John And Garry Podcast

With all the latest from the UK, Talking Lifestyle's Gavin Grey.

With less than 2 weeks to go until the Commonwealth Games local business are up in arms about what to do about the amount of Ibises hanging around, harassing cafe goers and tourists alike. Some Surfers Paradise businesses owners have even resorted to hiring people to shoo the pests away! But can these feathered scavengers really be hungry all the time or is it something else? Author of The Birds at My Table and bin chicken-ologist Darryl Jones joined John & Garry..

Water. It is the essential part of life and something that in a first world country we take for granted. We assume it is safe to drink, we assume it is clean.. But is it as clean as we actually think? What many people do not realise is just how much of our sewage is recycled into drinking water.. Yes, the water we wash in and drink in… more often is recycled sewage. Many large towns discharge their treated sewage into the catchment rivers that supply the cities But should we stop drinking it? Should we all panic? Dr Ian Wright is a Senior Lecturer in Natural Science at the University of Western Sydney

Noise continues around Mr Shorten’s grab for your imputation tax credits Normally, if you’ve paid excess tax you get a refund for the overpayment. The Labor party proposal is to stop the cash refund for the value of the credits that exceed your tax liability.  i.e. you lose the excess tax you have effectively paid for - which you’d normally get back. The opposition’s hate of self-funded retires with SMSFs is again evident – but it’s a bit of a smoke screen. Shorten has stated he is targeting 200,000 of the 600,000 SMSF in the country.  Shorten is trying to make us look in one direction. There are about another 1,000,000 people who will be disadvantaged.  8% of the 12,800,000 people who submit a tax return. Pensioners with $200,000 of shares will be impacted – close to $4,000 worse off each year.  Single member in a SMSF with $1million “balanced portfolio” will be about $5,000 worse off each year. Labor is saying double taxation is fine

Everyone knows the feeling of the airport parking saga.. You either have to pay a ridiculous amount to park there, or you need to beg one of your friends or relatives to brave the airport traffic and drop you off.. A new website allows you to leave your car at the airport and hire it out to others might just be the answer. “Why drive your car to the airport and pay exorbitant parking fees to have it sitting there when you can be making money from it instead?” asks Steven Johnson, founder and CEO of Carhood

With all the latest from the US, Talking Lifestyle's Richard Arnold.

With all the latest from the UK, Talking Lifestyle's Gavin Grey.

Newly released data has found that only 51% of Australian adults brush their teeth the recommended twice a day, that is truly disturbing. Worse still, more than 90% have experienced decay in their permanent teeth. The findings come as Australia's leading dental academics attempt to improve the oral health of the population by 2025 through the Australia's Health Tracker series, which highlights the "intrinsic link" between oral health and preventable chronic diseases. To tell us more about why brushing your teeth is so important is Dr Luke Cronin … 

There are so many ways we are told we can lose weight - from diets to exercise BUT do we even know where the fat goes when we lose it? Our next guest, The Surfing Scientist aka RUBEN MEERMAN, is the author of Big Fat Myths, a book that explains how every molecule of fat escapes the human body during weight loss.

With all the latest from the US, Talking Lifestyle's Richard Arnold.

With all the latest from the UK, Talking Lifestyle's Gavin Grey.

Stories of large black cats stalking the Lithgow and Blue Mountains area have been circulating for years. But they’re not the only places where BIG CATS have been “spotted” … sightings on the Central Coast and West Gippsland, go back over a century. Is it plausible for a runaway circus lion to be living in our backyards - have we had any good evidence? Richard Saunders is a lifetime member of Skeptics Australia and joined John and Garry

Switching to DIET soft drinks is meant to be a healthier alternative, right? Wrong. New research out today suggests that artificial sweeteners could increase the risk of developing type two diabetes. But what exactly is the difference between type one and type two diabetes? Dr Brad McKay, joined John & Garry..

With all the latest from the US, Talking Lifestyle's Richard Arnold.

With all the latest from the UK, Talking Lifestyle's Gavin Grey.

Colour is everywhere and is used in many different ways. It can communicate to you with a simple glance, it can tell you do perform a simple task or warn you of a danger.. It can also evoke emotion and make you feel a certain way. You may not even think about it but there is a very specific reason for the colour things are. Branding and advertising agencies think long and hard about colour before they choose what to use in a brand development programme or advertising campaign. But why… why is it important to get the colour right? Dr Mark De-Vitis is a Lecturer in Early Modern Art at the University of Sydney and “Colour-ologist”and joined John and Garry

Is being a smoker ruining your chances of landing that dream job? Smokers aren’t covered under anti-discrimination act. Your health isn't the only thing being harmed by your smoking habit. Turns out landing that dream job is being impacted by your nicotine cravings. It's more common for employers to seek out non-smoking applicants for the jobs they advertise … from truck drivers to roofers, receptionists to chefs - than ever before. But isn’t this discrimination? To tell us more John and Garry were joined by Matthew Tukaki - employment expert and host of Second Career

With all the latest from the US, Talking Lifestyle's Richard Arnold.

With all the latest from the UK, Talking Lifestyle's Gavin Grey.

With all the latest from the US, Talking Lifestyle's Richard Arnold.