That's Absurd Please Elaborate
Hosted by Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet and Julian and Kyle Sisk · Trace Elements Media
4.9from 639 ratings
- 179
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 639
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 79M
- YouTube views
About That's Absurd Please Elaborate
Seriously researched answers to absolutely ridiculous questions. New episodes every week.
- Publisher
- Trace Elements Media
- Category
- comedy · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Apr 2023
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 179 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Min-Maxing Human Decomposition
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Flinging Freaky Fast Formicids!
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Much Jello is TOO Much?
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Min-Maxing Human Decomposition
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's a complicated process, more complicated than people think. But I never thought about it from an environmental perspective. Tell me more. Elaborate, please. That's what we're here for. So I was skeptical at first. I was like, cremation can't be that bad. Cremation, like you mentioned, you've got to use an oven to just straight up burn all those tissues away. And there are filters outside the oven for things like mercury that might be released when fillings are getting melted down okay yeah but it's not going to capture and and sequester the carbon and you know we are carbon based there's a lot of right stuff getting turned into co2 it releases along with of course the fuel that's being burned It releases about 532 pounds of CO2 to cremate a body. […]
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- Ellen Weatherford
- Ella Hubber
- Sabrina Capello
- Chelsea Gohd
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- YouTube views
- 78,677,153
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 102 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 537 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts That's Absurd Please Elaborate?
Trace Dominguez and Julian Huguet and Julian and Kyle Sisk host the show. Published by Trace Elements Media.
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