The Josh Innes Show - Dead Celebs

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

Michelle Trachtenberg and Gene Hackman have died. First off, Michelle was in "Euro Trip" which was a fine film. It's better than "Road Trip". Second, I go off on some random radio tangent that has zero to do with Michelle Trachtenberg...I am sorry. What happened to Gene Hackman? NOTE: This Was Supposed To Have Dropped on Thursday..somehow it didn't. So It may be a little dated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And she died 39 years of age. From what I read, she had a liver transplant. And who knows? I don't know if it didn't take or what. But, I mean, she was seemingly fine. And then she seemingly wasn't fine. She was dead. So that reminds me of old school Nickelodeon, though, man.

That was the first thing. Two things came to my mind when Michelle Trachtenberg died. When I heard like, oh, Michelle Trachtenberg. First, like I thought, like, holy shit, she actually got like really hot when she was in Euro trip. Then I start thinking about how Euro trip is better than road trip. But then I also started thinking about how Euro trip and road trip aren't even in the same universe. They just, one is called road trip. One's called Euro trip. None of the same people are in the movie yet. We all kind of connect the two, right? Like you say, what was better road trip or Euro trip? None of them have anything to do with the other.

And I don't think that any of the directors or anybody involved in road trip had anything to do with euro trip yet we connect the two dots as if it's like home alone and home alone 2 and then like the third home alone with the little like the non-macaulay culkin kid or like the weird one with the like the the british accented kid or whatever that came out not too long ago like you you're like somehow we connect them, even though I don't. And now if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I don't believe that road trip and Euro trip are in the same universe. There's not a reference to any of them. It's either one of them in each one's universe.

So I don't think they are. It's just, oh, we're on a Euro trip. Oh, we're on a road trip. We're trying to kind of cash in on that same vibe that you had with road trip. Like basically it's road trip, but going to Europe. But look, I think Euro Trip is a better movie than Road Trip. I like Road Trip. I think Road Trip is great.

Got a great cast. Got Tom Green. It's got Sean William Scott. It's got Breckin Meyer. It's a solid film. I like it. I have nothing against Road Trip. However, I think Euro Trip is a funnier movie.

Particularly, Scotty Doesn't Know. The Scotty Doesn't Know scene, breathtaking scene, incredible scene. Scotty doesn't know that Fiona and me do it in my van every Sunday. He tells him he's at church, but she doesn't go, so she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know. One time when I was in nashville i just played that in its entirety like just maybe this is why i'm not in music radio anymore maybe but every now and then i would do dumb shit just to see if anybody was paying attention like i'd work in weird songs into to things and see if people were truly paying attention like one time

on keishi they were doing this like rock and roll 500 some bullshit countdown which amazing here was one of my main criticisms when people would do this shit like they would do it's the rock and roll 500 and then every year the number one song would change and i'm like well what new song came out that would dethrone it like what would change people's opinions like you know after sitting around for another year I decided that Stairway to Heaven is not the greatest rock song of all time it is actually back in black like what changed nothing there was no new song that came out nothing else so why did it change like maybe I look too deep into this shit maybe I concern myself with shit that really isn't all that important but that's what I do these are the ABCs of me and this is why I get myself in trouble

shit they do oh I guess it's about time for this bit I don't know if they're doing it again or not but Keishi does this fucking terrible bit it's called uh March Bandness and March Bandness is exactly what it sounds like it's a bracket it's a giant bracket of the same rock bands every fucking year. Every year, same fucking rock bands. Nothing changes. They're just the same bands. They might be seated differently and have a different matchup. But the objective is basically to get people to go to their dumb app and click on it and go to our app and vote. And then basically what you would have to do, like if they gave us a big book, right?

So like let's say the matchup was, and I know this was supposed to be about Michelle Trachtenberg and hot and Euro trip and all that, but I'm going off on a tangent here. So like last year when we did this March badness and I guess it was the only year I had to do it, right? Cause last year, yeah, I guess it would have been the only year I had to do it. So we were in a meeting before and I'm like, you know, I really, and I told him this, I said, I just don't think March badness is good. I think it's tired.

Can we find some other way to do a March madness bit? That's not the same shit over and over. And they were essentially like, no, we're just going to do the same bullshit. And I'm like, well, why did you guys hire me? If you're all just going to do the same bullshit you've always done, why did you take me away from my job in Nashville where I was fine? But anyway, so I, uh, we're doing this March badness. So basically our PD gave us this big book, and it had the matchups in it,

and then you would have a list of songs that you were able to use for the bit. So there was one side of it that was like, you must use one of these songs, because basically here's how it went, to lay it out. So let's say it was Van Halen versus Night Ranger. No, that's not a good example. Van Halen versus like ACDC, right? So on one side, you'd have like the obvious powers because they wanted to make sure they got in songs that tested well as well, like popular songs. And then you'd be able to work in one like more off the wall choice. And then you got to play two songs from each. You'd play the two from one band, then you get in the middle and go So if you, and then you got to play two songs from each,

you'd play the two from one band. Then you get in the middle and go, all right, now vote. This is your chance to vote, which band is it? And then you play the other one and they'd go to the app and you'd see a live,

you know, update on who voted for who it's all bullshit. So anyway, so if it's Van Halen versus ACDC, you'd have to play like a big one, like jump. Now, granted you can only do it once.

So if they come around again and someone already marked down that they played Jump, then you couldn't use it the next time if Van Halen advanced or you couldn't do Back in Black if whatever. So basically what it would come down to is you'd have a group of songs on one side that were the big ones, Jump and Panama and Why Can't This Be Love, Running With The Devil, big Van Halen songs. And then you'd have the other side of it, which you got to pick one of those, which would be like Top of the World from Van Hagar or something from Balance like Can't Stop Loving You, that type of of shit and if it were acdc you'd

have like basically everything from back and black you'd have you know big ones and then on the other side now although this sounds ridiculous but like and if you want blood you got it would be on the other side or a whole lot of rosy would be on the other side or by uh you know my ball or whatever the my balls are the biggest like whatever like that shit that would all be on the other side and that was the bit we did and i'd be like this is so lame and you do it the same way over here how did people's opinions of these bands change you know what i'm saying like i think sammy hagar's won it a couple times here like ac like like why like do something that's different like change the thing like do different groups like over here is the hair metal group or no it's just the same shit over and over so of course like like my goal was to have like steel that was the bit i did i said i want steely dan to try to upset aerosmith you

know i was trying to make it interesting and then people got pissed that i was doing that they're like you're really screwing with the validity of this i'm'm like, go fuck yourself. It's a stupid rock and roll bracket. Who gives a shit? Admittedly, I have no idea how I got on that tangent. Let's play some commercials. All right, if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you gotta check out Pick 6 from DraftKings.

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here's henry lee summer hey baby or some shit and i'm like scott what if in the middle of this i just do a fake piece of imaging or like you know kc 95 and then we play the monster mash and see if anyone notices so i was like let's do let's act like it just missed the cut right so i was like um the rock and roll 500 just missed the cut number 504 and we played the monster mash and and like no one fucking noticed. Like no one pays attention to this shit. People are zombies. They don't know.

So and when I was in Nashville, like I would just randomly work in, like I had Scotty Doesn't Know and I would just play it in the middle of songs. So you'd hear like Running With The Devil and then you'd hear Back In Black and in between them, you'd hear Scotty Doesn't Know. Like who gives a shit?

It's like when me and Jim Mudd used to play fake commercials and shit, you know whatever it is what it is it's nothing innovative but it's dumb shit we used to do but anyway eurotrip is a better movie than road trip i think it's got more memorable lines like tell me like what are the memorable lines from road trip right like basically it's the um the main the main one from Road Trip would be, like, Unleash the Fury. Like, Tom Green. Like, Unleash the Fury, Mitch. Like, that would be it.

I guess you would say, like, and there are scenes that are obviously memorable. Like, the old man gets a boner and, like, he's knocking shit off the fucking. Oh, actually, my favorite line from Road Trip is, you're all brain. You're not enough cock and balls. That's a good one. But Euro Trip, you got like the miscousy and you're like, oh, we just got Miami, Hawaii's best new show. You know, like you got a bunch of Scotty doesn't know.

Scotty doesn't know is more memorable than anything from either one of those movies. And again, I'm comparing two fucking movies that have nothing to do with each other other than the fact the word trip. If you're just going to compare movies that have the word trip in them then what about girls trip with queen latifah so but uh i just and i thought that was the first time i looked at michelle trachtenberg and i was like holy shit she's hot i guess i was like 18 i was like fucking harriet the spy fucking harriet the spy is hot as shit and we got like we got like titties bouncing around and shit i'm like we're living like because when i think of michelle like initially when i thought of michelle trachtenberg it made me think

of the orange cassette tapes too like nickelodeon like when all the nickelodeon movies were on orange vhs tapes and like the big thick plastic like disney boxes but with orange tapes so if you watch you know whatever nickelodeon movie was like hey it's the rugrats movie and it's on an orange VHS. Or Harriet the Spy. You would always think of those orange VHS tapes, right? And actually, funny story about Harriet the Spy. And this is how I always connect to Harriet the Spy.

So I've told you before that I broke my ankle when I was a kid. I broke the growth plate of my ankle, which is why my right foot, I guess, is slightly smaller. My leg is slightly longer on one side than the other, which didn't bother me for most of my life. But as I get older, I'm starting to notice that like my hips and shit hurt. And a lot of that has to do with the fact that my legs, like one is longer than the other one foot. Like I could wear like a size 13 shoe on my right foot. Couldn't wear a size 13 shoe on my left foot. How did I break my ankle? I broke my ankle living with my mom. My parents were divorced, separated, whatever. My mom had married this gentleman named David.

We were at my mom's friend's house and they had a four-wheeler. And they were like, Josh, think you could drive a four-wheeler? I'm nine years old, probably nine, ten. And I'm like, yeah, I think I could. My mom's like, you don't get your fucking ass on that goddamn thing whatsoever. And then eventually the stepdad, who I remember very little about, was like, you can do it, Josh. That's fine. So I get on the four wheel and I start going.

Something happens and I have no clue what I'm doing. And somehow my foot, I kind of slide off of it and my foot gets stuck under the four wheeler. And we don't know if my foot's broken or not. My mom's hoping it's like sprained somehow. I don't know. They get me home. It. My mom's hoping it's like sprained somehow. I don't know. They get me home. It's awful. It's the worst pain ever, whatever.

They bring me into her friend's house to lay me on the couch like, oh my God, Josh, are you okay? On the fucking TV is goddamn Harriet the spy and I will always connect that. And it turns out it wasn't just a sprain. It was broken on the growth plate and it was fucking terrible

and it was so badly broken and the little tiny hospital in the little town that we were in couldn't take care of it that they had to. I forgot if they drove or flew my ass, but I had to go to St. Louis to get my thing. It was St. Louis to get my shit and then they put pins in it and I had my foot in the cat. My whole leg was in a cast up to my thigh for months and months and months. I couldn't bend my knee. It was a horrible experience to be a 10-year-old kid on a fucking in a cast like that. And that's even worse to get the pins removed from your foot. Terrible.

But anyway, all that to say that Michelle Trachtenberg is dead. And she got hot at one point in life, like on Gossip Girl. I didn't watch Gossip Girl, but I've seen like videos from Gossip Girl. She had that like the look that I like like the smoky eyes and shit love that look like the Taylor Momsen look big Taylor Momsen guy here uh body wise she's really skinny and whatever but like she has the look like like the blonde hair and the smoky eyes and I'm like I'm here for that again nothing to do with Michelle Trachtenberg but she is dead and then we find out this morning gene hackman's dead and his wife's dead and his dog is dead to me that doesn't sound

like much of a conspiracy although the internet would have you believe that because the twitter will have you believe that anything's up like oh something strange here isn't it like no they probably had some sort of inhalant like a i don I don't know, like some fucking, I would guess like a carbon monoxide type of thing, I think is what it was. I think one time my mom and my sister lived in this house in Arkansas and they both felt like shit one morning and they were like, I might just stay home. But my mom's like, nope, you got to get up. You got to go to school. I'll go to work. Come to find out that the house had had like carbon monoxide and they could have died anyway again not about gene hackman but gene hackman his wife his dog that's what makes it interesting like like you could see a scenario where like oh two lovers romeo and juliet this shit and die like could be or somebody killed them or poison

them but like i don't know i feel like if the dog is dead the wife is dead and the husband's dead i feel like it was probably something involving like you know something in the air you know gases carbon monoxide something like that like that is what i would guess about the death of gene hackman again i wasn't there but they say they don't suspect foul play so if they don't suspect foul play and they're all dead, I'm going to guess that it was the poison. Honestly, what the fuck was the dog doing? Like, if there is carbon monoxide, I don't want to judge dogs. Dogs do a fine job.

But if that's the case, I mean, the dog's got to alert you. And maybe he did. Maybe that's the worst part. Maybe the dog. God, wouldn't that suck if the dog was like, hey, assholes, like, I get your fucking ass out of bed gene uh let's go there's carbon monoxide we're all gonna die maybe i don't know that's the job of the dog like i don't want to just heap all this responsibility upon dogs but if we're being very fair about what dogs should and shouldn't be doing one of the key things of being a dog is oh wait there's carbon monoxide but thenoxide. But then again, wouldn't a carbon monoxide detector go off?

Maybe it beeped one time and they're like, fuck this, and they just took it off the ceiling and didn't put a new battery in it. I don't know. Now I'm starting to think there's a conspiracy. Why did this rich-ass motherfucker win an Oscars and shit and not have a carbon monoxide detector? Why did the dog not alert anybody? Yep, they were poisoned by someone. All right, anyway, more to come.