Today on No Bad Ideas... Rumbles! Investigative reporters! Therapy lions! Community-building! And more!

After a slight breakdown in our production assembly line, we are back with the first of two new episodes this week! In our first bad idea, Sarah brings us the story of a bus that is designed to put its riders to sleep. Wacky hijinks ensue when the sleepy passengers awake to find themselves in the middle of a high-stakes movie they don't know they're in. Then, Gabriel brings the squad the story of three Spanish writers who pseudonymously created a successful female writer. The gang turns it into the story of three disgruntled film industry professionals who create a fake writer to make their dreams come true... and then have it completely spiral out of control. 

All of that, plus: eccentric demands, ways to artificially raise the stakes, you'll-never-work-in-this-town-again moments, new forms of identity theft, and things that feel like punching down. 

Today’s Bad Ideas™: 

Idea #1

Idea #2

Today on No Bad Ideas... Rumbles! Investigative reporters! Therapy lions! Community-building! And more!
After a slight breakdown in our production assembly line, we are back with the first of two new episodes this week! In our first bad idea, Sarah brings us the story of a bus that is designed to put its riders to sleep. Wacky hijinks ensue when the sleepy passengers awake to find themselves in the middle of a high-stakes movie they don't know they're in. Then, Gabriel brings the squad the story of three Spanish writers who pseudonymously created a successful female writer. The gang turns it into the story of three disgruntled film industry professionals who create a fake writer to make their dreams come true... and then have it completely spiral out of control.&nbsp;
All of that, plus: eccentric demands, ways to artificially raise the stakes, you'll-never-work-in-this-town-again moments, new forms of identity theft, and things that feel like punching down.&nbsp;
Today&rsquo;s Bad Ideas&trade;:&nbsp;
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1047891650/new-hong-kong-bus-tour-is-meant-to-put-people-to-sleep#:~:text=Kin%20Cheung%2FAP-,Passengers%20sleep%20on%20the%20upper%20deck%20of%20a%20double%2Ddecker,in%20Hong%20Kong%20on%20Saturday.&amp;text=Any%20new%20parent%20will%20confirm,noise%20works%20on%20adults%2C%20too.">Idea #1</a>
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1047075104/carmen-mola-was-a-popular-spanish-novelist-three-male-writers-made-her-up">Idea #2</a>

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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