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 18: Important If Rhymes With True
This week things really hit the fan. If you're finding yourself clogged up with steaming, burning questions, if you're knee deep in problems and need advice, relax: We're here in a pinch to flush out…
01:06:26 |
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Important If True 17: What Dreams Are Dumb
What stuff, exactly, are dreams made of? Can a robot priest interpret them and, if necessary, absolve you? And, if you didn't believe our embarrassing story about poop, maybe you'll believe this oth…
00:59:33 |
Thu 08 Jun 2017
Important If True 16: The Pizza, the Bee, and the Trash Can
We cannot sanction your buffoonery. But we can, and will, personally hand-deliver your questions to Lord Hoistmas. Questions like: What is the true secret of the real 90s? How do you cleverly cover u…
01:08:27 |
Thu 01 Jun 2017
Important If True 15: Sexual Sneezing
Your questions, advised definitively. This week: Would you forego the need to eat if it meant you couldn't reproduce? Can a person like sneezing too much? Like, WAY too much? Is the Law & Order theme…
01:01:27 |
Thu 25 May 2017
Important If True 14: Your Worst Nightmare
The world is full of minutiae so inconsequential and baffling that sorting through it all isn’t worth your time. Good thing we’re here to sort through it for you! This week: How does a factory farmed…
01:00:52 |
Thu 18 May 2017
Important If True 13: "Veggie" Panino and the Nightmare Puzzler
If you come across a stranger on a dark, empty road in the middle of the night, and they tell you they can answer any question you ask, we hope you pick one of these: Does somewhere exist because you…
01:02:01 |
Thu 11 May 2017
Important If True 12: Once You Start, You Can't Stop
One day you open the photos app on your cell phone and find it's identified and categorized all of your best friends. Why look, there's a whole album of Chris playing Jurassicanji. Do you even know a…
00:55:12 |
Thu 04 May 2017
Important If True 11: The Purity of a Child's Boredom
Learning something new can feel like someone flipped on a light switch in your mind. If that person in your mind could flip the switch off and on whenever they wanted, controlling which things you re…
00:58:04 |
Thu 27 Apr 2017
Important If True 10: The Rooster's Stupid Secret
You've been given the chance to re-live your life from the start, with everything you know now. A chance to right wrongs, a chance to show them all? Maybe, if you're lucky. A chance—with our help—to …
01:01:59 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
Important If True 9: Wetzel's Podcasts
No one asked us to answer these questions. No one asked these questions at all, but as hosts of this podcast we must do our best: If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and it doesn't leave a will…
01:01:42 |
Thu 13 Apr 2017
Important If True 8: Ghosts 'n Goblins
The truth often hides just beneath the surface. Especially when that surface is a Furby’s skin, which is also a ghost. So what happens when our children decide they love their robot friends more than…
00:58:41 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
Important If True 7: Human Behavior
The universe is infinitely complex, filled with unlimited possibilities. To get to the truth we must tear down our preconceptions and ask real questions, like: Why does your friend remember a movie t…
01:09:37 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Important If True 6: Get Hoisted
If you could go back to King Arthur times, how would you impress all those medieval idiots? Would you dazzle them with memes? Would they celebrate you, or hoist you? Who's the man, they might ask? Ar…
01:01:40 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
Important If True 5: The Convergence Compulsion
Some questions are like an itch you can't scratch, or worse, an itch you can scratch as much as you'd like, but the itch doesn't go away. Today we indulge our compulsions and scratch away at the unsc…
01:00:57 |
Thu 16 Mar 2017
Important If True 4: A Thousand Dormant Machines
The road to the truth can take you through some dangerous places, so keep the windows up, the doors locked, and never, ever get out of the car. Or ignore that advice, and follow us down the truth’s s…
01:01:35 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
Important If True 3: The Power of 45 Brains
A researcher has determined that by 2025, if you string all our smart devices together—our Amazon Alexas and always-online talking teddy bears, our color-changing light bulbs and remote-controlled do…
01:06:18 |
Thu 02 Mar 2017
Important If True 2: Fight Garbage With Garbage
The great mysteries of our time lie before us, hovering tantalizingly out of reach, so instead we set our sights on the achievable. This week: What happens when flame robots battle garbage? Where's t…
01:04:40 |
Thu 23 Feb 2017
Important If True 1: A Gleaming Collaborative Future
I can't believe we've done this. It's a brand new podcast. Join us, won't you? We're delving into the minutiae of pop culture, technology, and our own lives to find some kind of meaning—or at least t…
01:03:35 |
Thu 16 Feb 2017
Important If True 0: Our Newest Show
In an effort to understand the baffling world around us, we take your questions about the most fascinating, inane, and inexplicable happenings you can find, and draw them out to their most extended—a…
00:05:08 |
Thu 09 Feb 2017
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