That's Absurd Please Elaborate25 Des 2025

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.

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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.

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