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Bad Bunny to Headline Super Bowl Halftime: Puerto Rican Pride and Controversy · D-constructing Topics

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  but ooh, ooh, that as I'm recording this, I'm having nice tamales for breakfast. Yes, that is a thing.
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  A lot of beautiful people out here in New York City. And those breakfast carts, you know what?
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  With the tamales. Oh, my God. So it's a little spicy. So I'm like, oh.
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  And today we got a little nice spicy. Keeping it with the Latin thing. Latin Heritage Month.
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  But we're just going to say something off the bat. Because this is like kind of recent news.
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  People been talking about it and then one of the interesting topics it's the.
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  Ready for this one oh man oh drum rolls let's go oh i'm hopping because you
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  know what we are talking about the halftime show.
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  A Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican artists. And you know what? Two weeks ago,
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  it was the concert that he did on Amazon. And great, great concert.
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  All around. Woof. All around. It's one of those things that you'd be like, wow.
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  It's like you felt like you was watching something special. So shout out to that.
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  And it's interesting how this information in regards to him.
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  And I said then, I was in a group chat with my brothers in arms.
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  And I was saying, yo, prepare that he's going to do the halftime show.
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  Because I kind of feel like he was kind of rehearsing for it.
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  Keep in mind, nobody or I have not heard anything.
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  All I've said is for a fact is that this dude is going to do the halftime show.
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  And then lo and behold, lo and behold.
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  And yes, it has created some good things. It has created some controversies,
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  some people with the comments.
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  So we're going to talk to a little bit of bases on a little bit of everything
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  So, Bad Bunny, the famous, very famous Puerto Rican music artist.
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  I'm not even going to say music artist. He does acting. So, it's going to be
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  all this. This dude does it all.
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  Come from the reggaeton genre, you know.
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  Shout out there to the roots, some of the roots where reggaeton,
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  whether it's Jamaica, Panama, and obviously the motherland in Africa.
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  We got a little bit of everything. So, reggaeton is a known genre and a lot
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  of Puerto Ricans for the most part.
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  Well, I'm going to say that there was a time that many of the reggaeton artists
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  were coming from Puerto Rico, but now we got Colombian, Dominican. Oh, we got all around.
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  Oh, man, give yourself a round of applause on this one. Shout out.
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  I love me. My reggaeton. My reggaeton is ooh.
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  But let's get it. Let's make it happen. But you know what?
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  It does for some reason. I've created a little controversy when it comes to
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  Bad Bunny and hosting the halftime show.
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  Now, my understanding. And when I say halftime, the Super Bowl, let's be more specific.
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  For those who live in the United States, the Super Bowl is like the highest
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  rated TV show every year.
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  Hundreds of millions of people watch the show. I mean, watch the Super Bowl.
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  Even if you're not into American football, you watch it because it's a commercial.
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  You watch it because of the halftime. It is no longer a football game,
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  a football game between two teams to get the Super Bowl, the championship.
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  It's a spectacle. and it's an American spectacle.
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  Sometimes some people say, hey,
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  listen, it's a distraction for whatever it is. Look, it is what it is.
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  I think every, for the most part, many countries, many empires always use sport
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  as that spectacle to distract people. I love football.
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  I love when my football team makes it to the Super Bowl, but it has become a spectacle.
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  But hey, listen, you enjoy it. You sit down. You laugh at the commercials and
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  the halftime show. the halftime show, Kendrick Lamar last year,
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  which I was a mix, a little 50-50.
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  You know, but then you start breaking down. It's like, okay,
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  I see where they're coming from.
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  Now, the Super Bowl halftime show has been a who, and it's a privilege to be there.
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  Now, my understanding is that the NFL in itself might not necessarily be the
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  hands-on on who gets to host the Super Bowl.
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  I think this time, it used to be Pepsi, but now it's Apple, if I'm not mistaken.
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  But just the Super Bowl in itself is the
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  station Bad Bunny just coming in out of nowhere from Puerto
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  Rico Doing a residency Doing months and months
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  there in Puerto Rico If you love Bad Bunny You would have to go to Puerto Rico
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  to see him Now he's let loose Now he have made some subliminal messes Where
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  he said Well maybe I do have one date in the United States And let it be home
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  It's the Super Bowl Now why does this have created controversies?
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  Because one is this For some reason
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  And I could understand Maybe I could understand Is that the NFL Of football
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  Was created here In the United States So The foundation of Football My understanding
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  Of what we call American football Started here in the United States So there's
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  Some type of pride Of this being An American tradition You know My understanding.
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  From the days of college days to, you know, the NFL, the national football league.
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  So it's one of those things that I could understand where there's some Americans.
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  You know, I'm not going to point you guys out, but for some reason,
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  you guys wear red hats. I don't know.
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  But the fact is that because of a Spanish person who's from Puerto Rico,
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  an island that don't really much don't play football, even though we got a couple
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  of Hall of Famers, you know, I believe Anthony Munoz and Ron Rivera.
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  Hey, listen, Puerto Rico is in love for more.
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  So stop with that nonsense. But just the fact that we got this bad bunny here
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  that's doing a big, you know, American sport. I'm like, you know what?
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  Come on, man. Get out of here. You know what I mean?
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  So in that time of those kind of racist white folks there, those blatant ones,
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  and then you got the other ones, they're not that blatant, but they are a little sneaky.
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  You know what I mean? The Taylor Swift kind of crowd. You know who you are.
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  You might say, well, you know, I think Taylor should have, well,
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  you know, I think that this person should have, you know, without saying something
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  racist. You know what I mean? But that's racism.
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  Because if you be like, oh, kind of saying, oh, man, you know,
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  I don't think that Bad Bunny should perform. I think that that would,
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  I think that Taylor Swift would have been better or I think this person would have been better.
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  Understand what I'm saying? That's racism.
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  But anyway, so it's bringing up some, a lot of haters or whatever the case might be.
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  I'm like, it is what it is. It is a halftime show It is a platform Now, with that said.
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  The controversy, or I like to think Well, at least that one side of it Is that
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  there are those people in the Puerto Rican community Who are very,
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  and for the most part Very proud of this moment Like, yeah, baby,
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  we here We here, let's go, Bodequai.
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  You know what I'm saying? We doing that thing Now, I'm one, not to say I was
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  doing that thing But I'm like, good for you, kid But here's the little kind
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  of thing That's the little kind of smoke Behind that kind of merit type of thing Is the fact that,
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  Bad Bunny is an advocate For the independence of Puerto Rico Right?
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  And I've seen the comments I've seen some Wow And I've seen some people like
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  Well, how can you be promoting You know,
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  independence And how can Puerto Rico become independent When you are reaping
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  the benefits of Being American And whatever the case might be And that's for all fair and dandy,
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  And even if you was to ask me 10, 15 years ago I had one of those mindsets And I still do.
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  Somebody brought up Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL player that was kneeling,
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  and I'm going to emphasize this, and I'm going to repeat this.
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  I had no problems with Colin Kaepernick kneeling on the national anthem.
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  My problem, just like the great Jim Brown, who lived in a civil rights movement
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  type of era, that dude was gangster, he was questioning Colin,
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  exactly what are you going to do?
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  And I think that that's a fair question. And there's been former football players
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  who have kind of said, okay, I get that you're kneeling because of,
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  you know, this, police brutality, but then what's the solution again? You know, there's none.
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  And it took a while, and then, you know, Colin Kaepernick, you know,
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  to make money, because sadly, the other 14 want to sign him,
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  is that he signed a contract with Nike, right?
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  And Nike came with this kind of walk movement, kind of commercials, whatever.
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  And one to say is this. Interesting, Colin.
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  So you're telling me that you, you know, you're about this pro dish and,
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  you know, you're against police brutality and the pro black lives movement and all.
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  You signed a contract with Nike, this company who has this history of child
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  labor, right? They know.
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  Hey, listen, they always knew, Nike always knew that you had these kids in other
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  countries making these sneakers. You bring them sneakers here. Guess what?
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  You charge people $200, $250.
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  And you can make an argument that Nike and the sneakers, and because of the
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  cause, the Jordans, might have more of a negative impact on our hood. You know what I mean?
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  But that's neither here and here or neither here and there. So it's one of those
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  things that I've heard those comments and once again,
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  I could understand the comments of why some people, especially those who are
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  in the independence movement, who are in the so-called liberation movement,
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  tend to kind of just have some questions.
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  That's all. And bring that conversation in. And I'm with you.
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  Because even me, when Bad Bunny started becoming more mainstream,
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  Bad Bunny, my understanding, he's a pro-LBGT, all that good stuff.
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  But then you're also rapping or singing about companies that have business in
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  countries that don't necessarily are pro-LBGT friendly, right?
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  You could Google those countries. They're somewhere far.
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  But you could Google these companies that are billionaires. You know what I mean?
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  And I kind of say, you know, it kind of sounded a little bit hypocritical, right?
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  And it sounds to seem like someone who's a pro-advocate of independence Who's
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  pro about the culture and be
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  serving our culture How can he side with a corporation that has a history,
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  Of let's say using black people whatever the case might be Or the history of
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  the empire, United States empire So you know we could bring that up You know
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  and the reason I'm bringing this up Because I'm going to take this side This side of things Yeah.
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  And the fact is this, that sometimes in order for one to get somewhere,
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  you got to have a couple of dance with the devil, whether you agree with it or not.
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  If you're telling me that if I have a chance to talk to my enemy or even somebody
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  that I don't agree, I'm not going to say my enemy because I don't see.
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  So Bat Bunny, he's like me. He's an advocate for independence,
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  but I'm not here, you know, like in the old days, eye for an eye.
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  Hey, listen, I'm just going to talk about it, but I'm not going to be here like,
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  oh, my goodness, you know, we should do this and that.
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  You know, let's talk about our culture and how we could preserve and conserve
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  our culture via the independence. You know what I mean?
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  So a bad bunny is not going to be in that. So, hey, listen, if you was to tell
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  me, David, you're going to get your enemy is going to give you $50 million for
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  you to talk versus your friend that's only going to give you $100,000.
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  I'm going to look at it like, oh, man, that 15 million, I could do so much.
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  I could spread the wealth instead of the 100,000.
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  And, again, this is not a way of saying that you sell yourself to the,
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  you know, you sell your soul to the devil or anything like that.
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  He's a person who has a chance that, you know, I don't want to,
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  you know, somebody say, hey, J.Lo was the first Puerto Rican, but J.Lo is different.
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  She's Puerto Rican from here. I don't.
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  J.Lo is different. You know what I mean? And shout out to Jelo Respect I'm just
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  saying Bad Bunny bring in something different I don't think that ever.
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  Maybe me Hey listen My podcast keep growing Maybe I'll be the biggest voice
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  Of the independent of Puerto Rico Out there The biggest platform Let's go That's
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  why you gotta like Share Comment You gotta do all that Man if you're listening
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  to man You know See people A lot of people listen Hey listen,
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  All that buttons that you see Wherever Whether it's on YouTube On Apple or whatever
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  you listen to my podcast, there's a reason for those buttons.
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  And always put the good ones.
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  But this is the biggest stage that anybody, anybody in the history of Puerto
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  Rico who's been an advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico,
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  this is the biggest platform that they could ever get.
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  And I can't even think, and I can't say Ricky Martin because I don't know what
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  Ricky Martin's political affiliation is and what he does come,
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  you know, when it comes to the situation in the island, what happened years
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  ago with the governor, What happened with Vieques Like 20,
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  25 years ago He's an advocate of Puerto Rican stuff You know,
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  whenever there's something for Puerto Rico He's an advocate He loves the island
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  of Puerto Rico I just don't know his,
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  Political view or his stance Or at least his ideology But I do know Bad Bunny, right?
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  He's an advocate He's not, you know, pushing for it He's just an advocate,
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  In that sense And I'm with that That's why I'm like a big independent person
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  Like if I ever When I ever decide to run for an office I'm going to be straight
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  up independent Straight up from the blue.
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  Not straight up from the blue But you know what I mean So it's one of those
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  things That's why it created that conversation And you know I've been You know
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  was back and forth with assistant arms In my social that it's You know she's
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  not against what he's doing It's just the conversation that we need to have And I agree,
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  It's just that my thing with With some of these individuals Is that We tend
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  to say, oh, look, they're doing this and they're selling and they're doing this. And I get it.
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  But at the same token, it's like you're advocating for the Democratic Party.
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  You're telling people how much MAGA and all this.
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  But then when you go and speak out against these one side of things,
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  then you're picking one side. You understand?
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  And it's very rare when a Puerto Rican, and I've came across,
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  where when we speak about the ideology of United States and its empire and the
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  colonism and our status.
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  A lot of them align to the Democratic Party.
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  And for some reason, I say to myself, why? I don't get it.
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  I get it that you want to maintain your level of financial support because there
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  are those people that tend to hate.
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  So here's Bad Bunny And that amazing halftime It's going to be incredible You
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  should watch it I think it's probably going to be the best halftime show ever
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  If from what I've seen from the concert That he had on Amazon I think it drew
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  a lot of millions of people I think that we should be proud
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  I think as Puerto Ricans we should tune in I think as anybody we should tune
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  in Because I'm hoping that he could interject a little bit of history In those
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  15 minutes Or whatever he's going to get,
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  that once and for all the people in Ireland, the people in this country decide.
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  What's our fate? What's our future? Because sadly, the current status of Puerto
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  Rico for the last 70, 80 years, ever since then, it has not really worked and
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  has not really worked for the people that live in the island in itself.
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  It has helped other people because they get, you know, foreign people because
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  they get those tax breaks. But it's that time.
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  And it's time for our Puerto Rican leaders to use this. Even again,
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  if you don't agree, all I'm saying, this is your platform. from here to the
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  Super Bowl, which is in February.
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  We have the biggest platform we can find.
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  Don't go out there looking for the people like AOCs to support you.
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  You can talk to her. But what I'm saying is these are not our leaders.
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  They pretend to be like us. They sound like us, but they're not us. You know what I mean?
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  This is our time to be independent and grab this platform and this chance to
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  talk about the situation of the island and let that be that beginning of that.
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  And once and for all, we could shut that situation.
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  That's to say, we need to address it and we need to address it now.
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  Anyways, this is your boy. Make it happen.
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  The Legendary Deconstructing Topic Podcast. Once again, I hope you enjoy it. I'm pretty sure you did.
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  make it happen And I'm definitely gonna make it happen Because you're gonna
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  make it happen Alright, I'm out of here Peace.