UPDATE: insects may soon be on your dinner plate before you know it, as reported here in the Globe and Mail newspaper. What started out as a rather unoriginal idea for a Brilliantorstupid podcast topic (how to feed the starving world with tasty and free insects) is now apparently a trend among urbanites.

See our original post and podcast below:

Here at BrilliantOrStupid.com we spend virtually our entire R&D budget trying to figure out how many drinks we can consume before the podcasts turn into a mumbling mess of mediocrity. Obviously sober is no good, because we’re too uptight and not very funny. A few beers in the system are great, because then we don’t care much anymore and say any stupid thing that pops into our heads. But if we keep drinking beyond that point we won’t even be able to find the record button let alone say anything intelligent.

The following podcast is a great example of where we have just crossed that fine line: one too many. While we almost get across a coherent idea (that we could feed the world if people would eat the billions of insects that surround us)  this podcast is plagued by chewing sounds, meaningless sidetracks, staring at girls, empty pauses and even a conspiratorial rant to finish up. All it’s missing edited out is the shouting and name-calling. Listen and learn…

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