Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Kiwi musician Ladyhawke was a fixture of the late 2000s. 

In 2009, Pip Brown, better known as Ladyhawke, stormed to number one on the New Zealand albums chart in 2009 with her self-titled debut and hit song ‘My Delirium’, leading to a slew of music awards, and international tours. 

15 years later, she’s coming full circle, performing her debut album at the upcoming ‘Others Way’ festival in Auckland. 

Ladyhawke told Jack Tame that she has a few tours and shows coming up, but wanted to do something special for the 15 year anniversary.  

“I thought, why don't I do something special and do the first record front to back,” she said. 

“There's a couple of songs on it that I'd never played live before.” 

Although festival goers will be the only ones to get the full album experience, Ladyhawke has been playing a few of her older hits on her tours throughout the UK and Australia. 

“Everyone's just, like, really happy. And I love looking out and seeing everyone singing along,” she told Tame. 

“I know it's a bit of a nostalgia trip for people, which is, which is awesome for me too.” 

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Returning to the industry after four years, Grammy nominee Laura Marling has released her eighth studio album ‘Patterns in Repeat’. 

The album comes after the birth of Marling’s daughter, an 11 track work exploring motherhood and the circle of life. 

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on this new release from the celebrated folk musician. 

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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey  

John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. 
 
A fundamental principle of our legal system is a presumption of innocence, but once someone has been found guilty, there is very little room to prove doubt. These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse. 
 
Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, Framed is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you. 

The Elements of Marie Curie by Dava Sobel  

For decades Marie Curie was the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings, and despite constant illness she travelled far and wide to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. She is still the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. 
 
Her ingenuity extended far beyond the laboratory walls; grieving the death of her husband, Pierre, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne, devotedly raised two daughters, drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I, befriended Albert Einstein and inspired generations of young women to pursue science as a way of life. 
 
Approaching Marie Curie from a unique angle, Sobel navigates her remarkable discoveries and fame alongside the women who became her legacy – from Norway’s Ellen Gleditsch and France’s Marguerite Perry, who discovered the element francium, to her own daughter, Irene, a Nobel Prize winner in her own right. The Elements of Marie Curie deftly illuminates the trailblazing life and enduring influence of one of the most consequential figures of our time. 

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The US Presidential Election is coming in hot, with Election Day set to arrive on November 5th. 

Jack Tame is over in New York at the moment, and this week, instead of sharing his own thoughts, Kevin Milne decided to pick Jack’s brain about the race and the current state of US politics. 

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2024 has been a tricky year for many organisations and businesses – whether it be through having to make significant changes or being affected by the current economic environment. Now is a good time to stop and take stock of how the year has impacted on your people. One great way to do this is through a psychosocial risk assessment.  

What’s a psychosocial risk assessment? It looks at all the psychological and social hazards in a workplace that can potentially cause mental or physical harm to your people.  

Some easy examples are:  

• Bullying  
• Micromanagement  
• High workloads  
• Less obvious examples include  
• Job insecurity  
• Lack of clear role description  
• Physical work environment e.g., spending all your working day in the cab of a crane  

Psychosocial hazards are a leading cause of mental health problems at work (e.g., stress, depression, anxiety) and also physical health problems (e.g., musculoskeletal problems, high blood pressure, heart problems). Now is a good opportunity to look at what hazards are at your place to set your people and organisation up to perform at their best in 2025.  

First steps you should take:  

• Make sure management is involved and supportive – you’ll hit a ceiling in how far this can go if they’re not on board. If they need any convincing, there have been a number of cases in court recently where organisations have been fined anywhere between $50k and $1.8million for not looking after the mental health of their staff  
• Talk to staff to find out what things are really like at the coal face. Leaders can sometimes make the mistake of thinking they know all the ins and outs of an organisation and while they will know some of it, nothing beats talking to people who are actually doing the job  
• Look at data you already have, e.g. are there areas with high levels of sick leave or with high annual leave balances – why might this be the case?  

Lastly, you might need to call in the external experts, which is where organisations like ours can help out. 

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"Beyond the undeniable dazzle of Disneyland, the Orange County city of Anaheim rewards the explorer with a slew of surprising experiences and eye-opening cultural encounters. With the 2024 White House race top of mind, get your fill of presidential prestige, by taking a jaunt through the Richard Nixon Presidential Library."

"The historic heart of the city is known as Anaheim Colony, in deference to the original German settlement that took root in 1867, developing Anaheim as a wine production settlement. Anaheim takes its name from the Santa Ana river and the German word for home, ‘heim.”"

Read Mike's full article here.

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On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 2nd November 2024, Kiwi music legend Ladyhawke reflects on her career as she prepares to circle back in time and perform her debut album at Auckland's Others Way festival. 

Jack considers the qualities that define the US presidential race. And, Kevin Milne quizzes Jack in an open conversation about his take on the election. 

Can AI create an app tracking presidential race calls across networks in real-time? Tech expert Paul Stenhouse put AI to the test and shares his learnings. 

Sporto Andrew Saville spills all on the packed weekend of sport and Estelle Clifford gushes about the brand-new album from indie darling Laura Marling. 

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Taylors Jaraman 2022 Shiraz $26

Why I chose it:  

I needed a big rich Aussie red to match my braised lamb shanks. Taylors is my “go to” wine producer when I’m looking for a classic Barossa-style red (this is made from a blend of Clare Valley and McLaren Vale grapes).  

What does it taste like?  

An intense wine with rich, ripe berry-fruit, vanilla, black pepper and chocolate/mocha flavours.  

Why it’s a bargain:  

It delivers more bang for the buck than just about any other red wine I can think of. I don’t know how they can make a wine of this quality at such a modest price.  

Where can you buy it?  

The Good Wine Co., Auckland $25.99 

Whiskeyonline, Auckland $25.99 

Winesale.co.nz, Lower Hutt $25.99  

Food match?  

Braised lamb shanks or similar hearty roast lamb dishes  

Will it keep?  

It is delicious now but should become even mellower and more complex in a few years.   

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Seeing as Jack’s in the US (and we are home in NZ) it might be nice to just grab a few plants, structures, and colours that belong in our hearts and minds.

If I remember well, America has some stunning trees, shrubs, and plants that knock the eyeballs out of your head. What I remember well are the dogwoods, known here by their Genus name of Cornus.  

This is a brilliant tree from Athens (Georgia):  

Just so you know: we can grow these here too – flowering in spring and often deep autumn colours too. Easy in full sun and part shade with fertile, well-drained soils  

Julie would also go with “white” and “America”.  

Some years ago, she took some cuttings from an ancient plant that grew around a very ancient building, here in the Halswell Quarry – that building is now history, but the cuttings are not!  

The Philadelphus (also known as a Mock Orange) hails from the American New World, is easy to grow and known for its magnificent, sweet scent.  

Juuls grows it on a fence – you can also grow it as a shrub or even a wobbly hedge.  

It loves sunlight and well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter. Don’t let it dry out too much – water every now and then but don’t make it too wet.  

Mulch is useful, as is some general fertiliser every now and then plus some potash before it flowers in spring. Take cuttings in Autumn… Easy!  

I am a fan of spectacular colours.  

And you simply can’t get past dense blues. A Meconopsis was “born” in South-East Asia and there are many, many species. Unfortunately, they have quite a few negative ‘habits’. 

They are tricky to grow and often short-lived. Very difficult to successfully sow as seeds (sow them in late summer) and are very sensitive when you want to split them up by diversion to plant them in early spring.  

Part shade, and no full sun, and a nice mulch of rotten manure or compost – it feels like spoilt brat.  

Despite all this, it’s a plant known as “Blue Poppy” and belongs to the Papaver Family  

We’ve managed a couple of successes, and it makes me go down the garden when they flower.  

This is what I call “Spectacular”. 

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Can AI build an app? Tech expert Paul Stenhouse puts it to the test.

I had an idea. ‘All The Calls’ - an app that tracks presidential race calls across networks in real-time. It absolutely is possible, however it's not without its headaches and frustrations. But wow – it is absolutely impressive.   

You need to be very, very good at describing things. I have never thought about my words so much. 

Things I learned:  

• You absolutely need to still be technical.  
• Once you head down a bad path with the AI Bot you're stick on that track.  
• Was it a total pain in the backside at times? Yes.  
• Did I find myself in frustrating loops fixing something only for it to break again on the next prompt? Yes.  
• Did it suggest some terrible solutions? Yes.  
• Do I think my mum could have built this? No... but maybe with some learning.  

Over the course of the week, I found my rhythm on how to interact with it. What context it needs, what words to use.   
  
The takeaway: it actually showed me the power of communication, and the need for the skill to communicate.   

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