Combustible Brains
Combustible Brains
Pranav Bhatkhande and Raa
Combustible Brains is a podcast where all is fair game, as long as we find appeal in it. We're a bunch of enthusiasts of technology, martial arts, motorcycles and coffee beans. Expect no less in any episode.
Sir, your social media salad is ready for pickup
Instagram is slowly turning the knobs on its app to take on Tiktok, the biggest video platform in the world. In order to take on the Chinese giant, Instagram must make its app video first, and they're on it, the question is - will it work?
Jul 31, 2022
37 min
We do some unplanned social commentary!
We planned to make an episode on how to securely upload pictures (we promise to still do this episode), but ended up talking about society, social media, and the modern world.
Jul 16, 2022
47 min
An Era Of Hexadecimal Intelligence
A google engineer recently posted about a machine being sentient and got prompty fired for it. Here we dig in and find out if the era of machines is upon us already.
Jul 10, 2022
37 min
Your Cousin Is A Whiny Socialist
First we rant, and then we talk about the antiwork movement on reddit, captured on https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/. I'm too bored to write a longer description, so listen to the podcast instead.
Dec 19, 2021
52 min
Blue Balled By Communism
In this episode we touch on how evil empires now control one of the most important minerals required for making electric cars a reality, as we move to a cleaner and greener future, we must understand the evil forces that might ultimately shape the world we envision. Let's build technology to go Cobalt free!
Dec 4, 2021
34 min
Computers get sophisticated STDs, just like you!
Today we talk about Stuxnet, a sophisticated virus designed to cause real damage, in this episode we also talk about other cyberattacks that Governments these days love. Finally, if you have feedback for us, you can write that email and throw it away, because we don't have a feedback line yet.
Nov 20, 2021
43 min
Bonjour, my little electric skateboard
Electric cars are the rage, Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, the Chinese carmakers are slowly controlling the world's rare minerals supply, we have a casual chat about these trivial issues.
Nov 13, 2021
38 min
Zucktard, and the Metaverse of Stupidity
In this episode, we talk about the newly revealed re-brand of Facebook as Meta, as a part of Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision of metaverse. Its supposed to be a shared virtual universe where we can all meet and hangout, similar to the concept shown in the movie Ready Player One.
Nov 6, 2021
36 min
Brave New World
In this episode, we get a little philosophical as we walk through Aldous Huxley's best work - Brave New World, we then compare and contrast this dystopian paraside to our own, Huxley wrote this in 1932 and looking back today, one might say he was right. We discuss on what it means to be free, and if we're just cogs in the wheels of society.
Jul 22, 2020
1 hr 2 min
Indians Banning Chinese Apps
Today we're talking about the Indians banning Chinese apps in response to the current India-China situation. We then talk about how you can best protect your privacy using pragmatic tools like Signal.
Jun 22, 2020
40 min