The Josh Innes Show - Again, Commenting On Social Media Is A Fruitless Endeavor

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

I made the mistake of commenting on a social media post and I got to experience the full on stupidity of people. The best part? I commented on a post about a movie. This leads to a full on breakdown of "Grease". You'll have to listen to hear the magic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And if you continue to go down the wormhole with people, you're just going to drive yourself to a point of madness. There's absolutely zero point. Arguing with people on social media, 90 something percent of whom do not give a shit if they are right or wrong. They're just there to argue. They're not going to acknowledge that they're wrong. They will always say that you are wrong. If you say something about their team, they will shit on you. They will find personal shit about you. There is absolutely zero reason to debate or argue with people about anything on social media. They have their opinions.

Their opinions are not going to change. You will just lead yourself to being batshit crazy. Like that time that I thought Jilly was going to leave me because I was in some fight with some guy called Houston Media Critic for an entire weekend. She's like, you need to fucking stop. And it's like, yeah, you're probably right. And as I've gotten older, as I'm now 38, soon to be 39, I start to recognize that there truly is no point in any of this because people are fucking stupid. The world is stupid and you want to fix them. It's funny. We would, um, there was a running joke on the show here in St.

Louis where I would talk about how I just like the celebrities that are like broken, like the fucking batshit crazy ones, like back before Amanda Bynes became like really weird looking back when she was still hot, but just batshit crazy or Britney Spears when she was hot, but batshit crazy. And I'd be like, I love them. I want to fix them. And Scott would go, Josh, you can't fix them. And that was just the goof. That was the joke. That's essentially what we're dealing with here with social media. Because there's no incentive for these people to be right or wrong.

There's no incentive for anyone on social media to acknowledge that they were wrong about something. What's in it for them? Absolutely nothing. And really, they just want the opportunity to fight with someone that they view as some sort of celebrity. So there's really no point in any of this shit. But I bring that up today because we have another tale of idiotic responses from me. I'll come up with a better name at some point.

But as you know, I don't seek out shit to comment on on social media. That's not really my thing. But I'll scroll through Instagram where I spend most of my time watching reels like a real deadbeat. I'm just, if I'm on the toilet, I'm watching reels. If I'm laying around, I'm watching reels. If I'm fucking in the car, I'm watching reels. It's just what I do. And then I send them to people. Like Jim will get like 10 reels in a row. Or Jilly will get 10 reels in a row. Or I'll send them to people like Jim will get like 10 reels in a row or Jilly will get 10 reels in a row or I'll send them to a group chat that no one gives a shit about. I'll never hear anything back from anybody, but I'll send them. But I like Instagram, but I start seeing things that are similar to stuff I do follow. Like I got a guy who

listened to our show in St. Louis who has one of these nostalgic 90s accounts, you know, like where like there'll be some picture of like the Mighty Ducks and it'll be something like, we don't know how good we had it or whatever those type of deals, right? So I follow that and then it'll show me other shit that is similar to this. And I made the mistake of commenting on one of these.

It's not even a mistake. I mean, it is a mistake because there's no point. But then you realize how serious people take shit and you're like, Jesus, we're fucked. And we knew we were fucked and we're still fucked and we are perma fucked. There's no coming back. Genie doesn't go back in the bottle. We talk about this all the time. But I will share with you a great failure on my part in an attempt to just make a joke, not even a joke, it was a real opinion, on social media, and then people take it way too serious.

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All right. So I saw a post on an account called the 80s garage. If you're ever on social media, there's like a billion of these types of accounts because they're just easy engagement farmers, basically, right? Like you scroll through your reels and shit you'll see oh the 80s garage has a picture of john candy and it says something like what i wouldn't give for one more movie like that type of shit like it's easy engagement it's easy clicks i guarantee all of these accounts have like 500 000 ish followers like it's just easy shit and to a degree it's kind of fine because it's better than it being to a degree it's kind of fine because it's better than it being some account where it's nothing but talking about politics or race or whatever right like it in theory it is a harmless thing to sit there and put up a picture of john candy and say

what's his best movie you know like that type of shit it's easy it's simple discussions it's everybody has an opinion on it but it's not an opinion that's gonna fucking rock the world oh but you'd be wrong if that's what you thought if you thought that you could just escape these things by it being you know just because it's benign shit oh no angry people and wackos even comment on these things so here's the post I commented on it's got a banner above it it says the biggest glow down the world has ever known and below are two pictures one is of Ali Sheedy throughout most of the breakfast club where she's got like the hair in her face and she's wearing all black and she's like you

know getting the the dandruff out of her hair to get the snow on the picture you know that Ali Sheedy and then the end of the movie where they make her just look all prim and proper and she's wearing some hideous dress and she's got a bow in her hair you know that type of shit and I actually agree with the concept that it is a glow down because I thought Ali Sheedy was much more attractive as the kind of like burnout-ish character in at the beginning of the movie than at the end of it it's also a fascinating thing that we used to do in movies and in some cases still do like so you mean to tell me this girl had spent her whole life or at least her whole teenage years being kind of a weirdo wearing black not giving a shit about the you know her hair because she has dandruff in her

fucking hair like like she goes from that then over the course of one afternoon she decides that she's a preppy that's going to be having a bow in her hair like what it's a weird message again i know we did a whole show about sometimes a movie is just a movie but it is weird like how we'd send this message like listen don't be kind of strange and unique. Hopefully the goal in life is to eventually get to a point where you're just like the prom queen. It's a strange message to send, and it was a consistent message of that era.

Don't go out and be weird. Transition into being normal, right? That was kind of the whole message. But anyway, so that was the the post the biggest glow down the world has ever known ali sheedy at the beginning and basically the whole the duration of the breakfast club to the very end when she starts you know hooking up with emilio estevez and she's got the bow on her hair and she styles her hair and she's dressed like like um uh Molly Ringwald so that thing's got 5,700 likes so I comment this two weeks ago I comment I'd say Sandy going from Sandra Dee to chain smoking skank was also a glow down. That's my point. It is my opinion. I feel that she was prettier and I

liked her better as Sandra Dee, singing the hopelessly devoted to you and all that shit. That's my Sandra Dee. Oh, shoot, bop, bop, shoot, bop, bop, shoot, bop, bop. That's my Sandra Dee. That's the Sandy I prefer. I did not like the Sandy at the end of the movie where she's wearing the spandex pants and the leather and she's smoking. Why is it that to get hot in a certain area, it was like, boy, gotta start smoking.

You want to see what, hot was what Sandy was at the beginning when they're at the beach, and she's like, Donnie, will I ever see you again? He's like, is this the end? And he's like, no, baby, this is just the beginning. Ba-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Like, that's the Sandy I like.

And obviously, that was the Sandy that Danny liked. Don't get me, like, if I go down a breaking down grease wormhole here, we could be here all fucking day. But Danny obviously liked Sandy the way she she was with the ponytail and the ribbons and shit he liked that that's what he was into that's why when he saw her as a cheerleader at the pep rally he's like sandy what are you doing that's because he was fucking into her that way yet somehow she was like listen i guess i gotta turn myself into a whore i gotta skank it up a little bit wear a little leather, tease my hair,

red lipstick, cigarette, tell me about it, stud. Like somehow, like, I don't know. To me, my favorite thing to think about is what happened. Like, so after they decide they're back together, I guess, right? And somehow the car starts flying into the clouds. Like, what the fuck's happening here? Like, why is the car in the clouds? Are they dead?

Like, what happened here? But they're like, what happens after, you know, the song ends? We'll always be together. And they fly off. And then, like, he's got to take her home or whatever. They go out to the movies or go get a malt at the diner. Like, what happens after that? Is he like, so is this, this like your look all the time or do you have other outfits like this is this just a one-off like what is in her closet

that's what I want to know now that she's completely changed herself to be with Danny Zuko because she thinks that's what he wants even though it's not what he wants like I wonder if he smacks her around a little bit after it's over you know whatever and he's like this isn't this this isn't the sandy i want you look like a whore you look loose go back to my sandy because you know that's the sandy the dude liked so you wonder if that's what he did but anyway i digress so i comment and say i think a glow down is when sandy went from sandra d to chain smoking skank let me read you a few of the comments i got in response to that this person says is this the official incel post now i actually had to look up what an incel is because I've heard this before. It's like one of those go-to things people say largely about white dudes, I guess. If they're critical of

anything woman-related, you're referred to as an incel. So like a dude that doesn't get laid, basically, right? You're an incel. So yes, because I preferred the movie character sandy with the high ponytail and the poodle skirts and singing hopelessly devoted to you over some chick that's gonna die a fucking emphysema i'm an incel now because i have a preference i stated a preference about which sandy i prefer so i'm an incel so let's operate in that world now i am an incel next comment balls don't know what that means this comment's my favorite though this person says i don't think we need to call her a skank that's a bit aggressive the word is quite outdated too it's a fucking movie character that's like saying let's not call freddie a pedophile let's just say that he's really into young children and killing

them like she's a skank that was the whole point of it she thought she had to whore herself up to get danny back she had to change herself. In fact, I'm the one making sense here person. But the idea that someone was so offended by me calling a, a character in a movie who skanked herself up to try to get her boyfriend back, who went totally against everything she's ever been for 17, 18 years of her life. She's worn poodle skirts and she's wearing Bobby socks and whatever. And now all of a sudden she's wearing tight leather pants. She's got a moose knuckle. She's got a fucking cigarette and teased hair and lipstick.

And all of a sudden she's like, oh, I got to get my man back. Even though the man was clearly into, by the way, let's rewind a touch here. Let us not forget that Danny and Sandy did get back together. And the reason she broke up with him again is because he tried to fuck her at the goddamn drive-in they tried to do some necking at the drive-in and then she threw the ring back at him you take this tin and she throws it back at him so the intimation is she didn't even want to be with the guy because he was apparently just DTF like right before the the Sandy song at the drive-in, stranded at the drive-in, branded a fool, right?

So the idea is that Danny didn't want, she didn't want to be with Danny because all Danny wanted to do was bang her. So then are we to believe that now that she decided she wants to be with Danny, all she wants to do is, all she wants to do is bang. Therefore, she skanked herself up to be with danny the fact that i spent

15 minutes breaking down grease and breakfast club for you in an attempt to win an argument over a person that i don't know or care about swill then green whoever you are holly green like it's an aggressive thing to call someone a skank it's a fucking movie character Hollywoodreviewer, Holly Green. It's an aggressive thing to call someone a skank. It's a fucking movie character. Let's not call characters homeless. Let's just call them unhomed. It's a movie character.

What are we doing? And if you know anything about Grease, she literally changed herself to be with a guy who wanted to be with her anyway the way she was. He was just like kind of embarrassed to do it. And where the fuck did they go once the car went into the sky? Why was nobody watching that car fly away? Like, hold on. You guys seeing this shit?

The car's fucking flying. All of a sudden it goes from Greece to fucking back to the future too. Roads where we're going. We don't need roads. Why is the car flying? But anyway, I tell you all that to tell you this, there's truly no benefit in commenting on things on the internet. It's a fruitless endeavor. And it's taken me many years to learn this because you think like it's one thing to comment on sports because if you comment on sports, you feel pretty confident that people are just going to get pissed anyway because that's what people do over sports because people have no they don't know how to handle their emotions they don't

they're mental midgets essentially right they don't know how to handle any of this shit they don't know how to debate they don't know how to have an argument they're just convinced that their team is the greatest ever and if you say anything about their team it's the fucking worst right you're just a piece of garbage right so there's really no point in fighting about sports with people because they are mental cases but you would think that you could debate with someone or even just answer a simple question about a movie and it'd be like okay but no you get called an incel and not only do you get called an incel. And not only do you get called an incel, you get someone who's offended by the use of the word skank. I wonder if, do you think Danny hit that right after, when they were flying? After they waved to each other and said bye, he starts getting super aggressive and just unzips his pants.

And he's like, you better shape up. Because I need a hand job or like do you think they went to the movies and he's like i got her now and like he pulls the old like what was the movie uh diner where uh you put the peanut through the box of popcorn she like reaches in donnie i want to have some popcorn i don't she's not british she's australian but whatever and like he she reaches in she's like oh my god he's like sandy maybe i don't know anyway more to come