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Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Introducing ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Explain Like I'm 5 or ELI5 is a podcast that takes the questions you always wanted to ask and explains them in a way that is easy to understand. We have become big fans and hope you enjoy it too.

Transcript

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I'd like to recommend a fascinating podcast I recently discovered called Explain Like I'm Five.

0:05.4

Episodes are just five to eight minutes long and they cover really interesting questions like

0:09.7

was the Sahara really once lush green forests? Or what's the point of bail and what is a bond?

0:16.2

Or my favourite from a few weeks ago, I love the randomness of this podcast, gout, what is it, and why is

0:22.5

the Big Toa Target? As you can see, they take the questions you always wanted to ask and they

0:27.3

explain them in a way that is easy to understand. I'm going to play a one-minute trailer from the host,

0:31.8

Tim and Kevin, so you can get a feel for the show. Explain icon 5 is a podcast where we take the questions you always wanted to ask and talk about

0:41.0

them in a way that's easy to understand.

0:43.0

We are your hosts.

0:44.1

I'm Tim.

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And I'm Kevin.

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And we're here to answer those curious questions like why caffeine gives you energy but has

0:50.3

zero calories.

0:51.3

Or why do some people get mosquito bites more than others?

0:53.9

Or one recent one, why is it so hard to run in your dreams? Oh yeah, I had that problem last night. I also really loved our dopamine episode. You know, is it a feel-good drug? Oh yeah, it's not, is it? No, that's right, that's right, it's not. Or how about the one we did on the national debt? Ah yes, I remember that one, where we ask, who do countries actually owe when they're in debt?

1:14.0

Right. Or how about the one we did on the national debt? Ah, yes, I remember that one, where we asked, who do countries actually owe when they're in debt?

1:13.9

Right. So if you're interested in those topics or others, so come listen to us on the Explain Like I Five podcast.

1:20.0

That's right. Just search for Explain Like I'm Five wherever you listen to your podcasts.

1:27.0

Go check it out. Search for the letters E-L-I and the number five, and it's the one with the blue

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background. We here at Seeing Red are huge fans of E-L-I-5. We hope you'll enjoy it too.

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