Snail-zillas Disrupting the Tooth Commodity Market | Halloween Spooktacular II
Episode 57
Thursday, October 31, 2024 • Duration 57:45
Happy Halloween, absurd friends! This time around Julian comes out of his shell to calculate the speed of a Kaiju snail (so much mucus 🤢). Meanwhile, Trace pulls out all the molars—uh, pulls out all the stops on his Fae business plan for TOUTHS Incorporated, The Uber for children’s teeth, and asks: Would That Solve Anything™?!
QUESTIONS
Trace: "What does the tooth fairy do with all the teeth" from Emily
Julian: "Would you have to run from a Godzilla-sized snail?” from Kara
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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. Additional editing this week by Sam Grant.
It's spoOOooOoky season! This week we're scaring you with a giant pasta topping! 👻 Not scared? What if I told you it's a meatball made of EVERY HUMAN? Oh, did I forget to mention that crucial detail? What's more terrifying than a GIANT MEATBALL OF ALL HUMANS?! MWAHAHAHA! (Just imagine the ODOR.) Would something that massive have its own gravity? What would it be like? Julian frightens himself silly pondering this one. Meanwhile, Trace envisions a world where a video game mechanic becomes reality. Would you want the ability to double jump? Personally, I'm far too clumsy. Let's leap into this episode — extreme Mario voice — WAH HOO!!
QUESTIONS
Julian: "Would a human meatball made up of every human have a noticeable gravitational effect?" from Clarke
Trace answers a Patreon Poll Winning question: "How would a society evolve it we all had double jump?" sent in by Micheal via Spotify
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Exploding Three Ways (Yikes)
Episode 47
Thursday, August 22, 2024 • Duration 01:13:01
Welcome to episode 48. Are you allergic to cats? When you visit friends does their cat seem to know (somehow) and roll up on you even though you’re ignoring it?! “WTF CAT. YOU’RE LITERALLY MURDERING ME,” you think intensely while sipping your white wine. “Wait, does the cat… KnOW?!” Trace pours himself a glass of that crisp white, and digs into the science.
Meanwhile, Julian crushes the game and learns exactly how screwed we’d all be if every atom in the human body spontaneously went up one place on the periodic table of elements. Let me tell you, this is a bad idea. Don’t do it.
QUESTIONS
Julian: "What would happen if, spontaneously, all the element atoms in my body go up 1 place in the periodic table?" from Juan in Australia
Trace: "Can cats tell who’s allergic to them?" from Jill in Wisconsin
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For this episode Julian and Trace tackled the very uplifting and shiny topics of tornados and nuclear waste. No worries y’all! Everything here is so great! We’re not trying to lift giant building with natural disasters! No way! We’re not attempting to create a wild atomic disaster by throwing waste into an active volcano! HAHA Who would do that?! Cringe, right?
QUESTIONS
Julian: "How many tornados would it take to lift a skyscraper?" from Josh
Trace: "Would dropping nuclear waste into a volcano be a viable solution?" from Fred
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In episode 45 Julian deconstructs the human experience without our boney scaffold, Trace calculates the detriment (or delight?) of doubling the derriere, and our guest Ben Bowlin (from iHeart Radio’s Ridiculous History,Stuff they Don’t Want You to Know) sings the praises of the American accent.
QUESTIONS
Julian: "What if humans no bones?" from Fabie
Ben: "Why do we have accents?" from Cori
Trace: "What would happen if we all had two butts?" from Super Surprised Pikachu
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Photosynthetic Nudists and Solving Problems with Copious Amounts of Seawater
Episode 44
Thursday, August 1, 2024 • Duration 01:21:12
Trace returns to find out if humans could take the green stuff from plants and make enough energy to live. meanwhile, Julian tries to understand if a wild idea would solve anything… Anything at all?
QUESTIONS
Julian: “What if you filled the grand canyon with ocean water? Would that solve anything?” from Roman
Trace combines two questions: “What if humans performs photosynthesis?” from Danielle, with “How would society function if we were photosynthetic?” from William
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This week astrophysicist Dr Nora Bailey joins Julian roll a set of huge, spherical dice on the future of irradiated bunnies in mech suits. Yes this is a real question. Does this sound like an episode of that Morty show to you? Me too.
QUESTIONS
Julian: "What is the maximum number faces you can fit on a die before it becomes a sphere?" from Aaron
Nora: "How much radiation would it take to kill a bunny?" from Jarrett
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Hiccuping Chickens & Wheeled Wildlife | feat. Sophie Shrand
Episode 42
Thursday, July 18, 2024 • Duration 01:10:29
This week’s guest host *hic* Sophie Shrand *hic* explores the silly spasm of *hic* hiccuping. Meanwhile, Julian attempts to understand why evolution didn’t re-invent the wheel.
QUESTIONS
Sophie: "Do animals other than humans hiccup?" from Hillary
Julian: "Why don't we seem to see any animals that have evolved wheels?" from Jade
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In this episode, it's a battle of (nit)wits! Trace discovers the deadly truth about poison immunity while Julian figures out how to make the worst numbering system imaginable.
Questions
Julian: "Can you still do maths using a unary (base 1) numeral system?" from Mason
Trace: "How long would it have taken Westley to build up his immunity to iocaine powder?" from Tessa
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When Trace was a kid he was a sleepwalker. His parents closed the door to his bedroom. They heard him bonking against the door over and over. They love to tell this story. Now I'm telling you! Sleepwalking is weird, right? Are we the only ones who do that? Julian looks into it. Plus, as long as we’re wondering things … have you ever wondered if you could fling an animal into space? Like a marmot or a coyote! Could a coyote actually go to orbit on top of a giant pile of TNT? (He definitely isn’t going to catch that pesky road runner; does anyone under 30 even get this reference?). Trace explores what is clearly a Julian-focused question.
🧨 Happy Fireworks Week Americans 🎆 and a Happy Early July to everyone else!
QUESTIONS
Julian: "Are humans the only animal that sleepwalks?" from Henry (via his mom, Becca)
Trace: "What animal could survive a spin launch, catapult, or explosion to space? Could any?" from Rowin in Australia
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