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Rank Ideas
by Chris Endrey and Nick Delatovic
Rank Ideas is the definitive list of every human idea ranked in order from best to worst.Hosted by Australian artists, Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey.
Episodes
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146 - Retirement
Hang up the boots. Give the game away. Get the gold watch and walk off into the sunset. It'll give you more time to listen to our episode passing judgment on your conceptualisation of such things. And, over time, all things.
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145 - Style
Do you ask a shark to rank fearsome? Do you ask Apollo to rank beauty? Do you ask the moon to rank mystery? Do you ask marionettes to rank subservience? Of course not. And yet! You ask us to rank style - and we don't even blink. What's more, we do it with an impossible blend of confidence…
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144 - Resilience
If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. With that cleared up we can dust off our rank coats and get adorned so that we can look the part astride our rank beasts, who are naturally resplendant in rank regalia of their own. I say, 'of their own', but they...
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143 - Lore
Born from an egg on a mountain top, punkiest Nick and Chris that ever popped. They knew every magic trick under the sun, to tease the gods and everyone and have some fun. Monkey Magic, Monkey Magic, Monkey Magic, Monkey Magic. Confirmed true. The rest is all academic speculation/fan theory.
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142 - Gratitude
Whoever it was that send us the 'thank you for ranking ideas' card and bouquet of expensive nuts - we want to say, 'thank you'! And what better way to do that, than by recording yet another episode of your all-time favourite podcast. Who knows what the theme of such an episode could be! I'm sure…
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141 - Time Travel
If you could travel forwards just 41 minutes you would realise what a great decision it is that you're about to make. That's right, spending the next 41 minutes eating a big huge sandwich while mapping out where in your week you can schedule the perfect time to enjoy another episode of Rank Ideas™!
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140 - The Sanctity of Life
Life - it's the best thing we get. And yet it is replete with suffering! Hellish paths or no, you can't enjoy a good soda water from beyond the grave. Should life be protected at all costs? Surely not all costs. What is the limit? Find out, as we perfectly rank yet another idea on our quest that...
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139 - Escapism
I understand that a lot of people listen to podcasts as a form of escapism. What better way to escape that, than to switch on, lock in, and explicitly explore the concept itself! I'd apologise in advance for ruining the concept, but this distressing experience could end up inspiring you to seek...
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138 - Progress
Is progress linear? Of course not. But is linear progress? Also no. If you imagine everything as a progress bar, you're probably frustrated by the rate of petrol cars. But, of course, if you're frustrated by slow progress bars, you would have been filtered out of our listenership during our...
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137 - Ambition
Today we're ranking Ambition. But for full disclosure - we are on a mission to rank every single human idea in the correct order from best to worst, so we may be a little biased when it comes to the topic. Fortunately for you, the self-awareness that led to the above disclosure more than offsets...
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136 - Cringe
I think I may have already referenced the Tower of Power song, 'What is Hip?', in an earlier episode, but if it's not too 'cringe' to repeat myself, I will once again say: 🎶"sometimes hipness is, what it ain't" 🎶 Something to think about.
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135 - Punctuality
I'm starting to think that Nick is picking these topics to send me a message. What's next? 'Being really good at board games'?! Well guess what buddy - it's gonna rank highly! Very highly indeed. Higher than your precious punctuality? We must wait and see!
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134 - Anthropomorphisation
As a kid I had a varnished timber bed and it was impossible to lie there at night and not find all sorts of faces and other patterns in the knots of the wood. Similarly, it seems to be unavoidable to some degree to do the same at the conceptual level and ascribe human traits to all sorts of...
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133 - Deserving
Who could more deserving of an elegant description of this episode than you, the person who has come to read one? And yet, there's so seldomly one to find here. Far more likely that you'll find a slathering of semi-conscious, tediously self-referential musings on the noun that forms the week's...
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132 - Bullying
This episode description? Wow, you found it! Well done, I'm honestly surprised. But can you read it? You can? Oh yeah, that's right - you love to read. How else would you enjoy your subscription to Dork Magazine? Haha, I'm just kidding around! You're really normal. Don't worry. You'll never have…
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131 - Moats
The premium way to prevent people from storming your fortress, is to surround it with a deep trench that you fill with water. I'm sorry if this is news to you. If you think that this episode is looking at moats as a mere metaphor, then I invite you to raid our podcast HQ. But I have to warn you,...
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130 - Awards
It's incredible to think that after all these years, the Rank Ideas podcast is just four trophies away from our feted EGOT. While we wait, we are lucky to have the greatest award of all - friendship. And this old soccer trophy I have that says 'best podcast co-host' in Nick's handwriting. Are...
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129 - Murder
I wonder if there's been a single year in the history of our species where a person hasn't taken the life of another. It would have to have been a year when there weren't many of us around. I hope we can get another such year soon! 2024 is already out, so it'll have to be 2025. In the meantime…
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128 - Songs
la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la feel free to add your own intonation :)
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127 - Whimsy
Whimsy. /ˈwɪmzi/ synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality. type of: irresponsibility, irresponsibleness. Damn. That doesn't sound so good. Good thing the thesaurus doesn't have much of a role in modern society. Especially not in the Rank Ideas HQ, which doesn't...
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126 - Generalisation
Every episode we release these days is about generalisation. Same must go for every podcast. That's new media for you. Next you'll be telling me that all new media is podcasts. Which, also, is correct.
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125 - Social Media
Excited to report that our species is almost totally connected to each other and we can finally find harmony by hearing everyone's perspective. Ceaselessly. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe!
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124 - Selfishness
In writing this episode description I looked up the 7 deadly sins. It turns out there used to be more but they were cut down by combining them and then re-expanded before being picked up by Billy Graham of all people. He still holds the record for largest crowd at the Melbourne Cricket Ground -...
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123 - Time
Time might seem like a funny thing to rank - after all it's an undeniable part of the natural world. But with a bit of digging, it seems clear that our experience of time is really impacted by our cultural framing of it. For the best? You tell us! By meeting us in the past, ideally at a time when...
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121 - Taking Turns
This week the guys have invented a new game for you to try! Unashamedly, it's called Rank Ideas. Basically, everyone on the planet gets together in pairs and ranks all human ideas on an ever-expanding list in order from best to worst. It's super fun, we just know you'll love it. Thanks for…
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120 - Giving Up
To 'give up' is a phrasal verb. I learned this a couple of decades ago when I successfully lied my way into a job as an English teacher for adults. I kept it up for six months, always learning one class ahead of my students. It was really fun and I loved it, but then my girlfriend moved abroad…
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119 - Reverence/Irreverence
Rank Ideas is an important cultural project. "rAnK iDeaS iS aN imPorTanT CulTurAl pROjecT"
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118 - Pacifism
War is surely bad. Peace is surely good. So, it naturally follows that Pacifism must be... You'll simply have to listen in to find out. In the meantime, be grateful that Nick and Chris have buried the hatchet for long enough to return for another flawless episode of Rank Ideas!
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117 - Money
Money, it's a gas, makes the world go round, must be funny, if I were a rich man, etc. Our ranking is based upon a small sample size. If you are dissatisfied with the result, please send more data to: Christopher Endrey Bsb: 063254 Acc: 10305902 Thanks in advance!
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116 - Respect
Is respect important to you? I'm not sure if it's important to me. I guess it's about the context. I love to respect the ability of Jeremy Cameron to kick goals from all circumstances but I simultaneously do not respect the things that interfere with my capacity to watch Jeremy Cameron kick goals...
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115 - Laziness
I'm sorry I didn't get around to writing a caption for this one, I was too busy lying in the hammock where I play candy crush until the battery dies
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114 - Rationality
The rational brain is the monarch that reigns supreme. That said, it's the rational brain that's making me write this, so maybe don't trust that too much. If you want the purest possible form of truth on this or any matter, simply listen to the Rank Ideas podcast. And, of course, tell your…
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113 - Folly
When I think of 'folly' I think of the two most wonderful guys sitting down recording themselves ranking ideas until they get to the end of all of them. Because such a pursuit is in any way foolish? Heaven's no! I think of them, because it's the idea that they're ranking this week :)
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112 - Sitting
This is the first time in our lives that we've ranked sitting. Will we be swayed by the fact that we're sitting during the conversation? Probably, but it's our only real option. Other than, of course, lying down, standing up or kneeling.
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111 - Fornication
Fornication can get it! (a ranking)
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110 - Worship
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)
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109 - Privacy
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 :)
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108 - Envy
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.
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107 - Nostalgia
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?
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106 - Values
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...
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105 - Beauty
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...
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104 - Freedom
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...
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103 - Intersectionality
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…
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102 - Underdog
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…
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101 - Equality
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…
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100 - Boredom (live!)
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...
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99 - Teaching
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...
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98 - Cuckhold
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
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97 - Magic
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.
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Rank Ideas is the definitive list of every human idea ranked in order from best to worst.Hosted by Australian artists, Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey.
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Rank Ideas is created and hosted by Chris Endrey and Nick Delatovic.
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