020: A Big Pointless Episode
This episode special guest Ralph Crewe (Writer/Producer, Practical Engineering) gets exhausted trying to explain continuous breathing, Julian mulls over the least pointy thing (shout out to Pod 007) and Trace takes a Mayan Bak-tun to explain why the heck there are 60 minutes in an hour.
019: Legume Impostors | Holiday Special
This episode Trace cracks the mystery of nuts, and Julian tickles your fancy comparing moose and buffalo … Or is it bison?? You’ll have to listen to find out!
018: Ex Machina de Toilet Paper | feat. Vanessa Hill
Julian tracks the history of toilet paper to its source, Trace gives a gorilla some workout advice, and special guest Vanessa Hill grows a whole human after an unfortunate fireworks accident.
017: Eat a Variety of Colorful Humans | Thanksgiving Special
This week Trace explains why organic doesn’t mean what you think it means and Julian researches whether grizzly bears have more biological variation than humans do
016: Something about Fields
This episode Julian takes a pole on the magnetic dynamo inside our planet, and Trace explores how 19th century French landscaping grew on everyone.
015: A Headless Horseman but the Horse is the Dangerous One
In this (very scary) episode, Julian loses his head (no one seems to notice) and Trace unleashes the ultimate nightMare: an apex predator HORSE! … WHINNY! THUNDER CLAP! ORGAN MUSIC!!!
014: Exhaling Backwards, Animal Comedians, and the Next Pangea
This episode Trace finds out if lolcats make other cats lol, Julian makes continents collide (his insurance company was very unhappy about it), and SPECIAL GUEST Ceri Riley (Co-host of the podcast SciShow Tangents) takes a deep breath and undoes the entire science of chemistry.
13: Look, Pineapple Pizza is Good. Fixing Climate Change by Moving Earth? No.
In this episode Julian wants to push the Earth further from the sun to stop climate change, and Trace learns if pineapple on pizza is actually … good?
12: Parmesan Apocalypse
This episode Julian eats something he probably shouldn’t (again) and Trace is given the small task of preserving all of human knowledge through multiple apocalypses... Apocalypsi? Apocalypsees? Ends to the world.
011 — Lots of Fingers. Smellyportation. The Key to all Music
This episode Trace smells a smell out of existence, Julian loses an arm wrestling contest to a baby, and special guest Ashley Hamer explains the key to understanding music.
010 — Rump-Shaking Dyslexic Shrimp
This episode 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. Special guest Dr Virginia Schutte dives into a super-powered animal propelled by twerking.
009 — Universally Bricked
This episode, Trace attempts to rebuild the sun out of LEGO™ bricks. Julian systematically destroys the universe by changing one tiny thing.
008 — Sisters Share a Brain
This episode Julian finds out if cartoon logic could power your sail boat and Trace tries to answer the question “can we have a hive mind?” But, of course, if we did, I guess you’d already know the answer.
007 – But is it Pointy?
This episode Julian puts too fine a point on what the pointiest thing ever and why it exists in the first place, and Trace casts a wary eye toward the other species just waiting to take over when humanity disappears.
005 – Scores of Mutual Nightmares
Trace has a problem with single super-powers. Sophie thinks we're turning into rodents. Julian learns what animal evolves into sheep.
004 – Truth or Drown
Trace has a problem with single super-powers. Sophie thinks we're turning into rodents. Julian learns what animal evolves into sheep.
003 An empathetic naked mole person (feat. Sophie Shrand)
Trace has a problem with single super-powers. Sophie thinks we're turning into rodents. Julian learns what animal evolves into sheep.
002 How the speed of sound could destroy everything
This time Julian looks into why the Chinese (or anyone else) would send a balloon to do a satellite's job. Trace explores an alternative universe where a couple of major speed limits are swapped!
001 The very first episode!
It's the pilot! AHH! This episode Julian looks closely at an alternative evolution of human knees, and Trace bends backwards to explore what would happen if we could perceive more colors. It’s an alternative evolution episode!