I.V.M. We break down complex topics So things you should know In language that you can understand So that you can appear Smarter to your colleagues Your date, your interviewer Or the personal Tinder You're trying to hit on I am your host Chuck The income tax department Prefers the co-politician I am of course joined By my venerable compadre He makes nuts and bolts for a living But he's nuts and bolts From his wife Mr. Sri Sri Narendra Chanoy Thank you Chuck Nuts and bolts might break my bones But words will come Out of my phones So yes thank you We have a lot to cover this week So why don't we get down Right to the brass tacks Let's start with the feature Of our podcast That we've been ignoring Over the last few weeks Since Close enough I'm talking about The profundity of the day And this week I know what's coming Indeed you do This week we saw a spike In profound messages Why? Because of Independence Day And of course we are talking In the week of Independence Day So even though you might Hear a little while after We've been through a lot of Independence Day Watch that messages And a lot of them Have been incredibly profound So this one That we want to talk about Is Chocoblock with Indian flags Much like Indian roads On 16th of August Ouch And in the forward There's one line of each state While things like this Usually do the rounds On these occasions This one was brimming Simply brimming with profundity I'm sure most of you guys Would have received this A line of Indian flag Followed by something That each state has done So I'll leave it to you too So it starts off With importance of states in India And it says Punjab for fighting Bengal for writing Kashmir for beauty Andhra for duty Karnataka for silk Haryana for milk Kerala for brains Tamil for grains Orissa for temples Bihar for minerals Gujarat for peace I love that Gujarat for peace Assam for tea Rajasthan for history Barashra for victory Himachal for cold Chalkan for bold UP for rice Arunachal for sunrise Goa for wine Meghalaya for rain NP for diamond Sikkim for almond Mizoram for glass Manipur for dance Nagaland for music Chattiskar for physique Physique that is Uttarakhand I have to say this With a straight face man Uttarakhand for rivers Tripura for singers India for all Land of culture Followed by a globe This shows the US I love India made up With Indian flags They're all the followers Overall not bad They only missed Telangana Which means this forward Was at least what 3 or 4 I think it's nice in spirit From a marketing point If you want to analyze it Has everything a nice Whatsapp message is supposed to contain Quick and easy to digest facts A lot of nice graphics Hundreds of Indian flags The timing But it's not perfect A few points have to be Docted here and there If I were to rank this In Whatsapp forward ability For instance Punjab for fighting Well actually I looked it up And it's actually UP That sends the most Number of people to the Indian And Uttarakhand By percentage of people But let's not go Get too anal about the exact facts It is after all a Whatsapp forward And everyone knows We shouldn't get facts In the way of a good Whatsapp forward Fact should be complicated Yeah yeah So the alternative was Bangraha and Yo-Yo Hani Singh So I think fighting is okay Yeah I think fighting is fine Andhra has mentioned But no Telangana That might have to be Political implications I expect a Whatsapp boycott Or some such thing in Hyderabad Given how popular our podcast Anyway my favourite of course Is care love our brains What can I say about that But it's indubitably is Isn't it I mean the finest minds In the They've figured out An entire economic model Of how not to work And just keep driving It's successful They've got road, rail Yeah so Kerala definitely Yeah yeah Chattisgarh for physique I'm not exactly sure What to say about that I googled Chattisgarh wrestling And the first result I got Was arm wrestling association They actually have Associations for arm wrestling Apparently you better believe it Anyway I'm a little pissed That they left out union I'm guessing they couldn't be Bothered to fit those In the message So I took it upon myself To complete the job for them Andaman and Nicobar For amazing scuba diving Chantigarh for being Supremely well planned Dadra and Agar Haveli For confusing 9th standard Geography students Daman and Diu For providing much needed Relief to Gujarat Lakshwati for making people Wonder how to get there Puducheli for giving the French tourists something To do when they come to India And finally the national Capital territory of Delhi Which by the way Was not one of the states per se For giving us so many things Ranging from amazing food To wide roads To terrific gardens All just to be balanced out By Gurgaon Yeah and you know The forward says Gujarat for peace I promise Because it's just been Just move on We are not too far away From the BJP Somebody pointed out on Twitter One of the biggest problems Of India was highlighted In that thing He said the reason is That Gujarat has a wine And miserable has a glass That's the biggest problem Yeah okay Let's take a much needed break We will be right back Are you looking for Finance products and services That can enhance Your personal finance experience Are you looking for a space To talk about your Financial product or service And are you looking for A crisp talk show Where the conversation Is all about money Well your search ends here Hi my name is Anupad Gupta And I'm host of The Pays of Pays of Pays of Podcast And I invite you For the conversation About your personal finance On each Monday On the IBM Podcast app Or the website Or on any podcast streaming platform See you folks You know that feeling When you finish a movie And you just need to talk about it That desperate need to discuss Why Kalhunaho hits different Enter IBM's 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You know Because McDonald's At a school So anyway Chuck and I thought It would be an interesting thing To have a simplified look At the Olympics Actually so when We sat down to write stuff About the Olympics We raised such a massive topic So we're actually going to Split it up over a few episodes So we know we're a few weeks late But that's okay The discussions on the Olympics We think are going to continue For a while And you can hear them Four years later in any case So one way of looking at it We're four years early And not like one week late So yeah Yeah so you know The thing is that We're going to have Two editions of this And hopefully not of Donald Trump's presidency Which looks quite evident So we're going to split this topic And first off Let's start with the basic thing What are Olympics Well quite simply There are a major sporting event Which has thousands of athletes From 200 countries Participating in a period Of about two weeks In a number of events There are summer games Which is more popular Than what's happening right now And then there's the winter games Which is much smaller in nature Which we're actually not Going to talk about too much The winter games are in Must feel like the kurla end of BKC Oh yeah that also exists But let's focus here on the summer games The major event They are called the modern Olympic games And they're called modern Because there's now A Pokemon go catching event Thankfully not yet The Olympic games as we know Are actually a relatively Recent phenomenon They started in the late 19th century They were inspired by What was called the ancient games That used to happen in Greece Between the 8th century BC And 4th century AD So let's start with that The ancient Olympic games Started off in 776 BC Around the time you went to college And I was waiting for the reaction And they were held in honour Of this gentleman called Zeus Who happened to be The god of sky and thunder Unlike of course Of Narendra Modi Who's the present guy Or god of sky Let's not be significant Let's go over There are many legends As to why these games started One story goes out A set of dactyls This is a mythical race of beings They used to race To amuse the newborn Zeus So that would never happen today Because kids have iPads Correct So you don't need anything else To amuse them If there was So if you think about it If there was something That would have happened today That was a trigger of a series of games Some millennia down the line It's likely to be Who can reply to a WhatsApp message The fastest Or something like that A second myth why the Olympics started Is that the son of Zeus Heracles instituted the games In order to honour his father There are several other myths As to why they started Let's not get into them right Now that's not important The game started in a place Called Olympia Which was a sanctuary site For Greek deities If you thought the old era Was all about the male Narendra Modi The first event was a running race Among young women To be crowned priestess Of the goddess era That's very interesting I'm not sure What the fund of asking people To run to take eligibility For priesthood was though I guess things have changed much Today we ask Would be MBAs What are the engineering pedigree Roughly the same thing Eventually by the 4th century BC or so It became an all male thing So eventually it became Haryana It must be said though That the Olympic games Was just one of four And Hellenic games Hellenic of course Referring to the Greek kingdom So basically there were Four different sets of games The Olympic games One of them There were the Isthmian games Which happened in a place called Corinth In honour of a chap called Melisertes There were the Nemeian games In order of Zeus again Called Delphi These four set of games Used to rotate in what Used to be called an Olympiad None of those games Of course exist now Only the Olympic games All the others have stopped So you can actually say What a pithy Oh man I need to throw something The ancient games Consistent of running Chariot racing Discus throwing Jumping Running with armour Boxing, wrestling Long jump Javelin And even equestrain And only those who spoke Greek were supposed to participate Only men Except strangely not the equestrain Then what did I win again Giftmortus But no He officially got An olive branch Wow It doesn't sound like much But I think But what happens Because when you become a winner You get a whole lot more Fame, fortune, lots of prizes Including it would seem Wats of olive oil Which would be far more useful Than an olive branch And one would assume Lots of nubile women I'm not sure whether That's the reason for the term Extra virgin olive oil Oh I assure you Young man and dear listeners This is not Please do not falsely Misled by these young Transcripted jokes And mistake them Fractual knowledge How mean of you Anyway Poets would sing songs About the victory The modern equivalent Of course is a tweet or a gif Anyway So there we have it This is the first time An ancient Greek poem Has been compared to a tweet Officially you don't get much But off field You get a lot So basically what happens To cricketers or Sharapova The ancient games Had their share of superstars One of which was a chap Called Leonidas of Rhodes And that is a name That has come up recently Because his 2000 year old record Has been broken by A certain swimmer from the US Yes Also an Olympic champ Was a champion heart player As the city burned Nero yeah Nero actually was He steered a 10 horse chariot To victory So yeah there you have it So Nero the emperor Who saw Rome burn Was an Olympic champion Yeah gold medalist Yeah Olive branch holder So initially the games Were just one day And they were expanded To two or three days And at the end of it Was a grand feast Most of it came from The hundred poor oxen So if there were five days If the games were five days Two days would be For actually the religious situations And you know That would suck right Like it's like When we need to go back Home to a native place Or something We balance all the terrific food With sitting with all the kujas And all that Our agnosticism is of course Coming through here For listeners Because yeah We evidently don't take Our religiousness very serious And I think we should Take a little break And we come back Bounce back with more About the Olympics Stay tuned Be right back And we're back So as you're saying Our agnosticism Was flowing through And our evident Lack of The spiritual part So yeah My question was this Why did the ancient games stop?
Many people possibly reckon The current games Were just continuations Of the ancient ones I must confess I was one of those idiots Who thought that Oh okay the ancient games Should be long back And it just continued ever since So that's not the case And the answer for this story Is all roads lead to Rome So when the rampaging Italians Came to Greece They wanted to put an end To all this nonsense So the games had their heydays And they were their peak In the 6th and 5th century BC And by the time it was 393 AD The Romans did the Greek games So the Indian parents Due to children's dreams And said enough of the nonsense You had your fun A few centuries ago When you were still young Now forget all this nonsense Enrol in Pax Romana Coaching classes Look at Julius G. Kabetta He's already a perfectus And he doesn't waste his time Running around circles half naked I wonder what the Latin For lo kya kahenge is Well I did just that And to show people The show is totally not scripted So we don't have Roman As a language So I did Italian So I did lo kya kahenge And Italian is Cosa dira laggente So when I set this to Latin So this is Hindi to Italian So now when I set this to Latin It gives me some weird things So what I do is I check it both ways Just to make sure it's the same thing So when I try lo kya kahenge To Latin it gave me some nonsense Which when I re-transited It gave me something else So I just went to the English Which is what will people say Which I'm guessing is A reasonable translation Even though it doesn't convey The spirit of lo kya kahenge The Latin for what will people say Squid enim dikant Which I think is appropriate Imagine your dream career Of being a rock star Or a gymnast Or even a professional tea station Has been swept up from under your feet Because society has told you To shut up and study For the all India Engineering entrance examination The words Are very likely to come out Of a list of words You have floating around in your head And yes, we know those two words have been censored out, so we'll give you the Latin again. Quid, enim, decunt. There you have it.
So we've, you know, we're speaking about the Olympics, right? And we just spent a considerable amount of time talking about the ancient games. So now, Chuck, let's move to the modern era. What do we mean by modern?
Well, if you ask the average person on the street, they'll see that's the era when Apple came out of the iPhone, anything before that was just not worth it. So the term Olympic was used to refer to random sets of sporting events, okay? Like how the name Nehru or Sanjay Gandhi is, natural parks and roads and things like that. I think there's a law that says you can't name a natural park, anything other than a I remember reading somewhere that all the positive things, like all the, or rather the premium things like roads and parks and things are always named after Nehru and Sanjay Gandhi and all that, whereas all the things, so the poor, the Congress deliberately named it after poor old MG.
I don't know how much credence there is or something like that, but interesting conspiracy. But it implies a great deal more subtlety or Machiavellian sort of thought than the Congress is really capable of. This is a party where Rahul Gandhi is the president, so we don't really get too much into logic. So anyway, yes, the term Olympics, so there were a whole set of sporting events that were just called Olympics, which were not really Olympics by themselves.
Like for example, in the late 18th century, France had a festival called, and I'll write to a French accent, the Olympia de la République. It should be de la République. Okay, so our biggest, most multilingual episode, because we've covered Latin, we've covered Italian, we've covered English. Yeah, and a little bit of Hindi also, which is a very important thing, yeah.
Okay, there were other events that were using this name, in England, like in England and a couple of other countries. So there was a general idea floating around, like why don't we revive the Olympics, let's have an Olympic charter, finally it fell on those poor Greeks again. Once they were done with this minor matter of being ruled by the Ottoman Empire, there was a chap called Evangelos Zappas, okay, a wealthy Greek guy who wrote to the then king saying, hey, I'd like to fund a permanent revival of the Games. That's very nice, very, very decent of the chap, but Evangelos Zappas sounds like he's a huge fan of secret lighters, Zappas, you'll take a light.
Yeah, so he funded the first Games in 1859, which was held in the Athens city square. Only athletes from Greece and the Ottoman Empire participated. He also funded the restoration of the Pan-Atheneic Stadium in Athens, where future games would be held. At the same time, there's a chap called, there's a baron, called Pierre Lecoubertine, and anyone who's like, one of my your book or competition successors, you should know that name, because he was a guy who really started the modern Olympics.
He was inspired to write a charter and envisage all countries participating, and the Games being held in a different city every time, in every Olympiad. So the first ever Olympic Games that were held under the auspices of the International Olympic Commission, which was formed, was held in Athens in 1896. So even though it was revived in the first Games, happened in 1859, it's recognized that the modern Games started properly and officially, and all that in 1896. The same time I had in the cup.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, entirely by the dude, the IOC oversaw everything and so forth. There were 14 countries, 241 athletes, and 43 events. Compare those numbers, Narend, 2016. There were 207 countries, 11,551 athletes, and 306 events.
Wow, 306. Yeah, across 28 sports. That's incredible. But yeah, that's quite a bit of the Olympics, and I think we should end our marathon episode over here.
There is a part 2, which will come out a fortnight from now, so check that out. But next week also we'll have a little shorty, also based on the Olympics. So stay tuned, and be much. And if you like what we do, then subscribe to us on all your regular apps.
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