1 00:00:07,133 --> 00:00:10,453 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast 2 00:00:10,573 --> 00:00:11,733 Speaker 1: from News Talks at be. 3 00:00:12,853 --> 00:00:16,333 Speaker 2: The center of the World. It's a funny concept, really, 4 00:00:16,333 --> 00:00:20,133 Speaker 2: because on a planet with more than eight billion people, 5 00:00:20,653 --> 00:00:25,813 Speaker 2: the world's attention never settles on any one event or 6 00:00:25,813 --> 00:00:30,133 Speaker 2: any one thing for much more than a moment. Most 7 00:00:30,173 --> 00:00:32,613 Speaker 2: of the time, you would probably argue that the world's 8 00:00:32,613 --> 00:00:36,853 Speaker 2: attention is kind of divided and scattered. It takes an 9 00:00:37,093 --> 00:00:42,293 Speaker 2: historic moment, something really big, a really truly significant event, 10 00:00:42,773 --> 00:00:47,853 Speaker 2: to tone those eight billion sets of eyes to one point, 11 00:00:48,733 --> 00:00:52,813 Speaker 2: and to be there in person, to actually experience it 12 00:00:52,933 --> 00:00:57,613 Speaker 2: for yourself, is to be an eyewitness to history. I 13 00:00:57,653 --> 00:01:01,093 Speaker 2: met a guy who was on his oe in Europe 14 00:01:01,413 --> 00:01:03,853 Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty nine when he woke up one morning 15 00:01:03,853 --> 00:01:07,493 Speaker 2: and heard that maybe something was stirring. He hustled to 16 00:01:07,573 --> 00:01:10,253 Speaker 2: a train station. He traveled and ended up with his 17 00:01:10,293 --> 00:01:16,653 Speaker 2: photograph in the New York Times tearing down the Berlin Wall. Truthfully, 18 00:01:17,733 --> 00:01:21,373 Speaker 2: I can't compete with that. I never tore down the 19 00:01:21,373 --> 00:01:25,293 Speaker 2: Berlin War, but by the nature of my job, I 20 00:01:25,373 --> 00:01:29,853 Speaker 2: guess I've been fortunate to witness some reasonably significant events firsthand. 21 00:01:30,773 --> 00:01:33,893 Speaker 2: So I sat there as Pope Francis addressed the General 22 00:01:33,893 --> 00:01:38,373 Speaker 2: Assembly of the United Nations. I've seen presidential inaugurations in 23 00:01:38,413 --> 00:01:41,453 Speaker 2: the US, so Bama speaking on the mal I was 24 00:01:41,453 --> 00:01:44,013 Speaker 2: there in the room in twenty sixteen when Donald Trump 25 00:01:44,173 --> 00:01:48,333 Speaker 2: strode into a Philadelphia arena and formally accepted the Republican 26 00:01:48,373 --> 00:01:52,213 Speaker 2: nomination for President of the United States. And something tells 27 00:01:52,253 --> 00:01:57,693 Speaker 2: me that despite our kind of geographic isolation, New Zealanders 28 00:01:58,933 --> 00:02:02,813 Speaker 2: are good at sniffing out big historic moments. It's kind 29 00:02:02,813 --> 00:02:05,093 Speaker 2: of in our nature. Don't you think it could be 30 00:02:05,133 --> 00:02:09,373 Speaker 2: a regal moment, a royal wedding, or a funeral. I 31 00:02:09,413 --> 00:02:12,053 Speaker 2: suppose it could be a tragic event, something like witnessing 32 00:02:12,093 --> 00:02:15,213 Speaker 2: the nine to eleven attacks. Sport can be a good one. 33 00:02:15,613 --> 00:02:18,853 Speaker 2: I saw Leo Messi score for Argentina at the opening 34 00:02:18,893 --> 00:02:21,733 Speaker 2: game of the twenty fourteen Football World Cup. That was special. 35 00:02:22,493 --> 00:02:24,853 Speaker 2: And I was sitting on the finish line when Usain 36 00:02:24,933 --> 00:02:27,613 Speaker 2: Bolt won the one hundred meters at the Rio Olympic 37 00:02:27,853 --> 00:02:33,213 Speaker 2: at Rio Olympic Games. Sometimes I think it takes luck, 38 00:02:33,853 --> 00:02:39,053 Speaker 2: Sometimes it takes money. Sometimes it takes an exclusive kind 39 00:02:39,133 --> 00:02:42,533 Speaker 2: of privilege that almost none of us will ever have. 40 00:02:43,813 --> 00:02:47,853 Speaker 2: Take a papal conclave. There might be one point four 41 00:02:47,933 --> 00:02:51,813 Speaker 2: billion Catholics on the planet, but only those cardinals who 42 00:02:51,813 --> 00:02:55,253 Speaker 2: were in the room once the doors shut will ever 43 00:02:55,373 --> 00:02:57,853 Speaker 2: truly know what it was like to be part of 44 00:02:57,893 --> 00:03:00,933 Speaker 2: that conclave. I mean, just being outside in Saint Peter's 45 00:03:00,933 --> 00:03:04,493 Speaker 2: Square would have been an incredible experience. The moment that 46 00:03:04,613 --> 00:03:07,653 Speaker 2: everyone looked up to the chimney and saw the white 47 00:03:07,693 --> 00:03:13,853 Speaker 2: smoke crazy, But then imagine being inside. If you were 48 00:03:14,413 --> 00:03:18,773 Speaker 2: to divide the number of Catholics worldwide by every man 49 00:03:18,853 --> 00:03:22,253 Speaker 2: in that room, there would be more than ten million 50 00:03:22,293 --> 00:03:28,093 Speaker 2: Catholics for every individual cardinal, and yet only those cardinals 51 00:03:28,253 --> 00:03:30,813 Speaker 2: will know what it's like to be there in person, 52 00:03:30,893 --> 00:03:33,893 Speaker 2: to see the votes tallied, to hear the new pope 53 00:03:34,253 --> 00:03:38,493 Speaker 2: choose a name. The world's attention might have been focused 54 00:03:38,493 --> 00:03:41,453 Speaker 2: on the Vatican waiting for the smoke, but for this moment, 55 00:03:41,573 --> 00:03:44,893 Speaker 2: only a tiny few with their one hundred and thirty 56 00:03:44,933 --> 00:03:48,413 Speaker 2: three eyewitnesses to a moment in history. 57 00:03:49,133 --> 00:03:52,213 Speaker 1: For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, listen live 58 00:03:52,333 --> 00:03:55,133 Speaker 1: to news talks that'd be from nine am Saturday, or 59 00:03:55,213 --> 00:03:57,133 Speaker 1: follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.