Mark Bouris has had a long and storied career in business and as a media personality.

From founding and selling Wizard Finance to building financial advisory business Yellow Brick Road, he also chairs the Small and Medium Business Association and is a board member of the Sydney Roosters.

He’s now putting his experience to work holding a series of mentoring workshops around the country in the coming months.

He tells Mark a little healthy paranoia in business is no bad thing.

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It’s forecast that by 2037 half of all cars on Australian roads will be electric only vehicles.

Because those owners won’t buy petrol they won’t pay fuel excise which is designed to help the Commonwealth pay for the nation’s roads and transport infrastructure.

It threatens to blow a major hole in the Federal Government’s finances and is leading to calls for the introduction of road user charge.

The RACQ’s head of public policy Dr Rebecca Michael tells Mark the difficulty will be designing a system that is fair to everyone.

Sam Cooke was the King Of Soul but in 1963, at the tender age of 33, his life was tragically cut short by a bullet.

During his seven year career he posted 30 U.S top 40 hits and along the way became an seminal figure in the civil rights movement.

His legacy is being remembered in a show at Brisbane’s Powerhouse called The Songs & Times of Sam Cooke – A Change is Gonna Come.

Singer Gary Pinto performs Cooke’s music and dropped into the studio to have a chat to Mark and perform a classic.

The LNP State Executive has voted unanimously to expel Whitsunday MP Jason Costigan from the party over allegations involving an 18 year old woman.

State Opposition leader Deb Frecklington has gone as far as to call for Mr Costigan to resign from parliament immediately.

There has also been a second complaint and 4BC state political reporter Harry Spicer tells Mark the LNP leader is refusing to detail the allegations against the MP.

A new survey of more than a thousand Australians has found 80 per cent feel that conversations are increasingly negative.

The survey found people blame a constant diet of dishonest politicians, depressing news and negative leaders.

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney Nick Enfield tells Mark part of the problem is social media and the solution may be to consume more long form reading like magazine articles and books.

Conventional thinking holds that people who skip breakfast in an effort to lose weight are actually doing themselves more harm than good.

It was believed those people more than made up the kilojoules by eating way too much at night to satisfy their hunger.

However researchers at Monash University have discovered that eating breakfast doesn’t actually prevent people from eating later in the day and may in fact put weight on.

Aloysa Hourigan from Nutrition Australia tells Mark she’s taking the results with a grain of salt.

Five students at the Queensland Institute of Technology have become the first in Australia to be offered scholarships to play video games.

Each of the students receives $10,000 to train and compete in the League of Legends Oceanic Challenger Series as part of the university’s team, the QUT Tigers.

QUT eSports coordinator Dylan Poulus explains to Mark it’s a serious approach to a very serious sport that is booming internationally.

New figures have revealed that on average it will cost Queensland parents almost $76,000 to put a child through 13 years of state school.

The cost is 10 per cent above the national average and and the difference can be blamed in part on the cost of transport and voluntary contributions to schools.

On the positive side Ross White from the Good Schools Guide tells Mark Queensland is one of the most affordable places to send kids to catholic and private schools.

Leading trainer Darren Weir and two staff have been released without charge after a series of co-ordinated dawn raids on his stables in Ballarat and Warrnambool.

Victorian Police says the raids were part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of conduct that corrupts or would corrupt a betting outcome.

The host of Channel 7’s racing coverage Jason Richardson tells Mark the raids have sent shockwaves right through the industry.

Groundbreaking research by a team at Deakin University has found that failing to read to children could lead to a higher chance of developing hyperactivity-inattention.

The study tracked almost 5,000 Australian children from the age of four until 15.

Senior psychology lecturer Dr Elizabeth Westrupp explains to Mark that it’s vital kids in primary school aren’t allowed to fall behind their peers.