Bad Bunny, Winter Olympics & A New Dog?!

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0:15Joanne McNally:We're back. We are back. Do you know what? I was full of silage earlier. Remember when we were going on that break and I was like, I don't need a break. Let's keep going. And I'm actually very glad now. we didn't have the pod to do because I've been up to my tits. You have been touring. So are you finished anywhere yet? You're finished in the UK? No, I'm not. I have summer dates. I've got Liverpool and Brighton and Leeds and Manchester in June. And when are you going to Australia? April. Also, by the time this comes out, I've added an extra Cork and an extra Belfast in May that are on sale today because this is the Friday.

1:00Joanne McNally:I'll just keep going. I'm going to keep this going. I'm going to tour the show until next Christmas. It'll finish in the three arena in Dublin. And then, good night. I'll be gone for it. This is the show at the two matinees. Sorry, not the... Mothers and fathers of children, isn't it? Yes, it's the matinee. It's the sports day. I'm coming. Are you? Oh. It's the show for the mothers and fathers of children. It's my show. Yeah, it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't know. I didn't know you were coming. Fantastic. Boog, are you coming? No, I'm not. I'm afraid to say I'm not. Listen I know you were putting on the matinee for me but we didn't consider half term and I can't stay with the children here in London in half term I have to get away off I go back to Ireland but I'm going to the 3 Arena Yeah you're coming to the 3 Arena Yeah so I have the HRT show at 3pm this Sunday and then I have a late night show at 8pm I was like the HRT is that what you've called it?

1:51The HRT show yeah

1:52Joanne McNally:it's for all the women who are kind of perry If everyone's locked at that like that would just be the funniest thing in the world If the girl I was going to that managed to get out, Joe, I know you'll be locked because you're like, I've got a day off. Are you taking your wife or not taking your wife? Yeah, she's coming. Taking your wife. Oh, fab. Oh, have you got to stay the night? Or do you have to go back to the kids? No, we've got to get back. But it doesn't matter what condition we're in, it's fine. Disappointing. Great. You'll be crawling through the cat flap. I was reading this thing in the paper about, someone was interviewing somebody about not having kids and they were quite rude.

2:27I think they were interviewing Charlie XCX I'm really sure it was and because some people choose not to have kids I can understand that I can can you do I can understand it and I think you have not made an unusual choice you really haven't I was interviewing her and they pissed her it was an actor that was interviewing her and like everyone was like you can't ask that question and it's fair enough I think you have to be careful what questions that you ask people but like

2:53Joanne McNally:I can understand the choice I never yeah I know there was a TikTok going around the other night they were like show this to anyone who wants to have a child and it was a little girl throwing a tantrum but I also feel like it's a bit of a humble brag and the same breath like they're not saying I deeply regret having my kids they're going she's being a nightmare now but I'm still looking going she's still really cute you know you still love her madly and you couldn't imagine your life without her that's always the narrative of course but like you do look you do like I don't know if you do this you do look at the other side I look at Alzo and like sometimes I just like to hurt his feelings and I'm like Yazo you ate right I'll be out of the thick of it and then you're fucked let's remember that enjoy your cinema you loser but I also think I think people can be a little oh and look as we know everyone's projecting their own stuff all the time and some people find stuff more triggering than others etc but I do think there is there's a sensitivity around the kids saying that I don't I don't mind if people ask me about kids I talk about it all the time the fact that I do want one I'm probably doing it on my own blah blah blah I'm sick of listening to myself I'll talk about it.

3:56Joanne McNally:I talk about it so much. But people can be like, how dare you? It's like, it's kind of an, you know, now I understand you don't know what people are going through and they might have had a lot of losses and that kind of thing and it could be a sensitive topic. But I think also like, you know, it's human nature. People are nosy. I do think it's a topic that should be up for discussion. I don't think it should be kind of blanket copy. No way. Can you ask that? It's so rude. I don't think that's... Sometimes I think it, yeah, sometimes I think it's a natural instinct to just to ask people like, but I try, I actually do try and avoid it but I get asked it so much about having another child that the last time I did an interview for a magazine they asked me if I was going to adopt it's like they had gotten bored when asking me if I was going to have a fourth child so they were like what else can we ask her about this subject are you going to adopt I was like are you going to adopt she had kids I was like it's just such an like I've never expressed anything about even any of that I was just like it just kind of got thrown in the mix out of complete nowhere they're always looking for the headline aren't they Like they're always looking for the little angle.

4:56Joanne McNally:Like that's why they're screaming at celebrities on the red carpet. What do you think about trans women in sports? Like they're always just trying to get something that they can lead with. That's what they do. I love watching. Yeah, I love watching the celebs ignore people that are shouting at them. They're just kind of walking. Yeah, they're just like, hi, hi. Yeah. Sorry. Wait, hang on. What have you been up to? Nothing. I've been working. I've been working. I was, I've been on the road. I had a very feral show in Glasgow. Glasgow never fail they never fail to deliver they never fail and that was a Sunday night was it?

5:30Joanne McNally:it was a Sunday night there was people removed there was apparently some sort of fisticuffs in the stalls or up in the balcony or someone apparently someone said I'll see you outside after or something I don't know and then a girl messaged me saying she was removed I said why? and she said I was laughing too loudly and I was like I do understand it's a weird there is a weird balance where people even I sometimes I'm like they're laughing really loudly over there what's going on? Like, it's distracting. But there were a couple of girls in the front row and they were, a drink was taken, as you'd say.

6:01Joanne McNally:And in the middle of the show, one of them just stood up and out of nowhere, out of nowhere, I don't know what the motivation was. She's like, do you want, do you want, do you want? I said, yes, because you have to stop the show. I was like, yes. She's standing up at the rails. And she's like, I want you to try on my jacket. So she has this floor length purple metallic coat that she's insisting I try on. and I realised she's not going to stop. Because I was like, I'm kind of in the middle of something. Was it gorgeous? Like, was it a shell stopper? It was. It was a nice coat. I can't take that away from her.

6:30Joanne McNally:It was a nice jacket. It wouldn't be for me now. I don't wear a floor length anything. I saw you in a long, manly jacket like that. That reminds me of that jacket that you have. Really? Yeah, that's long. I've tried to pull off the floor length thing. I've always kind of looked like the Grim Reaper. But anyway. Well, you would with the boots. You look a bit like Morpheus. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, which I think is a hot look. And she, I said, go on then, throw us up the jacket. Now there's a, there's a very girthy orchestra pit in Glasgow in the King's Theatre. Yeah. It's like, it's quite wide and it's a bit of a death trap to be honest.

7:06Joanne McNally:Anyway, she threw it up, I missed it, it fell into the orchestra pit. Boo! And that was from the audience. And she then spent the rest of the evening trying to climb into the orchestra pit to get it back. It was chaos. Oh my God. Yeah. And they were just doing that thing where some people, when they've, like, they've been drinking, they chat to you and it's like, it's like you're just out for lunch. Do you know what I mean? I think, I think your show is just so different. Like, even I absolutely, like, just by accident, I walked in there, I was going to take a flask of tea and a chocolate bar with me.

7:40I just took the chocolate bar so I wouldn't look weird. And then I, fucking four o 'clock in the morning, I went to bed. I was absolutely furious. I don't know what happens at that show. I cannot be blamed. Good luck with the matinee, Jo.

7:52Joanne McNally:I cannot be blamed for any of this I think that you can these are all decisions that women are making of their own back there is look there's a party vibe for sure but anyway you're one with the jacket she actually messaged me after she's like really sorry about the whole coat thing and she was like I was drinking pints of Prosecco from 1pm I was like don't worry you're welcome back as always I have to I can only have I learnt very late in life that I can only have one or two drinks before I go out and that is all I can have otherwise the night is gone and I will black out and I won't remember getting home and I'm just too old to do that now yeah do you remember you prinking and squatting do you remember that story oh yeah she had to get her gym in yeah I was on my balcony doing the gym and I was drinking at the same time so I had a I was a vodka red bull it was pretty much just like a pre-workout so I was pre-workouting as I was work-outing and yeah I had a great time that is commitment to the cause I mean squatting with a vodka tonic I mean I love it now Vogue your favourite man your new favourite man in the world is Jesus Bad Bunny I he's I've liked all of his songs or am I liked on Spotify I can't stop I feel like I'm singing Spanish with him I'm not but I'm doing something the words are sounding the words are sounding similar Joanne okay I'll go on four for four gracias for anyone living under a giant rock Bad Bunny performed the halftime show at the Super Bowl by the way can I just say I the Superbowl halftime show I'm assuming loads of people just watch the halftime show and don't watch the Superbowl yeah now I have to be honest and I didn't know who was playing in the Superbowl but you know about that like the halftime show is the biggest show that you can get Kendrick Lamar did it last year he was absolutely unbelievable Michael Jackson's done it before where he literally stands still for three minutes and does absolutely nothing and you're just like watching and waiting because it's so exciting Bad Bunny did it and he's had the most amount of I think it was like 135 million people watched him.

9:52But it was really, so he did a show. He sang all of it in Spanish. Obviously, he's from Puerto Rico. And he was kind of doing it. He's American. He describes himself as American as well. And he was kind of like just trying to show that like, like uniting everybody together in the face of all things that are happening with ICE. Because he won a Grammy and he was talking about how awful it is. And it is awful what they're doing. and I think watching him celebrate like Puerto Rican identity and Latin culture and he had all these different pockets during the show where like it was him winning him handing the Grammy to him as a child and like there was a taco stand and there was a couple who actually got married on stage I saw the best meme ever it was like fair play to that woman getting married in front of Bad Bunny because I'd always just be thinking maybe I'd still have a chance

10:43Joanne McNally:I saw a woman say there isn't a guillotine big enough to cut off the amount of head I'd give that guy

10:52I absolutely but like I'd heard of him I'm ashamed to say through Kendall Jenner and I had never heard his music but it was like this is a massive Latin street party and it was unbelievable I think it's very

11:09Joanne McNally:I think it was important is the term I would use because everything that's going on in the States at the moment with all the immigration and the ice and all that jazz and it's fucking horrific. But like, America invaded Puerto Rico, colonized it. It is an American country. Yeah. And now they're like, they're... We didn't understand what he was saying. They forget that. Do you know what I mean? That America's bigger than just like Massachusetts. Yeah. Well, he was calling out all the Latin American countries as well during the whole thing. and I just thought the whole thing was just really nice and heartwarming.

11:53Joanne McNally:When the bell goes, it just goes, I say hello. Because remember we beat the man stealing all the posts. So I try to be a little bit like security. And I'm like, hello. And he just goes, it's the postman. I go, oh, come in. And I buzz him in every time. So I don't know who that is.

12:10So you're talking about Puerto Rico. So you know Jake Paul, the brothers Jake Paul and Logan Paul. They moved to Puerto Rico. So loads of people moved to Puerto Rico because they've got amazing tax rates for Americans. So a lot of them go over there for the tax rates. Should we go? We should go. Would you go? Would we go? I think if you're earning like they are, like 130 million or even more, maybe.

12:30Joanne McNally:Oh, I'd be there. Sorry now. If I was making that kind of cash. It's besides St. Barthes. St. Barthes is the same. The tax man can suck it. I'd be gone in a second. Sorry, I would. so go full Bono but he tweeted and he was like everyone should turn this is the most un-American thing I've ever seen everyone should switch off and hit the networks where it hurts during the halftime show don't show any support for Bad Bunny and his brother Logan was like he quote tweeted it and was like I have nothing to do with this I love Bad Bunny I love Puerto Rico I live there and then your man the next day got so much abuse which loads of people did for slacking off Bad Bunny that he was like oh I got hacked oh the hacking of course No Of course Save the hacking For something better Come on Say aye Imagine having That little self-awareness Your brother is Living in Puerto Rico Using their tax breaks And then you're talking About how anti-American Having a Puerto Rican singer is But also Basically So saying Bethany Franknell was at it Jill Zarin The two guys And pulled them all down then Because they're like I think Bethany Frank's Daughter told her She was going to get cancelled Or it was the other one's Daughter who said it it's just like it's so like can we not listen to Read the room Yeah Read the room Also so the Superbowl the NFL were saying basically the halftime act the halftime show it's about growing the Superbowl right so they were saying the Superbowl can no longer get any bigger without bringing Latin Americans into it so they got the young girls with the Taylor Swift stuff they have more women going to what are they called fucking football things whatever NFL football shows football shows American football football shows and they were like we can't grow this anymore we need Latin America it was like a strategic move on their part and loads of like Rihanna isn't American Joe, root us out other non-American acts who've played the Super Bowl there are other people Paul McCartney The Rolling Stones U2 Coldplay Shakira The Weeknd U2 did it wow where's Shakira from?

14:30Joanne McNally:where's Shakira from? sorry I was thinking I don't know I don't want to be thinking of Christina Aguilera there was one U2 Americans love U2 they're marvellous Shakira Come on She's from Columbia Yeah God she's right But I I was watching the video And it was It was brilliant It was quite emotive And um I So quite But sexual Not as sexual as his other Concerts Which I will be attending There was a lot of dick grabbing It's called dwerking He does a dwer Have you seen him dwerking on stage It's fucking wild Is that male twerking Yeah Oh my god You have to watch it He wears these Very nice shorts and he dwerks on stage.

15:11And I don't know what it is. Every time, like I've just now decided that you need to get with Bad Bundy. He's got a sexy accent. They've got really good tax rates. He dwerks. He is, you definitely have stunning children if you chose to have them. Like they would definitely not be ugly.

15:25Joanne McNally:Thank you. He's loaded and has a house in LA. He's young and fun and he dated Kendall so you'd hang out with them. He sings, raps and dances. And one bad point is he's 5 '11". and I was actually quite disappointed when I read that and then I remembered that my husband is 5 '11", so it can work. Bad Bunny, I'm sorry. That is a deal breaker for me. No, do you know what? It can work. Honestly, it was a deal breaker when I first saw it. Let him down gently for me, please, Vogue. Let him down gently for me, will you? No. No, we have to have him. He's now deleted all his Instagram. Have you seen this?

16:00Joanne McNally:Yeah, what was the crack with that? I don't know, but he's after, like, willingly ejecting 50 million followers. Send them my way, please. bad bunny. 50 mil. 50 mil. Can you imagine? He's got something up his sleeve. He's something up his sleeve. Taylor Swift's done this before. It's like, it's either, he's getting so much abuse, but I don't think he'd care. I mean, I just, no, I think it's quite, it's quite divided, but I just don't understand how you can't see how amazing and uniting that is for American. Like, I just don't understand how there's any other aspect to it when you watch another.

16:33We don't live there. We don't live there. I know. We're not on the inside scoop. but I also think people like moaning about not being able to understand an accent that accent it's even nicer than a French man well I think I think they were saying

16:47Joanne McNally:it's anti-American because he was singing in Spanish that was basically that was kind of the man Trump was saying was anti-American like I say there's a lot going on over there at the moment there's a lot going on but it was a very powerful performance he is a bad bunny and then I I was like was that Pedro Pascal just kind of bobbing around in the background there. So obviously I googled it. And he had Pedro Pascal, Jessica Alba, Ricky Martin was singing at it, Lady Gaga was singing, but they were singing, so they were visibly there. Sorry, Ricky Martin, what's he doing? He looks fantastic. How anyone believes he was straight at any point in our lives is mind-boggling.

17:23I did when he first came out when I was in Spain. I was shocked. I was like, what? Ricky Martin gay? I used to sit in the house. Shocking information. Remember you only had music channels? I sat in the house in Spain. I didn't even I wasn't basically not on the holidays or anyone else I just sat going through the music channels waiting for Ricky Martin to go back on because you loved him it's my whole holiday

17:45Joanne McNally:yeah yeah he's a hot my god he's a good looking man and like he's aging like a fine wine but they're all very they've been like there's a I think Bad Bunny at one point like cancelled a tour or cancelled shows to go back and march in Puerto Rico for like kind of political freedom and he's you know he's a political person so anyway we loved it loved it we absolutely loved it did you hear the other girls from the Super Bowl I love Cardi B but I would not fuck with Cardi B no way so she's gone out with this fella Stefan Diggs he was playing in the Super Bowl I don't know which team he was on who won Seattle won so he would have been on the Patriots is that right I don't really care it's like Coachella I don't care about anything you could tell me the Super Bowl was Mayo versus Claire and I believe you I have no idea I'll do it in those terms it's easier for you Okay, so he plays for Claire.

18:36Right. And basically, he had four kids with four different women in 2025, and one of the women was Cardi B, but they're in a relationship together, and Cardi B had basically organized a Super Bowl party for him after the Super Bowl. She spent$1.2 million on it. Neither of them attended because he invited one of his other baby mamas, gave her front row seats with another one of the newborn children, and then Cardi B saw it, got absolutely raging and dumped him because of it. Because she got front row seats.

19:10Joanne McNally:I mean, sometimes, stories like that make me happy to be single. I couldn't deal with the drama. Now, am I suggesting we have Cardi B levels of drama? Probably not. Oh my God, not another baby. Yeah, I'm like, if you bring another baby mama to the sports game with Mayo versus Claire, I'll be absolutely fuming. But there was all that They spent 1.2 million dollars On a party And never went I don't know about you I feel like the NFL Is our new Burberry You know the way Burberry Just like Scoff at us And they don't Ever invite us to their show And we've kind of Forgot about it now They did a big They did a huge game In Ireland Remember And Lyra signed The national anthem Did you get the nod I didn't get the nod actually No I didn't get the nod either Because they're trying To branch out now Kind of like into Europe and all like they're on a they're on a mission they're on a massive mission well they're not on that much of a mission because we weren't invited I think that is the same company isn't it Jo like the NFL yeah yeah national football so they've given all the European countries rights to it well American teams so I don't know what I don't know the Ireland are like the Bears now or something let me actually just check that so it's franchises they're called franchises well they're trying to kind of encourage us to support like they're like okay Ireland you've been given this team and now they're selling all their merch and their jerseys and stuff in town in Dublin and they're trying to encourage us you know the way to kind of get involved but the team they gave us I don't think they're great well I mean come on what I will say is I have a lot of NFL jerseys now I don't know what teams they're for they might be ice hockey as well I just buy them in the vintage shops in America yeah do you remember I went to I was doing a show in Seattle and I turned up in their basically arch enemies Farsity top Like football top Because I Again I just like the colour So I went on stage They're like boo And I was like oh my god No I don't even know I'm shit yet Why are you booing I haven't even opened my mouth And then I realised Yeah I'd made a big Faux pas Well I think next year We should set our sights And go into the NFL Primark invited loads of people I don't know what their issue is With us We've never done anything To hurt them And I'm actually taking my niece On a shopping spree there next week So I even Spend money in your shop and I would like to be invited to the NFL.

21:28Okay.

21:29Joanne McNally:While there is no professional NFL team based in Ireland, the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets hold official marketing rights on the island as part of the NFL's global markets program. The Jets have a nice jersey. The Steelers. The Steelers with Irish roots have been particularly active holding watch parties and promoting the game in Ireland. They want us to be Steelers. Uh-huh. I will make my own choices. I will not be bullied into supporting a shit team. And it depends what colour they're wearing and how nice their jersey is. I want the heated rivals. That's ice hockey. Who cares? It gets cold in Ireland.

22:05Joanne McNally:It gets cold. Do you know what Sven told me the other day? What? Baseball players in America, some of them earn$130 million a year. $130 million. Because I thought NFL players were the highest paid, but no. Baseball players, then basketball players, then NFL. Wow, I didn't know. I'll tell you baseball it doesn't even look hard it's basically just round it yeah it is and they don't even they don't even break a sweat it's like cyclists sometimes I see cyclists and they're stopped for another coffee I'm like are you even cycling or what are you doing it's the same with baseball they kind of just stand around it's all the men trying not to have affairs so they just cycle around the countryside at the weekend take themselves out of the mix that'll be you Jo thank you yeah they'll have their midlife crisis on a bike rather than on a prostitute it does have a very fancy bike well so you just Svenny just runs Svenny just runs constantly to try and get away from me keep him peddling he'll keep him out of trouble

23:05I'm now living somewhere that I'm scared that my packages get robbed

23:08Joanne McNally:because you don't have the concierge anymore I don't have you peasant I know no one's felt it more than myself

23:18Joanne McNally:speaking of sports yeah I mean firstly let's talk about was it the Norwegian guy who when he was given the bronze medal Did you look at it? Yeah yeah yeah who announced for so basically story was Norwegian Olympian Winter Olympics Sterla Holm Sterla Holm got one bronze but his ex-girlfriend won gold because he basically when he was doing his post-show announcement that the journalist he basically said a couple of years ago I met the love of my life and a few weeks ago or months ago I cheated on her and I feel terrible about it and everyone's like whoa where did that come from? He's short of time timelines as well he's been in the relationship for six months he cheated three months in and now he's confessing it Ah come on He said a couple of years ago I met the love of my life No No Oh for God's sake Yeah But also and I'm not being funny but like are timelines not a bit like dusty at the start of relationships because I had to say to spend after the jump, I was like, this is when we started going out with each other.

24:24Okay? It wasn't that. Listen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is when it was official because like, yeah, you have to try and figure that out. So like, it just seems a bit, but balling, I thought it was quite sweet,

24:35Joanne McNally:but I just thought, oh God, you go up, shite. Then he did a follow-up where, later in the day, where the journalist was like, do you think it was the right thing to use that time? Your kind of one moment when you've won an Olympic medal to... Four years of training. To admit that you cheated it on your ex and he went I don't know actually he's like I haven't heard anything from her but you know hopefully she gets in touch he literally he was literally like yeah thank you so much I've worked so hard did I oh my god I was like I love this confessional meddling thing like imagine you know those enhanced games where I said I'm going to put Pat into the gymnastics yeah yeah yeah can you imagine the confessions would be coming out of them they're off their tits when they go to collect their medal they'll be like thanks for the medal I've just had an orgy in the sauna.