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Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every week.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThat's Absurd Please Elaborate is hosted by That. The show has published 162 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Too Much Hug Then Die, I Guess | Halloween Episode!" (29 October 2026, 40 minutes), "The Tiniest Arsonists Possible | LIVE from the Bay Area Science Festival ft. Vanna Tran" (22 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "Could AA Batteries Replace a Star?" (15 October 2026, 55 minutes).
That's Absurd Please Elaborate publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 54 minutes across 162 episodes.
Booking probability for That's Absurd Please Elaborate is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. That's Absurd Please Elaborate requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. That's Absurd Please Elaborate's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #146
It's Halloween, nerds, which means it's time to get into the really horrifying stuff: the limits of the human body. Trace and Julian explore the science of squeezing, squishing, popping, crushing... and, well, just...
Episode #145
Let's say your house is on fire. Bummer. Worse, the only sort of fluid you have handy to douse said flames is gasoline. Lots and lots of gasoline (that's your retirement gas, baby!). Is there some way you might be able...
Episode #144
Our Sun is an absolutely RIDICULOUS power source, pumping out more energy every second than most of us can even begin to wrap our heads around. And while AA batteries are great for remotes, flashlights, and rolling...
Episode #142
When it comes to tiny insects, the ants (formicidae) are an incredible family of organisms. They can build complex structures, they’ve invented and practice agriculture, they work with The Avengers to fight...
Episode #141
Gelatin is a surprisingly strange material, especially when you stop serving it by the spoonful and start measuring it by the swimming pool. Julian looks into what would happen if someone took a running leap into a...
Episode #140
The universe is chock-full of things that are hard to find, but figuring out which one deserves the title of “rarest” turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Are we talking about elements that exist for only a...
Episode #139
Nature has handed out some wildly uneven perks. While certain animals can regrow entire limbs, humans are limited to patch jobs. Julian and Trace dig into what it would actually take to rebuild an arm or leg from...
Episode #138
If you’ve ever been sick and wondered how a seemingly endless supply of mucus can fit inside your face, you’re not alone. This week, Trace and Julian investigate where all that snot actually comes from, explore the...
Episode #137
This week, Julian and Trace imagine a world where gravity vanishes for ten seconds every day. There, they discover that humanity would have a lot more to worry about than a few floating tchotchkes. True weightlessness...
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Game of Thrones theme DRA-GONS. WHAT ARE DRAG-ONS? LET US KNOWWWWWW OR MER-MAIDS. FRICKIN’ MER-MAIDS… HOW THEY GOOOOO? PLUS JUUUU-LIAN WANTS TO CHECK ON MIRROR TRAAAACE HE THINKS, THIS MIRROR TRACE MIGHT BE EVIL...
Episode #136
This week, Trace and Julian investigate a deceptively simple mystery: why do things look darker when they’re wet? Although the question sounds almost too obvious to ask, Trace takes us on a fascinating exploration of...
Episode #135
This week, Julian and Trace imagine a world where humanity never got around to inventing ships and discovers that the consequences run a WHOLE lot deeper than a disappointing cruise industry. Without boats, trade slows...
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In this TAPE classic, Trace tackles a transportation problem of his own creation by figuring out just how many chihuahuas it would take to complete the Iditarod, the legendary dogsled race across hundreds of miles of...
Episode #134
This week, Trace and Julian embark on a surprisingly existential mission: finding the most boring day in history. Easy, right? Just pick a day where nothing happened. Unfortunately—or fortunately, depending on how you...
Episode #133
This week, Trace dives into the eerie blue glow of Cherenkov radiation—the phenomenon that makes nuclear reactors look suspiciously like sci-fi props—and asks the obvious next question: is blue really the best color...
Episode #132
This week, Julian launches an investigation into “Big Sun” and its wild claim that humans can somehow absorb vitamins from a giant nuclear fireball 93 million miles away. Unfortunately for conspiracy theorists, that...
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In this TAPE Classic episode, Trace explores the science of stasis, diving into hyper-sleep, cryogenic freezing, and whether humanity might one day be able to snooze our way through long journeys. Meanwhile, Julian...
Episode #131
This week, Trace and Julian are joined by special guest Dr. Ella Hubber as they embark on a quest to stop natural processes both big and small. Julian combines a little physics and engineering, a smidge of meteorology...
Episode #130
If our magic button killed every microbe on Earth — all bacteria, all viruses, gone — what would be left standing? Spoiler: You'd be missing something powerful. Julian goes full overachiever and zooms in on FOUR...
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Did you know our very own Trace Dominguez is the host of another podcast, Health vs Hype with the American Medical Association? Every week on HvH Trace talks about health-related trends circulating online. Everything...
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