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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 8: Ghosts 'n Goblins
58m · PublishedSend us email 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.
Discussed: Cuties, a girl and her water heater, robot propaganda, Cervantes, "Alone Together" by Sherry Turkle, two thousand pounds of spiders, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Bob Hoskins on a blue screen, MIDI piano cacophony
Nick's Endorsement: Ice cream sundae with vanilla ice cream, Spanish peanuts, and Sanders Hot Fudge
Chris' Endorsement: The cold shower capper
Jake's Endorsement: Something True, true tales from the footnotes of history
Important If True 7: Human Behavior
1h 9m · PublishedSend us email 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.
Discussed: buff bros, pork chops, Cafe X, way-too-smart cars, gyroscopic smart spoon, Hopkinsville Goblin Encounter, E.T. (Amazon, iTunes), The Net (Amazon, iTunes), The Conversation (Amazon, iTunes), the ending to Predator (sorry for the poor quality), the Mandela Effect,
Jake's Endorsement: Interacting with humans
Chris' Endorsement: The rapturous reaction to last week's shoehorn endorsement
Nick's Endorsement: The experience of watching this subway saxophone confluence that occurred on a New York subway train. One must feast on this meal in the proper order: the opening course, followed by the entree. Mwah.
Important If True 6: Get Hoisted
1h 1m · PublishedIf you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Discussed: Snapple, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Credit Human, Egg Cuber, meme dreams, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones DVD release TV spot, Jeff Goldblum
Jake's Endorsement: Illinois Institute of Technology fight song
Chris' Endorsement: shoe horn (approachable normal sized shoe horn; intimidating weird large shoe horn)
Nick's Endorsement: Hot Winter Hot Sauce
Also: Listen through to the end for a sneak peek at our new true history miniseries, Something True!
Important If True 5: The Convergence Compulsion
1h 0m · PublishedIf you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Important Reference Material: self-driving car, self-driving flying car, robots wearing skin, The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, flu-prompted sociability, Streets of Rage cover art, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Amazon, iTunes), Steven Spielberg's early career, 45brains.online
Nick's Endorsement: Flonase Allergy Relief (Nick promises this is not a paid endorsement)
Chris' Endorsement: Kitchen salt jar (alternatively: a "salt pig." ugh.)
Jake's Endorsement: Berkeley High School morning announcements
Important If True 4: A Thousand Dormant Machines
1h 1m · PublishedIf you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Important Reference Materials: Goldblum noises, Smart House, Alexa, Blank Check, The Rock-Afire Explosion, carbohydrillium, Disney•Pixar Cars, popes, geological butts
Chris' Endorsement: Stayfocusd Chrome browser extension
Jake's Endorsement: Logan
Nick's Endorsement: Calling your aunt back; or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild if you just want to buy something and be a consumer
Important If True 3: The Power of 45 Brains
1h 6m · PublishedIf you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Important Reference Materials: Morgan Freeman Turkish Airlines ad, CloudPets hack, Furby, Teddy Ruxpin, children loving Alexa, Alexa making questionable choices, Tomes and Talismans, Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis
Chris' Endorsement: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
Jake's Endorsement: Witness, starring Harrison Ford (iTunes, free on Amazon Prime)
Nick's Endorsement: Finding and frequenting your local neighborhood bar
Important If True 2: Fight Garbage With Garbage
1h 4m · PublishedIf you enjoyed this and would like to subscribe to an ad-free feed, please consider supporting Idle Thumbs by backing our Patreon.
Important Reference Materials: flame drones, drone-hunting hawks, Poirot main titles, Matlock main titles, Careless Whisper, boops boops, Jaws, Murder She Wrote, historical Spartan pec-oilers
Nick's Endorsement: The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Amazon, iTunes)
Chris' Endorsement: Batman (1966) (Blu-ray, iTunes)
Jake's Endorsement: ThruYou by Kutiman
Note: Endorsements are merely personal recommendations by us, not paid advertising.
Important If True 1: A Gleaming Collaborative Future
1h 3m · PublishedImportant Reference: plane falcons, Snagglepuss reboot, zombie snails, Boston Dynamic's latest robot
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Chris' Endorsement: Fish Spatula, aka Fish Turner, aka Oliver Fishturner
Nick's Endorsement: Farberware Nonstick Skillet
Jake's Endorsement: Listening to Nick starting at 54:30
Note: Endorsements are our personal recommendations, not advertising content. We aren't paid to talk about that stuff. Sorry if that was unclear!
Important If True 0: Our Newest Show
5m · PublishedExplained: Some aspects of this podcast, Terminator pec oilers
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.