The Josh Innes Show - JIS: Playoff Harden, Josh's Conundrum and Draft

Episode Date: May 3, 2022

Josh Innes and Jilly open the show discussing playoff Harden. Josh almost feels bad for Harden because it's pretty clear he ain't it. The world is talking about Roe v. Wade and Josh had a conundrum regarding whether or not to discuss this on the air today. Josh shares the story. Ryan Tannehill is a doof. Will AJ Brown have a meltdown in Philly? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is Josh and Jilly. How are you, Jilly? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. I'm glad to hear it. You, while we had a nice time in Allentown. It was a wonderful time. There was also some not so wonderful things that went down in Allentown.

Most notably, somehow your tooth fell apart. One of my crowns, yes, an older crown cracked on the back. And so this was Friday, the first night we got there. Yep. And luckily it was some crown. They were explaining it to me today at the dentist where it's like the metal part is actually the part that's doing the job. And then there's like a porcelain outer edge around it. Yeah. So it was only the porcelain part that cracked. So the actual tooth didn't hurt, but it was a hell of a crack and it was very sharp yeah my dentist today described it as it must have felt like i had a dagger in my mouth just slicing my tongue for four days yeah and that's accurate because it's still like i still think

i'm talking weird like this has been a major mind fuck because i i felt like horrible at my job today i still feel like i can't talk, once your tongue starts feeling better, maybe that mind fuck will go away. Because I'm afraid to really enunciate because it hurts so bad at the time. Now I've got it filed down today. But I might still have to get a new crown, but they're hoping I won't have to. Well, I feel bad for you. I feel like I can't hear. Now, while we're sitting here talking about things that we have problems with,

I think I have tinnitus. That's a new one you're diagnosing. I am. I like my everything, like my ear, everything. Like when I talk, it sounds like it's vibrating kind of, if that makes sense, sounds kind of robotic. So I'm going to the ear, nose and throat doctor in a couple of weeks. And I'm going to say, Hey, listen here, chief, uh, we're going to solve this shit. And you're going to tell me if I have tinnitus or not. And he's going to say, well, why do you think you have tinnitus? Cause I looked this shit up and going to tell me if I have tinnitus or not. And he's going to say, well, why do you think you have tinnitus? Because I look this shit up and I know that Huey Lewis has tinnitus and I think I have the same thing.

And I'll tell you why. Let me tell you why I think what screwed me up too was the fucking shitty equipment at the radio station. The headphones are so bad. And I have to jack them up. If you do have tinnitus, I feel like you might be able to sue the company. I might. I might have to.

Isn't that like a permanent thing? I think it might be. Yeah. Like there was nothing wrong with my ears until something screwed up and now I have to jack up the headphones to like a thousand. I would say you've bitched about your ears for quite some time. Probably yes. But what I'm saying is it never really got to this point where, you know, like it's just

an issue. So I'm not saying I'm going to sue anybody at this point where, you know, like it's just an issue. So I'm not saying I'm going to sue anybody at this point. All I'm saying is I feel like, um, you know, that they're, um, ineptitude when it comes to fixing a minor thing that could be the difference between me having to turn my headphones all the way up versus just at a normal level. I mean, it sounds like shit in my headphones and I think it's impacted my voice and I think it's impacted my voice. And I think it's impacted my hearing. Normal level, quote unquote, is very different from your level. Because even here, like.

That's because I've gone deaf. Yeah, your ears are all sorts of messed up. Also, I'm questioning whether or not this is Splenda in this tea. It says Splenda. It tastes more like, this tastes like sweet and low. I might be wrong, but I don't know. I got issues. It turns out, I don't know that I like the cold brew. I thought I did for like five seconds.

Well, you let it sit forever. Well, it's not just that, though. I don't think I like coffee of any sort. I tried yours from Dunkin' yesterday, and it tastes fine for a couple sips. I've never been someone who likes coffee. But you like Frapp any sort. Like I tried yours from Dunkin' yesterday and it tastes fine for a couple sips. I've never been someone who likes coffee. But you like Frappuccinos. I do because it's like a milkshake. That's not like a milkshake. That's just like coffee over ice. So I don't know if I like that or not. I know I'm kind of all over the place there, but. Well then pour it out so it doesn't leak all over my counters. Well, I will gladly do that, Jilly. Please do.

I will. I'll do that when this is over. Now, we got back in a day later. The house is already a mess. What do you want me to do about it? I'm trying here. I'm trying. Now, there's a lot going on in the world today, but today is Paranormal Day.

It's National Paranormal Day, Jilly. Was it my brother that was afraid of the Ouija board? Yep, terrified. So we would send him, we would just randomly send him Ouija boards in the mail and he'd get freaked out from anonymous like I'd go to Amazon and it would send from anonymous names. Like, oh god and then there was like a Ouija board and a Ouija

board t-shirt. Well, I mean that is kind of scary just to receive something anonymously in the mail, but that wasn't what scared him. It was the fact that it was a Ouija board uh understood yeah which is ridiculous like you think you'd be more worried about the fact that someone just has your address and is mailing you shit you would think that but i think he really thought that like a ghost was trying to i don't know what he thought yes now let me read some of this to you these are some stats for national paranormal day and we got a lot to get into, including

James Harden doing James Harden things, and my hatred for Draymond Green, and abortions. And there's so much. Three in four Americans believe in at least one paranormal thing. So I don't know what one paranormal thing would

be. What are the paranormal things? Ghosts. Right. Monsters. Loch Ness Monster. Bigfoot. Are monsters paranormal? No, I might have just added monsters.

I don't have the list, so I'm just taking a guess. 52% think they can be haunted by ghosts or spirits. I would have thought more. Oh, yeah. So about half the people think that, and around one in four people say they've lived in a house that is haunted before. I think people can haunt houses and haunt people for sure. I think that's fair.

Let's see. 55% think a full moon makes us behave in strange ways. I'm not as much in on the lunar stuff and the astrology. I don't know. Weird shit happens every day here. Yeah, I'm not big on that one either.

Let's see. 25% think it's possible to have telekinetic powers and move things with your mind. I do not. Well, that's just movies. I do not fall. I've seen too many movies and shows. I don't believe telekinetic stuff either. I do not fall into that category at all.

I don't. It's like, what is that phenomenon with what's his name in it? Who am I thinking of? John Travolta. And Carrie, of course. Yeah, in that too. See, I don't believe in telekinesis. 19% think at least some psychics are legit.

I do not. I would say some. I think some are better than others and I'm still interested in a pet psychic. So Bobbo. We think Bobbo is legit and all other psychics are wrong. still interested in a pet psychic. So Bobbo. We think Bobbo is legit and all other psychics are wrong. Still interested in a pet psychic.

Well, you know what? That's going to end up being, when we bring the podcast back on video form, first guest, pet psychic. But again, it's got to be in person. I'm not going to do a Zoom call with a pet psychic. They've got to at least be in the room to get the vibes and like, you know.

Maybe so. I don't like this FaceTime. No, that's bullshit. All right, let's see here. 16% believe in Bigfoot. Which, did Bobo ever say that he saw Bigfoot? I don't know that he saw him. Well, I mean, he saw aliens.

But I think he heard Bigfoot. Well, he said he saw, now now bright lights and everything from aliens. Multiple times he's had multiple alien encounters. Yes, but he also did talk about Bigfoot. That's why he sent you out in the wilderness when we were at that cabin. Yes, that's true. To call Bigfoot. Yes. 22% believe in the Loch Ness Monster. I feel

like the guy who took the famous Loch Ness Monster picture admitted that it was fake. I feel like Bigfoot is more believable than the Loch Ness Monster. There's only one Nessie, right? There's hundreds, maybe thousands of Bigfoot. I think that there's a Sasquatch. It feels like there'd be multiple,

like a whole breed of Sasquatches. Yeah, and that also seems a lot more realistic than the Loch Ness Monster. I would agree with that. Although you could argue that a weird creature under the water could be believable. People have claimed to have seen Bigfoot and people have claimed to see the Loch Ness Monster, but I would say that more likely Bigfoot.

Me too. All right, 20% think vampires, werewolves, and zombies might exist in real life. Well, that's stupid. That is very... Well, I don't know. Why couldn't a vampire exist? Well, there's wackos like Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly that drink each other's blood.

See? Then why couldn't it be real? And I believe there was actually like a legit vampire society that had to issue a warning telling people not to do it unless they were like trained vampires. I think me and Jim once had a guy who thought he was a vampire in studio with us. I thought you were going to say you guys drink each other's blood. Well, we didn't that day. But I think we did. Like some black dude going to say you guys drank each other's blood. Well, we didn't that day.

But I think we did. Like, some black dude came in, and he had, like, dreads and shit. He was kind of like a weird, like, jank version of Blade, kind of. And I think, and I don't remember all the details of it, because it was in that weird stage where we were on our way out at 610, and we're just doing a bunch of wacky shit because we could do.

Hence having a vampire come up to the radio station. So we had a vampire, and I don't even think it was Halloween it's like hey it's May let's have a vampire come up like we did a bunch of weird shit in that era and um I think he was a black dude and then we talked with him and like he didn't do any of the vampire shit and I felt like we were cheated like I don't think he drank anybody's blood or anything he just hey I you know, I sleep during the day. Like, well, fuck you then, chief. You ain't no damn vampire.

Get out of here with your bullshit. So there you go. There's some statistics about National Paranormal Day. Something that was not out of the normal or out of the ordinary was James Harden choking in the playoffs. Hey, I don't even know if I'd say he choked because they were never really, you know, they never had a chance. Once Embiid was ruled out, and I don't know how long he's going to be out, I guess there's a chance he comes back and plays later in the series if it gets far enough.

I think they said he's out for at least the first two. But, I mean, again, hardness said, right? He doesn't want to be the guy. Well, now. Now you're stuck, Chief. You are the guy. Yeah. Oh, boy.

And it's not going to end well. What, did he have like four points in the second half yesterday? Only shot the ball like four or five well what do you have like four points in the second half yesterday only shot the ball like four or five times four attempts in the second half here's here's the thing like i almost feel bad for harden i would feel bad for him if not for the fact that he just sold out houston rolled out and then is essentially a pussy of a basketball player basketball is just not for him anymore like i don't think he wants to play it like i get that he's making like 40 million dollars a year so you kind of have to play it. Why wouldn't you? He can obviously still play it.

The problem I run into is that when you watch him, you feel like it's a dude. First of all, he's always carried himself like a guy that doesn't give a shit. But when the guy's scoring 40 and has 14 assists, you're like, okay, the guy must care about basketball. I think that people are expecting Harden, like in a game like last night, I was talking with Adam Regner who used to produce the show in Philadelphia. And Adam was like, you know, I posted a link to a story about whether or not James Harden can carry the Sixers to a win. And I said, LOL. And, and Adam says, well, how do you define carrying? Right. I mean, what if he scores 35 and 15 and they lose?

Well, then I'd say he didn't carry them because they didn't win. To me, the definition of an undermanned team where a guy comes out and says, all right, hop on board, I got this, is a, you know, we talked about it a couple weeks ago. 35, 15, and a win. Well, yes, but just to look for an example of a couple of guys, case in point, you could look at that Orlando Magic series where T-Mac carried them to a win with 45 points in that series in one of the games.

Or really, the main one would be AI in the 2001 NBA Finals where AI goes out and drops 40-something points and shoots the ball. AI shot the ball 41 times in that game. It went to overtime. They stole game one against the Lakers. He made 18 baskets. Harden did not attempt 18 shots. He didn't even attempt 18 shots in that game last night.

So, look, Harden is what he is. He loves stripper pussy. He loves, I don't know what he loves. He carries himself like a weird kind of zombie. He's kind of an unknown guy. Well, he likes fashion. I mean, if you want to call it that, he dresses like a dipshit. I wouldn't say that he is a

future as a clothing designer by any means. His restaurant, I'm not even sure if it's still open. It is. I think it's open. Yeah. So I don't know what his next venture will be or what he wants to do with his life. Neither do I. But he really should just open like a line of James Harden strip clubs. See, that should be it. Like

how Magic Johnson opened those movie theaters. Because I mean, if you went to a strip club and it was James Harden approved, you'd probably be like, okay, this must be legit. He knows his strippers. Remember the guy that did the whole mathematical breakdown of where James Harden has his best games and it's determined by where the best strip clubs are? Right. Now, I forgot.

Was it he played bad games in cities with the best strip clubs? I believe so, yeah. So that makes sense. It's Miami. Miami has great strip clubs. Go to Tootsie's. It's like 14 stories tall, and there's titties on every floor. No, I mean, to be fair, Houston has some great strip clubs.

Yes, but that's home base. Okay. So I'm talking, at least when he played there. So I forgot the damn story, like each place and how it broke down where he played his best. My guess is it was in the cities that had the shittiest strip clubs because he wasn't out getting his knob polished all damn night. He's just whatever. It's a shitty strip club. The good strip clubs, he's out till four in the morning. They're pouring champagne all over each other and fucking in the champagne room and life is good. So that would be my guess as to why things were bad from the jump in that game for him. But

yeah, like I, like I almost feel bad for him. Like, and I, I don't, but it's one of those scenarios where I look at it and say, okay, I kind of almost sort of maybe feel bad because I don't think the guy can play anymore. Either he can't play or he's checked out like to not even go out there and say, Hey, I'm shooting the ball 40 fucking times tonight. Like to not have that mindset, you ain't the dude. But he knows that. I think he knows that. And I think that's the excuse a lot of people give us. Oh, well, he wasn't happy in Houston.

And then, oh, he wasn't happy in Brooklyn. And oh, finally, he's going to be happy here. And maybe he was for five minutes. But then when Embiid goes down, it's you. Yeah, he didn't have it. And this isn't what he wanted. So to be fair to Harden, this is not what he signed up for. And also to be fair to Harden,

so I think Harden's always had that kind of slow play look about him where like Russell Westbrook used to get so much credit for being a try-hard, right? That's why everybody loved the story of Westbrook mixed with the fact that all of his teammates rolled out and it was just him, right? And he was always going hard and he was shooting the ball 40 times, he was getting triple doubles, and every play he'd take it to the rack

and would get the rebound and lead the break, whereas Harden always seemed like he was just trying to get fouled and was doing everything in slow motion. And I think people held that against him. They held it against him where they propped up Russell Westbrook, and I think to a degree it was unfair. There's a lot of fair criticisms about Harden. I think that his demeanor has hurt him where try-hard guys,

like if you look at an Allen Iverson, Iverson's a try-hard guy. He's undersized. He would go to the basket. He'd get knocked to the floor. He'd shoot the ball 42 times in a must-have game. That's what he is. That ain't Harden. So without Embiid, he's just a dude that's like kind of your,

and I don't know if it's because they need to move him to the wing and say pass it to him and let him shoot. I don't know if it's because they need to move him to the wing and say pass him and let him shoot I don't know not like he's shooting well either but if you look at him this is the dude from Houston towards the end he's just kind of passing especially in the playoffs pass pass pass and then then the blame can't fall on him I guess is his mindset but he should be shooting the ball 35 40 times and he's not like like do you really want like James Harden should not be the third leading scorer for a team in a game in which they lose by 14 points in a game that he is the best player on the floor. He is a superstar future hall of fame player. Nobody else on that roster

is going to the hall of fame. And you can argue there may be nobody on the other side of the floor going to the hall of fame, right? He is the one surefire Hall of Famer, and he can still play at a high level, and he's shooting the ball 16 times in a freaking game. That can't happen. So screw Harden. I like the, was it Stephen A with the conspiracy theory about how he's just going to tank this playoff so that he can get Mike D'Antoni to come in and coach? We all know that James Harden, James Harden, when did he play his best?

With Mike D'Antoni. And Daryl, and he's got Daryl. He's got Daryl Murray, and now he needs Mike D'Antoni where he was elite, where he was great. So I'm not saying this is what it is, but this could be what it is, but I'm not saying that's what it is. It is what it is, but I'm not saying that that's what this is. But James Harden

is throwing the series and throwing the season so he can get Doc Glenn Rivers fired and they can bring in his guy, Mike D'Antoni. Tell me that I'm wrong. Max. It'll be funny if that's how it plays out.

Wouldn't it though? Like, I like the idea that, hey, here's what we're going to do. Like, just think about the absurdity of this. Doc Rivers, who's notorious for being a choker in the postseason, right? Of course, he made up all of his excuses for why last game. But imagine they're like, all right, Doc Rivers noted choker. We're going to get him out of here. We're going to bring in Mike D'Antoni, never even coached in the NBA finals,

to play with a general manager who's never been to the NBA Finals, and a superstar who's known for bottoming out in the postseason, and a superstar by the name of Embiid who's always hurt in key moments, oh, and has not made it past the second round. Like, how would that bring anybody any belief that they're going to win shit either? It shouldn't, because it's a stupid concept. Anyway, who do I need to tell them about? Aqueduct Plumbing. Aqueduct Plumbing Company.

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Okay. So today I was recording the, and I say recording the show for Detroit. I do it in real time, right? So like none of it's live on the air because I can't go live from where I am. But if you're supposed to talk at 8.30, you're basically sending them the audio as late as I can to get it there at that time. Like 8.25. And I try so hard to get it there on time. In fact, sometimes it doesn't get there and then I get yelled at. But so today I had a whole segment about the abortion thing because Gretchen Whitmer is on the front page of the paper. Of course, she's the wacky governor in Michigan and she's all over the paper saying she's going to fight this stuff and all that. And I had some thoughts on it and I had the segment had sent it was in. I could look and

see that it was in. So it was going to air. And I did something I've, and maybe this is maturity. Maybe this is just my vagina showing. Maybe it's, Hey, you can save that for the podcast that, you know, maybe that's not the time and place. Maybe the, uh, the radio show in, uh, I don't know the radio show in, in Detroit, isn't the place for it. Maybe that's it. But I decided at the last minute to delete it. And I sent a message to the PD. I said, well, the reason there's no audio here is because I had a segment about the abortion thing.

And you know what? I just decided that it wasn't the best idea to air it because I felt like it was a no win scenario in that format. Right. In most formats outside of like a political talk show, like sure, you're not going to get anything good. But the opinion, basically, here's the thing that the, the core demo of that audience is by and large going to be people right down the middle.

But you're like a lot of the people that listen to classic rock are kind of Trump people, kind of right wing people, at least the people that communicate with the show, the text call, unless they're just offended by something that occasionally you'll get a liberal, whatever. But by and large, the people that call and interact with the show or Trump, especially Nashville, uh, Trumpers and all that. And that's fine. I have nothing against those people and the same in Detroit. But I felt if I give this, this, this audio here and I play this, it actually has a better chance of pissing off my core audience. And I ain't looking to run people off from the fucking radio show. If you leave the podcast because you don't like what I have to say, hey, you leave the podcast. That

impacts me. But I'm trying to get this damn radio show into 20 markets. And it would help if I start doing well in Detroit. The last thing I want to do is have Trumpers and MAGA people and right-wing people saying that I want to kill babies. So I decided, hey, I'm going to X out of this and I'm not going to play it. And maybe that shows a sign of maturity. Maybe that shows that I'm a pussy now. I don't think it shows you're a pussy. I think it's just smart. Like you said, there's a time and a place for it. And honestly, my guess is a lot of radio listeners in general, even don't really want to hear if they see it on social media they see it on the news like hey let me turn on the radio hear my classic rock as they

like to say yeah and maybe laugh a little bit be entertained and listen and my boss have no problem with me pissing people off jonathan wants me to piss more people off but there's got to be a better way to piss people off other than just like politics correct now and in the case of this i didn't go with it. In reality, I think the Republicans made up just a massive gaffe in this whole thing and they look ridiculous with it. Like, here's how, okay, I'll tell the podcast audience, because if you leave, you leave, and that impacts me. If you stay, you stay, fine. I think most of you are level-headed enough people to say, hey, I disagree with you or I agree with you. It's fine. I am one of these people that

we've talked about before that physically conservative and then liberal in social stuff sometimes. If somebody decides in the first couple of weeks of her pregnancy to get an abortion, I don't give a shit. It doesn't impact my body and I don't believe you're killing a baby in that instance. Now, you get to like seven months into it,

you get to a third trimester, I think you're a pretty loathsome instance. Now you get to like seven months into it. You get to a third trimester. I think you're a pretty loathsome piece of shit. I'm with you. But if you make them, if someone gets knocked up, you decide you can't take care of a baby. Cause let's not forget about this. Like everybody says, have the baby, have the baby. What if you don't have the means to have the baby? And then the baby ends up being a deadbeat that's just in the system and has a shitty life. You know what I'm saying? Like these are real things. And these are real things that people can talk about. And that's legit, right? What if somebody is born of rape? Now I've seen some people like Republican people posting shit today,

like, well, I was born of rape. And if I saw one, this black gal said, my, my mother was raped at 11. And if she wouldn't have had, if she would have had an abortion, I wouldn't be here today. Like, well, I feel like getting raped at 11 and getting pregnant is about a prime place for an abortion to take place. You know what I'm saying? Absolutely. Of course, I don't say this on the radio show in Detroit or Nashville because I don't feel like alienating people

because what it becomes is Josh Ennis wants to kill babies and he's a piece of shit and all that. I don't want to kill babies. In fact, one of the reasons why I'm kind of in the middle on these is I hate the people that are so politically driven in this, like women who will run to like the libs of TikTok universe and say, and like brag about getting an abortion, right? Like an abortion used to be a thing that you were kind of ashamed of, but you did it because you felt it was the right thing to do. It's a very hard thing to do, I imagine. Absolutely. I would imagine it is. The problem is now women almost flaunt it like it's like a sign of like, hey, we're equal with men because we can go out and fuck and there's no consequences and ha, I'm going

to get an abortion and fuck you, Trump. Everyone's so- And it's like, fuck you, lady. You sound like a real dick and that's why I find myself in the middle a lot of the time because those people, and I have to learn this, that those people are the minority and they're pieces of shit. The one I've been seeing a lot of women share on Instagram and everything is the whole, well, then just require that all men have vasectomies until they're financially ready and stable to have babies.

It's reversible. Like, okay. Everyone just takes things so freaking extreme. Correct. It's stupid. And no one can, there shouldn't be a broad umbrella of a topic. Like there should be details. Like you said, if you're seven months pregnant and all of a sudden you're like, nope, fuck this baby.

That's messed up. Nuance. There's nuance in a lot of this stuff. Things happen. And I know we've had this discussion with people in our chat before. Like, well, you can prevent getting pregnant. You can. But mistakes do happen.

Well, I think what happens is you get a certain group of people who operate in this universe, and it goes on both sides, where basically you expect people to be perfect humans all the time. In the same way that there's a lot of people, generally speaking, hardcore religious people, expect someone to never fuck before they're married or ready to have a kid and get pregnant, right? They just expect that to never happen. On the same token, you got these left-wing lunatics who want to punish people because they tweeted the N-word in a rap lyric when they were 15. Like everybody operates in this world where there's no forgiveness and there's no

nuance in anything, right? Like I was talking with Andy about this earlier and, you know, just kind of like how, like I, to me, and I don't fall into any political group. I don't want to be part of any political group. It's not what I believe in. It's just not who I am. But if someone's going to, to, you know, like basically everybody that would come out and say, Oh my God, these are horrible are all people that were looking to get laid when they were 16, 17 years old. And sometimes shit happens.

And, you know, if you're going to go out there and you're going to get an abortion when you're, you know, a month in, or you notice your, or you take a test and you know if you're gonna go out there and you're gonna get an abortion when you're you know a month in or you notice your or you take a test and you're pregnant you know i don't believe you're murdering a baby at that point sometimes you're probably saving that unborn fetus from a lot of drama and a lot of maybe horrible things in life and how many weeks is it when you're like when when it's determined like okay there's there's the baby has the heartbeat yeah like and it's not even like that's one of the laws of the heartbeat thing. But, like, in some cases, like, you could be talking about, and I'm not an expert on this, obviously, but, like, 20 weeks? Like, at that point, once you get to, like, 24 weeks.

Well, that's over halfway. Yeah, like, that's pretty fucked up. Like, how old, like, how long does it take for a baby to be a baby, right? Like, where you're not, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know all the details on it. Well, I mean, you can get a heartbeat within, like how long does it take for a baby to be a baby, right? Like where you're not, you know what I'm saying? Like I don't know all the details. I mean, you can get a heartbeat within like six weeks. All I know is that we're at a point where everything is so political. And I know I keep going back to this.

And I know a lot of you think I'm a cop out. And that's fine. If you think I'm a cop out, you think I'm a cop out. I think I think like the majority of people. If that's a bad thing, that's a bad thing. thing that's a bad thing if you don't like it you don't like it but I feel like we're too busy making everything extreme instead of looking for compromise yes I mean it should not be a bad like it should not be illegal for someone to get a fucking abortion absolutely it should not maybe once you're in your third trimester I'd be for that but you can't just tell people you can't abort a baby you have to have this child

like no I'm not okay with that I am not either I think that's that's a bad way of looking and I think the Republicans hurt themselves with this and the way it all came about too or it's like well someone had a leak this Roe v Wade you know like that's not going to help them either because it looks like they were being shady and they probably were but it's ridiculous you can't just tell someone you can't have an abortion you have to carry this baby and i'm all for you know again third trimester and there's like you're gross at that point you should make up your you should know pretty quickly and i mean it is a hard decision i think it's just easy for people to sit there and point fingers at people when they haven't been in a situation instead of trying to look

at all the variables i think that a lot of people look at this and just see some whore was out sucking and fucking and got pregnant and she don't want to deal with the consequences of it. Well, I mean, how about some asshole goes out and drinks 25 beers, gets a DUI. You know what I'm saying? Like there are people that do dumb shit and there should be cut. Like there are consequences for your actions. Right. But like, I don't know, man. I just think people are, they're so, and I keep going back to the division thing. People are so divided politically that they refuse to even entertain the other side's idea because then it shows that they've given an inch.

So instead of wanting to compromise, both sides say, oh, we want to compromise. No, you don't. You want your opinion and your beliefs to be out there and you want everybody to accept and they're both the most extreme sides ever correct and that's why i tell people man don't believe the internet don't believe twitter like i yell and scream at twitter sometimes and i get pissed off and you want to believe that that's what the the mass the mass opinion is but it's not but again as you said that's why it's smart that you didn't do this on the radio is like if you'd have even explained your thought with that, you would automatically be a baby-killing wacko.

Correct. Oh, and I would have lost. It's a play where I didn't, like, I could have said this. But at the same time, if, like I say, you know, I think you should not be able to have abortions in your third trimester. Then the other side's like, oh, how could you, you horrible woman? You're taking away our rights. You're a reverse misogynist lady.

Like there's no winning. There's no winning. And I'm learning that about certain things. Some certain things, like I think I can't necessarily win the argument, but some of them are so common sense that I go with them. Like we talk about guns a lot and masks and shit. I have strong enough beliefs in those to fight them and be willing to face the blowback.

I believe that women should be allowed to have abortions. I think it's kind of absurd that that would be illegal. What I think happens is, is you get people and there's just not a positive that comes out of any of this. If I get on the air and say this, I'm guaranteed to somehow. Like, this is a thing where because my opinion is down the middle, I'm just going to piss off both sides. There is no winner.

There's no, well, hey, we're the liberals and we agree with Josh. We're the conservatives. All of them will say that I rode the fence and it was a cop-out bullshit answer. Therefore, there was no benefit to doing it. And I truly believe the average classic rock listener and the average radio listener, I think, in general, doesn't really want to turn on a music station and hear about this.

I really don't. Oh, I would agree with that. And that goes for, like, the top 40 on... I've seen a lot of top 40, like, morning shows and, like, the, you know, tweeting about this, too. And I just don't think... Now, I don't know if they're talking about it on their shows, but I don't know if the average listener wants

to turn on the radio and talk about this stuff. Oh, I don't think they do either. And that's why I said, you know what, Josh, click. Let's get the fun out of this. Well, I'm glad. I think that's a smart idea on your part. I might be the first time I've ever done something where I look back and go, maybe that was the right idea.

Just be entertaining. You could be offensive if they want you to push the line a little bit you can do that another way well they all say they want you to do it but like that one just didn't feel like the right play you'd lose everybody you know and people know I'm not a very religious person I think we've lost podcast listeners because sometimes I'll make fun of religious shit um I think that honestly I think that What did your PD in Detroit say when you told him you deleted it? He goes thank the fuck Christ He didn't say that exactly

but he said good call He's like that's too heavy We're too early in the show to be that heavy I said I'm glad I'm glad and again you can call me a pussy You can send me messages and say I don't stand for something. I do stand for something. In this case, as I told you, I believe abortion should be legal.

I'm not a holy roller person that doesn't buy that. By the way, I think there are a shit ton of frauds that hide behind religion as a way to be bigoted and an asshole. Just the same way there's these liberal people that hide, their pious views to be pieces of shit too. Like, that's the point I'm getting at here is I'm down the middle on shit. Some things I'm more passionate about than others, but I'm willing to listen to people and what they have to say about shit. I am not, if you are a Republican, I am not one of you. If you are a liberal, I am not one of you. I'm not. So if you come to me and you say, well, I, I, Josh is kind of my leader because he has a Republican voice. No, I think I have a common sense voice, but I'm not a Republican. I'm not going to, I'm never going to be a Republican. I'm never going to be a fucking

liberal Democrat, whatever, because I don't believe in politicians. And I certainly don't believe in this mass hysteria that's caused by the, the outrageous, uh, polar sides that you have in all this shit. So fuck that. That's not what I'm about. So, you know, if I'm a pussy because I ride the fence on certain things, then I'm a pussy because I ride the fence. If you consider what I'm saying, riding the fence, which I certainly don't think what I said today is riding the fence. I think abortion should be legal. So that ain't riding the fence, chief. And it might piss me off. I love you. And I hope you still listen. But if you don't, fuck, I don't know what to tell you, man.

Here's what you get from the podcast. Here's the good thing. If you listen to the podcast, at least you're getting the most raw and unfiltered version of me that I can give you. Well, that's the place for it. You can't get it on the radio. It's not my place to go on 105 neither. This isn't 1995 where there are no podcasts, YouTube, whatever.

And you go on the radio and you're shocking and whatever. I still say some fucked up shit on the radio, and I still get people to complain about it. Sure. Like, if you want the most raw and unfiltered version of me, this is the place to get it. By the way, I reached out to iHeart because they may have it set up for us where people can communicate with the show via the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Which would basically be like leaving us voicemail. Correct. So that would be cool. The problem is I reached out to them and they go, hey, is this your page? And it's my Josh Ennis Show blog. I'm like, yeah, that's me. Well,

we don't need any new info from you because you're already in with your podcast. And I'm like, well, here's the thing. I have two podcasts. One is the show podcast called The Josh Ennis Show. One is The Josh Ennis Show podcast podcast. So it's not necessarily tied to that one. This is actually an independent one that has nothing to do with the radio show. More reasons why we should probably come up with a different name for this podcast. Well, the name is The Unwoke Jamoke if we ever actually do it. But is it now? I mean, I thought you didn't want to align yourself with one side.

I'm not. I don't believe that being, I mean, I get where un-woke makes you seem like you're. Like a political show. Correct. But I just view it as like, you know, in general in life, like I'm not a woke individual, am I? I mean, that's just reality. Right. So.

But if you were just trying to get people's attention, like if you wanted to get more listeners, I think now, because you've talked about this with me too, is like at one point you were like gung-ho on this, but now I feel like you don't want it to be so much political. I want it to be whatever the hell's in the news. Right. So it could be politics, it could be Kanye, which, by the way, I'm still rooting for Kanye to just beat the shit out of this Pete Davidson.

Yeah, apparently Pete got the kids' names all tattooed on his neck, Kim and Kanye's kids. That's weird. Like Kanye's going to get hit. He's going to have his moment where he beats the shit or he's going to have someone do it for him. Like you know the guy's got mental issues. You're not really helping the kid.

And I also understand Pete's point of view because if you're, you know, banging the dude's chick and the dude's going batshit and calling you gay and saying you have AIDS and shit, like you don't want to be a pussy that just sits back and takes it. But on the other hand, you won. You're fucking the dude's wife. You're around his kids all the time. Do you really need to publicly talk shit to the guy and stoke the flames?

When he kills you, you'll learn. And he may. He's fucking nuts, friend. But I do think Unwoke Jamoke now kind of, I don't know, that kind of signals like a political, a political pod. Well, now we're back to, Hey, feel free to tweet a new name suggestion. I mean, do you agree with me? Like if you saw that, wouldn't you think, okay, this is obviously some right wing shit. Yes and no. Um, probably it would, you would assume but like, I don't fall into a political party, but a lot of my common sense viewpoints

probably lean more towards what right-wing people believe than left-wing. Not about abortion, for instance, or gay shit or any of that. You didn't want just the same type, like the one side following the podcast. If we want a broader reach, a broader audience. Josh Ennis hates everyone. I think that's the best one. That's the name of the show. Josh Ennis hates everyone.

Everyone is stupid. Everyone sucks. We all, can't we all just get along? Everyone sucks, the podcast. Josh Ennis thinks everyone sucks. Josh Ennis hates everyone. Josh Ennis wants to punch you in the dick. But yeah, it is confusing with the two.

So more than likely I'm changing the name. It's just, and maybe I'll wait to do that. I don't know if I can change the name on YouTube or if I'd have to start a new channel. The problem is I've got like 2000 followers on YouTube. Yeah, we're having kind of, it's like a midlife crisis of this podcast right now. Kind of, which it's still obviously viable. And I mean, there's a lot of people that I like comment on my Facebook, still don't know it's a thing.

So there's, I think there's room for growth and the download numbers are still very good. I just decided that we needed to get the fuck off of Twitch, mostly because I was pissed off at Twitch and I was pissed off that there are certain people that are getting all expenses paid trips all across the fucking place. And I'd like to know why they're considered special and we're not. So I said, fuck you Twitch. So I watched, I'm not going to say his name, but I watched like some of the content they did and I don't think you'd like to.

I mean, they make you sit in in Twitch production meetings. They have very strict rules. It's got to be family friendly. From what I understand, Twitch goes in and looks at the comments and chats and sees which people are positive and who gets the most positivity and all this stuff like that, and that's how they pick these people. They want to represent them. So if they're

reading our chat, which I have to allow words every other day, and yes, it's stupid, the words that are censored, I don't think we're a fit for expanding on Twitch. Fuck them. I got over 3,000 followers on there, and that's cool. But you know what? I got 2,000-something followers on YouTube.

I can build that bad boy. I mean, it's not about censorship. People are like, well, YouTube's going to censor you too. You know what? That'd be good for us if we got censored by YouTube. We could bitch about it. I'm all that bad boy. I mean, it's not about censorship. People are like, well, YouTube's going to censor you too. You know what? That'd be good for us if we got censored by YouTube. We could bitch about it. I'm all about free speech. Let me say whatever the fuck I want.

So many people just see like a Twitch link and then they've got to sign up or they don't want to make another account. Everybody's got YouTube. Everybody's got YouTube. And even if you don't have a YouTube account, you can log on to YouTube and you hit Josh and a show and boom, it's there. And there's some people who probably never even heard of Twitch, like, you know, that don't want to learn anything new, and that's fine.

And like I said, I just don't think that the collaboration with Twitch is going to get where you want. And Don's not affiliated with the shit anymore either. And therefore I feel like, again, back to the broader reach and trying to grow the audience, I think YouTube would be a better place for that. Correct. So I just got to figure out how to change the, if I can change the name on my channel or anything like that. And then once that

happens, boom, you see, so just letting you guys in on it. That's why like some people have asked who there's no videos to chat. See, some people didn't even know there was a place to find the podcast version, right? That was just Twitch. Like they would just sit there and go, you know, Hey, are you done doing the podcast now, bro? Like, no, I'm still here. It's just I'm doing just podcast now as we try to figure everything out. Yes, as we try to figure that out, we try to figure out a new name. That's why I said it's kind of like the midlife crisis of this podcast. It's a bit in shambles, but there will always be a podcast.

Correct. I wouldn't even say it's in shambles. It's just in transition. We are transitioning. It is in transition. Our podcast is currently going by they, them. that is the pronouns of this podcast. Yes. We are slowly transitioning. It doesn't know what it identifies as right now. I see that and I don't know if this is what's just trending for me or locally or not but I see that Ryan Tannehill is trending. Yeah

that's locally. Because Ryan Tannehill was speaking at a press conference today and they asked him if he was going to mentor Malik Willis who obviously they brought in to be the future of the franchise. And he's like, bro, he said, I don't think it's my job to mentor Malik Willis. But if he learns from me along the way, that's a great thing. You know who responds with it's not my job to mentor someone. Not my job, bro. Someone who's scared shitless because they know that guy's coming to take their fucking job. Also, they might not want Tannehill to mentor Malik Willis.

They may want Malik Willis to be nothing like Ryan Tannehill on the football field. But people who are confident don't say shit like that. I've never been threatened by anybody in radio, right? Actually, I've never been. Now, I can see where I'm the guy that has threatened people, like the Cuz or or people like that but there's a lot of people who could have been threatened by me that never were what did Aaron Rodgers say when they drafted Jordan Love I don't feel like he went up to the podium and said hey I don't think it's my job to mentor this guy I think he was just like hey it is what it is yeah so but Tannehill's obviously not Aaron Rodgers because Tannehill

sucks I know but that's what I'm saying is there are better ways and better quotes to handle these situations and he's not wrong It's not his job to mentor someone. And this is probably the last year he's going to be in Nashville. But someone who's confident and believes in what they're doing would say, man, I'm all for it, man. He's a good young kid. They brought him in. They think he's the future. Let's go. Be nice to have him around. Good backup for me. Something like that. When I got to Houston, I was 22, 23, and I was doing the show with Mark and John and John had just gotten there and Mark had been there a couple of years doing a show, but

like, you know, their show wasn't doing much and they didn't really have any guidance or whatever. When I got there and they hired a 22 year old doof to come in there, they could have viewed me as super threatening. I started jumping into the conversation more than I should, but Mark and John were always awesome and always prop me up to people and always believed in me. And always they, they weren't threatened. They had a confidence about them that John still has. These guys have where they said, fuck it. And that's kind of like

that rubbed off on me a little bit. Like my viewpoint is if they're bringing in someone to take my fucking gig, I probably suck at that gig. And fun fact, they've never everywhere I've been, they never brought someone in to take my show. I got myself fired a couple of times, but I've like, they didn't bring in some new young buck. That's going to come in and take over the Josh and his show. So I've never dealt with that. And maybe I will at some point in life, maybe I won't, but if they're trying to take out, that means two things in every walk of life, you either make way too much fucking money, which applies to Ryan Tannehill, or you suck, which applies to Ryan Tannehill, right?

So like when I would deal with it, I've never felt that way. No matter where I've worked, I always felt, hey, I'm still moving up. I don't give a shit. Never threatened. Guys like Bootsy, right? Bootsy's my guy. I never felt threatened by Bootsy. Oh, one day he's going to take my gig or anything like that. That's Bootsy, Paul Gallant.

Not Lil Bootsy. Okay. That's Paul Gallant. And I never felt like, like I've always tried to help him out. I never felt threatened by anybody because I felt if they're going to take my show, that means I sucked at it

because they're going to take it from me. Like I think Rich was threatened at one point, which I get. You know, some people get threatened by stuff. Older people tend to get threatened by stuff and people who suck get threatened by stuff. Right. And Tannehill falls into the people who suck category.

And to say like, oh, I don't think it's my job to mentor Malik Wills. No, it's not. But it is your job to be the leader. And oh, by the way, homeboy didn't show up for the, uh, the off season workouts, which okay, fine. But the reason he didn't show up is because his family was like renovating their house. Like bro show up for a couple of fucking practices and be a leader and say oops my fucking bad i sucked in the playoffs let's go win this thing and take your fucking job instead of sitting there rolling

over you gave them good reason to draft a quarterback high because you stink at your gig you cost too much money and you don't seem like that great of a fucking leader and you kind of disappeared at the end of the season like no one saw or heard from him at all. And then didn't show up for the workouts. And you're a doof. I mean, anytime you drop the it's not my job in any line of work, it's probably not a great look. Correct. It's like Tank always used to say, I just work here.

But he never said it's not my job. Right. I just work here. But yeah, he's a doof. I would break down draft stuff for you. Honestly, from everything I've read, the Texans did well. And I know some of the guys they drafted. But I'm not a draft guy.

I apologize. I wish I were more of a draft guy for you. The one thing that stood out to me about the draft is how long the fucking walk was from the green room to the stage. Like this long ass walk. I feel like it was way too complicated. So much so that the one dude went the wrong way and had to sprint to get back to the stage. And you don't really see most of the guys even make it to the stage because

the draft picks are coming in so fast. They were already onto the next one. Or there was a trade that was being made. Like you never really saw the guys shake the commissioner's hand for the most part. No. And I'm glad, I'm glad it moved along.

It was actually kind of entertaining to watch this year. It was just kind of skedaddled along, but I, um, but again, I'm not going to break down the guys they drafted. I hope they do well. Anybody who breaks these down for four hours really has no fucking clue. They're just basing this on what what they saw in college. So we'll see. You know, you can look at it and say, hey, I think they hit home runs on some picks. Great. I can't do that for you. All I know is the Eagles are winning the Super Bowl because they got A.J. Brown. Let me tell the Eagles fans that listen to this something.

That dude is a mental midget. Sorry, mental little person. Mental, yes, little person. Also, he claimed that he was suicidal. I don't know if you can call him that. Well, I can say this. He is someone who has, I think that he has rabbit ears I think that he he he heard a lot of the negative stuff that came from people in Nashville he's on social media way too much

correct and I think that if it's one thing to deal with it in Nashville good luck in Philly and all the Philly people love you now you fuck up a couple times you start getting rabbit ears and talking shit back to them and dealing with them. They're going to turn on you really quick, chief. So, um. But it was funny because we went to the casino in Bethlehem. Yep. Which isn't the Sands anymore. It's called like the Wind.

The Windstar. Something like that. Nice sports book they just put in there. Yep. Very nice. It was. It was a great time. But if you look at the kiosk, it's like popular and top bets.

Yep. It was Eagles to win the Super Bowl. Phillies to win the division. Phillies to win the pennant. And Eagles to win the Super Bowl. Eagles Super Bowl. So we know what people were betting on there. But, yeah, it's kind of like he obviously had issues when it came to the suicide.

And I don't even talk about the suicide stuff about being a mental midget. I think the dude's constantly on social media, and a lot of these guys are, and they get rabbit ears, and they want to go at people. Fine. Like today, Ryan Tannehill talked about how he went to therapy. Like, friend, I hate to tell you this, but if playing shitty football is going to send you to therapy, you will be in therapy a lot. So, like, I'm not judging people for going to therapy.

I should probably be in therapy. My dad's gone to therapy. A lot of people go to therapy, and it's probably a solid strategy. You know, Andy has told me that for 20 years. I haven't known him that long. For the last decade that I've known him, go to therapy. It'll help. A lot of people do.

There's no shame in going to therapy. But if playing shitty football sent you to therapy, then you might as well just get yourself a residence at the therapist's office or have a live-in therapist because you play a lot of shitty football. And obviously you got mental issues too with A.J. Brown. I don't know what the hell's going to happen there, but it feels like something. And he's all hyped up to play with Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts ain't going gonna get in the ball because Jalen Hurts can't throw is Jalen Hurts that much better of a quarterback than Ryan Tannehill not really he just run a little bit so we'll see on that but uh anyway so I guess we'll get out of here uh we'll be back

maybe tomorrow yeah we can still gotta get uh but we have two more podcasts to get in this week so are you actually gonna try to grill now? I am. You haven't grilled for like two weeks. You've been afraid. I know. We'll see if I've regained the touch. Oh, boy.

All right. We'll see you guys later.