Chris Endrey Podcasts

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 al…

Chris Endrey & Ragged Blossom on the Mustard Flats Podcast EP32 This episode Canberra icon and former Mr ANU Chris Endrey joins singer-songwriter Ragged Blossom in the flats to talk working with SAFIA and Lucy Sugerman, moving to California plus we premiere their new music.By Mustard Flats

Brittany De Marco & Haylee Karmer join us in the flats. Two of the biggest names in the Canberra club scene join us in the flat to talk about the state of dance music and DJ culture in the capital. Brittany was the longest standing resident DJ at Mr Wolf through its prime and now can be seen every weekend as the headline resident at Fiction Nightcl…

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

BOHIE & Smalls on the Mustard Flats Podcast EP30 We discuss the RIP Toxic Masculinity piece that was removed from Surface Festival last week and the Ash Barty mural that served up a social media storm. After travelling Europe and North America while developing her skills as a traditional sign writer, Bohie brought her arts practice home to Braidwoo…

Jedbrii & MN Cappo on the Mustard Flats Podcast EP 29 Both with new music on the way and both returning to the stage in coming weeks plenty to talk about with Canberra rap royalty Jedbrii and Cappo. Keen to discuss the different direction their music has taken recently and dive into the heartbreak, self-doubt, and politics that peppers their music.…

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 t…

Hailing from South West Sydney, Swaze has left his mark all over the world while travelling as a professional graffiti artist. He has painted on some of the world's most dangerous walls from the Brazilian favelas to Mexican gang neighbourhoods. Weather it’s bombing illigal walls or commision pieces Swaze has plenty of stories from the road. David C…

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?…

Kirklandd & Tommy Balogh join us in the flats. Fresh off the back of a huge Sydney show with Lil Spacely, Kirklandd is back home for a new live show experience this weekend. After much hype from T-Pain keen to catch up with the local rapper to talk about what to expect with his new releases. Long time collaborator Tommy Balogh returns to the flats …

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 some…

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 incomp…

Ashley Feraude & Jared Calnan on the Mustard Flats Podcast EP26 Two of Academy's most loved resident DJ’s, @feraude & Jared Calnan join us in the flats. Both spent the early part of their careers in Academy and credit it as a huge influence on where they are now. Going on to develop some of Canberra’s most iconic nightspots and shape the city's sou…

Tonight a Canberra Short Film Festival @canbshrtfilmfest special edition. We’ll be live with a bunch of filmmakers in the studio and calling in. Jamie is the king of Canberra content and has a number of vids in the festival this year. Walking In Two Worlds is a collaboration with Luke Currie-Richardson exploring the contemporary and the traditional…

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.…

We’ll be bringing out the good coffee cups and having a little yarn with Canberra singer-songwriter Hope Wilkins. After a year of covid canceled shows we are keen to see the Best Live Act nominee back in front of big crowds and with new music on the way it won't be too long we “hope”;) Owner and producer at the brand new Darling Street Studio, Keo …

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…

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!…

David Chavez is a world class tattoo and graffiti artist who has worked with the worlds best including Estevan Oriol, Mr Cartoon, Peque and Swaze. You will know his work from the Jackie Chan mural in Dickson and you can catch the Mustard Flats feature on David Chavez & Peque’s Aztec Mayan wall here https://youtu.be/H90dS2NPI2o. You can also find hi…

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 sc…

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…

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 in…

Nick and Chris both love to ride their bikes without a helmet, but that's illegal in Australia for safety reasons. Chris wears one even though he hates it. Not because he's afraid for his head, but because he's afraid of police. Safety has been achieved.

If we were to apply the scientific method to the scientific method, we might find its deficiencies. But would they be reliable? As always, the only route to meaningful truth is via the casual interrogation of two leisure class laypersons!

Grant Simpson (ARCHIE) & Koebi Faumui join us in the flats. Thanks to @capitalbrewing for supporting the show. The grass is always greener in the flats common areas when the lads from @archie.band & @thefaumuis are around so tune in for some uplifting discussion. Grant Simpson is the lead vocals and guitar for the four-piece indie-pop powerhouse AR…

Chris and Nick love their ranking journey and love you for joining them on it. If you love this podcast, have that love ruined immediately with a hyper-interrogation of the very idea - it's the Rank Ideas way!

Ike(from)Pluto & IM-OL join us in the flats. Supported by https://capitalbrewing.co/ Posted up in Canberra producing poems, Punjabi inspired beats and generally punching above their weight. The producer, rapper duo have been cooking up new music in the studio so we are keen to see what’s next for the WeirdoGvng alumni. Born and raised in Australia’…

Welcome to another episode of Pulitzer Prize Winning podcast, Rank Ideas!

It's traditional for me to write something reflective, mildly subversive and vaguely informative in this episode blurb. Is that good? If I broke tradition and just gave flat-out descriptions of what we're doing in this episode, would that be better? By what metric? God, ideas. They truly are everywhere. We must tame them! As our fathers did, and th…

Anyone who saw the 2020 AFL Grand Final where Gary Ablett Jnr broke his shoulder in the opening stanza of the final game in his stellar career knows that pain exists. But do we understand the relationship of the distribution of pain from ourselves to others? Is it useful to act as though it's a smooth an consistent law of nature? Couldn't hurt to a…

Psychology is a relatively new discipline with a very ambitious brief. Coming from the root words 'Psych' meaning 'Psychiatrist' and '-'ology' meaning 'chronology', nobody really knows what is going on. There's no doubt a tremendous wealth to be gained from the understanding feelings, behaviours and their origins. But with a discipline that patholo…

Since the dawn of time, humankind has yearned for two things and two things only: sports and electricity. That they should combine in our lifetime is truly a wonder. Is this the perfect fusion of two of our already-high ranking ideas? Well, we're early in the journey, but there's bound to be a lot to competitively unpack via our purely unbiased e-h…

Welcome to the Rank Ideas podcast - please bear in mind that it's mine and you're just borrowing it for the next 36 minutes. Or however long this episode is. I don't know, I don't own a clock.

The Danes may have their 'Hygge', but we need to talk about 'comfort', because it's English that's colonising the world. Thanks to Friends and Seinfeld, I believe. So, find the good spot under a blanket on your favourite couch and turn off all notifications, because the fellas are going to put on their ranking moccasins and crack open a warm cauldr…

Adanna, Mays Benatti & Anton Kollo in the flats. Tonight we are joined by Canberra’s premiere authority on aesthetic goodness. Talking social influence through photography, shaping identity and using online platforms to spark real world change. @chasinaesthetics is an all round fucking awesome artist, photographer, filmmaker and singer with band Fu…

Apparently you've gotta know the rules to break the rules. Just seems like another rule to me. Also I'm not convinced that toddlers know about not peeing in the pool. It certainly never stopped me (Nick Delatovic).

Weird to think that probably any behaviour or activity you can name has been legal or illegal at some society through history. From Hammurabi to Newton, we simply love to codify. As they say, you've got to know the laws to break them, and our hosts Nick Delatovic and Chris Endrey are always on standby to commit the one crime that authorities should…

I listened to a lot of Tower of Power in my teenage years - I'm not really sure why - but they had a song entitled "What Is Hip?", which shared the wisdom that "sometimes hipness is, what it ain't". Anyway, that's clearly a deeply uncool sentence in 2021. Does that matter? Quick! To the ranking factory!…

What would you do if I told you this is one year since we started this podcast? Would you congratulate me, for such an arbitrary thing? Like some sort of sheep? Slave to forces you haven't chosen or dissected? Would you???!!! Thank you so much, we're very pleased to be doing it and grateful to have you along for the journey :)…

When the situation changes, sometimes it's good to change. But if it's that good, why hasn't the chameleon overtaken every other species? Is it because that's a facile reading of the aesthetic of adaptability rather than the reality? Maybe! Maybe I should change my opinion when I'm wrong? But then, I'm not sure that's the trait of a successful podc…

The end of 2020 saw Groovy Daughter leave Canberra for Adelaide, drop a single and see in the new year as Triple J Unearthed Feature artist. She has graced the Groovin the Moo stage as well as more recently a socially distanced spot on the Isol-Aid live stream fest, which has been the new reality for performers during the pandemic. Back in the capi…

If human civilisation lasts long enough, it appears likely that every conceivable behaviour will at some stage fall both on the 'compulsory' and 'forbidden' sides of what is considered to be moral. Fortunately, you don't need to speculate because in our own timeline, listening to Rank Ideas is the only remaining defensible moral behaviour. Thanks f…