The Josh Innes Show - Charlie Kirk Statues at LSU?

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

Politicians are the worst. The governor of Louisiana wants to erect a statue of Charlie Kirk on the campus of LSU. Why? Because he's a free speech icon. I really, really hate politicians and the meaningless shit they stump for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So I really enjoy politicians because politicians are full of shit and they're the worst. But this one I really enjoy. So the governor that we've talked a lot about in Louisiana is a guy named Jeff Landry. Jeff Landry, of course, is like out in front of trying to get the coach fired or did get the coach fired at LSU. Like, he's a very powerful person, obviously. He's the governor of Louisiana, which is probably the most corrupt state in the union. So he's super powerful at this point. And if you'll recall last year, this is the same guy that brought.

in the fake tiger because LSU doesn't allow or doesn't use Mike the tiger in the stadium anymore. So then they went out and find a janky-ass tiger in Florida named Omar who was fat and just awful. And they used him, right? So that was Omar. That's what this guy's known for. I don't know a lot about him politically. I know he's a conservative guy. He's a right-wing guy because I only, look, I don't follow politics in Louisiana that much.

But I'm pretty confident that a guy that wants to bring a jank-ass truck-stop tiger into Louisiana. because he's so desperate to have a live tiger in the stadium. I'm going to guess that he's not what you would call a progressive. But he's doing something that is pretty wild. I wouldn't say it's pretty wild. It's just it makes sense. It's on brand for these people. Let me put it that way.

And people say, Josh, you only make fun of liberal people. Yes, because 99% of the time I think the shit that a lot of these people are doing, the politicians and the most outrageous of them, is totally fucking maniacal. But I also make fun of other people, too. I think what happens with me is people hear me making fun of liberal people, and they automatically, like, just because they're narrow-minded and their brains don't work too good, they hear a guy make fun of liberal people, and their first thought is, he must be mega. No, I make fun of everybody. I just find that most of what these people do to be asinine, whereas I find slightly less of what the other side does to be asinine. But that's not like an endorsement.

Does that make sense? but I will share with you what Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana, is up to in his next quest to do completely meaningless things. I'll say this about politicians, like right wing or left wing. They're all very, very good at doing shit that is window dressing and means very, very little. Stuff that is completely useless, completely obsolete, and benefits nobody. It's just window dressing in the same way that left wing people do it with, you know, putting on a desheeky and kneeling for, George Floyd, or the same way that right-wing people do it with whatever shit they do. Well, this is an example of right-wing people and whatever shit they do.

This is a fine example of that. So I will play this audio for you. I've got a 30-second video from Jeff Landry, who is the governor of Louisiana, and we will play that audio after these words. All right, here we go. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana. what do you want to do on the campus of LSU? Hey, everyone, Governor Jeff Landry here tonight,

wanting to thank the entire Turning Point family, because tonight, unbelievable, over 1,500 people came to listen to Turning Point USA. Thank you, big shout out to LSU Turning Point. And so we're here on campus next to Mike the Tiger, and we're going to put a challenge out to the LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk

to defend the freedom of speech on college campuses. Come on, ladies and gentlemen. gentlemen, let's see if we can be the first campus to do it. Yeah, good luck with that, pal. It's always good when you get these guys whose priorities are in place. And I don't want to be that guy because, look, it's very easy to sit back and go, oh, look at your priorities, your state's poor, your people are fat and unhealthy, and you're worried about, you know, paying a football coach $50 million to leave.

Well, yeah, you know what? I guarantee that the vast majority of people in Louisiana care about LSU more than they care about a lot of other shit, okay? So I'm down with the idea of spending ridiculous sums of money to get rid of a football coach because it ain't my money. And at the end of the day, I don't think that money that's being spent on Brian Kelly would have actually been used to help anybody anyway. I just think it's very easy to oversimplify things and be like, oh, why that could have been used for so many other things. Sure, it could have, but it's being used to pay off a loser football coach. I have a bigger problem with a guy being a shitty coach and getting paid $50 million to leave than LSU wanting to fire a coach and paying him $50 million because it ain't my money.

money and those rich motherfuckers that are up in the press box and up in the suites, they ain't going to pay that kind of cash to help anybody else. You think those rich boosters are out there like, hey, let's go help make the state a better place? Probably not, right? So the idea of, well, the priorities are sure in place when it comes to that shit, yes. But then when you see like political grandstanding bullshit like this, which has 4,000 likes, 1,200 retweets, 1,300 comments from the governor of Louisiana who's like, you know what we need.

We need a statue of this hardcore right-wing guy, and we need to do it under the guise if he fights for freedom of speech. And while that might be true, you should never be putting up statues of people, especially in this era. Now, there are people that have had statues erected of them that obviously were certainly people that were politically biased. Like Huey P. Long, the famous governor of Louisiana who was assassinated, Huey Pierce Long, who was murdered in the state. capital. They're still like the bullet hole and the walls and all that shit. And he was like, what was he a populist? Was that his thing? Either way. Like the other politicians hated the guy, blah, blah, blah, whatever he got assassinated. It is what it is. Well, like, there are statues of Hughie Long. There are bridges named after Huey Long. There are hospitals that are named after

Huey and Earl K. Long. Like, that's part of it. Like, politicians are going to have shit named after them. But when there's a dude from like the 30s that's having shit named after him versus dudes in the in the 2025s like you ain't going to win that fight and it's a dumb fight and it's just trying to pander to your people obviously like I get that all these right wing people have like martyed this Charlie Kirk many of whom maybe didn't even know who the fuck he was before he got assassinated but he became this symbol of everything that's wrong with the liberal people so they kind of use him as their their kind of figurehead he's this guy that like he's their martyr he's the guy they worship the altar of he's their dude right so they do all that

with him and whatever it is what it is same way the left wing people did shit with george floyd and whatever like these people like there should not be george floyd statues and fucking monuments on the wall but there are so i get that that will be the argument that people will make is oh about george floyd like it's just an eye for an eye it's tit for tat it's all these people do they're all fucking losers uh they don't care about anything all they care about is you know getting their one-upsmanship and that's how it goes and if you want to put up a statue at charlie kirk somewhere go for it I don't feel like on the campus of LSU, that's probably the place for it. I don't think that we need a Charlie Kirk statue at LSU.

I don't think that we need a statue of a guy who you can sit there and say he wasn't divisive and all that shit. You don't determine who's divisive. You don't, that's not your world. People who are divisive, it's really just determined by the opinions of people. Do I think Charlie Kirk was some shitty, awful human? Probably not. I don't know a ton about him. because I didn't follow the guy.

I don't follow his wife. I don't follow any of this because I don't fucking care. And I'm not going to pretend like I knew who this guy was before a month or so ago when he got plugged. I don't. Sad that he got shot. Doesn't seem like a guy that doesn't seem like a guy who knew there was a chance he could be shot because of his views on things. Like if you have security, like here's how I determine whether or not you're saying things that could be considered divisive. If like you have security with you and there are people that have to protect you,

You're probably saying shit that some group of people doesn't like. And that could be anybody, but Mother Teresa might have had security. I don't fucking know. But all I do know is that you're a divisive figure. Whether you want to be or not, you are. And I think deep down these people do. They like to play the role of like, I'm not divisive. You're fucking divisive.

I've been there before. I know the role. I know the role being the guy on the radio that says, I don't know why people hate me. And then you say shit that you believe it. It's true to you. But you say it and you know that there's a group of people. they're going to be pissed off by it. Like, I know what that world is like.

I've lived that life, Chief. I've been, I lived in Philadelphia, and I had viewpoints that weren't, that weren't pro-Capernaic viewpoints. You know what I'm saying? Like, I get it. I totally do. I had, I lived in Philadelphia and would have the fraternal order of police people on to talk about how Shady McCoy was doing bad shit.

You think the black listeners like when the white dudes and the cops are on there going after a black football player? Probably not. But you know that's going to piss them off. But then you play ignorant with it and you go, I don't know why. those people so angry. I'm just telling you what I think. So everybody's full of shit. But like, first of all, I had no idea that that's what Jeff Landry sounded like because I don't follow Louisiana politics anymore. I just know it's corrupt as shit because it's

never going to change. I had no idea that Jeff Landry like sounded like he'd be named Jeff Landry. Hey, everyone, Governor Jeff Landry here tonight wanting to thank the entire Turning Point family. Because tonight, I will say this. I think LSU needs a coach with that accent. We need to find another coach with that accent and I'll run through a one. wall for him. Over 1,500 people came to listen to Turning Point USA. Thank you, big shout out to LSUTURN. So we're here on campus

next to Mike the Tiger. Mike the Tiger, next to Mike the Tiger. Yeah, but these people are dumb. And then of course, the obvious reaction is going to be like people on the right wing that'll say, so we can bow down to George Floyd who died of a drug overdose.

And we can't put up anything for Charlie Kirk and liberals are getting abortion. and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah it's such a waste of time man like these it's just like i try to get and it helps me that i'm in a format where i don't have to talk about this stuff as well like it helps me out because my boss is like please avoid talking about any of this political stuff and i'll even do stuff that i don't consider political it'll be like that's too political and i'll be like okay fine so i don't have to live that life or live the life of the politics conversation which is good and that was the thing that was interesting when

I got offered, I say got offered this job when somebody reached out to me and was like whenever we got the call, I say we, I got a call like two weeks ago from someone in a very large city, a city that you guys might have enjoyed me in, and was like, hey, do you want to do political radio? And like, look, I would have done it. I would have and I would have tried to do it my way that I would have found to be the right way to do it. But there is a lot of drama involved in that that I just don't want to be a part of. It's not what I. into it's not my passion politics are not my passion now talking about human stuff is a passion and talking about social stuff to a degree is something i think i'm good at but like doing full-on

political radio i don't know how good i'd be now i think i'd be good enough i've told you everybody i've talked to who's wanted me to do political talk radio i said i could do it i'll make it work i'll do what i have to do to make it work to make it sound good i'm a radio guy i'm an entertainer but like if this is the life you have to live where you have to pander to one side or the other and be like, hey, I think we should have a Charlie Kirk statue for free speech on college campuses. Yeah, good luck with that. Good luck having a universal or unanimous sign of approval from people on that one, Chief. It'd be better off getting a Bootsie statue. Boy, now that's what you need. What you need is a Boosey statue at LSU. You give me a Boosey statue, then I think we can all come together on that because Boosey somehow has viewpoints that will fall in line with everybody else.

Like, on one hand, you'll get a Boosie who's yelling about transgenders and shit, and the right-wing people are like, yeah, go get them, Boosie. And then on the other hand, you'll get some other viewpoint from Boosie that all the liberals will agree with. There's one thing we can all come together on. It's Boosie. Anyway, more to come.