Speaker 1: Hey, that folks, it is Monday, February ninth. Finally happens.
Speaker 1: After all that talk, all that controversy, all that back
Speaker 1: and forth, Bad Bunny finally took the stage and he
Speaker 1: was right ropes. He said, you didn't have to learn Spanish,
Speaker 1: you just needed to learn how to dance. And with that,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. He nailed
Speaker 1: that we were dancing the whole show.
Speaker 2: We were we were seated, but we were moving. It
Speaker 2: was hard not to. It was so there was so
Speaker 2: much joy that came out of his performance. It leaped
Speaker 2: through the screen and into us. And I don't know
Speaker 2: how you couldn't have had fun. And yeah, I didn't
Speaker 2: understand most of what he was singing, and I actually
Speaker 2: didn't know most of the songs he was.
Speaker 1: Performing and want to go listen to all of them,
Speaker 1: know exactly. Never stopped moving during that show. It felt good,
Speaker 1: It felt alive, It felt energetic, it felt authentic. It
Speaker 1: felt as real as anything you're going to see. I
Speaker 1: loved that freaking show. Not one word that I understand
Speaker 1: that the white woman didn't sing.
Speaker 2: It's so true, though, but it just it was so
Speaker 2: you could tell how meaningful it was and how special
Speaker 2: it was, And I think that's a good word.
Speaker 3: You just used authentic.
Speaker 2: Yes, we talked about performances and things were performative. This
Speaker 2: was a hell of a performance. But it was so
Speaker 2: real and it was so joyful, and it was just celebratory.
Speaker 2: And I was proud to be an American watching him
Speaker 2: as an American celebrating all of our differences.
Speaker 1: And he made points about America, but he was not
Speaker 1: necessarily political like some might expect. We'll get into all that,
Speaker 1: but that we got it the halftime show from Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1: It in real time robes. It was hard to figure
Speaker 1: out a lot of the nuance, a lot of the symbolism,
Speaker 1: But going back and looking at it now, it was
Speaker 1: a lot of the same things we had talked about
Speaker 1: in real time. In One of the first things we
Speaker 1: said in real time was was that a real wedding? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody else thought that, or our
Speaker 1: first thought was I bet those two got married.
Speaker 2: It looked We thought it was real, because again, it
Speaker 2: looked real, the way the bride and the groom were
Speaker 2: looking at each other, the way they were kissing. It
Speaker 2: didn't look I understand you can hire some really great
Speaker 2: actors and actresses who can pull it off. But there
Speaker 2: was something about it that felt real, and turns out
Speaker 2: it was, so.
Speaker 1: We'll certainly get into that. Yes, a real wedding took place.
Speaker 1: Also a moment that stood out because it was a
Speaker 1: moment that maybe I guess has been in a lot
Speaker 1: of headlines. But there was a moment where he handed
Speaker 1: one of his Grammys to a little boy, little five
Speaker 1: year old boy. No it was not that boy.
Speaker 2: But I thought it was Liam. Initially I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, did he get Liam to.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Dad would have been too much that that might have
Speaker 2: been a massive political statement.
Speaker 1: So we'll explain who that kid was. Again, you did
Speaker 1: not hear and all reporting. I'm making sure I didn't
Speaker 1: miss it. There was no reference to Ice.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Damn Why not? You know what? Rose? He had the
Speaker 1: moment and he could have, but he chose to do
Speaker 1: something else.
Speaker 2: I give him credit for he chose to put up
Speaker 2: signs of love and unity and sing about joy and
Speaker 2: celebrating his community and celebrating.
Speaker 3: Being a part of the Americas. That was the right call.
Speaker 1: I I ahi man, I support him.
Speaker 2: On that.
Speaker 1: If he'd have said something otherwise, I would say, you
Speaker 1: know what, he had the stage, something's on his heart,
Speaker 1: he wanted to say it. I wouldn't have had a
Speaker 1: problem with it. But I really do applaud him taking
Speaker 1: the moment. I don't think he caved. I don't think
Speaker 1: any of that stuff no or just didn't want to
Speaker 1: step in it. I think he did what the moment
Speaker 1: was supposed to be.
Speaker 2: And I yeah, I think he was practicing what he
Speaker 2: was preaching. You know, he's been That was what he
Speaker 2: said at the Grammys. You know, you don't fight hate
Speaker 2: with hate, you fight it with love. And that's exactly
Speaker 2: what he did. And that's what he took advantage of
Speaker 2: with the platform.
Speaker 1: He had and love and it was a major love
Speaker 1: letter to his not just his country, but almost his home,
Speaker 1: his house, his neighborhood kind of a thing. So that
Speaker 1: was very cool. Obviously, we were expecting to see some
Speaker 1: guest appearances and these were surprising. Not Ricky Martin. I
Speaker 1: would argue, UH, could see that one and it was
Speaker 1: really cool. We'll talk about how he set up that set.
Speaker 1: Didn't see Lady Gaga coming.
Speaker 2: That was we were surprised in fact, do you looked
Speaker 2: at me? You said, is that Lady Gaga? It took
Speaker 2: a second. I mean, obviously we know what Lady Gaga
Speaker 2: looks like.
Speaker 1: We love her song, sounds like everything, and I still like,
Speaker 1: that doesn't make sense. Why is Lady Gaga there? But
Speaker 1: then after we gave it, some thought it was freaking brilliant,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that. But there were other celebrity
Speaker 1: appearances Robes. The one we were expecting was Cardi B.
Speaker 1: She made an appearance, but not how we thought that was.
Speaker 1: I thought it was it was odd that she was
Speaker 1: there and not doing the song, right, That's what I thought.
Speaker 2: It was weird too, But she was sitting there right
Speaker 2: next to She was standing next to Jessica Alba at
Speaker 2: a casita.
Speaker 1: Right, Jessica Alba, Pedro Pascal, and Carol g all come
Speaker 1: out of a house. We'll explain why this was a
Speaker 1: big deal, but it was a very cool part of
Speaker 1: the show. Now, by most counts, he did twelve to
Speaker 1: fourteen of his songs up on stage, but he has
Speaker 1: to blow through this thing. They get thirteen minutes for
Speaker 1: the show, so he got through all of that in
Speaker 1: that time. Now, ro it was one of the first
Speaker 1: things that jumps out when he stepped out, you're always
Speaker 1: wondering what he is going to be wearing his outfit.
Speaker 1: Loved it, somewhat understated, sent a message, set a tone,
Speaker 1: but also there was symbolism that people are still just
Speaker 1: trying to figure out this morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that he'd put on a show that
Speaker 2: still has people talking and dissecting and trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what his symbolism meant.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he had this.
Speaker 2: White jersey type but it was a fashionable jersey, white
Speaker 2: on white and the number sixty four, and everyone's been
Speaker 2: trying to figure out what the number sixty four represents.
Speaker 1: So we're still not quite sure what sixty four means.
Speaker 1: But there are several theories at least as to what
Speaker 1: this means. One is the year his mom was born,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four. That would make some sense. He had
Speaker 1: an album, His twenty twenty album was the first Latin
Speaker 1: album in sixty four years to be at the top
Speaker 1: of the Billboard charts. That's one argument. Another his late
Speaker 1: uncle played football. That was his late uncle's number. And
Speaker 1: then this other one robes I don't remember the Hurricane
Speaker 1: Maria twenty seventeen or have that right? That devastated Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico ended up fourteen fifteen hundred dead. But there was
Speaker 1: criticism from the government at the time because the initial
Speaker 1: death toll was sixty four. People thought, wait, what the hell,
Speaker 1: there's no way we just got devas sixty four you're
Speaker 1: saying just six, and so they're one. So don't know
Speaker 1: officially as of this recording this morning, I have what
Speaker 1: chills it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because like it could be all of those things.
Speaker 2: He could have realized the power of that number and thought,
Speaker 2: you know what, this has such an important meaning to
Speaker 2: me for all of these reasons. And wow, who knew
Speaker 2: sixty four would have that much symbolism attached.
Speaker 1: So he hasn't confirmed, at least that of this recording
Speaker 1: what it was, but that was there. The other part
Speaker 1: Rose this, uh, this might have made me the biggest
Speaker 1: fan of bad money that I have ever been. Who
Speaker 1: made the damn outfit? ROSEI here all these big designers
Speaker 1: and who designed who roabes? I freaking love this? I
Speaker 1: do too.
Speaker 2: In fact, we're traveling right now. What's the first place
Speaker 2: I said I'd like to go? Wherever we are in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 1: Do they have a Zara.
Speaker 3: That's what I always say. They have a Zara here,
Speaker 3: and uh yeah, he wore Zara.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's just it's cool because he he gets it.
Speaker 2: It's it's fast fashion, but it's affordable fashion. And it's
Speaker 2: just perfect that he would be promoting a brand like that.
Speaker 2: A Spanish brand, of course, from Espanya.
Speaker 1: Is not great. We are such big Tzara fans at
Speaker 1: the idea of the stuff we go in and buy.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't wear that till the super Bowl have time.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem elevated enough. If you will. He has
Speaker 1: his own designers. It was special, but still is a
Speaker 1: Zara outfit.
Speaker 2: Love.
Speaker 1: It was my favorite part of it. Now he comes
Speaker 1: out in this's huge set robes and he's essentially replicating
Speaker 1: or bringing Puerto Rico, in his neighborhood to the super
Speaker 1: Bowl halftime show. All this grass, the sugar cane fields,
Speaker 1: the farmers, the hats, all of this was representative of
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico, of tradition, of culture. I didn't know another
Speaker 1: another little nugget. He was trying to make it look
Speaker 1: like the lush green fields and whatnot, and he had
Speaker 1: limitations because of what they could do. On the field.
Speaker 1: You can't rip up the field. They got to play
Speaker 1: a second half, so you're limiting how many things you
Speaker 1: can put out there. He found a way around that
Speaker 1: robes that I thought was brilliant. He used actual people
Speaker 1: dressed as grass.
Speaker 2: Yes, I thought that was very clever too. So yeah,
Speaker 2: he found a way and it really did have an impact.
Speaker 2: It was stunning to see the way they were able
Speaker 2: to shoot it. It felt like it didn't feel like
Speaker 2: he was in the middle of a stadium, you know,
Speaker 2: it was cool with all the sugar cane fields around him.
Speaker 2: It really set a cool tone. It was awesome. I
Speaker 2: loved everything about it.
Speaker 1: And you just mentioned the casita that means little house,
Speaker 1: but it's been a part. I didn't realize it was
Speaker 1: a huge part of his residency that he has a
Speaker 1: casita again replicating where he's from. But the house on
Speaker 1: stage is used as a house that celebrities emerged from.
Speaker 1: Who are guests on his show, And he did that
Speaker 1: again last night with a with guests you weren't expecting.
Speaker 2: It was like, who's showing up to the casita tonight?
Speaker 2: And yeah, and it's cool that he took that from
Speaker 2: his residency in Puerto Rico and put it in the
Speaker 2: halftime show. For folks who are fans, they know this
Speaker 2: part of his act, and so it was cool that
Speaker 2: he was able to do it again. And I thought
Speaker 2: the power lines were powerful because you'd think, why do
Speaker 2: you have these power lines exploding? And obviously that's been
Speaker 2: a huge story. We've covered it in Puerto Rico, the
Speaker 2: rolling blackouts. It's just devastated the tourism industry and certainly
Speaker 2: the people who live there.
Speaker 3: They just can't trust the power grid.
Speaker 2: So how cool was that that he even brought that
Speaker 2: part of it into his show.
Speaker 1: It was so thought out, It was thought out. It
Speaker 1: was yes, symbolic, but I thought it was done well.
Speaker 1: I mean, like they said.
Speaker 2: Itself, Yeah, it was visually sunning, but also you know
Speaker 2: what he was. He had subtle messaging. It wasn't in
Speaker 2: your face, It wasn't polarizing. It was it was basically
Speaker 2: highlighting and exposing.
Speaker 3: It wasn't it wasn't she or he hit the right toe?
Speaker 1: I agree, completely agree, And so yes, all of that
Speaker 1: was up there. The power lines you talk about again,
Speaker 1: the nail salon, barbershop, liquor store, those are just a
Speaker 1: part of the community hit. What it was parigra, Parigra
Speaker 1: stands sending up there right the the Puerto Rican icy
Speaker 1: that ever that is so popular. He had one of
Speaker 1: those up there. I just it was just he brought
Speaker 1: it to that stage. We can't say, Rold's, how big
Speaker 1: of a deal it is for the America's game, America's
Speaker 1: biggest moment of America's game. And a dude had no
Speaker 1: problem going up there and singing in nothing but Spanish.
Speaker 3: And he was celebrated.
Speaker 1: Hey, what it was, Robes that we can't why that
Speaker 1: should be celebrated, That that dude is on that stage.
Speaker 1: That's amazing.
Speaker 2: And coming off of the Grammy wind that he had
Speaker 2: the weekend before, he was just feeling it. And again,
Speaker 2: like you said, he could have taken it to another level.
Speaker 3: He could have turned it political. He could have been angry,
Speaker 3: he could.
Speaker 2: Have shown his power by using his voice to voice opposition,
Speaker 2: and he didn't.
Speaker 3: He spread love and joy, exactly what we need right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he spread love and joy. The President spread something
Speaker 1: else in his truth social post about the halftime show.
Speaker 1: We'll give you the text of that here in just
Speaker 1: a moment, But Robes, it did two I guess. Two
Speaker 1: other notes I want to hit here, actually three other notes, Ga, GA,
Speaker 1: The little boy, and the wedding. First, let's do the wedding.
Speaker 1: There was a proposal at one point of the show,
Speaker 1: like a guy down on one knee. That was him,
Speaker 1: And then you see the wedding robes. This is real
Speaker 1: and I did. I don't know why we thought immediately
Speaker 1: it was real when it turned out to tell.
Speaker 2: Isn't it funny how you can just tell like I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have ever thought it unless it felt it, and
Speaker 2: it felt real. But apparently this couple invited Bad Money
Speaker 2: to their wedding, and he returned the offer by saying,
Speaker 2: why don't you come to the super Bowl and get
Speaker 2: married there?
Speaker 1: This is that's incredible that everybody I don't know, I
Speaker 1: haven't seen their interviews yet, but they're gonna be everywhere.
Speaker 3: Can't wait. And Bad Money himself signed the marriage license.
Speaker 1: What is rep said that he was the witness for
Speaker 1: the wedding and signed that is they gotta frame that
Speaker 1: perfect and well, they have to stay together also because
Speaker 1: we're all invested in yes and the first baby that's
Speaker 1: born everything we all need to be there for it. Also,
Speaker 1: the little boy Lin was was an actor that they
Speaker 1: used down there. I thought it was a cool moment
Speaker 1: that he incorporated his grammy speech from just a week ago,
Speaker 1: right he had it on the little TV screen like
Speaker 1: the little boy was watching TV. He handed the boy
Speaker 1: his actual grammy. I loved.
Speaker 2: I think that was my The wedding was probably my
Speaker 2: favorite moment, but this was my next favorite moment because yes,
Speaker 2: it was a nod to what he had just won.
Speaker 2: The little boy reminded every one of Liam. It wasn't Liam,
Speaker 2: but certainly it brought that visual straight to your mind.
Speaker 3: You couldn't help but think about that.
Speaker 2: And handing this little boy his grammy, I thought was
Speaker 2: so powerful because of what he represents. Just so many
Speaker 2: little kids who are waking up and seeing Bad Bunny
Speaker 2: perform at the Super Bowl and thinking I can do
Speaker 2: that too, you know, just just representing his all the
Speaker 2: next generation of Latinos who maybe didn't think this was possible,
Speaker 2: and he's showing them it is.
Speaker 3: I just thought it was so cool.
Speaker 1: That was Obviously the kid is adorable. He's a child.
Speaker 1: Actor's name is Lincoln Fox, and he did post something
Speaker 1: on Instagram saying he's gonna remember this moment all his life,
Speaker 1: so he confirmed it was him, but just a very
Speaker 1: cool mom for him to have. Look this lady guy
Speaker 1: got thing. Yes, it was a surprise. There were no
Speaker 1: whispers about her, right, No, okay she is. If you
Speaker 1: start to want to argue about who's can compete with
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny in terms of global icon status, She's one.
Speaker 1: Taylor's one. He brought out a star that big as
Speaker 1: which is a big deal. So the only English we
Speaker 1: heard song was by the whitest of white women. He
Speaker 1: brought a really white woman on to sing one of
Speaker 1: her mainstream hits with Latin fucking flair. Yes, I loved
Speaker 1: it that he did that. It was so cool, Like
Speaker 1: they called the salsa version of Die with a smile
Speaker 1: I owned.
Speaker 2: The only thing that would have made it better is
Speaker 2: if Bruno was there to to do it with her.
Speaker 1: But I love that rendition.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she's recorded it or if it's available,
Speaker 2: because I loved it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great look. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: the interpretations of that moment and all the symbolism there
Speaker 1: but robes all the criticism of what he was doing
Speaker 1: and why he was doing it, And it wasn't sing in
Speaker 1: English and then so, okay, here's some English for you
Speaker 1: and a song you love. But I'm gonna put my
Speaker 1: and my culture spin on it. I thought that was brilliant,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was brilliant too. And she she
Speaker 1: basically was there to sing.
Speaker 4: It was for the wedding, correct, like that song was.
Speaker 4: And he gave him to change clothes exactly. But no,
Speaker 4: that was another great moment. I will look for that rendition.
Speaker 4: If it is not, I don't know. If it's all,
Speaker 4: I will stay here. We will let you hear what
Speaker 4: the president said, will read his truth social post to you.
Speaker 4: Also another moment you might have missed, and it did
Speaker 4: have something to do with politics.
Speaker 1: We'll explain. And at the end he did have a
Speaker 1: message in Spanish, and we will give you the translation
Speaker 1: tell you what he said at the end. It started
Speaker 1: with this, my name is Benito Antonio Martinez Acassio, and
Speaker 1: I'm here today at Super Bowl sixty. Stay with us,
Speaker 1: continuing here talking about the halftime show last evening, a triumph,
Speaker 1: no doubt for bad burning ropes. I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: don't have her last name, Tony, what's her name? There
Speaker 1: was a part of his show last night where he
Speaker 1: featured a little lady handing him a drink. It was
Speaker 1: a taped piece, it wasn't live on set there, but
Speaker 1: that had symbolism. I had no Apparently this lady's a
Speaker 1: little icon in Brooklyn.
Speaker 2: So I was actually doing a deep dive on Tonita.
Speaker 2: And her name is Maria Antonia Kay and yes, she
Speaker 2: has apparently the last Latino social club in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: We all know the.
Speaker 2: Buenavista Social Club, Like that's the kind of only reference
Speaker 2: I note of these social clubs. But it's a it's
Speaker 2: in Puerto Rican in like New York City's largest Puerto
Speaker 2: Rican enclave in Williamsburg. Didn't know that either. Isn't that
Speaker 2: a great not just something we don't understand. I learned
Speaker 2: something today that I didn't know about because he decided
Speaker 2: to feature.
Speaker 1: This little old lady. That's a that's a nod, that's
Speaker 1: a tip of the cap. That's for my community, and
Speaker 1: that's authentic and I love it and that's American and
Speaker 1: we all learned something like, oh, that's a part of
Speaker 1: our culture. It's the only one left. I want to go.
Speaker 1: We know we are going.
Speaker 2: There's no way we're not going, I want to check
Speaker 2: this place out if it's anything. If he loves it
Speaker 2: this much, he featured it in his Super Bowl performance,
Speaker 2: and it's just across the river from us.
Speaker 1: We're going the other thing that as close as well.
Speaker 1: This is somewhat political. A flag he chose to use
Speaker 1: a Puerto Rican flag. The traditional flag is red, white
Speaker 1: and blue. It has a deeper blue, but then there's
Speaker 1: another one that has a lighter blue to it, and
Speaker 1: that is one that's more associated with I guess the resistance,
Speaker 1: associated with independence to a certain degree. But he did
Speaker 1: use that flag, and that is not It would have
Speaker 1: been lost on me in the moment. It wasn't lost
Speaker 1: on Puerto Ricans in the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's just such a subtle nod, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It's not as if it was in
Speaker 2: your face and it was glaring. He had the United
Speaker 2: States flag there as well.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was awesome, And I think that's cool
Speaker 1: that he did that.
Speaker 2: I think that's something that was a nod to his
Speaker 2: fellow country mess.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't offensive bad least as far as we
Speaker 1: can tell, all right, but it was all offensive to
Speaker 1: the price. Then let's get to this. You knew he
Speaker 1: was going to say something I did. Look, I saw
Speaker 1: this last night, so I'm not sure how. Immediately after
Speaker 1: the super Bowl halftime show he posted this, But this
Speaker 1: was from President trum who skipped the super Bowl. He
Speaker 1: said it was too far, too long of.
Speaker 3: A flight, too long of a flight.
Speaker 2: All right, Yes, you showed this to me actually in
Speaker 2: the middle of the super Bowl the last night. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: last night, You're like, Look, Trump's already weighed in. So yes,
Speaker 2: we saw this last night. But here it is for
Speaker 2: you in case you missed it. The super Bowl halftime
Speaker 2: show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever. It
Speaker 2: makes no sense, is an affront to the greatness of
Speaker 2: America and doesn't represent our standards of success, creativity, or excellence.
Speaker 2: Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the
Speaker 2: dancing is disgusting, especially for young children that are watching
Speaker 2: from throughout the USA and all over the world. This
Speaker 2: show is just a slap in the face to our country,
Speaker 2: which is setting new standards and records every single day,
Speaker 2: including the best stock market and four oh one k's
Speaker 2: in history. There is nothing inspirational about this mess of
Speaker 2: a halftime show. And watch it will get great reviews
Speaker 2: from the fake news media because they haven't got a
Speaker 2: clue of what is going on in the real world.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the NFL should immediately replace its
Speaker 2: new ridiculous its ridiculous new kickoff rule. Make America great again.
Speaker 2: President Donald J. Trump, did we see the same halftime shows?
Speaker 1: What was the fake news thing again?
Speaker 2: The media that we would say it was great because
Speaker 2: we're fake news and out of touch with reality.
Speaker 1: Ooh, there it is, Okay, there it is from your president.
Speaker 1: Let's move on the next thing. I would like to
Speaker 1: mention he did have that message at the end robes
Speaker 1: bad Bunny, and I was curious in the moment, and
Speaker 1: I didn't find it until this morning what he actually said.
Speaker 1: I was like, how powerful was that?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: How much did he go? And he still didn't take
Speaker 1: the moment to be political there, No, it.
Speaker 3: Was actually very cool. It was about self empowerment.
Speaker 2: The translation of his final message, my name is Benito
Speaker 2: Antonio Martinez A Cassio, and if I'm here today at
Speaker 2: Super Bowl sixty, it's because I never ever stop believing
Speaker 2: in myself. You should also believe in yourself. You are
Speaker 2: worth more than you think.
Speaker 1: Trust me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's disgusting. That's so anti American.
Speaker 1: He took it.
Speaker 3: That's what's frustrating.
Speaker 2: You see the president's response and you see bad Money's choice,
Speaker 2: and you know what, you can feel how you feel.
Speaker 2: But I just I'm impressed with his restraint and his showmanship.
Speaker 1: He is an impressive artist and has an impressive story.
Speaker 1: He's an American. I mean, I don't know what else
Speaker 1: to say. Celebrate it because there's some gyrating on screen.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, that's not I hate to do a comparative thing,
Speaker 1: like really, mister president, you say that about the dancing,
Speaker 1: but you like the dada. I don't want to do
Speaker 1: that so you can grab him by the piece. I
Speaker 1: just I don't want to no, no, no no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go to that. No no, no, no no. I want
Speaker 1: to hold it as just on a it's on the
Speaker 1: surface to say it's an awful show because there was
Speaker 1: provocative dancing. Okay, shut down TikTok is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's the problem with it. What was you sailish? What
Speaker 1: was the one you said? They got who? What's going
Speaker 1: on in the real world, like Spanish isn't being spoken?
Speaker 1: What is the problem because he speaks Spanish. I just
Speaker 1: don't because he's not American. You know how many performers
Speaker 1: did we have a problem with the Rolling Stones during halftime?
Speaker 1: Are you two? How about Cold Play? Hell? Even fucking
Speaker 1: Rihanna's from Barbados, for God's sake, Like, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of non Americans who've been there. So it's the problem.
Speaker 1: An American is on stage and this is the one
Speaker 1: we got a problem. But if you make such a
Speaker 1: good point, the other non Americans spoke English, so that
Speaker 1: was an American halftime show. But go through the lists
Speaker 1: of non US citizens, you know what?
Speaker 3: You are so right?
Speaker 1: That is such a wow? Even the weekends Canadian? I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, right, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: But you know the point is, isn't this so American?
Speaker 2: Is it bringing your culture to the melting pot in
Speaker 2: the United States America? Isn't that what America is about?
Speaker 2: Isn't this like one of the most.
Speaker 3: American performances you've ever seen?
Speaker 1: If you consider that it kind of is This is
Speaker 1: the best example of what the founders wanted. Isn't it
Speaker 1: a melting pot pot in which this guy has that
Speaker 1: stage that is actually the most American thing. Yes, it,
Speaker 1: that's possible. I love, love all of this. But you
Speaker 1: know what, we didn't mention the other halftime show. Oh
Speaker 1: and that's not I'm saying that because we didn't go
Speaker 1: through it, we didn't watch it enough to it shouldn't
Speaker 1: be a part of what we saw at that halftime.
Speaker 3: That's what they want.
Speaker 2: They wanted to distract and to deflect and to you know,
Speaker 2: turn people away from a performance because of who he is.
Speaker 2: But the point being you were actually you had it
Speaker 2: up while we were walking. We were out watching the
Speaker 2: the super Bowl, and you headed up and it was
Speaker 2: just like.
Speaker 3: On stage, lights, smoke. It just was like a classic concert, right.
Speaker 1: And that's fine, and that's what some people wanted, didn't
Speaker 1: want to see the big show. But yes, every time
Speaker 1: we looked over it was one individual standing on the
Speaker 1: dark stage singing, maybe with the guitar or maybe not. No,
Speaker 1: not the same production value. It's fine, yep, like yourselves out.
Speaker 1: My favorite moment is when he said God Bless America.
Speaker 3: I loved that.
Speaker 1: This was no doubt my favorite moment and maybe the
Speaker 1: most emotional moment. God Bless America. He said, it came
Speaker 1: out of his mouth and then he listed all these
Speaker 1: American countries. He listed countries from South America. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: all a part of America. It's not just what's in
Speaker 1: these forty eight states in this one chunk. I know
Speaker 1: we have fifty I'm saying the contiguous, but yes, you
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying. It's not just that. I thought
Speaker 1: that was great. God bless America's real. Chile, you're a
Speaker 1: Guay and their flags are out there. I thought that
Speaker 1: was great.
Speaker 2: It was because we are the Americas. That's North, Central
Speaker 2: and South America America's I thought that was really cool too.
Speaker 2: I loved it.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 2: It was a theme of unity and why can't that
Speaker 2: be a good things. We're all in this together. We
Speaker 2: are the Americas. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: We did well. Should mention here how we ended up watching.
Speaker 1: We were in a bit of a race. Crazy as
Speaker 1: it sounds, we did not stick around in the Bay
Speaker 1: Area for the Super Bowl. We were there for several
Speaker 1: days leaning up. This is what people I think people
Speaker 1: know that a lot of people do that They go
Speaker 1: into a party all week leading up to and then
Speaker 1: they leave when the super Bowl happened. So we got
Speaker 1: out of there and came to other pastures. Yes, but
Speaker 1: we end up in a little surfer town in Mexico,
Speaker 1: desperate to find a bar playing the super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: we find one Ropes and not a single non American
Speaker 1: in the room. Is that correct? Yes? I know we
Speaker 1: need to do better.
Speaker 2: In fact, I told you I love this town because
Speaker 2: I didn't feel like there were a ton of Americans. Well,
Speaker 2: we were obviously at a group watching the super Bowl,
Speaker 2: so it shouldn't be surprising that was all Americans. But
Speaker 2: we were having fun watching all the folks who work
Speaker 2: in the restaurant.
Speaker 3: It was an outdoor place.
Speaker 2: Just when Bad Bunny came on, just the pride to
Speaker 2: see them, their faces light up, dancing as they were
Speaker 2: bringing people their drinks and their.
Speaker 1: Food and bringing everywhere so sweet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they knew every word the bartender crazy.
Speaker 2: It was so cute, singing every single word to the songs.
Speaker 3: It oh my, it made my heart happy.
Speaker 1: It was nice to see. But we came here going, Wow,
Speaker 1: we're gonna that's awesome. We get to go watch the
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny halftime show around Spanish speakers in Mexico, not.
Speaker 2: Watch of white people, no any but they were all
Speaker 2: enjoying it. People were moving and swaying as white people
Speaker 2: tend to do as much as they can sway.
Speaker 1: That's funny. Sway. Folks. We enjoyed the show. I hope
Speaker 1: you did, and it was one of unit. After all
Speaker 1: of that, he was the one. I always go back
Speaker 1: to Michelle Obama's line, when they go low, we go high.
Speaker 1: And he had an opportunity to combat a lot of
Speaker 1: hate coming his way and he did it not with hate.
Speaker 1: But bad Bunny is the one trying to bring us together.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, we always appreciate you just spending some
Speaker 1: time with us. Expect a whole lot more on our
Speaker 1: feed today for my dear Amy Robot. I'm t J. Holmes,
Speaker 1: and we will talk to y also