The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Reacts To The Most RIDICULOUS Super Bowl Halftime Takes

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00:00:27.980 Well, this year's Super Bowl halftime show was a total disaster for the NFL. The numbers are in

00:00:33.280 whatever they tried to claim. The fact is the ratings crashed, probably because the performer,

00:00:40.060 a Puerto Rican rapper named Bad Bunny, sang in a language that most of the NFL's actual viewers

00:00:45.920 don't even speak. And so that's what the conversation was about this week.

00:00:51.720 My producers went and found some of the dumbest responses to the halftime show. We'll go through 0.96

00:00:56.100 some of them now. First up is Meghan McCain, daughter of, of course, John McCain, who wrote,

00:01:01.000 quote, been listening to nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl. Congrats to all the lunatics 0.99

00:01:05.660 who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest Bad Bunny stan on the planet. 0.91

00:01:10.220 My favorite song is Tidimi Pogunto and Nueva Yo. Now, look, I'm willing to believe that

00:01:17.260 Meghan McCain, that her music taste is actually as bad as she's claiming it is.

00:01:22.260 Maybe she's not just pretending to like Bad Bunny, although I can't possibly imagine how you could

00:01:29.500 listen to nothing but Bad Bunny because this whole catalog is the same song. It's just one long,

00:01:36.140 143-minute song, and it's all quite bad. Latin American pop music is terrible. I used to think that 1.00

00:01:45.220 mariachi music in Latin America was the worst kind of music ever made. But then I heard their pop music,

00:01:52.520 and my God, they somehow, real innovators there. And she says that Tidimi Pogunto is one of her

00:02:02.260 favorites. And just so you understand what kind of artistic brilliance we're dealing with,

00:02:07.600 the lyrics to that, if you translate them into English. I won't tell you, there's no reason to

00:02:14.600 read much of it, but I really like the Gabriellas, the Patricias, the Nicoles, the Sofias, my first

00:02:20.080 girlfriend in kindergarten, Maria, and my first love's name was Talia. I've got a Colombian who

00:02:26.040 writes me every day and a Mexican I didn't even know about, another one in San Antonio that still

00:02:30.560 loves me, and the ones from PR that are all mine, a Dominican who's a fresh hottie, fresh, fresh hottie. 0.51

00:02:37.600 So this is just Lou Bega. This is Mambo No. 5. That's what this is. Now, you kids don't know

00:02:42.960 about that. You don't know about Mambo No. 5. Now, you weren't around back then, but back in my day,

00:02:48.640 back in my day, our pop music slop was like, it was swing music. It had a horn section.

00:02:56.460 And the lyrics were much more sophisticated. You know, a little bit of Monica in my life, 1.00

00:03:01.940 a little bit of Erica by my side. That was, that was, it was much more. Now that was music. That

00:03:08.060 was poetry. Lou Bega. He should have, uh, he should have done the halftime show. You know what

00:03:16.160 else I learned about Lou Bega that I didn't know? Because I, I, I, when I was thinking about this,

00:03:20.640 this is just Lou Bega. I looked, as I always do, uh, any this, I think everyone does this when

00:03:26.520 anytime, anytime any person at all, like crosses my, into my consciousness, the first thing I do

00:03:32.900 is I look them up to find out how, if they're still alive and how old they are. I don't know.

00:03:37.820 I just have to know that about everybody. And so Lou Bega is still alive. And, uh, I happen to see

00:03:42.540 that he's, he's German, which I didn't know. So little Lou Bega fact for you. That's what you're 0.99

00:03:50.240 here for. Country music singer Casey Musgraves wrote quote, well, that made me feel more proud

00:03:56.500 than anything Kid Rock has ever done. Um, which is absurd, obviously. Yeah. Then again,

00:04:03.880 it's coming from someone who couldn't possibly begin to explain what an American even is.

00:04:07.700 So maybe it makes sense, I guess. And also say this in Kid Rock's defense,

00:04:13.100 because I'm taking a beating online right now. Um, and I have been for the past few days

00:04:18.500 for defending the Kid Rock, the TPUSA halftime show, which I will continue to defend. I think it was

00:04:24.600 a huge win. I've already explained why, but it's also true that Kid Rock is now he's not like,

00:04:30.700 I don't listen to Kid Rock. It probably is not going to shock you to learn, but he is by far

00:04:36.280 a more talented musician than bad bunny. Now it's a low bar. I'll admit that, but he is a better musician

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00:06:00.300 Now, one person who hated the show was President Trump who called it absolutely terrible, one of

00:06:05.360 the worst ever. Uh, former TV host Piers Morgan disagreed writing, um, couldn't disagree more

00:06:10.960 Mr. President. I absolutely love Bad Bunny's halftime show. Um, amazing best in Super Bowl

00:06:16.180 history, theater, choreography, great energy, superbly confident performance, and a very welcome

00:06:22.300 unifying message. Yes, it was unifying by trying to claim that all the countries in this hemisphere

00:06:27.260 are all, are really one big country. So it's unifying in the sense that globalism is unifying,

00:06:34.080 which is to say that it's unifying in the sense of not being unifying in any meaningful

00:06:38.560 way whatsoever. You're uniting the country by, by claiming that it doesn't exist. That, that's

00:06:44.380 the kind of unity. That's also, by the way, all the right wingers who tried to take the contrarian

00:06:50.320 position on this thing. I thought that, I thought the halftime show was pretty good and I didn't

00:06:55.460 think it was woke at all. What the hell are you babbling about? That's actually the wokest 0.94

00:07:02.040 thing we've ever seen in, in the head. What are you talking about? Waving all of the flags

00:07:08.340 of the hemisphere and saying, we're all one big country. That's the most aggressive assertion

00:07:15.040 competition of, you know, globalist ideology we've ever seen on that kind of stage.

00:07:23.620 Um, and as for it being a confident performance, I like, is it confident? It was a confident

00:07:29.740 performance, like as opposed to what? A bashful performance, a shy performance. Yeah. It's the,

00:07:38.100 it's the halftime show at the Superbowl. Like I, I, yeah, it's going to be confident.

00:07:41.540 No one would ever claim, no one is claiming that any of these pop stars lack confidence. That is

00:07:49.260 not a, that's, that's, that's, that is not among their many foibles. Um, Robert Griffin, the third

00:07:58.760 wrote, many people didn't understand a word bad bunny said during a Superbowl halftime performance,

00:08:02.680 but it was iconic because you could feel the love of people and culture. Puerto Rican culture

00:08:06.960 is American culture together. We are America. No, it's not. Uh, no, it's not. And nobody really

00:08:14.040 believes that you say Puerto Rican culture is American culture. No, it's not. You know, that's

00:08:19.800 not true. Puerto Ricans certainly don't believe that. Let me ask you this. I'd ask anyone who's

00:08:26.920 Puerto Rican. If I were to go to Puerto Rico and stop anyone there on the street and say, you 1.00

00:08:36.680 know, think about your history. Think about the history of your people, of your country. What

00:08:43.040 comes to mind? Are any of them going to say, Oh, uh, you know, George Washington, like when

00:08:51.020 they think about the history as Puerto Ricans, when they think about the history of their country,

00:08:54.840 of their people, does their mind go to George Washington, Thomas Edison, right? Like, uh, uh,

00:09:01.800 Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong. Is that, is that what they're thinking about? Is that Puerto Rican

00:09:09.860 history, right? If, if, if American, Puerto Rican culture is American culture. So then American 0.52

00:09:15.660 history is Puerto Rican history. Does anyone believe it? Does anyone actually believe that? No.

00:09:20.100 Now, um, over on black Twitter, uh, though results to, uh, bad bunnies performance were a little bit

00:09:30.880 different. Mr. Boogie Watermelon Slice, uh, or rather M Boogie Watermelon Slice writes, Hey man,

00:09:38.100 the MAGA N words might've had a point. So there we go. Finally, a sensible take M Boogie Watermelon

00:09:45.100 Slice. He gets it. Like I always say, if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Like I

00:09:50.080 always say, M Boogie Watermelon Slice, he gets it. And so does this lady. Uh, we'll finish 0.99

00:09:56.060 with the, this video of this, uh, grandma's live reaction to the halftime show. Watch.

00:10:01.860 I mean, like, who is this man? God of me! You can't sing! I mean, like, what is this? God of me!

00:10:13.780 This is ridiculous! And got the American flag and all these other flags. And yeah, God bless 0.98

00:10:23.780 you too. Get off the stage. Please get off the stage. Get off! Put the gang back on! I can't

00:10:31.760 I can't stand this! Tell me that! Uh-uh! I mean, what in the world is all this foolishness?

00:10:47.240 Thank you. Get off the stage, please! Jesus! 0.95

00:10:50.740 Precisely. That's it. See, it doesn't have to be a racial thing. Black and white people

00:10:58.200 can come together to hate on bad Hispanic pop music. Unity in hating. That's, that's what 1.00

00:11:05.460 will save us, I think. That is the, that's the only thing. That's the only thing we have

00:11:10.800 left, I'm afraid to say. That's our only hope. You know, across America, we don't have a lot

00:11:17.040 in common anymore. We don't agree on very many things. But maybe, maybe we can find

00:11:22.360 unity in hating the same things. That would be a, that would be an actual, you know, like

00:11:29.140 uniting performance. I saw someone suggest this, actually, I think that, and I think it's

00:11:34.880 a good idea that, that, that next year, the halftime performance should be someone we all

00:11:39.620 hate. Like, we can agree on that, can't we? Can't we find someone we all hate? We can all

00:11:43.800 hate together. Something we all find terrible. So we can be united in our shared disdain for

00:11:51.680 someone. So I don't know, we just need to find a singer. We need to find a singer that we can all

00:11:57.220 agree at this point really sucks. Who would that be? Katy Perry. That's who it should be. 0.98

00:12:07.920 I think that's, that's probably the only one. I think at this point,

00:12:13.800 that she's probably the only pop star we can all agree we hate. And it probably the only thing in

00:12:19.360 general that everyone can agree on. Uh, so Katy Perry, get, give her the halftime show and we can 1.00

00:12:27.940 all as one nation hate it together. We can make fun of it and everyone will agree and we'll just have

00:12:33.940 a lot of fun with it. That's it. That's what we need.

The Matt Walsh Show - February 14, 2026

Matt Walsh Reacts To The Most RIDICULOUS Super Bowl Halftime Takes

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