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 38: The Terrible Power of Knowledge
Things are starting to come together. Everything is clicking into place. But somehow…it's not adding up. The more you understand, the less sense it all makes. Fortunately, we're here to help, so ask …
01:04:14 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Important If True 37: Uncharacteristically Cursed
We're not sure what your friend told you when they handed you this podcast, but you might not want to press play. Not because it's bad or something (we're pretty proud of it actually), but because, l…
01:02:49 |
Thu 09 Nov 2017
Important If True 36: Never Say Goodbye
Nothing is permanent, especially not these days. You look away for a second and look back, and the world around you has changed, subtly. A TV you swear wasn't there a moment before is yelling at you …
01:00:58 |
Fri 03 Nov 2017
Important If True 35: Hammacher, Schlemmer, and You
When we walked into your living room, and our eyes fell on your fine imported Brazilian Eucalyptis Coffee Table With Integrated Aquarium, we couldn't help but notice that the smartphone, tablet, or o…
00:57:57 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
Important If True 34: This is Celebrity Explainer
Can cold spaghetti enable your rise as a charismatic cult leader? How do you outrun your own 17-hour-tape-delayed ghost? How do you fight your homeowner's association? The world is confusing. Fortuna…
00:57:46 |
Thu 19 Oct 2017
Important If True 33: The Meme Scream
AAAAAAaahhhHHGHhggg! Oh, excuse us, that was just our podcasting equipment warming up. When you taste something gross, what compels you to tell your friend to try it? Or worse, to keep eating it? If …
01:02:41 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
Important If True 32: A Wish Upon a Star
Your dreams have come true, assuming you dream of a podcast in which we do our best to work through the world's biggest questions, starting with these: Why are twentysomething Canadian robots putting…
Thu 05 Oct 2017
Important If True 31: The Illusion of Control
We're going on a trip through the world's most bizarre mysteries, unanswerable conundrums, and dumb news, and it's going to take a while, so pack something healthy. No, we said healthy. Okay, fine if…
01:01:01 |
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Important If True 30: The Octopus Affair
While we grapple with the mysteries of the world around us, while we do our best to solve your conundrums, provide you with advice, and tease out your bizarre hypothetical situations, we are being wa…
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Important If True 29: Untethered From Reality
Each week we do our best to take your deeply important questions, distill them down to their essence, and find the truth within. Or something we make up. But sometimes, once in a big moon, the truth …
01:00:53 |
Thu 14 Sep 2017
Important If True 28: It Will Not Be Reused
You probably think you're pretty smart. Well, Einstein, chew on this: If a tree falls in an empty forest in an empty universe, does it make a virtual sound? Is Colonel Sanders really a powerful sorce…
01:03:32 |
Thu 07 Sep 2017
Important If True 27: Join and Undermine
Careful listeners might detect a hidden message in this podcast. Are you attuned to our frequency? Keep that in mind as you ponder these eternal mysteries: Is it better to smell a rose, or is it bett…
01:04:53 |
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Important If True 26: Get Hype
U mad? Yeah, u mad. Look, get a hold of yourself, and consider these conundrums. If a driverless car has a driver, but the driver is dressed as a car seat, is Tom Cruise a passenger? If your DNA gets…
01:06:17 |
Thu 24 Aug 2017
Important If True 25: The Fresno Experiment
Our weekly attempt to decipher greater truths from the bustle and hum of the world gets sidetracked, by the loudest hum ever heard. As we listen to what sounds like the vibration of a tens of thousan…
01:06:06 |
Thu 10 Aug 2017
Important If True 24: Eye Explodes, Brain Expands
If a podcast could answer all your deepest questions about existence, would you listen to it? Before you answer, consider this week's conundrums: Does an Amazon shopping algorithm know your own home …
01:06:57 |
Wed 26 Jul 2017
Important If True 23: To Me, To Me, To Me
A podcast of deeply important questions, asked by you, answered by us as truthfully as we can. This week: What is Jeff Goldblum doing in hundreds of the world's bathrooms? If an artificial intelligen…
01:00:19 |
Thu 20 Jul 2017
Important If True 22: Air Bud and the Average Man
As you bolt upright in bed, head still swimming, are you awake or do are you still in the realm of dreams? And while you're pondering that, consider these conundrums: Which television program is a bi…
01:03:02 |
Thu 13 Jul 2017
Important If True 21: The Real Monkeys
There are more questions, problems, and conundrums out there than can possibly be addressed in a lifetime, but we're doing our part, starting with these: Why did someone hide a room full of monkeys o…
00:54:04 |
Fri 07 Jul 2017
Important If True 20: Christmas is Canceled
If you had the ultimate power of suggestion over your friends, but only when mumbling while pretending to sleep, how would you use it? Will a coterie of highly specialized Christmas spirits put Santa…
01:04:05 |
Fri 30 Jun 2017
Important If True 19: Pearls Before Slime
The most deeply important questions on your minds, advised and distilled by us. This week: Why are genies skeptical of your perfect wish to save mankind from itself? Does a robot that eats and poops …
00:58:43 |
Thu 22 Jun 2017
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