The Ben Shapiro Show - October 28, 2026


How Does an NBA Legend Blow Through $200 Million?

The 'Nobody Wants This' Cast War, Explained

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00:00:00.000 Well, folks, it turns out there are some people who spend, you know, beyond their means, even if it turns out their means are like $200 million.
00:00:06.000 This segment is sponsored by our friends over at Pure Talk.
00:00:09.000 Apparently, ex NBA star Paul Pierce, but I was a fan.
00:00:12.000 I'm a Boston Celtics fan.
00:00:13.000 He is now drowning financially and struggling to pay his monthly bills.
00:00:17.000 According to TMZ, Paul Pierce claims he has tapped out financially while trying to keep up with his court ordered support payments because he no longer receives income from Fox Sports.
00:00:26.000 He had reportedly earned $200 million during his NBA career.
00:00:34.000 Now, apparently, he says he only has 300 grand in the bank and $3 million in property.
00:00:38.000 And people were making fun of his spending habits because he spends $48,000 a month in bills, including $8,000 in childcare, $5,000 in groceries, $7,000 on eating out.
00:00:47.000 By the way, just going to point out if you can eat $12,000 worth of food a month and you still look fit, God bless your genetics.
00:00:54.000 That's a lot of food.
00:00:57.000 Spends $1,000 a month on clothes, $3,500 on entertainment.
00:01:00.000 I have no idea what that entertainment is, and various other expenses.
00:01:03.000 And now he is trying to shut down his ex wife, Princess Santiago's request for $40,000 in legal fees and another $10,000 for a forensic accountant.
00:01:13.000 And again, in his filing, Paul's attorney said that Paul would have great difficulty paying these fees.
00:01:18.000 So you can make fun of his spending habits all you want.
00:01:20.000 Yeah, that's a lot of money that he's spending on different things.
00:01:22.000 Just going to point out, you don't go from $200 million to $300,000 in the bank because he spent $50,000 a month.
00:01:29.000 That's not how math works.
00:01:31.000 That math isn't mathing.
00:01:32.000 At some point, He put a lot of money into some sort of business venture and got scammed for all the money or lost all of it.
00:01:38.000 That's how you lose $200 million.
00:01:40.000 You don't lose $200 million because you spent too much at the French laundry a couple of times a month.
00:01:46.000 That is not a real thing.
00:01:48.000 But don't worry, overspending is not unique to Paul Pierce.
00:01:51.000 We're now finding out about the extraordinary spending habits of Greg Glassman.
00:01:57.000 Greg Glassman was the CrossFit founder, and he's the kind of dude who in the late 2010s, Was flying from Denver and he decided that he was going to land the plane just to pick up some Chick fil A. 0.97
00:02:13.000 He landed the plane in Grand Junction and arranged for two chauffeured Chevy Suburbans to meet him and his entourage at the airport.
00:02:19.000 They went to the fast food restaurant, picked up their order, and returned to the plane to finish the flight.
00:02:23.000 That cost $5,000.
00:02:27.000 So apparently he was paying, I'm not even kidding you.
00:02:33.000 He was paying a Verizon bill approaching $200,000 a month.
00:02:38.000 $200,000 a month.
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00:03:15.000 All righty.
00:03:16.000 So there's a movie that came out over the weekend.
00:03:19.000 It was called Wildwood.
00:03:21.000 It was put out by Leica Studios, which is co founded by Phil Knight.
00:03:26.000 The only movie you've ever heard of him making is one called Coraline.
00:03:30.000 Now, Wildwood is a children's film, it also features a bunch of left wing content. 0.98
00:03:36.000 It has LGBTQ divided by sign characters.
00:03:38.000 It shows two men kissing.
00:03:40.000 It features some talk about pronouns.
00:03:43.000 It features a bunch of handcrafted stop motion animation.
00:03:45.000 By the way, I hate all that stuff, but put that aside.
00:03:47.000 The movie took 16 years to make and absolutely bombed.
00:03:51.000 Absolutely bombed.
00:03:53.000 According to Geek Tyrants, this is heartbreaking.
00:03:56.000 Like as Wildwood is one of the best movies of 2026, an absolutely incredible achievement in stop motion animation, and audiences aren't showing up to support it.
00:04:04.000 I was in awe of what this movie delivered, and I was hoping people would turn out in droves to experience it on the big screen.
00:04:09.000 Instead, we're talking about another box office flop, and I'm so damn tired of seeing great movies suffer this fate.
00:04:15.000 Well, maybe it's because you decided to shove a bunch of woke social justice nonsense into a kid's movie.
00:04:23.000 That's death for box office, because I'll take my kids to see movies. 0.60
00:04:23.000 That's death, by the way. 0.60
00:04:28.000 I love taking my kids to the theater.
00:04:29.000 It's really fun. 1.00
00:04:31.000 I'm not going to take my kids to a movie that involves LGBTQ, divided by sign content. 0.99
00:04:36.000 They're children. 0.99
00:04:37.000 They're children. 1.00
00:04:39.000 And the fact that all these lefties in Hollywood think that that's what parents are demanding everywhere, they're out of their damn mind. 0.98
00:04:45.000 Meanwhile, in contrast, there is a new movie out on Apple TV starring Chris Pratt. 0.99
00:04:52.000 It's titled Way of the Warrior Kid.
00:04:53.000 The trailer is out.
00:04:54.000 Here's what it looks like.
00:04:58.000 All right, listen up.
00:04:59.000 Let's do what we came here to do.
00:05:01.000 Uncle Jake's coming to town.
00:05:02.000 I thought he was undeployed.
00:05:05.000 We're in, we're going down.
00:05:07.000 We got a little banged up, so I thought maybe it'd be fun if he stayed with us for the summer.
00:05:11.000 Yeah.
00:05:11.000 But you don't want him to come?
00:05:12.000 I just want him to see that I'm weird.
00:05:15.000 Hey, put it there, buddy.
00:05:19.000 Help Uncle Jake with his bag.
00:05:21.000 This is Skydance production.
00:05:22.000 Oh, he's heavy.
00:05:26.000 Uncle Jake, can I ask you something?
00:05:28.000 There's these kids at school always teasing me and picking on me.
00:05:31.000 Please, teach me how to fight.
00:05:33.000 Okay, so this is the kind of movie that I would have my kids watch.
00:05:37.000 Doc, what's it going to take to get back to my team?
00:05:39.000 Time.
00:05:41.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:05:42.000 That ain't little Marky, boy.
00:05:44.000 Just leave me alone.
00:05:47.000 Your problem here?
00:05:48.000 Show your bags backed up against the wall.
00:05:52.000 Okay, so again, this is like, it looks like just kind of a classic Americana film.
00:05:56.000 You have Chris Prague, and this is based on the Jocko Willink book.
00:06:01.000 And then again, the basic idea here is that boys need to be taught to be men.
00:06:05.000 Like, all of this is good.
00:06:07.000 Like, it's not that hard to make content that parents want to show their kids. 0.94
00:06:10.000 Just don't include a bunch of sexualized LGBTQ nonsense in your kids film. 0.99
00:06:15.000 It's not that difficult.
00:06:16.000 Again, if adults want to watch that stuff, it's free country. 0.99
00:06:19.000 But you're a dumbass if you program toward children with that sort of stuff. 0.99
00:06:23.000 It is not that difficult. 1.00
00:06:24.000 It really, really, really is not.
00:06:25.000 All right.
00:06:27.000 Meanwhile, in the viral clip of the day, I've got to give some credit to Mike Walls.
00:06:31.000 Mike Walls is our UN ambassador. 0.65
00:06:34.000 Things got very fraught over at the UN when Mike Walls pointed out the Castro family's Rolex watches.
00:06:42.000 Because again, he's pointing out that the Cuban government is wildly corrupt.
00:06:46.000 And it got kind of wild. 0.76
00:06:50.000 The warning about corrupt Cuban elites still holds true, and it started many decades ago. 0.97
00:06:56.000 Let's start with Castro's two Rolexes that he proudly wore.
00:07:05.000 You're looking at the great revolutionary.
00:07:07.000 What's on his wrist?
00:07:08.000 Two Rolexes worth $40,000 in today's money.
00:07:13.000 According to the regime's own statistics, that would pay for 55 years of an avid. 0.64
00:07:18.000 Of an average Cuban wage.
00:07:21.000 So that's the Cuban delegation slamming their desks.
00:07:23.000 It didn't just start with Castro.
00:07:25.000 This is the current Cuban president, also with a Rolex on.
00:07:33.000 And they're slamming on their desks.
00:07:36.000 And then the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, a guy named Bruno Rodriguez Faria, started shouting at Mike Waltz.
00:07:45.000 It was the regime's property from the Air Force. 0.58
00:07:52.000 Ever since.
00:07:53.000 Point of order.
00:07:56.000 Point of order.
00:07:59.000 Point of order.
00:08:01.000 This is America, my friend.
00:08:03.000 This is the United Nations.
00:08:08.000 He doesn't like this. 1.00
00:08:11.000 Never, never, never point out that communists are a bunch of hypocrites. 1.00
00:08:13.000 Don't do it. 0.99
00:08:14.000 They get really mad and then they yell at you.
00:08:25.000 That is pretty astonishing.
00:08:26.000 Again, we should just pull all of our money from the UN. 1.00
00:08:28.000 It's a complete pile of junk and crap. 0.99
00:08:30.000 Hilariously, Ambassador Walson went on to detail the Castro family's private seaside residence. 0.99
00:08:38.000 This is Nave Pilar, the Castro family's exclusive seaside retreat in Veradero.
00:08:46.000 You can look this up.
00:08:47.000 You can find this online.
00:08:49.000 It's quite nice.
00:08:51.000 It has 14,000 square meters of property, swimming pools, marble floors, a private dock, a gym, a sauna, jacuzzis.
00:09:02.000 Let's keep going. 0.94
00:09:03.000 This is the Castro family compound.
00:09:05.000 This one has six bedrooms, a 20 meter swimming pool, a custom woodwork.
00:09:11.000 Hear this for those who care about the environment made from cedar imported from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
00:09:22.000 Ambassador Walls went on to go after the Cuban regime at length.
00:09:26.000 And then the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, he tweeted out all of these images private island of corrupt regime in Cuba.
00:09:36.000 And I think that everyone of good heart can hope that the Cuban regime falls in short order.
00:09:41.000 I'm sure that that is on the short list of things for Secretary of State Rubio to do after the midterm elections.
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