Danny Clayton is a TV Personality and Public Figure best known for his ebullient personality and shockingly fluid charisma. His illustrious career began when he was just a teenager, poached by an Australian music TV channel to travel the globe chatting to the world’s biggest bands and artists and experiencing a coming of age that could be better described as a baptism of fire.  In this episode we sat down to talk about how he overcame the fear of live presenting, the future of the entertainment industry, the time he ‘almost’ became a paraplegic and the night he stole a boat. 

Tara Djokic is a rising star of the world’s scientific community. She’s an astrobiologist, geologist and palaeontologist. She recently engaged in a PHD for the University of NSW where she studied the ecology of dresser formation in Western Australia, which hosts some of the oldest evidence on earth of early microbial life on land.  She explained to me what the hell a Stromatolite is, what it could mean for the evolution of life on other planets and how to date old rocks. We also try to tackle the age old paradox of where the hell are all the aliens? __________ Follow Tara  ○ https://www.instagram.com/if_these_ro... ○ https://twitter.com/tara_djokic __________ TEDx Talk ○ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVbJY... __________

Meow Ludo is a bio hacker and Chief Scientist at MOTH Diagnostics. He is a transdisciplinary scientist who founded the biohacking movement in Australia. I’ve known Meow for quite some time now, and we always end up in interesting discussions over too many bottles of wine. I thought I’d remove the alcohol and add cameras to see if the net result was the same.  We cover topics including the integration of technology with biology, the legal ramifications of trans humanism, how we shape technology and how technology shapes us, artificial intelligence, and the prospect of living forever.   __________ Follow Meow Ludo  ○ https://www.foundry.bio/ ○ https://twitter.com/meowludo __________ Moth Diagnostics ○ https://www.mothdx.com/ __________

Tim Sharp is an internationally renowned Psychologist and founder of the Happiness Institute. He’s penned several books on the topics of happiness and wellbeing, including Habits for Happiness and Transformation: Turning Tragedy into triumph. Tim is a heavyweight in the Australian Positive Psychology arena, so I thought, who better to explain to me what the hell of that is.  We chatted about measuring Happiness, the role of expectation, heritability, extraversion, the interplay between happiness and wealth, framing techniques and the homeostasis of emotions. I had a great time talking with Tim and I’m sure everyone will find at least one or two things within the conversation in some way relatable. __________ Follow Tim Sharp  ○ https://www.drhappy.com.au/ ○ https://twitter.com/drhappy __________ The Happiness Institute ○ https://www.facebook.com/TheHappiness... __________

I recently sat down with Desh Amila, founder and CEO of Think Inc and more recently This is 42. Both have and continue to showcase some of the world’s most decorated scientists, philosophers and thinkers. This well dressed Sri-Lankan born innovator and entrepreneur has hosted and toured the likes of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, Sam Harris and Jane Goodall (to name just a handful).  We chatted about his journey to Australia, and the creation of the brands he now manages, the public appetite for long form content, as well as the current landscape of social media, artificial intelligence and the time he met Bill Murray. __________ Follow Desh Amila  ○ https://www.deshamila.com ○ https://twitter.com/desh_amila __________ This is 42 ○ https://www.thisis42.com __________