EPISODE 82: ALT-RIGHT HALFTIME SHOW (FEBRUARY 8TH, 2026)
Before Dennis heads off to another country, with stomachs full of pizza and wings, the Boys™ decide to tackle the Turning Point USA protest halftime show. Cause who the heck would want to listen to a guy sing words you don't even know about? Speak American? Watch the video version at http://shrug.club "THE BOYS" shirts are available NOW! Like what we're doing? Want MORE for FREE? Join the Shrug Club at http://patreon.com/shrugclub Theme music by DJ Danarchy
Louder Than Crowder, a podcast about the podcast, Louder WITH Crowder.
My name's Byron.
Across from me, I'm flexing him up.
can see it on camera okay yeah because there's a okay i thought you were doing football athletic uh calisthenics Yeah, I'm doing good mornings.
Excuse me?
I'm doing some good mornings.
I don't know what that means.
Okay, that's fine.
And in Occupied Texas, he's over there kicking field goals left and right, both feet.
Both feet.
He's doing a double practicing a bolt.
It's Jared.
Yeah, I got a rope, and I am swinging with both feet out.
I'm kicking field goals.
Wow.
We've got some stuff going on.
Do you remember that American Gladiator game where they would swing from the ropes and they'd grab the ropes and go across the way?
No, I don't.
And historically, the big ugly hates the big game.
Does he?
Could it be the satanic rituals, the commercials that make him cry and question his masculinity in public?
Could it be a replay of his younger days where he was made fun of brutally for not being athletic?
He's not athletic?
No, that's what he said.
We discovered that both Jared Holt and I, while I was discussing it on the program of his and Mike's, it's called Posting Through It.
We did an episode that actually should be out by the time this is out.
Posing Through It.
Who the hell is Steven Crowder?
Nice.
You need to give it a listen.
They had me on there to talk about Steven, and I really had a great time.
It was a lot of fun.
But we are awaiting right now the All-American halftime show.
Do you think they're waiting until the big games halftime show?
To announce Jellyroll as the opener?
We know he's going to come out.
I think Struggle Jennings is going to be there.
I don't think Struggle Jennings.
Imagine Gorgiato comes out and gets him all hyped.
I saw patting him on the back as he walks out.
I did see a post today making fun of Tom McDonald on an Instagram account of him.
Oh, he's praying for the laugh.
Playing guitar, and it was terrible.
And they were going through a bunch of band names like Blink 1488.
Oh, that's kind of funny.
Or Death Camps for Cutie where they come.
Oh, that's brutal.
I don't know about that.
No, Jared Holt.
David's one.
David from the chat here, boxcar racist has been my.
I like it.
Very cool.
If you want to hear our commentary, we did a bit of a double salutes, Dennis, when you were busy working.
We covered his new song, Praying for the Left, which is that the one where he's playing the guitar?
I think I'm going to tab it out based on what he plays in the video.
He's got a guitar from the Fender Custom Shop.
Oh, I saw that.
I saw it was locking tuners and it was a locking nut.
We know.
We know it's Nova Rockefeller.
His party guard.
It's her guitar.
Yeah, for sure.
So very exciting stuff.
Right now, we are awaiting, like I mentioned, the All-American Halftime Show, which is a star.
It's the only halftime show, if you're asking me.
Yeah, exactly.
Who wants to see a guy who already claims to not be very good?
Yeah.
You know, it's in his name.
Obviously.
If it was Good Bunny, the only good bunny I know is the Energizer one.
Oh, totally.
Classic.
Playing the drums never skips a beat, that guy.
Well, it's actually, I think he tends to fade and then come back when he's got new batteries, right?
He doesn't.
He goes really fast.
He has no rhythm.
Like, he goes faster with more batteries.
That's kind of weird how he does that.
That's not how the rhythm section should work.
No, it should be consistent.
That's kind of cool.
We do have a little bit of a test.
Are we going to text this number and start a turning point USA chapter?
Chapter?
I was curious.
You know how they said all those chapters.
Yeah, right here in my office.
I think there is one in our city.
I'm sure there's one where Jared is.
Send us a material.
I've seen those nerds out at the campus when I've been returning Amazon packages or something like that.
I mean, the problem is we don't want to get busted like Don Lamont.
True.
We don't want to end up indicted.
Why, for stealing, for getting free materials sent to the house?
Maybe for being nuisance, you know?
Well, that's funny.
Honestly, it would be kind of fun to sacrifice ourselves and put ourselves in a precarious law position, right?
These guys know Kid Rock.
That's kind of cool.
Personally.
So are you guys excited?
I will say it now just in case it happens.
Remember at the Grammys when he questioned about ice and Jelly Roll, after winning a Grammy, says, you know, I'm a dumb redneck.
No one should be looking at me for politics, but I will come out within the week and you'll know my politics or something like that.
I'm not quoting exactly what I'm saying.
You think he's going to be going to come out in an ice costume?
I think it's going to go, Jolly Roll.
And then he walks out.
All the jelly that he lost from his body, it's going to flood out like the shining out of a fucking elevator.
It's going to end like a silhouette of him.
That'd be kind of funny.
You think Kid Rock's got a banned or not?
No.
Is it going to be a solo?
I mean, I miss Joseph C., remember?
Yeah, Joe C.
He was the backup singer.
He was the one.
I do like to view it like that.
He is a singer.
Yeah, exactly.
He did some dances.
I think he was kind of like a Vern Troyer type, wasn't he?
Well, just because he was a little guy.
They're not all Vern Troyers, but I guess.
But I thought maybe he had a little cart or something like that.
I mean, maybe.
I don't know.
You don't know who jerks on that show.
I'm lost from this whole conversation.
This is interesting.
No, so what we're saying is that Kid Rock used to have basically like a small guy.
Little person, I think they call him.
Small guy is also a funny way to say it.
Josie, who was like his backup hype guy.
Oh, I remember this.
I remember this.
Yeah, yeah.
And he famously, he was the one who came up with the lyric that is resurfacing about Kid Rock, talking about Kid Rock.
He helps deliver it, I think.
I thought he came up with Ba with Deba.
The lyric that kind of popped up after announcing is from Cool Daddy Cool, which came out in 2001.
On my cell phone, I'm Paige.
Osmosis Jones.
That's right.
She made a video and I went to the VHS.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For this song?
Yeah.
He has these lyrics?
On my cell phone.
Let me say that.
Sorry, I was going to say.
You go for it.
Barnes are going to be a little bit more.
You watch the movie at the end.
Right, but it's at the end of the movie.
Yeah.
There was a budget for this.
Oh, of course.
Big budget.
Yeah.
On my cell phone, I'm page.
Can't call me like Page Me, he sings.
Young ladies, young ladies, I like them under age, C. Some say it's statutory, but I say it's mandatory.
My story ain't that complex.
240s and a Rolex.
What a poet.
Well, I mean, pretty good.
Pretty hooky.
Wow.
Wow is crazy.
But I think the way that it plays is that it's like Kid Rock says, some say that's statutory.
And then Josie says, but we say that's mandatory.
Sure, sure, yeah.
That makes sense.
Like a call-in response.
I've never heard this song before.
I've only read this a lot.
Yeah, a lot of people.
You've seen Osmosis Jones.
Clearly.
I have not.
What?
You're not.
No, dude, I'm not a xenophile like I was most of the time.
You just sin.
That's it.
So I thought really quick, before we...
It's better than the other, I guess.
There was a bit of a countdown on this All-American halftime show.
The clock has stopped.
It does say event starting soon.
So I thought that while we wait for that, I would maybe we could talk about the boys' opinion of when Bad Bunny announced that he would be performing at the Super Bowl, which was around the same time as the SNL SNL that he hosted, I think, and performed at, right?
Sure.
I thought.
He might have sang and performed.
No, I thought that it was announced that he was going to be the halftime performer before that.
Maybe it was before.
Maybe it was in September and this was October.
I think that actually makes sense.
I just remember seeing him being like, oh, there's Bad Bunny on SNL.
I'll be honest, I didn't know much about Bad Bunny.
I still don't really.
This is from, well, the episode is called Deport Them All.
Trump Takes Fight to Leftist Chicago and Portland over Attacks on ICE.
Nice to know we're still talking about the same stuff.
Rewind.
Well, let's see what the boys had to say from that episode.
I don't know if he got bit by one of those CT flies.
Wait a second.
These clips aren't in order.
Welcome, Bongino Army.
Thank you guys very much for joining us.
We really do appreciate it.
Steven is sick.
So I'm really sorry to say this is a Gerald episode.
Oh, no.
We haven't done a Gerald episode, and we aren't going to, really, because we're going to be interrupted by Jellyroll.
I don't think we're going to.
Has the big games halftime show started?
I don't think so, because I don't think that what we're watching in the happening now is.
You're watching like a CGI stream of this.
Yeah, it's basically a fake version.
I think it's a video game.
It seems like the wet men are going up against the guys in white.
Sure.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yep, yep.
And then so they've hit one, one down.
But it's interesting, Dennis, what we're watching is like an AI.
But they are still showing the actual score, which is cool.
What is that?
It's called technology, is what it is.
Okay, cool, yeah.
It's cool tech.
I don't know if he got bit by one of those CT flies or something like that, but he's out today.
I apologize.
He did want to be here with you because he loves you.
But he's in bed and probably bed and toilet.
I think there's some combination.
Yeah, that's roughly what's happening right now.
If I ever shit the bed, will you guys not tell it?
I'm going to tell everyone during the live stream.
Yeah, you call in sick, and I'm like, he's barfing and shitting.
He's currently shitting into his sink.
Oh, Caitlin Bennett over here.
Excuse me?
What?
I said, oh, Caitlin Bennett over here.
I don't know that.
I don't know what the reference is.
Who's Caitlin Bennett?
Oh, she's the mattress.
Boo-boo Bennett.
Oh, yeah, the Kent State gun girl.
Yeah.
Kent State Gun Girl.
Yeah, if that's ever me, just don't be like, hey, hey, Chatterhead, sorry.
Dennis is currently tub girlling.
We'll put that over at shrog.club.
Yeah, if that's a page.
Too hot for you.
Of course.
We're going to talk a lot about ice.
Not the kind of ice you necessarily think of, but the Pope blessing a block of ice, which is interesting.
And then Bad Bunny's comments on ice and also him appearing at the Super Bowl and his SNL appearance.
And then the leftist attacks on ice in places like Chicago and Portland.
And also the Hitler rhetoric.
Can there be a Japanese Hitler?
Gerald has such charisma.
He really does.
He really does.
He's honestly the most electric broadcaster in the business.
Yeah, I don't even know what he's talking about because all I can listen to is his dulcid tones.
Yeah, well, he's coming back after a quick little skit from American Finance for a long time sponsor there.
Lane the brain.
I'll just leave off the last part.
There we go.
We'll just go.
Why can't I have you want the other one too?
Ginger snap?
Oh, no.
Get rid of that one too.
That's fine.
You asked for it.
You said the last part I thought you met of that one of the newly minted moniker, if you will.
The brain is not functioning at 100% capacity this morning, but we're going to do it.
Okay, well, Lane.
We are going to do our best.
We have a Times brain.
It was a good weekend.
It was a good weekend.
Where were you this weekend?
I was in Chicago.
Were you covering the riots?
No, I was in Drum Tower.
Is that the nice part?
Okay, participating.
We're going to come back to this.
Yeah, nice.
All right.
Well, we are going to dive into some subjects.
And listen, anytime Lane is on the show, there's like a greater than 50% chance that something Asian will come up.
Interesting.
We'll get to that.
Gentlemen, welcome to the Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show.
And this one's for you, Charlie.
Big button.
You get the butt.
We got a line six over there.
Is this in someone's like sound stage?
What is this?
He has a plug-in.
I bet it doesn't turn on.
I bet the amp doesn't turn on.
There's no way.
This is a local access level.
And just like that, the show starts.
But you don't want to hear us just talk over a bunch of music.
If you want to hear our commentary and watch us watch it live, go to Shrug.club and watch the video version for free.
We jump back in at the end of the program after Kid Rock bawd with the ba and sang a new song that was someone else's in which he had a what seems like a prophetic dream in which he decided to write a verse for someone else's song.
And that's what he sang.
Is this for real?
Yeah.
See, that's what I said.
They don't know.
They don't know what is cool.
I want the taste or flavor, man.
I want to drink that beer.
I want my truck.
That was insane.
I want to drive that truck.
I want a gun.
Stop.
You don't want a gun.
Because I want to make them run because that boys can be girls.
Okay.
So now that that's over, you don't think there's.
Can we listen to Memphis, Kansas Breeze for like a little flavor saver?
I do want to go to the segment that I mentioned at the top of the show because I think that we do need to talk a little bit about, and I'm sorry this is what the segment is called.
It's not what I would like to say.
El Ritardo.
Bad Bunny's SNL rant is pure rage based.
Oh, no.
So that's what we're going to be talking about really quickly.
Overreaction Alert00:15:16
We're going to start here at the top of it and just kind of work our way through it.
Okay, let's go.
If you didn't understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.
Somebody's coming who, at the very least, somebody told me his existence is resistance.
Don't overreact on the right and certainly don't overreact on the left.
Can we just ignore this?
We've got a so that was just a little quick tease of what we have to look forward to here.
It is again Louder with Crowder with Gerald, as you can see on the sign behind.
Oh, yeah.
Very cool.
This happens on, I mean, these are the worst days when this happens.
I hate it, and you should apologize.
Sorry.
Thank you, Gerald.
Appreciate that.
All right.
Let's get started.
We've got a bit of a habit lately on the right of maybe overreacting in some ways, would you say, Lane?
At times.
At times.
Yes.
I would say the X algorithm has definitely inspired such behavior.
Right.
Okay, and so we so the X algorithm now.
So keep in mind this was from October.
Things have changed quite a bit on the show.
Sure.
In fact, so much so that when Gerald opens and he says that Ice leaving Chicago and them wanting that is R-worded.
And he stops himself.
And then Tim the Toolman has to remind him that it's okay to say the R-word now.
Just do it, dude.
Just do it.
Which is pretty cool.
Say it, bro.
Pretty cool.
So that's why, again, the segment is called that.
Okay.
But, yeah, it's just funny how sharply the country has turned, if I'm being honest.
Yeah, it's a little different.
Just a touch.
A little different.
That's a little different.
We all have to take a step back sometimes.
But this next story made people feel a lot of different ways.
But last week, Régaton.
That's pretty good.
That was part of it.
Bad Bunny.
He was selected to perform at this year's Super Bowl.
And I haven't really cared who performed at the Super Bowl for a very long time.
But last year it was Kendrick Lamar and everybody's like, I can't believe.
I get it.
I get it.
You know, just mute, which is what I do during the halftime show if I'm watching the Super Bowl.
I saw it watch it.
I don't mind watching the Super Bowl.
This guy's so cool.
Or just don't want.
You can just change the channel and come back.
Yeah, now we got the TPUSA alternative.
The alt-right.
Thankfully.
The alt-right halftime show, which is a lot of fun.
How are you feeling about his energy so far?
He's not out of fishing out of water at all.
It's really quite uncomfortable.
I think he's in full control.
What's really funny is they're implying that it's so bad that it can't even be background noise for their life.
They have to mute it, but it still is on, right?
Yeah, it has to stay on, but muted.
If I didn't want to listen to the music, I would just turn it down and be like, what do you think of the game so far, friend?
I mean, it's the same thing that, you know, how was your very spicy liquid death drink you had?
Yes, actually, I don't know, Jared, have you seen these yet?
Deathberry Inferno?
This is a spicy.
Dude, it's intense.
Got it at Target.
I shouldn't be shopping there.
We should be boycotting Target.
Yeah.
Why'd you do that?
I don't know.
I was in there.
Sometimes it's fun to walk around in Target.
I don't know.
Okay.
It's fine.
I don't know.
We don't have many options.
It's fair.
That's true.
Okay.
But yeah, it was pretty good.
Spicy.
I loved it.
It was spicy.
Yeah.
But whatever.
The halftime show is for girls.
It's true.
It is for girls.
The halftime show is for the wives and the girlfriends.
Is this the MD Foodie Boys?
What are we doing here, guys?
We got the He-Man Woman Haters Club over here, the Little Rask.
Music's for girls.
Is this like Goldberger or whatever?
Excuse me?
Gingersnap?
That's gingersnap.
You've never seen Lane the Brain Ginger?
No, I have.
I have.
I remember we were all like lusting over him when we first got together.
Oh, he's a freaking hunk.
He's a honk.
Or the Super Bowl parties.
And for the guys to go grab a beer, have a snack or something.
But he was completely aggressive.
You know, kiss your buddy in the garden.
That's the World Cup.
Josh can't see us in the garage.
Have a Stogie.
Well, and then Josh makes a joke about kissing.
Kissing in the garage.
Because they're trying to make Gerald uncomfortable because Gerald is homophobic.
A conversion therapist.
Counselor.
Yeah.
Don't tell me about the kisses.
No.
Yeah, it makes him uncomfortable to even think about gay sex because he can't get it out of his dang head.
Yeah.
Once it gets up there.
What if I end up doing that?
What if I do gay?
What if I throw a kisser?
Kiss her?
Oh, the country person.
Yeah, yeah.
It's true.
Yeah, I can't be singing.
I mean him.
I mean him.
His brain freaking melts and falls out of his head.
Can I just respond to your invite to the Super Bowl party now with a no?
I will not miss it.
Not a chance.
Wait, what?
You will not miss it.
That's a little slip up.
That's a little slip up.
Hold up.
You're going to do gay stuff?
I will.
I will absolutely be there, please.
When you said Stogie, you winked.
I will absolutely not be missing this.
So cool.
He looks so happy.
He looks so sad.
I know.
I like that little pause I got on him.
Can't wait.
Can you screen grab that so we can have that be our new group chat?
Well, we'll get it on the way back.
Yeah.
So a lot of people had some outrage over it, but he responded to the criticism about his selection last night.
Or, I'm sorry, not last night on SNL because SNL's Saturday night live, right?
So it was Saturday night, or did they keep going?
We get the wrong thing.
I'm just going to keep going.
He responded to the allegations of.
So I think that that was probably part of the run-through, right?
It definitely was.
Why would they have the overlay prepared?
Yeah.
Pretty good work, boys.
Really funny, really funny joke.
Guys, listen.
Sunday morning.
I'm just going to address the audience directly in the camera.
I know sometimes I write unfunny jokes in the script.
We just move past them, right?
Yeah, we just go.
We don't admonish me.
And I certainly don't warn you ahead of time.
We don't plan anything.
I mean, I don't plan anything.
You plan stuff.
I just show up and listen.
Well, thank you.
I do talk fast and I edit even faster.
So when they finally drop, honestly, just laugh a second.
Knee slaps.
People are trying to drive.
They can't stop slapping their damn knees.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Admonish me.
That's all.
Let's see.
I drop an admonish on myself really quick.
See if I can.
I gotta learn to pull the admonish for the board, I think, actually.
The sound, yeah, I can help with that.
United, or did they just put it out last night?
Right, I said the wrong thing.
Yeah, I'm just gonna keep going.
He responded to the allegations of sexual improbriety.
Kenny, I'll just make up an entirely different story.
But he did tell Americans to learn Spanish.
Hit it!
I'm very excited to be doing the Super Bowl, and I know that people all around the world who love my music are also happy.
It's a bad chest moss there.
It's a tattoo.
Oh, that explains it.
It's a tattoo, guys.
Yeah, chill.
No, Latinx?
And here in the United States, all the people who have worked to open the doors, more than my achievement.
More than my achievement, it's a achievement of everything.
Demostrando que nuestra huella y nuestra aportación en este país, nadie nunca la podrá sacar ni borrar.
And if you didn't understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.
Okay.
Let's take a quick break before we get his take.
Should I play the millionaire music?
Do we got that?
What do you think his take is on Bad Bunny speaking in Spanish and saying that you have time to learn Spanish by the time?
I think he's going to say something that Bad Bunny has time to learn English before you sing the Super Bowl.
That's kind of funny.
Well, he's just a how come you don't speak American?
I mean, yeah, it is a language we have here.
My prediction American is different.
Tom Going's show says, every time they do the admonish thing, I always think about how Steven explained the admonish button in his deposition as if it was a real punishment.
Great point.
It's like in the office.
And who's Ryan?
Exactly.
Yeah.
Great.
Thanks for pointing that out.
That's hilarious.
Appreciate you.
Yeah, what's the take gonna be?
Okay.
We barely understand his English.
Yes.
Listen.
Mr. Bunny.
Is that what you go by?
Oh, I get it.
I understand.
And I think he was probably making a joke.
Josh, you helped us clarify that to Josh helped him.
As the comedian, he pointed out, you know, maybe Bad Bunny isn't like serious when he's saying that everyone in America should learn Spanish before the Super Bowl.
Yeah, he might just be joking.
He might be being silly.
It wasn't a demand of Bad Bunny.
Mr. Bunny.
Mr. Cole.
Cool, dude.
Cool.
Cool.
Great.
Thanks.
Thanks, comedian journalist Josh Feierstein.
That too.
There's probably some comedy.
It's a late night comedy show.
Saturday Night Live is, you know, he's making a little jokes.
He made a real point there about how he feels about Latino heritage and what they've contributed to this country and all that.
And fine, whatever.
But the last part was a joke.
Or month to learn.
Right.
You didn't learn that there's an S after a month.
I get it.
It's the pluralization of things.
Yeah, I think it's a joke, and people are taking it way too.
I think people are taking it way too seriously.
Interesting.
Not the one doing a show about it.
Yeah, why are we talking about this?
And why'd you call it L Retardo?
Like, you didn't do anything.
It's a non-it's not anything.
Yeah, I mean, people are talking about this.
We're doing a segment on it.
I guess we're going to naming our entire show about it.
Yeah.
Come on, man.
I do like this is back before Josh went full.
Like, I guess this is before the second time that Josh War dressed up his hit like.
So we still had a little bit of life.
I thought we had an opportunity to save him.
I really did at some point.
Yeah.
We should have reached out and talked to him at the comedy show.
Yeah.
We should just send him a couple pictures of himself over the last couple of years and be like, hey, man.
You think it's stopped?
Is this better or worse right now?
Look at yourself then and now.
Do you feel like that?
Dennis, hit him with your management style.
What do you think went right here?
Do you have some good stuff?
So looking at this photo here, what do you think you could do to improve?
It's okay.
Let's just sign the logic of opportunity you might have here.
I love it.
Like, I'm not going to learn Spanish.
How dare you?
Hey, you don't have to.
Yeah.
Now, you can forgive me for not understanding that Saturday Night Live is supposed to be funny anymore.
So I get it.
But I do think that you're probably right.
Yeah.
There's a little bit of kind of jest going back and forth on this right now, playing to the audience.
But, but, but the left celebrated this far and wide in legacy media.
Okay, what do we got here?
We're all on Duolingo.
This is from Variety of Sports.
No problem.
And what did these actually say?
You format us to learn Spanish.
Slammed Super Bowl.
Bad Bunny mocks Fox News for slamming Super Bowl gig in SNL monologue.
That doesn't seem terribly directly related to their concerns, right?
Bad Bunny responds to Super Bowl critiques, urging them to learn Spanish.
That's just a funny ribbing.
This is not serious, right?
I like this one.
It says John Oliver praises NFL to tap Bad Bunny as halftime show performer, one of the hottest, most commercially successful people alive.
Who just won a Grammy Award?
Andy's very popular.
Yeah, and but such a weird thing to include that on this other criticism.
Yeah, let's see what the left says.
Because it's John Oliver saying true, yeah.
They're like, we got to get him on the show.
You're welcome to come on any time.
Come on anytime.
Come on anytime.
Yep.
So maybe they took it a little bit more seriously than Senor Bunny had intended.
This is less about his joke and more about the way that the social justice left's like, look at him sticking up to the man, sticking up to the regime.
And that's how I see it.
Evil Western imperialists.
That's the vibe.
Sticking up to the man.
We're going to let that slide.
Admonish.
Sorry.
Sorry.
That they're giving up.
And I didn't see that from a lot of people on the right necessarily.
I did see that from people on the left.
There's overreaction on both sides for sure.
Yeah.
And I think it's silly.
I didn't see overreaction from people on the right that he said that.
I saw overreaction that he's playing the Super Bowl.
No, correct.
It seemed to me like the right was like, okay, yeah, whatever.
Maybe there's a few people that's made an intelligence people on the right are complaining about Super Bowl.
They made their own halftime show.
And you are doing both of those things right now on this show.
That's what this show is.
Yeah.
Well, this is all because Steven was shitting at home.
Yeah, you're right.
He was just doing his shitting in the show.
Well, and now they don't have a show.
So they're like, ah, fuck.
Fuck, what do we do?
What do we do?
I guess we talk about a non-issue.
Do I get it right today?
It's Gerald.
This is like when we were growing up and you let me design the posters for their concerts sometimes.
They were not bad.
They were bad.
They weren't good.
I used a font that was ninjas.
Each letter was a different ninja.
Yeah, but the amount of people who were at our show is tripled.
Tripled.
They said ninjas, hell yeah.
Yeah.
But yeah, the left definitely celebrated it while the right was like, clap back.
Like, what?
We kind of clap back at us.
Once we figured out that he was Puerto Rican and Catholic, we were like, all right, I guess you get us there.
We don't care.
You guys don't care.
Yeah, once you got past your racism and realized he's an American.
Yeah.
Well, I think I don't, if I'm being honest, I still don't think they think that Puerto Ricans are.
They don't.
No.
No.
We'll talk about that in a second.
Not everybody figured that out, by the way, until it was state to be in the bulwark contributor Adrian Gataskin.
You have to speak.
Lauded, Mr. Bunny.
Did I nail that?
Potentially speaking Spanish at the Super Bowl.
Wait, didn't Gerald go on a mission trip, technically, to South America?
I can't remember where he went.
Or was it in East?
It was maybe in East Asia.
I can't remember.
I remember he had the picture in front of the towers that was over in Asia.
Yeah.
It was like the board of like sex tourism posting or something.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's where he went to try to figure out his sexuality.
And he comes back.
He's like, it didn't work.
It didn't work.
I didn't learn shit.
I can't even be a pedophile.
Sorry.
God, I don't want to do that.
But yeah.
Same boat as Elon.
They wouldn't let him do it.
To know that somebody's coming who, at the very least, somebody told me his existence is resistance.
He's speaking in Spanish at the Super Bowl.
But on the other hand, we probably expect some really smart commentary and criticism.
I mean, it's going to be powerful and it just stands out because we have not seen so much of that.
This is nice.
Well, look, before we move on, I'm going to give Lane a chance to simmer until he explodes.
But download the Rumble app.
It's the best way to follow it.
I appreciate it.
You'll get the notification.
Lane was a little angry this morning about this because when things don't make logical sense, it pisses him off probably more than just about anything.
And this one doesn't.
Tell us why.
No, well, just to address that guy's clip, like Josh and I will sit here and have a large agreement that people overreacted on the right a little bit.
And it's like, we should focus our battles on things that matter, like ice-free zones.
Christopher Columbus's Legacy00:04:31
That's a real problem.
Right, exactly.
But then the left says dumb shit like this, and it's like, okay, never mind.
I take it back.
We reacted appropriately because existence is resistance.
Give me a break.
Bad bunny's a billionaire for God.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean that his presence on a major stage doesn't.
He doesn't move the needle for social issues.
Yeah.
It does more than Louder with Crowder does.
That's for sure.
You're talking about us, three white guys on the bottom.
No, no, I'm saying that Louder with Crowder has moved the needle for America less than Bad Bunny has.
That is true.
Yeah, that's it.
That's what you're talking about.
Our power is a problem.
Yeah, our powers are.
I mean, it's us, Bad Bunny, Josh Feierstein, Belly, then Goldberg or whatever this guy's name is.
Goldberg.
Gingersnap.
And Lane the Brain.
It's weird because, you know, the brain was Steven Crowder's case.
Yeah, so I've been always taking it.
But can we figure out what his shirt says?
It's the chicken show, the chick show?
We're doing Jeopardy, or Wheel of Fortune over here.
Yeah.
Okay, let's hear what this guy has to say really quick.
doing just fine but the idea that speaking spanish is some like we're trying really hard to see it and then steven slides in a lower third God, that was really good.
Josh said some clackback or it's some, you know, let's stick it to the man piece of resistance.
I'd never hear Spanish in my life.
No.
Spanish is like the imperial language.
It is.
And then they have an overlay.
Oh, cool.
It's dad about how much Spanish is spoken.
From Duolingo.
Okay, cool.
I'll tell you that people who hear Spanish definitely freak out sometimes.
Sometimes, this is America.
Speak English, this is America.
Speak American.
This is the language of colonizers, of conquistadors, which I don't know for all those Spanish speakers out there translates to conquerors.
The China showed?
That's what it says.
Well, sort of.
I was a conquistador in college and we didn't conquer many football games, but that's that's none.
The Chinese seems like a bad memory we should have skipped.
Are stupid.
Christopher Columbus is the only reason Christopher Columbus, the person they want to cancel and tear down his statues, is the only reason that Spanish is in the new world at all.
So please just have one logical consistency on your side of the aisle, Leff.
Please.
Our language is like, well, it wasn't your language until 1492.
1492.
When we made it your language.
So Europeans.
Is it the second most spoken language on earth, or is it the Spanish?
It would probably be third.
Is it third, really?
Oh, because China does have a lot of people.
These guys just shut the fuck up like all the time.
That would be sick, right?
To me.
Jared's not having it.
I'm just, I like listening to it, and it's like, this is the fucking like, okay, if you're going to talk like this, then how come you're going to talk like that?
What does you're going to use the language that he brought over for you here?
And it's like, do you not understand that that changed the entire fucking thing?
Like the language that we probably speak all through the fucking South, that would have been different, right?
Like it would have been, it would have just been different.
It would have been a different thing that changed history.
And so they assimilated because they didn't have a fucking choice.
You fucking three fucking morons.
You dumb pieces of shit.
God damn, fucking stupid.
It really is.
So like hundreds of years later, they're still speaking this language.
But there's also, there's also all these people that are still trying to find like these lost languages.
And they're fucking teaching themselves how to do that.
And there's communities around that.
And so like, shut the fuck up, you fucking moron.
Yeah, they're acting as if no one spoke any language of any kind before Christopher Columbus personally brought over his Duolingo Spanish subscription.
On what was the Pinta?
I don't know.
The Nina, the Santa Maria.
Those were the pilgrims.
Shit.
That's inconsistency.
Shut the fuck up, Lane.
Yeah, you lane the lame.
Goldberg, get the fuck out of here.
We don't have any Lane sound routes on here.
We got to figure one out.
Okay, let's see what these win the party.
I don't think that's really resistance.
Speaking the third most popular language.
I don't either.
But listen, here, the main.
More people in America speak English or speak Spanish than people in Mexico speak English.
The last thing, do you think the natives of Puerto Rico, the Tainos that are largely wiped out by Ponce de León, do you think they're like, yeah, this is resistance?
All 9,000 of them that are.
They're speaking the language of our conquerors.
Thank you for resisting.
It's not like I have any fault with the Europeans.
They brought, you know, order to do.
They deserve to be conquered, according to Lane Kendall.
Technically, That's How Most Citizens Are00:02:46
That's exactly what I expected.
Yes, they did because they were throwing people off of pyramids when it got too dark outside for too long.
So yes, they did deserve to be conquered.
Every year, did the sun come back up?
Yeah, I don't see what was wrong with that.
Listen, maybe some heads need to roll, okay?
Can you imagine the first time the conquistador was like, hey, maybe don't throw them off and see what happens?
See what happens.
And the sun came up like, oh shit, man.
Ooh, my bad.
But what if that was on the stupid?
Just totally misunderstands the whole thing.
Let's just ignore all other culture.
That's all, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, let's disregard that there is.
Yeah, okay.
No, let's not.
Stupid.
It's dumb.
I'm just so dumb.
I'm also dumb like you are, Lane.
And I agree with what you're saying because if I don't, I'll fucking yell.
And I'll start coughing if I start yelling.
And that's true.
He's just not a good radio, man.
Yeah, Jared's got some respiratory issues going on.
Just everyone knows.
So sorry about that.
Is that a lunch Libre hatch?
What is that?
Lucha.
I know.
He's joking.
Stupid bitch.
We worked that out earlier.
You're supposed to laugh harder.
Get me a lunch.
I'm about to eat this guy's.
Okay.
Oh.
But what if that was on the day of like a solar eclipse?
It's cloudy and there's a hurricane that comes through.
The gods are angry.
Everything's stupid.
Yep.
I completely agree.
But listen, listen.
We don't need people going out and doing the one thing that was done by the right, which he was not.
He's not an American citizen.
And I can't believe you're going to make us listen to Spanish at the Super Bowl.
Okay, fine.
I get that you don't understand that he's from Puerto Rico and that, you know, they're technically they're American citizens.
Fine, whatever.
I understand that.
Don't overreact on the right.
And certainly don't overreact on the left.
Can we just ignore this?
Gerald is technically a U.S. citizen.
Technically?
What do you mean by that?
Well, I mean, if he wants to say that, you know, normal U.S. citizens are technically sure, yeah.
Yeah.
He's technically a citizen as well.
Yeah.
Like technically he is.
Technically, that's the way most U.S. citizens are.
Yeah, you either are or you are not.
And if you, if you are a citizen, you are technically a citizen.
You're in the process of, which means you're still not.
Yeah, yeah.
But if you are one, you are technically a citizen.
Or you can use it like he did and just be racist.
It's true.
Yeah.
I guess.
I guess you're a citizen, yeah.
I don't believe that you are.
Are you?
I know that sounds like you are, but.
You sure about that?
Sure about that.
That's why.
Great.
I have done it.
Do you like it or not?
That is American culture.
It is.
It's part of American leisure.
Not everything's for you.
No.
You know what I mean?
Josh is being so reasonable for somebody.
I was going to say, this is shocking that he's saying things that, you know, I think we've said on this show a million times.
Clean Slate Discussion00:08:24
It's not for you.
It's not for you.
Not everything has to be for you.
Yeah.
Josh, come back to this, man.
Get out of here.
Get out.
Come to our show.
Well, I don't know if there's a spot for him.
No, there's nothing.
No, probably not.
Technically, we're full.
We can slap his belly.
He could be our, you know, a baba boo.
You're used to like some sort of comic relief on this.
We'll treat you nicer.
But we are going to slap your belly.
Yeah, we're going to have you take it out quite a bit.
And we will go on it.
Yeah.
And I, you know, I get it.
I don't think we should care as much about the halftime show at the Super Bowl as we do.
It's usually a terrible game.
The performances are usually not that great.
Sometimes they're okay, but mostly.
We should definitely do a different thing during the halftime.
I mean, okay.
Right, exactly.
I guess you can do that.
But also, what the fuck, man?
If you don't like football, don't watch football.
But you're going to be like, it's not that great of a game.
Well, remember, Steven didn't watch it last year.
Sure, I don't care for football, but I enjoy watching the Super Bowl.
Because it's fun.
I enjoy watching the big game.
Well, I mean, listen, your wife makes Buffalo chicken dinner.
That's great.
It's fantastic.
You and I tried that new pan crust pizza from Spicy Garlic Dip.
From Father John.
From Father John.
And it was okay.
It was pretty good.
It was fine.
Yeah, it's fine.
We're not sponsored by him or anything.
No, we're not.
Cece's Pizza, however.
Hell yeah.
Frimos, dude.
Frimos.
Oh, shit.
I do have to get back to that guy that asked us about sponsorship.
Should we do that?
I don't remember who it was.
Was it Frimo?
It was Frimo's pizza.
Was it Frimo himself?
Yeah.
Hey, gosh.
He got back.
The pizza shop with the logo eating himself, eating a slice of himself.
I can't believe it.
Oh, my God.
No one thought through that, huh?
Our local pizza place, Frimos, had a design.
Their logo was a pizza eating a piece of his own body.
Eating your piece of his own body.
I have a.
You saw my ice cream man on my fridge, Byron.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Mr. Shivers, it's a big chocolate ice cream.
But that's from Pete and Pete.
Strawberry ice cream.
Isn't that?
No.
Oh, it's just a normal thing.
Yeah, it's just a, yeah.
I don't know what it's from.
I thought that was the ice cream guy from Pete and Pete or something.
No.
All right.
Let's finish this up.
Definitely do a different thing during the halftime.
I mean, you know, like maybe a block of ice.
Hear me out.
It's dry ice.
And then a guy comes out, waves his hand over.
Hey, guys, can I get a gun in studio, please?
Thank you.
I got one.
He does have one.
We know.
We know Tim has one.
And there should be at least two.
You looked so like.
I do have a gun.
I have a gun.
I have a gun.
I'm also 4'11.
Five on a good day.
What?
I was just thinking, do you remember the old keychains that were like two inches by one inch, and they were plastic and they had sayings?
Two inch by one inch as a saying?
It was plastic, and they had like full word block sayings.
Uh-uh.
I don't know.
You should bring those back for sure.
I just remember my mom had one that said, I have PMS and a gun.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
And so that's all.
Like clear acrylic.
Yeah, clear acrylic acrylic.
Yeah, I see what you're saying.
Those are cool.
We should bring those back.
Okay.
That's true.
I know we had guns already.
Wait, Josh, you have one?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, crap.
Now he can shoot back.
Okay, never mind.
Scratch that.
Josh can defend himself.
I thought this was a gun-free zone for Josh.
I thought we talked about that, guys.
Listen, just don't overreact.
Either way.
And let's just not care about these issues that don't really matter.
And I know there's people talking about potentially doing, maybe it was, was it TPUSA talking about doing this?
Jack Pesobic.
Jack Pesobic talking about doing.
I mean, fine, if you want to do something like that, I mean, go for it.
But I just don't see the need to even worry about any of this.
And he is an immensely, immensely popular artist.
That's what I hear.
So, I mean, I've never heard a single song of the world.
I'm going to hear a lot of people talking.
Two or three most popular.
Yeah, you definitely have.
And he's got so many features, too, on his songs.
You're going to hear English.
It probably won't be from someone you like.
It'll probably be a brown person.
Oh, come on.
Josh is just labeling it.
It's probably from somebody you thought should have been taken out and removed from the country, but nonetheless.
I was sent here from MSNBC today.
Seems like it, right?
For the top 40.
Hey.
Hey.
It's so bad.
I mean, it's bad when Steven's there, but it's so bad when it's Gerald.
Energy is really, really rough.
It's very bad.
Very dumb.
Yep.
I'm glad.
Do we sound that dumb?
I hope not.
I mean, sometimes we do.
I definitely.
Chat, let us know.
I think what I did with this episode was I cut out the middle where we talked over the full halftime show.
And you can watch the video version of that at Shrug.club, of course.
Yeah, it'll be enjoyable.
What we were saying was like not great commentary.
Sometimes I feel a little bit like a dunce, you know?
I hate when you have a bust of a joke.
Excuse me?
When you bust a joke.
When I bust a joke?
When you, like the collective, you, like.
Sure.
It sucks when you tell a stupid joke.
It happens all the time.
Yeah, especially during a live stream, which you can subscribe, twitch.tv slash audiobool network to know what you feel at first.
But yeah.
It's funny how this all played out.
Yeah, four months ago, they were talking about the halftime show and bad.
The energy was so much calmer.
I'll say that.
I mean, obviously Steven wasn't there, but the energy felt so much calmer four months ago.
I actually, I do agree.
Yeah, this is pre like full escalation.
You know, I think this might have been before he said the N-word on Pierce Morgan.
I have to have to look at the clock a little bit.
Was that his harambe?
You think him saying the N-word?
I don't know.
Let me think.
We'd have to really look at the timeline of the.
It would have to be, it would have to coincide with him leaving YouTube for exclusively Rumble, which, again, didn't happen.
Yeah.
And.
Was it before or after the Clean Slate that didn't happen?
I mean, definitely after Clean Slate.
Clean Slate was when he was keeping his nose clean because he was being actively investigated.
Yeah, he was in a lawsuit with his wife and Jared Monroe at the same time.
So I don't know, guys.
Like, I just think that things are going to get really bad before they get any better, right?
I don't know, man.
I'm going to disconnect for a little bit.
Oh, yeah, you're flying out in the morning.
Yeah, In 10 hours, I'm leaving the country for a month.
You're a regular lane the brain.
Yeah, dude.
Every time I talk to you, you're talking about Jim and Japanese.
I know, dude.
Isn't that what they said?
I don't know why they said that.
I don't know.
Is he a huib?
He might be a huib.
This is a WHEV.
Yeah.
Jared, how are you feeling about looking at this little step back in time four months?
It does feel a little different, don't you think?
Yeah, the energy is a little different, but I think that there's been so much.
I mean, like, I'm trying to think, our little gap between doing like live shows or their live shows or whatever as our main feed stuff.
This is kind of like right around then when we kind of like fell off for December and then coming back to it now, like the attitude that we saw this last week versus like basically this.
It's like, yeah, the attitude is definitely different.
It's, I mean, Steve not being there, I guess, is part of it, but yeah, I don't know.
They're just more in their bag now.
Like, so much has happened in the last four months that is like bad.
Sure.
Like objectively bad.
And they're all leaning into it.
You know, they all love it.
They try to say that they don't fucking, you know.
Well, we don't always say that the bad thing is good.
And it's like a thousand percent of the time that's false.
They always say the bad thing is good.
And that's.
They immediately try to justify why the bad thing is good.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And this is no different than that.
Bad bunny.
I'm excited to go watch his performance.
And I'm sure it'll be, you know, excellent.
And these guys are just worried about, you know, culture and what's cool and what's not cool based on their very petty like religious beliefs and how they interact with them inside the world that we all share together.
So, you know, I feel like they're going to continue doing this thing because it's all they're all victims, you know?
Why do I have to look at Spanish?
Why does the Spanish guy got to tell me I got to learn how to speak Spanish?
Uncle Rico's Rule?00:02:34
You think you were a transparent person?
What's crazy is that in this episode, they're clearly acting like they're not those people.
And they were above it for a second.
Yeah, but they definitely are.
I guarantee you, Monday, when we check back in, they hated the performance.
They make it the entire first third of the show.
I didn't watch it.
It sucked.
The game sucked too.
You know, I could run a football far.
They're all, I can throw it over that mountain from the point dynamite.
Uncle Rico.
They're all a whole bunch of Uncle Ricos over here.
Everyone is Uncle Rico.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
I am.
We are Uncle Rico.
Yeah, I should add that to the board.
The a cappella version that I pulled for last week's episode.
Yes.
Speaking of episodes, next week, yeah, I guess we should probably, Jared, do you think we should check in and see what they said about the halftime show before we jump into whatever we decide to cover next week?
Yeah, I think that that's a good arc.
All right, let's do it.
Yeah, I might be around for it.
If you guys want to let me know when.
No, if you leave, though, you're going to be in.
I know, but I'll be.
It'll be early morning in Japan, I guess.
Depends on what time it is.
Well, we usually record about 8, 8, 9 p.m.
8, 9 p.m. is 8 is 2 no it's midday It's like noon.
Yeah, you'll be noon.
Get you out of bed.
Well, if we don't, have fun.
Enjoy yourself.
Thanks, everyone, for spending the big game night with us on the live stream.
It was so pleasant to see you all.
I didn't see any of you, but I was following the chat until my phone died.
Yeah, reading the chat over here.
Thanks.
Appreciate you very much.
And we'll see you next week over here at, I guess, until next week.
What do I say?
I say that that's up to you.
If you disagree with us.
Yeah, but no one's going to disagree with us.
Yeah.
Not even them.
They would say that this wasn't their finest work.
True.
Sure, they were more comfortable because Steven wasn't there.
Yeah.
But yeah, no.
When the boss is away, your day is okay.
It's a bad show, but they emotionally feel better.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's nice.
No, if you disagree with us, feel free to convince us otherwise.
But yeah, until next time, I'm Byron.
I'm Dennis.
I'm Jared.
And we'll see you next time.
Take care.
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