At some point over the last year, fitness quietly stopped being about six-packs and started becoming a personality. Suddenly everyone's in a run club, waking up at unreasonable hours, posting Strava screenshots like stock market updates, and voluntarily paying money to suffer in public. Which brings us to this episode's main character: HYROX .

We break down what HYROX actually is, where it came from, and why it has exploded globally in such a short span of time. In reality, it's basically a very organised way to discover new forms of exhaustion. But this episode isn't just about the race itself. It's about why people are suddenly obsessed with things like HYROX, run clubs, and endurance challenges in the first place. Because underneath all the fitness branding and motivational captions, there's something much more interesting happening socially. Gyms are no longer enough. People don't just want workouts anymore, they want experiences, goals, communities, identity, and maybe just a slightly more socially acceptable form of collective suffering.

We also get into the rise of "Instagrammable fitness," the strange status attached to events like HYROX, and whether these experiences are genuinely fulfilling or just the latest evolution of social validation culture. This episode is classic comedy commentary mixed with offbeat learning, packed with quirky insights about fitness culture, social behaviour, and why humans apparently need organised hardship to feel alive. Because honestly, HYROX may look like a fitness event, but it might actually be a very expensive way for adults to rediscover recess.

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!

This week, we dive headfirst into one of the strangest objects in human history: the Shroud of Turin, a 14-foot piece of linen that is either the burial cloth of Jesus Christ… or the world's most successful medieval scam.

For centuries, this faintly creepy cloth has sat at the exact intersection of faith, science, history, and people confidently yelling at each other online. Because printed onto it is the image of a tortured man bearing injuries eerily similar to the Biblical description of the crucifixion. So we trace the bizarre history of the Shroud, from its sudden appearance in 14th-century France and accusations of forgery by medieval bishops, to fires, papal PR gymnastics, carbon dating tests, and increasingly complicated scientific studies that somehow keep making the mystery worse instead of better. And because apparently this story wasn't chaotic enough already, we also get into the recent DNA study that found genetic traces linked to India, sparking exactly the kind of internet discourse you would expect.

This episode is classic offbeat learning territory: a weird historical rabbit hole full of contradictory evidence, scientific detective work, Vatican ambiguity, and the kind of mystery that refuses to sit still, all wrapped in comedy commentary and packed with quirky insights. Because at the end of the day, the Shroud of Turin is less a solved mystery and more a centuries-long argument that nobody has managed to conclusively win.

Important links:

1. Shroud of Turin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin

2. Shroud of Turin - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shroud-of-Turin

3. The Shroud of Turin: An Overview of the Archaeological Scientific Studies - https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7248/5/1/8

4. Shroud of Turin, linked by believers to Jesus Christ, has an Indian DNA trace: Study - https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/shroud-of-turin-linked-by-believers-to-jesus-christ-has-an-indian-dna-signal-study-10614146/

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!