Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Desserts for One - Boozy caramelised pears
Pears, brown sugar and butter and a splash of brandy or rum and you’ve got a gorgeous dessert in under 15 minutes!
Serves one
1 pear, peeled, cored and quartered
1 tbsps butter
2 tbsps brown sugar
2 tbps brandy
Ice cream to serve
Crumbled shortbread to serve

In a small pan gently melt the butter and brown sugar until it is bubbling and syrupy. Do this without stirring it. Add in fruit and cook until fruit is tender. Splash in brandy, stir and simmer for 30 seconds.
Spoon into a warmed serving bowl and serve with ice cream and crumble shortbread on top for texture. Maybe serve with custard too!

Easy custard
½ cup milk + 1 tbsp (can use coconut, almond, rice or soy mylk too)
1 tbsp sugar
Few drops tsp vanilla extract
1 heaped tbsp custard powder
Heat milk, sugar and vanilla in a small saucepan. Mix custard powder with extra milk until it forms a lump free paste. Add this paste to warmed milk and bring to a simmer, stirring, until custard is thickened – about 5 minutes.
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Other great desserts for one:
Warmed spiced plums with icecream
Fruit crumbles
Baked apples

Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend.
Late NightKatherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a pioneer and legendary host on the late-night-talk-show circuit. When she’s accused of being a “woman who hates women,” she puts affirmative action on the to-do list, and—presto!—Molly (Mindy Kaling) is hired as the one woman in Katherine’s all-male writers’ room. But Molly might be too little too late, as the formidable Katherine also faces the reality of low ratings and a network that wants to replace her. Molly, wanting to prove she’s not simply a diversity hire who’s disrupting the comfort of the brotherhood, is determined to help Katherine by revitalising her show and career—and possibly effect even bigger change at the same time.Palm BeachA reunion party is being held at Palm Beach in Sydney by a group of lifelong friends.
 

Former broadcaster Kevin Milne knew the late Sir Brian Lochore as more than just a great rugby player.
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Jack talks to relationship expert Steven Dromgool about the red flags you should keep an eye out for in a new relationship.

People growing Monarch Butterflies tend to be very observant, especially when they think their precious caterpillars are under attack.
Newstalk ZB gardening contributor Ruud Kleinpaste joins Jack Tame to share his advice on keeping caterpillars safe and swan plants healthy.
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Have you ever wondered how the world’s top sportspeople deal with pressure?
From Arsenal players to the best All Blacks,  look no further than Doctor Ceri Evans.
After his own successful sports career, including time as an All White, he graduated in medicine with distinction, was a Rhodes scholar studying Experimental Psychology and these days is a forensic psychiatrist and sports psychologist.
He’s written a new book, Perform Under Pressure, that explains his strategies for dealing with stress for everyone, not just sportspeople but top performers from all areas.
Doctor Ceri joins Jack Tame to discuss his new book and his career in general.
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Who would want to be a young person these days? 


I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, Jack! What are you talking about? You’re young! You’re free! You have two thirds of your life ahead of you!
No no, I don’t mean me. I mean younger. Just a few years younger in the scheme of things... 8 or ten years younger. Generation Z, the first generation to grow up in a comprehensively digital World.
I’m lucky, really. I can still remember when my parents first bought our first computer. It ran MS DOS and took only floppy disks. You could play hangman but certainly not Fortnite or anything even mildly interesting. It took about five minutes and a two stroke engine for the computer to even switch on. It was barely worth it.
Years later, I remember my first foray into social media, MySpace and Bebo accounts. But they didn’t exist when I was in high school. I didn’t get a Facebook account until after university. As a teenager, I never had to deal with any of the pressures that come with likes and shares, and impossible body standards, and your friends who seem impossibly happy and perfect who then start bullying you and shunning you and neglecting you. I never had to deal with any of that as a teenager but those born just a few years later did.
I went to a public lecture the other night but a social psychologist and professor called Jonathan Haidt. He’s based at NYU in New York, but has published a book about what he calls the coddling of American minds, how generation Z is being set up fail.
His message really affected me. His data shows that young people spend up to six hours a day on social media.. the effects of that social media, are enormous. Depression, anxiety, and suicide rates have skyrocketed in the United States in people born after 1995.
It’s especially damaging in young women, which makes sense when you think about it. For whatever reason, physiological, psychological or whatever, boys are more inclined to sort out their differences by hitting each other, while girls are more inclined to participate in destructive emotional manipulation, the sort of bullying which can last years and have a huge impact on a person’s life. That sort of warfare is perfect for social media.
It seems absurd, don’t you think, that we worry about kids walking to school, we design playgrounds where they can’t get hurt, we get nervous about bullrush. And yet so many young people can freely play around on social media with no regulation or oversight whatsoever.
Generation Z might have it worse. But anyone who’s watched the documentary The Great Hack on Netflix will appreciate that all human beings are susceptible to the psychological tricks of social media. All of us are hard wired to want the dopamine hit that comes from a like or a share or the little red notification.  
But we’re being manipulated on a grand scale. Our data is being harnessed and used against us in mass propaganda campaigns.. again, with no oversight and no regulation. No way of checking the information we’re being fed alongside the photos of our old school friend’s new baby or our cousin’s new puppy.. is actually true.
The big tech companies don’t care. They don’t care that young people are being seriously damaged. They don’t care that populations are being fed propaganda and misinformation. They just see the dollars. Professor Jonathan Haidt says social media threatens the World as we know it, and I agree.

Looking for a new TV show to watch? Tara Ward joined Jack Tame this morning to reveal the best shows on TV this week!
Lambs of God: A dark, gothic tale about three nuns living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever (SoHo, 6 August).
This is Football: A documentary series that captures the emotions, stories, passions and triumphs surrounding the international sport of football (Amazon Prime Video) 
Veronica Mars: this cult show from the early 2000s about a teen private eye has been rebooted for 2019 (Neon)

Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend.
Fast and the Furious: Hobbs and Shaw
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, first faced off in 2015’s Furious 7, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they’ve tried to take each other down. But when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton (Idris Elba) gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever — and bests a brilliant and fearless rogue MI6 agent (The Crown’s Vanessa Kirby), who just happens to be Shaw’s sister — these two sworn enemies will have to partner up to bring down the only guy who might be badder than themselves.
The Public
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.

A tea cake is usually light textured, but moist, not overly sweet, and it’s usuially a simply flavored cake. Grapefruit makes a nice change from the other citrus,like lemon and orange.
¾ cup caster sugar
Zest from one grapefruit
120g soft butter
2 large eggs
½ cup sour cream
¼ cup fresh grapefruit juice
1 ½ cups plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ground cardamom
 
For the glaze:
1 cup icing sugar
1 tsp grapefruit zest
1-2 teaspoons grapefruit juice
1. Heat oven to 180 C. Grease and line a 20-23cm square cake tin.
2. Blitz sugar with zest until mixed, or rub together sugar and zest by hand. This stage extracts lots of flavour from the zest. Cream together the butter and sugar mix until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
3. Next bean in the sour cream and juice.
4. Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined. It will be a nice soft batter.
5. Scrape evenly in the prepared pan and bake for 30-35 minutes, until a skewer comes out with just a few moist crumbs attached.
6. Cool for 5 minutes and then carefully remove and set back a cooling rack to cool completely.
7. Mix together glaze ingredients and drizzle over cake to serve.