Get in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  Thanks,Jon, Ed, and Mark.A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S4 EP3: Sporting politics, protestation, and polyamoryGet in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  Thanks,Jon, Ed, and Mark.A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S4 EP2: Empathy, butt plugs, and Seitan worshipGet in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  Thanks,Jon, Ed, and Mark.A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We are back!Back, to the future. We catch up on everything that's been going on in our lives (and more importantly the world) since we last met. And we get to work answering your listener questions in the only way we know how...Thanks,Jon, Ed, and Mark.Get in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“If Finding Nemo was real, after Nemo's mum had been eaten by barracuda, his dad would have flipped gender and had sex with his son, which doesn't sound like a massive Disney hit!” Welcome to the second episode in this special TOPIA podcast series. TOPIA is a kaleidoscopic new culture, nature and positive impact magazine where anything goes – as long as it’s good. To tie in with Season 02 being themed (loosely) on ‘The Egg’, this podcast sees The Futurenauts in conversation with the British zoologist behind the gloriously original book, Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Female Animal. Do we need sex at all? Which animals are doing it for themselves? Which species hasn’t had sex for 80 million years? This covers everything you want to know about sexual cannibalism, gender fluidity and Darwin's obsession with the barnacle penis. Imagine a sort of X-rated Mr. Tickle. Follow @worldoftopia to win a copy of Bitch! and @jandthef for more podcast pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 EP12: The Future of Systems with Michael Pawlyn Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of systems is the brilliant Michael Pawlyn. BIO: Michael Pawlyn is a British architect noted for his work in the field biomimetic architecture and innovation, as well as jointly initiating the 'Architects Declare' movement in the UKHe was part of the principal team of architects that conceived and designed The Eden Project and is a regular keynote speaker at events on innovation and environmental sustainability. His best selling RIBA book Biomimicry in Architecture was published in 2011 and a revised second edition, with a foreword by Ellen MacArthur, was published in 2016. He was one of the three founders of The Sahara Forest Project - a way of supplying fresh water, food and renewable energy in arid conditions - and remains actively involved as a Founding Partner and Design Manager.We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

JRATFN - War in Ukraine (with Lieutenant General Richard Nugee)This episode we're joined once again by Lieutenant General Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE to discuss the war in Ukraine. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TOPIA SPECIAL 01: The Big Bang (The Futurenauts interview with Jon Richardson)Welcome to the first in this special TOPIA series of candid conversations with remarkable people keeping our planet cool. This podcast is for people who have ever wondered just what this mind-bender of a universe is all about, or want to be entertained with inspiring positive stories.TOPIA is a kaleidoscopic new culture and positive impact magazine bursting with nature, art, design, travel, and perspectives from the world's wildest edges. The theme of Season 01 is THE BIG BANG. It features cosmic chats and stories of stardust, super volcanoes… and talking beavers.In this podcast, we go back to the origins with Jon Richardson – finding out why he wants to make people laugh and why we need humour at all. We discuss Big Bang epiphanies, transforming difficult times into laughs, mental health, and what “a world of good” looks like. TOPIA is a place where anything goes – as long as it’s good:Fall down the rabbit hole: worldoftopia.comFollow @worldoftopia & @jandthef Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 EP11: The Future of the office (With Julia Hobsbawm) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of the office is the brilliant Julia Hobsbawm. Julia's fantastic new book 'The Nowhere Office' is available now. BIO:Julia Hobsbawm is an entrepreneur, writer, and consultant who addresses the challenges of the hyper connected age, in particular remedies of what she has called Social Health for organisations.She is Chair of The Workshift Commission and is Founder and Chair of the content and connection business Editorial Intelligence. Her bestselling book The Simplicity Principle: Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World was published in 2020 and won two US Awards for Best Business Book and Best Self-Help Book of 2020. Her previous books include Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload which was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year.Awarded an OBE for services to business, her articles are amongst the most downloaded on the Strategy + Business site and she is an adviser to the British Academy’s Future of the Corporation project.She regularly speaks to global audiences in government, private and public sectors. Julia is a founding trustee in the UK of OurBrainBank, a patron of Saving Faces: Facial Surgery Research Foundation, patron of The Zoe Education Trust, and is the Founder of the Social Capital Network.We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

S3 EP10: The Future of the Citizen (With Jon Alexander) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of the citizen and citizenship is the brilliant Jon Alexander. His fantastic new book 'Citizens' is available to pre-order now. BIO:Jon spent the first decade of his career working in the advertising industry, selling some of the world's biggest brands, and winning plenty of awards along the way. Then he realised he was caught up in a story he didn't believe in: The Consumer Story.In 2014, Jon co-founded the New Citizenship Project with Irenie Ekkeshis, a former ad-land colleague. Their mission was to figure out how to use their skills not just to sell stuff to Consumers, but to involve people in the decisions that affect their lives as Citizens. They have since partnered with organisations and institutions including the Co-op, The Body Shop, National Trust, BBC, European Central Bank and many more.Jon is a Fellow of the Young Foundation and the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a member of the World Economic Forum's Political Entrepreneurship Network and of the OECD's Innovative Citizen Participation Network. He holds three Masters degrees in disciplines spanning humanities and business, and has won several essay awards including the inaugural Ashridge/European Academy of Business in Society Sustainable Innovation Award, and the Young Foundation's Beyond Meritocracy Prize. Along the way, he has also represented Great Britain in two different sports.We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show;Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.comTWITTER: @JANDTHEF  A 'Keep it Light Media' ProductionAll enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices