Best Trace Dominguez Podcasts (2025)

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I Can Read Your Mind… You're Thinking About Tiny Elephants?! 1:12:52

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his week, Julian prunes the universe down to size: bonsai animals, bonsai humans, bonsai...uhm...did he just say bonsai HUMANS? Meanwhile, Trace tunes into the world of telepathy, where mind-reading might sound less like superpowers and more like trying to pick up a radio station with a bent coat hanger. QUESTIONS Julian: "Can you bonsai any living…

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This Man Built a Fart Gun. Seriously. | feat. Lieven Scheire 1:46:50

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This week, we and guest Lieven Scheire all ruminate about a new job: Fart Safety Officer. Meanwhile, Trace get’s SALTY thinking about what if the oceans weren’t and Julian calculates the pure pasty reflectiveness of the Britons. QUESTIONS Trace: "If we removed all salt from the oceans, would that solve anything about rising water levels?" from Rob …

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Tanks vs Dragons?! 1:24:15

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Julian rolls into yet another extremely nerdy community and fires rounds left and right. Meanwhile, Trace calls his mom to help answer a question from a kid. As long as we're not on the subject though, what do tree trunks and military tanks have in common? They’re both flammable. QUESTIONS Julian: "Who would win: Dragons vs WW2 tanks” - Tim Trace: …

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Hi Seeker+ Fans, Trace Here! 40:55

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Hi Seeker+ fans, Trace here! It's been a while, but I'm back. This feed now belongs to me and my lil' production company, Trace Elements Media! I've got an announcement for you… I'VE GOT A NEW SCIENCE PODCAST :: That's Absurd Please Elaborate. In our new show, Julian Huguet and I answer ridiculous questions with serious science research. We have be…

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Sucking Blueberries to Space 'Til You're Blue in the Face 1:05:49

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Oompa Loompa, do-ba-dee-doo, Julian’s got a blueberry question for you… Oompa Loompa, do-ba-da-dee, it you are wise you'll listen to … this podcast?? What do you get from a hose to space? “Is it a straw or a siphon,” asked Trace? Blaming us for these silly quest-ions You know exactly what… else happ-pens! We dig deep and will answer them! Oompa Loo…

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Reverse-Muscled Cat Prisoners 1:14:33

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In this episode, Trace investigates whether your furry companion is cuddling you... or forging a trauma bond in exchange for treats. Meanwhile, in a shocking twist of anatomy, Julian answers what would happen if your muscles worked in reverse. Flexing? Cancelled. Walking? Complicated. Cuddling your trauma-bonded cat? Still mandatory. QUESTIONS Juli…

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Trying to Explain 'Left' to Aliens from our Itty Bitty Earth 1:17:19

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In this rebroadcasted episode, Trace resets the solar system to observe what life would be like on a 2/3rds-sized "Wee Earth." Julian, meanwhile, uses particle physics to finally distinguish between his left and right hands. QUESTIONS Julian: "If I had some magic communicator to speak to someone in another galaxy, could I explain what "left" and "r…

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Keeping aBREAST of Our Wild Dreams | feat. Deboki Chakravarti 1:29:12

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In this episode Trace takes way, way too long to explain that dreams are pretty darn short. Meanwhile, friend of the absurd, Deboki Chakravarti squeezes every last drop of information about breastfeeding. QUESTIONS Deboki Chakravarti: "Why do we only breastfeed our babies, but not other close relatives and friends to boost each other's immune syste…

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SHAAAAAAAARRRRKKKKS | Feat. Jaida Elcock 1:42:09

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It's the most wonderful time of the year! When the fish in the water make the kids scream and holler and panic with fear! That's right, it's Shark Time. You all know what we're referring to but we think the term might be trademarked like the Tuber Bowl and Taco Thursday. Anyway, we're kicking off the celebrations and to help us do so we went out an…

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H2Oooooh myyyyyyy! 1:06:20

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In this strange episode Trace obsesses over the wild water system stretching across North America, and Julian contemplates indoor clouds and ACTUALLY ANSWERS: Does this solve anything?!?! Thanks to Dr Brian Rahm from the New York State Water Resources Institute at Cornell University for answering my silly questions. Find out more about water: https…

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DINOSAURS!! (We didn't stop to think if we should, oops) 1:30:30

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This week we try something a little different — the ⚡️THUNDER ROUND ⚡️ as Jeff Goldblum says in Jurassic Park Uno, “Your [science nerds] were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!” In this special episode, Julian and Trace snagged every dinosaur related question we could fit in a shaving cream can. Then, …

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Trace Dominguez: Why Science Communication Matters More Than Ever (FULL VIDEO) 47:10

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What happens when you mix YouTube, curiosity, charisma, and a whole lot of science? You get this week’s guest: Trace Dominguez! Trace Dominguez is a science communicator, producer, television presenter, and digital creator. His work appears on channels from Vox Media, Discovery, Science, PBS television, PBS Digital Studios, and more. His production…

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Discovering America's Wildlife Refuges | A conversation w/ Gaby Rojas 32:28

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In this engaging conversation, Gaby Rojas, the digital communications manager for America's Wildlife Refuges, shares her journey from a non-outdoorsy background to advocating for wildlife conservation. She discusses the importance of wildlife refuges, their role in preserving ecosystems, and how they serve as peaceful spaces for both wildlife and h…

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Bluetooth Speakers While Hiking | Why is Being Considerate Now a Hot Take? 8:45

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What started as a simple suggestion — “maybe don’t blast your Bluetooth speaker on a quiet hiking trail” — turned into one of the most controversial things I’ve ever posted. But this video isn’t just about trail etiquette. It’s about something bigger.We’re living in a time where being kind, thinking of others, and showing basic respect can feel lik…

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How to Start Hiking When You’ve Never Hiked Before | The Real Advice No One Gives You 6:25

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People always ask me, “How do I get into hiking if I’ve never done it before?”Here’s the truth: You don’t need fancy gear. You don’t need to move to the mountains. You don’t need to be in perfect shape.You just start.In this video, I’m hiking Grizzly Peak outside of Ashland, Oregon, talking about what helped me get started, what held me back, and w…

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Soaring to the Sweater-Powered Ozone Layer With Our Pinkies OUT 1:15:45

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Setting: Dry, warm evening in a small pub in Los Angeles. Deputy Julian: "Whew-whee! What's that smell?!" Detective Kyle (with a light drawl): "That's ozone, Julian. Something out of this world happened in this English phone box." Dep. Julian (looking up at the sky): "By out of this world…you mean up there in the sky?" Det. Kyle: sighs heavily Dep.…

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How a Color Could Make You Faster and a Humidifier Could Make Your House Bigger 1:05:24

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Trace WOOD really like you to know that Dr Sam Zelinka from the Forest Products Lab is really SWELL, and he is KNOT KIDDING (I’m out of puns). Also, Julian talks about airplanes (again). QUESTIONS Julian: "What is the fastest color?" from Rey Trace: "How much does my house shrink in the winter and expand in the summer?" from Chris Do you have an ab…

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Kiss a Boo-Boo and Drug a Dog 1:01:52

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When I was a kid, I ran around a corner and a tree branch went right into my eye. Luckily, my mom kissed it and made it all better… or… was it my brain that made it better? And can dogs do that too? Brb, gonna go kiss my dog. QUESTIONS Julian: "Do animals get the placebo effect??" from Trevor (poll winner) Trace: "How long have people been kissing …

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LIVE SHOW : Tunnels of Allergic Plants and Blinding Fireflies | feat. Naila Moriera 1:07:23

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This is our first LIVE SHOW ever!! We were invited to perform the podcast live at Smith College in Massachusetts and people actually came! Thanks for all your support these past two years. We wouldn’t be here without you all. Thank you! QUESTIONS Julian: "Is it possible to maintain a tunnel from one side of the earth to the other? What would be the…

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Massacring Mosquitoes with a Billion Bananas - An Episode Specifically for Hannah 1:05:57

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Bananas are positively aching to murder you. They’re radioactive, they’re clones, they’re slippery, they’re filled with potassium (which explodes when it hits water). Ignore those mosquitoes over there in the corner, pay attention to this murderous banana! NO DON’T PULL THE CURTAIN QUESTIONS Julian: "How many bananas would it take to kill a man?" f…

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Chatty Planties Under Twin Suns | feat Maren Hunsberger 57:30

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Turns out plants are absolute CHATTERBOXES! They talk so much that they make Julian look like a silent partner (he’s not). Instead, he uses a silly German accent to accost our guest Maren Hunsberger all about plant communication. And, speaking of intense interrogations, Star Wars’ Tatooine gets a lot of play in the pop-science space news, but here …

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Americas? Gone. Half the Population? Gone! My Keys?... Uh Oh. 1:34:02

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Let’s just wait a minute while everyone logs on… just a miiiiinnuuuuute, OK do we? I think… Yes, we have everyone! Welcome y’all to our weekly corporate roundtable, before we get started let’s all do some SNAPS for Norm for his Thanos Post-Mortem! The deck was amazing and I think there were some incredible insights to share. But today we’re throwin…

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"I Flick My Space Boogers at You" - the Sun, Probably 1:06:23

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Ever notice that our fingers seem to fit perfectly in our nostrils? Is... is that supposed to be like that? Our Patreon subscribers picked this little gem so Trace dug deep to find an answer. Then Julian tries to figure out just what it would take to make a star-encapsulating super structure, better known as a Dyson Sphere. QUESTIONS Julian: "What …

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TAPE Classic | Rump-Shaking Dyslexic Shrimp | feat. Dr Virginia Schutte 1:31:59

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Hi All! Trace and Julian are taking a bit of a break this week but fear not, we still have some content for you! This is one of our favorite old episodes where Julian learns the REAL alphabet, also known as the ABG’s (not a typo); Trace discovers we are all constantly online whether we like it or not by exploring the mysteries of WiFi; and special …

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Internally Screaming Until Leap Year 1:06:09

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This episode Julian tries to think of an even better calendar (too bad "Julian Calendar" was already taken) and Trace thinks a thought so hard his head hurts. QUESTIONS Julian: "Is there a better calendar than the Gregorian? Would it solve any obscure problems?" from Daniel Trace: "Can you think something in your head so loud that it can physically…

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Alice Ford: Blazing Trails from Stunt Work to Solo Adventures on PBS 44:24

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What happens when you mix solo travel, stunt work, Emmy-nominated storytelling, and a deep love for wild places? You get Alice Ford. This week on The Adventure Is Out There Podcast, Andy Neal sits down with Alice Ford—stuntwoman, TV host, outdoor creator, and the visionary behind the PBS show Alice’s Adventures on Earth. Alice’s path has been anyth…

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Belting Fly Brains and Melting Gold with Rain 1:14:16

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Let’s get ready to RUMMMMMMMBBBLLLEEE!! In this corner, we have a normal human who is definitely not a psychopath, and in the opposite corner we have… a fly. Just like, a fly. Also Julian is here and has an amazing story about melting gold with acid rain! QUESTIONS Julian: "Could we produce enough air pollution to make the sky rain aqua regia? At w…

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Going Full Goron on the Himalayas 1:11:29

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Tonight our chefs have prepared an all-natural pasture-raised and pristine ivory-hued plutonic entree, slow-cooked under rich, Indian-spiced tectonic compression for 50 million years, adorned with a constellation of tourmaline and garnet, presented alongside gossamer-thin schist ribbons. Then, for dessert, an insulative coating of CHOOH2 which shou…

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Trace Dominguez: Why Science Communication Matters More Than Ever 50:45

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What happens when you mix YouTube, curiosity, charisma, and a whole lot of science? You get this week’s guest: Trace Dominguez! Trace Dominguez is a science communicator, producer, television presenter, and digital creator. His work appears on channels from Vox Media, Discovery, Science, PBS television, PBS Digital Studios, and more. His production…

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Forever and a Hair 1:21:37

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In this episode, we learn Julian used to wear fedoras. He says, it’s been forever and a day, but I’m going to wait a Planck beard-second to see if that bears out. Before that, Trace combs through the hairy subject of human fur — about which he’s an experienced expert. Plus, like a hair on the tongue of your mind we just can’t seem to stop screaming…

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Terminal Thoughts 1:11:44

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Ever get caught in a light drizzle and think, "Ah, this is nice"? WELL WHAT IF IT WAS ACTUALLY HORRIFYING??? Julian explores the several ways air resistance keeps rainstorms from becoming catastrophic bombardments from the sky. Then Trace tries to get inside the mind of Julian's chihuahua. Turns out most of her thoughts boil down to "shake" and "ba…

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Headaches Wheelie Hurt (I'm Sorry) 1:08:18

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Wheel wheel wheel … this episode definitely gave us both a headache. I swear we’re not going to conquer every silly meme from your group text (or maybe we will?). QUESTIONS Julian: “Are there more windows or doors in the world?” from Liam Trace: "Headaches… Why???!” from Anna from Athens Do you have an absurd question? Maybe it's silly idea you had…

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My Broccoli Dog Ate My English Homework | Feat. MJ Wu 1:48:48

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This episode Trace tears into the age-old question, “What color should your English notebook be?” Special guest MJ Wu from the podcast Everything is Public Health looks at dogs and broccoli and somehow relates them to public health, and Julian attempts to find permanent sunscreen for his pale, pale, oh-so-pale skin. Is it gross? You betcha! QUESTIO…

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Honey, I shrunk the the… OjkdfiAGH!! 1:02:08

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If you were shrunk REALLY ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ᵣₑₐₗₗᵧ ₛₘₐₗₗ … would we be able to live? Did the documentary “Honey, I shrunk the kids” LIE to us?! Julian grabs his magnifying glass to learn Mor(anis). Meanwhile, Trace wants to know if … if the … uh, the … BLARG! IF SPEAKING A NONSENSE WORD can actually help! QUESTIONS Both questions this week are POLL WINNERS se…

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Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! | feat. Yasmin Khan 2:03:47

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Easter is around the corner, but where does that weird Bunny get all the eggs? And why are there eggs in the first place? Guest Yasmin Khan (The Young Turks) has an answer. Meanwhile, Julian explores the word of bat-style crime fighting on a budget and Trace explores if living on Mars would make us super aggro! QUESTIONS Julian: "How can I be Batma…

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Outweigh. Outshine. Outlast. 1:08:29

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Can the sun be beaten at its own game… OF BEING A SUN?! Julian shines some light on it. Meanwhile, as he spends time on the science of the extremely large, Trace gathers data concerning the massive impact of 0s and 1s. Note: they are very very very very smol. QUESTIONS Julian: "How many lions would beat the sun?" from Daniel Trace: "How much does d…

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Rounding Up 1+1 1:04:42

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Happy love celebration week!! In honor of how much we LOVE our patreon subscribers, Trace and Julian answer two winners of our Patreon polls! It takes two 🎶 to make a dream come true 🎶 It just takes two — or is it three? What if it was three? Julian checks the math. Meanwhile, Trace (wait doesn’t that mean three again?) gets around in the animal ki…

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Where'd You Get the Coconut? The Replicator!? 1:07:46

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Space, the final frontier — of cuisine. This week Trace unpacks the standard food replicator used by the United Federation of Planets. Meanwhile, in Scene 34, Julian ponders of coconuts could actually find their way to Arthurian England vis-a-vis Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail. In both answers one COULD find yourself asking, “Where’d…

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AI Chefs and Unqualified Sled Dogs 1:19:24

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This episode Julian gears up for the last great race with an irresponsible amount of chihuahuas while Trace finds a use for AI that it might actually be suited for. QUESTIONS Julian: "How many chihuahuas would it take to complete the Iditarod?" from Loren Trace: "How many ChatGPT queries would I need to cook an egg?" from AJ Do you have an absurd q…

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Oops All the Drugs 1:18:29

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Hey man, like, if you took all the drugs … like, all of them. What would happen? Would you die? I mean, like, that’s just your opinion, man. But aside from that, and we may be out of our element like Donny, but if you replaced as many body parts as possible with technological wizardry … how many parts would you have left? Would you die?! QUESTIONS …

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Inexplicable Spider-Man Episode 1:05:59

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For some reason Julian and Trace both selected Spider-Man related questions. We felt like two Tobey Maguires dancing down the street in perfect sync. Julian critiques Spidey’s famous swingy transportation, and Trace learns a lot from New York City* train nerds. QUESTIONS Julian: "Does it actually make sense for Spider-Man to web swing? Shouldn’t he…

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2024's Stickiest Questions | feat. Producer Kyle 1:15:39

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In this special end-of-year episode we pull Kyle out of his editing hole and the three of us talk through some of your best questions of the year! Thank you, thank you, thank you for submitting such incredible questions to us. We read every one of them, we see the new ones coming in every day and we want to answer as many as we can! We love you all…

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Oh No. Our Chicken is Cooked 1:13:37

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Happy holidays! This episode is… weird. Now, normally, we have systems in place to prevent this problem from happening. Somehow we failed. I swear this all happened exactly as you heard! We’re so cooked, y’all. Or at least… that chicken is. QUESTION "What is the worst way to perfectly cook a chicken? For example, could you place it a perfect distan…

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Hot Hot DNA 1:02:08

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There's a quote attributed to Albert Einstein, "sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it feels like a minute; sit on a hot stove for a minute and it feels like many hours. That's relativity." There's no evidence he actually said this, but that didn't stop Julian from turning up the heat on his question. Meanwhile, Trace took the DNA from all his c…

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High-Level Poop Talk and Deadly Temporal Fantasies 1:02:06

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This week, Trace delves into some temporal fantasies, like: why people think if they could travel into the past they’d become lords and queens, and not serfs or worse!? Meanwhile, Julian measures the terminal velocity of poo-poo and pee-pee in very tall buildings. Our show is so weird. QUESTIONS Julian: "If you use the bathroom at the top of a skys…

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Poke the Moon and Land Amongst the Clocks 1:16:35

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If you made a video call to someone on the other end of a very, very, very long stick would it be possible to poke them with the stick before the video showed them that you’d moved? Would this impossible, absurd invention move faster than the speed of light?!? Julian pokes around to see. Then, after a Spongebob-style “Meanwhile” title card… Trace g…

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Ali Mattu and the Missing Moon | Thanksgiving Rerun! 1:30:28

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Happy Thanksgiving to the Americans! Super-belated one for those Canadians too, eh! And, for the rest-of-the-world… Happy Thursday! To give ourselves a little break to spend with our families on Trace’s favorite holiday we’re re-airing a very early episode of the show. Eat some food, tell your friends you love them, and we’ll be back with a new epi…

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Frictionless Ultrasonic Banger 1:14:42

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Friction! It’s what makes the world go rou— No, wait. That’s not it. Friction. It’s what keeps the world from spinning off into spaa—- That’s not it either. Friction… It’s what keeps your shoes from being too slippy, but also, like, just slippy enough? *Sigh* Also, dog bark science. Enjoy! QUESTIONS Julian: "What would a perfectly frictionless surf…

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Surviving Urban Volcanoes Through Cuteness and Butt Hearing | Feat. Dr. Joe Hanson 1:46:22

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This episode Julian attempts to make jokes but only hears crickets, Trace turns LA into a flaming dumpster fire and nobody notices, and special guest Dr. Joe Hanson of Be Smart explains how being "just a lil guy" is a superpower. QUESTIONS Julian: "How do crickets hear if they don't have ears?" from Joe Hanson Joe: "What if it was survival of the "…

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We Ship Acid-Spitting Humans 1:12:52

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Fun fact: the dinosaur in Jurassic Park that spit acid on Nedry doesn’t exist! I mean, Dilophosaurus does, but it was probably a scavenger, not an evil piñata dinosaur. As long as we’re on the subject though, what if humans could shoot acid? What would that look like? And, as long as we’re talking about disemboweling humans … how many of their own …