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Absurd Truth: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Stunt

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January 23, 2026 3:54 pm

Florida Man news, identity theft protection, and controversy surrounding the Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bad Bunny, as well as a heated exchange between Michael Fanone and Ivan Ranklin at a House subcommittee hearing.

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To stab and kill a whole bunch of people. This Florida man, he was arrested for using a catch-up packet as a weapon. Faces five years in prison. Florida man's facing up to five years in prison. after allegedly turning a catch-up packet into a felony weapon because of a prior conviction.

Yeah. Okay, what? 28-year-old Austin Simmons. He done got himself arrested on Monday evening. It was an incident inside a Florida bus terminal.

He, uh, Apparently, another he was passed out, another man stopped to check on him and he woke up irate, threw an open ketchup packet at him. The guy got ketchup on his jacket as a result. Yep. This gets retar this is so this is just ridiculous. The affidavit states officers found the packet on the ground already open with ketchup spilling out.

The packet, which holds roughly 0.3 ounces, was not collected as evidence. Police say Simmons denied striking Mora with the condiment, but reportedly admitted to, quote, giving the victim a catch-up packet. Good.

So now he's being holding $5,000 bond. Why are we doing What are we publicly litigating this for? I uh I feel like that guy deserved to get hit now by the catch-up packet, just for s out of spite. Yeah, out of spite. Oh my gosh.

Uh let's see. Oh, I'm gonna do this one. This is uh, golly, law and crime. A Florida man ditched his pal with a broken hip like nothing happened after making an abrupt U-turn in a stolen golf cart and hurling him off the back.

So he's facing criminal charges. He stole a golf cart and then has ditched his friend who broke his hip after he was thrown off the back of it during an abrupt U-turn. Cops say that the man went joyriding around the city of Key West and instead of stopping, and he just kept going instead of stopping to help his friend. The guy, 51 years old of Winterhaven, was joyriding. With the friend when the incident occurred, and according to the arrest report, he caused serious bodily injury to the victim.

It required emergency surgery to repair. And they found out that he had swiped the golf cart earlier in the day using the master key that can start apparently multiple carts. I don't know. Um, but he didn't stop and help his friend, he just literally like cr he kept cruising down the street, like nothing happened. Guy was laying on the road, broken.

That's not a good friend, my dude.

Now, first off, if your friend's like, let's steal a golf cart, probably not a good friend, unless it's like a zombie apocalypse and you need it to get somewhere. But we're not in that situation, so there's really no justification for it. Oh man, I don't really Oh man. Um, Florida Okay, this headline. A Florida man Lux Maxer who sterilized himself with TRT at 14 was banned on kick for running a man over with his car.

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Super Bowl. I don't know. Will it Okay, Steve, dumb question. When is it? Wins the Super Bowl?

Yeah. Uh, two weeks.

So February sixth or seventh, I think.

Okay. We're going to hear about it nonstop up till this point, aren't we? The eighth.

Okay. I don't care because I'm not going to watch it because I just, I'm just tired. It already seems like it's overwrought with drama. I'm already I don't want any drama. I don't want any drama.

I don't want any of it. Come on.

So The Super Bowl apparently. They've got green day, which is I think is more offensive than anything else. I actually don't really care about Bad bunny, I just don't want him to have hypersexual lyrics in any language. And I would love it if we don't have any kind of castigation of the viewership. Can we just have a good time?

I actually am more offended by Green Day than anything else. I got to be honest with you. Yeah. I am physically offended. And it offended in my heart.

I'm sorry. They're 'cause they're so bad. There's so many levels to it. Yeah. I'm offended because they're so bad.

And it is bad. And also dumb. But That's it. That's the tweet.

So So the other thing is that people are getting upset. And I do think that Bad Bunny Needs to slow his roll about trying to add any kind of kerosene to the fire. He would walk out of this a hero. If he just put on a great show and united everybody for 20 damn minutes, if he did that, people would be buying his stuff more than they do now. He would have a whole new subset of fans.

Just please deliver. But I saw someone saying And there's a couple of pieces on this. He apparently And I tweeted this last night because I saw it and I'm like, please, dear heavens, no. Please let's not. I don't know if this was his intention, but this is how it's being.

promoted.

So the story is, is that he's gonna honor the queers. That's literally how it's being reported. Don't get mad at me. I'm actually, Kane, you can attest to this. I'm repeating.

Can we just have a Super Bowl. Can we don't have to do anything?

So it was reported that Bad Bunny plans to quote honor queers during upcoming Super Bowl performance by wearing a dress.

Okay. Now, there's a couple of ways to look at this. And I thought Juan was very because Juan, you Juan, you're not a you're not Not to put you on the spot over there. You wouldn't consider yourself like a major fan, but you don't dislike him, right?

Okay. But you're not like, oh my gosh, I'm going to go buy front row tickets and spend, you know. You're not going to be like that.

Okay. The way that I understood it, and you mentioned this in Slack today. Is that that? He I don't even say I don't even think it's cross dressing. He kind of does, and I'm not defending him either.

He kind of does what Bowie did. Like David Bowie had this whole On-stage persona, and he wasn't like quote unquote cross-dressing. He Like how don't come at me, I swear to you. Like a kilt maybe. Or something.

It's not addressed and they'll kill the man who calls it one. I'm just saying, like wearing different things. But not There's a difference in being like David Bowie. or even being like Prince, I dare say. And then being like, you know, Uh, Pattigonia, the tranny cross-dresser, whatever that is getting sued by Patagonia.

There's a big difference. You see what I'm saying? Yeah. Is it correct? To Assume that he's probably going to be doing the same stagecraft that he's done on tour.

But then the question is: well, then how did it get to? He's going to honor queers. That's literally what they're saying. It scracks me up: like, who wrote this? Mm.

during Super Bowl. Like where did how did that come into being? difference.

So, Kane, what Steve? I don't know. You guys. I haven't found where he said that. Where he said it's for queers?

Yeah. Yeah, I would assume that's intimation from whoever's putting the piece out because they love clickbait and their survival is clickbait.

So, you know, of course we're going to see Bad Bunny dressed that way because that's what he's always done. No one's expecting anything different. from Bad Bunny here. I think they hired him to do that show because they knew exactly what he would bring to the table. And it's not surprising to me.

I spent 30 years in. You know, commercial music rating. I understand what artists do to get the attention. I understand what labels require them to do. For the marketing and get attention to sell more records.

It's just the way it goes.

So if we just stop being reactionary to it, like it's something crazy and out of this world. literally the value of what they're doing goes down.

Well, the only thing that would offend me even if that is the way that he wanted to promote it. Is that Everybody who does this thinks they're the first to do it. Harry Styles, which by the way, that was pretty gay. Harry Styles. That was pretty gay.

Because he just doesn't have the swagger.

Sorry, he doesn't. He did the whole dress thing, and it's like that's not even what, but like you're campy. Bowie was different when he did it. Very different. Prince very different when he did it.

It Harry Styles was just campy. Um but People who think that Because they're doing it, it's never been done before. That also I find. That rubs me the wrong way. That I find more offensive than anything else.

But can we just have a damn halftime show where we got a marching band and fun stuff? Is that possible? Could we just have a half? Have You know. I don't know, like a fun halftime show where people get together and they're like, hey, hey, guys.

We're here at the halftime show. Can we just stop being bitches for five seconds and have fun? Is it possible? I didn't mean to sound like Elizabeth Warren there. But Is it possible?

Because you have what I think brand new Carlisle, I don't care, Green Day is the one I'm yeah I can't stand. Can't stand them. I I I'll it Take Green Day away and keep bad money, I'm fine. I just don't want them there. I just don't like them.

Uh who'd you say is doing the anthem, Steve? Charlie Poothy. Charlie Pooth. I like him. Who's booking this stuff?

Jay-Z. That's right. I why can't we have like Metallica. Aerosmith. I know he's getting up there, but you know what I'm saying?

Or I don't know. Nate, give me some anybody. Just saying. Give me some Hank III. That would be epic.

Oh my gosh, that would be ridiculous. I'm just saying. Any of those. But I don't think that there's things to freak out about and things not to freak out about. And I don't think Bad Bunny doing what he's, you know, if he's going to wear.

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There were 300 protesters present. There was a Kurdish demonstration at Opera Square, and things got super out of control. But I thought they had bandknives and all that stuff there. Spy eagles are being trained to completely destroy rogue drones in a new war. On the machines.

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is to not dress homeless when there's a choice. You know what I mean? Let me start there. Because I was watching this hearing yesterday. If you guys get the newsletter, you kind of probably know where I'm going with this.

The headline of the piece is Michael Finona's a fake tough guy. And I was thinking about this because this guy goes into this House judiciary hearing yesterday. It was yesterday and day before, where they were Questioning Jacksmith. And a lot of very interesting stuff came out of that.

So they're asking questions of Jack Smith. And there's this video.

Well, this dude, he's one of the J Six cops.

Now let me put it into context. He is what he's the cop. who turned off his body camera. And it later came out when they were reviewing all the footage that the stuff that he was telling. The J6 committee.

was actually at odds with what was actually captured on his body camera footage. which is probably why he turned it off. And He really made up. He really retconned. really just fabricated how everything happened and what he was actually doing during January 6th.

And he's been dining out on this ever since. Like he came out with a book now. I think he's just He's I I don't know what. He was at this hearing yesterday. He was wearing a Drop Kick Murphys T shirt.

The guy's like fifty.

Now, look, no offense, my dudes. If you want to wear a T-shirt of a band that probably couldn't cash with its backside, the checks that its mouth runs, that's fine. You can do that. And I don't dislike the dropkick Murphys. I just think, as people, they're D-backs.

But. You know, I don't dislike their music. That's okay. I can think that someone's a sniveling, you know, dog scrotum and still also think that they make good music. It's fine.

Anyway.

Sorry if that affected your sensibilities, but you should know now that this is not PBS, okay.

So anyway. I don't mind the t-shirt. What I do mind is things like sweatpants at the airport. or wearing nude leggings at the supermarket as pants. or wearing a T shirt when you should be in a suit or at least a jacket.

At the Capitol during a House subcommittee hearing. I just feel Like that's more appropriate, right? That says, hey. We invented electricity. We know how to dress.

Hey. We invented things like suit jackets and proper tailoring. We know how to properly comport ourselves in public and present ourselves. We don't do this.

Well, here's my hot topic shirt. How do, fellow kids? I mean, it just. It cringes so hard.

So anyway, I'm setting this up because he's sitting there, this Michael Fanone. He was a DC police officer. And this lefty-funded crisis actor, he tried. a new routine at this hearing yesterday. He tried performing as a tough guy.

And he started. by uh loudly coughing and saying, go blank yourself. Literally during the hearing.

So there's multiple different Video cuts, there's different angles of how all of this happens.

So I'm going to play a couple for you because it's very entertaining.

So we'll start with cut one. This is where he's coughing. And he tells Representative Troynells to go do something unflattering to his own person. While they're having the hearing, watch this. I would like to quickly address the police officers of January 6th.

Mr. Don, Mr. Fanone, Mr. Gonel, Mr. Hodges.

I'm a member of the new select committee to actually examine. Fanone's sitting down. Actually, examine what happened that day. And I can tell you, gentlemen, that the fault does not lie with Donald Trump. It lies with Yogananda Pittman and the U.S.

Capitol leadership team. We know, we know. They had the intelligence, and there was going to be a high propensity for violence.

So he economies that go blank yourself. Yeah, it was yeah, I think well, I never did that 'cause my mother would have come down to the school and her green Oldsmobile and dragged my ass to the parking lot by my hair and whooped me. That's it's never gonna happen. You don't need an army, you just get nana. I mean good night.

So So that seemed inappropriate, did it not? I think we can all agree: not the place, not the time. All right, so sitting behind him. This is where it gets real fun. Sitting behind him is a gentleman named Ivan Ranklin.

Now you may not know Uh, Ivan Ranklin's name, you should, though. He's a political activist, but he's also a retired green beret. And he's the Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve.

So he's sitting behind him. This is cut too. And Well this is what happens. Watch. Hey Michael, I break like yourself.

Why do you have to swear at me? What's that? Why do you have to swear at me? Oh, dude, don't pretend like we're not mortal enemies.

Well, why do you have to lose your tool like that? I've been always professional with you. I lose my tool. Every single time I communicate with you, I am always professional with you. And I require other people to contain your Tourette syndrome.

Okay? I'm not going to get through that. You've threatened my family and you've threatened my traitor to this country. Why are you so spasmodic? Am I spasmodic?

Absolutely. Look behind you. Do something. Why should I? I'm communicating with you.

I'm trying to calm you down. Right? Look at face structure, right? You can't even control yourself. You can't even be a man.

See how many people are constraining you? Come get me. Look at me. Total control over my mind and body. Total control over my mind and body.

And I'm totally dominating you right now, man. Sir, sir, step aside. I'm not this guy has just threatened my family, threatened my children, threatened my Threatened to rape my children. For real? My children, you sick assistant.

He's so mad, he's just like spitting like a woman. Thread or what I mean, first off, can I just pause real quick right there? Yeah. Iron Rakeland's a real one. That is, he's like, I'm totally dominating you right now.

He's speaking so slow. And that Michael Fanon is the type of dude that you don't want to have a badge, right? That's why we say back the blue, but with conditions, it's conditional. But can I just ask what kind of person Things to say. You threatened to rape my children as a weapon against someone?

How as a normal Human father. Does that thought pop into your head? It doesn't. That is super nasty. And really weird.

I'm just saying. It's like something a rapist would say. I just But He loses his cool entirely. The only reason that Michael Fanone was left standing upright Is because Ivan Rakeland has way, he would have turned him inside out. He would have pulled his endocrine system out through his nostrils.

Let's be real. That is the only reason that Michael Fanone stood upright. is because he had that big dude manhandling him back there moving him around like he was a toddler. And because Ivan Rakeland has just very disciplined. And also, Michael Fanone didn't really want any of that smoke.

That's why he kept like taking a step back to the dudes, like, oh, please hold me back so it looks like I'm doing something. He's the type of tough guy who's tough until the first punch lands. Then he's not so tough any more. That's exactly what this type of guy is like. Oh my gosh.

Now, when he was leaving. This is cut three. He loses his mind at this reporter, who I thought was pretty cool. Like, I you know, I I don't like ambushing with bias, but she didn't start that way. She only started pushing back when he started getting saucy with her.

Watch this. The surfinone. How were you today? Oh, I'm great. What happened in there?

What are you talking about? That confrontation. Jack Smith testified about how he had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump. Incited, orchestrated, and funded the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It seemed like there was a fight in there?

No, there was no fight. Is it true, Officer Fernone, that you turned off your own body camera on January 6th? No. I saw your body cam. You turned it off yourself.

You were playing dead. I saw your body cam footage. You're a f ⁇ ing. No. Oh.

What am I? Right-wing conspiracy. I saw you turn off your body cam footage, sir, but thank you for disrespecting me. You know he wanted to hit her. I'm sorry, but yeah, he wanted to hit her.

I think he'd have hit her if there hadn't been cameras there. He looks like a woman beater. But the way he's squared up to that if you first off Men, let me tell you something. Women are going to run their mouths, and women, your job is to stay out of men's fights. Men, your job is to not argue with women.

It's pretty damn simple. If you're a male arguing with a woman like that, you need to check and see that. Make sure that your NADs have dropped. I'm sorry, but you got to do a check. I got to question it.

Ladies, if you're trying to get in men's fights, you need to go check your femininity. Stay out of it. I don't like when men try to like square up to women like that. She was just asking him a question in a capacity as a reporter. She was not being, she was being aggressive in her questioning, but she wasn't being disrespectful.

And I don't think that she was trying to like push in on him in any way. But when he turned, That was different. And you could tell that he felt empowered because she was a woman. That's how progressive men think. Where do you think feminism came from?

Feminism is a creation of the progressive male. aided and abetted by the progressive female. That is where feminism came from. Disrespectful, godless, worthless, progressive men. treated women horribly.

Some of those women decided to get even, and then feminism was created. This is where it came from. Conservative men didn't create it. Conservative men save women from it. And conservative women saved themselves from it.

But you saw that all play out, this Adam and Eve story in that split second when he turned and decided to square up to her like that. That was fascinating. I hands this guy, I bet he wanted to hit her.

Now, one other quick thing. Speaking of that body camera footage.

So he was. Was telling, he had told previously the committee that all these J6ers were attacking him.

Now, remember how I told you, and I had friends that, actually, I had a friend that was there. Do covering, I guess, like wire services, taking video for different media entities. And There was at the rally, which is near the ellipse, which was pretty far from where they all were, at the At the Capitol, there were a group of instigators. I kind of think they were plants, but whatever. There was a small group out of the large that I'm happy that they got arrested.

You don't damage any of my property. That's my property in D.C. But they were the ones who apparently started stuff with Fanon. And it was all the Trump supporters and all the other J6ers that actually literally saved him. This is cut four.

Watch this. That's him in the middle. And those are all of the other Trump. Protesters at J6 that are surrounding him, they're getting him out away from the instigators and they're protecting him. Look at that.

They're pulling him away from those people, they're getting him out. That's what that was. They all, like, the instigators started going after Fanon, and all of the Trump protesters, look, they're all getting him up there, they're all getting him to safety. That's Fanone, that's what they did. They protected him.

Every single one of those people were charged. And he lied about all of them. He said they were all attacking him. There was a group of instigators that did, and then the people that were not there to do that, they came down heavy on the instigators. They put them in their spot, they got him out of a tight spot, and they got him to safety.

They got other police to safety too. They were policing themselves, they were not having it. No one talks about that. I feel like that's important, especially in a media environment where, for how many years were we ignoring the burn, loot, and murder of cities across America, burning of churches, killing of people in Seattle at ChazChop, all this other stuff? No, this guy, this Michael Fanone, he's a fake tough guy.

He is exactly the type of person you do not want to have the badge.

So that's why we say back the blue conditionally. Because he's completely representative of that. Thanks for tuning in to today's edition of Dana Lash's Absurd Truth Podcast. If you haven't already, make sure to hit that subscribe button on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Rewards programs are a lot like pop culture.

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