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February 6, 2025 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, it's time to talk to our man at the
super Bowl one, mister Anthony Rodriguez, covering all the action
from New Orleans before he jets back here in time
for the game. So, a Rod, were you all excited
when you got to be near Kendrick Climore last night?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
That was actually today?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
And yes, I absolutely, yeah know it was just it
was just this afternoon and absolutely I was. I mean,
the Apple Apple Music squad puts on the quite the
program with the with the room that they set up
here in the convention Center, it was it was electric.
And to steal one of Kendrick's own lines from a
song title of a song, rather, that's a humble dude,
that guy is. That guy's a really nice guy. They

(00:38):
even mentioned he doesn't really like to do interviews, but
he's a good dude.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
That was.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
That was a really captivating conversation they had with him.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
So obviously they're excited because being a super Bowl halftime
show was kind of a big deal.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Did they give any kind of like any kind.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Of hints about what we can expect from this show.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
They tried to get him to give a little little bit.
So this was a moderated conversation like a little Birdie
told me. And then it was confirmed there that wasn't
wasn't really the Q and A that I thought it
would be. Is more of the moderated on stage conversation.
They did ask him about it, and he gave a
little more so about kind of the theme, less about
what we'll see like visually or audibly. He said that

(01:17):
you know that he wants to be present, that he
wants to to to basically.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Tell a story. He said, all about storytelling.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
So I think we're going to see maybe like one
of I'm not going to say, like you know, justin
Timberlay going from place to pay place, or like the weekend,
going from set to set with some kind of storytelling.
I think you have to make it immaculate when you
have We're gonna have a hip hop artist if you're
telling a story, especially with his lyrics. I think he
is one of the best lyricists there is. So I
think we're going to see just in some immaculate sets.
When I hear storytelling, you have to tell the story

(01:46):
visually too.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I am looking forward to hearing my first Kendrick Lamar
songs ever I have heard Sisa songs. Actually, because my
daughter listens to some collapse.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
You just don't realize it. That's what you have heard Kendrick.
You'll realize, Oh, that's Kendrick because he's just he's everywhere.
The dude is glible and that's why he's that's why
he's doing this.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Okay, So what else has happened this week? What's the vibe?
People getting excited?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I loved your video, which, by the way, I put
on the blog today where you talk to people in
New Orleans about the fact that Donald Trump was going
to be at the game.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's been a whirlwind.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean I had heard tail because obviously this is
my first Super Bowl, I had heard tale of the
Wednesday and Thursday really be.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
The massive ramp up period.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
And that's been exactly that, both the feel and the
city here in the Convention Center, I mean, I mean everywhere.
The amount of increase in stars, celebrities, athletes, everything, it's.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Been a massive uptick.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
And and yeah, that that was a fun, a fun
dy to go back and forth with some pro Trump guys,
some handsie. I prefer that he stay away both for
just probably just personal reasons and also just because they're
a little concerned of the increased security risk, even though
I will say I think some folks are kind of
worried about maybe just to increase security just because oviously
what happened bourbon Stree a few months ago. So so

(03:02):
one one way or another.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yeah, So what have they given have they? Have they
given any kind of information?

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Like when we went to the RNC and the DNC,
we had a clear picture of what we were looking
at security wise before we got there. We're talking about
what eighty thousand people. I don't know how many people
fit in the in the Superdome.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
It's not the super Dome. What is it called? Now?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sees are super dome?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
These are super Okay, so it is still the super Dome.
So I mean, have they told people like get here,
what four hours?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Early?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Five hours? I mean, what does that even look like?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I haven't ptared particular of game day itself, but I
will say every event that I've that I've been covering
here in terms of from a media perspective, I've heard
tailed to just basically just arrived very early. Like, for example,
I think I got pretty lucky when I was asking
around about the particulars of today's the Halftime Show press conference.
I think I might have ran into someone. I was
pretty high up the food chame, either with Apple Music

(03:51):
or with a serper bowl. And I said, yeah, you're
going to want to get there pretty early, and so
I did. That thing started at ten am Central time here,
and I arrived and luckily got a prime see because
I arrived close about nine a m. So an hour
hour and a half before that thing started. So that's
been the general suggestion about everything. I will say yesterday,
I was standing outside when I was waiting to interview
people for that Trump piece. I was waiting right outside

(04:12):
the Convention Center area, which is the entrance to the
NFL Fan experience going on this week, which is just
an amazing By the.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Way, fine, did you do it? Did you do those
stuff with the NFL fan experience is.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
So much fun?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I walked around. I got some video of it.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
They had a lot of cool broncos said like patzer
Tan had a locker. They had a big, a big
one of those one of those big like how you
describe it, those figurines where you can stand and put
your head in and looks like you're an NFL player.
But but what I'm saying is the NFL fan experience,
there was a little bit a bit of confusion.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Outside with all the security barricades, like I saw.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I saw quite a few people come down towards where
I was, only to be looped back around and go
all the way back down to the other side further
down the convention center just because of some confusion.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
So there's barricades everywhere, there's.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
There's kind of there's there's some overall general confusion that
you would expect from an event like this. But but overall,
like from a grand perspective, the city, the folks here
at the convention Center, which is just massive, they're they're
doing an excellent job kind of kind of herding the cat,
both media and fans.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
New Orleans is very good at moving large groups of
people from to and fro. They just I mean, because
they have so many big events that happen on a
regular basis, they've got.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
In this thing.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yeah, this is the eleventh time they posted this time
with Miami for the most I mean, they know what
they're doing, and it's it's proven.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
When you were standing outside waiting to talk to people
for the little piece on Trump coming to the Super
Bowl that is on the blog today at mandy'sblog dot com.
Did you have as much trouble getting people to talk
to you as we did at the.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
D n C. No, because I I made the executive
decision that I was going to talk to them about
more than just the Trump things, right, I will, I
will look to use some more of their answers on
some of the other stuff, more about the game and
you know, their time in the New Orleans and the
security stuff. But I did I made the executive decision
to not lead them in the direction of exclusives.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
You want to talk about Trump?

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, because they all would have said they all would
have said no, And I assume half of them I
probably were like, oh, we're gonna talk about that too.
But I said, you know, at the end, you know,
I'm gonna get a newsworthy piece and this as well
for this for this package. So I had a couple
of different features going in mind on that. So I
knew the rn C and the DNC was my training.
You just right for my training. I knew what I
was doing this time around.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay, I'm glad I could help, like my showing you
what not to do because that was that was challenging.
So I have Kasey and Philly fans started rolling in
today or yesterday.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
You know, I haven't. I haven't seen too many.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
For the ones that I have seen, and I think
it's definitely seemingly been you know.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
See I was about to say that's been mostly cheese.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
But the last little bit, especially when I was doing
that Trump piece, a lot of folks walking by were
Eagles fans, but I haven't seen a lot. And I walked,
I walked up and down Bourbon Street last night to
get a feel for what that was like. And that's
a whole other conversation. But on the piece of fans,
I didn't really see many dressed in Chief's garb or
Eagles green.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I didn't see a lot of that.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't know if they, I mean there were there
were quite a few shirtless guys, I'll say that.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
And and that's an addition to what we know of
New Orleans. So it was more.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
I think I saw more shirtless men on Bourbon Street
than I did anyone wearing Eagles or chief scear.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
Well, what's funny is I have.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
One friend from Kansas City who was going to the game.
But they're flying in Saturday and they're flying like they're
flying out Monday morning because they've gone to the last
two Super Bowls, so it's not as special as it.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Has been and that's nice.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
The travel is going to be madness.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I was talking to a media member who's sitting next
to me waiting for the press conference to start for
Kendrick Lamar, and they were even saying that they I
think they are leaving on Sunday morning. And I want
to be like, are you I don't know what, I
don't know when Donald Trump's getting in, but you might
I want I should have said, you might want to
move that up. And I think a lot of people
there's there's probably gonna be some adjusted travel plans because
of because of the president coming in.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
That's it rules.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
So this this, I mean, this is a first, Like
I said, first sitting US president to attend the Super Bowl.
Other presidents have, but this is the first. So it
was already gonna be a mad house with a super Bowl.
It's already an amazing city like New Orleans. Now you
have that factor and it's going to be nuts.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I got a question from a texture well, a Rod.
How many red balls have you had today?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Do you know?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I went to a Walgreens a few days ago to stockpile,
and after the after the day, I went and got one.
I don't think I've drinken one since I have like
two in my bag that I wish I had have
had time to drink. But when you're busy talking to
Rob Gronkowski, Mike Vick and all the other folks at
Fox Sports Media like I did today, You're gonna have
enough energy to get you through stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
So I have. I have the red bull, I just
haven't used it yet. I'm talking really really fast. I
can give as my chance.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
I know who is your last question? Who is the
favorite person that you've interviewed this week.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Aside from SpongeBob and Patrick?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, SpongeBob.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
SpongeBob he didn't did he didn't see my injury interview
with SpongeBob and Patrick?

Speaker 4 (08:38):
No, I did not.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
How did I know that I had them grade my
SpongeBob laugh impression and.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
Would get spot? Would you get?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh? I got?

Speaker 3 (08:46):
I got to two cheers as expected, nice inaudible from
to two folks in costume.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
I mean, of course they were the real SpongeBob and Patrick.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Other than that, you know, I just I just had
a really fun chat with with Rob Gronkowski about tight
ends in the NFL. Obviously, the Broncos look to potentially
add one. Mike Vick, a long time legendary NFL quarterback,
has some really good stuff to say about bo Nix
just a few minutes ago. Those again, both of those
are the Fox Sports Media Day. Other than that, I
talked to the Philly Sports guy, legendary Eagles super fan.

(09:14):
You can watch that video on our socials. That was
a lot of fun. I know you probably saw the
Taylor Swift ridiculous. I loved it that that super fan.
I mean, he I'll tell you this, and I called
out Travis Kelsey then my video because I said, you
know what, that was a way better pitch and it's
not gonna get me never, but it's it's a way
better pitch than Travis Kelsey gave me with his one liner.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
So I hope.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Taylor sees both videos and realizes her by her boyfriend
could have done better.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Well, no, I thought her boyfriend's answer was perfect. Who
isn't a swiftye I mean, come.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
On, well, I'll tell you. I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
My Austrian friends pointed out that they saw that Travis
Kelsey one liner to me on a Taylor Swift hate subwriddit,
so they've seen this video. After this video is everywhere
I have. I have exponentially grown my anti Swift fan
base in the way of the Swifty's coming after me
over the.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Last couple of days. So I'll take it. I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
It's been a fun storyline. I'll run with it. And
you know, Travis one line me and moved on and
it's paid off.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
A rod will be back tomorrow with more tales, and
if you follow him on social media, he's gonna be
posting even more videos before he leaves New Orleans to
come back in advance of the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
All right, man, I'll see tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
All right, thank you? All right.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
That is Anthony Rodriguez.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
We'll be right back.

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