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
BotO 012: Magnetic Jelly Trucks to the Tower of Babel
This week's episode is entirely dedicated to a reader's incredibly detailed email. We solve four real world problems for a real business. We discuss better ways to find places, we solve the travelling salesman problem and we remove the need for...
BotO 011: Extremely Complicated Dress Codes
This week we've got even more practical business advice and viable start-up ideas. We discuss a business to ensure you never have to lie to a child, and ponder why grown-up beds are always such boring designs. A listener has also sent in a huge...
BotO 010: The Outside Brain of Shania Twain
What do Poirot and Shania Twain have in common? They're both massive Outside Brains and they both feature in this week's episode. The first episode of our tricky transition into being a teenaged podcast.Come on an amazing journey with us as...
BotO 009: Baseless accusations of corporate sabotage
Petty corporate sabotage, Super First Class train tickets, and a way to review all the desks in your office. This Monday's episode has business ideas that have got you covered for all these concepts! Get in touch in the usual ways&...
BotO 008: Ever had an adventure on the way to Tesco?
Despite both of us catching covid we've managed to record! That's how dedicated we are.In this episode we discuss two very different services - one that will improve every journey you ever take and one for prospective parents. We also h...
BotO 007: Can you backup the feeling of your gran's sofa?
It's Monday Brains Day!This week in business:Backing up all the stuff you can't currently back up.A farm for wishes. Yep. You read that right.And if you're the sort of person who will sit and eat bad food in restaurant rather th...
BotO 006: In which Andrew learns what a milliner is...
Welcome back folks! It's Monday Brainsday. Wednesday is legs day. Friday is arms day. Sunday is eyelids day. And Monday... well Monday is brains day. Join us again as we discuss some of the most innovative ideas the world has ever heard.Thi...
BotO 005: The Marie Kondo of F*** You
This episode of Brains on the Outside is CEO themed! Whether you're a CEO who wants to really start getting the upper hand in all those big business deals you're doing or you're an employ frustrated by your own bad CEO BotO is here to help....
BotO 004: In which we receive our first listener email...
Someone sent us an idea! It's a really good one so in this episode we talk about that and we also discuss the most decadent forms of transport. And Andrew apologises for something he has done.You can send us your ideas or problems if yo...
BotO 003: The Best of Brains on the Outside
In a characteristically bold move our third episode is a clips show. It's entirely NEW CONTENT but cut together from stuff we have previously recorded. TWO giant ideas one of which nearly ended in divorce.Remember that you can contact t...
BotO 002: Seven, Sausage, Twenty, Three, Andrew Smells, Fourteen
In the second episode of Europe's best business ideas podcast we discuss privacy and how an old Cold War spy technology could help us and Alex tries to get Andrew to breach the world's most stringent social construct.As always if you ha...
BotO 001: Drag Racing for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers
This is the first episode of Brains on the Outside, a premium business ideas podcast. We are very good at business ideas but very bad at execution so we thought we'd just give those ideas away! In this episode we're talking about a service that...
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