For episode 100, I’m proud, honoured and humbled to tell you that my guest for this landmark episode is none other than James Mathison. 
James and I were on-camera partners for the best part of eight years. James started on the cable music network Channel [v] in 2000 soon after I got there back in 99. 
We toured around the country and around the world with AAA laminates hanging off of our necks and getting face to face with the biggest bands on the planet. Not long after that, James and I were headhunted to be hosts on Australian Idol. 
At the time of our first grand final was the highest rated non-news or sports program in the history of Australian Television. 
We worked together for six seasons on that show before James stepped away which we talk about in this conversation. 

Jim and I had a working relationship where we were in each other’s pockets six to seven days a week for years at a time. 

I say this to his face today, but I mean it when I tell you - I learn something new from James every time I’m with him. He’s like a master-class of TV presenting, elocution and comedy every time he’s in front of a camera. He’s the smartest, kindest, funniest person I’ve ever known.
He’s also fairly low-key. So the fact that he agreed to this interview today and came up to my house is indeed a great honour, because he doesn’t really do these kinds of things that much. 

James might be off of your screens right now - but be warned, he’s about to explode, fully formed as a new man entirely - back into your homes, your laptops and  your smartphones.

Soon, he’ll be appearing on the Australian production of “Celebrity Apprentice” but also - he’s going online - to burst forth with a political commentary show which you’ll get glimpses of today: The working title is  - James Mathison’s Impotent Fury.

I truly love this man. He and I have a shared history that no other person on earth has. He and I were at the epicentre of the most incredible whirlwind of excitement for eight straight years - and we both made it out the other side.

If you thought you knew James Mathison - think again. 
You’re about to meet the James Mathison that I’ve always known. 
The kind, caring and forcefully compassionate James.
The incredibly intelligent James, the loving father, the man who can smell bullshit from the horizon and call it how he sees it from a place of measured consideration. 

So - come and enjoy a late morning cup of tea in my kitchen in Bronte Beach, Sydney Australia - with the one and only James Mathison. 


Ep 100: James Mathison

Australian TV & Radio guy. Podcaster, photographer, #TheBachelorAU, boyfriend, cyclist, stepdad in training, forum curator at @thnk_org. Just eats plants.

Osher Günsberg