ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Fact of the Day (Of the Week!) - Superbowl Week!

Episode Date: February 15, 2024

On This FOTD(OTW), Vaughan picks up the pigskin and leads us through Superbowl Week!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. On today's Fact of the Day of the Week, Vaughn straps on the pads and throws a touchdown for Super Bowl week. It's time for... Fact of the Day, Day there was no Super Bowl I or II. Are they numbered? Yeah, they're numbered.

Today's one is... Like the Oscars. The 96th annual... Super Bowl LV111. So that's an 8 and I'm guessing L is a five. Yeah, Super Bowl 58. And I think I saw somewhere every year the Super Bowl happens, there's a spike in Google Roman numerals.

V is a five, isn't it? V is a five, yeah, I got it. It's 58. L is 50. C is 100. D is 500. M is 1,000. And there was no one or two.

There was no one or two technically because before the term Super Bowl, they were just called the AFL-NFL World Championship. Average Bowl. It was just because they hadn't merged yet. There was the East Coast and the West Coast and they hadn't merged yet. So when they were merged and it just became the NFL, there'd already been two games beforehand. No, no, sorry.

But when it got called the Super Bowl, there'd already been two games beforehand, which would technically have been Super Bowl I and II, except it wasn't called the Super Bowl then. So when it was started and was called the Super Bowl. I still would have just started at one, though. I would have started at one when you got a new name for it too. When they combined it,

they should have said it's the first ever Super Bowl. Yeah, but it wasn't. That's not how it got its name. How it got its name was Lamar Hunt, the founder of the AFL and the owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, who are playing to the gates of San Francisco. Is that the one that Taylor Swift's boyfriend's in? Yeah.

Okay, are we going for them? I suppose so. Shannon is because she's bet money on it. Yeah, actually, we should support Shannon. She's put a fat 15 on. You put a 15. How much are they paying to win? Two bucks.

So $30, it's coming our way. Oh, so they're not favourites. They're not favourites. The 49ers is $1.72 at the moment. Or something like that. I don't know. I'm not that into betting. Should we put some money on?

I've never gambled in my life. Neither. Haven't you? Well, I've done los. Should we put some money on? I've never gambled in my life. Neither. Haven't you? Well, I've done losho. And I've played on the pokies. Okay, so that's gambling. That's gambling. I've done a pokies.

I've pushed some buttons on the pokies. Okay, no. You've had a flitter on the pokies. I've had a flitter. Oh, and I will admit I've backed some horses before. And you've done some raffles. I haven't gambled and now you've done all of like... I'm quite a heavy gambler.

You've done all the gambling. I'm quite a heavy gambler. You've done all of like, you've done all the gambling. I'm quite a heavy gambler. You've done the gambling. Yeah, yeah. Save your money. God, you know, I've never done drugs. Oh, you've got your heroines, you've got your, it's just not real drugs.

I've never done gambling apart from the horses, apart from the scratchies, apart from the, yeah, the illegal cock rape. All your gambling. Cock rape. Cock fight. I know, I said something quite different. I believe it happens in a ring, but that's not what you call it.

It's called cock fighting and it's in a ring. I took two of those words and I left out fighting. Left out the crucial part. If you do want one of those ring ones with the sex.life 20% off. Hey, spice it up. Valentine's Day is coming. So some other names that were floated around for the Super Bowl, the big one or Pro Bowl.

The big one. The big one. Yeah, the big game. The end of it, the big game. So the Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt suggested the term Super Bowl because he was getting interviewed about his team making it to the end of it, this big game. And he was playing with about his team making it to the end of it, this big game. Yeah. And he was playing with his son's Super Bowl toy.

Oh. And he's just like, I've just been toying with the name Super Bowl. So a Super Bowl is just a very bouncy ball. When he was doing this interview, apparently, it was just like, dun-dun-dun-dun. God, that's so, that'd be so annoying in an interview. Yeah. K-tink, k-tink. K-tink, k-tink.

Could you see it? I think it was a newspaper one. Oh. They weren't using the audio. in an interview. Yeah. Could you see it? I think it was a newspaper one. They weren't using the audio. Right. Okay. Yeah. So he said, yeah, it's going all the way to the Super Bowl. So they started talking about the Super Bowl.

Okay. And then, yeah. They should have called it number one. Then when they renamed it, officially renamed it the Super Bowl, yeah, there'd already been a few games. So there was a Super Bowl one or two. Today's Fact of the Day is Super Bowl week here at Fact of the Day, and this is about the origins of the Super Bowl halftime show.

As it is the grand spectacle that it is now. They've always had like something happening during halftime, mostly just for people who are in the stadium. The TV would cut away to a whole bunch of like stats and colour commentary and people's opinions and then the ads and stuff. Because I've done a lot of halftime shows. I've done a lot of the All Blacks halftime shows with marching. Yes.

Sevens halftimes. We've done that a lot. All Blacks halftime shows with marching. Yes. Sevens halftimes. We've done that a lot. They don't televise. They don't televise it. They kind of will have it in the background or they might say, oh yeah,

the so-and-so, so-and-so is doing the halftime show today and then mostly it's just interviews. I like at halftime when they do a t-shirt cannon or they do a fun game

where people have to catch a ball. It's very basketball. Basketball does it, eh? Or like, get this in the hoop and you win a million dollars. Yeah, that's the good stuff.

Well, in 1992, the Super Bowl halftime show was Gloria Estefan. Brian Boitano, who you will probably only know from South Park fame, he was an ice skater. He was an Olympic ice skater. No, I still don't know. What would Brian Boitano do? That whole song? Yeah, it rings a bell.

South Park made a deal out of me. He was a Canadian ice skater. Right. So they had like a snow-themed production, Gloria Estefan's song and some ice skating. And at the same time, on a different channel, a live Super Bowl version of In Living Colour, which was a live sketch show.

It was sort of like a more African-American dominated version of Saturday Night Live with Jim Carrey. They did a live show and it cost the network, there was CBS, it was broadcasting the Super Bowl, 10 points of the percentage. So 10% of people left and didn't come back for the second half until Andrew McCullough was finished. And they were like, we really need to step up the game. So the next year in 1993 was the start

of the mega halftime show and they kicked off with Michael Jackson. Oh, wow. The king of comedy. Oh my God. I know that whole performance. Yeah.

93. He's up on the top of a screen, but it's not really him. Yeah. It's someone dressed like him. And then he goes, boom, and then he disappears and he pops up on the top of a screen, but it's not really him. Yeah. It's someone dressed like him. And then he goes, boom, and then he disappears and he pops up in the middle of the stage. And that kind of set the bar going forward.

He stood there at the start when he popped up in the middle of the stage and people just basically screamed for a minute and a half before he started his performance. Wow. He's in like classic black and white era, white shirt, black pants, white socks, black shoes. The dangerous, the black jacket.

The aviator sunglasses. And he does a performance which ended with 3,500 local children singing with Michael Jackson. Heal the world. I know. Okay, wow. Make it a better place. Was he paid for that?

Because they never get paid, eh? No. So they don't get paid. Yeah. Apple Music pays $50 million every year to sponsor the halftime show, as it currently stands. Right. And they don't get paid, but they see a massive boost.

After 2020, Shakita's Spotify streams went up 230%. Yeah. Jennifer Lopez went up by 335%. So they make money in other ways. Right. And it's just like creed. from Spotify.

They get two more dollars. They get two more dollars from Spotify. That's so nice. Yeah. That's so great. Yeah, that's exactly how they do it.

Wow. Okay. And then ever since, it's been a big thing. So after Michael Jackson, there was one with a young, there was Stevie Wonder

who did tap dancing. Okay. I didn't know Stevie tapped. there was Stevie Wonder who did tap dancing. Okay. I didn't know Stevie tapped. Well, no, he learnt tap dancing. Now, how does a blind person learn tap dancing? Purely by sound. Purely by how it sounds, which is apparently a hell of a task. A hell of a task.

Also, and a young Elijah Wood took part in the next. What did he do? There's been some dud years. There's been some dud years. There's been some dud years. There has been a few dud years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, there was one. Diana Ross arrived by helicopter and then, no, left by helicopter.

She started on this massive tower, sung her song, and then just got airlifted out on a helicopter. Yeah. Totally avoided traffic. Because Paul McCartney did it and everyone was like, oh, it's not quite the vibe. Like, Paul McCartney is a mega, mega superstar, but, like, it's not Lady Gaga. That is, McCartney, mega, mega superstar, but like it's not Lady Gaga.

That is, hold on, the article I was reading had a name for the over the hill rockers era of the halftime show where you had Paul McCartney, then the Rolling Stones the next year, then Prince the next year, then Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, then Bruce Springsteen. And then The Who.

So they had all these like old guys. There was one I wanted to talk about the halftime show where someone died. Really? Someone talk about the halftime show where someone died. Really? Someone died in the halftime show. They were supposed to bunch- Like a backup dancer. It was the Blues Brothers year.

Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, James Belushi, and James Brown and ZZ Top. Right. Something for everybody there in the year 1997. And there was, it was dedicated to a woman called Laura Patterson who three days during practice for the halftime show bungee jumped off the roof of the Superdome and

her equipment failed and she just fell to the ground and she died so they dedicated it to her. Oh, they didn't tie it on or something? Yeah, it was just equipment malfunction. Gosh. It's been so horrendous. Or she did that thing when you go get a bungee they're like,

how much do you weigh? And you're like, 70. 70. 70. What, everyone says 70. Sure.

Do you want to jump on the scales? No. No, I literally just, I literally weighed myself this morning. 70.

70. Oh, fine, 72-ish. Fine, you got me, caught me. Oh,

wait, do I keep my boots on? 74. Are my boots on? Man, man, oh no, these boots, these are heavy boots. me. Oh, wait. Do I keep my boots on? 74. Are my boots on? Oh, no, these boots? These are heavy boots. 84. Yeah.

And then the rope is definitely not set up for your 90 kgs. Are you going to dip me in the water? Because whenever I get wet, I seem to hold a lot of water. I'm like a sponge. Probably. We'll say 94. 94. I've probably got 24 kgs of clothes and stuff on.

Give a bit of a safety bet. Let's put 94. Okay, let's put 100. Write 94, but know that 24 kgs of it's clothes. Actually, a bit of a safety, but let's put 94. Okay, let's put 100. Write 94, but know that 24 kgs of it's clothes. Actually, I don't want to hit the water, so you better make it less. Sure, I think that's how it works. So I don't hit the water, that'd be really great. So today's fact of the day in Super Bowl week

is that the halftime show became the spectacle it was because people were just tuning out of halftime show to watch sketch comedy. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Two. Good month for KiwiSaver. Sorry. I'm pleased that's having a bounce back.

I'm pleased that's having a bounce back. I was very upset at my KiwiSaver all of last year. Vaughn and I, we get a message about our KiwiSaver balance once a month. Are you guys on the same one? Yeah, and then we message each other. And I always get it first because I think it's alphabetical. Look at my up. Yeah, America stocks have been doing really well lately.

And so it's gone up. We're not supporting a war, though. Am I supporting a war? Is that why that's gone right up? You actually have a lot of investment in missiles and Russia. I've got good gain here. But I've spent mine on a house, so I've got to wait until I'm 65. Yeah, you do. So it's not that exciting.

No, it's not. Okay. I saw, because that once monthly thing, I saw how to log in and check like day to day. Oh yeah, don't do that. That's depressing. Yeah. You just forget about it and it's there later. Yeah. When you retire. Hopefully.

I could really use it now. If you make it to 65, that is. Whoa. Who gets it if I don't? Shut up. Well, what's in your will? Don't shrug.

I think my will just says where there's a will, there's a way. Have at. Don't go. Oh, you're so good. Very short, but to the point, you know.

Decipher that as you will. Well, it's Super Bowl week. Completely forgot it was Valentine's Day this week when I decided it was Super Bowl week. Completely forgot it was Valentine's Day this week when I decided it was Super Bowl week. Why don't you say it's Valentine's Day week? You could pivot. No, I'm not going to pivot.

I'm going to stick to Super Bowl because Super Bowl is very interesting. Super Bowl is very interesting. Today's fact of the day is the Super Bowl is the second highest eating day for Americans. After Thanksgiving? Bingo. Behind Thanksgiving. I've seen stats on this before.

I've got some fresh stats. It's quite gross. Fresh stats. One in seven Americans order takeout on Super Bowl Sunday. Oh, yeah. One in seven. I thought it would have been more. But they're big on the food, on cooking at home on Super Bowl, yeah.

60% of the takeouts ordered a pizza. Okay. It's the most popular takeout. 1.25 billion chicken wings are eaten. 1.25 billion wings are consumed, which equals 74 million kilograms of chicken wings alone. And in one weekend, one weekend is responsible for 7%

of entire chicken wings consumed by that nation. I've had chicken wings in America and I don't know what they pump into their chickens. They're like drumsticks. They're turkeys. Those chickens, I believe those chickens could fly. Yeah. And you see a rotisserie chicken,

you see a rotisserie whole chicken in the supermarket and you're like, it looks like a turkey. God, that's not good. That's not good. 8.8 million kilograms of chips are purchased for Super Bowl Sunday. 5 million kilograms of potato chips and 3.7 million kilograms of tortilla chips are purchased. Of what chips? Tortilla.

Hello. Tortilla. Tortillas. Tortillas. I've been doing Duolingo Espanol. Yeah. You haven't got up to L yet, have you? Not yet.

No. Avocados. 63 million kilograms of av to L yet, have you? Not yet. No. Avocados. 63 million kilograms of avocados are purchased to make guacamole. Wow. 10% of Americans use their grill. So they're out there on the barbecue. Only 10%. I thought it might have been more, but the thing about it, I suppose.

It's winter though, isn't it? It is winter in a lot of places. And that means you've kind of got to be away from the viewing of the Super Bowl. Yeah, so 14 billion hamburgers are made, but hot dogs, steak, bratwurst, and grilled vegetables close behind. Popcorn and nuts, 1.7 million kilograms of popcorn consumed on Super Bowl Sunday, and 1.1 million kilograms of nuts. And this is the most mind-blowing part. Okay. During the Super Bowl weekend, football fans drink

1.2 billion litres of beer. Jeez Louise. And it's bad beer too. It's not great beer. So 50 million cases of beer. Beer sales alone on that day equate for $11 billion.

And it's enough liquid to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 2,000 times. Oh, my God. And people are like, oh, well, how do they justify the spending on Super Bowl commercials? Like paying a celebrity a million dollars. Well, that's how. They're literally buying, yeah. It's just this wild weekend of consumption. Wow.

It'd be fun to be part of once. You know, like I'd love to do Thanksgiving. I'd love to be in an American house on a Super Bowl. I want to go to an American football game, not a Super Bowl. I want to do that tailgating thing they do outside. Everyone's got grills and beers and it's just like hanging out

before you go in and watch three hours of effectively a chess game played with man pieces. And a lot of head trauma. A lot of head trauma. A lot of head trauma. So today's fact of the day is that the Super Bowl is the second highest eating day for Americans, falling only behind Thanksgiving. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughan and Ailey.

Play ZM. Today's fact of the day Super Bowl week Despite it being Valentine's Day this week too Complete oversight at the start of the week I like Super Bowl week We're learning about Super Bowl My question I thought

And this would make a good Oh go on Okay well no Because I found a stat Of how many people watch Super Bowl In America alone It was the largest TV event since the moon landing? Correct. This year's

one. Yeah, 123.4 million viewers. It is America's biggest audience since the moon landing. Can we get the Great Kiwi Bake Off season 5 numbers and just see how that stacks up? How it compares? How's that stacking up? Heard you guys are doing pretty good up there.

We are. New Zealand standards doing very well. Very well in the ratings. Probably not quite the Super Bowl. Well, it was in Las Vegas this year.

Yeah. And I was like, this is weird because the Vegas Raiders aren't in the finals. So why are we in Vegas? Why are we in Las Vegas? Neutral ground.

Yeah, because you'd think it would be a home ground, right? Exactly. But it doesn't. It's decided three to six years because you'd think it would be a home ground, right? Exactly, but it doesn't. It's decided three to six years in advance. So it would be like the Crusaders and the Blues being in the final when they play it in, well, yes, in McArgle. Yeah. Oh, they wouldn't play it in McArgle.

They wouldn't have the stadium for it. That's the thing. You've got some great stadiums down there because of the licensing trust. Don't blame Eden Park, mate. You're going to play rugby in the ballad room? Running up the edges like far out. I say bring some sloped edges to rugby. Yeah.

Put a camber to the pitch. There probably is a light camber actually just to get the water to run off. But ever so slightly. Super Bowl locations are determined three to six years in advance. Any city can place a bid to host the Super Bowl, just like the Olympics. So it's like the Olympics in games.

And then the NFL owners get together and vote to determine which city is going to host. I mean, Vegas is a vibe. Vegas is a vibe. Vegas is a vibe. It's a vibe. But the NFL, because it's in winter, will not consider stadiums in cold regions. Oh, yeah. Sorry, Alaska.

Now, you can play the Alaskan Timberwolves. Yeah. They'll never get it home. The Alaskan Snowplows. The Snowplows. The Snowplows. The Alaskan Freezing Breezes. They're not going to get a home game.

So, wait, it's in winter, but they don't want to play in the snow. It's in winter and games can be played throughout the season in snow, but they will not hold a Super Bowl in a stadium with a climate of less than 50 degrees Fahrenheit average for the month of February unless it's covered and there's bugger all. Yeah. It's so big. It's so big.

This is why most of them have been held in warm water cities of the Superbowl so far 11 have been held in Miami oh yeah well that's even in like winter

it's a reliable climate it's an absolutely reliable climate and then they meet and they decide years in advance where the Superbowl is going to be

so where will where where will the 2025 Super Bowl be held? Do you know they actually do this for marching nationals as well? Do they? They put in a bid, each sort of committee.

It's going to be held at Caesars Superdome, commonly known as a Superdome, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Oh. New Orleans. New Orleans, okay. That'll be cool. That'll be fun. That's party town. Put some beads on. That'll be cool. That'll be fun. Party town.

Put some beads on. They'll have to play with all those beads. That was the Superdome that during Hurricane Katrina was, everyone was living in it, right? Everyone, yeah, evacuated there. Ooh, Caesar's Superdome. Super Bowl 59. Because it was 58 this year. So today's fact of the day is they won't play the Super Bowl in a cold stadium and they decided via

committee. Today's fact of the day and the final fact for Super Bowl week. Just sort of feels like Super Bowl was Monday. I know. Like you're really dragging this out. But Monday was the start of the week and this is that week. Don't know what next week's going to be. Can we have something silly? We we have something silly? We can have silly.

Silly. Novelty toys. You know, like fake noses and stuff. Oh my God. Yeah, like fart in a jar. Whoopie cushions and stuff. Yeah, okay.

Silly. Okay, like toys that weren't invented to be toys but then turned into toys. Yeah, yeah, great. Yeah, whatever. Silly.

You just do some research. Okay. Report back. Today's fact of the day about the Super Bowl is about a coin toss. Oh, another one where you think it's chewing gum

but it snaps your finger. That's a good one. What about like spider in a box? Or a nail that's in a plaster? What are you guys ordering out of the back of a 1970s Archie's comic? Yes. X-ray specs.

Yes. So you can see your neighbour's knickers. Snake in a can. So the coin toss, did you see the video of the two guys that both bet $10,000 on it coming up tails and then it came up heads this year and they both instantaneously lost $10,000 US dollars?

If you're going to do that with your mate, one goes heads, one goes tails. And then you split it. And then you split the money for a laugh, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then you're always the mate that remember the time I picked it

but remember the time you owe me $10,000. You owe me and then it splits the friendship up. Yeah, yeah, totally. Blow it apart. Well, the Super Bowl coin is a specially minted coin every single year. Oh, so they make money out of it. Yeah. Okay.

The Highland Mint crafts a unique coin every year. The image of the Lombardi Trophy, which is a lot of people think the trophy is called the Super Bowl. It's not. The Super Bowl is the game. Yeah. But the trophy is called the Super Bowl? It's not. The Super Bowl is the game. Yeah. But the trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy. And the other image is to represent the current Super Bowl.

Like this year it might have had something to do with Las Vegas. Previous years it's got something to do with that. Or the two teams might get a little special symbol. They mint one of them. Especially for the coin toss. So they don't just go like, has anyone got wallets? Because in New Zealand when they do the cricket, the captain's met out there for the coin toss for the cricket. You can tell like, has anyone got, I've got to get wallets. Because in New Zealand, when they do the cricket, the captain's met out there

for the coin toss or the cricket, you can tell it's just like, shit. Anyone got two bucks? Bruce, you got a two dollar coin? The 50 cent used to be

the best for the coin toss. It's too small now. The two dollars, you've got to go two dollar. The two dollars got the weight. You need that weight for it. Oh, the other ones are too light,

too small. So today's fact of the day for the final fact for Super Bowl week is that there is a special coin minted every year for the coin toss at the start of the Super Bowl. Fact of the day, day, day, day, day.