# Episode 095 - Ghosts of Trivia, Reincarnated Tech & Prince of Hell

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 31 Dec 2024, 55 min.

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Do you know what piece of technology was made obsolete by a Japanese and Dutch collaboration, which is now making a resurgence? Do you know what are the unique characteristics of Belphegor's Prime Number, named after the Prince of Hell? Do you know which is the only band to have performed on all 7 continents? Also, bonus, find out why the ghosts of trivia past, present and future visit, in this episode! Tune in to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to Are you Quizzing Me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode number 95 of
[0:20] Are You Quizzing me? Your favorite quizzing and
[0:23] trivia podcast show. Aditya and I are back for
[0:25] another round of quizzing and let's start off without any
[0:28] further ado with the audience question.
[0:31] You may know that most airports have IATA airport codes which
[0:35] are like short 3 letters which denote which airport they are.
[0:40] Say for example Cochin is C OK, Delhi is DEL and so on and so
[0:46] forth. There are so many of those.
[0:47] So my question to you my dear audience is disconnect these
[0:51] three IATA airport codes. MLHEAP and BSL Let me repeat
[0:59] that MLHEAPBSLI will reveal the answer to this question at the
[1:07] end of today's episode. Now that as I can see that
[1:12] Aditya does not have any oil in hand and has elected to keep his
[1:16] hair non massaged today, let's ask him to start off the
[1:20] proceedings for today. Aditya.
[1:23] OK, after that very slick jab. OK, a pun intended.
[1:28] Yes, Sir. I'm here with my questions.
[1:31] And for today's first question, I'm going to ask you something
[1:34] about your field of work, about the field of medicine, though
[1:40] perhaps slightly laterally related and not completely on
[1:44] the nose. So you're saying it's not an ENT
[1:47] question? Yeah, you're right, it's not an
[1:52] ENT question. So here's the story.
[1:56] Auk based family of doctors published a paper where they
[2:01] were trying to identify a certain trend amongst medical
[2:05] professionals. So this cheeky, tongue in cheek
[2:09] article identified this trend, including a number of examples.
[2:14] As they poured over the medical register from UK's General
[2:19] Medical Council, they found examples amongst urologists,
[2:23] amongst pediatricians and they themselves were from the
[2:26] speciality of orthopedics. This trend or this phenomenon
[2:30] was also found outside the medical community as well, and
[2:34] data suggests that it influences people's occupation choices as
[2:38] much as 15% more than random chance would suggest their
[2:42] occupation should be. So I need you to identify this
[2:45] trend or this phenomenon that they found in the medical
[2:49] community, but like I said, also exists outside the medical field
[2:53] and effects people's choices or decisions as to what their
[2:56] occupation would be. OK, my first guess is going to
[3:03] be nominative determinism. Wow.
[3:07] OK, I must admit that I try very hard to make these questions
[3:10] obscure and opaque and you come out of nowhere and you just, on
[3:15] your first guess, get the right answer right off the bat.
[3:19] It's insane. No, I have to.
[3:21] I have to give thanks to Jeremy Clarkson for this.
[3:25] Again, as the listeners of the podcast know, I am a fan of the
[3:29] erstwhile show Top Gear Event. It was hosted by the original
[3:33] team headed by Jamie Clarkson. So in between there are these
[3:37] segments where the three of them just sit around the table and
[3:40] talk. And I remember the first time I
[3:42] ever heard the term nominative determinism was when Jeremy
[3:45] Clarkson was talking about, and forgive me, I can't remember the
[3:48] name of the gentleman right now, but the man who was, I think,
[3:52] heading Aston Martin. And he had a name which was
[3:56] very, I think, related to the related to being something being
[4:00] cool or to Aston Martin or to automobiles, I don't remember.
[4:03] But I remember Jeremy Clarkson saying that with a name like
[4:06] that, it's no surprise that he ended up heading up Aston
[4:09] Martin. And then I think it was James
[4:12] May or somebody, again, forgive me, my memory is wrong.
[4:14] Who said that it was nominative determinism?
[4:16] So the moment you said that they were looking at the registry, I
[4:20] knew it had to be something demographic related and the name
[4:23] related thing. So I was going to suggest like,
[4:25] you know how many urologists are named Dick, something like that.
[4:29] You are right, I am thoroughly impressed as I am in every
[4:33] single episode. By the way, they did find
[4:36] urology experts with the name Dick Cox Ball and Waterfall, as
[4:43] well as pediatricians with the names Boys, Gal, Child and
[4:46] Kinder. Kinder obviously being German
[4:50] for Child. OK.
[4:52] And if there were any Mallu Christian pediatricians, they
[4:56] might have also come across the name Baby.
[4:58] Oh yeah, that would. That would be funny.
[5:01] OK, I'll also ask you to try to guess what the name of the
[5:04] doctors themselves was in question.
[5:06] I mentioned they were orthopedics.
[5:08] Oh, oh, OK, Bones. Oh nice, it was actually limb.
[5:14] Limb. Oh, OK, doctors.
[5:16] Limb. Nice, nice.
[5:18] No, because I was thinking of Susan Bones from Harry Potter.
[5:20] So then. Yeah, very cool, actually.
[5:23] OK, Do you know who first popularized the idea of
[5:26] nominative determinism? No, that I do not know.
[5:29] I'll give it to you. It was Carl Jung.
[5:31] Carl Young was the one who first suggested it.
[5:34] Do you know who he cited as an example?
[5:35] That's actually even more interesting.
[5:37] Oh no. Napoleon the Lion of Naples.
[5:42] No, I'll give you a hint, Young gave the example of the only
[5:47] other psychologists that everybody else knows.
[5:50] Sigmund Freud. Exactly Freud who studied
[5:54] pleasure and whose name means joy.
[5:56] Oh, I did not know that. Yeah, what a cool little
[5:59] coincidence. Or maybe not a coincidence, as
[6:01] nominative determinism would suggest.
[6:03] Maybe people have a higher likelihood, maybe 15% more
[6:07] likely to end up in a profession that the name is really linked
[6:10] to. Also like I mentioned, it has
[6:13] been found across professions, so even other surnames which are
[6:17] common like Baker, Baba, butcher, painter, people with
[6:21] those names are likely to end up in professions related to that.
[6:25] That would be a recursive kind of thing, because these names
[6:28] actually came from professions, and now because they have these
[6:32] names, they're ending up in those same professions either.
[6:34] So somebody like Schneider turning up to be a tailor?
[6:37] Yeah, and maybe there is something to be about people
[6:39] ending in in. You must forgive the
[6:46] interruptions from Aditya's side.
[6:47] I think there's a ghost in his apartment.
[6:50] Yes, apologies, I am apparently being haunted by the ghosts of
[6:54] trivia. Past Oh, smooth.
[6:58] But yeah, I think there's something to be said about
[7:01] people ending up in professions that they have some sort of
[7:04] familial background in, though I imagine after several
[7:08] generations that effect would not be as prominent.
[7:13] So maybe it has to do with the fact that a lot of your friends
[7:15] keep calling you Painter or teasing you about being a
[7:18] painter because the last name is Painter, and subconsciously that
[7:22] nudges you towards becoming an actual painter.
[7:25] Actually, funnily enough, a lot of journalists have collected
[7:28] examples of this in various professions.
[7:31] San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Cain actually
[7:34] used to report on this, usually examples sent in by their
[7:37] readers, like a substitute teacher by the name of Mr.
[7:41] Fillon, Piano teacher. Patience scales.
[7:44] Oh nice. And the Vatican spokesman on the
[7:47] evils of rock'n'roll Cardinal rap song.
[7:56] Oh, that is precious. Another journalist for
[7:59] Washington Post collected examples as well.
[8:02] Food industry consultant by the name of Faith Popcorn.
[8:05] An Army Lieutenant called Sergeant.
[8:08] Tax accountant called Shelby Gold Grab.
[8:11] OK, so yeah, hilarious examples and names all over the place.
[8:17] Nice, nice. So yeah, well, cracked, that was
[8:19] lightning. Fast.
[8:21] Yes, yes, let's move on very quickly to an audience suggested
[8:27] question. So this question was sent in to
[8:30] us via e-mail by Aryan Chandra from IIT Kanpur Aditya.
[8:37] I'm fairly sure you'd be able to crack this, but it's a nice
[8:40] question so I thought I'd put it in.
[8:42] X is a piece of tech that most of us are quite familiar with.
[8:46] It was the result of a great collaboration between two
[8:49] pioneering companies at the time, a Dutch company, Y, and a
[8:53] Japanese company, Z. So X is the tech, Y is the Dutch
[8:57] company, Z is a Japanese company.
[8:59] The form factor of X is a direct result of what Y was trying to
[9:05] improve upon, although they are almost directly completely
[9:09] different in their way of functioning.
[9:11] X was supposed to look like a smaller version of what it
[9:15] sought to replace. As it turned out, as most things
[9:19] in the tech industry, X is now obsolete.
[9:22] However, the thing that it was supposed to replace has now made
[9:27] a big resurgence. So what is X and which companies
[9:31] are we talking about? Wait, X was to replace?
[9:33] Y. No Y is a company, Y is a Dutch
[9:36] company, Z is a Japanese company.
[9:39] X was supposed to replace something and it's form factor
[9:44] was decided upon by Y because they wanted it to look like the
[9:49] thing it was replacing. X is now obsolete.
[9:52] However the thing it was supposed to replace has enough
[9:55] had a resurgence. Dutch and Japanese you said,
[9:58] right? Yes.
[10:00] So that's the big clue. I was almost going to leave it
[10:03] as X&Y, but then I realized that it would be very difficult to
[10:05] crack without me at least telling you the nationalities of
[10:08] the companies that should be able to help you work backwards,
[10:12] hopefully. Dutch Japanese collaboration in
[10:16] tech. And Aryan, I just wanted to
[10:19] thank you for the question and also apologize for editing the
[10:23] question a little bit because there were some phrases in it
[10:26] which would have just made it a cakewalk for Aditya, so I just
[10:29] had to. Honestly, I wouldn't mind that
[10:31] because currently I'm a little lost.
[10:34] You haven't given me a time frame, right?
[10:37] I have not given you a time frame again.
[10:39] My suggestion to you would be to work backwards from the Dutch
[10:43] and Japanese companies. I know a few Japanese tech
[10:45] companies, but I don't know if I know any Dutch tech companies.
[10:48] Oh, you definitely know this company, but you may not know
[10:51] that they're Dutch. It's a very old company.
[10:55] Headquarters are in Amsterdam. Was founded in 1891.
[11:02] Oh, a tech company founded in 1891.
[11:05] Yes, and the Japanese company was founded in 1946.
[11:13] Japanese company in 1946. Sony is younger than that,
[11:17] right? OK.
[11:18] I'm not going to. It is Sony because you've gotten
[11:20] Z, right? That is Sony.
[11:22] Oh, I thought Sony was in the 50s.
[11:25] No 1946. OK.
[11:28] OK. So 1946 Sony was trying to
[11:31] replace. Actually when you said replace,
[11:33] I was trying to think of something along the lines of
[11:35] audio equipment. And since it's Sony, I would say
[11:41] Walkman. OK.
[11:43] But I can't imagine what they were trying to replace and why
[11:46] that is making a resurgence, unless and until it is records,
[11:50] but that doesn't make a lot of sense.
[11:54] And the Dutch company? Oh wait, Philips is a Dutch
[11:57] company. I forgot.
[11:57] Yeah, right. Philips.
[11:59] Very good. Yeah.
[12:00] So it's a collaboration. The technology was developed as
[12:03] a collaboration between Philips and Sony.
[12:06] So what did they develop? The only thing in the audio
[12:09] space I can think of is still the Walkman, but that's not it.
[12:14] So. What if I told you this
[12:17] development was in the 1970s and 80s and but it became popular in
[12:23] the 90s? Development for this apparently
[12:26] took a long time. 70s eighties became popular in the 90s.
[12:31] Oh, is it actually in the audio space?
[12:33] Am I on the right track? Unintended.
[12:35] Yes, you are in the audio space. As I mentioned, it was developed
[12:39] in the 70s and 90s and it was first released in Japan in
[12:44] October of 1982. Sounds vaguely familiar.
[12:48] You're very close. I mean like you've almost got
[12:51] it, you're just going in the slightly wrong direction.
[12:53] Is it a compact disk? OK.
[12:57] So if it were ACD, what was it replacing?
[13:00] Something which has made a comeback or a resurgence
[13:03] recently. That's what I'm trying to think.
[13:05] What is making a resurgence now? I can guarantee you a man
[13:10] sitting in Bangalore is screaming at the audio right
[13:13] now. Bro.
[13:14] What is this bro? I told you about this bro.
[13:18] I love how Bertie features in every single episode now.
[13:24] OK, he asked us questions about this like he he had a question
[13:28] like you know how he spins questions out of his head,
[13:30] right? So then he looked around the
[13:31] room, found. Two records, right?
[13:32] I said that earlier records. OK, also I'll give it to you.
[13:35] Its vinyl. It will replace vinyl.
[13:38] CD was developed to replace vinyl and it was replaced as a
[13:41] joint venture by Phillips and Sony.
[13:44] First released in 1982. Yeah, which is why earlier I
[13:47] said records. But are they making a
[13:49] resurgence? Apart from like collectors I
[13:51] guess? No, don't it.
[13:53] It's got a decent resurgence. Not just collectors, music
[13:57] enthusiasts, you know people like Bertie, they collect vinyl.
[14:01] A lot of things are now being re released in vinyl.
[14:04] Pressings are being done for even new albums and whatnot.
[14:07] Everything has now like a vinyl version.
[14:09] It's not like a general resurgence.
[14:11] But yeah, I mean, like when you consider, say, for example,
[14:14] cassettes, other forms of technology which were used as
[14:17] data storage or audio storage, like cassettes, magnetic tapes,
[14:20] laser discs, all of these have gone completely obsolete and
[14:23] they've never come back. Right, OK.
[14:26] Yes, Vinyl has made a comeback. There was a movie recently at
[14:30] which released towards the end of the pandemic.
[14:31] It was called Hridhayam. It was a Malayalam movie, and it
[14:35] had a huge focus on its soundtrack.
[14:36] Pretty decent, very good soundtrack.
[14:38] And they wanted to release audio cassettes of the soundtrack so
[14:43] that they could have a side A, side B kind of thing.
[14:45] However, because there were no companies or anybody doing audio
[14:50] cassettes still in India, they had to get it manufactured from
[14:53] Japan. Oh, OK.
[14:55] Yeah. So looking at that, I mean like
[14:57] you can still find people pressing vinyl everywhere else.
[15:00] OK, great question. Yeah, I guess it was my lack of
[15:04] knowledge about the researching popularity of vinyls.
[15:07] Though now that you say it, I recall seeing stores in Mumbai
[15:12] and yeah, I guess it is researching.
[15:15] Yeah, even in the city. Yeah, so dumb of me because I
[15:19] assume it was like random collectors only, but if there
[15:22] are a few stores in the city that means there must be more
[15:26] than just the odd collector. Definitely.
[15:28] They do. They do.
[15:29] They do. They do, yeah.
[15:30] So that question was courtesy Aryan Chandra.
[15:33] So thank you, Aryan. I do have the rest of your
[15:36] questions and I will pepper them into these episodes as they come
[15:38] forward. Yeah, thank you so much for your
[15:41] question. I look forward to the rest and
[15:44] also thank you because it gives me a perfect segue, which
[15:47] happens rarely. Speaking of things that make a
[15:51] comeback, there was an Austrian born Hindu monk and professor of
[15:57] anthropology at Syracuse University by the name of
[16:01] Agehananda Bharati. He wrote something in 1970 in
[16:06] which he coined a specific phrase and I need you to guess
[16:09] what the phrase was. I'll share some examples he gave
[16:12] to explain this phenomenon. The first one is the APU trilogy
[16:17] of films by Satyajit Ray, ISKCON Temple and the ISKCON movement,
[16:23] The Exalted Status of Bhagavad Gita and Postural Yoga.
[16:28] These are the four examples amongst others as well.
[16:32] These are the four examples that he cited.
[16:34] OK, so when you first said APU trilogy, I was going to think of
[16:37] the glorification of poverty, but then ISKCON is directly the
[16:41] opposite of that. It's like capitalizing on
[16:44] religion and then you have postural yoga.
[16:47] So is this like a resurgence of the exotic Orient or something
[16:52] like that? Yes, I'll give it to you.
[16:54] It is that the segue was about things making a comeback.
[16:59] So things that are from a country or a place and are
[17:01] culturally exported outside of it and eventually make a
[17:04] comeback having gained recognition outside the place of
[17:07] origin. Another example would perhaps be
[17:11] Buddhism, like Buddhism started in India but gained a lot more
[17:15] recognition outside of India. Yeah.
[17:17] And at some point, I guess made a comeback to India as well.
[17:21] Yeah, I think it's always in India a little bit to an extent,
[17:23] but. Yeah, fair enough.
[17:25] So anyways, that's the phenomenon, but what is the
[17:28] name? That is the question.
[17:30] Oh, it'll be something clever. Knowing you, it'll be something
[17:33] very clever. It's not a pun, and perhaps you
[17:38] haven't heard of it, but I would suggest you think about food
[17:41] items that this has happened to. Because the name is basically
[17:45] named after a food item, something exported from a
[17:48] country of origin and gained popularity, and maybe even
[17:52] modified slightly and has hence gained popularity back in its
[17:56] place of origin as well. Dash effect where dash is a food
[18:00] item. It's a food item.
[18:03] Is it a butter chicken effect? I guess butter chicken has
[18:07] always been core to Indian food in India itself more than
[18:10] anywhere else so. OK, Yeah, yeah.
[18:14] Oh, is it the Kamasutra effect? Like it was lost for a lot of
[18:17] years and now that's come back and become a big, huge thing.
[18:20] I don't know how exactly you're eating kamasutra as a food item
[18:23] for which meal, but OK. Oh, I I there are there are so
[18:29] many answers for that question. OK, OK, moving on.
[18:35] Moving on. This is a.
[18:37] Clean family friendly podcast. So let's move on.
[18:40] Exactly. That was just like a wide open
[18:43] goal post. But Jello, I will refrain from
[18:46] shooting any goals. Food, something that's gone and
[18:51] then come back. I don't know spices.
[18:56] Not an ingredient, just a straight up food item that you
[18:59] would consume. Something that went out of India
[19:03] and now has come back. I never actually said India.
[19:06] Dude, then you're opening up the entire world for this.
[19:10] Oops, I guess yeah. Something that went out and then
[19:13] came back and became popular. Oh, what could that be?
[19:17] I'll need some clue, apart from this very narrow clue that
[19:21] you've given me, that some food item from some country in the
[19:24] world went out and then came back and became popular.
[19:30] OK, fair enough. 2 clues. First is that it is ubiquitous.
[19:33] It is found in every major city across the world.
[19:36] This food item. And the second clue would be
[19:39] country of origin. Think Europe.
[19:42] Something of European origin? Potatoes.
[19:45] Again, like I said, not an ingredient, but a food item, a
[19:47] dish, a dish that you'd consume. Oh, like pizza?
[19:51] The pizza effect exactly. That's the answer I was looking
[19:53] for. Oh, nice, nice, nice.
[19:56] OK. So yeah, while OK, the history
[19:59] of this might be slightly disputed, but by the account of
[20:03] this particular professor, pizza was exported out of Italy and it
[20:07] got a lot of its thrills and thrills in the US and then it
[20:11] came back to Italy or made a resurgence and there was some
[20:15] cross country inspiration cross pollinated.
[20:19] Cross pollinated? Yeah, that's actually a better
[20:21] word. Oh, that's nice.
[20:23] That's nice. That's a very nice word.
[20:25] And the pizza effect, I will have to remember to use that in
[20:28] a conversation. OK, that's great.
[20:31] Let me move up to something that's right up your alley.
[20:35] It's a very simple question and it's something I'm fairly sure
[20:39] that you will enjoy. There is a basketball court in
[20:42] the US Supreme Court. So in the US Supreme Court
[20:45] building there is a full size basketball.
[20:47] Can I Can I please flex? Can I please flex?
[20:50] Oh, OK, go ahead, go ahead. OK, do we speak of the highest
[20:56] court in the land? Yes, you do.
[21:00] Very nice, very nice. So for our audience who may have
[21:03] been temporarily blinded by the flex that Aditya just skipped,
[21:07] let me just rewind the tape and tell you what the question was
[21:11] completely going to be. The fact is there is a
[21:14] basketball court in the US Supreme Court and the question
[21:16] was what is the amazing nickname given to this court?
[21:20] And that play on words has not escaped Aditya.
[21:23] The nickname is the highest court in the land.
[21:27] Very, very well done, Aditya, Very well done.
[21:31] Like you said, I think this is right up my alley.
[21:34] Yeah, it is. Something that I would remember,
[21:37] and probably one of those pieces of trivia that made me
[21:40] interested in trivia in the 1st place.
[21:42] Fun question. Just one of those piece of
[21:44] trivia that you happen to know. Glad I cracked that faster than
[21:49] usual. I will move on to a piece of
[21:53] trivia that you might enjoy actually.
[21:56] OK, the only segue I can think of is that in some twisted, long
[22:01] winded way, this is also an American cultural artifact like
[22:06] the Supreme Court. Oh.
[22:08] That's a very, very nice dig at the US justice system right now.
[22:13] The judicial system by calling it an artifact.
[22:18] I'm glad my weeks ago became incisive political commentary on
[22:21] the status of the USA, but OK, OK, OK, so I'm going to tell you
[22:27] a story. Tell me where the story has been
[22:29] popularized. A man in the military, a soldier
[22:32] has a girlfriend and when for military services he's deployed,
[22:37] his girlfriend back home gets bored and to alleviate her
[22:40] boredom, let's say she decides to have fun with two of his
[22:44] friends. She isn't shamed for her
[22:47] desires, but is encouraged and told to live her best life.
[22:51] I guess initially her name was Deanna, but that was eventually
[22:55] changed. So where is this story popularly
[23:00] featured? You said that the name was
[23:03] originally Diana. Yes.
[23:06] Shit, I was going for Dirty Diana by Michael Jackson, but
[23:08] no. Yeah, no, the name was changed.
[23:11] The name was changed when your question started.
[23:14] My head started going in completely different directions.
[23:17] When you said first the soldier and the girlfriend, I thought it
[23:19] might be that fable about the origin of the rainbow cake and
[23:24] the wife waiting for the soldier coming back from war.
[23:27] Oh no, OK, I have no idea what that is.
[23:30] OK, it's not that. And the second thought that
[23:31] could come to my mind was the Dear John letter, right?
[23:35] So then I thought you were going about the movie Dear John or
[23:37] whatever. So then.
[23:38] No, no, no. It's not that either, but I'm
[23:40] fairly sure this is a song. I'm fairly sure this have to be
[23:43] a song, but then which song is the query?
[23:46] Yep, that's what you have to crack.
[23:48] So. Do I get any other?
[23:49] Clues. OK, let me give you a time
[23:52] frame. That's the first and the easiest
[23:53] clue. This was released in 1993.
[23:57] It was released in 1993. Not great at remembering lyrics,
[24:03] so that's not going to help me. I've literally got Dirty Diana
[24:06] running in my head right now. Oh.
[24:08] No, no, nothing like that. Actually, it's not even a
[24:10] Michael Jackson song, if that helps.
[24:14] Girlfriend seeks the comfort of two of his friends but is lauded
[24:22] for it. Not lauded specifically, but
[24:25] it's not shamed for it as sometimes you can imagine a
[24:28] story like this someone might be.
[24:30] Would I be wrong in thinking the artist is a female?
[24:33] Nope, not a woman. OK, do I know the song?
[24:38] Oh, 100%. Everybody knows this song.
[24:41] Oh. No 1993 I was listening to
[24:44] Michael Jackson at best. That's the only thing I can
[24:46] remember from 1993. But is it a Hindi song?
[24:51] No, no, not a Hindi song. OK.
[24:54] I'll give you another hint, it's not even an English song.
[24:57] Oh wait, is this the Macarena? It is the Macarena, yes.
[25:03] Oh, OK. It's about.
[25:06] I had no clue what the lyrics meant.
[25:09] I remember as a kid we went Macarena, Macarena.
[25:15] Nobody knew the lyrics. Yeah, no, exactly.
[25:18] And we didn't understand any Spanish back then.
[25:21] But let me assure you that the song talks about a woman
[25:24] cheating on her boyfriend with Torino with the encouragement of
[25:27] the singer. Oh.
[25:29] And then it gained massive popularity, and we all remember
[25:32] dancing to it even as kids, which actually, if you think
[25:35] about it, is a weird juxtaposition.
[25:37] So yeah, that's the origin story of Macarena.
[25:40] And Macarena is the name of the woman, which is kind of weird
[25:44] because it is also the name of the singer's daughter.
[25:48] And the song is about sexual activities, so.
[25:52] Oh. Dude, dude, that's just yeah.
[25:54] Strange choice, definitely, but OK, at least her name is
[25:58] immortalized in pop culture, so there's that.
[26:01] And that's the story behind one of the most iconic songs ever.
[26:04] Wow. OK, that's nice.
[26:08] That was a very good question. I don't know how I'm going to
[26:11] segue from that into here, but by saying that this was a
[26:17] Spanish song and let's move east from Spain to another country in
[26:23] Europe and we land in Germany. OK, So you've heard of
[26:28] Volkswagen, right? Volkswagen.
[26:30] I have. The Volkswagen Group, they sell
[26:33] millions and millions of cars, right?
[26:35] 9.2 million cars, or at least vehicles in 2023 I think it was.
[26:40] But their highest selling single product is a original part
[26:47] numbered 199398500 A OK, so it's a Volkswagen Original part
[26:56] 199398500 A, which I think the highest date I was sold was 7
[27:02] million of these parts were sold in 2019.
[27:08] OK. OK, simple question.
[27:12] What is this what I'm talking about?
[27:14] What is this part? What is this?
[27:15] Volkswagen Original part 199398500 A.
[27:20] That's a very specific question. So what is it like a part of a
[27:23] car? It is branded as Volkswagen
[27:27] Original Tel, which translates to Volkswagen Original Part and
[27:32] it's sold under the part number 199398500.
[27:37] AI like how you said so many things but you didn't answer my
[27:39] question. Is it a part of a car?
[27:41] I'm assuming it's not a part of a car, but is it like car
[27:44] adjacent? Is it automobile adjacent?
[27:47] Yes, it is adjacent to a car. Or in.
[27:51] At least in the plant anyway. It's adjacent to cars.
[27:54] OK. So is it related to the world of
[27:58] automobiles? Maybe in a tangential way?
[28:02] Yes, it is related to the world of automobiles.
[28:04] Yes. I love it when you're being
[28:07] confounding Vineet. OK, a German thing.
[28:12] Oh, very, very German. OK, so beer, but beer is the
[28:16] last thing that should be tangentially related to
[28:18] automobiles. No, it's not beer.
[28:23] Oh man, for a second I thought I'd definitely cracked it.
[28:25] Like a beer that fuels a car. That'll be cool.
[28:28] OK, but not a beer. So it has to be German, not a
[28:32] beer. Hmm, any clues?
[28:35] OK, so let me just put it this way.
[28:36] This was first manufactured in 1973, so rather recent
[28:44] development. Yeah, it's won various awards
[28:47] and it's sold in 11 countries, but it's not available in the
[28:52] United States. OK.
[28:53] So are we talking like a specific type?
[28:56] Like if the example is beer, it would be like a specific brand
[28:59] of beer because that could be recent, but beer itself is not
[29:03] new. So is it something along those
[29:04] lines? When you say an item, it is an
[29:08] item. It is branded as a Volkswagen
[29:11] item. Yeah, OK.
[29:12] But the generic item itself is not an recent invention, right?
[29:16] No, no, it was not invented in 1973, but it is something which
[29:21] is invented in 1949. Oh, OK.
[29:24] So either it's not very long ago.
[29:26] Yeah. Because I was going to get
[29:28] something along the lines of food maybe.
[29:31] It was invented by a lady. Actually, Heta Charlotte, you
[29:34] were. A lady.
[29:37] So I'm going to make a gender stereotype guess.
[29:38] Is it some sort of textile or clothing item?
[29:43] Oh no. Maybe because I was still
[29:46] thinking about beer, so I thought Oktoberfest.
[29:49] The beer maid's outfit. It is adjacent to beers as well.
[29:56] Like if you went to Oktoberfest you would definitely also find
[30:00] the site on there. Oh, so some sort of food like a
[30:02] Bratwurst? It is.
[30:04] It is a food. It is a food.
[30:06] But not a Bratwurst. OK.
[30:13] German sausage. Yes.
[30:15] OK, great. I'll give it to you.
[30:16] It's a Curry. Worst.
[30:18] Oh, OK, OK. Yeah.
[30:23] So basically it's a Curry worst. And for our audience, a Curry
[30:26] worst is basically a German sausage which is sold with Curry
[30:31] ketchup, and Curry ketchup is ketchup which is spiced with
[30:35] Curry powder. Hold your horse powered horses.
[30:39] OK. Did you just say Volkswagen made
[30:41] Curry worst? Why was Volkswagen making Curry
[30:43] worst? Yeah, I'm getting to that.
[30:45] I'm getting to that. Let me get back to that
[30:47] question, Volkswagen. OK, let me just pronounce that
[30:50] correctly. Volkswagen Original part number
[30:53] 199398500 A is a sausage, specifically a Curry worst,
[31:01] which is manufactured within the Wolfsburg Volkswagen plant by a
[31:05] team of 30 people. OK.
[31:08] OK, so it was invented or it was first produced in 1973 as food
[31:14] for its workers at the Wolksburg plant?
[31:16] Oh. Originally it was a blend of
[31:19] pork and beef, but after the mad cow disease outbreak of the
[31:23] 1990s, they removed beef and now it's purely pork.
[31:27] It's won prizes at German food fairs and around 40% of its
[31:32] production is consumed within restaurants at its six German
[31:36] factories. So 40% is for the work of people
[31:38] who work inside Volkswagen factories.
[31:40] So which is why I said that food is actually adjacent.
[31:42] I was being literally it's adjacent to the factories in the
[31:45] cars. The remainder is sold at
[31:47] external shops, supermarkets, football stadiums in the US.
[31:51] They are not able to sell it because of rules in the US on
[31:53] the import of uncooked meat. OK.
[31:57] It's a Curry. Worst.
[31:58] If I'm not mistaken, they've also made a vegetarian version.
[32:01] OK. Yeah, and German Chancellor
[32:04] Gerhard Schroder was not particularly happy with that,
[32:07] that they made a vegetarian version.
[32:09] He basically said that Curry worst with fries, is one of the
[32:12] power bars of the skilled production worker.
[32:14] It should stay that way. Interesting.
[32:17] Volkswagen single largest selling product is a sausage.
[32:22] Pretty cool. And if you are anywhere in
[32:25] Europe and you want to buy one of these or in one of the other
[32:28] eleven countries where you could get it, a pack of sausages and a
[32:31] bottle of ketchup for this Volkswagen Curry burst retailed
[32:34] for approximately €9. OK.
[32:37] So not that expensive, especially given how great
[32:40] you're making it sound right now.
[32:42] Considering going to Europe just to get one now.
[32:46] Yeah. OK, lovely Vineet, you sneaky,
[32:50] sneaky man. I see what you did there with
[32:52] the adjacent that literal translation word play.
[32:56] I respect that. I was being truth adjacent.
[33:01] You obfuscating man, You. OK?
[33:07] So since you threw some numbers at me, I'm going to throw a
[33:09] number based question right back at you.
[33:11] OK, but for some background information about Belfagor, do
[33:15] you know Belfagor well? Well, OK, so in the Abrahamic
[33:20] religions, Belfagor is one of the seven Princess of Hell.
[33:24] Belfagor was charged with helping people making ingenious
[33:27] inventions and discoveries. OK.
[33:30] The question is about Bell Figures Prime, which is
[33:32] discovered by Harvey Dubner and coined by Clifford Pickover.
[33:37] This prime number has some very interesting features.
[33:40] So given the name and the context, can you try to make a
[33:43] guess as to what these features could be that make it Bell
[33:46] Figures Prime? 1 of the 7 Princess of Hell?
[33:51] How is that associated? What would make it unique, given
[33:54] me anything even closely related, and I'll declare you
[33:57] the winner of this question. So Berfika you mentioned was one
[34:01] of the Princess of Hell? Yep.
[34:04] He was responsible. He, or rather it was responsible
[34:07] for inventions, you said. Helping people make ingenious
[34:11] inventions and discoveries. In return for their souls,
[34:15] obviously. It's not like he did that from
[34:16] the goodness of his heart. I don't have details about the
[34:19] transaction, but sure, let's assume that's what happened.
[34:22] I've watched enough Supernatural now.
[34:24] So you're the authority. OK.
[34:26] And is a prime. Oh, is it that the closest other
[34:31] prime and this 666 digits apart or something like that?
[34:37] OK, I'll kind of give it to you because 666 is in the number
[34:40] itself. The digits 666 appear together
[34:44] in bill figures Prime. Oh, OK, nice.
[34:48] So imagine a number which is multiple digits long and 666
[34:52] does appear in it. Can you give me anything else
[34:54] that might be a feature? Does 666 appear?
[35:01] OK, first of all, can you tell me how many digits long this
[35:04] number is particular this particular prime?
[35:06] OK, good question. I'll give it to you.
[35:08] It is 31 digits long. It's 31 digits in length.
[35:14] Exactly. Can it be expressed as the power
[35:17] of something? No.
[35:19] But then that wouldn't make it a prime, right?
[35:21] Yep. Oh wait, is it 2 Raise to 666 -,
[35:25] 1? Oh, not a bad Wait wait, did you
[35:28] say 2 raised to the power 666? Yeah, no.
[35:32] So because I remember an. Astronomically huge number.
[35:35] It would, it would, no, because the reason I remembered this was
[35:38] there is a one of the formulas that is used for certain primes.
[35:42] I don't remember which particular prime that is.
[35:44] Is 2 raised to north -1 Right. I don't remember, I'm blanking
[35:49] on it now, but one of the formulas was that.
[35:51] So then I was like, oh, is it one of those?
[35:53] But obviously it's not. No, no.
[35:55] That would be a much, much, much much larger number.
[35:58] Yeah, it would. It would.
[36:00] This is only 31 digits in length.
[36:01] To take a wild guess. I already said 31 digits so.
[36:07] Is also a prime. Also prime, but think more
[36:09] superstition. It's 13 backwards.
[36:12] OK, so 13. How do you think 13 is featured
[36:15] in this number? So you already know three of the
[36:18] digits are sixes, two more digits are ones.
[36:22] OK. Take wild guesses about the
[36:24] other digits. Are they all nines?
[36:28] OK, you know what? This is a tough One South.
[36:29] I'll give it to you. You got a fair bit of the
[36:32] answer. Belfigos prime is 1 followed by
[36:35] 13 zeros, followed by 666, followed by 13 zeros and
[36:40] followed by 1. Oh nice.
[36:43] Which brings it to 31 digits and I love it because there are 13
[36:46] zeros in the front, 13 zeros in the back, 666 in the middle, and
[36:50] the ones to bookend it all very cool.
[36:53] It's also a palindromic number. Yeah, it's a palindromic number
[36:56] as well. Wow, that's nice.
[37:01] That is, that is very good. I I really, really like that.
[37:08] Yeah, I love it that this happens to be a prime number.
[37:10] Such an interesting overlap of superstition and mathematics.
[37:16] Yeah, really. By the way, if you had to say it
[37:18] out loud in English, this would be one nonillion, 66
[37:22] quadrillion, 600 trillion one. Go figure.
[37:27] Yeah, I'm not going to say that. OK.
[37:30] That was a fantastic question. And I will try to remember that
[37:32] Bell figure you mentioned, right?
[37:34] How do you spell that? BELPHEGOR.
[37:38] Bell Figo. Bell Figo.
[37:40] Nice Prince of Hell. OK, I'm going to move into.
[37:45] It's like an excuse to just put this trivia in front of you.
[37:49] So excuse me if I'm not able to give you too many clues, but
[37:53] it's a simple one sentence question.
[37:56] Which is the only band in the world to have performed in all 7
[38:03] continents? Oh, I love this.
[38:05] A very classic trivia question, because sometimes in this
[38:08] podcast we go really into the weeds.
[38:12] Yeah. Yeah, like Bell Figures Prime.
[38:17] I love this. OK, a band that has performed on
[38:20] all 7 continents. A band that has performed in
[38:24] Antarctica I would say. Can't be older than the 90s
[38:29] though I guess. The Beatles could have gone
[38:31] there maybe? Not likely, they were only
[38:36] around for around like eight years or something, right?
[38:38] Yeah, that's who they were there for a short time.
[38:40] And anyways, technologically, I think this has to be post the
[38:42] 90s. Would that be a fair assumption?
[38:46] You're talking about the event itself, or?
[38:49] That, and let's say the band's peak popularity was also 90s and
[38:53] thereafter. No, they have been popular
[38:56] through. They're one of the very few
[38:58] bands which I can say have been popular throughout their entire
[39:02] very, very long career. Oh OK, so very long career that
[39:08] does narrow down. Oh, leads me to YouTube.
[39:12] OK, U2 has had a very long career.
[39:14] I do agree with the fact that they've had a very long career.
[39:18] But let's just say that even though U2's had a very, very
[39:23] long career, much longer than this band, they are, they're
[39:28] just them. I mean, like they're just
[39:30] amazing. Their songs are known throughout
[39:34] the world. And I will also give you a clue
[39:37] that they've formed in 1981 in Los Angeles, CA.
[39:41] Oh, 1981. And they're I'll give you
[39:45] another clue. They are logo is really really
[39:48] famous. Vineet that is true for a lot of
[39:52] bands. True.
[39:54] For a lot of bands, yeah, that is true.
[39:56] But not for a lot of them, yeah. OK, yeah, you're right.
[39:59] I take it back. I don't know the logos for most
[40:01] bands. OK, 1981 and American, right?
[40:05] Yes. American band 80s Nirvana is
[40:10] later than that, right? Oh yeah, definitely.
[40:13] They're the 90s. This band again made its Indian
[40:16] debut. They performed first for the
[40:18] first time in Bangalore in 2011. Oh OK so not that long ago.
[40:26] Have they been here since then? Like how many India tours have
[40:29] they done? That might help.
[40:31] They've had a couple I think, but I don't have the exact
[40:34] number in front of me so. So definitely more than one, OK.
[40:38] I can also tell you that the the concert that they played in
[40:43] Antarctica was in 2013. It was a one off concert and it
[40:48] was called Freeze Them All. Freeze Them All.
[40:54] Freeze them all. Is that a play on their song or
[40:57] their album? Oh, they released it as an
[40:59] album. Basically, the live performance
[41:01] in Antarctica wasn't released as an album.
[41:04] OK that doesn't help because I was hoping it's word play, but
[41:06] if it's the actual album name I've never heard of it so that
[41:09] doesn't help. Any other trivia related to this
[41:13] band? Maybe some metamology?
[41:16] They've sold 125 million records worldwide.
[41:20] OK. They have been ranked the third
[41:25] greatest heavy metal band in history.
[41:28] Heavy metal, OK. They ranked 42nd on VH100
[41:33] Greatest Artists of all Time. They were #5 on 100 Greatest
[41:37] Artists of Hard Rock and number one on VH1's 20 Greatest Metal
[41:42] Bands. Metal, heavy metal, rock.
[41:45] OK, I'm going to take a guess and I'm going to say Iron
[41:49] Maiden. Oh, no, unfortunately it's not.
[41:54] So I'll give you one very last clue.
[41:57] So you remember when running up the hill became a huge hit a
[42:02] couple of years ago? Yeah.
[42:04] Yeah, yeah, because of Stranger Things.
[42:06] Stranger Things, Yes. So there was another song which
[42:10] was performed in that same episode.
[42:12] Oh, and that belonged to this, the character of Eddie Manson.
[42:17] At least I think that was his name, playing this particular
[42:20] song on top of a trailer in the Upside Down with a sick guitar.
[42:24] So I remember this, it was a very cool guitar solo.
[42:27] It was a very cool visual. Also, by the way, a great
[42:31] episode because of these songs being featured.
[42:34] Yes, yes. Oh, such an iconic moment.
[42:38] OK, I'm going to take a guess because the only other famous
[42:42] metal band I know is Metallica. So is it Metallica?
[42:46] Yes, it is Metallica, so very good.
[42:49] OK, Yes, Metallica is the only band in the world to have
[42:54] performed on all 7 continents. Freeze Them All was a one off
[42:58] concert played in Antarctica on December 8th, 2013.
[43:01] It took place in a Dome near the heliport of the Carlini Base in
[43:06] Argentine, Antarctica. It was attended by 120 people,
[43:10] ranging from members of the BASIS research team and winners
[43:13] of a sweepstake offered by the Coca-Cola Company.
[43:16] The concert featured 10 songs played over the span of an hour
[43:20] as to prevent noise pollution, The show was played without any
[43:24] traditional amplification and was instead transmitted to the
[43:27] audience through headphones. So cool, literally.
[43:32] Now that I told you, you do remember what logo are they
[43:34] have, right? They have a very iconic a
[43:36] Metallica logo. DM with the lightning thing
[43:39] happening, yeah? If I'm not mistaken, that logo
[43:42] was designed by lead singer James Hetfield.
[43:46] Oh OK, didn't know that. Metallica is that band which is
[43:52] played in all 7 continents. And again, coming back to what
[43:54] we sort of talked about on Stranger Things, it's featured
[43:57] on the season finale of Stranger Things.
[43:59] Eddie Munson is playing the track to attract the bats and
[44:04] the following that appearance in Stranger Things song regained
[44:07] popularity. It entered the USUK and
[44:10] Netherlands charts for the first time since its original released
[44:13] in 1986. Which again, the song is Master
[44:16] of Puppets, which is the eponymous song from the album
[44:19] itself. Master of Puppets.
[44:21] And I would definitely recommend that scene where Eddie Monson's
[44:25] playing that in Stranger Things is just bad ass.
[44:28] Such a cool scene. Yeah, it is.
[44:32] So I think that's all the time we have for our regular
[44:36] quizzing. So before we start winding up,
[44:39] there is the small matter of the audience question which I had
[44:41] asked at the beginning of the episode.
[44:45] As you know, all airports have IATA codes which are unique to
[44:50] that particular airport. Those are International Air
[44:52] Transport Association codes. Like I give an example, COK is
[44:56] Cochin, DEL is New Delhi, LAX is Los Angeles.
[45:00] So similarly what connects these three IATA airport codes MLHEAP
[45:07] and BSL Aditya? Do you have any idea?
[45:10] MLH, then BSL and EAP. OK, so I've definitely heard
[45:17] this because, and I don't know how many times this has come up
[45:20] before. This particular piece of trivia
[45:22] is featured in a CGP Gray video, and he talks about airport
[45:26] codes. In that, yes, it would be.
[45:28] So go check out the video, but currently I'm a little lost.
[45:32] Give me a hint. My first clue is that I told you
[45:36] a lie when I just was explaining the question just now.
[45:39] Before I asked you whether you know anything, I mentioned one
[45:42] small fib. Or rather, this is the exception
[45:45] to that rule. You did ask me if I know
[45:48] anything, and maybe that was a lie, maybe I don't.
[45:51] Wow, am I being visited by the ghost of trivia present now?
[45:55] OK, you mentioned that every airport is given a unique IATA
[46:00] code. Oh, is this by any chance the
[46:03] only places that are non airports given an IATA code?
[46:06] No these three codes. Wait, wait, wait.
[46:08] They're given to the same airport.
[46:10] Yes, they're all given to the same airport, the Euro airport
[46:14] Basel Morehouse Freeburg in the Tri National Euro District of
[46:19] Basel, which is a 4.7 kilometers West of the try point of France,
[46:24] Germany and Switzerland, Right? So each of these countries have
[46:27] a specific code to it, but all of them point towards the same
[46:29] airport and it is the only International Airport with more
[46:33] than one IATA code. OK, I remembered this and it
[46:36] probably is in the video for sure.
[46:39] Yeah, So that the audience question Naditya, what's your
[46:42] pop culture recommendation for this week?
[46:45] OK, so I have two pop culture recommendations for today and
[46:48] the first one I'm going to give you something that I haven't
[46:51] given in a while. I'm going to give you a game and
[46:53] tangentially, I've never said this in the past, but I'll say
[46:56] it now. The NYT games are a lot of fun,
[46:59] so check those out. And this particular game is a
[47:02] spin off of Wordle or inspired by Wordle, which is now a New
[47:06] York Times game and NYT game like I mentioned.
[47:10] Yeah. This one is called Bolly Riddle
[47:12] which is a Bollywood movie titled Guessing Game.
[47:16] Oh, you get seven chances to guess which movie it is and it's
[47:20] super fun because it's very simple.
[47:22] You just start off by putting in the name of a Bollywood movie
[47:25] and there are multiple things that are features of the movie
[47:27] like year of release, cast, director, music director,
[47:31] production house and writers. So if any of those overlap with
[47:35] the movie that you have guessed, it'll immediately show up on the
[47:38] board. If not, you keep guessing.
[47:40] It's fun. I always start with like a multi
[47:42] starter, hopefully get an actor in common with the actual answer
[47:46] or a production House of direct or whatever and go from there.
[47:50] So for all the Bollywood fans, I would definitely suggest Bolly
[47:53] Riddle. It's a fun game especially if
[47:55] you like Wordle and all of its spin offs as well.
[47:58] The other thing I would recommend is a Netflix show.
[48:01] It's called A Man on the Inside. This show is made by some of the
[48:05] people who are responsible for the fun shows of the last few
[48:08] decades like Brooklyn 99 and Office Good Place as well.
[48:13] So if you enjoyed those shows, you probably will enjoy this one
[48:16] as well, Lovers of Good Place. Oh, also a phenomenal show by
[48:20] the way, because the series finale is so beautiful.
[48:24] Lovers of that show would recognize Ted Danson in this
[48:26] show as well. Or I guess if you're slightly
[48:29] older, you might remember him from Cheers.
[48:31] This is sacrilege. You are recommending Ted Danson
[48:36] from A Good Place. Come on man.
[48:39] Three men and a baby. Cheers.
[48:42] OK, Vineet, as every advertising guru will tell you, the key
[48:46] demographic to care for is 18 to 25.
[48:49] You always cater to them. I doubt most of them have seen a
[48:53] single episode of Cheers. My blood is boiling.
[48:59] See, now I think it's the turn of the ghosts of Trivia Future
[49:02] to come visit you and tell you that you have to accept the
[49:05] inevitable passage of time. Vineet.
[49:08] But yes, OK, I'll indulge you. Ted Danson did gain fame through
[49:12] Cheers, and funnily enough, Good Place features a scene where he
[49:15] is behind a bar counter paying homage to Cheers.
[49:19] And spoiler alert, that happens in Man on the Inside as well,
[49:24] where he's behind the bar. OK, this is my gripe.
[49:27] The man has acted in so many other movies he's my acted in.
[49:30] He's acted in Body Heat, for Christ's sake.
[49:33] He wasn't Saving Private Ryan. He was on Four Seasons of CSI.
[49:37] He had his own show called Becker and people are now
[49:42] remembering him for a good place.
[49:45] Ted Danson, I am sorry for the world and people forgetting who
[49:51] you are. OK, an unequivocal apology to
[49:55] Ted Danson fans all over. He's obviously a phenomenal
[49:58] actor and he does a great job in this show as well.
[50:01] So do yourself a favour and check out A Man on the Inside.
[50:04] It's on Netflix and those are my two recommendations for the day.
[50:08] OK my first recommendation is a movie which I cannot believe I
[50:13] have not recommended till now because I watched this.
[50:17] I can actually say this decades ago.
[50:20] So this movie is from 12,000 and three it's called Second Hand
[50:25] Lions. Have you heard of this movie
[50:27] Aditya? No, I haven't.
[50:30] Oh, it's a beautiful movie. It's a beautiful coming of age
[50:33] movie and it has a fan, fantastic cast in it.
[50:41] So you have Robert De Waal, you have Hailey Jo Osmond, you have
[50:46] Michael Caine, Wow, Kyra Sedgwick.
[50:49] It's an amazing cast. But what really, really puts us
[50:53] apart is the storyline. It's got an amazing script and
[50:57] the best introductory dialogue. Or rather, there's a dialogue in
[51:02] that movie. I'm going to spoil it a little
[51:04] bit. I really don't care, but there's
[51:06] a bar scene where an aged Robert Duvall is being hassled by this
[51:09] greaser punk. The kid asks him who do you
[51:12] think you are? And Robert Duvall's character
[51:15] Hub catches him by the neck, presses him against the bar and
[51:19] delivers this line, which is the I'm Hub McCann.
[51:24] I fought in two world wars and countless smaller ones on three
[51:28] continents. I let thousands of men into
[51:30] battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery
[51:33] and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of Nile
[51:36] and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before.
[51:39] I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and
[51:43] loved only one woman with a passion.
[51:45] A flea like you could never begin to understand.
[51:48] That's who I am. Oh.
[51:50] Nice. Chills every time I watch that
[51:53] chills. It's a little difficult to get,
[51:55] but you should be able to find the movie somewhere.
[51:58] So I would definitely recommend. It's a good Sunday afternoon
[52:01] coming of age movie. It's not no action or anything.
[52:03] It's very dialogue heavy. It's a very character driven
[52:06] drama And my second recommendation is something
[52:11] which I've been very busy recently, but I've had to take 3
[52:15] hour flights around four times in the past month which has
[52:18] enabled me to completely binge a show while on the plane.
[52:23] And that is Day of the Jackal. Eddie Redmayne and Lashonna
[52:28] Lynch in a modern adaptation of the classic classic Frederick
[52:33] Fourth novel, which is one of my favorite novels.
[52:37] It's a very slow novel for somebody from this era or this
[52:39] generation, but I remember it as being one of my favorites and
[52:44] they have done a fantastic job adapting it.
[52:47] There was one particular thing which I had a gripe with, which
[52:51] was if you've read the book or if you've seen the 1970s movie,
[52:56] you know there is a twist at the end, and that particular twist
[53:01] is missing. In fact, they've turned it on
[53:03] its head in this movie, but again, they've also changed the
[53:08] ending. So then I'm OK with it a little
[53:09] bit. In either case, Eddie Redmayne
[53:12] has done a fantastic job. Lashawna Lynch, fantastic job.
[53:16] You should really go watch Day of the Jackal.
[53:18] It's available on Geo Cinema in India.
[53:21] Go and watch that. So those are my two
[53:22] recommendations. Second Hand Lines, a 2003 movie,
[53:25] and Day of the Jackal, which is in 2024 adaptation of the 1972
[53:29] novel by Frederick Fawcett. And that's all the time we have
[53:34] for our episode today. Thank you all for listening in
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