The Josh Innes Show - JIS Classic: Josh Calls Canada After Trump Wins In 2016

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

Back when Trump won the election in 2016, many American celebrities claimed they were moving to Canada. We called Canada and asked which American celebrities they'd welcome up north. This was from November 2016 on Sports Talk 790 in Houston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Truck Month is awesome! Ask your Chevrolet dealer for details. Look out Canada, Lena Dunham's coming. And hell's coming with her. Welcome in 402 Josh and his show. So we're going to call Canada here in a second. Then Canada may call us in the six o'clock hour. Look at that. Michael Commodore

former hockey player, Mike Commodore has tweeted out a picture of his, uh, his passport and his actual email address. I emailed it and it sounded legit. Says all American women. I am single and a Christian Canadian citizen. I am now quote, wife applications. Email me your resumes. Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's about time that American women got love in the mail order thing. It's always been the Russians and stuff. But one day in, Donald Trump's elected,

and now the American women are back at the standing they deserve. And I know that this guy is not British, so this doesn't work. But when I think of guys like coming to America, looking to score with women. I think remember love actually Yes, I know the movie. I haven't seen it But I know the guy the guy Colin comes in from you know Britain or wherever England where he is the hell he is

He goes He goes I'm going to a place to look for love. It's a place called Wisconsin like I just think of these things or like if for some reason in my mind He's like the the the big breast, the wild and crazy guys from SNL. I come here looking for your big American breasts. They're too wild and crazy guys. All right, you want to try to call Canada, Jim?

I do. Let's try to call somewhere in Canada. You've written down a couple of towns. There's something called Okotox, Alberta. O-K-O-T-O-K-S. Okotox, Alberta. Yep. OK-O-T-O-K-S. Okotox, Alberta. I couldn't even tell you where the hell any of these places are.

Me neither. Like, if you showed me a map of Canada, I couldn't lay out where the provinces are and where they go. Me neither. But I'll tell you what, I saw a lot of pictures of Canada when I was doing my research. And I think I'd kind of like to go there.

I'd like to visit. They seem like small town America. They look like nice people. Like, Ontario must be far east, because that's where Toronto is. So I'm guessing Ontario to go there. I'd like to visit. They seem like- Looks like small town America. They look like nice people. Like Ontario must be far east because that's where Toronto is. So I'm guessing Ontario's over there. But I couldn't tell you where- And Vancouver's to the west, right?

What are these seven, how many provinces are there in Canada? I don't know. Seven? Well there's Alberta, there's Saskatchewan, there's Nova Scotia. Manitoba? Manitoba, I don't think Manitoba's one of the provinces. I think it is. It is? Okay, then maybe it is.

Quebec, is that one of the provinces? It's a city, right? Well, no, but I mean there's Quebec City Quebec. I think Quebec is one of them. Okay. What we're telling you is we're stupid. But anyway, so yeah, all these people that probably couldn't locate any of these places

in Canada on the map are gonna go to Canada, is what I'm telling you. Let's try to call someone here. All right we'll try Akatox, Alberta. Original Joes in Akatox, Alberta. See what people think of the celebrities and Trump etc. Let's try this. See if our phone works this time. Alright. We're sorry, your call did not go through. Will you please hang up and try your call again? I'm baffled by our phone system, Jim.

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7001. Let's try it again. Fingers crossed. You're sorry. Your call did not go through. We tested this out. We did. So are we not allowed to call Canada? Is that it? I called it from the office. Oh, well, I'm baffled by this. Let me try another number.

Every time we want to dial out on this damn phone. I know. Every time we want to dial out. It's like, Erickson's got a governor on the phone. Let's see. Should I try another line? Try another line. I'll try Boy, I mean we are just dumb if we can't figure out the phone

How we gonna get to Canada if we can't call there? I know let's try it here We're a clown show I keep calling Kaepernick a clown. Oh, oh. Oh, it's ringing again. You did it. Original Jokertowns, how can I help you? Yeah, who's speaking, please? Hello? Sorry, can you repeat? Hello, my name is Josh. I work on the radio in Houston, Texas. How are you? I'm good, thank you. Good. You're I'm letting you know we're calling you on the radio right now.

Are you guys in? How do you say the name of the town? Akka talks? Just give me a moment. I can give you my manager. Okay. Well, I don't really need your I don't really need your manager. I just want to converse with you for a second.

If that's okay. I'm not a weirdo or anything. Okay, I'm sorry, I just, my phone is like, I can hardly hear you because our phone is something wrong with our phone. Okay, well can you hear me now? A little bit, yes. Alright, so I'll just talk a little bit louder. It's probably our phone that's messed up, okay?

Okay. Alright, so have you seen all the stories about all the celebrities in America who are going to move to Canada? Yeah, we watched something like that. Yeah, it was going on, something. So what are your thoughts on that? I mean, do you want the American celebrities coming to your place, to your cities? Be honest with you, my opinion, I don't get involved in that, so I rather stay on the

side from that hole. Okay, so do you know anything about Trump? Not so much. Not so much? So let me ask you this, then I'll get away from politics. So what goes on in Akatox, Alberta? Basically right now nothing much. Is there anybody in the bar?

Like in my mind in Canada people are drinking like all day. Is there anybody in the bar, like in my mind, in Canada, people are drinking like all day. Well, they drink when they want and you know, they not only drink all day, they also work. So yeah, like you know, it's a normal lifestyle kind of right now. Do people in Alberta, is it like a lot of French speaking people there? Oh yeah, for sure. Where are you from? Original from Ukraine. Oh, you're from the Ukraine.

How'd you end up in Akatoks, Alberta? I'm sorry. It's a long story, and I work right now, and it's a restaurant, so we're kind of busy. Can you call another time? Sure, I'll give you a call back. OK, thank you. Appreciate that.

Bye-bye. Even though she was completely flustered with me, she was still so polite. Oh, so polite. I should have known she was from the Ukraine. She sounded like Svetlana on Shameless. Boy, like they're so, like I called North Dakota once and they're all talkative

and North Dakota's basically Canada. Yeah, it's Canada South. All right, so I guess we gotta just call from a different phone line. The one line we were calling out on just doesn't work. Okay, she was so afraid. It's like, listen, I'm not gonna get the guy that sent you over here to come chop your head off

or anything like that, that sold you into sex slavery or something like that. I'm not gonna do that. Everyone I called in Canada said, oh, we've gotta talk to my manager. Like, no one will talk to you. No one will make a decision. These managers are a very, they must be like,

they rule with iron feast. They're scurry. I rule with iron feast. All're scurry. I rule with iron feast all right moose and squirrel All right, should we try another place in Okotoks, Alberta? Yeah, let's try another place Maybe you should ask for the manager right off. I probably should I need to speak with your manager. Yes All right, let's see here. I'm gonna dial from just a normal phone line here. They obviously couldn't hear us very well I thought we fixed that engineering So they fixed it. Let's see here

403 is it nine nine five like you have Writing well, I know because I'm brilliant. I wrote a study Let's see if we can talk to anyone Original Joe's now we're calling John Henry's pub What was that Who is this It's Tom's house of pizza. Oh, okay. So, where are you guys located? We're in 235 Milligan Drive. Oh, cool.

This is Alec Baldwin. I'm going to be moving up to Canada soon, and I was just looking for a place to get some pizza. Okay. What is the best pizza you guys have? We have our house special. And what's on that? Salami, pepperoni, mushroom, black olive, onion, Italian sausage and beef.

Oh, that sounds tasty. Well, what I'm probably going to have to do is when I move up there to Canada, I'm going to bring my friend Lena Dunham with us from the television show Girls and we were looking for a place to stay. Are you guys in Ocatox, Alberta? Yes, we do. Okay, so what we'll do then is we'll go find you in Ocatox, Alberta. We'll get the house special, me, Lena Dunham, and maybe Samuel L. Jackson, okay?

Okay. All right, good talking with you. Have a nice day. You too. Bye-bye. You're dope. I have no idea what she was saying. I couldn't understand.

I thought we called like a Chinese restaurant or something. I couldn't understand what was happening. That said John Henry's Pub, but I don't even know what the hell the name. Maybe I dialed one number wrong? Your handwriting sucks, Jim. I know, I told you I read a study. I honestly got out of... I'm glad that you read a study. You're a horrible writer. You can't write. You don't know time zones. You can't spell. I'm glad you read a study. I'm glad you have the ability to read studies, Jim. I'm so happy happy for you I expected to hear an Irish

accent hello that was not Irish I'm not good at accents all right you want should we try one more one more all right let's call one more all right let's see here all right let's see let me try one more here now we're gonna go to Quebec no Timmons Ontario we're gonna call Timmons Ontario J.C.'s Pub all right let's see here J.C.'s Pub 268 now I can't read my own damn handwriting but I read a study so I'm brilliant there you go wonder if they speak any more if I can understand what they're saying more in Ontario they had the same ring we do here the toilets flush backwards right no evidently things are

not hopping at JC's pub in Timmins, Ontario. Or maybe they are. Maybe that's it. Maybe that is it. Now not to be confused with JC's Pub, I also have a JT's Pub that I've written down as well, so. I can go to that, whatever. Yep.

Alright, we're gonna skip that one. Now we're gonna go to Prince Albert Saskatchewan. Is it Saskatchewan? Yes, Saskatchewan. Alright, so let's try that one. Let's go. JT's go to Prince Albert Saskatchewan. Is it Saskatchewan? Yes Saskatchewan. Alright, so let's try that one. Let's go. JT's pub in Prince Albert. If nothing else, I'll ask if they have Prince Albert in a can. There you go.

As if we haven't heard that before. I don't know why they sound the way they sound when I do that. I'm the worst at doing voices all of a sudden. Do you have a minute, Khan? Maybe all of Canada's hip to our jives. Hi, my name's Josh. I work at a radio station in Houston, Texas. How are you?

Hey, really good and you? Good. I'm on the radio now. You guys are you? Hey, really good and you? Good. I'm on the radio now. You guys are at JT's Pub in Prince Albert? Yes. Well, I'm calling people in Canada to find out what they think about the celebrities from America moving to Canada. Have you heard about any of this?

No, not at all. Well, have you heard of Donald Trump? Oh, yes. What do people in Canada think of Donald Trump? A lot of people have missed the motions and yeah, it's pretty crazy that he's kind of bought his way into it. But yeah, hopefully he doesn't screw up everything. Everybody's more afraid of losing everything now that he's in power. So what, people in Canada are afraid of losing everything?

Well, yeah, they're just worried and even in the stock market crashing, that's all that people have been yapping about today, you know, and like ladies checking out of the hotel are just kind of freaking out because they follow the politics a lot more than I do and yeah, it's pretty crazy stuff. Do people, like, in my opinion, I've never been to Canada, but from what I gather, people in Canada are never upset about anything It just seems like the happiest place ever. Well, yeah, that's That's a lot of the facade, but I mean, yeah a lot of people just keep shit to themselves. I mean stuff to them

That's okay. We'll dump that you're fine. That's fine. We're among friends here you potty-mouthed Canadian Jew Yeah, it's pretty crazy though. Like I don't know. Hopefully it all goes well. But yeah, I try not to follow the news and the politics because it's just so depressing and sad. Let me go down a list of things, and I'm glad. And what was your name again? Darren. Darren.

I'm Josh, and Jim is here as well, and we're on the radio in Houston. I will tell you that. Let me go down a list of celebrities, and you tell me if you know who they are and if you would welcome them into Canada, okay okay Lindsay Lohan yeah for sure oh wow you were quick on that why do you like Lindsay Lohan she's pretty cute did you see mean girls oh yeah yeah she's still pretty good in it though yeah she looked

good in that I don't know about now she looks kind of broken down yeah true evidently in Canada but like the bus station skank look is very big, evidently, if you still like Lindsay Lohan. Oh yeah, well it's a lot better than some of the people up in Canada here. Oh, so really are the women ugly in Canada? No, it's just a really small city, so yeah, it's kind of wild. I actually picked all the places in Canada. You can find Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

How many people are in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan? I think it's like 35,000 people. Really? It's not big at all. What's the big industry there? What do people do? There used to be a lot of forestry, pulp and paper, but that's all shut down now, so now it's just...

Drinking? I don't know, a lot of farming. A lot of farming and getting drunk at the JT's pub? Oh yes. Alright, let me name some other ones for you, Darren. Katy Perry. Yeah, let me name some other ones for you, Darren. Katy Perry. Oh yeah, oh yeah, for sure. Oh, well yeah, I mean, I think she's better than Lindsay Lohan. What do you like about Katy Perry? Yeah, she's a lot better looking too, good singer, and

yeah, be good for public relations, I think, yeah. And she's probably got better breasts than any of the women in Prince Albert. Yeah, I would rank her up there, yeah. Let's see here, Madonna. Madonna, yeah, for sure she can come to Canada. But Darren, she's rough looking now, Darren. Yeah, I know, I know, but if you like throwing a hot dog down the hallway, but she still would be fine. Yeah, look at you, look at you.

That can't be fun, you won't feel anything, Darren. Oh, hey, you never know. It'll be okay. She's been around the block. You're fine. You're fine, Darren. Hold on. Do you know Charlie Palillo? Let me give you a couple more here, okay? Okay. All right. Let's go to Chloe Kardashian. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now you're just thinking about hot chicks. I don't know. Yeah. Kardashians can come down here. Are there any black men or women in Prince Albert?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, for sure. For sure. Really? I did not know that. So I would have thought like, I didn't know black people were in Canada. And if they are, they play hockey. Oh no, there's quite a lot. Yeah, actually. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What about Cher? Cher. Oh yeah. Cher could come to Canada.

What do you know about Cher? I don't know. The lots, I guess, like Sunny and Cher. I don't know. She's a lot older now. I think she did her last tour on a wheelchair. I don't know, maybe. No, I don't think, I don't know. She's a lot older now. I think she did her last tour on a wheelchair. I don't know, maybe. No, I don't think, I don't know if that happened actually. What do you know, do you know the

song I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher? Oh yeah, yeah. How's it go? Um, I, yeah, I, I Got You Babe, I think how it goes. Yeah, that's pretty solid. Um, alright, let's see, let me give you a couple more and then I'll let you on your merry way here. Okay, no problem. You're basically confirming all the stereotypes though about Canada in that you're fine with

everybody. I haven't named one person where you're just like, oh hell no, no. Okay, well maybe you'll get to that list, I don't know. I don't know. What about Lorde? Have you heard of Lorde? Not The Lorde, but the singer Lorde. No, I haven't. There you go. I wouldn't let him in because I don't know him. Well, that's a lady. How about Snoop Dogg? Yeah, Snoop Dogg could come into PA for sure. Yes, oh yeah. So the people in PA love Snoop Dogg, huh? Oh yeah, there's lots of bud smokers here, that's for sure.

Oh really? That can't be much else to do except smoke bud, right? No, yeah, exactly. How many people are in the bar right now? I think there's about 15 right now. Really? What time is it there? It is 4.30. Okay, so we're in the same time zone. That's good. Oh cool.

Yeah, I know, right? So, but listen, I may just call you just randomly and talk with you. I like you, Darren. For sure. I work Monday to Friday, 7 to 3, anytime, bud. That would be awesome. That would be an honor. Hey, so just who's your favorite hockey team? Hockey team, I would say the Maple Leafs. Oh, you like the Maple Leafs?

They haven't been as good recently, right? What? The Maple Leafs. They haven't been as good in recent history. No, I know, I know. But I mean, like, I kind of lived in Toronto for a while so I was always stuck with them. A lot of people like the Calgary Flames here because it's closer to Saskatchewan, but yeah, I like the maple leaves. So, do you have a girlfriend, Darren? Oh, heck yeah, for sure. I run in the hotel. It's always a different one every few days.

I get bugged here all the time. You get what? I get bugged by all the staff here all the time. The girls that they're interested in you? Yeah, but I mean like the males bug me because it's always like a different business chick every few days that comes in our hotel. Oh, so you're a player. I probably shouldn't be saying this on the air,

but yeah, that's a really good job. Wow, so like, how old are you? I'm actually 42. Really, so you're a 42 year old, and you sound like you're 11. But so, you're 42 years old, it wasn't a compliment, but you're 42 years old, and you've got all these women coming in,

and like, you bed them in the hotel? No, no, no, not here. Not allowed to be in any of the rooms in the hotel. That's public property when I'm working. So I mean after hours is a different story. And yeah, I have my own place. I live in PA. You got to have your own house.

So what do they do? Like, so they're business women. They see you. Are you like, what do you do? Like a concierge? Well, no, you work at the bar inside the hotel lobby. No, I'm just a front desk. So I'm always shirt and tie, suit, so

yeah, I don't know and I'm just really friendly to everybody so it sure makes a difference and helps. How do they proposition you? Well, I guess first it's all like oh is there any place to go to do you see and then I'm like sure and then here's a number in case you board or want a tour and then I get a phone call not every time but most of the time and then I'm on a date.