Nick and Chris both love to ride their bikes without a helmet, but that's illegal in Australia for safety reasons. Chris wears one even though he hates it. Not because he's afraid for his head, but because he's afraid of police. Safety has been achieved.
If we were to apply the scientific method to the scientific method, we might find its deficiencies. But would they be reliable? As always, the only route to meaningful truth is via the casual interrogation of two leisure class laypersons!
Chris and Nick love their ranking journey and love you for joining them on it. If you love this podcast, have that love ruined immediately with a hyper-interrogation of the very idea - it's the Rank Ideas way!
Welcome to another episode of Pulitzer Prize Winning podcast, Rank Ideas!
It's traditional for me to write something reflective, mildly subversive and vaguely informative in this episode blurb. Is that good? If I broke tradition and just gave flat-out descriptions of what we're doing in this episode, would that be better? By what metric? God, ideas. They truly are everywhere. We must tame them! As our fathers did, and their fathers before them!
Anyone who saw the 2020 AFL Grand Final where Gary Ablett Jnr broke his shoulder in the opening stanza of the final game in his stellar career knows that pain exists. But do we understand the relationship of the distribution of pain from ourselves to others? Is it useful to act as though it's a smooth an consistent law of nature? Couldn't hurt to ask the question!
Psychology is a relatively new discipline with a very ambitious brief. Coming from the root words 'Psych' meaning 'Psychiatrist' and '-'ology' meaning 'chronology', nobody really knows what is going on. There's no doubt a tremendous wealth to be gained from the understanding feelings, behaviours and their origins. But with a discipline that pathologised 'homosexuality' as recently as 1972, is it wise to give authority to a moving feast that is still on the run? Lie down in the chair and hear how...
Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned for two things and two things only: sports and electricity. That they should combine in our lifetime is truly a wonder. Is this the perfect fusion of two of our already-high ranking ideas? Well, we're early in the journey, but there's bound to be a lot to competitively unpack via our purely unbiased e-hosts, Nick "postivie KD ratio" Delatovic and Chris "I play a lot of age of empires 2" Endrey.
Welcome to the Rank Ideas podcast - please bear in mind that it's mine and you're just borrowing it for the next 36 minutes. Or however long this episode is. I don't know, I don't own a clock.
The Danes may have their 'Hygge', but we need to talk about 'comfort', because it's English that's colonising the world. Thanks to Friends and Seinfeld, I believe. So, find the good spot under a blanket on your favourite couch and turn off all notifications, because the fellas are going to put on their ranking moccasins and crack open a warm cauldron of fondue to get to the bottom once and for all of whether they're wasting their lives.
Apparently you've gotta know the rules to break the rules. Just seems like another rule to me. Also I'm not convinced that toddlers know about not peeing in the pool. It certainly never stopped me (Nick Delatovic).
Weird to think that probably any behaviour or activity you can name has been legal or illegal at some society through history. From Hammurabi to Newton, we simply love to codify. As they say, you've got to know the laws to break them, and our hosts Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey are always on standby to commit the one crime that authorities should actually fear - ranking every idea in order of best to worst on an ever expanding list.
I listened to a lot of Tower of Power in my teenage years - I'm not really sure why - but they had a song entitled "What Is Hip?", which shared the wisdom that "sometimes hipness is, what it ain't". Anyway, that's clearly a deeply uncool sentence in 2021. Does that matter? Quick! To the ranking factory!
What would you do if I told you this is one year since we started this podcast? Would you congratulate me, for such an arbitrary thing? Like some sort of sheep? Slave to forces you haven't chosen or dissected? Would you???!!! Thank you so much, we're very pleased to be doing it and grateful to have you along for the journey :)
When the situation changes, sometimes it's good to change. But if it's that good, why hasn't the chameleon overtaken every other species? Is it because that's a facile reading of the aesthetic of adaptability rather than the reality? Maybe! Maybe I should change my opinion when I'm wrong? But then, I'm not sure that's the trait of a successful podcast host at all.
If human civilisation lasts long enough, it appears likely that every conceivable behaviour will at some stage fall both on the 'compulsory' and 'forbidden' sides of what is considered to be moral. Fortunately, you don't need to speculate because in our own timeline, listening to Rank Ideas is the only remaining defensible moral behaviour. Thanks for doing it! Everyone else? To the hell!
In the Garden of Eden pandora's box was finally opened and suddenly everyone who was without pants had to build a church in Rome - 'This is My Rock', they'd say. Other than that, nudity seems pretty cool to me. There are inevitable downsidesTM, listen in for the full details on our clothing-optional take!
We at the Rank Ideas podcast are humbled to have climbed the mountain of 'perfection' in our own craft - sure. But what do we do knowing that 'perfect' is just a made-up word? Is it even a useful one? Find out in this flawed episode! Because of course, it's the flaws the make the strengths sing, in a balance that we execute in a manner that can only be considered to be, perfect.
Each day we at the rank ideas podcast stray further from God's Light. But without a path back, how will we return to Grace? Each year we at the rank ideas podcast fail to pay any tax upon our podcast millions, but without serving time in prison, how will we return to society? Consider this a public apology for any wrongs we may have done so that we can return to your ears and hearts and explore Redemption.
Pirates are always travelling the world with their friends, going on wild adventures and searching for treasure. But what if the real treasure is the friendships they forge along the way? Well - it absolutely isn't. Treasure is gold and jewels and occasionally fancy cups. And it rules. How hard? Listen in for full details!
During WWII, Churchill was asked to cut funding for the arts. He replied, ‘Then what are we fighting for?’ Except he never actually said that. He probably would've thrown every last painting from the national gallery into a furnace if it helped to power a single fighter plane. Is existence without art worth it? Shun Churchill - only Rank Ideas can tell you how to think correctly!
The idea that all of human knowledge is held and explored in the one place is cool, especially if it's a literal ivory tower filled to the brim with eccentric weirdos. Shame it's probably wikipedia/reddit. Regardless, we've decided to rank academia, for your consideration!
Natural = Good, Unnatural = Bad. It's a message you can find anywhere from election speeches to supermarket aisles. But what is natural anyway? Worship at the altar of the pristine by downloading our pre-recorded discussion and relaying it via satellite into your ears whenever you please!
Gene editing represents a huge leap forward in humanity's endless quest to customise all living beings as we see fit. It's happening as soon as now, but is likely to ramp up significantly in the coming decades. Playing God is a famous exploration of literature, probably because it's so cool and such a good idea with no notable drawbacks. Let's explore this topic together!
We're leaning into the inevitable and ranking podcasts this week. We've placed 'self-awareness' highly on the list, will this arm us with the tools we need to accurately grade our own medium? I doubt it! Our podcast rules! Number 2 in Monsterrat babyyy!!!
Consistency is important. Consistency isn't important. Constancy is impotent. What? Listen to Nick and Chris rank Consistency in the only way they know how - relative to other ideas on a list that will one day exhaustively house all human thinking.
Did you know that in Australia it's illegal to name a baby 'King'? But that's not the kind of name calling we're looking at here - you sun-beaten vegemite icy pole! Listen on, if you dare, you classics-worshipping kneepad-wearing discerning podcast listener!
T or F: True and False is an essential tool that helps us converge our flawed personal systems of perception into universalities based on agreed truths. I'm not sure myself, but if there's an itch, we're here to scratch it in the only way True Science has found - with ranking on a list!
You say you want a revolution? Well, you know - we all want to change the world. You tell me that it's evolution? Well, you know - we all want to change the world. But when you talk about destruction? I guess that's a feature on some level. Good or bad? Not a useful metric, so instead, we rank!
Not thinking can get us into an awful mess. The solution is obvious: we must think our way out! And if that's a mess too? We simply need Bigger Brains on the job. That's the Rank Ideas philosophy. But Rank Ideas - Philosophy? That's a whole other kettle of fish. Whatever that means.
