Do Go On - 9 - Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony

Episode Date: December 23, 2015

We all remember where we were on the 15th of September, 2000. Right? Obviously we were all watching the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics! Relive the magic of Nikki Webster, Bootmen and horse whisperers. Even if you didn't watch it, you'll still enjoy Jess, Matt and Dave reliving it all.Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Well, let's welcome Jess Perkins into the show. Hello Jess. Hello boys. That's not from the top. That's kind of from just below the top. But that's okay. Hey Jess. Hi mate.

How are we? We, well I can't speak for Matt. Obviously he's, I've already tried to speak for everyone and tell him that this show's interesting. And he's already told you off for that, so don't speak for him now. But I am bloody good, Matt, yourself. Now I'm bloody good too, you could have spoken for us all then.

Yeah, I'm pretty bloody good as well. Oh, I've got a team. I can't. We've got, we've got, we've got, we've got, we're just, are we gonna jump straight into it? Or just jump straight into it at the time, let's just do it. No bloody chitchat, no time for that. Hey, how have you been Jess? Oh, really well. are we gonna jump straight into it? Oh, it's just jump straight into it at the time. Let's just do it. No bloody chitchat, no time for that.

Hey, how have you been, Jess? Oh, really well. No chitchat, here's a chitchat question. Just before you get into that, about talking about no chitchat, what have you been up to lately? How's the family? The family are all very well,

and and John Perkins are doing well. Anyway, so we know chitchat this way. No chitchat, straight into the show. What happens is we each take it in turns to research a topic and then report back to the other guys about said topic. This week it is Jess Yortan to regale us with a tail. Oh, I did know you're going to regale. That's cool.

I'm a little bit mad. He had red cordial, something like this one that you really have to. I did have, I had a regalia, that's cool. I'm a little bit... Matt, he had red cordy or something because it's one of you. You really have a red too. I did have a flat white. Oh my sixth flat white. You're real, not today. No, not today ever, yeah. Do you remember a few weeks ago we went out for lunch after that?

It's like a first ever flat white. It's the first one a few weeks ago. It was like two weeks ago, we even had six flat whites. Yeah. I'm a ward. From one to six. I'm really happy for you. I've still never had a flat white. Anyway, no chitchat this week. Straight into it. I was going to say I'm a little bit nervous about

this one because you're like, you're like, get on board or it's going to be a long, long podcast. So this one is genuine. I'm kind of the rule of podcasts. I think it's still interesting, but it might be like more interesting to me for nostalgia reasons. And you'll understand why. And also... Shiptasheur. I've learned my lesson from the Beatles episode where I went too broad, and now I've made it very specific.

Like, I've timed it to one single day. One single evening. It's the credits to Shiptasheur. I can guess this one, because it's nostalgic, and it's very personal to you and it's one day. Was it your 13th birthday party? Yes! It is! We went to smorgies, it was great.

No, we're not doing my 13th birthday. I will start with a question. Okay. Ready to answer? I've got two questions. I'm a conventional but will allow. No, no, no, I'll go with the more obvious one and then if we need to I'll I'll narrow with the more obvious one and then if we need to I'll I'll

I'll narrow it down biggest what do you think is the biggest sporting event in Australian history? In history or like annually? The 1991 NFL Grand Final where Angry Anderson played a band for glory in the back of the Batonerville. That is exactly. No, that's not true But it's a night time. You said it was a night time thing. It's a night time thing. Kathy Freeman running in the Cineolympics. You're super close Just the Sydney Olympics again very close one night the opening ceremony And unforgettable night in my chapter as well because I had gastro and I watched the whole

event vomiting into a bucket every five minutes. Because I got chicken pox for the Olympics and my dad took my brother up to Sydney to watch to go to the Olympics and mum and I had to stay home because I had chicken pox. I missed the Olympics. You were going to go to the game. We were going to go. He took my brother and my brother's friend and they were in the Brazilian chia squad for some volleyball and they were at all these events and I missed it all.

Isn't that brutal? This is a moment of my childhood. I think I was at a party that night or something. Teen Backyard Party. So not a party for that event? No, I didn't see it. But I do remember hearing about it. Have you seen any clips of it since?

Yeah, I think I've seen Nikki Webster on a rope or something. Yeah. And I like Nikki Webster had a hit song called Strawberry Kisses. She did. Which is also my name for my nipples. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Well, we've just found your, your coffee order. What are you doing? Is that a genuine... He's lifting up his shirt for those at home. He's showing us his nipples.

Well, I can confirm. Not one but two strawberry kisses. I'm just asking, he said that. Strawberry ear adiante. We will be tweeting a photo of these nipples after the show. Hopefully Matt is unbought for that. Storbrich, you're an idiot. We will be tweeting a photo of these nipples after the show. Hopefully Matt is unborn for them. Oh, I didn't know that. You can see the store rickices for yourself.

Maybe we should tweet a picture of them to Nikki Webster. Check out the store rickices. She's probably right back. She's probably one, she's quite sad. She's not. Oh, hi, she. No, but... Is she on dancing with the Stars or something?

Is that Tessero and Terrio and Bindio? Bindio and is on Dancing with the America? I get those two cute views. Oh really? Wow. And Nicky was years and years ago. Right, okay. Like a long time ago.

I've merged them into one person. Yeah, then look at that. One super big. Yeah. They're enough. So we all remember then where we were. Where we were the night. On the 15th of September, 2000s.

Is that the date? Wow, the 15th. So. And Kathy Freeman, she, oh, you're going to go into this, but she, I think she had a role in lighting the flame or carrying the flame, something. She did. Because that's the, that's so funny. They're like big sick.

Oh, who's going to be the one who lights the big cold and oh who's it gonna be and people like actually they talk about it like people care I don't think anyone does but the commentators will be like talking up like it was a secret yeah it was a secret that like is it gonna be pat rafter is it gonna be Shane Crawford it could be anyone is it gonna be Shane Crawford? It could be anyone. Is it gonna be Ivan Gulligan? Crawly. Crawly. It could be, Crawly, but it could be Dawn Fraser. It could be anyone.

Oh my god. I know. It could be Patrick McCubbin, risen from the death of the Australian bush. Surely it's not gonna be Frederick McCubbin. Surely it's not gonna be, Thomas Tripp did Shepayna. Surely it's not gonna be a current athlete,

like Cassie Freeman or Andrew Gays Andrew Gays account. Yeah, he will say yeah, he carried the flag. Well there you go Big moment for 10-year-old me who you're basketball player basketball player big Andrew Gays fan So he's a top guy great, Blake. He seems like a good dude Top block, but he used to do the 40 tips on the channel 10 news. Always very hilarious. He'd fold it up on drawing a basketball over his head or something so good.

Very good. Really like, I know what I'm talking about. Then he's just shot a hoop. Yeah. I was watching clips from the Olympics as a research. And I got like, I'm doing Andrew Gays one because I love Andrew Gays. And they were interviewing him before they went into the stadium

and like they knew he was gonna be carrying the flag and I'm like, oh, have you prepared? He's like, mate, they haven't told me anything. They just gave me this land. They told me to put it around my Gregory Peck and I was like, Gregory Peck. How good is rhyming slang? So good.

I was talking about rhyming slang the other day. I was hanging out with my uncle and he's a rhyming saying fiend. But every now and then, after a few drinks, he'll forget how it works. Like the other day he's like, he's at a bunch of, he wanted to ask me to pass him a bottle of water and he said, and he wanted to say, past me a Tucker's daughter, which was an enmus classic song, good rhyming saying, he said, Hey, Matt, can you past me a Tucker's water?

Doesn't work. Doesn't work. You've literally said the word, the actual word you wanna say. Yeah, so that's no good. What a Tucker's daughter. Yeah, it sounds offensive. It does. Yeah, if you were not sure which bit was the rhyming bit. Yeah, your bloody tuckers daughter. You're like, what? Oh boy.

Oh, other good ones he uses are feel like having a Chris Mu, which is an obscure A fell player, I think. Is that for spew? For spew. Yep. Then there's the classics. everyone knows like, uh, get the frog and toad. The frog and toad. He says, hit the frog and road. Oh, no, he don't. He don't.

Let's go say that. My dad says frog and toad. Was there, get you on the old dog and phone. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Pardon? What is dog wrong with it? Fog. Oh, right.

Get you on the fog. Pardon me. She's, I feel like an idiot. Oh boy. The, uh, cheese and misses the fog, put me. Cheese, I feel like an idiot. The cheese and misses. No, cheese and kisses. Is that misses? That's misses, yeah.

Gotta ask that, you know, that's a bogey thing where they have to, there's this bogey thing and I found it like any guy who wants to delay making a decision about something, they'll say either, or better pass it through the cheese and kisses, or the minister for finance. Every time I just wanna tell them to fuck off. Yeah.

Yeah. So like don't blame them, and don't make them sound, like you're making them sound like they're the bad guy. Totally, do you know that kind of reminds me of,, when I was in high school, especially if I didn't want to go to a party or didn't want to go out with certain people, my mom would be like, just say I told you. Yeah, good. She would want to take the blame.

Mom would be like, I'll take the blame. Blame me on the bad guy. What a legend. They teach you that in some jobs as well. Like, if it's just like just pass it on to someone else. If a customer's angry you say, I'd look, I'd love to help you out, but the boss is just really strict on this. Yeah, exactly. Which is smart, because it just means like, yeah, well look, I'm not angry at you, but this

boss that I don't know. What a jerk. Anyhow, are we talking about the Olympics for the year 2000? And the where is? No, no, it's great. Because there's a lot in there, and it's a big event. 16 Olympics for the year 2000 and the where is No, it's great because there's a lot in there and it's a big event and it's it kind of holds up Like if you watch the clips now you can some I mean it's all Any of the Olympics opening ceremony. I know they say this every year But at the time they say that was the best one ever. They still say it of Sydney. I was gonna say that's it

They still say it's the best one Really? They still say it of Sydney. I was gonna say that's they still say it's the best one really International just cuz I I Not even just a Australian thing like the head of the Olympics No, I was gonna say set blada, but he's the Who's the what was his name, but he said cuz I'm Atlanta was the Olympics before and and I think traditionally at the end They would say this is the best Olympics ever and Atlanta. He said this was a pretty good Olympus.

No, still to this day it's still credit is being one of the best and there's a there's a. So Jesse just gone from the best. Oh, no, sorry. The best. So bit of a slip there. Thank you. No, no. Good. It was an Olympics. Thank you for coming to an Olympic Games, good night. That's a thing, like it was a good Olympics,

but the ceremony has still been set as one of the best. They're best. Jesus, I think it's just a habit. It actually held a few records, like it was... For being the best, which is quiteifiable. The best. The best. What records?

So it was the first Olympic cauldron lit into water. For being the best which is quiteifiable the best. No, what's yeah, what records? So It was the first Olympic cold and lit into water That's a very specific no, they're a better one. Has that has that happened since Yes What we were the first country to light water on fire. Yeah, I got a love our style Was it our Olympics that there was a big weird pause though? They had to wait 15 minutes or something. Four minutes.

Well, it felt like a long time. I'm sure it did for Kathy Freeman standing there. Standing there. It started to rise and then there was like a computer error. There was a glitch. Oh wow. And it's still called one of the best. That's why it's one of the best.

It's an event. It would have been the best, Matt. But that's a horrible mistake at a key moment. But it's okay. So they just... I don't figure it out. I don't figure it out. Like, you just...

Okay. Well, that was obviously... I mean, I never saw it, so I didn't know what happened until now, but I'm furious. My 17-year-old man's pretty pissed right now. Heads will roll. That was the wrong record to start with, because I've got you angry already. The longest wait for a computer glitch in Olympic ceremony opening history, 240 long seconds. Usain Bolt could do the 100m print, 24 and maybe 25 times in the hospital.

25 world records could be broken. It threw off the entire international community. That's why the USA blamed that Olympics for not going as well as Atlanta. That for me, it's really threw off. That's why it's one of the best and not the best. Exactly. Can I go on with some other?

Please do go on. Some other records that they got. So maybe there are records, but just like, there was a few firsts. Like it was quite revolutionary in terms of the opening ceremony So they were the first ones to use Revolution!

I'm going, I'm going Let's take this seriously, sorry Fox First use of suspended performance, I had like people flying through the air first use of our suspended puppetry, fire breathers. It was the largest stadium to host the opening ceremony with 110,000 people. It's a lot of people. The previous was Los Angeles in 1932 with 105,000. It's quite a big gap. So yeah, largest crowd as well, which was 11 114,000 not really sure how that works considering the holds on set in. It was just really dangerous. Maybe the people they would make

it. I'm sorry that was close to ceremony but it's probably the same place. Yeah I think it's the same. The biggest fire hazard in Olympic history considering that the water was even on fire. I think that stadiums now got a, it's had its capacity reduced because I'm pretty sure it's only 80,000 can fit there now. I wonder what happened there. Was this put in a few like, crystal tables? Yeah, maybe that was it.

Fold that, cheers. Stan, you know, you know, how it is. Okay, so the opening ceremony, right? It had a cast, how many people, how many performers do you think they were? Well, there must have been four thousand because if the capacity is 110 and they're 114 There's also athletes on the on the parade. Yeah, maybe just just the performance Two and a half thousand. Yeah, couple thousand Performers across the entire that's a ridiculous announcement. That's a lot isn't it maybe a thousand four hundred sixteen hundred sixteen hundred and a thousand

twelve thousand six hundred and eighty seven that is a lot of people I don't understand that's how many people took part in the ceremony is that was at a record that seems like it should be that's a lot of people twelve thousand now I'm assuming that also sort of includes, it says took part in the ceremony. I'm going to assume that includes like the officials and stuff like that. Can I revise my guess?

Think about musicians. I think it's going to be 6,000. It's that red cordial. No Matt. It was 12 thousand Zable That is ridiculous. All right, let me have one last go. Okay 9000 you close us guess. Yeah, you close us guess 12 thousand

Oh, I mean Molly that's a lot of faith. It just seems like a lot and all these people training full-time to get this happening I don't know but I remember them being volunteers. Like, you did it for the prestige of big prestige, for being in the ceremony. Well, let's be honest, we were giving them something to do. The volunteers and this thing. But my worry would be... I mean, you know. If you're volunteering for that,

you're probably not like the world's greatest dancers, or you're not the world's best cello player If you're like yeah, I can play cello. Okay, well the musicians. I'm pretty sure we're Orchestra's they were pretty good. Yeah, I don't think that will volunteer But just you believe my fish costumes that way great the athletes were all volunteers They're all doing it from their own accord come believe it in a way. They kind of are Unbelievable. In another way. They're doing doing it from their own accord. Can't believe it in a way. They kind of are unbelievable in another way They're doing it for for money Yeah, and glory. Wait, do you know the Olympics is unpaid? Is it or is it paid?

The elite they'll get paid. No, but I think you get paid your country It pays you to yeah, to a full time. Yeah, but the Olympics doesn't give you it's not like like we have the You don't win gold so you don't get a hundred thousand dollars. Isn't it amazing that the Australian government spends millions on paying Athletes to be in the Olympics like what a weird way to spend money. It is a bit weird But then I was thinking about the Olympics and it's kind of it's one of very few I don't really think of anything else like it that brings pretty much the entire world together Do you know what I mean? Like there's not a lot of things that we just all do together.

Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of really nice. Is it nearly every country? Just, well, yeah, I think so. I mean, every year it changes. Australia is one of two countries that's been to every single Olympic Games. But interesting fact is that on two of those occasions they came as in a team merged with New Zealand. Really the opening occasion is this? The second and third I think.

Oh wow. We've blended it together. Yeah, yeah, three couple. So there's only one country that's been there every time on their own I think and that's someone I can't remember right now and that's a fact. I would guess Greece. I was gonna say Greece. I don't think it was Greece but I think they might anyway. Wow that's pretty cool. That's a good little tidbit. Yeah that's a tidbit. It's probably a little less than a tidbit because it was missing some of the key facts. That's right. We've guessed. We've guessed. So I've broken it into the segments of the ceremony itself. So there was like different themes for each part and I'm gonna we go through them. They're very visual so I'm glad that we're

talking about them on a podcast. That's great. That's a good call on my part. Just imagine 12,000 people in fish costumes apparently. Well, well, yeah, that's coming up later. Oh, I don't mean it. But first, first, the way that we opened the ceremony was with one lone rider, a guy on a stock horse, and the horse just like, fangs it into the middle. I think that's a technical term.

Yeah. Horses fang it, right? Oh,ang it right? Oh yeah. The horse's name was ammo. He's a lone rada. Lo-ho-ho-ho. I really have loop it but. Just keep going. Just sing that underneath the whole time. Okay so there was a... I was a... I was a... I was a stock horse horse the horse's name was ammo And oh, I wonder if ammo is still around I think ammo might be written by well Ammo'd be quite old by now stock horse. That's it like stock just sort of means you basic thing, right? Well this particular horse was a Performer horse like this horse and you what he was doing, you know. You see the show picture in like, dancing along.

He just ran out like a normal horse. An Academy Award nominated horse. Well, he was written by Steve Jeffries. Now, Steve Jeffries and his horse, Ammo, they recreated their Olympics entrance during the 2002 Australian stage production of the man from Snowy River. Jeffries and ammo had quite a career together.

That's illustrious. Yeah, and he was a Steve Jeffries. He's an expert horse whisperer. You get that from his website. Steve Jeffries. Basically he's like a duck. He's trying to horse. That's a horse whisperer.

But does he claim to be a horse whisperer? But horse? I, but horse? But horse? I, but that's him. I'm home. Yeah. I am. We're just going to fang it out on this day, okay?

What now? Yeah, wait, just one second. Just give us a, we're going to wait four minutes. It's been a glitch. Really hungry. Just a whole tide will get you some feed light up. But yeah, for your promise, it's only for. Oh, well, I don't know at this up, but yeah, your promise is only full.

I don't know at this stage, but I imagine it wouldn't be any longer than... Do you know how many animators, friends, are you saying, but what could you've completed this time? About 25 or more, or I reckon. I'm faster than him. You are faster than him. I'm not as fast as Hors. You're a good boy. Thank you. And so... That's definitely a... That's not quite as I was from the website.

We read the script. I actually, it's a little bit disappointing because I did click on what, like, horse whisper amades. And really, it's just a method of training. Well, that's not as wanky as it sounds. An interesting thing there was, I was playing Gary Newman. Oh, no, who was I playing? Steve Jeffries.

Steve Jeffries. Gary Newman, too, I always assume everyone is. Jeffries. Steve Jeffries. Gary Newman, too. I always assume everyone is. I was playing Steve Jeffries, a horse whisperer. But fun enough Dave was playing ammo also a horse whisperer. That's right. Or a whispering horse. That's a cool band name. Steve Jeffries and the whispering horses.

That's not bad. I like that. It's not bad. Okay, so this is going really well. Oh! Look at him, that's good. No, so they fainted to the middle. So he rides out into the middle of the stadium. Just one man on his horse. And as everyone else in the crowd, like, I was promised 12,000 performers.

I've paid $400 to this ticket. But at this stage they're kind of like, that's going on here. That's going on here, What's going on here? And then the horse rears up and then Steve cracks his whip and 120 other riders appear. They're all holding flags and they come riding out and they're riding in these beautiful formations. And there was music by Bruce Roland.

It was a special Olympics version of the theme from the man from Snowy River. I can't hear the difference. I know. It a special Olympics version of the theme from the man from snowy river. I can't hear the difference, but it's an Olympics version. You know, the horse whisper was like, turn it down, turn it down, I can't talk to my horse, he can't hear me. Hello, hello, turn it down. For God's sake. I can't bloody yell over the baby, I'm not a horse yell, I'm a brave stave, where are you?

It's such a crack in the whip. No, that's not helping. Steve, where are you? I forgot if you're on my back or not. So that's an especially. Most of the whispering is still on your back. I'm right here on your back. I'm right here, mate.

It really helps know that we can get those blue tooth ear pieces. So you just put that in your mouth. It's a dream. He's like, get a ammo to to run on your back here, Max. You know, I'm still here. But even if ammo is in the stable and he's still in the kitchen, like, am I look, I'm just having,

just finishing my cup of tea, I'll be. He just gives another form and that's fine. He'll be there in five. Thanks, mate. Good on you. Right, so then they, yeah. So suddenly, there's a lot of horses out there. There's 120 horses.

The Olympic version of the man from Stony Ripper is playing. They're all holding flags, like they've got white flags with the Olympic rings on it, and then they form the Olympic rings moving. Oh, that's pretty cool. And they're moving. Yeah. That's cool. Matt, you're in pretty cool. Oh, yeah. Oh, my word. Do you know how many whispers you have to say to get it? How do I have it? How we're going around in a circle. What's that other one? What's that other horse? I thought I was the red ring. And then this, I heard the yellow ring. And then a giant banner drops painted by Sydney artist Ken Dunn. Ken Dunn. I was going to say, I knew I was going to fuck that up.

And it said, and the sign just said, good day. Hey, welcoming the whole world. Well, these guys you get, hey. Ken Dunn is very famous in the artistic community for not having much respect for his work. And then, I was going to say, I knew I was going to fuck that up. And it said, and the sign just said, good day. Hey, welcoming the whole world. Well, these guys you get a... Kendan is very famous in the artistic community for not having much respect for his work. It's very popular among the public, but the artistic community is never respected. Kendan's work. Great.

Is that partially because you'll sell it, like he sells it to tea on to tea towels and everything you just look at today. Tism, you know how I like to bring Tism up, both in the- You'll get Tism and Nazis in every episode. So Tism and a Melbourne band from the 80s and 90s, and today, well, then they're not from today, they broke over about 10 years ago,

but they had an EP cover that was a can-don style koala injecting a syringe into its eyeball. Oh. Or mouth. Anyway, that was a syringe and can eyeball. Oh. Or mouth. Anyway, those are syringe and kendo and sued successfully and that like one day after they put it out and it stills at the recall. Ooh.

Yeah, and then they changed the name to recalled due to legal advice or something like that. But then I think that and had just the tiny corner, Kendall installed writing Tism, and he said no good. So then they had to release a third time. They recalled a second one. I don't know, maybe they weren't approved for that second one.

And then the third one they had was Shenato Conor ripping up a piece of paper that said Tism on it. Cool. And that one was okay. Shenato was cool with that. She was on it. Cool. And that one was okay. She and Ad was cool with that. She was not offended. Wow. Which was taken and realized recently from her hosting spot on or performance spot on Saturday Night Live in the 90s. Anyway, sorry about that. That's okay.

We're not talking about the 90s. We're talking about the year 2010. Oh, good day. So futuristic. 121 horses. This still sounds like the future. The year 2000. It does. It was 15 years ago. So it says, good day. Yeah, so we're in it now. We're doing it.

Is the crowd erupted now? The crowd's gone absolute bachelot. I think it's the technical term. They're losing their god damn eyes. So then we move on to the second segment called Deep Sea Dreaming. And who's directed all of this? Um, various people responsible for each segment. There's like a, um, I did have a list, but I'd think that there's not one artistic director.

No, there's, well, I'm sure there's probably one. There's probably one, but they, um, each sort of new segment had a team of people. It was like concept by this person, and choreography by this person. It was like a huge effort. It's pretty massive, and they must work on it for a very long time. Were there a lot of, like, the things, the few things of these that I've seen over the years, different opening ceremonies, it's always commentators having to explain it like. And the horses represent freedom in Australia.

Is it a lot of that sort of thing? That's so much of that. If you're in the crowd, it's obviously impressive, but you're not hearing that commentary. Or getting that bird's eye view of it, which you kind of need for a lot of the thing. Yeah, you probably can't see a lot of it. A lot of it, yeah, if they zoom out and you zoom out,

oh, all together they all make the Olympic ring. Exactly. It's all the map of Australia, but if you're there, you probably can't see a lot of it a lot of it. Yeah, if they zoom out and you zoom out all together They all make the Olympic rings all the map of Australia But if you're there you're just like oh this horse is going round and round but so the Commonwealth games were in Melbourne in 2006 I believe and because I'd been sick and missed out on going to the Olympics when I was 10 my dad Took me to the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games when they're in Melbourne, like kind of to make up for it. I got to go to a lot of events in the Commonwealth Games, but especially the opening ceremony. And like, it's not the same as the Olympics,

but the atmosphere is just ridiculous. And like, I think you get the best of both worlds. Like watching it on TV, you can see like the, it's well filmed, but then being there and seeing like everybody in the audience having like those little flashing lights and stuff looks amazing. I mean, sweet buzz. Sweet buzz for 16-year-old.

Yeah, 10-year-old, just pretty pissed. Yeah. Pretty pissed. Anyway, um... So, Stage 2. What I really like about this opening ceremony is probably the same as all of them as well though. I feel like they've just sat down at a table with like butcher's paper and colored textors and said, all right, what's Australian? And they've just gone through and they've covered everything. Like everything that's like stereotypically Australian,

they've been... People are destroying it live or they've brought it out, pre-drawn. No, I feel like this is how they planned it. Oh, I planned it right. Steve Irwin was still alive at the time. Did they get him involved? He was not involved.

Any crocodiles at all Any live crocodile no live crocodiles no Just the live horses the croc whisperer Just fang into the middle No, not not not by it fang. Oh no, it's oh look. I can see how you got confused. Oh no the horses And then, no. No, no, you're able to say. Don't wait, sings the horses.

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like they projected sand onto the, which is pretty cool, and and the stadium that's where little niki webs to come skipping out oh this is her baby yeah this is where niki shines so she's wearing that pink little sundress and I how old is she she was 13 okay I was very jealous of her at the time so she's this tiny little person and she just comes out into the middle again there's nobody else on this stadium. She's just there by herself. Oh, so it's just projections on her.

But no, she, yeah, projections of Sandy and she walks out and, uh, and, uh, thanks. She thanks. Oh, Nikki. Sky riding on her back. Nikki whisper. She's riding on her back. And Nikki whispered. So she goes out and she's pretending she's acting like she's sun-baking. And then she falls asleep and she goes into like this little...

Oh no! She's going to get burnt! Then she gets really badly sunburned. So she's a redhead, isn't she? She's got very, very... Yeah, well she was strawberry blonde. She's very she? She's had very, very, very, very, very, Yeah, well, she was strawberry blonde, strawberry blonde. Burnt in seconds. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so she's, luckily it's night time.

So now this is dream sea. She's a, she's dreaming. And so there's all these, uh, performers coming out as sea creatures. Um, so it was a tribute to the great barrier reef. Which, you know, they're like, well, it's Australian. Great barrier reef. Let's do it. What is it fish? It sounds like an American has produced the opening ceremony so far. What do I think of Australians though?

Horseback. The phrase, get a fish. But at least those are things that other countries would recognize. There's some references later where it's kind of like, nobody knows what you do in guys. Hills hoist? It's funny for us, not far off. In fact, I think there were Hills hoist, I think we were.

So it's pretty great. And so then Nikki Webster gets hoisted up into the air. She goes, Hills Hoist is huge. A little known fact that it's the only little big ceremony to feature a giant Hills hoist. It's just a record. Somebody runs out, attaches chords to a child. No, they just peg it on. She gets pigged. She gets flung up into the air. She fags it up into the air. If you're fortunate, she's the bag. She's playing a part of the bag. If you're not Australian hills whist, it's like our outdoor clothes line. Yeah. Just so you know, because otherwise...

line. Yeah. Just so you know because otherwise this joke won't get on. That's so good. Only for the listeners. For us very funny. I cannot wait for the gaze whisper up in the gays. Now just don't wave in the flag. Just put a round of hair in there. No, gaysie was whispering to the flag All right, so Nikki she's suddenly in the air she's doing flips She's and there's there's enormous jellyfish and like giant fish and all these amazing creatures She having a good time or she's scared. Oh she's having a great time. Oh she's swimming through. Was there any of these sort of hands?

No, thank you for doing a visual gag. Well thanks for calling it a gag. She was like she's swimming and she's doing flips and it's pretty cool. Yeah. Very jealous. Right so then she's drawing my all these other. Still jealous. I'm still jealous of Nikki Webster

But I probably shouldn't be she's had a weird life Um, but she was what she's cast out of obscurity into this role kind of she'd been performing since she was like five I did a bit of research on Nikki Webster and she'd been in like a few stage productions and stuff like that Oh, I can't She auditioned for the role and got it and then just went nuts from there Just I remember everyone was talking about who's this little girl. Yeah, who is she like you know on neighbors She wasn't that well known, but um it wasn't just her first time First radio

For her first whisper. It wasn't her first whisperer. Okay, cool. So then she's she's swimming along and then is Like a dozen other swimmersimmers in bright green wetsuits And there's their fake swimming through the air Just a case you thought they were actually swimming and they had a big projection of The Australian swimming coach Laurie Lawrence just like yelling like okay Okay, so they haven't let him he's not in the air. He's projected. He's projected. They wouldn't trust him on a wire No, well, he's not in the air, he's projected. He's projected. They wouldn't trust him on a wire. No.

Well, he's the coach, you know. He's not going to be just in the pool. You can't coach from within the pool, can you? Do you think anyone would know unless the commentator said, oh, that's Laurie Blumblum, the coach of most. Again, the Australians would have, and I was like, who is it in the audience, Australians, mostly? Yeah, Laurie was big time back then.

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including the GI Bill. Now is the time, mycomputercareer.edu. So they had that. So then the next segment was called Awakening and this was to... Is that Nikki Dunn? She Dunn now? No. Okay, pardon me. Oh, Nikki comes back. That sounds so creepy. The Awakening was to acknowledge the Australia's Aboriginal past and so like an Aboriginal elder guides Nikki Webster through like the stage and okay if you're gonna get anybody to narrate this part of the show Aboriginal is it look I

There's probably a few good options, but I'm guessing Ernie Dingo Ernie Dingo I was gonna guess John Howard No Ernie Dingo. Ernie Dingo. So they're just like who can I run we got this bit of bad Indigenous Australians. He's got this bit about indigenous Australians. He's got a great voice. Great voice. It's a great voice. And I saw a crocodile dundee two a few weeks ago.

He was on TV. He was in it and he was a super babe. Yeah, oh yeah. I didn't realize. He was like a sexy man. Now I think of him as like an oldish guy, but he was. But 35 years ago. Oh, he was.

Yeah. I said how old that movie is? No. No, it would be maybe 25 years old, I think. Oh, it's got to be mid 80s. The first one. Mid to late 80s, the second. I'm talking about the second one.

Second one was, oh, okay. Well, that's who else. I think it's late 80s. I don't know, but anyway. Yeah. Either way, I think we're. white age. I don't know but anyway. Yeah either way I think we're either way is the dingo is a babe. Yeah, the bloody babe. The dingo is a babe Hey, the dingo ate my no I couldn't quite dingo's got me dingo's got me. He's a baby All right, let's move on. That was an example of how not to do rhyming slang. Thank you, Matt

Good good. So now we move on to nature. Thank you, Matt. Good, good. So now we move on to nature. So this is stage four now. Stage four. Okay. Nature. Kind of blends in nicely because the awakening was just kind of, there's not a lot happening.

There's a short segment, just a bit of a dance segment. Then nature, where they talked about like the outback. And so it had all these fire performers, like jug fire, jugulars and fire breathers. Not what it was. Does that happen in the outback? Well, because what they would do was representing a bushfire.

Oh. So there was literally hundreds of them walking in from these. Through cars. Through carnal folk. Yeah, carnal folk. So they were symbolizing like a bushfire taking over. And then all these people dressed as Australian distinctive wild flowers came out. And it was kind of like burning and then new life.

Oh, very good. So they had the golden water, which is our national flower. I'm sure you know. Yes. Oh, I know. More of that. And the pink heath is Victoria's floral emblem. I don't think it was a great fact Anything you could run the war a tower, which is a state five new south Wales. They had they use that one a bit

Stirts desert pee water lilies and eucalyptus flowers Mm-hmm very strong classics beautiful. So like they've covered. Okay, so far they've covered like Indigenous nature fish. What's next? What I hate to think, what? What's next? This thing is called tin symphony. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Tin-fin-y. Tin-fin-y. And that is about European settlement. Oh, rock, rock. And tanning for gold. Panting for gold. I thought it was just gonna be like a bush pan,

like someone's with the lager phone, with the bottle caps on the thing. So it starts with the arrival of James Cook with bicycles to represent his ship the endeavor. Well hang on you're probably going to make a ship and okay bicycles. Yeah they had like these weird bike things. I felt like someone wanted to use those so they put them in. Yeah absolutely. I'm not so I'm not surprised at all. Okay, so that's cool. So they've got all this Irish jig music,

and all these performers addressed as Ned Kelly. Again, it's like, Australia, Ned Kelly. But not just Ned Kelly. That's quite a time. Ned was to Sydney Nolan's Ned Kelly. Oh, get an art reference in there as well. And they're all holding guns that have like fireworks coming out. It's quite a time jump from straight to Ned Kelly.

Straight into Ned Kelly. We don't have time for that. No, settlement. No, no, no, no. Sonic, is it a huge jump? It's like, when was Ned's time? Let's say it's maybe a hundred years jump. Yes, like a hundred years.

Oh, not quite a hundred years. When was Ned around early 18s? I would say it's a maybe a hundred year jump. Yes, like a hundred years. Oh, not quite a hundred years. When was net around early 18s? I've never seen. I've never seen. Mid. And when this, and it was first flight was 788. So that is a bit of a jump. It is, but they just, they don't just have time.

You know, it's it's the long show, but you've got a lot to pack in. Look, actually, to be fair, they've just given the Aboriginal people like a two-minute segment. It's not about 40 years. Yeah, that has to be used. Pardon, please, please forgive me. And that involved Nikki Webster for some reason. Being guided for some. They didn't get the prop budget.

They just kind of dance. That is incredible. That's incredible. Yeah, 40,000 years. I didn't like that very interesting. They should, if they'd done it to Timescale, the Captain Cook bit to now would have been about approximately four seconds.

Yes. Anyway. This was like a, I think this would have been a really confusing part of it for anybody who was in Australia. And even people who are Australia, like there was all these symbolic items of the outback like corrugated iron and storm water tanks. And storm water tanks.

And some of them had umbrellas that looked like cogs. So as I turned the umbrellas, it looked like, that's not particularly good. What is that to symbolize our love of shade? Industrial growth. Yeah, cogs. Cogs were an invention of the, of, an Australian, I think.

From the Outback? Yeah. No, actually, cogs, something, cogs was the nickname of the drummer from Australian I think. In the Outback? Yeah. No actually cogs, so I'm saying cogs was the nickname of the drama from Power to Finger. I knew there was an Australian connection. And that's what they were getting at. Yeah. Like, Power to Finger. Two very separate facts in there that man.

Yeah, the cogs things definitely are not true. Okay, so we got midly and Ned Kelly celebrating that. Just shooting it if I were guns. And then they somehow construct a shed in the middle of the, in middle of the stadium out of Corgi Lion's sheets. And there's a beak. I know what's coming now.

A Victor lawnmower. Yes. Yes, because what happened was like they had all these like people like Chucking out these boxes that were supposed to be like sheep But then the boxes are moving because there's people inside them So the boxes are like flipping around and then they all get out and they're in like Hawaiian shirts and Hawaiian shirts Hawaiian shirts with the symbol of and they get out there in land They're lawnmowers and form the Olympic rings.

Again, in lawnmowers. I can't tell if you're joking. No, I'm dead set serious. They're the most lawnmowers in the Olympic rings. And this is the best ever opening ceremony. Yes. Yeah, awful. Like Sam's terrible lawnmowers.

It's an opening ceremony. They're all awful. They are. That's the thing. They're bad. Why are the people? They're lame awful they are that's the thing they're bad what why is it they're lame why are people lame lawnmowering they're rocker's deadfords with a huge budget

oh my god yes that's a perfect way to put it because we we're the only country in the world that has lawns apparently yeah it's we are proud of the dumbest things yeah yeah that's not what's what that That's what we're choosing to represent ourselves. Yeah. Like lawn mowers. And that's what I mean. It just seemed like, because Matt made the joke about Victor

lawn mower, and then two seconds later, you're like, and then they're mowing the lawn in the shape of the Olympic ring. I couldn't tell if you'd take the picture. No, which soon as she said the shed, I knew it was going to be Victor lawn mower. The things that we always go on about, and these were probably all represented.

Victor La Maha, the Hillshoyst, Lamington's. Veggie might. Veggie might. Sheeps back, and Ned Kelly. And I think you've already mentioned all those apart from the Lamington. I don't think they went down the food road of Lamington's. Everyone, look under the chair.

There's a Lamington and a Veggie might scroll. You get a Lamington. You get look under the your chair. There's a Lamington and a veggie might you get a Lamington you get a load opens the open's there now this next segment when I first read it I was like I can't say this on the podcast because it sounds hella racist What are we up to what's that? It's the rivals okay, which isn't the Olympians arriving this is like migration to Australia right? This is to embrace our multiculturalism, okay, right? So you might understand why this sounds so fall? They skipped over the genocide then, is that fair to say?

Well, yep, we're known to look at the positives. No time, no time, we're all a time constraint. I would have probably been a weird thing to celebrate. So they basically had like each continent reflected in a float, so all these floats come out. And so it was to say like all these continents, all these places coming together in Australia were multicultural, right? So they chose different colours for each continent. Each continent, okay.

So African continent came out first and they were wearing black costumes. Are they African people? Yeah. Okay, okay. Well maybe they're wearing black costumes. Are they African people? Yeah. Okay, okay. Well, maybe they're genuinely African people. It's fine because it makes sense at the end, but the first couple don't sound great. Then the Asian immigrants represented... Not here by yellow.

Yellow. Okay. So we're kind of going, ooh, what's going on here? But they were led by the Chinese lion dances that were bright yellow. Then Europe was introduced by the color of green, and then read for people from the Americas. And then the Northern American.

Do they just say the Americas? So they combine two continents with Northern South. Well, you know, because they only want to have five because it's the color of the Olympic rings. Oh, exactly. Exactly. So originally I was like, what? And I was like, oh, okay. So the ring, that's fine. Who's blue then? Blue is the Pacific Islands.

Oh, Pacific Islands. And so they get their own... And the Australian? And the Australian. And the Australian. Well, the world because we are Australia So we're saying that like these are all the places coming to Australia This isn't even so much about the Olympic Games itself. It's sort of about Australia's culture So they see them as the big groups. So they did you say just China had its own one though Was that representative of all of Asia? Asia?

Asian immigration. I just added in oh you said Chinese dragons. Yeah, yeah. Or, yeah, okay. Yeah, that's cool. And then they kind of all come together, the idea being that they're now creating like the Australian continent. And do they make a map or something? I think they might have.

Yeah, I think I did. And there was like all these children dressed in the Olympic colors and they made the shape of Australia. While Nikki Webster performed a song under Southern skies. Well Lee can again. I've had it suck in my head several days. I don't think so. What's under Southern skies?

I wouldn't be surprised if you wrote it though. Yeah, it's something. It was written by Slim Dusty. Slim Dusty. So, you find it funny that we, on things like that, we're so proud of our migration and our multiculturalism but just day-to-day and people like everyone be watching it the people who watch and enjoy these things like yeah that's right Australia we're proud of it we'll give everyone the next day hey fuck off with

full yeah absolutely yeah so the next day it's like fuck off Ghana we're gonna win the marathon yeah true yeah yeah beat you yeah that is weird I used to really be like like just like yeah come on the Australian person in the thing for some reason It's a weird thing that you'd like I don't know this guy. What do I care if he wins or not? Yeah, I just want the best person to win And they all try their best Okay, so now Nikki Webster's made her return. she's a great southern skies, under southern skies. Great song, great song. Is it great? It is actually quite nice.

Does it mention the southern cross? Under the southern skies. Yes, because again, there's some kids to form a large representation of the southern cross and they're holding lanterns. So, now the next bit was my favourite bit but in retrospect it would have been so strange not only to people from not from Australia but also Australians. So do you remember it all the part where Adam Garcia was tap dancing? Oh vaguely I remember those boot man I remember the boot man the movie hadn't come out yet. So this is even out of context for Australian audience.

It's like a weird promo. Yeah, it was like it did. Did Bootman get a budget because people were impressed by this? No, it was coming out, well it must have come out in the following months because they said Bootman upcoming film in the commentary and this was in September. So it must have come out. Has like a film Australia just paid for a big ad or something? Oh yeah, I don't understand how it happened.

Is that him going to see the one from that American movie about Bar where there's Kodo. Is that him? Yeah, that was so and he was also in dirty laundry this year. He's done a few bits and pieces. He's been like judges on dancing with the stars and a few American shows and stuff like that. Like he's had a few bits and pieces. He's been like a judge on Dancing with the Stars and

a few American shows and stuff like that. He's had a pretty good dancing career. And this bootman his thing? I don't know. He was just, he was in the movie. He was the star of the film. Right. Right. So it starts with just him in the middle of a stadium. Just tap Dancing by himself. And then what happens is he rises up and there's like two tears of dancers all in like flannies and workboots like like boot men but that wouldn't have made any sense to people because I hadn't seen boot men yet So they're just like why are these trade is dancing but it was great and then they even had people with like grinders I remember to a rhythm, sparks going everywhere while I tap dance and they're all wearing safety goggles and then there's people tap dancing down the aisles. It's part of the audience.

It all sounds like it is beyond parody. You could not make fun of this. Well, it sounds a lot like that episode of The Simpsons with the gay steel meal. Yes, Dan and it. But they're all dancing and there's like sparks and stuff. We work hard, we play hard. That's exactly what I'm imagining. Yeah, that's pretty much what it was. So that was a little bit strange.

I love like a butch masculine sort of stereotypical things being portrayed by dance. That's the best. It's so great. Billy Joel's film clip for Uptown Girl. They're all playing mechanics, and then all of a sudden they're low clicking and Strutting around so good. It's like in perfect choreographer. Yeah, yeah, and these guys are in like the wife beta singlets

And they've got Flannies tied around their way so they're wearing flannies shorts like they bearded big men And they're like tap dancing away So the bogans are like bogans at home are like I just don't know how to feel about this. Yeah, I mean, it's bloody beautiful But I don't know if I don't know how to feel about this. Yeah, I mean, it's bloody beautiful, but I don't know the state. Yeah, he looks fantastic. Oh, the taps, they're bloody grise. Oh, the sparks from that saw, my god. Very strange.

And then it goes into the Sydney 2000 Olympic band. Right, so it's a marching band? I like a good marching band. How many people do you reckon were in the marching band? How many people? How many members in the band? Oh, 50,000. 2000. To.

It required six conductors. 2000 musicians. So there was a thousand musicians just from Australia and a thousand from other countries around the world. So they brought in other people. What a great symbol. Six conductors. And all the band members wore driser bones, like specific made driser bones. Fuck off. I know.

Really? Yeah, but they were like white with like blue and white striped sleeves. And I looked into it. So they made, driser bone made 2000 jacket coats for these people, all the 120 stockmen at the start were all wearing Driserbone and every single metal, what are they called, the metal presenter during the entire games were wearing Driserbones. Can you imagine how dry the stadium was? So it was also summer, you don't need to be

wearing a driser bone. So driser bones just picked up a sweet contract. Yeah. This is made 3,000 of them. They're not cheap. They're not cheap. But like imagine the publicity for that. Long leather jackets. Well that would have been around the time of the matrix as well right. Oh yeah that's a little fashion. Neo. I don't know if they're quite as fashionable. Now this is a little interesting fact. I was going to save this sort of to the end.

But the... Front fact. This marching band, this Olympic band, was the only live sound created that night. So every other song, Niki Webster... Even the... What about the tap dancing? The taps were pre-recorded.

Ah! How funny are taps that are pre-recorded? So they're just jumping around. They're not quite in time, that's what funny are things. No, but I think the first part where it's just Adam Garcia, so it's only him that you can see, I'm sure that was a lot,

well, that must have been live, because how do you tap perfectly, Tim? Well, he's Adam Garcia. Yeah, true, to maybe. He's in coyote, I couldn't. I wouldn't put it past him. I wouldn't you tap perfectly to well? He's Adam Garcia. Yeah, true to maybe I He's in coyote. I wouldn't put it past you. He's bloody great. He's bloody perfect I can't I have no idea who that is Everything else even the even the Sydney orchestra who performed all the music were miming the whole time I don't know what the what's the point? It's not ridiculous because it was to

Like combat the because they were worried about like wind and... It's very difficult to perform in an open state. It's not built for sound. It's not built for sound. But yeah, it's not built for that. But the 2000 band members are alive. They were live. Which is pretty cool.

So it's a little fun fact about that and about drives them out. Even the horse whispering was pretty recorded. Yeah. Okay. Am I believing you? So now we get to the parade of nations, which is the longest and most boring part of any of the nations. Oh, I imagine. If you're like Australia or Azerbaijan or something that comes out first, you've got

all right. Not when you're the host country, though. Exactly. We came out last. That's right. Come out last. But it's Greece always come out first. Is that all right?

Yes. That's interesting. But it's Greece always come out first. Is that... Oh, yes. That's interesting. It's an Olympic tradition because it was the birthplace of the Olympic. So they've got a weight a long time. Just hanging out. But they are all partying up on the inside. They always look like they're having fun. Yeah, they're always dancing around with...

And they've got cameras and on the phone. They're hanging out with your mates, I guess. Yeah, there's always footage of them on the phone. There was footage of Kieran Perkins on the phone. And if you're like, if you're a swimmer, it sucks because you're a events of that wake, but if you're a track athlete, you'd be doing drugs and drunk whatever.

Oh, well that's probably why they thought, because that's what my mum was saying there was talk that they definitely wouldn't pick a swimmer to light the cauldron because too much pressure with they'd be competing the next day but like Kathy Freeman only competed 10 days later so they're still like oh my night but it was here spoiler alert that for a minute delay so a little a few fun facts about that parade for raid fun facts good laugh did not think I'd be hearing that phrase when we started

this episode. It was a record at the time. I think it's been beaten since over 199 nations competing in the 2000 Olympics. It's quite a lot. Let's go through them. The only missing IOC member being Afghanistan, which was suspended due to the Taliban's regime, which prohibited practicing any kind of sport. Oh, it makes sense. Don't worry guys. So we banned them. No, I think they'd banned sport.

Suspended them. Well, yeah, they didn't really want to, they were like, no sport. Yeah, so they're saying no sport, and then the Olympics were like, yeah, we ban you anyway. That's pretty much. We're in nature.

The most remarkable was North and South Korea entered as one team. Oh, right. They came into the stadium as one team, but they, I think they still competed separately. Yeah, they, they, they, they, they call themselves like the people's democratic Republic of Korea. Yeah, they had like this, and then it's like the Republic of Korea. They had this special, and they won every event, right? Just for, just to walk in together.

But they had the same flag Yeah, like they all came into the stadium as one team That's really so they they designed a flag just for that that unification That's really really surprising that I think it's kind of nice and that was under the old What was his name Kim Jong Il Kim Jong Il the illest thatest. That's kind of cool. He's the one who like all their papers say they win every event back home right? Yeah, exactly. We're just dominating you guys.

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because I was watching clips because I was research, and also it's just super fun to watch. And their voices are too good, like I know. Do you think that Farni and Olivia Njohn, John the voice phantom, his voice was too good, just come on please. Come on, conspiracy. Pre-recorded.

Pre-recorded. Pre-recorded. Look, I'd accept that from Olivia. But obviously they can both sing, we know that. Oh no, absolutely, and you know they still sing well live, but it was kind of like. It's just too hard. No, it just sounded too clear.

Yeah. I was like, this is too perfect. And especially because like, especially while Nikki Websters running around and singing else, I was like, nobody can sing that well while moving and adrenaline and you're 13 years old and you probably weigh about 20 kilos. There's no way you can- This sounds like jealous Jess coming in. It is 100% jealous Jess.

But also yeah, like speak, big space like that. Speakers give you sound at different times and stuff, right? And it's just perfect. So they're miming it, which is very disappointing. But they're walking through the Olympians, and you can see like the Australians are all just like, ah, because the final is the final.

John Fana. It was beautiful. It's a great song, dare to dream. It was lovely. My people from Cambodia are like, who's that? Who are these people? So now we're getting to the the crux of it What would you define as the crux of the event?

Well, we've already talked about it so we kind of ruined it, but like the the lighting of the cauldron That's that's always a pretty big part of the cinema Big part. It's a big part and there's a couple of really nice things that sort of happened before that So the Olympic flags Is carried in by eight former Australian Olympic champions The flat together or pass them on no together. So they they walk it in like it's a gigantic flag So they walk it in four on each side and who we got we've got Bill Roycroft was at a question Murray Rose swimming Leanne Toothfield hockey Gillian R Gillian Rolton, Equestrian,

a few Equestrians in here, Marjorie Jackson, Athletics, Lorraine Crap, amazing name, Swimming. I think of Keish when I hear her. Every time. Every time. Michael Wendon, Swimming, and Nick Green, Rowling. I've never heard of any of those guys. I've heard of my own Grines from the awesome for some Okay, I heard the awesome one of the youngest I think he's only in his 40s now So he was quite young. He's about to win a gold medal in a week or two Spoiler

Okay, so they've got a giant flag between them. Yeah, so all these former Olympic champions bring that in. And then Tina Arena comes out. Tina Arena, she sings the flame. Beautiful. Again. Amen, flame. Amen. Yeah. Is this the song written for the ceremony?

Yeah, written for the ceremony. And she performs it with a Sydney children's choir as well. But they're all miming. Yeah, thanks. Yeah, they are. And Herb Elliott brings that he's done the last yeah he was an athletics he's done the last leg and he brings the torch into the stadium is it gonna be is he gonna go the whole way and Bruce is probably saying maybe it's herb herb is herb

is he ever doing yeah Bruce definitely knows yeah He's been told. Something kind of cool is that the Sydney 2000 Olympics was the 100th year of women participating in the Olympic Games. Bloody good. Which is kind of cool. About time to have 100 years. In honor of that. They just missed out on the first one. Women In honor of that. So they just missed out on the first one. Women 1896 obviously is the first ever Olympics. So London 1900. First of the modern Olympics, yeah. That's right.

1900 is the second. That's not impressive then, is it? Like if it had been going for 100 years and then... It's only the second ever Olympics. Women, bloody sucks. You missed out on one. Come on. Calm down.

Somebody has a say on the back after the kids. Before did they do 100 years of man in the Olympics? Come on, if we want to quality. Well, they did. Well, Muhammad Ali lit the torch in Atlanta. So, it's a nice touch, Ethel. Because he is a man. Do it for the man out there.

It is about time man got their recognition. I like to dedicate this torch to all male athletes, old and young, around the world. Okay, well, I thought this was a really nice moment, so I realized that's the case. So they honored that by there was former Australian women, Olympic champions, did the last sort of leg of the torch race. What do I say? I do remember vaguely. One of the most boring races of all time. There's only one team competing.

And they take the time. No, but this is like... And they're all 65 plus. Yeah, but I remember watching this and it's kind of like where it was really moving And you didn't know who was gonna be next so you can hear the crowd just going absolutely batshit crazy when they find out who they're passing it on to It was really amazing. So first up you've got Betty Cuthbert. I remember Betty Betty All Olympic gold medals. Yeah, she's amazing. I'm just doing Olympics as well You look at their Commonwealth Games and World Championships. These people are freaks

But for Olympic gold medals for Betty. Now she she had MS, so she's pushed in a wheelchair by Raylene Boyle, three silver Olympic medals for athletics as well. Then they pass it on to Dawn Fraser, four gold and four silver for her swimming, and a bunch of world records and Commonwealth Games, who then passes it on to Shirley Strickland, who has three gold, one silver and three bronze. How good are these names? Shirley Strickland Ballroom. Great.

Fun one for Shirley. She won the more Olympic medals than any other Australian in running sports. So how many, what are three? Three gold, one silver, more medals, not just gold. So three gold, one silver, three bronze. Yeah, because we are not good runners, traditionally. Because the Kenyans keep video.

But the Kenyans. They bloody fast. Now Shirley hands it over to Shane Gould. They're magic, okay, as well. Three gold, a silver and a bronze, all at the 1972 Olympics. She did one Olympics, she tried at 17 years old. So three gold, a silver and a bronze five medals in her first Olympics I'm out and then she retires because of pressure and then came back in like masters levels and just beat a whole bunch of world

Roquehels again What a freak what a master what an absolute freak who then has she ends it over to Debbie flintov King Debbie one gold for fun fact Slip Freak, who then has she hands it over to Debbie Flintoff King. Debbie. One gold for that. Fun fact, I sold the Heating and Cooling system to Debbie Flintoff King's new house. Is this true? La, dee, dee. What kind of premises is Debbie Flintoff King dwelling in?

Well, I'm not going to, I think that there's in confidence. Confidentiality, clientele. I'll tell you off there. I was going to say, tell us after the podcast now So Debbie's running through the middle of the Olympian. She you look like she's Sweat I'm funny out of context like all of a sudden. I'm selling air conditioners, but That's what you used to do. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's not funny. Hey, what sorry? Hey, it's nice that we're celebrating women And I've just spent the whole episode talking over you. Even before you, when you said, actually, that's not that impressive,

that whole thing about women. I said, no, it is. Your opinion does not matter. No, your opinion is not correct. A adorable, nice try. Well, this show is celebrating nine episodes now of Matt talking over jazz. That's beautiful. What do I think? So the whole time, and Dawn Fraser was also, this is just a weird little fact that I've just remembered. She was up in the officials booth, like we're all like the royalty and everyone is, because

she was sitting with, I don't remember his name, it's a very long complicated name, he's like one of the head honchos in the, I should have written this down, but now I'm just telling you off the top of my head, of the Olympic committee and his wife couldn't be there because she was really sick, she ended up dying the next day. Oh dear. Yeah, she had really sick. So she was really sick, so he invited Dawn to come and be his guest So you can see her in like some of the footage like explaining things to him. She's like Is he from overseas? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so he so then she just excuses herself goes and gets changed into her Olympic track

He's like a telephone booth or something Yeah, and he looks down. He's like is that my date? Yeah, don't look at how she's getting a beer. Oh God, I have to get my own beer now. Yeah, hey, Dawn at it's like is that my date? Yeah, don't look at the house. So she was just getting a beer. Oh God, I have to get my own beer now. Hey, Dawn, what's happening now? I'm just passing. I'm just doing one thing. It's 100 years of women. OK, so what we're doing is the dawn was for us. So you can see like every time they pass them,

because it's just a spotlight on those people running along. And then they pass them to the next one, and the whole crowd just goes nuts. So Debbie Flintoff King is running through. It's like Moses, part of the Red Sea. She's running down this like fairly narrow path between all the Olympians. And she gets like halfway.

And I think they announced it too early, because he went, Kathy Freeman, and still had a quite a way to run. And so she finally gets over the crowds already like losing their mind, but it was still like maybe a minute or so before she got to it. Really? And then Kathy Freeman's there. Then Kathy Freeman's there.

And is she wearing the, in my mind, she's wearing that suit that she won the gold medal there? It was a similar kind of suit. She was wearing it. It was, it didn't have the hood. No hood, right. But it was like a silver suit. Because she had to run, she ran up the stairs

and then into like, she ran up a whole big fly stairs, past the orchestra. She'd do it quickly. No, not bad. Good pace. Pretty, pretty record. I mean, it's stairs and she's a 400 meter runner. It's different.

It's different, you know? And she gets to the top and then she walks out into like this, like a pool of water. And then she lights the cauldron and it rises up above her. Like so she's in the middle of these flames as it goes up. It's so cool. I was also a very big Kathy Freeman. So, and at what point does the malfunction occur?

It rises up, I think it rises up quite a bit and then it doesn't quite go all the way. Like it's just stops. I mean, so do they just wait the four minutes before moving on to something? And what's Kathy doing at this time? She's just standing there. She's looking pretty cool and calm or? Yeah, I think so.

She's probably looking around a little bit like, it's probably like, what's going on here? But she just plays a cool, I'm sure they're talking a little earpiece like, I can't Kathy. She's genuinely would be be selling whispering in area. I can't be. Just having a bit of a technical glitch here, but touch your eye. You look right.

And then they're just like, sort of talking in the earpiece to the conductor of the orchestra. They're like, quick, make four minutes of music. They're like, oh instruments are plugged in. What are you talking about? Oh no. Where am I, Ming? So that sort of brings us to the end of the ceremony. So the cauldrons up now after four minutes,

and then everyone sort of goes crazy, and is that sort of, that's how it ends? Yeah, and then just a whole bunch of fireworks, and then a way we go. I do have a, as you know, I always like to finish with a few fun facts. Fun facts! So that's how we're going to finish off. You know how there's always French and English? Madame Zemmissu. For the two official languages.

Ladies and gentlemen. Is Anne French for Anne? What? Is Anne French for Anne? No, this is like... Oh, I don't know. Oh, no, I just thought of... Did I say, I think I said Anne.

It's like, Madame Zemmissu. Yeah, I just thought I'd do it. Did I say I think I said and yeah, but dams emissue. Yeah, I like I would have believed that Okay, it wasn't important. I was just thought that's interesting. Yeah, I don't know what anyway. I don't know who the fun facts I don't know who the French woman is but the English language announcer for the Oedic ceremony was Australian actor John Stanton now when I was watching I was like, where do I know his voice from and then I looked at him? Um, he also voices the 40 Winx ads. Ah, 40 Winx, 40 else ads. If you watch 40 Winx, 40 else ads. He doesn't sing the jingles.

If you go back and watch any clip now, you'll know the voice. If I was gonna pick any bedding advertising person, it would definitely be. Right, 40 Winx. No, for me, it would have definitely been Rod Quantock. Rod Quantock, catch a snooze for me too. Great point, but maybe he wasn't available.

So as I said before, Andrew Gays closed, brought their flag in for the opening ceremony, for the closing ceremony. It was, I don't think it's decided sort of through the games. It's not decided before. So it was given to one of the team's youngest members and most celebrated 17-year-old Thought he thought yes got to be thought he was one of the true stars of the game He won five medals three gold and two silver 17 years old pretty good. That is good. It is 17

That's nuts. I'll make Chang-Gold but pretty good. I'm killed it. Yeah, I didn't know thought he was only 17 Wow Australia 158 medals if that's a record, isn't it? Uh, is it the most gold ever? Was this Sydney Olympics for us? For us, I'm not sure. I believe, yeah, I think for us at the time was a record. Like, we were top three or something. We were off in the way in the host country. Like, we often do well.

Like, just because of the... It's time. I think we came fourth on the medal count, maybe. So, we got 16 gold, 25 silver, 17 bronze, finished fourth behind US, Russia, and I think more like last time I think we were finished somewhere in the top 20. I think that was like we'll never finish that hard. Yeah, it was amazing And we also just sort of strangely I'm saying we yeah, but it is we bloody good effort Matt when you're at that party at 16 and missing this opening ceremony New you are training hard. Yeah, We had representatives in every sport as well,

which was pretty rare. I don't know if we've done that since. And finally. What did you reckon is the easiest sport to get into? If I trained every day, it's just the sports that no one else does, right? Shooting. But we're really good at that.

So yeah. Yeah, but it doesn't require a lot of physical training or skill. You couldn't take up. it doesn't require a lot of like physical training or skill and like you couldn't take up I think there's a lot of skill, but I mean like you don't if you try to take up gymnastics now you fucked Yeah, couldn't do gymnastics. Shooting is definitely easier than gymnastics to choose to do in your mid-20s Exactly or taking up a whole sport like it if you're talking about you as a 25 year old shooting It has to be up there maybe horse a horse riding It's been a pretty life and I was a scared of horses Okay, so not all starting what about guns? How do you feel about guns? I could never shut a gun, but I've never shot a horse

So couldn't do archery because I just don't trust your little arms to be able to pull back So if those small Korean women do really really well, I've seen them in the final. What about badminton? Yeah, no, no, they're That freaks it. That's doing that. Who plays it? Like this is the thing like to reach the top of a sport that I don't know anyone else who plays it. Yeah, but then is there any Yeah, so I could be a medallist in it. No, I don't think no I don't think we're talking about medallists actually that's fair enough because I'll never beat Like a Chinese person that's played. I'll just pick that nation out of thin air, that's played badminton since they were three. But I could, I've got more chance to be the best in Australia, just to get to the Olympics, with no hope.

I'm not going to win a medal in anything, because you have to be amazing. Yeah, there's most of your life. And I don't want to take away from the Australian bad men's and team. Sorry everyone. It's probably my dude. They've had too good for too long. Let's get out of here. Chicken dunes. Final fun fact. How many people would you say watched the Australian opening ceremony? It's a little off topic, but just curious. That's a great thing.

The opening ceremony around the world on television. Well, I'm thinking that... 12,000. I'm thinking that because it can't be the most watched one because most of the world is, it's in the middle of the night this time. So like, say the Atlanta games, you can get all of America and we can watch it. All the Beijing games. It can get all of... American, you can watch it, all the Beijing games.

It's like all of China is watching it. In Australia would have been... Most of households. Yeah, probably like three or four millions. Or I can maybe... Three or four millions. Or I can be like six or seven million in Australia. Wow!

It's massive, man. It was huge. That would be higher than anything ever, right? The block isn't even that high. Yeah, this isn't the block. The block elimination special, but we're living out those kind of numbers. Sorry Matt, sorry. We're opening so many, this is huge.

We had the whole family sat around, we had little Australian flags, we were like really into, Mum put like, because I was 10, so Mum put like little flags on toothpicks and put it with our sausage rolls. We had like Australian themed food. I would have loved a sausage roll, but I was vomiting all bloody night Okay, I'm gonna say around the world around the world 150 million 350 million. Are you kidding? No

That's 50 everybody. No, that's 50% of the whole world 3.6 billion viewers. Well, that's not real. Is that the most watched one? No, surely Beijing's more. Possibly, I'm not sure. Yeah, I get. So you're telling me that 3.6 billion people tuned in to watch us make the Olympic rings with lawnmowers. You're welcome, world. Best ever. Best ever. It feels like the kind of thing that like eventually people are going to, wait, hang on. I've been excited about one of these before. Never again. Never. I know because it is kind of wonky, but I still love to watch it.

That is, well. That is the Sydney 2000s. The best ever. I think so many. The best ever. And probably the best ever podcast dedicated to it. Are you going to be up there top five? Was that two specific?

No I like it. I enjoy it. I think two specific would have been the first five minutes. What was the name? Niki Webster. Niki Webster's Sundress. Yeah, that's two specific. No I enjoyed that a lot. Thank you Jess. Pleasure. Thank you for having me on this podcast.

On my show. But I'm always on.. Thank you for having me on this podcast. On my show. But I'm always on. Yes. You're always on. Well, if you want to get in contact with Jess, we've won Hecolo, or perhaps you are that man that was with Dawn Fraser that night.

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