Today's hot takes tackle Jimmy Kimmel's liberal blame game and shocking violence across America

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What happens when late-night comedy hosts start blaming their own political tribe for election outcomes? Today we're unpacking Jimmy Kimmel's surprising Rolling Stone interview where he points fingers at "liberal cancel culture" for Trump's victory while simultaneously calling Trump supporters "animals" - a contradictory stance that perfectly captures our cultural moment.

The headlines take a darker turn as we examine a horrific random attack in Arizona, where a father of two was nearly decapitated by a hatchet-wielding assailant while sitting at a bus stop with his wife. The couple, originally from Alabama, had just decided to return home after a difficult year in California following their child's stillbirth. The seemingly motiveless violence raises troubling questions about public safety and mental health crises playing out on American streets.

Meanwhile, in Dallas, bullets flew at a high school after a dice game went wrong, leaving three students with gunshot wounds. Despite metal detectors and clear backpack policies, weapons continue finding their way into educational settings. Most concerning? This marks the second shooting at this same school in just one year, suggesting our new normal includes gambling and gunfire between classes.

The stories we cover show a society navigating profound contradictions - celebrity liberals reassessing cancel culture while continuing divisive rhetoric, schools implementing security measures that somehow still fail, and everyday Americans caught in seemingly random violence. What was your most controversial high school moment? For many of us growing up, it might have been someone getting sick in class or a hallway fight - a stark contrast to today's headlines. Share your stories through the "talk to me" link in your podcast app's description.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, good morning, my little love bunnies and baby
dolls.
Oh, and you too, kenny Huber.
Welcome One and all.
Buckle in, kenny.
I'm about to read someheadlines and remark on them.
Ooh, by the way, just becauseI've removed my podcast audio
from YouTube doesn't mean youstill can't comment or come at
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(00:25):
listening on.
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click on that and send me somefan mail.
All right, moving on, let's seewhat do we have this morning.
Over here on my x file we havejimmy kimmel blames liberals

(00:46):
completely manufactured outragefor getting trump elected.
This is from breitbart news.
I'm actually switching it up alittle bit instead of getting
everything from the new yorkpost.
This is from breitbart um.
So, left wing late night abccomedian jimmy kimmel.
You love him From the oh backin the days, from the man show

(01:07):
when he co-hosted with AdamCarolla when he was, you know,
being your typical man back then.
Okay, but now he's, I guess,paying reparations or whatever
by being this liberal lunatic.
So he's blaming the liberalcancel culture, that squelched

(01:30):
comedy, for helping to getDonald Trump elected to a second
term in the White House.
So, jimmy, what are you saying?
You're blaming yourself becauseyou are a part of that whole
cancel culture machine.
Liberal cancel.
You're part of that, so you'reblaming yourself?
Shut up this guy.
I swear I can't with him.

(01:50):
In an interview with RollingStone, the Jimmy Kimmel Live
host why don't you just call himJimmy Kimmel, that's his name
has insisted that intolerance ofliberals is a big part of why
Trump won his election againstKamala Harris last November.
Yeah, yeah, we do have anintolerance of this liberal crap

(02:10):
.
Yeah, he's right about that.
I think a lot of the outrage iscompletely manufactured and
it's like a lot of these peoplewho are angry aren't really
angry.
The rabidly anti-Trump hostexclaimed this guy, now he's not
making any sense whatsoever.
So he's saying that we are fake, outraged over what's going on

(02:30):
in America.
Okay, jimmy, stay in Hollywood.
Please Just go.
Stay in Hollywood, do yourthing out there.
There's no black and white whenit comes to comedy.
There is no line.
The line is different for everyperson.
Dave Chappelle can say thingsthat somebody else might not be
able to.
I don't think anybody should becanceled.
I really don't.
He continued I agree, jimmy, weagree on something?

(02:55):
Hey, how about that?
But now you know he's gettingmad that he's not getting any
ratings anymore.
Probably Now he's coming out.
Well, you know, maybe peopleshouldn't be canceled.
You know, blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, well, where were you afew years ago?
There's no decency, it's just abunch of animals and it's
disgusting.
He complained of Trump and hissupporters.

(03:16):
What?
Oh wait, I skipped a paragraph.
I just don't understand howAmericans can support what he's
doing and the stupid stuff thathe gets hung up on, like
transgender sports and thatstuff that affects almost no one
.
Kimmel said oh my gosh, I thinkhe's just putting it out there

(03:40):
so he can get some attention.
Does he really think that thetransgender sports and stuff
like that that affects almost noone?
He doesn't understand howAmericans can support what he's
doing and the stupid stuff thathe gets hung up on, like
transgender sports.
This guy is out of touch withreality.

(04:02):
He obviously is.
Oh my gosh, wow.
And then he goes on to saythere's no decency, it's just a
bunch of animals and it'sdisgusting.
He complained of Trump and hissupporters Wow, he's calling us
animals and disgusting becausewe don't like the transgender
sports.
At that kind of stuff, jimmy.

(04:24):
Go F yourself.
Go make the sex with yourself,as Keith would say.
Still, kimmel had to admit thatone of the reasons Trump appeals
to people is because heexhibits a lot of energy.
Yes, he does, and he's nearly80 years old, right, he's in his
late 70s, mid to late 70s.
And compare him to Joe Biden,come on which, by the way, joe

(04:47):
Biden has made an appearanceyesterday, last night, and he's
still the same old senile manwho, bless his heart, goodness
gracious.
He says say what you want aboutTrump.
He played a clip in rehearsalof Biden's State of the Union
address and Trump's State of theUnion address.
The energy in the room, it'slike the difference between golf
and wrestling, he explained.

(05:09):
Well, he's right about that.
He finally said somethingthat's funny.
There's just a huge amount ofenergy in the room.
Okay, blah, blah, blah, blah,blah.
You can go finish reading thatover there if you want to.
I pretty much covered it allwith Jimmy Kimmel trying to
remain relevant in today's world.
Go jump off a cliff.
Oh my gosh.
No, don't really do that.

(05:30):
I know he won't.
Sorry, I take that back.
Go make the sex with yourself.
I'd rather do that, all right.
So I wonder why we haven'theard any more about this.
Oh, that's right.
Maybe the attacker will cryself-defense too.
I have this out on X.
All right, this story hits alittle bit home.
Not really, but this person isfrom Arab Alabama.

(05:54):
He and his wife moved.
His name is Jacob Couch, hiswife is Kristen, and they are
from Arab Alabama.
They have two children already.
They're teenagers and they gotpregnant again, but this baby
was born stillborn, so they lostthe baby.
They decided for some reason tomove out to California and they
were only out there for a year.
They realized that it wasn'tgoing to work out, so they

(06:14):
decided to come home and ontheir way home, traveling back
home, he gets attacked.
In Arizona, a father of two wasnearly decapitated in front of
his wife and left in criticalcondition by an axe wielding
menace as the couple were in themiddle of a cross-country trip.
Home one year after their son'sdeath, Jacob Couch, 32 years

(06:36):
old, was sitting on a bus stopbench.
I don't know why he was sittingon it.
Maybe they were riding thebuses home, I'm not sure.
Could be Was sitting on a busstop bench with his wife,
kristen, in Tucson, arizona.
I don't know what is happeningin Arizona, but they've lost
their minds out there too.
When a 25-year-old, danielMichael, confronted the pair on

(06:57):
April 5th, you can go read thestory.
They have pictures in it of thevictim and the attacker and you
can deduce for yourself what ishappening here.
Michael was allegedly carryinga hatchet through Tucson's
downtown area and began yellingat the couple.
Let's see, seeing your husbandget almost decapitated and being

(07:20):
the only one to help.
Like it's hard.
Kristen Couch said to theoutlet.
She recalled telling thestranger they were just leaving
as her husband bent down to grabtheir bags when Michael
launched his horrific attack.
So wow, and there's.
You know, the family is sayingthat he's probably not going to
make it.
They, he was in surgery.

(07:41):
He lost a lot of blood which,you know, took stuff away from
his brain.
They are his younger brothersays he's not.
They know, they just don'tthink he's going to make it
through this, even though he'safter the surgery.
But wow, so they did arrest theguy, thankfully.
But I wonder if he's going toclaim self-defense and get out,
get out of on a bail of $250,000, and people raise money for him

(08:06):
, I wonder.
Hmm, you can go finish readingall of that.
All right, next up I have oh,what is this that we have is
shooting in Dallas.
This is from the New York Post.
These kids were in thereshooting dice.
Somebody got mad and somebodygot shot One.
How did they bring a gun in?
And it does talk about it inthe article that they say the

(08:27):
school says it was not broughtin their normal entry points,
where they have, you know,security, clear backpack
policies.
You know that metal detectors,that kind of thing.
They are claiming it wasbrought in a different way.
Sure, okay, whatever, but thisis not the first time this has
happened in a school, thisparticular school.

(08:49):
Last year the same school hadanother shooting.
So I guess they're just inthere shooting dice and shooting
up, carrying back and eat nowin these high schools.
This is in Dallas, texas.
Three students were shot andnobody was killed, thankfully,
and another was grazed at aDallas high school in gunfire
that was allegedly sparked by adice game.

(09:10):
What are we doing in ourschools?
Almost one year to the day, astudent was injured in a
classroom shooting.
So this this again happenedlast year as well, maybe for a
different reason, but you can gofinish reading that if you'd
like.
Um, one 17 year old shot in theleg was among those injured,

(09:31):
while another teen was grazed asbullets flew at winter.
I'm sorry, wilmar hutchins highschool on tuesday.
That a student witness said wassparked by a dice game.
A suspect has been identifiedbut is not yet in custody.
Why police were called?
Okay, blah, blah the wounds.
The students, whose ages werebetween 15 and 18, were taken to

(09:55):
an area hospital, injuries thatranged from serious to not
life-threatening.
So the officials have not yetidentified the victims and they
said they oh, here we go.
This is what one student whowas nearby the incident claims
to know the details.
They said that they wereplaying a dice game.
This is what one student whowas nearby the incident claims

(10:15):
to know the details.
They said that they wereplaying a dice game.
I guess that's when, that'swhat it was over.
I guess he lost his money, theboy that was shooting an 11th
grader who was in a classroomwhere gunfire erupted.
The student said the metaldetectors were working and the
clear bag policy was in place onTuesday, but the shooter, whose
identity she appeared to know,did not abide by its clear

(10:37):
backpack policy, telling theoutlet that he used a brown bag.
They don't search the kids whenthey come in?
Probably not.
It's against you know theirindividual rights or whatever.
School district policeofficials claimed that the gun
did not get into the schoolduring the regular morning bag
check.

(10:57):
Sure, um, we do know that thegun did not come through during
regular intake time.
So it was not a failure of ourstaff, of our protocols or the
machinery that we have.
Dallas ISD Police Departmentassistant.
Sure, it wasn't.
Of course, cover your asses, ofcourse.
So, anyway, you can go finishreading that.

(11:20):
We need to move on to thequestion of the day.
Oh, my gosh, I went over 10minutes.
Oh, I'm sorry y'all.
Okay, question of the day.
Okay, here's a question.
Back when you were in highschool, what was the big, most
controversial thing ever thathappened?
I know?
For me we did have a couplepeople that and I went to
several different schools and itseemed like each one we did

(11:43):
have somebody die, but it wasn'tin school during school at that
time.
It was some other way, I'm notsure.
I don't remember anythingreally that happened, how they
died or anything like that, butthey were young, so I don't know
.
Car accidents probably.
Also.
I think the most controversialthing that ever happened in
school was either a fight,whatever, or somebody throwing

(12:06):
up.
That was probably middle school.
When somebody threw up, it waslike a big deal.
So that's where I come from.
All right, I got to go.
Thanks for listening.
Sorry, I went over my 10 minutemark.
All right, I'll do better nexttime.
Thanks for listening.
Love y'all, bye.