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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from newstalk ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: It is twenty three minutes past ten on news Talks Z'B,

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Speaker 2: Jack Tame in the hot Seat, and it is screen

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Speaker 2: Timetime on Saturday Morning. Tara Reward, our screen time expert,

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Speaker 2: is here. Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Three shows as always to work through this morning. Let's

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Speaker 2: start off with the show streaming on Apple tv plus,

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Speaker 2: tell Us About Pachenko.

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Speaker 3: This is a new season of what is probably one

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Speaker 3: of Apple tv Plus's best TV shows. And if you

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Speaker 3: love a sweeping historical epic series, this is one I

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Speaker 3: would really recommend. It's based on a best selling book

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Speaker 3: and it's a historical family saga about four generations of

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Speaker 3: one Korean family who believe they are living under a

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Speaker 3: curse and over successful generations, they try to break that curse,

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Speaker 3: to end the suffering their experiencing and to make life

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Speaker 3: better for their children. And when I call this a

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Speaker 3: sweeping historical epic, that's because it takes place over three

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Speaker 3: different countries, over four different generations and spans eighty years.

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Speaker 3: And there's three different languages spoken in this as well,

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Speaker 3: So it starts in Korea in nineteen fifteen. There's a

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Speaker 3: storyline in New York in the late eighties and another

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Speaker 3: in Japan and World War Two, so it covers a lot.

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Speaker 3: The scale in this is huge, but it it pulls

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Speaker 3: all those different stories together in a really compelling, beautiful

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Speaker 3: way that always makes sense even though the timelines jump

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Speaker 3: around a lot. This is a show that will take

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Speaker 3: you to another time and place. It's a drama that

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Speaker 3: you'll just want to savor and sort of sink into

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Speaker 3: and just really really enjoy. The costumes are incredible, the

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Speaker 3: photography is beautiful. It's just, you know, like just such

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Speaker 3: a big, broad, sweeping series. It's just so impressive.

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Speaker 2: Ah sounds great, Okay, cool. That is Pacenko. It's on

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Speaker 2: Apple TV Plus on Neon. Industry.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, change of pace and tone completely. This is Industry,

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Speaker 3: which is a show I've talked about before. This is

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Speaker 3: an HBO drama about five young financial graduates who are

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Speaker 3: all compete for a job in an investment bank in

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Speaker 3: the city of London. And it takes place just after

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Speaker 3: the global financial crisis in two thousand and eight. And

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Speaker 3: these graduates are coming into a really ruthless, unforgiving, high

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Speaker 3: pressure environment and they are expected to do whatever it

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Speaker 3: takes to win that position. It's a really intense, fast

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Speaker 3: paced drama and sort of a mix of shows like

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Speaker 3: Succession and Billions and Suits. There's lots of characters here

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Speaker 3: who don't always behave well or make the right decisions.

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Speaker 3: There's lots of mind games and power games, and you

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Speaker 3: know they work hard and play hard as well, and

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Speaker 3: you know it's a stress little environment that brings out

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Speaker 3: the worst in people, but that always makes for really

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Speaker 3: compelling television. This is a series that gets better as

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Speaker 3: it goes along. It's HBO, so you know that it

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Speaker 3: is going to be a quality drama. There's two seasons

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Speaker 3: already on Neon and the third season has just dropped

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Speaker 3: this week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah cool, Okay, that's industry. It's on Neon and Marlow

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Speaker 2: Murder Club is on TVNZ plus.

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Speaker 3: This is a new British murder mystery series. It's just

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Speaker 3: started and if you're looking for something light and comfortable

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Speaker 3: and easy to watch this weekend, this would be my recommendation.

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Speaker 3: This is about a retired archaeologist whose neighbor is murdered,

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Speaker 3: and when the police refuse to do anything about solving

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Speaker 3: the crime, she decides to take matters into her own

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Speaker 3: hands and with a couple of new friends, decides to

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Speaker 3: turn amateur sleuthan and start investigating the murder herself. And

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Speaker 3: it's everything you would expect from a light, picturesque English

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Speaker 3: murder mystery. The scenery is beautiful, You've got some quirky

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Speaker 3: characters in here as well, and you know that everything

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Speaker 3: is going to be tied up in a nice bar

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Speaker 3: at the end. It's not the kind of show that's

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Speaker 3: going to set the world on fire. It's more of

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Speaker 3: a comfort, cozy watch. But that's exactly the appeal of it.

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Speaker 3: If you like shows like My Life Is Murder or

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Speaker 3: The Broken Wood Mysteries, this is a similar kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: Oh cool, Okay, that sounds really good. So those shows

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Speaker 2: once again. Marlow Murder Club is on TVNZ plus, Industry

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Speaker 2: is on Neon IM Pachinko is on Apple TV plus.

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Speaker 2: I've got another recommendation just to add to your list, Tara,

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Speaker 2: and this is I've got to be perving ours. This

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Speaker 2: is one for the uber nerds out there. Okay. I

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Speaker 2: have just finished turning Point the Bomb and the Cold War?

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Speaker 2: Have you heard of that? Does that come across your war?

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Speaker 3: I have not heard of that one.

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Speaker 2: So it's on Netflix. It's a ten part documentary series. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so that align that line right there has probably lost

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Speaker 2: three coups of the people listening right now. But it

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Speaker 2: is a ten part documentary series looking at nuclear proliferation,

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Speaker 2: the Cold War, the end of the USSR, and the

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Speaker 2: rise of the Russia Ukraine conflict. It's really interesting, I

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Speaker 2: swear it's so interesting, and they have amazing interviewees, like

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Speaker 2: just incredible world leaders, incredible journalists. It is honestly super compelling.

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Speaker 2: Even if you're kind of familiar with most of the history. Now,

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Speaker 2: all these all things I've never heard of, all these

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Speaker 2: little like tidbits, little little moments from history that I'd

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Speaker 2: never heard about, and they just had amazing pictures of them. Like,

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Speaker 2: for example, just to give you an example, after the

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Speaker 2: USSRFL right after the Soviet Union broke up and became

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Speaker 2: independent states, lots of the newly independent states found themselves

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Speaker 2: with nuclear weapons but no nuclear expertise. So, for example,

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Speaker 2: Kazakhstan found itself with all these nuclear weapons but no

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Speaker 2: idea what to do with them. And so the Americans

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Speaker 2: had to go through this big effort to try and

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Speaker 2: to try and lock down the nuclear weapons, and the

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Speaker 2: Russians had to go and try and lock down the

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Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. And then I'd never heard the story, which

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Speaker 2: is interesting because I love reading about this kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: But there was this little factory in the middle of

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Speaker 2: nowhere in Kazakhstan, the middle of nowhere, total backwaters of

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Speaker 2: Kazakhstan who quietly got in touch with the US embassy

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Speaker 2: to say that they had something they wanted to give

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Speaker 2: to the Americans, six hundred kgs of highly enriched uranium

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Speaker 2: which was enough to make twenty nuclear bombs. And like

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Speaker 2: that had just been like sitting in a garage. Stuff

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Speaker 2: like that. Right, It's just super interesting and they've got

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Speaker 2: amazing pictures in that kind of thing. So anyway, that

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Speaker 2: is my pick for the nerds out there open news.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe if you've got COVID or something

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Speaker 2: like that, you forced to sit on the couts for

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Speaker 2: the next week. Turning point, the bomb in the Cold

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Speaker 2: War is my pick.

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Speaker 3: Incredible. Yeah, But I love that, with so much content

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Speaker 3: these days, Jack, that there is something out there for everyone.

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Speaker 3: I love that you found that niche piece of television

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Speaker 3: that you just love.

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Speaker 2: I love that I love that you can justify my taste.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Tara Award, our screen Time Expert.

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Speaker 2: Those shows will all be up on the News Talks

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Speaker 2: dB website if you want to watch them at home.

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