The Mstdfr Show

30% Arabic - 70% English Today we start with reminiscing about our online personas 15 years ago. We then talk about privacy or the lack thereof in today's world. We also discuss ridiculous resumes we encountered. Unprofessional resumes for some reason grind Ammar's gears. Oh well. Khayra then tells us about her struggle with learning the Arabic language. Fun times!

20% Arabic - 80% English In this episode we talk to WSJ journalist Ahmed Al-Omran and uber new media geek Lou Kay. We talk about journalism in the Middle East and Saudi, the future of newspapers in Saudi, news consumption, the 'filter bubble,' WhatsApp journalism, and many other new media topics. Oh and we geek out fonts.

50% Arabic - 50% English We couldn't just let Reem go after one hour, so Ammar & Rami held her hostage for two more hours! We delve deeper into particle physics for almost two hours. Then Reem tells us more about her fascination with kung fu.

30% Arabic - 70% English In this episode we kick off trying to answer the question 'what is an Arab' and Arab identity. The discussion automagically veers to the "genie" on Twitter. Ammar then quizzes our local theoretical physicist Reem on the science behind the flux capacitor from Back To The Future. Reem then tells us about her work at CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC.) Which leads to pa...

90% Arabic - 10% English Today's topic generally is not viewed as a geeky topic, our challenge was to geek out on it. We talk sports. We get into a heated debate on the 'national choice' issue that many North African soccer players face during their careers. What makes Zidane, Benzema, Nasri et al choose France over Algeria or vice versa to represent on the international football stage? We then di...

20% Arabic - 80% English Featuring Ammar Sabban @sabban31, Rami Taibah @rtaibah, Omair Taibah @amrush, & Faisal Aseeri @4aisal. The guys start off the day by discussing dumb questions that don't deserve answers. However, seeing dumb questions in retrospect makes Omair and Faisal think differently. Science gets explained in lay men's terms. Even better, super hero science, human tetrachromats (see...

25% Arabic - 75% English Today's conversation brings us to a few pet peeves in Saudi etiquette - serving things with your left hand and taking things personally. We then find out the MSTDFR origin story after realizing there aren't a lot of podcasts like us. "IT guy" Ali turns out to be a prankster, and shares an adventure with us and highlighting the phenomenon of people teaming up with him. He g...

40% Arabic - 60% English Today we talk about art and personal passions. Fayiz Melibary starts by telling us the story of Elon Musk. Then we talk about Huda Baydoon and her artistic contribution to Banksy's Dismaland. Then we ask the question whether photography an art or not, which gets us into war photography and Kevin Carter's 1993 notorious photo. The gang then talk about their own individual p...

20% Arabic - 80% English Today we host Abdulhameed Sabban (aka Tudi) a comic book aficianado and expert. We start discussing the DC superhero universe and explore the parallels between Superman and the story of the prophet Moses. We then analyze the Fox vs. Marvel war and the reasons behind the bad blood between the two companies. We then reminisce about the comics we grew up on in Saudi Arabia, T...

90% Arabic - 10% English Ammar and Rami go at it debating whether management as a profession in itself as important as it is made out to be or craftsmen can/should be able to learn managing their enterprises. Then they delve deeper into the Saudi job market as an institution and analyze it and discuss what is holding it back. Omair explains to us thermal radiation and why darker colors absorb more...

30% Arabic - 70% English Rami shares with us his geeky yet mischievous wifi tethering hotspot name. The MSDTFR gang discusses being multicultural, conformity in Saudi Arabia vs. USA. Ammar then segues us into TV and media consumption with children. We discussed Naqatube, the video website preferred by Muslim conservatives. Rami rants about Internet censorship in Saudi Arabia and it's adverse effec...

20% Arabic - 80% English Omair tells us of the story of how Hashim grilled him in an engineering job interview. Rami asks what would be the most watched video if Youtube existed in 1900. We discuss the misuse of the word 'literally' and how the word has been redefined in the English language. We then move on to discussing what to name the podcast and come up with the MSTDFR podcast. We have the Ni...

20% Arabic - 80% English In this episode we talked about: Movie Rating System - Wifi Security - Personal Picks for Best Movies - Lord of the Rings - Batman The Dark Knight - Saw - Ghostbusters - Transformers - 12 Angry Men - The Stinking Rose - San Francisco - San Romeo Hotel. Hosts: Ammar Sabban (http://twitter.com/Sabban31) Rami Taibah (http://twitter.com/Rtaibah) Guests: Omair Taibah (http://tw...