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  • Papyrus is Temporary but a Body on Pluto is Forever | Feat. Ralph Crewe

    This week Julian takes a pleasant trip down to his local Egyptian library and tries to save it from burning to the ground and dramatically altering the course of history. And returning guest host Ralph Crewe explores the solar system in the most macabre way possible!

    QUESTIONS

    Julian: "If the library of Alexandria was never destroyed, how technologically advanced would we actually be today?" from Finjan

    Ralph: "What would happen to a dead human body on each planet in the solar system?" from Chelsea

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

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

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    1 hr 30 min
  • Lasagna Batteries? Aww Heli(copter) Yeah!

    It’s our first episode of the new year! Welcome to 2026! In this, wild episode Trace (recording from his parent’s sun room) explores the chemistry and power of the lasagna battery. Then, Julian flies off the handle about helicopters as a gift for himself for his birthday (Happy Birthday, Julian! 🎂)

    QUESTIONS

    Julian: "Can a helicopter fly upside down? AND could it land SAFELY upside down on it's rotors?" from Gailmarie

    Trace: "How many lasagna batteries does it take to power a toaster oven?" from Bjorn on Spotify

    Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's a silly idea that popped into your head, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? Whatever your question, we want to answer it—tell us!

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    WATCH THE VIDEOS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

    ACS Reactions Lasagna Battery video featuring friend of the absurd Alex Dainis: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAD2K6yxNPh

    Clip from Escape to Witch Mountain: https://youtu.be/uca033iH6pg?si=fDkbQ-t8L44hdiXi

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

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

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    1 hr 13 min
  • This'll be weird… Happy Holidays from TAPE!

    Like Boromir said, "It is a gift! Let us use it against them!" The internet has been taken over by #lofi girls, so we commissioned an artist to turn Julian and Trace into our own #lofigirl for the holidays! (Is it a lofi girl? are we lofi guys? We're honestly not sure. Either way, we did it!!)

    We love you all! Thanks for making 2025 such an amazing year (for our little community) even though it was generally a terrible year for gestures broadly. Hope this can being a little light to your holiday season. Enjoy the wintery lofi beats interspersed with #holiday-themed fun facts! See you in 2026!

    QUESTIONS

    Trace: 🎶 The First Yule Log — the angels did say, was filmed by a crew who burned a rug that day

    Julian: “Cutting down a tree outside and bringing it inside is the behavior of a drunk person” - Julian (paraphrasing Jim Gaffigan)

    Trace: "Why is it ‘Merry’ Christmas, but ‘Happy’ for every other day?” - Matt P.

    Julian: TIRED: Putting candles on a dry flammable tree WIRED: Literally just lights

    Trace: Was Rudolph Red-nosed because someone was on shrooms?

    Julian: A misprinted phone number with national security implications.

    Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's a silly idea that popped into your head, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? Whatever your question, we want to answer it—tell us!

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

    Theme Music and Lofi beats thanks to Epidemic Sound; learn more here: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

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    1 hr 51 min
  • Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! | feat. Yasmin Khan (TYT) & Jasmine Miller (Give Directly)

    Support your giving goals this holiday season! Go to GiveDirectly.org/Absurd and get a 100% match by Giving Multiplier! (Don't dilly-dally this match is only until the end of the year!)

    This episode aired around Easter, prompting us to ask: where does that weird Bunny get all the eggs? And why are there eggs in the first place? Guest Yasmin Khan (The Young Turks) has an answer. Meanwhile, Julian explores the word of bat-style crime fighting on a budget and Trace explores if living on Mars would make us super aggro!

    QUESTIONS

    Julian: "How can I be Batman on a Budget?" from Wyn (featuring Jasmine from Give Directly)

    Yasmin: "Where did the Easter Bunny get the eggs?" from Emily A

    Trace: "Would we all be more aggressive if we lived under a martian red sky?" from guest Yasmin Khan

    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!

    HOW TO ASK A QUESTION

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    Be a real superhero and help people without punches, just give them a lil’ bit. It goes a long way!

    Just visit: givedirectly.com/Absurd

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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

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

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    2 hr 7 min
  • The Soundtrack of Eternity (Good Band Name)

    If your life had a soundtrack what would it be? Up-tempo action music? Epic orchestral swells? Romantic… xylophones? Are xylophones romantic? We don’t know, we’re podcasters, not EGOT-winning music producers of screen and stage. Maybe it’s a good thing you can’t hear what’s in our heads… aside from on this show where we say everything in our heads, obviously. In this episode Trace explores what it might be like if the music in your head had a public feed. Meanwhile Julian tries to figure out what he couldn’t do even if he had all the time in the world. Seriously, all of it.

    QUESTIONS

    Julian: "What can we NOT achieve with enough time?" from Shane

    Trace: "What if you could hear someone else’s life soundtrack?" from Rebecca

    Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's a silly idea that popped into your head, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? Whatever your question, we want to answer it—tell us!

    HOW TO ASK A QUESTION

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

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

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    1 hr 4 min
  • The Buffet Hates to See THIS Tardigrade Coming | LIVE from the Bay Area Science Festival

    We did another live show!! I’m not sure how we convinced the Bay Area Science Festival that we are a legitimate podcast, but, hey, people actually showed up to watch the show in-person in San Francisco. We had an extremely tight window, and are famously (infamously?) long-winded, so in this episode special guest Dr Wallace Marshall ponders the nightmare of giant tardigrades, and Trace looks into the availability of gluttony… you know, for science.

    If you want to have our show on the road to you — send us an email at hello at thatsabsurdshow.com !

    QUESTIONS

    Trace: "At an all you can eat buffet, is there some point at which you can just keep eating as much more food as you want without gaining any additional weight or blood sugar or whatever?" from guest Dr. Marshall Wallace of UCSF

    Marshall: "What would happen if tardigrades were bigger?" from listener Kristina

    Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's a silly idea that popped into your head, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? Whatever your question, we want to answer it—tell us!

    HOW TO ASK A QUESTION

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

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

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    41 min
  • Thanksgiving Rerun: Melting Witches with Inflated Heads

    Happy American Turkey Consumption Day! 🦃 In honor of the national holiday we've let Kyle out of his editing dungeon and let him celebrate with his family. We're doing the same, and we hope those of you who are celebrating have a beautiful holiday. We're thankful for YOU, not just saying that, we put time and effort into this ridiculous show, and y'all keep showing up week after week. That means so much to us. Thank you. We decided in honor of the release of "Wicked 2: We Swear It's Good," we're re-releasing episode 39! Don't let it melt!

    —

    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 of gas.

    QUESTIONS

    Julian: "If you were to blow up a person like a balloon, how big would we need to get before we can fly under our own power?" from Isaiah

    Trace: "How unclean was the wicked witch of the west?" from Nick

    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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    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 with the support of our Patrons.

    Thumbnail art courtesy Ritsumeikan University and Akiyoshi Kitaoka

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

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    1 hr 16 min
  • Stuck in a Time Loop while ‘Doing Taxes’ | feat. Danielle Bezalel

    If we say: Making whoopee. Polishing the broomstick. The pickle tickle. Shagging. Enjoying Taco Tuesday. Parking the beef bus in Tuna Town. Waxing the carrot. Boinking. Glazing donuts. Going downtown. … I think you get what we mean (right?)

    This week, special guest Danielle probes the terrible scenario where ‘Doing Taxes’ was more like actually filing financial paperwork than going for a roll in the hay. Meanwhile, Trace gets stuck in some kind of time loop (no groundhogs were harmed in the answering of this question).

    In case the above wasn’t clear: This episode definitely acknowledges the existence of sex.

    QUESTIONS

    Trace: "What’s the maximum number of times you could have déjà vu in a row before you’d get stuck in some kind of time loop?" from Danielle Bezalel

    Danielle: "What if “doing taxes" wasn’t fun (didn’t feel good)?” from Constant Listener

    Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's a silly idea that popped into your head, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? Whatever your question, we want to answer it—tell us!

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

    Thumbnail art courtesy Ritsumeikan University and Akiyoshi Kitaoka

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

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    1 hr 26 min
  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Civil Engineers

    You know what's passé? Chemical rockets. Powering a space ship by harnessing the expanding gasses of a controlled explosion and shooting off to parts unknown guided only by fire, math, and spite for the force of gravity? Yawn. What if instead you got like, 40 cyclists with thighs as big as tree trunks that just won't quit, stuck them on some stationary bikes, and used them to power your spaceship like it was a sci-fi trireme from the year 30,000? WOULD THAT SOLVE ANYTHING??? Trace is going to find out.

    Meanwhile Julian is very concerned with the structural integrity of some fairy-tale pig houses, because they aren't up to code and there's a storm a-comin'. And that storm's name is Wolf. Big Wolf. Big Bad Wolf.

    QUESTIONS THIS WEEK

    Julian: "How much wind and energy was the big bad wolf able to generate in the three little pigs?" from Adam

    Trace: "What’s the most efficient way to extract energy from a human?" from Ludvig

    Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's a silly idea that popped into your head, a shower thought about the nature of reality, or a ridiculous musing about your favorite food? Whatever your question, we want to answer it—tell us!

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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 with the support of our Patrons.

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

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    1 hr 8 min
  • What if humans laid eggs…? | Feat. Marco Wendt

    Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over my quaint and curious human egg, forgotten I should stretch my leg— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door

    “Though thy egg be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from a non-avian shore— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s ratetian shore!” Quoth the Raven “No birds no more.”

    QUESTIONS

    Julian: "What if humans laid eggs as opposed to live birth?" from Marco

    Marco from the San Diego Zoo: “What if there were no birds, like ever?” from Megan

    Trace: "What if humans laid eggs as opposed to live birth?" from Marco

    🤐 Yes, I know we did it again. Julian and I tackled the same question, by accident, we assure you. We’ve updated our systems to avoid it happening again! We really hope you enjoy it, regardless.

    [[ SAN DIEGO ZOO ]]

    For more Marco check out the San Diego Zoo’s “Amazing Wildlife” podcast:

    Here’s their website and here's their podcast feed!

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