The Josh Innes Show - JIS: God, Guns and Automobiles

Episode Date: May 25, 2022

Josh Innes and Jilly open the show discussing the shooting in Texas. This conversation makes up most of the podcast. Josh struggles to post empty messages on Twitter regarding the shooting. Do we really need sports radio guys or wacky FM DJ's saying "Man, SMDH"? What exactly does this accomplish? Josh has no issues with anyone stating an opinion, everyone should have one, but the idea that "SMDH" is a viable solution annoys him.Josh feels there is no chance in hell anyone comes together to solve these issues because no one in power actually wants to. Why would they? If people are happy, what purpose to politicians serve? The catholic church has thoughts on protecting kids. Josh has thoughts on the catholic church. Jilly was dumb and got Luther's Instagram suspended. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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going to be part of something, he just shows up. He asked if he could come up. Yesterday he sent me a message and said, hey, do you mind if I come up on Wednesday? And I said, no, we probably need to take a day. You a little break in there and it kind of worked out well because of all this stuff that went down uh in texas i don't know that you know doing gene simmons bits would have worked as well you know day after but uh so he's going to be up at the radio station tomorrow which means you'll probably get some more content there uh from craig he's got

tons of stories we love and the thing about that, which was great, is like on the air, you know, we tell a lot of the stories we've told before. And they're funny and you laugh and the impressions are great. We really just had a good time shooting the shit about stuff. So probably more of that, if I had to guess. You need to get him to retweet that link to the podcast so we get some of his people in here. Yeah, I can get him to do that. I guess. Like I own him. Hey, bitch. Retweet this. I don't think you follow him on Twitter. Yeah, I can get him to do that. I guess. Like, I own him.

Hey, bitch. Retweet this. I don't think you follow him on Twitter. Really? I noticed that the other day. Yeah, you should probably follow Craig. And we're such good friends. He says such nice things about me.

Yeah, maybe I'll go follow him now from your account. Maybe that's what you should do. And that way, tomorrow, you can get him to tweet the link. There you go. But so tomorrow, we'll probably talk with Craig Gass again. And on Friday, we're planning a drinking show on Twitch our triumphant return oh boy for a night of drinking Jim Mudd's gonna join us he's he's booked uh I'm trying to get PK and DK to hang maybe Tank I'll reach out to him and see

and we'll see what's cooking there but a Friday night drinking show any requests feel free to tweet them we'll see what we can do see if you want to hear anybody on there, please let us know. But anyway, glad you guys are with us today. Obviously, that shit that went down in Uvalde was not good, obviously. It is. But here's the thing. Let's start here, right? There's this weird desire of people on social media to let you know that something was terrible.

I don't need to know that like if you want to offer a solution I'm all for it if you say hey we need to do blank blank and blank and this is my suggestion for it that's fine but like if all you have to offer is we've got to do something you might just be better off tweeting nothing and it looks like you're just self-serving and some posts just say boy that was terrible no shit i think i find me one person who doesn't think that was terrible if you're okay with this you're a fucking monster no one's okay with it like literally no one looked at that and goes man i am thrilled that a bunch of kids died that is spectacular uh nobody's doing that uh but like i really hate people really hate people who do that. Like, I don't like,

like, I don't know when this became the case. Maybe social media is what caused it, or now it's just being exposed more because of social media, but the desire of people to just like, make sure the world knows that they're sad about something. I can't do that. Like, it's not that I don't feel bad. It's not that it's not a horrible story, but I can't just sit there and run to social media and have empty, you know, empty messages. Like that is so sad or like, man, that's kids, man. Like I see a lot of sports radio guys do this. They'll say, man, kids shaking my damn head.

Like that was pointless. Like what? Like add something or say nothing like that doesn't do anything. I have no issue with people like debating about it, even talking about offering like what can we do how can we change this what not just to go on there and just say boy man all them kids that's so sad hug your babies like okay we get it you're sad but what's happened is like this world now is like like i've had a rando message me like you didn't post anything what are you not really about this yeah really somebody sent you a message over there yeah like if you don't post like that doesn't you not upset about this? Yeah. Really? Somebody sent you a message over there?

Yeah. Like if you don't post, like that doesn't mean you don't care. Yeah, fuck you, man. It doesn't mean you're not affected by it. It doesn't mean that you don't think it's fucking horrendous. Or it doesn't mean like, oh, you're just numb to it. Or what are you? Some sort of conservative gun.

No, I like they honest to God, your thoughts and prayers mean nothing. Real talk. When you tweet things like your thoughts and prayers, you're essentially just, it's almost like you're doing it to not just comfort yourself, but to let people know. It's like, it's like a status symbol, almost like thoughts and prayers are kind of a status symbol, right? I've seen radio hosts like post a tweet, like, boy, this is unbelievable, except that it's not anymore.

We've got to do better. And then they slap a radio station logo on it. It's like, are you just trying to promote your station? It's just a bad look to me. We've got to do better. No shit. Boner and Skidmark in the morning. No shit, we have to do better.

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To me, this is not a thing that you devote an entire, especially a music radio show to. I mean, it happened. It's bad. It sucks. But I try to weave it in and out. And I guess in the format I'm in, it's more conducive to talking about this than say like a top 40,

which is, I don't know that our morning show here in town on the top 40 talk much about it. I'm sure they mention it. It's worth, if it's a talk show too, like me just talking up records, I didn't feel like it was really the time or place.

Because there's no good way to do it. Yeah. There's no way you could talk about something that heinous as you're talking into a Credence song. Like there's no way to do that, hit a post and like, it doesn't work that way. It's just going to come across sounding crass and it's never going to work. Ours was a little bit more, you know, we do a little bit more talk. Our audience leans more into that kind of political realm as well.

So it makes it easier to do that. But there are just so many people who say shit just to make themselves feel better and then have no solution for anything. I'm not an expert on this shit. I don't have the end-all, be-all solution for it. But the people that are the worst, and by the way, it has to be political. When people say, don't make it political, it's political. On on both sides there's no way to change it it is a political topic and and and the reality is like there are things like it is bad that this stuff happens

but it's also reality that if you look at the number of people who die every year and you look at the number of gun deaths every year gun deaths make up a very very small percentage of gun deaths every year. Gun deaths make up a very, very small percentage of the deaths in America. Now, some of that's unfair because people just die of natural causes. They die of old age. There's infant mortality. There's SIDS and stuff like that. I mean, not everything is just someone died of an outside cause. Some people just die of natural causes. Sometimes people die during childbirth. And those are all pieces of the data that are out there when you're talking about the death of people. But if you look at the overall death total and you compare it to what you've got in,

let's see, guns and homicides in particular, the homicide numbers are incredibly small. Gun homicide numbers. Doesn't mean that things can't be fixed, but it's a very small number. And inside that very small number of people who die from gun homicides is people who die in mass shootings and in particular in schools because they define mass shootings as four or more people. And you can debate whether or not that's a mass shooting or not. But what happens is I think the media covers certain things and they become bigger stories. And it makes it seem like it's just an everyday common occurrence that somebody goes into a school and blast the school, which is not even remotely true. I mean, when you look at the actual numbers on things that cause death, and I'm not

doing this to troll and I'm not doing this to try to downplay what it is, and I'm not doing it to support guns. I don't give a fuck about guns. I don't have a gun. I don't want to have a gun. I shoot guns at this place for a radio promotion, and I've gotten the opportunity to shoot a semi-automatic type of thing, like a military weapon once there. It was neat. I can see why people get into it. It's not for me. But this is not a political stance saying, don't take our guns, motherfucker.

But the reality is, and here's one of the things that I've seen a lot today. There's two things that stand out to me that I've seen from people on social media, two of which I think you can expand upon. One of them is the idea that, well, why do these people even need these weapons? Now, that's fair. Like, do you need a military-style weapon to survive? No, you don't. But if your argument is, why do they need this? Then that logic can be applied to virtually every other thing that is, that is not needed.

Do you need cigarettes? No, I don't know that. I don't believe unless I'm wrong. I don't believe there is one positive that comes from smoking cigarettes. Not one part. Cigarettes are like a self-inflicted thing. They are. But again, the argument is, do you need that? Because most of the people that have one of these military weapons, they just use them to shoot at the gun range or in their yard or whatever, right? Most people who own these guns are not going into a school and shooting them up, right? So the idea that everybody who's got an AR-15 is some Trump Republican

wacko and they're going to shoot up a school. Well, that's not right either. Again, it's a very small percentage of people. But again, if the argument is why is this needed? Most things that we enjoy are things we don't need. We need water. We need oxygen. We need a roof over it. We need to eat, right? Those are the things we need. Transportation, right? Do you need a car that goes more than 75 miles per hour? Not really, because the speed limit, generally speaking, is 75 miles per hour. That's the highest you're going to get somewhere, low end, 10 miles. I've seen 80.

Okay, 80. Let's just say it's 80, right? Or if you're in Montana, there are big stretches of road that have, at least in the past, had no speed limit. Just go, right? Fine. If you have a situation where you are very rarely ever going to need to go over 75 miles per hour, then why even have cars that go over that? Why do you need

a Bugatti? Why do you need a Spyder? Why do you need a Ferrari? You don't, but you have them because they're fun and it makes you feel good. And if you find the right stretch of open road, you get that bitch up to 120, 130, and it's great. But you don't need a car that goes over that. You don't need cigarettes. You like to smoke. You're addicted to them. There's zero redeeming quality about cigarettes, but you can get them because you're allowed to get them. Do you need alcohol? No. I'd argue that many, many bad things come from alcohol. Some great. Alcohol can be fun if done right. Same can be said with guns or whatever. If handled in the right manner, a lot of things that are bad are fine. The wrong person

gets them. Not good, right? But alcohol, you look at alcohol and you say, well, you know what? Alcohol really has very little redeeming quality either. And in fact, you get 95,000 deaths per year in America from alcohol-related incidents, 46,000 deaths a year from cars. Like, tell me this. We sit back and we go, this must change. We need to stop. Well, there are 46,000 car-related deaths a year in America, okay? How many of those are from 15-year-old kids, 16-year-old kids that just got their license and they're not as adept at texting and driving as I am, and they die, or they rear-end somebody, or they hit a car, and they injure somebody else. I would guess that's a lot of them, right? But we're not

arguing that you take away cars, and we're not arguing that you shouldn't be able to buy a Bugatti or a Ferrari or a Porsche. We don't argue that you shouldn't be allowed to buy cigarettes or drink alcohol, but these are all bad things. Of course, we also fight for the right for abortions, right? That's a very big talking point now. Abortions, abortions are bad, right? That you've shown me multiple tweets from morons out there that say, oh, these Republicans want to take away my right to choose, but they want to kill kids. You realize how dumb you sound when you are arguing for the right for you to kill a kid, but it's a problem when somebody else kills a fucking kid. Like, like they're all hypocrites and everybody is brain dead when it comes to this stuff and they're fucking nuts. But why do I say

all this stuff? I say this because you can turn anything into something bad. Again, go back to the car example, right? Like, actually, let me rewind. One of the things I've seen from people related to guns is, well, we shouldn't let 18-year-old kids buy guns. Well, you're an adult. You can go to the military when you're 18. You mean to tell me you can shoot a gun in the military, but you can't have a gun to protect your house if you're 18?

But I think there just has to be, like, there has to be a better process. Like, I was reading about this kid. This kid bought these online, basically, and went and picked them up at a store. Like, it shouldn't be that easy to get an AR-15. Well, no, and I think that's fair. And I think that there's a debate to be had there where there's a, again, everything's got a middle ground.

But what happens is you deal with lunatics on both sides. And on one side, they don't even want to hear your other argument, right? Like, I could say the same analogy I made about the cars or the alcohol. Like, in America, we have legalized many things that have zero redeeming qualities that can kill you and kill many more people than guns do every year. And by the way, how many of those gun deaths are from suicide? About half of the gun deaths every year from people killing themselves. And I'd like to know what percentage of the ones who aren't suicide are gang related incidents. You know what I mean?

It's a very small number of people who die from homicides via gun, right? It is a very small number. But when people bring this up, one of the arguments they've made, I'm just letting you know what I've seen on social media that have responded to me. Well, I think 21 is how old you should have to be to buy a gun and you should have to go through a background check. Totally cool with the idea of a background check. That said, the people in this dude's house, the dude's grandfather, had no idea that he even bought the AR-15s and really had no idea that he was fucking nuts.

So even if he would have done a background check, which I'm totally cool with, when I make this argument, people come back at me and say, oh, you're an idiot that doesn't want background checks. Absolutely not. Do the background checks. Find out if people are certifiable wacko or not the reality is there are people who are fucking nuts who have no criminal record and can hide

the fact that they're fucking nuts yeah they haven't snapped yet how many people knew that john wayne gacy had a hundred kids buried under his house none of them did because he was just a happy guy he was a clown you didn't know he was fucking nuts you didn't know he was just picking up dudes fucking them killing them and burying them under his house you None of them did because he was just a happy guy. He was a clown. You didn't know he was fucking nuts. You didn't know he was just picking up dudes, fucking them, killing them, and burying them under his house. You didn't know that because these guys hide it. So even in that case, would a background check have been one of those things where you go, oh yeah, look, this guy's clearly fucking nuts. Don't give him a gun. Now, there are plenty of issues involved in this. Like, it's weird to me that you can just go to a gun show and, you know, buy an AR-15 at a convention center. It's weird, but- This kid ordered it online.

Like, again, I don't know all the details on- I picked it up. Yeah, it's, there are issues in that regard. Yeah. But the thing is, and this is important to note, when you really dig into the numbers, which I don't think a lot of these people do, they operate on emotion. And that's all they've got because they don't have concrete data. It's always how many kids have to die. And anytime someone dies, it fucking sucks,

especially when it's eight year old, nine year old kids. And you see the pictures and it's fucking gross and it sucks that this happened. But what you don't see is that that little, that, that number of people who are dying in this way is so small. To me, and then this is when people come back at you, because here's what I'm going to offer them to that. I will contend to them that we've got people that have serious mental issues. We've got people who, I would argue that social media and the internet is a much greater threat. This is going to sound ridiculous, but it's a much greater threat than guns are because

the people on social media the people on the internet there are people who can radicalize you on the internet it's vitriolic on the internet it's divisive on the internet i think if you already have mental issues this can exacerbate and that i think is what happened in the case of the shooter from what i was reading like he was bullied you know you always hear the stories oh he was a loner he was bullied on social media in person. Like, you know, but the social media stuff is making people more mentally ill. Sure. And again, like it's possible for multiple things to be true. It can be true that having gun laws in place that can make things tougher for guys to get these, that can be true. And I can

be down with that, but I can also tell you that you've got a mental health issue. You have got drug issues. You have got people losing their minds on social media. Dude, I'm an adult male and I can't look at social media because it drives me fucking batty. I'm 35 years old. Imagine being 17 and this is the only world you've ever known. Also imagine being 17 and I'm not defending this kid. I don't know his backstory. But imagine being 17, 18, 16, 17 years old. You're trapped in your house for a year and a half, basically, due to the Rona. You have no friends. There's no communication.

You go kind of fucking crazy. You become even more of a loner. All you have to do is sit there and read the internet and all this bullshit. Like, of course it could drive you mad. Not saying that's what happened with him, but I can see where that's happening and people are becoming more loners and they're not extroverted and they don't have interpersonal communication. See, these are all valid. So the problem we have though, is if you go to social media, social media is a world where it's either you think guns are the biggest issue that we have

in this country and it must stop, or you think that liberals are lunatics and they're trying to take your guns. There is a middle ground, and maybe we should just call this the middle ground. It's not very sexy, but we're in the middle ground on this. And you can call me a pussy. You can call me a coward. I really don't give a shit. But it is possible to have a debate about this. And this leads us to another point, common sense, right? That's the argument I've seen. We need common sense gun reform. Well, nobody can explain to you what this common sense gun reform is. They just see this on the news and they read it in someone else's meme and they say, well, we need common sense gun reform. I don't trust a country that wants kids to not choose

their gender until they're seven, or not give a kid a boy or a girl name out of the womb because it's their choice what they're going to be. I don't know if I trust those people with fucking common sense. Well, you said the middle. My apologies. You said the middle ground, and this really should be an issue of like both sides need to agree. All these kids are dead, and that's terrible. Yep. You need to meet in the middle. You're not going to get one side's going to win and one side's need to agree. All these kids are dead, and that's terrible.

Yep. You need to meet in the middle. You're not going to get one side's going to win and one side's going to win. They've got to meet in the middle. And if this isn't going to bring sides together, which it's not, sadly. It's not. Nothing will. I don't know what the answer is.

And you know why things aren't going to come together. Because there's no power in unity. Unity ends it all. Coming together means that there's no more bad guy there's no more boogeyman and people need the boogeyman why do you need the the random stories about white nationalists because you need to create a boogeyman the guy that shot up the supermarket you need that guy to keep the boogeyman narrative going why did like for the the liberal the republicans they need a boogeyman who's the boogeyyman? Joe Biden's coming to take your fucking guns.

Everybody needs a boogeyman. That's how this cycle works. That's how this thing operates. That's how the wheel turns. And if you don't have that, it's dead. And then like, because if everybody got along, okay, how about this? Willy Wonka, like the last line in the movie, Willy Wonka. They're in the movie Willy Wonka.

They're in the great glass Wonka Vader, and they hold on, Charlie, and they shoot through the glass ceiling, and they're up above in the sky, and look, Grandpa, there's my school. There's our house, Charlie. And Willy Wonka offers Charlie the opportunity to move his entire family into a chocolate factory, which I didn't see any bedrooms or anything in there, but whatever. It's nicer than the shack that they lived in where they were sleeping four to a fucking bed. But when they're up there, Charlie says, he looks at Willy Wonka. He says, yeah,

grandpa, let's live there. He hugs Willy Wonka. He says, Charlie, you know what? You know the story about the guy who suddenly got everything he always wanted? He lived happily ever after. And people don't want you to live happily ever after because happiness doesn't lead to power. It doesn't lead to division. That's the point. They're all fucking with us and they're keeping people separated that way. And that's how it's always going to be. So all you can really do is believe what you believe and ride with what you believe and fuck everybody else and think of what's best for you, what's best for your family, man. Yeah, neither side's ever going to admit that the other side

might have a good idea here and there, and maybe we can do something with that. Like, no, it's always going to be this side's wrong, this side's wrong. Like, you've got to compromise or something. Like, these kids keep dying. It's terrible. Sure, but it's not going to happen. I know it's not going to happen. Like, to me, here's what I think you need to do, too.

Like, again, people too often look at the gun because the gun is the sexy thing for the story. Guns are bad. Nobody looks when someone gets hammered and drives drunk and kill somebody. You never really hear that the car was bad or that the alcohol was bad. Again, car related deaths. That number is 46,000 a year. Alcohol related deaths, 95,000 a year. That's more people. I mean, that's 150,000 people are dying from that every year, right? People in auto accidents. There's millions of people every year that are injured in auto accidents. You never hear about the car, and you also never hear about how easy it is to actually get a license to drive a car. Like, I got my license. I took driver's ed in high school at my high school, right? Like we were driving in the car, like the second day of class.

I had never driven on the highway before the, the, the, the, the teacher's like, well, we're heading across the bridge. Like what? Like, it's very easy to get a car. It's very easy to drive a car and to get a license. And that is a death trap if it's handled by the wrong person. And now you've got countless distractions. You see me all the time. There's countless distractions when you're driving a car. That is a, it's a weapon. It is a death trap for people, but no one talks about how

easy it is to get a license and no one talks about how easy it is to get hammered and get in a car and drive. And no one ever says alcohol is bad or blames alcohol or blames, uh, or cigarettes or blames anything else when bad things happen. It's just guns. And why? Because it is a sexy talking point for these politicians. It is a big point for both sides. So that's why you never get that shit. And that's why I don't say a lot of this on social media, because it's just a waste of time because no one looks at the nuance and what you're saying. Anyway, they just want to be angry and fight you over shit and they've got their viewpoint. They're not going to change their viewpoint. Oh, so like, cause I made the Ferrari point earlier that, you know, to the point about

needs, do you need to have these guns? There's a lot of shit you have that you don't need, but you just enjoy doing it. Like, do you need a paintball gun? Do you need someone to shoot you in the balls with these paintballs coming out a hundred miles an hour? No, you do it because you like it. Well, skateboards are dangerous. Do you need those? No, but I enjoy riding the skateboard. So like there's like the argument can't be, well, do you really need that? That can't be your argument about stuff. But anyway, it's a shitty situation all the way around and you can shit on me for riding the fence if you want to, but I'm not really like, I'm not anti-gun. I don't like guns. I don't want to have one, but I don't believe the guns are the issue, especially with the ones that are attained illegally. Like the other thing, and now I'm going

to sound really right wing guy ish here, but it's valid. Like people die every day in the streets of these other cities. I'm now sound like roller governor, but like in Chicago, people are plugging each other with many guns they probably attained illegally and gang violence. And guess what? Kids are dying in those situations too. You see a story every day where some kids hit by a stray bullet on the south side of Chicago or some other shitty part of town in another city. And those guys just go by the wayside.

Nobody gives a shit. You know, so there's a lot of hypocrisy that goes into this. And these people don't really give a shit. It's all about about politics that's why beto rolls into this press conference making a fucking ass yeah i don't think that was the time i know what he was doing obviously he wanted to you know make us take a stand and stand up for what's right and all this stuff but that just didn't seem like the right time and place for me because at that point roller governor greg abbott yeah um was kind of explaining and giving more details onto what we found out,

like kind of elaborating on the investigation, kind of pertinent information. I don't know that that was the time or place for him to crash. It wasn't like it was an Abbott rally. Like you want to try to roll into like Governor Abbott's rally and be like, hey, you know, guns got to go. Okay, I'll respect that. But I don't think that was

the time to make your big stand. But if we're being fair, Beto ain't gonna win shit anyway. Nobody takes Beto seriously. He's a clown. But anyway, so I also saw the Catholic church weighed in and they said it's their moral obligation to protect the kids. Yes, the group that's

been using altar boys as their personal finger puppets for a century, these guys want to tell you how to protect children. Thank you. That's rich. It's like Jeffrey Dahmer saying, you know, guys, I really think we need to start taking better care of our gay men. Like, yeah, it kind of rings hollow there.

What else is going on in the world today? I mean, obviously, this is the biggest story in the universe, and it continues to be the biggest story in the universe. That's a pretty big one. Steve Kerr lost his mind over this. I believe Steve Kerr is so incredibly inauthentic. Oh, well, now everyone wants Steve Kerr to be the president. Go have Steve Kerr be the president.

Congrats. The guy is a frontrunner who has benefited so greatly from being around greatness forever, whether it's with Popovich or Jordan or Steph Curry or whatever. I mean, I don't know. I'd find him to be a tool, but it is what it is. What are you going to do? But everybody's all passionate about that. Great job, Steve Curry. He speaks for me. Way to go. I also like these sports radio jamokes whose whole thing right now is, uh, is like, they'll, they'll wait for that one person to tweet them to like stick to sports. And then they get their little pee pee so hard to hit that quote tweet and say, I am not just going to shut up and dribble. I, I, you know what, this is bigger than sports. And if you can't see that, then fuck you. And then the person will respond and say,

well, this is going to keep up. I'm not going to listen to your station anymore. And then they'll quote tweet that guy and they'll say, then good. Don't listen. You piece of shit. We don't need you anyway. Fuck you. And it's just funny watching these guys like get on their high horse on shit and act like they're doing something important. No, you get on the radio and you yell about whether or not Barry Bond should be in the hall of fame. Maybe stay in your fucking lane chief. Like, you know what the fuck's going on. But these guys so badly want to get out of the toy department, you see. They're in the toy department. They are, you know, they're not in the serious business world.

That's why they get a hard-on for the Kaepernicks and those kind of stories and the kneeling, because it makes them feel like they're talking about something that has value, when in reality all they normally talk about is vorps and DVOAs and shifts and everything else. So when they get an opportunity to sit up and say, fuck, right, we're talking about this shit, they get excited because it makes them feel like they're part of the actual relevant universe. And sports media people, like the people that quote tweet, like when I quote tweet, it's usually from a legit response that I was not trying to get. Like when I tweeted today, I just said, what are, because all morning I saw we need like

sensible gun laws or common sense gun laws. And all I asked was what are common sense gun laws? That's all I fucking tweeted. I got a tweet from T Bob Aberry says, are you being authentic with this? Like, yeah, it's not as fucking question. Tell me what are common sense gun laws. I'm not telling you you're right or wrong. Just tell me what they are. That's all I want to know, right? And if somebody gave me a response, I would quote tweet it and I would ask them a question. The people I don't like are the ones that make these big, bold proclamations and wait

for like a right winger to step up and say something about guns so they can retweet and say, hey, you fucking hillbilly. Why don't you get off the fucking stage? Well, we're never going to listen again. Good, we don't need you because we actually love kids and you don't, so go fuck yourself. Sports media people are my favorite. They're a very dumb group of people who are very self-important. That's a great combination of self-important and moron, and that's what they are. Ah, boy. Anyway, all right, well, on that note,

who do I need to tell them about? Probably, did you do one the other day with the Craig Gass interview or no? I did not. I did not do the second. Okay, then Craftology by Christy. Okay, so I have to do this tomorrow. I have to send her an idea for this shirt.

I gave her the idea. She asked me some colors and stuff. What color do you think this shirt should be for the live your life, love your dog, drink beer? I mean, most people just like a black t-shirt, maybe a black t-shirt, maybe like some gold lettering, maybe some, uh, some blue lettering, just something simple. Yeah. We want to keep it simple, stupid. Yeah. All right. Well, of course she's got craftology by Christine. You can find her on the, and you can find her on the Gram, and you can find her Etsy store.

She's got some really cute Texas stuff. I mean, very cool stuff. Look at me saying things are cute. Dog bandanas, everything. So you should check it out because she is awesome. She is great. And that's Christy with a C-H-R-I-S-T-Y. So make sure you check them out. If you've got a kid graduating high school, she just has some cool Senior 2022 merch I just saw she posted.

So do that. These are people that help keep this podcast going. They're awesome folks. So check them out. Craftology by Christy. Of course, her husband is Richard from Metro Ready Mix. And they've been a very loyal supporter for a long time. So give them some love if you can.

We love them. They are are great they're outstanding so uh but that's craftology by christy i'll get her that info here soon and we can um we can make things happen there and get that new shirt and everybody buy it and fill their coffers it'd be great so there's that um Speaking of Instagram, Jilly actually got Luther's Instagram suspended. She was posting dog nudes, from what I understand, and they flagged her. I was not posting dog nudes. But evidently, yesterday Instagram went through a whole thing where it was verifying ages. Because I guess you have to be 13 or older to be on Instagram. I had no clue. It's the same people that say, well, you know, you should be 21 to buy a gun, not 18.

As if that three years makes a world of difference. I don't know if it does or not. So it's like, enter your birthday. And I wasn't really paying attention. We were at lunch. I was like, all right, whatever. I just want to get to the page. So I put in Luther's birthday because it was Luther's account.

Yep. And that would make him 10. They said, no, ma'am. I was like, you don't appear to be old enough for Instagram. Your account's been temporarily disabled. Like, oh, shit. And I was really upset about that. I'm like, no, he just got, like, he's got all these followers.

We got over 1,000. Like, he's got some great pictures on there that I don't want to lose. Like, this is not okay. And actually, Ace, Ace Gilmore was telling me that she had to go recover her account after someone hacked it, like, a couple weeks ago. And it was this whole freaking process where, like, you have to send a picture of your ID. Ace, Ace Gilmore was telling me that she had to go recover her account after someone hacked it like a couple weeks ago. And it was this whole freaking process where like you have to send a picture of your ID. And then you have to pin a selfie from seven different angles to prove it's you.

But I'm like, well, how do we prove it's us? Because it's a dog page. Like do I just need to put a selfie of you and Luther? Because it was under your email. So then we're trying to figure out what email address was linked to his account because we had no clue. We didn't know the password. I didn't know the password to the email what email address was linked to his account because we had no clue. We didn't know the password. Yeah. I didn't know the password to the email account that it was linked to. And then you're like, give me your ID.

I got to take a picture. So like you're sitting in the car. You're on the verge of tears because you've lost Luther's Instagram. I mean, you're like, it's all these memories. I said, Jilly, the fucking pictures are in my phone. But also like, and it sounds funny, like I could feel Luther judging me. Like, God damn it, Mom. You lost all my followers.

You bitch. And, of course, I blamed you because you were supposed to post a picture of Luther, like, the day before. Well, you blame me because that's the easy way out. It's I fucked up, so it's your fault, moron. If you would have seen it, if you were the one that would have logged on his Instagram, you wouldn't have been as dumb to put Luther's birthday. Well, you can't blame me for you being stupid. That's not fair to me.

I asked you for 24 hours to post that damn photo and you're on your phone probably 20 hours a day. Probably, yes. And you couldn't do that. No. So I give you my ID. You take a picture. You send it.

We never get a response that says we got your thing. So then you did it again. I thought it would at least say like, thanks for submitting. Like, we'll review your case and we'll let you know or something. Yeah says we got your thing. So then you did it again. I thought it would at least say, like, thanks for submitting. Like, we'll review your case and we'll let you know or something. Yeah. Or got an email. Nothing. Not a damn thing.

Nothing. So I'm like, well, fuck, did it work? Like, should we do it again? Like, what do we do? So eventually, and today I got an email from Facebook. Well, they're connected. And the thing is that the email was so basic looking that it almost seemed fake. And I was like, damn it, did you get me hacked? No. connected and the thing is that the email was so basic looking that it almost seemed fake and i was

like damn it did you get me hacked because like you would think like a logo for facebook would pop up nope it was just an f a pink f from facebook thank you for submitting your id i was like this does not look normal there was no name and she said hi looks like your account was disabled by mistake your account has been reactivated it felt like a scam and i felt like my whole life was about to be ruined but it did in fact get reactivated so that was legit so luther's uh gram is back i know our national nightmare is over everybody luther's instagram is still on and popping luther underscore pup so fear not and you finally posted that picture today i did that thing better have a thousand likes. Well, you did.

Everybody better fucking like. Go like that picture. Keep Luther afloat. You need to be better about posting. I am mediocre. I don't post on my own stuff. Which, I mean, the only way I'm ever going to end up as a syndicated radio personality, I guess, is to post more shit because nobody cares what you do on the fucking radio.

So, God, I had a meltdown yesterday at the radio station if we're having some real talk but actually i haven't been having meltdowns i just say you know like i'm almost i've conceded that like it's a clusterfuck and i just there's no sense of getting angry so just kind of step back and say you know what if other people don't care, you don't care, whatever. But like our engineer went in and reset our entire console. And I had no idea how to turn everything back on. So things are fucking up. My Detroit show has got Nashville shit playing in it. It's a mess. I'm getting messages from the program director in, um, in, in Detroit saying what the fuck. And I'm angry. I just started punching the board with my hand. I'm like, fuck this. And then I picked up the chair that I sit in and I threw the fucker against the wall. Then I kicked the garbage can, threw shit against the wall.

But then I did a show. Made shit happen. But yeah, I was very angry. Glad you got over it. Very rarely do I have those meltdowns. Like I've broken one pair of headphones since I've been here because I get angry. But, you know, like, because it builds up. You see, it festers.

Instead of just raging every day, I let it build until one thing puts me over the top and I have an epic meltdown like I had yesterday. So you were due is what you were saying. Yeah, exactly. Like, if I just, you know, had a mini meltdown every day, that meltdown wouldn't have happened. But, I mean, I picked up this chair and just hurled it against the wall i don't know what battle was thinking because he never says anything he just kind of sat there like and uh and i mean i i lost my fucking mind totally different subject here but i guess it's national

wine day yep and now i feel like i want to get a bottle of wine here's what i think we should do maybe friday we just it. It's belated wine. No, we do not do wine on Twitch. Yeah, that's a bad idea. I mean, if you want to get some wine, I guess we can. I'm not going to make you drink it. I'll just drink it. Okay, then.

I'm really in now. But, yeah, so Friday we're probably going to go on Twitch, try to get some people on there. You know, we haven't been on in a while, so we can reconvene and check in with our friends. The plan is what, 8 o'clock on Friday, 8 central? Yeah, told Jim we'll reach out. Jim's going to be on. I'm waiting to hear back from a few others. If you have anybody you want to hear from, shoot us a message on Twitter or the Gram or anywhere else.

And by the way, we don't have to get a box of wine tonight. Like, I could buy a bottle and have, like like a couple glasses each. We're not animals. I mean, that's very debatable because like to drink, I have to have a case of beer to drink. Like I have the drinking habits of like one. I'm like a one eighth scale version of Andre the Giant. I'm with you. And that's kind of one of the things like, like I'll send like Denise or somebody like a place that looks kind of cool here and she's like are you gonna go I'm like no no I'm not because it's 40 minutes away and I don't have the self control just go out and have two drinks I'm not gonna drive home drunk and we live like a $50 uber away yeah so no I won't but yeah I think I think the Rona also played into that where there

was just so much drinking at home and that's all we do now. So I don't know how to just go out and have a few beers. Like when we drink, we just basically get hammered. Yep. Which is why we don't drink every night. Just most. But not most even. I would say just the weekends. Well, this weekend's going to be an epic one because there's about four days of it.

And now I want a bottle of wine tonight. So we're off to a great start. All we're gonna get out of here uh we'll have another one for you tomorrow probably craig gas we'll talk with him some more uh because he's fun and then we'll have a friday twitch party so thank you guys we'll see you later