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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mumma Mer's twice daily

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Speaker 2: news podcast, The Quickie. If you're trying to send a

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Speaker 2: parcel to the States, you're out of luck. Australia Post

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Speaker 2: is the latest in a string of careers to suddenly

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Speaker 2: halt shipments to the US, throwing Ossie small businesses and

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Speaker 2: shoppers into chaos. We've got everything you need to know

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Speaker 2: about the temporary shipping pause. Plus it's the seventieth anniversary

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Speaker 2: of the Guinness World Records. From settling bar betes to

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Speaker 2: capturing the wildest feats on Earth, We'll take you through

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Speaker 2: the epic origins, the weirdest records, and even the legendary

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Speaker 2: attempts that started close to home. Before we get there,

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Speaker 2: here's Claire Murphy with the latest from the QUICKI newsroom

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Speaker 2: for Wednesday, August twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Taylor. In a beautiful garden surrounded by greenery and flowers,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift had her own love story where she got

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Speaker 1: to say yes as Travis Kelsey got down on one

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Speaker 1: In a shared Instagram post which captured nearly two million

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Speaker 1: likes in twenty minutes, Swift wrote, your English teacher and

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Speaker 1: your gym teacher are getting married. The announcement comes after

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Speaker 1: many speculated that the relationship was nothing more than a

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Speaker 1: he was disappointed he didn't get to meet Swift after

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Speaker 1: The world then worked to bring the pair together and

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Speaker 1: it all seemed a little bit too good to be true.

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Speaker 1: But they've now put that rumor to rest with a

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Speaker 1: his brother Travis to announce a new album, bringing together

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Speaker 1: football and Swift fans even more, the league benefiting from

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Speaker 1: the singer's young female fans coming to games to catch

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Speaker 1: after killing two police officers in a shooting ambush the

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Speaker 1: rural Victorian town of Poor A Punker, about three hundred

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Speaker 4: The actions of my government send a clear message, a

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Speaker 1: Britney Higgins will find out today whether she'll be found

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Speaker 1: to have defamed her former boss, Linda Reynolds. Reynolds launched

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Speaker 1: Kimberly Kitching gave her a heads up before fellow Labour

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Speaker 2: Thanks Claire. Next, the parcel postage chaos hitting Ossie businesses.

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Speaker 2: If you or your business send parcels across the Pacific,

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Speaker 2: The move comes after the US government, under the new

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Speaker 2: Trump administration rules, scrapped the Diminus exemption that allowed individual

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Speaker 2: Now overnight those channels have evaporated, leaving e commerce upstarts

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Speaker 1: But we'll see what happened, so going.

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Speaker 2: Chances are, at some stage in your life you've probably

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Speaker 2: Today marks the seventieth anniversary of one of the world's

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Speaker 2: all good stories, this one starts at the pub. Back

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Speaker 2: in the early nineteen fifties, Sir Hugh Beaver, then managing

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Speaker 2: director of Beginness Brewery, found himself in a heated debate

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Speaker 2: resolve those classic bar disputes once and for all. Sir

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Speaker 2: Hugh enlisted brothers Norris and Ross McWherter superstar factfinders from

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Speaker 2: twenty seven, nineteen fifty five. It quickly became an international sensation,

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Speaker 2: we know today. The first records weren't even about sports,

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Speaker 2: the first edition did confirm the red breasted Meganza as

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Speaker 2: the fastest game bird in Europe. From there, the records

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Speaker 2: only got more breathtaking and bizarre, like Neil Armstrong's first

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Speaker 2: I remember being amazed by some of the more slightly

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Speaker 2: record for the female with the longest fingernails on a

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Speaker 2: pair of hands since twenty twenty two. Chances are you

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Speaker 5: When I was in about year eight or nine, our

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Speaker 7: It was a Guinness World Record attempt which we did

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Speaker 2: us all. Thanks for taking some time to feed your

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Speaker 2: mind with us today. The Quikie is produced by Me

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Speaker 2: Taylor Strano and Claire Murphy, with audio production by Lou Hill.