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 haunting original poems? Why does a puffin's

Important If True !!: A Funky Bad (Good) Apology

Apr 7th, 2018 17m 2s

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 quick episode about that, until Chris found a

Important If True 55: Consider the Water Lobster

Mar 30th, 2018 1h 18m

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, inscrutable and infinite. The only limits are you

Important If True 54: A 30 Foot High Screaming Billboard

Mar 24th, 2018 1h 3m

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, locked in undying clone warfare. The world'

Important If True 53: Alexa, Destroy Me

Mar 17th, 2018 48m 1s

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? Alexa, can you laugh? Alexa: Destroy me.Dis

Important If True 52: "Yeah, You Email It."

Mar 10th, 2018 1h 12m

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 account? Is it still a home assistant if it just l

Important If True 51: Indistinguishable From The Content

Mar 2nd, 2018 1h 17m

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 piece in a blank jigsaw puzzle, have you accom

Important If True :-(: Technical Difficulties (No Podcast This Week)

Feb 24th, 2018 1m 51s

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!In the meantime, send us your questions at [email protected]

Important If True 50: 4468, Y'all

Feb 15th, 2018 1h 10m

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 roll it down a hill to see what it might pick

Important If True 49: You Don't Just Eat 'Em

Feb 9th, 2018 1h 18m

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 don't just eat" Pringles, what DO you do with

Important If True 48: Mystery of the Crows

Feb 1st, 2018 1h 8m

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 managed to learn theirs? How can Mario crush

Important If True 47: The Shitty Wizard

Jan 27th, 2018 1h 15m

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 card every year, do you trust your mom that

Important If True 46: Cut Your Hair

Jan 19th, 2018 1h 6m

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 separation between you and viral HQ winners? Do you ac

Important If True 45: Wax House, Baby

Jan 13th, 2018 1h 13m

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 saxophone cool, or is it too real to be cool? If you

Important If True 44: Stream Frasier Online Free

Jan 5th, 2018 1h 15m

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's mind going into 2018. Questions like: What

Important If True 43: The Bad Gift Special

Dec 29th, 2017 48m 23s

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? The gift you already have, then foist off o

Important If True 42: The Ghosts of Hoistmas Past

Dec 22nd, 2017 58m 1s

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) of Important If True's past, and are are rem

Important If True 41: A Very Happy Cow

Dec 16th, 2017 1h 3m

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 you know to be true but no one else sees, or

Important If True 40: Tactical Turtle and the Songsmith

Dec 10th, 2017 1h 14m

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 blast Billy Idol from a boombox while covering

Important If True ?!: No Podcast This Week

Dec 2nd, 2017 3m 13s

Nick Breckon is somewhere on the West Coast of North America, and that's all we know. Unfortunately we don't have an episode for you this week, as we're still sorting this all out. Listen in as we fumble our way towards that conclusion, and sti

Important If True 39: Organoids and the Human Mini-Brains

Nov 23rd, 2017 1h 5m

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 gift of humanity itself—at least for a littl

Important If True 38: The Terrible Power of Knowledge

Nov 17th, 2017 1h 4m

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 away. For instance: Why is the number 314 omn

Important If True 37: Uncharacteristically Cursed

Nov 9th, 2017 1h 2m

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, let's just say, it's incredibly cursed. If you

Important If True 36: Never Say Goodbye

Nov 3rd, 2017 1h

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 about something that doesn't exist yet. Your

Important If True 35: Hammacher, Schlemmer, and You

Oct 27th, 2017 57m 57s

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 other in-home electronic device that signifies