The Ben Shapiro Show - October 22, 2026


Alex Cooper's Marriage Advice Is Genuinely Insane

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00:00:00.000 Meanwhile, in cultural news, there's a person named Alex Cooper.
00:00:04.000 She is the call her daddy lady.
00:00:09.000 And she's very famous and she has a lot of listeners, mainly because the country is filled with people.
00:00:14.000 And some of those people are not particularly smart.
00:00:17.000 And invariably, all she does with her show is just destroy relations between the sexes.
00:00:21.000 She's announced the birth of a baby boy and she's dedicating every day from now on to making the world worse for that baby boy, one interview at a time.
00:00:30.000 So, first of all, congrats.
00:00:31.000 I'm glad there are more babies in the world.
00:00:32.000 Babies are good.
00:00:34.000 She had on Sophia Bush.
00:00:35.000 So, Sophia Bush, for those who have not checked in with Sophia Bush since One Tree Hill, which was about 80 years ago now, Sophia Bush, a few years ago, divorced her husband and became a lesbian.
00:00:45.000 I know.
00:00:46.000 I didn't know that either, but apparently it's a thing.
00:00:48.000 Anyway, so Alex Cooper had her on.
00:00:52.000 And Sophia Bush decided it was time to give some hot advice about marriage.
00:00:57.000 Because that's who you should go to for advice about marriage, ladies, is a woman who got divorced and became a lesbian.
00:01:04.000 That's probably the best way to.
00:01:05.000 If you're looking for marital advice, this is the source you look to.
00:01:08.000 Here we go.
00:01:10.000 So, to hear you talk about these other relationships that you had and like having a gut feeling something was off, and then getting into that other relationship and being like, I think maybe I was actually asking for not enough because I was convincing myself that maybe if I just ask for this one thing, that will be fine and I can fill my cup elsewhere.
00:01:31.000 And then to finally get to a place in your life where you're like, I was in my body after dissociating from things.
00:01:37.000 To get to a place where you're sitting here now, being like, Of course, there's work to still always be done.
00:01:41.000 Oh my God.
00:01:42.000 Yeah.
00:01:42.000 But all of these reps, essentially, it's only gotten better.
00:01:47.000 Yeah.
00:01:48.000 And I think that's such a beautiful message to leave women with because I do think we can get really, really in our heads about, Oh my God, I feel like I'm maybe I shouldn't leave this marriage because can I even get better?
00:02:01.000 And the answer is always yes.
00:02:03.000 The answer is always yes.
00:02:04.000 And this idea that it's too late or you're too old or who are you to want more that's patriarchy.
00:02:12.000 That is crazy.
00:02:13.000 We don't need it.
00:02:17.000 So don't stay in your marriage and try to improve it.
00:02:20.000 If you're asking if there's someone else better out there for you, the answer is always yes, which is, of course, the message of marriage, right?
00:02:27.000 When you say till death, two us part, and you make a lifelong commitment to someone, you should always have your eye on the door.
00:02:31.000 You should always, I mean, there might be, who knows, the next person who walks through that door might be better than this person.
00:02:36.000 And then after that person, there might be somebody even better.
00:02:38.000 In fact, every single time you ask yourself the question, you should just break it up.
00:02:43.000 And you should take advice from, you know, Alex Cooper and Sophia Bush and all the rest of it.
00:02:51.000 Toxic femininity is a thing, gang.
00:02:52.000 It really, really is.
00:02:53.000 And this idiocy bleeds over into real life and it leads to a generally, a generically anti relationship and anti male position.
00:03:03.000 And it has real effects on people's marriages.
00:03:05.000 If you take this kind of advice, where instead of working on yourself in your marriage while you work on your marriage, instead it's basically like, well, I can do better than this guy.
00:03:15.000 Then things are not going to go well for you.
00:03:16.000 They just won't.
00:03:17.000 This is terrible advice.
00:03:18.000 And if you take it, your life is going to get worse.
00:03:20.000 All right.
00:03:20.000 Meanwhile, we do have some updates on the Cornell not rape.
00:03:25.000 Again, there is no evidence, zero evidence that Jane Doe in this case was raped.
00:03:33.000 The evidence does not exist, as far as we can tell from the existing evidence.
00:03:38.000 In fact, the lawsuit has now dropped the frat president, who is supposedly one of the alleged rapists.
00:03:46.000 That person has now been dropped.
00:03:49.000 But Jane Doe sent a message to the faculty senate saying she felt unsupported.
00:03:53.000 Quote, in a two page letter to the faculty senate, this is the New York Times, the former student, known as Jane Doe, said she had wanted to share a secondhand account as the Senate considers a rare vote of no confidence in Dr. Kotlikoff's administration.
00:04:05.000 His initial response, she wrote, was along the lines of why did she wait so long to report it?
00:04:10.000 When the Tri Delta president relayed this conversation to me, I felt unsupported and disbelieved by President Kotlikoff.
00:04:16.000 Well, yeah, because why did you wait so long to report it?
00:04:18.000 And then why was your report openly evidence that you weren't raped?
00:04:24.000 You literally, I mean, there are literal text messages in which you say everything was consensual.
00:04:28.000 So there's that.
00:04:30.000 But again, if you complain loud enough, then you're the victim, is the way this seems to work.
00:04:34.000 The Cornell faculty has been holding struggle sessions over the Cornell 7Ks.
00:04:39.000 Here is a faculty senate meeting from last week.
00:04:44.000 It got wild.
00:04:46.000 This semester, I work exclusively with first year, first semester students who are absolutely terrified.
00:04:54.000 They feel unsafe and they are shocked.
00:04:56.000 That this case happened in 2024 and that there wasn't an urgency when that happened.
00:05:02.000 Is rape a less destructive, expressive activity than protesting against genocide?
00:05:09.000 I recognize the passion around this issue and around the issue with Gaza.
00:05:13.000 But look, these are two separate areas here.
00:05:16.000 There is a real sense of importance, importance, and significance.
00:05:21.000 And I think if you really believe that that was important, I totally think that it was sincere.
00:05:25.000 I think you also really believe that.
00:05:27.000 What happened with Jane Doe was extremely important and significant.
00:05:31.000 And yet, the communication and language and tone communicates other things.
00:05:35.000 And I speak today because I am so afraid to speak that I'm shaking.
00:05:39.000 And that culture of fear stifles speech for so many of us.
00:05:45.000 Don't send your kids to these universities.
00:05:47.000 Honestly, they're just filled with psychos.
00:05:49.000 Truly, people who are crazy.
00:05:52.000 Wherever the left is in control, by the way, they're totally crazy.
00:05:56.000 They just don't understand how humans work.
00:05:58.000 It really is incredible.
00:05:59.000 Whether it's Sophia Bush talking to Alex Cooper and not understanding how marriage is supposed to work, or whether it is the Cornell professors pretending that there's no such thing as evidence, or whether it is Ireland.
00:06:09.000 Ireland has now put out an ad talking about consent.
00:06:13.000 This ad suggests that consent, like non consensual touching, where that conversation starts is a child not wanting a hug from grandma.
00:06:25.000 This is to teach consent.
00:06:28.000 What now?
00:06:31.000 What in the what?
00:06:33.000 Um, what?
00:06:34.000 Here we go.
00:06:35.000 Ireland.
00:06:36.000 They're really on top of things over in Ireland.
00:06:42.000 Granny, Grandma!
00:06:43.000 Great to see you.
00:06:46.000 Mr. Williams.
00:06:46.000 Great to see you.
00:06:49.000 Great to see you.
00:06:51.000 Oh, what's up, Mr. Williams?
00:06:53.000 Not everyone wants a hawk, even from the people who love them.
00:06:57.000 Awkward?
00:06:58.000 Maybe.
00:06:59.000 Important?
00:07:00.000 Absolutely.
00:07:02.000 We-consent.ie is here to help.
00:07:07.000 By the way, the woman in the.
00:07:09.000 So when I talked about that ad, you thought I was going to have a five year old who didn't want a hug from grandma?
00:07:13.000 That lady's like 18.
00:07:16.000 And apparently, grandma is about to rape her or something, according to Ireland.
00:07:21.000 That's how you teach consent.
00:07:25.000 Things are going great.
00:07:28.000 Things are just going really, really well.
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00:07:32.000 Wasn't that amazing?
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00:07:40.000 you
00:08:14.000 Professor you sit there and shake because you're dependent on drink your sick is all over you Have you ever seen a child starve to death, Professor?
00:08:39.000 No. I have.