Brains on the Outside: A Business Ideas Podcast
This is Brains on the Outside, a show about ridiculous business ideas. Every Monday, Alex and Andrew solve real businesses' real problems in the most ridiculous ways.
Episodes
87 episodes
Greggs x Everything
Recorded in the Brewdog Waterloo recording studio, this episode is all about food. It's an exciting time, but Alex has sadly forgotten all his Greggs' branded clothes! Greggs crossovers are obviously the future - clothing is already been done t...
The Next Apple Watch Ultra
Living your everyday life and running a business is inherently risky, but does it have to be? The new Apple Watch promises to make certain extreme sports safer - we discuss whether the future Apple Watch Ultra 2 will continue to apply this conc...
How to plan the worst wedding ever
Recently we went to the best wedding ever - but how can you plan the worst one? We pitch a business designed to keep unwanted guests out of your wedding ceremony, and then pitch another that plans ways to deliver the ring to the bride and groom...
Slow Snails. Fast Cars. Good Times.
Lies and misinformation are rampant on Twitter. There are people making ridiculous claims with zero repercussions. It can't go on, but how can we stop this? In today's episode, we pitch a new business that will begin to set things right, by for...
A Supermarket Full of Ted Dansons and Claw Machines
This is a commerce heavy episode. If you work in retail you're going to want to listen to this one. Shopping is changing and consumers have higher expectations of their supermarket experiences than ever before. In this episode we dive right int...
Poober, AirPnP and a Tinder for holidays.
Andrew is in Bruges (like the film but hopefully with fewer murders) this week so we've got another remote episode and because it's Bruges, which is fancy and full of culture, this is an extremely highbrow episode.We discuss new ways to mak...
This episode is only for animals
This episode includes ideas that are mostly for animals. Humans can listen too but seriously, these are premium business ideas for the animal kingdom. We discuss a data platform that for A/B testing and training your humans, we have a quiz that...
The Bird Blockchain (Summer Break Part 3)
Alex dials in from France to pitch two radical new business ideas! Against all odds, we've created the only useful Web 3.0 blockchain app: a way to give animals and trees cute new names! And you know those creepy creeky noises you heard in the ...
Selling Snake Oil to Dracula (Summer Break Part 2)
Even though they are still on holiday, Andrew and Alex attempt to create innovative, Four-Quadrant content to bring exciting business ideas to the masses. In this short holiday episode we play a quick few rounds of Snake Oil - coming up with id...
The Business Walrus (Summer Break Part 1)
Since Andrew and Alex are heading out on their summer holidays we are here with a shorter (but still just as innovative) episode. This week we play a quick round of the Clickhole game Business Walrus, to come up with some new/exciting/radical/d...
I scream, you scream, we all make our own ice cream!
What's better when it's hot than having a lovely, cold ice cream? Well, let me tell you, it's more complicated than it looks to make that delicious treat! This week, we read a The Manufacturer article about the Kendal-based ice cream producer L...
26. SCIENCE! (feat. Lucy Budge)
Today, we meet Lucy Budge, a particle physics researcher who (in her own words) is 98% of the way to becoming a doctor! Together, we read through a series of New Scientist articles, using them as inspiration for innovative products/ businesses/...
25. How to beat the queues at Disney World, and the half human/ half walrus centaur.
We are back to offer our free consultancy service to solve a timeless problem: how to make queues suck less. Can we make the queues at Disney World better? We don’t know, but we try anyway.Then, we form a new start-up aimed at centaur-i...
24. The future of air travel and Sports Mascots bone flexibility
This week we read from the premier industry publication for manufacturing, The Manufacturer, and try to help them understand how to stop obsolescence in aerospace. To be totally honest, Andrew isn't quite sure what that means, but we try our be...
23. How to upskill a rat (feat. Nigel Watson, and Harry and Chris)
Nigel Watson, a real life CIO, joins us for our first ever episode to feature a guest! This weeks jam-packed episode was recorded from Northumbria Water’s Innovation Festival, where we join forces to try stop rats taking over the UK. Then, the ...
22. Democracy 2.0
This week we help some brand new listeners with ideas about how to get someone out of the house they are refusing to leave. Our long time listener Helen sends us a fabulous idea of a pen that carries sauces. And finally we wrap up the show by d...
21. Rachel and Joey were better than Rachel and Ross
There are so many streaming services these days but... what if there was one more? A service to beat all other streaming services? Or... maybe there should be loads more? Thousands more? These are the questions at the forefront of our minds in ...
20. The Universal Appeal of Mayonnaise
What is the Universal Appeal of Mayonnaise? This week, inspired by an article Hellmann's has written in the food industry magazine The Grocer, we try to find out. Finding innovative, disruptive uses for Mayonnaise, we try to bring Hellmann's a ...
19. Office Slides and Escaping the Metaverse
This week we tackle some big business and tech problems, inspired by actual things from our real non-podcasting jobs! How do we get people to get back to the office? And how can you cure an addiction to VR and the Metaverse?This weeks a...
18. Jobs for ghosts (one for Casper and another for the ghost from Ghost)
This week we answer two extremely important questions:What if instead of all those stupid qualifications you seem to need these days you just had a bunch of brownie badges?And how do you protect your precious bird videos from enemy twit...
17. Cataloguing for Dummies
Alex imagines a new form of social media: partly the encyclopedia and partly a Scratch and Sniff. We also have two separate listeners contact us about their anxieties around packing, and we really try our best to make them something to help the...
16. Invention Dice (Part Two): A Spreadsheet Made of Trees
So it seems we really like inventing by dice? We are back this week once again using Atomic Shrimps' Invention Dice! We invent up a way to use trees as a spreadsheet, a novel way of vandalising art, and a portable aquarium!Invention Dic...
15. Invention Dice (Part One): Origami Office Space
Relentlessly coming up with new business ideas can be hard! Luckily, this week we have some help! In this episode, we use Atomic Shrimps' Invention Dice to create a whole set of products, businesses and services. Each dice in the set has a them...
BotO 014: Twitter's Broken. So what's next in Social Media?
Twitter is done for. Or is it. No it probably is. Or is it. Who knows really but the only sure fire way to really survive this social media apocalypse (or not) is to start a whole new better social network. BotO this week is all about social an...
BotO 013: Lift going down. Weeeeeeeeeeee
This week we're taking individually useful things and combining them into even better things. We talk about generating power in new and fancy ways and then we save space in office buildings and homes across the world.Our sponsor this ...