The Josh Innes Show - Am I A Hypocrite?

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

I got a random text from an unknown, probably fake, phone number. This person who texted feels that I'm a hypocrite. Why? Well, it's because I rip people for being nostalgic about ESPN and Sports Center when I myself are nostalgic about things. Wow, what a concept. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's funny. I get these text messages, and I guess they're burner text messages, right? Because I've tried to respond to them before. And it's just kind of bounced back. So I'm guessing that these are from a burner, like a Google text or something like that. But I get them from time to time from someone who listens to the podcast and then just disappears. And I don't know who it is. But I got this text last night. I'm sitting outside and Ross is running around the yard. It's nice. The weather here has been. fantastic. It's been overcast in like 70 degrees and it's awesome. And I got this text message from somebody and let me play a few commercials and then we'll get into it. Fanduil Casino's

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Gambling problem, call 1866-531-2,600, or visit connectsonterio.com. Please play responsibly. So this person was unhappy about what I was talking about yesterday, I guess, or basically just unhappy about my existence. But it starts with Joshua, so it almost feels like I'm getting scammed by someone. Joshua, you puke talk too, man. I don't think I'm a puker, right? Like, a puker is, wow, that's like I don't view myself as a puker, but if you think

I'm a puker, fine. I don't view myself as that. I guess that goes back to the conversation yesterday about Mike Breen being a puker. And, and, like, I'm pretty much not a puker, but I guess you think I'm a puker. That's fine. You get nostalgic on this podcast all the time about shit. the time in all caps don't shit on other people's nostalgia well sir and there's more to this text but i'll jump in there sir or ma'am i can shit on whoever's nostalgia i want because if i don't

like the nostalgia and it's not a nostalgia that i dig i'll shit on it i'm gonna guess this goes back to yesterday talking about i don't know ESPN maybe or or about how sports enter with rich eisen like if you like rich eyes and congrats bro i'm sorry that i fucking hurt your feeling that I think something you like is dumb. I'm sure there are plenty of things that I like that you think are dumb or well, as well, but I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I like something if I don't.

I don't like Rich Eisen. I look back on 90 SportsCenter and see the way people talk about it with such reverence, and it was just dudes doing hacky shit. So, like, I don't know what to tell you. I look back on it. There's a lot of things I look back on from that era that I think are wonderful.

Sports Center is not really one of them. I wouldn't be saying this if you didn't do it as well. You'll get nostalgic about shit you heard on the radio and baseball game announcers and shit like that. You're 39, my guy. Stop acting like you're your dad's age. I've never seen an almost 40 dude want to pretend he's fucking 60. At what point do I pretend that I'm fucking 60? Like, I'd like to know that.

Maybe somebody can fill me in on this. Why? Because of the music I like. I talk all the time about music from the era, the era that I grew up in that I enjoy. I also happen to enjoy 80s music. I happen to enjoy a lot of shit. If you're talking about sports announcers, listen, friend, sports announcers were exponentially better outside of this era.

And the same way that you're probably stroking off Rich Eisen, whoever it is, you're stroking off, people from bygone eras, I think, are better broadcasters because I think that they were just, look, Jack Buck is the best baseball announcer that's ever walked the face of the earth. He's right up there with guys like Milo Hamilton, guys like Harry Carey, guys like Vin Scull. who I don't think is as great as everybody else does. I'm a Jack Buck guy. I think Jack Buck is the greatest baseball announcer to ever walk the face of the earth.

And the reason why Jack Buck was so good is he had that gravelly voice. And how did he have that gravelly voice? Because in the 1930s, the guy is standing up on boxes, selling newspapers and smoking cigarettes when he's fucking eight years old. And he had a great voice. Guys like that today are never going to have those great pipes and are never going to be as good. And they're going to be so concerned with social media feedback that they're never going to truly become. don't give a fuck I'm a rock star type guys like the announcers of the past so if that's one of your fallbacks is that oh you've talked better about your nostalgia and you act like you're 60 years old

all the time fine then sue me but I think there were certain errors that had better shit talk about some new music you heard instead of the shitty hairband flameouts give us some newer artists or new shit that you heard that you like I don't fucking like any of them do you want me to make up some artists that I like and if I do and if I tell you tell you the artists that I do like and shit that I do listen to, you will be like, fuck you, bro. Nobody wants to listen to that shit. You know what I like?

I like Sabrina Carpenter. There, there's some music for you. Go listen to Sabrina Carpenter. Go listen to fucking Olivia Rodriguez. Go listen to whomever. But like, I'm not new music guy. Like, do you come to me because you want me to break down? Like, hey, here's a new band that I heard today.

I don't listen to new fucking bands. I don't care about new fucking bands. Like, there are some songs that, like, I think Luke Combs. By the way, I'm sure I've talked about Luke Combs plenty on the show. Luke Combs puts on a great fucking concert, and I sobbed the entire Fathers and Son's album we put out over a year ago. I listened to it in its entirety, one listen, and sobbed in the car for like an hour. Sorry that I like fucking hair bands.

Sorry that I enjoy Motley Crew. Sorry that I enjoy those bands. Like, I'm not going to start liking something else because you need. me to come on the podcast and tell you something new to listen to. Your ramblings on about the good old days is awkward because you're not that fucking old and that's why you should not shit on people with their ESPN nostalgia because, again, you do it again. I love you, but constantly saying no one gives a shit is just a blanket statement without

elaborating. I'm fairly certain I elaborate a ton on this podcast. If I tell you that somebody and people don't give a shit about something, I'm sure I elaborate on it but it sounds like the root of this is that you're offended by me shitting on ESPN or something like I based on the context of the text that you sent you're angry that I shit on other things that other people like but not on the shit that I like whoa what a concept I prop up the things I like and shit on the things I don't whoa you've solved the mystery friend wow

No shit. You mentioned this morning, I remember hearing the announcers in my youth in the 80s. If it's such and such, retire the no one gives a shit angle because it's lazy and apparently people do give a shit. You're talking about it. You don't give a shit, sir. Be blessed. Like, I don't know what to do for you, pal. I don't have an answer for you.

I like the shit that I like. It doesn't mean that I don't like news. shit. It means that I like what I like. If liking Motley crew makes me 60 years old, if thinking that, look, here is something that is irrefutable. Baseball

broadcasters were better prior to this era. Most of these people are vanilla, and they have nothing interesting about them. The majority of them have bad pipes, and the majority of them are dudes, not the majority, that's not fair. But a lot of them are

just dudes that are, are, are, Sports Center host that they throw on TV because they're cheap. I'm sorry if that bothers you. I'm sorry if you view that as me being some old man, like the oldest 40-year-old guy ever. But if I told you I wanted to go see Olivia Rodriguez, you'd call me something. You'd say you're a fucking idiot.

That music's terrible. And you're entitled to do that because you can say whatever the fuck you want about me because it's your fucking opinion. It's like people have this issue with you issuing an opinion that isn't aligned with theirs. And it's almost like, why do you say these things? I disagree with them. There are a lot of people who did a lot of great shit before I was born and I listened to a lot of those people. This is not me blindly giving you an opinion. I would get yours if you said

something like, it sounds like you don't even know these people. You're just supporting them because you support some certain error or whatever. It's not true. I've listened to hundreds of people call games over the course of time. It was my passion for a long time. That's like saying like, oh, you like a movie, you think the movies of the 70s are better. What a dickhead. Well, maybe they are. Maybe a movie from the 80s is better. Oh, but you weren't alive for that.

No. But maybe it was better. Maybe I've watched. Look, if you want to talk about my, so that's the other thing that's funny. So you talk about things like you're an old man. You know what I talk about more than anything, probably? Obviously, like baseball announcers and announcers and shit. But I also talk about movies, right?

What are my favorite comedies ever? Movies like Super Bad, movies like Knocked Up, Things that are Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen and Vince Vaughn. Those are all movies I watched when I was a fucking teenager that came out when I was a teenager. So the idea that I don't talk about shit that was from my era is fucking stupid. I'm 39. I think most of the movies that come out now suck. I think you'd have to agree with me. They're pretty fucking boring.

I don't watch superhero movies because that's not really what I'm into. I don't rip you for watching superhero movies. I get that a bunch of people watch them. I get that they have an audience. I'm not ripping you for watching those. But I don't give a shit about those movies. They just, they don't interest me. I like 1989 Batman.

And I like that because I watched it when I was a kid. I like Batman Returns. I like Tim Burton Batman. I don't give a shit about Superman. Like every movie that comes out is a superhero movie. I don't give a shit about superheroes. Here, you want to hear something positive? This weekend I finally might go see Freakier Friday.

I love Body Switch movies. You want to hear something positive? I love Body Switch movies. I tell you guys about it all the time. There's nothing funnier than two people switching bodies and then watching the fucking hijinks happen. They're two, they're like, they're in different bodies. It's hysterical. But like, hey, you can't, don't shoot on somebody else's nostalgia.

That's what having an opinion is. Newsflash, dipshit. Having an opinion is going to offend somebody. That's the point of having an opinion. If you don't want someone to disagree with you, say nothing, be nothing, do nothing. If you want to be liked by everybody, say nothing, be nothing, do nothing. so I don't know if you're like upset that I said sports center looking back on it sucked I don't know if you're upset that you know we talked about the ratings that Rich Eisen had

it's predictable that nostalgia will lead a tune-in for a Rich Eisen's Sports Center two weeks after that if he hosts 10 episodes in a row the same number of people won't be watching people tune in for that if that's the sports center you love and you actually dug it great it's what you're fucking into I'm probably the only dude that grew up watching that shit that couldn't give two shits that Rich Eisen was on there. Now, I will say this. Like if Chris Berman or something were doing it, like I feel more of a closer tie to that or even like Craig Kilbourne. I just think Rich Eisen's a smug cockbag. There's nothing about Rich Eisen that I find interesting. There's nothing about Rich Eisen that I like. He's just a

boring smug cockbag who cashed in on like all these other guys did. They were on SportsCenter in the time that people actually watched SportsCenter. And good for him. he's got a job with the NFL network? That's good for him. I think he is just a smug-looking cockback. Really arrogant for a guy who's bald, and not even bald, but a guy who's trying to hang on to the idea of having some hair. The guy's got a shaved skullet.

He's not even man enough to go all bald. But I don't like the guy. Maybe you do. I don't know you were vague in your rambling text message. So, sorry that I don't get on and break down new music. music, and sorry that you think I act like I'm 60 years old in the way I talk about shit. And the same way that you, if I had to guess person, you're probably someone who thinks a lot of things suck now and you want them to go back to the way they used to be.

But go ahead and call me out about it. Feel free. I don't give a shit. I can take it. But it's just, like, be more specific in your criticisms. It'd be easier to debate your criticisms if you could give me a specific opinion that I gave you that bothered you so much. And don't shit on the fucking hair bands either.

Those guys lived a fucking life. You know who didn't live a life? Fucking grunge dudes of the early 90s who shot up heroin and died young because they were depressed. You know who lived a fucking life? Vince Neal. We should all aspire to live the life of Tommy Lee, Vince Neal, Ozzy Osbourne, Brett Michaels, dudes that partied like motherfuckers and got blowjobs under the stage.

Like Sammy Hagar when he was touring with Van Halen, like during Eddie Solos would go under the stage you get blowjobs allegedly from chicks and then go back up on stage and pound cake here we come that's cool to me i'm sorry that i don't think certain things like i don't think mumble rap is any good i'm not against the idea of rap but if they start putting out better rap music i'd be into it i really like rap music from the early 2000s i think it's better and i think just looking at it and listening to it is better it's more fun it's about subject matter that's more fun and less depressing than dark Anyway, again, I'm arguing something.

I don't even know what your point is. If you could, please feel free to send me more burner text messages to let me know, hey, these are the things that have pissed me off. Don't shit on my nostalgia. I will if I don't like it. That's what opinions are. It's like when people, like I'll give an opinion on Twitter sometimes and I'll get a response. Why, then why are you mentioning?

Who cares? Like, why do you feel the need to tell us this? Somebody said the other day. And I'm like, I don't know, because it's the point. into the fucking app to tell you what's on my mind to tell you what I'm thinking it's the fucking point anyway more to come