We all worship something. Oh, you don't? What about your insistance that I'm wrong about us all worshipping something? I thought as much. Thank goodness you don't get a right of reply to our episode decriptions. (please forward all replies us at @rankideaspodcast)
I suppose you want to know what this episode's about. Well, it's in the title, privacy. Oh, you need more? Okay, but where does it end? You want my address? My blood type? Hit me up on the socials to ask, I'm not so big on privacy it turns out :)
Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot, like me? You don't? That's a shame, because I was hoping to illustrate the sin of envy. The Pussycat Dolls didn't seem to experience this kind of pushback. Why must they have everything I want!!?? I will meditate upon this question until I am finally happy.
Looking back, this will end up being one of your favourite episodes. It'll give you that feeling of before - which, good or bad, is at least familiar. And at the end of the day, isn't family what it's all about?
For an idea that gets so much play in the public sphere, I don't feel there's a lot of corresponding mapping of what values are. Let alone what they're good for. Thank goodness there are two loveable louts that are on-call to let us know the ultimate utility of most any idea. And they can be accessed at any time from your personal device? Now that, my friend, is value. I mean, values.
In many ways, Nick and Chris are your conventional Beauty & The Beast trope but with a modern twist (Beauty & The Beauty). It's good in theory, but in practice this is not a vodcast but a mere podcast. We can only survive by routinely googling "Nick Delatovic no shirt" and hoping that someone is uploading some hot new content, like this episode.
I'm no expert, but Freedom seems to me an idea that gets thrown around a lot more than it gets interrogated. And I guess that's for the best. Far be it from me to tell anyone else how to live. Except via the Rank Ideas List. Where will Freedom end up on it? Listen to find out, or don't, it's all your choice!
It can be very difficult to separate effects from causes. Especially when it can feel so good to find certainty. We at Rank Ideas HQ up on Moon Mountain are pretty cold on ideology in particular, given it seems to be the ultimate manifestation of explanaining at the expense of exploring. This makes intersectionality is a curious proposal, given it offers both a comfortable handle to circumvent this instinct, but is also a shorthand in itself. How will it rank? Find out, with your incrementally-a...
We at the Rank Ideas headquarters know that people love to back an underdog. It just feels so good when the little one chalks up a win over the incumbent titan! That's why - despite being a minnow in the podcasting world (outside of Laos) - we continuously behave as though we host the greatest show available in human history. Which we do. But we really don't want everyone else to act like that's the case. That would become tedious. Enjoy another episode!
Equality is an interesting idea that I will readily advocate for when shortchanged a piece of watermelon, and comfortably abandon when I am the one with the surplus melon. Unless I can trade the extra watermelon for some social credit/higher value melon. I wonder if this melon observation typed in a podcast blurb will earn me a Nobel Prize in Economics. And/or Literature. All things being equal, I guess I already have those. Closing remarks? 'Power of Equality' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers isn't...
It's our first major anniversary! Wow! What better way than to celebrate turning 100 than by letting our live audience select the most sexy topic imaginable to be ranked. That's right - it's boredom! We also snuck in a bonus round where we invited everyone to challenge anything on the list. Some good condenders! Listen to the end to see how they all fared. Thanks for joining us and here's to 100 more :)
Catch a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Sounds pretty good. Hard to think of a better system. Teach a man to deconstruct gendered proverbs, he will become insufferable for life. In fairness, chances he was already insufferable were probably good. Is this a good caption? I'm self-taught. Enjoy the episode!
Sometimes we voluntarily participate in systems that are designed to exploit us while being falsely presented as valuable. It's a sad, sad reality to navigate sometimes for the truly cucked. Don't forget to sign up to Chris' patreon over at patreon.com/endrey - that's patreon.com/endrey
If these trends continue, we'll never get to the end of knowledge. But maybe we will, let's be honest, how could you know. In the meantime, it's lovely that we have the capacity to explain everything else as magic. It just feels better that way.
"Without the ability to create, we are nothing. With the ability to create, we are nothing." - Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama never said that, as far as I know. I just made it up!
All you can eat is my favourite genre. But is it the best genre for me? Probably. Depends on the price. I'm sure there are other arenas of life where the concept of a limit may apply, and I'm confident that the only limitless thing you will experience today is the quality and rigour with which Nick D and Chris E tackle the topic.
I know that you only listen to the Rank Ideas podcast, but is that necessary? What if there were other, better podcasts out there? A fun abstract thought experiment maybe, but are there places where loyalty isn't so reliably rewarded, 100% of the time, by your favourite hosts Nick and Chris? A terrifying question to ask, but if we're loyal to one thing, it's the self-soothing narrative that we're bold.
Luck is everywhere, just never near me am I right?! But I'm sure that all evens out and today is your lucky day. Is this the episode where a special listener will win a car? Chance would be a fine thing. Will your listening be interrupted with unseasonable hail destroying the pie you left to cool on the window? Chance would be a fine thing, indeed.
In considering this episode description I searched for 'best and worst small talk topics' and learned that 'weather' is amongst the best, and 'religion' amongst the worst. Confusingly, however, 'Jupiter, God of Weather' didn't seem to rate a mention at all. But enough about me. Have you heard any good podcasts lately?
Let's just say, this week's episode is just like when you have to make a hit podcast where you take an idea and rank it in an ever expanding list in order from best to worst. Your humble blurb-writer was never much one for creative thinking, but Nick and Chris will surely find the correct home for 'analogy' on their MasterList!
You gotta be cruel to be kind. Not sure if that's true, but it's definitely true that you can inadvertently be cruel through being kind. There should be a platitude that says 'all proverbs are true' so that we can screw up our faces and give them the mistrust they deserve. Sorry if that's a cruel way to teach, but you gotta be cruel to be kind sometimes.
Our collective understanding of the past does a tremendous amount of heavy lifting in how we navigate our own time. It is a force that cannot be overstated. "The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding." Ariel Durant said that, but maybe others did too. The history of this quote may be incomplete.
The universal acclaim that the Rank Ideas podcast has achieved might make you assume that Nick and Chris would be instinctively warm to the idea of criticism. True listeners know however, that Nick and Chris are instinctively warm to nothing! Except of course, each other, dense meals, and other types of meals. Criticise that, we dare you.
Like all good wellness coaches, Nick and Chris begin each day with several hours of goal setting, planning, and visualising how each action taken in that day will contribute towards attainment of these goals. There's truly only one downside to this - having to live in a society full of MORONS who refuse to be as deliberate in their path to becoming what they were always meant to be. Namaste.
We've got an old saying in Canberra. Shame me once? Fool on you. Shame me twice? The point is: you're not going to shame me again. Unless you don't like this podcast. That's a shame from which I couldn't recover. Good thing for all parties then that it's another invincibly flawless 'ep' for your considered consumption!
Pragmatism doesn't seem to be the type of banner that people flock to rally behind. Is that what makes it good? Or even the most amazing idea of all time? Not sure. Maybe we should temper our excitement with a dose of calm consideration and fire up the ol' Rankotomatic Deluxe! (It's just Nick and Chris).
They say romance is dead, but don't worry. It definitely isn't. Should it be? Maybe do worry! Pour a glass of wine, run a bath and feather the surface with petals as your favourite hunky lotharios take each other by the hand and lead us all on an exploration to the only known place of loving care and connection: a precisely-ranked list.
When I was a child I imagined the soul was somewhere in the middle of my torso. Now that I'm a man, I am enlightened enough to know that it's sort of just all about, maybe even in the head too. The important thing is to realise that it emits a sort of golden-blue mist when I do good things, but glows an ugly dank colour when I do bad things. The science may not support me, but the beliefs and actions of millions can't be wrong! Can they?????
Think of the most intelligent person you know. What makes them so? What are their strengths? As importantly, what are their weaknesses? Are they significant? Significant enough to be called unintelligent in that realm? What are we all talking about when we use this word! Let's figure out if it's useful or not, with your two favourite leaders of the unintellgentsia, Chris and Nick.
It's amazing how far people will go when in the thrall of a charismatic environment that maps very soothingly to their needs and blind spots. My friend Jeff created a board game called 'Cult' where you can play as Jesus, Charles Manson, Oprah Winfrey or Bob Brown. Needless to say, I consider myself immune to the allure such silly people and have instead signed my life over to the cult of my friend Jeff.
