Important If True
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Important If True 56: In the Shade of the Puffin
15 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
To learn the answers to life's biggest questions, we must evolve, change, become worse. This week: Can an artificial intelligence programmed with the ...
Important If True <i>!!</i>: A Funky Bad (Good) Apology
07 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 slightl...
Important If True 55: Consider the Water Lobster
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 thous...
Important If True 54: A 30 Foot High Screaming Billboard
24 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Important If True 53: Alexa, Destroy Me
17 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 tr...
Important If True 52: "Yeah, You Email It."
10 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Important If True 51: Indistinguishable From The Content
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If a book about procrastination that was never finished or published, gets cited in a book about procrastination that sells a million copies, which au...
Important If True :-(: Technical Difficulties (No Podcast This Week)
24 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 50: 4468, Y'all
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 49: You Don't Just Eat 'Em
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 48: Mystery of the Crows
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 whe...
Important If True 47: The Shitty Wizard
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 st...
Important If True 46: Cut Your Hair
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 45: Wax House, Baby
13 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 real...
Important If True 44: Stream Frasier Online Free
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ca...
Important If True 43: The Bad Gift Special
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When someone says, "the gift that keeps on giving," they're usually describing something good, something exciting, something people want. But what abo...
Important If True 42: The Ghosts of Hoistmas Past
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Important If True 41: A Very Happy Cow
16 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 40: Tactical Turtle and the Songsmith
10 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 39: Organoids and the Human Mini-Brains
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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, fo...
Important If True 38: The Terrible Power of Knowledge
17 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 37: Uncharacteristically Cursed
09 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 (w...
Important If True 36: Never Say Goodbye
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 swea...
Important If True 35: Hammacher, Schlemmer, and You
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 34: This is Celebrity Explainer
19 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 homeown...
Important If True 33: The Meme Scream
13 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
AAAAAAaahhhHHGHhggg! Oh, excuse us, that was just our podcasting equipment warming up. When you taste something gross, what compels you to tell your f...
Important If True 32: A Wish Upon a Star
05 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 31: The Illusion of Control
28 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 some...
Important If True 30: The Octopus Affair
21 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 29: Untethered From Reality
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 28: It Will Not Be Reused
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 27: Join and Undermine
31 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 myste...
Important If True 26: Get Hype
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 25: The Fresno Experiment
10 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
Important If True 24: Eye Explodes, Brain Expands
26 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 23: To Me, To Me, To Me
20 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Important If True 22: Air Bud and the Average Man
13 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Important If True 21: The Real Monkeys
07 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 the...
Important If True 20: Christmas is Canceled
30 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 19: Pearls Before Slime
22 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 manki...
Important If True 18: Important If Rhymes With True
15 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 17: What Dreams Are Dumb
08 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 embarrassin...
Important If True 16: The Pizza, the Bee, and the Trash Can
01 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We cannot sanction your buffoonery. But we can, and will, personally hand-deliver your questions to Lord Hoistmas. Questions like: What is the true se...
Important If True 15: Sexual Sneezing
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 m...
Important If True 14: Your Worst Nightmare
18 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 thr...
Important If True 13: "Veggie" Panino and the Nightmare Puzzler
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 pi...
Important If True 12: Once You Start, You Can't Stop
04 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 11: The Purity of a Child's Boredom
27 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 when...
Important If True 10: The Rooster's Stupid Secret
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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? M...
Important If True 9: Wetzel's Podcasts
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Important If True 8: Ghosts 'n Goblins
06 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 chil...
Important If True 7: Human Behavior
30 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The universe is infinitely complex, filled with unlimited possibilities. To get to the truth we must tear down our preconceptions and ask real questio...
Important If True 6: Get Hoisted
23 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 5: The Convergence Compulsion
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ind...
Important If True 4: A Thousand Dormant Machines
09 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ign...
Important If True 3: The Power of 45 Brains
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Important If True 2: Fight Garbage With Garbage
23 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
Important If True 1: A Gleaming Collaborative Future
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Important If True 0: Our Newest Show
09 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In an effort to understand the baffling world around us, we take your questions about the most fascinating, inane, and inexplicable happenings you can...