Host notes

• Pre-flight checklist

  A quick checklist of things to check before recording an episode of the Department of Bad Ideas.

• Introductions

  Before we get into the meat of the podcast, time to set the stage and introduce the guests.

• The Impossible Implementation Unit

  In the Impossible Implementation Unit, the guests have 5 minutes to pitch a to solution a real or fictional public policy problem that won’t work but that everyone would vote for.

• The Unsaleable Policy Division

  In the Unsaleable Policy Division, the guests have 5 minutes to pitch a solution to a real or fictional public policy problem that would fix the problem but that no one would would vote for.

• The Big Idea

  In The Big Idea, the guests get to pick any public policy problem you like and then they have 5 minutes to pitch the best solution they can come up with.

• In the Thick of It

  In the Thick of It is a quick fire round. You will be given a series of problems and you will have to come up with a one-minute solution on the fly.

• Wrapping up

  Before the outro, this will be how your podcast episode wraps up.