Hey, guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks, as always, for clicking and listening along.

Got a huge one for you this week, if you don't mind my saying.

He is one of the biggest acts in all of music around the world and, frankly, one of the most famous people on the planet.

He is Bad Bunny.

Birth name Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio.

He comes from Puerto Rico, about 30 miles west of San Juan, grew up with all kinds of musical influences that you now see in his music from salsa and

mirengay and reggaeton but then also like the bgis and hip-hop with tupac and everybody else and he

kind of absorbed all that and created the sound that has become huge around the world for him

um we got together to talk about yes his music, including this incredible residency.

He's in the middle of in his home in San Juan in Puerto Rico. 30 shows over the course of a summer,

all sold out arena shows. Hundreds of thousands of people flocking to Puerto Rico to see the shows

by estimates between $200 and $400 million coming into the island because of it.

And it's really all just a big love letter to Puerto Rico.

You might have seen some of his celebrity buddies, John Hamm, most notably, if you haven't

seen it, look it up, going down to San Juan to see the shows,

and just really feeling it in a bucket hat and a floral shirt, just going to town because who can't,

who can resist the sounds of Bad Bunny? So we talk a lot about Puerto Rico, talk about his career,

how he started, how it got off the ground. We talk about the genesis of his stage

name, Bad Bunny. He took it as a kid, and now he's got it. Also, though, this turn, this summer

really into acting. He was in Happy Gilmore II, kind of stole the movie a little bit, and now a more

serious role in the Darren Aronovsky film Caught Stealing. It's got Austin Butler in it. Zoe Kravitz, is in it, Leavs, Schreiber, Vincent Dinoffro, an incredible cast, and he's right there among them. So the music career is what it is, biggest star maybe in the world right now, Taylor Swift, notwithstanding. But also now he's carving out this other

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