The Josh Innes Show - Do You Understand Freedom Of Speech?

Episode Date: September 19, 2025

It's crazy because all these left wing people, you know, the people who really champion censorship, are now all about free speech. I'm amazed by how many people don't seem to understand that free speech has it's consequences. Who knew Jimmy Kimmel had so many fans? Oh wait, he doesn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was asked a very profound question yesterday from a friend. And if you hear the question, I'm not going to tell you who asked me this question because, look, that's a private conversation. And I'm not going to share that information with you because I don't know if that person would like me to share that information with you. But if you hear the question, once you do, you'll go, oh, I know who that was. But I'll start this by saying this. there's this graphic that's going around showing Elliot Page, when Elliot Page was Ellen Page versus Elliot Page as Elliot Page. And it's, you know, some sort of, let me find the actual, what the actual thing says, just to, you know, for the sake of being specific here. So it's a picture of cute Ellen Page, you know, Juno, and then, you know, adult man, Elliot Page.

so on one side it's cute Ellen Page and it says 33 years as a woman and then it's some haggard picture of Elliot Page and says three years as a man and I sent that to a friend of mine and I go wow this is pretty remarkable I used to really really like Ellen Page like I had like Juno and all that shit I thought Elliot Page was super hot was she in inception and was technically Elliot Page in inception or is if Elliot Page was if Elliot Page was if Elliot Page was if Elliot Page was. Page is now the person that takes over for the dead name of Ellen Page, then, so Ellen Page, like, to me, Ellen Page was the person that was in Juneau, and Elliott Page is a different person. Am I wrong there? I don't know how the rules of changing your gender works, but I don't feel like Elliot Page was certainly not in those movies that I've mentioned. Elliot Page was not in Juneau. That was Ellen Page. So do you claim those movies? Like when a royalty, check comes in. Like, that's a fascinating question. So, like, when a royalty check comes in, it's like, I guess I can't claim this check because that was for work that Ellen Page did, and Ellen Page is dead, and Elliott Page is very much alive. Like, it's a legit question. I'm not saying that to be a dick. I'm not asking that to be a smarmy cockbag in any way. I'm legitimately asking. See, people get mad at you when you ask questions. See, questions don't

hurt. Ignorance hurts. I need to answer questions. Like, first of all, let me play a couple commercials and we'll continue. I don't know where I'm going here. I'll be totally honest with you. We're going to see what direction the wind blows us. And that's the thing. Like, you ask questions and you're afraid that when you ask these questions, people are going to view it as offensive. I ask questions because I genuinely want to know things. Like, I was doing remotes a couple of weeks ago with a gal that works in the promotions department at the radio station who is Muslim. And she, like, offered up that she's Muslim. So I just started asking questions about being Muslim. Like, I'm not doing it to be an asshole. I'm doing it because I'm genuinely.

genuinely curious. Like, I'm not insulting you. I don't give a shit that you're Muslim. I didn't grow up, as we've talked about many times, I didn't grow up judging anybody for their religion. I knew nothing about religion. I didn't care about religion. I know that my grandpa was Catholic and I knew that some days I'd get up and go with him to the nights of Columbus to make breakfast for old people. And there'd be, you know, whatever. Like, you'd go over there and there'd be a pancake breakfast or some shit on a Sunday. Like, that's what I knew about Catholicism. I knew midnight mass. I knew breakfasts with pancakes and old people. the morning. I knew Catholic school that my dad went to when he was a kid, Sacred Heart Church.

Like, that's the shit I knew. I knew that my buddies would go to like catechism, but I didn't. So like on a Monday night or something, I'd be like, you want to come hang out? No, I got to go to catechism. Like that kind of shit. But I did not care about religion. And I still do not. I do not judge people based on their religion. It's not because I'm better than you. It's none of that. It's that I'm almost ignorant to all of it. And I don't believe that people suck or any good are bad because of their religion. I don't know. Okay. So I just ask questions. But I'm doing this remote with this person. And after spending two hours at this remote just asking questions about their life or this person's life, like I'm driving home and I'm like, I wonder if this

person was insulted by this and I wonder if they're like going to dime me out. Like I said nothing offensive. Like you should not get in trouble for asking questions. Legit questions. Now if you're asking somebody, hey, are you wearing panties? While a legit question, probably not a question you should ask in the workplace. Not all questions are acceptable to ask in the workplace. But if you're just having a conversation about religion and what people believe and what is halal and all this other shit, which I come to find out, halal is just, hey, when they kill the cow, they tell it that it's a, you know, they tell it good things. So like, that makes it good. And by the way, I went to the halal butcher shop after that and the stakes were tasty.

But then there was another person working a remote. And this person offered up that she was asexual and I'm like, should I continue this conversation? I didn't bring it up, but I'll ask questions, but will I get in trouble for asking the questions? So this person goes, well, I was on this radio show when they found out that I was asexual and they wanted to know the details. And I'm like, well, if she was on a fucking radio show talking about it, then I guess it's fair game. And then you hear people break this shit down and you're like, well, that sounds weird. And I told her that. I was like, what is asexual?

She's like, I just never feel anything sexual about things. Like, I'm not, like, I don't find people sexually attractive. I'm like, I don't believe that, but that's fine. Whatever it is. I think I told her, I'm like, this shit all sounds kind of made up, but hey, rock and roll. I'm not judging you when I say that it sounds made up. It just sounds fucking made up. But whatever, believe what you want to believe, do what you want to do.

But it is a legit question to ask, like, when a royalty check comes in, does Ellen Page or Elliott Page have a hard time accepting money for the work done by Ellen Page, which, by all accounts, is a dead person I would assume that all that shit there's a name change on it so now when a royalty check for you know inception or whatever was she in inception? I think it was inception she was in. So when like a royalty check comes in for inception or Juno

it says Elliot Page now but the person who was in those movies is dead think about it. So this friend of mine, we're talking about this via text and this person asks a very this

person question and it really got me thinking this person asks as this person saw the picture of Ellen Page versus Elliott Page and goes do you think that Elliott Page ever jerks off to pictures of Ellen Page? I go great question like that is an interesting query you propose like I would I guess I mean like I really thought Ellen Page was adorable. I don't find Elliot Page to be a good-looking guy, but I thought Elliot Page, or Ellen Page, was a very good-looking girl,

right? I'm not sitting here shitting on Elliot Page here. Like, hey, I just don't find you to be a very... You were better looking as a lady than a man is all. I don't think I'm out of line saying that I'm allowed to have an opinion, right? But it's a fair question. Do you think

that Elliot Page is turned on by pictures of Ellen Page? These are the questions. but anywho these are the kind of topics you bring up when you think about the way the world is now when you've got a group of people like talk about the world like like dogs and cats living together mass hysteria when you've got a group of people like when you've got the liberal people who are now speaking of free speech and seemingly enjoying gun violence like wow what a turn of events that is who would have thunked that the group of people that think guns are bad sure did enjoy guns when they killed Charlie Kirk and the people who tried to silence you for years and years and years and years and are the guys who are running wild with cancel culture and want to shut you up are now the people crying about freedom of speech. Shit is wild.

It is bonkers, my friends, but that's where we are. That's the world we live in currently. I really get annoyed and I'm really just baffled by how stupid people are. We talk about this all the time. is no excuse to be stupid in this era. You have every answer to every question at your disposal in your pocket. You know, you want to know questions like, I can ask my phone. Hey, was Ellen Page in Inception? Like, I can ask those questions because my phone has all the answers. There is no reason to be uneducated. Everybody, for the most part, has access. For the time you're

shot out of the womb, you have a phone. There is no reason to not have data and information to make educated decisions based on questions and based on all the data you have, right? Yet, people continue to be dumber than they have ever been. People are not smarter than they've ever been. They are dumber and they lack common sense. I am floored by the number of people who seemingly, whether it's willfully, which I think a lot of them are, willfully ignorant or just flat out stupid, that don't seem to understand how freedom quote unquote freedom of speech works they just assume that you should just run around

and say whatever the fuck you want and there are no consequences for what you say which is strange because these are the same people that want to cancel you for quoting rap lyrics those are the same people that are now screaming about freedom of speech because some cockbag late night host that none of them watched anyway got fired from his job some of the shit i'm seeing about Jimmy Kimmel. You would have thought he was the guy that was murdered in cold blood. This isn't even a pro-Charlie Kirk thing, but one of these people was assassinated in public, blood gushing from his neck, like just dead in public. We watched a snuff film. And this group of people danced on this guy's grave, yet some dickhead, unfunny, uninteresting late-night

host with no viewers gets fired. And they're treating him like he was Selena getting gunned down by Yolanda Saldivar at the best western. Days in, wherever she got shot. Like, it's crazy. Like, I'm surprised that there aren't people out there lighting, like, little Mexican candles for him out there on the street corners. Like, it is a sad state of affairs when some guy gets plugged for what he believes. Those people didn't give a shit about freedom of speech. Because all that, look, you don't have to like what, and I couldn't tell you anything Charlie Kirk believed because I don't care.

I didn't follow Charlie Kirk. I barely knew who the guy was. I knew the name. I don't follow political guys like that, so I didn't know. But I can assume I know what his beliefs were on shit, okay? And I started to read a little bit more of them just to kind of get an idea of it, so I kind of know. And I would probably disagree with a lot of the stuff, fine. But this guy got shot quite literally for believing something that you didn't believe.

Yet you were fine with that. Jimmy Kimmel gets fired basically because no one watches his shit. and they were looking for an excuse to fire him, and you're outraged over it. People are fucked. People are fucked three ways from Wednesday. And it's hysterical, but it's also maddening at the same time.

And I'm not to say that there are right-wing people that aren't the same way, you know? Like, I'm embarrassed for right-wing people who have now just decided to hop in the cancel culture world, right? Like, that's what they do now. Like, you get these different, like, watchdog right-werewold. wing people that are sending messages to people's employers trying to get them fired. And I'm like, well, I thought we hated left wing people for doing that, but apparently we

don't because we're doing the same shit. So it's like, what are we doing here, people? But the thing that people struggle to understand about the freedom of speech, and it's a very simple concept, yet these people are willfully ignorant and or stupid, just because as you can say whatever you want doesn't mean that people have to accept it or agree with it, thus allowing you to keep doing it if it impacts their business. Jimmy Kimmel works for a public radio or a television station. It has its own owners, but it is a part of the public.

Everywhere you go, for the most part, you will have ABC. This isn't TNT, this isn't ESPN, it is not premium cable, it is local television. You will have ABC everywhere you go, right? My man works for ABC, he works for Disney, or he worked for, worked for ABC, worked for Disney. Although I guess he hasn't technically been fired yet, but you get the point. Disney does not have to accept the shit you say. I gave you my examples. I'm free to say whatever I want.

Now, technically, I'm not because the FCC keeps you from saying things like, shit, fuck, cock, cut, pussy, whatever. You can't say all those things. Like, that would just be a fine, but I could. I could open the mic right now. I can go next door. There's a radio station next door. It is unoccupied right now until 6 o'clock. I could walk into that radio station right now, turn on the microphone and say, hey, go fuck yourself, Detroit.

You're all pieces of shit and blah, blah, blah. I could do that. But there would also be a consequence. There would be an FCC consequence. and then there would be a consequence from my employer, which would be I'm getting fired. I could open up the microphone right now and find one of the biggest money spenders that spends money with the cluster advertising-wise. It spends a million dollars a year. Just say it's called Steve's Auto Emporium or something like that, right?

I could go to Steve's Auto Emporium and discount snow cone stand, and I can tell you how terrible they are. I would never go there. The owner seems like a sleaze ball, whatever. I'd probably get fired because Steve's auto emporium and discount snowball stand spends a million dollars with the radio station, and that is a huge sum of money, and I am not important enough to go out and shit on them. I would get fired. But Josh, that's freedom of speech. You're allowed to say whatever you want. Sure.

I can say whatever the fuck I want. I'm not in jail for doing it. I can go on the air and tell you how bad blank, blank and blank is. I'm not in jail for doing it, but that doesn't mean that I'm free to do whatever I want, and there aren't consequences that come from someone who writes my checks or somebody above me. ABC has no obligation to let Jimmy Kimmel run amok on TV and say shit that they don't view as something that is held to their standards. Not to say that ABC doesn't allow a bunch of dumb shit like The View.

you know, I don't know why this is the one that set off the Jimmy Kimmel thing. I just believe it's they wanted to get rid of him and this was their excuse. That is his Al Jolson picture, if you will, wasn't that big of a deal. Most people with a brain understood what you're doing, but it's like, ha, this is my opportunity to have it out, and we're going to get out of this. And thus, you get Jimmy Kimmel getting probably fired. And he's become a hero to these people. He's become, you know, oh my God, he's the face of what is wrong with censorship. This group of people that lives for censorship, all they want to do is censor people that they disagree with.

They are the most open about the fact that they want to censor people. They do not hide that they want to censor people. They wanted to silence you during COVID. These people, it is almost so absurd that it's like you'd go, this must be in a mockumentary that this is happening. But that group of people, the group of people that were behind, hey, follow the taped arrows and the gross. store so you're not crossing paths with people to get COVID or the old people have to shop at four in the morning so they don't get COVID and die. Those people, the people that if you questioned vaccines, you'd lose your job. The same people that were behind, hey, you have to get a COVID

vaccine or you could be fired from certain companies. Those people are now the ones that want to tell you about freedom of speech. It's also kind of funny that, like, the right-wing people have been so on board with freedom of speech, yet if you go back in history, they've been the ones that want to muzzle people on other shit, too. Everybody's a hypocrite. Everybody. But I just happen to dislike these hypocrites a little bit more because they're jags,

and I dislike them. but when you're the loudest about wanting to cancel people and you're the loudest about how the government should have all of this overreach and that like oh Trump is a dictator yet here comes Biden like take your fucking vaccines and everybody's like yeah you stupid pricks take your vaccines or you shouldn't deserve to live like the same people that told you if you didn't get vaccinated you didn't deserve care in a hospital that you should be left to fucking die if you didn't have a vaccine like oh. refuse the medical care. They don't have a vaccine. Those same people are telling you about freedom of fucking speech with Jimmy fucking Kemmel. The dude who wore blackface on television. They're like, that's our guy.

We're standing behind this guy. First, it was Colbert. Now it's this guy. You know who's got the right idea? Fucking Fallon. Fallon's sitting there looking like Will Smith at the end of Fresh Prince. Like just this empty house. He's like, where's everybody at?

And while I don't find Fallon to be all that funny, he's like, ha, all you motherfuckers tried to bully me into doing your hardcore anti-right-wing political bullshit and turn your late night shows into goddamn Rachel Maddow. And now look who's still standing, you cunts. Ha! We'll put up a front that lets everybody know that, hey, we're all on each other's side, but behind the scenes, I bet Fallon's like, ha! We're getting the cast of Blossom back together today to sing my opinionation.

Ha! Anywho, more to come.