Important Question? Podcast

Mankind, even with its self-destructive tendencies and weak links, is probably worth keeping around, especially when you consider that me, you, and everyone else in the world is a part of it. Sure, we’ll destroy ourselves eventually, but until then we should take comfort in the fact that overall, despite a few rotten apples, mankind is alright. After all, you couldn’t do better. Or could you? What if you had the chance to try? Would you sacrifice your only child to save mankind, essentially choosing between the world as we know it or a world as your sperm would know it?

What if you were drunk when your very pregnant wife went into labor at home? Well, aside from the marital counseling that would surely need to take place (who the hell is drinking that much with a wife that pregnant?) your options would be to either drive drunk to the hospital or deliver drunk at home. Which do you choose?

The only thing better than a simple glazed donut is the ability to taste it. Well, that’s not true. Take away the taste and you’re left searching for some kind of utilitarian purpose–maybe you can fill the hole of the donut with paperclips or use it to frame your favorite Jim Varney headshot. The fact is food is often inextricably linked with taste. So what if you had the chance to trade your sense of taste for say a lifetime of immunity? Would you do it?

Today on Important Question? Caleb and Gordon Highland play taste-taker and ask would you donate your taste buds for a lifetime of immunity?

What is suicide but just a theatrical way of telling those around you that you’d rather not see them anymore? Well, it’s a lot of things more than that. It’s sad. It’s painful. It’s emotional. It’s final. But is it also, as Gordon and Caleb ask, a reason to end a relationship?

If you have suicidal thoughts, please get help. Follow this link for some helpful resources: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org

Though sex change operations are becoming more affordable and less socially stigmatizing, perhaps most recently as evidenced by Bruce Jenner’s recent interview regarding his/her experiences, we still have a long way to go as a culture toward fully embracing the transgender/transsexual person. Gordon and Caleb attempt to unpackage the concept of de-packaging ourselves in this awkward episode of Important Question? Podcast where we ask would you get a sex change?

Sellout! Once the go-to insult for a generation of grunge musicians as well as doc Martens and flannel wearing wanna be grunge musicians, the term connotes a lost battle of sorts, the end result of artistic integrity losing to the promise of money and fame.

So, on this episode of Important Question? we measure our artistic weight in gold and ask would you sellout?

Despite our abundance of both intelligence and good looks, your hosts must choose to sacrifice one with age. Will they take life’s beating with the ugly stick, or succomb to a dumbing?  Listen to find out.

As the old joke goes: What’s the difference between Hitler and jock strap? One’s a dictator, the other a dick-toter. Absolute power may corrupt absolutely, but can you get anything done in a democracy? And so we ask, would you rather be a dictator or an elected president?

We’re also trying something new this time. We recorded the podcast in Gordon’s studio. Watch all the visual glory below. And let us know what you think of the format. We may do more in the future.

With the announcement of the Mars One program, over 200,000 earthlings applied to depart this shithole planet and endure eight years of training before a seven-month, one-way, unshowered flight to colonize an unspoiled one. Four will be selected every two years. And so we ask, would you leave this life behind and everyone in it to realize your astronaut fantasy?

On this episode of Important Question? we ponder the possibility of moving to Mars.

The greatest thing about childhood is of course the lack of shame when gobbling down copious amounts of candy. We even have Halloween, a day dedicated to begging strangers for the sweet vibrantly colored starter-heroine. And even better is being a baby with candy. Because we all know that taking candy from a baby is easy and wrong. Or is it?

On this episode of Important Question? we ponder to what degree would our taffy-like ethics have to be stretched before we take candy from a baby.