Unabridged: Bad Bunny Bowl with Vanessa Díaz & Petra Rivera-Rideau
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We're back for the second annual Super Bowl breakdown bonus episode. That's right, we're digging into Bad Bunny's incredible performance at this year's Super Bowl. I’m joined by Vanessa Díaz and Petra Rivera-Rideau, authors of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, creators of the Bad Bunny Syllabus Project, and Associate Professors of two different university-level Bad Bunny courses. We share our thoughts on the performance overall, and then break it all down, beat by beat, from the flags to the telephone poles to Lady Gaga and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it is me, Tracy Thomas, host of the Stacks. I'm here again with another episode |
| 0:05.1 | of the Stacks Unabridged, which is our bonus episode that is exclusive to Patreon and |
| 0:09.9 | Substack paid subscribers. I am thrilled. Today, we are bringing it back. We are doing another |
| 0:17.5 | Super Bowl halftime show breakdown this year. |
| 0:21.3 | Of course, we are talking about that dude, bad bunny. |
| 0:25.7 | We are talking about the performance, the politics, the beauty, the whole thing from start |
| 0:32.2 | to finish. |
| 0:32.8 | And this year I have brought in two incredible women to help me break it all down. |
| 0:38.0 | I am joined by Vanessa Diaz and Petra Rivera Redo. |
| 0:41.7 | They are the authors behind the brand new book, Pefucking Ere, how Bad Bunny became the global |
| 0:48.8 | voice of Puerto Rican resistance. |
| 0:51.3 | They are also both professors who teach courses on bad bunny. So we are going to be |
| 0:57.3 | getting into the aesthetic, into the politics, into every single reference. I cannot wait for |
| 1:05.7 | you to hear this episode. Yes, it is long, but baby, it is good. Now, if you're listening to this episode and you get |
| 1:12.3 | about 10, 15 minutes in and it cuts out, that means you're not a paid subscriber to the Patreon |
| 1:16.7 | at patreon.com slash the stacks or a paid subscriber to my newsletter at tracytomas.com. So if you |
| 1:24.2 | want to hear all this bad bunny brilliance, you got to join now. Plus, you get a bunch of |
| 1:30.3 | other perks when you join. So you should just do it. Honestly, though, it is worth it just for this |
| 1:34.9 | episode. All right. It's time to dive in. Me, Vanessa, Petra, and of course, our boy Benito. |
| 2:06.3 | Music Petra and of course our boy Benito. Okay, everybody. It is our second annual Super Bowl breakdown podcast bonus episode for the Benito Bowl this year. |
| 2:15.7 | I am joined by two academics who wrote the literal book on Bad Bunny and Politics. |
| 2:18.7 | The book is called Pei effin. |
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