How to pronounce “copulating”(verb) in English

And he said, "Mr. Bowen has taken all of these works that nobody wants to read; no one wants to sit down and read Aristotle and Derrida and Wittgenstein and philosophy for most peopleis akin to here's what he came up with: "copulating with a cactus."That was the imagery that he wanted to go with on that evening at, at Harvard University.