Mike takes on the NFL’s Super Bowl halftime show, calling it a deliberate humiliation of its own fanbase and a cultural middle finger to America during its 250th year. He explains why the lyrics, symbolism, and language choice weren’t accidental—and why this moment was far worse than past protests. Mike then breaks down the massive success of Turning Point USA’s alternative halftime show, revealing how millions of viewers walked away from the broadcast and what that means for the future of legacy media. The message is clear: Americans were given a choice, and they chose differently.
From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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Let me kick things off on a Monday with a disclaimer. We will not repeat not go endlessly covering mindless commentary and speculation about the disappearance, the apparent abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mother. Made a decision over the weekend. Tell you what we’ll do. If there’s a real update, we’ll give you an update. If you want me to spend hours… Just kind of mindlessly speculating about what in the world happened in this tragic story. Wrong show. Not going to do that. It hit me when I got up Sunday morning and I was watching some of the Sunday morning news shows and Peter Doocy of Fox News was interviewing Billy Bush. As an expert commentator on the Nancy Guthrie case, I’m like, I don’t know what they’re doing over at Fox, but I can’t do the same thing. So we’re not going to do it. When there’s an update, we’ll bring it to you. There’s a lot of other stuff that we can sink our teeth into here on this Monday, February 9th, 2026, in the Relief Factor studios. Welcome in. Hope you had a great weekend. Hope you had a chance to enjoy the Turning Point USA halftime show reality of what Americans wanted, the alternative to the Bad Bunny abomination. Man, was that grotesque. And it wasn’t grotesque because of the style of music that this popular entertainer engages in. It wasn’t grotesque because it was not really red, white, and blue. It was grotesque because the NFL made a decision to give a giant middle finger to its own fan base. I know a lot of people who were livid at the Colin Kaepernick-inspired taking of a knee after George Floyd. Remember that? People who were never going to watch the NFL again? What they did last night with the halftime show was a thousand times worse than that. And the reason it’s worse is because it was sanctioned and condoned. and provided by the NFL itself. That wasn’t in a vacuum. They made a decision a long time ago. This is what we’re going to subject the American people to. I saw a lot of great commentary on X, and right now it feels like that’s all anybody wants to talk about is the horrific, vile, despicable abomination of a halftime show and it really was that bad if you don’t know it was that you don’t think it was that bad you better know the lyrics of the music that the entertainer was performing because they’ve been translated how the FCC doesn’t have to regulate that is beyond me that’s on broadcast that’s not on cable those are FCC guidelines should apply to And yet, since it was in Spanish, maybe they thought they could get away with it at the NFL. Filthy, disgusting, obscene lyrics performed by this guy entirely in Spanish. And I sure do appreciate what this guy wrote, somebody named Drew. This is a guy in Australia. Check out this comment from Drew. If you told someone in the year 2000 that within one generation the Super Bowl halftime show would be performed completely in Spanish and they would set up a sugar cane plantation on the set complete with Hispanic field laborers as part of the set, you’d be considered a deranged, far-right, lunatic conspiracy theorist. The guy says, I’m watching this from Australia and it is literally a woke fever dream. I can’t even believe that leftists decided to push demographic and cultural change this hard. Literally just a national humiliation ritual for the United States designed to make white people feel bad for existing. The message is, this is your country now, get over it. Now, most people in this audience probably turned over to the Turning Point USA alternative show, and it was spectacular. It was so good. It was so, well, American. And there were some American moments at the Super Bowl. Every hour today, I’m going to play the Charlie Puth National Anthem. I don’t know much about him. I don’t know his music. I don’t know his politics. I don’t care to know his politics. What I know is he did a spectacular rendition of our Star Spangled Banner. In fact, he told reporters that. Remember I played for you a couple weeks ago the Whitney Houston version? He told reporters afterwards that he modeled it. He wanted to pattern his rendition as sort of a tribute to her version. And it was nothing short of spectacular. And it’s so good. I want to play it for you every hour, and we will. But I also want to make sure that you have an opportunity to give me your feedback on what NBC did provide by way of the Super Bowl. Game was pretty good. If you appreciate great defense… If you’re an NFL fan that appreciates defense, it was a great thing to witness. Kind of a snoozer in terms of offense. And I didn’t care. I mean, Seattle, New England, I didn’t care. I wanted the Denver Broncos in there because that’s become my new adopted team. But, you know, if you were upset about NFL players taking a knee after George Floyd, I got to believe you’re livid over that humiliation ritual. And that’s what it was. That show was designed to humiliate Americans. It really was. No other way to describe it. No other way to put that. Here’s a post on X. I’m still wide awake at 2 a.m., absolutely furious with the NFL, Roger Goodell. For years, they force-fed us nonstop woke nonsense. Players taking a knee, BLM slogans plastered everywhere. The halftime show tonight was the final straw. At America’s biggest sporting event, we were subjected to a performer who barely speaks English backed by dancers openly simulating sex acts on national television in front of kids in the stadium and families watching at home. Enough. I’m done with the NFL. I know a lot of people who feel the same way. We are celebrating America’s 250th birthday. This is the year of our 250th anniversary. And that’s what the NFL wanted to shove down our throats? Absolutely disgusting. 800-655-MIKE. 14 past the hour. Welcome aboard. Again, I want to put your voice front and center here on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hope you join us. I’m… Pretty upset, and I think every American should be. This was sanctioned, fully condoned, and supported by the NFL. And it was disgraceful. Beyond disgraceful. 800-655-MIKE. I hope you join us.
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I love this text on the MyPillow text line from Arkansas. You’ve already done it. You spent too much time on the Nancy Guthrie story. Unreal. It’s like she was the only person. Well, I know. That’s why I listen to you, Arkansas. That’s why I’m changing course. Hello? Gosh, crucify me, why don’t you? You’re welcome that I heard you on Friday. And I was. I was noticing this feedback, and I was getting text messages and emails saying, all right, enough already. Fox is going wall to wall with the coverage, and you don’t need to do that. And I took it to heart. I listened to you, and now we’re changing course. If there’s an actual update in the case, we’ll give it to you. Until then, we’re just not going to speculate. And there’s Arkansas yelling at me for what I did last week. Show a little grace, Arkansas, for crying out loud. Get Arkansas a cup of coffee, maybe some Relief Factor. Maybe you’ve got a bad back, Arkansas, and you’re a little grumpy. That’s why every day I get to tell you about Relief Factor, the 100% drug-free product that makes things better for you, makes life better for you. Makes life enjoyable. If you’re cranky because your back hurts, let’s see if we can get you out of pain. The three-week quick start is an ingenious way for you to take it out for a test drive. It’s a three-week kind of a kick the tires a little bit. Let’s see if we can get you into pain-free living. ReliefFactor.com. The three-week quick start is $19.95. If it works, you’ll pay a little more, and you’ll enjoy the pain-free living that so many of us get to enjoy. Hey, if it doesn’t work, and I doubt that’s going to be the case, but if it doesn’t, sorry, but you’re only out $20. ReliefFactor.com. ReliefFactor.com. Or call 800-4-Relief. 800-4-Relief. The one and only Relief Factor. 100% drug-free, and again, just a pretty extraordinary, life-changing experience. Relieffactor.com. Now, here’s Illinois. I swear, no one’s going to agree on anything today. It’s going to be one of those days. Illinois, Mike, what are you on? That national anthem was an embarrassment to our country. What? What? It was, with all the noise about Bad Bunny and the competing halftime shows and the sort of mediocre offensive game between the Seahawks and the Patriots, the one thing I thought we could agree on was how wonderful the national anthem was. Somehow Illinois thinks I’m high because it was an embarrassment. What? Well, let me play it for you because, as promised, I want to play it for you once an hour because it was just that good. Oh, say.
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For the ramparts we watched. Thank you.
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choir the flyover the uh the arrangement and somehow one texter thought that was an embarrassment well i guess there’s no accounting for taste because i thought that was pretty special 25 past the hour 800-655 mike pats in houston the houston area hey pat happy monday welcome to the show how are you mr gallagher hello sir
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First time on your show. I really enjoy it. Listen, my dad played pro football from 1961 until 72. Wow. The Lions, the Rams, and the Patriots. His last year with the Patriots was with Jim Plunkett as quarterback. And if my dad were alive today, he would be thoroughly disappointed in what has happened to the NFL. Yes. And I just want to say that Roger the Dodger Goodell, he’s just he’s falling apart. He’s. I don’t know what to say.
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I mean, I’m shocked. Because, Pat, you know the league with your father’s involvement, and God bless him, because that was an intentional decision. Roger Goodell said, look, this is what we’re going to present. This is what we’re going to put our worldwide audience through. That was deliberate. That was intentional. And it was beyond disgraceful. You’re right. Your dad wouldn’t believe it.
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I call it mandating evil on the American Christian people.
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I got you. God bless you, Pat. I appreciate it. President Trump had a response as well. He was absolutely disgusted. He said the Super Bowl halftime show is absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever. It makes no sense, is an affront to the greatness of America, and doesn’t represent our standards of success, creativity, or excellence. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying, and the dancing’s disgusting, especially for young children who are watching from throughout the USA and all over the world. This show is just a slap in the face to our country, he said. There’s nothing inspirational about this mess of a halftime show. And watch, it will get great reviews from the fake news media because they haven’t got a clue of what is going on in the real world. I mean, is there anybody who honestly, legitimately liked it? I guess if you want to be subversive and say, look, America isn’t the United States. Oh, no, no, no, no. America is all the entire side of the globe, Nicaragua, South America. He said that one time. He said, God bless America. And then he said, oh, and Nicaragua and Venezuela and Mexico. Everything’s America. You get it? You get the message? You understand what he’s saying? Now, on the other side was the Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show. Wait till you hear the numbers that they got. Wait until you hear the success. And look, they just put that together a few months ago. But country music singers and Kid Rock and kudos to Turning Point USA because millions and millions of people turned away from the Bad Bunny halftime show and watched an All-American halftime show. Those details and more coming up.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America’s culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you’ve been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher.
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As in years past, I sort of settled in on the couch yesterday and watched the whole day of Super Bowl coverage, watched the Super Bowl. Last night, though, was different. At halftime, you could take a different path from watching Bad Bunny. which, as President Trump called it, an affront to the greatness of America. It really was. The lyrics were filthy, even though you might not have understood them since it was in Spanish. But the counter-programming from Turning Point USA is a much bigger deal than many people realize. I’ve been thinking a lot about the sides we all take. We’re all in our tribes, right? We’re in our bubble. I’m on one side. Leftists are on another side. They want us dead. We disagree with them, but they want to kill us. We don’t agree with their ideas, and we want to change their thinking. We want to persuade people. that being on the side of law and order, a strong border, good economic conditions for America, all that’s a good thing, but we’re definitely not the same. There’s no question. There’s no way around this. Their side, look at what they did with this Bad Bunny show. President Trump said, It’s one of the worst ever. It made no sense. It’s an affront to the greatness of America. Nobody understands a word this guy is saying. And it’s just a slap in the face to our country. But it was a slap in the face that was intentional. Unlike the Colin Kaepernick knee stuff, this was completely sanctioned and promoted and provided by the NFL. That’s what makes this different. That’s what makes this a thousand times worse than the knee-taking that some of my friends, I’ll never watch a game again. I’m going to take a year off from the NFL because Colin Kaepernick took a knee. Well, Roger Goodell in the NFL gave America a giant middle finger yesterday with not only lyrics that were filthy, as it turns out, But also, you know, again, completely in Spanish, doing an entire show at the iconic Super Bowl halftime in a language that most of the country doesn’t understand, that’s designed to be a humiliation ritual. And that’s the phrase that a lot of people are using today. Somebody posted on X, to be clear, I don’t mind music in other languages, but I do mind when the Super Bowl halftime show is deliberately politicized and turned into a big blank U to the majority of Americans. Instead of an apolitical celebration of America on her 250th birthday, this halftime show pandered to leftists and illegals with an incomprehensible, unmusical, off-key song. A parade of flags from Spanish-speaking countries and a montage of Latin stereotypes that had absolutely nothing to do with either America or the majority of Americans. This was the 60th Super Bowl held during our 250th year. The halftime show should have been a genuinely inclusive celebration of America that resonated with all of us. Not an exclusionary show that was specifically designed to tick people off. The show was deliberately partisan and antagonistic. And I can only hope that Americans will realize that the NFL has nothing but contempt for the United States and its people. That’s a great way to put it. But let’s look at the flip side of this. Okay? It was… objectively one of the worst shows in the history of any Super Bowl for all the reasons listed, not even because of the filthy lyrics. But when you present a Super Bowl halftime show highlighting one culture that excludes everybody else, well, the humiliation is the point. You’re supposed to feel bad about being white. You’re supposed to be apologetic for being white or an American citizen. If you’re a legal American citizen, you should be ashamed of yourself. And believe me, there are elected members… of Congress who are willing and able to say out loud how there’s a goal here to take America over from white people. Don’t believe me? Check out Congressman Gene Wu from Texas.
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I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair. But the problem is our communities are divided. They’re completely divided.
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Make it fine. Make it fair. Take it over from whites. So, again, we’re different. There’s no question there’s differences between our side and theirs. Last night at halftime of the game, the big game, something really special happened. Turning Point USA aired an alternative. I was reading from a guy named Tyler Farnsworth who says, this TPUSA halftime show is a much bigger deal than people understand, and it should have NBC and every legacy media exec very, very nervous. Because last night, the Rubicon got crossed on the most expensive advertising real estate in the world, and there is no unringing this bell. This guy writes, I’ve spent the last 15 years in advertising. I’ve worked on multiple Super Bowl campaigns. And the numbers I saw last night should put the fear of God into anyone whose business model depends on the Super Bowl being an unchallenged monoculture moment, regardless of where you land politically. NBC proudly announced that demand pushed a 30-second Super Bowl spot to an eye-watering $10 million, plus a mandatory $10 million in matching spend across the NBC media umbrella. Brands are paying $20 million to sit inside the, quote, biggest moment in media. Nielsen reported the 2025 Super Bowl averaged 127.7 million live viewers across roughly 50 million households. Final numbers are still pending, but early estimates show the TPUSA halftime stream pulled just north of 11 million concurrent households live. And because the Super Bowl is proudly group viewing, with industry averages around 2.5 viewers per household, that puts the live audience north of 27,500,000 for the Turning Point halftime show. Let that sink in. Turning Point USA potentially siphoned off roughly 22% of the total households watching the NFL broadcast during halftime, changing the channel completely. He says that’s an absolutely psychotic number for counter-programming. He said, I would pay good money to be a fly on the wall at today’s meetings where some poor agency media buyer has to explain to a Fortune 100 CMO why the audience fell off a cliff for the spots that booked halftime, which are often the most expensive placements of the entire game. Mock it, cope, lampoon it, do whatever you want. But don’t ignore this moment. Because last night proved something legacy media never thought possible. The Super Bowl isn’t a captive audience. And when given a better option, people will take it. The Super Bowl advertising landscape just changed forever. Even with Charlie Kirk gone, Turning Point pulled off the unthinkable. And I want you to get a little taste of that Turning Point USA All-American alternative to the Super Bowl bad bunny filth and garbage. I’ll share a little bit of that. Lee Bryce. And others, Kid Rock with a great story of redemption. All of that’s coming up here in the Relief Factor studios. Happy Monday. We’ve got a lot to cover. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Welcome in. For years, I loved to break down the news, calling out Washington corruption, standing up for the values that make America strong. That means secure borders, limited government, economic freedom. Look, if you’re worried about what’s coming, and a lot of people are, you need to think about protecting yourself and your family with something real, something that can’t be printed out of thin air, something that doesn’t depend on corporate greed or government debt. That’s why I want to tell you about American Independence Gold. They’re a veteran-owned company that stands strong for patriots. What I love is that every purchase supports the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which helps injured and fallen heroes and their families. And they’re experts in precious metals. They help everyday Americans move their cash, IRA, or 401K into physical gold and silver, real assets you can actually hold. Because the truth is, powerful elites are pushing chaos, war, and central bank digital currency systems that they can track and control. Gold represents freedom. Silver has been hitting record highs. Recently, gold hit over $5,000 an ounce. Precious metals are one way to help protect your wealth from inflation, government overreach, and economic uncertainty. Right now, you can register for a free gold bar giveaway and get a free investor guide. Just call 888-670-7011. 888-670-7011 or visit MikeGallagherGold.com. MikeGallagherGold.com. Help secure your future today. American Independence Gold. Backed by veterans building a stronger America.
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Mike Gallagher.
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We head into the Relief Factor studios every day as you’re seeing a live shot right now of Dallas, where, of course, we’re heard on AM660, The Answer, home of Mark Davis. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for watching Salem News Channel, SNC.TV, your antidote to the mainstream media. Again, choices. You get choices to make. Somebody from California said, oh, Mike is giving wrong information about the Super Bowl numbers. I’m quoting from this advertising executive who pointed out that these massive numbers that Turning Point got. The point is, no matter how big the Super Bowl on NBC halftime show would have been, whatever those numbers were, if Turning Point siphoned off millions and millions of viewers, that hurt the advertisers on NBC. No matter what the bad buddy numbers were. And advertisers paying premium dollars to get the biggest audience possible. So for the first time ever, the Rubicon got crossed. The Super Bowl is not a captive audience any longer. I want you to hear a little bit of what that Turning Point USA alternative sounded like. It was Kid Rock. It was wonderful singers. It was just patriotic, redemptive, spiritual music. And a country star named Lee Bryce.
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Charlie, he gave people microphones so they could say what was on their mind. This is what’s on mine. I just want to catch my fish, drive my truck, drink my beer. Not wake up to all this stuff I don’t want to hear. Like the same kind of gun I hunt with, just killed another man. Mine every shot was a deer from my deer stand. I just want to cut my grass, feed my dogs, wear my boots. And I turn the TV on, sit and watch the evening news. Be told if I tell my own daughter that little boys ain’t little girls. I’ll give the creek hot water to this cast of yours. I just want to cut my grass, watch my game, say my prayers, and not get a picture of a flag up in flames while people cheer. Oh, the same one my granddaddy fought for, stomped on the locket’s trash. And I’m a downright hateful monster, bad to blue and bad. Hit 80s and country, in this country nowadays. The direction your fingers point, everything goes up in flames. Saying I’m some right winged, cause I was spread there in Jesus’ reign. A small town full of you. You assume what you don’t like me means that I don’t like you too. It ain’t easy being country in this country nowadays. In this country nowadays.
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That’s a halftime show that millions of people enjoyed. Not being made to feel horrific because you might be white or you might be an American citizen. Not a giant middle finger that the NFL gave to the American public. That was the intentional effect of the Bad Bunny halftime show. But that guy sings a song, Lee Bryce, who I’m told, as I mentioned, I’m off to South Carolina later today and I’ll spend a few days in a place that I know and love quite well. Nothing but warm and… fantastic memories of that part of the country. Lee Bryce is a Clemson grad. I didn’t know that. But Lee Bryce graduated from Clemson University, apparently. That was from the All-American show, the Turning Point USA alternative to the filth that passed for halftime entertainment from Bad Bunny. And incidentally, you want to dispute my description of the word filth? Look up the lyrics. Unless you speak Spanish, you didn’t understand them. But look up the lyrics to the music he performed with. You’ll see what I mean.
What was accomplished with their “No King” protest?