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The Halftime Report (Hour 2)

Civic Media Mid-Mornings · Mon Feb 9, 2026

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It's going to be fun, folks.

And I'm glad you're here with me.

Dominic is up in Madison.

I am here in Radio Park in Racine.

Good morning, Dominic.

How are you?

Doing pretty good.

Another hour.

Another hour on the books.

Let's keep it going.

Your energy is so of the youth and 20 something like that just I will learn to, you know, just

All you 20-year-olds, I listen.

I gotta tone it

down.

No, I'm here.

No, keep it up.

I want that energy alive and well in this world, because Lord knows we need it.

Someone who does not need a reminder on energy and all the things good and positive is our next guest.

She is the host of the Dr. Kristen Lyrely show here on Civic Media.

It is the one, the only Dr. Kristen Lyrely.

Good morning, friend.

How are you?

Good morning.

I'm bringing the vibe from the concert.

Last night, during the football game, that was so good, Greg.

I was like, I only have one foot to stand on right now.

And I was dancing with my crutches.

It was amazing.

I agree.

Turning Points USA really knocked it out of the park when it came to what they decided to put on their live stream show, not even on the air.

It was like, you have to go to this website.

And then you have to tie the troll, the real three out of the bridge.

And then you get to see Kid Rock and Joltz.

But yeah, we'll talk more about that in a little bit and just a fun thing.

I've been tracking so far on just on the internet.

So we'll talk more about Bad Bunny in a little while.

But right now, you're here with us today.

I sent you an article.

I did my homework.

I'm glad.

Thank you very much.

It's in the Wisconsin Examiner.

Nada Hassanine has the byline and it says breast cancers.

And this is kind of like a big thing.

This is a big...

discovery in the world of science, Dr. Lirely.

And I

don't know if

you're ready for this.

I don't know if the folks are ready for this.

Mind blowing, groundbreaking point of science here.

Like Jonas Salk, take a backseat there.

Mary Keary, you're fine.

Breast cancer survival rates higher in Medicaid expansion state study says.

Yeah.

So in other words, if you have access to health care, you're more likely to have better outcomes.

Yep.

Yeah, that's

what we're going to go now.

We've got to say these things, though, because I think people, the political messaging disconnects us from the individual reality.

Yes.

So we have to say, if you don't get health care, you're not going to be able to get your breast cancer screening.

And if you don't get your breast cancer screening, you're much more likely

to be diagnosed with a breast cancer at a later stage, which is harder to treat.

And so your outcome is more likely to be bad.

And it's more likely to happen to Hispanic women, Black women, non-white women who are at a particular disadvantage in the situation.

Where it stands right now, if you have access to healthcare, if you are lucky enough, whether it's through the ACA or through a private insurer,

What is the timeline for anyone?

And I always say anyone because I know that primarily this affects women, but men can get breast cancer as well.

I don't know whether it runs in the family, that type of thing, how you get your screenings if you are a male.

But point is, four women, we'll focus on women right now.

Four women, is it every year, every other year based on their history?

If you have access, if you have healthcare right now with no problem,

What is your what are you doing when you're getting your your your mammograms?

The easiest answer to that question is if you are 40 you need preventive care So go to your doctor and they will listen to you They will look at your risk factors and they will make recommendations in general women need breast cancer screening

every year starting at age 40.

That is the recommendation from my college, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

There are some other recommendations floating around out there that can make it kind of confusing, which is why if you do have access to health care and you have a relationship with your health care provider, which is so, so important, preventive care is free because of Obamacare.

The ACA made preventive care free, so you don't have to pay for it.

Make your appointment, go in.

talk to your doctor, figure out what your risk factors are, and that will guide how you do your screening.

It's the same thing for men.

Some men are at risk for breast cancer.

Some men do carry that gene, and they also need screening.

And their screening might be different depending on their body composition and what their situation is.

So the most important thing is access to health care and having a relationship with your primary care doctor who can help you figure out what your personal risk factors are.

And I think something you said that, you know, I, I, I don't hate to say it.

I just feel like we should all know this anyways.

But when I watch, when I watched Jimmy Kimmel do a bit about it, I realized that in 2025, 2026 people who are just good hearted folks still don't know.

Obamacare is the ACA.

The ACA is Obamacare.

One is not different from the other.

They're the same.

And they do the same thing.

And as you said, as of right now, as right now, preventative care is covered.

And

that, you know, from a person-

fought

for

that.

We fought for that.

We fought for

that.

We fought for that.

We had to fight.

To me, there's a lot of things still about the ACA that make me angry, and not even its design, but the fact that simple things like preventative care had to be fought for.

The simple idea that, you know, go in and get your physical, get your mammogram, get these things that can help you.

Because when you can pull away the personal, you can pull away

the medical.

But when you look at it from an economic standpoint, all of this helps.

People who are healthy can work.

People who can work can contribute.

People who work can pay taxes.

Those things make a difference.

And on top of that, you look at countries that do have universal health care.

There's a morale in their country.

that that is part of why they love living where they live because they see us and if you've ever seen an interview with someone from Europe or Canada or anywhere else that has it and they're like I can't believe that Americans go bankrupt or choose not to get care because they can't it's infuriating but when you see something simple like this breast cancer survival rates higher in Medicaid expansion states study finds it just seems like why is there anyone saying we should try to get rid of this

Yeah, politics.

It really is just politics.

But when you boil it down to your individual health care, people want health care.

We know people want health care and we know people want to be able to make their own health care decisions.

But when all of that political interference gets involved and we start talking like we're the bears and the Packers and we're angry with each other, that

ruins our access.

And I see it.

I see it in the exam room when people come to see me.

I don't say I only see Democrats or I only see Republicans.

I see whoever walks through my door and the stories that people tell about their lack of access because of politicians interfering with health care from Democrats, Republicans, independents, people who aren't paying attention.

It doesn't matter when you are in the exam room.

All you want is personalized health care.

You want to get what you need and what you deserve.

and something to, and if you're just joining us here on Civic Media, mid-morning, we're talking to Dr. Kristen Liarley, the host of the Dr. Kristen Liarley Show, who's been many things to many people, done so many things around the world, and we'll talk more about that in a little while.

But, you know, I was gonna bring this up with Sam Lybert from All Voting Is Local, because this completely connects.

When you are working to intimidate, to, what's the other word, suppress,

restrict voting,

when you're

looking to restrict, intimidate people from, or getting people from accessing healthcare, this doesn't affect Democrats, it doesn't affect liberals, leftists, it doesn't affect anyone, it doesn't affect everybody.

That's the point I'm trying to make is that these laws, these things that people seek to do that restrict basic, what I believe are basic human rights, access to healthcare, access to voting, when you restrict these things,

They also put a damper on the folks who support them, too.

Like people who voted for Donald Trump, these voting laws will affect them, too.

If they try to get rid of the ACA, people who voted for Donald Trump, this will affect them, too.

So this is not a right-left thing.

This is all of us in together understanding the information as we see.

It's why we have to still say, to this day, ACA is Obama.

Obama is ACA.

Do not confuse the two and do not let people speak down to you and say,

incorrect information about this because when they get you on their side, they take it away and then you don't have it and you're left there going, wait a minute,

where's my

healthcare?

Why can't I afford my healthcare anymore?

But that's what they want to do.

They want to disempower you.

They want you to feel like your voice doesn't matter and it works.

The fear, the intimidation, it works.

But what I want people to know is your voice absolutely matters and it matters

Yeah, absolutely on the presidential level, but it matters in your school board races and your city council races.

These are the things that are coming up for us here in Wisconsin on the horizon.

We've got a really important primary coming up.

And in April, we've got a Supreme Court election, lots of local races.

Those are the things that really affect your roads, your bridges, your school, the things that are very close to home.

And those are the things that we often don't know.

Who to vote for you get stuck in the voting booth looking at those names and there's no R or D next to them because they're not partisan.

And then you're just confused.

So this is a great time to order your mail-in ballot.

If you like to do that, I do because that way I know I can't get too busy and accidentally

not

vote.

And then you can sit down with the computer and research these people and look at the things that they say and do and look at their values and look at what they stand for.

And then you can make a real informed decision.

That's my.

advice, I think now more than ever, we really have to think about the infrastructure of our local communities and how that trickles up all the way to federal seats and Senate and the presidency.

And

how decisions from the federal government and how decisions from the state house, whether it's cutting shared revenue, moving shared revenue, cutting programs, grants, how those affect us.

there was a bill trying to go through that would force sheriffs to work with ice.

And if

they chose not to, the punishment was a 15% cut to your shared revenue.

And Dr. Lyle, you know this as well as I do, when a community is looking at a

15% cut and shared revenue, which is a lot.

I mean, when you look at it from a, you know, from a per capita basis, that's a lot of money to any municipality.

And

they've already been strangled of their shared revenue over the years.

So it's not like there's tons of money there for local communities.

And when they're done cutting programs that help community done program, as Sam said, cutting, cutting money to the clerk's office that helps with the voting, then they start cutting fire and they start cutting police and people going,

wait a minute,

what happened here?

Well,

We voted for things or we didn't vote at all

because

we thought, well, that's that's the federal.

I don't care about the Congress.

I, you know, you got to care about your local level because they affect both of them and going to my vote.wi.gov, finding out who is on your ballot, where they, where they stand on the issues and essentially are they applying for the job?

Are they looking to get rehired?

We have that power still and what they will do in those seats of power will affect us all directly.

They sure will.

And if you vote by mail, you have to sign up every single year in Wisconsin.

It doesn't last forever.

So every year you have to sign up for the full year of ballot.

So do that and check your registration.

Make sure that you're registered to vote.

Yes.

Absolutely.

I could not.

I could talk about, I could talk about the basics on voting for 15 hours because I just think it's so very, very important.

And when I talk about voting, I feel so very lucky that we still have the ability to vote in this country.

But that also takes vigilance and

awareness to see what they're trying to do through their various bills, whether the save act or the mega act or through voter ID laws.

But we're not going to talk about that right now.

Cause we have to go pay some bills.

When we come back, we're going to be talking to Dr. Kristen Lylee, host of the Dr. Kristen Lylee show here on civic media.

We're going to be talking about bad money.

We're going to be talking about the Super Bowl and a, I guess we're going to be talking to someone who performed at a halftime show.

We got a guest coming up in a moment who performed at a halftime show here on civic media mid-morning.

So don't go anywhere.

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Really quick.

We were talking earlier about, we were talking about a healthcare access.

We were talking about voting.

We were talking about what

community.

We talked about that.

Local leaders due to affect the things that are in our communities regarding we talked about shared revenue cuts and what happens to cuts in the community and one of those cuts are police and fire services and Alicia on the live stream says fire departments already do fundraisers just to operate.

That

is not

something we should be doing in the richest country in the world in a free country.

We should be.

to make sure they have the resources they need to make sure they are trained cared for all those things can call them heroes and then say by the way, we're cutting your your your budget so.

That's a conversation that's going to keep on happening.

Keep on keeping on on that

one.

Yeah.

Can I give a plug to the random lake fire department and EMTs who like literally saved my life.

They have one employee and a huge group of volunteers.

And without that, I would be dead right now.

So this is how we run our emergency services that are there when we need them, when we all need them during the most difficult times in our lives.

I think we could do better.

Oh, we, we, we should, we should be.

Yeah, we are.

Yes.

I'll just leave with that.

Yes.

So, uh, last night was the Super Bowl.

Don, come on back.

Come on back for this.

All right.

Don't back talk.

I'm old.

I'm old enough to be your old uncle.

Don't you talk to me like that.

Uh, Dom, how old are you?

I'm 22.

Oh, yeah, you're old.

And not even, and not even, uh, what are you going to do?

You're going to have a baby.

You're so, no, it's like you're mid twenties.

That's Wisconsin.

You're old in Wisconsin.

When it comes to that, my goodness.

But, uh, yesterday was the, the bowl of supers, uh, football was played the Patriots of New England versus these, uh, the flying Hawks of Seattle and.

It was a I'm very happy.

I like that Seattle one.

It was their second Super Bowl in 12 years.

You know, their GM is from he's a packer.

He's from Depeer.

Is it

John Schneider?

Oh, OK.

No, I don't draw your Wisconsin connection there.

Well, I saw a lot of comparison about like, you know, what are the Patriots support?

What are the Seahawks supports?

Like they're all billionaires.

They're all better than us.

They fly planes.

They don't know me.

But for me personally, this is just me.

I was about the Bad Bunny halftime show.

Now, I will confess this.

We are not a football house in my house.

And so we did not watch the game.

We were watching, we watched the remake of the running man, which I would say was mid at best.

But then I, then I saw, oh, it was halftime show starting, but I saw the, I missed the notification.

When I turned it on, he was taking off his headset microphone.

They were like, thank you for joining us

on the

halftime show.

I'm like, ah, man.

So I was like, I'll wait until the morning.

And so I pulled it up this morning and I watched it and I just wanted to see the views because one of the things

Kristen on the social media was all about, Oh, the turning points USA has this many and they got this many and apparently like 145 million people watch bad bunny.

But there was 12 million views this morning on YouTube for his that was at seven 15 and it's a nearly 10 30 and there are almost 19 million views since then.

It is like phenomenally popular.

It was, it was so fun.

was so

fun.

Dr.

Lyreley's

It was joyful and it was a celebration of Puerto Rican culture and family.

There was a wedding in the real wedding and

little kid sleeping on the chair, which is like a thing.

He handed his Grammy to a young boy saying that it's you now, you're the future.

All of the symbolism was so beautiful and the music was joyful and the people and the dancing.

It was everything that I had hoped it would be.

Well, and that little boy was

No.

Liam Ramos.

No, it was not.

It wasn't?

Oh,

never

mind.

They said it was.

Now they're saying, OK, well, forget it.

apologize.

That was a rumor, but it wasn't.

OK, well,

still, it was beautiful.

And when we got to the half time of the half time and Lady Gaga started singing with

that

band doing those gorgeous harmonies with her, I was like, goose bump, goose pimply.

trying to hold back tears.

I feel like the first half was just pure power.

And then the second half was pure emotion.

And, and there was pride throughout.

But then I was thinking to myself, if you're watching this young man who is Puerto Rican, who is an American citizen, celebrating his culture, celebrating his language, celebrating his art, his food, his people, all those things, all those things that connect to us.

And you feel threatened or upset by it.

And you don't think that that's the best part of America's vision.

I don't know what to do about that.

I don't know.

I don't know why that bothers you more than the Epstein files.

I don't know why Bad Bunny at the halftime show, which I mean, honestly, let's face it, Dr. Lyley.

None of that matters.

The Super Bowl is a matter of football.

None of that stuff matters in the long run.

But if you can't look at that and see it as the best version of America, because he at the end, he calls out every single country in the Americas.

That is America.

North, Central, South America.

We're the United States, but that is America.

Yeah.

And yeah.

This seems like a you problem, huh?

Yeah.

Absolutely.

It seems like an absolute you problem.

But do you want to stick around for one more segment?

I didn't even get your thoughts on bad.

I'm sorry.

I talked a lot.

I apologize.

I'd love to stick around for another segment.

All right.

Dr.

Lars is

going to be here.

I'm going to shut up.

I promise.

you know, I'm not going to do that.

I had a lot of thought stress.

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We're happy you're sharing time with us today.

We decided to hold Dr. Lierly here in the room on the live stream on the show because I talked a lot last segment about Bad Bunny and the halftime show and realized that

Uh, she had barely spoken.

So first of all, I'm sorry.

I am.

It's me.

I'm the problem.

It's me.

No, we just, we wanted to talk about something in particular.

We didn't get to it.

Yeah.

And so we were, we were, we were talking about the, we were talking about the halftime show.

We were talking about the fact that bad bun, I think it was fantastic.

I think a lot of

people thought it was fantastic.

A lot of people who quote, didn't hear a bad bunny thought it was terrible, but whatever.

Um, but you, Dr. Lierly.

have a unique perspective on the halftime show, and that is why.

This is not the first time that there was an alternative halftime show.

Really?

People may not be aware.

I don't remember exactly what year it was.

Maybe 92?

Somewhere back in the day.

Yeah.

there was a Super Bowl in Minneapolis in the Metrodome.

And I was part of that Super Bowl halftime as a member of the University of Minnesota marching band, The Pride of Minnesota.

And it is widely known as, well, it's called Winter Magic, where they highlighted the beauty of Minnesota winter.

And they had like dancing snowmen and Dorothy Hamill skating on a snowflake.

It was a whole thing.

But it just it's widely known as not like maybe the worst half-time show in history So at the same time in living color Counter-programmed a half-time show that drew more people than the actual Real half-time show and that inspired a complete change in the way the NFL did half-time shows

And Michael Jackson was the guest the next year.

So that is what happens when people actually are drawn to a counter halftime show.

But that's not what happened this time.

Not at all.

Not even close.

Not at all.

And before we get into that, really quick, Sue from Franklin.

is on it was texting said I heard it was supposed to be bad bunny as young as a young boy so he handed him he was talking to his younger self she goes on to say we were at a sports bar quote unquote sports bar mosquito and at halftime they changed it most of the tv's to the turning point show and we complain the owner said he can't make everyone happy well looks like you made no one happy and that

and that he could only have one of the shows sound on it.

You can guess which one.

Pretty sure the four of us were the only one in there that weren't happy, so we paid our bill and left.

We were going to order dinner, but we chose to leave.

That's what you can do with your dollars, folks.

That's right.

I don't call it a protest.

I just call it a statement.

We went home.

We let home know why, and they lost our business.

Oh, we let them know why, and they lost their business.

I don't think he cared.

We were there to watch Super Bowl, including the halftime show.

Leave the TVs on the actual show.

I mean.

Yeah, that's the culture of where you are.

And you've got to figure that out.

Yeah.

I mean, look, it's Muskego, Wisconsin.

I've spent my fair share of time in Muskego, Wisconsin.

And I understand why he did it.

And I understand why he doesn't care.

I, you know, whatever it's fine, you know.

I'm glad they made their voices heard.

I'm glad they're going to make their dollars spent the way they want to be spent.

But yeah, again, that goes back, Dr. Lyre, what I said was, when one artist threatens your whatever, your belief so much that you're like, we have to put on a whole different show.

can't even

bother.

It's really sad.

Well, and when you live in a culture like Muskego, I mean, I'll even say like Green Bay.

I grew up in Kokona, so this is not Madison or Milwaukee.

You you're used to the culture being a certain way Yeah, and if you just continue to go with it even though it's not what you're feeling and you don't think it's right and it's not headed in a positive direction for the future if you just go with it you're reinforcing it

And you don't have to stop your feet and yell at people just by walking out and saying, this is not the halftime show I would prefer.

Like you said, that's making a statement.

And it's those kind of subtle statements in our communities, in our small towns, in our schools, and in our city councils.

It's those kinds of statements that start to pull the culture in a community building kind of way.

So that does make a

difference.

It's sports bar in Mosquigo, Wisconsin.

I am going to bet dollars to chicken wings that there are people in that room who also wanted to watch that bad bunny performance.

And here's the saddest part of it all is that they couldn't tell their friends.

That's

the other thing too is like, I can sit there and be like, well, yeah, I didn't want to.

The Dr. Dre Snoop Dogg M&M, that's fine.

It's not going to get me exiled from my friend group or make them look at me differently, but there are people in that room.

who said, I would like to check that out because I love the halftime show.

I don't know.

And that was the other thing to do is people would use quote, I don't know Bad Bunny as their gauntlet.

I don't know that.

Well, then.

You can still watch the show.

Did you know Kendrick Lamar because it's the same thing we heard last I don't know Kendrick Lamar is

oh last year was so much worse when I was looking at the comments like the TV stations Posted about the halftime show and they asked people for their reaction Last year when I was looking the comments were very negative about the

Kendrick

Lamar show this year the comments overall have been very positive

about the

Bad Bunny show I think we're seeing a shift in that culture and frankly I think people are tired of this divisiveness people are tired of this

fear and division and ugliness.

You know, if you're going to engage on social media and offer a comment to something that's in opposition and your comment is just a culture war thing or something that's ugly, not something that's useful or constructive, we're done with that.

That's not helpful.

That doesn't build anything.

It just continues to foster that kind of division.

And I think we've reached that threshold.

And Dom, I want to get to you in a moment, but I must talk now.

It's in my contract.

This is a challenge I'm putting out.

Actually, you know what?

I'm going to know I take that back.

I'm going to leave this portion as my handy tip from Greg for the end of the show, which you're happy.

You're more than welcome to be a part of Dr. Lierley.

Hang out with us all morning.

Be here forever.

But Dom, from your point of view, you are a young man.

You are of the Gen Z generation.

And I don't know who your friends and family are.

What's the talk amongst you and your friends?

Is it a matter of like, like, I feel like of someone your age, you were in your early twenties, it's almost like a, why do you guys care so much?

Like it's bad bunny.

Like my parents, of course my parents don't know bad bunny.

They're my parents.

You know what I mean?

Like what is, what do you hear?

You're much younger than us and I'd love to hear the chatter.

I have, well, I have, you know, there's some friends of mine who I don't talk to as much back at home.

I'm originally from Illinois.

They are you know, they turned on the halftime show and you know, they watched both they watched you know the the turning point USA halftime show and the bad bunny halftime show and You know, I heard a lot of mixed like yeah, this one's better than the other and I think it's just you know, and I'm bringing up my girlfriend again.

Sorry She Really liked the bad bunny show.

She really thought it was good and we all thought it was good and it wasn't about you know

It wasn't about not understanding what Bad Bunny was necessarily saying.

It was about the impact of what he was doing, you know?

And it was a great show overall.

And that's what I have to say about that.

And some of my friends disagree, but that's not who I am.

And I thought I really liked the Bad Bunny show.

It's also okay that they disagree.

Yeah, it's it's absolutely fine.

If look, I get it.

Like if you want to watch a rock show at the halftime show, I get that.

I totally understand that you want like a lot of people like bring George straight on like fine.

I get if you want to see country like there's nothing wrong with it and there's nothing wrong with the NFL saying, all right, the last two years have been more hip hop centric.

Next year, it's gonna be a little more rock.

And I think we should be like, all right, cool it.

Instead of weaponizing just the choice whether that may be to say, I get angry about it.

And, you know,

I don't know, to me, it just seems like, again, it's a halftime show.

It's good, it's fun, it's great what it's celebrated, but the people making such a huge deal out of it, I don't understand it.

I think it was amazing and really, really fun, but it was that, it was fun.

It was fun.

I think it's a real reflection of how our culture is so steeped in politics right now, but we don't really see it that way.

You know, we're talking about culture war things like bad, bad bunny versus kid rock or transgender rights.

What is a woman?

You know, these issues that we know divide us, but we're not talking about who's running for school board in Muskego.

But that is actually what matters.

And it's all kind of rooted in that.

That's where I was.

I will say this.

We are not a.

We are not ensconced in politics.

We are ensconced in culture war

because the

politics are getting away from us The politics are way back in the rearview mirror because the politics are things like the mega act the save act things like access to health care things like access to abortion Those are the politics the political matters that we are we should keep our eyes on the elections that are coming up It's the culture war because it's bite-sized.

It's easy.

It's it's rage bait.

It's all those things that allow our leaders of both parties to

They they allow it allows us to get distracted by that While they go off and do their thing and whether it's enriching themselves through stock trades whether it's taking away services all of those things We need to be more of a political culture and less of a culture war culture because culture war doesn't do anything it doesn't like I heard something on a one of those God-awful Jubilee videos where the person said yeah, we may have We may not be popular, but we're winning on the culture.

But what does that win you?

Like what is your prize when you win the culture war?

That's what I want to know.

And that's the distraction really when it comes down to is throwing fire onto this idea of the culture war versus our politicians of all levels getting away with things when we're not paying attention.

inevitably when I post something about women's health somebody will post a comment that says what is a woman and it is just such a distraction because I'm really trying to talk about what you can do to be healthier how we can take better care of ourselves and to throw that in there is just it's it's divisive it's ridiculous but they also know that

it pulls people, it pulls their base, and it strengthens that core.

And until we, as a population, recognize that we have to ignore those squirrels that jump into the room, we are going to continue to go down this pathway of fear and divisiveness.

And again, I'll make the point I made earlier with you, Dr. Liarley, whether we're talking about voting, health care access, education, the policies that are put forth by the

the leaders in power, whether it's at the federal state or local.

Regardless of who you voted for, they will affect you.

And they might affect you negatively.

They might affect you positively.

But know that just because you love this person, they're star-spangling awesome.

And everything they do, you think, is without fail.

And they are infallible, like the Pope himself.

They will pass something which will possibly take something away from you like health care access like abortion access like hospitals like Funding for your kids school.

I mean, and that's that's the thing I always try to remember for people is like we're all in this together and Together can't we all just say bad bunny is a fantastic performer.

Come on, man Yeah,

I've been listening to his music all week and it is like It's so good.

He's also just

He's also a good celebrity, too.

Like he's funny.

He's fun.

He's kind.

He's self-effacing.

He's not macho.

He's not trying to uphold like a manly thing.

He's very against that, if anything.

And I just feel like, you know, and, you know, speaking to the men out there, young men, like those are the people we should be surrounding ourselves with.

People say it's okay to be who you are, whomever that is.

That's right.

He loves his culture.

He loves the history.

Bravo.

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