Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jack Katie and He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Dinfigure skating the USA gliding to gold in the team event,
Speaker 3: tied with the Japanese team going into the final skate.
Speaker 3: It was all up to the US's superstar Ilia Malanin,
Speaker 3: known as the quad God and the only skater to
Speaker 3: have ever landed a quadruple axle in international competition. And
Speaker 3: if you're wondering how does Ilia do it, well, he
Speaker 3: told us that before every skate he eats chocolate, all right.
Speaker 2: So it's basically tied with japan. Quad God's first Olympic
Speaker 2: performance is going to make the difference in whether or
Speaker 2: not we win the team gold medal or not. He
Speaker 2: goes out there, nobody's ever landed a he does six
Speaker 2: or seven. There seems to be some difference. But six or.
Speaker 1: Seven of those, oh many quads and a backflip which.
Speaker 2: He lands on one foot, which nobody'd ever done before.
Speaker 2: Used to be illegal for one thing, But aren't very
Speaker 2: many people that can do it legal or not? Just
Speaker 2: like it's too bad that it happened after the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: when I think a lot of people were sported out
Speaker 2: because it's one of the most amazing performances in Winter
Speaker 2: Olympics history and just really really something. I can't even
Speaker 2: imagine how you skate and do a backflip and land
Speaker 2: on want to skate and skate off. It's just amazing.
Speaker 2: But you know this is.
Speaker 1: I honestly am not trying to be controversial or or
Speaker 1: certainly bash anybody, because I love everybody. The consistency which
Speaker 1: with the male's figure skaters appeared to be fellows who said,
Speaker 1: I'm an effeminate gay man a spectacular athlete, right, I mean, like,
Speaker 1: mind bogglingly skillful athlete.
Speaker 2: What shall I do? Right?
Speaker 1: I go to figure skating because it's like incredibly athletic dancing,
Speaker 1: and you get to wear a lot of sequence.
Speaker 2: In fact, your sequence are like part of it.
Speaker 1: So seriously, just just culturally psychologically.
Speaker 2: I think it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It. Guy's a fabulous athlete. God bless him, Thank you
Speaker 1: for representing the country. I don't want to come off
Speaker 1: as being negative about.
Speaker 2: It, no, but you'd have to assume that he has
Speaker 2: the sort of skills that could make him a world
Speaker 2: class gymnast or a lot of different things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he goes skating headis like a fiend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you get to wear a sequence. I don't want
Speaker 1: to put that fine a point on it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, more or less, we're going to talk a
Speaker 2: little more Super Bowl uh later this hour, we'll get
Speaker 2: into some more halftime showing your thoughts on it and
Speaker 2: people's comments on it and cheered jerking ads for potato
Speaker 2: chips and all kinds of different stuff. That was among
Speaker 2: after after maybe the most exciting playoffs in NFL history,
Speaker 2: that was one boring game. This is what I was
Speaker 2: talking about a week or so ago when I said,
Speaker 2: Joe and I are old. Those of you who are
Speaker 2: younger don't know, this is what the NFL used to
Speaker 2: be like. Well, that game yesterday is what, like every
Speaker 2: NFL game used to be like, a lot of run,
Speaker 2: running into the pile the art, you know, field goals,
Speaker 2: low scoring, not a lot happening. That's what all NFL
Speaker 2: games pretty much used to be like. And then we
Speaker 2: all get used to the constant scoring, lots of passing,
Speaker 2: I mean a running back one the MVP. When's the
Speaker 2: last time that happened? AnyWho, that was not exciting to watch,
Speaker 2: and neither one of my kids had any interest. So
Speaker 2: I'm sitting on the couch, bloated from all that cheese
Speaker 2: dipped for Michaelangelo's recipe, feeling sick to my stomach watching
Speaker 2: a boring game. Yeah, another field goal, Oh, another sack. Well,
Speaker 2: that's exciting. Wanted to get this story on for you though.
Speaker 2: This is important. LA's homeless spending a case study and
Speaker 2: epic failure. This should matter to you no matter where
Speaker 2: you live in the country because is an example of
Speaker 2: when do gooders take tax payer money and start throwing
Speaker 2: it around, pretending they're trying to accomplish something when I'm
Speaker 2: not even sure they have any interest in that at all.
Speaker 2: Sprawling homelessness is one of the most chronic frustrations in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. This is from the New California Post editorial board.
Speaker 2: New York Post now has a California Post based in LA.
Speaker 2: Now I find out that the LA City Council spend
Speaker 2: an eye popping four hundred and eighteen million dollars on
Speaker 2: homeless services in twenty twenty five alone, almost half a
Speaker 2: billion dollars year, almost half a billion dollars in one
Speaker 2: city in one year on homelessness. Wow, and it only
Speaker 2: got worse. Mayor Karen Bass and council members need to
Speaker 2: account for this, says the editorial Board, and take responsibility
Speaker 2: for charting an effective course that centers on mental health
Speaker 2: and addiction treatment for those on the streets. Note that
Speaker 2: we can't say a more effective course because the current
Speaker 2: course isn't effective at all. A report this week from
Speaker 2: the city administration officer found that la Is pumped hundreds
Speaker 2: of millions of dollars into the homeless program black hole
Speaker 2: with nothing to show for it. Of the more than
Speaker 2: of the more than four hundred million dollars spent last
Speaker 2: year in homelessness, just ten percent went toward actually getting
Speaker 2: people off the streets for good. According to the California Post, Uh,
Speaker 2: there's a variety of reasons for that that we can
Speaker 2: get into in just a second. Well, yeah, and I
Speaker 2: would point out we're a year and three months from
Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty four, barely so what does
Speaker 2: for good mean? Surely, Oh, that's a good point. Wow,
Speaker 2: the vast boat. So the number should be inflated on
Speaker 2: the high end, since for good could mean you've been
Speaker 2: off the streets for a month and a half, year
Speaker 2: and a half whatever. Yeah. Uh. The vast bulk of
Speaker 2: money LA shoveled into homeless program simply made it easier
Speaker 2: for people to be and stay homeless. That LA is
Speaker 2: an epic failure, according to the Edatorial Board, it's a
Speaker 2: failure to meaningfully help nine out of ten of those
Speaker 2: that were on the street, cycling people through temporary programs,
Speaker 2: rolling out laundry trucks for those on the street. Did
Speaker 2: you know that that's one of the programs. They'll take
Speaker 2: in your laundry, your dirty clothes, wash them and give
Speaker 2: them back to you in LA. That's part of the
Speaker 2: homeless program to help people out. So they well, you couldn't.
Speaker 2: How are you going to go to a job interview
Speaker 2: in dirty clothes? You know it would be the sort
Speaker 2: of tear jerking car appeal you'd mainke. That's how they're going.
Speaker 2: Junkies supervising areas where people sleep in the car, so
Speaker 2: they have law enforcement or people acting as law enforcement
Speaker 2: walking the streets where people sleep in the car so
Speaker 2: that they can stay safe, to obviously make it easier
Speaker 2: to stay a drug addict and live in your car.
Speaker 2: It's all a behemoth money pit that offers no light
Speaker 2: and no end of the tunnel. And that's before we
Speaker 2: even get to the mayor's pet homeless initiative Inside Safe,
Speaker 2: which provides temporary motel rooms that cost taxpayers two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty six dollars per night apiece, while solving little
Speaker 2: in the long room, because long run, because all it
Speaker 2: does again make it easier to stay a drug addict.
Speaker 2: Half a billion dollars in one year with the homeless
Speaker 2: problem getting worse is really quite extraordinary. And people who
Speaker 2: think that doing the laundry of the you know, let's
Speaker 2: just go back to the root of it that we
Speaker 2: always do. It's a bunch of drug addicts almost entirely,
Speaker 2: until we still start calling it a drug problem as
Speaker 2: opposed to a housing problem. We'll never get anywhere the end.
Speaker 1: Because those who are not junkies can be helped by specific,
Speaker 1: carefully regulated programs. But then, so here's here's the world's
Speaker 1: simplest to understand formula doing people's laundry for them, I know,
Speaker 1: simple to understand formula above government if they can sell
Speaker 1: the people on the idea that there is a crisis
Speaker 1: and that government can help solve that crisis that gives
Speaker 1: them an unlimited platform to hand out money to their cronies. Now,
Speaker 1: like most things, it reminds me the whole I've got
Speaker 1: some great evidence that it is hardcore Marxist groups who
Speaker 1: are really pushing the demonstrations in Minneapolis. But in the
Speaker 1: same way, you've got the cynics or the activists who
Speaker 1: are doing precisely what I suggested. They're exploiting this because
Speaker 1: it's a way to hand out tax beyer cash because
Speaker 1: nobody knows how it's spent, nobody tracks it. And then
Speaker 1: you've got the fools who are soft headed, soft hearted
Speaker 1: people who think we really do need to help these
Speaker 1: people that are unfortunate, and that government official just said
Speaker 1: that they're going to help it help the problem with
Speaker 1: these tax dollars.
Speaker 2: So I'm in favor of it. For I'm in favor
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so you've got the two layers, the cynics
Speaker 1: or activists and the fools, and people assume everybody's sincere
Speaker 1: here and the fools are.
Speaker 2: But at the core of it, it's.
Speaker 1: People who understand that government exists from their point of view,
Speaker 1: as a way to take money from the treasury. After
Speaker 1: identifying a problem. It's the fact that people don't recognize
Speaker 1: it for what it.
Speaker 2: Is makes me insane. But it is something I must accept,
Speaker 2: So get them out drugs in some cases, booze needles,
Speaker 2: all kinds of your drug paraphernalia, policing the streets so
Speaker 2: you can sleep in your car. And no, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna get robbed. Taking up your dirty laundry and bringing
Speaker 2: it back Clayton to you.
Speaker 1: Send the laundry truck by my place. I spill some
Speaker 1: barbecue sauce on my jeans at the super Bowl party.
Speaker 2: What's the motivation for the drug addict to stop when
Speaker 2: you get new repercussions.
Speaker 1: I'm staying in a free hotel room with free laundry, food, needles,
Speaker 1: other services. This hit and bottom thing I keep hearing about.
Speaker 1: I can't see it from here, right.
Speaker 2: That is amazing, And that's a tremendous amount of money. Wow,
Speaker 2: half a billion dollars in a year in LA. I'm
Speaker 2: looking up at the TV. They're showing the Mister Beast
Speaker 2: super Bowl ad. I missed that one. I heard it teased.
Speaker 2: I don't know what he was advertising, mister Beast, but
Speaker 2: he's one of your biggest stars in the world that
Speaker 2: I'm sure a lot of people didn't recognize at all
Speaker 2: because they don't watch him on YouTube. Now, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: know him if he walked in the room. Quite a
Speaker 2: few AI ads of various levels of troubling that really
Speaker 2: bothered me. Did you see the ad? The ad for
Speaker 2: it was set in a dunkin Donuts and it had
Speaker 2: been a young Ben Aflack and a young Joey from
Speaker 2: Friends and a young Ted Danson. Was that AI or
Speaker 2: was that the actors with AI or what was that?
Speaker 2: They were obvious.
Speaker 1: Altered through some technology to look very young?
Speaker 2: Again? You think they participated in that? I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: sure I could google that. Yeah. Well, yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's gonna help me any answer my question.
Speaker 2: Did they? I mean, because that's a serious star power
Speaker 2: in that ad. What did they pay to get all
Speaker 2: those people to be in that ad? If they were
Speaker 2: actually in the ad, well you gotta oh, you'd have
Speaker 2: to pay them. What do you mean if they're actually
Speaker 2: in the ad.
Speaker 1: You can't generate Georgeica Jason Alexander's face and body and
Speaker 1: use it to sell dunkin Donuts.
Speaker 2: So somebody had enough money to get everybody, including Rachel
Speaker 2: from Friends and Tom Brady and everybody has a lot
Speaker 2: of money, and this would be the up ultimate point.
Speaker 2: As somebody who's in the advertising business, I don't remember
Speaker 2: what the ad was for. I always wonder that about
Speaker 2: Super Bowl commercials.
Speaker 1: A lot of a commercial premise was Matt David works
Speaker 1: at a Duncan.
Speaker 2: But was it for Duncin Donuts? Yeah, they ad was
Speaker 2: for Dunkin Donuts because there was something that ran at
Speaker 2: the end that I thought, what was this? Add four?
Speaker 1: I don't know how I can help you. I'm not
Speaker 1: possibly hit me over the head over it with it.
Speaker 2: Well, they'd had a different tagline than Dunkin Donuts, though
Speaker 2: at the very end of the commercial it was.
Speaker 1: The punchline to the joke. I think, okay, hmm man,
Speaker 1: they spent a ton of money on that one. Uh
Speaker 1: the halftime show. It's getting so much attention.
Speaker 2: I suppose the NFL feels like that's a win just
Speaker 2: so people are talking about it. I'm not sure that's true,
Speaker 2: but we can get into that coming up in some
Speaker 2: of your texts. So some of you love I gotta
Speaker 2: admit I haven't come across anybody who liked it. I've
Speaker 2: come across people complaining about us, complaining about it, but
Speaker 2: nobody that actually liked it, which is a different thing. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, stay tuned. Hey world, did.
Speaker 1: You arrange the munchkins in the Fibonacci sequence?
Speaker 2: I got a genius worker fun such a genius in
Speaker 2: white he put ice in his coffee. Huh, come on, Shackie,
Speaker 2: I'm just well hunting. I'm not a genius. I will
Speaker 2: marry the first man that can help me with the
Speaker 2: Sibonacci sequins.
Speaker 1: Oh, end, don't you have a girlfriend?
Speaker 2: We rona break. I don't need her huts. Look at
Speaker 2: everything I need right here with Duncan.
Speaker 1: They kid, if you're still single doing this Boston stick
Speaker 1: and working for Duncan when you're fifty.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be very disappointed.
Speaker 1: Is it that your girlfriend?
Speaker 2: You like donuts? Yeah? Well this is my new boyfriend.
Speaker 2: I like these nuts. I'm tiring.
Speaker 1: Duncan.
Speaker 2: I did not have Jennifer Aniston doing a D's Nuts
Speaker 2: joke on my list of things I expected. That's subtle
Speaker 2: and has a lot of star power in that commercial.
Speaker 2: So USA Today puts out the ad Meter every year.
Speaker 2: That's where they actually have focus groups turning the knob
Speaker 2: left or right watching the ads in a minute. Is
Speaker 2: this another Jennifer Aniston joke about to happen? Here's your
Speaker 2: turn these knobs? Huh? Top five that people liked, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you the bottom are almost all tech AI stuff,
Speaker 2: So the uh. The expert for USA Today said people
Speaker 2: did not like the tech ads, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: Wonder why people automatically rejected reacted poorly to any AI ad.
Speaker 2: Your top five michelob Ultra the Ultra Instructor humors take
Speaker 2: on fitness training themes. I missed that one, sorry, Duncan.
Speaker 2: Was number four, the one we just played Pepsi. The
Speaker 2: choice that was with the polar bear, with the polar
Speaker 2: bear exactly clever. Yeah, poor polar bear got caught up
Speaker 2: on the kiss cam at the concert with another polar bear.
Speaker 2: Number two, though most popular ad, was the one that
Speaker 2: I hated so much, the Lazed Potato chip ad, an
Speaker 2: emotional father daughter potato farm story that tugged at art strings.
Speaker 2: I only rejected because, I mean, if it were a
Speaker 2: movie that ended with the farmer given the farm, that's fine.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a little smallzy for me, But that's fine.
Speaker 1: But then when you try to sell me freaking potato chips, right,
Speaker 1: you tug on my art strings and sell me a
Speaker 1: bag of chips all to process stuff I should never eat,
Speaker 1: and I love Laize potato chips.
Speaker 2: I don't know why that just seems odd to me.
Speaker 1: There's no emotion involved in a potato chip at all.
Speaker 1: You know, I had an explanation for the ai ad
Speaker 1: unpopularity and that just absolutely made my point. A lot
Speaker 1: of not all of them, but a lot of them
Speaker 1: were fairly straightforward saying here's what we do and here's
Speaker 1: how we do it. Interested here's the company which is
Speaker 1: not a lot of entertainment value for the sort of
Speaker 1: people who went gaga for the freaking potato chip ad.
Speaker 2: Right, wasn't meant for them. And number one Buttweiser American
Speaker 2: icons are stirring patriotic ad tying the brand to American
Speaker 2: icons like Clydesdale's and bald eagles. Okay, that settles. So
Speaker 2: did people watch that ironically, like it on an ironic
Speaker 2: level or just completely seriously in that I love the
Speaker 2: Budweiser ads America? And then a bald eagle writing on
Speaker 2: the horse, why don't I munch it. That's when the
Speaker 2: horse started flying.
Speaker 1: And why don't I munch on a bag of potato
Speaker 1: chips and think about my answer to your question? Yes, people,
Speaker 1: did I think that the ad meter people took it completely?
Speaker 2: Sincerely?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the little horse is helping the little
Speaker 1: bird learn to fly. That is so sweet. It's not
Speaker 1: at all a giant international beer corporation trying to manipulate
Speaker 1: my emotions.
Speaker 2: But huh, I'm about some cynical man. I have hate
Speaker 2: brimming in my heart. I'm about in the ads where
Speaker 2: we're all supposed to get along and like each other
Speaker 2: and all that sort of stuff. Should I say to
Speaker 2: those heads, Okay, we'll talk a little bit about bad bunny,
Speaker 2: some of your responses coming up in a little bit.
Speaker 2: I found it pet efecto. I I don't know what
Speaker 2: it was about because I don't speak Spanish.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and geddy, but bless America, Santatina. I have Nina
Speaker 4: pudu ba wand Bolivia banaa Amicoana Ama you mad st Kannada.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, love me body Puerto Rico. Say you
Speaker 2: moucky that we're still here, despike the football. We're still here.
Speaker 2: I that was the ending of the Bad Bunny halftime show.
Speaker 2: I'd be offended or or in agreement or mystified if
Speaker 2: I understood a single word of the whole thing. But
Speaker 2: I don't speak Spanish, so I don't. I don't know
Speaker 2: what I wouldn't know what was happening, and uh, I
Speaker 2: don't feel like it's something I ought to do to
Speaker 2: go try to figure it out.
Speaker 1: So it just it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't for me. I guess I'm not annoyed by
Speaker 2: music I don't like, like I guess most people are.
Speaker 2: I guess that makes me rare.
Speaker 1: People unite more quickly around things they don't like than
Speaker 1: what they do like, so it's a big conversational topic.
Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah, I don't. I don't understand hating
Speaker 2: someone else's music tastes. But I just assume that's not
Speaker 2: for me. It's not or you know, it's not my thing.
Speaker 2: So I'm sure other people enjoyed.
Speaker 1: But if it's all in a different language, that's a
Speaker 1: perfectly reasonable thing to be upset about, I think, right.
Speaker 1: The big German World Cup game was the halftime was
Speaker 1: tirely and Mandarin and all the Germans sat around saying
Speaker 1: I have no idea what's happening. Yeah, if you think
Speaker 1: it's just right wingers in America, go ahead and do
Speaker 1: what Joe just explained that the big, giant, biggest soccer
Speaker 1: match they have that year in Germany. Have it in
Speaker 1: some other language and see if they just accept it
Speaker 1: because multiculturalism on its face is just wonderful, or obviously try.
Speaker 2: It in China or anywhere else like that. God right.
Speaker 2: So I was reading the New York Times review of
Speaker 2: the Halftime Show, which is about what you'd expect it
Speaker 2: to be. Just absolutely loves it, and it's explaining all
Speaker 2: the intricacies of it, and it was pretty intricate. I guess,
Speaker 2: although I don't know what you accomplish if ninety plus
Speaker 2: percent of your audience has no idea what you're saying
Speaker 2: and what's going on, and those numbers are literal. I
Speaker 2: did some research on it last night because I was
Speaker 2: wondering how many people are Spanish only in the United States.
Speaker 2: A lot of people speak Spanish, that number is not
Speaker 2: even that great, but a lot of people speak Spanish,
Speaker 2: but so English. The number of people that only speak
Speaker 2: Spanish is single digits. Best I had come up with
Speaker 2: and as I pointed out, Telemundo had the broadcast entirely
Speaker 2: in Spanish, and you know, during only English things they
Speaker 2: would have subtitles. And the part that bothered me the
Speaker 2: most was I knew the music was going to be
Speaker 2: in Spanish. I didn't know it was going to be
Speaker 2: basically a music coal like a play set to music.
Speaker 2: And they opened with a still shot with words on
Speaker 2: it to explain what the setting is I guess, or
Speaker 2: what was about to happen. And it wasn't all Spanish,
Speaker 2: no subtitles. I mean, that is just letting me know
Speaker 2: you do not care whether or not I get anything
Speaker 2: out of this or not.
Speaker 1: Right, it would have been the easiest thing in the
Speaker 1: world for the NFL and whoever was producing the halftime
Speaker 1: show to have it in English and Spanish.
Speaker 2: So did they feel like at least understood the premise.
Speaker 2: Did they feel like that would be insulting or caving
Speaker 2: to a certain community or something to put it in
Speaker 2: the subtitles. I don't know, I truly don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got a pretty strong opinion on all this,
Speaker 1: including it's a cynical but practical move by Roger Goodell
Speaker 1: to try to sell the game in the rest of
Speaker 1: the Americas and around the world. I get that, and
Speaker 1: he's given a finger to his traditional audience. But no,
Speaker 1: I don't understand why you wouldn't make that incredibly small,
Speaker 1: simple gesture of here's what's happening here to your English
Speaker 1: speaking audience, which is virtually everybody.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what it said on that
Speaker 2: does anybody know what said? But if it said a
Speaker 2: sugarcane field, Puerto Rico, nineteen seventy five, okay, I'm kind
Speaker 2: of interested in what you're going to show me then,
Speaker 2: even if I don't understand the words. But I didn't
Speaker 2: have any idea, and then you didn't care whether I
Speaker 2: had any idea, a New York Times critic after a
Speaker 2: very very very long explanation of all the things that
Speaker 2: were going on, and there are tons of stars and
Speaker 2: people of note that he interfaced with that I didn't
Speaker 2: know who they were or what was it about, because
Speaker 2: again I only speak English. For some, the mere fact
Speaker 2: of Bad Bunny's selection for the halftime show could only
Speaker 2: be read as a political statement. For some, it even
Speaker 2: inspired a counter programming event, the All American Halftime Show,
Speaker 2: presented by the right wing organization Turning Point USA and
Speaker 2: headlined by kid Rock. So the kid Rock event is
Speaker 2: right wing, but the event that is in all Spanish
Speaker 2: and features dudes kissing and hinting toward open borders are
Speaker 2: good and all that's not left wing. That's just mainstream
Speaker 2: entertainment that if I don't like it, there's something wrong
Speaker 2: with me. Exactly right. Yes, you've explained the New York Times.
Speaker 2: Bad Bunny's tent was and always has been far bigger,
Speaker 2: far more musically generous, and far more imaginative. Near the
Speaker 2: end of his performance, he shouted God bless America, then
Speaker 2: ran through a list of countries that make up South,
Speaker 2: Central and North America, from Chile all the way up
Speaker 2: to Canada. He held out a football read together, we
Speaker 2: Are America and then spiked it before his final song.
Speaker 2: So what is that message there? So he's saying, I
Speaker 2: love America, but buy America.
Speaker 1: I mean the America's yeah, open the border, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: like the football said together we are America and then
Speaker 1: spiking the football, ending with We're still here, We're still here,
Speaker 1: meaning you know you ice f you Trump administration.
Speaker 2: There was a narrative through the event which went from
Speaker 2: a proposal to a wedding to the appearance of a
Speaker 2: child watching Bad Bunny's Grammy acceptance speech, which of course
Speaker 2: he said ice out. So he didn't say ice out
Speaker 2: during the performance yesterday, but he had a little kid
Speaker 2: watching him say ice out. So that was and a
Speaker 2: kid who looked precisely like Okay, that's what the critic
Speaker 2: is about to get into the appearance of a child
Speaker 2: watching Bad Bunny's Grammy acceptance speech. Though that thread online,
Speaker 2: people speculated the young boy was Liam Connel Ramos, the
Speaker 2: child at the center of a recent contentious federal immigration
Speaker 2: action in Minnesota. He was in fact an actor, but
Speaker 2: the confusion underscored the urge to apply an unwieldy political
Speaker 2: literalism to Bad Bunny's performance. Oh so, weirdly picked a
Speaker 2: kid that looked precisely like that other little kid. We're
Speaker 2: applying in unwieldy political literalism, that little kid who looked
Speaker 2: just like the kid from the big news story. I'm
Speaker 2: forcing that on this.
Speaker 1: That's not what you meant and gave that little kid
Speaker 1: the Grammy ord at which he referenced ice out.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, that's well, I'm ready. I'm reading way
Speaker 2: too much into this. Bad Bunny did not go to
Speaker 2: great lengths to do that. It's me and my weird racist.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's your imagination. You're your paranoid imagination. Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that something is?
Speaker 2: And the New York Times guy reading it some online speculated, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: well all right.
Speaker 1: Everybody at the party said, was that that little kid
Speaker 1: with the floppy hat? Wow, So everybody foisted their racist
Speaker 1: political opinions on that event. And the word I would
Speaker 1: choose is unwieldy. Yes, I said, hey, stop that, it's unwieldy.
Speaker 2: Bad Bunny did something quite novel with his Super Bowl
Speaker 2: sixty performance, turning into an extended presentation on how to
Speaker 2: make a global opportunity intimate, personal, and historically specific. Well,
Speaker 2: I'd have to take I'd have to take your word
Speaker 2: for it because I don't speak Spanish. And again, so
Speaker 2: I don't have any idea what was going on the
Speaker 2: stuff about that, So I wondered at one point, I
Speaker 2: did wonder, what's the deal? I think one of my
Speaker 2: kids said, what's the deal with the telephone poles? So
Speaker 2: I guess during the hurricane back in twenty seventeen, lots
Speaker 2: of the people up on the telephone poles trying to
Speaker 2: restore telephones and power and everything like that got knocked
Speaker 2: down by the hurricane and drowned or something like that,
Speaker 2: and somehow that's the fault of us not sending enough
Speaker 2: money to help with the blackout. Colonialism or something. According
Speaker 2: to the New Yorkers, yes, colonialism always. I'm not somebody.
Speaker 1: If I was somebody and not nobody, when I was
Speaker 1: in a meeting with Roger Goodell, I would work for
Speaker 1: weeks to learn Spanish everything that needed to be said,
Speaker 1: and I would just say it all to him in Spanish,
Speaker 1: and he's like, what are we doing here? I don't
Speaker 1: speak Spanish. I'd say, I'd give him the middle finger
Speaker 1: and walk out.
Speaker 2: That's interesting how people go into camps on this stuff,
Speaker 2: and maybe that's exactly what I'm doing. Although I feel
Speaker 2: like my camp is pretty easily defended, I don't.
Speaker 1: I would like to hear somebody in the other camp
Speaker 1: address some of the arguments we've made. I would listen
Speaker 1: to just the very simple effect of this is the
Speaker 1: biggest TV sh show of the year. It's entertainment. I
Speaker 1: don't speak Spanish, and you.
Speaker 2: Made no effort to bring me along for the ride,
Speaker 2: even if you want to inject another culture into the
Speaker 2: show and think it'd be good for me. Fine, but
Speaker 2: God makes some effort to bring me along for the
Speaker 2: ride and tell me what's going on. But nope, not
Speaker 2: a word. And then the other crowd is going with
Speaker 2: If you aren't automatically wowed by this and saying historic
Speaker 2: and amazing, then you're some sort of caveman scared of
Speaker 2: brown people, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Yeah, racist nativists to whatever. Yeah, all right, probably
Speaker 1: a Christian nationalist whatever that is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then people have always complained about the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl halftime shows. I mean, it's it's a practically a
Speaker 2: tired act. But I've seen some clips of various halftime
Speaker 2: shows from the past, and they had one from the
Speaker 2: must have been the early two thousands. Probably it was
Speaker 2: Brittany with Aerosmith, some big time rapper. I remember. It
Speaker 2: wasn't the singing walk this way, and I thought, that
Speaker 2: is an attempt to appeal to the widest, not whitest,
Speaker 2: the whitest audience you possibly can with whitest, you know,
Speaker 2: the young sex pot for the younger people. The ancient
Speaker 2: even then ancient Aerosmith and rapper and different people. Look, yesterday,
Speaker 2: you made no effort, not even the tiniest effort to
Speaker 2: appeal to to me and my family. Yeah, what you
Speaker 2: get to do?
Speaker 1: But yeah, musically speaking, yes, but I get it. I
Speaker 1: mean substandard Rabbit has been the number one streamed pop star.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna use artist, although I don't know, number
Speaker 1: one streaming artist for four of the last six years.
Speaker 2: A buddy of mine texted me. He said, if you
Speaker 2: have the chance to get the number two artist in
Speaker 2: the world for your halftime show, you do it, period,
Speaker 2: right right?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think that's absolutely correct. But the utter
Speaker 1: lack of any effort to bring the English speaking world along,
Speaker 1: that is inexplicable. Yeah, that is not justified by any
Speaker 1: of the arguments I've heard made. It was creatively wonderful,
Speaker 1: and you know it brought forward the Hispanic point of
Speaker 1: view and the history of blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Okay, fine, but why would you abandon the English speaking audience.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Yeah, like you just said, I get
Speaker 2: so one of the So Taylor Swift, the number one
Speaker 2: artist in the world, wasn't available. You got the number
Speaker 2: two artists. You know why wouldn't you have that person?
Speaker 2: Come on, But if you're gonna tell this tale about
Speaker 2: your homeland and why we should find it as magical
Speaker 2: as you do, and here's the ways that you think
Speaker 2: it was wronged by whoever, and you want us to
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't learn any single thing. I can only
Speaker 1: come to one conclusion. The messages. Learn Spanish, bitches, that's
Speaker 1: the way I took it.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 1: I could learn Spanish, Dee say one way like Jill
Speaker 1: Biden has.
Speaker 2: Perfect Michael, it's perfect. No, boy, on those of you
Speaker 2: are going with And there are some people who are
Speaker 2: in the radio station I'm hearing out there are going
Speaker 2: with that. Oh it was magical.
Speaker 3: Why what?
Speaker 1: What did what did you get out of that?
Speaker 2: You don't speak Spanish? I know you don't. What did
Speaker 2: you get out of that? You went and wanting to
Speaker 2: love it? You loved it.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. Human beings are ridiculous creatures.
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan. I actually would kind of like
Speaker 2: to know about the history of Puerto Rico over the
Speaker 2: last several decades. I'd probably be interested. I'd read an
Speaker 2: article about it in Spanish. No, not right, right? Would
Speaker 2: that'd be funny. Somebody hand me in here's the history
Speaker 2: of Puerto Rico since nineteen seventy that he was telling
Speaker 2: me about in Spanish. Okay, once again, this is of
Speaker 2: no use to.
Speaker 1: Be low quality hair did not impress me in mind
Speaker 1: that text line for one KFTC.
Speaker 2: My sister's name was Denise. She died of obecity at
Speaker 2: twenty five. He had a heart attack. I was so fat, nasty,
Speaker 2: I will eat anything. I was like three hundred and
Speaker 2: forty five pounds a quart of ice cream every hour. Okay,
Speaker 2: you can end U there. That's Mike Tyson during his
Speaker 2: Super Bowl commercial yester day. I didn't know Mike Tyson
Speaker 2: was ever three hundred and forty five pounds and of
Speaker 2: ice cream every hour.
Speaker 1: That's a hell wow. And it was we need to
Speaker 1: eat healthier ad from fah from the government. When was
Speaker 1: he that fat? I don't know, post retirement for boxing.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't we have known that? Wouldn't that have made the news?
Speaker 2: Or I got no opinions on Mike Tyson. He had
Speaker 2: his Broadway play, he'd had all these different things that
Speaker 2: he had. I don't remember remember being that fat.
Speaker 1: Apparently it was started in the original Hamilton, Right, he
Speaker 1: was in hangover.
Speaker 2: He was thin. What apparently it was from two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine to twenty ten that he was eating a
Speaker 2: court ice cream an hour or whatever. He said, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that he ballooned to over three hundred and fifty pounds. Wow,
Speaker 2: chip cookie dough.
Speaker 1: It's a fine ice cream, all right, blame him, all right,
Speaker 1: Fat Mike Tyson add to the end of that. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's interesting that the government paid for a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: ad eat better.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's surprising. Starring Fat Mike Tyson.
Speaker 1: Yes, quick roundup of stories that are probably much more
Speaker 1: significant than the Super Bowl. Although the idea of a
Speaker 1: country so steeped its young people anyway in self loathing
Speaker 1: that it would do what we just did is that's
Speaker 1: a big story. But the new exciting Prime Minister Japan
Speaker 1: called for a snap election, which is the thing you
Speaker 1: can do in a parliamentary system, and got the biggest
Speaker 1: majority of seats since that government existed post World War Two.
Speaker 1: Huge mandate to bring Japan into the modern world and
Speaker 1: to stand up to China.
Speaker 2: Huge mandate.
Speaker 1: And interestingly, her support among the young is between low
Speaker 1: eighties to ninety percent.
Speaker 2: Among young voters. Wow, that's interesting. So this is where
Speaker 2: it gets complicated. If Japan is all in on, you
Speaker 2: ain't taken Taiwan and we're kind of eh, if China
Speaker 2: really wants it, they're going to get it. What are
Speaker 2: we going to watch Japan and China fight it out
Speaker 2: and not come to Japan's eight when we do have
Speaker 2: a treaty? Right? Where treaties are worth you know, anything
Speaker 2: on paper? Right? Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It depends when it happens to and who's in office, obviously,
Speaker 1: as the president has.
Speaker 2: Near cartilanche for foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Moving along, a terrorist killed at least thirty one people
Speaker 1: in Islamabad, Pakistan, after entering a Shiite Muslim mosque opening
Speaker 1: and fire than debtening a suicide bomb, deadliest attack in
Speaker 1: the capital since two thousand and eight. The Sunni Muslims
Speaker 1: believed that that mosque in general, Pakistani Shiites are a
Speaker 1: human reservoir for potential recruits into Shiite militia groups fighting
Speaker 1: the Islamic State in Syria. But don't worry, Islam is
Speaker 1: just another religion like Christianity. The Iran negotiations have continued.
Speaker 1: Everybody's saying they've been very positive, although the US still
Speaker 1: and demands a complete dismantlement of its nuclear enrichment. An
Speaker 1: Iran says that zero enrichment will never be accepted by US,
Speaker 1: and in the Ukraine negotiations, Vladimir Zelenski says there is
Speaker 1: zero chance we will give up the entire don boss,
Speaker 1: and Putin says, unless you give up the entire down, boss,
Speaker 1: we have nothing to talk about. But everybody described those
Speaker 1: negotiations in positive ways as well.
Speaker 2: Putin bomb does some more apartment complexes yesterday, and maybe
Speaker 2: we'll talk about this.
Speaker 1: In the first of his kind decision, a federal jury
Speaker 1: in Arizona found Uber responsible for a woman's rape and
Speaker 1: ordered them to pay her eight point five million dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, how are they supposed to control every driver
Speaker 2: in the country.
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