That's Absurd Please Elaborate
By Trace Elements Media
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Dec 21, 2025
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Apr 22, 2025
Love the show - super happy I found you guys! A wonderful balance of science & comedy, resulting in amazing, nerdy, and still very accessible discussions of all kinds of topics!!
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Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every week.
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Oh No the Goalie is… Everywhere | feat. Tom Scott | TAPE Classic
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May 14, 2026 |
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Shear Bounce in Every Ounce
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May 07, 2026 |
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Planckmaxxing
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Coast to Coast Riding a Pizza Surfboard
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Do Squid Need Glasses?
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Fondueing What Shouldn’t Be Fondone
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Either You Iocaine or You 1-0-can’t | TAPE Classic
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Sumptuous 'Saurus Soars in a Seriously Staticky Sweater | TAPE Classic
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Nothing Suspicious About Collecting Spicy Pigeons
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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You're Gonna Need At Least 8,000 More Pirates
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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This Man Built a Piss Rocket. Seriously. | feat. Lieven Scheire
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Gimmie Glue, a Lever, and a Frickin' 1999 Toyota Corolla
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Ain't No Rule Says Bodily Fluids Can't Be Seasoning
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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D&D Pee and Chickpea TNT
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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A Tiny Space Between an Ablution and Electrocution
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Trippin' Unicorn Learny Journey ✨️
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Which Came Last: the Tortoise or the Onion Unraveling into Nothingness?
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Papyrus is Temporary but a Body on Pluto is Forever | Feat. Ralph Crewe
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Lasagna Batteries? Aww Heli(copter) Yeah!
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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This'll be weird… Happy Holidays from TAPE!
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! | feat. Yasmin Khan (TYT) & Jasmine Miller (Give Directly)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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The Soundtrack of Eternity (Good Band Name)
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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The Buffet Hates to See THIS Tardigrade Coming | LIVE from the Bay Area Science Festival
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Thanksgiving Rerun: Melting Witches with Inflated Heads
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Stuck in a Time Loop while ‘Doing Taxes’ | feat. Danielle Bezalel
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Civil Engineers
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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What if humans laid eggs…? | Feat. Marco Wendt
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Drunk Vampires and Malodius Mammals | Halloween Special!
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Pûre Information About Food and Poops
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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When Wildlife ATTACKS
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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THE 100 1/2TH ABSURDAGANZA CONTINUES
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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THE 100TH EPISODE ABSURDAGANZA!
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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"MINIONS! Lower Mr. Bond into the Saliva Pool!"
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Zooming in on Nano Paintings (They're a BIG deal)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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This Giant Moon Makes Your Bones Float
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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I Can Read Your Mind… You're Thinking About Tiny Elephants?!
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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This Man Built a Fart Gun. Seriously. | feat. Lieven Scheire
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Tanks vs Dragons?!
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Sucking Blueberries to Space 'Til You're Blue in the Face
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Reverse-Muscled Cat Prisoners
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Trying to Explain 'Left' to Aliens from our Itty Bitty Earth
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Keeping aBREAST of Our Wild Dreams | feat. Deboki Chakravarti
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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SHAAAAAAAARRRRKKKKS | Feat. Jaida Elcock
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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H2Oooooh myyyyyyy!
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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DINOSAURS!! (We didn't stop to think if we should, oops)
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Soaring to the Sweater-Powered Ozone Layer With Our Pinkies OUT
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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How a Color Could Make You Faster and a Humidifier Could Make Your House Bigger
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Kiss a Boo-Boo and Drug a Dog
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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LIVE SHOW : Tunnels of Allergic Plants and Blinding Fireflies | feat. Naila Moriera
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Massacring Mosquitoes with a Billion Bananas - An Episode Specifically for Hannah
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May 29, 2025 |
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Chatty Planties Under Twin Suns | feat Maren Hunsberger
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May 22, 2025 |
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Americas? Gone. Half the Population? Gone! My Keys?... Uh Oh.
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May 15, 2025 |
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"I Flick My Space Boogers at You" - the Sun, Probably
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May 08, 2025 |
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TAPE Classic | Rump-Shaking Dyslexic Shrimp | feat. Dr Virginia Schutte
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May 01, 2025 |
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Internally Screaming Until Leap Year
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Belting Fly Brains and Melting Gold with Rain
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Going Full Goron on the Himalayas
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Forever and a Hair
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Terminal Thoughts
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Headaches Wheelie Hurt (I'm Sorry)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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My Broccoli Dog Ate My English Homework | Feat. MJ Wu
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Honey, I shrunk the the… OjkdfiAGH!!
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! | feat. Yasmin Khan
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Outweigh. Outshine. Outlast.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Rounding Up 1+1
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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Where'd You Get the Coconut? The Replicator!?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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AI Chefs and Unqualified Sled Dogs
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Oops All the Drugs
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Inexplicable Spider-Man Episode
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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2024's Stickiest Questions | feat. Producer Kyle
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Oh No. Our Chicken is Cooked
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Hot Hot DNA
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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High-Level Poop Talk and Deadly Temporal Fantasies
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Poke the Moon and Land Amongst the Clocks
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Ali Mattu and the Missing Moon | Thanksgiving Rerun!
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Frictionless Ultrasonic Banger
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Surviving Urban Volcanoes Through Cuteness and Butt Hearing | Feat. Dr. Joe Hanson
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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We Ship Acid-Spitting Humans
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Snail-zillas Disrupting the Tooth Commodity Market | Halloween Spooktacular II
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Double Jump Over This Human Meatball
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Immortal Squirrels Slain By Salad
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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The Inescapable Sadness of the Kool-Aid Man | feat. Dr Rohin Francis of Medlife Crisis
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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A Ghostly Fireworky Glow Up | feat. Ceri Riley of SciShow Tangents
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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The "Creative" Engineering of Star Wars Blasters
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Is Lava Wet?! | feat Dr Alex Dainis
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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The Poor Goaile is… Everywhere | feat. Tom Scott
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Deep Conversations With Whales
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Freaky Mermaids, "REAL" Dragons, and Trace's Evil Twin| feat Ellen Weatherford (Just the Zoo of Us)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Exploding Three Ways (Yikes)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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Volcanos. Tornadoes. Nuclear Waste… This is Fine.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Two Butts. No Bones. Thriving. | Feat. Ben Bowlin
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Photosynthetic Nudists and Solving Problems with Copious Amounts of Seawater
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Radioactive Bunnies & Infinite-Sided Dice | feat. Nora Bailey
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Hiccuping Chickens & Wheeled Wildlife | feat. Sophie Shrand
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Either You Iocaine or You 1-0-can’t
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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It's Like Rocket Science, But Dumber
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Filthy Witches and Body Blimps
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Reach for the Neutron Stargate
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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DnD Pee and Chickpea TNT
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Mistaken Artifacts, Tiny Tasty Treats, and War (Seriously, What is it Good For?) | feat Joe Scott
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Metaphorically Heavy Fog Juice
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May 30, 2024 |
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You Shower Too Often But Can Never Helicopter Enough
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May 23, 2024 |
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A Whole New Word, An Old Pair of Genes
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May 16, 2024 |
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Could We Colonize a Gas Giant? What if we were Vampires? | feat. Dr Simon Clark
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May 09, 2024 |
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THE ABSURD-IVERSARY LIGHTNING ROUND SPECTACULAR!!!!
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May 02, 2024 |
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Making Peace With Squirrels, Waging War With Crabs | feat. Deboki Chakravarti
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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What if People Reproduced Like Plants? | feat. Maynard Okereke (Hip Hop MD)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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It’s a Fart Rocket Breakthrough! Time to Hyper-Sleep to Jupiter
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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An Endless Eclipse and Pineapple-Based Crimes
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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!! BIG IMPORTANT PODCAST ANNOUNCEMENT !!
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Eww… Eww!! Potatoes? | feat. Sam Jones
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The BONKERS Reason Ice IS NOT Slippery | feat. Matthew Krol
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Ahem, No. X-Rays Will NOT Cook Soup
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Real Weird Things About The Human Body That Need Fixing
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Oh No. Did You Time Travel with a Chicken?!
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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But Will Aliens Actually Comprehend “On Your Left?”
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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A Throwback: What Is the UN-Pointiest Thing?
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Legumes, Fruits and Ticklish Mooses | Holiday Special
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Ex Machina de Toilet Paper | feat. Vanessa Hill
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Eat a Variety of Colorful Humans | Thanksgiving Special
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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So… Why Do We Have Lawns?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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A Carnivorous Horse & Headless Human | Halloween 2023
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Exhaling Backwards | feat. Ceri Riley
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Lifting Earth's Orbit to Stop Global Warming
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Parmesan Apocalypse
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Digitally Gifted Babies | feat. Ashley Hamer
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Rump-Shaking Dyslexic Shrimp | feat. Dr Virginia Schutte
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Universally Bricked
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Sisters who Share a Brain
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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But it is pointy?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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A Missing Moon | feat. Dr. Ali Mattu
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Scores of Mutual Nightmares
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Truth or Drown?
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May 25, 2023 |
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An Empathetic Naked Mole Person | feat. Sophie Shrand
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May 11, 2023 |
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How the Speed of Sound Could Destroy Everything
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May 11, 2023 |
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The Very First Episode!
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May 11, 2023 |
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An Absurd Trailer
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Apr 01, 2023 |