Better Than Yesterday with Osher Günsberg

Zoe Norton Lodge is a published author, actor, and storyteller from Sydney Australia. She’s one of the people behind the wildly successful “Story Club” which happens in Sydney at the Giant Dwarf Theatre and also on the Story Club podcast.  She’s also a performer/presenter on The Checkout - the consumer affairs show on the ABC here in Australia that is produced by the team from The Chaser. Zoe...

David Hunt ( @DavidHuntGirt  on Twitter) is an Author, Historian and comedian. His latest book “True Girt” is out now, the follow up to “Girt” which I read last summer. It’s a "laugh-out-loud because you can’t do anything else" account of the dark underbelly of Australian history. David’s first book “Girt” was the basis of the brilliant podcast with Dom Knight “Rum, Rebels and Ratbags” which...

Phoebe Dunn ( twitter.com/ @phoebeAGF ) is the CEO of the Amy Gillett foundation. They’re the people that are behind the “a metre matters” bicycle safety campaign in Australia. She’s a very accomplished person, having worked as a lawyer, for the Federal Government as an advisor to the Federal Attorney-General and National Security advisor, and on the state level as Chief Of Staff for the Victorian...

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Paul Middleditch is a multi-award winning director originally from New Zealand. Follow his adventures at @plazafilms on instagram He’s the mastermind behind bringing some of the most memorable commercials you’ve ever seen to your screens. Remember “It’s a big ad” for carlton draught? The brilliant Aussie Lamb diversity campaign from this year? And of course his incredible “It’s a Big Ad” for Cartl...

When war came to his village in South Sudan, Deng Adut was taken from his mother by rebels and forced to fight in the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. He was just six years old.  In his recent book “Songs of a War Boy” Deng describes in chilling detail the life of a child soldier - which includes horrific first hand accounts of battle, torture, death, and the kind of barbaric brutality that...

Nathan Appo is an athlete, activist, TV host and Health and Lifestyle officer for Deadly Choices - which is an initiative targeting Urban Indigenous Health, particularly the mental health of young indigenous men.  He’s raising money for Movember at  mobro.co/deadlychoices I’m at mobro.co/osher   He’s a great guy, I’m stoked to have him on.  We met in the radio station so there’...

Danielle Cormack is a talented actress from NZ who’s worked across both sides of the Tasman and the Pacific over her successful career. She was an original cast member on the landmark NZ soap “Shortland Street” and has appeared in brilliant TV such as “Rake”,”Deep Water” and the women’s prison drama “Wentworth”. Danielle is a fantastic human with a brilliant energy I know you’ll resonate with. We...

Phil Anderson is an Australian cycling legend. In a sport dominated by Europeans - Phil was the first non-European rider to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour De France. Think about the Jamaican Bobsled team turning up at the Olympics but actually winning. That’s what it was like - a rider from a country no one associated with cycling, riding so well he wore the leader’s jersey during the Tour De...

Jono Coleman ( @jonocoleman ) is a legendary broadcaster from Australia who has had an incredible career here and in the UK. He worked on landmark stations like the earliest incarnations of JJJ, the BBC and at the huge upstart that was Virgin Radio in the 90s. Starting in the late early 80s I first came to know him on a kids’ after school show called “Simon Townshend’s Wonder World” you could real...

Dr Jen Rayner is a native Canberran who has written a remarkable book Generation Less: How Australia is Cheating the Young. If you’re a parent, if you’re a young person in Australia, if you’re at all interested in the Australian economy and what the future holds for our younger population - this is a very interesting chat.  If politics makes you yawn, don’t worry - Jen is a brilliant communic...

Andrew Valder is co-founder of Garage Sale Trail, who are on Twitter @garagesaletrail What they do is coordinate a nation into having garage sales all on the same day, some 300,000 sales in all - in a way to bring communities together, reuse items and think about what waste really is.  They’re in their 6th year and are gearing up for October 22 which is the date of this year’s sale. Check out...

​ Emma Alberici  is a journalist that lives in Sydney Australia. She hosts the national nightly current affairs show on the ABC, Lateline. Formerly she was the European correspondent for the ABC, and now she holds our public figures accountable every night of the week. Her take-no-prisoners interviewing style has come under critique from people as high up the chain as our Prime Minister...

Travis Rice (@travisrice instagram) is one of the most talented and influential athletes to ever strap on a snowboard. Since his explosion onto the international scene at the age of 18, Travis has been pushing boundaries and challenging gravity on mountains all around the world. As a film producer, he's behind the most successful snowboarding film of all time "The Art of Flight" and his new f...

Michelle Langstone is an incredibly talented actress from the west coast of New Zealand. You'll remember her from McLeod's Daughters and more recently 800 words.  She came over ten minutes after I'd had some rather confronting news, so I just started recording and she talked me through it.  Thanks to everyone who supports the show on patreon.com/osher - without you this episode wouldn't...

Tommy Little  is a comedian, radio host and tv host from Melbourne Australia. You can catch him regularly in Australia on The Project on a Friday Night, and he's always touring around the nation doing standup. We talk a lot in this conversation about what it is to be a standup, what it is to have things go well - for example when you're doing breakfast radio and a late night show, a...

Montaigne is a singer/songwriter/performer from Sydney Australia - her new album "Glorious Heights" is out now, and she's touring the country through September - details at Montaigne.com.au  We met on twitter after she tagged me in a photo that she took of an old notebook full of "I love Matt Corby" signs she and her school friend had held up in a live audience at Australian Idol about ten ye...

Dan Rosen is the CEO of ARIA - The Australian Recording Industry Association. Among other things, ARIA provide the official pop music charts for Australia, as well as facilitating the annual ARIA awards which are our country's highest acclaim to give a musician.  Dan has a cracking story, of how he became CEO of ARIA in the middle of the biggest market disruption in industry's histo...

Hot Dub Time Machine is probably the hottest DJ ticket in town right now.  A creation of my guest today - Tom Loud. This time-traveling dance-party is currently packing out huge rooms all across Australia and Europe. He's redefining what it means to go and have a dance. He's opening dance culture up to a whole new audience, and he's spreading joy all across the world.  Tom...

Chas Licciardello ( @chaslicc & @chas_usa ) is part of the incredibly successful Australian Satire collective The Chaser. You can see Chas every week on "The Checkout" on the ABC For over 15 years they've been calling out hypocrisy, lies and general bloviating by our public figures and making us either laugh or be outraged while they do it. Never one to shy from commitment to a joke, Chas has...

My guest is  Madison Missina , she defines herself as a prostitute, a porn star, sex therapist, sex educator and sex worker advocate.  We had a rather robust and frank conversation about how she ended up doing what she does, the role of sex workers in society (eg, assisting with the disabled et...

Socratis Otto is a gifted Australian actor best known at the moment for his role as Maxine in the women's prison drama "Wentworth" which has its season finale on Tuesday night this week. It's a demanding role, because his character used to be called Max - and is now Maxine. Foxtel here in Australia deserves enormous praise for its support of original Australian drama, and this show is one of the b...

My guest this week is Dr John Demartini , he's a best selling author, speaker and teacher. He's written over 40 books, and travels the world 360 days a year. You'll hear in this conversation how he came to begin to explore what makes people tick and how he dug deeper into human behaviour patterns to understand why we do what we do.  Might have seen him if you've ever watched th...

Steve Beckett is a marketing and product growth exec at Zwift.com - go have a look at that website for a quick video demo.  What is Zwift?  But he comes from a legacy of bike industry gigs, and this chat is pertinent at the moment with Tour De France being on - because he was there on the ground floor for the formation of Team Sky, one of the most dominant forces of cycling in...

Dr Glen Richards is a vet, entrepreneurial mega-success and a shark on the Network Ten hit show Shark Tank. It's Dragon's Den in the UK and shark tank everywhere else.  He has an incredible story, and has some very powerful and interesting views on euthanasia. He's someone who's compassionately ended the life of thousands of incredibly loved but suffering pets - and we start to disc...