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Speaker 1: By the way, so you mentioned too, bad Bunny, I

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just won an award.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations Bad Bunny. How proud are we? An American has

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been named the Top Latin Artist of the twenty first

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century at the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard of Music

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Awards that happened this past Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Bad Bunny's an American? Wow?

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, do we not know our geography?

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Speaker 1: So yes?

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Speaker 3: So for America has states and territories that we.

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Speaker 1: All own, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Part of why why we bring that up is because

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you know, and and it's it's been a number of

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weeks now, but it was there was some controversy or

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there still is some controversy about about Bad Bunny being

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selected to play the Super Bowl this year because some

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people like to say, wow, you know, you should have

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an American, and it's like, yeah, Bad Bunny is an American.

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Speaker 2: We've had lots and lots of Super Bowls with artists

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from all around the world.

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Speaker 1: Well it's not like it's a fur yeah.

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Speaker 3: First anyway, because it's not true.

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Speaker 4: But the point being bad he is an American because

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he's from Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico is a part

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of the United States and I'd put something on social

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media when this whole controversy first erupted. It's like, you know,

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it's maybe it's a failure in our education system.

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Speaker 3: If we don't know what America comprises.

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Speaker 4: But I think a lot of it, too, is just

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willful ignorance supporting people's pre existing biases. And we won't

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get too far into that because we don't do politics

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on this version of the show, but just an observation.

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It always frustrates and disappoints me whenever I'm reminded that

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there is a large portion of the American population that

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doesn't seem to understand that Puerto Rico is a part

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of the United States. It's not a separate country. It

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is a part of the United States. Puerto Ricans and

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this will really annoy some people, but I'm going to

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say it because it literally is true.

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Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans are just as American as you or me.

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Speaker 3: Yes they are.

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Speaker 4: They are born American citizens.

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Speaker 3: Their certificates from America, American.

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Speaker 1: Passport, they are born on American soil.

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Speaker 4: Puerto Rico is a part of this great country, you know,

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And I'm sorry for the people who don't seem to

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understand that.

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Speaker 1: But get it through your skulls and get over it.

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Speaker 3: See.

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Speaker 2: And one of the reasons I particularly have have followed

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Bad Bunny because he did a thing on w W.

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Speaker 3: So awesome.

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Speaker 2: Like you know, sometimes are you'll see like superstars or

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whatever get involved with wrestling and stuff, and then you

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know they make an appearance. But once in a while

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you see artists come in that really get into it, like, oh,

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who's the other one? The country singer Jelly Roll he

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did too, just like that Bunny. They both like took

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it so seriously. They did trainings and everything. And if

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you've never seen Bad Bunny's entrance when they had when

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he did the battle against Damien, my favorite entrance. It's

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awesome they do it's it's it's one of the best

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entrances to a match I think ever.

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Speaker 3: I love it. The people go absolutely insane. You can

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feel the floor.

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Speaker 2: I can't, but you'd see people posted about they could

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feel the floor.

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Speaker 3: That was like the building was moving. It was so amazing.

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Speaker 2: And just the thing about Bad Bunny too, I want

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to say what he said about getting this award because

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I think it's really awesome and.

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Speaker 4: Oh, what's what's the ward again? Remind us I'm sorry.

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What is the award again? Remind us of So this

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is he.

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Speaker 2: Was awarded the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard Music Awards.

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It's very prestigious, it's an honor, and it's you know.

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The ceremony was held. I don't remember exactly what forgive me.

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I don't remember exactly what the ceremonies. Oh, it was

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Thursday night. They had the ceremony Thursday night, and he

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had talked about like facing barriers and trying to break

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in into music and stuff. But he said, quote, for me,

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it's an honor to receive this award from your hands.

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I respect you and admire you so much. Every time

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I hear other artists speak as you did of me,

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it tells me that doing things from a good place

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and with your heart is always the best decision.

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Speaker 3: He also told.

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Speaker 2: Marino that quote, I know how much I have worked,

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and not just me, but my whole team. At the

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same time, I'm one hundred percent aware that any one

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of my colleagues could have been given this award. So

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he was very honored to receive it. It's you know,

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and he talks about how it's hard to be a

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Latino artist, and to really to fight to get your

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career going.

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Speaker 4: And well to get to break into the mainstream can

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be really can be really challenging.

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Speaker 2: But when you are doing it in Spanish, yeah, oh yeah,

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it's much harder.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The show that you guys did on retro a few

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weeks ago where it was artists who did their songs

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and other languages.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that was so cool on retrospect radio. Yeah,

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check out that episode. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think there was a David Bowie one that was

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like in French.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and there was David Lee Roth who, of course,

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at least at least one, maybe two of the early

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David Lee Roth solo albums he recorded separate versions because

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he's fluent in Spanish. I had no idea he grew

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up in where he grew up in South Texas.

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Speaker 1: He said Spanish was just as prevalent. I know.

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Speaker 4: Another thing that will annoy some people, but get over it.

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Spent where he grew up Spanish was. I think it

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might have been al Paso. Spanish was just as prevalent

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as English languages.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kid, I did teaching people languages and the

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little kids, like I went overseas and I'm leeting like

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these little kids that are like nine years old and

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they speak English, Dutch and Freesian and I'm like, I'm

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struggling to figure out how to.

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Speaker 3: Tell you thank you.

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Speaker 2: So it's really cool when you see an artist who

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is in a genre that's harder than other genres because

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it is in a different language. It does make it

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that much harder. So it's great to see an American

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gainness award and with such grace. But like I said,

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I'm a fan of him. I've been a fan of

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him basically since I was introduced to him because of WWE. Yeah, yeah,

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you didn't see that. I highly recommend it. It's fun

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to watch musicians involved in WWE, especially when they take

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it seriously and they really go all in, like Jelly

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Rold did and like Bad Bunny did. So I mean,

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so congratulations out there to Bad Bunny. I think it's

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great you're playing at the super Bowl. Thank you for

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being a great American.

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Speaker 1: Yes, love from us, Yes, Yes,