Afternoons for Monday 5 August 2024

Announcing the next Jesse's Reading Party! 

Join us for a guilt-free spot of reading, surrounded by like-minded book enthusiasts. This time it's Wellington's turn! Book your place here.

1:15 Are we too comfortable with credit cards?

Have you ever got to the end of the month and been surprised by the state of your credit card bill? It's a smack in the face felt by many: according to the reserve bank New Zealanders had $6.1. billion outstanding on credit cards. 

Nadine Higgins is a financial advisor at enable.me.  She tells Jesse how credit cards make us spend more.

1.25 Delayed flights? GPS to the rescue 

If you've ever experienced the frustration of a flight cancellation because of bad weather, my next guest could have some good news for you. Two new satellite dishes in Southland are set to mean fewer weather-related flight disruptions, thanks to cutting edge GPS technology. The satellites are part of the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network or SouthPAN.

Jesse talks to LINZ director of customer delivery Michael Appleyard. 

1.35 30 years of Duffy Books

The Duffy Books in Homes initiative will no doubt be familiar to many New Zealanders. It was established by author, Alan Duff to help break the cycle of booklessness in Kiwi homes. The programme is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month and a special book has been published to help mark the milestone.

Jesse talks to actor and director Jeff Szusterman about working with the organisation and the 'Duffy and the Bullies' graphic novel.

1:45 Number 1 album: Apols Crash by Dave Matthews Band

 

2:10 Television Critic: Caitlin Cherry

Caitlin is all about Olympics coverage and sporting documentaries today, She talks to Jesse about the coverage on Sky Sport Now, the documentaries Simone Biles Rising and Sprint. She also discusses new asteroid sci fi drama Salvation. 

2:20 Made in NZ: Ben Fulton 

Not many people understand the pro's and cons of local manufacturing like Ben Fulton from Red Witch guitar pedals. He started off manufacturing pedals in his garage, scaled up, attracted VC funding and offshored manufacturing to Taiwan. While that allowed them to manufacture at greater scale, it came with its own drawbacks. 

2.30 Expert Feature: the life and times of a commercial saturation diver

Steve Te Tai is a commercial diver with over 20 years' experience. His career has taken him from scuba diving in Northland to the peak of the industry and a life of huge money and huge risk - saturation diving in offshore oil fields.  

3:10 Feature interview: Treat yourself

 Dr Jacqueline Rifkin is an assistant professor at Cornell University who studies how we manage our money and experiences. She says it’s time to consider the cost of putting off the odd indulgence such as stress or missing out on an experience that will have lasting impact.  Dr Rifkin says we can fall victim to what’s called the “specialness spiral”, making ordinary thing feel like treasures, if we delay gratification for too long. Her plea to just eat the chocolate from time to time is in an article for The Wall Street Journal called “The Downside of Delayed Gratification”

3:35 Here Now

We're kicking off a new series of Here Now today. In this four part series of conversations, Kadambari Raghukumar talks to four black women in Aotearoa New Zealand about their experiences across different lines of work from medicine to activism and academics. 

In part one she talks to Dr Carolyn Providence about moving from the tiny Caribbean island of St Vincent to New Zealand. 

3:45 The pre-Panel