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First World Solutions
by First World Solutions
Hello and welcome to First World Solutions - the problem-solving podcast for those who don't necessarily need one.Find us on twitter:twitter.com/fwscastFWS on iTunes: apple.co/2tCPYIrFWS on Spotify: spoti.fi/2QS1ZFD
Episodes
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Ep 90: Lockdown X - Scroggle
This week, we're modernising tabletop game rules, reinvigorating classic fashion, and standardising the rankings of common skills. In HMS, we examine the history of the Kaleidoscopic Crisp Kaleidoscopic. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First World Problems at…
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Ep. 89: Lockdown IX - Frederick Twoshine
With the episode arriving Just In Time*, this week we're hunting down history, tracking a toucan, and bolstering background entertainment. In HMS, we bring the Roomba Conditioning Family to an impressionable generation. *4 days late Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First World...
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Ep. 88: Mark It Out
This week, our first in-person episode in months kicks off a new season. To solve the problems at hand, we channel ancient mysticism, create jobs in the home space, and solve wardrobe dilemmas with historic methods. In a trial run of our new HMS format, we look to Twitter for inspiration - and it...
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Ep. 87: Lockdown VIII - Tom Returns
Tom is back from his travels! This week, Oscar and Joel fend off grave accusations, we catch up on problems past, and a childhood cult classic makes a comeback, in mattress form. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First World Problems at [email protected] FWS on iTunes:...
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Ep. 86: Lockdown VII - The End Of The Loop
It's the end of the time loop - is Tom leaving? Has he returned? All will be answered, after we bring back a classic bedroom utility, partner with a major search engine, and delve into the insect politics of country life. In our HMS, we reassure Tom that no matter where he ends up, there'll be a...
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Ep. 85: Gif & Take
This week, we're combining comfort and condiments, providing backup for forgetful shoppers, and revolutionising delivery ratings. In our first Twitter-led HMS, we look back on the ups and downs of household fashion brand, 'Espadrille & Pooter'. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your...
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Ep. 84: See the Nipple
This week, we're putting out fires at home, creating a family of products to transport hot food, and designing fashion options to keep your chest happy. In HMS, we're giving back to veteran bus drivers - but only as much as is legally sanctioned. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us…
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Ep. 83: Friends With Blimp
This week, we're creating business ventures to reduce wastage, revolutionising adult entertainment with a F2P model, and tricking the body into providing extra storage. In our HMS we're pushing Random Flight Crystals, a re-brand of a beloved blue hedgehog's property. Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 82: Swear Game [REDACTED]
This week's a quick(ish)fire episode, optimising power use in the home, monetising habits of expression, and reaping the benefits of a seedy online scheme. In our HMS, a specific demographic gives us a universal gift with the Spaghetti Salad Stick. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us...
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Ep. 81: Fruitlings
This week, we bring back playground snack tech, reinvent a tool older than the wheel, and maximise unexpected comfort on a long-haul flight. In HMS, we're getting a subscription box model running with 'Spritz, For Tools'. Can we corner the window cleaning market? Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 80: Ipso Facto; Psy is Jumping
This week, we use a looming threat as inspiration for a screenplay, Oscar brings another installment of First World News, and we help a distracted musician split their attention effectively. In our HMS, we're helping tough biker folk avoid a case of the giggles. Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 79: Honey Futures
A slightly more trimmed down episode this week, with a foodie theme - we're shipping supplements with breakfast foods, navigating tricky social scenarios, and maintaining a consistent artistic brand. In our HMS we discuss the Beekeeper Jamboree Paradox, which might affect you, should you be…
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Ep. 78: Days of FWS Past
The first episode of 2019 and we've already lost track of our backlog - so this episode is an attempt to get us back in sync. We add a wiki function to navigation, salvage souvenirs from Europe, and Oscar wows us with our most current First World News segment to date. The Seven String Fluffer…
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Ep. 77: First World Resolutions 2019!
This week we bring you a very special NYE episode of FWS, where we look forward to what 2019 may have in store. We're giving you resolutions for mix-ups involving cutlery, condiments, and conforming to a norm. In our last HMS of the year, we're offering the Angel Replacement Goggles, for those…
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Ep. 76: FWS Christmas Special (More Potatoes Edition)
Do you hear those sleigh bells? 'Tis the season to be helpful - we're here, cracker hats on, to solve up the unique problems that arise around this festive time. We modernise a Christmas classic, train hard for the shopping rush, and figure out ways to avoid the foods that bring down your mood.…
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Ep. 75: One Thicc Pringle
This week, we're saving face when ahead of schedule, bringing heated discussions to a satisfying close, and solving one of our most quintessential first world problems yet. In our HMS we come up with 'Lettuce Cry Marathon', a subversive omnibus with an anti-alcohol agenda. Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 74: Let's Make A Deal
This week, we create a bartering system for essential utilities and deal with a mismanaged breadstick inventory. Oscar launches a new segment called First World News, where we take a hard look at the large-scale woes threatening our society. The bird you've all been waiting for arrives with the...
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Ep. 73: How DO You Say FWS?
This week, we're making up for the middle ages, reversing safely with screensaver tech, and seeing just how many sponsors we can fit on a product. In our HMS, we market the Convertible Keyboard Phone to out-of-touch (but earnest) dads. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First...
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Ep. 72: Lockdown VI - A Clam Man
Spread across the nation but committed to providing solutions, this week's episode sees us exploring haikus aplenty, avoiding a pricey fare at a buffet, and granting a long-time listener a snazzy new nickname. Our HMS brings the new craze of Short, Tactile Cycling to the masses. Find us on…
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Ep. 71: Baffee the Unknowable
This week, we solve possible door-based misunderstandings, help wean those addicted to the call of caffeine, and present possibly our most grounded solution yet. In our weekly HMS, the demographic is young mothers - can we encourage them to buy into the Artistic Saddle Box? Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 70: Spider-Man In A Hamlet
This week, we're communicating with professionals, discussing a much maligned piece of clothing, and giving agency back to users of public transport. Our HMS is a after-school community safe space for hip teens, the 'Pink Coil Ladle'. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First…
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Ep. 69: Pie-Ella
This week, we're avoiding temptation in the workplace, styling for an inevitable future, and realising that multiple problems can often have a single solution. Our HMS is the Pogo Star Hat, a hot new brand for a struggling '90s scene. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First…
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Ep. 68: The Legend of Zucko
This week, we take a professional approach to comfortable sleep, break free of the social media spiral, and prevent disruption of important meetings in the office. In HMS, we're rebooting a franchise through sponsored edu-tainment with 'Driver: Soul Fizz'. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast...
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Ep. 67: Social Conditioning
This week, we make confusing measurements a thing of the past, create a naming convention with elegance and fluidity, and face baffling opposition to a new military initiative. Our HMS is 'Big Corner Bargains', where we scheme to beat our rivals 'Corners, Corners, Corners' at their own game. Find...
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Ep. 66: Notify
This week, Oscar's missing a beloved item - but we take his mind off it with a new radio integration app, a conspiracy from centuries past, and ways to counteract the shame of a public breakup. This weeks' HMS is 'Get Tarp; Abridged' - a fantastic entry point into a trilogy of cult classics. Find...
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Ep. 65: The Goilet
We've been hit hard by the lurgy, and the delirium has set in. Instead of resting, we discuss new bathroom power moves, enlist an old ally to protect humanity, and identify the dangers presented when non-edibles are made to smell delicious. Closing out, we envision what having a Neon Pedal Award...
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Ep. 64: Crime-Man Punishment
This week, we flip the fashion world on its head, plan some pre-emptive holiday ideas, and generate income with the humble gnat. In a twist on the Horse Melon Symposium, we compete for the best interpretation of our chosen invention. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First…
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Ep. 63: Heistman & Sons
Bit of a shorter one on account of time restraints - but this week, we're protecting your best meals from late-night hungers, calming the mind before an evening of rest, and pulling the (locally sourced) heist of the century. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your First World…
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Ep. 62: CLANK!
This week, we craft a new initiative in an attempt to keep our tangents in check - while discussing wine tastings, mid-holiday blues, and acceptable dating app profile bios. In a twist on the HMS formula, we help Tom with his recent luggage management issues. Find us on twitter…
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Ep. 61: CompartMelon
This week, we're focusing our lens on car woes; adding finesse to a heads-up display, envisioning alternate methods of traversal, and providing a quick fix to systemic parking issues. We also create the 'Abdominal Pea Cup', which unites our love of protein, privacy, and prolific exercise. Find us...
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Ep. 60: Bacon, Lettuce, Computer
Apologies for the delay on this episode (though if you think about it, you'll now be getting two this week so, you're welcome?). We open out the show with Joel's thoughts on a seemingly under-represented film genre, before diving in to help people with dating queries, unshakeable thirsts, and a...
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Ep. 59: The Body-Cooling, Heart-Warming, Music-Making Fridge Car
This week, we're tackling transportation - making a car more like an office, and a fridge more like a car. We also see just how far a 'fully furnished' home could go. No But Better today but, fear not, our quick wits have got you covered with not one, but TWO brand new powder based foodstuffs.…
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Ep. 58: Lockdown V - Object Impermanence
Oscar's on holiday in sun(less) Scotland, but he still found time to kick back with us and solve some pressing issues - we're talking teaching children about loss, navigating the musician's quest for acoustic bliss, and bluffing your way through the most basic of human interactions. In But…
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Ep. 57: What Do You Mean You're My Brother?
We return from the backlog this week, solving parental lessons in our hi-tech world, creating a benefits system for the party-deficient, and implementing strict guidelines for phone use during board games. 'Bet Butter' is Joel's last-minute attempt to cover for the fact we had nothing planned to...
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Ep. 56: Zest Of The Forbidden Lemon
Another compact episode this week, where we fix the unnecessary padding in online recipes, create a school program to help drive interest to our podcast, and - in lieu of a But Better - come up with three new products using the POWER of IMPROV. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your...
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Ep. 55: Smells Like Cheap Money
Short on time this week, we get stuck straight into the good stuff - like getting unwanted scents off your high-end glasses, keeping the excitement in your hydration routine, and bringing back an old AI friend. In But Better, Tom proposes the 'Beach Safety Booth' - can we get it ready to deploy?...
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Ep. 54: The Egg Wheeler
This week, we try our hand at street speed-dating, design a space-efficient method of transport for all stages of washing transport, and help a nocturnal trumpeter to practice in peace. But Better brings Tom's 'The Forbidden Words'. Can they outclass the swears we're all used to? Find us on...
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Ep. 53: Lockdown IV: Elon Musk's FPS
These tropical weathers have us fearful to step outside, so this week brings a new remote session, in which we stave off boredom in the waiting room, relieve an urgent need to use the bathroom, and trick a misbehaving tablet into working for us. We then address multiple prompts in our closing...
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Ep. 52: Ed Over Heels
This week, we approach an age-old debate from a new angle, design an eat-to-win restaurant model, and create a perfectly impartial method of dating online. In But Better, Tom's '-Goodizer' aids us in creating a mixing pot of all-purpose fixes that are perfectly satisfactory. Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 51: Jalapeño & Sons
This week, we help an old friend to enjoy his favourite summer food, decide if and how you should take your cat on holiday, and attempt to bypass the ordering restrictions of a local takeaway. In But Better, we workshop 'The Happy Birthday Tome' into a modern day trial of truth. Find us on…
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Ep. 50: How Many Togs Is A Banana?
This week, we explore mechanics related to bedroom traversal, flesh out a paper measurement concept, and encourage exercise with a globally-ranked incentive. In But Better, we enlist the help of the animal kingdom with Tom's 'Recycle Buddy'. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us your...
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Ep. 49: Podcasters React!
This week, we deal with a pressing need for fresh fruit, discuss possible outsourcing avenues, and attempt to reinstate a workplace of auditory delights. In But Better, Joel's innocuous suggestion 'Glowin' Glove' becomes a far more sinister apparatus.# Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send...
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Ep. 48: Eggs For The People!
This week, we streamline all manner of celebrations, find new ways of styling your do, and pen an exciting new addition to our screenwriting stable. In But Better, Joel's tired of waking up on the wrong side of the bed. can 'Snorbet' help him out? Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send us...
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Ep. 47: Two Gongs
We open the episode by quelling an animal insurgency with some lateral thinking. All warmed up, we devise methods of inconspicuous coffee collection, tackle the issues surrounding high-tech phone access, and create our most inspired solution yet. In But Better, Joel is tired of missing out on the...
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Ep. 46: A For Apple, Red For Glue
Thank you so much for your patience - we're back and ready to goof! This week, we streamline small talk with your peers, avoid carbonated mishaps, and seek to protect you during the warm summer nights. As for summer days, Oscar comes prepared with his But Better 'Am-Nose-ia'. Find us on twitter:...
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Ep. 45: Ham Hate
This week, we open with our first ever lightning round, create a passive-aggressive robot pal for curbing cravings, and deliver new dough delicacies with the help of a new egg-hating mascot. In But Better, we use Oscar's '100 Words For Soup' to create the TV show children and parents alike have...
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Ep. 44: Salt, Pepper, Igloo
It's good to be back! We're all caught up with the backlog and ready to start laying down the solutions. This week, we reinvent the humble winter coat, provide options for when you're all out of soda, and give the coffee community the temperature control they've been craving. We help to craft...
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Ep. 43: W.A.F.F.L.E
This week, we create a bolstering system for the less verbose, encourage a zen state through temperature acceptance, and help to drive a sense of community around daily ablutions. In But Better, 'LaceMate' is aiming to help with tying shoes - but accidentally revolutionises the transport…
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Ep. 42: Only 90s Kids
This week, we streamline coat tech with a questionable ad campaign, avert judgemental gazes in the time of most need, and provide a swift and steady remedy for those with lazy predispositions. In But Better, we dispel the myths surrounding the most confusing of foods with Oscar's hot new summer...
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Ep. 41: Francois Wilhelm-Schmidt
This week, we uncover an elusive society in the dining sphere, find pen peace with the Monks of the Mountains, and attempt to escape an incessant kitchen appliance. In But Better, Tom is having trouble sleeping comfortably - and 'Napp' is his solution. Find us on twitter: twitter.com/fwscast Send...
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Hello and welcome to First World Solutions - the problem-solving podcast for those who don't necessarily need one.Find us on twitter:twitter.com/fwscastFWS on iTunes: apple.co/2tCPYIrFWS on Spotify: spoti.fi/2QS1ZFD
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