Ben Harlum: Sirius XM radio host on the Super Bowl

It is officially Super Bowl Sunday in the US!

The Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Philadelphia Eagles at Louisiana's Superdome in New Orleans in what is to be a star studded night in sport. 

Taking the stage in the half time show performance is rapper Kendrick Lamar. 

Sirius XM Radio host Ben Harlum joins the show live from the Super Bowl. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's Super Bowl Sunday. In the US, that's Super Bowl Monday.
Here it all gets underway on TV and ZEB and
TV and ZEB plus from midday today. The bars are
getting ready for an influx. We love this thing. We've
got the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia Eagles
at Louisiana's Super Dome. And New Orleans they actually played
once before twenty twenty three. They played the Super Bowl

(00:20):
as well, So one guy wants to keep on winning
and the others want some redemption. As for the highly
anticipated halftime show, it'll be US rapper Kendrick Lamar taking
the stage fresh from winning a whole heap of Grammys.
And we've got with me now, Ben Harlem.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Ben is a host on Syrium XM, which is a
radio service in the United States. HOWO, Ben, you're a
New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I am Andrew. How are you this morning?

Speaker 1 (00:46):
I'm really good. What's New Orleans like? It looks like
it's in lockdown. The security is insane.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, it's really crazy. Obviously after what happens here on
New Year's Eve, they've shipped in. There's about three thousand
different officers from police, from Homeland Security, there's helicopters always
going around. With the amount of celebrities. Donald Trump's going
to be here for the game, like roads are closed.
It's quite crazy in that aspect. It's also very crazy

(01:11):
in terms of the amount of people that are here,
whether they're just for the game, just for a party,
just to try and get in. It's a very different atmosphere.
But people are getting very excited in the last couple
of days, which is good.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, I can imagine that if I was in America
and New Orleans was only a couple of hours away,
and even if I didn't have a ticket, you just
knew that Bourbon Street was going to go off.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Oh absolutely. I mean every second bar that you look at,
there's a different company putting on a party. There's celebrities
that are going in and out. They say that it'll
be about one hundred and twenty five thousand visitors to
New Orleans this week. The hotel demand is up six
hundred percent, which if you consider, like this is the
home of Mardi Gras, this is like a party city,
so for there to be so much extra demand, like

(01:54):
the city is going off this week.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Meanwhile, apparently there's a football game.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, funny that I.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Know that's the hype about the whole thing. If the
Chiefs win, it'll be the third and three years. As
I mentioned before, these guys met in twenty twenty three,
so there's a lot on the line.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Yeah, absolutely, Like this is all about redemption. There's so
many different storylines. Like you don't see teams go three
in a row like they do here. It's supposed to
be you know, it's supposed to be parity. The'supposed to
be different teams every time. But a lot of those
Eagles players that were there a couple of years ago,
they are playing here again today, and well you know

(02:32):
that they're publicly trying to keep calm and say it's
just another game. You just know in the back of
their minds that a couple of years ago is really
sort of eating at them. So this is their chance
for redemption.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
As you said, what team are you picking?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Look, I want it to be a close game just
for my own you know, being there and being able
to watch the game. But I mean to be able
to go against Mahomes, like who does that. The Chiefs
I think probably will win and get that three in
a row.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
And the halftime show of course we've got the ads
on the Telly, but we've also got Kendrick Laman. Now
Kendricks he's quite He's quite a prickly little character. It's
not like Prince or Coldplay or Tom Pitty, is it.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh no, it's very different. I met Kendrick Lama once
about ten years ago. He told me that I look
like Chucky from the horror film and that Chucky used
to scare him when he was growing up. So that
was my introduction to Kendrick Lamar. It's going to be
a great halftime show there. Rumors are always you know
what special guests are going to be coming in. This
year is all about his feud with Drake, who's been

(03:32):
in Australia and performing, so he's left the country. He
doesn't want to see anything about it. But the thing
is Drake has sued his record label and sued Kendrick
about this this disc track that he won all the
Grammys for, and there were rumors that maybe it might
not be on the set list today, but people have
seen the set list and they have confirmed that that
particular song is going to be there. And now all

(03:54):
eyes are going to be on any special guests well.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
It's a big, big hit in Ben Harlem from Syrium XM.
By the way, give my love to Howard Stern. Thank
you so much for joining us today. It's five twenty one.
Can we play a little bit of Kendrick just briefly now.
If you don't know this artist, this is the artist.
It's halftime to Evolve New Orleans and the Superdome with
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(04:25):
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Speaker 2 (04:30):
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