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It's the Bad Bunny halftime show at the Super Bowl post game.

I'm John Caramonica.

I'm the critic.

I am Joe Kaskarelli and I am the reporter.

Joe, the halftime show just finished a few minutes ago.

I feel like I can comfortably say right off the top, it is not what I anticipated it would be.

And obviously, it's a bit of a fool's task, I think, to have an anticipation or a specific set of expectations going to an event of this scale, of this political valence potentially, of this footprint.

Tell me a little bit about where you stand in terms of your shock level.

Because I think I have my shock level is high and my curiosity level is peaked and maybe a little bit

head scratched.

I don't feel shocked.

I feel like that was, for better or worse, the live rendition of the commercial beforehand.

There was the Bad Bunny Apple commercial saying, The World Will Dance.

It featured Bad Bunny dancing with an array of different kinds of people, different ages,

different races, genders, styles with the message, the world will dance.

It was a message of unity, which we got from him at the end in a big billboard that said the only thing stronger

than hate is love and i feel like that energy was just exploded onto a well-designed stage or

a intricately designed stage i mean i will say the thing that I am immediately struck by, we often think of these

halftime shows as broadcasts out to the world.

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