Samer Reina drawing Magnus Carlsen would be a very
[24:11] impressive feat and also I think at some point that would end up
[24:15] giving. I don't know how the rankings
[24:17] work, but if you do with Magnus Carlsen that should give him
[24:21] some rank. OK, so then this must be a
[24:22] computer of some sort. I thought you would.
[24:25] That would be a first guess, and that's a smart guess.
[24:28] But no, it's not the right answer.
[24:29] So I'm guess I'm smart for not guessing it the first time
[24:31] around. I don't know man, you'll have to
[24:34] give me some clue. I I don't remember reading about
[24:36] this. It's so happened because the
[24:38] format of the game that even though probably Magnus Carlsen
[24:42] wasn't cheating, the opponent was.
[24:46] Yeah, I guessed as much. Probably using chess computers
[24:52] to choose sensible moves, and given the format, or rather
[24:56] given the structure of the game, it would have been impossible to
[25:00] even keep a track of whether the opponent was using any computer
[25:06] to aid their game. You you'll have to give me some
[25:09] clue about who this person is, because it could only be
[25:11] literally anybody right now. That's what I'm trying to get
[25:15] you at. It would be impossible to track
[25:20] or keep a check. Are not intended on whether they
[25:24] are cheating. That could be the case for
[25:27] anybody if they're to give they give 24 hours in between every
[25:30] move rate. That's also an interesting
[25:32] point. Why give 24 hours for every
[25:34] move? Why would you need 24 hours per
[25:38] move? Like even if you were on the
[25:40] International Space Station, you would have enough bandwidth to
[25:43] play this right? Exactly.
[25:45] It's a chess move. It shouldn't take that much
[25:47] bandwidth to HS move. Why 24 hours?
[25:51] Why would the opponent? Actually, probably.
[25:53] The opponent probably needed a lot more time than Magnus
[25:55] Carlsen did. Yeah.
[25:57] Why would the opponent need 24 hours before they could play
[26:03] their move? OK.
[26:04] Were they playing on something with extremely low bandwidth?
[26:09] That's a unnecessary handicap. No, it isn't actually got
[26:14] anything to do with their network or with technology.
[26:17] Was he playing with a blind person?
[26:20] No, but even a blind person can visualize the moves in their
[26:22] head and just say it immediately.
[26:26] Am I anywhere near where I should be going?
[26:30] No, you're you're not. You're not very near right now.
[26:32] OK, last, last hint. All right.
[26:34] OK. The consolation for Carlson,
[26:36] despite the fact that he drew the match, was that he smashed a
[26:40] world record in terms of who he was facing.
[26:45] This is a world record. I don't know who held the
[26:48] previous record, but he pretty much blew past it.
[26:54] Wow, wait, was this like a consortium of like 100 people or
[26:57] something? Exactly.
[26:59] So OK, I'll give it to you. You've gotten the answer.
[27:02] This was the game called Magnus Carlsen versus the World.
[27:06] OK. And there were a. 143,000
[27:11] enthusiasts from around the globe who were competing against
[27:16] him and they were basically voting on what the next move
[27:20] should be. Makes sense.
[27:21] Makes sense? Which is why it would take time,
[27:23] because they would. Somebody would propose a move,
[27:26] and then the rest of them would decide.
[27:27] Now that you say it, I do remember reading about
[27:30] somewhere. Also impossible to keep track
[27:34] of. To be fair, you can't really
[27:35] check whether 143,000 people are using Internet or not.
[27:40] So yeah, this happened in 4th April this year and it resulted
[27:45] in a draw after 46 days of online freestyle chess.
[27:49] By the way, I think we've spoken about this in the past.
[27:51] Freestyle chess is a chess style that Carlson really likes, and
[27:55] in this particular style, the bishops, Knights, rooks, Queens,
[27:58] and king have randomized starting positions while the
[28:01] pawns remain in the usual spot. So this leads to a lot of
[28:05] interesting moves and positions that you can build towards.
[28:09] I've seen an interview where he's talking about Gookesh and
[28:15] he was saying how vocation, most other Indian players are very
[28:18] good in classical chess, but when it comes to like speed
[28:22] chess or freestyle chess, they're not because they no
[28:26] moves and they've memorized a lot of things and that's why
[28:28] they're able to play those. But anything that requires
[28:31] instinct to play that they're not.
[28:33] So that was one of his criticisms.
[28:34] As you can guess, the comment section on that video was
[28:38] fantastic to read. I don't the Indians will have
[28:42] taken to kindly to that. And to be fair, Carlson isn't
[28:45] known to be the nicest of yeah human beings.
[28:49] Apparently he does have an edgy side.
[28:51] Yeah, but then again, this might all be online propaganda for all
[28:54] I know. And this was an interesting
[28:57] sporting event that happened in 2025.
[28:58] The the highest number of opponents that has that have
[29:02] ever been faced in a chess match. 143,000.
[29:06] Exactly. Moving on, verbifying is when a
[29:09] noun, often a brand name, evolves into a verb in everyday
[29:13] language. While this can enhance brand
[29:16] recognition, legal experts worry it may lead to genericide, where
[29:22] the trademark becomes so common it loses its legal protection.
[29:27] Classic examples include Xerox and Rollerblade.
[29:32] Now, in this context, X is now a ubiquitous verb that first
[29:37] appeared on television in a 2002 episode of Buffy the Vampire
[29:43] Slayer. The single usage sparked such a
[29:47] cultural impact that the American Dialect Society
[29:51] unanimously voted it as the most useful new word of the year.
[29:57] Which word am I talking about? 2002.
[30:00] Yes. Googled.
[30:04] Oh that was very fast, very very good.
[30:07] Yes it is googled. So in the Buffy the Vampire
[30:10] Square episode help which is the name of the episode and in 2002
[30:15] a character says have you googled yet?
[30:18] Marking the first recorded usage of Google as a verb.
[30:22] This casual usage helped to cement to Google as a synonym
[30:26] for searching online, reflecting the search engines dominance.
[30:31] The American Dialect Society named it the most useful New
[30:33] World of 2002, though Google has since fought hard to protect the
[30:37] term from becoming too generic. Very cool.
[30:40] It's, it's an interesting thing, right?
[30:41] Because on the one hand it shows your brand power and brand
[30:44] value, but on the other hand it it kind of dilutes your
[30:49] copyright protections, I imagine.
[30:50] Yeah, because, and I'm guessing that it's one of those things
[30:54] where their competitors really want people to do this for their
[30:59] brands, but nobody's binging it or Duck duck going it, you know,
[31:03] so. My God Vineet, that question was
[31:09] so good you a YQMD me. Oh.
[31:13] I'm going to This is the first recorded use first and last
[31:18] recorded use. Yeah, it doesn't quite roll off
[31:22] the tongue, does it? No, because expand that it comes
[31:25] to Vineet you are you quizzing me?
[31:29] Me. Stop it.
[31:30] Just stop it. You don't have to be that
[31:33] person, Vineet. You just don't have to.
[31:35] I have to. I have to stop you.
[31:37] I have to stop you If I don't do it now.
[31:40] It's like somebody who tried to kill Hitler during World War One
[31:42] and didn't succeed. That's fair.
[31:45] Future generations will point to this episode and say this is
[31:47] where Aditya's villain is arc. It is not a very nice.
[31:52] Comparison. OK, but fair.
[31:56] Just unfortunate segue I guess. But shout out to the lovely
[32:01] actor Asrani who passed away, and his very iconic character in
[32:05] Sholay, which was inspired by Hitler very directly.
[32:10] And it's very cool because I read this piece of trivia.
[32:12] I was wondering if I should ask it.
[32:14] But you know what? Just to throw away a trivia for
[32:16] this episode, Hitler's personal photographer had captured a lot
[32:21] of his moments while he was preparing his speeches.
[32:23] So all the theatrics that would go into showing all those
[32:26] emotions that would, you know, get the audience roaring and
[32:30] going. Hitler used to rehearse that.
[32:33] And his photographer, official photographer would capture it so
[32:35] Hitler could go back and look at it again and kind of, you know,
[32:38] refine it. And eventually he asked his
[32:41] photographer to destroy those images.
[32:42] But that guy turned out to be quite the archivist.
[32:45] And he didn't. And he published it later in
[32:47] 1955, I believe in in some sort of a book.
[32:51] And this book found its way to Ramesh Sippy.
[32:54] And when he gave us Rani the character, he's like, you know,
[32:56] I want you to capture these theatrics.
[32:59] The Jailer. So very, very obviously a, a
[33:03] terrible human being did give us something very iconic and and
[33:07] memorable, which is Assani's jailers with the and apparently
[33:12] all of that is very much inspired by those pictures of
[33:15] Hitler rehearsing well, our IP to Astani and all those amazing
[33:21] movie roles that he gifted us with.
[33:22] I'm reminded of this Trevor Noah bit.
[33:25] If you don't know, Trevor Noah's father, mother was South
[33:27] African. His father is Swiss German.
[33:30] As a power he has trying to be closer to his father's roots.
[33:34] He started learning German using his iPod.
[33:37] The thing is, he was listening to the collected speeches of
[33:39] Hitler. So apparently he visited, he
[33:43] visited Germany and he went into a bakery and started speaking in
[33:48] those same, in that same kind of cadence.
[33:53] And the elderly old lady behind the counter clutched a purse and
[33:58] was like the black Hitler. I'm, I'm murdering that bit.
[34:04] Please go and watch it. Yeah, please go.
[34:07] I think it's completely true. He's obviously exaggerated for
[34:09] effect, but you should definitely.
[34:11] It's one of his earlier bits before he became famous.
[34:14] I always remember that. Since we are riffing, I, I
[34:17] always admire comedians who are able to take things like this
[34:21] and make a genuinely very funny comedy out of it.
[34:24] And this one comedian was talking about, you know, I, I'm
[34:27] all for being an ally and, you know, being inclusive and, and
[34:32] go getting on board with having people be the way they are all
[34:36] about diversity. But you got to say one thing.
[34:38] Their flags suck. You know what was a good flag?
[34:41] It was a terrible, terrible regime, but the swastika was a
[34:45] good design. So if you're a graphic designer,
[34:51] you really want your client to be some bigot because those guys
[34:56] really don't care about inclusivity because he's like he
[34:59] was talking about I think the LGBTQ and I think there have
[35:02] been subsequent flags also. So the rainbow flag has has been
[35:05] expanded to include more colors. And the whole point about it is
[35:07] inclusivity, which is obviously a lovely thing.
[35:10] He's like, my God, it is so it's so annoying to see that many
[35:14] colours in a flag. As a graphic designer designer,
[35:17] you hate it. Let me just preface this by
[35:19] saying this, the Nazis were horrible, horrible horrible
[35:23] people and you know extreme Nazism and neo Nazism should be
[35:28] condemned at every fan but at least the 1940s Third Reich
[35:32] version. Man, were they dressed well,
[35:36] like they were dressed by Hugo Boss.
[35:38] These s s officers. Despicable human beings but they
[35:44] could ramp pocket anytime and be like Oh my God these guys look
[35:47] good. Yep, Yep, that's what happens
[35:48] when you are an absolute terrible human being.
[35:50] And When you get dressed by Hugo Boss.
[35:53] If you don't like the clothes Vinita and I are wearing, it's
[35:55] because we are good people, OK, Don't dress well.
[35:59] I think that's a pointed reference to this particular
[36:02] shirt. Yeah, I complimented the shirt.
[36:05] I know it makes me disappear because now my hair and shirt
[36:08] are exactly the same pattern. Vineet, you know, the 1000
[36:11] followers that we have on our Instagram are all there for you.
[36:15] They're all including me. We are all here for you.
[36:19] The facial hair, Yeah, they've come for the facial hair.
[36:21] The facial hair is is. They come for the facial hair
[36:24] and they leave with the quizzes. We're talking about Hitler being
[36:31] a terrible human being. Yes, absolutely.
[36:33] The one thing that Hitler did that I agree with, and I'm
[36:35] stealing John Oliver's joke here, the one thing that Hitler
[36:39] did, and I am absolutely on board with that, is killing
[36:41] Hitler. Completely approve of Hitler
[36:44] doing that. I'm so glad he killed Hitler.
[36:49] Well, I believe I was the one who was supposed to ask the next
[36:53] question. This is going to be a tough
[36:56] segue, but let's try. Oh my God, I can't believe I
[37:00] have to do this, but this was the question I had lined up.
[37:03] Speaking of people who had a very large impact but also are
[37:08] maybe not the nicest Michael Jackson.
[37:13] Yeah, huge, huge impact, but there's some very questionable
[37:17] problematic things. OK, Yeah.
[37:19] Fair, fair, fair. Yeah.
[37:21] This is a Michael Jackson question, and Michael Jackson,
[37:25] as you know, has won multiple Grammy Awards.
[37:28] You want to take a guess as to how many Grammys has Michael
[37:30] Jackson won? Oh, I don't remember.
[37:33] Beyoncé broke his record, so I'm guessing around 15.
[37:37] Exactly the number 15 because he has won 13 Grammy Awards, then a
[37:41] Grammy Legend Award and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
[37:45] Those are the 1515 that he has won one of the one that he was
[37:50] given. OK, a 1982 album which he
[37:54] claimed was the one that he was the most proud of.
[37:58] He got it on the night where, by the way, he was given 12
[38:01] nominations and he won a record 8 Grammys on that night.
[38:05] That is the one that he claimed he was the most proud of.
[38:09] What Grammy Award did, or rather what was he given a Grammy for
[38:15] that he said, well, he was most proud of?
[38:17] What was the album in 1982 that he won this Grammy for?
[38:21] 1982 Was it off the world? You are quite the Michael
[38:25] Jackson fan. Or was it thriller?
[38:27] Thriller is 1982, but off the world was just before.
[38:29] Just before that. So this must be off the world if
[38:31] it's a 1982 Grammys. It's not the 1982 Grammy.
[38:34] I didn't say that. I just said that he won it for
[38:36] the 1982 album. OK for the 1982 album, OK, So
[38:38] then it's Thriller, then it's Thriller, then it's Thriller,
[38:40] OK. That is a great guess, and I'm
[38:42] assuming I haven't checked this, but it's a fair guess to make
[38:45] that Thriller probably did win a Grammy that night.
[38:48] But no, this is not the award that is in question because I
[38:52] said he was the most proud of this one and apparently not of
[38:56] Thriller. Off the Wall, by the way, was
[38:57] released in 1979. 1982 album. So Thrillers, I think it's a
[39:03] music video award. Like did they give a music a
[39:07] video for Thriller? No, again, I'm sorry.
[39:10] This has nothing to do with Thriller.
[39:12] I don't know what awards you won for Thriller that night, but
[39:15] this is not the award in question.
[39:16] And he's most proud he was a Jehovah's Witness, which not
[39:21] many people know. So does it have to do with some
[39:24] kind of religious album or something that he was a part of
[39:28] a choir or something that? No, it's not.
[39:31] Wow, you'll have to give me a clue now.
[39:34] So this category that you want in, because you haven't even
[39:36] identified what the category was, the category that he won in
[39:39] in 1989, Robin Williams won a Grammy for in that same
[39:44] category, I'm giving you more of the famous names that have one
[39:48] in this specific category. Spoken word album.
[39:50] It's not a spoken word album though.
[39:54] You're close. The name is not spoken word
[39:57] album, but the type of album is probably close to a spoken word
[40:02] album. Michael Jackson acted in an all
[40:08] black cast recreation of The Wizard of Oz in which he played
[40:12] the Scarecrow. No, no, no, no, no.
[40:15] OK, that was later. There is, however, a film
[40:18] connection to this. Let me give you one more very
[40:22] famous person who has won the same award, same Grammy as in
[40:26] fact won it multiple times. OK, OK.
[40:29] This is the very famous Jim Henson.
[40:32] Have you heard of the name? Jim Henson Jim Henson, the
[40:37] puppeteer. The guy who made the puppet.
[40:39] Muppets. He's won it multiple times,
[40:43] Yeah. I would have expected him to win
[40:45] for an Emmy or something like that, or an Oscar.
[40:48] So what is the name of the award?
[40:50] Muppet Music. The Muppet.
[40:53] Sometimes I back myself into a corner because this
[40:58] unfortunately can't believe I have to say this is the Grammy
[41:03] Award for Best Children's Music Album that Michael Jackson won.
[41:09] He went for best children's music album.
[41:11] Yeah, he did. He did.
[41:12] Yes, he did. Let's let's just ignore the
[41:17] irony of that and move past it. Oh.
[41:21] What album was it Was the question though.
[41:24] Oh dude, I have no clue, 1982. He was quite upset as he
[41:32] finished recording this album. In fact, he broke down into
[41:35] tears towards the end of it. Wait, is this the last Jackson
[41:39] Five album? No, no.
[41:41] You have stumped me quite successfully.
[41:43] I'll give you one last sent. It is composed by John Williams.
[41:49] The Star Wars Christmas special. No, no, that is a good guess.
[41:55] But no, this is I'll give you the answer.
[41:57] It's ET the Extraterrestrial audio book and soundtrack
[42:01] compilation companion album. 82. For the 1982 ET film, which is
[42:08] directed by Steven Spielberg, it's composed by John Williams
[42:12] and the album was narrated by recording artist Michael
[42:16] Jackson. And that is the Grammy that he
[42:20] was most proud of in that year, where he won a record 8 Grammys
[42:23] in the same night. Yeah, this is so irritating
[42:30] because I finished listening to a Michael Jackson podcast just a
[42:34] few months ago. OK, There's a 10 part Michael
[42:36] Jackson podcast called Think Twice.
[42:38] It's available on Spotify. It's a 10 episode, you know,
[42:43] series which delves quite deep into Michael Jackson's life.
[42:47] I don't remember this being mentioned, but it's possible
[42:51] that might, that I might have just forgotten or not paid
[42:53] attention at that particular point of time.
[42:55] But again, that that's a pop culture recommendation.
[42:57] There's a it's a fan base podcast that discusses his music
[43:01] and the impact and everything. So think Twice, Michael Jackson.
[43:06] Cool. Have you heard of Appasmara?
[43:10] No. Okay so in Hindu mythology
[43:13] Appasmara is a demonic dwarf symbolizing spiritual ignorance,
[43:19] incoherent speech and neurological disorders such as
[43:23] epilepsy. OK probably also the reason why
[43:26] in some southern at least South Indian languages Appasmara is or
[43:30] Appasmara in Malayalam is for epilepsy.
[43:33] Is the term used for epilepsy? It's the in a common term for
[43:36] epilepsy. Got it.
[43:37] In mythology he cannot be killed, only subdued as it's
[43:42] existence maintains the cosmic balance between knowledge and
[43:45] ignorance. Though you may not recognize his
[43:49] name, his image is famously present in a well known
[43:53] depiction. So what iconic representation
[43:56] features a Pastmara? Interesting and bonus points if
[44:02] you can tell me what it signifies.
[44:04] Do you already say it signifies neurodivergence?
[44:07] No no in the depiction. In the depiction.
[44:10] Is it a pop culture thing? Am I supposed to be thinking
[44:13] like films or? No, it's not a pop culture
[44:15] thing. It's a, it's an arts and culture
[44:17] thing. You know, we are being a little
[44:18] more sophisticated. Oh, fancy rot.
[44:22] What accent was that? I don't know, let our audience
[44:26] figure that audience question out Demon, right you did you use
[44:30] the word demon, demonic kind of entity?
[44:33] Yeah, asura, asura, rakshas kind of thing.
[44:36] Is it in some famous painting? Not I mean like it's, it's seen
[44:40] in paintings. It's been in a lot of other
[44:42] depictions as well, even a lot of sculptures.
[44:46] OK. OK.
[44:46] So it's not like a specific painters specific painting when
[44:50] we're talking something like that.
[44:51] No, not just that you may not have noticed, but it is
[44:57] everywhere. I would not be surprised if you
[45:01] went back home and there was one at home.
[45:07] Maybe just because Diwali, I'm inclined to think some sort of,
[45:13] but what is a very iconic Ramayan?
[45:16] You're you're cold. It's not the Ramayan.
[45:18] It's not Ramayan related. OK, maybe Diwali is just on my
[45:21] mind. I'm not mistaken.
[45:24] This depiction of particular fine example of this depiction
[45:28] can even be found in the British Museum.
[45:30] As of now. Yes, even now.
[45:33] Wait till the Louvre highsters strike the British Museum.
[45:40] Now I know this this might be a little too big for them.
[45:43] Oh, interesting. So it's something large.
[45:45] See, there are multiple different versions of it.
[45:48] My if my memory serves me right, the bottom of the British Museum
[45:50] is pretty big. The one at your home may be
[45:53] smaller. Not that that is the right
[45:55] answer, but I'm thinking something like the shiveling
[45:57] like something that is reproduced in multiple forms.
[46:01] Very, very close, Very close. But what is that iconic?
[46:05] I can guarantee you know you can picture this in an instant, but
[46:10] unless you go back and look at a picture, you may not realize
[46:13] that Appasmara was there all along.
[46:17] Is it? Oh wait, you said it's not the
[46:18] shiveling though it no. It's not the shiveling.
[46:20] OK. But you're close.
[46:22] You're very close this close. For anybody not watching the
[46:26] video, Vineeth held his fingers very close together.
[46:29] Got it. It's a very classical depiction.
[46:32] Is it? Is it another 3 deities?
[46:34] Yes, it is one of the three deities.
[46:36] I can't think of something very iconic for Brahma, no Or Vishnu
[46:43] that him sitting under the serpent comes to mind.
[46:47] Ananta Shayana, it's the term that you're looking for, but no,
[46:50] it's not that. Oh, look at you, you cultured
[46:52] man. Yes, Shiv is already the
[46:56] Shivling. OK, what else?
[47:00] Isn't it him drinking that poison?
[47:02] Is that? But there's no iconic image to
[47:04] that. No, there are multiple cultural
[47:06] depictions of him becoming the Neel Kantar because he drinks
[47:10] the poison. Oh, oh, is it Natraj?
[47:15] Yes, it is the Natraja. The dancing pose, the one with
[47:18] the both the hands on the side. Yes, the Natraj of Ikraham.
[47:22] Ah, wait, where is there is somebody else in that image?
[47:27] You can do it right now so that we can see a reaction like
[47:30] Google a picture of the natraj of Ikraham right now and if
[47:34] those who are listening to us or watching you can pause the video
[47:37] go Google a depiction of. Somebody just told me that
[47:41] usually they listen to our podcast while driving.
[47:43] So please don't do it right now, do it later, yeah.
[47:45] Yeah, yeah, or at least you know, park on side of the road
[47:48] and do it. Lord Shiva's right foot in the
[47:53] Nataraja statue is on top or is being trampling rather a small
[48:00] dwarf like figure. Clutching a cobra trampled
[48:03] beneath the foot of Natraj Shiv as Lord of Dance.
[48:07] Oh my God, that is. I didn't even realize Shiva was
[48:11] standing on top of something. Shivji is standing on some
[48:15] ground, something. This act symbolizes the
[48:18] suppression of ignorance by divine knowledge and cosmic
[48:21] rhythm. Lord Shiva's dance represents
[48:25] the dynamic balance of the universe, and Appasmara's
[48:28] presence underscores the ever present struggle against
[48:32] spiritual ignorance. The imagery is both symbolic and
[48:35] philosophical, conveying that ignorance cannot be eradicated
[48:39] but must be kept in check through awareness and
[48:43] enlightenment. Sometimes it's easier, sometimes
[48:46] it's difficult, and sometimes it gets elected to the White House.
[48:54] Oh God this is wow. I love these things that are
[48:58] hidden in plain sight and I would have never even known that
[49:02] we had never pointed it out. Amazing.
[49:03] I'm looking at it right now and it's still blowing my mind.
[49:07] How many thousands of times have you seen that image and have you
[49:11] ever noticed it? Oh God, that is that's, that's
[49:13] phenomenal, Nataraja. I've always thought this, by the
[49:17] way, not that religions should be competing for supremacy.
[49:21] Everybody can do their own thing and be happy in their own world
[49:23] and follow our faith beckons them.
[49:27] But if there's one thing that is, in my opinion, really cool
[49:30] about the Hindu faith, it is a fact that Shiv dances and not
[49:36] just dances like as a, as a graceful thing, it's anger and
[49:40] passion and all of those things that he emotes it, which is not
[49:44] a very stereotypical masculine kind of expression of emotion.
[49:48] But the Tandav is, I think, very cool.
[49:51] And the Arthana reshore concept of Lord Shiva is, you know, the
[49:56] duality of male and female, those kind of things.
[50:00] You know, Hinduism is pretty accepting in that kind of way.
[50:03] It's only recently I think that we've started seeing a little
[50:06] more narrower view come into play.
[50:09] Speaking of things that are high brow and cultural beyond this
[50:15] pop culture, I am going to talk about something that is inspired
[50:21] by a little more classy source than we are usually used to.
[50:27] OK. X is a cross-platform free and
[50:31] open source game engine released under the MIT license.
[50:36] It was initially developed in Buenos Aires by two Argentinian
[50:40] software developers, Juan and Ariel, and prior to its public
[50:46] release in 2014 it was used by a bunch of companies and in in
[50:50] Latin America it has been used since then for a bunch of games
[50:55] as a game engine. As a source behind.
[50:59] What is the name of X? The inspiration behind its name
[51:03] being the idea that there is a never ending wish of adding new
[51:08] features in the engine which would get it closer to an
[51:11] exhausted product. Maybe, but it actually never
[51:14] will happen. Is it the perfection engine?
[51:20] No, like I said, it is inspired by something artsy and not
[51:24] exactly pop culture, but culture.
[51:26] Arts related to Central and South American arts.
[51:29] No, this is a European artist's work.
[51:34] Is it Michelangelo? Lot more recent than that.
[51:38] Somebody from the 20th century. 20th century perfection.
[51:42] I would say don't focus on the perfection part of it, but
[51:45] rather the the never ending wait for something.
[51:51] The never ending wait for something.
[51:56] I'm tempted to say George George RR Martin, but.
[52:02] You are not that far off. It is from the world of
[52:07] literature. Literature waiting waiting for
[52:11] good old So is it goodo? Very nice.
[52:15] Well cracked. That was a quick one.
[52:17] It is Goodo. Very well cracked.
[52:19] It is based off of Samuel Beckett's Seminole work called
[52:23] Waiting for Goodo. Perhaps if you know of any 20th
[52:27] century play, you probably know Waiting for Goodo.
[52:30] You might have heard of it. It is.
[52:32] It is the most memorable one, or at least one of the most
[52:35] memorable ones. And because they constantly want
[52:39] to keep adding new features, they're waiting for the perfect
[52:42] version of this game engine to arrive, and it obviously never
[52:45] will. Just like in the play, the 2
[52:47] characters are waiting for Godot who never actually arrives in
[52:51] the play. Actually comes here.
[52:53] So that is the name of the game engine Godot.
[52:55] GODOT is how it's spelled. Nice, very nice, very nice
[52:59] question. Moving on from that to a
[53:01] question sent to us by one of our listeners, Mr. Arjun
[53:04] Srikumar, Oh Doctor Sharad, last name is redacted for the moment,
[53:10] was a well known Mumbai based cardiothoracic surgeon famous
[53:14] for performing the first cardiac transplant at KM Hospital in
[53:18] Mumbai in 1968, which is also the sixth such transplant in the
[53:24] world. He also devised A shunt
[53:27] technique which was named after him, used in mitral valve
[53:31] replacement surgeries. He passed away in 2004 and a
[53:36] junction in Bandra is named after him.
[53:39] He was married to Doctor Snehalata, A gynecologist, and
[53:44] had two sons. His elder son Suyash is arguably
[53:48] more well known than him, although in another field.
[53:52] How do we better know the son? From your face, I'm guessing you
[53:56] know the answer, no? No, no, I don't actually.
[53:59] OK. So then you just have rather
[54:02] resting smug face. That's me.
[54:06] What is the name of the doctor? The first name Sharad Sharad.
[54:11] Sharad son Suyash Sharad. And he has a shunting technique
[54:16] that is named after him, right? Yes, yes, a shunt technique.
[54:21] Suyash is not a name that at least immediately Bollywood
[54:28] comes to mind. My limited knowledge of cricket
[54:31] also is not helping me. I don't think that madness from
[54:36] the cricketing space, Suyash. No, I'll need some hint.
[54:43] Doctor Sharad's grandson and granddaughter are also pretty
[54:47] famous, the grandson having recently gained fame.
[54:53] Is it the bad zoo Bollywood actor?
[54:55] Oh, no, not him. But you're very close.
[54:57] You're in the right area. It's some actor who has gained a
[55:00] lot of prominence. Yes, yes.
[55:03] Some actor and you said the sister is also famous.
[55:06] Suyashi is famous, obviously, as I mentioned, and Suyashi's
[55:10] daughter and son, which is Doctor Sharat's granddaughter
[55:13] and grandson are also now famous.
[55:16] So Suyashi's children are also famous.
[55:19] This is not Ananya Pandey, right?
[55:21] Oh, very good. Suyashi's name is Chunky Pandey,
[55:24] no? No, Chunky Pandey's name is
[55:26] Suyash Pandey. Yeah, yes, yes, yes.
[55:32] Very interesting. Oh, wow, Pete, I think I do know
[55:35] this. I do know that this he comes
[55:38] from a family of of medical professionals.
[55:40] OK, lovely. Yeah, yeah.
[55:43] So Arjun Sreekumar sent this question in.
[55:44] I have absolutely no idea. Shanky Pandey's father, Ananya
[55:49] Pandey's grandfather. And what is the new other
[55:54] Pandey, the fellow who came in? Ahan Ahan.
[55:57] Pandey, Yes, Yes. Apparently he's done a great job
[56:00] in Sahara. I've not watched it.
[56:01] It's not my cup of tea, those kind of movies, but still.
[56:04] Yeah. So their grandfather was Doctor
[56:06] Sharad Pandey, the well known cardiothoracic surgeon, 6th
[56:10] heart transplant in the world. And he also developed the Pandey
[56:13] shunt, what's called as the Pandey shunt.
[56:17] It's a technique used in mitral valve replacement, arguably.
[56:22] A bigger impact for the world than than the progenies.
[56:28] I wouldn't say arguably, I'd say definitely, definitely.
[56:32] Not taking anything away from Chunky Pandey and Ananya Pandey
[56:35] and but hey. Chunky Pandey is fantastic.
[56:38] I he's one of my guilty pleasure actors.
[56:41] Whenever he comes on screen, I absolutely it's like Sanjay
[56:44] Kapoor. Like Sanjay Kapoor is one of
[56:47] those people. When I was watching his movies
[56:50] in the 90s, I was like, why does this man even act anymore?
[56:54] But now I see him in a movie, he pops up once in a while and I'm
[56:58] like, oh, it's like meeting a long lost friend.
[57:01] Chunky Pandey is also somewhat the same kind of emotion, right?
[57:04] Right. At the same time, other actors
[57:06] who used to act with them, now I see them and I'm like, I'm just
[57:10] tired of watching some of them on screen.
[57:12] Not naming names. Not to take away anything from
[57:14] your fandom of Chunky Pandey, but I would still say his
[57:17] father's contribution is perhaps more significant.
[57:20] Oh yeah, definitely, definitely. Yeah.
[57:22] No, no, I I'm not arguing the point.
[57:24] I'm just saying the chunky. I enjoy watching chunky Pandey.
[57:26] As long as we are on the same page.
[57:28] I've not watched Ahan's performance so I don't.
[57:31] I can't authoritatively say this, but as of now he's the
[57:33] most talented Pandey I know of when it comes to acting.
[57:37] Good luck to the Pandey's hope They hope they touch as many
[57:42] hearts as their grandfather. I don't know how many hearts he
[57:46] touched. Okay, so it's time to wind up
[57:49] the episode. So let's go back to the audience
[57:50] question which I asked at the beginning of today's episode.
[57:53] In the early days of motor racing, it was customary for
[57:55] each race car to carry both a driver and and a riding
[57:59] mechanic. The mechanic's role included
[58:01] monitoring the vehicle and helping during overtaking.
[58:04] However, during the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911, also
[58:09] known as the Indy 500, the driver, Ray Haroon, was unable
[58:13] to find a mechanic to accompany him.
[58:14] Instead of withdrawing, Haroon implemented a groundbreaking
[58:17] innovation that not only allowed him to race, but also allowed to
[58:21] secure his victory. What did draw Haroon, Ray Haroon
[58:25] actually do that change the future of motor racing?
[58:28] Aditya, do you have any ideas? The rear view mirror.
[58:31] Fantastic. Yes, he installed a rear view
[58:33] mirror on his car. The very first one.
[58:35] Ray Haroon, driving the Mormon Wasp, pioneered the use of a
[58:40] rear view mirror, an idea borrowed from a horse drawn
[58:43] carriage of all things, to monitor cars behind him.
[58:46] This eliminated the need for a riding mechanic and reduced
[58:49] weight, giving him a competitive edge.
[58:52] The innovation was so effective that it became a standard
[58:54] feature in automobiles and racing thereafter.
[58:56] Very cool. So that's the end of all the
[58:59] questions for this episode. Aditya, what's your pop culture
[59:01] recommendation? I have to recommend the movie
[59:04] that I saw recently and apparently is posed to be one of
[59:07] the biggest financial disasters of the year and that is 1 battle
[59:11] after another apparently not even going to barely recover
[59:16] it's cost if that and get has great critical reviews.
[59:21] And I have to agree with them because my God, DiCaprio,
[59:26] whoever he is as a person, he is so good as an actor.
[59:30] Like it just oh God he's so good and he kills him, kills it in
[59:34] that and yet he is more than matched by the actors who share
[59:41] screen with him. Sean Penn plays the antagonist
[59:45] and I swear the entire film I was like, it looks like Sean
[59:49] Penn, but my God, that can't be Sean Penn that that's not Sean
[59:51] Penn. And later I had to Google it too
[59:54] and pinch myself because it was Sean Penn playing this
[59:58] absolutely out of type role for him and killing at it.
[1:00:01] I you know what? I make Oscar predictions.
[1:00:03] I'm going to make one. Sean Penn probably is going to
[1:00:06] get an Oscar norm for this one as supporting actor.
[1:00:08] I believe you'll get. Benicio Del Toro, also great
[1:00:12] supporting cast. The two female actors,
[1:00:15] phenomenal. Teyana Taylor, just as this,
[1:00:18] this maverick revolutionary woman, so good.
[1:00:24] And the one who plays his daughter, Chase Infinity, just
[1:00:28] great. I don't know, I'm running out of
[1:00:30] adjectives, but yeah, watch it for the acting.
[1:00:32] Watch it for some fun storytelling.
[1:00:35] Watch it to to truly see Sean Penn be the most non Sean Penn
[1:00:40] you've ever seen him be and 1 battle of another is my
[1:00:44] recommendation. I haven't watched the movie it's
[1:00:47] on definitely my watch list. I've already recommended Think
[1:00:51] Twice the podcast for on Michael Jackson.
[1:00:53] It's a 10 episode podcast. I'd also recommend the bastards
[1:00:57] of Bollywood. It was guilty pleasure of the
[1:01:01] world fun. I did not see the twist coming.
[1:01:05] I wouldn't say it's a great show, but I mean, look, watch it
[1:01:09] for the cameos. Boo Boo, I saw the twist coming
[1:01:14] from the first episode. I didn't think he would go
[1:01:17] there, frankly speaking, because.
[1:01:20] You know, actually, you're right.
[1:01:21] You're right. Because I, OK, again, this is
[1:01:24] something again, I'm just linking things as I go along is
[1:01:26] that there is a movie, there's a Malayalam movie starring Dulkur
[1:01:30] Salman, who now has apparently become a Telugu actor because
[1:01:34] even the like the North Indian media referred to him in an
[1:01:37] article recently as Telugu actor Dulkur Salman.
[1:01:40] Let me assure people that he is definitely Malayali.
[1:01:43] He is Malu. Dulkar is Mallu.
[1:01:45] Yes, he's Mahmuti's son. So he acted in an anthology film
[1:01:50] with some great music. It was called Solo.
[1:01:52] I really loved it. It was a great experiment and a
[1:01:55] great twist, a great, you know, movie with four different
[1:02:00] stories in it. And one of the stories had a
[1:02:02] twist that, let's just say, is very similar to that in the
[1:02:06] bastards of Bollywood. And the movie did not do well,
[1:02:11] probably because of the twist as well.
[1:02:12] So I did not think that Ariana Khan would go there.
[1:02:16] I I agree with you on that. I will.
[1:02:17] I had a feeling that that's what the twister, but I was like, no
[1:02:20] way is he going to do that. No, yeah, he wouldn't go there.
[1:02:22] He wouldn't go. There.
[1:02:22] And he did. Yeah, yeah.
[1:02:24] Sorry. Also shout out to my friend
[1:02:27] Neville Barucha, the man who plays DJ Adam.
[1:02:30] He is the guy I do improve with regularly.
[1:02:33] So well, Neville played the fun DJ in that opposite Manoj Manoj
[1:02:39] Pawar. Nice that I mean fantastic.
[1:02:43] That was that was very, very that was a very good dynamic.
[1:02:46] I really love that you know the modern DJ and the old school
[1:02:50] result singer. Yeah, it was a fun.
[1:02:52] That's all the time we have for this episode.
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