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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Oys. My name Sam.
Speaker 1: It is the fourteenth of December. Happy Saturday, and welcome
Speaker 1: to another Good News edition. Billy, It's lovely to have
Speaker 1: you with me today.
Speaker 2: Hello, so nice to be here. Good News on the weekend.
Speaker 2: Everything that I've ever wanted.
Speaker 1: And I'm bringing you in on a beautiful summer day.
Speaker 1: This is going to be one that people are listening
Speaker 1: to as they're walking in the sunshine. Hopefully that's my
Speaker 1: vision whenever I think about the Good News Pod is
Speaker 1: headphones in Saturday morning, walk going to the.
Speaker 2: Beach, the markets, a lovely community morning. And speaking of community,
Speaker 2: the Australian community, we are starting with your first and
Speaker 2: true life of sport. This week we have had the
Speaker 2: short course World Championships. I've actually never heard of that,
Speaker 2: so do you want to first explain what that is
Speaker 2: and then we'll get to the records that have been
Speaker 2: broken at the World Championships.
Speaker 1: Yes, spot on that it's a community story because I
Speaker 1: feel like whenever an Australian does well and any sporting
Speaker 1: competition anywhere in the world, I feel like I've won.
Speaker 1: I feel like I have been.
Speaker 2: Part of the egotistical thing.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's not because of me that they've won. It's
Speaker 1: just that I'm part of the journey. I'm part of
Speaker 1: the team.
Speaker 2: At least you're self aware.
Speaker 1: So we won this week. We won at the World
Speaker 1: Short Course Championships in Budapest. We're talking about swimming here, amazing.
Speaker 1: And the reason it's called the Short Course World Championships
Speaker 1: is that it's done in a twenty five meter pool
Speaker 1: as opposed to the fifty meter pool that we see
Speaker 1: at the Olympics. Oh interesting, So there's double the amount
Speaker 1: of turns as they would be in an Olympic race.
Speaker 1: It's as competitive as the Olympics. For the swimming world.
Speaker 1: It's a major event. This is one that kind of everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, the top of the top, make sure that
Speaker 1: it's in their calendars. And we've had two gold medals
Speaker 1: so far at the meet, and that has gone to
Speaker 1: Elijah Winnington and Lannie Pallister and Elijah Winnington is a
Speaker 1: really amazing story. He won gold at the short course
Speaker 1: four hundred meter freestyle final and that was special because
Speaker 1: he won silver in that event at the Olympics, so
Speaker 1: this was going one better, ending the year on a high,
Speaker 1: a fantastic result for him. At only twenty four, He's
Speaker 1: got at least one, if not two, more Olympic Games
Speaker 1: left in him. And then the other big winner was
Speaker 1: Lannie Pallister. She won gold in the eight hundred meter
Speaker 1: freestyle and that is a really awesome effort. She also
Speaker 1: came second and got silver in the four hundred meter freestyle,
Speaker 1: and she got beaten by Summer Macintosh, who's the eighteen
Speaker 1: year old Canadian superstar that you might remember from the
Speaker 1: Paris Games. She kind of blew everybody away with her
Speaker 1: performance in the pool in Paris, and to beat Lannie Pallister,
Speaker 1: Summer Macintosh needed to break a world record. So Lannie
Speaker 1: Pallisterer is having a really strong meet. She's still got
Speaker 1: a couple of events left to swim, as does the
Speaker 1: rest of the Australian team. We're kind of sitting I
Speaker 1: think third or fourth on the medal tally now, But
Speaker 1: how good is you know, the swimming back in the headlines,
Speaker 1: gold medals back in the headlines, and Australian's doing really well.
Speaker 2: Australia never disappoints in the pool. So it's still going on.
Speaker 2: It'll go into next week.
Speaker 1: It's got a couple of days left at the meet.
Speaker 1: We're going to keep seeing some headlines about it, especially
Speaker 1: if Australia keeps raking in the medals.
Speaker 2: Love it and then from one sport to another. Chess
Speaker 2: is a sport, right, we count it as a sport.
Speaker 1: We're talking about my kind of sport here in terms
Speaker 1: of the sports that I actually could play. And that's
Speaker 1: why I think I know so much about sport because
Speaker 1: I watch so much of it. I'm not exactly playing
Speaker 1: a lot of it. Chess I can plays.
Speaker 2: It's a sport for your brain.
Speaker 1: It is a sport for your brain. And every year
Speaker 1: there's a world championship to figure out who's got the
Speaker 1: best chess brain. And this year, an eighteen year old
Speaker 1: has become the youngest ever chess World champion. Curqueshdahmaju from
Speaker 1: India defeated the defending champion Ding Loren to take out
Speaker 1: the He was filled with emotion after he won. There's
Speaker 1: this vision of him sitting there with his head in
Speaker 1: his hands. He couldn't quite believe what he'd just done.
Speaker 1: At eighteen years old, he had just become the world
Speaker 1: champion in chess. I'm going to link the footage to
Speaker 1: that video in today's show notes. It is really beautiful
Speaker 1: to watch. But as you can imagine, he has been
Speaker 1: almost an overnight celebrity now in India. There's been fans
Speaker 1: in the street cheering and hugging as he won the competition.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful moment. It even went so far as
Speaker 1: the Indian Prime Minister, he commented, saying historic and exemplary.
Speaker 1: This is the result of his unparalleled talent, hard work,
Speaker 1: and unwavering determination. His triumph has not only asked his
Speaker 1: name in the annals of chess history, but has also
Speaker 1: inspired millions of young minds to dream big and pursue excellence.
Speaker 1: What a story, and to think it all started with
Speaker 1: a board game. Love it.
Speaker 2: It's not the best board game though, fan of backgammon,
Speaker 2: and I'd like to see a world championships for backgammon.
Speaker 1: You no, I'm going to contend that that does exist,
Speaker 1: does it? Yeah? We're going to have to find it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to enter. TDA will cover the entering costs
Speaker 1: if it's below twenty five dollars, and we'll see how
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 2: Amazing. That is definitely the superior board game.
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, Billy, We've got time for one more story
Speaker 1: that I want to take you through. Give it to us,
Speaker 1: and this one is about a bill that has just
Speaker 1: passed the US Senate. It passed with bipartisan support, and
Speaker 1: it's going to fund CPR training and access to automated
Speaker 1: external defibllarators. They're called AEDs in schools. And one of
Speaker 1: the people who really led the advocacy of this bill
Speaker 1: was NFL player DeMar Hamlin. Now you might remember DeMar
Speaker 1: Hamlin because two years ago he was playing for the
Speaker 1: Bills in the NFL when he collapsed and went into
Speaker 1: cardiac arrest on the field and his life was saved
Speaker 1: by medical staff who were there. And the fact that
Speaker 1: they're was one of these ad devices on the sidelines
Speaker 1: ready to be used just in case. It was a
Speaker 1: very striking moment that was you know, as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: with the NFL televised to millions of people in the US,
Speaker 1: the game was abandoned. It was a really major news moment.
Speaker 1: And since then, and since his recovery, Hamlet has become
Speaker 1: a real advocate for CPR training and for as many
Speaker 1: AD devices to be as accessible as possible to everybody.
Speaker 1: And this bill was one of his first kind of
Speaker 1: big policy movements. He's in his mid twenties, he's really
Speaker 1: taking a strong advocacy lens to all of this. So
Speaker 1: the bill is called, and I think this is good
Speaker 1: news in itself. It's called the Cardiomyopathy Health Education, Awareness,
Speaker 1: Research and Training in Schools Act. Now, health Education Awareness
Speaker 1: Research training that spells heart. So it's called the HEARTS Act. Yes,
Speaker 1: love that. It's incredible. So the HEARTS Act has passed
Speaker 1: and President Biden is going to sign the bill in
Speaker 1: the next couple of days, and that will essentially increase
Speaker 1: funding for CPR training in schools and these AD device
Speaker 1: in schools. Now, why schools and why is that so important? Well,
Speaker 1: children who experience cardiac arrest in schools that do have
Speaker 1: ADS available are seven times more likely to survive compared
Speaker 1: to children in schools without those devices. And that's according
Speaker 1: to a study from the Journal of the American College
Speaker 1: of cardiology. If you can perform CPR on somebody who
Speaker 1: has just suffered a cardiac arrest, CPR can double or
Speaker 1: triple the chance of survival if the cardiac arrest happened
Speaker 1: outside a hospital. So this is something he says he's
Speaker 1: going to dedicate the rest of his life too. He's
Speaker 1: still actually involved in NFL and it's just one of
Speaker 1: those moments where it looks like, in all the dysfunction
Speaker 1: of politics anywhere around the world, it seems that people
Speaker 1: have come together for a really good cause here that
Speaker 1: will genuinely save lives.
Speaker 2: Such a beautiful story, life saving story. Yeah, let's get
Speaker 2: to the recommendations. Sam, what is your recommendation.
Speaker 1: I've got a song to recommend everybody. It came out
Speaker 1: yesterday from one of my favorite artists ever, Fred Again.
Speaker 2: If sport is your first true love, I would say
Speaker 2: Fred Again is definitely your second true life.
Speaker 1: Definitely. I walked down the aisle to a Fred Again
Speaker 1: song when I got married.
Speaker 2: Don't you're also proposed to it?
Speaker 1: Proposed to a Fred Again song. So it's called Light
Speaker 1: Dark Light. But the reason I thought I would recommend
Speaker 1: this to everybody today is that the guest vocalist on
Speaker 1: the song is nausey. It's Angie McMahon. She's from Melbourne.
Speaker 1: She's a singer, songwriter. She's an incredible artist in her
Speaker 1: own right. She has partnered with Fred again on one
Speaker 1: song before. It's called Angie that song, and this is
Speaker 1: a second go. Her voice is incredible. It's rich. It's
Speaker 1: like dark chocolate. Wow.
Speaker 2: I love that description for someone's voice.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. I'll put it. I'll put it in the
Speaker 1: show notes and I want you to tell me if
Speaker 1: it is the right confectionery to kind of give it
Speaker 1: an analogy.
Speaker 2: To Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1: Do you have one for us before we go?
Speaker 2: I have one. Mine is very different to yours. It
Speaker 2: is sunscreen.
Speaker 1: Just the product.
Speaker 2: Just the product. I mean, I use one from Mecca
Speaker 2: that I've just found works my skin, but any sunscreen.
Speaker 2: We are getting into the hotter months. It is a
Speaker 2: blazing sun out there. The sun. It just burns my skin.
Speaker 2: But sunscreen. I'm really in my sunscreen era. I feel
Speaker 2: like when I was younger, you know, people would always
Speaker 2: say that they put sunscreen on every day, and I
Speaker 2: didn't really believe them or in it. For some very
Speaker 2: weird reason, and now every single day is part of
Speaker 2: my morning routine with my coffee, I make sure that
Speaker 2: I put my sunscreen on and it just makes me
Speaker 2: so happy and it makes me feel like I'm doing
Speaker 2: something for self care and I've really enjoyed it along with.
Speaker 1: My coffee excellent. It's been part of Australian culture since
Speaker 1: we were all born, the slip slop slap. It's always
Speaker 1: worth reminding and discussing with your mates about how important
Speaker 1: it is to wear sunscreen. It's part of the Australian
Speaker 1: way of life. And as you say, it can make
Speaker 1: you feel really nice in the morning as well.
Speaker 2: And I feel like everyone gets to that age where
Speaker 2: they're like, huh, I should be looking after my skin more, huh.
Speaker 2: And I am now in that era.
Speaker 1: Very good, Welcome to that era. It's a lovely place
Speaker 1: to be, Billy. Before we go, I just have one
Speaker 1: more thing that I wanted to chat to you and
Speaker 1: to everybody listening about, and that's that I wanted to
Speaker 1: tell everybody about a program called TDA plus You. And
Speaker 1: this is the idea that over the years of building
Speaker 1: the Daily Ods, we've had people reach out to us
Speaker 1: and say, how can we support the work that you're
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Speaker 2: The first question is often how do you make money?
Speaker 1: That is a big question.
Speaker 2: How can I help you make money? Which is a
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Speaker 1: It's a lovely question. So what we've done this year
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Speaker 1: It can be a one off, it could be the
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Speaker 1: hiring young Australians to put in this newsroom, to get
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Speaker 1: It's really important. This is the first time we've told
Speaker 1: our podcast audience about it. I'm going to put a
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Speaker 2: And it was your birthday yesterday, so you're really wanting
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Speaker 1: If you have a little bit of generosity and you
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Speaker 1: big day, a contribution to TDA plus you is the
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Speaker 2: So a link will be in the show notes.
Speaker 1: I'll put a link in today's show notes. It is
Speaker 1: definitely in the spirit of good news because it's about
Speaker 1: building a really exciting new part of Australian media.
Speaker 2: Sam, thank you so much, and happy birthday, and thank
Speaker 2: you so much for listening to this episode of The
Speaker 2: Daily os our little good News Special. We'll be back
Speaker 2: again on Monday, but until then, have a great weekend
Speaker 2: and remember it to us that's green.
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