Invent

About Invent

Invent is about how to make things that don't exist yet. A man in a chicken suit at a Padres game. A pathologist in Perth who saw something in a stomach that couldn't be there. Two scientists who went looking in the sludge outside a recycling plant. Every week, somebody who saw a thing everyone agreed was impossible and found the way through. I'm Tara Lemméy. I invent things that don't exist — my biggest inventions were never patentable, like architecting the intelligence sharing system still used across the US intelligence community. Inventors see the world sideways, and sideways is where the answer is. Featured on Apple Podcasts.

Publisher

Tara Lemméy

Category

society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Nov 2025

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   How to Gift Wrap a Tree

   After the Caldor Fire there was a photograph I couldn’t stop looking at. A cabin in the Sierra above Tahoe. Everything around it gone, and one cabin standing, wrapped in silver. Somebody had wrapped a building in the same material that keeps a person alive. Fire shelters, a patent from 1944 that nobody built for seventy-five years, a man with twelve hundred and fifty staples — and the day the Park Service wrapped a two-thousand-year-old sequoia by hand, as the fire came up the hill.

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   How to Stop Fire

   A flood destroys a valley. Engineers build a levee. A drought empties a river. Engineers build a reservoir. A wildfire burns faster than anything can stop it. Three problems. Three agencies. Three budgets. They’re the same problem. An inventor is already solving all three — wherever we let it. Beavers in Washington’s Methow Valley and Devon, England — and the people bringing them back.

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   How to Invent 4 Million Jobs

   A man sits down at a desk in Washington with no staff, no system, and no plan. He has a phone, and until spring to put four million people to work. He starts making calls. Harry Hopkins, the Civil Works Administration, and how four million jobs got built inside government with a telephone and a list of governors.

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

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