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Two Truths and a Lie, Absurdists Style
Wombats really do make cube-shaped poop. But do flamingos turn neon blue? In this episode of The Absurdists, Mary Murphy brings a game: Two Truths and a Lie, packed with absurd facts, and Marlo Anderson has to spot the fake in every round. Before the game starts, Marlo teases some big news and Mary reveals she studied opera and still dreams of a Tony.
The rounds cover animal oddities, a cloud that weighs as much as 100 elephants, the Great Wall of China held together with sticky rice, 3,000-year-old honey, why carrots are orange, Oxford versus the Aztecs, Greenland sharks, Victorian squirrels in tiny outfits and the bones in your body. Then it’s whales, starfish with no brains (and Mary’s new insult for Las Vegas traffic), the chocolate bar that melted into the microwave, and the wallpaper origins of Play-Doh and bubble wrap.
Along the way: a day on Venus that lasts longer than its year, diamond rain on Jupiter and Saturn, cows with best friends, sea otters with favorite rocks, and quirky laws from Norway, Canada and Tokyo. How many lies did Marlo catch?
The Absurdists, where logic takes a back seat. Season 2, Episode 5 with Marlo Anderson and Mary Murphy.
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