October 2, 2025 • 17 mins
We asked you what news stories you wanted covered this week and from sunscreen SFP fails to Keith and Nicole's break up, Trump's new plan for Gaza and Nurses being able to prescribe our medications, there was one thing we still hadn't touched on.
You asked us to cleanse the timeline. The news right now, has been a lot, and you were keen to hear something that held a little more hope.
Today, we hear more about Robert Irwin's adventures on Dancing With The Stars, find out why Mary Fowler was keen to take to the Paris fashion week runway and we speak to Mamamia's resident Swiftie Tina Burke, about all the exhausting things happening around Taylor Swift's new album release.
And there's more, have a listen and get into the long weekend with a little more light in your news feed
And in headlines today, Travellers heading to America or France may have holiday plans interrupted due to Paris protests and the US government shut down; British police have declared a deadly rampage on a synagogue in northern England a terror attack; Gangland kingpin Tony Mokbel will finally learn today whether his bid to quash drug convictions over the Lawyer X scandal has succeeded; Nicole Kidman has turned to the one person who has always been by her side in hard times, her sister Antonia, the pair seen hiking in Nashville in the aftermath of Nicole's divorce filing from husband Keith Urban
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm Claire Murphy.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is Muma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quikie.
The Quiki team was asking around recently to see what
stories you wanted us to cover this week, and we've
touched on many of them. But one thing that we
kept hearing was that, seeing as the news has been pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Awful of late, can we maybe give the.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Feet a cleanse and bring you some good news stories
you might have missed this week. Oh, we sure can,
from dancing with Croc Hunter kids to a Matilda's fashion icon,
a girl and her co pup on a record breaking
solo flying adventure, and a treatment for a disease many
thought they'd never see. Today, we're getting into some news
that will give you hope. Before we get there, though,
here's the latest from the Quikie newsroom for Friday, October three.
(01:02):
Heads up to travelers heading to the US or France,
your holiday plants might get interrupted. Protesters have taken to
the streets of more than two hundred towns and cities
across France. Over the government's decision to cut spending. Thousands
of people walked off the job or out of their
education facilities to march. In Paris, the staff at the
Eiffel Tower informing visitors they would have to close due
(01:22):
to the strikes. These are the latest in a series
of strikes called by France's major unions and they may continue. Meanwhile,
the government shut down in the US is impacting many
tourist attractions, from the Statue of Liberty to museums. Hundreds
of thousands of federal workers are in the process are
being furloughed, and all non essential duties have been suspended
until the US Congress can come to a deal. While
(01:44):
those deemed essentials, such as air traffic controllers and border
security will remain on the job, they aren't getting paid.
During the previous shutdown, when that happened, many staff would
call in sick, so Ossie travelers are being warned to
prepare for potential delays at airports across the US. British
police have declared a deadly rampage on a synagogue in
northern England a terror attack. A man drove a car
(02:07):
into people standing outside the building in Manchester, where they'd
gathered to mark Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days
on the Jewish calendar, before jumping out and attacking them
with a knife. He was eventually shot and killed by police,
but not before he took the lives of two people
and seriously injured four others. Anti Semitic attacks in the
UK have increased dramatically following Hamas's October seven, twenty twenty
(02:29):
three attack on Israel that killed twelve hundred people and
more than two hundred and fifty were taken hostage, and
Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which has seen more
than sixty six thousand Palestinians killed and vast areas of
the enclave damaged or destroyed. Manchester was also the site
of Britain's deadliest attack in recent years, the twenty seventeen
(02:50):
suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert that killed twenty two.
Gangland kingpin Tony Mockbell will finally learn whether his bid
to quash drug convictions has succeeded. The sixty year old
will face the Victorian Court of Appeal this morning, where
three justices are set to hand down their decision following
his three day appeal hearing in September. He's seeking to
over turn his drug trafficking and importation convictions, claiming they
(03:13):
were tainted because of barrister turned informer Nicola Gobbo. Miss Gobo,
who was known as Lawyer X, was registered as a
Victorian police informant from two thousand and five to two
thousand and nine and was acting as Mockbell's lawyer for
four years before he fled to Greece in two thousand
and six. She continued to advise him when he was
extra diner back to Melbourne in two thousand and eight.
(03:34):
Mockbell's barrister, Tim Garnan argued his clients suffered a substantial
miscarriage of justice because he was misled and deceived for
years before pleading guilty to drug offenses in twenty eleven.
Nicole Kidman has turned to the one person who's always
been by her side in hard times. Her sister Kidman
was seen hiking in Nashville, where she currently lives, alongside
(03:54):
her sister Antonia, who she is described as her rock,
as the pair over the years have supported each other
through relationship breakdowns and the debts of their parents. Antonia
has walked red carpets alongside her sister, Nicole telling the
Cdney Morning Herald back in twenty twenty that when she
was alone and single, fame became a lot harder, but
said she was lucky her sister would fly to be
(04:14):
with her, walking the can red carpet with her after
Nicole said it was frightening to be in front of
all that scrutiny by herself, and Tonia has been staying
with Nicole while the news of her split from Keith
Urban went public and Nicole officially filed for divorce citing
irreconcilable differences. That's your latest news headlines next week, kick
off Today's Good Newsweek with a very grown up Robert Irwin.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You asked, we delivered.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You told us that with all the stories coming out
of the US, the breakup of Ossie Royalty, Nicole Kidman,
and Keith Urban, it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Was all looking a little bleak out there.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So today we're looking into some of the more positive
things that have happened this week to remind us that
the world isn't all dark and twisty. Let's begin with
the continuing glow up of Steve Erwin's younger kid watched
on by a former Dancing with the Stars winner, sister
Bindi and her family. Australia's own Robert Irwin again stunned
on the dance floor this week, pulling off an incredible
(05:15):
sourc of performance with his partner Whitney Carson Let's Scream
You Here is the crowd going absolutely wild when the
twenty one year old rips his shirt from his chest.
One of the judges summed up, how many of us
who knew Robert as little baby Bob felt about that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Robert Irwin is all grown up.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You're making me feel like a grandmother.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm like, put your shit back on.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Robert says he's really happy to be doing something out
of his comfort zone and having fun while doing it.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Have you learned something new about yourself in this competition?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I figured out I could be cool and it was
It took a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Cool guy.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Whitney had her work cut out for trying to extract
the riz out of Robert Owen. But I'm going to
show every sign to myself and that's why them Let's.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Joe from Cans to the Catwalk.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Matilda's superstar Mary Fowler has become not just the first
Australian ambassador to walk the Laureal runway at Paris Fashion Wig,
but the first female professional footballer to do it too,
Starring alongside some of the biggest names in fashion modeling,
including Kendall Jenner another Walk Your Worth ambassadors like Jane
Fonder and Eva Longoria. She sent a kiss to the
(06:32):
audience as she strutted that runway like she'd done it
a thousand times.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Dressed in a stunning black suit dress, the.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Twenty two year old told Channel seven backstage that she
wants women to feel great about themselves, no matter who
they are or what they're doing in their lives.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I think for me, like being a footballer, being a
woman of color, I'm just like Misha Mugs. I really
want to show women that like just being themselves is enough,
that gels that look like me can go far as well,
and as I just show people that you don't have
to be just one thing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
On Wednesday, it was also announced that Fowler had signed
a one year extension on her contract with her English club,
Manchester City, the team posting a pick of her signing
the documents on Instagram with the caption more Mary more Magic.
She'll now remain with the club, she says feels like
home until twenty twenty seven, and she says she's more
than keen to get back on the pitch for the
Matilda's run at the Asian Cup, which is being played
(07:24):
on home soil here in Australia in March. This week
is a very exciting but also seemingly exhausting time for
Taylor Swift fans, with so many announcements being teased.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
To take us through it all.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Is Muma MIA's entertainment editor and offer Swifty Tina Burke for.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Any swift Y. Today is the most exciting day of
the year. It is the day that we are getting
new Taylor Swift music, so the life of a show
girl is dropping around the world. The exciting part about
being a Swifty if you live in Australia is that
there's a lot of mathematics involved and as someone who
does work in you know, media and a creative space,
math is not my strong suit. And when you add
(08:02):
on top of that the daylight Savings is going to
happen in the middle of this album roll out here
in Sydney. That was a complicated mess, but I've done
all the hard work for all of the QUICKI listeners.
So what you need to know is that today at
two pm Australian Eastern Standard time, the album will drop.
So there's already, you know, countdowns on Spotify, all of
this craziness happening. Everyone's keeping an eye out. If you
(08:23):
open up your Spotify or Apple Music, wherever you listen,
you'll be able to hear at two pm Australian Eastern
Standard time. She's actually already set a record, so it's
the first album to exceed five million, pre says on
Spotify's countdown page, breaking her own previous record from the
Tortured Poets Department last year.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There's also quite a.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Few records that she stands to break today and this weekend.
So if the album goes to number one in the US,
she will break her tie with Jay Z and Drake
to become the artist with the most number one albums
for a solo artist, which would be fifteen. She would
also tie the record of the Beatles and become only
the second artist in history to reach number one for
seven consecutive years in a row, which would be twenty
(09:02):
nineteen to twenty twenty five, which is just absolutely massive.
That she's playing in this kind of space that she's
tying with the Beatles pot Tent, so we'll have to
keep an eye out for that once the album drops.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And the other is.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That you know here in Australia, if she goes to
number one, she would extend her record as the female
artist with the most number one albums in Australia and
it could be her fourteenth number one in the country.
Because we do we love Taylor. So yeah, two pm
today Australians a standard everyone needs to look out. But
then there is also a whole rollout plan that everyone
can look forward to. Saturday at five am Australian Eastern
(09:33):
Standard Time, there is the premiere of the official release
of the Life of a show Girl.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
This is a movie that's being.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Released in Australian cinemas across the nation this weekend. Only
this weekend though, so that's the big deal. So this
is like a music video extravag ganza, which is kind
of a little bit strange. I guess for some people
that she would have a movie come out that just
has music videos, but there's a little more to it
than that. So she used to host these things called
secret sessions with fans, they would come to her house
(10:00):
or come to a special place and they would look
at it together and like she would break down why
she made a song the way she made it, what
was involved in creating a music video, you know, the
inspira behind things. So she's kind of taking that concept
and put it into a film now that the whole
world can enjoy. So it'll be a little bit of
a strange experience because part of it will just be
music videos, her talking to the screen by herself. It
(10:20):
might be a little bit odd, but also really nice
for the Swifties. So you know, not everyone's going to
see that, but that will be at five am. Then
at seven forty am on Saturday, she's going on the
Graham Norton Show in the.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
UK, which is a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's been a long time since she did one of those,
and the guest list is stacked. My personal favorite is
I really need to see how Taylor Swift and acclaimed
Irish actor Killian Murphy interact this. This is huge for me.
They made this show just for me. Then on Sunday morning,
our time. There is a really weird note that says
stand by in her schedule if you know anything about
Taylor Swift. She's a little bit of a sneak. She
(10:54):
loves an Easter egg, and it's really weird that in
this official roll out planned she took the space to
write the words stand by. So people are theorizing that
this could be a couple of things. One of the
things is that Sabrina Carpenter, who is a collab, the
only collab on this album, is performing at a festival
on Saturday evening in the US, which is Sunday morning
our time here in Ustadia. So people think that Taylor
(11:15):
might make a surprise appearance at the festival, which would
just be wild. She's not a festival girlie. We never
see this, so this would be absolutely crazy. The other
thing that people think, which sends me into a spiral
is that she could be releasing tickets, because you know,
stand by, stand by Q for tickets. It's a little
bit scary and strange because I think we all have
trauma from the ticketech wars of the Eraror's tour, but
(11:36):
we might be about to do it again. Guys, you're
gonna have to stay tuned over the weekend. There's going
to be you know, I'm sure many surprise drops and
exciting things. But the schedule continues into next week. On Monday,
the YouTube videos will premiere after they've been in the cinemas.
On Tuesdays, she's going on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,
and then on Thursday she's going on seth Myers, and
I'm sure there's more and more craziness to come. The
(11:57):
lead single is The Life of Ophelia, so that will
also be releasing probably, you know, nationwide on radios this week,
so if you're hearing it, that's that song. And there's
also a few more Easter eggs to come. So one
of the things that people think, and I can't believe
we're here again, is that she might drop reputation after
she drops The Life of a show Girl. So if
you don't remember, Taylor re recorded some of her earlier
(12:18):
albums because she didn't own the rights to them, and
it was a long process, and eventually she, throughout this
process of rerecording earlier this year, was also able to
buy back her masters and she announced that to the world.
This is the thing she's been fighting for. And she
was so happy with that announcement, she said, because there
were two albums left to re record, one being her
debut album, one being Reputation, and Reputation is like the
(12:41):
fan favorite. It's one of the biggest ones and people
kept guessing when it would drop. When she announced that
she had brought back her Masters, she said she hadn't
even started to re record Reputation yet, and she didn't
even know how because she loves that album and as
perfect as it is, so she's glad she doesn't have
to do that now. But she did say that she
would release the Reputation Vault tracks, which is where she
releases songs that she recorded or wrote that never made
(13:03):
it onto the album and she's giving them to the
fans now. So some people think because of some life
of a show girl stuff, one being a lot of
symbolism of purple glitter, which is super important. There's a
lot of purple glitter showing up in the life of
a showgirl, and that is really tied to reputation, to
an outfit that she wore on stage. There's also some
weird hints about like a city in Germany where she
(13:24):
performed that they mentioned randomly on the New Heights podcast,
and when she did that night, she wore a purple
glitter outfit. It's all really like convoluted, as all Easter
eggs are. But some fans think we're gonna get reputation
vault tracks after we get the Life of a show Girl.
I'm not so sure about that one. Another one is
that there are double exit signs popping up in a
lot of the promotional content, so people think like, maybe
(13:45):
there will be a second thing. It's important to note
that Taylor herself said there are twelve songs in this album.
I'm not doing anything else. There's no surprise coming. It's
not happening. However, she then also said on the New
Heights podcast, this is the kind of album you know
you're gonna want to listen to it. You're gonna want
to be like paying attention. And the album comes out
at midnight her time, and what she said was you're
(14:06):
gonna want to be like partying and listening and like
you'll listen to the whole album. You won't even go
to sleep until four am. And Taylor does not just
say random things like that. So many fans think that
at four am their time, which would be afternoon our
time in the evening, that we will be getting a
second surprise, whether that's a tour announcement, whether that's just
music video or merch who could say. But there are
a lot of fans who think that the double exit
(14:28):
sign and the random four am mentioned mean there's something double.
There's a double announcement coming, but we'll have to see
what that is. There are many more Easter eggs and
silly things being revealed at the moment. You know, lyrics
have been picked up, people have figured out maybe you
know which order the songs will be in, but we're
going to know all of that at two pm. So
that's like, so fine. This is a really exciting day
for swifties. And if you're not a swifty that's okay,
(14:49):
but maybe you'll enjoy a little bit of the magic.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Ah that's all from me.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
This week, a company called Unicure announce the promising new
results from their clinical trial using gene therapy to treat
Huntington's disease. Huntington's is a fatal brain disease that is
passed on through a family's genes. The symptoms hit usually
between the ages of thirty in fifty, causing issues with
motor function, cognitive abilities, and mental health conditions.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's a degenerative.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Disease that usually sees the affected person die within twenty
years of first showing symptoms.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The neurosurgeons who ran the.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Study targeted the area of the brain most damaged by
Huntington's reducing the amount of a harmful protein in the cells.
The results showed those who received a high dose of
the therapy experienced significant benefits, appearing to slow the progression
of the disease by seventy five percent over a thirty
six month period. Catherine MacDowell, who lost her husband Shane
(15:44):
to the disease and now posts her experiences with Harley,
her son, who was also diagnosed with it when he
was just one, showed him the news the day it broke.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Promise prose they going to the moon that was poorly
in Huntingdons have to work, Harlot.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The text she wrote on the screen says, never in
my life, let alone today, did we think this would happen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Overwhelmingly happy.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And finally, let's leave you with fifteen year old Jennifer Hunt,
who this week became the youngest person to ever complete
a solo circumnavigation of Australia in a plane. She was
already the country's youngest female pilot, telling the ABC the
solo trip was a bit of a random idea that
her and her family managed to make a reality. We're
just driving home one night and I was like, hey,
(16:43):
I don't know if I around Australia. Look, technically, she
wasn't exactly solo, sharing her adventure flying her seaplane around
the country with her Golden retriever puppy Bella, who she.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Calls her co pup.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
She was also followed by mum and dad Jeff and
Kylie in their own seaplane on her more than twenty
day trip, which started and ended at MKT Airfield in
the Northern Territory. Her dad says he's more confident in
her flying a plane than driving a car, breading when
she gets her license next to you. If you want
to follow her entire journey, you can check out her
Facebook page Wing it and wag It. Thanks for taking
(17:19):
some time to feed your mind with us today. Have
a great long weekend wherever you are, whether you're working
or taking some time off from Team Quickie, we hope
you're safe and happy. The Quickie is produced by me
Claire Murphy, with audio production by Teagan Sadler,
You're listening to a Muma Mia podcast. Mamma Mia acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hi.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I'm Claire Murphy.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is Muma MIA's twice daily news podcast, The Quikie.
The Quiki team was asking around recently to see what
stories you wanted us to cover this week, and we've
touched on many of them. But one thing that we
kept hearing was that, seeing as the news has been pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Awful of late, can we maybe give the.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Feet a cleanse and bring you some good news stories
you might have missed this week. Oh, we sure can,
from dancing with Croc Hunter kids to a Matilda's fashion icon,
a girl and her co pup on a record breaking
solo flying adventure, and a treatment for a disease many
thought they'd never see. Today, we're getting into some news
that will give you hope. Before we get there, though,
here's the latest from the Quikie newsroom for Friday, October three.
(01:02):
Heads up to travelers heading to the US or France,
your holiday plants might get interrupted. Protesters have taken to
the streets of more than two hundred towns and cities
across France. Over the government's decision to cut spending. Thousands
of people walked off the job or out of their
education facilities to march. In Paris, the staff at the
Eiffel Tower informing visitors they would have to close due
(01:22):
to the strikes. These are the latest in a series
of strikes called by France's major unions and they may continue. Meanwhile,
the government shut down in the US is impacting many
tourist attractions, from the Statue of Liberty to museums. Hundreds
of thousands of federal workers are in the process are
being furloughed, and all non essential duties have been suspended
until the US Congress can come to a deal. While
(01:44):
those deemed essentials, such as air traffic controllers and border
security will remain on the job, they aren't getting paid.
During the previous shutdown, when that happened, many staff would
call in sick, so Ossie travelers are being warned to
prepare for potential delays at airports across the US. British
police have declared a deadly rampage on a synagogue in
northern England a terror attack. A man drove a car
(02:07):
into people standing outside the building in Manchester, where they'd
gathered to mark Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days
on the Jewish calendar, before jumping out and attacking them
with a knife. He was eventually shot and killed by police,
but not before he took the lives of two people
and seriously injured four others. Anti Semitic attacks in the
UK have increased dramatically following Hamas's October seven, twenty twenty
(02:29):
three attack on Israel that killed twelve hundred people and
more than two hundred and fifty were taken hostage, and
Israel's ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which has seen more
than sixty six thousand Palestinians killed and vast areas of
the enclave damaged or destroyed. Manchester was also the site
of Britain's deadliest attack in recent years, the twenty seventeen
(02:50):
suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert that killed twenty two.
Gangland kingpin Tony Mockbell will finally learn whether his bid
to quash drug convictions has succeeded. The sixty year old
will face the Victorian Court of Appeal this morning, where
three justices are set to hand down their decision following
his three day appeal hearing in September. He's seeking to
over turn his drug trafficking and importation convictions, claiming they
(03:13):
were tainted because of barrister turned informer Nicola Gobbo. Miss Gobo,
who was known as Lawyer X, was registered as a
Victorian police informant from two thousand and five to two
thousand and nine and was acting as Mockbell's lawyer for
four years before he fled to Greece in two thousand
and six. She continued to advise him when he was
extra diner back to Melbourne in two thousand and eight.
(03:34):
Mockbell's barrister, Tim Garnan argued his clients suffered a substantial
miscarriage of justice because he was misled and deceived for
years before pleading guilty to drug offenses in twenty eleven.
Nicole Kidman has turned to the one person who's always
been by her side in hard times. Her sister Kidman
was seen hiking in Nashville, where she currently lives, alongside
(03:54):
her sister Antonia, who she is described as her rock,
as the pair over the years have supported each other
through relationship breakdowns and the debts of their parents. Antonia
has walked red carpets alongside her sister, Nicole telling the
Cdney Morning Herald back in twenty twenty that when she
was alone and single, fame became a lot harder, but
said she was lucky her sister would fly to be
(04:14):
with her, walking the can red carpet with her after
Nicole said it was frightening to be in front of
all that scrutiny by herself, and Tonia has been staying
with Nicole while the news of her split from Keith
Urban went public and Nicole officially filed for divorce citing
irreconcilable differences. That's your latest news headlines next week, kick
off Today's Good Newsweek with a very grown up Robert Irwin.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You asked, we delivered.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You told us that with all the stories coming out
of the US, the breakup of Ossie Royalty, Nicole Kidman,
and Keith Urban, it.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Was all looking a little bleak out there.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So today we're looking into some of the more positive
things that have happened this week to remind us that
the world isn't all dark and twisty. Let's begin with
the continuing glow up of Steve Erwin's younger kid watched
on by a former Dancing with the Stars winner, sister
Bindi and her family. Australia's own Robert Irwin again stunned
on the dance floor this week, pulling off an incredible
(05:15):
sourc of performance with his partner Whitney Carson Let's Scream
You Here is the crowd going absolutely wild when the
twenty one year old rips his shirt from his chest.
One of the judges summed up, how many of us
who knew Robert as little baby Bob felt about that.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Robert Irwin is all grown up.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You're making me feel like a grandmother.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'm like, put your shit back on.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Robert says he's really happy to be doing something out
of his comfort zone and having fun while doing it.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Have you learned something new about yourself in this competition?
Speaker 5 (05:53):
I figured out I could be cool and it was
It took a long time.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Cool guy.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
Whitney had her work cut out for trying to extract
the riz out of Robert Owen. But I'm going to
show every sign to myself and that's why them Let's.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Joe from Cans to the Catwalk.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Matilda's superstar Mary Fowler has become not just the first
Australian ambassador to walk the Laureal runway at Paris Fashion Wig,
but the first female professional footballer to do it too,
Starring alongside some of the biggest names in fashion modeling,
including Kendall Jenner another Walk Your Worth ambassadors like Jane
Fonder and Eva Longoria. She sent a kiss to the
(06:32):
audience as she strutted that runway like she'd done it
a thousand times.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Dressed in a stunning black suit dress, the.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Twenty two year old told Channel seven backstage that she
wants women to feel great about themselves, no matter who
they are or what they're doing in their lives.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
I think for me, like being a footballer, being a
woman of color, I'm just like Misha Mugs. I really
want to show women that like just being themselves is enough,
that gels that look like me can go far as well,
and as I just show people that you don't have
to be just one thing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
On Wednesday, it was also announced that Fowler had signed
a one year extension on her contract with her English club,
Manchester City, the team posting a pick of her signing
the documents on Instagram with the caption more Mary more Magic.
She'll now remain with the club, she says feels like
home until twenty twenty seven, and she says she's more
than keen to get back on the pitch for the
Matilda's run at the Asian Cup, which is being played
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on home soil here in Australia in March. This week
is a very exciting but also seemingly exhausting time for
Taylor Swift fans, with so many announcements being teased.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
To take us through it all.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Is Muma MIA's entertainment editor and offer Swifty Tina Burke for.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Any swift Y. Today is the most exciting day of
the year. It is the day that we are getting
new Taylor Swift music, so the life of a show
girl is dropping around the world. The exciting part about
being a Swifty if you live in Australia is that
there's a lot of mathematics involved and as someone who
does work in you know, media and a creative space,
math is not my strong suit. And when you add
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on top of that the daylight Savings is going to
happen in the middle of this album roll out here
in Sydney. That was a complicated mess, but I've done
all the hard work for all of the QUICKI listeners.
So what you need to know is that today at
two pm Australian Eastern Standard time, the album will drop.
So there's already, you know, countdowns on Spotify, all of
this craziness happening. Everyone's keeping an eye out. If you
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open up your Spotify or Apple Music, wherever you listen,
you'll be able to hear at two pm Australian Eastern
Standard time. She's actually already set a record, so it's
the first album to exceed five million, pre says on
Spotify's countdown page, breaking her own previous record from the
Tortured Poets Department last year.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There's also quite a.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Few records that she stands to break today and this weekend.
So if the album goes to number one in the US,
she will break her tie with Jay Z and Drake
to become the artist with the most number one albums
for a solo artist, which would be fifteen. She would
also tie the record of the Beatles and become only
the second artist in history to reach number one for
seven consecutive years in a row, which would be twenty
(09:02):
nineteen to twenty twenty five, which is just absolutely massive.
That she's playing in this kind of space that she's
tying with the Beatles pot Tent, so we'll have to
keep an eye out for that once the album drops.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
And the other is.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
That you know here in Australia, if she goes to
number one, she would extend her record as the female
artist with the most number one albums in Australia and
it could be her fourteenth number one in the country.
Because we do we love Taylor. So yeah, two pm
today Australians a standard everyone needs to look out. But
then there is also a whole rollout plan that everyone
can look forward to. Saturday at five am Australian Eastern
(09:33):
Standard Time, there is the premiere of the official release
of the Life of a show Girl.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
This is a movie that's being.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Released in Australian cinemas across the nation this weekend. Only
this weekend though, so that's the big deal. So this
is like a music video extravag ganza, which is kind
of a little bit strange. I guess for some people
that she would have a movie come out that just
has music videos, but there's a little more to it
than that. So she used to host these things called
secret sessions with fans, they would come to her house
(10:00):
or come to a special place and they would look
at it together and like she would break down why
she made a song the way she made it, what
was involved in creating a music video, you know, the
inspira behind things. So she's kind of taking that concept
and put it into a film now that the whole
world can enjoy. So it'll be a little bit of
a strange experience because part of it will just be
music videos, her talking to the screen by herself. It
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might be a little bit odd, but also really nice
for the Swifties. So you know, not everyone's going to
see that, but that will be at five am. Then
at seven forty am on Saturday, she's going on the
Graham Norton Show in the.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
UK, which is a really big deal.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's been a long time since she did one of those,
and the guest list is stacked. My personal favorite is
I really need to see how Taylor Swift and acclaimed
Irish actor Killian Murphy interact this. This is huge for me.
They made this show just for me. Then on Sunday morning,
our time. There is a really weird note that says
stand by in her schedule if you know anything about
Taylor Swift. She's a little bit of a sneak. She
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loves an Easter egg, and it's really weird that in
this official roll out planned she took the space to
write the words stand by. So people are theorizing that
this could be a couple of things. One of the
things is that Sabrina Carpenter, who is a collab, the
only collab on this album, is performing at a festival
on Saturday evening in the US, which is Sunday morning
our time here in Ustadia. So people think that Taylor
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might make a surprise appearance at the festival, which would
just be wild. She's not a festival girlie. We never
see this, so this would be absolutely crazy. The other
thing that people think, which sends me into a spiral
is that she could be releasing tickets, because you know,
stand by, stand by Q for tickets. It's a little
bit scary and strange because I think we all have
trauma from the ticketech wars of the Eraror's tour, but
(11:36):
we might be about to do it again. Guys, you're
gonna have to stay tuned over the weekend. There's going
to be you know, I'm sure many surprise drops and
exciting things. But the schedule continues into next week. On Monday,
the YouTube videos will premiere after they've been in the cinemas.
On Tuesdays, she's going on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,
and then on Thursday she's going on seth Myers, and
I'm sure there's more and more craziness to come. The
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lead single is The Life of Ophelia, so that will
also be releasing probably, you know, nationwide on radios this week,
so if you're hearing it, that's that song. And there's
also a few more Easter eggs to come. So one
of the things that people think, and I can't believe
we're here again, is that she might drop reputation after
she drops The Life of a show Girl. So if
you don't remember, Taylor re recorded some of her earlier
(12:18):
albums because she didn't own the rights to them, and
it was a long process, and eventually she, throughout this
process of rerecording earlier this year, was also able to
buy back her masters and she announced that to the world.
This is the thing she's been fighting for. And she
was so happy with that announcement, she said, because there
were two albums left to re record, one being her
debut album, one being Reputation, and Reputation is like the
(12:41):
fan favorite. It's one of the biggest ones and people
kept guessing when it would drop. When she announced that
she had brought back her Masters, she said she hadn't
even started to re record Reputation yet, and she didn't
even know how because she loves that album and as
perfect as it is, so she's glad she doesn't have
to do that now. But she did say that she
would release the Reputation Vault tracks, which is where she
releases songs that she recorded or wrote that never made
(13:03):
it onto the album and she's giving them to the
fans now. So some people think because of some life
of a show girl stuff, one being a lot of
symbolism of purple glitter, which is super important. There's a
lot of purple glitter showing up in the life of
a showgirl, and that is really tied to reputation, to
an outfit that she wore on stage. There's also some
weird hints about like a city in Germany where she
(13:24):
performed that they mentioned randomly on the New Heights podcast,
and when she did that night, she wore a purple
glitter outfit. It's all really like convoluted, as all Easter
eggs are. But some fans think we're gonna get reputation
vault tracks after we get the Life of a show Girl.
I'm not so sure about that one. Another one is
that there are double exit signs popping up in a
lot of the promotional content, so people think like, maybe
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there will be a second thing. It's important to note
that Taylor herself said there are twelve songs in this album.
I'm not doing anything else. There's no surprise coming. It's
not happening. However, she then also said on the New
Heights podcast, this is the kind of album you know
you're gonna want to listen to it. You're gonna want
to be like paying attention. And the album comes out
at midnight her time, and what she said was you're
(14:06):
gonna want to be like partying and listening and like
you'll listen to the whole album. You won't even go
to sleep until four am. And Taylor does not just
say random things like that. So many fans think that
at four am their time, which would be afternoon our
time in the evening, that we will be getting a
second surprise, whether that's a tour announcement, whether that's just
music video or merch who could say. But there are
a lot of fans who think that the double exit
(14:28):
sign and the random four am mentioned mean there's something double.
There's a double announcement coming, but we'll have to see
what that is. There are many more Easter eggs and
silly things being revealed at the moment. You know, lyrics
have been picked up, people have figured out maybe you
know which order the songs will be in, but we're
going to know all of that at two pm. So
that's like, so fine. This is a really exciting day
for swifties. And if you're not a swifty that's okay,
(14:49):
but maybe you'll enjoy a little bit of the magic.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Ah that's all from me.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
This week, a company called Unicure announce the promising new
results from their clinical trial using gene therapy to treat
Huntington's disease. Huntington's is a fatal brain disease that is
passed on through a family's genes. The symptoms hit usually
between the ages of thirty in fifty, causing issues with
motor function, cognitive abilities, and mental health conditions.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's a degenerative.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Disease that usually sees the affected person die within twenty
years of first showing symptoms.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
The neurosurgeons who ran the.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Study targeted the area of the brain most damaged by
Huntington's reducing the amount of a harmful protein in the cells.
The results showed those who received a high dose of
the therapy experienced significant benefits, appearing to slow the progression
of the disease by seventy five percent over a thirty
six month period. Catherine MacDowell, who lost her husband Shane
(15:44):
to the disease and now posts her experiences with Harley,
her son, who was also diagnosed with it when he
was just one, showed him the news the day it broke.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
Promise prose they going to the moon that was poorly
in Huntingdons have to work, Harlot.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
The text she wrote on the screen says, never in
my life, let alone today, did we think this would happen.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Overwhelmingly happy.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
And finally, let's leave you with fifteen year old Jennifer Hunt,
who this week became the youngest person to ever complete
a solo circumnavigation of Australia in a plane. She was
already the country's youngest female pilot, telling the ABC the
solo trip was a bit of a random idea that
her and her family managed to make a reality. We're
just driving home one night and I was like, hey,
(16:43):
I don't know if I around Australia. Look, technically, she
wasn't exactly solo, sharing her adventure flying her seaplane around
the country with her Golden retriever puppy Bella, who she.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Calls her co pup.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
She was also followed by mum and dad Jeff and
Kylie in their own seaplane on her more than twenty
day trip, which started and ended at MKT Airfield in
the Northern Territory. Her dad says he's more confident in
her flying a plane than driving a car, breading when
she gets her license next to you. If you want
to follow her entire journey, you can check out her
Facebook page Wing it and wag It. Thanks for taking
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some time to feed your mind with us today. Have
a great long weekend wherever you are, whether you're working
or taking some time off from Team Quickie, we hope
you're safe and happy. The Quickie is produced by me
Claire Murphy, with audio production by Teagan Sadler,
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