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The Mallory Bros Podcast

Ep.290 | Super Bowl Weekend, Bad Bunny Halftime, J Cole 🔥 Album, AI Conspiracies + More!

The Mallory Bros Podcast

MalloryBros.

Tv & Film, Music, Society & Culture

4.92.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

On the 290th episode of the MalloryBrosPodcast, the Bros jump right in with Terrance going down memory lane. He breaks down how reading the number two-nine in Episode 290 feels like the stars aligning. That reflection turns into a story about how he and Terrell played the 4 and 5 on their very first basketball team, tying it back to how they’ve always been “9ers” at heart. The weekend recap finds Terrance fully in his storytelling bag, sharing a moment where he helped an elderly woman who fell in a grocery store. The situation stuck with him and served as a reminder of how important it is to show up for people. Terrell talks about getting ready for the Super Bowl before the Bros shift into a deeper conversation about the game’s halftime show. Bad Bunny made history with a fully Spanish performance that sparked heavy debate, and the Bros break down both sides of the reaction. They discuss whether the Super Bowl halftime show has evolved from a massive entertainment platform into more of a cultural statement moment. Future’s new snippets and the excitement around his return. Things take a darker turn as the Bros react to President Trump sharing racist AI-generated videos of former President Obama. Despicable behavior. The Bros revisit a topic from last week involving social media creator Khaby Lame, who reportedly sold his company for $975 million.. but also signed up for a digital AI twin. This is being looked alas the new way of selling your soul ... or is it? The Bros debate it. Terrance revisits a point he’s made before about how the devices we rely on today won’t even exist in the same way years from now. They also discuss the Ring Doorbell Super Bowl commercial that raised concerns, celebrate the Seattle Seahawks winning the Super Bowl, and close out with thoughts on J. Cole’s The Fall Off, which is already being called a classic. The Bros give their early reactions to the project and talk about whether artists are becoming more comfortable operating as solo acts than ever before.  Movie Suggestions of the Week: Terrance | Chronicle (2012) | Now Streaming on NETLIX.  Terrell | FOCUS (2013) | Now Streaming on NETFLIX.

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0:00.0

Please

0:07.0

Make you

0:08.0

Slate

0:09.0

Slate You know, yo want to slap your mama.

0:22.5

Don't it will it.

0:25.1

Brook by brick.

0:29.4

Yo, yo, yo, yo.

0:30.6

It's the Mallory Bros.

0:31.3

Podcast, episode 290.

0:33.7

It's a special week, man.

0:35.3

Special episode for me.

0:37.4

Two nons, man, it means a lot to me. With me and Terrell were young. Oh, let me say this. Shout it to my brother right beside me. Big real, big real, big real. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Hey, but more for me. If you're showing love, I'm sicing my love. That's what I hope you did. But what for? what we're starting with. Episode 290 have you added across. Well, you don't really

0:57.2

got to add it across

0:58.0

if you look across, well, you're really got to add it across. If you're looking across, do y'all see that 2-9? Believe it or not, we just dropped the J-Cole, um, longest reaction that we ever did. Yesterday, if you listen to this now, yesterday was 2-9 You're listening to episode two nine zero. You're looking at two nines on your screen. You're listening to two nines in the mic through your ears, through your headphones, to your radio speaker, however you see and hearing this. I want to tell y'all a little quick story just to start this. Me and Terrell was young. We played basketball for this team that wasn't necessarily good, but me and Terrell was the shit.

1:32.5

And like, we realized very soon that, oh, we was just playing in the league where they was like, jial like trash.

1:39.5

Because when we got to the good team, we realized, oh, okay, yeah, now we're playing with our talent.

1:45.6

But for that one season, we just missed the good team we realized oh okay yeah now we plan with our talent but we tried out for that team too we just missed the good team try out or the yeah we missed the a team try out we tried out

1:52.9

we tried out with the motherfuckers that's like if you kid got a little bit of coordination kid got a little

1:56.6

bit of all he need help yeah so we came out there and looked like Rockstar. They was like, we definitely need him and him. So look, the positions me and Terrell played because we was tall. Terrell played the five. He was about an inch taller than me like now. A lot of y'all don't know that Terrell is taller than me. Wow, a lot of y'all watched this podcast. Don't know that. Terrell is the youngest, but he's taller.

2:18.3

Thorel always was like a little bit more stocky. I had to grow into my,

2:24.5

and still ain't caught him. I mean, still ain't caught me. It don't matter because it's

2:29.4

Louis. But look, Terrell played the five, I played the four, but I felt like one thing that I didn't think about was my very first jersey number was 44, right?

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