October 9, 2025 • 15 mins
Welcome to your feel-good weekly news wrap.
From prayers to promising words from country icon Dolly Parton to a Nobel Prize close to home and the Aussie woman smashing a Guinness World Record, there's so much good news to share in this week.
And in headlines today, a French appeals court has increased Husamettin Dogan’s sentence to 10 years for raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged and unconscious; Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature; Louis Tomlinson says Liam Payne’s death has “completely put a pin in” any plans for a One Direction reunion; the Australian Women in Music Awards celebrated women, non-binary and gender-diverse artists in a major ceremony.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma mea podcast. Mumma Me acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm Taylor Strano.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is Mummy's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie. Welcome
to your Friday good news rap. Look, there's no denying
the news cycle can be tricky, it can be dark
and basically make you want to tune it all out
from time to time. Even Team Quickie here it feels
like we're pulling our hair out. Sometimes we just need
a hit of dopamine and some of those nice, warm,
(00:43):
fuzzy feelings. So here's our conscious effort to bring you
the Quickie Good News Edition. It's all killer, no filler,
no bad vibes. But before we get there, here's Tylie
Blackman with the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Friday,
October ten.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Thanks Taylor. A French appeals court has increased the prison
sentence of Hussamitton Dogan to ten years for raping Giselle
Pelico while she was drugged and unconscious. He was the
only one of fifty one convicted men to challenge the
verdict in France's first drugging and rape trial, which drew
global attention and sparked a national reckoning on rape culture.
(01:19):
The prosecutor had asked for a twelve year term. Dogan
was convicted of aggravated rape and involving drug use, which
carries a maximum twenty year sentence. Dominique Pelico, Jazelle's ex husband,
was sentenced to twenty years for drugging her and offering
her to men online over nearly a decade. He did
not appeal. Civil proceedings in November will determine damages owed
(01:41):
to Jaselle Pelico, whose bravery inspired anti violence campaigners across
France and beyond. Hungarian writer Leaslo Krasnohawkei has won the
Nobel Prize in Literature for his surreal and darkly humorous
novels that explore hopelessness, chaos, and human absurdity. The Nobel
judges praised the seventy one year old for upholding the
(02:01):
power of art in times of apocalyptic terror, calling him
a great epic writer known for his absurdism and long,
unbroken sentences. Krasner Hawkeye is the first Hungarian to win
the prize since Imre Kertesh in two thousand and two.
His works include Satan Tango and The Melancholy of Resistance,
with several adapted into films. A critic of Hungarian Prime
(02:23):
Minister Victor Aubn Krasner, Hawkeye said his writing career began
as a correction of earlier work. He previously won the
twenty fifteen Men Booker International Prize and the twenty nineteen
National Book Award for Translated Literature. Louis Tomlinson says Liam
Payne's tragic death has completely put a pin in any plans.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
For a One Direction reunion.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Payne died in October twenty twenty four at age thirty
one after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. Speaking
on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Tomlinson said Pain
had been the group's biggest campaigner for a comeback, saying
that no one had been campaigning for One Direction to
get back together more than Liam. While not ruling it
out forever, Tomlinson admitted it would feel wrong to reunite
(03:08):
without Pain. Also shared how deeply the group, including Harry Styles,
Nile Horn and Zane Mallick and mired Pain, and said
that the band's fifteenth anniversary in July felt really uncomfortable
as grief and frustration remain over Payne's absence. The Australian
Women in Music Awards celebrated women, non binary and gender
(03:28):
diverse people in the music industry at a powerful ceremony
in Brisbane last night. The night honored artists from all
walks of life, from remote communities to major national stages.
Doctor Shelley Morris was a standout, receiving the Lifetime Achievement
Artistic Excellence and the inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Cultural Legacy Award. Ruby Hunter was posthumously inducted into the
(03:52):
AWMA on a role recognizing her pioneering role as the
first Aboriginal woman to sign with a major label. Other
winners included Missy Higgins, who performed at the event, for
Songwriter Award, Grace Chaire for Diversity in Music and more.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Thanks Tarlie.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Next, it's time for some good news, Okay, so I
am not alone for the good news rap we have
brought back. I can't even call you a friend of
the pod because you're like og Quickie territory clamor phllo.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I've being referred to as og it makes me
feel very special. You are very very special.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But more importantly, what a special is? There is actually
a bunch of good news this week. I've had to
narrow down the list.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Do you want to do the honors? The one kick off?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I would love to because Dolly isn't dying.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I think the world went into like complete panic earlier
this week when Dolly's sister posted on Facebook something on
the lines of like she's doing poorly, send prayers, and
the world collectively went we clutched our rhinestones and we're like,
please please tell us in the current world that we
(05:05):
exist in, that Dolly Parton is not about to depart
this mortal core.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Dolly Parton is one of those figures that, no matter
what side of the spectrum of politics that you fall on,
most people bloody love Dolly Parton for one reason or another.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
If you were to look up the word beloved in
the dictionary, there will be a picture of Dolly Parton one.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hundred percent of it. But why all the panics? So
this started a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It does so Dolly's sister Freda posted on Facebook send prayers.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So this is not funny, but it's just like Dolly
Parton is so famous and I love her sister is
like posting on facebo I know, right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But like if my sister was posting on Facebook like
send prayers, everyone would like quite rightly be concerned for
my well being and peek behind the curtain. Here for
those who do not work in media is we have
pre prepared obituaries ready to go for older celebrities. I'm
not going to list off who they are, but there
is like many in the back ends of the website
(06:02):
ready to go.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That was a fun meeting to be and though.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, we do collectively put a list together every year
to make sure we're going on off and so, for example,
we had one very well prepared for the quickie for
when Queen Elizabeth passed, so that when we woke up,
which we did at four am, and when, oh my goodness,
it's happened that we don't start from scratch, so we
prepare these things. But we did not have one prepared
(06:24):
for Dolly Parton, despite the fact that she's in her
late seventies. But we all collectively were like scrambling, thinking,
oh my goodness, she is on her deathbed. And it
turns out we were right to have not prepped one
for Dolly Parton, because she posted this video to social
media this week letting us know she's actually doing pretty
damn well.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well, today's October the eighth, and obviously I'm here doing
some commercials for the grand Ola Robberry British one. I'm grish,
kind of like a country western girl. But before I
got started, I wanted to say, I know lately everybody
thinks that I am sicker than I am.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do I look sick to you?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I'm working hard here.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
She does not look sick at all. She looks her
usual fabulous self, completely be wigged, and she had a
lot of fringe going on, and she was sitting in
front of the camera, full glam like. She looked gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I love that in that video, she's like, oh, I'm
dressed up like this because I'm shooting a commercial, and
it's like, no, you're not, Dolly.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's how you roll out of.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You look like that pretty often in your private life too.
But the thing is she had canceled some recent shows. Now,
she had told her fans that she was very disappointed
to have to do this, but she did have some
health issues that she needed to deal with. She explained
in this video though this is not a new thing.
This has been an ongoing thing that she had been
dealing with, and she'd kind of let it creep up
(07:43):
on her when sadly her husband passed away early this year.
So she said this.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Back when my husband Coral was very sick, that was
for a long time, and then when he passed, I
didn't take care of myself, so I let a lot
of things go that I should have been taken care of.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean, bless you, Dolly. We all deal with grief
in certain ways, and sometimes we do let things.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Pass by the way.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, exactly. Her sister has posted again Freda just saying oops, sorry,
didn't mean to scare everybody and make it sound so serious,
just that her sister's been a little bit under the weather,
and because they believe so strongly in the power of prayer,
that it was nothing more than just asking for a
little bit of that to back her up. And Dolly
does say in the video, look, I will take the
(08:27):
prayers like thank you for them. I am into accepting
everything that is coming my way. But she finished off
by saying like she is not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, Dolly Parton can't possibly leave this mortal coil just yet.
There are still so many ryanstones.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
To be worn, and we need to prepare for this ourselves. Okay, So, Dolly,
we're very happy that you are doing well.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, I want to draw your attention, Claire to a
good news story thirty six years in the making. Okay,
we're talking about science. We're talking about the Nobel Chemistry Prize. Now,
I know, the Nobel Peace Prize is the one that
everyone's paying.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Attention to this year.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There is a certain world leader who I mean, his
mind thinks that he will win.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That that is still yet to be determined.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I mean, to be fair, he's doing some things that
might actually qualify him. But let's not go down that
alley that day.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Next week, next week.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, today, we want to talk to you about the
Nobel Peace Prize because an Australian university is amongst those
institutions that have ranked as the winners.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So I'm talking, of course about the University of.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Melbourne's Richard Robson, along with Susumu Kidagawa from Kyoto University
and University of California Berkeley's oh My Yagi. Those three
scientists have taken out the Award for Chemistry for Development
of Metal organic Frameworks.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, now I heard this described as something Harry Potter esque.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm so glad you bring them.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, right before I tell you why that name has
been coined, let me tell you about what it is,
because I've learned, I've been on a journey.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Please dumb it down for us slightly. Okay, thank you.
Did I get some help doing this maybe?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What they've done is created this porous material that can
harvest water from desert air, capturing carbon dioxide from industrial facilities,
and removing the toxins from water. So like if you're
out in the desert, I imagine means that it gives
you save war.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean great for us here in Australia, who are majority?
Does it? I guess? Very helpful.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Now, don't quote me on that, please do fact check
me and look it up for yourself. But that is
the information distilled to its simplest form that my brain
could handle.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right, So why are we referencing Harry Potter?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, So, speaking of the prize announcement, Professor Heinah Linky,
who is the chair of the Noble Committee, So the
person that is the big boss that oversees all the
Nobel Awards for chemistry. That is, he says that it's
a small amount of such material that can almost be
like Hermione's handbag in Harry Potter. It can store huge
amounts of gas in tiny volumes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So it's like this little contraption.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
That takes all the gas out of the water, I guess,
or the air to make the water.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Are you a Harry Potter fan?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Look, I'm Harry Potter fan adjacent, but I wouldn't say
I'm like into all of the law of it. But
I don't remember Hermione's handbag.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Okay, So this is something that's referenced in the books
and explored more in the films. It's basically like she's
got one of those cute little pouches, but she puts
a spell on the bag and then everything can be
pulled out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I think aference big things out of it, even though
I think a better reference is from Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
She has a similar sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
She pulls a hat stand out of it, if I remember, Yeah,
out of like a little suit casey cart bag.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But really exciting.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
They'll split the prize money, because of course when you
win a Nobel Prize you get prize money one point
five million Australian dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And like I said, this is thirty six years in
the making because Robson, the one from the University of
Melbourne started this research in nineteen eighty nine. He moved
to Australia after studying at Oxford and Stanford Universities. So
he's brought it all around the globe with him and
it's finally culminated in a Nobel.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Prize and congratulations from Nobel Chemistry Prizes to the Guinness
Book of Records.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
This is so timely, Claire, because I don't know if
you know this or not, but it's the seventieth anniversary
of Guinness World Record this year.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, so I am weally obsessed with Guinness World Records.
It's one of those things where, like you know, when
you get given the book, oh yeah, like this beautiful, shiny,
sometimes like psychedelic looking book, and then you just go
through and find all the weird stuff that people have
done in order to get their name in here. Like
so an Australian woman has just entered the Guinness World
(12:14):
Records Jade Henderson is a bodybuilder, and this week she
broke the record for the most amount of pull ups
in an hour. No, yeap, just my arm's hert any
guesses how many pull ups could you do, Taylor Stano
in an hour?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's so easy? Answer one.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I can do zero because I can't lift my own
body weight above a bar.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Okay, So between the two of us, we're not gunning
for that record.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
We're never going to get that way.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That lady do how many?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, So let me tell you this. Though the record
has stood for nearly a decade, it was previously held
by another Australian, Eva Clark, who said it back in
twenty sixteen. Yes, twenty sixteen was nearly ten years ago.
In case your brain is struggling to do the map
with a soundtrack that included a bit of Brittany in
a touch of the Veronicas, she did seven hundred and
thirty three pull ups in sixty minutes. No, m she
(13:00):
was actually gunning for a bigger record than that. She
wanted to do the most in a twenty four hour period.
She had done three thousand, five one hundred in twelve hours,
and then she tore her bicep. I mean, are we surprised,
which is not surprising. So she had to rest for
six weeks and then reconsider what she was going to go.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
For a walk and a swim in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And a rest, a long rest, right, But she decided
then to maybe drop it back to the one hour
rather than the twenty four hour period. It looked excruciating.
So the last few she did, so she's made it
eight past the previous record. Those last ones she would
do like one and then have to drop to the mat.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, so you're allowed to, like there are breaks and yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Don't have to continuously do it. So at the start,
obviously she comes out, I forget that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Right, like it's any more hope for me achieving it.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You know, you can rest between day you'll make it.
I'm in, but I need to show you this picture.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
She had the full like hand grip visow to protect
her wrists and stuff through the whole thing. Brace yourself.
After seven hundred and thirty three pull ups in one hour,
look at her hands.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh my god, somebody get that lady to a handspa.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
She needs band aids, a lot of them. She needs
the blister protector because she has callouses that have ripped
right off. But she's now in the Guinness Book of Records.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I mean, sure, yeah, that looks like gymnast hands.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I imagine.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well it's different to gymnast hands because Jymna's hands normally
tear like at the bottom of your fingers.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I forget that I'm speaking to a form of gymnist here.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Sorry, this is my area of expertise. I thermally rip
at the bottom of your fingers, but these are like
down at the bottom of their thumbs, like her palms.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Almost.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, God, that looks so painful. Done, Jane, congratulations, well done.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
All right, Cli, thank you very much for joining us
again for some good news.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
If the folks want to find you beyond the quickie headlines,
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Speaker 1 (14:52):
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With us today. The quickie is produced by
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Me, Taylor Strano, the wonderful Clamurphy and of course Tarlie
Blackman as well, with audio production from Luke Hill.
You're listening to a Muma mea podcast. Mumma Me acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I'm Taylor Strano.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is Mummy's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie. Welcome
to your Friday good news rap. Look, there's no denying
the news cycle can be tricky, it can be dark
and basically make you want to tune it all out
from time to time. Even Team Quickie here it feels
like we're pulling our hair out. Sometimes we just need
a hit of dopamine and some of those nice, warm,
(00:43):
fuzzy feelings. So here's our conscious effort to bring you
the Quickie Good News Edition. It's all killer, no filler,
no bad vibes. But before we get there, here's Tylie
Blackman with the latest from the Quickie newsroom for Friday,
October ten.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Thanks Taylor. A French appeals court has increased the prison
sentence of Hussamitton Dogan to ten years for raping Giselle
Pelico while she was drugged and unconscious. He was the
only one of fifty one convicted men to challenge the
verdict in France's first drugging and rape trial, which drew
global attention and sparked a national reckoning on rape culture.
(01:19):
The prosecutor had asked for a twelve year term. Dogan
was convicted of aggravated rape and involving drug use, which
carries a maximum twenty year sentence. Dominique Pelico, Jazelle's ex husband,
was sentenced to twenty years for drugging her and offering
her to men online over nearly a decade. He did
not appeal. Civil proceedings in November will determine damages owed
(01:41):
to Jaselle Pelico, whose bravery inspired anti violence campaigners across
France and beyond. Hungarian writer Leaslo Krasnohawkei has won the
Nobel Prize in Literature for his surreal and darkly humorous
novels that explore hopelessness, chaos, and human absurdity. The Nobel
judges praised the seventy one year old for upholding the
(02:01):
power of art in times of apocalyptic terror, calling him
a great epic writer known for his absurdism and long,
unbroken sentences. Krasner Hawkeye is the first Hungarian to win
the prize since Imre Kertesh in two thousand and two.
His works include Satan Tango and The Melancholy of Resistance,
with several adapted into films. A critic of Hungarian Prime
(02:23):
Minister Victor Aubn Krasner, Hawkeye said his writing career began
as a correction of earlier work. He previously won the
twenty fifteen Men Booker International Prize and the twenty nineteen
National Book Award for Translated Literature. Louis Tomlinson says Liam
Payne's tragic death has completely put a pin in any plans.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
For a One Direction reunion.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Payne died in October twenty twenty four at age thirty
one after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. Speaking
on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Tomlinson said Pain
had been the group's biggest campaigner for a comeback, saying
that no one had been campaigning for One Direction to
get back together more than Liam. While not ruling it
out forever, Tomlinson admitted it would feel wrong to reunite
(03:08):
without Pain. Also shared how deeply the group, including Harry Styles,
Nile Horn and Zane Mallick and mired Pain, and said
that the band's fifteenth anniversary in July felt really uncomfortable
as grief and frustration remain over Payne's absence. The Australian
Women in Music Awards celebrated women, non binary and gender
(03:28):
diverse people in the music industry at a powerful ceremony
in Brisbane last night. The night honored artists from all
walks of life, from remote communities to major national stages.
Doctor Shelley Morris was a standout, receiving the Lifetime Achievement
Artistic Excellence and the inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Cultural Legacy Award. Ruby Hunter was posthumously inducted into the
(03:52):
AWMA on a role recognizing her pioneering role as the
first Aboriginal woman to sign with a major label. Other
winners included Missy Higgins, who performed at the event, for
Songwriter Award, Grace Chaire for Diversity in Music and more.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Thanks Tarlie.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Next, it's time for some good news, Okay, so I
am not alone for the good news rap we have
brought back. I can't even call you a friend of
the pod because you're like og Quickie territory clamor phllo.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, I've being referred to as og it makes me
feel very special. You are very very special.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But more importantly, what a special is? There is actually
a bunch of good news this week. I've had to
narrow down the list.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Do you want to do the honors? The one kick off?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I would love to because Dolly isn't dying.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I think the world went into like complete panic earlier
this week when Dolly's sister posted on Facebook something on
the lines of like she's doing poorly, send prayers, and
the world collectively went we clutched our rhinestones and we're like,
please please tell us in the current world that we
(05:05):
exist in, that Dolly Parton is not about to depart
this mortal core.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Dolly Parton is one of those figures that, no matter
what side of the spectrum of politics that you fall on,
most people bloody love Dolly Parton for one reason or another.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
If you were to look up the word beloved in
the dictionary, there will be a picture of Dolly Parton one.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hundred percent of it. But why all the panics? So
this started a few days ago.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It does so Dolly's sister Freda posted on Facebook send prayers.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
So this is not funny, but it's just like Dolly
Parton is so famous and I love her sister is
like posting on facebo I know, right.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
But like if my sister was posting on Facebook like
send prayers, everyone would like quite rightly be concerned for
my well being and peek behind the curtain. Here for
those who do not work in media is we have
pre prepared obituaries ready to go for older celebrities. I'm
not going to list off who they are, but there
is like many in the back ends of the website
(06:02):
ready to go.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
That was a fun meeting to be and though.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, we do collectively put a list together every year
to make sure we're going on off and so, for example,
we had one very well prepared for the quickie for
when Queen Elizabeth passed, so that when we woke up,
which we did at four am, and when, oh my goodness,
it's happened that we don't start from scratch, so we
prepare these things. But we did not have one prepared
(06:24):
for Dolly Parton, despite the fact that she's in her
late seventies. But we all collectively were like scrambling, thinking,
oh my goodness, she is on her deathbed. And it
turns out we were right to have not prepped one
for Dolly Parton, because she posted this video to social
media this week letting us know she's actually doing pretty
damn well.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
Well, today's October the eighth, and obviously I'm here doing
some commercials for the grand Ola Robberry British one. I'm grish,
kind of like a country western girl. But before I
got started, I wanted to say, I know lately everybody
thinks that I am sicker than I am.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Do I look sick to you?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
I'm working hard here.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
She does not look sick at all. She looks her
usual fabulous self, completely be wigged, and she had a
lot of fringe going on, and she was sitting in
front of the camera, full glam like. She looked gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
I love that in that video, she's like, oh, I'm
dressed up like this because I'm shooting a commercial, and
it's like, no, you're not, Dolly.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
That's how you roll out of.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You look like that pretty often in your private life too.
But the thing is she had canceled some recent shows. Now,
she had told her fans that she was very disappointed
to have to do this, but she did have some
health issues that she needed to deal with. She explained
in this video though this is not a new thing.
This has been an ongoing thing that she had been
dealing with, and she'd kind of let it creep up
(07:43):
on her when sadly her husband passed away early this year.
So she said this.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Back when my husband Coral was very sick, that was
for a long time, and then when he passed, I
didn't take care of myself, so I let a lot
of things go that I should have been taken care of.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I mean, bless you, Dolly. We all deal with grief
in certain ways, and sometimes we do let things.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Pass by the way.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, exactly. Her sister has posted again Freda just saying oops, sorry,
didn't mean to scare everybody and make it sound so serious,
just that her sister's been a little bit under the weather,
and because they believe so strongly in the power of prayer,
that it was nothing more than just asking for a
little bit of that to back her up. And Dolly
does say in the video, look, I will take the
(08:27):
prayers like thank you for them. I am into accepting
everything that is coming my way. But she finished off
by saying like she is not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
No, Dolly Parton can't possibly leave this mortal coil just yet.
There are still so many ryanstones.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
To be worn, and we need to prepare for this ourselves. Okay, So, Dolly,
we're very happy that you are doing well.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, I want to draw your attention, Claire to a
good news story thirty six years in the making. Okay,
we're talking about science. We're talking about the Nobel Chemistry Prize. Now,
I know, the Nobel Peace Prize is the one that
everyone's paying.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Attention to this year.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
There is a certain world leader who I mean, his
mind thinks that he will win.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
That that is still yet to be determined.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I mean, to be fair, he's doing some things that
might actually qualify him. But let's not go down that
alley that day.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Next week, next week.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah, today, we want to talk to you about the
Nobel Peace Prize because an Australian university is amongst those
institutions that have ranked as the winners.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
So I'm talking, of course about the University of.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Melbourne's Richard Robson, along with Susumu Kidagawa from Kyoto University
and University of California Berkeley's oh My Yagi. Those three
scientists have taken out the Award for Chemistry for Development
of Metal organic Frameworks.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Okay, now I heard this described as something Harry Potter esque.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm so glad you bring them.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Okay, right before I tell you why that name has
been coined, let me tell you about what it is,
because I've learned, I've been on a journey.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Please dumb it down for us slightly. Okay, thank you.
Did I get some help doing this maybe?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
What they've done is created this porous material that can
harvest water from desert air, capturing carbon dioxide from industrial facilities,
and removing the toxins from water. So like if you're
out in the desert, I imagine means that it gives
you save war.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I mean great for us here in Australia, who are majority?
Does it? I guess? Very helpful.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Now, don't quote me on that, please do fact check
me and look it up for yourself. But that is
the information distilled to its simplest form that my brain
could handle.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Right, So why are we referencing Harry Potter?
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, So, speaking of the prize announcement, Professor Heinah Linky,
who is the chair of the Noble Committee, So the
person that is the big boss that oversees all the
Nobel Awards for chemistry. That is, he says that it's
a small amount of such material that can almost be
like Hermione's handbag in Harry Potter. It can store huge
amounts of gas in tiny volumes.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
So it's like this little contraption.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
That takes all the gas out of the water, I guess,
or the air to make the water.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Are you a Harry Potter fan?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Look, I'm Harry Potter fan adjacent, but I wouldn't say
I'm like into all of the law of it. But
I don't remember Hermione's handbag.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Okay, So this is something that's referenced in the books
and explored more in the films. It's basically like she's
got one of those cute little pouches, but she puts
a spell on the bag and then everything can be
pulled out of it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I think aference big things out of it, even though
I think a better reference is from Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
She has a similar sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
She pulls a hat stand out of it, if I remember, Yeah,
out of like a little suit casey cart bag.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
But really exciting.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
They'll split the prize money, because of course when you
win a Nobel Prize you get prize money one point
five million Australian dollars.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
And like I said, this is thirty six years in
the making because Robson, the one from the University of
Melbourne started this research in nineteen eighty nine. He moved
to Australia after studying at Oxford and Stanford Universities. So
he's brought it all around the globe with him and
it's finally culminated in a Nobel.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Prize and congratulations from Nobel Chemistry Prizes to the Guinness
Book of Records.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
This is so timely, Claire, because I don't know if
you know this or not, but it's the seventieth anniversary
of Guinness World Record this year.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yeah, so I am weally obsessed with Guinness World Records.
It's one of those things where, like you know, when
you get given the book, oh yeah, like this beautiful, shiny,
sometimes like psychedelic looking book, and then you just go
through and find all the weird stuff that people have
done in order to get their name in here. Like
so an Australian woman has just entered the Guinness World
(12:14):
Records Jade Henderson is a bodybuilder, and this week she
broke the record for the most amount of pull ups
in an hour. No, yeap, just my arm's hert any
guesses how many pull ups could you do, Taylor Stano
in an hour?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's so easy? Answer one.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I can do zero because I can't lift my own
body weight above a bar.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Okay, So between the two of us, we're not gunning
for that record.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
We're never going to get that way.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
That lady do how many?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, So let me tell you this. Though the record
has stood for nearly a decade, it was previously held
by another Australian, Eva Clark, who said it back in
twenty sixteen. Yes, twenty sixteen was nearly ten years ago.
In case your brain is struggling to do the map
with a soundtrack that included a bit of Brittany in
a touch of the Veronicas, she did seven hundred and
thirty three pull ups in sixty minutes. No, m she
(13:00):
was actually gunning for a bigger record than that. She
wanted to do the most in a twenty four hour period.
She had done three thousand, five one hundred in twelve hours,
and then she tore her bicep. I mean, are we surprised,
which is not surprising. So she had to rest for
six weeks and then reconsider what she was going to go.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
For a walk and a swim in the ocean.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And a rest, a long rest, right, But she decided
then to maybe drop it back to the one hour
rather than the twenty four hour period. It looked excruciating.
So the last few she did, so she's made it
eight past the previous record. Those last ones she would
do like one and then have to drop to the mat.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Okay, so you're allowed to, like there are breaks and yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Don't have to continuously do it. So at the start,
obviously she comes out, I forget that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Right, like it's any more hope for me achieving it.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
You know, you can rest between day you'll make it.
I'm in, but I need to show you this picture.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
She had the full like hand grip visow to protect
her wrists and stuff through the whole thing. Brace yourself.
After seven hundred and thirty three pull ups in one hour,
look at her hands.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Oh my god, somebody get that lady to a handspa.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
She needs band aids, a lot of them. She needs
the blister protector because she has callouses that have ripped
right off. But she's now in the Guinness Book of Records.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I mean, sure, yeah, that looks like gymnast hands.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
I imagine.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Well it's different to gymnast hands because Jymna's hands normally
tear like at the bottom of your fingers.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I forget that I'm speaking to a form of gymnist here.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Sorry, this is my area of expertise. I thermally rip
at the bottom of your fingers, but these are like
down at the bottom of their thumbs, like her palms.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Almost.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, God, that looks so painful. Done, Jane, congratulations, well done.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
All right, Cli, thank you very much for joining us
again for some good news.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
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Speaker 3 (15:34):
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Speaker 2 (15:38):
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