The Matt Walsh Show - February 14, 2026


Matt Walsh Reacts To The Most RIDICULOUS Super Bowl Halftime Takes


Episode Stats

Length

12 minutes

Words per Minute

164.25989

Word Count

2,074

Sentence Count

157

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

The Super Bowl halftime show was a disaster for the NFL, and Meghan McCain has some thoughts on why. Plus, Kid Rock defends the halftime show, and why Bad Bunny should have performed it. Goldie Blanchard is a standup comedian and host of the podcast . He's also the host of and .


Transcript

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