Feb. 15, 2026

We Need To Talk.....About the show?? : Halftime Re-Cap

We Need To Talk.....About the show?? : Halftime Re-Cap

Send in your music story! Two halftime shows, one internet firestorm, and a promise to keep the conversation about music. We dig into why the official Super Bowl spectacle worked so well on a production level—think saturated color, precision choreography, and one unforgettable reveal where the “grass” was actually performers sprinting into place. From lasers and flags to a surprise on-field wedding, we unpack how the staging created emotion even for listeners who don’t live on club playlists....

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Season 2

Send in your music story!

Two halftime shows, one internet firestorm, and a promise to keep the conversation about music. We dig into why the official Super Bowl spectacle worked so well on a production level—think saturated color, precision choreography, and one unforgettable reveal where the “grass” was actually performers sprinting into place. From lasers and flags to a surprise on-field wedding, we unpack how the staging created emotion even for listeners who don’t live on club playlists.

Then we pivot to the rival halftime video to diagnose the controversy around Kid Rock. Was it lip-syncing or a preventable production failure? We walk through the signal chain, where a missing mic feed likely forced editors to patch gaps with old masters, creating the illusion of fakery. This is Live Sound 101: route every mic to the recorder, capture multitracks, and, if something breaks, re-cut vocals in a booth instead of pasting archival stems. When organizers treat music as a prop, artists pay the price first.

Along the way, we talk access and expectations. A deaf creator’s perspective reframed the push for subtitles by highlighting how often concerts overlook deaf and hard-of-hearing fans; sometimes feeling the groove is the point. We also hit the Gaga cameo, why surprising pairings can still fit an artist’s story, how small businesses featured on set saw real-world bumps, and where country performances shine or slide into copy-paste tropes. It’s not about picking sides—it’s about judging craft, coherence, and care.

If you love production nerdery, live audio realities, and honest but generous critique, you’ll feel at home here. Press play, then tell us: which moment nailed the balance of sound, story, and spectacle? Subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review to help more music fans find the show.

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00:00 - Setting The Ground Rules

02:10 - Super Bowl Buzz And Staying On Music

04:50 - Tangent: Giraffes And Feelings

09:30 - Returning To The Halftime Plan

11:26 - Production Brilliance On The Field

16:30 - Sound, Sightlines, And Live Audio Reality

20:55 - Guests, Gaga, And Odd Pairings

26:44 - Weddings On The 50 And Small Biz Shoutouts

32:14 - Subtitles, Access, And A Deaf Viewer’s Insight

37:14 - Meme Break: Sick Bunny And Elmo

38:54 - Switching To The TPUSA Video

42:29 - What Really Happened To Kid Rock’s Audio

48:44 - Why Production Choices Matter

52:34 - Other Performers And Mixed Results

56:54 - Country Tropes And Genre Fatigue

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I'm the worst person to have a podcast.

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I feel very what is up, everybody.

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Welcome back to the show.

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I am your host, Harley, joined by my co-host and little sister Taylor.

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We're here.

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We just finished up a great interview with the pseudo cowboys.

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You'll see that coming out uh on Monday.

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Um, but we had to do a very, very special short episode for you this week because of the events that happened.

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Um, whose baby was that?

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Yours.

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Oh, he's so small.

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I know, he's so little.

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Um, everyone is blowing up over the Super Bowl.

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That was crazy.

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They are though, the halftime shows.

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Um, and because of us being a music podcast, I told Chris and Taylor that we kind of don't have a choice but to talk about it.

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But I also didn't want to do it after like some time had passed because then people would be like, Why are you talking about the Super Bowl now?

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You know?

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Yeah, no, totally get that.

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Um, but can we talk about how Chris isn't here?

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Yes, Chris unfortunately is not here.

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Love you, Chris.

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Stay back.

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Um, so I I want to preface the beginning of the show by saying that we are going to be discussing both the actual halftime show and the video that Turning Point USA put on their YouTube page.

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I refuse to call that a halftime show.

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It is a video.

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Um we're going to discuss both, though, because both are overwhelming music news.

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However, we will not be discussing the political side of either one.

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We are here to simply state the facts of what happened at both.

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We are here to simply talk about how we feel about the performance at both and the fiascos that happened.

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Um but outside of that, that is all we will be discussing.

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And if I catch you in the comments, listener, bringing up the politics on either side, I will remove you and I will ask you to stop listening to the show because that is not what we do here, and you know that.

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So anyway, I can't believe we all just got in trouble by dad.

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That's crazy.

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We said something.

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I feel like we're a mediation.

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This feels wild.

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I just I'm so tired of the fighting from both sides.

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You know what I mean?

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I got you.

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I got you, and and especially with this.

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So I full disclosure, I watch a lot of content revolving around the news and everything going on in the world because I'm a psychopath.

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Um, and apparently I love hurting myself because that's all that I consume.

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But I watch it and I see all of the opinions, and it's it's no one is talking about the actual performances, and I think that's a discredit to the artists.

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Yeah, you know what I mean?

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I agree, I concur.

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So that's what I'm here to do because that's what this show is about.

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It's what we founded the show on was talking about music, and that's what we're gonna do.

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Did you say we're the founding fathers?

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That's what the founding brother ladies.

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The brother ladies is perfect.

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Oh Taylor, side note: if you and McKenna have a podcast, when, not if, when we should call it the brother ladies.

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That's so funny.

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Um, I sent so okay.

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For everyone listening, this is not to do with the Super Bowl.

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Sorry, we'll get into that, but this is not to do the Super Bowl.

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Found out yesterday, I'm gonna get through this without crying.

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I'm gonna get through it without crying.

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Deep breaths with me, okay?

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I found out yesterday that giraffes do not seek shelter when it swims.

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And yo, yo, yo, Taylor.

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Holy shit, I thought you were just about to drop some major news about somebody.

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I I thought we were gonna have like a truly emote, you lined that up as if you were about to tell me that somebody we know has cancer.

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Well, someone we know is currently I can we put that on the um because when you said something about stroke, I'm like that was so funny.

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Um, you're so emotionally invested in these draps.

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That's wild.

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You have no when we get off.

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I need you to ask Dylan what the situation was last night.

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I kid you not, and I give so much so much grace this man because there are so like I brain rot on my phone.

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Okay, remind me, I need to sell my turnips after this to the raccoon people, by the way.

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I brain rot on my phone and I sob most nights, and I come up and he's normally playing on his game, and I go, Do you want a hug?

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And he, this man always stops everything he's doing to give me a hug, and then says, Get off TikTok.

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Like just get off and go to bed.

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Anywho, about our last night that giraffes don't seek shelter during storms, okay?

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They stand in the middle and they brace the storm, and buddy, you don't understand the video is so sad.

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It was just them standing and rain just coming down on them, and they're just bracing the storm because they're too big.

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Why did no one think this room?

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Why has no one built them a shelter?

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This isn't the point.

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This caused me to spiral out of control.

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Oh so then I start I start crying about everything.

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I was crying about you.

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Oh, I before now.

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I'm interested.

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Now I'm interested.

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Um, because because I felt like I have not been a good sister, and I've been an even worse friend towards you, and that's not fair to you.

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And I am just so lucky.

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This also doesn't help.

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The night before last night, I went down a rabbit hole of this woman who was really close to her brother and he died of cancer.

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So then I went through like this whole thing, and I was like, How lucky am I to have a brother?

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And then all I wanted to do was give you a big squeeze, and you're not even here for me to give you a big squeeze.

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Squeeze, squeeze, sobbing, so guys.

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Uh my little boy Adam, um, we do this new thing now where he'll I tell him in the morning, I'm like, hey, run over and give dad a hug, and he'll run over and I'll pick him up and he'll put his arms around my shoulders, and then we go, squeeze, and we squeeze each other, and he goes, Squeeze so cute, so cute.

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Anyways, I felt like I just wasn't uh wasn't a good enough person, wasn't a good enough sister, was a really bad friend, and then I start crying even more because then I think about all the people I've ever let down in my life ever.

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And then tip of the iceberg, I missed McKenna.

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Missed her.

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Well unwell, I was unwell.

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But she just texted me because I sent her a picture of me swollen eyes crying, saying how badly I missed her, and she said, Oh, I miss you, Giovanni.

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Um as far as as far as all of this goes, you need you need to know that you're a great little sister.

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And you if I need you, you're there.

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Yeah.

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I w all of this comes with a but you've you've been great.

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You're a great little sister.

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I will say that your inconsistencies on our commitment have been infuriating, but I still think that you're a great little sister, and you haven't let me down.

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Um, I'm very proud of you and everything that you've accomplished.

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Thank you.

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I feel like this was a compliment sandwich, and I don't think I liked that.

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I don't know how I thought about that.

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Anywho, I appreciate that.

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I appreciate it.

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Um, but more important news, giraffes don't have shelter, and I think we should do something about that.

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And that's crazy that they don't because we have the power and the resources to build them houses.

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Guys, why is it a beautiful house?

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Guys, why are we talking about homeless people when giraffes don't have shelter?

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Don't have shelters, and then I found out I'm reading the comments, reading the comments, reading them, and one of the comments said, Guys, if you care, I just googled it, and a lot of them die from lightning strikes because they're so tall.

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Yeah, it's a giant lightning rod.

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Hey, anyways, we're here to just talk.

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We're just here to talk about the facts.

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The facts are giraffes don't have ounces, and I just think we need to make that happen.

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This this conversation reminds me of one of the most hurtful comments that I've ever received from somebody that listened to the show.

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I told somebody to listen to the show once and they listened to it, and they don't they didn't know me and they didn't know you.

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And I got a response when they came into work one day.

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I was like, Hey, did you check out the show?

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And they were like, I did.

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It's not really for me.

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You guys like talk a lot about nothing.

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And I was like, Oh isn't that what a podcast is?

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He was like, Yeah, you sold it to me as a music show, but like 35 minutes in, you guys didn't even say the word music, and I was like, Fair enough.

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And guess what, buddy?

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We're not doing that now because giraffes don't have houses.

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Music 1120.

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Anyways, turning point USA.

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So you got the actual Super Bowl show.

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Let's talk about that one first.

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Um go ahead.

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Bad bunny performed the the halftime show for the Super Bowl.

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I forget what uh I almost said what episode.

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What Super Bowl was it?

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Super Bowl 60?

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I think I don't know.

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I don't watch it.

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I don't watch sports.

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Um I think it is because they made it a big deal.

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But production-wise, I thought the the halftime show was absolutely breathtaking.

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Uh I think that the the lighting was incredible.

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I thought the props were incredible.

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Uh-huh.

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Um, the fact that the grass was human beings is in itself so clever and such such a like crazy thing to see.

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Like, I didn't know until I saw the video of like the people running out to the field dressed as grass.

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Like, you don't know when you're watching the show that that's what that is.

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So just production-wise, I thought it was it was very cool, very beautifully done.

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Uh color scheme.

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Sorry, uh, color scheme I thought was very rich, um, very vibrant, which definitely lends itself to the heritage that was discussed uh through the halftime show.

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Um, when we talk about outdoor performances, sound is always an issue, has always been an issue at the halftime shows since the beginning of the halftime shows, like especially in person.

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So there are a lot of videos uh surfacing from people that were at the halftime show where they're like he didn't sound good.

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Again, outdoor in a stadium that size is you're gonna have that issue.

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Yeah, um, the other issue is live performances always sound different, and anything recorded on a phone is not going to have the level of quality that is needed.

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Um that's just my take on the the negativity side of it.

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Uh I think that the other problem was the the viewpoint.

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There were a lot of complaints about not being able to see what was going on from the stands.

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Again, same issue.

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It happens in every halftime show.

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You're talking about seeing something on the field from the stands.

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Like, yeah, you're probably pretty high up there.

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Um, but even if you're not, let's say you're you're in the lower section.

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Um, do we not remember when Eminem and 50 Cent and everybody did their halftime show and they built a miniature house in the middle of the stadium, and everybody that was on the back side of that house just didn't watch the halftime show, they only performed to three-quarters of the stadium.

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Everybody on the back side had nothing to look at.

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Yep.

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So, I mean, you know, it is what it is, stuff like that happens.

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Um, it's it comes with the territory.

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I think that he performed well.

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He sounded pretty damn close to his recordings, from what I've gathered.

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I did not know his music prior to the halftime show.

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Uh, yeah, I know.

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You didn't know Sig Bunny?

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I didn't.

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I didn't.

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Um you do.

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I it's it's club music.

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I think it's fine.

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I like it.

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It's it's dancing music, you know.

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I have no issues with it at all.

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Thought it was a fine show.

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In in the grand scheme of things, like thought it was a fine show.

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Pedro Pascal was there.

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I got very excited about that.

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Uh Jessica Alba was there.

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Yeah, Jessica Alba was there.

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I've always loved Jessica Alba, so I was excited about that.

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Uh, I think wasn't J Lo also there.

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Literally could not tell you.

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I could be wrong on that.

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I there were a handful of celebrities, but those first two stuck out to me.

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I found out some interesting things about it.

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Tell me one.

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One, and you guys can come for me.

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That's okay.

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Lady Gaga sucked.

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I agree.

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It was it was bad, it was really bad, and then she tried like shaking her hips.

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But is it that we're Lady Gaga out, like we talked about prior?

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No, that's what I told Lindsay.

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I was like, I think I'm just tired of seeing her.

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Genuinely, I thought it was the worst performance of hers that I've ever seen.

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It's not even that I didn't know.

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Her voice sounded awful.

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Yeah, her voice.

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I know she's performing, been performing for however many years.

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She's older.

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I was gonna, I was gonna say they just had they just had the Grammys.

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She was just at the Grammys.

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She kept doing like it sounded like she was trying to have like a Spanish accent when she sang, and that also, I was like, why are you doing that?

00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:44.080
Like, and I heard it on like a couple lines where I'm like, Why are you don't just don't do that?

00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.480
Anywho, so there was that.

00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.440
I thought she was bad, and I just couldn't understand.

00:16:49.600 --> 00:16:59.919
I was like, I don't understand out of all of the people to perform with Bad Bunny, we have Shakira, we have I'll even give you J Lo.

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We have Selena Gomez.

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You know what I mean?

00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:09.839
We have so many of these incredible, like Latino, Latina, Spanish women.

00:17:10.079 --> 00:17:11.680
Yeah, got Lady Gaga?

00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:13.839
Well, so an odd.

00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:14.799
Oh, sorry, go ahead.

00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:15.920
I was just gonna say so.

00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.200
I I have the answer for that.

00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:18.559
I also have the answer.

00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:19.759
Oh, okay, okay.

00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:21.599
Well, let's see if it's the same answer.

00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.839
So I just couldn't fathom this information.

00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:25.119
I'm like, that's crazy.

00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:36.079
So Dylan's sister said that her boyfriend looked it up, and it's because Lady Gaga was a big inspiration, and he is a huge Lady Gaga fan.

00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:36.640
Yeah.

00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:39.759
To which I say, love that for you, my guy.

00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.440
Still an odd pairing, it's still odd.

00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:53.039
Um, yeah, yeah, but like if you're performing the Super Bowl and you get a chance to perform with your idol, you know what I mean?

00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:53.759
I get it.

00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:55.440
And she touched his face.

00:17:55.839 --> 00:18:00.400
Well, did you see the Grammys where he had to sit alone?

00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:09.680
So part of the contract is when you're at the Grammys and you're performing the Super Bowl, you're not allowed to like communicate with anybody at the Grammys.

00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:16.880
You have to sit by yourself, you have a very strict NDA, you're not allowed to touch anybody, you're not allowed to go to any of the after parties.

00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:17.599
Why?

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Because if any sort of scandal or video or film or picture or anything comes out that close to the Super Bowl, they have already made all of the production choices.

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It's impossible to not have you perform the Super Bowl.

00:18:35.519 --> 00:18:41.279
So they try and seclude you to make sure that you can't do shit to upset anybody that week.

00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:43.039
Interesting.

00:18:43.279 --> 00:18:57.039
So Lady Gaga comes up to him at the Grammys and leans down and hugs him and whispers something in his ear and then walks away, and he just has to be like, you know, thank you, and and not do anything, just sit there.

00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:00.880
Dang, anyways.

00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:05.279
I also thought that it was interesting.

00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:07.680
The whole marriage thing that happened, okay.

00:19:07.920 --> 00:19:10.720
The guy married someone on the field, from my understanding.

00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:16.160
Yeah, I didn't I didn't watch the first half, and I was like, that is okay.

00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:22.079
So also I need everyone to keep in mind that I came into it as Lady Gago was singing.

00:19:22.160 --> 00:19:23.680
So I missed a whole chunk.

00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:33.680
Came into it as she was singing, and then he hops off stage, but then there's this bride and this groom, and like they're dancing and twirling, and then there's all these little kids and they're running around.

00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:37.440
And of course, he doesn't, you know, his music isn't in English, but that's fine.

00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:40.400
Because of that, I had no context clues of what was happening.

00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.319
So I'm like, is this song about his family and his life?

00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:45.759
Very confused.

00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:51.440
Went to work the next day, and of course, our our famous question was, How'd you guys like the Super Bowl?

00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:55.200
To which a guy was like, wasn't a fan of the halftime show.

00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.759
And he said, I don't, he was like, I don't mind bad bunny.

00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.640
It's just not my music, you know, it's it's not my thing.

00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:05.119
Um, he was like, also, I didn't understand the marrying the people on the field.

00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.440
And I said, That's what it was.

00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:10.240
That makes more sense than what I was thinking.

00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.200
Anywho, fast forward, I bring this up again.

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And same guy who was looking, looking up the whole why Lady Gobba Gaga was there.

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I guess those people who he married had reached out, yeah, and was like, hey, we're getting married and would love for you to perform our wedding or something like that.

00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:36.960
And he said, Hey girl, actually, I'm gonna be at the Super Bowl, but show up, big dogs.

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We'll make it a thing, we'll make it a thing.

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History made history, made history.

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I'm like, that's sick.

00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:49.839
I was like, that to me, I like that way more than there just being a random wedding thing.

00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:50.799
Do you know what I mean?

00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:56.319
Like, I was like, no, that's because I also know that that probably was like last minute.

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And he was just like, yeah, it's fine.

00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:01.039
What are they gonna do?

00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:01.519
Come on.

00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:09.200
Here's here's my here's my personal take, and and this is not me, this is not me getting political at all.

00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:19.839
I genuinely do not know how anyone could have possibly been upset with that performance.

00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.160
That's kind of what I'm that's kind of what I'm getting at.

00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:52.000
Is like Ricky Martin was there, Lady Gaga was there, Pedro Pascal was there, Jessica Alba was there, there were people dressed as trees, yeah there were fireworks and lasers and dancing and people carrying around flags and marching and and uh uh a handsome Latin man singing to you and like uh I just I genuinely don't understand.

00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:53.599
I I agree.

00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:55.920
And like I said, even the guy you were talking to.

00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:01.279
I was gonna say well, if if you were if you were to be like, you know what, I just Uh it's not my cup of tea.

00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:02.400
Like that was my take on it.

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:05.279
Is like, yeah, I'm not a club music guy.

00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:05.759
Yeah.

00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:08.079
Like I like a little little John, you know what I mean?

00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:09.119
Little little John.

00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:13.359
Um and some Usher and some 50 Cent.

00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:20.480
Like I I dabble, I dabble, but it's not like my go-to music.

00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:27.440
But if it were, I bet I would be like, this is the coolest fucking thing I've ever seen.

00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:28.160
Yeah.

00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:29.759
Well, and that was his thing.

00:22:29.839 --> 00:22:32.319
He was like, it's just not my music.

00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.400
Like, it is not a thing.

00:23:02.330 --> 00:23:10.650
But also, also, I love that far more than I love country music.

00:23:11.289 --> 00:23:15.690
So I still am at least enough of a fan to be like, oh, it was good.

00:23:15.769 --> 00:23:18.170
Like, I I I was dancing around to it.

00:23:18.330 --> 00:23:19.450
I thought it was fun.

00:23:19.690 --> 00:23:22.650
I thought like the the energy was great.

00:23:22.890 --> 00:23:26.009
And like everyone just was so happy.

00:23:26.090 --> 00:23:29.370
You didn't see an upset face on the field.

00:23:29.930 --> 00:23:30.650
You know what else?

00:23:31.210 --> 00:23:43.049
Everybody was just so like invested, and like I I enjoyed like the flamenco guitar and and yeah um seeing Ricky Martin.

00:23:43.130 --> 00:23:46.250
I was like, holy shit, Ricky Martin's alive.

00:23:49.049 --> 00:23:51.610
It's also they had oh sorry, go ahead.

00:23:51.769 --> 00:23:54.970
Uh well I looked at Lindsay and I was like, is that the despicito guy?

00:23:55.049 --> 00:23:56.490
And she was like, No, it's Ricky Martin.

00:23:56.569 --> 00:24:00.730
And I was like, excuse me, Livin' Lavita Loca, Ricky Martin?

00:24:00.890 --> 00:24:01.850
Livin Lavita Loca.

00:24:02.410 --> 00:24:04.410
That looks like a different person.

00:24:06.330 --> 00:24:08.490
Um I thought it was really cool.

00:24:08.650 --> 00:24:14.170
He had that scene where they were all dancing in like the like the strip of LA or whatever.

00:24:14.330 --> 00:24:16.809
Those are all actual small businesses of LA.

00:24:17.049 --> 00:24:17.690
I'm sure you knew that.

00:24:17.930 --> 00:24:18.330
Oh, really?

00:24:18.410 --> 00:24:18.970
No, I didn't.

00:24:19.210 --> 00:24:20.970
Yeah, that's a good one cooler.

00:24:21.210 --> 00:24:30.650
They he he got all actual small businesses to like set up like a play version of their shop, and that was like the strip.

00:24:30.809 --> 00:24:38.330
And afterwards, I guess there was like a taco place, and afterwards the taco place was like wrapped around the block for people to get like tacos and things.

00:24:38.410 --> 00:24:42.650
And I'm I'm sure that those businesses are booming now because they got again.

00:24:42.890 --> 00:24:47.850
Yeah, how what what what could you possibly be upset about?

00:24:48.009 --> 00:25:08.809
Yeah, supporting local businesses, a giant sign that says love not hate, beautiful, famous people wandering around randomly, married couple, fantastic a class dancers, and the most American thing you can do, a wedding.

00:25:10.650 --> 00:25:11.450
And I hear that.

00:25:14.170 --> 00:25:16.250
Between a man and a woman.

00:25:17.930 --> 00:25:22.490
Um and a very I will say, I'll tell you what I'm upset about.

00:25:22.569 --> 00:25:23.049
Are you ready?

00:25:23.130 --> 00:25:24.569
I'll tell you what I'm upset about.

00:25:24.890 --> 00:25:27.210
She wore white to those people's wedding.

00:25:27.450 --> 00:25:28.009
Ooh.

00:25:29.930 --> 00:25:31.769
Now there's a controversial take.

00:25:31.930 --> 00:25:35.370
There's a controversial, he wore white to their wedding.

00:25:35.690 --> 00:25:46.330
So so now now to dive into the the thing that my bigoted brain did, and this is on me, but I watched a YouTube short today.

00:25:46.809 --> 00:25:49.610
Bigoted, bigoted brain.

00:25:49.690 --> 00:25:54.490
Um that means um a terrible person.

00:25:54.970 --> 00:26:02.330
For no, no, for lay for it's not this, but the best way I can describe it is racist.

00:26:03.370 --> 00:26:08.250
It doesn't mean the same thing as racist, but it's like very, very closely related.

00:26:08.490 --> 00:26:13.930
But anyways, I watched a YouTube short today that completely changed my mind on this.

00:26:14.009 --> 00:26:32.009
So my first original take when I discussed it with Chris um when we when we said we were gonna do this was that my biggest critique was that even though I enjoyed it, I think a good, solid compromise that I would have liked to have seen were subtitles.

00:26:32.410 --> 00:26:45.610
I was like, I I would like to, because I don't speak the language, I would like to have been able to read along with the singing so that I knew what the songs were about and I could, you know, be more invested.

00:26:45.930 --> 00:26:51.049
As a lyrical person, I wanted to be more invested in the music that I wasn't aware of.

00:26:51.210 --> 00:26:52.410
You know what I mean?

00:26:52.650 --> 00:26:56.009
But then I watched a short today, a YouTube tour today.

00:26:56.330 --> 00:26:57.769
And I apologize.

00:26:57.850 --> 00:27:01.850
I I don't remember the account that posted it.

00:27:02.090 --> 00:27:12.090
Um, but to this uh this girl that posted it, I I hope that you are doing well, and I'm very, very sorry that I can't give you a shout out because I don't remember who it was.

00:27:12.250 --> 00:27:14.170
It was just something I saw scrolling.

00:27:14.650 --> 00:27:19.049
Um if I find it at a a later date, I'll put it up.

00:27:19.289 --> 00:27:42.569
But um there is this deaf girl who had her take on it, to which she said, for those of you saying that you wish there were subtitles, I would like to say that I had a great time listening to the Super Bowl because what you don't understand is that most times that's how deaf people feel.

00:27:42.890 --> 00:27:51.930
There's very little accessibility and and inclusiveness for deaf people when it comes to music.

00:27:52.410 --> 00:28:01.610
So she said that uh most deaf people don't get to listen to the words, they just have to feel the music.

00:28:02.090 --> 00:28:05.930
Yeah, so for her, it was an extremely enjoyable experience.

00:28:06.170 --> 00:28:19.049
It also opened my eyes to realize that she's right, I don't need subtitles, I can just enjoy the music, just have the vibe, and just enjoy that.

00:28:19.130 --> 00:28:23.610
Like, I don't it does, I don't have to understand what's being said to enjoy something.

00:28:23.850 --> 00:28:28.250
Yeah, no, you just like to analyze music, is the part for sure.

00:28:28.330 --> 00:28:37.610
But even that being said, like I I I agree with her now, as somebody that watched that video, it truly did speak to me at that level of like that.

00:28:37.690 --> 00:28:39.049
That's a great point.

00:28:39.450 --> 00:28:54.009
She doesn't get to enjoy concerts the way that we do, and if there's no interpreter around, she just has to feel not even here, she has to feel the music.

00:28:54.410 --> 00:29:01.370
Oh, she loves feel the dancing, like and feel the energy, you know.

00:29:01.610 --> 00:29:06.809
So honestly, I have no right to complain ever.

00:29:06.890 --> 00:29:23.370
I'm I'm gifted and and truly uh humbled and and privileged for a lot of things, and that's something that I've never really taken, or I I guess I've always taken for granted, and and I feel like a lot of us do.

00:29:24.330 --> 00:29:39.610
The fact that we can hear, the fact that you have the opinion and the option to complain on a level that is that minute in life, just remember, like it's a gift, you know.

00:29:40.330 --> 00:29:46.730
Um so that that's my take on on the NFL halftime show.

00:29:47.130 --> 00:29:50.009
Now we move unless you have any other thoughts.

00:29:50.170 --> 00:29:50.410
Sorry.

00:29:50.650 --> 00:29:51.610
No, that's it.

00:29:51.850 --> 00:29:53.450
I only watched part of it.

00:29:54.090 --> 00:29:56.170
Nothing against uh sick bunny.

00:29:56.650 --> 00:30:10.170
Oh, for those listening, um, that is what a lot of people at my work were calling him because that for some reason they couldn't remember bad bunny, so they called him sick bunny, which like he do be sick.

00:30:11.049 --> 00:30:15.690
Um anyways, sick.

00:30:16.170 --> 00:30:25.289
So uh did you see the thing with Elmo and what Elmo posted about him?

00:30:25.610 --> 00:30:27.769
You're a good you're a good bunny, Mr.

00:30:27.850 --> 00:30:28.410
Bad Bunny.

00:30:28.569 --> 00:30:30.890
I don't know why everybody keeps calling you a bad bunny.

00:30:30.970 --> 00:30:32.250
I think you're a good bunny.

00:30:32.569 --> 00:30:33.769
Have a great day, Mr.

00:30:33.850 --> 00:30:34.809
Good Bunny.

00:30:37.769 --> 00:30:40.970
Oh, my favorite is still with Max and Ruby.

00:30:41.690 --> 00:30:44.009
Where literally, let me see if I can find it.

00:30:44.090 --> 00:30:44.569
Hang on.

00:30:44.730 --> 00:30:46.809
Oh well, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:30:47.130 --> 00:30:51.130
Only bad bunnies are invited to the Super Bowl, and it's just a fact.

00:30:52.730 --> 00:30:54.410
It's so funny.

00:30:56.170 --> 00:30:57.289
Oh man.

00:30:57.930 --> 00:30:59.529
Oh, that's too funny.

00:30:59.690 --> 00:31:06.090
Uh, but now now we move over to the turning point USA video.

00:31:06.809 --> 00:31:10.650
Um, and and I know what you might be thinking to yourself right now.

00:31:10.970 --> 00:31:16.730
Well, clearly you view it on one side and you're just gonna bash the other.

00:31:17.370 --> 00:31:19.450
And you're wrong.

00:31:19.690 --> 00:31:21.529
I am not going to bash it.

00:31:21.690 --> 00:31:24.650
There were great things that came out of that too.

00:31:24.970 --> 00:31:44.170
Um, however, Kid Rock is getting a lot of hate, and I need to uh explain why he doesn't deserve the hate that he's getting, and explain from an audio standpoint what happened to his performance and why everyone's in an uproar.

00:31:44.410 --> 00:31:57.049
Um, this will probably be the most viral part of this show today, and this will probably be the clip that I end up pulling and and posting um after I go through my analysis of what happened.

00:31:57.289 --> 00:32:09.450
So Kid Rock performed number one uh, let's just say it, Kid Rock's songs are dated to say the least, uh, especially his older music.

00:32:09.850 --> 00:32:15.289
Um and he performed the song Ba Wata Ba.

00:32:15.850 --> 00:32:18.970
Uh I do find I do find it funny.

00:32:19.049 --> 00:32:26.090
I'm gonna tell this joke, and and this is teetering that line that I didn't want to, but I think this is a very funny joke.

00:32:26.250 --> 00:32:40.650
Um, I saw it online where somebody was like, I don't understand how you could possibly complain about bad bunny not speaking English when your headliner's opening song was Bawa da Ba to bang the bang diggy.

00:32:40.809 --> 00:32:44.170
Diggy diggie diggy said the boogie said up drop the boogie.

00:32:45.049 --> 00:32:47.529
We all know bad bunny when we see one.

00:32:48.090 --> 00:32:50.650
And I dude, I laughed for 10 minutes.

00:32:50.809 --> 00:32:52.170
I was like, that's so true.

00:32:52.250 --> 00:32:53.130
That's gibberish.

00:32:53.370 --> 00:32:54.250
It's just gibberish.

00:32:54.569 --> 00:32:56.170
Literally, it's baby talk.

00:32:56.490 --> 00:33:06.809
Like lit, I think what somebody on the comments was like, ah, yes, my my favorite uh uh Shakespearean phrase, bawa to bada bang to bang diggy.

00:33:08.330 --> 00:33:16.569
So, anyways, uh he performs that song, and he's getting a lot of hate over uh a lip-syncing issue.

00:33:16.809 --> 00:33:20.090
Um, to which I I have your answer.

00:33:20.250 --> 00:33:22.970
I know you guys are asking, like, well, isn't that what happened?

00:33:23.049 --> 00:33:24.330
It's not what happened.

00:33:24.569 --> 00:33:46.490
Um, the issue, the first issue is that Turning Point USA advertised this thing as it being a live performance during the halftime show, not a live streamed performance of things that they had previously recorded and put together to put out on that day.

00:33:46.809 --> 00:33:51.210
So there are a lot of people that were confused that were like, No, it's live.

00:33:51.450 --> 00:33:52.970
That's what happened.

00:33:53.289 --> 00:33:59.930
The answer is this was a pre-recorded show with a lot of editing included.

00:34:00.410 --> 00:34:11.929
Okay, so what happened to Kid Rock is that he did his performance live in that room in front of an audience, and I'm sure it sounded great there.

00:34:12.170 --> 00:34:20.090
I have seen Kid Rock personally twice in my lifetime, and he does a fantastic job as an entertainer.

00:34:20.409 --> 00:34:44.649
Um all of that being said, so he does his performance, and because of it being recorded, the microphones, sort of like how we're doing right now, how I'm using a microphone, and it's going through my computer, and then that becomes a digital MP3 file that I later upload, and you're listening to it right now.

00:34:45.449 --> 00:34:52.809
Imagine if I turned off Taylor's microphone and you didn't hear Taylor for the rest of the show.

00:34:53.369 --> 00:35:03.849
And then in the editing process, I realized that you can't hear Taylor, but instead of just canceling this show and not putting it up, I say, that's okay.

00:35:04.089 --> 00:35:10.329
I'll just pull some of Taylor's old stuff from another episode and put it in here.

00:35:10.489 --> 00:35:12.009
It'll be fine.

00:35:12.809 --> 00:35:15.529
Essentially, that is what they did to Kid Rock.

00:35:15.689 --> 00:35:31.289
So Kid Rock does his performance, and in his band, he has a DJ, and that DJ acts as like, imagine the Beastie Boys, how the Beastie Boys would like one of them would sing part of the line, and then somebody else would chime in and sing part of it, right?

00:35:31.369 --> 00:35:32.969
Does that make sense, Taylor?

00:35:33.289 --> 00:35:43.289
So, like, they would be like, Brass monkey, that funky monkey, and then somebody would come in, and it would be all three of them, and they go, Brass monkey, you know what I mean?

00:35:43.609 --> 00:35:49.049
So, or like that song Boats and Hoes from Step Brothers.

00:35:49.289 --> 00:35:53.129
Deadliest catch without the crabs, something, something, something.

00:35:53.210 --> 00:35:53.769
Uh-do.

00:35:54.889 --> 00:35:56.809
They swap the lines, right?

00:35:56.889 --> 00:35:58.009
They go back and forth.

00:35:58.089 --> 00:36:00.649
That's basically what Kid Rock does with his DJ.

00:36:01.449 --> 00:36:17.689
And the issue is that Turning Point USA is not a music production company, they are not a venue company, they are not an event company, they are a political company.

00:36:18.089 --> 00:36:20.089
You know what they don't give a fuck about?

00:36:20.969 --> 00:36:21.609
Music.

00:36:22.809 --> 00:36:25.529
This never had anything to do with music for them.

00:36:27.049 --> 00:36:30.889
But they use that to disguise what they actually care about.

00:36:31.449 --> 00:36:34.649
And the production value on this thing proves that.

00:36:35.289 --> 00:36:36.409
That's the issue.

00:36:37.129 --> 00:36:45.049
So what happened was they didn't have the DJ's microphone on during the performance on the board.

00:36:45.210 --> 00:36:50.329
It the microphone was on in person, so the people listening could hear the DJ.

00:36:50.730 --> 00:36:51.049
Right?

00:36:51.129 --> 00:36:52.409
Does that make sense, Taylor?

00:36:53.769 --> 00:36:58.969
But the signal going to the recording, going to the board, was off.

00:36:59.769 --> 00:37:09.369
Because again, when you hire people who don't know what the fuck they're doing, you end up with shitty recordings.

00:37:10.489 --> 00:37:15.210
So my key takeaway, and I hope somebody there hears this and understands.

00:37:15.529 --> 00:37:24.409
Next time, hire musicians, hire audio people, hire a production company that actually specializes in live performances like that.

00:37:24.889 --> 00:37:29.129
Hire an audio engineer to run stuff.

00:37:29.449 --> 00:37:34.250
Don't cheap out on the things that actually matter to the music industry.

00:37:34.730 --> 00:37:42.089
You don't get to go and say you're gonna do this thing and not put the time and effort in that it deserves.

00:37:43.369 --> 00:37:48.809
And by doing that, you created a huge, huge scandal in itself.

00:37:49.129 --> 00:38:08.169
Because now you've taken Kid Rock's old 90s song, the actual recording, actually, if you want the truth, they pulled the actual recording from his original song and just fucking spliced his voice in the spots that were missing.

00:38:08.809 --> 00:38:18.969
So when you're watching this thing, you're like, no, he is lip singing because that's Kid Rock's voice, and he's not using the microphone right now.

00:38:20.730 --> 00:38:27.369
Why why wouldn't you pull the DJ or somebody into a recording booth and have them dub over it?

00:38:27.609 --> 00:38:32.250
Why would you just pull the original recording and try and overlay it?

00:38:32.889 --> 00:38:34.489
Because that was easier for them.

00:38:34.730 --> 00:38:36.250
Easier and probably cheaper.

00:38:36.489 --> 00:38:41.210
Probably cheaper because Kid Rock probably just had to sign some forms and be like, you can use the original recording.

00:38:41.369 --> 00:38:44.169
They also probably didn't think it was gonna blow up the way that it is.

00:38:46.889 --> 00:38:48.569
It just fucks Kid Rock.

00:38:48.730 --> 00:38:50.889
And like I don't like him.

00:38:51.049 --> 00:38:51.529
I don't.

00:38:51.689 --> 00:38:52.889
I want that to be said also.

00:38:53.129 --> 00:38:57.849
Kid Rock, I'm I'm only defending you from a production and musician standpoint.

00:38:58.169 --> 00:39:02.409
I completely disagree with everything that you stand for, sir.

00:39:02.969 --> 00:39:09.449
But I I am a musician, and my job is to discuss the things that happened in the music industry.

00:39:09.609 --> 00:39:12.089
And I do think that you're getting a bad rap on this.

00:39:12.250 --> 00:39:13.369
Yes, Taylor?

00:39:14.169 --> 00:39:19.849
Um, I will say, sorry, I was muted because I didn't watch the turning point USA one at all.

00:39:20.089 --> 00:39:23.129
Um, because I try not to give them my time and energy.

00:39:23.210 --> 00:39:28.250
However, I turned it on to see like what you were talking about.

00:39:29.210 --> 00:39:31.369
The electric guitar in the beginning?

00:39:31.769 --> 00:39:33.289
It was kind of fire.

00:39:33.449 --> 00:39:34.409
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:39:34.489 --> 00:39:36.089
The rest of the band is, yeah.

00:39:36.409 --> 00:39:42.730
Again, I think the national anthem should only be played on an electric guitar from that one.

00:39:43.210 --> 00:39:44.329
Well, it usually is.

00:39:44.569 --> 00:39:45.210
It usually is.

00:39:45.449 --> 00:39:47.689
Like that was incredible or a trumpet.

00:39:48.009 --> 00:39:50.809
Do you not remember Jimi Hendrix's performance?

00:39:51.210 --> 00:39:52.009
Never seen it.

00:39:52.250 --> 00:39:53.289
Oh, you should.

00:39:54.169 --> 00:39:56.730
It's one of the most amazing performances ever.

00:39:56.889 --> 00:39:58.730
Um I'm gonna go down a rabbit hole.

00:39:58.969 --> 00:40:03.609
There's also a video of a young Harley Cornell playing it at Beaver Locals talent show.

00:40:03.689 --> 00:40:04.089
Just saying.

00:40:04.409 --> 00:40:10.089
And and you know that I am Harley Cornell's biggest fan, even though he hates me.

00:40:10.649 --> 00:40:20.649
But but I am not a fan of Kid Rock as a person, but his first two albums growing up, his his rap albums, yeah.

00:40:20.809 --> 00:40:22.649
Um, I'm I'm a huge fan of.

00:40:22.730 --> 00:40:23.849
They were part of my childhood.

00:40:24.009 --> 00:40:27.049
My dad loved those albums, so I heard them a lot.

00:40:27.289 --> 00:40:33.609
Um so I truly love that song and and that album that it's on.

00:40:33.769 --> 00:40:37.049
Uh Devil Without a Cause is an incredible song.

00:40:37.210 --> 00:40:39.210
Uh God Only Knows is a great song.

00:40:39.369 --> 00:40:39.929
Bull God.

00:40:40.250 --> 00:40:42.409
Like, I dude, I know your album.

00:40:42.569 --> 00:40:47.289
Like, yeah, this is coming from a place of somebody that is a music enthusiast.

00:40:47.929 --> 00:40:53.929
Um, but uh I'm defending your your musicianship, nothing else.

00:40:54.489 --> 00:40:59.049
And again, I I really do believe you're getting a bad rap on this.

00:40:59.129 --> 00:41:03.289
I don't like that people that do not know anything about music are chiming in.

00:41:03.449 --> 00:41:12.250
If you do not know about music and you do not know about production, I don't think that you really should chime in on something like this.

00:41:12.329 --> 00:41:24.889
I think you should do a little more research and be a little more educated in in the processes before chiming in and slandering somebody that didn't necessarily do anything wrong.

00:41:25.210 --> 00:41:29.849
Also, music aside, you should probably do that anyways before you start forming opinions.

00:41:30.169 --> 00:41:31.049
Fair enough.

00:41:31.449 --> 00:41:32.730
That matter, that matter.

00:41:32.809 --> 00:41:40.409
I I mean I do the same thing where I form a quick opinion on things I don't know about, but like not about you know crazy things.

00:41:40.649 --> 00:41:42.809
So maybe we should do that anyways.

00:41:44.169 --> 00:41:54.169
Moving past that though, uh, over to um oh I remember, sorry.

00:41:54.329 --> 00:41:57.769
Uh Kid Rock going by Robert Ritchie.

00:41:57.849 --> 00:41:59.849
Uh hold on one second, sorry.

00:42:00.489 --> 00:42:02.089
Who's Robert Ritchie?

00:42:04.009 --> 00:42:08.969
Ba with the bow to bang the bang, diggy, diggy, diggy, mini, mini, man up, truck to boogie.

00:42:09.210 --> 00:42:14.409
You guys want to know who I recently jammed out to in the car today, I believe.

00:42:14.569 --> 00:42:16.169
Ah, it might have been yesterday.

00:42:16.489 --> 00:42:18.329
Ice ice baby.

00:42:18.569 --> 00:42:20.250
What a bop, guys.

00:42:20.489 --> 00:42:25.609
Oh, and I knew every word, and I was yippy yappity yapping on my way home.

00:42:25.769 --> 00:42:26.409
Anywho.

00:42:26.809 --> 00:42:28.009
Um, yeah.

00:42:28.250 --> 00:42:31.769
Why is Kid Rock going by Robert Ritchie all of a sudden?

00:42:32.009 --> 00:42:33.210
Ricky Bobby.

00:42:33.689 --> 00:42:44.329
So he does he does that one song, and he also uh sorry, I know I defended him a lot there, but he also only played like 35, 40 seconds of that song.

00:42:44.409 --> 00:42:46.009
Like it was next to nothing.

00:42:46.329 --> 00:42:49.369
He didn't he didn't even finish the first line.

00:42:50.409 --> 00:43:02.009
So um I'm not sure what's going on with that, but it it immediately cut on my end and went to him calling himself Robert Richie, and then he starts singing like country songs.

00:43:02.250 --> 00:43:04.969
Again, I don't like country music, so I tapped out on that.

00:43:05.049 --> 00:43:11.129
I I I listened for the purpose of this show, and it sounded fine.

00:43:11.289 --> 00:43:21.449
Like it was it's an acoustic guitar, it's the same country, stereotypical country music that exists in everywhere.

00:43:21.689 --> 00:43:25.129
Like, uh, I don't have much to say about that.

00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:26.009
It sounded fine.

00:43:26.250 --> 00:43:29.289
Production on that was fine, guitar sounded good.

00:43:29.449 --> 00:43:34.569
Uh the rest of his bandwidth band was clean and and uh timing was great.

00:43:34.730 --> 00:43:36.649
Uh, they were very tight.

00:43:36.969 --> 00:43:46.409
Um there was this weird like cello violin duet thing prior to Kid Rock's performance.

00:43:46.569 --> 00:43:48.889
Oh it was very strange.

00:43:49.129 --> 00:43:58.889
It didn't really, it wasn't cohesive to the rest of the performers, so I'm not entirely sure what that was about.

00:43:59.129 --> 00:44:01.289
Uh, but it sounded good, it was cool.

00:44:01.449 --> 00:44:08.250
Like I it was cool to see a cello violin duet randomly in the middle.

00:44:08.329 --> 00:44:09.529
You don't see that every day.

00:44:09.689 --> 00:44:12.889
Yeah, um sounded good, sounded beautiful.

00:44:13.049 --> 00:44:16.169
They're very well classically trained musicians.

00:44:16.409 --> 00:44:21.049
Uh Brantley Gilbert was there, you know.

00:44:22.169 --> 00:44:27.210
Um, and then now we get to what I would say.

00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:32.329
Was my favorite part of that show.

00:44:32.649 --> 00:44:37.689
Um, at the beginning of the show, I believe he he opened the show.

00:44:37.849 --> 00:44:40.730
I can't tell you what his name is, I have no clue.

00:44:40.889 --> 00:44:47.689
Again, it's country music, and I'm just not a fan, so I'm not going to take the time to figure that out.

00:44:47.849 --> 00:44:49.769
I'm going to be honest with you.

00:44:50.009 --> 00:45:03.210
But I listened, and he performs the most, I kid you not, the most stereotypical generic country song I think I've ever heard in my life.

00:45:03.529 --> 00:45:10.649
He took a joke that I've been making for years and turned it into an actual song.

00:45:12.649 --> 00:45:19.769
And the lines are, I just want to catch my fish, I just want to drive my truck, I just want to drink my beer.

00:45:22.169 --> 00:45:24.649
I mean, come on, man.

00:45:26.169 --> 00:45:32.489
If anybody out there is listening to that song and is like, hell yeah, brother, you need to open up your horizons.

00:45:32.649 --> 00:45:34.009
It's time to open your mind.

00:45:34.089 --> 00:45:35.529
It's 2026.

00:45:36.169 --> 00:45:37.129
Come on.

00:45:38.889 --> 00:45:39.929
Seriously.

00:45:41.210 --> 00:45:41.849
Seriously.

00:45:42.250 --> 00:45:43.369
That's what they all are.

00:45:43.609 --> 00:45:47.689
No, no, I'm waiting for the person that's gonna be like, he's telling it how it is.

00:45:47.769 --> 00:45:49.929
You uh tell him that he's speaking the truth.

00:45:50.250 --> 00:45:54.649
There's somebody out there that heard that and goes, That's what I miss about old music.

00:45:54.730 --> 00:46:05.689
All you needed was three chords and the truth, and dude, go on, come on, do other things in life.

00:46:05.769 --> 00:46:07.769
Besides, I mean, I get it.

00:46:08.009 --> 00:46:21.929
You love beer and you love trucks, and you'll and you you love fishing and hunting, and nobody taking guns, and like you're you're a drawing.

00:46:22.089 --> 00:46:25.369
Like, I can draw you on a piece of paper.

00:46:25.529 --> 00:46:30.250
Yeah, you don't want to be a drawing, you don't want to live your life as a drawing.

00:46:31.289 --> 00:46:34.809
Like, dude, it's crazy.

00:46:35.049 --> 00:46:36.649
That's so funny to me.

00:46:37.129 --> 00:46:39.449
Such a stupid song.

00:46:39.609 --> 00:46:41.129
It's so stupid.

00:46:41.369 --> 00:46:44.489
And honestly, I wish that I could sit through it.

00:46:44.569 --> 00:46:45.289
I just don't think I can.

00:46:45.369 --> 00:46:46.809
I don't think I have it in me.

00:46:47.210 --> 00:46:48.889
I couldn't, I couldn't get past that.

00:46:48.969 --> 00:46:53.369
I I there I know there's some other like super, it's a super political song.

00:46:53.449 --> 00:46:55.129
I'm not diving into all that bullshit.

00:46:55.289 --> 00:47:04.329
Like, yeah, there are some lines in there that he says some some really off the wall shit, but uh yeah, uh I just I think that's so funny.

00:47:04.489 --> 00:47:05.929
I think it's so funny.

00:47:06.089 --> 00:47:12.649
Like every hillbilly in America's ears just went like like like a dog whistle.

00:47:12.730 --> 00:47:14.169
They're like, Oh, what's that?

00:47:14.409 --> 00:47:15.049
Beer?

00:47:15.369 --> 00:47:24.409
Beer drugs, you got my attention, fishing, fishing, fishing, and then they all just started losing their shit and shooting their guns.

00:47:26.169 --> 00:47:29.289
Have you seen there's a video I'll have to share with you?

00:47:29.849 --> 00:47:31.849
Sorry, I gotta say this before I forget.

00:47:31.929 --> 00:47:36.569
That there's definitely a guy that was watching that that was like, I have a beer in my hand right now.

00:47:36.809 --> 00:47:40.329
Right now, I could go outside and go fishing right now.

00:47:40.809 --> 00:47:42.649
I too have a truck.

00:47:43.210 --> 00:47:44.889
Like, dude.

00:47:45.929 --> 00:47:54.809
Oh man, and then there was some there was some blonde country singer that is just a ripoff of uh uh Carrie Underwood, unless it was it might have been Carrie Underwood.

00:47:54.889 --> 00:47:55.289
I have no clue.

00:47:55.529 --> 00:47:56.969
It probably was Carrie Underwood, honestly.

00:47:57.129 --> 00:47:57.849
I don't think it was.

00:47:57.929 --> 00:48:04.169
I don't think it was, but I mean you couldn't tell me it wasn't sounded, looked identical to Carrie Underwood.

00:48:04.489 --> 00:48:19.289
Uh but the other thing about that first song is it prompted me to do a new thing around my house that's my favorite thing in the world, is just singing everything I do and going, I'm just I just want to blank.

00:48:19.449 --> 00:48:25.289
So if I if I go to grab the remote, I grab it and I go, I just want to watch my show.

00:48:25.929 --> 00:48:27.529
You haven't been doing that?

00:48:28.089 --> 00:48:30.489
I just want to drink this water.

00:48:31.210 --> 00:48:34.569
I sing my day all the time.

00:48:35.689 --> 00:48:36.409
All the time.

00:48:36.569 --> 00:48:41.529
It's all I'm doing is singing during my day of what I'm doing, narrating my own life.

00:48:44.489 --> 00:48:45.609
It's great.

00:48:46.329 --> 00:48:54.009
The other thing too is nobody's stop nobody's no one is actively stopping anyone from doing any of these things.

00:48:54.169 --> 00:48:58.889
Like, yeah, I'm uh country music's in a bad spot.

00:48:58.969 --> 00:49:00.250
It's in a bad place.

00:49:00.489 --> 00:49:01.129
Yeah.

00:49:02.089 --> 00:49:04.730
Coming from somewhere I used to like country music.

00:49:04.809 --> 00:49:08.250
I used to listen to it in the 90s and the early 2000s.

00:49:08.409 --> 00:49:16.889
Like, not saying that there isn't a place for country music, but damn, dude, it's just gotten so predictable.

00:49:17.529 --> 00:49:20.250
Yeah, and and anyone can do it at this point.

00:49:20.409 --> 00:49:26.649
I I keep proving that point time and time again that country music is something that literally anyone can do.

00:49:26.889 --> 00:49:27.609
You can do it.

00:49:27.689 --> 00:49:29.929
If you're listening right now and you're like, I couldn't do that.

00:49:30.089 --> 00:49:37.449
I'm telling you, if you can pretend to make a southern accent, you can do country music.

00:49:37.609 --> 00:49:42.730
You don't even have to have an instrument background, you don't have to play a damn thing.

00:49:43.049 --> 00:49:47.769
All you have to be able to do is look the part.

00:49:48.569 --> 00:49:50.730
Anyone can do it.

00:49:51.689 --> 00:49:58.009
Now, I'm not I'm not saying that there aren't talented country musicians out there because there absolutely are.

00:49:58.250 --> 00:50:00.730
Chris Stapleton, I'm looking at you.

00:50:01.049 --> 00:50:19.849
Um, there are a handful of really talented people, but the majority of that genre is filled with just people who were like, Well, I failed as a metal artist, so I guess I'll do country.

00:50:20.089 --> 00:50:24.169
Like, yeah, that's it's everyone's backup plan.

00:50:25.210 --> 00:50:36.009
I recently I recently got asked why I don't do it, and I that's exactly what I said was the reason, is that I don't want to give up.

00:50:36.169 --> 00:50:39.609
I don't want to give up on the things that I enjoy and that I'm passionate about.

00:50:39.689 --> 00:50:42.730
I'm not gonna jump into something just because I can.

00:50:43.049 --> 00:50:44.569
I'm not a sellout.

00:50:45.210 --> 00:50:48.089
So unless you're offering me a lot of money.

00:50:48.169 --> 00:50:49.129
I mean, I'll be honest.

00:50:49.369 --> 00:50:50.409
Then you're gonna sell out.

00:50:51.449 --> 00:50:52.730
Then you're gonna sell out.

00:50:53.049 --> 00:50:53.689
Me too.

00:50:53.929 --> 00:50:57.289
I'm only a I'm only not a sellout because nobody's offered.

00:50:57.369 --> 00:51:01.449
But if you offer no one's offered for you to be a sellout, that's so true.

00:51:02.969 --> 00:51:04.489
Oh, that's so true.

00:51:04.809 --> 00:51:06.889
My sellout money is low, too.

00:51:07.049 --> 00:51:08.250
That's the sad part.

00:51:08.969 --> 00:51:14.730
Like you you think about sellout money, and you're like, what, 10 million, 50 million?

00:51:14.969 --> 00:51:16.089
Nah, dude.

00:51:16.569 --> 00:51:17.449
10,000.

00:51:18.649 --> 00:51:24.329
Four million, one year's one year's salary.

00:51:25.769 --> 00:51:28.730
Anything to pay off my student loans, right?

00:51:28.889 --> 00:51:29.210
Right.

00:51:29.369 --> 00:51:35.129
Like, dude, you give me one year of just comfortability, I'll I'll whatever you want.

00:51:35.369 --> 00:51:36.329
Sign me up.

00:51:36.649 --> 00:51:38.409
Sign me up, dude.

00:51:39.769 --> 00:51:52.730
Uh, but anyways, um production side on the the turning point USA thing, they they didn't have the budget.

00:51:52.889 --> 00:51:57.210
There's no way they did they had the budget that the actual halftime show had.

00:51:57.449 --> 00:52:08.250
But I think I don't know the numbers on what they had to use, but I think that for whatever number they had to put into it, it was fine.

00:52:08.649 --> 00:52:12.089
Um the crowd was rather small, I will say that.

00:52:12.250 --> 00:52:21.929
If it it looked to be a very intimate crowd, unless it was larger than it seemed, and they were just showing the front half, yeah.

00:52:22.169 --> 00:52:29.289
Um, but the crowd seemed relatively small, that is not a dig either.

00:52:29.449 --> 00:52:30.889
You might be thinking that that's a dig.

00:52:30.969 --> 00:52:40.169
I honestly think that's a plus because that means that some nice group of people got to experience kid rock three feet from their face.

00:52:40.329 --> 00:52:41.129
You know what I mean?

00:52:41.210 --> 00:52:50.250
Like, yeah, if you're really into that or into that kind of music, or whoever else was there, Brantley Gilbert, like if you're super into Brantley Gilbert, um, shout out Brantley.

00:52:50.489 --> 00:52:56.730
Uh if you're super into it, like and that's right there in your face, good, good on you.

00:52:56.889 --> 00:52:57.529
You know what I mean?

00:52:57.689 --> 00:52:58.089
For real.

00:52:58.649 --> 00:53:02.569
So I I think it's cool to have those intimate shows, personally.

00:53:02.889 --> 00:53:10.089
Um you sure as shit wouldn't see anybody complaining about not being able to see their show, you know.

00:53:10.489 --> 00:53:11.609
Hey, that's true.

00:53:12.250 --> 00:53:16.730
I also just I don't know, like, were they selling tickets to that show?

00:53:16.889 --> 00:53:20.809
I'd be interested to see how much the tickets were.

00:53:21.129 --> 00:53:22.969
I heard you had to be on a list.

00:53:23.449 --> 00:53:24.409
Maybe.

00:53:27.449 --> 00:53:28.089
Whoa.

00:53:31.529 --> 00:53:34.489
Sorry guys, I saw my opportunity and I took it.

00:53:34.649 --> 00:53:35.289
I saw it.

00:53:35.369 --> 00:53:35.689
That was good.

00:53:36.649 --> 00:53:39.849
I almost I almost didn't realize what just happened.

00:53:40.009 --> 00:53:42.009
It almost flew right over my head.

00:53:42.250 --> 00:53:44.009
That's a good joke.

00:53:44.969 --> 00:53:50.489
Um, but no, I like I said, the the first guy, from what I saw of his performance, it sounded fine.

00:53:50.569 --> 00:53:54.169
You know, his guitar had some issues coming in at the beginning.

00:53:54.329 --> 00:53:59.210
Um, I think they had it off and and they had to turn it up in the middle of that song.

00:53:59.609 --> 00:54:02.169
Um, so that was an issue they had to work past.

00:54:02.250 --> 00:54:07.929
But again, you're taking a group of people that have never done this type of production before and throwing them in the weeds, man.

00:54:08.009 --> 00:54:10.250
Like there's gonna be some hiccups.

00:54:10.409 --> 00:54:16.649
It's the you're never supposed to take the first time you do an event like this and record it.

00:54:16.969 --> 00:54:24.489
Could you imagine if somebody like just was like, we're gonna host Rock on the Range for the first time ever, and we're gonna record it.

00:54:24.730 --> 00:54:30.250
Like, it just you you gotta do it a couple times and get it down, you know?

00:54:30.649 --> 00:54:43.769
Yeah, so um the the girl that performed, she's she sounded fine, like it was just very generic, and she was doing a carry underwood impression.

00:54:44.649 --> 00:54:46.250
Unless it was her, I don't know.

00:54:46.329 --> 00:54:48.409
I'm pretty sure it wasn't her.

00:54:49.529 --> 00:54:53.129
Um, and then yeah, Bradley Gobert performed.

00:54:53.210 --> 00:54:54.889
He sounded like he always does.

00:54:55.129 --> 00:55:10.169
You would think that knowing how his production and everything rolls, and how in depth they take everything, you would think that he would have brought along his crew of people to handle this.

00:55:10.489 --> 00:55:14.649
Um, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

00:55:15.049 --> 00:55:17.849
So yeah.

00:55:19.289 --> 00:55:20.730
It is what it is, man.

00:55:21.849 --> 00:55:25.689
Either way, I think both performances were good.

00:55:26.649 --> 00:55:31.849
I think both the performances have their place for the people that enjoy them.

00:55:35.609 --> 00:55:40.169
Sorry, I'm trying to see if uh if Carrie Underwood did in fact perform.

00:55:40.569 --> 00:55:44.569
I'm I'm like pretty damn sure she didn't.

00:55:53.529 --> 00:55:58.250
Oh no, it's not her, it's Gabby uh Barrett.

00:56:00.009 --> 00:56:00.809
No clue.

00:56:01.289 --> 00:56:04.730
She has a song that I love her song.

00:56:05.210 --> 00:56:07.049
What is it called?

00:56:07.449 --> 00:56:11.289
Something about God, a truck, beer, women, dog.

00:56:12.730 --> 00:56:13.849
So close.

00:56:14.409 --> 00:56:17.769
It's gotta be um somebody cheated on somebody.

00:56:19.529 --> 00:56:20.489
No, no, no.

00:56:20.889 --> 00:56:23.049
Um, one of the good ones.

00:56:25.769 --> 00:56:26.409
All right.

00:56:27.849 --> 00:56:30.489
There is one called I Hope.

00:56:31.289 --> 00:56:31.849
Hang on.

00:56:32.009 --> 00:56:33.049
Oh, you know this one.

00:56:33.210 --> 00:56:34.250
You know this one.

00:56:34.730 --> 00:56:35.449
I don't.

00:56:35.609 --> 00:56:37.929
I promise you, I don't.

00:56:40.009 --> 00:56:41.929
I hope it does.

00:56:42.169 --> 00:56:45.689
I hope she comes along and wrecks every one of your plans.

00:56:45.769 --> 00:56:49.369
I hope you spend your last dime, put a rock on her hand.

00:56:49.449 --> 00:56:52.809
I hope he I think that's the song that I heard.

00:56:53.129 --> 00:56:58.169
She's wild than your wildest cheese thing you're ever gonna need.

00:56:58.250 --> 00:57:00.489
So that's I hope she cheats.

00:57:01.049 --> 00:57:06.809
So that's the song that I heard at that performance that made me think that she was Carrie Underwood.

00:57:07.049 --> 00:57:10.649
So I was like I thought it was before he cheats.

00:57:11.129 --> 00:57:11.769
It's not.

00:57:12.089 --> 00:57:17.129
Don't don't unfortunately I am a big fan of that one and one of the good ones.

00:57:17.210 --> 00:57:21.289
Those are the only two songs by her I know, but I am a fan.

00:57:22.009 --> 00:57:23.049
I am a fan.

00:57:23.369 --> 00:57:26.329
And that's okay, and you're allowed to be.

00:57:27.849 --> 00:58:00.489
So I think uh, I think also uh just to kind of put a button on all of this at the end here, um I think that this is a great time if you're if you've listened to this show so far to understand that you can disagree with each other and not uh have to get so fucking violent.

00:58:02.089 --> 00:58:15.210
You don't have to yell at each other, you don't have to be a dickhead, you don't have to wish terrible things upon each other just because you disagree on something.

00:58:16.089 --> 00:58:19.769
Some people like coke, some people like Pepsi.

00:58:20.489 --> 00:58:21.769
It's okay.

00:58:22.250 --> 00:58:26.169
Some people like both, some people like both.

00:58:27.049 --> 00:58:31.210
It's okay to not like what somebody else does.

00:58:31.529 --> 00:58:37.449
You know what's great about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this country?

00:58:39.849 --> 00:58:42.489
We don't have to be the same.

00:58:44.250 --> 00:58:50.730
A lot of places in this world, if you're there, you've gotta be the same as everybody.

00:58:51.609 --> 00:58:56.969
But here every day we get to wake up and be different.

00:58:57.769 --> 00:59:01.210
And we are supposed to be proud of our differences.

00:59:01.449 --> 00:59:11.849
We're supposed to be proud that we live in an incredible place in this world that you get to wake up and say, I don't want to do that.

00:59:13.129 --> 00:59:17.289
I don't want to just live in this mundane life.

00:59:17.449 --> 00:59:23.369
I want to make something, I want to do something, I want to be different.

00:59:23.849 --> 00:59:37.289
We used to celebrate difference, and now we're so focused on both ends of the spectrum on making everyone conform to being the fucking same.

00:59:37.929 --> 00:59:39.929
Figure it out, guys.

00:59:40.409 --> 00:59:41.929
You don't have to.

00:59:43.929 --> 00:59:47.289
So remember when you said you weren't gonna get political?

00:59:47.849 --> 00:59:50.089
Feels like the back half of this got a little political.

00:59:51.529 --> 00:59:55.129
Um, unfortunately, I do like having this talk with you.

00:59:55.449 --> 00:59:57.049
I do have to get off of here.

00:59:57.289 --> 00:59:58.009
So do I.

00:59:58.649 --> 00:59:59.849
I work in the morning.

01:00:00.089 --> 01:00:00.809
Oh, yeah.

01:00:00.889 --> 01:00:03.529
I'm I'm hungry and I gotta go to bed.

01:00:03.689 --> 01:00:04.409
So yeah.

01:00:04.649 --> 01:00:05.689
Anywho, everybody.

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Thank you all for listening, and I hope that you find some solace in your life from hearing our take on the Super Bowl.

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Go listen to sick bunny, he's pretty sick.

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It's been real, everybody, and peace.

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Thanks for listening to the Lokin Bridge Podcast.