We're going on a (very) short break!
Don't Know, Do Care
Hey there carers, Thank you for sticking with us thus far and we hope you continue to do so in the foreseeable future as well. We will be taking a very short break till the first week of May and will go back to our regular schedule of a new episode every Monday thereon. In the meantime, we hope you get a chance to listen to some of our older episodes. Just like in life, we have grown and improved from Episode 1 last year. We hope you get to see that too. See you back in May!
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Don't Know Who's Buying This Bulls**t (Psychological Theories Edition)
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This episode starts at a party, takes a hard left into pseudoscience, and ends with us aggressively side-eyeing half of modern psychology. We’re talking about bullshit psychological theories, the ones that sound legit, get repeated everywhere, and somehow survive despite having little to no actual scientific backing. From Stockholm Syndrome to the five stages of grief, we break down how these ideas became mainstream, and why they probably shouldn’t have. Along the way, we take detours into things like left-brain vs right-brain nonsense, the Mozart effect, primal therapy, and the...
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Don’t Know How Mangoes Took Over India
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Summer is objectively the worst season. It’s hot, sticky, mildly unbearable… and yet, somehow, we all tolerate it for one reason: mangoes. In this episode, we take a deep dive into India’s favourite fruit, not just as food, but as a full-blown cultural phenomenon. From its origins in South Asia and its journey through Portuguese trade, to the fact that India produces nearly half the world’s mangoes, this is a story that’s way bigger than just something you eat after lunch. We talk about the absurd variety of mangoes across the country and how these names come from places, people, and...
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Don't Know How the Dinosaurs Actually Went Extinct
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If you grew up anytime after the 1980s, you probably think you know exactly how dinosaurs went extinct: one massive asteroid, one very bad day, end of story. The problem is… we didn’t actually know that for most of modern scientific history. In this episode, we go back to a time when the extinction of dinosaurs was basically a free-for-all of extremely confident guesses. We’re talking climate change, massive volcanic eruptions in the Deccan Traps, eggs that were somehow both too strong and too weak, and at least one theory suggesting dinosaurs just collectively decided to stop...
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Don't Know How the Oscars Decide 'Best Picture'
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Every year, the Oscars announce their winners… and millions of people immediately react with some variation of “wait, that movie won?” In this episode, we dig into how the Oscars actually pick winners, and why the result often feels confusing, underwhelming, or completely disconnected from what audiences loved that year. We break down the preferential ballot system used for Best Picture, where Academy members rank films instead of voting for just one. The result is a slow elimination process that tends to reward consensus rather than passion. Then there’s the money. Studios routinely...
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Don't Know About Feminism in India
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Every year around International Women’s Day, corporations suddenly remember that women exist. They post inspirational graphics, run aggressively mediocre ad campaigns, and pretend a century of labour struggles, suffrage movements, and fights for basic rights can be summarised in a pastel Instagram tile. This episode starts with that frustration and then moves somewhere much more interesting: the history of women-led movements in India that actually tried to change material conditions for women. Along the way, we also talk about the uncomfortable reality that feminism has always struggled...
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Don't Know How the British Drugged China
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This episode, we dive into the deeply unhinged saga of the Opium Wars; the time Britain decided that if China wouldn’t buy enough British goods, it would simply get millions of Chinese people addicted to opium and then declare war when China tried to stop it. From the Treaty of Nanjing and the forced cession of Hong Kong, to extraterritorial rights and humiliating indemnities, this episode unpacks how gunboats and capitalism worked hand in hand. We also zoom out to India, where peasants were trapped in coercive opium contracts, pushed into debt cycles, and forced to prioritise poppy...
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Don't Know Why Pink Is Feminine
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At some point in life, pink stopped being a colour and started being a personality test. It went from “just lightened red” to “this says something about you,” and nobody remembers signing up for that meeting. In this episode, we unpack how pink became “feminine”, and why that idea is way newer, way flimsier, and way more profit-driven than most people realise. We trace pink back to its original associations with power, war, and aristocracy (yes, pink used to be for boys), and then follow the extremely unserious but highly profitable retail decisions that flipped the script in the...
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Don't Know Why GenAI is a Ponzi Scheme
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In this episode, we ask a question that feels mildly illegal to say out loud in 2026: is Generative AI basically a Ponzi scheme? From OpenAI’s eye-watering losses to Nvidia selling $40,000 GPUs like they’re limited-edition sneakers, we unpack the very small circle of companies pumping billions into each other while insisting this is the future of humanity. Microsoft invests in OpenAI. Nvidia invests in companies that buy Nvidia chips. Those companies build data centers to power tools that still hallucinate confidently incorrect nonsense. Everyone claps. The debt piles up. Repeat. This...
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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...
info_outlineIf 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 250 million roses are grown, cut, refrigerated, flown across continents, and delivered within a non-negotiable 72-hour window, this is offbeat learning at its most industrial. Love, it turns out, is less about emotion and more about timing, because flowers don’t get delayed, they die.
By the end, Valentine’s Day looks less like a romantic milestone and more like a textbook case of planned obsolescence, where romance is profitable only if it expires on schedule. It’s one of those random topics that, once you see the machinery behind it, becomes impossible to unsee. Love may be priceless, but expressing it apparently comes with a refrigerated, air-freighted, non-negotiable bill.
Important links:
1. Valentine's Day Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
2. More history of Valentine's Day - https://www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/valentines-day-horrible-historical-events
3. Yet another Valentine's Day origin story - https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day
4. Fairtrade Flowers in High Demand for Valentine’s Day -https://supplychaindigital.com/procurement/ethical-rose-procurement-for-guilt-free-valentines
5. Valentine's Day Trends and Statistics - https://www.storyly.io/post/valentines-day-trends-and-statistics
6. Valentine’s Day Spending Trends - https://floristsreview.com/valentines-day-spending-trends/
7. Flower Logistics from Kenya - https://cargo.flowers/en/blog/post/flower-logistics-from-kenya?utm_source=chatgpt.com
8. The flower power of Valentine’s Day - https://airport-world.com/the-flower-power-of-valentines-day/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
9. Temporary Beauty: The Environmental Impact of Cut Flowers - https://atmos.earth/art-and-culture/cut-flowers-environmental-carbon-cost-facts/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
10. Hidden Costs of Valentine’s Day Flowers - https://www.reeveconsulting.com/2023/02/07/hidden-costs-of-valentines-day-flowers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
11. Yes, your mother loves the flowers, but maybe not the cost of flying them in - https://theicct.org/yes-your-mother-loves-the-flowers-but-maybe-not-the-cost-of-flying-them-in/
12. Overview of flower production in Sub-Saharan Africa - https://verite.org/initiative/africa/commodities/flowers/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
13. French group issues Valentine’s Day warning that cut flowers have a variety of pesticides - https://apnews.com/article/valentine-flowers-pesticides-france-ufcque-choisir-91b99d1007ec90455a4fcd1497e5d1d0
14. The Slow Flowers Movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Flowers?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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!