April 18, 2025 • 13 mins
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This week Claire Murphy and Taylah Strano share the smile-worth stories they couldn't stop thinking about; from a surprising sports star to a town's take on Pokemon cards.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma mea podcast. Mummy Me acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is mummmys twice daily news podcast,
The Quickie. I'm dropping into your feed with another special
Saturday treat some more good news. As we know, the
news cycle can be well, a lot is probably how
I would describe it nicely. As we know, we're constantly
hit with headlines that leave us feeling drained, frustrated, and,
(00:42):
to be honest, sometimes a little bit hopeless. But not today.
Today we're pressing pause on the heavy stuff and choosing
to shine a light on some of the good news
stories that remind us there's still plenty to smile about,
a little positivity to get you through your long weekend,
and to spread the good vibes. I'm sharing the load
with our very own Claire Murphy.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hello, welcome this time with you and I just to
get to sit around and talk about good stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I know, I feel like our weeks are so busy,
and now that you're off being a super important health journalist,
thank you for the bit ups. Yeah, we don't get
to touch bas as much so this is the perfect
environment as always. I would love it if you would
kick off.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Are you an egg eater, Taylor Strano? I am me too,
and I mean of the chicken variety, not necessarily the eggs.
Are you talking about what the easter variety? Or very timeously?
And there are other birds that produce eggs that sometimes
you believe, like quails and ducks, etc.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm an equal egg opportunist.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I've admittedly don't think I've ever eaten another poultry's egg
other than a chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, I'm pretty sure I've never Okay, moving on, but anyway,
fan of a chicken egg. And you may have noticed
in the last six months or so that the egg
shells of supermarkets have been fairly bare. Now you're thinking,
why is this good news? Claire, It's coming all right,
Just stay with me. It does have been on where
you live. But for a lot of Ossie's eggshells have
been understocked, to the point where my local supermarket has
(02:07):
made that the place for the Easter egg section as
a bit of a lull because there've been no chicken eggs. Now,
there's a few reasons for this. One is because a
lot of bossie farms are recovering from a bird flu
outbreak which a lot of birds had to be destroyed,
which is terribly sad. But here's where the good news
kicks in. People, Oh thank god, Okay, we're ready because
(02:27):
the laying hens are back. Baby who in the last
week or so, the eggshelves, whilst not as fully stocked
as per usual, I start to creep back in with
some egg cuttons, which is really lovely to see. Now,
before you say, like, that's not all necessarily good news,
because we do understand there are conditions under which certain
hens exist in order to lay eggs which are not ideal. Yes,
(02:49):
I understand that, but also partly the egg shortage wasn't
all bird flu because I'm not sure if you're aware
of this tailor the cage egg is being phased out.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, I read this, I committed it to memory, and
then it promptly fell out of my brain. Yeah, but
that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. So what is happening is some of these farms
are having to change the way that they and obviously
that requires infrastructure and investment. So it means that some
of their former cage eggs will no longer be in
the supply chain, so that also has been contributing to it. Also,
one of the other reasons eggs are in short supplies
because we've all become obsessed with protein all of a sudden,
so like egg is now on everyone's menu. And as
(03:28):
a personal fan of eggs on toast for any meal
of the day, I'm all for that. So over the
next few months, the good news is eggs should be
back on shelves.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And while you can as the Easter long weekend continues,
on each chocolate eggs.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh my god, little fun fact. Many years ago, I
was really questioning why Easter chocolate tastes better than standard chocolate.
Of course, and so I send a.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Message to Cabri. It feels very nerdy. This is the
good news. Hang on, just dump that everything we just
talked about eggs. This is the egg story I want
to hear. Keep going.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Send a message to Cabri and said, look, can you
please explain to me why I really like, I enjoy
your chocolate, but I particularly enjoy your Easter chocolate. Yes,
it is the exact same chocolate. However, when you tamper
chocolate to make it into the egg shape, it does
change its flavor.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Of course you would ask this.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, I can't help it. So if you're wondering why
you are like obscenely obsessed with Easter egg chocolate, it's
the tempering process it makes it like and the crunch
you get from.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Nap Yeah, the satisfying snap.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, it's all about it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I love that. Okay, From eggs to sausage dogs.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh, I love a sausage Yes, I meant to say
dog at the end of that. Please continue moving on.
Let me just set the scene. I'm going down to
South Australia. I think I know where you're going this yep, okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Valerie the Sausage Dog has pulled off a wild survival story.
We are talking literally over five hundred and something days
surviving on Kangaroo Island after disappearing from a family camping trip,
and they have found Valerie alive, safe and well. Do
you want to see a picture ice I do?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Ah, Valerie is that back with her humans? That's did
they actually capture her though? Because I did last see
that she was caught on CCTV footage from a drone
if I.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Remember rightly, Yes, this story is wild, so basically Valerie
and said humans name's not important because this is a
story about Valerie, the sausage dog miniature dashound who went
missing on Kangaroo Island in late twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
She was there camping with her family. They searched for weeks.
There are obviously devastated anybody who has a pet nose
that they are so very much an integral part of
your family. They're not just an animal that lives outside
your babies.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, fur baby, if you will.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
She'd been spotted here and there on the island, of course,
like you said there, drone footage was used to spot her,
but she would always sort of scurry away really quickly
and they couldn't move find her.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Sausage dogs were like good evaders of rapture.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well not only invaders of capture, but she also managed
to evade any land traps on the island.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
As well, so they were trying to trap her.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, I think they just were on those things were
on the island, right, I mean, you paint us a picture, Claire,
you're the South Australian I am.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I've been to Ki many a time. I have seen
it written in these recent news reports as like a
remote island. Look, it's not. It's got lots of people
living on it. It does have quite a bit of
farmland and quite a bit of like a beautiful national forest.
So yeah, it's not built up suburban Australia, but it's
by all means not a remote island. It has a
very beautiful gin distillery for you everyone. Oh, okay, a
(06:30):
gin or two. What is beautiful back kai though is
it doesn't really have a lot of those introduced predators,
so like, no feral cats, none of that kind of business.
But tons of wildlife I'm presuming none that eat sausage dogs.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well nod that long they found their way into the
diet of this sausage dog, Balery was able to survive
on eating and hunting small little animals, avoiding other predators
on the island. When they found out she was healthy,
she was thin but strong and of course wagging her
tail when she was reunited with her.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
People, Valerie, welcome home, big Golfan Taylor, we're laughing because
neither of us play golf or watch golf.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No. I know the names. I know the ones at
the top. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, speaking of which, Rory McElroy might be one of
the names that you know quite well. The US Masters
has been happening in Augusta, Georgia. Rory McElroy is a
player from Northern Ireland. He's apparently very good. He won it.
He won himself a green jacket, which I hear is
what every golfer wants to win. Good on you. Seems
like a great prize for being good at what looks
like the most frustrating game in the world. But it's
(07:38):
not his win that we want to focus on here,
because last week they had their kiddos out on the course.
Stop it, because they have an exhibition day that traditionally
happens before the Big Open. Right, So, Rory McElroy's little daughter, Poppy,
who is four, is out on the golf course with
her dad, with her tiny little golf club, which is
so freaking cute. Anyway, in this news footage that I watched,
(08:01):
little Poppy is lining up a put. Okay, it seems impossible.
She's quite far away, she's tiny, She's not gonna make it.
She's holding the club like you imagine a four year
old holds a golf club. She gives it like a
little shove and the ball slightly rolls away from her,
and you're like, oh, that's cute. Nice try, But the
slope of the green comes into action. The ball keeps
(08:24):
rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling, and finally it
goes in the hole. It's so exciting. Let me show
you a little bit of this. It's so freaking cute.
Let me turn my computer around. Hang on, here we go. Right,
they're setting up. She has a little shove and it
keeps rolling and keeps rolling. Oh my gosh, proud of her?
(08:46):
Are so another kid comes in picks her up, like
jumps her around. She's completely nonplus by this entire experience.
I love you, like get up though. She's wearing a
little onesie with macaroy on the back, which is so
freaking cute. She's got little curly hair and a bow.
People are going wild. She's literally standing there like, I
don't understand what you're all so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I just do this in my backyard with my dad.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
This is just my dad's job, like boring, And he
eventually does pick her up and give her a big squeeze,
like so freaking cute. I don't watch golf, and I
will still not watch golf, but golf was worth watching
for that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, final story for this week of good News, Claire,
I know what your answer is going to be. This,
were you into Pokemon.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Noah as a child? I did give Pokemon Go a
go when it was a thing a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Did you Pokemon Go?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I did, And I remember doing it with my work
colleagues as were walking to a meeting one day and
they were like, what is happening? But I was like,
there's a Charaza down this drive.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You don't understand, mom, the real me. Well, to bring
it back down to its core, Pokemon or not really
unofficial off license. A Japanese town have created trading cards
featuring local middle aged and elder men, so Pokemon cards
trading cards of the old men in their town, and
(10:01):
it's seen a surge in volunteerism and deepening respect for
their elders.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Can I just say Japan does aging in a way
that I have never seen a big fan I went
to Japan last year. I know it's very named droppy,
but like they hire older people to do jobs like
gardening or street sweeping or crossing guards. Like they're still
so involved in their community. Rather than just allowing them
to be shuttled off somewhere lonely and isolated. And they
(10:29):
celebrate women when they hit menopause, like it's of such
a different cultural view of aging.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, this is another feather to that cap. Then there's
a forty seven card collection for this one particular town,
featuring members of the community like sober Master mister Takeshita,
he's an eighty one year old noodle maker brilliant, and
mister Fuji, who was a sixty seven year old former
prison guard turned volunteer. So basically, the kids have gotten
their hands on these in the town and they've gone
(10:54):
nuts for it. They're trading cards, they've assigned special abilities
to each of the men.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
On the car.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Mister Fuji now gets stopped for autographs. He's turned into
a local celebrity. I love this story.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That is super cute.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They've also seen like a sur in people signing up
to volunteer with their elder generation in the town. So
that was the point in having these cards, was to
put these people on display, give them bit a street
cred amongst the young folks. And it's worked. It's returned
in tenfold.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You go labor government, there's a strategy to get the
elderly people a little bit more involved in community and
people volunteering and getting out there. Can you imagine if
we were trading cards for like the elderly people in
our neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's really cute.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That would be so cute.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
People would know their neighbors, because I do wonder this
often about how many people, like in major capital cities
around Australia, know their neighbors.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I leive in the country, I don't really know my name.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, so you are the people that should know your
neighbors the I know. Hey, you've got to go and
knock on their doors.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Lot of pressure.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Idea. It's school holidays. Maybe you and your child could
make some trading cards of the people in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Can you Mentionine how creepy that would be knock on
their door. Hey, we've never met, but I've made this
card with all your stats. Your special ability is fire.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You're a ghost type. That's another week of good news.
Claire Murphy, thank you very much, a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I think this has become the highlight of my week.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Me too. Hey, before you go, make sure that you're
keeping up with Claire and doctor Marriam on Mumums brand
new podcast. Well it's been full body health check for
a Stranglian women. I'll link in the show notes. But
also Claire, what about our true crime fans. It's the
question that I get asked. I get stopped on the street.
People are asking me, what about Claire? What about true crime?
There's a little bit of extra murf in their lives.
(12:38):
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah? Look, I am Claire everywhere. At the moment, I
am filling in for the gorgeous jammer Bath who went
on maternity leave way too quickly and needed someone to
jump in. So that's me on True Crime Conversations this
coming week. Fantastic interview with Heston Russell. He is a
former SAS soldier. He was one of those ones that
was accused of war crimes after returning from Afghanistan and
(13:01):
then got a very big defamation payout because of those allegations.
But I asked him questions like how you identify the
enemy in the field and what do you do when
someone dies in front? Like he is so open about
all of this stuff. It is actually incredible. Check it out.
True Chrime conversations wherever we get to podcasts.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
The Quickie is produced by meat Tail Strano and Clea Murphy,
with audio production by Leah Porges.
So much.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You're listening to a Muma mea podcast. Mummy Me acknowledges
the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast
is recorded on.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is mummmys twice daily news podcast,
The Quickie. I'm dropping into your feed with another special
Saturday treat some more good news. As we know, the
news cycle can be well, a lot is probably how
I would describe it nicely. As we know, we're constantly
hit with headlines that leave us feeling drained, frustrated, and,
(00:42):
to be honest, sometimes a little bit hopeless. But not today.
Today we're pressing pause on the heavy stuff and choosing
to shine a light on some of the good news
stories that remind us there's still plenty to smile about,
a little positivity to get you through your long weekend,
and to spread the good vibes. I'm sharing the load
with our very own Claire Murphy.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Hello, welcome this time with you and I just to
get to sit around and talk about good stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I know, I feel like our weeks are so busy,
and now that you're off being a super important health journalist,
thank you for the bit ups. Yeah, we don't get
to touch bas as much so this is the perfect
environment as always. I would love it if you would
kick off.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Are you an egg eater, Taylor Strano? I am me too,
and I mean of the chicken variety, not necessarily the eggs.
Are you talking about what the easter variety? Or very timeously?
And there are other birds that produce eggs that sometimes
you believe, like quails and ducks, etc.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I'm an equal egg opportunist.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I've admittedly don't think I've ever eaten another poultry's egg
other than a chicken.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, I'm pretty sure I've never Okay, moving on, but anyway,
fan of a chicken egg. And you may have noticed
in the last six months or so that the egg
shells of supermarkets have been fairly bare. Now you're thinking,
why is this good news? Claire, It's coming all right,
Just stay with me. It does have been on where
you live. But for a lot of Ossie's eggshells have
been understocked, to the point where my local supermarket has
(02:07):
made that the place for the Easter egg section as
a bit of a lull because there've been no chicken eggs. Now,
there's a few reasons for this. One is because a
lot of bossie farms are recovering from a bird flu
outbreak which a lot of birds had to be destroyed,
which is terribly sad. But here's where the good news
kicks in. People, Oh thank god, Okay, we're ready because
(02:27):
the laying hens are back. Baby who in the last
week or so, the eggshelves, whilst not as fully stocked
as per usual, I start to creep back in with
some egg cuttons, which is really lovely to see. Now,
before you say, like, that's not all necessarily good news,
because we do understand there are conditions under which certain
hens exist in order to lay eggs which are not ideal. Yes,
(02:49):
I understand that, but also partly the egg shortage wasn't
all bird flu because I'm not sure if you're aware
of this tailor the cage egg is being phased out.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yes, I read this, I committed it to memory, and
then it promptly fell out of my brain. Yeah, but
that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah. So what is happening is some of these farms
are having to change the way that they and obviously
that requires infrastructure and investment. So it means that some
of their former cage eggs will no longer be in
the supply chain, so that also has been contributing to it. Also,
one of the other reasons eggs are in short supplies
because we've all become obsessed with protein all of a sudden,
so like egg is now on everyone's menu. And as
(03:28):
a personal fan of eggs on toast for any meal
of the day, I'm all for that. So over the
next few months, the good news is eggs should be
back on shelves.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And while you can as the Easter long weekend continues,
on each chocolate eggs.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Oh my god, little fun fact. Many years ago, I
was really questioning why Easter chocolate tastes better than standard chocolate.
Of course, and so I send a.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Message to Cabri. It feels very nerdy. This is the
good news. Hang on, just dump that everything we just
talked about eggs. This is the egg story I want
to hear. Keep going.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Send a message to Cabri and said, look, can you
please explain to me why I really like, I enjoy
your chocolate, but I particularly enjoy your Easter chocolate. Yes,
it is the exact same chocolate. However, when you tamper
chocolate to make it into the egg shape, it does
change its flavor.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Of course you would ask this.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, I can't help it. So if you're wondering why
you are like obscenely obsessed with Easter egg chocolate, it's
the tempering process it makes it like and the crunch
you get from.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Nap Yeah, the satisfying snap.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Yeah, it's all about it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I love that. Okay, From eggs to sausage dogs.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh, I love a sausage Yes, I meant to say
dog at the end of that. Please continue moving on.
Let me just set the scene. I'm going down to
South Australia. I think I know where you're going this yep, okay, okay, cool.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Valerie the Sausage Dog has pulled off a wild survival story.
We are talking literally over five hundred and something days
surviving on Kangaroo Island after disappearing from a family camping trip,
and they have found Valerie alive, safe and well. Do
you want to see a picture ice I do?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Ah, Valerie is that back with her humans? That's did
they actually capture her though? Because I did last see
that she was caught on CCTV footage from a drone
if I.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Remember rightly, Yes, this story is wild, so basically Valerie
and said humans name's not important because this is a
story about Valerie, the sausage dog miniature dashound who went
missing on Kangaroo Island in late twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
She was there camping with her family. They searched for weeks.
There are obviously devastated anybody who has a pet nose
that they are so very much an integral part of
your family. They're not just an animal that lives outside
your babies.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yes, fur baby, if you will.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
She'd been spotted here and there on the island, of course,
like you said there, drone footage was used to spot her,
but she would always sort of scurry away really quickly
and they couldn't move find her.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Sausage dogs were like good evaders of rapture.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well not only invaders of capture, but she also managed
to evade any land traps on the island.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
As well, so they were trying to trap her.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, I think they just were on those things were
on the island, right, I mean, you paint us a picture, Claire,
you're the South Australian I am.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I've been to Ki many a time. I have seen
it written in these recent news reports as like a
remote island. Look, it's not. It's got lots of people
living on it. It does have quite a bit of
farmland and quite a bit of like a beautiful national forest.
So yeah, it's not built up suburban Australia, but it's
by all means not a remote island. It has a
very beautiful gin distillery for you everyone. Oh, okay, a
(06:30):
gin or two. What is beautiful back kai though is
it doesn't really have a lot of those introduced predators,
so like, no feral cats, none of that kind of business.
But tons of wildlife I'm presuming none that eat sausage dogs.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Well nod that long they found their way into the
diet of this sausage dog, Balery was able to survive
on eating and hunting small little animals, avoiding other predators
on the island. When they found out she was healthy,
she was thin but strong and of course wagging her
tail when she was reunited with her.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
People, Valerie, welcome home, big Golfan Taylor, we're laughing because
neither of us play golf or watch golf.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
No. I know the names. I know the ones at
the top. That's all you need to know.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Well, speaking of which, Rory McElroy might be one of
the names that you know quite well. The US Masters
has been happening in Augusta, Georgia. Rory McElroy is a
player from Northern Ireland. He's apparently very good. He won it.
He won himself a green jacket, which I hear is
what every golfer wants to win. Good on you. Seems
like a great prize for being good at what looks
like the most frustrating game in the world. But it's
(07:38):
not his win that we want to focus on here,
because last week they had their kiddos out on the course.
Stop it, because they have an exhibition day that traditionally
happens before the Big Open. Right, So, Rory McElroy's little daughter, Poppy,
who is four, is out on the golf course with
her dad, with her tiny little golf club, which is
so freaking cute. Anyway, in this news footage that I watched,
(08:01):
little Poppy is lining up a put. Okay, it seems impossible.
She's quite far away, she's tiny, She's not gonna make it.
She's holding the club like you imagine a four year
old holds a golf club. She gives it like a
little shove and the ball slightly rolls away from her,
and you're like, oh, that's cute. Nice try, But the
slope of the green comes into action. The ball keeps
(08:24):
rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling, and finally it
goes in the hole. It's so exciting. Let me show
you a little bit of this. It's so freaking cute.
Let me turn my computer around. Hang on, here we go. Right,
they're setting up. She has a little shove and it
keeps rolling and keeps rolling. Oh my gosh, proud of her?
(08:46):
Are so another kid comes in picks her up, like
jumps her around. She's completely nonplus by this entire experience.
I love you, like get up though. She's wearing a
little onesie with macaroy on the back, which is so
freaking cute. She's got little curly hair and a bow.
People are going wild. She's literally standing there like, I
don't understand what you're all so excited about it.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I just do this in my backyard with my dad.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
This is just my dad's job, like boring, And he
eventually does pick her up and give her a big squeeze,
like so freaking cute. I don't watch golf, and I
will still not watch golf, but golf was worth watching
for that.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, final story for this week of good News, Claire,
I know what your answer is going to be. This,
were you into Pokemon.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Noah as a child? I did give Pokemon Go a
go when it was a thing a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Did you Pokemon Go?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I did, And I remember doing it with my work
colleagues as were walking to a meeting one day and
they were like, what is happening? But I was like,
there's a Charaza down this drive.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
You don't understand, mom, the real me. Well, to bring
it back down to its core, Pokemon or not really
unofficial off license. A Japanese town have created trading cards
featuring local middle aged and elder men, so Pokemon cards
trading cards of the old men in their town, and
(10:01):
it's seen a surge in volunteerism and deepening respect for
their elders.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Can I just say Japan does aging in a way
that I have never seen a big fan I went
to Japan last year. I know it's very named droppy,
but like they hire older people to do jobs like
gardening or street sweeping or crossing guards. Like they're still
so involved in their community. Rather than just allowing them
to be shuttled off somewhere lonely and isolated. And they
(10:29):
celebrate women when they hit menopause, like it's of such
a different cultural view of aging.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Well, this is another feather to that cap. Then there's
a forty seven card collection for this one particular town,
featuring members of the community like sober Master mister Takeshita,
he's an eighty one year old noodle maker brilliant, and
mister Fuji, who was a sixty seven year old former
prison guard turned volunteer. So basically, the kids have gotten
their hands on these in the town and they've gone
(10:54):
nuts for it. They're trading cards, they've assigned special abilities
to each of the men.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
On the car.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Mister Fuji now gets stopped for autographs. He's turned into
a local celebrity. I love this story.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That is super cute.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They've also seen like a sur in people signing up
to volunteer with their elder generation in the town. So
that was the point in having these cards, was to
put these people on display, give them bit a street
cred amongst the young folks. And it's worked. It's returned
in tenfold.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You go labor government, there's a strategy to get the
elderly people a little bit more involved in community and
people volunteering and getting out there. Can you imagine if
we were trading cards for like the elderly people in
our neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's really cute.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
That would be so cute.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
People would know their neighbors, because I do wonder this
often about how many people, like in major capital cities
around Australia, know their neighbors.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I leive in the country, I don't really know my name.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, so you are the people that should know your
neighbors the I know. Hey, you've got to go and
knock on their doors.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Lot of pressure.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Idea. It's school holidays. Maybe you and your child could
make some trading cards of the people in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Can you Mentionine how creepy that would be knock on
their door. Hey, we've never met, but I've made this
card with all your stats. Your special ability is fire.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
You're a ghost type. That's another week of good news.
Claire Murphy, thank you very much, a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I think this has become the highlight of my week.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Me too. Hey, before you go, make sure that you're
keeping up with Claire and doctor Marriam on Mumums brand
new podcast. Well it's been full body health check for
a Stranglian women. I'll link in the show notes. But
also Claire, what about our true crime fans. It's the
question that I get asked. I get stopped on the street.
People are asking me, what about Claire? What about true crime?
There's a little bit of extra murf in their lives.
(12:38):
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah? Look, I am Claire everywhere. At the moment, I
am filling in for the gorgeous jammer Bath who went
on maternity leave way too quickly and needed someone to
jump in. So that's me on True Crime Conversations this
coming week. Fantastic interview with Heston Russell. He is a
former SAS soldier. He was one of those ones that
was accused of war crimes after returning from Afghanistan and
(13:01):
then got a very big defamation payout because of those allegations.
But I asked him questions like how you identify the
enemy in the field and what do you do when
someone dies in front? Like he is so open about
all of this stuff. It is actually incredible. Check it out.
True Chrime conversations wherever we get to podcasts.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
The Quickie is produced by meat Tail Strano and Clea Murphy,
with audio production by Leah Porges.
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