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

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

    THE ABSURD-IVERSARY LIGHTNING ROUND SPECTACULAR!!!!

    THE ABSURD-IVERSARY LIGHTNING ROUND SPECTACULAR!!!!

    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.

    • 1 hr 18 min
    Making Peace With Squirrels, Waging War With Crabs | feat. Deboki Chakravarti

    Making Peace With Squirrels, Waging War With Crabs | feat. Deboki Chakravarti

    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.

    • 1 hr 31 min
    What if People Reproduced Like Plants? | feat. Maynard Okereke (Hip Hop MD)

    What if People Reproduced Like Plants? | feat. Maynard Okereke (Hip Hop MD)

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

    • 1 hr 2 min
    It’s a Fart Rocket Breakthrough! Time to Hyper-Sleep to Jupiter

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

    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.”

    • 55 min
    An Endless Eclipse and Pineapple-Based Crimes

    An Endless Eclipse and Pineapple-Based Crimes

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

    • 57 min
    !! BIG IMPORTANT PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT !!

    !! BIG IMPORTANT PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT !!

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

    • 3 min

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