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- Episode 98: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Fear the Internet (With David Rheinstrom)Content Warning: today's bad idea involves discussion of intolerance, online hate groups, and Neo-Nazism, all involving young people. If you would like to skip that and just listen to our chat with David about creativity and his work in media, you can start the episode at 20:20.Today on No Bad Ideas, special guest star David Rheinstrom returns with a bad idea of his very own!David brings us one of the scariest, most startling bad ideas that we've ever had on the show, and the team tries to find a way to disarm the bomb that is a teenage boy leading an online hate group. Then, we get to have a creative corner chat with David about his multifaceted pursuits, and how he's seen the world of podcasting and audio fiction grow up during his years hosting Radio Drama Revival.All of that, plus comedy that turns to pain, more serious veins, braggy-brags, secret terrorists, and the value of stories that confront the scary things around us.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1If you’d like to check out more of David’s work, follow him on Twitter, enjoy the back catalog of Radio Drama Revival, and find his courses on Khan Academy!Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.42 min
- Episode 97: Special Starfruit Destiny (With David Rheinstrom)Oh happy Monday! We’re delighted to be joined this week by our pal and everyone’s podcast dad, Mr. David Rheinstrom!We definitely take advantage of David's storytelling and culinary expertise, as we begin with a quite petty, very seedy robbery, and somehow leap from there to creating a society of fruit people who are destined to save the world. Then, we take a very contentious trip to Waffle House, and turn it into a dramedy of growing apart, achieving your dreams, and ruining eggs.Plus: the strategic frozen fruit reserve, renegade egg/sex energy, the Act 1 Girlfriend, the river of human foolishness, and how we stopped worrying and learned to love the omelet.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1Idea #2If you’d like to check out more of David’s work, follow him on Twitter, enjoy the back catalog of Radio Drama Revival, and find his courses on Khan Academy!Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.41 min
- Episode 96: The Mother Lode (With Montana Lampert Hoover)Today on No Bad Ideas, the squad is once again joined by the fabulous Montana Lampert Hoover, who helps us take on the mother of all bad ideas and chat a bit about her own creative process!Zach brings in what might be the worst idea, pound for pound, that we've ever tackled on the show. Together, the team tries to turn the chilling tale of what a man finds in his deceased mother's freezer into a journey of self-discovery, justice, and family. Then, we get to talk to Montana about how she's staying creative during the Alone Times that we're all living through and about the experience of writing a script after working as a performer for years.All of that, plus: Joe the Rat, Angela Lansbury, kingpins, crime bosses, multiple dead bodies, and conspicuously absent fathers.Today’s Bad Idea™:Idea #1If you want to check out Montana and her work, you can visit her site, follow her on Instagram, and find her work through the Letter of Marque theater company.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.44 min
- Episode 95: Don’t Touch It! (With Montana Lampert Hoover)Happy Monday! Friend of the show and actor extraordinaire Montana Lampert Hoover has bravely jumped into the NBI Hot Seat, and we rewarded her with… exploding hammers? Never be our friend, we’re terrible friends.As teased up top, in our first idea, Montana helps us try to justify a (real!) annual exploding hammer festival, and create a decidedly un-historical epic. Then, for our second story, we take a trip guided to a forgotten graveyard guided by a ghostly GPS, and develop a tale of just how much you ought to listen to voices from the great beyond.Plus: the 2020 version of Nailed It!, going full Joan of Arc, evil Alexas, sexy pottery, and how physics work.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1Idea #2If you want to check out Montana and her work, you can visit her site, follow her on Instagram, and find her work through the Letter of Marque theater company.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.37 min
- Episode 94: Creative Corner Chat with Felix TrenchThe Bad Ideas Team is once again joined by Felix Trench, lead actor of Wooden Overcoats and creator of Quid Pro Euro! Tune in for a discussion with Never Tense Trench about the joys and challenges of making your own show after working on other people's, as well the possible non-existence of comedic timing, the lack of good art about the European Union, and the benefits of a default dark mode.If you want to hear more of Felix, check out Quid Pro Euro and follow them on Twitter, hear him on Wooden Overcoats and The AM Archives, and find him over on Twitter and on his site.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.34 min
- Episode 93: Spy Cats (With Felix Trench)Hot on the heels of Europe Day 2020, we’re delighted to have the mastermind behind Quid Pro Euro himself, actor, writer, and comedian of legend, Mr. Felix Trench, on our inaugural transatlantic edition of NBI!We begin on neutral ground, in Canada, with a bet of epic proportions that leads to a court battle decades of rock-paper-scissors games in the making. Then, we take one California official’s horrific gaff over Zoom and transform it into the thrilling tale of an incompetent spy and the cat who is far more adept at destroying lives and bringing governments to their knees.Plus: obscure Russian champions, spicy bets, sleeper agents, the Garfield dimension, and extra tea.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1Idea #2If you want to hear more of Felix, check out Quid Pro Euro and follow them on Twitter, hear him on Wooden Overcoats and The AM Archives, and find him over on Twitter and on his site.If you'd like to visit Bookcase Credibility, check out their Twitter!Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.41 min
- Episode 92: Occult Librarian Fight Club (With Peter Coleman)Today on No Bad Ideas, special guest star Peter Coleman returns to help us tackle another bad idea and talk a bit about his own creative pursuits!Our bad idea today is all about museums - specifically, the #CuratorBattle challenge to share the creepiest object in every museum's collection. The squad and Peter work to turn one of the best collections of nightmare fuel the Internet has ever seen into a story of a young occultist trying to prove they're the very best, like no one ever was. Then, Peter breaks down what he's learned in his storied career as a voice performer and the art of bringing characters to life.Plus: twisty things, eyes in concrete, dead people, socio-economic political statements, and things that go bump in the stacks.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1For more of Peter’s work, you can find him at his website, follow him on Twitter, and check out his weekly comedy show, The Brick Wall.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.40 min
- Episode 91: A Manatee For All Seasons (With Peter Coleman)Because we’re bound by blood pact to have him in every single show we make, we are delighted to welcome actor extraordinaire Peter Coleman to the NBI hot seat!No messing about this week. We begin with another one of Florida Man’s legendary exploits, and turn it into a period horror comedy on the high seas where Seth Rogan voices a manatee. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, we turn to a pressing quandary: what do you do when your girlfriend hides and buries your supply of canned beans in the woods? Create a supernatural curse, that’s what you do.Plus: A Mowgli situation, a commitment to puns, a reverse Midsommar, giant bean monsters, and the dangers of drinking sea water.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1Idea #2For more of Peter’s work, you can find him at his website, follow him on Twitter, and check out his weekly comedy show, The Brick Wall.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.35 min
- Episode 90: Creative Corner Chat with Wil WilliamsThe squad is once again joined by Will Williams, podcast critic and co-creator of Valence! Join us for a discussion about the process of making audio fiction, the challenges of striking a balance between clarity and verisimilitude, and the perils of living in both the present and the future simultaneously!If you’d like to check out Wil’s work, you can head to Valence’s site and check out their Twitter, and also follow Wil’s twitter and her How To Audio Drama series on Discover Pods.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.28 min
- Episode 89: It's Cannon (With Wil Williams)Happy Monday! We’re delighted to declare this Wil Williams week, as one of our favorite audio drama creators and critics joins us to tackle a couple legendary ideas.We start in Texas, where a neighborhood disturbance turns into an E.T. situation by way of a battery of literal cannons. Then we pop over to a remote mining town in California, where a man’s unique lockdown situation has taken on a ghostly, haunted aspect. Obviously, we make it a sitcom.Plus: Mandatory found families, pulling a Schitt’s Creek, Jack London schooling Walt Whitman, the greatest cannon show anyone has ever seen, and the eternal enemy, Capitalism.Today’s Bad Ideas™:Idea #1Idea #2If you’d like to check out Wil’s work, you can head to Valence’s site and check out their Twitter, and also follow Wil’s twitter and her How To Audio Drama series on Discover Pods.Support the show: http://patreon.com/NoBadIdeasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.35 min
About No Bad Ideas
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The No Bad Ideas Podcast is the creation of Gabriel Urbina, Sarah Shachat, and Zach Valenti, three writer and artist-types who, in order to stay fresh creatively, have an excuse to hang out with each…
other once a week, and check in on what they're working on, take a terrible idea they found on the Internet each week and turn it into a compelling narrative. Or as close as they can get in 30 minutes. If you're someone trying to be creative yourself or even if you just appreciate a good story, you'll enjoy listening to Zach, Sarah, and Gabriel figure out how to make sense of the best (or worst?) absurdities the internet has to offer. We guarantee there have definitely been worse ideas.
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