Holy Crap! How'd They Do That?

For decades, office workers were told they had to be in the office. They couldn't work remotely. Then, suddenly, the COVID pandemic required working from home. Now companies are contemplating when and if they will call employees back into office. In this episode we delve into the thinking behind where and when we work as well as how our productivity is measured.

Medical technology has taken a big leap forward with ingestibles. Ingestible medical devices stand to change the face of medicine and we're just on the tip of the iceberg!

Abraham Lincoln is often regarded as the greatest American president. He violated one of the oldest leadership practices by bringing his political opponents into his cabinet. Why would a leader do that? Wouldn't that set him up for internal sabotage? In this episode we explore the man and his thinking.

We're going down under, underground that is. Coober Pedy is a mining town that discovered the value of staying out of the elements by digging into the earth. Not just houses, but museums, churches and many other businesses.

Compulsory education laws require children to attend a public or state-accredited private school for a certain period of time. We'll be talking about the history and significance of this disruptive idea for the betterment of society

We're headed to the North Pole. Well, actually, the USS Nautilus made the trip, but they didn't go to the North Pole, they went UNDER the North Pole.

With the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA and identifying and mapping of every gene in the human body, the Human Genome Project was finished under time and under budget. The value and possibilities are priceless!

It started as a publicity stunt for a radio station. It ended with a 3-ton block of ice traveling from the Arctic Circle to the Equator, and was followed by worldwide press corp, crowds of spectators and was called "the world's greatest publicity stunt".

The Coastal Highway Route E39-project is the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history, and quite possibly the largest on-going road project worldwide. The almost 700-mile trip currently runs 21hours with an average speed of 30 MPH. The floating tunnel will change that to around 10 hours.

Before the transcontinental railroad was completed, travel overland by stagecoach cost $1,000, took five or six months, and involved crossing rugged mountains and arid desert. The transcontinental railroad would make it possible to complete the trip in five days at a cost of $150 for a first-class sleeper.

Satellite services fundamentally shape telecommunication, navigation, and remote sensing services that are vital to the global economy. The current system is on the risk of collapse due to implementation of new tech like phones, etc. Constellations offer new levels of versatility. Smaller, cheaper satellites—some just the size of a briefcase—can be arranged in different configurations depending on their goal.

It was "all hands on deck" when it came to equipping our troops for the war effort. This meant rationing not only staples, but certain "key" elements to American's diets.

Depression era scarcity

Holy Crap Accomplishment: Swedish Recycling Sweden recycles an astounding 99 percent of locally-produced waste, thanks to the sensitiveness of its citizens to the environment and sophisticated collection techniques. recycled waste by households has increased from 38 percent in 1975 to at least 99 percent today. 2001 rubbish landfilled = 22%, today 1% Sweden now importing waste Household waste 2017 5 percent was used for biological recycling, 8 percent for material recycling 2 percent went to energy recovery. Landfills are a major contributor to global emissions of the greenhouse gas methane, and burning waste is kinder to the environment, experts say. Alternative energy: The recycling process does not end at the burning stage. The remaining ashes constitute 15 percent of the waste volume before burning. Metals in these ashes are recycled again, with the rest used in road construction. Just one percent remains and is deposited in dumps. 49% of household waste is recycled, and roughly 50 percent of garbage is incinerated - Heat is transformed into steam that spins turbines to generate electricity much like conventional power plants that burn coal or gas. Instead of burning coal or gas, this power plant burns trash. Energy from trash equals the heating demand of 1.25 million apartments and electricity for 680,000 homes, according to Avfall Sverige. Produces methane biogas from 100,000 tons of food and organic waste each year. This biogas runs more than 200 city buses in the county, as well as fleets of garbage collection trucks, and some taxis and private cars, they report. Four tons of garbage contains energy equivalent to one ton of oil, 1.6 tons of coal, or five tons of wood waste Burning the waste is filtered through dry filters and water. And the dry filters are used to refill abandoned mines. Not perfect but much better than current alternatives Pipelines under roads that vacuum garbage which is sent by households to the stations. Public service announcements, with prominent musicians, encourage recycling food is used for creating biogas, while glass bottles are reused or melting to produce new glass container. Plastic materials are converted into their raw state and special rubbish trucks collect dangerous chemicals and electric waste, such as broken or old furniture and televisions. Critics claim not Zero Waste due to CO2 emission Holy Crap Thinking: Sometimes you can't make it perfect but you can make it much better Energy in Waste Use laws but also persuasion – different from Japan Holy Crap Quote: “We don't look at it as waste, we use the energy content of waste as much as possible.” Klas Gustafsson, vice president of the company. Holy Crap Challenge: Think Bigger: Look for energy in what you consider waste Reach Higher: Don't demand perfect – take the next step even if it's not perfect Do the Impossible: Collaborate to raise community standards to world class

The city of Kamikatsu in the forested mountains of Japan's Shikoku Island has a "zero waste" philosophy. And they live it out everyday. Join us as we share the disruptive thinking such a plan requires.

John Raskob came from humble beginnings and started off as a personal secretary before ending up as VP for DuPont and GMC. After a parting of ways over political candidates, he set out to build the tallest building in the world. Completed in record time, he did it. Listen to find out how!

Nearly 600 years, dozens of ships and countless people were lost. Then along comes Robert Stevenson with a crazy idea of building a lighthouse.There were obstacles, and went over or around all of them.

Dr. Loren Murfield has done what very few others have done. In July of 2020, during the pandemic, he is the co-host of 2 podcasts, runs a monthly mastermind, and blogs weekly. But then he wrote a short screen play (in March) but filmed it in July. He is also the producer and played the lead part. Then, a week later, he released 4 books in four days.

The American colonists took a significant paradigm shift to go from rebellion (anarchy?) to organized government.

Was it fake? We don't think so. And science and disruptive thinking is on our side. It wasn't fake, but it was amazing!

This just might be our first "Boring" topic. Boring tunnel that is, as in the one they are building in Las Vegas. There is some extreme thinking behind this project and the money that will come from it.

Seat belts save lives. But where did they come from and why do we have to wear them? There was some extreme thinking behind all of this.

It has the name Flu and it started in Spain. But this little disease wreaked havoc on the world until it seemingly disappeared.

The need for power meets the need to create jobs. There's more to it than that, much more, and the thinking was so disruptive for the times, but they saw amazing results.

There are some great parallels to the fight for a Coronavirus vaccine. We're talking a different disease and a different vaccine. Once a crippling disease, Polio was a threat to mostly children everywhere. The first vaccine was too. Let's explore the rest of the story.

Before it was the behemoth it is now, Amazon had some simple roots with some high ambitions. It's no wonder that its founder is the richest man to ever exist on the planet!

Built Ford tough. That isn't just an advertising campaign. That's how we describe Henry Ford and his totally disruptive thinking. We'll explore some great things he did that not only helped Ford Motors, but essentially every business in the world!

Reach for the moon and if you don't make it, at least you'll have the stars. That's not how Space X sees it. In fact, they have challenged everything we ever knew about space travel and it is shattering.

What if you didn't have to pick between 2 choices? What if there was an even better 3rd option that you totally missed? That's what we're talking about today.

It takes more than faith to move mountains. And it takes some real volunteers to work through the Coronavirus pandemic. Find out more.

How can you be a COVID hero? How about a business pivot to stay ahead of the trends? That's our conversation today. Tune in to find out more.

Throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, certain heroes have emerged. This is the story of Pennsylvania factory workers who put service above self.

As we progress through the Coronavirus pandemic, certain "hereos" have emerged. This is their stories.

Love him. Hate him. Love to hate him. It doesn't really matter, because we're talking about the mind, not the personality or the ego. Elon Musk is our topic today, so get ready for some real disruptive thinking.

We are headed into the wayback machine. The great thinker we are talking about today, was ahead of his time, by around 500 years and counting.

How do you insulate yourself from rejection? How about going out for 100 days with the intent of being rejected so that "NO" won't bother you anymore? This is how one man did it and turned it into a new life path.

You should always think bigger, especially in tough times. Here's how to do it.