On the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame Full Show Podcast for Saturday 22 June 2024, rugby league legend Mark Graham and filmmaker son Luke joined Jack to talk about new documentary ‘SHARKO’ - the story of the man who changed rugby league.

Jack stays up to date on the Interislander ferry Aratere running aground near Picton, and chats to his auntie Barb Tame live from the scene.

Sporto Andrew Saville looks ahead to tonight's Super Rugby Pacific Final and the test match-like atmosphere sure to be set by the crowd of 45,000.

The internet is going places it has never been before. Techxpert Paul Stenhouse gives the latest on updates from Starlink.

Plus - while visiting Auckland this week, Kevin had a rather interesting dinner.

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Mark Graham is a New Zealand rugby league legend.

In his prime he was the best league player in the world, known for his size, speed, skill, and toughness, he was “a predator in a sea of sharks”.

He’s been named New Zealand Rugby League Player of the Century, and is the only player to have made it into both the New Zealand and Australian League halls of fame.

Luke Graham, his son, is a filmmaker, and his latest documentary is about his father.

SHARKO tells the story of the man who changed rugby league, carrying his teams and country to the doorstep of greatness.

Luke’s decision to tell his father’s story was motivated by several reasons, he revealed to Newstalk ZB’s Jack Tame.

“He’s someone that, you know, I’ve always proudly looked up to and I’ve been so proud of his success, his career.”

The creation of this documentary was a way to show that pride, as well as his love for that era of rugby league.

“It was selfishly, selfish reason to get to know my family even more, and to show this family to the world,” he told Tame.

The subject of the documentary himself, Mark, was not sure that anyone would want to watch the documentary when his son pitched it to him.

“My football career is dead and buried, and while I used to love the game, I just didn’t know if anyone would be that interested, to tell you the truth.”

Mark said that initially the story that was pitched was the ‘77 Auckland side where they showed up on a Wednesday night after working all day and played international sides for 33 weeks straight, beating all of them, before going back to work the next morning.

“So I thought that was the story, but he thought it was, this one was better.”

“It was lovely for people who perhaps don’t appreciate how much has changed.”

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Starlink goes mini - which I'm sure will delight the campervanners

Elon Musk says this product will "change the world". He has a point, it certainly has the potential to take internet into hard-to-reach locations, including locations without power. The new Starlink Mini is an all-in-one device, which is a combo satellite dish and router, small enough to fit in a (large) backpack. It delivers 100mbps internet on DC power sources, needing just 20-40 Watts, which means a portable power pack is enough to use it. It's around 30cm long, 25cm wide and weighs just over 1kg -- not too much bigger than the biggest iPad. Available as a mobility add-on in the USA, and as a standalone product in parts of Central & South America and is expected to roll out to more countries soon.

Netflix is going from your tv, to the mall

You can soon live your favourite Netflix shows. Opening in 2025, Netflix House is headed to shopping malls in Dallas and near Philadelphia, using the tens of thousands of square feet of retail space abandoned by department stores. They say there will be "regularly updated immersive experiences" and "unique food and drink offerings". It's certainly not going to be a theme park, but seems to be more of a highly interactive museum / gallery? Can't get to those locations? Netflix has launched its own popcorn —"Netflix Now Popping"— which is for sale at Walmart.

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