The Charlie Kirk Show - THOUGHTCRIME Ep. 115 — Want To Do A Super Bowl Halftime? Just Say "Ey" 51 Times

Episode Date: February 14, 2026

With the All-American Halftime Show over, the TC crew backtracks to watch that other show from Bad Bunny. Are his lyrics any less inane in English? And why does he say "Ey" so much? The team gets to the bottom of things on these all-important questions. 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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The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this week's edition of Thought Crime Thursday. Here we are. We're back. Hugely successful All-American halftime show, T.P. USA, number one U.S. live stream of all time, number two, worldwide live stream on YouTube of all time. and it's it's you have to just be humbled by God's grace you have to go with Jesus you have to

you have to you have to follow the lead I should say of our Lord and it's it's it's it's amazing it's been incredible to see we talked about it last week and obviously we're going to get into it this week now you know kind of the aftermath the the the incredible outpouring of support this thing broke containment absolutely broke containment and I believe we have Blake and Mikey here today. What's up guys? How we doing? We're doing lovely. Tyler's supposed to be here, but he's doing that thing or he like flies in late. He'll probably have some just kind of T-shirt. So Mikey, Mikey, you weren't here last week. So I want to get your take on this. You know, why was it that the All-American halftime show went as big as it did? I think part of it was

that families could confidently have their children sit in the living room and watch something knowing confidently that booty cheeks or debauchery wouldn't be on the screen and that they wouldn't have to say, kids, go in the other room, this is not good, close your eyes, plug your ears. And it was a breath of fresh air. One, it was just exciting. It celebrated America. But also, it uplifted values and it uplifted Christ. And it uplifted the fact that a lot of people have that Bible that's on the shelf that needs a little bit of dusting off. But Jack, I thought you did a great job introing it. The artist did amazing.

It was just overall such a massive success. I just remember watching it and I was like, oh man, I just wish that we add this one thing. And then, you know, one minute later it happens. And you're like, this is so great. But how about when Kid Rock jumps out from the stage? That intro was one of the greatest. So as cool as that was, by the way, and I saw you tweeting, up a storm about that when we were when we were there um on the set and i heard that he had like the jump

spring for that like the trap door i was like so um so so can i test that like you know but got to make sure that it's uh perfectly safe for mr rock so if you guys if you guys need someone to test maybe uh and they're like me like they're like no jack you cannot i was like well i was like we already said i couldn't play with the fireball so you know come on guys they really should have do they always call him Mr. Rock like that? Like, Mr. Kid? Has he, has he like, no, usually, usually he can legally change his name?

Usually, usually, um, usually you hear Bob or like Mr. Richie. Okay. All right. It'd be funny if he got, you know, like an honorary doctorate and they're like, Dr. Rock. Dr. Rock. That'll be the next iteration. But Blake, I, you know, like, it's funny you mentioned that real quick that Tanya said,

that my wife Tanya said the same thing. Tanya, Tanya, say, that, um, she said for the first time, here we are, watching the Superal Halftime show and I don't have to have like my my thumb over hovering over the remote you know having to click off because something is there that we don't want to see and she was like it was like good clean fun and actually funny enough she didn't actually like ask me for many you know spoilers in terms of any of that stuff I think she just kind of trusted if it's TPUSA like it's going to be good to go that's so great that's so great so I know I've heard so much feedback from different people with that exact same thing.

They just knew that it was TPSA, so they knew it would be fine for their kids. Which I just think is so cool. But Blake, do you have like a kid rock impersonation when he, you're in your rock voice? No, I can't. I'm not like, your Saxon. My Saxon voice.

I mean, if I want to be this. Blake's rock. If I want to be like a British chav rock star. Blake, what would it sound like if, if, Sebastian Bach was, was singing ball with the ball. Yeah, can you please?

You're really, you're imposing a lot of, a lot of... When he does my name, my name is... The problem is, I don't, the problem among other things is I don't know the words to ba'witabah. Oh, dude, that was so... Literally, the words are ball with the ball and then my name is kid rock. Yeah, I had never heard of Ba'witabah until this halftime show came upon us. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You serious? Like, are you lived on planet Earth? Come on. Like, in the last couple decades? No. It's literally an absolute. Look, I am music-wise, as far as I'm concerned, music ended in the year 1991 in that one-week gap between when Guns and Roses Use Your Illusion came out, and then Nevermind by Nirvana. And after that, there was kind of no more music.

I grew up thinking I just didn't like music. True story, I just didn't like music. Because I didn't like anything that was on the radio. I didn't like any of these rap people. I didn't like this new metal. I didn't like this hip-hop. And it's like all that was, or this alt rock. Yep.

never mind ghastly things like radio head. I was a very bad white person. And then I, as I aged into middle school, I discovered, wait, there were these musical albums and songs that were released prior to my birth. And they are the true music of my people, the Midwestern white guy. And so I listened to my Midwestern white guy music and occasionally my imported British heavy metal music. And, you know, we have our alternative half times.

And I'm very happy we put it on and a lot of people liked it. But as I've repeatedly said, it's a bunch of acts that have never crossed my playlist in my life. Same here. That didn't stop me from loving it. But then, okay, so that being said, what is your sense then of why was it that this took off and just put up the incredible numbers that it did? Well, let's be true. Let's be real. there was a significant push factor going on from the NFL

where they allowed Jay-Z to dominate the halftime show and he came out and he says we're going to pick the Spanish only guy who hates America to do the halftime show and then he comes out and he says I hate America I'm going to crap on the American flag you have four months to learn to speak Spanish or else and then I'm going to

and then the actual show starts and I don't know if you guys have seen it It's something that would be inflicted on Gitmo detainees, I'm sure, where it's this baffling thing. He just kind of babbles in Spanish. You don't know what he's doing. And apparently it was really terrible if you were a fan at the stadium. They got so addicted to the cinema of it being on air. So if you were in the lower bowl of Levi's Stadium, everyone just didn't know what was going on.

It's amazing, too, to see this aspect of it where the people who are trying to give positive reviews. And it's stuff like in that skit they're doing, someone is like asleep on two chairs. And someone's like, oh, someone asleep on two chairs. Bad Bunny totally gets the Hispanic experience, which is this very real thing. Everyone going viral. This was going viral.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. One of course. This is so Latino. This is Latino culture. And it's like, okay. In Latino culture, we have this, we have this tradition. We call it dinner.

And you eat with other people in your family because, In our culture, food is important. My favorite is Jack, we're texting about this. It's like, me titi, me titi. Like the actual, the translation of his song is, there's this guy, his video went viral too. Do we have the English one? Do we have the guy? Oh my gosh, do we have it?

Literally, Tanya Tay has been playing that like 10 times a day since that came out. It's so stupid. We've done, we have to pull it now. We've done a horrible job of show prep as usual. but it's like when you actually hear it in English it's like that's what he said like it wasn't even like because like there's good Spanish music out there right

like Jalo performed before and like Shakira performed on hold on there's good Spanish music and it's yeah you know yeah it's great it's great imagine if they played this in the Super Bowl that's kind of what they used to Have you ever seen what they used to have you ever seen what they used to What they used to do at the Super Bowl?

Like I think literally the first Super Bowl halftime show was a straight up marching band just doing like that's what they had at the Packers Chiefs first one It was acceptable. I think it's literally like my auntie asked me how many girlfriends I had and it's like I can't let me see if I yeah much novias many girlfriends so he just can't Keep singing about how many girlfriends he has as God. Yeah, it's like, I have a girlfriend one week, and then I have a different one the next week. And we have these brainless guy. And you have a girlfriend. You know, they never trump.

The never Trump, like, Kuk Khan, Congress, like those guys, they're doing these comments. And they're trying to say it, among other things, this is a very, like, pro, this is like a traditional values pro-family halftime show. And they just don't know the lyrics to the songs at all because no one does. No, but I'm making a criticism of it from a musical perspective, right? Like, not even beyond the lyrics, beyond the obvious, like, open borders, globalism display, all of, like, the ridiculous, like, oh, we sleep on chairs sometimes at weddings when we're kids. Like, you mean, like, literally all kids would do. But, no, it's, like, it's not catchy.

There's no hooks. There's no chorus. Like, I'm not going to sit here and say that, like, I listen to Shakira, but, like, people could probably name a couple Shakira songs. They could probably hung a chorus. Mikey, of course, you know, is actually a big, people don't know this

about Mikey McCoy. He has a giant Shakira tattoo all the way across his back that he received in Tijuana. You know, we can't show it on air because, again, family show. But, you know, it's something that he's really proud of. He likes to make her dance. Oh, Shakira did the Waka Waka

song for the South Africa World Cup. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that song. It is a song I've listened to. I think it's kind of funny that they got Shakira to make their, like, crypto-African song. But everybody at least knows who Shakira is, you know? I didn't know that she was the Waka-Waka singer until now. Here's the thing. I brought this up on Pierce Morgan this week because we got into it and he was all that.

He was doing this whole like, well, you guys just did that because he's Hispanic and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, actually, no, people got mad at him because he was disrespecting the American people. because he politicized things, and I can prove this. And he was like, okay, prove it. And I said, all right, is this? I was like, okay, is this the first time that Bad Bunny has performed at a Super Bowl?

And everyone on the panel was like, eh, I said, no, it's not the first time. It's the second time he's performed at the Super Bowl. Everybody forgets that when Shakira performed back in 2020, the guy who got up on stage to rap with her during the one Spanish song was actually Bad Bunny. And you know what? There was no, like,

backlash. There was no controversy about it because he just stuck to music and nobody really cared. But obviously, that was before this big push to politicize him and politicize everything. And before he was being disrespectful to Americans. And so he didn't get the headlines. He's an attention seeker. That's what all of this was about. So no, it wasn't about his music or his language, you know, I mean, a little bit about the language, but that's different. It was because of the disrespect. But again, like, Ricky Martin sang in Spanish and nobody cared because Ricky Martin's actually a good singer. So, yeah. I don't know any Ricky Martin songs. By the way, Zuzu's pedals donated $2 and says they should have chosen Tito Puente for decent Latino music.

I don't know who that is. I have no idea what that is. Maybe it's T2 Fuente is amazing. What are you talking about? He did the song when, uh, when Mr. Burns died. I don't know who Titi Puente is. I don't know any of these. Jack, I had a similar scenario happen where people were like, why are you guys doing this. I was like, look, I could make an argument that he's, he's anti-American, you know, he wants a bunch of foreigners in our country, yada, yada, yada, you know, dresses up like a transvestite in his music videos, anti-president Trump, all these things. But ultimately, and I said this, there was like 20 people there. I said, ultimately, let me ask you guys a question, open-ended to everybody in this room, can you name me one bad bunny song, just one, that's your favorite?

And if you can, can you also name just one portion of the lyrics that you can sing. And not a single person in the room who is arguing against me could do that. I said, so maybe. Wait, I can sing it. I can do. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, okay. Okay. Okay.

Okay. But look, that's the whole song. Maybe we just did it because. That's how people hear the song. Yeah. Maybe people don't know who he is. And they're pretending they do. Oh,

Hey. Did that know a bunch of people. I'm like, it's just funny because I feel like, you know, people are like, oh, like, obviously I was like, you know, introing the halftime show for TPSA and then like had the tweets about it last year. But I was like, I was like, I feel like I actually know more about Bad Bunny than like the average person in this too. Because I would be pointing out that the reason I knew about him before.

It wasn't the Shakira thing. I had no idea. I had looked that up. But then I had, I, um, I knew that he was, they inserted him as the caddy, like the sidekick character with this huge subplot in Happy Gilmore 2. And so when they did that, I was like, who's this random, like, Spanish character that they're adding? Like, why is he there instead of, you know, like the actual cast of Happy Gilmore 1? And they're giving him all the screen time and like, why is Netflix doing this?

And then I found out it was Bad Bunny. It's like, oh, so that's, you know, another corporate edition where this trying to just like jam. him, you know, into the whole thing. It was so ridiculous. Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here. I'd like to tell you about my friends over at Y Reefi. You've probably been hearing me talk about Y Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments. Maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Y Refi will provide you a custom payment based on

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It is not loaded. We're all dying to see this. I really want to see this. Because I actually saw it, but I didn't listen to it. I just kind of assumed. I'm kidding you. I'm not even joking that Tanya Tay has played this over and over.

She thinks it's the funniest thing that she's ever heard. Because she was playing it and I was like, oh yeah, that's really funny. She was like, no, but you have to listen to it. I'm like, no, I actually heard it this morning. No, but you have to listen to it now. And then and then I walked away and I was like doing something in the other room and I just hear I just hear coming for her. It's like she's just playing over and over.

It's loaded. Cracking up. All right. We've got it. We've got it. All right. Play 520. The English version?

Hey. So my NTSB. Why I got so many girlfriends? A lot of girlfriends today I got one and tomorrow got another one. But I never marry. You my NTS me. Why I got so many girlfriends? A lot of girlfriends

Today I got one And tomorrow got another one Man, I think I want to take them all To the VIP Hey Well, they give me my auntie I'm gonna take a selfie Say cheese

They smile if they already been with me In the VIP This is just so low quality mute Like any TikToker Who makes music Could make something just like that Like How is this any different

From like a SoundCloud mumble rapper That's exactly what it is I literally is I like that one of the One of the tweets I saw during the Super Bowl was If I was running for president of a Latin country My platform would be to bring Latin music a second drumbeat Dang Dang

And you know I thought that was just a funny joke And then I looked it up Latin drumbeat And there's literally a Wikipedia article for the drumbeat That they use in like all Latin American music It's called the trezillo And it's this sound thing like kind of a kick kick snare kind of nice that's all bad bunny it's I mean it's kind of true I got to say it's just it's just legit I'm just gonna you want real thought

oh wow look at this incredible comment when Jack introduced the all-American halftime show he looks so good peak American and masculinity thank you mk brand 28 wow I completely agree wow that's crazy I didn't know Jack had a second account on rumble No, I'm not even signed in I was literally just signing into the chat And then they're also saying Wakanda is iconic And also that Shakira got in trouble for tax evasion

No, pardon Shapira Shapira, pardon Shakira Pardon Shakira pardon her Pardon Shakira This is we need to Yes This is good We need to JD needs to run on this

This is his one campaign What he's running on And I'm a one one issue voter pardoned Shakira really she's not american she's columbian you can still get pardoned if she was evading u.s taxes she can still get in prison for invading us taxes we are not pardoning medora you know what i'm gonna you know that's going to be the big issue with it because they talk about like marco rubia or you know someone challenging jd like what if it just turns into the Shakira battle and like one says death penalty for Shakira and the other says pardoned

Shakira. And as the supporter of Western Civilization's music, I think I would have to go with the death penalty for Shakira. Oh, wait. Duzu's Pedals is saying the tax evasion was in Spain. So Oh, Spain has no legal right to anybody's money. Yeah. No, yeah, no. Never mind. Okay.

We should pardon her then. Pardon her. President Trump should pardon her for Spanish. Amazing. Shakira lips. So is she not allowed to step foot in Spain or she's arrested? I'm not sure. well they just they just legalized all the five what 500,000 illegal aliens in Spain so you know I guess you can just commit whatever time you want guys they got us they got us another excellent clip of the halftime show this is every time bad bunny says eh in the

halftime show let's play it 521 For those watching on podcasts later, that was 51 oise over the course of that 20 minutes. That's actually impressive because I think he was only on stage for like 14 minutes or something. Yeah, that's a lot of that. So 51 divided by 14. That's almost that's almost four oise a minute. Because they had to bring the whole set into the stadium during the half. So for every Super Bowl halftime, you have to set up because you can't play during the game.

Right. you can't set up during the game because the game is being played. So that setup and breakdown time goes into how long your performance is, where obviously we didn't have that issue because we were not in the middle of a football game. And so I think ours was probably twice as long as theirs, give or take, or maybe a little bit. I think they were like 14 minutes and we were like 22 minutes. So not quite twice as long, but getting there.

And, you know, next year, I mean, gosh, the sky is the limit for next year. I've had people pitching like, you know, you guys could do an hour, you guys could do an entire day, and like the finale is the halftime show. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's kind of crazy. Yeah. But, you know, the, because you have to understand, we had like, we had three months, but it wasn't even really three months because we had Amfest in the middle. And then we had Christmas and New Year's. And so it was really more like two months, you know, of time other than just reaching out the venues, casting that wide net. And look, we talked about this a little bit when I was on with Andrew, you know, before on thought crime.

But we had a lot of pressure against us from, you know, elements of the industry, elements of, you know, different, different, I think, probably money and sponsors that were, you know, probably thinking, hey, if we support someone or work with someone who's going to be going up against the NFL, then that's like, putting a black mark on us. So that's why for me, I just, I'm so grateful to all the musicians that came out and took the chance and, you know, Kid Rock as well for, you know, bringing his incredible star power, Brandy Gilbert, Lee Bryce, Gabby Barrett, who's, you know, I think really become the breakout star of all this fellow Pennsylvania, like myself, by the way. And, oh, by the way, one of the controversies that, and Blake, I'm sure you've seen this as well as the number of, like, there's like the ratings controversy.

the lip sync controversy. Have you guys seen that? They're accusing him of lip syncing. Yeah, I saw that. Not true. Not true, guys. I'm telling you, I was right there. He's, and I have footage from the set. And I guess we have like master footage, too, that we could probably, you know, see if they really wanted us to like go to that level, which is crazy. He's not lip syncing. It was, it was a sync issue on the stream. It was literally we had so many people watching that it just, it was like, you know, just a glitch on the stream where everything was out of sync, the video and audio. And also it's like, at least he can still, and as a result, it means he can still perform unlike, have you ever heard Bad Bunny when his auto tune adjuster went out? And he just, is that true? I saw that one going around, but I didn't know if that was true. That was a real incident. That was a real. Grock said it was real and I've gotten lazy to the point.

Have I fallen victim to another fake? I mean, maybe it's fake, but I choose to believe it anyway. That should be a thought crime topic. You want my thought crime. All this has taught me. I'm ready for, I'm ready for my thought crime. like there are not even not even just like Sweden itself but like there are probably I would say specific provinces of Sweden that have produced more good music than all of Latin America and specific probably specific parts probably specific cities let's say specific cities in the UK like Liverpool has produced more great music for humanity than every single city from Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego. Can you name all?

People are saying we need the All-American pre-game show for 2027 as well as the All-American Half-Time show. We might even have to have like an All-American Festival or something. I don't know. The All-American Music Festival. I like this. This is a good, you guys have some good ideas. That was, no, I was actually on with Tim Poole last night on his show and he was saying,

guys, you could do it like with numbers like that, you could put on an entire day-long festival. And here is his idea, which was really good, because one of the issues that we would have then, if we were doing the live festival that way, is we would also have that same issue of setup and breakdown between bands. But his idea was two stages, right? You do two stages, one, you know, like stage A, stage B. And then, you know, stage A has a band. They play, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Then they go to break down and a band kicks off on stage B. So throughout the day, you could have it switching back and forth.

and then there's no, it's, you know, it's just seamless. I like this. I like this idea. So let's get, if you guys are in the chat, especially super chat, you know, who would you like to see? One thing, though, you know, ask us who you like to see it for next year, but at the same time and email 1776 at human events.com or freedom of charliecirk.com about who you'd like to see. But I will say, though, that this was definitely a crash course, I think, for, and a learning curve for a lot of us, that it's not even up to the artist sometimes.

regarding songs, regarding the rights, regarding things they can do, people they can play with. There's so many contracts. There's so many labels. There's so many just different, like, layers of complexity to whether or not you can perform one of these things. Like, we lost the X live stream just a couple of hours before we went live. And, you know, I think, though, in a sense, that that was actually kind of maybe a godsend, like that was actually maybe part of God's planned because when we tweeted out that we lost X, that drove more people to YouTube and Rumble. And perhaps we wouldn't have hit the record if that hadn't happened.

You never know, right? Do we have Tyler? Do we have Tyler? Tyler has shown up. We were discussing. I gave my hot time. We're still talking the halftime show. And we were talking.

Here's the highlight so far. Bad Bunny about he averages about four a minute during his Super Bowl. show. I'm not trying to be like Charlie Kirk here because Charlie would totally do this. He'd be like, what is this? Like, yeah, what is it? You know, what is it? You would a lean, like, wait. I legitimately went back and was watching it and I was like, this is a very bad performance. I don't know. It's no question why people in the stands weren't moving at all. And I know we have to be careful, you know, exactly how we talk about this. But like, any, any, it, it reminds me a few years ago, I was,

watching it because like old school half time shows were like it was like janet jackson someone big like middle of the stage like everybody's into it everything gets dark i just was watching this whole thing it was like it was like bright lights yeah because it was the sun had had gone down and it was just weird and awkward and like nobody was feeling it nope and they just have to be honest about it you know it's like no one was feeling it nobody is feeling and that's what i was nervous about was our all-American halftime show when we flipped over, I was worried that it would look like less, um, what, like less production quality than like a like a multi like tens of millions of dollars that they spend on, on, yeah, normal half time stuff. Yeah. And it's like, no, ours actually

looked way better. Yes. Ours look more like a real halftime show. Big time. Like so I, that's what everybody was saying was like, everybody like felt it felt normal. Yes. It wasn't just that it felt American. It felt normal. Normal. like what it's supposed to be yeah we actually have some B-roll of this can we play clip 280 guys

and I think this will back up what Tyler's saying so this is Amanda Amanda Vance and she's watching our halftime show while at the actual halftime show

at the actual super and she's moving more than everybody else around and look at all the people around her look at it and there's so many videos like this where it's going viral that people were just standing around totally disconnected and like you can't even really see the show either like Tyler so this speaks to what you're saying that the people in the stands couldn't even tell what was going on down there

because it just looks like this weird thicket of grasses it looked like it's like when the velociraptors come out during Jurassic Park and you just see like the grass moving like I don't know like that's that's it I have a piece of me that's like I kind of appreciate a little bit hood rat music every once while like I've like I've you know again I've been around for I have friends that like that's like their music preference of choice it's not my I was like I have some black friends but like I'm I've had a few I've had a few you know uh friends and so like like I can appreciate when music's good right like and it's a little bit too this legitimately was not good no like it's like I can't I it made me feel so much better I was like oh this was

really justified what we did here. Tyler, Tyler saying, I enjoy a little hood rap music every once in a while. It reminds me of the post, Jackie put up the other day with you and James O'Keefe. You're like, God forbid, a couple white boys get a little groove. God forbid. God forbid a couple of white boys get a little motion. We don't, we don't, we can play that if we want, because we went to Hispanic prosperity gala. Yeah, and guess what? A great time. And there was a singer, Nacho from Venezuela. He was, he was. phenomenal and he was playing live and he's got like you know millions and millions of fans around the world and it's like this is music that has a beat it's catchy it's got a hook to it it's got a chorus he's like an actually talented singer he's not a mumble rapper I mean I just understand where where people get around they're saying mumbling is something that you want when it comes to

music where where's what this was and and yeah Tyler like I guess the issue now is that they make these halftime shows they did this last year as well where they make it for the TV audience only and they don't care about the audience that's actually there so the people in the stands are like yeah it's it's dumb because it's not the spectacle that you would expect it's more like a TV show or like a music video kind of shoot it's just not the big Super Bowl halftime spectacle that I think people are used to you know like a stage dancers Fireworks, et cetera. Every day, Americans make choices that shape our country's future,

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I could be misremembering, but this is how I felt. I felt like the like the halftime show that was during the big game was always geared towards my parents. Yeah. When I was growing up. You're right. It was always geared towards my parents. And now I'm a parent and it's not geared towards me.

it's geared towards international international like uh globalism yeah and non-american like non-american truly and again i again i again puerto rican's america okay perro rico he doesn't seem to think so yeah here's a thought crime he wasn't if porto rico was america why did they have their flag next to the american flag at that show here here's the point puerto rico's not state so it's not america so that's this number one number two is that Puerto Rico. The words in his songs are talking about women from lots of different countries. He was, he's using, he's appropriating his sub-American culture as Puerto Rican to try to hook up with all these other South American and Central American women.

Wow. It's in the words. It's right there in the words. He's a colonization hooker-upper. That's right. He's colonizing. Wait, wait, guys. Tyler wasn't here to hear the translation.

I think we might have to go and play the translation for Tyler again just so that he knows what he's actually commenting on. I think we have to hit it again. It's high quality music. All right, play it again. The English version? So my NTSB, why I got so many girlfriends? A lot of girlfriends today I got one and tomorrow.

I actually watch this video over and over. Right. Oh. My NTS me, why I got so many girlfriends? I can get on board if this guy wouldn't. perform in English. I know. I actually think people would have been moving.

People in the stance. You know what it would have been funny? It would have been funny to put this guy. Our alternate halftime show should have been this guy. Just playing all his music in English. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. We have an all-American halftime show, and then we have an American-nized version of their halftime show,

and then their half-time show. And, like, next year, next year, if they get, like, some, really awful, like one of those rappers who just raps about all the felonies he does we do a version

that's like same beat but he's rapping about like all the community service like yeah I roll into the club I help out

the homeless guys there yeah I go on the freeway and clean up trash yeah I drive a Toyota Avalon it's a responsible middle class car I get my oil change

every 3,000 miles To do you kitchens. Coffee and donuts at the library. No drag queens. So good. Yeah, I got five kids. All with my wife. All with one.

But that's the old Chris Rock bit where he's like, he's like, I ain't never been to prison, to prison, to prison. He's like, you're not supposed to go to prison. He's like, I take care of my kids. You're not, you're supposed to take care of your kids. It's like, why do you want credit for stuff you're supposed to do? It's back when Chris Rock was actually good. We got another dono from Zuzu's Petals 5 this time. Thank you very much, Zuzu.

Remember when Whitney Houston sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl back when it was patriotic? No, I don't because I believe I was zero years old when that happened. But it is a great video. It's a great national anthem. And yes, that is, that's actually like iconic. It's iconic. It's about when I feel the Super Bowl probably. RIP.

Okay. But, guys, Charlie Puth did okay. Okay. He did good. He did a great job. Again, nobody, this is the sad part. Nobody's talking about that. Nobody's talking about that. He did. He did. He crushed the national anthem. He did. He did. Yeah. Yeah, he did. Like, that's where America should be centering on, right? He's like, okay, maybe a guy probably not a conservative, not, you know, whatever, right? But crushes the national anthem. Wait, you weren't. You weren't alive in 1991? Hell of me. Oh, I was alive. I was zero years old. Oh, you were zero. Yeah. I was. Yeah. I was. I was. Yeah. I was. I was. Yeah. I. I was. I. I was. I was. Yeah. I. I. I was negative. Negative years. Yeah, I was definitely laugh. Jack and I were born when like 9-11 happened? No.

Oh my gosh. I will never see anyone. I was born a few weeks after. I will never see anyone born after 9-11 as an adult. Like even when I'm 70 and there are like 60-year-old post-9-11, they will still be children to me. Yeah, my friend growing up, just summarily rejected. My friend growing up was born on 9-11. Oh, wow.

Oh, my God. So you're saying there's a connection. Yeah. You're really suspicious. There's thousands of days he could have been born on, and he was born on that day, huh? Really. Weird.

Yeah, that's weird. I don't like it. I've never heard a story of somebody that was supposed to go to work that day, though. They're that. Really? Give me birth. I've never heard that story.

Yeah. I've heard a lot of stories. People are they going to work, but giving birth that day. That's weird. All right. They didn't happen to give birth in like ward seven of that hospital, did they? Oh, gosh.

No, the weirdest, 9-11 story I know, not weirdest, but just like I think most, in a sense, unique is I knew a guy who was in a motorcycle accident like the day before on 9-10, 2011, or excuse me, 2001. And I'm thinking 11. And so he was in like a medical coma on 9-11. and then he wakes up on 9-12 and is like, hey, so did I miss anything? And everyone's like, uh, then they had to go to him and tell him. And like, he didn't believe anyone, obviously. And then they show him the footage and he was like, there's no way.

But it was so weird because, like, he didn't have that emotional response to it because everyone else had gone through the trauma of that day and, you know, not knowing whether or not, you know, something. else like people everybody thought there was going to be more attacks right everybody thought there was going more going on whereas he's just walking around seeing the flags everywhere like sort of confused about how that happened it's kind of wild very very like 28 days later like the whole world changes and you wake up all right what's our uh what's our next topic all righty well we have a few options we can talk wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait

do you want to get tyler's take on next year no no no i think tyler's getting exhausted and we have to make sure we hit do you want to talk more about i already said what we went next year next year we go twice as three times four times harder you know way way more uh way more awareness i think you get a much bigger audience i think it continues to grow like there's nothing here that says you should slow down no everything everything here says pedal to the metal make it bigger make it better the logo's great the branding was great everything was great everything everything's great like you have to do this bigger and better and you have to scare everybody and then because if you do it in enough advance now now I mean again like advertisers and things like that are really going to be you know

twisting the screws here so yeah yeah I'll just say Tyler I don't know if you call it I know we we chat it a little bit but if you go back and watch when I did tim cash last night I mean he was just couldn't be more praiseworthy and he was like just all in just all in and I've heard from a lot of people, you know, who are, you know, other hosts of shows and different things where people are, people are just honestly shocked. Just absolutely shocked that it was record-breaking, viewing where... Can I speak? And the production quality.

Can I pump up Turning Point USA too? Again, I'm on the Turning Point Action side. Please do. Turning Point USA. This was a Turning Point USA event. I got a lot of credit for doing nothing other than just helping organize years where, of turning point but i did nothing with this this was our entire team at turning point usa uh the the entire team at turning point usa lauren tonsitch's team the events marina

we just had the baby days before uh he had a baby in the middle of this which i guess we're talking about publicly now did she did you is it true that she named her baby all american halftime show minas kid rock no kid rock it was kid rock yeah yeah you're a little confused. She named it Mr. Kid Rock. There was one word or two? I thought it was Benito. Kid Rock. Two first names and she was like, yeah, you get a problem with that. I thought it was baby Benito. Oh wait. I got it right. No, I remember now. The full name was Kid Rock All-American Halftime Show, you know. I thought it was Benito. Antonio. Whatever, bad bunnies full name. Maybe we're just not remember. No, but all of the good people. But here's the point I was

getting around to making. Turning Point USA could have probably raised and charged millions and millions of dollars to do a bunch of ads, sponsorships, all that stuff, and intentionally did not do that. This was a, did not make any kind of revenue, did not turn this into a revenue thing when it was very clear that this could easily be a revenue thing. Because that wasn't what the purpose was. The purpose of this was to live up to the expectations, things that Charlie, Jack, you had verbalized this very well, things that Charlie had said.

that really bothered him that he would want to see done and make it really cleanly just about that just about giving americans alternative in the first place that's what i was thinking of like i just had so i applaud it's like i could hear charlie in my head just going off just the way he had all the years prior and you know we had joked about maybe doing something like this and i just i just kind of typed it up and tweet went the way it went and then we talked about it on the show and That went pretty on this show right here on Thall Crime and that went super viral too. But here's the point is that people looked at this and went like, you guys are crazy not to monetize this or do things or raise money for turning. That would go back to the 501C3 to help operations do all that.

But this was so much bigger than that. And culturally. And so for anybody that's like looks at this and goes, oh, you know, turning points trying to just raise money all the time. It's like, no, guys, like the biggest thing is that we. We do. Lower third with the QR code and all that. There was not. This was cleanly just give Americans an alternative and prove a point.

And they did that. The entire team did that. I thought that was really classy. I thought that was really important that nobody felt like they were being, uh, nobody looked at this as like, oh, well, this is just another play. And I saw a few people that, no hard sales. A lot of haters that were like these people that are like, oh, well, yeah, I didn't, follow that buddy but i don't watch that either because although although tyler you did have an idea

and perhaps we should still do it um of doing like maybe like a t-shirt or something like like like like make it like a concert shirt that people could get a t-b USA shirt where it's got like the you know the bands the axe on the front and then on the back it's got like that you know like a like a classic t-shirt like a list of of everyone who performed and you could have like i you know the all-american halftime show and then put the year and then every year we could do a new shirt. Yeah. I still think we need a shirt that says, I switched the channel on whatever last Sunday was. Put that on the back.

I switched the channel or whatever. No, boomers would love that. Boomers would definitely love that. Boomers would love a shirt. They would wear a T-shirt to Home Depot that was like, I switch the channel. And then like walking around, you know, like when you got like, Tyler, don't you mean like a true man. A true man doesn't get a car.

So you have like light bulbs in one arm. You're going to drop them. And like you're getting like packs of screws and another hand. And you got like a two random two by four. And you're like trying to keep your pants up. And you're walking around home depot. I don't think our guys have trouble with their pants fitting. No, I know.

No. No. You watch Home Depot. There's no man gets ready and goes to Home Depot and remembers to put on a belt. Watch. Just watch. I do this. I know because I'm a dad.

This is what happens. And you're like walking around. You got your arms full. And then guys are just. high-fiving each other because he's like, I love your shirt. Every time. Go wear a turning point shirt. I switch the channel too. Go go wear a turning point shirt to Home Depot on any given Saturday. You will get high fives.

Yeah. All over that store. We got another message from Zuzu. She says that many songs sang in the All-American halftime show went top 10 on iTunes. That could be part of it. You just like you make it a symbolic thing. Every song that's performed, just make it one through 10 on I like that iTunes or on Spotify or whatever. app they'll be listening to music on by that time.

Yeah, I love hearing them too because, by the way, and this is something that, okay, I do have, like, so there was, there's this argument that keeps getting made about, like, the ratings and all the rest, and everyone's always like, oh, well, you guys didn't beat the Super Bowl. Like, we never said we were going to beat the Super Bowl. We said we were going to do something that would, that would rival, that would take a chunk away, et cetera, which we did, obviously. But then when you look at all of those sort of ephemeral cases of, okay, well, what are other data points we can look at to see what the impact was?

And again, it's kid rock on the top of the U.S. charts. Gabby Barrett was right there, like number four, number five, a couple of songs up because she was such a breakout star in terms of this. By the way, 25 years old, married at 19, three kids already. I mean, like, that's the Charlie Kirk. You know, that is the Charlie Kirk motto, get married, have kids, be successful. She's doing it. What an incredible star.

great person to work with like super down to earth like like literally one of the nicest people I've ever met not like the diva that you know people seem to think that like all musician in a musical acts are going to be and but then the way the Nielsen ratings get computed that's like I feel like Tyler I kind of feel like they're they're you know they're doing this apples to oranges thing because our streaming numbers are based off of devices So the number of TVs, the number of screens, the number of accounts, whatever. But Nielsen, they don't do households. They do the household number and then they multiply it by three.

Did you guys know this? No, I didn't know. Yeah, I've seen everything from 2.4 to 3.4. Yeah. Right. So, like, rightfully said, like, I think that's true, though, because, you know, most people don't watch the Super Bowl alone. You're probably going to be in a room with, like, a number of people. So you average that out and you say like, okay, we'll take some multiple and call it, okay, it's three.

So if you had 50 million households, they'll say it was 150 million, right, just to use that. But they don't do that to our numbers, right? For our numbers, it's only goes by device. So they'll say, oh, were you at 25 million? Like, well, if we used your metric, then wouldn't it be 75 million? Right? Or if we had 30 million, would it be 90 million? Because we don't do that with our numbers.

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slash kirk here's the reality the numbers are much bigger than what people were trying to report it as right because when you actually start calculating the number of views with that metric because i have friends that are in the marketing world that have put on these these types of events that have done ads on the big game days yeah and uh he told me specifically because he's done he's funded these entire big ads that the conservative estimates of 2.4 multiplier in views, realistically, it's probably closer to like a three to four person. So, I mean, we're talking, I mean, we're talking, if that's the case, we're talking that there's a real possibility that this production took, like,

literally half the viewership. We, I mean, it totally broke containment. It really did. And that's how you know God was involved. That's how you know it's God because it's not us. This was being brought up the biggest events outside of the big game. Like the biggest events like they're on TV. Like yeah, Dancing with the Stars and American Idol and all those things.

Those things get like five, six, seven million views. Like we're talking like this was probably like five to eight times bigger than that as a brand as an outside. organization with no capitalization from the major media networks like that's insane guys like it just doesn't happen so anyways we could talk about it we made in-house by the way like like quickly quickly yeah we have with the same with the same team that we used to do the events it wasn't like some we had some like extra director coming in or like anything like that like same team i I saw people, somebody called me, I won't say who it was, but they're an important person. And they're like, after watching what the turning point team was able to do with Charlie's Memorial, which was like, you have to believe that that was God's hand, just making that, you know, successful because it was so huge and so many people and it was so hard to do so quickly.

And everybody was so emotional during that time. But like watching everybody pulled together and do this thing then, too, people are like, wow, this is like. actually like a very scary unit here that we're up against. Yeah. And what scares when people even more is when they start realizing, the funny part is, I can understand now why there's conspiracy theories that think that we have all the support from like places that we don't.

Because it almost is, it doesn't make sense how capable this team is. Does that make sense? Like so I actually have a soft part. People were saying that it was boughted. And I'm like, okay, if that's botted, traffic, then you guys do it, right? You guys, you guys just go buy a bunch of bots and run a live stream and see if you get, you know, number one US live stream of all time. Go right ahead.

The most powerful company in this world is getting botted. Yeah, I can promise you something. I can promise you the most powerful company in this world is not thrilled about Turning Point USA having the number one streamed event ever in American history. I just, I'm going to promise to you. They did not see that coming. No. And that's the whole funny part of this whole thing. This is a sneak attack. This whole thing. If they would have had more time, they would have figured out how to stop us.

I'm telling you. This is a company just five years ago that was kicking all of us off the internet. They didn't see it coming. They didn't see it coming at all. This company was kicking us all off the internet and demonetizing every single one of us. Yep. And like by name, sending lobbyists into Washington, D.C. to work with their tech friends to debank us.

I mean, I'm telling you, this is literally. truly these are not anyone's friends here at turning point usa no and and kudos and by the way shout out of course to the rumble team as well for just just being there being so supportive uh chris provovsky he and i were chatting like right before it went live and talking about how he was going to see it and then i did a little bit of the rave uh pre show and i was just looking at the rumble numbers and that was sort of the first indication that i had i was like wait a minute But like this isn't just big. This is way beyond anything that even we were projecting.

Well, to your point here. At least officially, I will say, though, that and Andrew's not here, but he and I had like a phone call that morning. And we were like, could you imagine if we get to like, we were like, could you imagine if we get to 10 million? Wow, that'd be crazy. To your point with Chris. And again, kudos to rumble.

wasn't for rumble we may not be here today for those numbers to exist yeah you see i'm saying like like rumble was the rumble was a huge portion of what made a lot of this possible and it's not just that that that one provider there's all these other providers that were out there all of the major mainstream networks uh rumble help reset everything yeah because they they had they had competition rumble is is massive now and if they don't compete, then Rumble gets all of that business. Yep. Right today? So again, kudos.

That was even before Elon got X. That was even before Elon came in for X. Chris was there first. Yeah, it was all Chris. It was Rumble. It was the entire team at Rumble. So we're very, very grateful because Rumble is that the unsung hero in most of Americans being able to consume even middle of the road content now. because rumble of this.

So, yep. It's just, it's just such a perfect storm. That's the phrase that I keep just rattling through my head. It was just, it's just the perfect storm between all the years of pent-up demand just for, which by the way, country music in and of itself, it is the most listened to genre of music in the country. It is the most purchased genre of music. It gets the most attendance.

If you go state by state, it is the number one genre in America. And yet for 30 years, there has not been a headliner of country music at the Super Bowl. For 23 years, there's not been a single country artist in Shania Twain. Rock music as well has been completely shunted off for 16 years. I've looked up a bunch of this stuff. And it's like, you guys are just cutting off this massive demographic market, which is, you know, very, very, obviously the same demographics of people who watch the NFL. and in many cases are the people who vote for Donald Trump.

Well, what's so offensive about all that, like, they, like, exploited Hank Williams Jr. for years with his theme, the Monday night football theme song. So every football theme song that's existed for, like, Sunday night football and Monday night football has always been country.

Like, this is what's so offensive about this, this entire thing. And again, I'm not even a country guy. I, I don't think, I don't think,

but I'm not even a country guy, but I will come to the, defensive country, they've exploited for marketing purposes, right? Country music and country music listeners for football. And then when it comes to halftime to promote some kind of value system, they will never go to country. And you have to ask you that. I mean, that's clearly an agenda, right?

It's like they're using when they have the eyeballs to try to push a narrative or a specific type of culture to American citizens. but then when they need to actually sell something, what do they go to? Hank Williams Jr. And Shania Twain and drag some boomer artifact out from the 60s. Yeah. You know, like let's get another Who's song

that we used to market CSI episodes. It was, and then Hank, after Hank Williams, then they, I mean, it's everybody, everyone, when everyone thinks of Monday Night Football, you think of Hank Williams, Williams, Jr. is. Well, did you hear? So don't forget, they canceled Hank Williams Jr. And so I was on Glenn Beck this week.

And he told me the backstory that Hank Williams, Jr. was listening to Glenn Beck. That's how he found out. He got canceled. They didn't even call him. Like the NFL didn't even reach out to him directly. And he was listening to Glenn. And he had these, and this is the story that Glenn told me,

that he had these 10 Monday night football guitars, like acoustic guitars in his house. And he got. so mad and so upset at the way that they treated him that he smashed them he was just grabbing them and smashing them and smashing them and he finally came to the very last one and he stopped himself and he said i'm not going to smash this i'm going to give it to glenbeck and that way at least one of them and he has it in like that museum that glen has and and i said wait a minute so he he he doesn't have any of the good he doesn't have a single one in his house anymore not a single one in his possession he's like i'm i'm cutting them out like a cancer

this is wild wow but that's that's the anger that led to the pent up demand that's the anger of middle america that's the anger of the average american who just wants to be able to turn on something that isn't disrespecting them for being an american for liking his country for caring about Jesus Christ, for saluting the red, white, and blue that there's so many people have been crapped on for years just because, oh, you know, you're some redneck American. And it's like, no, actually, that's like a huge, massive chunk of this country. And you know what? That anger, I think, turned, and God used all of that to turn it into something positive,

which led to, and we haven't really talked about that much yet, but. the like kid rock sharing the gospel and his own salvation story which is just just crazy when you think of like the kid rock when we first met him to who he is today all right well we have a lot of ideas for next year and i'm sure we'll we'll keep getting a lot i think no topic in the last four months or so has inspired more emails than just the idea of this yeah of the halftime show like and over time too we got a huge wave when the idea first came out when the idea first came out when it was announced but then just every single day people would come in with new ideas they had a lot of acts they liked and then you know when we had that silent period every day it was like a drumbeat like what's the information where do we watch it and then another wave and then a ton of people emailed during the show immediately after it it is a topic that arouses a lot of passion people love to go on apps and watch people play music what can we say especially if it likes america and if the alternative is a guy going oh I, I, I, I got girlfriends.

Is that bad bunny? What was that? It kind of sounded like Jack doing a bad bunny impression, to be honest. No, that was the English guy. Oh, really? Okay, yeah. That was Ruben Gallego. That was my auntie.

She asked me why I was some of the girlfriends. Dude, Ruben. That was Ruben. That was Ruben Gallego did an excellent job at the halftime show. Ruben Gallego was over there like, he was he was tweeting all about it the entire time it's like oh man i can't wait to use that my culture nobody has ever like speaks to my culture it's like rubin you're mexican the way my culture does rubin you're mexican you know like every day somebody tell ruben he's not

puerican okay um what's next no we have to have a hard out now we've got a bail oh we can't go re-elute no no got a bail tragedy has set upon us. You guys got really wired in that. I told you we had to get to the others. But we'll have to push this next week, maybe. We'll see. It is, I mean, I think it legitimately was just, look, that halftime show, the genesis of that was in many ways thought crime because this is where we would talk about halftime shows with Charlie.

This is where we would hash things out. This is where, you know, we really kind of came up with the genesis that led to the show. and you look at it, number one U.S. stream on YouTube of all time. However, number two worldwide, wait, just real quick before we go, did you guys, did anyone see what was the actual number one worldwide? It was some like Indian space landing, wasn't it? Yeah, so it was when India landed a lunar probe on the moon. And so, so hold on, guys, I've got this figured out.

I've got this figured out. So if next year, if we want to beat it, I already know what the venue is. Call up Elon Musk. We're going to do it on the moon. And then we're going to invite Modi there. So, you know, whatever portion of the $1.8 billion in the subcontinent are going to watch. Tune in.

This is how we do it. Wow. That would be amazing. I want to get Elon's dream is to be doing stuff on Mars. So we got to do Mars stuff. Half-time show on the way to Mars. Tyler, the mood is on the way. Is it?

Wait, can we play that indie music again? We can do it as we close out. We can do it as we close out. No, no, we got to close out on VIP. We got to close out on VIP. Good to see one. Modi on Mars. Oh, my gosh.

That could be a great... I could keep going. But unfortunately, unfortunately, that is all the time we have for the criminality, the cognitive criminality. on this Thursday. So to everyone out there, thank you, thank you to God, thank you to Jesus, thank you to the Holy Spirit. We continue to be humbled by God's grace and I hope Charlie was up there looking down saying, guys did good. Ladies and gentlemen, as always, go out there and commit more thought crime. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to

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