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Speaker 1: That's Super Bowl Sunday. In the US, that's Super Bowl Monday.

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Speaker 1: Here it all gets underway on TV and ZEB and

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Speaker 1: TV and ZEB plus from midday today. The bars are

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Speaker 1: getting ready for an influx. We love this thing. We've

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Speaker 1: got the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia Eagles

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Speaker 1: at Louisiana's Super Dome. And New Orleans they actually played

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Speaker 1: once before twenty twenty three. They played the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: as well, So one guy wants to keep on winning

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Speaker 1: and the others want some redemption. As for the highly

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Speaker 1: anticipated halftime show, it'll be US rapper Kendrick Lamar taking

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Speaker 1: the stage fresh from winning a whole heap of Grammys.

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Speaker 1: And we've got with me now, Ben Harlem.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Ben is a host on Syrium XM, which is a

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Speaker 1: radio service in the United States. HOWO, Ben, you're a

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Speaker 1: New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: I am Andrew. How are you this morning?

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Speaker 1: I'm really good. What's New Orleans like? It looks like

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Speaker 1: it's in lockdown. The security is insane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really crazy. Obviously after what happens here on

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Speaker 2: New Year's Eve, they've shipped in. There's about three thousand

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Speaker 2: different officers from police, from Homeland Security, there's helicopters always

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Speaker 2: going around. With the amount of celebrities. Donald Trump's going

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Speaker 2: to be here for the game, like roads are closed.

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Speaker 2: It's quite crazy in that aspect. It's also very crazy

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Speaker 2: in terms of the amount of people that are here,

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Speaker 2: whether they're just for the game, just for a party,

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Speaker 2: just to try and get in. It's a very different atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: But people are getting very excited in the last couple

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Speaker 2: of days, which is good.

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Speaker 1: Well, I can imagine that if I was in America

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Speaker 1: and New Orleans was only a couple of hours away,

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Speaker 1: and even if I didn't have a ticket, you just

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Speaker 1: knew that Bourbon Street was going to go off.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. I mean every second bar that you look at,

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Speaker 2: there's a different company putting on a party. There's celebrities

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Speaker 2: that are going in and out. They say that it'll

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Speaker 2: be about one hundred and twenty five thousand visitors to

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Speaker 2: New Orleans this week. The hotel demand is up six

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Speaker 2: hundred percent, which if you consider, like this is the

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Speaker 2: home of Mardi Gras, this is like a party city,

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Speaker 2: so for there to be so much extra demand, like

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Speaker 2: the city is going off this week.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, apparently there's a football game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, funny that I.

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Speaker 1: Know that's the hype about the whole thing. If the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs win, it'll be the third and three years. As

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Speaker 1: I mentioned before, these guys met in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: so there's a lot on the line.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Like this is all about redemption. There's so

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Speaker 2: many different storylines. Like you don't see teams go three

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Speaker 2: in a row like they do here. It's supposed to

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Speaker 2: be you know, it's supposed to be parity. The'supposed to

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Speaker 2: be different teams every time. But a lot of those

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Speaker 2: Eagles players that were there a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 2: they are playing here again today, and well you know

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Speaker 2: that they're publicly trying to keep calm and say it's

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Speaker 2: just another game. You just know in the back of

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Speaker 2: their minds that a couple of years ago is really

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Speaker 2: sort of eating at them. So this is their chance

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Speaker 2: for redemption.

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Speaker 1: As you said, what team are you picking?

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Speaker 2: Look, I want it to be a close game just

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Speaker 2: for my own you know, being there and being able

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Speaker 2: to watch the game. But I mean to be able

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Speaker 2: to go against Mahomes, like who does that. The Chiefs

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Speaker 2: I think probably will win and get that three in

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Speaker 2: a row.

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Speaker 1: And the halftime show of course we've got the ads

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Speaker 1: on the Telly, but we've also got Kendrick Laman. Now

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Speaker 1: Kendricks he's quite He's quite a prickly little character. It's

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Speaker 1: not like Prince or Coldplay or Tom Pitty, is it.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it's very different. I met Kendrick Lama once

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Speaker 2: about ten years ago. He told me that I look

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Speaker 2: like Chucky from the horror film and that Chucky used

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Speaker 2: to scare him when he was growing up. So that

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Speaker 2: was my introduction to Kendrick Lamar. It's going to be

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Speaker 2: a great halftime show there. Rumors are always you know

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Speaker 2: what special guests are going to be coming in. This

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Speaker 2: year is all about his feud with Drake, who's been

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Speaker 2: in Australia and performing, so he's left the country. He

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to see anything about it. But the thing

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Speaker 2: is Drake has sued his record label and sued Kendrick

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Speaker 2: about this this disc track that he won all the

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Speaker 2: Grammys for, and there were rumors that maybe it might

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Speaker 2: not be on the set list today, but people have

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Speaker 2: seen the set list and they have confirmed that that

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Speaker 2: particular song is going to be there. And now all

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Speaker 2: eyes are going to be on any special guests well.

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Speaker 1: It's a big, big hit in Ben Harlem from Syrium XM.

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Speaker 1: By the way, give my love to Howard Stern. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us today. It's five twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Can we play a little bit of Kendrick just briefly now.

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Speaker 1: If you don't know this artist, this is the artist.

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Speaker 1: It's halftime to Evolve New Orleans and the Superdome with

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Speaker 1: scissor spelled s z A email you alright, all right,

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Speaker 1: we'll find out when that stag up from mid day

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