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Krish Ashok is the science educator who has spent years talking Indians out of fearing their own food. A Chennai-born engineer by training, he built a 1.4 million-strong following by applying real science to the kitchen and calmly dismantling the panic around microwaves, frozen food, and drinking water with meals. His book Masala Lab decoded the science of Indian cooking. In this conversation he turns the same lens on the body: fat loss, protein, gut bacteria, supplements, and the wellness industry that profits from keeping you anxious. Evidence-first, unbothered by trends, and uninterested in the fear economy most health content runs on.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:47 – The Food Fear Crisis

00:03:09 – Negativity Bias And Clickbait

00:07:53 – Cutting Protein On A Diet

00:09:34 – Food, Politics, And Religion

00:12:15 – Public Water And Hygiene

00:14:17 – Why Examine Your Poop

00:16:06 – Seven Types Of Poop

00:19:39 – Fat Loss Is Mostly Breathing

00:24:42 – GLP-1: India Vs America

00:28:11 – The Protein Obsession Problem

00:28:46 – Why Excess Protein Hurts You

00:36:08 – Eating Safe While Travelling

00:42:04 – Is Saturated Fat Really Bad

00:43:13 – Sugar Industry Paid Harvard

00:43:57 – Seed Oils Vs Ghee

00:47:49 – Nutrients Vs Whole Foods

00:48:49 – Supplements Are Expensive Urine

00:51:23 – Fat-Soluble Vitamins Can Overdose

00:51:45 – Chai And Iron Absorption

00:53:17 – Do Probiotics Actually Work

00:54:58 – Soluble Fiber Feeds Gut Bacteria

00:56:34 – Lactobacillus And Detox Cleanses

00:56:48 – H Pylori And Ulcers

01:01:06 – Gut Health Means Small Intestine

01:07:28 – Eno Does Not Fix Acidity

01:13:34 – Health Has Become Performative

01:14:54 – Vitamin D Deficiency Explained

01:16:53 – Melanin, Sunlight, And Skin Cancer

01:21:22 – Vegetarian Deficiencies And B12

01:22:31 – Vegan Diet Deficiency Risks

01:30:01 – Veg Vs Non-Veg Labels

01:31:53 – Hidden Sugar In Health Foods

01:33:07 – Ancestral Diets And Marketing

01:37:11 – Read Labels, Resist Marketing

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Pankaj Saran spent four decades inside India's foreign and national security establishment. He served in the Prime Minister's Office under successive governments, was India's Ambassador to Russia and High Commissioner to Bangladesh, and from 2018 to 2021 was Deputy National Security Adviser under Narendra Modi. He has sat in closed-door summits with Vladimir Putin, was inside the PMO through the 26/11 attacks under Manmohan Singh, and saw up close how differently Modi and Manmohan ran the same office. Today he runs NatStrat, one of India's few serious strategic affairs think tanks. Blunt, precise, and completely uninterested in the myth-making around how power actually works.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:37 – Meeting Putin Face To Face

00:03:29 – Putin's Note-Card Method

00:04:03 – What Putin Is Really Like

00:05:34 – Manmohan Singh Up Close

00:11:01 – 26/11 Hits The PMO

00:13:20 – Modi Versus Manmohan Singh

00:18:35 – Modi The Delhi Outsider

00:19:49 – Modi The Bold Risk-Taker

00:20:57 – Do Global Summits Actually Work

00:24:24 – Trump's On-Camera Deal Style

00:25:40 – Will India Bow To China

00:27:26 – Who Controls The World's Data

00:29:56 – Big Tech Bigger Than Nations

00:31:27 – Decouple Or De-Risk China

00:35:34 – Why India Has No Google

00:36:06 – India's New Civil Defence Force

00:38:53 – War Without Firing A Shot

00:40:58 – The World In Five Years

00:42:30 – The End Of Pax Americana

00:43:41 – Why India Won't Drop Russia

00:46:21 – Diplomacy Is A Chessboard

00:48:57 – Who Wants India To Rise

00:52:02 – What The PMO Actually Does

00:57:54 – Why India Created The NSA

01:01:53 – Telecom's 90% China Risk

01:05:08 – Will UPSC Be Scrapped

01:08:01 – Books That Shaped Him

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Harshal Singh is a marine engineer who has spent most of his career on oil tankers. He emailed us from inside a war zone: stuck on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz while Iran blockaded it and traded fire with American forces, watching ships around him get hit by drones and missiles. One technical fault delayed his vessel by a day, and the ship that took his slot in the queue was struck by a missile the next morning. He lived the geopolitics most people only scroll past. He tells it with no drama and no myth-making about life at sea.

In this episode, Vinamre and Harshal discuss:

• The Strait of Hormuz blockade from inside — Iran vs American forces, drone/missile-hit ships, and the delay that saved his ship
• Ship-to-ship oil transfers, Sinokor tankers, and how Venezuela, Qatar and the VLCC trade move the world's crude
• Seafarers abandoned at sea — unpaid wages, weak unions, and what happens when a shipping company walks away
• Sailor life nobody sees — Starlink at sea, onboard habits, food, and how it keeps the world's shelves stocked
• Every kind of ship — cruise liners, bulk/car/livestock carriers, ULCCs, freak waves, and naval architects who design for them
• Why he left an advertising degree for the sea — the best ports he's seen, and crew friendships
• What's next after years at sea, plus Vinamre's Japan trip and how travel changes worldview

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:24 – Strait of Hormuz blockade

00:02:31 – Iran America war explained

00:05:42 – Missile hits next ship

00:06:55 – Somali pirates hijacking ships

00:08:59 – Pirate ransom and escorts

00:13:25 – One month Hormuz posting

00:22:59 – Ship to ship transfer

00:24:58 – Daily drone attacks at sea

00:31:12 – Sailor salary and pay

00:33:10 – Sinokor tanker company explained

00:34:23 – Venezuela oil and sanctions

00:38:37 – Qatar and Gulf power

00:42:24 – Drone jammers and defences

00:50:04 – Sailors left to die

00:55:31 – Sailor life and food

00:57:23 – Starlink drinking and smoking

00:59:44 – Why he became a sailor

01:01:01 – Most beautiful ports visited

01:03:13 – Cruise ships explained

01:05:31 – Bulk car and cattle carriers

01:08:04 – Freak waves and naval architects

01:11:53 – Friendships and stability at sea

01:14:00 – Learning cultures at sea

01:19:24 – Whats next and Japan

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Vishal Bhargava is a real estate educator and former journalist who left banking to say what property brokers won't. He breaks down what homes in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bangalore are actually worth on YouTube and X, and called Gurgaon a "house of cards" a year before its brokers turned bearish. He treats real estate as due diligence, not broker slogans.

In this episode, Vinamre and Vishal discuss:

• Bandra's scarcity premium and crumbling infrastructure
• How DLF, Hiranandani and Prestige became your municipality
• Building a city from scratch and India's missing town squares
• Killing a city (Kolkata's unions) and why Thane could overtake Mumbai
• Marine Drive's rent-controlled flats and Parsi colonies as planning masterclass
• Magarpatta's farmer-owned city and "creator zones"
• Rigged real estate content and brokers turning bearish on Gurgaon after him

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Land Owners Control Everything

00:03:20 – Scarcity Premium, Bandra Truth

00:07:05 – Why Youth Avoid Property

00:09:15 – Real Estate Rewards Sophistication

00:10:27 – Replace Your Coffee With This

00:11:34 – Cities Crumbling: Water, Sewage

00:13:35 – Migration Alone Drives Prices

00:14:27 – DLF, Hiranandani, Prestige Playbook

00:18:01 – Making Indian Cities Livable

00:20:28 – Adani, Ambani Reshaping Mumbai

00:22:50 – Why Town Planners Fail

00:26:02 – Mumbai's Vanishing Open Spaces

00:28:09 – Roleplay: Design A City

00:29:37 – The New City Formula

00:31:53 – Sectors, Symbols, Town Squares

00:35:43 – Pay To Sit In Parks

00:40:32 – Define Your City's Identity

00:43:59 – Killing A City: Kolkata

00:45:55 – Thane Could Overtake Mumbai

00:46:45 – Navi Mumbai Beats Gurgaon

00:48:39 – Bangalore's Unbeatable Value

00:51:11 – Real Estate Nationalism Trap

00:53:04 – Marine Drive's ₹500 Rents

00:55:37 – Parsi Colonies Planning Masterclass

00:58:25 – India's Affordable Housing Failure

01:02:48 – When Two Cities Merge

01:05:21 – Magarpatta: City Built By Farmers

01:08:47 – Communal, Senior, Farm Living

01:15:23 – Special Creator Zones Idea

01:23:50 – Can't Criticise Real Estate

01:25:55 – Conclusion

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Anirudhya Mitra spent his years at India Today and The Times of India breaking the stories most reporters never got near: the Bofors scam, the Rajiv Gandhi assassination, the drug wars running through India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. His book Ninety Days, on the hunt for Rajiv Gandhi's killers, became a national bestseller and the basis for the SonyLIV series The Hunt. His latest, The Delhi Directive, goes inside R&AW's covert war and the operations Delhi will never admit to. He has spent decades cultivating intelligence sources, recording meetings no one knew were being recorded, and keeping notes on some of the most powerful men in the country. Blunt, precise, and completely unromantic about how the spy game actually works.

In this episode, Vinamre and Anirudhya discuss:

• India's intelligence machine — RAW, IB, and how the NSA became its most powerful figure under Ajit Doval
• Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon — empire-building over pure terror, and the ISI deal behind his Karachi refuge
• The Nikhil Gupta case — Vikas Yadav, the Pannun plot, and a spy's life abroad
• Jadhav, Bishnoi, Goldy Brar — why captured spies stay alive, and prisoner swaps via Meng Wanzhou
• A.S. Dulat and whether agencies serve themselves or the government
• The craft — secret recordings, notes on powerful men, phone tapping, and "off the record" costs
• Cultivating sources — earning trust, resisting narratives, using AI to avoid being played

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Coming Up

00:02:02 - Intelligence hierarchy, Doval, Dhurandhar

00:07:18 - Replace your coffee with this

00:08:24 - Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon

00:12:17 - Nikhil Gupta, Vikas Yadav, Pannun

00:29:25 - Kulbhushan Jadhav, Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar

00:36:13 - Spy world goes mainstream, Dulat

00:40:40 - Head of R&AW

00:43:28 - Media controlled by the government

00:47:19 - Agencies: deep state or controlled?

00:54:19 - Secretly recording sources, sting stories

01:02:36 - Keeping notes on powerful people

01:09:32 - Off the record, sources, phone tapping

01:15:32 - Access to power, earning trust

01:23:11 - Fighting fake narratives, AI fact-check

01:30:11 - Conclusion

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Air Marshal Anil Chopra flew fighters and test aircraft across a full career in the Indian Air Force, from the Mirage 2000 to the Sukhoi. He was one of the first eight pilots trained in France on the Mirage 2000 and flew in the formation that brought it home to India. He is also the only air marshal in the world to have ejected from a fighter jet, at 59, over the Chambal ravines. These days he writes and argues about air power, and he does it without the usual doom or the usual chest-thumping. Sharp, optimistic, and completely at ease telling the war stories most men would bury.

In this episode, Vinamre and Anil discuss:

• China and Pakistan building fighters together — the JF-17 and J-10C, the PL-15 missiles that fell short in Operation Sindoor, and why the nexus worries Delhi

• Why the F-35 is not really on offer to India — the S-400 catch, and 22 billion dollars of American hardware bought with zero technology transfer

• The Kaveri engine — forty years, a "whole of nation failure", and why China spent 25 billion dollars and still can't sell an engine to anyone

• Tejas and HAL — only 36 jets flying after a 2001 first flight, guaranteed profit for slow work, and why the next fighter is going to the private sector

• China vs India across the Himalayas — 400 stealth jets against zero, and the airfield maths that still leaves the IAF sitting pretty

• Ejecting from a Mirage 2000 at over 20 times gravity — the shoulder torn from its socket, the Chambal ravines, and the villager's Nokia that reached the Air Chief in three minutes

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:01:04 – Intro

00:02:39 – China Pakistan Fighter Jet Nexus

00:09:19 – Why India Won't Buy F-35

00:18:41 – Tejas Jet & HAL Delays

00:24:59 – Kaveri Engine: Why India Failed

00:33:47 – Fighter Jet Generations Explained

00:39:46 – China vs India Air Force

00:43:06 – Mirage 2000 Ejection Survival Story

01:04:05 – Civic Sense Problem In India

01:17:33 – Importance Of Sports In Life

01:23:19 – Tough vs Helicopter Parenting

01:26:14 – Why Army Officers Ride Horses

01:28:45 – Passion, Leisure & Army Paperwork

01:35:12 – Microlight Flying & Parasailing In India

01:39:53 – Final Thoughts On India's Future

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Peepal Baba, born Azad Jain and known formally as Swami Prem Parivartan, is the founder of Give Me Trees Trust and one of the most prolific tree planters India has ever produced. He planted his first tree on his eleventh birthday in 1977 and has not stopped since. Across fifty years, he and his volunteers have planted and preserved over 25 million trees and restored close to 2.7 lakh hectares of land across 21 states, with more than a crore of them peepal trees planted by his own hand. He is an Osho sannyasi who treats planting as a spiritual practice, and he is completely uninterested in slogans, panels, or the doom-industry around the environment. What he offers instead is five decades of grassroots work and some blunt, uncomfortable opinions about land, cities, and what Indians get wrong about both.

In this episode, Vinamre and Peepal Baba discuss:

• Why wealthy Indians are quietly buying farmland — farmhouse culture, post-COVID reverse migration, and why he says your 16th-floor flat was never real estate
• How a beginner actually starts — 40 balcony pots before buying land, gardener before farmer, and his three-step method for students
• The truth about organic farming — why he calls certification a racket, what "natural farming" really means, and his national challenge to grow a bigger bottle gourd chemical-free
• Delhi's pollution, reframed — not an AQI problem but an "88% encroachment" problem, and how Swachh Bharat could fix it
• What he'd do as Delhi's town planner — no politicians on the board, lessons from Singapore and Chandigarh, and why ugly cities breed depression
• His 49-year love for the peepal tree — the "ghost tree" superstition, why it's a keystone species, and why he changed his name from Azad Jain

His memoir, Ghosts on Peepal Trees: My Journey From Folktales to Forests (Ebury Press / Penguin), is out now on Amazon and Flipkart.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Coming Up

00:00:50 – Why Everyone Wants Farmland

00:07:25 – Who's Buying Farmland Now

00:14:46 – City vs Farm Living

00:22:01 – A Day On The Farm

00:29:01 – Why Land Means Jobs

00:36:18 – How To Start Farming

00:52:36 – Natural vs Chemical Farming

01:04:16 – Delhi's Real Pollution Problem

01:17:29 – Fixing Cities Like Singapore

01:23:19 – Farm Life & Time

01:24:37 – Barefoot Walking & Rituals

01:26:00 – The Sacred Peepal Tree

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a defence and geopolitics analyst who made his name saying the things most commentators hedge. He reads the primary documents, follows the money, and interrogates ideology instead of wearing it. Here he turns that lens on the Cockroach Janta Party and its founder, Abhijit Dipke — the Boston University degree, the funding that doesn't add up, and the AAP machinery sitting under the satire. He is blunt, forensic, and completely uninterested in the hero story being built around India's newest protest movement.

In this episode, Vinamre and Abhijit discuss:

- Why he calls the Cockroach Janta Party an AAP rebuild — Dipke's 2020–2023 meme work for the party, and how an online joke became a Jantar Mantar movement

- The Boston University degree, line by line — the missing graduation, a $12,500 scholarship against a $48,000 semester, and why he says no communications student writes this badly

- "Deep state" versus real intelligence operations — the total absence of Dipke's digital trail in the US, and what Abhijit thinks it actually points to

- Narrative as a weapon — P. Chidambaram, the myth of "ground reality," and why he argues truth is now whatever gets amplified loudest

- Why Che Guevara is still a campus hero — the torture, the Stalin and Mao double standard, and how the left rewrote fascism and captured the humanities

- Marco Rubio in Kolkata and the "anti-national" funding question — Dinesh Thakur, the Gautam Adani acquittal, and Umar Khalid's bail

- The Tarun Tejpal and Newslaundry saga — the reversed acquittal, his case against the newsroom, who he says was writing the cheques, and his advice to anyone entering journalism

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Reality of CJP

00:06:11 – Bharadwaj–Saurav Das link

00:10:52 – CJP vs AAP

00:14:46 – Boston University degree thread

00:18:04 – Did Dipke graduate?

00:29:22 – BU spy activity claims

00:36:27 – Narrative vs truth

00:41:01 – Chidambaram, ground reality

00:46:36 – Che Guevara hero worship

00:54:59 – Scandinavia communism myth

00:59:45 – Marco Rubio, foreign funding

01:05:18 – Adani, Umar Khalid

01:12:09 – Tarun Tejpal, Newslaundry

01:24:16 – Who funds Newslaundry?

01:29:11 – Journalism career advice

01:31:40 – Conclusion

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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This is Dostcast Live 01, our first-ever live show. After eight years of podcasting, we put the podcast on a stage in Bangalore and spent two hours on the one industry nobody talks about in public. Niks Indian is India's most recognisable adult content creator. No script, no safety net, in front of a live crowd. The wildest thing Dostcast has done yet.

In this episode, Vinamre and Niks discuss:

• What adult stars actually earn, why only 0.5% ever make millions, and how much piracy eats into the business

• The real strategy behind going viral: knowing your audience, and why a sari outperforms everything else for Indian viewers

• Niks' subscription model, how he scouts and pays performers, and why he refuses fan video calls at any price

• Writing, directing and acting his own scenes, plus the sponsorships that funded a large chunk of his career

• How the "Niks Indian" name was a pure SEO play that still pays off years later

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

3:30 How Much Adult Stars Actually Earn

6:40 Dealing With Piracy

10:40 How To Go Viral

14:40 Niks' Business Model

17:00 Writing, Directing & Acting

21:10 Competition & Sponsorships

23:00 Scouting & Paying Performers

25:00 Jealousy In The Industry

26:30 Video vs Real Life

28:00 A Day In Niks' Life

32:00 Legally Shooting

36:20 Ethics & Morality

44:10 How Niks Stays Healthy

48:40 India: Before vs Now

52:40 The Indian Psyche Exposed

55:20 Building A Career In This Industry

57:00 How The Niks Indian Name Was Born

1:00:00 Q&A

1:16:00 Conclusion

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

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Apar Gupta is a Supreme Court lawyer and co-founder of the Internet Freedom Foundation. He was part of the legal team behind Shreya Singhal v. Union of India — the case that struck down Section 66A of the IT Act. For over a decade, Apar has litigated India's biggest digital rights cases — fighting censorship, mass surveillance, and blocking orders against every government in power, not just this one. Where most tech commentary in India stays in English op-eds, he operates inside the courtrooms actually shaping what you can post, watch, and read online. Blunt, uninterested in TV-panel theatrics, and clear that free speech in India isn't dying — it's being managed.

In this episode, Vinamre and Apar discuss:

• Data mining, dark patterns, and how apps profile you before you even sign up
• Hyderabad's surveillance, the 26/11 tapes, and "national security" as an excuse for overreach
• AI and privacy — books pulped for LLM training, and lawyers already using Claude
• Fighting every government — 6000 blocking orders, the Section 66A win, and Meta/X's deals with the state
• Self-censorship among creators, and what politicians want from podcasters.

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Internet Freedom Foundation: https://internetfreedom.in

Timestamps:

0:00 – Coming Up

1:30 – Data Mining At Cafes

6:15 – Individualised Pricing Explained

10:34 – Dark Patterns In Apps

12:07 – How Cookies Track You

15:08 – Who Sells Your Data

18:11 – Right To Privacy India

22:43 – Indian Police Structure Problem

24:51 – Hyderabad Most Surveilled City

25:43 – National Security vs Privacy

28:45 – 26/11 & David Headley

31:50 – Running AI On Your Data

37:50 – How Apar Stays Private

38:52 – Health Tracking & Screen Time

40:19 – Books Pulped For AI

43:09 – AI-Written Manifestos

44:35 – Lawyers Using Claude AI

46:14 – Why Telegram Got Banned

51:16 – WhatsApp vs Telegram vs Signal

53:30 – How Apar Started IFF

59:07 – Fighting Every Government

1:00:38 – Free Speech In India

1:04:10 – RK Laxman & Satire

1:08:10 – Govt Deal With Meta & X

1:12:10 – Congress Era Censorship

1:17:12 – 6000 Blocking Orders

1:21:30 – Creators Self-Censoring

1:26:16 – Why X Still Runs In India

1:30:48 – Clickbait Headlines Game

1:33:48 – Rise Of New Media

1:36:48 – Politicians & Podcasters

1:42:51 – Substack & Media Prestige

1:45:38 – Future Of Internet Freedom

1:48:56 – Digital Literacy & Jobs

1:53:27 – Can We Log Off?

1:57:59 – Writing On Paper Again

2:01:34 – Dark Web Reality

2:04:01 – Nehru Place Computer Market

2:04:38 – Blue Whale Challenge

2:07:07 – Apar's Book Influences

2:13:12 – Conclusion

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Vinamre Kasanaa is a writer at heart, podcaster and entrepreneur by craft.

He spends a significant part of his time reading and researching.

With over 500 podcasts under his belt, he’s interviewed everyone—from HNIs and industry leaders to everyday superheroes.

Follow Vinamre:

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