An Interview With Josh

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

For the first show of the year, an unexpected treat. A few months ago, Josh had an amazing conversation as a guest on a colleague's podcast. We bring this to you as a nice way to reset, to recalibrate, to reaffirm your mindset as we enter a fresh year.

The show is called "A Lot to Talk About" and it's hosted by Bradley Dryburgh, a young guy whose parents were told his Cystic Fibrosis would ruin his life. Instead, he became an ultra-marathon runner, podcaster and motivational speaker.

He invited Josh on his show shortly before the U.S. election, so forgive their brief exchange about presidential politics. It's interesting as an analysis of the 24-hour media cycle and how small events can have a big impact. Mostly, Josh and Bradley focus on clear thinking, courageous conversations, the legacy media, algorithms and how to stay sane in a hectic world.

Happy 2025, humans.

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0:00.0	Goody, humans. Welcome to 2025 and to the safe space for dangerous ideas, something a little
0:09.0	different for the New Year's week. Instead of compiling long, boring things that you've already
0:14.8	heard before as best of towards the end of the year, we decided to continue regular programming,
0:20.0	with the exception, perhaps, of this year, we decided to continue regular programming, with the exception,
0:21.4	perhaps, of this episode, which is just me, reframing and rethinking the way that I currently
0:30.3	think about the legacy media, about our ability to have uncomfortable conversations,
0:34.7	about courage, cultural courage, political courage, about what algorithms
0:39.3	are doing to us and about how to stay sane in this hectic world of ours. A few months ago,
0:44.2	I was invited as a guest on a colleague's podcast. He's an amazing guy, Bradley Drybrer. He
0:50.5	has cystic fibrosis and was told, but his parents were basically told that they should
0:55.5	write him off and that it would be better if he had a terminal illness so that he could just
0:58.7	die and be done with it. And he has an amazing story. It became an ultramarathon runner. He's a
1:04.8	podcaster. He's a motivational speaker. So he invited me to come on his show. It was about a
1:08.6	week or two before the US election.
1:15.3	And I was listening back to it recently and I thought, you know what, this is a pretty good,
1:20.5	about as good a summation of my thoughts about where we all are as I have given.
1:27.2	So why not offer it to you in a spirit of kind of recalibrating and resetting for the new year. It's an amazing time for me,
1:29.9	and I invite you to consider all the possibilities of 2025, as well as all of the anxieties.
1:35.5	A year ago, I was completely and utterly traumatized and bruised and humiliated by my falling out with the Australian public broadcaster
1:47.1	and wasn't sure whether or not this hobby, this podcast could become a going concern.
1:54.1	And thanks to you, it is.
1:56.1	I make more now from this than I did at having a full-time three-hour-a-day talkback news radio show,
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