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The Quicky evening news update for Today, Wednesday February 13th 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... ht...

The 'Enhanced Games' are coming. An sporting event that allows, actually encourages the athletes to use performance enhancing drugs. Why? To see exactly what the human body, improved through science, is capable of. But what are the risks? What are the rewards?  In this episode of The Quicky we speak to former Olympian and world record holder, Libby Trickett, about how she and the sporting world fe...

The Quicky evening news update for Today, February 12th 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open...

Have you been on TikTok lately and noticed a lot of videos are now silent? That's because Universal Music Group, or UMG, have decided to remove the music they own from the video sharing platform.  In this episode of The Quicky, we speak to an expert who can tell us why this is happening, as well as Aussie artist Amy Sheppard from the band Sheppard (yes the guys who sang Geronimo!) about how this m...

The Quicky evening news update for Today, February 12th 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open...

We often think about how the kids and parents are coping in those first few days and weeks of school, but what about those who've been back in the classroom way before the students? Teachers have been busy getting the classroom ready for the new influx of faces, learning the names of 30 to 100 children to make sure they don't feel alone in their education experience, sometimes taking money out of...

The Quicky evening news update for Friday, 9 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

Elmo becoming the internet's therapist was not on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are! Earlier this week, thousands of people unloaded their life problems on the Sesame Street alumni after he asked “How is everybody doing?” on X.  Not well, it seems. In this episode of The Quicky we take a look at why Elmo's post sent us all into existential dread and how we can turn that around.  Want to try our...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, 5 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

If 2023 was the year of 'quiet luxury', 2024 is the year of 'loud budgeting', which involves openly discussing financial decisions and constraints and feeling proud to say no to spending non-essential money.  No longer are we putting ourselves into debt for things we can't afford. Takeout, coffees, food delivery services and streaming are just some of the things Aussies are willing to go without t...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, 5 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

British Monarchs have a habit of ruling until they die, regardless of their state of health.  But with the latest from Buckingham Palace revealing King Charles ||| has been diagnosed with cancer, where does that leave him and the monarchy?  In this episode of The Quicky we speak to our resident royal expert about just how serious this diagnosis is, and what happens next.  Want to try our new exerc...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, 5 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

When Trent Dalton's best selling book Boy Swallows Universe hit the small screen this year, it brought with it all the Brisbane 1980's vibes with it. As Eli Bell navigates his way through his troubling but beautiful life, he is surrounded by markers of a time gone by, with fat back TV's, cassette players, cars with window winders and landline telephones with a dial. For those who grew up during th...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, 5 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

This time next week the 58th Superbowl will be mere hours from starting. The San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs will go head to head in Las Vegas.  And stepping onto that field is none other than Travis Kelce, aka Taylor Swift's boyfriend! He's vying for his second Superbowl in a row, his third in total.  For the Swifties, Taylors appearance at games throughout the NFL season has been...

The Quicky evening news update for Friday, 2 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...

If you're a woman, there's a chance you've probably worn high heels before. So you know how uncomfortable they can be.  Yet, for many different reasons, despite the pain, we continue to slip our feet into 4, 6, even 8 inch heels. For some, they make you feel powerful, others like the additional height they provide, some like how they make our butts and legs look. But did you know heels were never...

The Quicky evening news update for Thursday, 1 February 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open...

You've seen the videos and articles showing hundreds of people at a house inspection in all different areas of the country.  Low supply, high demand. There's too many people and not enough places to call home - plus it's getting more and more expensive.  But in this episode of The Quicky, we speak to someone who claims to have cracked the code when it comes to rental applications to give some tips...

The Quicky evening news update for Wednesday, 31 January 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://ope...

Trigger Warning: This episode speaks about violence, drug use and murder so please take care when listening.  A new Netflix miniseries which debuted recently tells the story of Griselda Blanco, also known as "the Godmother" of the cocaine underworld in both Columbia and in the US.  This episode of The Quicky goes through the life and crimes of the only person Pablo Escobar admitted to be scared of...

The Quicky evening news update for Tuesday, 30 January 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open....

If you haven't heard the words Stanley, Frank Green or Yeti lately, you've been living under a rock...Or you don't have social media.  These three brands of water bottles have taken the world by storm. When a new Stanley cup is released, people camp outside their local target for days to make sure they're able to get their hands on one.  But it seems you sit in one of four camps when it comes to w...

The Quicky evening news update for Monday, 29 January 2024. The Quicky is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get across the news every day. And it’s delivered straight to your ears in a daily podcast so you can listen whenever you want...at the gym, on the train, in the playground or at night while you're making dinner. Want The Quicky in your ears every day? Listen on Spotify... https://open.s...