So I went to the Super Bowl and I had lots of fun and I have many thoughts about it. I will give them all over to you.

Plus, we will break down the memo. I've now had a chance to read it, peruse it, absorb it. I have many thoughts about that as well. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

So I will say I'm a lucky son of a gun. I went to the Super Bowl on Sunday. Went down to the Super Bowl yesterday. I'm still exhausted from that because it flew in very early there and then flew very early back so I could do the show today. It's an amazing experience. And believe it or not, that's actually the first football game I've ever been to in person. It's not the first football game I've watched. But I have a feeling that the other ones I go to maybe somewhat of a letdown in the future. But I have a lot of thoughts on the Super Bowl, and I want to share them with you. I also want to talk about everything you have to know about the memo, the latest developments on that score. Is it really the end of all scandals, the scandal to end all scandals, or is it a giant nothing burger? The answer is kind of somewhat in between, and we'll go through a nuanced analysis now that I've had a chance to actually read the thing over a couple of times and check some of the legalities. All right, so before we do that, I first want to say thank you. It's my sponsor is over at 1,800 flowers. So do not be a fool. We are approaching Valentine's Day, and you know you haven't bought anything for that special someone. You haven't. Because you're lazy.

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1 800 flowers.com use promo code Shapiro so yeah my wife wasn't that thrilled about me going in the Super Bowl, but in retrospect, but in the end, in the end, she was happy that I went ahead of a good time.

I brought my father and went with my business partner, Jeremy.

We went with the president of the company, Caleb, and all thanks to Westwood Ones.

We want to thank our partners over Westwood One for giving us the seats because it was pretty incredible.

So we were seated up behind the Patriots end zone. And the stadium, first of all, in Minnesota is amazing. It's an amazing stadium. It's just beautiful.

I'm sure all those public dollars were put to good use when no one ever travels there again.

But it is, it is incredible. I mean, it's not a place you want to hang out. Okay? Like, in the summer, Minnesota is beautiful. It's a beautiful state. My family used to vacation in Minnesota during the summer. During the winter, it is a hellscape. I mean, we were there yesterday, and it was, it was 15 degrees below zero with the wind show. And needless to say, I was not prepared for this. So that's why I'm missing an ear at this point and at least two toes, lost to frostbite. But there are a few things that really struck me about the Super Bowl this year, aside from the fact that it was a phenomenal game and no one knows how to tackle. So those were the two big ones. Great game. No one plays defense. And it's not on Tom Brady guys. Like, I'm not the biggest Brady fan, although he is the best quarterback of all time, clearly. Still, when you throw three touchdowns, no interceptions, and throw for 508 yards and lose, that's your defense's fault. Like, that's not your fault. So everybody's done. Brady about this is ridiculous. But the thing that really struck me, and what was pretty cool about it, is you get in the stadium, it's a bunch of people who hate the other team, right? I mean, the Eagles fans hate the Patriots, and the Patriots fans hate the Eagles, and they have a long record of not liking each other very much. And yet, in the stadium, there was a real feeling of camaraderie among everybody who is actually there. Maybe it's because it's really cold outside and no one wanted to leave. Maybe it's because just being part of an amazing event like that feels really cool. I mean, it's its communal experience and we're all taking part. And there was some, there was a feeling of camaraderie among the folks in the stadium regardless of which side you actually preferred to win, which side you were rooting for, to the point where after the game, maybe it's just

because the Patriots have won every other Super Bowl for a decade. But the Patriots fans were very gracious to the Eagles fans, and the Eagles fans were, I think, relatively gracious to the Patriots fans. And everybody got along, and it was just a wonderful thing. The electricity in the stadium was incredible. I mean, everyone was basically standing for the entire time. I will say what was one of the funny things is that one of the things people pay attention to at home, because I've watched every other Super Bowl from home, is you pay attention to the halftime show in the stadium no one cares. In the stadium, the level of attention paid to the Super Bowl halftime show is relatively nil. This is when all the bathrooms fill up and you leave to go out and get a Coke for $1,000.

And you can't hear anything because the stadium is set up in such a way.

But the actual atmosphere was really cool.

And what was super cool is that, and it shows you what the NFL did wrong the season,

how they really blew it this season.

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