Forever and a Hair | Pod 76
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Forever and a Hair | Pod 76

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 about this one emo song.

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Terminal Thoughts | Pod 75
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Terminal Thoughts | Pod 75

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 "bark".

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My Broccoli Dog Ate My English Homework (Feat. MJ Wu) | Pod 73
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My Broccoli Dog Ate My English Homework (Feat. MJ Wu) | Pod 73

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!

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Honey, I shrunk the the…OjkdfiAGH!! | Pod 72
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Honey, I shrunk the the…OjkdfiAGH!! | Pod 72

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!

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Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! (feat. Yasmin Khan) | Pod 71
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Red Sky at Night Batman’s Delight! (feat. Yasmin Khan) | Pod 71

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!

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Outweigh. Outshine. Outlast. | Pod 70
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Outweigh. Outshine. Outlast. | Pod 70

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.

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Rounding Up 1+1 | Pod 69
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Rounding Up 1+1 | Pod 69

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 kingdom, but not the waay you thiiiink!

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Where'd You Get the Coconut? The Replicator!? | Pod 68
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Where'd You Get the Coconut? The Replicator!? | Pod 68

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.

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Oops All the Drugs | Pod 66
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Oops All the Drugs | Pod 66

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.

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Inexplicable Spider-Man Episode | Pod 65
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Inexplicable Spider-Man Episode | Pod 65

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.

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Oh No. Our Chicken is Cooked | Pod 64
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Oh No. Our Chicken is Cooked | Pod 64

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.

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Hot Hot DNA | Pod 63
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Hot Hot DNA | Pod 63

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 cells and strung it together end-to-end. How long do you think that strand would be? What if we took all the DNA from ALL the LIFE on EARTH?! There's a lot of life here!

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High-Level Poop Talk and Deadly Temporal Fantasies | Pod 62
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High-Level Poop Talk and Deadly Temporal Fantasies | Pod 62

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.

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Poke the Moon and Land Amongst the Clocks | Pod 61
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Poke the Moon and Land Amongst the Clocks | Pod 61

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 grabs a clock and huh’s about why the hands don’t go counter-clockwise. Do they just go with the flow? or is there something else afoot?? Er… a-hand?

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Frictionless Ultrasonic Banger | Pod 60
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Frictionless Ultrasonic Banger | Pod 60

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!

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We Ship Acid-Spitting Humans | Pod 58
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We Ship Acid-Spitting Humans | Pod 58

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?

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