The Josh Innes Show - Cancel Culture

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

I find it weird that so many Right Wing people are now engaging in Cancel Culture. I thought they were the party of "Fuck Your Feelings" and Freedom Of Speech. As you know, I think people posting horrible things about Charlie Kirk are morons. I'm not siding with them. That said, I think it's weird when people on social media seek out these comments for the sole purpose of getting people fired from their jobs....for expressing their beliefs...as F'ed up as they are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But like policies and shit like that, I couldn't tell you a fucking thing about it. I don't care. And the world ain't going to change anyway no matter what these policies are. People are going to bitch. The genie's not, I mean, the genie is never going back in the bottle. I mean, we are just fucked. I think we had, what was that? Friday that we did that or Thursday?

Like, basically, we're all just fucked. We've talked about it. Not to be a downer, you know, I mean, like Coach O, not Coach O, Coach Prime would not have that viewpoint. And his book has been wonderful for me. And it's helped me out mentally a lot. And I appreciate Coach Prime for, you know, delivering a wonderful audio book. But the genie's never going back in the bottle. There's no reason for it to ever go back in the bottle.

No one's ever coming together. People being assassinated aren't bringing people together. There's no incentive for people to come together. It's a disaster. And it's never going to get any better. That said, let's talk about hypocrisies. We're going to do that after these words. This episode is brought to you by Square.

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They are the great anti-woke, anti-cancel culture, fuck your feelings people, right? That's what they're about. They hate cancel culture. They believe in freedom of speech. They believe in all of that. That is unless the left-wing people are doing it, apparently. Because if the left-wing people are exercising their freedom of speech, it seems to me that the right-wing people get very, very soft when that happens. Example.

So I follow this libs of TikTok on Twitter. and Libs of TikTok is basically just a gotcha account trying to get people to lose their jobs for having liberal viewpoints or liberal beliefs, right? Like, oh, look, there's a, I don't know, there's a drag show at the elementary school, fire everybody. And like, look, I don't think there should be drag shows going on in elementary schools. But I think if you're in the world to fuck your feelings, you can't be the let's rush to social media to try. to get people canceled. If you are anti-cancel culture, then I don't think your whole act should be, hey, let's cancel people. That's where I start to get annoyed by these people. And I get annoyed by the left-wing people for the same reason. Nobody actually cares about what's going

on. It's just the eye-for-and-eye thing. It's like, oh, so these people want to cancel us for our stuff? Well, we're going to cancel them. Even though it's against your core beliefs. your core beliefs as a conservative right-wing maga person is freedom of speech fuck your feelings right like i see i still see the bumper stickers and the flags trump 2020 trump 2024 fuck your feelings right but you still get all up in your feelings and care about everything and boy you sure become the cairns whenever it's liberal people saying shit you don't like and that's me defending a group of people i really don't enjoy like because i'm pretty much like i am not a right-wing person and I would never call myself a right-wing person because I am not a right-wing person. I have my own beliefs on shit. But I would say if I had to choose a group of people,

if it were the end of the world or something, and I was forced to choose a group of people to live my life with. And the two options are a group of like blue-haired wackos that believe that like, you know, gender is a choice, right? Or if it were the right-wing people, I'd probably roll with the right-wing people, depending on, you know, the group. But I probably align more with, like, At least not even my views because I have a lot of views that differ from theirs, but I just tend to like them more because it depends on the group, of course, but I think I like them a little bit more than like the blue-haired, angry, like, hey, let's just get a large number of abortions because we can people.

Like, hey, let's like go to abortions are us. That's fun. Not to say that the people who hold up signs of dead fetuses on the corner are fun people either, but I think I'd probably associate more and align more probably with the right-wing people. if I had to make a choice. It also depends on who the options are. If it's like a Michael Berry or a Jim Mud that I can hang out with for the rest of my life or like Sean Hannity, well, that's a big difference maker there, is it not?

But if it were like, hey, this group is led by Sean Hannity and this group over here is led by Keith Olberman, I'd be like, all right, I guess I have to take Sean Hannity. I guess I'd find him more tolerable. If the world was ending and I had to choose a group of people to spend eternity with, if it's like Desert Island type shit, and you have to go through all the options, the pros and cons and weigh them, I'd probably roll with the right wing people, right? That's just me. It's not that I align with them on everything, so knock it off.

But like, you get my point. Anyway, so I bring this up because this Charlie Kirk assassination thing, the story of it, has been something that the conservative watch groups and people on social media have been all over. like they're pissed off at any teams that don't honor Charlie Kirk. And I don't even think they want Charlie Kirk honored because they think he's a great person or whatever. I think they just want him honored because like, all you fuckers honor George Floyd, a criminal, but you won't honor Charlie Kirk. And it's like, I don't even think they give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just kind of give a shit about the fact that he was like a voice of conservatism.

and, like, he's not being honored by certain teams, and for the most part, most NFL teams did, which, like, I could make an argument that they didn't need to, like, in the same way that I could say there's no need to honor George Floyd at these games and put, like, end racism on the field and all that shit, right? We can all agree there. Like, that was pandering, right? I don't know that a guy who is essentially just a political talk show host is a guy that, like, hey, let's have a moment of silence. Like, yes, it was a political assassination. And yes, was bad. And I don't have anything against them for doing it. And I'm not anti-Charlie Kirk. I don't know much about the guy. You know, I've talked to people I know who listened to the

dude or whatever. I have nothing against him. I, like, I don't know what his belief. I tried to read up on some of his beliefs. I never listened. Like, I was talking to Jim and he was like, well, Charlie Kirk was kind of like the Rush Limbaugh for the younger generation. I'm like, I didn't like Rush Limbaugh for the older generation. So, like, I don't really, like, I don't really, like, it's, I wouldn't know. And I'm not saying like, I'm not demeaning the guy and saying his life was worthless or anything. What I'm saying is I never listened, right? I never heard the guy, so I have no idea what his viewpoints were. It's just not something that I would listen to. Like, I don't, you know, seek out, like, conservative talk programming on podcast. I do know,

and I did watch some of the clips of him in Bill Maher, because I like Bill Maher. And Bill Maher does his club random podcast. And Bill Maher has been really shit on by left-wing people because they view him as like a traitor because he says Trump is a. a Nazi and, you know, he's got his other viewpoints. Hell, I guess I got to see what Bill Maher had to say about this, right? He would have been on on Friday, right? Would there have been a real time with Bill Maher? Is that still going on, or is it on hiatus?

I don't know. But I would be curious to see what Bill Maher said. But, like, I just didn't know anything about this guy. But, like, the way you talk to conservative people is, like, the biggest star in the world died. And I'm like, I don't, again, not knocking the guy, nothing against him. He didn't deserve to die. it's a sad story. I have no clue who this guy was up until he got shot, right?

But you get these right-wing people, and they're like basically trying to cancel football teams for not having a moment of silence. And to which I said to Jim, like, what if Joy Behar got plugged tomorrow? Would you right-wing people be demanding that Joy Behar be recognized before games? Like, let's say Joy Behar or Whoopie, or one of the wackos from the view, is out there, and they're like stumping at a college, and some dude shoots. Whoopi Goldberg or something? Like, would you be expecting and would you be demanding that there be a moment of silence

and a moment of remembrance for Whoopi Goldberg? Me thinks not. I'm going to go out of the limb and say no. But like the ones that are interesting to me, and it's not just like the trying to cancel the celebrities or trying to cancel the football teams. It's like you get these libs of TikTok and some of these other accounts. And it's like they're seeking out people who are saying incendiary things about Charlie Kirk and then celebrating when they get them fired. And to me, that's not the way to do it.

That's not the approach. And to me, that goes, that's juxtaposed to everything you claim to believe. And I get it. Like, you sit there and have to deal with all the liberal people that try to cancel you on a daily basis that are offended by everything. I get it. But if you get in the mud with these people, then you're no better than them. That's what I say about left-wing people. Like, I have higher expectations a lot of the times for liberal, quote-unquote, people

because they're supposed to be the college-educated people and the smarter people and the more fluid people. That's why when I see people who are college-educated that are like, I'm going to let my baby choose their gender when they want to, when they want to. Like, I'm like, you're fucking morons. I think higher of people to go to college, yet you've made me think college is worthless. Thank you. You are such dipshits with your ideology that I believe that college is stupid, which is a dumb viewpoint. But, like, I believe that now because that's what we're getting out of college is dipshits who are like, oh, my daughter's my daughter, but what if she wants to be my son?

Gender is fluid. Like, fuck off. You're a moron. But when I see these right-wing people and their whole thing, like the crux of what they believe is fuck your feelings. The crux of what you believe is fuck cancel culture. all this and all you've got for me is oh look here's somebody who's teaching your kids and they're celebrating that charlie kirk is dead well i mean yeah they're fucking wackos but are you any better than them by going to their social media going to what like how are you finding these are you searching

these out i'm guessing people are submitting them to you you are being a fucking like not even a watchdog because a watchdog just kind of listens to shit and like criticize his shit you're being in a hall monitor. Like, that ain't cool. Like, how can you be fuck your feelings and be a hall monitor? It doesn't work that way. Like, you can't be like, we hate cancel culture, but let's cancel all these people because they disagree with us.

In the same breath saying, Charlie Kirk was killed for freedom of speech. And then try to silence a bunch of people because they don't give a shit that this guy died, which is their right. I'm not saying they are right. I'm saying it is their right to feel that way. It is their right to be fucking lunatics. You know, they're wackos. They have weird beliefs.

But the fact that you're seeking it out, it just shows that, like, you're not doing it because you care. You're doing it because you just want to cancel them. And that makes you know better than them. You're just looking for an eye for an eye. And, like, that's the turn off for me, you know? I'm just turned off by the idea that you're seeking this out. Yeah, I don't know. And look, look, I also think those people are stupid.

We talked about that last week. I don't understand how somebody who's got a job, particularly a job as a teacher or a job as a public servant or something that would just go to social media and be like, hey, I'm glad this guy's dead. Like, how stupid are you? But on the other hand, it's just weird to me that you just have a group of people and like their main ambition in life is trying to get people canceled. Those people used to be called liberals, leftists, alt-left people or whatever. and now you're doing the same thing. I don't know. It's like how you want.

Like you celebrated when, like none of these motherfuckers are eating at Cracker Barrow, but you sure as fuck celebrated whenever they've said, well, we're going back to old Cracker Barrel. Like, I don't know.

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