The One About The Important Thing

One hundred episodes. For this occasion, years in the coming, Lyle and Rands talk about the thing itself — the nuts and bolts of the podcast, including how the robots now do an alarming amount of the work, what a hundred episodes taught us, and why we use the "The One About…" naming convention.

🎁: the show has a home at importantthing.show. Deep-link a favorite or just scroll through a hundred episodes of history.

Stuff that came up:

• Riverside, where this show has been recorded since the We Are Netflix days
• Rands Leadership Slack, now staffed by a helpful jobs robot named Floyd
• Planetfall, the Infocom classic Floyd is named after
• Friends, the homage hiding in plain sight in every episode title
• Marco Arment, listening since at least Rands' fiftieth birthday

Related Important Things episodes:

• EP 56: The One About the Month of Podcasting
• EP 51: The One About Names... Again
• EP 98: The One About The Joy of Bots
• EP 18: The One About Sugar — Lyle's favorite, as heard on-air
• EP 78: The One About Sandwiches — the other favorite
• EP 96: The One About ARC Raiders — the first episode the robots dressed up