The Ben Shapiro Show - October 07, 2026


Andrew Tate Has Some Explaining To Do About Horses And Eels

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00:00:00.000 Part of the toxic response to toxic femininity has been toxic masculinity.
00:00:04.000 So, we've talked a lot on the show before about the rise of the man influencer Andrew Tate.
00:00:09.000 And we've said about Andrew Tate that some of his critiques of systems are not totally wrong.
00:00:15.000 When he says that feminism has made things worse for women and also for men, in some cases, he's right.
00:00:20.000 But what Andrew Tate always did was he used a sometimes correct critique in order to push some of the most vile trash on the internet.
00:00:28.000 So, for example, October 4th, he tweeted out, quote, During the Salem witch trials, a man could point at a woman with a baseless accusation and destroy her life.
00:00:35.000 During 2026, a woman can point at a man with a baseless accusation and destroy his life.
00:00:39.000 That happens to be true.
00:00:40.000 That is true.
00:00:42.000 But Andrew Tate then uses that in order to push the idea that men should victimize women, that they basically have a duty or an obligation to treat women as some form of animal life.
00:00:53.000 And so it's not a giant surprise that he found himself actually in jail.
00:01:00.000 And now he's trying to proclaim he's a martyr, by the way.
00:01:02.000 He says, if you won't go to jail for it, you don't believe in it.
00:01:04.000 Well, I mean, I guess.
00:01:05.000 You're in jail for rape, so do you believe in it?
00:01:07.000 Like, what is the thing he believes in?
00:01:09.000 According to his UK extradition package, which was released yesterday, Tate was arrested in Miami on July 18th on a provisional British extradition request.
00:01:17.000 He's remained in custody while fighting his return to the UK, according to the filing.
00:01:21.000 The newly filed records don't determine Tate's guilt.
00:01:23.000 They just lay out the evidence that British authorities say supports the criminal charges.
00:01:26.000 So, what exactly is in the criminal charges?
00:01:31.000 Some yucky stuff.
00:01:34.000 Quote On 5 January 2015, WhatsApp messages recovered.
00:01:39.000 From exhibit AT01, demonstrate that messages were exchanged between Andrew Tate and a female child.
00:01:44.000 This is a 17 year old girl, in which she explains that her parents have discovered that she is doing webcam and believes that Andrew Tate is using her as a prostitute.
00:01:52.000 In particular, her father wants her to stop and return home.
00:01:55.000 Andrew Tate asks, What will he, her father, do if I tell him you're not coming home?
00:01:59.000 The female child replied, Fly his ass with his police and start a court case.
00:02:03.000 I don't know.
00:02:04.000 He's crazy.
00:02:05.000 Andrew Tate replied, Well, then we have a problem legally.
00:02:07.000 You're not old enough to do this.
00:02:09.000 So, full on understanding what he was doing.
00:02:12.000 Quote Complainant two recalls there being a point for the first time she came around when she forgot what she was doing and who she was for a brief moment.
00:02:19.000 She then remembered waking up because Andrew Tate's tears were splashing on her face and he was crying, saying, I love you.
00:02:23.000 That is why I am raping you because I love you.
00:02:26.000 She remembers thinking he was a psychopath and that she had led a serial killer in her house.
00:02:31.000 Now, again, there's also some information that's kind of yucky about that extradition package.
00:02:40.000 Other things that are in the extradition package.
00:02:44.000 Apparently, he had pornography on his phone involving, I'm not even kidding you, horses and eels.
00:02:55.000 Horses and eels, quote.
00:02:59.000 In relation to the charges of possession of extreme pornographic images, there is evidence the relevant images were stored on devices attributable to Andrew Tate.
00:03:06.000 On or before July 18, 2015, Andrew Tate possessed, within exhibit SJB1, an extreme pornographic image which portrayed, in an explicit and realistic way, a person performing an active intercourse with a live animal.
00:03:18.000 Namely, an eel, which was grossly offensive, disgusting, or otherwise of an obscene character.
00:03:29.000 Did he just really like the little mermaid?
00:03:31.000 Is that what was going on there?
00:03:33.000 An eel?
00:03:36.000 An eel.
00:03:37.000 Andrew Tate with the genital eels.
00:03:41.000 Okay.
00:03:43.000 On or before July 18th, 2015, Andrew Tate possessed as extreme pornographic image.
00:03:48.000 Which portrayed in an explicit and realistic way a person performing an act of intercourse with a live animal, namely a horse.
00:03:56.000 Big Catherine the Great fan over here.
00:03:59.000 We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
00:04:00.000 First, truth is under attack in our culture, obviously.
00:04:02.000 People embrace lies about sex and gender.
00:04:05.000 They're rejecting the sanctity of every human life, and the government is even punishing people for saying what's true and what's right.
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00:05:03.000 I mean, horses and eels, When will Andrew Tate learn that nay means nay?
00:05:09.000 It had to be said.
00:05:10.000 It had to be done.
00:05:12.000 You know, also, we are now learning that apparently his favorite movie was The Shape of Water, or as it is colloquially known, I Fish.
00:05:21.000 So that is the thing, also.
00:05:25.000 When is the ASPCA going to show up?
00:05:28.000 Like, the animals must be protected from Andrew Tate.
00:05:31.000 It must happen.
00:05:34.000 And honestly, I hope that the guy doesn't own any racing horses because you just don't know what he's going to be doing with that.
00:05:39.000 Are there aquariums in his house?
00:05:42.000 None of this is good.
00:05:43.000 All bad.
00:05:44.000 Do not like.
00:05:46.000 No trips to the zoo for Andrew Tate.
00:05:49.000 If you were taken in by this grifter and charlatan, by the way, I got to tell you, all the signs were there, flashing like an electric eel.
00:05:59.000 They were all right there, the signs.
00:06:02.000 Again, I was shouting myself hoarse over this for like years.
00:06:08.000 It is.
00:06:08.000 It is pretty shocking.
00:06:10.000 It is a pretty shocking development.
00:06:12.000 It's pretty slimy and slithery, this behavior.
00:06:16.000 Really, really unpleasant.
00:06:18.000 So, yeah, again, he wanted to be top G, and now he is topping a horse.
00:06:27.000 So, unfortunate.
00:06:30.000 It turns out the most disgusting people are frequently disgusting, which is why, again, how could we have possibly known that a person who's openly vile is also secretly vile?
00:06:40.000 It is a gigantic mystery.
00:06:42.000 And we should remind you at this point that all the people who fluffed Andrew Tate, all those people knew precisely what they were doing while they did it.
00:06:50.000 All these supposed right wing influencers who are supposedly in favor of traditional values had beautifully warm relations with Andrew Tate.
00:06:58.000 Here's Andrew Tate with, of course, deeply devout Catholic Candace Owens, so, so deeply devout with the alleged sex trafficker.
00:07:08.000 Or say, Andrew Tate with a person who apparently hates sex trafficking by like Jeffrey Epstein, but loves sex trafficking allegedly when it's Andrew Tate.
00:07:15.000 There was Tucker Carlson hanging out with Andrew Tate.
00:07:19.000 Tucker, a pleasure.
00:07:20.000 Tristan Tate.
00:07:20.000 It's so nice to meet you.
00:07:22.000 Great to meet you today.
00:07:22.000 What a trip this has been to.
00:07:26.000 I'm a huge admirer.
00:07:28.000 I haven't seen him that excited since he discovered Aldi's shopping carts.
00:07:34.000 Here I am.
00:07:34.000 Hey, Tucker Carlson.
00:07:35.000 By the way, a New York Times reporter asked Tucker about his, shall we say, easy treatment of the Tates.
00:07:44.000 And he wrote back You have part of the story, but not all of it.
00:07:48.000 In fact, Tate's plan.
00:07:49.000 Was to recruit an entire sleeper cell of ideologically aligned podcasters to subvert American society with his radical views on the patriarchy, creatine, and the war in Gaza.
00:07:56.000 I was only one of many.
00:07:58.000 As you can see, the effort is now bearing its dangerous fruit.
00:08:02.000 What a delight.
00:08:03.000 What a delight.
00:08:04.000 It turns out that the worst people also tend to hang out with the worst people.
00:08:09.000 Gigantic shocker.
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