Don't Know, Do Care

About Don't Know, Do Care

Curious minds welcome, clueless takes guaranteed! Don't Know, Do Care is a curious mix of comedy, commentary, and casually intense learning. Every episode, one of us brings a topic the others know nothing about and tries to "educate" them, just enough for them to feign interest. Do we learn anything? Absolutely not. Do we care about the topic? Probably not. Are we curious, though? Potentially yes. We're not experts by any stretch of our already stretched imagination, but we're just trying to get a bit smarter, one strange question at a time. Curiosity might have killed a cat, but will it kill us? Only time will tell. Join us on our journey to learn something you didn't know you cared about.

Publisher

Ashmita, Prakhar, and Sandy

Category

comedy · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Jul 2025

Latest episode

10 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Don't Know If The Trojan War Was Real

   Is the Trojan War a historical fact, or just the world's most successful piece of ancient fanfiction? We all know the pop-culture version containing a thousand ships, an invincible heel, petty gods sabotaging boats, and a giant wooden horse that somehow fooled an entire city. But for historians, turning Homer's Iliad into actual history is a total nightmare. In this episode, we treat the Trojan War like an ancient cold case. We look at why the Iliad isn't the military logbook people think it is and explore the real-life mound of Hisarlık in Turkey, a place with nine different layers of stacked cities. We revisit Heinrich Schliemann, the millionaire amateur who "found" Troy by accidentally bulldozing through the very historical layers he was trying to prove, and dive into Hittite clay tablets that suggest there really was a Bronze Age power struggle over a city called Wilusa. As always, this episode combines comedy commentary, offbeat learning, and quirky insights into one of those seemingly random topics that turns out to be alarmingly relevant today. It's a lighthearted dive into ancient propaganda, messy archaeology, and why the line between history and myth is a lot blurrier than Hollywood wants you to think. Important links: UNESCO — Archaeological Site of Troy British Museum — The Search for the Lost City of Troy British Museum — The Myth of the Trojan War Archaeology Magazine — "Was There a Trojan War?" by Manfred Korfmann Penn Museum — "Was There a Trojan War? Recent Excavations at Troy" Smithsonian — In Search of Troy Smithsonian — The Man Who Discovered—and Nearly Destroyed—Troy Cambridge University Press — Hittite Literary Evidence Society of Biblical Literature — The Ahhiyawa Texts LAMAN Hittite Text Database — The Tawagalawa Letter Perseus Digital Library — Homer's Iliad Oxford University Press — The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction Universal Pictures — The Odyssey 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!

2. 

   27 Jul 2026

   Don't Know Why The Media Loved Hitler

   Last episode, we looked at how much of the Western media practically rolled out the red carpet for Benito Mussolini. This week, we move on to Adolf Hitler, and somehow, the reporting gets even stranger. Unlike Mussolini, Hitler wasn't treated like a visionary. He was treated like a joke. Major American newspapers described him as a loudmouth, a political clown, and a man whose moustache and mannerisms "suggest Charlie Chaplin." Journalists mocked his appearance, dismissed his supporters as gullible, and confidently predicted that once he entered government, the responsibilities of leadership would force him to become more moderate. The problem? Hitler himself had been very clear about what he wanted to do all along. People just refused to believe him. In this episode, we explore how the American and British press covered Hitler's rise to power, why so many influential publications underestimated him, and how the pursuit of "balanced" reporting often became an excuse to sanitise authoritarianism. We revisit Dorothy Thompson's famous interview with Hitler, examine The New York Times' attempts to present the "good" alongside the horrifying, and discuss why "both-sides journalism" can become dangerously misleading when one side is openly dismantling democracy. As always, this episode combines comedy commentary, offbeat learning, and quirky insights into one of those seemingly random topics that turns out to be alarmingly relevant today. It's lighthearted education about journalism, propaganda, political bias, and why dictators rarely succeed by hiding who they are. More often than not, they tell you exactly who they are. The real question is whether anyone chooses to listen. Important links: 1. How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covered-rise-mussolini-hitler-180961407/ 2. American Journalist Dorothy Thompson Underestimates Hitler - https://historynet.com/encounter-dorothy-thompson-underestimates-hitler/?f 3. Unrecognized Potential: Media Framing of Hitler's Rise to Power, 1930-1933 - http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1363/unrecognized-potential-media-framing-of-hitlers-rise-to-power-1930-1933 4. Prewar Nazi Germany and the Beginnings of the Holocaust - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-group/holocaust/1933-1938 5. HITLER SEEKS JOBS FOR ALL GERMANS - https://www.nytimes.com/1933/07/10/archives/hitler-seeks-jobs-for-all-germans-does-anything-else-matter-he-asks.html?utm_source=perplexity 6. HERR HITLER AT HOME IN THE CLOUDS - https://www.nytimes.com/1939/08/20/archives/herr-hitler-at-home-in-the-clouds-high-up-on-his-favorite-mountain.html 7. A political history of the Daily Mail - https://theweek.com/88935/a-political-history-of-the-daily-mail?utm_source=perplexity 8. The British Press and Nazi Germany: Reporting from the Reich, 1933–39 - https://dokumen.pub/the-british-press-and-nazi-germany-reporting-from-the-reich-19339-9781350102095-9781350102125-9781350102101.html 9. Printing the Truth - https://www.digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/manchester-guardian/page/printing-the-truth 10. Recommendation of the week - https://youtu.be/uomLlydZpNU?si=VQxgv7HVeOsI0x1L 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!

3. 

   13 Jul 2026

   Don't Know Why The Media Loved Mussolini

   We like to imagine that the media is at its best when democracy is at its worst. That journalists become fearless, newspapers hold power accountable, and propaganda is easily spotted for what it is. History suggests that's not quite the case. In the first episode of a two-part series, we look at how the global media covered Benito Mussolini's rise to power, and it's far stranger than most people realise. Long before he became synonymous with fascism, dictatorship, and World War II, Mussolini was being described by major newspapers as a moderniser, a visionary, and the man who had restored "order" to Italy. Why were journalists so willing to overlook political violence? Why did so many newspapers celebrate fascism as a practical solution to socialism? And why did business interests seem to matter more than democratic values? Along the way, we explore how Mussolini's background as a journalist helped him understand, and eventually control, the press, creating an environment where censorship often wasn't even necessary because self-censorship did the job just fine. As always, this episode blends comedy commentary, offbeat learning, and quirky insights into one of those seemingly random topics that turns out to have unsettling parallels with the present. It's lighthearted education only because we occasionally make jokes to cope with the fact that history has a worrying habit of repeating itself. Because dictators don't usually rise despite good press. Sometimes, they rise with it. Important links: 1. How Journalists Covered the Rise of Mussolini and Hitler - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-journalists-covered-rise-mussolini-hitler-180961407/ 2. MUSSOLINI, HOPE OF YOUTH, ITALY'S 'MAN OF TOMORROW - https://www.nytimes.com/1922/11/05/archives/mussolini-hope-of-youth-italys-man-of-tomorrow-hard-work-his-creed.html 3. MUSSOLINI AT WORK - https://www.nytimes.com/1922/11/12/archives/mussolini-at-work.html 4. Mussolini's fascists praised in 220 British newspaper reports - https://roguenation.org/mussolini-fascism-british-press/ 5. The marketing of Mussolini : American magazines and Mussolini, 1922-1935 - https://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2231&context=masters-theses 6. Italo-Ethiopian War - https://www.britannica.com/event/Italo-Ethiopian-War-1935-1936 7. Marzia Casolari-Hindutva Tie-up with Fascism in 1930s-Economic & Political Weekly - https://www.academia.edu/29191228/Marzia_Casolari_Hindutva_Tie_up_with_Fascism_in_1930s_Economic_and_Political_Weekly 8. RSS's militant structure is modelled on Mussolini's Blackshirts: Italian scholar of Hindutva - https://ullekhnp.com/2023/09/11/rsss-militant-structure-is-modelled-on-mussolinis-blackshirts-marzia-casolari/ 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!

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