Why The News Won’t Drop The Grammys And What Bad Bunny Might Do Next

Ever notice how the stories we’re told to ignore somehow dominate every screen? We kick off by pulling apart the Grammys hangover in the news cycle—why outlets mock the show while feeding it two days of nonstop attention—and what that says about the incentives that keep outrage trending and nuance buried.

From there, we wade into the Gavin Newsom swirl: age-gap headlines, an affair that detonated trust inside City Hall, and glossy media framing that treats politics like celebrity culture. We ask what accountability looks like when charm eclipses conduct, and whether voters lose when coverage swaps policy outcomes for personality hype.

The tone shifts as we break down a New York courtroom decision that let a previously deported offender walk despite a federal warrant, forcing ICE to make an arrest on the street. Sanctuary city policy, interagency cooperation, and public safety collide here. We talk thresholds, detainers, and what coordination should look like when violent priors are in play. The core issue isn’t left or right—it’s whether the system protects people or performs for cameras.

Then it’s on to the Super Bowl halftime show and the NFL’s bet on unity with Bad Bunny under the brightest lights in sports. Will a global stage invite a political moment, a Spanish-language set, a stunt—or genuine artistry that cuts across lines? We explore how music, identity, and spectacle shape expectations, and why the league’s desire to “unite” often rubs against the culture’s appetite for statements.

Along the way, we stay grounded in the same question: who benefits when public life becomes performance? And what would it take to reward craft, coherence, and real-world impact over clicks and shock?

If this conversation hits, follow the show, share it with a friend, and drop a review. Most of all, tell us: who should headline the next Super Bowl, and why? Your picks might make it on air.

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Chapters

• 0:29 Opening Rant On Grammys Coverage
• 1:38 Newsom Relationships And Media Hype
• 4:54 Courtroom Controversy Over ICE Warrant
• 8:53 Sanctuary Cities And Public Safety
• 9:10 NFL, Bad Bunny, And Politics At Halftime
• 10:51 Side Tangent: Mystery Animal Sighting
• 11:22 Predictions On Halftime Shock Value
• 13:45 Halftime In Spanish And Viewer Plans
• 13:45 Question Of The Day And Sign-Off

Transcript

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Good morning and welcome to Tuesday. Alright, I think I have twelve or eleven more episodes to go. Okay. Uh the news media, the news, they're still talking about the Grammys. Why? It's so funny to me because they sit there and mock it and say nobody watches it, yet they this is the second day now they're still talking about it. Why? I mean just ignore it and it'll go away. Why do you have to talk about something that you say nobody watches? That is absurd to me. And they're talking about Billie Ellish, whatever her name is, Eilish Ellish, I don't even know. I could not name a song of hers at all. Uh talking about how you can't be illegal on stolen property. Bitch, this is not stolen property. We came over here and conquered it and took it, okay? That's the way it goes. That's the way it went, that's the way it is. Get over your frickin' self. Alright. I'm sorry, I got all hyped up over the stupid news talking about the Grammys. Shut up. Alright, let's go over here to my ex-feed. I have three stories for you to talk about. So let's start with Gavin Newsome's excuse for ignoring a relationship with a teen who was 19 when he was 38 years old. This is from the New York Post. Of course, people are gonna ignore it. It's Gavin Newsome, which by the way, I guess he has a new article out in Vogue where this writer, oh my god, it reads something out of a stupid cheap paperback romance novel novel. I can't even, I mean, not even gonna get into it. I think am I the only woman who does not find him attractive at all? There's nothing about the man that is good looking, handsome, or anything. And I've heard Republican conservative women on the news talking about he's handsome. He's not, he's not handsome. He's gross, he's icky, he's yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck. Gavin Newsom has defended, not detailing his 20-year-ago age gap. I'm sorry, his 20-year age gap relationship with a model and college lacrosse star, Brittany Mounts. Oh my gosh, tell me that's not her real name. In his new memoir, the California governor opens up about his colorful love life in his memoir released February 24th. Wait, it's not even February 24th yet, including describing his affair with former staffer. Oh, that's nice, isn't it? Former staffer Ruby Rippy Torque. That is not a real name. As the true as the worst betrayal of my life. Oh, okay. Oh, then the then mayor of San Francisco was in the process of divorcing his wife, Kimberly Gilfoyle, in the 2005 when he started the two-year affair with Rippy Torque Sorry that name. Who was married to his deputy chief of staff? The affair did not come to light until t until 2007, when Alex Tork resigned after learning about it from his wife, who disclosed it during a substance abuse rehabilitation program. Oops, yep, getting sober will do that to you. But Newsom draws the line at revealing details about his second controversial relationship with Mounts, then 19, just a year later in 2006. So he this MFR was 38 years old, getting it on with a 19-year-old. Oh, I'm sorry, he was 39. Newsom, who was 39 at the time and referred to as Mayor McHoddy, uh, gross, in the local press, raised eyebrows by appearing at the 95th season opening gala for the San Francisco Symphony with her on his arm. Now, granted, she looks a little she looks older than 19, that's for damn sure. The chatter around the relationship led to claims Mounts changed her age from 19 to 26. She could definitely pass for 26. She was also accused of breaking the law when she was pictured holding a glass of wine at a premiere she attended with Newsom. You can go finish reading that if you'd like. Uh if you want some goose juicy gossip. We need to move on though to the next story. Which I'm sure you've already heard about, and if you have not, it's gonna make your blood boil. What possible justification do Dems, Democrats, have for not letting ICE deport a sex offender? Because they hate America, they hate women, they hate Republicans and conservatives, and they want us all murdered and killed. A previously deported illegal immigrant named Harar Harar uh Gerardo Miguel Mora, whose rap sheet includes attempted rape and strangulation, was back in New York City courtroom last week on a shoplifting charge, which, according to the post, was his second arrest in the month of January, the first being for crack possession. Oh, isn't that lovely? That's actually not the unbelievable part of the story. Let's see. The reason Mora's most recent criminal case made news in New York City judge Sheridan Jack Brown allowed him to waltz right out of the courthouse despite being made aware of a federal criminal warrant for Mora's arrest. The result was that upon realizing that Mora had been released, federal agents had to chase him down and take him into custody on the street. Crisis averted? For now, maybe. Mora's release does not seem to have been an oversight, but rather a deliberate choice meant to make it possible for him to evade federal authorities. These people, I swear. These judges and uh the question New York City doesn't seem willing to answer is why not hand him over? Is it well probably because they're a sanctuary city? I think they are. They seem to be all the big blue cities are. Oh, excuse me. Oh, come on, close the advertisement. Having been previously deported, Mora has no legal right to be in New York or any other part of the country for that matter. His presence in New York has clearly been detrimental to the city's residents. After all, the city and state's official position is that Mora is in fact a criminal, which is why he's being prosecuted. Given his priors, it seems unlikely Mora will suddenly desist from his life of crime and become a net contributor to society, allowing federal authorities to take custody of Mora and offenders like him in a controlled environment would spare the city from having to expend further resources to prosecute and continue to police Mora's criminal misconduct. It would also protect law-abiding city residents from the criminal victimizations. Mora can reasonably okay, you don't want me, I mean, come on, you don't need me to keep reading this. I mean, really, this is what they are doing. This is what all the protesters in Minneapolis also are agitators. I don't want to say protesters because they're more than protesters. These agitators, these paid troublemakers. And uh, and I can't even with them. All the stuff I'm thinking about they're doing up there. And this is what they want. This is what they're trying to protect. Sex offenders like this. And we all know it, but nobody seems to get it, or nobody seems to care, quite frankly. They all want to get on to Christy Noam and how bad a job she's doing and all the language she's using and trying to be a badass and blah blah blah. I let her get let her do her job. And what is Tom Holman doing up there? Have we had a report? Is it going any is it going any better now that he has stepped in? Nope. All right, we need to move on to the story of the day, I think. How Roger Goodell, Goodell, Goodell? Yeah, goodell, yeah, expects Bad Bunny to use Super Bowl 2026 platform after ice remarks. This is from the New York Post. Roger Goodell says he's gonna be fine. Yeah, okay. I've got some opinions of my own about it, and I'll get to it after I read the story or you know, go over it. Excuse me, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell doesn't expect Bad Bunny's Super Bowl of performance to take a political turn Sunday when the Grammy winning artist takes the stage. Well, Goodell, you are a gullible piece of crap if you think he is not gonna get up there and use that. Goodell addressed the matter on Monday night when he spoke with reporters six days ahead of the Super Bowl and a day after Bad Bunny called out Ice during the Grammy speech. The NFL commissioner said he expects the music sensation to unite the crowd and not divide when he performs at Levi Stadium. Uh-huh. Sure, Roger. Bad Bunny and I think that demonstrated last night is one of the greatest artists in the world. No, goodall said, that's one of the reasons we chose him. But the other reason is he understood the platform he was on, and that this platform is used to unite people and to be able to bring people together with their creativity, with their talents, and to be able to use the moment to do that. I think artists in the past have done that. I think Bad Bunny understands it, and I think he'll give a great performance. Yeah, uh-huh, sure. You can go finish reading that. I'm sure it goes on and on and on uh about this. But here are my thoughts. I think Bad Bunny, number one, he's gonna do the whole performance in Spanish. The whole thing will be in Spanish. Number two, since we are getting more and more uh cra I just saw an animal run across the road. What is that? Ooh, what is that? Ooh, hold on. I gotta put you on pause. Well, that was weird. It was just like a black. It looked like a big black cat. Or or may have been a really big, big, it could have been a squirrel. That was too big for a squirrel. And there why would a cat be out here? We're I'm in an industrial area, industrial complex area, uh, commercial area. There are no houses around here. I don't know why there'd be a cat out here running around. Okay. So let's move. What was I saying? Bad bunny's gonna do the whole thing in Spanish, and then how outlandish we have become. Outlandish is not the right word. How brazen we've become with the clothing that the celebrities wear, bearing all, and with the transgenderism going on. I think, I mean, did you see this one woman at the Grammys? I saw a picture of her as I was scrolling by. Her name, I think, is Chappelle Roan. I don't know who she is, big red curly red hair, but she had this dress on, and the top of it were nipple clips. It was nipple clips to her nipples. Her breasts were on full display. She had nipple clips on, and then the dress hung down from that. Oh gosh, I'm like, what in the world? So, and you remember Janet Jackson's malfunction of her costume several decades ago. I think Bad Bunny is gonna obviously he's gonna come out in full trans, dressed like a frickin' woman with full, you know, fake implants on. I don't know, I don't know. He'll be he'll be wearing a dress for sure. He's gonna have makeup on. He's um he won't be dressed like drag, I don't think, unless he I unless he's I think he's into that, I'm not sure. But he is gonna do something stupid. I think he's probably yeah, I wouldn't but put it past him to pull his junk out and start swinging it around. Because that's we have become so desensitized with this kind of thing, with the way people dress, women half dressed, showing off their privates and everything, that we've just become so desensitized with it, and pe and the celebrities have to find ways and more ways to be shocking. So don't be surprised if he's gonna come out there and be shocking. But for sure he's gonna sing the whole damn thing in Spanish. I couldn't name one of his songs. I'm not gonna, I don't I we'll probably have it on, but I'm not gonna be watching it. We're gonna watch the game for sure. And the the Bad Bunny will probably talk about for a week after that. I don't know why he's getting such I've never heard of him before he was named to the Super Bowl Entertainment. But that doesn't mean anything. It just maybe means I'm out of touch since I'm old. All right, I gotta oh wait, we gotta do the question of the day. Question of the day. Okay, if you were in charge of picking the Super Bowl entertainment, who would you pick? That's the question of the day. All right, I gotta go. I look forward to your answers, and uh good luck, be safe, find some joy, find some gratitude, and um I'll be back tomorrow, God willing. All right, gotta go. Bye. Thanks for listening.