Mstdfr Show 2015

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://twitter.com/Amrush)
Faisal Assiri (http://twitter.com/4aisal)
Hashim Alzain (http://twitter.com/Hashimooto)

About MSTDFR

A bunch of Middle Eastern "Nerds" talking about random things every week, we have no agendas and we are not trying to save the world. We just like to hear our selves talk B)



#001: We Don't Know What The Hell We're Doing

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 Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison debate. Ammar  laments the challenges he is facing with his children teaching them the Arabic language. Finally, Faisal schools us in linguistics.



#002: Literally Redefined

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 effect on making parents passive with their children's internet consumption.

We casually ask the question; what is the effect of technology on social relationships? (We need to dig into this deeper!) We somehow found ourselves talking about vegetarianism and the health effects of overeating meat.

We finally end up talking about nerd culture in Saudi Arabia and comparing it with the general global nerd culture.

Show notes:

1- Naqatube http://naqatube.com/
2- The truth behind one YouTube account's 77,000 mysterious videos http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/may/01/truth-youtube-mysterious-videos-webdriver-torso



#003: MOI Surveillance

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 heat than lighter colors.



#004: It's Not A Meritocracy

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, Tintin, Mickey Magazine, Bassem Magazine, and Majed Magazine. We later discuss the conspiracy theory that Stan Lee did not invent Spiderman. We finally bring it home by discussing Comics in the Middle East including The 99 and the highly anticipated Bilal movie.


Shownotes:

1- Mutant X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant_X_%28TV_series%29

2- Did Stan Lee Really Invent Spiderman? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiDCxKqD5Mo

#005: Tudi Marvels From DC

50% Arabic - 50% English

This week we host Dr. Sari Sabban (No relation to Ammar :D) a  molecular biologist and biotechnologist. Sari tells us how he got into science and the interesting journey on how he ended up as a molecular biology.

We discuss DNA, the human genome project, and protein folding. Then Sari proceeds to blow our minds with amazing biological facts: Gros Michel bananas, fecal transplantion, crowdsourcing technologies in science, anti-vaxxers, vitamin C and much more!


Links

- Red Shift CD http://www.amazon.co.uk/Focus-Multimedia-Ltd-RedShift-4/dp/B000056C0C
- Human Genome Project http://www.genome.gov/10001772
- Folding@Home http://folding.stanford.edu/home/
- Fold It Game http://fold.it/portal/
- Human Proteome Project http://www.thehpp.org/
- Seti Project http://seti.org
- The Man Who Hasn't Showered In 12 Years http://www.inquisitr.com/2400090/man-who-hasnt-showered-in-12-years-to-sell-his-secret-spray-that-keeps-him-clean/)
- Panama diesease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease
- Vaccine Controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_controversies)
-Linus Pualing & Vitamin C Advocacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling#Medical_research_and_vitamin_C_advocacy
- T3rf De http://t3rfde.com

Corrections

 - Sari mentioned that Cavendish bananas got extinct. However he meant Gros Michel bananas which were completely wiped out from South America due to the Panama disease.

Hosts

- Ammar Sabban http://twitter.com/sabban31
- Khayra Bundukji http://twitter.com/khayrab
- Rami Taibah http://twitter.com/rtaibah
- Sari Sabban http://twitter.com/sarisabban

#013: Stop Cloning Around, Bananas!

بودكاست مستدفر هو برنامج إذاعي سعودي من تقديم عمار ورامي يأتيكم كل أسبوع فجر يوم الأحد من مدينة جدة ويقدم لكم حوارات عصرية  وترفيهية وثقافية مع مجموعة من أبرز العقول في مجتمعنا اليوم.

ونقدم لكم محتوانا بشكل عفوي وصادق من قلوبنا إلى عقولكم