The Super Bowl

We weave through the strategic chess game of football, played out by maestros like Patrick Mahomes, and slide right into Usher's rollerblading razzmatazz that had us questioning our own balance and coordination. This chat isn't just for the sports enthusiast; it's a deep dive into how the Super Bowl stitches together moments of unity, competition, and epic entertainment, all while leaving room for critical conversation on issues like human trafficking.

Strap in for an auditory journey that tackles the kaleidoscope of emotions stirred by Super Bowl commercials, from chuckles to heart tugs, highlighting the wizardry behind the ads that leave a lasting impression. No guest this time, just us – your hosts – pulling back the curtain on the controversies and conversations sparked by the big game, including the social media whirlwind surrounding Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Join us as we look back at halftime memories etched in our collective consciousness and ponder the potent mix of sports, culture, and digital dialogue that defines this annual phenomenon. Whether you're here for the reflections, the laughs, or the sheer spectacle of it all, this episode is your front-row ticket to the greatest show on turf.

Transcript

Sam: 0:10

Welcome to Babe. What Do you Know About the podcast with your favorite husband and wife duo Sam?

Tayla: 0:16

and Tayla. Each week we dive deep into a new subject, blending fun and seriousness to push boundaries and buttons.

Sam: 0:24

Get ready to expand your knowledge, challenge your perspectives and have a blast along the way. My favorite thing was that you got really cool running shoes from the Nike let's Store.

Tayla: 0:42

Yeah, yeah, for those of you just tuning in, which is everybody I went to Vegas for a work trip. I was giving a training at a leadership conference for my company and my boss's boss took me and my team to dinner, but before that he stopped at the Nike store, the outlet store, and was like you guys are the best. Here's 200 bucks to go and get something. I remembered the bet I lost to you and the fact that I have to run a half marathon in June and thought, hmm, let me go and get some running shoes, because I don't really have any. I just got $180 running shoes that I probably never would have bought other than that.

Tayla: 1:22

They're awesome though hot pink.

Sam: 1:24

Yeah, they're sick, I like them.

Tayla: 1:25

I thought of you when I bought them. I thought you would have bought them. You would have I'm dope, am I wrong? No, I'd get them yeah you're bold with your shoe choices, which is pretty cool, but you did great with the kid.

Sam: 1:39

Oh yeah, it was honestly a lot of fun.

Tayla: 1:42

Good.

Sam: 1:43

Good.

Tayla: 1:44

Yeah, I had a similar experience, well minus the throwing up and stuff that Ella did while you were on your trip, but it's nice to have some quality time together and Game Steps going well for you. I feel like you're never not working, though I will have to say.

Sam: 2:00

Yeah, so the game's going well. We're in the final stages of everything, so everything's kind of culminating. Right now we're building out the Kickstarter and should have a release late spring, early summer.

Tayla: 2:13

Dope and stressed probably for you, not for me, yeah, but you guys are always working, so it's going to be good. I'm excited, excited for you guys, but this is kind of a fun episode because we put it up for a vote and the people have spoken. They wanted a Super Bowl episode, which is unfortunate.

Sam: 2:36

This all happened after I deactivated Instagram a week ago, and I didn't vote or even know this was happening.

Tayla: 2:44

Did you not? This is the first time. No. I think you told me two days ago and I was like wait what happened. You didn't even get to vote.

Sam: 2:52

Nope.

Tayla: 2:53

Yeah, the people have spoken. It was close. I'm guessing, because it's Valentine's week, that some people were thinking they'd want an episode on modern dating, which we will still do. But yeah, the Super Bowl just happened on Sunday. Let me do my intro and then we can get into it. The average American spends over $80 on Super Bowl Sunday, fueling the competitive spirit with wings, chips and enough dip to float a pirate ship. But the real treasure lies in the game itself. This year, the San Francisco 49ers boasting a historic winning streak under coach Kyle Shanahan. First of all, the name is going to be rough Clashed with the reigning champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, led by the ever-electrifying Patrick Mahomes. Is it Mahomes or Mahomes?

Sam: 3:38

I think it's Mahomes, but I actually do don't know.

Tayla: 3:41

Mahomes. These teams both represent dynasties in the making, with eight Super Bowl appearances between them, but statistics only tell how the story of the Super Bowl that just happened. I don't know what LVII stands for, what number it was.

Sam: 3:56

LVII oh, it's probably like III, actually IIII. I think it's probably like 78. I don't know, I'll google it.

Tayla: 4:03

It's packed with juicy storylines Mahomes aimed for an unprecedented fourth Super Bowl title before turning 30, and faced with against Shanahan, who was his former offensive coordinator, who turned rival. Did you find it yet? Lvii.

Sam: 4:19

Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah, but it's not telling me oh, 58. 58. Yeah, I was way off.

Tayla: 4:25

Yeah, struggle. So, babe, what do you know about the Super Bowl?

Sam: 4:29

Clearly not very much.

Tayla: 4:33

It's still going to be a good discussion, I think, but I do think it's kind of funny that we're having it because we're not I mean we're, we're foreign. We were just talking about this, though, so here's the full disclosure. I did know a lot more and care a lot more about the Super Bowl this year than I have ever before, for a lot of reasons, most of which is just that people I follow and people that I talk to are interested in it this year, so it's not necessarily Taylor Swift that drew me to it, but I do think she drew all the people that I follow to it. And there for me, oh, interesting.

Sam: 5:09

Yeah, no, this is what happened over the weekend. Tayla would be like hey, so what do you think about watching the Super Bowl? I was like, well, what do you mean Like?

Tayla: 5:17

like she's like yeah, do you want to watch it? Have you?

Sam: 5:20

Like I mean like are we going somewhere or are people coming over? And she's like no, I'm like well, Then I was like when was the last time you watched football? It's a lot of sitting through commercials and so, unless it's like an event where it's like you have a bunch of people over and you're doing like a barbecue or like a bunch of food and drinks and stuff it, just you can't sit and watch American football. That you just can't do that. It's just you're sitting for so long where nothing is happening.

Tayla: 5:48

So I think you need to think around.

Sam: 5:49

So we talked about it and I was like I'm good yeah. I was like do you have somewhere to go? You're more than welcome to, you know. Go to a Super Bowl party.

Tayla: 5:57

I don't know anyone hosting, but yeah.

Tayla: 6:00

No, it was, I don't know. I was just kind of like I also work. I think I'm probably part of 1% of women in my department, like there's. There's 1% women and the rest of them are men in my work department. I was just around all of them in Vegas the week of the Super Bowl. They're all talking about it constantly, and so I think it was just on my mind along with all that, and I don't know. I don't like American football. I would happily go to a live game, though, and like make it fun.

Tayla: 6:29

Yeah, it's like a thing, but I don't think I've ever watched a football game on TV. In fact, I think I remember being invited to my university's football game like a watch party.

Tayla: 6:41

I'm just shaking my legs I was like what is there an earthquake or something? Just me shaking my leg. I went to a watch party at like a dorm common room or something, and I don't think I watched any of the game. I just I couldn't. So I ate the food and chatted to people, but isn't that pretty much what you're like? Previous, you've gone to actual Super Bowl parties, right yeah?

Sam: 7:03

So like just like someone's house and there's like nachos and you know stuff.

Tayla: 7:09

So and that's kind of what you did at those. Yeah, you don't really watch it.

Sam: 7:14

You know like you somewhat pay attention, but you're mainly just chit chatting and eating food and stuff. It's pretty, it's pretty fun.

Tayla: 7:21

You've never been yeah.

Sam: 7:22

Yeah, the funniest thing though, it was Sunday, the Super Super Bowl Sunday, and so me and Tayla switch off like the last little parts of putting our kids to sleep. And on Sunday it was me putting Ella to sleep and I come out after putting Ella down and I come into the TV room and Tayla's watching the Super Bowl. I was like, oh, I guess we are. I guess we're watching the Super Bowl and I must have been like four minutes left in the game, or something.

Tayla: 7:48

Ten minutes, yeah, ten minutes left in the fourth quarter, which we know wasn't the end of the game.

Sam: 7:52

So yeah, yeah. So I was just kind of like a hilarious surprise. I was like, oh, that's what we're doing. And I guess so I immediately left the room, went and got my newly purchased magic the gathering collection and started scanning cars. And honestly, I didn't miss any of the game.

Tayla: 8:13

Yeah, I watched it, I actually did, and I think and I told a coworker this, I told my coworkers this because they all watched their old die hard fans and blah blah, and I'm at our team meeting today Yesterday, I don't remember when I said that I tuned in when I did and they're like oh well, I guess if you were going to tune in at any time, you literally tuned in at the perfect time and I did. You know from what I saw, that the chiefs were down the whole game and the only interesting stuff really started happening 10 minutes before the end of the last quarter. So that's great, I got everything I needed to get from that. So that's our full disclosure is we didn't watch the Super Bowl game, but we did watch the important part.

Sam: 8:56

Yeah, we saw the end of the Super Bowl game.

Tayla: 8:59

So let's talk about a few things to do with the Super Bowl.

Sam: 9:03

Where do I?

Tayla: 9:03

want to start, let's start with.

Sam: 9:06

Oh, I'm going to tell you just randomly really quick, the one of the. When I ever hear about the Super Bowl, one of the first things I think about is that it's the number one like human trafficking event that happens in the world. Is that happens at the Super Bowl. Apparently, that's like one of those things.

Tayla: 9:27

Yeah, that has been said to be a thing. From what I understand, that's not entirely accurate.

Sam: 9:33

I'm going to Google it right now.

Tayla: 9:36

Get some reputable sources. While you do that, I will talk a bit about what I want to go. It was an historic game in that it went into overtime and it's only the second Super Bowl ever to go into overtime, so it definitely added to the game's drama and excitement and I think I spoke to you about this. You know I was sitting there watching. My friend has a husband who's a diehard 49ers fan. Is that 49ers 70. What 49ers? Sure I'm mixing up NBA game Like NBA. Anyway, the 49ers I'm mixing up team.

Tayla: 10:14

He's a diehard fan 64ers yeah no, and she was sending me videos because he gets super stressed during the game. He was like rocking back and forth. I thought it was amazing because I was like man, he's so into it and it felt kind of weird to me. But then I had this realization that the Super Bowl is kind of like America's version of the World Cup and so we just had the rugby World Cup last year and I know I was being that way during the game.

Tayla: 10:44

I know I was rocking back and forth and stressed and like physical and yelling at the TV. I know I was doing that during the rugby World Cup and I think, because America doesn't really play a lot of international sports outside of Olympics and stuff, this is the big thing. So it made me be a little more appreciative of how big of a deal it is. But my memories to do with the Super Bowl have to do with a lot of judgment, because I raised super religious Christian and my family we didn't watch even normal TV on a Sunday. So especially like some people would leave church early to go and catch the Super Bowl and my parents judged them and I judged them. I was like, wow, who do they think they are putting a stupid game above Jesus.

Sam: 11:30

So that's my main memory with the Super Bowl is just a lot of judgment. According to the players, Jesus is at the game.

Tayla: 11:37

Yeah, I mean a lot of prayers. They're all pointing to the ceiling after they.

Sam: 11:42

This one goes out to Jesus. Yeah, I heard that a lot.

Tayla: 11:45

That's true. It's so funny the amount of prayers people do during sports games and I'm a culprit as well. I've definitely prayed for my team to win in the. Really, I don't think it was very conscious or very, but I just been like come on.

Sam: 12:01

Breaking news, though update on the whole human trafficking situation. I read a few sources on this and there's basically, they all say, a very similar thing, which is there's no definitive data on whether it increases human trafficking or not, especially for the whole city in particular. But they did say, because of that myth, in the recent years it has actually dramatically increased the awareness of human trafficking around the Super Bowl. Yes, hilarious.

Tayla: 12:32

It is hilarious.

Sam: 12:34

I mean not hilarious, but I want to, yeah, just. Sure one of those.

Tayla: 12:38

Unintended consequences.

Sam: 12:40

Yeah, yeah.

Tayla: 12:41

Yeah, I remember that going around for the first time it was during COVID or right before. Covid is when I first started hearing like oh, so much human trafficking happens around the Super Bowl, and it's not like it doesn't happen, but it's not where most the most human trafficking event in the world. So or at least there's no definitive data to say. I do feel like weren't there ads about it though as well at the Super Bowl? I feel like, as you say, like awareness and people talking about it is as big.

Sam: 13:12

Speaking of ads, I paid attention to a couple ads and they were they're pretty not good. There were nothing. Nothing really grabbed my attention, so I went back to scanning cards.

Tayla: 13:22

So yeah, I didn't remember that. They were supposed to be special ads.

Sam: 13:27

They just seemed like normal ads.

Tayla: 13:29

So, rip to the money that went to those. But, yeah, let's talk about, okay, a couple of a couple of cool facts about what happened. So, patrick Mahomes, so this is. This is what my coworkers were saying today was that and I don't think they were really pulling for one team or the other, it wasn't like any of their main teams, but they said that you never bet against a quarterback and that the the best quarterback is typically they can drag a team to a victory, and so their, their thought was that the 49ers had the better team, but that the chiefs had Patrick Mahomes, who is, I think, supposed to be the best quarterback in the league right now. So that was interesting. I feel like that was a stereotype to me that you know, all the high school movies and all the high school shows had the quarterback, everyone was the quarterback, and that's the only position that I knew existed in American football, because it's the only thing that's mentioned, but apparently it's actually very important.

Sam: 14:33

So yeah, I guess everything centers around him. He throws the ball, you know.

Tayla: 14:37

Yeah, it makes sense. I did notice that a couple of times towards the end of that fourth quarter. The snapper I don't know that, that's his name, the guy that snaps a ball to the quarterback he kind of didn't do a good job. The guy had to really reach for it. So that's, that's a bummer. So let's talk about a half time show.

Sam: 14:57

The only thing I know about it was Usher was in it. Thanks to you, that's one.

Tayla: 15:05

Yeah, he brought out a bunch of guest stars with him, like her and Alicia Keys and Will I Am and a bunch of people like that, and apparently there was real. I didn't watch this part I need to watch it but there was rollerblading, roller skating, it was apparently crazy, wow, and all the older millennials were just jiving to the music hardcore.

Sam: 15:29

Hell yeah, I should have watched that.

Tayla: 15:31

So I don't know if you know this I found this out today, but I think it's Apple Pay or someone gives $50 million to the Super Bowl for the halftime show. Okay, None of that money goes to the artist.

Sam: 15:49

Where does it go to?

Tayla: 15:50

It goes to a bunch of like 15 million. The artist gets 15 million to do the production with. So that's the pay of stagehands, dancers, scography, all that stuff. So they get a big budget with which to use and then, I think, a bunch of it. The rest of it goes to, I don't know, the Super Bowl, but apparently it's more lucrative for the artists to not get paid because of the money that they get after that with streams and awareness and stuff.

Tayla: 16:22

So I think Jennifer Lopez and Shakira they had like three million followers each after their performance, Like they grew with that. And Usher apparently released an album two days before the Super Bowl and had the hopes that like this would propel that.

Sam: 16:42

Interesting.

Tayla: 16:42

I think there were quite a few artists that their albums or songs like became in the top streamed songs after that. So it's super lucrative for them to just be the person that they don't get paid.

Sam: 16:57

They get paid in exposure bucks.

Tayla: 16:59

Yeah, which I guess it's a lot of exposure bucks. But when Rihanna performed last year, apparently three million more people tuned in just for that performance than the actual game.

Sam: 17:12

Wow.

Tayla: 17:13

But Rihanna is a big deal, so, but I guess this was a big deal too, but it's just, it's just. There's this whole thing about the Super Bowl, Hoffman. Do you remember any classic or scandalous or whatever halftime performances from over the years?

Sam: 17:32

I remember hearing all about Justin Timberlake, and Janet Jackson's halftime show apparently exposed her boob on purpose. I don't know. Some say yes.

Tayla: 17:44

Oh, so it's like a debate.

Sam: 17:46

It's a debate, yeah.

Tayla: 17:48

I feel like I I don't know if I'd even immigrated here at the time, but I feel like I did hear that she was censured or something and he wasn't.

Sam: 17:58

Yeah, I'm not sure.

Tayla: 17:59

Lame. Other halftime things I've seen like old clips.

Sam: 18:07

Like like months ago on YouTube there was like a seeing Creed doing a halftime show and people were like hell yeah, let's bring back that. And then there was like another one I saw Michael Jackson's one. Oh, that was like apparently a super big deal, that would have been iconic, yeah, yeah. So I saw those two videos on YouTube probably within the last three months. Yeah, that's about it.

Tayla: 18:31

I remember there was a Katie. Didn't Katy Perry have like this wild performance? And there was something about the left.

Sam: 18:37

The left shark. I remember the left shark memes.

Tayla: 18:39

Yeah, I never saw the show Explain it to me because I just I kept seeing memes about the left shark but I didn't I because I didn't watch it and didn't know. I didn't know, like, what it was about.

Sam: 18:48

I technically don't know, but here's my best guess. Okay there must have been two sharks, one must have been on the left. Really, I'm assuming the left shark did something interesting, but I do remember left shark being a meme, yeah.

Tayla: 19:01

It was a hardcore meme. What, what powerful powers of deduction should have done a bit more research on the halftime shows, but I believe Reba McIntyre sang the national anthem.

Sam: 19:11

This year, this year Cool yeah.

Tayla: 19:14

She's having a big year Go on With the voice and performing at the Super Bowl and all that she's, she's. She's Not like she's had to come back, but she's really having a resurgence. I feel like people are Reba fans. Do you ever watch Reba? No, no. You didn't.

Sam: 19:31

Yeah.

Tayla: 19:32

I would come home because we didn't have like streaming or anything and we didn't have a lot of. We had to give all our VCRs and DVDs in South Africa when we moved. So I would come home and Reba would be on.

Sam: 19:44

What channel was that on?

Tayla: 19:46

11 or 13.

Sam: 19:47

Are you not? Yeah, what was 11 or 13?

Tayla: 19:49

I don't know I could remember. I don't know if I've had the opportunity to watch these shows because I'm trying to think back. I don't even remember, like flicking through and like seeing them.

Sam: 19:56

They were all at like four o'clock in the afternoon. Oh yeah, I was probably busy doing something, yeah.

Tayla: 20:03

I would come back from sports practice and that would be like right at that time, cool, cool. So anyway, tangent back to the Super Bowl, let's talk about a couple of other things. So this past, Super Bowl. Jenin, I think you've been playing for a while. I've been playing for a while. I've been playing for a while. Super Bowl generated an estimated $500 million for Las Vegas, making it one of the most lucrative Super Bowls ever, so it's a lot of money.

Tayla: 20:31

I was in Vegas until the Wednesday night before the Super Bowl and things did start getting a little crazy. Like the Monday I arrived, it wasn't a big, I didn't notice anything different, it was actually very chill. But Wednesday night as I was driving through to the airport, I was like it's starting to get a little. I'm starting to get a little claustrophobic here, Didn't some guy climb Vegas sphere or something? I did see that, yeah.

Sam: 20:57

I don't know what happened, but there was a guy on top of it.

Tayla: 21:01

Yeah, I wonder if any other crazy things like that happened that were just not as big as the actual game. Yeah, people, I remember a bunch of people at their leadership conference were saying that they wanted to come or to go, to stay and go to the. But I think the cheapest tickets at the time to buy were like eight grand. Isn't that insane? Yeah, and it wasn't even for, like the nice seats. It was just for what seats left over? Yeah.

Sam: 21:31

That's bonkers to me.

Tayla: 21:33

Is there anything that you would pay that amount of money?

Sam: 21:36

Like a sporting event or like a no, there's not. No, not at all. Not with the good TV coverage you have nowadays. Like why would you need to?

Tayla: 21:44

Yeah.

Sam: 21:45

I mean, I get, look, some people really like to spend their money a certain way, have an experience, but that experiences doesn't seem worth it to me.

Tayla: 21:53

Eight grand you could like fly like we could have flown to France and watched tickets of the World Cup and flown back, you know, for that amount of money. It's crazy. Okay, let's talk about food consumption. Over a period of time, so, americans consumed an estimated 1.25 billion chicken wings Wow, rip to the chickens in the country Eight million pounds of guacamole and 12.5 million pizzas on Super Bowl Sunday. So, at these parties that you've gone to, what's the, what's the vibe, what's the food?

Sam: 22:28

And what did you like and what? What do you think is pretty much exactly what you say. There's like there's a lot of chicken wings, there's a lot of nachos and different dips, so guacamole, some like chili dip stuff, sauces, definitely pizza, a lot of pizza sliders, you know, just kind of like your typical bar food kind of stuff.

Tayla: 22:49

Yeah, is there like a Super Bowl dessert? No, that's what my mind's always on.

Sam: 22:54

But there was a lot of beer, so that's yeah, a lot of beer. There's a lot of beer commercials too, yeah so there's a lot of beer Like they don't drink anything else. It's like you drink beer.

Tayla: 23:04

It doesn't sound appealing.

Sam: 23:05

No.

Tayla: 23:06

Sound like a tradition. Speaking of beer, there was apparently a Budweiser ad. Is that how you pronounce Budweiser, budweiser? Okay, it featured a dog and a horse and a Google a dog and a horse that people really liked. So I'm thinking that you're right that the commercials were probably not that good if the one that everyone was talking about was a dog and a horse commercial for Budweiser. But we should look it up. Pause Hold, please.

Sam: 23:39

And we're back. So we watched the commercial and I think it was really good cinematography, but it basically felt like a country song condensed into a commercial, you know, 30 seconds long. I didn't like it.

Tayla: 23:58

I liked the dog and I liked the horses, but yeah, I don't know, not a vibe for me, not a vibe for me. Apparently, there was a Google assistant one that's adorable. Hold, please.

Sam: 24:14

The moment you collect ourselves.

Tayla: 24:17

Did? I Did the vibe of Super Bowl ads just totally change since.

Sam: 24:24

Yeah, I mean a standalone commercial like that amazing, Like I thought that was really good, Like it was very Describe for those who haven't seen it.

Tayla: 24:33

Okay.

Sam: 24:33

So I apologize. Basically, a close up of you know a screen that shows someone typing into it. How to remember, I believe something like that.

Tayla: 24:46

How to not forget.

Sam: 24:48

And it's an old man talking to the Google assistants trying to remember things about his wife and you know he prompts it with different things. You know, like what was that town in Juneau? You know things like that. And then the Google assistant will bring up some stuff and tell him what to remember. And it was just so sad, like it was just so emotional.

Tayla: 25:14

It was, yeah, the vibe of Super Bowl ads, from what I remember, used to be like oh I love Super Bowl ads, they're so funny and they're supposed to be really funny. But the two that we've looked up so far are like, really not. They're like and they're not trying to be there More emotional or more nostalgic. I wonder if it just happens to be those two.

Sam: 25:40

But I do remember one commercial we watched on Sunday, the one with Aquaman. Yeah, I was remembering that Turtles in it, the guys from Scrubs.

Tayla: 25:51

I never watched Scrub.

Sam: 25:53

Oh well, scrubs is in it.

Tayla: 25:56

Yeah, what did you think of that one?

Sam: 25:57

That was great I mean, Aquaman wasn't great, but the other two were amazing.

Tayla: 26:02

What.

Sam: 26:03

Their chemistry is you know something that lives deep inside you, if you know the show.

Tayla: 26:10

I was going to say it must be. You know, if you know you know.

Sam: 26:14

If you know, you know.

Tayla: 26:15

Yeah, because I don't know and it was fun.

Sam: 26:18

They have the greatest bromance, I feel like in television history.

Tayla: 26:21

Really yes, even over and above, like New Girl.

Sam: 26:26

What bromance is in New Girl?

Tayla: 26:27

It's like multiple bromances.

Sam: 26:30

Then yes, way better than anything that could possibly that exist in New Girl. Oh okay, I know who you're talking about. Yes, greater than those.

Tayla: 26:39

Yes, okay.

Sam: 26:41

In fact, those New Girls takes inspiration from and lens and maybe takes a little bit of that bromance that they created. Yeah.

Tayla: 26:51

And I think there were a bunch of big names and a bunch of commercials too, like Jennifer Aniston, Aquaman and the Scrubs people Big, I don't know.

Sam: 27:00

JD and Turk Okay.

Tayla: 27:03

That's their actor names.

Sam: 27:05

No, that's their character names. That's their character names that wasn't like an insurance commercial. Yeah, something like that. I don't know.

Tayla: 27:13

Man. Okay. Well, we're having to acclimatize ourselves to a really heavy Super Bowl ad cadence.

Sam: 27:22

Yeah, I'm rethinking a lot of things in life right now after watching the Google Assistant.

Tayla: 27:26

It was guys. If you guys haven't looked it up, go look it up. I just Googled. No, I put on YouTube Google Assistant Super Bowl ad 2024. It is, yeah, it's a bit sad, but good, I mean that would be cool.

Sam: 27:44

I feel emotionally manipulated. Right now, you are feeling emotionally manipulated man.

Tayla: 27:51

Okay, let's see Any controversy. So let's see, I have a couple of questions. Okay, Taylor Swift I mean we've got to talk about it. We've kind of mentioned it, but there's been a whole thing about Taylor Swift because she's dating Travis Kelce and a lot of people have been very upset that she's being shown at the games. Have you heard anything about this?

Sam: 28:22

From you. You updated me about this right before the game and not much, I think. So what's happened is I've really tried to like withdraw from social media, like social media social media so not like news, like social media. So getting off of Instagram and stuff. So I think I missed a lot of this. I'm starting to come up big. In the last few weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, I just didn't get much of it. So I don't know why people care. I feel like so much of this is why I got off of social media. So much of it is manufactured drama, manufactured contention, manufactured everything. It's just exhaust.

Tayla: 29:01

You don't think people are actually upset? I think they are.

Sam: 29:05

But what I feel like is that's the new manufacturer heart rate. So it's not that it doesn't exist, it means that it's just another thing for you know.

Tayla: 29:17

People who have mattered.

Sam: 29:18

Yeah.

Tayla: 29:20

There was a meme that I shared because it was funny, which was elephants are born weighing 250 pounds. They are the biggest babies on earth, except for the people mattered. Taylor Swift for being excited at a football game.

Sam: 29:33

Yeah, I think she's allowed to be excited and happy. That's who she's dating Super cool.

Tayla: 29:39

Yeah, People have gone deep dive to be like how many actual seconds are they showing up Taylor Swift? And it's always less than a minute of actual footage of her.

Sam: 29:49

Here's something I did see. Something I'm remembering right now was that someone tried to calculate or maybe there's a lot of people calculating how much carbon footprint Taylor Swift has created. I think it started with because she did a tour and some other stuff, but I think that now includes probably her Super Bowl activities and it's pretty astronomical. It's something like you know, take us 10 lifetimes to you know.

Tayla: 30:17

To create that much pollution.

Sam: 30:19

That amount of pollution Taylor Swift has created over the last few weeks.

Tayla: 30:23

I didn't know that. Well, I knew there was a thing about it and I knew that she had sued someone for stalking her or something. But yeah, that's pretty.

Sam: 30:34

Yeah, so apparently like she did a show in Japan and had flew to Vegas two jets to Japan and then I think only one came back, or something like that. But just that alone would take, you know, someone like 40 years to create themselves, just like all that stuff.

Tayla: 30:53

Why is that taking? Why are those two trips?

Sam: 30:57

I don't know.

Tayla: 30:58

Because it's just for her.

Sam: 31:01

Yeah, I think they're saying that it was. It's like not just for her to tour, it's that she's in the middle of her touring and other stuff. She's going to go watch these games.

Tayla: 31:10

Makes sense. Well, I mean, that's that's a bit more of a controversy, that that's something maybe actually worth engaging in.

Sam: 31:17

Yeah, I think I've seen the same thing like with a number of the celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, and you know a number of people that fly private jets. Their carbon footprints are pretty astronomical.

Tayla: 31:31

So no one's come up with a hybrid jet yet, or a Tesla jet.

Sam: 31:38

Oh, I'm sure there's. There's got to be right somewhere. Cost a bunch of money.

Tayla: 31:43

Okay, so main takeaways I enjoyed for me at least. I enjoyed the Super Bowl more than I thought I would, and I think that's in large part due to the fact that I watched maybe a fifth of it. That was enjoyable.

Sam: 31:56

Yeah, I think that helps with the commercials. So legitimately like, not not like an event thing, Cause I was me and my friend were talking about this this morning and he said American football is like the greatest highlight sports. If not like one of the greatest highlight sports that exists. It's like when there is action. It's something like unique and special and like athletic and it's a highlight reel. But you basically have to sit through like so much nothing and like boringness to get to that highlights, whereas so many other sports, you know, flow.

Sam: 32:33

But you might not be getting as many of those, those highlights that are, you know, happening throughout the game. So, again, I think it's great to have it around. It's kind of like you know, again, as you pay attention to the next highlights, it's exciting, but it's it's a lot of times to dedicate to something unless you have it like an event around it. You know, if you want to host a football party, we can do it. It'd be fun.

Tayla: 32:55

We'll see. We'll see if I'm as motivated, but I have the same opinions of it. I just I remember one of the first football games I ever went to was my university football game, just a university football game. And I remember they just kept stopping and stopping and stopping. And one time they were stopping and I was like, well, what's happening? Cause the players were still on the field, like I couldn't tell why they had stopped. And someone said, oh, for a commercial break. And I just was like wait, you mean to tell me that this live game that we are physically here for stopped for a commercial? What other who does that? Cricut, but that's cause it takes three days to play. But like that was wild, like I couldn't believe it. I didn't like that. I also was so confused how people could be fat and professional athletes.

Sam: 33:47

They're not fat.

Tayla: 33:48

They are fat.

Sam: 33:49

They're. They're just very large. They're strong and fat and bulky.

Tayla: 33:54

Well, no, I'm. I'm talking about like big guts, Like they have big fat bellies. It's not to say that they're strong or unhealthy, but I just like couldn't understand. I've never seen a sport where, like you're running and doing that stuff, where oh, so you're thinking like sumo fats kind of a thing.

Sam: 34:09

It's like a sumo wrestler which calls sumo wrestler fat.

Tayla: 34:12

Yes, okay, then yeah, fat, are they not fat?

Sam: 34:16

It depends.

Tayla: 34:16

Oh my gosh. Okay Well, I just couldn't understand how like you would be a professional athlete and you could have like a dad gut, like an actual beer or belly. And then I watched the sport and I realized, oh well, they're only running for about 15 seconds at a time and then they get like five minutes to recover and then they switch out teams. So you don't you don't even play half the game.

Sam: 34:35

This is what I know, that that weight is intentional.

Tayla: 34:40

Yeah.

Sam: 34:41

They. They're doing that on purpose to be as heavy as possible. I know those positions.

Tayla: 34:46

Well, you know, but again I feel like a lot of rugby players are big, really big, and some of them even fat, but they can't get away with having like a big belly, not really.

Sam: 34:58

No, because for them it's a different. Exactly, they also have to have cardio and so the less that they have to balance weight with cardio.

Tayla: 35:09

Yeah, I just had never seen it before. That's my point is, I was just like wait, I don't understand how this is happening. And then I saw the nature of the sport, which is very like you don't have to. You really need bursts of energy, that's it, and you have a lot of recovery time in between, which, again, not to discount the skill and all that that you can have and that I think it's one of those sports that probably the more you know about it, the more interesting it is.

Sam: 35:36

But Look, I'm going to plug rugby right now as well.

Tayla: 35:39

Amen.

Sam: 35:40

If you like American football, give rugby a chance. Go watch some international games. There's international rugby going on in Europe right now. See if you can find it online. It's with watching. It's like continuous American football, with lots of fun, exciting plays happening continuously.

Tayla: 35:59

Continue. Yeah, I agree, Watch rugby, go spring box and congratulations to. By the way, small mini-debate Is chiefs racist.

Sam: 36:12

I don't think so.

Tayla: 36:14

You don't think so.

Sam: 36:15

No, I think I heard something on the lines of that they were going to change it, or they changed it, or something like that, and that's the name that the Native Americans felt like.

Tayla: 36:26

Like they wanted representation. Okay. So yeah, I mean it's quite different to red skins. That's pretty racist.

Sam: 36:33

Yeah.

Tayla: 36:33

Okay, interesting. I just wasn't sure if like to call the chief was like appropriation or something Fascinating. But congratulations to the chiefs and the Taylor Nation.

Sam: 36:44

When you said it, though, it made me feel a little uncomfortable with the way you said it, with your tone, and what do you mean it? Your complexion? What?

Tayla: 36:58

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Sam: 37:02

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