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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.
09:29Yeah, I know you're crap.
09:29Yeah.
09:41Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding the official ball for the soccer world took a more serious
09:47turn overnight with president posting on that the governing body for world soccer should
09:53get rid of the chinese chip in the ball which he says can actually listen to what you say
09:58and replace it with an american chip made by which he says is far superior anyway our
10:04sports correspondent dan howard has been following this story and is outside the white house now
10:08dan this is a story that just got a lot more serious right that's right alex as you say
10:13this is a story that got more serious overnight it's wednesday morning and the issue with the
10:18ball has got a lot more serious overnight and with the president posting again in the last few minutes
10:23this time suggesting that they should replace the adidas ball itself adidas being a german company
10:28of course and replace it with a ball right now we here at cnc news have approached for comment
10:34unfortunately they haven't gotten back to us yet and with the president i mean the idea of us
10:39dropping out completely at this point yeah uh no excuse me i mean presumably that would be you know
10:45no no no yes so we can say this could be complicated complicated exactly so okay you want to know
10:50how
10:50much the contract with the is worth over the next 10 years well 100 million dollars right 700 yes it's
10:56not complicated that's apocalypse now yes and then when it comes to the idea of replacing the
11:00chip with an intel chip oh please okay so these are just details but first of all intel don't actually
11:06make their own ships they're actually made out of either taiwan or south korea right yeah and also
11:11this is actually pretty interesting i believe they currently supply the hardware for a lot of the
11:15u.s administration's own systems 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 but when it comes to
11:25exactly what the narrative is here okay so what you have here is you have a fire here and the
11:29forest is
11:30dry yes right right right we're on fire okay then in mexico we have a saying
11:34la manera de extinguir un incendio pequeño es con un incendio más grande ah yes right well the way
11:39to extinguish the way to extinguish the small fire small fire is with a bigger bigger one yes yes
11:44exactly yes so how do we do that bueno then this is the question here yes right this is what
11:49i am saying
11:49yes exactly so yes
11:53also nothing back from lionel messy but they did ask us to send him the hat
11:57okay cool
11:58over in the social media space having come up with the idea of mashing up their keepy yuppie ball campaign
12:04with sarah's shine a light environmental initiative all thanks to will the team has been busy reaching
12:10out to global sports stars to keep the ball up and wear the hat but so far without much luck
12:15okay so we keep going here right like it doesn't even have to be a soccer player like it could
12:19be
12:19right totally right could be anybody right right like even will has like 300 views now right right
12:23yeah right so it could be anybody right right totally yeah cool yeah it could be anybody yeah cool
12:28and no one is more keenly aware than sarah of what's at stake if they could somehow pull this off
12:33okay so cristiano ronaldo leonel messy chad vandergriff mohammed sala abid al-capomer kylian mbappe
12:41narenda modi wait narenda modi okay wait yeah like he plays for real
12:45madrid right uh so no way what no way what they love the hat who does uh lionel messy his
12:51people
12:51okay lionel messy whoa no they love the hat they love the idea he wants to do it okay okay
12:57oh my
12:57gosh cool will yeah i know yeah that's just like mental can i hug you uh yeah could that be
13:04okay
13:05yeah 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
13:32cup of tea at the start of another day tell him i don't care what's he gonna do about it
13:36right
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 i can't go on
13:49meeting
13:49like this right yes no i was just oh by the way congratulations on the news about messy 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 were this close no but i'm sure we'll find a way i mean in the end it's just a
14:10problem it's just
14:12a problem well there are all kinds of problems aren't there and i think we're at a point with this
14:15one where the only way out of it is to find a solution right i mean that's literally the only
14:19way of dealing with it so no i mean it's exciting right yeah so anyway a big day uh but
14:24i just wanted
14:24to find you it's a bit embarrassing but i think with everything going on i managed to leave my
14:28keys behind in the flat this morning okay i mean locked inside obviously sure so i was just wondering
14:33if sure no no problem i have a spare set oh great phew so i don't actually have them with
14:38me oh okay
14:39they're at home right so i could just bring them over to you at the end of the day right
14:43uh well that
14:44seems a bit i could meet you at the condo oh i could come to your place right well if
14:49it's better
14:49for you to come to my place i mean your place actually of course sure with news breaking a few
14:56moments ago the president xi is threatening to pull out of the summit describing recent comments
15:01by president about the chinese-made computer chip in the ball as unacceptable and offensive
15:06our diplomatic correspondent andrew du clair has been following this story and is in beijing
15:11andrew this is a story that just got a lot more serious in the last few minutes right
15:15well alex as you say this is a story that has gotten a lot more serious
15:19in the last few minutes meanwhile it looks as if the issue with the official ball has got more
15:23serious still in the last few minutes with china's president xi jinping now threatening to pull out
15:28of a scheduled meeting with president but the g20 summit in paris
15:32first meeting between the two men since the last time okay so this is not good president as is his
15:38way
15:38of course appears to be doubling down with a series of new posts with another one coming in just in
15:43the last few moments describing the new solar power generators to be deployed across all 2026 venues
15:48as chinese fake tech it's not good news for anyone but especially not if your mission in life as the
15:55person responsible for sustainability and climate strategy is to make the world a better place saying
16:00they should be replaced instead with u.s made diesel generators running on u.s gas which he describes
16:05as common sense this coming where's sarah yes she's in the kitchen i think yes okay no you're all right
16:12she's gone zero environmental impact so things are moving faster right here yes exactly i have good
16:18news zurich has been talking to the white house right we have good relations there as you know right yes
16:23yeah they 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
16:35what the fuck does that mean so apparently they share a love for opera what huh perhaps we can say
16:40this is the power of football and music working together yes yes with any opera uh yes anyway we will
16:46be releasing a statement shortly which we hope will de-escalate the situation great okay and which we
16:52hope will be acceptable to all the parties involved right okay then hopefully we can all get back to
16:56football yes exactly exactly so so good news yes yes but hang on i mean how how how i mean
17:02what kind
17:02of statement what's going to be in it ah yes uh so we can say they are very keen to
17:07know this right
17:08actually we can say super keen right ah okay what what you mean is we're going to be releasing a
17:14statement well fuck's sake no no perhaps we can say when the big moment arrives in the big game
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 we
17:47can't replace the chip with a different chip and we know exactly why we can't do that we know we
17:52can'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
18:31are here right 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 right how do we know if it's on or off okay how
18:45do we know what
18:46it's doing yeah no okay yeah fair point so what we get our guy to have a private word with
18:50president
18:50g at cosy fan-fucking-tute yes or i don't know maybe we cut a deal maybe they get to
18:54keep the chip
18:55switched on if they promise not to invade taiwan yes okay you know actually that's not a bad idea
18:59actually i mean what are we what is this a high school slumber party okay bueno so what you have
19:03here
19:04this is a runaway train yes well exactly then when you have a runaway train what do you do
19:08what you do is so you make sure you are laying the track yes right exactly i'm sorry but i'm
19:12struggling it so this is instead of the fire is it excuse me yeah uh fire yes i think that's
19:17obviously
19:17this is not my area but i'm pretty sure the train is on fire as well here exactly well okay
19:21yeah got it
19:21with the clock ticking and the world waiting for a statement the challenge is to find something
19:26acceptable to zurich beijing washington and conspiracy theorists the world over and in an era of
19:32competing narratives and with fact heavily circumcised they need to find a story that's
19:37better than anyone else's story okay so let's go back to the beginning and start again really hang
19:41on haven't we done that once already well sometimes when you tell yourself the story again you see
19:45something that's been staring you in the face all along huh like yeah like disaster okay so the chips
19:49are made by one correct and just to be clear all the software is one too right uh well no
19:55actually i
19:55believe the ball tracking software itself is actually u.s based right written by a bunch of 14 year olds
20:00in
20:01silicon valley okay right okay right huh by the end of the afternoon with the press now gathered
20:12outside there's a growing sense that something has got to happen hi yes it's ian i'm not sure where you
20:18are at the moment but i just wanted to say just wanted to bring you up to speed really but
20:22in the
20:22meantime ian is having a brief moment in the kitchen it looks like we're onto something and if it works
20:27then
20:27it could even be that this whole thing goes away as quickly as it flared up so for shine a
20:32light and
20:32for you know saving the world basically that's all good uh yes and then with the keys uh i'm not
20:37quite
20:37sure what the plan was so it might be good to firm up on that anyway um i hope you're
20:41well um i mean
20:42i hope you're okay yes so uh anyway we'll speak soon yes bye
20:51oh right okay bueno first things first but eventually after intensive track laying and with
20:56the train still on fire the time has finally come for someone to go downstairs and say something there
21:02are a lot of tv crews down there now right but we have said you will make one statement only
21:05yes right
21:05yes don't worry i am there to protect you right okay so in this situation i am in midfield i
21:09am
21:09controlling the game you're just scoring the goals okay yes it's a perfect scenario yes all right yes
21:14okay here we go yes so i've been in contact with zürich right uh what i can say to you
21:18is they are
21:18super happy with your statement right super happy good exactly yes they just have one little thought
21:23yes okay just to save time here i'm going to be making the statement that we agreed on in the
21:26room if
21:27that's okay ah yes not some other announcement that i haven't seen yet and that i won't have time to
21:31look at until it's coming out of my mouth no well then in this case uh we can say good
21:34luck yes well thank you
21:35thank you yes exactly so see 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 with that no right now okay one great okay so this is going to be great right well good
21:57luck
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 but
22:02in 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
22:23so we've become aware obviously in the last few days of a number of rumors surrounding the official
22:28ball in the 2026 tournament uh so it's a great opportunity for us to clarify things
22:35so for a while now there has been a chip in the ball used in many if not most professional
22:40soccer
22:40games and there's nothing different about this tournament but soccer is nothing if not a global
22:46game and every four years the world comes together to celebrate that fact so it is no secret and no
22:52surprise to find that the chip in the 2026 ball is manufactured in china just as it is no surprise
22:58to find that the software that controls it is written and created here in the u.s so what do
23:04those two
23:05facts tell us they tell a story of two of the greatest nations on earth the u.s and china
23:11working
23:11together in lockstep united in creative and technical endeavor whether it's this or the cutting edge
23:17solar power generators across all our venues and connected to the rest of the world through the
23:23power of sport soccer the 2026 world cup we live in a complex and often troubled world and i don't
23:33know
23:33about you but that's a story we need to hear now more than ever who knows maybe the world can
23:40be a
23:40better place after all in spite of everything thank you mr fletcher have you spoken with the president
23:47thank you thank you thank you thank you exactly so yes
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
24:22just wanted to say thank you me no i mean what for that was a brilliant thing you did oh
24:27no well i mean
24:28sometimes it's like with pilots and bad weather sometimes you can't go around it or over it so in
24:32the end you just have to go through it you know that's so true so i want to show you
24:37something okay
24:39you seen this i don't know it depends what it is okay
24:45wow they just posted it on 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
25:23the locks okay i mean could that have happened okay so we should probably talk i guess right
25:29no look i mean it's fine i'm truly sorry about this no honestly really it's fine i'll phone the hotel
25:34it is not fine you know they know me i'm sure they'll be able to also you're not going back
25:38to a hotel
25:38tonight honestly you're not this is my fault no it's no it's not my fault i mean it's one of
25:43those things
25:43isn't it it's just you're not going anywhere there's room in my place right if you would like that
25:51right
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
26:16now 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
26:25cool
26:25yeah no worries yeah cool oh yeah so there's this guy trying to get hold of you have a cottage
26:28oh right
26:29yes him yeah i don't know who he is no well as far as i can work out he's basically
26:33a headhunter
26:34okay what no i mean i think he's working on the 2028 olympics in los angeles isn't he yeah so
26:39he
26:39keeps phoning right like he's called again twice already this morning okay then i think you need to
26:43be a bit firmer with him yeah okay so next time he calls say that you've spoken to me we've
26:48discussed
26:48it and i'm sorry but this really isn't the right time i've got enough on my plate with 2026 as
26:52it is
26:52so i'm sorry but i'm not going to be speaking to him at this time okay okay yeah these people
26:58are pretty
26:58tough you've just got to be tough with them too oh you're cool you're tough yeah no 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 and coming in today just to take us through his very
27:29incredible vision for the opening ceremony which i think you're going to find uh what uh can i say
27:34it's uh it's quite something exactly so gracias ryan gracias this morning as the opening ceremony
27:41takes shape the executive team are meeting its creative director vicente guajardo the renowned mexican
27:47film 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 creating this
28:00show on the world stage in mexico city now in this moment truly and what i ask you now please
28:07take
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
28:37guajardo broke through on the world stage when his film entanglement picked up the oscar for best
28:43film not 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
29:20truly 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
29:56yes well this is the point of what we are doing here this is the point when we arrive at
30:01our
30:01destination then we know where we are right we know it finally all of us for the first time in
30:06this
30:06moment and this is what we share with the world it is not before or after no it is unique
30:14in this moment
30:16we 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 to
30:42the u.s right zero in the opening ceremony right well or canada actually well no now that i think
30:49of it of course yes i mean what is this the mask of fucking zorro excuse me oh yes the
30:54wall i mean
30:55for fuck's sake meanwhile the senior executive team have repaired to the meeting room to unpack vicente
31:00wajardo'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 uh-huh yeah absolutely okay so
31:09this was the opening ceremony bici yes i have it here right well i mean sarah for instance sure i
31:15seem to remember a whole sustainability strand running through it absolutely thank you ian no of
31:20course so we've been working with teachers and school children from disadvantaged inner city areas
31:24across all 16 host cities to raise awareness great using the stories they generated they came up with
31:30the beautiful 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
31:41sure okay exactly yeah right so anyway yeah so he's not doing that what it's not happening he's not
31:47doing it yeah so so that document you got there the beachy 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 the
32:34opening speech but at the same time so does president shane bomb of mexico right just thought
32:37i'd throw that one in there for the fun of it yes and does vincenti know about this vincenti i
32:41mean
32:42have you told him right what do you think right okay for fuck's sake
32:53sala 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
33:52i do know though so i am not a vulnerable female well no exactly i am not no
34:22right
34:23okay no no no no no no
34:26you can say this is super interesting so this is terrible uh-huh oh gosh it's tuesday and 2026
34:33events producer ryan hertz is back to update the executive team on developments with the opening
34:38ceremony and 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 looks
34:50pretty heavily u.s focused uh-huh yeah right oh and i suppose that's one story to tell here excuse
34:57me
34:57but i'm assuming that as far as vincenti is concerned please i ask you do not send me this
35:01shit right this shit i do not look at it yes but then also just more generally when it comes
35:07to our
35:08other friends and stakeholders in the whole 2026 we have the opening ceremony at the estadio azteca in
35:13mexico city for a reason well yes yeah just remind us okay so people have been playing soccer in
35:19mexico for thousands of years thousands of years yeah since before the u.s even invented itself
35:24excuse me okay okay so the u.s did not just invent itself okay yes it did
35:29that's what okay stop it please stop it this is not about mexico excuse me it's not about the u
35:39.s
35:39or even canada sorry owen no sure if you're telling the story of the chichimecas people you're telling
35:45the story of all of us this is a story about the world before it all went wrong right when
35:50people
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
36:02to the world yeah can i just say i'm with her yes thank you sarah no sure then we can
36:12say in this moment
36:13we 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
36:30right 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 yeah so then there's this other guy trying to get a hold of you not the other
36:55guy
36:56yes yeah i don't know he sounds a bit yes i think i know who he is he keeps asking
36:59for your 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 so like a
37:11lot of it
37:11i couldn't understand no well probably just as well i think yeah just as well yeah there you go yeah
37:16cool
37:16yeah no worries yeah thanks you're sure you're going to meet up with him yes thanks will yeah no
37:21worries 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 it's 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
38:14a 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 means 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
38:30right what
38:30you mean he's not going to give it up he's not going to stop okay fine but that's his stuff
38:34and i'm not
38:35going to let him do this to us so what you'd leave well i mean how's that going to help
38:40help us i mean
38:42so what if this was a moment for a new start a new start right for us what if this
38:49is a solution
38:49waiting to happen
39:05okay well so obviously quite a lot to think about this morning uh-huh yep hi yes me yeah right
39:09it'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 oh yeah i mean how seriously should we be taking this
39:24sure right right
39:28yeah 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 changed the name of the stadium they are
39:46not
39:47playing okay right and there is no yes okay well it's simple well good to get clarity on that straight
39:51away sure this is an existential moment for the oversight team if up to now they've been caught
39:57between seriously hispanic and relentlessly american visions of the opening ceremony they're suddenly
40:02facing a situation where there may be nothing to open at all unless they can find a common brink to
40:08walk
40:08everybody backwards from i mean let's think about this because in the end this is about people isn't
40:13it people yeah i mean it always is so excuse my language here what the does that mean well so
40:17in terms
40:18of the white house i mean what is it that the president actually wants here what do you mean
40:22what does he want he wants to steal the azteca stadium from the mexican people well that's something
40:27we need to talk about obviously no it is not yeah but in the meantime thinking laterally is there
40:31anything we can offer him that might make him feel good huh anything we can offer him i mean just
40:36as a
40:37way of taking the heat out of this uh-huh yeah well there's greenland i suppose okay greenland great
40:46i mean i'm thinking that would probably do it right sure i mean eric is there a way of finding
40:49out
40:49if there's something that might work here maybe using a back channel ah yes i was thinking maybe
40:53through xuri well you know just to bypass all the politics here uh then perhaps we can say is there
40:58a problem in our world today that cannot be solved when great men share a golf cart excuse me yes
41:03well
41:04a golf cart huh so for me guys that's not a back channel that's more of a front channel so
41:08then maybe there
41:08wouldn't be any problems in the world today if all these men were not playing golf yes yes well huh
41:13i think
41:14that's a bigger question aha yep bueno yeah no i mean to be fair that's huge right yes and just
41:20so i
41:20know i mean hypothetically in terms of any meetings or interviews or whatever i mean that could be done
41:25by zoom could it all you know right yes but beyond the opening ceremony for ian this is a week
41:31with a
41:32number of things to think about and a number of people to talk to about a number of different things
41:36i mean thanks for getting in touch in the first place i'm sorry i was so hard to get hold
41:40of but
41:40uh absolutely yes and obviously i'll get back to you and right yes yes no i'm sure it will okay
41:49bye 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's not i mean i'm not quite sure what the so ryan will not be with us because
42:12he's not
42:13here right yeah no he's gone yeah and the 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 me
42:28to
42:28answer that or a picture of the president yes yeah on the big screen okay yeah huh friday morning
42:35and with the opening ceremony crisis deepening and more nations threatening to pull out following
42:40the white house's intervention it looks as if thanks to some covert back channel activity by zurich
42:45they may have found an answer to the question of what you give to the biggest man in the world
42:50to
42:50make him feel good yeah so what we're saying to him is he's going to be sitting there watching whether
42:55melania's got her giant hat on we don't know yes well right so he looks up and he pretty much
43:00sees himself on the big screen anytime as much as he likes okay huh so the information we have
43:08this could be very helpful to us in the wider picture meaning what if we could give him that
43:12then some of the other stuff might well who can say okay so what i am hearing from their comms
43:18people
43:18we're going to need a figure here yes oh right of course a figure exactly okay an actual percentage
43:23of available screen time compared to anyone else right so this is going to be fun right yes okay
43:29okay 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 the
43:42mexican 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 right absolutely
43:56it's been tense and it's been difficult but eventually it looks as if they might have finally
44:00got there 63 guys right that's a great outcome right well that was what it is an outcome they asked
44:09for
44:09like 95 right this is a terrific deal so just to be clear because this is freaky stuff when it
44:15comes to
44:15time allocated to shots of these guys during the ceremony we're saying 63 of them will be of
44:20president right exactly jesus exactly and in the meantime we're saying to the mexican president that
44:25she has 29 yes yeah well because she is mexican and because she is a woman that's her right excuse
44:31me
44:31look do we want this opening ceremony to happen or not well yes i think we can say yes we
44:35do yes yes we
44:36do yes and in the meantime gabriella would it be an idea to give the mexican team a sort of
44:40you know
44:41an unofficial heads up that things are going to be okay okay just to get the de-escalation process
44:45underway yeah so i don't want to be picky about this but just before we get into some kind of
44:49de-escalation frenzy here we have 63 i'm trying hard not to visualize that by the way 29 president
44:57shane baum exactly because look down so that's 92 right right right and the other 8 is our guy right
45:03oh yes it's zurich okay uh so we know for sure our guy as you call him is always 15
45:08percent yes right
45:09because what always 15 no no no what are you insane yes complete that's a hundred and seven
45:14percent right 107 so actually this is enshrined in the official statutes of the tournament yeah yeah
45:20you see i'm sorry but for me that's too much we just negotiated this whole deal yes i mean on
45:24the
45:24upside i suppose the good news is all we need to do now is just find another seven percent from
45:28somewhere
45:28what yeah no hundred percent 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
45:38country right um yeah because i guess where i was going with this is what about canada excuse me oh
45:44right yes canada yeah what do you mean what about canada well i guess you know just what about canada
45:50really yes no good point whilst the numbers are being re-crunched this is a good moment for ian to
45:59catch up with his assistant oh these look nice okay no you see they're erics right yes john maybe they're
46:05erics yes i don't care and it's a week where there's a lot to catch up on oh yes so
46:11ryan
46:11hurts would like to meet you all right yeah for like a coffee or something to talk about what happened
46:15yes yes he's suggesting two weeks time two weeks time yeah thursday yeah he thinks he'll be out again
46:20by then right i'm pretty sure i'm not going to be here then okay cool so in fact i should
46:26probably say
46:27well you should probably know in fact you'll hear this soon enough anyway i'm not going to be here
46:32then what so i'm not going to be here i'm sorry
46:43i mean i've been talking to them for the past week or so zoom interviews with people in l.a
46:48and so on
46:49so one of the things about this particular role for various reasons it starts quite soon
46:53uh really soon actually so if i was going to make a decision and then here we're not far off
46:59the
46:59opening ceremony now so we're almost there so in the end i suppose it seemed as good a time as
47:04any
47:04really so is it a professional thing or right or is it something more you know yeah so this isn't
47:12what
47:13i thought was going to happen when i came out here any of it i mean i didn't think i
47:17was going to feel
47:17this way about someone not at this point in my life anyway or any point in my life really but
47:23here
47:24i 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
47:53angeles 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
48:04beginning so we already we're all here yes well yes yeah cool yeah i suppose now is as good a
48:10time
48:10as although hang on where's sarah no she was here a moment ago but i can't see it ah yes
48:14yes where 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 okay
48:38she's 16 and she's a young woman but i look at her and there's a nine-year-old girl in
48:46there
48:46somewhere i can see it in her eyes and
48:50i'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
49:15ian's task now is to go back downstairs and deliver a leaving speech in the knowledge that
49:20if endings can sometimes be new beginnings they can equally often just be endings what can we say
49:25about ian fletcher well we can say it was an honor and a privilege to serve under him but most
49:32of all
49:32we can say thank you thank you ian for steering us through dangerous waters to within reach of safety
49:38and dry lands before leaving us to take up your duty on another great ship out on the high seas
49:44we shall continue from now on we can never know but in the meantime thank you emily we would like
49:50you to have this as a token of our gratitude and as a reminder of your time here with us
49:56in miami
50:01thank you thank you well thank you well first of all thank you eric for for that and uh and
50:13then
50:13thank 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
50:25what to expect um perhaps i was just as well so in some ways i feel like i've only just
50:30arrived and
50:31yet here i am saying goodbye to it already yes so now i want to say thanks to you because
50:37i think i
50:37can say i've learned a lot i hope i have anyway about soccer obviously phil about the optics of mexico
50:44gabriella about canadian logic owen about all things zurich up to a point eric
50:51literally everything i could ever want to know about the us legal system nick and then perhaps
50:56about what matters in our world beyond all that sarah what's really most precious in our life and how
51:02we can try to save it and just so you know this is not stuff i'm going to forget i
51:06think i can say
51:07already that my time here in miami is going to stay with me wherever i end up in the future
51:11so thank you
51:13for 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 because
51:39the thing is like i've never actually been to la right yes um yeah like i was going to go
51:43once
51:43like my parents right and go and stay with your sister yes yeah but then my sister was like no
51:47we'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 ah 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
52:16so
52:21so
52:22so
52:22so
52:22so
52:55Okay, thanks for that.
52:56Yeah, no worries, you're cool.
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