Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

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.

Liam Neeson’s career has spanned 47 years, over 100 films- and too many iconic roles to count. From Oskar Schidler, to Qui-Gon Jinn, to Ra’s al Ghul, to everyone’s favourite retired CIA operative Bryan Mills to brooding private detective Philip Marlowe in the 2022 release Marlowe. Liam Neeson theorised with ZB’s Jack Tame that a character like Philip Marlowe has managed to keep readers and viewers intrigued over a century after his creation because people are drawn to noble protagonists who care about seeking justice. “Here’s this guy, kind of down on his luck I suppose, carving out a not very lucrative career and seeking some kind of justice for a murder or some crime that’s been committed and doing it in his own way. Sometimes he works for the bad guys, sometimes with the good guys. Something about that, there’s a rebel in there and there’s also an Arthurian knight of the Round Table in there.” Marlowe holds the unique distinction of being Liam Neeson’s 100th film, but he remains modest about his accomplishments on stage or the screen. Even when Jack pressed further, Neeson still wouldn’t name any personal highlights. “Seriously, I can’t. A lot of that is just luck, Lady Luck.” The theme of seeking justice and avenging crimes is clearly timeless, as it’s a driving force behind another iconic role filled by Neeson- retired CIA operative turned father figure Bryan Mills from the 2008 hit Taken. Surprisingly enough, Liam Neeson never actually imagined Taken being a hit- or eventually a meme. As he explained to Jack Tame, he assumed this was going to be dismissed as direct to video-grade cheesiness. “It’s funny, when I first read that script (Taken) I thought- this is so corny. I heard this or feel like I’ve seen this in so many movies.” “I thought it would be straight to video. Like straight to video. But I wanted to do it because of all the fighting and I loved being with the stunt guys, doing all that stuff. And it was three months in Paris, how bad could it be?” Liam Neeson explained to Jack Tame that Taken was the start of the point in his career where he became an action star, as he later featured in The A-Team, The Grey, Wrath of the Titans and all the Taken sequels. “If I had five cents for every time I said, you know, I have a particular set of skills, I will find you… I’d be a very rich man. Because my kids would always say- Dad, would you leave a message for my friend?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is this the ultimate ANZAC scone? I’m marrying up our favourite fruit – feijoas – with Aussie’s favourite scone – pumpkin! And it’s a winner. Makes 10 large scones ¾ cup pumpkin pulp (see note) ½ cup chopped feijoas 3/4 cup plain yoghurt (or use ½ cup milk + ¼ cup cream) 3 cups self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 60g butter, chilled ½ tsp sea salt 2 rashers of bacon, diced 75g parmesan, grated Preheat oven to 200 C. Line a tray with baking paper. Whisk pumpkin pulp with yoghurt (or milk & cream) until incorporated. Stir in the chopped feijoas. In a large bowl combine flour and baking powder and grate in chilled butter. Pour in pumpkin mixture, season and stir to combine with a butter knife. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead briefly and gently until it comes together in a smooth dough. Press out to form a 3cm-thick rectangle. Cut into 10 pieces and transfer each to the tray. Toss the bacon and parmesan together and sprinkle over each scone bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm slathered with butter. Nici’s note: For ¾ cup pumpkin pulp, halve a small butternut pumpkin lengthwise, scoop out seeds and discard. Roast halves, cut side up, until soft. Scoop cooked flesh from skin and puree with a stick blender or mash well with a fork. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paper Spiders Starring NZ- American actress Stefania Lavie Owen. A teen makes a series of tough choices as her mother's paranoid delusions threaten to destroy their loving relationship. Shackleton: The Greatest Story of Survival The true story of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance. 28 lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth – Antarctica. The story's told by the only man ever to have repeated their incredible feat - explorer and adventurer Tim Jarvis. Following in the beset crew’s footsteps, Tim reveals the enduring legacy of Shackleton's crisis leadership in the face of impossible odds - a lesson more relevant to us now than ever before. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne has been reading about King Charles III with his coronation imminent. He's come across some fascinating and curious facts about him, such as, he travels with his own supply of blood. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Credit where credit’s due. Our government hasn’t wasted a minute under the Australian Prime Ministership of Anthony Albanese to dramatically improve the relationship with our closest neighbour. With Scott Morrison out, and two governments closely aligned on the ideological front, in less than a year several major policies have been changed for New Zealanders’ benefit. Application of the 501 deportations was significantly pared back, and now New Zealanders in Australia have a more direct path to citizenship. It restores something akin to reciprocity for the first time in more than twenty years. But while the policy is excellent news for New Zealanders in Australia, it may not be so good for New Zealand. The more complicated path to citizenship was one of the few deterrents remaining for Kiwis considering moving to Australia. “New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the I.Q of both.” It made for a cute quote, you’re kidding yourself if these days you agree with Rob Muldoon’s famous line. If you’re a young, ambitious New Zealander today, why would you choose to stay? I texted my friend in Melbourne this morning to ask about the changes. He was delighted – he moved over after the Christchurch earthquake and has been waiting for these changes to apply for Australian citizenship. “Out of interest,” I said. “What would it take for you to move home? I know you miss your family, but what more would you need?” He sent me a three symbol reply. “$$$” “Our household income over here is roughly 400K,” he told me. “We’d be super lucky to get two thirds of that in NZ even before we accounted for the exchange rate, and there are way fewer jobs in our fields.” I think all of us have bright, successful, friends and family members who could be contributing to New Zealand’s society and economy but have moved over and haven’t come back. There are roughly ten times more New Zealanders – almost 700,000 – living in Australia than Australians living here. There’s every likelihood this change will contribute even more to the bleed. And it isn’t just Kiwis like my mate, working in corporate and IT jobs. It’s every sector. When my sister worked as a teacher in Western Australia she earned roughly $40,000 more every year than she would have in New Zealand at the same time. At the start of this month, The Guardian reported that 5000 New Zealand nurses have registered to work in Australia since August of last year. It’s only three hours away. When you compare pay, conditions, and lifestyle, the rational question isn’t why a young person would consider moving to Oz. It’s why wouldn’t they? We’re always going to struggle to compete economically with Australia. The nature and make up of their economy means we can only get so close. I don’t begrudge the tens or hundreds of thousands of Kiwis who will benefit from these changes. But as Australia gives New Zealanders an even better deal, it’s a prime opportunity to pause and ask ourselves what more we should be doing to stop them leaving in the first place?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ideal Home Noise - Vera Ellen Ideal Home Noise is a record unearthed from much introspection and an attempt to find some comedy and lightness in an otherwise dark period for Vera Ellen. With two "voices” battling throughout the album, the instrumentation is sometimes light — featuring synths and electronic drums — and sometimes heavy — with ballad-like piano and raw vocals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of Those Mothers – Megan Nicol Reed When a local father is convicted of the possession and distribution of child pornography, the tight-knit, middle-class community is quick to unravel. He is granted permanent name suppression, and soon friend turns on friend, neighbour delivers up neighbour, and hysteria rapidly engulfs them all. Who among them was capable of such moral trespass?Bridget, Roz and Lucy have been friends forever. Their lives revolve around their children, their community, each other. With their husbands and kids, they holiday together every year. Every year, until last summer, when everything went so terribly wrong. Strange Sally Diamond - Liz Nugent Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and worried police, but also a sinister voice from a past of which she has no memory. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, recluse Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, finding independence, and learning that people don't always mean what they say. But when messages start arriving from a stranger who knows far more about her past than she knows herself, Sally's life will be thrown into chaos once again . . .See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sustainability commentator Kate Hall joined Jack this morning to chat about kombucha, and tell us her method for making it. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Autumn can be busy! It might be getting cooler and days shorter, but some vegetable crops can be planted right now. Use the warmth that is still in the soil to germinate the seeds or to give small punnet-seedlings a better start for growing through the late Autumn/Early winter months. Fresh Peas: Easy peasy, as the seeds of those peas (the peas themselves!!) have enough reserves inside them to make them grow. Nice, friable soil that can drain the winter rains away. Good nutritious compost in there as well Broad beans: Similar gig! Plenty of growth potential and they might ripen quite early too. These are good greens for the winter (if you like them). Broccoli: Another suitable winter vegetable that can be planted now —there’s still some warmth in the soil they’ll grow well in the next month— even if they slow down afterwards, you’ve got a month’s worth of advance before they start taking it easy. Slow ripening means that they don’t all ripen at once, so pick the biggest ones as they mature Most other cabbage varieties will also grow from now on Carrot seedlings: These will also germinate at lower temperatures. Remember to create a soil that is free of lumps and stones, so that the carrots keep straight and do not “fork”. An extra handful of Phosphate will give them the impetus to grow nice roots Egyptian Walking Onions: These are my favourite onions and they’ll be quite happy to be planted (the small bulbils that form at the top of the mature plants). I tend to give them a bed on their own, so they can “walk” anywhere they like and right throughout the year; a raised bed with a regular dose of compost/mulch plus some seafood soup (liquid fertiliser) will sustain them ad infinitum. Maybe now is a good time to prepare a new bad for your garlic. (Garlic should really not be grown in the same bed, year after year. To avoid getting hammered by onion rust, I plant my garlic in early May to be at least a month ahead of the mythical and prescribed planting routine (shortest day) and harvest time (longest day). I’ve noticed many people struggle with these dates due to debilitating rust. Go early!! And Julie reminds me of the bulbs that need planting this autumn, so that we can look forward to some colour and cheer in spring: Narcissus, Tulips, Ranunculus and the wonderful smelling Freesias. Honestly, grab a catalogue (Wildflower world, Palmers, Oderings, etc) and spoil yourself; Good well-drained soils are often essential.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Bryan Betty joined the show today to chat about Rheumatoid Arthritis; what it is, it’s symptoms, and how to deal with it. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Stenhouse joined Jack Tame to chime in on Montana banning TikTok, Coachella being livestreamed, and LinkedIn’s new verification services. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Last Thing He Told Me Hannah must forge a relationship with her 16-year-old stepdaughter, Bailey, to find the truth behind why her husband has mysteriously disappeared. Transatlantic An American journalist, during 13 months spent in France in 1940-41, manages to arrange safe passage out of France and on to the US for more than 2000 refugees who are in danger of losing their lives. Blow Up The new Warner Bros Discovery series Blow Up challenges contestants to create giant inflatable works of art in a bid to be crowned New Zealand’s greatest balloon artist, and win $25k.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The longest running classical crossover act in the world, The Ten Tenors has performed over three thousand times all across the world since their creation in 1995. The group was formed in Queensland Australia, but features a couple of Kiwis in their lineup as well. Cameron Barclay and newcomer Andrew Papas joined Jack Tame to chat about performing and what it’s like to be part of the group. Jack was also treated to a performance from the entirety of the Ten Tenors, as they kick off their Greatest Hits NZ Tour. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Autumn is the season for pumpkins and nuts so here I’m combining them both to bring you this incredible dish! Serve it as a main course or as a side to go with a chop, some roast lamb or a piece of grilled salmon. It’s lovely! Ingredients: 3-6 wedges of pumpkin, skin on 2 tablespoons olive oil + extra 1 teaspoon sea salt Decent pinch freshly ground black pepper ¼ cup of sour cream Juice from half an orange or lemon ¼ cup toasted seeds and nut (I used sunflower and pumpkin seeds + almonds) 2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses or honey Method: Preheat the oven to 180 C. Line a tray with baking paper. Brush pumpkin with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for 40-50 minutes until tender and browned a little. Whisk sour cream with orange juice and an extra splash of olive oil. Spoon half of this dressing onto a serving plate. To serve, place pumpkin onto sour cream base, sprinkle over plenty of the seed/nut mix and then drizzle over the remaining sour cream dressing. Top with pomegranate molasses or honey, serve and enjoy! Variations: Add a tsp of mustard to the sour cream. Scatter over fresh parsley or coriander leaves to serve. Use hazelnuts or walnuts. Mix cashew butter, lime, sesame oil and chilli flakes to make a different creamy dressing. Add some juicy grapes to the final dish. In the final 15 minutes, roast some button mushrooms (toss with oil first) with the pumpkin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Navalny Detailing the 2020 assassination attempt of Russian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Alexei Navalny, in which he was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent. A House Made of Splinters In war-torn eastern Ukraine, a group of women run a home where they manage to create a warm place for children placed out of home due to violence or alcohol abuse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After suddenly losing power on amid Easter Sunday preparations, Kevin Milne pays tribute to the people who have the technical know-how to solve the maintenance problems the rest of us can’t. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If I’m ever in a job interview and they ask me what my weaknesses are, I won’t hesitate in my answer. No, I won’t say I work too hard or that I care too much. I’ll be honest and say that I’m impatient. For me, that was a big part of the reason I was so excited when TV streaming services finally got good. Instead of waiting for episodes to be drip-fed to the audience, week by week, I could turn on telly and watch a whole series in a night if I so chose. To be honest, bingeing twelve hours of television at a time is not really my style. But in the first few years of streaming, we were told repeatedly by Netflix and co why getting a whole series at once was such a good idea. It changes storytelling for the better, they told us. You don’t have to worry about weak cliff-hangers. Writers don’t have to shoehorn a whole story arc into exactly twenty-three minutes. It’s more organic. More nuanced. More thoughtful. We should’ve known better. But instead, we fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. The streamers played us like drug dealers play addicts. They published full season of bingeable TV upon full season of bingeable TV, niche shows, big-budget dramas, the best programmes in the history of television, and when subscriptions were near an absolute maximum across the board, they cut down on the supply. If you think about it, the economics are simple. Why have your audience bingeing TV, watching a month’s worth of telly in four days and then pausing their subscriptions? It’s much smarter to have them pay you the same amount but only give them one episode ever week. There’s another downside to the drip-drip-drip model that I only appreciated this week. For almost five years I’ve been watching Succession, one of the best programmes on TV. Right now, Succession is broadcasting it’s fourth and final series. It’s dark. It’s funny. It’s surprising. It’s observant. It critiques our culture and reminds me of my twenties in New York. And given it’s the last season, the pièce de resistance, I’ve been deliberately waiting for a gap in my schedule to sit down and properly enjoy it. Between Easter, work, and everything else, I’ve been tempering my impatience and waiting for a moment when I can properly savour ever second of the final season glory. To be fair I think Succession has always been a weekly episodic. HBO never went to the Netflix full binge model. But there’s a difference in the way that audiences behave between the two different styles. When full series are published all at once, no one gives up spoilers. It’s generally accepted that as a viewer, you won’t necessarily watch a whole series on the day it becomes available. You might, but most people will probably spread out a series a little bit. How many of us have talked about TV, and asked our friends – carefully – what episode they were up to? But a show like Succession is different. There are millions of viewers around the world, waiting for the hour every week in which they know a new episode will become available. And because that’s the way they’re watching the show, the presume everyone is doing the same thing. You can see where this is going. This week, Succession delivered its biggest plot twist in five wonderful years of storytelling. A huge twist. A massive shock. A Shakespearean dynamic-changer. But I didn’t see it for myself. Having carefully, deliberately waited, I read it on Twitter. Twice. Then I saw it again in a newspaper headline. Maybe streaming ruined TV-watching etiquette. And maybe impatience isn’t such a bad thing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.