Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

The COVID vaccine isn’t the only one we need to be thinking about right now! The government made the meningitis vaccine free to 13 to 25 year olds going into shared accommodation such as university hostels, boarding schools end of 2019. There is a low awareness of the availability.Bryan Betty is a GP and medical director for the College of GPs. He joined Jack Tame to explain everything you need to know about the vaccine.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A simple experiment with CaterpillarsLast year I made mention of the abundance of Gum Emperor Moth caterpillars in the collective Eucalyptus trees around New Zealand; Well to be a bit more precise: from Canterbury north! These absolutely fascinatingly pretty larvae are huge, colourful and prickly and strong in their legs, and belong to the Silk moth Family. They feed on Gums, Liquidambar and (South American) Schinus molle trees (all are un-related to each other – how weird!).This year we had heaps of eggs again – big eggs in large strings, laid on the leaves. And we noticed that the tiny black caterpillars literally ate most of the leaf-surfaces around the eggs, but left the eggs alone!I suppose it’s a strategy to not kill your brothers and sisters before they hatch from their eggs… but how do these siblings know that? I think the mother moth secretes some oily substance around each eggs that she lays – you can see the shining discolouration around each egg. Even fully-grown caterpillars will chew around the

Twitter’s rolling out “Super Followers”Imagine getting exclusive Jack Tame content via Twitter for $4.99 a month. A Jack Tame supporter badge could be added to your profile, with exclusive content, super follower only newsletters, special deals and access to the Jack Tame community. It’s a way to give back to creators you enjoy and keep those creators on the Twitter platform.Twitter has also announced “communities” which you can join and follow, like Facebook Groups. Both features are still to launch, but last time Twitter talked about subscription products and pro features their stock price jumped. It seems this is where the analysts want Twitter to go.Zoom meetings get accessibleCaptions are coming to all accounts - including free accounts. You’ll be able to enable live ai generated closed captions. It’s a feature their pro accounts have had for a while and brings them up to parity with Google’s Hangouts. It’s a great feature for folks who are hard of hearing, but also for those who multi-task. If you miss

Behind Her Eyes: A dark thriller about a single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife (Netflix).Informer 3838: A spinoff of the popular Underbelly series, this Australian drama tells the story of Nicola Gobbo, a lawyer who turned Informer and played both sides in the Melbourne Gangland War (TVNZ OnDemand).Superman & Lois: Our favourite hero is back, but this latest reboot of the classic story about Clark Kent and Lois Lane now sees them facing one of the toughest challenges ever: parenthood (TVNZ OnDemand).LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Auckland author Ben Sanders is living a double life. He spends half his week working as an engineer, the other half writing crime novels. And while his real life is based on the North Shore, his books are set in the US, which has allowed him a large audience and is attracting the attention of Hollywood. He’s got a new book out called The Devils You Know, and he joins Jack Tame on the show this morning.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NECTARINE & BLUEBERRY PIE  The combination of stonefruit and berries in a sweet pie is my idea of heaven. Before we know it berries and summerfruit will be done for the season so enjoy it while you can. Serves 6-82-3 sheets sweet short pastry1 punnet blueberries4 nectarines, de-stoned and roughly chopped2 tbsp plain flour2 tbsps caster sugar2 tbsp lemon juice50g butter, melted 1 egg, lightly beaten, for glazeCream or yoghurt to serveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Food ClubTHE FOOD CLUB is the story of three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, with one thing in common - they are in the fall of their lives.I Care A lotA shady legal guardian lands in hot water when she tries to bilk a woman who has ties to a powerful gangster.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne joins Jack Tame to talk about NASA's Perseverance rover landing on Mars.LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The public health experts knew it was coming. Senior ministers knew it was coming. Were they as prepared as they might have been? No. But then, who in New Zealand was back at the end of February 2020?And then it came through. A woman fresh back from Iran. Quite possibly not our first case, but our first confirmed case of Covid-19.That was a year ago.In that time, we have objectively enjoyed a much better life than most other people on Earth. Sure, we’ve had lockdowns. We’ve had community outbreaks. We’ve had deaths. People have lost jobs. Businesses have gone under. At an individual level, if you’ve suffered a dramatic change in your life, or lost a loved one to Covid-19, these words won’t be much comfort. But the can be no disputing the fact... the overall standard of living in New Zealand in the year since our first case, has been so much better than pretty much anywhere else. While Europe and America have been hunkered down in months-long lockdowns, and refrigerated trucks have been turned into overflow mo

In some countries, 40 year mortgages are becoming more common. Is it something that might catch on here? Enable Me's Hannah McQueen has been giving her take on increasing mortgage terms.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

February Jobs in the Garden Raspberries: If you have spring-fruiting raspberries – they need pruning now. All fruit is picked and now’s the time to crawl on hands and knees and prune off all the old “canes”. It’s easy to see which are old, brown canes with yellow old leaves and which ones are the new, fresh ones that will fruit for you next year. Raspberries also have this habit of producing heaps of runners and canes far, far away from the original bed! Either mow them down of translocate these new runners to a new row. They’ll survive that easily if done now, while the soil is warm. Some fertiliser and everybody happy for next spring. But be careful, autumn raspberries still have a crop to go! Mid-summer is also the time to prune your plums when they have been harvested. I tend to do that now, with the summer heat still here. When you do it in late autumn or winter, the cooler, wetter weather can cause quite a few problems with diseases. Stonefruit bears its fruit on young wood, but the European plums (such

Relationship expert Steven Dromgool has some tips for funding fun with your partner. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Travel writer Mike Yardley has been travelling the Haast Pass Highway.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Book reviewer Catherine Raynes has been reading Shiver by Allie Reynolds and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Music reviewer Estelle Clifford has been listening to the new album by Aussie alt-rock group The Rubens.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Usually, the Director of the FBI isn’t a household name, especially in New Zealand. That is, until James Comey came along, and was inserted into the middle of Donald Trump’s political pantomime.  In his role as the head of the FBI, Comey oversaw investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, and into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.   He was then sacked.   James Comey’s written a new book "Saving Justice" and has been talking to Jack Tame.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVE    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trial in the Outback: in this documentary mini-series narrated by Sam Neill, Linda Chamberlain tells her own story about the death of her daughter and the trials and imprisonment that followed (starts TVNZ 1, Sunday, 8.30pm)  CB Strike: a new season of the British drama about war veteran turned private detective Cormoran Strike, who solves brutal murders with the help of his trusted assistant Robin Ellacott (Neon).  Framing Britney Spears: the documentary everyone’s talking about. This New York Times doco looks at the career of American entertainer Britney Spears, her celebrity and popularity within American culture, and the conservatorship that she has been living under since 2008 which sparked the fan-driven #FreeBritney movement (ThreeNow).  LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Milne's been on his first ever international tourist-free trip in the South Island, and thinks all Kiwis should be following suit. LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sushi sandwiches These little sushi sandwiches are easier to make than regular sushi and they’re popular with adults and kids alike.   Makes 8-10  1 cup sushi (short grain) rice or use short grain brown rice  1 tsp salt  105g tin salmon  2 tablespoons mayonnaise Salt & pepper ½ avocado  ½ red capsicum  1 packet seaweed snacks (small sheets of seaweed) 2 tablespoons sesame seeds 4 tablespoons tamari sauce  1 teaspoon sesame oil  Squeeze of lime or lemon juice To cook rice: rinse rice a few times then allow to soak for 15 minutes before draining and transferring to a saucepan and covering in twice as much water as rice (ie. 2 cups) and adding salt. Cover and bring to boil then simmer for 12 minutes, turn heat off and leave to steam for 10 minutes while you prepare fillings. Cool. Fillings: Mix salmon with mayonnaise. Slice avocado and capsicum into thin slices.  Assemble: Wet hands and take 1-2 tablespoons of rice, shape into a sausage shape, cover with seaweed and wrap, leaving one side unwrapped. Make a g

Movie reviewer Francesca Rudkin has been watching The Little Things, Boss Level, and News of the World.LISTEN TO AUDIO ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.