The Josh Innes Show - Jamie Lee Curtis Gets Death Threats Over Charlie Kirk

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

I really despise everything about the Charlie Kirk story. That said, Jamie Lee Curtis cried about it and now people hate her. Now, she has to apologize for being sad this man got plugged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, let's see here. Here's a headline that really turned you on, right? Here's the headline. Where'd it go? I lost it. Where'd my headline go? There we are. Headline reads,

Jamie Lee Curtis addresses threatening backlash after crying over Charlie Kirk's death. What a world we live in. What a world where people are having to address getting threats because they cried that some guy got shot in cold blood for all the world to see. people are fucked up all right let's play a couple commercials and let's see how Jamie Lee Curtis handles this because a lot of what I'll believe and think about Jamie Lee Curtis will be determined by how she handles this not that she gives a fuck or we'll ever know but we'll talk about that after these words all right here we go here's the

situation I don't know I don't recall I mean I've seen the video I'd forgotten it happened. Jamie Lee Curtis was very sad and was crying over the death of Charlie Kirk. Again, this Charlie Kirk who's been turned into a martyr by these right-wing people, like, look, it's sad. The guy got shot. It was awful to watch someone in real time get plugged on a college campus. If this were a guy who believed in something different politically, the fucking Crosby stills Nash and Young would have written a goddamn song about it, okay? But because the guy's a right-wing guy and he's viewed as some sort of bigot or whatever, this guy getting shot didn't mean a lot to a lot of people it really just meant that

hey another asshole racist is dead people celebrated it people are super fucked up we know people are super fucked up but let's read the story oh i love this jamie lee curtis is clarifying her reaction to the killing of charlie kirk i got to clarify i'm sorry that i was sad that this guy got shot because it's a sad statement of where we are as a people i'm sorry that i didn't celebrate that some guy that had differing viewpoints from you and i got shot i'm so sorry for being a piece of shit. That's what Jamie Lee Curtis should say. She should say, hey, I got two words for you.

Fucking suck it. That's what Jamie Lee Curtis should say. And I think she can because was it an urban legend that Jamie Lee Curtis had both parts or was that true? Jilly actually asked me that last night because we were watching Halloween 2. And it's not a very good movie, but it's got a very memorable kill

in it where the chick gets her face melted off in the jacuzzi at the hospital. But other than that, it wasn't much. But anyway, So I forgot if she had both parts or not. It doesn't matter. But anyway, she could, in theory, have said suck it if that were true. So she should have said, she could have said, eat me or suck it.

Hey, those are the, hey, you have both parts? Guess what? You have that luxury. That's not a ton of great advantage to it. But one of the advantages is you can say suck it or you can say eat me and both would actually apply. But anyway, doesn't matter. Jamie Lee Curtis clarifying her reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk.

The Freakier Friday star, 66, told Variety she received three. threatening backlash after she appeared on a podcast in September and cried over the conservative activist death. Quote, an excerpt of a mistranslate, sorry, let me try this again. An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well, like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn't. I was simply talking about his faith in God. She added, in the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time.

I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel's right to exist, and in the same time, reject the destruction of Gaza. You can't say that because you get vilified for having a mind that says, I can hold both of those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way. Well, you're absolutely right, Jamie Lee Curtis. I agree. Curtis appeared on the September 15th episode of the What the Fuck with Mark Maren podcast, days after Kirk, the co-founder of the conservative organization, Turning Point USA, and an ally of President Donald Trump was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University. The Halloween actors became emotional on the podcast as she discussed Kirk's death while noting she and him were not politically aligned.

I disagree with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe that he was a man of faith, and I hope that in the moment when he died, he felt connected to his faith, even though his ideas were abhorrent to me. And she's crying about that and all that stuff. and that's all well and good. But I still believe he's a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it. Curtis brought up Kirk on the podcast as she raised concerns about the psychological impact of social media users being inundated with disturbing images,

such as video that was taken during Kirk's shooting and quickly spread online. Comparing this footage to September 11th terrorist attacks, Curtis noted, I don't ever want to see video of Kirk's death. So apparently she got a bunch of threats. So people are crazy and psycho and she got a bunch of threats. And now she has to clarify this because people are children and people are mindless and people are dumb. It's a shame that people have to clarify these things. People should be allowed to have their thoughts, which they are.

People are allowed to have their thoughts. And you would say, well, people are allowed to react to those thoughts. Yes, but here's what I've learned about the people that react to those thoughts. The people that react to those thoughts tend to be psychos who are irrational and want to fight everybody and are pissed off and angry and mad and all that. That's what we're dealing with with these people. Okay, cool. The problem I run into, which is an obvious problem, is that people are lunatics. And the fact that you have to clarify these things and all this, like if you want to be sad that some guy got shot and it was pretty fucking heinous, there's nothing wrong with that.

because this guy wasn't a terrorist. This guy didn't blow up any buildings. I didn't give a shit about what he had to say. He's not some hero to me. He's not someone that I idolized. I didn't even know who the guy was when he got shot. And I think I speak for the vast majority of the country. When I say, I have no idea who this guy was when he got shot.

Doesn't mean that I'm trying to insult him. Does it mean that I think he was terrible or whatever? I don't know. I'm not going to say I didn't care that he got shot because you watch the video. How can you not care? It's fucked up. It's a snuff film. It's awful.

But what I will say is that I knew nothing about this guy and he meant nothing to me as a person prior to that. Like there was no impact for me because anything, obviously nothing this guy said impacted my life because I didn't pay attention to anything he said because I didn't know who he was or care who he was. But the fact that people do this and they want to fight you and they want to kill you and they want to hurt you and they want to threaten you over this kind of stuff is wild. and it's never going to change. It will not change. I know. I'm the most uplifting guy in the world, aren't I? It will not change.

Nothing about this will change because there's too much power in social media. There's too much currency and the likes. There is no reason for people to be different. There's no reason for people to get better as people and fight less as people and threaten less as people. It will not happen. This world will continue to be this way. so I don't know how it changes I don't know what you do that's different

I don't I don't know how do you fix it like Meltzer always asked me that right Meltzer and I'll text Melzer's funny to text with though because he'll text you something and it's usually like one sentence like let's say there was a big story like let's just say that this Jamie Lee Curtis story were huge and it was everywhere

he'd tweet Jamie Lee Curtis actually here's an example and he didn't do this but I wouldn't be shocked if he did I get a text from Meltzer that just says Jeff Landry right and then I would I would rattle off like eight tweets or messages in a row just eight texts

in a row bang bang bang bang bang with my thoughts because that's how I text like I'll text one thing then a new thought will come to me and I'll rattle off like eight in a row it's probably obnoxious and then Meltzer's one reaction to it would be fair or I see and then like he'll disappear for three days that's how Meltzer texts right

and then he'll just jump back into the conversation but Meltzer a lot of the times will ask me so like so he'll say what are your thoughts on Jeff Landry or whatever. Or in this case, let's say it's Jamie Lee Curtis. And it'll go, I'll rattle off some thoughts about how the world's never going to change, whatever. And I'll say, how do we fix it? And I say, Meltzer, we don't.

It is broken beyond repair. It cannot be fixed. So, and I tell him that all the time. And I'd like to give you a more uplifting viewpoint on these things. I'd like to tell you that, oh, sure, the pendulum will swing back. It won't. The pendulum always swung back because there was no social media. there was no currency in social media.

There was no power in something like that. Now there's too much power in that. It will never swing back. The pendulum will never, under any circumstance, swing back. It is over. Thank you.