The Ben Shapiro Show - June 12, 2026


Why Hollywood Is Desperately Trying to Normalize the Destruction of the Nuclear Family


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Alexa Cooper wants you to know she has no regrets about being promiscuous for all of her 20s. In fact, her body count helped prepare her for a traditional life of marriage and motherhood. But now that she s married and has a baby on the way, she needs to know that she does not regret it.

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00:00:00.000 Alex Cooper, that's the call her daddy lady. 1.00
00:00:02.000 She wants you to know she has no regurts about being promiscuous for all of her 20s. 0.99
00:00:06.000 In fact, her body count helped prepare her for a traditional life of marriage and motherhood.
00:00:11.000 Being promiscuous was necessary, you see.
00:00:13.000 In fact, she even feels the need to say any of this shows that she has some regurts.
00:00:17.000 Pro tip, everyone you can just go straight to the good part, which is the marriage and the kids.
00:00:21.000 You spend more years of your life feeling love and fulfillment.
00:00:24.000 10 out of 10, highly recommend.
00:00:25.000 Things have gotten quite awkward for Alex Cooper recently because after founding her show on the basis of female promiscuity being amazing, She has announced that she is pregnant.
00:00:36.000 She's married.
00:00:37.000 She says she's pregnant now, which, you know, great. 0.98
00:00:39.000 More kids, better.
00:00:40.000 But now she needs you to know that she does not regret a thing.
00:00:45.000 Her decade of being promiscuous and then broadcasting about getting rich off of being promiscuous, because that's what it was, right? 0.99
00:00:51.000 It was her doing episodes on oral sex techniques and talking about doing it with random people. 0.98
00:00:58.000 This was legitimately the way that she made her money, Alex Cooper. 0.88
00:01:01.000 But now the problem is that. 0.99
00:01:04.000 That cosplay is going away because she is a what you might call a traditional woman married with a child on the way.
00:01:12.000 So now she wants you to know it was never a mistake.
00:01:14.000 She is so proud of her body count.
00:01:16.000 She is, it was necessary to get there. 1.00
00:01:19.000 It is better for women to sleep with 100 men before settling down and then having a child. 0.99
00:01:25.000 What's the problem? 0.95
00:01:26.000 Well, here we go with Alex Cooper.
00:01:30.000 I'm sure that her children will be thrilled with her when they're old enough to watch these clips.
00:01:36.000 I would not be in the most wonderful, happy period of my life right now had I not lived the life I chose in my 20s.
00:01:50.000 I wouldn't change a thing about the choices I made in my 20s, who I slept with, who I dated.
00:01:57.000 I wouldn't be who I am today had I not had fun and explored and gotten my heart broken and gotten.
00:02:05.000 Over and fked and made some mistakes and dealt with the consequences.
00:02:09.000 Like, that's what I personally needed in order to be ready for this next phase of my life.
00:02:17.000 But choosing motherhood in my 30s doesn't erase the right to have enjoyed my 20s.
00:02:24.000 It just doesn't.
00:02:28.000 Okay, so the fact that she even feels the necessity to say that is demonstrative of how much she regrets it.
00:02:34.000 It is kind of amazing.
00:02:37.000 Okay, because the reason she feels the necessity to say this thing is because she knows that now she's embracing a completely different set of values, such as monogamy and responsibility for another human being.
00:02:48.000 And that those things are mutually exclusive.
00:02:52.000 They are mutually exclusive with promiscuity and with lack of responsibility. 1.00
00:02:59.000 And so the idea that you needed to go through promiscuity and lack of responsibility to get to monogamy and responsibility is stupid. 0.99
00:03:06.000 You could have just embraced those things right from the top. 0.98
00:03:11.000 And as somebody who skipped the promiscuity and the lack of responsibility, let me say, I was happy from the very beginning.
00:03:18.000 I didn't have to go through a decade of misery.
00:03:21.000 I didn't have to go through a decade that sounds like a bad romance series from Netflix where you're effed around and effed over and effed.
00:03:28.000 You didn't have to go through any of that.
00:03:29.000 It turns out there's a shortcut.
00:03:31.000 That shortcut is to just get to the good part. 0.89
00:03:33.000 Because the good part, the reason she's so happy in her 30s is not because she had a crappy 20s.
00:03:37.000 The reason she's happy now is because she embraced my standards.
00:03:40.000 She got married and then she's having a baby.
00:03:42.000 That is the reason that she's happy.
00:03:44.000 The fact that she has to explain why it was great to bash herself in the head with a frying pan over and over and over for a decade because she needed to do that so that she could feel good when she stopped bashing herself in the head with a frying pan.
00:04:00.000 You know what's great?
00:04:01.000 Never having bashed yourself in the head with a frying pan.
00:04:04.000 Now, again, the case I'm making is not that there can't be repentance or that people can't change their way, but people do that all the time and it's great.
00:04:11.000 That is a wonderful aspect to life you change your perspectives.
00:04:13.000 But she is actively preaching for doing the things she did.
00:04:19.000 According to Alex Cooper, in order for you to feel good about stopping smacking your face with a frying pan, you have to keep smacking your face.
00:04:26.000 It is good, it is actively good for you to smack yourself in the face with the frying pan just so you can feel good when you stop smacking your face with the frying pan.
00:04:33.000 Or you could skip the frying pan entirely.
00:04:36.000 You could.
00:04:37.000 You could just make it good right from the very beginning.
00:04:40.000 One of the beautiful things about my personal life, I don't talk about my life on the show all that much because my life is the part that I care about, that is the private side of my life.
00:04:50.000 It is protected, it is a bubble.
00:04:51.000 I've built it that way.
00:04:53.000 For reasons both safety and emotional.
00:04:59.000 My life is unbelievably happy.
00:05:00.000 And guess what?
00:05:01.000 It's been unbelievably happy for decades.
00:05:04.000 You know why?
00:05:05.000 Because I got married to a wonderful human being, to my wife when I was 24 and she was 20 and we were both virgins at the time.
00:05:12.000 And we have slept only with one another.
00:05:14.000 And we have four children and a fifth on the way.
00:05:16.000 And it's fantastic.
00:05:18.000 It is great.
00:05:19.000 And it was great right from the beginning.
00:05:22.000 We didn't have to go through a decade.
00:05:23.000 Of travail and heartbreak and learning to live with yourself and being yourself.
00:05:29.000 You don't have to go through any of that.
00:05:32.000 You didn't.
00:05:33.000 If you think Alex Cooper is happy now because she was unhappy for a decade, you are wrong.
00:05:37.000 She's happy now because now she's doing the right thing and you don't have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.
00:05:42.000 Okay, but again, Alex Cooper can't make a living that way. 0.92
00:05:46.000 She can't.
00:05:47.000 So instead, she has to make the absolutely absurd argument that the only way to be happy is to be selfish while she's pregnant.
00:05:55.000 Lies. 0.78
00:05:57.000 Her uterus tells a different story. 0.97
00:06:00.000 It turns out that an amazing way to be happy is to be responsible for other people, is to be dutiful. 0.57
00:06:06.000 Happiness is not instantaneous feelings of dopamine rush.
00:06:11.000 If that were the case, then meth addicts would be the happiest people you know.
00:06:15.000 But that is not what happiness is.
00:06:17.000 Here's Alex Cooper preaching absolutely terrible life advice.
00:06:21.000 What do you want?
00:06:23.000 Stop reading what other people are doing.
00:06:25.000 Stop seeing.
00:06:26.000 Your mother in law, who's like, well, you're this year old, so you have to do it.
00:06:30.000 What do you want?
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00:07:59.000 What do you want? 0.99
00:08:00.000 Well, the problem is that if you are never given a message, it's what is right and wrong, and all anyone ever asks you is what do you want, you will become a terrible person.
00:08:08.000 It turns out people want an awful lot of things.
00:08:10.000 They want other people's wealth, as we discussed.
00:08:12.000 They want to screw over other people.
00:08:15.000 People want to do things without any responsibility for those things.
00:08:20.000 Do not teach people to be immoral for long periods of time while pretending that that's what leads you to the happiness at the end of the rainbow.
00:08:30.000 You don't have to do any of that.
00:08:31.000 And in fact, you damage yourself in the process.
00:08:33.000 You make your life worse for a long period of time.
00:08:35.000 You bear the scars of those things, they never leave you.
00:08:41.000 It is, there's an idea in Judaism about repentance.
00:08:47.000 It's kind of an interesting idea.
00:08:48.000 The idea is that when you repent, your sins turn into merit, which is an interesting idea, right?
00:08:55.000 Because why should a sin turn into a merit?
00:08:57.000 Shouldn't the sin just sort of remain a sin?
00:08:58.000 The basic philosophical idea is that the sin turns into a merit when you learn from it, when you realize you did something, because that's hard to do.
00:09:06.000 That there's a difference between a scar that was incurred.
00:09:13.000 And then healed.
00:09:14.000 And then you realize the mistake you made and lead a better life from here on.
00:09:18.000 And the scar that you carry around the tattoo that you emblazon on your body that brags about your sin.
00:09:23.000 Those are not the same thing.
00:09:25.000 But again, this is the message that is now being taught to young women by a really poisonous culture.
00:09:34.000 Emily Radachkowski has a piece over at New York Magazine called Sex as a Single Mom, preaching much the same sort of stuff.
00:09:43.000 She says the character I'd learned to embody after my divorce.
00:09:46.000 In my period of compulsively dating, she was a villain, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, sexual but scary, and she drank gin martinis, many, many gin martinis.
00:09:53.000 She was not tragic, nothing close to a victim.
00:09:55.000 No one needed to feel sorry for her.
00:09:56.000 In fact, they should all be jealous. 1.00
00:09:59.000 Divorced single mom? 1.00
00:09:59.000 What about instead a woman who needs nothing from men? 1.00
00:10:02.000 I already had the kid and the motherhood experience so many of my friends secretly coveted while pretending to date casually. 0.97
00:10:07.000 I had no illusions about the romance of marriage or a shared life together.
00:10:09.000 I'd learned the hard way that being alone was better than most partnerships. 0.99
00:10:12.000 I'd seen too much, discovered what many women do only when they get divorced in their mid 40s. 0.98
00:10:16.000 I'd lived through the failure of a union and I was barely into my 30s. 1.00
00:10:19.000 This was my villain origin story. 1.00
00:10:21.000 I decided to F my way into a new kind of woman. 1.00
00:10:23.000 I wanted to destroy the Madonna, the special girl I'd worked so hard to be before an eight pound baby had torn my vagina in two and replace her with the whore. 1.00
00:10:30.000 Let's give them a taste of their own medicine, I joke with friends. 1.00
00:10:33.000 I thought I'd get some great orgasms and a few funny stories on the way, too. 0.92
00:10:37.000 I can't think of a less happy way to lead your life than that. 0.98
00:10:41.000 That sounds like a truly horrible way to lead your life, and it is bad advice.
00:10:47.000 You want people to be happy.
00:10:48.000 Happiness is correlative with duty, is a point that Arthur Brooks makes over and over, who's a scholar of happiness.
00:10:54.000 The more duty you take on, the more things you do for other people, for your spouse, for your kids, for your family, for your community, the better you are as a human and the happier you will be.
00:11:06.000 And the more you pursue this selfish idea that somehow whatever in the moment is the thing you feel like doing is the thing that is important for you to do, the worse your life will be.
00:11:15.000 Stop giving young women bad advice, please.
00:11:17.000 And young men, by the way, because you have a correlative on the manosphere side saying exactly the same thing ditch responsibility, treat women horribly. 0.98
00:11:26.000 And you will be happy. 0.98
00:11:27.000 You will be successful.
00:11:28.000 No, you won't. 0.99
00:11:28.000 You'll be a loser and you'll be unhappy. 0.99
00:11:31.000 That is the reality. 0.99
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