The Josh Innes Show - Don Lemon's Calculated Move

Episode Date: February 2, 2026

Don Lemon basically did what Jim Mudd and I did when we got kicked out of Texans practice. This entire thing is a stunt. I'll explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And then this group of idiotic celebrities gives him a standing ovation like he's some sort of hero, like he's Woodward and Bernstein or something. Here's how I think this thing played out with Don Lemon. Do you remember, and I'm sure many of you do, because if you've listened to this show for any period of time, you know a lot of the shit that we've done. So when Jim got kicked out of Texan's practice, right? I've told you this before that that was an orchestrated thing. We knew that if Jim went in and was on a cell phone, they would kick him out because you are not supposed to be on a cell phone at Texan's practice, even though it was an open practice.

It was like an exclusive, I forgot if it was an exclusivity thing where 610 had the exclusivity. So, like, we couldn't broadcast from there or if maybe nobody could broadcast from anywhere. I don't know. But we went into it knowing that Jim would get kicked out. We wanted him to get kicked out because it's like a wrestling angle, right? We knew that once he got kicked out of there, that would set us up for the, oh, we're banned. We got our credentials revoked by the Texans. Now we can get the totable boom lift out and put it in the parking lot of the Ross and spy on Texans practice. Right? That was the setup. You had to have a long play there. So we knew that. So then we got on the air. We're like, let's have Jim. The people have a a right to know what is going on at Texans practice. You cannot silence us. You cannot have rules. The people who cannot attend deserve to know what is happening at Texans practice. Textbook bullshit, right?

So they kick him out. They follow him around. They say, Jim, get off the phone, whatever. That's your warning. Then he got back on the phone. And then he got kicked out. And that set the ball in motion. That got it rolling.

So now the ball is rolling. And Jim now will, you know, now that sets it up for the Texans have muzzled us. and it's the exact same thing that these people are doing now. Of course, ours is a dumb sports radio bit, and theirs is supposed to be legitimate news. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health, from the big milestones to the quiet winds.

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and people are talking about us, and that leads to, you know, the bit where Jim goes up in the boom lift and gets the megaphone and starts, you know, saying dumb shit and people are paying attention to him at the practice. And that's that. That is what Don Lemon is doing. And I texted this to Jim. I said Jim, basically all Don Lemon did was Jim Mud gets kicked out of practice. Because he knows what he's doing. Like, I don't think he's an idiot. He's got lawyers. I'm sure he went to these people. Like, I don't believe that Don Lemon just rolled out of bed and was like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go to this church with these people and the people need to know what's going on. Because at the end of the day, was this that big of a deal? A bunch of people

protesting some ice guy to church. By the way, it's illegal to do what they? And they're not. It's illegal to do what did the group of protesters as part of this face act or whatever, these people can't do that anyway? And do you think he didn't know that? Do you think he didn't kind of like scan the whole, the little book there and go, huh, is this illegal? Because you know when you're doing something illegal, you when you're going to do that, you want to know whether or not you're going to become a hero, a martyr, and if your people are going to be on your side when you do something illegal, right? If you're going to do something illegal that's going to turn people against you, your own people,

you're not going to do it. if you're going to do something illegal that's going to get your people even more enthralled and engaged in what you're doing, you're going to do it. And maybe I'm giving him too much credit. But I think this was at least somewhat orchestrated. And I think it was a ploy to get his name back out there because what has Don Lemon really been doing? Tell me when you see and hear from Don Lemon since he got whacked from CNN. Why is he going to do an appearance on the view where they can jerk him off a little bit? No one gives a shit what's going on with Don Lemon.

but now Don Lemon is like a martyr and Don Lemon is the face of this movement and Don Lemon is the face of the silencing of American journalist by the fewer our president himself, Donald Trump. You want to tell me that there's not a benefit to that? So you might not like Don Lemon and you might think he's a moron

and you might say that there's no way he could have orchestrated this. I beg to differ. He's no doubt in my mind went in knowing what was going on. Now, I haven't seen these videos but I was talking with Jim and some other people that follow this and apparently there's videos of him like clearly being part of this protest

and not just covering it for the media, which I wouldn't doubt. But there was one that I did see. It was a still picture of one of the one of the live streams of this because they were live doing this. And at one point Don Lemon kisses one of the protests like or one of the people orchestrating this protest, right? So, like, you know, like basically he's doing a, you know, a family feud, right? He's like, he's doing a Richard Dawson. He like kisses this chick on the cheek. And to me, I don't know if this stands up in court when they go to court for this whole thing. Like, I don't know if this is proof enough.

You know, you need more than just, hey, kissed a chick. But to me, if you're a legitimate news person and you are someone who is, you know, covering something impartial. right like that's your whole thing I am impartial I'm a journalist I'm here to report on this I am not part of the movement itself to me if you are kissing people who are organizers of this thing at worst you're a sympathizer and that's what this story is about this is not a story about the freedom like this is what again this is what they do and this is how they've successfully turned it like that's what we did with the Texan story we turned it into a story about the press is being kept out of Texan's practice and you deserve to know. So what they've successfully done has turned this into a story about how Don Lemon is being silenced, but it's not just Don Lemon. This is people everywhere.

This is media people everywhere. This is a dictator authoritarian government that is silencing people and this cannot continue. This is unacceptable. And that's become the movement. That's what they've successfully done because they know that 99% of people will not bother taking the time to actually read anything about what. but Don Lemon allegedly did. It's just easier, and what loss he allegedly broke.

It's just easier to sit back and go, oh my God, Trump and this Nazi regime have silenced another journalist, as if anybody views Don Lemon as a journalist. No offense to Don Lemon. There's nobody on the planet that looks at Don Lemon as a legitimate journalist. He's just a dude out there giving opinions

and talking to the air. But now he's a journalist, but now Don Lemon's out there trying to save the day. And Don Lemon is the first. is the face of journalists who are being muted by Trump. What bothers me, and this is not a pro-left-wing, pro-right-wing thing. This is everyone. People choose to just not read.

And people choose to just be uneducated. They see something on Twitter. If it's something that backs up what they already believe, they just ride with it and assume it's true. It's not hard to go to chat, GPT, and type in a couple questions. Is chat? Are they always going to be right? I don't know. Well, I mean, all chat GPT does scours the internet and gives you the synopsis of a lot of shit, right? So, if you go to the internet and you go to chat GPT and you ask chat GPT, I don't have the whole conversation, I can go back and look at it, but I asked, so what is Don Lemon accused of doing? Well, hell, on my way in today, I'm walking into the building and I was, you know, listening to these people talk about, from last night, from the Grammys. and talk about the stolen land thing and all that shit,

and I just start asking chat GPT questions. Like if a celebrity says that no one is illegal, are they right? You know, just ask a dumb question like that. And then before you know what, you're getting answers and you're like, oh, that makes some sense. But nobody wants to do that. And why does nobody want to do that? Because nobody wants the actual truth. People just want to be essentially lied to.

people want their own opinions that they already believe. They want them validated. And by the way, that goes for everybody. Right wing, left wing, whatever. Nobody wants the truth. Do you know how easy it is to build your own opinion on something? You have every thing accessible. Every piece of information is accessible.

And you just ignore it. And you decide to just follow a pack of people. So nobody wants the reality. anything. Nobody wants the truth of anything. But anyway, more to come. Packages by Expedia. You were made to occasionally take the hard route

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