🏈 “The Super Bowl Pod” — Kendrick’s $0 Halftime Show. Wilson’s football monopoly. The Curse of the Commercial.
The Best One Yet
Nick & Jack Studios
4.6 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Dirty secret of the Super Bowl halftime show… The show costs $50M, but the performer gets paid $0.
Wilson makes all of the NFL’s football’s… and their factory in Ohio is freaky.
The Curse of the Super Bowl Commercial is real… and it’s coming for AI.
Plus, one basketball coach trademarked the term “Three-peat”... and could make millions if the Chiefs win.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Friday the real Friday. February 7th and today's pod is the best one yet. This is a T-boy. Here's the top three pop business news stories you need to know today. The people have spoken. We got more comments on Spotify than we ever had before. I know. |
| 0:20.9 | It was awesome to see. |
| 0:22.2 | So, we found the three most fascinating business stories on the Super Bowl. |
| 0:26.7 | So besties grab some wet wipes for those buffalo wings |
| 0:29.5 | and then send this episode to your buddy who you're watching the game with this weekend. |
| 0:33.6 | Then grab some placers for the celery that's going to get stuck in your teeth |
| 0:37.1 | because you're going to be stuck in your teeth, because |
| 0:37.5 | you're going to be talking about these takeaways the whole game. In the meantime, Jack, |
| 0:41.4 | should we break and get to the takeaways? What do you think? Ready? Break! Three stories for today's |
| 0:46.1 | show. What do we got? For our first story, a 30-second Super Bowl commercial just hit a record |
| 0:50.9 | high price of $8 million. But when it comes to tech trends, the Super Bowl ad is actually a curse. |
| 0:58.5 | For our second story, there's a wild secret about the Super Bowl halftime show. |
| 1:03.2 | The performer is paid nothing. |
| 1:05.3 | That's right, Kendrick Lamar will make $0 at the halftime show, so we found the ROI. |
| 1:11.5 | And our third and final story. |
| 1:13.3 | For 70 years, one factory in Ohio has made every single football that the NFL uses. |
| 1:18.6 | It's Wilson. |
| 1:19.9 | Wilson is a publicly traded pure play ball business, and Jack and I went deep in the ball pit. |
| 1:26.2 | But yet is, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories. |
| 1:29.0 | What a fantastic, hut. |
| 1:31.2 | A fantastic mix of stories. |
| 1:33.8 | Love the mix, Jack. |
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