The Josh Innes Show - JIS Classic: Rome Segment From 2011

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

Hi guys.. I unearthed a treasure chest of audio from my Jim Rome Fill-In days. Here is something from 2011. This is me mocking sports radio. In fact, I think this is the sports radio robot. This big actually got me in trouble in Houston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

so sports radio in most cities consists of a couple of guys together usually with a wacky name fill in the blank in the coach something like that that. Bothering scat bike in the morning, here we go. That kind of thing. And what you're told to do, kind of what you're taught to do in sports radio, it depends on where you are. Some cities, people are just guaranteed to listen to you. If you're in New York City, people are always going to be tuned in and people are going to call.

And that's that type of radio in New York City where you pretend to be smarter than everybody for the most part. And you take calls and talk to them for a few minutes, tell them they're stupid, then you move on. Then there are different types. There's guy-type radio. There's all different types. But for the most part in your local cities, and most of you know this because you're in Paducah, Kentucky. No offense if there's anybody on the radio in Paducah, Kentucky.

Sorry about that. Or you're in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, wherever you are. And you're listening to the local guys there. And most of the time, the local guys there engage in the type of stuff you see on that little scroll on the side of SportsCenter with really awful sports questions, very lazy sports questions, very generic sports questions. On Monday, I was watching the Monday night football game. It was the Texans and the Jets. And on that night, Jim Tomey hit his 600th home run. He's like one of eight guys to do it. Only half of those guys are probably clean. So about four of those guys that have hit over 600

home runs are guys that probably either did steroids. We're going to find out they did steroids. They're probably dirty. So he's one of what, four guys that probably clean, although if you've played in this era, you're all part of it. If you're in this era, they're probably dirty. So he's one of, what, four guys that probably clean, although if you've played in this era, you're all part of it. If you're in this era, they're going to judge you differently. But the guys hit 600 home runs. Only eight guys have done that, and he's hit 600 home runs. So I'm watching the game. It's in the fourth quarter, and they do a tease for SportsCenter. Might have been Van Pelt. I don't know who it was. But the tease for SportsCenter. Jim Tomey hit 600 home runs, but is he a lock for the Hall of Fame? SportsCenter coming up next.

And it's that kind of question, that kind of lazy question, that kind of pandering question, that's what's killing sports radio. There aren't people that are original. People don't come up with anything out of the box. People are basically taught to be robots. People are taught to ask simple questions that people can answer. You know what I mean? It's basically, if you're listening to your radio right now, within five years,

I wouldn't be surprised if you have a robot doing your show. A mindless sports radio robot doing your afternoon talk show in Poughkeepsie. Hello, I am the lazy sports radio robot. I help provide lousy, lazy radio hosts with lousy, lazy radio topics. So what's going to happen? Basically, your radio, your sports radio is going to be a GPS. If that's the case, though, I'd like Burt Reynolds to voice my GPS. And they're going to ask, you know how sports radio hosts are.

Sports radio hosts, you know, Billy and the coach, they all have those kind of topics, especially in the summertime. Summertime when they have no football to talk about and they're not a city that's got good baseball or basketball. The robots are going to come out and talk about sports movies. What are the greatest sports movies of all time? I like Caddy Jack. What is your favorite? And that's the kind of stuff you're going to get on your local radio.

Guys that take lame topics. Guys that say, Yo, Michael Jordan might have been the greatest of all time, but what do you think Kobe? Could Kobe be the greatest of all time? And then you debate for five hours, and that's what you do. There's no originality, no creativity. It's talk about tired topics.

It's talk about Pete Rose going to the Hall of Fame. Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame? So there you go. That's the kind of stuff you get you get robots on the radio that are you know they're basically terminators what you're getting here they're created to give you lousy radio and you deserve better than that there's better chances out there there are better people out there there are creative people there are people whose job they say hey i want to come on the radio and entertain you.

And then there are people that pander to you. And that's what I call the Leno crowd, to go with a really dated reference. That's the Leno crowd. That's, hey, coming up next, jaywalking. Battle of the jaywalking all-stars. That kind of stuff. Lacks creativity. So that's what it is. Lazy radio topics.

1-800-636-8686. Another thing that Warren Moon said when he was talking about black quarterbacks, and they are judged differently, and I'm getting tweets, at JoshNS610, Warren Moon's a racist. If you watch a game, just watch it, or watch an analyst. Look at the way analysts evaluate white players. When there's a white guy that's good at something, a white guy has

a high motor. His motor's always running, man. Woo! You know who was a great example of that? David Pollock at Georgia. David Pollock at Georgia was a defensive lineman, and I think he got hurt and never made it into the league, and I think he's on radio in Atlanta or something like that. David Pollock at Georgia was a defensive lineman. And I think he got hurt and never made it into the league. And I think he's on radio in Atlanta or something like that.

David Pollock always had his motor running. The analysts on TV, whether it was ESPN, CBS, man, look at this guy. He's got it between the ears, and his motor is running. Look at him. Black player. He's a good athlete, man. That guy is a great athlete. But I think we're all guilty of that a little bit.

Like you watch a basketball game, and white guys don't play basketball for the most part. They try. I played basketball. I wore goggles. I was terrible. I was awful. Got dunked on. My glasses broke in high school.

I was that guy. Showered with my underwear on. I mean, that's what I did in high school. I was on the basketball team, but only because the coach felt sorry for me and I did the PA work. I guarantee you, you've never found a guy who was part of the starting lineup

and also the PA announcer who announced himself as he ran out. I was Jackie Moon before Jackie Moon. And now, and I always had to hype myself up too. You would have thought I was the greatest player in the universe. And now, standing standing six foot four weighing 225 pounds he's on the radio he's relatively good looking he doesn't get any action but hey ladies you can you can give it here we go it's your center josh and then they pull me after like 30 seconds and put the black guy in and then

i never got back into the game again that's's kind of how it went, you know? But that's life. But if you watch a basketball game and you see a white guy, the first thing you say is, man, the white guy can play a little bit. That's just the way people are. But, you know, when the analysts do it, you know, man, let me tell you, that black quarterback, I just don't know if he's got it between the ears. You know what I mean? And you ever notice that in an analyst's mind there's no black guy that has a good work ethic well you know they say if he'll get in the film room he's got a shot i've never heard of a white guy who's never in the

film room like peyton manning let me tell you something first in last to leave always in the film room that's peyton manning i mean that guy right there but you could talk about any black quarterback and it's well i tell you he needs to get in the film room. That guy, he never studies. He's not astute in the game, guys. 1-800-636-8686. You can find me on Twitter, at JoshNS610. We played the Matt Bowie earlier for you.

You know, I debate with myself all the time. I say, Josh, because I talk to myself like that, Josh, should you play the Matt Bowie? And I always judge it based on whether something makes me laugh or not. If it makes me laugh still, I say other people might laugh at that. But I also think Coach is funny. So maybe I'm not the best judge of humor. 1-800-636-8686.

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