Episode 422: Simon Says Squat
Freshly Grounded
Faisal & Sam
4.9 • 945 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
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Faisal and Kaya are joined by Simon "Simon Says Squat" for a wide-ranging, unfiltered conversation that starts with AI and content… and ends up somewhere much deeper.
They talk honestly about:
- how AI should be used as a tool, not a replacement for thinking
- why doom-scrolling rewires your brain towards stress and negativity
- parenting in the age of information overload
- raising children with a strong Muslim identity without forcing it
- Qur'an time with kids: when to be gentle, when to be firm
- habits vs environments (and why forcing rarely works)
- preparing for Ramadan without burnout or guilt
why doing the basics consistently beats chasing extremes
- how forgetting death makes us careless, and remembering it puts everything back in place
Simon also opens up about how the passing of Lats deeply affected him, forcing real self-reflection about purpose, legacy, and how we're actually living.
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| 0:00.0 | Should we start this podcast with our Simon? |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, why not, man? |
| 0:03.0 | Simon's on his way, guys. He just popped, there he is. Simon! Sorry, I just changed your cop for an unbranded cup, but it's still your coffee. So we're rolling, bro. Just take a seat. Yeah, take a seat. No preparation. Yeah, we're waiting for no man. Let me just touch the camera. We're going for the casual start, bro. |
| 0:22.9 | All right. |
| 0:23.4 | We're just free lads, aren't we, |
| 0:24.6 | didn't we in the day? Once you've been on freshly guarded once, there's no, uh... There's not going back, go away. Yeah. So have you guys met before? No, not in person. So I didn't catch your name. Kaya. Kaya, just, yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | We spoke it online, but... |
| 0:39.3 | We did, right? Yeah. You know, on and off. The online world, huh? Yeah, bro. It's better in person. I wonder if it's gonna be, like, a time where you get to know people online, and it turns out it's just an AI. You know what I mean? |
| 0:52.5 | Like yeah like have you seen like their AI creators like yeah ads and stuff? |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah you know out it's just an AI. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Like, have you seen like their AI creators, like, yeah, ads and stuff? Yeah. You know, man, like, what if it's going to be crazy? I'm not a fan. Are you a fan? Of the AI? Yeah. I think it's, I think it looks bad. I think it's, I mean like that, like the videos. Yeah. I know from reason I suppose as well like creating faces creating faces that's one thing I wouldn't do but like even just creating content |
| 1:14.2 | that's like I can imagine like content wise I can see the value in it but I think it's |
| 1:20.2 | like you know people overusing it now yeah you know with everything so it's like |
| 1:25.0 | even in content creation you know when people use it as scripting and stuff. |
| 1:31.4 | Now you notice like there's the amount of slop that's been produced is so much. |
| 1:39.0 | So it's like every video is almost like copy page, just a different person. |
| 1:42.4 | So it's either like people are going to be extremely authentic |
| 1:44.7 | to just bring out the camera and just shoot whatever or it's going to be complete like really professional. Yeah, that's why I like the way, so the way, the way Faisal just started that, where it's like you're walking and still, that's like, that's authentic. That's like we didn't script, we didn't plan it. It was just like, hey, authentic is all I am. |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah, you can't not be that. |
| 2:01.8 | You know what I mean? |
| 2:02.5 | That's all you need. |
| 2:04.1 | Slam'am a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-o. We didn't script. We didn't plan it. It was just like... Hey, authentic is all I am. Yeah. You can't not be that. |
| 2:01.8 | You know what I mean? |
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