DangerMouth: The Innovation Station

S2E06 The Third Way: US Election Special

Dangermouth strays into the danger zone and attempts to find a fresh take on deliberating the desireable outcome for the 2024 election.
Darrell joins Shana on location in the USA for this episode.
References
The Third Way
Podcast: Audrey Tand and Digital Citizen Assemblies
A time of revolution
Book: The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788–1800
Podcast: Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
 

S2E05 WonderWorks

The rediscovery and painstaking restoration of Aristotle's Poetics revealed a lost method of literary theory, seeing literature as a progression of innovations.
Wordmaster John Reel joins Darrell and Mikey to examine the "and" and "but" of the creative process.
Wonderworks: Literary invention and the science of stories
My Half Orange: A Story of Love and Language in Seville
 
 
 
 

S2E04 Instinct

Instinct is potentially a highly powerful creative tool, one that is largely shunned in western society as it is hard to define, tricky to measure and like AI no one really knows what is going on inside the box. Shana, Darrell and Mikey try to pin down the jello.
Darrell thinks he has the answer, Mikey knows he has and Shana provides a grounding dose of reality.
 
Links
Instinct EZine
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

S203 School of Comedy

Comedy is innovation in real time.
Professor of Comedy Emma Holmes and Drama Queen Christine van Asselt give Darrell and Mikey lessons in laughter.
It's a funny business!
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hflp9tE0Iww
https://www.linkedin.com/company/eeh-productions/about/
 
 

S2E02 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 50th Anniversary

In this episode Darrell and Mikey are joined by special guest Steve Barbone, Professor of Philosophy at San Diego State University.
Together we wrestle to get the right mix between romantic and classical, art and science, sense and nonsense as we tweak the carburettor of philosophy.
Pure Quality.
I wonder whether Robert Pirsig would have approved?

S2E01 Force of Nature (Baxter)

Paul Baxter approaches the world from his own unique perspective and has the showman's aptitude for storytelling. His homespun philosophy has produced startling innovations and enabled him to live life on his own terms.
Mikey and Darrell relish the chance to converse with someone who Darrell refers to as a force of nature.
 
ASK the BAXTER: How To Think Clearly and Answer Big Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugll6jrnOkA
 
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics and Society by Azeem Akbar

Episode 25: Generational Hormone Theory

In 1997 the book ‘The Fourth Turning’ laid out a controversial theory that history is driven by a four phase generational cycle. This compelling theory has influenced a wide range of people from Al Gore to Steve Bannon.
In this episode, our guest Janne Miettine, puts forward a strong case that cyclical hormone levels drive societal behaviour and are the mechanism behind the phase changes. Janne has the courage to go against the grain, and the determination and aptitude to sweat the details, the hallmarks of the pioneer that challenges the smug status quo.
 
https://jannemiettinen.fi/FourthTurning/#htoc-1-3-cyclical-human-populations
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory

Episode 24: Scaling the Data Economy

Darrell and Mikey welcome John Gallacher, Director of Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), for a deeply satisfying conversation.
 
John is driving a global movement to bring economies of scale to the acquisition and storage of quality data, and its distribution and use for public benefit.
 
John embodies the foundational principles of a horizontal thinker; big picture long term thinking, spanning silos, wrestling with complex systems and leadership, to name but a few.
 
More than that, he is an expert in the aesthetics of kayak design, so it's well worth a listen.
 
 
Links:
 
https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/john-gallacher
 
https://www.dementiasplatform.uk/