The Daily Show: Ears Edition - The Precap | Josh Johnson on the Government Doing Comedy, and Doing Comedy for a Government

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

This week's host Josh Johnson sits down with Daily Show writer Ashton Womack to preview the week to come, and recap the headlines they missed. They break down Trump's fake videos, the real pain of a government shutdown, the ethics of performing comedy for foreign governments, the anticipation of a Bad Bunny half-time show, and Cardi B's latest beef with Nicki Minaj. If you want to think critically about the news you consume, check out Ground News through our link: http://groundnews.com/ears You’ll get 40% off their Unlimited Access Vantage Plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's your boy Ashton Womack And right now you are tuning into the pre-cap The show where we talk about what we missed this week and what's coming up next week. I'm here with Daily Show Legend, stand-up comedy legend, my boy. Josh Johnson, everybody. Give him a round of applause.

Oh, legend's a strong word. Listen, man, I'm going to gas up my friends, dog. Don't even, don't, don't, don't, if I'm a, if I'm a, if I'm a talk about my friends, if I get to bring up my friends and host, I'm a, nigga, I would say you save kittens and shit like that, all right? So, uh, Josh Johnson, the legendary man. How you been, man? How you living?

feeling good i'm i'm doing all right yeah yeah doing doing good good day so far yeah i'm jealous you get to work from home some of us uh some of us don't get that luxury uh you're seeing you know your boy had to come in on his work i do i do see you in and i specifically remember i think you're supposed to be working from home that is i'm glad you thank you thank you for remembering that this is what i do for the show guys i just want the daily show listeners to show how to know how much I give to this show. So I just showing up. You know, the basic job requirement coming to work. But

that's not we ain't here to talk about me. We're going to talk about some of the things we may have missed this week. One thing we couldn't have missed was the government shutdown. Josh, how are you feeling about this shutdown? Is this? I don't have a government job so i'm not feeling it the way that people who do are feeling it but i am genuinely uh worried about a lot of the people it's it's it's somewhere in the ballpark of 750 000 jobs um and that's only because it used to be closer to a million i'm my numbers might be wrong here but i think that since uh the trump administration started they've cut anywhere

from like 250,000 or a little bit more in jobs that was through Doge and now the 750 left are affected by the shutdown that's an insane number 750,000 you said that's an insane number I'm hearing that number and I'm trying to think like are there any more black people left the fire in the government how will this affect us because I feel like they got rid of us already in the government. I'm pretty sure TSA is government and that is

we are in there. That is the Atlanta that is government NBA. That's hilarious. Actually, you're about to get on a plane which that's the real thing

when I think of the government shut down and I think about the TSA agents or not even the TSA agents but them too. Air traffic controllers. The air traffic controllers got to go to work

while not getting paid. That to me is one of the scariest things. No, bro. If I was an air traffic controller and I had to go to work and I wasn't getting paid, do you know how petty I would, I need everybody on that plane to VIM on me $40 if y'all want to land, all right? This is, I, that's, that is wild. This is why I couldn't, this is why I'm a joke teller.

You would just do ransom in real time. Yeah, that spirit flight has been, oh, yeah, I know y'all ain't got no money. Y'all about to be up in the air for a minute. Yeah, I would be holding people hostage in the skies until I get paid. do you do you have anybody in your family that works in government yes my brother's mom which i know is a ghetto sentence but uh my brother's mom she works in uh for the actually my brother's mom and my sister's mom which i understand that's probably confusing for a lot of people but just go with it uh they both work in the government they both work for the VA uh the veterans

administration or the VA Veterans Affairs yeah yeah so they they were already like my sister's mom was already screwed over big time whenever Trump decided to start to tell people they couldn't work from home government employees could no longer work from home she had a work from home job for literally a decade before Trump came in office she was already working from home he forced everybody to come into office and she didn't have a local office so she would have to go from Chicago to California and like for like two months until they figured out some situation for her but yeah man these

like definitely affecting very close people in my life so or how about you um I have I have a cousin that I believe still works at the um the Fed um but yeah I'm I don't have too many family members that work in government and I didn't think about that that is a crazy thing to like there are some jobs that were sort of always remote And then he's like, you have to come in. And they're like, where? That's literally what happened. And they were like, how about California?

And she was like, I live in Illinois. Well, that's going to be a crazy commute. See you Monday. It's also crazy that for every state, because the government's in every state. So you would think that for whatever state you are in, they'd be like, oh, yeah, we have an office there. They did have an office, but there were no positions. So they were like the closest office we have for you is Cali. Luckily, she eventually figured it out.

Actually, I haven't asked, or I didn't inquire any further, but I just assumed she figured it out. So I should be a better family member. But no, yeah, the government shutdown is crazy. I didn't realize 750,000 people were being affected by this. I knew a lot of people. But you would think, like, the bright side I looked at this is like, you know, maybe like the guy whose job it is to put crack in the black. community maybe he won't get paid this week and maybe there's pluses to this so yeah i mean there's there's definitely some job that is i'm trying to think of what it would be because this doesn't

affect like um police or firefighters to my knowledge this is not like these are like all federal jobs so i'm i'm trying to think of like to your point who in the CIA that's that was like working undercover. Imagine me in undercover and not getting paid. You might blow your whole cover, be like, I can't believe they shutting down the government. And it's like, you're part of one of those like Ruby Ridge we're gonna take the government down.

You've infiltrated. That's hysterical. I need, yo, wait, I'm about to topple this government. All I need, wait, I'm not getting paid. Oh, no, wrap this up. I'm going home. You were, like, on the verge of destabilizing some South American country. But, you know, the paycheck don't clear?

I'm coming home, though. Yeah. I feel like very few people are doing espionage for the love of the game. Yeah, 100%. It's truly only, that is actually hilarious. Like, imagine there's, like, there's, like, there's, like, actually an agent. Somewhere right now, finger on the trigger. scope

through red dot dude like that truly ready to pull the trigger and then they get a notification on their phone and they're like you know what

not again that is that or like fucking imagine if James Bond he's like shaking not stirred and they're like sir your credit card is declined

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kind of a lot of communities specifically the comedian communities where people are looking at the comedians on the festival and the flyer as sellouts it's a little controversial I have my opinions I'm sure everybody has their own opinions but let's hear what Josh Johnson's

take on the re-eyed comedy festival I mean this is why it's very important to read every email from your agent thoroughly imagine you like just imagine for a second you said yeah not even really know what it was.

Dude, I say, then you're on the poster, and now people are mad at you and you're like, what did I do? You know what I mean? You killed Jamar Khashoggi. I didn't, but, but. Yeah, it's also different when, like,

a government is doing something versus, um, a company. Like corporate gigs are like, you know, I think it depends on how much you agree with or what kind of work the, the company does but company projects are kind of like here or there as far as like how the public feels about them you know i mean like if you did a corporate show for um nestley i think a lot of people would see that as like oh whatever entertainment like whatever entertainment head or party planning decided you were funny brought you in i don't think they hold then the uh opinions of the

CEO of nestley at your feet right but when something is put on by government and you are you are um becoming a how you put it you're in in a sense becoming a tool of uh propaganda for a government, I think there are just different expectations. And it also all depends because not everyone on that poster is being criticized equally. So it all depends on what you usually do as an act, what you say in your life, and what your fan base expects from you. And I think that some of those people's fan bases are diametrically opposed to like everything that, um, that the the government is done and that every policy

that they have meanwhile there are some comics on that poster who actually have like a fan base in the area so and have done shows in the area before so it is it is like

a really interesting debate to watch people go back and forth on I how about this I'll put it this way they didn't contact me and that's the group that yeah i mean they did they did not contact me so i didn't have to weigh

doing a show for however much money versus like any sort of uh business that i stand on so that's a that's like not my cross to bear i know yeah it's like that's one of those things where i'm like all right if you if you're the type of person who is over here being like um we need um we need um we need to talk about the situation in all these countries or just talking about human rights and then you go people are going to look at that sideways yeah no I mean I think Bill uh you know not to I mean I am gonna say names but like Bill Burr he's getting his flack because people look at him his audience looks at him as like this uh more like a more have a higher moral they hold him to a higher moral standard and it's because he's spoken about things he seems to

better i don't think kevin hart gets the same flack for going over there because they see him as a more of a commercial act uh act who would uh he's he's never he's never put position himself like uh as some like super moral authority on like don't work for governments that kill people you know so i definitely think you're right in the sense of about of it just depends on the comic uh i do think it's like i don't know you're right it is easy for especially a guy like me to say be like yeah I would never go to Saudi Arabia well they also would never offer me a fucking contract but yeah yeah I mean it's it's one of those things where it's like there's this one that I was talking about it with friends over the weekend and one of the

things about it that I think people are forgetting I don't know anybody's contract I don't know the number or anything but you know work it's around you know some of these people being paid in the millions right and so then you know one of my friends made a really good point where he was like look if if if somebody offered me life changing money I might go and we were all at the table kind of like what do you mean like everyone's got a different number right but he was like look the way I see it if I go and then I give that money to people who need it

then I'm literally taking money from something I don't like don't believe in then giving the money to causes that I do and helping people that I care about and once again that's also a thing that you believe you would do or

can say when the thing is not in front of you right now which I am not doubting his conviction to do the that type of stuff because I've known him to be like a charitable person even without like lots of means

and everything but that is that's like the most charitable possible thing that you could do and in that moment will you do it you know come on bro even in that context it's like he's essentially saying look if I take the money

that's like taking money out of the next 9-11 budget that means they won't do it again look I'm actually stopping the next 9-11 if I take the money It's like, okay, that's like, I mean, that's, that's a, that's a much better, uh, defense than anything I've heard. I was like, I'm actually a national hero for going over there. Because the, because the other defenses you hear are, are pretty much like, uh, look, you pay me enough. I'll do whatever.

No, yeah, I mean, right now I'm watching, I'm like, all my way over here. I was watching Instagram stories of comics that are over there and they're like, Pete, now they're just being ironic about it and like, being like, oh, they keep saying I'm a sell out. They keep saying I'm this. and then they'll like, how can I sell out and the camera will pan to the Rolex they just bought? And I'm like, yeah, I guess that's one way to respond to criticism. I ultimately, I don't, what I think this like comes down to, for real, if I'm having like an actual serious, genuine thought.

I don't like how sometimes comedy gets used to launder people's images and states' images. We had the roast of every horrible person. When Comedy Central was doing Trump, fucking Tiger Blood guy, what was his name Charlie Sheen you know Justin Bieber a little less controversial but we they use comedy to Clint to image cleanse like that's what we get used for sometimes and this is just happening on a governmental scale for untold amounts of money and it's like man I don't know just I get that comedians have a

powerful voice and we can like I think comedians really should recognize their power and like if we are they keep labeling us falsely as like these arbiters of truth and these these these philosophers and it's like if you just look people are we they really sometimes feel like the other end like we're just we're kind of selling people out for our own money but but hey that's uh that's the re-ed comedy festival folks we'll move on let's see something actually funny I feel like as a comedian I feel like as a comedian it's tough to admit this but Trump keeps posting these AI videos of of uh Jeffreys, of Hakeem Jeffries and sombreros.

And I think we're supposed to be mad. But I can't stop laughing, dog. Here's the thing, here's what I'll say. He is fully immersed in, like, the grandpa AI obsession. I wish my grandpa was this funny with AI. When the sombreros thing kept popping up, I was like, ah, fuck, ah. Okay. Have you seen the, like, the, like,

There are lots of grandpas there into AI and a lot of them are mostly into the, how do I put this? A lot of them are into like the most questionable versions of the AI. What you mean? Because I imagine grandpaws with AI is going to get real perverted real fast. So what are you talking about? Yeah, like lots of like fake bodies twerking. Yeah. And so any grandpa getting a hold of AI, not.

every but any could be a bad thing it feels like an automatic no no yeah if you can't if they took away your license to drive you're not allowed to have AI I feel like they also believe too much of it yeah yeah because they're dude their minds aren't updated to the software that's out right now I my mind isn't updated to TikTok my sister brings me shit and I become a grandpa I'm immediately like oh I don't recognize this so I can only imagine in the order of magnitude that increases when it comes to actual grandpas with this insane

new technology of AI which is doing numbers on all of us which is crazy too because it's like if they even understand one of the text to image models their life is their life is ruined

dude dude dude we I don't I can't even my mind can't be I need AI to imagine the shit that grandpas are going to be coming up with with it's just such a like like this is my thing it does feel more and more every day like Trump is actually the president for where people are at the moment 100% because it's like yes he does things and says things or whatever and it's like funny but there are enough funny people and this dude could

accidentally kill you. Yeah you know when you... Do you know when you... Do you mean? Like a baby with a gun is technically funny. Yeah, a little. It's like it's like it's like funny until it's not funny because the baby accidentally pulls the trigger and now it's shot someone in the neck or whatever like

100% I'll say for example of that. My little cousin when he was a baby he used to have you know his big tonka trucks. Those tonka he would pick him up and just threaten to throw him and you'd be like, hey, that's funny, but stop. Don't throw the talk-a-truck. And then when he would do it, it wouldn't be funny no more.

You'd be like, I hate this baby. This baby just threw a talk-a-truck-this-baby. But before he threw it, it was hilarious. So I totally... Yeah, that's what the entire presidency feels like, both terms. Yeah. Because he'll do something that's insane. Yeah.

Like, this is the thing about government shutdown. People... Like, I'm not trying to be an alarmist when I say this. but like it's very plausible that people will be impacted for the rest of their life off of this shutdown there are things that happen that like whether it's the it's the back pay situation because like look there is no to my knowledge there is no like government protection for housing while you are waiting for back pay so if if this shutdown goes for long or just or just too long for any one person and they are behind on their rent they're behind on their bills

they're behind because they're expected to pay somehow the government isn't expected to pay no your bills don't stop you know I mean yeah the bills don't stop so so that like there are people that are going to experience homelessness there are people that are going to be you know just just in a in a place of like financial turmoil

because of this because most people that you talk to most people that we know can't go a whole week without being paid Yeah. You know what I mean? Of course. And so it's like in the face of that, in the face of that happening where people even from his own base are going to be hurt, he's like, isn't this funny?

Yeah. Isn't this great? I'm going to tell. And it's like, in theory it is. If it was if it was just you as a grandpa posting it, okay, let's have a chuckle. But you, this is your fault. Yeah. Yeah.

Those memes aren't going to feed your kids. It's funny. I hope you like belly laughs because your ass won't be eating anything in your belly. That's the only thing that's going to be in your belly is fucking laughs. Thanks to this, our president, Loll, our Lowell-Cowl-Cowl-Troll president. Yeah, yeah, it's people are laughing their way into their own voting against their own self-interest. And, oh, no, I almost fell for it. Thank you for pulling me out, Josh.

No, look, look, look, when I saw it, I was like, guys, this is crazy. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not, I'm not saying, let's sit here and pretend things aren't funny. Yeah. I'm saying that like, in what context is it actually funny? This, this would be funny, this would be funny if I was able to watch this from home, like, and it was a movie. And I'd be like, oh, this is a funny president, like, oh, this is funny, like, story.

There's a crazy president. This is a story about a crazy president who's, like, doing everything a president shouldn't do. That's a funny premise for a movie, except when I pull back, it's not. a movie, it's just CNN. And I'm like, oh, shit, this is real. I thought, this isn't on HBO Max. This is, this is, oh, fuck. Yeah. Yeah. But, no, it's rough, man. All right. Well, that's what we might, that's what we missed, uh, for this week. But let's move on to what might be coming up. What will we be getting into? Possibly New York Comic-Con. New York Comic-Con's beginning next week. Uh, easily. You know what is crazy?

in my life is that I've had a big week of my life every week of Comic-Con every year I've lived here. That's hilarious. That's hilarious. I've been to Comic-Con once and I've only got to be there for like an hour and a half.

That's hilarious. Oh, this motherfucker is too successful for Ka-ha. Shit, I got to host a daily show. I can't dress up like Storm this week, guys. I apologize. I was going to look good too. No, that's hilarious. The idea that you would pick Storm is so crazy. Storm's fucking awesome.

But it's Storm, no. Listen, I've gotten into comic books for real, for real, in my advanced stage, like, re-gotten back into them. Storm is low-key, like, she's a storm, she's badass. But, wait, I didn't know you were such a big, you actually wanted to go? I didn't know that. Yeah. What year What year did you go?

I went in 2016 to do a segment for the Tonight Show. So you went for work. You didn't need the one time you did go. Yeah. You didn't even go because you want, you were like also still were technically busy. But it's just so coincide.

Wow, that's hilarious. If you did go, who obviously not Storm, but who would you dress up as? I don't like, admittedly, I don't even know if I would dress up. It's like the panels I want. want to go to the people that I hope to meet like man

I agree I mean comic con is something I always definitely I'm like a show a nerd definitely always wanted to go to Comic Con uh when it's in it San Diego Comic Con New York Comic Con would love to go to both I for one am not busy I'm not hosting a show so I can take my black ass on

enjoy it for the both of us I will I will be there dressed up as Storm for both of us but we will let's move on we did a piece if you saw if you watched the show this last week we did a piece about the government shutting down

and the parks were no longer had employees so that caused the influx of shit it hasn't happened yet but this is a thing that happens consistently whenever the government shuts downs park employees no longer work there and shit fills up

the parks because the bathrooms are closed and we did a wonderful segment about this on the show and do you think the parks will still be covered in shit when we come down do you think if this shutdown keeps going

will the parks be covered in shit it depends on how many days if it's two days that would be weird but they're projecting this thing to be at least 10 days oh this shutdown that's how long they're thinking 10 days

that's how long people are taking bets on cowshy or whatever Oh, wow. Okay. Okay. Maybe I should get on this bets. Ten days is enough to fill a park with shit. Ten days enough.

My park don't even shut down and it gets filled with shit on a regular basis. The one by my house. So I can only imagine what ten days would do to the National Park. Also, can anybody place a bet on those betting apps? Yes. So you can just make up a bet. Do you have to bet every? against yourself?

Or are you making the bet for the benefit of the platform and then betting? I think the way it works is anybody can make a bet. I'm not quite sure if it works in a sense of like you make a bet and they automatically take it and like, oh, I bet that there's

a thousand jelly beans in this this little container. I don't, honestly, I don't know how they choose what is a bet that stays. But they'd be having some random ass bets on there. So I feel like you can bet anything. People bet anything.

But hoping this government doesn't shut down. I'm hoping the government doesn't last longer than 10 days. I'm terrified of air traffic controllers and the TSA not getting paid. 10 days of air traffic controllers and fucking TSA agents not getting paid might destroy the country. So let's hope this doesn't last too long. But Josh, one thing I did want to ask you, this is Comey. You know, Comey. Our boy.

Yeah. Yeah. He's facing an arraignment. Trump is, you know, his boy's coming after him. The guy who got Trump elected is now on the run from the FBI. The head of the FBI is now on the run. Any thoughts on this? Wait, Comey got Trump elected?

Yeah, because remember he, right before the election, he came out and was like Hillary, he was the head of the FBI, and he was like, Hillary, he exposed Hillary's emails. right before the election oh i see i see you could genuinely say call me was like the first domino to trump being elected and now trump has turned his back even on him i don't know if you had any thoughts on that it's just crazy uh it's very dangerous to do trump a favor for real bro for real dog that yeah i mean dude not even be a friend yeah like just dog dog can i crash on your house no man i feel like that's going to end to my demise i just Yeah. Also, it sucks that Trump would do or say anything that might make me speak up in defense of the FBI director.

Yeah, I mean, the former FBI director, but still, it's like, it's like, yeah, I mean, everyone's kind of taken aback by this whole thing. Yeah. A lot of people don't think it will really go anywhere because in court, because court is at least still supposed to have some semblance of reality in court Trump loses all the time the administration loses all the time like consistently loses

and and even when they have Trump appointed judges there are judges that are like I honestly can't find any grounds to that's always my favorite thing there's like there's just no legal way to do this

this is just impossible you just made up a thing and then hired lawyers to get you to go do it, and we just can't do it. Yeah, he's constantly losing, yes. That's tough. That's why it is tough being a black person having to defend the FBI. That's crazy. They killed MLK.

That's a crazy position. He really be putting black people in crazy-ass positions. But my last question for the pod. Are we going next week? This is a personal question that I want to know. Can we talk about Cardi being Nikki Minaj beefing? Because this is crazy. I don't know why we're talking about anything else.

um yeah i mean look we're gonna be talking about in the in the hallways whether or not makes it to air yeah no that's fair that's fair can you can you can you update us though can you update us on the latest um yeah guys if you don't know cardi b nicky minage are great rappers are currently on twitter going they're they're going uh they're having a full fight like comie and uh trump they're going back and forth of each other uh the last i saw was uh Nikki mona tagged the ice to come and get Cardi B so I need to get updated but she definitely tagged ice in

a tweet to have Cardi B deported so this is this is reaching it's gotten way messier than Drake and yeah but what but what happened what was the new catalyst? The new catalyst was Cardi B's album Am I the drama? She dropped the album

started dissing everybody on it and then Nicky Minaj came out she didn't even mention Nicky Minaj for real but Nicky Manage just started tweeting like sub-tweeting they both were just at home tweeting each other both of them just at home ain't got nothing else to do mega successful millionaires one just dropped the album but they both still at home I hate I hate you bitch I hate you like just they both yeah yeah are there memes yet there are tons of memes bro Nick I'm not going to let you have to pick a side

because I don't want I want to be I want you to decide who you your team Jacob team Edward whatever I don't want to be influenced that but I'm a little right now I'm team Cardi there's no memes but Nikki Minaj she's going for Kanye bro she's going full Kanye bro

it's it's happening it's happening dog I should have known when she was like my cousin's brother's testicles whatever she said that one time but uh honestly if next week's show can just be mostly this I will be a happy employee

so I mean if the government comes back we won't have much but this. Okay. All right. All right. Now you hear that, folks. We have real reasons to why we want the government to come back. I know there's tons of people who need to get paid, but also

we'll be able to talk about Nikki and Cardi. So Trump... I mean, have you been listening to Am I the drama? I listened to a few songs. I listen to probably like half the album. There... Listen, that one song, players, the one JZ

song, I wasn't a fan of because it sounds like she's like it sounds like she's it's text to talk type rapping and I'm not a fan but all the other songs I ain't go laugh outside I think she got a banger people did not believe in Cardi because she took eight years to drop

a second album so they were like they wrote her off and uh I think she she met her mark she did put a whopping on the album which is kind of like cheating she's like look I sold a million copies first week girl that that song sold a million copies seven years ago, how can you put Yeah, but, but, I will say

that that is a it's a different type of move because you actually would think if that track is carrying the album, that it wouldn't be able to do it because it is so old. Yeah, I mean,

it does speak to the power of the WAP. The WAP is a powerful, powerful tool that's honestly, class, WOP is timeless. I think we can all agree. Josh Johnson quote, Wap is timeless.

I didn't say a word. That's what I heard. I do feel like most of any backlash I get from this podcast will be things that you said. Backlash, what do we say that? Yeah. No, no, no.

I'm just, I'm just, I think eventually something is going to be said. And then it's going to be like, Josh, I can't believe you. And I'm like, that one wasn't me. That was Ashton. I take all, listen, if you're listening, you all, everybody knows I'm the one who said all the while insane. I don't even think nothing insane was said, but I am the reckless speaker. I do. Josh's, if you don't think anything reckless was said as a listener, we did a great job on the edit. That's, ha, ha, ha. All right, we call this section Daily Show and Tell. Josh, you got anything on your mind? Okay

I will say one thing that's been on my mind Quite a bit Is the reaction To Bad Bunny doing the Super Bowl It's going to be a crazy day It's going to be awesome It's going to be awesome Y'all football

Football American football They aren't ready They aren't ready We thought we thought with Kendrick making it, you know, making it America, making it black. Ooh, we thought people's heads were spinning. Bad Bunny just by existing. Y'all, you're not, you're not, you don't understand what is happening or what's going to have.

You think, you, you, you think rappers are beefing right now. You think, no, no. That is, you will be beefing with reality. after you get done watch your bad buddy do the Super Bowl because Bad Bunny has hits that like this is also what happens

as an American that's a huge mistake that we do we really think we're the center of the universe right now I don't want to paint it as if Bad Bunny is not a U.S. citizen

he's Puerto Rican right but in the sort of like monoculture of like that like i don't know leave it to beaver style of american entertainment the the the idea that like our hollywood is where all stars are born and and and create it the idea that we hold like the corner market on on on on culture and like understanding performance and then meanwhile you have the rest of the world making incredible music incredible music incredible

music in Brazil, phenomenal performances in in Africa with like Afro beats and everything. You have people like Bad Bunny. You have people all over the world. Like we think like as as Americans sometimes we think that like Shakira is ours. Like we know we made Shakira and Shakira's like and it's like no, Shakira's the world. Bad Bunny's the world. And so it's like you you see a lot of like faux American. and exceptionalism exposed in real time by not understanding that like bad bunny doesn't get to do

the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl gets to have Bad Bunny. Yeah, 100%. This is, you know, it's crazy that we aren't, like, he's not universally celebrated because he represents what like this time. My favorite part about the music era and just time we're in now is that we're global. It's universal and everybody loves it and enjoys it. And you would think this Super Bowl is this opportunity to celebrate the universality of music and the and the the just the culture of the world but instead it's become this uh uh hyper talking point of like of hate and like will ice be outside they already said like ice would be outside of uh the super bowl and it just and it's it's it sucks that like it's tinged with this much hate but it's also going to be the most awesome ass fucking is this

going to be awesome like uh uh i can't the republicans think that like bad bunny's gonna go do the halftime and then the next half of the Super Bowl is just going to be actual soccer. They'd be like, wait, wait, no, they, wait, wait, no, hey, you're like, that's what they think is going to happen. So I'm excited, it's, I'm excited for people to, to have to experience the greatness of bad bunny because he's, he's so good that, like, once they watch it, they're going to be like, they're going to start off, like, hateful, but then they're all right, all right, he might, I, all right, I had a little nice little jig.

That was, that was cool. I like it. I hope. Might have to crack open. some Rosetta Stone. No, yeah. No, duolingo is definitely going to be popped open.

But, yeah, the duolingo downloads are going to be inside. Crazy. But, yeah, I'm hyped for that. That's probably the only reason why I'm watching the Super Bowl. Honestly, the Super Bowl performances are the main reason I kind of watch the Super Bowl now, like Kendrick's Bad Bunnies. They're definitely going to double down next year and get, like, Morgan Whalen or some, like, you know,

They got to cater to her. I mean, we think so. But who knows? Who knows? After Kendrick, we thought, ooh, it's going to for sure be Keith Urban. There was no way it wasn't. So them doubling down with Bad Buddy is so, I love it. I love it.

All right. Shout out, Jay-Z. You thought, it's funny because the Republicans thought kneeling was the worst thing that could happen at the NFL game, and they're like, wait, no. oh wait until wait until those R's get rolled no bring Kaepernick back

bring Kaepernick back we're sorry you you won't even recognize yourself you won't you won't know your hips I'm so excited I'm so excited for this Jay Z you're doing great work at the NFL keep up the good work but I think that is a good place to end

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