Bad Bunny's Halftime Show
Yo, Is This Racist?
Andrew Ti, Tawny Newsome
4.2 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Andrew discuss Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime performance.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? |
| 0:11.0 | We are living in scheduling difficulties. |
| 0:17.0 | Yo is this racist world? |
| 0:20.0 | Similarly, we had scheduling difficulties on Star Trek. |
| 0:24.6 | Our premium show, where Tani is walking Kevin and I threw some of the most iconic episodes of Star Trek, |
| 0:32.6 | available at the top of the Loppa.com. That was too soon for a plug, but we didn't record, we weren't able to record that last week because mostly Taney was too busy doing press for her episode of Starfleet Academy, which you should watch now. I believe it is episode five. And it's wonderful. |
| 0:55.0 | But yeah, most importantly, just wanted to do a quick kind of like, |
| 0:58.9 | you know, was this racist-y kind of, I don't know, solo solo show while I have some moments to record by myself. |
| 1:07.5 | The Super Bowl was yesterday as we're recording, as I'm this, it's just a wee. It's just my ass. |
| 1:12.4 | I guess peanuts here. I'm Andrew. Do people know that? I don't know. And I guess the only |
| 1:20.3 | culture type thing that was significant was, of course, bad. But I guess I'm just like, |
| 1:26.5 | I assume from internet chatter that the Patriots losing is good for good people, but maybe not. |
| 1:35.0 | Maybe that's mostly a joke. But Bad Bunny performed at the halftime show. It was amazing. And, you know, sort of political art in the exact way you needed to be. |
| 1:48.0 | I think the thing that was pointed out to me was there was a portion where he's on the some power transformers |
| 1:58.0 | talking about how Puerto Rico was left without power for way too long. |
| 2:04.5 | During the last hurricane, I don't remember all the facts. |
| 2:08.2 | But, you know, but just sort of like broadly speaking, and this was in counterpoint to the racist ass. |
| 2:15.4 | Not talking points, turning points, the Charlie Kirk racist variety show, |
| 2:22.5 | which kind of always was never going to be acceptable as far as contemporary show business goes. |
| 2:30.6 | But, you know, it's just another example of sort of conservatives thinking you know every time you |
| 2:36.9 | see sort of conservative reactionary racist culture it kind of always is like this it's it's |
| 2:44.1 | literally by definition impossible for them to generate new ideas and And so you get what you get. |
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