Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Jack Tame’s crisp perspective, style and enthusiasm makes for refreshing and entertaining Saturday morning radio on Newstalk ZB. News, sport, books, music, gardens and celebrities – what better way to spend your Saturdays?
Episodes
Crowded House has dropped their eighth studio album ‘Gravity Stairs’.
As stated by frontman Neil Finn, the band was aiming for a dreamy quality on the album, juxtaposing the direct nature of the lyrics.
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Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan mountain of debt. The only solution, put forth by Rufus’s scheming mother, is for Rufus to atte...
The 2024 Budget has finally been released, bringing with it a variety of changes not only to government funding, but to personal taxes.
Brad Olsen joined Jack Tame to dig into the changes, going through the new brackets, who will be affected, and who wont benefit.
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Eric
Puppeteer Vincent clings to his missing son's drawings of a blue monster puppet named Eric, convinced that if he can get Eric on TV then his son will come home (Netflix).
The Responder
Martin Freeman is back for a second season as the crisis-stricken first responder who works night shifts on the beat in Liverpool, trying to keep his ...
"Did you know that there’s less Italian blood in Sicilian veins than there is Phoenician, Greek, Arabic, Norman, Spanish, or French? It’s a stirring legacy to the 25 centuries of passing civilisations who have left their mark on the Mediterranean’s biggest island. The resulting mixture – exotic, spicy and highly inflammable - fuels Sicily’s distinct personality and self-governing pride....
After a throwaway line from Jack last week, Kevin Milne has been thinking about fizzy drinks.
Foxton Fizz is a Christchurch local brand that’s been in business for over a century.
It’s now taking off all over the country, and Kevin has a few interesting tales about the company.
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Freud’s Last Session - (in cinemas)
September 3, 1939. The world is on the brink. A monumental session with two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century over the future of mankind and the existence of God.
Atlas - (Netflix)
A brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of AI finds it may be her o...
Some new research out recently found that in contrast to what we often hear about gaming, playing video games may help to replenish our energy and boost recovery from work-related stress.
Playing games not only helped with psychological detachment (the ability to mentally switch off from work), but also promoted mastery experiences (i.e., the feeling that you’re learning new things and facing challenges).
On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 1 June 2024, the creative force behind platinum-selling kiwi radio staple Avalanche City, Dave Baxter joined Jack to talk about his return to the spotlight.
Jack considered how much of a difference Trump's guilty verdict will make to the US elect...
A couple of hundred years ago, our Planet and our Aotearoa looked quite different.
There were huge forests and wetlands, vast tussock lands and cool, high altitude alpine gardens. Birds and lizards, insects, spiders, fish and native frogs called it their home.
Slowly Homo sapiens started to turn things around; habitats disappeared, mining, urbanisation and an economy tha...
Microsoft wants to take down the MacBook Air
The new Surface Co-Pilot Plus PCs, which go on sale on June 18, are the fastest and most performant laptops Microsoft has ever made.
The MacBook Air has become the standard for the perfect mix of performance and portability, and Apple’s M3 has taken that to new heights. Microsoft says its new laptop beats that and spent a whol...
Avalanche City burst onto the scene in over a decade ago, their 2011 pop hit ‘Love Love Love’ charming Kiwis.
Behind the music is creative force Dave Baxter, a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.
After five years away from the spotlight, Baxter re-emerged with a brand-new single ‘Keep that Love’.
He stepped back from making music to raise his kids, having toure...
It’s more of a tart than a pie but who cares, it’s a fabulous dish to whip up for the long weekend.
Makes one 24cm pie
Ingredients
1 sheet savoury short or flaky pastry
1 head broccoli, steamed whole for 2 minutes
½ cup sour cream
100g goat cheese
¼ tsp chilli flakes
2 tbsps store-bought pesto
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The Novel is Kiwi band PARK RD’s debut novel, a punchy thirteen track work from a group of highschool friends from Tāmaki Makaurau.
In the bands own words “It feels like its own little world. The main theme of the album is definitely love."
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Real Americans by Rachel Khong
Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster and, most notably, heir to a vast pharmaceutical empire. Lily couldn't be more different: flat-broke, raised in Tampa, the only c...
Overconsumption is trendy, with the evolution of technology and online shopping making it easier and easier to buy things you don’t need.
Kate “Ethically Kate” Hall joined Jack Tame to discuss our relationship with stuff and dig into clever consumption and strategic decluttering.
She has a few recommendations for things people can try to avoid simply buying more things.
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Shardlake
During the dissolution of the monasteries in the Tudor era, Matthew Shardlake is sent by Thomas Cromwell to investigate the death of a commissioner in a remote town of Scarnsea (Disney+).
Trying
All Nikki and Jason want is a baby -- the one thing they can't have -- so they decide to adopt; with their dysfunctional friends, screwball families a...
"One of the greatest ways to sample the heart and soul of a powerhouse city like Rome is to join a food tour with an in-the-know local."
"I plumped for the Roman Food Tour which is a 3-4 hour walking tour in the upscale residential neighbourhood of Prati, where grand villas rub shoulders with the walls of the Vatican. Previously the area was open countryside and growing fields, but nowadays it’s one of Rome’s most prestigious neig...
We’re on the cusp of the flu season. One of my concerns is that I often hear from patients phrases like ‘it’s just the flu!’. It’s almost viewed as something we don’t need to be concerned about; it’s just like a cold. However, it’s much more than that. It’s estimated it can be responsible for up to 500 deaths a year in New Zealand, based on University of Otago research. It’s more than just a cold!
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