00:00:31.000And we talked about everything from sort of faith to politics.
00:00:33.000He certainly was never a right wing figure when it came to politics.
00:00:37.000But he portrayed himself as a man of deep and abiding faith.
00:00:39.000Well, now he's been sentenced to prison after a rape conviction.
00:00:43.000According to the Daily Wire, he was sentenced to 10 years and six months behind bars following his convictions for rape and sexual assault involving four women.
00:00:52.000Justice Joel Benathan called Brand a sexual predator with staggering arrogance and said he has contempt for his sexual partners as he handed down the sentence.0.78
00:00:59.000Before Brand left the courtroom, he reportedly turned to his wife and mouth, I love you.
00:01:03.000He was found guilty Thursday following a four week trial at Southwark Crown Court in London.
00:01:07.000The jury convicted him on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, while acquitting him of two additional rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault.
00:01:14.000The offenses occurred between 2004 and 2009.
00:01:18.000Brand denied the charges, maintaining his sexual encounters were consensual.
00:01:22.000The conviction stemmed from four separate incidents.
00:01:24.000In 2004, Brand grabbed a woman's breasts at a London bar shortly after meeting her at a birthday party in Soho.
00:01:29.000In 2004 2005, he grabbed another woman's face and kissed her before touching her breasts and buttocks at the Choice FM radio studios.0.97
00:01:35.000In 2009, Days after meeting a woman following a comedy performance at Hammersmith Apollo, Brand had consensual sex with her at his Hampstead home before anally raping her.0.97
00:01:43.000The woman told the court, He hurt me and harmed me, and when I asked him to stop, he didn't.0.87
00:01:47.000Also in 2009, while working on a Channel 4 project, Brand placed his head against the groin of a woman working with him without her consent.
00:01:53.000None of the women have been named publicly.
00:01:54.000Now, again, it's very difficult in a lot of these circumstances to sort of substantiate what particularly happened, especially when you are talking now 20 years later in some of these cases 2004, 2005.
00:02:10.000Obviously, the conviction suggests that there is enough evidence for a conviction, but it does not necessarily mean that these cases are particularly clear cut.
00:02:18.000None of that is a defense of his activity at the time.
00:02:22.000And it leaves open the question as to, you know, the sincerity of his sort of latest iteration.
00:02:27.000And this is the very difficult thing about celebrities who are accused of stuff a long time ago.
00:02:31.000Because, you know, were they making the move now because it was genuine, or were they making the move now because it was not genuine and it was sort of a cover for bad old behavior?
00:03:17.000Such are the twists and turns of human life.
00:03:19.000And it's very difficult to know other characters, particularly when you know them peripherally.
00:03:22.000We'll get to more on this in just a moment.
00:03:24.000First, it's pretty easy to announce the American Dream is dead.
00:03:27.000It's considerably harder to explain what's actually happening and why it's happening and what would actually make it better.
00:03:32.000That requires more than a slogan, it requires actual facts.
00:03:35.000That's why I went head to head with left of center Scott Galloway in the first ever USA Facts debate focused on the American Dream.
00:03:42.000We debated whether capitalism is working or leaving too many people behind, whether more government is the answer.
00:03:47.000Or whether government is part of the problem.
00:03:49.000And here's what made this debate different.
00:03:51.000Each segment started with government data and facts from USA Facts.
00:03:54.000Before we argued about the solutions, we had actual numbers to work from.
00:03:57.000Now, having the same facts doesn't mean Scott and I suddenly agree, obviously, but it does mean you can see where the disagreement actually is.
00:04:03.000Evaluate those arguments, decide for yourself who makes the stronger case.
00:04:06.000You should come away from a debate knowing more than you did going in.
00:04:21.000So the rapper recently had dates in Dublin, Paris, and London at the end of October.
00:04:24.000He took to Instagram on November 6th to say he'd been turned down by American venues, including New York City's Madison Square Garden, New Jersey's Prudential Center, Brooklyn's Barclays Center, Long Island's UBS Arena, LA's Intuit Dome, Kia Forum, and Crypto.com Arena, San Francisco's Chase Center, and Seattle Climate's Pledge Arena.
00:04:40.000By mid September, he said in an Instagram post, he received available dates at those arenas through the end of the year.
00:04:45.000Once they found out they were my benefit shows for Palestine, those dates were suddenly off the table.
00:04:51.000The shows were not going to be allowed to happen in those venues.
00:04:54.000And then he claims that this is about freedom of speech.
00:04:57.000He says, We've reached a point where a handful of billionaires can decide which causes are acceptable, which voices are welcome, and which human lives are worth defending.
00:05:06.000Well, the real answer, in all likelihood, is that no one cares about Macklemore and the fact that he has to grift on the back of the most radical left wing cause he can find in order to get anyone to come to his horrible concerts.
00:05:21.000So, Madison Square Garden responded to Macklemore's claims in a statement We have some of the busiest venues in the world with extremely limited availability.
00:05:38.000Meanwhile, over in Philadelphia, an attempt to boycott Jewish businesses ran flat because it was too obvious.
00:05:44.000See, the rule is, folks, if you're going to be a left winger and hate Jews, you have to at least hide it a little bit.
00:05:48.000If you do it openly, people get annoyed.0.65
00:05:50.000But if you hide it a little bit, they'll let you get away with it.
00:05:52.000The problem in Philadelphia is that the organizers basically didn't hide it at all.
00:05:56.000And then, you know, you couldn't get away with it.
00:05:58.000So, according to CNN, the main organizer, Philly Bike On Your Left, describes itself as being anti Zionist.
00:06:03.000The planned bike ride boycott organizers named six restaurants that officials in local Jewish organizations are run by Jewish owners.0.97
00:06:11.000A post from Philly Bike on Your Left said, quote, Ride around Rittenhouse with us as we show these Zionist business owners that we see them for the disgusting humans they are.0.71
00:06:18.000We'll flag as many bikes as we can into our solidarity with the Palestinian community and oppressed folks everywhere.
00:06:24.000They called themselves a nonviolent social cycling page.0.80
00:06:28.000It is very difficult to imagine a group of more obnoxious human beings than a nonviolent social cycling page.
00:06:33.000Unless you're a violent social cycling page.
00:06:37.000Which again, you're riding around your bike ding ding and just throwing molotov cocktails at people.
00:06:41.000The group said it was, quote, firmly against racism and oppression of all forms, including fascism, anti Semitism, Islamophobia, and colonialism.
00:06:47.000Well, they're not so against anti Semitism.0.88
00:06:49.000They just found a bunch of Jewish business owners and are like, we will target them.0.95
00:06:54.000Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday said the boycott on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht is deeply unsettling.
00:07:00.000Kristallnacht is the night of broken glass in Nazi Germany, where basically the authorities unleash gigantic riots and mass arrests against Jews.
00:07:08.000A statement from Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said the bike ride.
00:07:11.000Masquerading as a protest to advance the cause of justice is nothing more than blatant anti Semitism designed to intimidate and drive Jewish businesses out of our communities.
00:07:18.000There's no place for that in our commonwealth.0.93
00:07:20.000Okay, so, you know, I guess the idea here is that just don't be too obvious.
00:07:25.000If you're a little bit less obvious about it, you can be a senator from Michigan.
00:07:29.000So instead of being, you know, a nonviolent social cycler, maybe some of these people should just yell anti Zionist a lot and say, hurt people, hurt people, and then they could end up in the United States Senate.
00:07:39.000Remember, folks, you know, back to the original theme here.
00:07:43.000The moderates, they would be perfectly fine with all of this as long as you hide it just a little bit.
00:07:47.000You just got to hide it a little bit and they will go along with it.
00:07:50.000Just don't be too obvious about it, and then it will be fine.
00:07:52.000Okay, meanwhile, by the way, there is a person who has announced his primary challenge to Senator John Fetterman, the sole remaining rational person inside the Democratic Party.
00:08:17.000He has never held or run for political office.
00:08:22.000He says that he is going to run based on a series of national crises corruption, cost of living, constitutional authority, and foreign policy.
00:08:44.000Well, you know, if you think so, head on over to dailywire.comslash subscribe to watch the full show ad free or check out this crazy story here.