Simblified

The EU recently passed a set of regulations to reign in Big Tech. Yay! Or... Nay?

See that's the thing. Regulating technology companies is so damn complicated and any seemingly good thing, will have a dark side as well. Join the Simblified hosts as they have a freewheeling discussion on this, touching upon some other important topics like whether Meta is actually evil, whether anti-trust will work, and what Chuck's shady hi5 profile pic was. Yes, we discuss hi5. That one.

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All is not well with our tiny southern neighbour.

Worrying news of extreme food and resource shortages have been coming out of Sri Lanka these past few weeks.

The Simblified gang delves into the numerous independent and interconnected reasons for the greatest financial crisis in the island country's history.

Join us as we unpack this unfortunate and deadly combination of problems ranging from incompetence and failed masterstrokes to just plain bad luck

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When music went from blogs to Twitter, it didn't just change how it was consumed, but it changed the blogs to Twitter itself.

Similarly, when we went from blogs to Twitter, the language/syntax/grammar itself changed.

Chuck has constantly been constantly fascinated by how the form of the medium dictates the content because of consumption habits, economic imperatives etc and brings it as a group discussion topic. Joined by media-hoovering Srikeit and always thoughtful Naren, this made for a fascinating conversation that is best consumed in podcast form.

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Peter Thiel went from zero to one when he heard the lectures of Stanford anthropologist and philosopher Rene Girard.

What were Girard's insights, and how did Peter Thiel interpret them?

Join your simblified hosts as they scratch the surface of this fascinating topic and talk about their own views of it.

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the most impromptu pivot ever, the Simblified gang switched topics mid recording and turned this episode into a group discussion about... group discussions and more in an MBA. Tune in for our admissions on admissions.

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Occasionally on Simblified, the gang resorts to profundity of the actual variety and ponder over the larger questions. Join Tony and Naren for one such episode as we talk through Clayton Christensen's frameworks and theory on how to measure your life.

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week the Simblified gang sit down for a conversation with the Zain Memon, the creator of the wildly popular political strategy board game - Shasn. We discuss Zain's unique content creation approach, how board games get built, the growing appetite for cerebral content in India and a lot more.

A fascinating chat where the hour just flew by!

Follow Zain Memon on Instagram (@zain.memon_) and Twitter (@zainmemon_)

You can get your copy of Shasn at www.shasnthegame.com

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the wake of the most talked-about Superbowl halftime show, the Simblified gang get together to understand the actual sport called American Football that happens around that show.

Join us as we try to simblify the rules, culture and oddities of the sport by answering burning questions like, "Why is that hand egg called a football?", "WTF is an oblate spheroid?" Why are they hitting each other so much? and "Do the players even know what's going on?". It's a real touchdown of an episode, promise.

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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AI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam

Complex things like AI, machine learning, data science, deep learning and reverse swing (ok maybe not that one) have been on our collective minds for years now. There's a lot of noise, misconceptions and prejudiced opinion about the whole thing so we did what we at Simblified do when faced with vexing questions: Call in experts. In this two-part interview, we speak to Kartik Talamadupula and Shivam Tundele - two AI practitioners, to talk about the whole thing. Over two hours (split up into 2 episodes) we talk about the evolution of AI, what various terms mean, ethical aspects of AI, uses of AI, where things could go... And we get philosophical as well, wondering what it means to be human, what we as a race will need to do in order to protect ourselves from the worst of AI... And we end on a super-optimistic hopeful note. We hope you enjoy this conversation!

This is part 2 of a 2 part recording. The first episode was out last week on this same feed - we recommend you listen to that one first if you haven't.

Connect with Kartik:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktalamad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kr_t

Connect with Shivam:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivamtundele/

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVB

AI aye aye: A discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Kartik and Shivam 

Complex things like AI, machine learning, data science, deep learning and reverse swing (ok maybe not that one) have been on our collective minds for years now. There's a lot of noise, misconceptions and prejudiced opinion about the whole thing so we did what we at Simblified do when faced with vexing questions: Call in experts. In this two-part interview, we speak to Kartik Talamadupula and Shivam Tundele - two AI practitioners, to talk about the whole thing. Over two hours (split up into 2 episodes) we talk about the evolution of AI, what various terms mean, ethical aspects of AI, uses of AI, where things could go... And we get philosophical as well, wondering what it means to be human, what we as a race will need to do in order to protect ourselves from the worst of AI... And we end on a super-optimistic hopeful note. We hope you enjoy this conversation!

And This is part 1 of a 2 part recording. The second episode will be out next week on this same feed.

Connect with Kartik:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktalamad

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kr_t

Connect with Shivam:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivamtundele/

Add one part news, one part bad jokes, one part Wikipedia research, one part cult references from spending too much time on the internet, one part Wodehouse quotes, and one part quality puns, and you get Simblified.

A weekly podcast to help you appear smarter, to an audience that knows no less! Your four hosts - Chuck, Naren, Srikeit, and Tony attempt to deconstruct topics with humor (conditions apply). Fans of the show have described it as "fun conversations with relatable folks", "irreverent humor", "the funniest thing to come out of Malad West" and "if I give you a good review will you please let me go".

Started in 2016 as a creative outlet, Simblified now has over 200 episodes, including some live ones, and some with guests who are much smarter than the hosts. Welcome to the world of Simblified!

You can contact the hosts on:

Chuck: twitter.com/chuck_gopal / instagram.com/chuckofalltrades

Naren: twitter.com/shenoyn / instagram.com/shenoynv

Tony: twitter.com/notytony / instagram.com/notytony

Srikeit: twitter.com/srikeit / instagram.com/srikeit

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.