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Important If True
by Idle ThumbsThree 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.
Copyright: Copyright 2024 Idle Thumbs
Episodes
Important If True 56: In the Shade of the Puffin
1h 4m · PublishedDiscussed: Solo: A Star Wars Story, Chewbacca, Ron Howard, Rob Howard, fluorescent puffin beaks, sweet puffin shades, Copiale cipher, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Zodiac killer case-solving robot writing poetry, future human Graham who evolves to survive car crashes, Marbled Crayfish: The Crayfish That Clones, Graham's asexually-reproducing lobster children
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Jake's Endorsement: SN30 Pro Controller to play modern video games with an SNES-like controller
Chris' Boring Endorsement: UGREEN External Hard Drive Enclosure to root through and your old hard drives and copy the important stuff to your new huge hard drive
Nick's Canadian Endorsement: The great Canadian sport of curling (see photographic evidence here)
Important If True <i>!!</i>: A Funky Bad (Good) Apology
17m · PublishedWe'll be back next week with a full episode, but don't be surprised if a few upcoming episodes are missed or come in a little short.
If you're new to the show, we recommend you skip this episode, and browse back a couple weeks to find a full episode that sounds appealing. We're really proud of the last few months of the show and hope you enjoy it!
Discussed: Hello My Future Girlfriend
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Important If True 55: Consider the Water Lobster
1h 18m · PublishedDiscussed: dulcet tones, glitter bombs, helping, the hone zone, self-cloning mutant crayfish, human extinction via water lobsters, wax housing the coati, being back, thin-faced fortune-smashing robot arm, charming fortune cookie fortune-writing mom, redacted fortunes, robots making robots making microchips, The Matrix but with crayfish and the point is to get rid of glitter, Twista's extended family line obliterating all stellar mass
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Jake's Endorsement: "My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data" by Ian Bogost
Chris' Endorsement: "Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand" by Mark O'Connell
Nick's Cowardly Improvised Endorsement: Watching "Jeopardy!" (or playing The Authentic At Home Jeopardy from Hammacher Schlemmer)
Nick's True Endorsement: Wonder Bread (learn about its racist history!)
Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes (first brush head refill free), Happy Birthday David (from Sarah), Happy Birthday Mike (from James)
Important If True 54: A 30 Foot High Screaming Billboard
1h 3m · PublishedDiscussed: Nick Breckon's Existence, actors archiving facial scans to live forever, scanning your face while Peter Thiel drinks your blood, the far-future silver-gilded George Clooney, living under the tiresome watchful eye of a 200-foot-tall PewDiePie, Jake getting kicked out of the Millennials, dual-piloting the Tom Hanks mecha-robot, Martin Shkreli digitizing his brain at the exact moment of his sentencing, Important If True 19: Pearls Before Slime, the ingredients of Nickelodeon Slime, the ingredients of Nickelodeon Gak, Jake settling deep into his new Gen-X identity, the Ancient Galactic Brain PewDiePies, local fortune cookie production, the paradox of the accurate fortune cookie, fortune cookie driving you into a slow-motion spiral of depression and regret, fading out like a Star Wars ghost, the fortune cookie we need in 2018, the missing Year 0, Jake's future life on the moon
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Nick's Endorsement: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
Jake's Preliminary Endorsement: The unfindable book "How to Host a Double Dare Party," which apparently had a VHS counterpart
Chris' Endorsement: A delicious breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, nestled into egg cups and uncapped with an egg clacker, served alongside toast soldiers with butter and Marmite
Jake's Endorsement: MIT Technology Review article about a mind-uploading service that is "100% fatal" (cf. Jake's pork chops story)
Important If True 53: Alexa, Destroy Me
48m · PublishedDiscussed: New Zealand "A.I." followup, fake A.I. doctor "Zach", fake A.I. lawyer "Hustle", competitive underground tickling/conspiracy documentary film "Tickled", Dick Wolf Presents "Hustle & Zach", our present podcast-fueled existential discomfort, newscaster affectations, Alexa laughing, the first rule of virtual assistants, why Alexa laughs, genie wine update, fast rapper Twista, fast rapper Twista's extended family tree, the beautiful harmonic resonance of fast-rapped wine notes, the Buzzfeed.com oral history of Twista's wine note rap battle mixtape masterpiece, sucking that delicious wine out of your carpet fibers, getting what you wished for (????)
Chris' Endorsement: Drawful by Jackbox Games (available for many devices in the Jackbox Party Pack)
Jake's Derivative Tacked-on Endorsement: Tee K.O. by Jackbox Games (available for many devices in the Jackbox Party Pack 3)
Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes with your first brush head refill free
Important If True 52: "Yeah, You Email It."
1h 12m · PublishedDiscussed: Canadian Baiting, Hometown Baiting, New Zealand medical supercomputer AI "Zach," bears: just people in bear costumes?, going blockchain crazy, Long Blockchain Corp, Alexa randomly laughing at people, surveilling yourself to capture precious memories, telling your first joke, tech billionaires uploading themselves into the cloud, The Feds Have Martin Shkreli's Wu-Tang Album, file copy vs file move operations, why can't the Wu-Tang album be released by FOIA, unsolicited factoid about Oreos, digging deeper into the infinitely-improving immortal bottle of wine
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Chris' Endorsement: Party game One Night Ultimate Werewolf
Jake's Endorsement: Max Krieger's Twitter threads on the Metreon and other interesting urban/commercial design
Nick's Endorsement: Coway AP-1512HH Mighty Air Purifier
Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes (your first brush head refill free), Planetarium comic miniseries on Kickstarter
Important If True 51: Indistinguishable From The Content
1h 17m · PublishedDiscussed: Getting your hair cut internationally, 1000-piece one-color jigsaw puzzles, encoding a secret conspiracy clue into a blank crossword puzzle, planetwide fractal puzzle solving, Vine, coining a phrase, forming relationships inside The Content, forming a relationship with The Content, convincing Jeff Goldblum he knows Nick Breckon, Jeff Goldcast, 39-year Wax House, Procrastination Through the Ages, the tragedy of self-improving wine, mystery box wine, the Hope/Jobs/Cash tontine
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Nick's Endorsement: Appreciating the Olympic sport of Curling
Chris' Endorsement: German language Weimer Republic police drama Babylon Berlin (Netflix, original book series)
Jake's Endorsement: Improving your Google Image Search results by installing the extension View Image (Chrome, Firefox) and adding the text "-site:pinterest.com" to your search query
Chris' Potential Future Endorsement: Marmite yeast extract
Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes (your first brush head refill free), Edd Miles, Greg Blackburn
Important If True :-(: Technical Difficulties (No Podcast This Week)
1m · PublishedIn the meantime, send us your questions at [email protected]. If you enjoy our actual episodes that aren't engineering disasters, and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Important If True 50: 4468, Y'all
1h 10m · PublishedDiscussed: Valentine's Day, Valentine's Boxing Day, what this podcast is, David Lynch, a Mythbuster, busting, Thimbleweed Park, real-life hint system, staying on the phone, Albert Brooks, the quantum physics of the universe, y'all, the Google/Facebook mega-matrix, Alexa, J.J. Abrams, 4468 Cloverfield, the incomprehensible infinitude of data we have at our disposal, trading hint futures on Wall St., real-life save system, Edge of Tomorrow, Live Die Repeat, respawning to prevent organ failure, Silicon Valley anti-toxin tech bro Peter Thiel, the most useful life (to benefit Peter Thiel), Lore Lord Bean, Important If True 35: "Hammacher, Schlemmer, and You", the death of tragic goose Thomas, the mixing up of Flemish words, too much clam in the beverage, Clamato, massively popular Canadian drink the Caesar, weathered old bromides
Thank you all so much for listening to 50 episodes of Important If True! Send us your questions at [email protected]. If you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Nick's Endorsement: Blue Planet II (Blu-ray, Amazon Video, Netflix)
Jake's Endorsement: Slow Burn, a Slate podcast about the Watergate scandal
Chris' Endorsement: A Very Fatal Murder, an Onion podcast satirizing true crime podcasts
Chris' Secondary Endorsement: Extra long-handled shoehorn
Sponsored By: Quip electric toothbrushes (your first brush head refill free), Tracy Carlson
Important If True 49: You Don't Just Eat 'Em
1h 18m · PublishedDiscussed: Dodgson (nobody cares), calling people on the phone, The Coldblum, Nigel "No Mates" the Lonely Gannet, radicalized Men's Rights Birds, dorky-looking Night Herons (god what nerds), bird catfishing, The Lake Merritt Center for Thirsty Birds, Pringles: You Don't Just Eat 'Em, a name like Smuckers, Fuddruckers, The Nigel Experiment, A scientist's thoughts on the Crow Box, the loneliest food, sandwiches, the Red Vines waxy pound, The Guardian's history of the British packaged sandwich industry, [ASMR] ~British Packaged Sandwich Industry~ podcast crisp mouthfeel.mpeg, Orson Welles' frozen peas commercial outtakes, street pizza, bird self-recognition, bird-on-human political gaslighting
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Jake's Endorsement: Jordan Eldredge's full-featured Winamp 2 running in your web browser
Nick's Endorsement: Teaching yourself to draw, even if you do it badly
Jake's Chained-On Endorsement: Taking a community college introduction to studio art or drawing class
Chris' Corrective Endorsement: The Android version of New York Times Crossword, which exists, contrary to previous claims
Chris' Endorsement: MP Matt Hancock's inexplicable personal social network "Matt Hancock MP" for iOS and Android
Sponsored By: Quip toothbrushes (your first brush head refill free), Video Death Loop podcast
Important If True has 59 episodes in total of explicit content. Total playtime is 60:26:20. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 22nd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 4th, 2024 09:26.