Brian Lerer on WNYC.

So did you watch the Bad Bunny Show, I mean the Super Bowl, last night?

God bless America,

say Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Paraguay, Bolivia,

Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela.

God bless America, every country in America in that stretch of Bad Bunny's performance,

just about every country.

It is Super Bowl hangover Monday.

Seattle Seahawks 29, New England Patriots 13.

Congratulations, Seahawks fans for many of New York.

I know anybody but the Patriots, yay.

But as usual, at least as often, the bigger story might be everything around the game.

The commercials that tried to sell us

comfort, distraction, and AI, the halftime show that did become kind of a cultural Rorschach test

and the political counter-programming that seemed determined to turn a football Sunday

into a culture war rally. You heard the Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's group,

had an alternative half-time show with Kid Rock.

Didn't even want to watch Bad Bunny and make your own choices

or make your own judgments.

But of course, he headlined.

And the reaction before and after tells us a lot about where the country is right now.

So, whether it's about the crypto, commercials, gambling, all during the Super Bowl,

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