The Charlie Kirk Show - February 09, 2026


The All-American Halftime Triumph


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The Super Bowl is over and we have a new Super Bowl Champion! We discuss the results of the big game, the halftime show, and the other halftime show. Plus, we talk about our favorite Super Bowl halftime performers and what to do with the millions of viewers who tuned in to the Super Bowl.

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00:01:09.000 All right, it's the day after.
00:01:10.000 It's February 9th, 2026.
00:01:13.000 We're here in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:01:14.000 Blake, what happened over the weekend?
00:01:16.000 I'm not even sure.
00:01:17.000 Well, there was some sporting event.
00:01:18.000 It was really boring.
00:01:20.000 It was actually.
00:01:21.000 It was actually quite atrocious.
00:01:23.000 It was probably the worst.
00:01:25.000 I'm very happy with the result, but it was not an exciting event.
00:01:28.000 It was progression to that result.
00:01:30.000 Gosh, what was the final score?
00:01:32.000 It was, I think, six to nothing.
00:01:34.000 I think it was 12 to nothing.
00:01:36.000 I think it was six to nothing at the half and 12 to nothing going into the fourth quarter.
00:01:41.000 And then they even let me down in the fourth because it would at least be cool if we got the first shutout or if there had been no touchdowns the whole game.
00:01:50.000 But then both teams got touchdowns and we just kind of got a normal final score.
00:01:53.000 Normal final score.
00:01:54.000 Pats got sat on.
00:01:56.000 The game was not normal.
00:01:58.000 The game was like too normal.
00:01:59.000 It was nothing but normal plays.
00:02:00.000 And then like one fumble returned.
00:02:02.000 Touchdown.
00:02:02.000 That was okay.
00:02:03.000 You think of like the great Super Bowls of all time, like Elway, you know, never won a Super Bowl, 16th year.
00:02:09.000 Yeah, no, don't buy me.
00:02:11.000 You don't need to tell me about that one.
00:02:13.000 No, we can forget about that one.
00:02:14.000 Oh, I didn't realize that was a bad one for you.
00:02:16.000 Well, I'm a Packers fan.
00:02:17.000 I forget.
00:02:17.000 Gosh, I don't even remember who they were playing.
00:02:20.000 More importantly, there was a cooler event during that sporting event.
00:02:25.000 Yeah.
00:02:25.000 And then there was an even cooler event.
00:02:27.000 No, no.
00:02:28.000 The other thing in the middle of that sporting event was terrible.
00:02:31.000 I am reliably told.
00:02:33.000 Listen.
00:02:34.000 A lot of people told me they're like, I can't.
00:02:36.000 I wish there were subtitles.
00:02:37.000 I can't tell what's going on.
00:02:38.000 You don't want subtitles, by the way.
00:02:41.000 By the way, we got the subtitles.
00:02:43.000 We should probably tell you what Conejo Malo, that other guy, the other halftime show, that's how we should refer to it, the other halftime show.
00:02:52.000 Yeah, yeah, the other one.
00:02:53.000 So, yeah, we had a massive night last night, folks.
00:02:57.000 I would be lying if I told you I expected it to go that big, but it went huge.
00:03:04.000 And so, huge shout out to Real America's Voice and Robin Parker Sig.
00:03:09.000 There it is.
00:03:09.000 Yeah, that's a graphic from this morning's Fox and Friends, I believe.
00:03:12.000 That was 10 million concurrents.
00:03:14.000 I think we actually had more than 10 million concurrents.
00:03:16.000 That's just social media.
00:03:19.000 Just social media.
00:03:20.000 So that's not including anybody that was watching on TBN or one of the broadcast partners on Dish or DirecTV or any of those things.
00:03:28.000 So the way Nielsen does the numbers, and we could go back and forth on this, and nobody's going to believe us if we tell you what the numbers are, but those are just straight from Rumble and YouTube.
00:03:40.000 25 million plus as of this morning.
00:03:44.000 But the way Nielsen does Super Bowls is they add like a 2.5 multiplier on that because they are assuming that a lot of people are watching with their families or barbecues or watch parties.
00:03:55.000 So we're realistically looking at probably a 40 to 50 million viewer total.
00:04:03.000 Now, the big game is watched by an average of about 125 million.
00:04:08.000 It's the most expensive.
00:04:11.000 Advertising real estate on the planet.
00:04:14.000 And when you have an alternative option that's garnering 40 to 50 million eyeballs potentially, and we're again, I'm not giving an official number because I don't know the official number.
00:04:26.000 And we're waiting for data to come in from some of our broadcast partners.
00:04:30.000 But when you have an event that garners that much attention and those that many eyeballs, That's a tectonic shift in the culture.
00:04:39.000 That is a shot across the bow.
00:04:41.000 My phone has been blowing up with reporters this morning with the one question Does this change the halftime show forever? 0.98
00:04:49.000 Is this the official damn breaking? 0.93
00:04:51.000 Does it force them to take it back from Jay Z? 0.96
00:04:54.000 And I'm not even sure if they can.
00:04:55.000 I think Jay Z might have them by the.
00:04:58.000 He's got a contract through 2029.
00:05:00.000 Good Lord.
00:05:01.000 2029.
00:05:01.000 And they just gave it to him because they felt bad about George Floyd, basically.
00:05:05.000 Is that what?
00:05:06.000 It was around.
00:05:07.000 I don't know for sure if it was before or after, but it was during that.
00:05:09.000 I don't know for sure if it was before or after, but it was during that.
00:05:11.000 It might have been before, but it was during that kind of peaking cultural era where they needed, they basically got like politically guilted into doing this, among other things.
00:05:20.000 Well, and you're, if you're watching right now, you're seeing B roll from Brantley Gilbert.
00:05:26.000 That is Gabby Barrett. 0.99
00:05:28.000 I think the laser show on that song she did right there was insane.
00:05:33.000 So, hat tip to our production team that just did an amazing job.
00:05:37.000 It was beautiful the way that she just stood there and the light show was kind of swirling around her.
00:05:43.000 Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Gabby Barrett, and Lee Bryce.
00:05:46.000 They all did an amazing job.
00:05:48.000 I think probably the most viral portion of just the performances came from Kid Rock when he came out as Robert Ritchie.
00:05:59.000 So, everybody, you'll often hear people refer to him as Bob.
00:06:03.000 And so he sang the second song under his real name, not as Kid Rock.
00:06:07.000 It came out as Robert Ritchie.
00:06:08.000 So, it was kind of like a big moment for him.
00:06:11.000 And he added a verse.
00:06:14.000 To a hit called Till You Can't.
00:06:18.000 And I saw that clipped everywhere.
00:06:21.000 So let's go ahead and play that 222.
00:06:25.000 There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off.
00:06:32.000 There's a man who died for all our sins.
00:06:36.000 Hanging from the cross.
00:06:38.000 You can give your life to Jesus and he'll give you a second chance till you can't.
00:06:47.000 Wow.
00:06:48.000 I still get chills.
00:06:49.000 I honestly watch that.
00:06:51.000 It was just great music.
00:06:52.000 It was just a really well done product, a really well done concert.
00:06:56.000 And the.
00:06:59.000 Such a huge shout out to the bravery, the courage.
00:07:02.000 It took some guts if you are Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, and Kid Rock.
00:07:08.000 They actually went against a very real pop culture and economic juggernaut that can really make things painful for you.
00:07:17.000 They can say, Oh, we're not going to let you perform at it's not even just Super Bowl shows, but remember, they have their stuff at the opening of the season.
00:07:26.000 They have other musical performances.
00:07:27.000 They control venues and the same agents are behind the scenes, the same money exchanging hands.
00:07:32.000 I mean, they can make Things are painful, and but you know, I think when you have a success like this, that's the most powerful thing.
00:07:39.000 So now they get to go back to the people that might want to make it painful for them and say, Well, listen, you know, 40 million eyeballs say differently, and there's a market for this, get on board.
00:07:49.000 So I think that's ultimately going to be the biggest thing.
00:07:51.000 And listen, is the Super Bowl, is the halftime show changed forever?
00:07:57.000 I think that's up to the folks that run the halftime show, the other halftime show.
00:08:03.000 But I think probably.
00:08:04.000 I think the answer is probably.
00:08:06.000 We got, you know, we'll got to wait and see.
00:08:07.000 The future is unwritten still, and they have choices to make.
00:08:11.000 And listen, if they want to reach out and they want to call us and schedule a meeting and we could talk about what we would like to help them with, then, you know, we would engage that conversation.
00:08:22.000 So, Mr. Commissioner, you have a green light.
00:08:26.000 Please call us, set up a call.
00:08:28.000 We'll meet, we'll fly to you, and we'll talk about it because this is important to the country.
00:08:33.000 Present on the biggest stage of our country.
00:08:35.000 And you see that juxtaposition Kid Rock with the American flag behind him, and then you've got the other guy dancing around with flags from all over the Western hemisphere, basically signaling that our country belongs to all of them and we better just get over it.
00:08:50.000 We are a colony that is to be colonized by other people that don't speak our language, that don't share our values, that actually have a different culture completely from us, and that we're just supposed to be okay with that. 1.00
00:09:02.000 And, you know, there's no hate.
00:09:04.000 There's nothing but love.
00:09:05.000 Like, listen, this is capitalism.
00:09:06.000 They're able to do that.
00:09:07.000 And if they succeed doing that, who am I to say?
00:09:10.000 The market will speak.
00:09:11.000 But I think that's what's interesting about what happened last night.
00:09:14.000 We just did a great concert with great music, with a great message and great songs.
00:09:20.000 And the market spoke.
00:09:22.000 And so there is a tectonic shift that just happened last night in the culture.
00:09:26.000 I don't think we fully appreciated what just happened, but it happened.
00:09:31.000 And there's no going back now.
00:09:33.000 We just proved that you could take on the biggest entertainment.
00:09:37.000 Media juggernaut in the country, and that you could make a serious sizable dent.
00:09:44.000 I did really like that Kid Rock's song was Ba Wit Deba, just because obviously this is substantially pro.
00:09:51.000 Kind of the idea first came in Bad Bunny dislikes America, and then he also refuses to sing in English.
00:09:56.000 So we're going to have an English halftime show with the lyrics Ba Wit Deba, Debang Debang, Diggy Diggy Diggy, said the boogie, said up drop the boogie.
00:10:06.000 And he repeats that several times.
00:10:08.000 Up drop is English.
00:10:08.000 Up, drop, yeah, the.
00:10:10.000 Up, drop, the, yeah, all right.
00:10:12.000 I'm not sure what it means.
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00:10:56.000 All right, Blake, we got some fun clips here that we need to play of just some of the people reacting last night.
00:11:04.000 Did you have one in particular that you.
00:11:06.000 Let's get the one.
00:11:07.000 I don't have the number right for you.
00:11:08.000 The one where they're all, where like the audience at the other game observing that alternative.
00:11:13.000 Is it the bar?
00:11:15.000 No, no, not the bar.
00:11:16.000 Let's see.
00:11:17.000 Gosh, there's just going to be a bar.
00:11:18.000 How about 276?
00:11:19.000 You'll find yours, 275.
00:11:20.000 This is a bar scene reacting really
00:11:57.000 fired up.
00:11:58.000 I think, but I found the one I think I want.
00:12:00.000 Is this a space between the audience?
00:12:01.000 This, yeah.
00:12:02.000 But you know, it's a bar.
00:12:03.000 But like, people who are at the game have nothing to do but to pay attention to the concert.
00:12:07.000 So I believe this is the audience at the actual stadium, 249.
00:12:12.000 Okay.
00:12:28.000 Just really picked up.
00:12:29.000 There was a longer video I saw.
00:12:30.000 It had like one woman was like dancing, and like that was it.
00:12:34.000 This is my, this is a really funny one.
00:12:36.000 This is a grandma reacting to it.
00:12:37.000 251.
00:12:39.000 I mean, like, who is this man?
00:12:43.000 Gotta leave.
00:12:45.000 Can't sing.
00:12:47.000 I mean, like, what is this?
00:12:50.000 Gotta leave. 0.99
00:12:52.000 This is ridiculous. 0.98
00:12:55.000 And you got the American flag and all these other flags. 0.94
00:13:00.000 Yeah, God bless you too.
00:13:02.000 Get off the stage, please.
00:13:03.000 Get off the stage.
00:13:04.000 I can't stand this. 0.97
00:13:06.000 I mean, what in the world is all this foolishness? 0.92
00:13:10.000 Thank you. 0.90
00:13:10.000 Get off the stage, please. 0.90
00:13:13.000 Jesus. 0.98
00:13:14.000 Get off the stage, please.
00:13:16.000 Listen, they do them.
00:13:18.000 We'll do us.
00:13:20.000 We'll let the audience decide.
00:13:22.000 Here's what's crazy, though.
00:13:24.000 Probably the number one YouTube live stream in the history of YouTube.
00:13:27.000 If not the first, it's definitely the second.
00:13:30.000 That is a massive, massive accomplishment.
00:13:33.000 Accomplishment and that was made possible by all of you guys spreading the word, finding a way, making a plan to change the channel, and uh, really, really, uh, a really amazing moment, honestly.
00:13:44.000 Truly, truly, an amazing cultural moment that we got to be a part of.
00:13:47.000 Um, how about this? 0.99
00:13:49.000 The Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin, she's slamming it.
00:13:52.000 Uh, the not us, the other guys, 250.
00:13:55.000 It was the worst halftime show ever, and um, it's 250 years that we're celebrating right now in the United States.
00:14:03.000 Um, And I just don't think it was appropriate to have it in Spanish.
00:14:06.000 And quite frankly, I didn't need to see him grabbing his G area.
00:14:11.000 I think it was totally inappropriate.
00:14:13.000 You've got all these young kids watching the Super Bowl, and he doesn't have to be grabbing himself every five seconds.
00:14:18.000 Is he so insecure?
00:14:19.000 Seriously, I didn't understand it.
00:14:21.000 I don't speak Spanish.
00:14:22.000 I would have liked to have known the words he was saying.
00:14:24.000 To me, it looked like a political statement because there were literally no white people in the entire thing.
00:14:31.000 I just think that the NFL sold out, and it's very sad because this is 75 years.
00:14:36.000 And, you know.
00:14:39.000 Shame.
00:14:40.000 Shame.
00:14:41.000 So you contrast that with, you know, Kid Rock singing to Jesus.
00:14:46.000 You've got, we had the beautiful tribute to Charlie as well.
00:14:50.000 And so, in honor of Charlie, we should play what his vision was for the halftime show 232.
00:14:57.000 When you have the most televised event, this is true, most televised event for the entire year, one of the most televised events on the planet, by the way, that should be a reflection of the virtue that hopefully you want society to embody.
00:15:12.000 And instead, you get some really graphic stuff from the other guy.
00:15:18.000 We actually have some of these.
00:15:21.000 We had to blur it out.
00:15:23.000 What's the clip here, guys, of the lyrics of some of these songs that he was singing?
00:15:29.000 We have it here.
00:15:30.000 I'm struggling with that.
00:15:31.000 While we're bringing it up, it's just like the ways that they made it political were a little subtle.
00:15:38.000 So I think a lot of people missed it.
00:15:39.000 Like he says in the performance, he said, God bless America.
00:15:42.000 Oh, that sounds all patriotic.
00:15:44.000 And then he lists off every country in Latin America.
00:15:46.000 Yes.
00:15:46.000 Because this is a thing that left wing Latinos get mad about that people call the United States America and they're appropriating the whole continent.
00:15:56.000 Well, sorry, guys.
00:15:57.000 We were the first independent country and also we have America in our name and you guys don't.
00:16:01.000 So, yeah, totally.
00:16:02.000 And that's with all the flags.
00:16:05.000 And I mean, it was just, it was really offensive actually in so many ways.
00:16:09.000 So, this is 262.
00:16:11.000 These are the lyrics sung during his halftime show.
00:16:14.000 If you translate it into English, we had to blur out that much.
00:16:19.000 And I'm sorry, 11 year olds are watching this.
00:16:22.000 So earmuffs, I'm going to try and do it the best I can.
00:16:25.000 But it's important to say what was on the other screens.
00:16:28.000 And it says, Real G, guiding the new generations with the OG one, galactic style lust.
00:16:34.000 Yes, so that your blank get wet, get blank and versatile.
00:16:39.000 More blank than Betty Boop. 1.00
00:16:40.000 The one who got horny Miami was you. 0.99
00:16:42.000 I stay killing with the you. 1.00
00:16:44.000 Blank, push it in. 0.99
00:16:46.000 Blank, Yes, push it in.
00:16:49.000 Blank, push it in.
00:16:51.000 You're blank rubbing my blank, push it in.
00:16:53.000 This year, I don't want blank, push it in.
00:16:57.000 This is what they put out there.
00:16:59.000 Yeah, it was in Spanish, so a lot of people didn't catch it.
00:17:02.000 If they were going to do this in English, the FCC would have completely blocked this, and they would have been fined into oblivion.
00:17:10.000 Anyways, I just think the contrast is important to make.
00:17:14.000 And there's a reason why so many people are upset about it.
00:17:16.000 There's a reason why Charlie has been historically upset about it.
00:17:19.000 And honestly, it's been getting worse since 2019.
00:17:22.000 When Jay Z took over the halftime show.
00:17:24.000 I mean, let's just call a spade a spade.
00:17:26.000 Matt Walsh had a really important observation there that, you know, the acts have basically been of a theme since 2019.
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00:18:45.000 All right, Benny Johnson.
00:18:47.000 Benny, welcome to the show.
00:18:48.000 I'm so honored to have you.
00:18:50.000 I consider you to be the absolute top, top expert in the streaming space.
00:18:56.000 I want you to give us your unfiltered, unadulterated vision version of what just took place last night.
00:19:05.000 Well, thank you, Andrew.
00:19:07.000 And huge congratulations, obviously, to the entire Turning Point family.
00:19:11.000 You broke the streaming record of the most streamed entertainment performance in the history of YouTube.
00:19:21.000 So that's monstrous.
00:19:24.000 The world will never be the same after this.
00:19:26.000 I don't think that there will ever be another NFL halftime show that has ever seen the same way.
00:19:30.000 I think the NFL has so disgraced their core constituency, their customers.
00:19:36.000 They've spit in the face of legacy Americans. 0.84
00:19:39.000 It's been 32 years, Andrew, since they had a country act at the NFL, it's been since 1994.
00:19:45.000 Wow, I didn't know that.
00:19:46.000 And so the NFL has made this decision to systematically erase American culture from the National Football League.
00:19:54.000 And I think it's critically important because we've seen the way that this is all gone.
00:19:57.000 Whether it's Cracker Barrel or whether it's Bud Light, there is this brain virus that says, I'm going to betray my core audience in order to find the mythical woke, progressive, queer, transgender, identifies as a cat, pees in a kitty litter box style audience. 0.90
00:20:17.000 And they're going to be my new customers.
00:20:18.000 And that audience doesn't exist.
00:20:20.000 The modern audience doesn't exist.
00:20:23.000 And all of these companies that have tried this, They've failed miserably, but the NFL is trying it on the biggest stage, the biggest performance on our National Football League.
00:20:32.000 Now, national, what nation?
00:20:33.000 America.
00:20:34.000 It is the American sport, football.
00:20:37.000 Baseball is played around the world.
00:20:39.000 Basketball is played around the world.
00:20:40.000 Soccer is played around the world.
00:20:41.000 There's a World Cup for that.
00:20:42.000 There's no World Cup for football.
00:20:44.000 This is our thing.
00:20:46.000 And so to invite somebody who hates America and won't perform shows here because he's scared that all of his fans or himself is going to be deported by ICE, deport him back to Puerto Rico, it'd be kind of funny.
00:20:56.000 He's still American, right? 0.89
00:20:57.000 He has an American passport.
00:20:58.000 But nonetheless, like he's scared.
00:21:00.000 He said that.
00:21:00.000 He said he's scared of that.
00:21:02.000 He won't speak in English.
00:21:04.000 Entire show was not in English.
00:21:06.000 Not only that, the show couldn't even be viewed from the stands.
00:21:09.000 There are clips now coming out of NFL fans going, What the hell is going on here?
00:21:13.000 Everybody watching at home is saying, What the hell is going on here?
00:21:17.000 It is a show that included debauchery, the kind of stuff that you wouldn't want your kids to see, that included alphabet, a grotesque alphabet propaganda.
00:21:26.000 And that also included subliminal messaging about open borders and lowered the American flag in favor of all foreign flags.
00:21:35.000 That's what they did at the very end.
00:21:37.000 Bad Bunny comes out and says, America isn't actually a place, America is actually a continent, and you've stolen this land.
00:21:48.000 And so we are the ones who are going to be the actual purveyors of what is America.
00:21:54.000 When he says, God bless America at the end, he lists off all of the nations he actually thinks is America.
00:22:01.000 And America's not on there.
00:22:03.000 And so, this is what the NFL brought into our homes last night.
00:22:06.000 It was every bit as malicious, it was every bit as woke, it was every bit as derivative and vandalizing as we thought it was going to be.
00:22:16.000 And what people need in that moment is not just to on Twitter.
00:22:22.000 And this is what we've learned.
00:22:23.000 This is like sort of the Charlie school.
00:22:26.000 This is what started Turning Point USA. 0.99
00:22:28.000 Yes, there are a bunch of dirty communists in our education system. 0.96
00:22:32.000 Yes, we would like to have those communists not indoctrinate our children. 0.97
00:22:35.000 We should start something.
00:22:36.000 We have to do something.
00:22:38.000 You have to start something.
00:22:40.000 You have to go create something, an alternative, hence turning point.
00:22:44.000 But this was truly the turning point.
00:22:47.000 Charlie loved football.
00:22:48.000 He loved the NFL and he loved creating alternatives.
00:22:52.000 That's what America Fest is, right?
00:22:53.000 And this is what turning point events are.
00:22:55.000 This is the entire organization.
00:22:57.000 And so this alternative saved us from the humiliation ritual.
00:23:04.000 That was Bad Bunny, and also the humiliation ritual of saying, You can't do anything about it, Chud, which is exactly what they want here. 1.00
00:23:14.000 They want us to be helpless and say, No, no, you are going to accept our Bad Bunny show because it's all you have.
00:23:22.000 You just cry online about it.
00:23:24.000 And by creating the Turning Point halftime show and by creating what Americans wanted to see, which is a country music act, which is an act that, like, in a room that probably, you know, that.
00:23:36.000 You're washing it, you're like, it smells like cigarettes.
00:23:39.000 It smells like a cigar.
00:23:40.000 It smells like bourbon.
00:23:41.000 You can hear the banjo playing.
00:23:42.000 It smells like leather.
00:23:43.000 The music is familiar and it's warm and it's country.
00:23:48.000 And it's sang by people who have American flags behind them and they love this country and they're not being disrespectful of it.
00:23:54.000 It's sung in English, for God's sake.
00:23:57.000 English, do you speak it?
00:23:59.000 It's like listening to Samuel L. Jackson, like in the back of my head, the entire, you know, Pulp Fiction, the entire time.
00:24:06.000 And so was everyone.
00:24:08.000 You know, all the clips and all the videos, like not even the people in the stands there that day, like yesterday, were dancing.
00:24:14.000 Nobody even knew what the hell was going on.
00:24:16.000 This is the biggest miss, this is the biggest FU in corporate history to their fan base.
00:24:21.000 This blows out of the water, Dylan Mulvaney and Bud Light.
00:24:24.000 The NFL will never recover from this.
00:24:27.000 And the magnitude of the views online and streaming online, making it the number one most viewed event, is the crystallization of Charlie's vision for Turning Point Attacking the Culture, which is the arena that I worked with Charlie on.
00:24:43.000 And Charlie obviously wore many hats and did many things.
00:24:47.000 But what we did and what we built were a video program and a production program in order to put Turning Point into culture, win awards, win Oscars, and to win Emmys.
00:25:02.000 And that was Charlie's mission that Turning Point would be something that could take on culture, that could prove that a God can bleed, right?
00:25:11.000 In the words of Leonidas, right?
00:25:12.000 In 300, to prove that the NFL, you can actually, you don't have to just accept their programming, you can do something different.
00:25:21.000 And it is just a massive shout out to the entire team.
00:25:25.000 I was proud to be helpful in promoting it.
00:25:27.000 Well, everybody from Mosaic, everyone from Inside a Turning Point, just a massive shout out for changing culture and history last night in the model of Charlie.
00:25:35.000 God bless you.
00:25:36.000 Thank you, Benny.
00:25:37.000 And you were great, Benny.
00:25:38.000 Here's you with Kid Rock and RFK doing a little promo for us.
00:25:43.000 Benny did this all on his own.
00:25:44.000 He didn't ask for money.
00:25:45.000 He just got this is what I love about it you just took the initiative, Benny.
00:25:50.000 I didn't even know you were doing this.
00:25:51.000 And then I see this and it's going all over the place.
00:25:53.000 I mean, so God bless you too.
00:25:55.000 278.
00:25:56.000 Kid Rock halftime show ready to go.
00:25:59.000 Kid, how are you feeling?
00:26:01.000 Ah, man, it's been a lot of preparation, a lot of work.
00:26:04.000 I could use, you know, use a little advice and something just to get my energy level up.
00:26:08.000 But yeah, I got a guy for that.
00:26:11.000 You should read the new flu.
00:26:15.000 Let's go.
00:26:16.000 Super Bowl halftime show featuring Kid Rock.
00:26:20.000 I mean, but that's what happens when the, you know, I guess the market spoke, right?
00:26:26.000 The people.
00:26:27.000 Wanted this.
00:26:27.000 And I joke with Jack Posobic because it kind of got memed into existence.
00:26:31.000 Next thing I know, you know, actual reporters are like, Are you, can you confirm that you guys are doing an alternative halftime show?
00:26:37.000 And I was like, Well, I wasn't going to do it, but now I think we have to.
00:26:42.000 And we kind of, you know, fell backwards into this moment.
00:26:45.000 And we realized after the memorial with Charlie and the huge production value and the music that people were so gravitating to that, you know, who else is going to do this if it isn't us?
00:26:55.000 So we got, we have to do this.
00:26:57.000 We have to step up and do this.
00:26:58.000 And to see now that it's, You know, we're probably, if not the number one, the number two, number two, number one.
00:27:05.000 We're going to find out from YouTube, number one streaming, live streaming concurrence number that's ever you've ever seen on YouTube when you add up all the different streams.
00:27:15.000 And you take that, we know that there were 25 million streams last night, at least, maybe 26, 27.
00:27:21.000 That's just social.
00:27:22.000 That's not our broadcast partners.
00:27:24.000 That's not OTT.
00:27:25.000 That's not Fast Channel.
00:27:26.000 That's none of that stuff.
00:27:27.000 So just social media, if you did the 2.5 multiplier like they do on Nielsen for Super Bowls, because everybody's watching in groups and parties, we're talking 40 to 50 million people tuned in last night, Benny.
00:27:39.000 This is a shot across the bow in the media, in the advertising space, in professional football, broadcasting everything.
00:27:47.000 I just, you know.
00:27:49.000 I didn't think it was going to be this successful.
00:27:51.000 I'm super grateful that it is.
00:27:53.000 And we have now officially committed to 2027.
00:27:55.000 So hopefully you'll help us get the word out on that as well, Benny.
00:27:58.000 But again, you are the most savvy when it comes to especially streaming and YouTube.
00:28:07.000 Please help the audience understand just how significant this was when it comes to those metrics.
00:28:13.000 Well, YouTube, of course, is TV for an entire generation of people.
00:28:20.000 There are young people that would far prefer to watch TV.
00:28:22.000 YouTube than terrestrial television.
00:28:24.000 It is, frankly, the TV for anybody under the age of 40.
00:28:30.000 You get into a hotel room, you don't even see terrestrial television anymore.
00:28:33.000 You see your YouTube app, right?
00:28:35.000 They ask you to click and log into your YouTube app when you get into any hotel room.
00:28:38.000 And so this is the most powerful live streaming platform that right now exists in social media.
00:28:48.000 And the audience there is at scale.
00:28:51.000 You know, there's 3 billion users on YouTube.
00:28:55.000 And so to have the crown of the highest concurrent live stream, which, by the way, if you do add that up and you have 10 million concurrents, that makes it, if you were to compare it to broadcast, that makes it like this probably the second biggest broadcast actually in the whole world, including TV.
00:29:17.000 And with the exception of the NFL, with the exception of the actual literal Super Bowl, this is a just remarkable feat.
00:29:25.000 It is an earth shattering feat.
00:29:28.000 I think that there are people panicking and screaming inside of the NFL right now.
00:29:32.000 They know that they've messed up.
00:29:34.000 They know that they brought into America's pastime something that was totally and completely foreign and third world, something that nobody had any relation with, that nobody could sing along with. 1.00
00:29:43.000 And at the very least, like the Turning Point show, you could sing along with those banger after banger after banger.
00:29:49.000 It was a crowd pleasing.
00:29:50.000 I'm so proud to be part of the Turning Point family, so proud of the halftime show, American halftime show.
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00:30:58.000 You know, Benny, this is a little bit of a throwback.
00:31:01.000 This is from February of 2025.
00:31:04.000 This is Charlie on this show talking about.
00:31:07.000 English is America's language, and I just thought it's too appropriate for today.
00:31:10.000 We have to just do it.
00:31:12.000 283.
00:31:13.000 And at some point, you become a colony, not a country.
00:31:17.000 And if you want America to be a colony, just tell us that.
00:31:20.000 A colony is where you could trade stuff, you could barter stuff.
00:31:24.000 However, you have nothing in common with your fellow countrymen.
00:31:28.000 And language is fundamental to that.
00:31:31.000 A nation is comprised, definitionally, of three components, three ingredients.
00:31:37.000 You must have borders, or else you're not a nation.
00:31:40.000 You must have unified language, or else you're not a nation, and you must have shared culture, or else you are not a nation.
00:31:47.000 Borders, language, culture.
00:31:48.000 Benny, what do you think it is about the woke, whatever, the left wing ideologues that so want America?
00:31:58.000 They don't demand this of any other country, but for America, we must have no borders.
00:32:02.000 We must bring in people like Bad Bunny, and they get to trapse around with the foreign flags, and they get to basically say that America doesn't exist.
00:32:10.000 We got lectures for ages about Bad Bunny being American because he is.
00:32:13.000 Puerto Rican, and then at the Super Bowl, when he's reciting all the countries in Spanish, of course, that are part of America, and then he goes, you know, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, United States, Canada, and my homeland, Puerto Rico.
00:32:26.000 Yeah, he acknowledges.
00:32:27.000 So I guess it's not part of America, according to himself.
00:32:32.000 And then they had the Puerto Rican flag next to and in front of and more prominent than the American flag.
00:32:38.000 Yeah.
00:32:39.000 What is it about the left wingers that they just demand this of our country?
00:32:43.000 They don't ask this of any other country.
00:32:45.000 Every other country gets to be its own thing, but not America.
00:32:48.000 Yeah.
00:32:49.000 I mean, I think as punishment, we need to force Kid Rock to play at every single Mexican soccer game from now on.
00:32:55.000 And, you know, you need to have Big and Rich at the World Cup, playing every single show at the World Cup.
00:33:04.000 You know, that's reparations.
00:33:06.000 We need reparations.
00:33:06.000 I want reparations.
00:33:07.000 I want reparations for my culture. 1.00
00:33:09.000 I want reparations for heritage Americans. 1.00
00:33:11.000 What the hell is happening?
00:33:12.000 Travis Tritt.
00:33:13.000 No, I mean, listen, guys.
00:33:14.000 Travis Tritt.
00:33:16.000 Friend of your show, I know, been on your show, legend.
00:33:20.000 He's the last guy that played as a country act at an NFL game.
00:33:26.000 And it was when I was a small child in 1994.
00:33:30.000 So I don't even remember it.
00:33:33.000 And like that was the last time that the NFL nodded and gave their fans, which I think the vast majority of the NFL fans probably don't speak Spanish as a first language, probably are not from the third world, which I still can't get over the third world aesthetics of this performance, also.
00:33:51.000 You know, is it like a muddy, grimy orgy on the back of a pickup truck, like dirty fruit stands, EBT cards?
00:34:01.000 There's a literal, they literally had an EBT sign in the window of their dingy, fluorescently lit shop.
00:34:09.000 You know, that probably has a C or D grade from the health inspector.
00:34:14.000 What is that?
00:34:15.000 It was gross.
00:34:16.000 Like, listen, it's something that's completely and totally foreign to the American aesthetic.
00:34:21.000 It's something that's foreign to the people that are the consumers of the NFL and their core fans.
00:34:26.000 And my question for the NFL is and the NFL fans, which I do not consider myself one of, right?
00:34:33.000 I just work all day and I live down the street from Buccaneer Stadium, but I never go.
00:34:36.000 I don't know who the quarterback is.
00:34:37.000 I just don't.
00:34:37.000 I just don't.
00:34:38.000 I don't have time.
00:34:40.000 I work and I have my, you know, and I go home to my family.
00:34:42.000 But to an actual die hard NFL fans, like, how long until you pull a cracker barrel?
00:34:48.000 You know, how much humiliation can you take? 0.86
00:34:51.000 How cucked can you get? 0.99
00:34:52.000 Like, the executives hate you. 0.99
00:34:54.000 Jay Z hates you.
00:34:56.000 They don't like your culture. 0.96
00:34:58.000 They don't like you. 0.81
00:34:59.000 They want to humiliate you.
00:35:02.000 It was a humiliation ritual that was practiced on the field last night.
00:35:06.000 It's a humiliation ritual to you and your culture. 1.00
00:35:09.000 And at some point, you have to pull a Bud Light.
00:35:13.000 You know, at some point, you're going to have to say, you know, the money is the only thing that gets you guys to move.
00:35:19.000 So we're going to walk.
00:35:20.000 You know, we're done with this.
00:35:22.000 The woke corporate executives hate you. 0.95
00:35:24.000 Jay Z hates you.
00:35:26.000 And, you know, I got to say, like, this was probably the breaking point, I think, for a lot of people.
00:35:32.000 I agree, Benny.
00:35:33.000 I think that, you know what?
00:35:34.000 And I told this to Steve Bannon this morning on War Room.
00:35:36.000 I said, listen, it's one thing to steal a bunch of eyeballs because that comes with financial pain, right?
00:35:44.000 Because now they can't sell their ads for as much, right?
00:35:47.000 It's another thing when we start reaching out to Capellas and Chevy and all of these and saying, you know, hey, help us underwrite this for next year.
00:35:53.000 And we're going to make it even bigger and better.
00:35:56.000 And when you break the blockade.
00:35:57.000 Who wouldn't want to be part of the number one stream on YouTube?
00:36:00.000 You know how much money MrBeast makes?
00:36:02.000 Like, who?
00:36:02.000 That's because he's the biggest YouTuber.
00:36:04.000 Who wouldn't want to be part of, like, the biggest stream in YouTube history?
00:36:08.000 And that should be the messaging for next year.
00:36:10.000 I agree.
00:36:11.000 Like, we're going to make this.
00:36:13.000 We're going to make a dominant Mount Everest stream.
00:36:15.000 We're going to consolidate.
00:36:17.000 That's the one thing that should have been done.
00:36:18.000 Should have consolidated the streams.
00:36:19.000 No multi streaming.
00:36:20.000 We learned some things.
00:36:20.000 We learned some things.
00:36:22.000 Should have consolidated the streams.
00:36:23.000 Nobody asked me, but that's fine.
00:36:25.000 Like, not.
00:36:26.000 Don't have a bunch of other people being able to concurrently stream it.
00:36:29.000 If you want to react to it in your stream, then that should be something that people can do.
00:36:35.000 But don't have a bunch of other channels streaming it, just like raw streaming it.
00:36:39.000 Consolidate it into one and you'll get 10 million concurrents.
00:36:43.000 You'll break the record for all time.
00:36:45.000 It'll be a crowning year.
00:36:49.000 I think it was smart having a lot of people in on it.
00:36:51.000 It meant everyone was in on wanting it to succeed.
00:36:53.000 Yeah, that's true.
00:36:54.000 And also, just a lot of people, they autopilot to things.
00:36:56.000 So there were.
00:36:57.000 There would be people who would just go to Rav because that's where they watch most things.
00:37:03.000 And then they would fumble it if they had to go to YouTube.
00:37:05.000 TBN got a lot of traditional broadcasters.
00:37:08.000 I've seen so many comments on social people like, I watched on TBN because it's on like 70 million homes.
00:37:12.000 So it's on their channel.
00:37:13.000 No, no, no.
00:37:13.000 I'm not talking about that.
00:37:14.000 I'm talking about YouTube.
00:37:15.000 Yep.
00:37:15.000 So you should just say on YouTube, go to Turning Point.
00:37:17.000 Yep.
00:37:18.000 On YouTube, go to the Turning Point account.
00:37:19.000 That's where, that's the primary stream, right?
00:37:21.000 That's where the real show is going to be.
00:37:23.000 Yep.
00:37:24.000 Right.
00:37:24.000 That one account, right?
00:37:25.000 And then that, and then you message that.
00:37:27.000 So that's what it should be done next year.
00:37:28.000 It was big.
00:37:29.000 It was big.
00:37:30.000 And listen, I think, you know, Benny, you were channeling some energy here, and I got to play this clip because, you know, C SPAN always gets these, like, rando, like, normie callers that sometimes just knock it out of the park.
00:37:43.000 282.
00:37:43.000 We should have been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States of America at that halftime show.
00:37:51.000 When I went to school, I was taught English.
00:37:54.000 I wasn't taught Spanish, so I don't know a word he was saying, you know.
00:38:00.000 We're in the United States of America, we're an English speaking language.
00:38:04.000 They should at least put a closed caption on there or something so you could understand what they were saying.
00:38:10.000 And the dancing, I've seen the same thing at like a strip show, just with the clothes on, the way they were doing on TV.
00:38:21.000 There's no reason for that.
00:38:25.000 God bless you.
00:38:26.000 I didn't know my grandfather called in.
00:38:29.000 You set this up, didn't you?
00:38:31.000 You gamed it, didn't you, Benny?
00:38:32.000 This is great.
00:38:33.000 Aw, grandpa.
00:38:34.000 Hey, Benny, where can people follow you?
00:38:36.000 What time's your show?
00:38:37.000 Give them all the deets.
00:38:38.000 20 seconds.
00:38:39.000 Yeah, just at Benny Johnson, all across social media.
00:38:42.000 When's your show, Benny?
00:38:43.000 We stream live every morning, all across platforms at 10 a.m.
00:38:48.000 Interesting.
00:38:49.000 Hey, thank you again, Benny, for supporting the show, bringing Kid Rock into it, RFK, doing all that you do.
00:38:55.000 God bless you, man.
00:38:56.000 I love this show.
00:38:56.000 There's no third world aesthetic.
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