"How do I know when I'm done?" A 1959 cartoon asked that question about the new Guggenheim Museum. Sixty-five years later, we're still asking. The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral and why it infuriated everyone who saw it.

"How do I know when I'm done?" A 1959 cartoon asked that question about the new Guggenheim Museum. Sixty-five years later, we're still asking. The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral and why it infuriated everyone who saw it.

The Guggenheim in Five Minutes

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.Gimme Five Minutes respects two things—your time and your intelligence. The episodes don't dumb anything down, but they also don't drown you in jargon or flex with ten-dollar words. They assume you're curious, busy, and allergic to filler. They're written to be spoken, not read. And they end when the story ends, not when the host runs out of things to say.Hosted by Sandy Hastings—former fact-checker, debate kid, and the person at the party who knows the one detail about the Guggenheim you've never heard before.New episodes weekly. Five minutes, no exceptions.

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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 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. Gimme Five Minutes respects two things—your time and your intelligence. The episodes don't dumb anything down, but they also don't drown you in jargon or flex with ten-dollar words. They assume you're curious, busy, and allergic to filler. They're written to be spoken, not read. And they end when the story ends, not when the host runs out of things to say. Hosted by Sandy Hastings—former fact-checker, debate kid, and the person at the party who knows the one detail about the Guggenheim you've never heard before. New episodes weekly. Five minutes, no exceptions.

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