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Bye Srikeit :'(

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What a clickbait title, no? Don't worry. Srikeit is not leaving Simblified, just our shores. Our man is relocating to more western pastures. So in this special episode, the rest of us do deep research and tell Srikeit various facts so that he can pass his entrance exam at Toronto immigration. Come discover with us the oldest cricket tournament in the world, pointless info about Winnipeg, head-desk-worthy puns featuring Inuit textbooks and more. Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified. A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go". Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified! You can contact the hosts on: Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit

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I, V, M. M. by to shriek it as he leaves our shores for a fighter pastures and talking about the snow. Of course, the rumors are true.

Our boys indeed leaving if you're a Bollywood celebrity conduct on nefarious activities tomorrow since the paps will be at Mumbai terminal to tomorrow as will a legion of fans. I'm not going by the way. I have a driving place as our boy has decided that his new home is Toronto. This is shriek its last official show on Simplified to be recorded on Indian shows.

Of course, once he lands up in Toronto, it's quite likely he'll find an apartment above one of the 76,219 Indian restaurants in the city. So he might well end up recording on India if not in India. So to celebrate this transition, we have bought together several facts about Canada and shall discuss them for this is another edition of Simplified Half Times, who's joining me today in celebrating, sorry, morning, shriek its imminent immigration. Now I know imminent immigration is technically wrong, but imminent immigration seemed kind of awkward.

Wow, that is something. Yes. I can make this out. How did he do that?

This is the most joyous. I don't know about you guys, but after having written this, I definitely want my funeral to be like this, like this. You were the other last one who was going to die up on the floor because you've got to do major fitness. I really want to stress this is not my funeral.

I have played my producer for playing that music and putting me in the mood. Why isn't it impressive? I was in the mood. I was in the mood.

I was in the mood. I was in the mood. I was in the mood. I was in the mood.

I was actually sort of brushing up my mark and then he speaks and all friends and all friends went to the mood and got entered with their bones. The signs of life got back from the previous. I thought you said funeral, but I thought you said funeral. I thought it was puny.

It's just cute for us to lay. It was really deadly. The job is to work. Or is that later?

I don't know what you guys are planning for. Okay, let me tell you about my Canadian fact. It's not a fact. It's just a puny.

So what do you need to do here? Is it a puny? Thanks for having us. I do have an interesting Canada fact.

I don't know much about Canada. I get very emotional when I read about Canada every time I go driving anywhere in Bombay. There is so much traffic. It's basically telling you that he's got a driving license already.

Yes, Canadian driving your Canadian fact. So there's this place called New Foundland or something. It has some one person per square kilometer or something like that. It makes me very emotional every time I go driving in Bombay.

So Manard has not only the highest population density in the world. It all has. Excuse? I'm pretty sure it's in the world.

Nothing comes close. I mean, just, you know, like feelings or something. Yeah, I'm feeling entirely my subjective voice. We don't mess around with the unscientific things like actual data and all that.

You know, this is like you reflect inside, you meditate and then you sort of come to a country. And then the right life and the green light comes you move. This all I've learned. I learned driving in Manard.

My driver too. My driving is not looking at him. He said he can't ride on the story. He said he can't ride on the story.

He said he can't ride on the story. He said he can't ride on the story. I'm actually really right about that. So is this your fact?

I'm just getting into it. So when you're from Newtale 1st to 8th, I'm very close to losing the thing. I'm going to say, when I make a manly effort in my life, you can only go from 1st year to 2nd back to Newtale 2nd. So even I know let's go for second.

And speaking of 2nd year, I used to have an aunt who's to drive. This I have to tell. Okay, that is nothing to do with Canada, but it's an awesome story. So she used to drive in.

So her husband had an ambassador. Okay. And so. I don't know the diplomat.

He's a businessman. So he'd kidnap the diplomat and put him in his basement. So he has ambassador. So anyway, that ambassador car, she used to drive it around.

So she should drive him to work. I mean, they should go together. And then from there, she would take the car and sort of galliment all over the city. And she didn't know how to change gears.

And ambassador was such a sorted car. You can drive that entire vehicle in third year, every week. So I never had to figure out how to put the gear. So she had, she was just going third gear everywhere.

It is not a matter for automatic. Yeah, my third year plus clutch. Yeah, everything. Just and so she would come to our house.

She'd take all the kids, her kids, me, my sister, everybody get in, we go off to the beach, everything. And then at a beach, she she didn't know how to reverse done, right? Because she didn't know how to change it. So she would catch a taxi driver and tell him reverse car and that taxi driver such was the mechanism of a personality.

The taxi driver would reverse it and then you should put it in third year and then you put it in third year and then you should come. Amazing. So this is actually pretty common thing. You can do this.

Yeah, you can do this in Canada now. You can't do this in Canada. Wow, that's a beauty. You can't do it in the country.

Yeah. So there's another fact that was about every similar story which was there. I think there was this one girl who had learned how to drive. She had a car and she learned how to drive.

But she later employed a driver because she used to only arrive in Kerala and Kerala, she didn't know how to park the car anywhere. In reverse, she didn't know how to drive reverse at all or like sis who who parked the car and she had a trauma while parking it. But in Kerala, she tried to drive the car because she'd always find someone over there to park the car. She would give it to someone and don't do it to park the car for her.

I mean, she came to Bombay. She was like, very afraid that she'd give the key to someone to enter the car and go away. So she hired a driver because she'd be going to park the car. I didn't know.

Also had this parking as a service. I think it speaks up for a month to be in hospital. Just to break the train and to reaffirm the car. It's not a bad speed breaker in the speed breaker.

But also to ensure that people don't assume the other podcast that we've been trying to drive. My wife knew how to drive before I did and simultaneously they said point will learn before you check. So you have to go to the station. There you go.

That means the point is to it. We might be able to drive. Not allowed here a mic because they're driving the car unfortunately. You were going off on to your second fact that I want to tell you I don't need to demoralize you or anything.

But this is what someone was telling me. So he asked his friend. So this guy moved to Canada from India and the first year he, some of us approaching. So after really harsh winter, okay, it's winter for most of the years.

As some of the approaches, this guy's asking his colleague, hey, what do you do for summer? So this colleague says, I think we are going to be working that day. I don't want to devour the day. Be prepared.

We had our second day of winter yesterday. How cold resistant are you? This is the classic unresolved question that I have. So I have tried to gauge how cold it does it really get.

And for me, the maximum cold I experienced is zero degrees in Manali. And that was cold. But like, I was very winter, all that stuff. Manali doesn't really count because I have experienced cold in urban settings.

You know, like you're going in the heels that you feel cold. Going down, binding roads are anyway, mentally prepared for all of that stuff. Like stepping out of your house and feeling cold is not something I have experienced. So yeah, that is good to be a new one.

Yeah, get used to this. Don't get too used to this voice, dear listeners, because it might change over the course of the next two years. Through through great teeth. There's another awesome thing someone told me now that Canada has legalized marijuana, and it is always cold.

Your state is going to be, they're calling Canada the high bream nation. Oh my god. Oh, no, there's so many good ways that could have ended. And I was not one of them.

I was a corporation. Okay. So here is my first fact. I think I have three, four.

I've got any Vini, the pool was named after the Canadian city. Vini was derived from Vini, so when a bill now got his idea from a natural bear in England, the name was partly from Canada. But that is only the fact set up. It didn't seem like a satisfying enough fact.

It didn't have a simplified Genesica. That thing. Oh my god. Oh my god.

Yeah. Yeah. So I, so I googled up Canadian poop and I got the one does as one does. Because we need to get a new pool.

Yeah, we need the pool. So I thought let's take it to this logical conclusion. I searched for Canadian poop because there's poop in the logical conclusion of poo. But yes, no, but like, can I just break this to say, whenever you type ratio, do you end up typing ration?

Like I have to like my finger actually. Yes, yes, whenever I have to type the word market, I'll end up typing marketing. It's quite sad. But anyway, so I got the following headline, poop rained from Canada's guys and nobody knows why.

And I quote from the aforementioned article in all 18 different cases of poop jet tiles falling from the sky have been reported in Canada. The story is updated a few days later, no less a publication than the Guardian. Canada, aviation authority denies responsibility for thesis that fell from style. So this is my fact number one.

All I'm saying is, I love with the winter where you might want to get like an umbrella or something of this. Here's where I will give a counter fact, which a lot of people forget Canada is the second largest country in the world. My landmass Canada is the second largest country in the world. And like it's it encompasses half the Arctic circle like in its side.

And honestly, I can most of Canada is uninhabitable because of like Arctic region and stuff like that. So most people stay around the southern areas and all. But when you say species in Canada, it could be like a pretty large area where they could have one thing that one thing about the United States that impresses me always is how they talk about Alaska and completely ignoring the fact that there's one massive country in the middle. They just say, huh, like from California to Alaska, like a pipeline from Alaska to America.

But I still tag on to Srikit's fact, right, which was that practically when Srikit was in Malaysia, India was the second most populous country in the world. And as he's leaving India, he has become the most populous country in the world beating China. So let's hope Srikit goes to Canada and finally annex the whole of the United States to become the largest country in the world, not just the second largest country in the world. This is what Srikit's secret mission is.

I'm sorry to have leaked it out. For all the immigration regions listening into this, I have no such extensions, please let me in. Srikit is like, I'm not responsible for facts falling from the sky. So my Canada fact is that Canada has a $1 coin and which came about in 1987.

I think the same year Srikit was born. Yes. Yeah, it features a duck, which is quite a loon and therefore the coin is called it $1 coin is called a looney and obviously they came up with a $2 coin in 1996 and being a wonderful point loving people, they decided to call it a looney. The saloon and tuna are the $1 and $2 coins in Canada, even though the $2 coin actually features a polar bear on the, I want to say, a bird side or a river side.

One of those sites is a bear and a duck, but they call it a looney and a tooney. But do you know what is on the other side of the coin? Sorry, the queen, yeah, the queen's got it. No, no, no, no, it is a queen.

I got the polar bear. They could, I mean, considering the idea of population has grown so much in Canada, they can call the polar bear coin as the polloonie. This shall be your standard. I was trying to land it somewhere on Sweeney mama.

Yeah, but so the over side features the queen, I'm guessing, because she's the head and the tail was a duck or the polar bear. Okay, let's back up over there and let's talk about what actually needs to be addressed in the room. What is this obvious thing and what is that? Like, you don't want to just use that word.

I know. So explain what is obvious and what the other thing obviously, then I think it's probably observe an area right now. But you might be saying, no, the other side, please. No, but it is also the thing that they're going to do now is a lot of these coins and notes are all stopped in circulation.

They're all going to be taken back and new. Are you allowed to say that? Oh, or you be eitherly start using you. Oh, maybe that's right.

Yeah, Indian FinTech. It's bands too. Nothing like that. All right.

But interesting facts around the introduction of the looney, right? Basically, it was brought about as a replacement of the people watching of the Canadian dollar as a cost saving measure, basically, right? And it is a 11 sided, or eight bronze coin as it were. Excited inside.

11 sided. No, total. That one is 12. So not, you know, if if marriage not going for this, I think we should all refresh it from what I love.

I think we have an organic point to take a break. Yeah. If you need to use the looney's, you know, Namaste, sir. Good morning evening afternoon.

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Serving it up with Sanya, watch and listen on YouTube and wherever you get your favorite podcast. Welcome back to Simplified, where we are sending Shri Kaif off to Canada with all the knowledge that you will need to pass the intensity we'll ask you in my customs. No, no. So Shri Ka, let me ask you.

Do you know what the auticup is? A-U-T-E-Y. O-T-Cup. Yeah.

No. Anyway, good thing we have to... It's curling. Good thing we have a cricket podcast in the room.

Tony Sebastian, do you know what the auticup is? The longest running cricket tournament in the world, stop laughing. Take this seriously. I'm outraged by this.

No idea. Okay, then we have to turn to nothing. Who was there when it started? Okay.

This is kind of a good question. I have a question. If I give you enough time, Tony, you would have probably worked it out. You guys know what the first ever international cricket match was?

USA versus Canada. Yes. It was indeed USA and Canada in 1844 at the same George's cricket club in Manhattan and Canada 1 by 20. Oh, Canada 1 by 20.

Canada 1 by 20. Oh, Canada 1 by 20. International international cricket match. Yeah, this predates the first ever Test Match, which was 18, 17 by 33 years.

So there was one day when every other nation in the world had won no international matches in Canada at one point. Yeah, in fact, it was one day international. You can almost say that Canada 100% of all international cricket matches for... Just imagine the Canada 1 by 20.

Somebody of your current lifespan lived and then the first Test Match happened. Or that Canada won the first match. And the next day or the same day someone died. And they died knowing that Canada is the only winner of any international cricket.

So if any of you want to start a sport, that's how you do it. And that's the day they will die. But you can tell us about the other audience. So it's kind of like a trick thing because they decided to name it later.

It was played I think a couple of times again after that. And now they're kind of reviving it again and now it's gone from two day to... Obviously there were no official Test matches and I think now they're playing ODS and T20s. So the ODS as a property is still kind of there.

It's kind of like the North American ashes I suppose. One interesting thing I thought was based on by the chance. I've followed some of that. Do you know Harry Wright and George Wright, the two baseball followers famous?

Oh the Wright brothers. The Wright brothers. But the Wright brothers father Samuel Wright Sr. was a cricketer for the USA in that match and he took five wickets.

And he was the member and ground skipper of the club. So that was interesting. Dude this is like a gab and then the I'll tell you what. I was playing school after my first Holy Communion.

I got a set of stumps. So I was like these fuckers. I'm not giving them a kick. Are you a kid?

I'm a good person. I'm a good person. I'm a good person. So I'm used to a mini mini.

And until that point till fifth grade or something these fuckers wouldn't let me board because they claim they were stuck in. It was in fifth grade. So now my stomach here rules only if I get bored. Like we use it.

It's the same fun that like ground skipper and gab does not have the pieces. Like if I'm not gab they give me the right to me. I'm a good boy. That's my way.

That was my second fact. Beautiful. Okay. So the National Sport of Canada, the National Winter Sport of Canada is basically in case.

I'm a good guy. I'm a good guy. The National Summer Sport of Canada. Most amazing.

Oh wow. Really? It is not. It is.

It is. It is. Wow. Narin has done all the research and has not done.

He is researching. He's like, I need to go at you. Narin who invented basketball. Oh, James, he's made it.

James played amazing. Narin's are fucking roll. Okay. This question is for you.

James, he's made it was Canadian, American, and American, and Asian. There is one Indian from Canada who is in the niece. Who is in the niece with Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Okay.

He's also been given a top 25 Canadian immigrants award. So he could probably know who this is. But wait, do you know this Indian who's made the niece with Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame? No.

I don't know this. No. No. Okay.

No. This is not a player. He doesn't play basketball. Oh, is it a nav?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

He's like him. He's turban and he's going and perichuring at the game is like a huge symbol. In fact, it's a great symbol of multiculturalism and Toronto and how like Toronto is like that melting pot where all these different people come and support. Now, but it's like a fixture in Toronto.

Yeah. So, Super fan is a subjective term, but I'll tell you how much of a fan he is. Now, but he had attended every Toronto Raptors home game since 1995 till the Covid pandemic struck in 2020. And like, when they opened up the stadiums again to the fans, he continued attending till December 2021 when he was forced into isolation because he was exposed to the Covid Super...

So practically for 25 years or 26 years, he attended every single home game of the tournament. You sing. That's amazing. So you think Canadian Indians, you think you are wrong?

The next level, like I've been. And so a couple of years ago was the first time where Toronto Raptors actually won the NBA Championships. They won the overall NBA Championship. So when they won the, this thing, they were so super fan now was like a big fixture of it.

Like it was like, oh my god, this is happening. And like, it was like a redemption story for Karikaradian basketball because it was always supposed to be like this stupid stepchild and most of the players are interested in it. And basketball was not really much for Canadians. So this became like the V to North.

They came this big symbol for Canada and all that stuff. So that's the fourth area. So does the NBA now stand for North American? No.

It's national. An absolute national. That's my situation. Okay.

Okay. That's nice. By the way, Tony, you seem to be a fan of Canadian sport. Basically the nice guys next to Rokas Angri, Nader.

I don't think that this subtext has missed us. I mean, 10 millions in hitting. You don't know, there are some of these, you don't know, right, as a classical music fan, you would go to some of these videos that are positively un-hatable by anybody, right? Like beautiful music or whatever, bringing communities and people across ages.

And you see only like, a port and then there will be this one guy who doesn't downvote. So Tony is that downvote for King Milim. Do you remember the world's most famous YouTube comment? I think it's in Hindi.

But it's not as big as it was. Which is... I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. There's actually a lot of simplicity in your voice. But you were the first to speak of them.

This is also an interesting experience. It's a good experience. From there to go to here. Here's this.

So... For the first time in 295 episodes of producers, we're going to have to believe in Arrain. Wow. Both your sons have been on this podcast, Narrain.

As anti-solcemen is fond of saying, family. But actually, what I thought was, what would be the most popular comment is, the most popular comment is, what is the name of the track? What is the name of the track that's playing in the background? What is the response that...

Do you know? No. The root stands from. Oh, yeah.

The root stands from. Every time you ask, you have to play, you'll be like a third stands from. Oh, really? There's another one on singers.

I don't know who this singer is. This guy is like, I've been in a terrible accident and I've been in a wheelchair born for the last 15 years. Today I got up for the first time thanks to your music to turn off the tab. Wow.

Okay. So since we were going on music, I have a half-fact on music. She gets no sense. So tell me, Nee and...

Celine Dion. Not too far from the truth. Not too far from the truth. I'm going to try and sing something.

Where are you? I'm going to try and hum this out because more of these hums. Not that Canadian guy yet. Okay.

Here we go. What am I doing? More score. Oh, wow.

Not bad. Okay. So there's a very famous Canadian band. One of my favourite bands.

Rush are from Toronto. And one of the most famous songs is an instrument called YYZ. YYZ for some obscure reason we see internet will tell you about is airport code for POC and airport in Toronto. And once when they were landing they saw YYZ and they figured out the more score for it and they started playing it.

And they said, hey, that's a nice little refund and they turned the whole thing into a song. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

One other thanks again. Oh, you're good. Okay. Oh my god.

Oh, ga, ga. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that something wrong?

Yeah. Oh. I mean, next one. Yeah.

One other. MIke. Oh. Oh my god.

Oh. Oh. Oh, did you. I heard how do you put 10 people how do you put 10 people into a Volkswagen golf in Calgary?

It's going to Andkur. I don't know whether they're racist or whether that's a comment on the size of the or no they don't want to leave Calgary because there's nothing there. I'm guessing they have rules in Canada. Why in Britain it might not say I would have stayed in.

Look but I think wrestling was very important for me to know a lot of cities. I knew Detroit because of big daddy cool diesel before cars. Oh yeah, I don't car so yeah it makes sense. Diesel was there from there.

But why should be better? Oh, definitely. It's under tingles. And a lot of others.

I think a lot of good. Yeah, no, but it's hard. But do you remember how Owen Hart was buying the first sports person to pass away on a people view like they didn't intend for it to happen. Yeah, I worked on the ring.

He just like fell in like brookas. Yeah, nobody has the footage of it either. Yeah, that was really no there is footage. I mean, please don't make me free Google this.

Yeah. But anyway, heart foundation, which was which was mocked by degeneration exes. Fart foundation because I remember that I remember that. Which relates to the two characters from South Park who quit essentially Canadian.

Oh yeah, the two guys were hit bobbing. Yeah, I forget. So the two drops and South Park is that Canada is only one road. Okay, that is one.

Yeah. And then there's Terrence and Philip who are like very very very very very very nice. Right away. There's a nice call back to the band that started this entire discussion.

Rush has an association with South Park. So during one of their concerts, the four characters from South Park Eric Carmen and the other guys, they start playing one of Rush songs in very very badly and they like sort of like they like start abusing each other and stuff like that. And I said, and I'm getting me and I can do whatever I want. And he is the singer of Rush and I want to and I want to three and then the band starts playing.

It's quite a nice little thing. And so South Park's it is 20th or 25th anniversary is something recently and it's a huge massive performance that the Red Rocks amphitheater in Colorado, I think is beautiful venue. Lots of shows have been filmed over there. And to celebrate this lots of musicians came as well.

Now Rush has actually disbanded because there will be love with drummer and this is need for past a few years ago, one of the greatest numbers of all time. And for the first time in about a decade, the other two members got together to perform at the South Park. So typical nice guys, they are Canadians. That's a nice rush for you.

One of the other greats was incidentally three kids friends. But it was three kids, three kids friend put the car in Kerala, three parkers. I wish I were Matt Stoned by the Canadian. We should all know that in beautifully.

Wow, he worked that. Canadians are generally very nice, right? So I am told that they are the only people who will thank the ATM after withdrawing cash. But he is a thank you.

Yeah, I wish people asked. So this was 5-16, also a lot of people did that. I assume this fact would come up somewhere, which is that Canada has a strategic reserve for maple syrup, right? Maple syrup?

Yeah, doesn't get produced at the same rate every year and also I think the demand supply changes from time to time, right? So to maintain the price of maple syrup stable, they actually have a national maple syrup reserve. I don't know if you've seen elementary, there is one episode where actually a drug guy who has been running cocaine for the last 10 years and wants to get out of it actually does it by stealing the strategic maple syrup reserve and selling maple syrup to restaurants in the US, in New York, because obviously pancakes and maple syrup. And maple syrup apparently doesn't spoil.

You can keep it for however long and it will still remain. That's a guy who did a root trip now. All right, we should quickly move on to Narayan. You said you have one more, right?

I have two stories about Canada. Okay, so the first story is narrated by a friend I think you guys also know. I want to know. Those stories are famously also how tall the tallest Canadian building is.

Wow. Sorry. Yeah, so this guy used to work for major Indian IT company and he had become an expert at, you know, whatever they do. So he used to be sent as a troubleshooter.

So they would have these offices in. So and he was used to going to places. He'd go to the place to sort of, you know, fix whatever, need to be fixed and then fly out of it. And every time the routine was the same.

So he was sent to the airport. One of the local software engineers would come to pick him up and a software engineer, being a software engineer plus an Indian software engineer would be unmistakable. So he would be as be spectacle. He would be 90 pounds.

He would be wearing clothes to side this to large from everything was fine. For this one time he went, he was sent to Winnipeg, Canada. So he landed in the city. Yeah.

Yeah. So he landed in the back, Canada and cannot see anyone answering to that description. The only other Indian apart from him who is there at the airport is one huge guy who looks like John Abraham on steroids. He's like really bulked up and everyone's gone away.

And so that guy must pay it. So he approaches him and it turns out to be his, you know, his colleague who was supposed to pick him up. So he's wondering, is it how the hell did a software engineer and Indian software engineer acquire a physical like this? And his and his mystery was soon to be explained because when he landed up at the software company's office in Winnipeg, Canada, it was a six story building with offices on the first and second floor and then three or four stories where these boys used to live and a gym on the ground floor of the basement or something.

And everybody in the building was like this, like John Abraham and like, Lou Chai's, John Abraham, yeah, I really muscled it. So what it turned out was Winnipeg is so cold and it is so dangerous to go out in the winter. You can literally die in five minutes. If you go out and you get snowed under, no one even know, you know, there is a blizzard or something, you know, a ton of snow falls on you.

No one even know you're there. You could be done. That kind of thing. So, you know, so the only thing they can do is work out in the gym.

So they code all day and sort of bench press all night. So I thought it was a survival mechanism. They were hoed. They're doing, yeah.

I would say post no falls on them. But you're only stronger than David. No, no, but I mean, like, I mean, I mean, I mean, many other things in hostels. No, no, no, this is when she can get John Abraham body, you know, that he's coping.

No, just connecting it back to Calgary and folks working in Toronto, thankfully, that's where he's going to before he goes, he'll call it Toronto. But once he reach, they'll call it Toronto. Toronto is how Toronto's pronounced. So not Toronto, but Toronto.

But anyway, this is great. Malayala movie called John Eamon, where like Malayala male nurse is stuck in Alberta, like in a full of snow. Just to celebrate his body, he comes home for two days. If you have time and opportunity to watch it, watch it.

It's a pretty amazing movie. It's called John Eamon. I'd be glad to have that. Before I'm writing, jump to the second story.

No, no, before the second story, it's not a factory. I was thinking, what are the, are there any Canadian brands? It's been a very, actually, this question. Yeah, Canada is actually one of them.

But anyway, after this question, he keeps saying team what, and as if anyone in India knows what that damn thing is. But here are some companies that we Indians might know. McCain Foods, French fries and all that. Bombardier, Bombardier, Umeks, Jejes, Zagla, Blackberry, of course.

That's world famous. Walk music fans, you might have seen a brand of cymbals called Seibium. They are a pair of people from Canada. Yeah.

Yeah. And Zincian, by the way, is not a kishuk. Okay. Zincian, was actually a company that used to make, I mean, before the musical instruments, they were actually war-based cymbals to scare a vision, something like that, in the Ottoman Empire days.

Shopify, of course. And interesting enough, some life of Aditya Birla, some life fame. I mean, they are famous for other things, so at least in India, they are famous for it. Some life in nature.

So these are the Canadian companies I could find. So, some life is a very weird thing for a Canadian company. Canadian company. One day in a year we worked.

And for somebody who is currently reading Andibio's. Andibio, it's all about the project. The project, the project, the sun life is slightly off to India. That is my, that's all the facts that I have.

There might be some other content that I have written, but we might or might not get to that later after Marine's story. Yeah. And then you had to go to it. So second one is about this guy who is, you know, so there is, there are these people.

Yeah. So it's just one question. When they got into that, Tony, what vehicle did they go in from Calgary to? Folks are in God.

So I think there is a whole thing. It's just knowing, you know what they put on top of it to make sure that nothing comes inside. They put a van cover. Oh, we also, we were focusing on this.

This is, this is better than my other van cover, which will come later in the second. Oh, you're good. You're good. No, yes.

Yeah. So the local, the Aboriginal people of Canada are called the Inuit, right? So they used to be called the Eskimos, but Eskimos is an offensive term apparently. So they called the Inuit.

And so there was this Inuit called Nanook, right? And Nanook was, was an enlightened Inuit. He knew that the only redemption his people would have is if they got education. He knew that was quite into it.

Yeah, he was into it. And he was in the software company. Yeah. They make, they're actually supposed to be a quite an evil software company, apparently, because they have this software called TurboTax, which everyone in the United States uses.

And they have a vested interest in making the tax code so complicated that you cannot file it unless you use TurboTax or some such. That's genius. I mean evil. Yeah.

It's also, it's the side of the bottle you want. We'll try to be stuck. We'll try to be stuck. We'll be stuck.

Hey, is that like a bottle of name for Canada, like Canada and US? No, but it's the largest one. No, I'm not. I'm not a model.

I'm not a model. Isn't it? I mean, I feel like I don't know. Oh, I know it's the most like.

When line is the boundary between Tibet and British India. And British India. It's a name though. Do this in the English.

Similar population density. So, yeah. I believe it on the British. Not in your story about Nanukh, the enlightened, the individual.

Yeah. So he wanted to bring his, you know, his being his type up. So he decided that they should get educated. So he wanted, you know, when you are living in a vast featureless expanse, the one thing you really need to know is geometry, because you need to know how to go from point A to point B navigate to the stars.

You need to know trigonometry. You need to, you know, so a lot of things that you need to figure out. So he wanted, so he got, he wrote, he got textbooks, geometry textbooks. He rewrote them in the Inuit language because, you know, inwards speak their own language.

So he saw. Which famous? He doesn't have thousand ones. It doesn't have thousands.

Yeah. It's a misnomer, misnomer, miscles. Anyway, he wrote this book and he wanted to print it and distribute it among his people. But you know, the northern hemisphere, now the northern hemisphere, it was very expensive.

He shopped around, shopped around, shopped around and finally he got supplier in China who decided to, who said that, you know, and they give him a very good deal. So finally, he made the payment. Those books were printed and then they arrived. They arrived at a port somewhere in Canada, but obviously not where these guys people were living.

So he had to take all the books, put them on dog sleds, right? And it's quite an enterprise and take the dog sleds to the Arctic Circle, right? And he was really proud of himself because he was the first guy to cart Asian geometry to polar coordinates. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Wow. Wow. That's beautiful.

flagaugh. I got my revenge on Chuck finally. Oh my gosh. Alright, so this is absolutely masterful because, like he was a Australian who threw the boomerang and turned around.

We did not see this coming. I did not see that coming because he said it differently by first one was friend of his to go pick up all places. Wow. What a beautiful, beautiful.

Ah. I think that is this time, remember that Facebook on Twitter it's been in Twitter. Like a computer. Wait, watch me.

Huh. Maybe something? I've misled two of them to the Indian thing. This is wisdom from Malad.

Anyway, Tony, I think that's a good enough cue for us. So let's do this one by one. What do Tamil bride do? Do you want to give the audience a chance to get a pillow to scream into?

I'm meant to bite into it. Yeah, so this thing is the only thing that you like. If you happen to be near Sri K through and you are hearing this in just give me a hug or something. Okay, what do Tamil bridegrooms get poured over their heads if they get married in Canada?

Mappalai syrup. Mappalai syrup. Ah, mappalai syrup. No, mine's one full story.

Cool, then I'll finish my... In Canada, there is a problem of believe it or not, because there are so many Indians over there now. Ata adulteration. To combat this, the Canadian Food Authority has developed a stamp specifically for high quality ata.

Do you know what that stamp is called? True do. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

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