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00:07It's another week at the 2026 Oversight Headquarters in Miami, and in the social media space, there's something cool happening.
00:14Like, what even is that?
00:15Keepy-uppies.
00:16Excuse me?
00:17Wait, keepy-uppies?
00:18You never heard of keepy-uppies?
00:19What, like it's a thing?
00:20Oh, man.
00:22Yeah, no, it's great.
00:23It's really old.
00:23Oh, no, no.
00:25This is a big week, with FIPA about to unveil its official ball for the 2026 tournament.
00:30The team have been looking at ways to viralise the moment on social media, and it looks as if they
00:35might have literally stumbled across something.
00:37Whoa.
00:38Jesus.
00:39Head nice and still.
00:40Oh, my God.
00:41It's all about distribution away.
00:43This is so cool.
00:44Oh, sorry, Will.
00:47Yeah, no worries.
00:48You're cool.
00:48Okay, bad luck.
00:49Just keep your head still, yeah?
00:51Ooh.
00:52Okay.
00:52Yeah, no, sorry.
00:53You're not crabbing.
00:54Okay.
00:55Nice, easy rhythm.
00:56Like, we should totally put this on the far corner, right?
00:59Right, like, oh, my God.
01:00Okay.
01:00Like, as a challenge, right?
01:01Yeah, right, right, right, right.
01:02I'm not thinking about feet.
01:03They're just doing their own thing.
01:04Like, hashtag, keepy-uppie challenge.
01:06Hashtag 2026.
01:07Like, you post your personal best, right?
01:08Right, I can totally see that.
01:10Okay, okay.
01:10Let's do it.
01:12Like, this is really cool, right?
01:14Right.
01:14Hey, you want to try?
01:15Me.
01:16Yeah, like, you should totally try this.
01:18Yeah, no, I'm good.
01:19Okay.
01:19Yeah.
01:20Fine.
01:21So, we had to work hard on this, with the venues,
01:23and the manufacturers, and our alternative technologies team,
01:26but we got there, right?
01:27We made it.
01:28Viva.
01:29Absolutely.
01:29Meanwhile, in the meeting room,
01:31Sarah is wearing her sustainability and climate strategy hat in a big way.
01:35So, we are now able to say, officially,
01:38that the lighting in all public areas, around all of our stadiums,
01:41and all of our venues, will be powered exclusively by on-site,
01:44solar-powered generators,
01:45producing 100% sustainable electricity with zero environmental impact.
01:51Right.
01:51Well, that's really, I mean, that's really great.
01:53Yeah, there is something, right?
01:55Shine the light.
01:56Shine a light is the flagship initiative in her Better Place pledge
02:00to leave the host cities, North America,
02:02and ultimately the world itself,
02:04in a better place after the 2026 tournament than wherever it was before it.
02:08This is cutting-edge technology.
02:10Yes.
02:10We're shifting the paradigm for how these events are managed around the world.
02:13Exactly.
02:13Yes.
02:14Because from now on, things are going to be different.
02:16Say, when?
02:17Because they have to be, right?
02:18Bravo, Sarah.
02:27So, there's a chip in the ball, right?
02:29They put a chip in the ball.
02:31Like, who is this guy, right?
02:33Right, right.
02:34What they don't tell you is that chip is a Chinese chip.
02:37Okay, so this is not good.
02:38As in, it is a Chinese-made chip, right?
02:41Need I say any more?
02:43He's an off case.
02:44Okay, so you cannot actually say that.
02:45Yeah, right, right, right.
02:46But meanwhile, back in the world of balls,
02:48there's been an unforeseen development.
02:50Like, this is actually the same chip they're using
02:52in Chinese military drones and nuclear warheads.
02:55Of course, they don't want you to know that.
02:58What?
02:59Like, oh my god, that is so yikes.
03:00Oh my god.
03:00A copy of an email has appeared online,
03:03which claims that in early trials,
03:04players are unhappy with the new 2026 ball,
03:07which they say doesn't behave normally through the air,
03:10prompting a virtual overreaction on social media.
03:13All right, thanks for watching, guys.
03:15You know where I am.
03:16You can subscribe here.
03:17I'm also there on Instagram.
03:19Hashtag things that I want you to know.
03:21In the meantime, no fear, no doubt, no sleep.
03:29Right, so that's it.
03:30Okay.
03:30Right.
03:31Okay, so this guy...
03:32So this has come from nowhere, right?
03:33Right.
03:33Totally.
03:34Right, like I've literally never heard of him, right?
03:35Right, so this is Thunderbird Stingray.
03:37What?
03:37Right, so that's probably not his real name, right?
03:39Right.
03:39So, I hope not.
03:40Like he has like this channel,
03:41like things they don't want you to know.
03:43Yeah, yeah.
03:43Right.
03:43Yeah, you see, for me,
03:45I'm sorry, but for me...
03:46I'm sorry, you're crap.
03:47For me, the guy's a nutcase.
03:48So that is not okay, okay?
03:49I mean, he's sitting in his bedroom.
03:50He has about 12 subscribers.
03:51So actually he has like 300, right?
03:53Right.
03:53Okay.
03:54Right, actually 372.
03:55Right.
03:56Okay, 372 other nutcases sitting in their bedrooms.
03:59Okay, so...
03:59I mean, I'm sorry,
04:00but it's hashtag grow up,
04:01get off your ass and get a fucking life, right?
04:03Yeah, right, right, right.
04:14Why would I do that?
04:15I don't need to.
04:17I don't need to tell him.
04:18Why would I?
04:19Okay, well, it's not his condo either, right?
04:21It's...
04:22By the next morning,
04:23it's already Tuesday.
04:24I don't care.
04:25So that's just a legal thing, right?
04:27That's just a...
04:28Okay, well, yeah, absolutely.
04:30No, absolutely.
04:31That is a plan
04:32and we will talk again soon.
04:34Okay, absolutely great.
04:35Sure.
04:35Bye.
04:35Bye-bye.
04:37Hi.
04:38Morning.
04:39Just thought I'd pick up a coffee before I start.
04:41Absolutely.
04:42By the way,
04:43I know I should be drinking ashwagandha tea instead.
04:46Well...
04:46I know you left some for me
04:47in the survival pack in the apartment.
04:49Right.
04:49And I will start drinking it, I promise,
04:51but sometimes...
04:52Right.
04:53So the guy showed up to fix the garbage disposal?
04:55Yes.
04:55Yes.
04:56Great.
04:56No, thanks very much for that.
04:58Sure.
04:58It was a spoon, apparently.
04:59It was my fault.
05:00I shouldn't have taken the thing off.
05:01Probably not, no.
05:02By the way, it's so great, you know.
05:04The condo?
05:04Really, honestly, I can't tell you, so...
05:06Well, you know I'm glad.
05:08Talking of the environment,
05:09I see that Shine Your Light
05:10went live on the website this morning.
05:12Right.
05:12Looks great.
05:13Well, thank you.
05:14You had any reaction yet?
05:15Right.
05:16So, actually, as of now, not yet?
05:19Right.
05:19No.
05:20No, still.
05:21It's early days, right?
05:22Absolutely.
05:22And it's out there now.
05:23Absolutely.
05:24Yeah, it's real.
05:25There you go.
05:26Saving the world again.
05:26Oh, now stop it.
05:27I bet you say that
05:28to all the sustainability girls.
05:30I probably shouldn't say this,
05:32but who knows?
05:33Maybe the world really can
05:34be a better place after all, right?
05:36Right.
05:36In spite of everything.
05:37Yes.
05:38So, that's all good, then.
05:40Yes.
05:44Yes.
05:45They can control it whenever they want,
05:47like with free kicks or penalties,
05:48like there's actually a building in Beijing,
05:50like there's footage out there,
05:51like it's insane.
05:53Right, okay.
05:54Huh.
05:55I mean, fuck's sake,
05:55this guy can barely type.
05:57By nine o'clock,
05:58with stories about the chip
05:59in the 2026 ball
06:00now proliferating fast
06:02amongst highly trained
06:03conspiracy theorists online,
06:05the Strategic Operations Group,
06:06or SOG,
06:07has gathered in the meeting room.
06:08It can connect with any Wi-Fi network,
06:10wherever it is,
06:10using AI to bypass password and security,
06:12and they can harvest information
06:14from computers or phones
06:15on that network
06:15without anyone knowing.
06:16What?
06:17Exactly.
06:17Yes, I mean, you're kidding.
06:18Okay, so this is not a joke, okay?
06:20This stuff is out there.
06:21It's like, where do these guys come from?
06:23It's outrageous.
06:23There's another one somewhere,
06:25I saw it earlier.
06:26The ball can listen.
06:27Exactly, yes.
06:28Yes, well, listen.
06:29Yeah.
06:29Exactly.
06:30What to?
06:30Well, what to?
06:32Yes, I mean...
06:32What do you mean, what to?
06:33What kind of a fucking question is that?
06:35Okay, well, let's...
06:35Well, I mean, us, I guess,
06:36in this case.
06:37Us?
06:38Yeah.
06:38Christ.
06:39I mean, if that's true,
06:40you've got to say,
06:41it's impressive.
06:42Well...
06:42I mean, I don't know about you guys,
06:43but I don't find that easy
06:44a lot of the time,
06:44and I've got ears.
06:45Yes, exactly so.
06:46The official
06:47f***er 2026 football
06:49is made by a**ass,
06:50who we're unable to name
06:51for legal reasons.
06:53And the pressure is on
06:54to establish, firstly,
06:55what the actual truth
06:56about the ball is,
06:57and then, crucially,
06:58whether that's going to be believable.
06:59I mean, perhaps,
07:00before we get drawn any further
07:01into the hole, you know...
07:02We're looking at a bottomless pit of shit here.
07:04Yes, well, that's one way...
07:05Yeah, 100%.
07:05Yes, as I say,
07:06before we get drawn
07:07any further into that,
07:08shall we just back up a moment
07:09and try and establish
07:10a few facts here?
07:11Ah, yes.
07:12Interesting.
07:13Yeah, that'd be something.
07:14Yes, because just to be clear
07:15about what we're dealing with here,
07:16in terms of the optics of this...
07:18Exactly, yes.
07:18I mean, because, well,
07:19there is a chip in the ball,
07:20isn't there?
07:20Oh, yeah.
07:21Well, we know that,
07:22so that's actually true.
07:23Of course there is.
07:23I mean, otherwise,
07:24how are we going to know where it is?
07:26Yes, and so,
07:27just out of interest then,
07:28is it Chinese-made?
07:29Do we know?
07:29What, the chip?
07:30Yes.
07:30I mean, I don't know.
07:31Probably, right?
07:32How do I know that?
07:33Do we know that, Eric?
07:35Well...
07:35Because I know
07:36Zurich's been working
07:36very closely with
07:38through all the development
07:39stages of this.
07:40Well, exactly.
07:40So, then,
07:41perhaps we can say
07:42we are all Chinese now, yes?
07:44Right, okay.
07:44It is where we are.
07:46Right.
07:46Okay, fuck.
07:49Okay, so,
07:50with something like this,
07:51the only people
07:51that are going to visit
07:52the website
07:52are people who already know
07:53that it's there, right?
07:54Right.
07:55Okay, totally.
07:56Right, and think about
07:57the people who already know
07:58it's there,
07:58is they already know
07:59it's there, right?
08:00Right.
08:01Right.
08:01Meanwhile,
08:02Sarah is with the social media team,
08:04analysing early reaction
08:05to her Shine a Light campaign.
08:07And with three comments
08:08posted on the website so far,
08:10two of them from Ian Fletcher,
08:11the main takeaway is
08:12that there hasn't really been one.
08:14It's like,
08:14the people that you need
08:15to reach out to here
08:15are the people that are not
08:16going to visit the website.
08:17Okay.
08:18Like, they have literally
08:18no idea what it is.
08:20Right.
08:20Like, this is a huge audience, right?
08:21Right, totally.
08:22Yeah, right, it's huge.
08:23Yeah, right, right, right.
08:24But fortunately, as usual,
08:26they've got the whole of the internet
08:27at their finger and thumb tips.
08:29Okay.
08:30Okay, so apparently
08:31the Rolling Stones
08:31actually sang this song,
08:33Shine a Light.
08:33Okay.
08:34The Rolling Stones?
08:35Right, yes.
08:36Okay.
08:36Right.
08:36Ew.
08:37Okay.
08:38Wait, what happened?
08:40Not going to work.
08:41No way.
08:41Okay, sure.
08:42Their task is to find a way
08:44of connecting Shine a Light
08:45with a younger
08:46and almost universally
08:47unaware audience
08:48on social media.
08:49So, wait, is that...
08:50Okay, so that's
08:51Keepy Uppies.
08:52Keepy Uppies.
08:52Right.
08:53For the ball launch.
08:54Okay.
08:54So cool.
08:55So cool.
08:55Like, it's literally gone crazy.
08:56Right, right, right.
08:57Okay, but that's Will, right?
08:59What?
09:00Will?
09:01Oh, wow.
09:02No way.
09:03Will,
09:04you posted a video.
09:06Yeah.
09:06That's so cool.
09:07Yeah, so I've been practicing
09:08so I can do, like,
09:08my personal best.
09:09Right.
09:09Like, that's your personal best?
09:11No, but the hat.
09:12Yes, again?
09:12In the video,
09:13you're wearing
09:14the Shine a Light hat.
09:15Yeah, no, yeah.
09:17Okay.
09:18Oh, my God.
09:18Yeah, so Ian Fletcher
09:19gave it to me.
09:19Like, he said I could wear it.
09:20Okay, okay.
09:21So, like, if Will was, like,
09:22I don't know,
09:23like, Cristiano Ronaldo, right?
09:24No.
09:25Right.
09:25No.
09:25Like, oh, my God.
09:26Like, oh, my God,
09:27shut up.
09:28Yeah, I know you're crap.
09:42Meanwhile,
09:42the controversy
09:43surrounding the official ball
09:44for the Soccer World Cup
09:46took a more serious turn overnight
09:47with President Trump
09:49posting on Trump's official
09:50that the governing body
09:52for world soccer
09:53should get rid of
09:54the Chinese chip in the ball,
09:55which he says
09:56can actually listen
09:57to what you say
09:58and replace it
09:59with an American chip
10:00made by Israel,
10:01which he says
10:02is far superior anyway.
10:04Our sports correspondent,
10:05Dan Howard,
10:06has been following this story
10:07and is outside
10:07the White House now.
10:09Dan, this is a story
10:10that just got a lot
10:11more serious, right?
10:12That's right, Alex.
10:12As you say,
10:13this is a story
10:14that got more serious overnight.
10:16It's Wednesday morning
10:17and the issue
10:18with the ball
10:18has got a lot
10:19more serious overnight.
10:20And with the president
10:21posting again
10:22in the last few minutes,
10:23this time suggesting
10:24that they should replace
10:25the Adidas ball itself,
10:27Adidas being a German company,
10:28of course,
10:29and replace it
10:29with a n***y ball.
10:30Right, okay.
10:31Now, we here at
10:32C&C News
10:32have approached
10:33FIFA for comment.
10:34Unfortunately,
10:34they haven't gotten
10:35back to us yet.
10:36And with the president...
10:38I mean, the idea of us
10:39dropping N***s completely
10:40at this point...
10:41Yeah, uh...
10:42N***s.
10:43Excuse me?
10:43I mean, presumably,
10:44that would be, you know...
10:45N***s, N***s, N***s.
10:46Yes, so we can say
10:47this could be complicated.
10:48Complicated?
10:49Exactly so.
10:49Okay, you want to know
10:50how much the contract
10:51with the d***s is worth
10:52over the next 10 years?
10:52Well, uh...
10:53N***s, N***s, N***s, N***s,
10:55N***s, N***s, N***s, N***s,
10:57N***s, N***s, N***s, N***s,
11:19facts yes i mean obviously we need to get ahead of this pretty quickly but when it comes to
11:24but when it comes to exactly what the narrative is here okay so what you have here is you have
11:28a fire here and the forest is dry yes right right we're on fire okay then in mexico we
11:33have a saying ah yes right well the way to extinguish the way to extinguish the small
11:42fire small fire is with a bigger one yes exactly yes so how do we do that well then this
11:47is the
11:47question here yes right this is what i am saying yes exactly so yes
11:53also nothing back from lionel messi but they did ask us to send him the hat
11:57okay cool over in the social media space having come up with the idea of mashing up their keepy
12:03uppy ball campaign with sarah's shine a light environmental initiative all thanks to will
12:08the team has been busy reaching out to global sports stars to keep the ball up and wear the hat
12:13but so far without much luck okay so we keep going here right like it doesn't even have to be
12:18a soccer
12:18player like it could be right totally right it could be anybody right right like even will has
12:22like 300 views now right right yeah right so it could be anybody right right totally yeah it could be
12:27anybody yeah cool and no one is more keenly aware than sarah of what's at stake if they could somehow
12:32pull this off okay so cristiano ronaldo leonel messi chad vandergrift mohammed salah abidalka pomer
12:40killing mbappe narenda modi wait narenda modi okay wait yeah like he plays for real madrid right uh so
12:47no way what no way what they love the hat who does uh lionel messi his people okay lionel messi
12:53whoa no
12:53they love the hat they love the idea he wants to do it okay okay oh my gosh cool will
12:59yeah i know yeah
13:00that's just like mental can i hug you uh yeah would that be okay yeah okay cool
13:11i'm so sorry i just had to do that yeah no no worries yeah cool
13:27wait you're saying legally i have to tell him it's another morning and for sarah it's another cup
13:32of tea at the start of another day tell him i don't care what's he gonna do about it right
13:37okay so sue me go ahead but you can tell him from me that i absolutely no absolutely okay sure
13:43bye
13:44bye-bye all right hi i thought i might find you in here absolutely i can't go on meeting like
13:49this
13:49right yes no i was just oh by the way congratulations on the news about messi and the hat right
13:54i mean
13:55that would be amazing if that happened sure i mean wouldn't it so his management has been in touch right
14:00and they're asking about the issue with the ball right yes so yes right when we were this close no
14:06but i'm sure we'll find a way i mean in the end it's just a problem it's just a problem
14:12well there
14:12are all kinds of problems aren't there and i think we're at a point with this one where the only
14:15way
14:15out of it is to find a solution right i mean that's literally the only way of dealing with it
14:19so no
14:20i mean it's exciting right yeah so anyway a big day uh but i just wanted to find you it's
14:25a bit
14:25embarrassing but i think with everything going on i managed to leave my keys behind in the flat this
14:29morning okay i mean locked inside obviously sure so i was just wondering if sure no no problem i
14:35have a spare set oh great phew so i don't actually have them with me oh okay they're at home
14:39right
14:41so i could just bring them over to you at the end of the day right uh well that seems
14:44a bit i could
14:45meet you at the condo oh i could come to your place right well if it's better for you to
14:50come
14:50to my place i mean your place actually of course sure with news breaking a few moments ago the
14:56president xi is threatening to pull out of the summit describing recent comments by president
15:01about the chinese-made computer chip in the ball as unacceptable and offensive our diplomatic
15:07correspondent andrew du claire has been following this story and is in beijing andrew this is a
15:12story that just got a lot more serious in the last few minutes right well alex as you say this
15:17is
15:17a story that has gotten a lot more serious in the last few minutes meanwhile it looks as if the
15:21issue
15:21with the official ball has got more serious still in the last few minutes with china's president xi
15:26jingping now threatening to pull out of a scheduled meeting with president trump at the g20 summit in
15:32paris okay so this is not good president as is his way of course appears to be doubling down with
15:40a
15:40series of new posts with another one coming in just in the last few moments describing the new solar
15:45power generators to be deployed across all 2026 venues as chinese fake tech it's not good news for
15:51anyone but especially not if your mission in life as the person responsible for sustainability and
15:57climate strategy is to make the world a better place saying they should be replaced instead with
16:01u.s made diesel generators running on u.s gas which he describes as common sense fox is coming where's
16:08sarah yes in the kitchen i think yes okay no you're all right she's gone public areas having zero
16:14environmental impact so things are moving faster around here yes exactly i have good news zurich has
16:19been talking to the white house right we have good relations there as you know right yes yeah
16:23they have also been talking to beijing okay who's your account yes fortunately we know our president is
16:29a personal friend with president g of course right wait a personal friend of president g ah yes yes what
16:35the does that mean so apparently they share a love for opera what perhaps we can say this is the
16:41power
16:41of football and music working together yes yes well anyway opera uh yes anyway we will be uh releasing
16:47a statement shortly which we hope will de-escalate the situation great okay and which we hope will be
16:52acceptable to all the parties involved right okay then hopefully we can all get back to football
16:56yes exactly exactly so so good news yes yes but hang on i mean how how i mean what kind
17:02of statement
17:02what's going to be in it ah yes uh so we can say they are very keen to know this
17:07right actually we can
17:08say super keen right ah okay what what you mean is we're going to be releasing a statement well
17:15fuck's sake no no perhaps we can say when the big moment arrives in the big game this is where
17:21you
17:21find out who you are yes well no you sure you want to know that no mames we it's a
17:25little quick
17:25party this is the third guerra mondial yes well exactly yes meanwhile as rumors surrounding the chinese
17:32chip in the ball continue to proliferate on social media and with president and president xi jingping
17:37apparently in a standoff the pressure is building on 2026 organizers to find a solution to this
17:43problem before it gets a lot more serious i mean so in terms of what we know we know we
17:47can't replace
17:48the chip with a different chip and we know exactly why we can't do that we know we can't replace
17:52the
17:52ball with a different ball and again we know exactly why we can't do that right so we're starting
17:57from a place where we know quite a lot already so that's all good yeah right with the world's media
18:01watching and what would once have been diplomats in both washington and beijing waiting for an
18:06official statement from this is about as serious as it can get unless it gets more serious still
18:12i mean is there a way and listen if i had a better idea i would tell you about it
18:15but is there a way
18:16we could just turn this thing off right okay turn it off you mean the chip right so what do
18:21you mean
18:21turn it off look so look i love technology as much as the next guy so recently i've actually started
18:26sleeping with it but in this case but in this case it is the technology that got us where we
18:31are here
18:31right well yes that's true right so i'm just wondering okay okay i mean that's an interesting
18:36light to shine on this isn't it interesting is it i don't know fuck's sake so nick uh you don't
18:41seem
18:41so this is a chip right right right how do we know if it's on or off okay how do
18:45we know what it's doing
18:46yeah no okay yeah fair point so what we get our guy to have a private word with president g
18:50at cosi
18:51fan-fucking-tute yes or i don't know maybe we cut a deal maybe they get to keep the chip
18:55switched on if
18:55they promise not to invade taiwan yes okay you know actually that's not a bad idea actually i mean what
18:59are we what is
19:00this a high school slumber party okay bueno so what you have here this is a runaway train yes well
19:05exactly then when you have a runaway train what do you do what you do is so you make sure
19:09you are
19:09laying the track yes right exactly i'm sorry but i'm struggling it so this is instead of the fire is
19:14it excuse me yeah uh here yes i think that's obviously this is not my area but i'm pretty sure
19:18the train is on fire as well here exactly well okay yeah got it with the clock ticking and the
19:23world
19:23waiting for a statement the challenge is to find something acceptable to zurich beijing washington
19:28and conspiracy theorists the world over and in an era of competing narratives and with fact
19:34heavily circumcised they need to find a story that's better than anyone else's story okay so
19:39let's go back to the beginning and start again really hang on haven't we done that once already well
19:42sometimes when you tell yourself the story again you see something that's been staring you in the face
19:46all along huh yeah like disaster okay so the chips are made by one correct and just to be clear
19:52all
19:52the software is one too right uh well no actually i believe the ball tracking software itself is actually
19:57u.s based right written by a bunch of 14 year olds in silicon valley okay right okay right huh
20:08by the end of the afternoon with the press now gathered outside there's a growing sense that something has
20:14got to happen hi yes it's ian i'm not sure where you are at the moment but i just wanted
20:19to say just
20:20wanted to bring you up to speed really but in the meantime ian is having a brief moment in the
20:24kitchen
20:24it looks like we're onto something and if it works then it could even be that this whole thing goes
20:29away as quickly as it flared up so for shine a light and for you know saving the world basically
20:34that's all good uh yes and then with the keys uh i'm not quite sure what the plan was so
20:38it might
20:38be good to firm up on that anyway um i hope you're well um i mean i hope you're okay
20:43yes so uh anyway
20:45we'll speak soon yes bye oh right okay well first things first but eventually after intensive track
20:55laying and with the train still on fire the time has finally come for someone to go downstairs and say
21:01something there are a lot of tv crews down there now right we have said you will make one statement
21:05only
21:05yes right yes and don't worry i am there to protect you right okay so in this situation i am
21:09in
21:09midfield i am controlling the game you're just scoring the goals okay yes it's a perfect scenario
21:12yes all right yes okay here we go yes so i've been in contact with zürich right what i can
21:17say to
21:18you is they are super happy with your statement right super happy good exactly yes they just have one
21:22little thought yes okay just to save time here i'm going to be making the statement that we agreed on
21:26in
21:26the room if that's okay ah yes not some other announcement that i haven't seen yet and that i won't
21:30have
21:30time to look at until it's coming out of my mouth no well then in this case uh we can
21:33say good luck yes well thank you
21:35yes thank you yes exactly so so we are avoiding mentioning a snaggy or donald by name at any point
21:44right yes you can literally use any other words you like right i added that one right you got a
21:49problem
21:49with that no right now okay great okay so this is gonna be great right well good luck thanks yeah
21:58good
21:58luck mate you're cool yeah so i guess i shouldn't say this and i mean it as a compliment but
22:02in case it
22:03helps i'm glad it's not me yeah me too yeah yeah 100 okay
22:16thank you so uh thank you for gathering here for this and uh welcome to oversight so we've become aware
22:24obviously in the last few days of a number of rumors surrounding the official ball in the 2026 tournament
22:31so it's a great opportunity for us to clarify things so for a while now there has been a chip
22:37in the ball used in many if not most professional soccer games and there's nothing different about
22:42this tournament but soccer is nothing if not a global game and every four years the world comes
22:48together to celebrate that fact so it is no secret and no surprise to find that the chip in the
22:542026
22:55ball is manufactured in china just as it is no surprise to find that the software that controls
23:00it is written and created here in the us so what do those two facts tell us they tell a
23:07story of two
23:07of the greatest nations on earth the us and china working together in lockstep united in creative and
23:14technical endeavor whether it's this or the cutting edge solar power generators across all our venues and
23:21connected to the rest of the world through the power of sport soccer the 2026 world cup
23:28we live in a complex and often troubled world and i don't know about you but that's a story we
23:35need
23:35to hear now more than ever who knows maybe the world can be a better place after all
23:42in spite of everything thank you mr fletcher have you spoken with the president thank you thank you
23:48exactly so yes
23:55is
23:56oh hi hey i hope you haven't been here long this is so good of you no not at all
24:15it's the end of a long
24:16day and sarah has come over with her spare set of keys to let ian back into the apartment so
24:21i just
24:22wanted to say thank you me no i mean what for that was a brilliant thing you did oh no
24:27well i mean
24:28sometimes it's like with pilots and bad weather sometimes you can't go around it or over it so
24:32in the end you just have to go through it you know that's so true so i want to show
24:37you something
24:38okay you seen this i don't know it depends what it is okay wow they just posted it on the
24:46far
24:46corner site that's amazing right right no he's definitely better than will right how many followers
24:56has he got 500 million on instagram right have we got 500 million hats anyway i just thought you should
25:04see it well no that's amazing i mean well done basically well so really coming over here to let
25:10you in is the least i can do okay well anyway thank you it's very good of you oh okay
25:16so okay actually is
25:21that i mean has someone changed the locks okay i mean could that have happened okay so we should
25:27probably talk i guess right no look i mean it's fine i'm truly sorry about this no honestly really
25:33it's fine i'll phone the hotel it is not fine you know they know me i'm sure they'll be able
25:37to also
25:37you're not going back to a hotel tonight honestly you're not this is my fault no it's no it's not
25:41my
25:42fault i mean it's one of those things isn't it it's just you're not going anywhere there's room in my
25:46place right if you would like that right time has passed at 2026 oversight headquarters in miami
26:00director of integrity ian fletcher has been here for nearly three months in which time a lot has
26:06happened and with the opening ceremony now suddenly just eight weeks away there's a lot to think about
26:12good morning will oh yeah hey yeah morning that's great thank you yeah no worries yeah cool yeah
26:20anything you need to tell me about today yeah i don't know like what well no i'm asking you oh
26:24cool yeah no worries yeah cool oh yeah so there's this guy trying to get a hold of you have
26:28a cottage
26:28oh right yeah it's him yeah i don't know who he is no well as far as i can work
26:32out he's basically a
26:33headhunter okay what no i mean i think he's working on the 2028 olympics in los angeles isn't he
26:38yeah so he keeps phoning right like he's called again twice already this morning okay then i think
26:42you need to be a bit firmer with him yeah okay so next time he calls say that you've spoken
26:47to me
26:47we've discussed it and i'm sorry but this really isn't the right time i've got enough on my plate
26:51with 2026 as it is so i'm sorry but i'm not going to be speaking to him at this time
26:55okay okay yeah
26:57these people are pretty tough you've just got to be tough with them too yeah cool you're tough yeah no
27:10worries you're cool okay so we are very lucky to have vincente with us today truly yes after all we
27:16know how busy he is absolutely right uh but he has done us the courtesy of stopping off in miami
27:22on his
27:22way back to mexico city actually it is an honor for us gracias and and coming in today just to
27:28take us
27:28through his very incredible vision for the opening ceremony which i think you're gonna find uh what
27:33can i say it's uh it's quite something exactly so gracias ryan gracias this morning as the opening
27:40ceremony takes shape the executive team are meeting its creative director vicente huajardo the renowned
27:46mexican film director who has been working in close approximation with 2026 lead events producer
27:52ryan hartz so first of all i want to say to you um this is a great honor for me
27:58to be creating this
28:00show on the world stage in mexico city now in this moment truly and what i ask you now please
28:06take
28:08everything you know about opening ceremonies closing ceremonies this kind of thing take everything you
28:14know everything you have seen and throw it away forget it yes it is gone well so exciting okay good
28:33regarded by many as a visionary especially by those who haven't worked with him
28:37huajardo broke through on the world stage when his film entanglement picked up the oscar for best film
28:43not in any language in 2021 his opening ceremony is to be a unique live collision between creative
28:49forces chosen from literally all over mexico when you make a piece of art you are in control yes you
28:56are in control and you are not in control it is a chemical reaction then you bring these people
29:03together and you say to them you are free now tell me who you are tell me who i am
29:10tell me
29:11what we are doing here tell me what this is and then in the end we know we find out
29:17yes
29:19truly i believe it is a kind of miracle
29:26right okay so well i think first of all just to say thank you vincenti oh my god i mean
29:31that's
29:31really uh well it's amazing to hear about right gracias i told you right yes this is a great story
29:37we're telling here yes well uh and so just you know uh in layman's terms uh when it comes to
29:43telling
29:43our story uh in in terms of what's emerged from this amazing collaboration i mean what has emerged
29:49in the end excuse me you know just so we're all clear at this stage absolutely okay so then you
29:56are
29:56not listening yes well this is the point of what we are doing here this is the point when we
30:01arrive
30:01at our destination then we know where we are right we know it finally all of us for the first
30:05time in
30:06this moment and this is what we share with the world it is not before or after no it is
30:12unique in
30:15this moment we are alive it is not like anything else yes yeah like i said right
30:37okay fine the guy's a genius terrific but apart from anything else there's zero reference to the u.s
30:43right yes zero in the opening ceremony right well or canada actually well no now that i think of it
30:49of course yes i mean what is this the mask of fucking zorro excuse me oh yes the wall i
30:54mean
30:54for fuck's sake meanwhile the senior executive team have repaired to the meeting room to unpack vicente
31:00huajardo's plans for the opening ceremony yeah so i mean ryan sure i'm sure i saw an early draft of
31:05what was going to happen in the opening ceremony at some point right okay yeah absolutely okay so this
31:10was the opening ceremony bici yes i have it here right well i mean sarah for instance sure i seem
31:15to remember a whole sustainability strand running through it absolutely thank you ian no of course
31:20so we've been working with teachers and school children from disadvantaged inner city areas across
31:25all 16 host cities to raise awareness great using the stories they generated they came up with the
31:30beautiful story of chichamita right chichamita right so chichamita is a figure representing the chichimecas
31:36people okay the people who founded mexico city in the pre-hispanic period back before everything
31:41okay exactly yeah right so anyway yeah so he's not doing that what it's not happening he's not doing
31:47it yeah so so that document you got there the beat sheet one of the first things he did was
31:51he took
31:51that document and he shredded it right okay no no like he literally printed out a hard copy and shredded
31:56it in front of the team right literally one of the first things that happened vicente vicente what are
32:00you doing yeah so if a key step in dealing with a problem is to recognize you've got one in
32:04the first
32:04place i think we can say that we've achieved that exactly so and perhaps uh we can say dick yes
32:09okay
32:09so actually we've not even started with the problem here actually right so can i just say i can't tell
32:13you how great it is to be able to talk about this stuff yes for me this is so great
32:17good uh so uh i
32:18guess i was waiting for the the right moment to drop this um so the white house has asked to
32:23see plans
32:24for the opening ceremony right okay great the white house right okay no no no it's pretty clear that this
32:29is coming from the president himself right well yes oh and by the way at the moment he thinks he's
32:33making
32:33the opening speech but at the same time so does president shane bomb of mexico right just that i
32:37throw that one in there for the fun of it yes and does vincenti know about this vincenti i mean
32:41have you
32:42told him right what do you think right okay for fuck's sake
32:52sara yes hi eric thank you so much for this sure i mean i'm hoping it's not going to take
32:57long whatever
32:58it is of course yes exactly so it's later in the morning and chief coordinating attache eric
33:04van de putrens has invited vp sustainability and climate strategy sarah campbell to meet a senior
33:09woman from hr for an open-ended discussion to establish whether she's okay it seems that an
33:15anonymous member of the public has contacted the oversight oversight department to complain about the
33:20professional conduct of a senior executive so i guess this is my fault i should have warned you of
33:28course it's not your fault i mean how dare he you don't know him what's beyond any doubt for sarah
33:33is that as well as being anonymous that person is also her ex-husband taking advantage of a junior and
33:39vulnerable female colleague right it's ludicrous it's legal jargon well i know it is he's a lawyer yeah
33:45i know he is i don't care he's coming after us coming after us right what does that mean one
33:51thing
33:51i do know though so i am not a vulnerable female well no exactly i am not no
34:21okay
34:31it's tuesday and 2026 events producer ryan hertz is back to update the executive team
34:37on developments with the opening ceremony and overnight the white house has sent over a mood
34:42board of moods they'd like to see in it i mean perhaps the first thing to say here ryan i
34:47mean
34:47as a palette of you know of things this looks pretty heavily us focused uh-huh yeah right and i
34:55suppose
34:55that's one story to tell here excuse me but i'm assuming that as far as vincenti is please i ask
35:00you do not send me this right this i do not look at it yes but then also just more
35:06generally when
35:07it comes to our other friends and stakeholders in the whole 2026 we have the opening ceremony
35:11at the estadio azteca in mexico city for a reason well yes yeah just remind us okay so people
35:18have been playing soccer in mexico for thousands of years thousands of years yeah um since before
35:22the u.s even invented itself excuse me okay okay so the u.s did not just invent itself okay
35:27yes it
35:28did that's what okay stop it please stop it this is not about mexico excuse me it's not about the
35:39u.s or even canada sorry owen no sure if you're telling the story of the chichi mechis people
35:44you're telling the story of all of us this is a story about the world before it all went wrong
35:49right
35:50when people understood the land they lived on because it told them who they were and we really
35:54need that story now yes yes we need to have that story told to us like children and this is
36:01our chance
36:01to tell it to the world yeah can i just say i'm with her yes thank you sarah no sure
36:10then we can
36:11say in this moment we are all chichi mechis yes yes well so before we get into the solution-based
36:18phase of this uh ryan that's it is it there's nothing else we need to know oh yeah oh oh
36:22yeah
36:22there's more right so for the duration of the tournament they want to rename the azteca stadium
36:27the stadium of the americas right okay interesting the stadium of the americas uh-huh right
36:43oh yes like i can do that for you no it's okay yeah but that's like what i do yes
36:47i know but
36:47sometimes it's just good to have something to do with your hands for ian after the meeting it's
36:52time for a coffee yes then there's this other guy trying to get a hold of you not the other
36:55guy yes
36:56yeah i don't know he sounds a bit yes i think i know who he is he keeps asking for
36:59your personal
36:59number yes yes so i didn't give it to him no good yeah so anyway i forwarded you the email
37:03he sent
37:03right yes yeah i suppose i should ask really did you read it the email yes yes yes like a
37:11lot
37:11of it i couldn't understand no well probably just as well i think yeah just as well yeah there you
37:15go yeah cool yeah no worries yeah thanks this only one gonna be tough with him yes thanks will
37:21yeah no worries you're cool
37:28right right absolutely although you should probably know the olympics in 2028 is not something i've been
37:36thinking about up to now like there's enough for 2026 right but i guess i was just curious to hear
37:42a
37:42bit more about the whole sustainability brief there right meanwhile with a headhunter on the loose the
37:47opening ceremony finally coming towards them in one way or another and change in the air people are
37:52starting to think about the future i will say i'm not sure i've been headhunted before so oh well that's
37:59kind of you kind of you to say that right uh-huh
38:09so i wasn't going to talk to him originally right i mean i guess he's just some guy you know
38:13a headhunter
38:14doing his job well yes i know he's been trying to get hold of me too right but this is
38:19la right
38:20sustainability actually needs something there like they get it i kind of invented it you are serious
38:25i don't know and this is all to do with what's happened so this is not going to go away
38:29right
38:30what you mean he's not going to give it up he's not going to stop okay fine but that's his
38:34stuff and
38:34i'm not going to let him do this to us so what you'd leave well i mean how's that going
38:39to help
38:40help us i mean so what if this was a moment for a new start a new start right for
38:47us what if this
38:49is a solution waiting to happen
39:05okay well so obviously quite a lot to think about this morning uh-huh yep hi there's me yeah right
39:09it's thursday and there's a lot to think about this morning overnight the complex and sensitive
39:14issues surrounding the opening ceremony have become more sharply defined i mean ryan i suppose the first
39:19thing is in terms of the boycott threat itself yeah i mean how seriously should we be taking this
39:24sure right right
39:28yes so following rumors of the white house's plans to rename the azteca stadium the stadium of the
39:33americas the mexican team is now threatening to boycott the tournament altogether and several other
39:38countries are threatening to follow suit i mean i suppose basically is this real excuse me or could
39:43it be part of something real well i just mean we changed the name of the stadium they're not playing
39:47okay right then there is no work yes okay well it's simple well good to get clarity on that
39:51straight away sure this is an existential moment for the oversight team if up to now they've been
39:57caught between seriously hispanic and relentlessly american visions of the opening ceremony they're
40:02suddenly facing a situation where there may be nothing to open at all unless they can find a common
40:07brink to walk everybody backwards from i mean let's think about this because in the end this is about
40:12people isn't it people yeah i mean it always is so excuse my language here but what the
40:16does that mean well so in terms of the white house i mean what is it that the president actually
40:21wants
40:21here what do you mean what does he want he wants to steal the azteca stadium from the mexican people
40:26well that's something we need to talk about obviously no it is not no but in the meantime
40:29thinking laterally is there anything we can offer him that might make him feel good huh anything we
40:35can offer him i mean just as a way of taking the heat out of this uh-huh yeah well
40:43there's greenland
40:43i suppose okay greenland great and i'm thinking that would probably do it right sure i mean eric is
40:48there a way of finding out if there's something that might work here maybe using a back channel
40:52ah yes i was thinking maybe through xeric well you know just to bypass all the politics here and then
40:57perhaps we can say is there a problem in our world today that cannot be solved when great men share
41:01a
41:02golf cart excuse me yes well a golf cart huh so for me guys that's not a back channel that's
41:06more of a
41:07front channel so then maybe there wouldn't be any problems in the world today if all these men were
41:11not playing golf yes yes well huh i think that's a bigger question aha yep bueno yeah no i mean
41:16to be
41:16fair that's huge right yes and just so i know i mean hypothetically in terms of any meetings or
41:23interviews or whatever i mean that could be done by zoom could it all you know right yes but beyond
41:29the
41:29opening ceremony for ian this is a week with a number of things to think about and a number of
41:34people to talk to about a number of different things i mean thanks for getting in touch in the
41:38first place i'm sorry i was so hard to get hold of but absolutely yes and obviously i'll get back
41:44to
41:44you and right yes yes no i'm sure it will okay bye bye okay so just to say before we
42:06start i think
42:06i'm right in saying gabriella ryan isn't with us this morning no he is not i mean i'm not quite
42:10sure
42:10what the so ryan will not be with us because he's not here right yeah no he's gone yeah and
42:16the
42:16story okay good so eric i gather we have intelligence back from zurich well really so emily
42:25right okay so what are we looking at here do you really want me to answer that or a picture
42:29of the
42:30president yes yeah on the big screen okay yeah huh friday morning and with the opening ceremony crisis
42:37deepening and more nations threatening to pull out following the white house's intervention
42:41it looks as if thanks to some covert back channel activity by zurich they may have found an answer
42:47to the question of what you give to the biggest man in the world to make him feel good yeah
42:51so what
42:52we're saying to him is he's going to be sitting there watching whether melania's got her giant hat on
42:56we don't know yes well right so he looks up and he pretty much sees himself on the big screen
43:02anytime as much as he likes okay huh so the information we have uh this could be very helpful
43:09to us in the wider picture meaning what if we could give him that then some of the other stuff
43:14might
43:14well who can say okay so what i am hearing from their comms people we're going to need a figure
43:19here
43:19yes oh right of course a figure exactly okay an actual percentage of available screen time compared
43:24to anyone else right so this is going to be fun right yes okay okay you're in the white house
43:35we're talking about the american president it's become clear that the possible breakthrough will
43:39depend on detailed negotiations with the white house the mexican authorities and various other
43:44parties as to the precise percentage of time that so-called dignitaries will have on screen during
43:49coverage of the opening ceremony okay right absolutely great it's been tense and it's been
43:57difficult but eventually it looks as if they might have finally got there
44:0463 guys right that's a great outcome right well vamos what it is an outcome they asked for like 95
44:10right this is a terrific deal so just to be clear because this is freaky stuff when it comes to
44:15time
44:15allocated to shots of these guys during the ceremony we're saying 63 percent of them will
44:20be a president right exactly jesus exactly and in the meantime we're saying to the mexican president
44:25that she has 29 yes yeah well because she is mexican and because she is a woman well that's her
44:30shit right excuse me look do we want this opening ceremony to happen or not well yes i think we
44:34can
44:34say yes we do yes yes we do yes and in the meantime gabriella would it be an idea to
44:39give the mexican
44:39team a sort of you know an unofficial heads up that things are going to be okay okay just to
44:44get the
44:44de-escalation process underway yeah so i don't want to be picky about this but just before we get
44:49into some kind of de-escalation frenzy here we have 63 percent i'm trying hard not to visualize
44:55that by the way 29 president shane baum exactly because look don't so that's 92 percent right right
45:01and the other eight percent is our guy right oh yes it's zurich okay uh so we know for sure
45:06our guy
45:06as you call him is always 15 percent yes right because what always 15 no no no what are you
45:12insane
45:13yes completely that's a hundred and seven percent right one hundred and seven uh so actually this
45:17is enshrined in the official statutes of the tournament yeah yeah you see i'm sorry but for
45:20me that's too much we just negotiated this whole deal yes i mean on the upside i suppose the good
45:25news is all we need to do now is just find another seven percent from somewhere what yeah no hundred
45:29percent yeah so yeah well okay no no no so we're not getting down below 63 that is not going
45:34to happen
45:35well mexico is not going below 29 yes this is the whole history of our country right um yeah because
45:40i guess
45:41where i was going with this is what about canada excuse me oh right yes canada yeah what do you
45:46mean what about canada well i guess you know just what about canada really yes no good point
45:56whilst the numbers are being re-crunched this is a good moment for ian to catch up with his assistant
46:00well these are nice yeah no so they're erics right yes john maybe they're erics yes i don't care
46:08and it's a week where there's a lot to catch up on oh yes so ryan hurts would like to
46:12meet you
46:12all right yeah for like a coffee or something to talk about what happened yes yes he's suggesting
46:16two weeks time two weeks time yeah thursday yeah he thinks he'll be out again by then right
46:22i'm pretty sure i'm not going to be here then okay cool so in fact i should probably say well
46:27you should
46:28probably know in fact you'll hear this soon enough anyway i'm not going to be here then what so i'm
46:35not
46:35going to be here i'm sorry i mean i've been talking to them for the past week or so zoom
46:46interviews
46:47with people in la and so on so one of the things about this particular role for various reasons it
46:52starts quite soon uh well really soon actually so if i was going to make a decision and then here
46:58we're not far off the opening ceremony now so we're almost there so in the end i suppose it seemed
47:03as good a time as any really so is it a professional thing or right or is it something more
47:10you know
47:12yeah so this isn't what i thought was going to happen when i came out here any of it i
47:15mean
47:16i didn't think i was going to feel this way about someone not at this point in my life anyway
47:21or any point in my life really but here i am if that answers your question yes well i mean
47:28yes
47:47ian fletcher's shock decision to leave miami and accept a senior role in the 2028 olympics in los
47:53angeles is a reminder for everyone that nothing lasts forever but sometimes the big things in life can
47:59happen fast and for ian himself this is a moment that could be not so much an ending as a
48:04new
48:04beginning so we already we're all here yes well yes yeah cool yeah i suppose now is as good a
48:10time
48:10although hang on where's sarah oh she was here a moment ago but i can't see it ah yes yes
48:15where is
48:16sarah yeah i don't know yeah
48:24he called me in the car this morning and he's going after custody now if i go
48:30right where sarah is it turns out is up on the terrace lily says mom go do it you deserve
48:36it i'll be
48:37okay she's 16 and she's a young woman but i look at her and there's a nine-year-old girl
48:45in there
48:46somewhere i can see it in her eyes and i'm scared yes i never used to be scared
48:58i'm sorry i'm so so sorry
49:10okay okay thank you having established where sarah was and why ian's task now is to go back
49:16downstairs and deliver a leaving speech in the knowledge that if endings can sometimes be new
49:21beginnings they can equally often just be endings what can we say about ian fletcher well we can say it
49:27was an honor and a privilege to serve under him but most of all we can say thank you thank
49:33you ian
49:34for steering us through dangerous waters to within reach of safety and dry lands before leaving us to
49:40take up your duty on another great ship out on the high seas i wish i'll continue from now on
49:45we can
49:46never know but in the meantime thank you emily we would like you to have this as a token of
49:52our gratitude
49:53and as a reminder of your time here with us in miami
50:01thank you thank you well uh well thank you uh well thank you well first of all thank you eric
50:11for
50:11for that and uh and then thank you for the uh for this yes
50:19so uh for me this has been a quite extraordinary time here in miami when i arrived i didn't know
50:25quite what to expect um perhaps that was just as well so in some ways i feel like i've only
50:30just
50:30arrived and yet here i am saying goodbye to it already yes so now i want to say thanks to
50:36you
50:36because i think i can say i've learned a lot i hope i have anyway about soccer obviously phil
50:42about the optics of mexico gabriella about canadian logic owen about all things zurich up to a point
50:50eric uh literally everything i could ever want to know about the u.s legal system nick
50:55and then perhaps about what matters in our world beyond all that sarah what's really most precious
51:01in our life and how we can try to save it and just so you know this is not stuff
51:05i'm going to forget
51:06i think i can say already that my time here in miami is going to stay with me wherever i
51:10end up in
51:11the future so thank you for that all of you and for the alligator head obviously
51:34at the end of the day it's coming to the end of ian fletcher's time in miami no it's pretty
51:39cool
51:39because the thing is like i've never actually been to l.a right yes um yeah like i was going
51:43to go
51:43once like my parents were like you can go and stay with your sister yes yeah but then my sister
51:47was
51:47like no we've got ants you can't come right ants yeah i know yeah well we should probably talk about
51:51this yeah i know because apparently they can eat your shoes and stuff well but yeah i know you're
51:54mental you know because what they do is ah okay yeah will would you mind taking this yeah no worries
52:03you're cool great thanks yes you take care it doesn't matter just take it yeah no cool you're cool
52:55okay thanks for that yeah no worries you're cool
52:57okay
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