Innovation Time Machine

This week, in an attempt to wring some humour out of an inherently dark topic, Rupert tells the one about a monkey, a chicken and a snake that walk into a Roman execution. Blake meanwhile proves he can’t tell his pranger from a hole in the pillory.

This week, Rupert files a downright stinky combat missive from the front lines of the 1935 Iowan-Wisconsin Limburger Cheese Wars. Blake teaches us all that is yellow is not cheese, when he lops off a concentrated-whey-protein-laden slab from the history of Velveeta.

In this episode, Rupert explains how horse-drawn sensibilities and engorged hippocampi combined to make a world-renowned British transportation network. Blake regales us with the story of AMC, and how the Pacer convinced a generation of drivers that being small is fine, as long as you’re wide and covered in fake wood grain.

In this episode our resident bohemian Blake introduces us to his green fairy friend in a bottle, and Rupe explains why more and more teenagers are coming down to breakfast drunk these days.

In this week’s episode, Blake explores the global obsession with eating pig skin, and why pigs make great cannibalistic logos. Meanwhile, Rupe explains why Pablo Escobar at one time seriously considered getting into the popcorn game, and why so many small American cities would have fought him for bragging rights

In this episode, Rupe takes us climbing in the Himalayas, where the air is thin and the whiff of testosterone is heavy. Blake wields his +3 Mic-of-Podcasting and takes us into the murky world of wizards, dragons, trolls, and – worst of all – intellectual rights lawyers.

This week, Rupe takes us into the pit of freshness with the history of deodorant - but gets roll-on shamed for his trouble. Blake teaches us the ancient Latin phrase for “public butt-sponge” during a quick once-over on the history of toilet paper.

In this episode, Rupe takes us time-travelling to discover how sundials were eventually consigned to the dark ages – and Blake demonstrates that the scientific definition of a second takes at least a minute to explain.

In this week’s offering, Rupe proudly shows us something that turns out to be invisible without a microscope, meanwhile Blake gives us an insight into what pipe-smoking US Navy scientists do to paper clips when left without adult supervision.

This week Blake exits through the gift shop on a tour through the solvent-soaked world of urban graffiti. Rupe does his best to list the multitude of crimes committed against science and common sense by the Flat Earth Society. (For your consideration, Pulitzer committee…)