Ep. 162: The 2019 recap Part 2 - Supreme Court Decisions, Hong Kong Protests & the U2 concert
The Simblified gang carries on with their 2019 review because they have nothing better to do. While we've done a ton of topical Simblificati...
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Ep. 161: The 2019 recap Part 1 - Big Tech, Cricket WC & Softbank
It's the end of a very eventful year (assuming nothing happens in the last 3 days). While we've done a ton of topical Simblification, we tho...
Ep. 160: Did porn really help the internet grow?
Short answer - yes. Since time immemorial, smut has pushed technology - from cave paintings to virtual reality and everything in between. Th...
Ep. 159: The Impeachment Process
Anyone tuned in to the constant laughter track (aka News) coming from the US will definitely have heard of Democrats attempts to impeach the...
Ep. 158: The PFN-Simblified crossover episode
This week, we've got you a special crossover episode featuring your very truly Simblified and Post Cards From Nowhere hosted by our good fri...
Ep. 122 (Rebroadcasting): Do you really need civics? Ft. Meghnad & Shreyas from "How to Citizen"
Yes, back in school, Civics was like the token black guy of social studies. Who had time to learn about elected officials while deciduous tr...
Ep. 157: Dream of para-para-Paraprosdokian
On this light-hearted shortie, Srikeit and Naren simblify the figure of speech, Paraprosdokian. Yes, that's one heck of a tongue twister. Jo...
Ep. 156: Behavioural Addiction
After a series of celebrating our milestone, we are back to continue our normal episodes with mildy researched topics and a little banter, n...
Ep. 155: The Final 150th episode
We are finally done with our 150th episode special, yes we swear this time it's over and it took us only 6 parts to end it. We hope that you...
Ep. 154: The 150th episode, Part 5
Will this ever end? Perhaps not soon. We've received an overwhelming response from you guys and want to try and answer all of your questions...
Ep. 153: The 150th episode, Part 4
Goodness, another 150th episode? This is a running joke now which we hope carries through till our 200th episode. Yup, we crossed 150 recent...
Ep. 152: The 150th Episode, Part 3
What, yet another 150th episode? Well, yes. We got way too many requests from our listeners- so you have only yourselves to blame, actually....
Ep. 151: The 150th episode, Part 2
In this second part of our 150th episode (whatever that means), we continue what we did with the first part. As you know, we asked our liste...
Ep. 150: The 150th episode, Part 1
That's right, you let us ramble on unchecked and we'll eventually hit a milestone. So we collectively raise our podcasting bats (or... mics)...
We have an announcement to make! v2
Hey Simblified listeners! We would want to inform you that there will be no episode this week. However, we will be celebrating our 150th epi...
We have an announcement to make!
Hey Simblified listeners! We would like to inform you that there won't be any episode out this week or next week. We're extremely sorry and...
Ep. 149: Cocaine Hippos
This shortie has everything - drugs, lots of sex and the resulting hippos. To make sense of that, join Chuck and Srikeit for this fascinatin...
Ep. 148: On FinTech, startup life & investing - with Satyen Kothari
We've seen a lot of action in the space of financial technology in the last few years. Satyen Kothari knows a thing or five about the space,...
Ep. 147: The fascinating story of South African cricket and apartheid
Apartheid. South Africa. Cricket World Cup. Somehow, those three terms seem to be linked uncomfortably together - so the Simblified gang (or...
Ep. 146: On making crosswords, ft. Tony Sebastian
Crosswords - those quaint old things, delighting pun lovers since time immemorial - are notoriously difficult things to put together (let al...