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DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

The podcast that takes you on the long and dangerous journey from the siloed foothills of inventing things to the yawning abyss of reinventing society.

Each week we take a subject related to innovation and set off on a verbal stroll to see what wonders unfold.

Recent Episodes

May 4, 2024

Episode 17: The Wow Factor

Entrophy, authenticity, diversity vs expediency, lettuce vs leader. In which Darrell tries to stop a closed system from becoming more random. How do you think that went? You be the judge?   Dame Dash Kochland Lizz Vs L…
May 3, 2024

Episode 16: Flyings Lambs

Back in 2023 I crash landed my kayak onto Great Blasket Island, perched out on the far-flung edge of Western Europe. Luckily for me I was swept up by Emily "The Caretaker". Darrell & I chat to Emily and Dan about what t…
April 26, 2024

Episode 15: William of Bodmin

Mikey and Darrell chat with the creative writer, cabinet maker and refugee from the Midlands William Draycott. Resident of the ancient town of Bodmin in Cornwall's brooding moorlands. The theme is stories. But you know how…
April 6, 2024

Episode 14: Bonus Track: The Woodcutter Story

The story omitted from the episode.
April 6, 2024

Episode 14: Strategy

An erudite Darrell, augmented by Shana's cookies of wisdom, lay out the 6 components of strategy for all to see. Mikey tries his best but cannot quite derail the process. Links: Definition of Strategy (SIG,OST)    Winners…
April 3, 2024

Episode 13: No customer, no frustration, no Innovation.

Notes from the Innovation coalface; from our guest Costas Papaikonomou who has been there and got the T-Shirt. Costas also gives advice on investing in eco startups and insights into how often super intelligent people skip …

About the Hosts

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Mike Conroy

Journeyman

Recovering mechanical engineer, reformed programmer, ex yoga fanatic. Mike has finally discovered his inner puppy and is randomly trotting around and causing trouble.
Current missions: 1. Concluding paddling a kayak around the coast of the British Isles. 2. Discovering WTF is Horizontal Wisdom.

https://www.abbathepaddle.com/

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Darrell Mann

Prophet

Nomadic Prophet: Not-quite Baby-Boomer, not quite GenX, Tyke, ruby-anniversary innovator, anthropologist, apolitical politician, musicologist, whatever the word is for someone with too many left-handed guitars, irritant, Darrell has finally given up chasing bright shiny ideas and started corralling gnarly, contradictory, awkward ones.

On a good day, the unstoppable Theory Of Everything detective, otherwise, author, creator and curator of all the things that fell between the cracks of all the other stuff.