Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Billed as “Australia’s clean living expert”, Luke Hines is a living example of living a good life.
Made famous by My Kitchen Rules, he’s now an author of multiple cookbooks, a personal trainer and chef.
He’s in New Zealand for the Food Show, and joined Jack in studio. 
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When I was a kid, I remember sitting at my great grandma’s 100th birthday and listening to my Dad make a speech where he listed all the things she’d lived through.
It was 2003. I was 16. And here, sitting at my table was a woman who could remember the great war. Who was born well before women in her home of Britain had the right to vote. Forget Apple computers and Tesla electric cars. My great grandma could remember the excitement of the Titanic from before it sunk. 
If you’ve got young children, or young grand children, it can be such an interesting exercise to pair them up with the oldest person in your family and compare each others’ experiences. Sometimes I find myself thinking about what I’ll wow my great grand children with. Yep, I was born before household computers were the norm. I remember the time well before social media. I even remember thinking my younger sister’s cell phone and text messaging habit was a passing fad. 
I find it interesting to consider some of the social and societal things too. Zoos for example, will they still exist in the same form in a few hundred years? I love going to the zoo. And zoos do amazing conservation and protection work. But is it entirely inconceivable that there will be some big push against them in decades or centuries to come? That humans will come to think of zoos as being barbaric? Maybe not.
Speaking of animals, I think the same with meat. Is it possible that if I make it to 100, I’ll be sitting at a table with my sixteen year old great granddaughter, dazzling her with tales about how just a few short years ago, a majority of people on this planet ate real animal products? That’s right, not synthetic steaks or plant milks but real meat! Real dairy! From a cow and everything!
It’s fun to play this game. But I’m sorry to bring it up for macabre reasons. The U.S Justice Department is resuming federal executions. Numerous states in America have always executed people under state law, but after a long hiatus and a temporary ban, the federal government has scheduled five executions and is resuming its practice of capital punishment.  
It’s one of those interesting contrasts between America and Europe. The EU is fundamentally and absolutely opposed to capital punishment, it won’t sell anything to any country that it believes is assisting in a state killing its citizens.
To be fair, this isn’t just a Trump thing. I’m not pinning all the blame on him. And I’m also not advocating for dangerous criminals to be released onto the street. 
But I think a state that decides through a considered judicial process to kill one of its own citizens against their will, is the very definition of barbaric. It feels like a practice from the middle ages. 
Truly, a state that executes people is uncivilised.
Perhaps one day our great grandkids will look back and wonder how we humans ever let it happen.

This week, Andrew's reviewing The Black Keys' new album Let's Rock. To hear what he thinks, listen above.

You’ll never see me again - Lesley Pearce
When her husband returns shell-shocked and broken from the Great War and his mother makes her life a misery, Betty Wellow discovers how bitter and hard life can truly be. But it is not until a devastating storm sweeps through their small fishing village and endangers her life, that she sees her chance to escape – and takes it.Fleeing to Bristol, she changes her name to Mabel Brook and takes a position as a maid. But tragedy strikes once more after the sudden death of her mistress and she is cast back onto the streets.Penniless and alone Mabel suffers a brutal attack before being rescued by a psychic named Nora Nightingale. There she gets her first taste of those who receive messages from the dead and realises she may have this gift herself. But it isn’t long before Mabel receives her own message and is forced back to the very place she has escaped. A place of heartbreak and perhaps even murder – but Mabel realises that to secure her future she must confront her past one last time. 
The Electric Hotel - Dominic Smith 
The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey— America’s first movie town—and on the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious film studio and one man’s doomed obsession with all that passes in front of the viewfinder

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Travel guru Mike Yardley's been in Copenhagen, and has all the tops for how to get the most out of your stay.LISTEN ABOVE

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Last November, the people of the Bay of Plenty initiated the creation of the "Bay of Plenty National Park". 
That means more trees, more green, better air, fewer particles, less crime, cooler summer temperatures and cleaner water run-off. 
Ruud is super excited about the plan, you can hear more in the link above.

Ecoman Malcolm Rands knows a thing or two about washing clothes, after founding Ecostore with its range of green cleaning products.This week he joined Jack to talk about the best ways to wash - or not wash - your clothes. Wear it more than onceLevis say wash your jeans every 2 weeks instead of dailyDon’t iron things unless essentialHang your clothes as soon as the washing machine finishes
Use an eco detergentPlant-based instead of petroleum-based surfactantsIf you choose the right brand it means you don’t end up with the residues of nasty chemicals up against your skin 24/7
Use the most concentrated detergent Many are filled with fillers and water to make it look as though you are getting a bargainUsing something more concentrated means you save money tooWash by handMakes your clothes last longer tooUse an energy efficient front loader machine This uses half the water of a top loaderWash on cold cycle 90% of the energy goes into heating the water and only 10% in running the machineIf clothes are very dirty, then hot is goodHang your clothes out to dryNothing like sun dried clothes, it kills bugs tooIf you have to use a dryer, keep the lint draw clean and try a shorter dry timeDon’t dry cleanPerchloroethylene (also called "perc") is nasty stuffIf you have to, then search out a healthy dry cleaner or ask yours to change

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Paul Stenhouse's tech news this week. It’s the beginning of the end for Apple’s busted keyboard design?
It’s been a sore spot for a good few years now, but Apple is going to finally change course.
Fixing the mistake is going to be a slow process though. The new scissor keyboard mechanism will debut on the 16” MacBook Pro rumored for September.. then over 2020 and 2021 the other models will be refreshed.
 
The International Space Station is getting prepared for new visitors?
Space X and Boeing are both developing spacecraft to go to the international Space Station.. one of Space X’s is on a cargo mission there now.. and also inside that cargo is an “International Docking Adaptor”.. it’s the second of its kind and will allow these new aircraft to dock at the ISS — and even be able to dock by themselves. So that’ll be two parking spots effectively for commercial craft.. and maybe even more space tourists?
 
Snapchat stepping out from the shadows?
Snapchat was talked about as the third social network for a while.. FB, Twitter, Snap.. but then it slowed way way down when IG stole its stories concept and they did a bizarre untested redesign. Well it’s been two years but its back.. for the first time ever it hit 200MM daily active users. Snap says it’s different because its a “delete by default” platform and is all about privacy.
 
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NEWSTALKZB – Tomato, bean & chorizo soupSmokey, rich and filling this soup is a favourite in my house. Beans can take a while to cook but other than that it really is a very quick to put together soup.
Serves 2-4
1 cup dried 3 bean mix, soaked overnight, or using tinned is fine
1 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
100g chorizo, sliced thickly
400g can crushed tomatoes
1 tsp smoked paprika
2-3 cups water or vegetable stock
Salt and pepper to season
Store-bought pesto to serve
Grated parmesan to serve

Drain beans and rinse well. In a large saucepan, cover beans with plenty of water and add salt. Bring to the boil and cook for 10 minutes then reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes or until soft and creamy to the bite. Drain again and set aside.
Rinse the pot casually, add oil and sauté onions for 1-2 minutes then add in chorizo and fry until it releases its lovely orange oil. Pour in tomatoes, add the paprika, the cooked beans and enough of the water/stock to your desired consistency. Simmer and taste, then season with salt and pepper.
Serve in bowls topped with a dollop of pesto and sprinkling of parmesan.

Nici’s note:
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Booksmart: "Academic overachievers Amy and Molly thought keeping their noses to the grindstone gave them a leg up on their high school peers. But on the eve of graduation, the best friends suddenly realize that they may have missed out on the special moments of their teenage years. Determined to make up for lost time, the girls decide to cram four years of not-to-be missed fun into one night -- a chaotic adventure that no amount of book smarts could prepare them for."The Keeper: "A young English woman and a soccer-playing German POW overcome prejudice, public hostility and personal tragedy near the end of World War II."
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