Transcripts For KNTV First Look 20220813

Its pink. This water is literally pink. Each location is special. Whoo johnny bananas voiceover and everyone is drawn to its shores. My piece de resistance. Johnny bananas voiceover and we start on the west side of south florida, home to the best beaches in the us, st. Peteclearwater. This is st. Peteclearwater. Love the shorts, man. Johnny bananas voiceover but beyond the incredible stretches of white sand i guess you could say the sand feels exactly the way that it looks. You know how soft flour is, when put your hand in a bag of flour . Feels like im walking in that. Johnny bananas voiceover theres so much more to this amazing destination than just fun in the sun. Just take a walk and look up. There are iconic museums and murals around every corner. But my first stop is the magical chihuly collection. Johnny bananas dale chihuly is from washington. Andy schlauch yeah. Johnny bananas what is it about st. Peteclearwater that he decides to have a collection in this area . Andy schlauch well, it actually all started with him having an exhibition at the museum of fine arts here in st. Pete. People here loved it so much that it inspired the board of the Morean Arts Center to acquire a large Permanent Collection of dales work. Johnny bananas this almost makes you feel like youre in the ocean. Andy schlauch yeah. Water is a huge inspiration for him. He does a lot of stuff that relates and looks like it comes from the water. People are just enchanted by his work. And glass is just so attractive. It really is. Johnny bananas voiceover and once youve got a taste for the glass, try blowing your own piece at the hot shop just a few blocks away. Jeremiah jacobs inside here, we house 350 pounds of clear molten glass held at a temperature of 2,175 degrees fahrenheit. Oh, my god. That is hot. Jeremiah jacobs swing that bad boy. There you go. So whats the art scene like here in st. Petersburg, jeremiah . Oh, man. Yeah, thriving art scene here in st. Pete. A lot of it stems all the way back to the original collectors of dali. They ended up opening a museum here in town. And i think that really kind of kicked some things off. Hold that in the same spot, bring this hand up, and start turning that pipe. So hot on my wrist, jeremiah. I thought the beaches here were hot. Ah oh, look at that. Jeremiah jacobs thats looking like a banana all of a sudden. Hell, yeah, it is. Jeremiah jacobs wait for it. Nice job. Back to the heat. Look at that this is so cool. Whoo johnny bananas voiceover with the sun high in the sky, i cruised my way downtown in search of the perfect bike. And with an array of restaurants on every block, itll be hard to choose. Smells incredible. Johnny bananas voiceover but i think ive found the perfect place. Whenever you ask one of the locals where we should go, everyones like, go to bodega. This is where the cuban food is at. How long have you lived here for . Ive been here for six years in st. Petersburg. I love it. The downtown area is blowing up. Its good for music, for art, different cuisines. Really digging it here. Johnny bananas what do you recommend . The cuban sandwich. Johnny bananas that makes sense. Thats a good sandwich. Wow. Look at how many layers of deliciousness there are to this. Youve got the cheese, youve got one layer of meat, pickles, another layer of meat, this delicious sauce on here. Its soft inside and kind of crispy and hard on the outside, sort of like me. Johnny bananas voiceover and once youre fully fed, lets be honest theres Nothing Better than being back on a beach. And at fort de soto park, youre less likely to lay out than to take flight. Johnny bananas look at this place, man. Beautiful spot. Johnny bananas not a bad place to call your office, huh . Drew christianson i know, right . Johnny bananas what exactly is going on behind me right now . Drew christianson so today were out here doing a little kiteboarding. All these kites are inflatable. Basically launch them off the beach. Once they get in the air, theyre being powered only by the wind. So theres no motors, purely just the wind pulling you along. Johnny bananas is kite boarding one of the more popular sports in st. Peteclearwater . For sure. The sports grown a ton in our area, because we have so many protected flats. So have tons of shallow water. Makes just learning super easy. So what youre saying is, if youre into kiteboarding, or if you want to learn how to kiteboard, st. Peteclearwater is the place to go. Yeah. I own a kite school right here. I used to travel the world competing. Ive seen it. This is the spot you want to come. Johnny bananas whats to prevent me from flying, like, all the way to, like, saratoga . Drew christianson the gears progressive a lot, so all youve got to do is let go. Let go. Easy. Easy. Whoo [shouting] johnny bananas voiceover its magic hour perfect time to explore, make some new friends nice meeting you. Johnny bananas voiceover and grab a drink at the green bench brewing company, one of over 40 craft breweries on this side of the gulf coast. Woman arriba. Arriba. Abajo. Abajo. Por centro. Para centro. Al dentro. Johnny bananas i feel like ive known these people forever. I mean, everyones so nice. Everyones so warm. Everyones so welcoming. Well, that was good. Give it up. Ready . 1, 2, 3. Both st. Pete johnny bananas voiceover action and adventure this is a workout, man. But its fun. Johnny bananas voiceover art, culture, and entertainment. Johnny bananas ricochet. Whoo money. Johnny bananas voiceover st. Peteclearwater is a water world well worth diving into. Narrator 1st look is sponsored by st. Peteclearwater. Visit st. Peteclearwater, where 35 miles of white sand beaches welcome you on floridas gulf coast. [whistles] thats salty. Oh, buddy. That will wake you up in the morning, huh . Johnny bananas voiceover in the south of france, theres an utterly surreal site that you have to see to believe. In french how do you say pink . Rose. Rose . Rose. Its beautiful. Johnny bananas voiceover massive pink salt marshes neighboring the French Village of [french] spanning nearly 1,000 acres. And in a region famous for its fermented grapes, salt maker [inaudible] is harvesting incredibly high quality salt from the very unique locale. Johnny bananas ive never seen anything like this. Its pink. This water is literally pink. What gives it this pink color . So its not actually then the salt crystals that are pink . Its the algae surrounding the salt . Just salt, no water . Ok. Ok. What then distinguishes your salt from other types . So its safe to say theres a lot of salty dudes in your family, huh . Yeah. You said fleur de sel . Fleur de sel. Fleur de sel. Which translates into flower of the salt. You take the Mediterranean Sea water, and then with the help of the sun and the evaporation, youre left with pure salt. The creme de la creme. This really is something. Johnny bananas voiceover and once youve got a taste of the salt, your taste buds are ready for more from the sea. Johnny bananas would you consider yourself an oyster expert . Yes. Johnny bananas question Everyone Wants to know elephant in the room are oysters an aphrodisiac . Yes. Johnny bananas voiceover at their family owned restaurant, le st. Barth, Florent Tarbouriech and his children, daughter florie and his son romain, are growing some of the most exceptional seafood youve ever tasted. Your family seems like you guys are all very, very close knit. How important do you think that is to the overall experience . Johnny bananas voiceover fed by the salty Mediterranean Sea, fresh runoff from the rhone river, and the canal du midi, the lagoon de thau maintains a delicate mixture of mineralrich waters ideal for farming shellfish. Johnny bananas this is not what i pictured it being. This is amazing. [speaking in french] johnny bananas voiceover when an infant oyster grows to about and af which raises and submerges the mollusks into the sea. Why do you have the oysters here on these ropes . Florent tarbouriech they have to be out of the water one, two, three, four, five hours per day. Heres one. Take this. Johnny bananas yes. Dont want to lose these. Florent tarbouriech if the oysters stay in the water, they stay always open, and the muscle is very small. Johnny bananas theyre not working out. Florent tarbouriech exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Johnny bananas but then when you pull it up out of the water, it has to close. Yes. And thats why its muscles are so big. Yes. Like you. Big muscles. Florent tarbouriech to keep the water inside, they have to make mother of pearl. Johnny bananas it has to create mother of pearl to protect itself . Florent tarbouriech yes, yes. That is a big difference between our oysters. How old is this technique . One century. A century . More, more century. No kidding. Put the line up through there . Romain tarbouriech yeah. Johnny bananas its going to pull them all off. Its going to snap them all off. Oh, look at this. Check this out. [shouting] lets do another one. This is so much fun. How long does it take for them to get this size . Two or three years. Johnny bananas oh, thats a big one. Look at the size of these guys. Oh, yeah. We have to taste. No time like the present. Drum roll. [drum roll] the size is perfect. This is perfect. Cin. Cin. Cin. Bon appetit. Bon appetit. Mm. That is a tasty oyster. Oh, my god. All this work. This was five years . Yes, five years. Johnny bananas does it make you feel proud to know that were eating something that you spent five years of your life raising . Yes, sure. Im very proud. And we are very proud of the quality the mother of pearl. Johnny bananas look at that mother of pearl. This is a very healthy sign. Because its beautiful. Romain tarbouriech for us, its our passion. Passion. Passion. [speaking in french] the taste of the passion. That is delicious. Sweet, salty, and the texture very good texture. Good muscle tone. Its not too squishy, its not too hard. Its right in the middle. So its a good balance. Florent tarbouriech not good. Perfect balance. Perfect balance. Johnny bananas if this isnt living, i dont know what is. Oh, merci. Merci beaucoup. Romain tarbouriech de rien. Youre welcome. Narrator accommodations for 1st look provided by the wyndham grand clearwater beach, the most stylish spot under the sun. Johnny bananas voiceover summer in montreal is a beautiful time of year. As you venture through the streets and sidewalks, there is a secret oasis that beckons those who seek a watery adventure in the middle of the city walls. And filling me in on the latest wave of excitement to hit this urban oasis is surf instructor alex. Sante. Sante, johnny. Johnny bananas when i think of surfing, canada, and montreal especially, doesnt really strike me. Because were not close to the ocean at all. So were surrounded by a river. Were river surfing out here. And people just are getting to know more about it. I think there could be 15,000 surfers around here that come every summer. Johnny bananas wow. Alex pelletier yeah. An ocean, youre dependent on the weather, and wind, and that sort of thing to create waves. Thats the cool thing about river surfing. The wave is always there. Its an endless wave. You could sleep on this wave. Sleep on the wave . You could. Have you done that . Not yet. Johnny bananas so there she is. The Saint Lawrence river, where it culminates into lachine rapids. Alex pelletier thats it. Johnny bananas they look beautiful, man. Ill tell you, when i envisioned montreal, this is not exactly what i pictured. Looks like a washing machine. Alex pelletier yeah. Pretty much. Theres a lot of stuff going on in there, too. Theres massive sturgeons longer than you. Theres fish in there bigger than me . Alex pelletier oh, yeah. Perfect. How long is the Saint Lawrence river . Alex pelletier it starts from the ocean, you know, and it goes straight into niagara falls. So from toronto to nova scotia. And how many surf spots are there along the way . I would say theres a lot of surf spots out there. But the main one has got to be the [inaudible] waves. Johnny bananas the [inaudible] wave. We have a name in french for it. [speaking in french] guys wave. So were going to change the name from guys wave to bananas wave. Bananas wave . Johnny bananas yeah. Lets do this, brother. Surfs up. Banana bro. Where you normally surf is you come up from over the wave. This one, youre actually going into the wave. Alex pelletier thats it. Theres a sweet spot where you want to get the wave. Its just at the end of this white water. Its the part of the wave that will hold you the best. Thats the beauty of river surfing. If you surf this wave, youll surf any wave. Ill go first, then ill call you. Ready . Alex pelletier paddle, paddle, paddle. Yeah. There you go. Watch the bubble. You want to be right next to the bubble. [cheering, whistling] oh. This is life on the board. This is montreal whoo whoo Alex Pelletier on your toes, on your toes. Hell, yeah. How good was that . What a rush. He said it himself. Awesome, dude. That was sick. You nailed it. My man. Honestly, im not going to lie, what a workout. Im like burnt. When i couldnt even figure out a way to stay in the wave, i was like, this is not happening. Wipe out. The sounds, the feeling, the sights. I mean, it was incredible. I mean, just look around. I mean, this is such a beautiful landscape. I never knew until today that you could surf inside a river. Im ready for the next wave. Alex pelletier yeah. Its just a normal day in montreal. You got some room on your couch i could come crash . Every search you make, every click you take, every move you make, every step you take, ill be watching you. The internet doesnt have to be duckduckgo is a free all in one privacy app with a built in search engine, web browser, one click data clearing and more stop Companies Like google from watching you, by downloading the app today. Duckduckgo privacy, simplified. Johnny bananas voiceover on our blue planet, the majority of fresh water is actually locked up in snow and ice. And theres no better place to experienc this region of alaska is famous for its diver johnny bananas wow. Look at that. This is unbelievable. Ive never been in a helicopter before. Ryan fisher what . Whats so crazy about alaska is how it goes from so lush and so green to just buried in ice, like in the blink of an eye. Ryan fisher you want to fly in the most amazing place, you come to alaska. I mean, look at this place. Ryan fisher so what youre looking at ahead of you there, johnny, is your glacier. Johnny bananas thats it . Ryan fisher thats called godwin. Johnny bananas godwin is looking good. Ryan fisher welcome to the glacier, my friend. Johnny bananas dude. All right. Shall we . Backpack on. Ndale. Ryan fisher coowns exit glacier guides and provides an adrenalinepacked alaskan adventure with an emphasis on safety. Ryan fisher being able to bring people into this environment so sick ryan fisher and kind of show them a little piece of alaska that is really difficult to get to and that they wouldnt be able to see in any other way, is pretty special. Until you actually get here and you actuadiffllen. Johnny bananas voiceover but the secret how do you hold this . So this strap goes where . Between your thumb and pointer finger. Then we just want our pinky all the way at the bottom. Pinky in the loop. Perfect. Trevor kreznar how are you feeling on that . That only looks like about a 50foot drop, so. Trevor kreznar youll survive. I havent dropped anybody yet. Yeah, not yet. Yet being the operative word. Trevor kreznar the big thing is keeping your heels down. Johnny bananas really . Trevor kreznar some folks will go up on their toes yeah, youll slip up. Yeah. Ok. Leaning back on the harness, keep your feet nice and wide as you come onto it. This feels weird. Trevor kreznar nice work, johnny. This is incredible. It really is like a spiritual experience, being here. Trevor kreznar feet at the same level so its stable. And then our tools, one high and one a little bit below. Johnny bananas got it. One hand, one hand, then both feet. Different heights . Trevor kreznar yeah. One high, one low. Its a lot tougher than it looks. Ill tell you that. Trevor kreznar gotta keep those heels down. Nice, short steps. Everything about being up here the air, it just feels crisp, and it feels clear. This ice you can almost feel the history of alaska buried deep within this glacier. Theres absolutely no way to comprehend this feeling. And there is no way to top this experience. Its aweinspiring. Whoo my brother theres a sense of satisfaction every time you finish a climb that never really dulls. It never goes away. Were [inaudible] these glaciers, boys. Off to our next adventure. Where are we headed to now . Ryan fisher were going to bear glacier, my friend. Ananas bear glacier. Ryan fisher 10minute flight. Johnny bananas voiceover the glacier is in constant motion. It can grow longer, or it can recede. Johnny bananas how amazing is this. By monitoring the position of the terminus, which is the end of the ice. Wow. Isnt that crazy . Look at that. Thats unbelievable. Johnny bananas voiceover when the glacial terminus weakens, enormous blocks of ice calve, or break off, into the sea. Youre left with hypnotic icebergs. And guide maya hunger of liquid adventures gets you closer to them than you ever thought possible. So cool. Were like in a big glass of water surrounded by ice cubes. Exactly. Yeah. But these ice cubes are 10 feet tall on the right side and 20 yards wide. And if its like 10 feet above, theres at least 20 feet of ice below. Thats why they called it the tip of the iceberg. Hey. Exactly. Johnny bananas what is it about these waters that keeps bringing you back . Maya hunger oh, its always changing. You come out every single day, and its different. And how has this landscape that were currently in, how has it changed . The glaciersts e losing. Johnny bananas what do you think is the cause of that . Maya hunger the snow that we get in the winter is not sticking around anymore, because the summers are warmer. And so our glaciers are also falling in volume, as well as power. What type of effect is that having on the local economy in alaska . Maya hunger its hard to quantify. One of our number one things people come to see in seward is the glaciers. As they start to recede, probably tourism recedes. The tourism recedes with it. That looks like a big piece just all off. Maya hunger oh, yeah. It looks like ice cream. Maya hunger totally. Its beautiful, though. Maya hunger this landscape and these ecosystems have been shaped for so long by having glaciers around. Thats one of those things that most people are pretty concerned about is the balance, just the balance of our ecosystem overall. Johnny bananas what can the everyday person do to try and save this amazing landscape . Maya hunger obviously lessening your Carbon Footprint is great. So buying local actually can also help. If youre eating well, if youre supporting your local community, then youre supporting this up here, too. Its all interconnected. Yeah. Johnny bananas voiceover so whether youre looking to soar, ride the perfect set, pull your supper from the shore, or get soaking wet, the most important takeaway is to never miss an opportunity to step into liquid. Well see you next week. [music playing] im sara gore, and this is open house. This week, we are celebrating summer with homes that are filled with light, charm, glamour, and of course, style. And as youll see, summer doesnt just mean the beach. Of course, we got that too. Summer is a design state of mind. As these homes prove every step of the way. [music playing] welcome to open house, everyone. We are cutting loose and celebrating relaxed summer style from the city to the beach. And we are Getting Started in midtown manhattan with paige desorbo, fashion influencer and one of the stars