Kanye West claims the entire hip-hop community, the media, and liberals tried to bully him into silence -here is how he fought back.
Kanye discusses love and fear as the world's main motivating forces, noting he still loves his imprisoned cousin despite his actions.
He explains that people around him in Hollywood tried to choose his political candidate, and voicing support for Trump brought warnings that his career would end and he would be ousted from the Black community.
After regaining his confidence post-hospitalization, Kanye explains that wearing the hat represented overcoming fear and refusing to be bullied by liberals, the media, or the hip-hop community in order to remain true to himself as "Ye." Jimmy Kimmel notes that Kanye's wife was upset about his stance, to which Kanye replies that he wants to voice uncommon thoughts, comparing his situation to Galileo facing backlash for revolutionary ideas.
The Anatomy of a Sports Scandal Documentary: Analyzing how streaming platforms like Netflix shape public memory and turn convicted figures into unreliable narrators of real-life crimes.
Bill Simmons: "...that uh, Our guest Sean Patrick Griffin was on that I thought missed a lot of stuff... And then this Netflix doc happened... It's about Donaghy... My fear... is that Donaghy's attempt to spin his version of the events from 2003 to 2007 are now becoming the mainstream narrative...
Fortunately, we have Sean Patrick Griffin... [who] wrote a book called Game in the Game in 2011... Were you more horrified by the Netflix doc than I was, or the same?"
Sean Patrick Griffin: "No, I was more, and I'll tell you why though, Bill. I think these things are awful because... it's presented as the story of the NBA betting Scandal... [They] literally had access to all the key parties... and they selectively edited the interviews to craft Donaghy's narrative."
Bill Simmons: "It's not. We have actual evidence."
Sean Patrick Griffin: "Yes, yes, people are pretending that we're in the fog of war back in 2007 and that's not it at all."
The entire higher education system exists not to benefit students, but to sustain massive payrolls of administrators, the institutions, a lot of dumb people, and professors, most of whom are totally evil.
Dave Ramsey tells Tucker Carlson that student loans have duped generations into deep debt, though he acknowledges young adults sign up for them willingly, sharing that his own loan 40-plus years ago was $3,522.
Ramsey laments that society now expects everyone to take on massive debt rather than attending affordable local colleges.
Carlson counters that universities are the true beneficiaries, sustaining bloated administrative and faculty payrolls without any skin in the game. Ramsey agrees, expressing frustration as a taxpayer over politicians expecting the public to fund student loan forgiveness, while Carlson questions the tax-exempt status of massive college endowments.
Ramsey notes that his own degree-related debt had a poor return on investment, reflecting on how cultural expectations around higher education have radically shifted over the decades.
Carlson points out that the entire system functions primarily to enrich colleges rather than students. Ramsey adds that he resents being forced to pay for other people's loan forgiveness through taxes. Carlson concludes by highlighting the immense wealth held by university endowments like Duke University.
Can you fight for the Black community while married to a white woman? This heated debate exposes a major division on race and loyalty.
"...put any Black man who is with a woman who is not an African herself is going to have a difficult time getting respect from me. I believe Black men need to be with Black women. The Black family is under attack... If we want to save Black people, we have to save the Black family, and in order to do that, Black men have to commit themselves to Black women."
"So you're saying... President Barack Obama didn't get your respect because his dad... married a white woman? What about... Harry Belafonte...?"
"Not at all. As Pan-Afrikanists, the product of an interracial union is an African... You don't blame a child for how they got here. But... Harry Belafonte has a white wife. No respect for him?"
"So Harry Belafonte... Sydney Poitier, Julian Bond, Vernon Jordan... and you're naming all them to say what?"
"These are all African-American men who have married white women... and you said... any Black man who marries a white woman will not get your respect."
"I don't care who you name. I don't care how much work you did for Black people. Your greatest commitment to Black people is being committed to a Black woman. It is still a contradiction... at the end of the day, you didn't think enough about your own people to marry a woman who looks like you."
Nah, I still look at Pornhub and watch my favorite black porn videos: When Kanye West completely derailed a late-night interview with brutal honesty.
Jimmy: Do you feel like your attitude towards women has changed since having daughters?
Kanye: Nah, I still look at Pornhub
(laughter)
Jimmy: What kind of stuff do you look at? What categories?
(cheers and applause)
Kanye: Blacked is my favorite category.
Kanye: Uh you don't have to go into that
Jimmy: Black is my favorite category. I mean, you can if you want.
Kanye: I mean, what's the point of being Kanye West if you can't. Let's break down the porn categories.
Jimmy: I mean, you can if you want.
Kanye: Hey, I mean, what's the point of being Kanye West if you
Jimmy: Yeah, let's have it.
Kanye: A lot of black on white, obviously.
Jimmy: Oh, yeah.
Jimmy: It's mirroring your own self, your own situation.
Kanye: My own reality.
Jimmy: Yeah, right. It's like doubly masturbating in a way, if you think about it. How do you do that?
Kanye: I need that double
Jimmy: I'll show you after the show.
Kanye: No, I don't want to see it!
(laughter)
Is Kanye West right that being bipolar is actually the secret engine behind true creative brilliance?
Jimmy: I feel like you avoided this album title, "I hate being Bi-Polar. It's awesome." I have a theory that being bipolar is part of what makes you brilliant and that you embrace it. Is that correct?
Kanye: It's not an opposite; it drives how you really feel. It's important to have open conversations about mental health, especially in the Black community where we historically didn't use therapists or medication. When I had my first blackout at age 5, my mom didn't fully medicate me, and I might have never been 'Ye'. For this interview, I stayed calm, but when I went to TMZ, I was amped up, which leads to unfiltered comments.
Jimmy: You have highs and lows. When you have a high, you're on a roll.
Kanye: There are cases of bipolar where people go low, but I'm one who goes high.
Jimmy: So you don't have extreme periods of depression?
Kanye: Oh, no. Because I just say it on real TV like thinking about killing myself and then the thought is gone.
Jimmy: So all people need to do is get on TV?
Kanye: They need to be able to express themselves without fear of judgment. At 41, I don't know anyone who is as successful and went through as much as I have, and I want to prove you can do all that and still be President of the United States.
Ever wonder how a massive global hit almost got ruined by a terrible verse? Billie Eilish and Finneas expose the raw, unvarnished truth behind writing What Was I Made For?
Billie Eilish explains that because she and Finneas are siblings, they can have intense arguments or blow up at each other much less than they did as children without it being as damaging as an argument with a friend or partner. Because they are siblings, they know they love each other and cannot break up or separate permanently.
Jimmy Kimmel jokes that there is a hierarchy in the room, placing himself at the very top, which leads to humorous banter between Jimmy, Finneas, and Billie about names and recognition.
Finneas explains that when they passionately disagree musically, they make their arguments until one person eventually concedes or "dies on the hill," and the other person lets go.
Finneas shares an example involving their song "What Was I Made For?", where there was a terrible verse that they both initially worked on, but Billie was the first to realize how bad it was and suggested cutting it.
Imagine broadcasting a rival's private cell phone number to millions of live viewers during a major speech only for it to launch one of the most unexpected political friendships in modern history.
President Trump says as he paid last respects to his friend Sen. Lindsey Graham
He was a force of nature, and I will miss him greatly.
As you remember, Lindsey and I did not exactly get off to the best of starts. Running against each other back in 2016, Lindsey said something rather nasty on his flight to becoming the next president of the United States.
So, naturally, I did something that I shouldn't have done. I shared his personal cell phone number with the millions of people that happened to be watching that particular day as I made a speech, a very important speech. I remember the number 202-228-0292 if anybody wants to give it a shot.
His phone exploded. He said, "I had that number for 20 years." His phone totally, I don't know what he did with it, but it exploded. That was the beginning of a friendship in a way. But it was Lindsey who had the last laugh because while I blew up his phone all for one day, we became great friends, and Lindsey did not stop calling me for the next 10 years.
Is a civil war in Britain really inevitable, or is mainstream media completely blind to reality?
Why does Elon Musk believe Britain is heading straight toward a massive cultural reckoning?
Zanny Minton Beddoes : Well, you say civil war in Britain is inevitable.
Elon Musk: Yes, if current trends continue, it is.
Zanny Minton Beddoes: Why?
Elon Musk: Well, if you have a large and growing, rapidly growing group of people whose beliefs are antithetical to western beliefs, at some point there will be a reckoning, that they will try to implement their views and those who oppose it will oppose it and that's what you call civil war. And obviously this is the trend. And you absolutely do live in a cloistered existence. And if you'd like we can go on a tour of Britain.
Zanny Minton Beddoes: Sure. I'd be very happy to go on a tour.
'Zero died': Elon Musk and The Economist clash over whether rapid government budget cuts lead to unnecessary deaths.
Zanny Minton Beddoes: I have no doubt that there's a lot of waste in the US government probably much worse than anyone could possibly imagine. But the way you shut down a whole bunch of programs certainly caused unnecessary suffering.
Elon Musk: No. No. No. It caused a lot of complaining.
(Interlude)
Zanny Minton Beddoes: So you don't buy the idea that any kid in Africa died because of the suddenness with which...
Elon Musk: Zero? I just don't think that's right. How many NGOs are there that could step in? There are literally tens of thousands of NGOs.
Zanny Minton Beddoes: Not everyone functions as fast as you do. If funding for antiretrovirals is cut off overnight and just stops, people will die when they don't have access to them.
Elon Musk: Only if they cannot get funding for that. But the Gates Foundation has $50 billion. What about any one of a number of organizations? What about MacKenzie whatever her last name is, used to be Bezos gave $50 billion. What about that?
The Economist: In many of these countries, USAID was the biggest funder.
Elon Musk: USAID was a political organization.
The Economist: It may also have been that, but it was the biggest funder of healthcare systems. Also, USAID funding was not stopped; it was moved to the State Department.
Elon Musk: It was stopped. There were huge numbers of things shut down in Africa that were health-related. These claims are false. They're nonsense and absolute nonsense. When funding is stopped for fraudulent organizations, do you think they're going to say, "Please keep funding the fraud," or do you think they're going to come up with a sad story that sounds sympathetic in order to get the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. And that's exactly what they did. But zero died because of DOGE.
Zanny Minton Beddoes: Well, that's what I would take issue with.
Even if I get kicked out of the sport or lose the lawsuit, I'm going to wake people u. - Michael Jordan reflects on his lawsuit with NASCAR.
Michael Jordan: Yes. 100%. When I got into the sport, I learned it was not set up for long-term success for the individuals involved, though people up top made a good living. In the NBA, I always wanted to share in the gratitude of success, but NASCAR felt lopsided where the people putting on the show weren't getting...
Gayle King: Compensated fairly.
Michael Jordan: Compensated fairly. I didn't have a say initially until I understood how things operated. Even if I get kicked out or lose the lawsuit, I'm going to wake people up because what they're doing is wrong. I've been a NASCAR fan and supporter for a long time, but now that I'm in it, I see how lopsided and wrong it was. Michael Jordan took the stand.
Accidentally doing the wrong research taught me the ultimate interviewing secret: stop leading, start following, and throw out your prep sheet entirely.
During an appearance on Jimmy Fallon's talk show, Steven Bartlett shared a hilarious story about accidentally studying for the wrong interview. Having spent five hours reviewing extensive research, reading files, and watching videos for an evening guest, Steven Bartlett walked into the studio only to realize they had no idea who was sitting in front of them for the current interview.
When the producer signaled that they were ready to start, Steven Bartlett had to discreetly ask the individual how to spell their name, hoping for a complex answer like Anastasia or Malika. Instead, Steven Bartlett learned the person's name was simply the letter K, known professionally as Dr. K. Left with no choice, Steven Bartlett opened the interview by asking K to explain who they were and what they did for the viewers at home.
According to Steven Bartlett, K provided an amazing answer, turning the discussion into one of the most popular and downloaded conversations in the show's history. Reflecting on the experience, Steven Bartlett concluded that being a good interviewer is less about leading and more about following, learning that truly listening allows people to guide the conversation naturally.
Jimmy Fallon assumes Benny Blanco was the one who proposed, but Selena Gomez immediately flips the script and reveals she was the one who actually asked.
Jimmy Fallon asks Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco what it was like on the day of their proposal, assuming Benny was the one who proposed. Selena corrects him, stating that she was the one who proposed. When Jimmy asks if she knew it was coming, Selena explains that she had no idea because they had a lot of album promo scheduled. She woke up tired, confused about where they were going since it seemed far away, and was feeling a little grumpy. She told Benny she was going to hang out with her friends after the shoot, to which he awkwardly responded that they would see when she got there.
While Benny admits he was panicking because he hates lying to her. Benny reveals he hid the ring in a box inside a bag, making it the scariest week of his life. Selena adds that she completely freaked out and forgot everything the moment it happened.
The moment Tilda Swinton and Pedro Pascal admitted they were too intimidated to approach Angelina Jolie… while she sat there alone hoping someone would talk to her.
Lacey Rose: I wanted to share something you had said in an interview which was interesting it's good it's good you were talking about um your friendship with Pedro and how you had met you said you met at a Hollywood party where you bonded over feeling like outsiders and you said you were quote both shy and tickled pink and pinching ourselves but not confident enough to step in and talk to say Angelina Jolie.
Tilda Swinton: She was there! She was one it was a South Park moment and we had Liza Minnelli over here and we had, you know, Sasha Baron Cohen over there and Angie was there and both Pedro and I were like scorched with the glamour of it. We just couldn't believe that we were present and I was probably 'cause I never go out, really, alone and not sure anybody wanted to talk to me and probably would have... I would have been so happy had they said hello.
Angelina Jolie: This is the truth of human animals.
Tilda Swinton: We're all shy, right?
Angelina Jolie: Yes.
Tilda Swinton: And I guess this is why we're here.
Lacey Rose: I mean, how lovely to see you all connect like this, um thank you so much
Warren Buffett calls America's achievements an 'absolute miracle' yet points to a glaring contradiction in how its wealth is being distributed.
Where else does that happen in the world? I mean where people you know, that America's special. And it's a miracle, what America's accomplished. I mean, it's just an absolute miracle. And yet the miracle the division of the output and everything is about as inequitable as it you could come up with, while at the same time it's got these great attractions. There is some secret sauce. I've never been able to define it precisely, but when you run a country for 200 and some years and people want to come here every year. I mean there be something about it.
Warren Buffett compares the modern stock market to a church with a casino attached and explains why the casino side is winning over more people than ever.
Becky Quick: Just looking at the macro stock market environment. What does this feel like to you? Is it feel expensive? Does it feel like there are opportunities in some places?
Warren Buffett: Well, it feels like, you know, I've compared the market to a one church with a casino attached. And people can move between the church and casino and I would say there are more people in the church and more people in the casino.
But the casino's gotten very attractive to people. If you're buying one-day options or selling them, I mean, that is uh that's not investing, it's not speculating, it's gambling. I mean, just totally. There's nobody that can explain why they're buying an option for one day unless, maybe they follow that that uh you know, made the $400,000 from knowing when we were going into Berkshire Hathaway and doing it. But I mean, that's pretty and the quantity of those things is just incredible. So, we've never had people in a more gambling mood than now."
Tom Holland reveals the hilarious acting improvisation required when kids ask to see his real webs.
Interviewer: carries this role and the responsibility outside of the movies. Is there a specific moment that you can both think of where you could really see the impact it has on a child to meet you as their Spider-Man?
Tom Holland: Many times. We've had countless experiences with young kids. It really means a lot to kids, especially when they don't... know that you're not... that it's not real. Yeah. That is when it's really special. But then you have to be quite quick-witted to come up with excuses as to why you can't...
Zendaya: 'Cause the webs don't work in real life.
Tom Holland: just be a 100 ft in the air or you know, like I've visited kids before and they've asked me to show them the webs and you're like, "Oh, I ran out of webs. I got to swing over here. I got to go back to the workshop and get some more." Um, and I really love that. It actually becomes like quite a fun acting exercise. Um, but seeing how it affects kids and how excited they get is one of the best parts about playing this character.
Interviewer: This one you can answer about each other...
Even after mastering the American accent, Tom Holland admits he still struggles to say his own character's name correctly.
Interviewer: You have mastered the American accent, but I heard on a podcast that you had some difficulties with the word "Spider-Man".
Tom Holland: Yes, still to this day. I still find that if I don't think about it, I want to say "Spider-Man". Like, I don't know why that feels more comfortable to me.
"Spider-Man", "Spider-Man". But I have to really focus and say "Spider-Man".
Tom Holland: And almost the way I get around it is just imagine I'm saying it in fast-forward. "Spider-Man".
Zendaya: "Spider-Man", "Spider-Man". Just get it out.
Don't think about it too much, just-
Tom Holland: The minute I relax, it becomes "Spider-Man".