Bad Bunny, Big Game Weekend, and the Culture War at Halftime
Intimate Knowledge
iHeartPodcasts
3.5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Amy & T.J. are in San Francisco on Radio Row for the Big Game Weekend, and the biggest debate isn’t just on the field. This year’s halftime performer, Bad Bunny, has become the center of a cultural flashpoint, igniting conversations about language, identity, and who gets to be seen as “American” on one of the country’s biggest stages. As excitement builds around the game, Amy & T.J. dig into the backlash, the lineup for the “All-American Halftime Show,” and why music and sports - the very things meant to unite us - now reveal just how divided we still are when it comes to acceptance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. |
| 0:07.8 | America is in crisis. |
| 0:09.5 | At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. |
| 0:12.3 | These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, |
| 0:15.4 | locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior. |
| 0:20.6 | It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never |
| 0:24.9 | forget. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Hans Charles. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Mena Lake Lemoombo. |
| 0:28.1 | Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:33.5 | podcasts. |
| 0:36.3 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:39.6 | It's Big Game Weekend. |
| 0:44.4 | Seahawks, Patriots, Bad Bunny, Kid Rock. |
| 0:46.7 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:47.7 | Who you got? |
| 0:51.5 | It's like pick a side for the teams and pick aside for your halftime show. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Normally the competition is just between the two teams playing on the gridiron. |
| 1:05.0 | It's not between the artists, the musical artists, on the stage. |
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