Feb. 10, 2026
“Lock Them Up” Republican Lawmakers Want NFL, NBC and Bad Bunny to Answer for “Illegal” Halftime Show
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RSS Feed Two Republican congressman are demanding answers and consequences for Bad Bunny’s halftime performance they say was “pure smut” that forced American families to witness “explicit displays of gay sexual acts.” One Tennessee congressman has gone so far as to ask for a formal congressional inquiry into the NFL and NBC Universal for their prior knowledge and approval of explicit and indecent content. Are these serious complaints that could result in the dramatic action they are asking for, or is this just posturing during a midterm election year?
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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Tuesday, February tenth, and lock them up? Who the NFL, NBC and Bad Bunny and you know who wants them in jail? US Congressman, And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rolds. This is actually happening, and US Congressman has put out a statement saying that he wants to lock up the NFL, the NBC folks, and Bad Bunny over the halftime show.
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Speaker 2: This is actually Is this feigned outrage in a midterm election year or is this really something that we should have our lawmakers be focusing on to represent us and to make sure that American family values are solidly in place.
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Speaker 1: Yes, some of them to argue that both are. They are making a genuine effort here that we have to protect kids from Bad Bunny and from the NFL and from the executives at NBC who are putting smut on television for them to see at halftime. Now, I try to leave room for someone saying genuinely that's how they feel about it, that that's honestly what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: But I'm fine with someone We've had this conversation recently. Knock yourselves out, say whatever you want about anything or any one.
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Speaker 3: This is America, right, But we are so.
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Speaker 2: Quick to say we're going to sue you, We're gonna arrest you because if you do something or say something I don't like, I'm going to make sure you pay.
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Speaker 3: This is what this feels like. But it also feels.
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Speaker 2: Like rallying the base and taking an opportunity to use a situation for your own advantage and be dramatic as hell and act like you're saving the world when really you're just trying to get reelected.
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Speaker 1: So these two guys are trying to get it reelected. Probably. So we're talking about two two separate instances here in which congressmen are going after bad Bunnies halftime performers. One of them is Representative Andy Ogle's Republican from Tennessee. The other ones Representative Randy Fine. He's a Republican from Florida. Now, Ogles is the one who is asking for asking for a formal congressional inquiry into the Super Bowl halftime show. Now, he did send a letter to committee that he wants to look into it. We'll get into the letter and a second which has some pretty dramatic writing but robes his initial Twitter or ex post announcing that he wants to go after the guy.
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Speaker 3: And it is dramatic as hell. Should we read it?
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Speaker 2: I won't even need to dramatically read it because it just is, oh so dramatic.
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Speaker 3: Ogles post reads like this.
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Speaker 2: The Apple Music Super Bowl sixty halftime show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness.
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Speaker 1: Brazen was a nice touch. Brazenly aired, right, I thought that was a nice touch.
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Speaker 2: This is fun to dissect this My next uh or his next sentence is one of my favorites.
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Speaker 3: Children were forced to endure.
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Speaker 2: Explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry humping the air.
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Speaker 1: Wow, they should cancel all Netflix accounts and band Michael Jackson's music Veva. What's the name of the show on the hit on Netflix now with the gay hockey?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I forgot the name of it, but yes, everyone loves that. But I'm sorry. Where were there gay sexual acts? I missed that. I must have blinked and missed it.
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Speaker 1: It was dancing and sitting outside.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we missed some stuff I saw dancing.
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Speaker 1: It was loud dancing, it was gyrating.
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Speaker 2: You know what, look at the cheerleaders halftime show. I'm telling you. You start watching cheerleaders dances on like family friendly friendly basketball games, there's gyrating going on.
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Speaker 3: It happens every day at every sporting event. So this is hilarious.
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Speaker 1: It's not the gay stuff like he's talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yes, gay sexual acts, but he also was upset about the women gyrating provocatively. Again, seen it every single sporting event that I have been to recently.
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Speaker 1: Also, you don't have to add the provocatively if you're gyrating, it's.
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Speaker 3: Only one vocative.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they should, he said, brazenly gyrating provocatively. That would have been an extra added bonus, he continues, And if that weren't outrageous enough, the performances, lyrics, openly glorified sodomy, and countless other unspeakable depravities or depravities.
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Speaker 1: Thank god it was in Spanish and I didn't understand any.
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Speaker 2: Yes, these flagrant indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.
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Speaker 1: So right there saying you all committed a crime.
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Speaker 3: By dancing provocatively gyrating.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay these Okay, wait, that is why I am requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones that happen to have jurisdiction over this.
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Speaker 2: Type of Okay, that was a little confusing to me. Thank you for that explanation. Is like, why the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of this indecent broadcast. American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence, is.
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Speaker 1: What. This was the thing to put him over the top. You know, he's been dealing with TikTok for a long time, maybe some of you other rappers, but halftime is this. He's drawn a line and that's I don't know, it's not everybody's cup of tea. But if we are going to are we no? Stop? I am making a mistake by trying to take him on on the merits.
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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm trying to take him on on the merits and that is a mistake. We understand what this is and you can't just go out. You can't. It's impossible to say robes that all of a sudden, this dancing requires a criminal MBS it was illegal, or it's illegal, it's not criminal investigation whatever, some fines.
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Speaker 2: But he said, I mean, you know, I think we get to the lock them up part soon here because there is this overture that somehow it is criminal and there should be some sort of imprisonment involved with the indecent halftime show we all saw.
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Speaker 3: I also just want to throw this out here.
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Speaker 2: I always find this fascinating and we all can maybe question our choices with our children.
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Speaker 3: But what we let our children watch, what we let our children play?
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Speaker 2: Video games, violence, horror movies, thrillers, people being like, there is so much violence that we see and expose our children to each and every day.
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Speaker 3: We don't talk about that, but we're.
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Speaker 2: Upset that there is dancing that could be described as provocative.
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Speaker 1: Is it the reach? Is it because of the reach? Is it because of the platform that he did have? Is it because it happened to be there? If he did it on I don't know, Saturday Night Live, not as big of an audience as a Super Bowl. Is he gonna go after a bad bunny for that? I don't know. But again, we're taking it on on marriage and were having the wrong conversation, because if you're having that, that means you're distracted from something else, and you're winning because they're getting us to fight about something that's not worth fighting about. I'm not worked up. Nobody should be worked up. I don't want some little child seeing a sex act, of course I don't. But this is a super Bowl halftime show, and I know that same child and every other child can go pick up TikTok and reel through, flip through robes, more videos in five minutes of the most outlandish dancing you'll ever see, exactly.
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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to think about other halftime shows at the super Bowl that were not called out, where there was exactly the same type of dancing, provocative lyrics that suggest and talk about all sorts of sexual acts, and they were sung in English. I know you can't curse, but clearly we've had performers what are more songs about sex, lost love, period, So this is no exception.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't usually come to the halftime show and start thinking about death and things. No, it's it's about their sexiest stuff.
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Speaker 3: Yeah they're and they're not singing about family values.
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Speaker 1: Shakira. Remember that hern j Lo it was.
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Speaker 3: It was provocative and fun and exciting.
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Speaker 1: And when those two yes on the same thing, I mean he must have had a fit that night.
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Speaker 3: Didn't hear from him though, did we?
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Speaker 1: Maybe we weren't paying attention. I do want to he did write this formal letter, and some of the language in his letter Robes is pretty well, it's awesome. Uh, he says to the committee chair, I'm writing to request a formal congressional inquiry. He says, there's no way that they didn't have that. The NFL and NBC didn't have prior knowledge, review, review and approval of explicit and indecent content that was broadcast. They're saying, there's no way you all didn't know. Therefore you all should get dragged into this and you did wrong, he continued. The halftime performance headline by Bad Bunny, was aired live during primetime hours on over the air television, view by tens of millions, including a substantial number of children and families. The Super Bowl is consistently the largest family viewing event and American media. As such, broadcasters bear a heightened responsibility to ensure the programming aired fits the public interest. A heightened responsibility because there are kids watching, your responsibility is greater.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, here's the deal. I think when it comes I know, when it comes to this sort of interpretation, it's so subjective. Someone can see something as art and fun and beautiful and an expression of love and lost in all of those things we hear music about and that it's written about, and other people can see it the way he sees it. But guess what is so great about a remote control? You can turn it off. You could have turned and tuned into the All American halftime show. You have choices and options as a viewer and as a parent, and each parent should be able to make that decision without a congressman saying what he thinks and then holding certain folks accountable to.
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Speaker 3: A standard that not everybody agrees with.
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Speaker 1: I mean they were, I mean, I don't know what to are we in agreement. We're not in agreement about whether or not right is there's an overt sex act taking place. I don't think any of us would raise our hands say yeah, that's cool, put that on. I want kids to watch that. I am I am trying to leave that. I miss something in that. I am not like somebody sees it different. You just made the whole point. Somebody sees it differently. What's indecent to you is a weekend.
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Speaker 2: To me, there was nothing overt I mean, I think you and I can both say we've seen a lot. We were parents, and there was nothing that I saw in that halftime show where I was like, how dare they? I can't let my children see this? I mean, did you see something I didn't?
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Speaker 1: I mean, in his line here is there was the choreography feature overtly sexualized movement, including widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts, and other sexually suggestive conduct.
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Speaker 3: I see that on Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 1: This is dancing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, pelvic thrusts, that's dancing grinding. Yep.
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Speaker 1: Widespread twerking is a free rhyme from a congressman.
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Speaker 3: Pelvic thrusts, Okay.
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Speaker 2: He goes in this letter goes on to say, while this set was performed predominantly in Spanish, it was completely performed in Spanish.
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Speaker 1: Except for that Gaga moment.
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Speaker 3: There was a Gaga moment.
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Speaker 2: It relied on songs whose sexual content remained readily apparent across any language barrier. This language barrier did not mitigate the explicit nature of the material. Rather, it heightened the broadcaster's obligation to exercise reasonable diligence in reviewing, translating, and evaluating the content prior to airing.
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Speaker 1: He's saying, even though it was in Spanish, it still came through his vulgar and again I didn't catch that. I'm not my English chif and Spanish must be terrible.
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Speaker 2: I heard songs, and we've looked at the lyrics. We've actually listened along trying to figure out what he's singing. The lyrics again are about girlfriends and love and lost.
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Speaker 1: We should note he has some pretty raunchy stuff and some of his lyrics. So do a bunch of performers, So does Kendrick Lamar who performed last year. And they adjust and they censor and they don't use the profanity. Now, I relied on the Spanish speakers who watched the halftime performance and the reporters who have been doing reporting on this. Yes, same thing in Spanish. He he didn't blurt out anything in profane in Spanish either. He censored himself and even some times where a word was coming up that might be a dirty word they said, he kind of mumbled, so he kind of censored himself. Of course, he didn't broadcast any profanity that needs to be said at least. But is this going to go further?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, because again, we're in a midterm election year, and I feel like in these years anything is possible, because if they can find a way to rally their base, create a further division in the US versus them to drive people to the polls. I'm going to be your moral compass. This is where he is standing right now. I am your man from family values. I am your moral compass. I will make sure that smut like this is either punished or that there's consequences for it. But ultimately, I'm hoping by imposing these consequences will prevent this from ever happening again, so your children will be safe in their own homes.
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Speaker 1: Wow, we have to be saved from halftime. I didn't realize. All right, fine, fie.
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Speaker 2: And this is why people get frustrated by politicians because also with this sort of thing. And look there, look to your I know you've said this and you're very good about this. There are plenty of people who might agree with him to an extent, But would they agree that it rises to the level of this and somehow we need congressmen to protect us from ourselves as parents, when that's our role to decide what our kids watch and what they don't watch, with what's inappropriate for them and what isn't. Do we really need congressmen and women being that moral voice where we actually punish people who are creatively expressing themselves and can be interpreted.
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Speaker 3: From a lot of different places.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting though, that what someone might interpret as like you're watching one person's culture that you might not be familiar with, and it looks foreign to you, and it looks vulgar to you, it looks nasty to you, But over here it's joy, it's celebration, it's love. Such a good point, and just we're looking at it. This is why we need to know each other better.
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Speaker 3: That's so well said. That is so well said.
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Speaker 1: But hey, he wasn't the only one, Like we said, there's another guy who wants to lock them up. His words, lock them up. Stay with us. We will let you hear what represent A Randy Fine, Republican of Florida, says he wants to happen to the NFL, to NBC and a Bad Bunny.
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Speaker 2: Stay here, we continue our conversation about this big halftime show investigation that is now being called for by not one but two congressman, two Republicans, one from Tennessee, one from Florida. We told you what Representative Andy Ogle said. He had a very detailed post about why he is upset about the halftime show, said it was pure smut, and he wrote a letter asking for this formal investigation to the committee. But we also heard from Representative Randy Fine from Florida and his post, he goes there you want me, okay, cool, I'll read a new comment.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 3: So this is Fine's post.
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Speaker 2: He put this on X Okay, you can't say the F word on live TV? Did he He didn't, Okay, I didn't hear it. I did not hear it. I think it would have been a huge headline. And I think he would have maybe even put what he said in Spanish to justify or to say exhibit A.
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Speaker 3: He did not.
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Speaker 2: All we hear is something we already knew. You can't say the effort on live TV. Okay, Bad Bunny's disgusting halftime show was illegal.
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Speaker 1: Even the Ricky Martin part, like he didn't even find beauty and the Ricky Martin sitting there in plastic.
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Speaker 2: That might have been the gay gyrating or something that they were talking about.
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Speaker 3: I loved it.
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Speaker 2: Disgusting, Okay, right, he goes on, had he said these lyrics and all of the other disgusting pornographic filth in English on live TV, the broadcast would have been pulled down and the fines would have been enormous.
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Speaker 1: And he's saying he attached the lyrics. There was a to this post. He had a copy of lyrics of one of Bad Bunny songs. He said, had these.
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Speaker 3: Lyrics had in English, basically.
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Speaker 1: Had he said these lyrics, he put up the post of a song and lyrics that Bad Bunny didn't go through. He went through fourteen songs in thirteen minutes. He did a fraction of the lyrics of most of these songs.
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Speaker 2: So it's unfair to take a Bad Bunny song as it was recorded, not performed on television, but as it's recorded and say, here are the lyrics that he was singing in Spanish that you didn't even.
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Speaker 3: Realize that are so vulgar, vulgar.
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Speaker 2: He didn't sing all of the lyrics, So he did his songs qualified.
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Speaker 1: He did what he was meaning to do, which was get whoever's reading this worked up, because if you read the lyrics, you go, holy sh oh oh they are Don't get me wrong. I listened, though, but I'm just.
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Speaker 2: Saying he didn't perform those same lyrics during the halftime show. That is a part of his music that you can choose to download and listen to or not. But when he performed on live television, yes, yes, and you know NBC know the NFL.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely would have made sure.
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Speaker 2: What they're doing, Yes, that he did not violate any FCC rules that would have been a huge part of their prep leading up to the performance. We know how this works, and so does this congressman. By the way, Okay, Puerto Ricans are Americans.
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Speaker 1: Boom, start right there. Why don't you just post that.
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Speaker 3: Would not have been amazing.
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Speaker 2: But no, he continued his sentence, and we all live by the same rules, implying somehow that Puerto Ricans just get to live by a different set of rules. Now we're all Americans. Now we all have to face the same consequences. Okay, he continues, we are sending Brendan Carr FCC a letter calling for dramatic action, including fines and broadcast license reviews, against the NFL, NBC, and Bad Bunny. Favorite end, he thinks he has this dropped the mic moment, he adds at the very end, lock them up.
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 1: I mean, fine, you put it out there. That's where we are, folks, and this is just another discouraging you know. I had him more. I say we're gonna do this and it's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I feel like crap at the end of it, because it felt terrible when he was announced and it split everybody, like this is one big thing. We can't even come together even be curious about another guy's music. Haven't you heard about Bad Bunny and haven't heard his music? Like, Wow, this guy's the biggest star in the world and I don't even know who he is. Let me check him out and you might see it and go man. I didn't like how they were dancing. Ooh, I liked his outfit. Oh that's song at the end was cool. Oh, lady guy. Guys who knows you might have learned something and liked something or been turned off. Who gives a damn. But can't you give it a try as an American. Let's sit down at the same table. Maybe you like that food. I like this food because at the damn table. I hate this story. I hate now what they did it Rose. You knew I was in a good mood about this story.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm pissed, well, because we you know, on one hand, you want to be able to laugh at it because it's so ridiculous, and I think that's where you were approaching it.
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Speaker 3: Because this is outrageous.
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Speaker 2: This is a political stunt, and yes, there may be real feelings behind it, but clearly this is motivated by division, motivated by reelection, motivated by total selfish interest. This is not for the good of the American people. We're supposed to assume that that's not the case. I'm saying we're too cynical about our politicians that I am not supposed to think any of those things. I'm supposed to think that he feels this way. I'm supposed to think, you know what, I don't like.
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Speaker 1: What he's doing, but you know what, I know he believes in it because he's my Republican congressman from Tennessee. Like I'm supposed to feel that, but we're so cynical to where I have to assume, like, come on, dude, I've seen this game before. I know what you're doing. I guess we should just dismiss it. But this is pissing and getting some people worked up. Folks.
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Speaker 2: No, and I think that it's important to talk about it and to describe it as exactly as we see it. I mean, the point being is there are plenty of people who do hear that and didn't watch the show, don't know the music, and believe everything they're writing because it's out of context, and it certainly is. There is gaslighting going on right here completely, And I think the sad thing is it like it's been done.
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Speaker 3: It happened. You lost, he got to do the halftime show. You didn't want him to.
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Speaker 2: He did anyway, move on, but no, you have to double down say I was right. He shouldn't have been performing, he should have sung in English, he should have And it's just this need to be right, this need to be to punish people who don't think like you think, who don't look like you look, who don't believe what you believe, And that is what's so sad because we could watch the show, as millions of Americans did, and say, wow, that is so cool to witness this culture, to hear this music. I was one of those folks who had heard a bad money but didn't listen to his music, didn't know it at all.
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Speaker 3: And I had a blast.
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Speaker 2: I still don't know what he was singing or saying, but I loved watching him perform. I love the joy and love that was coming from him.
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Speaker 1: And that's okay. If some people didn't, that's okay.
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Speaker 3: That's true, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Really okay, and that's kind of all. Okay. It's not my thing. I'm moving on. There's been a bunch of halftime shows. It's not my thing. There's some I haven't watched, that's true, Rose, because it's not my cup of tea. I watched for a little They're do anything for me, that's okay. I didn't call for.
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Speaker 3: For a congressional inquiry, It's okay.
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Speaker 1: And I just want to always leave room. Don't know what's in somebody else's heart, including these congressmen. You don't know, so you want to leave room. But Ropes suggesting to put people in prison over a halftime show seems to be a little much we do need to mention here. Robes Bad Bunny has wiped his Instagram clean and folks are trying to figure out why.
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Speaker 2: Some people think it may be because he has new music coming. Some people think it might be because of the controversy and the criticism he's receiving from a significant amount of the country. I would imagine probably didn't want to create a platform or a billboard for people to leave their nasty comments.
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Speaker 3: It could be one or both, or neither.
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Speaker 1: But this is a guy who has fifty two million followers on Instagram and right now it has no profile picture, it has not a single post. It has been wiped clean.
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Speaker 2: I think he knows how to market himself right now. Yeah, so he knows that this is either a sign of a new era, a cleansing, a new start, new music. It's exciting people want to know. And when he puts something back up, Lord knows there will be headlines.
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Speaker 1: And as of now, we don't have the official numbers of the ratings for we don't have that yet. But I'm curious that the lyrics thing and the last funny thing. I'll mention this to europes Nicki Minaj, she's a conservative. Now remember the Maga movement. Can't wait till he goes starts reading some of her English lyrics to Shay, Wait and see if he still puts his arm around her for a picture.
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Speaker 2: The problem is when you take a moral stand like this, you can't pick and choose morals or morals. You've just laid a boundary down. Now we better not hear him listening to Eminem. Better not hear him listening or watching or going to a concert where anybody is dancing suggestively. I mean you, you really You say these types of things, You put them in writing, you put them on Twitter, you send letters of inquiry saying this is what I believe in.
00:24:16
Speaker 3: This is wrong?
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Nicki. I can't wait if Nicki Minaj, if he takes his picture with her proudly being endorsed by Nicki Minaj. I am gonna post every lyric and I love her stuff. But she is as.
00:24:32
Speaker 3: As provocative as they come.
00:24:34
Speaker 1: They get all right, folks, there's all the hot fault and share wherever you are. Please hope you're having a better conversation about Bad Bunny, even if you didn't like the show. Hope you're having a better or a curious conversation, and not just one that's full of outrage, which seems to be our only emotion these days. With that, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with us. TJ. Holmes on behalf of My Daremmy Robot Talks.
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Speaker 3: So two
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Tuesday, February tenth, and lock them up? Who the NFL, NBC and Bad Bunny and you know who wants them in jail? US Congressman, And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Rolds. This is actually happening, and US Congressman has put out a statement saying that he wants to lock up the NFL, the NBC folks, and Bad Bunny over the halftime show.
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Speaker 2: This is actually Is this feigned outrage in a midterm election year or is this really something that we should have our lawmakers be focusing on to represent us and to make sure that American family values are solidly in place.
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Speaker 1: Yes, some of them to argue that both are. They are making a genuine effort here that we have to protect kids from Bad Bunny and from the NFL and from the executives at NBC who are putting smut on television for them to see at halftime. Now, I try to leave room for someone saying genuinely that's how they feel about it, that that's honestly what they're doing.
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Speaker 2: But I'm fine with someone We've had this conversation recently. Knock yourselves out, say whatever you want about anything or any one.
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Speaker 3: This is America, right, But we are so.
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Speaker 2: Quick to say we're going to sue you, We're gonna arrest you because if you do something or say something I don't like, I'm going to make sure you pay.
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Speaker 3: This is what this feels like. But it also feels.
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Speaker 2: Like rallying the base and taking an opportunity to use a situation for your own advantage and be dramatic as hell and act like you're saving the world when really you're just trying to get reelected.
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Speaker 1: So these two guys are trying to get it reelected. Probably. So we're talking about two two separate instances here in which congressmen are going after bad Bunnies halftime performers. One of them is Representative Andy Ogle's Republican from Tennessee. The other ones Representative Randy Fine. He's a Republican from Florida. Now, Ogles is the one who is asking for asking for a formal congressional inquiry into the Super Bowl halftime show. Now, he did send a letter to committee that he wants to look into it. We'll get into the letter and a second which has some pretty dramatic writing but robes his initial Twitter or ex post announcing that he wants to go after the guy.
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Speaker 3: And it is dramatic as hell. Should we read it?
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Speaker 2: I won't even need to dramatically read it because it just is, oh so dramatic.
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Speaker 3: Ogles post reads like this.
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Speaker 2: The Apple Music Super Bowl sixty halftime show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness.
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Speaker 1: Brazen was a nice touch. Brazenly aired, right, I thought that was a nice touch.
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Speaker 2: This is fun to dissect this My next uh or his next sentence is one of my favorites.
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Speaker 3: Children were forced to endure.
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Speaker 2: Explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry humping the air.
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Speaker 1: Wow, they should cancel all Netflix accounts and band Michael Jackson's music Veva. What's the name of the show on the hit on Netflix now with the gay hockey?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I forgot the name of it, but yes, everyone loves that. But I'm sorry. Where were there gay sexual acts? I missed that. I must have blinked and missed it.
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Speaker 1: It was dancing and sitting outside.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we missed some stuff I saw dancing.
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Speaker 1: It was loud dancing, it was gyrating.
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Speaker 2: You know what, look at the cheerleaders halftime show. I'm telling you. You start watching cheerleaders dances on like family friendly friendly basketball games, there's gyrating going on.
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Speaker 3: It happens every day at every sporting event. So this is hilarious.
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Speaker 1: It's not the gay stuff like he's talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yes, gay sexual acts, but he also was upset about the women gyrating provocatively. Again, seen it every single sporting event that I have been to recently.
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Speaker 1: Also, you don't have to add the provocatively if you're gyrating, it's.
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Speaker 3: Only one vocative.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they should, he said, brazenly gyrating provocatively. That would have been an extra added bonus, he continues, And if that weren't outrageous enough, the performances, lyrics, openly glorified sodomy, and countless other unspeakable depravities or depravities.
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Speaker 1: Thank god it was in Spanish and I didn't understand any.
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Speaker 2: Yes, these flagrant indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.
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Speaker 1: So right there saying you all committed a crime.
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Speaker 3: By dancing provocatively gyrating.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay these Okay, wait, that is why I am requesting that the Energy and Commerce Committee.
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Speaker 1: They're the ones that happen to have jurisdiction over this.
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Speaker 2: Type of Okay, that was a little confusing to me. Thank you for that explanation. Is like, why the Energy and Commerce Committee launch a formal congressional inquiry into the National Football League and NBC immediately for their prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation of this indecent broadcast. American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence, is.
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Speaker 1: What. This was the thing to put him over the top. You know, he's been dealing with TikTok for a long time, maybe some of you other rappers, but halftime is this. He's drawn a line and that's I don't know, it's not everybody's cup of tea. But if we are going to are we no? Stop? I am making a mistake by trying to take him on on the merits.
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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm trying to take him on on the merits and that is a mistake. We understand what this is and you can't just go out. You can't. It's impossible to say robes that all of a sudden, this dancing requires a criminal MBS it was illegal, or it's illegal, it's not criminal investigation whatever, some fines.
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Speaker 2: But he said, I mean, you know, I think we get to the lock them up part soon here because there is this overture that somehow it is criminal and there should be some sort of imprisonment involved with the indecent halftime show we all saw.
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Speaker 3: I also just want to throw this out here.
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Speaker 2: I always find this fascinating and we all can maybe question our choices with our children.
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Speaker 3: But what we let our children watch, what we let our children play?
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Speaker 2: Video games, violence, horror movies, thrillers, people being like, there is so much violence that we see and expose our children to each and every day.
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Speaker 3: We don't talk about that, but we're.
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Speaker 2: Upset that there is dancing that could be described as provocative.
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Speaker 1: Is it the reach? Is it because of the reach? Is it because of the platform that he did have? Is it because it happened to be there? If he did it on I don't know, Saturday Night Live, not as big of an audience as a Super Bowl. Is he gonna go after a bad bunny for that? I don't know. But again, we're taking it on on marriage and were having the wrong conversation, because if you're having that, that means you're distracted from something else, and you're winning because they're getting us to fight about something that's not worth fighting about. I'm not worked up. Nobody should be worked up. I don't want some little child seeing a sex act, of course I don't. But this is a super Bowl halftime show, and I know that same child and every other child can go pick up TikTok and reel through, flip through robes, more videos in five minutes of the most outlandish dancing you'll ever see, exactly.
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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to think about other halftime shows at the super Bowl that were not called out, where there was exactly the same type of dancing, provocative lyrics that suggest and talk about all sorts of sexual acts, and they were sung in English. I know you can't curse, but clearly we've had performers what are more songs about sex, lost love, period, So this is no exception.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't usually come to the halftime show and start thinking about death and things. No, it's it's about their sexiest stuff.
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Speaker 3: Yeah they're and they're not singing about family values.
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Speaker 1: Shakira. Remember that hern j Lo it was.
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Speaker 3: It was provocative and fun and exciting.
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Speaker 1: And when those two yes on the same thing, I mean he must have had a fit that night.
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Speaker 3: Didn't hear from him though, did we?
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Speaker 1: Maybe we weren't paying attention. I do want to he did write this formal letter, and some of the language in his letter Robes is pretty well, it's awesome. Uh, he says to the committee chair, I'm writing to request a formal congressional inquiry. He says, there's no way that they didn't have that. The NFL and NBC didn't have prior knowledge, review, review and approval of explicit and indecent content that was broadcast. They're saying, there's no way you all didn't know. Therefore you all should get dragged into this and you did wrong, he continued. The halftime performance headline by Bad Bunny, was aired live during primetime hours on over the air television, view by tens of millions, including a substantial number of children and families. The Super Bowl is consistently the largest family viewing event and American media. As such, broadcasters bear a heightened responsibility to ensure the programming aired fits the public interest. A heightened responsibility because there are kids watching, your responsibility is greater.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, here's the deal. I think when it comes I know, when it comes to this sort of interpretation, it's so subjective. Someone can see something as art and fun and beautiful and an expression of love and lost in all of those things we hear music about and that it's written about, and other people can see it the way he sees it. But guess what is so great about a remote control? You can turn it off. You could have turned and tuned into the All American halftime show. You have choices and options as a viewer and as a parent, and each parent should be able to make that decision without a congressman saying what he thinks and then holding certain folks accountable to.
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Speaker 3: A standard that not everybody agrees with.
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Speaker 1: I mean they were, I mean, I don't know what to are we in agreement. We're not in agreement about whether or not right is there's an overt sex act taking place. I don't think any of us would raise our hands say yeah, that's cool, put that on. I want kids to watch that. I am I am trying to leave that. I miss something in that. I am not like somebody sees it different. You just made the whole point. Somebody sees it differently. What's indecent to you is a weekend.
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Speaker 2: To me, there was nothing overt I mean, I think you and I can both say we've seen a lot. We were parents, and there was nothing that I saw in that halftime show where I was like, how dare they? I can't let my children see this? I mean, did you see something I didn't?
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Speaker 1: I mean, in his line here is there was the choreography feature overtly sexualized movement, including widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts, and other sexually suggestive conduct.
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Speaker 3: I see that on Dancing with the Stars.
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Speaker 1: This is dancing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, pelvic thrusts, that's dancing grinding. Yep.
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Speaker 1: Widespread twerking is a free rhyme from a congressman.
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Speaker 3: Pelvic thrusts, Okay.
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Speaker 2: He goes in this letter goes on to say, while this set was performed predominantly in Spanish, it was completely performed in Spanish.
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Speaker 1: Except for that Gaga moment.
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Speaker 3: There was a Gaga moment.
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Speaker 2: It relied on songs whose sexual content remained readily apparent across any language barrier. This language barrier did not mitigate the explicit nature of the material. Rather, it heightened the broadcaster's obligation to exercise reasonable diligence in reviewing, translating, and evaluating the content prior to airing.
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Speaker 1: He's saying, even though it was in Spanish, it still came through his vulgar and again I didn't catch that. I'm not my English chif and Spanish must be terrible.
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Speaker 2: I heard songs, and we've looked at the lyrics. We've actually listened along trying to figure out what he's singing. The lyrics again are about girlfriends and love and lost.
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Speaker 1: We should note he has some pretty raunchy stuff and some of his lyrics. So do a bunch of performers, So does Kendrick Lamar who performed last year. And they adjust and they censor and they don't use the profanity. Now, I relied on the Spanish speakers who watched the halftime performance and the reporters who have been doing reporting on this. Yes, same thing in Spanish. He he didn't blurt out anything in profane in Spanish either. He censored himself and even some times where a word was coming up that might be a dirty word they said, he kind of mumbled, so he kind of censored himself. Of course, he didn't broadcast any profanity that needs to be said at least. But is this going to go further?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, because again, we're in a midterm election year, and I feel like in these years anything is possible, because if they can find a way to rally their base, create a further division in the US versus them to drive people to the polls. I'm going to be your moral compass. This is where he is standing right now. I am your man from family values. I am your moral compass. I will make sure that smut like this is either punished or that there's consequences for it. But ultimately, I'm hoping by imposing these consequences will prevent this from ever happening again, so your children will be safe in their own homes.
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Speaker 1: Wow, we have to be saved from halftime. I didn't realize. All right, fine, fie.
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Speaker 2: And this is why people get frustrated by politicians because also with this sort of thing. And look there, look to your I know you've said this and you're very good about this. There are plenty of people who might agree with him to an extent, But would they agree that it rises to the level of this and somehow we need congressmen to protect us from ourselves as parents, when that's our role to decide what our kids watch and what they don't watch, with what's inappropriate for them and what isn't. Do we really need congressmen and women being that moral voice where we actually punish people who are creatively expressing themselves and can be interpreted.
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Speaker 3: From a lot of different places.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting though, that what someone might interpret as like you're watching one person's culture that you might not be familiar with, and it looks foreign to you, and it looks vulgar to you, it looks nasty to you, But over here it's joy, it's celebration, it's love. Such a good point, and just we're looking at it. This is why we need to know each other better.
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Speaker 3: That's so well said. That is so well said.
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Speaker 1: But hey, he wasn't the only one, Like we said, there's another guy who wants to lock them up. His words, lock them up. Stay with us. We will let you hear what represent A Randy Fine, Republican of Florida, says he wants to happen to the NFL, to NBC and a Bad Bunny.
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Speaker 2: Stay here, we continue our conversation about this big halftime show investigation that is now being called for by not one but two congressman, two Republicans, one from Tennessee, one from Florida. We told you what Representative Andy Ogle said. He had a very detailed post about why he is upset about the halftime show, said it was pure smut, and he wrote a letter asking for this formal investigation to the committee. But we also heard from Representative Randy Fine from Florida and his post, he goes there you want me, okay, cool, I'll read a new comment.
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Speaker 1: I like that.
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Speaker 3: So this is Fine's post.
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Speaker 2: He put this on X Okay, you can't say the F word on live TV? Did he He didn't, Okay, I didn't hear it. I did not hear it. I think it would have been a huge headline. And I think he would have maybe even put what he said in Spanish to justify or to say exhibit A.
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Speaker 3: He did not.
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Speaker 2: All we hear is something we already knew. You can't say the effort on live TV. Okay, Bad Bunny's disgusting halftime show was illegal.
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Speaker 1: Even the Ricky Martin part, like he didn't even find beauty and the Ricky Martin sitting there in plastic.
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Speaker 2: That might have been the gay gyrating or something that they were talking about.
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Speaker 3: I loved it.
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Speaker 2: Disgusting, Okay, right, he goes on, had he said these lyrics and all of the other disgusting pornographic filth in English on live TV, the broadcast would have been pulled down and the fines would have been enormous.
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Speaker 1: And he's saying he attached the lyrics. There was a to this post. He had a copy of lyrics of one of Bad Bunny songs. He said, had these.
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Speaker 3: Lyrics had in English, basically.
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Speaker 1: Had he said these lyrics, he put up the post of a song and lyrics that Bad Bunny didn't go through. He went through fourteen songs in thirteen minutes. He did a fraction of the lyrics of most of these songs.
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Speaker 2: So it's unfair to take a Bad Bunny song as it was recorded, not performed on television, but as it's recorded and say, here are the lyrics that he was singing in Spanish that you didn't even.
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Speaker 3: Realize that are so vulgar, vulgar.
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Speaker 2: He didn't sing all of the lyrics, So he did his songs qualified.
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Speaker 1: He did what he was meaning to do, which was get whoever's reading this worked up, because if you read the lyrics, you go, holy sh oh oh they are Don't get me wrong. I listened, though, but I'm just.
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Speaker 2: Saying he didn't perform those same lyrics during the halftime show. That is a part of his music that you can choose to download and listen to or not. But when he performed on live television, yes, yes, and you know NBC know the NFL.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely would have made sure.
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Speaker 2: What they're doing, Yes, that he did not violate any FCC rules that would have been a huge part of their prep leading up to the performance. We know how this works, and so does this congressman. By the way, Okay, Puerto Ricans are Americans.
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Speaker 1: Boom, start right there. Why don't you just post that.
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Speaker 3: Would not have been amazing.
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Speaker 2: But no, he continued his sentence, and we all live by the same rules, implying somehow that Puerto Ricans just get to live by a different set of rules. Now we're all Americans. Now we all have to face the same consequences. Okay, he continues, we are sending Brendan Carr FCC a letter calling for dramatic action, including fines and broadcast license reviews, against the NFL, NBC, and Bad Bunny. Favorite end, he thinks he has this dropped the mic moment, he adds at the very end, lock them up.
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 1: I mean, fine, you put it out there. That's where we are, folks, and this is just another discouraging you know. I had him more. I say we're gonna do this and it's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I feel like crap at the end of it, because it felt terrible when he was announced and it split everybody, like this is one big thing. We can't even come together even be curious about another guy's music. Haven't you heard about Bad Bunny and haven't heard his music? Like, Wow, this guy's the biggest star in the world and I don't even know who he is. Let me check him out and you might see it and go man. I didn't like how they were dancing. Ooh, I liked his outfit. Oh that's song at the end was cool. Oh, lady guy. Guys who knows you might have learned something and liked something or been turned off. Who gives a damn. But can't you give it a try as an American. Let's sit down at the same table. Maybe you like that food. I like this food because at the damn table. I hate this story. I hate now what they did it Rose. You knew I was in a good mood about this story.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm pissed, well, because we you know, on one hand, you want to be able to laugh at it because it's so ridiculous, and I think that's where you were approaching it.
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Speaker 3: Because this is outrageous.
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Speaker 2: This is a political stunt, and yes, there may be real feelings behind it, but clearly this is motivated by division, motivated by reelection, motivated by total selfish interest. This is not for the good of the American people. We're supposed to assume that that's not the case. I'm saying we're too cynical about our politicians that I am not supposed to think any of those things. I'm supposed to think that he feels this way. I'm supposed to think, you know what, I don't like.
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Speaker 1: What he's doing, but you know what, I know he believes in it because he's my Republican congressman from Tennessee. Like I'm supposed to feel that, but we're so cynical to where I have to assume, like, come on, dude, I've seen this game before. I know what you're doing. I guess we should just dismiss it. But this is pissing and getting some people worked up. Folks.
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Speaker 2: No, and I think that it's important to talk about it and to describe it as exactly as we see it. I mean, the point being is there are plenty of people who do hear that and didn't watch the show, don't know the music, and believe everything they're writing because it's out of context, and it certainly is. There is gaslighting going on right here completely, And I think the sad thing is it like it's been done.
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Speaker 3: It happened. You lost, he got to do the halftime show. You didn't want him to.
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Speaker 2: He did anyway, move on, but no, you have to double down say I was right. He shouldn't have been performing, he should have sung in English, he should have And it's just this need to be right, this need to be to punish people who don't think like you think, who don't look like you look, who don't believe what you believe, And that is what's so sad because we could watch the show, as millions of Americans did, and say, wow, that is so cool to witness this culture, to hear this music. I was one of those folks who had heard a bad money but didn't listen to his music, didn't know it at all.
00:21:43
Speaker 3: And I had a blast.
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Speaker 2: I still don't know what he was singing or saying, but I loved watching him perform. I love the joy and love that was coming from him.
00:21:51
Speaker 1: And that's okay. If some people didn't, that's okay.
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Speaker 3: That's true, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Really okay, and that's kind of all. Okay. It's not my thing. I'm moving on. There's been a bunch of halftime shows. It's not my thing. There's some I haven't watched, that's true, Rose, because it's not my cup of tea. I watched for a little They're do anything for me, that's okay. I didn't call for.
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Speaker 3: For a congressional inquiry, It's okay.
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Speaker 1: And I just want to always leave room. Don't know what's in somebody else's heart, including these congressmen. You don't know, so you want to leave room. But Ropes suggesting to put people in prison over a halftime show seems to be a little much we do need to mention here. Robes Bad Bunny has wiped his Instagram clean and folks are trying to figure out why.
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Speaker 2: Some people think it may be because he has new music coming. Some people think it might be because of the controversy and the criticism he's receiving from a significant amount of the country. I would imagine probably didn't want to create a platform or a billboard for people to leave their nasty comments.
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Speaker 3: It could be one or both, or neither.
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Speaker 1: But this is a guy who has fifty two million followers on Instagram and right now it has no profile picture, it has not a single post. It has been wiped clean.
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Speaker 2: I think he knows how to market himself right now. Yeah, so he knows that this is either a sign of a new era, a cleansing, a new start, new music. It's exciting people want to know. And when he puts something back up, Lord knows there will be headlines.
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Speaker 1: And as of now, we don't have the official numbers of the ratings for we don't have that yet. But I'm curious that the lyrics thing and the last funny thing. I'll mention this to europes Nicki Minaj, she's a conservative. Now remember the Maga movement. Can't wait till he goes starts reading some of her English lyrics to Shay, Wait and see if he still puts his arm around her for a picture.
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Speaker 2: The problem is when you take a moral stand like this, you can't pick and choose morals or morals. You've just laid a boundary down. Now we better not hear him listening to Eminem. Better not hear him listening or watching or going to a concert where anybody is dancing suggestively. I mean you, you really You say these types of things, You put them in writing, you put them on Twitter, you send letters of inquiry saying this is what I believe in.
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Speaker 3: This is wrong?
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Nicki. I can't wait if Nicki Minaj, if he takes his picture with her proudly being endorsed by Nicki Minaj. I am gonna post every lyric and I love her stuff. But she is as.
00:24:32
Speaker 3: As provocative as they come.
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Speaker 1: They get all right, folks, there's all the hot fault and share wherever you are. Please hope you're having a better conversation about Bad Bunny, even if you didn't like the show. Hope you're having a better or a curious conversation, and not just one that's full of outrage, which seems to be our only emotion these days. With that, folks, we always appreciate you spending some time with us. TJ. Holmes on behalf of My Daremmy Robot Talks.
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Speaker 3: So two