Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

A Good Person (cinema) Allison is a young woman with a wonderful fiance, a blossoming career, and supportive family and friends. However, her world crumbles in the blink of an eye when she survives an unimaginable tragedy, emerging from recovery with an opioid addiction and unresolved grief. In the following years, she forms an unlikely friendship with her would-be father-in-law that gives her a fighting chance to put her life back together and move forward. Starring woman of the moment, Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman. The Mother (Netflix) While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect her daughter she left earlier in life. Starring Jennifer Lopez and directed by Kiwi Niki Caro of Whale Rider fame. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne feels it's becoming inevitable that a wealth tax will be introduced here in New Zealand. He says he'd like to involve Jack Tame in a discussion around this this because he know Tame will have a view. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I don’t know what is about movie stars, but every time I meet one, I just can’t help myself. It was always a terrible problem when I lived in the U.S. I’d go to a movie publicity event – known in the news business as a junket – and after waiting patiently for an hour or two for my four minutes with Russell Crowe or Hugh Jackman or Jennifer Lawrence, I’d go into the room for interview number fifty-six of the day, right after Polish morning TV and Slovenian Red Carpet Reports, and I’d flirt. Sometimes it was just shameless. I’d be throwing wise-cracks around and laughing like a muppet, making all sorts of weird facial expressions. And I’d always try and charm the stars by pretending to play it cool. ‘I know you hate this.’ I’d say. ‘I know everyone asks you the same questions.’ ‘My challenge to you, Jessica Chastain, is to try and slip the word Octopus into our conversation.” It wasn’t until I got back in the office and reviewed the tapes that I’d realise. My producer would pull the interview up on screen and ask. ‘What are you... doing?’ ‘Are you.. are you flirting?’ “Umm.. no...!” The problem was, I genuinely wasn’t aware of it in the moment. All I was aware of was this was a big star and I had about a commercial break’s worth of time to try and win them over and elicit something more interesting than the Ecuadorian showbiz reporter who’d gone in before me. I plumbed some lowly depths. I gushed to Anne Hathaway about her singing voice and tried to impress Rihanna with my knowledge of the T20 Cricket World Cup, which was underway at the time. We used to get emails about it all the time, at TVNZ. Mike Hosking would tease me on air. ‘Was Jack Tame just flirting with People Magazine’s sexiest person alive?’ It should be said, my A-list flirting was not limited to the fairer sex. Maybe I don’t bat my eyelids quite as much, but I still revert into wise-cracking Jack when it comes to blokes. And so I found myself a few days ago, waiting my turn for a couple of minutes with Jason Momoa. He was friendly, with the studio entourage you’d expect of a Hollywood A-lister. And of course, as a Hawaiian, he’s got a special affinity for New Zealand. The interview went well, but for some bizarre reason, as I shook his hand and stood up to leave, I felt compelled to speak up and charm him. I don’t know what it was but the words just spilled out of my mouth. ‘Of course, there’s one big difference between Hawaii and New Zealand.’ I said. ‘What’s that?’ he asked. ‘Hawaii doesn’t have seagulls.” Everyone paused. The room when quiet. “Huh.” Said Jason Momoa. I said I was a flirt. I didn’t say I was a GOOD FLIRT.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Small Mercies, Dennis Lehane The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston’s history. In the summer of 1974 a heatwave blankets Boston and Mary Pat Fennessy is trying to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors. Mary Pat has lived her entire life in the housing projects of “Southie,” the Irish American enclave that stubbornly adheres to old tradition and stands proudly apart. One night Mary Pat’s teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn’t come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The Future of Geography, Tim Marshall From the New York Times bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography and leading geopolitics expert comes a must-read book on today’s space race—including the increasingly tense power struggle between the US, China, and Russia and what it means for all of us here on Earth. Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years. This isn’t science fiction—it’s reality. Humans are venturing up and out, and we’re taking our competitive spirit with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers, and seas have impacted civilizations around the world. It’s no coincidence that Russia, China, and the USA are leading the way. The next fifty years will change the face of global politics and the world order as we know it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Yardley has been touring Cambodia and is once again the envy of us all. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kate 'Ethically Kate' Hall has some tips for a more sustainable Mother's Day this year. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Many gardeners and observant nature nerds report seeing weird, white, slimy structures lying on the forest floor and on top of the mulch in gardens Basket fungi are large spherical football-like structures that carry the spores of the fungus: it’s the brown smudgy stuff on the white, rubbery polygons. Those spores smell quite putrid and attract all kinds of flies that lap up the moisture – it’s probably full of proteins; nutrients! The spores stick to their feet and as they land in the forest, garden mulch, or on some organic debris, the fungal spores are distributed – repeating the cycle. When you see a very juvenile version (they look like creamy-white eggs, sticking half out of the ground) just grab one and cut it open It’s remarkable how the basket fungus is totally compressed, folded up and ready to hatch inside that “egg”: Main points of the story… What can we learn from this fungus? a) they recycle stuff – there is no waste in nature b) They spread the spores throughout the forest by employing invertebrates such as flies c) Nature cooperates/collaborates… everybody wins in the arrangement (who invented the word “competition”?)… let me guess: Economists? d) Nature communicates with natural, chemical clues: the smell of the spores attracts the vectors e) Want to know how to economize on transport cost by reducing the size of packages? Have a look at the basket fungus! f) There are no straight lines in Nature’s Design See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As a lot of rules have changed or tightened up and made residential property investment a slightly different prospect, more and more people are asking whether they should instead consider commercial investment property. There’s a lot to weigh up, so I thought it could be an interesting discussion to have – what are the pros, cons, things you might not realise, things you need to consider, lending arrangements, potential yield and capital gain and how does it compare? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Google's big event of the year, where they announced a new Pixel Tablet transforms into a Smart Home display If you're looking to buy an Android Tablet, this could be the way to go. It's a fully functioning tablet, then when placed on the dock transforms into showing your photos, being an assistant, telling you what's next on your calendar. You can Chromecast to it, allowing you to use it almost like a mini-TV. The only downside is that if someone wonders off with the tablet, then you can't do anything with the stand. Google also announced their first foldable phone ($US1800) and a cheaper Pixel 7a phone. We can expect AI to come to almost every part of Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, even Search - the most lucrative part of Google! In the demo, the 10 blue links (and the sponsored links) we've come to expect when we search move down the page and up top we get a generative answer to our question. The response includes links to its source material. For now, to get this you'll need to opt in and the answers will only appear when the algorithm thinks the answer is better than the links. Their goal is to have you ask one question, instead of multiple, to get your result. eg. "What should I do in Paris?". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Silo: A dystopian drama set in a future where society exists hundreds of stories deep underground, and where men and women must obey a series of regulations designed to protect them from the outside world (Apple TV+). A Small Light: A historical drama that follows the life of Miep Gies, who helped Anne Frank and her family hide during World War 2. You may know the story of Anne Frank, but this tells the story of what happened on the other side of the bookcase (Disney+). Louis Theroux Interviews: Louis Theroux embarks on a series of intimate one-on-one interviews with the likes of Dame Judi Dench, Bear Grylls, Katherine Ryan and Rita Ora (Neon). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine if your life suddenly became a real version of the Truman Show. It’s happened to Ronald Gladden, a 30-year-old man who thought he was a juror in a US court case that was being filmed for a documentary called Jury Duty. It slowly becomes a courtroom full of chaos. But what Ronald doesn’t know is that everyone is an actor, including the actor James Marsden acting as himself. Ronald’s now become an internet sensation and has been dubbed the nice guy of Jury Duty after his good nature and warmth shines through. Ronald Gladden joined Jack Tame. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's my top 5 sources of inspiration: - The ingredients in my house - The ingredients in the stores - Eating out - it doesn't have to be expensive; I had a $13 roti canai in Hamilton at a little Malaysian place last week and it's put me on the road to spiciness all week with soups, curries and stir fries all being whipped up in my kitchen - Viewing - my top 5 places for getting inspired: Jamie One Pan Wonders Sat night TVNZ ONE - FREE, Toscana - Netflix, Chef's Table Pizza series Netflix, magazines are my next go-to FREE from any library, and finally cookbooks of course. - Try Books for Cooks at Moore Wilson's or any other bookshops - I can get lost for hours browsing these. (Note: I'm not as big on online inspiration unless you can trust the source) - Food-related Festivals and classes - like WOAP, Choc Festival, Food Shows, cooking classes etc. These expose you to trends and who's doing what and can really uplift you and get you thinking about different ways to cook, serve and eat food. They don't have to be expensive either. The Bhakti Lounge in Wellington and The Yoga Loft in Ak run these marvelous vegetarian cooking classes and they're from $40.00. - Or try a night class at a local secondary school - I still cook some recipes that I learnt decades ago at a class. A creme brulee and a feta and fennel whip. Keep the knowledge flowing in to keep new flavours flowing out I say! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Close The 13-year-old boys Léo and Rémis have a close friendship at school and in the flower fields where they and their parents pick the harvest for home. When schoolmates shoot a wedge into the relationship, the consequences are fatal. Ghosted (Apple TV) Salt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie — but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne would like to talk about mothers, how he adores them, even if occasionally they embarrass you. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I’d been planning to take them to a fancy new restaurant. There were some walks out west I thought would be lovely. Mum quite likes Auckland. Dad, it’s fair to say, does not. But when they arrived in the ‘09 together for the first time in a couple of years, they both had the same thing at the very top of the priority list. They wanted to see my new home. I slipped the key in the front door and before I’d even pushed it open, Mum was gushing. “Oh, Darling,” she said. “It’s beautiful.” “Mum!” I said. “It’s only the hallway. At least save your praise until you’ve seen a bedroom or two.” Mum... didn’t save her praise. She loved the bedroom. She loved the study. She loved the bathrooms and the lounge. She loved the cupboard with the washing machine and the skylight above the bath. For five minutes, she walked around with her hands on her hips, loving everything, admiring everything, praising everything, and beaming. “It’s fantastic, darling. Perfect. It’s gonna’ make a wonderful home.” Dad, did not tour the house with the same technique or enthusiasm. He stepped inside, kicked off his boots, and immediately started examining the seal on my bedroom window. “Hmm,” he said. “What’s the putty status on these things?” “Umm.. I dunno. I think it’s ok.” “Sash windows” he said. “Only bottom opening. A simple mechanism but fiddly with the cords. You’ve gotta keep an eye on these things, son.” He walked into the lounge and lifted a blind. “Hmmm,” he said. “Mold. Get a butter knife and let’s check this. We’ll strip back the paint, prime it, putty it, sand it, prime it, paint it. It’s gonna need attention on the outside, too.” Room by room, he stepped around the house like a forensic investigator, testing every switch, twiddling every door handle, squinting at the corners where the ceilings meet the walls and running his finger along every window frame like a hunter seeking an animal’s scent. “Water!” He’d say. “You’ve gotta look for it. Water gets in everywhere.” He stood outside and checked the deck. He checked the branches on the trees in my backyard. He pointed out invasive climbing plants and ran his eyes along every exterior weatherboard. “Water!” he said. “It gets in everywhere.” The tour alone took more than hour. A few days later, by the time they left, Dad had fixed, rehung, or altered no fewer than eight different doors in my home. He’d prepped a window for priming and a linen closet for gib-stopping. He’d bought chisels, a paint brush, filler and methylated spirits, and he’d found a corner of a exterior door frame where the wood felt like sodden cardboard. “Water!” he said. “It gets in everywhere.” We didn’t make it to the restaurant I’d intended to visit. We didn’t make it out west. We didn’t go for nice walks or do the kind of big city things that aren’t so easy when you live in a town of less than 300 people. Instead we spent the whole time with screwdrivers and spirit levels, packing out hinges, and drilling holes for striker plates. It was all good for Mum – she loved my home. But the night before he left, Dad was horrified to discover a door he hadn’t previously noticed, where the old panelled wood was far too big to ever close properly in the frame. “Gaaaah!” He said. “That’s gonna kill me.” “But next time I’m up, bring my jack plane.” Mum quite likes Auckland. Dad does not. But it’s nice to know they’ll be back.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Album: Subtract Wife’s illness, plagiarism court case and death of music entrepreneur friend Jamal Edwards all came to bear on Sheeran’s sixth studio album, made with the National’s Aaron Dessner. The fifth and final entry in his series of albums titled with mathematical symbols, Sheeran wrote and recorded its 14 tracks with Aaron Dessner, a member of US alt-rock band the National who also had a major creative role in Taylor Swift’s Folklore and Evermore. It is billed as a return to traditional singer-songwriter performance, after the polished pop of much of Sheeran’s catalogue; a press release promises songs ranging from “pared back, folk-leaning textures to bolder, full-band/orchestral arrangements”. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Death of a Bookseller, Alice Slater In this "utterly unforgettable" debut (Catherine Ryan Howard), a disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. Roach would rather be listening to the latest episode of her favorite true crime podcast than assisting the boring and predictable customers at her local branch of the bookstore Spines, where she’s worked her entire adult life. A serious true crime junkie, Roach looks down her nose at the pumpkin-spice-latte-drinking casual fans who only became interested in the genre once it got trendy. But when Laura, a pretty and charismatic children’s bookseller, arrives to help rejuvenate the struggling bookstore branch, Roach recognizes in her an unexpected kindred spirit. Despite their common interest in true crime, Laura keeps her distance from Roach, resisting the other woman’s overtures of friendship. Undeterred, Roach learns everything she can about her new colleague, eventually uncovering Laura’s traumatic family history. When Roach realizes that she may have come across her very own true crime story, interest swiftly blooms into a dangerous obsession. A darkly funny suspense novel, Death of a Bookseller raises ethical questions about the fervor for true crime and how we handle stories that don’t belong to us. Le Bron James, Jeff Benedict NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods comes the definitive biography of basketball superstar LeBron James, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews. LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined— the truth is vastly more interesting than that. What makes LeBron’s story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How do you support a partner with postpartum depression? Your partner's needs can feel overwhelming, so how do you manage? What do you need to avoid? How do you manage your stress? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Mike Yardley joined Jack Tame to chat about Siem Reap in Cambodia. To read Mike's full article, click here. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A major problem up north is the Guava moth (Coscinoptycha improbana), found in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, and Coromandel. Hosts of this caterpillar are Guava, Feijoa, loquats, peaches, citrus, quinces, macadamia, apples, and pears; quite non-selective in its preferences. In Northland (wild) loquats are the fruit that hosts the caterpillars in late winter/spring, allowing the population to build up. People are now harvesting feijoas that have tiny entrance/exit holes in the fruit, allowing fungi inside the fruit, brown flesh, and rot. You’ll also find the caterpillar’s tunnels inside. Those caterpillars entered the feijoas when the fruit were still small but just starting to swell – well after flowering. This is interesting information when it comes to trying to control the little buggers spoiling your crop. Currently there are no insecticides registered for the control of Guava moth; some people use “Success”, a rather good caterpillar killer (Yates) and “on the Organic side” of pesticides as a by-product of bacterial excrement. Other folk use Neem Oil – regularly sprayed (every 7 days) on the developing fruit. Both these control chemicals have limited effect – about 50%. There are no biological control organisms in NZ (Predators, Parasitic wasps, natural Guava moth diseases, etc). Pheromone traps (that trap the lusty males) do not reduce the infestation – they just alert us to the timing of the flight season. “Attractants” such as vegemite etc., don’t work. Light traps are useless in controlling guava moths – most moths (more than 90%!!) caught are native moths of no relevance to feijoas. What we do know is that later-maturing varieties/fruit are usually less affected by this caterpillar, and fine netting draped over the tree after flowering (when the fruit is growing) stops the female moths getting near the developing fruit for oviposition (egg-laying). Hygiene is another control technique: clean the soil underneath the trees from debris and old fruit!! Collect the infected fruit (Feijoa, peaches, loquats, citrus… everything!) and chuck it in the freezer for two days before composting. Alternatively, chuck in a large bucket filled with water for a few weeks – put a lid on that bucket, so no moths can fly out. Then compost the old fruit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Bryan Betty joined Jack Tame to have a chat about vitamin D and vitamin D deficiency; the symptoms, the consequences, and how to mitigate it. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Screenwriters are fighting to keep AI from taking their jobs After negotiations stalled, the writers went on strike on Tuesday, halting productions. As well as wanting more royalties from streaming services, changes to minimum durations of work and more, there is a concern about how the advances in AI will impact their jobs going forward - especially as studios and networks look to save money. The Guild wants AI to stay as far away from their work as possible, effectively banning AI from generating text or images to produce, or conceive ideas. The specifically want AI banned from writing or rewriting literary material, AI generation being used for source material, or for union-covered material to be used to train AI. The studios don't want these stipulations in the collective bargaining agreement, but instead want to review the technology each year and discuss how it could be used in the industry. Adding to the complication is that AI generated material can't be copyrighted. and that the WGA defines a writer as a "person" which may even allow studios to use AI without crossing the picket line during the strike. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sid Sahrawat is a pioneer of fine dining in New Zealand. With a focus on locally sourced ingredients, his take on cooking has won him a variety of awards. His wife is his business partner, and between the two of them they opened Sidart, Sid at the French Café, and the innovative Cassia. After years of disruption due to the pandemic and this year’s floods, they’re finally reopening Cassia in SkyCity. Sid joined Jack Tame to chat about cooking and the reopening of the restaurant. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not quite the coronation quiche, but better I think, with gently softened onions and smoky bacon. Ingredients: 1-2 sheets good quality shortcrust pastry – I use Paneton Filling: 1 medium onion, diced fine 2 rashers bacon, diced 1 tsp butter ¼ cup milk ¾ cup cream 3 eggs, beaten lightly 1 tsp dried tarragon About 1 cup grated gouda or cheddar cheese Salt & pepper Method: Preheat oven to 200 C and place an oven tray to heat. Roll out pastry and use to line a 20cm flan tin, pressing the edges into the lip of the tin to seal. Prick all over with a fork. Chill for 30 minutes. Line with foil then fill with dried beans or rice and bake for 15 minutes, then carefully remove the beans/rice and cook for a further 8 minutes or until golden brown. Now your pastry is blind baked. While pastry is cooking, gently sauté onion and bacon in butter until onion is softened. Whisk together milk, cream, eggs and tarragon and seasoning. Sprinkle cheese over pastry base, holding back ¼ cup for the top. Scatter onions and bacon over cheese then pour in egg filling. Sprinkle over remaining cheese. Reduce oven temperature to 180 C. Place quiche on preheated tray. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until puffed and golden. Remove and stand for 5-10 minutes to fully settle and set. Serve with salad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3. Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill must rally his team to defend the universe and protect one of their own. If the mission is not completely successful, it could possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them. Ghosted (Apple TV) Ghosted is a 2023 American romantic action-adventure comedy which stars Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. alt-of-the-earth Cole falls head over heels for enigmatic Sadie — but then makes the shocking discovery that she’s a secret agent. Before they can decide on a second date, Cole and Sadie are swept away on an international adventure to save the world. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Saville joined Jack Tame to have a chat about current happenings in the sports world: tonight's Chiefs game, the NBA playoffs, and Le Bron. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne joined Jack Tame to chat about a special wedding he went to yesterday over on Waiheke. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Newstalk ZB's Kate Hawkesby joined from London to give an update on the Coronation. She says it’s all go, with Police on every street corner and traffic at a stand-still with roads closed in preparation. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When I was a boy, I used to love going my grandparents’ house and reading about the royals in my grandma’s trashy magazines. My grandparents had come out from the U.K in the sixties and they were still very British, working class, and my grandma was absolutely consumed by the various scandals and shifting dynamics within the Buckingham Palace set. Well... I say she was. I think, actually, I was. To a little boy it felt like a fantasy World. I used to perch up on my Grandma’s La-Z-Boy, recline the seat, and pore over all the details of how William and Harry lived their lives. I was obsessed with how rich the royal family must have been, and I can still remember some of the stories, almost thirty years on. William and Harry at a birthday party with Diana. William and Harry run amok in a fireworks shop. Times have changed. Back then, we voraciously consumed royal gossip just as we do today, but we didn’t question the institution nearly as much. The challenge for the Royals today is relevancy. Just as the influence of Britain has declined, the royal family is increasingly irrelevant to younger people. Polling released this week shows that just 12% of Britons aged 18-34 continue to see the monarchy as ‘very important,’ compared to 42% of people over the age of 55. The numbers in the U.K have steadily decline for several decades, and I expect they’re even starker in New Zealand. King Charles’ coronation will be a grand spectacle, a magnificent oddity, but I think one of the most interesting things will be observing how it’s processed across different media. Queen Elizabeth’s coronation was the first to broadcast on TV. King Charles’ coronation will be the first to be shown on TikTok. It'll be huge, don’t get me wrong. But the demographics of those who are watching and engaging with every minute of pomp won’t be nearly as broad as they would’ve been last time around. And that’ll tell us quite a bit about relevancy. But I also think, in responding to the question of relevancy, King Charles has proved to be incredibly thoughtful and astute. Back when I used to perch on her La-Z-Boy and gossip with my grandma about the latest royal dramas, Charles was very much a villain in the collective media narrative. And after Diana’s death, there was a lot of discussion about him perhaps never being king. But with time, some quite prescient advocacy (Especially on environmental issues), and increasingly favourable comparisons with other members of his family, the King’s reputation has largely been restored. He’s not as popular as his mum and he never will be. But he’s also extremely aware of the challenges he faces. There is one big force working in his favour. In a fragmented, topsy-turvy, uncertain, insecure-feeling World, I think there are many people will see value in an enduring institution they perhaps otherwise wouldn’t have appreciated. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For more tips on enjoying some frolics on foot in Sydney, Mike's article is on the website. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After 24 years, the electronic pop duo returns with a moving, handsome album that tells a sophisticated story about recapturing innocence. The band called it quits and dedicated themselves to home life, raising three kids. Watt founded the dance label Buzzin’ Fly and released solo music; Thorn also made albums and wrote several brilliant books on her life in music and its inspirations. While they offered each other practical creative assistance, their core collaboration was over. Curiously, it returned during another period of alienation. After the pair lived through an extreme version of the pandemic that required them to stringently self-isolate owing to Watt’s illness, Thorn proposed a reboot of EBTG, worried that they might one day realize they had left it too late. Once she persuaded Watt, they approached the project so tentatively that they hastened to call it EBTG, crediting the song files to TREN—Tracey and Ben. They announced the finished album in similarly low-key fashion: “Just thought you’d like to know that Ben and I have made a new Everything But the Girl album,” Thorn tweeted. “It’ll be out next spring.” She went out for dinner and returned to thousands of retweets. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Bookbinder of Jericho – Pip Williams A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words. It is 1914, and as the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, women must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who live on a narrow boat in Oxford and work in the bindery at the university press. The Bookbinder is a story about knowledge—who creates it, who can access it, and what truths get lost in the process. Much as she did in the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams thoughtfully explores another rarely seen slice of history through women’s eyes. White Fox – Owen Matthews A page-turning thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. 1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy’s death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin’s new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin, are sent to disappear and die quietly. But when tensions in the camp mount and a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy. With masterly storytelling that weaves together a moment of explosive history with the cutthroat machinations of Soviet politics, Owen Matthews’s White Fox captures the paradigm-shifting assassination from a unique Soviet point of view. This is a page-turning thriller across Russia, where characters facing impossible odds are forced to decide among truth, justice, and all-out war. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

- What is Fashion Revolution week (formed after the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh collapsed on April 24th 2013, killing over 1000 garment workers and injuring over 2500). - 10 years on, not enough has changed - a few initiatives like the Bangladesh Accord, but not enough. - Crucial for people to understand that PEOPLE made their clothes (anecdote from my India travels of visiting the factories there). - Encouraging people to feel confident asking brands who made their clothes. - Focusing on only buying things that you will wear 30+ times, clothes swapping, altering your clothing, styling what you have & just generally readdressing their shopping habits in the name of Fashion Revolution week. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Autumn – everybody is looking for a mate these days; Ants often fly upwards on a nice autumn day to find a partner for a bit of R&R. Nuptial flights, we call that (in the Entomological Industry) and when you think about this concept carefully, you begin to wonder how and why this habit ever developed in evolution! Can’t be an easy thing to do, especially when the wind is blowing quite a few Beauforts Some termite species do exactly the same thing: the adults grow a few pairs of elegant wings with which they take to the skies. A mated female carefully lands again, sheds her wings and goes looking for a nice hole or cavity in which she can start a new colony. The male simply dies… His job is done The reason I am alerting you all about these reproductive techniques is because I have been getting a few phone calls on 0800 801080 with complaints of small swarms of paper wasps hanging out on fences, roof-lines, exposed branches in the garden… or on outdoor furniture, arm-rests etc in a nice sunny position. We’re not talking about high numbers (only a dozen of wasps or so) but still…: even half a dozen grumpy paper wasps are a threatening sight, because those critters are well-known for their lack of humour. The irony is that male Paper wasps do not sting! The story is very much one of opportunistic display. It involves the concept of hanging out on a 'lek site'. This is a place where males gather to attract females; The guys often fly up in the sunshine and “fight” with each-other for the best position on the lek site; the place where they are quickly spotted by soliciting females. males with the neatest, smallest yellow spots on their second abdominal segment are usually seen as the preferred, prettiest boy on the block. These are the boys chosen to be the partner and sperm donor for the females that will hibernate and start a new colony in spring. Now… where is that spot on my second abdominal segment? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wine: 2020 Main Divide Riesling, North Canterbury $21.99 Why I chose it: - Riesling is the best value NZ wine - It is an exceptionally good wine - Main Divide (Pegasus Bay) is a top Riesling producer What does it taste like? - Medium-dry riesling with the delicate aroma of white wildflowers and flavours that suggest lime and apricot. Delicately luscious wine with appealing purity and a lingering finish. Great value at this price. Why it’s a bargain: - Great wine at a competitive price Where can you buy it? - Whisky and More, Waikato $16.99, The Good Wine Co, Auckland $17.99, Fine Wine Delivery Company, Auckland $17.99, First Glass Wines and Spirits $17.99 Food match? - Great on its own without the complication of food. Onion tart is my favourite. Hawaian Pizza is also a good match. Will it keep? - I prefer fresh, youthful Riesling but they can become quite interesting with age – mellow and toasty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Citadel: A sci-fi action thriller starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra as spy agents whose memory is wiped after global spy agency Citadel is taken over, and who must fight back to remember their past (Prime Video). Love and Death: Based on the true-crime story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore - two churchgoing couples enjoying their small-town Texas life…until somebody picks up an axe (Neon). Miriam Margoyles: Almost Australian: New Australian citizen and well-known British actor Marian Margolyes embarks on a 10,000 km, two month camper van journey to discover what it means to be Australian today. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You can now use WhatsApp on multiple devices Still one phone, but up to four other devices. This seems like a seemingly simple thing, but it's taken years to make it happen - because keeping your messages in sync, and fully encrypted, was a challenge. This now means you'll be able to use WhatsApp on your computer, without needing your phone to be connected or linked. Meta's earnings sent their stock price soaring this week. They brought in $28.6 billion in revenue last quarter, up 3% on last year. They now have 3 billion people using at least one of their products daily. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Twitter? There certainly seems to be momentum around a new twitter clone called Bluesky. It's still in beta and invites are the golden tickets of the internet at the moment. It looks exactly like Twitter - because it was actually started by Twitter before Twitter was bought by Elon Musk. This was a project to create a decentralised social network protocol. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How do you know if you’re a good friend? And what’s the right number of friends to have? These are questions journalist and broadcaster Elizabeth Day sets out to answer in her latest book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict. Elizabeth is best known for her incredibly popular podcast How to Fail – where she interviews every star imaginable on their three biggest failures. Growing up she wanted everyone to like her and became determined to become a ‘Good Friend’. But when the pandemic threw us all a curve ball, Elizabeth started reassessing what friendship really means. Elizabeth Day joined Jack Tame from London. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Autumn brings quince and quince bring me happiness. Poached quince are so incredibly delicious and worth doing if only for the magical transformation of the colour as they cook – from creamy yellow to a deep ruby. How to prepare quince: - They are ready to pick when they are a creamy yellow. Don’t worry if they have some black spot on them. - Peel with a vegetable peeler or sharp knife. Halve or quarter them with a sharp knife, being careful as they are VERY hard to cut through the core. I leave the core in at this stage as it’s much easier to remove this cleanly once the fruit is cooked and softened. - Lay out in an ovenproof dish. Mix together ¾ - 1 cup sugar, ¼ cup white wine/sherry, or other sweet wine and one tablespoon with enough warm water to cover the quince. Pour over the fruit until just overed. Cover dish tightly with foil. - Bake in oven set at 160 C until softened – about 3-4 hours. Use poached quince for dessert with cream or icecream, in baking, on pastry, to have alongside roast lamb or pork etc etc. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Polite Society (cinema) A merry mash up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, POLITE SOCIETY follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood. Peter Pan and Wendy (Disney + out on Friday) Wendy Darling, a young girl looking to avoid boarding school, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Wendy, her brothers, and Tinker Bell travel with Peter to the magical world of Neverland, where she encounters an evil pirate captain. Jude Law is Captain Hook. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne joined Jack Tame to tell an interesting little story about his son's experience watching his favourite side West Ham playing in London last week. He ended up sitting next to a wheelchair bound West Ham fan in the Wheelchair Access area. The guy's first question to my son Jake was "What's your favourite West Ham chant." Jake replied, "Stand up if you hate Tottenham, stand up." As the words are coming out his mouth, Jake panics, thinking he's been really thoughtless given he's talking to a guy who can't stand up; Turned out it was the other guy's favourite chant too. It's a funny and slightly moving story of British football fans. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s become the most disgusting part of my morning routine. I stir, rub my eyes, stretch a little bit and grab my phone. And after I’ve checked all the news websites and scanned my overnight messages, I open Instagram. Before the app even loads, I know what the algorithm will deliver to top of my feed. Some days it’s a milky yellow, like the colour of brie. Some days it ‘s brown or black or has a cottage cheese-like quality, filled with fine lumps. Sometimes it’s a proper surgical procedure. Sometimes it’s just squeezing. One of the first things I do every morning is watch a video from Sandra Lee, aka Dr Pimple Popper, as she lances a hideous pustule on one of her poor patients. Before you say anything, don’t worry! I disgust myself! It’s not that I *like* watching pimple popping. It’s just that I find the videos incredibly compelling. And I’d probably be too ashamed to admit I get something out of watching pimple popping videos but for the fact I know I’m not the only one. Sandra Lee – Dr Pimple Popper – has an Instagram following the size of New Zealand. She has her own TV show following her and her patients as she exorcises cysts and boils and miscellaneous subcutaneous lumps while learning a bit about their backstories. She’s got a good sense of humour and an empathetic nature and she calls her followers ‘popaholics.’ I don’t know who was the first person to work out there was an audience for this, but following Dr Pimple Popper’s success, there are all sorts of other dermatological spinoffs and social media stars who’ve built huge followings with their disgusting work. It must be one one of the weirdest sub-cultures and professions to flourish in the internet age. ‘Mum and Dad, when I grow up... I want to be a professional pimple popper.’ Heads up. This next bit’s gonna’ be really disgusting. I want to tell you about my favourite types of pimple popping video. You might naturally think the worse the pimple, the more compelling the watch. But you’re wrong. It’s true that quite often, Sandra Lee has some poor patient with a tennis ball-sized growth on their jaw or a small marrow between their shoulder blades. A sebaceous cyst which has really got out of control. She has to scalpel down, squeeze out the ooze, and remove the cyst sack. But nah, that’s a bit too surgical for me. Me, I’m old school. I like blackheads, ingrown hairs, and above all else an incredibly disgusting dermatological phenomenon called a 'dilated pore of winer'. It’s kind of like a blackhead and an ingrown hair combined. It’s not creamy or liquidy like most pimples. It’s hard, like a plug buried just under your skin. You’ve gotta lance the sides and then manipulate it off its setting. If all goes well you can pop it out whole and it leaves a clean little crater in its wake. Four billion years of evolution and this is where we’re at? Humans are so messed up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fearing love lost, the Australian singer wears his heart on his sleeve over the 45-minute runtime. London-born and Sydney-raised, Ruel (real name: Ruel Vincent van Dijk) got his first break at the young age of 14 after his father shared one of his demos to Grammy Award-winning producer M-Phazes. Ever since, his profile has burgeoned. Keep up with the latest music news, features, festivals, interviews and reviews here. Six years later, the singer looks back at the whirlwind of his adolescent relationships as he wrestles with self-sabotage and a broken heart on 4TH WALL. Introspective with a cinematic swell, Ruel brings together some of his best tracks to date. Live Nation & Secret Sounds is excited to announce that five-time platinum artist Ruel will be touring New Zealand throughout April 2023. Playing his first ever headline Arena show, the hugely anticipated tour will see the Australian trailblazer light up stages in Auckland & Wellington, hot off the release of his debut album 4TH WALL, out Friday 3 March. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Messenger – Megan Davis Wealthy and privileged, Alex has an easy path to success in the Parisian elite his father mingles with. But the two have never seen eye to eye. Desperate to escape the increasingly suffocating atmosphere of their apartment, Alex seeks freedom on the streets of Paris where his new-found friend Sami teaches him how to survive. But everything has a price - and one night of rebellion changes their lives forever. A simple plan to steal money takes a sinister turn when Alex's father is found dead. Despite protesting their innocence, both boys are imprisoned for murder. Seven years later Alex is released from prison with a single purpose: to discover who really killed his father. Yet as he searches for answers and atones for the sins of his past, Alex uncovers a disturbing truth with far-reaching consequences. Unscripted – James B Stewart and Rachel Abrams The shocking inside story of the struggle for power and control at Paramount Global, the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire controlled by the Redstone family, and the dysfunction, misconduct, and deceit that threatened the future of the company, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who first broke the news. In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global—the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire that includes Paramount, CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster—hung precariously in the balance. Its founder and head, ninety-three-year-old Sumner M. Redstone, was facing a very public lawsuit brought by a former romantic companion, Manuela Herzer—a lawsuit that placed Sumner’s deteriorating health and questionable judgment under a harsh light. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Long-haul travel does come with the risk of travel fatigue, aka jet lag. IATA believes flying through just 2 time zones opens you up to jet lag. The best thing you can do is adjust lightning-fast to your new time zone. How should you go about managing sleep time? Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, is probably the best thing you can do. Do you take magnesium or melatonin to help induce sleep? What about sleeping pills on a flight? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What systems work best? What questions should couples ask when talking about money? What does money mean for you? What is your safety number? What is debt ratio number? How do you need to be taken care of in relation to money? LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s Spider time! Autumn – everybody is looking for a place to hibernate and those that are not hibernating will be looking for a place to find a mate. This is the time of the year to go outside after sunset, with a head-torch on, spotting our clever arachnid friends. Jumping Spiders (aptly named Salticidae – reminding me of Salto Mortale, the deadly jump) are everywhere inside our homes, on the plants outside and on the window sills where it’s nice and warm. Warmth means good conditions for flies and other prey – so that’s where these spiders perform their daring jumps Outside the windows you often find messy websites, inhabited by Badumna the grey house spider. Ironically, the white-tailed spider preys on Badumna and are therefore often found on the kitchen windows in the evening. A rather large and rather common dark spider is currently also on the move: it’s Uliodon, the “Vagrant” spider (therefore aptly named, as it is of no fixed abode) that is knocking on doors to find a girlfriend or boyfriend. Now this is a species that can cause the trouble often erroneously linked to white-tails and their bites. And then there are the master-builders of silken contraptions; these are often found in Native bush, or gardens with a good amount of large trees, especially trees with holes and other nooks and crannies in them: the Horizontal sheetweb spiders Cambridgea. That sheetweb can be huge and the spider hangs on the underside of that trampoline, waiting for a moth to make the tiny mistake of falling onto that web; a very quick move by the owner sees that moth being impaled by two sizeable fangs full of toxins that dissolve the insides of that prey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hannah McQueen has been running enable.me for more than 15 years, and in that time has seen a huge change in the number of people who own shares. The sharesies/hatch/DIY investor revolution means many people have a portfolio when previously it was only those who had significant wealth, or a personal passion, who did. The problem is there are more and more people randomly selecting shares, rather than investing strategically, or in a diversified way. FMA research shows a decent number of people invest due to FOMO or because someone said it was a good idea, without doing any research themselves – and our observations echo that. As a learning mechanism, or a bit of fun – great – but for most people the margin for error to land them where they need to be for retirement is too small to invest too much that way. It’s not a dig at investment platforms – just a warning that there are risks to directing too much of your investment funds in a scattergun approach. I liken it to picking the route before you’ve identified the destination – who knows where you’ll end up. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apple is now a bank It's offering a savings account earning an extremely competitive interest rate! Their Apple Card partner Goldman Sacks is also powering this savings account. It's tough to define these days what "Apple" is as a company - they make devices, offer cloud services, create TV shows, sell apps, and now offer a savings account. Goodbye Twitter's blue checkmarks After many many false starts, the blue checkmarks people had for being 'notable' have disappeared. The only way to get a blue checkmark now is to pay for Twitter Blue - which requires you to verify your phone number. Elon Musk tweeted that he is paying for some of the Twitter Blue accounts personally - like that of Lebron James. Others have a blue checkmark and want to get rid of it because they seem embarrassed for paying for Twitter. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Diplomat: Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell star in this political thriller about a career diplomat who has to juggle her new high-profile role as an ambassador with her turbulent marriage to a political star (Netflix). Drops of God: A sleek thriller about a woman who discovers the world’s greatest wine collection has been left to her by her estranged father, but she must compete against a Japanese man to claim the inheritance (Apple TV+). Quantum Leap: a reboot of the classic 1990s drama about a scientist who finds himself able to travel through space and time (Neon). LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.