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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've never heard of keepy-uppies?
00:19What, like it's a thing?
00:20Oh, man.
00:22Yeah, no, it's great. It's really old.
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.
00:38Whoa.
00:38Jesus. Head nice and still.
00:40Oh, my God.
00:41It's all about distribution away.
00:43This is so cool.
00:45Oh, sorry, Will.
00:47Yeah, no worries. Yeah, cool.
00:48Okay, bad luck. Just keep your head still, yeah?
00:51Oh, okay.
00:52Yeah, no, sorry. You're not crab.
00:54Okay.
00:55Nice, easy rhythm.
00:57Like, 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. They're just doing their own thing.
01:04Like, hashtag, keepy-uppie challenge.
01:06Hashtag 2026.
01:07Like, you posted personal best, right?
01:08Right, I can totally see that.
01:10Okay, okay. Let's do it.
01:12Like, like, this is really cool, right?
01:14Right.
01:14Hey, you want to try?
01:16Me.
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 and the manufacturers and our alternative
01:25technologies team, but we got there, right?
01:27We made it.
01:28Viva.
01:29Absolutely.
01:29Meanwhile, in the meeting room, Sarah is wearing her sustainability and climate strategy
01:34hat in a big way.
01:36So, we are now able to say, officially, that the lighting in all public areas around all
01:40of our stadiums and all of our venues will be powered exclusively by onsite solar powered
01:45generators producing 100% sustainable electricity with zero environmental impact.
01:50Right.
01:51Well, that's really, I mean, that's really great.
01:53Yeah, that is something, right?
01:55Shine the light.
01:56Shine a light is the flagship initiative in her Better Place pledge to leave the host
02:01cities, North America, and ultimately the world itself in a better place after the 2026
02:06tournament 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.
02:16Why not?
02:17Because they have to be, right?
02:18Bravo.
02:19Sarah.
02:27So, there's a chip in the ball, right?
02:30They put a chip in the ball.
02:32Like, 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?
02:42Need I say any more?
02:43These are not case.
02:44Okay, so you cannot actually say that.
02:45Yeah, right, right, right.
02:46But meanwhile, back in the world of balls, there's been an unforeseen development.
02:50Like, this is actually the same chip they're using in Chinese military drones and nuclear
02:55warheads.
02:56Of 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, which claims that in early trials, players are unhappy
03:06with the new 2026 ball, which they say doesn't behave normally through the air, prompting
03:11a 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.
03:39I hope not.
03:40Like he has like this channel, like things they don't want you to know.
03:43Yeah, yeah.
03:43Right.
03:44Yeah, you see, for me, I'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, he has about 12 subscribers.
03:52So 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, but it's hashtag grow up, get off your ass and get a fucking life, right?
04:03Yeah, right, right, right.
04:14Why would I do that?
04:16I 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, it's already Tuesday.
04:24I don't care.
04:25So that's just a legal thing, right?
04:27That's just a-
04:28Okay.
04:29Well, yeah, absolutely.
04:30No.
04:31Absolutely.
04:31That is a plan and we will talk again soon.
04:34Okay.
04:34Absolutely great.
04:35Sure.
04:35Bye.
04:36Bye-bye.
04:37Hi.
04:38Morning.
04:39Just thought I'd pick up a coffee before I start.
04:41Absolutely.
04:42By the way, I know I should be drinking ashwagandha tea instead.
04:46Well.
04:46I know you left some for me in the survival pack in the apartment.
04:49Right.
04:49And I will start drinking it, I promise, but sometimes-
04:52Right.
04:53So the guy showed up to fix the garbage disposal?
04:55Yes, yes.
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, I see that Shine a Light went live on the website this morning.
05:12Right.
05:13Looks great.
05:14Well, thank you.
05:14You had any reaction yet?
05:16Right.
05:16So, actually, as of now, not yet?
05:19Right.
05:20No.
05:20Still.
05:21It's early days, right?
05:22Absolutely.
05:22And it's out there now.
05:24Absolutely.
05:24Yeah, it's real.
05:25There you go.
05:26Saving the world again.
05:27Oh, now stop it.
05:28I bet you say that to all the sustainability girls.
05:30I probably shouldn't say this, but who knows.
05:33Maybe the world really can be a better place after all, right?
05:36Right.
05:36In spite of everything.
05:38Yes.
05:38So, that's all good then.
05:40Yes.
05:44Yes.
05:45They can control it whenever they want, like with free kicks or penalties, like there's
05:49actually a building in Beijing, like there's footage out there, like it's insane.
05:53Right, okay.
05:55Huh.
05:55I mean, fuck's sake, this guy can barely type.
05:57By nine o'clock, with stories about the chip in the 2026 ball now proliferating fast
06:02amongst highly trained conspiracy theorists online, the Strategic Operations Group, or SOG,
06:07has gathered in the meeting room.
06:08It can connect with any wifi network, wherever it is, using AI to bypass password and security,
06:12and they can harvest information from computers or phones on that network without 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.
06:24There's another one somewhere, I saw it earlier.
06:26The ball can listen.
06:27Exactly, yes.
06:28Yes, well, listen.
06:29Yeah.
06:29Exactly.
06:30What to?
06:32Yes, I mean...
06:32What do you mean, what to?
06:33What kind of a fucking question is that?
06:35Okay, well...
06:35I mean us, I guess, in this case.
06:38Balls?
06:38Yeah.
06:38Christ.
06:39I mean, if that's true, you've got to say, it's impressive.
06:42Well...
06:42I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I don't find that easy a lot of the time, and
06:45I've got ears.
06:45Yes.
06:46Exactly so.
06:47The official f***er 2026 football is made by a**, who we're unable to name for legal
06:52reasons.
06:53And the pressure is on to establish, firstly, what the actual truth about the ball is, and
06:57then, crucially, whether that's going to be believable.
06:59I mean, perhaps before we get drawn any further into the whole, you know...
07:02We're looking at a bottomless pit of shit here.
07:04Yes, well, that's one way.
07:05Yeah, 100%.
07:05Yeah, so as I say, before we get drawn any further into that, shall we just back up a
07:09moment and try and establish a few facts here?
07:12Ah, yes.
07:12Interesting.
07:13Yeah, that'd be something.
07:14Yes, because just to be clear about what we're dealing with here, in terms of the optics
07:17of this...
07:18Exactly, yes.
07:18I mean, because, well, there is a chip in the ball, isn't there?
07:20Oh, yeah.
07:21Well, we know that, so that's actually true.
07:23Of course there is.
07:23I mean, otherwise, how are we going to know where it is?
07:26Yes, and so, just out of interest then, is it Chinese made, do we know?
07:30What, the chip?
07:30Yes.
07:31I mean, I don't know.
07:32Probably, right?
07:32How do I know that?
07:33Do we know that, Eric?
07:35Well, because I know Xeric's been working very closely with a** through all the development
07:39stages of this.
07:40Well, exactly.
07:40So, then perhaps we can say we are all Chinese now, yes?
07:44Right, okay.
07:45It is where we are.
07:46When?
07:47Okay, f**k.
07:49Okay, so, with something like this, the only people that are going to visit the website
07:52are people who already know that it's there, right?
07:54Right.
07:55Okay, totally.
07:56Right, and think about the people who already know it's there, is they already know it's
07:59there, right?
08:01Right, right.
08:01Meanwhile, Sarah is with the social media team, analyzing early reaction to her Shine a
08:06Light campaign.
08:07And with three comments posted on the website so far, two of them from Ian Fletcher, the
08:12main takeaway is that there hasn't really been one.
08:14It's like the people that you need to reach out to here are the people that are not going
08:16to visit the website.
08:17Okay.
08:18Like, they have literally no idea what it is.
08:20Right.
08:20Like, this is a huge audience, right?
08:22Right, totally.
08:22Yeah, right, it's huge.
08:24Yeah, right, right, right.
08:24But fortunately, as usual, they've got the whole of the internet at their finger and thumb
08:28tips.
08:29Okay.
08:30Okay, so apparently the Rolling Stones actually sang this song, Shine a Light.
08:33Okay.
08:34The Rolling Stones.
08:35Right, yes.
08:36Okay.
08:36Right.
08:37Ew.
08:37Okay.
08:38Wait, what happened?
08:40Not going to work.
08:41No way.
08:42Okay, sure.
08:42Their task is to find a way of connecting Shine a Light with a younger and almost universally
08:47unaware audience on social media.
08:50So wait, is that?
08:50Okay, so that's Keep the Uppies.
08:52Keep the Uppies.
08:52Right.
08:53For the ball launch.
08:54Okay.
08:54So cool.
08:55So cool.
08:55Like it's literally gone crazy.
08:57Right, right, right.
08:57Okay, but that's Will, right?
09:00What?
09:00Will?
09:00Oh, 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 so I can do like my personal best.
09:09Right.
09:10Like that's your personal best?
09:11No, but the hat.
09:12Yes, again?
09:13In the video, you're wearing the Shine a Light hat.
09:15Yeah, no.
09:16Yeah.
09:17Okay.
09:17Okay.
09:18Oh my God.
09:18Yeah, so Ian Fletcher gave it to me.
09:20Like he said I could wear it.
09:21Okay.
09:21Okay.
09:21So like if Will was like, I don't know, like Cristiano Ronaldo, right?
09:24No.
09:25Right.
09:25No.
09:26Like, oh my God.
09:26Like, oh my God, shut up.
09:28Yeah, I know you're crap.
09:30We're welcome to you.
09:41Please.
09:47Please.
09:48posting on that the governing body for world soccer should get rid of the
09:54Chinese chip in the ball which he says can actually listen to what you say and
09:59replace it with an American chip made by which he says is far superior anyway
10:03our sports correspondent Dan Howard has been following this story and is outside
10:07the White House now Dan this is a story that just got a lot more serious right
10:12that's right Alex as you say this is a story that got more serious overnight
10:16it's Wednesday morning and the issue with the ball has got a lot more serious
10:20overnight and with the president posting again in the last few minutes this time
10:24suggesting that they should replace the this ball itself it is being a German
10:28company of course and replace it with a ball right now we here at CNC news have
10:32approached for comment unfortunately they haven't gotten back to us yet and with
10:36the president I mean the idea of us dropping out completely at this point
10:41yeah no excuse me I mean presumably that would be you know no no no yes so we
10:47can say this could be complicated complicated exactly so okay you want to
10:50know how much the contract with the is worth over the next 10 years well 100
10:53million dollars right 700 yes it's not complicated that's apocalypse now yes and
10:58then when it comes to the idea of replacing the Huawei chip with an
11:01tell chip please okay so these are just details but first of all health don't
11:06actually make their own ships they're actually made out of either Taiwan or
11:09South Korea right yeah and also this is actually pretty interesting I believe
11:13they currently supply the hardware for a lot of the US administration's own
11:16system right but like I say those are just yes they're just facts yes I mean
11:20obviously 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
11:28here is you have a fire here and the forest is dry yes right right we're on fire
11:32okay then in Mexico we have a saying I'm going to extend it on the send you
11:36pequeño it's coming send me my friend ah yes right well the way to extinguish the
11:40way to extinguish the small fire small fire is with a bigger one bigger one yes
11:44exactly yes so how do we do that well then this is the question here yes right
11:48this is what I am saying yes exactly so yes also nothing back from Lionel Messi but
11:55they did ask us to send him the hat okay cool over in the social media space having come up
12:01with the idea of mashing up their keepy uppy ball campaign with Sarah's shine a
12:05light environmental initiative all thanks to will the team has been busy
12:09reaching out to global sports stars to keep the ball up and wear the hat but so
12:14far without much luck okay so we keep going here right like it doesn't even
12:18have to be a soccer player like it could be right totally but it could be anybody
12:20right right like even will has like 300 views now right right yeah right so be
12:25anybody right right totally yeah cool yeah it could be anybody yeah cool and no one is
12:29more keenly aware than Sarah of what's at stake if they could somehow pull this off
12:33okay so Cristiano Ronaldo Lionel Messi Chad Vandergriff Mohamed Salah
12:39Abidalka Pomer Kylian Mbappe Narenda Modi wait Narenda Boney okay wait yeah like he
12:45plays for Real Madrid right uh so no way what no way what they love the hat who
12:50does uh Lionel Messi his people okay Lionel Messi whoa no they love the hat they
12:55love the idea he wants to do it okay okay oh my gosh cool will yeah I know yeah
13:00that's just like mental can I hug you uh yeah that'd be okay yeah okay cool I'm so
13:11sorry 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 bye bye all right oh hi I thought I might find you in here absolutely can't go on meeting
13:49like
13:49this right yes no I was just oh by the way congratulations on the news about Messi and the
13:54hat right I mean that would be amazing if that happened sure I mean wouldn't it so his management
13:59has been in touch right and they're asking about the issue with the ball right yes so yes right when
14:05we
14:05were this close no but I'm sure we'll find a way I mean in the end it's just a problem
14:10it's just a
14:12problem well there are all kinds of problems aren't there and I think we're at a point with this one
14:15where the only way out of it is to find a solution right I mean that's literally the only way
14:19of
14:19dealing with it so no I mean it's exciting right yeah so anyway a big day uh but I just
14:24wanted to
14:25find you it's a bit embarrassing but I think with everything going on I managed to leave my keys
14:28behind in the flat this morning okay I mean locked inside obviously sure so I was just wondering if
14:33sure no no problem I have a spare set oh great phew so I don't actually have them with me
14:38oh okay
14:39they're at home right so I could just bring them over to you at the end of the day right
14:43oh well that seems a bit I could meet you at the condo oh I could come to your place
14:47right well if it's better for you to come to my place I mean your place actually of course sure
14:54with news breaking a few moments ago that President Xi is threatening to pull out of the summit
14:59describing recent comments by president about the Chinese made computer chip in the ball as
15:04unacceptable and offensive our diplomatic correspondent Andrew Duclair has been following
15:09this story and is in Beijing Andrew this is a story that just got a lot more serious in the
15:14last few minutes right well Alex as you say this is a story that has gotten a lot more serious
15:19in the
15:19last few minutes meanwhile it looks as if the issue with the official ball has got more serious still
15:24in the last few minutes with China's president Xi Jinping now threatening to pull out of a scheduled
15:29meeting with president Trump at the G20 summit in Paris okay so this is not good president Trump as
15:37is his way of course appears to be doubling down with a series of new posts with another one coming
15:42in just in the last few moments describing the new solar power generators to be deployed across all
15:472026 venues as Chinese fake tech it's not good news for anyone but especially not if your mission in
15:54life as the person responsible for sustainability and climate strategy is to make the world a better
15:59place saying they should be replaced instead with US made diesel generators running on US gas which he
16:05describes as common sense Fox is coming where's Sarah yes in the kitchen I think yes okay no you're
16:12all right she's gone zero environmental impact so things are moving faster on here yes exactly I have
16:18good news Zurich has been talking to the White House right we have good relations there as you know
16:22right yes yeah they have also been talking to Beijing okay who's your account yes fortunately we
16:28know our president is a personal friend with President Xi of course right wait a personal friend of
16:34President Xi yes yes what the fuck does that mean so apparently they share a love for opera what huh
16:39perhaps we can say this is the power of football and music working together yes yes well any opera
16:45yes anyway we will be releasing a statement shortly which we hope will de-escalate the situation great
16:50okay and which we hope will be acceptable to all the parties involved right okay then hopefully we can
16:55all get back to football yes exactly exactly so so good news yes yes but hang on I mean how
17:00how I mean
17:02what kind of statement what's going to be in it I yes so we can say they are very keen
17:07to know this
17:07right actually we can say super keen right ah okay what what you mean is we're going to be releasing
17:14a statement well fuck's sake no no no perhaps we can say when the big moment arrives in the big
17:19game
17:20this is where you find out who you are yes well no you sure you want to know that no
17:24mames we
17:25this is not any party this is the third world war yes well exactly yes meanwhile as rumors surrounding
17:31the Chinese chip in the ball continue to proliferate on social media and with President Trump and
17:36President Xi Jinping apparently in a standoff the pressure is building on 2026 organizers to find a
17:42solution to this problem before it gets a lot more serious I mean so in terms of what we know
17:47we know
17:47we can't replace the chip with a different chip and we know exactly why we can't do that we know
17:52we can't
17:52replace the ball with a different ball and again we know exactly why we can't do that right so we're
17:57starting from a place where we know quite a lot already so that's all good yeah right with the
18:01world's media watching and what would once have been diplomats in both Washington and Beijing waiting
18:06for an official statement from this is about as serious as it can get unless it gets more serious
18:12still I mean is there a way and listen if I had a better idea I would tell you about
18:15it but is there
18:16a way we could just turn this thing off right okay turn it off you mean the chip right so
18:21what do you
18:21mean turn it off look so look I love technology as much as the next guy so recently I've actually
18:26started sleeping with it but in this case but in this case it is the technology that got us where
18:31we are here right well yes that's true right so I'm just wondering okay okay I mean that's an
18:36interesting light to shine on this isn't it interesting is it I don't know fuck's sake so
18:40Nick you don't seem so this is a chip right right right how do we know if it's on or
18:44off okay how do we
18:45know what it's doing yeah no okay yeah fair point so what we get our guy to have a private
18:49word
18:50with President G at Kosi fan fucking tute yes or I don't know maybe we cut a deal maybe they
18:54get
18:54to keep the chip switched on if they promise not to invade Taiwan yes okay you know actually that's
18:58not a bad idea actually I mean what are we what is this a fucking high school slumber party okay
19:02bueno so what you have here this is a runaway train yes well exactly then when you have a runaway
19:07train what do you do what you do is so you make sure you are laying the track yes right
19:10well
19:11exactly I'm sorry but I'm struggling it so this is instead of the fire is it excuse me yeah uh
19:15fire
19:16yes I think that's obviously this is not my area but I'm pretty sure the train is on fire as
19:20well
19:20here exactly well okay yeah got it with the clock ticking and the world waiting for a statement
19:24the challenge is to find something acceptable to Zurich Beijing Washington and conspiracy theorists
19:30the world over and in an era of competing narratives and with fact heavily circumcised
19:35they need to find a story that's better than anyone else's story okay so let's go back to the
19:40beginning and start again really hang on haven't we done that once already well sometimes when you tell
19:44yourself the story again you see something that's been staring you in the face all along huh like
19:47yeah like disaster okay so the chips are made by one way correct and just to be clear all the
19:52software is what too right uh well no actually I believe the ball tracking software itself is actually
19:57US based right written by a bunch of 14 year olds in Silicon Valley okay right okay right huh
20:09by the end of the afternoon with the press now gathered outside there's a growing sense that
20:14something has got to happen hi yes it's Ian I'm not sure where you are at the moment but I
20:19just wanted
20:19to say just wanted to bring you up to speed really but in the meantime Ian is having a brief
20:24moment in the
20:24kitchen it looks like we're onto something and if it works then it could even be that this whole
20:29thing goes away as quickly as it flared up so for shine a light and for you know saving the
20:33world
20:33basically that's all good uh yes and then with the keys uh I'm not quite sure what the plan was
20:38so
20:38it might be good to firm up on that anyway um I hope you're well um I mean I hope
20:43you're okay
20:44yes so uh anyway we'll speak soon yes bye oh right okay bueno first things first but eventually
20:54after intensive track laying and with the train still on fire the time has finally come for someone
21:00to go downstairs and say something there are a lot of tv crews down there now right but we have
21:04said you
21:04will make one statement only yes right yes and don't worry I am there to protect you right okay so
21:08in
21:08this situation I am in midfield I am controlling the game you're just scoring the goals okay yes it's a
21:12perfect scenario yes all right yes okay here we go yes so I've been in contact with Zurich right
21:17uh what I can say to you is they are super happy with your statement right super happy good exactly
21:22yes they just have one little thought yes okay just to save time here I'm going to be making the
21:25statement that we agreed on in the room if that's okay ah yes not some other announcement that I
21:29haven't seen yet and that I won't have time to look at until it's coming out of my mouth no
21:32well
21:32then in this case uh we can say good luck yes well thank you thank you yes exactly so
21:39see so we are avoiding mentioning a snaggy or Donald Trump by name at any point right yes
21:45you can literally use any other words you like right Donald I added that one right you got a
21:49problem with that no right now okay one great okay so this is gonna be great right well good luck
21:57thanks yeah good luck mate yeah cool yeah so I guess I shouldn't say this and I mean it as
22:02a compliment
22:02but in case it helps 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
22:24aware obviously in the last few days of a number of rumors surrounding the official ball in the 2026
22:30tournament uh so it's a great opportunity for us to clarify things so for a while now there has
22:37been a chip in the ball used in many if not most professional soccer games and there's nothing
22:41different about this tournament but soccer is nothing if not a global game and every four years
22:47the world comes together to celebrate that fact so it is no secret and no surprise to find that the
22:53chip in the 2026 ball is manufactured in China just as it is no surprise to find that the software
22:59that controls it is written and created here in the U.S. so what do those two facts tell us
23:06they tell a story of two of the greatest nations on earth the U.S. and China working together in
23:12lockstep united in creative and technical endeavor whether it's this or the cutting-edge solar power
23:18generators across all our venues and connected to the rest of the world through the power of sport
23:24soccer the 2026 world cup we live in a complex and often troubled world and i don't know about
23:33you but that's a story we need to hear now more than ever who knows maybe the world can be
23:40a better
23:40place after all in spite of everything thank you
23:44Mr. Flesher have you spoken with the president thank you thank you thank you exactly so yes
23:49is this
24:10ah 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
24:16long day and Sarah has come over with her spare set of keys to let Ian back into the apartment
24:21so i just wanted to say thank you me no i mean what for that was a brilliant thing you
24:26did oh no
24:27well i mean sometimes it's like with pilots and bad weather sometimes you can't go around it or over
24:32it so in the end you just have to go through it you know that's so true so i want
24:37to show you
24:37something okay you seen this i don't know it depends what it is okay wow they just posted it
24:46on the far corner site that's amazing right right
24:52no he's definitely better than will right how many followers has he got 500 million on instagram
24:58right have you got 500 million hacks anyway i just thought you should see it well no that's amazing
25:05i mean well done basically well so really coming over here to let you in is the least i can
25:11do okay
25:11well anyway thank you it's very good of you oh okay so okay actually is that i mean has someone
25:23changed the locks okay i mean could that have happened okay so we should probably talk i guess
25:29right no look i mean it's fine i'm truly sorry about this no honestly really it's fine i'll phone the
25:34hotel it is not fine you know they know me i'm sure they'll be able to also you're not going
25:38back
25:38to a hotel tonight honestly you're not this is my fault no it's no it's not my fault i mean
25:43it's one
25:43of those things isn't it it's just you're not going anywhere there's room in my place right
25:56time has passed at 2026 oversight headquarters in miami director of integrity ian fletcher has been
26:03here for nearly three months in which time a lot has happened and with the opening ceremony now
26:09suddenly just eight weeks away there's a lot to think about
26:16morning 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
26:25cool 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 yes him yeah i don't know who he is no well as far as i can work out
26:33he's basically a head
26:33hunter okay what no i mean i think he's working on the 2028 olympics in los angeles isn't he
26:39yeah so he keeps phoning right like he's called again twice already this morning okay then i think
26:43you 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
27:02no worries you're cool
27:11okay so we are very lucky to have vincente with us today truly yes after all we know how busy
27:17he is
27:18absolutely right uh but he has done us the courtesy of stopping off in miami on his way back to
27:23mexico
27:23city actually it is an honor for us and coming in today just to take us through his very incredible
27:29vision for the opening ceremony which i think you're going to find uh what uh can i say it's
27:34uh it's quite something exactly so gracias ryan gracias todos gracias this morning as the opening
27:40ceremony takes shape the executive team are meeting its creative director vicente guajardo the renowned
27:46mexican film director who has been working in close approximation with 2026 lead events producer
27:52ryan hertz so first of all i want to say to you um this is a great honor for me
27:59to be
27:59creating this show on the world stage in mexico city now in this moment truly and what i ask you
28:06now please take everything you know about opening ceremonies closing ceremonies this kind of thing
28:13take everything you know everything you have seen and throw it away forget it yes it is gone
28:22well so exciting okay good
28:33regarded by many as a visionary especially by those who haven't worked with him
28:37guajardo 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
28:55you are 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
29:20truly i believe it is a kind of miracle
29:26right okay so well i think first of all just to say thank you vincente oh my god i mean
29:31that's really
29:31uh well it's amazing to hear about right gracias i told you right yes this is a great story we're
29:37telling here yes well uh and so just you know uh in layman's terms uh when it comes to telling
29:43our
29:43story uh in in terms of what's emerged from this amazing collaboration i mean what has emerged in the
29:49end excuse me you know just so we're all clear at this stage absolutely okay so then you are not
29:56listening yes well this is the point of what we are doing here this is the point when we arrive
30:01at
30:01our destination then we know where we are right we know it finally all of us for the first time
30:06in
30:06this moment and this is what we share with the world it is not before or after no it is
30:13unique
30:14in this moment we are alive it is not like anything else yes yeah like i said right
30:37okay fine the guy's a fucking genius terrific but apart from anything else there's zero reference
30:42to the u.s right yes zero in the opening ceremony right well or canada actually well no now that
30:49i
30:49think of it of course yes i mean what is this the mask of fucking zoro excuse me oh yes
30:54the wall i mean for fuck's sake meanwhile the senior executive team have repaired to the
30:58meeting room to unpack vicente warjardo's plans for the opening ceremony yeah so i mean ryan sure i'm
31:04sure i saw an early draft of what was going to happen in the opening ceremony at some point right
31:07okay uh-huh yeah absolutely okay so this was the opening ceremony bici yes i have it here right
31:13well i mean sarah for instance sure i seem to remember a whole sustainability strand running
31:17through it absolutely thank you ian no of course so we've been working with teachers and school
31:22children from disadvantaged inner city areas across all 16 host cities to raise awareness
31:27great using the stories they generated they came up with the beautiful story of chichamita
31:31right chichamita right so chichamita is a figure representing the chichimecas people
31:37okay the people who founded mexico city in the pre-hispanic period back before everything
31:42yeah right so anyway yeah so he's not doing that what it's not happening he's not doing it yeah so
31:48so that document you got there the b cheat one of the first things he did was he took that
31:51document
31:52and 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 he sent any center what
32:00are you doing yes so if a key step in dealing with a problem is to recognize you've got one
32:04in the
32:04first place i think we can say that we've achieved that exactly so and perhaps we can say tick yes
32:09okay so actually we've not even started with the problem here actually right so can i just say i
32:13can't tell you how great it is to be able to talk about this stuff yes for me this is
32:16so great good
32:17uh so uh i guess i was waiting for the the right moment to drop this um so the white
32:22house has asked
32:23to see plans for the opening ceremony right okay great the white house right okay no no no it's pretty
32:29clear that this is coming from the president himself right well yes oh and by the way at the moment
32:33he
32:33thinks he's making the opening speech but at the same time so does president shane bomb of mexico
32:36right just thought i'd throw that one in there for the fun of it yes and does vincenti know about
32:41this vincenti i mean have you told him right what do you think right okay fuck's sake
32:53yes hi eric thank you so much for this sure i mean i'm hoping it's not going to take long
32:57whatever it is of course yes exactly so it's later in the morning and my chief coordinating attache
33:03eric vandiputrans 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
33:20the professional conduct of a senior executive so i guess this is my fault i should have warned you
33:28of course it's not your fault i mean how dare he you don't know him what's beyond any doubt for
33:33sarah
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
33:45yeah i know he is i don't care he's coming after us coming after us right what does that mean
33:50one thing i do know though so i am not a vulnerable female well no exactly i am not no
33:57one thing i am not a vulnerable female well no no no no no no no no no no no
34:27no no no no no no no no no i
34:27say this is super interesting so this is terrible uh-huh it's tuesday and 2026 events producer ryan
34:35hertz is back to update the executive team on developments with the opening ceremony
34:38and overnight the white house has sent over a mood board of moods they'd like to see in it
34:44i mean perhaps the first thing to say here ryan i mean as a palette of you know of things
34:49this
34:50looks pretty heavily u.s focused uh-huh yeah right oh and i suppose that's one story to tell here
34:56excuse me but i'm assuming that as far as vincenti is concerned please i ask you do not send me
35:01this
35:01shit right this shit i do not look at it yes but then also just more generally when it comes
35:07to
35:07our other friends and stakeholders in the whole 2026 we have the opening ceremony at the estadio
35:12azteca in mexico city for a reason well yes yeah just remind us okay so people have been playing
35:18soccer in mexico for thousands of years thousands of years yeah um since before the u.s even invented
35:23itself excuse me okay okay so the u.s did not just invent itself okay yes it did that's okay
35:31what okay stop it please stop it this is not about mexico excuse me it's not about the us or
35:40even
35:40canada sorry owen no sure if you're telling the story of the chichimecas people you're telling the
35:45story of all of us this is a story about the world before it all went wrong right when people
35:50understood the land they lived on because it told them who they were and we really need that story
35:55now yes yes we need to have that story told to us like children and this is our chance to
36:01tell it to
36:02the world yeah can i just say i'm with her yes thank you sarah no sure then we can say
36:12in this moment
36:12we are all chichimecas yes yes well so before we get into the solution based phase of this uh ryan
36:19that's it is it there's nothing else we need to know oh yeah oh yeah there's more right so for
36:24the
36:24duration of the tournament they want to rename the azteca stadium the stadium of the americas
36:31right okay interesting the stadium of the americas uh-huh right
36:43well 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 time
36:52for a coffee yes then there's this other guy trying to get a hold of you not the other guy
36:55yes yeah i don't
36:56know like he sounds a bit yes i think i know who he is he keeps asking for your personal
36:59number yes
37:00yes so i didn't give it to him no good yeah so anyway i forwarded you the email he sent
37:03right yes
37:04yeah i suppose i should ask really did you read it the email yes yes so like a lot of
37:11it i couldn't
37:11understand no well probably just as well i think yeah just as well yeah there you go yeah cool yeah
37:16no
37:16worries yeah thanks this only one gonna be tough with him yes thanks will yeah 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
37:46loose the opening ceremony finally coming towards them in one way or another and change in the air
37:51people are starting to think about the future i will say i'm not sure i've been headhunted before so
37:58oh well that's kind of you it's kind of you to say that
38:05right so i wasn't going to talk to him originally right i mean i guess he's just some guy you
38:13know
38:14a headhunter doing his job well yes i know he's been trying to get hold of me too right but
38:18this is
38:19la right sustainability actually means something there like they get it i kind of invented it you
38:25are serious i don't know and this is all to do with what's happened so this is not going to
38:29go away
38:30right what you mean he's not going to give it up he's not going to stop okay fine but that's
38:34his
38:34stuff and i'm not going to let him do this to us so what you'd leave well i mean how's
38:39that going to
38:40help help us i mean so what if this was a moment for a new start a new start right
38:46for us 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 yes me yeah right
39:10it's
39:10thursday and there's a lot to think about this morning overnight the complex and sensitive issues
39:15surrounding 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 i mean how seriously should we be taking this sure
39:24right right yeah so following rumors of the white house's plans to rename the azteca stadium the stadium
39:33of the americas the mexican team is now threatening to boycott the tournament altogether and several
39:38other countries are threatening to follow suit i mean i suppose basically is this real excuse me or
39:43could it be part of something real well i just mean we change the name of the stadium they are
39:46not
39:47playing okay right and 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
40:16fuck does that mean well so in terms of the white house i mean what is it that the president
40:21actually
40:21wants here what do you mean what does he want he wants to steal the azteca stadium from the mexican
40:26people well that's something we need to talk about obviously no it is not no but in the meantime
40:30thinking laterally is there anything we can offer him that might make him feel good huh anything we
40:35gonna offer him i mean just as a way of taking the heat out of this uh-huh yeah
40:42well there's greenland i suppose okay greenland great and i'm thinking that would probably do it
40:47right sure i mean eric is there a way of finding out if there's something that might work here maybe
40:51using a back channel oh yes i was thinking maybe through xeric well you know just to bypass all the
40:56politics here and then perhaps we can say is there a problem in our world today that cannot be solved
41:00when great men share a golf cart excuse me yes well a golf cart so for me guys that's not
41:06a back
41:06channel that's more of a front channel so then maybe there wouldn't be any problems in the world
41:10today if all these men were not playing golf yes yes well huh i think that's a bigger question uh
41:15-huh
41:15yep bueno yeah no i mean to be fair that's huge right yes and just so i know i mean
41:20hypothetically in
41:22terms of any meetings or interviews or whatever i mean that could be done by zoom could it or you
41:26know
41:27right yes but beyond the opening ceremony for ian this is a week with a number of things to think
41:33about and a number of people to talk to about a number of different things i mean thanks for
41:37getting in touch in the first place i'm sorry i was so hard to get hold of but
41:41absolutely yes and obviously i'll get back to you and right yes yes no i'm sure it will okay bye
42:04okay so just to say before we start i think i'm right in saying gabriella ryan isn't with us this
42:09morning no he is not i mean i'm not quite sure what the so ryan will not be with us
42:12because he's not
42:13here right yeah no he's gone yeah end of story okay good so eric i gather we have intelligence back
42:19from zurich well really so emily right okay so what are we looking at here do you really want
42:28me to answer that or a picture of the president yes yeah on the big screen okay yeah huh friday
42:35morning and with the opening ceremony crisis deepening and more nations threatening to pull
42:39out following the white house's intervention it looks as if thanks to some covert back channel activity
42:44by zurich they may have found an answer to the question of what you give to the biggest man
42:49in the world to make him feel good yeah so what we're saying to him is he's going to be
42:53sitting
42:54there watching whether melania's got her giant hat on we don't know yes well right so he looks up
42:59and he pretty much sees himself on the big screen anytime as much as he likes okay huh so the
43:07information
43:07we have uh this could be very helpful to us in the wider picture meaning what if we could give
43:12him that
43:13then some of the other stuff might well who can say okay so what i am hearing from their comes
43:18people we're going to need a figure here yes all right of course a figure exactly okay an actual
43:22percentage of available screen time compared to anyone else right so this is going to be fun right
43:27yes okay okay you're in the white house we're talking about the american president here it's become
43:37clear that the possible breakthrough will depend on detailed negotiations with the white house
43:42the mexican authorities and various other parties as to the precise percentage of time that so-called
43:47dignitaries will have on screen during coverage of the opening ceremony okay perfect right absolutely
43:56it's been tense and it's been difficult but eventually it looks as if they might have finally got there
44:03it's a great outcome right well that was what it is an outcome they asked for like 95 right this
44:10is
44:10a terrific deal so just to be clear because this is freaky stuff when it comes to time allocated to
44:16shots
44:16of these guys during the ceremony we're saying 63 of them will be a president right exactly jesus
44:22exactly and in the meantime we're saying to the mexican president that she has 29 yes yeah well
44:27because she is mexican and because she is a woman that's her right excuse me look do we want this
44:32opening ceremony to happen or not well yes i think we can say yes we do yes yes we do
44:36yes and in the
44:37meantime gabriella would it be an idea to give the mexican team a sort of you know an unofficial heads
44:42up that things are going to be okay just to get the de-escalation process underway yeah so i don't
44:47want to be picky about this but just before we get into some kind of de-escalation frenzy here we
44:52have 63 percent i'm trying hard not to visualize that by the way 29 president shane baum exactly
44:58because look don't so that's 92 right right and the other eight percent is our guy right oh yes it's
45:04zurich okay uh so we know for sure our guy as you call him is always 15 percent yes right
45:09because what
45:10always 15 no no no what are you insane yes completely that's 107 right 107
45:16uh so actually this is enshrined in the official statutes of the tournament yeah yeah you see
45:20i'm sorry but for me that's too much we just negotiated this whole deal yes i mean on the
45:24upside i suppose the good news is all we need to do now is just find another seven percent from
45:28somewhere what yeah no 100 yeah so yeah well okay no no no so we're not getting down below 63
45:33percent that is not going to happen well mexico is not going below 29 yes this is the whole history
45:38of our country right um yeah because i guess where i was going with this is what about canada
45:43excuse me oh right yes canada yeah what do you mean what about canada well i guess you know just
45:48what 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
46:00assistant oh these look nice okay no so they're eric's right yes john maybe they're eric's yes i don't
46:06care and it's a week where there's a lot to catch up on oh yes so ryan hurts would like
46:12to meet 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 l.a and so on so one of the things about this particular role for various reasons
46:52it
46:52starts quite soon uh well really soon actually so if i was going to make a decision and then here
46:58we're
46:58not 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
47:12so this isn't what i thought was going to happen when i came out here any of it i mean
47:15i didn't think
47:17i was going to feel this way about someone not at this point in my life anyway or any point
47:21in my life
47:22really but here i am if that answers your question yes well i mean yes
47:47ian fletcher's shock decision to leave miami and accept a senior role in the 2028 olympics in los
47:53angelis is a reminder for everyone that nothing lasts forever but sometimes the big things in
47:59life can happen fast and for ian himself this is a moment that could be not so much an ending
48:04as a new beginning so we already we're all here yes well yes yeah cool yeah i suppose now is
48:09as good
48:10a time although hang on where's sarah no she was here a moment ago but i can't see it ah
48:14yes yes
48:16where is sarah 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 downstairs
49:17and deliver a leaving speech in the knowledge that if endings can sometimes be new beginnings
49:22they can equally often just be endings what can we say about ian fletcher well we can say it was
49:28an
49:28honor and a privilege to serve under him but most of all we can say thank you thank you ian
49:34for
49:35steering us through dangerous waters to within reach of safety and dry lands before leaving us to take
49:40up your duty on another great ship out on the high seas how we shall continue from now on we
49:46can never
49:47know but in the meantime thank you emily we would like you to have this as a token of our
49:52gratitude
49:53and as a reminder of your time here with us in miami
50:01thank you thank you well thank you well first of all thank you eric for for that and uh and
50:13then thank
50:13you 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 arrived
50:31and yet here i am saying goodbye to it already yes so now i want to say thanks to you
50:37because i think
50:37i can say i've learned a lot i hope i have anyway about soccer obviously phil about the optics of
50:44mexico gabriella about canadian logic owen about all things zurich up to a point eric
50:51literally 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 in
51:01our life and how we can try to save it and just so you know this is not stuff i'm
51:05going to forget i
51:06think i can say already that my time here in miami is going to stay with me wherever i end
51:11up in the
51:11future 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 la right yes um yeah like i was going to
51:43go once
51:43like my parents were like you can go and stay with your sister yes yeah but then my sister was
51:47like
51:47no we've got ants you can't come right ants yeah i know yeah well we should probably talk about this
51:51yeah i know because apparently they can eat your shoes and stuff well but yeah i know you're mental
51:55you know because what they do is oh okay yeah will would you mind taking this yeah no worries you're
52:03cool great thanks yes you take it it doesn't matter just take it yeah no cool you're cool
52:17so
52:24so
52:26so
52:37so
52:55Okay, thanks for that.
52:56Yeah, no worries, you're cool.
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