Speaker 1: You're just joining us.
Speaker 2: We've been having a bit of a laugh. We probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't be laughing. But about some of the Olympic opening
Speaker 2: ceremony uniforms, The Matilda's Girl sort of did a TikTok
Speaker 2: reel that's gone viral because they're pretty ugly.
Speaker 3: When I first saw it, I thought that that's what
Speaker 3: they were actually going to have to play soccer in.
Speaker 3: And I was like, it's below the knee. I don't
Speaker 3: understand if you missed it though. It's kind of like
Speaker 3: a it looks like a speedo swimmer up top and
Speaker 3: a really long netball skirt down bottom.
Speaker 4: Net bully.
Speaker 2: It looks just awkward length. I was like, they're definitely
Speaker 2: going to get caught up and take a tumble. But
Speaker 2: big news happening. Celine Dionn was just announced to be
Speaker 2: the singer at the opening ceremony. That is absolutely huge
Speaker 2: because she hasn't really performed in a long time.
Speaker 3: She's been really unwell. She's amazing, like she is amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised that they asked her, but I think
Speaker 3: the thing that was the most surprising was how much
Speaker 3: money they are paying her to perform at the opening ceremony.
Speaker 3: You know what, it's not amazing how much they're painter,
Speaker 3: it's amazing how much they're paying her in comparison and
Speaker 3: to how much they pay the Olympians if they.
Speaker 4: Win a medal. So Selendon, she's a goddess.
Speaker 2: But she's been paid reportedly allegedly two million dollars. But
Speaker 2: get this, an Australian athlete, if they win a gold medal,
Speaker 2: is only paid twenty thousand dollars only.
Speaker 1: That's nothing else, gorkap.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
Speaker 2: When you have trained for four years and you dedicate
Speaker 2: your life full time job. We expect you as a country,
Speaker 2: like we're so patriotic, we expect you to go out
Speaker 2: there and bring it back for us.
Speaker 4: If you work out how.
Speaker 2: Much that is over four years, twenty thousand dollars, you
Speaker 2: do the math.
Speaker 4: I can't do it. I don't have a calculator on
Speaker 4: mir right now. Okay, But twenty.
Speaker 3: Twenty thousand dollars is Australia's payment if you win a
Speaker 3: gold medal. But every country has a different payment. This
Speaker 3: is something I didn't realize. So there's like different incentives
Speaker 3: across the world.
Speaker 2: US athletes thirty seven five hundred, so almost sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Singapore incredibly, probably because they don't have that many people
Speaker 2: win a medal. They pay one point one million dollars
Speaker 2: to whoever wins a gold medal.
Speaker 3: I mean easy to say that, but if you're not
Speaker 3: going to win any gold medals, it doesn't matter. They
Speaker 3: could say you'll win too million dollars, but if there's
Speaker 3: no one winning, then you don't have to pay it.
Speaker 2: I found this really hard to believe, but we had
Speaker 2: our entire team here do their due diligence.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one person.
Speaker 2: The United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway don't pay anything to
Speaker 2: their winning athletes.
Speaker 3: But you know how they make all their money. It's
Speaker 3: no it's how most most athletes make their money in
Speaker 3: Australia as well. They make it through endorsements. They make
Speaker 3: it through brand deals and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, Puma and Nike and added Ass. All those
Speaker 3: sorts of things are how most of the athletes are
Speaker 3: making their big dollars.
Speaker 2: I have a friend that's there now, Darius Seville. She
Speaker 2: is an Australian tennis player. She's one of the women's
Speaker 2: top one hundreds. And if you want to go and
Speaker 2: get like an inside look on what's happening in the village.
Speaker 2: She's outing a lot of things that people probably don't
Speaker 2: know about on her Instagram. So she's putting things like,
Speaker 2: I mean, we all know they sleep on their cardboard beds, right, I.
Speaker 4: Don't know if people know. They only found this out
Speaker 4: this morning.
Speaker 3: The nounk like the nook beds, which are like, if
Speaker 3: you haven't heard this, it's like a cardboard slattered bed
Speaker 3: that can only take the weight of one person. And
Speaker 3: there was a big rumor going around that the reason
Speaker 3: why they had these cardboard beds is to deter the
Speaker 3: athletes from from getting a freaking no.
Speaker 4: Because they provide them all with condoms. That's false.
Speaker 2: They these cardboard These cardboard beds are so strong that
Speaker 2: there's so many athletes showing them jumping on it, literally
Speaker 2: jumping on it doing One of the divers was doing
Speaker 2: like flips on it.
Speaker 1: I think I was trying to get a bunk bed
Speaker 1: in the studio. See if we can break it.
Speaker 4: For who, Mitch, for who is going to go on
Speaker 4: the bunk bed?
Speaker 1: Pick up?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, everyone stated that the person I dated not
Speaker 2: long ago had a cardboard bed.
Speaker 4: There apparently very like environmentally friendly. That's why people do it.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's the the rumor that's going around
Speaker 3: the Olympics saying that it's for, you know, deterring people
Speaker 3: from bonking.
Speaker 4: I actually think it's so that there's less waste. They
Speaker 4: can put that statement out. Laura, Sorry, I thought I
Speaker 4: was with my tinfoil half article I did, and I
Speaker 4: only read the headline. I thought I cracked it.
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