The Ben Shapiro Show - August 07, 2026


Ben Reacts to the 'To Catch a Predator' Movie Trailer


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00:00:00.000 Spider-Man and Elon Musk, Robert Pattinson, Mike Posner.
00:00:03.000 I have thoughts on all of the above things.
00:00:05.000 As we round out a summer of blockbuster film, I finally found time to watch Spider-Man.
00:00:09.000 I will give you my initial thoughts.
00:00:10.000 Look out for my comprehensive review this weekend.
00:00:12.000 Plus, A24 dropped a trailer for a new movie about to catch a predator host, Chris Hansen, starring Robert Pattinson, and I react live.
00:00:18.000 Plus, Elon Musk debuts plans for a massive chip plant in Texas that looks straight out of the Jetsons, and Mike Posner of I Took Up Hill in Ibiza has now converted to Christianity.
00:00:29.000 Apparently, The brand new A24 trailer for the To Catch a Predator movie called Primetime is getting all sorts of traffic.
00:00:38.000 So let's take a look at it and see what we think.
00:00:42.000 Come on in.
00:00:49.000 Are you sure your parents aren't home?
00:00:51.000 I'm sure.
00:00:54.000 Big night planned.
00:00:55.000 Who are you?
00:00:58.000 She has a seat right there.
00:01:02.000 I'm Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC, and we're doing a story on adults who try to meet teens online.
00:01:10.000 You see how this looks, right?
00:01:13.000 I
00:01:15.000 don't really like your show, but America loves it.
00:01:20.000 So I need to move you to Catch a Predator.
00:01:22.000 9 p.m. Primetime.
00:01:23.000 Gonna be bigger than lost.
00:01:26.000 Gonna be bigger than lost!
00:01:28.000 My name is Dan Plum.
00:01:29.000 Do you know what your auditioning fault is?
00:01:32.000 So you are praying, a 13-year-old?
00:01:33.000 Is there time for a rehearsal?
00:01:36.000 We're gonna shoot the rehearsal.
00:01:38.000 Come in.
00:01:39.000 They're gonna love this.
00:01:41.000 Predator has never earned the recognition it deserves.
00:01:44.000 Get out of here!
00:01:47.000 I want something that matters.
00:01:53.000 No more body-severs.
00:01:55.000 I want a whale.
00:01:57.000 Don't you ever just wanna.
00:02:03.000 Okay.
00:02:03.000 Bleed him?
00:02:04.000 So, um, now listen, Robert Pattinson is one of the best working actors.
00:02:04.000 Maybe what I do.
00:02:07.000 He really is really, really good.
00:02:10.000 I assume that this is, uh, it feels like a half take off on sort of Nightcrawler.
00:02:19.000 It looks like they're playing Chris Hansen as the villain in this, sort of.
00:02:22.000 I don't want
00:02:27.000 Your definition of bad and my definition of bad are vastly different.
00:02:27.000 to be a bad person.
00:02:41.000 What would have happened?
00:02:41.000 I'm curious as to how much of this is going to be based on an actual true story.
00:02:46.000 But it looks well directed.
00:02:49.000 And A24 is a good studio, obviously.
00:02:50.000 So it looks good.
00:02:52.000 I'm very curious as to what the actual plotline is going to be.
00:02:54.000 They have not released much information about the actual plotline of the film.
00:03:00.000 And it's not a fictionalized version of the film.
00:03:04.000 Right.
00:03:04.000 So I assume that this means, since Chris Hansen is still alive, I assume that this means that he had to sign off on the contents of the film.
00:03:11.000 Otherwise, he would just sue the living hell out of them.
00:03:15.000 So it can't just be a rip on Chris Hansen, I assume.
00:03:19.000 So anyway, I'm curious.
00:03:23.000 You have piqued my interest.
00:03:25.000 And meanwhile, in sort of some nice cultural news, the Grammy nominated artist Mike Posner has now been baptized, which is great.
00:03:34.000 So Poser.
00:03:35.000 Posner revealed that he's rewritten the lyrics to his hit song, I Took a Pill in Ibiza, to better reflect his newfound faith and the profound ways his life has changed more than a dozen years after its release.
00:03:45.000 He wrote the original song, according to Protestia, at a time when he was searching for meaning at the height of his fame, following the success of his earlier hit, Cooler Than Me.
00:03:55.000 And he said, he put out a post in which he said, For me to be a Christian means to aspire with all mind, body, and soul to live as Christ did, to forgive all of the people, to treat all other people, especially the least among us.
00:04:06.000 Whether that be the poorest of the poor financially or the loneliest of the lonely, with an impossible level of compassion, grace, and most of all, love.
00:04:13.000 It means to live with an impossibly high standard of goodness toward others, so much that I need God's help to even get me close.
00:04:20.000 It means listening to the little voice inside me that I believe comes from God that tells me to do the right thing, even when I don't feel like it.
00:04:27.000 If it doesn't cause me to love more people more fully, it isn't God.
00:04:30.000 Again, that's great.
00:04:31.000 No more of this.
00:04:32.000 This seems like a very, very good thing.
00:04:35.000 Okay, one more thing, and then we'll get to the member block where we'll get to everything foreign policy related, and there's some.
00:04:40.000 Foreign policy things happening right now.
00:04:43.000 So, Elon yesterday announced that he would be launching a TerraFab manufacturing site in Texas.
00:04:50.000 And this led to a bajillion tweets about how terrible on the one side it is and how good it is on the other.
00:04:56.000 Okay, I am of the view that Americans need higher wages.
00:04:59.000 The best way to create higher wages is to create more jobs.
00:05:02.000 The best way to create more jobs is to innovate.
00:05:04.000 So, that's a good thing.
00:05:06.000 Here was the clip of SpaceX announcing its new TerraFab manufacturing facility in Texas.
00:05:17.000 So, you can see it's going to be, you know, obviously very, very high tech.
00:05:23.000 And sort of a computer generated vision of what TerraFab is going to look like, almost its own city.
00:05:31.000 And SpaceX announced that it and Tesla would be building the most epic chip building effort in the world, combining logic, memory, and advanced packaging all under one roof.
00:05:41.000 They broke ground on a new research fab on the North Campus of Giga, Texas that is the precursor to TerraFab.
00:05:47.000 And now they announced they'll be building in Grimes County, Texas, not in California, obviously, because Elon moved pretty much all these facilities out of California.
00:05:56.000 The combined SpaceX and Tesla demand for chips is expected to be in excess of one terawatt of compute, which is significantly larger than the entire current global supply.
00:06:05.000 Okay, that is a good thing.
00:06:06.000 That is a good thing for Americans.
00:06:07.000 All the people who are very, very concerned about our precious bodily fluids and also the idea that farmland is going to be taken up.
00:06:12.000 Here is the thing.
00:06:13.000 If you would like for wages to outpace inflation, meaning that's what causes, relatively speaking, prices to go down.
00:06:19.000 If you would like for all that to happen, you need more innovation.
00:06:22.000 You need more jobs.
00:06:24.000 And Elon is providing those things.
00:06:25.000 The fact that so many people have treated Elon like a villain when he's providing legitimately tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of jobs, is insane to me.
00:06:34.000 It is also a great reminder that, yes, America does need certain types of immigrants, like, for example, Elon Musk.
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00:07:42.000 Let's do a quick Spider Man capsule review.
00:07:44.000 We do have a much longer video that's going to come out tomorrow of my review of the Spider Man New Day film.
00:07:51.000 I'm going to give you my quick capsule review.
00:07:56.000 Not a top five Spider Man movie.
00:07:58.000 Not a top five Spider Man movie.
00:08:01.000 It is heavily CGI'd, obviously.
00:08:05.000 I'll admit to you, again, I'm more of a DC than a Marvel guy.
00:08:07.000 So when it comes to Spider Man, I will take Batman over Spider Man any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
00:08:13.000 With that said, Spider Man is amusing and fun.
00:08:16.000 And Spider Man is really designed for a younger audience.
00:08:20.000 My kids can watch most of the Spider Man movies.
00:08:23.000 Like I showed them Spider Man Into the Spider Verse.
00:08:27.000 They watched that the other day.
00:08:28.000 They loved it.
00:08:28.000 Like, by the way, the best Spider Man movie.
00:08:30.000 I don't think it's close.
00:08:31.000 It's actually the best Spider Man movie.
00:08:32.000 And then the original Toby McGuire Spider Man movies.
00:08:34.000 This one, eh, eh.
00:08:37.000 Like, it's fun.
00:08:39.000 You're not going to feel bad walking out of the theater because it's a Spider Man movie, and you expect to watch Spidey do things on the screen.
00:08:47.000 The biggest problem with the film is sort of thematic in nature.
00:08:50.000 If you recall, the last film, the last Spider Man film, the last Spider Man film was really fun because it had all of the old Spider Mans coming back from the multiverse, right?
00:08:57.000 You had Toby McGuire who showed up, and Andrew Garfield who showed up.
00:09:01.000 And you had Tom Holland, who again, I think is a really well cast Spider Man.
00:09:04.000 He's supposed to be basically a teenager.
00:09:07.000 And the very end of that film was Doctor Strange erasing everybody's memory so nobody knew who Spidey was, including MJ and his best friend.
00:09:16.000 And this entire film is designed to undo that movie.
00:09:19.000 I'll give you all the details tomorrow.
00:09:20.000 You know, but, you know, suffice it to say, like, if you're just looking for kind of a throwaway good time at the theater, then it's fine.
00:09:26.000 If you're looking for, like, one of the greatest superhero films ever made, I will say I do not think that it is justifying at all right now.
00:09:32.000 But again, it's not sort of insulting in any way.
00:09:34.000 It's just kind of eh.
00:09:36.000 Just kind of eh.
00:09:36.000 But I'll give you the full review tomorrow on YouTube.
00:09:38.000 So make sure that you tune in for that.
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