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A financial exchange named Kalshi thinks that there is an odds in favorite to headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show.

And it is kind of the most obvious choice because when you're in charge of the Super Bowl halftime show, you would think at some point you're going to put yourself in this halftime show. So they believe that Jay-Z, who has been the producer of the Super Bowl halftime show, is the favorite to be the performance, the headliner for the 2026 halftime show. While super exciting, I mean, Jay-Z is Jay-Z when it comes to music. I mean, he's one of the goats, right? He's just going to get so much crap if he assigns himself.

It's like it would Jay-Z is Jay-Z when it comes to music. I mean, he's one of the goats, right?

He's just going to get so much crap if he assigns himself. It's like, it would be like the Nepo Bowl. Like he would just be giving himself the job, right? People are going to give them all the hard time. Dude, are they putting odds on Taylor Swift? Because my theory, and I think you might have brought it up initially on the show, was that once she owned all of her masters and her music,

then she might do the Super Bowl because she would directly make all the cash off the residual streams, because artists don't get paid for

the Super Bowl, but they benefit on the back end, right, with more streaming of their

songs, and that's where the cash flow comes from. She's wrapped the Aeros tour. It's been a few months since she's wrapped it. So good for sleepy, sleepy downtime. As far as I know, she doesn't have anything else planned, but I heard that she just filmed a music video. Yes. Okay. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. So wouldn't that be great timing if you dropped the single and then hit the Super Bowl to perform your

newly acquired back catalog of Masters and launched your new single? Yeah, I appreciate her grind for sure.

I just think if I'm Taylor Swift and I'm worth that much money, it's really all about the music at

that point. And do you really need the money and the residuals from a Super Bowl appearance?

No, you don't. But if we live in a capitalist society where we have to pay you all the time for everything, then you need to pay us in your time. At the same time as an artist, to me, this is like one of those things I would want to check off my artist's bucket list. Like, because you have to pay for the set list. Like you don't get any funding for it.

Like you have to fund it,

which of course billionaire Taylor Swift

is going to have no problem doing. Like, because you have to pay for the set list. Like you don't get any funding for it.

Like you have to fund it, which of course, billionaire Taylor Swift is going to have no problem doing. In my opinion, I don't think we're going to get a Taylor Swift halftime performance until after Travis Kelsey is out of the football league. Okay. Because I think she's going to want to say, hey, like, dude, this is your thing. I don't want any attention being taken away from you until he's out of the NFL.

So I highly doubt she'll be in the 2026 halftime show. And a lot of people feel the same way because the stats are coming out that if it's not Jay-Z, the top contender for the halftime show is Post Malone, Cardi B, Metallica, Doolipa, but I don't think she's going to be

in the halftime show. And then maybe our favorite artist, Ice Spice. How about a post Malone jelly roll? Oh, that'd be so bad. I mean, they just got done with their tour, right? Do we know where the halftime show is this year? Because don't they sometimes try and tie it in with the city? I believe it's California.

Yeah, it is.

Santa Clara.

Okay.

So maybe not a country artist this year, but maybe somebody from California. If you guys could pick like your ideal, let's take Taylor Swift out of it because she, she is likely for one day. A long shot artist performance for the Super Bowl. Who would you choose? Like for me, it would be a reunion of Britney Insink in the Backstreet Boys. Bring them back. 90s pop, it would crush. Long shot? Yes, long show. Like, that's never going to happen. Amy Winehouse. Okay. Too long. A doable long shot. We could get AI with her, Ozzy Osbourne, and a selfie to do Turner.

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