Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

This is all my favourite flavours packed into one pie. It’s rich and warming and perfect for a hearty dinner.   Serves 4-6     Ingredients  2 tablespoons cooking oil   1 large onion, diced   1 large carrot, diced   500g rump steak, chopped roughly   2 heaped tablespoons plain flour   1/3 cup red wine   1-1 ½ cups stock or water   2 bay leaves...

For all of my life it has been a mythic barrier.  For all your life it has been a mythic barrier.  In the same way we cannot fly... In the same way we cannot leap over buildings... many thought it simply impossible. Physiologically, there simply has to be a limit.  Was this it? Or, with the perfect conditions, the perfect new nutrition, the perfect shoes, and the perfect athlete, wo...

The Devil Wears Prada 2  Miranda Priestly navigates her career amid the decline of traditional magazine publishing and reunites with Andy Sachs to face off against a former assistant turned rival.    The Weed Eaters  Jules is on a New Year's Eve trip with her new boyfriend and his two stoner friends in the wops of North Canterbury when they stumble across a long-abandoned stash...

The Mint Chicks are a seminal slice of New Zealand’s indie music scene.  Fronted by Ruban Nielson and his brother Kody, the noise rock and art punk band swept the Aotearoa Music Awards back in 2007 with their sophomore album “Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!’.  And now, twenty years on from its release, the album is being recognised at the Taites – receiving the IMNZ Classic Record.   It’s one...

Foo Fighters have dropped their twelfth album.  ‘Your Favorite Toy’ is a return to their punk-rock roots. It’s high energy and fast and is the band’s shortest album – beating ‘Medicine at Midnight’ by nine seconds.  Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts on the album.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All around the world, people are commemorating Anzac Day.   Thousands of people are attending the Dawn Services, parades, and other commemorations for the ANZAC forces who died at Gallipoli.   But something many people may not have done is visit the graves of those soldiers in Europe. This is the first Anzac Day since Kevin Milne visited his great uncles’ graves to pay respects, and join...

The Model Murder by Amanda Hampson   Never underestimate a tea lady.  Sydney, 1968. When a popular local man is murdered, police are quick to pin the blame on his glamorous model fiancée, who has since disappeared. But Hazel suspects a criminal cover-up and rallies the tea ladies to investigate; a quest that brings danger right to her door.  Meanwhile, Merl’s long-buried family secr...

"The pint-sized Texan city of Grapevine certainly struck it lucky with the location Gods. Bounded by the sprawling immensity of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), its mighty aviation neighbour prevents the threat of urban sprawl swallowing up Grapevine into the metroplex. DFW, with its seven runways, encompasses a greater area of land than Manhattan Island. This plucky little city rema...

Building sustainable habits can not only help save the planet, it can help save you time.  Sustainability doesn’t have to mean more effort, so Kate Hall joined Jack Tame to run through some of the habits that can make your life easier, including:  Batch cooking - cook once, eat multiple times   A capsule wardrobe - fewer clothes, easier choices   Bulk buying staples - fewer tri...

On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 25 April 2026, Ruban Nielson of the Mint Chicks joins Jack to discuss being a seminal slice of New Zealand's indie music scene and the band's sophomore album being recognised as Classic Record at the Taite Music Prize.  Jack reflects on the changing recognition of Anzac Day and speaks to Maritime Component Commander Commodo...

A couple of months ago our tunnel house got smacked by the wind.   Young tomatoes were rescued from their spot and some of them survived in medium-sized pots.   It was a matter of getting rid of that ancient, 8-meter-long tunnel house and replacing it with a new one – half the length but double the strength.   The whole renovation took a few school holidays’ weeks, but it looked pre...

While the average person may dream of becoming a millionaire, is it actually possible?  Earning the average wage, the culmination of an adult’s working life is $3.1 million – but it’s not that simple.  Ed McKnight joined Jack Tame to discuss if it’s possible for the average Kiwi to become a millionaire and how to get the best odds.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Big tech is continuing to shrink   Facebook and Microsoft have both announced they're cutting back the headcount.   Facebook will lay off 10% of its 80,000 strong workforce in May, according to a report in Bloomberg. It will also cancel 6,000 open roles. They say it's to "offset the other investments they're making" into AI and their failed efforts in the Metaverse.    Microsof...

Melanie Bracewell: A Little Treat  Bad day? Time for a little treat. Good day? I think that deserves a little treat.  With the end of her twenties rapidly approaching, Melanie Bracewell unpacks the last decade of her life (YouTube).     This Is a Gardening Show   Zach Galifianakis digs into the world of gardening, interviewing curious kids and eccentric experts in a f...

Michael  The story of pop superstar Michael Jackson -- from his extraordinary early days in the Jackson 5 to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fuels a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world.     Sgt. Haane  In April 1943, during World War II, Sergeant Haane Manahi (Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa) of the 28th Māori Battalion led a small group...

I love an Anzac biscuit so much and this slice combines all the flavours of them with another Kiwi favourite, condensed milk! Thanks to Ripe Deli in Grey Lynn for the inspiration for this.   Makes 20-24 pieces     Ingredients  Base   1½ cups rolled oats   ¾ cups coconut   ¾ cups plain flour   ¼ cup sesame seeds   1½ tsp baking powder   Pinch baking...

It would have to be among the single-most overdue law changes in New Zealand. I don’t know about you, but until the Anzac Amendment Bill came before Parliament this year, I didn’t realise that modern servicemen and women weren’t technically recognised on Anzac Day. Under the letter of the law, only those who served up to 1966 were officially commemorated.   Obviously, that’s wrong. Although o...

Anzac Day services have been held around the country, with thousands attending dawn services, parades, and commemorations.  More than 8000 Kiwis arrived on the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25, 1915, as the Allies unsuccessfully attempted to capture the Strait of Gallipoli from the Ottomans.  By the campaign’s end in January 1916, 2779 had been killed – close to a sixth of those who had l...

The co-host of the award winning podcast, ‘The Worst Idea Of All Time’, Tim Batt is one of New Zealand’s sharpest comedic minds.  He’s taken some time away from the festival circuit to raise his children, but has decided 2026 will be his return.  Batt is bringing his dry humour to the International Comedy Festival with a brand-new stand-up show, ‘Eternal Optimist’, in which he, in his ow...

A Kiwi company is flipping the bird, pivoting from making environmentally friendly wool shoes to AI.  After years of losses, Allbirds sold all its assets this month and now plans to lease GPUs – chips used to train AI software.  It's revised its moniker to NewBirds AI.  Kevin Milne joined Jack Tame to talk about the rise and fall of the company.  LISTEN ABOVE  See omnystud...

"After taking in the retro charms of Route 66’s on a romp across northern Arizona, the desert was calling. I pointed the car south, driving through the achingly gorgeous Oak Creek Canyon route to Sedona, bound for Scottsdale. Towering red sandstone cliffs and an undulating quilt of ponderosa pine create a riveting scenic medley. "Situated on the eastern flank of the sprawling Phoenix metroplex, Sc...

English singer-songwriter Holly Humberstone has released her second studio album, ‘Cruel World’.  It’s a shift for the artist, delving into a more upbeat pop sound, whilst dealing with themes of belonging, steadiness, repair, and discipline.  The atmospheric style and intimacy of Humberstone’s musical style has seen her compared to artists like Lorde and Bon Iver, and she herself has des...

Saoirse by Charleen Hurtubise   In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an outwardly idyllic life. Her tender husband Daithí and two beloved daughters are regular subjects for her work, and in them she has found the safe home that she has always longed for. She tends not to talk about her past, and those that love her have learned to accept that the full story is t...

Disgust is a basic human emotion, probably designed to keep us safe and well as it makes us avoid icky things.   Yet as a parent of a baby we are constantly exposed to disgusting things – known officially as “effluvia” (think anything that flows out of a baby). It would make sense that constant exposure to baby ones, twos, and vomit would have some impact on our sense of disgust, otherwise we...

Ecosystem Services... sounds awfully like an Economical Job!  Thank goodness it’s not an ecological gig: Ecosystem Services are the ecological contributions organisms make to the smooth running of our planet.  Invertebrates, spiders, birds, trees, shrubs, fungi, whales, and insects, etc, do a variety of jobs that help us and all other creatures we share this Earth with. And we often forg...