The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Absurd Truth: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Stunt

Episode Date: January 23, 2026

Reports from the Super Bowl say that Bad Bunny plans to wear an “outfit honoring queer icons through boundary-pushing style” during his halftime show. Meanwhile, January 6th Police Officer Michael Fanone disrupted the Jack Smith hearing on the weaponization of government by coughing expletives into hand, flicking off Congressional representatives and getting in the face of a retired Green Beret. Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Relief Factorhttps://ReliefFactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTry Relief Factor's 3-week Quickstart for just $19.95—tell them Dana sent you and see if you can be next to control your pain!Patriot Mobilehttps://PatriotMobile.com/DANA or call 972-PATRIOTSwitch to Patriot Mobile in minutes—keep your number and phone or upgrade, then take a stand today with promo code DANA for a free month of service!Humannhttps://HumanN.comKick off the New Year with simple, delicious wellness support—pick up Humann’s Turmeric Chews at Sam’s Club next time you’re there and see why they’re such a fan favorite!Byrnahttps://Byrna.com/DanaMake 2026 the year you protect your family with solid options—Get the Byrna today.WebRootTake your cybersecurity seriously! Get 60% off Webroot Total Protection at https://Webroot.com/Dana  Subscribe today and stay in the loop on all things news with The Dana Show. Follow us here for more daily clips, updates, and commentary:YoutubeFacebookInstagramXMore InfoWebsite

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Florida Man's facing up to five years in prison after allegedly turning a patch up packet into a felony weapon because of a prior conviction okay what 28 year old Austin Simmons he done got himself arrested Monday evening it was an incident inside a Florida bus terminal he apparently another he was passed out another man stopped to check on him and he woke up irate through open catchup packet at him the guy got catch up on his jacket as a result that this gets this is so this is just ridiculous the affidavit states officers found the packet on the ground already opened with ketchup spilling out. The packet, which

holds roughly 0.3 ounces, was not collected as evidence. Police say Simmons denied striking mora with the condiment, but reportedly admitted to, quote, giving the victim a catch-up packet. So now he's being held on $5,000 bond. What are we publicly litigating this for? I feel like that guy deserved to get hit now by the ketchup packet, just out of spite. Yeah, out of spite. Oh my gosh Let's see Oh I'm gonna do this one This is

Ally law and crime A Florida man ditched his pal With a broken hip like nothing happened After making an abrupt U-turn In a stolen golf cart And hurling him off the back So he's facing criminal charges He stole a golf cart

And then he ditched his friend Who broke his hip After he was thrown off the back of it During an abrupt U-turn Cops said that the man When joyriding around City of Key West and instead of stopping, and he just kept going instead of stopping to help his friend. The guy, 51 years old of Winter Haven, was joyriding with the friend when the incident occurred.

And according to the arrest report, he caused serious bodily injury to the victim. It required emergency surgery to repair. And they found out that he had swiped the golf cart earlier in the day using the master key that can start apparently multiple carts. I don't know. But he didn't stop and help his friend. He just literally kept cruising down the street. Like, nothing happened. guy was laying on the road broken that's not a good friend my dude not first off if your friend's like let's steal a golf cart probably not a good friend unless it's like a zombie apocalypse and you need it to get somewhere but we're not in that situation so there's really no justification for it oh man i don't really oh man um florida okay this headline a florida man looks maxer who sterilized himself with trt at 14 was banned on kick for running a man over with his car

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Okay. We're going to hear about it nonstop up until this point, aren't we? Okay. I don't care because I'm not going to watch it because I'm just tired. It already, it's like it already seems like it's overwrought with drama. I'm already, I don't want any drama. I don't want any of it. Come on. So the Super Bowl, apparently, they've got Green Day, which I think is more offensive than anything else. I actually don't really care about Bad Bunny. I just don't want him to have

hypersexual lyrics in any language. And I would love it if we don't have like any kind of castigation of the viewership. Can we just have a good time? I actually am more offended by Green Day than anything else. I got to be honest with you. I am physically

offended. And offended in my heart. Right. They're because they're so bad. There's so many levels to it. I think I'm offended because they're so bad. And bad. And also, dumb.

That's it. That's the tweet. So the other thing is that people are getting upset. And I do think that Bad Bunny needs to slow his role about trying to add any kind of carcene to the fire, he would walk out of this a hero if he just put on a great show and united everybody for 20 damn minutes. If he did that, people would be buying his stuff more than they do now. He would have a whole new subset of fans. Just please deliver. But I saw someone saying, and there's a couple of pieces on this, he apparently, and I tweeted this last night because I saw it, and I'm like,

please dear heavens no. Please let's not. I don't know if this was his intention, but this is how it's being promoted. So the story is that he's going to honor the queers. That's literally how it's being reported. Don't get mad at me. I'm actually, Kane, you can attest this.

I'm repeating. Can we just have a Super Bowl? Can we, we don't have to do anything. So it was reported that Bad Bunny plans to quote, honor queers during upcoming Super Bowl performance, by wearing a dress. Okay. Now, there's a couple of ways to look at this.

And I thought Juan was very, because Juan, Juan, you're not, not to put you on the spot over there. You wouldn't consider yourself like a major fan, but you don't dislike him, right? Okay. But you're not like, oh my gosh, I'm going to go buy front row tickets and spend,

you know, you're not going to be like that. Okay. The way that I understood it, and you mentioned this in Slack today, is that that he, I don't even say, I don't even think it's cross-dressing. He kind of does,

and I'm not defending him either, he kind of does what Bowie did. Like David Bowie had this whole on-stage persona, and he wasn't like, quote-unquote, cross-dressing. He, like how, don't come at me, I swear to you,

like a kilt maybe or something. It's not a, dress and they'll kill the man who calls it one. I'm just saying, like, wearing different things, but not there's a difference in being like David Bowie or even being like Prince, I dare say, and then being like, you know, patagonia, the tranny cross-dress or whatever that is getting sued by Patagonia. There's a big difference. You see what I'm saying? So is it correct to assume that he's probably going to be doing the same stagecraft that he's done on tour.

But then the question is, well, then how did it get to he's going to honor queers? That's literally what they're saying. It cracks me out. Like, who wrote this during Super Bowl? Like, where did, how did that come into being? Because that's a pretty big difference. So, Kane, what, I see, I don't know, you guys, I haven't found where he's, said that.

Where he said it's for queers? Yeah. Yeah, I would assume that's intimation from whoever's putting the piece out because they love clickbait and their survival is clickbait. So, you know, of course we're going to see Bad Bunny dress that way because that's what he's always done. No one's expecting anything different from Bad Bunny here. I think they hired him to do that show because they knew exactly what he would bring

to the table. And it's not surprising to me. I spent 30 years in, you know, commercial music radio. Right. I understand what artists do to get the attention. I understand what labels require them to do for the marketing and get attention to sell more records. It's just the way it goes. So if we just stop being like reactionary to it, like it's something crazy and out of this world, literally the value of what they're doing goes down.

Well, the only thing that would offend me, even if that is the way that he wanted to promote it, is that everybody who does this thinks they're the first. to do it. Harry Stiles, which by the way, that was pretty gay. Harry Stiles, that was pretty gay. Because he just doesn't have the swagger. Sorry, he doesn't. He did the whole dress thing, and it's like, that's not even what, but like, you're campy.

Bowie was different when he did it. Very different. Prince, very different when he did it. Harry Stiles was just campy. But people who think that because they're doing it, it's never been done before, that also I find that rubs me the wrong.

way that I find more offensive than anything else. But can we just have a damn halftime show where we got a marching band and fun stuff? Is that possible? Can we just have, you know, I don't know, like a fun halftime show where people get together and they're like, hey, hey guys, we're here at the halftime show. Can we just stop being bitches for five seconds and have fun? Is that possible? I didn't mean to sound like Elizabeth Warren there. But is it possible? Because you have whatever, I think Brandy Carlisle, I don't care. Green Day is the one I'm, I can't stand. Can't stand them.

Take Green Day away and keep bad money, I'm fine. I just don't want them there. I just don't like them. Who'd you say he's doing the anthem, Steve? Charlie Puth, okay. I like him. Who's booking this stuff, Jay-Z? That's right.

Why can't we have, like Metallica? Aerosmith. I know he's getting up there. But you know what I'm saying? Or, I don't know. Give me somebody. Just saying. Give me some.

Hank the third. That would be epic. Oh my gosh. That would be ridiculous. I'm just saying. Any of those. But I don't think that I, there's things to freak out about and things not to freak out about. And I don't think Bad Bunny doing what he's, you know, if he's going to wear a non-pants.

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I feel like a hallmark of a healthy civilization is to not dress homeless when there's a choice. You know what I mean? Let me start there. Let me start there. Because I was watching this hearing yesterday. If you guys get the newsletter, you kind of probably know where I'm going with us. The headline of the piece is Michael Fanon is a fake tough guy. And I was thinking about this because this guy goes into this house judiciary hearing yesterday.

It was yesterday a day before, where they were questioning Jack Smith. And a lot of very interesting stuff came out of that. So they're asking questions of Jack Smith. And there's this video of this dude. He's one of the J6 cops. Now, let me put it into context. He is the cop who turned off his body camera. And it later came out when they were reviewing all the footage,

the stuff that he was telling the J6 committee. was actually at odds with what was actually captured on his body camera footage, which is probably why he turned it off. And he really made up, he really retconned, really just fabricated how everything happened and what he was actually doing during January 6th. And he's been dining out on this ever since. Like he came out with a book. Now, I think he's just, he's, I don't know what. he was at this hearing yesterday he was wearing a drop kick Murphy's T-shirt

the guy's like 50 now look no offense my dudes if you want to wear a t-shirt of a band that probably couldn't cash with its backside the checks at its mouth runs that's fine you can do that and I don't dislike the drop kick Murphys I just think as people they're debacks but

you know I don't dislike their music that's okay I can think that someone's a sniveling dog scrot them and still also think that they make good music it's fine anyway, sorry if that affected your sensibilities, but you should know now that this is not PBS. Okay. So anyway, I don't mind the T-shirt. What I do mind is things like sweatpants at the airport or wearing nude leggings at the supermarket as pants,

or wearing a T-shirt when you should be in a suit or at least a jacket at the Capitol during a House subcommittee hearing. I just feel like that's more appropriate, right? That says, hey, we invented electricity. We know how to dress. Hey, we invented things like suit jackets and proper tailoring. We know how to properly comport ourselves in public and present ourselves. We don't do this. Well, here's my hot topic shirt.

How do fellow kids? I mean, it just, it cringes so hard. So anyway, I'm setting this up because he's sitting there, this Michael Fanon. He was a D.C. police officer. And this lefty funded crisis actor, he tried a new routine at this hearing yesterday. He tried performing as a tough guy. And he started by loudly coughing and saying, go blank yourself literally during the hearing.

So there's multiple different video cuts. There's different angles of how all of this happens. So I'm going to play a couple of you because it's very entertaining. So we'll start with cut one. This is where he's coughing and he tells Representative Troinelles to go do something on flattering to his own person while they're having the hearing. Watch this. I would like to quickly address the police officers of January 6th. Mr. Donne, Mr. Fonone, Mr. Gowne, Mr. Hodges.

A picture of Phenone. I'm a member of the new select committee to actually examine. Mr. Fonon sitting down. Actually examine what happened. happened that day. And I can tell you, gentlemen, that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with Yogan under Pittman and the U.S. Capital Leadership team. Like I do when I read my phone. We know, we know they had the intelligence and there was going to be a high propensity for so he caught. He's like, go blank yourself.

Yeah, I was yeah, I think, well, I never did that because my mother would have come down at the school and her green old mobile and dragged my ass to the parking lot by my hair and whoop me. That's this never going to happen. You don't need an army. You just get Nana. I mean, good night. So, I, there's, so that seemed, that seemed inappropriate, did it not? I think we can all agree.

Not the place, not the time. All right. So sitting behind him, this is where it gets real fun. Sitting behind him is a gentleman named Ivan Rakelin. Now, you may not know Ivan Ranklin's name. You should, though. He's a political activist, but he's also a retired green beret. And he's a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve.

So he's sitting behind him. This is cut too. And, well, this is what happens. Watch. Hey Michael. Hey, what's up, buddy? Ivan Rayclay. Why do you have to swear at me?

What's that? What do you have to swear to you? Dude, don't pretend like we're not moral enemies. Well, why do you have to lose your cool like that? I've been always professional with you. I'm not losing my cool. Every single time I communicate with you, I am always professional with you.

And it requires other people to contain your Tourette's syndrome. Okay? I'm not gonna get fin of. You threaten my family. You threaten my life. Oh, have I. You're a traitor to this country. Why are you so spasmodic?

My spasmodic? Absolutely. You look behind you. Do something. Why should I? I'm communicating with you. You're trying to calm me down. Right?

Look at face. You can't even control yourself. You can't even be a man. Trust me. You see how many people are constraining you? Come get you. Look at me. Total control over my mind and body.

You're sickly. Total control over my mind. my body and I'm totally dominating you right now. Sir. Sir. Sir. Sir. Sir.

Let's have aside. I'm not. This guy is just threatened. My family. Threatened my children. Threatened my, threatened to rape my children. Oh, really now. He's so mad.

He's just like spitting like a woman. Threaten. I mean, first off, can I just pause real quick right there? Iron Rakelin's a real one. That is, he's like, I'm totally dominating you right now. He's speaking so slow. And that Michael, Michael Fanon is the type of dude that you don't want to have a badge, right? That's why we say back the blue, but with conditions, it's conditional.

But can I just ask what kind of person thinks to say you threaten to rape my children as a weapon against someone? How as a normal human father? Does that thought pop into your head? It doesn't. It doesn't. That is super nasty and really weird. I'm just saying. It's like something a rapist would say. I just, but he loses his cool entirely.

The only reason that Michael Fanon was left standing upright is because Ivan Rakeland has he would have turned him inside out. He would have pulled his indocrine system out through his nostrils. Let's be real. That is the only reason. that Michael Fanon stood up right is because he had that big dude manhandling him back there moving him around like he was a toddler and all because Ivan Reiklin has a he's just very disciplined and also Michael Fanon didn't really want any of that smoke that's why he kept like taking a step back to the dudes like oh please hold me back so it looks like I'm doing something he's the type of tough guy who's tough until the first punch lands then he's not so tough anymore that's exactly what this type type type of guy's type of guy's type of guy's guys like oh my gosh now when he was leaving this is cut three he loses his mind at this reporter who i thought was pretty cool like i you know i i don't like ambushing with bias but she didn't

start that way she only started pushing back when he started getting saucy with her watch this mr finone how are you today i'm great what happened in there what are you talking about that confrontation jack smith testified about how uh he had proof of beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump incited, orchestrated, and funded the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. You seemed like there was a fight in there? No, there was no fight. Is it true, Officer for known that you turned off your own body camera on January 6th?

No. I saw your body cam. You turned it off yourself. You were playing dead. I saw your body cam footage. You're a, uh, right-wing conspiracy fears. I saw you turn off your body cam footage, sir. but thank you for disrespecting me.

You know he wanted to hit her. I'm sorry, but yeah, he wanted to hit her. I think he had a hitter if they're at him a camera's there. He looks like a woman beat her. But the way he's squared up to that, first off, men, let me tell you something. Women are going to run their mouths and your job is to stay out of men's fights. Men, your job is to not argue with women. It's pretty damn simple.

If you're a male arguing with a woman like that, you need to check and see that make sure that your nads have dropped. Sorry, but you got to do a check. I got to question it. Ladies, if you're trying to get in men's fights, you need to go check your femininity. Stay out of it. I don't like when men try to square up to women like that. She was just asking him a question in a capacity as reporter.

She was not being, she was being aggressive in her questioning, but she wasn't being disrespectful. And I don't think that she was trying to like push in on him in any way. But when he turned, that was different. and you could tell that he felt empowered because she was a woman. That's how progressive men think. Where do you think feminism came from? Feminism is a creation of the progressive male, aided and abetted by the progressive female. That is where feminism came from.

Disrespectful, godless, worthless progressive men treated women horribly. Some of those women decided to get even. And then feminism was created. This is where it came from. conservative men didn't create it conservative men save women from it and conservative women save themselves from it but you saw that all play out this adam and eve's story in that split second when he turned and decided to square up to her like that that was fascinating i hands this guy i bet he wanted to hit her now one other quick thing speaking of that body camera footage so he was telling he had told previously the committee that all these j-sixers were attacking him

Now remember how I told you. And I had friends that, actually I had a friend that was there covering, I guess, like wire services, taking video for different media entities. And there was at the rally, which is near the ellipse, which was pretty far from where they all were. At the capital, there were a group. There were a group of instigators. I kind of think they were plants, but whatever. There was a small group out of the large that I'm happy that they got arrested. You don't damage any of my property.

that's my property in D.C. But they were the ones who apparently started stuff with Fonone. And it was all the Trump supporters and all the other J-Sixers that actually literally saved him. This is cut four. Watch this. That's him in the middle. And those are all of the other Trump protesters at J-6 that are surrounding him. They're getting him out away from the instigators and they're protecting him.

Look at that. They're pulling him away from those people. They're getting him out. That's what that was. They all, like, the instigators started going after Fonone, and all of the Trump protesters, look, they're all getting him up there. They're all getting him to safety. That's Fonone. That's what they did.

They protected him. Every single one of those people were charged. And he lied about all of them. He said they were all attacking him. There was a group of instigators that did. And then the people that were not there to do that, they came down heavy on the instigators. They put them in their spot. They got him out of a tight spot.

And they got him to safety. They got other police to safety, too. They were policing themselves. They were not having it. No one talks about that. I feel like that's important, especially in a media environment where for how many years were we ignoring the burn, loot and murder of cities across America, burning of churches, killing of people in Seattle at Chas Chop, all this other stuff? No, this guy, this Michael Phenone, he's a fake tough guy. He is exactly the type of person you do not want to have the badge.

So that's why we say, back the blue. conditionally because he's completely representative of that. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's absurd truth podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast.