Kevin Milne: Olympic fatigue

Kevin Milne, like many people, has been watching the Olympics. 

And despite only being a week into the games, he’s already exhausted, and he’s not the one competing! 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
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from News Talks at be.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good to have you with us. It's fifteen past nine.
Kicking us off this morning is Kevin Melon.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning, Kevin, Good morning, Francesca. Yes, she made some
good points this morning. It actually made her a bit
sad because back when I was working on TV and
said there was the sort of money that was spent
on parties was phenomenal, often not by TV and Zaid,
but by TV and Zaid's advertising company or various other characters.

(00:42):
Their lawyers used to spend huge amounts on Fairgo, you know,
just parties because they made an awful lot out of
Fairgo over the And yeah, so we're in a couple
of times. I'm kind of pleased I'm not there anymore.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
We certainly yeah no, no free lunch is Kevin?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Hey, like you would like to see a change to
the Olympic motto.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, the Olympic motto is sitious altius, fortius, communitor, faster,
stronger together. May I suggest another Latin word, de fesesius.
It means tired, weary, jaded, and exhausted. And that's how
I'm feeling after just a week of Olympics. It's the

(01:26):
least sleep I've had in the years, and I'm sure
I'm not on my own. What gets you is being
lured into watching Olympic events, usually the heat well into
the early hours of the morning, and this creates a
sort of buying where you feel the need to get
up at the cracker dawn to watch the finals, burning

(01:47):
the Olympic torch at both ends. I'm one of those
sports fans who has to watch events live.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
You like that, Frances, Yes, my kids are obsessed about that, Kevin.
They will not pre record anything and watch it later.
They're like, there's no point, You've got to watch it
while it's happening. That's the whole point of it. That's
the excitement.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
It sounds like, you know, I'm not enjoying the Olympics,
but I'm just loving them. Really, They've been so much fun.
What about the rowing? You know what an incredible country
New Zealand is in terms of it's rowing now possibly
the best in the world. What about the tryo that triathlon,
what a what an extraordinary athletics event that turned into

(02:29):
What about the astonishing sport that wind sirtings evolved into
flying around at forty five k's an hour on foils.
It's all leaving near zombie during the day. It started
actually the first night of Olympic competition. I got sucked
into watching about three hours of dress Arge. Of all things. Now,

(02:53):
I know nothing about dress Arge, but the kiwis who
went too bad, So I hung in for hours, went
to bed at four am, got up at six point
thirty to watch the Sevens. One thing I've discovered just
because you don't get any sleep at night doesn't mean
you'll be able to sleep during the day. So I
didn't sleep Sunday either, And I was going to a

(03:16):
Jimmy Barnes concert on Sunday night and was concerned I
might be the first person ever to fall asleep during
a Jimmy Barnes concert. But no, his show was brilliant.
He deserved the gold medal as well for Antisca.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
You should just be grateful, Kevin, that you're not one
of our amazing team who were working from six pm
at night to about nine am in the morning. They
are doing an incredible job.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
They are absolutely they Yeah, the coverage is just remarkable, really,
isn't it. And you can go all over. I think,
if anything, the coverage is too much. I can't keep
up with at all. But yeah, loving it good.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Here's a question. Here's a question for you, Kevin. When
I'm watching these games and I've been a bit like you,
I'm just loving. I'm just thinking, what's two weeks of
being tired. I'll catch up on some steep later when
I watch it. I think, now, if I was at
the Olympics, obviously I'm not going to be competing, probably
missed that boat. But if I was there assisting or helping,
what job would I have? And I've decided that I
would probably be most suited to lying down at the

(04:19):
rowing and holding the boats, although I wouldn't be able
to hold a Kiwi boat because it would be very hard,
not just to give them a little push, just a
bit of a nutge as they take off.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
My daughter keeps looking at that and saying to me,
why the heavens and twenty twenty four do we have
not had something that does that? I know, but you
know that would do you think you could actually lie
on your back and the sun and do that. They've
sort of got their head down under the water. Very sensible,

(04:54):
hat ground shoulders.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
No, they've got very sensible hats. I'm particularly the new thought.
Now that's something I could do. I could lie there
quite so for a little while.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That really, apart from being the person that fires the
fires the postal and the hundred meters final.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Oh well, look we're halfway there, Kevin. So best of
luck for the next week. Do try and get a
little bit of sleep. Lovely to catch up with you
this morning. Can to hear from you as well about
how you're feeling about the Olympic, because I'm a bit
like Kevin, I'm quite caught up in it and I'm
finding it exhausting and getting quite tense. And I loved
watching Zoe run last night, and it wasn't till the
race was over. Both my partner and I look at you,

(05:30):
don't worry. We were pretty nervous about that. Gosh, imagine
being the parent of an Olympian.

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