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We help you learn lots of topics! The aim: To have a conversation with anyone about anything. This can be a really useful skill to have and something you can use in all aspects of your day to day life. Be that at the pub with friends, during a job interview, or speaking with your boss at work. In this podcast we will cover a wide range of topics. We will hopefully introduce you to new topics, books or concepts that we think will be useful to learn. So you know we are not experts in the subjects we cover, we have one week to read and research the topic. This is then a summary of the research and reading we have done. We do the hard work, then share what we think is the most useful information…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Liam and Ollie turn a week of research into approachable conversations that make unfamiliar subjects easier to explain and remember.
Liam and Ollie make learning sound like two friends comparing notes after a concentrated week of research. Their subjects range from McDonald's business history and the rules of darts to the immune system and black holes, with each episode shaped as a conversation between…
Liam and Ollie reach for painted bowling balls to explain black-hole mass; you get to keep up.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A conversational series closer that revisits a wide spread of topics without pretending to be authoritative.
Series 11 ends with a loose, conversational wrap-up that circles back through what Ollie and Liam have covered, while slipping in a few fresh updates and bits of news. It works because the hosts do not pretend to know more than they do.
A patient, plain-English take on a topic that refuses to stay simple.
Black holes are the sort of subject that can turn dense fast, and this episode works best when it does not rush past that fact. Ollie and Liam spend a week doing the reading, then turn it into a plain-English account of one of the hardest topics they have taken on.
A friendly, plain-English introduction to darts scoring, checkouts, and diddle for the middle.
Two Guys One Topic offers a clear, plain-English look at darts, with enough care to make the scoring, checkouts, and diddle for the middle easy to follow.
Odd facts, warmly followed.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Asian Efficiency's Tan Pham and Brooks Duncan on time management, habits, and AI tools.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
Series 11 ends with a tidy wrap-up.
Ollie and Liam spend a week learning about black holes, then take a stab at explaining them without pretending to be experts.
Ollie and Liam cover the history and business model of McDonald's, from the McDonald brothers opening a barbecue diner in San Bernardino, California in 1940, through Ray Kroc's $2.7 million acquisition of the brand in 1961, to its current scale of 69 million daily customers across 40,000 restaurants in 123 countries.
Ollie and Liam explain the human immune system, covering the distinction between innate immunity (skin, mucus, stomach acid) and adaptive immunity (B-cells, T-cells, antibody memory), and noting that a grain-of-salt-sized drop of blood contains between 4,000 and 11,000 white blood cells at any moment.
Ollie and Liam open with their usual setup and land on darts.
Two hosts research a new topic each week and share key findings to help listeners learn about a wide range of subjects.
The hosts recap the topics covered in their eighth series, encouraging listeners to apply what they've learned.
Two hosts research and discuss a new topic each week, starting with the Rubik's Cube, to help listeners learn about various subjects.
Two hosts research a new topic each week and share key takeaways to help listeners learn about a wide range of subjects.