I, V, M. You may become slightly dumb but definitely more entertained. Yeah, you could say that we are like the case serial of the podcasting world. Annoying and silly, but once you hook, you will just can't let go.
And before we lose any more listeners, I, along with my esteemed co-host Chuck and Arin, would like to wish all our listeners a very happy new year. Yay! I don't know why you're that was seen. We hope you have health, happiness, like pieces in Biryani, full bars of network with 4G, no search for Uber, no buffering for YouTube, world peace, full pressure in toilet jets and an unlimited supply of 100p nodes, or whatever legal tender we may have in 2017.
I like how you went from world peace to bumps pressure, because I've simplified, become all the issues that really come. And I'm very tempted to actually bring out a technical point here, because the pressure is too much, you know, there's a lot of 100% things in the world. I won't be able to be made. Naren, what are your new year celebrations?
Well, I was at home, I celebrated with family. And I've, for most of you probably know, I've given up drinking, and I realized what a sharabi people think I am, because whenever I tell people I'm not drinking anymore, what? You, you, you, like, like, I wake up at 7am, the morning, start plugging booze. Yeah, so, but it was good time, quality time with the family, both my sons were here for change, they studied in different colleges, and yeah, it was good fun.
How about you? Yeah, we had a pretty good New Year's celebration, you would know Chuck and say, you were together, and unfortunately Naren, you couldn't join us. There is still alcohol in my fridge with your name written on it. But, I know, we'll have to figure out a way to get rid of all of them, but don't worry, we should be able to do that.
I mean, the other thing, my life might be the best way. These days I, I delight in telling people to come from abroad to get me nimupani from the 2T free. I know. Yes, some people are very non-plastic.
Okay. What resolutions have you made, Naren? Well, yeah, the usual, so meta resolutions, resolution not to make any resolution, resolution not to make any resolution saying that not, I won't make any resolution. No.
But my biggest resolution actually, which I, a little while before the episode I sort of broke, is not to laugh at any stupid jokes by Chuck, but he made me laugh all the same. So, yeah, that's my resolution. It was about 45% of the content of our show then. No, but Chuck has a talent for making really groaner joke.
Thanks, sir. Which, you know every fiber of your being says, that you're supposed to pick up a hard object and bean him with it, but you can't help laugh. No, I agree. I mean, I'm really happy with the, I mean, I'm very fond of the audio medium, but it definitely has one, one fault in some way where it does not convey face palms with like the gravitas that it deserves.
So, I mean, because that moment of silence is actually what? My favorite passage on New Year's Day is that Master Word Smith marked way in which goes, New Year's Day, now is the accepted time to make a regular annual good resolution. Next week, you can begin paving hell with him as usual. Yesterday, everyone smoked his last cigar, took his last drink as I did, and swore his last oath.
Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the wind and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly on how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in community.
New Year's is a harmless annual institution of no particular use to anybody, save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks and friendly calls and humble resolution, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion. Mark Twain, the man who said is very easy to give up smoking, I have done it hundreds of times. And also the man who gave the quotation that really should apply to all of us here and simplify it, that it is better to hold your silence and be assumed to fool than to open your mouth and remove all that. That's what it's like, so actually, we are like on a blank episode, this is the quality we will actually be better than any.
That would be the wiser simplicity. I guess. Do you know, incidentally, that Mark Twain spent some time in Bombay giving talks? Really?
Yeah, so there was a time in Mark Twain's... He just said there was engineering. Close. So, he, I want to turn on the century.
I don't remember the exact date. And he was broke for some reason, and he had credit to us to meet. He was coming back to us. So, rich guy put him onto a board, brought him to Bombay, and he, it was whites only those days.
So, wherever whites congregated, Mark Twain went and gave up. Go away, go away. But, let me know. One question is, did you try to attend?
Thank you. Turn up essentially, exactly. Anyway. Okay.
So, this episode is actually, is a continuation of the review of the gallant of Gober that was 2016. 2016. The year that put the very, in January, in February, in February, the hour, in March, the eight, in April, the day, in May, in May, the ooh, in June, the lie in July, the August in August. I'm proud of that one.
The ember in September, the... In October, the no in November, the dick in December, and finally the ill in happy new year. And as you may recall, we did a review of the first half of 2016 in our previous episode, which you can go back in here. And if you haven't, very not, because we have a speedy 30 second recap of our recap of the first half of 2016.
This recap does not include the talk is present in which would be a recap of the recap of a recap. Okay, this recap in fact is so meta that we have already the recap of it in the script of our next episode. Wow, this is you know there's this famous book called Godel Esteabak written by a guy named Douglas Hofstadter. He talks about recursion, how it occurs in nature and mathematics and in music and it's fascinating book.
But he does tend to get carried away with the subject of recursion. So somebody said, how do you, how, what is recursion? So he says you ask, you stand in the queue, you ask the guy in front of you. If he doesn't know, you ask the guy in front of you.
So this is what you are. You also have to look actually, it was like repeated three, four times within the same volume. Yeah. That would be the best way to, okay.
Anyway, so I think we should just jump into the second half of the year right away. So take it away. So we can. Yeah, so 2016 began something like this.
Dead floods, nuclear weapons in North Korea, terrorist attacks causing more deaths, but another nowadays, causing a thousand transgravitational waves, artificial intelligence, trumps, real intelligence. Trump as well wins some states in the primary. The Panama Papers, more deaths, decaprio finally won an Oscar. Less than anyone, the Premier League shocking.
Everyone, Trump said some naughty things shocking. No one, Saudi Khan was elected in the year of London. Harambe was killed. RIP.
RIP. Clinton won the Democratic nomination. Trump won the Republican nomination. Britain won the insanity nomination by voting to Brexit without ever knowing what it meant.
The Cleveland Cavaliers finally won the NBA championship and many more people wished the year would end there because frankly, this was bad enough. But here we are with the full six months of 2016 to talk about anti-sapart when things really started to go south. But despite that, things in July began on a positive note with the NASA spacecraft Juno entering Jupiter's orbit. It was a mission to study Jupiter's composition, gravity field, magnetic field.
But what I found really interesting was the project's name Juno. Oh, I know the fact it was named after a popular two-time movie about teenage pregnancy. Not exactly, Chuck. It was named Juno after the wife of the Roman god Jupiter.
Jupiter, it seems, used to pull a vein of clouds around himself to hide his mischief. But Juno was the only one who could peer through those clouds. So naming the probe for studying the surface of Jupiter was very fittingly Juno. Wow.
It does make me feel somewhat bitter to know that husbands have been unable to hide any mischief from their wife since ancient age. Very cleverly. Yeah. So, very clever name, by the way.
The other clever names that, there's a software for burning CD-ROMs with non-vomit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember the small, neuro-mearonic-rom. It's a so beautiful name.
It's a so beautiful name. Yeah. So Juno is close. Yeah, yeah.
Meanwhile, in the unfortunate states of America, the FBI released more information about Hillary Clinton's emails, calling her handling of the email's careless, but recommended against prosecution. The FBI releasing Hillary's emails is like, Adobe releasing updates. And you were every week or so. And the enemy is that while the Republicans kept saying that the media was biased for Hillary, a study at the end of the election showed that the email's country was covered more than all the campaign issues she raised combined.
This didn't stop Hillary from becoming the Democratic candidate for president with both Obama and Bernie Sanders endorsement. By the way, Bernie Sanders today, as the daily record, took a giant print out her dumb tweet and put it in parliament. Mashable's title for this was, Bernie Sanders blesses all mean-makers on the planet as one. There's one headline.
There's one headline was the honorably 60-grader Bernie Sanders, or the only boy scout. Anyway, yeah. So, both Obama and Bernie Sanders reluctantly said, all right, this will have to do for now. It's like when you go to, like, when you're really hungry at one in the night and you open Zomato or Suki, and there's one shitty restaurant that has very, very bad panhirthika.
And I see that last restaurant you would generally order from, but you're starving. So, all right. So it's either this or plucking up and having to eat that. Which, which is a metaphor for the Republican candidate.
Exactly. Our favor. I heard it, but I heard it being described as a rightful left-o. Anyway, while Hillary got the Democratic nomination, our favor, Tanjari Meghalomaniac, locked up the Republican nomination while the world looked on with morbid amusement.
Like watching a car crash in Super-Somotion. Crash? Exactly. While, on the other hand, in July, in the sporting world, Portugal beat France one day in extra time to win the European Championship.
The highlight of this tournament, though, was Iceland, which egged on by its voice-of-service and thunder-clapping supporters, reached the quarter-final of the tournament. And all this for a country with a population smaller than, not much faster, not Mumbai, not Amdari, but Bandra, West. Oh, God. I mean, I think Bandra has just been decent football teams of its own, but unfortunately they have no place to play.
But all these topics were just in the background noise of the main highlight of July. The seismic event, which was the most talked about in the world, that mobilized millions who took to the street for the cause and marched for our stylously. Do you guys remember this one? What?
The refugee crisis in Syria? No one are in. Protests against Trump. Definitely not.
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What is it? That's the bad millions. So I mean, the most seismic event of July. Yes.
Yes. Of course, Nintendo's augmented reality game. What? What?
The game, Jhark, there was a phenomenon being downloaded over 500 million times around. 500 million. 500 million times around. That's a violation of that.
And popularized physical activity, help local businesses grow because of increased food traffic. But what is really funny about Pokémon Go is the sudden exoders of normally sedentary people like you and I, Jhark, onto the streets that impacted the world wondering what these smartphones staring wanderers were doing. Pokémon Go players noticed and reported crimes, found dead bodies and revived local issues, mainly as well. I remember reading one awesome case for a charity or actually offered Pokémon Go players dogs that needed to be walked and taken along on their playing tricks.
Exactly. It was so relevant in that way. But as the norm with 2016, no good thing can ever exist without a truckload of bad to balance it out. People wandered on train tracks, played while driving and cost traffic jams while trying to catch Pokémon.
At least 10 people were reported to have died while being distracted, died while having been distracted playing the game. The reaction that took the cake, however, was of course from India where some jobless fellow filed a PIL showing eggs in the game at places of religious fiction was hurting really sentiment. It can't be a year in India without somebody's religious sentiment. I'm sure this has to be a profession.
Senior creative offense taker. Every day, fine, creative new opportunities to take offense. So let's try. I think you should try and invite one of these nutters to come on to simplify.
They're probably going to be offended by a brand of ACC. Our very pale looking producer, Naveen here, is violently gesturing for us to move to the next topic. So we will quickly move to August, which began with the grand opening of the Olympics in Brazil. Those things happened.
And though if you take the 2016 tragedy lens to it, the mass protests in Rio against the Olympics happened. But shouldn't people be happy that the Olympics have been held in their city? Not really. Several Olympics have seen local populations protest against the population displacement use of public funds and environmental destruction caused by the preparation of the games.
And in Rio, majority of people were protesting against blatant corruption and construction of stadiums over favelas or slums, which displays many of the city's poor. Yeah. I remember there's actually one stadium constructed for the Rio Olympics, which is so remote that you're apparently eating some ferry to get there. And it will never be used again.
Yeah. It's there. In fact, some of the stadiums in the 2014 football world cup right now are being used as parking lots. Because the football stadiums have no use.
They played three matches over there. Why do you like the rum in the road stations? Again, now in here is pretty much losing all of his hair right now as we speak. But we move back to the positive where half man, half doll fin, Michael Phelps finally concluded his domination over the world by announcing his retirement after taking his 23rd gold medal in the 400 and 200-meter medal.
Yeah, he's beating a 4000-year-old record or something. But it's actually a con job. You have 400, 400, 400, 50, 200, 100-100. You're like one the same bloody actor.
He's like 50-100. Just get in the gold temple and swim. No, like finish it once. Phelps was last in finalizing plans to set up a gold jewelry empire in Kochi.
I mean, yes, while Mr. Phelps was finalizing on his entire golden empire, we were here like one medal, two medal, three medal in India. And really enjoying ourselves with that. India, though, after an impressive performance in the previous Olympics, impressive by Indian standards could only manage two medals.
And like, more examples of India, he was a woman who got the medals. Saksimalik in wrestling won the bronze and PV Sindhu won the silver in badminton with Deepak ar Makar coming very, very close indeed to winning a medal in the pole vault. And while PV Sindhu was playing for gold in the final, people in her career, in her career were home states of Andran Dallangana were googling for not-happling history or past opponents, but her cast. And after her silver medal win, politicians of both Andran Dallangana promptly signed a fighting over which state she belonged to.
Detail research was put into her parents' birthplace and sister, Antarctica, bookings, as both sides came victory. And meanwhile, IOA officials traveled in first class while athletes traveled in economy. And we saw photos of these officials and family members stealing at Copacabana beach. And I'm talking about the Indian Indian Olympic Association.
And all in all, a usual normal regular Olympics for India. And on the 2nd of September 2016, an estimated 15 crore Indian public sector workers went on a 24-hour nationwide general strike against Modi's plans for increasing privatisation and other economic policies. A total of 10 trade unions participated. Many government-run locations and transportation services were closed.
Same old reason? Yeah, it seems I didn't care for laws that required them to actually work. But also was it a success then? Not really, but it got a lot of traction in states with the longest we have not wanted to actually work while trying a salary such as Skirra.
But it has been a bad problem. It has been called the largest strike in human history. I recall the unions hailed as a great success, but it resolved that all future strikes would be eight hours from midnight to ensure better participation. In all other states, apart from the Caroline West, I got a really, really fun flat on the stage, which was a big, I'm on the other side of the fence.
I constantly observe overprivileged protected labourers doing nothing in their factories, going to sleep and contract workers, toiling away without any benefit. We got the entire gamut of labour legislation completely backward. Personally, I think these guys really do want to do something about the present government, but they are unable to. But also, isn't it incredible that in India, we just need to do something for it to become the biggest in the world ever.
I think sometime back, Jimmy Vales had come to India for a wiki conference. We organized a small, together type of thing and then a bunch of people came, we hired a hall and whatever. Jimmy Vales walks in and asked some people here and we were like, I just around 2,000 people I walked in. And he was like, this is pretty much the biggest congregation of wikipedia's ever.
And he was like, we just opened the door. And these two are the only people in society. Yeah, it's like random people walking around and like, go right here, go right here. But this is what I like about our guys, everyone else, there will be the fastest 200m or the best long jump effort or best high jump.
But India will be the most longest most time. Because of the thing I'm telling you, the Olympics don't have the right sports. Now you give us a sport that can somehow emulate the same skill as getting into a local train at Andheri headed to Virar. And I'm telling you, we would dominate the podium over there.
We'd show everybody else the podium. And then we would see the big team and the city will take a bronze and silver and bronze. We would fight between the B and C for the summer. And of course, the other region where we excel is political comedy.
And the price for the best political comedy of 2016 goes to the state of Varunachal Pradesh. We saw 43 out of 44 legislators leave the congress party ruling the state till about 5 minutes before the campaign. And joined the peoples party of Varunachal, which was part of the BJP and India. Giving that one person behind saying Pupak.
Exactly. So the only guy left was the Chief Minister, Nabam Tukhi. Tukhi, funnily enough, Tukhi in Gujati means short. This is like the political equivalent of getting bold by a late in-sminger.
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And your back, thanks for sticking with us and to continue with our recap of the lovely year of 2016, Syres Mrigor-Sack, just like that. In the Garden of Eden, there was no build-up. There was no buildup in the thing. This shelf right out the window.
In the Garden of Eden, everyone thought that the Tata group was because you know Tata was part of it. It seemed that Syres Mrigor-Snake, except that it also appeared that the snake was the Ratan Tata and not Syres. Then it turned out that it was Syres after all, whereupon just as the nation was collectively a-haing in comprehension, wise heads concluded that Syres was as pure as a driven snow and baddie was Tata himself. And so on.
Is that the case that we wanted to get the beginning of the episode? Everyone shadon-frewed it to their hearts control. Oh, I've never heard of that. That's even a burn of bomb.
I've continued to do so since the pendulum is still swinging. And another nicely swinging pendulum, the Bihar liquor ban. So Nithish decided that he wanted to... I don't know, watch it with politicians who just decide to...
You have nothing to live in life. All that you have is booze. The politician is going to take it over. You can't give us roads, you can't give us education, you can't give us hospitals, you can't give us jobs.
And you don't want to give us booze. Coming from a state that has famously not had any booze in a long time. I've ever strongly recommended it a little bit for everyone. So what has happened?
Bihar liquor ban also was penduluming nicely. So first they said ban, then somebody challenged in the high court and high court said, what nonsense? You can't ban it. And the Supreme Court said, no, you can ban it.
So then he stays banned there. And the other thing which fizzled out, but when it happened, everyone was really alarmed. And everyone said that this is the ark bug for the moment of... It could start World War III.
This guy named Andre Karloff, the Russian ambassador. He got assassinated in Ankara. And that's a huge... It's one of those salads which have 15 ingredients in it.
Italian, I'd say, a cherry tomato and a rocket. So... I'm not sure if you didn't say German. Yeah.
So everyone just baited the moment. Phew. In other news, a real estate developer got elected to a senior government position in a western nation. So finally what it was building up to?
It's a really good idea. Terry's ame was at least like you said me on the fence. But Trump is like the tower. It's a pretty romp.
I think coming from the entire fact that he actually... This is genuinely perplexing in the way that this is a guy who's been accused of... I mean, he's almost proven of sexual assault or he's describing overt sexual assault on a video tape. Now getting elected to senior government positions of a country that prides itself on being very moral and in every way true to itself.
Everyone's like, you know what? He's a bad guy but he'll do good things. Once we give him power, he'll be fine. And he just has access to over 16 nuclear war.
Nothing could possibly go wrong. And the other dimension which people are consoling himself is that he's so bad that this kind of stuff happens only once. Once you elect Trump, so many bad things will happen. Nobody elect Trump will ever get elected again.
So they're trying to desperately look for silver lining. I think the Holocaust happened only once so it's fine. So also, I've actually heard a lot of opinions actually saying that because of a lot of Trump's policies, the very people who voted for him are actually going to have a very hard time. For one, everyone once Obamacare repealed but 20 million people are protected by it who otherwise can't afford insurance.
So what happens to these guys? Many of them have actually voted for Trump to come into power. Secondly, a lot of imported goods are actually going to become way more expensive because a cheap pair of sneakers for instance is made in what are Philippines or China because of the low wages over there. If they're going to be shifted back to make jobs in the US, obviously it's going to be a lot more expensive.
So a lot of the low cost that Americans are used to paying for a lot of things actually is going to become way more expensive. In fact, funnily enough, this was what I was listening to a couple of interviews of some people who were talking from the heartland of America which apparently has voted Trump into power, where everyone just decided to take one peg on which they would make the decision of whether to vote for Trump or not. A lot of people in the heartland of America just took the message of coal that he will bring back all the coal mining industries in some way or the other. In some way, it's not too far away from India where they're like, Biryani, Milega.
Biryani, Milega. Or then you can, everything else is fine. Biryani or Amandesh. So they're all like, Biryani, Milega is kind of attitude.
Now, a lot of these people are actually waking up and saying, you know what, I voted for Trump but I don't want to lose my insurance. I want Biryani, but I don't want to go under Roto. Anyway, a lot about Trump has already been said, still being said. So we will leave it for the psychologist.
I have a, I have a, I have a, I have a noise first law of learning from elections. Namely, there is no learning from elections. True democracy is just, don't, don't learn from the mistake, they just try to survive. That's what happens.
That's very good, I'm actually looking for people. I mean, it's exactly that, right? Where people are in the UK, they don't have an elected government or a cabinet or anything. And there is no, the popular polls are saying there is no, there is no drive or there is no demand for elections at all.
Like UK has decided how many have been fixed, currently, we did break it. And now we realize we have screwed up. So we don't have elections now. Like you guys can manage for a bit, let us recover and like get our senses back and then we'll ask for elections.
And Iceland has been managing for, randomly enough, has been managing for a better part of the year without a government. Yeah, I mean, I think of it that way. If you remove government from Andra, Westport would happen. I guess only the liquor shops will be open till later.
I guess that will make everyone happier. So it's practically the same. And that I think is the best argument for Lena, less a government than I would. Look how good that is.
And as someone said, with every passing R.R. Solar System comes 43,000 miles closer to the global cluster and 13 in the constellation Hercules. Wow, what a good. And still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as bro.
So that is the real protest. Every year, every passing hour, not even year, you are 43,000 miles closer to M30. Wow. Personally, I think most people were anti-Trump, anti-Trump because they didn't think he would win.
Kurt Fonecker in one of his books spoke about this. He said, beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous discernment against people who are ignorant without having come by the ignorance of the hard. So basically I studied hard and I'm ignorant.
You didn't study anything, you were as ignorant as now. This for some reason reminds me of a very popular reaction by Indians to, I'm sorry, editor of the work on this one. And I'm going to attempt Hindi. But I'm going to say, oh, yeah, cool.
Yeah. Yeah. All the good and bad thing about President-elect Trump, we are still hoping that some of the good things happen in the next few days. The good thing, he likes to wrestle with problems.
The bad thing is, the only thing he considers problems are women. So in the meantime, our country went through a small little exercise in understanding how to manage their own currency. It will be monetization. What are the best things?
A lot has been talked about demand. I have never seen products worth 1400 rupees be so popular before. There are two things that stick out in my mind the most when I talk about the initial days of demonetization. When people were still grappling with this idea and people were still thinking that I'm at the same time.
So those kind of days, where the first was one of the earliest weeks, when Modi was still probably still talking, he had not finished yet. The first week I read on Twitter was like, the biggest mob in Gangak is Nami Lahari. Which very aptly has summed up the demonetization move and everything that has followed since. I'm not going to mention Delhi's pollution as well.
The second being, unfortunately, there is an audio medium fall shot in describing this. There is a very awesome GIF that shows salary arriving. It says how they feel for salary arrives in their bank account. And there is a monkey that is trying to eat at a banana from behind the glass.
These two are the most enduring images of the demonetization move. That's one of the most truly accurate depictions of the demonetization. It was audacious. It was very bold.
And the jury is still out and whether it was good or not. So I don't know about that. But personally, I have really, really suffered because of that. Not because I had a lot of cash, but simply operational stuff.
My workers need money. They want a guy that is desperate and nothing. The country is still mentally cashed. It's going to take a really, really long time to change.
Yeah. To say that this is unprepared was a huge understatement. To me, what summed up demonetization was the best was the cartoon. I forget who it was by, but it became very popular.
Where it showed the difference between Manon Singh and Narendra Modi's approach to economics. As depicted by both of them being surgeons in an operating theatre. This guy first, Manon Singh first reads a book and then he tells the thing open, etc. And he does things, everything back, etc.
But in Narendra Modi, he just cuts it up. He takes all the organs and throws them out. And then he reads the book and then he comes and talks about something. He'll be lucky if there's an episode of this.
FYI, we all stay in college. I think also what took up a lot of Twitter conversations during this point of time was that Twitter conversations and well pockets burning as well was the Note 7's catching fire. Literally the hottest product of the year, 2016. Yeah, I mean, this is the first time I actually saw where there were DJC notices coming out with a brand name on it.
I mean, if Samsung was not being disney, it would be really thrilled. Like our brand is being talked about so much. I'm pretty sure some very enthusiastic social media guy was just like, but people talking about us is too over. We did an episode on why the batteries catch fire.
Why is still a risk actually of this happening. To date, Samsung has not released official statement saying why this happened. So we are all sitting with Bait and Bait for that to happen and CES is on as we speak. In fact, one of the funniest things that so while Samsung's this entire problem was happening, I don't know if anyone seen the other Samsung Note's Samsung Galaxy Edge, I think, they're running their ads like crazy on TV.
And someone just watching it in office and something, someone just quipped their like, yeah, I mean, in a time when Samsung's phone's catching fire, exactly what we need is a water resistant. But it's a water resistant. And then finally we ended up with something that was really promising for the world. Which was the Paris agreement where we finally got all the world leaders under one roof agreeing to the fact that they will reduce emissions.
And which was one of the most significant steps towards global climate change awareness. And so yeah, I mean that was a great move which was. The first time actually both the villains of the piece, US and China agreed to it. It was like, like, the tambalayan and the Genghis Khan agreeing not to kill people.
I think these agreements fail because of the cities in which they are located. I mean, when people come there, they don't feel the need, they're climate change. I mean, you host in the city like Paris obviously. I mean, the weather seems like just fine.
Where was it before the Kyoto? I'm guessing Japan has decent weather. They should hold this in Marul. Like at...
Mankul, mankul. Mankul has mankul. So at least some amount of it's cool there. Like, Chakala at 9am.
Like, they should have the meeting there. Like, not even like in a hotel, like outside, on the street. And they should put everyone up in hotels in like, Saki Naka. Or in Delhi itself.
So, I mean, the moment they step out of the plane, they say like, okay, just give me the paper, I'll sign it. So, this report on the air quality of Delhi, which some bagged title as 50 shades of grey. It's a great way to sum up the year. Actually, it's not like a performance.
It's the profanity of the podcast anyway. So, the shades of orange is what 2017 is called. With that, look forward to final thoughts and final message for our listeners in 2017. Yeah, this too shall pass.
Let's hope that 2017 will be much better year than the one that's just gone past. It's an arbitrary sort of, you know, period of time. So, there's nothing, you know, 16 was a bad year, 17 was a good year. But let's hope that the future brings something better.
A lot of good things are happening, which we haven't covered really. But despite appearances, the world is becoming a more peaceful place. There is, you know, there haven't been really major wars. And nothing happened.
Nothing happened. So, yeah, there are good signs that 2017 will be better. And let's hope that it really is. And if it isn't, if it really goes as bad as everyone is expecting it to, then we will be kind of like the band on the Titanic that will keep entertained.
Why I'm slowly descent to your day. How cheerful is that? And simplified couldn't be something better, actually. All right.
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