Sunday Morning for Sunday 28 August 2022

8:10 Wrap of the All Blacks vs Argentina match 

The All Blacks were heavy favourites with punters at the NZ TAB ahead of last night's first Rugby Championship test against Argentina - they'd beaten Argentina 31 times, and there'd been one loss and a draw.

But a game we would normally have seen as routine for the ABs of course was not because of what happened twice against the Irish and once against the Springboks.

RNZ's Clay Wilson is going to be at the match. He joins Jim for a break down of the game. 

8.20 Calling home from Lexington Kentucky 

Stuart Muir lives in Lexington, Kentucky, the horse capital of the world, and Stuart's a farrier at the world-famous, world-leading, Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital. He's originally from Canterbury, he used to shoe Mark Todd's horses once upon a time.

Stuart is this week's Calling Home guest. 

9:06 Mediawatch

This week Hayden Donnell talks to a comedian caught up in current affairs - and we hear about interview opportunities for the PM going begging. 

And Colin Peacock looks at why a group of experts wants big changes to the legislation for our new public media entity. 

9:37 Simon Gault with some brunch making tips

With the weather warming and people feeling more social a Sunday brunch with friends could be on the cards, perhaps even sitting outside with it, using ingredients you may well have sitting around.

Well-known master chef and now food importer Simon Gault has some tips about making a great brunch including a perfectly poached egg. 

10:06 George Thorogood and his long musical career 

For 45 years now George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers, the name of the state tends to be left out these days, have played what was once-called lunchbucket rock and roll - working-class blues-based songs with a lot of showy guitar work on them.

George Thorogood talks to Jim. 

10.35 Abbas Nazari, from Tampa refugee to acclaimed author 

Abbas Nazari, who'd written the book After The Tampa  from Afghanistan to New Zealand. Abbas came here as a small boy. A Norwegian cargo ship the Tampa rescued a sinking fishing boat with more than 400 asylum seekers on board, they'd been turned away from Australia. 

Abbas is back in Auckland for the writers festival, Jim catches up with him. 

10.45 Dr Ali Hill on whether there are top foods we should be including more of in our diets 

Dr Ali Hill is from the Human Nutrition department of Otago University. Artificial sweeteners, Vitamin D, a surfeit of salt, and are there really top foods that we should all maximising in our diets?

Dr Hill talks to Jim about those burning questions. 

11:05 Has technology arrived at the "Jetsons" future?

Is the Jetsons future here at last? Not so fast says Courtney Rubin, a prominent journalist who's been researching this. Courtney's work's appeared in the NYT, Bloomberg Business Week, Rolling Stone and other major publications.

She talks to Jim about the technological advances we've made and why we're not there just yet. 

11.20 E-Scooters producer more CO2 than cars 

A study out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has concluded that, on average, a shared e-scooter creates 51 more grams of CO2 per kilometer than the means of transport it's replacing. 

Dr Abraham Leung is with the Transport Research Group at Griffith University in Queensland. He's been doing his own research into the pluses of e-scooters. This debate is not a one-way street. Dr Leung talks to Jim. 

11.40 Psychology and gaming, the never ending debate

For this morning Jim starts with research into that perennial topic of video gaming.

Professor Marc Wilson from Victoria University's School of Psychology joins Jim to discuss the latest on the topic.