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Speaker 1: Is it possible that there are some sporting events that

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Speaker 1: are just so big that they can basically do what

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Speaker 1: they want politically without suffering. Now I'm asking this because

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Speaker 1: of what's just happened during the super Bowl halftime performance.

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny was everything that the MAGA crowd expected him

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Speaker 1: to be, and I suppose feared him to be. There

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Speaker 1: were already who was threatening, you know, some of them

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Speaker 1: threatening to boycott the halftime show because Bad Bunny is

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Speaker 1: a vocal critic of Trump's ice raids, having spoken out

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Speaker 1: at the Grammys last week, and that was just the

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Speaker 1: latest and a number of speeches. A Trump aligned MAGA

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Speaker 1: group hosted an alternative halftime show featuring Ked Rock, and

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Speaker 1: so you know, they were expecting something, and it came

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Speaker 1: at the end of Bad Bunny's performance, surrounded by flags

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Speaker 1: from mainly South America. He made his point. He said,

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Speaker 1: God bless America, and then he name checked countries throughout

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Speaker 1: North and predominantly South America, which was obviously deliberately provocative,

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Speaker 1: being that ice is catching migrants from those countries, And

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Speaker 1: like clockwork, Trump then took the bait and immediately hit

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Speaker 1: the truth, the truth social causing him to then have

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Speaker 1: a crack at the super Bowl. Now, my prediction this

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Speaker 1: is that the super Bowl super Bowl is going to

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Speaker 1: weather this. It will beat Trump and MAGA on this

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Speaker 1: one because it always weathers the politics. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: remember back to Beyonce's Black Panther esque performance ten years ago,

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Speaker 1: there was criticism the super Bowl was drawn into the

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Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick taking the knee stuff. There has been low

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Speaker 1: level drama in intervening years, and yet the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: just keeps on setting records. We watch it from New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Last year had attracted nearly one hundred and twenty eight

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Speaker 1: million viewers, making it one of the most watched US

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Speaker 1: broadcasts ever. I am firmly, firmly, firmly of the view

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Speaker 1: that you should never mix politics with sport because you

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Speaker 1: simply give some fans a reason to leave in an

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Speaker 1: age when you do not need people to leave. But

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Speaker 1: maybe there just are some events that are so big

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Speaker 1: they can afford to and not even Trump condent their popularity.

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Speaker 1: And maybe the super Bowl is exactly that kind of

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