# Episode 035 - Spaghetti, Kurosawa & Hip-Hop

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 7 Sep 2023, 40 min.

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Do you know which Italian recipe was used by Nigella Lawson to throw shade on Trinny Woodall? Do you know which movie celebrity played Vincent Van Gogh in the vignette named "Crows" in Akira Kurosawa's movie Dreams? Do you know which multi talented artist was the first to win a Grammy for a rap song? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com

## Transcript

[0:01] Welcome to Are You Quizzing Me? I'm Maneet Nayar with my cohost,
[0:05] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, sport, pop, gotcha, and so much more.
[0:13] Pet Skin Quizzing And we are back for episode #35 of Your
[0:22] Favorite Quizzing Podcast Show. Are you quizzing me?
[0:26] Being a little presumptuous there, but since you're
[0:28] listening and you can't say anything to me right now, I'm
[0:31] going to assume it's your favorite show.
[0:33] Let's start off with the episode with the question that I'm going
[0:36] to ask you, my dear audience, for you to work out by the end
[0:41] of the episode. This is a question that neither
[0:44] I Aditya does not know of. This is a fresh question for him
[0:47] as well, and I will be posting telling you the answer at the
[0:50] end of the episode. The question goes as follows.
[0:54] During the colonial period when the English traveled to India as
[0:58] workers of the East India Company or a servants of the
[1:02] empire, most of them used to travel alone.
[1:05] This meant that they slowly acquired a taste for Indian food
[1:09] which they modified to suit their tastes.
[1:11] The coffee houses of India to started modifying Indian dishes
[1:15] for its English customers, Mulakatani soup being a favorite
[1:18] exam. Famous example of this.
[1:20] Later, due to a famous geopolitical and global
[1:23] development, British meme sibes also started arriving in India,
[1:28] which meant that Indian food was gradually replaced by regular
[1:32] English roasts and pies at the British table.
[1:35] What geopolitical development brought this change?
[1:40] You have under the end of the episode to guess what the answer
[1:43] is. Answer to this question is.
[1:45] And in the meantime, let's go fulfill the tradition,
[1:49] longstanding one of Aditya answering his question from the
[1:52] previous episode. So Aditya, what was your
[1:55] question and what is your quote UN quote answer?
[1:59] Last episode, we asked a question about which edible item
[2:06] is incorrectly assumed to have been developed by NASA for its
[2:11] space program, when in fact it had already existed before the
[2:16] space program came into existence.
[2:17] And that was. Gang.
[2:20] So I asked what in my made-up history has been wrongly
[2:26] associated with the Indian space program and in fact has existed
[2:31] long before the space program and the answer is very obvious.
[2:35] This is going to sound a bit self-centered but I assure you
[2:38] this is completely accurate in my head and that is my name.
[2:44] I am not named after the probe that is being sent to the sun.
[2:49] That one is not who I'm named after.
[2:51] I just want to clarify to any listener here, my name was given
[2:56] to me long before this particular Space Pro was
[2:59] launched. So in case anybody was confused,
[3:01] I hope this clarifies it. Yeah, I guess the count is not.
[3:09] Vineet has been struck silent by my.
[3:14] Absolute genius. It's all right beneath.
[3:16] I do have that effect on you that I, I that was that was, you
[3:19] know, equal parts dad joke and equal parts narcissism.
[3:22] I really don't know what to play there, but let's get on with the
[3:27] quizzing. So, Aditya, why don't you start
[3:30] us off with the question this week?
[3:32] All right. OK.
[3:33] So since you asked us a question about history, which is our
[3:38] audience question, I think I might want to ask you something
[3:42] related to that. And this has to do with the 20th
[3:46] century. Specifically between the years
[3:49] 1947 and 1965, a specific number of X, And if I identify X number
[3:58] of X fell from 700 million to a mere 5 million.
[4:04] Let me repeat that. Between the years 1947 and 1965,
[4:08] the number of X fell from 700 million to 5 million.
[4:13] What is X? OK from 700 million to 5,000,700
[4:20] million is a pretty big number. Not population.
[4:24] India's population was big but wasn't that big during partition
[4:28] or just after partition. Anyway, I'm going to need a
[4:32] clue. At least you know what is.
[4:34] It is in relation to some kind of arrow to point.
[4:38] So we have started off vague, so let's get a bit more specific.
[4:41] You are actually on the right path.
[4:43] Oh. While it is not India's
[4:45] population, it does have to do with people.
[4:49] I like the way you phrase that. OK, so then this would be the
[4:53] population of the British Empire as a whole?
[4:58] That's a very quick crack. I was hoping keeping this vague
[5:02] will prolong the question, but nothing, nothing gets beneath
[5:06] bogged down. Yes, this is the number of
[5:08] people under the British rule. British subjects in that era.
[5:13] From 1947, there were a 700 million, a staggering 700
[5:18] million people under British rule.
[5:20] By 1965, that number was down to 5 million.
[5:24] Interestingly, out of the 5 million, three million were
[5:26] living in Hong Kong, so only two. 2 million of them, which is
[5:31] less than half were in the UK, so a huge, huge, huge.
[5:37] Contraction there. The quick math shows me that it
[5:41] is a 99.28% reduction. So 99% of British subjects were
[5:46] no longer British subjects after those two decades.
[5:50] Wow. Yeah.
[5:51] Talk about downsizing. Indeed, indeed.
[5:56] If you're worried about losing your job, remember there were
[6:00] people who lost their British subject status, though I imagine
[6:02] they were mostly on the happier side of that loss.
[6:06] Than regretting it, yes. Anyways, your question next
[6:10] minute. Okay.
[6:11] So we've long been accused of not focusing enough on the arts.
[6:17] So today I have a couple of questions relating to arts,
[6:20] literature, culture, and pop culture.
[6:23] So this is technically not related, but yes, it's still
[6:27] art. Adjacent Canadian
[6:29] singer-songwriter Abel Macron and Tasfey used YouTube to his
[6:33] advantage and gained initial exposure by uploading
[6:37] anonymously and using stage names.
[6:40] His music has been characterized as new Wave, dream pop and
[6:42] dance, and this unique approach to music earned him consistent
[6:47] acclaim since his debut in 2009. This includes many superlative
[6:51] records as well. He's also dabbled in other
[6:54] artistic ventures like acting, and he's also received
[6:57] nominations for an Oscar and Emmy, as well as winning Grammy
[7:02] Awards, Latin Grammy Awards and Juno Awards.
[7:05] Right. That seems like it should be
[7:08] somebody I would know it is somebody you know.
[7:11] I'm gonna ask you for a specific clue.
[7:15] Roughly how old is this person? I would say is 33 years old.
[7:22] It's not Justin Bieber, right? No, it's not Justin Bieber.
[7:25] No. The moment you hear Canadian and
[7:28] YouTube, I knew you'd go to that.
[7:30] But no, it's not Justin Bieber. Frankly, I would say that he is
[7:33] an artist far superior to Justin Bieber.
[7:35] He is one of my of the current crop of you know, musicians.
[7:41] He's one of my favorites. I'll give you another hint.
[7:44] This is a very indirect hint, but I first and there's a very
[7:48] indulgent clue. So bear with me.
[7:50] I first heard of heard his music when Tom Cruise performed one of
[7:56] his hit songs lip synced to one of his hit songs on The Jimmy
[8:00] Fallon Show. I know what you're talking about
[8:02] the moment, he said. Tom Cruise.
[8:04] I was thinking of the same video.
[8:06] I can't feel my face when I'm with you, but I love it.
[8:11] Who's the Who's the singer, though?
[8:13] Is it the weekend? Yes, it is the weekend.
[8:17] Right, Interesting. Interesting.
[8:20] Yeah. So he was born, you know, Abel
[8:23] Maconan, Test 5, That's his actual name.
[8:26] The weekend, obviously, is his stage name.
[8:29] No one is actually ever named the weekend and the superlative
[8:33] record that I'm talking about. Do you know what record he
[8:35] holds? I mean like, this is like a
[8:36] massive, massive record. Most streams on Spotify, yes.
[8:41] So blinding lights. Blinding Lights is the most.
[8:45] It's a great song, One of my favorites of the past 10-15
[8:49] years. It topped the Billboard Hot 100
[8:52] for four weeks, then became the song with most weeks spent in
[8:55] the top five and top ten, as well as the first song to hold a
[8:59] spot in the top 10 on the chart for an entire year, top record
[9:03] charts in the UK and 36 other countries in on November 23rd
[9:07] 2021, it was ranked as the greatest Hot 100 song in
[9:09] Billboard history and in on December 2030 First 2022, the
[9:15] song overtook Ed Sheeran, Shape of You to become the most
[9:18] streamed song on Spotify. I think that's the only piece of
[9:22] the trivia that I was familiar with, because I have also noted
[9:25] that most stream song on Spotify is blending lights by the
[9:28] weekend. Yeah, yeah, pretty cool.
[9:30] I like, but it's a fascinating song, very well produced song,
[9:33] it just. That's a very good description.
[9:35] It's well produced because I'm, I'll be honest, I'm a music
[9:38] noob, but so whatever people who are more.
[9:42] Aware of music in general would talk about a production value or
[9:45] production quality of a song. I would not be sure what that
[9:47] means, but I think Blinding Lights is a very good example of
[9:50] a well produced song. You're right, yeah, agreed.
[9:53] By the way, do you know which movie he acted in?
[9:56] Oh yeah, that's actually an interesting question.
[9:58] And yeah, he acted as himself by the way it was.
[10:01] He acted in it as himself. It's an 824 movie.
[10:06] Now that he's saying, it's probably myself.
[10:08] Must have seen it, or at least definitely heard of it, but no,
[10:11] I can't. Yeah, yeah, it was.
[10:12] It was multiple critics rated as one of the top ten films of
[10:16] 20190. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[10:19] I feel I haven't watched it, though.
[10:20] I've definitely not watched it, but I remember seeing it on
[10:22] multiple lists and I'm thinking I should watch it.
[10:24] What is the name? It's uncut gems.
[10:27] Adam Sandlers uncut gems. Wait, I have seen uncut gems.
[10:31] He's. Oh, yeah, he is in it.
[10:33] Yes, you're right. Right.
[10:34] Weekend is in it. Yeah, yes.
[10:36] And he's also been nominated for an Academy Award.
[10:40] The song was from a movie. Do you know which movie it was?
[10:44] Obviously that's the way you get, you know, nominated on for
[10:48] a kind of an Academy Award if you're a musician.
[10:50] No, I'm not aware of its song. I'm like, OK, the song is called
[10:55] Earned It, OK Can you tell me which movie it was from?
[10:59] I would be hard pressed to figure that out myself, but I'm
[11:02] just going to take a wild guess. Moonlight 50 Shades of Grey.
[11:11] Wow, 50 Shades of Grey is an Oscar nominated film.
[11:14] OK, alright, alright. Yeah.
[11:16] Didn't know that that's enough of the weekend.
[11:19] I mean like the artist that we can not weekend.
[11:21] So we I look forward to weekends, they're my soul
[11:24] salvation. But yeah, so Aditya hit me with
[11:27] your question. OK, this is gonna be a very
[11:30] specific trivia, but it's such an interesting piece of trivia
[11:34] that if you know it. It blows your mind.
[11:37] Akira Kurosova, very famous Japanese director, considered
[11:42] one of the finest directors of the 20th century.
[11:45] He released his 20th feature film in 1990 and it marked the
[11:50] first film in 45 years on which he was the sole author of the
[11:54] screenplay. It is made-up of eight different
[11:57] vignettes and was categorized as magical realism and was
[12:02] according to Kurosova himself. Inspired by actual dreams that
[12:06] the filmmaker had experienced throughout his life, it was this
[12:10] level of integrity that propelled the film into a whole
[12:12] new space. It was considered almost
[12:15] unexpected from Krossauer's filmography, and as most of his
[12:20] films are pretty great as well now, one of these vignettes was
[12:25] a section titled Crows. This section of the film follows
[12:28] an aspiring artist who inadvertently enters the world
[12:32] of a painting. And ends up meeting Vincent van
[12:35] Gogh. Vincent van Gogh?
[12:37] If you're being fancy. Who plays Vincent van Gogh?
[12:41] OK, Can you tell me the name of the movie, what this movie was
[12:44] called, or particular? This anthology I think would be
[12:46] a better term for it. What is it called?
[12:49] Or am I? Does that give away?
[12:50] No. No, I think I didn't mention the
[12:52] name. I'll say it again the name of
[12:54] the movie is Dreams and the name of the section is Crows.
[12:59] Would I be OK? Was is this the IT wasn't the
[13:02] debut of some actor or something like their first major role that
[13:06] we and. No, it is not this particular
[13:08] person's debut film. They've done a bunch of smaller
[13:11] roles, cameos and stuff before that for some reason, and with
[13:15] absolutely no nothing to back it up.
[13:19] Is it Viggo Morton? No, it's Aragon himself.
[13:22] No, it's not. It's not him.
[13:23] Somebody. So this is 1990.
[13:27] Somebody who has to be active and somebody who's sensitive
[13:30] enough to play Vincent Manuel in a Kurosawa movie.
[13:35] OK, OK, I'll need a clue. This person is not known for
[13:42] acting. Oh, is he a singer?
[13:45] No, not a singer either. A politician then?
[13:49] No, From the entertainment space, but not an actor.
[13:53] From the entertainment space, Not a singer, but an actor?
[13:56] Oh. No, I said.
[13:58] Not an actor, Not an actor. Yeah, but.
[14:01] Not a singer. Neither a singer nor an actor.
[14:04] OK, not an actor, not a singer, but somebody from the
[14:07] entertainment space. It's a very wide field.
[14:11] And considering this as an early 90s, I know nothing.
[14:15] Just blank. Let me mention some of the other
[14:18] stuff that this person has acted in.
[14:20] And I'm just seeing this right now and I didn't know before.
[14:24] OK, the movie Shark Tale. Hugo And then there are a bunch
[14:28] of smaller movies that I don't want to mention and has
[14:31] appeared, has appeared as himself in some TV shows.
[14:34] So let me name those as well. Entourage, 30.
[14:38] Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm, these famous TV shows.
[14:43] I've not been a famous fan. I'm not a fan of Entourage, so
[14:48] I've not watched it, but I guess there are a lot of cameos in it.
[14:51] That's true. Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of
[14:53] those shows that people keep saying it's one of the greatest
[14:55] shows ever, but I just can't bring myself to watch it for
[14:58] some reason. But I have watched 30 Rock, so
[15:01] now that's really. But they have a lot of cameos on
[15:04] 30 Rock. Same, yeah.
[15:07] I think these are shows which have a lot of cameos, so it
[15:09] doesn't a lot of cameos. A lot of celebrity cameos.
[15:12] So these are people playing themselves, which was what,
[15:15] yeah, I just described for this particular person as well.
[15:19] Entertainment industry person who's not a singer, not a an
[15:24] actor. Nope.
[15:26] OK, let me give you a few more movies.
[15:28] I actually intentionally left out some movies, but I'm going
[15:31] to give you those Movies Now that this person has been in and
[15:35] hopefully this will get you to the answer.
[15:37] The movies are Gangs of New York.
[15:41] The Aviator Wait, this is Martin Scorsese.
[15:46] Martin Scorsese is the right answer.
[15:48] Yes, it is. Martin Scorsese played Vincent
[15:52] van Gogh in a Kurosaba movie. Just that sentence is insane,
[15:57] right? Just saying that sentence is so
[16:00] insane and this is an actual thing that has happened.
[16:04] Akira Kurosaba directed a film which had bunch of shorter film
[16:09] based off of his dreams. In one of those dreams, there is
[16:12] a story which involves Vincent van Gogh, also a great artist of
[16:16] his own time, and that was played by Martin Scorse.
[16:19] Yeah, just feel like, I would feel like ADD, you know, Mad
[16:23] Libs where you just have to fill in random things into, yeah,
[16:25] blank spaces. This is an actual thing that has
[16:28] happened. So the crows in the title refer
[16:31] to his eyebrows then? I'm guessing.
[16:34] Interestingly enough, I've seen stills.
[16:36] I've not seen the movie. I want to watch it sometime
[16:38] soon, but I saw some stills from the movie and the eyebrows
[16:42] aren't even like hidden or anything.
[16:45] They very much seem to be a part of Van Gogh's face now.
[16:49] So I can I I I can now see why he was casted.
[16:54] Once you see those pictures, you can see why he was casted.
[16:57] He kind of fits the bill. OK, that that was a great, great
[17:00] question, Really good question. Again, following our theme of
[17:03] the arts, I'm going Moving into literature.
[17:08] Samuel Beckett, author and playwright, Someone I'm
[17:12] Hopefully you are you're familiar with.
[17:13] Yes, waiting for Godot. Yes, Samuel Beckett learned that
[17:17] he had received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature via a
[17:22] telegram from his publisher, which read Dear Sam and Suzanne.
[17:27] In spite of everything they've given you the Nobel Prize, I
[17:31] advise you to go into hiding. The reclusive couple were
[17:35] concerned as they anticipated a spike in publicity and people
[17:39] trying to reach them. And they were right.
[17:42] Subsequently, when Swedish television called him for an
[17:45] interview, he agreed only with an absurd requirement,
[17:50] accomplishing both the channels desire to have him for an
[17:53] interview and his own, not to give one.
[17:56] What was the requirement? Oh, interesting.
[18:00] I'm going to just press see the question for the audience again.
[18:03] Samuel Beckett, famously reclusive author and playwright,
[18:07] came to know that he'd learn he'd won the Nobel Prize.
[18:10] He was not particularly interested in giving interviews
[18:13] and other things, and so subsequently, when Swedish
[18:16] television called him for an interview, he agreed to give the
[18:20] interview, but only with an absurd requirement.
[18:23] This accomplished both the channel's desire to have him for
[18:26] an interview and also accomplished his own desire not
[18:30] to give an interview. What was the requirement that
[18:34] Samuel Beckett had put forward? I think he chose not to speak
[18:39] during the entire interview, yes.
[18:41] So technically the interviewer couldn't ask any questions.
[18:44] It is a silent interview. That's so funny.
[18:51] Wait, so how does that work? The the best part of it?
[18:54] It's available on YouTube, and it looks like some kind of
[18:59] avantgarde horror movie where it's just silent, the cameras
[19:04] panning through houses and flowers.
[19:06] And then you have Beckett just standing there, not even looking
[19:09] at the camera, and he's got this really crinkled, craggly face,
[19:13] you know, something with a lot of mileage on it.
[19:16] And the camera just, you know, passes apart, you know, to the
[19:19] side of his face, captures him in another angle from another
[19:22] angle from another location of the house.
[19:24] It's like 1 1/2 minutes of just pure weirdness.
[19:29] It's a silent interview. Literally a silent interview.
[19:32] That's insane. That's really funny.
[19:36] OK, this wasn't part of my questions for today, but your
[19:39] question has inspired this. OK.
[19:43] So you spoke about an author receiving an award.
[19:48] I'm going to talk about a singer who also received an Academy
[19:52] Award. This particular singer.
[19:56] Did not expect to be winning the award for the Best Original song
[20:00] in 2003. In the 2003 Oscars, the singer
[20:04] won the Best Original Song. In fact, it was such an
[20:07] unexpected win that this person slept through the ceremony at
[20:13] their home and wasn't there to accept the statue.
[20:17] Okay. In an interview many years
[20:20] later, Person has said. I think I was just at home with
[20:25] my daughter and I didn't watch it either at that point in time.
[20:30] She had to be at school early in the morning, so I was probably
[20:34] sleeping. So there was probably found out
[20:37] the next day that they had won. So who is this person that I
[20:42] speak of who won in the 2003 Oscar for Best Original Song,
[20:47] 2003 Oscars? That's 20 years ago.
[20:52] Eric Clapton? No.
[20:54] No. And this is somebody famous,
[20:57] right? Obviously, obviously I would
[20:58] have heard of this person. Absolutely.
[21:01] Eminem's win came much later, right?
[21:05] Let me not prolong A misery. It is Eminem.
[21:07] Eminem is the right answer. OK OK because I was I the when
[21:11] you the the clue was the the when you said daughter has to go
[21:14] to school you know and the how many you know fathers will
[21:18] actually you know especially from the entertainment industry
[21:21] want to miss an Oscar for something like this.
[21:24] I was trying to think of famous fathers I was trying to attack
[21:27] the question from that way and then Haley obviously we like
[21:30] everybody who listens to Eminem knows Haley.
[21:32] So, OK, so this is. I think I'm gonna be lose
[21:34] yourself. It does lose yourself from Eight
[21:37] Mile. It is the first rap song that
[21:40] won an Oscar Best Original Song award, which is why it was such
[21:44] an unexpected victory, interestingly, 17 years later in
[21:50] 2020. Eminem performed at the Academy
[21:54] Awards. Lose Yourself and it is one of
[21:57] those iconic performances, live performances.
[21:59] He did it to make up for his absence 17 years ago and that is
[22:06] the history of Lose yourself at the Oscars.
[22:09] Yeah, inspired by a question just now.
[22:12] Okay, just a small piece of trivia.
[22:15] This is not my official question, so don't count it, but
[22:17] do you know who won the first ever hip hop Grammy?
[22:21] First ever hip hop Grammy. I would expect this is somebody
[22:26] totally out of the blue, out of the left field.
[22:28] I don't know, not particularly. He is known for this.
[22:32] He is known for being a rapper as well, so.
[22:35] I would, I don't know. It would be very surprising if
[22:37] it was in the 90s only that somebody wanted, but if it is in
[22:40] the 90s it was 1989. Tupac No the first ever rap
[22:47] Grammy doctor. Dre No, not not Dr. Dre.
[22:51] You can practically, Let me just say this upfront, you can forget
[22:55] everybody from both the East Coast and the West Coast cruise.
[22:59] This guy didn't belong to either of them.
[23:01] Ohh, no. OK, so it's not puffy Sean.
[23:04] Puffy Combs. It's not, you know, Snoop Dogg.
[23:07] It's none of these people. It was part of a duo, A duo one
[23:11] net. It wasn't like one single
[23:13] person, one it, the duo, one it. I if I tell you the the partner,
[23:17] there are two people in that one person is extremely famous and
[23:20] the other one known to a little, you know to those who listen to
[23:24] hip hop and rap and especially the early 90s hip hop and rap.
[23:27] So I'll give you the name of the less famous person the to the
[23:31] less famous person from the duo. And you have to tell me the more
[23:34] famous person, the less the lesser known person is DJ Jazzy
[23:38] Jeff. That does not help me at all.
[23:41] I guess I have not encountered this name before.
[23:45] Wow, no, I have no clue whatsoever.
[23:48] And since this is not an official question, I won't ask
[23:50] you for clues. So just tell me what the answer
[23:52] is. So this is OK.
[23:54] This is from for the song called Parents Just Don't Understand OK
[23:59] and it was the second single from the duo, DJ Jazzy Jeff and
[24:05] The Fresh Prince. Oh.
[24:09] No way, really. Will Smith.
[24:11] Yes, Will Smith won the first ever rap Grammy in 1989.
[24:16] Interesting. I mean, yeah, now I launched his
[24:18] career. He's known for hip hop.
[24:22] Yeah, makes sense. Yeah.
[24:24] So that was my unofficial question.
[24:25] I managed to sneak one in. So now to my official question.
[24:30] Maybe you know this, maybe you don't, but maybe you can guess.
[24:33] So Trini Woodall is an English fashion advisor and designer.
[24:39] She was also a television presenter and author who was at
[24:43] a time not currently, but at the time was seeing Charles Sachi,
[24:48] the exhusband of famous celebrity chef Nigella Lawson.
[24:53] Nigella and Trini got into an online spat after Trini made
[24:59] some remarks which would which were construed to have been
[25:03] having mocked Nigella online. Soon after Nigella Lawson
[25:09] tweeted her 560,000 Twitter followers with a hashtag recipe
[25:15] of the day. She tweeted a recipe with the
[25:17] caption Do I need to say anything more?
[25:21] This was the reply to Trinity Trinity Woodall's you know,
[25:26] quote, UN quote mocking of her on an online blog.
[25:29] What was the recipe? Which famous dish was this?
[25:34] What famous dish of which famous recipe did she, you know, tweet
[25:38] out I. Feel like I've read this
[25:40] specific trivia, but I cannot for my life remember what this
[25:47] is, no what is the? Any any clues?
[25:51] It's an Italian dish. It's a very famous Italian dish.
[25:55] The chances are you may even have had it at some point on in
[25:59] your life. I wouldn't say that it's very
[26:01] common in India. I don't think I've ever seen it
[26:03] on any any many that I've seen anyway.
[26:07] But that's a very limited to sampling.
[26:10] But still, it's quite famous. So not not the most famous of
[26:15] the Italian dishes, but famous enough it is famous enough.
[26:18] I mean, like it's famous internationally, but I'm saying
[26:20] in India, maybe not so much. Is it a pun of sorts?
[26:25] No, the technique? No, not a pun.
[26:27] Actually, the literal translation itself is what
[26:31] Nigella was looking at. I'm guessing the little
[26:34] translation of the name of the dish.
[26:36] Ohh boy. I think we'll have to mark this
[26:37] episode as explicit because I'm gonna use some expletives.
[26:41] Is it something to do with the the B word was was Was she
[26:45] referring to her by? No, no, I just think of dishes.
[26:50] Just think of dishes if Italian pasta dishes.
[26:53] No, that's what I'm trying to think, because I can't think of
[26:55] any dish which has any insult in the name.
[26:59] I'm trying to think if these are the insults that are like it,
[27:02] like a a bitchy spaghetti. I don't know.
[27:09] No, it's not a bitchy spaghetti. It's a spaghetti dish
[27:14] nonetheless. OK, OK, I'll shall.
[27:18] Shall I give you the little translation of the name And then
[27:22] let me see if you can give me the the name of the dish.
[27:25] So the literal translation, the one that Nigella had put forward
[27:30] later in a follow up tweet or I think it was in the same tweet
[27:33] or the follow up tweet, she had put the translation as Sluts
[27:37] spaghetti. Oh, OK, but the actual more,
[27:41] yeah, but the actual more, You know, accurate translation would
[27:45] be in the style of the whore. So it will be spaghetti in the
[27:50] style of the whore. OK, so like spaghetti a la
[27:54] something, whatever The word for exactly.
[27:57] Exactly, Yes. Yeah, you may have heard this in
[28:01] more in context of Spanish rather than Italian, even though
[28:04] the word has the same root. Or this really will have to be
[28:07] marked as explicit because I'm is it puta?
[28:11] Yes it is. Ohh OK, that's the only one that
[28:14] came to white is in Spanish. OK, yes, so it is spaghetti a la
[28:19] putanesca, which she's which she gave the translation as slut
[28:23] spaghetti, also known or more accurately known as spaghetti in
[28:27] the style of the whore. It's a dish from Naples.
[28:31] Wow, I I have not had this, but now I'm curious.
[28:36] I'll probably make myself some more of these days.
[28:40] OK. All right.
[28:42] But OK, your question please. OK, so this question actually
[28:47] doesn't have to do with. Anything so far.
[28:49] So there's no pivot, but it does have to do with something that
[28:53] we spoke about many episodes ago, And that is one of my
[28:55] favorite moments from our series so far.
[28:58] And that moment was when we were discussing with Sai on the
[29:02] special episode that he appeared in.
[29:04] And I mentioned a phenomenal New York Times headline, which you
[29:10] had to do with some research about eels.
[29:13] And how they Yes, I remember. I I can't remember the pun
[29:16] exactly, but yes, I remember what you're talking about.
[29:18] Yeah. Which is, of course, a pun on
[29:21] the song. So if you haven't heard, please
[29:22] go listen to that episode. But this is, this is not the New
[29:26] York Times headline. This is a BBC headline this
[29:29] time. So let me just describe what
[29:31] happened and then you can tell me what the headline could have
[29:34] potentially been. OK, so the British Ministry of
[29:37] Defense launched an investigation.
[29:41] After emails containing classified information was sent
[29:45] to a close ally of Russia in a typing error.
[29:48] This is from 28th of July, so not even that long ago.
[29:52] So there was a typing error and a bunch of emails were sent to a
[29:55] close ally of Russia and there was an investigation launched
[29:59] because of that. Now these emails were intended
[30:02] for the US military which uses the domainname.mil.
[30:08] There was a typo in that. And it ended up with the wrong
[30:12] country, basically. So two parter what?
[30:17] Firstly, a who did they end up with?
[30:20] And B what was the BBC headline that covered this particular
[30:24] news? So this is a a country which is
[30:29] friendly to Russia. Yes.
[30:32] Is it Moldova MIL to MOL or something like that?
[30:37] That's a great starting guess, but no, I'll give you the
[30:41] continent. It is in Africa.
[30:43] It's in Africa. Yeah, first country that comes
[30:47] to mind is Mozambique, but I don't know how that could be
[30:50] typed wrong. So it's not Mozambique.
[30:54] There are a bunch of African countries with starting with the
[30:56] letter L so M sorry. M okay.
[31:01] Was that a Freudian slip? No.
[31:04] It's not Libya or anything that no.
[31:06] Right It's not not. It's no.
[31:08] No, no, it is. It starts with the letter M It
[31:09] starts with the letter M It starts with the letter M Ohh,
[31:11] God. Now, yeah, I am my for the life
[31:15] of me I can't remember which else starts with M I'm trying to
[31:18] go through African countries one by one in my head.
[31:22] Okay. Does Western Africa make it
[31:24] slightly easier? No, not particularly.
[31:28] Yeah. OK, Mali.
[31:30] Mali. Hey, bang on target it is Mali.
[31:33] And you were right it was a Freudian slip because the the
[31:37] domain name for Mali is dot MLM. And OK when they were sending
[31:42] out the e-mail instead of dot MIL which would have sent it to
[31:45] the US military, they missed out the I and it went to the West
[31:48] African nation of Mali. The second part of the question,
[31:52] which is the fun part, what was the headline that BBC had?
[31:56] When they were covering this news.
[31:58] I am you are the. I mean like, let me just confess
[32:01] to the audience right now. I am very poor with puns.
[32:04] Aditya is the pan guru in our little duo.
[32:08] So this is basically torture for me, OK?
[32:12] That's why this this trivia appeals to me.
[32:16] No, I I enjoy a good pun. It's just so I can't craft any
[32:19] of them. Nothing's.
[32:21] Springing to mind, let me let me give you a hint.
[32:24] Let me give you a hint. It is OK.
[32:26] The name of a famous 90s movie. It's a pun on the name of famous
[32:30] 90s movie, The famous 90s movie You've Got Mail.
[32:36] Yes. So it'll be you've got Mill, no,
[32:40] you've got ML. Or no.
[32:42] You've got Mali. You've got Mali.
[32:50] OK, nice, nice. So let me go from, you know,
[32:56] Europe and Africa to Asia. With the suppression of the
[33:01] samurai caste, the knowledge of masters of different martial
[33:05] arts were pooled within committees and gave birth in the
[33:09] 1930s to a new modern practice, Tai Ho Jutsu, which corresponded
[33:14] to the martial arts. Tai Ho Jutsu incorporates the
[33:18] techniques of risk control, arm control, posture, and
[33:23] immobilization traditionally found in other martial arts.
[33:26] The objective of Tai Ho Jutsu is the smooth apprehension of an
[33:30] individual and does not take into account the safety of the
[33:34] opponent. It provides its practitioner
[33:37] with a calmer than average mind whose brain will resist the rise
[33:40] of stress and adrenaline and adrenaline typical of any
[33:44] violent situation. The very simple question who was
[33:48] Tai Ho Jutsu developed for Interesting.
[33:53] Let me just clarify, by who I don't mean like one specific
[33:56] person, it's like more of a group.
[33:58] Can you describe to who do so again?
[34:00] You said wrist? Yes.
[34:02] Incorporates the techniques of wrist control, arm control,
[34:05] posture, and immobilization. People who use a wheelchair?
[34:11] No, this is a little more general and easier.
[34:14] Actually, there's a clue in the question itself.
[34:15] I'll read that portion again, which should practically give
[34:19] away the answer. The objective of Tai Ho Jutsu is
[34:23] the smooth apprehension of an individual and does not take
[34:26] into account the safety of the opponent.
[34:29] Oh, does not take into account safety of the opponent, So it's
[34:33] an inanimate object that you're fighting.
[34:36] No, we are still talking about people by hotels who was
[34:40] developed specifically for a group of a specific group.
[34:44] OK, sorry. When you say specific group, is
[34:46] it to fight a specific group of people or is it for the no, for
[34:49] a specific group? Yeah, yeah, say say in a way,
[34:52] like I would say that Krav Maga was developed for the Israeli
[34:56] Defense Forces. OK, I'm going to read the
[35:01] portion again. I think you focused on the wrong
[35:04] section last time when I read the clue so that I'm going to
[35:07] take it again. The objective of Tai Ho Jutsu is
[35:10] the smooth apprehension of an individual and does not take
[35:14] into account the safety of the opponent.
[35:16] The smooth apprehension of the individual, Smooth apprehension
[35:20] of the individual. So for the the Tokyo police, it
[35:25] is a Japanese police, yes. They have their own set just
[35:29] like the. So I found it very interesting
[35:31] that I don't think any other police force has a martial arts,
[35:36] you know, discipline specifically developed for them.
[35:39] And what's terrifying is it does not take into account the safety
[35:42] of the opponent, which means that the policeman has to just
[35:45] apprehend somebody. And if they break a leg, yeah.
[35:52] Police brutality is a real thing everywhere.
[35:57] Yeah. So that I think is the last
[36:00] question for the day. We do not have any more time.
[36:03] Aditya, before I go to my audience questions answer what
[36:07] is your question for this week? I will just bounce off of the
[36:12] last idea that I will just go off of the last question that
[36:16] you asked. And my question is if there was
[36:20] a technique developed for Delhi Police?
[36:23] What would that be called? And that is hopefully an answer
[36:28] which will not get us into trouble and you will find out
[36:31] next week, yes. So that was Aditya's question
[36:36] and I am now going back to our audience question which I had
[36:39] asked that during the colonial period when the English traveled
[36:42] to India as workers of the East India Company or as the servants
[36:47] of the British Empire, most of them used to travel alone.
[36:50] This meant that they acquired a taste for Indian food which then
[36:53] they modified to suit their tastes.
[36:55] Later, due to a famous global and geopolitical development,
[36:59] British meme Saabs also started arriving in India, which meant
[37:02] that Indian food was now replaced by regular English
[37:05] roast and pies at the British table.
[37:08] What development brought about this change?
[37:12] Let me put it to Aditya first. Do you have any idea what would
[37:16] be? This is a little roundabout
[37:18] question because I usually ask something very simple for the
[37:20] audience questions. I decided to make them a little
[37:22] more challenging. No, it's a great question and
[37:27] obviously I have no answer straight off the bat, but I'm
[37:30] trying to think of various domains that.
[37:31] So first instinct is to say travel became easier, but I'm
[37:35] steamships were there before that, I imagine.
[37:38] Oh, you have reached the right domain.
[37:44] You are basically right. The travel became easier, but
[37:46] then what could have made the travel?
[37:48] Easier. Thats exactly what I was trying
[37:49] to think of. What made oh is it?
[37:53] Is it the Suez Canal? Yes, it is the Suez Canal.
[37:57] So the British did not usually bring their wives with them
[38:00] because, you know, they had to travel practically the almost
[38:03] the whole coastline of Africa. Once the Suez Canal opened, they
[38:07] were able to bring their spouses and you know, other members of
[38:12] their family, the female members of their family, because the the
[38:15] the trip was shortened by quite a bit and once they came in they
[38:19] kind of, you know, took over and made brought England to India.
[38:24] Very cool, very cool it. I believe the the dish is Stew
[38:30] also has some origin from that right?
[38:34] So Ishtu is actually a bastardization of Stew.
[38:38] So the Irish Stew which is usually made with potatoes and
[38:42] carrots and vegetables, that so that is the origin of Ishtu
[38:47] Molokatani soup is comes from the Tamil Molokatani which
[38:51] literally translates to chilly water.
[38:55] Okay, that's all for this episode.
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[39:33] See you guys next week. And here's the Fact Check for
[39:51] the episode. Martin Scorsese appeared in
[39:54] Shark Tale and The Aviator in voiceover roles under the
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