Bad Bunny and the NFL

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, so much for everybody pitching in to dial down
the temperature. You know, stop fighting, yelling, pointing fingers. No
better place to park the blame game than a football game, right,
Somebody passed that along to The National Football League announced
the last week that Benito Antonio Martinez Ocassio aka Bad Bunny,

(00:23):
a Puerto Rican Trump hater and avowed anti ICE advocate
who may be among the most divisive people in the
world when it comes to cultural norms, gender fluidity, politics
and the rule of law, is performing the halftime show
at the Super Bowl, the Quintessential Americans sporting giant replete

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with one hundred million viewers. Guess that's the cue to
resume pointing those fingers. With this hire, the NFL is
promoting an anti American, anti law enforcement, anti god, cross
dressing racist who declared he would never perform in the
United States out of fear ICE agents would arrest his fans.

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His act appeals to all those except the ones who
made the NFL the marketing and financial death star that
it is today. Show me how this guy is representative
of a typical NFL fan. Football is a team game.
Bad Bunny worships himself. He wears cult symbols on his

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painted fingernails while proclaiming he's no attention seeker. He publicly
proclaims his confusion about the difference between femininity and masculinity.
In a GQ profile last summer, Benito asked incredulously, if
I put on a woman's dress, is it really a
woman's dress? Though seemingly BB doesn't have that answer. Football

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fans do. They love the game for its toughness, courage, community,
but most of all masculinity. But this threat to turn
the Super Bowl halftime show into a drag show don't
think so well. Check out some of his videos. He
appeared in Drag and his music video for yopero solo,

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which in street Spanish translates to irque alone. He was
wearing a red leather mini dress and a wig and
had digitally enhanced breasts. Many women were jealous they look great.
A few years back, he was on The Tonight Show
in a black skirt cover shot for Harper's Bizarre and
a flowing white wedding gown minus the veil. In a

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statement dripping with irony, he says, I don't do this
for the attention. I just know who I am well,
we're not judging here. The rest of us just wonder
if a cross dresser who has dated female models yet
makes out with his male dancers on stage really does
know who he is. I just don't get how this
is good for the National Football League. Carrie Underwood, who

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grew up in a small Oklahoma town three thousand fine
Americans became among the most popular entertainers on the planet
without having to dress up like a man and suckface
with other women, is puzzled. She's thinking, has it really
been twenty two years since the NFL had a country
music act perform at the Super Bowl? Yes, it has

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a doubly vexing question, since most of the top country
artists regularly sell out football stadiums. The league is making
it hard to tackle the politics issue here. Bunny, seemingly
hates white people, did an interview three years ago and said, quote,
I doubt the type of gringoes white guys I don't

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f with listen to me. Okay, but how does he
connect with the average NFL fan? Now that's third and long.
How many chiefs fans speak rigaton or can appreciate a
performer who has no songs in English? Won't tour here
over immigration policy and hates the President. His announcement of

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this was naturally bilingual. Did it on Saturday Night Live.
When it was over, he fired one morn all of
us knuckle dragon Neanderthals by saying, if you didn't understand
any of that, you have four months to learn Spanish.
I get back to you on that one.