Brains on the Outside: A Business Ideas Podcast

Living in the city, it's hard to grow your own food. Allotments are expensive, and gardens are rare. We have a solution! Let us come to your house with 5 tonnes of topsoil and we can transform any of your rooms into a garden. If you want to send in your business idea, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in! Give us a review wherever you...

What if there was a restaurant you could order takeaway food too? A "Deliveroom", if you will? Why don't Ikea open after hours, using their showroom bedrooms as hotels, and their kitchens and dining rooms as places to eat out? Prepare for a hungry and food-related Brains on the Outside this week, as we plan the future of food. If you want to send in your business idea, please email...

Alex proposes the future of shopping - a shop you are allowed to steal from. Andrew desperately wants to pull the lever on the train that causes it to do an emergency stop, and is willing to start a business to do it. If you want to send in your business idea, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in! Give us a review wherever you listen to you...

Some shoes light up, some have wheels in them, and some make you taller. Aside from that, shoes are fairly dull - where's the innovation? What's new? Luckily for Adidas and Nike, Alex has hundreds of ideas on how to improve the shoe - ones to make you shorter, a shoe that makes you sound different, a shoe to brand the ground you walk on! If you want to send in your business idea, please...

Are you worried you are about to embarrass yourself? Don’t worry, our new app can send someone to be a distraction! Thank you Henry for sending in an idea - if you want to send in your business idea, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in! Give us a review wherever you listen to your podcasts, follow us on Twitter @brainsoutside or on Instagr...

Andrew had so many great ideas planned for this episode - instead, he pitches the wine flight hat, a classy and portable way of consuming a selection of wine. Increasing the classiness of the episode, we also pitch a reusable strawpedo straw, allowing even the environmentally conscious to get drunk fast. Our listener Rich sends us an idea to make sure a watched pot will always boil. If you want to...

This is our first-ever live show! In front of an audience of real humans, Andrew pitches an advent calendar for every holiday, and Alex pitches Cameo for shopping - an app to make Steve Buscemi go shopping for him. Thank you to everyone who came along, and to everyone who pitched their own business idea! Thank you to Rich, for doing the sound engineering on this episode. Finally, thank you to the...

Paw Patrol, Fireman Sam, and Postman Pat give kids a false and whimsical impression of what grown-up jobs are like. Andrew pitches the chance to try out any job before committing your life to it. We get sidetracked and ask: what if you could become 1/140th of a Doctor? Andrew ranks all the crimes and decides that robbing a train on a horse is the coolest. If you want to send in your business idea,...

Plenty of people are NIMBYs ("not in my backyard!") but what about those of us who are more amenable? What about the YIMBYs? The "yes in my backyard!" people? Do you need to build a wind farm in someone's garden? Open a prison on someone's property? Dispose of weapon's grade nuclear waste? Alex's new app will find the exact place to put it! Plus, we have a l...

Welcome to our 1 year anniversary of Brains on the Outside! Over the last 365 days, we have released 52 previous episodes with over 100 ridiculous business ideas! If you've never listened to an episode, this is the perfect place to start! The first innovative pitch idea of year 2 is for a food subscription box for processed foods - half chemistry set, half Mindful Chef. Plus, we have a live s...

Alex's idea for a CEO training academy for babies meets some scepticism as our guest Ashmita asks some (pretty fair) questions.  If you want to send in your business idea, or a problem you need solving, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in with an idea! Give us a rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or where ever you get you...

Morning routines are slow, but they could be fast. Really fast. Like, REALLY fast. If you want to send in your business idea, or a problem you need solving, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in with an idea! Give us a rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts, follow us on Twitter @brainsoutside or...

Inside us all is the desire to dig a really really deep hole. Now, with Andrew's newest holiday destination, you can rent a shovel, a JCB, or a Bagger 288 and dig to your heart's content. If you want to send in your business idea, or a problem you need solving, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in with an idea! Give us a rate and...

The rise of ChatGPT and AI has rendered the magic 8 ball obsolete. Alex has a pitch though: the Magic 8.1 ball, an AI-enabled decision maker. If you want to send in your business idea, or a problem you need solving, please email us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com - we will send merch to everyone who writes in with an idea! Give us a rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or where ever you...

Prepare to be able to reheat food anywhere - the portable microwave is here. With an ergonomic and timeless design, inspired by the lighter, Alex and Andrew are sure the portable microwave will change the way you view the humble microwave. Would you like some free and amazing merch? Well, listen until the end of this week's episode to find out how! We also want to thank Helen for your busines...

We are starting the new year with the second part of our awards show! This time we are nominating the business idea we would invest real money into, if we had enough real money to make investments! If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us using our Google Form: https://forms.gle/oNTu6FJ5gV91isRNA or by email: brainsontheoutside@gmail.com Give us a...

Viability is in the eye of the beholder. We host our first Brains on the Outside awards show, as Andrew and Alex try to choose what they believe is the most viable business they pitched this year.  If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us using our Google Form: https://forms.gle/oNTu6FJ5gV91isRNA or by email: brainsontheoutside@gmail.com Give us a...

It's our Christmas special today and who better to discuss Santa with than Molly, an 11-year-old! We try to get the inside scoop on what Santa has been up to this year and what Molly thinks we might be able to do to help him out. We then try to understand, through a child's eyes where the best place to hide presents in your house might be, to make sure no one finds something they shouldn...

more balls! more players! more voting! Now that the World Cup is wrapping up, Andrew and Alex wonder what rules will be included in the sequel to football: Football 2. The two business-pitching buddies get nostalgic about a Lord of the Rings themed bar they once visited and wonder what the most innovative theme a bar could have. If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to disc...

This week, as you crack open that little door and feast upon the chocolatey (or crunchy) snacks behind you can listen to our thoughts on advent calendars, present regifting and Hallmark Christmas Movies including Gretchen Wieners, dinosaurs and a reindeer with a genetic health condition. If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us using our Google Fo...

An anime dating sim to teach you coding! A banana to tell you to sell bitcoin! An annoying alarm! A social media with a timer! This week is packed a smorgasbord of innovative ideas from Durhack, a Durham University hackathon Thank you to all our guests in today's episode! If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us using our Google Form: https:/...

You can see a cover band version of The Beatles, but why isn't there a tribute version of theme parks? Or a tribute version of Formula 1, or art, or restaurants? After we pitch a tribute of everything, Alex plays havoc with the spacetime continuum to make it easier to work with Australia. Thank you so much Rhianne for sending us your business idea to make leather easier to wear!  'If you...

Elon has made it clear: no idea is bad enough to not be considered included in a future update to Twitter. We are more than happy to help speed up its death spiral by throwing more ideas into the mix. Tackling another type of melt-down, we discuss the Long-term nuclear waste warning message problem: how can you convince people to leave nuclear waste alone, forever.  If you have a business problem,...

We are back with another episode recorded in Brewdog Waterloo's podcast recording studio! The restaurant Dishoom lets loyal customers roll dice to give you free food - can other companies apply this gambling concept to their own business? Then, Alex teaches everyone what a skinner box is, and how the future of everything will be based on them. On top of all this, this episode is unique: we ha...

It's Halloween! Monsters and candy are everywhere! Today is a day for the supernatural! No matter how much has changed, however, innovative business ideas are constantly important. Join us as we discuss the new businesses required to keep the monster society going. If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us using our Google Form: https://forms....