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The Ben Shapiro Show

Daily Wire Backstage: 2020 State of the Union Edition

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

News, News Commentary

4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

How many home runs will Trump hit during the SOTU? Will viewers be able to actually hear his speech over the Dems booing, hysterical crying, and banging their heads on the floor? After the speech, will Pelosi and Schiff both go full "Raiders of the Lost Ark" melted soldier face? Join this roundtable discussion featuring @Ben Shapiro, @Andrew Klavan, @Michael Knowles, and Daily Wire god-king Jeremy Boreing as they get to the bottom of these questions and more. Become a Daily Wire subscriber! https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe/p... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, gang, Ben Shapiro here. You're about to listen to Daily Wire backstage. It means all the other guys are going to be drinking whiskey and smoking cigars and generally just being horrible people. But we will discuss politics. I'll be there. Andrew Claven will be there. Michael Moles, unfortunately, will be there. Jeremy Boring. We're all about to break down the state of the Union and the wild Iowa caucuses. Hope you enjoy.

0:19.8

A funny thing happened on the way to the caucus.

0:22.1

62% of the total is now in, and we have official results with the popular vote.

0:26.9

That's who people actually like. The actual audience we're talking about here.

0:30.3

We have in first place, Ben Shapiro, with 1.5 million somethings.

0:35.7

In second place, we have Andrew Claibon with considerably less something. And In second place, we have Andrew Claven with considerably less something.

0:40.8

And in third place, we have Michael Knowles with just barely anything at all.

0:46.3

Clearly, the winner of all of our delegates, Elisha Krause.

0:49.7

Elisha, tell us how people can get their questions in.

0:52.2

I'm actually really annoyed because I would expect this from Michael, but when Ben told me,

0:56.0

we were all going to dress up like Supreme Court justices, I believed him.

1:00.0

Really, guys?

1:03.0

Golly. All right, let me just RBG it up over here.

1:08.0

She will be there tonight, right? She's not skipping like AOC.

1:11.2

So for our subscribers watching at home, if you want to ask the guys questions,

1:14.7

just head on over to dailywire.com and navigate to the show's page at the top,

1:18.5

click on backstage, and then type in your questions into the chat box next to the video.

1:23.1

Another special perk for our subscribers is this kind of AMA thing that we do every once in a while

1:27.4

with our writers and editors and all of the talent here.

1:30.3

It's called Discussion and that's only available to subscribers and it's going to be lots of fun.

1:35.3

You can ask me how annoyed I am with Ben and where Michael is because we still don't know.

1:40.3

Allegedly with Ted Cruz smoking cigars in D.C., I don't know.

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