August 30, 2024 • 5 mins
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about who New Zealand’s biggest sports star is, with Lydia Ko and Lisa Carrington being major contenders.
Kevin Milne thinks there may be another option as he watches Dame Sophie Pascoe in her role as a live TV presenter for the Paralympics.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from newstalk SIB News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Be thank you for your feedback. Dean's flip me a
note to say Jack, good thinking. I have been season
rounding for some decades now. So spring and summer start
on the first of September, in the first of December,
autumn on the autumnal equinox, and winter the solstice. Maximize
what you like, Minimize what you don't like. I like that, Dean,
Although you know, I don't want to slag off the
colder months too much. I just one of the things
(00:36):
I like to. I like to experience all seasons, you know.
I think it makes you value you know, i'd want
to live in Los Angeles, you know, certainly not me.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I like to.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I think you value the warmer weather when you have
a bit of cold weather and a bit of rain
in your life sometimes as well. Ninety two ninety two.
If you want to flick us a text other ways,
you can email me like Dean did. Jacket Newstalks, heidb
dot Co dot Nz, Kevin Milne, is it with us
this morning? Keilder Kevin?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, Jack, I love the rain. I love it and
It's good, isn't it. You know, when rain comes down,
it's going to be doing, by and large, a hell
of a lot of good. Yeah. It's going to help
our gardens, it's going to provide water for drinking, all
these sorts of things. What I don't like is wind.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh yeah, cool, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Mean I know it disperses seeds and that sort of stuff.
What the hell do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, I mean in the ground
or something. It probably dries things out a little bit
as well, doesn't it. I'm sure it dries things out.
I mean, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Mey, you guys have just got to You've got a
fancy new dryer system. It's good for the washing sometimes, Kevin, Yeah,
I don't mind a bit of wind that like. I
like to feel a kind of extremes from sometimes. You know,
it's a big, really gusty wind. Doesn't doesn't bother me
too much. But yeah, I'm with you. I'm a fan
of the rain as well, and I'm a fan of
rounding the seasons to suit us. But Kevin, you've been
thinking about something else just where you have been impressed
(02:03):
by a swimming start, although not for swimming.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, we've seen some heroics from our two top sports
people recently Lydia Go and Lisa Garrington. But there's a
third that I'm astounded by. And who is she? Dame
Sophie Pasco And I'm not talking about her swimming but
her television presenting along with Scottie Stevenson. She's fronting the
TV coverage of the Paris Olympics. A lot of you
(02:29):
will know that. And how good is she? I'm assuming
she's done little to no live presenting before, but she's
just sat down in the studio and nailed it. Scotty
would be a great guy to work alongside, of course,
encouraging and positive. But you'd swear she had been selected
from a bunch of presenters who had been doing the
(02:49):
job all their lives. What do you reckon? Have you
seen the jack?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah? Is she doing an exceptional job? I think for
someone who's a stepped don I mean she's done a
few interviews over the years, to say the least, but
to step in and actually be presenting is a different story.
I think she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah she is. And I'm got to say I've got
a bit of a sprite this morning, but I found
that you were actually interviewing. I think I better just
check what I'm going to be saying about here. But no,
it can only be positive and it's fantastic. Really. In fact,
I wondered whether I shouldn't talk about something else entirely
(03:25):
because it sounds what I'm about to say. It sounds
like I'm just promoting the latter part of your show,
audient or the next.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Don't be afraid of that.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, the thing about going out to the country live
as she's doing is keeping your nerves and check, and
very few presenters can nail that straight away. I mean,
Sophie Pasco has not even done an apprenticeship as a
non live presenter. She's been a swimmer. My first experience
presenting live to the nation was reading the lunchtime news.
(03:58):
It frightens the hell out of you, especially if you
think about how many people are watching. I'm so nervous
that the head of presentation called the head of news
and demanded I'd be taken off air. Luckily, the head
of news pleaded that I had the potential and to
give me another chance. But really it wasn't until I
did fair go live for a few years that I
(04:21):
got in control of the nerves. So I'd be interesting
to see how people like Lydia co or Lisa Carrington
performed as TV presenters. Would their ability to control their
nerves get them through probably? All this isn't good for
us professional presenters, Jack, which spent years creating a mistique
(04:41):
about the business that it's a real skill. Now we
can't have sports sales wandering into the studio and saying
it's easy.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I wonder if we could turn things around, Kevin. So,
if the qualities that make you, you know, handle pressure
as an elite athlete, if they are also the qualities
that mean you can transition to life as a TV
presenter smoothly, can we go in the opposite direction?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I thought about that. Yeah, it is no chance at all.
I go for golf probably, but as a both for swimming, yeah,
I'd be hopeless at both. But it is incredible and
good on Dame Sophie Bascow. And I'm delighted that you're
talking to her. And yeah she used to be encouraged
(05:28):
for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, she's just a total legend. And I
will ask her actually about you know, I'll ask her
about how she feels being in a TV studio presenting.
I mean, she seems like a real natural, but I
wonder if she's been feeling at all nervous going out
to all those hundreds of thousands of people over the
last few nights in the first few days of the Paralympic.
She's going to be with us after ten o'clock this morning.
(05:51):
Really really looking forward to catching up with her. She's
going to be in studio, so stick around for that.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to news talks'd Be from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
from newstalk SIB News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Be thank you for your feedback. Dean's flip me a
note to say Jack, good thinking. I have been season
rounding for some decades now. So spring and summer start
on the first of September, in the first of December,
autumn on the autumnal equinox, and winter the solstice. Maximize
what you like, Minimize what you don't like. I like that, Dean,
Although you know, I don't want to slag off the
colder months too much. I just one of the things
(00:36):
I like to. I like to experience all seasons, you know.
I think it makes you value you know, i'd want
to live in Los Angeles, you know, certainly not me.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I like to.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I think you value the warmer weather when you have
a bit of cold weather and a bit of rain
in your life sometimes as well. Ninety two ninety two.
If you want to flick us a text other ways,
you can email me like Dean did. Jacket Newstalks, heidb
dot Co dot Nz, Kevin Milne, is it with us
this morning? Keilder Kevin?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yeah, Jack, I love the rain. I love it and
It's good, isn't it. You know, when rain comes down,
it's going to be doing, by and large, a hell
of a lot of good. Yeah. It's going to help
our gardens, it's going to provide water for drinking, all
these sorts of things. What I don't like is wind.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh yeah, cool, Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Mean I know it disperses seeds and that sort of stuff.
What the hell do.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, I mean yeah, yeah, I mean in the ground
or something. It probably dries things out a little bit
as well, doesn't it. I'm sure it dries things out.
I mean, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Mey, you guys have just got to You've got a
fancy new dryer system. It's good for the washing sometimes, Kevin, Yeah,
I don't mind a bit of wind that like. I
like to feel a kind of extremes from sometimes. You know,
it's a big, really gusty wind. Doesn't doesn't bother me
too much. But yeah, I'm with you. I'm a fan
of the rain as well, and I'm a fan of
rounding the seasons to suit us. But Kevin, you've been
thinking about something else just where you have been impressed
(02:03):
by a swimming start, although not for swimming.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, we've seen some heroics from our two top sports
people recently Lydia Go and Lisa Garrington. But there's a
third that I'm astounded by. And who is she? Dame
Sophie Pasco And I'm not talking about her swimming but
her television presenting along with Scottie Stevenson. She's fronting the
TV coverage of the Paris Olympics. A lot of you
(02:29):
will know that. And how good is she? I'm assuming
she's done little to no live presenting before, but she's
just sat down in the studio and nailed it. Scotty
would be a great guy to work alongside, of course,
encouraging and positive. But you'd swear she had been selected
from a bunch of presenters who had been doing the
(02:49):
job all their lives. What do you reckon? Have you
seen the jack?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah? Is she doing an exceptional job? I think for
someone who's a stepped don I mean she's done a
few interviews over the years, to say the least, but
to step in and actually be presenting is a different story.
I think she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah she is. And I'm got to say I've got
a bit of a sprite this morning, but I found
that you were actually interviewing. I think I better just
check what I'm going to be saying about here. But no,
it can only be positive and it's fantastic. Really. In fact,
I wondered whether I shouldn't talk about something else entirely
(03:25):
because it sounds what I'm about to say. It sounds
like I'm just promoting the latter part of your show,
audient or the next.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Don't be afraid of that.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well, the thing about going out to the country live
as she's doing is keeping your nerves and check, and
very few presenters can nail that straight away. I mean,
Sophie Pasco has not even done an apprenticeship as a
non live presenter. She's been a swimmer. My first experience
presenting live to the nation was reading the lunchtime news.
(03:58):
It frightens the hell out of you, especially if you
think about how many people are watching. I'm so nervous
that the head of presentation called the head of news
and demanded I'd be taken off air. Luckily, the head
of news pleaded that I had the potential and to
give me another chance. But really it wasn't until I
did fair go live for a few years that I
(04:21):
got in control of the nerves. So I'd be interesting
to see how people like Lydia co or Lisa Carrington
performed as TV presenters. Would their ability to control their
nerves get them through probably? All this isn't good for
us professional presenters, Jack, which spent years creating a mistique
(04:41):
about the business that it's a real skill. Now we
can't have sports sales wandering into the studio and saying
it's easy.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I wonder if we could turn things around, Kevin. So,
if the qualities that make you, you know, handle pressure
as an elite athlete, if they are also the qualities
that mean you can transition to life as a TV
presenter smoothly, can we go in the opposite direction?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I thought about that. Yeah, it is no chance at all.
I go for golf probably, but as a both for swimming, yeah,
I'd be hopeless at both. But it is incredible and
good on Dame Sophie Bascow. And I'm delighted that you're
talking to her. And yeah she used to be encouraged
(05:28):
for sure.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yeah, yeah, no, she's just a total legend. And I
will ask her actually about you know, I'll ask her
about how she feels being in a TV studio presenting.
I mean, she seems like a real natural, but I
wonder if she's been feeling at all nervous going out
to all those hundreds of thousands of people over the
last few nights in the first few days of the Paralympic.
She's going to be with us after ten o'clock this morning.
(05:51):
Really really looking forward to catching up with her. She's
going to be in studio, so stick around for that.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
For more from Saturday Morning with Jack Tame, Listen live
to news talks'd Be from nine am Saturday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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