The Matt Walsh Show - Matt Walsh Reacts To The Most RIDICULOUS Super Bowl Halftime Takes

Episode Date: February 14, 2026

This year’s Super Bowl halftime show was a total disaster for the NFL. The numbers are in and the ratings crashed, probably because the performer — a Puerto Rican rapper named Bad Bunny — sang in a language most of the NFL’s actual viewers don't even speak. For the English speakers who did watch, it’s good they didn’t understand: the lyrics were completely degenerate and family unfriendly. And as you might expect, the absurd display provoked a lot of reactions. - - - Today's Sponsor: Ascension Press - You can join Crux with 90 days of premium access to the Ascension app for just $4.99*. Visit https://ascensionpress.com/WALSH to download the app and get the free Crux Action Plan to prepare for the challenge and track your progress through Lent. *Offer excludes current subscribers. - - - Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe 🍿 Real History with Matt Walsh available now, exclusively on DailyWire+!               Watch now: https://dwplus.watch/RealHistory               Subscribe here: https://dwplus.watch/RealHistorySubscribe 🍿 The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is now streaming exclusively on DailyWire+               Watch now: https://dwplus.watch/ThePendragon               Subscribe here: https://pendragonseries.com 🔥 Friendly Fire is here! No moderator, no safe words. Now available: https://dailywire.com/show/friendly-fire 🍿 Watch my hit documentaries:               What Is A Woman? https://dwplus.watch/WhatIsAWomanMovie               Am I Racist? https://dwplus.watch/AmIRacistMovie 🪒 Stop giving your money to woke corporations that hate you. Get your Jeremy’s Razors today: https://jeremysrazors.com 👕 Get your Matt Walsh flannel here: https://dwplus.shop/MattWalshMerch - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You talking to me? Kayak, got that right. Well, this year's Super Bowl halftime show was a total disaster for the NFL. The numbers are in. Whatever they tried it to claim, the fact is, the ratings crashed. Probably because the performer, a Puerto Rican rapper named Bad Bunny, sang in a language that most of the NFL's actual viewers don't even speak. And so that's what the conversation was about this week.

My producers went and found some of the dumbest responses to the halftime show. We'll go through some of them now. First up is Megan McCain, daughter of, of course, John McCain, who wrote, quote, In listening nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl, congrats to all the lunatics who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest bad bunny stand on the planet. My favorite song is Tidi Mi Pogunto and Nueva Yo. Now, look, I'm going to believe that Megan McCain, that her music taste is actually as bad as she's claiming it is.

Maybe she's not just pretending to like Bad Bunny. Although I can't possibly imagine how you could listen to nothing but bad bunny because this whole catalog is the same song. It's just one long, 143 minute song. And it's all quite bad. Latin American pop music is terrible. I used to think that mariachi music in Latin America was the worst kind of music ever made. But then I heard their pop music and my God, they somehow, real innovators there. And she says that T.D. Me. Pregunto is one of her favorites. And just so you understand what kind of artistic brilliance we're dealing with the lyrics to that, if you translate them into English. I won't tell you, there's no reason to read much of it. But I really like the Gabriela's, the Patricias, the Nichols, the Sophia's. My first girlfriend in kindergarten, Maria, and my first love's name was Talia. I've got a Colombian who writes me every day. And a Mexicanian.

I didn't even know about. Another one in San Antonio that still loves me and the ones from PR that are all mine. A Dominican who's a fresh haughty, fresh, fresh, hoti. So this is just Lou Bega. This is Mamba No. 5. That's what this is. You kids don't know about that.

You don't know about Mabo number 5. Now, you weren't around back then. But back in my day, back in my day, our pop music slop was like, it was swing music. It had a horn section. and the lyrics were much more sophisticated. You know, a little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side.

That was much more. Now that was music. That was poetry. Lou Bega. He should have, he should have done the halftime show. You know what else I learned about Lou Bega that I didn't know? Because when I was thinking about this, this is just Lou Bega. I look, as I always do.

I think everyone does this when anytime any person at all crosses my into my consciousness the first thing I do is I look them up to find out if they're still alive and how old they are. I just have to know that about everybody.

And so Lou Begg is still alive and I happen to see that he's German which I didn't know. So little Lou Bega fact for you. That's what you're here for. country music singer Casey Musgraves wrote quote well that made me feel more proudly American than anything Kid Rock has ever done which is absurd obviously

then again it's coming from someone who couldn't possibly begin to explain what an American even is so maybe it makes sense I guess and I also say this in Kid Rock's defense because I'm taking a beating online right now and I have been for the past few days for defending the Kid Rock, the TPSA Halftime Show, which I will continue to defend. I think it was a huge win.

I've already explained why. But it's also true that Kid Rock is, now he's not like, I don't listen to Kid Rock. Probably he's not going to shock you to learn. But he is by far a more talented musician than Bad Bunny. It's a low bar. I'll admit that, but he is a better musician.

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Now, one person who hated the show was President Trump who called it absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever. Former TVOs Pierce Morgan disagreed, writing, couldn't disagree more, Mr. President. I absolutely love Bad Bunny's halftime show. Amazing, best in Super Bowl history.

Theater, choreography, great energy, superbly confident performance, and a very welcome, unifying message. Yes, it was unifying by trying to claim that all the countries in this hemisphere are really one big country. So it's unifying in the sense that globalism is unifying, which is to say that it's unifying in the sense

of not being unifying in any meaningful way whatsoever. You're uniting the country by claiming that it doesn't exist. That's the kind of unity. That's also, by the way, all the right-wingers who tried to take the contrarian position on this thing. I thought the halftime show was pretty good. And I didn't think it was woke at all. What the hell are you babbling about? That's actually the wokenest thing we've ever seen in the head.

What are you talking about? Waving all of the flags of the hemisphere and saying we're all one big country. That's the most aggressive, assertion of, you know, globalist ideology we've ever seen on that kind of stage. And as for it being a confident performance, I like he said, confident. It was a confident performance, like as opposed to what? A bashful performance? A shy performance? Yeah, it's the half-time show at the Super Bowl. Like, I, yeah, it's going to be confident. No one would ever claim. No one is claiming that any of these pop stars lack confidence.

That is not a, that's, that is not among their many foibles. Robert Griffin III wrote, many people didn't understand a word bad bunny said during a Super Bowl halftime performance, but it was iconic because you could feel the love of people and culture. Puerto Rican culture is American culture. Together, we are America. No, it's not. No, it's not.

And nobody really believes that. you say Puerto Rican culture is American culture. No, it's not. You know that's not true. Puerto Ricans certainly don't believe that. Let me ask you this. I'd ask anyone who's Puerto Rican. If I were to go to Puerto Rico and stop anyone there on the street and say, you know, think about your history. Think about the history of your people, of your country. What comes to mind? Are any of them going to say, oh, you know, George Washington. Like when they think about the history, as Puerto Ricans, when they think about the history of their country, of their people, does their mind go to George Washington? Thomas Edison, right, like Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong.

Is that what they're thinking about? Is that Puerto Rican history? Right. If American culture is American culture so, then American history is Puerto Rican history. Does anyone believe it? Does anyone actually believe that? No. Now, over on Black Twitter, though, results to Bad Bunny's performance were a little bit different. Mr. Boogie watermelon slice, or rather M. Boogie watermelon slice writes, hey man, the MAGA N-words might have had a point. So there we go. Finally a sensible take. M. Boogie watermelon slice. He gets it. Like I always say, if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Like I always say, M. Boogie. Watermelon Slice, he gets it.

And so does this lady. We'll finish with this video of this grandma's live reaction to the halftime show. Watch. I mean, like, who is this man? God of me! T-sang!

I mean, like, what is this? God, me! This is ridiculous. And got the American flag and all his other flags. And yeah, God bless you two. Get off the stage. Please get off the stage. Get off. Put the gang back on. I can't stand this. Tell me that.

I mean, what in the world is all this foolishness? Thank you. Get out the stage, please, Jesus. Precisely. That's it. See, it doesn't have to be a racial thing. Black and white people can come together. to hate on bad Hispanic pop music. Unity in hating. That's what will save us, I think. That's the only thing. That's the only thing we have left, I'm afraid to say.

That's our only hope. Across America, we don't have a lot in common anymore. We don't agree on very many things. But maybe, maybe we can find unity in hating the same things. That would be an actual, you know, like uniting performance. I saw someone suggest this, actually, I think. And I think it's a good idea that next year, the halftime performance should be someone we all hate. Like, we can agree on that, can we?

Can we find someone we all hate? We can all hate together. Something we all find terrible. So we can be united in our shared disdain for someone. So I don't know. We just need to find a singer. We need to find a singer that we can all agree at this point really sucks. Who would that be?

Katie Perry That's who it should be I think that's That's probably the only one I think at this point That She's probably the only pop star We can all agree we hate

And probably the only thing in general That everyone can agree on So Katie Perry Give her the halftime show And we can all as one nation Hate it together We can make fun of it And everyone will agree

And we'll just have a lot of fun with it that's it that's what we need