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Speaker 2: I'm Grace Rubray filling in for Clare Murphy. This is

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Speaker 2: Mumma MEA's twice daily news podcast, The Quickie. Thousands of

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Speaker 2: the nineteen seventies most houses had a microwave, which really

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Speaker 2: doesn't feel all that long ago. But kitchen innovation is

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Speaker 2: just one example. In the past half a century, we've

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Speaker 2: seen countless changes designed to, in theory make our lives

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Speaker 2: easier or better even.

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Speaker 3: Certainly a lot of things have changed, but a lot

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Speaker 3: of things have not necessarily made things easier, but not

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Speaker 3: any hard or either. I sometimes think a lot of

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Speaker 3: changes changed for change sight because you can do it.

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Speaker 3: That might be being just a bit too negative and

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Speaker 2: That is my grandpa. He is eighty eight years old

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Speaker 2: and he's seen a lot of change. And whilst we

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Speaker 2: can say that a fridge and microwave and many technological

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Speaker 2: changes have improved our quality of life, there is a

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Speaker 2: new trend of viral tiktoks claiming to hack our way

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Speaker 2: to simplicity. So have these hacks hindered or helped our happiness?

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Speaker 2: Before we try to life hack our way through this episode,

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Speaker 2: Here's what's happening in the world today. From Monday, August

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Speaker 2: twenty sixth, Hesbelah has launched hundreds of rockets and drones

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Speaker 2: at Israel, as Israel's military said it struck Lebanon with

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Speaker 2: about one hundred jets to thwart a larger attack. This

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Speaker 2: marks one of the biggest clashes in more than ten

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Speaker 2: months of border warfare, with concerns this spillover in the fighting,

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Speaker 2: which began in parallel with the war and the Gaza

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Speaker 2: Strip risks morphing into a regional blaze, drawing in Hesbela's

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Speaker 2: With three deaths confirmed in Lebanon and one in Israel,

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Speaker 2: both sides indicated they were happy to avoid further escalation

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Speaker 2: who warned this is not the end of the story.

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Speaker 2: From Monday. Workers across Australia can refuse to monitor, read,

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Speaker 2: or respond to work communication outside of paid hours unless

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Speaker 2: doing so is reasonable. As the Federal government's workplace reforms

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Speaker 2: come into force, The changes, which include a right to disconnect,

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Speaker 2: are expected to drastically reduce the number of unpaid hours

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Speaker 2: Australian's work. Each Australian worker is believed to perform an

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Speaker 2: average of five point four hours per week of unpaid work,

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Speaker 2: which acquates to one hundred and thirty one billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Workplace Relations Minister Murray what said the right to disconnect

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Speaker 2: ensured the law kept pace with technology. The government reforms

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Speaker 2: also improve rights for gig workers and provisions for casual

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Speaker 2: employees to transition into permanent employment. Energy rebates handed out

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Speaker 2: due for release this week. Wednesday's Consumer Price Index from

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Speaker 2: the Australian Bureau of Statistics is timped to show a

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Speaker 2: sharp decline in headline inflation as the federal government's power

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Speaker 2: in some states, signs of cooling inflation will be welcomed

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Speaker 2: and focus on underlying inflation pressures. The Central Bank remains

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Speaker 2: repayment relief. Deadline reports that the Emmy winning series ted

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Speaker 2: Lasso is set to return for a fourth season, despite

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Swift. Co creator Bill Lawrence previously insisted that the

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Speaker 2: Sidekis's participation, saying, whatever Jason feels like doing and whatever

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Speaker 2: So as a fan, if someone's like, oh, it's going

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Speaker 2: Do viral tiktoks help our life easing some of the

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Speaker 3: In your frigiday called pantry, there's a place for all

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Speaker 3: I can remember when we got our first freach. That

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Speaker 2: So as of about forty years ago, we had all

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Speaker 2: our essential items we still rely on today. Inventors had

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Speaker 2: solved most of our everyday problems, but the products kept coming. Sure,

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Speaker 2: we'll welcome a few of those extras, like the extravagant THERMAMICX,

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Speaker 2: all these constant upgrades and new devices, are we really

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Speaker 2: Sitting aside medical innovation? Are we just inventing and solving

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Speaker 2: problems that don't really need to be solved? Potentially? But

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Speaker 2: or maybe it's two, I'm not really sure. It's TikTok.

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Speaker 1: Sure me the life hack that you randomly saw one

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Speaker 1: I'll go first.

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Speaker 2: This is how I put away my kids laundry in

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Speaker 4: Life hacks I didn't think actually work till I tried

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Speaker 4: them myself. Ten of your favorite home hacks. These life

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Speaker 4: hacks you definitely don't know.

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Speaker 2: Life hacks on TikTok have exploded in popularity, offering countless

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Speaker 2: viral tips and tricks to make our lives easier. Many

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Speaker 2: of these hacks, especially from women, focus on cooking, parenting,

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Speaker 2: that women have in the twenty first century. TikTok has

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Speaker 2: also revealed forgotten uses for long standing products, as well

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Speaker 2: things to boost happiness and avoid potential pitfalls. Just this week,

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Speaker 2: the Mumma Mea team came across a few life hacks

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Speaker 2: and readers. Stacy Hicks is Muma MEA's deputy editor. Stacy,

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Speaker 2: what were two of the biggest stories that people clicked

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Speaker 1: Well, as you know, Mumma Mea kind of covers everything

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Speaker 1: in the world of women, so it can vary from

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Speaker 1: week to week. But for some reason, this week the

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Speaker 1: top stories were why you shouldn't tie a ribbon around

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Speaker 2: Okay, can you run us through why we don't tie

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Speaker 1: Yes, so this blew my mind. I didn't know this,

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Speaker 1: lead to delay. So if you've ever had your bag

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Speaker 1: So whether that be getting a brightly colored suitcase obviously

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Speaker 2: And what is the spiky side of the cheese greater

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Speaker 1: The spiky side, which is those small, sharp raised edges

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Speaker 1: So it's for zesting like lemons and limes, and you

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Speaker 1: those harder spy So problem solved.

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Speaker 2: Now that we've solved all the world's biggest problems, Stacy,

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Speaker 2: why do you think women really resonated with these two stories.

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Speaker 1: I think it's because women are always looking for a shortcut.

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Speaker 1: So if you're looking back fifty years ago, obviously much

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Speaker 2: Do you think all these life acts are actually making

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Speaker 1: Maybe not those ones, but I mean I saw a

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Speaker 2: Thanks Stacy. So we know people are obsessed with making

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Speaker 2: of the Australian Association of Psychologists. Carlie, are we actually

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Speaker 2: making our lives easier when we take on board all

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Speaker 4: I think it can be a bit of both. I

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Speaker 4: think for some people they might have intuitively engaged in

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Speaker 4: So learning a hack might actually help them, you know,

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Speaker 4: also think, though, that some of these life hacks can

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Speaker 4: Honestly, yes, I think there's two things happening here as

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Speaker 4: at least you're wishing for more additional time. So these

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Speaker 2: Does it change our ability to problem solve or think creatively?

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Speaker 2: Like say, if we go, huh, I've come across this problem,

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Speaker 2: I wonder how we do that? But now we can

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Speaker 2: sort of turn to the internet straight away, or there's

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Speaker 2: like some little life hack. Are we actually hindering our

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Speaker 4: Yeah? It can. We know that when humans are broad,

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Speaker 4: for our minds to wander. And while I totally understand

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Speaker 4: we do sometimes on the risk of having that natural

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Speaker 4: What's natural skill atrophy?

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Speaker 2: What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: The brain is an amazing organ and we know that

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Speaker 4: what we do often the no behaviors or phrases, what

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Speaker 4: we repeat, what fires together, wires together? Right? And if

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Speaker 4: so I think it might be really important for us

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of the potential benefits. Is there

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Speaker 4: It depends what the hack is. If it does actually

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Speaker 4: make your life easier, so you know, it reduces your stress,

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Speaker 4: tentible benefit. We do know that that is good, that

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Speaker 4: is helpful. You feel like you've taken control over your life.

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Speaker 4: There's a mastery element to it. I think there are

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Speaker 4: that does make your health, not only mental but physical

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is the time spent searching for a hack potentially

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it really depends. Again, it depends on the quality

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Speaker 4: not so helpful. Yeah, it really depends, and I hate

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Speaker 4: like the hack content that you see online, designs a

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Speaker 4: They heighten that stress response. They make you think that

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Speaker 4: Is this problem an actual problem in my life that

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Speaker 2: But within your network instead of the Internet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Sometimes, you know, the Internet is great, love it,

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Speaker 2: Grandpa, You know, I'm sure we can be happy and

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Speaker 2: But do you think a more simplistic life made us happier.

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Speaker 3: Probably some of that's because of ignorance. You know, we

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Speaker 3: know about it, you can look it up online, kant

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Speaker 3: and hope that it's right. In a lot of ways,

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Speaker 3: I don't on that old fashion that I don't really

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Speaker 3: You can just put comments up, and that's what's causing

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Speaker 3: up to them, so you can say any nasty thing

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