The Ben Shapiro Show - September 29, 2026


The VMAs Were Genuinely Embarrassing

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00:00:00 The VMAs, they're a disaster area everywhere.
00:00:02 You kind of forgot about them.
00:00:03 They feel old and tired.
00:00:05 Maybe time passed them by.
00:00:06 Well, if you feel like that, you probably should because the star of the VMAs this year was, wait for it, Madonna.
00:00:10 She has a new album out.
00:00:11 She is 68 years old.
00:00:14 She is 68 years old, Madonna, which means that she is approximately the same age as Estelle Getty was in Golden Girls at this point.
00:00:24 And she performed with Charlie XCX.
00:00:30 With a bathroom stall set, because nothing says class and decency like bathroom stalls.
00:00:37 Because again, the idea is that people are engaging.
00:00:39 When I say the left has no actual language to condemn promiscuity and degrading behavior and all that, not only do they not have the language for it, they uphold it.
00:00:49 It's an aspect of freedom.
00:00:52 The only language they have is consent.
00:00:54 It brings us back to the Cornell University case.
00:00:57 And it's astonishing that the left, the same left, will say that degrading behavior becomes not degrading when you consent to it.
00:01:03 I mean, it turns out that actually degrading behavior remains degrading, even if you consent to it.
00:01:09 So, here was some of Madonna, who can barely move at this point. 0.94
00:01:12 Honestly, it's ridiculous.
00:01:14 She won a bunch of awards last night, which is truly incredible. 0.66
00:01:17 We have frozen our culture in time because the left had no place to go beyond what if we just say everything is wonderful and transgressive?
00:01:24 Once you transgress all the rules, there are no more rules to transgress.
00:01:27 How much further could you go sexually than men are women and women are men? 0.66
00:01:29 There's no place you can go from there. 0.99
00:01:31 So, they've just frozen in amber.
00:01:34 Their own culture.
00:01:35 There's nothing for them to even rebel against.
00:01:37 So, Madonna and Charlie XCS and Sabrina Carpenter, here was some of their VMA performance.
00:01:46 Okay, so it's people riding around on stage. 0.89
00:01:50 There's Madonna. 0.92
00:01:58 So, she is, you can't call this dancing.
00:01:59 She's kind of walking around with very young men. 1.00
00:02:04 And then simulating sex acts, presumably, in bathroom stalls. 0.99
00:02:11 And yeah, so we see the bathroom stalls and people gripping the bathroom stalls to have sex, presumably, while Madonna gyrates in sexual position with a large man of color. 0.99
00:02:23 And now she's gyrating alongside, I believe, Charlie XCX herself. 0.98
00:02:28 This is what a culture we've created for ourselves here, gang.
00:02:32 It's just incredible.
00:02:33 And Madonna's doing this at 68 years old because, again, we have not progressed as a culture one iota.
00:02:37 Not one iota.
00:02:38 Madonna used to be a person who is transgressing all the rules back in 1980, and now she's a person who is the rules in 2026.
00:02:45 And then afterward, Madonna, Charlie XTX, and Julia Garner rolled around in bed.
00:02:50 She had 13 nominations, by the way, took home seven awards, including for Best Dance.
00:02:55 I can guarantee you, Madonna did not win Best Dance.
00:02:57 She's staggering around out there. 1.00
00:02:58 She looks like she needs a walker.
00:03:00 And then they all gyrated around in bed together, which, I mean, again, Madonna is 68 years old.
00:03:08 And, Julia Garner, the actress, is 32.
00:03:14 So, yeah, it's all going great, gang.
00:03:19 You want to talk about Madonna and Charlie?
00:03:25 Oh, no.
00:03:26 That is stuff that you don't want.
00:03:28 Oh, no.
00:03:34 There it's. 1.00
00:03:36 These women gyrating around in bed, including a woman who is 800 years old. 1.00
00:03:41 Great job. 1.00
00:03:41 So. 1.00
00:03:43 I mean, I wish I had more to say about it than just we have done wonders with our culture.
00:03:46 But this has been the state of our culture, and it feels old.
00:03:48 Doesn't it feel hackneyed?
00:03:50 I mean, at this point, doesn't it just feel like played out?
00:03:55 It feels like the same song played over and over and over and over.
00:03:58 But, you know, again, that's what leftism is.
00:03:59 When you transgress all the rules and there are no rules left, where will you hide, Roper, the forest being flat?
00:04:05 Like, there's nothing left to feel transgressive or even mildly interesting or even mildly titillating about this.
00:04:10 Because, again, titillation is largely based on violation of norms.
00:04:13 If there are no norms, then it just feels like people gyrating around on stage.
00:04:17 It's a point not made by me.
00:04:18 It's a point made by the lesbian sexual theorist, Camille Paglia.
00:04:22 But this is where we are in our culture Madonna as a sex symbol at the age of 68. 0.62
00:04:27 And we'll get an enormous number of pieces, think pieces, about how this is liberating for the boomers.
00:04:32 It's liberating for the elderly.
00:04:33 I don't know.
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00:05:52 Meanwhile, James Tallarico right now running neck and neck with Ken Paxton.
00:05:57 Ken Paxton was speaking at the U.S. Hispanic Business Council.
00:05:59 He correctly pointed out that Tallarico is now trying to campaign as a moderate after being the most left leaning figure in probably Texas public life.
00:06:07 My opponent says that.
00:06:08 Capitalism is oppressive.
00:06:11 He says that we should dismantle it.
00:06:12 He says the oil and gas industry tried to pass a bill that would have destroyed the oil and gas industry in the state.
00:06:18 He's voted for a state income tax.
00:06:19 He voted against everything that we talked about on the word secure the border.
00:06:22 He voted against all of it.
00:06:24 Helping law enforcement, cross state lines, work with the feds, building detention centers, building a wall, all of it.
00:06:31 And of course, you have to switch your views to run in a general election.
00:06:35 I have not switched a single view.
00:06:37 His views have all switched to mine.
00:06:38 But the reality is I tell people this all the time.
00:06:41 Don't listen to the rhetoric.
00:06:43 Look at the record.
00:06:45 Okay, of course, that is right.
00:06:46 And it turns out that the radical left is, of course, behind James Tallarico Foursquare.
00:06:51 Allies of Zorhan Mamdani and Robert De Niro hosted a New York City fundraiser for James Tallarico as well as Sherrod Brown.
00:06:57 According to the New York Post, the host committee includes controversial jeweler Alexis Bitar, a Mamdani fundraiser and transition bundler, who also co hosted a fundraiser last week for Michigan Democratic senatorial candidate Abdul El Sayed and once referred to America as a bleep hole.
00:07:12 Other host committee members included a marketing executive who co hosted a December 2025 fundraiser for Mamdani's mayoral transition, as well as Shafali Puri, the wife of Daily Show comedian Asif Manvi.
00:07:26 So lots of wonderful people behind James Tellerico and Sherrod Brown in Ohio.
00:07:30 Meanwhile, over in Michigan, speaking of Abdul El Sayed, Abdul El Sayed is having a fundraiser at the house of George Soros's nephew.
00:07:39 Unsurprising because the Soros network is a left leaning anti American network.
00:07:44 It is hosted by Catherine and Jeffrey Soros, as well as, of course, Jon Favreau and Ben Rhodes and other members of the Obama administration who are more than happy to join in.
00:07:53 Ben Rhodes' literal nickname in the Obama White House was Hamas.
00:07:57 So, not a shock at all.
00:07:59 Mike Rogers has cut an ad highlighting the Soros money that is now being poured into Abdul El Sayed's campaign.
00:08:05 Abdul's number one campaign promise is get money out of politics.
00:08:09 We got a simple goal money out of politics, money out of politics, money out of politics.
00:08:15 But the facts tell a very different story.
00:08:18 Let's break this down.
00:08:19 Abdul flew to Washington, D.C., snuck through the back door of Chuck Schumer's office to beg for a handout.
00:08:27 Then suddenly, Schumer dropped $10 million into this race for Abdul.
00:08:32 Where does all that money come from?
00:08:34 Well, you guessed it George Soros, billionaire hedge fund managers, and $61 million in undisclosed contributions.
00:08:42 The same dark money groups Abdul has spent his entire campaign rallying against.
00:08:48 Who's the money from, Abdul?
00:08:50 Okay, he is.
00:08:51 This is right.
00:08:53 Do I think that that's going to play particularly well in Michigan?
00:08:55 Again, I think that Mike Rogers just needs to be playing flips of Abdul El Sayed saying all the terrible things Abdul El Sayed has said.
00:09:02 Just highlight all of it.
00:09:03 Talking in complex terms about where he's getting his money, I'm not sure that's going to do the trick.
00:09:07 Meanwhile, Troy Jackson is running neck and neck with Susan Collins in Maine.
00:09:11 I think Susan Collins pulls out that race because she's a pro.
00:09:13 His ads are unbelievably cringe, Troy Jackson.
00:09:17 Somehow, I don't know where Maine Democrats come up with their candidates.
00:09:20 Perhaps the asylum, but they're not great.
00:09:30 That is a video of Troy Jackson wearing sunglasses.
00:09:34 Oh my God, this dude.
00:09:37 What the F?
00:09:40 It just says, like, it's a reflection in his sunglasses as though he is cool.
00:09:45 What is even happening now? 0.88
00:09:46 Here is this weirdo drinking boba tea, this gigantic weirdo. 1.00
00:09:51 He looks like a Mr. Bean character.
00:09:53 If they spend $46 million on these TV ads, who's going to be convinced by that? 0.99
00:10:02 Just the one percenters. 0.99
00:10:10 What the is this? 1.00
00:10:11 What are people?
00:10:12 I feel like I know people from Maine who are not like this.
00:10:15 What is the crowd that is very into this?
00:10:18 Who are these people who are like, man, we need more Troy Jackson?
00:10:23 The guy, his mannerism is the same as John Wayne Gacy.
00:10:28 I'm not saying he's got bodies hidden under his house, I'm not saying that he's got bodies hidden under his house, but what the ever loving what now?
00:10:38 The Democrats, they can pick them.
00:10:40 They're doing great, the Democrats.
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