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Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas.

Boy, have we got a lot of stuff coming up.

We got some exciting things.

I tells you, I tells you that for nothing.

Not even a shekel do you need to pay to be told that we got some incredible stuff coming up.

So, look, just keep an eye on the

old, uh, uncomfortable conversations podcast feed. Don't, uh, don't go sleeping on it. Don't go snoozing. Don't be thinking, uh, you know, my life's busy. I got shit to do. Uh, I don't need to be paying attention to old Josh. Trust me. In the coming weeks and months, you want to be paying attention to the old Josh.

And I'm not going to badger you

about downloading the substack app

so you can stay abreast of everything we're doing. I'm not going to harangue about how you should subscribe at least to a free subscription so you know what's coming down the pike. I don't know what's saying to that. I'm just going to say, you know, keep an eye out. Just watch out for all the things that we allude to in this episode, briefly, albeit briefly.

It's a recording of a live stream that I did with Oshah Ginsberg, who is undeniably the most

successful television host in Australia. He hosted Australian Idol for many years. He hosted

the masked singer. He hosted the bachelor. He hosted the Bachelorette. He's, you know, like Ryan Seacrest,

but plus a lot of humanity. And he also has a podcast which makes him a more sort of philosophizing

person who noodles on what it means to live a good life.

So maybe Ryan Sequest mixed with Dax Shepard, so to speak.

Oshah has what he politely calls a different brain.

It's a brain that is prone to depression and social anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder

and psychosis and addiction. That's what his podcast

wrestles with. It's called Better Than Yesterday. It's a great listen that talks not just about

mental health, but also about recovery and about parenting, what it means to grow older in a

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