Don't Know, Do Care
Episodes
Don't Know Who's Buying This Bulls**t (Psychological Theories Edition)
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 talki...
Don't Know How Mangoes Took Over India
30 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Don't Know How the Dinosaurs Actually Went Extinct
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Don't Know How the Oscars Decide 'Best Picture'
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, the Oscars announce their winners… and millions of people immediately react with some variation of "wait, that movie won?" In this episo...
Don't Know About Feminism in India
09 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every year around International Women's Day, corporations suddenly remember that women exist. They post inspirational graphics, run aggressively medio...
Don't Know How the British Drugged China
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
Don't Know Why Pink Is Feminine
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 abo...
Don't Know Why GenAI is a Ponzi Scheme
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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-wat...
Don't Know About the Logistics of Valentines Day
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ri...
Don't Know Why Walking Into Rooms Erases Memory
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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-cra...
Don't Know Who the Constitution Was Really Written For
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 26...
Don't Know Why Every Merger Ends in Tears
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Dont know why we say these things
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we do something deeply unnecessary but impossible to resist: we ruin everyday English phrases for ourselves and, by extension, for yo...
Don't know why Bose hailed Hitler
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is about one of the most uncomfortable, complicated, and rarely discussed chapters of India's freedom struggle - the time Subhas Chandra ...
Don't know why art heist is (practically) a hobby
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we fall headfirst into the gloriously stupid, occasionally brilliant, and deeply human world of art heists, sparked by the now-infamo...
Don't know why 'The Sun' doesn't shine
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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"...
Don't know how the NYT picks "Bestsellers"
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the mysterious, manipulative, and occasionally unhinged world of the New York Times Bestseller List, that shiny sticker ...
Don't know how Israel's PR outruns its reality
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive into the wild, worldwide PR machine known as Hasbara, Israel's official strategy to shape global opinion, rewrite narratives,...
Don't know if we're naming storms or pets
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we get swept up in the quirky insights and lowkey chaos of how cyclones and hurricanes get their names. From Cyclone Bob to Mocha and Yaas,...
Don't know what Heartland's smoking
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we descend into the unfiltered chaos of the Heartland Institute, a self-described think tank that's spent the last 40 years defending...
Don't know if Romulus and Remus are Colossal mistakes
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode starts with a wolf, a womb, and an empire, and somehow ends up in a lab in Texas trying to bring back the Ice Age. We're talking about Ro...
Don't know why No Fap is All Fap
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we (unfortunately) find ourselves talking about NoFap, the online movement that claims giving up masturbation will give you laser foc...
Don't know why Big Doug is lonely
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Big Lonely Doug, a 70-meter-tall tree left standing in the middle of a giant Canadian clear-cut. Why? Because one logger randomly decided Doug de...
Don't know about the Nobel Prize's weird cousin
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do levitating frogs, poop timers, dead spiders turned into robot claws, and pizza-based healthcare in Italy have in common? They've all won an Ig...
Dont know why Careless People Zuck
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook is evil. That's not new. What is new is a "tell-all" book from a former public policy director… who apparently did nothing wrong and knew n...
CtrlAltBrief - Dont Know If This Episode Is Just OK or Kinda Great
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever stopped to wonder why we say "OK" 30 times a day? Or where it came from? In this episode, we dig deep into the surprisingly unhinged history of t...
Don’t know what’s in Mario’s mushroom!
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve seen it in Mario, fairy tales, and weird Christmas merch - the iconic red mushroom with white spots. But did you know it’s a real thing? An...
Dont know why America still measures in bullshit!
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered why Americans still use inches, feet, and Fahrenheit while the rest of the world moved on to the metric system decades ago? Spoiler: pir...
Don't know who turned Mayong into India's Hogwarts!
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mayong, Assam: A beautiful village with rhinos, riverbanks… and apparently, shape-shifting sorcerers who turn bullets into fish. That is, if you bel...
Don't know why protein is hard to digest (not literally)!
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whey, dal, sattu, tofu, (insert anything else you want here) - in this episode, we try to figure out if we’re doing protein the whey we should. Spoi...
Don't know who (not Ed Sheeran) made these symbols up! (Hinglish)
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does “+” mean add? What even is “@”? And why did school kids accidentally name the ampersand? In this episode, we deep-dive into the biza...
Don’t know who clapped alien cheeks! (Hinglish)
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if India had its own Area 51? What if it was in Ladakh? And what if over 100 soldiers reported UFOs but no one blinked? In this episode, we dive...
Don’t know how Superman took down the KKK! (Hinglish)
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we fly headfirst into Superman’s lesser-known stories; from memory-erasing kisses to Communist Kal-El, from the time he roasted the KKK o...
Don't Know, Do Guess (Bonus Episode 1 - Tenable Version)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s our first-ever bonus quiz episode! We battle it out, tenable style, over very serious topics like “languages we should probably know,” “...
Don't know who's buying this bullshit (business theories edition)!
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are MBTI types on LinkedIn bios and why are people proud of them? Why do consultants love putting everything into a 2x2? And what exactly do we do...
Don’t know how to feel about this info!
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we share the weirdest info we could find; the kind that make you go “Wait, what?” and then proceed to ruin your entire day. But g...
Don't know why YouTube screams at us!
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t know why every YouTube thumbnail looks like it’s screaming at you? Same. In this episode, we dive face-first into the chaotic world of click...
Don't know who locked us in (with carbon)!
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t know about carbon lock-in? Neither did we. That is until we realized we might be stuck in the world’s biggest escape room powered by coal, o...