Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

Suzy Cato is a cornerstone of Kiwi children’s entertainment.
Her TV shows and podcasts are beloved by children and adults alike – ‘You and Me’ in particular holding a special place in the hearts of the audience who grew up with it.
It delivered over 2000 episodes since it began in 1993, and is credited as one of the first children’s programmes to weave te reo Māori into everyday conversation.
And now, 33 years later, Cato has released a brand-new season of the beloved show on YouTube, saying it’s needed in an increasingly fast-paced world.
“We’ve had so many parents say, oh I wish there was something like ‘You and Me’, that was slow and gentle and conversational, and would provide kids an oasis the way they had as children,” she told Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame.
They’ve released nine new episodes over the last month or so, and Cato says they’ve already been getting amazing feedback from parents.
“So many of our kids are, you know, so used to, to a faster pace,” she said.
“We are getting feedback that the programme is still engaging kids, so that they will be zooming around the room and then they'll come to sit down and actually enjoy some interaction with Auntie Suzy.”
33 years is a bit of a gap, but it was easy enough for Cato to get back into the swing of things when making this new season.
“We were very, very lucky – Rex Simpson was an amazing creator,” she told Tame
Simpson was the executive producer and director behind programmes like ‘What Now’, ‘Play School’, and of course, ‘You and Me’.
“[He] created such good templates,” Cato explained.
“So it was easy to use that template, and we didn’t have to change a thing basically."
Suzy received a little birthday surprise when she came in for the chat.
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Kevin Milne was recently sent a parking infringement notice from Rotorua.
Only thing is, Kevin lives in Wellington, and hadn’t been anywhere near Rotorua at the time of the supposed crime.
So is it a scam? A mistake? Either way, he’s decided not to pay for it.
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American ska punk band has released a new album.
Coming thirty years after their last release, ‘Until the Sun Explodes’ is the first to feature singer and guitarist Jakob Nowell – replacing his father Bradley who died in 1996.
It’s the band’s fourth and final studio album and a tribute to the late lead singer.
Chris Schulz joined Jack Tame to share his thoughts on the album.
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The Fourth Option by Jack Carr
Disillusioned by the government and institutions he dedicated his life to serving, former Navy SEAL and CIA ground branch operative Chris Walker is about to end his life when he receives a call that saves it. The wife of a teammate he lost in Afghanistan has now lost her son to the opioid crisis and needs Walker’s help. Thrust into a conspiracy that goes deeper than he ever imagined, Walker must go up against the system and the very Constitution he once swore an oath to support and defend in order to find justice for his friend’s widow.
With ambitious FBI agent Jarrett Stanton on his tail, Walker—accompanied by his loyal Belgian Malinois and using his off-the-grid VW pop-up camper filled with a hidden cache of weapons—takes the law into his own hands, exposing corruption and issuing a long-forgotten brand of lethal outlaw justice.

Stakes by Noelle McCarthy
You have to invite him in. You have to want the vampire’s badness in the house with you.
Growing up in Catholic Ireland, Noelle McCarthy is captivated by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The vampire is a risk-free fantasy, a suave alternative to the fraught realities of desire.
Twenty years later, exhausted by her unruly appetites, Noelle returns to Dracula, reckoning with her own history and a changing world: generation-spanning shame and trauma given voice by #Metoo and the horrors emerging from Irish soil.
More than a century after readers were first mesmerised by Dracula, Stakes transposes its electric themes of transgression, intoxication and sexual danger onto Noelle’s own life, asking; what's the difference between an inheritance and a curse?
A funny, visceral follow-up to the acclaimed Grand, Stakes celebrates the power of a gothic horror to help you face the parts of life that scare you most.

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Mighty Manhattan is best savoured in bite-sized chunks, to really get a feel for the essence of its respective neighbourhoods and a sense of its soul.
Greenwich Village is a star specimen for leisurely inspection, embodying so many classic elements of the Big Apple.
Mike Yardley joined Jack Tame to chat about his stay in the area.
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