Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, It's big game weekend, Seahawks Patriots, Bad
Speaker 1: Bunny Kid Rock, Welcome to this episode of Amy and CJ.
Speaker 2: Who You Got.
Speaker 1: It's like pick a side for the teams and pick
Speaker 1: a side for your halftime show.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Normally, normally the competition is just between the two
Speaker 3: teams home playing on the gridiron. It's not between the artists,
Speaker 3: the musical artists on the stage. But this year is
Speaker 3: different than any other year because the competition, yeah, is
Speaker 3: not just on the football field.
Speaker 4: It's on the stage.
Speaker 2: I hate it so much. I hate that this is done.
Speaker 1: This bring us all together, doesn't matter what right we
Speaker 1: should be good. We're divided. We can't even watch the
Speaker 1: same halftime show. We need one for you and one
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: That is a sad state of where we are in
Speaker 3: this country, and I hate it. You know what, maybe
Speaker 3: we have to get this low to recognize how crappy
Speaker 3: it is that.
Speaker 4: We can't even come together. Sports brings people together, and
Speaker 4: we're talking.
Speaker 2: Too as the tragedies, yes, absolutely has.
Speaker 3: We have the Olympics starting this weekend as well. This
Speaker 3: is a weekend of unity at a time we've never
Speaker 3: needed it more And yet We've found a way to
Speaker 3: be divisive when it comes to massive, the biggest sporting
Speaker 3: event in our country, and we found a way to
Speaker 3: pick sides that has nothing to do with the actual
Speaker 3: football game.
Speaker 1: So we found a way to be divisive. But at
Speaker 1: least on one side. We're waiting for some answers. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is, yes, we know, and
Speaker 1: everybody knows. Bad Bunny is having the greatest year that
Speaker 1: any musician has ever had. You could almost argue, but
Speaker 1: he has. I guess we should say competition. There is
Speaker 1: another halftime show. People know this by now, but robes
Speaker 1: what I am confused about. There seems to be some
Speaker 1: confusion about what this halftime show will be, will be,
Speaker 1: where we will be seen?
Speaker 2: Can you attend it? Is it live?
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of questions about the all nobody can
Speaker 1: see my air quote the All American halftime show, And.
Speaker 3: You're putting it in quotes because the implication is by
Speaker 3: calling that halftime show the alternative to this half time
Speaker 3: show the All American halftime show, that somehow the halftime
Speaker 3: show we're getting from the NFL isn't American.
Speaker 4: Can stay up there for a.
Speaker 1: Seconds, I struggle I'm trying to be open to somebody
Speaker 1: else's idea. Here I go again with this foolishness. You're
Speaker 1: an American living in wherever, in Arkansas, in Tennessee, in Alabama,
Speaker 1: in Texas. You're watching this great American pastime, and that
Speaker 1: halftime there's someone speaking nothing but English as they are entertaining.
Speaker 1: You can we leave room for somebody that not being
Speaker 1: your cup of tea?
Speaker 2: We can leave room for that, right.
Speaker 4: Sure, it might not be your favorite kind of music.
Speaker 4: Bad Bunny.
Speaker 3: He sings in Spanish. He's exclusively, exclusively Spanish. And it's
Speaker 3: a big deal that he is obviously being honored with
Speaker 3: the halftime show, but do just one album of the year. Yes,
Speaker 3: won three Grammys last weekend. He has worked his way
Speaker 3: up in an American dream kind of way.
Speaker 4: This was a guy who.
Speaker 3: Was basically just doing music on the side and working
Speaker 3: his ass off to pay the bills as a grocery bagger.
Speaker 3: I believe that was what his job was when he
Speaker 3: started making music on the side. If that's not the
Speaker 3: American dream, I don't know what is. He's a Puerto Rican,
Speaker 3: which by the way, means he is an American and
Speaker 3: all of us here in this country have come from
Speaker 3: diverse backgrounds, Each and every one of us. Unless you
Speaker 3: are a native American, you and your ancestors or your
Speaker 3: ancestors spoke another language. And yes, we are a beautiful
Speaker 3: melting pot. That's what makes this country to America.
Speaker 2: I hear you.
Speaker 1: But the reality is when you talk about diverse backgrounds,
Speaker 1: many people feel, or or at least embrace that there's
Speaker 1: only one type of patriotism. It only looks a certain way,
Speaker 1: and it only speaks a certain language, right, And so
Speaker 1: I'm trying to leave room for that and this not
Speaker 1: being your cup of tea. I struggle going to the
Speaker 1: next level of that in saying, well, I don't I'm
Speaker 1: not really a fan of his music. Now it's this
Speaker 1: is anti American that I can't be a part of.
Speaker 1: That is the next level that I struggle with.
Speaker 2: And that does hell.
Speaker 1: That's been halftime performers. You haven't been crazy about some
Speaker 1: of their music. I haven't been crazed about some of them,
Speaker 1: and I watch it.
Speaker 4: It's fine, But you know what's cool about that?
Speaker 3: Maybe I don't necessarily listen to that music, or know
Speaker 3: that music, or speak Spanish or even know what the heck,
Speaker 3: he's saying, but it's kind of cool to be exposed
Speaker 3: to it, to listen to it, to.
Speaker 4: Yes, you can have your opinion, but take it in
Speaker 4: because that's what makes the world beautiful.
Speaker 3: If we all look tolike, sound to the same, believe
Speaker 3: the same, how boring and tedious would that be?
Speaker 4: I celebrate and perfect all of that.
Speaker 1: Some would argue, no, no, no, I'm saying the argument is,
Speaker 1: that is what we're going for. If it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like this, sound like this, if it's not this color,
Speaker 1: it is not this sound. If you're not this person,
Speaker 1: if it's not this language, then it's not American. And
Speaker 1: that's why I struggle. I leave room for people who
Speaker 1: think that I don't want to hear all Spanish during
Speaker 1: a halftime performance. I will, at least I'll be open
Speaker 1: and listening. But if you take the next step and
Speaker 1: saying this guy is anti American, or this guy is
Speaker 1: not an American, or saying we need to have another
Speaker 1: because this isn't representative of us, I am saying this
Speaker 1: guy is more representative of us than anything on the
Speaker 1: stage that we have seen.
Speaker 4: Agreed, And yes, he has spoken.
Speaker 3: Out against Trump's immigration policies, so have at least half
Speaker 3: of this country who are yes, English speaking Americans. It's
Speaker 3: not as if he doesn't represent what a lot of
Speaker 3: Americans are feeling now. So he's not some outlier from
Speaker 3: another country coming in speaking a different language and disparaging
Speaker 3: our immigration policy. He is an American who has an
Speaker 3: opinion that is similar to a lot of other Americans.
Speaker 3: And that is what makes this country and gives it
Speaker 3: the strength that has because we are we are who
Speaker 3: we are, and we have the power we have in
Speaker 3: this world because we are not just one mind. We're
Speaker 3: a collective from all sorts of places around the world.
Speaker 3: And that's what makes this country so unique and so special.
Speaker 3: And you don't I agree, you don't have to like
Speaker 3: the music, but can we not appreciate the diversity that makes.
Speaker 4: Our country what it is.
Speaker 2: This is just music.
Speaker 4: It's and music again, just like sports.
Speaker 3: The two things that unite us all in periods of
Speaker 3: pain and divisiveness, I would argue, are sports, hip and music. Ye,
Speaker 3: and now somehow we have found a way to make
Speaker 3: those things divisive.
Speaker 4: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: So stay here, folks, there is an alternate halftime show.
Speaker 1: There is right now at least a lack of clarity
Speaker 1: about exactly where the show is happening, when is happening,
Speaker 1: who's performing, and if it's going to be live.
Speaker 2: We'll try to answer some of those questions.
Speaker 5: Stay here, Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we
Speaker 3: are coming to you from what's called Radio Row in
Speaker 3: San Francisco, getting ready for the big game.
Speaker 4: Getting a little rowdy here.
Speaker 3: People are getting excited, the volumes raising. I don't know
Speaker 3: if anyone can hear the ambient noise behind us, but
Speaker 3: it's exciting. There's a lot of positive energy, which is
Speaker 3: what we all look forward to. Yes, the game's great,
Speaker 3: but this is a fun moment where the country comes together,
Speaker 3: much like the Olympics that are going on Malan, but
Speaker 3: here in this country, this is a way for us
Speaker 3: all to unite to.
Speaker 4: Celebrate America's great pastime.
Speaker 3: And yet somehow this year we have found a way
Speaker 3: to make it divisive.
Speaker 2: You know what, even if.
Speaker 1: We're divided over who we want to win the game,
Speaker 1: will at least all watch what the commercials and the
Speaker 1: halftime show that's not controversial.
Speaker 3: The commercials and the halftime show add to that special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the unity that we all get behind.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're fighting over it this year.
Speaker 3: We're fighting over it, and and honestly, there are so
Speaker 3: many questions. So the All American halftime show was announced
Speaker 3: in October, right around the same time it was announced
Speaker 3: that Bad Bunny would be the halftime show performer.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, President Trump came out.
Speaker 3: Not happy at all with Bad Bunny as the announced performer.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go ahead, namely because of his very
Speaker 3: public stance against Trump's immigration policy. He's a Puerto Rican
Speaker 3: and he certainly had some videos on social media looking
Speaker 3: at ice agents, going after ice agents, kind of exposing
Speaker 3: ice agents. So that is where this beef started. But
Speaker 3: this is a man whose music just exudes positivity, even
Speaker 3: if you don't know what he's saying, which I don't,
Speaker 3: but I love to be I love I love how everybody,
Speaker 3: just the whole audience just.
Speaker 4: Just sways with it.
Speaker 3: It's just got a rhythm and a there's a lightness.
Speaker 1: There's a learned by Sunday. I promise I'll learn Spanish
Speaker 1: by Sunday.
Speaker 4: I love that. But yeah, so that's like, how cool
Speaker 4: that's your reaction.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna learn Spanish by Sunday. You know, like if
Speaker 3: more of us can take that attitude, I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to join in. I want to sing along.
Speaker 3: I want to know what he's saying. Yes, can that be?
Speaker 3: Isn't that American? No, we have to have an all
Speaker 3: American halftime show to compete with.
Speaker 2: Should bad Bunny have known better?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: Did you stay out of it? Like he should be
Speaker 1: able to speak his mind if he wants to.
Speaker 2: That's not it.
Speaker 1: But some would say, hey, just seeing someone tell a
Speaker 1: basketball player just dribble, so, you know.
Speaker 2: Kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, he kind of invited at least political backlash
Speaker 1: by speaking up against something that's fair.
Speaker 3: But I would say he was speaking in defense of
Speaker 3: his people, and so I think that's different. He's not
Speaker 3: just Look, we've all seen the Hollywood actors and actresses
Speaker 3: who speak out about things they have no connection to
Speaker 3: but just to take a political stand, and they get
Speaker 3: lambasted and it ends up doing more harm than good.
Speaker 3: This is somebody who has skin in the game. This
Speaker 3: is someone who is speaking up for his community. Look,
Speaker 3: and so I feel like it's personal and he has
Speaker 3: he has a right again as an American to speak
Speaker 3: his truth.
Speaker 4: Again, very American.
Speaker 3: Of us to be able to speak freely about how
Speaker 3: we feel about policies our government is enacting and enforcing.
Speaker 1: I didn't plan on but one lands before we wrap here.
Speaker 1: If he hadn't said anything having to do with ice
Speaker 1: sent about the administration, do you think the backlash would
Speaker 1: be the same. Would there be an all American halftime show?
Speaker 4: I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think that is Look, obviously, him speaking only in
Speaker 3: Spanish would be people would definitely say stuff about that, no.
Speaker 2: Question, Henri lash right.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, people would still take issue with it, perhaps
Speaker 3: and question the choice.
Speaker 4: But I don't think we'd have an.
Speaker 3: Alternative halftime show if he hadn't spoken out against the
Speaker 3: tactics that immigration agents have been employing over the last year.
Speaker 1: And tell me now, who can I see in this
Speaker 1: all American halftime show?
Speaker 2: When? When can I see this? Where can I see this?
Speaker 2: Tell me who the big.
Speaker 1: Headliners are to battle the biggest pop star on the planet.
Speaker 1: I know Taylor Swift is awesome, but you all bad
Speaker 1: Bunny is the biggest pop star on planet Earth right now.
Speaker 3: He's certainly in terms of Spotify, in terms of the Grammys, like,
Speaker 3: you can't argue with the numbers an.
Speaker 4: Argument they are what they say, are they going to
Speaker 4: put up? The goal gives this guy, So we now know.
Speaker 4: And this was just announced a few days ago, so.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they were trying to pull stuff
Speaker 3: together and this was what they got.
Speaker 4: But you got Kid Rock.
Speaker 3: Who has been obviously a huge vocal supporter from the
Speaker 3: campaign trail on, and then he will be accompanied by
Speaker 3: country singers Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, and Gabby Barrett.
Speaker 4: Now familiar, your name is familiar.
Speaker 3: I could not tell you a song that any of
Speaker 3: those aforementioned country artists. I only know Lee, Bryce's name.
Speaker 3: I don't even know the other names. I'm not saying
Speaker 3: that other people and they aren't very prominent within the
Speaker 3: country music world.
Speaker 4: I'm just not familiar with them.
Speaker 3: We know that the halftime show is going to begin
Speaker 3: at eight pm Eastern Time, which is expected to go
Speaker 3: up head to head with the NFL halftime show, so
Speaker 3: they're going to be at the same time. They're going
Speaker 3: to actually begin the coverage at seven thirty, so maybe
Speaker 3: they can hopefully get some folks to come over to
Speaker 3: Trinity Broadcasting Network and then it's going to be streaming on,
Speaker 3: turning Point USA.
Speaker 1: And and not started until the actual halftimes.
Speaker 3: Seven thirty is when they're starting, So they're actually going
Speaker 3: to start a little ahead of time just to kind
Speaker 3: of get the excitement up, to build it up. Now
Speaker 3: here's what we and it's also going to be by
Speaker 3: the way on Turning Point usay's x rumble and YouTube account,
Speaker 3: so there will be ways to watch it online and
Speaker 3: ways to watch it on Turner Broadcasting Net or not Turner.
Speaker 3: Sorry that I got Turning Point USA and Trinity Broadcasting
Speaker 3: Network confused.
Speaker 4: So those are the.
Speaker 3: Two TBN and streaming. But here's what we don't know,
Speaker 3: and we have searched exhaustively. We cannot say for sure
Speaker 3: if this is going to it's going to be streamed live,
Speaker 3: but is it pre recorded? Don't know where is the
Speaker 3: actual concert taking place. Can't find a location anywhere. If
Speaker 3: it's already been pre taped, maybe they already have an
Speaker 3: audience that was already hand selected. We don't know if
Speaker 3: you if you can buy tickets to there are no
Speaker 3: ticket sales that I can see online.
Speaker 4: All of all of what we have seen online.
Speaker 3: Would point to the fact that it's most likely pre
Speaker 3: taped and already had a curate an audience there and
Speaker 3: it will go up again. And look, if they do
Speaker 3: it that way, there are no snaffoos, there are no
Speaker 3: technical glitches.
Speaker 4: They're going to have a perfectly highly.
Speaker 3: Produced and edited performance to go up against bad money.
Speaker 3: This will be fat. Obviously, there's not going to be
Speaker 3: a direct comparative because you.
Speaker 1: Don't have Are you curious? I think it's curiosity more
Speaker 1: than anything.
Speaker 4: I might you know what we might do.
Speaker 3: We might watch and maybe have up on an iPad
Speaker 3: something just to kind of glance down and see the
Speaker 3: difference between the two.
Speaker 2: Sweetheart.
Speaker 1: As a journalist, I'm looking at it and I want
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on it. But as an American
Speaker 1: and as a football watcher, why distract This is our
Speaker 1: event today. Let's watch this event as Americans. If I
Speaker 1: got a beef with it, that's fine. I hate hate.
Speaker 1: We need an alternative to an American event because it's
Speaker 1: not American enough for some people.
Speaker 2: Well, hope that's awful, but he is awful. It just weird.
Speaker 1: He's American, and Spanish speakers are Americans, and this music
Speaker 1: is American. All of this is about the it crazy,
Speaker 1: the thing that brings us together. Football game and we
Speaker 1: need two options at halftime because we can't hang out
Speaker 1: together at halftime.
Speaker 3: We are the United States of America. No, but I
Speaker 3: agree with you, Baban. Look, I just wish I wish
Speaker 3: more people could.
Speaker 4: Could see the beauty.
Speaker 3: You don't have to agree with someone, you don't have
Speaker 3: to like it, but just acceptance. Acceptance is peace, Acceptance
Speaker 3: is love. Acceptance is understanding that you might not have
Speaker 3: all the answers and your way of living and the
Speaker 3: way you were raised in the bubble that you lived
Speaker 3: in might actually get bigger and more beautiful if you
Speaker 3: look and accept the way other people, what they can
Speaker 3: bring to the experience and the culture of music. My god,
Speaker 3: can you imagine if we just had a bunch of
Speaker 3: white people producing music.
Speaker 2: Well the same, Like a lot.
Speaker 1: Of people would be happy with that if every year
Speaker 1: there's a white person playing white music.
Speaker 2: And that is what.
Speaker 3: American Scandinavia where you have a better shot at that,
Speaker 3: Like I just if you live in this country. It's
Speaker 3: the beauty of this country is seeing what so many
Speaker 3: different rich cultures bring to our country and we all
Speaker 3: can call ourselves Americans. That is what I'm most proud
Speaker 3: of of our country and it's what we're trying to
Speaker 3: get away from, and that is incredibly scary and sad
Speaker 3: and lonely, lonely.
Speaker 1: And on that note, we are we're going to wrap
Speaker 1: up here now in Radio row here on Big Game Weekend.
Speaker 1: And I'm laughing, Rose, because I know you're not a
Speaker 1: big and I'm giving an example.
Speaker 2: This is at the end.
Speaker 1: This we should have started with this. This is one
Speaker 1: of the most fun things we're going to say. Is
Speaker 1: we're in a huge room of constant sports big names.
Speaker 1: Right Robot has no freaking idea who any of them are.
Speaker 1: But Robes to your left at about ten o'clock, do
Speaker 1: you recognize that young fella sitting in the chair.
Speaker 4: His back is to me right now, he's in the
Speaker 4: gray I saw.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yes, you see him on the screen there?
Speaker 4: Uh, you know, my eyes slight. It's not so good.
Speaker 2: So I'm only laughing.
Speaker 1: I'm giving you a hard time, Rose, because that is
Speaker 1: your current Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Indiana
Speaker 1: that you just watched win the national championship.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, Fernando man Mendozo.
Speaker 3: You know, so this has been happening, by the way,
Speaker 3: all day long. Yes, TJ's like, you know who that is? Nope,
Speaker 3: and then he tells me, oh so.
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Tony Gonzales was just sitting about thirty
Speaker 1: feet directly in front of you.
Speaker 4: Who that And how did you introduce him to me?
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say never mind, I gotta say that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, folks, we appreciate you always spending some time
Speaker 1: with us. We're going to continue to hang here watch
Speaker 1: whatever halftime show you want to, but but please remember,
Speaker 1: no matter which one you're watching and which one you're
Speaker 1: fellow American is watching, you all are all on the
Speaker 1: same fricking team on Sunday, folks.
Speaker 2: So with that, we appreciate you listening. I'm TJ. Holmes
Speaker 2: on behalf of my.
Speaker 1: Dear sports enthused Damie Robot. We'll talk to alsimm