Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

The shoe company Allbirds is now an AI company   Talk about a bizarre turn of events. It sold its shoe business for $43 million, but instead of shutting down like you'd think a company would do when its core business is sold, it instead turned into an AI company.   You see, the fact it's already listed on the stock exchange makes it valuable as a fast-forward through a lot of hoops and r...

Alice and Steve   Alice is devastated when her best friend Steve starts dating her 26-year-old daughter Izzy, and the two announce that they’d like to give things a go. Alice tries everything she can to end the relationship. Unfortunately for her, Steve’s more than ready for the attack, and what begins as a perfect friendship devolves into an all-out feud (Disney+).     HBO Max...

Shoulder chops make for an economical lamb meal and by slow cooking them you get tender, succulent meat every time and the lemons and capers provide a great foil for any fattiness in the lamb.   Serves 4     Ingredients   4-6 lamb shoulder chops   ½ cup white wine   ½ cup stock or water   1 tsp dried oregano   ½ tsp season salt and grind of pepper   1 l...

There’s A Hole In My Bucket (Doc Edge Festival 2026)     When Royd Tolkien, great-grandson of J R R Tolkien, loses his brother, Mike, to Motor Neurone Disease (ALS), Mike leaves behind one final act of love and mischief: a bucket list of 50 challenges designed to drag his reluctant, comfort-zone-hugging brother into the land of the living. What follows is an unexpected journey across New...

Tell you what, there aren’t many times in sport I find myself supporting an Australian team. By not many I mean basically none – usually, I’d be delighted to see them getting pumped. The Football World Cup is maybe the only the only occasion I feel differently because it’s about the only time the Aussies feel like genuine underdogs. They’ve had a tough few hours, this morning. The underdog dynamic...

Jo Frost —of Supernanny fame— is throwing herself behind a social media crack down in the UK.  Their Government is looking to ban social media for under 16's.  Our Government has made moves towards the same, although the legislation is on hold.  Frost told Jack Tame governments need to do something, because children are dying.  She says there are real families burying their kid...

We all have a few innocuous habits that, on occasion, can come across a little strangely.   Kevin Milne sings in the shower, and while that in of itself is pretty normal, some of the songs that come to mind are a little bit odd.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Olivia Rodrigo is switching things up for her third studio album.  Where her two previous albums leaned more on upbeat pop-punk influences, ‘You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love’ shifts between indie-pop and emotional ballads.  Rodrigo describes the album as a “time capsule of a relationship in all its highs and lows,” with the A-side, ‘Girl So in Love’ representing the honeymoon st...

Enough by Dawn French   Etta is sixty-eight years old. Happy, healthy and an active participant in her world, she’s gathered her family together for an unforgettable weekend.  Tick.  At 5am that Saturday morning, Etta wakes her daughter, her granddaughter, her son and her daughter-in-law up to lead everyone down to the beach. To ‘Etta’s Hollow’, where a roaring fire has already been...

"Before surrendering to the fly-and-flop horizontal pleasures of a Denarau resort or a palm-fringed island getaway, why not add a scoop of culture and history to your Fijian getaway? On my latest jaunt to Fiji, rather than just breezing through the gateway city of Nadi, I laid over for a couple of nights and was amply rewarded by dipping into the local sights. For a hearty dollop of culture and lo...

One of the most robust findings in psychology is that people often form genuine intentions but fail to translate them into action – it’s called the intention–behaviour gap. Someone may sincerely think, “Yes, I’d like that furniture and I’ll pick it up,” but when the time comes, competing demands, forgetfulness, inconvenience, or loss of motivation prevent follow-through.     People frequ...

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday June 13th 2026, we speak to Family Expert Jo Frost of Supernanny fame about the possibility of a ban on social media platforms for Under 16's.  Jack pays tribute to the great Kane Williamson after he announced his retirement from international cricket.  Chef Nici Wickes shares a very moreish recipe for Gluten-free Chee...

We have always tried to grow some plants that end up nicely in the late autumn and wintertime. It’s really impressive when there are some eye-catching flowers or plants in great sizes and wonderful shapes.   Miscanthus   Here is a Miscanthus species, known as “Morning Light”. A silver grass that can grow up to more than a meter high with pinky-brown flowers. It waves in the wind and can...

The Wine: Sheild Albariño 2025, Nelson $26.99 from Winemaker Trudy Sheild   Albariño originates in Spain in and around the Galicia area, the variety loves proximity to the sea. Often described as having a sea spray or saline quality. The Sheild wine shows this attribute easily.   This wine is precise, varietal, leesy and fresh. Aromas of white peach and lemon, a leesy lite lager seam add...

Apple's big developer conference... what was announced?    Siri with Apple Intelligence was the headline. Now, if this works, this shows why Apple's ecosystem wins when it comes to AI, because Siri can see what's on your screen. It knows the context of your app. It gets access to information that no other AI can.   They've worked to re-index all your information across your device t...

What The Hell Happened At Woofington’s?  A real-crime investigative series from TVNZ uncovering the wild true story of Woofington’s, a luxury dog retreat situated in a former Cold War-era radar bunker in the Brooklyn hills of Wellington (TVNZ+).    Twenty Twenty Six After leading London 2012 and serving as BBC Head of Values, Ian Fletcher joins the 2026 World Cup team as Director of...

Colony   A South Korean action-horror film directed by Yeon Sang-ho (known for Train to Busan). Professor Se Jeong, attends a biotech conference-only to witness it spiral into catastrophe when a rapidly mutating virus is unleashed. As the outbreak spreads and the infected begin to transform, authorities seal off the entire facility.     Disclosure Day   If you found out we...

Gluten-free baking can be hard to perfect because so much baking relies heavily on the gluten in wheat flour for structure. But there are so many different flours you can use —coconut, chickpea, almond, rice, tapioca, and more— and once you get the hang of it, it’s easy!   Start with these lovely cheesy bites. They’re like a mini cheese scone and entirely moreish. Chickpea flour forms the bas...

We don’t know much but from what we do know, it was typically Kane. New Zealand’s greatest-ever batsman – and arguably our greatest-ever cricketer. One of the modern game’s finest called his teammates for a mid-tour coffee and a chat. No big press conference. No farewell tour. No New Zealand summer or Boxing Day test at the MCG. No standing ovations. No fans. Not even one more single, measly game....

A Bay of Plenty-based group is turning a pest problem into a community solution.  Hunt for Good is a not-for-profit that culls wild deer, donating the venison and wild game meat to community groups and food banks.   It’s volunteer run, and helps farmers manage the wild deer population on their land in a sustainable way.  It was founded by Jasper Osborne at the end of 2024, and in th...

Canterbury residents are battling to save their golf course.   Wolfbrook Properties has bought the 80-hectare site of Pegasus Golf Course and unveiled plans for redevelopment.  Locals —including cricket legend Sir Richard Hadlee— are raising concerns about the scale and speed, particularly if plans go through the fast-track process.  But Kevin Milne thinks more than just the locals...

The daughter of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has released her debut album.  ‘Be Sweet To Me’ is the first album from Violet Grohl, with a sound reminiscent of 1990s alternative rock.   Though it’s primarily rock, the eleven tracks do feature elements of heavy metal, folk, and jazz, Grohl citing the Breeders, PJ Harvey, Pixies, Soundgarden, and Cocteau Twins as her primary influences....

Whistler by Ann Patchett   When Daphne Fuller and her husband Jonathan visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they notice an older, white-haired gentleman following them. The man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, who had been married to her mother for a little more than year when Daphne was nine. Now fifty-three, Daphne hasn’t seen Eddie for many years, not since the fatef...

"What springs to mind when you think of Southern California? Wide-open beaches? Streets lined with palm trees? Surfers, bikers, and rollerbladers mingling about? How about picture-perfect sunsets by the shore? An hour south of LA, Huntington Beach ticks all those boxes with panache. With its all-season sunshine and enormous sandy expanse of Pacific coastline, Huntington Beach sets the stage for a...

A new food identification label is beginning to appear in stores.  In a similar vein to the ‘New Zealand Made’ logo that denotes locally made products, a ‘NZ Grown Grains’ logo denotes products made with grains grown within the country.  Kate Hall joined Jack Tame to discuss the logo and why it’s important to both produce grain locally, and support those who do.  LISTEN ABOVE ...