October 21, 2024 • 42 mins
Today on the show we chat about our latest stop on our trip across New York - Duchess County, our experience in Tiffany & Co on 5th Avenue, and the things we've seen in New York that would be great to have back home
0:00 Our time in Duchess County
2:00 Using your phone as a magnifier
3:30 How overstimulation affects your mood
6:50 Does grapefruit actually affect the pill
10:00 Jase and Sam’s coffee dilemma
12:55 Mansion tour in the Hamptons
15:40 Sam gets locked out of his room
18:25 How people are meeting their partners
22:20 Things NZ could learn from New York
26:25 Do we eat too early in NZ
29:30 Teresa’s thoughts of Manhattan
31:55 Taking Sam through an excessive gas checklist
34:50 Tiffany & Co on 5th Avenue
37:40 Our brushes with fame in New York
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Tony Jason Sam's Fair Good Breakfast, Can't Sharp podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We need to talk about Dutchess County because that is
where we are now. And I think the biggest surprise
for me, and I suspect a lot of Kiwis would
have the same mentality is when I thought of New York,
I thought of the sky rises, Broadway, Manhattan, very densely populated.
What I hadn't really thought about is that New York
State itself is much much bigger, and outside of that
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city where most people actually live, especially if they've got families,
it's actually more like New Zealand than you think. So
I don't know how many times we have said on
our journeys here in Dutchess County, oh my goodness, this
is so much like Arrow Tawners, very much like Central Otago.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, and climate wise as well.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I mean, it's the same time a year where whether
leeds change color, we've got yellows, we've got the oranges,
but this bright reads and amongst it as well.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
These guys take whether to a different level.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Though we walked over a bridge yesterday that went over
the Hudson River and that actually freezes over to the
point that historically, so these days as things warm up,
but you used to be able to ice skate up
the river and you could actually travel up the river
all the way to Canada.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, that's really nice. They do this thing.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
It's like the Hudson River Trail, but it's the New
York Empire State Trail the Court, so you could pretty
much ride your bike if you want to from New
York to Canada.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, they've done it so well.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That is one of the things that we think New
Zealand should adopt, and we are going to talk about
that later at seven forty today. All the things that
we've found here that Keyweeds need to get on board with.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
But honestly, if you're thinking about a trip to New
York Dutchess, can't they put it on your list because
it's just every picture postcard and you're only an hour
and a half out of Manhattan. You can catch the
train and then look up and you were in a
whole different part of it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
A quaint, little beautiful towns with lovely shocking and just
family owned businesses is lovely.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Don't limit yourself to the city, that is the message.
But you we're wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
The city's pretty impressive, tot. You are that last stage
in life, because I know I definitely am. We're taking
photos of things, maybe reading a menu or something, taking
photos and then enlarging the photo of just taken to
read the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
James. Maybe you need glasses. Oh yeah, I'm supposed to
wear them.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I think there's that transition where you kind of resist
it for a while. And we have a really good solution.
And this was actually recommended to us by one of
our travel guides here, Jeanette, And she was getting out
her phone quite a lot every time at dinner, and
we're like, why is she getting out of her phone
and kind of analyzing the menu like that? Or what
she was doing. She was using an app called Magnifier.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Which is it's basically it uses the camera on your
phone and the lights on your phone as well, and
it is an old schooled magnifier.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It works beautifully.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And so she holds it over the menu and a
dark restaurant, all of a sudden it's lit and it's giant.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's easy to read, and you zoom it in. You
can zoom it into one single letter if you wanted. Yeah,
you can get right in there. Close.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And I think the best indicator of whether or not
you need the Magnifier app on your phone is what
is the font on your phone?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Are you still on the original font of your phone?
Or if you told your phone to give me a
bigger font? No, I'm still on the original original I'm
not sure if I am on off? Can I have
a look at your phone? Yeah? Right, you can make
it a lot larger? Yeah, phone? Like, is that is
that text normal? Your original font? Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But if you're looking at if you've struggling to read
your own phone.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Now that the app is called the Magnifying App, we
didn't know anything about it, but this Magnifying app is magnificent.
A few days out from Label Weekend, just days away now,
and don't forget this weekend. It's the coast double shot across.
Label Weekend starts at six on Saturday morning, and we
could be in a bit of a rain soaked weekend,
that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So I tell you what to turn the radio up on.
iHeart Radio's could be great.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I want you to think now about the last time
that you snapped at someone or you were a little
bit short.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Do you remember that yesterday? No, no, this isn't directed
at you.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But if you want to admit your failings right now,
that's fine, so you can. It's all out views. This
is therapy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I've got I've got videos of all of us being
a little bit tipchy, just because you know what I'm filming.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're not filming yourself, which is constant. Well, no, we'll
go back through the vision.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can't remember anything because you can cast through. I
don't think I've been titching on the strip. One person
has because of the camera.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know, you come to film a show and you're
not let to flow your droning you. There are rules
for a reason, young man.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There are laws anyway, there might be a reason for it.
So overstimulation is what we need to talk about. So
apparently a lot of the times when we become short,
it's because we have been over stimulated in a very
short space of time. So I want you to think
about if you are a parent or a grandparent and
you've ever tried to get your kids out the door
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in the morning to get to school. Activity Right now,
The reason you snap at them often isn't necessarily because
they are dragging the chain, and look, that's a valid reason,
but it's because you're overstimulated. Because in the short space
of time you have a coffee stimulation, your alarm clock
goes off, stimulation you are eating that stimulates the body.
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You might be checking your phone, having a look at
the news. Now, all of those things are fine, but
when they are condensed in a very short space of
time I'm talking perhaps half an hour, sometimes to an hour,
that is where neurologically the problems begin.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
You see this with young kids as well, like I mean,
that's why they start warning about screen time. You watch
like anyone under the age of say fifteen, if they're
on a screen and you try to get them off
the screen, and parents and grandparents you know this. You
try to get the kids off the screen. Their behavior
is so different for the next probably ten fifteen minutes
after that.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Do you want me to tell you the science behind it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
When you're overstimulated, your prefrontal cortex goes offline. So this
is the part of your brain responsible for rational decision
making basically shuts down and that's when you sat I
love how they're.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Talking about overstimulization, and then they use like a computer
term like offline to describe it.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So here's the process.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
When we're stressed out, the prefrontal cortex goes from reflective
and irrational to reactive. And in these conditions, your brain's
not thinking about maintaining relationships or effectively solving problems.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Instead it's fan a gingg. Yeah, of course it's quite
a flight mode. How do you avoid it?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Quite easily? Okay, so yourself in a room, we just
cut down the stimulation in that morning. Okay, so give
yourself a nicer alarm clock, maybe waste to have your coffee.
I know that can have another effect of I can't
do this like rational deep sorrow, so it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Will be miserable and grumpy. Yeah, we'll just leave it there.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
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Speaker 5 (06:57):
And when you're in America, of course, the food is incredible,
the drinks are You've got to have a Long Island
ze tea. On Long Island, you gotta have a Manhattan
or a Cosmo bullet in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well you can't have apparently it's grapefruit.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, this is where the problem started. We were at
the end of a very long day and it's a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Of a treat. We decided to get a cocktail.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And producer Rosie and I were looking at the list
together and we both settled on the same drink, and
I as the forty one year old here when yep,
that sounds good to meet order young people these days
they're a bit more fastidious. And she's going through every
ingredient in the cocktail, going will I like this, how's.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The pairing going to go?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And then the way it goes away starts making our
drink and she just looks at me with a look
of horror and she goes, oh, I can't drink this cocktail.
Why And she said, oh, it's got greape fruit in it.
And I thought initially when she said I can't drink
this cocktail, I thought it had dairy in it. She's
got a bit of an intolerance day, and I thought, oh,
she better get up there and change it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
When I heard it was grapefruit. I was like, why
on earth is she doing that? Now?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I remember hearing this too about the same age, young,
that it can interact with your contraceptive.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Pill, right, grapefruit care. Yeah, I have never heard that, chase,
where have you been pregnant? It was quite a young dad, and.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I remember hearing this, and I remember, as a younger
person thinking, oh gosh, because you know, when you don't
want to have a child earlier, you are doing everything
you can to avoid it. And then as you get
a bit older, I can't. I don't know, you roll
the dice a bit more. You're like, oh, well I've
got my husband, now I have a child earlier than
I'm going.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
To eat that grapefruit.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But I just thought, oh, it's an.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Old wive's tale, like does it really actually affect you?
And producer Rosie went on to say that all her
friends are like, oh no, they are they are stay clear. Well,
I've googled it, and it turns out that the chances
of you falling pregnant because well what happens is the
grapefruit can block drug absorption.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Right, But it sounds like the chances are very, very
very small.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You have to be a prolific grapefruit eater. You have
to be one of those people, because did you do
this when you're a kid. You'd slice a grape fruit
in half and pour sugar on the top of it.
Now eat out the little quarts of grapefruit.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But you used to serrated knife and you went all
around that each individual settment, aimful process, But what.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
A wonderful like you consume great fruit anymore?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I had them so often because my nan on our
farm had a grapefruit tree and it was a regular.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Breakfast for us. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And you say that that doesn't block the pearl, and
it's very unlikely. But show you what back in the
day when we're all eating grapefruit families.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm just saying I think the chance is low. But
I don't want you to take this as like word.
We're not a family planning.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We won't put that out of Just run the die,
roll the div We are in New York for Tony Streets,
big spender, ten thousand dollars caresh, just being Theresa one.
That's amazing trip. And we brought her here to spin
their cash. We're taking around and we're doing a lot
of things. We doing a lot of sight seeing, right,
and the days can be long. We get up early,
we do the radio show, and then we leave the
hotel and we're going to do a whole bunch of activities.
We take a shopping we ever really experienced New York's
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the amazing team at I love ing hy dot com.
And then we have dinner together and we'll have planned
the show. And I sound like but we planned the
show and then we're going.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To be dood all again. We do everything together. What
Jason's trying to say, at some point, you do get
tired of shopping? The days along? Yeah, we're not so
much each other. I don't know. Well, I don't think so,
you guys any second now?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So the days along and we snatched these moments and
Semini the other day while everyone's out shopping, we thought,
you know what, I feel like a quiffy and everyone
gets the Starbucks, right, we though, let's get a course.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
About the coffee man. It was just about getting out
of the shops. I always I thought it was about
quality time with Jay Dizzel. I always love quality time.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Said here has been an exceptional formulist. He's made me
the whole time. We nipped away and we women got
we had a half an hour and was like, there's
no way we're going to be late this time. So
we nipped away for a Starbucks and we had a
half an hour to get old drinks and then get
back to the meeting point.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And we walked in there and the guy said, what
name should we put with this order?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
This is after I'd once again blow my calorie count
for like a six hundred calory and coffee.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I ordered the pumpkin Larte with extra cream and map
the kid's birthday party with a terrible frap too.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So the days long and maybe you're not thinking, I
don't know, what do you lead us to the decision?
So the guy says to us what names we put
it under?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And I said, John, it's been a smart I don't
know why.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Then I looked down and his name was John, and
he said John, and here John, And then he was like,
all right, John's you go there, we'll get your coffee
to you.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You said your name was John as well. We got
pulled into it, got pulled.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
So anyway up on the board, we looked out waiting
for our coffee, and there was about fourteen John's on
the board.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Good one houses I don't know, so we had to
wait there and John got called, gets called another John,
all these other John's getting called for their coffees and.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
We didn't know what's so the only way we're get
to decipher which was our coffee was to watch them
make our coffee.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
So now we're loitering around the coffee makers.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Leading of the shelf, watching them looking for some pumpkin
frapper mits going into my particularly flamboy coffee.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And here's a tip.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
If you're going to be fools and play tricks, don't
choose one of the most common names in the world.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Right So it was thankfully when Sam's won arrived at
Headly Sparkler that was lip.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And to cut a long story short, we were late
to the pickup.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
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Speaker 3 (12:54):
Drove through the Hamptons.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
While we're in New York and the Hamptons everyone knows
about the Hampton's right eighty nine million dollar homes.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's surprising the amount of castles and mansions here. And
that's one of the things that I would suggest if
you come to New York that you do in the
greatest state of New York, because you go and check
them out. I'm gonna be honest. When I saw on
our itinerary mentioned to it, I was a little bit like,
is this going to be a highlight? And then we
got there and just learning the history and seeing how
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the other half live has been a real highlight.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Yeah, Because, I mean, the families that had these beautiful
mansions back in the day were very wealthy and they
were of high influence and with that comes incredible backstories,
but also incredible lifestyles.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
The way these people lived.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
With twenty five people working their property, that had bakery,
chefs and all sorts of extravagant positions in order to serve.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's that Gilded Age when they were high society and
they were trying to tell people that they were. I mean,
what about the trip when we took the furnamon At
boat ride out to Bannaman Island and that is where
the castle was.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
You had to go by boat just to get to
the Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
And the cool thing about America is what they did
is they restore these and they hold on to them.
The Banamin one, the one we saw just outside of
the Long Island. Oh hic right, the very top of
the Long Island, and act she built the hill out
of the from the subway to build the hill.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
But do you know what I love about what these
castles and mansions represent is the fact that they used
to gain influence by socializing. So they would invite people
over and have these extravagant parties to show people how
wealthy they are.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Look how great our food is. Look how greade our
our dining room is.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You're going to have the most incredible experience at our
mansion and our castle because we.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Are the most wealthy and we have the best influence.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, it's actually an interesting point you bring up, and
we all felt this, right, so you go, oh, ridiculous
skilleded age. They had all this opulence, but actually, at
the heart of it, they spent time together on the
weekends as a group. And I kind of go, look
at us in our modern world where we're all living
in little silos, and I think, yes, you don't have
to spend as much money as they did. But they
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were onto something essentially. What they did in their summer houses,
their weekend houses, is they played sport together all weekend. Yes,
families and see we can lose something about those old times.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
And they sat down at the table and we were
ate together. All their friends are sitting away and running table.
So honestly, if you get a chance this coming long weekend,
the last thing you might want to do is socialize.
But trust me, it's so good for yourself. And I'm
lucky enough to live in a really nice neighborhood where.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
We do that.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Like I was facetiming my wife the other day and
was chatting away and the gate bell rang because some
of the neighbors is popping around the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I was like, because it's the weekend. I was like,
that's cool.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Instead of just eating your takeaways on the couch like
a sloth, maybe just try and.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Sprowing your favorite outfits and go lass and find some
friends of adults.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Making our way through New York for Tony Streets, big spender,
and you can do this trip so you can follow
our footsteps. Things to travel us say and their details
on our website Coast online dot co dot and said,
but when you do this trip, your in and out
of hotels quite a bit. And when you're doing something
like us, you know, doing the radio show. We've got
on our equipment and our bags and our gear and
our headphones and everything else. It's really important to have
your stuff about you, right. You know where your things are,
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you know where you're room key is.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
We're living out of our suitcases at the moment, Like
we don't even have time to hang anything up. You
can't even take it out of the suitcase because then
you're all forget.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
We'll charge your phone. And this is what happened to me.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
See, I was caught on a bus and I was
run out and run out of charge on my phone.
I don't need my phone because you know, I use
it for a multitude of things. So Rosie had a charger,
and with that charger, she had the converter that turns
a New Zealand charger into an American plag Very handy.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Rosie, right, so she's here to produce our show. So
I borrowed it through the day and I put it
back in my bag. I didn't give it back to her.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And at the end of the day when we got
back to our hotels, are for a long day and
crime you river. I'm trying to sell this to my
wife that this is a tough trip, but she doesn't
believe me. It was like eleven eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Let's because she keep putting up highlights reels on our
social media.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Real photos.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Eleven thirty at night and in my room, just about
to take in a bed and I get a text
from Rosie saying do you have my wall charger? I'm like, yes,
I do, so I was like, ah, yeah, Majami's put
some clothes back.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I would have stayed in my pj's. I grabbed the
charger and I opened the door and I was like,
I don't have my Gee card. It shut doors. So
I walked down to the Rose.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I actually take an elivator down to Rosy's room, knocked
on the door. She looks at me like, what the
hell's wrong with you? I don't have my Geek cards.
So then I went down to reception. I's like, what
you want on this point, at eleven thirty at night
after a huge day is to walk down there and
just get a key card, walk back into your room
and it's you know, we're a five minute mission here.
I'll walk down there. There's a fourteen person queue. So
I sat down there waiting.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
For the checker. And at the hotel for forty five minutes,
and then did they look at you and go, he's
trying to just break into someone's room. You have your passport.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
So now I don't have my passport in my room,
but I did have my phone, so I managed to
show them a picture of my passports and I got
back to my room at one thirteen morning.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You know, those those are the things that can really
break you on a trip. And we actually had one
of our tour guides here from Duchess County Tourism, Christina,
had a similar experience, same thing, big long day, finished dinner, wanting.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
To get back to bed.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She's got two kids and her car wouldn't start last night,
so you know, but that's all part of the traveler.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Kidden stories. That's right.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
When was the last time you heard someone say, oh,
how did you meet them? You know, where did you
meet your partner? Well, this is an amazing sort of
time laps that we're stumbled across, and it starts in
nineteen thirty and goes all the way through to present
time on the percentage of people and how they meet
their loved ones. So back in nineteen thirty, how do
you think people met well, basically a good split between
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family first through family, and I think my parents when
I think of that, because my mum met my dad
at her twenty first and it was because he played
golf and met her parents, my nana and granddad through golf.
Family that she met my dad. Number two back in
the nineteen thirties was through school. Yeah, okay, bearing the
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high school stethearts we are and number three on the
list was through friends.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right, so are friends set them up on a date?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And that was that the nineteen thirties family, school, friends,
house wholesome.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's how we met our partners?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Should we go to somewhere at midpoint between the nineteen thirties,
so let's go look nineteen eighty two, say.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, it's greaties. How we met each other in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well, family's taken a back seat by the eighties, and
the overwhelming way people have met their partners is twenty
seven percent and that is through friends. So friends become
more important than your family connecting and loved one. Co
workers starts to push into the top three. So women
are working more in the eighties and they were back
in the thirties, So suddenly co workers is becoming a
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place to meet people. Now, that's interesting when you think
of modern times's bit of a no no, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
You got the puk balanrue totally.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Another interesting one here is in the nineteen thirties, neighbors
was meeting your partner by having a neighbor as eleven percent.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's seemed to drop away. What have you got the
neighbors out there? So, yeah, love over the fence and yeah,
love over the fence.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
By the nineteen nineties has dropped to six percent, So
people are sleeping with their neighbors less.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah in the nineties. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So what we're seeing here is friendships in the nineties
mid nineties is still the number one way to meet people,
but coworkers has bumped up to number two. It was three,
and family is way down at number five. Bars and
restaurants starts to feature as the third place that people
meet in the mid nineties. Wow, so we go through
to the mid two thousands. Okay, so we're going to
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pass through into the early two thousands. Same goes friends,
co workers, bars and restaurants.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's amazing. Coworkers and bars and restaurants are on a parteah, okay,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Now, Suddenly a new way of meeting people pings into
our consciousness, and that is see early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's not there, it's starting to ping up. By about
two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Online meeting people suddenly becomes the second most prolific way of.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Meeting rents out of know where com in two thousand
and nine. Now and it's second on the list.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Let's wait, we're tacking through twenty twelve, it takes over
online as the most prolific way to meet your partner.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, and then if we go all the way to
ender this graph in twenty twenty four, it is a
staggering example of how powerful online media is. Sixty percent
of all relationships start online and the next best on
the list is friends.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
At thirty and then co workers has diminished right down
to just eight percent.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
This is a no, no, no now.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But there's a great story in Our Lovely Day show
host Lorna met her new fiance Mike earlier this year,
only a few months ago, on an online dating app
and now they're engaged and I love that.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And you can read that story at enzid hero dot com.
By the way, what's by the way.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
What will be interesting in another ten years, are we
going to see an increase of over sixty percent? Never
has there been one singular way that has dominating since
through all these decades.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, well, whatever it takes.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
You know, Look, it sounds really negative because you know,
it seems so where that we live our entire lives online.
But least in twenty twenty four we're only only one
point two percent of us are sleeping with our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Oh yeah, that was falling away.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You can get five thousand dollars coast cash for Christmas.
All you have to do is basically tell us the
songs to make you feel really good, all the songs
you're not so keen on six the word music to
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Speaker 3 (22:26):
We text a bit of the details and you.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Can win five thousand dollars cash for Christmas, which is
now just two months away.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
We need to talk a little bit of politics now,
because if you're a city councilor if you're a mayor,
or if you're a member of the government, I hope
you're listening to this because we have some tips on
what we could learn from New York things that we
would like adopted.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Do you want to start with your sad when you.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Talk politically that I want to drop the pub could
be if I just want to talk about bridges and infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
To be honest, I want to come down on counselors.
Not to name any names, but Chris Darbian retalded.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Because okay, first of all, when you need an underground network,
that's what we need.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
We need trains underground under our city, and we need
to do it one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I think it's too late. It's too late, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, it is.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's the problem.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It's the thing when New Zealand writes to it, not
that we want to come down to New Zealand. There
are so many amazing things and honestly I am missing home.
I love New Zealand and when we come to digging
those holes and making that they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
One.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
You know that everyone's hearing about the wolf and train thing,
it's's a loop around the middle of the city.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, while you're talking about Auckland, the first thing that
needs to change is the fact that no, we're talking
about what's good about New York.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, what we saw yesterday was the bridge over the Hub.
You know, what I mean, which is a walking bridge
and a cycling bridge. Now, the first thing that we
need to do is build one of those right next
to the harbor original Auckland I think yes.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And then already that's already been floated, remember, and that
needs to happen.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
But do you know what I think I've worked out
of the problem. It's the Chelsea Sugar Works that has
to go.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
But it does.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
It does look I like it, but it's the only
boat that goes under the harbor bridge we have. We
are building these massive high bridge for sugar.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Okay, it's got a very nice cafe, have you not?
And a great playground. What a high line? Can we
talk about the high Line in New York City?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So the high Line was an old railway that is
elevated above the ground so that you can walk amongst
the buildings and still get the planted greenery around it.
And Jose, when you and I were walking there together,
we were thinking about locations where that could be in
New Zealand, not.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Just Awk, but you know you could do that right
across I say, for example, Queen's down through the Arrowtown.
Imagine walking there, you ride your bike across there. If
you want to that there or even across like not
to do this.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Amazing cycle lane from cueiyound up above.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Though through there, but you can walk across the canopy
of amazing help ocean cycle.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Right perspective, I get it, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
A lot to do through the Redwoods, like a little
bit higher with those amazing David Truebridge lights through the forest,
that sort of walkwayere we could ride your bike, take
the kids for water, the dog for walk, that.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
We do it in New Zealand, but we do it
kind of as an attraction as opposed to a means
to get somewhere. And if we did that through even
if it was through Wellington or Auckland City, just having
that higher perspective, and it's a way to plant and
bring greenery in. And they do what they've done it
for is they've repurposed old train tracks. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I think in that people love to walk and neander
through areas. That's exactly right. Yeah, some some of the
things they do really well in America.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I think the New Zealand we should we should really
embrace this the patriotism and it's not just for you,
like every second house is going a flag on the
front porch here. But it's the way they support their teams.
But you know, there are Warriors fans could teach us
a thing or two. There are some hardcore Warriors fans
wouldn't lose. But fit's a small group and some of
like I guess, bear Weather fans.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I'm hoping that this Auckland FC football team is going
to be a little like the Warriors and the fact
that they were able to sell out the stadium and
have all the merch also, and they're already I think
we just need to get a bit more passionate and
a bit more excited about things.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, that's it as passionately.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
You know, Americans sou good excited because they'll get up,
they'll stay at their feet, they'll slap you on the back,
and they'll clap and cheer for anything.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
They're really excitable. We needed and pumpkin bear. I like
pumpkin beer.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
As well, and just on pumpkins, we also need pumpkins
on each doorstep at Halloween.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Th hekays, why do we not grow giant pumpkins? What's
wrong with us? I love New Zealand, but our pumpkins
this is really sad and green it's.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Finding in the one million dollar business. Don't tell anyone
We're in New York right now.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
And if you want to check out water Weights, you
stayed wide across New York, not just Manhattan, but the
entire state.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
But I love in wy dot com.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
And if you do this trip, travel USA putting together
this amazing trip, you can follow in our footsteps to
the exact trip we're doing, and the details are on
our website Coast online dot co dot in z. When
you do the trip, you get to go to some
of these gilded mansions and castles where they have these
big dining rooms and they sat down and they played
sports together on the weekends, and they sat down and
they got to the ballroom at eight pm for their
twelve course dinner.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And we heard that we're at eight pm. That's a
late start. Yeah, But it turns out, and you might
have seen this.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
This has been in the news recently that New Zealand
are among the earliest diners in the world. And we've
been kind of trying to unpack that and understand why.
And I'll put my hand up and I will say
I love an early dinner. And we know Dietitian wise
it's the best thing for you, because they say that
you should take time for your food to diegest before
you sleep. But going back to that gilded mansion, we
(27:20):
were at APM was dinner, right, and then that was
just when they were announced, and then they sat down
and they had dinner, and then the ladies in the
the ladies and the men split off and ladies.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Went to the drawing room, men went to the whiskey room.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And then after that they then joined back together for
the entertainment that were starting at midnight.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
There starting at midnight, like who are these people?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And sometimes they even had the kids playing piano, Like
what were the kids doing up at midnight?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And in New Zealand, and you just said, it came
out a little while ago that New Zealand are one
of the most earliest diners in the world. And so
when people come to New Zealand they look around and go,
why is everything closed at nine pm?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Who've had our dinner? We're home now sleep? Is that
bad time? Are we missing out on you know? Are
we losing half of our lives?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Are we're losing our evenings because we're I mean, we
have dinner at five or five thirty at our place.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
We got three kids, you know what I think it is? Though,
we are a nation of early rises as well. Oh
you think, absolutely, You're right. People that die late, they
sleep until ten. And I think because we are such
a sporty, active nation, often we're getting up because we're
going for a walk or are going for a run,
or we're getting into our day because we're going kayaking,
or you know, even on holiday.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
But not even that, though you look at the times
our shops open, like our stores and our malls and
things are open by eight thirty nine, whereas you know,
it's say, for example, we're in New York, A lot
of places aren't open till like ten, maybe eleven in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Here, Yeah, did that ten am opening time? Yeah? I
guess with that, right, are we missing that socializing time?
You know? If we're getting up early to do our exercise.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Are we missing that kind of we all sit down
and have that community and sit down and eat together.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I think we socialize through our sport. Though normally you
meet someone for a walk or a run. I don't know,
but I don't think you'd want to socialize with me
at ten PM, I am no good to anyone.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Already drowsy people just catching up for dinner. Like I said,
we book a table for eight and nine on one
Stephen start of the first Dining Club or whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
It is that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Year.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
More from Tony Street Try We need to talk Tony's
Health and Lifestyle podcast. Now back to Coasts, Feel Good
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Speaker 5 (29:29):
We are in New York for Tony Street's Big Spender
with Teresa. We took her through Manhattan. We've been there,
done that. We have done Manhattan, and we asked Theresa
what her thoughts were. So Thereasa, You've done Manhattan. Now
we're at Dutchess County. How was Manhattan?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Manhattan was incredible?
Speaker 9 (29:43):
From the Rockefeller Center to Broadway to it was everything
I imagined and more.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It was incredible, incredible. You saw that skyline as we're
driving in. You look out the windows of the bus,
you steal there. What went through your mind? Then?
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I was a bit nervous, big city. It was incredible.
That anticipation actually.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Was was building. Yeah, and now we've left there. Tell
us we even at the car trip to get here.
Touch up.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Well, I think we could have recorded our own album
eighties hits.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Beautiful Drive and yeah, we've done this with mixed extreme
tiredness with a few cocktails, haven't we? And then we
throw into eighties music and it is a bad combination.
So it was like a musical on the motorway. And
if you want to have a live highlights, well I
call them highlights. If you want to have a listen,
(30:35):
have a listen to this reender. I just want to
apologize everything you just heard. Then do you know what
that is a sign of a wonderful trip?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And I speaking to Teresa and Grace after it that
I think is going to be the single highlight of
their trip was that karaoke session.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It was good. I look forward to the next one. Actually,
I reckon we kick it off of a better hood
you and the blows. Oh yes, it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
As horrendous as that may have sounded to you, like,
one of the funniest moments is that I think, Sam,
You're sitting in the back of the van and Grace,
Teresa's daughter, was next to you, and we're like, James
is our driver for this?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Was James? James and mans Us.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Said so he's asleep. It was both hilarious a little
bit scary, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
James was loving a big beaming smile on his face.
By the way, he coasted its best musical on the motorway.
Who would have thought anyway?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
You can follow us and follow us footste follow our
footsteps and do.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
This trip yourself with your own karaoke if you want.
It's up to you.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Travel USA put together the deal coast online dot co
dot into the details.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
We all have that friend, don't we a slightly gassy
friend that relieves themselves.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
At inappropriate times? Or is that just us? The hairs
of read like that. You don't know what it's to
do with hard fun. If you don't get assaulted in
the nostrils, this is have bottoms. But guess what, we
don't talk about our farting. You're just talking about my farting.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Now we have to we have to address because I'm
starting to think you might have a condition.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I have done one fart and I've done one vocal
fart in five days. You haven't heard you get assulted
in the nostrils or sometimes he will walk away to
give you your you know your time.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It says here that unpleasant gas and bloating are simply
biological functions at every person and animal.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
You're an animal I have to deal with at times.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
But there is a point where the gas or bloating
could be associated with other symptoms and it may be
cause for concern. And I'm just starting to worry about you.
So I just wanted to go through the seven checklists.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Just to be sure. We can go through a checklist.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
That's fine, but I instead of bracing you should look
at the glass half full kind of side of this
and go, man, he's got a racing metabolism.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I don't think there's any association between gas and matibili.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, working hard, all right, just go through the check
And this was for anyone else that has a friend
in this sphere.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Maybe your friend has the decency not to talk about it.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Constipational bloody stools no, okay, good, because I tell you why.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I know that because the very okay, you've all, you've
all thought about your own morning.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
This diary.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
No, never intritional deficiencies or anemia do you have? Here?
We go prolonged periods of bloating or gas not really
a long period of bloating. I was like, it looks
(34:00):
like a bloat.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
If this scarce is lasting longer than ten to fourteen days,
you need to let your doctor know.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And I'm here, I'm going to call your doctor. He
has issued espect prolong now for forty three years.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
We know this isn't true feeling full after a couple
of bites of food or loss of appetite. You've got
the opposite problem over here, cramping or abdominal pain, nausea
or quality. That's the last one. So you only took
one of the seven. So I think you're okay.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
You just learned animal. You just now need more manners
not to talk about it.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
My favorite, my favorite thing about that, let's get it
all dawned on you. About the American doyalists. It's a
lot of it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
That's a lot anyway, especially eating one. But I'm so
sorry by there.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
So we've taken Theresa and her daughter to New York
spend ten thousand dollars. One of the first places you've
got to go is Fifth Avenue, and there's a wonderful
place called Tiffany and Co.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know, the one.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
You can actually do breakfast at Tiphanyes. They have a
little cafe there, but it's really exclusive when you got
a book.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, and it's so exclusive that you can only fit
six people on the bar and then there's only a
few tables in Sex. We've been a bit shocked by
the size of things in general. Even Broadway. The theater
we were in with the top Broadway show and actors
only had eight hundred seats. Yeah, and to put that
in perspective, the Matilda show I've just been at had
thirteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yes, you know in New Zealand, yes, right, I think
of Broadway has been enormous, quite intimate.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
So you go to Tiffany and Co.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
And it's the one you know, if you see some
Tiffany jewelry, you might see Fifth Avenue stamped on it
because it's been around.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And they have a ring called the eighteen thirty seven ring,
which is like the iconic ring. The first thing you
see is the box, the little blue the little blue box.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
That's right, So it's all kind of a iconic. And
so that ring signifies the year that that building was
built in New York. That's when they swung those doors open,
eighteen thirty seven, the year before the Treaty of White
Tongue was even signed.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And they have security yards up the wazoo here because
inside they have a lot of money camp by jewelry.
Literally you can't buy it. So remember there was that
diamond that only four women in the entire world had
ever worn.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
So it's called the Tiffany Diamond. It's sixty million dollars
worth if you could ever try to buy it. And
you're right, So the only people who have worn it
was an American socialite years ago. Then Audrey Hepburn has
worn it, Then Lady Gaga has worn it, and the
last woman to wear it was Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
It shouldn't been one of those four women. It's just
so bizarre.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Well, I think what's more bizarre about it is there's
a sixty million dollar diamond just been hung from the wall.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
You know, just sitting there.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
And they have the Audrey Hepburn lounge a room, and
so you go. Then you see the dress that she
will in that iconic movie, and they keep playing on
loop when she gets out of the cab and stands
in front of Tiffany and Co. That very shop and
this is amazing there and then the necklace they had
built for her. I'd say built because it's a massive
piece of jeweler and.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
All the dress she was wearing looks like it was
made of metal.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
We showed them though, didn't we, guys? Because what they
do when you're at Tiffany's and Co.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
They tried to lure you into making a purchase bay
but looking after you, and they bring you, you know,
effervescent water, They bring you coffees, and then that is
meant to coerci into buying something.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
We didn't buy a thing, but drank me a coffee.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I sat down and I had that classic experience where
I sat down and I said, oh, can I just
look at some tiny diamond studs. She came and she
pulled out the eight thousand US dollar starts and she's thinking,
do I look the kind of person that's going to
buy fifth New Zealand fifteen thousand dollars starts right now?
And my dragway hold me with all the lots of sugar,
(37:29):
and I said, I think I'll think about it.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I don't feel like spending forty four thousand dollars a day.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
So steering on the barrel of label weeking in this
week and of course the big thing that's happening is Armageddon,
where all of the big stars are going to be there,
including Jason Mamula. It is apparently going to be at
Armageddon this coming weekend.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Actually, here in the New York they had Comic Con,
so we saw lots of people dressed up as like
Spider Man and Wonder Woman just walking around.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, we saw a Spider Man trying to buy an
ice cream with a Spider Man mask.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He put this hoodie on because he needs a good lunch. Yeah,
there are a fruity bunch the comic con.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
You know we missed other and comic com My friend
Anthea messes me from Cristians also to Wenington, and she said,
you know what, the entire cast of Outlander are at
Common Con in New York.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
So Jamie was there. Maybe what's his last name?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Ji hused that Jamie anyway, speaking of good looking men,
Jeremy Jordan, who is the biggest Broadway star here. I
mean apart from the q Jackmans and the actors.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
But he is the Broadway star. He is the great
gets and got a first up she saw from it
flattened with me when we lined up.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
We all got taken by his rendition of for her,
which she should look up. By the way, on Spotify
he talks about Daisy and the Gatsby. So we were like, next,
see them in the flesh. What we thought initially people
were lining up to go to the show again. They
were lining up to catch a glimpse of the actors
and actresses. And we actually saw Eve I'm the leading
lady as well. And then we saw Jeremy And wasn't
here a sweetee nice guy? I believe Sam and I
(39:06):
quote always handsome man in real life.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
No, he's more handsome than I thought because I had
a little you know, you see him up on stage
and you kind of wonder, and then you look at
their Instagram you're like, oh, and then you see him
in the flesh.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
He's just beautiful. But that's not the only brush of
fame we've had.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
We've almost rubb shoulders and I say almost almost rubb
shoulders some very famous people.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
When we talk about the fact that Donald Trump was
at an event in.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
The lobby of our hotel, like, how close to one
of the most famous men in the world can one be?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Well, he drove right past us. His modicaated we went
right past us.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
We had stayed at the hotel, we would have seen
him enter, but instead we went to Broadway, which I
thought was a magnificent choice. Right.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
You can tell something was going on because the Secret
Service agents for like a day or so beforehand, started
hanging out in the lobby and then they started shutting.
Like you closed the streets around any town in New Zealand,
it's a pain in the bum. You close the streets
in Manhattan, and now you said you've got a massive
traffic problem. So Donald Trump just like pretty much through
the next wall from us.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Who else to be? Oh? Woman in the east Hampton's
j Lo just abouts at Jaylo. Jlo was there two
days before we got there, just about the same time
as us. It's the same shop that we went.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
And they also said Alex we missed alec Alden by
a day and said he was.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Really nice unarmed.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh gosh, Sam, that's not a funny joke. A push
your t now you won't know who that is. But
when we went to Oheka Castle, he is a very
famous rapper, like I'm talking three and a half million
followers on social media, and we saw him in the
flesh and there was this big, burly security guard and Sam,
you had your camera with you and you tried to
(40:35):
peep your head into the library where he was filming.
And I was seriously worried for you. That security guard
was not cracking a smile.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It was a thug. He was a sug.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
And he looked like he was going to give me
a bop on the head, you know, one of those
those old school hammer type hits on the top of
the head.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
As they say in Manhattan popper caps. You care. John
Malkovich in Central Park?
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Yeah, and then we were walking to Central Park and
the skywalk passes and not confirmed.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
I can't just say just because he's a middle aged
white Dade with a bald head that was America.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
I google him and it looks almost like his brother.
So I looked at him.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
I thought, yeah, I'm pretty sure that John Malkovich lord
was walking through Manhattan just day, like a day before
we were in Sadie Homes.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, but Katie Home the same day that we were there. Yeah,
we didn't see them, but they were there. Thanks give
him the way of a good story. No surround this up.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
We've seen no celebrities but we almost saw Paul Run
when he went to his sweet shop at the Owns
and the day before.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Sometimes he works at the counter. He might have been
there that afternoon after we left, but we could have
seen him. And he's just one celebrity who was on
the stage even then. I have to look him up.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
We need to talk about Dutchess County because that is
where we are now. And I think the biggest surprise
for me, and I suspect a lot of Kiwis would
have the same mentality is when I thought of New York,
I thought of the sky rises, Broadway, Manhattan, very densely populated.
What I hadn't really thought about is that New York
State itself is much much bigger, and outside of that
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city where most people actually live, especially if they've got families,
it's actually more like New Zealand than you think. So
I don't know how many times we have said on
our journeys here in Dutchess County, oh my goodness, this
is so much like Arrow Tawners, very much like Central Otago.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Yeah, and climate wise as well.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
I mean, it's the same time a year where whether
leeds change color, we've got yellows, we've got the oranges,
but this bright reads and amongst it as well.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
These guys take whether to a different level.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Though we walked over a bridge yesterday that went over
the Hudson River and that actually freezes over to the
point that historically, so these days as things warm up,
but you used to be able to ice skate up
the river and you could actually travel up the river
all the way to Canada.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, that's really nice. They do this thing.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
It's like the Hudson River Trail, but it's the New
York Empire State Trail the Court, so you could pretty
much ride your bike if you want to from New
York to Canada.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, they've done it so well.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
That is one of the things that we think New
Zealand should adopt, and we are going to talk about
that later at seven forty today. All the things that
we've found here that Keyweeds need to get on board with.
Speaker 5 (01:38):
But honestly, if you're thinking about a trip to New
York Dutchess, can't they put it on your list because
it's just every picture postcard and you're only an hour
and a half out of Manhattan. You can catch the
train and then look up and you were in a
whole different part of it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
A quaint, little beautiful towns with lovely shocking and just
family owned businesses is lovely.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Don't limit yourself to the city, that is the message.
But you we're wrong.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
The city's pretty impressive, tot. You are that last stage
in life, because I know I definitely am. We're taking
photos of things, maybe reading a menu or something, taking
photos and then enlarging the photo of just taken to
read the thing.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
James. Maybe you need glasses. Oh yeah, I'm supposed to
wear them.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I think there's that transition where you kind of resist
it for a while. And we have a really good solution.
And this was actually recommended to us by one of
our travel guides here, Jeanette, And she was getting out
her phone quite a lot every time at dinner, and
we're like, why is she getting out of her phone
and kind of analyzing the menu like that? Or what
she was doing. She was using an app called Magnifier.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Which is it's basically it uses the camera on your
phone and the lights on your phone as well, and
it is an old schooled magnifier.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It works beautifully.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And so she holds it over the menu and a
dark restaurant, all of a sudden it's lit and it's giant.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
It's easy to read, and you zoom it in. You
can zoom it into one single letter if you wanted. Yeah,
you can get right in there. Close.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
And I think the best indicator of whether or not
you need the Magnifier app on your phone is what
is the font on your phone?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Are you still on the original font of your phone?
Or if you told your phone to give me a
bigger font? No, I'm still on the original original I'm
not sure if I am on off? Can I have
a look at your phone? Yeah? Right, you can make
it a lot larger? Yeah, phone? Like, is that is
that text normal? Your original font? Okay?
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But if you're looking at if you've struggling to read
your own phone.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Now that the app is called the Magnifying App, we
didn't know anything about it, but this Magnifying app is magnificent.
A few days out from Label Weekend, just days away now,
and don't forget this weekend. It's the coast double shot across.
Label Weekend starts at six on Saturday morning, and we
could be in a bit of a rain soaked weekend,
that's what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So I tell you what to turn the radio up on.
iHeart Radio's could be great.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
I want you to think now about the last time
that you snapped at someone or you were a little
bit short.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Do you remember that yesterday? No, no, this isn't directed
at you.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
But if you want to admit your failings right now,
that's fine, so you can. It's all out views. This
is therapy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
I've got I've got videos of all of us being
a little bit tipchy, just because you know what I'm filming.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You're not filming yourself, which is constant. Well, no, we'll
go back through the vision.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You can't remember anything because you can cast through. I
don't think I've been titching on the strip. One person
has because of the camera.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You know, you come to film a show and you're
not let to flow your droning you. There are rules
for a reason, young man.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
There are laws anyway, there might be a reason for it.
So overstimulation is what we need to talk about. So
apparently a lot of the times when we become short,
it's because we have been over stimulated in a very
short space of time. So I want you to think
about if you are a parent or a grandparent and
you've ever tried to get your kids out the door
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in the morning to get to school. Activity Right now,
The reason you snap at them often isn't necessarily because
they are dragging the chain, and look, that's a valid reason,
but it's because you're overstimulated. Because in the short space
of time you have a coffee stimulation, your alarm clock
goes off, stimulation you are eating that stimulates the body.
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You might be checking your phone, having a look at
the news. Now, all of those things are fine, but
when they are condensed in a very short space of
time I'm talking perhaps half an hour, sometimes to an hour,
that is where neurologically the problems begin.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
You see this with young kids as well, like I mean,
that's why they start warning about screen time. You watch
like anyone under the age of say fifteen, if they're
on a screen and you try to get them off
the screen, and parents and grandparents you know this. You
try to get the kids off the screen. Their behavior
is so different for the next probably ten fifteen minutes
after that.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Do you want me to tell you the science behind it.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
When you're overstimulated, your prefrontal cortex goes offline. So this
is the part of your brain responsible for rational decision
making basically shuts down and that's when you sat I
love how they're.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Talking about overstimulization, and then they use like a computer
term like offline to describe it.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So here's the process.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
When we're stressed out, the prefrontal cortex goes from reflective
and irrational to reactive. And in these conditions, your brain's
not thinking about maintaining relationships or effectively solving problems.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Instead it's fan a gingg. Yeah, of course it's quite
a flight mode. How do you avoid it?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Quite easily? Okay, so yourself in a room, we just
cut down the stimulation in that morning. Okay, so give
yourself a nicer alarm clock, maybe waste to have your coffee.
I know that can have another effect of I can't
do this like rational deep sorrow, so it.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Will be miserable and grumpy. Yeah, we'll just leave it there.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
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Speaker 5 (06:57):
And when you're in America, of course, the food is incredible,
the drinks are You've got to have a Long Island
ze tea. On Long Island, you gotta have a Manhattan
or a Cosmo bullet in Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well you can't have apparently it's grapefruit.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well, this is where the problem started. We were at
the end of a very long day and it's a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Of a treat. We decided to get a cocktail.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And producer Rosie and I were looking at the list
together and we both settled on the same drink, and
I as the forty one year old here when yep,
that sounds good to meet order young people these days
they're a bit more fastidious. And she's going through every
ingredient in the cocktail, going will I like this, how's.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
The pairing going to go?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And then the way it goes away starts making our
drink and she just looks at me with a look
of horror and she goes, oh, I can't drink this cocktail.
Why And she said, oh, it's got greape fruit in it.
And I thought initially when she said I can't drink
this cocktail, I thought it had dairy in it. She's
got a bit of an intolerance day, and I thought, oh,
she better get up there and change it.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
When I heard it was grapefruit. I was like, why
on earth is she doing that? Now?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I remember hearing this too about the same age, young,
that it can interact with your contraceptive.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Pill, right, grapefruit care. Yeah, I have never heard that, chase,
where have you been pregnant? It was quite a young dad, and.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
I remember hearing this, and I remember, as a younger
person thinking, oh gosh, because you know, when you don't
want to have a child earlier, you are doing everything
you can to avoid it. And then as you get
a bit older, I can't. I don't know, you roll
the dice a bit more. You're like, oh, well I've
got my husband, now I have a child earlier than
I'm going.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
To eat that grapefruit.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
But I just thought, oh, it's an.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Old wive's tale, like does it really actually affect you?
And producer Rosie went on to say that all her
friends are like, oh no, they are they are stay clear. Well,
I've googled it, and it turns out that the chances
of you falling pregnant because well what happens is the
grapefruit can block drug absorption.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Right, But it sounds like the chances are very, very
very small.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You have to be a prolific grapefruit eater. You have
to be one of those people, because did you do
this when you're a kid. You'd slice a grape fruit
in half and pour sugar on the top of it.
Now eat out the little quarts of grapefruit.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
But you used to serrated knife and you went all
around that each individual settment, aimful process, But what.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
A wonderful like you consume great fruit anymore?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
I had them so often because my nan on our
farm had a grapefruit tree and it was a regular.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Breakfast for us. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
And you say that that doesn't block the pearl, and
it's very unlikely. But show you what back in the
day when we're all eating grapefruit families.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm just saying I think the chance is low. But
I don't want you to take this as like word.
We're not a family planning.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
We won't put that out of Just run the die,
roll the div We are in New York for Tony Streets,
big spender, ten thousand dollars caresh, just being Theresa one.
That's amazing trip. And we brought her here to spin
their cash. We're taking around and we're doing a lot
of things. We doing a lot of sight seeing, right,
and the days can be long. We get up early,
we do the radio show, and then we leave the
hotel and we're going to do a whole bunch of activities.
We take a shopping we ever really experienced New York's
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the amazing team at I love ing hy dot com.
And then we have dinner together and we'll have planned
the show. And I sound like but we planned the
show and then we're going.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To be dood all again. We do everything together. What
Jason's trying to say, at some point, you do get
tired of shopping? The days along? Yeah, we're not so
much each other. I don't know. Well, I don't think so,
you guys any second now?
Speaker 5 (10:41):
So the days along and we snatched these moments and
Semini the other day while everyone's out shopping, we thought,
you know what, I feel like a quiffy and everyone
gets the Starbucks, right, we though, let's get a course.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
About the coffee man. It was just about getting out
of the shops. I always I thought it was about
quality time with Jay Dizzel. I always love quality time.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Said here has been an exceptional formulist. He's made me
the whole time. We nipped away and we women got
we had a half an hour and was like, there's
no way we're going to be late this time. So
we nipped away for a Starbucks and we had a
half an hour to get old drinks and then get
back to the meeting point.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
And we walked in there and the guy said, what
name should we put with this order?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
This is after I'd once again blow my calorie count
for like a six hundred calory and coffee.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I ordered the pumpkin Larte with extra cream and map
the kid's birthday party with a terrible frap too.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
So the days long and maybe you're not thinking, I
don't know, what do you lead us to the decision?
So the guy says to us what names we put
it under?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
And I said, John, it's been a smart I don't
know why.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Then I looked down and his name was John, and
he said John, and here John, And then he was like,
all right, John's you go there, we'll get your coffee
to you.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
You said your name was John as well. We got
pulled into it, got pulled.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
So anyway up on the board, we looked out waiting
for our coffee, and there was about fourteen John's on
the board.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Good one houses I don't know, so we had to
wait there and John got called, gets called another John,
all these other John's getting called for their coffees and.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
We didn't know what's so the only way we're get
to decipher which was our coffee was to watch them
make our coffee.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
So now we're loitering around the coffee makers.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Leading of the shelf, watching them looking for some pumpkin
frapper mits going into my particularly flamboy coffee.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And here's a tip.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
If you're going to be fools and play tricks, don't
choose one of the most common names in the world.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Right So it was thankfully when Sam's won arrived at
Headly Sparkler that was lip.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
And to cut a long story short, we were late
to the pickup.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Your daily feel good breakfast catch up podcast with Costs
Tony Jason, Sam, we.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Drove through the Hamptons.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
While we're in New York and the Hamptons everyone knows
about the Hampton's right eighty nine million dollar homes.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
It's surprising the amount of castles and mansions here. And
that's one of the things that I would suggest if
you come to New York that you do in the
greatest state of New York, because you go and check
them out. I'm gonna be honest. When I saw on
our itinerary mentioned to it, I was a little bit like,
is this going to be a highlight? And then we
got there and just learning the history and seeing how
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the other half live has been a real highlight.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Yeah, Because, I mean, the families that had these beautiful
mansions back in the day were very wealthy and they
were of high influence and with that comes incredible backstories,
but also incredible lifestyles.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
The way these people lived.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
With twenty five people working their property, that had bakery,
chefs and all sorts of extravagant positions in order to serve.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It's that Gilded Age when they were high society and
they were trying to tell people that they were. I mean,
what about the trip when we took the furnamon At
boat ride out to Bannaman Island and that is where
the castle was.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
You had to go by boat just to get to
the Yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
And the cool thing about America is what they did
is they restore these and they hold on to them.
The Banamin one, the one we saw just outside of
the Long Island. Oh hic right, the very top of
the Long Island, and act she built the hill out
of the from the subway to build the hill.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
But do you know what I love about what these
castles and mansions represent is the fact that they used
to gain influence by socializing. So they would invite people
over and have these extravagant parties to show people how
wealthy they are.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Look how great our food is. Look how greade our
our dining room is.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You're going to have the most incredible experience at our
mansion and our castle because we.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Are the most wealthy and we have the best influence.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Well, it's actually an interesting point you bring up, and
we all felt this, right, so you go, oh, ridiculous
skilleded age. They had all this opulence, but actually, at
the heart of it, they spent time together on the
weekends as a group. And I kind of go, look
at us in our modern world where we're all living
in little silos, and I think, yes, you don't have
to spend as much money as they did. But they
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were onto something essentially. What they did in their summer houses,
their weekend houses, is they played sport together all weekend. Yes,
families and see we can lose something about those old times.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
And they sat down at the table and we were
ate together. All their friends are sitting away and running table.
So honestly, if you get a chance this coming long weekend,
the last thing you might want to do is socialize.
But trust me, it's so good for yourself. And I'm
lucky enough to live in a really nice neighborhood where.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
We do that.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Like I was facetiming my wife the other day and
was chatting away and the gate bell rang because some
of the neighbors is popping around the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
I was like, because it's the weekend. I was like,
that's cool.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Instead of just eating your takeaways on the couch like
a sloth, maybe just try and.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Sprowing your favorite outfits and go lass and find some
friends of adults.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Making our way through New York for Tony Streets, big spender,
and you can do this trip so you can follow
our footsteps. Things to travel us say and their details
on our website Coast online dot co dot and said,
but when you do this trip, your in and out
of hotels quite a bit. And when you're doing something
like us, you know, doing the radio show. We've got
on our equipment and our bags and our gear and
our headphones and everything else. It's really important to have
your stuff about you, right. You know where your things are,
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you know where you're room key is.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
We're living out of our suitcases at the moment, Like
we don't even have time to hang anything up. You
can't even take it out of the suitcase because then
you're all forget.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
We'll charge your phone. And this is what happened to me.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
See, I was caught on a bus and I was
run out and run out of charge on my phone.
I don't need my phone because you know, I use
it for a multitude of things. So Rosie had a charger,
and with that charger, she had the converter that turns
a New Zealand charger into an American plag Very handy.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Rosie, right, so she's here to produce our show. So
I borrowed it through the day and I put it
back in my bag. I didn't give it back to her.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
And at the end of the day when we got
back to our hotels, are for a long day and
crime you river. I'm trying to sell this to my
wife that this is a tough trip, but she doesn't
believe me. It was like eleven eleven thirty at night.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Let's because she keep putting up highlights reels on our
social media.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
The.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Real photos.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Eleven thirty at night and in my room, just about
to take in a bed and I get a text
from Rosie saying do you have my wall charger? I'm like, yes,
I do, so I was like, ah, yeah, Majami's put
some clothes back.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I would have stayed in my pj's. I grabbed the
charger and I opened the door and I was like,
I don't have my Gee card. It shut doors. So
I walked down to the Rose.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I actually take an elivator down to Rosy's room, knocked
on the door. She looks at me like, what the
hell's wrong with you? I don't have my Geek cards.
So then I went down to reception. I's like, what
you want on this point, at eleven thirty at night
after a huge day is to walk down there and
just get a key card, walk back into your room
and it's you know, we're a five minute mission here.
I'll walk down there. There's a fourteen person queue. So
I sat down there waiting.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
For the checker. And at the hotel for forty five minutes,
and then did they look at you and go, he's
trying to just break into someone's room. You have your passport.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
So now I don't have my passport in my room,
but I did have my phone, so I managed to
show them a picture of my passports and I got
back to my room at one thirteen morning.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
You know, those those are the things that can really
break you on a trip. And we actually had one
of our tour guides here from Duchess County Tourism, Christina,
had a similar experience, same thing, big long day, finished dinner, wanting.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
To get back to bed.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She's got two kids and her car wouldn't start last night,
so you know, but that's all part of the traveler.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Kidden stories. That's right.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
When was the last time you heard someone say, oh,
how did you meet them? You know, where did you
meet your partner? Well, this is an amazing sort of
time laps that we're stumbled across, and it starts in
nineteen thirty and goes all the way through to present
time on the percentage of people and how they meet
their loved ones. So back in nineteen thirty, how do
you think people met well, basically a good split between
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family first through family, and I think my parents when
I think of that, because my mum met my dad
at her twenty first and it was because he played
golf and met her parents, my nana and granddad through golf.
Family that she met my dad. Number two back in
the nineteen thirties was through school. Yeah, okay, bearing the
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high school stethearts we are and number three on the
list was through friends.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Right, so are friends set them up on a date?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And that was that the nineteen thirties family, school, friends,
house wholesome.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
That's how we met our partners?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Should we go to somewhere at midpoint between the nineteen thirties,
so let's go look nineteen eighty two, say.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah, it's greaties. How we met each other in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Well, family's taken a back seat by the eighties, and
the overwhelming way people have met their partners is twenty
seven percent and that is through friends. So friends become
more important than your family connecting and loved one. Co
workers starts to push into the top three. So women
are working more in the eighties and they were back
in the thirties, So suddenly co workers is becoming a
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place to meet people. Now, that's interesting when you think
of modern times's bit of a no no, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
You got the puk balanrue totally.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Another interesting one here is in the nineteen thirties, neighbors
was meeting your partner by having a neighbor as eleven percent.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's seemed to drop away. What have you got the
neighbors out there? So, yeah, love over the fence and yeah,
love over the fence.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
By the nineteen nineties has dropped to six percent, So
people are sleeping with their neighbors less.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah in the nineties. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So what we're seeing here is friendships in the nineties
mid nineties is still the number one way to meet people,
but coworkers has bumped up to number two. It was three,
and family is way down at number five. Bars and
restaurants starts to feature as the third place that people
meet in the mid nineties. Wow, so we go through
to the mid two thousands. Okay, so we're going to
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pass through into the early two thousands. Same goes friends,
co workers, bars and restaurants.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's amazing. Coworkers and bars and restaurants are on a parteah, okay,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Now, Suddenly a new way of meeting people pings into
our consciousness, and that is see early two thousands.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
It's not there, it's starting to ping up. By about
two thousand and seven.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Online meeting people suddenly becomes the second most prolific way of.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Meeting rents out of know where com in two thousand
and nine. Now and it's second on the list.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Let's wait, we're tacking through twenty twelve, it takes over
online as the most prolific way to meet your partner.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, and then if we go all the way to
ender this graph in twenty twenty four, it is a
staggering example of how powerful online media is. Sixty percent
of all relationships start online and the next best on
the list is friends.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
At thirty and then co workers has diminished right down
to just eight percent.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
This is a no, no, no now.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
But there's a great story in Our Lovely Day show
host Lorna met her new fiance Mike earlier this year,
only a few months ago, on an online dating app
and now they're engaged and I love that.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
And you can read that story at enzid hero dot com.
By the way, what's by the way.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
What will be interesting in another ten years, are we
going to see an increase of over sixty percent? Never
has there been one singular way that has dominating since
through all these decades.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yeah, well, whatever it takes.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
You know, Look, it sounds really negative because you know,
it seems so where that we live our entire lives online.
But least in twenty twenty four we're only only one
point two percent of us are sleeping with our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Oh yeah, that was falling away.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You can get five thousand dollars coast cash for Christmas.
All you have to do is basically tell us the
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you're not so keen on six the word music to
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Speaker 3 (22:26):
We text a bit of the details and you.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Can win five thousand dollars cash for Christmas, which is
now just two months away.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
We need to talk a little bit of politics now,
because if you're a city councilor if you're a mayor,
or if you're a member of the government, I hope
you're listening to this because we have some tips on
what we could learn from New York things that we
would like adopted.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Do you want to start with your sad when you.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Talk politically that I want to drop the pub could
be if I just want to talk about bridges and infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
To be honest, I want to come down on counselors.
Not to name any names, but Chris Darbian retalded.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
Because okay, first of all, when you need an underground network,
that's what we need.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
We need trains underground under our city, and we need
to do it one hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
I think it's too late. It's too late, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
No, it is.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That's the problem.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
It's the thing when New Zealand writes to it, not
that we want to come down to New Zealand. There
are so many amazing things and honestly I am missing home.
I love New Zealand and when we come to digging
those holes and making that they're awesome.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
One.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
You know that everyone's hearing about the wolf and train thing,
it's's a loop around the middle of the city.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well, while you're talking about Auckland, the first thing that
needs to change is the fact that no, we're talking
about what's good about New York.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Well, what we saw yesterday was the bridge over the Hub.
You know, what I mean, which is a walking bridge
and a cycling bridge. Now, the first thing that we
need to do is build one of those right next
to the harbor original Auckland I think yes.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And then already that's already been floated, remember, and that
needs to happen.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
But do you know what I think I've worked out
of the problem. It's the Chelsea Sugar Works that has
to go.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
But it does.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
It does look I like it, but it's the only
boat that goes under the harbor bridge we have. We
are building these massive high bridge for sugar.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Okay, it's got a very nice cafe, have you not?
And a great playground. What a high line? Can we
talk about the high Line in New York City?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
So the high Line was an old railway that is
elevated above the ground so that you can walk amongst
the buildings and still get the planted greenery around it.
And Jose, when you and I were walking there together,
we were thinking about locations where that could be in
New Zealand, not.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Just Awk, but you know you could do that right
across I say, for example, Queen's down through the Arrowtown.
Imagine walking there, you ride your bike across there. If
you want to that there or even across like not
to do this.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Amazing cycle lane from cueiyound up above.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Though through there, but you can walk across the canopy
of amazing help ocean cycle.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Right perspective, I get it, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
A lot to do through the Redwoods, like a little
bit higher with those amazing David Truebridge lights through the forest,
that sort of walkwayere we could ride your bike, take
the kids for water, the dog for walk, that.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
We do it in New Zealand, but we do it
kind of as an attraction as opposed to a means
to get somewhere. And if we did that through even
if it was through Wellington or Auckland City, just having
that higher perspective, and it's a way to plant and
bring greenery in. And they do what they've done it
for is they've repurposed old train tracks. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I think in that people love to walk and neander
through areas. That's exactly right. Yeah, some some of the
things they do really well in America.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
I think the New Zealand we should we should really
embrace this the patriotism and it's not just for you,
like every second house is going a flag on the
front porch here. But it's the way they support their teams.
But you know, there are Warriors fans could teach us
a thing or two. There are some hardcore Warriors fans
wouldn't lose. But fit's a small group and some of
like I guess, bear Weather fans.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I'm hoping that this Auckland FC football team is going
to be a little like the Warriors and the fact
that they were able to sell out the stadium and
have all the merch also, and they're already I think
we just need to get a bit more passionate and
a bit more excited about things.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, that's it as passionately.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
You know, Americans sou good excited because they'll get up,
they'll stay at their feet, they'll slap you on the back,
and they'll clap and cheer for anything.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
They're really excitable. We needed and pumpkin bear. I like
pumpkin beer.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
As well, and just on pumpkins, we also need pumpkins
on each doorstep at Halloween.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Th hekays, why do we not grow giant pumpkins? What's
wrong with us? I love New Zealand, but our pumpkins
this is really sad and green it's.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Finding in the one million dollar business. Don't tell anyone
We're in New York right now.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
And if you want to check out water Weights, you
stayed wide across New York, not just Manhattan, but the
entire state.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
But I love in wy dot com.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
And if you do this trip, travel USA putting together
this amazing trip, you can follow in our footsteps to
the exact trip we're doing, and the details are on
our website Coast online dot co dot in z. When
you do the trip, you get to go to some
of these gilded mansions and castles where they have these
big dining rooms and they sat down and they played
sports together on the weekends, and they sat down and
they got to the ballroom at eight pm for their
twelve course dinner.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
And we heard that we're at eight pm. That's a
late start. Yeah, But it turns out, and you might
have seen this.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
This has been in the news recently that New Zealand
are among the earliest diners in the world. And we've
been kind of trying to unpack that and understand why.
And I'll put my hand up and I will say
I love an early dinner. And we know Dietitian wise
it's the best thing for you, because they say that
you should take time for your food to diegest before
you sleep. But going back to that gilded mansion, we
(27:20):
were at APM was dinner, right, and then that was
just when they were announced, and then they sat down
and they had dinner, and then the ladies in the
the ladies and the men split off and ladies.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Went to the drawing room, men went to the whiskey room.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And then after that they then joined back together for
the entertainment that were starting at midnight.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
There starting at midnight, like who are these people?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
And sometimes they even had the kids playing piano, Like
what were the kids doing up at midnight?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
And in New Zealand, and you just said, it came
out a little while ago that New Zealand are one
of the most earliest diners in the world. And so
when people come to New Zealand they look around and go,
why is everything closed at nine pm?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Who've had our dinner? We're home now sleep? Is that
bad time? Are we missing out on you know? Are
we losing half of our lives?
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Are we're losing our evenings because we're I mean, we
have dinner at five or five thirty at our place.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
We got three kids, you know what I think it is? Though,
we are a nation of early rises as well. Oh
you think, absolutely, You're right. People that die late, they
sleep until ten. And I think because we are such
a sporty, active nation, often we're getting up because we're
going for a walk or are going for a run,
or we're getting into our day because we're going kayaking,
or you know, even on holiday.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
But not even that, though you look at the times
our shops open, like our stores and our malls and
things are open by eight thirty nine, whereas you know,
it's say, for example, we're in New York, A lot
of places aren't open till like ten, maybe eleven in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
Here, Yeah, did that ten am opening time? Yeah? I
guess with that, right, are we missing that socializing time?
You know? If we're getting up early to do our exercise.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Are we missing that kind of we all sit down
and have that community and sit down and eat together.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I think we socialize through our sport. Though normally you
meet someone for a walk or a run. I don't know,
but I don't think you'd want to socialize with me
at ten PM, I am no good to anyone.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Already drowsy people just catching up for dinner. Like I said,
we book a table for eight and nine on one
Stephen start of the first Dining Club or whatever.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
It is that.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Year.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
More from Tony Street Try We need to talk Tony's
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Speaker 5 (29:29):
We are in New York for Tony Street's Big Spender
with Teresa. We took her through Manhattan. We've been there,
done that. We have done Manhattan, and we asked Theresa
what her thoughts were. So Thereasa, You've done Manhattan. Now
we're at Dutchess County. How was Manhattan?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Manhattan was incredible?
Speaker 9 (29:43):
From the Rockefeller Center to Broadway to it was everything
I imagined and more.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
It was incredible, incredible. You saw that skyline as we're
driving in. You look out the windows of the bus,
you steal there. What went through your mind? Then?
Speaker 9 (29:57):
I was a bit nervous, big city. It was incredible.
That anticipation actually.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Was was building. Yeah, and now we've left there. Tell
us we even at the car trip to get here.
Touch up.
Speaker 9 (30:09):
Well, I think we could have recorded our own album
eighties hits.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Beautiful Drive and yeah, we've done this with mixed extreme
tiredness with a few cocktails, haven't we? And then we
throw into eighties music and it is a bad combination.
So it was like a musical on the motorway. And
if you want to have a live highlights, well I
call them highlights. If you want to have a listen,
(30:35):
have a listen to this reender. I just want to
apologize everything you just heard. Then do you know what
that is a sign of a wonderful trip?
Speaker 1 (30:57):
And I speaking to Teresa and Grace after it that
I think is going to be the single highlight of
their trip was that karaoke session.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It was good. I look forward to the next one. Actually,
I reckon we kick it off of a better hood
you and the blows. Oh yes, it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
As horrendous as that may have sounded to you, like,
one of the funniest moments is that I think, Sam,
You're sitting in the back of the van and Grace,
Teresa's daughter, was next to you, and we're like, James
is our driver for this?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Was James? James and mans Us.
Speaker 8 (31:26):
Said so he's asleep. It was both hilarious a little
bit scary, but he wasn't.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
James was loving a big beaming smile on his face.
By the way, he coasted its best musical on the motorway.
Who would have thought anyway?
Speaker 5 (31:41):
You can follow us and follow us footste follow our
footsteps and do.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
This trip yourself with your own karaoke if you want.
It's up to you.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
Travel USA put together the deal coast online dot co
dot into the details.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
We all have that friend, don't we a slightly gassy
friend that relieves themselves.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
At inappropriate times? Or is that just us? The hairs
of read like that. You don't know what it's to
do with hard fun. If you don't get assaulted in
the nostrils, this is have bottoms. But guess what, we
don't talk about our farting. You're just talking about my farting.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Now we have to we have to address because I'm
starting to think you might have a condition.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I have done one fart and I've done one vocal
fart in five days. You haven't heard you get assulted
in the nostrils or sometimes he will walk away to
give you your you know your time.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
It says here that unpleasant gas and bloating are simply
biological functions at every person and animal.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
You're an animal I have to deal with at times.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
But there is a point where the gas or bloating
could be associated with other symptoms and it may be
cause for concern. And I'm just starting to worry about you.
So I just wanted to go through the seven checklists.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Just to be sure. We can go through a checklist.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
That's fine, but I instead of bracing you should look
at the glass half full kind of side of this
and go, man, he's got a racing metabolism.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
I don't think there's any association between gas and matibili.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Okay, working hard, all right, just go through the check
And this was for anyone else that has a friend
in this sphere.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Maybe your friend has the decency not to talk about it.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Constipational bloody stools no, okay, good, because I tell you why.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
I know that because the very okay, you've all, you've
all thought about your own morning.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
This diary.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
No, never intritional deficiencies or anemia do you have? Here?
We go prolonged periods of bloating or gas not really
a long period of bloating. I was like, it looks
(34:00):
like a bloat.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
If this scarce is lasting longer than ten to fourteen days,
you need to let your doctor know.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
And I'm here, I'm going to call your doctor. He
has issued espect prolong now for forty three years.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
We know this isn't true feeling full after a couple
of bites of food or loss of appetite. You've got
the opposite problem over here, cramping or abdominal pain, nausea
or quality. That's the last one. So you only took
one of the seven. So I think you're okay.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
You just learned animal. You just now need more manners
not to talk about it.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
My favorite, my favorite thing about that, let's get it
all dawned on you. About the American doyalists. It's a
lot of it's a lot.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
That's a lot anyway, especially eating one. But I'm so
sorry by there.
Speaker 5 (34:46):
So we've taken Theresa and her daughter to New York
spend ten thousand dollars. One of the first places you've
got to go is Fifth Avenue, and there's a wonderful
place called Tiffany and Co.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
You know, the one.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
You can actually do breakfast at Tiphanyes. They have a
little cafe there, but it's really exclusive when you got
a book.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, and it's so exclusive that you can only fit
six people on the bar and then there's only a
few tables in Sex. We've been a bit shocked by
the size of things in general. Even Broadway. The theater
we were in with the top Broadway show and actors
only had eight hundred seats. Yeah, and to put that
in perspective, the Matilda show I've just been at had
thirteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yes, you know in New Zealand, yes, right, I think
of Broadway has been enormous, quite intimate.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
So you go to Tiffany and Co.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
And it's the one you know, if you see some
Tiffany jewelry, you might see Fifth Avenue stamped on it
because it's been around.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
And they have a ring called the eighteen thirty seven ring,
which is like the iconic ring. The first thing you
see is the box, the little blue the little blue box.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
That's right, So it's all kind of a iconic. And
so that ring signifies the year that that building was
built in New York. That's when they swung those doors open,
eighteen thirty seven, the year before the Treaty of White
Tongue was even signed.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And they have security yards up the wazoo here because
inside they have a lot of money camp by jewelry.
Literally you can't buy it. So remember there was that
diamond that only four women in the entire world had
ever worn.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
So it's called the Tiffany Diamond. It's sixty million dollars
worth if you could ever try to buy it. And
you're right, So the only people who have worn it
was an American socialite years ago. Then Audrey Hepburn has
worn it, Then Lady Gaga has worn it, and the
last woman to wear it was Beyonce.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
It shouldn't been one of those four women. It's just
so bizarre.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
Well, I think what's more bizarre about it is there's
a sixty million dollar diamond just been hung from the wall.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
You know, just sitting there.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
And they have the Audrey Hepburn lounge a room, and
so you go. Then you see the dress that she
will in that iconic movie, and they keep playing on
loop when she gets out of the cab and stands
in front of Tiffany and Co. That very shop and
this is amazing there and then the necklace they had
built for her. I'd say built because it's a massive
piece of jeweler and.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
All the dress she was wearing looks like it was
made of metal.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
We showed them though, didn't we, guys? Because what they
do when you're at Tiffany's and Co.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
They tried to lure you into making a purchase bay
but looking after you, and they bring you, you know,
effervescent water, They bring you coffees, and then that is
meant to coerci into buying something.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
We didn't buy a thing, but drank me a coffee.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I sat down and I had that classic experience where
I sat down and I said, oh, can I just
look at some tiny diamond studs. She came and she
pulled out the eight thousand US dollar starts and she's thinking,
do I look the kind of person that's going to
buy fifth New Zealand fifteen thousand dollars starts right now?
And my dragway hold me with all the lots of sugar,
(37:29):
and I said, I think I'll think about it.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
I don't feel like spending forty four thousand dollars a day.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
So steering on the barrel of label weeking in this
week and of course the big thing that's happening is Armageddon,
where all of the big stars are going to be there,
including Jason Mamula. It is apparently going to be at
Armageddon this coming weekend.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Actually, here in the New York they had Comic Con,
so we saw lots of people dressed up as like
Spider Man and Wonder Woman just walking around.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
Yeah, we saw a Spider Man trying to buy an
ice cream with a Spider Man mask.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
He put this hoodie on because he needs a good lunch. Yeah,
there are a fruity bunch the comic con.
Speaker 5 (38:02):
You know we missed other and comic com My friend
Anthea messes me from Cristians also to Wenington, and she said,
you know what, the entire cast of Outlander are at
Common Con in New York.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
So Jamie was there. Maybe what's his last name?
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Ji hused that Jamie anyway, speaking of good looking men,
Jeremy Jordan, who is the biggest Broadway star here. I
mean apart from the q Jackmans and the actors.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
But he is the Broadway star. He is the great
gets and got a first up she saw from it
flattened with me when we lined up.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
We all got taken by his rendition of for her,
which she should look up. By the way, on Spotify
he talks about Daisy and the Gatsby. So we were like, next,
see them in the flesh. What we thought initially people
were lining up to go to the show again. They
were lining up to catch a glimpse of the actors
and actresses. And we actually saw Eve I'm the leading
lady as well. And then we saw Jeremy And wasn't
here a sweetee nice guy? I believe Sam and I
(39:06):
quote always handsome man in real life.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
No, he's more handsome than I thought because I had
a little you know, you see him up on stage
and you kind of wonder, and then you look at
their Instagram you're like, oh, and then you see him
in the flesh.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
He's just beautiful. But that's not the only brush of
fame we've had.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
We've almost rubb shoulders and I say almost almost rubb
shoulders some very famous people.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
When we talk about the fact that Donald Trump was
at an event in.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
The lobby of our hotel, like, how close to one
of the most famous men in the world can one be?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Well, he drove right past us. His modicaated we went
right past us.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
We had stayed at the hotel, we would have seen
him enter, but instead we went to Broadway, which I
thought was a magnificent choice. Right.
Speaker 5 (39:41):
You can tell something was going on because the Secret
Service agents for like a day or so beforehand, started
hanging out in the lobby and then they started shutting.
Like you closed the streets around any town in New Zealand,
it's a pain in the bum. You close the streets
in Manhattan, and now you said you've got a massive
traffic problem. So Donald Trump just like pretty much through
the next wall from us.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Who else to be? Oh? Woman in the east Hampton's
j Lo just abouts at Jaylo. Jlo was there two
days before we got there, just about the same time
as us. It's the same shop that we went.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
And they also said Alex we missed alec Alden by
a day and said he was.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Really nice unarmed.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh gosh, Sam, that's not a funny joke. A push
your t now you won't know who that is. But
when we went to Oheka Castle, he is a very
famous rapper, like I'm talking three and a half million
followers on social media, and we saw him in the
flesh and there was this big, burly security guard and Sam,
you had your camera with you and you tried to
(40:35):
peep your head into the library where he was filming.
And I was seriously worried for you. That security guard
was not cracking a smile.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
It was a thug. He was a sug.
Speaker 4 (40:43):
And he looked like he was going to give me
a bop on the head, you know, one of those
those old school hammer type hits on the top of
the head.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
As they say in Manhattan popper caps. You care. John
Malkovich in Central Park?
Speaker 5 (40:55):
Yeah, and then we were walking to Central Park and
the skywalk passes and not confirmed.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
I can't just say just because he's a middle aged
white Dade with a bald head that was America.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
I google him and it looks almost like his brother.
So I looked at him.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
I thought, yeah, I'm pretty sure that John Malkovich lord
was walking through Manhattan just day, like a day before
we were in Sadie Homes.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
Yeah, but Katie Home the same day that we were there. Yeah,
we didn't see them, but they were there. Thanks give
him the way of a good story. No surround this up.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
We've seen no celebrities but we almost saw Paul Run
when he went to his sweet shop at the Owns
and the day before.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Sometimes he works at the counter. He might have been
there that afternoon after we left, but we could have
seen him. And he's just one celebrity who was on
the stage even then. I have to look him up.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
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Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.