Rank Ideas

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.

141 - Time Travel 06/30/2025

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™! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/37159590

140 - The Sanctity of Life 06/26/2025

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 goes until and beyond the boundaries of life itself! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/37159555

139 - Escapism 06/16/2025

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 even better platforms of bliss, in which case, I will pre-emptively assume your gratitude and heartfully say, you're welcome :) /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/36916145

138 - Progress 06/09/2025

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 inexplicable 9 month hiatus! Good news for the true loyalists who survive - we're back on the air and on schedule. This episode is about progress :) /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/36916090

137 - Ambition 09/25/2024

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 any risk of us getting it wrong. "Let's Rank!" /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/33200177

136 - Cringe 08/29/2024

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. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/32788527

135 - Punctuality 08/20/2024

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! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/32662127

134 - Anthropomorphisation 08/07/2024

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 extremely non-human inanimate features of our lives. We even name cyclones. Seems pretty cool. Maybe in time people will develop parasocial relationships with the random white noise sound that we release under the large language model generated podcast entitled 'Rank Ideas'. I hope so! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/32476062

133 - Deserving 06/11/2024

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 episode. But, of course, if you'd been here before then you'd know what to expect, and what more would you then deserve? Maybe it's all perfect after all. Of course it is. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/31695127

132 - Bullying 06/05/2024

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 to worry about being exceptional. You honestly couldn't fit in any better, even if you had a podcast ranking all human ideas so you could talk to your good friend regularly. Your friend who for some reason refuses to live on the same continent as you. What? Shutup. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/31611492

131 - Moats 05/09/2024

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, you're going to need to bring a big bridge with you. Because there's a moat. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/31222972

130 - Awards 04/19/2024

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 awards generally any good though? Listen up to know definitively! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/30897563

129 - Murder 02/21/2024

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, is the idea of murder useful in our quest for good life? Only time will tell. Time, and this episode of your favourite podcast, Rank Ideas! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/30047288

128 - Songs 01/29/2024

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 :) /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/29689463

127 - Whimsy 11/15/2023

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 even have a bookshelf. Purple monkey dishwasher. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/28651043

126 - Generalisation 11/08/2023

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. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/28552418

125 - Social Media 10/30/2023

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! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/28458707

124 - Selfishness 10/16/2023

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 - something like 160,000 in the 1950s. More than 7% of the entire city at the time. Insane to imagine. Some of the sins we lost include Tristitia (despondency) and Ἀκηδία (dejection), which I think is interesting. None of this really has much to do with this episode, but I thought I should include it just because I want to. You understand. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/28325264

123 - Time 09/26/2023

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 we were better at checking our emails. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/28151504

122 - Heroes 09/10/2023

122 - Heroes /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/27989274

121 - Taking Turns 08/29/2023

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 playing! We'll go first. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/27885852

120 - Giving Up 06/28/2023

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 and we broke up so I eventually gave up on my whole life at the time. 9/10 use of six months. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/27311616

119 - Reverence/Irreverence 06/17/2023

119 - Reverence/Irreverence Rank Ideas is an important cultural project. "rAnK iDeaS iS aN imPorTanT CulTurAl pROjecT" /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/27180120

118 - Pacifism 06/11/2023

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! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/27112710

117 - Money 05/17/2023

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! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/26863716

116 - Respect 04/11/2023

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 from all circumstances. Will this come up in the episode? No. Respect ultimately begins with respecting yourself, something you can actively practice by listening to the Rank Ideas™ podcast™ immediately! /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/26502501

115 - Laziness 04/03/2023

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 /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/26427507

114 - Rationality 03/22/2023

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 friends to do the same - the rational brain commands it :) /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/26310282

113 - Folly 03/14/2023

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 :) /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/26223618

112 - Sitting 03/05/2023

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. /episode/index/show/rankideas/id/26129877

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