September 18, 2024 • 35 mins
Today on the show we chatted with Guy Montgomery about his new spelling bee show, Toni tells us all about her experience with her new Thermomix, and we talk to one of our previous big spender winners!
0:00 Intro
0:40 Chat with Black Cap Ish Sodhi
4:45 Nail the Knight
6:50 Viral Dubai chocolate bar
9:55 Toni Street vs Guy Montgomery: Spelling bee
15:20 Toni’s Thermomix journey
20:10 The Chasers
23:50 Chat with the Executive Director of I Love New York
28:20 Chat with Sophia, a previous Big Spender winner
31:30 Air NZ innovation centre
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tony Jason Sam's feel Good Breakfast Can't Shut podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Today on the show, we talked to Ross from New
York Tourism about the best things to do in New
York and we talked about how to prepare for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Also, a comedian has come up with an idea for
a spelling BeTV show, but he gets comedians involved as well.
Guy Montgomery and Tony Street has also hosted a spelling beet,
so I put the two of them together for a
spelling bee in the studio. One of the big attractions
of summer, of course, is the summer of cricket in
our backyards right across Altilo and New Zealand. And to
(00:42):
talk more about this is each Sody from the Black Caps,
who at one stage each you were the top ranked
bowler in T twenty in the world.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What do you do with your trophy or I didn't
quite get a trophy, but yeah, I suppose it was
pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
To be rank number one in the world for a period there.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, congratulations And so when you're not playing the game, though,
what do you do. What sort of stuffing the off
season is such a thing.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I suppose the real common answer for a cricketer is
I play a lot of golf. But no, I don't
really play golfer. I'm not necessarily a huge golf fan.
But I listen to a lot of music and try
to socialize with mats quite a lot. But I'm addicted
to cricket, so I can't really get away.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, they all kind of merge into each other now
the seasons, don't they. Now you've got a four year
old daughter, how are you managing to balance your cricket
with that? Because I know cricket takes a long time
and often you're traveling. How does that work for you?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, I think this is the age that I find
the most challenging. Like, you know, she's four years old
now kind of gets like when I'm going away and
stuff like that. So it was probably a little bit
easier to manage when she was a bit younger. So
I suppose this little period like still like I'm only
thirty one, so still relatively young, but I'm definitely going
to manage my time a little bit better because, like
you know, you don't really like get those years.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Back to you, you don't with loot that a jays definitely,
especially around the four year old age group two because
soon they'll be starting school and that's a whole different world.
Then will you coach the school crecket team?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Do you think I've actually like down in Crashers At
the moment, I'm coaching like almost three or four schools
at a time. I keep like making promises appearance honestly like, yeah, yeah,
I probably will.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, It's very rewarding coaching. What's the summer of cricket
going to look like for you?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Summer credit?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Like, to start with, I've got some work to do
with Canterbury, which I'm really excited for. It's been a
shift for me over the last couple of years and
I love playing down there. And then after that, I
think hopefully if the you know, selectors choose to I'll
go over to Sri Lanka and play some ODRs and
T twenty ies to start the season off and then
come home and then home summers in full swing. So
pretty exciting, but definitely definitely excited to start well with Canbury.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We talk about this a lot, how being a cricketer
in this era is the dream right, because there's so
many options and there is a lot of money to
be made. I've got my little book at home if
the era of cricket, you know, the Danny Morrison's, the
Martin Crows who were just before that era. Are you
pleased you're you're playing in this era where you've got
all these options?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
You know, Like that's the thing, Like you've got to
be super grateful for where crickets come. Like even when
I started, you know, it feels like a long time ago,
was twelve years ago, and the options worn't as much.
And so you do look back at some of those
old players with like immense talent and like, you know,
how amazing was to watch them play and show their skills.
So it's great that we're getting opportunities now, but they've
obviously put some foundations in to create a great product.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Something I've always wanted to know is, you know, when
you guys play on Boxing Day, what happens on Christmas Day?
The day before? Are you guys away and you catch
up Christmas night? Or how does that work you in
camp on Christmas Day?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, it really depends on like we we sometimes you know,
if we're in New Zealand. You know, someone will host
you know, the team wherever we're playing at their house
for a you know, a bit of a summer barbecue
or something like that. And if you get told of
your twelve mant early on enough you have a couple
of beers. But outside of that, it's pretty tame.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, my heart, isn't it. Can you just sell domestic
cricket to us, because I feel like it is. I'm
someone that goes to domestic cricket games, particularly if I'm
at my home in Taranaki, go to Pukikuta Park and
it is the best environment, and I feel like not
enough people know how good it is.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
That is bang on, Like domestic cricket in New Zealand
is like such a high standard, like you can take
make it from me, Like I've played, you know, been
fortunate to play in so many different parts of the
world and sometimes we can look at domestic cricket it's
just like, you know, another game of cricket, but the
skill level is so high. Like now we watch all
of our supersmash on TV in z so it's available
for everyone to watch and the kids are getting so
good like far Yeah, man, Like what they're watching on YouTube,
(04:18):
they're translating into games and it's like a great product
to watch. I'm thirty one, I'm kind of in between
at the moment, but it's so cool to see the transition.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's a great product to watch, and you.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Can still claim that Young's.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And the crowds are incredible as well. Each Thank you
very much for your time. The home summer of cricket
tickets on sale from the first of October, but you
can sign up to Cricket Nation and get early tickets
every morning. This week, we're giving you the chance to
go into the new Author Nights Football team's first match.
If you win, you get flights accommodation to premium tickets
to see the Knight's face the Brisbane Raw on the
nineteenth of October at Go Median at Go Media Stadium.
(04:54):
To get in the drawer, though, you have to find
out which one of us are going to nail the
night or not. So any joins us to Andy, Good morning,
how are we really good? Thank you my friends. So
in the goal is Joe Knowles, the nineteen year old
goalkeeper from all the FC. Tony and I both line up,
try and have some kicks try and get the goal in.
Who do you think is gonna have a crack and
what do you think your prediction is going to be.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I'm going for Tony, but I don't think she's going
to get it. I love you, Tony, and you're a
great athlete.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
He's a great athlete too.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
He's slightly bitter. I beg myself to give it a
good whack, but he I've just seen him already and
he's got very quick hands. So I reckon, You've chosen well,
even though I am going to still try and have
a good crack at him.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
A right, okay, so too hard you're thinking, you're thinking
Tony won't get it in Here we go. Let's stick
with your prediction. Let's cross now to the game. Tony
Streets now eyeing up the goal, Joe in place, looking
very RESTful. And so it's Tony Street.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
By the way, I've learned from my past issue, and
I'm going to try for a different part of the
goal this time.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You're a lot close to the gold too.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
I'm going to try to actually go in the goal.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Change of tactic.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I love it all right, Here we go.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Sorry Tony Streets for the back step posted.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Another right foot, but it's off the right half.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Oh Joe, so it's a no goal.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The proceeds she'd almost tackle join the process. But the
good news, Andy, your prediction was right. Tony did not
get it in.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Thanks Tony, I mean, should I say sorry or well
done and well done for not backing me.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Either way, you are in their draw. Yeah, she could live.
You can't be good to everything, that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
If we have an e challenge one day, you're going
to ring back and you're gonna say she's gonna nail
it every time.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
All right, So you're in there draw. Well done, another
chance tomorrow morning on coasts right about now, you might
be having your toast, maybe some cereal, or maybe even
a shake for that your briefast this morning. Think about
this though. It's the delicacy that is chocolate. And it
could be the milk chocolate, the dark chocolate, the white chocolate,
the hot chocolate, whatever, whatever way you have your chocolate.
And the prices of chocolate's gone to the roof because
(07:01):
of course the weather is smashed out. A lot of
the cocoa beans sit in chocolate.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
One in for life's great pleasures, It really is, It
really is and I will eat any kind. You know,
I prefer milk chocolate. But if it's only dark one
offer I.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Eat, I'll put the self out.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'll do it creamy texture. If you could have any
chocolate bar right now, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Any chocolate bar? Okay, right now, whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You're feeling like, and it has to be what like?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
What would it be scorsh dilmonds or.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Do you know what I'd have right now? I don't
know why, but I'd have a crunchy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Bar, would you ye? But there's a chocolate that people
are craving for it. People are lining up for hours
to kind of get this from a certain market. Is
that right?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So it's this Dubai pistachio chocolate bar that has gone
viral because of TikTok essentially, and it's selling thousands in minutes,
and it's cause to friends, it's frenzy all over the world,
and it's now reached here and then you've got someone.
So it's called the viral Dubui chocolate bar if you
want to look it up. It's manufactured by Dubai company
called Fix, but it came to global attention via the
(08:03):
TikTok video of a woman eating it in her car.
It's been viewed wait for it, eighty million times.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Just some woman sitting on a cagy chocolate has eighteen
million views.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Four cents wrong Dolar chocolate bars and there's an Auckland
cellar called Whisked. Creation's Nikki, which is she's recreated this
doubo chocolate bar. So it's essentially what does it look
like to you? It's like a chocolate bar. It's got
pistachio in the middle.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You also got some sort of flaky pastry through it
as well, and then like I guess whipped pistachia like
a creamy you know, you have caramelo and that kind
of oozes out like a creamy used to ooze out
the old the old fillings. Yeah, it's like that, but
I think it's pistasia and flaky. So this this woman Nikki,
so she makes it and takes it to the night
markets in Papatoytoy or something, and people start lining up
from three even though the markets set up into like
(08:48):
five harve us five.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, and I'm looking at the filling. So it's it's soft,
creamy sort of preline. So it's actually quite texted.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Ah, is it okay?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
See, look, we all have to have a try of
this now. You can't just hear about it. So I
don't even know where. Well you've got to go to
a night market to get it. But I'm looking here
so in christ Uch this week, so don't think it's
just the North Island. A food reviewer called Sophie Stevens.
She tried the Biscoff version and says she's a little
late to the party, but the Dubo Chocolate bars are
in New Zealand, and after snapping on half, she said
(09:20):
it was delicious, way crunchier than I thought. So it's
got a crunch to it. It's not just it looks gooey,
but it's actually crunchy as well.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Because you were saying before telling it's like a dessert chocolate.
I mean, most chocolates are deserved, I suppose, but this
one here is especially more more decadent, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, We've got a few issues because my daughter's alluded
to pistachios and we kind of have this unspoken rule
that we don't bring pistachios or cashows into the house.
So I'm going to have to go and eat this
in my car somewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Eighty million views if you film it by the books
of things there, so they google it, see if you
can try and find it near you. That was it
called the Dubai Chocolate.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Dubui chocolate. Google that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
How good are you? It's spelling. Is there a word
that always trips you up?
Speaker 8 (09:55):
For me?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It's necessarily ah any ce yes two c's two.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't know, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I don't know to write it down.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, what about the word that always trips me up?
As lia's Oh yes, l I A I S e yes.
But a lot of people don't put the second eye in.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
That's it exactly right. So there's a TV show on
tonight hosted by Kiwi comic Guy Montgomery, all about spelling.
Guy joins us from a bit of a chat. Now, gooday, Guy, Hello,
good morning. Thank you so much for having me. When
you come up with a concert by first, I mean
we've seen like spelling shows before, but your concert was
the comedians involved too, right.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Well, this was not originally made for TV. This was
a coping mechanism during the lockdown. I don't know if
you remember that far back there were global events and
we were all at home, shut places down, shut it
all down.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's crazy to think.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
And so I was sitting at home feeling my work
had been canceled because there's a comedian, there's no live
and I thought I was sort of was doing some
pub quiz on a Friday with friends and stuff, and
it was this is kind of fun. I thought what
if I put on a spelling bee And I thought
that's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I could put that on YouTube. So I figured out
how to put it on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
No I was doing that.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I thought this could actually possibly be a TV show.
So then I started sort of talking about getting it done.
And so it had a very organic growth from just
literally a coping mechanism through COVID to all of a
sudden now it's like, you know, we've become this fully
realized thing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You've paid to do it that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I love that something positive has come out of that
COVID time.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I understand that magic because I actually hosted a spelling
Bee show in New Zealand. It was a one year
show with young kids, and I remember going this is gold.
It didn't give any funding enough. Yeah, I got cut.
But there's something about spelling words. That is just fascinating.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
That was what I was thinking about. It's a universal
access point. Everyone spelled. Everyone has a relationship with spelling.
Whether you think you're good, you're bad. And also it's
this artificial representation of intelligence. It doesn't matter if you're
good at spelling. It's just like a memory trick.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I've been doing comedy for twelve years and I'm friends
with all the comedians in the country, and so when
they come on, you can talk to them and make
fun of them in the way that you can with friends,
and so there's a really like it's just a lot
of fun to make.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And the interest point there as well, because I like,
take my daughter who's eleven, and she's genuinely a better
spelling than me. So you can be quite good at
spelling young, which I think makes it it's appealing to everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, it's family viewing, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Some of the best feedback I've had as always people
saying they watch it with like their parents or their grandparents,
you know, like it's generational viewing.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes, you can watch it at seven tonight on three
and you catch it on three now as well. Now
I know for a fact that both of you now
have hosted spelling v shows, so don't. We're going to
We're coming back into the tech and it's going to
be Guy versus Tony Street, a quick spelling bee on coast.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Coasts, Feel Good Breakfast catch up podcast with Tony Street,
Jays Reeves and Sam Wallace.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
There's a TV show on TV three tonight. It's called
Guy Montgomery's Spelling Be. We're about to have a spell
off right now with Guy who's in the studio with us. Hello, now, Tony,
you hosted a spelling be on TV a little while
ago too.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Right, maybe like six or seven years ago. It was
for young kids and they were just like these little
baby Einstein's.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, okay, So the great Spelling Be is about to
go down in the studio right now. Guy, I'm Montgomery
versus Tony Street. Unreasonably nervous. All of my authority could
be undermined by this spelling. Here we go, there's a
best of three. Are you ready? Okay? Your first word
is fluorescent. Fluorescent, much like your personalities, both of you
(13:20):
fluorescent personalities. In my humble opinion, fluorescent.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know, when you write it down, you're like, that
doesn't look right.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Okay, what do we got f L you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
There's money.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Was great to p h and then it gets a
little here is so I'm just going to keep rolling.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
O R E S C E n T.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's exactly how I spelled it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Congratulations both of you. Okay, next word, maneuver. These are
nasty little words. Maneuver. Maneuver your pin across that paper
and write the word maneuver for me. Maneuver.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, do you want to go m A n O
E U v r E.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Guy, what have you got? M A n O E
U v r E. That's what I've got as well?
Done one more, don't do nothing else. I'm proud of.
This is actually crazy. Okay. One last word, and I
wish you hadn't seen creaming it because the word is diarrhea.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Oh that is a again, it's a nasty spelling word, diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Lately have this on the bottle of me.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I just remember the infrom when I had gone, oh, yes, spelling,
I know.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
So I've got d I A uh.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And then I think there are two excepted spellings. I've
gone h O E A.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Okay, what about you, Tony, I have got d I
A R R e h O E A guy has
got diarrhea, right, and guy has got diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
That's all you need to know. Anyway. The spelling is spelling.
I've I feel so proud of that. I feel almost
as proud of you know.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What's really sad is I wrote it without the E
and then I went, oh, and I think there's are e. Yeah,
I wrote it again.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You go, well done.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Trust your gut.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I don't know if you want to trust? You
got anyway you wanted to, like seven on TV three
and three Now, thanks so much. Wait, this is coast.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
We need to talk about this thermomixed journey. I'm on
because I got given one for my birthday by my husband.
Pretty extravagant, an amazing gift. To be honest, it really
came out of left field because I had been talking
about it for quite a number of years and never
thought I was actually going to do it. But do
you know what, We've got really busy lives and we
have to make food on the run. So I actually
think this is going to be practically a really cool thing.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And it's true that it replaces like twenty other appliances.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, I'm actually still trying to come to grips with
what it actually does because it does so many different things.
So the best features so far that I have found
is that you only need to quite often use one
bowl when you're cooking. So you know, normally I'll put
something in a measuring cylinder and then I'll put it
in a little bowl or crack my eggs in here.
Everything that you cook goes into the one Thermo mix mixer,
(16:01):
so it's a scale. So you know, when you put
in like one hundred grams of butter, you put it
into the same bowl and it just measures it for
you. You don't need to break it off, put it in
another bowl if you needed to melt it down. It
does that because it goes hot and it goes cold.
So if you need something to whip up cold, it
does that. If it whips up hot, it does that.
I made the most amazing chicken and leak risotto in it,
(16:22):
and you don't need to stand there and watch it
do its thing.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Stick to the pot.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, well I did that with I did that with fudge,
and I stood. You have to stand by fudge for
so long, just steering, steering, steering, weaight till it goes
to softball stage. I haven't tried fudge in the Thermo Mix,
but apparently that's when it's going to really light my
fire because apparently then you just literally push a button
and walk away. But there was this I had one
of those Thermo Mixed demonstrations Anna, who's the lovely Thermo
(16:47):
Mix consultant, that when you buy these machines, you get
someone to come. They come to your house and they
give you a demo. Thank goodness for that, because I
just needed someone to tell me what to do. Even
though the machine does, it says next, put it in
one hundred grams of butter. You push next. Then it says, okay,
take this off and scrape the sides. It is a
foolproof it really is. So it's also got built in
(17:09):
recipes in it on a platform called cookie Do. And
one of those things that they demoed for me was
a thing called the Fruity Dream, and I was skeptical
and I was like, what is that and why do
I need that in my life? So essentially what it
is you put sugar first of all, the sugar goes
in and you push a button and it whips the
(17:29):
sugar up into icing sugar. Oh who knew. I don't
know why you didn't push put icing sugar in, but
it makes it really.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Fine and fluffy.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And then you put in a whole lot of frozen fruit.
So whether it's frozen blueberries, strawberries, mango, whatever you've got
in your freezer. I happen to put in frozen strawberries, right,
and it whips it up. And then you put in
some egg white and it goes into this most fluffy,
magnificent mix between a sawbet and a gelato and an
(17:58):
ice cream, and all it is is egg whites, sugar
and frozen fruit and it comes out like the best
dessert you have ever had. So much so it literally
took me five minutes. So I had the Netboo girls
over at my house the other day before prize giving,
and I said, would you guys like a fruity dream?
And they were like, okay. I pulled it out and
they were all fighting over it. In the end, they
(18:20):
were so ups they were all like, I want some
more like it. Actually, it was just so amazing. I
have to make it for you. And all I kept
thinking was this fruity dream is great, But imagine if
I put a little bit of General Vodka in it
and it would turn into this sort of dackery situation.
I've also done the Best of a chocolate chip cookies,
(18:40):
which last night I had fifteen minutes before I had
to go to help hear it help at Matilda. Yeah,
and in fifteen minutes I made about fifty six cookies.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Because it misses, there's no lumps, nothing, It just does.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The whole mixing process. Then you just chuck it on
a train. It's done like it's it's mind blowing and
it makes no mess.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Really, and my.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Eleven year old can do it. I'm honestly, I'm so
converted already and I can't wait to make Christmas products
with it. You wait, you guys are going to get
so fat in here.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well yeah, all right, six hundred dollars on the line
for the chasers. But but today today, because it is
last call Thursday for your chance to get in the
drawer to go to New York. Here's the thing. If
you call right now, either if you win or lose,
you will go in the drawer for Tony streets Peakspender. Okay,
but what you do need to know is today is
a New York themed Chases game, so produce a Rosie
(19:30):
has written questions about New York. Clearly we don't know
where these questions are. There is no topical.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Question because I think of anything to do with New
York right now, and I can't think of anything. I
can't even think what the wher I mean? It's called
New York State, right, there's the state.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think the capital of the states called Albany. Oh,
thank you, not Manhattan. It's trick. If you reckon, you
could have a crack a list. Take us on. You
could win six hundred dollars cash. Either way, though you
will go in the drawer for Tony streets peakspender. No, okay,
so I've been lucky enough to go to New York? Yeah,
how well do I know it? Though?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh? Wait, undred double O four coast? Do you call
a ten?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Good luck the Chasers on Coast? Hi, my name is Anna,
I'm from tod On.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
I'm up against Jase and I would spend the money
on our holiday.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Nice, we're abouts. Would you like to go? How about
New York love too?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Actually that would be quite cool if you have you
gotten to the drawer for New York won the Chasers
and then took that at your spending money, so you'd
have sixteen. I'm glad there's no maths Christians today. You're saying, all.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Right, very must of black, Anna, I wish you success,
all right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Sending Jase out now. He has been to New York
once before. Have you ever been, Anna, No, but I'd
love to go. Same. Doesn't mean you can't do the
New York quiz though, because knowledge is knowledge, right, So
you have five general knowledge questions all on New York today. Okay, okay,
I'm going to give you a nice quick read for
six hundred dollars. Are you ready to go?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Okay, your time starts. Now? What drink is Long Island?
Famous for Long Island? Nineteen?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Which river flows through New York State? Yes? Where in
New York is famous for its musicals and theater?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Adam?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
No? How many waterfalls make out Niagara Falls?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
God, you have a guess one?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What year did the New York Subway System begin operation?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I'm just going to.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Double check before we get Jason because he can't hear this.
But the answer for where in New York is famous
for its musicals in theater? The answer where Wanning was
Broadway all the theater distric. I just want to see
where in New York is Broadway because if it's in
Madison Square, we'll give it to you, right, Okay, No,
(22:01):
we would have accepted Manhattan. So where is Broadway in
relation to Times Square? It's south of it. Okay, so
we can't we can't give that to you. But still
you're on the board with two.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
All right, so I am compet it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay, let's bring jas peckin. I tried it. I tried it. Okay, Jason,
you're chasing a two. Okay? And what is quite a
tricky quiz because it's very specific? Okay, Okay, I'm hating
to reverse the questions, Jase. All right, your time starts. Now.
What year did the New York Subway system begin operation?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
My goodness, in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
No, how many waterfalls make up Niagara Falls?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Four?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Where in New York is famous for its musicals and theater?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Broadway?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes? Which river flows through New York State?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Hudson.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yes, he's got it, and I'm pretty sure you would
have got the drink that Long Island is famous for
Long Island nice tea.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yes, we need to go and do that.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
The first went to the subway starts.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, so the New York Subway system began operation wait
for it, nineteen oh four. Question. And there are three
waterfalls that make up Niagara.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Falls, the three of them? Now are there?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Say? Four? Four?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I don't know if that's afect one? Well it makes sense?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, yeah, oh hard luck Anna for.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
The team, and we're going to put you on the
drawer to go to New York anywhere I came for
playing this morning, right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
One second there is that would be a way better
price than the six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Ya you learn about New York just there exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Your daily feel good breakfast catch up podcast with Coasts Tony, Jason, Sam.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
You could also score a trip to the place where
this is filmed taxi all about the textive and the
big yellow cams traveling through New York. Yeah, but it's
not just New York City, it's New York State. And
to tell us more about it is Ross Levin. Now, Rosses,
quickly tell us what was your official title?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Ross, I'm the executive director of the New York State
Division of Tourism.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
But most people know this is I love New York.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Ah fantastic, So you know exactly what to expect. I'm
a first timer to New York, so if you had
to describe it to me as someone that's never been there,
how would you do that.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You're going to love it, I mean, and to some degree,
it's going to be a lot of what you expect,
those sort of things we're known for around the world,
you know, from seeing a Broadway show on Broadway, to
having the thin New York style pizza and our Doe bagels,
to doing luxury shopping in the Hampton's standing under thundering
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Niagara falls. But on the other hand, you can expect
the unexpected, you know, seeing some of the most beautiful
beaches in the world. People don't think of, you know,
they think of New York and those skyscrapers. They don't
realize that we have some of the most beautiful beaches
in the world in Long Island, that you could even
surf there, or exploring main streets and Gilded Age historic
mansions in the Hudson Valley overlooking the Hudson River and
(25:02):
the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley. Are sipping wine
along a wine trail in the finger Lakes. So the
main thing to think about is diversity.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
It's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I love that, Ross, And I want to give you
a choice now, can when you think about the divisity,
would you rather are you walking through Central Park? Would
you rather have a hot dog from a street stand,
a street cart or a bagel?
Speaker 8 (25:20):
I would go with the hot dog over the two
of them. I would take a slice of New York pizza.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Ah, good to know.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
We will definitely be sampling some pizza. If you had
to say, Ross, what the most underrated attraction is in
New York that people do and go? Why did I
not know about this? Is there anything that comes to mind?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
I mean New York State is a whole state of
hidden gems, largely because people think of us and they
think only of the city, and they should obviously, But
there's so much more than that. I mean, one example
are state parks. There are over one hundred and eighty
state parks. The number one favorite state park in the
United States is rated by the readers of USA today
is Letchwood State Park here in New York on the
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western part of the state, which is called the Grand
Canyon of the East Not too far from there is
the number three favorite state park, which is actually one
of my favorites, called Watkins Glen State Park, where you
take this stone path through this gorge around among under
nineteen different waterfalls.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
So it's hard to pick just one.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
But you know, that's just one example of sort of
the things that people don't even know is here.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
How easy is it to get to these places from you,
like you fly the JFK Airport, of course, like to
get from Vay the Hamptons, for example.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Yeah, I mean there are a lot of options. It's
very easy overall. I mean, we have a commuter train
that can take you out to Long Island, including the Hamptons,
or north of the city all the way up into
the Hudson Valley, you know, and you could do that
in the same day that you're seeing a show at night.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We are arriving in autumn or four as you call it,
right before Halloween. What is specific to New York around
this time of year.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Well, you're singing my song, Halloween is one of my
favorite holidays, and you know New York goes all in
when it comes to Halloween.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You've heard of the.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Well, Sleepy Hollow is a town
in New York State. In that area, in Sleepy Hollow,
there's a lantern lead cemetery tour. At night there you
have something called a Great Jack O' lantern Blaze, which
is thousands of pumpkins that have been carved by artists
and put into designs with lighting and music. But even
outside that region, across the state, we have a Haunted
(27:23):
History Tour which takes you to haunted inns and restaurants
and historic states. And it's the fall season, so it's
that extra magic that the state takes on with that
beautiful foliage.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
We have the longest foliage season of any state in
the nation.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
And in New York, it's not fall if you haven't
had your cider donuts, done, your apple picking, your apple pies,
pumpkin spice, everything.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
There's as many treats as tricks in New York when
it comes to Halloween.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
So good Jace is looking at me because of the
three of us, the two boys are skitty cats, and
I'm the one that likes the thrills and the Halloween vibes.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
A symmetry tool, not but my hand up ross. It's
been so good to chat with you. Thank you very much.
We're so excited someone will win this trip tomorrow. This
time tomorrow, someone is getting that phone call. And today
is last call Thursday, which adds every single hour from
now right through until nine tonight. Huge news out this morning.
Women with a more full of figure. When it comes
(28:21):
to the diary, ear, I'm trying to where you go
delicately as I.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Can expect this from Sam, not from you.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
This is good news. Ladies with a with a bigger
bum tend to look shaped. Yeah, pear shaped, tend to
live longer. So there you go. So if you think
yourself you're a bit of a bit, apparently it's a
good thing.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well what if you're an apple like me?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Do we? Men who quite like the larger bums tend
to be more honest.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
And what bums do you like?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well, this is this is how I figure that out.
I like live you a girl, get apairly. Women with
larger bums they live long. Apparently. There that's news out
this morning. God's greading In other news, you could be
receiving a phone call tomorrow morning. If this time tomorrow
(29:12):
your phone might ring, it might light up. Make sure
your batteries full. You've got the ringer turned on. You
can hear it, because tomorrow morning someone gets a phone
call telling them they are Tony Street's big spender. Sophia
is a big spender winner in the past. Sofia, tell
us about that that moment you got that phone call.
How was there?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
The phone call was completely overwhelming. You know, everything that
I've been through in the preest years. It was just
you know, something good had finally happened, and it was Yeah,
it was just mind alone, really and we couldn't talk and.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Tell us because you mentioned that theire you've been facing
cancer for the last couple of years. How is your health?
How things at the moment?
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Thinks to the minis therapy drugsits stopping with the tumors
from keeping on growing, which is good. They're so straight
part so it down. But yeah, at the moment it's
fairly stable. So I'm very very blessed and lucky.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, Sophia, you say you're very blessed and lucky, but
you have had such an ordeal and I think people
might remember or might not, but you lost your young daughter, Valentina,
and then you've had to deal with this terminal cancer diagnosis.
But not only that, since we last spoke to you,
you've lost your mum as well.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, the last year has been pretty very tough, to
be honest. It was kind of like how much MOCN
I deal with. And because I've been through cancer, those
two have inter Cander watched them and they love suffer
through cancer. The orphic experience.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, so this.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Is why you know, the trip when we won, it
let so much to me.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And we've made some amazing memories for you and your
family too. So talk us through some of the highest
well lots of the favorite moments from you when you
won Big Spender, it.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Was the experience that meant more almost in you know,
suspending part of this Carlo ranch which is just so beautiful,
rateful dress back and some of that was just so
stunning for it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I love that Augustina can remember it all. I can
hear her in the background.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Yes she does, which and that was a part of it.
It's just be able to share my family.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, well again, thank you very much for being part
of our family. So for you, it was an amazing
trip and again we've made a friend for life too.
Your chance to be in that drawer to wing your
way to New York. Gone in New Zealand's premium economy
to ten thousand dollars to spend Tony Streets speaks been
do we do the draw tomorrow morning? Another chance after
night to come fly with me? Let's fly, Let's fly away.
(31:41):
Tony Street speaks between to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Oh, it's going to be magnificent. And the cool thing
about it is, I'm even looking forward to the flight
over because on a flight over you get to sit
and watch uninterrupted movies, especially when you're not traveling with
her kids, which is something I don't do very often.
And so Jason and I were into Air New Zealand's
innovation center. They've got this place called Hangar twenty two
(32:04):
where they have mockups of actual planes, and they talked
us through all the new features that are coming to
Air New Zealand planes really really soon, like all of
them are starting to get retro fitted with all these
new features, and they were particularly exciting.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I tell you that her game changes. We don't use
that term loosely because you know, at the moment, if
you feel like a snack or something, you can ask
for it. And the flight attendants are so lovely on
in New Zealand. They're like, we want you to ask,
we hare to help. What do you want, let us
bring it to you. Please ask, please ask.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
But imagine in the middle of the night when you
hit the call button and it kind of wakes everyone up.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
That's it and the light comes on.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, and you feel a bit bad about it, even
if you are sending there stovg.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, especially if it's a third or fourth time. You
know you don't want to do this. So what they're
going to have is a thing called sky pantry. So
one into the plane we're in the middle of. It
doesn't matter what your class is, either economy, economy, premium,
wherever you are, they're going to have a sky pantry.
You can get up and help yourself to the snacks.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So this pantry, which we saw their own eyes, has
like the snack of chain chips and all of the snacks,
and it has the drinks. So you just go and
grab them and you don't have to wake anyone up.
You just slink out. You don't have to push a button,
you don't have to have a conversation with a flight attendant.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
You just do it, and there is no limit. They're
not going to judge you if you feel like two
packs of chippies have two packs, well.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Maybe if you have like fifty packs of chips, they
might go excuse me, sure you're going to explode with
soults ingestion.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I'm to start sharing those.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The other thing that really did excite me and I
had heard about these sky nests. I had heard about
them the other bunks in the sky. But until you
actually see them and think, okay, I'm absolutely exhausted. You know,
like you could be on a massive flight, potentially traveling
for twenty four hours, and you have the opportunity to
book a four hour slot where you can go. You
can leave your economy seat, go into the lifelat sky nest,
(33:47):
shut the door, have your little eye mask on and
get four hours uninterrupted kip Like that is It is
what you said. It's a game changer, and.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They're being rolled out next year from what we understand.
And here's the thing with the New Zealand. They know
that New Zealand is so far away from me everyone else.
Chances are to be anywhere you have to take a
night flight. So okay, how do we make this more
enjoyable for our customers. I know, let's give them some beds.
And that's what they've done.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
And the other thing that I thought was a real win.
Have a look next time you're on one of the
new planes. They've made all of the screens bigger, and
the touch screen and they have devices. Now I think
this might have been in business or business lucks where
you can actually have both your phone and your screen
working in sync.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You compare them up here and yeah, yeah, yeah. And
also what I love is there's going to be no
more seat wars. You know when someone leads their seat
back and it hits you in the lap and you've
got your meal on the train in front of you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
We've talked about that several times on here. What would
you do? Are you the person that puts your seat back? Remember,
because Sam's really anti people putting their seatback, but he
does it. Yeah, and it's like they're allowed to, but
now everyone can do it without any shame.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The shell, the shell of the back of the seat
does not move, but the acial seat moves inside the shells. Anyway,
what we did, we were lucky enough to be invited
to this innovation. Seen too like Tony said, and we've
filmed what we saw and you can get a sneak
preview right now. If you had an Instagram or Facebook,
look for Coast Breakfast and have a look there. The
video is right there, so you can see with your
own eyes what you can experience on any New Zealand soon.
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Today on the show, we talked to Ross from New
York Tourism about the best things to do in New
York and we talked about how to prepare for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Also, a comedian has come up with an idea for
a spelling BeTV show, but he gets comedians involved as well.
Guy Montgomery and Tony Street has also hosted a spelling beet,
so I put the two of them together for a
spelling bee in the studio. One of the big attractions
of summer, of course, is the summer of cricket in
our backyards right across Altilo and New Zealand. And to
(00:42):
talk more about this is each Sody from the Black Caps,
who at one stage each you were the top ranked
bowler in T twenty in the world.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
What do you do with your trophy or I didn't
quite get a trophy, but yeah, I suppose it was
pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (00:53):
To be rank number one in the world for a period there.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, congratulations And so when you're not playing the game, though,
what do you do. What sort of stuffing the off
season is such a thing.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I suppose the real common answer for a cricketer is
I play a lot of golf. But no, I don't
really play golfer. I'm not necessarily a huge golf fan.
But I listen to a lot of music and try
to socialize with mats quite a lot. But I'm addicted
to cricket, so I can't really get away.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah, they all kind of merge into each other now
the seasons, don't they. Now you've got a four year
old daughter, how are you managing to balance your cricket
with that? Because I know cricket takes a long time
and often you're traveling. How does that work for you?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, I think this is the age that I find
the most challenging. Like, you know, she's four years old
now kind of gets like when I'm going away and
stuff like that. So it was probably a little bit
easier to manage when she was a bit younger. So
I suppose this little period like still like I'm only
thirty one, so still relatively young, but I'm definitely going
to manage my time a little bit better because, like
you know, you don't really like get those years.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Back to you, you don't with loot that a jays definitely,
especially around the four year old age group two because
soon they'll be starting school and that's a whole different world.
Then will you coach the school crecket team?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Do you think I've actually like down in Crashers At
the moment, I'm coaching like almost three or four schools
at a time. I keep like making promises appearance honestly like, yeah, yeah,
I probably will.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, It's very rewarding coaching. What's the summer of cricket
going to look like for you?
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Summer credit?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Like, to start with, I've got some work to do
with Canterbury, which I'm really excited for. It's been a
shift for me over the last couple of years and
I love playing down there. And then after that, I
think hopefully if the you know, selectors choose to I'll
go over to Sri Lanka and play some ODRs and
T twenty ies to start the season off and then
come home and then home summers in full swing. So
pretty exciting, but definitely definitely excited to start well with Canbury.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We talk about this a lot, how being a cricketer
in this era is the dream right, because there's so
many options and there is a lot of money to
be made. I've got my little book at home if
the era of cricket, you know, the Danny Morrison's, the
Martin Crows who were just before that era. Are you
pleased you're you're playing in this era where you've got
all these options?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
You know, Like that's the thing, Like you've got to
be super grateful for where crickets come. Like even when
I started, you know, it feels like a long time ago,
was twelve years ago, and the options worn't as much.
And so you do look back at some of those
old players with like immense talent and like, you know,
how amazing was to watch them play and show their skills.
So it's great that we're getting opportunities now, but they've
obviously put some foundations in to create a great product.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Something I've always wanted to know is, you know, when
you guys play on Boxing Day, what happens on Christmas Day?
The day before? Are you guys away and you catch
up Christmas night? Or how does that work you in
camp on Christmas Day?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Well, it really depends on like we we sometimes you know,
if we're in New Zealand. You know, someone will host
you know, the team wherever we're playing at their house
for a you know, a bit of a summer barbecue
or something like that. And if you get told of
your twelve mant early on enough you have a couple
of beers. But outside of that, it's pretty tame.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, my heart, isn't it. Can you just sell domestic
cricket to us, because I feel like it is. I'm
someone that goes to domestic cricket games, particularly if I'm
at my home in Taranaki, go to Pukikuta Park and
it is the best environment, and I feel like not
enough people know how good it is.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
That is bang on, Like domestic cricket in New Zealand
is like such a high standard, like you can take
make it from me, Like I've played, you know, been
fortunate to play in so many different parts of the
world and sometimes we can look at domestic cricket it's
just like, you know, another game of cricket, but the
skill level is so high. Like now we watch all
of our supersmash on TV in z so it's available
for everyone to watch and the kids are getting so
good like far Yeah, man, Like what they're watching on YouTube,
(04:18):
they're translating into games and it's like a great product
to watch. I'm thirty one, I'm kind of in between
at the moment, but it's so cool to see the transition.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's a great product to watch, and you.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Can still claim that Young's.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
And the crowds are incredible as well. Each Thank you
very much for your time. The home summer of cricket
tickets on sale from the first of October, but you
can sign up to Cricket Nation and get early tickets
every morning. This week, we're giving you the chance to
go into the new Author Nights Football team's first match.
If you win, you get flights accommodation to premium tickets
to see the Knight's face the Brisbane Raw on the
nineteenth of October at Go Median at Go Media Stadium.
(04:54):
To get in the drawer, though, you have to find
out which one of us are going to nail the
night or not. So any joins us to Andy, Good morning,
how are we really good? Thank you my friends. So
in the goal is Joe Knowles, the nineteen year old
goalkeeper from all the FC. Tony and I both line up,
try and have some kicks try and get the goal in.
Who do you think is gonna have a crack and
what do you think your prediction is going to be.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
I'm going for Tony, but I don't think she's going
to get it. I love you, Tony, and you're a
great athlete.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
He's a great athlete too.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
He's slightly bitter. I beg myself to give it a
good whack, but he I've just seen him already and
he's got very quick hands. So I reckon, You've chosen well,
even though I am going to still try and have
a good crack at him.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
A right, okay, so too hard you're thinking, you're thinking
Tony won't get it in Here we go. Let's stick
with your prediction. Let's cross now to the game. Tony
Streets now eyeing up the goal, Joe in place, looking
very RESTful. And so it's Tony Street.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
By the way, I've learned from my past issue, and
I'm going to try for a different part of the
goal this time.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
You're a lot close to the gold too.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
I'm going to try to actually go in the goal.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Change of tactic.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I love it all right, Here we go.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Sorry Tony Streets for the back step posted.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Another right foot, but it's off the right half.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Oh Joe, so it's a no goal.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
The proceeds she'd almost tackle join the process. But the
good news, Andy, your prediction was right. Tony did not
get it in.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Thanks Tony, I mean, should I say sorry or well
done and well done for not backing me.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Either way, you are in their draw. Yeah, she could live.
You can't be good to everything, that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
If we have an e challenge one day, you're going
to ring back and you're gonna say she's gonna nail
it every time.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
All right, So you're in there draw. Well done, another
chance tomorrow morning on coasts right about now, you might
be having your toast, maybe some cereal, or maybe even
a shake for that your briefast this morning. Think about
this though. It's the delicacy that is chocolate. And it
could be the milk chocolate, the dark chocolate, the white chocolate,
the hot chocolate, whatever, whatever way you have your chocolate.
And the prices of chocolate's gone to the roof because
(07:01):
of course the weather is smashed out. A lot of
the cocoa beans sit in chocolate.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
One in for life's great pleasures, It really is, It
really is and I will eat any kind. You know,
I prefer milk chocolate. But if it's only dark one
offer I.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Eat, I'll put the self out.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'll do it creamy texture. If you could have any
chocolate bar right now, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Any chocolate bar? Okay, right now, whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You're feeling like, and it has to be what like?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
What would it be scorsh dilmonds or.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Do you know what I'd have right now? I don't
know why, but I'd have a crunchy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Bar, would you ye? But there's a chocolate that people
are craving for it. People are lining up for hours
to kind of get this from a certain market. Is
that right?
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So it's this Dubai pistachio chocolate bar that has gone
viral because of TikTok essentially, and it's selling thousands in minutes,
and it's cause to friends, it's frenzy all over the world,
and it's now reached here and then you've got someone.
So it's called the viral Dubui chocolate bar if you
want to look it up. It's manufactured by Dubai company
called Fix, but it came to global attention via the
(08:03):
TikTok video of a woman eating it in her car.
It's been viewed wait for it, eighty million times.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Just some woman sitting on a cagy chocolate has eighteen
million views.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Four cents wrong Dolar chocolate bars and there's an Auckland
cellar called Whisked. Creation's Nikki, which is she's recreated this
doubo chocolate bar. So it's essentially what does it look
like to you? It's like a chocolate bar. It's got
pistachio in the middle.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
You also got some sort of flaky pastry through it
as well, and then like I guess whipped pistachia like
a creamy you know, you have caramelo and that kind
of oozes out like a creamy used to ooze out
the old the old fillings. Yeah, it's like that, but
I think it's pistasia and flaky. So this this woman Nikki,
so she makes it and takes it to the night
markets in Papatoytoy or something, and people start lining up
from three even though the markets set up into like
(08:48):
five harve us five.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, and I'm looking at the filling. So it's it's soft,
creamy sort of preline. So it's actually quite texted.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Ah, is it okay?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
See, look, we all have to have a try of
this now. You can't just hear about it. So I
don't even know where. Well you've got to go to
a night market to get it. But I'm looking here
so in christ Uch this week, so don't think it's
just the North Island. A food reviewer called Sophie Stevens.
She tried the Biscoff version and says she's a little
late to the party, but the Dubo Chocolate bars are
in New Zealand, and after snapping on half, she said
(09:20):
it was delicious, way crunchier than I thought. So it's
got a crunch to it. It's not just it looks gooey,
but it's actually crunchy as well.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Because you were saying before telling it's like a dessert chocolate.
I mean, most chocolates are deserved, I suppose, but this
one here is especially more more decadent, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, We've got a few issues because my daughter's alluded
to pistachios and we kind of have this unspoken rule
that we don't bring pistachios or cashows into the house.
So I'm going to have to go and eat this
in my car somewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Eighty million views if you film it by the books
of things there, so they google it, see if you
can try and find it near you. That was it
called the Dubai Chocolate.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Dubui chocolate. Google that.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
How good are you? It's spelling. Is there a word
that always trips you up?
Speaker 8 (09:55):
For me?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
It's necessarily ah any ce yes two c's two.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I don't know, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I don't know to write it down.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Okay, what about the word that always trips me up?
As lia's Oh yes, l I A I S e yes.
But a lot of people don't put the second eye in.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
That's it exactly right. So there's a TV show on
tonight hosted by Kiwi comic Guy Montgomery, all about spelling.
Guy joins us from a bit of a chat. Now, gooday, Guy, Hello,
good morning. Thank you so much for having me. When
you come up with a concert by first, I mean
we've seen like spelling shows before, but your concert was
the comedians involved too, right.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Well, this was not originally made for TV. This was
a coping mechanism during the lockdown. I don't know if
you remember that far back there were global events and
we were all at home, shut places down, shut it
all down.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
It's crazy to think.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
And so I was sitting at home feeling my work
had been canceled because there's a comedian, there's no live
and I thought I was sort of was doing some
pub quiz on a Friday with friends and stuff, and
it was this is kind of fun. I thought what
if I put on a spelling bee And I thought
that's pretty funny.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
I could put that on YouTube. So I figured out
how to put it on YouTube.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
No I was doing that.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
I thought this could actually possibly be a TV show.
So then I started sort of talking about getting it done.
And so it had a very organic growth from just
literally a coping mechanism through COVID to all of a
sudden now it's like, you know, we've become this fully
realized thing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
You've paid to do it that.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
I love that something positive has come out of that
COVID time.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Do you know what?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I understand that magic because I actually hosted a spelling
Bee show in New Zealand. It was a one year
show with young kids, and I remember going this is gold.
It didn't give any funding enough. Yeah, I got cut.
But there's something about spelling words. That is just fascinating.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
That was what I was thinking about. It's a universal
access point. Everyone spelled. Everyone has a relationship with spelling.
Whether you think you're good, you're bad. And also it's
this artificial representation of intelligence. It doesn't matter if you're
good at spelling. It's just like a memory trick.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:48):
I've been doing comedy for twelve years and I'm friends
with all the comedians in the country, and so when
they come on, you can talk to them and make
fun of them in the way that you can with friends,
and so there's a really like it's just a lot
of fun to make.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
And the interest point there as well, because I like,
take my daughter who's eleven, and she's genuinely a better
spelling than me. So you can be quite good at
spelling young, which I think makes it it's appealing to everyone.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Well, it's family viewing, you know.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Some of the best feedback I've had as always people
saying they watch it with like their parents or their grandparents,
you know, like it's generational viewing.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yes, you can watch it at seven tonight on three
and you catch it on three now as well. Now
I know for a fact that both of you now
have hosted spelling v shows, so don't. We're going to
We're coming back into the tech and it's going to
be Guy versus Tony Street, a quick spelling bee on coast.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Coasts, Feel Good Breakfast catch up podcast with Tony Street,
Jays Reeves and Sam Wallace.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
There's a TV show on TV three tonight. It's called
Guy Montgomery's Spelling Be. We're about to have a spell
off right now with Guy who's in the studio with us. Hello, now, Tony,
you hosted a spelling be on TV a little while
ago too.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Right, maybe like six or seven years ago. It was
for young kids and they were just like these little
baby Einstein's.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, okay, So the great Spelling Be is about to
go down in the studio right now. Guy, I'm Montgomery
versus Tony Street. Unreasonably nervous. All of my authority could
be undermined by this spelling. Here we go, there's a
best of three. Are you ready? Okay? Your first word
is fluorescent. Fluorescent, much like your personalities, both of you
(13:20):
fluorescent personalities. In my humble opinion, fluorescent.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know, when you write it down, you're like, that
doesn't look right.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Okay, what do we got f L you.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
There's money.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Was great to p h and then it gets a
little here is so I'm just going to keep rolling.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
O R E S C E n T.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's exactly how I spelled it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Congratulations both of you. Okay, next word, maneuver. These are
nasty little words. Maneuver. Maneuver your pin across that paper
and write the word maneuver for me. Maneuver.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Okay, do you want to go m A n O
E U v r E.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Guy, what have you got? M A n O E
U v r E. That's what I've got as well?
Done one more, don't do nothing else. I'm proud of.
This is actually crazy. Okay. One last word, and I
wish you hadn't seen creaming it because the word is diarrhea.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Oh that is a again, it's a nasty spelling word, diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Lately have this on the bottle of me.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I just remember the infrom when I had gone, oh, yes, spelling,
I know.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
So I've got d I A uh.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
And then I think there are two excepted spellings. I've
gone h O E A.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Okay, what about you, Tony, I have got d I
A R R e h O E A guy has
got diarrhea, right, and guy has got diarrhea.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
That's all you need to know. Anyway. The spelling is spelling.
I've I feel so proud of that. I feel almost
as proud of you know.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What's really sad is I wrote it without the E
and then I went, oh, and I think there's are e. Yeah,
I wrote it again.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You go, well done.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Trust your gut.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I don't know if you want to trust? You
got anyway you wanted to, like seven on TV three
and three Now, thanks so much. Wait, this is coast.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
We need to talk about this thermomixed journey. I'm on
because I got given one for my birthday by my husband.
Pretty extravagant, an amazing gift. To be honest, it really
came out of left field because I had been talking
about it for quite a number of years and never
thought I was actually going to do it. But do
you know what, We've got really busy lives and we
have to make food on the run. So I actually
think this is going to be practically a really cool thing.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And it's true that it replaces like twenty other appliances.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Well, I'm actually still trying to come to grips with
what it actually does because it does so many different things.
So the best features so far that I have found
is that you only need to quite often use one
bowl when you're cooking. So you know, normally I'll put
something in a measuring cylinder and then I'll put it
in a little bowl or crack my eggs in here.
Everything that you cook goes into the one Thermo mix mixer,
(16:01):
so it's a scale. So you know, when you put
in like one hundred grams of butter, you put it
into the same bowl and it just measures it for
you. You don't need to break it off, put it in
another bowl if you needed to melt it down. It
does that because it goes hot and it goes cold.
So if you need something to whip up cold, it
does that. If it whips up hot, it does that.
I made the most amazing chicken and leak risotto in it,
(16:22):
and you don't need to stand there and watch it
do its thing.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Stick to the pot.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, well I did that with I did that with fudge,
and I stood. You have to stand by fudge for
so long, just steering, steering, steering, weaight till it goes
to softball stage. I haven't tried fudge in the Thermo Mix,
but apparently that's when it's going to really light my
fire because apparently then you just literally push a button
and walk away. But there was this I had one
of those Thermo Mixed demonstrations Anna, who's the lovely Thermo
(16:47):
Mix consultant, that when you buy these machines, you get
someone to come. They come to your house and they
give you a demo. Thank goodness for that, because I
just needed someone to tell me what to do. Even
though the machine does, it says next, put it in
one hundred grams of butter. You push next. Then it says, okay,
take this off and scrape the sides. It is a
foolproof it really is. So it's also got built in
(17:09):
recipes in it on a platform called cookie Do. And
one of those things that they demoed for me was
a thing called the Fruity Dream, and I was skeptical
and I was like, what is that and why do
I need that in my life? So essentially what it
is you put sugar first of all, the sugar goes
in and you push a button and it whips the
(17:29):
sugar up into icing sugar. Oh who knew. I don't
know why you didn't push put icing sugar in, but
it makes it really.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Fine and fluffy.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
And then you put in a whole lot of frozen fruit.
So whether it's frozen blueberries, strawberries, mango, whatever you've got
in your freezer. I happen to put in frozen strawberries, right,
and it whips it up. And then you put in
some egg white and it goes into this most fluffy,
magnificent mix between a sawbet and a gelato and an
(17:58):
ice cream, and all it is is egg whites, sugar
and frozen fruit and it comes out like the best
dessert you have ever had. So much so it literally
took me five minutes. So I had the Netboo girls
over at my house the other day before prize giving,
and I said, would you guys like a fruity dream?
And they were like, okay. I pulled it out and
they were all fighting over it. In the end, they
(18:20):
were so ups they were all like, I want some
more like it. Actually, it was just so amazing. I
have to make it for you. And all I kept
thinking was this fruity dream is great, But imagine if
I put a little bit of General Vodka in it
and it would turn into this sort of dackery situation.
I've also done the Best of a chocolate chip cookies,
(18:40):
which last night I had fifteen minutes before I had
to go to help hear it help at Matilda. Yeah,
and in fifteen minutes I made about fifty six cookies.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Because it misses, there's no lumps, nothing, It just does.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
The whole mixing process. Then you just chuck it on
a train. It's done like it's it's mind blowing and
it makes no mess.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Really, and my.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Eleven year old can do it. I'm honestly, I'm so
converted already and I can't wait to make Christmas products
with it. You wait, you guys are going to get
so fat in here.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well yeah, all right, six hundred dollars on the line
for the chasers. But but today today, because it is
last call Thursday for your chance to get in the
drawer to go to New York. Here's the thing. If
you call right now, either if you win or lose,
you will go in the drawer for Tony streets Peakspender. Okay,
but what you do need to know is today is
a New York themed Chases game, so produce a Rosie
(19:30):
has written questions about New York. Clearly we don't know
where these questions are. There is no topical.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Question because I think of anything to do with New
York right now, and I can't think of anything. I
can't even think what the wher I mean? It's called
New York State, right, there's the state.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I think the capital of the states called Albany. Oh,
thank you, not Manhattan. It's trick. If you reckon, you
could have a crack a list. Take us on. You
could win six hundred dollars cash. Either way, though you
will go in the drawer for Tony streets peakspender. No, okay,
so I've been lucky enough to go to New York? Yeah,
how well do I know it? Though?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Oh? Wait, undred double O four coast? Do you call
a ten?
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Good luck the Chasers on Coast? Hi, my name is Anna,
I'm from tod On.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
I'm up against Jase and I would spend the money
on our holiday.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Nice, we're abouts. Would you like to go? How about
New York love too?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Actually that would be quite cool if you have you
gotten to the drawer for New York won the Chasers
and then took that at your spending money, so you'd
have sixteen. I'm glad there's no maths Christians today. You're saying, all.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Right, very must of black, Anna, I wish you success,
all right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Sending Jase out now. He has been to New York
once before. Have you ever been, Anna, No, but I'd
love to go. Same. Doesn't mean you can't do the
New York quiz though, because knowledge is knowledge, right, So
you have five general knowledge questions all on New York today. Okay, okay,
I'm going to give you a nice quick read for
six hundred dollars. Are you ready to go?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Okay, your time starts. Now? What drink is Long Island?
Famous for Long Island? Nineteen?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Which river flows through New York State? Yes? Where in
New York is famous for its musicals and theater?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Adam?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
No? How many waterfalls make out Niagara Falls?
Speaker 8 (21:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
God, you have a guess one?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
What year did the New York Subway System begin operation?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I'm just going to.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Double check before we get Jason because he can't hear this.
But the answer for where in New York is famous
for its musicals in theater? The answer where Wanning was
Broadway all the theater distric. I just want to see
where in New York is Broadway because if it's in
Madison Square, we'll give it to you, right, Okay, No,
(22:01):
we would have accepted Manhattan. So where is Broadway in
relation to Times Square? It's south of it. Okay, so
we can't we can't give that to you. But still
you're on the board with two.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
All right, so I am compet it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Okay, let's bring jas peckin. I tried it. I tried it. Okay, Jason,
you're chasing a two. Okay? And what is quite a
tricky quiz because it's very specific? Okay, Okay, I'm hating
to reverse the questions, Jase. All right, your time starts. Now.
What year did the New York Subway system begin operation?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
My goodness, in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
No, how many waterfalls make up Niagara Falls?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Four?
Speaker 8 (22:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Where in New York is famous for its musicals and theater?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Broadway?
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yes? Which river flows through New York State?
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Hudson.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yes, he's got it, and I'm pretty sure you would
have got the drink that Long Island is famous for
Long Island nice tea.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yes, we need to go and do that.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
The first went to the subway starts.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Okay, so the New York Subway system began operation wait
for it, nineteen oh four. Question. And there are three
waterfalls that make up Niagara.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Falls, the three of them? Now are there?
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Say? Four? Four?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I don't know if that's afect one? Well it makes sense?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah, yeah, oh hard luck Anna for.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
The team, and we're going to put you on the
drawer to go to New York anywhere I came for
playing this morning, right, thank you?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
One second there is that would be a way better
price than the six hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Ya you learn about New York just there exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Your daily feel good breakfast catch up podcast with Coasts Tony, Jason, Sam.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
You could also score a trip to the place where
this is filmed taxi all about the textive and the
big yellow cams traveling through New York. Yeah, but it's
not just New York City, it's New York State. And
to tell us more about it is Ross Levin. Now, Rosses,
quickly tell us what was your official title?
Speaker 8 (24:05):
Ross, I'm the executive director of the New York State
Division of Tourism.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
But most people know this is I love New York.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Ah fantastic, So you know exactly what to expect. I'm
a first timer to New York, so if you had
to describe it to me as someone that's never been there,
how would you do that.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
You're going to love it, I mean, and to some degree,
it's going to be a lot of what you expect,
those sort of things we're known for around the world,
you know, from seeing a Broadway show on Broadway, to
having the thin New York style pizza and our Doe bagels,
to doing luxury shopping in the Hampton's standing under thundering
(24:40):
Niagara falls. But on the other hand, you can expect
the unexpected, you know, seeing some of the most beautiful
beaches in the world. People don't think of, you know,
they think of New York and those skyscrapers. They don't
realize that we have some of the most beautiful beaches
in the world in Long Island, that you could even
surf there, or exploring main streets and Gilded Age historic
mansions in the Hudson Valley overlooking the Hudson River and
(25:02):
the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley. Are sipping wine
along a wine trail in the finger Lakes. So the
main thing to think about is diversity.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
It's a little bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
I love that, Ross, And I want to give you
a choice now, can when you think about the divisity,
would you rather are you walking through Central Park? Would
you rather have a hot dog from a street stand,
a street cart or a bagel?
Speaker 8 (25:20):
I would go with the hot dog over the two
of them. I would take a slice of New York pizza.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Ah, good to know.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
We will definitely be sampling some pizza. If you had
to say, Ross, what the most underrated attraction is in
New York that people do and go? Why did I
not know about this? Is there anything that comes to mind?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (25:38):
I mean New York State is a whole state of
hidden gems, largely because people think of us and they
think only of the city, and they should obviously, But
there's so much more than that. I mean, one example
are state parks. There are over one hundred and eighty
state parks. The number one favorite state park in the
United States is rated by the readers of USA today
is Letchwood State Park here in New York on the
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western part of the state, which is called the Grand
Canyon of the East Not too far from there is
the number three favorite state park, which is actually one
of my favorites, called Watkins Glen State Park, where you
take this stone path through this gorge around among under
nineteen different waterfalls.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
So it's hard to pick just one.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
But you know, that's just one example of sort of
the things that people don't even know is here.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
How easy is it to get to these places from you,
like you fly the JFK Airport, of course, like to
get from Vay the Hamptons, for example.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Yeah, I mean there are a lot of options. It's
very easy overall. I mean, we have a commuter train
that can take you out to Long Island, including the Hamptons,
or north of the city all the way up into
the Hudson Valley, you know, and you could do that
in the same day that you're seeing a show at night.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We are arriving in autumn or four as you call it,
right before Halloween. What is specific to New York around
this time of year.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Well, you're singing my song, Halloween is one of my
favorite holidays, and you know New York goes all in
when it comes to Halloween.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
You've heard of the.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Well, Sleepy Hollow is a town
in New York State. In that area, in Sleepy Hollow,
there's a lantern lead cemetery tour. At night there you
have something called a Great Jack O' lantern Blaze, which
is thousands of pumpkins that have been carved by artists
and put into designs with lighting and music. But even
outside that region, across the state, we have a Haunted
(27:23):
History Tour which takes you to haunted inns and restaurants
and historic states. And it's the fall season, so it's
that extra magic that the state takes on with that
beautiful foliage.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
We have the longest foliage season of any state in
the nation.
Speaker 8 (27:37):
And in New York, it's not fall if you haven't
had your cider donuts, done, your apple picking, your apple pies,
pumpkin spice, everything.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
There's as many treats as tricks in New York when
it comes to Halloween.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
So good Jace is looking at me because of the
three of us, the two boys are skitty cats, and
I'm the one that likes the thrills and the Halloween vibes.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
A symmetry tool, not but my hand up ross. It's
been so good to chat with you. Thank you very much.
We're so excited someone will win this trip tomorrow. This
time tomorrow, someone is getting that phone call. And today
is last call Thursday, which adds every single hour from
now right through until nine tonight. Huge news out this morning.
Women with a more full of figure. When it comes
(28:21):
to the diary, ear, I'm trying to where you go
delicately as I.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Can expect this from Sam, not from you.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
This is good news. Ladies with a with a bigger
bum tend to look shaped. Yeah, pear shaped, tend to
live longer. So there you go. So if you think
yourself you're a bit of a bit, apparently it's a
good thing.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well what if you're an apple like me?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Do we? Men who quite like the larger bums tend
to be more honest.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
And what bums do you like?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Well, this is this is how I figure that out.
I like live you a girl, get apairly. Women with
larger bums they live long. Apparently. There that's news out
this morning. God's greading In other news, you could be
receiving a phone call tomorrow morning. If this time tomorrow
(29:12):
your phone might ring, it might light up. Make sure
your batteries full. You've got the ringer turned on. You
can hear it, because tomorrow morning someone gets a phone
call telling them they are Tony Street's big spender. Sophia
is a big spender winner in the past. Sofia, tell
us about that that moment you got that phone call.
How was there?
Speaker 7 (29:30):
The phone call was completely overwhelming. You know, everything that
I've been through in the preest years. It was just
you know, something good had finally happened, and it was Yeah,
it was just mind alone, really and we couldn't talk and.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Tell us because you mentioned that theire you've been facing
cancer for the last couple of years. How is your health?
How things at the moment?
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Thinks to the minis therapy drugsits stopping with the tumors
from keeping on growing, which is good. They're so straight
part so it down. But yeah, at the moment it's
fairly stable. So I'm very very blessed and lucky.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Yeah, Sophia, you say you're very blessed and lucky, but
you have had such an ordeal and I think people
might remember or might not, but you lost your young daughter, Valentina,
and then you've had to deal with this terminal cancer diagnosis.
But not only that, since we last spoke to you,
you've lost your mum as well.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Yeah, the last year has been pretty very tough, to
be honest. It was kind of like how much MOCN
I deal with. And because I've been through cancer, those
two have inter Cander watched them and they love suffer
through cancer. The orphic experience.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, so this.
Speaker 7 (30:40):
Is why you know, the trip when we won, it
let so much to me.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And we've made some amazing memories for you and your
family too. So talk us through some of the highest
well lots of the favorite moments from you when you
won Big Spender, it.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
Was the experience that meant more almost in you know,
suspending part of this Carlo ranch which is just so beautiful,
rateful dress back and some of that was just so
stunning for it.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
I love that Augustina can remember it all. I can
hear her in the background.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
Yes she does, which and that was a part of it.
It's just be able to share my family.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, well again, thank you very much for being part
of our family. So for you, it was an amazing
trip and again we've made a friend for life too.
Your chance to be in that drawer to wing your
way to New York. Gone in New Zealand's premium economy
to ten thousand dollars to spend Tony Streets speaks been
do we do the draw tomorrow morning? Another chance after
night to come fly with me? Let's fly, Let's fly away.
(31:41):
Tony Street speaks between to ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Oh, it's going to be magnificent. And the cool thing
about it is, I'm even looking forward to the flight
over because on a flight over you get to sit
and watch uninterrupted movies, especially when you're not traveling with
her kids, which is something I don't do very often.
And so Jason and I were into Air New Zealand's
innovation center. They've got this place called Hangar twenty two
(32:04):
where they have mockups of actual planes, and they talked
us through all the new features that are coming to
Air New Zealand planes really really soon, like all of
them are starting to get retro fitted with all these
new features, and they were particularly exciting.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I tell you that her game changes. We don't use
that term loosely because you know, at the moment, if
you feel like a snack or something, you can ask
for it. And the flight attendants are so lovely on
in New Zealand. They're like, we want you to ask,
we hare to help. What do you want, let us
bring it to you. Please ask, please ask.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
But imagine in the middle of the night when you
hit the call button and it kind of wakes everyone up.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
That's it and the light comes on.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, and you feel a bit bad about it, even
if you are sending there stovg.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Yeah, especially if it's a third or fourth time. You
know you don't want to do this. So what they're
going to have is a thing called sky pantry. So
one into the plane we're in the middle of. It
doesn't matter what your class is, either economy, economy, premium,
wherever you are, they're going to have a sky pantry.
You can get up and help yourself to the snacks.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
So this pantry, which we saw their own eyes, has
like the snack of chain chips and all of the snacks,
and it has the drinks. So you just go and
grab them and you don't have to wake anyone up.
You just slink out. You don't have to push a button,
you don't have to have a conversation with a flight attendant.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
You just do it, and there is no limit. They're
not going to judge you if you feel like two
packs of chippies have two packs, well.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Maybe if you have like fifty packs of chips, they
might go excuse me, sure you're going to explode with
soults ingestion.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I'm to start sharing those.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
The other thing that really did excite me and I
had heard about these sky nests. I had heard about
them the other bunks in the sky. But until you
actually see them and think, okay, I'm absolutely exhausted. You know,
like you could be on a massive flight, potentially traveling
for twenty four hours, and you have the opportunity to
book a four hour slot where you can go. You
can leave your economy seat, go into the lifelat sky nest,
(33:47):
shut the door, have your little eye mask on and
get four hours uninterrupted kip Like that is It is
what you said. It's a game changer, and.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
They're being rolled out next year from what we understand.
And here's the thing with the New Zealand. They know
that New Zealand is so far away from me everyone else.
Chances are to be anywhere you have to take a
night flight. So okay, how do we make this more
enjoyable for our customers. I know, let's give them some beds.
And that's what they've done.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
And the other thing that I thought was a real win.
Have a look next time you're on one of the
new planes. They've made all of the screens bigger, and
the touch screen and they have devices. Now I think
this might have been in business or business lucks where
you can actually have both your phone and your screen
working in sync.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You compare them up here and yeah, yeah, yeah. And
also what I love is there's going to be no
more seat wars. You know when someone leads their seat
back and it hits you in the lap and you've
got your meal on the train in front of you.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
We've talked about that several times on here. What would
you do? Are you the person that puts your seat back? Remember,
because Sam's really anti people putting their seatback, but he
does it. Yeah, and it's like they're allowed to, but
now everyone can do it without any shame.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
The shell, the shell of the back of the seat
does not move, but the acial seat moves inside the shells. Anyway,
what we did, we were lucky enough to be invited
to this innovation. Seen too like Tony said, and we've
filmed what we saw and you can get a sneak
preview right now. If you had an Instagram or Facebook,
look for Coast Breakfast and have a look there. The
video is right there, so you can see with your
own eyes what you can experience on any New Zealand soon.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
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