The Josh Innes Show - Did You Actually Watch PBS As A Kid?

Episode Date: May 5, 2025

Trump wants to end federal funding for NPR and PBS. To be fair, NPR is in fact biased and I don't believe the government should fund any media. That said, PBS shouldn't go away. I didn't watch PBS as a kid because we had cable. Why would I watch a stupid show about a talking Aardvark when I could watch "Double Dare"? Do kids actually learn anything from these shows? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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air non-stop and then like being startled and turning around and like it's like I thought he was seeing fucking ghosts. You know, like I started watching. I say it started was really short thing. I watched a documentary about Unsolved Mysteries quite possibly the most pointless documentary ever. It was like an hour long. It was less of a documentary and more of like the kind of thing you'd see on a retrospective of a show while the show is still on the

air, you know, like a couple of best of things and then some little behind the scenes nuggets. It was really a waste of an hour. It served no purpose for anything and it sucked. So but I love Unsolved Mysteries. I still get freaked the fuck out by Unsolved Mysteries. Even as a 38 year old guy like Jillian and I were watching this and she fell asleep and then I realized she was asleep and then the second I realized she was asleep. I started getting freaked out by

Unsolved Mysteries being on TV and I don't really get scared of a ton of shit like movies aren't going to freak me out. Whatever Freddie Jason Candyman all the Candyman is pretty fucking scary, but the but Unsolved Mysteries just fucks with me like in a way that nothing else fucks with me. My grandma used to make fun of me when we'd watch and she'd laugh and say, oh, Edward, that old booger is going to get you. Of course, it would be the boogie man. But to grandma, it was that old booger. That old booger is

going to get you and it scared the shit out of me and it still does. Like there are certain things. I don't know if you guys have anything like this, but just like you're an adult now and like certain things like you used to watch Are You Afraid of the Dark on Nickelodeon and you're like Are You Afraid of the Dark is pretty creepy, you know, for 3.30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday when you're at home by yourself but now as an adult you're like okay this shit ain't scary. Unsolved Mysteries was scary then, it scares the shit out of me. Now, I'm not talking about the reboots of it with different hosts, Dennis Farine and all that shit. I'm talking about OG Bob Stack, baby. And it's scary. It scares the shit out of me. But anyway, we will continue after these words.

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slash promos. Speaking of TV shows, so Trump is trying to like cut federal funding for PBS and what's the other one? It's PBS and NPR. Which like I don't think we should have government funded media, particularly if the people on there are biased people and since they are humans, they are biased. That is just reality, right? And we are now in an era where bias is accepted on both fronts by the way, like you're expected to have a bias now. It used to be you

could put aside biases and you could report fairly and accurately about things. You can't do that anymore because social media and everything else and being called a Nazi if you agree with this guy or whatever, being called a woke wacko if you agree with this person. There is no way for media people to not have bias and if we're all going to have biases and everybody's going to admit their biases, then why should we be in a position where the federal government funds any news outlet that's going to have people broadcasting the news? I don't know if that makes any sense and I might be

oversimplifying that and I might sound like a putz and that's fine. I just don't think we should ever be in a situation where the government is funding news. And admittedly, I don't think we should ever be in a situation where the government is funding news. And admittedly, I don't fully know how NPR works. Now PBS on the other hand, aside from just the fact that all the kids shows are boring as shit, like PBS, like what are we doing fucking around with PBS? Why are we messing around with PBS? Let people have their Sesame Street and I don't even know what's on PBS anymore. I know it used to be Arthur and like people like

my wife who didn't have cable growing up had to watch PBS. So every time I shit on one of these PBS shows, they're like, Oh my God, you should. My wife's like, Why would you shit on the Magic School Bus? I don't know, because it fucking sucked. Same as Arthur. Same as Clifford. All these shows sucked and allegedly they're educational, but like what ed, like I don't know what there is that's educational about Arthur. Like doesn't his sister just always talk shit to him? It's kind of like a simple vert, like a softer version of The Peanuts. Like where everybody talks shit to Charlie Brown. Like Arthur I guess was kind of like picked on I

guess. I don't know. Reading Rainbow. Reading Rainbow is quite possibly like the most overrated television program ever. I'll never understand the people that fawn over Reading Rainbow and fawn over what's his name, the host of Reading Rainbow. Like I just I don't get it. Like LeVar Burton. I don't understand it. I didn't watch it growing up and you might say, well Josh as a kid I watched Reading Rainbow and I watched the Magic School Bus with Miss Frizzle and I watched Arthur. I didn't. I watched fucking Nickelodeon like a real bit, right? Sesame Street I can at least look at and go, okay, there's some educational value there and this is brought to you by the letter F and whatever. Like I can get that. And I, and admittedly I didn't watch all these shows because when I was a kid,

I was bored shitless by these shows. And my options, here were my options as a kid. My options were sit at home and watch Arthur, do whatever the fuck Arthur does, or watch some lunatic woman that takes these kids on some psychedelic school bus trip, or I could watch Wild and Crazy Kids. I could watch Doubledare. I could watch Super Sloppy Doubledare.

I could watch Do, Do, Do, Do You Have It? Guts. What was that one that Summer Sanders hosted that was like you're in a video game? I want to figure it out was another show. Oh by the way that required some brain usage watching like figure it out. Mr. Wizard, I'd watch Mr. Wizard on Nickelodeon at like three in the morning that actually creeped me out. Like you'd watch it it was just kind of grimy like the show itself was kind of grimy and slow and there'd be Mr. Wizard and he'd be like watch this. I'm going to put a Mentos in a

sody pop bottle and it's going to cause a geyser and you're like, holy **** This is the coolest thing I've ever seen but I never watched PBS who and by the way Nickelodeon also had news with Linda. It was at Linda Ellerby Nick News W5 Linda Ellerby was she also on PBS at one point? I think she was. That's probably Nickelodeon like, Hey Linda, stop toiling around in the government funded bullshit. Come on over to Nickelodeon. Let me make sure if I'm right on that. Was Linda

Ellerby on both of them? Let's see, but that's what I watched. Boy, Linda Ellerby at one point was kind of hot. She's still alive. Who knew? Let's see, Linda Ellerby was on Nick News. She was on NBC News overnight. Were you never on PBS? I guess she wasn't. Well, I guess I was wrong. She was also married five times. Good for her. She got around. But no, I guess Linda Ellerby was not on PBS. I I just I don't get it. And then like, like I'm all fine with the existence of PBS because I agree in theory that it's nice to have television programs for kids that you know are seemingly educational. The problem is you've got every item or every device that gives you access to shit now for these kids and they're still fucking morons. So what are they going to learn from like what can they be taught by Arthur

that they can't find on Wikipedia? I don't know. I just like let the kids watch kids shit. If they have good parents and shit, it's not going to make a difference if they watch some educational show. I'm sure there are a bunch of people that grew up watching Sesame Street that are still dipshits. It's not like, well, I watched Magic School Bus so now I'm smarter. I watched Reading Fucking Rainbow. By the way, reading is largely overrated and I'll tell you why. If you're reading a book to learn something that's not overrated, if you're reading a book just for the sake of like the entertainment, like if you're reading like the

outsiders or something, how is that any different than watching the movie other than the books probably better than the movie? But what's the difference? Like people talk about how well reading and how reading is fundamental. Reading is this, reading is that. Kids should read more books. Why? You can get the same shit from watching the movie version of the book. So what does it matter? These are the things I'm going to say when I'm running for president one day, which I'm not going to do. But there's really no

difference in that. So if you're going to read a history book, that's good. You'll learn something. If you're going to read a biography of someone, that's good. You're going to learn something. If you're going to read like, you know, Pleasant Valley High, you ain't gonna learn shit. It's just the, it's just a printed form of what you're gonna watch on TV. So, don't swing your dick about how you read books, eight-year-old. I'm still smarter than you. I'm an

adult and I'm still smarter than you. Anyway, kind of all over the place on this one. All that to say, NPR I could do without. Who gives a shit? Whoever actually listens to NPR. PBS, I think it has a decent point to it. I just didn't watch it when I was a kid because we had cable. Basically, PBS existed for kids that didn't have cable. Like they want to spin it like, well, all the smart kids, you know, they learned a lot watching Arthur bullshit. They didn't learn shit watching Arthur or Clifford. They learned how tough it is when you don't have cable and you can't watch super sloppy double dare. That's what they learned. Anyway, more to come.