Rank Ideas

Why IS a raven like a writing desk?

Everything the light touches, is our kingdom.

Do all cultures have something you're meant to say when people sneeze? In at least German and Hungarian you just say 'health'. That idea isn't explored in this episode, but don't worry, lots of others are.

Self-awareness would have saved me from a lot of the formative and stressful life events that led me to develop self-awareness skill points

You can never truly know anybody, including yourself. Except for celebrities! They're famous. 

There's no such thing as loving something too much. Is there? We realise that this topic may hit hard to those who are dedicated fans of the Rank Ideas Experience, but we continue our quest for sweet, unattainable truth. 

Porn is better than ever! Or is it worse than ever? Either way, people are getting sacked for accessing it on company time. But maybe that's a good thing? Let us know if you lose your job listening to this relatively SFW episode in office hours.

People are more mobile than ever, and it's arguably easier than it's ever been to find yourself a whole new home. How good is that? Not sure! Let's explore!

Rules were made to be broken. Pretty dumb expression if you think about it, but it's hard to think of any human-made rules that are universally obeyed. Cheaters can be heroes or villains as the tide turns, but what do we think of the general idea of cheating?

Nick and Chris invoke their own relationships with sport to defend what is certainly one of the most arbitrary human pursuits of them all. Season Spoiler: we think they're all arbitrary.

Do you want to live forever? Nick does, Chris isn't so sure. In literature immortality comes with a terrible curse, but literature isn't the truth so let's get ranking!

The ability to generate narratives is a striking power that lets humans store and share huge amounts of information on our path to dominate all life. Or at least, that is the information as has been presented to me across various synthesised constructs.

We were always going to come to look at faith eventually. Or at least, that's been my belief.

Our bodies change dramatically over the course of our lives and the capacity to make intentional edits along the way is a staple of cultural ritual and individual expression across all societies. Rank that idea? Why, we must!

So many people seem to have jobs, but you could say the same about the flu. The only difference I can see is that we didn't invent the flu, but we did invent jobs, so let's get ranking!

We will one day defeat the sun. That much is known. Let's see what hosts Chris and Nick think of the baby steps we are able to take on the way.

What better topic to explore for the two guys who have taken it upon themselves to rank all ideas to have survived the history of our species.

Like many words, genius originally had a neutral meaning, referring to one's innate ability. It came to mean exceptional natural ability around the 17th Century, a time that also gave us the Scientific Revolution! But also the Thirty Years War, so it's probably just a coincidence.

Our first foray into Bonus Content! Nick writes the theme song while Chris is there to hit record. It takes two and both roles are equally important.

Prisons seem to be pretty popular, but do we need them? Or are they in fact the only thing we need? Find out definitively with your inexpert hosts, Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey.

From the dawn of time, humans have prayed for hand dryers and jaffle irons. But have we gone full Icarus? 

Is it nice to be nice? Irrelevant - this episode, we're ranking, 'generosity'.

Let the ranking begin! All human ideas will be ranked by Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey. We kick off our first episode with a contest between those two hallmarks of any life well lived: lunch and the mail.

Rank Ideas hosts Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey talk about what exactly it is they're trying to do here.