The Josh Innes Show - Crappy Halftime Show

Episode Date: February 9, 2025

Ya know, the Halftime show wasn't terrible...It just didn't really fit. New Orleans should have been better represented. The issue is the NFL will never allow country artists or rock artists. So they are pretty limited. You know what else sucks? Super Bowl commercials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All righty, continuing things on the pod tonight. Ass kicking from the Eagles. The fans are all out in the streets of Philadelphia having a good time. It's a sea of green in Center City, Philadelphia. And Bourbon Street. Yeah, Bourbon Street. I bet Bourbon Street because it's much smaller. They're obviously like Broad Street.

These are major city. This is a major city street here. Whereas Bourbon Street is a very tight, confined confined area that's going to be fucking nuts there will be dead mcdougall's tonight in new orleans mcdougall is going to die of alcohol poisoning some crazy bourbon yeah it's actually not as bad as i would have thought there's actually some areas where you can actually move around i would have thought it would have been fucking terrible i feel like there's going to be a handful of mcdougall's who are going to end up in a situation like that news guy from Kansas City. Maybe they won't die, but some crazy bitches are going to take advantage of them and get back

to their hotel room and get them drugged up and take their money, if I had to guess. But here we are. Eagles have won their second Super Bowl. It's a glorious night for McDougal and people who are McDougal adjacent like us. We're McDougal adjacent. We're not actually McDougals. But here we are getting to see all the folks celebrate and have a good time. And it's lovely. Just a lovely time for them. And, you know, again, I sit here and I was telling you this in the earlier pod, but, you know, like, coulda, shoulda, woulda. That coulda been us.

We coulda been part of this. But, you know, whatever. It is what it is. You know, things happen. We got to have a nice celebration in Houston. We got to see the team win the World Series. You got to ride in the parade. I got to go stand by some hobos out in the crowd

and broadcast the parade. So, you know, we've gotten to experience things, and we've gotten to do cool shit, but nobody does sports shit like Philadelphia. And this game was really over from the jump. Like, it never felt like Kansas City was in it. Like, they just see, like, it seemed like early on, the Eagles just took their fucking nerve.

Just, like, right out of out of the shoot they had the right game plan Mahomes never seemed really engaged Kelsey never seemed really engaged the whole thing just kind of felt like like they were just never there they were never and I give Philly the credit for that I do think there's also an element of I think Kansas City kind of feels themselves I think they felt entitled I think their fan base feels entitled. They had to lose because they couldn't hate. They couldn't stand being hated. They're like, well, you have to lose so people will like us again.

Maybe so. They're not good at being the villain. But if we're being. And also, like, who is more excited than Tom Brady? Oh, Tom. Tom's got to feel great. Because if you get a three-pepeat which has never happened in the Super Bowl era if you get a three-peat from Mahomes and that would have been his what fifth fourth

Super Bowl um that's not as many as Tom he's like 26 yeah so like at that point if you've got a three-peat you've won three Super Bowls in a row you've got four four total you're not in terms of total super bowls you're not there with Tom but you're basically the goat at that point so as Tom's sitting there in the booth calling that game there's no way that Tom wanted him to win that I can't imagine he did interview before where they're like hey Patrick you're great like I know what it's like okay Tom's like Tom's sitting there right now very excited because he's still the GOAT. Now, again, three wins in a row changes things, but obviously that didn't happen. Back to Tom.

I do love the Nick Foles tweet tonight, which for those who haven't seen it, Nick Foles, who, of course, the Super Bowl winning quarterback with the Eagles in 2018, tweets, It's really cool that Tom Brady got to be there for the Eagles two Super Bowl wins he might be a good luck charm good for because Nick's a dad joke guy he's a dweeb which makes him fun so good for him but it is strong tweet and one of the better commercials

was the commercial with Brady and Foles by the way speaking of Super Bowl commercials they're fucking terrible they're just a total like none of them are good yeah everyone tries to be emotional now there's only like a select few i liked seal as a seal i thought it was a funny tweet that uh that was sent out by hugh douglas and it was something along the lines of fucking seal done went and set us back a hundred

years i also like i think my favorite, though, was the Post Malone, Shane Gillis one with the Bud Light cul-de-sac party. Yeah. That was good. Yeah, but most of the commercials, like, none of them are memorable. Halftime show, not memorable. Here's the thing. Hold on.

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so the thing is i was very concerned that my dad would post something stupid for the halftime show because obviously he got a hip-hop artist up there and my dad's a dipshit and i had to text my stepmom i'm like listen cindy make sure dad doesn't post anything fucking overly stupid did he actually post anything about the halftime show he did but it was fine i think it's good you probably he's probably good you texted cindy i'm like dad like look by the way the show wasn't it was fine for what it was but it wasn't very exciting. But you have to, I think, to really appreciate it, they give to understand the full depths of the rap beef between him and Drake. That's fine, but the average person doesn't give a fuck about your rap beat with Drake.

Just wants to be fucking entertained. I like Kendrick, but that was, I didn't think that was a Super Bowl halftime show. No, it wasn't. And the problem I had with him. It was good. It's fine in the context of being Kendrick Lamar, but the Super Bowl halftime show has to be someone that's got major mainstream appeal. If you're going to be an artist,

if you're a hip-hop or Top 40 type artist, you have to have a bunch of hits. You have to have a bunch of shit people know. Kendrick Lamar has a couple of songs that the average person may know. Most of the shit, most people aren't going to know. That's like a deep cut type of songs that the average person may know most of the shit most people aren't gonna know that's like a deep cut type of artist which doesn't make sense i'm not saying you have to go out there and put a bunch of fucking old has been rock stars on there

like all these old white dudes want like if you look at the internet it's why don't we get rock shows anymore i don't know you've used most of the big rock artists already and many of them are dead or they sound like shit like some's one of the most recent shows so Rihanna, she's got a fucking butt fuck of hits. Correct. Everybody knows Rihanna songs. The problem is the people that are bitching about that kind of stuff, like the old white dudes that are gonna

bitch, they're not gonna know the Rihanna but they're not gonna know Kendrick, they're not gonna know any top 40 songs. They're not gonna know Taylor, they're not gonna know any of those. And you who are like, you know, we know current music but like Kendrick was good I just don't I don't see the mass appeal and he's I mean he's huge I mean he's got not like us which is like the biggest song out there right now but like Rihanna has like 20 years of hits Usher had like 20 years of hits correct but the problem you're gonna run into is that unless it's some old white dudes old white

dudes won't know who they are so like that's the problem you're going to run into is that unless it's some old white dudes, old white dudes won't know who they are. So that's the problem you're going to run into. I don't bitch about it anyway, but I'm saying I personally liked Rihanna. I liked the Usher one. I liked even the Snoop Dogg. The Weeknd? The Weeknd. They all have so many songs.

Yeah, Kendrick doesn't. He had a good four or five. He does, but it doesn't make sense for the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl has to be something that has mainstream appeal part of the other problem you run into is some of the biggest living rock artists like a Paul McCartney like one of my dad's big complaints was Paul McCartney is in the stadium and he's not playing this I'm like well Paul McCartney's done the Super Bowl so of the Rolling Stones so of I think the Who has done the Superbowl, like all these old school. And the problem is if you put a rock band up like that, black folks are out.

Like again, you don't, you don't do things just because you want to make sure black people are happy or white people are happy. But if you put up the Who, you put up Paul McCartney, at that point, you're in a situation where the most vocal people on social media are going to tell you that it's fucking bullshit and it's old and nobody wants it. So no matter what, you're not going to please people with this shit. It's just not going to happen. So I don't know, man. I thought it was boring. It was fine. He's not bad. He's good. But the halftime show itself was just boring. Where they missed it, and a lot of people have been saying this, is if you in louisiana and this entire super bowl had all this louisiana flair and harry connick

jr and trombone shorty and all this great louisiana vibe i was so fucking proud of louisiana tonight man like we look great musically it's great the dome looks fucking great we do it better than anyone we are a big game city That's why final fours are in New Orleans. That's why the Super Bowl should be in New Orleans all the fucking time. We do shit right in New Orleans. But then you get the halftime show and it's like, why not have like a Lil Wayne, right? New Orleans dude. Like Lil Wayne is a dude who has mass appeal. Go to the Carter three, even before that. But the Carter three was the biggest album of 2008 and 2009 the carter three is enormous and it's got hit after hit after hit and mrs officer and

fucking uh got money and all these big fucking hits and it would bring the fucking house down i've seen lil wayne in new orleans perform i've seen him and they had like a cash money reunion at the show i went to and t-pain was there and it was fucking great. That would have made sense for that area. Let Kendrick play a Super Bowl that's somewhere else. But they didn't do that. Like it would have been a slam dunk home run. Amazing thing. It would have been a 100 percent knock it out of the park night for the city of New Orleans and the Super Bowl had the halftime show been better and if the halftime show were better it would have been someone with louisiana flair someone like a little wayne someone like a cash money someone you know like no limit fucking soldiers like like that type of shit that louisiana fucking boosie bring out boosie main and webby

get webby out there i n d e p e n d eP-E-N-D-E-N-T. Do you know what that mean, Mane? Like that kind of shit. Get Webby. Get Boosie. Get Cash Money. Get fucking No Limit Soldiers. Get those motherfuckers out there.

Get the fucking Neville brothers out there. Get Aaron Neville. I don't know much. Get all that shit going on out there. But instead, like Kendrick made zero fucking sense and that was like the one doubt well the game sucked that was a big issue tonight but the game sucked and also you know you had this kendrick halftime show that was just kind of blah like it was there there was no reason to really tune into it it wasn't really interesting it was just there if

you wanted to see him shit on drake which he did hardcore then yes it was but you know who gives a shit about that a very small number of people who are into the are tapped into like hip-hop and bullshit right like the average person and i know that we're in a weird time in society where basically like the opinions and the feelings of white people are null and void and are all considered lame as fuck. But like, like, I wouldn't be against and I know they'll never do this because they have to keep finding artists that like, basically, here's who they look for for a Super Bowl artist. Now, they need someone that the black folks can tolerate enough where they don't completely shit on it. Well, and Jay-Z is like in charge of the halftime show now, correct? Yeah, but like imagine you had like a Luke Bryan

and like a Luke Combs like Luke Combs is a fucking G. Like if you got Luke Combs up on stage it'd be a great show the problem is black folks don't know who the fuck Luke Combs is. So if you get him up there the whole internet would just tell you that this is bullshit and this guy fucking sucks and what the

fuck are we doing? And they don't want to deal with that so what they want to do is find as many urban and black artists and like like black leaning artists they can find for this because they won't be bitched about on the internet and all the people on the internet can then look at old white people and say you just don't fucking get it and that's what they want well i think you have to like get in the top 40 appeal and honestly this year like top 40 has been kind of like top 40 is fucking terrible and has been terrible for 10 years. Your big artist or Taylor Swift, she wasn't going to perform. No way.

Sabrina Carpenter has four songs. That's it. So Kendrick at least has songs. But, I mean, I don't know who else you would go with. Like, again, you could do a Luke Combs. Like, Luke is pretty big. They're not going to do country singers. I think they're dead.

You know, what's wild is if you go back to the early fucking nineties, there was a Superbowl halftime show where Travis fucking Tritt played halftime. It was like Travis Tritt and the Judds. And it's like, there's never going to be a time where the halftime show is going to be Morgan Wallen and Luke Bryan.

Like that's never going to fucking happen. So like the world's just changed so much that that's never going to fucking happen. So, like, the world's just changed so much that that's never going to be the case. But, like, shit. Like, I don't know, man. Like, I just, I feel like... I get it in their defense. Like, if you're looking for mass appeal, like, top 40 hits... You're running out

of people is the problem. Kendrick had the biggest song of the year. But the problem is you're running out of people. That's what I'm saying. Like, if you want mass appeal, top 40, not just just urban radio not just country radio not just you know you're going top 40 like top of the charts you're looking at Taylor you're looking at Kendrick and Sabrina Carpenter had four songs but Sabrina Carpenter is going to be a one album wonder so by the time next year rolls around she's done like I mean I get it do a lipa i guess but like that's the problem is like and again if you look at this what you run into now is you're gonna find yourself in

a position where you can't get anybody who is too white centric you're like that's why like acdc would be fucking awesome to play halftime right acdc ain't gonna play fucking halftime because they're a bunch of fucking 70 year old white guys and they're never gonna put 70 year old white guys on tv like those days are done that is over the stones have done it paul mccartney did it uh prince did it um uh what's his name um uh uh who am i thinking of what's his name uh timberlake did it when we went but like you're gonna get like these old white dudes though tom petty like these old white dudes they cannot do that anymore it is a different world it is like a post-trump universe where they're never gonna put white dudes up there

and for the most part like i don't think there are very many rock bands i would put up there because most of them are old or dead or they sound like shit but like I'd put Nickelback up there I want a butt rock halftime show give me fucking Hinder and Buck Cherry I want three doors down Hinder Buck Cherry let's fucking go dad rock butt rock Super Bowl halftime show make my dick hard let's go well once you know Drake sues the NFL over this Kendrick you know Lamar performance which he said he was going to if he used the pedophile line, A minor, which he did. So maybe Drake will sue the NFL. He'll get a team in Toronto and then a Super Bowl in Toronto.

And then we get Nickelback. Dude, if Nickelback, dude, fuck. If Nickelback playing halftime would fuck, but that's the bullshit about this world we're in now. It's like Nickelback. They got for playing the Thanksgiving halftime. Yeah, but my point the bullshit about this world we're in now. It's like Nickelback. They got for playing the Thanksgiving halftime. Yeah, but my point is, though, like Nickelback fucks. They're really fucking good, but you can't put these white acts in there anymore. They're afraid to put these white acts in there.

So especially like white acts that don't do like top 40 or urban type shit. Like you could put Eminem up there and they'd be like, OK, cool. It's Eminem. But like you couldn't put Nickelback or you couldn't put a band. Nickelback is the highest selling artist, the most successful artist of the 2000s. Nickelback fucks. But they're never going to put a band like Nickelback up there, which it is what it is. But there are still some white bands and rock bands that you could put up there that would work.

But they don't want to run that risk, so they have to keep digging around and finding urban-type acts that only one clientele or one demographic of people have any interest in, and then you get to deal with the white people on social media, the old folks on Facebook, bitching about how they don't get what they're listening to, which, whatever, but, like, Nickelback would fuck. Dude, can you imagine?

Hinder at the Super Bowl? Fucking lips of a goddamn angel at the super bowl like you don't know who i this is my favorite bit you don't know who's playing like they don't tell you who's actually playing the super bowl it's a mystery and like there's this big drama and there's like a big sheet up and nobody sees who it is right and you're like who's this gonna be is it gonna be like some fucking like like is elvis still alive like who the fuck's playing is it beyonce like who is playing the halftime show and then you just hear and you're like you hear honey why you calling me so late panties would drop moisture everywhere baby that's what we need make me happy and give me some

fucking hinder give me like imagine crazy bitch at the fucking super bowl get stoned at the fucking super bowl good shit like that man creed just a dad rock special creed and nickelback last fucking breath fucking burn it to the ground, fucking never gonna be alone. Like, that would fuck. There are some rock bands that could still fuck. Most of them are old. Dude, Night Ranger. Night Ranger's the best sounding old people rock.

Night Ranger at the Super Bowl? Yep. Goddamn right I want Night Ranger at the Super Bowl. I want him to get up there. Can you imagine? What if Kendrick Lamar would have just brought out Night Ranger? Dude, that would have been the greatest thing he's doing like be humble like sit down bitch be humble humble humble and then like go silent you're like what the

fuck's gonna happen and you just hear boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom but you're like there's no fucking way and then boom fucking jack blades comes out kelly keegie comes out brad gillis comes out and you hear sister christian oh the time has come and you know that you're the only one to say, okay. God, that would fuck. Or Van Hagar. Bring out Sammy Hagar to do halftime. There's only one way to rock. Fucking where eagles fly. Shit would bring the house down if the birds were in the fucking Super Bowl in that situation. But that's never going to happen. So I'm not trying to be old white guy that yells about Rock Axe, because most of these Rock Axe I think are old and suck and sound like shit. So whatever.

But that's the way the world works. We're in this weird social media 2025, we're afraid of urban radio station social media world. I think your best bet, honestly, would be, and maybe this will happen next year, Post Malone. Dude, Posty. But would Posty do like rap Posty or country Posty? All of it.

That's the thing. He could appeal to multiple genres. He could. So like half of it could be like, here's Posty doing like his urban shit. Bring up Blake Shelton, but then he could also bring out, you know, who does he collaborate with? Luke Combs. Oh, yeah. That's true.

And that would rule. But imagine, like, Luke Combs comes out and they do, like, I ain't got a guy for that and all that type of shit. And then Blake Shelton comes out. Fuck. But, like, you can't do that shit. But he could do all of that, though. He could also bring out the rap side, too.

So I think Post Malone would be a good unity. We're bringing people together with post malone he could do his rap side he could do his country side he could do everything things may fuck that may fuck i don't know what to tell you ah that'd be good on the bus station oh yeah there's people standing up on the fucking uh is that like a is that a bus stop yeah and then like they got the dude cookies boy that'd be delicious right now and they got uh the barricades up they got police with riot gear we're ready to fucking go philly is for the most part though this looks pretty subdued actually like i would have thought that like

people would be eating horse shit by now but and maybe they have we don't see every shot we're just watching action news here in philadelphia but um for the most part they seem fairly calm but that's where we are right now all right so let's get this one posted and we will continue