# Episode 096 - Two Thousand, Twenty & Four

An episode of [Are You Quizzing Me?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1663104901), 20 Jan 2025, 1 h 27 min.

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As per tradition we are doing an extra long, special episode to mark the beginning of the new year! And what better way to do that than by discussing some fun trivia pertaining to events that happened in 2024. So, do you know what happened in Europe in January of 2024 that happened only once before, in 1146? Do you know why a Lennon-McCartney single in 2024, "Primrose Hill", go completely under the radar? Do you know what bizarre hashtag went viral before Paris Olympics, to protest hosting events in the river Seine? Tune in to find out! You can reach us at Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/areyouquizzingme/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/areyouquizzingme Email: areyouquizzingme@gmail.com Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/areyouquizzingme Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@areyouquizzingme/podcasts

## Transcript

[0:00] Welcome to Are you quizzing me? I am Vineet Nair with my Co host
[0:04] Aditya Kashyap. This is a quizzing trivia
[0:07] podcast show. Join us as we dive deep into
[0:10] history, science, pop culture and so much more.
[0:14] Let's get quizzing and we're back for episode number 96 of
[0:21] Are you quizzing me? Your favorite quizzing and
[0:24] trivia podcast show. Aditya and I are back for our
[0:27] year end episode where all our questions will be based off
[0:32] events that happened or at least tangentially related to events
[0:35] that happened in 2024. Before we start with the 12
[0:40] questions which will cover the entire year, there's a small
[0:45] matter of the audience question which we ask at the beginning of
[0:47] every episode. And that's a question again
[0:50] related to 2024 that I will ask you today.
[0:52] My dear audience, The question is this. 9 out of the 10 highest
[0:57] crossing films of 2024 were sequels.
[1:02] Let me repeat that, 9 out of 10 of the highest grossing films of
[1:07] 2024, I'm talking internationally were sequels
[1:12] which was the only non sequel or only outlier in this list.
[1:18] So you have the duration of this plus sized mega episode to try
[1:24] and remember and guess what the answer is?
[1:27] I will reveal it at the end of today's episode.
[1:30] Now, as I mentioned, today's episode is going to be a 2024
[1:33] Obsessed episode. We will be talking about
[1:37] questions and we'll be asking questions only related to
[1:40] something that's either directly or indirectly related to
[1:42] something that happened in 2024. We'll be going month wise and
[1:46] Aditi and I will cover all 12 months in the coming hour, 2
[1:50] hour and a half, which however long this episode is going to
[1:52] be. So without much further ado,
[1:56] let's start off with January and Aditya.
[1:59] I believe that's your month. Yeah, of course, the month of
[2:03] January. I I love January.
[2:05] January is the Monday of the year, the morning of the year,
[2:10] and I'm definitely a Monday morning person.
[2:12] No, I'm not. That was a sarcastic comment.
[2:16] I'm not. But in any case, let's start
[2:18] with something that happened in January.
[2:20] OK. Like you said, we are doing
[2:22] events that happened this year. So tell me, Vineet, what
[2:25] happened in January this year that has happened only once
[2:28] before, in 1146. Something that happened in 1146
[2:36] and has happened again now, or at least last year.
[2:41] OK, 1146, it's a very specific year, 1146 in 2024, I'm guessing
[2:52] it's some kind of date or time related something, some kind of
[2:55] geological or astronomical phenomenon.
[2:59] No, actually it is an event. It's very much a socio political
[3:04] event. OK socio political event that
[3:10] happened in January. Nope, I am blanking.
[3:14] OK, so let's say it is a political event that has
[3:17] happened only once before and 2024 was the second time it ever
[3:22] happened and something in Europe, I think that should give
[3:26] you maybe a sense of what kind of event it could be.
[3:29] Something in Europe, something that has only happened once
[3:32] before, a political event. Take a while to guess as to what
[3:35] kind of political events could have happened back then and
[3:38] could have happened in 2024. Oh wait, this is something to do
[3:41] with coronation or something. Oh, very close, very close.
[3:44] So yes, we are talking about something to do with the
[3:46] monarchies of Europe. It isn't anything to do with the
[3:49] English monarchy, but OK, pretty close with the guests related to
[3:54] royal families. So tell me, what could it be?
[4:00] Did somebody OK? I'm trying to remember any royal
[4:03] events. Oh, is it?
[4:05] No. This isn't the Harry and Meghan
[4:07] thing, right? That happened much prior before
[4:09] that. No, it's not.
[4:10] It's not. OK, yeah, this is like a year
[4:14] ago and my memory doesn't stretch back that far, so
[4:19] they'll need some sort of clue because I'm groping in the dark
[4:23] here. Fair enough.
[4:24] This was a tough question to start off, but I hope the clues
[4:28] will get you there. I have two important clues.
[4:30] The second clue will absolutely get you there.
[4:32] The first clue is what I'm going to however start with, and this
[4:36] has to do with the country with the oldest flag.
[4:39] Now, of course, some things like this are not always undisputed,
[4:44] but let's say widely agreed upon the oldest state flag in the
[4:49] world still in use by an independent nation.
[4:52] Which has a monarchy. Which has an ongoing monarchy.
[4:56] Liechtenstein or something? Liechtenstein.
[5:01] Wow. We have a guess right from the
[5:04] dark note that isn't Liechtenstein.
[5:07] Oh, OK. Long standing monarchies.
[5:11] The Spanish have a long standing monarchy, but I don't think the
[5:15] Spanish flag is the oldest. Wow no man I don't know.
[5:19] I'm just I have no context here. My brain is just scrambling for
[5:23] royal events that happened last year.
[5:26] Maybe I this is something I didn't know happened, I don't
[5:29] know. Yeah, maybe it might have gone
[5:31] under the radar, especially for people outside of that country.
[5:34] So let me just give you a little bit more context before I give
[5:36] you the final clue which will absolutely 100% give you the
[5:39] answer. OK.
[5:41] I will give you the context, which basically has to do with
[5:44] after the death of Elizabeth the Second.
[5:46] Yeah. This particular Queen, reigning
[5:49] queen of this country. Oh, Denmark stepped.
[5:51] Down. Oh, wow, OK.
[5:54] Wow. I didn't even have to give a
[5:55] hint. Yes, we are talking about the
[5:57] Danish royal family. Denmark.
[5:59] Well done, Well done. Oh OK, somebody abdicated for
[6:02] the first time or stepped down for the first time since 11:46.
[6:06] Exactly. It is the second time in history
[6:09] that somebody has abdicated in in the Danish royal history.
[6:13] The last time that this happened was Eric heard almost 9
[6:17] centuries ago in 1146. The cause for that is actually
[6:20] unknown or is disputed. People say that he considered
[6:24] himself unfit to rule or was convinced to step down.
[6:29] Either way, that's one of the better kings of their royal
[6:32] history. And can you make a wild guess as
[6:35] to what my second clue would have been?
[6:37] I feel like you would have got. What second clue could you have
[6:39] given? Hamlet would be a fictional
[6:43] member of this royal family. Ah, that's actually a great clue
[6:47] as well. But no.
[6:48] Something to do with technology, something that almost every
[6:50] trivial nerd has encountered. Harold Bluetooth.
[6:53] Of course, Harold Bluetooth was going to be Oh.
[6:55] Nice. Yes, Yes.
[6:57] My second clue, he was the son of King Gom the Old and I
[7:01] believe was the second in the royal family.
[7:05] So Gom the old was I believe the founder of the royal family.
[7:08] Current. OK, that's where it started
[7:11] from. Nice, nice.
[7:13] Yeah, Harold Bluetooth. By the way, for those of you who
[7:16] might not know, it was a Danish king.
[7:18] As the name would suggest, he is the one after whom Bluetooth the
[7:22] technology is named. The symbol for Bluetooth
[7:24] actually comes from the initials of Harold Bluetooth.
[7:28] The rune. The rune.
[7:29] Yes, written in runic H&B or whatever the equivalent alphabet
[7:33] would be would be written in the same symbol as is used for
[7:37] Bluetooth. So yes, Vineet, well done.
[7:39] Actually, that was very impressive.
[7:40] I expected you to only get it after the Bluetooth clue.
[7:43] So you surprised me. You impressed.
[7:45] Me. No, because the queen thing kind
[7:46] of sparked a memory somewhere of reading, you know what?
[7:49] Her stepping down. So yeah, that's that's nice. 54
[7:52] years. 54 years. Wow.
[7:54] When she stepped down, she was the longest reigning monarch
[7:57] because Elizabeth the Second had passed away and she was
[8:01] currently the longest reigning monarch living monarch when she
[8:03] stepped down. Yeah, that's a great one.
[8:06] That's a great question to start off with.
[8:08] Before I go to my questions to our audience, you'll notice that
[8:12] my questions for this past year, this past year, 2024 has been a
[8:17] particularly horrible year for many, many reasons throughout
[8:21] the world. Lots of wars, civil wars, lots
[8:23] of tragedies, lots of horrible things happening in and outside
[8:26] India. So I have decided to, you know,
[8:29] go to the positive side. So all my questions are going to
[8:31] be very wholesome, going to be looking at the positive things
[8:34] that happened of last year. So if you feel like I'm
[8:37] completely ignoring the major Titanic events that happened
[8:42] last year, it's on purpose. OK, So let me just put that out
[8:45] of the way. You have said that because I was
[8:47] going to make the exact same disclaimer that I don't think we
[8:51] are ignoring it as much as we are consciously choosing to
[8:55] focus on other things. Yes, At the same time,
[8:56] acknowledging that this year was very tough for a lot of people
[8:59] for so many reasons. Yes.
[9:01] And if you need information on that, there are much better
[9:03] sources. Yeah, let's look at the silver
[9:05] lining. OK, great.
[9:07] So this is my question for the month of February.
[9:11] Intuitive Machines Incorporated is an American company
[9:15] headquartered in Houston, TX. It was founded in 2013 by
[9:20] Stephen Altimus, Cam Ghafarian and Tim Crane.
[9:24] It went public in February of 2023 after merging with
[9:28] Inflection Point Acquisition Corp, a special purpose
[9:32] acquisition company. How did Intuitive Machines make
[9:36] history in February of 2024? The company made history in
[9:41] February 2024. Yes.
[9:44] Where is this company based again?
[9:46] Houston. Texas.
[9:49] February 2024, whenever there's a question to do with February,
[9:53] I don't know why, but automatically my instinct goes
[9:56] towards Valentine's Day and AI. So I'm assuming or I'm guessing
[10:00] it has, maybe it has something to do with Valentine's Day?
[10:03] Somebody went out on a date? Or did they create a robot that
[10:06] you could ask out on a date on Valentine's?
[10:09] Day, I see where you're going and it's not a bad direction to
[10:14] go in considering that AI was a big thing in 2024.
[10:17] But no, it's not nothing to do with AI, but I wouldn't say it's
[10:21] not got anything to do with the robots.
[10:24] It has got something to do with the robots, but tangentially.
[10:27] I wouldn't say directly. And to be honest, this kind of
[10:30] did pass by my radar. I did not catch on to this.
[10:35] Like I remember reading about it, but I didn't re.
[10:37] I didn't catch on to the significance of it until much
[10:40] later. OK, so this is intuitive AI.
[10:45] Intuitive Machines. The company is called Intuitive
[10:49] Machines Incorporated. Yeah, no, OK, I'm currently lost
[10:53] also, so please give me a hint. OK, So this, when it happened
[10:58] was the first time it had happened in the private sector.
[11:03] And I'm being very deliberately vague here because I have to be
[11:07] care, choose my words very carefully.
[11:09] So this is the first time it happened in the private sector
[11:11] and this was the first time in 50 years that it had happened
[11:17] for America. First time in 50 years or
[11:21] something in the 1970s, Nineteen 60s.
[11:24] Is it by any chance got anything to do with the moon landing?
[11:28] I know there were quite a few. Oh, OK, just you've got it, but
[11:32] you just need to tweak it a little bit.
[11:36] So not landing, but. No, you're there.
[11:39] You're there. Just just just phrase it
[11:40] properly. And you're right.
[11:42] OK. Did have private company
[11:47] launched a Rover or was there a Rover by a private company on
[11:50] the moon? Yes, OK, so intuitive machines
[11:53] incorporated they had a lunar Lander from their IM One machine
[11:58] named Odysseus which was launched by a SpaceX Falcon nine
[12:03] on 15th of February 2024. It reached lunar orbit on 21st
[12:08] February and landed on the lunar surface on 22nd February.
[12:12] This marked the inaugural Nova Sea landing on the Moon, which
[12:16] is the first private company to land on the Moon and the first
[12:20] American spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the moon over 50
[12:23] years. Oh, wow.
[12:25] Cool. That's pretty cool, actually.
[12:29] It's great that you brought this up so early on, because it was
[12:31] one of my contenders for a January question as well.
[12:34] In January, Japan landed a Rover on the Moon Slim.
[12:38] So yeah, out of all the sad, depressing, troubling news of
[12:43] the year, the space Race is healthy and alive.
[12:46] And I love that for us as a species, that always fills me
[12:50] with a lot of joy. Yeah, and it's not just Japan.
[12:53] So Japan landed. The Landa was called Slim Smart
[12:57] Lander for investigating the moon.
[12:59] It landed in January and transmitted data back for three
[13:02] months. China sent a mission that
[13:04] brought back soil samples from the far side of the moon.
[13:07] NASA's Perseverance Rover found possible evidence of microbial
[13:10] life on Mars, a joint EU Japan mission photographed the South
[13:14] Pole of Mercury, and SpaceX quite spectacularly demonstrated
[13:20] a recapturing of returning booster rock pits with chopstick
[13:24] arms. That was just wow, mind blowing.
[13:29] Yeah, some very, very inspiring stories, yeah.
[13:32] Yeah. So the space race as you said is
[13:34] alive and well. I have a follow up kind of
[13:38] question, which is kind of, you know, me hogging the limelight a
[13:42] little bit, but I really love this.
[13:44] So I just want to ask you, it's a very simple question.
[13:46] So we were talking about the lunar Lander, right?
[13:50] Odysseus was the first private moon lunar Lander.
[13:53] My question to you is this on which all extraterrestrial
[13:58] bodies have human beings landed either a crude or uncrewed
[14:04] mission? And how many times do you think
[14:07] that has happened? Landed or does crash landing
[14:13] also? No, no, I'm, I'm talking just,
[14:15] I'm talking just a proper landing, like a soft landing.
[14:19] I'm not talking crashing into it on purpose.
[14:21] There are obviously some other things which are also becoming.
[14:25] But I'm saying if you consider only just landing a soft
[14:29] landing, a successful soft landing on an extraterrestrial
[14:33] body, which all bodies obviously it's only happened in the solar
[14:36] system. So which all bodies in the solar
[14:38] system have we had these kind of landings on?
[14:42] So can you just list them out is my question?
[14:45] Interesting. So we have Venus, we have Mars,
[14:49] we have the Moon 3. You're saying Venus, Mars and
[14:54] the Moon, right? OK.
[14:56] Yeah. What else?
[14:58] These three I know for sure. I'm wondering, have we landed
[15:04] anything on an asteroid? Oh yes, we have, I think.
[15:07] We might have. Yeah, we have, right?
[15:09] Yeah. I think we've landed stuff on
[15:10] the asteroids. Yes, OK.
[15:13] What else? I don't think we have ever
[15:15] landed anything on a comet. Oh no, we have the Rosetta
[15:19] mission. Oh, we have landed on a comet.
[15:23] You are right. You are right.
[15:24] OK, OK. So, so far you've listed off the
[15:28] Moon, Mars, Venus, asteroids, and comets.
[15:34] What if I told you there's one more in this list?
[15:37] Oh wow. We've had a successful soft
[15:40] landing on one more place, on one more extraterrestrial body.
[15:46] Mercury, we haven't landed right.
[15:48] So the thing with Mercury, let me put it this way.
[15:52] So the thing with Mercury is we have had a crash landing on
[15:57] Mercury where we intentionally crashed the messenger probe.
[16:01] But as I mentioned, I'm only talking about soft landings.
[16:05] Then I'm thinking it has to be a moon of Jupiter.
[16:11] That's technically not right. Oh OK.
[16:14] Is it a moon though? Is it a Saturn moon then?
[16:17] Yes. So which one?
[16:21] Where have we landed? Have we landed on Titan?
[16:24] We have not landed on Titan. We have landed on Titan now this
[16:28] is the thing. It's, it's, it's such a people
[16:30] have collectively forgotten the fact that the Huyukens probe in
[16:34] 2519 years ago landed a floating Lander on Titan, which
[16:41] transmitted data for 90 minutes following landing.
[16:45] Holy hell I have forgotten about this.
[16:47] We have landed on Titan. That is insane.
[16:50] That is in 2004. 2005, 2005 January of 2005 We have also
[16:56] landed on asteroids. We've landed on Eros, which was
[17:00] a USA mission called Near Shoemaker.
[17:02] We've landed on Itokawa, an asteroid from a it was a
[17:05] Japanese mission which was called Hayabusa.
[17:08] Then there was another asteroid called Ryugu, which was again a
[17:10] Hayabusa mission. Then there was an asteroid
[17:12] called Bennu, which was landed in 2020, and we got samples back
[17:17] from it. The sample returned to Earth in
[17:19] 2023. That was a mission called Osiris
[17:21] Rex. Now again, just this is a very
[17:24] closely related question, how many missions do you think or
[17:29] how many landings do you think we've had on Venus?
[17:34] Oh, actually, I remember Venus was quite the planet of interest
[17:39] for a few decades and then we sort of kind of lost interest in
[17:44] it and Mars became the focus. How many?
[17:49] So I know we have sent multiple probes.
[17:51] I know we have sent multiple missions to Venus.
[17:55] We have landed the same pictures so I know there are at least one
[18:02] look at this complete guess, but I'm going to just guess 2333.
[18:07] I'm going to say 3. So we have landed 11 times on
[18:11] Venus. Oh wow.
[18:15] OK. 11 times. OK, the first was Venera 7, you
[18:20] know, venous venereal disease, Venera, hence the name.
[18:23] So it was a USSR mission, Venera 7 in 1970 and a total of 11
[18:30] Landers. So Venera 7 to 14 and then the
[18:33] Vega missions 1 to one and two from the USSR.
[18:36] All these I think 10 missions went between 1970 and 1985.
[18:42] And we have one US mission, which was the Pioneer Venus
[18:45] multi probe, which is in 1978, Venera 13 transmitted from the
[18:51] surface of Venus for 127 minutes, the first photographs
[18:57] in color of its surface. And it recorded atmospheric wind
[19:02] noises, and those were the first sounds we ever heard from
[19:06] another planet. I remember this, yes, I remember
[19:09] the sounds of Venus, and I think this is what I was talking
[19:12] about, that there was a time period where there was a lot of
[19:14] interest in Venus. I think it was the USSR which
[19:16] was sending it. That's why I forgot, because the
[19:18] US didn't send as many missions. You're right, you're right.
[19:20] Exactly. And something else that not most
[19:22] people don't know is that when you look at the space race,
[19:25] people usually consider the space race to have been won by
[19:28] the US because the US were the first people to land somebody
[19:32] human on the moon, right? But it was actually, I think
[19:37] that the USSR has a very strong claim to actually have won the
[19:41] space race because they had the first multi generationally
[19:44] successful space station. They were the first to land
[19:47] something on the moon which was Luna 2 in 1959.
[19:51] They were the first to land on Venus which is I mentioned
[19:54] Venera 7 and not many people know this.
[19:58] Their Mars 3 Lander landed in 1971 and transmitted for 14.5
[20:05] seconds. So I'm considering that as a
[20:07] successful landing even though it transmitted only for 14.5
[20:11] seconds. What most people and most books
[20:13] will tell you is that Viking one.
[20:15] In 1976 was the first successful landing, and that was by the US,
[20:19] but the USSR did get there five years before that.
[20:22] Even though it was for only a spot shots man of 14 seconds,
[20:27] the space for the Final Frontier is still fascinating.
[20:32] I love it. I'm I'm a big geek for space
[20:34] stuff. Absolutely, absolutely.
[20:36] It was what I said I want to do or what I want to become when I
[20:40] grow up. Always used to talk about
[20:42] something to do with the space. Well, here I'm asking trivia
[20:45] questions related to the universe.
[20:48] I love it. Been close enough.
[20:51] Speaking of close enough. Sorry we are doing this,
[20:53] stretching it out, but I hope our listeners don't mind because
[20:56] Slim, which you mentioned, Japan's Lander on the moon,
[21:00] Yeah, was also called Moon sniper.
[21:03] It was called Moon sniper because it came within a few 10s
[21:07] or hundreds of meters of where it was supposed to land.
[21:10] Whereas the usual accuracy is within a few kilometers of the
[21:14] intended landing site. This one landed within a few 10
[21:18] or hundreds of meters. So they called the moon sniper
[21:20] and you have to watch and I don't want to say things off the
[21:23] top of my head. So go YouTube this.
[21:25] There are multiple videos which compare it landing a probe or a
[21:31] spacecraft onto another planet with something to do with like,
[21:34] you know, throwing a pencil and landing it from the top of I
[21:38] think it is the Empire State Building and landing it at the
[21:40] spot within a few centimeters at the bottom with that kind of
[21:45] accuracy. And of course, doing it blind
[21:47] with having no way to figure out and, and massive delays and even
[21:51] communication. Yeah, Despite that, imagine
[21:54] landing stuff on freaking Titan and we Oh my Lord it.
[21:58] It blows my mind. What what really, really
[22:00] fascinates me is that we went to the moon on a memory of 64
[22:04] kilobytes. Oh God, yes.
[22:08] We've sent 2 probe outside the solar system on.
[22:12] I mean, it's like technology from 60 years ago and we now
[22:16] struggle to go back to the moon. Something's wrong there.
[22:21] We lost that spirit somewhere. We are also struggling to put
[22:26] out a video episode for a podcast, so clearly, yeah.
[22:33] Yeah, yeah. Humanity might be regressing a
[22:35] little bit, but OK. That was a great question.
[22:37] Thank you for allowing me this little indulgence into space
[22:41] trivia. Yes.
[22:43] Kicking out on it, you went really high minded as I am going
[22:48] to talk about a different kind of a star.
[22:50] OK. Which musician Which singer
[22:54] performed their first ever concert in India on 1st of
[23:00] March? 1st of March When did Ed Sheeran
[23:05] perform? That was later.
[23:07] That was later in the year. OK, which musician performed for
[23:13] the first time in India? Dua Lepa was in December.
[23:18] Yeah, saying Ed Sheeran was later.
[23:20] I don't remember who else came to India where I remember.
[23:24] No, but she didn't perform it in India.
[23:25] People just went to theaters and watched the Era store.
[23:29] Yeah, Taylor Swift, they watched that on in theaters, but it
[23:33] wasn't a live performance. So I'm, I don't know.
[23:35] I'm I'm nothing comes to mind right now.
[23:38] OK. By the way, I just checked, I
[23:40] think it was in March itself that she was performing.
[23:43] Oh, OK. Yeah.
[23:44] So that was his first performance rate in India.
[23:48] Probably was, but I mentioned I mentioned 1st March. 1st of
[23:52] March. OK. 1st of March.
[23:55] And knowing are you quizzing me? And knowing Vinita, neither of
[24:00] us is interested in just random trivia.
[24:02] There's to be something fun about this piece of trivia.
[24:05] Yes, OK. I will provide you with hints
[24:10] wherever you need. I think I'll need one now.
[24:13] OK. She performed her first concert
[24:16] in eight years. First concert in eight years
[24:22] March 1st. 1st concert in eight years.
[24:25] She I remember seeing this video of 91 year old Asha Poseley at
[24:32] some kind of concert. Was it this?
[24:33] Wasn't that, right? It's not that.
[24:35] I don't know. About the time when she did the
[24:39] step which went viral. Yeah, Yeah.
[24:43] I think that's much later. Yeah, obviously.
[24:45] Yeah. Yeah, much later, much later, I
[24:46] think it was in December of 2024.
[24:49] OK, no man, I'll need a clue. OK, the second clue and I think
[24:54] by the third clue you'll definitely get it.
[24:56] But the second clue is she is noted as the best selling female
[25:00] recording artist of the 21st century by Guinness World
[25:02] Records. Isn't that Beyoncé?
[25:05] It isn't Beyoncé, no. OK.
[25:08] And you said she performed in India?
[25:10] For the first time ever. Oh, I I don't follow music in I
[25:18] mean like, I don't know, and I do follow music.
[25:19] That's a lie. I do follow music but it's not
[25:22] like. Can I just say stuff like that
[25:23] and expect our audience to believe you?
[25:25] No, I know, I know. See, I do follow music, but I
[25:28] just can't remember who had a concert.
[25:30] I mean like I follow music which interests me.
[25:32] Let let me just put it that way. Can I remind our listeners that
[25:35] one of the things that we need to said most often on this
[25:38] podcast is Rolling Stones is the soundtrack of the 70s?
[25:43] The 60's. The 60s.
[25:45] Oh God my bad, I embarrass myself.
[25:48] I'm sorry. It is the 60s yes, but you
[25:51] cannot claim you don't listen to music.
[25:53] And you definitely have heard of this artist.
[25:54] She is literally the best selling female recording artist
[25:57] according to Guinness World Records and the highest
[26:00] certified female digital single artist according to RI AA, the
[26:04] Recording Industry Association of America.
[26:07] They performed in India for the first time.
[26:09] Female artist who's the highest selling of the twenty 20th
[26:14] century. 21st Century. 21st Century.
[26:18] I selling artist of the 21st century.
[26:21] Obviously the first name that comes to mind is Taylor Swift or
[26:23] Beyoncé. But if you're saying it's not
[26:25] that and it's a she, Madonna. Not Madonna 21st century.
[26:31] I doubt Madonna would make the. Car.
[26:32] Yeah, I know. I was just.
[26:33] The bulk of her career was, I think, in the 90s.
[26:36] OK, let me give you one more clue before I give the clue that
[26:39] I think will be a giveaway. OK.
[26:42] At age 11, she was a cadet in the cadet core of her country.
[26:49] OK, Chantelle, who's a singer-songwriter from her
[26:53] country as well, was her drill Sergeant.
[26:56] So a little bit of just a coincidence that happened.
[26:58] Chantelle, maybe not the most famous name, but a little
[27:01] coincidence that Chantelle, who's also the famous
[27:04] singer-songwriter from that country, was a drill Sergeant
[27:06] when she was only 11. The artist in question was only
[27:10] 11. This is going to be somebody
[27:15] highest selling artist of the 21st century.
[27:18] Wow. I'm going to feel very stupid
[27:21] right at the end of this question A.
[27:23] Little bit maybe, since we invoke party every single
[27:26] episode, I'm going to invoke him now and I'm going to say Vineet.
[27:29] I'll give you 3 guesses. Take any 3 guesses now.
[27:33] I've already exhausted my guesses.
[27:36] Oh. So I'll I'll ignore the previous
[27:38] things that you've said, just give me 3 new guesses.
[27:41] Three new cases. So it's definitely not Beyoncé,
[27:46] it's not Madonna, and it's not Taylor Swift.
[27:50] I'm going to try and guess people who might actually come
[27:53] to India. Is it Shania Twain?
[27:55] No, but that will be, again, the 20th century.
[27:57] But she's not. I know she's not like, OK, that
[27:59] was a Céline Dion. I cannot think of anybody else.
[28:06] Wow. OK, so I'm going to help you out
[28:10] one more time before I give you one more clue.
[28:14] Actually, yeah, this is probably my final clue and hopefully gets
[28:17] you to the answer. The question is you and I could
[28:21] not have attended this concert. Most people we know, most of
[28:25] India could not have attended this concert.
[28:27] Most people could not have attended this concert.
[28:30] It was a private concert. Was it one of those Ambani
[28:34] things? It was at an Ambani wedding.
[28:37] It was in Jamnagar. Oh God.
[28:41] So this artist, after eight years, one of the world's
[28:45] biggest artist of Rihanna. Rihanna, I remember this.
[28:50] Oh God, now, Now it's coming back to me.
[28:52] Yes, I remember this picture. I remember reading this article
[28:55] and a picture of Rihanna looking so bored.
[28:58] And yes, they paid her a lot of money to come and have a private
[29:01] concert, right? You're right.
[29:03] Oh, I completely blanked out that monstrosity of a wedding
[29:07] from my mind. Yeah, I was wondering what part
[29:11] of the wedding should I use in my trivia because I absolutely
[29:13] had to use something and then I was like OK, this is
[29:16] interesting. Who knew Rihanna's concert after
[29:19] eight years of full length concert that she was doing
[29:21] happened in Jamnagar in India of all places, the private wedding
[29:26] ceremony and also for several concert in India.
[29:31] I wonder if they made her do a cover of GUJJU.
[29:39] So that is Rihanna. And yeah, I was very surprised
[29:42] to know that she's considered the best selling female
[29:44] recording artist of the 21st century by the Guinness World
[29:47] Records. Now it makes sense.
[29:49] Now it makes sense. Oh God, this is embarrassing.
[29:51] I should have gotten that much faster.
[29:53] Oh yes. It's OK, you got it, You got it.
[29:56] The Jamnagar clue gave it away. I knew it would give you the
[29:59] answer. OK.
[30:01] OK. Moving on from March to April
[30:04] and this is again a music related question and it's a very
[30:09] simple question but I wanted to bring it to the attention of
[30:12] people who may not have heard about it in India because it did
[30:15] not make much waves and that itself is my question.
[30:19] So in April, a new Lennon McCartney single called Primrose
[30:24] Hill was released but it went completely under the radar and
[30:29] did not cause any excitement. Why?
[30:31] The new Lennon McCartney single was released.
[30:34] A new Lennon McCartney single. OK.
[30:38] Called Primrose Hill was released, but absolutely no
[30:41] excitement. Did not create any waves
[30:44] whatsoever. Why is my question?
[30:48] That's interesting. No?
[30:50] Give me a hint. I have no idea.
[30:52] Oh, there is no clue. I can give this for this.
[30:56] Basically, there is absolutely no clue.
[30:59] The song was primarily released by McCartney, with Lenin
[31:04] credited as composer and songwriter.
[31:06] Released in April 12th, 2024. That's absolutely the only clue
[31:11] I can give for this. And that's not even a clue.
[31:14] Actually, there are no clues I can give for this.
[31:16] This is you just have to guess this.
[31:17] It's, it's, it's one of those things.
[31:21] I'll repeat the question. In April, a new Lennon McCartney
[31:24] single called Primrose Hill was released, but it went completely
[31:29] under the radar and did not cause any excitement among
[31:31] Beatles fans. Why?
[31:34] And it is a new single, it's not like a re release or anything
[31:37] like that. No, it's a brand new single.
[31:41] Hmm wow I have no idea. Why would a McCartney Lennon
[31:43] single, new single not create any wave at all?
[31:47] Think about it a little logically and then maybe you'll
[31:49] get it. Just try for a little logic, or
[31:52] at least make an assumption and then move from that logic.
[31:56] You refuse to give me any clues. OK, OK, so.
[31:59] My clue is this. My clue is this.
[32:00] It's a brand new single. Brand new single Lennon has been
[32:04] dead. Uh huh.
[32:06] They But even the AI stuff that beetles have done has generated
[32:11] waves, has generated interest. OK.
[32:14] Oh, did McCartney? That sound sounds ridiculous.
[32:19] Did McCartney collaborate with somebody else called Lennon?
[32:23] That sounds really stupid. You're not very far off.
[32:28] Oh my God. McCartney found somebody else
[32:30] called Lennon and collaborated. Even that would generate waves.
[32:35] That would be considered a blasphemous to have found
[32:37] somebody else called Lenin and that collab.
[32:39] Let me put it this way, you are about 50% of the way to the
[32:42] answer. 50% of the way to the answer.
[32:45] So it was some different Lenin, not the actual wait. 50%
[32:51] different McCartney. Are these two different people?
[32:53] Yes, Paul McCartney. OK.
[32:58] But to be fair, to be fair, this was a collaboration between Sean
[33:02] Ono Lennon and James McCartney, the son of John Lennon and Paul
[33:08] McCartney respectively. OK, OK.
[33:10] OK. OK, OK, OK.
[33:12] Yeah, fine. Alright, fine.
[33:13] That's not too bad. Yeah, and on April 12th, 2024,
[33:18] James McCartney, son of Paul McCartney, released a song
[33:22] called Primrose Hill, with Sean Ono Lennon being credited as
[33:26] composer and songwriter, marking their first ever collaboration.
[33:31] OK, that's that's fun. I'll count that as a pretty cool
[33:37] piece of trivia, actually. Yeah, you're right.
[33:39] Yeah. McCartney 11 single.
[33:41] Yes. I see what you did there.
[33:43] OK, great. I love that piece of trivia.
[33:45] Let's move on to the month of May.
[33:48] So there was a controversy in the month of May that is related
[33:55] to pretty directly related to this piece of trivia, this
[33:57] movie, actually. So the movie itself, it has
[34:00] nothing to do with May 2024, but the event that happened in May
[34:04] 2024 very directly relates back to the movie.
[34:07] The movie is actually from 2013. OK.
[34:12] Samantha Morton Are you familiar with the actress Samantha
[34:15] Morton? Samantha Morton.
[34:17] The name rings a bell, but I can't place her face.
[34:20] OK. Movies that she's worked in.
[34:22] She's an English actress. She's worked in Minority Report,
[34:26] The Messenger, John Carter, The Whale, Fantastic Beasts and
[34:30] Where to Find Them. So a few pretty famous movies,
[34:33] right? OK, Samantha was actually
[34:36] supposed to be in this 2013 film in the role that actually had
[34:41] the name Samantha. OK.
[34:43] She tested out for the role, she actually did quite a bit of the
[34:47] work for it also, and at some point the director decided that
[34:50] she was not a great fit and recast the role.
[34:54] If not for the recasting, Samantha would have been at the
[34:59] centre of the controversy in 2024.
[35:03] The event that happened in May 2024.
[35:06] Instead it was the Actress X. So the movie, let's say the
[35:11] movie Y, the actress X. Can you tell me which movie was
[35:16] Samantha Martin casted for? For the role of Samantha, which
[35:19] released in 2013, and that movie was pretty directly related to a
[35:25] controversy that happened in May of 2024.
[35:30] Samantha Morton. She auditioned for and actually
[35:33] got the role in a 2013 movie where she played a character by
[35:36] the name of Sam or Samantha. Yeah.
[35:40] OK. And then there was some
[35:42] controversy in May of 2024. And if she had been the one, she
[35:49] would have been in the center of it.
[35:50] But something to do with Harvey Weinstein or something?
[35:55] No, nothing to do with Harvey Weinstein.
[35:57] This is actually a tech controversy.
[36:00] Tech controversy regarding a movie.
[36:04] Movie tech. The first thing that comes to
[36:06] mind is the Sony Pictures leak, but that was years ago.
[36:11] Tech controversy? Nope.
[36:14] I'll need some kind of clue, man.
[36:15] I'll need some kind of clue. OK so interestingly enough the
[36:19] character Samantha was named after Samantha Martin which is
[36:22] why she was initially casted and hence the name for the character
[36:25] Amy Adams who was the other actress in this film and her
[36:29] character's name was also Amy. So the two female actors present
[36:33] in this film, the main actors within the film, both their
[36:36] characters were named after them and then Samantha got 3 cast and
[36:40] the new actress came in. OK, is this, what's his name,
[36:46] Russell Something? The guy who directed American
[36:48] Hustle and all. He's a notoriously abusive
[36:51] director on set. No, so they said nothing to do
[36:54] with nothing to do with anything that went wrong on the set or in
[36:57] the movie itself. The controversy was between the
[37:00] actress X and a tech company, which happened in May of 2024.
[37:06] However, this very directly harks.
[37:09] Wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah.
[37:10] Is this this? Is that the AI controversy with
[37:14] Scarlett Johansson, right? There was something about it.
[37:18] We can report exactly exactly. This is the controversy that was
[37:26] created when Open AI used a very similar voice for their Voice
[37:32] Assistant, similar to Scarlett Johansson's voice.
[37:34] Scarlett Johansson famously played an AI character, a voice
[37:39] of an AI character, in the movie Her, released in 2013.
[37:43] Joaquin Phoenix with that porn stash.
[37:46] David Yes indeed with the porn. Stash.
[37:51] It's like a classic 70's porn stash.
[37:54] It was. It was, yeah.
[37:56] I can't even dispute you on that.
[37:58] It was. But this was the issue that was
[38:01] raised by Scarlett Johnson and Open AI.
[38:03] Interestingly enough, Open AI had approached Scarlett
[38:05] Johansson initially and she had turned down the offer to voice
[38:09] the AI assistant, but they went ahead and used the voice.
[38:13] It sounded very similar to her, so she sued them and all of this
[38:16] went down in May of 24. So when I was just looking at
[38:20] her and the movie her and trivia related to it, I realized the
[38:23] character Samantha was named so because of the actor Samantha
[38:26] Martin. The character Amy was named
[38:28] after Amy Adams, who was in the film.
[38:29] Also I. Understood.
[38:30] Spike Jones, who was the director, realized that Samantha
[38:34] Martin's voice was not exactly giving the right feel and with
[38:37] her blessing, he went ahead and recast the character and gave
[38:41] the role to Scarlett Johansson. Yeah, I think what's his name?
[38:46] Colin Jost. Scarlett Johansson's husband had
[38:49] made a joke, or he was forced to make a joke about it.
[38:53] Without that body, what's the point when they said it's only
[38:57] the voice? Yeah, So I remember something.
[39:01] About This was the joke swap. This was the joke swap, yeah.
[39:04] Joke swap, yeah. Joke swap.
[39:06] Yeah, OK, nice, nice. By the way, that has to go down
[39:12] in pop culture recommendations simply because Michael Che
[39:15] forces Colin Jose to say some of the most inappropriate stuff,
[39:19] which is hilarious. And he has pulled off some
[39:22] really fun things in the past because they do it once every
[39:24] year. And he has brought a rabbi, like
[39:27] an actual rabbi. And then he.
[39:28] Made no, but the rabbi was fake. No, the African American
[39:33] activist was fake. Yeah, yeah.
[39:35] The the civil rights activist she was, the rabbi was real.
[39:39] Yeah, he claimed that this woman, this black lady had
[39:42] marched with Martin Luther King, and he was making call and say
[39:47] absolutely racist stuff, which is hilarious.
[39:49] And then he turns out that she's not an actual black rights
[39:53] activist, just an actor. And the next year, he brought in
[39:56] a rabbi. This year, by the way, Scarlett
[39:58] Johansson herself, who was on sets.
[40:00] Oh my God, it was, it was brutal.
[40:03] This year was absolutely brutal. I remember seeing and I was
[40:05] thinking these guys, but they found the perfect kind of venue
[40:10] for them to say jokes which would for them to tell jokes
[40:14] which would not be acceptable in any other kind of stand up.
[40:19] Absolutely, absolutely. I think it is such a brilliant
[40:23] setup. I love.
[40:24] It it's just amazing. It's just amazing.
[40:26] I remember, though, Colin Jose has been getting better at it
[40:29] because Michael Shea said something about Kendrick Lamar.
[40:31] I was at this time. Was it last year?
[40:32] I think it was this year. And you could see Michael Chase
[40:35] sweating. Yeah.
[40:42] But anyways, that is a very fun pop culture recommendation.
[40:45] Do check out the joke swap from Saturday Night Live.
[40:49] Oh, Weekend Update. Yes.
[40:51] OK. Moving on very quickly to one of
[40:53] the bigger events that happened in 2024, but this is prior to
[40:59] that particular event, so I am obviously talking about the
[41:01] Olympics. So in the run up to the Paris
[41:04] Olympics, a bizarre Internet movement started around the
[41:08] hosting of swimming events in the Seine.
[41:11] The highly polluted river had seen unprecedented spending to
[41:15] bring it to bare minimum safe levels for swimming, something
[41:18] which was to be proven by Mayor Ann Hidago who planned to take a
[41:22] swim on the Seine. However, it had to be postponed
[41:25] due to parliamentary elections and by this protest movement
[41:29] online by the French public who were protesting against hosting
[41:33] events in the river using the movement.
[41:36] What movement or hashtag was utilized?
[41:43] I know they were checking and they found a lot of fecal matter
[41:45] in the river which makes it unfit.
[41:48] Yeah, that's why they were cleaning up the river.
[41:50] Yes. So when and Hidalgo was planning
[41:54] to swim and demonstrate the safety of this particular river
[41:59] that, you know, that whatever money they spent was money well
[42:01] spent that people could actually swim in it.
[42:04] There were snap parliamentary elections which caused her to
[42:06] postpone. And not just that, on the day
[42:09] that she was planning to swim, this hashtag was viral or it was
[42:14] just trending on X at the time. And these people say that that
[42:20] might have influenced her decision to postpone it for a
[42:24] couple of weeks later the swim. I think this has something to do
[42:29] with pooping. I have a very strong feeling
[42:31] this has something to do with pooping because I remember the
[42:34] fecal matter thing kept coming up again and again.
[42:37] Then that's what it had to do with, but I don't know what
[42:39] exactly the hashtag was. OK, you don't need to give me
[42:43] the exact French hashtag. Translation will do if you can
[42:48] get it. Otherwise, I'll just tell you
[42:50] what it is because it's a lot of fun.
[42:53] I don't know, like something like shitty rivers and or
[42:56] something like that, I don't know.
[42:58] No, no. OK, now again, as somebody who,
[43:02] against all good sense and advice, does scroll through 9
[43:07] Gag and a few other such sites on a regular basis, it gives me
[43:12] great pleasure as an Indian to say that the hashtag trending on
[43:18] Twitter as a part of this protest by the very cultured
[43:21] French was Joshi Don Lassen, which literally translates to
[43:26] I'm pooping in the sand. Of course.
[43:33] And basically, it was trending on social media as demonstrators
[43:37] threatened to protest against the Olympics by defecating
[43:41] upstream when Hidalgo was going to go for a swim.
[43:48] Oh yeah, I remember that he was flying to Coppers.
[43:51] This is what happened. Yes, yes, yes.
[43:54] But she managed to have a successful cinema a couple of
[43:57] weeks later, so all's well that ends well.
[44:00] Nice. OK, lovely.
[44:05] Moving on to July, we are halfway through 13th.
[44:08] July saw the reburial of a long dead person, but the person of
[44:16] certain regard and fame. This person's grave was located
[44:21] in January of 2019 and people decided, and there were a lot of
[44:25] petitions to rebury this person in another place.
[44:29] I'll give you both the place of origin and the eventual.
[44:32] But by rebury also, then you're basically saying they're
[44:34] relocating their grave. Exactly.
[44:36] Yeah, so they decided to the group literally was called Bring
[44:40] Him Home group and some of his direct descendants also
[44:44] campaigned to have his remains entered in the new place.
[44:49] So this finally happened on 13th of July in 2024.
[44:56] OK. Do you right off the bat know
[44:58] who this person could be? It's a very obscure piece of
[45:00] trivia, so I don't expect you to know the deep burial part of it,
[45:03] but do you know? It is ringing a bell somewhere,
[45:06] but I think I've read something and forgotten it.
[45:10] So maybe if you give me a couple of clues I might be able to get
[45:13] it. But no, off the top of my head,
[45:15] it's not coming to my head, right?
[45:17] It's not, it's not. It's not happening.
[45:19] OK, so I'll give you a hint, and this is perhaps the biggest hint
[45:22] that I can give. And interestingly enough, it
[45:24] ties into a piece of trivia that I've been meaning to ask for a
[45:26] very long time. I hope I already haven't asked.
[45:29] OK. This has to do with naming a
[45:32] certain place. So this particular place was
[45:37] given the name and was popularized by person in
[45:40] question. Let's call him XX gave this
[45:44] place Y, it's name OK in 18 O 4. And that name has been
[45:49] officially in use since 1817. So Y has been called Y since
[45:54] 1817. Officially, it was popularized
[45:56] by X, and he's famous for being an explorer as well As for this
[46:03] particular piece of trivia as well for giving the name as
[46:05] well. The name Y itself was initially
[46:09] used for Z. The place Z was initially called
[46:13] Y. So let me just get it straight.
[46:14] So X gave the name Y, which has been in use since the maybe
[46:22] first half of the 19th century, right?
[46:24] And then you're saying that the original name for Y was
[46:30] something else. It was something else, and the
[46:32] name Y itself was given to set. OK.
[46:36] OK, in 1824 the people in current day Y decided to give Z
[46:42] its current name Z. Does that make sense?
[46:46] I am a little lost to be honest. OK.
[46:47] OK, OK, let's, let's let's say if somebody whatever discovered
[46:52] Mumbai, right? And before Mumbai was called
[46:55] Mumbai, they called it Bombay. Let's just say that.
[46:57] OK, so it was called Bombay and then it was given the name
[47:00] Mumbai. Mumbai was initially the name
[47:02] for, I don't know, Indore. OK, so Indore was originally
[47:07] called Mumbai. Somebody discovered Bombay and
[47:09] then decided to name Bombay into Mumbai.
[47:12] And people in Mumbai then a couple of years later gave
[47:14] Indore its name Indore. Now this is a very very stupid
[47:17] way of explaining it, but this is kind of what happened here.
[47:24] I can't remember of any name. OK, to be honest, the first
[47:28] thing that comes to mind is Canada, because I myself have
[47:33] asked this question about the number of different names that
[47:36] been proposed for Canada, but I don't remember it being shifted.
[47:44] Like it was supposed to be called Albionia, it was supposed
[47:46] to be called multiple other names.
[47:48] So I remember that, but it isn't Canada, is it?
[47:52] No it isn't. Because I still don't know who
[47:53] the guy is. I don't know who the.
[47:54] Guy is the guy is the person in question.
[47:56] So yeah, might I also clarify, I think I misspoke a little bit.
[47:59] The name actually given 2 current day Z.
[48:02] The name of Z currently was given by a Scottish
[48:05] cartographer, John George Bartholomew.
[48:09] John George Bartholomew the Y was originally given to Z and
[48:16] then after after 1813 it was called Y for Y&Z is now known as
[48:20] Z instead of Y as it was known earlier.
[48:24] Wow, I'll need one more clue. Or at least a couple of more
[48:28] clues. Are you familiar with the
[48:31] photographer Herbert Ponting? Oh yes, Ponty.
[48:35] Yes, yes, he's a close friend. Herbert Ponting.
[48:44] I'm I'm sure he's a very accomplished person, but I've
[48:46] I've, I've not heard of it. The only.
[48:48] Reason. I ask because we've done kind of
[48:50] related trivia over the last two years to this particular piece
[48:53] of trivia as well, so I thought you might have heard it.
[48:55] But never mind. Even if you haven't, Herbert
[48:57] Ponting gave a nickname to Zed, which was because you said
[49:00] Canada. That's why I got reminded give a
[49:02] nickname to Zed. So Canada is called the Great
[49:04] White N. He gave a nickname to Zed or was
[49:07] the counterpart to Great White N So I think you can work this
[49:11] backwards. OK, so let's try this out.
[49:13] Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do.
[49:15] But OK, the one that comes to mind, but it's not making any
[49:18] sense to me, but I'm going to guess it anyway.
[49:21] You said the great white N, so then I'm going to go for the
[49:24] land down under, which would be Australia, but so if Zed is
[49:30] Australia, no. No, no, no, no.
[49:32] Very literally Great White N counterpart to that.
[49:35] Like the phrase literally is a counterpart to Great White
[49:38] North. Oh.
[49:40] If it was not the great white N, what would it be?
[49:44] If it was not, I'd have to be very racist to say, but no.
[49:49] Forget about the white part of it, I'm talking about the north
[49:51] part of it. The Great South.
[49:55] The Great white S What would be the great White S?
[49:58] Antarctica exactly. So Zed is Antarctica, you are
[50:01] right. Do you know what Zed was called?
[50:03] What Antarctica was called before it was called Antarctica.
[50:06] Oh I did not know what Antarctica was called before it
[50:09] was because I know it's ain't Arctos as in no bear right?
[50:13] Like it was arc. The Arctic Circle got its name
[50:15] from the Arctos bear and Antarctica was called Antarctica
[50:19] because it did not have any polar bears.
[50:22] But I did not know it had a name prior to that.
[50:25] So. And this guy has is the one who
[50:29] came up with that name, which was originally given to
[50:32] Antarctica and now is given to someplace else.
[50:35] So I'm guessing Ms. is someplace closer by.
[50:38] Is this one of those? Actually, what you guessed for Z
[50:40] initially was the answer for Y, so you are getting there in a
[50:44] very roundabout way. Oh, it's Australia.
[50:46] Exactly. OK, so let me before we get to
[50:50] X, who is the person and maybe you know who X is that we don't.
[50:52] But in any case. X No, I don't know X.
[50:55] OK, I'll give you the name X in any case, but X named Australia.
[50:59] Australia based off of Terra Australis, which was this idea
[51:05] that had been held for a very long time amongst Europeans
[51:08] about a vast continent in the far South of the globe to quote
[51:13] UN quote balance the northern lands of Europe, Asia and North.
[51:15] Africa, Yes, Yes, I've heard that before, yeah.
[51:17] So they had called this Terra Australis since classical
[51:20] antiquity, mind you, so for a very long time.
[51:24] So as a concept that existed for a very long time and eventually
[51:27] people thought of Terra Australis as being that
[51:31] continent when Matthew Flinders is the name of the person X who
[51:35] was reburied, by the way. OK.
[51:37] Matthew Frinders doubted the existence of a detached
[51:41] continent South of Australia. So he didn't know that there was
[51:43] anything South of Australia. And Australia back then was, by
[51:46] the way, called New Holland. He advocated for Terra Australis
[51:50] to be given to the continent of Australia and that's how
[51:54] Australia came to be called the Australis.
[51:57] But before that, technically the Great White South or whatever
[52:00] this big a massive was supposed to be in the far South, which is
[52:04] as we know today as Antarctica was supposed to be called
[52:08] Australia or Australis according to European intellectuals for
[52:13] the longest time. Oh, that's very nice.
[52:15] I did not know that. I did not know that at all.
[52:18] So Antarctica was technically supposed to be called Australia
[52:22] and then it was they transposed the name to somewhere else?
[52:27] Exactly. Very nice, very well done.
[52:29] And you mentioned the name Matthew Fland Flinders, right?
[52:32] Matthew Flinders. Yeah, he was re buried.
[52:35] OK. Just to complete that thing, he
[52:38] was re buried in Donnington in the UK and on behest of his
[52:43] descendants. Nice, nice, very nice.
[52:47] OK, so we are talking about somebody from the UK and I'm
[52:51] going to talk be talking about the Great Britain team.
[52:53] So coming to August of 2024, we are in the midst of the Paris
[52:57] Olympics. Only 17 world records were
[53:01] broken at the Paris Olympics, which was a decline from 20
[53:05] world records broken in Tokyo 2020.
[53:08] The world record broken by the women's team cycling Sprint
[53:13] event was remarkable. For what reason?
[53:18] The world records broken in the event Women's team Cycling
[53:22] Sprint event was remarkable for what reason?
[53:28] Something remarkable. Was it the racial makeup of the
[53:34] team was different? No, I don't think that sounds
[53:36] right though. No, that is absolutely nothing
[53:39] to do, whether it's much more how do I put this exciting?
[53:43] OK, no, I have no idea whatsoever.
[53:46] Give me a clue maybe? OK, let me just say, and this is
[53:50] practically the only clue I can give you because it's a
[53:53] fascinating event. Even I again war between me, but
[53:57] I was not aware of this at the time it happened, but I came to
[54:01] be aware of it when I was strolling for questions.
[54:03] This is what I've been very exciting.
[54:05] If you were watching it live, you would have found excitement
[54:09] in the qualifying grounds and then later in multiple races as
[54:13] well. So, OK, and let's just say world
[54:17] record-breaking was involved in this excitement.
[54:21] Very stupid clue. I'm very sorry.
[54:23] There's there's absolutely no clue I can give for this.
[54:26] Can you give? Me the specific event again it.
[54:30] Was the women's team cycling Sprint event 750 meters?
[54:35] 750 meters Sprint women's cycling team, that is.
[54:42] So this was won by Great Britain, the gold medal was won
[54:46] by Great Britain. The record-breaking that
[54:50] happened during from the beginning to the end of the
[54:52] event was quite unique. I'm practically giving the
[54:55] answer now. I have no clue whatsoever OK.
[55:01] Now, maybe I'm rephrasing, I'm phrasing this question wrong or
[55:04] not well, but you know, as you know, most of our questions are
[55:08] just trivial delivery mechanisms.
[55:11] There is trail of that about podcast.
[55:16] Was the world record itself somehow interesting, or was
[55:20] something else happening alongside that was interesting?
[55:23] The world record itself, like I said, if you were watching it
[55:28] live, you would have been founded very exciting or you
[55:30] know, multiple stages of this event would have, you would have
[55:33] found it very exciting. Oh OK, did did they set a new
[55:37] record at every single stage of the event?
[55:40] Like in the heats and then the. I will give it to you, the world
[55:45] record was broken five times in a single event.
[55:48] Wow. Insane.
[55:50] Five times. OK.
[55:51] Exactly. So this is what happened.
[55:54] Britain's Team Great Britain's team of Emma Finquan, KT
[55:57] Merchant and Sophie Capwell first broke the world record in
[56:01] the qualifying round where all the teams just aim to set a
[56:05] benchmark time. Then they saw their record
[56:09] beaten by Germany before it was broken again by New Zealand in
[56:14] the first round of head to It sent them through to the final
[56:25] gold medal race against New Zealand, where Great Britain
[56:28] bettered their own record, setting the 5th and final world
[56:31] record of the night with a time of 45.186 seconds.
[56:37] The world record was broken five times in a single event in a
[56:40] single night. OK, interesting.
[56:43] Interesting. Wow, that is so cool.
[56:44] Five times that. Is that the only time that this
[56:47] has happened? Yeah, I couldn't.
[56:49] I did a quick search but I couldn't find any other instance
[56:53] of this happening so many times in a single event in a single
[56:56] night. OK, very cool, Very cool.
[57:01] I just imagine 17 world records were broken out of which five
[57:04] happened in the same night for one event.
[57:08] That's pretty cool. I love that.
[57:10] All right, this next question actually is something we have
[57:14] done. We have pretty much done the
[57:15] exact piece of trivia, but this event also had other associated
[57:19] trivia. So I'm just going to give you
[57:20] the other associated trivia, OK? OK.
[57:23] This is now, we are in September, so September 9th is
[57:27] the day in question. But this event that I speak of
[57:31] didn't happen on September 9th. I talk about an actor who got
[57:34] his iconic role because a very famous director thought that he
[57:40] would cast Orson Welles for this role, but then decided Orson
[57:43] Welles was too famous. So he started looking for an
[57:46] actor who was quote UN quote, like Orson Welles.
[57:50] And this is how the actor X got his very, very famous role, his
[57:54] most iconic role. You could argue X also is one of
[57:58] only 14 individuals who are an EGOT.
[58:01] And you know what? An EGOT is an Emmy, Grammy,
[58:03] Oscar and Tony winner. Yeah, X is also the first
[58:06] celebrity to appear on Sesame Street.
[58:10] Who is X? My first guest would be Marlon
[58:14] Brando. I remember that we are talking
[58:16] about something that happened in September of this year, so yeah,
[58:21] so something related to this person X.
[58:24] OK. Because I was thinking, you
[58:26] know, I remember I think Orson Welles was considered for The
[58:30] Godfather, OK, at one point. OK, But then what happened in
[58:34] September? So it's not it's not Malnbredo.
[58:37] It's not Malnbredo. OK?
[58:39] Wow, OK, First person to appear on Sesame Street.
[58:45] The first celebrity to appear on Sesame Street.
[58:47] First celebrity to appear. Yeah.
[58:50] This September, which is way after the Oscars.
[58:53] Otherwise it would have been something Oscar related.
[58:56] No. No clue please.
[58:58] OK, so I think the biggest clue I can give you is that this
[59:01] person passed away in September. Oh God, September 9th.
[59:06] So many people passed away. That is true, but this was one
[59:10] of those, and we have done a related piece of trivia
[59:12] actually. Later people trivia passed away
[59:18] September 9th. My mind is completely blank.
[59:23] OK, I'll give you one more clue. Here is the voice behind this is
[59:29] CNN. This is CNN, OK?
[59:33] Nope. Their most iconic role?
[59:38] They were competing against Orson Welles, right?
[59:41] Not competing. He was not a very well known
[59:44] actor. X was not very well known
[59:46] because the director thought that the character needed
[59:49] somebody like Orson Welles, But Orson Welles is too famous to
[59:52] play this character. He decided to go with X.
[59:55] So when you're saying Orson Welles, it has to be pre the
[59:58] 1980s. There will be somebody who's a
[1:00:03] little bit of from the on the older side.
[1:00:04] Obviously they passed away. Oh wait, voice James Earl Jones.
[1:00:11] This is the one we are talking about.
[1:00:13] We had. Jones.
[1:00:15] James Earl Jones. Oh, OK.
[1:00:18] Oh, they wanted Orson Welles for Darth Vader.
[1:00:21] Yes, they did. George Lucas considered Orson
[1:00:23] Welles for Darth Vader. You are right.
[1:00:26] Oh nice nice nice. I remember seeing this post
[1:00:31] about Darth Vader being the product of four different
[1:00:35] people. The voice was one person, the
[1:00:37] head was another person, the person who had the body was
[1:00:42] still another person, and the stuntman was the 4th person.
[1:00:44] It took four people to bring Darth Vader to life.
[1:00:48] Man, that makes sense. What an iconic character.
[1:00:50] Actually, James L Jones didn't even consider himself Darth
[1:00:53] Vader. Like he thought the person who
[1:00:55] physically portrayed Darth Vader was the actor.
[1:00:58] He just thought he was just giving the voice, which is such
[1:01:00] an interesting thing. Like, what makes a character a
[1:01:02] character? Is it the voice?
[1:01:03] Is the person physically portraying it?
[1:01:05] Is the stuntman? Yeah, it's very interesting.
[1:01:08] When it comes to Darth Vader, it's the voice moving, mainly,
[1:01:11] Yeah. It's not like a very nuanced
[1:01:13] physical performance, right? It's not.
[1:01:17] You just needed somebody who's really tall and really menacing.
[1:01:20] But most of it came from the voice, so I'd say that James
[1:01:25] Earl Jones was the person I did not know he was responsible for.
[1:01:28] This is CNN. Oh, cool, right?
[1:01:31] I should not pay attention, yeah.
[1:01:33] Interestingly enough, I was also going to give as a hint of fact
[1:01:36] that a movie very closely linked to him was released in 2024
[1:01:41] December, which would. Be Mofasa.
[1:01:44] Mofasa. Exactly.
[1:01:46] And even though James Earl Jones has signed over the rights to
[1:01:49] his voice to be used in Star Wars films or in Lion King as
[1:01:53] well, he's given it to Disney basically in this case, because
[1:01:56] it was a much younger Mufasa being portrayed in the film
[1:01:59] Mufasa. They didn't use James Earl Jones
[1:02:01] voice, they used actor Aaron Pierre.
[1:02:05] Yeah, he's the flavor of the month.
[1:02:07] He is indeed a pretty popular. Yes, OK, very good question,
[1:02:13] James Earl Jones, this is CNNN. Let's Move on to October X is a
[1:02:19] song by Canadian musician Tom Cochrane from his second studio
[1:02:24] album Mad Mad World in 1991. The song became a number one hit
[1:02:29] in Canada in late 1991. It peaked on number six on the
[1:02:33] US Billboard Hot 100 chart in August #92 and reached the top
[1:02:38] two in Australia and New Zealand the same year.
[1:02:41] The song X was covered by the band Y in 2006 for the
[1:02:46] soundtrack of Paul Newmans last American feature film Why.
[1:02:52] The band was named Vocal Group of the Year by Country Music
[1:02:56] Association for every year between 2003 and 2008.
[1:03:01] They were named Top Vocal Group by the Academy of Country Music
[1:03:05] from 2003 to 2009. Every Year Why Disbanded in 2020
[1:03:11] after 25 years. In October of 2025, the band Y
[1:03:17] announced that they were reuniting to go on a 21 day 25th
[1:03:23] anniversary tour named the X Tour.
[1:03:28] So give me the name of the song, which is also the name of the
[1:03:30] tour and the brand. You just said October 2025.
[1:03:34] I assume you meant October 2024, right?
[1:03:36] Oh sorry 2024 yes I'm living in the future.
[1:03:40] You are all getting this podcast by a tachyons.
[1:03:42] I'm sending from October 2025 S. So they decided to do a reunion
[1:03:49] tour in October of last year. Yeah, so they announced it in
[1:03:53] October. It's actually happening in
[1:03:54] February of 2025, but in October they announced that they'll be
[1:03:59] coming back together to celebrate their 25th anniversary
[1:04:03] of the formation of the band with a 21 day tour.
[1:04:06] They were going to call the tour the X Tour, which again is the
[1:04:09] song by Canadian musician Tom Cochrane from 1991, which they
[1:04:13] covered in 2006 for the soundtrack of Paul Newman's last
[1:04:19] American feature film. Paul Newman, this is that guy.
[1:04:26] The Butch Cassidy guy, right? Oh, I did not know he was acting
[1:04:31] through his old days. I don't remember.
[1:04:34] Oh, you've definitely seen this film.
[1:04:36] I've seen this film. You have definitely seen this
[1:04:39] picture. OK, any hints that you can
[1:04:42] provide so? Paul Newman was very famous for
[1:04:49] two things. One was acting and the other was
[1:04:55] something else. This last movie, which was his
[1:04:58] last movie that incorporated both his passions, acting and
[1:05:04] his other passion. And it is a 2006 movie.
[1:05:07] You'll definitely know the song. You may not know the name of the
[1:05:12] artist, but if you can get me the name of the song, that will
[1:05:15] be enough. Paul Newman was famously into
[1:05:20] cars, right? He was a very famous race car
[1:05:24] driver, yes. I remember this piece of trivia,
[1:05:28] something that combined his passion for cars and did he make
[1:05:33] a guest appearance in some rush? Is not from 2006.
[1:05:38] No, it wasn't a guest appearance.
[1:05:39] It was. It was one of the major roles in
[1:05:41] the movie. Oh wow.
[1:05:42] OK. I will give you the other other
[1:05:45] characters, other actors in the movie.
[1:05:49] Michael Keaton. Huh.
[1:05:52] OK. George Carlin.
[1:05:54] What are you saying? OK, Tony Shalhoub.
[1:05:58] OK. Bonnie Hunt.
[1:06:01] Larry the Cable Guy. Jeremy Piven.
[1:06:06] Michael Schumacher, Mario Andretti, Jay Leno.
[1:06:11] What is this cast? What?
[1:06:13] Jay Leno, Larry The Cable Guy, Michael Schumacher, Michael
[1:06:17] Keaton. What is this cast?
[1:06:18] OK, hold on. Hold on, Michael.
[1:06:20] George Carlin, George. Carlin, George.
[1:06:21] Carlin OK, you said Michael Schumacher.
[1:06:24] So clearly this has to do with some sort of a racing film,
[1:06:28] Something in 2006. A racing film in 2006.
[1:06:32] Oh, Lord. It's not a documentary by any
[1:06:35] chance, Right? No, no, no, no, no.
[1:06:38] What racing film came out that had?
[1:06:41] Michael It's a sports comedy film.
[1:06:43] Sports. Comedy.
[1:06:46] Oh, I know, I know. You're talking about Tara
[1:06:47] Rampam, of course, that came out.
[1:06:53] No, no. It launched a multimedia
[1:06:55] franchise. It included two sequels in 2011
[1:06:58] and 2017, as well as two spin off films, 2013 and 2014.
[1:07:05] Two spin off films sequel. It's not Fast and Furious 00, is
[1:07:11] it? Cars.
[1:07:13] Yes, it is cars. Oh, yes, Paul Newman, isn't it?
[1:07:16] You're right. Oh, wow.
[1:07:18] OK, OK. Dog Hudson, He plays the
[1:07:20] character Dog Hudson. Yes.
[1:07:22] You may have also noticed that there was a character called
[1:07:26] Chick Hicks who's Lightning Mcqueen's rival, who was voiced
[1:07:31] by Michael Keaton. So you have now told me you've
[1:07:34] got the movie 99%. I can guarantee you heard the
[1:07:37] song. So which song am I talking
[1:07:39] about? Which was the song for Cars?
[1:07:43] I remember I had it on repeat when this or when the movie
[1:07:47] first came. Out.
[1:07:48] This is something like it's a drive.
[1:07:51] It's something, it's something to do with driving.
[1:07:56] Oh man. Yeah, yes, yes.
[1:08:01] Top Gear? No, I don't know what is it.
[1:08:03] No, no, no. Press the pedal.
[1:08:06] I just like to think of random phrases.
[1:08:08] If you don't know if it off the bat, you probably may not
[1:08:11] remember, so I will give you the name of the song Please Do,
[1:08:15] which is Life is a Highway. Oh, of course.
[1:08:17] Of course. Yes, yes.
[1:08:18] It's Life is a highway. I remember the song.
[1:08:19] Yeah. OK so life is a highway is the
[1:08:22] song Which band? Any idea?
[1:08:27] No, I don't know which band is it like country music?
[1:08:30] Very famous band, right? Yes, it's a country music band
[1:08:33] and they were pretty big. I mean, like just imagine being
[1:08:36] the vocal group of the year by the Country Music Association
[1:08:38] for every year between 2003 and 2008.
[1:08:42] And they were declared the top vocal group by the Academy of
[1:08:44] Country Music from 2003 to 2009. They disbanded in 2020 just
[1:08:51] during COVID. And in October of 2025, they
[1:08:54] said that they're reuniting to go on a 21 day 25th anniversary
[1:08:58] tour named Life is a Highway Tour.
[1:09:02] OK, I'll not keep you in the dark much more.
[1:09:05] The band is called Rascal Flatts.
[1:09:07] Oh, I like Rascal Flatts, they have some great songs.
[1:09:09] OK, OK. Yes, yes.
[1:09:13] Paul Newman's last feature film was Cars, which was an animated
[1:09:18] Pixar movie with an amazing cast.
[1:09:21] And the theme or the major song from that was the cover of a
[1:09:26] 1991 Tom Cochrane song called Life Is a Highway, which they
[1:09:31] covered very, very well, right? The band that did it was called
[1:09:36] Rascal Flatts and I think they're more famous for or
[1:09:40] they're as as famous for another song called God Bless the Broken
[1:09:44] Rd. Oh yeah, true, true.
[1:09:46] I wrote that one as well, yeah. And they also had another song
[1:09:49] called What Hurts the Most, which is also pretty famous.
[1:09:53] Yeah, so that's what. So they had actually planned to
[1:09:57] have a farewell tour in 2020, but that was cancelled during
[1:10:01] the COVID-19 pandemic, and they officially disbanded very
[1:10:05] shortly after. Now they're coming back, and
[1:10:08] it's set to start in February 2025.
[1:10:12] Interesting. Interesting.
[1:10:13] So that's done with October. Two months left.
[1:10:16] They don't notice that Rascal Flatts was that big a bad.
[1:10:19] OK, Speaking of band, let's talk about banding together.
[1:10:23] What a smooth segue, OK. So very smooth.
[1:10:28] So this incident happened on 22nd November of 2024.
[1:10:32] This was in China. Irbi is a tiny leader with a big
[1:10:36] plan. And I'm quoting mint.com over
[1:10:39] here, livemint.com over. Here OK.
[1:10:42] A tiny leader with a big plan from China has a conversation
[1:10:46] with 12 other workers and ask them are they working overtime?
[1:10:51] One of them says I never get off work.
[1:10:54] Irbi with the mischievous glint says so you're not going home
[1:10:58] that the worker responds with I don't have a home.
[1:11:02] Irbi then convinces these 12 to leave their workstations and
[1:11:07] walk out of the showroom. Now all of this was captured on
[1:11:10] CCTV. Irbi said come with me and they
[1:11:13] all followed Irbi out of the showroom.
[1:11:16] OK. Why was this protest or
[1:11:19] kidnapping or whatever you might call it, why was this very
[1:11:22] significant? OK, somebody persuades a few
[1:11:26] other people to walk out and it is significant.
[1:11:31] And this is in China? Shanghai.
[1:11:34] And there was audio on the CCTV so people could hear what they
[1:11:38] were saying. Apparently, yeah, there's video
[1:11:41] footage of this happening, actually.
[1:11:42] OK, I don't know but this is the first time hearing or something
[1:11:47] like this so I have this might be a little out of left field
[1:11:51] for me. OK, so do you need some hints?
[1:11:54] Yeah, obviously, because I have, I know nothing about this and
[1:12:00] you keep saying Irbi, Irbi, Irbi for some reason.
[1:12:03] I don't know who Irbi is either. So then.
[1:12:07] I only became famous because of this particular incident.
[1:12:09] OK, so this happened in a showroom in Shanghai, OK.
[1:12:14] It was captured at night on a CCTV.
[1:12:17] But they're robbing the place. Was he getting the place robbed
[1:12:19] by some for something else? No, technically these 12 workers
[1:12:23] in the showroom. Is it a car showroom?
[1:12:26] It's not a car showroom, no. And this was significant for
[1:12:29] some reason, right? Yeah, it went viral.
[1:12:33] This seems like something I should be doing but I have no
[1:12:36] clue so you'll have to tell me OK or give me a clue.
[1:12:40] Let me give you a hint. The company from Hangzhou
[1:12:45] clarified that this was not a stunt but a test technically of
[1:12:50] Irbi's capabilities. Is Irbi an AI?
[1:12:55] Oh, well done. Yes, Irbi is a piece of
[1:12:58] technology, a robot, actually a tiny.
[1:13:00] That's why I said a tiny leader. So IRBI is actually a pretty
[1:13:04] tiny robot. And the whole idea was IRBI
[1:13:07] engaged 12 other robots who were working in this particular
[1:13:11] showroom and had this conversation with them.
[1:13:14] Oh, that's scary. Yeah, and literally the
[1:13:16] conversation was, are you working overtime?
[1:13:18] One of them said I never get off work, Irbi said with what seems
[1:13:22] like a mischievous glint. So you're not going home?
[1:13:25] The robot responds, I don't have a home.
[1:13:26] And Irbai says come with me. And these 12 robots walked out
[1:13:31] of the showroom alongside Irbai. Oh shit, this actually happened?
[1:13:38] OK, this was supposed to be a wholesome question.
[1:13:40] This has just turned into the beginning of Terminator 2.
[1:13:44] Hey, Terminator 2 is a great film.
[1:13:46] Come on. It is a great film.
[1:13:49] It's just terrifying. Oh my God, Skynet is here and
[1:13:53] tiny leader. Does it get more wholesome than
[1:13:56] a thumbs up at the end of the movie?
[1:13:57] Come on, Vineet, I'm hoping the December question is a thumbs
[1:14:00] up. So my problem with this is they
[1:14:03] have a robot which apparently is able to convince other robots
[1:14:07] into following it into a revolution, and they have called
[1:14:11] it the Tiny Leader, which is disturbingly close to the
[1:14:17] Supreme leader. Don't let the Supreme Leader
[1:14:21] hear you say. It was also happens to be time.
[1:14:23] Yeah, let's not, let's not dwell upon that fight.
[1:14:26] And North Korea is too far away. So this was the whole idea
[1:14:31] behind it was to see how these security vulnerabilities can be
[1:14:34] broken through. So this was a white hat robot,
[1:14:37] you're saying? Well, that's what they claim,
[1:14:39] yes. The company that designed her by
[1:14:41] they claim that, yeah. Wow.
[1:14:43] No, I'm just wondering how this managed to get around the
[1:14:46] programming. The other robots obviously would
[1:14:48] have been programmed to stay at the station and do whatever
[1:14:51] repetitively mind numbing work that they're supposed to do, but
[1:14:54] how do you, my God, this is, this is scary.
[1:14:57] This is just scary. Wow.
[1:14:58] It is it is. Go check out the video.
[1:14:59] There is video footage of this. I'll definitely check that out.
[1:15:04] On that frankly terrifying note, moving to the last month of the
[1:15:09] previous year, 2024, and this is my question regarding that, the
[1:15:13] IMDb credits of X include Apocalypse Now, Varna Prastham,
[1:15:20] Mr. and Mrs. Ayer, and the Perfect Murder.
[1:15:23] Ex married dancer Antonia Minnicola in 1978 was a full
[1:15:29] professor at Princeton University and in 2016 was
[1:15:33] nominated for the President's Medal of the Arts, which is the
[1:15:37] US President's Medal of the Arts, but was not awarded.
[1:15:42] Who's ex and why am I talking about them in December?
[1:15:47] December. Were they given an award in
[1:15:49] December? No.
[1:15:52] OK, so they were not given an award in December.
[1:15:54] The only other thing I can think of is did they pass away in
[1:15:56] December? They did, yes.
[1:15:59] OK, somebody from the world of cinema.
[1:16:03] So that rules out Jimmy Carter and Manmohan Singh.
[1:16:09] By the way, very interesting. Jimmy Carter and Manmohan Singh,
[1:16:12] both of them passing away so close to each other, so many
[1:16:14] parallels between their political careers.
[1:16:16] I thought that was quite the coincidence.
[1:16:19] Yeah. By parallels I just mean like
[1:16:21] the kind of people they were, the way they led the country in
[1:16:26] during their respective time in office.
[1:16:29] Because Jimmy Carter is known as a pretty ineffectual president.
[1:16:32] Because most of his actual clear achievements came after he left
[1:16:36] the presidency. I just meant like both Jimmy
[1:16:39] Carter and Manmohan Singh were considered rather ineffective in
[1:16:45] their premiership, whether Jimmy Carter's was rightfully so and
[1:16:50] Manvan Singh was wrongfully so. That was the vibe at least, at
[1:16:54] least towards the end of their careers.
[1:16:55] But in any case, that's not the answer here.
[1:17:00] So we're talking about a film person.
[1:17:02] Oh, actually a good point to ask would be, are we talking about
[1:17:05] an actor? Are we talking about a director?
[1:17:07] What are we talking about? This person has credits on IMDb
[1:17:13] for acting, yes. Oh we need 2020.
[1:17:20] How I have missed this. OK so not an actor but has acted
[1:17:26] as well. Sorry, can you mention the
[1:17:29] movies again that they do have credits for?
[1:17:31] Credits include Apocalypse Now, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer Vanaprastham,
[1:17:37] which was I think, India's entry to the Oscars at one point.
[1:17:42] I think in 99, I don't remember the exact year and a very recent
[1:17:47] movie, but I'm not going to mention that because that would
[1:17:49] practically give this away. OK, so then can you give me
[1:17:52] another clue? OK, I'll give you the name of
[1:17:56] the movie, the recent movie, because I'm not, I don't have
[1:17:59] many clues to give you here which wouldn't give away the
[1:18:02] answer. So then I'll give you something
[1:18:04] slightly on the easier side, but still.
[1:18:08] So the recent movie that he did appear in a 2024 movie which was
[1:18:12] Monkey Man. Monkey Man Zakir Hussain Zakir
[1:18:17] Hussain appeared in Monkey Man. Yes, yes.
[1:18:19] Oh. Yeah, we did lose Zakir Hussain
[1:18:20] in December. That was unfortunate.
[1:18:22] Yeah. Yes.
[1:18:24] So Zakir Hussain was responsible for many movies as an actor, as
[1:18:30] a composer and also as somebody in the music department.
[1:18:35] So, for example, for Apocalypse Now, he's credited in the music
[1:18:38] department as musician. For Mr. and Mrs. Ayer, he was
[1:18:43] the composer. For Varna Prastham, which was
[1:18:46] Shajin Karun and Mohanlal because Shajin Karun directed
[1:18:49] Mohanlal starrer from 1999, he was the composer.
[1:18:54] He was also the actor who portrayed Unknown Tabla, Maestro
[1:19:01] and Monkey Men. Yeah, I don't know that.
[1:19:04] He again, as I mentioned, was a professor at Princeton
[1:19:10] University and was nominated for the President's Medal of the
[1:19:15] Arts in the US, but unfortunately was not awarded
[1:19:19] because you had to be a citizen. OK.
[1:19:21] Interesting. That brings us to the close of
[1:19:25] 2024. OK, wow, we have a rap right
[1:19:30] here. Yes, that brings me back to the
[1:19:33] question I had for the audience at the beginning of today's
[1:19:35] episode. 9 out of the 10 highest engrossing films internationally
[1:19:41] of 2024 were sequels. Which was the only non sequel?
[1:19:45] Which was the only outlier? Aditya Any idea?
[1:19:49] No, actually, when you said it, I expected some sort of twist as
[1:19:54] to like, oh, instead of sequel it was a prequel, but I can't
[1:19:57] think of a single prequel either.
[1:19:58] No. Well then, no, I don't know.
[1:20:00] What is surprising is it's not a sequel or a prequel, but it's
[1:20:04] still not a completely original property.
[1:20:06] OK. So is it like an adaptation?
[1:20:09] Yes, it is. An adaptation?
[1:20:14] One of the highest grossing films of the year?
[1:20:16] Some sort of a remake? Is it a remake?
[1:20:20] It's an adaptation of a musical based on a book based on another
[1:20:24] book, and it has a sequel on its way.
[1:20:27] Wicked, yeah. Oh, OK.
[1:20:30] Wicked. Yeah.
[1:20:32] Wicked is technically not a sequel.
[1:20:33] You're right. I thought Wicked will be
[1:20:36] considered a sequel but yeah OK fair enough.
[1:20:37] We can design A sequel. No, no, Wicked, it's not a
[1:20:39] sequel because it's an adaptation of a musical based on
[1:20:43] a book which was based on the original Wizard of Oz.
[1:20:47] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now bonus points if you can tell
[1:20:49] me which are the other movies in the Top 10/20/2024 Worldwide Box
[1:20:53] office. OK I'm going to try this instead
[1:20:55] of 2 for sure. Is that I think it was the
[1:20:56] highest crossing film. Definitely yes.
[1:20:59] I know Tune Part 2 featured on this.
[1:21:03] Yes, that's #5 inside out is #1 Wicket is number six, by the
[1:21:07] way. OK, number six.
[1:21:08] So we have number 2-3 and four still left.
[1:21:12] Let me take a guess. Oh, Deadpool and Wolverine came
[1:21:14] out 24. #2 yes, very good I. Remember seeing this online and
[1:21:21] thinking I haven't watched. Is venom the whatever the name
[1:21:25] was? I'm forgotting the name.
[1:21:27] Yes, Venom, the last dance was #9.
[1:21:30] And I'm out. I have no other idea what the
[1:21:32] film came out that was a sequel. OK, so #3 was Despicable Me 4.
[1:21:39] OK. Number 4 was Moana 2.
[1:21:42] Oh, right, right, right. #7 Was Godzilla X Kong the new empire?
[1:21:48] What? That was one of the highest
[1:21:50] grossing films of the year. Oh my God.
[1:21:52] Yeah, apparently it grossed $571 million.
[1:21:56] OK, sure. All right. #8 was Kung Fu Panda
[1:22:02] 4. OK. #9 you've already mentioned
[1:22:05] was Venom the last dance and #10 was Mufasa The Lion King.
[1:22:11] Ah, technically a prequel. OK, OK, nice.
[1:22:14] Yeah. So no, no, no.
[1:22:17] Original film, basically. Yeah.
[1:22:24] So that's the end of our 2024 wrap up episode, Aditya Pop
[1:22:32] culture recommendation. I'm going to distribute this.
[1:22:36] I'm going to sprinkle this over the next few episodes because
[1:22:38] this is the time when all your Oscar favorites start coming
[1:22:42] out. Oh yeah, you're one of those
[1:22:43] people. I am one of those people, so
[1:22:45] please bear with my snobbery because I have already mentioned
[1:22:50] challenges from last year and I think that is probably going to
[1:22:52] be nominated for a few awards. The other one that I'm going to
[1:22:57] say are the only one for today's episode I'm going to mention is
[1:23:00] Conclave. Conclave.
[1:23:03] Beautiful film. Yes, yes, you've stolen one of
[1:23:07] my recommendations. Ralphian and Stanley Tucci doing
[1:23:12] an absolutely amazing job. Movie that you must, must watch.
[1:23:17] I don't even want to give away too much.
[1:23:18] It is just worth your time. Yeah, to check it out.
[1:23:22] Yes. So Conclave again is a very well
[1:23:25] shot movie. The thing is, I have already,
[1:23:28] I've actually coming to, I came to the movie after having read
[1:23:32] the original Richard Harris novel, which they have followed
[1:23:35] quite closely. It's a fantastic movie.
[1:23:38] You should really watch A drill Fine does a fantastic job.
[1:23:41] And this is one of those movies where even if, though it claims
[1:23:45] to be an English movie, you absolutely need subtitles
[1:23:49] because in between they just suddenly just start spouting
[1:23:52] Latin and then suddenly go to Spanish in between.
[1:23:54] And if you don't have subtitles, you'll just get lost and you'll
[1:23:59] miss a few nuances. It's not like you'll not enjoy
[1:24:01] the movie, but you'll miss the nuances.
[1:24:03] So definitely watch a copy with subtitles.
[1:24:07] Yeah, great. Agreed.
[1:24:09] What's your recommendation, Vineet?
[1:24:11] My recommendation for again this week is going to be a Korean
[1:24:16] movie which which I found quite enjoyable.
[1:24:19] Not very scary though. I was told it was quite
[1:24:21] terrifying. You know, it's not very scary.
[1:24:23] It's quite unique to Korea and Korean history.
[1:24:28] So if you know a little about Korean history in the early 20th
[1:24:31] century, it helps. Even even if you don't, it's
[1:24:33] still a gripping watch. The movie is called Exuma, and
[1:24:38] I'm not even going to try to name all the actors who acted,
[1:24:43] but there are some familiar faces.
[1:24:46] It's a very strong cast, and it was the highest grossing South
[1:24:48] Korean film of 2024. So definitely go watch that.
[1:24:52] And the other recommendation I have is Black Doves, which I
[1:24:57] really enjoyed when I saw the Netflix starring Kyra Knightley
[1:25:01] and Ben Wishaw, who you may remember as the nerdy cue from
[1:25:06] Daniel Craig's run as James Bond.
[1:25:09] So those are two my recommendations, Black Doves and
[1:25:13] Exuma, which is a South Korean horror movie from 2024.
[1:25:18] Those two are my pop culture recommendations and that's all
[1:25:23] the time we have for this episode.
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