S06 EP1: Back To The Pub

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

Keep It Light Media

Technology, Science

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After an 18 month hangover from Series 5, the boys return older, wiser and in wide-eyed blinking horror at what’s happened in the interim. Joining them to make some sense of things and talk boozers and ethical business is legendary pioneering organic pub maestro Geetie Singh-Watson, whose proposed rebrand for Jon’s pub might raise more than just an eyebrow or two… Get in touch with the show with any questions or topics you'd like us to discuss; ⁠Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com⁠ Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. A 'Keep it Light Media' Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we're on air.
0:05.4	John Ritterton, The Future Notes, Series 6.
0:08.4	And that's how you do it.
0:09.5	You do Series 5, you just pop off for a little bit,
0:12.9	and then you come back without any fanfare at all.
0:15.9	Where have you fucking been?
0:17.8	Don't pretend you've been in a studio for 18 months, the two of you.
0:21.4	You'll turn up in a minute.
0:22.8	We ended series five, episode 12, saying it's been a while between episodes 11 and 12,
0:27.8	and that was a three-month gap, and then we've disappeared for 18 months.
0:31.7	Yeah, well, everything's been all right.
0:35.8	Don't you always say the goal of your work is to not have to do your work and that's it
0:39.7	you know yeah yeah series five we left it incapable hands and you fucking ruined it
0:44.7	the world has to fall apart otherwise we've got nothing to do so every so often ed and i
0:49.6	work behind the scenes to make sure everything collapses i listen back to the last episode of
0:53.9	series five and it felt like a time capsule. You know, it's like that halcyon period in March
0:59.4	2024, oh my God, we didn't say any of that coming, did we? We're really shit futurist. I saw it
1:03.6	coming. You saw it all coming? Yeah. I planned it. How are we all? John, what's going on?
1:11.7	You're an actor now.
1:12.8	Yes, I'm an actor now, so I won't be being funny.
1:15.7	No change there.
1:17.1	I knew you were going to say that.
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