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What Bad Bunny Really Exposed | Puerto Rico’s Hidden Power Structure | Josh JohnsonAdded:
I love watching Valentine's Day from afar.
I do. I love I love watching cuz this is one of the only holidays where if we see an incredible romantic gesture like like just something over the top, we assume he did something wrong. Like that's that's you never see a dude with 50 balloons and go that's so sweet. You usually are like Yeah.
Yeah, he down bad, huh?
Oh, what I think is cool is that with time, Valentine's Day matters less to the couple. You know, like initially when you start out those first couple years, maybe even 3 years is tense. You want to make sure you make it this amazing. You got to show them how much you love them. You got to be thoughtful.
They said something 6 months ago. I remember that's the gift.
And with time, that all starts to fade.
I've been I' I've watched couples older than me for a long time. I used to work at a restaurant and and while I was there for a little while, I was the barback. So, I wasn't the bartender, but I went and got ice. I went and just help prep and stuff like that. And back when I was the barback, I'd see all these couples that had been together 10, 20, 30 years, right?
And it was amazing how little Valentine's Day meant to so many of them like like at all. I don't know what year it is, but apparently there just comes a year in your relationship where you look at each other and go, "Are you tired?"
Me, too. We could do nothing.
We could We could do nothing.
Those first three years, you don't even suggest it. Those first three years, no matter how tired you are, you're like, "No, no, we have to go to this restaurant. We have to go to this restaurant and have a good time and spend all this money for everybody on Instagram."
Cuz I love going to a restaurant in Valentine's Day and just listening.
like one of those restaurants that's got Valentine's Day tasting menu so you know it's all couples in there and just sit there.
Take the AirPods out and just be a witness, you know, cuz those are the funniest fights. Y'all are already there. Y'all are eating.
Y'all are cutting food mad. Cutting food. You can tell from the way that they're cutting the steak. This is not a good knife. Just You're supposed to cut it with the knife, not the fork.
I love a good a good quiet fight.
>> I love when they lean in and they're like, "Not here."
One of one of the couples that cracked me up the most when I was a bar back was this couple, they had been together like 30 years. And you ever meet people who are a perfect mismatch?
Like I don't know why they were together cuz all they ever did was fight. But they loved it. They loved fighting with each other. They found their worst enemy and they married them. Like it's it was incredible. It was they clearly were having fun fighting. They'd be laughing while they were fighting. Just laughing at how bad the other one was getting. They would go tit for tat. It was beautiful to watch. I was like this is real love. This And one time he told me the story. He's an older fellow and he told me the story about how mad she got one Valentine's Day. They had been together for 8 years and he didn't do anything for Valentine's Day. She was very upset, very mad at him. And you know, he's older than me. He's got more experience, more life experience. But I was like, I mean, bro, you didn't do anything. like I mean I think she might be entitled to be mad you know he was like no she doesn't get to be mad all right she doesn't get to be mad because 3 days before Valentine's Day I gave her my kidney I'm going to give you my kidney and then you still want something. You want kidney and chocolate? You're not getting it.
Kidney and chocolate. It's not happening. All right. You get one or the other. I bet you want one more.
I remember the first time he told his story, I was floored. I was like, "Yeah, it does seem about reasonable."
You know, you waking up stitched up and everything. And she's like, "Well, No, it does feel crazy.
A whole kidney, too, man. Hey, you got, you know, y'all in love. Y'all are donor match. It's hard to not do it. You kind of have to, you know, I want to be with you forever.
And he used to love to tell that story.
He would basically tell that story every Valentine's Day that I worked there. He would he would tell that story because he thought it was so funny to make her mad all over again about how he didn't do anything because then she would kind of get mad all over again. And we're like like she would get mad because she knew he was only telling us because we would be on his side cuz he gave the kidney which is a pretty big deal.
Uh And finally there was there was one year I I noticed that I didn't see them >> right and I just thought about them like I you know I didn't have their numbers or anything and we just talking passing and stuff and the next year came around and they came in and I was happy to see them again because I only you know I only get to talk to them when they're there and they're always very entertaining.
And he started in again. He started in on the story of how, you know, Valentine's Day gave him kidney.
And then she was like, "Well, I don't want to hear about that kidney stuff anymore."
>> Because last year, smiling, she says, "Last year he got in a car accident.
>> He got in a car accident. And guess who needed blood?
And then I watched them argue for 45 minutes for a good portion of my shift. I watched them argue about the merits of blood over kidney.
It's like I want to hear about that kidney boy. I gave you so much blood.
You full of my blood now.
I've been watching the Winter Olympics and wow, this one this one's been a mess.
I don't even know how many medals we have to be honest. Like I I haven't been following that at all. I've just been following the catastrophes, you know? Like this this dude, okay, there was this athlete. He won bronze.
He wins a bronze. He walks up to the first camera ready to talk to him and they're like, "How do you feel about your win?" Right. And he's like, "HEY, this is something I got to say." UH, 6 months ago, I met the love of my life.
And because I didn't know where it was going, I was sure this dude was about to propose. I WAS PUZZLED. I THOUGHT THIS dude was about to propose, which already seemed like a bad idea. I'm like, uh, I don't think she here. Like, if you if you taking an interview on the course, unless she's behind the camera, man, I don't know if this is a good idea, bro.
It's like 6 months ago, I bet the love of my life.
And 3 months ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life.
It's like, "All right, what does this have to do with athletics? This okay, tell me more.
I made the biggest mistake of my life and I cheated on her."
And I was like, "Oh, that's why she NOT THERE." OKAY.
THIS IS MAKING sense now.
And I cheated on her and you know I I told her last week and this has been one of the worst weeks of my life. She broke up with me. I've been racked with guilt.
And look, I know he wasn't done with the speech yet, but in my head I was like, "Uh, I wish I could have talked to him ahead of time because a couple pointers.
Uh the fact that he's like, "I told her last week and I've been racked with guilt for a week." I'm like, "Ooh, okay." That does make it sound like you didn't mind the other two months.
And he's like, I you know, I don't even know what this is going to accomplish.
And in my head, I was like, nothing. But But I was trying not to interrupt him in my head and just listen to the whole thing. He's like, "I don't know what this is going to accomplish, but I just hope." And he started crying. And I was like, "Oh, okay. Look look look look listen listen. As as men, we should we should cry more. We should be able to cry openly. But when you did something bad and you're and I don't know you and you're telling me you did something bad as a first impression and you start crying, it does not make me feel anything for you. Like it like imagine imagine if you you're meeting someone for the first time. You don't know each other at all.
Haven't exchanged names or anything. And the first thing they say to you when you meet them is I I didn't want to hurt him. Your hands like, "Oh, get away from me. Get away from me."
Uh-oh. All right. You about to make me pray. I will rebuke you in your face. I don't.
No. And then, you know, he's like, "Thanks. Thanks so much.
Pretty sure he walked away without answering the question.
And then I saw like news reports of it where they were like uh the bronze was won in by the bathlete who then went on to proclaim his love for his girlfriend that he cheated on. And I heard that and I was like, why does it matter that he's by? Like I was doesn't really seem like part of the story.
And then I did the mildest amount of googling and found out that there is something called the bialogue.
That's my bad.
And he he had asked a question about it later at like an official press conference and they were like, "Uh, so what was that?
What was that at all?" Because that I mean, >> did she call? Like he was like, "No, I haven't heard back.
I don't even know if she's seen it. And by my head, I'm like, "Bro, she saw it.
There's no way. This is I don't know if she saw it. I just, you know, basically embarrassed her on a world stage." So, I have no idea if she saw it yet.
Minnie's like, "Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I just blew up my whole career."
And I was like maybe and then in the Olympic village it happened again. It happened again. They don't learn from anything. It happened again to the Olympics again. In the Olympic village they done ran out of condoms.
>> I don't even know who's at fault anymore. I really don't.
THEY HAD THOUSANDS.
I don't know who's at fault anymore. If it's the, you know, International Olympic Committee or if it's the athletes at a certain point, I think you're eating them. Like, there's no way, y'all. There's There's no way.
What a what a dumb scandal to have.
And then you you let the athletes tell it and they sound so when they've talked to the reporters. I understand that a lot of what is being said is being translated into English. I get that. I understand. But you have to understand that in any language some of the word choice is sounding very desperate. It's like people have been quoted like we don't know what to do.
There are people there are people quoted sound devastated you know we don't know what to do that's amazing it's brought us to a screeching halt these are man incredible And it it makes me wonder like when aren't y'all tired?
You know, I try to give respect to every Olympic event that that takes place cuz it's something that I don't do at a world class level. But at the same time, y'all clearly got a lot of energy afterwards. Like, you know what I mean? I'm starting to think that skiing is just like falling, right? Like if you just if you could just fall forward standing up just right. Maybe it's not as exhausting as I thought.
Cuz I've been watching the Winter Olympics. I saw that cross country skiing.
Why?
That cross country skiing looks like one of the hardest thing that that looks like what they should make you do if you go to jail. like that that cross country skiing just seems crazy.
It seems like it'd be faster to run.
Like why?
I'd be so mad if somebody took me crosscountry skiing.
I'd be furious if somebody took me cross country skiing. I've already never been skiing, right? But if somebody took me cross country skiing, especially before I knew what it meant, cuz I found out this year, cuz I'm assuming every skiing competition is just like a varied amount of like, wo, you know what I mean? Like even even the sometimes they got bent sticks, sometimes they got straight sticks.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Sometimes That's already scary enough. When I see them when I see them flying down a mountain, I'm like, that's something that I'm I think I'm good.
You never want to say never and you never want to say I can't but I can't never do that. That is that is for them specifically. Everyone who wants to do it I cuz when they fall the snow doesn't even look soft.
It looks like they fell a bunch of white rocks.
And so if someone took me skiing and they were like, "Yeah, we're gonna go cross country ski." I'm like, "Wow, the mountains that big."
And then Thank you.
One friend caught it.
But then in my head it's like, okay, whether it's a bunny slope or it's like the the black diamond thing or a ruby. I don't know what they do.
There a certain amount of like slope and then if you fall, it's a certain amount of pain and and injuries. I think if you if you fall at the end, you fall fast, but it's only one fall. If you fall early, you're going to be falling for a while.
I've watched people cuz look I've I've done I've done shows out in in uh like ski resort areas before. So in the distance I've seen people fall and wow the beautiful dust clouds people make as they fall down to skiing. The only thing that when you fall you look like Tom and Jerry. You look like I don't even see you but I assume it hurts.
Wow. Just bust.
And so if somebody took me, I'd be like, "Okay, all right. You're going to have to get over a little bit of your fear of heights. You're going to have to get over a little bit of that fear of maybe going a little too fast. Going to have to work on your your angles, you know, being agile on everything.
And then I show up and I'm like, "All right, I'm ready.
start me on something a little slow first so that way I can >> and then they tell me, "Oh, no, you don't have to worry about any of that.
>> No, we're going up.
Do you know how offended I would be if someone took me skiing to come work?"
That's cuz then you watch this guy the the dude who one of the winners I was watching and he was he was going doing six minute miles six minutes it took him to clear a mile with skis on that he didn't need skis that shouldn't be on his feet 6 minutes. You might as well have just made him hold a cinder block and run as far as he could as fast as he can.
Oh, some of these sports are insane. Like I always I always thought I liked the bob sled because of cool running.
Every winter Olympics I tell myself I'mma I'mma watch the bob sledding and I'mma root for everybody black and And it's not until you see a like a bob sledding accident where you're like, "Oh yeah, maybe nobody should be doing this.
Maybe you might as well be in a gun if you were going to bobsled down."
I knew they were going fast because they go so fast past the camera. But it's not until like one I don't know if y'all saw that what that that one accident where like one dude was fully in and then the the other teammates were running and then one of THEM and then his foot went up and he flew backwards and then the other dude I think he got dragged for a second and I was like nah I'm good.
Even the curling.
>> The curling this year has been phenomenal. I didn't know I I didn't know I would root for curling this hard.
See see American curlers they're they're doing crazy things.
I didn't know that I could get so obsessed with like the technique which I know nothing about.
But there's just once you're in it, once you feel like you're immersed in like the sport, you don't need to know the rules to get very upset.
They had that moment cuz you cuz you see them, right? You see you see them when they're over here pushing the thing.
Then they start yelling at instructions.
They're like, "Curl, curl, curl." And look, I still don't know what that means, but I'm assuming he means like, "Sweet, sweet. CLEAN IT UP. CLEAN IT UP."
Could never let me off the table. I be yelling all types of just ignorant stuff like it's dusty.
It's dusty, polish, POLISH.
And when you see them knock when you see them knock two of the stones out and keep their stone in, I lose my mind.
I lose my mind every time. I didn't I thought I didn't care about this sport.
I thought I liked it and I'd watch it a little bit if it was on. But then when Canada and Sweden got into it, some of y'all don't know about this.
Okay, so Canada, now once again, I don't know the rules.
I don't know the rules at all, so I don't even know if anything bad happened. But Sweden accused Canada of cheating to their face.
And then this is, you know, this Canadian dude, he he had He had the rock and he was over here.
And apparently when you let go, you're supposed to let go. Nothing else supposed to happen. But he went like it's like a little looks like he did a little pluck, you know, just give a little extra and this dude from Sweden, he's like, "Oh, okay. I guess that's what we do. I guess I guess we I guess we're allowed to touch the rock after we push it and everything."
And then this dude from Canada had way more bass in his voice than I'm used to.
This dude, this dude from Canada was like, "Who? Who? Me?"
Lost it. Started cursing at this dude.
And I was like, "Man, you would never thought Canada and Sweden.
Canada and Sweden ready to go to war over curly.
Oh, I think it's I think it's phenomenal.
I've been watching it and I like to guess if it's a good throw or not cuz some of them let go and as soon as they let GO I'M LIKE OH NO you ruined it.
Ooh.
And they'll be sweeping, sweeping, sweeping.
How do their arms not get tired?
Those forearms must be on fire.
I I had a friend who who started curling just for fun with with his friends and I was like, man, I know he must be trash at it.
I knew he I knew he had to be bad. I didn't even see him play, but I knew he was terrible cuz his apartment was so dirty. I was like, you're not even getting the practice in that you should be. This is the easiest practice.
There's some right there. There's some dust right there.
I'm not in love with the game. That's your problem.
In the ski jump.
I'll be honest with you, I didn't know how ski jumping even worked. Anytime I watch skiing, I'm in awe. I'm like, "All right, that's farfall."
But the ski jump specifically because that one you're going down the hill as fast as possible and then you shoot off.
You you you shoot off, just float forward into the air. It's the one, if you don't know what ski the ski jump, it's the one where they're like they're like on it, but then they do this.
And they they do it for so long. In my head, there's no way they're not screaming.
>> There's no way you don't do the ski jump in the whole time.
And this uh this team from Norway was disqualified. Like even the equipment people were disqualified because they tried to cheat. Basically what they did was they add a couple extra stitches to the crotch.
I didn't think that was a big deal, but that's cuz I don't really know physics.
Apparently, the ski jump is all about lift and drag and all this other stuff that I probably should have paid attention to my sophomore year in high school. But basically, by adding a couple extra stitches and and a little extra room in the crotch when they expand, they become an even better flying squirrel, you know, because the crotch is sort of center of mass. It wouldn't help to put extra fabric on like the shoulders. The crotch is really where it's at. And so as as they're flying, they hope to like create a little bit of a parachute, like a little extra parachute by adding stitches to the crotch. Cuz they said that even adding like a couple of centimeters could translate with all that speed and with all that extra lift and with that that much of a difference in drag, a couple of centimeters could end up being like 10 ft.
>> I know.
I know.
>> I was blown away. In my head. I was like, why don't they just like eat more and then cut weight right before the event, you know, lose a couple pounds of water weight and then you got a whole bag.
Even the opening of the the games was wild cuz the opening of the games when JD Vans got booed that was that was man that was that was hilarious cuz here's the thing here's the thing I can tell you as someone who's been on stage that initially when you're getting booed, it's very hard to distinguish boo from woo.
Initially, I heard the W, but then y'all got to understand the rest was noise.
as I'm sure you know JD V showing up and then they wooed for the people from the US right they wooed for the people from the US representing the United States and I don't know who was upset I don't know why they did it but they decided to throw JD up on the screen you got to understand JD wasn't walking out with them he was just there and then Someone threw up all the screen and not since the cold play kiss cam have people been this upset. This is people immediately people were midw for the people from the US ALL THESE ATHLETES. WOO WOO GET AARON JOHNSON GET YEAH. AS SOON AS THEY SAW JV woo CUZ you got to understand there's also no elegant boo.
There's never a boo that like it gets the point across. There's never a boo where you're like boo.
No. Every every boo I've ever heard of Every boo I've ever heard just sounds a little exhausted at the end. Cuz woo, you now want to stop so that you can enjoy the thing you were wooing.
>> Woo!
WOO!
BOO, you don't even know what you want to have happen next. CUZ once again, JD did not walk out with him. Somebody threw him on the screen and then he was looking up at the screen and people I love the way a boo is cuz boo usually you just run out of breath.
Woo is with love. Boo is with so much hate you didn't account for how much air you needed in your lungs to start the boo.
So when you when you when you woo that's why some of them are short and they still get the point across you know like woo YEAH OH, BUT BOO and then then they interview JD afterwards about being booed, which I was like, come on now.
Boo.
Booing somebody is bad is bad enough, but interviewing somebody who you're only interviewing them from Big Boo. He didn't do anything athletic. HE DIDN'T They're just interviewing him because he got booed, which I didn't know was worthy of an interview. I Feel like everybody said everything they needed to say.
We saw him get boo. Imagine the reporter that's like, I got to get the scoop.
This dude got booed. We know what happened. There's no more investigating.
They asked him like how, you know, how it felt to be booed or what his reaction was or anything. It's like, man, that would be like if the school newspaper was like, why you going to the dance by yourself?
No. No. Interviewing somebody that just got booed is up there with like When Joe Rogan used to interview fighters who had just been knocked out, Joe Rogan rolled right up to him. How that make you feel?
And they're over here.
I can't wait for the fight to start, JOE.
Let me add him.
No, they interviewed JD. JD was like, well, you know, this is the Olympic Games. It shouldn't be a place for politics, you know? They they should they should focus on the, you know, their their country and making their country great at everything. And I was like, man, you're not good on the fly.
Like you can tell, you can tell it's really bothered you. You know, you seem shook.
You know, no, it's just funny cuz it's like, ah, you know, it's the Olympics. It shouldn't be a place for politics. I'm like, all right. It sounds like it's not a place for you. Like the politics aside, the world is there.
Look, I haven't I haven't always uh done well on stage, you know. I've had some bad reactions before. I've never been booed by the world.
That's crazy. I've never gathered people TOGETHER from all parts of the world and heard a RESOUNDING That was crazy cuz then you you stand there you JD fans are you you can't even can't go anywhere if you leave they'll woo like you have to I try really hard to not um be this type of person, but every once in a while it creeps out. You know, I'm human and I can't help it. You never want to have a good day just cuz someone else is having a bad day. But sometimes it happens.
Sometimes somebody you can't stand is having a real bad day and it just brings you joy.
Do you know what I mean? Sometime Yeah.
Sometimes cuz we're all going to have our good days and bad days, but sometimes somebody's having a bad day and you're like, "Ah, you earned it."
Oh, last Sunday, Trump had a very bad day.
And I I try to engage in as much uh in as much like empathy as I can for what someone might be feeling when something happens. Not to say that it makes me like agree with people or anything, but I just try to put myself in that person's headsp space. And and his headspace must have been a headache.
>> Wow.
This dude loves the Patriots, man.
This dude loves the Patriots. And for an entire half, you would think they just weren't meant to hold the ball. There was, you know, I I never try to play like armchair expert when it comes to a sport because these are athletes that can do things that I can't do. But honestly, into the second quarter, I was throwing ideas out there from the couch. I was like, "Look, maybe take the gloves off.
I think the gloves hold you back." You know, those balls are slipping. They slipping on the glove. Maybe if you maybe really grip really grip it as it comes at you. This is why you you need to grow your fingernails out. That's what you need to do.
That way you can clutch it. This thing bouncing off your hand. All glove. No hand.
how it was rough, you know, watching the Patriots fight as hard as they can for that zero.
That was, you know, you never want to see somebody play a sport, especially in an elite level, that makes it look like you could do it. You know what I mean? Like by the fifth time they sacked the quarterback, I was like, "Yeah, I'd probably panic, too." Like I didn't see that happening.
And then Trump thought he had a bad night watching the Patriots lose and then Bad Buddy showed up.
bad buddy. Okay, I knew the Super Bowl was going to be in Spanish, right? And I thought, here's the thing, I'll admit that I also thought that because I took a little bit of Spanish in elementary school and because I took a little bit more Spanish in like junior high and I did take some in high school, right, that I was like, "Okay, you know, I might catch on to a couple things.
And then he then he you know he he starts right he starts and I'm like all right you know when I saw the Spanish come on screen I was like okay he means it was he wasn't playing and I see I see the Spanish come and I was like okay all right get ready Even even when they played the opening titles, I was like, I don't know why I thought blinking would make me understand the Spanish more.
I opened my eyes wide. I did everything I could. I turns out that opening was just Bad Bunny's full name. Uh had to be told that later. My friend Maria helped me out. And I was like, "Oh, okay. That makes sense." Cuz it's his cuz he's per Yes.
And we open up on these sugarcane fields, like what looks like the sugarcane plantation. And it and it's it's hitting notes of historically in Puerto Rico there was African slavery when Puerto Rico was owned by the Spanish. And it it it turned into even in the transition from Spain to the US, it it's turned into uh a habit for whoever is controlling Puerto Rico to absolutely abuse the labor in the land of the people. And so you see, you see, even though this Super Bowl was full of joy, even though it was it was full of things that were pointing to different parts of the culture, everything that he was pointing to was was to something that had a darker side of the history, of the treatment of the people and of the land. And we see Bad Bunny starting to dance. He's got the football and In no time, he had cleared way more yards than the Patriots. Like, it was genuinely insane.
It felt like he was, you know, felt like he was making a statement about that. I know. I know he probably wasn't, but he couldn't have known the outcome of the game beforehand, but like, wow.
Moving very easy, you know, moving his shoulders and everything.
Okay.
Bad buddy starts singing and all I can say is my dualigo failed me. All right.
Wow.
I admittedly I didn't know I could feel the vibe of what was happening and I was like, "Okay, all right. All right. I think I caught that." All right. Mhm.
House. Okay. I think that ooh ooh. Okay. Oh. Wait till I learn the whole song. Okay. House.
I'm positive he said booty. I think he said booty.
Shake was in there. That makes sense.
Booty. Shake. Or maybe say a salt shaker. I have no idea.
I'm not positive. And you know how when someone's speaking a different language and you try to catch up or apply the little bit that you know? I was in my head I was like, "Okay, wait, wait. I think I understood that. I think I understood that." But then I realized as he as he really started singing that there was no way I was going to catch up. There was a and it's not that he was cuz sometimes people are like oh they're already speaking a different language.
You'll go to another country and they're already speaking a different language.
But then sometimes we as people from the US that go to a different country are like why are they speaking so fast? It's like they're not speaking fast. They're speaking their language that they know.
But I will admit that when I was watching Bad Buddy that first go around, I was not understanding faster than he was speaking. I was getting myself all confused. And then, you know, I saw people complaining. They like, "Why weren't there subtitles?
He should have had some subtitles on there. Why weren't there subtitle?"
Come on now.
Come on now.
The country that hates to read wanted subtitles.
You're not being honest.
You're not You're not being honest at all. The site you telling me you would have loved it if you could read it. The people who don't want don't even want to read the history of Puerto Rico would have loved Bad Bunny's performance if they could read it the whole time. Is crazy. this dude.
There's no way. There's no way. If you could read it, you'd be like, "Oh, now I love it.
I read for 13 minutes and now I'm not racist. This is crazy."
No.
But the imagery alone was a lot to follow. I I I gotta be honest with you right now that I I could talk about this thing for two hours and not scratch the surface of everything that was covered because whether it was symbols or whether it was a storytelling, it goes much deeper than anything that I could understand right then or I've even understood really since I started reading about it and I started asking people I asked my Puerto Rican friends to explain parts of it to me and they were gracious enough to and even then even as they were explaining things to me I had to look up things that they had referenced and the whole thing genuinely just goes so deep. I was I was really really impressed with how much was packed in there, even just from one image alone. And we see all of the different groups that he's passing. He passes these women that are standing next to some cinder blocks. He passes these uh elders playing dominoes. And and even as I'm watching it, I'm looking for like anything that I can latch on to, whether it's just imagery or something he says. And we see him moving past these uh women getting their their nails done. And this jeweler who hands them a ring, gets that ring, takes a look at, passes it to this guy, and the guy quickly drops on one knee, proposes.
That's a lot of pressure.
Oh, you got to say yes. This is live broadcast right now. You can't be like, "Let me think about it."
And then when the camera pans, you see all of these different people.
And it was the first time that I sort of locked in. I I admittedly did not know what was going on fully at any point.
I'm not going to act like I did. In fact, in fact, I have to shout out every friend that talked to me and walked me through the symbolism and the story and everything that was happening because genuinely I was interested, but I did I obviously didn't know it when it was happening. And then I I had one clue though. One thing clued me in when we were panning and you see all these people dancing in front of the house, all these people gathered together. It was the first time that I sort of locked in that he wasn't just repping and talking about Puerto Rico in this performance. It was all of the Latin world because you saw people that were from Chile, from Bolivia, from Colombia, from Argentina. You saw all these people that were from different countries in the Americas and then you see Bad Bunny on the roof. And I was like, "Okay, all right.
He's on the roof.
That must mean something."
Whole time. I'm like trying to lock it as hard as I can. I was like, "Okay." He said blue at one point.
I know I heard blue. He's dancing. He does some music on the roof and then the roof collapses. Falls right through. And Admittedly, I wasn't sure that was part of it. Like, like initially I was like, "Oh, no.
They got to him."
But this dude stands up and there's already a camera inside. I'm like, "Oh, this was part of the plan." Yeah.
Everybody's Everybody's already in here and everything. But he crashes through the roof. And it was actually my friend Joelle who told me about how in during Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico was was so devastated and FEMA took forever and FEMA wanted to leave immediately. So there are still parts of Puerto Rico that are disheveled from that hurricane. You know, it it's affected the grid. It's affected people's houses. There's people who have tarps over the top of their houses because they haven't been able to rebuild their roofs even now.
And Bad Bunny does a thing which maybe it's meant to be symbolic, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but he just falls through the roof, which is a pretty big deal. I don't know if you know anyone who's ever fell through a roof, but that was the end of their day.
I live I lived in Louisiana where there are also hurricanes and I have known two people who have fallen or almost fallen through a roof and both times it was the end of their day. One of my friends was working on a roof and his foot went through and he was like, "You know what? I think God called me to do something else." He actually quit that day. He didn't even he doesn't do that job anymore.
And then my other friend actually fell through the roof and luckily didn't land on anything um that would cause him like severe harm, just the floor.
But when you land on the floor from roof height, it's uh is the last thing you do that day.
But not Bad Buddy. Bad Buddy fell through the roof, gets up, just dusts himself off, kicks open the door, and continues the show. And it felt like it felt like a symbol of what Puerto Rican people have had to do. You know, losing their roofs, losing their way of life sometimes, having to adjust to anything that will work, and just carrying on.
And then you see this dude dancing. And at one point he's looking right at the screen and he says, "I'm here because I believed in myself, right? You should believe in yourself, too. You're bigger than you think. You're more than you think."
>> You know, admittedly, my friend Maria had to tell me he said that. I did not catch that at the time.
At time I was just watching him and I was like he must mean it. Whatever. Keep pointing. So this part is serious. And once again I thought what it must be like to watch this Super Bowl halftime as Donald Trump.
He must have been watching it thinking like did he say something about me? Did he say something?
Then we transition over to the wedding.
The wedding is beautiful. Remember the couple from before from the propulsion to them. They did it quick.
Everybody else over here planned a wedding for a year and a half. Not them.
They got right to it.
He proposed and they were like, "Here is nice."
I will say though, one thing I can't imagine, one one thing that is is rough, whether it's like just couples hanging out or it's Valentine's Day, there is nothing like being the dude who's friends with the dude who did something epic for the proposal or for the wedding. Oh, it make you sick.
You just sitting there cuz now imagine being their friends this week.
You're sitting there. It's actually such a funny story. Okay, so we actually emailed Bad Bunny. This is all true. This is what happened. We actually emailed Bad Bunny and invited him to our wedding. Plenty of people invite Bad Bunny to their wedding and you know, whatever. He might come and we got might get to meet Bad Bunny. And then we email him, we don't even think anything about it. Forgot we did it. And then we get an email from like bad [email protected] and and he was like, "I can't make it to your wedding. I'm very busy, but would you like to get married at the Super Bowl?"
And we were like, "Yes, of course." So, I mean, you know, you saw us last week, so I can't imagine what it's like to be their Fred and the dude who hasn't proposed yet. like you just sitting there like, "Bro, shut up.
I'm not going to be able to top that."
There's a there's a sense that you start to get of what watching a community looks like, right? You're just watching these people dance, have fun, get married. You know, he reveals this this wedding throws to it. You see this wedding and then you see Lady Gaga.
You see Lady Gaga. And there was a big complaint this entire time about how whole thing was in Spanish. Can't believe he did the whole thing in Spanish. Top to bottom. This is a Super Bowl. He did all in Spanish. Whole performance was in Spanish. But it wasn't.
The whole performance was not in Spanish. Lady Gaga was singing in English. Imagine being so racist that you hear English and you're like, "This Spanish needs to get up off my TV. This is not what America is about. I can't believe they still got this Spanish on the halftime. It's Super Bowl halftime.
You come speaking some English.
You going to sing singing English."
I had the opposite reaction. I heard Lady Gaga singing and for a second I thought I was understanding Spanish.
I'm not going to lie.
When Lady Gaga started singing, I was like, "Oh, okay. All right.
All right. It's clicking. It's clicking.
Oh, this must be what it feels like to be bilingual.
All right. All right. We locking in.
And then you see Bad Bunny after he dances with Ganga sings, this dude does uh like a trust fall off the top of the building and gets caught by the people underneath them. And as far as like symbols and images go, that's a pretty amazing one for your community always having your back, you know? It was really it was really cool to watch.
And that was that was one of the biggest complaints that people had. I didn't understand a word that he said. And I don't know, this is just my take, but I really do think that it's important that Bad Bunny did the show the way that he did it, that there were no subtitles or anything because you shouldn't need to understand somebody's language to understand their value and their culture's value. You shouldn't need to know exactly what they're saying because one of the one of the best and coolest things that Bad Bunny did is he just showed even though the imagery calls something very dark, he showed how beautiful all that culture is all over the Latin world, all over North and Central and South America.
And it's a it's a very important image to watch of seeing all these people because whenever you're like any minority usually when you're on a big stage or it's time for you know Oscar noms and everything the the stories that get told about the different groups are usually just about tragedy. It's you it's usually like bad. You know how how much can you make us feel with all of your pain? And it's a very different direction to go to only show joy, to only show family, to only show this beautiful blossoming culture, right?
Things that things that people feel like only they understand, only they see that are never really on a world stage. It's definitely a choice. I think it was the the right choice because when you watch something like that, you see something that you can't possibly combat. You see that these are the people, these people dancing right now. These people having this wonderful time. These people getting married. These people just expressing joy to the highest degree.
These are the people being terrorized.
Like these are the people being hunted and harassed by ICE. These are the people being locked up. It's these people.
>> You don't see any monsters on that stage. You don't you don't see any criminals on that stage. You see you see regular beautiful people. And those regular beautiful people are the people who have to stress every single day about their own government coming after them. You know, so many times, so many times people have said, "Why couldn't an American do the halftime show?" Never mind the fact the fact that Puerto Rico like I can't stop saying because cuz the thing about the thing that that Freudian slip should tell you was that it was always about like culture and race. It was never actually about someone being an American.
You know, there are some people that obviously this happens happened last year, happened this year. I'm sure it'll happen in the future with with with a different group, with a different performance on a different stage. And there are some people that are like, it wasn't radical enough. It didn't go far enough. And it's like, all right, if that if that's how you feel, that's how you feel. But, you know, it's every artist's choice to express themselves the way that they see best. And I thought that this was a great way to get the conversation started. A lot of things that I didn't know that I looked up specifically because I saw this halftime show. Things that my Puerto Rican friends could have told me before this halftime show, but they didn't know I had the interest and I didn't know to ask. And so it all starts a conversation. Conversation is incredibly important.
Meanwhile, You had the Turning Point USA halftime show.
This this Oh, man. All right. So, admittedly admittedly, I did watch it like way later. I did I didn't I didn't change the channel. Uh they did their own halftime show, Turning Point USA, and they gathered together some of the most famous musicians in the history of music, and they performed separate halftime show. And I don't know. Okay.
I saw I saw a dude. I don't know his name, but he got up there and sang a song that I'm sure he wrote specifically for this event.
He had his guitar.
Man was feeling himself.
Leaned into the mic. You know that? You know that lean into the mic? Where you really about to break it down? He isn't moving.
Some people just sing. No, my man was over here.
This dude got in.
>> I just want to kiss my fish.
I swear that's what I thought he said. I was positive that's what he said. Turns out he said catch, but wow.
I know I don't speak Spanish, but I thought I had a pretty good handle on English.
And it really sound like he said kiss.
But now kiss is stuck in my head.
Randomly I'll be going about my day and just think I just want to kiss my fish.
It'd be amazing even just for the story world of the song, you know, cuz the song was about how it's not easy being country in this country anymore. It's very difficult. I was news to me, but it is it is it is very hard to be country. And then I guess he goes over what the definition of country is, which is like uh kissing or catching fish.
drive driving his truck, >> drink drink his beer >> and not have to listen to stuff he doesn't want to hear, which I guess is like everything like it like the the rest of being country in the country seems very simple.
If you if you want to drink your beer and you're of legal age, all you need to do is swallow. Like the just if all you want to do is drive your truck, then I think you just need a license and then it's yours to drive with gas. I guess that part could be difficult if you don't have gas money.
And then really outside of hearing things you don't want to hear, the fish is probably the hardest part.
Whether you want to kiss a fish or catch it, c first of all, to kiss it, you got to catch it, which is already it's already its own struggle. All right? You're going to catch the fish when the fish is ready to be caught, when it falls for the bait, or when it gives up. I don't know.
And then kissing kissing a fish is just you're a prerogative like that's but I did I just wanted to imagine a world where he said kiss my fish and he's like angry about all this woke stuff.
Meanwhile, he's married to a fish.
All right. To each their own. Yeah.
And all he wants to do is kiss his fish, you know. But it keeps wiggling. He keeps He's like, "Come here."
They had uh yeah, back-to-back performances. They did a weird thing though where basically their halftime show went longer than the Bad Bunny halftime show, like 10 minutes longer, which means if people wanted to watch the whole thing, they'd have to miss the Super Bowl.
That's a choice.
Yo, and and then there's there's all this talk about how many people actually watched because they were saying that like 6 million people watched live and it was climbing, right? And then we hear later that that may have been heavily botted. Like I I don't know if it was, but I just feel like it would make sense cuz whenever I bought Twitter, the bots are pretty racist. And so I can only imagine like they would probably want to tune in.
Did a whole separate halftime that then we find out wasn't even live.
It was it was pre-taped but not just pre-taped. Pre-taped over like three three or four days.
And the audience that was there it wasn't a lot. That's why it was so dark.
It was like 180 people apparently.
It was 180 people that they kept moving around to look like a bigger audience, which look look, you can clown them if you want, but I have done this same thing before at parties where not enough people showed up. I did take different pictures of everybody in different rooms to try to make it look very full. When I posted it to Facebook later, I was like, man, it was Oh, you couldn't even move.
There was no arm room in here.
I did the thing to my party that like realtors do to like a very terrible apartment where they're like, "Get in the corner of the room."
Oh. And so yeah, apparently these people were were told that someone really famous was going to perform more famous than Kid Rock and then Kid Rock headlined it.
And then apparently this is what this is what I've heard that this shooting was uh like three to five takes for every performer the song over and over again which was leading these people who were essentially like extras in this production to have 12-hour days.
And for these 12-hour days, apparently, I don't know if it was total or if it was per day, but it sounds total, they were paid $250.
So, I I guess both halftime shows touched on the themes of slavery. I imagine. Imagine 36 hours just to hear somebody, I just want to kiss my fish.
And then immediately hearing somebody say, "Cut, cut, cut.
I don't believe you. Give it to me deeper. Give it to me again.
You, you in the back, really pump your fist for this one. Get angry. You're angry. You're angry, right? Get angry.
Okay, now you give it to me again.
I just want to kiss my face.
>> No, we don't believe you. We don't know.
It's not coming through. All right. It's not you need we need more. We need we need to come from your di you know your diaphragm. You're singing from the back of your head. It's the diaphragm again. You also in the back. Wave a cell phone. Wave a cell phone. Wave a cell phone. What do you mean it died?
What do you mean it? We've been here 10.
If your phone doesn't have 10 hours of battery life, you need to get a new phone. All right. Wave somebody else's cell phone. Then you'll get lunch when you get it.
We're having tacos.
And then at the real halftime show, there was Bad Bunny doing a thing that I thought was so cool, but I didn't understand the context at the at the time. You see Bad Bunny climb this light pole >> and he's dancing up there and then there are these other dancers that are suspended from the light pole and they're spinning around everything. It looks really cool. You see sparks fly, you like, "Yeah, Bad Bunny, get him."
He's over here. You know, he had the he had the hips going. He was I mean I Yeah, those are some good moves. I I feel like I would hurt myself if I But what I was told what I was told by my friend Justine was that that climbing of the light pole, it basically represented the same thing.
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico.
And there are still some parts of the island that had used to have power and don't have it now. So everyday citizens, regular people who were not electricians, were climbing up the light pole trying to figure out how to get power back for their families, for their community, and everything. And so even as he's having all this fun, all this joy, we see the thing that he's representing is it's like steeped in in all this inequality in the treatment of people who are citizens.
You know, >> later on he throws to Ricky Martin.
>> I'm going to be honest with you, I hadn't seen Ricky Martin in a while.
And so, as soon as I saw Ricky Martin, I was like, "IS THAT RICKY MARTIN?"
THAT'S that's also how I can tell I'm getting older. Cuz there are people who I've it's been a long time since I've seen them. that when I see them, instead of just recognizing that I recognize them, I ask the question out loud to no one to and I always used to watch like my uncle and other people do this and think it was like such a old person thing to do cuz I'm like, do you not remember or are you looking for confirmation from me and like why is that not why do you never ask in your voice?
You never ask in your voice. You have your You have your speaking voice and then you have your is that that person voice.
No. No. I knew I knew I was getting older because I It just escaped. I was like, "Is that suicide? Is that >> Yeah. As soon as as soon as I saw Ricky Martin, saw Ricky Martin singing and he was singing a song about Hawaii.
He was singing a song about Hawaii and what the US government did to Hawaii.
You know, they have their statehood now, but they were annexed and they lost a lot of their culture. They lost a lot of their people because of colonization.
of the US and you see something similar happening in Puerto Rico. You know, if you really look at the the the history of the island and how it basically change hands from Spain to the US and how there were things that Spain did and there were things that the US did, things the US did much more recent. It makes them even more harrowing because we think of things like colonization as things you read about in history books that happened a long time ago.
>> But the effects are still with us right now.
>> And we still we still see the world experiencing this same sort of colonization, but now it's through different instruments.
>> Yeah. Now it's not, you know, people in weird boots hopping off of boats with musketss. Now it's in the way that we trade. It's in the way that we tax. You know, you look at Puerto Rico, these people don't have statehood. They don't vote on the people that govern them. Those people are picked by the president. And he happens to always pick people who are good for business in the US.
>> And you see you see this little TV with Bad Bunny accepting his Grammy, giving his speech. And Bad Blrams was basically that he sees all this hate. He starts it with ice out and he says, But he sees all this hate that the only thing more powerful than hate is love.
>> That's the message that he wanted to leave people with from his Grammy speech. It's clearly the message he wanted to leave people with from his halftime performance. And I I just don't understand how you can watch a halftime performance and have the sort of response that Trump had. In fact, after Bad Bunny performed, Trump came out and said that was that was the worst performance.
What an embarrassment to our great country. Look at that gyating that they were doing, you know, with kids watching.
And I was just sitting there like, "Wait, Trump. You watched. You watched.
They made one specifically for you. When you watch this one, that was your The other one was supposed to be yours. as in you.
Oh, I'd be my I'd be so mad if I was Turning Point. If I was Kid Rock, that's supposed to be your boy.
And he didn't.
He'd rather hate watch Bad Bunny than just watch you.
That's wild.
I mean, imagine how Kid Rock must feel.
Oh, I'm surprised Kid Rock and Trump are even friends.
I mean, I guess it makes sense. Like, he loves rock, but he really loves But then you see Bad Bunny with this football. this football says we we are all America and he's walking down the field and he says God bless America and then he starts listing all the countries that make up the Americas. Not every single one but as many as he can get out. This man is walking down the field once again way further than the Patriots of like I thought that that thing as well if you're if you're talking about symbols and you're talking about what people should do with their voice on like a world stage just that thing alone just that point hopefully I can like distill this thing quickly and easily but basically we always say God bless America and when we say that we are only ever talking about us. Us is the United States, right? But America is like two continents.
And so this symbol that he's holding isn't listing these countries as just calling to people who have immigrated to the US. He's talking about the actual country.
>> God bless Haiti. God bless Chile. God bless Argentina. God bless Bolivia. God bless Colombia. God bless all of these countries because all of these countries are what make up America, you know, and he's walking towards the camera as he's saying it.
And once again, I gotta wonder what it must feel like to be Trump watching the Super Bowl happen because now everybody's coming talking to the camera with their flag and he had to be like, "Are they coming here or what?"
And one thing I thought was really, really cool, genuinely amazing about the show is that the singing and the dancing continued even after the broadcast ended. They did it all the way out the stadium which is once again another symbol that all revolution all protest all that occurs in real time in real life you cannot just wait count on some sort of broadcast and is not going to stop just because the broadcast ends and I just can't imagine like how you how you could watch this thing and be so angry. They were so angry.
Just so deeply angry, you know. And I get it. You don't speak Spanish.
I know. I know. I don't either. I don't either. I get it. You don't speak Spanish, but your hips do.
You know, you don't have to understand what's being said.
Not really. Not to just enjoy music. We send our music all over the world. We send hip-hop all over the world. It's been embraced the world over. It's been embraced just as it is. You'll see these concerts in Japan where our artists go there and perform the song in English.
And there are people that sing it with them. They even if that's the only English they know, they learn that English cuz they love that song so much, you know. And and look, I'll even say this. I'll even extend a little bit of an olive branch. Right? I can understand you are in your mind the one true culture and you're watching your sport, your favorite sport on the world stage. And for the first time ever, you're seeing it in a way that you you feel like you can't possibly relate to because it's in a different language.
You know, like we had Kendrick's halftime and there was symbolism in it that you may not understand or it may be like a lifestyle that you that you don't get. But this thing this thing having all these people across the Latin world dancing and singing their language, happy, full of joy could be scary. If you think, uh-oh, this is it for us.
This is it for us. We're going away. If we're not If we're not the center of the Super Bowl, then what are we really?
And you're terrified.
And you're so terrified you're watching it. And you don't ask yourself why you need to be the one and only. You're more just watching it and thinking to yourself, "What's so great about this?
Why couldn't they get something that I like, you know, and listening to it?"
And then maybe something happens.
Something you don't even intend to happen. Maybe something you don't want to happen. You're listening to Bad Bunny and out of nowhere.
You don't know why it happened. You don't know what caused it. But you And it's a language you don't get.
You're like, you're like, I don't look, I don't know this language. I don't know why it's making me feel this way. You know, you're so uncomfortable. You feel like you even need to walk it off of it. You're like, what is happening? What is What is What is happening? What?
What's up, BUDDY? STOP. STOP. HEY. HEY.
HEY. HEY.
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