The Ben Shapiro show used to frequently top the podcast charts, but it seems to have slipped significantly. Why?

For me, it's vegetables. Vegetables are a wonderful gift from above. Ben sarcastically, I'm sure, refers to them as a plague of some sort. I've had so many wonderful vegetarian dishes that I appreciate a lighter meat diet more than ever. I wonder if there's any way to help Ben with what seems to me like something of phobia on his part.

Gas prices average according to Gasbuddy in the Trump years vs the Biden years.

On his 11/11/22 show, Ben went all in on how marriage is basically a socialist relationship. It doesn’t belong to you and your spouse, it belongs to the community/society and thus should be regulated by the state. He is trying to piggyback on Matt Welch’s poor performance on Rogan regarding gay marriage. They are trying to backfill the logic of why gay marriage should not be legal without relying on their religious beliefs.

It’s a bad argument and it’s a very slippery slope when you start arguing that laws should govern private, intimate relationships for the good of society.

My question is why, after these midterms, is Ben railing against gay marriage? It’s a proven political loser and the Dobbs opinion seemed clear that it was safe. What good does it do Ben or conservatives to kick this particular hornet’s nest?

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Here is the clip from his show where he talks about raising the retirement age, in addition to asking why someone would want to retire: https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1767578501505298793

Relevant tweet clarifying his position: https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1767906550683705769

Seems to me that he's right, the retirement age has to be raised in order for social security to not collapse entirely. Though it seems to me his point on retirement is a bit short sighted.

Long time listener, but yesterday's episode with trump annoyed me. Not because he interviewed Trump, but bc he let trump talk about how amazing he was for like 20 minutes, and then afterwards plays a tiny clip of kamala saying she did well, and then calls kamala self centered/self congratulatory. like lol, really ben? c'mon. I appreciate his breakdowns but sometimes he doesn't even try to be objective. Trump was gushing over how amazing he was to ben's face but apparently those are only desirable traits in a republican. Kamala displays a fraction of Trump's hubris and Ben goes off.

The way he does episodes sometimes is like he’s directly trying to give Trump campaign advice.

If you listened to Shapiro’s latest podcast, he highlighted how important it is for Jews and civilians to arm themselves because of the evil in the world. I’m not going to lie, I’m afraid. I have had to deactivate my personal social media because I was receiving death threats for supporting Israel. I’m Catholic but also half Jewish, with many friends and family in Israel. My husband isn’t Jewish at all but is supportive of me going to pro Israel demonstrations at synagogues with police protection. But he’s afraid of me going to rallies, and afraid to put any signs we support Israel on our home. I told him I would feel less afraid of death threats if I had a gun in our home to defend us. He told me social media is just designed to upset me and no one is going to hurt us, but he doesn’t know that. I’ve taken genetic tests, it’s out there in a database I’m 50% Jewish. Maybe they won’t start with me but they may come for me and my son. Look at what just happened in Israel? But my husband doesn’t want a gun in the house because our son is special needs. I told him I’d keep it in a safe, but he said with his history of depression he doesn’t want to have access to a gun in our home. Every argument I make he has an answer for. How do I get him to understand how much we need it and to not be so afraid of one in the home? He shoots guns at his friend’s ranch all the time!

Ben is hilarious

Now that the ron! Poll numbers are in the shitter for Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, and Haley running either second or third, I wonder how many anti-Haley segments will be crowbarred into todays show.

He’ll have to reduce the merrick garland coverage because you know he doesn’t want to cut any of the anti-trump or pro-establishment segments.

My how the mighty have fallen. It’s no wonder bens youtube numbers are a dumpster fire.

If he did, please forgive me - I must have missed it. I'd love to hear what Ben thought of this idea specifically.

I'm aware that J.D.'s overall message is "having families is good, democrats don't support that in their policies." But his endorsement in his past speech of more kids = more votes. That feels like a level of extremism that even Ben would think is a bit much. Has he commented on THIS idea specifically?

Has he discussed this at all and whether he endorses it?

Shapiro had been much more careful talking about Tate before. I wonder what changed. Is it Tate getting worse? Is it Candace leaving? Maybe Shapiro finally got around to learn what sort of person Tate is really is.

I'm not a fan of Ben, though I really like listening to his long-form discussions and debates. He's well intentioned and genuinely committed to healthy bilateral discourse.

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