Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

True crime is really having a moment, from podcasts about unsolved murders, to a slew of hugely popular Netflix documentaries.
Two of the most popular ones are Making a Murderer and The Staircase, both of which became watercooler chat for weeks after each release.
Lawyers from the two documentaries are on their way to NZ to discuss their cases and other cases of incorrect convictions.
One of these is attorney Laura Nirider who has represented Brendan Dassey, whose case was featured on Making a Murderer and Damien Echols, one of the exonerated young men of the West Memphis Three.
Laura joined Saturday Mornings with Jack Tame and explained her decision to represent individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes when they were children or teenagers. She also gave an insight into what goes on in her job and the pressures and demands of working with her clients.
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO ABOVE AS LAURA NIRIDER SPEAKS TO JACK TAME

Passion fruit custard tart
2 sheets sweet short pastry
500mls cups cream
½ cup caster sugar
Zest of one lemon
2 eggs + 3 yolks
2/3 cup lemon juice
Passionfruit pulp from 8 passionfruit + extra to serve
Whipped cream to serve
Serves 6
Line a fluted tart tin with pastry. Prick all over with a fork. Freeze for 15 minutes while you heat oven to 180 C and place a tray in to heat.
Bake pastry until golden. Reduce oven to 120 C. Brush inside with some lightly beaten egg yolk then return to oven to 5 minutes more.
Gently heat cream, sugar and zest in a saucepan until just trembling. Whisk eggs and remainder of egg yolks and slowly drizzle in warmed cream. Stir through lemon juice and passionfruit pulp. Strain through a sieve and then pour into cooled pastry case.
Bake for 50 minutes or until just set – the middle will still jiggle. Cool then refrigerate.
Serve with whipped cream and more passionfruit if you like.

It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself.
Sometimes I wonder if we human beings even count as being intelligent. Sure we can build skyscrapers, pilot aircraft, create beautiful symphonies, and send spacecraft to distant planets. But as a species we might just prove in the decades and centuries to come, that for all our smarts and technology, we can’t collectively sort our interests and fend off an existential threat.
Human intelligence, mighty as it may be, will prove no match for human nature.
Do you ever pause to wonder why of all the demographics, young people are the most concerned about climate change? Maybe it’s because they’re more idealistic. Or maybe everyone’s acting in their own interests. Older people, politicians, businesses, and lobby groups, with skin in the fossil fuel game, don’t worry too much about climate change because chances are it’s not going to dramatically affect their lives. They’ll be dead.
Young people do worry. They seriously worry. Because they know full well they’ll still be here to deal with the shitstorm around the corner.
A few weeks back we interviewed two of the Kiwi organisers of the upcoming School Strike for Climate Change action. Raven Maeder and Sophie Handford were articulate, intelligent, informed young women. The sort of people who give you a little sliver of hope that maybe destruction and mayhem isn’t inevitable after all.
These women put together a much more coherent argument than any of those I’ve heard against the School Strike.
So students will be out of school for a few hours? So they’ll inconvenience their parents and maybe even irritate their teachers? Last I checked, inconvenience is the whole idea.
Ask yourself this: is there not an irony that those of us from a generation that for so long thumbed its nose at overwhelming scientific evidence, should have the nerve to waggle our fingers and tsk tsk students for missing a few hours of education. 
I actually had a teacher friend message me the other day – I won’t mention his name – to ask for more information on the school strike so he could share it with his students. 
Maybe I’m old fashioned but if a Rugby World Cup or America's Cup victory parade, or a family holiday are good enough reasons to miss school, then surely impending global doom and a legitimate threat to the state of life on our planet is good for a few hours as well.
Remember that huge national protest in the U.S last year, that students from that Parkland High School organised after their school was shot up by a gunman? I’m sure they learnt more from that action than in a year of social studies classes. 
So if you have a school student who wants to protest this Friday, you should encourage them. I’m not talking about letting them wag school down and hang out at the dairy.  Challenge them to be informed, organised, to attend the protest, to see what they can achieve.
For what it's worth, sadly, I don’t think they’ll achieve much. Well... not much yet, anyway. Not immediately. Not directly. But that in itself is a valuable lesson. I hope at the very least, leading a protest, striking for a few hours might end up ranking as a significant moment in our young people’s loves. Every young person passionate and concerned enough to attend a protest, and to paint a banner or a sign, will in years to come live their lives, protest, and vote with the same concern.
We, the generations that have lived in self interest, we who are set to leave the World in a worse state than we found it, should always have the backs of those who are trying to clean up our mess.

Relationship counsellor Steven Dromgool joined Jack Tame to talk about why relationships can suffer after you have kids - and offered some practical tips on what to do about it. 
Practical tips for keeping your marriage on track after children:

Team work makes the dream work

Make sure you're working together, not only to look after your child, but also your relationship and romance.

Make sure you look after mum

Chemical changes in women during pregnancy and breastfeeding can lower their levels of serotonin, which means they need less sleep and can become slightly "obsessive" about their baby. However, dads don't automatically have the same chemical changes and can feel a bit left out. To make things easier, dads should be really present and take on the "protective role" in order to help mum relax. Also, dads need to be cuddling with baby daily to help form that bond. 

The three month rule

Accept that the first three months "will suck". To make them a bit better, dads should bring the "fun" back and make sure mum is getting some time away from baby, even if it's just 30 minutes in a different room. Also, make sure both baby and mum get lots of hugs.

Talk it out

After three months it's time for mum and dad to talk about how to build the connection and nurture their relationship. Lots of hugging and kissing is important for this one. As well as making sure mum and dad make their relationship the priority.
If you are six to nine months post baby and still don't have any romance in your relationship, that's when it's time to talk to someone, Steven said.

The Things we Cannot Say - Kelly Rimmer - Hachette
In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows.
It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz.
Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. 
To Kill the Truth - Sam Bourne - Hachette
Someone is trying to destroy the evidence of history's greatest crimes.
Academics and Holocaust survivors dead in mysterious circumstances. Museums and libraries burning. Digital records and irreplaceable proofs, lost for ever.
Former White House operative Maggie Costello has sworn off politics. But when the Governor of Virginia seeks her help to stop the lethal spiral of killings, she knows that this is bigger than any political game.
As Black Lives Matter protestors clash with slavery deniers, America is on a knife-edge and time is running out. This deadly conspiracy could ignite a new Civil War - but who stands to gain most from the chaos?
Taut, authoritative and explosive, To Kill the Truth takes us to the edge of anarchy, a world without truth in which history will be rewritten by those who live to shape it.
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO ABOVE AS BOOK REVIEWER CATHERINE RAYNES SPEAKS TO JACK TAME

Google wants to make your emails better
They already have the feature to help finish your sentences, now they want to make your you’re using the right grammar.
Never again will you need to worry about messing up an effect or affect, their or there.. Google will use machine learning to scan your email and when it sees an error will put a blue squiggly line under the word. So red is for spelling, blue is for grammar. It’s rolling out now to GSuite (business) customers.
If you don’t use G-Suite, Grammarly is an alternative to help you write better emails and notes.
Alexa is coming to your hospital room
I’m excited about this.. mainly because I am so reliant on my Alexa. I’ve been away the last week at a resort and keep wanting to ask her to turn off all the lights or turn on the TV. It would be so much easier than trying to find the righ switch!
Anyway, at Cedars-Sinai in LA, 100 hospital rooms now have an Alexa to help with exactly that.
Alexa turn the TV to ESPN.. or Alexa give me the news — but they’ve got some special commands too — Alexa tell my nurse I’m in pain.. Alexa tell my nurse I need to go to the bathroom.
It’ll send a message to the right person and they’ll be able to help you out, all hands free.
Microsoft’s employees don’t want their high tech helping war.. what’s happening here?
Microsoft’s augmented reality headset, the Hololense, has captured the imagination of the US Army, but that’s angered the folks who are building it. 50 of the team have signed a letter saying they didn’t sign up to make a weapon of war and that the almost $500m contract should be terminated.
The headset can project information, maps and more into the line of sight of the user. So imagine the headset could put the face of the target right there to reference. Or like a video game, put a map up showing the layout of the area, where your fellow soldiers are. No word yet from Microsoft on what they’ll do.
Paul Stenhouse is the Technology Contributor on Saturday Morning with Jack Tame.

Can't decide what TV shows you should be watching? TV critic Tara Ward joins Jack Tame to gives us her top picks for your viewing pleasure!
The Widow - Kate Beckinsale stars as a British widow whose search to uncover the mysterious disappearance of her husband leads her to the Congo (Amazon Prime Video)
Cricket Fever - Mumbai Indians: a behind the scenes documentary series about cricket team Mumbai Indians, as they try to retain the IPL championship in 2017 (Netflix)
Better Things: the return of the award-winning comedy drama about a single mother raising three daughters in Los Angeles (Lightbox)
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If you google Chloe Phillips-Harris, an almost unbelievable collection of headlines pops up.
She has snowboarded behind a camel through the Gobi Desert, was detained in Kazakhstan after immigration officials refused to believe New Zealand was a country and was part of a group who came up with a new sport  ‘horse wakeboarding’.
She’s written a new book 'Fearless: The life of adventurer, equestrian and endurance rider Chloe Phillips-Harris' about her adventures and joined Saturday Morning with Jack Tame to discuss her amazing journeys around the world.
LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW ABOVE

Every Saturday morning, movie critic Francesca Rudkin joins Jack Tame to take a look at what is playing at the movies this weekend.
Celia
Directed by award-winning current affairs journalist Amanda Millar, this documentary celebrates the life of equality advocate Celia Lashlie. The first female prison officer in a male prison in New Zealand, Lashlie fought to get people the tools for making responsible decisions, from female prisoners to fatherless boys to impoverished children. Lashlie had a particular focus on empowering mothers. The documentary was filmed over the last months of her life, following a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Celia premiered at the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival.
Swimming with Men
When accountant Eric, (Brydon), seeks to win back his wife Heather (Horrocks), he stumbles upon a solution in the form of a male synchronised swimming team: Men Who Swim. Joining his local team, Eric finds brotherhood in this crew as they train for the world championships in Milan.

Listen to Jack Tame's editorial above as he shares his thoughts on disgraced Cardinal George Pell and what can be done to stamp out sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.