The Josh Innes Show - Crappy People v. Dogs

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

I'm picking up dinner and read a story about some former football player who got popped for dog fighting. I don't mean to get all sanctimonious, but I don't get how people can be so dreadful. How do we determine who is irredeemable? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey friends, what's going on? It's Josh. I'm in the car right now. Just went to pick up some dinner. And I was reading some story about some former football player who was involved in dog fighting, ran like a kennel, some dude who was like a running back, I think, in the early to mid-90s. I have no idea who this guy is. I've never heard of him or anything. But my first thought is it fascinates me that there are people that can be so shitty and do such horrible things. You know, your first thought is how can somebody be so fucking terrible as to fight dogs and have a kennel and raise these dogs to fight other dogs and you say well how can somebody be such a piece of shit and then you realize how stupid you sound when you realize that many many many people are pieces

of shit and you see that on the internet every day that people are pieces of shit so it's not shocking when there are pieces of shit that could go out and fight dogs and do this kind of like I saw a story today and I forgot where it was out of but some woman had taken this bulldog and threw the dog in like one of those giant tote type things like a storage like a plastic storage bin and threw it in a dumpster and the dog died and this woman just says I didn't give a fuck about that dog and I'm like I don't know it's wild to me not that that somebody couldn't like dogs or not want to have dogs you know like I didn't have dogs growing up really and I didn't really like dogs growing up Like, my best friend from high school on to now, found a dog when we were in our early 20s.

So it was not, it was probably 2009, 2009, 2008, not too long before I left to move to Houston. He found a dog at a park and named the dog Marley, because he's totally unoriginal. And he named the dog Marley. And that dog lived up until maybe two years ago. like that dog had a hell of a run to like 13 or 14 I think and maybe even older and had a hell of a run and I remember going to his house and I'm like I don't have your dog jump on me I don't want to deal with your dog deal with your dog's hair whatever and then I got Luther and I just fell in love with dogs like you don't care about the dog hair and you don't care about the slob and you don't care about the smell you just kind of fall in love with the idea of having these animals that are very loyal. and very awesome and then you see people and people treat them like shit and it like that is truly baffling to me it's not baffling that they're shitty people it's just baffling that you could treat a dog like shit it's baffling to me that an animal that is so loyal and so wonderful and so sweet

can be treated so poorly and mistreated and abused by people that's what fascinates me about just the whole thing right and i don't know i'm not trying to get overly sanctimonious here on you I'm not trying to, you know, be a, you know, like preachy here, but then I see stories like people fighting dogs and I'm like, like, how fucking gross of a human do you have to be? How bad of a person do you have to be? How shitty. And I don't like to point at people and say they're a bad person, like. Longbendy Twizzlers candy keeps the fun going.

Keep the fun. going Twizzlers Keep the fun going Because everybody's got their faults And everybody makes mistakes And I don't want to be a judgmental cuck That goes to the internet

And says this person's irredeemable And this person's irredeemable Because that's what assholes on the internet do And I refuse to be an asshole And I hope people that listen to this podcast Are not fucking assholes Who view everybody is irredeemable And that there's no like

There's no hierarchy or there's no elevating There's no scale There's no scale as to who can be redeemed Or there's no scale as to what's bad and what's really bad Just everything is cancelable Everything is irredeemable You know, like I think there are some people, many people Because they're judgmental fuckboys who stay on the internet all day

And just shit on people on social media Have no lives, I've never seen a pussy in their life May have a fleshlight Although I don't want to judge that because it seems kind of lovely But like the people like that That sit around and are judgmental assholes on Twitter all day and they view every person who's ever made a fucking mistake, no matter how big or small that mistake is, whether it's a Holcogen mistake or a Morgan Wallen mistake versus like, oh, I killed

somebody, or oh, I drove drunk and plowed into the back of a car and killed a woman, or I shot somebody or whatever, everybody's crimes are like on an equal level here, and nobody can be forgiven. And I don't want to be one of those kind of people, and I hope people that listen to this podcast on a daily basis are not those kind of people, because those kind of people, because those kind of are the fucking worst. So I hate to be someone who says someone is a bad person. But I think sometimes you see things that people do to certain groups, certain people, and you have to be a fucking dreadful human. Not irredeemable. Not to say, like Michael Vick did some heinous shit. But like I sit back and I'm a dog lover and I have, you know, I have Ross at home. I had Luther.

I've raised money for animal shelters before. You know, we've done some nice things for animals. and anytime I see an opportunity to, you know, get a, you know, some sort of, I don't know, some sort of, you know, fundraiser going for an animal. I will. You know, I've donated, like, I remember one time when we were in Philly, I read a story about a dog that was just left in a duffel bag to die, a little puppy. And I forgot which animal shelter it was at in the Philly area, but they named the dog Duffy. And I saw the story about it, so I drove over to the animal shelter to meet this dog.

and then I donated a couple hundred bucks to help it out. Again, that's not to taste that I'm a fucking great person. But I love animals. I love dogs. Don't particularly love cats. They're kind of dickheads, but I would never abuse a cat. I would never sit there and go, hey, we're cat fighting today. If that's a thing.

You would think that'd be a pretty vicious thing to watch when you really think about it. Like cat fighting would be like, do people have cat fights? We have dog fights. We have cock fights. Do people actually have cat fights? I don't know. Cats are so apathetic. I don't know that they'd enjoy.

fighting and I don't know what you could do to make them want to fight. But anyway, like, I do believe that people can be redeemed and people can do horrible shit, but you can look back on it and go, hey, as horrible as that was, I think you've grown from it. You've seen the error your ways you fucked up. Like Mike Vick. Like Mike Vick did some heinous shit. And to have that in your heart's pretty fucked up to be able to do that. But I think Mike Vick turned a corner in his life and genuinely isn't a shitty dude. I don't know him. He might be the biggest cocksucker on the planet. I don't know him, but I think I'm a decent judge of people, and I don't believe that Mike Vic is a piece of shit, and I think you can be redeemed.

This person, this former player that's dogfighting, can be redeemed. Like, can you be redeemed? Like, it's so weird. Maybe this is, this is kind of hypocritical, and maybe it's just because Michael Vic seems like a nice guy now. To me, and maybe it's because it's a culture thing, you look at the culture of somebody who dog fights and raises dogs to dogfight them. You go, okay, I think after getting out of that, you can be redeemed. But, like, these dudes electrocuted fucking dogs, and that's pretty fucking heinous. Yet I can still find myself looking at Mike Vick and going,

I think you've redeemed yourself and I think you're a decent dude. You made a giant fucking mistake. But, like, what mistake should people make to never have a chance to come back from them? You know, like, as I get older, I become, like, more of that mindset. Like, and maybe it's because social media reveals so many shitty people and so many shitty people that think they're better than everybody and so many sanctimonious fuckboys on Twitter who don't forgive people and view you as irredeemable

that maybe that just changes my mindset to believing that more people are redeemable. But like I see a story about someone who, you know, like to me I guess fighting dogs while it's horrible and I don't condone it and I think it's gross to fucking do it and I can see why he'd be thrown in fucking jail for it. It doesn't feel the same to me

is someone who throws a dog in a plastic tote and throws that tote in a dumpster and lets that dog die. To be able to take a dog and do... Just like, just cold-blooded fucking kill a dog like that. Just that kind of feels irredeemable to me. But some other ones aren't. And maybe I'm a hypocrite.

And maybe we're all fucking hypocrites. Like, that's the thing, man. Like, maybe we're all just hypocrites. Maybe we're all full of shit in some way. Maybe we're all broken in some way. And, like, we don't know. Like, that's the thing. so many people speak so definitively about everything, like they have all the answers,

like they know everything, like this is right, this is wrong, this is good, this is bad. And so many people say this shit, I truly believe that all of us find ourselves in this kind of like quagmire, just like I talk about with politics, how we're all kind of like in the middle and, you know, we lean this way in certain things and this way and other things. I think we just have people who, like, I just think we're all kind of in the middle and we all are kind of floating there and everybody that's got these definitive hardcore fucking opinions on things like people don't know like you don't know until you're in the situation you don't know what you're going to do it's easy to sit there and say that something's

terrible it's easy to sit there and say this person's irredeemable it's easy to say that oh i can't believe that this person defended this person but until you're in it until you experience it until you look at separate occasions and kind of break them down on your own you don't fucking know and i know i'm all over the place here but just I don't know. I saw the story about the dog fighting. I think, you know, doing shit to animals is so fucking disgusting and so fucking heinous. And I don't understand how people can do it. Like, like, that is something that I can't register with. If I pull my dog too hard on the harness, I'm afraid that I'm going to fucking hell. And then I convince myself, I should have my dog take it away sometimes. Like, I'll be walking my dog and he won't walk. And I'll go, damn it, Ross. And I'll pull him kind of hard.

And I'm like, shit, did somebody see me on a ring doorbell cam? Am I going to fucking jail? I know I'm all over the place here. These are the random things I think. My mind is broken. These are the things I think when I'm in the car. But also, do me a favor. If you haven't started following the radio show podcast yet, search for the Josh Ennis show.

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