The Ben Shapiro Show - October 21, 2026


Ben Shapiro Reacts to Tate McRae's 'Housewife'

Hosted by
Ben Shapiro
Mentioned
Nicki Minaj Tate McRae Cardi B Sarah Jay Z Britney Spears Miley Cyrus Billboard Mozart Brad
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Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

178.82

Word count

1,970

Sentence count

186


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 So, my producers sometimes offer up pieces of culture that they require that I then analyze.
00:00:05.000 Apparently, there is a hot new video out by a human named Tate McRae.
00:00:11.000 This is a new song called Housewife.
00:00:14.000 According to Billboard, McRae teased Housewife during an appearance on The Tonight Show earlier in October, where she explained the single was about a woman who can't be contained.
00:00:22.000 And the lyrics go like this Think my paradise is tabloids and flashing lights.
00:00:27.000 Truth is, it's more like loads of cash and a nice guy and a life lived right.
00:00:30.000 I know that.
00:00:31.000 I just want to make a lot of money.
00:00:32.000 Be my own housewife.
00:00:33.000 So basically, this is just Miley Cyrus's I'm going to buy myself flowers song.
00:00:37.000 But, you know, kind of the same thing.
00:00:39.000 You, you, you could be the one I'm calling honey.
00:00:41.000 Be my sex on the side.
00:00:42.000 You, you, you.
00:00:43.000 Acres of open stars, headlights of precious cars, life imitating art.
00:00:46.000 I just want to make a lot of money.
00:00:47.000 Be my own housewife.
00:00:50.000 Go into my garden, pick the money off a tree.
00:00:52.000 I don't pay for nothing, baby.
00:00:53.000 People pay me.
00:00:54.000 And you write beside me just the icing on the dream.
00:00:56.000 I don't need you.
00:00:57.000 I want you.
00:00:57.000 And that's my favorite thing.
00:01:00.000 I don't date nobody.
00:01:01.000 People, baby, date me.
00:01:04.000 Okay, so apparently being your own housewife doesn't amount to, you know, having a spouse or having children, which is usually what people mean when they say they want to be a housewife.
00:01:16.000 That's usually why you're doing it.
00:01:17.000 It's because it is, for many women, it turns out that the great highlight of life is having children and being a wife.
00:01:22.000 Like, this is a very important thing.
00:01:23.000 But according to our current culture and people like Tate McRae, to be a housewife means that you are your own housewife.
00:01:31.000 You live in a house by yourself where you dance around in lingerie, apparently.
00:01:34.000 Well, that's what I've been told.
00:01:35.000 Here's the music video.
00:01:36.000 It's also transparent.
00:01:51.000 Okay, so for those who can't see, she's gallivanting around in lingerie essentially.
00:01:55.000 Oh, there she is with the stroller, but there's nothing in the stroller.
00:02:01.000 She has a yacht.
00:02:08.000 Yeah, um.
00:02:08.000 There she is, um, boxing with some dude.
00:02:13.000 Um.
00:02:15.000 She is not a good dancer.
00:02:20.000 That is not good dancing.
00:02:23.000 As our, uh, PR guy Brad says she dances is like when your small child says, Look at me, I'm dancing.
00:02:31.000 So, this is what women do by themselves, by the way.
00:02:35.000 If I'm getting this right, then apparently what women do when they are by themselves is they put on lingerie and dance around.
00:02:41.000 Also, there's money in the stroller.
00:02:43.000 There is money in the stroller.
00:02:45.000 Why you would have cash in a stroller is beyond me.
00:02:46.000 This is not where you should keep your precious assets other than your children.
00:02:50.000 You should not keep your cash in a stroller.
00:02:51.000 That is an unsafe place to keep your cash.
00:02:54.000 Um, but again, I, I'm always amused by, by all these women who are like, ah, this is a feminist anthem.
00:03:01.000 Feminism is apparently about getting nearly nude and dancing around so men can watch you on the internet.
00:03:06.000 True feminism happening in real time right there.
00:03:10.000 I don't know.
00:03:11.000 You know what?
00:03:12.000 It's time for, it's time for me to do what I always do in awkward conversations like this.
00:03:16.000 We need to call in our female producers for a little bit of guidance.
00:03:19.000 I do this because, frankly, if I say things, then it's considered sexist.
00:03:22.000 But if they say things, then it's just, you know, women saying things.
00:03:26.000 Also, by the way, I don't just consult with my female producers when it's time to say awkward things about the questions of the sexes.
00:03:33.000 Also, like, producer Sarah has a new video out about data centers.
00:03:37.000 You should go watch.
00:03:38.000 Okay.
00:03:39.000 Like, they do actual work around here.
00:03:40.000 Anyway.
00:03:41.000 Okay.
00:03:41.000 So, ladies.
00:03:42.000 Thank you.
00:03:43.000 Savvy and Sarah, I have to ask you.
00:03:46.000 I'm just going to ask it.
00:03:47.000 In this video, apparently, the ideal for, for women, and this is what they would do if they had tons of money, is to apparently be alone in a mansion.
00:03:57.000 And not only that, to dance around in lingerie.
00:04:01.000 Now, maybe I'm ignorant or deprived, but I do not think, I'm just going to speculate that it is not a normal habit for a woman to put on lingerie and prance around her house.
00:04:13.000 No.
00:04:15.000 Absolutely not.
00:04:15.000 Unless you're Britney Spears.
00:04:17.000 Unless you're Britney Spears and you have knives, yeah.
00:04:20.000 Because, like, I mean, again, I'm a married man.
00:04:23.000 When my wife is comfortable, she's in, like, you know, the schlumpiest clothes that she can find, basically.
00:04:29.000 I'm pretty sure that that is kind of the norm.
00:04:30.000 Can confirm.
00:04:31.000 Yeah, sweatpants, big t shirt.
00:04:33.000 Yeah.
00:04:34.000 Yeah.
00:04:34.000 So, not lingerie that men would want women to wear.
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00:05:27.000 And the best dancing that does happen at home is with my husband in the kitchen when we're making dinner.
00:05:35.000 So, not weird stretches where you're putting your.
00:05:38.000 And by the way, Sarah can do all those things.
00:05:40.000 Sarah was like an actual ballerina.
00:05:42.000 Actually, I'm very sorry to say, but Tate McRae is actually like a classically trained dancer who turned like slutty.
00:05:48.000 Okay, so you need to analyze her dancing quality.
00:05:50.000 Is she actually good at dancing and we're just making fun of her?
00:05:53.000 No, she has like obscenely long legs and a short waist.
00:05:56.000 So she would have been a good ballerina, but she went for like, you know, MTV Music Awards, you know, dancing around and nothing and barely singing.
00:06:06.000 And people actually drag her for this.
00:06:07.000 Like they know that she could be good if she wanted to be a good dancer and she just chose the lesser path.
00:06:15.000 Right.
00:06:15.000 So basically, what it feels like is that there are a group of sort of artists and influencers.
00:06:20.000 Who are marginally good at a thing and then decide that because they don't want to get great at a thing, they're basically just going to, you know, hoe it up a little bit.
00:06:26.000 Yeah.
00:06:26.000 I mean, objectively easier.
00:06:28.000 Ballet is super hard and you don't get paid that much.
00:06:32.000 So she did find a way to market herself.
00:06:34.000 And it turns out that the best way to market feminism is to horny men.
00:06:39.000 That's what those videos are for.
00:06:40.000 I mean, I imagine that if you did a breakdown on who's watching the video versus who's listening to the song, it's going to skew a lot heavier male than it skews female, probably, which is why you do that.
00:06:51.000 And I assume that's why her.
00:06:52.000 I would assume that all the cameramen and the producers are male on these particular videos.
00:06:57.000 Yes, yes, yes.
00:06:57.000 It's a wonder why there's such a male audience for the Ben Shapiro show, then.
00:07:03.000 I mean, this is our regular content.
00:07:04.000 Okay, well, okay, so that was one piece of culture that you guys asked me to analyze.
00:07:08.000 I'm going to blame that on you.
00:07:08.000 That's your fault.
00:07:09.000 So it does not seem like this is what housewives do, nor does it seem like that is what a vision of what a housewife typically should be for most women.
00:07:16.000 Okay, now, Cardi B did a tiny desk concert for NPR.
00:07:23.000 Now, I'm unaware of this entire phenomenon.
00:07:25.000 I believe the tiny desk concerts is she basically goes into a small studio and then warbles or speaks her songs.
00:07:32.000 That, again, it's around a tiny desk, is the sort of conceit of this thing.
00:07:36.000 Well, let's see if it's any good.
00:08:04.000 It's like basically a home concert for Mozart.
00:08:09.000 It'd be me just popping out, just looking fine.
00:08:15.000 It'd be me getting back boxes every weekend.
00:08:19.000 I think they need to do this, like, not with the actual instruments.
00:08:21.000 I like.
00:08:22.000 You know what a better version of this would be?
00:08:24.000 A better version of this would be Cardi B and then like everybody in the background who's doing this sort of stuff.
00:08:28.000 Like, you need one dude with a kazoo and one guy with like a tiny piano.
00:08:32.000 I think that would be the best version of this.
00:08:35.000 That would be a great version of this.
00:08:39.000 This is quality.
00:08:40.000 I'm sure the normal NPR listener is desperate for the Cardi B tiny desk concert.
00:08:51.000 I have no idea what she's saying other than the word body.
00:08:55.000 And yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:08:59.000 It is very funny how basically my treatment of alleged music like this is essentially the same as a 70 year old person watching television with the closed captioning on.
00:09:09.000 I have no idea what she's saying.
00:09:12.000 I mean, I assume that she's saying English words of some sort or another.
00:09:15.000 I have no idea what she's saying.
00:09:16.000 And the fact that it is tiny and scaled down does not make it like what is the point of a tiny desk concert with Cardi B?
00:09:21.000 It requires, what is she normally going to have a full orchestra or something?
00:09:26.000 I don't know.
00:09:27.000 Well, at least she's not doing the Super Bowl halftime show this year.
00:09:30.000 Jay Z picked himself.
00:09:32.000 I think it's hilarious.
00:09:33.000 So, apparently, Jay Z, his team, is responsible for picking who plays the Super Bowl halftime show.
00:09:39.000 And he has finally picked the person who will take the stage.
00:09:42.000 It's him.
00:09:44.000 Cool. I love it.
00:09:49.000 So, he was hired by the NFL commissioner to make the halftime show cool and build goodwill with casual fans.
00:09:57.000 And so now he has nominated himself for the position.
00:10:01.000 I guess he's going to save himself on the cost end.
00:10:03.000 Just gets to pocket that cash.
00:10:04.000 That's nice.
00:10:07.000 Maybe we can have a tiny desk kazoo concert from Jay Z.
00:10:12.000 The kazoo Super Bowl halftime show.
00:10:16.000 I would love that.
00:10:17.000 I would love that.
00:10:18.000 Okay.
00:10:19.000 I demand this.
00:10:20.000 It's such a good idea that, again, we have no connections in this arena, folks.
00:10:24.000 You know what?
00:10:25.000 I call on Nicki Minaj to do the kazoo concert.
00:10:28.000 And Nicki Minaj is at least tangentially in the land of Trump.
00:10:33.000 So, if Nicki Minaj is willing to travel to our studios, I will hire a band that is made entirely of people playing the triangle, the kazoo, and the tiny toy piano.
00:10:45.000 And we can do a tiny desk concert of Nicki Minaj because that would be funny for no other reason than just the humor of it.
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