The Kicker Pod

The Kicker Pod

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The Kicker Pod episodes

  • Essential Medicine
    Australia's laissez-faire relationship with booze brings with it a whole assortment of cultural and societal issues, yet despite our awareness of this most of us still enjoy a beer or a glass of wine every night. But when cities went into lockdown across the country at the beginning of the pandemic, for some that one glass slowly turned into one bottle, enjoyed alone and without the company of friends and family. Sam Mills and Katie Johnson speak to Australians who turned to alcohol in lockdown - and experts who say the general trends and attitudes towards booze in Australia might be changing.
    17 min
  • The Long Run
    When you're an Olympian, every moment of the four years between the big competitions is rigorously planned and perfectly weighted to get you in your best form on the big day. So what happened to the thousands of athletes left in the lurch when the 2020 Tokyo Games were cancelled earlier this year? Madeleine Spencer and Maeve Bannister speak to athletes and trainers about how rescheduling the Games and living under a lockdown changes your roadmap - and why the four-year cycle might be having such a big effect on athletes' mental health.
    18 min
  • Scam City
    Every year, hundreds of rational people find themselves on the receiving end of a phone scam. Their premises border on ridiculous, asking you to pay off your tax debt in iTunes gift cards, yet time and time again we fall for them. How do these scam artists, so amateurish in many other ways, have our psychology so figured out? Reporters Danielle Collis and Rosa Ritchie speak to victims, near-victims and experts in an attempt to open up the mind of both scammer and scammed.
    19 min
  • Turis Trapped
    With a tourist economy shattered by six months of coronavirus shutdown, Bali has reopened its borders to a tragic increase in infections and deaths. To understand why this happened, Belinda Yohana and Sophie Raynor take us back to the 70s: to understand how Bali became so dependent on mass tourism in the first place. It’s the story of surf exploration, the hippy trail, cut-price flights, the Asian recession, and a hamstrung economy. But it’s also the story of a new opportunity for Bali to re-open with a resilient, sustainable, and diverse economy.
    21 min
  • TikTok: The Fame Machine

    TikTok can no longer be shrugged off as an internet fad, and one crucial element puts it head and shoulders above other socials - music. Music is in the DNA of the platform - its bite-sized video format fits exactly one chorus worth of music perfectly, making it a hive of dance trends and lip syncing. Now artists and record labels are doing their utmost to dip into this new music market. Oliver Lees and Nic Zoumboulis investigate the app that has everybody scrolling and ask: what effect is it having on the music industry?

    Featuring music by Suzi.

    23 min
  • Fire in the Australian Psyche

    Fire has a complicated position in the Australian psyche - from the terror of last summer's fires, as a symbol of climate inaction, to its traditional use by First Nations Australians to care for Country. Reporter Stephanie Barker stood beyond the flames on a beach in December and knew these were the worst fires she had ever seen. In this episode, Steph and fellow reporter Elsie Lange wind back through the summer's terrifying fires, and discuss the importance of listening to First Nations people in preparing for a hotter future in Australia.

    Featuring bushfire survivor Stephanie Barker, Dagoman and Torres Strait Islander fire expert Joe Morrison, and author and Tagalaka descendant Victor Steffensen.

    19 min
  • The War on Art

    Featuring journalist Margaret Simons, multi-disciplinary artist Abdul Abdullah and director of the Australian Theatre for Young People Fraser Corfield. Music by Genuine Fake.

    20 min

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