1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: With the John Yan Ben Podcast. Cheers to Dilma making 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: the world a bitter teeth. 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,880 Speaker 2: You lost us the mat we we we week. 4 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 3: I'm so going to you. Can I say what a 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 3: wonderful job you've done over the last couple of weeks, 6 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 3: as have all the the reporters over there for Skysport 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 3: Crawd goes wild. But what I love last night on 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,000 Speaker 3: Crago's World A parody song that James Macona you sug 9 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 3: A parody song on the Olympics. I was trying to 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 3: find it before, but you're going to have to sing 11 00:00:31,640 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 3: the chorus acapella right now, James. 12 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 4: All right, the old Paris Paris, who's headluck in Paris. 13 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 3: And you got you got athletes as well to your 14 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 3: New Zealand athletes who had a head luck in Paris 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 3: who won gold medals to mal the long as well. 16 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 3: I mean that's you know, that's that's high concept. 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,279 Speaker 4: You're never sure if they're going to go Actually, I 18 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,319 Speaker 4: don't want to be part of this. Usually they won 19 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 4: a medal, so they're on this high and they don't 20 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 4: know what they're agreeing to. 21 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 2: That's them in a week moment, Paris Parish in Paris 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 2: it's great, love it, love it. I felt like we've 23 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: got a let the last to performance just then though from. 24 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 5: You, James, Okay, yeah you did, you did. 25 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 3: It's been along a couple of weeks the Olympics. I'm 26 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 3: actually I'm really genuinely going to miss it. I've loved 27 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 3: watching it and it's been our greatest ever Olympics ever 28 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 3: for New Zealand. So many highlights you've been there to 29 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 3: witness them. I mean, it's probably hard to pick one, 30 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 3: but pick one one or two of your favorite highlights. 31 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 4: Look, I actually think for me that one of the 32 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 4: big highlights was seeing the skateboard park the men's final 33 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 4: and got to interview Tony Hawk. 34 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 5: Yeah, Tony Hawk, you go, so we're back, John. 35 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: What did you ask Tony Hawk? 36 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 4: Just the usual shots? Like I sort of just did 37 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 4: that thing. He was really supposed to be walking past. 38 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 4: He was with his wife, and I sort of dragged 39 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 4: and pulled him away and pulled him off in front 40 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 4: of his wife and said, look, what do you think 41 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 4: of the final? And how about what you know skateboarding 42 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,160 Speaker 4: being in the Olympics and all that sort of stuff, 43 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 4: and then gave him there, you're still the goat, Tony, 44 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 4: I love you. 45 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,119 Speaker 3: It must be hard not to sort of fanboy out 46 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 3: in front of some of these people. I know in 47 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:20,119 Speaker 3: the past you've had Kobe Bryant and the previous Olympooks 48 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 3: and you asked him why there weren't many cats around 49 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:23,239 Speaker 3: or something. 50 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:25,079 Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I just thought that they weren't. 51 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: I hadn't seen many, you know, things sometimes were. 52 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 5: There was probably a waste of a question. 53 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant, legendary basketball had he noticed the lack of cats? 54 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 5: Yeah? He was like, I'm not quite sure, man. Yeah. 55 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 5: Same like, yeah, it's a real mystery, Kobe. 56 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 4: And now he's gone on and be able to find it, 57 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 4: you know, like give him the second chance of asking 58 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 4: him any more questions. 59 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 5: But I actually I interviewed. 60 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:58,360 Speaker 4: My biggest interview of the Olympics, honestly is interviewing Raygan, 61 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 4: the Australia breakdowncer who she broke the internet as well. 62 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 4: She has gone viral after her arriving kind of Kath 63 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 4: and Kim like performance in the women's breakdancing. 64 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel sorry for her, you know, because everyone's 65 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 3: sort of pile as the internet does a piled on. 66 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 3: But she looked like she was having fun out there 67 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 3: and she spoke really well, I thought in her interview with. 68 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 4: You, Yeah, I mean she feels like she has a 69 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 4: place here, and she was legit. I actually thought it 70 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,520 Speaker 4: might have been a plant, like someone who decided to 71 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 4: just come in and take the piss. I mean, you 72 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 4: realize when you're laughing at someone's routine, that's probably not 73 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,320 Speaker 4: what you're you know, like supposed to be the reaction 74 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 4: you're supposed to be getting. And she was in a 75 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 4: full assy trick suit. She looked like a lawn bowler 76 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 4: and she was kind of but I know what you're saying. 77 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 5: I don't like the pylon either. 78 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: It was it was always going to happen when you 79 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:50,920 Speaker 1: saw what she was doing. 80 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 5: There were a couple of kangaroo moves. 81 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: She looked to be like mopping the floor with her head. 82 00:03:56,120 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just stuff where she. 83 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 1: Almost got stuck on the ground for a bit as well. 84 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: I was thinking the same thing. I was like, it's 85 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: like this like a genius boor at moment where someone 86 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: has gone through the qualifying stages to get to them 87 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 2: and they're going to reveal their prank video. 88 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 3: She won the Oceania Championship so she was she deserved 89 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 3: the place there as well. Yeah, as I said, I 90 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 3: don't know if she deserved the pylon, but anyway. 91 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, the pylon's not and she qualified, right, Like what 92 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 4: was New Zealand doing? 93 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:22,359 Speaker 5: Why didn't we send Razor? 94 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 1: I mean. 95 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 3: We right, Yeah, so New Zealand's best Olympics overall, that 96 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 3: felt like we started slow, James, and then in the 97 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 3: end we really brought home a lot of metals. 98 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, we came home strong, and like I think that 99 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 4: this week just looking at obviously to go in the boat, 100 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 4: Dame Lisa Karrington, that's huge, lids to the co just 101 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 4: dropping the mic and saying it's my last Olympics. 102 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: I've won gold. 103 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 5: You can have this. I mean, golf shouldn't really. 104 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 4: Be at the Olympics, right, they already got you know, 105 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 4: four majors year five in women's golf. 106 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 5: So but the fact that now is not the time. 107 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 2: Now is not the time to be saying that, James, 108 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 2: we just want gold. 109 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 5: Keep it there. No, she's finishing now, so we can 110 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 5: we can cancel golf. 111 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 2: You can have golf back. 112 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, you can have it back now. We don't need it. 113 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 5: So there was loads and then I mean Hamish. 114 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 4: Kurr free Kish to win that high jump gold medal 115 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 4: we've never seen. 116 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 1: I mean, athletics gold is really hard to come by. 117 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 4: Unless you're Jamaican or something, But for New Zealand it's 118 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 4: just you just don't often see it. I mean we've 119 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 4: we've had horses that have jumped really high at the 120 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 4: Olympics and one goal, but never humans. 121 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 2: And how do you rank your Olympics? Was this James 122 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 2: mccaroney's best Olympics ever? 123 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,040 Speaker 5: I know it remains to be seen. 124 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 4: I think that like there's one of those Olympics where 125 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 4: you just you look back at the others and I 126 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 4: think when I was purely with crowd goes wild, we 127 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 4: just basically went wherever we want wanted to and went, 128 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 4: oh mahes rowing today, let's go see what Marhe's doing. 129 00:05:57,760 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 5: Whereas this year I was more. 130 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 4: Part of the Sky broadcast and doing a lot of 131 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 4: sort of live crosses. 132 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 5: And having to be pretty sensible. So maybe is it 133 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 5: my most sensible look? 134 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 3: I like that it was. 135 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:14,520 Speaker 2: Weighed down by the shackles of proper presenting. 136 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you've got to do something, You've got to 137 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 4: do the proper thing, do what you got to do 138 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 4: to get the trip. 139 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 5: John O, well, well down. 140 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 3: Do you got the trip? Okay? Away from the Olympics. 141 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 3: James mcconi's highlight was it a meal? Was it at 142 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 3: seeing something out? What did you say? 143 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 4: Okay this I shouldn't even share this. But my mate, 144 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 4: who's done reasonably well, he said to me, do. 145 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:33,679 Speaker 5: You want to come out for dinner? 146 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: And I said, oh, yeah, cool it. 147 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 4: He goes, it's a Michelin star restaurant and the meal 148 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 4: of set menu is six hundred and eighty euros per person. 149 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 5: So is that twelve hundred euros? 150 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 4: And I said, no, I'm going to mate, I'll just 151 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 4: go down to the canal and have a pizza like 152 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 4: I normally do. 153 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:52,840 Speaker 1: So he goes, no, ill my shout. So I went 154 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: to this degastation. 155 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 4: Dinner and this fancy, fancy restaurant eating weird stuff like 156 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 4: obviously there's the heavy sort of thing needle, just. 157 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 2: Bizarre needle like sting stinging plant. 158 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so, but I mean I don't know. 159 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 4: There was just all sorts of stuff going on. 160 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 2: It feels like the more the more you pay, the 161 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 2: more strange the food combos is. 162 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, so we're just eating all these weird plants 163 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 4: that you're pretty much weeds and stuff, and then but 164 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 4: you have to say you like it. It was a 165 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 4: two thousand euro meal for just of weeds, and. 166 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 2: Maybe the roundup wasn't selling the weeds. 167 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 3: So good to catch up. Well done to you and 168 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 3: the rest of the team. A mazing coverage over the 169 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, so it's gonna be a little 170 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 3: bit come down for all of us after such a 171 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,120 Speaker 3: great event, and we'll catch up with the. 172 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 5: Third I'd love that. 173 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,960 Speaker 4: Thank you for having me on your show for the 174 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 4: first time in probably seven years.