Our Friend, Bad Bunny | (Ep. 415)
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Canon Press
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the Super Bowl halftime show and its cultural meaning, then continues his study of sin by explaining what Scripture means by having a doubtful mind and why worry is ultimately rooted in unbelief. He closes by discussing Philip Hamburger’s Separation of Church and State, clarifying the history of the phrase and what the First Amendment actually requires.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. This is episode 415. Can you believe it? |
| 0:24.4 | 415, the podcast. Just make sure you're in the right place. Since it is still fresh and all the hot news, I thought I'd talk a little bit about Super Bowl halftime and our friend Bad Bunny. |
| 0:40.4 | So there are many layers to this whole thing, and many things should go out to the turning |
| 0:47.3 | point people who sort of put us a spotlight on the whole thing by providing an alternative |
| 0:54.0 | halftime show that people could |
| 0:57.1 | come over and watch instead of watching the usual monstrosity that gets served up in the official |
| 1:06.0 | in the official Super Bowl. So the challenge worked. There was a challenge element involved, |
| 1:15.4 | and there was also natural consequences to the whole thing. There's an outfit called Samba TV |
| 1:23.4 | that measures ratings, and it's far more granulated than the old Nielsen system. |
| 1:31.2 | The Nielsen system, I think, has been going since 1950 or something. |
| 1:36.3 | And Samba TV is geared for smart televisions, which pretty much everybody's television is these days. And they can, they can |
| 1:46.3 | get a lot more, right? And according to Samba TV, S-A-M-B-A, Samba TV, about 22 million people |
| 1:57.0 | switched away from the Super Bowl during the halftime or just turned it off. |
| 2:03.2 | 22 million people. That's a lot of people. And if you're an advertiser who is paying a trillion |
| 2:11.5 | dollars a minute for ad space during the Super Bowl, they're not, they're obviously not happy. Now, there were a number of things to say about the, you know, objectionable nature of the, of the program that Bad Bunny put on. |
| 2:30.6 | One was, you know, the usual provocative stuff, you know, the grinding, inappropriate grinding and whatever. |
| 2:38.6 | There was also the fact that the lyrics of his songs were vile, just really bad. |
| 2:45.8 | The reason there wasn't an explosion right away is that these vile things were sung in Spanish. So that |
| 2:56.7 | was a more effective way of bleeping everything out than bleeps would be, right? So most |
| 3:02.8 | people didn't hear it, which, but that moved the offensiveness to another area entirely. |
| 3:12.6 | In Deuteronomy 28 and in Isaiah, we're told that one of the judgments of God, one of the ways |
| 3:19.5 | that you can see that a nation or people is under judgment is that their streets are filled up with people |
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