Jimmy Kimmel attended to the recurring debate over Aaron Rodgers‘ recent wildly false comments linking the late night host with Jeffrey Epstein on Monday’ s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, introducing right into a seven-minute tirade that defined the New york city Jets celebrity as a “hamster-brained man” that was “too arrogant to be ignorant.”
Kimmel entered Rodgers throughout his talk, evaluating occasions from his point of view. The clash in between both started when Rodgers, throughout a current look on ESPN’s Rub McAfee Program, stated,“There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, who are really hoping [the list] doesn’t come out. … I’ll tell you what, if that list comes out, I’ll definitely will be popping some sort of bottle.”
Adhering To Rodgers’ comments, Kimmel required to X, endangering to take Rodgers to court over the comments. When the listing of Epstein partners was ultimately disclosed, Kimmel’s name was out it. “I don’t know, Jeffrey Epstein, I’ve never met Jeffrey Epstein,” Kimmel stated on his program.
Kimmel after that continued to guess why Rodgers would certainly discuss his name and figured it was revenge for a 2023 section on his program that satirized the NFL celebrity’s propensity for conspiracy theory concepts around the COVID-19 pandemic. “The more likely scenario is, [Rodgers] doesn’t actually believe that he just said it because he’s mad at me for making fun of his top knot and his lies about being vaccinated.”
The host included,“[Rodgers] saw that and maybe… he decided to insinuate that I am a pedophile. This is how these nuts do it now. You don’t like Trump, you’re a pedophile. It’s their go-to move, and it shows you how much they actually care about pedophilia.”
Holding absolutely nothing back, Kimmel after that defined Rodgers as somebody that exemplifies the Dunning-Kruger impact, a sensation where “people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.” He proceeded, “Aaron Rodgers has a very high opinion of himself, because he had success on the football field, he believes himself to be an extraordinary being. He genuinely thinks that because God gave him the ability to throw a ball, he’s smarter than everyone else. The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him, we learned during COVID.”
“[Rodgers] knows more about science than scientists. A guy who went to community college. Then got into Cal on a football scholarship and didn’t graduate, someone who never spent a minute, studying the human body is an expert in the field of immunology,” Kimmel stated.
He proceeded, “Aaron got two A’s on his report card. They were both in the word Aaron, OK… That this hamster-brained man thinks he knows what the government is up to because he’s a quarterback, doing research on YouTube and listening to podcast.”
“Aaron Rodgers is too arrogant to know how ignorant he is,” Kimmel included. “They let him host Jeopardy! for two weeks. Now, he knows everything.”