Bad Bunny | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: By the way, so you mentioned too, bad Bunny, I

0:03 Speaker 1: just won an award.

0:04 Speaker 2: Congratulations Bad Bunny. How proud are we? An American has

0:09 Speaker 2: been named the Top Latin Artist of the twenty first

0:12 Speaker 2: century at the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard of Music

0:16 Speaker 2: Awards that happened this past Thursday.

0:18 Speaker 1: Bad Bunny's an American? Wow?

0:20 Speaker 3: Well yeah, do we not know our geography?

0:23 Speaker 1: So yes?

0:24 Speaker 3: So for America has states and territories that we.

0:28 Speaker 1: All own, that's right.

0:29 Speaker 4: Part of why why we bring that up is because

0:32 Speaker 4: you know, and and it's it's been a number of

0:35 Speaker 4: weeks now, but it was there was some controversy or

0:37 Speaker 4: there still is some controversy about about Bad Bunny being

0:41 Speaker 4: selected to play the Super Bowl this year because some

0:43 Speaker 4: people like to say, wow, you know, you should have

0:46 Speaker 4: an American, and it's like, yeah, Bad Bunny is an American.

0:49 Speaker 2: We've had lots and lots of Super Bowls with artists

0:51 Speaker 2: from all around the world.

0:53 Speaker 1: Well it's not like it's a fur yeah.

0:55 Speaker 3: First anyway, because it's not true.

0:58 Speaker 4: But the point being bad he is an American because

1:01 Speaker 4: he's from Puerto Rico, and Puerto Rico is a part

1:02 Speaker 4: of the United States and I'd put something on social

1:06 Speaker 4: media when this whole controversy first erupted. It's like, you know,

1:10 Speaker 4: it's maybe it's a failure in our education system.

1:14 Speaker 3: If we don't know what America comprises.

1:16 Speaker 4: But I think a lot of it, too, is just

1:17 Speaker 4: willful ignorance supporting people's pre existing biases. And we won't

1:21 Speaker 4: get too far into that because we don't do politics

1:23 Speaker 4: on this version of the show, but just an observation.

1:26 Speaker 4: It always frustrates and disappoints me whenever I'm reminded that

1:31 Speaker 4: there is a large portion of the American population that

1:34 Speaker 4: doesn't seem to understand that Puerto Rico is a part

1:36 Speaker 4: of the United States. It's not a separate country. It

1:38 Speaker 4: is a part of the United States. Puerto Ricans and

1:41 Speaker 4: this will really annoy some people, but I'm going to

1:43 Speaker 4: say it because it literally is true.

1:45 Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans are just as American as you or me.

1:48 Speaker 3: Yes they are.

1:48 Speaker 4: They are born American citizens.

1:52 Speaker 3: Their certificates from America, American.

1:55 Speaker 1: Passport, they are born on American soil.

1:57 Speaker 4: Puerto Rico is a part of this great country, you know,

2:00 Speaker 4: And I'm sorry for the people who don't seem to

2:03 Speaker 4: understand that.

2:04 Speaker 1: But get it through your skulls and get over it.

2:08 Speaker 3: See.

2:08 Speaker 2: And one of the reasons I particularly have have followed

2:11 Speaker 2: Bad Bunny because he did a thing on w W.

2:17 Speaker 3: So awesome.

2:18 Speaker 2: Like you know, sometimes are you'll see like superstars or

2:21 Speaker 2: whatever get involved with wrestling and stuff, and then you

2:23 Speaker 2: know they make an appearance. But once in a while

2:25 Speaker 2: you see artists come in that really get into it, like, oh,

2:29 Speaker 2: who's the other one? The country singer Jelly Roll he

2:33 Speaker 2: did too, just like that Bunny. They both like took

2:36 Speaker 2: it so seriously. They did trainings and everything. And if

2:39 Speaker 2: you've never seen Bad Bunny's entrance when they had when

2:44 Speaker 2: he did the battle against Damien, my favorite entrance. It's

2:50 Speaker 2: awesome they do it's it's it's one of the best

2:53 Speaker 2: entrances to a match I think ever.

2:55 Speaker 3: I love it. The people go absolutely insane. You can

2:57 Speaker 3: feel the floor.

2:59 Speaker 2: I can't, but you'd see people posted about they could

3:01 Speaker 2: feel the floor.

3:02 Speaker 3: That was like the building was moving. It was so amazing.

3:05 Speaker 2: And just the thing about Bad Bunny too, I want

3:09 Speaker 2: to say what he said about getting this award because

3:11 Speaker 2: I think it's really awesome and.

3:13 Speaker 4: Oh, what's what's the ward again? Remind us I'm sorry.

3:15 Speaker 4: What is the award again? Remind us of So this

3:18 Speaker 4: is he.

3:18 Speaker 2: Was awarded the twenty twenty five Latin Billboard Music Awards.

3:23 Speaker 2: It's very prestigious, it's an honor, and it's you know.

3:28 Speaker 2: The ceremony was held. I don't remember exactly what forgive me.

3:32 Speaker 2: I don't remember exactly what the ceremonies. Oh, it was

3:34 Speaker 2: Thursday night. They had the ceremony Thursday night, and he

3:37 Speaker 2: had talked about like facing barriers and trying to break

3:39 Speaker 2: in into music and stuff. But he said, quote, for me,

3:43 Speaker 2: it's an honor to receive this award from your hands.

3:47 Speaker 2: I respect you and admire you so much. Every time

3:50 Speaker 2: I hear other artists speak as you did of me,

3:53 Speaker 2: it tells me that doing things from a good place

3:56 Speaker 2: and with your heart is always the best decision.

4:01 Speaker 3: He also told.

4:01 Speaker 2: Marino that quote, I know how much I have worked,

4:05 Speaker 2: and not just me, but my whole team. At the

4:08 Speaker 2: same time, I'm one hundred percent aware that any one

4:11 Speaker 2: of my colleagues could have been given this award. So

4:14 Speaker 2: he was very honored to receive it. It's you know,

4:18 Speaker 2: and he talks about how it's hard to be a

4:21 Speaker 2: Latino artist, and to really to fight to get your

4:24 Speaker 2: career going.

4:25 Speaker 4: And well to get to break into the mainstream can

4:28 Speaker 4: be really can be really challenging.

4:30 Speaker 2: But when you are doing it in Spanish, yeah, oh yeah,

4:34 Speaker 2: it's much harder.

4:35 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah.

4:38 Speaker 2: The show that you guys did on retro a few

4:41 Speaker 2: weeks ago where it was artists who did their songs

4:43 Speaker 2: and other languages.

4:44 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, that was so cool on retrospect radio. Yeah,

4:48 Speaker 1: check out that episode. Yeah.

4:49 Speaker 3: I think there was a David Bowie one that was

4:51 Speaker 3: like in French.

4:51 Speaker 4: Yeah, and there was David Lee Roth who, of course,

4:55 Speaker 4: at least at least one, maybe two of the early

4:58 Speaker 4: David Lee Roth solo albums he recorded separate versions because

5:01 Speaker 4: he's fluent in Spanish. I had no idea he grew

5:03 Speaker 4: up in where he grew up in South Texas.

5:05 Speaker 1: He said Spanish was just as prevalent. I know.

5:09 Speaker 4: Another thing that will annoy some people, but get over it.

5:11 Speaker 4: Spent where he grew up Spanish was. I think it

5:14 Speaker 4: might have been al Paso. Spanish was just as prevalent

5:17 Speaker 4: as English languages.

5:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, kid, I did teaching people languages and the

5:21 Speaker 2: little kids, like I went overseas and I'm leeting like

5:23 Speaker 2: these little kids that are like nine years old and

5:26 Speaker 2: they speak English, Dutch and Freesian and I'm like, I'm

5:31 Speaker 2: struggling to figure out how to.

5:32 Speaker 3: Tell you thank you.

5:33 Speaker 2: So it's really cool when you see an artist who

5:36 Speaker 2: is in a genre that's harder than other genres because

5:40 Speaker 2: it is in a different language. It does make it

5:42 Speaker 2: that much harder. So it's great to see an American

5:45 Speaker 2: gainness award and with such grace. But like I said,

5:50 Speaker 2: I'm a fan of him. I've been a fan of

5:53 Speaker 2: him basically since I was introduced to him because of WWE. Yeah, yeah,

5:58 Speaker 2: you didn't see that. I highly recommend it. It's fun

6:00 Speaker 2: to watch musicians involved in WWE, especially when they take

6:05 Speaker 2: it seriously and they really go all in, like Jelly

6:08 Speaker 2: Rold did and like Bad Bunny did. So I mean,

6:11 Speaker 2: so congratulations out there to Bad Bunny. I think it's

6:14 Speaker 2: great you're playing at the super Bowl. Thank you for

6:16 Speaker 2: being a great American.

6:18 Speaker 1: Yes, love from us, Yes, Yes,