The History of the Super Bowl Halftime Show, Part One: From Marching Bands to Celebrities

Ridiculous History

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🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Whether or not you consider yourself a die-hard football fan, you've almost certainly watched a halftime show. Over the past few decades, these performances have almost become their own entertainment entity, featuring some of the world's most notable (and, at times, controversial) celebrities. In the first part of this special two-part episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the origin story of the world famous Super Bowl Halftime show.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show,
0:27.7	Ridiculous historians.
0:29.0	Thank you, as always so much for tuning in.
0:31.9	That's our super producer, Mr. Max Williams.
0:35.1	With arms wide open.
0:36.8	Yes, arms wide open.
0:38.3	Under the sunlight.
0:39.6	Sunshine?
0:40.3	And a boob exposed.
0:41.6	Oh, no.
0:42.1	Right, right.
0:42.9	And I think we have all off-air pledge to stop lip-sinking this podcast based on some of the stuff we've learned in our special Thanksgiving series.
0:54.4	Welcome to our two-part episode on the history of the halftime show.
0:59.3	Indeed.
1:00.1	And, you know, it's funny, this being a podcast, y'all would never know sitting at home
1:04.1	that we have wardrobe malfunctions almost every single week.
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:09.7	And I mean, are they malfunctions or are they artistic expression?
1:14.1	Ooh, that is the question.
1:15.7	Either way, HR knows a lot about that.
1:17.6	Well, that is, you know, what's, oh my gosh, Ben, I'm glad you brought that out.
1:20.0	Let's save it from when we get into the particular event in question.
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