Chapter 1: What humorous observations are made about the hosts' appearances?
It may be just this angle, but I feel like Walsh's beard is somehow even more beardy than usual.
It's taken over. He looks like that guy you turn him upside down and it becomes his hair.
He's got the full Michael Shannon as James Garfield in Death by Lightning beard going now.
It's so dark on my screen that it looks like someone just took out the pixels of Matt's face into like a black abyss. I've been trying to do that for years.
It's cold here, man.
It's cold.
Oh, we're live. Oh, we're live? Cool.
That's exciting.
I just hope Ali Beth isn't hearing us curse like this. There's still gentlemen enough. She is. Look, she's not here. This is terrible.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance?
The reason that is my commentary. I don't watch it because I feel it's a setup. It's a setup where they put on some stupid left-wing thing, dissing the audience of white males, basically, who watch football like me. And then we come out and we complain about it. We sound like a bunch of cranks. So I just don't watch it. I turn it off. I usually have dinner with my wife.
This time I was pounding on my grandson, beating up my grandson. while that went on, and then I turned the game back on, which is what I came there to see. On top of which, I really believe that the arts belong to people who love them, and I don't love popular music, so I don't comment on it that much.
Ever since the Beatles replaced Frank Sinatra singing Cole Porter songs, I was out, and I just continue to remain. I like the game of football.
Chapter 3: How do the hosts react to the recent school shooting news?
I boycotted it when they knelt at the flag. I'm not boycotting it over crappy music, because it's not crappy.
That was the best take? That right there was the best take. You insisted on going first so you could explain that you don't like pop music and that you're old. That was the best of all the takes.
Everybody sounds old when they talk about this on the conservative side.
I have the best take on this. Can I go?
Chapter 4: What are the details surrounding Savannah Guthrie's mother's kidnapping?
I have the actual best take on this. Because I am mad about it. I am grumpy about it. No. Shock me, Matt. I know. I know. No one expects it. Listen, I do. It's this weird thing that's happened with the halftime show this time around, which is that the thing happened. Some conservatives complained about it, I think rightly so. So there's backlash.
And then there's backlash from other conservatives against those conservatives saying, well, what are you doing complaining about it? It doesn't matter. Well, I kind of think, like, if that doesn't matter, then what are any... Why are we talking about anything? Like... This is one of our preeminent cultural events. This is an iconic cultural event. It's an American event, the Super Bowl.
I do watch the Super Bowl, and I like the NFL because I like football. It's an American pastime, and I don't want to give that up. when they turn that into this celebration of not just any foreign culture, but by the way, a foreign culture that has nothing to do with football at all, okay? Hispanic culture has not contributed to the NFL, to American football at all.
I mean, right now there are more Hispanics in the NFL than there have ever been. And there's like one per active roster and there's 32 on the active rosters in the entire league. And that's at the peak. So you might as well have a halftime show that's devoted to celebrating Norway or Vietnam or something.
Women who represent 0% of the rosters.
Does anybody remember those magnet toys where you moved filings to make a beard on a guy?
I'm just having a flashback there. I like football to have a beard. It all comes together. So my point is that what they did with the halftime show, I think, is more deliberately offensive. Not in the sense of like, I'm not crying about it. I mean, deliberately, it's meant to be offensive to the actual fans of the game. because it's inaccessible.
It's in a language that we don't speak, and then on top of it, and this is the part that I think, like, if you're a conservative trying to take the contrarian view, it's actually, it was good. You know, that's absurd, especially when you get to the end of it.
The actual worst take is the one you're describing, and it was John Kasich, and there were other squishy types who were backing it, and it was all these kind of, like, wannabe cool, you know, boomer establishment Republicans. Unbelievable. You know, actually, what Kasich said was, actually, that was great, Bad Bunny. A home run grand slam.
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Chapter 5: How does the episode address the cultural impact of social media on youth?
You're counter-programming the NFL, the Super Bowl. It's going to be a huge failure. I was wrong. It was a huge success. And even if you don't like Kid Rock, even if Kid Rock is not your jam, well, guess what? The point is they've established this. They've got tens of millions of viewers.
So next year, well, now it's actually going to be appealing, potentially, to some bigger stars because they know they'll get a big audience. So they've set something up for the future, I think, in a really smart way. Can I say something, too? That is as conservative as I know what we're doing.
I have to say, both those takes were mediocre. And now here comes the best take. Thank heavens. I thought we were dying here. We were all waiting. So I'll get to the TPUSA event in a little bit because I think that the TPUSA thing is really, really fascinating because on a cultural level, I totally agree with Matt that it was a huge success. Obviously, the numbers were gigantic.
There was a hunger for something that wasn't what was being shown on the Super Bowl. And TPUSA proved it on a sort of aesthetic level. Obviously, you hope that the future is better than Kid Rock, who has not been musically relevant, in my opinion, ever, but certainly for the last 20 years. And so that kind of is what it is.
But as far as the Bad Bunny show, so I think, first of all, that I want to say a couple of things since it's been unmitigated, just bashing of the Super Bowl halftime show. And I'm happy to join in on that because I also despise music that is this music. I will say this one. Everybody was upset it was all in Spanish.
This is like the third time I haven't understood a word somebody said during the Super Bowl halftime show. I mean, I will freely admit that Kendrick Lamar rapping, I had no idea what the hell he was saying the entire halftime show. So the fact that it was in Spanish or whether it's in Ebonics makes no difference to me. If I don't know what you're saying, I don't know what you're saying.
As far as the actual production value, just from like a pure production value standpoint. It is pretty incredible what they were able to build on the field, like just from in terms of they built like an entire sugar cane field. And then apparently one of the glories of Puerto Rico, failing telephone lines. And then they built an entire casita like like that stuff.
Honestly, like on an aesthetic level, that that was kind of cool. I did appreciate that they actually held a straight wedding on the field. Right. I mean, I mean, like that's I like the little marriages are good. Exactly. I'll take the little win. I'll take that.
I thought it was kind of cute when there was the kid who was falling asleep on the, on the chairs and, and grandpa comes over and like picks him up. I like that. That's a fine, but the part of it that really ticked me off and it's not even that it's, it's all in, in Spanish. Although again, I would appreciate if you did something in English because we should all speak English. It's America.
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Chapter 6: What critiques are made regarding contemporary masculinity?
But when he said, you know, we are all Americans and we all understand. No, we're not like that. We're not Americans means like from the United States. That was the part that I found insulting and also obviously a way of gaslighting everybody and driving them. half mad and crazy and then trolling off of that. And so, of course, the president sounded off on this and said that he didn't like it.
By the way, one of the great things about the calci markets, they're one of our sponsors, is that you actually can place you can actually predict whether the president is going to call out Bad Bunny by name this month. That was up at like 80% right before the Super Bowl. That is down at like 25% right now.
But my overall take on it is that, of course, Americans who are insulted are right to be insulted. And the left meant for it to be insulting. Also, I think that it was a game. It was a game. The game was to try and get the right to sound off in extremely loud fashion about this particular thing.
That's what I mean.
That's what I'm talking about. Latino voters particularly and Latinos in the United States and say it's not that they are upset that they didn't get any English or that you're equating somehow Haiti in the United States as we're all Americans or that what all those flags belong in America as equivalent to the American flag like that.
The thing that they really hate about you is that you're Latino. And that's the game the media are playing now. And they're taking the stupidest form of the argument being made by the right and, of course, using it that way.
One good note, though. We have to say it was the only 20 minutes of the show in which Drake May wasn't sacked. So I think that that's something we can say positive about the performance.
I actually, I disagree with this. I disagree with that. I don't think... You know, the idea that, well, they're trying to provoke conservatives into having some kind of reaction. And so then the right answer is to not have a reaction. I know you didn't say that second part, Ben, but that's the implication. Like they're trying to provoke us to react. So we look like grumpy old men.
And so we should therefore not react. I don't think that's the case at all. I think the gamble, there was a gamble they were taking. The gamble was that they would just kind of get away with it and there wouldn't be much of a backlash.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts define the current state of identity politics?
It was a big, big win. The second fear I had was that it was going to be a cringe fest. And, you know, love Charlie. Eric is a national hero. I love our friends at TPUSA. They do great stuff. They put on great shows. But I kind of thought it was gonna be a huge cringe fest.
So I'm watching it with, you know, white-knuckling it, and I thought, I don't know, and maybe Kid Rock is gonna be a little over the top or whatever. So Kid Rock comes out, and he does the thing that we were all expecting. Flag, pyrotechnics. One, it was impressive that a guy who was, I think, 57 years old was moving around like that.
I don't move around like that at 35, and I didn't move around like that at 25. So that was physically impressive. But I thought, okay, here's a song from 1999. We've all heard it. I don't even really like the song.
He's social security rock now.
He's no longer kid rock. But you know, he actually leaned into that. And I thought this was the point where, and conservatives are kind of dissing some of this stuff, but I thought there was actually real artistry. I thought there was actually some real beauty in that show. Because he comes out, they say, introducing kid rock. and he does the Kid Rock bit.
And then it shifted to a cello and a violin. And I thought, okay, man, we're in it now.
They're really catering to me.
Because the right is split up between, you know, the like, I want to go fishing kind of guys and the more like rocky, edgy face tattoo guys and people like us who like classical music and Cole Porter and whatever. And so it's actually kind of hard to cater to all of them. TPUSA did that.
You had this transition with the cello and the violin, and then they reintroduced Kid Rock by his Christian name, by, I think it's Rob Ritchie. I actually didn't even know what his real name was. And they introduced him and he did this song until you can't. It was this song about how you plan to go see your dad, but you get a rain check.
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Chapter 8: What conclusions do the hosts draw about the future of society?
We all think we have a big shot in our political order. Everything's going to go hunky dory until you can't. And it even showed his evolution as an artist from this guy who's like rapping and bopping around as a kid to this older, more mature feeling. It actually really struck a chord with me.
I don't love modern music either, but I thought this was a moment where, yeah, conservatives had the guts to offer an alternative and they succeeded in getting tens of millions of views. but they did something conservatives never do. They did it at the very least a little bit, which is they offered something that was artistically interesting and kind of bold. Maybe I'm too glass half full here.
By the end of it, I thought that was actually a really beautiful choice and a fitting way to end the show.
Yeah, and then we also got the other thing that we're used to from conservatives, which is you get this huge win, this, like, unprecedented that you counter-program the Super Bowl, and it pays off. One of the, I think, the biggest... top three streams in the history of YouTube they had. I mean, it's huge.
And then immediately, what do you have on the right, which you never have on the left, is all these conservatives that have to start, well, it seems like that was a big win, but actually it's bad. Let me explain why this thing that seems really good is actually bad.
Let me explain why, yeah, they went out and did something that had a big success, but it would have been better if they didn't do that. Or having these critiques that are totally useless, like, you know what I think would have been better? What if they had an even bigger star than Kid Rock? That would have been better. Oh, you think they didn't think of that? I got no problem with Kid Rock.
Do you think that the people at TPUA USA thought that Kid Rock is the biggest star in the world? No, but they wanted to put on this show, and you get the biggest star that you can. They're dealing with the fact that, number one, they're TPUSA. They're seen as a conservative. They are a conservative organization. And so that rules out a lot of big stars already.
And then on top of that, you have other big stars who maybe would do it, but they're thinking the same thing you were thinking, Michael, and that I was thinking, which is like, this is not going to work. You're counter-programming the Super Bowl. And so they don't want to be, because what if you get 500,000 live viewers or something, and then it's blamed on you? And so you do what you can.
You put on as good a show as you can. You take the swing. You go for it. And then if it's a hit like it was, now in the future, you've done something for the long term. It just pisses me off that for so many conservatives, and we all know that it's really just competitiveness. It's like envy.
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