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.
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.
Episodes

Feb 14, 2025
S02E11 Laziness
Feb 14, 2025
Feb 14, 2025
56 min
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, Mikey and Shana, chew over laziness in the context of innovation.
Feb 14, 2025
56 min

Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
1 hr 16 min
Jon Gower sometime author, presenter, raconteur, nature lover, journalist, historian, academic and professional Welshman joins us on this episode.
Jons special talent is that he has never let his passions and curiosity be ring fenced and has the courage to follow paths that others would forsake.
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea
I Know an Island - RM Lockley
Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea: Wales and its Coastal Waters
Jan 20, 2025
1 hr 16 min

Jan 20, 2025
S02E10 Leap of Faith
Jan 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
1 hr 2 min
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 by it.
Its a time for bold moves, rejecting the allure of the safe and sensible and having the wisdom to take what today seems the crazy option, one that only makes sense with some very deep reflection or the blessing of hindsight.
Darrell and Shana have helped others successfully take the leap of faith and have experienced first hand the sad fate of those who didn't, so who better to ask?
Jan 20, 2025
1 hr 2 min

Dec 3, 2024
S02E08 Ai Avi Asia
Dec 3, 2024
Dec 3, 2024
1 hr 18 min
In this episode Darrell and Mikey are joined by Dr Avi and his AI Clone MobiAvi.
Up for discussion are the loneliness of the long distance CEO, where best to leverage you efforts if you want to make the world a better place and the fascination experiences of a trailblazing experiment in sharing a digital version of yourself with the world.
https://www.dravileadership.com/
Dec 3, 2024
1 hr 18 min

Nov 25, 2024
S2E07 Complexity the Sea and Me
Nov 25, 2024
Nov 25, 2024
52 min
This episode uses the physical and psychological challenges of solo long distance coastal adventuring as a framing device for examining innovation basics.
Darrell steers, Shana sets the climate and as usual Mikey desperately treads water.
https://www.mikeyhere.com/p/3-capital-kayak.html
Nov 25, 2024
52 min

Oct 31, 2024
S2E06 The Third Way: US Election Special
Oct 31, 2024
Oct 31, 2024
1 hr 11 min
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
Oct 31, 2024
1 hr 11 min

Oct 24, 2024
S2E05 WonderWorks
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
1 hr 17 min
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
Oct 24, 2024
1 hr 17 min

Oct 24, 2024
S2E04 Instinct
Oct 24, 2024
Oct 24, 2024
1 hr 4 min
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
Oct 24, 2024
1 hr 4 min






