The Josh Innes Show - JJ McCarthy's Alter Ego

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

JJ McCarthy is the starting QB for Minnesota Vikings. He has one significant win as an NFL QB. Now, he claims to have an on field Alter ego. Let's break this down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And it's the biggest win he's had as a pro, obviously, beating the Lions. It's a good football team. It's kind of coming home for him, so to speak. And he talked to the media yesterday, and part of what he talked about was how he's got a different person inside. of him, an alter ego, if you will, that yes, J.J. McCarthy, a guy that like 90% of people think is going to be a shitty pro quarterback, J.J. McCarthy has an alter ego. He's got a different person inside of him, like a Jekyll and Hyde type of thing, or a buddy love and Sherman Clump type of thing here, where he's got an alter ego, and when he's on the field,

he's a different guy. It's his Sasha Fierce. Well, let's see. Let me play a couple commercials and we'll let you hear this dweeb explained to you how he's got a different person inside of him when he's on the football field it's the nissan black friday event where you can wait wait isn't like a month long now nissan black fry month does that work it's the nissan black fray month event on remaining 2025 rogan centra get zero percent financing plus get one thousand dollar's Nissan bonus on kicks models this black friday you've got a whole month to catch all the exclusive offers waiting for you see your local nison dealer or nissan dot ca for details conditions apply all right this is j j mccarthy being asked and then discussing his alter ego on the field

i feel like i do yeah there's definitely a level of a switch that gets flipped you know um for me it's you know that I call him nine nine comes out and I got to understand like okay he can't also I think it's very clever that like you've got this alter ego this other you this person that that like gets locked in when he's a football player and he's not the normal mild man or j jay mccarthy oh no he is my super duper alter ego who's you to fuck shit up and win football games and the most clever name you could come up with him is is your football number I call him nine and let me tell you about number nine. You're going to call yourself George Glass or something more clever than your football number? I can only imagine what this guy's passwords are and pass codes are. What's the

passcode for like your debit card? 9-9-99. No, sorry, that's my alter ego's passcode. Be at his peak performance throughout three and a half hour. So how do I find little ways, you know, on the sideline, you know, get back to my breath, get back to my visualization that could kind of maintain that intense, you know, competitive stamina throughout the whole game. But yeah, it's just, you know, the pure will determination to get the job done. Now the media people have heard this and they've heard that our friend here is a regular Lincoln Hawk who's capable of turning the switch and flipping this hat around and he becomes an alter ego.

Look, I got money to spend it. Oh, wrong button. Hold on. There. What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around and it's like a switch that goes on. Now that we know that J.J. McCarthy, when he's on the football field, he is not J.J. McCarthy. He is 9. And 9 is his Sasha Fierce alter ego when he's on the field. People are now interested in this, and they continue to ask more questions of J.J. McCarthy and of 9. To be honest with you, it really kind of started to show up this year. And it came about last year during IR, you know, just never had a full season where, you know, you want to be out there so freaking bad, but you can.

It was just this built-up anger that was kind of ready to just explode. I guess nine is like his teen wolf, except like it doesn't change the physics of his body or the physical nature of his body in any way. It just gets him into a headspace where he's ready to take it to the max on the football field. He is ready to kill. He is nine. Chose to harness it instead of letting it go into a self-destructive kind of way. And it's unique. And I kind of love feeding that wolf.

because my entire life, you know, at Michigan, it was a smiley face on my hand and smile and you have fun, you're going to play better and all that, which is true. But I also think there's a lot of power that comes from, you know, that built-up anger that you can transmute into your performance. This guy has won one significant NFL football game. One! And my man's over here telling you about how he's got a wolf inside of him and he's got an alter ego and the alter ego is number nine and I got to harness all of this wolf energy that I have.

You've beaten one good team, you pud. Now all of a sudden, you have a wolf inside of you? Oh, but he wasn't done. It's a gradual come down. My fiancee, she definitely doesn't like when nine comes home. What are you saying? You smack her around a little bit? He's like, oh, when I come home, when nine comes home, you won't believe.

I fuck hard when nine. See, like when me, J.J. McCarthy has sex with my wife. We do it just for the sole purpose of procreating. So like on, you know, days off or on holidays. JJ will sex my wife and then we'll put a baby inside of her but when nine comes home we fuck to the max

we put a hole through the wall we go hard and I make her call me that that would have been my follow-up so like when you're sex and your wife does nine sex your wife or is it you JJ who am I talking to right now are you JJ or are you nine please tell me

yeah she does a great job keeping me level head in and understanding you know yeah because you probably force her to blow you when you're nine fucking nine's over there she like comes home she's like listen i'm just i really want to call it a night you're like no you're not because nine is here and nine wants to be blown there's the football player and then there's the you know fiancee father part of me that i you know obviously got to make priority one a one b in both areas and yeah that's awesome this guy has won one significant football game he had the one rally against the bears early in the season then he got

heard. And then he comes at, look, give him credit. He played well against the Lions, made a hell of a throw to ice the game. Give him credit. But you would think I'm listening to Tom Brady break down the art of playing quarterback. Yeah, there's definitely a level of a switch that gets flipped. Like, bro, you're J.J. McCarthy. You're J.J. McCarthy. You're college quarterback who everyone thought sucked in college because they didn't have you do anything. Most people don't think you're going to be some rock star in the NFL. And J.J. McCarthy is over here. going full on Stallone over the top. What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around and it's like a switch

that goes on and when the switch goes on I feel like another person I feel I don't know I feel like a truck like machine like good for you he just sounds like such a doofus like it'd be one thing if like an all-time goat we're saying this like if Michael Jordan was like there's another person inside of me like it still sounds goofy but But you're like, okay, I can buy it. You're Michael Jordan. Okay, whatever. Hey, it's Michael Jordan, everybody.

Michael Jordan's here. He's got another person inside of him. Yeah, there's definitely a level of a switch that gets flipped. But when J.J. McCarthy is like, when I get on the field, I've got another person inside of me, and it is a demon. And that person's just out there to kick ass and fucking play football. And that's it. And I am nine. I am not JJ.

Like on the field, do they have to call him nine? Do you think he's like a method actor? Like when Jim Carrey was playing Andy Kaufman and everybody had to call him Andy on the set. And they're like, dude, you're a fucking lunatic. By the way, speaking of, I went down a Back to the Future wormhole because we went to see Back to the Future the other day in the theater. And I love Back to the Futures, you know, and I love all the behind the scenes. Like one of my favorite DVDs is back when I had the OG Back to the Future, like two, three disc collection with all the behind the scenes and shit. Like I love all of it, right?

But what I love is apparently whenever Eric Stoltz was the original Marty McFly, he played the character a lot darker and more deep. And like somehow he viewed it as a big story was that he viewed the movie as a tragedy because this poor Marty McFly went back in time and may have his whole life change forever. And all of his family got to experience all the good things about being like rich at the end and he never got to experience it. Eric Stoltz, weird motherfucker, it sounds like. But apparently, if you worked with Eric Stoltz on the movie, he always stayed in character. So he was always Marty. And if you called him anything other than Marty, Eric Stoltz wouldn't respond. And again, it's one of those things where you're like, you know, it's one thing if Jim Carrey is playing Andy Kaufman in a movie and he's trying to go all meta and weird, you're like, okay, whatever.

You're playing a fucking teenager in a high school time travel movie. and you're like, hey, everybody, call me Marty. That's my name. I don't answer anything other than Marty. That was just a random aside. I saw that the other day on the YouTube when I was going down the wormhole, looking at it back to the future stuff. But still, when you look at this,

we've got a guy who is big picture accomplished nothing in the NFL other than the fact that he's in the NFL and he's won one significant game. And now he's giving you stories about how there's another guy inside of him. Yeah, there's definitely a level of a switch that gets flip. He is inside of me, and he wants to take me again. Now, to a degree, there's something to be understood here. Because, like, when I'm on the radio, I'm not the same person I am when I'm off the radio.

I have a lot of the same thoughts. It's just, you know, amplified when I'm on the radio. But if you said that to people, you'd sound like an asshole. If somebody asked you, like, tell me about your radio. Like, if you get in there and start breaking down how, well, I'm a radio guy. But, you know, Josh Innes, when he's off the air, is a different guy. But when I'm on the air, I become this kind of monster that takes over. And I'm just, I can't help myself.

I can't control it. I just, I'm overtaken by, like, I'm overtaken by the, just the pure aura of nine. And nine takes me over. And I'm like, oh, shut up. You handed the ball off at Michigan. And now you've won one significant game as a pro. And now you've got, now you've got a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde's scenario. So, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine.

Yeah, there's definitely a level of a switch that gets flipped. By the way, so we've had a Stallone theme seemingly here today. But boy, that's seen it over the top. What I do is I just try to take my hat and I turn it around and it's like a switch that goes on. And when the switch goes on, I feel like another person, I feel, I don't know, I feel like a truck. I just love that scene because he like, it's like he has this revelation that I'm standing in front of a truck and now I feel like a truck. It's like, I feel like a truck, like a machine. This is me. But anyway, all right, more to come.