Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg

Joff Bush is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Brisbane, Australia. Joff is behind the music for the hit TV show, Bluey.

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Checking in, March 31, 2023

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Dr Ian Chung has been practising for nearly fifty years in Sydney, Australia.

We’ll get into his story shortly - however, he made a name for himself as "Dr Rock”, the doctor to call when you have a major international performer that can’t make the show and there are 20,000 people who have bought tickets and are on the way to the gig as you speak. That’s when you called Dr Chung. 

If you’ve read my book, you’ll know how I came to meet him - but I can’t tell you how glad I am that I did. 

Not only was he and the first doctor to diagnose me with social phobia (which was the first time everything started to make sense) but he was the first doctor that I saw about my head that taught me real skills to deal with what was happening rather than just talk about it. 

I’ll never forget when Dr Chung got angry at me when I told him I’d rather have a few beers to calm down my anxiety than take antidepressants, and it was his anger and frustration that shook me out of my stubbornness and lead me to take those meds - which not only gave me incredible relief but made me lament refusing them when I was first offered them nearly ten years beforehand. 

A quick note - just because Ian helped me, doesn’t mean he’s the only person who can help. 

I’ve had many doctors since Ian and they’ve all helped me get where I am and stay where I am today - he’s just the one who set the standard to which I held all other doctors accountable to. 

There are many, many excellent doctors who can help you if you need help. It’s important to allow time to find them. You might not click straight away, it might not work for you, that’s ok - they’ll work for someone else and that’s fine. 

It’s important to keep trying, keep trying to find the doctor that you click with, one you can trust, one that makes you want to do what they tell you to do. 

Because if you’re at the point where you're seeing a Dr, you’re at the point where your ideas have run out of usefulness. So be quiet, listen to what they tell you to do, and do it. 

And it was in doing what I was told by Doctors that helped me get to a place where I’m a lot healthier than where I once was.

It’s not hyperbole to say that Dr Chung changed my life - and I am so very grateful that you now get the chance to hear the story of this incredible man. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr Ian Chung. 

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Toni Lodge is a comedian, podcaster and author originally from Perth, WA. Originally working in commercial radio, Toni has leapt to the world of podcasting where she’s found enormous success with her show Toni & Ryan.

In her book I Don’t Need Therapy (and Other Lies I Tell Myself) Toni presents a hilarious book of essays all based on lies.

Because we all lie to ourselves to make the choices we’re not thrilled about feel more OK.

But after this chat, I know I felt a little different about some of those lies - I hope you do to.

Enjoy this chat with Toni Lodge.

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Checking in, March 24, 2023

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Richard Wilkins is a legend in the Australian and international entertainment industry. He was an original presenter on MTV Australia when it launched in 1987, and has been the entertainment presenter at Channel Nine for decades. He has interviewed all of the biggest stars in the world, always has his finger on the pulse of the entertainment industry and has been a trusted taste maker for music, film and television for Australians for decades.

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Professor Brian Greene is a world renowned theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist.

The primary goal of string theory is to unify the two pillars of modern physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity.

Among his most influential contributions are the first semi-realistic models based on explicit string compactifications, the discovery of mirror symmetry, and early calculations of microwave background imprints of quantum gravity.

He is the director of Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Physics.

Chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008

To speak with an academic like Brian is an incredible honour. And you actually have the chance to be in the same room as him in a few weeks from now.

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Checking in, March 17, 2023

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Paul Field is the managing director of The Wiggles. He is a musician, filmmaker, author and one of the founding member of the Cockroaches. For many years he has been working with the Red Nose organisation who fund research for and provide education about SIDS - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. We discuss SIDS and child-loss in this conversation. If you’re not up to listening to this today, that’s OK. If this conversation brings up anything, you can call Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.

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You’ve heard about people ‘reinventing themselves’ but did you ever wonder how it was actually done?

Libbi Gorr is a multi-award winning radio and tv broadcaster who as the satirical character Elle McFeast became the first woman in Australia to helm her own national night-time variety show Elle McFeast Live.

When a clearly drunk notorious hitman Chopper Read staggered on stage to be interviewed, and proceeded to laugh while joking about killing a man by putting him in a cement mixer - fair to say the shit hit the fan.

The absolute rocket that was Elle McFeast was riding into the heights of career success took a very unexpected turn.

Her show which had been commissioned for 32 episodes ran only 16, and well before social media cancel culture was invented, the manufactured media outrage around the moment essentially ended Elle McFeast - sending Libbi to seek cover, where she put things back together to reemerge anew.

It was an enormously high-profile moment, one which she talks about with her show Bold Conversations, happening at The Malthouse theatre in Melbourne this Thursday - and we touch on as well during our chat on this episode.

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