Today is a big day on supersized No Bad Ideas. We have not one, not two, but THREE special guests joining us in the Bad Ideas Thunderdome. Beth Eyre, Felix Trench, and Tom Crowley, three of the amazing stars of Wooden Overcoats, join to lend their brilliance to a pair of truly odd and awful ideas. 

First, Gabriel brings us the tale of a woman who tried to buy a baby, and somehow we blow it up and shrink it down into a gentle indie stop-motion comedy full of heists and very organized babies. Then Sarah tells us about a man who stole a lot of manuscripts but didn’t do anything with them, and we transform it into a layered revenge plot that begins with identity fraud and ends with the worst writers’ retreat of all time. 

Finally, we ask Beth, Felix, and Tom about their work on Wooden Overcoats. They share some of their thoughts on this fourth and last season of the show, Piffling being a place that time forgot, their routes into the characters, the recording process and the show’s place in the tradition of British radio comedy, and the challenges (and fun) of performing the show live. 

Plus: Build-A-Bear Texas, semi-collapsed societies, Steven King’s sawed-off shotgun, World War B, and a pre-emptive apology to Guernsey. 

Today’s Bad Ideas™: 

Idea #1

Idea #2

To check out Wooden Overcoats, find them in your podcatcher, check out their website, Instagram, and Twitter, and check out the live-streamed performances of Season 4 at Kings Place’s K Player. 

Today is a big day on supersized No Bad Ideas. We have not one, not two, but THREE special guests joining us in the Bad Ideas Thunderdome. Beth Eyre, Felix Trench, and Tom Crowley, three of the amazing stars of Wooden Overcoats, join to lend their brilliance to a pair of truly odd and awful ideas.&nbsp;
First, Gabriel brings us the tale of a woman who tried to buy a baby, and somehow we blow it up and shrink it down into a gentle indie stop-motion comedy full of heists and very organized babies. Then Sarah tells us about a man who stole a lot of manuscripts but didn&rsquo;t do anything with them, and we transform it into a layered revenge plot that begins with identity fraud and ends with the worst writers&rsquo; retreat of all time.&nbsp;
Finally, we ask Beth, Felix, and Tom about their work on Wooden Overcoats. They share some of their thoughts on this fourth and last season of the show, Piffling being a place that time forgot, their routes into the characters, the recording process and the show&rsquo;s place in the tradition of British radio comedy, and the challenges (and fun) of performing the show live.&nbsp;
Plus: Build-A-Bear Texas, semi-collapsed societies, Steven King&rsquo;s sawed-off shotgun, World War B, and a pre-emptive apology to Guernsey.&nbsp;
Today&rsquo;s Bad Ideas&trade;:&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/article/Texas-woman-tries-buying-child-Walmart-16799557.php">Idea #1</a>
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/01/06/1070900490/fbi-hoax-book-manuscripts">Idea #2</a>
To check out Wooden Overcoats, find them in your <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wooden-overcoats/id1039662268">podcatcher</a>, check out their <a href="https://www.woodenovercoats.com/">website</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/woodenovercoats/">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/OvercoatsWooden">Twitter</a>, and check out the live-streamed performances of Season 4 at Kings Place&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/wooden-overcoats-13-feb/">K Player</a>.&nbsp;

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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