The Josh Innes Show - D-Day Anniversary...Real Heroes

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

Today is the Anniversary of D-Day. This was day that real heroes fought for a real cause. It annoys me when I see people of this era bitching about the things these people bitch about. At some point we really need a politician to run on the platform of telling people to "Get Over It". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I've ever witnessed on film. It just, an incredible shot and scene and everything about it was intense. Remember going to see that with my aunt and she was like sobbing during this scene. I'm like, holy shit, this shit's intense, you know, but like just imagine being those people, you know, as today is D-Day June 6th, 1994, the Allied troops, Normandy. France, and like just think that there were people that showed up there and instantly died. Like door opens, pop, pop,

pop, dead. And like I don't know how accurate some of these shots were in the movie and saving Private Ryan, but there's dudes carrying around their own arms and shit and it's like, whoa. And then you look at where we are today and where people are today and where the youth are today. Like I look, I know I couldn't have done that. Like I'm a 38 year old man and every time I hear people talk about being drafted, going to war, fighting for the country, all that shit, I would be someone that would have died in five minutes in any war.

I would have died in Vietnam. I wouldn't, it doesn't matter what the war would have been. I'm the kind of guy that wasn't going to fucking make it. They were going to plug my ass in five minutes. You would have basically been sending me over there to die is what would have been the case. But imagine having that level of pride for country like 1944. Think of the number of people that were professional athletes,

baseball players, whatever that were in the prime of their lives Their prime of their sports careers athletes that weren't making a ton of money Anyway, his dudes weren't making a ton of money to play sports in 1944 Now you watch dudes like guys like Juan Soto or making more per at bat in their careers in a season Then you know Stan Musial made this tire for entire career like it's wild but you know guys went over there and we're just like fuck it we're doing this for the country because this is what we were supposed to do. Now you could argue that you know even 20 30 years down the road people kind of learn that you didn't have to do that like you had a choice really even though you didn't but like you like you could have at least debated it a little bit more like people started debating that like Vietnam more and then it became more of a debate as people went on in terms of fighting wars and everything. But imagine being 1944 Stan Musial being Ted Williams being whoever it is and like by the way I'm having a great season whatever and well look it turns out I gotta go because we're going to fight in a war and like LeBron would never fight in a war like and that's not to rip LeBron

but that's just the biggest name you could think of like who's the biggest name in baseball right now like Aaron Judge no matter there would never be a scenario where Aaron Judge would have to pick up a gun and stand to post like it would just never happen that way. But like it happened in the 1940s. Like think about the absurdity of that. We will never see an instance like Aaron Rogers likes to talk a fuck ton of shit and Aaron Rogers likes to talk about conspiracy theories and Aaron Rogers is very anti

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that expire in 14 days limited time offer terms at pick six draft kings.com promos. Like it used to be a situation where it was a no doubt slam dunk, no brainer that if you went over you were going to go fight because you love the country so much. Now, there's so much hate for the country. I wouldn't be like if there were a war, we would probably just have a bunch of people from America that would go fight for the other people because they hate America so much. It's it's bonkers to think about the

whole thing really just like how let me look this up really quick. Like which athletes fought in wars. Like it is nuts. Which athletes fought, not athletes foot, in war. Well, didn't necessarily fight in wars, but we're in, you know, military, whatever. Let's see. Many famous athletes have served in the military. Jackie Robinson, Pat Tillman, Ted Williams, different guys like that, but like it's crazy. Like, and now it's like, now it's almost like you're not supposed to be proud of America. Like,

you're embarrassed of America and all these people talk about how they want to live in different countries and how like oh, I want to like and then they don't realize because most of them are uneducated dipshits that are in the era of social media and they have no idea how other countries were formed. Like here in America, we like to yell and scream about who had their land taken and all this other shit. When like if they just read a fucking book, every play started because somebody took someone else's land you know it's like

that was the way the world was you know the other like yesterday this is gonna be some like weird dopey thing but yesterday I was going for a walk with Ross and I saw a bird and this bird starts you know putting his nose in the grounders beak in the ground and comes out with a worm and flies away with the worm like all that worm was doing was being a fucking worm doing worm shit going through the dirt and stuff. He didn't anticipate that some bird was going to swoop down, put his beak into the ground and take him. Of course, I made the

joke to Ross and he didn't get it but I was like, hey, the early bird gets the worm. Ha ha ha. But you start thinking about that and that is the way nature works, right? Like nature exists in that birds eat worms, worms eat whatever worms eat, and there's animals that eat the birds and then the animals that eat the birds get eaten by them. And that's like nature, right? And people seem to struggle with the idea of nature in this world that we're in right now. Like the way nature works is you eat or be eaten, you kill

or you be killed, particularly maybe not so much in this era for humans. But that's how it was like if you wanted land, there's an Oklahoma land rush, you rush to get the land and if someone beat you there, you might shoot those motherfuckers and take their land. It was a different world 200, 300, 400, 500 years ago, but people tend to lack an understanding of that. People tend to lack an understanding of how the world actually worked and how we got here. Like they just live in this Pollyanna world where all they know is

what they know in their schools and at their colleges and what they read on the internet about how terrible America is. They don't realize how a lot of these places got to where they got. They also don't realize that there's a fuck ton of countries and other places out there that are far worse than we are. Places who really hate gay people. Places who really hate women. But here in America we act like America is this big shit hole that hates gays, hates women, hates transgender, hates everybody. Like, I do wish, like, it could be like It's a Wonderful Life, a wonderful movie, a Frank Capra movie that became a classic at Christmas time.

Wasn't a hit, by the way. Fun fact about It's a Wonderful Life. It's a Wonderful Life was not a hit when it came out. It was actually a dud. It won some awards, but no, it really went a big hit. It wasn't until after the movie went into what is called public domain, which means anybody can air it and use it for anything. And it started rerunning at

Christmas time on television, that It's a Wonderful Life became this this holiday classic. But anywho, so It's a Wonderful Life, the story is of a guy, Charlie, things in the movie Charlie, and his whole thing is like he almost kills himself and he's curious about what life would be like or he's shown what life would be like had he never been born, right? That's essentially the story and like he gets to see everything that happened and how important he actually is to his family

and everything and then he didn't want to kill himself anymore. I think what we need is that type of shit, right? We need a happened and how important he actually is to his family and everything and then he didn't want to kill himself anymore. I think what we need is that type of shit, right? We need a situation where some of these people who sit around and talk about how they'd like to live somewhere else because America is so terrible and they'll will go anywhere. We just want to leave America. Make them go to those places. Make them go to different places and see just how shit works in other places.

Go to England and see how things work with an actual king and queen. Maybe it's wonderful, but what do we always hear is, oh, they're trying to turn this into a place where there's a king and a monarchy. All right, well then go to England and see what happens there. Go to one of these countries where they kill gay people for being gay. Go to places where women are treated like second class citizens. Go to those places.

And then like, it's like you, like I'm a big believer in showing people, right? People talk a big thing. Like my dad did this to me once. Not, I mean, not to this degree. But when I was a kid, I didn't wanna leave. I didn't wanna leave the house. Like dad wanted to

go somewhere and he and my mom were going out and they're like, hey, we're leaving. Let's go. And I'm like, no, I don't want to go. I'm like five years old, whatever, right? So he's like, fine, stay at home. Five years old. They leave, turn off the lights, whatever, at the house and leave. And I'm just sitting at the house and they kind of go around the block and I lose my shit because I was left home alone. I'm scared shitless. Like part of what life should be is learning lessons because it's easy to sit around and whine constantly and bitch constantly and say like I'd rather have blank. Well then let's show people

what it would be like if you actually got. Now, be careful what you wish for type of thing because it's so easy to go to social media and say, I wish I live somewhere else or I hate America. Well, put your fucking money where your mouth is. Not enough people are forced to put their money where their mouth is. They can just run to social media and whine. So put your money where your mouth is and leave. Fuck you. Go somewhere else and tell me what it's like. Maybe it'll be great. Look, I hate the way shit is in America right now. I

hate the political unrest. I hate the constant racial fighting. I fucking hate it. And if I had my druthers and I had the money saved up to do it, real talk, I would leave here in a fucking second and go somewhere else. I'd scout it out to a point that made a place that made more sense. But like I would love to run off to some island somewhere and never pick up a phone again and never do any of this shit ever again. Stop reading about all the fucking drama. I'd love to. That's real talk. I would

love to do that. Like I'd actually think I might like England. I don't give a shit about the Monarchy and all that shit, but it looks like a bunch of people that like to sit around eat potatoes and meat drink beer and say cunt all the time. That seems like it checks off every box that matters to me and their soccer. I don't know if you can bet on it legally there, but I would give it a shot or Ireland I'd consider going to Ireland just because it looks

pretty and the people eat meat, eat potatoes, drink beer, and say cunt all the time and they're soccer. That's really my criteria for somewhere that I'd like to move. Is there potatoes? Is there meat? Is there beer? Is there soccer? And do they say cunt? And it's like regular and accepted and if that's the case I would do that but back to the whole point about how people don't really understand how the world works. It's kind of like when people want to rename buildings, right? Like if you

were in the business of renaming buildings and tearing down statues virtually everything in this country that's of a certain age in a certain era was probably constructed by slaves or people who own slaves or people who certainly even if they didn't own slaves probably thought that black people, African people were beneath them. So how do you pick and choose which ones you decide are just too offensive? Like I remember a couple years ago, I was a big to do with, I want to say it was with,

it was at Clemson, and I want to say it was a Deshaun Watson and Hopkins thing, where they were like part of this fight to change the name of one of these buildings at Clemson. And then you dig deep and you can find like, like the town, like Clemson is named after a racist or something like, so where does it end? Where does the bitching stop? Like it's a never-ending circle of bitching. It's just non-stop. And then you go back and like you think of all the shit that you're sitting here bitching about today, all the shit you're whining about that's small potatoes, all the shit that we're talking about that happened 200, 300 years

ago that has nothing to do with you, nothing to do with your dad, nothing to do with your grandpa, nothing to do with his dad, nothing that goes back your grandpa, nothing to do with his dad, nothing that goes back to your great, great, great, great relatives, nothing that has to do with you, yet you sit here and bitch about it because you need something to bitch about and pearl clutch over. And then you think about what today is, and today is June 6th, that is D-Day, and there are some dudes that love this place so fucking much that they went into a situation that they were probably pretty confident that they would into a situation that they were probably pretty confident that

they would fucking die and they were prepared to do it and that didn't bother me. It probably bothered them, but they did it anyway because they had pride in where they live and as we've talked about on this podcast before we're in a country where it's seemingly we're the only place where the people in it are not supposed to love the place there from what like in the, you see all these people and they wave their flags and everything here and all

these other countries, why are they allowed to love their country yet when we love our country here, we're considered radicals, we're considered bigots, we're considered assholes. Why is that? Help me understand that, man. Like it doesn't make sense. It doesn't compute with me. It doesn't register. Because not everything's perfect here. There's no compute with me. It doesn't register. Oh, because not everything's perfect here. There's no country that it is perfect, but go live somewhere else. See what happens. Like that's what I

wish more people would do is put your money where your mouth is and fucking leave. Do it. When people bitch about the job they're at, okay, good. Leave. See what happens. We're in a world where people bitch too much. Stop fucking whining. There should be a fine, a $5 fine for whine and stop fucking bitching. Like I'm getting to that point in my life too. It's just like shut the fuck up. If you don't like your situation, better your situation. If you hate America,

fucking leave. But look at those dudes that when the fucking door lowered in Normandy and the second the door went down, they were dead. They spent all the time preparing for it and I'm sure they went through some sort of basic training and got themselves into physical shape for it. Oh, it's time to go. We show up in France, door lowers, dead. All that and it was over in a nanosecond. And you're sitting on the internet bitching about shit that happened 400 fucking years ago that you can't control. You're on the internet bitching because the tornado is racist.

You're on the internet bitching about how somebody quoted a rappler. You're on the internet bitching about the transgender baseball player. Like, shut the fuck up. Like, we need to get to it. Like, that's the politician I would vote for. Like, because particularly I don't truck, I don't like Trump and I kind of like him less and less as time goes on, right? I think he's kind of a funny character but

he's not someone I idolize, right? We need to get to a point where someone stands up and like they run on a platform of shut the fuck up. Get over yourselves, shut the fuck up and do something. Anywho, D-Day, a place for people that have much bigger balls than I, a moment in time with people that had much larger balls than me and virtually anyone out there. And by the way, stop calling people in this era heroes. There aren't heroes. Those kind of people are heroes because they had something, they believed in something, they died for something. Going on

the internet and bitching about how somebody's assimilating rap culture, it doesn't make you a hero. Whining about, you know, the 10 transgender softball players or whatever at the end of the day is not going to make you a fucking hero. You're not a hero. Those people are heroes. People that put their lives on the line when, oh, by the way, a real Nazi, a gentleman by the name of Hitler, there was danger of that guy taking over the fucking world. We hear Hitler and Nazi all the time around. No, current Nazis, people that we consider Nazis, are hillbillies that hang out in fucking trailers in rural West Virginia. Those are Nazis now. You know who used to be Nazis? People that rounded up an entire race of people and threw them in camps and murdered them and had ambitions of global takeover.

Not redneck NASCAR guys who hang out together and drink Keystone light at a trailer and and and yammer on about how a black guy took their job. Those are dipshits. Those are not real Nazis. The real Nazis are the ones that those gentlemen that went to on D-Day in Normandy were trying to stop. Get over yourselves. Thank you.