The Josh Innes Show - I am Mike Shildt

Episode Date: October 2, 2024

Jilly and I spent Mexican and Movie Night seeing "My Old Ass". It wasn't bad. Mike Shildt's San Diego Padres are up 1-0 on the Braves. Jilly has brought it to my attention that me and Shildt are kindred spirits. Her reasoning makes sense. Davante Adams wants to be traded. I don't believe he deserves nice things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howdy, Jmokes! What's going on? It's Josh and Jilly. Tuesday night was Mexican and movie night. Do we call it Mexican and movie night or movie and Mexican night? Oh, we usually go get Mexican first, so probably Mexican and movie night. There you go. Mexican and movie night. It's where we bring a couple of Mexicans to the movies with us. No, that's not what we do. That'd be fun, though. Mexican people tend to like me. But no, we go to the Mexican restaurant,

and then we go across the street to the movie theater, and we see our $6 film and get our $12 popcorn and sody pops, who all told were 24 bucks in, and we go to the movies. Next week, Joker. The week after that, the Saturday Night Live movie. We buy our tickets well in advance because it's tough to get tickets on Tuesdays at the Marcus Theaters here in St. Louis.

It's a hotter ticket than any sporting event here. You can get to the Cardinals game for a dollar. Hell, you got to the Astros game today for a dollar. But the hottest ticket in town is $6 movie ticket night for any movie, by the way. So it's not like, oh, it's $6 to go see a movie that's been out three months, like Twister. That's why I had to buy the ones for Joker two weeks ago. Because we were trying to go see Deadpool when it opened. And for two weeks, it was all sold out on Tuesdays.

So I bought them Joker tickets literally about 10 days ago. We're ready to see the Joker. I've got to go back and re-watch the first Joker to get ready. I've got to get in the right headspace for it. Maybe I'll do that next Tuesday afternoon. Have you listened to the companion album that Lady Gaga put out yet? Well, no, but is some of that music going to be in the movie too? Do I want to be surprised in the movie?

I don't think it's from the movie. It's not the soundtrack. It's the companion album. That's a shit ton of Gaga. Do you think that she and Joker sing Shallow? I don't think so but how fun would that be just like if this were deadpool they would like you'd think you're in the middle of like this big dramatic thing you know and it's like there's the joker and there's harley quinn

and like people are getting their heads blown off and shit and she's just like tell me something boy oh fuck that would be lit so i guess it does feature songs on the film soundtrack. So I guess you don't want to be. I mean, it's a lot of them in the trailer already. That's why I just want to be surprised. And then I'll go back and take songs that I want and like. And I'll listen to them on my phone and become obsessed with them. I really haven't been obsessed with any Gaga stuff since Star is Born, of course.

By the way, rest in power chris christopherson uh he has gone uh up to the uh to the big cowboy area in the sky i guess how many members of the highway men are still alive the correct answer is one i think willie because there was waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Chris Christopherson, and Johnny Cash. Those were the highwaymen. And I believe that only, I mean, I know that Johnny Cash is dead, right? And so is now Chris Christopherson. Chris Christopherson was one of the highwaymen, right? And then, what's his name?

Waylon's dead. So the man that carries the mantle and will live forever, that man's name is Mr. Willie Nelson. named Waylon's dead. So the man that carries the mantle and will live forever, that man's name is Mr. Willie Nelson. And he lives, and he might live forever. He's provided life lessons for all of us on how to live forever. Just smoke a lot of pot and avoid paying your taxes, and you will live forever. But we went to see this movie called My uh my old ass it was not what i thought

this movie was going to be by the way like based on the post the poster would lead you to believe it was going to be like wacky hijinks it really wasn't wacky hijinks i mean it wasn't like overly dramatic but it was like a sort of almost like a peggy sue got married type of thing uh it's not a body switch movie uh you know which upset me i. It's not a body switch movie, which upset me. I initially thought it was a body switch movie. And you guys know how I feel about body switch movies. They're the funniest type of movies ever. Which reminds me, maybe we need to watch that Vince Vaughn body switch slasher little comedy movie again.

It's Halloween. It's October 1st. I mean, hell, it's the month of watching macabre shit. So maybe we'll watch that. Maybe we'll build a whole lineup. And maybe the Just Nation people will watch the same films we watch. We'll build like an Oprah's Book Club. We'll build a horror movie club in October, you know. Or maybe we'll dedicate our time to watching like another thing we enjoy is kind of like dark black comedies, you know.

We could do that. But how did you feel about this movie tonight i liked it it wasn't bad it was more emotional than i thought it would be i know i i'm fitting to cry at the i mean i'm not going to spoil anything not that any of you are going to go see it if i had to guess uh but it's called my old ass got aubrey plaza and um i'm i'm like i'm i might emote during this it It kind of took a turn. It was like, you know what it was kind of like? No, it really, it's not kind of like anything because I'm not going to spoil anything about it,

but I thought it was a fascinating concept. I thought the plot of it was fine. I thought it was a neat little movie. So it's certainly worth watching. If you've got some time to kill, you want to go to the cinema and see a decent movie, I thought it was decent. Well, and it was short, too.

It's like an hour and a half. Yeah, so if you're killing time, great movie. I also found out tonight that my lady here doesn't want to go see Wicked with me. No, I can't with Ariana Grande. I really, really hate her. She's the most annoying person. I always thought she talked like that,

like that was her character on the Sam and Cat show. No, that's just how she talks. Well, be that as it may, don't you want to know why the Wicked Witch became the Wicked Witch? Really don't. Do you not like the Wizard of Oz? I like the Wizard of Oz. But don't you want to know? Do you want to know an origin story? You want to know what made the Wicked

Witch so bitchy? Like I do. Like, why are you so ornery? That's what I want to know about the Wicked Witch. I just had a talk to Ariana Grande. I don't think that's why it is, Jilly. It sounds like it's because they turned her into, they used her and turned her into the bad guy, and then she just eventually got pissed off

and said, all right, you want to see the bad guy? Watch this shit. I think that is what happened based on what I've seen in the trailer. But I'll go see Wicked alone. I don't need you to go see Wicked. Speaking of things we're going to go see later on this month, actually in November, the Neil Diamond musical's coming to town.

Beautiful noise. Can I get a what, what? Let's go. Cracklin' Rosie, get on board. Fuck. It's going to rule. It's about time to break out the Neil Diamond Christmas album before you know it. Well, fun fact about the Neil Diamond Christmas album.

It's been in the CD player in the car for four years. And every now and then I accidentally hear it when I think that the phone, the Bluetooth is synced up and it doesn't. I'll hit the media button and I fucking hear chestnuts roasting on an open vine. I'm like, no, you're december and parts of november neil actually just read today that the uh final model of new cars that still had a cd player and is now longer no longer going to have that cd player in it officially dead cd player yet they still keep am radios in cars because the right wing people got all upset thinking they couldn't get out their right wing propaganda if they didn't have AM for all the dullards to listen to. Oh, there's Mike Schilt. You brought up a good point about Mike Schilt. He, of course,

is the guy we used to play all the drops from in the past when he was the manager of the Cardinals. And it's like, nobody's got bigger cojones than this team. And some of you may not know this because most of you listening are not St. Louis Cardinal fans, if I had to guess. And that's totally fine. I wouldn't be either. They're a shitty organization now. It's a very sad turn. But Mike Schilt got fired after going to the playoffs, I believe, three times with the Cardinals.

He seemed like a nice guy. He got fired for no reason. Basically, they didn't line up philosophically. The manager in they basically they didn't line up philosophically the manager in the front office didn't line up philosophically as it turns out here were the philosophical differences mike schilt felt like winning fucking playoff games and the cardinals didn't but as it turns out i mean that was like his dream job and he was like crying and like really emotional when they got let go he thought he was being brought in to for like a contract extension and the way the

phone call started well i think it was a phone no i forgot if it was a phone call or if he saw him in person i think it was in person and they sat his ass down and they said mike this meeting's not gonna go how you thought it was like what a fucking terrible way to go about doing this and they fired this manager of the year too he has well remember when he took over when they fired Matheny the Cardinals then like went on a run when they brought in Schilt that's why they gave him the full-time job and I want to say they went to the playoffs three times they went to the NLCS in 2019 he was the manager for the shitty Rona season in um in 2020 and he was the manager in 2021 they fire him they go to the playoffs in 2022 and get he was the manager in 2021. They fire him.

They go to the playoffs in 2022 and get swept by the Phillies. Then they have their worst season since I've been alive last year, and then they're a couple games over 500 this year, and they're a fucking joke. I don't want to get all into it because no one listening to this really gives a shit about my thoughts on the state of the St. Louis Cardinals. If you care about that, just watch my nonsensical rantings on Twitter. But you brought up something that

I think is interesting. You go, I think I know why you like Mike Schultz so much. I'm like, yeah, why is that? Well, because you both got fucked by St. Louis. St. Louis did you in? Well, you both thought this was the dream job. And then? Yep, that's true. St. Louis gotcha.

They did. Like Like I was like, Hey, I'm here. I love the Cardinals. These people are going to love me. And it turns out they didn't. They had different philosophies as it turns out. Yes,

they did. The listeners here basically told me we have philosophical differences. Josh, sit down. This meeting's not going to go how you think it's going to go. And then, uh, and I got whacked.

So we both thought we were in the perfect spot. And the perfect spot thought differently of us. And here we are. So he's kind of my inspiration. I might get a Mike Schilt. I might go to one of those sites where like Vistaprint or something where you can make your own canvases. And I'm going to put some fucking Mike Schilt quote and a picture of Mike Schilt up there right next to my Rocky quote in the bathroom. So you're going to get Rocky. It ain't about how hard you hit.

It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. It sure seems like Mike Schilt's bounced back nicely. Look, that day that they called him in and said, this meeting's not going to go how you think it's going to go. That day he took an L. But tonight he bounced back with a shutout victory over the Braves they're gonna win this series I look I want the Astros to win but I just don't really think they're that good I really like god when you watch the fucking Padres mash like just top to bottom in the order these guys they got some scary bats in there um and if the Astros were

healthy I would think they would too but um I really want the Padres to win. I want Mike – and then I want him to crotch chop when he's on the podium. And then I want him to like – I want him to take out his probably saggy old middle-aged man balls and hold them like a brain and say, suck on this, St. Louis. Ha, ha, ha, ha. And then I want him to like teabag Cardinals ownership in effigy. Like I want someone to bring out like a John Moseley lock and build the wit like a voodoo doll. And I want him to teabag that voodoo doll and say, suck on these cojones is what I want him to say. Cause that man deserved better.

And he's the, he's the kind of guy that baseball media people hate. Cause here's what we know about baseball media people they hate older white guys they fucking hate them now some guys kind of get a pass like bruce bocce older white guy they like him because you can't dislike a guy that's got a bunch of world series and has a cool mustache you can't do that but like remember when the white socks hired tony larusa the issue wasn't that they thought Tony La Russa would be a bad manager. They all bitched because he was old and he's white. They hate old white men, which is fascinating because the only people that watch baseball are old white men.

Yet the media people hate old white men managers. They just despise them. So the people around here were all kind of in favor of Schilt getting bounced because they get a hard-on when some young dude comes in that's in his 30s, early 40s, whatever, them so the people around here were all kind of in favor of uh Schilt getting bounced because they get a hard-on when some young dude comes in that's in his 30s early 40s whatever and they're like this guy he seems to know baseball he's got a good vibe about him and then of course he's been terrible and talking about Ali Marmal yet you know you dump the guy and you're happy that he's gone because he's kind of an old simpleton and he might not uh listen to the same analytical data shit

that you think is the most important thing ever I want that dude to win and i want him to win big i lord if the astros can't win the world series which i don't think we are we may not make it past game two uh let mike schilt win nobody wants to watch the dodgers win no offense philly nobody wants to watch you fuckers win you're the worst winners ever um nobody wants any of that shit Nobody wants to watch you fuckers win. You're the worst winners ever. Nobody wants any of that shit. Nobody wants to see the Braves. Nobody wants any of this. You know what people want? Mike Schilt, good old American baseball man, baseball lifer that got fucked by the Cardinals and he's cursed them ever since. They haven't won a playoff game since he got his ass fired. How about about that they're a dreadful franchise since they fired him he has cursed them and I want the curse to continue speaking of the

Astros um I don't like the idea of not pitching Kikuchi tomorrow like I get that Hunter Brown's pitched his balls off too but so is Kikuchi and I keep I keep reading well you know you're game three you want Kikuchi to go, oh, do you now? What if you don't get to game three? Just a thought. Now, maybe Kikuchi will suck if they started him, which they're not going to. They're going to start Brown. But I feel you got to get to game three. And too many people are just all like, well, game three, we got the advantage. Yeah, you might. You also have the advantage tomorrow. But I'd say you had kind of an even match today,

and you couldn't hit shit. So I don't know, kids. I think I'd go with Kikuchi tomorrow, guys. And also, and the main reason is because I wouldn't want to get to a scenario where if we recall two months ago when they traded for Kikuchi, everybody was melting down because they gave up so many prospects and so many players traded for Kikuchi, everybody was melting down because they gave up so many prospects and so many players to get Kikuchi and it was way too big of a haul for one pitcher. Then he comes out and he has a dominant 10 games since he got here. Wouldn't it be kind of a bullshit situation to have this guy not even pitch in the playoffs? Now, on one hand,

that's also a problem with this bullshit wild card, best two out of three stuff. But if you brought this guy in and traded away all the prospects and did everything you did to get him and dealt with all the controversy and all the issues, all that happened, and he doesn't even pitch, I'd have a problem with that. And if you think so much of hunter brown why can't hunter

brown pitch game three there's an idea thank you very much um boy i didn't see this earlier in the game for uh the mets so the mets first batter of the fifth inning when they're down four to three hits a ball to this dude he robs a home run next ball the guy commits an air and then the wheels just totally fall off of this shit for the and then the Mets were you know the Mets ended up blowing that game out I was way like I just took the favorites for the series victories in all of these and only one favorite won today so my series predictions for my bets not looking great right now so that is is what it is. That is life. But maybe they'll all bounce back.

I still think, and maybe it's because I'm a masochist, but I like to have a reason to root outside of just wanting the team to win. The Astros, I think, are about plus 150 to still win the series. I think I'm going to take them to win the series. There's no value to take them to win game two. They're heavy favorites in that. So I think I'm just going to take them to win the series there's no value to take them to win game two they're heavy favorites in that so I think I'm just going to take them to win the series because if Hunter Brown gets the victory I like my chances with Kikuchi in game three I would just prefer to see Kikuchi pitching game two

that's all but anyway uh Devontae Adams wants to get traded as well. What's new? This dude's a total malcontent. Look, I get it. It sucks to be with the Raiders. You're the asshole that decided to leave Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay for whatever reason. You're like, nope, I'm out of here. I'm going to the Raiders. I feel like you should be punished and be forced to stay with the Raiders because you left Aaron Rodgers back before he had a limp noodle of an arm

in New York back when he was still sort of Aaron Rodgers you're the asshole that made the decision to leave and go to the Raiders it's not like you left and said oh Aaron I'm gonna roll out and play with Patty Mahomes or I'm gonna roll out and play in San Francisco or I'm gonna go play somewhere where I got a chance to win no I'm going to leave Aaron Rodgers to go play. I believe you left to play with Derek Carr, you imbecile. You should be punished. They should never trade him. Like it says they're open to trading him. If I were the Raiders, I'd say, listen, friend, you're the dipshit that had a chance to keep playing with Aaron Rodgers, Hall of Famer, and you decided to take the bag and go play with Derek Carr. You deserve all the bad things coming your way. You deserve all the

ducks being thrown by either Aiden O'Connell or Gardner Minshew. You deserve this punishment. Like, but why don't you trade me to the Texans? No, you don't deserve to play with CJ Stroud, arguably the best up and coming quarterback in the league. No, you will play with Aiden O'Connell and you will like it. This is why you made this choice. Why don't you guys just trade me to, I think it'd be pretty cool if you guys would try to find a way to maybe get me to San Francisco. No. What about Kansas City? Can you trade me to Kansas City? No, we will not. I'll tell you where we will trade you. And then you just list all the shitty quarterback situations. You want to go play with the Panthers? Although their quarterback situation has gotten

better since they finally decided to bench the loser Bryce Young and start going with the Red Rooster but no you have to go actually you know what we're going to trade you to Miami while two is out you have to catch passes from Tyler Huntley and you will like it and if he gets hurt you will catch passes from Skylar Thompson and you will like it. Like he should not be rewarded for leaving Aaron Rogers to go play for the Raiders. That ain't the way to do it. That ain't a way to go, brother. Boy,

but I tell you guys, I think the Astros win tomorrow or today, depending on when you're listening to this, they don't have another scooble in there. And ninth inning got a little interesting. Like I left the house and like, Jilly's like, I think I'm going to take a nap. It was, like, the eighth inning, and she's like, I'm tired.

I'm going to take a nap. And I went to go get a sody pop at the McDonald's, but I put the game on anyway in the car. And at least they made it interesting. I took the bet for a home run from either Altuve or Yordan, and Yordan hits one off the damn wall in the bottom of the ninth son of a bitch son of a bitch about the Royals beating the Orioles one nothing the Orioles are just a clusterfuck once they get to the playoffs they're worthless one nothing losing

to the Royals you dopes ah well anyway uh just a little uh little uh little messages there for you guys here this evening or morning whenever i might just post i think i'm just gonna post this in the morning so you guys will wake up and you'll have a nice little nice little message from your boy and then we'll check in again after the astros game i saw someone i think espn has posted a story about how pete rose was the only person to blame for his tarnished legacy. And somebody posted like, it's only been 24 hours since the guy died and we're already doing this. Like, what's the proper amount of time that you have to wait before saying that a dude that was scummy was scummy? Or like, not even that he's scummy, but it's factual.

The reason why Pete Rose isn't in the hall of fame is because Pete Rose fucked himself. Pete Rose not only fucked himself when he bet on sports or bet on baseball, he fucked himself for the 15 years that he lied about it. Then when he needed cash and admitted it, uh, and got a book deal from it, like everything about that guy felt seedy. And he fucked a 15 year old that he thought was 16 weird on all fronts um like i it's just one of those guys i'll never get i know i've talked about this but i'll never understand and i guess it's a you had to be there thing but there's nothing about pete rose that interests me and i did when i was younger before i had a brain of my own and i was like 15 16 old. I was all in on like Pete Rose, Hall of Fame, let's go.

Also, this Becky Hammond's a frightening woman. I don't remember her looking so haggard. I thought, I guess becoming the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces is a very stressful job. Just looks old. You're allowed to say a lady looks haggard and old, right? I would say that. I would say that about her boy Popovich. Popovich has aged like a billion years in the last couple of years. He looks like an old leather shoe, like a old leather baseball mitt. Anyway. All right. Love you guys.