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ITCHY BRAINS
by Prajash Timsina
Itchy Brains is the podcast where we discuss about day to day activities that shape our living status. In each episode we have something different cooking. Some episodes will be discussed in English, some in Nepali. We have people from all around the world wanting to talk about their culture and traditions and here they speak. We talk with teachers, students, *people with a lot of money*, dumb people like ourselves to see how each of us are connected and trying to make sense of the happenings around us. Pragyan's Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pragyan.bimEmail: [email protected]
Episodes
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Eng - How To Read Better (Beginners Edition)
Show Notes This episode goes into how to get started with reading, if you're a beginner reader or if you've just stepped into the world of Reading Like me, I wanted to throw some helpful tips (probably) out there to get started with Books or to keep going. This is the intro to Becoming a Better...
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Nepali - Asking Friend To Fly Overseas @Abhishek Rajbanshi
Here, Abhishek starts a business that operates for 12 days, We ask Abhishek when he is leaving Nepal, Pragyan asks Modi Ji for Help, the initial struggles of Moving Out, Work and Friends, and so on. Pragyan delivers the worlds longest cycle!
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Nepali - Seto Surya (White Sun) Movie Breakdown @Swadhin Hang
# Spoiler Territory Seto Surya is one of the few Nepali films that is worth some inspection. We invite, to put it humbly, son of a very very big politician, Swadhin Hang to understand the political climate that is depicted in the film. The film is also available on Amazon Prime.
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Nepali - The Psychology Behind Why We Forget.
---Show Notes--- Here we take help from two main sources Well Mind and Psychology Today to help understand some of the reasons about why we forget. These articles provide neatly bundled theories that help us raise the curtain and get a sneak peak behind why our Brains are so good at forgetting....
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Eng - A Case Against Colleges
Here I present a case against colleges and things that I think are not going well with their form of education. I play a recorded session from a presentation I had to do for one of my classes. I put together materials from blog posts and books that have discussed the problem that the current...
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Eng - Podcasts That Worked (From Joe Rogan To Girls On Porn)
In Order to get the most out of this episode, here is a short guideline to follow:- Google podcast has been my choice of podcasting app. I like it's clean interface. Plus the links that I mention here displays better on Google Podcast. 1. Download Google Podcast :-...
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Eng - 10 Podcasts I Enjoy Listening
Over the past year, I have had the chance to listen to a lot of podcasts. I have experimented with a lot of material and here are the ones that have worked for me, that I think everyone should have on their podcast feed or at least deserve a shot. All of them are brilliant, listen to the ones…
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Eng - The Four Agreements - Book Discussion
The Four agreements is a really simple book with 4 ideas that are suppose to help us make our way into subjective wellbeing. ---Show Notes--- Nepali Podcast ep That Blew My Mind:...
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Eng - Pragyan Talking Pragyan
This is Prangyan's first solo talk show where he invites himself to talk with. Here Prgyan is joined by Pragyan to talk about social anxiety that Pragyan faces (Not the first Pragyan the second one!). Pragyan shares his thought on why people have social anxieties, what his anxieties look like and...
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Eng - Rethinking Relationships We Build
I came upon this idea of Horizontal relationship when I was reading the book The courage to be Disliked. I don't think about the default status of relationship that I build with other humans except. There are only three that I know: romantic, friendship and parent-child relationship, but there is...
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Nepali - Pragyan Turns Stoic
Stoicism is one of those philosophies that both, Pragyan and I believe has some good to offer to everyone. We've heard about stoicism at some point along the way but what is it really? Who should practice it? Benefits of Stoicism and what are the cardinals that the Stoics value the most....
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Eng - AirMan
Liam (I.G @Liam_farrel87) is currently studying the nuts and bolts of aircraft maintenance. Here I was able to have a conversation about the work that he does, How his side of the military works, the environment of California and how it's different from Butler, the home town he grew up in, I also...
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Nepali - Pragyan Get's Crushed!
In this episode we discuss over how Pragyan's bank account went from Bezos status to not only zero but negative, the problems of having online classes and the perks that make them interesting to say the least and the most important bit of the entire conversation Pragyan's New Crush!
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English - Having an Online Presence
Everyone understands the importance of the internet but for some reason people are afraid to put themselves out there. In this episode I am trying to convince the listeners to have some sort of online presence, ANY really!! I discuss different mediums to put out content and discuss their…
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Nepali - B.M.B.S
Here we speak with Bipina Upadhayay (I.G @bipina_timsina) to understand the fundamentals of getting started in the medicine degree. We touch upon the scene of Veganism, Medical Mafias ( I didn't even know that there were mafias in the medical community), the problems that medical students are...
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Eng - Productivity 101
Here the concept of Parkinson's Law and Pareto's Law is introduced. In my belief, these productive laws expand beyond getting things done to understanding ones happiness. Coming clean I don't consider myself a productive person but introducing these terms can help people understand the basics of...
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English - Happyness In Home Town
Here we bring in Kennny Havier Burgos (I.G @Kenny12_) to talk about his home town country Dominican Republic (DR). Kenny has been a roommate of mine (Prajash) during the first year of college at Greensburg. He is bulky looking so you don't wanna mess with him. On this episode Kenny talks about…
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English - A Life Changing Way To Consume More content.
There are about 500 Hours of YouTube Video uploaded every Minute. There is so much content out there that no human can possibly consume in their finite lifetime. Here In this episode, We (Pragyan and Prajash) share a life changing way to look at these contents and how to consume it. In the end…
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Nepali - Random Talks
We've tried something different for this episode. There's no specific topic we're talking about, just random stuff from our experiences that we found to be interesting.
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Nepali - Great Mental Models (Part 2)
Here, We continue to review the book named Great Mental Models By Shane Parrish. If you haven't listened to Part One of this book review, it could help visiting that episode first. Apart from the book review if Pragyan's parents are listening to the episode, I highly recommend that you take notes...
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Nepali - Media Imperialism
We wanted to know more about the situation and the role of media in shaping our society specially in this time. So we called in One of our common friend Atul Pokharel (I.G @atul_pokharel) to join us and share his thoughts on Media Imperialism. We touch upon what Imperialism is and how it affects...
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Nepali - Great Mental Models (Part 1)
Mental Models are a set of frameworks that we can use to understand the world around us better. We know Models like Supply and Demand, which relates to economy, Game Theory which could explain human Interactions but are there Mental Models that can guide our day to day decision making? After all...
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Eng - Born In Ghana
Obi was Born and Raised in Ghana, currently he Resides in the US and has been for the past 8 years. What is it like moving from an African country to America. How different are they from one another? How are people in Ghana Different from US? How is ones death celebrated in some parts of Africa?…
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ENG - 1000 True Fans
Here We talk about a popular article by Kevin Kelly called 1000 true fans. We breakdown the concept of what it means to be a true fan. People may have assumption that one needs millions of followers to be able to make A Living On The Internet but that concept is being put to a trial in this...
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Nepali - YouTube Through Numbers
YouTube is a massive platform! To get a hold of what the platform actually looks like when we need put it in terms of numbers and thats exactly what we have done. We have taken help from OMNICORE website to gather data about the platform. We have also broken down YouTube In terms of gender...
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Nepali - Inception Movie Breakdown
Inception is a movie directed by well acclaimed Christopher Nolan, It is simply a Masterpiece! But the movie is not an easy watch, it has a lot of narrative going on at once and can be hard to keep track of... that could be the beauty of the movie but that indeed causes a lot of confusion. In…
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Eng - Calculated Embarrassment
In this solo Episode , I, Prajash talk about the mental model that I have found most effective to think about embarrassment. Embarrassment is something that none of us are Immune to, We have to deal with it as part of being humans. When we go through these moments what are we supposed to do, If...
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Nepali - Why You Should/Shouldn't Move to Western Countries
Here we discuss about the advantage/disadvantage that we (Pragyan and Prajash) have experienced after moving to western country. What kind of flaws does one experience after moving to such developed countries? Why does one move here anyways?.. Here we find out!!
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Eng- Talking Racism With 12 Year old
I (Prajash) had a discussion with my 12 year old brother about racism in United States. I followed a recent article by Vox media called How To Talk To Your Kids About Racism to help me communicate better about this sensitive issue with my brother.
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Eng-Confronting Racism
In this Epiosode, We have Isiah on the podcast who is also the first guest ever!! He helps us understand the situation that is going on all over America with the protest, why this is all going on right now and what is it that the protesters really want?
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Nepali - Moving To USA From Nepal
On this episode of the Itchy Brains podcast we discuss about the experience of moving from Nepal to USA. What is it like to be a DV winner? What are the changes that can be noticed in the first glance of moving to a new country and much more unraveling.
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Nepali-Moving to Australia From Nepal
In this Epiosode of the Itchy Brains Podcast, Pragyan takes us on a ride of his travel from Nepal to Australia. We dive into Pragyan's experience from the day he decided to leave his country, his conversation with friends and family, his expectations and so forth. What exactly goes through ones...
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Independent Concept Eastern Vs Western World
In this episode of the podcast we (Pragyan and Prajash) dive into the culture of being independent at 18 from both western and eastern point of view. We break down some historical context of why we landed at 18 as independent age, what exactly makes a person an adult, What are the pros and cons…
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Nepali Trailer
We like to try different stuff to see what works best and since we couldn't fixate on one primary language, we decided to make a Nepali trailer as well for all the Nepali folks out there.
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Trailer
This is the trailer for itchy Brains podcast. We just wanted to kick things off by saying hello to you guys! We talked a little bit about why we are starting a podcast and how things are going to go on from here.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Itchy Brains is the podcast where we discuss about day to day activities that shape our living status. In each episode we have something different cooking. Some episodes will be discussed in English, some in Nepali. We have people from all around the world wanting to talk about their culture and traditions and here they speak. We talk with teachers, students, *people with a lot of money*, dumb people like ourselves to see how each of us are connected and trying to make sense of the happenings around us. Pragyan's Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pragyan.bimEmail: [email protected]
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Prajash Timsina
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ITCHY BRAINS currently has 35 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Itchy Brains is the podcast where we discuss about day to day activities that shape our living status. In each episode we have something different cooking. Some episodes will be discussed in English, some in Nepali. We have people from all around the world wanting to talk about their culture and...
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ITCHY BRAINS is created and hosted by Prajash Timsina.
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