That's Absurd Please Elaborate

This episode Trace imagines what it would take to lock a world in darkness while Julian does something very suspicious with pineapples.QUESTIONSTrace: "Would it be possible to have a permanent solar e...

4 Apr 202457min

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 ...

1 Apr 20243min

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 o...

28 Mar 20241h 21min

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 ou...

14 Mar 20241h 1min

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.QUESTIO...

29 Feb 20241h 4min

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.QUESTIONSJulian: "Can the hu...

15 Feb 20241h 10min

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).Q...

1 Feb 202455min

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.QUESTIONSJulian: "If I had some...

18 Jan 20241h 15min