That's Absurd Please Elaborate

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.”

QUESTIONS

Julian: "How hard would I have to far to lift off the ground?" from Ricky

Trace: "Could hyper-sleep ever be a possibility?" from Dartland

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SOCIALS

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

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[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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

QUESTIONS

Trace: "Would it be possible to have a permanent solar eclipse?" from Aaron

Julian: "Is there an amount of pineapple that can dissolve a human body?" from Macks

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SOCIALS

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: @Huggetout

Threads: @Huggetout

X (formerly, Twitter): @Huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: @tracedominguez

YouTube: @tracedominguez

Threads: @tracedominguez

BlueSky: @tracedominguez

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CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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One year ago today we announced the launch of That's Absurd Please Elaborate. Now on this April Fools' day we have another exciting (and real!) announcement (because we're bad at marketing and didn't consider that announcing things on April 1st might cause people to doubt it's veracity).

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

QUESTIONS

Julian: "If all humans never had to poop again — how would it affect the world?" from Sam

Sam Jones: "What is the filthiest absolutely disgusting animal" from Danielle

Trace: "What is the best way to potato" from Mallory

To hear more of Dr Sam Jones’ fantastic work, check out her podcast Tiny Matters from the American Chemical Society.

Tiny Matters on the ACS website: https://www.acs.org/pressroom/tiny-matters.html

Tiny Matters on PodLink: https://pod.link/1599757941

ASK US A QUESTION

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SOCIALS

[[ DR SAM JONES ]]

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samjscience

X: https://twitter.com/samjscience

Sam’s website: https://www.sjoneswriting.com/

[[ JULIAN HUGUET ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

X: x.com/huggetout

[[ TRACE DOMINGUEZ ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

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Threads: threads.net/@tracedominguez

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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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.

QUESTIONS Trace: "Why EXACTLY is ice slippery?" from Matt Krol

Matt: “What actor has died the most in movies?” from Cole

For more of Matthew Krol’s wonderful work you can look on Nebula or YouTube for:

Extra History: https://www.youtube.com/@extrahistory

Extra Credits: https://www.youtube.com/extracredits

The Only* Podcast About Movies: https://onlymoviepodcast.com

ASK US A QUESTION

Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's silly idea you had, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? If you want an answer, no matter the question, tell us!

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SOCIALS

[[ MATT ]]

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/matthewkrol.bsky.social

Instagram: https://instagram.com/Skeletor4Prez

X: https://twitter.com/EmperorMSK

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

X: x.com/huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

YouTube: youtube.com/@tracedominguez

Threads: threads.net/@tracedominguez

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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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.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Microwaves are the most common way to use radiation to cook food, could we use radio, gamma, or X-Rays to cook food?" from Aaron

Trace: "What is soup?" from Silas

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SOCIALS

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

X: x.com/huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

YouTube: youtube.com/@tracedominguez

Threads: threads.net/@tracedominguez

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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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.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "Can the human body “design” be improved on intentionally" from Xander

Trace: "Why do people like chocolate so much on special holidays" from Lee

Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's silly idea you had, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? If you want an answer, no matter the question, tell us!

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SOCIALS

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

X: x.com/huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

YouTube: youtube.com/@tracedominguez

Threads: threads.net/@tracedominguez

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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In this episode, 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).

QUESTIONS

Trace: "Why do my teeth feel like they are floating or vibrating when I really have to go to the bathroom. " from Spencer

Julian: "If you went back in time to see the dinosaurs, would they go extinct from the common cold?" from Nitai

Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's silly idea you had, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? If you want an answer, no matter the question, tell us!

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SOCIALS

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

X: x.com/huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

YouTube: youtube.com/@tracedominguez

Threads: threads.net/@tracedominguez

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Thanks for listening to Episode 22 ofThat's Absurd Please Elaborate. We appreciate you!

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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.

QUESTIONS

Julian: "If I had some magic communicator to speak to someone in another galaxy, could I explain what "left" and "right" were?" from Anonymous

Trace: "How would have life evolved if Earth was two [to] three times smaller?" from Moma

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SOCIALS

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/huggetout

Threads: threads.net/@huggetout

X: x.com/huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: instagram.com/tracedominguez

YouTube: youtube.com/@tracedominguez

Threads: threads.net/@tracedominguez

Tiktok: tiktok.com/@tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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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.

QUESTIONS

Trace: "Are there other systems of timekeeping besides Hours/Minutes/Seconds?" from Julian

Ralph: "Can we evolve or engineer ourselves to breathe continuously?" from Henry in Singapore

Julian: "What is the least-pointy thing?" from Ralph

Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's silly idea you had, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? If you want an answer, no matter the question, tell us!

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SOCIALS

[[ RALPH ]]

Instagram: @ralphcrewe

Practical Engineering: https://practical.engineering/

YouTube: @isntthatsomething

[[ JULIAN ]]

Instagram: @Huggetout

Threads: @Huggetout

X (formerly, Twitter): @Huggetout

[[ TRACE ]]

Instagram: @tracedominguez

YouTube: @tracedominguez

Threads: @tracedominguez

BlueSky: @tracedominguez

X (formerly, Twitter): @tracedominguez

CREDITS

This episode of That's Absurd Please Elaborate was written by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet, edited by Kyle Sisk, and produced by all three of us.

Theme Music by Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Thanks for listening to That's Absurd Please Elaborate. We appreciate you!

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