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Episode 437: iPhone Event Watchalong

September 11, 2026

This one starts as a casual watch party for the Apple 2026 event, with Hanan, a five-time number-one Apple store queuer, giving live commentary on the iPhone Duo fold reveal, variable aperture cameras, the Gemini-powered Siri, iPhone Handoff, and whether Apple copied Samsung or the other way around. Then the food arrives, the event wraps, and the conversation goes somewhere much more interesting: what follows is a real, unscripted conversation about logic and faith, the verification chain of ...

Episode 436: Faisal & Kaya

September 07, 2026

Kaya and Faisal get into a new business Faisal has quietly launched, a second business idea Kaya is sitting on, and the usual relaxed chatter that started FG in the first place. Key topics covered: - Whether ten years is a natural finishing point for a podcast and why the mission has shifted - The pressure of competing in the Muslim content space and why FG was never meant to play that game - Why low views might actually be fine and what Joe Rogan's early episodes have to do with it - Faisal...

Episode 435: Abdellatif (Qaf.ai)

August 20, 2026

He launched an Islamic AI tool and within hours his email provider suspended him, trolls were faking screenshots, and his bill hit $1,200 an hour. Then a stranger offered to pay it. Abdellatif is an ex-Twitter engineer and co-founder of Tarteel. Two weeks ago he launched Qaf, an AI that answers Islamic questions by searching over 8,000 books from the Shamila library and shows you exactly which scholar, which book, and which page every answer came from. The launch video hit 4.5 million views a...