That's Ranked

Have you ever thought about all the stupid shit you did when you were a kid? We certainly have and we're back again with an old frienemy to chat about it. Surprisingly there are no stories about fireworks being fired out from butt cheeks. Instead we discuss regrets about questionable fashion choices, teenage angst, and trying to make our lives reflect the Mean Girls story line. Ultimately, it made us realize that our choices as teenagers weren't too detrimental to our lives, but my God, what was I thinking with those tight t-shirts..?

We're baaaaack! Nobody asked for it, so we showed up anyway. Back for 2022 to talk about our favorite albums of 2021 with our favorite medical student (and cousin), Conrad Matthews. Yes, there's the expected punk albums, but I bet you weren't expecting electronica or the debut album from a certain 19-year-old Disney child star. So grab your headphones and get ready to listen to 534 minutes of pure gold music. And if someone could please send some emails to us, you'd spare yourself 2 mins of unbroadcastable audio.

Welcome back to another That's Ranked Spooktacular Halloween Special! We've only gone and enlisted our favourite American, Kyle Kern, to run the candy gauntlet with us again this year. Of course we've got new costumes, new candy and untold glimpses into our troubled teenage years. So get your candy corn and sultanas ready and stick this episode on while you wait for trick-or-treaters.

On this episode of That's Ranked we're joined by brother-in-law and leading Canadian business mogul Joe Lavoie to discuss our must-do's before we kick the bucket. With a world of possibilities to chose from, our choices range from thrill-seeking experiences to ultimate spectator events to opportunities presented in our own homes.

You can't escape electronic devices so on this episode we're embracing them and divulging our Top 5. Joined by one of our most hilarious guests to date, Pedro Gonçalves, we list off everything from cooking appliances to audiophile equipment. Put on some headphones and prepare to have your eardrums massaged!

From the granite monuments of Macau to the DIY spots of Rio de Janeiro, this episode of That's Ranked rolls into our favourite skateboarding spots from around the world. We are joined by long time friend and original member of the NTG7 skate crew, Pedro Gino, to discuss the places we love to skate and what makes them special to us. Cam is a little bit quiet and Gino is joined by some enthusiastic builders but that didn't stop us from having a blast!

In the crunchy world of chips and crisps, there are many contenders vying to be your ultimate taste bud tantalizer. On this Ranked episode, the D'Costa brothers have put in the hard yards to not only find but also taste test a multitude of crispy delights from across the world to guide you on your potato and/or corn based journey. Join the boys as they run the gamut from radioactively coloured rings to "original" flavoured beige discs on this episode of That's Ranked.

A lot of first times going on in this episode. First time we've really had the opportunity to have a nice long chat with Mikey Veith, the first time we're releasing an episode on our new schedule, and the the topic heavily implies first times. Love them or hate them, it's a very big part of all three of our lives to have experienced changes in culture, and we thoroughly enjoyed chatting about the good and bad of them. Whether it's chavs in French border towns or feeling out of place in your home country, we got it covered. ENJOY!

Annnnd we're back with another niche topic! Big deal, wanna fight about it? We'll lets fight it out on track, we're not really fighters here at That's Ranked. Join us as we travel around the globe visiting our favorite racetracks with the one and only Tom "Etch a Sketch" Etches! We're talking track lengths, track marshals, corner cambers and crashes from motorbikes, cars and more. Maybe they're not all recognized my the FIA or FIM, but they're all full of good stories. ENJOY!

Hydration is fun, yah? So myuch fun. You know what's not fun? finding your guest in a dumpster Luckily, this fortnight we didn't find our guest in a dumpster. But we did pick him up and drove him to the Macau studio to take part in a That's Ranked first... A hybrid Top5/Ranked episode where the boys enjoy their favourite drinks of all time as they rank them. The always cute, Nuno Golcalves was the lucky guy who got to enjoy room temp beverages as they talked a bit too much crap. Enjoy the slurping sounds and the audacious claims about a certain previously visited fast food venue. YUM BOY!

Have you ever watched TV? Well we have, and so has our guest for this fortnight. The one and only, Brennan Siu. Straight out of Sydney in the 90's like the boys, they all catch up over their favourite tv show characters. There's some children's cartoons, some adult cartoons, some incest (bet you can guess what show that's from), and even some show's you've probably never heard of. The one thing the boys all have in common is that they all saddled up at 6pm every weeknight for a certain Springfield-based family. Take a guess!

9 Cereals. Two brothers. How exciting can it possibly get? Surprisingly, excitement levels are at an all time high during this Ranking episode. Get your spoon, bowl and milk of choice and get ready for an upset tummy because That's Ranked is going back to try breakfast cereals the boys grew up eating, plus a few they've never had before. Starting with the mundane and plain cereals parents tell you are healthy and finishing off with the chocolate coated, sugar encrusted "Whole Grain Guaranteed" goodness they say will rot your teeth. Sit back and enjoy the crunchy sounds of crisp cereal in your earhole.

On this fortnight's episode we have another classic reunion. This time we have the man himself, Garth Nevin! He was recently mentioned as an influential individual on a previous episode and his charismatic personality really shines through when he takes over hosting duties from the boys as they discuss the Top 5 things they'll never do again. It might sound like bad things, but is getting terrible food poisoning and taking a motorbike off a ridiculous jump a bad thing? You tell us. Enjoy!

What the deal with niches? We hope you read that in a classic Jerry Seinfeld voice because this fortnight were joined by the only person we know that would fit into our Seinfeld niche, our beloved cousin Ariane Baayens. So what if we're the only ones that could enjoy listening to an hour and a half of Seinfeld minutiae? We discuss why it's okay to sedate your loved one to play with their vintage toy collection and what really makes one "master of their domain." So strap on your pliometric training shoes and grab a box of junior mints cos it's time to rank our favorite Seinfeld episodes. Giddy Up!

We've officially had our first foursome! And we recorded it all for your listening pleasure. It took a fair bit of coordination with a sprinkle of ultimatums to set it up, but we did it! Two returning guests join the boys to rank a smorgasbord of McDonald's from 3 different countries. What used to be a Friday night staple for the guys is now a special "sometimes" food. We got all the Maccas mainstays, plus a local burger to spice it up. And a filet-o-fish... but no one cares about that. Enjoy!

Very few people will ever understand your personal rivalry. But even fewer people will understand your personal academic rivalry. Who really cares if you got 97% on your social studies final? We get it! You're a nerd! Coincidentally, this fortnights episode features the biggest scholastic feud in TIS history. Makalya Lou is here to once and for all settle the score with our very own host, Jordan D'Costa. Cameron is here too... wearing the impartial judges hat being both a brother to one competitor and a cousin-in-law to the other. It's game on to see who wins out in the battle of our top 5 teachers. FIGHT!

For the last episode of That's Ranked in 2020, we're going to do something a lot of people weren't able to do this year. We're taking you on Cam's magic carpet to sample the cuisines of the world. Joined by Pio Aquino, we travel through Asia to Europe and even get to meet the mayor of flavour town on our way through the Americas. This one's really for all of you who wish they could have escaped their respective lockdowns and eaten their way through a delicious holiday.

It's time for another NTG7 alumni to join us! This fortnight we have the musical deity that is ALE. He's here to discuss something that we've all been missing in 2020. Live music. Ale lives and breathes music, so what better topic to discuss than our favourite live shows we've ever been to. From huge rock bands at even bigger festivals to kitchen sink indie bands in the bay window of a pub in Sheffield, we relive our favourite moments attending live music. We even reveal how a certain host lost one shoe and destroyed a perfectly good pair of jeans at a show that didn't even make it to his top 5.

On this fortnights episode we are joined by another Kern family member: Sydney Kern! Find out how she has managed to make it through 2020 with her savior Disney+ subscription and which movies she's still not sick of after 10 months of rewatches. The conversation somehow turns into a battle of animation vs live action movies, then gets even stranger when we have our first host vs guest clash over what the topic agreed upon actually was. Either way, choose your fighter and get ready to rumble... FIGHT!

How many cousins do you have? I'm sure you can count them and name them all too... Not us, there's like 30 of us bastards running around. This fortnight we plucked the illest one we've got, Conrad Matthews, to chat with us about the thing we all share, a love for music. We're not just talking singles, but our favorite album releases of 2020. And just because we all share a love for music, it doesn't mean we share a love for the same types of music. Ranging from 30 track rap albums to 3 song stoner rock EP's, there's plenty of diversity for everyone to enjoy. Plus there's possibly one of the greatest Matthews family stories thrown in for good measure. So check this episode and all 608 minutes of recommend music too! #didthemath

Happy Halloween! Here at That's Ranked, we're just a couple of Australians that don't know jack about Halloween, so we decided to get an expert on to discuss the intricacies of this great tradition. Naturally, we went straight to Kyle Kern, our resident American and expert on all things spooky, creepy and eerie, to walk us through the best Halloween candy we could find. From homeschooled kids' favourite treats to finding out the sounds that penguins make, this is the spooky spectacular you need to get pumped for trick or treating. Get into your costume and join the boys as they get sugar highs that candy corn just can't deliver.

It's the iconic chocolate and cream (or is it cremé? ) Hydrox ripoff that we all love! No, not recreos... OREOS! This fortnight the boys get stuck into 8 variations of the iconic sandwich cookie that could be found in both Australia and Macau. In addition to being joined by a couple of last minute guests there's a bit of blindfolding and eating ice cream straight for the tub with a tablespoon. Check it out as they snack their way up the Mondelez mountain to find what they consider to be the ultimate Oreo incarnation.

The 2nd of the NTG7 clan is here to chow down on some 'member-berries. Yes, the EPIC man himself Sam Lee is all business, but he is also a huge proponent of Macau pride. Check it out as he reminisces with the boys about the top 5 best parts of grow up in this strange city state. Looking back to the good old times when they should have got themselves kicked out of Maccas, or should have got arrested lighting shit on fire to do skate tricks over. There are a lot of fun stories and even new tidbits about why they all found themselves in Macau during their youth in the first place.

What do you get when two host are completely lost for favourite choices to bring to their own show..? Self improvement, world geography and dystopian societies of course! They are just a few of the topics covered in Episode 7 of That's Ranked. The boys are joined by their old friend Alexandrea "Missy" Farha to take a dive into their favourite literary works and manage to catch up after nearly 10 years along the way.

Wong Lo Gaat!? Ranking can't always be reserved for inducing pain upon the show's hosts so on this fortnights Ranked episode the boys dive into 5 iced teas to cool them down. Starting with some herbal goodness all the way through to some extra sugary treats they've loved since their teenage years. Unexpectedly, the teas bring back great memories paired with the odd story from today. But very expectedly, they need a helping hand to decipher the Chinese labels. Take a listen and see which ones you should pick up soon and the ones you should probably stay well clear of.

Episode 5 - This fortnight on That's Ranked the D'Costa Brothers are joined by their brother-from-another-mother Miguel Gonçalves. The boys' long time friend chats about his love for vehicles and what he dreams of packing into a single Macau carpark space. Some with motors, some without, from unfathomably expensive vintage cars to ratbag motorbikes, the boys pick out what they want in their dream garage. Tune in and get ready to Google these Top 5's to see what you think about their choices.

Episode 4 - What happens when one of your funniest friends comes on your podcast and picks the most serious topic yet? We wouldn't know. Brad Marr joins the boys for a heartfelt dive into the moments in their life that have changed them for the better. Together they look into scary life threatening situations where you just have to take a deep breath and reset yourself or follow the stampede of people running for safety. Despite coming from basically the same background, listen in to experience the vastly different paths life has paved for all three of them.

Episode 3 - Hello and welcome to 'Who wants to be a Rankionaire?' It's time for the boys' very first ranking episode and they get it started with a bang. Think chilli flavoured lipstick, late night cheek-clenching walks home and sweating to the point of exhaustion. Join them on a spicy noodle journey starting with the mildest of instant noodles to a spicy hell in the form of Sam Yang's 2x hot chicken ramen. Remember to stay hydrated and turn the AC on.

Episode 2 - What do you know about selling turnips? Well, after a chat with the boys' cousin Brittany D'Costa, they know a little bit more than they thought they ever would. Known throughout the D'Costa family as a bit of a wildcard, Brittany does it again with a topic no one saw coming, not even herself. Only gamer for 10 months, Britt shares her favourite games with Cam and Jord while learning about the titles the boys grew up with.

Episode 1 - Recording from her car in the 10pm sunlight, the boys' big sister Danielle Lavoie talks about all her favourite places she's travelled. Danielle being such a well travelled individual makes for some interesting and unorthodox destinations and being their sister inevitably leads the conversation towards family holiday hijinks. From the sweaty discotheques of Berlin to the cool restaurants of San Fran's Mission district, listen in as they talk all about the places around the world they want to get back to first.

Welcome to That's Ranked: A brand new podcast by the D'Costa Brothers. Cameron and Jordan have been battling for years to become the favorite child. Now living on two different continents they are combining their experiences and opinions to find their favorite everything. Listen as they talk with their friends and family from all over the world to rank different categories from music to chocolate, or motorbikes to tv shows.Email: thatsranked@gmail.comInstagram: @thatsranked / https://www.instagram.com/thatsranked/