Phil Labonte
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Podcast Appearances
But look, I mean...
People are talking about the Bad Bunny halftime show as if it's some big, huge thing.
There was a lot of viewers.
I don't think there were that many people, or I don't think that that's representative of how many people were actually paying attention.
Are these correct?
This is from Samba TV.
Their bio says we create data at the TV.
So there's a couple things that I wanted to mention about this.
First of allβ
People don't realize there's only 560 million Spanish speakers in the world, and there's 1.5 billion English speakers.
So I think that that matters.
The idea of doing a Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish, I think that it was part of a broader...
attempt at basically subversion, right?
I think that the idea of the Super Bowl is that it's very much an all-American thing.
You saw people on X and consistently saying, well, you know, it is American.
It's very American.
Puerto Rico's part of America.
It's American.
And the way that Bad Bunny, that one part of the performance, he had all these flags from all over South America.
And the point that he was actually trying to get across was,