Podcasts about Jack Tame

Tonight on The Huddle, Trish Sherson from Sherson Willis PR and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! The Government finally unveiled its energy reform plan after plenty of anticipation. What did we make of it? Does it go far enough? Nigel Latta has passed away - what will we remember about him? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rents are on the decline and housing is becoming increasingly affordable – but is the property market crashing? Ed McKnight joined Jack Tame to look at some of the biggest property crashes in world history, and how they compare to New Zealand's current property market. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With former Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations Colin Keating, and Auckland mayoral candidates Wayne Brown and Kerrin Leoni.

Kerrin Leoni: Why I'd be a better Auckland mayor than Wayne Brown by Q+A with Jack Tame

Stewart Copeland's drumming helped define a generation. As one third of The Police, he played at some of the biggest venues not only in New Zealand, but in the world. He went on to work extensively in composing for film and TV. And now, 18 years since his last visit to New Zealand, Copeland is returning for a very special spoken word tour - ‘Have I Said Too Much? The Police, Hollywood, And Other Adventures'. He told Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame this type of show is a bit more of an intellectual exercise than playing the drums. “Actually having to form sentences and so on, is a little more challenging,” Copeland said. “Fortunately in my 70-something years, I've had a couple of adventures, which are fun to talk about.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mariah Carey is back – and it's not for Christmas. ‘Here For It All' is the sixteenth studio album from the American superstar and her first album since the release of 2018's ‘Caution'. The album blends pop, R&B, gospel, and hip-hop, celebrating and building on every era of Carey's iconic career. Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to give his thoughts on the album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Yardley is a seasoned traveller. He's been all around the globe, experiencing nearly everything you can imagine, and as a result, is quite familiar with scams and swindlers. He joined Jack Tame to delve into a couple of the most common scams affecting travellers – plus tips on keeping yourself safe from theft. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I make no bones about it – I'm a bit of an Apple yuppy. I was hooked at a critical time. Travelling across the US as a one-man tv-news-making band, I often found myself in seat 32B on a cut-price red-eye flight, totally dependent on a laptop with sufficient grunt to edit HD video for hours at a time, and sufficient durability so that when it got knocked about in the overhead locker, the casing would remain in one piece. And the way these companies work is that the moment you rely on them for one thing, they get their claws out and squeeze you ever closer. I went from being a MacBook user, to an iPhone user, to an iPad user, to an AirPod user, to an iCloud subscriber, too. I'm more or less trapped within the system now. Locked into paying Apple every month until I leave this mortal world. But finally, I think I'm drawing the line. Apple has just released its latest Apple Watch and finally caught up to much of the smart device competition by giving users a daily sleep score. The idea is that you wear your watch to bed. It measures your heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, temperature, and your movement. It records what time you go down, the number of disturbances you have, your various sleep cycles, and how much time you ultimately spend between the sheets. And then, 1-100, it gives you a score. Of course, you can be smart scored on all manner of things in life, these days. You can get a smart toothbrush that'll connect to an app on your phone and give you personalised feedback on your brushing technique. Breezed over a lower molar too quickly? That'll affect your score. You can get a smart razor that'll do the same thing. Pushed a bit hard on a tricky chin dimple? Stiff cheese. That'll affect your score. You can buy a smart water bottle that'll score your hydration. You can be scored on your light exposure and your posture. Apparently if you're really curious, there's even a market in devices that'll score individual sexual wellbeing. Just maybe don't Google them at work. But to me, at least, there's a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the sleep score concept. If I'm having a bad night's sleep, few things are guaranteed to make it worse than knowing I'm being assessed. I'd get anxious. I'd stress out, toss and turn, flip my pillow back and forth. And for what? Just to read a number in the morning that tells me what I already know. I don't need a smart watch or a special ring to know I've had a bad night's sleep. I know because I feel bad. So I should've gone to bed earlier or shouldn't have had that late afternoon coffee? I should've turned off those other screens and devices earlier? Thank you, but instead of looking up a score I'll look in the mirror instead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Phil O'Reilly from Iron Duke Partners and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! The New Zealand Herald released its latest Mood of the Boardroom survey and Chris Luxon and Nicola Willis are out of Cabinet's top 10 performers. Can they turn things around? What do we think of our new Reserve Bank Governor? She seems very committed to transparency - do we think that's what our central bank needs? Tory Whanau has revealed she wants to run for Parliament. Do we think this is a good idea? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With HSBC economist Paul Bloxham, Christchurch mayoral candidates Sara Templeton and Phil Mauger, and 1News US Correspondent Logan Church.

Kaylee Bell is one of the most accomplished voices in the New Zealand country music scene. She's not only the most streamed female country musician in Australasia, but has a Country Music Award for Global Country Artist to her name. ‘Cowboy Up', Bell's new album, releases next week – an album she made in the midst of being pregnant. “This record was particularly fun to make,” she told Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame. “I was about 34 weeks pregnant when my producer flew out from Nashville .... to bring a bit of Nashville to New Zealand to make the record.” Previously the record making process was hectic, but ‘Cowboy Up' came about more collaboratively, created slowly in a studio at home. “I was like, this is how I want to make my records now,” Bell told Tame. “It just felt like such a wholesome way to make a record.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been an extraordinary week in Nepal – going from protests and revolution to a new government and peace in a flash. Mike Yardley arrived in Kathmandu a few days into the upheaval and can assure that he's had no issues during his time in the area. He joined Jack Tame to delve into what his experience has been like and the highlights of his trip. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The last few years have been filled with highs and lows for Tami Neilson, but out of the emotional rollercoaster comes ‘Neon Cowgirl'. It represents Neilson's lifelong dream of chasing Nashville and country music – a love letter to the literal Neon Cowgirl in downtown Nashville that watched Neilson grow up and chase her dreams. Music reviewer James Irwin isn't the biggest fan of country, but this album might change his mind. He joined Jack Tame to give his thoughts. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trump's expected shakeup of the tech job market Bloomberg is reporting that President Trump is looking to slap a $100,000 fee on the visa popular with tech firms to access top international talent. The White House claims the visa is being used to undercut American workers and give too many high paying jobs to people from overseas. There are 85,000 of these visas available each year and many end up going to the top tech companies, but there is abuse of the system by outsourcing and staffing companies flooding the lottery with duplicate candidates. Jack Tame's desire for one Apple operating system to rule them all is a step closer Having used the latest OS 26 across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, it's clear Apple is converging the design patterns. It feels like we're now just one step away from having a single OS across all devices. On iPad, the multi-tasking is much, much more MacBook like. Meta had an absolute demo fail live on stage while showing off their AI glasses They were trying to show how their AI agent could help you while cooking —it could see the ingredients and help you step by step— but it didn't go to plan. It kept responding with things it wasn't being asked for and the poor 'content creator' paid to do the demo got flustered and blamed the WiFi. It wasn't the WiFi, but reason was kind of amusing – when the demo asked "Live AI" to do a thing, every device in the room heard it and all tried to respond at the same time. And worse, because they were all connected to the same internet, all their requests went to the same special demo server only expecting to deal with ONE device. Face palm. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the years I lived in New York, I always had visiting Kiwis crashing on my couch. And more often than not, when they came to town and were listing off the things they wanted to do in the Big Apple, they'd make it a priority to try and get into the audience at one of late shows. I went to Letterman and Colbert. I actually bumped into Jimmy Fallon at his studio when I interviewed the leader of his band for this show. Back then, just a decade ago, late night hosts were more than mega-stars. Their shows were institutions. Even with social media, it felt like their programmes or versions of them were set to exist in some form for decades to come. How quickly things change. I really love the US, but Jimmy Kimmel's suspension feels like another little moment in which we are watching a superpower destroy itself in real time. To be clear, I'm not a huge fan of Jimmy Kimmel. He's fine I guess, but I wouldn't seek him out. I thought his comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination were pretty distasteful. But they were flippant, passing comments, that were clearly the opinion of a comedian. And to see the head of the Federal Communications Commission react by threatening broadcasters for airing Kimmel's show was extraordinary. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” he said. Yeesh. First, there's the hypocrisy. It's only a few months since Vice-President JD Vance told the Munich Security Conference this: “I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or, worse yet, shutting down media… protects nothing. In fact, it is the most sure-fire way to destroy democracy.” Interesting. Now his government agency is threatening to remove the broadcasting licenses of companies who broadcast views they don't like. ‘Cos nothing honours the memory of a proud free speech advocate who was literally murdered while speaking, by actively suppressing, limiting, and punishing the speech of his critics. Perhaps even more remarkable is the way in which these media companies are routinely capitulating. On multiple occasions now, big corporates have wilted under pressure in order to try and curry favour with the President and protect their business interests. Paramount and CBS capitulated with his 60 Minutes complaint. Just two weeks later, they fired Stephen Colbert, the best comedian on late night and a frequent brutal critic of the President. And for now, at least, Kimmel is gone too. It's interesting to compare the ways in which media companies have dealt with pressure from the White House and the ways other countries have dealt with the US tariffs. It's pretty similar. Instead of organising a collective response, grouping together with a collective resistance to the pressure, the big acronyms, the likes of CBS and ABC are acting in what they think is their own self-interest. They cut a deal and try to move on. Whether they're international leaders or media executives, everyone is stooping to kiss the ring. But is there any evidence it works? If you give a bully your lunch money, does he leave you alone thereafter? Or does he come back for more? They think it's in their self-interest to acquiesce, but one capitulation leads to another, and another... it snowballs, and before you know it, the President of the United States is deciding which comedians are allowed on TV. He now says some networks that are critical of him should have their licenses taken away. Like everything, it's hard to know it it's a serious idea. But the mere suggestion is so profoundly un-democratic, so profoundly un-American. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on the Huddle, political commentator and lawyer Liam Hehir and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! There's another case of a judge ordering police to give back a gang member's patch. Is there a loophole that needs fixing here? Rawiri Waititi made headlines after he only answered questions in te reo Māori in Parliament. What do we make of this? Should we make it easier for overseas born kids with Māori heritage to gain citizenship? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ed Sheeran has released his eighth studio album: ‘Play'. It's the first of a new series of themed albums, with titles based on electronic media buttons – ‘Pause', ‘Fast Forward', ‘Rewind', and ‘Stop' set to follow. Although there's plenty of new influences and stylistic changes, with traditional Indian percussion, Hindi and Punjabi vocals, and a guest appearance from Bengali singer Arijit Singh, the core of Ed Sheeran's musical style is clear. Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Elizabeth Knox is one of the country's most esteemed authors, known best for her novels ‘Vintner's Luck' and ‘The Absolute Book'. She's also a dab hand at essay collections and young adult stories, though it had been over a decade since she last wrote for a younger audience. That changed with the release of ‘Kings of this World', a young adult novel focused on the sole survivor of a cult massacre. The book is a long time coming, Knox having written it over the span of several years. “I had the bad habit of writing several books at the same time,” she told Newstalk ZB's Jack Tame. “I developed the strategy when I had a lot of distractions in my life, and I decided to distract myself, so I had some power over that.” “And then I came out of it and thought I'd solved the problem and could always keep doing that, but no,” she told Tame. “Bad habit.” Writing young adult fiction is not dissimilar to writing for adults, but there is one central principle Knox abides by when writing for younger audiences. “You can't deprive the readers of hope,” she explained. “With that in mind, I was able to write a, you know, pretty scary thriller, and I don't think that young readers need to be defended from suspense and fear and things like that.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the three candidates leading Wellington's mayoral race, Commissioner of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori Professor Rawinia Higgins, Labour MP for Manurewa Arena Williams, and former Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt.

Ever wondered why you can't stick to an exercise routine or why you hate the gym when everyone else seems to love it? You could be doing the wrong type of exercise for your personality type. A recent UK study looked at how personality types could predict how enjoyable people find different exercise routines and who can stick to them. Dr Dougal Sutherland joined Jack Tame to discuss the research. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Having arrived home from holiday a short few weeks ago, Kevin Milne's recent travel experiences are still fresh in his mind. Every time you travel, you learn something new, and this time around he learned that there's a better way to book your flights. He joined Jack Tame to pass on the tips and tricks he learned. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tell you what, when I saw the latest migration statistics this week and the net 47,000 New Zealand citizens who'd decided to move overseas in the last year, I had an instantaneous reaction. You sure about that? I wondered. I know our economy isn't exactly thriving, but have you checked any news headlines lately? Israel had just bombed Qatar. Russian drones were being shot down in Poland. The British government was in disarray. Charlie Kirk had just been assassinated. Put it this way: a sustained economic malaise isn't half as bad as some of the other problems facing the world right now. You know how when there's a really big news event it's all anyone wants to talk about? As terrible a week as it's been for the world, it's been even worse on social media. A great week, nay, a vintage week for bad takes. Tom Phillips is a prime example. To think, even for a moment, that a man who's been using his children in armed robberies, who's deprived them of any outside social connections or formal education, who's kept them in horrible, cold, dirty conditions and then ultimately exposed them to a Police shootout, to think that guy is misunderstood or is some kind of hero shows our species perhaps isn't as developed as we'd all like to think. The Charlie Kirk assassination social media fallout was maybe even worse. His death really affected me. I've been following Charlie Kirk for years. I saw him speak in person when he first came to significant prominence at the Republican Convention in 2016. His assassination has been one of those moments in which it feels like we're watching a global superpower decline in real time. The video was everywhere, multiple angles of a father being shot in the throat in front of his family, reposted, retweeted, re-upped. The algorithm feeding a bloodlust. And then the profound division. Incredible bad faith takes on both sides of a political and cultural chasm. People openly celebrating his murder, others neglecting the ways in which they have excused, minimised, or ignored political violence in the recent past. I truly think social media is responsible for some of worst aspects of our fraying world. It takes the worst parts of our nature as a species and acts a force multiplier. And yet, it retains the capacity every now and then to pull off something great. A terrible week for the world ended with a bit of goodness on the Golden Bay Community Noticeboard Facebook page, last night. Back in July, epic rainfall at the top of the South Island dislodged a bench from its spot next to the Takaka River. It was a memorial bench, heavy timber, beautifully crafted to remember a young man named Jack who passed back in 2018. But yesterday, Mum forwarded a post on Facebook through to the family chat. Jack's bench had been found! After being swept away in the flooding, it had travelled the six or seven kilometres down the Takaka River and into the ocean. Then, over two months, it had somehow navigated the roughly 160kms from the river mouth, across Cook Straight, around D'Urville Island, to wash up, albeit with a few barnacles, on Waikanae Beach on the Kapiti Coast. Crazy! Amazing! But how to get Jack's bench home after such an epic journey? “I'll do it free of charge, get in touch,” said someone called Steve. A little faith in the world, restored. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A and Tim Wilson from the Maxim Institute joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! What did we think of the Tākuta Ferris video? What does this mean for Labour's political future? New information about the Phillips hideout suggests they've had help until very recently according to police who are now trying to track down accomplices. What do we make of this? It's been revealed Luxon and Albanese's helicopter mountain trip cost $44,000. Are we upset with this? Would we pay $4,000 for an iPhone? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After an extensive career in Hollywood and beyond as the star of blockbusters like The Hobbit and TV series like BBC's Spooks, Richard Armitage has pivoted. He's turned his hand to the written word, releasing his first novel ‘Geneva' in 2023, his second novel, ‘The Cut' released just this month. The story is inspired by a conversation he had in a cemetery, and the novel is unique in that it's designed to be an audiobook before a physical text. Writing for performance is slightly different to writing for reading, Armitage explained to Jack Tame. “The way I work on it is to visualise it as a piece of cinema or television, and then I write it down in a sort of visceral way.” “It's slightly more pared back,” he said. “And I'm kind of leaning into atmosphere.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ed McKnight has been working in personal finance for a fair few years and although he typically tries to be encouraging when giving advice, he does have some more brutal truths to tell. He joined Jack Tame to offer up the three brutally honest pieces of money advice that most Kiwis will need to hear. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With 1News political editor Maiki Sherman, former Reserve Bank chair Arthur Grimes, former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer, and Housing Minister Chris Bishop.

When you're young you can't imagine a point in your life when you're living with physical limitations. I mean, sure, maybe you're not as strong as you'd like to be. Maybe you're not quite as quick and fit as some of your mates. But for me at least, the thought of a relatively straightforward physical action being too difficult or too painful never even crossed my mind. You take health and dexterity, mobility, and general limberness for granted. I remember Dad getting home from his football games when I was kid. He'd limp through the front door, strap ice packs to both of knees, and splay himself out on the couch, still in his grubby kit. When you're a kid, you can see your dad's in pain, but you never pause to wonder if that might happen to you, one day, too. A couple of years ago I couldn't get past a sharp pain in my left hip. I thought I'd pulled a muscle, and I went to the physio for the first time in my life. But a series of scans moved me quickly up food chain. Physio-sports doctor-surgeon. One of the specialists said I had the hip of someone in their sixties, and it was probably only a matter of time before I'd have to get a new one. In the meantime, the best advice they could give me was don't do stuff that hurts. Truthfully, I've found that harder than it sounds. Although I haven't played a single game of squash in at least a couple of years, a weekly game of very average social football has been the most consistent social activity in my life. You know what they say about men and how they have to be doing stuff together? Well, guilty as charged. I don't want to just sit around and talk about stuff, I want to be kicking a ball! I'm convinced there's something about physically competing, albeit in a lowly social league, that does an awful lot of good for the top few inches. What it doesn't do is much good for my hip. I turn like a waning container ship at the best of times, but the short-twitch reactions required in midfield have not been aided by my swiftly decaying cartilage. I picture it, rotting away like a paper bag in a puddle. Halfway through last year I started proactively taking painkillers before games. Sometimes I struggle to walk normally for days afterwards. I know this isn't good. I know I shouldn't play. I know, rationally, that constantly agitating and inflaming the same injury is going to cause more problems down the track. And if sometime in the future I can't tramp or ride my bike, I'd be furious with myself. But quitting football has felt like a threshold. I've never had an injury that didn't improve. I've never not been able to play something. Then last week, I faced a reckoning. I visited a primary school, and the kids encouraged me to sit with them on the mat and pose for a photo. You know how these things go... Crossing your legs and sitting on the mat is the kind of thing you give zero notice to. Until one day you can't do it. It was agony. I folded myself down as best I could and yet in the photo, I don't even get halfway to the ground. My butt's on the ground but my knees are up at nipple height. I look like a capital X. When I finished at the school there was a text waiting. Who's in for football next season? Most of the guys quickly replied, ‘Yep, keen.' When you're young most of us don't imagine a point in life living with physical limitations. We didn't ask when Dad started wincing when he reached for his shoelaces. We didn't question why Grandma shuffles. And then one day it begins. You have to start saying no. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Jordan Williams from The Taxpayers' Union and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! Yesterday's big Amazon announcement turned out to be a big pile of nothings, according to new reports. Does this mean we need to be more careful when overseas companies come in making big promises? Voter turnout in the Tāmaki Makaurau byelection is abysmal so far, with just 3700 of the almost 44,000 eligible voters casting their vote. What do we make of this? Nearly 60,000 people have signed a petition to get NZ-born neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell deported back to NZ. Is he their problem or ours? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lynda La Plante is the queen of crime fiction. She has 50 novels to her name and is the creator of hit TV shows like Prime Suspect, Widows, and Above Suspicion. Her works place compelling and determined women centre stage – Anna Travis, Jane Tennison, and Lorraine Page just a few of them. La Plante's latest novel introduces a new lead detective, CSI Jessica Russell, as she brings together a team of scientists and experts to deal with a complicated and brutal crime. She joined Jack Tame to discuss the inspiration behind 'The Scene of the Crime' and its focus on forensics. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With Oriini Kaipara, Peeni Henare, and Teanau Tuiono

The fourth studio album from Auckland-based band The Beths, ‘Straight Line Was A Lie' explores some deeply personal topics within the band's classic indie-rock sound. Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the band's introspective album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether it's the government, international organisations, higher education, or the media, one of the defining dynamics of the social media age is the deteriorating trust in public institutions. It's extraordinary, really. At a time when humans are on the whole wealthier, healthier, and more dominant than at any other time in our species' history, we're more distrustful of the institutions that are supposed to serve us. Saturday Mornings is usually a monetary policy-free zone, and I promise to mostly keep it that way for now. But it was pretty remarkable at the close of play last night to see an announcement from the Finance Minister about the Chair of the Reserve Bank. Neil Quigley had resigned, effective immediately, following further revelations about his handling of former Governor Adrian Orr's departure. Nicola Willis confirmed to Newstalk ZB that if Quigley hadn't offered his resignation, she'd have asked for it. I don't expect everyone to follow all of the Reserve Bank dramas. But the long and short of it is that former Governor Adrian Orr got in a dispute with the government over the bank's funding. It turned into a showdown of sorts, the Reserve Bank Board raised concerns with him about his conduct (some of which he disputed), and after taking leave for a few days he ultimately resigned. But instead of being absolutely transparent about the dispute and what had actually happened, the RBNZ Chair Neil Quigley told media that Orr had resigned for “personal reasons”. If this was just some rando then no harm no foul. But Adrian Orr was the Governor of the Reserve Bank, one of the most powerful public servants in the country. His pen stroke and the decisions of his Monetary Policy Committee could be the difference between thousands or hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs or homes. Like many journalists, I didn't buy the “personal reasons” explanation and felt we all deserved to know more detail about what had actually happened. Ater all, this wasn't a private company. The Reserve Bank serves us. After Neil Quigley's explanation, and after the Reserve Bank declined for Adrian Orr to be interviewed, I even went to the extreme length of sending him a letter at his home asking him to front. It's something I'd almost never do, but the public deserved an explanation. And it's taken until now and a ruling from the ombudsman for us to get the full story. I think there are lessons in this for all of us who work in jobs that purport to serve the public. In my role, I think about trust a lot. And look, I know this is very different to the Reserve Bank, much lower stakes, but I had the chance to reflect on my own work this week, and tried to lean into the spirit of introspection and openness. I was on a podcast, re_covering, in which Newstalk ZB's Frank Ritchie asks journalists to reflect on a story they covered. I didn't choose one which I'd absolutely nailed. Instead, I reflected on my five years as TVNZ's US Correspondent, and on my surprise at the first election of Donald Trump. As I said on re_covering, the fact so many of us were so shocked by the result (including Trump!) shows I and the rest of the news media covering that election had done a massively insufficient job of reflecting the scale of the anger and dissatisfaction with the status quo in the US. That election changed the world. Ultimately, I hope reflecting on my surprise will make me more sceptical of conventional wisdom, and better at my job today. Humans are fallible. We all make mistakes. But the Reserve Bank episode demonstrates the best thing a public institution can do to protect its reputation is not try and protect its reputation. Just admit when you got things wrong. Admit things that make you look bad. Learn lessons the hard way. Convince the public you have nothing to hide by showing us you have nothing to hide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, lawyer and political commentator Liam Hehir and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! The Government announced some new changes designed to get overseas retailers fast-tracked in a bid to boost competition in the grocery sector. Do we think these changes will make a difference? Do we need to axe the Ministry for Women? With the gender pay gap dropping, what else could it really do? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement today - what do we make of Chris Luxon encouraging them to have the wedding here? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With Australia National University senior lecturer Dr Anas Iqtait, Whena Owen following up on access to Cape Palliser, Victoria University's Dr Andrew Lensen, Bagrie Economics chief economist Cameron Bagrie, and 1News' Te Aniwa Hurihanganui.

A true New Zealand music legend, Don McGlashan has written some of our most-loved tunes. From ‘Anchor Me' in his time with the Mutton Birds, through to his incredible work as a solo artist and his compositions for film and television. In 2023 McGlashan went on a very special tour around New Zealand, and off the back he's released his first solo live album – ‘Take It To The Bridge'. Although he's been part of the making of a dozen or more studio albums, McGlashan confessed to Jack Tame that he was never really interested in live albums. “It sort of surprised me, that in the middle of this tour,” “I suddenly felt this would be great, this is really special – I should be, we should be recording everything.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The third album from Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey, ‘A Matter of Time' represents a shift towards vulnerability and emotional expressiveness. Her two earlier albums were heavily influenced by the ‘Great American Songbook', filled with her now iconic blend of jazz, classical, and pop influences. ‘A Matter of Time' is a look inwards, Laufey's interest in seeing how she could draw out the “most flawed parts of [herself] and look at them directly in the mirror”. Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Growing your own vegetables is one way to stay sustainable in the kitchen, but it's not the only way to keep your food habits sustainable. It's not just about the garden, there are simple kitchen swaps that reduce waste and packaging, and Kate Hall joined Jack Tame to run through a few of them, including: DIY basics: making your own yoghurt, bread, or soda water (less packaging, fewer additives). Preserving and fermenting (e.g. sauerkraut, kombucha) is cheap, healthy, and reduces food waste. Planning meals to avoid throwing out food. Focus on the “use what you have” mindset. Buying in bulk and refilling pantry staples. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I like to try and kick things off on Saturday mornings with a bit of cheer, but I tell you what, it's hard to look beyond yet another bleak milestone in the appalling war in Gaza. Overnight, the UN-backed food security body has confirmed famine in Gaza City. It has officially reached that threshold, the first time famine has ever been declared in the Middle East. As the UN Secretary General declared, this is a man-made catastrophe. There are many, many third party countries that want to get more aid into Gaza. A shortage of food is not a problem, access is. Two years ago, immediately after the October 7th attacks, I said a few things on this show. I want to share with you again a few words from that day. “Israel has the right to exist in peace. Palestine should have the freedom of statehood. Both of those things can be true. The deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians is an appalling, utterly inexcusable act of violence. The systematic flattening of Gaza, no water, no power, no food, is an unacceptably brutal collective punishment for a huge civilian population where almost half of people are children. Both of those things can be true, too.” As the war has progressed, the scale and nature of Israel's reprisals has made it obvious to many millions of fair-minded people that a country born from the gravest atrocities last century is now also responsible for them. Figures from a leaked Israeli database this week suggest 83% of those killed in Gaza have been civilians. Of course, Israel denies genocide and war crimes. But independent verification is nigh impossible, as no journalists are allowed in and many of those on the ground have been killed in Israeli attacks. One of the many great tragedies for all of this is that it has become increasingly clear that Israel has played into Hamas' hands. Evil as the strategy might have been, Hamas wanted to spur an extreme and disproportionate response. Motivated by their own agendas and self-preservation, Israel's leaders fell for it. And now we have kids, mere minutes from the Mediterranean, with ribs sticking out of their skin, dying of malnutrition. The thing I still don't understand is how any Israeli leader thinks this will ultimately make their people safer. Maybe in the short-term Israelis can sleep easy at night, but every innocent person killed in Gaza breeds hate in five other survivors. The war in Gaza has condemned generations of Palestinians and Israelis to insecurity. I'll finish with a line I wrote and shared with you immediately after the October 7th attack, which sadly feels just as relevant today. “It's a cycle. Hate and violence is a cycle. There is no way for any party to kill and fight their way to a lasting peaceful resolution. Hamas' attack has spurred the Israeli reprisal. The reprisal will spur Palestinians into violence in the future, which in turn will spur an Israeli reprisal. Rinse the blood and repeat. Hate breeds hate breeds hate.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Jordan Williams from the Taxpayers' Union and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! The OCR dropped by 25 basis points to 3 percent today, with the MPC divided about the cuts. This indicates the economy is not in a good spot - where does this leave the Government? Winston Peters is offering to give public evidence at the Covid inquiry - is this a stunt? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pixies changed the alternative rock game forever. The legendary band out of Boston, Massachusetts has been credited by the likes of Kurt Cobain for their off the wall, guitar shredding influence. And they're making their way back to our shores soon with a very special set of shows. Pixies are playing two nights each in Auckland and Wellington – one night showcasing the entirety of Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde, and the other a collection of their greatest hits. The reason behind the two shows, guitarist Joey Santiago explained to Jack Tame, is twofold. “First of all, selfishly for me, we get to stay in the same city twice,” he said. “And I get to look around and relax, you know, so that's good for us.” The other reason caters to the fans, who Santiago says will be able to experience two different shows if they choose to go to both. It's been over 30 years since the release of both Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde, but in Santiago's opinion, they got them right the first time. “Every time we make a record, I'm proud of it,” Santiago explains. “After a while, when I get home I go, god damn ... did I do everything I can? Did I give it 100%?” “And I do, but it's like, y'know, what's more than 100%?” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With former finance minister Grant Robertson, 1News US correspondent Logan Church, Young Farmer of the Year Hugh Jackson, and Whena Owen on the Cape Palliser coast.

Volunteer numbers at grassroots and community sport clubs around the country are dwindling rapidly, with clubs having fewer than half the volunteers they had five years ago. It comes as the levels of referee abuse and disorderly behaviour on the sidelines rises, with volunteers facing abuse and vitriol from the public. However, there are still positives to getting involved – volunteer coach Haydn Jones joining Jack Tame for a chat about the pros of giving your time to a local team. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When it comes to managing stress, we often think about the big things —job loss, death of a loved one— but what about the everyday stressors? Things like buying a house, getting married, and speaking in public occur much more regularly, and can potentially have a bigger cumulative effect over time. Dr Dougal Sutherland joined Jack Tame to discuss the long-term impact of everyday stressors and what can be done to mitigate potential harm. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One half of the iconic Kiwi musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, Bret McKenzie is back with another solo album. ‘Freak Out City' is a collection of songs he developed while performing live across NZ and the US with his eight-piece band The State Highway Wonders. The album is eclectic, filled with comedic and theatrical elements, and Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on the album. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I think we are all served best by transparency in government. Leaders should be accountable for their decisions, and they should be willing to take our questions and answer them in a public format. But it's pretty clear to me the Covid Inquiry has fallen victim to bad and even cynical design, shaped by politics rather than a sincere desire to get a full accounting of our response. It's a shame, because it threatens to undermine some of the inquiry's more useful conclusions. It is a missed opportunity. In my view, there's plenty of blame to share. I think the first phase of the Covid Inquiry, introduced by the last government, missed some critical elements in its terms of reference. Worst of all was the decision not to include vaccine efficacy. For something so fundamental to the response, and so important to some New Zealanders that they were willing to lose relationships, jobs, and livelihoods over it, I think the effectiveness of vaccines and whatever slim risk they carried, should have been included. I think it's clear that different vaccines had different impacts on different variants. You can see how this might impact our procurement decisions in future. In principle, I supported expanding the inquiry until I saw the refreshed terms of reference. If it was to be a sincere effort to consider our Covid response, the good calls and the bad, in order to move forward and better prepare for the next pandemic shock, how could you leave out the first year of the response? Sure, much of the second phase of the Inquiry might have focused on vaccines, but it also focused on lockdowns and control measures. If you really cared about our Covid response, you'd start that line of inquiry with, you know, the start of the pandemic. To exclude the period when it wasn't just Labour in government and to exclude what have proved to be the more popular components of the government's response was disingenuous and cynical. The Covid-19 response was vast and complex. It's almost impossible to unpick every decision because you have to try and separate the information we have now from the information we had at the time. The virus has cast a long shadow in New Zealand. Our response undoubtedly saved a lot of lives, but it wasn't without costs. The pandemic might have been over ages ago, but the economic and social impacts endure. One thing I'd add to the Royal Commission's conclusions is that next time we need to find a better, respectful way to hear and consider dissenting views. Media obviously plays a critical role in this. But although I think we did a reasonable job last time, I reckon next time is going to be much more difficult. Depending on the circumstances, it may not massively change government policy or the public health response. Given the conspiratorial nature of the fringiest elements, it may be an impossible task. Nevertheless, I think one of the key lessons from the Covid years is that somehow making people feel heard and respected instead of ostracised is a vital part in preventing the worst of the societal division that still afflicts us, years on. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Auckland Councillor Maurice Williamson and Jack Tame from ZB's Saturday Mornings and Q&A joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins, Grant Robertson have all declined to be interviewed publicly by the Covid inquiry. Should they have fronted? Did Chlöe Swarbrick deserve to get booted out of Parliament today? Should she have apologised? What did we make of Debbie Ngarewa-Packer dropping the C-word in Parliament? The Education Minister is cutting Māori words from five-year-olds' school phonics books. Is this a bad look? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With Education Minister Erica Stanford, PM's Chief Science Advisor John Roche, and Vatican astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno.

Winter can feel drab and we often end up reflecting that feeling in what we wear. Layers on layers can leave you feeling like there's not a lot of room to play. So, how can you keep things feeling fun while staying warm... and sustainable? Creative connoisseur Evie Kemp joined Jack Tame for a chat about livening up your winter wear while still keeping things sustainable. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Full interview: Brother Guy Consolmagno is an astronomer, meteorite expert, and heads up the Vatican Observatory. While visiting New Zealand, the Jesuit spoke to Q+A about why science and religion aren't always in conflict. Jack Tame also asks him where he stands on the Fermi Paradox — is there intelligent life beyond Earth and, if so, why haven't we found it yet?

Guy Sebastian is an Australasian icon with a career that's nothing short of extraordinary. From winning the first season of Australian Idol back in 2003, to carving out a place on the charts, to mentoring new talent as a coach on The Voice Australia – he's been in the spotlight for over two decades. And now he's embarking on a new chapter with the release of his tenth album ‘One Hundred Times Around The Sun'. The album has taken Sebastian nearly five years to make, a much longer period than the typical six months to two years most artists these days create them in. He told Jack Tame that in the early stages of his career, he felt pressure to create quickly. “Don't take longer than a year,” Sebastian explained. “Or you'll disappear into obscurity.” “Then there's like, the pressure of doing the right thing by the fans, y'know, you don't wanna make them wait too long.” It's a mentality that used to govern much of Sebastian's process, but one that he's managed to grow beyond. “I just got to this point where like, I don't want to release anything until I'm stoked with it,” he told Tame. “I wanna love every song. I don't want a filler on there, I want every song to be great.” LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.