# Episode 094 - English Director, American Singer & Swiss Mercenary

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 16 Dec 2024, 55 min.

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Do you know why the director of a famous West End production had to come out on the day Queen Elizabeth II passed away? Do you know which Grammy award winning, famous American singer was raised as a Hindu in her younger years? Do you know which "disease" was said to affect soldiers and Swiss mercenaries, and was given its name by Johannes Hofer? Tune in to find out!! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to RU Quizzing me. I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode number 94 of RU
[0:21] quizzing me, your favorite quizzing and trivia podcast
[0:24] show. Aditya and I are back for
[0:27] another round of quizzing, and let's start off today's episode
[0:31] without any further ado. As usual, I will be asking an
[0:35] audience question which I will be answering at the end of
[0:38] today's episode. The first XX being the object in
[0:42] question were converted flintlock pistols that used
[0:46] gunpowder. One of the first actual X built
[0:51] for the purpose was invented by a German chemist named Johann
[0:56] Wolfgang Dobreiner in 1823. The development of ferocerium by
[1:05] Karl or von Woltzbach in 19 O 3 has made modern X possible.
[1:12] What is X? Let me repeat the question.
[1:14] The first X were converted flintlock pistols and used
[1:17] gunpowder. One of the first actual X built
[1:20] for the purpose was invented by a German chemist named Johann
[1:24] Wolfgang Dobreiner in 1823. The development of Pharoserium
[1:28] by Carl R von Welspach in 19 O 3 has made modern X possible.
[1:34] What is XI will answer this question at the end of today's
[1:38] episode. I think it's high time that we
[1:42] should start doing video because Aditya is actually having, I
[1:47] think I can classify it as performance art going on right
[1:49] now. I really wish we were recording
[1:52] video for this because this is just gold.
[1:54] Because while I'm giving the intro, Aditya is performing a
[1:58] tail molish on himself right now.
[2:02] We've. Gotten too comfortable.
[2:03] This is like, yeah, nobody can see me, I can do whatever I
[2:06] want. What lies Vineet?
[2:11] Why are you? Whistling.
[2:12] No, no, no tail Malish, I keep you not actual tail Malish.
[2:17] If you go back and listen to the recording, you will probably
[2:19] find that I hesitated for a second in the middle of the
[2:23] first time I read the question because Aditya out of nowhere
[2:27] just brought up this bottle of oil and I was like, what is
[2:30] going on? I was reminded of that British
[2:33] show Countdown, Where whenever there's a countdown going on,
[2:37] Jimmy Carr just brings out some kind of prop and does something
[2:40] really absurd. And this was like one of those
[2:43] kind of incidents. And I just wish I had it
[2:45] recorded on video. But I'm not going to let him
[2:48] edit this out, by the way, for everybody.
[2:51] You know, Aditya takes it so seriously that he actually
[2:53] prepares for this like a wrestler.
[2:55] You know, tail Malik to the brain, cool down the brain.
[2:58] He's very serious about quizzing.
[3:02] That's true. That's true.
[3:03] I do. I do.
[3:03] I do care. Actually.
[3:05] I recommended in my previous episode the people who I mostly
[3:08] admire, an interview with the lady who has currently won the
[3:12] World Quizzing World Trivia Championship, World Quizzing
[3:15] Championship, and even in Jeopardy All Stars and stuff.
[3:18] So, so quite the legend in the space of trivia.
[3:21] And her power move apparently is she pulls out knitting when
[3:26] these quiz competitions are happening and she'll just be
[3:28] knitting in the process. And apparently it's one of the
[3:31] most intimidating things for her opponents because they are all
[3:33] just holding their head and trying to figure out the answers
[3:35] to these trivia questions. She's just calmly sitting there
[3:37] and knitting. The other thing which she does,
[3:39] which is apparently even a bigger power move, is she
[3:41] doesn't manicure, sits there and she manicures her hands while
[3:46] answering trivia questions. So I guess this was my power
[3:49] move Vineet. Yeah, and for our international
[3:52] audience who may not have understood tail Malish is
[3:55] basically a colloquial Hindi term for an oil massage on your
[4:00] head. So Aditya was literally applying
[4:02] oil to his head while I was giving the intro to the podcast.
[4:07] We should really start recording this.
[4:08] And because when we do, people will have a 2.
[4:10] For one thing, they'll get a quizzing program, plus
[4:14] performance art from Aditya. I will genuinely entertain my
[4:19] audience with, if not the trivia, then definitely the
[4:22] performance art. But today I have some
[4:24] entertaining trivia. Should I be the one to start off
[4:26] today's episode? Yes, please.
[4:28] Please go ahead. Alright, so since we are talking
[4:32] about, let's say, the romantic image of me applying oil to my
[4:36] hair, I'm going to talk about a romance novel.
[4:40] Talk about an image only a mother could love.
[4:44] Oh, I doubt my mother would also appreciate, but alright.
[4:49] I speak of a novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes.
[4:54] This is by the author, Thomas Hardy.
[4:56] Have you heard of either of these?
[4:57] Either the novel or the author. Thomas Hardy, Yes.
[5:00] Far from the madding crowd. Tessa.
[5:02] The above, yes. Yeah, yeah.
[5:03] So published in book form in 1873, so it's been a while.
[5:07] The story had three main characters, Elfred Swancote, the
[5:11] 19 year old heroine, Stephen Smith, her first suitor who is
[5:15] socially inferior but also has childish innocence, and Henry
[5:19] Knight, the second suitor who is morally superior and dominant
[5:22] but sexually inexperienced and immature.
[5:24] These are the three main characters.
[5:27] I refer to a specific scene in this novel wherein Henry Knight,
[5:33] in a very dangerous situation in a very very dangerous situation,
[5:36] chooses to review the entire history of the world and
[5:40] eventually is rescued by Elfridge.
[5:43] In a rather creative way, I must say.
[5:45] Just for clarity's sake, I've not read the novels.
[5:47] I've only read versions of where this trivia has been adapted
[5:50] from, so I'm just giving a description.
[5:52] If anybody has the novel, please do correct me if I describe it
[5:55] incorrectly. This is the part where Henry
[5:57] Wright in a Very dangerous situation is reviewing the
[5:59] entire history of the world and is eventually rescued by
[6:03] Elfridge. Tell me, what is the source
[6:06] responsible for the world of pop culture today?
[6:10] OK, first question, when somebody is reviewing the
[6:14] history of the world, why do they need to be rescued?
[6:17] Because he was in a dangerous situation.
[6:19] OK, so he was reviewing the history of the world while being
[6:23] in a dangerous situation. Yeah.
[6:26] OK wow, I have no clue where this is going.
[6:30] Something with pop culture. I have read a couple of Thomas
[6:34] Hardy novels but not the one in question.
[6:36] For the first time I'm hearing of this one, so Nope.
[6:39] I'll need some kind of clue here.
[6:40] OK, so I do have some clues which in a way do lead to the
[6:45] answer, but perhaps not instinctively.
[6:47] So maybe give it some lateral thinking.
[6:49] The first clue that I'm going to give you is that this was not in
[6:51] the novel form when it was first written.
[6:53] It was serialized between September 1872 and July 1873 in
[6:58] a magazine. Oh, is this a cliffhanger?
[7:01] Oh wow, Vineet, I am. I just never.
[7:06] Never not impressed at your trivia abilities.
[7:11] Yes, it is a cliffhanger. So you're right, it was a
[7:14] serialized story that was as serialized stories are told over
[7:17] multiple snippets. And in one of these snippets it
[7:20] ends with our second protagonist, our second suitor,
[7:23] Henry Knight, hanging off of a Cliff and he chooses this moment
[7:26] to review the entire history of the world and is rescued by a
[7:31] rope of Elfridges underwear. Now, I don't know how this was
[7:36] probably carried out in the story, but that's the story.
[7:39] So Elfridge, the heroine underwear is somehow used to
[7:43] make a row. Oh yeah.
[7:44] And so I mean, we're talking about the 1700s, right?
[7:46] So they had layers and layers of underwear.
[7:49] So to I. Guess perhaps?
[7:51] Perhaps some lace, some elastic? Or was it elastic in?
[7:55] The petticoats. Multiple petticoats, I'm
[7:57] guessing, yeah. Maybe, maybe.
[7:58] OK, so something along those lines.
[8:00] And that is used to rescue Henry Knight from the Cliff off of
[8:05] which he's hanging. And that is apparently very
[8:08] commonly accepted as the origin of the term cliffhanger because
[8:12] the story in that particular serialized edition ended at that
[8:14] scene, and then the next edition carried on from the next scene
[8:18] where he's rescued. So Cliffhanger I.
[8:20] Have a fan theory which I just made-up right now on the spot.
[8:25] This was not actually a cliffhanger.
[8:27] I don't think Thomas Hardy understood what he was doing.
[8:31] But actually, I think the audience didn't understand what
[8:33] Thomas Hardy was doing. OK, Thomas Hardy was taking the
[8:35] entire novel in a science fiction direction, but people
[8:38] didn't realize it. And so then when they saw the
[8:41] ending and people were excited, he realized, oh, OK, maybe I
[8:44] have an opportunity here. And then he shifted from science
[8:46] fiction to drama. Now, I'll tell you how this
[8:50] happened. Stay with.
[8:51] Me. Yes.
[8:52] So what is said to happen when you are about to die?
[8:56] Oh, your entire life flashes in front of you?
[8:59] Yeah. Yes.
[9:00] Now if he's reviewing the entire history of the world, which
[9:03] means he has lived the entire history of the world, which
[9:06] means he is an immortal, which means that he cannot die.
[9:09] So this. Was actually him.
[9:11] Teasing the fact that he was immortal.
[9:13] Oh wow. And he was, in fact, the man
[9:17] from Earth. Great movie.
[9:19] A great movie. Yes.
[9:20] I love how when both of us have not read This is Normal, we are
[9:22] just forming fan fiction from it.
[9:25] Pretty much how Internet works. You just make assumptions based
[9:28] on things you have no idea about.
[9:30] I love it. OK cool.
[9:32] But avid readers, bibliophiles, would know that cliffhangers
[9:36] grew in prominence or became a staple because of Charles
[9:40] Dickens, somebody we have spoken about in previous episodes.
[9:43] Charles Dickens and his episodic stories printed in magazines
[9:48] very often use cliffhangers to trigger desperation in his
[9:51] readers. And they eagerly awaited the
[9:54] next iteration of the story. But the word itself most
[9:58] probably comes from this particular instance in a Thomas
[10:01] Hardy novel by the name of a pair of blue eyes.
[10:04] Nice, nice, very nice. OK, I'm struggling for a segue
[10:10] here. Probably something clever should
[10:12] come to me later, which always happens after I finish recording
[10:15] the episode. But let's move from the life of
[10:19] this very interesting individual, Mr. Henry Knight to
[10:22] the life of another very interesting individual.
[10:25] That works. That works.
[10:26] Yeah, yeah, weak. But Jello X started out as a
[10:31] brilliant math nerd, going so far as to start work on a
[10:36] doctorate in math at NE Louisiana State College before
[10:42] being thrown out for having an affair with an undergraduate.
[10:45] Oh boy. Yeah, X pursued a conventional
[10:49] career for a while, working as a programmer for the Apollo
[10:52] program at NASA, and from there at Booz Allen Hamilton and
[10:56] Lockheed. In 1986, X created Y, the first
[11:02] of its kind, which has made him a household name, at least from
[11:07] the mid 90s onwards. In the years since then, he has
[11:11] dabbled in yoga, biochemistry ventures, cryptocurrency.
[11:16] It's also suspected that he may have secretly killed his own
[11:19] father. He has also been a two time
[11:23] presidential candidate. Who am I talking about and what
[11:27] is it that he created which was the first of its kind?
[11:32] Presidential candidate. I'm assuming this is America
[11:34] we're talking about. He would seem to.
[11:35] Have Yes, he was an American presidential candidate twice.
[11:39] But they're not a serious candidate.
[11:42] He was serious about it. No, I meant like the Republican
[11:45] candidate of the Democratic, and I'm assuming not one of those.
[11:49] He was not one of from the major two parties, no.
[11:52] OK, so gives me a tea party. Vibe No tea parties, practically
[11:56] the Republican Party. They don't go separately right
[11:58] now. Fair enough, fair enough.
[12:01] Potentially might be a murderer came up with something in 1986
[12:05] that was the first of its kind. There's something to do with
[12:08] yoga as well. Mathematician.
[12:12] So mathematician started pursuing a doctorate in math,
[12:16] Worked as a programmer for NASA for the Apollo program.
[12:18] Went from there to Lockheed Martin 1986.
[12:22] He created Y that made him a household name in the mid 90s
[12:26] onwards. Has dabbled in cryptocurrency,
[12:28] yoga, biochemistry. It is suspected he may have
[12:31] secretly killed his own father, maybe others as well.
[12:36] Let me add that as a clue. Has also been a two time
[12:40] presidential candidate. Which household name am I
[12:43] talking about? Household name.
[12:45] Yeah, this person is a household name at least, I mean like in
[12:49] most households. OK, let's put it this way.
[12:52] Even if you don't say a most household people, most people of
[12:54] our age definitely know this name.
[12:57] OK, I'm going to take a wild case.
[12:59] I don't know why. Is he famous in American
[13:01] households or like across the world people?
[13:04] Oh no, definitely. We also know him.
[13:06] Because for some reason I don't know why, first name that came
[13:09] to my mind was RFK Junior, but. Oh, very good.
[13:14] But no, I don't know if he's actually killed anybody he has
[13:17] killed, or at least has what was that, a roadkill, right?
[13:20] Oh, so many stories. So many crazy stories about
[13:22] roadkill and trying to eat the meat out of roadkill and whales.
[13:27] And I don't know. A lot of crazy stories over
[13:29] there. Please go Google it if you
[13:31] haven't heard of that. Yeah, I don't think he has been
[13:33] accused of or even suspected of killing people.
[13:38] I don't know why I'm going to professional boxing or
[13:40] wrestling. I'm going into that space just
[13:43] because you said the worldwide name.
[13:46] Is it by any chance George Foreman?
[13:48] Oh, Foreman Grill. The Foreman Grill I don't think
[13:50] was the first of its kind, but that's true.
[13:53] It's the most famous, 1 of it. But it's not George Foreman, no.
[13:56] This is way out in the left field, so that doesn't make a
[13:58] lot of sense. Yeah, OK, then I will request a
[14:00] hint. But again, the George Foreman
[14:02] Grill not so much form famous in India.
[14:04] I'm telling you, this name is also famous, at least in people
[14:07] of our age and younger. OK, then I'd need a hint.
[14:11] OK, there was a recent documentary about this person on
[14:13] Netflix. Man, Netflix turns out
[14:17] documentaries like no one's business, not even their own
[14:20] business. I don't know what they're doing
[14:21] with the documentaries. Oh, the only one I can think of
[14:25] is that the two kids who murdered their parents?
[14:29] But that has nothing to do with anything, no.
[14:30] When I say recent, I mean like in the past 2-3 years, let's say
[14:34] 2022. That's when the documentary
[14:35] released. No man, I have no idea. 2022
[14:39] documentary. I have no idea.
[14:41] OK, this person famously once said if I'm found hanging, you
[14:47] can be sure I was murdered. Like I'm paraphrasing, that's
[14:50] not exactly the words he used, but that was his intent, that if
[14:54] he was ever found hanging that he would have been murdered.
[14:58] This should lead me to the person.
[15:00] Or is that just like a famous code?
[15:03] Yeah, OK, let me just rephrase the question or point you
[15:06] towards certain points in the question.
[15:07] He is suspected to have secretly killed his father and maybe
[15:10] others as well. He famously once said that if he
[15:14] was found hanging, it would mean he was murdered.
[15:18] He created the first of something, and that was in 1986.
[15:24] That made him a huge household name, at least in people of our
[15:28] age and younger, and he was a doctorate in mathematics and a
[15:35] programmer for the Apollo program at NASA.
[15:39] You already told me these things, you didn't add anything
[15:40] else. Yes, yes.
[15:42] But I'm pointing you to try and put these together and then see
[15:45] if any name is clicking because this guy's got a very unique
[15:49] life. I don't think anyone else I've
[15:52] heard of. Maybe Christopher Lee has had a
[15:56] more fascinating life. Oh wow, since you said
[15:58] Christopher Lee, but I don't think this makes sense.
[16:00] I was going to say Dolph Lundgren, but because he also
[16:03] is. No, but he's got a master's or a
[16:05] pH in chemistry. Chemistry, right?
[16:07] Yeah. Chemistry, yeah.
[16:09] And poor guy. He just I think was a battling
[16:11] cancer. But recently I think was
[16:13] declared cancer free. But that's an amazing Dolph
[16:16] Lundgren story, I want to say, but I'll tell it after this
[16:18] question. OK, then are we talking about an
[16:21] actor? No, not an actor.
[16:23] I've already told you what profession this guy's in.
[16:26] You said he was a mathematician when he studied.
[16:28] You didn't say what he's doing now.
[16:30] Yeah, then I I told you that he worked as a programmer for
[16:32] Apollo and then worked from there to Lockheed.
[16:36] What is he doing now? OK, I'll give you that clue.
[16:38] He's no longer alive. Oh, and that will point you to
[16:42] that quote that I gave you, that he once said that if you were
[16:45] found dead by hanging, it would mean that he was murdered.
[16:48] Is this Jeffrey Epstein? Oh, no, no, Epstein was nowhere.
[16:52] That's interesting. At least not when he was alive.
[16:54] Yeah. I mean Jeffrey Epstein was
[16:56] interesting in the worst possible ways, but OK.
[16:59] Hanging, no longer alive and is dead now.
[17:04] Household name from the mid 90s household.
[17:08] Name. OK, I'll give you the field in
[17:11] which he is famous IT. Oh man, absolutely no idea.
[17:15] Who is this person in IT? Who is this?
[17:17] OK, this guy very famously was suspected of murdering somebody
[17:21] in Belize. He faked a heart attack to get
[17:24] away, and while he was being pursued by the police was
[17:28] apparently when he decided to propose to his third wife.
[17:31] Finally, many years later, the murder case was, I think, closed
[17:36] in civil court in Florida, and he was ordered to pay $25
[17:39] million. And then after that there was a
[17:41] case of tax evasion for which he was arrested in Spain and was
[17:46] awaiting extradition to the US when he was found hanging in a
[17:49] jail cell. What?
[17:51] Who was this person? I have no idea.
[17:54] Sounds like a bunch of random made-up stuff.
[17:56] No. So I will tell you who it is.
[17:59] Yes, go for it this. Hopefully will elicit some kind
[18:02] of response from you because I guarantee you that you have
[18:05] heard of the guy and the moment I tell you the guy's name, you
[18:09] will tell me what the product is.
[18:11] How about you tell me the product and then I'll give the
[18:12] guy? It's the same thing.
[18:14] OK, fine. The name of the guy is John
[18:17] McAfee. McAfee Security?
[18:20] Wait, I'm sorry, what did he? He has been accused of killing
[18:26] his own father. What?
[18:28] Yes. OK, so let me rewind the tape.
[18:31] OK. The person we are talking about
[18:32] is John McAfee, who created the McAfee antivirus software, which
[18:39] is the first commercially available antivirus software.
[18:42] And I think anybody who's ever owned the computer at some point
[18:45] would have seen McAfee because it comes bundled with
[18:47] everything. Sure.
[18:49] Yes. I had no idea.
[18:51] He has had inappropriate relationships with women.
[18:55] As an evidence by this, he had a very abusive and frankly very
[18:59] tragic childhood. And during I think it was a
[19:02] Wired or a Vice interview, he accidentally, I don't think he
[19:08] knew the cameras were rolling. And he kind of mentioned that he
[19:11] did something about it when he was talking about his father
[19:14] abusing him and his family. You know, he said that forced
[19:17] him to do something about it, and then he kind of walked it
[19:19] back and said, oh, that sounds like an admission.
[19:22] So he may secretly have killed his father.
[19:25] Yeah. So that's there.
[19:27] And he was also implicated in the death of a man called
[19:32] Gregory Fowle, who was a North American immigrant in Belize,
[19:35] for which he was on the run for around six years.
[19:39] Yeah. He ran for the American
[19:40] presidency in 2016 and 2020 and the Libertarian Party, but he
[19:46] wasn't able to get the party nomination.
[19:50] He has then dabbled in biochemistry, he's dabbled in
[19:54] cryptocurrency, in yoga and whatnot.
[19:59] Very interesting fellow. OK, OK, very interesting.
[20:02] Yeah. Yeah, OK, This is another
[20:04] interesting story. When he was being not haunted,
[20:08] but the police were looking for him to question him about the
[20:11] death of Gregory Fall, he escaped by burying himself in
[20:16] sand for several hours with a cardboard box over his head, and
[20:21] then he got out of jail, once by faking a heart attack.
[20:25] Wow, this is very interesting. Yeah.
[20:28] I would recommend people watch the documentary that's on
[20:31] Netflix, it's called Running with the Devil, The wild world
[20:35] of John McAfee. And also just Google John
[20:39] McAfee, the number of stories you find on him are like insane.
[20:42] The guy was nuts and I use the term scientifically.
[20:48] Wow, OK this is hilarious here. Before I forget the Dolph
[20:52] Lundgren story, the most interesting Dolph Lundgren story
[20:56] I've heard, and apparently this is true but don't quote me on
[20:59] it, is that one day in Spain, couple of robbers, they were
[21:03] robbing this house at night. They got into the house and they
[21:08] were robbing it and then they suddenly saw a big picture and
[21:11] then they realized that whose house it was.
[21:13] So they put things back and then they left.
[21:15] Turns out it was Dolph Lundgren's house.
[21:17] He was not even in the house. Only his wife and kids were
[21:19] there. They it's only when the robbers
[21:23] were caught that they said that we saw that it was Dolph
[21:25] Lundgren's house and they'd seen the Rocky movies and they were
[21:29] like, no way are we messing with this guys house.
[21:33] Right, right, right. I think I've heard this before.
[21:35] It is a cool piece of I love it. So your turn.
[21:39] Speaking of somebody who has had a Seminole acting career, Dolph
[21:45] Lundgren, I move on to a movie related trivia.
[21:49] So you have to tell me which movie are these two pieces of
[21:52] trivia related to. I think you'll be able to guess
[21:53] after the first piece of trivia and then we'll move on to the
[21:55] second. So this question has two parts.
[21:57] So tell me what the name of the movie is that the first piece of
[22:00] trivia is related to, and then I'll tell you the second,
[22:02] funnier and more interesting trivia as well.
[22:05] OK. Recently this went viral even
[22:09] though this news 1st immersion 2022.
[22:12] So it just resurfaced and people have been sharing it in social
[22:14] media again. At the beginning of this show,
[22:18] the director came out on the day of passing of Queen Elizabeth
[22:24] the second in 2022 and said that you know what, we're all sad and
[22:28] devastated and we mourn the passing of the Queen.
[22:32] And this was being performed in London at the West End.
[22:34] And he said, But as the show must always go on, we are going
[22:37] to perform the show as is written, as written.
[22:42] OK. He went off stage and then the
[22:44] show started and the reason that he used the phrase as written
[22:48] and the reason it went viral again or was viral back in
[22:50] Railway 2 also I guess is because it is written in a way
[22:54] which was a very funny juxtaposition to the fact that
[22:58] Queen Elizabeth the Second had just passed away.
[23:00] Do you have any idea what show I am talking about?
[23:03] What West End show am I talking about?
[23:05] Oh. Theatre.
[23:07] Theatre is not my strong suit, especially the West End MC
[23:12] cavity. No.
[23:13] So I also said it's in relation to a movie.
[23:15] So this particular musical has been adapted into a movie very
[23:18] recently. Oh, it's been adapted into a
[23:20] movie. Wicked.
[23:22] Yes, exactly. So wicked.
[23:23] Oh. Ding Dong, the Queen is dead.
[23:25] OK, OK, now it makes sense. Yes.
[23:28] It is good news. She's dead.
[23:30] That's how basically the show start.
[23:32] Yeah. It's just this quarter of the
[23:34] good news. She's dead.
[23:35] The Witch of the West is dead. The wickedest witch there ever
[23:39] was. The enemy of all of us, here in
[23:43] ounces. Is dead.
[23:44] No, no, God. That's how the show starts and
[23:48] that's why the director, producer, whoever it was came
[23:50] out before the show and declared that we will be continuing to do
[23:53] it as the written nice. Nice, we're just after saying
[23:57] that we are. Sad that the Queen has passed.
[23:58] That's how the show started. So it's a very interesting clip.
[24:00] Go see it and it's hilarious and people have been sharing it
[24:03] again recent for some reason. But this happened back in 1922
[24:06] when she passed away. OK, so you got the name of the
[24:08] movie. This is of course a Wicked,
[24:10] which has recently adapted and has gotten some decent reviews.
[24:12] I have not seen it yet, but hey, if you go watch it, let us know
[24:15] if you liked it and maybe we'll include it in a pop culture
[24:17] recommendation. Who knows in any case.
[24:19] There is a lovely. Piece of trivia, very funny
[24:21] piece of trivia again that is attached to this movie.
[24:24] So to promote the movie, Mattel introduce a couple of dolls as
[24:29] promotional as tie in material for this movie.
[24:31] So there was obviously the wicked Witch and the Princess
[24:34] and all of these things were being sold as toys for kids to
[24:37] purchase alongside of watching the movie.
[24:40] However, they were hit by a multi $1,000,000 lawsuit that
[24:44] was filed not that long ago in November itself I believe.
[24:48] OK. Because there was.
[24:50] Something that was off or that was wrong on these toys, on
[24:55] these boxes of the doll that were being sold, What was it
[24:59] that was being sued over? What error did Mattel make that
[25:04] they were being sued over? OK, talking about.
[25:09] Companies getting sued over toys.
[25:11] The first name that comes to mind is Disney.
[25:14] Is it a Disney lawsuit? No.
[25:16] It isn't a Disney lawsuit. It was filed by the mother of a
[25:19] young girl. So it was like a person, not a
[25:22] company filing a lawsuit. This was a woman filing a
[25:26] lawsuit of her own accord claiming damages.
[25:29] And Mattel actually also released statements apologizing
[25:33] and has also withdrawn some of the stock, most of the stock in
[25:36] fact, OK. First question was the mother's
[25:39] name Karen? I believe it wasn't No, no, OK.
[25:46] In this case I. Guess she has some standing.
[25:48] There is some standing to be upset.
[25:51] OK, so. The mother was upset and I'm
[25:54] guessing this was a girl because we are talking toys which means
[25:59] there was some problem with the dolls, something sexualized or?
[26:08] You are not incorrect. There was, I guess, something to
[26:13] do with age inappropriate material were the dolls.
[26:17] Anatomically accurate, so there's nothing wrong with.
[26:21] The dolls themselves. Oh, OK.
[26:22] And I think I mentioned this, there's something up with the
[26:24] packaging, the boxes. OK, the packaging.
[26:27] Oh OK, this is just silly but I'm going to go with it Was
[26:30] Wicked written along a corner so that when two boxes came
[26:33] together it's red dicked. Not even at all.
[26:41] But I love that your mind went there.
[26:43] No, it says nothing to do with the actual thing.
[26:46] OK, OK, I. Have no idea?
[26:49] You'll have to give me another clue.
[26:51] Another clue. All right, so like I mentioned,
[26:53] there was some age inappropriate adult content that was that had
[26:56] somehow made its way onto these toys which are meant for kids.
[26:59] This had to do with the specific adult website that kids were
[27:04] being directed to. Did they recreate that?
[27:08] Meme of the single white girl. Oh no, no, no, nothing.
[27:15] Like that, I'm talking straight up age inappropriate.
[27:18] I'll give you I'll say it's pornography that kids are being
[27:21] directed to erroneously, I must say, to pornography.
[27:24] Oh, so they were being. Directed to a website, yeah.
[27:27] Exactly. Disconnect those two and if you
[27:30] can't, then I guess Vineet, you are just a gentleman who isn't
[27:34] familiar with adult websites. OK, you know what?
[27:40] I'll, I'll, I'll give this one to you.
[27:41] Maybe it's just something you're not aware of and I don't know.
[27:44] I guess at this point I just sound like like I'm the only one
[27:47] who's ever known of these things because we need this Guri 2
[27:51] shoes. There's an adult website which
[27:53] goes by the name of wicket.com. There is OK.
[27:56] I really was not aware of that. It's one of the bigger.
[27:59] Websites. One of the bigger adult content
[28:01] websites online, OK, it's called wicket.com.
[28:04] And on the box itself, they wanted to redirect kids to
[28:07] wicketdoll.com, but some of these boxes had mistakenly
[28:11] printed www.wicket.com. So kids might go to
[28:16] www.wicket.com, which is not where you would want your young
[28:20] child to go, especially when that's not the kind of content
[28:23] they're looking for. OK.
[28:26] You know what this means. Right now I have to visit that
[28:27] website for research purposes. Oh yeah, sure, that we will use
[28:34] that as an excuse. Why not?
[28:37] I know to be honestly the all jokes aside, I've never heard of
[28:40] this website which is good. I'm guessing it was a newer
[28:44] website, not from something when I grew up, but you know.
[28:48] Oh, lots of information. We are gaining an insight into
[28:50] minutes today. Yeah.
[28:52] Nope. Nope.
[28:53] Moving on. OK, that was a great question.
[28:57] Moving on to something also in the somewhat entertainment
[29:01] space. Though raised as a Hindu from
[29:05] childhood, X is no longer a practicing Hindu but claims that
[29:11] the religion continues to influence her life and her
[29:14] music. She has also learnt Bharatnatyam
[29:18] from a very early age and this is probably contributed to the
[29:22] fact that she is an excellent dancer.
[29:24] To this day, X is known for creating videos and performances
[29:27] which are achieved virality on social media platforms such like
[29:30] TikTok. She's received numerous
[29:33] accolades throughout her career, including one Grammy, 5
[29:37] Billboard Music Awards, and five MTV Video Music Awards.
[29:42] She was also included in the 100 Most Influential People in the
[29:46] World by Time magazine in 2023. So who am I talking about?
[29:51] Interesting. Born Hindu but no longer
[29:53] practicing the religion. Not born.
[29:56] Hindu raised as a Hindu, Let me just make that clarification.
[30:00] Interesting. That's a distinction.
[30:03] OK, because I don't have an immediate answer, I'll ask you.
[30:05] Is this person Indian? No figured as much as one what 1
[30:12] Grammy 5. 5 Billboard Music Awards 5 MTV Video Music Awards
[30:19] not. An Indian person but of Indian
[30:21] origin then. No.
[30:25] Oh, very. Interesting, but has.
[30:27] An Indian name, I can give you that much at least the first
[30:31] part of a name is very Indian raised Hindu.
[30:34] No longer practicing? No no idea.
[30:37] Give me a hint please her. Debut album came out in 2018 and
[30:43] it was an eponymous album. She named the album after
[30:47] herself in 20. 23 She was named one of the top 100 most
[30:50] influential people, Right, Yes. 1st.
[30:54] Name is Hindu sounding first part of.
[30:57] Her name. So her name has four words in it
[31:00] and the 1st 2 definitely Hindu sounding.
[31:05] Is it Dualipa? Oh no.
[31:07] No, no. But good guess given that Dua
[31:10] Lipa is trending right now following her Mumbai concert and
[31:15] also thought. Dua, like dua or something, I
[31:17] don't know. OK.
[31:17] Ah, very. Nice, very nice.
[31:19] But no, OK, Never. Mind then Indian sounding name?
[31:24] Which singa has an Indian sounding name?
[31:28] No, I'll need another hint then. OK.
[31:31] This is a very indirect hint, but she seems to be obsessed
[31:34] with animals. In what way?
[31:37] Like is she part of PITA? She had an entire song.
[31:41] Where she pretends to be an animal.
[31:43] It's a novelty song in which she makes claims about being an
[31:47] animal. And I've called.
[31:49] Her Nicki Minaj? Oh, no, no.
[31:52] Again, good guess Nikki could be.
[31:55] But Nikki is not necessarily an Indian name though.
[31:58] OK, let me just tell you. This first album I mentioned was
[32:00] eponymous that is named after herself, but it's named after
[32:05] her actual name, not the name we know her by.
[32:09] And this was in 2018, yes. No.
[32:12] No idea. Very good dancer, popping and
[32:16] locking. She's to compete in dance
[32:18] battles. She went to a performing arts
[32:21] high school in Los Angeles. And she's very famous.
[32:26] Like I've heard of this person. Oh, definitely, definitely.
[32:30] But not many people know that she spent a part of a childhood
[32:33] wearing head covering scarves, singing bhajans at a temple and
[32:37] learning Bharatnatyam. Oh, and not Indian.
[32:40] Or of Indian origin and yet had this kind of a life.
[32:42] So was it like adopted by Indian parents or something?
[32:44] Or Hindu parents or something? No, just some non Hindu people
[32:51] deciding to take up Hinduism. Alright, yeah, no man, I have no
[32:57] idea what's ever not. Give me maybe a famous song or
[32:59] something. OK, I told you.
[33:01] That she seems to be obsessed with animals, right?
[33:04] So I'll just give you 2 examples of that.
[33:06] Her debut EP, not the album, but she had a debut EP much prior to
[33:11] that was called Pur. And she had a viral song called
[33:17] Moo in which she fantasizes about being a cow.
[33:21] Oh. This moo and cow.
[33:23] Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. I heard this.
[33:25] I heard this very recently also. It was a.
[33:28] Homemade music video the more. Thing I remember very
[33:31] specifically. Yep.
[33:33] Is it Doja Cat? But what's the Indian name?
[33:35] I wrote the Doja. Yes, it is Doja.
[33:37] Cat oh so. Let me walk.
[33:39] This back Doja cat was born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini.
[33:47] Wow. What?
[33:49] Yeah, her name. Is Amala Ratna?
[33:52] And her first? Album was Amala in 2018.
[33:56] OK, Amala. Was.
[33:57] Born to a Jewish American mother and a South African Zulu father.
[34:05] What? Where does the?
[34:06] Indian name come from then Yeah, OK.
[34:08] So when she was around 7 or 8 years old, she was in California
[34:16] and they lived at the Sai Anantam ashram.
[34:19] Which is a commune in the. Agora Hills practicing Hinduism
[34:23] for four years, she wore scarves, sang bhajans and she
[34:28] learned Bharatnatyam. Then.
[34:31] After they left the commune around 4-5 years later, she
[34:34] stopped bringing a practice in Hindu.
[34:35] But she's claimed in interviews that still influences her life
[34:38] and her music. The Bharatnatyam helped her when
[34:41] she started break dancing and when she joined the professional
[34:45] popping and locking group. And later in 20. 18 she released
[34:49] her first album which is an important of his album called
[34:52] Amala. Not many people know that Doja
[34:54] Cat's actual name is Amala Ratna.
[34:56] Wow. OK, so.
[34:58] Doja cat knows Bharatnatyam that is the take away from this.
[35:03] That's insane. And the fact that I had no idea
[35:05] there was a whole Hindu connection there.
[35:07] So cool. Oh yeah, I know.
[35:10] Since we. Are talking about the USA.
[35:14] I'm gonna just go to another American History Moment week.
[35:20] Week, OH. Today's a weekday for Segways.
[35:23] Oh, it's all right. Hopefully the fun trivia makes
[35:26] up for it. So I speak of 1898, in which a
[35:31] New York Times reporter stated that an American soldier had
[35:35] died from a disease so rare that it caused, quote, considerable
[35:40] comment among physicians. This disease since then, in the
[35:45] more than 100 years since that passed then, has of course been
[35:49] reconsider, reimagined, understood much more deeply as
[35:52] most diseases have. But this one is particularly
[35:54] interesting because we might not even think of it as a disease
[35:57] anymore. So let me describe it a little
[35:59] bit more to you. Those suffering from it often
[36:01] soldiers, would sometimes lose their appetite, others would
[36:04] become weak or lethargic. And this is something that a
[36:09] medical practitioner and writer Johannes Hoffa used in his
[36:14] dissertation describe an affliction affecting Swiss
[36:17] mercenaries as well. And this term permeated
[36:21] continents and warfare over the next two centuries.
[36:24] A lot has been written about it during the Civil War and after
[36:28] that as well. So what disease am I talking
[36:31] about? That also derives it's etymology
[36:35] from the Greek word for pain when it's not nodding.
[36:39] I feel like I've given away too much.
[36:40] Vineet hit me with the answer the moment.
[36:43] You said soldier died of a very right disease.
[36:47] This already sparked in my head and the memory, said Johannes.
[36:49] I was like, yeah, I know what this is going Swiss mercenaries.
[36:52] OK, If I'm not making a fool for myself by actually thinking of
[36:56] something else. I believe that the answer to the
[36:58] question you're asking is nostalgia.
[37:01] Come. On Vinit, be better.
[37:03] No, you're right, it is nostalgia and you're right, and
[37:07] that's the reason why I said that it's perhaps not considered
[37:09] a disease anymore. Nobody would consider nostalgia
[37:12] a disease as much as an emotion or perhaps an experience, but it
[37:15] is been linked to mental health disorders like depression and
[37:19] post traumatic stress disorder as well.
[37:21] So again, maybe a medical practitioner of psychiatrist
[37:25] would would be able to explain this better.
[37:26] But I'll do my very best that over the years it was initially
[37:29] considered a disease that people were wrecked with.
[37:32] And I mentioned that the symptoms were loss of appetite
[37:36] and weakness and lethargy, but also consumption by sadness.
[37:40] You were consumed by sadness, so it was meant to be an everyday
[37:44] feeling of sentimentality or longing.
[37:46] And the etymology, as I mentioned, is from the Greek,
[37:49] which is nostos, which means home, home, return home, and
[37:53] algos, which means pain. So return home pain, which is
[37:57] nostalgia. Yeah, very well.
[37:59] Cracked, very quickly cracked. You are on a roll today, good
[38:02] Sir. I don't know.
[38:05] So Speaking of roles, and this has nothing to do with roles, so
[38:10] I'm just going to go to the question directly, but it does
[38:12] have a tiny connection to an earlier question, which I now
[38:17] realized I should have asked this so that I would have a
[38:19] stronger segue. X was a joint venture between
[38:25] Hasbro and Y in 1987. X manufacturers all its products
[38:34] at its manufacturing facilities in Ranipet near Chennai and in
[38:39] Goa. In 2014, X surpassed Mattel,
[38:45] hence the Segway I should have caught earlier to become the
[38:49] market leader in the mid to premium segment.
[38:54] It is. Fitting that Y was Hasbro's
[38:58] partner in setting up X because Y itself was established in 1946
[39:04] as a toy balloon manufacturing unit.
[39:07] I want you to identify X&Y. So X&Y together founded this
[39:15] company, right? No.
[39:16] Hasbro and Y together founded X, right?
[39:21] So X was A. Joint venture between Hasbro and
[39:24] the company Yi Know. X is fun school.
[39:29] Oh, very good. Yeah, I was big.
[39:31] Fan of fun school growing up and I remember reading this trivia.
[39:34] So yes, I know this is an Indian company.
[39:37] I wasn't sure of where exactly it is founded, but I remember it
[39:41] being an Indian company very very quick.
[39:43] Crack. But joint venture between Hasbro
[39:46] and somebody else, what did you say?
[39:47] It makes sense that it was why, which is collaborating with
[39:50] Hasbro because why was. Established in 1946 as a toy
[39:53] balloon manufacturing unit. Toy balloon.
[39:56] And that links to why in a direct way you.
[40:01] Know yeah, so because why it was established as a toy balloon
[40:03] manufacturing unit and so it kind of makes sense that why
[40:06] would the partner with Hasbro to make toys.
[40:09] Well, you see, Y was started as a toy balloon.
[40:12] OK, OK, got it. Not, not as what it is known as
[40:16] now, I guess. No, no, no.
[40:17] So. Y was established in 1946 as a
[40:20] toy balloon manufacturing unit, and in 1987 Y shook hands with
[40:25] Hasbro and created Fund School OK.
[40:28] But what is Y known for today then?
[40:31] Oh. If I tell you that, then where's
[40:32] the fun in anything? I think we are you and I need to
[40:36] have a chat about fun later, but hey.
[40:40] Your idea of fun is performance art of, you know, tale Malish
[40:45] where people can't see you. I was wondering when.
[40:48] That will come up again in the episode.
[40:49] I'm glad it has come up. I'm going to hold it over.
[40:51] Your head for a long time, as I did hold.
[40:54] It over my own head. OK so this is a company that
[40:59] started off making toy balloons, eventually partnered with Hasbro
[41:03] to form 1 school, but is known for another product today
[41:08] presumably is this company. You could tell me this is this
[41:11] company also Indian? Yes, they are the Indian.
[41:14] Partner Hasbro was the American partner, Right, Right, Right.
[41:18] Back in the day, you needed an Indian partner to open a
[41:20] company, right? Makes sense this company was.
[41:24] Started is a toy balloon manufacturing unit in 1946 at
[41:29] Thiruvottiyur, Madras, Oh, oh. Should I?
[41:33] It's a very wild guess. Is it some sort of a Indian
[41:36] condom brand like Kohinoor or something?
[41:40] OK, I have to applaud your imagination.
[41:43] It's not that. Much of A stretch, pun intended,
[41:46] to go from toy balloon to a condom.
[41:49] No, it's not too much of A stretch, and I shouldn't be
[41:51] surprised that you, who are a connoisseur of websites such as
[41:54] Wicked would know about, would think about condoms as the first
[41:59] option. But no, it's not condoms.
[42:01] I I had not. Even heard of Wicked before I
[42:03] came across the tree way. OK, Yeah, yeah, yes.
[42:05] Hi, Mom. Talk to the hand.
[42:07] So what? Worst thing to say at this
[42:10] point, just say yes. So, OK, you are weirdly close.
[42:16] As in, if you think of what condoms are colloquially called
[42:21] in some cases, that will lead you to what this company does
[42:24] now. The only thing I remember, and I
[42:28] remember this being something that became big joke when I was
[42:31] in 600, was that there was a ad, I forget which brand, where this
[42:36] guy goes to a pharmacist and he asks for a Chatri and the
[42:40] pharmacist looks confused and he's like Chatri Matlab and then
[42:42] he's like condom. So that's all.
[42:45] So are you talking about some umbrella manufacture?
[42:48] No, not an Indian. Colloquialism I would suggest
[42:51] think of AI. Think an American colloquialism
[42:54] for a condom for any of the non. Hindi speakers chatri basically
[42:57] means umbrella. So the guy goes into the store
[42:59] and asks for an umbrella and then clarifies him into condom.
[43:02] But OK, Vineet says not an Indian colloquialism, so let me
[43:05] try. Before we kind of like this is
[43:09] going to be very filthy episode, but I've never understood why
[43:12] condoms are called chatri because what happens?
[43:16] No, no, the the you can hear me out on this right?
[43:19] I already understand. Where you're going with this?
[43:21] Yeah, but please, umbrellas are. Supposed to protect you from the
[43:24] rain, yeah. Yeah, this is.
[43:28] So this is a reverse thing. This is like a reverse umbrella,
[43:30] right? It's protected somebody else
[43:32] from the rain. Yeah, maybe it's an umbrella
[43:36] from the female perspective, Yeah.
[43:39] What else would you call? It I don't.
[43:41] Know a cap cap. How does a?
[43:43] Cap work in this scenario, Vineet it's capping no?
[43:46] Capping like a pen cap, so I think.
[43:48] Umbrella, because it will I guess the circular shape, we
[43:51] should really move on from this. OK.
[43:55] So coming back to the question. Very serious trivia.
[43:58] OK, what are the colloquialism for a condom?
[44:01] Wood can can you remember like that will directly lead you to
[44:04] this. Protection rubber.
[44:09] Oh, OK. Some.
[44:11] Sort of. Is it MRF?
[44:14] The only Indian. Tire company I can think of.
[44:16] Yes, it is. The Madras Rubber Factory MRF
[44:19] for those who don't know, it was started by KM Maman Mapali as a
[44:23] toy balloon manufacturing unit in 1946.
[44:25] It about your Madras, now Chennai In 1952, the company
[44:29] ventured into the manufacturing of trade rubber and the Madras
[44:33] Rubber Factory Limited was incorporated as a private
[44:35] company in November 1960 and ventured into the manufacturing
[44:39] of tires in partnership with Mansfield Tire and Rubber
[44:42] Company based in Ohio. And now they are a very very
[44:45] major tire manufacturing company in India.
[44:48] And also promoters of young aspiring cricketers through the
[44:52] MRF Cricket Academy and MRF in 1987 are tied up with Hasbro to
[44:57] create a Fun school. And in 2014, Fun School
[45:01] surpassed Mattel to become the market leader in India in the
[45:05] mid to premium segment. Cool.
[45:07] Oh, I had no idea that Fun school came from Hasbro and MRF.
[45:11] That's kind of fun. Yeah.
[45:12] So. I think that's all the time we
[45:15] have for today's episode, but let us wind up by first
[45:20] answering the audience question which I asked at the beginning
[45:22] of today's episode, which was The first X were converted
[45:26] flintlock pistols that used gunpowder.
[45:29] One of the first actual ex built for the purpose was invented by
[45:32] a German chemist named Johann Wolfgang Dobreiner in 1823.
[45:38] The development of Pharaoh cerium by Carl or von Welschbach
[45:42] in 19 O3 made modern X possible. What is X Aditya?
[45:46] What is XI? Want to?
[45:48] Say an air gun. Oh no, Too early for an air gun,
[45:53] OK. Pharaoh Cerium.
[45:55] Is the clue Pharaoh? Cerium.
[45:59] Tell me the ferrocerium part again.
[46:00] So the modern. X was made possible by the
[46:03] invention of Oregon Development of Ferrocerium by Carl or von
[46:07] Walsh Park in 1903. OK, I'll give you 1.
[46:12] Major Clue, the most famous company selling X right now, is
[46:18] very famous for giving a lifetime warranty on their
[46:21] product and many people have owned it for decades.
[46:26] There are working examples of these from the Second World War
[46:31] which are still in perfect condition or at least being used
[46:34] perfectly I recently. Saw a video talking about jeans
[46:38] that are made in Japan and have a lifetime guarantee, but I'm
[46:42] assuming those are never made from pistols.
[46:45] That would be strange. The other thing that this brings
[46:48] me to because you said ferrocerium, is it something to
[46:51] do with lighters? Oh, very good.
[46:54] We are talking about the modern day cigarette lighter or lighter
[46:57] which would produce a flame. So which company am I talking
[47:00] about which gives a lifetime warranty?
[47:02] I'm. Assuming since you said the
[47:03] biggest one, then Zippo yes. It is Zippo.
[47:06] Zippo Lighter and Company was invented and founded by George
[47:09] Grant Bledel in 1932. It's very much noted for his
[47:14] reliability and it has a lifetime warranty and is marked
[47:17] as being windproof. And fun fact, if you have an
[47:21] original Zippo that for some reason has stopped working or is
[47:24] damaged in some way, you can ship it to the Zippo company and
[47:27] they will repair it for you. Doesn't matter.
[47:30] And I think they do it free of charge.
[47:31] I'm not sure exactly on that, but it doesn't matter how old it
[47:34] is, they will replace it and make it as good as new for you.
[47:38] That's pretty cool. Comes as a lifetime.
[47:40] Warranty and I do own a Zippo, a silver zippo.
[47:42] I can tell you that it is remarkably windproof, but not
[47:46] like in really bad conditions. But compared to a cheap lighter
[47:50] plastic lighter you get, it is pretty windproof.
[47:53] OK. So that was the.
[47:54] Audience question for this week Aditya, what's your pop culture
[47:57] recommendation So. The first one I'll recommend is
[48:02] the movie American Psycho, and this one is pretty famous
[48:06] already, but I thought it's good to bring it up just again
[48:09] because there was some fantastic performance by Christian Bale.
[48:13] There are some very iconic scenes and it is disturbing in
[48:16] so many ways. It is meant to be.
[48:19] Some of the sexually violent, graphic scenes are truly
[48:22] terrifying and so much more because Christian Bale portrays
[48:26] the hell out of this character. But more importantly, I was very
[48:30] pleasantly surprised to know that this was directed by a
[48:33] woman, which is also kind of cool.
[48:34] Yeah. She had a pretty solid grasp on
[48:37] what she wanted to do. Interestingly enough, as far as
[48:39] I know, there was another director on board briefly who
[48:42] wanted Matt Damon. Matt Damon.
[48:46] Eventually bowed out for various reasons and the role went to
[48:50] Christian Bale as was originally planned by the female director,
[48:54] who goes by the name of Mary Heron.
[48:57] Check out American Psycho for a phenomenal performance by
[49:01] Christian Bale. Nice.
[49:03] Nice. And my second.
[49:05] Recommendation, which I have not done in a while so I'm going to
[49:08] do it now, is the song recommendation.
[49:10] What a life. What a life is a song by Scarlet
[49:14] Pleasure. I encountered it in the movie
[49:17] Another Round, which by the way is also final movie, so take
[49:20] that as a third recommendation. The last scene includes, without
[49:24] giving any spoiler, has the song that's playing in the
[49:26] background. It's called What a Life and just
[49:29] an iconic movie, iconic song, iconic scene, all of it is
[49:31] great. Definitely check out the movie
[49:34] and listen to the song What a Life.
[49:36] Those are my recommendations for today. 2 movies and a song.
[49:41] OK, so my. Recommendation for today is
[49:44] basically a side recommendation because I started watching this
[49:48] new show. Watching that reminded me of
[49:50] what the actress and the other show that she's very famous in.
[49:54] So the actress I'm talking about is Caitlin Olsen and the other
[49:58] show that I wanted to talk about is It's Always Sunny in
[50:00] Philadelphia. If you have not watched it,
[50:03] please do. It is just insanely hilarious.
[50:07] Charlie Day, Danny DeVito and Caitlin Olsen and Mr. What is
[50:11] it? What's the name?
[50:12] Rob Mckenney. Yes, he was, you may now
[50:14] remember as Ryan Reynolds partner in owning a football
[50:18] club. So and it's an absurdist sitcom,
[50:22] very dark humour, but it can suck you in completely and you
[50:26] just get sucked into the world of these complete misfits and
[50:30] frankly really unlikable people if you knew them in real life.
[50:35] And Caitlin Olsen, who plays sweet D in its always in
[50:39] Philadelphia, recently started a known show which I found to be
[50:42] very similar in vain to some of the other shows that I like like
[50:46] Psych and on. So the show is called high
[50:48] potential. Its new, its not so easily
[50:52] available in India right now, so you may have to find your own
[50:54] way of why watching it, but its so far it shows promise.
[50:59] And the second show is something that I'm kindly watching.
[51:03] I havent made my complete decision on whether it's good or
[51:08] not but the performance in it by Kathy Bates is amazing.
[51:13] So again I was like wondering what is she doing in a show like
[51:16] this? So the show is called Matlock.
[51:18] Some people may remember this. There was another show called
[51:21] Matlock from the 90s early 90s about a lawyer.
[51:25] This show has nothing to do with that except the fact that the
[51:28] main character also calls herself Matlock and makes
[51:33] reference to the fact that there was a show in the TV show
[51:36] itself. So it's kind of a kind of meta
[51:37] reference. But it is Kathy Bates and it is
[51:43] impossible, I think, for her to give or deliver a bad
[51:45] performance. And she stands out.
[51:48] Like that's what makes me a little hesitant about the show
[51:51] is that when you see Kathy Bates acting, everybody else seems mid
[51:56] to low by comparison. Acting of this caliber has no
[52:01] place in a show like this. But Kathy Bates just knocks it
[52:04] out of part. And every she she's in and
[52:06] everybody else is like, just window dressing, just scenery in
[52:09] the background. It's so far.
[52:11] The premise is OK. I don't know if it'll be a great
[52:14] show, but hey, give it a watch for Kathy Bates, who's still
[52:17] going strong. Yeah.
[52:19] So that's my recommendation. And that's all for this episode.
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[53:54] Thank you, Vineet. That was very Lord of the Rings
[53:56] trilogy of you. Yeah.
[53:57] Just kept thinking it's going to end.
[53:58] What didn't end. Hey.
[54:00] You do not mess with the Lord of the Rings in front of me.
[54:03] That is a sacrosanct trilogy. The only person was allowed.
[54:06] To mess with the Lord of the Rings trilogy is Peter Jackson
[54:09] by making The Hobbit trilogy. Alrighty, on that note, see you
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