Don't Know About the Logistics of Valentines Day
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If you’re listening to this around Valentine’s Day, there’s a good chance you’ve recently participated in one of the world’s most aggressive annual rituals of romance, panic, and procurement. In this episode, we take a long, uncomfortable look at Valentine’s Day, not as a celebration of love, but as a perfectly engineered, brutally efficient global logistics operation disguised as candlelight and overpriced roses. We peel back the soft-focus UI and dig into the operating system underneath. From why Valentine’s Day accounts for up to 40% of annual florist revenue, to how nearly...
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Don't Know Why Walking Into Rooms Erases Memory
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Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you’re there; not in a poetic, existential way, but in a deeply annoying, brain-just-crashed way? This episode starts there and then happily spirals into the many ways our minds glitch, misfire, and occasionally gaslight us for no apparent reason. We explore a bunch of everyday brain “glitches”, not mental illnesses or rare disorders, just extremely common psychological bugs that most of us experience and have collectively decided to ignore. As always, this all comes packaged as comedy commentary with plenty of quirky insights...
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Don't Know Who the Constitution Was Really Written For
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In this episode, we talk about the Indian constitution, which felt like a good time to talk about the Indian Constitution on account of today being 26th January, India's Republic Day. As always, we don't talk about the constitution in a chest-thumping, flag-waving way, but in the messy, uncomfortable, historically accurate way it actually deserves. Because for a document that gets invoked constantly in public debates, it’s surprisingly misunderstood, misrepresented, and occasionally weaponised for reasons that range from sincere concern to complete nonsense. We unpack the RSS’s early...
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Don’t Know Why Every Merger Ends in Tears
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In this episode, we talk about something that sounds extremely boring but is secretly responsible for a lot of the world being the way it is: terrible mergers and acquisitions. Having briefly survived a career in finance, we try to explain why corporate mergers are almost never about innovation, efficiency, or “shareholder value”, and are almost always about a handful of executives making obscene amounts of money while everyone else pays the price. Despite the existential dread baked into all of this, the episode is full of comedy commentary, quirky insights, and offbeat learning that...
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Don’t Know Why We’re Casually Quoting Trauma
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In this episode, we do something deeply unnecessary but impossible to resist: we ruin everyday English phrases for ourselves and, by extension, for you. What starts as a bad day at work filled with people biting bullets, letting cats out of bags, and buttering up bosses turns into a full-blown investigation into why the English language is basically a museum of human suffering disguised as casual conversation. We trace the surprisingly dark origins of phrases you probably use without thinking; from battlefield amputations and boxing matches to livestock slaughter, medieval scams, naval...
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Don't know why Bose hailed Hitler
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This episode is about one of the most uncomfortable, complicated, and rarely discussed chapters of India’s freedom struggle - the time Subhas Chandra Bose and the Free India Legion briefly aligned with Nazi Germany to fight British colonial rule. It’s a story that doesn’t fit neatly into hero worship or outright condemnation, which is exactly why we felt the need to talk about it. We trace how Bose, ousted from the Congress and deeply frustrated with the pace of nonviolent resistance, landed in Berlin and helped form a legion of Indian prisoners of war under the German army. What begins...
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Don't know why art heist is (practically) a hobby
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In this episode, we fall headfirst into the gloriously stupid, occasionally brilliant, and deeply human world of art heists, sparked by the now-infamous 2025 Louvre heist. Yes, that Louvre. The one with the Mona Lisa, absurd security, and apparently a blind spot for people wearing high-vis jackets. What begins as an exploration of the genius of the heist quickly turns into a full-blown spiral through history’s slickest, dumbest, and most unintentionally hilarious museum robberies. The episode also celebrates the truly unhinged side of art crime with thefts so ridiculous they feel like...
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Don't know why 'The Sun' doesn't shine
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In this episode, we wade into the swampy, sensational, deeply unserious world of The Sun, a British tabloid so notorious that calling it a “newspaper” feels like an insult to both news and paper. What started in the 1960s as an optimistic, politically neutral publication meant to reflect “the age we live in” quickly devolved into a right-wing chaos machine famous for Page 3 girls, fabricated scandals, culture-war tantrums, and front-page headlines bold enough to make even WhatsApp forwards blush. It’s the perfect playground for our brand of comedy commentary, because honestly, The...
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Don't know how the NYT picks "Bestsellers"
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In this episode, we dive into the mysterious, manipulative, and occasionally unhinged world of the New York Times Bestseller List, that shiny sticker every book seems to have, even the ones that read like rejected BuzzFeed headlines. What starts as casual airport doomscrolling quickly unravels into a full-blown investigation: Who actually decides this list? Why is the methodology secret? And is it really possible to buy your way onto it? (Short answer: lol yes.) It’s comedy commentary meets publishing nerdery, packed with quirky insights about how the book world really works, plus the kind...
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Don't know how Israel's PR outruns its reality
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In this episode, we dive into the wild, worldwide PR machine known as Hasbara, Israel’s official strategy to shape global opinion, rewrite narratives, and “explain” things that probably shouldn’t have to be explained. What starts off as a lesson in public diplomacy quickly turns into a crash course in how coordinated messaging, mass disinformation, and a whole lot of lobby money can bend reality in real time. Somehow, all of this still makes room for quirky insights, offbeat learning, and the kind of comedy commentary you’d expect when three confused people attempt to decode one of...
info_outlineHave you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you’re there; not in a poetic, existential way, but in a deeply annoying, brain-just-crashed way? This episode starts there and then happily spirals into the many ways our minds glitch, misfire, and occasionally gaslight us for no apparent reason.
We explore a bunch of everyday brain “glitches”, not mental illnesses or rare disorders, just extremely common psychological bugs that most of us experience and have collectively decided to ignore. As always, this all comes packaged as comedy commentary with plenty of quirky insights and lighthearted education, including a game segment where we try to figure out which brain glitches are real and which ones are just psychology-flavoured nonsense. The result is a joyful mess of random topics, memory failures, optical illusions, fake disorders, and the comforting realisation that your brain isn’t broken, it’s just doing what any overworked system does from time to time: glitch.
So the next time you feel like the universe is sending you a sign, maybe pause for a second. It’s probably just your brain rebooting mid-task, and honestly, that’s way less scary.
Important links:
1. Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-walking-through-doorway-makes-you-forget/
2. Why Time Seems to Slow Down in Emergencies - https://www.livescience.com/2117-time-slow-emergencies.html
3. What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? - https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm
4. All to know about the McCollough Effect - https://www.businessinsider.com/optical-illusion-mccollough-effect-2018-11
5. What Is Capgras Syndrome? - https://www.verywellmind.com/capgras-syndrome-7100791
Don’t Know, Do Care is the brainchild of Ashmita, Sandy, and Prakhar, three friends from different backgrounds and interests. Ashmita works in sustainability, Sandy's an entrepreneur (puke) who’d rather not be, and Prakhar works with Sandy and is just trying to make sense of it all.
Three mildly confused friends, one weirdly specific topic each week. We don’t know much, but we care just enough to talk about it for up to an hour each week.
Don’t Know, Do Care is produced by "Ghar Pe Productions", edited by Prakhar and Sandy, critiqued (thoroughly) by Ashmita, and enjoyed mostly by our friends. Thanks for giving us a listen!