The Charlie Kirk Show - Charlie on The Super Bowl: Halftime Shows, Football, and Cultural Flashpoints

Episode Date: February 8, 2026

Charlie didn’t always love the NFL, but he did love football and always had a lot to say about it. This episode runs through Charlie’s  many takes on the Super Bowl and its associated spectacle,  from halftime shows and ads to his personal experience as a long-suffering Chicago Bears fan. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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So I'd love to dive right into what's been going on with you lately. I think you caused a little bit of trouble during the Super Bowl. You want to tell us about that? Yeah, I mean, look, I'll never apologize for, like, defending the innocent of children, innocence of children, which the left has always tried to get rid of the innocence of children. And there's this Super Bowl halftime show that I guess people liked. whatever. I wasn't making commentary on the music. And if you watch the 50 cent portion of it,

which is, let's just put it nicely scantily clad women, you know, bending over like long snappers in a football game and being incredibly suggestive, there's no way you could say that that's okay for a six-year-old to see. It's the most broadcast event in humanity. 120 million people are watching. Why do you think that kind of content is being put out there? Well, I think that the left wants to continue to hypersexualize all activity. And it's one thing if it was behind a paywall or if it's like HBO Plus, I'm not going to tweet about that. Like, whatever, okay?

I'll have my own opinions on it. But you put it on network television when 100 million people are watching, including five, six or seven-year-olds, and we're just kind of kind of normalize that type of activity. And that's why I said what I said. It's sexual anarchy, which it is, which is a term that I've been using

that I got from my friend Pastor David Englehart, which is the sexual domain, no rules at all, just complete anarchy there, no order, no tradition, no right and wrong, we have all sorts of different sort of components there. And I said it shouldn't be a lot on network television. And I stand by that because network television should be a reflection of the type of society we want to live in. Well, you know what?

It reminds me of all the craziness over Netflix's cuties a couple years ago. You remember that? Yeah. I mean, I think they got criminally indicted in a county or Texas or something. And that was really bad. But the argument could, I mean, that was like child pornography bad and pedophilia bad. It wasn't on network TV, right? And so we're talking about that one specific instance.

And obvious, but like, look, you asked, Why? Going back to Huxley's prediction of everyone belonging to everybody and sexual restraint kind of getting completely eroded, it's been a deliberate goal of the left post-1960s to make sexuality something that is not private or sacred, but instead widespread and normalized. And that actually creates really normal. That creates really miserable people in a chaotic society. And that's so interesting because, you know, we see so many examples of what you're talking about. Hookup culture is so prevalent. More and more. gender ideology, pushing for children to think of themselves as a different gender as young as a toddler. That's right. Why do you think that so much of this is being pushed on our youth and what effect

will it have on the coming generation? I mean, I'm not afraid to say this is being organized on a supernatural level. I mean, it's a spiritual war, no doubt. The enemy wants to have people have, declare war on their biological reality and take them away from things that actually give them meaning and purpose. And so I think that this is being organized on a supernatural level. You know, people think that's insane. I say it. Well, I'm a Christian and I stand by. You can't be a Christian and not believe that, right? So that's a metaphysical part of believing in Christianity. But look, it's also that you ask the why. I think that there is a group of people that have sinned, and we're all sinners, but they somehow want to normalize and institutionalize it and act as if

that it's okay. It might be a coping mechanism. I'm not really sure. But there's no way that you could say that, you know, 12-year-olds getting sexual education courses or even having sex in general or 14-year-olds is good for society. It's awful. It's disgusting. It's wrong. We should say that more. And we should try to tell young people, look, you might slip up, you might make a mistake. That's okay. 100% grace. We get it. But try to save yourself for marriage. Like, at least try. Like, make it a goal. Yeah. Like, that would be good. Yeah. And I always hear CHPUSA talking about encouraging young people to get married. And I think that's really interesting, but something I keep noticing lately is, you know, you can get married, but that doesn't mean that it's going to last.

So how do we tell young people to marry the right person? You know, how do we equip them to marry a good person? Yeah, I mean, that I happen to meet the best person on the planet. I married her. So I guess I'm lucky or fortunate or blessed or whatever. That's a whole separate issue where men are super weak. They become beta males and women don't want to marry them. And women have become men. So they're super angry and men don't want to be with women that are really. really kind of like overly aggressive. And I get that feedback from both sides all the time. And I understand what I'm saying is politically incorrect. I don't care.

It's just the way it is. There's a generation of like super miserable mid-30-something women that are like, why does no one want to marry me? It's like, okay, well, and then they say, you know, men are all awful and terrible. I just saw TikTok a couple of days ago, went viral. This 30-something-year-old woman in L.A. crying about the state of dating nowadays and how she can't find anyone she wants to marry. Yeah, and like, I will say this, though, without getting preachy,

did you save yourself for marriage? Because if you do, then all of a sudden your dating pool opens up to other people that have saved themselves for marriage. Oh, interesting. And like, that's an interesting thing, right? Yeah. And people,

you're gonna even like talk about that in society. Like, you're a prudish or whatever. Like, well, I think that it's, that's a good goal. It's an ideal, right? Yeah, what's wrong with having goals? Well, I know, but I'm not trying to say you're a bad person if you've stepped. I'm not getting free, like, I'm not trying to like, I'm not trying to, like, go after you in that way.

But it should be something that, We should be like, yeah, you know what, we should try to have more people, your young people. I actually think they'll be happier and more fulfilled. And by the way, the data shows it. Right. The data shows that young people that wait for marriage are happier. They live better lives. They have more children, all of it.

That's really interesting. So, you know, as the leader of TPSA, you're pushing for messages of fidelity and, I guess, monogamy, right? Totally, yes. Yeah. What else do you think is important for young people to know? Like, what is the greatest thing that we're combating these days? Yeah, I mean, I think it's, again, I think it's a spiritual component. But I also think that it's something.

something that we must be, you know, we can't get too kind of into our own doctrine where we're unafraid to talk to other people about this, right? And some people are still trying to get their lives together. They've never kind of been exposed to this. But I also think that we shouldn't be okay with laws or public policy that makes it harder to get married and have children, right? And so there are three things that create conservatives. If we want to, it's really simple, actually. We want to create more conservatives. You should have more people want to own homes and property, get married and have children. Those three things create right-wingers. Like, that's it. So why we're not talking about that or doing it is beyond me. Like,

well, why are young people socialists? They own nothing. They're not married and they have no children. What are they conserving exactly? Nothing. It creates radicals, actually. So that's a message I think that resonates with a lot of young people. We should make it easier to do those three things. And last question for you. Are you hopeful about the state of the next generation of conservatives? Yes, I think that they're more concerned about these types of issues. I grew up in a conservative movement that was hyper libertarian 10 years ago. You probably remember it. It's become less so, and I think that's a good thing.

I like the libertarians on a lot of different things, lockdowns, you know, gun issues, things like that. But I don't think that you can order a society towards meaning or purpose. If you tell an 18-year-old, go do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it, and you're somehow going to be happy, it actually creates miserable people most times. Some people might be able to figure it out. God bless you, but you'll actually probably end up 26 and, you know, unmarried and you own nothing. And you're wondering where your purpose in the cosmos is. It creates an existential crisis, actually. And I don't think we have to recreate the wheel, if you will. There's thousands of years of biblical tradition that has allowed people to have meaning, which is the three-tied nought of what came before you, what's happening now, what's going to happen in the future. All right. Well, Charlie, thank you so much. We're so grateful for you to pretend with us today.

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I was a fanatical fan of the NFL and like I would cry when the Packers lost. What year? Like, oh, 2007 I think was the one that was like really weighed on me. That was when Brett Farb was still there. Yeah, but it was Brett Farb. And then he loses the last game on a pick. And I was like all super sad about it. He threw as many touchdowns as interceptions.

Yeah, yeah. You know, that. So I used to get real, I lived and died by this. And then when the anthem protest started happening with Kaepernick around 2016, I disengaged. I also did the same. I thought, this is dumb. I'm going to prove that I'm not like ruled by cuckball or whatever they started calling it then. And so I actually had a whole year.

I didn't really watch it. Me too. And it helped. Of course, the Packers were bad. And now I think I'm in a health. spot of football is a fun thing that I can watch, but it's sort of lame to care about it too much. Brett Farr have actually visited South Dakota in 2019. I'm trying to get him on the show.

That'd be great. But Brett Farr was cool. But I saw when I went there, just to finish the story, I went there and there were all these men who were like substantially older than me. And they were still, it's Vikings fans here. So they were still really upset about that Vikings Saints game where Sean Payton had. That was terrible. That was dirty.

But that was the NFC champion. They were really angry about it. Like he does a Q&A. And these guys who are 45, 50 years old are livid. And five of himself is, he's like, you know, I know Coach Payton. I don't think he meant, you know, to have, I think he's a friend of mine. I don't think he meant to hurt me like that bad. And, you know, it's totally under the bridge.

And they're like, these guys are just seething over this. And just a sport where men throw a ball and are played millions of dollars to do it should not make you that angry. But the Vikings never won a Super Bowl. And they never will. You think so. Never. Childhood, me, believe that, like, God. God in his heavens has decreed the Vikings will never win a Super Bowl.

And I still believe that. 15% of Blake takes are hilariously wrong when he's like, yeah, 2024 is going to be a boring year. Trump gets shot, Biden replaced. We're not even done yet. Yeah. And Vikings will never win a Super Bowl is one of the 85% that are 100% correct. If I'm not mistaken, the Cardinals never won a Super Bowl,

right Tyler? Depends on what history. Not transfer. In Arizona. That's a bunch of things. Yeah, in Arizona, no. Okay. No.

You can't inherit the Super Bowl from Chicago. Well, it was, yeah, I mean, you have Chicago and the United States. It was, it wasn't a super bowl. It was like they had a, they have a BS title. They basically stole from the Pots. It was the World Champion. It was 1925. They didn't even have a title game in the Super Bowl era.

It was just best record, and they didn't play the same number of games. And all these don't see. All that is the Super Bowl era. They stole it from the Potsville. The Packers won the first Super Bowl. You know my, my wife, Erica, is from the Lombardi family. Really?

Is that right? Seriously? Yeah. That's royal boy. Her mom's a Lombardi. That's crazy. Isn't that insane? That's right.

Like how close? Like is she? Like direct bloodline. Like lineal descent from Vince? Yeah. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, we have all like all this Packer stuff at our, at our house. I didn't know that.

Whoa. That's interesting. That is wild. And I'm from a huge Bears family, so I don't know. Whoa. Well, you know, the Bears have won a Super Bowl, but 1985, best team ever assembled. Yeah. And they've, prove me wrong.

Best NFL football team ever assembled. You know, that might be true. Yeah. Thank you. It might be true. And they didn't win another one. You know why they never won another one? Jim McMahon?

Yeah, because Jim McMahon got body slammed by a psycho packer. Probably. You know, that was disgraceful. Even Jack agrees. Jack agrees is the greatest NFL team ever assembled. 85 bears. I actually have in my eighth grade, in my eighth grade yearbook, I actually have a reference to the 85 bears from, of course,

my favorite Saturday Night Live, sketch of all time. The bears. The, yes. And the bear, this gives me of how crazy good the 85 bears were. We have not won a Super Bowl in 40 years. And it's still the only thing that like middle-aged,

mildly overweight men in Chicago still talk about is the 85 bears. They're like, you'll remember when? Go bears. Go bears. So a coach. What a certain name that starts with a D, ends with an A and has.

sticky in the middle. Yeah, I've got the, I've got actually the Mike Dick sweater vest. Oh, he's not the best? I haven't in my closet. So the teams that never want to Super Bowl, Arizona Cardinals, Falcons, by the way, the Falcons ties into our previous topic. Can you talk about that? Wait.

What if the Patriots just would have surrendered at half time? When he's mad, yeah, he's just like, why doesn't Churchill give up? Churchill didn't have a way to win. Like, yeah, it's just, I can imagine like this falcons seating. You're just like, why didn't Bill Belich? It was 28 to 3. That still was the greatest comeback. That's not, no one's ever come back that amount that you're supposed to not, you have to make, you know, they were offering them to shut it down.

All right. So I have a good question for the group. Let me list this. Okay. Cardinals, Falcons, Bills, Panthers, Bengals, Browns, Lyons, Texans, Jaguars, Chargers, Vikings, Titans of that list, who will be the first one to win a Super Bowl? They've never won a Super Bowl before. Bengals. They lost a couple years ago.

They have Joe Burrell. In the current structure. And the current composition of the teams, probably the Bengals are the best chance. I haven't looked at the... I think the Lions. I'm going to say Lions. I think Coach Dan, like, that's his name. He always looked like he's ready to fight somebody.

That guy, he seems to like, they're walking around. They're true believers in him. He seems like a good coach. I think the Lions could win it all this year. Did they have such momentum that I think they're ready to break the curse? And like they brought their offensive coordinator was offered head coaching job. Detroit is the second odds. So Lions and then Bengals right after the Lions.

So it's Lions and. There's plus $1,200. No, Chiefs is number one, aren't they? I think he means... Well, I'm talking of the teams you just... Oh, yeah, okay. So, Lyons, Bengals, Bills. Bills are losing their edge, man.

They had so many chances. Josh Allen is too far-esque, I think, for modern NFL. Are the Texans on that list? Yeah, they never won. No, no, no. Yeah, the Texas, but they used to be the Oilers, so it's just the... The other team...

No, no, the Oilers are now the Tennessee Titan. The other team... They won either. The other team, along with the Vikings that will never win is the Cleveland Browns. They have... They have, no, they have one. They have one.

You're right. They've never even been to one. But this is the order right now in Vegas. I don't think the Vikings ever been to one. No, they've been to four. Oh, it's having to be right. You're right. You're right. They've lost every single one.

No, no, no, it's not as bad as the bills who lost five in a row. Four in a row. Four in a row. Can you imagine? It's Chiefs, 49ers, Ravens, Eagles, Lions, Bengals, Bengles, Bill, Texans, Packers. And you know what's great about being a Packer fan, by the way? We're, like, the only team that's not subject to this extremely terrible NFL policy that they're going to let private,

equity by stakes in teams. Are you an owner? No, I'm not dumb enough. No, one of our staff member owns. Yeah, but okay. So don't insult this model. Look, it is cool that the Packers are publicly owned, but owning a piece of Packers stock, if you are not one of the OG people from the 60s is a scam.

No, it's not. It is a scam. You don't get tickets. You get into the lottery for tickets. I think you have. You can get into the lottery for tickets just without being an owner. Yeah, if you want to pay like three times markup. And in any case, the waiting list is now so long that if you register your child, maybe their child will be able to get it after they die.

I think it's amazing. That's so cool. That this very small, moderate, like, boring Midwestern town has this powerhouse NFL team. The only right you get from buying Packer stuck. The only right you get is you get to go to the shareholder meeting, which they hold in Lambo field. And they all vote. Okay, that's cool. It's cool.

But you don't have real voting power. Actual controlling voting power is with the people from the 50s and 60s. Yeah, but it's politics. It's democracy. You know they used to play Milwaukee? Yeah, yeah. And they have green and yellow days. Yeah, yeah.

Because of the old Milwaukee's down. Do you know that? They have green and yellow days where the green is all the rules and the yellows are, I might get mixed up. But like all the ticket holders from Milwaukee have yellow holding days and green ones. And so when it's like Milwaukee, it's all a bunch of libs that go up and then it's green, it's like all Trump country. Since you're a Bears fan, you might not know this. Did you know that teams are allowed to like be good for more than one season in their history? For the record, we were in a Super Bowl against.

the Indianapolis cults in 2008, I think. 2006 season, so I think 7 would be the year it happened. Hey, the bear? No, I think it was the Super Bowl would have been 2000. Can you guys check me? It's the 2006 season for 7. 2007 is when the Patriots go 18 and 1. I would put money on this. This would be

I will put money on this. It's not 7. It was, the Super Bowl was February February 2008. I'm going to put money on it, $2,700. That was the Cardinals. 2008 was the Cardinals and Steelers. Check it out. Are you sure? That was 2008 season, 2009.

No, no, no. It's the Super Bowl happened in February 2008. Check it. Oh. Check it. Super Bowl. Blake's going to owe me $100. I just looked at this.

I'm pretty sure. Sunday, 2008, it was. On February 4th, 2007, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Chicago Bears 29-27. Are you sure it was 2007? Yeah, 2008 was in Arizona. Super Bowl 41. Look it up. 2008 was Arizona.

That was the crazy game. I'm pretty sure it was 2008. No, that was the Patriots and Giants crazy game. That was the perfect Patriots year, I think, right? Sadly, I have, like, encyclopedic knowledge of, like, this period of that was like, that's all fake. It's all been rewritten. Yeah. It's an alternate timeline.

I was 07. It was 07. That's going to ruin my whole day. I can't interview JD. I'm done. Like, I just, everything's ruined. Man, J.D. Vance must be a Bengals fan. That has to be hard.

What NFL team do you hate the most? Oh, Vikings. Dallas Cowboys. Oh, yeah. You know what? Cowboys are so easy to hate. It's not even close. Why is every Cowboys fan like a five foot six Mexican with long jeans shorts?

No, that's like not true. The actual, the interesting thing with the Cowboys is, like they are very national, like. Well, there's an explanation actually reasonably for this. It's the same thing with the Dodgers. They're like the America's team, right? I've heard Mexico likes the Steelers a lot. No, because there was for a long time in American history, there was a massive gap between basically Texas and California.

And so the Cowboys gobbled up basically all of Western United States until California. Because there were no football teams even in California that were longstanding and well respected. So all Western United States basically the Cowboys were your team

before those other teams came to existence. Also they had such a run in the 90s that it just became America's team. But before that, like my dad's a Cowboys fan. what because there were that everyone in arizona were austin's entire family everybody everybody that lived in arizona was a cowboys fan by default the uh so the titans the vikings you hate the vikings the vikings are just sort of you hate the vikings more than the bears the thing yeah so the thing

is the vikians are more consistently competitive than the bears and they're also just kind of a fun butt monkey to make fun of because they're history like you can make and in fact they did make like an eight-part documentary series on the Vikings many failures. The Bears is just like, oh, here's their 87th quarterback of the last Kyle Orton. Jay Cutler. And they're like, oh, Jay Cutler just managed to throw the ball for 3,200 yards and 12 touchdowns, thereby cementing the greatest offensive season by any Bears quarterback

in history. Do you think, so of this list, Lions, I agree, the bills are losing it. The Falcons, man, that's such a sad story, isn't it? Well, it depends on your point of view. Like, the Falcons. So remember, I don't hate the Falcons. I don't hate the Falcons, but I will be appreciative that in the 2017 Super Bowl, this is right after the 2016 election, the media basically decided that the Falcons were

the Lib America team because they represented Atlanta. Yes. They were like, you know, the blue city in a red state. They were kind of, and they were like, they kind of made it a race thing. It was very weird. I know. And then like the. Patriots were the white team. It was very bizarre. Even though they're from Massachusetts.

Yeah, so they're from this blue state. But on the other hand, Belichick, Belichick wrote a letter endorsing Trump. That was private. And then I just love this story that the Trump campaign asks him, can we release this? And he's like, oh, oh, you want to release it. Here, let me rewrite the letter to be more effusively positive. Like, I didn't want to suck up too much in private, but I'm going to suck up to the max in public. That's so funny. It's such a great story. I was there when Trump first read the letter in New Hampshire rally the day before the election. I was traveling with Trump that night.

We almost won. And he just got on. He just got on Instagram. I'll never forget that the moment I realized, the moment I realized like it could happen, there were two things that I'll always stick out with me. My friend who was doing poll watching in New Hampshire just tells me, like, Blake, we're getting, we're getting these random hunters from rural New Hampshire who haven't voted in 12 years and they're coming out and like a lot of them are coming out.

I remember that. And then I also remember seeing Ross, doubt that tweeting. This was like at the exact moment her odds peaked on the New York Times dial for Hillary. And he's just like, you know, I'm looking at the map guys and I just don't, Florida doesn't seem that bad. Like, it seems like the rural numbers are really good. And that's the exact moment. It just starts swerving the other way. Always remember it. So you can find my tweet. I owe like 100 bucks, which I will pay. And then, um, I will give somebody $25 if they can find my tweet from 2016 of my day before election tweet that I predict my prediction.

if you could find it. No one ever gives me credit for this. What I predicted the day before the election. Do you remember this? And I got so much hate the day before. And because I was traveling with the campaign. I was like, I think Trump's going to win. I think he's going to win Michigan.

And people came after me like. And I put it by the way, in writing, publish the tweet. It was the day. I've got it. November 7th, 2016. Final prediction. I owe like $125. This is great.

This is one of my better days. Yeah. You got to put that. That's really impressive. Final prediction. Michigan going red, bold, but it could happen. You heard it here first. And then, you know what you also did? You predicted that Wisconsin and Pennsylvania would be blue. I know. You didn't believe enough, Charlie. I didn't get the whole map right, but I did call Michigan. You're a traitor. You abandoned Trump. That's how that. I called Michigan, though. That's pretty legit, though.

Yeah, we had done there. We had done. You know, I think I called Michigan. I think my final map, we had a contest at the daily caller. And I got very close to the actual electoral vote total, but I was off. on the states. I gave him Michigan. I think I did Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada. So my map is almost the same as yours, but I had Nevada, too. I got to get Blake on like an auto pay of Venmo at this right at this point. So NFL season, who do you guys think is going to win a Super Bowl? I'm going to be cheering for and pulling for the Lions. I agree. I think, I think Lions are great. You've given up on the Bears already. Look, it's fruitless at this point. I mean, we're going to be

disappointed. Caleb Williams is like a Terry's AC on the third week or something. Are you really going to be, is disappointed? Is disappointed? word you want to go for here? Like, what's there hope? Not really. Have you had hopes since like Brian Erlacher retired? I like him, actually.

He's such a sweet guy. He's super conservative. He lives in Arizona, by the way. He's a really right wing. I'm hoping that the bears actually have a surprise season where I don't think they're going to go to football. Football is better when the bears are good. Yeah.

Because, I mean, first of all, they're one of the most loved franchises. And you have one of America's biggest cities just on fire. We've just been those like dormant football beast for like, the last 20 years. You want that. I mean, like, enough of this, like, by the way, Kansas City, like, okay, there's only so much population base there. It's the same, like, 100,000 people that go to the games. Like, okay, great, fine, terrific. Like, we, the, the teams I want to see suffer, Dallas Cowboys cannot stand them. Um, I don't sleep on the dolphins, by the way. I think the dolphins are

really good. Dolphins put up 70 on a team last year. That was amazing. Taga Viola is the real deal. I'm telling you, that guy can ball. I could not have pronounced that name. I'm telling you, C.J. Stroud, Houston Texans, if he stays healthy, will be one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. Texans are going to be good. I'm really pulling that the Cardinals figure it out this year. No, they've got to get rid of Kyler Murray.

He sucks. We're going to see. He sucks. We're going to see. Marvin Harrison, Jr. could be special. He's legit. They should sign him for a 20-year contract. He's really good.

It was a good. Tyler Murray's the most overpaid, overrated person. We also have some good other guy. Our tied in, Tray McBride, I think, is going to be really good. So we'll see. I'm pulling for the Cardinals. Oh, and I'm pulling for the Broncos to go 500.

Bo Nix. Yep, Bo Nix. Let's think of the other teams I hate. Oh, I want the New York Jets to do well. I have more teams I'm cheering for than I'm not. Jack is saying we should each like do a quick like map prediction of the election if we want.

No, you're not doing it. We're not putting that out there. Jack, you've been quiet for some time. How are the Eagles doing? Well, so the Eagles lately,

the biggest thing this week was this whole thing with the Kamala Harris ad, like the fake, they claimed was a. fake ad that went up, I don't know if we had the image, saying that Kamala Harris is the official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles. And this was going up at least one bus station in, right in, like, Center City, Philadelphia, and it had the website on it. I think it was like Philadelphia eagles.com slash vote. And it had a picture, sort of like animated picture of Kamala Harris in an Eagles jersey, in the Eagles helmet. And the Eagles put out the statement saying, oh, well, you know,

It's not her. It's not going to be her, et cetera. This is not approved. But then there was a guy who, I forgot what was his name, The Mole? He was Christian Moeller who said in the comments, because so this other guy who was a Trump supporter from Philly went over and started like plastering over the eagle, over this quote unquote fake ad. And then Christian Moeller, a Twitter user.

And, you know, shout out to Laura Lumer for catching this, by the way, that said in the comments, how dare this guy cover up an official ad or cover up an ad like this? And if you don't like it, that's too bad. And people are like, wait, who's this guy saying it's a real ad? And it turns out that he was the director of team relationships for the Eagles and actually worked at the Eagles for like 25 years. So as someone who would be very well within the know of actually knowing whether or not this was a real ad. So he's subsequently locked his Twitter account and it's become this sort of like whole firestorm

as to whether or not this guy had potentially actually approved whatever this thing is to go up. I have no sympathy for the Eagles, and I hope they lose every game and that they sell their franchise for parts. You want to bring back the Steebles? Do you know about this story? I don't know.

I think the Eagles might be one of my most hated franchises. No offense, Jack. In World War II, due to budget shortages, the Eagles and the Steelers temporarily merged. into one team that they called the Stiegel. There's an all Pennsylvania team, yeah. I think it's more the fans than it is the actual. No, I know.

The fans are so aggressive. But this Kamala thing this week, I want to get answers. I need answers from Jack. Jack should not. Again, by the way, like if people want like an understanding of who Pesobic is, just understand that I grew up as a Philadelphia sports fan. So like that should just be your explanation. I need answers on this on this Kamala ad.

I need answers on this Kamala ad. Who produced it? How it got out there? This is going to go down like the pipe bombs in Washington, D.C., the R&C. pipe bomber. So we're tracking down. I've already got people that are looking to this guy's family because it turns out that this Christian Molinar guy is also from Narsdown, Pennsylvania, which is the exact same

town that I'm from just outside Philly. So we're tracking him down. Christian Molinar, stay tuned. You don't know who's going to be reaching out on Facebook. could be one of post those people. Uh-oh. John Federman was right all along. Play cut 80.

And the Eagles are so much better than Eagles. Every time I hear the Eagles, I think of it. I don't get how they couldn't just make him like, that's clearly the smartest Eagles fan in human history. So they should have made him like the head coach or something. No, he should be the official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles. It should be Federman, official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles. He's not even from like the Eagles,

part of Pennsylvania. That's what's so disingenuous is he's from decidedly sealers territory. So help me just really quick as we wrap up here. Blake, I think the NFL is kind of getting its mojo back. It's a thing now that has a lot of dominance. It has more chatter. Would you agree? It really took a nosedive in 2020 and people thought like, oh, football's going down. It feels bigger than ever. It really is. The NFL is like. It's like state run religion at this point. It's just the perfect sport. It really is. So it's like on killable. It's just, it's so, like... But am I right?

The only way they can screw it up, frankly, is I think if they just get too greedy, like, they keep wanting to add more games on more days. Or Brazil, or like, what are you doing? I don't mind the Brazil thing. You know, you do one game here. Like, every team do one game overseas while you've got this 17 game season. So everyone's 8 and 8 and then one international game. I think that's fine.

But I think where they're really kind of taking risks are they... You'll see a few things. one, they'll try to put games on too many days. And kind of one of the things the NFL has is they've just basically made Sunday, like, you know, there's only two days about games. You go to church. Tuesday and Wednesday are the only days without that game. Yeah, well, yeah, now.

And it's making it worse and worse. We have a Friday game now. Like, it should just be. We have a Thursday, Sunday, you go to church. Monday. You go watch football or you just watch football, you know, depending on your point of view. And then there's a Monday night game if you're an obsessive. And they, them colonizing that one day a week actually is like the perfect level of

dominance without it drowning, everything. out. And the other thing is the NFL is the last thing that's on normal television. And where I could see them screwing up the golden goose is they let a bunch of games go on Peacock or Amazon Prime or Netflix or something stupid like that. And suddenly, too many NFL games are on some bullcrap subscription service that you have to buy rather than just on normal TV. And I think that's how you ruin it, you make the NFL too exclusive. The tickets are already really expensive. You never really go to an NFL game anymore unless you just love setting tickets on fire. And I think that is, or setting money on fire. And I think that is the long-term hazard. But the actual sport is so good.

They've kind of, they got through the political harrowing period. You can actually have a right-wing player again, and it's not the end of the flipping world. They got, they survived all of that. they have pretty likable stars. They, I feel like players even get arrested a bit less than they used to. Progress. It's, it's a, and also college football is screwing it up. Sorry, Charlie, I've got bad news. College football is dumb now.

No, it's not. College football is better than ever. I just don't get the whole like, oh, the great amateur sportsmanship when every single player is this mercenary for hire on a one-year contract for whatever booster will pay them. It was an inevitable thing. there's no other way to do college football in the modern social media era and with the Supreme Court decision. We should just blame the Supreme Court, Blake.

Blame the Supreme Court. I just... With name image like this, there's no other way to do it. I'm going to make people really mad. I just, I think college football has outlived its usefulness. It's now, now it mainly exists to be like, we can't fix our schools because then it would screw up the heck and football team, man. That's been that way for 20 years.

But it's worseer now. Is that a word worser? It is now. I was going to say the Dartmouth grad is using good grammar. probably a word we have to go um thank you guys so final super bowl picks i think the bears will not win i want the lions to win like i'm going to go total homer jordan loves going to get to pull it all together he's overrated we'll get our one super bowl win that we get with each of our hall of fame quarterbacks and then he'll be the quarterback for the next 18 years and then he'll go play on the jets for a year and then

the bikings tyler oh man i would love to see a lion's jets uh super bowl man if we could live through The Jets are not that good, though. I understand, but just like some miraculous thing happens. You know. Is Aaron Rodgers going to play Monday? Yeah. Are you sure? That's what I'm told.

He'll play on Monday. Are you sure? They're playing the Niners. I don't think that's been confirmed. They're playing the Niners and the guy who injured him in the first game last year is now on the Niners. How funny would that be? Are you kidding me?

I believe it's the Niners they're playing. But whoever it is, the player who injured him is on the opposing team again. A Lions Jet Super Bowl would be great for America. Did he play in any preseason game? No, but like he didn't play in preseason in Green Bay either. Rogers doesn't like playing. Yes, he does. He's such a baller.

I want to meet that guy. I want to be like, Aaron Rogers on my list of someone I want to be friends with. Even though he's a really bad person. If he just comes, all you have to do is when he shows up, you say, you know,

you're shorter than I expected. And he gets like really butt hurt about this. If you say that's true. Is he not that tall? He's actually pretty, he's like 6.3 or something. But people kind of sometimes expect these NFL players to just be gigantic. And, you know,

he's not like a super, he's not a linebacker. Well, The internet says he's six two. I understand. By the way, did they fix my height yet on Wikipedia? They did. That's amazing.

Our PR campaign worked. Isn't that hilarious? We ridiculed them. That is so funny. They said I was 6-1 and now they say I'm 6-5. That is so funny. All right. Very happy for you.

Jack, you want the Eagles to win? Birds. Birds all the way, green gang. But of course, I do also have to say, let's get back to our scenario time, folks. Bears versus the assembled choir. of heavenly angels. The whole choir, yeah, you know, the seraphim, the jar of him, the whole nine

yards. Angels. Angels, but it's close. And then they cut to Chris Farley, and he's got that giant steiner of beer, and he's just like, Bears. De Beers. We'll see, we'll see what Caleb Williams is made of. Not Super Bowl.

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The Philadelphia, the little lower third, the scoreboard? It looked as if someone made it in clip art. Do you know, usually they have all these opulent, elaborate. I didn't like it. I know that we've all agreed as society. No one took a vote that after trying to the left and trying to to the right and trying to the upper left and the right that the bottom is the best. I just, I thought it was very underwhelming.

I will say, I think, Andrew, thank you bringing this up. I think Tom Brady did great. I thought Tom Brady was a 10. I thought Tom Brady was a 10. I thought Tom Brady was way better than I anticipated. And dare I say, I thought Tom Brady was even better than Tony Romo. I know Tony Romo is, you know, I think Tony Romo gets a lot of, he gets a lot of mixed reaction.

I thought Tom was terrific. I've always been a huge Tom Brady fan, but he just seemed as if he was having fun. He was having a blast. And I think Tom Brady was also enjoying it because he was like, ha ha, Mahomes, you're not the goat. And he obviously channeled a lot of his Super Bowl experiences, but look, that's not easy. You got to be honest, like doing color commentary without a lot of experience on that. That's not easy. I thought Tom Brady crushed it.

I thought he did very well. Over 100 plus million people were watching. Can I also just mention the commercials were terrible. I thought they were so underwhelming, and I thought the best commercial was the food conspiracy one. The Matthew McConaughey. Do you know what I'm talking about? I thought that was the best one,

because it also had the bears in it. But the greatest moment of the Super Bowl to great Daisy and Emma's delight was when finally, I don't know if Taylor Swift has ever gotten booed. About time. Taylor Swift had no idea what was happening after getting booed one shown on the Jumbotron. Play Cut 41. Oh, they're booing her. And I love when she says like, what is going on? She's never been booed in her life.

And look, I just, I think it's well deserved. She went after MAGA and endorsed Joe Biden. And she's not exactly in favorable company there. Let's put 56 up there. This is the meme. It's pretty good. President Trump got applauded. Regardless of your opinions on Taylor Swift, it was a fun moment, but it really represented a cultural shift. Represented a cultural shift where President Trump gets roaring applause and Taylor Swift, not as much. Here's President Trump getting applauded, cut 42. And then there was this Nike ad saying that women were oppressed. Overall, I will say, though, that the advertisements were probably more pro-American, more pro-family,

and a little less woke than I would have anticipated in previous years. But it just seems like the spark and the creativity was largely missing from them. You could see them clearly trying to signal, but a lot of the ads were just bland. They weren't boundary pushing. They weren't that entertaining. Some of them, I even said, I said, I know that ad. They run that on regular TV. It's the McConaughey Salesforce ad.

They've run that many times. And they say that the Super Bowl reflects kind of where American culture is. And here's the best summary I could give. We are in progress of exercising the woke, but we're not there yet. We're in progress of expelling it from our system, but we're not there yet. The vibeship is clear, but we still have a lot of work to do. And by the way, so many of the ads were released before the Super Bowl, so it wasn't excited to watch it for the first time like it used to be.

But I mean, if I was a marketing agent, I would release it ahead of time because you get all these extra views and then you get the views at the Super Bowl. So releasing ahead of time, I think is actually super smart. Overall, I was thrilled to see the Kansas City Chiefs lose. I hate to say it. I like my homes. I think he's a great guy. I like Harrison Butker, got to know him.

But seeing the Philadelphia, again, I'm not exactly. Eagles fan. I think they burnt Philly to a crisp. There's going to have to be like a rebuilding plan, a national stimulus plan. I think FEMA is going to have to visit Philly after what happened last night. But I was happiest of all for Jalen Hertz. Jalen Hertz. In 2018, I remember he was benched in the middle of the national championship where Tua Taga Vola took over. And then he ended up having to transfer to Oklahoma. He never gave up. He fought for every inch. I've been following his career for years. People thought he was no good and now he is Super Bowl MVP and Super Bowl champion and they can never take that away from him. God bless you guys. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust,

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