# Episode 065 - Tennis, Iridium & The Ten Commandments ft. Rajiv D'Silva

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 22 Apr 2024, 1 h 08 min.

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Do you know which were the only four countries to win the Davis Cup until 1973? Do you know what clever tagline was the motto of the Iridium satellite phone network? Do you know why there are numerous Ten Commandments monuments all across the United States which popped up in a span of a few months in 1956?Tune in to find out!!You can reach us atInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingmeEmail: areyouquizzingme@gmail.comSubreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme

## 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 #65 of Are You
[0:21] Quizzing Me? Your Favorite Quizzing and
[0:24] Trivia Podcast Show. If you hadn't joined us last
[0:27] week, let and for those who came in late, as Lee Faulk used to
[0:31] say, we have a special guest today who had also come last
[0:36] week. Rajiv da Silva will be joining
[0:38] us this week again as guest quiz master.
[0:41] If you've missed the last week's episode, go back and listen to
[0:43] that and then come back because we've introduced Rajiv there, so
[0:46] I'll be giving just a short introduction again.
[0:48] If you want to know exactly what he does, go back to episode #3
[0:51] four and you'll get a proper introduction to the man that is
[0:54] Rajiv da Silva. So let's start off today's
[0:57] proceedings with our regular programming.
[0:59] So we'll start off with a question for our audience.
[1:03] So this is the audience question for today, which I will be
[1:06] answering at the end of today's episode.
[1:10] So in 2012, Prada, you know the fashion brand Prada had a fall
[1:16] show featuring a diabolical collection of East German
[1:21] inspired fashion. Many consider the show to be one
[1:25] of the greatest that Prada has ever staged with some very big
[1:29] names strutting down the catwalk wearing Prada clothes.
[1:34] What was the theme and who were these big name models?
[1:38] I will answer this at the end of today's episode.
[1:42] We have Aditya's not so serious question from last week, which I
[1:46] am frankly dying to know what the answer is.
[1:49] So Aditya, what was your question from last week?
[1:53] The question from last week requires the audience member to
[1:57] go listen to last week's episode, and here's why.
[2:00] Because the question was about if instead of a pigeon
[2:05] fulfilling a certain challenge to prove that Internet speeds
[2:08] are very slow in Durban, in South Africa, a crow had been
[2:11] used for the same thing. What would one say at the end of
[2:14] that challenge? And here's why you have to
[2:16] listen to the episode. Because if the answer references
[2:19] last week's episode, and that is, well, crow.
[2:23] Oh God, no. No.
[2:25] Kill me now. Kill me now.
[2:27] OK, now is a good time as I need to introduce our audience again,
[2:39] Once again to Rajiv Da Silva, architect, quizzer and border
[2:44] extraordinaire, and our guest quiz master for the second
[2:47] episode running. Rajiv, welcome back to the show.
[2:50] Thank you so much. It's it's great to be back.
[2:53] I had great fun, much against possibly.
[2:57] I didn't know what to expect in last week's episode because as I
[3:00] said, it was my first time. But I had a lot of lot of time,
[3:03] a lot of fun and hopefully more fun will be had today.
[3:07] Yes, we shall. And again, as our guest, you get
[3:11] to go first. So Rajiv, suck us with one of
[3:14] your questions. OK, great.
[3:17] So last time I started off with a sports question, I mean you
[3:21] didn't know it was a sports question till little deep into
[3:23] the question. But this time I'll tell you
[3:25] straight out it is a out and out sports question.
[3:28] So and this is, this is this is from the world of tennis, OK.
[3:33] Since its inception in 1900, the Davis Cup, which as you know is
[3:37] is like a competition played between countries rather than
[3:41] the other competitions that happened on the tennis circuit
[3:45] which is between individuals. So the Davis Cup has been played
[3:48] annually without break, except for the nine years that covered
[3:51] the two World Wars. And since this question is a
[3:54] little dated, it possibly had a break during COVID also, but
[3:58] irrelevant to the to the question as of now.
[4:02] But until South Africa won it in 1974, the previous 66 titles had
[4:08] been split between just Four Nations.
[4:10] So 66 editions had been one by Four Nations until South Africa
[4:15] became the first one from outside those that port to win
[4:20] it in 1974. So which are the Four Nations
[4:24] that had won it before 1974? I have a feeling this is similar
[4:29] to one of our other quiz masters quizzes in Goa, Dr.
[4:34] Chandrasekhar. Shout out to him he has what
[4:36] questions that I call upsource questions where there is a very
[4:39] obvious answer which turns out not to be the answer.
[4:42] So but I'm going to. I'm going to track myself into
[4:44] the trap anyway. I'm going to guess the first one
[4:46] is England. Well, OK.
[4:49] Yes. OK.
[4:51] So you're thinking of the UK or England, is that the reason you
[4:54] kind of? Yeah, though I was only
[4:56] wondering whether I should give it to you for just one country
[4:59] or wait for all. No, no.
[5:00] We are OK, you know. You have to take pity on us.
[5:03] We are not going to give you all four countries at one time.
[5:05] We will get 111 right? You know, in order in sequence.
[5:08] OK, so then, OK, so then I will tell you that Britain or UK or
[5:12] England is correct indeed. So what are the other three?
[5:15] 2nd on my guest list guest list get it is the US.
[5:21] And that would also be right. OK, Aditya, why don't you take
[5:25] the next two? Oh wow, very convenient.
[5:33] Low hanging fruits over need. OK.
[5:35] Just because I guess Russia. No.
[5:39] In fact, Russia. Russia isn't part of that.
[5:42] OK. Yeah, it's it's the usual
[5:45] suspects I guess are probably not the right answer because we
[5:48] need got the ones that were so because I would have gone with
[5:52] something like China or or well I can't actually think of many.
[5:57] OK. So let me give you an additional
[6:00] flow. So the US and and the UK or
[6:02] Britain, whatever is obviously correct.
[6:05] But so these aren't for random countries, right?
[6:10] There's a reason why Why it is the small countries, or you can
[6:14] figure out if you know a little bit about tennis, which four
[6:17] countries it would be. Oh, is it the Is it France or is
[6:21] it Australia? That is correct.
[6:24] When it is the UK, the US, the four Grand Slams.
[6:28] The reason that the the four Grand Slams are called the Grand
[6:31] Slams are because these four countries were so dominant in
[6:34] the world of tennis at that, you know for a long period of time.
[6:39] And it became that the the big tournaments in those countries
[6:43] became like the four big big tournaments, and those four are
[6:49] the Grand Slams. I absolutely did not know that.
[6:53] That is insane. And.
[6:54] Insane. The question I should have asked
[6:56] myself I love trivia. I don't know why.
[6:58] I never asked myself why. Why are these the four Grand
[7:00] Slams? That's brilliant.
[7:02] Brilliant. Brilliant.
[7:04] Well, thank you. So that's, that's what it is,
[7:05] Yes. Cracker of a question.
[7:08] I really like that. Aditya, why don't you start us
[7:12] off with your question for around.
[7:15] All right. OK, so since we were travelling
[7:19] the globe, let's go to Korea for my question.
[7:22] And in this case, I'm going to tell you a little bit about
[7:26] personality types in Korea. So if you were maybe a Korean
[7:31] young individual, you're out there and you're talking about
[7:34] dating and and somebody asks you, what's your personality
[7:37] type? You might say you are the farmer
[7:40] or you're the hunter, or you're the humanist or perhaps the
[7:46] warrior. What are these personality types
[7:49] based on? OK, I have a guess, but I want
[7:52] to know I'm not going to guess it right now.
[7:54] I'm going to give Rajeev the chance, but I want to know I'm
[7:57] going to ask one question which will let me know whether I'm on
[8:00] the right track or not. Are there four of those?
[8:03] You are absolutely right. I mentioned the four, and there
[8:05] are only four of these, yes. OK, yes.
[8:07] OK, so which were the four? The, the farmer, the hunter, the
[8:12] humanist, and the. Warrior.
[8:16] The Warrior. Well, just going by the number,
[8:20] I'm going to make some weird guess.
[8:24] Well, there are these four symbols on the South Korean
[8:27] flag. And do each of the symbols stand
[8:30] for one of these people or personality types or something
[8:34] mythological, I guess. And then everybody is supposed
[8:37] to be one of those. That is actually a lovely piece
[8:42] of trivia regarding the South Korean flag and what those four
[8:45] symbols are, which I'll talk about at the end of this
[8:47] question. So, brilliant guess, given that
[8:50] you didn't have context to it, but no, it's not the right
[8:53] answer. OK, well no.
[8:56] Then I can't think of anything else.
[8:59] My other obvious thing would be, but it can't be Zodiac symbols,
[9:03] because there are all of them. South Korea.
[9:07] No, I think I'm going to have to pass this one to Winnie clearly
[9:12] has a better guess. He's sitting with a very smug
[9:14] expression. OK, this is not smug.
[9:16] Let me clarify, this is not smug.
[9:20] We have, we have an unbiased third person opinion now.
[9:24] I'm glad. No, this is.
[9:27] I have a fairly good guess, which I think may be right, and
[9:30] which I think is right because Korea is a weird country.
[9:33] No offence, Koreans is are these personalities based on blood
[9:39] group? These are blood group
[9:41] personality types. Yes, these are blood.
[9:44] OK, nice. Of course.
[9:45] Yeah. Of.
[9:46] Course so in Korea, if you are out on a date, or you're meeting
[9:50] a new person and you want to figure out what their
[9:51] personality is like, you might ask them what their blood group
[9:54] is. And if you're a blood type A,
[9:57] you're a farmer. The traits associated with them
[10:00] are patient, punctual, which are the positive ones and worst
[10:03] traits would be secretive and closed off.
[10:05] Then blood. Type B is the hunter that the
[10:08] good ones would be animal loving, creative, flexible.
[10:10] The worst are impatient, forgetful and responsible.
[10:14] We have the humanist which is AB and there you have cool and
[10:18] rational and empathetic, but also aloof, critical and
[10:21] indecisive. And the last one is Type O,
[10:24] which is a warrior where you have athletic, robust,
[10:27] ambitious, but sometimes insensitive, vain and arrogant.
[10:31] So these are the personality types associated with blood
[10:34] groups in Korea. Sounds like a lot of work,
[10:36] frankly. Just talk to the person.
[10:42] But sometimes we just need a shorthand for knowing how a
[10:44] person. I've been on the receiving end
[10:46] of this. I am a Scorpio myself, and I
[10:49] have had conversations go derail very quickly when people find
[10:53] out I'm a Scorpio. I don't even know why.
[10:54] Like I don't know how I'm responsible.
[10:56] For that, frankly, you tell me you're a Scorpio.
[10:58] All that tells me is that, you know when your birthdays and it
[11:01] matches to some symbol in the Zodiac, that's it.
[11:03] I have no clue why people. I've had conversations
[11:06] similarly, whereas I'd say that I'm an Aquarius and then you're
[11:09] like, Oh yeah, but you don't look like an Aquarian.
[11:16] The case that in South Africa, that wouldn't make sense if you
[11:19] talked about blood groups, but it is what it is.
[11:22] South Korea. Yeah.
[11:24] OK. Nice one.
[11:26] Ah, yes, the flag. Ah, why don't you tell us the
[11:30] Funda about the flag? Yeah, the flag thing is going to
[11:33] be a question in one of the future episodes, but since you
[11:36] brought it up, I'm just going to say it now.
[11:37] It's actually something called a trigram, and I won't pronounce
[11:43] the names in Korean, obviously, because I won't be able to do
[11:45] that. But they are all different, and
[11:48] from a quick glance it might look like they're all four the
[11:51] same, but they're all different. There is a dash in between and a
[11:54] space in between some of those lines.
[11:56] If you check out the Korean flag, I'll encourage you to open
[11:59] it up right now. And all of those Korean trigrams
[12:03] have a certain feature attached to it.
[12:04] So the first one is heaven, the second one is earth, the third
[12:09] one is sun, and the last one is moon.
[12:11] And they also have, you know, parallels with air, earth, fire,
[12:15] water, some sort of social fabric.
[12:19] And when they all come together, they become Captain Planet.
[12:22] Captain Planet, Yes. So the trigrams in the flag of
[12:29] South Korea do have that meaning.
[12:32] So if you didn't know, now you know.
[12:35] Also, Speaking of horoscopes, I have to say the most ridiculous
[12:39] thing, and since you mentioned, I'm going to say the most
[12:41] ridiculous thing is that Aquarius is not a water type
[12:44] sign, it's an air type sign, which makes zero sense to me.
[12:49] How can Aquarius not be water type?
[12:52] Oh, is it not? It's a voluntary water carrier.
[12:54] Oh, I yeah, yeah. Not that if it makes any sense,
[12:59] but why is the Aquarius not water sign?
[13:01] It's an air sign. Makes no sense at all.
[13:05] But that happens to be the case, yes.
[13:09] Raji, OK. Lovely.
[13:11] So my question. So the so the.
[13:15] The funny thing is, I had a list of questions that I I thought
[13:18] I'd asked on this podcast. And just while we were
[13:22] discussing something, I remembered another question
[13:25] which is not on my list. But it's possibly a, it's a it's
[13:28] a very nice question, possibly one of the my favorite
[13:32] questions. And so also it may be a bit of a
[13:35] chest chestnut and may be well known, but I think it's still
[13:37] worth asking. So, you know, back in the 2000s,
[13:43] or at least they had a good run for many years.
[13:45] There was this satellite phone company called Iridium.
[13:48] They unfortunately went bust because I think after some time
[13:52] either satellite phones were too expensive or kind of irrelevant
[13:55] because mobile phone coverage got so much better.
[13:58] But as you as, as you may know, the Iridium was a satellite
[14:01] phone and you could have an Iridium phone pretty much
[14:05] anywhere in the world and get be able to call anybody up and
[14:09] stuff like that. So it made where you were
[14:13] irrelevant. So Iridium when they were, when
[14:16] they were not or before they went belly up, had a very
[14:20] beautiful tagline with which they promoted their service,
[14:25] right. And it was a three word tagline,
[14:29] 3 words, two of which are basically high school subjects.
[14:35] So what was the three word tagline of Iridium which very
[14:41] beautifully put what the phone was doing.
[14:45] So 3 words. Two words are high school
[14:47] subjects or school subjects. Oh, geography is history.
[14:52] That is right. Yes, the slogan was geography is
[14:57] history because it suddenly made geography here the element.
[15:01] And you know, nice so well worked out.
[15:04] I could see the light bulb. The light bulb moment actually
[15:06] was seen there. Yeah, yeah, great question,
[15:12] Great question. I'd love that He could work it
[15:13] out. When you said I was like, OK, I
[15:16] guess I remember the Iridium platform, they were talking
[15:18] about 4060 satellites circling the Earth and you can get
[15:22] reception anywhere. And that was the time, early
[15:25] 2000s, when satellite radio was also becoming a thing.
[15:27] Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this whole thing of, you
[15:29] know, shifting everything to satellites was a huge thing.
[15:32] And I remember the Iridium platform.
[15:33] I couldn't remember what their logo, what their tagline was.
[15:36] And then when you mentioned high school subjects, I was like, OK,
[15:39] what are the high school subjects?
[15:40] Civics, economics, geography. OK.
[15:48] So I'm going to ask now a very long question.
[15:52] OK, so I need both of you to pay very close attention and our
[15:56] audience, you may get lost in between, but I will give you
[15:58] precedes in between to catch you up.
[16:00] So pay very close attention. This is a three-part question
[16:04] with a follow up to it. OK.
[16:07] So it's very indulgent. Please indulge my whimsy in this
[16:12] and it's architecture related so.
[16:14] Oh, OK. Different forms of X have been
[16:20] seen in ancient Egyptian architecture, on Greek temples,
[16:25] and most famously on medieval buildings.
[16:28] The etymology of the word X is from a French word, which in
[16:33] English is likely to mean throat or gullet.
[16:38] OK, so I'll just go through that again so that you have X fixed
[16:41] in your mind. Different types of X have been
[16:43] seen in ancient Egypt on Greek temples and most famously on
[16:47] medieval buildings. The etymology or the origin of
[16:50] the word X is from a French word which when translated to English
[16:55] likely means throat or gullet. OK.
[16:58] That is, XY is an architectural feature named after mythical
[17:05] Greek creature which is quite apartment considering the
[17:08] creature after which it is named OK.
[17:11] So Y is an architectural feature named after a mythical Greek
[17:15] creature from Greek mythology and the naming is quite
[17:20] apartment considering the creature after which it is
[17:22] named. Now I have told you about X&Y.
[17:26] In the Middle Ages, the term babiwin was used to refer to
[17:32] both X&Y, and the word babiwin was derived from the Italian
[17:38] word babuino, which means baboon.
[17:42] OK, so in the Middle Ages, the word babbuwin, which was from
[17:46] the Italian babbuino, which means baboon, was used to refer
[17:50] to both X&Y. Today, however, both X&Y are
[17:55] known by the term Z, which is known to the common man as an
[18:01] adjective describing something which is comically or
[18:04] repulsively ugly or distorted. OK, the old terminology which
[18:09] was used to describe X&Y was babbuwin, which is from the
[18:13] Italian word for baboon. Today the word that we use to
[18:16] describe X&Y. That term Z is known to the
[18:20] common man as an adjective describing something which is
[18:24] comically repulsive, ugly or distorted.
[18:28] So can you identify XY and ZX and Y are both architectural
[18:33] features? Z is a term today that is used
[18:36] to commonly describe these two architectural features.
[18:40] I know the answer to this. Oh, OK.
[18:42] So. Aditya retired to the pavilion.
[18:47] Yes. Well, I can take a guess at one
[18:50] of them, OK. But it's very likely that the
[18:53] answer I give for one will turn out to be the answer for that.
[18:56] That's not that's not a problem. I will accept the answer if it's
[18:59] anyone of these three. I mean, there's got to be the
[19:02] word gargoyle somewhere, and I would say that is X.
[19:07] Very good. X is Gargoyle.
[19:09] OK, that's good. So then you said Y is also
[19:14] another term for gargoyle, right?
[19:16] No, it's an architectural feature.
[19:17] It's an It's a different from a gargoyle, but it's an
[19:20] architectural feature named after a mythical Greek creature.
[19:23] Ah, OK. And the term Z is today
[19:27] encompasses both gargoyles and this feature Y.
[19:32] So you could technically say that gargoyle is a type of Z&Y
[19:36] is also a type of Z. OK, and also Z is used to
[19:39] describe an ugly person or something.
[19:41] Yeah, so Z. Like if you told the term Z to a
[19:44] common person, they wouldn't think of an architectural
[19:47] feature. They would think of an adjective
[19:49] describing something which is comically or repulsively ugly or
[19:53] distorted. OK.
[19:56] Or if they are, how do I put this?
[19:58] If they are a typographer, they may think of a font, or a type
[20:03] of font, or a group of font. OK.
[20:07] OK. So then I would say that Z is
[20:12] grotesque. OK.
[20:15] Well, yes or no? Yes, Z is grotesque.
[20:20] So then what is YY? You said is an architectural
[20:24] feature, which is what does it. Do named after a mythical Greek
[20:28] creature and it's very apartment.
[20:30] Considering the creature after which it is named, do you want a
[20:34] clue on why? Yes, I think so.
[20:37] So Y was famously slain in Greek mythology by Bellerophon.
[20:43] Oh yeah. Bellerophon riding Pegasus.
[20:47] And thinking Chimera. But I don't think there's any
[20:50] architectural feature like Chimera, right?
[20:53] It is Chimera. Oh, it is Chimera.
[20:55] It is. Chimera But what's the
[20:58] architectural feature which is a chimera?
[20:59] Yes, so I'll come to that. So I will now explain everything
[21:02] in detail for our audience, many of whom may be wondering what
[21:05] the hell is going on. So as I mentioned, in
[21:09] Architecture, A grotesque is a fantastic or mythical figure
[21:15] carved from stone and fixed to the walls or roof of a building.
[21:21] Many scholars describe grotesques as being used to ward
[21:24] of evil and as reminders of separation between earth and the
[21:27] divine. So it's usually found on
[21:30] buildings of religious significances, churches,
[21:32] cathedrals and so on. Gargoyles are specific types of
[21:38] grotesques which are made specifically for the function of
[21:44] conveying water from the roof and away from the side of a
[21:46] building. So basically, they are very
[21:48] fancy water spouts. So you can only call it a
[21:51] gargoyle if it has the function of having water.
[21:55] Yes, exactly. A chimera, however, is a type of
[21:59] grotesque depicting a mythical combination of multiple animals,
[22:04] sometimes including humans. Hence the term chimera.
[22:09] And for those who did not know, a chimera was a monstrous, fire
[22:13] breathing hybrid creature from Lycia.
[22:15] In Greek mythology, it is depicted as a lion with the head
[22:19] of the goat protruding from its back, occasionally animal parts,
[22:23] and with Dragon's wings and a tail that may end with a snake's
[22:27] head. It was an offspring of the Titan
[22:30] typhoon and echidna and a sibling of monsters such as
[22:34] Cerberus and the Linean Hydra. So because the name is from a
[22:40] hotchpod from a creature made from a hotchpod of other
[22:42] animals, this particular type of grotesque, which is a
[22:45] combination of multiple animals is also called a chimera.
[22:49] Interesting fact about gargoyles.
[22:51] They have found gargoyle like features at Goblecki Tepee which
[22:56] is a Neolithic site in southern southeastern Turkey dating back
[23:01] as far as 9500 BC. Nice, nice.
[23:05] So this is the main question. Now everybody knows what a
[23:09] grotesque is, what a gargoyle is and what a chimera is, right?
[23:14] So this is the follow up to my this main question in the 1980s.
[23:19] Aditya, you can come back to bat on the pitch, by the way, you're
[23:21] back from the pavilion. In the 1980s, during the
[23:26] construction of the northwest tower of the Washington National
[23:30] Cathedral, a children's competition was run by National
[23:33] Geographic World to draw grotesques for the building.
[23:37] The winning entries were a raccoon, a girl with pigtails
[23:42] and braces, a man with large teeth and an umbrella, and a pop
[23:49] culture icon of evil. Which pop culture icon ended up
[23:54] as a grotesque on the northwest tower of the Washington National
[23:59] Cathedral? OK, I actually know this One
[24:01] South. I'm.
[24:01] I'm going to give it to Aditya. OK, Aditya.
[24:06] Perfect. Because I have no clue.
[24:10] You said pop culture icon, right of people.
[24:12] Yes, yes. And this is in the. 80s This is
[24:16] the 1980s. And it's given to kids.
[24:18] So I'm assuming it's either a fairy tale villain or we're
[24:24] talking about a comic book villain.
[24:26] And because comic book villains are a lot more fun, so I'm just
[24:28] going to go with something like the Joker.
[24:31] No. Good guess, no.
[24:33] I would say that this I particular pop culture icon has
[24:39] appeared in comics, but not primarily in comics.
[24:41] Interesting. So are we talking fairy tales
[24:45] then? No.
[24:46] OK, so is it like ancient mythology but has also appeared
[24:50] in comic books? Something like.
[24:52] That you could possibly call it modern mythology, given the kind
[24:56] of status it has. OK, no, I don't need a clue.
[25:00] I'm I'm not no clue at all right now.
[25:03] OK, this is going to be an audio clue.
[25:05] Let me just warm up the pipes. Very cool, Very cool.
[25:20] That obviously is OK. I'm not going to fool around.
[25:27] That is Darth Vader, Yeah. Yeah, it is the Imperial March.
[25:30] By the way, if nobody understood from my horrible rendition, that
[25:32] is the Imperial March from Star Wars, and it is indeed Darth
[25:35] Vader. So you can find Darth Vader on
[25:38] the side of the church. If you think that was bad, I
[25:43] have another example. During the restoration of the
[25:45] Chapel of Bethlehem in Saint John de Bosso in the early 90s,
[25:51] sculptor Jean Louis Boistiel decided to replace the
[25:54] building's crumbling gargoyles with a few pop culture icons.
[25:58] This included Gizmo, A gremlin from the movie Gremlins, an
[26:02] alien Xenomorph, and a robot from the popular anime UFO.
[26:06] Robot Grand is here. Many locals were put off by
[26:10] Boistel's creations, which are technically grotesques, but
[26:13] enough young movie fans got behind the Geek Chapel idea to
[26:17] get it approved. So you can go to Saint John de
[26:21] Bassio and see an alien a Xenomorph as a grotesque.
[26:29] Yeah. No.
[26:31] Nice. Nice.
[26:32] And and and and modern whatever. The Internet being what is what
[26:36] it is. I think I've come across enough
[26:39] pieces of all articles on the Internet where somebody's gone
[26:43] and seen Darth Vader and said that, you know that in the 15th
[26:48] century or 16th century, something somebody actually
[26:50] foreshadowed Darth Vader and they found it back there.
[26:54] Stuff they didn't forget about the history that it was done in
[26:56] the 80s. This was done in the 1700s and
[27:00] stuff like that is this if you just Google you will find lots
[27:04] of misinformation about that particular one.
[27:07] OK which is so which is a kind of a which is a nice segue into
[27:11] my next question because we we are talking about things carved
[27:15] in the United States. So my next question is kind of
[27:18] to do with that. So if if you're a little bit
[27:21] familiar with the US and religion and politics and the
[27:26] whole thing which is all mixed up there currently and as always
[27:29] been around the US, literally dotted across the country are
[27:34] hundreds of these things called the 10 Commandments monuments.
[27:38] I don't know if you've heard of them, of Seal of them.
[27:39] They're basically big slaps of rock into which the 10
[27:43] Commandments are, are are carved, right.
[27:47] And there's there's an ongoing tussle between secular people
[27:52] and religious people on obviously the latest people want
[27:57] to preserve those monuments and give them great importance in in
[28:02] in their in their lives, in in governance and stuff like that.
[28:06] And while whereas the second in the 80s say, I know they should
[28:09] be torn down and there's too many of these 10 Commandments
[28:12] monuments dotting the countryside and stuff like that
[28:15] is a matter of of I think legal cases in several states in the
[28:19] US. And like like many things, most
[28:25] people in the US think that these 10 Commandments monuments
[28:29] have been around since the days of the founding Fathers to
[28:32] remind people how you know that the, the, the whole American,
[28:37] whatever Constitution, whatever else is based on very much the
[28:40] Bible and the religion and stuff like that.
[28:43] And what many people don't know is that they were actually all
[28:46] erected in a short period of time, all these hundreds in
[28:50] 19551956 with funding from one man.
[28:55] For what specific purpose? Oh, I have a 5050 guess on this,
[29:00] but I'm not sure if that's the right direction.
[29:03] I don't know if the year is right.
[29:05] Funding from one man, you said. Yes, one man funded all these
[29:10] monuments for a specific purpose with had less to do with
[29:15] religion and all and more to do with, you know, his own
[29:18] commercial interests. Let's put it that.
[29:20] Let's put it that. I was going to guess it is
[29:23] something to do with the movie promotion.
[29:26] Is there a? Yeah, I was thinking the same
[29:28] thing. That was, yeah, you guys are
[29:30] thinking along the right line. So what's What's the more
[29:33] specific answer to that? So The 10 Commandments, there
[29:37] was a movie called The 10 Commandments.
[29:39] I think it was Charlton Heston. I don't remember who played
[29:42] Versus. I think it was Charlton Heston.
[29:45] It was Charlton Heston in 10 Commandments, yes.
[29:47] So the the producer of the movies SLB demo well known
[29:50] producer he yeah so in order to promote the movie he he got some
[29:56] people to top these around the country and then release the
[30:00] movie. It was a basically it was just
[30:02] to promote the movie but they remain very past the movies
[30:05] release and and speeding and they're still around there.
[30:08] So good answer good answer guys. You guys kind of worked it out
[30:11] together. Nice, nice.
[30:14] I find people, whereas, you know, sometimes surprised that
[30:16] America is so religious, right? I mean, like America is the
[30:20] bastion of female liberation and rock'n'roll and all of those
[30:23] things. And they are very surprised that
[30:25] there are so many conservative people.
[30:26] And I have to keep reminding them that America was founded by
[30:29] Puritans, people literally too religious for the UK to they
[30:34] were like, OK, go somewhere else and do your shit.
[30:36] So they went and founded an entire country and you're
[30:39] surprised that they are religious, like on their
[30:42] currency. It's written in God we Trust.
[30:45] In God. Oh, so America is literally the
[30:50] antithesis of Australia? Yeah, That we were too good for
[30:54] the UK was sent to the US and who are too terrible was sent.
[31:04] There, Aditya, come on, hit us. So my question has to do with
[31:09] the school and a specific degree that the school offers.
[31:15] So I'm not mentioning the name of the school, I'm not
[31:17] mentioning who the founder of the school is, and I'm not
[31:20] telling you what the degree is also specifically, but I'll tell
[31:23] you a little bit of what they teach and how it is taught also.
[31:28] So it is usually over a weekend. It's a weekend seminar of sorts.
[31:32] It isn't on regular intervals, it can be at any period of time.
[31:36] The number of participants are apparently limited to 65, and
[31:42] from whatever information I could find online, I think the
[31:45] last run or the last batch was in 2016, so it's been a while.
[31:52] One of the things that is very important that you have to learn
[31:56] in this particular degree is forging land use permits and
[32:02] lock picking. Any guess as to what this school
[32:06] is? I'll take any of these answers.
[32:07] You can give me who the founder is, which I think would be the
[32:09] toughest to arrive at, but the founder of what type of school
[32:13] it is or what type of degree is they are they offering?
[32:17] The type of school and type of degree is pretty similar.
[32:19] Forging land use records. Land use permits and.
[32:24] Land use permits? Oh, OK.
[32:27] That's interesting. 2016, you said.
[32:29] Now the moment you said land use permits, my mind went to Trump,
[32:34] but then I was like, he wouldn't do anything, that he's a real
[32:38] estate mag mogul. He would just steal somebody
[32:40] else's money. He wouldn't have to forge
[32:42] papers. So it's not Trump or anything.
[32:45] And. The guy thing would be more,
[32:48] more, more in Richard Nixon's light, somehow.
[32:51] Yeah, the Watergate Hotel. OK, my second.
[32:55] OK, I don't remember this exact name, but there was this
[32:59] performer who used to give classes and performances on
[33:05] attention spans and picking pockets.
[33:09] His name was Apollo Something. Whatever you're thinking is not
[33:13] the answer. That's my first clue.
[33:17] Name you're going down right now is not the answer.
[33:19] I can give you further clue. I was just hoping.
[33:22] I was wondering if you might have an answer out of the bat.
[33:24] But if you don't I'll I'll help you out.
[33:27] Go ahead. OK, so I'll tell you a little
[33:30] bit about the founder first. That's my first hint.
[33:33] There is an urban legend, which was confirmed by him actually.
[33:37] So I found this on a podcast recently and I'll recommend that
[33:40] podcast. At the end of this question, he
[33:43] confirmed this urban legend, which stated that at the
[33:46] beginning of his career that he's most famous for and that
[33:50] the school teaches, he started with a little bit of a theft.
[33:55] It's in the Gray area, whether it was stealing or not.
[33:58] But yeah, it was. Well, let's let's call it spade,
[34:02] a spade, and it was stealing. He stole something at the
[34:05] beginning of his career and that set him down a very legendary
[34:08] path. That could describe half the
[34:11] billionaires and entrepreneurs who are.
[34:13] In the top of the Yeah, that's exactly, Yeah.
[34:16] He stole one object. He stole one specific object.
[34:20] Oh, this was a physical object. Yes, it was a physical object he
[34:24] stole. OK, so it's not Mark Zuckerberg
[34:27] in Facebook. That was literal.
[34:30] That was stealing intellectual property and shares.
[34:34] Yeah, yeah, yeah. We are going to.
[34:36] We are absolutely going to get our podcast shut down this week
[34:39] for sure. Somebody's going to fire beat
[34:41] this legal notice Meta. We love you.
[34:51] We stole something. Love picking and.
[34:54] Land use permits. It's a very specific thing to
[34:58] teach. Is this McDonald's university?
[35:01] No. No.
[35:03] This. Did you say this is AUS thing or
[35:05] you didn't say well? Actually, even the location is
[35:09] not determined. It might happen anywhere and at
[35:11] any point of time. So yeah, it's a weekend seminar,
[35:17] so it doesn't necessarily need a location.
[35:20] Is this Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street?
[35:23] No. No.
[35:25] OK. No, I think.
[35:28] Further clues are required. Further clues are required.
[35:31] All right. Yeah, it is.
[35:32] It's a tough question. It's, it's very specific, but
[35:34] you've obviously heard of this person and the rest of it would
[35:38] follow very simply from there. So let me tell you a little bit
[35:41] about the school and I'm on school's website right now, so
[35:43] I'm just going to read from it. The Dash School is not for the
[35:47] faint hearted. It is for those who have
[35:49] travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs
[35:53] or as wardens in a lunatic asylum.
[35:55] For those who are willing to learn about lock picking or
[35:59] forging permits in countries not favoring their projects.
[36:04] In short, for those who have a sense of poetry.
[36:07] For those who are pilgrims. For those who can tell a story
[36:11] to a four year old to four year old children and hold their
[36:14] attention. For those who have a fire
[36:17] burning within, for those who have a dream, what?
[36:20] This sounds like the invitation to a cult.
[36:24] So let me break that down a little bit for you.
[36:27] A bunch of the description, the earlier part of it about
[36:29] travelling on Ford, working as bouncers and all of that has to
[36:33] do with this specific person himself.
[36:34] He has done all of those things in his career, but that's
[36:37] obviously not what he's famous for.
[36:38] He's known for this one thing and.
[36:42] Off the top of my head, when you say somebody who's done a lot of
[36:44] this kind of shit, especially as a bouncer, I know he's worked as
[36:47] a bouncer in the is Justin Trudeau, but I don't know why he
[36:49] would be having a weekend school.
[36:52] No, it's not Justin Trudeau. He's a German guy.
[36:56] It's a German guy. Is he a German?
[37:00] He is German. All right, one last clue.
[37:03] So what all of us, probably of a certain generation and older,
[37:08] would know him for is not what the younger generations know him
[37:12] for. Because he gained a lot of
[37:15] popularity very recently when he appeared in a TV show.
[37:20] He appeared in a TV show, German Guy TV show.
[37:24] Younger people might be like, oh, you're from that show
[37:27] instead of what he's actually famous for.
[37:29] What? I'll give you the name of the TV
[37:33] show The Mandalorian. So what's the school?
[37:43] It's. Called.
[37:43] I know what he's told. Yeah.
[37:45] Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
[37:46] Yeah. The Rogue Film School.
[37:47] It is called the Rogue Film School and Werner Herzog very
[37:51] strongly believes that people are wasting time at three-year
[37:54] long film schools because there's nothing worth learning
[37:57] for three years in filmmaking. Whatever needs to be taught
[37:59] about filmmaking can be taught in their first 10 minutes or
[38:02] first one hour. And after that point of time
[38:04] we're doing is to forge permits, to shoot in places where you're
[38:08] not allowed to, or to pick locks.
[38:10] You get into places where you're not allowed to go and that's.
[38:12] What he teaches in his place. Apparently in filmmaking.
[38:16] Nice. Nice question.
[38:17] Yes. So Werner Herzog famously
[38:20] started of his film career by stealing a couple of cameras
[38:25] from the Munich film school. So the I think the movie is
[38:29] Aguirre the Wrath of God. When he to shoot that he stole
[38:35] cameras from the Munich film school and went to the Amazon
[38:38] and to shoot it nearly killed his cast but then made this
[38:41] fantastic movie which is you know become a cult favorite.
[38:46] I had a question which I've asked like in 2-3 different
[38:49] quizzes. So I've stopped asking that
[38:50] question now, which was a connect question.
[38:52] I had put a picture of Leander Pez.
[38:55] I had a picture put a picture of the Wana House of movie The
[38:58] Wrath of God and a picture of Eric Segal and I would ask what
[39:05] is the connect? Leon the Pace.
[39:10] Eric Segal Eric Segal from You Know Love Story, The Doctors,
[39:14] The Class, Famous Novel Class and.
[39:16] All that. OK, yeah, Eric Segal.
[39:19] This movie basically Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Leon
[39:24] repairs and the connect would be us.
[39:27] There is something very specific.
[39:29] It's very specific to them. Basically I'm looking for a year
[39:32] and a place. That's the connect.
[39:34] I'm looking for a beer and a place.
[39:37] Well, the year and the place that comes to mind for Leander
[39:39] Pace is 1996 Atlanta. Does that have got anything to
[39:44] do with it? Not that one, no.
[39:46] Not that one. Not not that one.
[39:48] No. No.
[39:48] No. No, I have no clue, right?
[39:50] Now the Verner also connect in that Aguarella Rathav got
[39:52] connects in two separate ways. Hey.
[39:55] So it's a separate. So sometimes when I would put it
[39:57] up on the screen, I'd put that twice and people would be like
[40:01] why is that that twice because it connects it two separate ways
[40:05] in two completely different ways to the same combination of year
[40:09] and place. You're somewhat close to the
[40:13] right idea when you said 96 Atlanta.
[40:15] Oh. Somewhat close to the idea.
[40:18] I have no clue at all right. Me neither.
[40:23] I don't know enough about the other two to make a reasonable
[40:27] connection. OK.
[40:29] When I mentioned 1996 Atlanta, what I was meant was you should
[40:35] be thinking you were thinking of the Olympics when you said 96
[40:38] Atlanta, right? Leander Perez, First Olympic was
[40:41] first Olympic medal. Think along the same lines,
[40:45] Olympics. And then think of what I've
[40:48] given you. I've given you Leander Perez.
[40:50] I've given you Eric Segal, and I've given you Aguare, the wrath
[40:54] of God. OK.
[40:57] No. OK, so the connect was supposed
[41:00] to be 1972 Munich. OK Leander Peres father won a
[41:05] gold medal in 1972 Mumin. Leander Peres was conceived in
[41:10] 1972. Munich, Yes.
[41:13] So his mother was a volleyball player.
[41:15] Yeah. So he is.
[41:15] He's actually said this in an interview.
[41:17] His mother was a volleyball player, right.
[41:19] Father was there for the Olympics.
[41:21] And what happened was when the attack from Black September, the
[41:26] Israeli athletes were killed, the Olympics was shut down for a
[41:29] few days. So during that time, his father
[41:32] and mother didn't have anything better to do, so they conceived
[41:34] him. Eric Segal was very famously A
[41:41] commentator for the 1972 Olympics.
[41:44] So there's a very famous clip of him commentating for the
[41:47] marathon or one of the long distance athletic races.
[41:51] And one of his students, he was a professor at the time.
[41:53] One of his students was nearing the final and another person
[41:57] kind of tried to cut him off or cheat him and he went on off the
[42:00] tirade during his commentary. So he's very famously A
[42:04] commentator for the 1972 Olympics.
[42:06] And Aguirre the Wrath of God was shot in 1972 using cameras
[42:11] stolen from the Munich film school.
[42:14] OK, that is the 1st way it connects.
[42:17] And the 2nd way is that after Black September caused all of
[42:21] this and the Israeli athletes died, Mossad set in motion and
[42:26] operation to kill the Palestinian terrorists who were
[42:28] responsible for it and that operation was called the Wrath
[42:32] of God. Oh, yes, that is correct.
[42:35] Yeah. Well, nice, nice connect, yeah.
[42:38] Yeah, but I stopped asking it because hardly ever anybody ever
[42:41] gets the answer. It's a good, good question.
[42:45] It's a great question. Yeah, it's.
[42:47] Dependent. It's a very indulgent.
[42:49] Frankly, it's a very indulgent question because you have to
[42:51] know a few very specific pieces of trivia to kind of connected.
[42:53] If you don't know even one, then you're screwed.
[42:55] So that's why I've stopped asking.
[42:57] I will give you the name of the podcast, by the way, where I
[43:00] heard all of this information about Wanda Herzog.
[43:02] It is a pop culture recommendation, people I mostly
[43:05] admire, which is by the Freakonomics author and he
[43:10] interviews people and it's a lovely podcast.
[43:12] So Steve Leavitt, who's a Freakonomics co-author, he
[43:15] interviews people and he interviewed Warner Herzog in
[43:18] episode #120, I believe, and it's called Warner Herzog thinks
[43:22] his films are a distraction and it's a lovely Year podcast.
[43:26] You get to hear from one of the greatest film makers alive
[43:29] today. And he describes the entire
[43:32] journey, including stealing a camera to shoot his first film.
[43:36] And about his film school. And by lock picking is
[43:39] important. Nice.
[43:42] OK, my question right. Yes.
[43:45] OK, possibly a slightly long one.
[43:48] So I guess you might have to listen carefully, but it's, I
[43:51] think this is not a very tough, it's a very workable 1.
[43:55] So in 2006, a Canadian population health epidemiologist
[44:03] doesn't matter, called Michael Kanok was commissioned to design
[44:07] A methodology to measure something.
[44:10] OK. So he was commissioned to
[44:12] measure something. So he created a survey that
[44:14] assesses 1500 variables across nine different dimensions or
[44:20] aspects. And the 9 dimensions are
[44:24] psychological, well-being, time use, community, vitality,
[44:29] culture, health, education, environmental, diversity, living
[44:36] standard and governance. This survey takes an average of
[44:40] 6 hours to administer to a respondent, and this project was
[44:45] rolled out in 2008 and it's still kind of on.
[44:48] It's continually on South. Kind of two questions.
[44:52] Who were Canucks clients? So who hired him to come up with
[44:57] this survey or methodology? And what was this survey trying
[45:03] to measure? From the survey points that you
[45:07] mentioned, the first thing that came to my head, but I don't
[45:10] know how you could possibly get that from a survey.
[45:13] But were they trying to identify the measure or the things that
[45:17] lead to success? Not exactly so.
[45:21] Kind of thinking on the right lines, but this is a very
[45:24] specific measure which is fairly well known around the world.
[45:30] It's only done in one one place. That's kind of a big look.
[45:37] Done in only one place, so it's still done till date.
[45:43] It is still done till date, Yeah.
[45:45] So it's so it was first kind of designed and set into motion in
[45:51] 2008. And so once the methodology was
[45:55] in place, it's still done to date.
[45:58] I guess they may be tweaking it every year or something like
[46:00] that. But generally, he's the man who
[46:02] put the the kind of the framework of the whole program
[46:06] together to measure this certain thing.
[46:09] Wow, I am so completely lost. Yeah.
[46:15] Does it have anything to do with technology?
[46:17] Because 2008, I'm thinking social media, Internet.
[46:20] I don't know. No, no, no, nothing.
[46:22] With technology. I'm I'm thinking of what kind of
[46:24] clue I I could give. So what what?
[46:28] What he was trying to measure is a fairly well known thing, but
[46:32] the clue I would give is it's kind of an outlier or or a
[46:37] different way of looking at things as opposed to the rest of
[46:41] the world. So we are talking about a
[46:43] specific country here. OK.
[46:47] So, so I can tell you that basically Canucks clients were
[46:51] a, was was a. Particular country, particular
[46:55] country. Yeah, or the government of a
[46:57] country. 2008 makes you think of China also. 2008 The first thing
[47:02] that comes to mind is the economic collapse, the housing
[47:05] crisis. I don't think the, I don't think
[47:07] the the the year is particularly relevant.
[47:09] It just started there, so it wasn't triggered by anything
[47:13] that happened in 2008. This is the first time they
[47:15] tried to quantify or measure it. So I think, I think what you
[47:19] need to think of the nine different dimensions, which is
[47:23] psychological well-being, time use, community vitality,
[47:27] culture, health, education, environmental diversity, living
[47:33] standard and governance are all used could all be different
[47:37] aspects of what? This is not a happiness index or
[47:41] something, right? That is thinking along the line.
[47:44] The right lines. Yes.
[47:45] Correct. Kind of.
[47:46] Yes. I mean, you're you're almost
[47:48] there. What country would that be?
[47:50] You got the the funder. Absolutely right.
[47:52] It's happiness. It's measuring happiness.
[47:55] OK, it's measuring happiness. Which country?
[47:57] Bhutan is the only country I know in relation to that
[48:00] happiness index. That is correct.
[48:01] So it is Bhutan who, while the rest of the rest of the world
[48:05] has a measure called GDP, which is called gross domestic.
[48:08] Product. Bhutan measures its thing in
[48:12] Gross National Happiness. Oh, nice GNH.
[48:15] So they have a they have a measure called Gross National
[48:17] Happiness. So they always said happiness is
[48:20] more important to us than you know, money and financial
[48:24] economics and things like that. So only in 2008 they actually
[48:27] got somebody to measure it. So they actually have a measure
[48:29] CON and which they track, which is called Gross National
[48:32] Happens. Oh, OK.
[48:35] You know, they could never get that done in India.
[48:37] Nobody would sit for a six hour survey in India.
[48:40] That is also true. Yeah, that's true.
[48:44] Truly, the definition of happiness is avoiding a six hour
[48:46] survey. You would have to be very happy
[48:50] to be able to sit too for a six hour survey.
[48:53] I mean like you would be that happy and even that good state
[48:56] of mind key somebody like I have a survey, but it will take you
[48:58] six hours. No problem.
[48:59] No problem. Sit, sit, sit.
[49:01] Will do, yeah. Oh, that's it.
[49:05] That's the only question you need to ask on that survey.
[49:07] We'll use it for six hours, OK? Nice for that.
[49:15] Nice question. Yeah, great question.
[49:17] OK, let's move away from all these abstracts and go to
[49:21] someone specific. I want you to identify a person
[49:25] from his history that I'm about to give you.
[49:29] So X graduated from Cornell University in 1977, went on to
[49:37] work as an engineer for the Boeing Corporation and
[49:41] Sundstrand Data controlled near Seattle.
[49:43] This OK. Aditya already knows this, so
[49:47] retired to the Pavilion men OK at Boeing.
[49:52] He invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor tube used
[49:56] on Boeing 747 airplanes. He applied.
[49:59] Can I? From sheer memory, can I
[50:02] complete your question? He applied to be a NASA
[50:05] astronaut four times. He quit going to pursue a stand
[50:10] up comedy career because when he thought he was really funny and
[50:14] he apparently looked like Steve Martin.
[50:17] He won a Steve Martin contest. Look alike.
[50:19] Pro contest, yeah. OK.
[50:21] That was just me flexing. Please continue.
[50:22] Please continue. See.
[50:23] How smug he looks. See, Look at that smug face and
[50:27] tell me that he doesn't look more smug than me.
[50:29] OK, so now that you flexed, for the sake of our audience and for
[50:34] poor Rajiv, let me just tell that question properly.
[50:36] OK, so at Boeing, he invented a hydraulic resonance suppressor
[50:40] tube that is used on Boeing 747 airplanes.
[50:43] He applied four times unsuccessfully for the Nasas
[50:47] Astronauts training program. EX started doing stand up comedy
[50:51] after winning a Steve Martin lookalike contest in 1978.
[50:55] He began moonlighting as a comedian while working at
[50:59] Boeing. He quit his career at Boeing on
[51:02] October 3rd, 1986 to focus on his burgeoning comedy career.
[51:07] By the early 90s, his career on TV had exploded.
[51:11] The show that made him a household name in the 90s aired
[51:15] from 93 to 99, producing a total of six seasons and 100 episodes.
[51:22] The show starred X as a fictionalized version of
[51:25] himself. During its run, the show was
[51:28] nominated for 23 Emmy Awards, winning 19.
[51:33] So who's X? Oh, OK, Based on so many Emmys,
[51:41] the only thing I can think of is Kelsey grammar or something like
[51:44] that. Not Kelsey grammar.
[51:46] You see also the Seattle. Seattle connection?
[51:50] No, the Seattle connection actually came after Boston.
[51:53] Kelsey Glamour Original Glamour Kelsey Grammar originally showed
[51:58] up in Cheers. Originated in Cheers.
[51:59] Cheers, which was in Boston and then after he got divorced, is
[52:03] technically when he shifted to Seattle and then became a radio
[52:06] host. Yeah.
[52:08] OK. So not Kelsey Grammar.
[52:10] Obviously 93 to 99. Yes, Show starred X as a
[52:15] fictionalized version of himself.
[52:17] Oh, OK. Is it Seinfeld then?
[52:20] Of source. I knew you would say that, but
[52:24] no, it's not Seinfeld. It's not.
[52:25] Seinfeld. It's not Seinfeld.
[52:27] No. OK.
[52:28] That's a great guess though. OK.
[52:31] Do you have any other? Views OK, I have a very specific
[52:34] clue. So X was on Last Week Tonight
[52:39] with John Oliver. OK, on May 12th 2019 and he had
[52:44] a specific segment where he spoke about something.
[52:47] This should give you a clue about who he is and what he does
[52:50] and whatnot. OK, this is a quote so I'm not
[52:53] using the F bombs. This is all him.
[52:56] Here I've got an experiment for you.
[52:59] Safety glasses on. By the end of the century, if
[53:02] emissions keep rising, the average temperature on earth
[53:05] could go up another 4 to 8°. What I'm saying is the planets
[53:10] on fucking fire. There are a lot of things we
[53:12] could do to put it out. Are any of them free?
[53:15] No, of course not. Nothing's free.
[53:17] You idiots. Grow the fuck up.
[53:20] You're not children anymore. I didn't mind explaining
[53:23] photosynthesis to you when you were 12, but you're adults now
[53:27] and this is an actual crisis. Got it.
[53:30] Safety Glasses off motherfuckers that.
[53:36] Could be one of many people I would sleep like that.
[53:40] I would specifically, you know this is very uncharacteristic of
[53:42] him. He normally doesn't speak like
[53:44] this, so I would ask you to focus on this particular line.
[53:48] I didn't mind explaining photosynthesis to you when you
[53:52] were 12. Oh, OK, this is Bill Nye the
[53:57] Science Guy. Yes, this is Bill Nye the
[54:00] Science Guy. Yeah, yeah.
[54:03] Yeah. OK.
[54:04] Correct. Correct.
[54:05] Now that now that I know the answer, all that that trivia is
[54:09] coming back to be. Yes.
[54:10] Yes. And no thoughts to Aditya for
[54:15] all that flexing because he was so smug about it.
[54:18] Your smugness cancels out the flex.
[54:21] Fair. That is completely fair.
[54:26] OK, so that I think is all the time we have today for our
[54:28] regular questions. The episode went by in a flash.
[54:32] Aditya, what's your not so serious question for next week?
[54:36] All right. So for next week's question, I
[54:39] want to know if instead of using the Darth Vader grotesque, if it
[54:45] was a Bollywood character, what would make an extremely iconic
[54:49] grotesque for a building? And you will find out in next
[54:52] week's episode. We are still getting sued.
[54:55] OK, so guys, please tune in next week for the very last episode
[55:00] of Are You Quizzing Me? Because we are.
[55:03] Definitely going to get sued into oblivion.
[55:06] So going back to the audience question at the beginning of
[55:08] today's episode, I hope some of you at least have figured it
[55:11] out. Prada's fall show of 2012
[55:14] featured A diabolical collection of East German inspired
[55:18] fashions. Many consider the show to be one
[55:20] of the greatest Prada has ever staged, with some very big names
[55:24] strutting down the kind catwalk wearing the Prada clothes.
[55:27] What was the theme and who were these big name models?
[55:31] Aditya and Rajiv? Any guesses?
[55:33] Hello. The video of this particular
[55:38] show has gone viral again recently.
[55:41] Like, people have rediscovered it and they keep they keep
[55:43] sharing it. So you'll find multiple shots of
[55:45] this on YouTube and Instagram going around. 2012 And you said
[55:51] something about East Germany. What is that?
[55:53] Yeah. So the fashion was inspired by
[55:56] East Germany. OK.
[55:58] So, and I'm just taking a shot, were the models on ex East
[56:05] German athletes, you know, the ones that were very androgenous?
[56:09] No, no. So basically by the East German
[56:11] thing, they were looking to create a team and to reinforce
[56:14] that team they brought in specific people to model the
[56:19] clothes. East Germany, 2012.
[56:23] OK, forget these Germany part. That was just to focus on the
[56:26] type of fashion which would give you a clue about the theme.
[56:29] I will give you the names of some of the people who walked
[56:32] the ramp that day, OK? And you can then try and guess
[56:36] the theme. Gary Oldman, Willem Dafoe,
[56:42] Adrian Brody, Tim Roth. Oh, these are something to do
[56:49] with villains. Yes, so this was a villains
[56:52] inspired fashion show. All the the fashion was very
[56:57] East German, very dark, very villainy, kind of clothes and to
[57:01] model them they brought in really famous villains.
[57:04] So donning the guise of villains, a number of a list
[57:07] stars stopped the show with a maniacal catwalk strut worth of
[57:10] the best double O 7 baddies. There are numerous videos online
[57:14] you can see. I mean, like, Adrian Brody just
[57:16] looks like he's about to take over the world or something.
[57:20] I think I've seen that, yeah. It came up on my Instagram
[57:22] sometime, yeah. OK, so before we wind up, what's
[57:26] your any pop culture recommendations?
[57:29] Aditya Rajeev. I don't know about pop.
[57:31] I don't know how pop culture it is.
[57:33] But right now there's a book I'm reading which is I think it's a
[57:37] very well known book. So possibly everybody's read it,
[57:41] but it's not exactly. Oh well, it's culture, not pop
[57:44] culture. And there's a book called Early
[57:46] in the Early Indians, but Tony Joseph I don't know.
[57:49] I have heard of it. It's on my reading list.
[57:51] I haven't got around to it round to it yet.
[57:54] I have recommended it in one of our episodes.
[57:57] OK, so I back up out of the recommendation.
[58:02] It's a very, very interesting book, especially especially in
[58:05] light of all the debate in India currently about, you know, who
[58:11] is from where and who is what and things like that.
[58:15] And I think in a very anthropology, it's a, it's it's
[58:19] a very it's obviously nonfiction.
[58:22] Yeah. And it's it's tracing
[58:25] anthropology through actually. And I have read I I'm
[58:29] particularly interested in books of this sort.
[58:31] So I read a lot of books and generally they go down the, you
[58:36] know, the archaeological evidence route.
[58:39] But this one traces mostly language, which is a very
[58:43] interesting way of looking at it I think.
[58:44] And so it traces connections or language between, it uses
[58:49] language to trace how people move around the world in and get
[58:54] specific references to India. So it's it's it's a great read I
[58:57] think and if anybody is interested in that sort of
[59:01] thing, I think you could check out then.
[59:02] Fantastic. Yeah, I especially love the
[59:06] analogy of a pizza that he uses to describe.
[59:09] Genetic makeup for people. What are you doing?
[59:13] I cannot actually remember that part.
[59:15] You may not have reached Rajeev. He's spoiling the book for you.
[59:19] Shame. For shame, Aditya I'm.
[59:21] Pretty teased, but yeah. OK, baby.
[59:25] I just want to, I just want to mention again that this is
[59:28] ancient history. I don't think there are spoilers
[59:30] in. Yeah, yeah.
[59:32] It's all already outside there. But no, it's definitely worth a
[59:36] read. Thank you for re recommending it
[59:38] because it is definitely a phenomenal book and so useful in
[59:41] today's times to really remind us of how similar we are to each
[59:44] other more than we are different.
[59:47] That is, I am going to recommend ATV show that we have probably
[59:50] talked about in the past, but I'm going to say it again and
[59:53] I'm going to recommend a specific episode.
[59:55] This episode is called Free Churro and it is from the TV
[59:59] show Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman.
[1:00:03] We have recommended in the past, but I recently rewatched Free
[1:00:06] Churro and it is one of the best written TV episodes of all time.
[1:00:11] I generally think. And it is one of those episodes
[1:00:14] which would be considered a bottle episode if it was short
[1:00:17] live action because it's all set in one location and in fact it's
[1:00:20] just one person talking for a majority of the time.
[1:00:23] And I won't give any more spoilers, but if you have not
[1:00:25] watched Bojack Horseman, watch it and thank me when you reach
[1:00:28] the Free Churro episode because it is beautiful, beautiful
[1:00:32] storytelling and honestly, filmmaking.
[1:00:34] Yeah. So that is my recommendation for
[1:00:37] this week. I'm going to give two
[1:00:39] recommendations this week. One is because one of Herzog
[1:00:43] showed up in our quiz today and there is a particular
[1:00:47] documentary of his which I recommend but with caution to.
[1:00:52] The name of the documentary is called The Grizzly Man.
[1:00:55] It is a very dark, very Moody documentary.
[1:01:00] I would warn you not to watch it if you are easily affected by
[1:01:05] real life tragedies, especially the ones that end, end in very
[1:01:09] horrible, tragic ways. I don't want to spoil it, but if
[1:01:13] you are somebody like me who consumes all this kind of stuff,
[1:01:15] regardless of how it will affect you, it is a great documentary
[1:01:20] to watch. It's a fantastic piece of
[1:01:21] filmmaking and the ending is particularly haunting.
[1:01:25] It will stay with you for days and I would say it hits you best
[1:01:29] if you did it. If you watch it like I did many
[1:01:31] years ago without knowing anything about it, like don't
[1:01:35] Google it, don't read up on it, just watch it and be prepared.
[1:01:41] It will change the way you look at documentaries for a long
[1:01:44] period of time. There are very few documentaries
[1:01:46] that leave you really haunted and this is one of them.
[1:01:49] On a more lighter note, the second recommendation I have is
[1:01:53] a book series. It's called The Empyrean Book
[1:01:55] Series by a new recent or of lot of fledgling author by the name
[1:01:59] of Rebecca Yaros. I think it's a seven part series
[1:02:03] of which she's released 2 so far and both of them have ended up
[1:02:06] on the New York Times bestseller list.
[1:02:08] They're pretty long books but they're pretty satisfying.
[1:02:12] The first book is called 4th Wing and the 2nd is called Iron
[1:02:15] Flame. And if you haven't guessed from
[1:02:16] the titles, they're both fantasy books.
[1:02:18] So think Harry Potter meets Game of Thrones meets the Wheel of
[1:02:22] Time. So it is.
[1:02:24] The characters are all mostly young adults, but it is very
[1:02:27] serious and very well written and the world building is
[1:02:31] fantastic and it's completely original.
[1:02:33] I usually don't go for recommending many fantasy books,
[1:02:36] but this one I read it because it appeared on my Kindle and as
[1:02:39] a recommendation. So I just bought it and read it
[1:02:42] and I just got hooked. You just cannot stop reading the
[1:02:44] writing. It's just fantastic.
[1:02:46] So the it's called the Empyrean series, Rebecca Yarrows.
[1:02:49] The first one is 4th Wing and the second one is Iron Flame and
[1:02:52] book three is expected next year.
[1:02:54] So another one, if you are still waiting for George RR Martin to
[1:02:58] release the next book from The Song of Ice and Fire, this
[1:03:01] should satiate you. In the meantime, lot of blood,
[1:03:04] lot of tragedy, a lot of gore is also there.
[1:03:06] So that's, that's my recommendation and that's it for
[1:03:10] this week. First, let me thank Mr. Rajeev
[1:03:13] da Silva. Rajeev, thank you so much.
[1:03:16] You've been a fantastic quiz master, some really cracking
[1:03:19] questions over the past two episodes.
[1:03:21] And I hope and I'm going to do this publicly so that we can
[1:03:23] blackmail you into doing this again.
[1:03:24] I hope we will have you back on the show sometime.
[1:03:27] Yes, actually I would love to come back sometime assuming that
[1:03:31] you don't get like a crazy amount of negative reviews for
[1:03:34] these two episodes. I guarantee you that we will
[1:03:37] wait and watch. But I've had, I've had a lot of
[1:03:41] fun on these episodes so I definitely, I wouldn't strike it
[1:03:46] off my To Do List anytime soon and thank you guys for having
[1:03:49] me. It's been good being part of
[1:03:52] this. It's I think the energy in which
[1:03:54] this is done is has been great. It's been very infectious in, in
[1:03:57] a way. So I've had, I've had a lot of
[1:04:00] fun, so thanks for having me on and let's see sometime in the
[1:04:04] future, let's do one a couple more, sometimes so.
[1:04:07] Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're going on our permanent
[1:04:09] returning guest list. I'm just telling you right now,
[1:04:14] once you're in, you cannot back out.
[1:04:16] If you think you're odd, we'll pull you back in.
[1:04:20] Yeah. I can assure you that
[1:04:22] everybody's going to love this episode Except and I'll.
[1:04:24] I'll, I'll be honest here, people from Korea, Vineet said.
[1:04:28] A strange for. Some reason.
[1:04:31] Called them strange. And so if any of our Korean
[1:04:35] listeners are offended by that, honestly, it's vineet's problem.
[1:04:39] The rest of us love you, OK? I love Korean people.
[1:04:42] I love and. Also.
[1:04:45] You also mentioned in the previous episode that people
[1:04:48] from Indora are weird. No, I said.
[1:04:51] Nobody would. Nobody would go to Indora.
[1:04:55] That was, that is being to Indora.
[1:04:57] OK, until Unless they're unusual.
[1:04:59] Yeah, yeah. So it is the specific niches
[1:05:02] that might be offended a little bit, but apart from that I think
[1:05:06] OK. Well, it's 2024, so you can all.
[1:05:12] You'll always offend somebody no matter what you do, so.
[1:05:15] True. True.
[1:05:16] No. The the way I keep offending
[1:05:17] somebody or the other in every episode, very soon I find that
[1:05:20] we'll not have any lessons anymore.
[1:05:23] Oh, the number of times I've saved Vineet from being
[1:05:26] cancelled just by my editing tool.
[1:05:33] But they're all factual truths and I stand no.
[1:05:37] That is true. I I am absolutely kidding.
[1:05:40] The only things that I have to remove from episodes are my long
[1:05:42] pauses and silences while I ponder genius questions where we
[1:05:46] need. But in any case, I want to thank
[1:05:51] you so much for joining us. And as we need said yes, we
[1:05:53] would not even love to. We would need you to come back
[1:05:56] because an episode like this is rare and we enjoyed ourselves.
[1:06:00] Yes, likewise, likewise. It was just a fantastic
[1:06:03] experience here, so thank you. Thank you too.
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