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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

March 20, 2025

S2E14 Pondering Education

In this episode Darrell, Shana and Mikey relate their experiences of being educated and consider ways in which the goals of the education system could be better aligned with ever changing requirements of todays society.
March 13, 2025

S02E13 Alignment

Misalignment between silos in an organisation is very common, very costly and a major reason why bold initiatives fail. In this episode Darrell, Shana and Mikey attempt to align themselves as they investigate whether the Theo...
Feb. 21, 2025

S02E12 Good Suffering

A quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi sums up the long road to Indian Independence in one sentence " First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ". If in order to win/innovate you have to e...
Feb. 14, 2025

S2E11 Laziness

Agatha Christie is quoted as saying: "I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness — to save oneself trouble." In this episode Darrel...
Jan. 20, 2025

S2E10 Leap of Faith

Harbinger of revolution or overblown hype AI, is casting a shadow of doubt over all projected futures and that's only the headliner. In this episode we discuss how to be swept along by the Coming Wave rather than obliterated ...
Jan. 1, 2025

S02E09 Jon Gower: Binding Place, Culture and Nature with Stories

Jon Gower sometime author, presenter, raconteur, nature lover, journalist, historian, academic and professional Welshman joins us on this episode. Jon's special talent is that he has never let his passions and curiosity be ri...

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. Following in the footsteps of Benjamin Button.

https://www.mikeyhere.com/p/3-capital-kayak.html

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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.

https://www.systematic-innovation.com/