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That"s Absurd Please Elaborate

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Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every week.

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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.

01:31:06

Making Peace With Squirrels, Waging War With Crabs |...

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2024/04/25

Did you know scientists turned a swarm of crabs into a computer? Julian explores if it can play an old video game. Plus, our guest Deboki feels out animal pregnancy, and Trace learns that Ben Franklin wrote a eulogy for a pet squirrel.

01:02:33

What if People Reproduced Like Plants? | feat....

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2024/04/18

This time around, guest Hip Hop MD stamens your pistol and Julian admits (surprising no one) that he flows with nerd core.

00:55:47

It’s a Fart Rocket Breakthrough! Time to Hyper-Sleep...

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2024/04/11

This week Julian explores the rocket science of farts. That’s a sentence that had likely never been written until this moment. Trace talks about the science of stasis, a.k.a hyper-sleep, a.k.a. cryo-freeze. As a bonus, we all get to learn the predictive powers of the 1993 classic film “Demolition Man.”

00:57:19

An Endless Eclipse and Pineapple-Based Crimes

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2024/04/04

This episode Trace imagines what it would take to lock a world in darkness while Julian does something very suspicious with pineapples.

00:03:23

!! BIG IMPORTANT PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT !!

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2024/04/01

An important-ish update about the show's release schedule.

01:21:35

Eww… Eww!! Potatoes? | feat. Sam Jones

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2024/03/28

In this revolting episode, our guest Dr Sam Jones asks Julian to never see a man about a horse again, Sam weeds out the filth in the animal kingdom, and Trace gives us a palate cleanser of starchy, potatoey goodness.

01:01:16

The BONKERS Reason Ice IS NOT Slippery | feat....

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2024/03/14

This time on T.A.P.E. — Matt Krol digs into cinema history to answer a deathly serious question, and Trace is out cold answering a question mulled over by scientists for centuries. Julian is helping out at NASA so he’ll be back next week.

01:04:32

Ahem, No. X-Rays Will NOT Cook Soup

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2024/02/29

This week Julian wonders if you can really cook your jumblies with microwaves and 5G, and Trace dives into linguistics and chemistry to learn if the ocean is actually a very broth-forward soup.

01:10:55

Real Weird Things About The Human Body That Need Fixing

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2024/02/15

This episode Trace indulges us with why chocolate is so popular on valentines day and Julian goes deep on why his body (and everyone else’s for that matter) is such a mess.

00:55:25

Oh No. Did You Time Travel with a Chicken?!

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2024/02/01

In Pod 22, Trace wonders if "Weird" Al Yankovic influenced a generation of people to say "my back teeth are floating," and Julian time travels to the Triassic with a cold (and maybe a chicken).

01:15:06

But Will Aliens Actually Comprehend “On Your Left?”

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2024/01/18

This episode Trace resets the solar system to see what life would look like on “Wee Earth” and Julian finally learns his left from his right thanks for particle physics.

01:26:20

A Throwback: What Is the UN-Pointiest Thing?

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2024/01/04

This episode we have special guest Ralph Crewe (Writer/Producer, Practical Engineering) who gets exhausted trying to explain continuous breathing, Julian mulls over the least pointy thing (shout out to Pod 007) and Trace takes a Mayan Bak-tun to explain why the heck there are 60 minutes in an hour.

01:03:55

Legumes, Fruits and Ticklish Mooses | Holiday Special

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2023/12/21

This episode Trace cracks the mystery of nuts, and Julian tickles your fancy comparing moose and buffalo … Or is it bison?? You’ll have to listen to find out!

01:15:27

Ex Machina de Toilet Paper | feat. Vanessa Hill

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2023/12/07

In this week's episode, Julian tracks the history of toilet paper to its source, Trace gives a gorilla some workout advice, and special guest Vanessa Hill grows a whole human after an unfortunate fireworks accident.

01:02:49

17: Eat a Variety of Colorful Humans | Thanksgiving...

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2023/11/23

This week Trace explains why organic doesn’t mean what you think it means and Julian researches whether grizzly bears have more biological variation than humans do.

00:59:22

16: So… Why Do We Have Lawns?

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2023/11/09

This episode Julian takes a pole on the magnetic dynamo inside our planet, and Trace explores how 19th century French landscaping grew on everyone.

01:05:53

15: A Carnivorous Horse & Headless Human | Halloween...

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2023/10/26

In this (very scary) episode, Julian loses his head (no one seems to notice) and Trace unleashes the ultimate nightMare: an apex predator HORSE! WHINNY! THUNDER CLAP! ORGAN MUSIC!!!

01:25:45

14: Exhaling Backwards | feat. Ceri Riley

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2023/10/12

This episode Trace finds out if lolcats make other cats lol, Julian makes continents collide (his insurance company was very unhappy about it), and SPECIAL GUEST Ceri Riley (Co-host of the podcast SciShow Tangents) takes a deep breath and undoes the entire science of chemistry.

01:03:16

13: Lifting Earth's Orbit to Stop Global Warming

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2023/09/28

This episode Julian tries to push the Earth further from the sun to stop climate change, and Trace learns if pineapple on pizza is actually… good?

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