THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 115 — Want To Do A Super Bowl Halftime? Just Say "Ey" 51 Times

Summary

The Charlie Kirk Show — THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 115

Title: Want To Do A Super Bowl Halftime? Just Say "Ey" 51 Times
Date: February 14, 2026
Host: Charlie Kirk
Panelists: Jack, Blake, Mikey, Tyler, others

Episode Overview

This episode of “Thoughtcrime” focuses on the fallout from the “All-American Halftime Show” organized by Turning Point USA during the Super Bowl, contrasting it with the official NFL halftime performance by Bad Bunny. The panel analyzes why their alternative event "broke containment," resonated with families, and made a significant online impact. The conversation explores themes of patriotism, traditional values, and conservative culture clashing with what they view as globalist, politicized, and culturally alien mainstream events. The episode is light-hearted and features the panel riffing with humor, celebrating their perceived cultural victory, and floating even bigger plans for the future.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Why the All-American Halftime Show Went Viral

• Family-Friendly Appeal:

  • The hosts argue that families “could confidently have their children sit in the living room and watch something, knowing confidently that booty cheeks or debauchery wouldn’t be on the screen” (03:31, Mikey).
  • The show "uplifted America, values, Christ", providing “a breath of fresh air” (03:00, Mikey).
  • Audience report not having to "hover over the remote," trusting TPUSA content (04:20, Jack).

• Contrast with Official Super Bowl Halftime:

  • Panelists skewer the Bad Bunny performance, critiquing both its quality and its cultural/political messaging.
  • “It’s something that would be inflicted on Gitmo detainees…I don’t know what he’s doing” (07:42, Blake).
  • Mocking the repeated use of “ey,” and translation of the Spanish lyrics, which revolve around having many girlfriends:

    “My auntie asked me why so many girlfriends. Hey, a lot of girlfriends. Today I got one, tomorrow I got another” (17:26, English parody of Bad Bunny lyrics).

  • The panel highlights a viral clip counting 51 uses of “ey” during his set (21:00).

2. Cultural and Political Critiques

• Perceived Anti-Americanism:

  • The NFL and Jay-Z are accused of "allowing the Spanish-only guy who hates America to do the halftime show" and politicizing the event (07:15, Blake).
  • “If you were in the stadium…everyone just didn’t know what was going on…it was really terrible if you were a fan at the stadium” (07:42, Blake).

• Cultural Alienation & “Globalism”:

  • Frustration expressed that halftime shows are "geared towards international, globalism, and non-American values" instead of “regular Americans” (33:58, Tyler).
  • Puerto Rico is discussed in the context of national identity, with jokes about Bad Bunny “colonizing” other cultures with his romantic exploits (34:14, Tyler & D).

• Music Industry Take:

  • The panel laments the exclusion of country and rock acts at the Super Bowl despite their popularity, referencing how "for 30 years there hasn’t been a headliner of country music…for 23 years not a single country artist since Shania Twain" (56:15, Jack).
  • Accusations that the NFL exploits country music for branding but avoids it for actual marquee performances (57:13, Tyler).

3. Production Details & Viral Success

• Surpassing Expectations:

  • The All-American Halftime Show was the “#1 US livestream of all time…#2 worldwide on YouTube” (01:09, Jack).
  • The event “broke containment,” far surpassing even internal expectations (41:25, Jack).

• Technical and Organizational Challenges:

  • Only had “more like two months” to organize due to intervening events, yet delivered a 22-minute show (21:51, Jack).
  • Industry sponsors and artists faced outside pressure not to participate due to NFL rivalries (21:51, Jack).
  • Lip-syncing allegations are debunked (“It was a sync issue on the stream…he was not lip syncing” — 24:06, Jack).

• Numbers & Metrics:

  • The show’s viewership counted by devices, not “households multiplied,” underrepresenting total impact—“If you had 30 million [devices], would it be 90 million?” (48:52, Jack).
  • "The numbers are much bigger than what people were trying to report it as... real possibility that this production took like, literally half the viewership" (50:47, Tyler).

Notable Quotes

• "I think same provinces in Sweden have produced more good music than all of Latin America" (24:54, Blake – tongue-in-cheek).
• “This wasn't about money, this wasn’t a grift—this was to give Americans an alternative and prove a point” (43:16, Tyler).
• “It’s just such a perfect storm…all the years of pent up demand…the anger of the average American who just wants to watch something that isn’t disrespecting them for being American” (56:15, Jack).
• “God used all that anger to turn it into something positive” (59:45, Jack).

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4. Memorable Moments & Humorous Exchanges

• Bad Bunny Parody & “Ey” Counter:
  • Multiple recitations of the English translation of Bad Bunny’s “Titi Me Preguntó” (17:26, 35:03).
  • Highlighting that he says "ey" 51 times – “That’s almost 4 a minute!” (21:44, Blake).
• Tongue-in-Cheek New Festival Ideas:
  • Suggestion: “All-American Pregame Show,” “All-American Music Festival” (25:29, Jack), or "do it on the moon with Elon Musk" to beat the Indian space landing stream record (63:18, Jack & Tyler).
• Shirt Ideas:
  • “I switched the channel” t-shirt for boomers, “True man doesn’t get a cart” joke about Home Depot trips (45:10-45:48, Tyler & Jack).

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5. Plans for the Future

• Growing Momentum:

  • Plans for bigger, longer, more ambitious All-American shows in future years, perhaps even full festivals (25:29, 25:47).
  • Want more advance planning, more artists, “pedal to the metal – make it bigger, make it better” (40:14, Tyler).

• Community Involvement:

  • Open call for artist suggestions via email; superchat interaction with fans about who they want next year (26:31).

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6. Tributes and Acknowledgements

• Team Recognition:

  • Tyler emphasizes that Turning Point USA did not use the show as a fundraiser, and credits their in-house team for all the work (43:16, 41:26).
  • Special mention of Rumble as a streaming platform enabler (54:20).

• Religious Overtones:

  • Several thanks to “God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit” for the show's success, with intent to “fight evil and proclaim truth” (00:03, Charlie Kirk; closing statement, 64:25+).

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Notable Quotes with Attributions and Timestamps

• On Family Values and Halftime Show Content:

  “Families could confidently have their children sit in the living room and watch something, knowing confidently that booty cheeks or debauchery wouldn’t be on the screen.”
  — Mikey [03:31]

• On NFL’s Halftime Selection:

  “They allowed Jay Z to dominate the halftime show…and he says, ‘I hate America. I'm going to crap on the American flag. You have four months to learn to speak Spanish.’”
  — Blake [07:15]

• On the Cultural Disconnect:

  “It’s like, the halftime show was always geared towards my parents. Now I'm a parent and it's not geared towards me. It's geared towards international, like, globalism.”
  — Tyler [33:58]

• On Rumble’s Role:

  “If it wasn't for Rumble, we may not be here today for those numbers to exist. Rumble is the unsung hero in most of Americans being able to consume even middle-of-the-road content now.”
  — Tyler [55:53]

• On Making a Point, Not Money:

  “This was…not to make any kind of revenue. The purpose of this was to live up to the expectations…to just give Americans an alternative and prove a point.”
  — Tyler [43:16]

• On Bad Bunny’s Lyrics:

  “Hey, so my auntie asked me why so many girlfriends? Hey, a lot of girlfriends. Today I got one and tomorrow got another one…”
  — English translation of Bad Bunny as played by the panel [17:26]

• Panel's Satirical Future Festival Solution:

  “If next year, we want to beat it…I already know what the venue is. Call up Elon Musk. We're gonna do it on the moon, and then we're gonna invite Modi there…”
  — Jack [63:28]

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• [01:09] – All-American Halftime Show described as biggest US livestream ever
• [03:31] – Audience trust in family-friendly TPUSA content
• [07:15] – Critique of NFL's choice of halftime act (Bad Bunny)
• [17:26] – Parody of Bad Bunny's lyrics, panel cracks up
• [21:00] – Bad Bunny says “ey” 51 times counter clip discussion
• [24:06] – Lip-syncing controversy and production challenges explained
• [33:58] – Tyler on halftime show’s shift from “parent-centric” to “globalist”
• [41:25] – Recognition of viewership and viral success
• [45:10] – Merch/shirt ideas reflecting audience pride
• [56:15] – Perceived cultural exclusion of country/rock at Super Bowl
• [59:45] – Emotional connection for “average Americans” seeking traditional values
• [63:28] – Moon/Mars Super Bowl halftime joke as future viral gambit
• [64:25] – Closing thanks to God and teaser for next week

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Episode Tone

The tone is upbeat, irreverent, and combative with a heavy dose of camaraderie and inside jokes. The hosts use humor, cultural references, and faith-based language to critique mainstream culture and emphasize their own values and community victories.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

• You’ll understand why the “All-American Halftime Show” resonated so much with its audience and how it was positioned as a protest/alternative to the official NFL show.
• The episode offers conservative takes on cultural representation, values in entertainment, and corporate influence, mixing earnest analysis with comedic asides and running gags.
• The TPUSA panel is proud, defiant, and already plotting how to build on their success—inviting the listener to participate in ideas for the next iteration.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[A]

My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You gotta stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord.

[B]

Use me.

[A]

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[B]

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week's edition of Thought Crime Thursday. Here we are, we're back. Hugely successful All American halftime show. T.P. u.S.A. number one, U.S. livestream of all time. Number two, worldwide livestream on YouTube of all time. And it's.

[C]

It's.

[B]

You have to just be humbled by God's grace. You have to go with Jesus. You have to lead. You have to. You have to follow the lead, I should say, of our Lord. And it's. It's. It's amazing. It's been incredible to see. We talked about it last week, and obviously we're going to get into it this week now, you know, kind of the aftermath, the. The incredible outpouring of support. This thing broke containment. Absolutely broke containment. And I believe we have Blake and Mikey here today. What's up, guys?

[D]

How are we doing?

[E]

We're doing lovely. Tyler's supposed to be here, but he's doing that thing or he, like, flies in late. He'll probably have some just kind of.

[B]

So, Mikey. Mikey, you were. You weren't here last week, so I want to. I want to get your take on this.

[E]

You.

[B]

You know, why was it that the all American halftime show went as big as it did?

[D]

I think part of it was that families could confidently have their children sit in the living room and watch something, knowing confidently that booty cheeks or debauchery wouldn't be on the screen and that they wouldn't have to say, kids, go in the other room. This is not good. Close your eyes, plug your ears. And it was A breath of fresh air. 1. It was just exciting. It celebrated America, but also it uplifted values, and it uplifted Christ, and it uplifted the fact that a lot of people have that Bible that's on the shelf that needs a little bit of dusting off. But, Jack, I thought you did a great job introing it. The artist did amazing. It was just overall, such a massive success. I just remember watching it, and I was like, oh, man, I just wish that we add this one thing, and then, you know, one minute later, it happens, and you're like, this is so great. But how about when Kid Rock jumps out from the stage? That intro was one of the greatest.

[B]

So as cool as that was, by the way, and I saw you tweeting up a storm about that when we were. When we were there on the set, and I heard that he had, like, the jump spring for that, like, the trapdoor. I was like, so.

[E]

So.

[B]

So can I test that? Like, you know, kind of got to make sure that it's perfectly safe for Mr. Rock. So if you guys. If you guys need someone to test, maybe. And they looked at me like. They're like, no, Jack, you cannot. Was like, well, I was like, we already said I couldn't play with the fireball. So, you know, come on, guys.

[D]

They really should have.

[E]

Do they always call him Mr. Rock like that?

[C]

Like, Mr.

[D]

Kid as he has he, like. No, usually they call him his name.

[B]

Usually. Usually. Usually you hear Bob or, like, Mr. Richie.

[E]

Okay, all right. It'd be funny if he got, you know, like, an honorary doctorate, and they're like, Dr. Rock.

[D]

Dr. Rock.

[C]

Dr. Rock.

[B]

That'll be the next iteration.

[D]

But, Blake, I. You know.

[B]

Yeah, funny you mentioned that real quick that Tanya said that. My wife Tanya said the same thing. Tiny Tay that she said for the first time. Here we are watching cereal halftime show, and I don't have to have, like, my. My thumb over hovering over the remote, you know, having to click off because something is there that we don't want to see. And she was like. It was like, good, clean fun. And I actually. Funny enough, she didn't actually, like, ask me for many, you know, spoilers in terms of any of that stuff. I think she just kind of trusted, if it's tp usa, like, it's gonna be good to go.

[D]

That's so great. That's so great. So I've heard so much feedback from different people with that exact same thing. They just knew that it was tpa, so they knew it would be fine for their Kids, which I just think is so cool. But Blake, do you have like a Kid Rock impression impersonation with when he. You're in your rock voice?

[E]

No, I don't. I can't.

[D]

What about your Saxon.

[E]

My Saxon voice? I mean, if I want to be. If I want to be like a British chav.

[C]

What would it.

[B]

Blake, what would it sound like if. If. If Sebastian Bach was. Was singing ball with the ball.

[D]

Yeah. Can you please.

[E]

You're really. You're imposing a lot of. A lot of.

[B]

When he does my name, my name.

[E]

Problem is I don't. The problem, among other things, is I don't know the word words to bawa da.

[D]

Oh, dude, that was so literally the words.

[B]

My name is Kid Rock.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

I had never heard of Baba until this halftime show came upon us.

[D]

Ah, yeah.

[B]

Have you lived on planet Earth?

[D]

Come on.

[B]

Like in the last couple decades?

[E]

No, it's literally an after song. Look, I am music wise. As far as I'm concerned, music ended in the year 1991 in that one week gap between when Guns n Roses use your illusion came out and then Nevermind by Nirvana. And after that, there was kind of no more music. I grew up thinking I just didn't like music. True story. I just didn't like music because I didn't like anything that was on the radio. I didn't like any of these rap people. I didn't like this new metal. I didn't like this hip hop and that's like all that was. Or this alt rock.

[D]

Yep.

[E]

Never mind ghastly things like Radiohead. I was a very bad white person. And then as I aged into, you know, middle school, I discovered, wait, there are these musical albums and songs that were released prior to my birth, and they are the. The true music of my people, the Midwestern white guy. And so I listened to my Midwestern white guy music and occasionally my imported British heavy metal music. And you know, we have our alternative halftimes and I'm very happy we put it on and a lot of people liked it. But as I've repeatedly said, it's a bunch of acts that have never crossed my playlist in my life.

[D]

It's same here. Well, that didn't stop me from loving it.

[B]

But then. But then. Okay, so that being said, what is your sense then of why was it that this took off and just put up the incredible numbers that it did?

[E]

Well, let's be true, let's be real. There was a significant push factor going on from the NFL where they allowed Jay Z to dominate the halftime show. And he came out and he says, we're gonna pick the Spanish only guy who hates America to do the halftime show. And then he comes out and he says, I hate America. I'm going to crap on the American flag. You have four months to learn to speak Spanish.

[D]

Titi mi pregunta.

[E]

And then the actual show starts. And I don't know if you guys have seen it. It's something that would be inflicted on Gitmo detainees, I'm sure where it's this baffling thing. He just kind of babbles in Spanish. You don't know what he's doing. And apparently it was really terrible. If you were a fan at the stadium, they. They got so addicted to the. The cinema of it being on air. So if you were in the lower bowl of Levi's Stadium, everyone just didn't know what was going on. And.

[D]

Yep.

[E]

It's amazing, too, to see this aspect of it where the people who are trying to give positive reviews and it's stuff like in that skit they're doing, someone is, like, asleep on two chairs, and someone took. Oh, someone asleep on two chairs. Bad Bunny totally gets the Hispanic experience, which is this very real thing.

[B]

Everyone's going viral. This was going viral.

[E]

Exactly. Exactly. One, of course, is so.

[B]

This is so Latino. This is Latino culture. And it's like, okay, Latino culture.

[E]

We have this. We have this tradition. We call it dinner, and you eat with other people in your family because in our culture, food is important.

[D]

My favorite is Jack. We're texting about. This is like, Miti T. Mit. Like, the actual.

[C]

The.

[D]

The translation of his song is. There's this guy. His video went viral.

[B]

Do we have the English one? Do we have the guy?

[D]

Oh, my gosh. Do we have it?

[B]

Literally, Tanya Tay was. Has been playing that, like, 10 times a day since that came out. We've done.

[C]

We.

[B]

We have to pull it now. We've done a horrible job of show prep, as usual. But it's like, when you actually hear it in. Yeah. English, it's like, that's what he said. Like, it wasn't even that because, like, there's good Spanish music out there, right? Like, JLO performed before and like Shakira performed.

[E]

Hold on. There's good Spanish music.

[B]

And it's.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You know. Yeah, it's great. It's great.

[D]

Imagine if they played this in the Super Bowl.

[E]

That's kind of what they used to. Have you ever seen what they used to. Have you ever seen what they used to. What they used to do at the Super Bowl. Like, I think literally the first super bowl halftime show was straight up marching band just doing like, that was what they had at the Packers Chiefs.

[D]

First one was acceptable. Yeah, I think it's literally like my auntie asked me how many girlfriends I had, and it's like, I can't. Let me see if I. Yeah, muchas novias many girlfriends. So he just keeps singing about how many girlfriends he has as God.

[E]

Yeah, it's like, I have a girlfriend one week and then I have a different one the next week. And we have these brainless guy and you have a friend, you know, the never trump. The never trump. Like, cuck con congress. Like, those guys, they're doing these comments and they're trying to say, among other things, this is a very, like, pro. This is like a traditional values pro family halftime show. And they just don't know the lyrics to the songs at all because no one does. And.

[B]

No, but I'm. But I'm like, I'm making a criticism of it from. From a musical perspective. Right? Like, not even beyond the lyrics. Beyond the obvious, like, open borders globalism display, all of, like, the ridiculous. Like, we sleep on chairs sometimes at weddings when we're kids. Like, you mean like, literally all kids would do. But no, it's. It's like, it's not catchy. There's no hooks, there's no chorus. Like, I'm not going to sit here and say that. Like, I listen to Shakira. But, like, people could probably name a couple of Shakira songs. They could probably hum a chorus, you know, Mikey, of course, you know, is actually a big mike. People don't know this about Mikey McCoy. He has a giant Shakira tattoo all the way across his back that he received in Tijuana. You know, we can't show it on air because, again, family show. But, you know, it's something that he's really proud of.

[E]

Waka Waka song for the South Africa world Cup.

[D]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

I. I know that song. It is a song I've listened to. I think it's kind of funny that they got Shakira to make their, like, Crypto Africa.

[D]

But everybody at least knows who Shakira is.

[E]

You know, I didn't know that she was the Waka Waka singer until now. Here's.

[B]

Here's the thing. I brought this up on Piers Morgan this week because we got into it and he was all. He was doing this whole, like, well, you guys just did that because he's Hispanic and I was like. And I was like, actually, no. People got mad at him because he was disrespecting the American people because he politicized things. And I can prove this. And he was like, okay, prove it. I said, all right. Is this. I was like, okay, is this the first time that Bad Bunny has performed at a Super Bowl? And everyone on the panel was like. I said, no, it's not the first time. It's the second time he's performed at the Super Bowl. Everybody forgets that when Shakira performed back in 2020, the guy who got up on stage to rap with her during the one Spanish song was actually Bad Bunny. And you know what? There was no, like, backlash. There was no controversy about it because he just stuck to music and nobody really cared. But obviously that was before this big push to politicize him and politicize everything and before he was being disrespectful to Americans. And so he didn't get the headlines. He's an attention seeker. That's what all of this was about. So notes about his music or his language? You know, I mean, a little bit about the language, but that's different. It was because of the disrespect. But again, like, Ricky Martin sang in Spanish and nobody cared because Ricky Martin's actually a good singer. So.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

And the other thing, I don't know any Ricky Martin songs. By the way, Zuzu's petals donated $2 and says they should have chosen Tito Puente for decent Latino music. I don't know who that is.

[D]

I have no idea what that is. Maybe it's two days.

[B]

Amazing. What are you talking about? He did the song when. When Mr. Burns died.

[D]

I don't know who Titipuente is.

[E]

I don't know any of these.

[D]

Jack. I had a similar scenario happen where people were like, why are you guys doing this? I was like, look, I could make an argument that it's. He's anti American. You know, he wants a bunch of foreigners in our country, yada, yada, yada, you know, dresses up like a transvestite in his music videos and anti President Trump, all these things. But ultimately, and I said this, there was like 20 people there. I said, ultimately, let me ask you guys a question, open ended to everybody in this room. Can you name me one Bad Bunny song? Just one that's your favorite. And if you can, can you also name just one portion of the lyrics that you can sing? And not a single person in the room who is arguing against me could do that. I said, so maybe I can sing it.

[B]

I can do. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

[D]

But look, maybe we just did it.

[B]

Because that's how people hear the song.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Maybe people don't know who he is, and they. They're pretending they do.

[B]

A bunch of people. I'm like, I. It's just funny because I feel like, you know, people are like, oh, like, obviously I was like, you know, introing the, the halftime show for tpsa and then, like, had the tweets about it last year. But I was like, I was like, I feel like I actually know more about Bad Bunny than, like, the average person in this too. Because I would be pointing out that the reason I knew about him before, it wasn't the Shakira thing. I had no idea I'd looked that up. But then I had. I, I, I knew that he was. They inserted him as this, the Caddy, like, the sidekick character with this huge subplot in Happy Gilmore 2. And so when they did that, I was like, who's this random, like, Spanish character that they're adding, like, there instead of, you know, like, the actual cast of Happy Gilmore 1? And they're giving him all the screen time and, like, why is Netflix doing this? And then I found out it was Bad Bunny. It's like, oh, so that's, you know, another. Another corporate edition where they're trying to just, like, jam him, you know, into the whole thing. It was so ridiculous.

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[D]

I think we have that clip.

[E]

Yeah, I Think is it. Is it loaded, Guys, it is not loaded. We're all dying to see this. I really want to see this, because I actually saw it, but I didn't listen to it.

[B]

I'm. I'm kidding you. I'm not even joking that Tanya Tay has played this over and over. She thinks it's the funniest thing that she's ever heard. We'll be sitting. Because she was playing it, and I was like, oh, yeah, that's really funny. She was like, no, but you have to listen to it. I'm like, no, I actually heard it this morning. No, but you have to listen to it now. And then. And then I walked away, and I was, like, doing something in the other room, and I just hear. I just hear coming from her.

[D]

It's like she's just playing on replay.

[E]

It's loaded.

[B]

Cracking up.

[E]

All right, we've got it. We've got it. All right, play 520, the English version.

[G]

Hey, so my auntie asked me why so many girlfriends? Hey, a lot of girlfriends Today I got one and tomorrow got another one But I never married yo, my auntie asked me why I got so many girlfriends Hey, a lot of girlfriends Today I got one and tomorrow got another one, man, I think I want to take them all to the vip to the VIP hey, would you like to meet my auntie? And we're gonna take a selfie and say cheese they smile if they already been with me in the VIP hey, would they give you my mg? And we're gonna take a selfie and say cheese they can't smile the ones that forget about me, man I like the Gabriellas and the Patricias and the Nicols and the Sopas My girl ain't kender got her name was Maria and my first lover her name was this.

[D]

Is just so low quality mute. Like, any tiktoker who makes music could make something just like that.

[B]

Like, how is this any different from, like, a SoundCloud mumble rapper?

[D]

That's exactly what it is.

[E]

I literally. I like one of this. One of the tweets I saw during the super bowl was if I was running for president of a Latin country, my platform would be to bring Latin music a second drum beat. Dang.

[F]

Dang.

[E]

And, you know, I thought that was just a funny joke, and then I looked it up. Latin drum beat. And there's literally a Wikipedia article for the drum beat that they use in, like, all Latin American music, it's called the tresillo. And it's this sound thing, like, kind of a kick, kick, snare kind of nice.

[D]

That's all bad bunnies.

[B]

I mean, it's kind of true, I gotta say.

[E]

It's.

[B]

It's just. It's just legit.

[E]

I'm just gonna. You want real thought.

[B]

Look at this incredible comment when Jack introduced the all American halftime show. He looks so good. Peak American and masculinity. Thank you, MK Brand. 28. Wow. I completely agree.

[A]

Wow.

[E]

I didn't know Jack had a second account on Rumble.

[B]

No, I'm not even signed in. I was literally just signing into the chat, and then they were also saying Wakanda is iconic and also that Shakira got in trouble for tax evasion. No. Pardon Shapiro, Shapiro. Shakira. Pardon Shakira. Shakira.

[D]

Pardon her. Pardon Shakira. This is.

[E]

We need to.

[B]

Alone.

[D]

Yes. This is good. We need to. JD Needs to run on this. This is his one campaign, what he's running on. And I'm a one, one issue voter. Pardon Shakira.

[E]

Really?

[B]

She's not American. She's Colombian.

[E]

You can still get Pardon. She can still get pardoned. If she was evading US Taxes, she can still get imprisoned for invading US Taxes.

[B]

We are not pardoning Maduro.

[E]

You know what? I'm gonna. You know, that's gonna be the big issue because they talk about, like, Marco Rubio or, you know, someone challenging JD like, what if it just turns into the Shakira battle and, like, one says, death penalty for Shakira and the other says pardon Shakira. And as a supporter of Western civilizations music, I think I would have to go with the death penalty for Shakira.

[B]

Oh, wait, Zuzu's petals is saying the tax evasion was in Spain, so. Oh, so it was.

[E]

Spain has no legal right in America.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

No.

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

No, never mind. Okay, we should pardon her then.

[D]

Pardon her.

[E]

President Trump should pardon her for Spanish.

[D]

So is she not allowed to step foot in Spain or she's arrested?

[E]

I'm not sure.

[B]

Well, they just. They just legalized all the five. What, 500,000 illegal aliens in Spain. So, you know, I guess you can just commit whatever crime you want.

[E]

Guys, they got us. They got us. Another excellent clip of the halftime show. This is every time bad Bunny says in the halftime show, let's play it. 5, 21. For those watching on podcast later, that was 51. Over the course of that 20 minutes.

[B]

It's actually impressive because I think he was only on stage for, like, 14 minutes or something.

[E]

That's a lot of that. So 51 divided by 13. That's almost 4o a minute because they.

[B]

Had to, they had to bring the whole set into the stadium during the half. So, you know, for every super bowl halftime, you have to set up because you can't play, you know, during the game. Right? So you can't set up during the game because the game's being played. So that setup and breakdown time goes into how long your performance is, where obviously we didn't have that issue because we were not in the middle of a football game. And so I think ours was probably twice as long as theirs, give or take or maybe a little bit. I think they were like 14 minutes and we were like 22 minutes. So not quite twice as long, but, but getting there and, you know, you know, next year, I mean, gosh, the sky is the limit for next year. I've had people pitching like, you know, you guys could do an hour, you guys could do an entire day. And like, the finale is the halftime show. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of crazy what. You know, because you have to understand, we had like, we had three months, but it wasn't even really three months because we had am festival in the middle and then we had Christmas and New Year's. And so it was really more like two months, you know, of time other than just reaching out to venues, casting that wide net. And look, we, we talked about this a little bit when I was on with Andrew, you know, before on Thought Crime. But we had a lot of pressure against us from, you know, elements of the industry, elements of, you know, different. Different. I think probably money and sponsors that were, you know, probably thinking, hey, if we support someone or work with someone who's going to be going up against the NFL, then that's like putting a black mark on us. So that's why for me, I just, I'm so grateful to all the musicians that came out and took the chance and, you know, Kid Rock as well for, you know, bringing his incredible star power. Brantley Gilbert Lee, Bryce, Gabby Barrett, who's, you know, I think really become the breakout star of all this. Fellow Pennsylvanian like myself, by the way, and. Oh, by the way, one of the controversies that. And Blake, I'm sure you've seen this as well as the number of like, there's like the ratings controversy, but the, the lip sync controversy. Have you guys seen that? They're accusing him of lip syncing.

[D]

Yeah, I saw that. Not true, not true, guys.

[B]

Telling you, I was right there. He was. And I have footage from the set. And I guess we have like master footage too that we could probably, you know, see if they really wanted us to like go to that level, which is crazy. He's not lip syncing. It was, it was a sync issue on the stream. It was literally. We had so many people watching that it just, it was like, you know, just a glitch on the stream where everything was out of sync. The video and audio, which is.

[E]

And also it's like at least he can still. And as a result it means he can still perform. Unlike. Have you ever heard Bad Bunny when his auto tune went out and he just.

[B]

Is that true? I saw that one going around, but I didn't know if that was.

[E]

That was a real incident that Grok said it was real. And I've gotten lazy to the point.

[D]

Have I fallen victim to another fake?

[E]

I mean, maybe it's fake, but I choose to believe it anyway.

[D]

That should be a thought crime topic.

[E]

All this is taught me I'm ready for. I'm ready for my thought crime. Like there are not even, not even just like Sweden itself, but like there are probably, I would say specific provinces of Sweden that have produced more good music than all of Latin America. And specific, probably specific parts, probably specific cities, let's say specific cities in the uk, like Liverpool has produced more great music for humanity than every single city from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego.

[D]

Can you name all?

[B]

People are saying we need the All American pregame show for 2027 as well as the all American halftime show. We might even have to have like an all American festival or something.

[F]

I don't.

[B]

The All American Music Festival.

[D]

I like this.

[B]

This is a good.

[D]

You guys have some good ideas.

[B]

That was. No, we were. I was actually on with Tim Pool last night on his show and he was saying guys, you could do it like with numbers like that, you could put on an entire day long festival. And here is, here is his idea which is really good because one of the issues that we would have then if we were doing the live festival that way is we would also have that same issue of setup and breakdown between bands. But his idea was two stages, right? You do two stages. One, you know, one, like stage A. Stage B. Yeah. And then, you know, stage A has a band, they play whatever, blah, blah, then they go to break down and a band kicks off on stage B. So throughout the day you could have it switching back and forth and then there's no. It's, you know, it's just seamless.

[D]

I like this. I like this idea.

[B]

So let's get. If you guys are in the chat, especially super chat, you know, who. Who would you like to see? One thing, though. You know, ask us who'd you like to see it for next year, but at the same time and email 1776, human events.com or freedom of Charlie Kirk.com about who you'd like to see. But I will say, though, that this was definitely a crash course, I think, for. And a learning curve for a lot of us, that it's. It's not even up to the artists sometimes regarding songs, regarding the rights, regarding, like, things they can do, people they can play with. There's so many contracts, there's so many labels, there's so many. Just different, like, layers of complexity to whether or not you can perform one of these things. Like, we. We lost the X live stream just a couple of hours before we went live. And, you know, I think, though, in a sense that that was actually kind of maybe a godsend. Like, that was actually maybe part of God's plan, because when we tweeted out that we lost X, that drove more people to YouTube and rumble and perhaps we wouldn't have hit the record if that hadn't happened. You never know, right? Do we have Tyler?

[C]

Do we have.

[E]

Yeah, we have Tyler. Tyler has. Has shown up. We were discussing.

[C]

I gave my guys.

[E]

We're still talking the halftime show. And we were talking. We. Here's the highlight so far. Bad Bunny about. He averages about four a minute during his super bowl show.

[C]

I'm not trying to be like Charlie Kirk here, because Charlie would totally do this. He'd be like, what is this? Like, like, yeah, what is it? You would have lean, like, wait. I legitimately went back and was watching it, and I was like, this is a very bad performance. I don't know. It's no question why people in the stands weren't moving at all. And I know we have to be careful. You know exactly how we talk about this, but like any. It reminded me a few years ago. I was watching it because, like, old school halftime shows were like. It was like Janet Jackson, someone big. Like, middle of the stage. Like, everybody's into it. Everything gets dark. I just was watching this whole thing. It was like. It was like bright lights because it was. The sun hadn't gone down, and it was just weird and awkward and like, nobody was feeling it.

[D]

Nope.

[C]

And they just have to be honest about it. You know, it's like no one was feeling it.

[D]

Nobody was feeling it.

[C]

And that's what I was Nervous about was our all American halftime show. When we flipped over, I was worried that it would look like less. Like, less production quality than like a. Like a multi. Like tens of millions of dollars that they spend on, you know, normal halftime stuff. Yeah, it's like. No, ours actually looked way better.

[D]

Yes.

[C]

Ours looked more like a real halftime, big time. Like, so I. That's what everybody was saying was like. Everybody, like, felt. It felt normal. It wasn't just that it felt American, it felt normal.

[D]

Normal, like what it's supposed to be.

[C]

Yeah. Like, I wanna.

[B]

We actually have some B roll of this. Can we play clip 280, guys? And I think this will back up what Tyler's saying. So this is Amanda. Amanda Vance. And she's watching our halftime show while. At the actual halftime show, at the actual super.

[C]

And she's moving more than everybody else.

[B]

And look at all the people around her.

[F]

Look at.

[B]

And there's so many videos like this where it's going viral that people were just standing around totally disconnected. And, like, you can't even really see the show either. Like, Tyler. So this speaks to what you're saying, that the people in the stands couldn't even tell what was going on down there because it just looks like this weird thicket of grasses. It looked like. It's like when the Velociraptors come out during Jurassic park and you just could see, like, the grass moving. Like, I don't know, like, that's. That's it.

[C]

I have a piece of me that's like, I kind of appreciate a little bit hood rap music every once in a while. Like, I've. You know, again, I've been around for. I have friends that, like, that's like, their music preference of choice. It's not mine.

[G]

I was like, I have some black.

[B]

Friends, but, like, whatever.

[C]

I've had a school. I've had a few, you know, friends. And so, like, like, I can appreciate when music's good, right? Like, and it's a little bit too. This legitimately was not good.

[D]

No.

[C]

Like, it's like, I can't.

[E]

I.

[C]

It made me feel so much better. I was like, oh, this was, like, really justified what we did here.

[D]

Tyler. Tyler saying I enjoy a little hood rap music every once in a while. It reminds me of the post Jackie put up the other day with you and James o'. Keefe. You're like, God forbid a couple white boys get a little. A little groove. God forbid.

[B]

God forbid a couple of white boys get a little motion. Yeah, we don't play that we don't. We don't. We could, we could play that if we want because we went to Hispanic Prosperity Gala.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

And guess what? Great time. And there was a singer, Nacho from Venezuela, he was phenomenal and he was playing live and he's got like, you know, millions and millions of fans around the world. And it's like, this is music that has a beat, it's catchy, it's got a hook to it, it's got a chorus. He's like an actually talented singer. He's not a mumble rapper. I mean, I just understand where, where people get around. They're saying mumbling is something that you want when it comes to music where. Whereas what this was. And, and yeah, Tyler, like, I guess the issue now is that they, they make these halftime shows they did this last year as well, where they make it for the TV audience only and they don't care about the audience that's actually there. So the people in the stands are like, yeah, it's dumb because it's not the spectacle that you would expect. It's more like a TV show or like a music video kind of shoot. It's just not the big super bowl halftime spectacle that I think people are used to. You know, like a stage, dancers, fireworks, etc.

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[C]

I'm very, I'm upset and I could be totally wrong about this. I could be misremembering, but this is how I felt. I felt like the. Like the halftime show that was during the big game was always geared towards my parents. Yeah. When I was growing up, like, you're right. It was always geared towards my parents. And now I'm a parent and it's not geared towards me. It's geared towards international, like, globalism.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And non American. Like non American. Truly. And again, I get Puerto Rico's America. Okay. Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico.

[E]

He doesn't seem to think so. Yeah. Here's a thought crime.

[C]

He was.

[E]

Puerto Rico was America. Why did they have their flag next to the American flag at that show?

[C]

Here's the point. Puerto Rico's not stated, so it's not America. So that's number one. Number two, is that Puerto Rico. The. The words in his songs are talking about women from lots of different countries. He was. Yeah, he's using. He's appropriating his sub American culture as Puerto Rican to try to hook up with all these other South American and Central American women. It's in the words. It's right there in the words.

[D]

He's a colonization hooker upper.

[C]

That's right. He's colonizing.

[B]

Wait, wait, guys, to hear the translation, I think we might have to go and play the translation for Tyler again just so that he knows what. What he's actually commenting on. I think. I think we have to hit it again.

[D]

It's high quality music.

[E]

All right, play it again.

[D]

The English version.

[G]

Hey, so my auntie asked me why I got so many girlfriends. Hey, a lot of girlfriends. Today I got one, and tomorrow watch.

[C]

This video over and over.

[G]

My auntie asked me why I got so many girlfriends.

[C]

Hey, I can. I can get on board. If this guy would have performed in English.

[D]

I know.

[C]

I actually think people would have been moving people in the stands. You know what would have been funny? It would have been funny to put this guy. Our alternate halftime show should have been this guy just playing all his music in English. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We have an all American halftime show, and then we have an Americanized version of their halftime show.

[E]

And then their halftime show, like if next year. Next year, if they get like some like really awful, like, like, like, like one of those, like, rappers who just raps about all the felonies he does. We do a version that's like same beat, but he's rapping about, like all the community. Yeah.

[D]

Like community service.

[E]

Yeah. I roll into the club. I. I help out the homeless guys there. Yeah.

[D]

I go on the freeway and clean.

[E]

Up trash Yeah, I drive a Toyota Avalon. It's a responsible middle class car in the soup. I get my oil change every 3,000 miles.

[B]

Coffee and donuts at the library. No drag queens.

[F]

So good.

[E]

Yeah, I got five kids, all with my wife.

[B]

But that's that, that's the old Chris Rock bit where he's like. Yeah, he's like, I ain't never been to prison. To prison. To prison. He's like, you're not supposed to go to prison. He's like, I take care of my kids. You're not. You're supposed to take care of your kids. Like, why do you want credit for stuff you're supposed to do? That's back when Chris Rock was actually, we got another.

[E]

We got another dono from Zuzu's petals. Five this time. Thank you very much.

[B]

Zuzu.

[E]

Remember when Whitney Houston sang the national anthem at the super bowl back when it was patriotic? No, I don't because I believe I was 0 years old when that happened. But it is a great video. It's a great national anthem. And yes, that is. That's actually like iconic. It's iconic. It's about when I feel the super bowl problem.

[D]

But guys, Charlie Puth did okay.

[A]

He did.

[D]

He did good.

[C]

He did a great job. Again, nobody. This is the sad part. Nobody's talking about that.

[D]

Nobody's talking.

[C]

Nobody's talking about that. He did. He crushed the national anthem.

[F]

He really did.

[C]

He did.

[D]

Yeah. Yeah, he did.

[C]

Like that's where America should be centering on, right? It's like, okay, maybe a guy, probably not a conservative, not, you know, whatever, right. But crushes the national anthem. Wait, you weren't. You weren't alive in 1991?

[E]

Hell, I was alive. I was zero years old.

[C]

Oh, you were zero.

[D]

I was negative, negative years.

[C]

Yeah, I was definitely alive. Jack and I.

[E]

Were you even born when like 911 happened?

[D]

No.

[C]

Oh my gosh.

[E]

I will never see anyone weeks after. I will never see anyone born after 911 as like even when I'm 70 and there are like 60 year old post 9 11, they will still be children to me.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

My friend growing up just summarily reject it.

[D]

My friend growing up was born on 9 11.

[E]

Oh, wow.

[C]

Oh my.

[E]

So you're saying there's a connection?

[D]

Yeah.

[E]

Yeah. Really suspicious. There's thousands of days he could have been bought born on and he was born on that day.

[C]

Huh. Really weird.

[E]

Yeah, it's weird. I don't like it. Huh.

[C]

I've never heard a story of somebody that was supposed to go to Work that day, though, there, that really birth. I've never heard that story. Yeah, I've heard a lot of stories. People that didn't go to work but giving birth at it.

[E]

Weird. They didn't happen to give birth in, like, ward seven of that hospital, did they?

[B]

Oh, gosh, no. The weirdest 911 story I know, not weirdest, but just, like, I think most, in a sense unique, is I knew a guy who was in a motorcycle accident, like, the day before on 9 10, 2011, or excuse me, 2001. And I'm thinking 11. And so he was in, like a medical coma on 9 11. And then he wakes up on 912 and is like, hey, so did I miss anything? And everyone's like, then they had to go to him and tell him and, like, he didn't believe anyone, obviously. And then they show him the footage and he was like, there's no way. But it was so weird because, like, he didn't have that emotional response to it because everyone else had gone through the trauma of that day and, you know, not knowing whether or not, you know, something else. Like, people. Everybody thought there was going to be more attacks, right? Everybody thought there was going to be more going on, whereas he's just walking around seeing the flags everywhere, like, sort of confused about how that happened. It's kind of wild. Very, very. Like 28 days later, like, the whole world changes and you wake up.

[E]

All right, what's our.

[C]

What's our next topic?

[E]

Alrighty. Well, we have a few options I really like.

[B]

Do you want to get Tyler's take on next year?

[E]

No, no, no. I think Tyler's getting exhausted and we have to make sure we hit it. Do you want to talk more about.

[C]

I already said what we want next year. Next year we go twice as three times, four times harder. Way more, Way more awareness. I think you get a much bigger audience. I think it's continues to grow. Like, there's nothing here that says you should slow down. No, everything here says, pedal to the metal, make it bigger, make it better. The logo's great, the branding was great. Everything worked.

[D]

Everything was great.

[C]

Everything was great. You have to do this bigger and better and you have to scare everybody because if you do it in enough advance now, now, I mean, again, like, advertisers and things like that are really going to be, you know, twisting the screws here.

[B]

So, yeah, yeah, I'll just say, Tyler, I don't know if you caught. I know we chatted a little bit, but if you go back and watch when I Did Tim Cash last night? I mean, he was just. Couldn't be more praiseworthy. And he was like just all in. Just all in. And I've heard from a lot of people, you know, who are, you know, other hosts of shows and different things where people are. People are just honestly shocked, just absolutely shocked that it was record breaking viewing.

[C]

Where can I speak?

[B]

And the production quality.

[C]

Can I pump up Turning Point USA too? Again? I'm on the Turning Point action side.

[F]

Please do.

[C]

Turning Point USA was a Turning Point USA event. I got a lot of credit for doing nothing other than just helping organize years worth of Turning Point. But I did nothing with this. This was our entire team at Turning Point usa. The entire team at Turning Point usa. Lauren Tonsich's team, the events. Marina, who just had the baby days before she had a baby in the.

[B]

Entire media, which I guess we're talking about publicly now.

[C]

Did she.

[B]

Did you.

[E]

Is it true that she named her baby All American Halftime show minus Kid Rock? Kid Rock.

[F]

It was Kid Rock. Yeah, yeah.

[D]

You're a little confused.

[C]

It was. She named it Mr.

[F]

Kid Rock.

[B]

They were like one word or two.

[C]

I thought it was Bonito.

[E]

Kid Rock.

[B]

Two first names. And she was like, yeah, you get a problem, baby.

[C]

Bonita.

[E]

Oh, wait, I got it right now. I remember now. The full name was Kid Rock All American Halftime Show. Mina.

[C]

I thought it was Benita. Antonio, whatever. Bad Bunny's full name.

[D]

Maybe we're just not remembering.

[C]

No, but all of the good people. But here's the point I was getting around to making. Turning Point USA could have probably raised and charged millions and millions of dollars to do a bunch of ads, sponsorships, all that stuff intentionally. Did not do that. This was a. This was a. Did not make any kind of revenue. They did not turn this into a revenue thing. When it was very clear that this could be easily be a revenue thing. Because that wasn't what the purpose was. The purpose of this was to live up to the expectations. Things that Charlie. Jack, you had. You had verbalized this very well. Things that Charlie had said that really bothered him, that he would want to see done and make it really cleanly. Just about that, just about giving in the first place.

[B]

That's what I was thinking of. Like. Like I just had.

[C]

So I applaud.

[B]

It's like I could hear Charlie in my head just going off just the way he had all the years prior. And you know, we had joked about maybe doing something like this and I just, I just kind of typed it up and tweet went the way it went. And then we talked about it on the show and that that went pretty on. On this show right here on Thaw Crime. And that went.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

Super viral too.

[C]

And yeah, but here's the point is that people looked at this and went like, you guys would be crazy not to monetize this or do things or raise money for Turning Point that. That would go back to this, the 501C3, to help operations do all that. But this was so much bigger than that.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

And culturally.

[C]

And so for anybody that's like looks at this and goes, oh, you know, Turning Points, trying to just raise money all the time, it's like, no, guys, like the biggest thing that we.

[B]

There was no lower third with the QR code and all that.

[C]

There was not. This was cleanly just give Americans an alternative and prove a point. And they did that. The entire team did that. I thought that was really classy. I thought that was really important that nobody felt like they were being. Nobody looked at this as like, oh, well, this is just another play. And I saw a few people that.

[B]

No hard sales.

[C]

A lot of haters that were like these people that are like, oh, well, yeah, I didn't fall bad, buddy, but I don't watch that either. Because.

[B]

Although, although, Tyler, you did have an idea and perhaps we should still do it of doing like maybe like a T shirt or something like, like, like make it like a concert shirt that people could get a TPUSA shirt where it's got like the, you know, the bands, the ax on the front and then on the back it's got like the, you know, like, it's like a classic T shirt. Like a list of. Of everyone who performed and you could have like I, you know, the all American halftime show and then put the year. And then every year we could do a new shirt.

[C]

Yeah, I still think we need a shirt that says I switched the channel on whatever last Sunday was.

[B]

Put that on the back. I switched the channel or whatever.

[F]

Yeah.

[C]

Now Boomers would love that.

[B]

Boomers would definitely love.

[C]

Boomers would love a shirt. They would wear a T shirt to Home Depot. That was like, I switched the channel. And then like, like walking around, you.

[B]

Know, with like, Tyler, don't you mean.

[C]

Like a true man? A true man doesn't get a car. So you have like light bulbs in one arm. You're going to drop them and like you're getting like packs of screws and other hand and you got like a two random two by four. You're like, Trying to keep your pants up. You're walking around.

[E]

I don't think our guys have trouble with their pants fitting.

[C]

No, no, no. You watch Home Depot. There's no man gets ready and goes to Home Depot and remembers to put on a belt. Watch. Just watch. I do this. I know, because I'm a dad. This is what happens. And you're, like, walking around, you got your arms full, and then guys are just high fiving each other because, like, I love your shirt every time.

[D]

Go wear a channel, too.

[C]

Go wear a Turning Point shirt to Home Depot. On any given Saturday, you will get high fives.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

All over that store.

[E]

We got another message from Zuzu. She says that many songs sang in the all American halftime show went top 10 on iTunes. That could be part of it. You just like, you make it the symbolic thing. Every song that's performed, just make it 1 through 10 on. I like that itunes or on Spotify or whatever app they'll be listening to music on by that time anyways.

[B]

Yeah, I love hearing them, too, because, by the way, and this is something that. Okay, I do have, like, so there were. There's this argument that keeps getting made about, like, the ratings and all the rest, and everyone's always like, oh, well, you guys didn't beat the Super Bowl. Like, we never said we're going to beat the Super Bowl. We said we were going to do something that would. That would rival. That would take a chunk away, etc. Which we did, obviously. But then when you look at all of those sort of ephemeral cases of, okay, well, what are other data points we can look at to see what the impact was? And again, it's Kid Rock on the top of the US Charts. Gabby Barrett was right there, like, number four, number five, a couple of songs up because she was such a breakout star in terms of this, by the way. 25 years old, married at 19, three kids already. I mean, like, that's. That's the Charlie Kirk. You know, that. That is the Charlie Kirk motto. Get married, have kids, be successful.

[F]

She.

[B]

She's doing it. What an incredible star. Great person to work with. Like, super down to earth. Like, like, literally one of the nicest people I've ever met. Not like the diva that, you know, people seem to think that, like, all musician, you know, musical acts are going to be. And. But then the way the Nielsen ratings get cut, get compute computed. That's like, I feel like Tyler. I kind of feel like they're. They're. You know, it's. They're doing this apples to oranges thing, because our streaming numbers are based off of devices. So the number of TVs, the number of screens, the number of, the number of accounts, whatever. But Nielsen, they don't do households. They do the household number and then they multiply it by three.

[C]

Right.

[B]

Did you guys know this?

[C]

No, I didn't know. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's. I've seen everything from 2.4 to 3.4.

[F]

Yeah, right.

[B]

So, like, rightfully so. Like, I think that's true though, because, you know, most people don't watch the super bowl alone. You're probably going to be in a room with like a number of people. So you average that out and you say like, okay, we'll take some multiple and call it okay, it's three. So if you had 50 million households, they'll say it was 150 million. Right. Just to use that. But they don't do that to our numbers.

[F]

Right?

[B]

For our numbers. It's, it's only what goes by device. So they'll say, oh, well, you had 25 million. Like, well, if we used your metric, then wouldn't it be 75 million?

[F]

Right.

[B]

Or if we had 30 million, would it be 90 million? Because they, we don't do that with our numbers. I'm like, that's. And I just don't think that's true.

[C]

I mean, here's the reality.

[B]

When I watched it, I was in a room with like 30 people.

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[C]

Here'S the reality. The numbers are much bigger than what people were trying to report it as. Right. Because when you actually start calculating the number of views with that metric. Because I have friends that are in the marketing world that have put on these, these types of events that have done ads on the big game days.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

And he told me specifically because he's funded these entire big ads that the conservative estimates at 2.44 multiplier and views realistically, it's probably closer to like three to four person. So I mean, we're talking. I mean, we're talking, if that's the case, we're talking that there's a real possibility that this production took like, literally half the viewership.

[D]

We.

[B]

I mean, it totally broke containment.

[C]

It's crazy.

[B]

It really did. And that's, that's how, you know, God was involved. That's how you know it's. It's God. Because this was be not us.

[C]

This was being brought up biggest events outside of the big game. Like the biggest events like there are on tv, like, you know, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and all those things. Those things get like 5, 6, 7 million views. Like, we're talking like this was probably like five to eight times bigger than that as a brand, as an outside organization with no capitalization from the major media networks, like, that's insane, guys. Like, it just doesn't happen. So anyways, we could talk about it.

[B]

We made House, by the way. Yeah, like, like, like quickly. Yeah.

[E]

We have.

[B]

With the same, with the same team that we used to do the events. It wasn't like some. We had some like, extra director coming in or like anything like that. Like, same team.

[C]

I saw people, somebody call me, I won't say who it was, but they're an important person and they're like. After watching what the Turning Point team was able to do with Charlie's memorial, which was like, you have to believe that that was God's hand just making that, you know, successful because it was so huge and so many people and it was so hard to do so quickly and everybody was so emotional during that time. But, like watching everybody pull together and do this thing, then too, people are like, wow, this is actually like a very scary unit here that we're up against. Yeah. And what scares people even more is when they start realizing. The funny part is it's like, I can understand now why there's conspiracy theories that think that we have all this support from, like, places that we don't, because it almost is. It doesn't make sense how capable this team is. Does that make sense? Like, so I actually have a software.

[B]

People were saying that it was botted. And I'm like, okay, if that's botted traffic, then you guys do it, right? You guys. You guys just go buy a bunch of bots and run a live stream and see if you get, you know, number one US livestream of all time. Go right ahead.

[C]

The most powerful company in this world is getting botted. Yeah. I can promise you something. I can promise you the most powerful company in this world is not thrilled about Turning Point USA having the number one streamed event ever in American history. I just. I'm gonna promise you they. They did not see that coming. It was this. And that's the whole funny part of this whole thing. This is a sneak attack, this whole thing. If they would have had more time, they would have figured out how to stop us. I'm telling.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

This is a company just five years ago that was kicking all of us off the Internet.

[B]

Coming. They didn't see it coming at all.

[C]

This entire. This company was kicking us off the Internet and demonetizing every single one of us.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

And, like, by name. Sending lobbyists into Washington D.C. to work with their tech friends to debunk us. I mean, I'm telling you, this is literally. These are not anyone's friends here at Turning Point usa. No.

[B]

And. And kudos. And by the way, shout out, of course, to the rumble team as well for just. Just being there, being so supportive. Chris Pavlovski, he and I were chatting, like, right before it went live and talking about how he was going to see it. And then I did a little bit of the RAV pre show and I was just looking at the rumble numbers and that was sort of the first indication that I had. I was like, wait a minute. Like, this, this isn't just big. This is. This is way beyond anything that even we were projecting.

[C]

Well, it's like, yeah, to your point here, at least.

[B]

At least officially, I will say, though, that. And Andrew's not here, but he and I had like a phone call that morning and we were like, could you imagine if we get to like. We were like, could you imagine if we get to 10 million. Wow, that'd be crazy.

[C]

To your point with Chris. And again, kudos to Rumble. If it wasn't for Rumble, we may not be here today for those numbers to exist. Yeah, you see, I'm saying like, like Rumble was the Rumble was a huge portion of what made a lot of this possible. And it's not just that that one provider, there's all these other providers that were out there, all of the major mainstream networks. Rumble helped reset everything because they had competition. Rumble is massive now. And if they don't compete, then Rumble gets all of that business right today.

[B]

So that was even before Elon got X. That was even before Elon came in for X. Chris was there first.

[C]

Yeah, it was, it was all Chris. It was Rumble. It was the entire team at Rumble. So we're very, very grateful because Rumble is the, the unsung hero in most of Americans being able to consume even middle of the road content now because Rumble exists. So. Yep.

[B]

It's just, it was, it's just such a perfect storm. That's just the phrase that I keep just rattling through my head. It was just, it's just the perfect storm between all the years of pent up demand just for which by the way, country music in and of itself, it is the most listened to genre of music in the country. It is the most purchased genre of music. It is the. Gets the most attendance. If you go state by state, it is the number one genre in America. And yet for 30 years there has not been a headliner of country music at the Super Bowl. For 23 years, there's not been a single country artist in Shania Twain. Rock music as well has been completely shunted off for 16 years. I looked up a bunch of this stuff and it's like you guys are just cutting off this massive market demographic market which is, you know, very, very obviously the same demographics of people who watch the NFL and in many cases are the people who vote for Donald Trump.

[C]

Well, what's, what's so offensive about all that? Like they like exploited Hank Williams Jr. For years with his theme, the Monday Night Football theme song. So every football theme song that's existed for like Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football has always been country. Like this is what's so offensive about this, this entire thing. And again, I'm not even a country guy. I, I have a lot of family members.

[B]

Really?

[C]

Yeah, I don't think. But I'm not even a country credit. But I will come to the defensive country they've exploited for marketing Purposes. Right. Country music and country music listeners for football. And then when it comes to halftime, to promote some kind of value system, they will never go to country. And you have to ask, I mean, that's clearly an agenda. Right. Is like they're using when they have the eyeballs to try to push a narrative or a specific type of country culture to American citizens. But then when they need to actually sell something, what do they go to? Hank Williams Jr. And Shania Twain and drag like some.

[E]

Drag some boomer artifact out from the 60s.

[F]

Yeah.

[E]

You know, like let's get another who song that we used to market. CSI episodes.

[C]

It was. And then Hank, after Hank Williams, then they, they. I mean it's everybody, everyone. When everyone thinks of Monday Night Football, you think of Hank Williams.

[B]

Williams Jr. Is well, did you hear so. And for. Don't forget they canceled Hank Williams Jr. And I was so I was on Glenn Beck this week and he told me the backstory that Hank Williams Jr. Was listening to Glenn Beck. That's how he found out he got canceled. They didn't even call him. Like the NFL didn't even reach out to him directly. And he was listening to Glenn and he had these, and this is the story that Glenn told me, that he had these 10 Monday Night Football guitars, like acoustic guitars in his house. And he got so mad and so upset at the way that they treated him that he smashed them. He was just grabbing them and smashing them and smashing them and smashing them. And he finally came to the very last one and he stopped himself and he said, I'm not going to smash this. I'm going to give it to Glenn Beck. And that way at least one of them. And he has it in like that museum that Glenn has. And. And I said, wait a minute. So he, he doesn't have any of the good. He doesn't have a single one in his house anymore. Not a single one in his possession. He's like, I'm cutting them out like a cancer. This is wild.

[F]

Wow.

[B]

But that's, that's the anger that led to the pent up demand. That's the anger of middle America. That's the anger of, of the average American who just wants to be able to turn on something that isn't disrespecting them for being an American, for liking his country, for caring about Jesus Christ, for saluting the red, white and blue, that this. So many people have been crapped on for years just because, oh, you know, you do some, you some redneck American and it's like, no Actually, that's like, a huge, massive chunk of this country. And you know what? That anger, I think, turned and. And God used all of that to turn it into something positive, which led to. And we haven't really talked about that much yet, but the, like, Kid Rock sharing the gospel and his own salvation story, which is just. Just crazy when you think of, like, the Kid Rock when we first met him, to who he is today.

[E]

All right, well, we have a lot of ideas for next year, and I'm sure we'll. We'll keep getting a lot. I think no topic in the last four months or so has inspired more emails than just the idea of this.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Of the halftime show. Like, and over time, too, we got a huge wave when the idea first came out, when it was announced. But then just every single day, people would come in with new ideas. They had a lot of acts they liked, and. And then, you know, when we had that silent period every day, it was like a drumbeat. Like, what's the information? Where do we watch it? And then another wave. And then a ton of people emailed during the show immediately after it. It is a topic that arouses a lot of passion. People love to go on apps and watch people play music. What can we say? Especially if it likes America and if the alternative is a guy going, oi.

[B]

Oi, oi, oi, oi.

[E]

I got girlfriends. Is that Bad bunny? Was it kind of sounded like Jack doing a bad bunny impression?

[B]

No, that was the English guy.

[E]

Oh, really? Okay.

[C]

Yeah, that was. Oh, wait, that. That was Reuben Gallega.

[B]

Where's my auntie?

[D]

She asked me, why so many girlfriends?

[B]

Dude, Reuben, that was Ruben Gallego did.

[D]

An excellent job at the halftime show.

[C]

Reuben Gallego was over there. Like, he was. He was tweeting all about it the entire time. It's like, oh, man, I can't wait.

[D]

To use that again.

[E]

My culture. Nobody has ever, like, speak to my culture the way my culture does.

[C]

Reuben, you're Mexican. You're not wearing, like, every day. Somebody tell Reuben he's not Puerto Rican. Okay, what's next?

[E]

No, we have to have a heart out now. We've got a bail.

[C]

Oh, we can't go reluded?

[E]

No, no. Got a bail.

[C]

Dang, man.

[E]

Tragedy has set upon us. You guys. Have you guys got really mired in that? We told you we had to get to the others, but we'll have to push this next week.

[B]

Maybe we'll see it. It is. I mean, I think it legitimately was just, look, that halftime show, the Genesis of that was, in many ways, thought crime, because this is where we would talk about halftime shows with Charlie. This is where we would hash things out. This is where, you know, we really kind of came up with the genesis that led to the show. And you look at it. Number one US stream on YouTube of all time. However, number two worldwide. Wait, just real quick, before we go, did you guys. Did anyone see what was the actual number one worldwide?

[E]

It was some, like, Indian space landing, wasn't it?

[B]

Yeah. So it was when India landed a lunar probe on the moon. And so.

[C]

So.

[B]

So hold on, guys. I've got this fig. I've got this figured out. So if next year, if we want to beat it, I already know what the venue is. Call up Elon Musk. We're gonna do it on the moon, and then we're gonna invite Modi there. So, you know, whatever portion of the 1.8 billion in the subcontinent are gonna watch, tune in. How we do it. This is how we do it.

[D]

That would be amazing.

[F]

I want.

[C]

I want to get. Elon's dream is to be doing stuff on Mars. So we got to do Mars stuff.

[B]

On the way to Mars. Tyler, the moon is on the way.

[D]

Okay, wait, can we play that indie music again?

[E]

We can do it as. We can do it as we close out. We can do it as we close out.

[B]

No, no, we got to close out on vip. We got to close out on vip.

[D]

Good to see Modi on Mars.

[B]

Oh, my gosh.

[D]

That could be a great.

[B]

I could keep going, but. But unfortunately. Unfortunately, that is all the time we have for the criminality, the cognitive criminality on this Thursday. So to everyone out there, thank you, thank you to God, thank you to Jesus, thank you to the Holy Spirit. We're. We continue to be humbled by God's grace. And I hope Charlie was up there looking down, saying, guys did good. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, go out there and commit more thought crime. For more on many of these stories.

[D]

And news you can trust, go to charliekirk.

[F]

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