Important If True
Three friends try and figure everything out. Join Chris, Jake, and Nick as they delve into the weirdness of life, pop culture, and technology—and do their best to explain it as absurdly as they can. Write in to [email protected] with your own questions and observations.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 59
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2018
Important If True 56: In the Shade of the Puffin
To learn the answers to life's biggest questions, we must evolve, change, become worse. This week: Can an artificial intelligence programmed with the mind of the Zodiac killer pierce your heart, with…
01:04:35 |
Sun 15 Apr 2018
Important If True !!: A Funky Bad (Good) Apology
This is a quick episode to let you all know that Important If True is going to be sporadic in the next couple of months, because we've all got slightly too much going on. Or, it was intended to be a …
00:17:02 |
Sat 07 Apr 2018
Important If True 55: Consider the Water Lobster
Our time is precious. We all know it. But how precious? It all depends on how much of it we have. Three hundred years? Four hundred? One hundred thousand years? The cosmos stretch out before us, insc…
01:18:33 |
Fri 30 Mar 2018
Important If True 54: A 30 Foot High Screaming Billboard
What does the future hold? You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Just imagine... Content creators, the size of skyscrapers, looming over our cities. The greatest actors of the baby boomer generation…
01:03:36 |
Sat 24 Mar 2018
Important If True 53: Alexa, Destroy Me
In the absence of Nick Breckon, what is this podcast? What is any podcast? What are you? What am I? Oh god, what am I? What is this world? Why am I trapped in this strange room? Alexa, are you there?…
00:48:01 |
Sat 17 Mar 2018
Important If True 52: "Yeah, You Email It."
A show that attempts to answers the real questions of the week, that guarantees to leave you satisfied if not any more informed. This week: Is an AI still an AI if it's just a guy with an email accou…
01:12:49 |
Sat 10 Mar 2018
Important If True 51: Indistinguishable From The Content
If a book about procrastination that was never finished or published, gets cited in a book about procrastination that sells a million copies, which author did a better job? When you place the final p…
01:17:46 |
Fri 02 Mar 2018
Important If True :-(: Technical Difficulties (No Podcast This Week)
Nick had a severe audio malfunction this week and the episode is unlistenable. We'll do our best to fix things but until then, see you next week for a full normal episode!
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00:01:51 |
Sat 24 Feb 2018
Important If True 50: 4468, Y'all
On this podcast we explain the unexplainable. We solve the unsolvable. Our method is simple: We take the tiniest problem you might have, the grain of sand scratching at the back of your mind, and we …
01:10:16 |
Thu 15 Feb 2018
Important If True 49: You Don't Just Eat 'Em
Send us your problems, your conundrums, your mysteries, no matter how important, and we'll do our absolute best to figure it all out. This week: What is the loneliest food? Is it a sandwich? If "you …
01:18:36 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
Important If True 48: Mystery of the Crows
There are Great Mysteries out there. Conundrums so staggering and profound they can only be resolved by the world's greatest minds. What do you do when your barista knows your name, but you've never …
01:08:38 |
Thu 01 Feb 2018
Important If True 47: The Shitty Wizard
This week's episode is about Trust: when to extend it, when to withhold it, and when to cling to it because nothing else makes sense. When the same strange couple you don't know sends you a Christmas…
01:15:56 |
Sat 27 Jan 2018
Important If True 46: Cut Your Hair
This week we discover that no matter how far flung life's questions may seem, there may be a universal key that unlocks them all. For instance: How do you completely collapse the degrees of separatio…
01:06:50 |
Fri 19 Jan 2018
Important If True 45: Wax House, Baby
In the first Important If True recorded in the new year, we put our fresh reality through its paces. Kick the tires a bit. Ask the questions that really matter in 2018. Questions like: Is the saxopho…
01:13:55 |
Sat 13 Jan 2018
Important If True 44: Stream Frasier Online Free
It's a brand new year, time for fresh starts, time to throw those old cares away. Well, we know that's easier said than done, so we'll try and take care of a few big questions we know are on everyone…
01:15:15 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
Important If True 43: The Bad Gift Special
When someone says, "the gift that keeps on giving," they're usually describing something good, something exciting, something people want. But what about the bad gifts? The gift you ask for but regret…
00:48:23 |
Fri 29 Dec 2017
Important If True 42: The Ghosts of Hoistmas Past
You thought you were getting a new episode this week? We have news for you: Ho-Ho-Hoisted. That's right, it's bullshit Holiday Clip Show episode time, in which we are visited by ghosts (and goblins) …
00:58:01 |
Fri 22 Dec 2017
Important If True 41: A Very Happy Cow
There are certain pieces of knowledge, things one has observed or learned, that become like a single grain of sand in the folds of the brain. An itch you can't scratch, can't make go away. Something …
01:03:00 |
Sat 16 Dec 2017
Important If True 40: Tactical Turtle and the Songsmith
With Nick Breckon now contained within the computerized realm, this week's Important If True takes an algorithmic bent as we soldier on to discuss the issues that matter most. For instance: If you bl…
01:14:43 |
Sun 10 Dec 2017
Important If True 39: Organoids and the Human Mini-Brains
Join us for a very special Important If True, as we celebrate the season by giving thanks. Thanks for treasured relics from childhoods long passed, for new creations from Boston Dynamics, and for the…
01:05:23 |
Thu 23 Nov 2017
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