The Ben Shapiro Show - October 22, 2026


The View Tried to Corner Stephen A. Smith. It Backfired.

Hosted by
Ben Shapiro
Mentioned
Andrew Tate Stephen A. Smith Zip Recruiter Calm Whoopi Goldberg Jennifer Lewis Lobster Man Tristan Mandela
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Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

168.72

Word count

1,406

Sentence count

135


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Well, again, among those who are suffering from Trump derangement syndrome are the ladies of the view.
00:00:05.000 Here is Stephen A. Smith on with the ladies of the view.
00:00:08.000 There's so many people that have this mentality.
00:00:10.000 Why even waste time talking to him?
00:00:12.000 Whether you like it or not, he's the president of the United States of America.
00:00:15.000 He's not going away until 2028, at least.
00:00:18.000 He's not going away.
00:00:19.000 And so because of that.
00:00:20.000 Well, he may get impeached and convicted.
00:00:21.000 It doesn't matter.
00:00:22.000 Hold on, wait a minute.
00:00:23.000 He's been impeached twice.
00:00:25.000 Not convicted twice?
00:00:26.000 He's been impeached twice.
00:00:27.000 Well, again, you're going to have a situation where I think the Republicans.
00:00:30.000 The Republicans are going to maintain the Senate.
00:00:32.000 They'll probably lose the House.
00:00:33.000 So you'll get folks to impeach him, but then they'll step in and they'll save him, and it'll be an ongoing continuous thing.
00:00:39.000 And don't get me started with that because I get disgusted with all that pomp and circumstance.
00:00:44.000 I'm so sick and tired of us acting like that's going to do something.
00:00:47.000 He's not going away until 2028.
00:00:51.000 Until 2028, he has the power of the pen of the executive office as the commander in chief of the United States of America.
00:00:59.000 You're going to have to deal with him.
00:01:00.000 And when it comes to getting things done, I'm all about exhausting every means and every measure to try to do what's in the best interest of our community.
00:01:08.000 I'm not apologizing for that to anybody.
00:01:10.000 Good for you.
00:01:12.000 Okay, so, you know, again, you can see that some of the ladies here are very, very upset about this.
00:01:17.000 How dare Stephen A. Smith say this very obvious thing that he's the president of the United States, so you meet with him because if you want to get something done, you probably should talk to him.
00:01:25.000 And Stephen A. says, you know, there are a lot of people who voted for Trump, and you might want to note that.
00:01:30.000 People think about him.
00:01:32.000 That's not what I think about.
00:01:34.000 I also think about the 77 million people who voted for him.
00:01:37.000 And the reality is that a lot of times when we're talking, so many people get so disgusted with him, they ignore the reasons why he was supported.
00:01:49.000 Again, he happens to be right.
00:01:51.000 He happens to be right.
00:01:53.000 But the ladies of the view, they do have a strategy for the upcoming election.
00:01:55.000 That is that they're going to sing to you.
00:01:58.000 Whoopi Goldberg is going to sing to you.
00:02:00.000 I know you didn't want it, I know you're begging me not to do it.
00:02:05.000 But all of your pleas are falling on deaf ears, which frankly I wish I had right now.
00:02:09.000 Deaf ears.
00:02:10.000 Because here we go.
00:02:13.000 Ladies and gentlemen, a message from Jennifer Lewis and her friends.
00:02:20.000 I don't care who you are or where you work.
00:02:23.000 Get your ass out and vote.
00:02:27.000 This ain't the election to sit home and lurk.
00:02:34.000 Get your ass out and vote.
00:02:45.000 Lyrically a little empty.
00:02:52.000 Also, why is she wearing a bathrobe?
00:03:01.000 That's going to do it.
00:03:03.000 That's going to do it.
00:03:05.000 That's a turnout machine right there, that little ad from Whoopi Goldberg and Company.
00:03:10.000 Guys, if you're actually going to like put together a little choir, shouldn't you at least take one second to figure out your harmonic dispositions?
00:03:15.000 Like, really, like figure out where you're supposed to be in the harmony or even what the tune is going to be.
00:03:20.000 Oh, boy.
00:03:21.000 Well, this is what American politics has come to.
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00:04:25.000 Now, we've been talking about, you know, the asylum, but there are other sorts of inmates out there.
00:04:29.000 We do have some updates from Andrew Tate, some deep thoughts from Andrew Tate.
00:04:34.000 So, Andrew Tate is still in prison awaiting extradition.
00:04:39.000 And he's tweeting again There is a paint blob on the wall of our cell, which I say looks like a fox's face.
00:04:47.000 And Tristan said looks like a lobster man.
00:04:51.000 Tristan has warned me to accept that it's lobster man, or I will regret it when the lobsters come.
00:04:55.000 After 10 days or so of deep and important conversation about this topic, I awoke one morning to see Tristan had been awake all night.
00:05:00.000 He had sketched the shape of Lobster Man on pieces of paper and stuck them to the wall with toothpaste, at least 100 of them.
00:05:06.000 I guess he didn't sleep all night.
00:05:08.000 He kept saying, I told you this would happen.
00:05:10.000 I told you this would happen as if I should give a bleep.
00:05:13.000 We had a room inspection the same morning.
00:05:14.000 Of course we did.
00:05:15.000 And the guard lost his bleep.
00:05:16.000 It was actually embarrassing.
00:05:17.000 I've never seen a full grown man so mad.
00:05:19.000 He was screaming like someone murdered his children.
00:05:21.000 It's paper.
00:05:22.000 Who cares?
00:05:23.000 We were dragged out of our cell and thrown into a new one.
00:05:25.000 Me happy now?
00:05:26.000 Tristan looks at me, says nothing, gets a piece of paper, and begins to draw the lobster man again.
00:05:37.000 Send him to Britain, man.
00:05:38.000 Also, why would it take you all night to draw a lobster?
00:05:42.000 Is Tristan either the greatest artist or the slowest drawer in the history of humanity?
00:05:47.000 It's weird.
00:05:49.000 Don't worry, it gets weirder.
00:05:49.000 Quote Every morning, Tristan holds out his open palms and says, Don't worry, Andrew, your destiny is right here in my hands.
00:05:55.000 I will take care of you.
00:05:57.000 Then he walks across the cell and trips to drop my imaginary destiny into the toilet.
00:06:01.000 He then stares at me while flushing the toilet 15 times in a row, laughing manically.
00:06:07.000 I have to say that if Andrew Tate were this entertaining outside prison as he were inside prison, this would be a TV show worth watching.
00:06:15.000 The prison comedy with Tristan and Andrew Tate flushing their destinies down the toilet, I'll admit it's a little funny, but he has some deep thoughts.
00:06:23.000 Those aren't the deep thoughts.
00:06:24.000 Those are just stories, those are just jailhouse stories with weird people.
00:06:28.000 Here are some deep thoughts.
00:06:30.000 Quote, a seed fears neither the light or the dark as it uses both to grow.
00:06:36.000 Now, technically, a seed doesn't fear anything because it doesn't have a brain.
00:06:42.000 But, okay.
00:06:45.000 I assume that in this situation, the seed is Andrew Tate.
00:06:49.000 Quote, in jail, you have food.
00:06:50.000 You are not on fire.
00:06:51.000 You are bored, but you are okay.
00:06:52.000 So why are you suffering?
00:06:53.000 The only torture comes from your own mind.
00:06:55.000 This isn't just jail, this is life.
00:06:58.000 Control your thoughts or suffer.
00:06:59.000 Okay, Mandela.
00:07:02.000 Calm down there.
00:07:04.000 Calm down.
00:07:05.000 Okay, well, I'm sure there'll be many more deep thoughts from Andrew Tate from prison.
00:07:09.000 What an amazing video you just watched.
00:07:11.000 Wasn't that amazing?
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00:07:53.000 Professor this isn't you sit there and shake because you're dependent on drink Your sickness all over you.
00:08:13.000 Have you ever seen a child starve to death, Professor?
00:08:18.000 No. I have.