Introducing ELI5 Explain Like I'm 5
Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast
Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm Kevin. |
| 0:45.8 | 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 |
| 1:31.6 | 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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