“They Want To See America Divided” - Bad Bunny Halftime SHOWDOWN Splits U.S. On 250th Birthday
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Summary
Rob and Adam discuss the Super Bowl halftime show, the controversy surrounding Bad Bunny's performance, and the results of the Equal Time commercial. They also discuss if the NFL is a woke organization, and if the Patriots are a woke team.
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First story I want to get into is the Super Bowl.
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Okay, so first, let's start off with the Bad Bunny performance.
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What can we show with the Bad Bunny performance?
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Turning Point USA, at the same time, announced they're going to be doing a halftime show, okay?
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And their halftime show, Rob, if I'm not mistaken, I know they announced they're going to have Kid Rock there.
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They had a bunch of different people there, and they're like, okay, is this going to work?
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Do we just invite a few friends and family and then put on the show?
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On the TPUSA YouTube channel, we watched it 10 minutes before the halftime show.
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And then all of a sudden, we were all betting at the house how many people were going to be watching a live stream.
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I think you hit 5.6, 5.7 just on the TPUSA channel, not including Charlie Kirk's channel.
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13 hours later, 20 million people watched these guys perform.
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And Rob, the folks that were performing were who?
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Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, and you have Gabby Barrett performing.
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Some people said that kid that he gave the Grammy to was Liam Ramos, which it wasn't, right?
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The claims about that, you know, the Grammy that he gave to that kid, that kid apparently, when we were watching it, it was like, hey, kid, young Bad Bunny, he's an actor.
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And he's giving it to his younger self, which was a good depiction.
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And matter of fact, you know what's the craziest thing, what Super Bowl did?
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Right after Bad Bunny was done performing, guess what was the first commercial that played right after the Bad Bunny performance?
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So, Bad Bunny ends, and then right afterwards, this is what they're showing.
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Their friends and neighbors, sons, fathers, their little league coaches and veterans, their people who love this country.
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These are immigration and customs enforcement officers.
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They are removing violent criminals from our streets and neighborhoods.
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But ice has one mission, to make America a safer place to live, and that's what they're doing.
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By the way, pause, victory goes to Roger Godel for doing this.
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I like this equal time stuff that we're talking about.
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You allow this to happen, you allow that to happen, and you allow the commercial and Bad Bunny state civil for the most part.
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I have some commentary I'll give as well, but Adam, I'll come to you.
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So, I have mixed reviews here, and here's really what's going on here.
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I'm going to basically say there's winners and losers, and there's a lot of winners, and there's one big loser.
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The winners are every single individual group that wants to basically express their beliefs.
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So, Bad Bunny and the Latin American crowd, huge victory for them, huge victory for Turning Point USA, record numbers, huge victory for the immigrant community, huge immigrant for our enemies, foreign and domestic.
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They want to see the halftime not speaking English.
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The only way that this country is going to lose is if we're divided.
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Now, like, the NFL woke up with a black eye this morning.
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The halftime show is basically what all everyone wants to talk about.
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You think that's what they want to be known for?
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Bob Kraft had a bad week, didn't get elected to the Hall of Fame.
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So, in my opinion, there was a lot of individual winners, but one big loser, and that's the United States and the NFL.
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I love a lot of people like, I can't believe they.
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Okay, he's, you know, you know how he stands politically.
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So, I don't like the fact that people were surprised what was going to happen.
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This was supposed to be entertainment for the biggest night in American sports.
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If you don't follow Bad Bunny, if you don't speak Spanish, if you're not down with the twerking in the club, it wasn't entertaining.
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We're sitting at the house, and literally, literally, I look back, there's maybe one or two people that were Latinos that were dancing.
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But, like, if you think about it, all of it was Spanish except, what, Lady Gaga for 20 seconds?
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But I think, personally, that's what they wanted.
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My opinion, and if it's okay with you, Pat, I have Rob to play it, the best part of the Super Bowl, while everybody's getting ready and talking and running around, everybody at the house, at Pat's house, stop, me, Tom, everybody, people were in mid-conversation, took off their hat and stopped and watched the TV.
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If this right here doesn't give you goosebumps about being America, this is what America was about.
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This isn't lip syncing, by the way, as Rob tries to get it.
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This is his actual voice live singing the national anthem.
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And Adam posted a video yesterday about a Whitney Houston pet singer.
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By the way, again, this isn't bashing Spanish people, Puerto Rican people, whatever.
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But on America's biggest stage, people want songs that they know, moments that they could
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remember forever, something that's going to sing along with, not something that you have
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I wouldn't play the music because he's singing.
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But for anybody out there that was like, what do you mean?
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Everybody inside the stadium was having a blast.
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There's a video of somebody that took from Inside and was recording and panning around
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Yeah, Rob, lower the volume because he is singing it.
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This is what's Inside while he's singing looks like.
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If you're Puerto Rican and you knew what he was saying, you had a blast.
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And the first is the NFL contracted a producer, Rock Nation, 50 Cent, whoever it was.
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And the Super Bowl halftime show has been a musical extravaganza for 25 years now.
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And the NFL, let's face it, you know, they need that diversity.
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They need those audiences because they need to get the audiences aligned with the broadcast for which they're being paid billions of dollars.
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So if they get a billion-dollar contract, $6 billion, you know, for streaming, $4 billion for this, all these contracts, the audiences have to come true.
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Otherwise, next time, they're not going to get the same contract.
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So they are out there trying to get younger audiences, more audiences, point one.
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Point two, from the minute they did this, and Bad Bunny, what was he on Saturday Night Live?
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If you don't understand Spanish, you have six months to learn.
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And he delivered what he said he was going to do, which is a Spanish-language performance.
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And, you know, I didn't see anything particularly offensive in it.
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Do I think it was a little tone-deaf in terms of the wide audience?
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But it was like a cultural walkthrough of, you know, Hispanic themes, and similar to a halftime show I thought was well-produced a couple years ago,
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the walkthrough of the history of hip-hop, and they had the big house and all of the East and West and everything.
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It felt to me like he was trying to do a little bit of the same thing.
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We'll talk about Turning Point USA, why that could have been a bigger disruption.
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I do want to address one thing that's probably the most important part of the story,
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because anybody that's a parent watching this that has a kid that plays sports,
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we had a conversation last time with my nephew,
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and one of my sons plays competitive soccer, and we have a lot of people.
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Now, there are not too many stories, better stories you can tell your kids than the Sam
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Let me tell you what's special about Sam Darnold story.
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Sam Darnold is the only quarterback in the history of the NFL to be a starting quarterback
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for two different teams, back-to-back, that had a 14-3 record, and last year Minnesota banks
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on somebody else, they said, no, Sam Darnold's not the reason why we're doing well.
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Any quarterback will do well with Justin Jefferson.
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I don't even know who they announced was the MVP.
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But Sam Darnold, as a starting QB, took two teams, 14 and three, and won.
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And by the way, this kid, Sam, in ninth grade, they said, what do you want to be when you
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Two, I want to go out there and go into the NFL.
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And all this stuff he's saying, and he says, I want to also be known as a nice guy.
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Sam Darnold said this at, what do you call it, ninth grade.
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There are a lot of bad examples kids are following right now on social media.
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It's a very, very encouraging example to give a kid who goes to the Jets, nothing happens
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Never drink or use drugs in my life and be remembered as the nice one.
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I hope you maintain the standard and help many parents out there that want to give an
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example of somebody saying, hey, that's a good example.
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So parents, we had a good example of a person that won it.
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There's a lot of good stories that's probably going to come out with us.
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He's probably going to go on the tour, do a bunch of different shows, all these shows
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that you do on TV so we can learn more about his story.
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Chauncey Billups' nephew got the spot instead of him.
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What his father used to do with Special Olympics.
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One day Tom and I were having dinner in San Diego at some event we went to.
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I don't know why we were having this religious moment that night.
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Next thing you know we find that this old man worked at the same exact place as Tom's dad did.
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Next thing you know Tom's in tears crying with the man.
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Everybody's got a certain emotional attachment to your blood and your heritage.
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He didn't choose to do the, what do you call it, the halftime show.
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Obviously at the halftime show, the audience there didn't win.
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Because the show is horrible when you're at the Super Bowl.
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It's horrible when you're in the, what do you call it?
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This show, believe it or not, is better if you're sitting at home watching it than if
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There are only a few shows that if you were there, you were like, oh my God, this was crazy.
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A couple of the stuff, that historic moments that we think about.
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Do you think some people said don't go in a dress?
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Do you think some people said don't make this about politics?
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Do you think some people said keep it toned down?
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So credit to him, who maybe didn't do any of that stuff that everybody else was doing
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I didn't see a sticker that said ice out, right?
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And as a creative, guess what typically creatives are known for doing?
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I actually thought it was a pretty, I give it a seven and I don't know what score I gave
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I thought I'd give it a seven, seven and a half.
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I actually enjoyed the storytelling of the performance.
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Let me bring it back to where I think they messed up.
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Listen, guys, you could have brought Bad Bunny at 251.
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My son listens to Bad Bunny, doesn't agree with them.
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But my youngest son actually knows quite a few songs of Bad Bunny.
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Even though some of the songs like My Nanny will listen to us as Daddy, do you know what
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On 250-year anniversary, we couldn't have said, you know, made this about America.
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And as much as I paid attention to everything Roger Godel at the end of the halftime performance
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after the game, he's hugging Bad Bunny and he's thanking him with all this other stuff
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This was a good opportunity for us to make it about 250 years.
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You know how amazing of a scene it would have been?
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If you would have done something like We Are The World, We Are The Children.
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Remember when they did that one song back in the days?
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You know, that song that we still sing till today.
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What if we brought Kid Rock and Beyonce and, you know, a Bad Bunny?
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What if we brought all of these guys to say, hey, this is America.
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I think that was the missed opportunity for me with the NFL that they could have made it.
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The statistic when I'm looking at this on what's happening with PBD Podcast, more ladies are starting to watch PBD Podcasts.
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But the ladies are starting to watch the podcast more and more.
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A lot of mothers and families and ladies who are getting on here.
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So, fellas or ladies, Rob, if you can go a little bit lower for Valentine's Day,
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if you want to get a Stefano Ritchie collaboration tie with Valuetainment,
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and these are limited numbered, we have them there.
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But also, if you go a little bit lower, a little bit lower for the ladies, the pink hats are here.
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By the way, these pink hats are pink Future Looks Bright hat.
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Rob, can you please click on it, especially with Valentine's Day being around the corner?
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What on the bottom, if you keep going, it's a beautiful hat, by the way.
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Every time you see somebody wearing this, it pops.
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Because if you, ladies, you say you watch it, if you want to represent the Future Looks Bright hat,
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so when you're walking in the mall, you're at the gym, you're at work, you put this on,
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Get yourself one of these pink hats or some of the red gear that we have,
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especially with Valentine's Day being around the corner.
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It's the most expensive day of the year for me because it's my wife's birthday that day.
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My wife's born on Valentine's Day, and it's Valentine's Day.
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But we got a soccer tournament this weekend for us instead of Valentine's Day.
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So we got some stuff that we got to do because there's a soccer tournament.
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