I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

I like to travel a lot less than I did. I was much easier traveling than now. Like,

I don't want to be away from my kids. As I was leaving to come here this week, my four-year-old

son turns to me and he goes, don't go to Nashville, dad. Don't go to Nashville. And I was like,

that is the saddest thing.

Like, it tears your heart out. You're like, why are you doing this? I did inform him.

He's like, how am I going to know when you're back? It's like, well, because I was coming back late at at night. I'm coming back at night. And he says, how do I know then you're going to be back? I said, I'm going to come in your room, I'm going to take pants out of your drum and put them on your head.

That's so cute.

And he said, okay, so tonight.

I like Ben the Dad.

We don't get this of a Ben.

Yeah. pants out of your drum and put them on your head. And he said, that's so cute.

And he said, okay, so tonight. I like Ben the Dad.

We don't get this of the Ben.

Yeah.

This is actually great.

Do your best to give a summary of the history of Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro.

The actual history is that, thank God I've had a really really, well, when I say privileged life, I don't mean privileged in terms of economics. I grew up in a house with three younger sisters, and all four of us shared one bedroom, and a two-bedroom house of one bathroom until I was 11. So it really isn't, it really isn't privileged that way. I'm privileged because I have an amazing set of parents. I have a two-parent family. I have great siblings. I grew up in a really solid community that shared, I think, a really great set of values. I was able to go to good schools and I was able to have excellent teachers. And my parents made sure that I learned from as many people

as humanly possible. They opened a lot of doors for me to be able to experience different ideas.

And, you know, because of that and because I'm, I tend to be pretty hungry for knowledge,

I spent an enormous amount of time outside, in and outside of school, reading, educating myself, becoming good at what it is that I do. And I spent a lot of years perfecting that. I mean, I've been writing syndicated columns since I was 17 years old. I'm now 37 years old. So I've been doing this for 20 years. And, you know, you try enough things and you fail at enough things and eventually you get good at things. And I think that's the story of this company. I think that's the story of sort of my career. And the most important thing about me personally is that I happen to be a fantastic father and a fantastic husband. Those are the two most important things about me. And I say that with all due humility. But I actually am really, like, of the things in my life that I'm good at, I am the best of being a father

and I'm the best of being a husband.

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