WEBVTT - The Panel: The Olympics are underway - where are your bets? 0:00:05.761 --> 0:00:09.441 You're listening to the Weekend Collective podcast from news Talks. 0:00:10.401 --> 0:00:15.201 Right now, it is time for the panel and to introduce. 0:00:15.241 --> 0:00:17.361 I normally come up with some sort of smart ale 0:00:17.521 --> 0:00:20.921 introduction for my guests, especially if they're a bit long 0:00:20.961 --> 0:00:24.641 in the tooth. But I thought, but I thought, no, 0:00:24.681 --> 0:00:27.961 not this time. He is the silver Fox of journalism. 0:00:28.001 --> 0:00:31.441 He's an institution. He's Mark Kreisel. 0:00:31.601 --> 0:00:31.801 Mark. 0:00:31.921 --> 0:00:34.281 Hello, how are you? Shortest one ever? What's that? 0:00:34.281 --> 0:00:38.601 That's the shortest one ever? Well, but I've parodied you 0:00:38.681 --> 0:00:41.361 too much? Yes, but how are you? I'm good, mate. 0:00:41.481 --> 0:00:43.121 You don't get a body like this without a lot 0:00:43.121 --> 0:00:45.281 of hard work. Thank god, I'm on radio. 0:00:45.521 --> 0:00:49.961 Yeah, and he's sort of a silver fox, but not 0:00:50.041 --> 0:00:50.721 quite as silver. 0:00:51.401 --> 0:00:53.321 It was just as much of a fox, of course. 0:00:54.881 --> 0:00:57.681 He's the resident builder Fox. It is Pete Wolfcamp. 0:00:57.681 --> 0:00:59.201 Hello, Pete. 0:00:59.241 --> 0:01:00.641 I don't know where that long in the tooth thing 0:01:00.681 --> 0:01:02.801 came out of. We're all long in the tooth, aren't we? 0:01:02.801 --> 0:01:04.441 Well beyond your generation? 0:01:04.601 --> 0:01:06.881 Zed? That sounds like you're just digging a big hole 0:01:06.921 --> 0:01:08.721 for yourself. Yeah, okay, I think let's move on to 0:01:11.161 --> 0:01:12.161 but how are you? Pete? 0:01:12.201 --> 0:01:12.361 Yeah? 0:01:12.361 --> 0:01:12.881 I'm pretty good. 0:01:12.881 --> 0:01:13.201 Thank you. 0:01:13.281 --> 0:01:14.201 Keeping out of mischief. 0:01:14.321 --> 0:01:15.561 Yeah, it's still plenty on. 0:01:15.641 --> 0:01:17.521 So how much time do you spend on the tools 0:01:17.521 --> 0:01:18.241 these days? 0:01:18.881 --> 0:01:24.441 I hung a door yesterday, well, hung very well. Oh no, 0:01:24.841 --> 0:01:25.721 just slotted straight in. 0:01:25.801 --> 0:01:27.161 It's really fantastic. 0:01:27.361 --> 0:01:29.761 That was great. Does that mean you're not spending a 0:01:29.801 --> 0:01:31.801 lot of the hanging of a door as. 0:01:31.681 --> 0:01:34.561 Your your extraordinary part of my week? To be fair, 0:01:35.321 --> 0:01:37.001 it had been a job that I'd promised someone that 0:01:37.001 --> 0:01:39.641 I would do for a long time, and then for 0:01:39.681 --> 0:01:41.841 any number of reasons, I didn't get round to doing it. 0:01:41.881 --> 0:01:43.361 And then yesterday it was like, right, I'm going to 0:01:43.441 --> 0:01:44.001 go and do that. 0:01:44.561 --> 0:01:47.721 Hanging your door must be sorry, Peter, hanging your door 0:01:47.801 --> 0:01:49.881 must be hard, harder than it looks. 0:01:50.201 --> 0:01:52.921 It looks hard. Actually, be honest, I think just right, 0:01:53.041 --> 0:01:53.361 you know. 0:01:53.401 --> 0:01:55.521 I feel I've got to be completely honest. It was 0:01:55.521 --> 0:01:57.601 a kitchen door, right, so it's too click on it 0:01:57.801 --> 0:02:03.201 just okay, okay. But yes, doors have this magical ability 0:02:03.241 --> 0:02:05.761 where you can take a door off, work on it, 0:02:05.841 --> 0:02:09.121 and when you go to hang it again, it's chained shape. Yeah, 0:02:09.121 --> 0:02:12.441 it won't fit. It happens almost every single time. 0:02:12.601 --> 0:02:13.561 And that's are you talking about? 0:02:13.601 --> 0:02:14.761 If you just take it off at the hinges or 0:02:14.761 --> 0:02:17.081 if you actually take off the hinge plates and all that. 0:02:17.401 --> 0:02:19.121 Yeah, you can drive the pins out and you go 0:02:19.161 --> 0:02:20.881 put it back in and it doesn't fit. 0:02:21.801 --> 0:02:24.361 Years ago, a long time, another life away. I used 0:02:24.361 --> 0:02:27.121 to be a fencing contract and. 0:02:26.441 --> 0:02:28.961 I think that was part of one of your other introductions. 0:02:29.841 --> 0:02:32.081 We've moved on from that. We've moved on, but used 0:02:32.081 --> 0:02:35.081 to hang gates and it was it was so hard 0:02:35.281 --> 0:02:36.081 just getting it right. 0:02:36.361 --> 0:02:40.241 I took a lot of a fence from that. Oh god, 0:02:41.601 --> 0:02:44.241 do we have a drum roll for that? There we go. 0:02:44.281 --> 0:02:46.081 I brother used to do of fencing in this company 0:02:46.241 --> 0:02:47.281 was called Parry and Thrust. 0:02:48.921 --> 0:02:49.521 That's not bad. 0:02:49.521 --> 0:02:51.601 Actually that is quite a good name for a fencing company. 0:02:51.881 --> 0:02:53.001 A little confusing for some. 0:02:53.041 --> 0:02:58.161 But yeah, hey, now the Olympics are underway. Firstly, are 0:02:58.241 --> 0:03:00.081 you guys Olympic junkies? 0:03:00.081 --> 0:03:01.241 Are're looking forward to the Olympics? 0:03:01.241 --> 0:03:03.681 Peter, I don't know if i'd describe myself as an 0:03:03.681 --> 0:03:05.881 Olympic junkie, but there there are parts of it that 0:03:05.921 --> 0:03:07.881 will be spectacular. I'm not sure about them. I'm not 0:03:07.921 --> 0:03:10.681 going to start for the breakdancing, for example. All this 0:03:10.841 --> 0:03:12.041 is skateboarding in there as well. 0:03:12.121 --> 0:03:14.641 Yeah, skateboarding surfing will be amazing. 0:03:14.801 --> 0:03:15.001 Yes. 0:03:15.161 --> 0:03:18.041 I saw those waves out at Tahiti in Chiapu. 0:03:18.321 --> 0:03:21.681 It's like one of the scariest, most spectacular waves in 0:03:21.681 --> 0:03:22.041 the world. 0:03:22.081 --> 0:03:22.601 And I love this. 0:03:22.841 --> 0:03:26.081 Like they've got the sailing of Marseille, they've got the 0:03:26.121 --> 0:03:29.881 surfing in Tahiti. I think it's yeah, they've made the 0:03:29.921 --> 0:03:32.321 most had the opening ceremony. 0:03:32.001 --> 0:03:35.041 Yes, well, before we get onto that, actually that you 0:03:35.081 --> 0:03:38.441 mentioned the breakdancing because you have written off the back 0:03:38.481 --> 0:03:40.401 break dancing, I think there's going to be a lot 0:03:40.401 --> 0:03:42.641 of curious watching and you're probably gonna look at it 0:03:42.641 --> 0:03:43.801 and go, how. 0:03:43.801 --> 0:03:44.881 The hell do that? 0:03:44.961 --> 0:03:48.001 Sure, it's spectacular, I'm just not sure that it qualifies. 0:03:47.441 --> 0:03:50.081 As swimming snchronized swimming. I mean, that's one of the 0:03:50.161 --> 0:03:51.001 joys of life times and. 0:03:51.001 --> 0:03:52.841 The Olympics are one of those things you grow into 0:03:53.081 --> 0:03:54.601 Like when they come it's like, oh my god, it's 0:03:54.641 --> 0:03:58.001 the Olympics again. And then as you you grow into it, 0:03:58.041 --> 0:04:00.161 you know you got is the athletics and there's something 0:04:00.201 --> 0:04:03.601 amazing there, or there's a weightlifted doing something extraordinary, and 0:04:03.681 --> 0:04:06.321 once those personnelity do start to grow with it, you 0:04:06.361 --> 0:04:08.001 get into it. But I don't think it's something you 0:04:08.041 --> 0:04:09.441 look forward to as much. 0:04:09.481 --> 0:04:12.641 Looking forward to the Veldrome events. Yeah, the Karen and 0:04:12.681 --> 0:04:14.401 they those things. 0:04:14.401 --> 0:04:15.121 That's phenomenal. 0:04:15.161 --> 0:04:15.281 Well. 0:04:15.481 --> 0:04:17.441 Actually, the thing is there's so much to choose from. 0:04:17.441 --> 0:04:19.041 As I went to have a look at the guide 0:04:19.041 --> 0:04:21.641 and thinking what am I going to watch? When you realize, 0:04:21.641 --> 0:04:23.481 you know, there's just you can't keep up with it 0:04:23.521 --> 0:04:25.841 all obviously because it's just so much. I used to 0:04:26.041 --> 0:04:29.241 traditionally used to love the gymnastics because I don't know, 0:04:29.281 --> 0:04:32.281 it's just in the days where we only had one 0:04:32.361 --> 0:04:38.081 or two channels probably, But the track and field we've 0:04:38.201 --> 0:04:40.001 I mean, we've got the prospect of some medals on 0:04:40.041 --> 0:04:42.241 the track and field, which to me, to me, a 0:04:42.361 --> 0:04:45.081 track and field medal is pretty much the ultimate for 0:04:45.121 --> 0:04:48.241 Olympics because I don't know why, but because it's just 0:04:48.801 --> 0:04:51.881 I mean, the idea of Hamish getting a gold medal 0:04:51.961 --> 0:04:54.121 or possibly in the in the Hamish care Actually I 0:04:54.201 --> 0:04:57.281 suddenly had a mental blank on his name. But Eliza 0:04:57.361 --> 0:04:59.641 McCartney could be in there as well, I think. 0:04:59.481 --> 0:05:02.361 God, and I apologize, but I forget her name. That 0:05:02.401 --> 0:05:06.561 great woman's sprinter, Oh Hobbs so hot, so she's amazing 0:05:06.601 --> 0:05:09.161 and she comes from Taranaki as well, which makes it 0:05:09.241 --> 0:05:10.121 doubly amazing. 0:05:10.281 --> 0:05:14.081 So no, I actually I think I think if she 0:05:14.161 --> 0:05:15.081 gets the final, that. 0:05:15.041 --> 0:05:17.761 Would be just I think the final would be amazing. 0:05:17.961 --> 0:05:19.761 To get to the semi final would be pretty good 0:05:19.761 --> 0:05:23.401 as well. But there's something about I mean, well, to me, 0:05:23.521 --> 0:05:27.081 getting into the semi final final of one hundred meters 0:05:27.601 --> 0:05:30.321 is one of the greater Olympic achievements I can think of, 0:05:30.441 --> 0:05:34.481 because I don't know, it's just it's the ultimate, the sprint, 0:05:34.521 --> 0:05:35.521 the track and field, isn't it. 0:05:35.561 --> 0:05:38.481 I remember as a kid we were living in Wellington 0:05:38.481 --> 0:05:40.241 at the time. I was going to Plympton School and 0:05:40.321 --> 0:05:43.361 one of the teacher's husbands was a member of the 0:05:43.521 --> 0:05:46.841 rowing eight and he brought his gold medal to school 0:05:46.881 --> 0:05:49.561 and I just wasn't in the class. She wasn't my teacher, 0:05:49.921 --> 0:05:52.521 but I remember walking past that classroom and catching a 0:05:52.561 --> 0:05:55.521 glimpse of it through the window. Wow, and oh my god, 0:05:55.561 --> 0:05:57.761 what a thrill. And I think there's something about the 0:05:57.761 --> 0:06:00.281 Olympics with those athletes that come from a lot of 0:06:00.281 --> 0:06:02.441 small towns, come from all over New Zealand, and not 0:06:02.481 --> 0:06:05.401 all just from Auckland or Wellington or christ Church. There's 0:06:05.401 --> 0:06:07.321 something really aspirational about it. 0:06:08.001 --> 0:06:09.401 I love that about them. 0:06:09.441 --> 0:06:12.161 I'm not I wasn't really and I'm not really into 0:06:12.721 --> 0:06:14.841 some of the sports that have their own masters, like 0:06:14.881 --> 0:06:16.361 the tennis and the golf, And in a way, I 0:06:16.441 --> 0:06:19.001 wasn't really that into the Sevens until I watched the 0:06:19.041 --> 0:06:22.201 guys play their first game against South Africa, and I thought, 0:06:22.281 --> 0:06:25.681 this team are amazing and I couldn't believe again and lost. 0:06:26.761 --> 0:06:28.961 I just thought the skill level, and I suddenly realized 0:06:28.961 --> 0:06:32.321 how much I cared about the Sevens. I didn't realize 0:06:32.401 --> 0:06:34.761 until until I watched. But it's because in that first 0:06:34.761 --> 0:06:37.481 game against South Africa, the skill level and just we 0:06:37.601 --> 0:06:38.441 just looked amazing. 0:06:38.481 --> 0:06:40.801 And then and then I don't know why. 0:06:40.641 --> 0:06:43.481 We faced how did we face a team that we 0:06:43.601 --> 0:06:46.001 beaten pool play and ended up facing them for the quarterfinals. 0:06:46.001 --> 0:06:53.881 But anyway, yes, okay, let's move on to the opening ceremony. Mark, 0:06:54.601 --> 0:06:55.641 you haven't seen. 0:06:55.401 --> 0:06:58.121 It, No, I haven't, so you guys can't say anything 0:06:58.121 --> 0:06:58.841 spoiler alert. 0:06:58.801 --> 0:06:59.361 I'll watch it late. 0:06:59.841 --> 0:07:04.041 I watched, and I'm not really an opening ceremonies kind 0:07:04.041 --> 0:07:06.761 of guy, but I did love the London one where 0:07:06.801 --> 0:07:10.401 they threw the queen out of helicopter James Bond and 0:07:10.401 --> 0:07:13.441 they built the beautiful hill with all the villages and 0:07:13.481 --> 0:07:15.801 things like that. I thought that was amazing. So I 0:07:15.841 --> 0:07:17.961 will have a look at the Paris one. You guys 0:07:18.001 --> 0:07:20.521 need to tell me if it's worth it. I look, Peter, 0:07:20.601 --> 0:07:21.001 where you go. 0:07:21.121 --> 0:07:23.401 Well, judging by the noise coming from the front room 0:07:23.441 --> 0:07:26.001 at my place while I was having a snooze, it 0:07:26.161 --> 0:07:32.081 sounded spectacular and I caught the end. And what I 0:07:32.121 --> 0:07:35.681 absolutely love is the way in which Paris has been showcased. 0:07:36.081 --> 0:07:38.441 I think by putting so many of the events in 0:07:38.521 --> 0:07:41.561 the city. You know, I think the beach volleyball is 0:07:41.601 --> 0:07:44.161 going to be, you know, within viewing distance of the 0:07:44.201 --> 0:07:46.921 Eiffel Tower. I mean, that's spectacular. And so if you've 0:07:46.921 --> 0:07:53.481 got all of these fantastic, well renowned, you know, iconic 0:07:53.881 --> 0:07:56.401 in the best sense of the word locations, why not 0:07:56.601 --> 0:07:58.801 have your games right there? I think that's spectacular. 0:07:58.961 --> 0:08:01.441 Of course, the big core was them to have to 0:08:01.961 --> 0:08:05.481 not have the opening ceremony in a stadium, and to 0:08:05.561 --> 0:08:08.641 feature Paris, and to have it along the Seine. And look, 0:08:08.681 --> 0:08:11.281 it's an incredibly long ceremony. Every opening ceremony is long 0:08:11.281 --> 0:08:13.041 because you're in the parade of athletes and things, and 0:08:13.081 --> 0:08:16.121 they interspersed it with different acts. Lady Gaga was there. 0:08:17.161 --> 0:08:20.121 I actually thought I thought it was just brilliant. It's 0:08:20.121 --> 0:08:22.521 funny you see people. I don't think Australia liked it 0:08:22.521 --> 0:08:25.281 because everyone everyone in Australia expect their team to be early. 0:08:25.641 --> 0:08:27.161 But of course they were towards the end because I 0:08:27.201 --> 0:08:29.201 think they're hosting in about eight years time or something. 0:08:29.721 --> 0:08:33.561 But I just looked at it was so French and 0:08:34.121 --> 0:08:36.441 I'm a bit of a Francophile. I love you know, 0:08:36.561 --> 0:08:41.041 I love Paris. I thought it was absolutely brilliant. But 0:08:41.161 --> 0:08:43.281 of course it's all in real time, so you can't 0:08:43.521 --> 0:08:46.241 people are so used to their Instagram feeds. So when 0:08:46.281 --> 0:08:48.961 the horse, you know, the horse gets off the Seine 0:08:49.001 --> 0:08:51.121 and it sort of has that transition, it's in real time, 0:08:51.321 --> 0:08:54.801 so you they were interspersing it with different clips and things. 0:08:54.841 --> 0:08:58.841 But the bit that nailed me totally was Celine Dion 0:08:59.041 --> 0:09:01.561 seeing at the end. And the reason was I knew 0:09:01.561 --> 0:09:03.401 she was, you know, we'd heard she was singing and 0:09:03.441 --> 0:09:05.361 she was going to and I'd read that and watch 0:09:05.401 --> 0:09:07.081 it live, watched it delayed on you you should sing 0:09:08.761 --> 0:09:11.321 on the Eiffel Tower, and I thought, you know, we 0:09:11.401 --> 0:09:13.961 know what she's been through with her with his stiff 0:09:14.001 --> 0:09:16.521 person syndrome and the loss of her voice and her 0:09:16.521 --> 0:09:18.401 recuperation on it. And I was ready for it to 0:09:18.401 --> 0:09:22.201 be quite a frail but sort of good enough representation. 0:09:22.721 --> 0:09:24.961 And she stood up that and she there and she 0:09:25.321 --> 0:09:28.561 blew me away. I think it was probably one of 0:09:28.561 --> 0:09:30.881 the more moving things I've seen it along tear streaming 0:09:30.921 --> 0:09:33.001 in my checks. I was I was quite overcome by. 0:09:34.441 --> 0:09:34.521 This. 0:09:34.601 --> 0:09:47.121 Might be it crank it up of it there anyway, 0:09:47.281 --> 0:09:50.161 So she and it's one of my favorite songs as well, 0:09:50.321 --> 0:09:51.841 Edith PF, because I was thinking they're going to do 0:09:51.841 --> 0:09:53.561 a bit of ed PF and she came on singing. 0:09:53.321 --> 0:09:55.801 That and I thought it was just I gave it. 0:09:55.881 --> 0:09:58.481 I thought it was sublime. What about you, Pete. 0:09:59.041 --> 0:10:01.401 Look, maybe I don't have the quite like anytion you 0:10:01.401 --> 0:10:05.721 do with it, but no, Look, I think it's also 0:10:05.761 --> 0:10:07.841 the human story because she's been quite open about in 0:10:07.841 --> 0:10:09.921 the struggles that she's been through. I thought it was 0:10:09.921 --> 0:10:15.241 a phenomenal recovery or interlude in her illness or whatever. 0:10:15.361 --> 0:10:18.841 So to see her there exemplified something of the human spirit, 0:10:18.881 --> 0:10:19.681 and that's beautiful. 0:10:19.921 --> 0:10:22.601 Yeah, I think so and one of the I mean 0:10:22.641 --> 0:10:25.401 I did see some it was it was a fairly 0:10:25.401 --> 0:10:27.681 gender diverse sort of parade as well. I think Fox 0:10:27.761 --> 0:10:29.521 News pundits we're not very happy with it. 0:10:29.561 --> 0:10:31.761 But I was like, how, it's just so French, you 0:10:31.801 --> 0:10:32.201 do what. 0:10:33.761 --> 0:10:40.561 French a jot about what anybody filled the anglers. 0:10:41.281 --> 0:10:43.801 Well, actually there's a reason the French a bit arrogant. 0:10:44.121 --> 0:10:46.841 They have good reasons to be. Yeah, that's true. I 0:10:47.641 --> 0:10:51.481 love the French as well. I think they're They're hilarious, infuriating. 0:10:51.681 --> 0:10:54.841 And to point out that when the fire broke out 0:10:54.841 --> 0:10:58.401 in Notre Dame, right, that's mark On went, we're going 0:10:58.441 --> 0:11:00.561 to fix it, which they have and he said we're 0:11:00.561 --> 0:11:02.841 going to do it by the Olympics, which they didn't. 0:11:03.201 --> 0:11:04.921 But I'm taking nothing away from that because I've been 0:11:05.041 --> 0:11:06.281 watching the restoration. 0:11:07.001 --> 0:11:10.721 Phenomenal performance hangout. They even had performance hanging out the 0:11:10.761 --> 0:11:13.801 side of Notre Dump. They incorporated everything. It was just 0:11:15.041 --> 0:11:15.841 it was fantastic. 0:11:15.921 --> 0:11:18.961 And also there was the classic French thing with the 0:11:19.041 --> 0:11:21.201 rail service going down because of. 0:11:23.921 --> 0:11:26.121 Well it could be some French. 0:11:26.601 --> 0:11:29.641 Well they think the Russia, they think I saw something 0:11:29.721 --> 0:11:31.241 in the news about it being for some sort of 0:11:31.281 --> 0:11:31.801 far left. 0:11:32.481 --> 0:11:34.521 It could be could mean no one's no one's taken 0:11:34.521 --> 0:11:36.401 the blame. This is the classic thing. I think every 0:11:36.401 --> 0:11:38.721 time I've been to France the rail service has been 0:11:38.721 --> 0:11:41.921 disrupted or there's been a strike or something like that. 0:11:41.961 --> 0:11:45.881 There just it'll be some passionate group somewhere who's who. 0:11:45.961 --> 0:11:47.361 Sounds like they did very well. 0:11:47.401 --> 0:11:49.321 I wonder what it was like for the athletes, because 0:11:49.361 --> 0:11:51.321 I did see somebody saying it's a shame that the 0:11:51.361 --> 0:11:53.561 athletes didn't get to hear the chair of the crowd 0:11:53.601 --> 0:11:55.361 and walking into a stadium. It's like, well, if you 0:11:55.361 --> 0:11:57.441 want to gear the chair of the crowd when a medal, 0:11:57.881 --> 0:12:00.521 then when a medal, and it all will be all. 0:12:00.521 --> 0:12:01.281 But you know what I mean. 0:12:01.321 --> 0:12:05.481 I mean that's anyway. Look I give it, I give 0:12:05.481 --> 0:12:07.681 it ten out of ten. And look it's it's difficult 0:12:07.681 --> 0:12:12.241 to get everything right logistically phenomenally blew my mind. Then 0:12:12.241 --> 0:12:14.241 I heard of the budget was over a billion pounds 0:12:14.321 --> 0:12:15.321 or something zero. 0:12:17.681 --> 0:12:18.801 No, seriously would be, wouldn't. 0:12:18.841 --> 0:12:20.601 I mean even that horse that went up the scene, 0:12:20.681 --> 0:12:22.761 I thought that mechanical horse that was going, but the 0:12:22.761 --> 0:12:24.681 guy I was riding up the Seine, I thought even that. 0:12:24.761 --> 0:12:26.521 I wonder how much cost to build that. That would 0:12:26.561 --> 0:12:30.401 have been many many thousands of euros just for that 0:12:30.441 --> 0:12:34.081 little thing. And then ah no, anyway, there we gave Look, 0:12:34.081 --> 0:12:37.121 if you haven't seen it, people watch the first bit 0:12:37.201 --> 0:12:40.801 with the aerial view of Paris, check out Gaga and 0:12:40.841 --> 0:12:43.121 then crank Ford, you know, look at look for New 0:12:43.201 --> 0:12:45.841 Zealand arriving on their boat as well, and then crank 0:12:45.881 --> 0:12:49.521 Ford to the last ten minutes and boom. 0:12:49.761 --> 0:12:50.921 Was our boat on foils. 0:12:52.641 --> 0:12:53.961 That would have been something. 0:12:54.641 --> 0:12:57.601 Taking everybody else on the cyclists. 0:12:58.521 --> 0:13:00.041 I think that might have I think that might have 0:13:00.081 --> 0:13:03.481 actually caused some problems logistically if we'd jumped the queue. 0:13:03.481 --> 0:13:04.881 But anyway, hey, look to tell you what. 0:13:04.881 --> 0:13:07.161 We're going to come back and discuss lots of other 0:13:07.201 --> 0:13:09.081 things as well, but we're gonna take a break now. 0:13:09.121 --> 0:13:12.161 And it's twenty one past three. This is news Talk 0:13:12.281 --> 0:13:12.601 z B. 0:13:15.761 --> 0:13:33.881 You know I'm falling apart in final gaggle. 0:13:35.201 --> 0:13:38.001 Yes, welcome back to the weekend collective huntin Beverage. 0:13:38.081 --> 0:13:42.401 My esteemed guests are Pete wolf Camp and Mark Kreisel. 0:13:42.641 --> 0:13:45.081 That's better than the sort of backhanded sort of insults 0:13:45.081 --> 0:13:46.281 I gave you at the start, wasn't that, guys? 0:13:46.361 --> 0:13:48.721 Sorry? About that, you know anyway? 0:13:50.881 --> 0:13:53.801 Anyway, Hey, look, just one last thing on the Olympics. 0:13:54.801 --> 0:13:56.601 I still can't quite get get my head around the 0:13:56.601 --> 0:14:00.561 Canadians women's football team. So the coach has been sent 0:14:00.641 --> 0:14:02.721 home because it turns out that that drone that they 0:14:02.761 --> 0:14:07.281 flew over a football fans training session was not their 0:14:07.281 --> 0:14:09.481 first rodeo rodeo rodeo. 0:14:10.281 --> 0:14:14.721 The Canadians, of all people, Yeah there meant to be nice, 0:14:14.761 --> 0:14:17.521 like if it was like, I don't know, the Americans 0:14:17.681 --> 0:14:20.961 or someone who's ruthlessly wants to win all the time, 0:14:20.961 --> 0:14:24.321 but the Canadians, they have state healthcare and everything. 0:14:24.401 --> 0:14:24.641 I mean. 0:14:25.641 --> 0:14:28.801 And look, I'm dumb enough about soccer to wonder what 0:14:28.881 --> 0:14:32.841 they could possibly learn from watching a soccer football from 0:14:32.921 --> 0:14:34.961 wondering what they could have possibly learned, unless they would 0:14:34.961 --> 0:14:37.121 just wanted to know what sort of formation the women 0:14:37.161 --> 0:14:37.681 were running. 0:14:37.761 --> 0:14:38.161 And to be. 0:14:38.121 --> 0:14:40.921 Honest, the White fans aren't a great threat. 0:14:41.641 --> 0:14:44.241 Well too one close. They got the first goal. 0:14:45.081 --> 0:14:48.641 I live in hope and our defense look pretty good 0:14:48.641 --> 0:14:49.281 for quite a while. 0:14:50.681 --> 0:14:52.601 Anyway, Pete, I. 0:14:52.641 --> 0:14:56.801 Must be sending home the coach scene. I guess from 0:14:56.841 --> 0:14:59.401 an Olympic point of view, you want to nip anything 0:14:59.441 --> 0:15:01.401 like this in the bud, right, So it sends a 0:15:01.401 --> 0:15:04.001 clear signal to anyone else who might be thinking about 0:15:04.081 --> 0:15:07.721 using some sort of underhand tests across the sports. 0:15:08.121 --> 0:15:11.641 They should have they should have docked their points, that 0:15:11.841 --> 0:15:14.121 they should have forfeited that match and we should have 0:15:14.121 --> 0:15:15.801 got it, and that that would have learned them. 0:15:16.121 --> 0:15:18.001 The hard thing with that, though, is it hits on 0:15:18.081 --> 0:15:19.881 the players, right, and the players had nothing. 0:15:19.641 --> 0:15:20.881 To do with it. 0:15:20.881 --> 0:15:21.921 It would have been management. 0:15:21.961 --> 0:15:23.321 But everyone, it's all in. 0:15:23.441 --> 0:15:26.161 It's a team, your coaches, your physios, everyone, and if 0:15:26.161 --> 0:15:28.081 somebody's going to block the copy bok that battery. 0:15:28.161 --> 0:15:30.161 I mean, you know, they hit the Russians over the 0:15:30.241 --> 0:15:32.761 drug thing. You know, they weren't allowed to compete for years. 0:15:32.761 --> 0:15:33.841 And that wasn't every. 0:15:33.721 --> 0:15:37.801 Russian athlete, just most of them, you know, so you 0:15:37.841 --> 0:15:40.601 know I think, yeah, I would adopt them points. I thought, 0:15:40.721 --> 0:15:44.121 you know if yeah, yeah. Oh by the way, just 0:15:44.161 --> 0:15:45.601 on the team thing. The other thing I forgot to 0:15:45.641 --> 0:15:48.441 mention was that there's a refuge Olympic team and they 0:15:48.481 --> 0:15:51.441 gave an award to the guy who has championed that cause, 0:15:51.681 --> 0:15:53.761 and I thought that was actually really beautiful. That was 0:15:53.881 --> 0:15:55.641 something towards the end as well that I thought that 0:15:55.761 --> 0:15:58.961 was a magnificent It is a magnificent idea. And the 0:15:59.401 --> 0:16:01.241 guy that gave the award to I can't remember, but 0:16:01.321 --> 0:16:03.921 he was the one who championed it. So are they stateless? 0:16:04.001 --> 0:16:07.961 They have no state for people basically in refugee. It's 0:16:08.241 --> 0:16:11.361 a refugee Olympic team. That's extraordinary, isn't that? 0:16:11.361 --> 0:16:12.041 That's fantastic? 0:16:12.521 --> 0:16:16.641 God, I'll get emotion at that moment. Does matter? Let's 0:16:16.641 --> 0:16:18.121 get into the other big. 0:16:17.921 --> 0:16:21.561 Story, which well, I mean, gosh, it's two weeks since, 0:16:21.761 --> 0:16:24.041 just under two weeks since someone took a shot at 0:16:24.121 --> 0:16:28.681 Donald Trump, and here we are now Joe Biden has 0:16:29.641 --> 0:16:31.161 is not going to be standing. 0:16:31.281 --> 0:16:32.761 It looks like it's pretty. 0:16:32.521 --> 0:16:35.961 Much in the bag for Kamala Harris before they announced her, 0:16:36.921 --> 0:16:39.041 I wouldn't have given the Democrats much of a. 0:16:38.961 --> 0:16:42.321 Shot full stop. But a week is a long time 0:16:42.321 --> 0:16:43.401 in politics, isn't it. Mark. 0:16:43.721 --> 0:16:47.201 Look, I think I know everybody said when when they 0:16:47.241 --> 0:16:49.801 made the attempt on Donald Trump's life, that that said 0:16:49.801 --> 0:16:52.881 he's won the you know aniz I mean like the 0:16:52.921 --> 0:16:54.681 guy or hate the guy. I mean, that was an 0:16:54.721 --> 0:16:57.761 extraordinary reaction to stand up and go fight, fight, fight, 0:16:58.241 --> 0:17:02.081 But things happened, so quickly now and things turn around. 0:17:02.121 --> 0:17:03.761 It feels like a long time ago, and it was 0:17:03.761 --> 0:17:06.521 probably a little over a week. And the thing is 0:17:06.561 --> 0:17:09.321 with America, I think America is desperate to believe. They 0:17:09.361 --> 0:17:11.881 love the idea of believing it's something new, and they 0:17:11.881 --> 0:17:14.961 can turn on a dime, you know, literally, And I 0:17:15.001 --> 0:17:17.921 think this has given some real momentum. It's somebody younger, 0:17:18.281 --> 0:17:20.921 it's fresher if they don't, you know, someone who wants 0:17:20.961 --> 0:17:23.761 to look forward rather than back. I think it's given 0:17:23.801 --> 0:17:25.641 them a real chance. And I had to look at 0:17:25.641 --> 0:17:27.801 the latest poll in the New York Times. Their neck 0:17:27.801 --> 0:17:30.961 and neck now, whereas before Trump was just pulling away. 0:17:31.401 --> 0:17:32.841 We'll see how that plays out. 0:17:32.881 --> 0:17:34.961 There will be a lot of nasty stuff happening in 0:17:35.001 --> 0:17:37.721 this election. I think they'll play on the fact that 0:17:37.721 --> 0:17:39.441 she's a woman. They'll play on the fact that she's 0:17:39.521 --> 0:17:42.721 an African American woman, she's an Asian American woman, and 0:17:42.761 --> 0:17:45.921 there'll be a lot of nasty stuff I think comes out. 0:17:46.121 --> 0:17:48.841 But I think there's going to be a real momentum 0:17:48.921 --> 0:17:50.481 behind her, and there's going to be a lot of 0:17:50.521 --> 0:17:53.121 young people and a lot of people who will vote 0:17:53.161 --> 0:17:55.681 this time because well, a lot of people just wouldn't 0:17:55.681 --> 0:17:57.641 have gone out for a number of new voter registrations. 0:17:57.681 --> 0:17:59.681 I think went through went through the roof people. Do 0:17:59.721 --> 0:18:00.441