Take a wild guess!

Take a wild guess!

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Take a wild guess! episodes

  • Episode 09: When content marketing influenced the World War

    Content marketing is the art of marketing your product by creating useful and sticky content intended for your target audience. While many companies have previously made content that is not directly related to their core business, there are a few examples where the content by itself has become equally popular, if not more. In this episode, Chaitanya narrates the long journey of one such content pieces that are now super huge; and how it played a part in the Second World War.

    Take a wild guess! is a short-format podcast where within 10 minutes, your host Chaitanya Ganu tells you a fascinating story of an object, a place, an event in history, or a name without telling you the subject of discussion. With the help of various clues that he drops throughout the story, you can figure out what is being talked about. The best part is, even if you don’t get it by the end of the 10 minutes, you can always take a wild guess! Learn how, for example, a toy-making company is connected to the Vietnam War or how a British soldier is responsible for many Indian students’ nightmares


    7 min
  • Episode 08: There's always room for dessert
    In this episode, Chaitanya tells you not one but two fascinating stories behind the origin of a very popular dessert. Listen on to know how a food product was used as a piece of massive political propaganda. 
    Listeners should also check out Episode 01: Food that shaped the world as we know it for another amazing food-related story.
    Take a wild guess! is a short-format podcast where within 10 minutes, your host Chaitanya Ganu tells you a fascinating story of an object, a place, an event in history, or a name without telling you the subject of discussion. With the help of various clues that he drops throughout the story, you can figure out what is being talked about. The best part is, even if you don’t get it by the end of the 10 minutes, you can always take a wild guess! Learn how, for example, a toy-making company is connected to the Vietnam War or how a British soldier is responsible for many Indian students’ nightmares
    7 min
  • Episode 07: The OG Doge

    Economics is the study of human behaviour. The study of greed and of scarcity. It has been around for as long as civilisation has existed. Join Chaitanya as he talks about the first recorded instance of one of the most commonplace economic phenomena. Is it a cautionary tale or a history lesson? You decide!


    Take a wild guess! is a short-format podcast where within 10 minutes, your host Chaitanya Ganu tells you a fascinating story of an object, a place, an event in history, or a name without telling you the subject of discussion. With the help of various clues that he drops throughout the story, you can figure out what is being talked about. The best part is, even if you don’t get it by the end of the 10 minutes, you can always take a wild guess! Learn how, for example, a toy-making company is connected to the Vietnam War or how a British soldier is responsible for many Indian students’ nightmares

    7 min
  • Episode 06: The monster who fed the world
    A chilling story from the World War 2 era that explores the grim life of a German Jew with a strong sense of nationalism. It tells the tale of a man desperate to prove his patriotism to a state that was rapidly turning anti-semitic. Listen now to know how this desperation led him to do great things. Things that helped him feed the whole world as well as be denounced as a monster.
    If you have any comments, criticisms or feedback write to us at [email protected] or message us on our Instagram handle @take.a.wild_guess
    8 min
  • Episode 04: Toys & Soldiers
    Today Chaitanya tells the story of how one of the largest toy makers in the world played a part in the Vietnam War. He also talks about the development of weapons with the progress of advanced material science in the last century and the nature of wars during the Cold War era.
    7 min

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Take a wild guess! is a short-format podcast where within 10 minutes, your host Chaitanya Ganu tells you a fascinating story of an object, a place, an event in history, or a name without telling you…