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5 Minute Expert — 185 episodes

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Food Has Always Been Competition

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Just the Facts, M'am

3

Tales From the Crypto

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Those Wacky, Wild, Lovable English!

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Close Votes and Billy Goats

6

It's the Great Turnip, Charlie Brown!

7

The Magic Inside

8

Stink Stick?

9

A Dixie Cup By Any Other Name

10

Fret Not!

11

Things The Romans Knew That We Don't

12

It's A Dirty, Rotten Seine!

13

The Science of Selective Hearing - Ignoring What You Don't Want to Hear

14

I Have A Theory About Conspiracies

15

Mini Mozarts and Baby Brainiacs - Making Parents Look Like Idiots

16

Food Wars! Pizza VS Tacos?

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When Fat Man and Little Boy Were Not Insults

18

Viva La Revolution!

19

The Sketchy Side of Life

20

Making Us Crazy... One Post At A Time

21

Brew-hahas, Tea Parties and Other Tea-riffic Shenanigans

22

Is Time Really On Your Side?

23

How To Unlearn What You Think You Already Know

24

Nursery Rhymes Originated in Women's Prisons and Peep Shows

25

Does Your Dog Have More Feelings than Your Cat?

26

What's Your Type?

27

Food Weaponized?

28

People Who Are Still Hanging Around - 2022

29

Rudolph Got Ran Over By A Christmas Wreath

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You've Gotta Hand It to Them

31

But Wait, There's More!

32

Stink Breath

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Do You Think That Cereal Box is A Little on the Light Side?

34

The Real Lives of Celebrity Impersonators

35

Bad Barbies Come Back to Bite Us

36

Eat the Weeds - Foraging Free Food for Fun

37

Doctor, My Eyes...

38

Tattoo You

39

6.14 Who's Really the Boss?

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6.13 Who You Pointing At?

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6.12 Pass That Bottle To Me

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6.11 If It Bleeds, It Leads

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6.10 Pass Me That Salty, Cheesy, Crunchy, Sour, Sugary Snack Food

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6.9 From Bait to Burgers - Vending Machines

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6.8 Incandescent or Fluorescent - The Humble Light Bulb

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6.7 I Was A Teenage Lab Rat

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6.6 The Boy Who Drank All the Communion Wine

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6.5 Your National Symbol is What?

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6.4 Whatchamacallit

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6.3 Prairie Pirates, Traffic Jams and the Oregon Trail

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6.2 Would You Be Mine, Valentine?

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6.1 Holy Hot Air Balloon!

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5.27 Yes We Can!

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5.26 In Praise (Or Spite) of Snow

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5.25 Don't Cross Me!

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5.24 Are You Willing to Pay the Price?

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5.23 The Business of What to Do After You've Done Your Business

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5.22 The Winner Came in Second

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5.21 One Hump or Two, Mr Davis?

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5.20 Gut Wrenching Tools

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5.19 Tread on Me? Don't

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5.18 Don't Tread On Me (Tires)

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5.17 Do We Sow What We Reap?

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5.16 You're So Confident Your Arrogance Is Showing

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5.15 Do the Smell of My Feet Turn You On?

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5.14 A Bench and A Blessing - Famous Hand Gestures

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5.13 Got Alt Milk?

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5.12 You Could Use A Bath

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5.11 Isn't She Lovely???

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5.10 Harry Baggins+Star Wars=Lord of the Potter

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5.9 Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz Won't Fixx This

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5.8 Bet You Can't Eat Just One - The Sport of Competitive Eating?

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5.7 The Ugly Hidden Behind the Masks

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5.6 The Road to Hell is Paved With Perverse Incentives

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5.5 The Other Duct Tape - Wire Clothes Hangers

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5.4 How A Sports Cartoon Became Bizarre... Believe It or Else!

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5.3 Bizarre, Strange and Unusual... How A Bet About Birds Turned into a Global Records Empire

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5.2 Toss Me That Dwarf, Uh, I Mean Nano

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5.1 Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate! Could You Please Punch My Card?

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4.26 Shell Game - I'll Give You Three Wampum for One Gold Piece

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4.25 The Wacky Creativity of the Criminal Class

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4.24 Processed, Extruded, Dried Garbage - Breakfast Cereal - Part 2

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4.23 Processed, Extruded, Dried Garbage - Breakfast Cereal - Part 1

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4.22 Do Wolves Howl at Moon Trees?

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4.21 Mayan Chocolate, Stomach Pumping and the Invention of Child-Proof Lids (In that order...)

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4.20 The Preferred Choice of Terrorists and Serials Killers...

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4.19 What's So Special About January 10th?

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4.18 Wanna Long-lasting Marriage? Go Cheap!

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4.17 Did I Really Say That? (Voice Overs and Voice Actors)

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4.16 Liquid Gold (The Future of Water)

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4.15 Crock Pots and Microwaves

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4.14 Peter Piper Picked A Peck of Pickled Pasta

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4.13 Pickers, Grinners and Everything In-between

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4.12 Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

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4.11 We Put the Con in Confidence

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4.10 Bring Your 'A' Material - It's Open Mic!

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4.9 Lefty Loosey, Rightie Tighty

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4.8 The CIA's Disney Decoy for Flashy Foxes

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4.7 Holy Moly, Ma Bought A STOLI

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4.6 Smuggling for Fun and Profit... Wink, wink!

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4.5 Doodle, Schmoodle... It's Still Just A Poodle!

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4.4 Hypocrisy Can Be Hateful, Habit-forming and Fun

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4.3 This Little Piggy Went to Market

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4.2 Frita is Fed Up With FedEx

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4.1 I Say Potato, You Say Solanum Tuberosum

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3.27 Season 3 Finale - The Sponsor Show - Part 2

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3.26 The Season 3 Finale - Part 1 - The Sponsor Show

108

3.25 Alabama Gas Station Sushi

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3.24 Make Mine A Pastrami on Rye

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3.23 The Letter X Brought to You by Xcream

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3.22 Calluses, Corns and Toe Jam; Oh my!

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3.21 Paradise and Privacy Lost

113

3.20 How To Commit Voter Fraud for Fun and Profit

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3.19 Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

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3.18 California, Coffee and Cancer

116

3.17 Do You Want Fries With That? Drive-Thru's

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3.16 The Real Reason Darth Vader Asked Luke To Remove His Mask

118

3.15 DIY (Do-It-Yourself) VS VIY (View-It-Yourself) Culture

119

3.14 Chew On This...

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3.13 Duck Tape and Bailing Wire. Modern Office products that fasten and Bind.

121

3.12 Will Trade 3 rolls of 2 ply toilet paper and half can of Lysol for a '68 Camaro

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3.11 Does Anybody Know What Time It Is?

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3.10 Touching base, shifting a paradigm, OR leveraging a best practice - Corporate Jargon

124

3.9 Filthy, Nasty and Disgusting - And That's Just The Seat Pockets

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3.8 Chalky candy, Syrupy Cards and Bones... It Must Be Valentine's Day

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3.7 Don't Get Your Hopes Up!

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3.6 My GPS Told Me To Turn Here

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3.5 A Robot Just Took My Job...

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3.4 Do Bankers Put Their Own Hands in Their Pockets?

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3.3 Honey, I Burnt the Bacon!

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3.2 Wait Just A Minute!

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3.1 Please Don't Be My Neighbor!

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2.26 Hope Is A Strategy!

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2.25 You Gotta Pay to Play

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2.24 Score Keepers VS Fruit Inspectors

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2.23 The Funny Thing About Hope

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2.22 Pimples - Don't pick it or pop it. Patch it!

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2.21 Excludes The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray

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2.20 The Real Definition of 'Hipster'

140

2.19 Springtime in Beaumont - Ah, the Smell of burnt burritos and motor oil

141

2.18 Support Your Local Bail Bondsman - Get Arrested!

142

2.17 Punctuationisnotasecretcode

143

Off Their Rockers

144

2.15 Love Me, Tinder?

145

2.14 We Put the Fun in Funeral

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2.13 How NOT to Win Friends and Influence People

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2.12 The Dark Side of Glamour

148

2.11 You Can't Win If You Don't Play

149

2.10 - You Must Take the Brand Loyalty Oath First

150

2.9 - Dog Food In A Box

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2.8 Get Your Hopes Up! - The Make-A-Wish Book

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2.7 Just Believe In Yourself (and other mumbo jumbo...)

153

2.6 What Are They NOT Telling Us?

154

2.5 Tight, Right and Wrinkle-free

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2.4 Pssst - This Secret Will Make You A Fortune

156

2.3 You Don't Look A Day Over 60

157

2.2 You Too Can Be A Brain Surgeon in 3 Easy Lessons

158

2.1 Dealers in Hope - The Fitness Industry

159

Season 1 Bonus Episode

160

Pass the Salt Mine, Please

161

No Teeth, No Service

162

Siri Don't Speak Southern

163

Too Old to Boogie

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There's an Ear Worm in My Head!

165

Barbie Is Dating Luke Skywalker

166

Hemorrhoids for Heroes

167

Boxers or Briefs? It Depends...

168

Don't Be A Dummy: Ventriloquism

169

Check Mate: Black and White With Red Polka Dots

170

Ugly is Against the Law

171

Re-Gifting: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

172

Rudeness is Killing the Ukulele

173

As American as Mom, baseball, apple pie and SPAM

174

Clown Math - IF Bozo = Ronald McDonald THEN Scary Clowns

175

Who Put the King in Kong?

176

When Advertising goes Wrong - The Law of Unintended Use

177

Revelations and Ruminations on Duct Tape

178

The Satisfaction of Avoiding Making Decisions

179

So, sue me, Moe - Sumo Wrestling

180

Your Bleatin' Heart - Write your own Country song

181

You say coffin, I say casket

182

Ginsenging in the rain, I'm ginsenging in the rain

183

The Wicked Weed - Kudzu

184

Can You Say Squirrel Gravy?

185

Church Potluck Dinners - Do's and Don'ts