I. V. M. M.
I mean, I'm all with you on the enthusiasm. And when I suspect, we slightly, we, you know, niggling suspicion that it might not be that universally very, because that three other guys on the car with me today and it was a bad day on traffic, lot of traffic. And I know you were texting me and I was texting back. And so I said something about a podcast.
Somebody asked me in the car, what's that? So I told them I do a podcast and they expressed interest. I said, can you listen to it? So I tuned into the one of the episodes, I think the flying cars one.
And at the next signal, they all decided to get it. Sir, actually, you know what, we'll get on. We'll be doing better. It's a great day.
So it is faster. It is faster. We are niche. We are niche.
We are sort of subtle. And anyway, yeah. Sorry. I have some incredibly good news to give you today.
Indeed. And what might that be? Has it finally happened? Yes, Narayan.
Who has finally become three? This is very good news indeed. I wish you and your wife all the way. No, no, no, no, hold on.
And please don't get the hopes of my family, who you might never know might be listening to this. I'm talking about the podcast. Who has finally become three. That's right.
Narayan, you might have heard stories about Chai Valla's becoming Prime Ministers, or volunteer outfielders during the 1987 cricket World Cup becoming one of the greatest batsmen of his generation. But all that pales are in comparison to what we have today. He's moved from being a guest on Simplified to a god damn co-host on Simplified. Narayan.
What? Yes, I'm talking about the one and only the man who has the admin tries to Wikipedia. The man who got Jimmy Vell's drunk and got him to confess his love for Soggy French rise and the man who Indian superstar cricket has considered it an honor to have their names pronounced in Wikipedia. A weird al-Yankovich of pronunciation, if you will.
He's the man who puts the mad in malard. The Oi in Okeel vee, the law in Liverpool. And most importantly, the wipe in Wikipedia. Oh, God.
Sreeke Tarabali, or as you will now all refer to him, one-third of the human intellectual force that is the tripod by the chair of Simplified. Hello, Sreeke. Hi, guys. Thank you, Chuck, for that thoroughly modest introduction.
And very big hello to all the chronic sufferers of, I mean, long-standing listeners of this wonderful podcast, Careful. In a bladed district, disregard to the widespread protests caused by my previous appearance here, I'm back. And in a more permanent manner, to the madness that is Simplified. And you're very welcome.
We are actually fickered. You made our rusty, breathless, bicycle, and go pimped out. 80 and exciting. What a picture.
So welcome. Demolatization radius. All the third world that has made this podcast were over-crowded dangerously, so having chagat. He's very welcome.
I should remember when he said Wikipedia. When he came out of the podcast, we were talking about Wikipedia and why Wikipedia was called Wikipedia. And he said, Wiki was actually the little two other things that transport people around. And then we went on a riff saying that imagine if this was in India, I'd have been called it like, a lot of extra stuff.
Or chagatopedia. Yeah, thank you. That was your audition. That's all it takes.
Now making the chagat a loud, polluting, and illegally modified vehicle, the common element to my two appearances on the pod, which is pretty fairly representative of myself. So in case you, the dear listener, are new to Simplified, then obviously this makes no bloody difference to you. For as far as you're concerned, this show always had three hosts. It's like if you had become an Iron Maiden fan in 2006, you always started with three guitarists.
And you're surprised to hear that there was a time when they were only two. Or when you came into management studies late and found out that there was a less civilized time and there was only shock and horror. Four people get stronger with four people. I had one version of the first peak is that I'm terrified of sitting in this meeting peak.
Second peak is like, my boss is calling me a peak. And the final peak is like you reach the top level of management and when you find out what your bonus is, that peak. Now in advertising it's just reduced to like two. It's actually four peaks, but they're divided into two couplets of two PPs.
One is one is you spend a day. And the other being like the strongest to you. And you feel when you're interested. Oh, he's a bit of a terror.
Yeah, well, also a legend. So all the other deals. All the other deals. Anyway, all that aside.
See, welcome to the show. We are glad to have you here. Now tell us in 30 seconds what you intend to bring to simplify and how you intend to improve the quality of. Very ominous job.
Yeah, job interview. Job interview. Another question. Yeah, and like a little late to do this job interview.
I'm already on here. But yeah, what I intend to bring to this podcast is pretty much add to the madness. We've heard some feedback from some listeners that the two of you are they can't tell you apart when they start talking. This is like a big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, listeners.
But you know what? We're thinking about the accent or the voice. Yeah. It might be the content that you're talking about.
Both of you guys are talking about the same junk company. And I guess it's somewhere there's some feedback from IBM that's coming that says that it needs to be a little more research. So I bring the credibility. And that too from Wikipedia where the thing of that is citation needed.
So it is coming from a very credible society. So now the official tagline of simplified is ultra-curpidarianism. Citation needed. Exactly.
With that in mind. What are we going to do now? So yeah, this time, what we're going to do today is a recap of 2016 with the simplified lens, of course, tackling the stories that dominated the year and helping you remember what happened, why they happened, how they happened, and so on. It's been a pretty mad cap year.
It's actually, I think most people would agree that 2016 was a pretty ship year. Let's not give ourselves. It's been a pretty bad year. Many famous people died.
A total of a job got elected president of Indonesia and another one in the United States. Not Indonesia, Philippines. Actually, the Indonesian president is actually quite a bad guy. He's a heavy metal fan and things like that.
He's professed his love for Iron Maiden Slayer and things like that. I was thinking he was really into lead and uranium. So while Indonesian president is into death metal, the Philippines prime minister is just a dead person. Like shooting guys on the street.
Ooh, he's metal. Killing people. OK, I could count on you for getting for laughing. One third of this part has been very hammered.
And he challenged the listener to figure out who that is. So like you were saying about 2016, a back job got elected president of the most powerful country in the world. A country who for centuries ravaged countries building an empire suddenly decided to back out of a union that was not just bad for itself, but gave partisan, ultra nationalist, factory politics a major boost. I'm talking about the UK, of course.
And of course, demonetization happens, which is either a master stroke or the single most stupid thing that is ever done depending on what your first post comments page display image is like. I mean, it's a different content of it. So let's start right from the beginning. Let's start right from it.
Like when New Year messages on WhatsApp were doing the rounds around this time last year. Dubai's skyscraper, the address burns, floods along the Mississippi River kills 31 North Korea states that they have successfully tested a thermonuclear weapon. South Arabia ends diplomatic relations with Iran, which has everyone in their region scrambling to Google how to build an anti nuclear bunker. Islam is millions attack a hotel in Aogadog or Bhutkin.
Afaso David Babidais, Alan Rickman Dies, and guys, this is just two weeks into 2016. I think that might be the worst start to anything since India's epic rise against England in 1952 at Leeds when the fall of it gets was 0, 0, 0, and 26 before Vijay Hazari and Dattu Fudkar brought some credibility and stability with a 105 run partnership. So you could be forgiven for thinking that sure, there might be a metaphorical Hazari and Fudkar partnership coming along to put 2016 back on course. So all those New Year WhatsApp SMS didn't seem as ineffective as a weight loss program based on Diwali suites.
But no, that never happened. And 2016 ended up being so bad. So bad. What with the stumping that was Brexit?
The run out that was Donald Trump and the cotton bowl that was the fact that the Cal-Kal-Kul-Ham franchise is in three times. So I'm listening, the price is for you for guessing which is the favourite sport of simplified. That is so shitty. That in comparison, India's final score from that 0, 4, 26 all the way to 165, not out.
Seems like some sort of an analyst me-lab list that likes of which we are truly blessed to have lived through. You clearly enjoyed researching for that section. No, absolutely. So yeah, 2016 was a bad year.
It was. I happened to be there in Dubai when that the best thing burned down. And it was amazing how little of it actually came in the newspapers at that time. It was like next morning, Sheikh Moamad welcome Mayor of Amsterdam for because it was one of Dubai's concerns and other space for them to build another 300 stories.
And well, 2016 for me began with like me tearing an ankle element in an ultimate tournament. So yeah, I mean, I spent the majority of my January even all these pleasant events were happening in the footcast sitting at home. So that was like a microcosm for the year to come in a way. As quite pretty much.
Yeah, and as Buddha was mentioned. As pleasant as an ankle ligament. Yes, in one of the Buddha's books, there's this line. Little did he suspect that fate was lurking in the shadows with the stuffed in skin waiting to bump up all the way up to the front.
So 2016 was more in store for us. And we were going to find out. So it's been close to 15 minutes also. And we haven't actually said useful for our listeners at all.
That's the best. That's the best. That's the best of 2016. But the one, the one that happened in the first 33% of the year.
Yeah, so before we do that, let's take a little break. I think we should just take a break to catch up. I'm sobriety. Fosh follow.
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Come join us on Sine5. Oh, so we're back. OK, so what we're going to do is we're going to pick certain news stories that peaked our curiosity and look at a simplified angle to them. Ready?
Here we go. On Jan 5th, a Mumbai school boy called Pranav Dhanavadi. Remember him, guys? He became the first person to score 1,000 plus runs in any form of cricket, including I'm assuming Street Cricket and Book Cricket and just made up stats.
A thousand runs? Yeah, it's like absolutely bog is my day. Isn't this the same guy was in news a couple of days? Yes, he was locked up apparently for...
OK, that was pretty stupid. That was pretty stupid because apparently he won. He was practicing and the ground he was practicing on a VIP chopper was supposed to come and land. So you can't expect these cricketers to just wrap up and go, right?
So they requested like five minutes. Yeah, so they have to pick him up with him to the cops station and abuse him. Picked up his dad also. He's only...
He's probably only because he was celebrating the first half of the year that they let him go the first place. So yeah, that was pretty... Like, no, I mean, for people who's 2016 also began, well, they kind of made it up. Like they only wanted to score it everywhere.
So just imagine that guys end up your drinking party. Everybody else is doing dude, what a shitty year. This guy's saying also that's a shitty year, but then he's saying dude, you started the year scoring a thousand runs in the city. I'm still sitting here.
I'm still sitting here. I don't like to compensate you, but I rest here. Yeah, but it's mind modeling that someone scored a thousand runs. Yeah, so there was criticism though that the opposition kids were all apparently much smaller, younger than he was.
But why should that take away from the glory? I mean, after all being much older and having an opposition that was underage in experience, unsure what the f*** they were doing didn't stop. Now, there were more than many from winning in 2014. When you please just find an angle to simplify and move.
Okay, so I was thinking, okay, when you're batting so long, you need a lot of endurance, right? Okay, here's where the serious part comes in. And of course, you need a lot of water. So then I was thinking, why do people need a lot of water when you're batting thousand and nine or anything for that matter?
I mean, even a hundred for that matter. You know, doing some sort of exercise. When we extroto bodies, when we sweat out a lot of water, and you go on your early morning jobs, you obviously sweat out a lot of water. I sort of amble on proper.
So that's a body attempting to keep itself cool. And when I say cool, I'm not saying like using Snapchat filters or swag merchandise, not that I'm cool, like the regular type of cool. So because your body has less water, then a whole host of nasty things could happen. Like, crayons, exhaustion, inability to regulate body temperature, heat stroke and so on.
60% of your body in the rain is water roughly the same amount as an MBAPT that is nonsense. Except for those of us who have been in advertising, in which case you simply buy gas. Well, I was going to say that was too generous, but yeah. So it's probably not.
The body also sweats out sodium and potassium, which is why electrolyte base brings for a banana, a good area while running marathon. On February 11th, gravitational waves were discovered, sending the scientific community into absolute raptures and the rest of the world wondering, I mean, like why it wasn't like a starboard pronounced a new flavour or something. And we of course did an episode on G-waves. And if my youthful memory serves me right, it's a breakthrough because it will help us to observe the universe in a totally different way.
And paves the way for further understanding of said universe. Yes, that is correct. How and why? Well, you can head back to the old episode of ours for info on that.
But yes, quite a major scientific breakthrough that. And I would love it if there was a building block game for kids to make the machine responsible for detecting these gravitational waves. It would be called a LIGO Lego. Oh my God.
Dear God, what am I saying to myself? Yes. Moving on. February was also when Donald Trump won a couple of key primaries in the United States.
And that folks was the first time that people actually realized that this little joke might actually end up becoming reality. I think that was when first the world realized that, OK, all right, this could actually happen. It's like when you're putting together school orchestra, OK, like you're in charge of putting together this whole bunch of 50, 60s talented musicians. And there's this one useless kid who comes in because he's the principal's nephew or neighbor or like dogs walker or something like that.
And the principal says just like dull those men, like just put him in something. And so that he doesn't make him do something like a triangle or something like harmless like that. They hope you stay at the back over there. You don't take him seriously.
But during the final performance, everybody says, Oh, do that kid who played the triangle like absolutely killed up next day. And sometimes like best triangle player in the universe. It's like, my friend is not the best friend. It's like when you're like, especially when you put like a movie or something and you're watching like 3D.
And then now they have 4D and 5D and 6D. Somewhere along the way, you're watching like this movie of dinosaurs. And then you're watching, ah, yeah, like suddenly some guys head is getting eaten off and something. And then you're like, oh wait, my arm is missing.
This is so much fun. But then it's actually gone. Somewhere it's all become really, really real. It's all become very, really real.
And eating an arm off actually might be a great metaphor for what's going to happen to the United States in the next few years. So we also simplified the US elections for you. And I know you explained this twice, but I still have absolutely no idea how the US elections work. All you need to know that it's a system that managed to elect an absolute doofus to the office of the most powerful nation on earth.
But then again, it's also a system whose runner up was a person who had a private, who was stupid enough to have a private email server of her own. And whose bronze medalist was a guy who on national television 6 months ago when asked about the situation in Aleppo, he replied, what is Aleppo? So, it wasn't what you might call it in the tweet of stuff, particularly. Yeah.
So, yeah, I think what happens is nobody will take the US seriously from now on. So, it's title of being most important nation on the earth might be stripped of it. So, which do you think can actually become the most important nation on earth right now? Like, yeah, suppose Donald Trump is so stupid and turns the US to whatever.
Really, if everyone is to believe Russia. Because there's a puppet master right there. But, yeah, I guess it could be India. I mean, we have Mitropaharan also.
So, my personal favorite tweet of 2016, I forgot the handle actually. By a caveman redux or something like that, just after Donald Trump won the elections, he put out a tweet, I know this is much later in the timeline, but in any case, he said, congratulations America, you are now experiencing the buck phenomenon. Our lot has smartphones and Twitter, your lot can legally buy M16s, best of luck. I mean, Twitter should really have a mic drop option, because that was totally one.
And then afterwards, slowly we moved on to the month of April, the month of summer, sun and stupidity in the name of April Fool's. And we of course started off with the Panama Papers. The Panama Papers now seems so long back. It was like an eternity.
Yeah, I mean, it was after all the largest leaks since 1913, when some small leadership in the North Atlantic encountered some ice and a plumbing problem. So, the really interesting part though, I mean, while we had a great episode on civil fight covering all the Panama Papers. Your interview is over. It's okay.
Was that the law firm Mosak Fonseca gave aliases like Vili Dapu and Hail Pada. Are you serious? Are you serious? Yeah, I mean, now that gives fodder for thought.
I mean, what kind of aliases would they give some other people if they were there? Like Bill Gates would be on the screws. Luis Suarez would be Hannibal Lecter. And Trump would most definitely be annoying, Orange.
So, Orange and Orange also. Yeah, possibly that. Yeah. So, the Panama Papers were big till...
Basically everybody forgot about them. Basically, you can stash money in offshore tax havens like Panama, Isle of Man and other such tourist resorts to avoid paying corporate tax or just for good old money laundering. Like, what kind of a... Kind of a...
Might as well. Yeah, might as well. And what's the number of... And that's what a number of companies and celebrities including Amita Batshin Lydal, Nesey apparently did.
It was fun, but hey, it was 2016 and was life with a little laundering here and there. Everyone had a good laugh and went back to watching Cats on the internet. I have to tell you by money laundering, Andy. You did money laundering?
No, so we were all sitting on the dinner table and... You and family, my dad, Mom, my kids and I. And my youngest son who, you know, he's very small but he's a kid and he's what is money laundering. And I'm like, you know, we have funny money, you try to make it legitimate.
I was giving him some explanation and he said, I always thought it meant you take money, notes which are dirty and you watch them. Oh, I said laundry. So, we all had a little laugh and then my dad said that he had a colleague who was a little who's wife is to do exactly that because she is just... She said check pockets before putting it.
She was OCD about cleanliness, hygiene and her husband, my dad is a doctor. Her husband was a doctor too and he would get money home because from his practice and she knew that almost everybody who came to her husband was sick, some disease or something like that. So, she took all the money, she put it in a sort of dump with soap and scooted. And next morning, he was a dried out, next morning, and it didn't keep her.
This is almost like there was this very popular KCL video out there where some women is like entirely thoroughly washing a laptop in a sink with like Bimbar and later two cap at all off jeans, I knew how close it was. Like happily opened it and dried it on a clothesline and it was beautiful to watch. So, I guess that phenomenon does exist quite significantly. So, the thing is slightly different.
There's a Pakistani-AC real version of Donald Trump saying he's going to drain the swamp. Anyway, let's move on a little bit. In March, actually we're going to rewind a little bit actually. In March 15, Google that other little sprightly start up.
Start up, start up. So, we've created a computer or a system called DeepMind which won a game of Go against one of its most established players. Go, of course, being one of the most complicated games. Complex on some.
Complex complicated. You can't even an apartment complicated. That's a different shooting. I'm complicated.
I will ask for that. What is procedure for making 3-2? Anyway, so one of the best Go players in the game in the world was beaten by artificial intelligence. And we're not going to get into what Go is.
This is one event. I saw really, really sparked off discussions on artificial intelligence. What is the extent to which AI can go? Because already there are a lot of things around us that are very seeped in AI.
And of course, you and I covered this in an episode on Simplified. And the conversations are still relevant half a year later. Yeah, sure. This was a little gimmick where a computer beats a player.
Go a few years back, of course, deep blue beat Gary Kasparov, which is. And today if you look at it, I think that's about a week or so back, the first Uber had its first ever self-driving car that actually picked up incidentally enough a blind guy in the United States. I remember when we spoke back. I know he's smart because even if he hit deliver to the phone.
He's not. He's not very smart. He's not very smart. He's not very smart.
He's not very smart. He takes a very dark term. Yeah, so artificial intelligence definitely one of the big big technology, sparadimes rather of the future. A lot of people are worried it's going to put people out of jobs.
There are other people thinking that no, it's okay. The people who are being displaced will go on and create other high value jobs just like how the industrial revolution, you know. It's not agricultural labor. It's not agricultural labor.
But those guys went on and did smarter things and then it was also things like whatever cars and snapshot filters and things like that. So yeah, anything else on artificial intelligence you guys want to add? One thing I wanted to just take off on that point where I was talking about complex and complicated. Complicated is a series of very deterministic steps.
As far as I'm concerned at least, which are easy to figure out and which are very sort of yield themselves to automation very easily. So if you have like 27 levers to depress in a very fixed pattern depending on the temperature outside and the wind pressure and so on, you know, it doesn't really need intelligence. It's a very fixed program. But when decisions have to be taken, which are absolutely indeterminate, they have to be taken on heuristics, very, very vague, you know, things, that's when it really requires something approaching human intelligence.
And that's what these contraptions, there was IBM's Watson, which one, Jeopardy, the chess thing, now the go thing. Yeah, it's scary. And you will to sum up what the role of AI can be in 2016 and the future is that one thing we have learned from 2016 is that we definitely cannot rely on human intelligence anymore so it's not to be sure in the religion has been in the future. Yeah, I mean, this is a year where humans, human intelligence elected Donald Trump elected that Britain leave the EU and somehow still managed to keep him in relation to making movies.
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And so what else has been happening in the first bit of the year? OK, sadly for Reddit and 9GAG, a major meme died as Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar. And so I thought, OK, how do these Oscars actually actually work? OK, the Academy, which is of Academy Awards, fame refers to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
It has over 7,000 members, all of which work in film production, so there is no press, no outside bodies, nothing. I can imagine if it was in India automatically using corrections and Jantaheh Meerabapur, some individuals try to get in. So there are many categories. So for most of these categories, film producers send their films to the members, invite them for screenings, etc.
And from the shortlist was drawn and voting on these had to happen. And for most categories, it's pretty straightforward, but the big daddy of them all is the best film. Actually, it's fairly representative of Indian cinema that the biggest award in India is actually the best actor prize. So the best picture in the Oscars is quite an animal.
And how it works is through a preferential voting system. Do you guys know how this works? I sort of read this. It's very, you have a list in which you are listed on your list.
Yeah, so the way it works, OK? So you have a shortlist of about eight movies or something. Obviously all 6,000 members are sent this. And what I have to do is I have to rank.
OK, they have to rank the movies from one to eight, nine, whatever it is. And then what happens is there are physical printouts of the top ranked movies. OK, like suppose movie number one has got only 50 votes and movie number two has got 300 votes and movie number three has got 900 votes. So they stack all of this up.
OK, and then it's not like OK, this pile has got the maximum number of votes. So this wins. What they actually do is the last pile, the pile that's got the least number of votes. They are obviously that's not going to win.
So what they do is they take that. OK, and they see OK, what is the second reference in those in that list? So then that gets redistributed. Similarly from the second, last, third, last, etcetera.
So if you guys can picture this, actually there is a very, very good YouTube video explaining this whole process with poker chips. What you can actually have is when you start off, you may have say movie three, that is that has a most number of votes to 300. But by the time you end this entire process, you may have movie four, which actually, which ends up winning because it's ranked highest on average across all the members. So it's actually a very, very interesting process.
And it's only the best movie award that is voted in this man. Otherwise everything else is a direct OK, who's got the most number of votes? I thought that is pretty fast. It's a bit like weighted average.
Yeah, it is. It is actually. But I mean, the Indian process is definitely simple, where they're like, I'm buying a kabula. I mean, I think that it's a lot simpler and cleaner that way.
It's the elegance economy of expression. It's that. Anyway, February, February got off to a very Forbes list, please, in a way, Alphabet was named the most valuable company on the planet. It's definitely got to be like the quickest company has been named the most valuable of the economy.
Yeah, they have. Alphabet, of course, the parent company of Google, that minor startup that we were talking about a while ago, right, a served Apple, five, sixty eight billion US dollars versus five to thirty five billion US dollars. Just take a moment to sink, that's good. At the time of recording, Apple is again in the lead, but just so fun, guys.
Can you tell me the other eight names in the list? Of list of 10. Yeah, 10 most valuable companies on the right. So Apple and Alphabet are the first Facebook.
Facebook, yes, is a number five. Amazon Amazon. Yes, is a number nine. Well done to the young lad from Microsoft.
Microsoft and Microsoft is a number three. Well done again. Let's go. So this is all been very technical now.
Let's go. It's more traditional. Walmart. I think it's three or four people from one.
Most valuable brands must be companies. I'm sure that is Coke and Pepsi. No, actually. No.
Okay, let's think about Heartland America and... Not Shri Hari industry. No, sorry. Just take a minute.
Just take a minute. Okay, since nobody's in the world to guess any more, the others are. So this Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, number four is ExxonMobil. Oh, of course.
Then there's Facebook, there's a Berkshire Hathaway, which we might have known from many inspirational quotes. There's Johnson and Johnson. What? Yeah, actually, Johnson and Johnson make a lot of surgical equipment.
So they're very... I was working on something where they were talking to some doctors and all that. And a lot of surgical equipment used in bariatric surgery, which is severe obesity, weight reduction stuff. They make a lot of surgical equipment for that.
In fact, they're probably the only guys who make that surgery equipment across the world. So I think that might be responsible. So it's not just all just earbuds and hair oil. Maybe oil.
Maybe oil. Okay. Then there's general electric that does everything from creating light bulbs to creating 30 rocks. So 30 rocks, 30 rocks.
This Amazon and then there's Wells Fargo. I don't know how much longer they're going to be on that. It's just rapidly dropping. Like they just made the cut.
It's like, let's like, yeah, yeah. It's like, let's like, yeah, yeah. It's like, let's like, yeah, yeah. No, please.
Yeah. This is a movie where the bike go like sliding. And another great, another great, another great. This will tie it as a one for the next year.
Yeah. And well, yeah. So moving right along from the first four months we enter May. And you know, you're a shocking news.
May is actually a great way to describe the word, may be a great way. Like, we will be destroyed or doomed. Actually, if you think about it, that's a perfect name for the British prime minister. There is a May no way.
There's a May no way. No way. Very true. And well, one of the, so I want to begin on a positive note here and I will start with one of the stories that is really close to something that I love, opposed to the favourite sport of...
Funny shaker. ...the first of the favourite sport of simplified, which is football, which is cricket, which is football for me now. And that is the fact that Leicester City Football Club became the champions of the English Premier League. Yes.
Again, Leicester City won the Premier League. I repeat for emphasis, butting Wayne, because words can barely express what an astounding achievement this was. I mean, this is Leicester, a town so boring. Even the council motto is simple.
Which means all means the same. Leicester City status goes on achievement. Yeah. And Leicester City FC were exactly that.
Always below average. And they were like always either getting relegated or like near the top of the second division and very boring. Yeah. I heard this and I thought it was impressive underdog story.
When I heard that the odd was something like 5,000 to 1 against. I was really surprised. Yeah. I mean, if you know something, let me give you some context.
Like, a lot of, I mean, betting is not that popular in here. So, 501 might not seem like as big. So, let me give you some context to that. So, let me give you some better odds.
Something that was more likely to happen than Leicester winning. Yeah. Elvies being found alive was at 2,500 to 1. So, it was twice more likely that Elvies would be found alive.
These are actually odds that were being offered by bookies at that point in time. The Loch Ness monster to be discovered at 500 to 1. This means there were 10 times more likely to find a fictional sea monster than Leicester very little league. Yeah.
And Hugh Hefner, the famous founder of Playboy, to admit he's a virgin at 1,000 to 1. And Kim Kardashian becoming the US president at 2,000 to 1. I'm not putting anything beyond Hugh. Incidentally, in 1983, India's odds of winning the cricket World Cup, which was outland, which was 66 to 1, famously.
Suddenly, that doesn't seem like much, but less than 5,000 to 1. I'm not too much of a football fan, but I remember that it was absolute craziness all through the event. It started, people were just like, how hard to get flash in the pan, things will get settled in by mid-season. By Christmas, they were still top of the league and then, I mean, it was an absolute failure.
And that's what we train with all things, right? Like, when you take the Trump, like, things will settle down. And then drop out now. A lot of stuff has just gone on and that has got it really quickly.
And Leicester, I mean, to make this even more impressive, Leicester won it with the third smallest wage budget in the league. Now, again, to put that into context, their entire team's wage budget was smaller than Vain Rune's personal sell. Like, what Vain Rune alone made was the striker of Manchester. So, probably Vain Rune's reimbursement bill was bigger than the entire Leicester City's mental budget.
This verifiably was the greatest underdog story in football, if not in sport itself. So, this gives hope that some day maybe even Liverpool. Moving right along, I'm not quite doing it. Liverpool's fortune is there.
To balance out, of course, Leicester's feel good story and bring back the realism that is 2016 to us. Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee for president of the Republican Party, having crossed the delegate count needed to be the only possible nominee, which, and at that point, Ted Cruz and John Kasich. Remember them guys? Also, ended their campaigns and decided that, well, this is way too much when faced by this, yeah, Orange Avalanche.
This was still in the good old days when Trump was still a cute joke. Real enough to be illicit humour, but the prospect of him dealing was still a guy. So, here's the thing. I'm a huge fan of the Bughal, the podcast of Bughal, John Oliver and Andy Salzman.
And recently, I've been listening to a lot of back episodes of the Bughal from 2012 onwards. And this is the time Donald Trump was first thinking of putting his hat into the ring. And back then, any of us would have laughed at the prospect of this, as did John Oliver and Andy Salzman. So, going back and hearing that, John actually says things like Andy, guess who wants to become president of the United States?
John, sorry, Donald Trump. And you know what, Andy, this is the type, America doesn't need a president like that, but they definitely want to see him running because they definitely want to see a man like that goofishly creating an idiot out of himself. And it was just so profit. I mean, I'm going to say prophetic actually, but yeah.
It's just scariest night. It's scariest night. It's night might come true. And while the Red Party was orange-washed, the Democrats were locked in a fierce Bernie versus Clinton battle.
It was like the 2003 World Cup where everybody was fighting hard to face Kenya in the semi-final, but little did they know what was going to happen. Yeah, I mean, and May was also the last month of decency for Western politics. When London elected Sadik Khan as their mayor, the first Muslim mayor. Yeah, we all felt very proud of that point of time, right?
Amazingly, you know, that was standing up as a beacon of liberal- Western liminal. I mean, he was the first Muslim mayor of any major western city. Yeah, I read this beautiful anecdote about Sadik Khan after he was elected. So we had to go for the swearing-in before the Queen and they asked him what kind of Bible he would choose.
And of course he was, I'm Muslim, I'll use the Quran. With this said, we don't have one at the Buckingham Palace. Can you bring your own? And he agreed and they swore him on it the next day.
After ceremony, they returned the Quran to him. But he left it behind saying, no, I want to leave it behind for the next person. Oh, that's like total bad ass too. And of course, as all good stories conclude, they proceed to break.
And before we do that, let's just take a little break. Before we get into the cheery happiness, that is the U-referendum. It feels like everyone's talking about two things right now. Pickleball and podcast.
So what happens when someone who's lived her whole life on the court decides to bring those two worlds together? I'm Sanya Mizam and I'm bringing you a brand new podcast, Serving It Up with Sanya. I've had some incredible conversations with friends, fellow athletes, artists and entrepreneurs. Each episode starts with a game of Pickleball and once the rallies are done, the real talk begins.
Serving It Up with Sanya, watch and listen on YouTube and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Back to part three four. The first step is the first simplify with three hosts. And here's our third take.
And before we ran off to take this momentous break, as everything's momentous today, we were still with me. And well, what we want to discuss now is the most seismic event of 2016. It was not an election, not a celebrity death and not even a genital driver. It was a death of a 17-year-old Lola and gorilla called Harambe.
And gorilla was a resident of the Cincinnati Zoo where a 3-year-old child fell into it. where a 3 year old child fell into its enclosure. The video of this is one of the most vital ones in 2016 and the jury is still out and whether he was caring for the child or threatening to kill it. But the zoo did make the decision or to shoot and kill Harambe.
Now animal cruelty inquests followed but what made this event truly seismic was the meme avalanche that was to follow. Harambe received godlike status in the meme word from Ticks out for Harambe to Harambe died for your sins in the tone of Jesus died for your sins. The gorilla has attained meme heaven like only Chuck Norris and Ratini Gandhi. The funniest thing about Harambe think.
The person has some pre-election opinion polls of polling Harambe at 5%. Much above the green party candidate Jill Stains 2% and many reports show that several thousands actually voted for Harambe in the general election. That's right. So if you want a better summation of 2016, you won't get it more than this line.
There were people who voted for a dead gorilla to be president above. And at this point I'm pretty sure quite a few Americans would cheer for me to take a dead gorilla. Or what is to come with January, yeah? I mean really at this point we are all like okay yeah you know what Harambe bring it on.
If a dead gorilla put it in the chair we will manage it will not at least be orange. Anyway June was the month when the year really went screw this. Let's see how bad things can get from here. The highlight of this month was the British people acting like Dee Dee from Dexter's cap.
Going all, oh what is this button do? And pressing a big red self-destruct button also known as Brexit. Britain happily voted to leave the European Union, the markets crashed, the pom plummeted and a lot of perfectly calm high tees were disturbed by harsh conversation about what Brexit implied. And a testament to what an informed decision this was.
Were the top Google searches in the UK post-Brexit? I remember this. I read them verbatim as follows. What does it mean to Eve the EU?
What is the EU? Which countries are in the EU? What will happen now that we have left the EU? This sounds like my thought processes when my wife suddenly agrees with me in the middle of an argument.
Is she being sarcastic? How am I in trouble? What is the argument? I mean the entire thought process of these people was like let's just vote for it.
First we'll vote for it. Like look there is this I mean for the more Hindi inclined users. There is this very famous poem that says, Qudhi Qurbulanditna, Khudda Bandhaysi, Qudpundhaysi, Kudpundhaysi, Bhatta Teri Razakkha, which talks about make yourself so great that God himself will come and ask you what you want. But there is a parody version of that.
It says Qudhi Qurbulanditna, Chardhavu Jasei, Tasei, Qudhi Qurbulanditna, Chardhavu Jasei, Tasei, Kudhane Bandhaysi, Kudpundhaysi, Kudpundhaysi, Abhayabu Trigakhese. This reminds me, I went for a dinner yesterday where one of the people present was former railway minister of Vinesh Trivedi. Very interesting and intelligent guy. So I got chatting, I chatted him up and he asked him how to do it.
So he is a frequent visitor to Bombay and he was observing how everything is dug up. So he says, he shares so much, so I said, he says, Yahakudha, Khudda, Khudda, Khudda, Khudda, Khudda and he, Tohamak, Adi, Jayakodha. You can make that tagline of BBMP as a tater. Now that you got the profundity out of the way.
Meanwhile a referendum that didn't pass was a bizarre one in Switzerland that guaranteed an income for every citizen whether they worked or not. Free money? Yeah, pretty much. A fixed income of 2,500 Swiss francs for everyone.
No questions asked. Apparently it was a move to shift to a new model of capitalism where machines do most of the work and that liberates the individual from having to earn. And the 77% of the Swiss that rejected this referendum rejected by that name. They said no.
We want to work and we don't want free money because they are hard working people. This is like when you are playing chess and you know you are clearly better than your opponent. So you deliberately give yourself a handicap. And you play with no crew, no rook, or give a queen or a pawn or whatever.
The Swiss want to tell you the life in life. Meanwhile moving back to the United States of America. Barack Obama walked around the Oval Office despondent. He took a long side and finally entered the political intent as a democratic nominee for president.
Obama was like an enthuklyant who gives a detailed brief to an ad agency, arranges for market visits, sends loads of free product samples for testing and looks around at the creative output and says seriously? Adi's is a fist bomb. Also in basketball, the Cleveland Cavaliers won the National Basketball Association Championship. Why is this significant?
No, it isn't really. But I will tell you anyway, my role as a third wheel on this podcast is to infuse some sports into you in great. So the Cavaliers win is significant because the city of Cleveland, which is quite sports mad and competes in all major American sports, hadn't won a championship in 52 years. None of its teams had won anything in 52 years.
It was widely recognized as the Cleveland sports girls. And it's over now. Yeah. Actually I remember.
They won this against the Oakland Golden State. Yeah. Golden State. I remember.
There's some insane shooter. There's this guy named Steph Curry. Stephen Curry. He's like, oh my God.
Best Curry that I know. But I remember a tweet from last year or something saying the day that the Cavaliers win, I think something like this. One week later, Donald Trump will become the president or something like that. That was prescient.
Anyway, so that concludes the first part of this recap of the madcap year. What's the story about good luck, Mr. Gorky? I know there's a good luck, Jonathan, who's the president of Nigeria.
I know. So there's this anecdote about good luck, Mr. Gorky. When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, he said no, it's a small step from a large giant step from mankind.
And under his breath, he also said good luck, Mr. Gorky. So people are about to neighbor. So everyone, they were not saying, who's Mr.
Gorky? Is that Soviet thing? And Neil Armstrong just won't say anything. He said no, nothing.
I never said that. And finally, out of many, many, many years, he finally broke his silence. And he said, what happened was, one day when he was playing in his neighborhood, and the ball went to one of the neighbors yard. So Neil went to pick it up.
And he heard that house belong to Mr. and Mrs. Gorky. And Mrs.
Gorky was yelling at Mr. Gorky. He said, you are sick. You'll get sick when the kid next door goes to the moon.
Oh, my God. I forgot what context. I forgot what context. Perhaps going to the moon, there couldn't be a better way to end the portrait about the recap of 2016 than everyone migrated to the moon.
Sorry, but just be a portrait. That's one place they can escape it. So thank you, Srikit, for your appearance as one third of this wedding year for actually your flights to come back. So that's about it.
Have a great day, guys. Have fun and see you in the next one. Don't get as drunk as jockeys. Bye.
See ya.