The Josh Innes Show - Josh v. Nashville

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

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All right, so over the weekend, I guess I didn't get into this, but over the weekend, I was tweeting about a lot about the Tennessee Oilers uniforms. And again, I have no idea what's going to take off. Like, I tweet things that I think are brilliant, and then, like, they do nothing. I'm like, this is the funniest shit anyone has ever tweeted.

This is top shelf brilliance. yet I can't get any reaction on this. Like this is a funny tweet and nothing like four likes. Like the art of it is I guess you just have to piss off a particular group of people. And if you piss off that particular group of people, they start talking about you on message boards and shit. And before you know what, your tweets have thousands of likes. That's not the reason I do it. But like, I give you my opinion on shit and certain things get people pissed off.

And one of the things that got people pissed off over the weekend was this thing about the Titans uniforms, which are Oilers cosplay. That's just reality, right? And I lived in Nashville and I lived in Houston. I lived in Houston for almost a decade off and on, and I lived in Nashville for two years. Cool. They are cosplaying because their owner desperately misses Houston and hates the fact that the football team that she owns is not in Houston, that that team is in Nashville. She hates that.

She's a Texas person. She's a Houston person. So I get it. Let's dive into this stuff. Just let me play a few commercials. Marvel Television's Wonder Man. An eight-episode series. Now streaming on Disney Plus.

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You're the Titans, right? And all it takes is one or two of the right people to retweet it. I don't know what makes that the right people or not. And then all of a sudden, your shit starts blowing. up and for four or five days in a row, it's just a bunch of people talking shit. The one thing I've learned about people on social media and not celebrities so much or famous people or, you know, real media people, but just fanboys is that fanboys on social media do not have the ability to debate you.

All they have the ability to do is see something you write and if they like or dislike it, but let's assume they dislike it for the sake of this argument. So they dislike what you have to say and then they make everything personal or they Google you and they see that you've got, the number of people who tweeted me saying, oh, you couldn't hack it in Nashville, and that's why you're talking shit. The idea that somebody couldn't hack it on the radio

in Nashville is preposterous because Nashville is Pussyville, USA. It is softballville, USA. And if you need any other evidence of that, it's the number of people who've been tweeting me with their feelings heard over the fact that I talk shit about the Tennessee Oilers uniforms. But like, again, anybody who listens to this show knows I didn't get fired in Nashville. But it became, oh, you couldn't hack it in Nashville.

And to my credit, and I will credit myself, I did not respond to any of those people because I am showing personal growth. You hear that? Personal growth. I'm adulting. The old me would have literally gone at every single person who said you got fired and said, I didn't get fired. I didn't maybe to one person. Just put that out. There's a retweet. I literally left for double the money I was making, and they wanted me to stay.

That was one of the three or four places I've been. They actually wanted me to stay. And I didn't. So then what happened is I said that Nashville is soulless. And I believe it is. I believe it's a giant corporate hillbilly bro Disneyland. It might as well be pigeon fucking forge. Where's Dollywood?

Like Nashville probably had a soul 20 years ago, 25, 30 years ago. Nashville is soulless at this point. Go down to Broadway. Now, the argument they'll make is, we're going to, If all you look at is Broadway, then you don't know. But then in the same sentence, they'll say, What does Houston have that people want to come see that's like Broadway? Well, there are no tourist traps in Houston.

You were right. Although, this weird phenomenon of spring break happening in Houston right now. I saw Barstool did a video about this. Fucking wild. Dude, like, and look, I'll say this with you guys because we're among friends. And I was, you know, on Twitter, I was going back and forth with people about Nashville. And in reality, I don't think Nashville is a shitty place. and I didn't intimate that I thought Nashville was a shitty place.

I intimated that Nashville was soulless, and I think that. People try to tell you that it's, you know, country music, and it's all about soul. Nashville used to be a really cute little town, and it used to be kind of grittier and, like, downholmey, and now it's just, you know, like Blake Shelton's bar and Bon Jovi's bar, and it's a place where drunken bachelorets go to celebrate. And, like, it's like a cleaner New Orleans. Fine. Like, it is a prettier place than Houston, 100%. They're, you know, better their body's water. There's other shit.

Like, it is a nice place. My intention was not to shit on Nashville. But what happens is people start shitting on you and start shitting on Houston. Then I get my, you know, my dander up a little bit. And I feel the need to have to go argue with these people because they're fucking imbecils. And then I start taking shots at Nashville that I maybe don't necessarily believe. But in the moment I do, because I'm just looking for something to dig these guys because they're fucking ass. holes. So, look, if you said, Josh, where would you prefer to live, Nashville or Houston,

I'd rather live in Houston. That said, is it possible that Houston's becoming a shithole? I asked that of a couple people that I knew when I lived in Houston, and one of them doesn't live there anymore. One does. The one that still lives there is like, yeah, this shit you've been seeing is kind of fucked up, and we're starting to see more and more of that here. The person who I know that used to live there that no longer lives there said that he visited a little while ago, it's still Houston. The last time I was in Houston, I kind of felt it was a shithole. Just the traffic was bonkers more than it ever had been. Like there's always been traffic. It's a city of millions of people. You're always going to deal with traffic. But the traffic was

awful. You couldn't get anywhere. Like these are all true things. Now, in Nashville, it was the same shit. Traffic in Nashville was brutal. If you were there, you know, at any time a day, you'd probably encounter some really shitty traffic. If it was drive time, you couldn't move anywhere. Like, it sucked. Okay. Fine. but I don't know that I like Houston that much anymore. And again, the Internet has the ability to make you believe a lot of bad things about your place and a lot of good things if you want to believe that. And I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle. Like if they said today, you can go live in Houston.

I'd say, fuck, sign me up. I'll move to Houston. I love Houston. I'm passionate about Texas. I'm a Texas guy. I want to smoke meat and drink fucking domestic light beers and sit outside and play fucking Yotsie and listen to Yacht Rock. That's my dream. Current house I'm in in Detroit, tough to do in seven months out of the year.

It's fucking snowing. It snowed yesterday. Look, I have nothing against Detroit. The people are lovely, whatever. Two days ago, it was 70 degrees. Last night, it snowed enough to cover the ground last night. Like, what the fuck? But I do feel like Houston is kind of tailing off a little bit.

Like, it's not what it was, and not a lot of places aren't. But it's not like what it was 15, 16 years ago, when I moved there. God, it's wild to think that I moved there 17 years ago, but it damn near is. 16 and a half years ago when I moved to Houston, I just thought Houston was this wonderful place, but, you know, the internet is leading me to believe that maybe it sucks ass. Now, maybe the internet's wrong, but I don't know. But like, I'm fighting with these people in Nashville. And not really fighting. Fighting would indicate that I'm going back and forth at everybody. I was kind of selective in the way I was taking shots at them. But what I've learned is people have no

ability to just debate. Everything has to become personal. These people are fucking, and once they go personal with it, there's no benefit in me arguing with them. What benefit am I going to get from like, you know, when someone says, oh, how about this guy who got fired for being racist? Well, they're not going to change their opinion on it. What am I going to be able to tell those people? Like, what point can I bring up that will totally change, like, their view on me? They don't know me. They've never heard of me. Yet they all act like they know who I am based on my time in Nashville when none of them listen. They have no idea who the fuck I am, but they dig up that I used to live in Nashville and that I work there and that I don't work there anymore. Therefore, I must have

gotten fired there. Therefore, I couldn't hack it in Nashville. And what I have learned is, like, sports fans are giant pussies for the most part. They are feeble-minded little doofuses that have, they can't debate. If you say something bad about their team, they get all angry and They take personal shots and they'll look for anything to take a personal shot. They'll look at your profile picture. They'll Google you. They'll go to your Facebook. Anything they can do to go at you.

You didn't say anything personal. You said that the city of Nashville is soulless and that the owner is cosplay and the Houston Oilers. Then I said, now, I did tweet something and I'm like, if this one doesn't go, then I don't know how to make things go. But it was a picture of Hannah McNair, Bay, as it were. and it said that basically she successfully trolled Amy Adams' strunk into abandoning the history of the Tennessee Titans to cosplay the Houston Oilers. And that one got a lot of lags, like a thousand likes or something. But like the thing is you don't know what you're going to tweet. Like I meant that.

So it's not like I said that just to get them going. But when I was typing and I'm like, given the state of everything right now and the way these people are bitching about this jersey thing, this is going to have to go. But I've tweeted so many things that I think are more brilliant than that go nowhere, and it disappoints me. I get sad about it. Well, another example was after the USA beat the Dominican Republic. My whole timeline has just been by these dopey people that are like, hey, you see the way the people in the Dominican and all these other countries dance and shit in America is so boring, blah, blah, blah. And it was designed. I'm sure it's designed for me to see these things.

So after that game on Sunday, I tweet the sad girl dancing. video and I'm saying this is the Dominican guys dancing around after losing to the boring Americans. I basically put that up and went to sleep. I woke up. It's got 8,000 likes. Like you don't know what the fuck you're going to get. You put a thousand funny things that you are convinced are the funniest things you've ever posted. No one gives a fuck. You post that and you're like, well, we'll see. You go to bed. You're drunk. It's, you know, St. Patrick's Eve, Eve. You're hammered. You've had a lot of stouts. You decide to go to sleep. You wake up the next day and it's 8,000 likes.

Holy shit. And then like all day, it's just nothing but people responding to you. Still getting shit from people from Nashville. Look, the uniforms look great. They're not ugly. By any means, they're nice. But you've basically kicked the existence of the Titans to the curb to recreate the team that your dad used to own in Houston. But it is crazy to see the way people react to shit.

Like, people cannot handle debate. We are a fragile-minded group of people. People are just, they are fragili. Everything has to become personal. And you should be proud of me. I'm asking you guys to be proud of me today. Love me. I ask you to love me very much.

But love me for what I've accomplished, which is I no longer fight with people on social media about things that I'm not going to change their mind about because it's stupid and fruitless. And why would I? So when someone says, yeah, because you couldn't hack it in Nashville, old me would have sat there all fucking day and fought with people. To the point like when I was in Houston that time and my wife was going to divorce me for fighting with people. Now I'm just like, I'm not going to change your fucking mind. And you're a mouth-breathing dipshit who's got Cam Ward's face as your profile picture.

You're not well. But anyway, more to come.