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Superbowl LX Recap: Seattle and Bad Bunny Win! · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special episode of Two
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Shot Tuesday. It is our annual Super Bowl
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Rundown. My name is Jason Riley, with me
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as always, Barry T Nixon, and as always for the Super Bowl
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Rundown show, Craig Zabbits. Gentlemen, how are you doing?
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Fantastic, Jay. Yeah, fabulous.
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Like that game I'm doing? Fabulous.
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Yeah, well, don't, don't, don't bury the lead yet.
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Craig Zabbits, we're ready. We are ready for this year's
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show. Nice.
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Let me tell you something. This is what we call our catch
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and release episode. It happens every year when we do
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the Super Bowl. Super Bowl air just yesterday on
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Sunday, February 8th. We are recording Monday,
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February 9th. This is fresh in our minds and
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we are releasing Tuesday, February 10th.
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Nothing short of a miracle here at Two Shot Tuesday.
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Gentlemen, we have a format on this show, so why don't we get
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started? There's a theme tonight, Barry.
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Why don't you start us off with our theme?
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Well, the theme is sobriety, and after a very boozy weekend, it's
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exactly what the doctor ordered. I'm having some nail gene water.
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Delicious. Craig, I'm having because if
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we're talking football, I'm having a near beer.
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I'm going to have a partake, A partake ale.
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Ale. Yes, nice beer.
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I am having a Fuse 0 sugar iced tea that I like to have on
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occasion. So gentlemen, thank you for
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joining us once again, Craig Zabbits.
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Cheers. Guys.
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Here's what I thought we would do.
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We would tackle this in sequence.
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One is Super Bowl prep. Then we'll talk about the game
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itself, and then we'll touch on the halftime show.
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You guys OK with that format? All right, why don't we?
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Why don't we? Craig, since you're our visiting
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guest here once again for this exciting episode, how did you
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get yourselves yourself prepped for this exciting game once?
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The once the bills, my beloved bills lost in the heart, that
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heartbreaker, I went into hibernation and denial.
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Yeah, I wanted to hiding, but I emerged, I emerged from the
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darkness and and I got back on the football saddle as a
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Seahawks one game fan. So I channeled my, I channeled
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my, my, my Patriots, we'll call it, you know, my passion for
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watching him lose. Channel that.
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Yeah, Become a bit of a Seahawks man, then sat back, got some
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great food ready. Not as good as your nachos,
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which I think you'll talk about soon.
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And then what did you? Get into it.
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What did you get for your prep? Wings we got.
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We did. We had, we had.
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The kids came over the kids. One of the swimmable parties
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with 13 people over here yesterday, nine children, 9
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kids, that's we did. Wings we did.
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Cosmic chicken Nuggets Station. Can you believe there's cosmic
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chicken Nuggets? We did.
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What are those? They they are chicken Nuggets in
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the shape of spaceships. They were.
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They can actually buy those. We did that.
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We did weight off. The chicken we did.
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Chips, we did all of the things that you just shouldn't feed
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kids at 6:00 at night, but we did it and we had a great time.
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So yeah, amazing, really fun event.
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Lifted our spirits. Will you do that once again?
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One, one question Will you do that again?
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Have the kids over. Yeah, we're going to have.
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We. Yeah, we do the.
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Absolutely. It was great fun.
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A bunch of dads came by, so of course, you know, you got to
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crack open a couple real beers. Yeah.
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And we had a good time. They just played downstairs and
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about five of us watched the game.
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So it was really fun. It was really fun.
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Yeah. Nice.
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That's how we got ready. Barry, talk to us about how you
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got ready. I see.
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I see a kind of mellow coming out of a busy, heavy weekend.
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All right. It was a it was a very involved
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weekend, very, very involved prep.
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Not really much mentally other than I choose who joined the
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Seahawks fandom for one day. But it wasn't it was for a
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different reason. My late friend, that was his a
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favorite sports team and if he were with us today, he would
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have absolutely been thrilled at the result.
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So I thought, OK, even though I have a Patriots jersey and
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usually that's how it shakes out for me, whatever a garment I
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have of the team appearing in the big game is the one that I
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will root for, obviously. But this time I didn't.
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I went for the Seahawks. In terms of food, yeah, we did
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the chili and we did some bacon wrapped jalapeno poppers, a
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couple beers. My friend Chris Whitby, friend
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of ours, friend of the show came by and yeah, there were no kids
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and no other dads. It was perfect.
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It was exactly the kind of place I wanted to watch with adults
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only. No screaming except from us.
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And that's, you know, sometimes it's fun to hear grown men
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scream. Yeah.
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And. There's a lot of that going on,
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especially during the halftime, but we'll get to that.
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Yeah, now this is your famous chili.
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Isn't this your famous It's? World famous World famous Jay.
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Yeah. All right.
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What's the 1 secret ingredient that you can tell our listeners
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and viewers love? Nice.
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Well done. OK, that's all right.
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Well, let me touch on what I was with executive producer Aldo
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Roma. We decided we were going to do.
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I had to check in with both of you at multiple times leading up
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to the game to find out who was playing in the game.
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I couldn't seem to keep that in my head and did have to look it
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up prior to the game, but I did watch and we both did.
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We did nachos and not just any nachos.
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We went to the Whole Foods and we got the higher end Mad
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Mexican Nacho chips, nice thin Nacho chips.
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We got their organic shredded 33 cheese blend that we put on
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that, put some chili flakes on that and had ourselves a great
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Nacho dinner. And then we followed that up
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with some cake that we had bought there, some little
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individual cakes. So we had some of that course.
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Yeah, we didn't. Neither of us finished our
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individual cakes. We'll be finishing those
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tonight. But we got those started.
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And so we had a little savory, a little sweet to get us into the
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game. So wait, you each had your own
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individual cake? Yeah, they.
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They're in little plastic containers at the Whole Foods.
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Yeah, individual sections. So you had a slice of cake and
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mine was more like a parfait. There was like whipped cream,
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some cake crumb, some topic. It was delicious and I look
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forward to the rest of it today. So the.
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Party. Yeah, yeah, sounds very
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decadent, Jay. Exactly what you one would
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expect at the mini mansion. Mexican, by the way, that's.
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Great chips. That was a 10 out of 10 in my
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books, right off the top there, yeah.
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And I make good salsa too. Yeah, we didn't do that.
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We didn't do the salsa, but we did have Frank's red hot sauce.
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I put on top of the done chips and yeah, chips and cheese.
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Try it. Frank's red hot sauce.
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The wing sauce. The wing sauce.
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Wing sauce on nachos? My God, you're inventing stuff
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all like, all the time, Jay. I tell you, this is great.
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Why don't we do shot #2 and talk about the game?
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Craig, what have you got for us? We know what it is.
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Got Oh no, I'm I'm going to go blue menu lime sparkling water.
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I'm switching it up. See that?
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Nice, beautiful, well done. I'm sticking with the water.
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I'm hitting the iron after this so I got to stay hydrated.
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All right, and I'm going to stick with the Fuse.
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Cheers. Let's talk about this game.
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Craig, you kind of you kind of tipped your hat to what you felt
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of the game, but why don't you kick us off?
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What were your views on this game?
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Re thanks guys. OK, First off, you had to really
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love football to to appreciate this game.
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It was 12, nothing after 3/4 I think.
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Yeah, it was it was pretty defensive and the Seahawks
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defense, they dominated the Patriots sacked MVP runner up
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Drake May 6 times forcefully turnover.
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So that was my first thing obvious thing, right?
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If you watch the game, the defense was incredible.
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Sand Arnold's redemption tour. Yeah, he was drafted high by The
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Jets and discarded by multiple teams and has made his way to be
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the only 2018. A quarterback to.
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Win a Super Bowl and there's a lot of elite quarterbacks from
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2018. Jason, I know you're a big fan
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of that draft class. So Josh Allen, obviously 2018
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Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, some pretty big names coming out of
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2018. My third big thing, this is
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interesting. I thought the kicker should have
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won the MVP myself. Barry, I don't know how you
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felt. He kicked 5 field goals.
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First time a kicker has ever kicked that many field goals.
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But you can't give a kicker the MVP.
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So went to a running back and it's only the 8th running back
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ever to win the Super Bowl MVP. And that was the yeah, Super
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Bowl. So a little bit of crack
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research from my intern to help me with that one.
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Nice. But I thought, you know what?
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It was just it was, it was nothing but Seahawks news.
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There was nothing, nothing the Patriots did.
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That's really, really newsworthy other than they just got
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obliterated. So, you know, just lopsided
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game. If you like watching the
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Patriots lose, it was a lot of fun.
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But I think the you know, that somehow they've they've they've
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silently assembled this team of killer defenders and they've
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just, they were just unstoppable.
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Patriots had no answers. I don't know.
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What do you think? Barry yeah, no, I completely
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agree. They had no answers.
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I also found myself, and I do love football very much, but I
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found myself distracted at times, let's just say during the
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and like you said, I mean, it was a whole bunch of field
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goals. I didn't realize that a kicker
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could never win an MVP. Is that true?
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Is that? That's just my my hot take.
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I don't think they'd ever give it to him, but he should have, I
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thought. He was.
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Probably the most important player on the field for the
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first. 3 for sure, yeah. I mean, if he wasn't there, they
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wouldn't. Seahawks would have had those 12
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points. I mean, yeah, it was kind of, it
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was a bit of a snooze fest. I got to be quite honest with
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you. I'm glad that I was buzzed and
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with a full belly. I had a friend over because
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there were multiple times I just turned my head away from the
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screen and I didn't look back for what seemed like go, I don't
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know, 10 to 15 minutes now, taking walks around the
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apartment. That's Jay's strategy.
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That's my move. That I, that I employed, yeah,
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it's actually, it's a good move, Jay.
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It actually helped. Stepson.
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Get the steps and help to aid in the digestion.
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I mean, like I said, that beefy chili was, it was pretty Hardy,
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so it would help to, you know, keep things moving.
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But yeah, the game, I just wasn't as engaged.
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Also, you know, as much as I was rooting for a team because of a
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personal reason, it wasn't I still found myself bored.
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I mean, I just have to say it. And I do love football, but I
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just was like, man, this is not as exciting.
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It was kind of tough. If you think about some of the
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exciting Super Bowls we've covered Jason and Barry on your
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show, we had the we had the Rams over the Bengals.
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Remember that one? We had Casey over Philly.
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We had Casey over San Fran. We've had some.
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Thrillers. Yes, thrillers.
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Yeah, and and then we had the snooze fest that actually.
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Yeah, it was. Greatest game I've ever seen,
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guys. Greatest game I've ever seen.
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I love a defensive matchup. No, I do it.
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I don't. I really don't.
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I was. You'd be excited, you know, just
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to kind of get all three of us in there.
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Yeah, I was in the same boat now, executive producer Elder
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Roman. I did like, typically we watch
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TV downstairs in the living room.
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We went upstairs into the backroom because we wanted to
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watch it in 4K. So Barry, I hope you had your 4K
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channel on. Of course and I and it's worth
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noting that this is the first time that I know that TSN
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actually had the full 4K feed. It wasn't just up converted from
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another source. Like it's kind of it's about
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time that they they only have 14K channel.
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It's about time that they are you, you know, used it to
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broadcast the biggest game in the world.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's just poker,
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curling or something. Yeah, the game looked fantastic.
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It just wasn't. The content wasn't quite as
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stimulating as the images, you know what I mean?
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But the threads on the uniforms, Craig Zab, it's over to you.
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I thought my highlight for the first half was Brandi Carlile
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singing God Bless America. I thought she was That was my
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That's how I. Missed it?
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Absolutely boring. The game wise.
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It was, I thought. She was amazing.
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I caught up on my Superman and the Justice League graphic novel
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on my iPad, so just to let you know where I did, I was spend
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some time on that reading that while the game was on, because
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yeah, it was. The nachos were definitely the
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highlight for me, and the cake was also there as well.
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Of course. Yeah, OK.
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So that's kind of the game. That's the game.
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Did any of us were any? I guess Barry, you were the
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closest, I guess, in winning the score.
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I had like a 35 to 24. Craig, you were.
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Like, I was like 2119, but I don't think we're really
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anywhere close to that. Were we?
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I mean, yeah. And no Super Bowl has ever
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finished in 2119 in the 60 years of the game's history.
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So that's why I felt pretty good about that prediction.
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Nice. All right, but let's talk about,
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as we always do, the halftime show.
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This is usually where I shine, but the halftime show for me
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also featured the performer that I didn't know a lot about Bad
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Bunny, but. Craig, not to mention not
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understanding what he said. So that left a lot of people
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scratching their heads, I think, yeah.
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What did you think, Craig? Let's start with you.
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I had no idea what he was singing about, but the set was
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amazing, the energy was fun. I loved it.
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I actually really enjoyed it. I know a lot of I was on some
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text change with some friends who did not like it, but I loved
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it and I have no idea what the songs are about.
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How about the kids? How are the kids the kids?
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All were downstairs at that point, completely lost focus.
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My 14 year old son, though, he liked it a lot, but he didn't
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know who Bad Bunny was. He thought it was cool.
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I said what? You know, I remember when Bruce
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Springsteen did the halftime show and he just sort of looked
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at me like I was crazy. So clearly the halftime show was
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not for me. It was for younger generation,
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Jason. Let's just say that was great.
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What do you guys think? Jay, do you want to jump in?
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Yeah, I also, I enjoyed it. You know what I found Bad Bunny
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was, he was like a concierge. You're kind of walking around.
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He was kind of walking you around the stage, and he would
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introduce you to certain people. So there's a Lady Gaga.
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And she did, I thought, a great job with her bear.
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Then you go to Ricky Martin and Ricky Martin, who was, you know,
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the butt of jokes for a while, for many years, I think we all
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got to admit that guy's got a set of pipes on him and he
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really sang. It looks great.
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Yeah, it looks great. He sings amazing, amazing.
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So he did a good job and I think Bad Bunny did a good like he
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talked toxings kind of thing and then he climbed up on stuff and
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it was and he fell on things. It was it was like a pratfall.
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It was like the Dick Van Dyke show.
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That's for all the boomers out there.
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That was my bad buddy. But I did I enjoyed it for what
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it was, which was sort of this concierge walk around and
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introduction, kind of like the Lawrence Welk meets at the
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modern day Barry. What do you think?
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Last word on Bad Bunny. Man, you have so many Boomer
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references in your rant there. It's amazing.
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I love it. And finishing with Lawrence Welk
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is a is killer. Yeah.
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Typically the Super Bowl halftime show is reserved for
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the older Axe, which is kind of. They went against it this year
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because Bad Bunny is still relevant.
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Very much so. He's not on his farewell tour.
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He's still selling out arenas around the world.
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But you know, I would have preferred it.
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He was singing in English. I mean, that's just my personal
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preference when it comes to listening to music.
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I prefer hearing my own language.
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But it was a bold choice. And no one has ever done that
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before. So he'll be remembered certainly
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for that. But yeah, I agree with you.
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There's a lot of walking around. I I did like the sets, the
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grass. I didn't really understand him
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climbing up on stuff and pretending to like that he was
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hanging himself or some of the dancers were.
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It was a bit weird. Telephone pole.
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They were hanging upside down with one foot, so I was like,
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what is that? What are they doing?
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They went up a telephone pole and I was sort of trying to
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figure out what the what the point of Yeah, I thought he was.
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Fixing the Wi-Fi in the stadium, I think he was that what it?
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Yeah. Maybe that's what it was, right?
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Well, it's a new stadium. The fact that they had to fix it
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already is sad comment on Levi's Stadium.
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But anyway, yeah, I mean, it was OK.
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I would, I would. It was OK.
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I would go ahead and give it an OK, but I did not.
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It was certainly one that I'll forget faster than some of the
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other ones we've seen. Did you like it versus last
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year? Kendrick Lamar was last year,
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right? Did you?
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Yeah, Kendrick did a good job. I don't know.
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I mean, the surprises, like Lady Gaga, I don't think she was
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supposed to show up, or Ricky Martin.
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So those, you know, kind of fun to have some surprises.
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Yeah. But yeah, I don't know, man.
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I liked it as much as Kendrick Lamar, maybe a little bit more
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because I also don't know Kendrick Lamar songs.
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So whether you're singing in English or Spanish, like I just,
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I don't know the songs anyway, so I can, you know, in either
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way, could I really get into them?
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But. Sure that was.
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Kind of my view as well on on Bad Bunny.
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How about you, Craig? How do you stack it up with
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Kendrick Lamar and why or should we?
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You know what? I.
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Think, I actually think I preferred to Kendrick Lamar.
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It's because I like, I thought the set was just vibrant and
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yeah, colorful and visually interesting and upbeat.
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And I, you know what I I would say of all the halftime shows
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we've evaluated, we think with the weekend or Rihanna, I was up
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there for just talk ability. That's all I was talking about
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today on sports talk radio I found.
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And there was the alternate halftime show.
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Head Rock. Which was running in the.
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I don't know if you heard it, but that story, yeah,
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conservative media empire down South had an alternate halftime
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show for those that. They're rock and.
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Roll so that would that would have been entertained to have
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watched. I just read about it, but it was
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it got the Super Bowl. A NFL has 18 games next year.
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I think they have 18 games in the next few years going to be
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overseas. They said they're playing
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Australia, they sign a contract, they're going to play in Paris.
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So they want international audiences.
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So this is the the hook. Nice.
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Well, Craig, thank you for being here to wrap up this season and
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we hope you'll be here with us next season to be able to talk
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about this incredible hook. And as the NFL continues to go
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global, gentlemen, as always, another successful Super Bowl
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wrapped up. Let's hope next year's a little
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bit more exciting and maybe Oasis will do that halftime show
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just like Barry, you and I predicted earlier this year and
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still think we did that. That is a great job that that is
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a great idea for them to. Pursue perfect.
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All right. Thanks, Craig.
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Have a great night everybody. See you, Craig.
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