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Gimme Five Minutes
by Sandy Hastings
What can you actually learn in five minutes? More than you think.Gimme Five Minutes proves it every episode: one topic, one story, zero padding. History, science, culture—told the way it should've been taught in the first place.This isn't a podcast that meanders. There's no small talk, no sponsor pivots, no "before we get started" that eats three minutes of your life. Every episode opens cold, drops you into the middle of something that matters, and exits before you think to check the time.One episode, you're learning why Frank Lloyd Wright built a museum everyone hated. The next, you're inside the room where a single equation changed physics. Then it's the strange financial instrument that crashed Iceland, or the Supreme Court case that hinged on whether a tomato is a fruit.The through-line isn't subject matter. It's this: every story here earned its five minutes. No topic gets in unless it's strange enough to remember, important enough to repeat, or odd enough that you'll want to.Gim
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What can you actually learn in five minutes? More than you think.Gimme Five Minutes proves it every episode: one topic, one story, zero padding. History, science, culture—told the way it should've been taught in the first place.This isn't a podcast that meanders. There's no small talk, no sponsor pivots, no "before we get started" that eats three minutes of your life. Every episode opens cold, drops you into the middle of something that matters, and exits before you think to check the time.One episode, you're learning why Frank Lloyd Wright built a museum everyone hated. The next, you're inside the room where a single equation changed physics. Then it's the strange financial instrument that crashed Iceland, or the Supreme Court case that hinged on whether a tomato is a fruit.The through-line isn't subject matter. It's this: every story here earned its five minutes. No topic gets in unless it's strange enough to remember, important enough to repeat, or odd enough that you'll want to.Gim
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Sandy Hastings
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What can you actually learn in five minutes? More than you think.Gimme Five Minutes proves it every episode: one topic, one story, zero padding. History, science, culture—told the way it should've been taught in the first place.This isn't a podcast that meanders. There's no small talk, no sponsor...
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Gimme Five Minutes is created and hosted by Sandy Hastings.
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