1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,640 Speaker 1: Bushy tail back from holiday, Richard on and welcome back, 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: thanks way, goodwill right. 3 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: Bring us up to speed on the race. 4 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: Where are we at? Well? 5 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,720 Speaker 2: I think it's what you've just been mentioning is the 6 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: place to start. These polls showing that Kamala Harris is 7 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 2: leading Donald Trump in some of the key battleground areas. 8 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 2: He's eded Trump by what that four percent you mentioned 9 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 2: in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, around Michigan, all key states obviously to me, 10 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 2: though this is still an early point, it shows the 11 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 2: race being pretty much neck and neck as it has 12 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: been all along. We are yet to see the Democratic 13 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 2: team roll out a lot of their policy ideas. They 14 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: say they will present their ongoing economic program soon, but 15 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 2: Harris is yet to be fully tested. Away from the 16 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: teleprompters the Democratic Invention coming up next week, the competing 17 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 2: camp still is sorting out debate details. However, The Time 18 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,360 Speaker 2: says the last three weeks have been the worst for 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,720 Speaker 2: Trump in his entire twenty twenty four campaign, as he 20 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 2: struggled sort of in trying to find out how to 21 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 2: take on Harris doesn't seem to know how to put it. 22 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, You're fired, Get out of here. Yeah, nothing 23 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: new there. 24 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 2: The Rupert Murdo Wall Street Journal put out an editorial 25 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 2: over the weekend headline will Donald Trump blow another elections? 26 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 2: So they are showing some nervousness, aren't they. The Kamala 27 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,320 Speaker 2: Harris and Tim Waltz Rallies have been growing their Las 28 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 2: Vegas rally this weekend reached capacity for the site, with 29 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:22,040 Speaker 2: some four thousand folks kept out side because of crowd size. 30 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: Concerned. 31 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 2: You know, if there's one thing that the Donald so 32 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 2: often focuses on, it is crowd sizes. And the Times 33 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 2: Maggie Haveman reports that Trump is in a bad mood 34 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 2: and called Harris the b wood and a quote mad woman. 35 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: So not as sappy as he was before Joe Biden 36 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: Withdrew is he? 37 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 2: No, indeed not. 38 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,399 Speaker 1: And so we're standing by for the closing ceremony. Of 39 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: course LA's next excited. 40 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: Ah, very much focused on it. You know, all this 41 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 2: is getting underway. A midword that Tom Cruise might have 42 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: some featured role in the closing events. And I'm just 43 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 2: Barrett back from Paris myself, where I went along to 44 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 2: some of the Olympic events, including the opening ceremony, which 45 00:01:59,360 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: was got to say, stupendous along the scene, even though 46 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 2: everyone got drowned in the rain. This closure, we'll see 47 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,480 Speaker 2: the Olympic torch passed on to la As, the site 48 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: of the twenty eight Games, and the city's mayor, Karen Bass, 49 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 2: has been assessing things in the City of Light, and 50 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: she says. 51 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 3: It's been a wonderful experience being here. First of all, 52 00:02:17,919 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: Paris is beautiful and the way that they have incorporated 53 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: the entire city into the Games has been great. 54 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to say, Paris really took on this event. 55 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 2: At every street corner and Paris Metro stopped. There were 56 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 2: volunteers all over the place, French folks who all seemed 57 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: to speak English, some of them admitting that they learned 58 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:35,760 Speaker 2: from watching Netflix. 59 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:36,839 Speaker 1: So take that as you will. 60 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: But this was very different from the first time I 61 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 2: was in Paris, when you would speak in schoolboy French 62 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 2: and people would playing English and a certain degree of snottiness. 63 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: It was not like that this go round. The scale 64 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 2: of this was huge because of the way they involved 65 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: so much of Paris, with the events at so many landmarks, 66 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 2: including the distance swimming in the sund of course, in 67 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: the Olympic flame in the Tuileries Gardens next to the loof. 68 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 2: Actually it was not aim it was clouds of mist 69 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: lit by led rays in the sphere that would fly 70 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: over the city at night. 71 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:06,919 Speaker 1: So they did a lot of amazing things. 72 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 2: But Paris, unlike Los Angeles, is in the compact city 73 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 2: center with an incredibly effective underground. Those metro trains run 74 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 2: every few minutes, and seventy five thousand security forces, seventy 75 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 2: five thousand men and women helped to get everyone around. 76 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 2: El A Mayor Karen Bass says. 77 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 3: It is our goal in Los Angeles to have a 78 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 3: car free games and you know what that means because 79 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 3: we're a very car dependent city. But it means that 80 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 3: if you were going to attend any of the sports venue, 81 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 3: you were going to have to take public transportation. We've 82 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 3: been building out our system, but we're also going to 83 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 3: need a lot of buses, thousands of buses from neighboring 84 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 3: cities and states to help us deliver that. 85 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: Car free Los Angeles. That's a pretty dang wild idea. 86 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: I reckon I covered the last LA Olympics and people 87 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 2: were so scared of the freeway gridlock at the time, 88 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 2: many stayed away from work and that was before they 89 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:58,360 Speaker 2: even invented zoom. However, these are big, big events, and 90 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 2: I went to some of the swimming in Paris where 91 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 2: they built a swimming pool as we saw in the 92 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 2: middle of a massive football arena, thousands of thousands of 93 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: people having to move in and out of the place. 94 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: The crowds were enormous. Dawning as well. 95 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: Got to say, were the ticket prices in La last 96 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 2: time they had lotteries for locals. 97 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: This time in Paris. 98 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 2: If you say wanted to attend the equestrian events at 99 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,080 Speaker 2: the Palace of Versailles, those tickets started at around two 100 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: thousand bucks in New Zealand per seat. You know, I 101 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 2: think you want some degree of democracy, don't you? Hope 102 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 2: they find ways to include many people, not only the 103 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 2: super rich. It was also a sign of the times, 104 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 2: obviously when you look at the participants to acknowledge there 105 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 2: were no Russian athletes, with the Russians spending all their 106 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 2: time battling Ukraine. There were refugee athletes who participated without 107 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: any national flag. One of the most thrilling things about 108 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 2: the Olympics to me is something that separates from all 109 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 2: other sports. You have people from what one hundred and 110 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 2: twenty plus countries doing things like sprinting and jumping and 111 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 2: diving and synchronized whatever. They'll get maybe one shot at 112 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 2: this in their lifetime at the very top level, and 113 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,960 Speaker 2: the excitement factor because of all that just rises to 114 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,159 Speaker 2: the max. Exactly good to have you back. Make appreciate 115 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: it very much. LA of course, last time when they 116 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: actually ran a surplus of two hundred and fifteen million dollars, 117 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: it was a while ago. For more from the Mic 118 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 2: Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks it'd be from 119 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 2: six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.