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Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Me podcast. Hey, I'm Taylor Strano.

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Speaker 1: This is MMA MIA's twice daily news podcast. The Quickie

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Speaker 1: is the season for endless festive catch ups and the

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Speaker 1: next day anxiety. We all know the feeling too well.

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Speaker 1: You start to get flashbacks to the previous evening's events,

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Speaker 1: you know, laughs, maybe dancing, and that one really really

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Speaker 1: weird story he told you boss? Oh why did I

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Speaker 1: say that to the head of the sales team. As

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Speaker 1: those dreaded anxiety feelings start to creep in, take solace

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Speaker 1: in the fact that many of us have shared in

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Speaker 1: that collective feeling. But anxiety hits different for everyone. Some

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Speaker 1: get slammed, while others, well, they feel nothing. Yep, anxiety

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Speaker 1: has a type and science will help us break down

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Speaker 1: who and why next. Before we get there, here's Claire

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Speaker 1: Murphy with the latest from the QUICKI news room for Monday,

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Speaker 1: November twenty.

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Speaker 2: Four, Thanks Taylor. Labor will spend this last sitting week

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Speaker 2: of Parliament attempting to push through environmental reforms, but Environment

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Speaker 2: Minister Murray Watts says the coalition's internal issues are making

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Speaker 2: it tough. Labour wants to pass a major overhaul of

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Speaker 2: Australia's environment regulations, arguing the changes will better protect natural

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Speaker 2: sites and speed up approvals of key infrastructure, energy and

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Speaker 2: housing projects. But Senator Watt says it's been difficult to

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Speaker 2: conduct negotiations with the Coalition over the last couple of

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Speaker 2: months when they've been completely distracted from these sorts of

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Speaker 2: issues by their leadership struggles. For the Government needs the

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Speaker 2: support of either the Coalition or the Greens to get

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Speaker 2: the laws through the days of being on a stick

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Speaker 2: to find out if you're expecting maybe over. With the

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Speaker 2: introduction of the first ever saliva test for pregnancy in

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Speaker 2: a world first innovation, the saliva based tests will be

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Speaker 2: available on Australian pharmacy shelves from today, the first time

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Speaker 2: since there's been innovation in this space since at home

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Speaker 2: urine tests were created in the nineteen sixties. The presence

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Speaker 2: of human choreonic ganadotropin or hCG, a pregnancy hormone through

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Speaker 2: a mount swab. Fifty school students who are abducted last

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Speaker 2: week in Nigeria have managed to escape, leaving two hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty three children and twelve teachers still held hostage.

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Speaker 2: The kids and their teachers were taken on Friday from

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Speaker 2: Saint Mary's Catholic School in the north central Nigerian state

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Speaker 2: of Niger after gunmen attacked. No group has yet taken

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Speaker 2: responsibility for the mass kidnapping, and it's not immediately clear

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Speaker 2: where the children are being held or how some of

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Speaker 2: them managed to return home. The children, aged between ten

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Speaker 2: and eighteen who managed to make it back to their

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Speaker 2: families escaped individually between Friday and Saturday. This recent attack

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Speaker 2: came just four days after twenty five school children were

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Speaker 2: taken in similar circumstances at a school one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy kilometers away. These areas are in a northern region

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Speaker 2: of Nigeria where dozens of armed gangs have used kidnapping

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Speaker 2: for ransom as a way of dominating remote communities who

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Speaker 2: have little government or security presence. The kidnappers see schools

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Speaker 2: as stratia pic targets to draw more attention, and with

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Speaker 2: parents more likely to pay for their child's return, pressure

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Speaker 2: is increasing for the former Prince Andrew to give evidence

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Speaker 2: to a US congressional committee investigating the convicted sex offender

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Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein. British PM Kiir Stamer declined to comment directly.

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Speaker 2: About King Charles disgraced younger brother, but told reporters traveling

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Speaker 2: with him for the G twenty summit in Johannesburg that

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Speaker 2: as a general principle, people should provide evidence to investigators, saying,

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Speaker 2: I don't comment on this particular case, but as a

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Speaker 2: general principle I've held for a very long time is

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Speaker 2: that anybody who has relevant information in relation to these

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Speaker 2: kinds of cases should give that evidence to those that

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Speaker 2: need it. The former Prince, now known as Andrew mount

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Speaker 2: Batten Windsor, has so far ignored a request from members

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Speaker 2: of the House of Oversight Committee for a transcribed interview

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Speaker 2: about his long standing friendship with Epstein. Officials from Europe,

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Speaker 2: the United States, and Ukraine are gathering in Geneva to

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Speaker 2: discuss a draft plan presented by Washington to end the

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Speaker 2: war in Ukraine. On Friday, US President Donald Trump said

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Speaker 2: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski has until Thursday to approve the

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Speaker 2: twenty eight point plan, which calls on Ukraine to cede

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Speaker 2: territory to Russia, except limits on its military, and renounce

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Speaker 2: any ambitions to join NATO. For many Ukrainians, including soldiers

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Speaker 2: fighting on the front lines, these terms would amount to

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Speaker 2: capitulation after almost four years of fighting in Europe's deadliest

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Speaker 2: conflict since World War II. Before the talk, Zelenski warned

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Speaker 2: that Ukraine is risking losing its dignity in freedom or

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Speaker 2: Washington's backing over the plan. Russian President Vladimir Putin described

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Speaker 2: it as the basis of a resolution to the conflict,

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Speaker 2: but Moscow might object to some proposals in the scheme,

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Speaker 2: they've captured. Just a year after Part One brought droves

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Speaker 2: of audiences to movie theaters around the world, even more

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Speaker 2: people bought opening weekend tickets to see the epic conclusion

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Speaker 2: to the Wicked movies, Wicked for Good. According to studio

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Speaker 2: estimates on Sunday, Wicked for Good earned US one hundred

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Speaker 2: is it the biggest opening ever for a Broadway musical adaptation,

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Speaker 2: unseating the record set by the first film's one hundred

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Speaker 2: and twenty million dollar US launch. It's also the second

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Speaker 2: biggest debut of the year, behind a Minecraft Movie's one

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty two million. As with the first film,

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Speaker 2: Women powered opening weekend, making up around seventy one percent

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Speaker 2: of ticket buyers, and while experts were somewhat mixed on

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Speaker 2: the final chapter, audiences weren't and overwhelming eighty three percent

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Speaker 2: of those who saw it said it was one they

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Speaker 2: would definitely recommend to friends.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Glen. Next are you feeling anxious? It's officially silly

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Speaker 1: season and that means more long launches, offers Christmas parties

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Speaker 1: and pre Christy catchups, and for some of us, the

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Speaker 1: dreaded next day anxiety. Sure, everybody expects a headache, but

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Speaker 1: why does that wave of unease, self doubt, and regret

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Speaker 1: anxiety like the emotional aftershock, restlessness, worry, even flashes of

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Speaker 1: shame that can kick in the morning after drinking. Scientists

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Speaker 1: say it's not just in your head, it's actually in

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Speaker 3: When you drink alcohol, what happens is your brain increases

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Speaker 3: these things called neurotransmitters, which are essentially your brain's chemical messengers.

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Speaker 3: So one of these chemicals is gabba, so that kind

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Speaker 3: of what makes you feel calm and relaxed when you're drinking.

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Speaker 3: It also suppresses glutamate, so that is what normally keeps

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Speaker 3: you alert, so that again kind of lowers your inhibitions,

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Speaker 3: and that shift is why you kind of feel relaxed

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Speaker 1: That's doctor Blair Aitken. He's been researching just how anxiety

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Speaker 1: comes for our well being. Blair says, as your body

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Speaker 1: starts to process the booz, the chemical balance and your

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Speaker 3: When you wake up the neck a your brain tries

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Speaker 3: to I guess recalibrate itself and as the alcohol wears off,

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Speaker 1: Mix in poor sleep, float, blood sugar or dehydration, and

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Speaker 1: it's no wonder you're on edge. Anxiety is common. Of

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Speaker 1: around six thousand adults who were surveyed worldwide, people reported

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Speaker 1: more anxiety, irritability, and sadness the day after a night

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Speaker 3: What we found in our research is that people who

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Speaker 3: use alcohol as social buffer, and they use it to

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Speaker 3: So it might help them in the moment, but the

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Speaker 3: they can make them feel a lot worse. Also found

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Speaker 3: this overthinking loop is kind of what fuels that anxiety.

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Speaker 1: When the chemicals were off, the stuff you were avoiding

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Speaker 1: comes back even sharper. It also feels worse if you

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Speaker 1: think embarrassment, social regret, or flashes of why did I

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Speaker 1: tell them that? But there is good news to help

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Speaker 1: us manage our anxiety.

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Speaker 3: My advice would be to skip the hair of the dog,

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Speaker 3: because more alcohols are going to delay the anxiety. I

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Speaker 3: guess what we found was that social support makes a

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Speaker 3: big difference, so talking it through with people laughing about it.

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Speaker 3: A big theme actually was this idea of suffering together

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Speaker 3: or collective recovery, so meeting up for a great breakfast

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Speaker 3: and having recovery drink together. That people did feel like

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Speaker 3: just delaying the inevitable. The best thing to do would

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Speaker 3: but make sure you're like having a nice, healthy breakfast,

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Speaker 1: Interestingly, bad anxiety doesn't actually stop most people from drinking.

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Speaker 1: Studies say even brutal hangovers are viewed as inconvenience, not

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Speaker 1: deal breakers. Most of us try to lessen the impact

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Speaker 1: only self reflection or professional help makes a real difference

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Speaker 1: if you're in a bad loop. A reminder, if your

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Speaker 1: anxiety lingers, pass the hangover or starts to impact work

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Speaker 1: or relationships, that's your sign to seek help. At its core,

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Speaker 1: if the silly season's about to hit you hard, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's the moment to rethink why you drink, embrace some

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Speaker 1: Thanks for taking some time to feed your mind with

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Speaker 1: us today. The Quickie is produced by me Taylor Strano,

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Speaker 1: Lario Brophy, and cler Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill.

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Speaker 2: that this podcast is recorded on