The Chad & Cheese Podcast

On this week's episode:

The Football Flops: Portugal woke up, while England was lulled to sleep and Emi is losing her mind over corporate "hydration breaks".

The Hype Block: The hosts rip into Snapchat’s new $2,300 glasses (a chunky, $3 billion boat anchor that makes a good-looking CEO completely unfuckable). Meanwhile, Anthropic's CEO is treating his LLM like a "superweapon" that practically needs a gun license just to drive up valuation.

Who’d You Rather?: Emi tries to take home three startups (Sloneek, HeyMilo, and Orbio) for an HR foursome.

The New Indoor Malls: Oracle is slashing 21,000 jobs to build data centers, and Google is training blue-collar workers for $166 a pop. Chad serves a history lesson: we are overbuilding data centers just like 1980s indoor malls.

Ghostbusters in NY: New York is passing a bill to fine companies $2,500 for posting fake "ghost jobs" used for resume harvesting. Emi wants more guidance; Chad says stop making excuses.

Tune in, skip the scams, and Go Portugal!

The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.

Face it, "The Resumes" is officially dead, and generative AI just blew it to pieces. With 86% of hiring managers admitting that AI makes it too easy to fake skills on paper, corporate hiring is facing a massive identity crisis. The old way is broken—so what comes next?

The Face-Off:
In this fast-paced episode of HR's most dangerous podcast, host Chad Sowash moderates a high-stakes debate between two tech founders reshaping talent acquisition:


Phuong Vu (CEO of Telexa): The advocate for the "skills-first" organization. Phuong argues that true skills-based hiring means moving away from static keyword libraries and focusing on real-world evidence, human adaptability, and transferable capabilities.


Dr. Maya Huber (CEO of Tadio): The champion of performance intelligence. Maya warns that "skills hiring" will become an empty buzzword if we keep relying on old, text-based data. Her radical fix? Ditch applications entirely and have candidates try out the job through live simulations before they ever talk to a recruiter.

Inside the Episode:


Are companies treating employees like "disposable heroes" instead of upskilling them?


Has "culture fit" just become a lazy excuse to hire people exactly like ourselves?


How do you screen for technical skills when the technology changes faster than the workforce?

The Bottom Line:
Stop asking candidates what they claim they can do. Learn how to evaluate how they actually think, adapt, and execute.

Listen now to find out who wins the duel.

If you’ve been wondering why the modern job market feels like a dystopian simulation, the latest episode of The Chad and Cheese Podcast is here to validate your existential dread. Chad, JT, and Lieven are back to dissect the tech industry's latest "innovations" with their usual cocktail of empathy, candor, and plenty of well-deserved swearing.


Indeed’s Blind Faith in AI Sourcing


The Stanford Study: Proof You're Being Blacklisted


Teaching Your Humanoid Replacement


Zuckerberg Says "My Bad" (Sort Of)

"Generating assumptive qualifications or requirements is a hiring decision... If AI's doing that for you... it's the most stupid fucking non-scalable thing."

— Chad Sowash

"No job seeker should be required to give their data, not know where it's going, and not know how it's being used. And this is what got exposed."
— JT O'Donnell

Are we heading toward JT's utopian dream of golfing all day while robots do the laundry, or are we just funding our own automation?

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The Shred is a weekly roundup of what’s making headlines in the world of employment. The Shred is brought to you today by Jobcase.