The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2268 - BOMBSHELL: Taylor Swift ENGAGED! Plus Other Stuff Happens But Nobody Cares
27 Aug 2025
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
There's only one piece of news today. One piece of breaking news. Tay-Tay, Travis Kelsey, engaged.
Chapter 2: What major news about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey is revealed?
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Well, folks, it's rare that... There is a day in which we have news that is so big, so incredibly important that it trumps not only all the other news of the day, but all the other news of the year, the decade, the century, nay, perhaps the millennium. Yes, it's finally happened. The most important event of our lifetime.
Chapter 3: What happened with the Cracker Barrel rebrand controversy?
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged. I know I, too, am flabbergasted, shocked. I am ecstatic. Today is a magical day in the history of the United States and perhaps all of Western civilization. And listen, I will admit when I'm wrong.
Two years ago, when these two lovebirds began their relationship, I thought this was just another of Taylor Swift's relationships that would end with a breakup album in which she's saying, like a 17-year-old, about how sad she was that she'd been rejected, but don't worry, she don't need no man. But as it turns out, She does need her a man. And that man is Travis Kelsey.
And I have to say, like, unironically, I think it's great. I hope they have a wonderful marriage. I hope they have lots of kids. I hope she sings lots of songs about being married and having kids. And all those songs are better than her normal songs.
That's what I hope for her, because I think that would be a very good thing for the West, for America, for young women, particularly who have been taught for generations to That a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. And that romance is somehow a sort of giveaway to patriarchal institutions.
And it turns out, nope, actually a core component of human happiness is finding a member of the opposite sex and marrying them. This has always been a core component of human happiness. Having babies with a member of the opposite sex in a long-lasting relationship built on love and mutual commitment. That is a very good thing. And I'm not saying that cynically. I mean that. It is excellent.
I hope that they both live much happier lives. According to Variety, the couple shared the big news on Instagram with a carousel of photos in the caption, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married. Put aside the idea that Taylor Swift would be a great English teacher. Charming, charming. And the pictures are quite charming and quite normal.
This does look like what it would look like if your English teacher and your gym teacher got married. It is perfectly normie and I'm here for it. The normie revolution is happening. And this is like a normal couple getting married. Sure, she's a billionaire and he is a multimillionaire athlete. And that is a very, very large ring. That is some serious jewelry. But again, they can afford it.
And you know what? Good for them. Good for them. It's charming. And I like. And it is good. And I hope that many other people take advantage of the situation to get married and follow in their footsteps and then have long-lasting, decades-long marriages filled with children and grandchildren. I hope that is where this goes.
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Chapter 4: How does the engagement of Taylor Swift impact cultural perceptions of marriage?
It is actually culturally significant. It's culturally significant because tacitly, just tacitly, as naturally there has been over the course of the last few decades, a rebellion against normality, a rebellion against the very idea that men and women ought to get married to one another.
And that somehow all decisions that men and women make with regard to relationships are equally praiseworthy and equally useful and equally likely to lead to happiness. And that isn't true. Tacitly, what is happening here and the reason people are celebrating is that singledom is not ideal. It is not, in fact, a wonderful, happy thing. That doesn't mean you have to be miserable if you're single.
What it does mean is that aspiring to be married, to be part of a happy marriage, is a wonderful thing. That is a good aspiration. It's an aspiration that is natural to the human heart. And that is why people are happy for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. The idea that romance, a traditional romance between, you know, the high school cheerleader and the high school quarterback,
The reason that is sort of a platonic ideal in America is for a reason, because that is the basis of the forwarding of civilization. Marriage is the fundamental bedrock institution of all successful civilizations. And that's good. And so what this is tacitly is a cultural rejection of the idea that the actual ideal is non-marriage.
The actual ideal is prancing around like Madonna in your 70s, being a faded pop star and try and convince everybody that actually you are super duper happy waking up drunk in the mornings by yourself in a five-star hotel. These images are great. They're wonderful. They are good for the world. It also, by the way, happens to be a return to traditionalism in, wait for it, gender roles.
Now, again, gender roles don't mean that you can't have a successful woman in a marriage. As I've said one million times at this point, my wife is a doctor. She went to medical school. I supported her while she went to medical school. We had babies while she went to medical school. So I'm very much in favor of women being able to work the jobs that they want to work.
And so there is nothing unfeminine, for example, about Taylor Swift being a billionaire singer. That's fine. But she's very clearly a woman and he is a platonic football star. He is a good-looking, large human who runs into other people for a living and knocks them down. It is, in fact, the English teacher and the gym teacher in a sort of cookie cutter kind of way.
That is absolutely, like if you looked in a picture book for traditionalism and gender roles, what you would spot is Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, and then they would get married and then they would have babies. And that is good. And I cannot wait for them to have children.
First of all, it'd be good for them because children are wonderful for the world and they are wonderful for the people who have them. They mature you, they make you a better person. Marriage also matures you and makes you a better person. So good for them. That's wonderful. It's spiritually fulfilling and awesome. And I hope many, many people who are heretofore
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Chapter 5: What are the reactions from the public and celebrities regarding the engagement?
Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram. It's on her Instagram. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. I feel like Paul Revere right now. This is a very exciting moment for me in my professional career because I get to announce that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged.
As you're talking to Joe Lang, our lovely producer Gabby Ake texted me and said, Taylor Swift's engaged and you can see it right there on her social media. She put it up in that post that they got engaged with the caption, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married with a little dynamite.
Olivia Rinaldi, by the way, is the White House reporter for CBS. These are serious people, supposedly, who are super duper duper excited. In fact, the president of the United States was asked about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey getting engaged. Here's what President Trump had to say.
Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are engaged and going on to reaction, sir.
Well, I wish him a lot of love. I think he's a great player. I think he's a great guy. And I think that she's a terrific person.
So I wish them a lot of luck. You know, good for him. And again, it's good. We found the one thing Americans can unite upon. Coming up next, even more on Tay-Tay. You thought there was no more. Wrong you are. We have more on Tay-Tay first. Can the Fed take the right action at the right time? Or are we going to be looking at a potential economic slowdown? What does that mean for your savings?
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Chapter 6: How is President Trump's reaction to the engagement significant?
As I've always said, we have to center humanity in this conversation. Thousands and thousands of innocent lives have been lost in this conflict. It has now become commonplace, unacceptably, to accept civilian lives as a casualty of conflict. One innocent life lost is one too many.
My resolution calls for the secure and unrestricted flow of aid to Gaza, which is absolutely essential, and is the position of 44 Senate Democrats who signed a letter recently calling for a large-scale expansion in aid.
Okay, the key word there would be secure. If you give the aid to Hamas, then Hamas uses the aid. I mean, right now there is no starvation in Gaza. You can see pictures from Gaza right now of the supermarkets. There are in fact markets in Gaza that are fully stocked. People who are going to the aid stations are leaving behind items, which is not something that starving people actually do.
When he says secure, what he means is that he wants the UN back in charge so Hamas can continue to fight on. And when he says one civilian dead is too many civilians, I mean, of course, in an ideal world, no civilians would ever die. In an ideal world, Hamas would not be in charge of an entire swath of territory, murdering people who attempt to get aid, taking civilians hostages.
attempting to build up military capacity again and running the entirety of the Gaza Strip as a hellhole Sharia law tyranny. That would be the ideal. Unfortunately, we live in the real world over here where Hamas hides behind civilians in an attempt to preserve itself. This is never how war has worked, but if Democrats insist on living in the world of fancy, they will probably continue to lose.
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So meanwhile, over in Scotland, all hell has broken loose over a kind of amazing story, a pretty horrifying story. Actually, it's been underreported. And so we are still trying to find out what the details are on this story. All we have to go off of really is the fact that a 14 year old girl was arrested for carrying a couple of knives. We know that much.
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