Drake Maye disappoints in Super Bowl LX, Seahawks defense dominates, Bad Bunny's halftime show | 02.09

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Right Time with Bomani Jones

Episode: Drake Maye disappoints in Super Bowl LX, Seahawks defense dominates, Bad Bunny's halftime show
Date: February 9, 2026
Host: Bomani Jones
Producer/Co-host: Ryan Brumley

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Episode Overview

This episode recaps Super Bowl LX, focusing on the underwhelming performance from Patriots rookie QB Drake Maye, the Seahawks’ masterclass defense, and reactions to Bad Bunny’s memorable halftime show. Bomani Jones and Ryan Brumley tackle key plays, coaching decisions, and cultural responses, blending sports analysis with sharp, comedic observations on pop culture moments, advertising hijinks, and societal trends.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Super Bowl LX Breakdown

Drake Maye's Poor Performance

• Maye struggled against Seattle, with numbers and on-field impact among the worst for any Super Bowl starter since at least 2000.
  • “There were throws there to be made...Like there was no excuse to be as bad as he was in that game.” (Bomani, 07:56)
  • Maye had the sixth lowest EPA per dropback in a Super Bowl since 2000. Comparisons include Kerry Collins (2000), Rich Gannon (2002), Rex Grossman (2006), and two Peyton Manning performances. (10:26)
• Maye got past the first two playoff games because his opposing QBs (C.J. Stroud, Justin Herbert) also struggled, but the Super Bowl exposed his limitations.

Coaching Decisions and History

• Seahawks offensive coordinator Clint Kubiak’s choices were questioned, especially given the history of coaches like Kyle Shanahan abandoning the run in key moments. (05:11–06:41)
• “There are three things that could happen when you throw the ball. Two of them are bad.” (Ryan quoting a football adage, 05:54)

Seahawks’ Defense and Running Game

• The Seahawks’ defense dominated, reminiscent of all-time great units that could win “despite” the quarterback: 2000 Ravens, 2015 Broncos, 1985 Bears. (15:27)
• Kenneth Walker carried 27 times for 135 yards, giving the game “an old school feeling” (04:27).
• Sam Darnold didn’t play great, but the defense’s strength allowed the Seahawks to overcome quarterback limitations.

2. Super Bowl Halftime Show: Bad Bunny

Pushback and Culture Wars

• Bomani highlights the manufactured “controversy” around Bad Bunny, dismissing most complaints as internet contrivance and generational discomfort with language differences.
  • “Everybody gets a little iffy when they don’t speak the language...Language is the great segregator above all else.” (Bomani, 21:00–22:00)
• Michelle Tafoya’s much-discussed decision to boycott halftime by folding laundry is lampooned:
  • “It’s amazing you've made it this far without ever folding laundry.” (Trey Wingo, quoted by Bomani, 17:41)
• Online culture war figures cited Kid Rock as a counter-programming act but failed to take the moment seriously (“the Venn diagram of people who were trying to protest the halftime show, love Kid Rock, and operate a smart TV is very narrow,” Ryan, 23:26).

Bad Bunny's Performance

• The hosts praise the show’s energy, inclusivity, and fun. Bomani notes, “What it really was was a big old good ass time. That’s what it was. It was a party.” (27:39)
• Cameos by Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga are highlighted; the show is compared favorably to previous years.
• Bomani jokes about not needing to understand every Spanish lyric: “We used to listen to Bone Thugs. You ain’t got to understand everything to know what’s going on.” (26:16)

3. Commercials and Cultural Commentary

Super Bowl Ad Review

• Crypto ads are “back,” with Coinbase running major spots. (28:50)
• Two Backstreet Boys commercials grab attention: “We couldn’t leave that back in 1999. Tell me why...” (Bomani, 28:54)
• Product tie-ins like the Liquid IV hydration commercial and Mike Tyson shilling for Make America Healthy Again are discussed (30:19).
• Bomani notes that sports gambling ads are getting more intrusive and potentially predatory, especially with companies like Kalshee betting on “anything” and the addiction-coded editing of their commercials. (40:13)

Health and Aging

• Discussion of a memorable prostate screening ad, featuring famous NFL tight ends and Bruce Arians, highlights the normalization of direct health conversations via humor. (32:30)
• Bomani highlights preference for less invasive medical testing: “Finding out there’s a finger prick prostate exam is the best news I got.” (33:48)

4. NBA & Sports Betting

Giannis and Trade Drama

• Giannis’s meme-tweet about staying in Milwaukee and subsequent sponsorship with Kalshee brings up cynicism about sports betting and athlete image.
  • “He is turning himself into Dwight Howard in the worst ways. Just doing it all wrong.” (Bomani, 39:07)
  • Discussion on implications of betting on player trades veers into concerns about inside information and the predatory feel of modern speculative platforms. (40:13)

5. UNC-Duke, Court Storming, and College Hoops

Court Storming Controversy

• Duke coach Jon Scheyer’s staff was reportedly punched by UNC fans during a court storm after a dramatic finish.
  • Bomani and Ryan slam court-storming as unsafe and outdated: “Court storming needs to be banned.” (43:46)
  • “Maybe I’m just getting older...Court storming is an obviously terrible idea because no one can act right.” (Ryan, 43:50)
• If roles were reversed—i.e., large group of Black fans storming courts—security would escalate, highlighting the racialized tolerance in college sports crowds. (44:01)

6. Bizarre Olympic News & Fun Segments

• Reports that ski jumpers attempted to gain a technical edge by injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises for better suit fitting. Bomani reacts with disbelief and humor:
  • “If what you tell me is, because I ain’t no scientist, we gonna put blank acid in your joint. Nah, man, I’m gonna just do this fair and square.” (49:21)
• Listener voicemails discuss Braves fandom, hairpiece mishaps in boxing, the ongoing “white Jalen/Tyrone” naming saga, and the discovery of a White man named LeBron in Oklahoma golf circles.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Props to us for coming up with 15 minutes to say about that dog shit game.” (Bomani, 16:35)
• “That first three quarters looked like a game played by two coaches who do not trust their quarterbacks.” (Ryan, 12:42)
• “The moment was just a little bit too big...for Super Bowl champion Sam Darnold.” (Bomani, 13:58)
• “You couldn’t position [Bad Bunny] as some outsider...This is a very famous, well-known man.” (Bomani, 25:16)
• “The world is a casino, right?” (Bomani on Kalshee’s business model, 41:38)
• “How many people were actually going to do that? Or we’re just going to be like, all right, well, this shit’s on...Maybe I’ll use the bathroom.” (Bomani, 24:00)
• “Finding out there’s a finger prick prostate exam is the best news I got.” (Bomani, 33:48)
• “Maybe all that money people spend on quarterbacks, y’all getting it wrong.” (Bomani, 16:17)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Super Bowl Reactions (Seattle D, Maye struggles): 02:26–16:35
• Halftime Show & Culture Wars: 17:03–27:39
• Commercials & Advertising Tangents: 28:14–34:09
• NBA, Giannis & Sports Betting: 39:07–43:10
• UNC-Duke, Court Storming, College Hoops: 43:10–47:21
• Winter Olympics: “Acid” Cheating Scandal: 47:26–49:55
• Voicemails & Fan Stories: 50:00–61:25

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Overall Tone and Flow

Bomani balances irreverent, insightful analysis with affectionate teasing and social critique, aided by Ryan’s quick quips and the rapport of two friends riffing on sports’ absurdities and broader cultural battles. The episode is engaging for both serious sports fans and those interested in the intersection of sports, media, and society.

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For new listeners:
This episode dives into the numbers, narratives, and nonsense that surround America’s biggest sporting event, while also reminding us that the culture—on and off the field—is just as telling as the box score. Bomani and Ryan keep it sharp, accessible, and funny, even when the Super Bowl doesn't deliver on the field.

Transcript

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[Ryan Brumley]

I love how dumb sport sounds to people who don't care. Yes. Like, oh, wow, you ran the ball over the line. Big deal. Good for you when you win the game.

[Bomani Jones]

I sent that to the homie Toby and Wig way. I don't know. You've been here. Rapper out of Houston, very Nigerian cat. And I sent it to him and he was like, yep, that's my Bob about my life, right? Like, you gotta really start making some paper. Apparently for these American, these, these American trivialities to really reg with the Nigerian Bob. But no, after she watched that game, like, what, what is. So what. What are we, what are we doing? She ain't even get to say yay that much. Yeah. If we being perfectly honest now, I would assume though that she got to like get into the defense because the sun played defense and the Seahawks did play a certain measure of defense. Like Ryan. I don't know. Did your mama have a go to at football games? So like my mama has a go to. She has two go tos at football games, right? And I haven't been to a football game with my mom in a very long time. But me and my brother talk about this all the time. It's time for a football game with my mama. She got two go tos. If her team has the ball. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And if your team is on, if our team is on defense, get them, get them, get them, get them, get them, get them, get them, get them.

[Ryan Brumley]

Always. Yeah, get them. Universal.

[Bomani Jones]

Just get them. And it is a passionate, it is a. Since her, she is invested in the get them. Right. And my mother is a fan of sports. We're not talking about somebody just like totally out of it.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

I'm wondering if Ms. Z got like charged up during the game. Her son played a defense, you know what I'm saying? Maybe, maybe she get her get them on. But like, I like, what does she think about any of these other games that, that, that her son was playing? And by the way, they was in South Carolina. I need to hear his accent because the country ass Nigerians, boy, they sound, they, they gotta, they gotta sound. You know what I'm saying? But how charged up. Like, hopefully she was happy because her son's team played a lot of defense. Congratulations to them and shout out to the boy, Kenneth Walker. Cause that was a, that was a old school feeling. Kind of got a running back performance, right? What we talking about? 27 carries for 135 yards. That's what I'm talking about. He's good too, right? Like, and to be honest with you, he should have had a whole lot more running yards. And the only reason he didn't have a whole lot more running yards is at Clint Kubiak. We got a big brain in the house, guys.

[Ryan Brumley]

Auditioning for a job he reportedly already has.

[Bomani Jones]

He already has the job. You're already. Okay, I am assuming. And let me look, let me look up his exact Track record. Because, I mean, what I was about to say is I'm assuming that he's cool with the boy Kyle Shanahan, obviously, because they got, you know, they daddies.

[Ryan Brumley]

They've been going to Christmases together for 30 years.

[Bomani Jones]

Right. They're not the same age. He did work with Shanahan in 2023. He did not work with Shanahan when Shanahan was working with the Falcons. And I bring that up because we all watched Kyle Shanahan be the most responsible culprit for the Falcons blowing that 28 to 3 lead. Because for whatever reason, the dude who's built the offense that makes it so that everybody can run the ball was like, no, let's keep throwing. That's what we should do. We should just keep throwing the ball. Yeah. Yeah. We got this big lead. Why don't we just keep throwing the ball? What could possibly go wrong? Ryan, give him the quote, the old quote.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. There are three things that could happen when you throw the ball. Two of them are bad.

[Bomani Jones]

There we go. Right? There we go. That's. That fr. That's never been wrong. In fact, if you extend it out and loosen the assumptions more and more, the bad things actually keep stacking.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

And the good ones don't. Right. They had reached a point. What was this third quarter, early fourth, where Chris Collinsworth said the exact same thing that I was thinking. I mean, they're going to just run the ball out, right? Like, there's no reason to throw the ball ever again. And by the way, shout. Shout out to Kyle Shanahan, who learned his lesson about that because he had games with Jimmy Garoppolo where he was like, hey, man, just.

[Ryan Brumley]

Just.

[Bomani Jones]

Just get. Just give. Just give somebody else.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, let's throw the ball eight times.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. And that's all in the first half.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

Whole second half, we just go hand the ball off the Seahawks for whatever reason. Right. What do we got to just make sure. Make sure Sam get a touchdown. Huh? That's what we need to do. There was no. Honestly, there was no reason for them to run the ball after 7:30, 7:30pm I mean, yeah.

[Ryan Brumley]

Once he got to nine, nothing.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, once we. Once we had seen the halftime show, there was no need to throw the ball because the Patriots were not going to do it. Guys, they. Drake May, apparently, you know, he had the bad shoulder. We knew he had a bad shoulder. He said he took a shot before the game. He's not making any excuses. And I'm So glad that he's not making any excuses so we can just talk about what this really came down to, which was an all time bad quarterback and performance and there were throws there to be made. They weren't all great, they weren't all stupid. Like. Like there was no excuse to be as bad as he was in that game. This wrapped up. And Ryan, you got this stat, I think was Stephen Ruiz of the ringer put this up. But for quarterbacks that had gone this deep into the playoffs, played three games in the playoffs, it's the worst postseason by total EPA, one of them fancy advanced numbers since the year 2000. Like we talked about this coming into the game, he hadn't been good. Deontay and I did the show on Thursday and I gotta say, you know, y' all don't. Y' all don't talk a lot about when your boy get it right. Me and Deontay were pretty clear. This, this one, this one had had beat him down written all over it. And it had even to beat him down punctuation, which is the gratuitous defensive touchdown in the fourth quarter. The game is already at hand.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I mean, he kind of. Drake may kind of got a pass in the first two games because her. You know, C.J. stroud was so bad.

[Bomani Jones]

Yes.

[Ryan Brumley]

When they played. And Herbert was so bad when they played.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, yeah. Let me tell you this. C.J. stroud, if he was watching the game is like, how come ain't nobody talking about putting him on the bench? Like, when we watched CJ Stroud be this bad, all of us were like, hey, why don't you boys go to Davis Mills, Drake B. Was that level of bad Right. Right now, like, do I think you go to who is their backup? Do we know?

[Ryan Brumley]

I do not know.

[Bomani Jones]

Let's go ahead and find out.

[Ryan Brumley]

Let's find out who the backup quarterback for the Patriots is.

[Bomani Jones]

It could be anybody. Brian Hoyer, though, that he feels like he's on the board.

[Ryan Brumley]

Oh, Josh Dobbs or Tommy DeVito?

[Bomani Jones]

Oh, I gotta say, man, Josh Dobbs might have. Might have done better for you.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, like.

[Bomani Jones]

Like Josh Dobbs is the kind of backup you get specifically for this.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes, right.

[Bomani Jones]

Specifically, like he, he is not. Here's what Josh Dobbs is. Josh Dobbs is a backup who can start a game for you. Right. But I mean, again, we knew that that was not going to be yet, but that's really all there is football wise, to talk about from this game. Like, I know that Seattle defense is really good but that didn't. I did not feel like this. Did not feel like that was what I was watching. Right. So if you want to talk about some of these stats we've seen with, like, The. The. The EPA numbers of, like, the 10 worst Super Bowls. And Drake May is on that list also, right? Oh, yes, here we go. It's this. Drake May had the sixth lowest EPA per drop back in a Super bowl since 2000. Now, Peyton Manning is on this list twice, just so we're clear. And only one of them is 2015. I mean, obviously, but you know what I mean. Patrick Mahomes is on this list twice. Ben Roethlisberger is on this list. I mean, I'm saying that to say there's some really good quarterbacks who are on this list. So this doesn't mean that Drake May is doomed to be terrible forever because he's on this list. Okay. However, let me tell you who else is on this list. That Kerry Collins game in 2000 against the best defense we've ever seen. The Rich Gannon game where the Buck against the Bucks with Jon Gruden and them knew all their hand signals. Rex Grossman in the rain. That first Ben Roethlisberger super bowl where he completed some ridiculously low number of passes. The Jerry Goff game that I went to against the Patriots. Oh, my God, that was the most boring football game I'd ever been to. And the Patrick Mahomes game that it looked like they were playing against 13 people. And I still contend maybe the best individual performance by a quarterback maybe I've ever seen.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. I mean, if you look. If you combine through the whole postseason, four games, completed 57% of his passage, six touchdowns, took 21 sacks for 81 rating.

[Bomani Jones]

Oh, and by the way, right fast. Oh, that super bowl, also on the list last year, Patrick Mahomes, which also looked like they were playing against 13 people.

[Ryan Brumley]

Correct.

[Bomani Jones]

But was not, I repeat, not the same thing, the best performance that I've ever seen. Like, against the Buccaneers, he looked like a magician. Against the Eagles, he looked like he was getting sawed in half. Like, oh, my God. But that's. That. That was what we watched. That was it. I also have to say this, too, about the game. I've never felt that the NFL concussion protocol had more integrity than it did in that super bowl when they took Jack, Jackson, Smith and Jigba to the back to go check out his concussion. Because I thought they would have been in there. Like, I'm holding up two fingers. Right? Right. Okay, let's go.

[Ryan Brumley]

Let's get out of that blue. Yeah. They didn't even take him to the blue tent. They took him all the way to the back.

[Bomani Jones]

Let's get it back out here. Let's get it back out here. Also to Seahawks. We good for business. We will still be able to have discussions about Sam Darnold next year because. Not good. He was not good.

[Ryan Brumley]

I mean, that the first three quarters of that game looked like a game played by two coaches who do not trust their quarterbacks.

[Bomani Jones]

Yes. And two quarterbacks who should not be trusted. Like, it's not like they did anything to make it seem like anything. Like they were, like they were punts and draws and stuff where you were just like, oh, they were running on third, nine.

[Ryan Brumley]

Third and seven.

[Voicemail Callers]

All.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. Was it you that was like, yo, they're the Patriots are calling the game like it's the snow?

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, I, I, I said that. What I talked to you about was at the end of the first half when, when they didn't try to take timeouts, try to get the ball back.

[Bomani Jones]

No, no. It like they would have gotten the ball back and then they would have gotten the ball back to start the.

[Ryan Brumley]

Half, which is, you know, the whole Patriots variable. Bill Belichick, you know, you tried to double up right there.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. And they're like, nah, nah, let's just, let's just go to the back and let's just talk it out. Rabel must be doing some therapy because he was so positive with Drake, maybe. And I'm just like, there's no way. This is really how you feel. You play defense, right. Like that. Patriots defense. Boy, it's going to be a long golf season for them boys. And by the way, this is after Drake. May was the, like, damn near mvp.

[Ryan Brumley]

I mean, he was one, one guy going rogue for maybe winning it.

[Bomani Jones]

But the moment just a little bit too big. Yeah, it was a little bit too big for super bowl champion Sam Darnold. Let me tell you something for you, Sam Darnold. This ain't gonna get you in the hall of Fame. It might get you some more money. But let me tell you what it's definitely gonna be able to get you if you play it right. A job as a television broadcaster. That job is now, wait, don't mess around and get another. And he can clearly, he plays for a team that can overcome a quarterback.

[Ryan Brumley]

I mean, he's not only a Super bowl champion quarterback, he is a USC graduate.

[Bomani Jones]

Oh, yeah.

[Ryan Brumley]

Talk about someone who's gonna get a media job.

[Bomani Jones]

Fox is Ready for you, brother.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. Come on down.

[Bomani Jones]

But think about this, and this is perhaps the test again. The Seattle defense has been excellent all year long. They played well, but I did not feel like I was watching the 2000 Ravens in that game. However, what this defense has proven itself to be, and this is a short list defense, is good enough to overcome a quarterback because in many ways, in this game, they overcame the quarterback that they had. Like, when you think in your mind how many of those defenses truly exist, there really aren't that many of them. Right. Like, that's 85 bears. That's 2,000 ravens. That's 2015 Broncos, where you're like, who played quarterback for them? Not just who played quarterback for them.

[Voicemail Callers]

Who.

[Bomani Jones]

Who played quarterback for them? And how did that quarterback play? Oh, wow. He was cheeks also. Ooh, hey. The 02, the 02 Buccaneers with Brad Johnson, the 2001 Patriots with Tom Brady, who's, by the way, whose name comes up on that bad run of playoff starters. Tom Brady's there. Like, in fact, that's what this list really is in a lot of ways. Like Drake May's there. The Peyton Manning 2015. The Rex Grossman 2006. They didn't win it, but that's like, oh, we are overcoming you. 2000 Ravens. Tom Brady in 01. I feel like Shanahan overcame Garoppolo in 2021.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

But overcame Jimmy Garoppolo's been quarterback in two Super Bowls. You know that.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, it's wild.

[Bomani Jones]

You know, I mean, maybe all that money people spending on quarterbacks, y' all getting it wrong. Maybe this isn't it. But you know what? The thing is, even Sam Darnold costs a bunch of money. Like, it's not like he's out there playing for 8. 75 an hour.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. I mean, he's what, I think, $30 million or so.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. But, hey, man, they've got a team good enough to win it on defense. They did it this year. This is. I don't know how sustainable it is, but that is. Wow. Props to us for coming up with 15 minutes to say about that dog shit game. All right, Ryan, now it is our opportunity. Talk about peripheral stuff.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

Now, I want to say this right fast. I feel bad for Michelle Tafoya. For those of you unfamiliar with Michelle Tafoya, she used to work sidelines. Well, I think she worked for espn. She worked for NBC.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, she was. She was on Sunday Night Football for a long time.

[Bomani Jones]

And now she is running for the Senate as a Republican in Minnesota. Right. Like, she. She. She took similar steps to where, say, Steele was going. Maybe she just got more ambition because she actually out here trying to do something, say, just out here trying to be on camera talking. Wow.

[Ryan Brumley]

I mean, Michelle is also a shitty Republican podcaster, so maybe that is true. Maybe she tried to fail up.

[Bomani Jones]

You know what? You know what? You're absolutely right. Sage is just better at being heard because I completely forgotten that Tafoy was out here doing this stuff. But anyway, I don't know who they talked to and, like, who really tested this idea that, like, bagging on the bad Bunny super bowl was the way to go. But she said a tweet that said during halftime tonight, I'm going to do something I've never done before, Fold laundry. To which Trey Wingo said, it's amazing you've made it this far without ever folding laundry. And look, I don't. Trey Wingo is some P. O. K. You know, I know Trey. He's Hal iii. I'm just telling you, like, that ain't really how he sees it. What I found so funny about that was how insulted must you be if you are Kid Rock?

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. You couldn't. Couldn't. Couldn't pull up the live YouTube stream, couldn't change the channel.

[Bomani Jones]

You put in all this work. And we g. I saw some clip from that Kid Rock show, and it was some country rapping. Like, it was. It was country rapping. And he wasn't, like. He wasn't a bad rapper technically, per se, but I was like, what are you. What are we doing over there? I also saw a clip. I couldn't tell if it was real, but Kid Rock got mad because people went clapping and rapping along with him, so he walked off the stage.

[Ryan Brumley]

I have to admit, I did not see any of the Kid Rock show. I consider myself a bit of an expert in the culture wars and, you know, being on the Internet for the last 10 years and one thing about the. You have to learn about the culture wars is you have to know when the other side is fighting. Seriously.

[Bomani Jones]

Yes.

[Ryan Brumley]

And if they're bringing up Kid Rock against the most popular artist on Spotify, they're not. They're not taking this for real.

[Bomani Jones]

No. But their problem is they're really bad at booking. Right. They just can't really like y'. All. They got the Country Music Association Awards or academy, you know, CMAs, country music. That's what they got.

[Ryan Brumley]

They went out and got Zach, Brian. They went out and got Kenny Chesney, you know, then they're taking this seriously. Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

I'm just saying, like, the CMA get, the CMA does the same thing and they get the job done. They can't really dial it up twice. Right. You understand what I'm saying?

[Ryan Brumley]

Went out and got Garth Brooks.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, but they, the CMA speaks their language, right? Like, like they tell, used to tell Obama jokes and stuff like that. It was they thing. But anyway, the thing. So the thing I do want to say, and I do think it's important to discuss this in talking about. Look, I have felt that the whole Bad Bunny pushback has largely been an Internet contrivance. Right. And that people who live on the Internet, it was a super big thing and it was an easy thing to go to. I don't know how many people in the streets were really that invested in caring.

[Ryan Brumley]

I've never met anyone in my life who was anti Bad Bunny.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, maybe, but I, like, I just, I don't, it's never come up. But my point is not whether or not they're anti Bad Bunny, it's whether they care that much about the fact that Bad Bunny's playing the Super Bowl.

[Ryan Brumley]

Got it? Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

Right. I, I, I don't have an answer for how many of them there are. I do think, though, that it's worth pointing out that everybody gets a little iffy when they don't speak the language, whatever the language is that is put before them. Like when you start talking to people who don't speak the language, the worst comes out of people you in those moments, right. Like, this is no matter who you are, no matter what it is, once it gets to a place or in, you're in a place where you don't speak the language, how you feel about going to countries where you don't speak the language, anything else language, when people don't understand it makes them very, very insecure. And we generally acknowledge that language is a significant part of culture. Like, one of the things really, no matter the country that you're in, if you immigrate to that country, one thing they want to know is whether you've taken steps to learn the language of the place where you are. If I learned anything when I was in Miami, it is that language is the great segregator above all else. That is the number one is language. Right. So the idea that people are a little iffy about an act that is going to speak entirely a language that they don't speak. I understand that on its face, the idea that people are like, huh? Don't you think it's a little weird that it's America and the halftime act doesn't speak English? I understand why somebody might feel that way. The idea that anybody really cares or, like, get super mad about that. You're not going to convince me. That's, like, very, very real. Like, especially not to the point of going to watch no fucking Kid Rock. Right? But it's a perfect line to draw if what you're saying is we're losing the country, bro. You know what I mean? Like, if that's. If that's your whole game and that's your whole hustle, is we're losing the country, bro, then yeah, this is going to be the thing that you're going to try to argue. I get you. On the other hand, people are lazy. Ryan, didn't you. Like, it wasn't like it was on a channel. You was going to have to go find it somewhere.

[Ryan Brumley]

Right. I would say the overlap of people who wanted to turn on the Kid Rock concert but needed their kids to do it for them.

[Bomani Jones]

Oh, that's exactly what I was about to say. Like, these are old people, by and large. And by the way, old people who are going to go get and American Badass. Right? Like, it's not even that kind of music. It's not even that kind of life. Yet.

[Ryan Brumley]

The Venn diagram of people who are trying to protest this halftime show. People who love Kid Rock and people who can successfully navigate a smart tv.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. Yeah. Figure out, like, is your airplay working? Is your Chromecast connecting right now? It might not be. There's no guarantee that this is a website that's handling all this traffic.

[Ryan Brumley]

You also have to take a. To realize that, like, there's also going to be a 90 second rant about streaming and how everything was better when there was only three channels.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. Like, you got. You got to go through all of this. Oh, man. People. You're just not going to. How many people were actually going to do that? Or we're just going to be like, all right, well, this shit's on. You know, I. I guess I'll go ahead and watch it. Maybe I'll use the bathroom. I have no idea that you're never going to convince me that there were that many people that were this mad about this. Right. That the idea of Bad Bunny, that they were going to go through all these steps. He's like, I'm going to fold laundry. You can do that and watch TV at the same time. You think you're the only person that folded laundry during the Super Bowl. Like, this isn't. This isn't.

[Ryan Brumley]

I folded laundry during the Super Bowl.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, this isn't that. Like if that's what you go do, this isn't that hard. It just like this being your personality or this being your thing is the Internet completely breaking our brains. That is that, that is, that is the only way that I could receive this. Right.

[Ryan Brumley]

I also love the idea that Bad Bunny is some messenger of the left, you know, I mean, but, but I mean, this is also Bad Bunny who is, you know, particip, wrestled in the wwe.

[Bomani Jones]

Yes.

[Ryan Brumley]

And been in Adam Sandler movies.

[Bomani Jones]

Well, here's what he also is. Somebody. Everybody knows who he is.

[Ryan Brumley]

Correct.

[Bomani Jones]

Like, like you couldn't position him as this some like, outsider that they, you know. No, no, no, no, no. This is a very famous, well known man. Like this is, this is, this is who he is. And oh, by the way, he rocked that. Yeah, look, you know, I talk a lot about taking the Spanish lessons and stuff like that. For whatever reason, I struggle still to pick up like understanding Spanish and songs, especially that brand of Caribbean Spanish. I do not understand it. So like, I'm not listening to it and like know the words or everything else. But I know what I know was jamming. When is jamming? I mean, come on, man, we used to listen to the Bone Thugs. You ain't got to understand everything to know what's going on here, brother. That show was jamming from top to bottom. And I'mma tell you this too. Even if them cats is like, they don't like Spanish. Let me tell you what, what, what is a crowd pleaser that everybody seems to like Spanish girls. And it was, it was lots of them. Yeah. Jessica Alba. Look, even though the ones I, I ain't, the ones I ain't know the name of was doing just fine. And you know what they look like and what made the show so dope and why it's kind of so wild. And I'll just go ahead and put this out there. Why this was, for me a significant improvement over last year's show. It wasn't. I'm sure there were things to think about. There were messages to be offered, whatever it is. But what it really was was a big old good ass time. That's what it was. It was a party. It. Everybody involved in that looked like they were having so much fun. I'm not Puerto Rican, obviously, but I can only imagine if I was like, he was putting on for the squad. He put on for a whole Nation ran through all the countries, even Haiti in there. Because he ain't stupid, right? Like. Like there was a message to the show. Certainly I don't know what it was entirely though, because I don't speak Spanish. I ain't need to speak Spanish. Hey, they played the. The Nueva York joint. That's an old Puerto Rican joint. Check that one that was jamming. Brought Ricky Martin back out there. Didn't let him sing no Vi loca or nothing like that. That was what was up. For whatever reason, I understood his Spanish better. That are understood Bad Bunnies. They was looking out for some of y'. All. You know who I'm talking about, y'. All. They had Lady Gaga come out there.

[Ryan Brumley]

They just won just one olive branch and they. And they gave it to us.

[Bomani Jones]

Right? But no, man, that was like, that was a great show. Like, I can't anybody who was coming out of it bragging about how they didn't check it out. You lost. You lost. Let me tell you something with the. Maybe the rest of the super bowl would have been better if it was in Spanish. How about that? Right? Because the show was definitely better than the Super Bowl. The show was better than them commercials too. Like, that's. Is that even a thing anymore to like. Right. Like, I also feel like some of the commercials come out in advance. Like the 50 cent. What about Beef? I thought that was pretty good, but it had been out for days.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. Now it's like they like. It's like a two week marketing campaign leading up to the Super Bowl. Yeah. It's just so like part of it is like we're not all getting the joke at the same time.

[Bomani Jones]

Correct.

[Ryan Brumley]

So I think that, like cuts out a lot of the humor. It's like if you know one third of the people involved know the punchline. Yeah, but, but it also is just like a way to shove old people into getting some money.

[Bomani Jones]

It is, it is. Now I want to point out a couple of things that I noticed in the commercials. Number one, crypto back.

[Ryan Brumley]

Looks like it.

[Bomani Jones]

Crypto back. Okay.

[Ryan Brumley]

That people trying to buy the dip. Very dipping.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, but I guess they bought these ads a long time ago. Like, did they know Coinbase is back? And speaking of Coinbase, not one, but two Backstreet Boys commercials. And. We couldn't leave that back in 1999. Tell me why, you know what I'm saying? Like, like, like we could. We had two Backstreet Boys commercials. I wanted to change my cell, a telephone provider. After I saw that, I saw somebody, I think it may have been the boy, Cass who raised the question about, like, is Justin Timberlake just a bad friend?

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes, I was Cass.

[Bomani Jones]

Like, like, all. Yeah, all the. All the Backstreet Boys, they still get. They still get together. Justin Timberlake is like, joey who? I don't know any of these people.

[Ryan Brumley]

To be fair, the Backstreet Boys need to be a collective.

[Bomani Jones]

That is very.

[Ryan Brumley]

Just.

[Bomani Jones]

That's interesting. Nobody broke out. You're right.

[Ryan Brumley]

Justin Timberlake is like, I got to. I got to feed four more families.

[Bomani Jones]

Point. Good point. So we got. Yeah, we got two Backstreet Boys commercials. That Dunkin Donuts commercial with all the people from the sitcoms did not make a dollop of sense. They must have been paying big money, too, because they got Urkel to put back on the Urkel suit. And, you know, he ain't really about that at all. Yeah, he. They. They. They got him out there. Um, did you see the Liquid IV commercial about looking at your pee?

[Ryan Brumley]

I heard about it. I did not see it.

[Bomani Jones]

They. So I'm trying to remember what song it was based on, but it was like some look at me type thing or whatever. And it was all about, look at what color your urine is. Because maybe you need to take liquid IV and I'm here to tell you guys. Or maybe you need to drink some water. Like, we used to do ads for liquid IV here. Ok? So one thing that was interesting about that, I have no problem saying this. I don't think this violates anything they were really big on. Don't use the word hangover because they know what time it is.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

Okay. Use the word water. You can just drink water if that is your solution. Like, if you're looking in the bowl and your piss is too yellow and your thought is, I need to go buy something. You are a lost cause. Mike Tyson did an advertisement for Make America Healthy Again where he just talked about how fat one of his aunties was, and then he's in there eating an apple. Did you see that one?

[Ryan Brumley]

I did. And I thought Mike Tyson is an interesting spokesperson for health.

[Bomani Jones]

I just want to say that it's weird enough that we allow Mike Tyson to, like, be back all the way back. Yeah. Three people whose. We let them back doesn't make much sense. In varying degrees for varying reasons. Well, Mike Tyson kind of makes sense because he has attempted to atone.

[Ryan Brumley]

Right.

[Bomani Jones]

He's taking a great deal of responsibility, and I think largely people pity him. Number two is Jon Gruden, and I said something on Twitter about this, and people Are like, you don't forgive. You don't forgive people who don't apologize. Right. He's never shown any level of contrition for it, which is why letting him come back around. And how many of these football goo's are like, ooh, John Gruden's so funny. You. Number three is James Winston. Just kind of like, oh, he's so funny. And it's like, yeah, we just let them back. But Mike Tyson, that was shocking, like how he got everybody to come around. I will have to say the commercial I thought was the most effective. Okay, did you see the commercial with the tight ends in it?

[Ryan Brumley]

I did not.

[Bomani Jones]

Okay, so if you have not seen this commercial, it is a commercial with a bunch of tight ends in it. It's got Tony Gonzalez, it's got George Kittle, it's got Rob Gronkowski, it's got another one. And it is talking about these guys being tight ends and it's not really easy to understand what they're talking about. And like Gronk is with a horse. I don't remember exactly why. And then Bruce Arians, it turns out, is doing the voiceover and Bruce Arians is recommending to people that they go in for their prostate screening. And then he explains that you can go do a finger prick test now for your prostate screen. And then when he tells all the tight ends that you can do the finger prick for your prostate screening, they booties unclench, they ends get looser. You see?

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes, I do.

[Bomani Jones]

You get it. You get it. And I have to say, a man of my age finding out that there's a finger prick prostate exam is the best news I got.

[Ryan Brumley]

Definitely better than the alternative.

[Bomani Jones]

Yo, that, like, that's really it. That's up there with finding out about the colonoscopy thing where you just, where you just boo boo in a cup and put it in the mail.

[Ryan Brumley]

What?

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, you seen that commercial where the dude is like talking about going out in the snow and he's like, actually, I'm just going on the porch. And then he goes and gets.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

So that's, that's the, that's the test to see if you need a colonoscopy.

[Ryan Brumley]

Now that's you.

[Bomani Jones]

So you don't automatically have to go in for the colonoscopy. Now part of what's funny about that is I did that and then I went to the UPS store to send it off. And so I'm at the UPS store, but it didn't open until 9 and it's like 8:45 and there I am for 15 minutes just standing outside with a box of dookie. You know, it felt a little weird. But I got to say they, they that commercial was weird and the whole booty unclenching thing was, you know, I guess. But I now know and I will never forget and as soon as they tried to get me hey, hey, hey, hey. What about that finger prick test that Bruce Arians was talking about like overwhelmingly on these drug commercials? I'm like, hey man, I'm not like I shouldn't be asking you what drug I should take. You understand what I'm saying, right? Like that's just not it. You should be telling me. But now, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Why don't you just poke me in the finger right fast and then we work it out from there. Wanna know why betting the Winter Games on FanDuel makes sense? From game lines to metal counts to finding your angle on the events you care about most, FanDuel gives you more ways to stay connected to the action the Winter Games are on, and there's no better way to follow them than with a bet on fanduel. Curling matches that start slow and somehow get tense fast. Speed skating decided by inches. Hockey games that feel different from the opening face off and so much more. FanDuel play your game 21 in present.

[Ryan Brumley]

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[Bomani Jones]

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[Ryan Brumley]

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[Bomani Jones]

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[Ryan Brumley]

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[Bomani Jones]

All right, come back right fast. Ryder. I want to make a point that I meant to make earlier about Bad Bunny that I think is most hilarious. Even if bad buddy was saying super revolutionary stuff, you'd have no idea because it wasn't in English. And apparently a lot of these people who was so mad they don't even speak English that good. And I know that because you're worried that things got too woke or whatever words you use because of Bad Bunny. Green Day came out there and did songs from American Idiot, which is by definite. By the ways that people use the terms the wokest.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

That you could imagine. Like, it is entirely a reaction to the. To the set of circumstances that lead us to being here.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

It's saying it dead in front of you and you were just. He was just right there with it.

[Ryan Brumley]

Incredible stuff. All right, speaking people who had an interesting weekend, Giannis NBA trade deadline came, went. Giannis remained a buck. He then tweeted a meme, famous meme from the wolf of Wall street, that he's not going anywhere. He then came out as a sponsor for the prediction market, Kalshee Bomani. What'd you make of Bomani? I'm sorry, John. This is interesting week.

[Bomani Jones]

Well, once again, he is turning himself into Dwight Howard in the worst ways. Just doing it all wrong. Doesn't want to be the bad guy to anybody. And people respect the bad guy more than they respect the try to make everybody like you guy. Right. We know you tried to get traded. We know you trying to get out of there. Like, it's too many people saying this. We know that you're trying to get out of there pretending like you're not and that you stayed because you had. Nah, man. Come on, dog. Like, stop doing this. You're making a fool of yourself Now. I do think, though, the Kalshee thing is going to be a beginning for a lot of people. Right. And. And I think it is incredibly cynical and again, get us into like Internet contrivance world. Do I think that Giannis started chatter about him being traded to generate business for Kalshee or to make some sort of. No, that's stupid. Like, like I'M just that that's a level of cynicism that I can't get to. Right. And also, I don't fully understand how these things work, but it feels like a huge federal crime.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

Right. Like you just whining about this. No, the feds would be on this if that's.

[Ryan Brumley]

That is getting dangerously close to things like insider trading.

[Bomani Jones]

Yes. I mean, it's the literal definition of. It's the fix. You're. You're shaving points. Yeah, more or less. Right. I want to say this about Kalshee, though. And look, I'm pretty sure you guys just heard a fan duel ad just before this. Okay? So, you know, full disclosure, however, I saw a commercial for Kalsheet that was one of the most disturbing things that I have ever seen. And it was. The whole premise of it was you can bet on anything. And, like, I don't know if you've seen this ad, but it says you could bet on anything. But what struck me about it was the way that it was edited was, like, it zoomed in on all these different things, and then it started doing it really, really fast when he was doing it. Oh, you could bet on this. Oh, you can bet on that. Oh, you can bet on this. Or you can bet on that. It felt very much like the end of Goodfellas where as Henry. As Henry Hill descends more and more into cocaine addiction, the paranoia is throwing in the anxiety. Like, everything in the production and it felt like everything in the production of that commercial was buying into the anxiety of being addicted to gambling and needing something to bet on. Right. It's not simply like, hey, you know, there are thousands of things that you could bet on if you happen to just want to have a good time. It was like, hey, you could bet on this. Hey, you could bet on this. Hey, you could bet on this. Everything around you is something to bet on. And if I was a person that was legitimately addicted to gambling, I can only imagine what it felt like in watching that ad. Like sports. At least sports gambling in itself. And look, it's. It's. There's a lot of problems that come down with it. But. But at least in the cell of sports gambling, there is, in fact, sports, right? It's just like, hey, we're just making this little thing better, right? Cow is like, the world is a casino, right? Bill Maher. Did you see Bill Maher's monologue on gambling was interesting last week? Do you happen to see it? And, like, I know. So I have my issues with Mar. Like everybody has their issues with Mar. But I will say after having done that job for a couple of seasons those essays are really well written and really good whether you agree with them or not. But he made a very interesting point about what all this gambling says about Americ. And he was like hey man. There's a reason that all the like kung fu movies and stuff like that run through somebody gambling and that the casinos are like they are in Macau and these places in China. And he's like. Because they ain't really got no hope. Right. Like your chance to hit it big is going to be in a casino because how else are you really going to do it? That's where we are now. Right. Like your. Your. Your only chance to get it is. Is to scam it. Basically. Gambling isn't a scam. But it's not a. Yo. It ain't earning. You know. That's where we are. And Giannis put his face on it. The guy who went and got it like nobody else. Like. Like few have ever gone and got it. Telling you to try to you know hustle it real fast if you can.

[Ryan Brumley]

All right. Moving back on the college basketball UNC Duke was this past weekend. UNC beat Stuke on a buzzer beater. They stormed the court. Duke coach Johnshire was not happy saying that quote. He had staff members get punched in the face by New York. New North Carolina fans storming the court after a late game shot. For me it's hard to talk about the game where I was most connected to. Just for the safety of our players after the game. I don't want to make it about that because Carolina. They played a great game to win. But that's a heartbreaking loss for our team. I got STAB members that got punched in the face. Bo. What was your reaction to this?

[Bomani Jones]

Number one course storming needs to be banned like it is.

[Ryan Brumley]

I mean it is 100% my biggest old guy change.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah.

[Ryan Brumley]

It's like.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. Maybe I'm just getting older. Right.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah. Cornstorming is an object obvious. Is an obviously terrible idea because no one can act right.

[Bomani Jones]

It's ridiculous.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

Like. Like when you think about what the very idea. Think about this. We have security here for the whole rest of the time. The only time that we're saying we don't need security. 000 shifts over the most volatile moment in the game. And this is the part that people talk about with core storm And I don't think we talk nearly enough about because we only associate course storming with something amazingly Good has happened. And these people are storming the court to celebrate. One day they gonna get their asses out there and it goes the other direction. If you didn't see in this game, they stormed the court out to Seth Trimble, hit the game winning three. Okay? But the game wasn't over. There were four tenths of a second left. And so they had to get everybody back off the court. Okay? I need you to imagine that that happens and they get everybody off the court and then Duke makes the shot to win and they. And now they run back out here again. You understand what I'm saying? Like, this is. No, no, no, no, no. This, this is something that should not be allowed in the idea of, hey, man, this is. White kids try to have fun. And yes, the white part is important. 10,000 black people start storming to court. It's going to be an electric fence around that motherfucker after a certain point.

[Ryan Brumley]

You know what? You don't see court storming professional events.

[Bomani Jones]

You don't.

[Ryan Brumley]

Because they're still working when the game's over.

[Bomani Jones]

Right? This is a terrible idea. That being said, when Shire said that one of his coaches got hit, I was like, before I develop an opinion on this matter, I need to find out which one it was. It's Duke. It might be somebody who deserved to get punched in the face. They have, they don't have. They're no longer in the era of having like Wojo and Chris Collins on the bench, which is assistance that I wish could get punched in the face. Like, if you told me that after the game somebody punched Steve Wojowski in the face. My question is, how many times? And if they said once, I'm gonna be mad because there was a lot more work to do.

[Ryan Brumley]

What's your follow up? What's his. What's the guy's. Venmo.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. The GoFundMe. Does he need bail? Like, what, like, what can I, what can I do to help him out? Like, what is his name? So I can get it on the back of a jersey. That's what I would be doing. But I went through it. I got Carol. He all right with me. I don't really got no problem with Tyler Thornton. I didn't know nothing about the rest of the assistance, so it was kind of like, yeah, okay. And Shire's never bothered me. Right? Just like, yeah, all right. But yeah. The real moral of the story is it could have been the best weekend. Well, the second, the third best weekend in the history of North Carolina sports. The first one being when they beat Duke at Cameron in Coach K's last home game, and then the second being or tied for first when they beat Coach K in the final four to end his career. Right? But if they could have had a weekend where they beat Duke on a last minute shot in an upset, and then Drake May, Luke May's brother, would have won the super bowl, it would have been excellent. Right? But instead, Drake May had to play like. Well, your friendly reminder that it is still Carolina football now, isn't it?

[Ryan Brumley]

All right, a bit of a weird story heading over to the Winter Olympics.

[Bomani Jones]

Wider. The wider.

[Ryan Brumley]

The wider Olympics.

[Bomani Jones]

Because of the snow.

[Ryan Brumley]

Because of the snow. Some athletes are looking for an interesting edge. And I'm just reading news here. Ski jumpers are allegedly injecting their penises with hydrochloric acid in order to fly just a little bit further though. What was your reaction when you saw this?

[Bomani Jones]

Okay, so I want to be clear. It's hyaluronic Sar. That's a. But, but see, that's important. This, this, this, this leads to my discussion that I had with my brain.

[Ryan Brumley]

Filled in that word.

[Bomani Jones]

Because, yeah, because look, because look, look, look, look. If you were telling me that they were shooting up hydrochloric, that's on me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like that. I feel like this story has much different outcomes. I could be wrong, but. All right, so, yeah, so the idea behind this is that you shoot up with the hyaluronic acid and it. Is it kind of like in the Botox family?

[Ryan Brumley]

I believe so, yeah.

[Bomani Jones]

And so like it's. I saw it in a commercial yesterday for some like, skin stuff, like it reduces fine lines and stuff like that. Like it makes things bigger. And so the idea is that if in your ski suit there is some slack, then it makes it better for ski jumping. And so it's like this is an analog to tricks people do to make weight.

[Ryan Brumley]

Right.

[Bomani Jones]

In boxing. And so the idea is that you get shot up with the hyaluronic acid and it make your joint get bigger and then you get fitted for the suit under those circumstances, and then the swelling goes down. And now you got the slack in your suit and then you can ski jump farther. And all I hear is needle penis and acid. Now, again, there are many different kinds. Acid is a very broad term.

[Ryan Brumley]

Right. As we covered earlier.

[Bomani Jones]

Yes. However, if what you tell me is, because I ain't no scientist, we gonna put blank acid in your joint. Nah, man, I'm gonna just do this fair and square. Cause let me tell you what, what, what? I don't. I could be wrong, but I don't feel like these cats make that much money. Like, that's some real love of the game shit that we talking about right here. Where you taking a. Taking a needle to the NLEs. Nah, dog, not your boy.

[Ryan Brumley]

All right. Boom. Voicemails. A lot of great ones. Here's our first.

[Voicemail Callers]

Hey, Bomani. So I know you've talked a lot on the show about being a Braves fan. And one of the things I've heard about the Braves is back in the day, they had all of their games nationally broadcasted on pbs. I was just wondering if you could talk a little bit about, you know, what it was like to have your favorite team on those broadcasts, you know, what it was like to watch them growing up and how that helped sort of expand their fan base throughout the south and throughout the country. Thank you.

[Bomani Jones]

So the expansion of the fan base thing, it's. There are actually two factors to that. One, one of them is the SuperStation TBS being what is now TBS. I guess people who. I have to remember, this is an age thing. It used to be channel 17 in Atlanta, and then Ted Turner got it on. Basically, Ted figured out these cable companies gonna need content. And so he threw a bunch of reruns and stuff on there and then sent those, you know, sent it out everywhere. Ted brought. Ted Turner bought the Braves and the Hawks so he'd have content for the channel. And then the channel wound up on cable and got this distribution. You also have to remember, and this is still the case for a lot of the south, but there were many more places in America that didn't have teams back in the day. Right. So especially in like, the southeast part of the country. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, those places.

[Ryan Brumley]

The Carolinas.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. North Florida.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, the teams. I mean, the teams weren't in Florida yet.

[Bomani Jones]

Right. And keep in mind, with the Carolinas also, DC didn't have a team, Baltimore did. But dc, DC has a bit more of like, an influence in Carolina than like, like Baltimore reaches more up, D.C. reaches more down. But either way, those places did not have a team. And so during the summer, when you're not doing anything else, the Braves are on now, a big part of this, though. The Braves were terrible up until they weren't. Right. You know, the Cubs have a nationwide fan base in a lot of ways because WGN did the same thing. The other level of it, though, with the Braves, that gets. That people don't realize is the braves were on AM 7:50, I believe, was the radio frequency, but it was a clear channel station. You could hear the Braves in your car on the radio all the way to, like, Louisiana, Mississippi. That's why I remember. Yeah, yeah. So it wasn't just the television. Right. Like, if you're on. If we were on a road trip in that part of the country, we could listen to the Braves like they were everywhere for anybody to have. So that's for the fan base. For me, personally, I can sum this up very simply. When I was six years old, the parents decided to move from Atlanta to Houston, which was not something at the time that I was really on board with. But imagine my surprise to get to Houston and to find out that I still have access to my favorite thing in the world, which was the Braves. I literally don't know what my life would be if the Braves were not on cable.

[Ryan Brumley]

All right, here's our next one.

[Voicemail Callers]

Hey, Bomani, It's Casey out of Palmdale, California. As someone like you who feels people need to come on home when the time comes, what do you. What are your thoughts on this boxer who literally had his hairpiece knocked off during a fight last week at Madison Square Garden? He won the fight, but he ended up taking his hairpiece off after he got knocked off during a round. Took it off, threw it in the crowd in between rounds, and then went around the crowd and everything else. So just want to know your thoughts on that later, man. Keep up the good work.

[Bomani Jones]

Hey, man, I gotta be fair to this cat. And look, I believe in coming home when it's time to come home, but that's not a decision for me to make for other people. Right. I mean, I left home during the pandemic, for example. It's not for me necessarily to say when you should or should not go home. You know, trying to be fair here. This guy seems to have a problem, and we talked about this with a few people. LeBron James has this issue. I don't think that he really got the right shape for properly coming home, which doesn't leave him with that many options.

[Ryan Brumley]

You know what doesn't help? Getting punched in the head for a living.

[Bomani Jones]

And so that's the part that I was going to get to for him, which was, did you. Did you stress test this? Right? Like, did you have any idea, like, what is. Like, when you went and got this, you never bothered to ask any questions about, gee, I don't know, man. Like, I gotta make sure this thing can stick around the whole way. Like, if I was him, that's what I probably would have been doing. Okay, okay, hold up. He said that he used the hairpiece because he lost his hair because he accidentally washed it with ammonia bleach. That can't be correct. That has to be the Google AI just telling me anything, right?

[Ryan Brumley]

I surely hope so.

[Bomani Jones]

I can't. That can't poss. No, no, no. He said he lost his day two days earlier using a bottle of shampoo he found at his mother's house. That was like, quote, ammonium bleach. I don't even know what that.

[Ryan Brumley]

All right, here's our next one.

[Voicemail Callers]

Hey, Bo Mining, this is Rodney out here in Austin. Listen to your show basically every day. I must be in and out of work. The funniest name to go on Epstein list, I would say would be Hannibal Burris, the dude that got coffee all in the limelight again, I think that would be the funniest name. All right, buddy, have a good one.

[Bomani Jones]

That would be pretty funny.

[Ryan Brumley]

Certainly ironic.

[Bomani Jones]

Yeah. Yes, I think ironic is. Is the better way to put that. That certainly it would also raise a lot of questions as to like, who put Hannibal Burris with Jeffrey Epstein.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, Epstein. Just listen to Deep Cut Burris. Yeah. How did they get connected?

[Bomani Jones]

Yes, how exactly? Hannibal Burrs is so famous for a joke. That wasn't a joke. That was just some real spill.

[Ryan Brumley]

All right, gotta keep the bid going. Here's our next one.

[Bomani Jones]

Hey, what's good, Bo?

[Voicemail Callers]

This is Jalen from Kentucky. A black Jalen, that is. And when it comes to the topic of white Jalen's or. Right, Tyrone's, I haven't met any of them, but when I was coaching a high school football, our quarterback, who's a white kid, his mother was named Lanesha. The only white Lanisha I've ever met. The only white Isha, even that I've met. So just thought I would share that. Love the show. Keep doing what you're doing, Brian.

[Bomani Jones]

What I tell you about them, loves them, love, ladies is out there, but the Isha. The Isha is a bit of a surprise.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yeah, it's certainly different. And speaking of la, here's our last one.

[Voicemail Callers]

What's going on? Bo, this is Eric in Stone Mountain, Georgia. I grew up in Oklahoma City, graduated from Oklahoma State, and I go back for homecoming from time to time, which in Stillwater is a really big deal. One of the events that some of my friends and I attend is the black Alumni Golf tournament. Golf is serious at osu and there are a couple of courses in Stillwater. Lord knows There ain't much else, but every year, the Black Alumni association will rent out one of those courses for a day, and we'll have a couple dozen or so foursomes pay to enter a scramble tournament. And all of that money goes to scholarships for current black students. It's a really dope cause, and it's a lot of fun, even though most of us suck at golf. But one of those courses is called Lakeside Memorial. I had learned that it was designed by OSU's golf coach in 1945, which says a lot about what that dude looked like. But that coach was a former PGA Tour pro, and as the designer of that course, there's a sizable portrait of him inside the clubhouse. And when I saw this man's portrait, I had to do a double take. Matter of fact, I stopped and I took a picture, because that Gentleman's name is LeBron Harris Jr hashtag White LeBron. Have a good one, Bo.

[Bomani Jones]

First of all, I love how everybody sounds like Mike Hitman when they sound off now.

[Ryan Brumley]

Yes.

[Bomani Jones]

And by the way, LeBron L, A, B, R, O, N, E. Harris Jr. Yeah. Is still in the league. Whoa.

[Ryan Brumley]

Good for him.

[Bomani Jones]

84 years old, he's still in the league. Wow. Made my day with that one. I also want to throw something else out. Other things I learned today. It's a long story as to how we got here, but I want to send a shout out to a lot of you folks who, like, if we keep it real, because I was around in this time. Some of y' all bought that Kid Rock Devil Without a Cause record when it came out. Y' all did. Y' all was Bob with the bind, you know what I'm saying? Don't act like some of y' all didn't. Some of y' all did. I did not. So today I learned for the first time something that I had no idea of, which is that Kid Rock has a song called, and I quote, black chick, white guy. Now, I need you to understand that this song is a little truer to life than you might think, because Kid Rock does have a black child dead ass. And he loved this song so much that he put it out on one album and then did it again on another album. And, guys, this song is so racist. Like, it's so racist. Except Ryan, it would make Hank Williams Jr. Not hang out with him anymore just because of the topicality. But it is of that level of. Of. This is. This is the. So it's about a black kid who seems to be him who comes from the middle class. And this black girl, she came from a place that was so alone. You know, the same old tale of a broken home? Her mama was an alky and more like a friend. And it had three different kids from three different men. And it's a love song about how they started having sex and then had a baby and then had an abortion. And then I had to stop reading the lyrics on the page because I was laughing just a little bit too hard. You think he played that song right again?

[Ryan Brumley]

Another sign that they weren't taking this culture war seriously is they went with the artist who had a song.

[Bomani Jones]

Oh, God, I hope he still plays it at shows. That would be amazing. But hey, ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this four times a week. Ryan Brumley had an everything behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Hit the voicemail line. 323-596-7767. Remember, follow the right time. Subscribe like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. We'll talk to you guys in a couple of days. Take it easy.