The Ben Shapiro Show - September 08, 2026


Why Every Celebrity Suddenly Has the Same Dumb Opinions


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00:00:00.000 Macklemore wrote Thrift Shop, and then he disappeared for years and years and years. 0.84
00:00:04.000 Well, I mean, in between, he did dress up as a stereotypical Jew, but then he decided to hijack an Ed Sheeran concert to advocate for Hamas.
00:00:11.000 Ron Swanson of Parks and Rec is apparently going to renounce his libertarianism, and Andrew Garfield, not worth $16 million, thinks his latest movie is a major FU to the billionaires. 0.56
00:00:21.000 Also, A24 and Nathan Fielder made an actual insane documentary with Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos fame.
00:00:26.000 Looks bonkers.
00:00:27.000 Bring you all my takes on all of that in just one second.
00:00:30.000 So let's do it.
00:00:31.000 You remember Macklemore, or maybe you don't.
00:00:33.000 He's kind of a one hit wonder.
00:00:34.000 He did thrift shop and then nobody ever heard of him again.
00:00:36.000 Well, now he's back.
00:00:37.000 Ed Sheeran decided he had to have him at an Ed Sheeran concert.
00:00:40.000 And so at his tour, which he did a performance Friday night and Saturday night at MetLife Stadium, he got up there in front of MetLife Stadium and started waxing poetic about the Middle East.
00:00:51.000 Because if I need somebody's opinion on Middle Eastern politics, it is a man who in May 2014 dressed up like this at a Seattle concert.
00:00:58.000 I feel like he will be an unbiased source.
00:01:01.000 Probably he will have been an unbiased source on Middle Eastern politics and matters related to Jews.
00:01:08.000 Macklemore. 0.99
00:01:09.000 A man who dressed up like that.
00:01:11.000 Well, he had thoughts about the Middle East, didn't Macklemore, who, again, couldn't locate the Middle East if spotted Saudi Arabia.
00:01:19.000 And here we go.
00:01:23.000 But the truth is a big part of the reason why I wanted to do this tour in the first place.
00:01:30.000 And so I could stand up in stadiums like this and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart.
00:01:36.000 Free Palestine.
00:01:37.000 And the left-wing audience loving it. 0.88
00:01:38.000 I want free Palestine.
00:01:39.000 I want those words to be loud and clear so the people all the way in Gaza to the occupied West Bank.
00:01:52.000 Know that we have not forgotten about them.
00:02:11.000 What the hell does this have to do with an Ed Sheeran concert?
00:02:13.000 So, first of all, shame on Ed Sheeran. 0.86
00:02:15.000 A free Palestine, by the way, that he's talking about would be ruled by Hamas, obviously. 0.50
00:02:18.000 And the West Bank, the parts that are governed by the Palestinians, are governed by the extraordinarily corrupt Palestinian Authority and Fatah, which is its military wing. 0.72
00:02:25.000 They still pay terrorists to kill Jews over there. 0.72
00:02:28.000 But Macklin wore, of course, again, the Jewish costume from May 2014, the Der Sturmer costume. 0.81
00:02:33.000 And this, all part of a piece, apparently, Ticketmaster, I believe that you can ask for a refund on your concert ticket if you did not plan to go to a pro Hamas concert. 0.74
00:02:43.000 You just wanted to hear Ed Sheeran warble with a guitar or something.
00:02:47.000 You know, I have friends who are Ed Sheeran fans for reasons I cannot quite discern.
00:02:47.000 Annoying.
00:02:52.000 They are quite disappointed in all this.
00:02:54.000 But again, this is where popular culture has gone because the de rigueur cause of the day on the left is the world's most unsuccessful people by choice.
00:03:05.000 Because again, when it comes to the Palestinians, they've only had 1 million opportunities to cut any sort of piece. 0.53
00:03:10.000 Deal with the Israelis and refused every time and have elected terrorists in their place and then trained entire generations of young people to hate Jews and want to murder them. 0.60
00:03:18.000 This has been the general problem in the Middle East for quite a while.
00:03:20.000 I wish it were not the case. 1.00
00:03:22.000 Everybody's been waiting for a moderate Palestinian movement to arise at any moment. 1.00
00:03:25.000 It has yet to arise, but at least they have Macklemore and his single hit from that one time. 0.94
00:03:31.000 Also, speaking of other stupid celebrities, so Nick Offerman was a wild leftist who played Ron Swanson, you'll remember, on Parks and Recreation.
00:03:40.000 That was his popular character.
00:03:41.000 And it was a popular character because Libertarianism is hilarious, and because he was sort of the voice of the audience.
00:03:46.000 Every time these do gooder park and recs employees would have a bad idea, he would just crush them.
00:03:52.000 Well, now Nick Offerman says that Ron Swanson's character would eventually realize libertarianism doesn't work and he would become a democratic socialist or something.
00:03:59.000 I'm sure that's why Nick Offman wasn't the writer of the show.
00:04:04.000 In order to have a functioning society, that's why libertarianism can never work.
00:04:08.000 Like on paper, the ideas are great, but it's going to just lead to anarchy because everyone is then open to interpret things, and whoever has the most guns ends up winning, and that's a dumb idea.
00:04:20.000 That would be a tough realization for Ron Swanson.
00:04:23.000 I suppose.
00:04:24.000 But I like to think, as a Mike Scher character, that he would listen to reason eventually.
00:04:24.000 I suppose.
00:04:32.000 Eventually, he would just turn into a Kamala Harris voter.
00:04:35.000 Oh, boy.
00:04:37.000 Yeah, there's that.
00:04:39.000 Okay, other cultural news, similar vein.
00:04:42.000 Andrew Garfield, who, again, I like Andrew Garfield as an actor.
00:04:45.000 I've been a fan of Andrew Garfield's for a while, but he's doing his best to convince me otherwise.
00:04:50.000 So he has made a new movie called The Uprising with Paul Greengrass.
00:04:54.000 Apparently, I would imagine that the thing is not tracking well because they're already changing the branding on the movie.
00:05:00.000 Right?
00:05:01.000 They're already changing the branding.
00:05:02.000 So now they're saying it's like the story of Robin Hood, which, again, It looked like the Watt Tyler Rebellion, honestly, from all the previous.
00:05:08.000 But here is Andrew Garfield talking about how billionaires should be scared, bleebless.
00:05:13.000 He is worth $16 million for saying things in front of a camera that other people write.
00:05:19.000 What's your dream takeaway for people in the audience?
00:05:23.000 When they go home, what are you hoping for?
00:05:26.000 Well, first, I hope they come and see it for the first thing.
00:05:30.000 But secondly, I hope it's galvanizing.
00:05:33.000 I hope there's some awakening that people feel that they feel that their own.
00:05:37.000 That we all feel like our own struggles are being reflected in the struggles of these characters from a distant time and place.
00:05:44.000 And they could be directive.
00:05:45.000 And I hope that if any billionaires watch it, they're scared.
00:05:53.000 And everybody laughs.
00:05:55.000 Who funds the movies?
00:05:57.000 Who do you think is funding you and paying you?
00:05:59.000 Who?
00:05:59.000 But again, so much of Hollywood is built around just generalized left wing nonsense.
00:06:05.000 We, however, are here at Daily Web.
00:06:06.000 We're not doing that.
00:06:07.000 We have our own movie that is coming out next week.
00:06:11.000 We're getting close and we are pumped because it's awesome. 1.00
00:06:15.000 It is, of course, Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels. 0.99
00:06:17.000 The movie kicks in. 1.00
00:06:18.000 It's great.
00:06:19.000 Here's the latest trailer.
00:06:20.000 Every significant movement in history has started with protesting.
00:06:23.000 You're a traitor!
00:06:24.000 It's Uncle Tom!
00:06:25.000 This is our generation's civil rights!
00:06:26.000 I have no idea what the protest is about.
00:06:28.000 Bingo!
00:06:29.000 Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as Slave Saunders even be allowed on campus?
00:06:34.000 Ah, can you hear me okay?
00:06:36.000 Saunders is a close personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
00:06:38.000 This is a decision I cannot fight. 1.00
00:06:40.000 Islam will conquer the West. 1.00
00:06:42.000 Assalamualaikum. 1.00
00:06:43.000 Are we paying attention?
00:06:48.000 They've taken over the building.
00:06:50.000 They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
00:06:53.000 I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
00:06:57.000 We cannot run and hide.
00:06:59.000 Muhammad is the messenger of God.
00:07:02.000 There is no God but Allah.
00:07:05.000 What do you say? 0.99
00:07:07.000 He turned those SOBs into a fine red mist. 1.00
00:07:11.000 As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. 1.00
00:07:14.000 Because they call that leap project.
00:07:17.000 Stretch them out and listen.
00:07:19.000 You need a course in safe weapons handling.
00:07:27.000 So, again, we're making the movies that Hollywood is not going to make.
00:07:31.000 Now, speaking of one movie that actually does look extraordinary, so this is pretty incredible.
00:07:36.000 There's a documentary that is coming out about Elizabeth Holmes with Nathan Fielder as the producer and star of it.
00:07:46.000 They apparently got the inside scoop.
00:07:50.000 On Elizabeth Holmes. 0.98
00:07:51.000 She was the grifter who grifted people out of literally billions of dollars based on technology she never revealed to anybody.
00:07:57.000 This documentary is titled You Can See Everything, and it has Nathan Fielder and his director following her around for the 34 days before she went to prison.
00:08:08.000 And here is the preview.
00:08:09.000 Oh boy.
00:08:12.000 I'm not that person.
00:08:14.000 I can promise you that.
00:08:18.000 I don't have anything to deceive you on.
00:08:19.000 Of course, I'm not deceiving you.
00:08:22.000 I'm engaging with you as a human being.
00:08:27.000 Why would I deceive you?
00:08:30.000 There's no there's no reason for me to do that.
00:08:37.000 Okay.
00:08:38.000 All right.
00:08:43.000 Okay, good chat.
00:08:56.000 You're being real right now?
00:08:57.000 You're always being real.
00:09:03.000 Blink.
00:09:04.000 Sometime.
00:09:06.000 Oh, good lord. 0.95
00:09:10.000 She's staring at him one foot away while she bounces the baby with her foot. 1.00
00:09:19.000 She is a crazy person. 0.98
00:09:21.000 And everybody went along with it. 0.99
00:09:23.000 And it turns out that one of the wages of radical feminism is that if you're a crazy person and you get like one ounce of success, we have to pretend you're really good at your job, even if you're totally a grifter and a psycho.
00:09:33.000 Oh boy, not great.
00:09:34.000 Let me tell you about the greatest salesman in American history.
00:09:38.000 His name was George C. Parker.
00:09:40.000 His product was the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:09:42.000 There was only one problem he did not own the Brooklyn Bridge because nobody owns the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:09:47.000 It's the bridge.
00:09:48.000 Parker became famous for one of the most ridiculous scams in American history.
00:09:52.000 He sold the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:09:54.000 Not tickets to the bridge and not a tour of the bridge like the bridge itself.
00:09:57.000 He would allegedly produce official looking documents and then he would claim some right of ownership or control.
00:10:02.000 He would explain that the new buyer could make people money by charging tolls to people crossing the bridge.
00:10:08.000 The Brooklyn Bridge really had charged tolls in its early years, so that lie had just enough truth to make the fraud feel plausible.
00:10:14.000 Reports suggest that George C. Parker sold the Brooklyn Bridge up to twice a week for decades.
00:10:20.000 The punchline is not just that people bought it, the punchline is that some of them actually showed up afterward trying to Put up toll booths.
00:10:26.000 Imagine how that conversation with the NYPD went.
00:10:28.000 Sir, what are you doing?
00:10:29.000 Well, officer, I'm here because I own the Brooklyn Bridge.
00:10:33.000 And this is where we actually get the phrase if you believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
00:10:37.000 Parker was also associated with scams involving other New York landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, Madison Square Garden, Grant's Tomb, even the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
00:10:46.000 The man basically ran a fake Zillow page for things that obviously were not for sale.
00:10:51.000 Here is the uncomfortable part the scam was not really about the bridge, it was about paperwork because Parker understood something that criminals still understand today.
00:10:59.000 People trust documents.
00:11:00.000 People trust records.
00:11:02.000 People trust signatures.
00:11:03.000 People trust official looking seals.
00:11:05.000 When a fraudster can corrupt the paper trail, even something absurd suddenly starts to look real.
00:11:09.000 So, fast forward to today the con man doesn't need to stand outside the Brooklyn Bridge in a decent looking suit.
00:11:14.000 He doesn't need a forged deed and a leather briefcase.
00:11:17.000 He's got the internet, he has public records, he has your personal information, and he may have your home in his sight.
00:11:23.000 That's the danger of home title fraud, sometimes called deed theft.
00:11:26.000 The basic idea is simple and horrifying.
00:11:28.000 A criminal impersonates you, forges documents, records a fraudulent deed or lien, and suddenly there's paperwork in the system suggesting that something happened to the title of your home that you never approved of.
00:11:37.000 George C. Parker became infamous for selling things he did not own by making fake paperwork look real.
00:11:42.000 Modern title fraud operates on the same exact terrifying principle create a paper trail, create confusion, force the real owner to clean up the mess.
00:11:49.000 And this is where home title lock comes in.
00:11:51.000 Home title lock monitors your home's title, sends alerts if there's a change, offers restoration support if fraud occurs.
00:11:56.000 In other words, it's not there because you're gullible, it's there because you're not.
00:12:00.000 Because the smart person doesn't say, I'd never fall for the Brooklyn bridge scam.
00:12:03.000 The smart person says, Fraudsters adapt, and I should too.
00:12:07.000 Parker sold people a bridge he didn't own, he was ultimately sent to prison because of it.
00:12:10.000 Today's scammers may try to sell, borrow against, or cloud title to property they don't own.
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00:12:33.000 Because when someone tells you fraud can't happen to you, well, if you believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
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