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Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every week.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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!! BIG IMPORTANT PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT !!
An important-ish update about the show's release schedule.