Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Trevor Mallard asked for the sprinklers to stay on all night.The protestors are still there on the lawns of parliament. The convoy of angry and presumably damp people, with their tents and their muddled messages.I walked by the fringes of the protest yesterday. One of the men recognised me as a journo and started screaming at me in the street. He looked desperate..“There weren’t many arrests here!” He said.“You know the truth!”I pitied him.It’s true the protest only constitutes a tiny minority of New Zealanders, but only a fool wouldn’t take some of those messages seriously. Politicians and media have been threatened with lynchings. ONE News reporter Kristin Hall was told she would be executed by a woman holding a sign saying ‘Love is the answer.’ All it takes is one crazy person.Should the Police just arrest them all? It’s important to have consistency in Policing. It was a different stage of the pandemic and a different message, but Police didn’t rush in and arrest everyone at the Black Lives Matter protest

Estelle Clifford has been listening to Bastille's new album, Give Me the Future. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Travel expert Mike Yardley gives us the lowdown on all the thrills you can find in the south's Selwyn District. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Catherine Raynes has been busy reading Love Marriage by Monica Ali and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We are having a fabulous summer and where I live on the Tutukaka Coast of Northland we get lots of wonderful visitors from all over NZ. And their dogs.  Now, we are dog owners and at our eco village we actually have kiwi roaming between the houses at night. Quite noisy actually, always calling for each other. There is a ‘no uncontrolled dog’ policy at the village so it was with quite a lot of trepidation that we finally got a puppy two years ago. We were still four days a week in Auckland and our daughter was a co-carer. So, we put plenty of training into her, she only stays on our section inside the village, she is on a lead walking outside our section and never outside after dark. It seems to be working well. Because I hate to say dog lovers, the main reason Kiwi are still declining in most parts of NZ is attack by dogs. Habitat destruction was a big one. Then Mustelids, ferrets, stoats, weasels and wild cats can kill 80% of kiwi chicks but once they are six months old they can defend themselves, but never

Always a bit of a bummer when you grow tomatoes: Blight is one of those diseases that can cause a lot of damage and quickly.Two varieties: early blight (Alternaria solani) and late blight (Phytophthora infestans). This last species is a close relative of the famous potato disease that cause massive potato crop losses in Europe, especially Ireland, which led to the horticultural Refugee movement and the run to the New Americas.First of all: “early” and “late” are not sound diagnostic names for the disorders, as both can be “late and “early” respectively.Alternaria can be identified by its leaf-spotting, and associated rots on developing fruit, especially at the distal end (non-stalk end)Phytophthora has characteristic lesions on the base of the plant – often on the lowest parts of the main stem, just above the soil. The stem looks black and often “narrower” in patches.Later that develops into a more obvious symptom whereby the leaves start to droop, go yellow and often shrivel up. By then it might be too late

Bob Campbell has been making the most of New Zealand Pinot Gris, which he says has never been better! His best buy pick this week is the Mount Brown 2021 Pinot Gris from North Canterbury, for $16 a bottle. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do you remember the moment history was made for New Zealand in tennis at the Tokyo Olympics last year?Marcus Daniell and Michael Venus won the bronze medal in doubles - the first medal in tennis for our country. Marcus is just as successful off the court as on it. The 32-year-old is has recently been named the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year. Previous winners include the likes of Nelson Mandela and Roger Federer.  Jack Tame catches up with him.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meta / Facebook now holds the record for the largest single-day loss ever by a US company It said goodbye to $230 billion in value. There are three big reasons why... For the first time, Facebook's daily active users went down by 1 million in North America - which is bad news because Facebook's revenue per user is highest in North America. Basically, the kids don't think it's cool anymore and TikTok is taking people away. But also...Apple's changes to allow users to prevent apps from tracking them is expected to cost Facebook $10 billion in revenue. If they don't know where you are, what shops you're visiting and who you're spending time with, then their ads can't be as targeted.  It's also pouring money into the metaverse - spending $10 billion on it last year. But the metaverse is still just a VR concept that isn't yet fully baked or ready for mass adoption. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reacher: A must-watch for fans of the Lee Child best-selling novels. This new crime thriller follows Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, who has recently entered civilian life when he is falsely accused of murder (Amazon Prime Video). Rules of the Game: A British drama set in a small family-run business, where a series of historic misconduct cases are unearthed with dramatic consequences (TVNZ OnDemand)   Pam and Tommy: Lily James stars in this drama that follows the story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's relationship, going back to their whirlwind romance that started with them marrying after only knowing each other for 96 hours in 1995 (Disney+). LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This salad is full of texture and flavour and it is glorious. The components are cooked separately then thrown together just before serving – YUM. Serves 2-4 2 medium sized eggplants, sliced into 2cm thick rounds 4 tbsps olive oil 2 red capsicums, halved and de-seeded 2 handfuls green beans, chopped and blanched ½ cup roasted peanuts Handful fresh coriander Dressing ½ cup plain, unsweetened yoghurt Lemon juice Juice + zest from half a lemon ¼ cup good quality olive oil Pinch chilli ½ tsp sea salt Decent grind black pepper  Brush eggplant slices with oil, sprinkle with salt and grill until browned on one side, turn and cook second side until soft and cooked through. Place in large mixing bowl. Rub capsicum halves with olive oil, place cut side down on tray and grill on high until skin is blistered and blackened in places. Cover with tea towel, set aside for 10 minutes or until cool enough to handle before peeling off skin and discard. Slice flesh into strips and add to eggplant. Simmer green beans in salted wa

Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been watching Belfast and Moonfall, as well as the documentary on MMA and kickboxing fighter Mark Hunt, called The Fight of his Life.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne has been dealing with the question of ALL questions this week - how long will I live? He's stumbled upon Statistic New Zealand's calculator that can work out how long you are likely to live. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For those of us who live in New Zealand, MIQ has been pretty bloody good.Not perfect, no. But good enough to keep out the worst of the virus for the best part of two years. Of course, for New Zealanders based overseas who’ve wanted to get home, the experience has been pretty different. As New Zealand citizens, most of our opinions have been informed by our own individual experiences. If you’ve been separated from a loved one, or been denied precious moments with new or dying family members, the cruelty of the MIQ lottery system will stick in your throat. It’ll be a defining memory of the pandemic. But the truth is, MIQ is still running today because it’s popular. A majority of New Zealanders, most of whom are in the country, think the MIQ lottery is necessary for their own protection.If nothing more, the Charlotte Bellis fiasco has probably hastened the end of MIQ for most people arriving in New Zealand.But the end of the MIQ lottery is only one piece of the puzzle that needs to be sorted for New Zealand’s re

Mike Yardley has a tip or two about Westport. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Good SonWhat do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognisable to you? For Thea, the answer is simple and agonising: you keep loving him somehow. Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Belinda, a crime he has no memory of committing. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. RenegadesRENEGADES: Born in the USA chronicles the conversation Obama and Springsteen began in their popular Spotify podcast of the same name, adding exclusive stories and ruminations about life, music, and their enduring love of America.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our relationship expert Steven Dromgool shares his tips on how to have a happy Valentine's Day.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re used to specific sounds in the garden; Don’t know what it’s like at your place, but we’ve heard ONE cicada so far in our garden on the Port Hills; Reasons: 3-, 5- or 7-year lifecycles determine the numbers of cicadas out – it you keep a diary you’ll find out that “good years” return 5 years later, when it comes to chorus cicada or “clapping cicada Three years ago, it was bedlam here and on Banks Peninsula, so expect another good year in 2024. Dry soils make it difficult for cicadas to emerge from the soil; after a good shower of rain those waiting might still make it. Each district has its own peaks and troughs in population numbers What you will hear all over the Northern part of NZ (roughly from CHC north) is the Katydid Caedicia simplex. This is a species we share with Australia Males make noise (not by rubbing their legs!!) by scraping one wing cover over the other – a bit like a file (or comb) rubbed by a sharp object. “Dzzzitsss” is the sound in the afternoon and evening Two slits on the front leg

Apple's Christmas quarter was quite the gift$124 billion in revenue - that's up 11% on the past year; $35 billion in profit.They've been hit by chip shortages, and have been forced to prioritize giving chips to iPhones over iPads.They also revealed there are 1.8 billion active Apple devices in the world. For comparison, Google says there are over 3 billion Android devices in its Google Play Store ecosystem. Twitter shuts down a Wordle spoilerWordle - the puzzle game where users are given six tries to guess a five letter word - has taken the world by storm. it was made by Josh Wardle for his friends and family but it's taken off since it was made public in October. People are taking to social media to post how they're getting on with their puzzle which has annoyed some - so much so that one person has taken it upon themselves to build a bot to find those who are sharing their progress and ruin tomorrow's word for them."People don't care about your mediocre linguistic escapades." Twitter has decided it's in bre

Trigger Point: Jed Mercuio's new crime thriller that might just fill the Line of Duty hole in your lives. It follows Lana Washington, an experienced bomb disposal officer working for the Metropolitan Police, as she deals with a series of terrorist attacks across London. (TVNZ OnDemand) The Gilded Age: Calling all Downton Abbey fans! Julian Fellows’s new historic drama is set in 1882 America and follows a young woman who moves to New York City to live with her aunts. Exposed to an exciting new world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society or forge her own path? (Neon).  The Sinner: Detective Harry Ambrose investigates various atrocious murder cases and tries to analyse the reasons behind ordinary people committing heinous crimes. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.