Important Question? Podcast

Today we talk social justice warriors, vigilantes, and the dangers (and joys) of taking the law into your own hands. Anything you listen to can, and will, be used against you in a court of law.

For careerists, it’s a question better answered than asked. Nearly rhetorical today, these six words that tempt even the healthiest among us. Ah, screw it; it’s your cheat decade. This week, we unsnap our top buttons and get the skinny on competitive eaters, couch potatoes, and so-called “food science.” Mmmm … couch potatoes.

How far would you go for fame? Would you be willing to kill a person? Or worse, would you be willing to…well, killing is pretty bad, so I’ll leave it at that for now. But surely there are other unthinkable horrors one could commit for the purpose of notoriety. Today we talk the awful lengths we would traverse for fame.

Ha, made you look! Get clicky and learn about listicle evils, sponsored content, and other obstacles to finding your kitten memes at the end of the browser rainbow. Brawndo: It’s got what plants crave.

Oh, them freaky ghosts. Even freakier, the paranormal investigators who seek to bust them (it makes them feel good, apparently). If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? And what exactly was Slimer before he died, anyway?

Weer gud reeders and righters, but if remaining literate meant never again experiencing the joys of the moving image (e.g., porn), would we kill our TVs, or burn our useless library cards? Thankfully, neither is a prerequisite for hosting podcasts.

Oh, what a wonderful year 2015 was. We were all a bit more innocent back then, weren’t we? Just thinking about it makes me happy and strangely makes me want to hoard unopened action figures and pristine snap bracelets.

Childhood was a carefree time in most of our lives, a time we’d all love to get back to. But can those hyper-colored glasses be trusted? Chances are what we loved about our childhood–the moves, the music, the toys–probably aren’t nearly as great as we remember them. So today we look back on fond childhood landmarks to objectively ask ourselves if these things tokens of nostalgia were really that good.

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Traveling for religious purposes. People do it all the time. Overweight white people visit Elvis’ grave. Boring English students find time for Yeats’ grave in Ireland (full disclosure, I fit into this group). Chaucer depicted a rag-tag group of actual pilgrims traveling from Southwark to Canterbury in the Tales of one of those cities. Three famous wise men did it all the way back in the year 0. I think Jesus counts as a celebrity. And that’s what we’re asking today. Would you go on a celebrity pilgrimage?

Imagine a world of real-life capes walking and flying among us. Could they be trusted with such power? What might that mean for the world’s religions? Does this sequined corset make me look fat? This week we unmask and debate everything from bigotry to bowel functions in the superverse.

About one in nine people on earl don’t have enough food to lead a healthy lifestyle. That sounds awful. But consider this staggering statistic. 100% of Important Question? Podcast hosts have too much home to be considered homeless. What if we could reverse both of those figures? What if shedding our sheds for a year would somehow eliminate hunger from the world. Would you go homeless for a year to end world hunger?