The Ben Shapiro Show - October 05, 2026


Zach Bryan's Free Palestine Stunt and Tom Cruise's Flop, Explained

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Ben Shapiro
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Rotten Tomatoes Zach Bryan Tom Cruise Run Hide Fight Infidels Alejandro Inoritu Cocky MFers Ed Sheeran Joe Rogan Bud Light Pure Talk Macklemore Birdman Digger Cruz
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Length

7 minutes

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194.12

Word count

1,485

Sentence count

147

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Misogyny

2

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9

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00:00:00.000 So, our celebrity class is filled with dullards.
00:00:02.000 Zach Bryan is one of those dullards.
00:00:13.000 You're working right now.
00:00:23.000 I learned two things from this clip.
00:00:25.000 One is that I do not like the music of Zach Bryan because he's tone deaf.
00:00:28.000 And the other thing is that he's wearing a free Palestine shirt because he's a moron.
00:00:31.000 His politics have always been idiotic.
00:00:34.000 He's always been a left wing guy.
00:00:36.000 He was on Joe Rogan in June 2024 and was talking about his defense of quote unquote trans people. 0.76
00:00:42.000 Right.
00:00:42.000 So again, he's a very far left dude.
00:00:45.000 When I said that about like, whatever, Bud Light, because my sister's spouse is transgender, I like hired a security guy for a second.
00:00:54.000 I was like, man, this is crazy.
00:00:56.000 People are mad at you.
00:00:57.000 Yeah.
00:00:57.000 And not being a either.
00:00:58.000 I was like, man, it's kind of scary, bro.
00:01:00.000 I don't want people to come for me because a lot of people were pissed.
00:01:00.000 I live in a city.
00:01:04.000 Such a dumb reason to get mad.
00:01:05.000 I woke up on a Saturday, bro, and I had a dude tell me I was like a Nazi and a mutilator on my Twitter.
00:01:09.000 And I was like, bro, what the are you talking about?
00:01:12.000 It was psychotic.
00:01:13.000 It was crazy.
00:01:15.000 Okay.
00:01:16.000 Again, he's always been a very far left figure.
00:01:19.000 He cut a song in October 2025, ripping on ice, called Bad News. 1.00
00:01:24.000 When I heard the cops came, Cocky MFers, ain't they? 1.00
00:01:27.000 And Ice is going to come bust down your door. 1.00
00:01:29.000 Try to build a house no one builds no more, but I got a telephone.
00:01:32.000 Kids are all scared and all alone.
00:01:33.000 The boss stopped bumping.
00:01:34.000 The rocks stopped rolling.
00:01:35.000 My middle finger's rising and it won't stop showing.
00:01:38.000 Got some bad news.
00:01:38.000 Fading of our red, white, and blue.
00:01:40.000 This lands your land. 0.99
00:01:41.000 This lands mine too.
00:01:43.000 Is this all true, man, or is it just bad news?
00:01:46.000 Okay, so again, anti Ice songs.
00:01:48.000 And then he put out a statement trying to sort of wrap himself in the flag as he attacked Ice.
00:01:55.000 AI song in August 2026 that's sort of a populist anthem to the idea, quote, the robot, he writes, killed the working man, took the nail and hammer right out of his hand.
00:02:04.000 So I guess we have to just destroy all technology because the wheelwrights need their jobs back.
00:02:09.000 So now, why is he in the news?
00:02:10.000 He's in the news because he did a concert at Gillette Stadium, which is, of course, the same stadium where the infamous Ed Sheeran concert with Macklemore took place.
00:02:18.000 And he wore a Free Palestine t shirt.
00:02:20.000 I'll also point out that he has not been banned from Gillette Stadium.
00:02:23.000 Macklemore did a lot more than just say Free Palestine.
00:02:26.000 He has essentially sided with terrorists, he has shouted F America multiple times.
00:02:30.000 And all the rest of all of this.
00:02:32.000 This has now become the de rigueur demand in the cultural community.
00:02:36.000 You must say the words.
00:02:39.000 You must lie and say Israel committed a genocide.
00:02:41.000 You must take the anti Western position that terrorist groups are somehow superior to Western allies. 0.50
00:02:46.000 You must do all of these things. 0.78
00:02:47.000 You must shout free Palestine.
00:02:48.000 And the flag of revolution against the West is the flag of Palestine.
00:02:53.000 That's what it is. 0.61
00:02:54.000 It's why it shows up at every anti Western rally, every single one, without exception.
00:02:59.000 There's a reason for that.
00:03:01.000 People should be advised of that.
00:03:02.000 And again, it's a great way to, I guess, get a little bit of attention for your concert tour.
00:03:07.000 Meanwhile, on the cultural front, Tom Cruise, who again, I've always said that I'm kind of a Tom Cruise stand as a movie star.
00:03:13.000 Forget about his personal life or anything like that.
00:03:15.000 As a movie star, he has done a very good job at picking good projects, like the new Top Gun, for example.
00:03:23.000 Well, he picked a bad project.
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00:04:27.000 His bad project is a movie called Digger.
00:04:31.000 This movie is apparently, I haven't seen it yet, a pretentious piece of anti corporate propaganda.
00:04:39.000 It's all about climate change.
00:04:40.000 Highly, highly, highly political.
00:04:43.000 And it's just a bomb.
00:04:45.000 It's a bomb.
00:04:46.000 This movie had a $125 million production budget.
00:04:51.000 The movie grossed $3.3 million on Friday.
00:04:54.000 The film is expected to open with $8 million across 3,300 North American theaters.
00:05:00.000 They were hoping for an open between $12 and $15 million.
00:05:03.000 So, this is the lowest opening for a weekend since Cruz did a war drama in 2007 called Lions for Lambs, which debuted with $6.7 million from a significantly smaller budget.
00:05:14.000 Digger has a 51% approval rating from reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:05:19.000 Now, again, kind of astonishing that this thing even has a 51% approval rating given what it looks like.
00:05:27.000 I think that.
00:05:28.000 The director Alejandro Inoritu is one of the most overrated directors working.
00:05:31.000 He's the guy behind Birdman and the Revenant.
00:05:35.000 Highly overrated.
00:05:36.000 The preview looked awful.
00:05:38.000 Here is the preview.
00:05:40.000 I don't believe you understand what's happening, sir.
00:05:43.000 What did you just say?
00:05:44.000 Sorry, sir.
00:05:45.000 Well, I know perfectly well what's going on there because I'm paying for the whole thing.
00:05:48.000 I'm paying for your 90% Hungarian goose down winter jacket.
00:05:51.000 I'm paying your salary. 1.00
00:05:52.000 You want to shut her down? 1.00
00:05:53.000 Well, say it!
00:05:55.000 Mr. President, we're utterly unprotected against a disaster of this magnitude.
00:05:59.000 What's our worst case scenario?
00:06:01.000 18.
00:06:01.000 Trillion dollars, sir.
00:06:05.000 Is that all the bad news?
00:06:08.000 There's the nuclear waste, too.
00:06:12.000 Okay, this looks terrible.
00:06:14.000 I mean, it just looks awful.
00:06:15.000 It looks terrible.
00:06:17.000 Across the board, terrible.
00:06:19.000 So it has a 51% rotten tomatoes from the critics because you can never say that a movie with the right politics for the left, right?
00:06:24.000 Left wing politics is bad.
00:06:25.000 You're not allowed.
00:06:26.000 You have to pretend that the movie's good.
00:06:28.000 Meanwhile, if there's a movie that is just sort of a fun shoot 'em up that has right wing politics, it's evil and terrible and can never be given the time of day.
00:06:36.000 Which is why Run Hide Fight Infidels, which is again the biggest entertainment success in the history of the Daily Wire, is blowing the doors off in terms of subscriptions, people who are subscribing just to see the movie.
00:06:46.000 And by the way, there's much more awesome stuff coming.
00:06:49.000 We're in the news again about another one of our big projects right now.
00:06:52.000 With all of that happening, the critics, I think Rotten Tomatoes, like 20%.
00:06:56.000 And the reason it's at 20% on Rotten Tomatoes is because it doesn't have the right politics.
00:06:59.000 If it had the reverse politics, presumably it would be much higher because Digger, it looks like a piece of.
00:07:04.000 I mean, again, I'll watch it.
00:07:05.000 I'll tell you if I'm wrong here, but it looks Awful.
00:07:07.000 I mean, just from the preview alone and from what people are saying about it, it looks absolutely terrible.
00:07:12.000 It has a 71% audience score, which, again, people have generally an interest in pretending that they like movies, even if they don't like movies.
00:07:20.000 But let's just be clear if the politics of this thing were right wing, it would not exist as a film.
00:07:25.000 That is the way all of this works in the land of Hollywood.
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