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That's Absurd Please Elaborate
That's Absurd Please Elaborate
Trace Elements Media

Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every week.

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Episodes

Forever and a Hair

In this episode, we learn Julian used to wear fedoras. He says, it’s been forever and a day, but I’m... more

03 Apr 2025 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Terminal Thoughts

Ever get caught in a light drizzle and think, "Ah, this is nice"? WELL WHAT IF IT WAS ACTUALLY HORRIFYING???... more

27 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Headaches Wheelie Hurt (I'm Sorry)

Wheel wheel wheel … this episode definitely gave us both a headache. I swear we’re not going to conquer every... more

20 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
My Broccoli Dog Ate My English Homework | Feat. MJ Wu

This episode Trace tears into the age-old question, “What color should your English notebook be?” Special guest MJ Wu from... more

13 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 48 minutes
Honey, I shrunk the the… OjkdfiAGH!!

If you were shrunk REALLY ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ᵣₑₐₗₗᵧ ₛₘₐₗₗ … would we be able to live? Did the documentary “Honey, I... more

06 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! | feat. Yasmin Khan

Easter is around the corner, but where does that weird Bunny get all the eggs? And why are there eggs... more

27 Feb 2025 · 2 hours, 3 minutes
Outweigh. Outshine. Outlast.

Can the sun be beaten at its own game… OF BEING A SUN?! Julian shines some light on it.... more

20 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 8 minutes
Rounding Up 1+1

Happy love celebration week!! In honor of how much we LOVE our patreon subscribers, Trace and Julian answer two winners... more

13 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 4 minutes
Where'd You Get the Coconut? The Replicator!?

Space, the final frontier — of cuisine. This week Trace unpacks the standard food replicator used by the United Federation... more

06 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 7 minutes
AI Chefs and Unqualified Sled Dogs

This episode Julian gears up for the last great race with an irresponsible amount of chihuahuas while Trace finds a... more

30 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
Oops All the Drugs

Julian explores a pharmacological impossibility. Trace cuts deep into the science of prosthetics and implants.

23 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 18 minutes
Inexplicable Spider-Man Episode

For some reason Julian and Trace both selected Spider-Man related questions. We felt like two Tobey Maguires dancing down the... more

16 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
2024's Stickiest Questions | feat. Producer Kyle

In this special end-of-year episode we pull Kyle out of his editing hole and the three of us talk through... more

09 Jan 2025 · 1 hour, 15 minutes
Oh No. Our Chicken is Cooked

We have systems in place to prevent this from happening, but somehow we failed. I swear this all happened exactly... more

26 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Hot Hot DNA

There's a quote attributed to Albert Einstein, "sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it feels like a... more

19 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
High-Level Poop Talk and Deadly Temporal Fantasies

This week, Trace delves into some temporal fantasies, like: why people think if they could travel into the past they’d... more

12 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Poke the Moon and Land Amongst the Clocks

If you made a video call with a very long stick, could you poke the person before the video showed... more

05 Dec 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Ali Mattu and the Missing Moon | Thanksgiving Rerun!

In this holiday rerun of Episode 6: Julian explores what would happen to a world without a moon, Trace performs... more

28 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 30 minutes
Frictionless Ultrasonic Banger

Friction! It’s what makes the world go rou— No, wait. That’s not it. Friction. It’s what keeps the world from spinning... more

21 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
Surviving Urban Volcanoes Through Cuteness and Butt Hearing | Feat. Dr. Joe Hanson

This episode Julian attempts to make jokes but only hears crickets, Trace turns LA into a flaming dumpster fire and... more

14 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 46 minutes
We Ship Acid-Spitting Humans

Fun fact: the dinosaur in Jurassic Park that spit acid on Nedry doesn’t exist! I mean, Dilophosaurus does, but it... more

07 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
Snail-zillas Disrupting the Tooth Commodity Market | Halloween Spooktacular II

Happy Halloween, absurd friends! This time around Julian comes out of his shell to calculate the speed of a Kaiju... more

31 Oct 2024 · 57 minutes
Double Jump Over This Human Meatball

It's spoOOooOoky season! This week we're scaring you with a giant pasta topping! 👻 Not scared? What if I told... more

24 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Immortal Squirrels Slain By Salad

In this wild episode, Julian infects your brain with the realization that plants can be VERY murdery, and Trace is... more

17 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
The Inescapable Sadness of the Kool-Aid Man | feat. Dr Rohin Francis of Medlife Crisis

This episode Trace tries to find the secret to happiness and special guest host Rohin Francis swaps out blood for... more

10 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 12 minutes
A Ghostly Fireworky Glow Up | feat. Ceri Riley of SciShow Tangents

We haven’t seen this many fireworks since the Rockefeller Center did that spectacularly wild “Salute to Fireworks” back in 2007.... more

03 Oct 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
The "Creative" Engineering of Star Wars Blasters

This is the episode you’re looking for. In this episode Trace gets creative with an answer about unponderable ponderances, and Julian... more

26 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 25 minutes
Is Lava Wet?! | feat Dr Alex Dainis

Get your moisture sensors ready. In this episode Dr Alex Dainis slides into the scientific journals all about lubrication to... more

19 Sep 2024 · 46 minutes
The Poor Goaile is… Everywhere | feat. Tom Scott

You’re at a hockey game. You grabbed nachos and your favorite sports beverage. The Mighty Ducks are playing their rivals,... more

12 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 19 minutes
Deep Conversations With Whales

A rogue viking pirate planet hurtles through space looking for plunder and booty. The human race has become a destitute... more

05 Sep 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Freaky Mermaids, "REAL" Dragons, and Trace's Evil Twin| feat Ellen Weatherford (Just the Zoo of Us)

Today in Pod 48 Ellen Weatherford from “Just The Zoo of Us” (family friendly) and “Spellbound and Gagged” (NSFW) joins... more

29 Aug 2024 · 2 hours, 17 minutes
Exploding Three Ways (Yikes)

Are you allergic to cats? When you visit friends does their cat seem to know (somehow) and roll up on... more

22 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Volcanos. Tornadoes. Nuclear Waste… This is Fine.

For this episode Julian and Trace tackled the very uplifting and shiny topics of tornados and nuclear waste. No worries... more

15 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Two Butts. No Bones. Thriving. | Feat. Ben Bowlin

In episode 45 Julian deconstructs the human experience without our boney scaffold, Trace calculates the detriment (or delight?) of doubling... more

08 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 44 minutes
Photosynthetic Nudists and Solving Problems with Copious Amounts of Seawater

Trace returns to find out if humans could take the green stuff from plants and make enough energy to live.... more

01 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 21 minutes
Radioactive Bunnies & Infinite-Sided Dice | feat. Nora Bailey

This week astrophysicist Dr Nora Bailey joins Julian roll a set of huge, spherical dice on the future of irradiated... more

25 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 11 minutes
Hiccuping Chickens & Wheeled Wildlife | feat. Sophie Shrand

This week’s guest host *hic* Sophie Shrand *hic* explores the silly spasm of *hic* hiccuping. Meanwhile, Julian attempts to understand... more

18 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 10 minutes
Either You Iocaine or You 1-0-can’t

In this episode, it's a battle of (nit)wits! Trace discovers the deadly truth about poison immunity while Julian figures out... more

11 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
It's Like Rocket Science, But Dumber

Sleepwalking is weird, right? Are we the only ones who do that? Julian looks into it. Plus, as long as... more

04 Jul 2024 · 1 hour, 24 minutes
Filthy Witches and Body Blimps

This episode Trace travels to the magical land of Oz. It’s disgusting. Meanwhile Julian is going to meet him there... more

27 Jun 2024 · 1 hour, 14 minutes
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This episode Trace travels to the magical land of Oz. It’s disgusting. Meanwhile Julian is going to meet him there as soon... more