Some More News - Even More News: Does Pam Bondi Really Believe This Stuff?

Episode Date: February 13, 2026

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Hi, on today's episode, we talk about some of the unredacted Epstein files, Attorney General Pam Bondi's bizarre performance in front of Congress, and we react to the still somehow ongoing Super Bowl halftime culture war. Oh, hello. Welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast. My name is Katie Stoll. And welcome back to the introduction to Even More News. News of the First and Only News Podcast, the 409th, and not only introduction to even more news, the first and only news podcast. My name is Cody Johnston. Cody Johnston in the house.

And of course, Jonathan is also here. Hi. I need a shorter catchphrase. I mean, that one doesn't quite roll off the tongue. We can switch one day. I'm happy to please do it. It just doesn't fit on a shirt, you know? Let's put what you said on a shirt.

I'll go back and we'll see how it goes. We'll see how it goes. I bet it'll do really well. Yeah, all right. Get in that shop. Shout out to Jonathan's mom for sending him money for that nice-do sweater. A few weeks before Christmas, I get a Macy's E-Gift card in my email. And there's a message from my mom.

And it's just like, saw you on the podcast, get yourself some new shirts. And it was very sweet. But with a message directly sent. And I got this sweater. So maybe a little bit to holiday party for a podcast, but... Not at all. I like it. I think that's a good pick.

It does not scream holiday a party to me. In fact, a little bit of white, a little bit of blue, maybe brownish gray. It's hard to tell because of camera color. This is a universal sweater. You can wear this on a chilly evening in the summer. It's not holiday. If you zoom in, if you zoom in, that's the text of my catchphrase. Oh yeah, this is this.

We're going to do it with this shirt and then all the text, hello, welcome to the, this is the news 409 episode. Cody, my name is Cody, whatever it is you said. We'll go back and look, yeah. And you can catch that in our merch shop next week, I'm sure. We got news, but first we have

holidays. Oh, good. Boy, don't we need something to celebrate these days? Am I right? America. That's it. Yep. Saturday, February 14th. Not the holiday you think I'm going to say. No, no, it's library lovers

day. Is it lovers and the library? Lovers of the library or, yeah, is it like library lovers? Like, we're library lovers. They're leaving it vague. Okay. No, it's people who love the library. But it reads like people that are lovers of the library, you know?

Yeah, but if you read in depth as I did on their website, they make it clear that it's about loving the library. And we're putting it on Valentine's Day because the word love is in there. And no other reason. I support.

Go love the library. Get the card. You can do so much at your library. All kinds of stuff. Go love that library. What are you suggesting people do, Katie? What do you want people? Nothing illegal.

Well, it seems like you want them to do something to the library. Saturday, February 14th is also not the holiday thing I'm going to say. National Organ Donor Day. Oh. I like this one. Go for. it, yeah. Go for it. Register. Just, yeah, good. Yeah, I mean, this is a personal issue for me. We're making jokes, but I have a very close family member that passed away hoping to receive a liver transplant.

And the wait list is really long. And, um, yeah. So, you know, I'm sure that there are considerations and certainly wouldn't love my body being used for military training purposes. But if it could help somebody live long enough to watch their children grow up, then I support it. I think that we've had enough fun, folks. Yeah, yeah. We've got enough fun. It's time to dive in. Members of Congress were permitted this week to view unredacted Epstein files at a Department

of Justice site. So you can go in, get on a computer search for whatever you want. They're tracking your searches that these members of Congress have discovered. But you can search these three million documents and find stuff. stuff who sent the thing about like hey I had a great weekend last weekend wink love the torture video where are the boxes give me the whatever all the disgusting things that you see in those so democratic representative jamie raskin says he searched trump's name in the files and it came up more than a million times bro that's so many that's so many that's that's that's that's that's i think i think

trump is in there the most it makes sense because they were friends for a long time back in the day and then he became the president so, you know, he's being mentioned as the president. It's not all, hey, remember when Trump did that illegal thing. Yes. I mean, this is something that we'll see. We've seen a lot of like, I've seen even people be like, oh, Obama's in the files 3,000 times or whatever.

It's like, yeah, they're mentioning Barack Obama, the president. So just like a mention doesn't mean anything. But one million, one would notice, is a third of 3 million. Like, that's so, obviously, like, it's not one. to one it's not like oh every single mention is like an individual file or email or whatever but that's so many yeah that's too many for a president it's too many for a current president and uh not just too many for anybody well not just democrats are being outraged by this stuff uh Lauren Bobert went in and was filmed leaving and being asked questions and she said a lot of the

redactions were unnecessary and she thinks galane maxwell should be in a worse prison for way longer than she is like left looking very upset and then uh gop rep cynthia lummus said she finally realized that it's a big deal once she saw some of these emails without redactions so thanks for getting on board with finally realized the child uh prostitution ring is bad this is one of those things where like Good. I'm glad you're saying something now. On board. But. All right.

Oh, my God. It is really tough to have people slowly waking up to the thing that we've all talked about for so long. And it's appalling because anybody with a conscience would have been alarmed and outrage well before this. But okay. Whatever it takes, babe. Takes searching some documents briefly is what it takes. I love that this. gift that they have set up. Have you guys heard this little detail for people to come in and

review all these files? There's four computers so they can, it would take years and years and years for people to go through everything. Yeah, you just have to search something and then, you know, you hit a keyword and then it's 10, 12, 15 pages of documents where you see a snippet of it, so you kind of just have to click around haphazardly and be like, oh, okay, why was it redacted the person who emailed Epstein asking about if there's an issue between communication between pilots and co-pilots. Probably not Nathan Fielder, but why would that be redacted? Why would we not want to know who emailed him about this issue? Wait, did we already mention the Jamie Raskin a million times?

But this claim that, okay, Raskin says Trump was quoted as saying that while Epstein was never a member of Mar-a-Lago, he had nevertheless been a guest and it had never been. asked to leave and that that and that's documented in the files and has been redacted for some indeterminate inscrutable reason. Yeah, he seems pretty adamant about the the fact that like the claim of like

oh he kicked him out is just not true. Right. Like he like categorically a lie is how he I think close to how he phrased it. Right. And I think that that's important you know this is a big as we've talked about a big soup of information

and I do believe the more I learn that this is by design, it is a strategy. I was reading about how lawyers are very specific when trying a case that is very traumatic, that has lots of disturbing pieces of relevant information. They know to not release everything all at once, to not overwhelm the jury. You have to let things come out piece by piece. you have to be strategic about how you're presenting information. Otherwise, the human brain shuts down because we cannot process. And that there's no way that they release these without knowing that that is the purpose, is my point.

But, yeah, this idea that Donald Trump was actually the person that was against Jeffrey Epstein the whole time and cooperating, tipping off the cops, even though the cops were already investigating Jeffrey Epstein when that happened. And anyway, I. Well, yeah, like the argument from the Trump fans where they're like, see, like Epstein wasn't even a member of Mar-a-Lago. They weren't that close. But I think it shows the opposite thing. Like, no, why would Epstein be a paying member of a club? He could just show up. He was his best friend. So he's like, hey, can I get a massage today? Sure, come by. The guy at the front door knows who he is. He doesn't have to show a membership card. It's like. It's like mafia style stuff. They don't care. Like, that's how they like to operate. Right. And what Katie was referring to a second ago was also in the files is a 2019 FBI interview with a former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reeder who was detailing all the stuff that happened

back in the day when they first arrested Epstein. And he detailed a 2006 phone call. He had with Donald Trump after Epstein had already been arrested. and he apparently said, thank goodness you're stopping him. Everyone knows he's been doing this and to focus on Galane Maxwell, quote, she is evil.

This whole piece of information. Like, this has been floated for a while. This isn't new information, this idea. Online people were running with it. Like, oh, look, he tipped him off. He's a good guy. He was trying to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. No, dude.

Not at all. He was being self-protective. Well, yeah. I mean, this is, I mean, A, it's been reported before. We've talked about it. In our episode about Epstein from like a year or two ago,

we mentioned this little tidbit. I have seen it being framed as like, see, Trump was the whistleblower. Trump was like the guy who tipped him off. No, no, no. He heard about how his best friend was being investigated

for child prostitution and sex trafficking. And he immediately called the cops say, I'm so glad you're doing this. We all knew. and it was real bad. Also, I've seen people be like, he didn't even, like, he didn't protect Jeffrey. He didn't do this.

He didn't do this. Jeffrey. He didn't protect Jeff Epstein. All this stuff. It's like, you'll note that he said, go after Galane Maxwell specifically. He, he's like calling to protect himself and to steer them in the direction of the person who, by the way, he wished well, like, a couple of years ago. Right.

It's so transparent. It would be moved into a minimum security prison with a puppy. I've seen people share, there's a single fundraising email to Jeff Epstein from a PR firm that was working for Hakeem Jeff Jeffries. And so I've seen that being passed around with, I believe the quote is, Hakeem Jeffries loved Epstein, busted. And like, it's just a form email. It's one mention of it. And now there are all these AI photos going around of Hakeem Jeffries with Epstein. And it was just like, so this one fundraising email from a firm for Hakeem Jeffries means he's busted.

But a million times appearing in these files, the president who's best friends with him for 10 years, who shares a wonderful secret with him is just nothing to any of these people. It's so absurd. And the exculpatory, supposedly exculpatory information is when he, Trump called the police after the arrest and said, by the way, I knew this was going on. Yeah. Well, goodbye. You know, like good luck. Really?

Yeah, that makes you look good. Yeah, I don't recall saying good luck. Best case scenario is you've ignored this for many, many, many, many, many years. Best case scenario. To read in, like a transcript, talking about how he called and he said, yeah, we all knew this is happening. Glenn Maxwell is evil. There's so many photos and videos of you partying with these people. what do you

my brain broke I just can't with these people it's so it's so bizarre it's not bizarre makes perfect sense of course they have to do this but it's silly and it's absurd so the DOJ is just still kind of flagrantly violating this law that passed

a few months ago like they're simply not allowed to redact some of these things unless every person emailing him about these banal things are victims of his which I guess is possible but seems unlikely. And Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, was in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. And, of course, bad timing for her.

She was asked questions about a lot of this stuff. And she gave quite a performance, I would say. Maybe they're victims of Jeffrey Epstein's bad influence on them. Like they would have been... Why would you say that, Cody? Now they're going to run with it. Oh, God. Don't run with that.

It's a bad idea and reason. It's fake. Yeah, we should watch some of these clips. It's pretty wild. And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that?

You know why? Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow, the Dow right now. is over, the Dow is over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing, you're a great stock trader, as I hear Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000 and the NASDAQ smashing records. Americans 401 s and retirement savings are booming.

That's what we should be talking about. We should be talking about making Americans safe. We should be talking about, what does a Dow have to do with anything? That's what they just asked. Are you kidding? Mr. Jordan. Are you? Committee will be in order.

Wait a second. Fucking bitch. Sorry, shouldn't say that. Damn, pretty. It's spicy. An instant classic. Instant classic. Memes for, a meme for a generation.

It's interesting because, you know, you'll see in all of her responses here that she's looking at her paper. She's got like a binder with answers. She's got her notes, her little, make sure to mention the Dow. And insults to all the individual members of Congress that are asking her questions. So she's like, you're a, you trade stocks. But also trading stocks is good because all the stocks are through the roof. Otherwise. So, you know, right. Like, one, this is the attorney general. It has nothing to do with your job. If, uh, if, uh, the, the S&P 500, is doing well on the backs of AI stuff because AI is about to take over. Okay.

But like the topic of the hearing was the Dow and the stock market. So like why wouldn't she bring it up and talk about it? Want to bring it back? She's just trying to keep us focused. Exactly. Ma'am, ma'am, we're here to talk about the money. Can you please get Epstein's name out of your mouth? We're here to talk about money.

There are so many clips from this, each one worse than the last or as bad as the last. she was accusing people of theatrics of you know being dramatic of projection she was asked you know which is so funny to watch someone wailing the way that she putting on a performance such as that and to be accusing other people of it she was asked if she could acknowledge or apologize to the victims that were sitting in that room for having names be unredacted, and she would not. She did not answer questions. It looked like she was going to cry half the time. And then I found, and gosh, I wish I was telling the guys this before we started recording. I wish I bookmarked this, but it was online Twitter, a journalist talking about how that's her move. Presumably this was before her current position, but she would call reporters and

try to give them a line for their story and cry and, you know, would cry and try to manipulate them. And this reporter conferred with other reporters and they're like, oh, yeah, that's her move. Which is just so embarrassing. Yeah, it's a lot of, a lot of obvious fake sort of performative crying, but also like really sinister moments of her smiling when it's like, you're not taking this seriously at all. You think this is like funny to you. She's got such mean girl vibes. Like there's some high school PTSD coming off of her that like smirk.

I would love to show this one of her response to Ted Liu's question. Because I think it's very telling and that you can see a little bit of reality in her eyes for a second. Former Prince Andrew Donald Trump attended various parties with Jeffrey Epstein. I want to know were there any underage girls at that party? or at any party that Trump attended with Jeffrey Epstein. This is so ridiculous and that they are trying to deflect from all the great things Donald Trump has done. There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime. Everyone knows that.

This has been the most transparent presidency. He's the one that asked that those files. I mean, I claim my time. I got your answer. You said there's no evidence. Mr. Chairman, please stop the clock. sign the legislation. This is, this is, this is,

this is, this is, this is ridiculous. Time belongs to the gentleman from California. This is ridiculous. Oh, so he's guilty as fuck, right? Like, like, sometimes, uh, if you're, like, bad at lying and you get

someone, like, look in you in the eye and you're like, uh, uh, like, she could have just said, no. No. She would have said no if she knew that that was the answer. I don't know why she didn't. She's lying anyway.

You can see the gears turning like, well, I can't, that's perjury. She's like, well, that'll be perjury. It's pretty clear. And I don't know how to phrase it. Like, you can see her sort of turning her wheels. Like, how do I phrase it to seem like I'm saying no, but I'm not? Because she said there's no evidence of you committing a crime. That wasn't the question at all.

Also, there is evidence. He's been convicted of crimes. He's like many crimes. Like, we all know that he's a criminal. There's that thing where Monica Seller. he's like, hey, come stay at Maralago for a while, you're 17, come on in. Like, you know, it's not

really even much a secret, but I think, I understand why she can't say, well, yes, there's parties, yeah, sure. Anyone's invited to a party, you know, their models, whatever. Is everyone invited to a Jeff Epstein party, though? Right, exactly. So I get why she has

to not say the correct answer. Sometimes, like, you can't tell. We don't know somebody's heart. There are people have little micro expressions and they mean many different things and we're not body You know language experts or anything like that but man she's obviously lying it is so Like apparent what is going on on her face like dear and headlights just like panicking and it's like this this is a wild Performance to all of us but I think we need to put it in the context of this is for an audience of one like she

Oh yeah Trump will watch this and I need to show that I'm going to defend him no matter what. And it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. I'm like out on my ass if I'm like, look, obviously there were. I got to, I got to say that. And I got to mention the Dow and he'll be happy. Any sense of self-preservation outside of this administration, which is something, he's going to be dead soon, girl.

Like, what are you doing? You know, well, I guess there's just so many people implicated that there's lots of ways that this, you know, and you're in two. deep, I guess you can't come a way out. But like, what are you protecting? This ship is thinking. Also, like, you know how, like, obviously Donald Trump has a pretty fickle relationship with loyalty and, like, anybody in his life? The idea that, like, his fickle loyalty would, if that would even translate to, like,

J.D. Vance, he'll drop you so instantly and, like, throw you under the bus if he, he, if he can become the president or if he needs, I need to, I need to like cut some people out of this, out of this movement because it doesn't look good and I need to be like the reasonable guy or whatever. You're all gone. You're all gone. Or you say the wrong thing and you're gone before because Donald Trump obviously operates the way he does. But they think they're operating like this is it, right? This is, this is the end of democracy in their mind. This is the one party rule that they've been fear mongering about forever about the Democrats. They think that either we're here forever and we have 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, all the ones, Don Jr., the next Charlie Kirk, whoever it is in their

mind that's going to be part of the dynasty. That is what they think is going on. So they can't look ahead. And they also know if they jump ship, then they're done. They're doomed. I think they still think that they can be full speed ahead and then if it doesn't work out. And then, and the 1,000-year Reich doesn't happen. They're like, I can still write my tell-all book and be about how I was always the one trying to stop all this from happening and I can get hired at some private firm.

And I think it's our job collectively as a country to make sure that that does not happen and you can't just walk away from this without shame. Yeah, but there are probably some amount of calculations of, well, not everybody's going to go down with this ship. And there are probably internal conversations of like, who's a who is, who would, would it be? Who would it have to be? Like, who do we agree is going to be like the person if we need to, if we need somebody, you know?

It's also chilling because part of their calculation has got to be, we'll be able to get away with this, you know. We'll be able to ride through this storm and create enough other chaos that their, that business will proceed as usual and we'll get through this. And for good reason, because obviously this has been brushed under the rug for a very long time. multiple administrations have ignored the full scope of Epstein and what this whole story entails. It is starting to break through. I've had conversations with people that are very not political, but, you know, who are just so horrified by this and see it as a line in the sand. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat, if you're a Republican, this needs to come out. So there is that element.

I had this one conversation that's like, it's just so. confusing why Donald Trump, like, would, if he was as guilty as it seems, like, why would he have pushed this whole thing? Why would he have promoted this conspiracy? And I'm like, well, because that's always been his thing. He's trying to, you know, cobble together a base and goes to fringe groups and he says what they want. But ultimately in the back of his mind, what better position to be in the president of the United States as this comes to a head? Because, you know, because that gives you ultimate protection to a degree ultimate. He also didn't push it that much.

He didn't go back. He didn't push it that much. He didn't. Remarkably few times did he mention Jeffrey Epstein. Very, very few times. Didn't want to talk about it. And probably had a sense of like, well, me and Bill, like, we're not going to, they're not going to go after both of us. Mutually assured destruction.

Well, right. It's mutually assured destruction. And this just, I've got a not formed rant in my head. that's been swimming around. Let's see if I can get the words out. Watching all this unfold and watching people, yes, wake up and pay attention and all of a sudden believing women

when we never have before. And I've been thinking about how many people didn't seem to care about Epstein's first conviction throughout the 2010s, 2016, 2017, 2018. And I think about how big Me Too was at that moment in time. and we were having this cultural reckoning, but then it became this idea of like, well, some women lie.

So unless there's hard and cloud evidence, I'm not going to believe it, you know. And I'm preaching to the choir here. We all understand how pervasive rape culture is and how often women get abused and how often women struggle with finding the bravery to come forward with their stories of abuse because they're used to being dragged through the mud.

And we just kept doing that, kept doing that, kept doing that, kept doing that, kept doing that, kept doing that. Despite everybody being out there, finally having their moment to share their stories or whatever. And here we are 2026 and people are finally waking up and saying, but we're still protecting them. We're still protecting them. It makes me feel like, do you actually care about women? Do you actually care about believing survivors? Do you actually care? and now it's too big to ignore.

I see that. But this is exactly what we've been talking about for so long. And it breaks my heart. I mean, it breaks my heart, all the stuff that we're seeing, the poor children, nine-year-olds. But these survivors dragged through the mud, not being acknowledged by our attorney general, having their names released to the public,

and their fucking bravery. I'm not trying to be a conspiracy theorist, although aren't we all a conspiracy theorist, but there's a real danger to your fucking life at this point. I think that it's fair to say that if it's just your livelihood, if it's just your peace, or is it actually your life? Because these are very powerful people will do anything to protect themselves. And that is the reality that we're looking at.

And so whoever the fuck, I'm swearing so much, but whatever this senator, I'm forgetting her name, that's like I honestly didn't want to believe. it. I thought people were overblowing it. But now I see, I'm like, you're a woman. Yeah, it really. I mean, it's not a partisan issue. It's not, but it does make it clear that a lot of people just don't like or respect women at all. And the excuses they make make that very, very clear that there's this sort of hatred simmering underneath that a lot of their views are sort of coming from. And we've talked. about this in just like with general stuff and like all the posts you see of like oh this reminds me of like

my teacher or whatever that made me mad and this sort of like hatred of like whether it's like your your mother or some like female like authority figure in your life that is like done this but this really really brings it out like oh you just hate women and think that they are these um sort of objects for um men i mean it's like kind of indicative of the whole like we've talked about the idea of, you know, Renee Good and Alex Preti are white and had they been black or brown and when this kind of thing happens to black or brown people, people don't care.

But also, like, just within there, there was outrage over Renee Good, but there was a lot of, like, pushing from their side to be, like, well, she was a, like, angry lesbian who was getting in our way and interfering. And then the outrage for Alex Preddy was higher. It's true. And, you know, and I, there may, there's like, there's many undercurrents of all this stuff going on.

And Alex Preddy was also the second one within a few weeks. So the outrage builds. So it's, you can't really point the finger or anything, but. But there, but there was definitely some inherent sexism in how the conversation around Preddy's death versus. is Renee Good's death unfolded and it's important to acknowledge it and it is important to acknowledge that

both of their deaths got more attention than somebody about what isn't white and it's unacceptable but yeah exactly we don't really believe Renee because she's hysterical, she's a woman she could have gotten really mad and tried to run over that car

but Alex Pretty well men are rational he was trying to save the woman that got herself pushed down. The number of things that are undeniable to us, it's a much shorter list and we just happened to get to the point where it's undeniable for almost everyone. There are still people who deny the injustice that happened to Alex Preddy, but like we're getting to the point where the ability to use sexism or racism to deny things is like going away. Dwindling a little bit. And like, you know, that's why they're, I mean, they're clearly

Trump doesn't want to talk about Epstein. They're clearly in retreat from Minneapolis, whether what Tom Homan says, said Thursday morning is going to, you know, come true or they're actually going to do a drawdown and retreat from Minneapolis or whether they just have to say they're doing it symbolically because they're losing. The number of places where they're just in retreat is growing. Yeah. Real quick, just to button this up, I have one more thing. just about the Trump call to the police, Scott Jennings' local dip at CNN, who's the funniest guy in the world. He's so stupid.

He did this little two-minute post about the revelation that was in the news and reported previously before this. Democrats find Donald Trump's name in the Epstein files, and it's the exact opposite of what they alleged. Consider this hoax debunked. And it's like, so like it was a hoax, but now it's not for this one thing, I guess,

and it's debunked, but it's not a hoax. And I just love like, Democrats find Donald Trump's name the Epstein files once. And it's this one time. And there are no other times they found his name in the files. It's just, and also your interpretation of this is the most generous thing

anyone could possibly give and ignores all this other information that we have and all the context and all the other files. Everything, everything, all of it, everything. The other 99,99,999. Him calling him a great guy publicly and saying he likes younger women. Like, it's all, I don't know what to tell you, Scott. So anyway, we can move on. I just loved it.

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But we were debating it because we didn't want to give air to it. But it just won't go away. And people are still talking about it. And it is fascinating. So let's dig into it. Yeah. I've been kind of reticent about like diving into this because this year, this time, for whatever reason, it was like Monday.

I was like, I don't care about this. This is so annoying. and stupid and it felt like it felt like the war on Christmas where it's just like well it's that time of year again and we got to do this I guess and everyone's like I'm never watching a football game again but yeah you are of course you are

every year this happens and it's just like we got you need to get your football meatloaf I hope we're going to talk about that but like it's just like it's the war on Christmas and then oh the Super Bowl is the angriest I've ever been And then you'd like argue about Christopher Columbus. And those are like the three events where I'm just like, do we have to again?

Do we have to keep doing this? With the Christopher Columbus statue going up, I guess we do have to do that one this year. Well, it's like you're picking a fight with the NFL. It is the, the Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in the United States. Like dwarfs, even the NBA finals in the World Series. It is like the biggest thing. Everyone tunes in even if they don't like football. I know not everyone, but like a third of the country is.

watching one thing. It's absurd because they're the definition of the liberal tears. They are so easily triggered and doing these little temper tantrums online. And by all accounts, the show was a total success. People tuned in. People watched. He's the top artist in the world or wherever. Like, he's undeniably popular. I don't know. I don't know if it's all around the world, but I'm saying. It's not the top artist. He's the top honest on the moon now.

Sorry. Sorry. It's just absurd and childish. And even like Nick Fuentes is saying the same thing. Even the Nazi guy is saying like, whoa, we sound embarrassing out here, folks. We're crying about it. Even Matt Walsh has pointed out like, guys, we got to stop claiming Kid Rock for ourselves.

Like, this is not, this is not a fight that we should. be participating in. They will win every time. We don't, it's Kid Rock versus everybody else. And we just should not participate in this. Nikki Minaj, I guess now also. We got Kid Rock and Nikki Minaj versus like Bad Bunny and Billy Eilish and Sabrina Carpenter.

And if she ever wants to get involved, Taylor Swift. Like, every single person. It's all there. It's all there. It's so childless and funny. Obviously, they're acting like their parody of. of the hysterical libs, like, who, like, whine all the time and get offended by everything and need to, like, have their little safe space. They literally created a safe space for themselves to sing about how they just want to drive their truck, which they're allowed to do.

But, and I might not be able to find this post, but I thought it was so funny. There's a post I saw of this woman who owns a bar. And I think this is sort of indicative, like, some of the stuff that's going on. This woman who owns a bar and her story is basically, like, 20% of the people at the bar wanted to watch the halftime show for the Super Bowl, and about 80% wanted to watch the Turning Point USA one. So I put on both for everybody. And then all the libs started being so mean to us.

And they started saying that I didn't care about my staff. And they left a bunch of one-star reviews on Yelp and all this sort of stuff. And first of all, I don't believe you. Second of all, it's just that thing that they always do like, the left is so intolerant because I'm racist. or whatever they do where they try to like make it seem like

it came out of nowhere. But also, it's the Super Bowl and you own a sports bar and a bunch of people whined to watch some other thing other than the Super Bowl

and the people who were at the sports bar to watch the Super Bowl complained. Like that is actually kind of reasonable to me. Like you wouldn't do that if like, oh,

we're holding like an Oscar party at our Oscar themed bar and suddenly a bunch of people were like, no. put on Ben Shapiro. I want to watch the Daily Wires show, and they did that.

I think people could complain about that. Like, it's just so silly. We came to a bar to watch the Super Bowl, and part of the Super Bowl is they stop the game for a while and have a big, huge show that costs millions of dollars to do with fireworks coming out, or you can watch a pre-recorded, possibly lip-s thing, but probably not.

I think it had streaming issues. So embarrassing. Pre-recorded thing with Kid Rock and Lee Bryce and Blight, Blatnery and Blaine, Flauggy, Flauggy, Dubish, whatever. But like the artists that they would have loved to have put, like, because they hate, you know, stupid pop artists, the people they'd love to have also hate them. Like Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, like they'd love to have those guys, but those guys hate them. It's so there's nobody but Kid Rock, guys, I'm sorry.

Should we watch Megan Kelly? Yes, please. Sure. This is offensive. We won't be able to... She's lost it. She's lost it. Play the Lee Bryce song, but maybe we can read some of the lyrics.

I'll try next week to get my... I wrote a song. I wrote a song that I would want to play at Turning Point USA's fake halftime show. We're going to do it on our next live stream. I'll do it a live stream or something. I don't know. All right. Here's Megan Kelly on Pierce Morgan.

I'm sorry, Pierce, but to get up there and perform the whole... the whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the rest of America. Who gives a damn that we have 40 million Spanish speakers in the United States? We have 310 million who don't speak a lick of Spanish. A lick? Hold on. Stop that. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I'm sorry. We're going to have to rewind it. We ought to rewind it to play that part. But like, so 40 million people speak Spanish and everybody else doesn't speak a lick of Spanish? I don't think that's true, ma'am. I think that there are some people who have like a lick.

A lick of Spanish, I would say. Also, this isn't something to brag about or be proud of or whatever. That's shameful. It's absolutely shameful. Every other country in the world learns English and Spanish. The entire galaxy learned basic. Sorry. Yeah.

I'm just, it's shameful. No, it's just like, I, you know. I get what, like she's, I don't get what she's saying. By saying she doesn't speak a lick of Spanish, she means like can't understand the lyrics, the bad bunny is saying, and that's true. I know,

Donde Estada la Zapateria, that doesn't mean I can understand. And I guess that's what she's saying. But also, how is it, I don't understand the lyrics, like, how is it a middle finger? You can't understand what half of the artists out there are saying. Are the lyrics the most important thing of the Super Bowl halftime show,

which is like this big visual extravaganza. It's never about the lyrics. I didn't understand what Kid Rock was rapping about. I couldn't understand him. The questions that don't have any answers. I, uh, oh. The midnight prancers and the topless dancers. No, I remember now.

The chicks with beepers, what happened? The main line of that song is, Ba'at with Da Boat to bang the dang diggy, diggy, diggy said the boogie said, upjump the boogie, ma'am. You'll be okay. You never. They just want something to be angry about. It is true that we had a half-time performer who sang in Spanish at a time when it's obvious that the Trump administration and plenty of people in it are targeting brown people on purpose.

So they're going to make it political. But at the end of the day, Bad Bunny is a smart choice for the football, for the NFL to choose because he brings. in eyes. Of course. That's it. Sorry. And it's one of those things where they're giving themselves away when they say that a Spanish a Spanish language performance is an anti-Trump thing.

Like, well, what are you saying? It's the same as when like, did Ilhan Omar, like, said, getting in trouble like, oh, at least in Somalia, we execute pedophiles instead of making them the president. And then the RNC was like, Ilhan Omar calls for the execution of president. President Trump and you're like, wait, so you agree that the president, like, yes, you agree with this premise. Breaking news. Yeah.

By getting angry at the whole thing, they're like, well, they had flags from other places. And it's like, yeah, like the Olympics, like every stupid event, there's flags from everywhere at every stadium. Like, if you're offended by that, what are you saying about yourself? This is supposed to be a unifying event for the country, not for the Latinos, not for one small group, but for the country. We don't need a black national. anthem. We don't need a Spanish-speaking, non-English performing performer, and we don't need

an ICE or America hater featured as our primetime entertainment. Okay. What is the national language, officially, the national language of the United States of America? I mean, English. And there's been a push for many, many years to make it an official documented thing. You don't have one. If you would have let me finish my comment, I would have pointed that out, but people have been pushing to make it official. Okay, so you're trying to make official. This attitude that you have right here is why you in Great Britain have lost your culture. You ceded your culture to a bunch of radical Muslims who came in and took over, and now it's gone.

We're not allowing that here, whether it's Hispanic, whether it's Muslim. It's not happening in the United States of America. That's why President Trump was elected. And whether it's Bad Bunny, who is American but refuses to speak English in his performances or anybody else, we have to keep the Super Bowl, which is a quintessential American event. Football, that kind of football is ours. They call it American football. And the halftime show and everything around it needs to stay quintessentially American. Not Spanish, not Muslim, not anything other than good old fashion American apple pie. There should be a meatloaf, maybe some fried chicken, and an English-speaking performer. That's what the Super Bowl should be. Okay. Meatloaf? I love it.

She wants a performance from Meatloaf, I think, is what? I love, it's so funny. We could all get behind Meatloaf performing. Didn't he die? Yeah, RIP meatloaf. She is just, I love this, like, weird, like, hyper-focused crash out that's all over the place. Like, you can tell she doesn't know where she's going to get to by the end. And she's like, Apple Pie, there should be.

what's a food, a meatloaf, and maybe fried chicken. Ma'am, you're talking about, you're talking about football. Just say fucking pizza and wings. Wings, wings. Hot dogs. Wings and beer. Wings and beer. Wings and beer. It's so funny to choose meatloaf of all the food.

You could say nachos. You could say nachos, but that would be, she can't say nachos. Natchos. Like a can't. I can't believe she said that. I know. I can't believe she did that. That was a longer version.

I just find it such a revolting example of food that. It's fine. People like meatloaf, but it's just like a lump of meat. And it's just like the most embarrassing American food you could choose personally, is my opinion. And it's very old-timey. Like I had meatloaf growing up a lot as a kid, but also you think of it as like a 50s, 60s, American-a-Prauma. pre-super bowl thing where it's like, well, yeah, you have a meatloaf

and then a fruit cake that you'd give to your neighbors at Christmas. People to sound off in the comments about how their football meatloaf was and if you did in fact have one. And if you didn't shape it like a football, what did we do it? How would you do that?

You need a pan to do it. I think you need to add them to the domestic terrorist list of you're not doing that. Not doing that. Making your football and meatloaf into a football. I don't know, maybe we've talked about this enough. No, no, no, no. A meatloaf?

Sorry, I saved it on my phone and I have it. Like, just that like four seconds. It's so funny. Apple pie! So good. The crazy thing is like a lot of times these people go on a rant and you're like, you don't believe this at all. And I think Megan Kelly's a very good performer because you know she'll say whatever.

There's those clips from like six years ago when she's doing the opposite thing. She's not being like when she was what CBS News She wasn't being like the liberal broadcaster But she was talking about me too in a way that is very different From the way she would talk about it today certainly Maybe because of her experiences and like God Right right we did we talked about that last week But like but now she's like this is my role I have to

Like I can't be the one person who's like this is not a big deal who cares We're losing in this the way like some other people will and move on She's like I have to and I'm gonna be so mad at it I'm gonna do a voice I'm gonna bring Muslims my mum Muslim hate into this for some reason. And also, British, the British culture still exists. There's still the British, there's still plenty of British stuff in Great Britain, certainly.

Well, I don't know, ever since the monarchy fell. Like, you can still watch. Never been the same. You can still get a fine bowl of bone soup. Yeah, you can get. Okay, all right. You can get your, you can get your liver chips. You can get your.

I don't know. It's not the same since all of England lost their accents. Yeah. It's not the same. Can we read some of the lyrics to this Lee Bryce song that he performed? I do strongly encourage going to watch this. It's like a three-minute song. Songs called Country Nowadays.

Oh, God. Don't get me started on Country Nowadays. Let me just share this. Side note, real quick, Megan Kelly, you've got $69 million dollars. from NBC. She clearly is doing it for the love of the game, but no respect.

Regardless, the game sucks. Stop it. We might not read all this because this is one of the things that's a song that's got two verses before the chorus, which is fine. It's fine.

Some songs do that. Some songs do that. I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer, and not wake up to all this stuff I don't want to hear. Like the same kind of gun I hunt with,

just killed another. man. Only thing mine ever shot was, deer from my deer stand. I just want to cut my grass, feed my dogs, wear my boots, not turn the TV on, sit and watch the evening news. Be told

if I tell my own daughter that little boys ain't little girls, I'd be up the creek in hot water in this cancel your ass world. And then the chorus starts, it ain't easy being country in this country nowadays. The direction the fingers pointing when everything goes up

in flames saying I'm some right wing devil because I was down south Jesus raised it ain't easy being country in this country beautiful I love when uh songwriters rhyme words with the same word so uh great job there he's always talking about that it's one of my favorite things when there's like I just use the same word again um I this is so funny I mean obviously like they're this they're the snowflakes like it's just so like you're just all you're just all you're all your stuff is whining. It's just whining. You just whine. You can catch a fish. You can do all these things that you want to do. You don't have to turn on the news. But just the idea of like, I want to do this stuff and I don't want to hear this stuff. I don't want to hear. It's a

baby song. It's a song for babies. It's like if you read, if you read those lyrics with a baby voice and maybe changed beer to like binkie or whatever, it would read like a baby wrote a song about how he doesn't want to. I want to listen to my thing that they say. But there's this other aspect I love about these guys. And that Tom McDonald rapper guy is in this category. And it's just like, I can't imagine. There's something very sad about musicians specifically who really lean into this sort of culture war, right-wing framing of, like, further art. Like, Tom McDonald goes out there every week and he's got, here's my new song.

And it's about wokeness. and the snowflakes and the blue hairs and the and the stuff and maybe it's about something that just happened in the news maybe this is my new rap about the one big beautiful bill or whatever and i'm just like bro even this song played at the super bowl in one year no one's gonna like no one puts on these songs to listen to there's not like real genuine like emotion going on it's not like a compelling narrative or like there's nothing to the song it's just like remember remember the thing that you're mad about? I can't imagine a fan going like,

guys, you've got to hear this song. They mentioned the boys and girls thing. They mentioned trans. I love seeing long to the trans line. Like, it's just who's singing. Watch me here at somewhere. I'm saying this and knowing that like maybe you know people who would do this. But like, I'm just like, I'm not putting on a fucking song.

It's like Donald Trump doesn't like. Like, no one listens to political commentary music for pleasure. They listen to it to get likes online to, like, signal like, hey, you agree with this, right? Like, any person listening to one of these songs is listening to it because their friend was like, you got to hear this song. It's no Buffalo Spring. You got to hear the song, right? Oh, the they-themms. Oh, there's a line about the they-themms.

I just, it's so sad and funny to me that this is a whole category of person now. Other people have made this point better, I think, than I'm about to, but the whole culture over there being grievance-based means that, like, we're like the joker to that. Like, they have nothing without us. Like, if they don't have stuff to react to

and be angry about that, the woke people are doing, then what is it? Like I'm sure, like, Lee Bryce has been a songwriter for decades, you know,

successful singer in his own writing songs for other country artists. He's capable of doing it. Which means he's doing this because that's what sells nowadays and it feels sad that, like, we've let,

like, they've let go of country music so that it can be a grievance-based art form. Like, there's still country music. Don't get me wrong. But, like, it feels sad to me. It's like if

Bob Dylan started off doing a bunch of protest songs and talking about current events and stuff and then was like, okay, I'm going to do this other thing now and people got mad for a bit and they got back on board. And this is like the opposite where it's like I'm going to write a bunch of songs

about stuff but now I'm going to like protest what's going on later in my career because that's what gives me the juice nowadays and it's very sad. Yeah. It's like, and I'm going to reference like things like that were in the news like last week in like my new single. And in a year, you're not even going to know what this is about. And it's just like the whole movement is like, you're saying like, it's just suddenly only about that.

And there's no celebration. There's no, there's nothing underneath. It's so empty. But Kid Rock did a great job. So. And meanwhile, Republican Mark, Representative Mark. Mark Al Ford says that the house is going to investigate the bad bunny halftime show and try to get FCC chair Brandon Carr involved. What the fuck are you talking about? Katie, don't lie on this show. Don't end the show with a lie.

They're like, we don't make something up. This absurd that would never happen. And then let us go. Mark Alford in this, I think it's a Newsmax clip or Real America's voice or something where he announces this. But he talks about the bad bunny lyrics as if it's really tough to look them up. He's like, I hear that they're saying a lot of stuff in there. We're going to get our scientists on it. And once they're able to debug what these lyrics are in about three to four years, we're going to investigate. It's like, you could just look them up and translate them. And if it says something dirty that you don't like, I guess you can investigate or whatever.

What are you fucking talking? Oh, my God. Fucking Kendrick Lamar called Drake a pedophile last year. Why are you worried about the lyrics that he's? Well, that was back when we didn't like pedophiles, but now we do. I thought I thought I was done with this topic, but I've got a new thing to say. We'll throw it up on screen here. My favorite tweet, though, was from Almo.

That bunny was amazing. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny. Albo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny. And I retweeted it, loved it, and I just went to look at it. And there's a rate proposed. Somebody community noted fucking Elmo. Hell yeah. They're so mad.

They hate Elmo so much. And it says, oh, the song's Bad Bunny sang at the Super Bowl, two would be considered inappropriate for children. Fuck off. What's the, what's the, What's the, is there a factual error there that Elmo doesn't actually think he should be called good bunny? No. Nope.

There's no factual error. It's for context. And then someone else noted that. Are you serious? Guys, what's going on here? Oh, it's so funny. I mean, I saw a bunch of like, right. You didn't be noting Elmo.

So many, like, right wing freak cranks who like, don't believe half the shit the same. They're like, if you don't see, what was like, if you don't see this and know that the demo. are like flailing than like you're not paying attention or something it's like it's you're all mad about an elmo tweet you need to just take a fucking nap you're you're mad every year every year elmo tweets about the super bowl yeah you're mad at a sign that says the only thing more powerful than hate is love god they're against us what we're the things it's good to hate the things we hate i put it in a lyric in my new song i just want to fuck my I want to eat my shit.

All right, you sons of bitches. Nothing's selling anymore on iTunes. I've got to be number one on iTunes, the thing we all used to listen to music. So now I'm having sex with my fish now. God damn it. They could have invited Zach Bryan. Probably wouldn't have shown up. Zach Bryan's a very popular country artist had the song that mentions Ice.

But he's very popular. Kid Rock covered a song by Cody Johnson apparently. Sorry about that. Oh, so, right, because I saw that. The Kid Rock song was number one, and then the Cody Johnson version of that song, which is the original was number two? The original, I think, number two,

and then Kid Rock added, like, a verse about Charlie Kirk, I think. Again, on iTunes, the thing that you obviously all use. You're listening to this on there right now. You spent 129 to listen to this podcast on iTunes, obviously, clearly. We see the number. We should wrap up. This is fun, I guess.

I do think that this really does reek of war on Christmas stuff and we'll do it again next year. And it's so frustrating and boring and stupid. But also fun, actually, to clown on and talk about. So thank you to Turning Point USA for providing us with that entertainment. And thank you to Turning Point USA for revealing, according to Erica Kirk, that Charlie Kirk had magic powers. Lights would flicker when he goes inside the room and when he leaves the room. me's a magic guy. I was giving Erica Kirk the benefit of the doubt on like some of her moves up until now.

I watched this clip. I'm like, oh, you're just a straight up grifter. You're just straight up lying to people. About the night your husband was murdered. It's so gross. When we first started dating, we would walk. We were walking to dinner one night and this happened a lot. The lights would start to flicker.

And he'd look up at the light and be like, you know, it's so weird, this happens to me a lot. And I was like, really? He's like, yeah. So our whole dating and whole marriage, anytime we'd be a room and a light started to flicker, he would just look at me and wink. It was like our little thing. His power. It's a total frequency thing.

And so the night everything happened when we were in Utah, I was in a hotel room by myself, in the bedroom portion by myself. And the bathroom light was on And it just was a strobe light All night Just flaring I was like Part of me couldn't sleep

Because it was a strobe light The other part of me couldn't sleep Because of how just my world has just crumbled And the other part of me couldn't sleep Because I was like, baby I feel you He's got Ernest goes to jail powers Uh Like and subscribe

We'll be back next week, I promise Um And also Hmm we love you very much oh my god much i was trying to do a lighting trick but it didn't work so just gonna say much

i just want to much my fish