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Your Therapist Needs Therapy 135 - The Super Bowl and the Hollow Center of American Dominance

Jeremy Schumacher

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This week Jeremy looks at America’s favorite pastime of staging a glossy reassurance ritual that the old prosperity myth is still alive! Three cheers for late stage capitalism celebrating itself! Corporate ads sell nostalgia, AI hype, and body shaming drugs, while the halftime show keeps breaking through with culture that actually feels real. The result is a hollow spectacle that owns the stage but can’t quite control the meaning, and the cracks in this gilded age are getting harder to hide.

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Hello,

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and welcome to another edition of Your

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Therapist Needs Therapy.

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I'm your host, Jeremy Schumacher,

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licensed marriage and family therapist.

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Honestly,

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this week I'm feeling pretty good.

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I took a vacation, so therapy's great.

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Letting your nervous system rest and reset

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is even better.

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Time in nature.

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Y'all, go tromp through the woods.

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Find a frozen lake to go out on

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and just be

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Or, like, enjoy not cold weather,

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if that's your thing.

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I don't know.

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There's something about making coffee and

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looking out the window and seeing wildlife

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out and about.

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That's really lovely.

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So, you know,

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as society continues to collapse,

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personally,

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fairly well-resourced right now.

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which is work that I do as a

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therapist, so that's fine.

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I'm not bragging.

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I'm here to talk about the Super Bowl.

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And the Super Bowl's always been a weird

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thing for me because the NFL is the

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one sort of billion dollar industry that I

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just can't quit.

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A lot of other things in my life,

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not like I'm some sort of perfect example

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of standing up for my ethics,

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but a lot of things as I've gotten

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older,

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I've soured on the more I've learned about

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how like rotten an industry is to its

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core.

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I quit watching WWE a long time ago.

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I still love pro wrestling.

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And I,

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I watched a lot of the Indies.

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I watch a W, uh, new Japan,

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but you know, um,

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Yeah, it gets harder and harder.

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And, you know,

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sale on the seven seas and being opposed

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to the streaming services,

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buying physical copies of things rather

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than needing everything through streaming.

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I'm an old man shouting at clouds,

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I guess.

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But some of that is very intentional.

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And the reality of the NFL is, like,

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there's not much of it that vibes with

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my ethics.

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I'm pretty opposed to the concussion

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sports.

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I think it is a real...

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looming continual problem that we don't

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have a good handle on.

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I think we are exploiting people's, uh,

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health and their brains wellness for

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insane amounts of profit to people who are

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not taking those risks.

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Um,

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Yeah.

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So, you know,

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this just gets into my issues with the

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NFL.

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And the Super Bowl highlights all of my

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issues with the NFL and makes it a

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very difficult thing to support.

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I will tell you,

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I didn't watch more than three minutes of

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the game yesterday.

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I did turn on the Super Bowl halftime

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show,

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which also will get to highlighting why

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some of the NFL is such a weird

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sort of spectacle this year.

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And I would say last year as well.

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and the idea of like you know i

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wanted to watch the olympics like i wasn't

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opposed i was i was open to turn

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down the halftime show to watch it so

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that you know it would do good numbers

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and make all the republicans mad um which

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it did right highest uh viewed super bowl

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halftime show ever and the game sucked

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again i didn't watch it i turned it

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on and it was like six nothing with

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a minute left in the first half

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It's not a good game.

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Exciting if you love football and

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defensive performances and get excited

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about how good a punter can be.

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But for the spectacle that is the Super

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Bowl, really boring.

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which is funny to me.

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And so, yeah,

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I wanted to watch the Olympics because

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that's fun.

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I would a hundred percent watch the

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Superbowl if the Packers were in it.

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Don't get me wrong.

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Again, this is,

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this is the industry I've struggled to

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divest my attention from.

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And I'm pretty local, you know,

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it's that I grew up in Wisconsin and

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my brother and I are still big fans

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and techs

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throughout the game he's not in the state

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so he's usually on a delay so I

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have to wait to text him um but

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you know it's it's a social thing for

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me I love the Packers and uh also

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like who you're watching the game with

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feels very culturally relevant

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But that sort of highlights where we're

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getting to with the Super Bowl as really

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a hollowed out,

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I should have picked an easier title,

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a hollowed out spectacle for American

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supremacy,

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especially for the culture that is

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understood as like WASP, Manifest Destiny,

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American Prosperity,

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WASP being white Anglo-Saxon Protestant

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culture.

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This year's Super Bowl was so odd.

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It was two teams that really lacked a

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superstar.

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To say that Drake May is the future

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of football certainly seems like a stretch

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based on his performance last night.

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The Patriots had a really super easy path

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to the Super Bowl.

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They had one of the easiest schedules

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the nfl the seahawks also lack a tried

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and true superstar uh i think jsn jackson

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smith ninjigbo will be a superstar in this

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league uh but i don't you know j

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jetta's justin jefferson's probably the

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the biggest

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wide receiver name in the league right now

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like since randy moss probably it's it's

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just been hard to have a wide receiver

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be the face of the league that so

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very much specializes on the quarterback

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and so you know dan darnold at this

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point his career is sort of a traveled

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around

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Quarterback,

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he's been in a bunch of different teams.

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Not quite that superstar level,

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even though he had a good year last

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year and a good year this year.

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Not the superstar the league has really

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built around.

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So just kind of like a dud from

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maybe what the league wanted.

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Seattle has a huge following.

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The Twelfth Man fan of the Seattle

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Seahawks is probably a bigger deal than

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anyone on their team.

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And the Patriots are the Patriots.

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If you're from the Northeast,

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you love them.

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And if you're from anywhere else,

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you loathe them as they are the winningest

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via cheating team that's ever gotten away

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with all that cheating.

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So, you know, not real exciting.

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And then Bad Bunny, who arguably, again,

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the NFL to be understood as a business

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is wildly successful.

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The NFL as a sports entity continues to

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fade, which again, highlights, I think,

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just the American of it all.

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We have this sport called football that is

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already a sport as understood for the rest

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of the world that's way more popular and

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actually uses your feet.

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and this like American exceptionalism just

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sort of fading.

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The commercials at some point,

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I would say in the nineties,

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I feel like I was alive for the

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switch.

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I was there when the Budweiser frogs hit

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superstardom.

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It's there for the was up guys being

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played out.

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I feel like the Super Bowl commercials at

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some point became more of the spectacle

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than anything else was.

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And, like, again, just hollowed out.

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They're not for anything.

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The few minutes I watched,

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I saw multiple WeGoV Ozempic-style weight

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loss commercials.

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I saw a lot of sports gambling.

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As somebody who watched every Packer game

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and no other football,

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I can tell you sports gambling is probably

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the number one.

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Shockingly, even over alcohol.

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And...

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AI.

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And again,

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the fact that we need to advertise AI

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lets everyone know like the bubble is

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about to burst.

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You don't advertise,

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you don't need to advertise something

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that's doing really well.

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You're trying to control the narrative and

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like create an idea around this thing that

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other people are realizing like isn't

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doing near the mythical things it was

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supposed to be doing for the amount of

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the environment that it is killing on a

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regular basis.

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So, you know, we have weight loss.

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look a certain way but but not based

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on health and we have ai which is

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fast over promising of doing anything

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while being terrible for the planet and um

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sports betting the the house always wins

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y'all like gambling still rigged it's not

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a it's not a new thing just because

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it's maybe legal or accessible in your

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state in a way that it didn't used

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to be

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we have these things that like i think

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show just the decay these are the death

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throes of a culture these are not cultural

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strongholds and i i don't know that

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alcohol was although i will say being from

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milwaukee like our other sports team is

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named after alcohol we are a beer city

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and

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It's not like alcohol is going away even

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though Gen Z is not drinking it and

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everyone is here for the legal marijuana.

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Wisconsin is a weird microcosm, I guess,

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because the Tavern League is the largest

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political entity lobbying group in the

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state,

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and I don't think that's true for any

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other state.

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So maybe I'm behind the times.

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Maybe alcohol has fallen off much more

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than I realized,

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but

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Again, won't go away.

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Alcohol is the concept of your wine or

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your beer or your shots.

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It's still a big part of society,

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I think.

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But the Super Bowl has always been

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spectacle.

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It's always been performance-based.

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I'm sure I've gone on about Guy Debord's

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society of the spectacle and why the Super

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Bowl...

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and wrestlemania to a degree is for my

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wrestling nerds out there are the good

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example of what this french philosopher

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from the fifties and sixties wrote about

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how everything is representative of

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meaning but has no meaning itself and like

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yeah there's not a better example of that

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than the backlash to the past two halftime

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shows kendrick lamar's halftime last year

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was

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a love letter to black culture and

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specifically on the West Coast.

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And also, you know, having

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having drake's ex grip walk on his his

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grave although again i've commented

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recently in a different episode about uh

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pedophiles not ever facing facing much

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punishment uh when they hold positions of

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power that like drake's still fine but

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last year we had a love letter to

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african-american black culture uh this

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year we had a love letter to from

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a puerto rican on how america is

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north america central america and south

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america and those different cultures all

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coming together and there's there's just

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so much culture in both kendrick's and bad

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bunny's halftime performances in a way

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that sort of the waspy power holders again

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white anglo-saxon protestant don't have

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like by the time the who did a

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halftime show it wasn't very good and like

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what's the culture there

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I know this as a classic rock fan.

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If you're from Britain and you're from a

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working town and the factories went away

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or the fishing dried up,

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the despondence of the English youth

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hanging out in quiet desperation is the

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English way.

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The time is done.

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The song's over.

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Thought I had something more to say.

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That's Pink Floyd, not The Who.

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But holding on to something that's gone,

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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that that was those bands.

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And that's not like a performance of

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whiteness.

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That was English culture that those

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artists experience while they're growing

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up.

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So even having that at the super bowl

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really never was like about America or

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whiteness, whiteness, not being a thing,

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of course, maybe I shouldn't say,

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of course,

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that might not be a well-known concept for

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people, but the idea of, again,

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like that being our cultural heritage of

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like,

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the the super bowl halftime show was these

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aged rockers and now the the aged white

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guys and just the young angry white people

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i don't know how old you know ben

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shapiro or matt walsh are but um the

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the white talking heads that are

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laundering white supremacist ideas and the

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stephen millers of the world who are just

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overtly white supremacists um

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are mad about these things right it wasn't

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long before the super bowl and trump

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posted the obamas as apes like we have

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a pedophile angry old racist man who has

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pretty advanced dementia uh posting stuff

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like that and then the outrage machine

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kicks in and and we end up with

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a turning point usa kid rock headlined

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halftime show and like the online

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discourse is obviously stupid because a

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bunch of it is is bots and not

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real people and uh who are not bots

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are also just like stupid

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Like the Halloween out of America has

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taken a long time.

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The capitalist ruling class and the

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Republican Party have done a lot to take

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away any sort of manufacturing,

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any sort of economic backbone we might

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have,

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where now we're left with weight loss

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drugs, AI and gambling,

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not signs of a healthy economy.

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And culturally, again, like kid rock,

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right?

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For anybody who was, like,

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not Spanish-speaking and was like,

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name three Bad Bunny songs.

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Like, name three Kid Rock songs.

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I sure can't.

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I don't think anyone even knows the song

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by Kid Rock that they can sing just

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because they happen to the lyrics because

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it's become a meme at this point.

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Dude came out in jorts.

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Again, I didn't watch that.

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I just saw online after the recording on

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Monday following the Super Bowl.

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So, you know...

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Jorts have never been a good thing.

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Even John Cena couldn't make them cool.

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His multicolored shirts and wristbands and

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headbands were cool.

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It was never the jorts that caught on.

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Kid Rock came out and had prerecorded it

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and also lip synced during the

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prerecording.

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But the difference between what I saw of

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the Kid Rock performance,

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which was fireworks going off,

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flashing red, white, and blue,

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an old man in jorts,

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everybody obviously being paid to be there

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in the audience and do the real cool

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one-armed white person dancing,

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was so performatively out of touch.

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Again, this isn't Woodstock,

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It's not break stuff.

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It's the Super Bowl halftime show.

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And the halftime show has always been

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stupid.

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Sorry, I'm going to follow a tangent here.

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We'll get back to the difference between

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Bad Bunny and Kid Rock.

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But

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For the pinnacle of American sports,

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let's put all of that in quotes, right?

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I don't know what we're doing here.

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American exceptionalism,

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we took this sport and we called it

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football,

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even though there was already a different

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sport called football that uses their feet

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way more.

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This is the most viewed spectacle in all

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of the world.

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It never was.

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It's been the World Cup.

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But the Super Bowl being a big deal

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and an American export especially...

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uh taking extra time away from the game

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makes the game worse right like athletes

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are highly tuned to play in their sports

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a certain way if you give an athlete

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a different ball if you give an athlete

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different playing indoors versus outdoors

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like all the stuff they practice that

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stuff they they prepare for all this stuff

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it's very odd

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to have a longer break in between things

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when i coached collegiately get into the

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ncaa tournament for women's volleyball it

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was weird to go from the normal structured

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timeouts that we have to have to have

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longer breaks because the ncaa was

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streaming the tournament and we needed

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longer ad breaks and like

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it messes with your flow and so this

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has always been bad for the game good

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for the nfl bottom line the business the

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advertising revenue that the nfl makes

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from this is obviously huge very bad for

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the game itself um just an aside as

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a sports fan the sporting events that are

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like methodically sort of the system is is

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the same throughout great love that it's

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not co-opted by how it looks in a

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tv broadcast but just gets to be the

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sport itself is lovely um so kid rock

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very like dated sort of ideas of what

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a good time and a fun concert might

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be uh very dated celebrity like he doesn't

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have new music that plays on the radio

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or anything again like bad bunny just won

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a grammy

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several Grammys, I think.

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I don't know.

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I don't listen to popular music.

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Again, I'm not like a bad bunny stan.

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I don't know any bad bunny songs because

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I don't listen to popular music.

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I listen to metal.

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I would be excited about a System of

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a Down halftime show,

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and I get that that's incredibly dated and

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nostalgic of me.

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I'm not hoping that happens someday.

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I'm acknowledging I don't listen to

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popular music.

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Like Arch Spire was the band I listened

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to the most last year.

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They're a Canadian technical death metal

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band who sang very deep lyrics that are

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hard to understand because they're so deep

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and spoken very fast.

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And the metal part is just how fast

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can we play this song?

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Humanly possible,

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how fast is it to play this?

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And like, that's not what people like.

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Unpopular.

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And again, like System of a Down,

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not American.

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Artspire, not American.

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Bad Bunny, American.

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Puerto Rico, part of America.

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Again, like...

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The online discourse around this is stupid

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because so many people are stupid.

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Again,

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this has been a long time coming to

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have a population in our country that is

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so poorly educated.

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shockingly so um again the racism uh the

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overton window i've talked about this

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before the overton window shifting to the

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right has become again like the racist

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talking point of we want americans to play

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like bad bunny isn't american the reason

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you don't know that is because you think

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whiteness defines americanism which again

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like isn't even true because they want

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they being like right-wingers want

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football to be the pinnacle of this sport

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right and like

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the majority of the athletes who play are

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incredibly diverse.

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It's not a bunch of white guys out

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there.

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It's a bunch of biracial and a few

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white guys and a bunch of black guys.

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The NFL has enough players from around the

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world where they can highlight players of

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different ethnic backgrounds every single

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month of the season.

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Get Madden every couple of years.

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Again,

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I'm not proud of my supporting of the

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NFL.

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Or the Madden franchise,

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because EA is really a shit video game

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company.

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But every couple of years,

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I'll pick up a newer Madden and see

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what's different about it.

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And you get stuff to play in the

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game that's for the different ethnic

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backgrounds,

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the different cultural heritages are part

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of the game that's built in.

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And that's awesome and great and lovely.

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And so the NFL acknowledges that.

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And going into a sports locker room,

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you have to acknowledge that.

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right like the players aren't invested in

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the halftime show first of all i don't

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give a shit but second of all in

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in the sort of the idea that like

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there needs to be this sort of normative

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experience of what america looks like

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these guys grew up playing football

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they're used to a diverse america when i

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worked collegiately i was at a college

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that was predominantly white because it

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was a

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a Christian college.

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So very white.

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It was in the suburbs.

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It's very expensive.

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It's very white.

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Where all the diversity on campus was,

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was in the student athletes,

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which is who I worked with.

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It's the director of student athlete

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mental wellness.

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And I coached volleyball,

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which is also predominantly,

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I would say a very white sport compared

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to other sports in the sense that it's

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a country club sport.

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It's expensive and it's not,

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natural to get into.

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You need a lot of equipment to play.

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Whereas something like soccer doesn't need

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a lot of equipment.

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Here's our goals as defined by these two

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random lines on a wall or these poles

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or found these sticks and set them up.

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And we need something that's vaguely round

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to be able to kick around.

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um so volleyball you need like a net

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and you need the lines on the court

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you need it's not like a ton of

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equipment but but in the sports world you

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have country club sports which again

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require certain level of equipment certain

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level of um a skill to just be

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able to play a functional game volleyball

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is not like a starter sport for a

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lot of people because of the the high

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degree of

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different skill sets that you need where

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like kicking a ball comes pretty early

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it's one of the gross motor skills that

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kids learn pretty early on and so you

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can start playing soccer from a really

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young age with next to no entry costs

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um basketball right also somewhat similar

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of like something to throw a ball into

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um which has i think been the meteoric

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rise of basketball

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volleyball is currently the most popular

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women's sport out there as measured by how

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many girls play it in their sort of

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high school age years,

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which was a big deal.

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Cause again,

00:23:08.608 --> 00:23:11.090
it had been basketball for so long and

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now it is volleyball.

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So like, again,

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some of these sports continue to then

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diversify.

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And that's what anybody who's been around

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athletes is used to having people from

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different walks of life on their teams.

00:23:27.164 --> 00:23:28.746
back in the nineties when I was a

00:23:28.786 --> 00:23:31.506
little tight and my questionably,

00:23:31.645 --> 00:23:33.747
mostly my racist grandmother came down and

00:23:33.767 --> 00:23:35.407
made comments about how many non-white

00:23:35.428 --> 00:23:36.248
kids were on my team.

00:23:36.288 --> 00:23:36.988
Like, right.

00:23:37.107 --> 00:23:38.469
That didn't occur to me.

00:23:38.669 --> 00:23:39.848
Cause I grew up on the north side

00:23:39.868 --> 00:23:43.710
of Milwaukee, but also that right.

00:23:43.750 --> 00:23:45.651
Like, cause they wanted to play baseball.

00:23:45.671 --> 00:23:46.770
It doesn't matter what you look like.

00:23:46.810 --> 00:23:47.672
If you're good at baseball,

00:23:47.711 --> 00:23:48.852
then I want you on my team.

00:23:48.912 --> 00:23:50.633
Cause I like to win and I hate

00:23:50.692 --> 00:23:51.113
losing.

00:23:52.053 --> 00:23:52.173
Uh,

00:23:52.987 --> 00:23:53.248
So again,

00:23:53.769 --> 00:23:56.054
this racist stuff is really old and

00:23:56.094 --> 00:23:58.019
doesn't fit sports because sports are

00:23:58.058 --> 00:23:59.582
incredibly diverse.

00:24:00.344 --> 00:24:01.426
Incredibly diverse.

00:24:01.527 --> 00:24:02.648
It's probably some of the

00:24:03.553 --> 00:24:05.874
widest diversity of any cultural

00:24:05.913 --> 00:24:07.974
intersection you could pick from

00:24:08.174 --> 00:24:12.096
especially america the united states but i

00:24:12.116 --> 00:24:14.617
would i would argue across different

00:24:14.698 --> 00:24:17.159
cultures the olympics are a good example

00:24:17.179 --> 00:24:18.619
you're watching all these athletes from

00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:22.061
their different countries and the diaspora

00:24:22.142 --> 00:24:23.561
of different cultures of different

00:24:23.602 --> 00:24:26.604
ethnicities is apparent where all these

00:24:26.644 --> 00:24:28.065
people have their life stories and how

00:24:28.085 --> 00:24:30.085
they ended up representing this country in

00:24:30.145 --> 00:24:30.705
particular

00:24:31.726 --> 00:24:34.106
And it's lovely and fascinating.

00:24:35.508 --> 00:24:39.048
The juxtaposition of the Super Bowl being

00:24:39.088 --> 00:24:42.029
carried by NBC and NBC having exclusive

00:24:42.089 --> 00:24:43.550
rights to the Olympics,

00:24:43.891 --> 00:24:48.412
which means as a sports lover who wants

00:24:48.432 --> 00:24:49.992
to look at the best of the best,

00:24:50.353 --> 00:24:51.993
do their thing,

00:24:52.453 --> 00:24:54.193
I couldn't watch the Olympics without

00:24:54.253 --> 00:24:56.855
buying the Peacock app, which I won't do.

00:24:57.516 --> 00:24:57.955
Fuck that.

00:24:58.556 --> 00:24:58.756
Right.

00:24:58.996 --> 00:25:01.617
Fuck NBC for not just having the Olympics

00:25:01.698 --> 00:25:03.479
on all the time for free.

00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:06.520
And the idea that we as a country

00:25:06.580 --> 00:25:08.501
like you can only celebrate and be proud

00:25:08.541 --> 00:25:10.083
of your country if you pay for it

00:25:10.242 --> 00:25:12.464
is the most on the nose American thing

00:25:12.585 --> 00:25:12.825
ever.

00:25:13.325 --> 00:25:15.266
The idea that a bunch of people would

00:25:15.286 --> 00:25:16.846
rather watch the Super Bowl than watch the

00:25:16.866 --> 00:25:19.169
Olympics is preposterous.

00:25:20.608 --> 00:25:20.930
And again,

00:25:20.990 --> 00:25:23.371
the Bad Bunny as as a way to

00:25:23.411 --> 00:25:25.571
bring in non football watching people as

00:25:25.592 --> 00:25:27.473
the NFL continues to try and expand

00:25:27.534 --> 00:25:28.013
globally.

00:25:29.076 --> 00:25:29.395
Yeah,

00:25:29.455 --> 00:25:31.217
like the fact that the halftime show is

00:25:31.277 --> 00:25:33.557
such a watched phenomenon means the NFL is

00:25:33.577 --> 00:25:35.378
going to keep picking diverse people for

00:25:35.419 --> 00:25:35.659
that.

00:25:36.239 --> 00:25:38.661
We got Bad Bunny, Pedro Pascal,

00:25:38.780 --> 00:25:40.340
and Jessica Alba dancing in the

00:25:40.361 --> 00:25:40.942
background.

00:25:41.321 --> 00:25:42.603
Lady Gaga showed up.

00:25:42.643 --> 00:25:44.943
We had a Ricky Martin cameo, right?

00:25:44.983 --> 00:25:47.464
Like this sort of celebration of

00:25:49.436 --> 00:25:52.097
the various cultures past present and

00:25:52.157 --> 00:25:54.558
future you know bad bunny gave a grammy

00:25:54.598 --> 00:25:58.701
to a baby bunny he said i read

00:25:58.740 --> 00:25:59.882
this somewhere i don't know if he said

00:25:59.922 --> 00:26:01.602
it or not um that that was representing

00:26:02.002 --> 00:26:04.644
a younger version of himself but like very

00:26:04.683 --> 00:26:06.744
poignant of culture

00:26:07.865 --> 00:26:10.067
involves looking forward to the future we

00:26:10.228 --> 00:26:12.710
we protect the youth and so looking out

00:26:12.730 --> 00:26:14.352
for the youth him waking up the kid

00:26:14.372 --> 00:26:16.795
who's sleeping at the wedding like again a

00:26:16.835 --> 00:26:20.259
very sort of cultural uh thing the

00:26:20.378 --> 00:26:22.921
marketplace as the setting for his

00:26:23.749 --> 00:26:24.509
halftime show,

00:26:24.569 --> 00:26:26.590
like all that stuff is steeped in culture

00:26:26.671 --> 00:26:28.112
and people who grew up in those cultures

00:26:28.192 --> 00:26:29.814
know what that's representing.

00:26:30.755 --> 00:26:32.596
And like, that's a lovely,

00:26:32.615 --> 00:26:33.636
beautiful celebration.

00:26:33.656 --> 00:26:35.478
They had a real life wedding during that,

00:26:35.657 --> 00:26:35.878
right?

00:26:35.919 --> 00:26:38.220
Like a true celebration.

00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:39.662
Let's make this as fun as we can.

00:26:40.342 --> 00:26:42.143
And there was moments of commentary,

00:26:42.163 --> 00:26:43.203
if you knew what they were looking for,

00:26:43.324 --> 00:26:44.765
dancing on the power lines.

00:26:44.805 --> 00:26:45.765
That's sort of weird.

00:26:45.825 --> 00:26:47.385
Well, because in Puerto Rico,

00:26:47.445 --> 00:26:49.948
they don't have access to power year round

00:26:50.008 --> 00:26:53.490
given climate change and also that the

00:26:53.529 --> 00:26:55.111
power companies have been privatized and

00:26:55.490 --> 00:26:56.791
try and run up the prices and make

00:26:56.811 --> 00:26:57.432
it really hard.

00:26:58.232 --> 00:26:58.952
And so, again,

00:26:59.012 --> 00:27:00.794
I think there was cultural commentary in

00:27:00.834 --> 00:27:01.055
there.

00:27:01.075 --> 00:27:02.756
The fact that the only thing that was

00:27:03.736 --> 00:27:04.436
in English,

00:27:04.497 --> 00:27:05.656
the two things that I think were in

00:27:05.757 --> 00:27:06.397
English were...

00:27:09.223 --> 00:27:10.545
We are America together,

00:27:10.565 --> 00:27:11.625
which is written on the football.

00:27:11.664 --> 00:27:13.505
You could barely make out what that said.

00:27:13.565 --> 00:27:14.766
I only saw a still shot of it.

00:27:15.486 --> 00:27:16.625
But then in Levi's Stadium,

00:27:16.945 --> 00:27:17.626
it's like eye roll.

00:27:17.666 --> 00:27:19.886
Can we stop having giant corporations by

00:27:19.967 --> 00:27:21.127
naming rights to stadiums?

00:27:21.147 --> 00:27:23.028
And then we all feel obligated to describe

00:27:23.067 --> 00:27:25.568
the stadium as whatever it is.

00:27:26.744 --> 00:27:29.346
sorry, American family insurance.

00:27:29.365 --> 00:27:31.866
It's still Miller park to me and probably

00:27:31.968 --> 00:27:35.088
always will be county stadium was a good

00:27:35.169 --> 00:27:37.089
name for a field.

00:27:37.910 --> 00:27:40.872
But Levi's stadium had that giant

00:27:40.892 --> 00:27:41.412
billboard,

00:27:41.892 --> 00:27:43.932
the giant screen that they use for replay

00:27:43.952 --> 00:27:46.273
and everything in the stadium saying the

00:27:46.314 --> 00:27:47.714
only thing more powerful than hate is

00:27:47.755 --> 00:27:48.255
love.

00:27:48.394 --> 00:27:48.555
Like,

00:27:48.797 --> 00:27:49.856
That's a beautiful message.

00:27:49.977 --> 00:27:51.616
And the fact that it was in English

00:27:51.717 --> 00:27:54.438
instead of Spanish speaks volumes.

00:27:54.458 --> 00:27:57.657
Because again, the issue predominantly,

00:27:57.818 --> 00:28:02.439
there's plenty of minorities who signed up

00:28:02.479 --> 00:28:03.538
to go be a part of ICE.

00:28:03.578 --> 00:28:04.740
We see that regularly,

00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:06.420
trying to be one of the good ones,

00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:08.299
not understanding that that never pans out

00:28:08.380 --> 00:28:09.079
historically.

00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:12.280
But the idea that this was put in

00:28:12.361 --> 00:28:13.000
English is again,

00:28:13.020 --> 00:28:15.340
a message to the American speaking

00:28:15.541 --> 00:28:18.301
audience that like, yo, we're good.

00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:20.382
We have our cultural cache.

00:28:20.422 --> 00:28:21.742
We can fall back on each other.

00:28:21.803 --> 00:28:24.685
We understand what it is to be oppressed

00:28:24.786 --> 00:28:26.627
and lean on your neighbor instead of

00:28:26.748 --> 00:28:30.992
trusting the system of government or

00:28:31.113 --> 00:28:33.976
capitalism or giant corporations.

00:28:34.496 --> 00:28:35.057
We're good.

00:28:35.477 --> 00:28:36.238
Y'all good?

00:28:36.357 --> 00:28:37.499
You gonna figure your shit out?

00:28:38.339 --> 00:28:39.780
And I think that was really, really,

00:28:39.820 --> 00:28:40.642
really well done.

00:28:42.022 --> 00:28:42.242
Again,

00:28:42.282 --> 00:28:43.624
I don't know Bad Bunny songs and I

00:28:43.644 --> 00:28:45.105
don't speak Spanish and it was like a

00:28:45.145 --> 00:28:46.226
joyful experience.

00:28:47.067 --> 00:28:51.250
I knew a lot of Kendrick songs because

00:28:52.250 --> 00:28:55.713
I like hip hop, but like not exclusively.

00:28:55.733 --> 00:28:57.115
As I said, I listen to metal.

00:28:57.154 --> 00:28:58.336
I knew a lot of Kendrick songs because

00:28:58.816 --> 00:29:00.857
Kendrick is a fantastic wordsmith.

00:29:01.238 --> 00:29:02.239
He didn't sing Rigamortis,

00:29:02.259 --> 00:29:04.121
which would have made me real happy at

00:29:04.141 --> 00:29:04.340
the time.

00:29:05.632 --> 00:29:07.272
the super bowl to hear that song.

00:29:07.313 --> 00:29:08.472
But like, again, it's,

00:29:10.232 --> 00:29:15.494
it's not showing that this needs to be

00:29:15.555 --> 00:29:17.276
for someone who looks like me.

00:29:17.316 --> 00:29:17.996
Right.

00:29:18.135 --> 00:29:21.096
And it's odd for even people who look

00:29:21.116 --> 00:29:24.238
like me to see such a joyous celebration

00:29:24.317 --> 00:29:28.078
and think, how dare they.

00:29:28.239 --> 00:29:28.699
Right.

00:29:28.739 --> 00:29:30.278
Like how sad and small does your life

00:29:30.298 --> 00:29:32.460
need to be to see people enjoying

00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:35.080
something to the fullest and then to hate

00:29:35.121 --> 00:29:35.201
it.

00:29:37.468 --> 00:29:39.828
I don't understand people who like feet,

00:29:40.788 --> 00:29:42.429
but like, yo,

00:29:42.489 --> 00:29:44.069
you smell those dirty gym socks.

00:29:45.670 --> 00:29:47.470
Somebody out there for you.

00:29:48.510 --> 00:29:51.891
I don't understand that small,

00:29:51.971 --> 00:29:54.271
small worldview where you think everything

00:29:54.751 --> 00:29:57.271
not only has to be for you,

00:29:57.352 --> 00:30:00.192
but that it should be.

00:30:00.272 --> 00:30:02.953
You're just a bad part of the species

00:30:03.253 --> 00:30:04.294
if that's what's going on.

00:30:07.195 --> 00:30:10.478
and they're just i don't know like again

00:30:10.518 --> 00:30:14.320
comparatively there wasn't any of that at

00:30:15.942 --> 00:30:18.623
the kid rock show with whatever like

00:30:18.903 --> 00:30:22.586
country right-wing music people were also

00:30:22.625 --> 00:30:27.009
there it was just it was empty performance

00:30:27.068 --> 00:30:29.490
again like literally kid rock lip-synced

00:30:29.530 --> 00:30:31.652
it and it was recorded ahead of time

00:30:34.022 --> 00:30:36.845
And they just wanted to be able to

00:30:36.904 --> 00:30:39.465
do sort of like, aha,

00:30:39.506 --> 00:30:41.686
this is for the real Americans.

00:30:42.067 --> 00:30:43.428
And like, A,

00:30:45.108 --> 00:30:46.950
that's just factually incorrect because

00:30:47.069 --> 00:30:49.851
Bad Bunny is a real American because

00:30:49.971 --> 00:30:51.011
Puerto Rico is part of America.

00:30:51.711 --> 00:30:57.134
B, that makes you just sound stupid.

00:30:57.555 --> 00:30:58.976
And like, racism is stupid.

00:30:59.715 --> 00:31:00.916
Those things have to go together,

00:31:01.017 --> 00:31:01.557
obviously.

00:31:02.518 --> 00:31:02.678
But

00:31:04.010 --> 00:31:05.692
Yeah, it's so bad.

00:31:05.853 --> 00:31:07.013
And it was so joyless.

00:31:07.054 --> 00:31:08.454
It was so soulless.

00:31:08.494 --> 00:31:11.577
It was performative and not like a loving

00:31:11.637 --> 00:31:11.959
way.

00:31:12.038 --> 00:31:12.398
Again,

00:31:12.459 --> 00:31:15.602
like you can see somebody like an athlete,

00:31:15.622 --> 00:31:16.343
we're talking about the Super Bowl,

00:31:16.363 --> 00:31:18.365
an athlete giving their all because they

00:31:18.404 --> 00:31:18.805
care about.

00:31:19.365 --> 00:31:21.866
their team their brothers right and like

00:31:21.886 --> 00:31:23.307
whatever I roll my eyes at a lot

00:31:23.326 --> 00:31:24.948
of that messaging around sports I think

00:31:24.988 --> 00:31:28.929
it's unhelpful and unhealthy honestly uh

00:31:28.949 --> 00:31:29.949
that's not true I think it would be

00:31:30.249 --> 00:31:32.549
helpful and healthy if capitalism wasn't

00:31:32.569 --> 00:31:34.589
the actual driver behind sports I think at

00:31:34.609 --> 00:31:36.611
a lower levels those things work really

00:31:36.651 --> 00:31:38.711
well and then the NBA and NFL and

00:31:38.852 --> 00:31:41.612
NHL and all the pro sports teams it's

00:31:41.652 --> 00:31:43.972
not a brotherhood anymore like we gotta

00:31:43.992 --> 00:31:46.294
stop acting like it is um

00:31:47.287 --> 00:31:49.169
again it is performative in like this sort

00:31:49.209 --> 00:31:52.531
of soulless way again a performance by an

00:31:52.692 --> 00:31:55.275
opera singer a performance by a great

00:31:55.414 --> 00:31:57.155
actor a performance by somebody who loves

00:31:57.236 --> 00:31:59.798
what they're doing and you can see that

00:31:59.979 --> 00:32:02.080
come through their performance that's not

00:32:02.121 --> 00:32:04.182
what kid rock was performing and like

00:32:05.443 --> 00:32:07.266
props to him i'm guessing he's an awful

00:32:07.286 --> 00:32:09.667
human being but like dude understands how

00:32:09.708 --> 00:32:12.191
to get the conservative bag right now like

00:32:13.023 --> 00:32:14.965
it's hard out there and if you peaked

00:32:15.066 --> 00:32:18.428
in in with a song that isn't very

00:32:18.468 --> 00:32:23.432
good good for you for still making that

00:32:23.491 --> 00:32:27.095
money all this time later right turning

00:32:27.134 --> 00:32:29.576
point usa is desperately trying to be

00:32:29.656 --> 00:32:33.079
relevant here as they continue to splinter

00:32:33.579 --> 00:32:34.921
um there is no

00:32:36.684 --> 00:32:38.665
There is no new Rush Limbaugh, right?

00:32:38.726 --> 00:32:41.126
Like the stranglehold that one person can

00:32:41.166 --> 00:32:44.388
have on the cultural discourse is just

00:32:44.469 --> 00:32:45.148
really hard.

00:32:45.950 --> 00:32:47.310
And again, hilariously,

00:32:48.151 --> 00:32:49.632
and why the Super Bowl continues to be

00:32:49.672 --> 00:32:50.811
such an on-the-nose,

00:32:51.011 --> 00:32:55.555
self-owned by America of American culture,

00:32:55.654 --> 00:32:56.555
is Trump, of course,

00:32:57.016 --> 00:32:58.675
had to complain about the halftime show.

00:32:59.517 --> 00:32:59.737
And

00:33:00.665 --> 00:33:01.866
complained about it ahead of time and then

00:33:01.886 --> 00:33:04.449
he posted his racist video and blamed a

00:33:04.489 --> 00:33:06.549
staffer and faced no real consequences

00:33:06.589 --> 00:33:08.111
because i don't know what we're doing

00:33:08.651 --> 00:33:11.353
we're not a real thing america as a

00:33:11.393 --> 00:33:14.815
country that is run well or ever did

00:33:14.855 --> 00:33:18.297
anything well is showing itself to have

00:33:18.376 --> 00:33:20.298
always been a lie but

00:33:21.086 --> 00:33:24.169
We're really just beyond satire at this

00:33:24.209 --> 00:33:24.450
point.

00:33:25.750 --> 00:33:28.232
So all the right-wing outrage around Bad

00:33:28.272 --> 00:33:29.314
Bunny, I guess,

00:33:29.894 --> 00:33:31.234
not having white enough skin,

00:33:32.596 --> 00:33:33.636
not speaking English,

00:33:34.958 --> 00:33:39.300
was led to the Turning Point USA-sponsored

00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:42.263
halftime show by Kid Rock, right?

00:33:42.284 --> 00:33:43.924
It's all very stupid, but whatever.

00:33:44.045 --> 00:33:44.265
Fine.

00:33:44.325 --> 00:33:44.726
There we are.

00:33:45.165 --> 00:33:47.788
Trump didn't even watch that, right?

00:33:48.969 --> 00:33:49.869
He can't...

00:33:51.484 --> 00:33:55.567
celebrate anything that isn't himself and

00:33:55.707 --> 00:33:57.827
the devoid sort of nature of it isn't

00:33:59.367 --> 00:34:01.009
i hated this thing over here what a

00:34:01.108 --> 00:34:03.529
great show thank goodness for turning

00:34:03.589 --> 00:34:05.750
point thank goodness for kid rock thank

00:34:05.790 --> 00:34:09.952
goodness for whatever whatever we're doing

00:34:10.333 --> 00:34:11.853
erica kirk i guess i don't know what

00:34:11.873 --> 00:34:13.414
they're happy about over there there's no

00:34:13.494 --> 00:34:16.775
joy there there's no celebration in any of

00:34:16.815 --> 00:34:18.755
that it's just i'm mad

00:34:19.331 --> 00:34:21.634
We have to keep the outrage machine going.

00:34:22.054 --> 00:34:24.135
It is, again, I think Trump,

00:34:24.436 --> 00:34:27.117
to a default, is controversy creates cash.

00:34:28.398 --> 00:34:30.219
He's a grifter who understands the media

00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.021
landscape as somebody who understands pro

00:34:32.041 --> 00:34:32.422
wrestling.

00:34:32.501 --> 00:34:34.623
Controversy creates cash is the famous

00:34:34.824 --> 00:34:35.804
phrase from pro wrestling.

00:34:35.864 --> 00:34:38.547
Trump has been friends with Vince McMahon

00:34:38.586 --> 00:34:40.228
and probably sexually trafficked people

00:34:40.268 --> 00:34:42.289
together because it's just on brand.

00:34:43.391 --> 00:34:45.931
That is, as an aside, actually probably...

00:34:48.771 --> 00:34:49.512
Potentially true.

00:34:49.853 --> 00:34:51.634
We don't know that for sure.

00:34:51.673 --> 00:34:52.574
But Ashley Massaro,

00:34:52.614 --> 00:34:55.396
who was a wrestler who was sexually

00:34:55.536 --> 00:34:57.976
harassed by Vince McMahon and eventually,

00:34:58.137 --> 00:35:00.018
sadly, tragically took her own life,

00:35:00.898 --> 00:35:04.001
worked as like I want to say an

00:35:04.101 --> 00:35:04.501
escort,

00:35:04.541 --> 00:35:05.922
but I'm sure they called it something else

00:35:07.021 --> 00:35:09.403
down in the South Florida areas that that

00:35:09.563 --> 00:35:11.105
Trump and Epstein were.

00:35:11.565 --> 00:35:13.286
And so she was named in the Epstein

00:35:13.306 --> 00:35:14.806
files somewhere.

00:35:15.663 --> 00:35:17.784
And then went on to WWE to be

00:35:17.824 --> 00:35:19.606
harassed there and then finally took her

00:35:19.646 --> 00:35:21.349
life in what was just like a tragic

00:35:21.369 --> 00:35:22.128
series of events.

00:35:23.911 --> 00:35:24.612
So, you know,

00:35:24.751 --> 00:35:26.353
that's probably not super far-fetched that

00:35:27.014 --> 00:35:28.155
Donald Trump and Vince McMahon,

00:35:28.175 --> 00:35:28.576
but like they're

00:35:29.556 --> 00:35:30.597
peas in a pod, right?

00:35:30.637 --> 00:35:33.940
Like, they're the same evil character.

00:35:35.603 --> 00:35:36.483
Vince has just always,

00:35:37.043 --> 00:35:38.324
not always stayed in pro wrestling.

00:35:38.364 --> 00:35:39.965
He also tried to do football once, but,

00:35:40.306 --> 00:35:42.369
you know, stuck mostly to pro wrestling.

00:35:42.429 --> 00:35:44.329
Although Linda McMahon is our Secretary of

00:35:44.391 --> 00:35:45.612
Education.

00:35:45.652 --> 00:35:45.831
So...

00:35:47.277 --> 00:35:47.737
There's that.

00:35:47.898 --> 00:35:48.878
But again, Trump,

00:35:49.259 --> 00:35:50.900
while understanding the media landscape,

00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:53.880
can't promote anything that isn't himself.

00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:56.121
Again, it would have been, in theory,

00:35:56.161 --> 00:35:59.384
easy promotion to throw a bone to Turning

00:35:59.423 --> 00:36:01.344
Point or Kid Rock even or whatever.

00:36:01.384 --> 00:36:03.686
But he hates all those people.

00:36:03.726 --> 00:36:05.465
He's not happy about them.

00:36:05.525 --> 00:36:07.286
He doesn't care.

00:36:08.088 --> 00:36:10.989
He would have given a two-hour rambling,

00:36:11.088 --> 00:36:12.809
incoherent, denture-slipping-out,

00:36:13.389 --> 00:36:14.210
dementia-riddled...

00:36:16.226 --> 00:36:17.666
campaign speech if they would have let

00:36:17.686 --> 00:36:18.367
him, I'm sure,

00:36:18.447 --> 00:36:20.748
but I don't think there are enough uppers

00:36:20.768 --> 00:36:21.889
where he can do that anymore.

00:36:22.829 --> 00:36:25.931
Whatever drugs he's taken all these years

00:36:26.012 --> 00:36:27.532
to cover.

00:36:29.092 --> 00:36:29.454
Not there.

00:36:29.514 --> 00:36:29.994
He did,

00:36:30.153 --> 00:36:32.474
in his complaints about the Bad Bunny

00:36:32.494 --> 00:36:33.275
Super Bowl show,

00:36:33.396 --> 00:36:35.657
complain about the dancers,

00:36:36.336 --> 00:36:38.798
which were dressed very modestly.

00:36:39.179 --> 00:36:39.798
I was like...

00:36:41.059 --> 00:36:43.440
I noted how modestly the dancers were

00:36:43.460 --> 00:36:43.722
dressed.

00:36:43.742 --> 00:36:44.262
Like, oh...

00:36:45.233 --> 00:36:47.635
We're really catering to the conservative

00:36:47.675 --> 00:36:49.197
crowd just to try and take away their

00:36:49.237 --> 00:36:50.717
criticism, which doesn't work.

00:36:50.757 --> 00:36:51.980
They're still going to criticize it,

00:36:52.019 --> 00:36:52.219
right?

00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.001
But those were more modest outfits than

00:36:55.021 --> 00:36:56.623
the cheerleaders wear,

00:36:56.923 --> 00:36:59.306
which have become increasingly more and

00:36:59.327 --> 00:37:02.469
more modest because the NFL wants to

00:37:02.550 --> 00:37:04.652
promote this sort of fan-friendly imagery.

00:37:05.170 --> 00:37:07.271
for this thing where we watch uh grown

00:37:07.311 --> 00:37:10.472
men get con get concussions professionally

00:37:10.532 --> 00:37:14.454
so yeah and and he said he didn't

00:37:14.474 --> 00:37:16.016
say won't think someone won't someone

00:37:16.036 --> 00:37:18.076
think of the children but like that's the

00:37:18.175 --> 00:37:20.556
idea he was playing for which like again

00:37:21.097 --> 00:37:22.838
as somebody who's in the news for being

00:37:22.878 --> 00:37:25.278
in the epstein files nearly forty thousand

00:37:25.318 --> 00:37:27.539
times for just half of them and we

00:37:27.579 --> 00:37:29.061
know his name's been redacted a ton

00:37:30.356 --> 00:37:32.336
not great to bring up kids unnecessarily

00:37:32.697 --> 00:37:34.898
kid rock also has another name for epstein

00:37:35.038 --> 00:37:37.519
island is a pretty funny uh internet joke

00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.981
right now as a way to like keep

00:37:40.121 --> 00:37:45.664
pushing that like hey president seems to

00:37:45.704 --> 00:37:48.244
be deeply compromised by multiple spy

00:37:48.324 --> 00:37:50.246
agencies from other countries uh the

00:37:50.266 --> 00:37:51.947
billionaire ruling class has been

00:37:54.112 --> 00:37:55.333
Not just raping children,

00:37:55.373 --> 00:37:57.556
but also raping the economy and the

00:37:57.615 --> 00:37:59.056
environment for a long time.

00:37:59.077 --> 00:38:00.579
Maybe there should be some consequences.

00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:02.400
Needs to be an ongoing talking point.

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:04.501
The fact that this is not an ongoing

00:38:04.541 --> 00:38:04.782
thing.

00:38:04.822 --> 00:38:06.403
The fact that the Panama Papers came out

00:38:06.423 --> 00:38:07.764
in twenty seventeen wasn't a thing.

00:38:07.804 --> 00:38:10.447
The idea that the rich and powerful will

00:38:10.487 --> 00:38:11.608
continue to get away with it,

00:38:11.869 --> 00:38:12.789
as evidenced by.

00:38:13.914 --> 00:38:15.195
The people who are buying ads in the

00:38:15.356 --> 00:38:18.057
Super Bowl is kind of depressing.

00:38:18.298 --> 00:38:18.619
Again,

00:38:18.978 --> 00:38:21.701
the hollow center of American dominance is

00:38:22.422 --> 00:38:26.244
a few rich men being assholes are going

00:38:26.264 --> 00:38:28.346
to keep getting away with it and taking

00:38:28.385 --> 00:38:29.567
advantage of the rest of us.

00:38:29.867 --> 00:38:32.289
That's American dominance, right?

00:38:33.130 --> 00:38:36.572
That's settler colonialism in a nutshell.

00:38:37.193 --> 00:38:39.353
It's it's not about culture.

00:38:39.494 --> 00:38:41.335
It's not about spectacle.

00:38:41.675 --> 00:38:41.815
I mean,

00:38:41.835 --> 00:38:45.317
the spectacle serves the point to distract

00:38:46.077 --> 00:38:46.458
from

00:38:48.668 --> 00:38:53.492
the rich wealthy terrible awful humans who

00:38:53.532 --> 00:38:54.873
are making money off all these things

00:38:54.932 --> 00:38:57.514
again the epstein survivors couldn't get a

00:38:57.574 --> 00:38:59.795
super bowl ad they did release an ad

00:38:59.856 --> 00:39:01.938
on super bowl sunday which was smart and

00:39:01.978 --> 00:39:04.079
got a lot more traction that way it

00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:05.239
didn't air during the super bowl because

00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:07.300
it's like eight to ten million dollars for

00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:09.202
a super bowl ad the people who have

00:39:09.242 --> 00:39:11.764
that are listed in the epstein files right

00:39:12.525 --> 00:39:17.088
um the fact that that ai um business

00:39:17.188 --> 00:39:18.349
owners spent so much money

00:39:19.871 --> 00:39:21.554
promoting Trump and giving money to his

00:39:21.594 --> 00:39:23.679
campaign and then sat behind him at his

00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:26.244
inauguration was not a coincidence.

00:39:26.304 --> 00:39:28.590
And those are the people who are selling

00:39:29.972 --> 00:39:30.552
Ad space.

00:39:31.032 --> 00:39:32.153
Now, Trump, as far as I know,

00:39:32.173 --> 00:39:33.275
is not involved in gambling.

00:39:33.315 --> 00:39:35.896
He has run several casinos so poorly that

00:39:35.918 --> 00:39:36.958
they bankrupt, which, again,

00:39:36.978 --> 00:39:39.079
like is a foolproof business model.

00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:40.681
The house always wins.

00:39:41.443 --> 00:39:43.143
So I don't think he's he's real there.

00:39:43.503 --> 00:39:45.385
And Trump is arguably probably not

00:39:45.485 --> 00:39:48.449
superior in the week of the Olympic sort

00:39:48.489 --> 00:39:49.590
of thing.

00:39:49.630 --> 00:39:51.452
But like I do think Trump.

00:39:52.161 --> 00:39:56.643
highlights the symptom of America's step

00:39:56.684 --> 00:39:58.784
backwards from the body positivity

00:39:58.804 --> 00:40:02.885
movement and sort of allowing that to be

00:40:03.465 --> 00:40:03.905
a thing.

00:40:03.967 --> 00:40:08.628
It's just like, it's also gross.

00:40:08.827 --> 00:40:10.268
It's rotten apples,

00:40:10.489 --> 00:40:12.889
it's rotten at the core and that sickness

00:40:12.909 --> 00:40:14.610
spreads out and it ruins the whole bunch.

00:40:14.670 --> 00:40:17.452
Like until we get rid of the colonial

00:40:17.492 --> 00:40:18.172
mindset,

00:40:18.291 --> 00:40:20.693
until we get rid of the white supremacy,

00:40:23.021 --> 00:40:24.422
There's not a core there.

00:40:24.521 --> 00:40:27.163
Like the melting pot idea of America and

00:40:27.222 --> 00:40:29.262
America is this diverse thing,

00:40:29.342 --> 00:40:31.403
this land of opportunity was always

00:40:31.483 --> 00:40:32.543
propaganda, right?

00:40:33.364 --> 00:40:36.264
Like very little time in history was that

00:40:36.324 --> 00:40:37.445
actually ever true.

00:40:38.864 --> 00:40:40.865
And even when it was for that very

00:40:40.885 --> 00:40:42.085
little bit of time true,

00:40:42.126 --> 00:40:43.925
it wasn't accessible to everyone by any

00:40:43.965 --> 00:40:45.047
stretch of the imagination.

00:40:45.947 --> 00:40:48.487
And it's just, yeah,

00:40:48.547 --> 00:40:49.387
late stage capitalism.

00:40:49.447 --> 00:40:50.688
It's just not accessible to anyone

00:40:50.748 --> 00:40:51.088
anymore.

00:40:51.507 --> 00:40:53.148
while the rich get richer and everybody

00:40:53.188 --> 00:40:53.768
else suffers,

00:40:53.809 --> 00:40:55.889
like we are well past the French

00:40:55.929 --> 00:40:57.710
revolution point of wealth inequality.

00:40:58.311 --> 00:41:00.010
So at some point it's all got to

00:41:00.050 --> 00:41:03.193
come tumbling down and America will

00:41:03.293 --> 00:41:04.672
continue to drag its feet because that's

00:41:04.693 --> 00:41:05.974
what America's dragged on.

00:41:05.994 --> 00:41:08.755
While other countries call Musk and other

00:41:08.775 --> 00:41:10.315
people who are named in the Epstein files,

00:41:10.675 --> 00:41:12.817
Musk for his illegal practices around

00:41:13.376 --> 00:41:16.038
election fraud and other things, um,

00:41:17.170 --> 00:41:19.572
and creation of child pornography and the

00:41:19.592 --> 00:41:21.193
way that he manipulates the algorithm on

00:41:21.233 --> 00:41:23.536
social media, America's not doing that,

00:41:23.715 --> 00:41:23.936
right?

00:41:24.135 --> 00:41:26.398
America's not doing anything particularly

00:41:26.438 --> 00:41:27.760
seriously to hold any sort of

00:41:27.780 --> 00:41:30.561
accountability for anyone.

00:41:30.581 --> 00:41:31.063
So that's fun.

00:41:32.438 --> 00:41:33.697
which is why I think the Super Bowl

00:41:33.717 --> 00:41:37.458
is such a joyless experience and why when

00:41:38.398 --> 00:41:39.860
for colonial reasons, right,

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:41.960
it's still gross why Kendrick got to do

00:41:41.980 --> 00:41:42.719
the halftime show,

00:41:43.579 --> 00:41:44.960
why Bad Bunny was selected to do the

00:41:44.981 --> 00:41:47.940
halftime show was because the NFL wants to

00:41:48.081 --> 00:41:51.021
expand its reach far more globally.

00:41:51.802 --> 00:41:53.282
And so that's yucky.

00:41:53.981 --> 00:41:59.704
And like the rich white capitalist can't

00:41:59.804 --> 00:42:01.184
control the culture, right?

00:42:02.009 --> 00:42:03.389
that's what shined through when these

00:42:03.469 --> 00:42:05.250
artists who are very good at their craft

00:42:05.349 --> 00:42:07.831
and also are very connected to the culture

00:42:08.150 --> 00:42:09.592
get that opportunity to put the culture on

00:42:09.612 --> 00:42:12.492
display like right that that's not roger

00:42:12.532 --> 00:42:14.934
goodell being hip with the times that's

00:42:15.313 --> 00:42:19.315
the old uh attempt at colonialism let me

00:42:19.376 --> 00:42:21.135
see how i can make money off of

00:42:21.195 --> 00:42:23.356
this and that's going to continue to go

00:42:23.416 --> 00:42:26.038
the nfl is a gigantic money printing

00:42:26.057 --> 00:42:28.518
machine for it's predominantly white

00:42:28.699 --> 00:42:31.079
owners and shareholders um

00:42:32.356 --> 00:42:34.878
And you can't put a lid on that

00:42:34.918 --> 00:42:36.838
culture, right?

00:42:36.998 --> 00:42:38.920
Like again, that joyful experience,

00:42:38.940 --> 00:42:42.302
that joyful expression of what culture is

00:42:43.422 --> 00:42:44.103
comes through.

00:42:44.262 --> 00:42:45.264
And yes,

00:42:45.304 --> 00:42:46.744
there's profit models and there's all

00:42:46.764 --> 00:42:48.045
these things the NFL will continue to make

00:42:48.085 --> 00:42:48.425
money on.

00:42:48.646 --> 00:42:50.447
And again, at a time like this,

00:42:51.027 --> 00:42:52.547
when we're seeing societal collapse,

00:42:52.568 --> 00:42:56.271
we're seeing norms fail for anybody who's

00:42:56.331 --> 00:42:58.211
not incredibly wealthy, right?

00:42:58.231 --> 00:43:00.253
It's not just marginalized communities

00:43:00.293 --> 00:43:01.514
suffering, it's everybody suffering.

00:43:05.347 --> 00:43:07.947
that spread that idea of hey it comes

00:43:07.967 --> 00:43:09.588
back to community hey you need to know

00:43:09.608 --> 00:43:11.929
your neighbors hey like there's a thing

00:43:12.409 --> 00:43:16.889
beyond clicks and likes and number of

00:43:16.949 --> 00:43:19.371
shares there's culture there's community

00:43:19.411 --> 00:43:21.871
that's what we as humans as a species

00:43:21.971 --> 00:43:23.771
need and that's what we'll need to get

00:43:23.811 --> 00:43:25.572
through this like that really comes

00:43:25.612 --> 00:43:29.472
through and there's no way to monetize

00:43:29.512 --> 00:43:30.052
that there's

00:43:30.851 --> 00:43:32.931
attempts to right there's grifting and

00:43:32.952 --> 00:43:34.393
there's all these other things but but

00:43:34.413 --> 00:43:36.034
there's no way to take that over and

00:43:36.074 --> 00:43:39.635
control that right even even for

00:43:39.795 --> 00:43:41.255
indigenous cultures which have been

00:43:41.835 --> 00:43:44.398
ravaged throughout the american experiment

00:43:44.498 --> 00:43:46.278
like they're still there they're still

00:43:46.619 --> 00:43:48.119
gathering in the community they're still

00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:49.880
celebrating they're still dancing like

00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:55.023
that's where um culture and community

00:43:55.043 --> 00:43:57.844
really comes through and and creates shows

00:43:57.884 --> 00:43:58.985
that like meaning

00:44:00.264 --> 00:44:02.706
as defined by the cultural experience,

00:44:02.766 --> 00:44:05.226
not just this sort of devoid,

00:44:06.067 --> 00:44:07.947
hollow husk of meaning,

00:44:08.007 --> 00:44:09.847
this representation of what was

00:44:09.927 --> 00:44:10.668
meaningful.

00:44:12.349 --> 00:44:15.030
So, yeah.

00:44:15.150 --> 00:44:17.210
It's a cool halftime show.

00:44:17.289 --> 00:44:19.030
It's a sad little experience to be such

00:44:19.050 --> 00:44:21.411
a hateful white supremacist that you

00:44:21.512 --> 00:44:22.672
couldn't find any joy in it.

00:44:23.682 --> 00:44:25.885
And it's a real shame that so many

00:44:25.925 --> 00:44:28.347
people are under so much propaganda that

00:44:28.367 --> 00:44:30.269
those hateful little men are the ones who

00:44:30.429 --> 00:44:31.070
we put in charge.

00:44:33.032 --> 00:44:33.954
Womp womp.

00:44:36.898 --> 00:44:38.820
But yeah, that's what I got today.

00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:40.501
Maybe next year the Packers will be

00:44:40.521 --> 00:44:40.742
better.

00:44:42.693 --> 00:44:43.875
Then I won't even watch the halftime show

00:44:43.894 --> 00:44:45.014
because I'll just be stressing about the

00:44:45.074 --> 00:44:45.715
actual game.

00:44:46.356 --> 00:44:47.916
Maybe next year will be the year that

00:44:47.976 --> 00:44:50.259
I quit watching football.

00:44:50.318 --> 00:44:51.018
Seems unlikely.

00:44:51.099 --> 00:44:52.780
I won my fantasy football championship.

00:44:56.501 --> 00:44:56.742
Yeah.

00:44:57.262 --> 00:44:57.822
I don't know.

00:44:57.943 --> 00:44:59.324
It's a weird space.

00:44:59.364 --> 00:45:01.425
The Super Bowl is always weird as somebody

00:45:01.445 --> 00:45:02.346
who really, really,

00:45:02.405 --> 00:45:05.126
really likes sports and thinks that sport

00:45:05.306 --> 00:45:09.090
is something that is attainable and

00:45:09.130 --> 00:45:10.570
approachable and a good...

00:45:11.893 --> 00:45:15.157
mechanism for community building and teams

00:45:15.376 --> 00:45:17.057
and things that i do think matter to

00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:18.900
the human experience like the super bowl

00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:20.641
has always been kind of gross as like

00:45:21.501 --> 00:45:24.045
a distillation away from everything that

00:45:24.065 --> 00:45:26.346
makes sports good and into everything that

00:45:26.367 --> 00:45:31.951
makes sport bad so maybe maybe there will

00:45:31.971 --> 00:45:34.353
be good things going on and i can

00:45:34.373 --> 00:45:35.775
just talk about mental health and not do

00:45:35.815 --> 00:45:37.695
so much cultural analysis on why like all

00:45:37.715 --> 00:45:38.876
of our mental health is bad because the

00:45:38.916 --> 00:45:39.597
culture is broken

00:45:41.449 --> 00:45:41.949
One can hope.

00:45:43.210 --> 00:45:43.510
All right.

00:45:44.731 --> 00:45:45.231
That's what I got.

00:45:45.251 --> 00:45:46.851
Take care of yourself.

00:45:46.871 --> 00:45:47.572
Take care of somebody else.

00:45:47.592 --> 00:45:49.353
We'll be back next week with another new

00:45:49.452 --> 00:45:50.534
episode.

00:45:50.594 --> 00:45:50.994
Peace.