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01:19:45

The Poor Goaile is… Everywhere | feat. Tom Scott

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2024/09/12

You’re at a hockey game. You grabbed nachos and your favorite sports beverage. The Mighty Ducks are playing their rivals, and you look away from the ice to take a selfie with a selfie stick so long you have to brace it against your hip to snap the pic. As you smile with your crew, a flash of white light envelops the stadium as the air catches fire.

01:16:21

Deep Conversations With Whales

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2024/09/05

A rogue viking pirate planet hurtles through space looking for plunder and booty. The human race has become a destitute vampiric race obsessed with ancient sea shanties and frequent meteor showers.A whale in the North Atlantic hears a distant whale song from an individual it doesn’t recognize. It’s repeating a warning to stay away from a large metal ship moving through the area. Are these possible futures?! Find out on episode 49 of That’s Absurd Please Elaborate!

02:17:23

Freaky Mermaids, "REAL" Dragons, and Trace's Evil...

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2024/08/29

Today in Pod 48 Ellen Weatherford from “Just The Zoo of Us” (family friendly) and “Spellbound and Gagged” (NSFW) joins us to talk out about dragons, scientifically correct mermaids and a possible Mirror-Universe Trace! 🤫

01:13:01

Exploding Three Ways (Yikes)

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2024/08/22

Are you allergic to cats? When you visit friends does their cat seem to know (somehow) and roll up on you even though you’re ignoring it?! “WTF CAT. YOU’RE LITERALLY MURDERING ME,” you think intensely while sipping your white wine. “Wait, does the cat… KnOW?!” Trace pours himself a glass of that crisp white, and digs into the science.Meanwhile, Julian crushes the game and learns exactly how screwed we’d all be if every atom in the human body spontaneously went up one place on the periodic table of

01:24:05

Volcanos. Tornadoes. Nuclear Waste… This is Fine.

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2024/08/15

For this episode Julian and Trace tackled the very uplifting and shiny topics of tornados and nuclear waste. No worries y’all! Everything here is so great! We’re not trying to lift giant building with natural disasters! No way! We’re not attempting to create a wild atomic disaster by throwing waste into an active volcano! HAHA Who would do that?! Cringe, right?

01:44:17

Two Butts. No Bones. Thriving. | Feat. Ben Bowlin

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2024/08/08

In episode 45 Julian deconstructs the human experience without our boney scaffold, Trace calculates the detriment (or delight?) of doubling the derriere, and our guest Ben Bowlin (from iHeart Radio’s Ridiculous History, Stuff they Don’t Want You to Know) sings the praises of the American accent.

01:21:12

Photosynthetic Nudists and Solving Problems with...

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2024/08/01

Trace returns to find out if humans could take the green stuff from plants and make enough energy to live. meanwhile, Julian tries to understand if a wild idea would solve anything… Anything at all?

01:11:02

Radioactive Bunnies & Infinite-Sided Dice | feat....

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2024/07/25

This week astrophysicist Dr Nora Bailey joins Julian roll a set of huge, spherical dice on the future of irradiated bunnies in mech suits. Yes this is a real question. Does this sound like an episode of that Morty show to you? Me too.

01:10:29

Hiccuping Chickens & Wheeled Wildlife | feat. Sophie...

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2024/07/18

This week’s guest host *hic* Sophie Shrand *hic* explores the silly spasm of *hic* hiccuping. Meanwhile, Julian attempts to understand why evolution didn’t re-invent the wheel.

01:16:31

Either You Iocaine or You 1-0-can’t

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2024/07/11

In this episode, it's a battle of (nit)wits! Trace discovers the deadly truth about poison immunity while Julian figures out how to make the worst numbering system imaginable.

01:24:55

It's Like Rocket Science, But Dumber

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2024/07/04

Sleepwalking is weird, right? Are we the only ones who do that? Julian looks into it. Plus, as long as we’re wondering things … have you ever wondered if you could fling an animal into space? Trace explores what is clearly a Julian-focused question.

01:14:46

Filthy Witches and Body Blimps

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2024/06/27

This episode Trace travels to the magical land of Oz. It’s disgusting. Meanwhile Julian is going to meet him there as soon as he can fill his head with 7 cement trucks' worth of gas.

01:00:15

Reach for the Neutron Stargate

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2024/06/20

Science agrees: black holes are really cool. TAPE listener Robert, on the other hand, disagrees with science, and thinks their slightly-less-dense-but-still-absurdly-dense cousins known as Neutron Stars are cooler. He’s decided to pet one. Julian explores the smorgasbord of ways he would probably die horribly if he tried. Meanwhile Trace geeks out about Stargate, in an effort to dial-in how accurate the gates would really be!

00:57:41

DnD Pee and Chickpea TNT

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2024/06/13

This week Trace’s quest for answers takes him to a magical fantasy land of wizards, frozen keys, and bodily fluids. Meanwhile Julian discovers that there are about 3 degrees of separation between chickpeas and dynamite. Yes, really.

01:34:10

Mistaken Artifacts, Tiny Tasty Treats, and War...

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2024/06/06

Imagine there’s no war. Would we have cell phones? GPS? Shovels?! Would we still be able to pop open a tube of delicious mini-M&Ms? Will a future historian believe the Green M&M was some kind of Goddess of Love? (Yes).This is a wild ride of an episode featuring TAPE friend Joe Scott of the YouTube show Answers with Joe! Double doses of history PLUS the psychology of food? Chew on that!

00:57:43

Metaphorically Heavy Fog Juice

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2024/05/30

Have you ever felt someone’s gaze on you? This episode Julian explores why we seem to sense when eyes are on us. Meanwhile Trace gets lost in a fog so thick he has to drink his way out.

01:15:02

You Shower Too Often But Can Never Helicopter Enough

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2024/05/23

You are showering too often. Helicopters are insane. Soap is ancient magic chemistry.

00:57:44

A Whole New Word, An Old Pair of Genes

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2024/05/16

This episode Trace tries to track down the first word ever uttered by human kind and Julian gets confused about how reproduction works… again…

01:27:24

Could We Colonize a Gas Giant? What if we were...

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2024/05/09

In this absolutely absurd episode, Dr Simon Clark ponders if human's could colonize an atmosphere like Jupiter's -- Star Wars Cloud City is on trial. Plus, since we’re talking about gas giants — Julian — digs into the evolutionary experiment that could give rise to a vampire. But first, Trace leads us off by learning about the uneven distribution of kitty cat toe beans!

01:18:02

THE ABSURD-IVERSARY LIGHTNING ROUND SPECTACULAR!!!!

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2024/05/02

It’s been one year since we launched That's Absurd, Please Elaborate and what an absurdly fun ride it's been. To celebrate we tweaked the show just a bit. Our special guest, producer/editor Kyle Sisk, has selected six listener-submitted questions for Julian and Trace to answer. The catch? They only have five minutes to do their research.

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