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Speaker 1: Boston's Bulldozer operate seven days a week, The Kuner Report,

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Speaker 1: weekend edition, WRKO, the Voice of Boston.

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Speaker 2: I know here in New England, obviously, people are still

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Speaker 2: licking their wounds from the crushing defeat delivered to the

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Speaker 2: Patriots by the Seattle Seahawks. Seattle was just a better team.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to say I called it on Friday,

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Speaker 2: but I called it on Friday. But let that go.

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Speaker 2: Besides the disappointment of the game and the score and

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Speaker 2: really the poor performance of the Patriots, especially their offensive line,

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Speaker 2: what struck me the most about the Super Bowl was

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Speaker 2: the halftime show. Now, just full disclosure, I did not

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Speaker 2: watch the halftime show. I boycotted the halftime show. We

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Speaker 2: have direct TV at our home, and both Grace, the kids,

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Speaker 2: everybody insisted they didn't want to listen to bad Bunny,

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Speaker 2: didn't want to listen to an anti Trump, anti Ice,

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Speaker 2: anti American rapper, and they said, we don't want politics

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Speaker 2: shoved down our throat, never mind woke politics when we're

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Speaker 2: just trying to enjoy the Super Bowl. And so we

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Speaker 2: shifted to TBN, which is I think three seventy two,

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Speaker 2: the channel three seven to two at least on our

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Speaker 2: DirecTV system, and we watched the halftime show at featured

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Speaker 2: at Turning Point, USA. There was kid Rock, some outstanding

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Speaker 2: country music singers, a very patriotic event, god, family, country.

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Speaker 2: Those were the themes of that halftime show. It was

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Speaker 2: all American, all Americana sung with passion, talent, and obviously

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Speaker 2: love of country. What I find amazing about the halftime

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Speaker 2: show and I'm just going now by what I've read

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Speaker 2: and the reaction because I didn't watch it myself, although

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Speaker 2: Mike confirmed it to me because he had the halftime

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Speaker 2: show on was he was watching whatever, watching it and

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Speaker 2: getting food and getting ready for the second half of

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Speaker 2: the game. The song, every song, the entire performance by

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Speaker 2: Bad Bunny was done in Spanish. Not an even not one,

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Speaker 2: not even an English word. It was all sung in Spanish. Now,

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Speaker 2: nothing against the Spanish language. Really, it's a beautiful Latin language,

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Speaker 2: no question. It's up there with Italian and French and Portuguese.

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Speaker 2: They're very pleasant to the ear, very pleasant to listen to.

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Speaker 2: But that's not the point. The point is we live

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Speaker 2: in America. The language that we speak here and have

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Speaker 2: since our founding is English. Okay, we don't have an

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Speaker 2: official language, a national official language by Congress, which I

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Speaker 2: think we should frankly, but let that go. We have.

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Speaker 2: Our language is English. That's the language that we communicate with,

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Speaker 2: that's the language of business, that's the language where we

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Speaker 2: interact with the government for the most part. That's the

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Speaker 2: language that's taught in our schools. That's the language we've

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Speaker 2: always spoken since the beginning and there founding as a nation. Now,

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's asking for too much for one

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Speaker 2: of the countries one of its singular cultural events, and

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Speaker 2: the super Bowl is much bigger than just sports. Everybody

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Speaker 2: watches it for the commercials, whatever. People get together around

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Speaker 2: the you know, around the fireplace or around the television,

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Speaker 2: as my family does. They get some food, they watch

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Speaker 2: the game, they comment on the commercials. Everybody talks about,

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Speaker 2: you know, the super Bowl afterwards, even the halftime show.

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Speaker 2: It's become a cultural event in America. It just is,

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Speaker 2: and it used to unify Americans. Doesn't matter your political party,

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Speaker 2: your political ideology, whatever. We're there to enjoy a uniquely

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Speaker 2: American game, and football is a uniquely American game. All

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Speaker 2: of us together and we all share. We all have

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Speaker 2: a nice wonderful shared experience. No no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: no, no no, those days are over because to the woke left,

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Speaker 2: everything must be politicized, everything, everything, including even sporting events,

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Speaker 2: including massive, important sporting events like the super Bowl. And

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Speaker 2: so the NFL, which is very woke, they were pro

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Speaker 2: black lives matter. They spit on the American flag and

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Speaker 2: law enforcement for years with their support for Colon Krappernick

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Speaker 2: as I call him, Okay, Colin Kaepernick. Well, their henchman,

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Speaker 2: the president, Roger Goodell, decided to give us the middle

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Speaker 2: finger one more time. And so Roger Goodell, and he's

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Speaker 2: the NFL president and he speaks for the owners, decided

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Speaker 2: to hire Bad Bunny to do the halftime show, knowing

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Speaker 2: full well that Bad Bunny was going to sing solely

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Speaker 2: and only in Spanish. Now, I just want to ask

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Speaker 2: you this, Okay, you tell me if you agree or disagree.

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Speaker 2: Here is one of America's singular cultural events. It's the

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Speaker 2: biggest game of the year. And yet you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: the halftime show for the biggest game of the year,

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Speaker 2: where basically almost the most of the country is watching.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna have that in a language that almost none

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Speaker 2: of the lifelong fans, myself included. I asked, you know,

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Speaker 2: I asked Mike. I said, Mike, how was the halftime show?

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Speaker 2: He said, well, it was okay, but I didn't understand

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Speaker 2: a single word. He could have been saying, blank you

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Speaker 2: Mike Jones the whole time and I wouldn't have known.

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Speaker 2: So he was I had no clue what was coming

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Speaker 2: out of his mouth. So you're gonna have the biggest

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Speaker 2: game of the year in a language that almost none

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Speaker 2: of your lifelong diehard fans can understand. And apparently there

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Speaker 2: were flags from all the countries in the world in

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Speaker 2: the background except the one flag from the United States.

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Speaker 2: So you're flying flags that practically most of the fans

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Speaker 2: that are watching are not even from by a guy,

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Speaker 2: a singer who really is more of an activist masquerading

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Speaker 2: as a singer, who just a couple of days before

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Speaker 2: went to the Grammys and attacked Ice and called for

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Speaker 2: ICE to be abolished as part of a larger Grammy

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Speaker 2: Award performance where they kept shouting f ice, f ice,

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Speaker 2: and no one is illegal on stolen land. In other words,

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Speaker 2: the United States is illegitimate. So I'm sorry, but this

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Speaker 2: is almost like the biggest middle finger, the biggest fu

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Speaker 2: that any business or any corporation, And that's what the

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Speaker 2: NFL ultimately is. It's a corporation. It's a business. It's

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Speaker 2: a very lucrative business, it's a very widespread business, but

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Speaker 2: it's still ultimately a big business. And this is how

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Speaker 2: they treat their fans. And not only this is how

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Speaker 2: they treat their fans, but this is how they treat

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Speaker 2: the country that is the birthplace of American football. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: my friends. It's wrong, it's disgusting. Frankly, it's offensive, it's insulting,

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Speaker 2: and it's time we said enough is enough. Now. I

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Speaker 2: don't know the numbers, they haven't come in yet. How

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Speaker 2: many people actually boycotted the halftime show. They say at

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Speaker 2: least five million on YouTube. I know we did it

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Speaker 2: in Casa Kuner in our home as well. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I just want to ask everybody two questions, okay, because

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Speaker 2: there's more. I want to talk about the Olympics, because

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Speaker 2: now even our US Olympians can't represent our country abroad

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Speaker 2: anymore because they have to inject politics and their hatred

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Speaker 2: for America, their hatred for Trump, their hatred for Ice.

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Speaker 2: So this is now bleeding over now onto the US

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Speaker 2: Olympic team, and I'm gonna get to that, I promise,

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Speaker 2: But I just want to stick to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Can you name me any other country in the world, literally,

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Speaker 2: any other country in the world where when they have

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Speaker 2: their singular cultural event, a sporting cultural event, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's usually soccer for most of the world. But whatever

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Speaker 2: hockey up in Canada, okay, or take your pick, I

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Speaker 2: don't care, hockey in the Scandinavian countries, whatever it may be,

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Speaker 2: whatever sport it is, okay. Ping pong in China. It's

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Speaker 2: ping pong is huge in China. So when they have

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Speaker 2: a World championship in China hosted by China, you think

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Speaker 2: they're gonna sing or do any kind of a show

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Speaker 2: that's not in Chinese, or that's not in Swedish, or

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Speaker 2: that's not in Russian, or that's not in Japanese or

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Speaker 2: that's not in I don't care, take your pick Spanish.

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Speaker 2: If you're playing, say in the South American Cup, they

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Speaker 2: have this annual championship Latin American Cup. What you think

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Speaker 2: they're going to sing in anything other than Spanish? Why

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Speaker 2: are we the only ones that have to tolerate a foreign

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Speaker 2: language being spoken in one of the greatest events of

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Speaker 2: our time. Why and ultimately, is this now another form

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Speaker 2: of trying to undermine and destroy America.

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