The Josh Innes Show - Kenny Loggins v. Donald Trump

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

Kenny Loggins is not pleased with Donald using "Danger Zone" in one of his AI videos. First off, lets rank the Kenny Loggins soundtrack songs. Second, I have some more thoughts on me doing a political talk show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Headline reads, Kenny Loggins blasts President Trump for use of Danger Zone in AI No Kings video. One of Kenny Logan's biggest hits is Danger Zone from the Top Guns soundtrack. President Trump's team used the song as the music for an AI-generated video over the weekend, and Loggins is not happy. He says, listen here, pal, I'm not all right. The video shows President Trump piloting a jet that drops excrement on a no-kings protest. In a statement, the musician said, this is an unauthorized use of my performance of danger zone. And I can't imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of divide.

So, um, obviously things are not good, uh, good, uh, with Trump and Kenny Loggins. Like, it must be weird to be Trump and just have all of these celebrities who big picture you'd have no issue with and probably be friendly with if you weren't the president. Just hate you. Like, it would hurt me if Kenny Loggins hated me. And I don't know why. It just would. I don't know if I heard you know who hates you.

Kenny Loggins, I'd be like, fuck. That sucks. Let's play a couple commercials and continue. Shit, I see random heifers on the WLLZ Facebook page who hate me. And I'm like, that sucks. Imagine if just Kenny Loggins basically openly hated you. And not someone like Robert De Niro, who just seems like a real jackass anyway, but someone as harmless as Kenny Loggins.

Like, I would have no idea what Kenny Logan's politics are, right? Like, does anybody, does it like, you know what DeNiro's politics are and you know what Kid Rock's politics are? You know what Mark Ruffalo's politics are, but you don't know Kenny Loggins. Who knows what Kenny Loggins politics are? So, like, he just seems like a harmless nice guy, you know? Little I'm all right, little return to poo corner, you know, jams. They'll meet me halfway from over the top.

But that would hurt my soul if I found out that Kenny Loggins hated me. Like, I could tolerate others. Like, if you heard that, you know, like, there are people that you know would hate you. Like, if Keith Oberman knew me, he'd hate me. In fact, he actually may have me blocked. I think he blocked Jilly like 15 years ago. I don't know why he blocked Jilly. When we lived in Houston the first time, I believe, Keith Oberman blocked Jilly.

So she's been like a long time block from Keith Olberman. He may block me, he may not. I don't know. Another thing that fascinates me about Keith Olberman is that he and Tony Bruno were such good buddies to the point that, like, When Tony and I were doing the show in Philly, on Fridays, Tony would leave the show for a while to go in the studio next store and do a television hit with Keith Oberman, something that you would never see now because I don't think that they'd be buddies, and Keith Oberman can't have someone on his balcony with him to do his show, I guess. But yeah, if I found out that Kenny Loggins thought I was just horrible, I think I'd be sad. What is the best Kenny Logan soundtrack song? Like ones that you know, like the big ones, if you had to rank the Kenny Logan soundtrack songs, to me, I would go with Meet Me Halfway as my number one.

Let me just find the actual list of Kenny Logan soundtrack songs just to be sure I'm not missing any, but I know there's nobody's fool, meet me halfway, playing with the boys, danger zone, I'm all right. I know Oh there's the one that was in footloose The How's it go? That sounded nothing like it But I can you know I can hear it

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Like hey Josh dipshit The song from Foot Loose was footloose. Yes, there was footloose, but there was another song in Footloose. And it was called, I'm free. Heaven helps the man. So heaven helps the man. That's a good tune. Playing with the boys. Danger Zone. Meet me halfway for the first time. I don't know what that's from. Nobody's Fool, which is from Caddyshack 2. So those are like the main ones. If I had to rank the Kinney Logan soundtrack song, actually, you know what I think is better than all of them is nobody's fool from Caddy Shack 2. So those are like the main ones. Shack 2, which was, I think, a top five hit in 1988, maybe. But that's a banger. I know you think I'm too much for you, baby. I'm nobody's for, I'm going all the way. Wow.

That's a jam. Playing with the boys is what it is. You know, it's fine. But I would go, if I had to rank like the seven or eight that I know, I'm going, number one is nobody's fool. from Caddyshack 2. Number 2 would be meet me halfway from over the top. Number 3 would be danger zone.

Number 4 would be, I'm going to go, I'm all right. Number 5 would be I'm free. Heaven helps the man. Number six would be footloose, and then playing with the boys would be the last one. Despite all the homoeroticism or the latent homosexuality of that scene, which was lovely, that song doesn't do it for me. But Kenny Loggins, he has beef with Trump. That was a funny graphic, though, funny AI.

I'm telling you, AI is great. I'm all in favor of AI. I'm a big AI guy. I need to figure out how to use some of this shit because it's fun. And let's be real. People who are at the no-kings rally probably should have excrement dumped on them. I'm not like anti-left-wing guy or anything like that as it relates to this. And I don't think just like left-wing people deserve to have excrement dumped on them or progressives or whatever.

But I do think if you're out there protesting kings in a country that doesn't have kings and we'll never have kings, particularly when the closest thing we've had to kings are the people who demanded that you get vaccinated or you not have a job or that you get vaccinated or that you get vaccinated or you deserve to die, then I think you're a little bit misguided there, pal, but whatever, it is what it is. But, and the same people that go to these kind of rallies are the same people that protest outside of Planned Parenthood about how it's my body, my choice. But the reality is the people who also have a choice about whether or not they want to fuck these people do not fuck them.

And they don't fuck them because most of them are just disgusting to look at and we'll never have to worry about having an abortion because they have an abortion. and I know that they struggle with this because some of them believe even a man could have an abortion. But to have an abortion, a P needs to go in a V, or at least the juice from the P needs to go into a V, and there will be nothing of the sort happening. So I don't think these people will ever have to worry about having abortions because nobody will ever worry about having to bone them. Also, it's interesting. I was telling you the other day about how somebody reached out to me about a political talk job in a big city.

And, of course, look, I can't do it. I have the job here. I'm committed to the job here. I want to do a good job here and do a good show and be successful. And we've got a long giant climb here, which is going to be very difficult. Far more difficult than I'd anticipate it. I thought I was going to roll in here and just kick ass. And look, we got a long way to go.

So I'm obviously not going to be involved with another radio station. But it was nice to know that somebody was interested. But I was talking to this person about this job. And he's like, I saw your social media. And your social media has the kind of vibe we want. And I was like, well, I mean, yeah, but I mean, a lot of people view my social media some sort of anti-left-wing stuff. And he's like, actually, like, I look at you and I think you've got kind of a Bill Maher vibe about you, which, by the way, I'm nothing like Bill Maher in the sense that Bill Maher is actually brilliant in the way he discusses politics and all that. I am not. But I told him, like, if I were to ever do anything like that, if politics was ever a direction I went, I would never be somebody that would get on there and talk about policies and anything.

He's like, no, we don't want that. We want a someone that's going to come in and talk about the shit that people really care about. And I'm like, correct. So, like, I'm not going to get in here and talk about abortions, for instance, because big picture, my life is not impacted if somebody wants to get an abortion. And real talk, I find it to be baffling, completely baffling that there's a human on the planet that believes that somebody who gets raped shouldn't be able to have an abortion. Like, the people that would think that are astounding to me. And I'm like, that's certainly not a super duper alt-right take of me. now is it. And he's like, that's not what we'd be looking for. Like, I like your vibe on social

media. I like the stuff you talk about. And, like, there's a big part of me that, I mean, I know I could. Look, I tried to get a job in Dallas is where it was. There was a job opening in Dallas. At least it said there was a job opening in Dallas for a talk show host. Now, ultimately, they didn't end up filling the position. They just put a syndicated show on. But I knew the program director, and I called him. And I'm like, dude, is there anything I can do? You know, like, I want the job. And because this guy tried to hire me multiple times in Portland. of all places, which would have been a disaster. And I know we've talked about that before, but multiple times this dude tried to put me on the radio in Portland.

I'm like, you do know that I will last five minutes in Portland, if that. But Dallas felt like it would have made sense, you know. And it'd be cool to do that because you'd feel like there'd be a group of people. Like, you'd get passionate people one way or the other. What we're struggling with right now is trying to get passionate people one way or the other to listen to this radio station. That's the hardest part that we're dealing with right now. But anyway, like, you know, and I told him, I'm like, look, I'm not somebody that would come in there and, you know, like, I'm not like hardcore right wing guy because there's a lot of my views that if you heard them, you'd go, well, that certainly doesn't fit in with this MAGA viewpoint of the things. But then there'd be other stuff that, like I'll say on the air and I'll be MAGA.

Like today, I was talking about this story. There was a story about a little curl who got a women of the KKK, like, business card or pamphlet in her. trick-or-treat box, like in her little bag. And I don't even know what the women of the KK is. I don't know if it was a recruitment thing or what. But I started playing if the South would have won by Hank, and we were making fun of that and everything. And this guy texts in and goes, I'm never listening to this again because you're playing racist country music. I'm like, sir, I'm making fun of the racist country music. Do you understand that? And that's part of the problem. And that's why political talk actually scares me, is that there is no nuance. People don't

understand nuance in this day and age. They don't understand. Like back in the day when Stern was doing the bits, like when he'd have, you know, Daniel Carver from the clan up, they're making fun of that guy. Yes, he's platform, but they're making fun of him to the point where it makes being in the clan seem like you're a fucking goober, right? Like, that's how it was. When you would do parodies of Marge shot and you would use the N-word, yeah, you'd use the N-word, but you were doing it as part of making fun of this other person. And people don't understand that now. They just hear N-word and they say, oh, that's terrible. Or, ooh, they just hear you reference the Klan.

Or, ooh, they reference, you know, Hank Williams, Jr., and now you're a racist or a bigot. Like, people don't have any concept of that anymore. That's not the way the world works with people anymore because people don't understand nuance. And that's a killer. People don't get nuance. And that's why, like, today, you get on the air, like, you start, like, when we did the, if the South would a one bit in Houston when it was me, Rich, and Ben or me, actually, I think Cassio was the one doing that. We're all laughing our balls off because it was so easy to make.

fun of because it was so absurd because it's an absurd song. If the South would have won, we'd have had it made. The day Elvis passed away would be our national holiday. I'd put the Supreme Court down in Texas. We would hang all the killers. We would throw all the drug pushers back to Q. Like, it's a funny sounding song because it's so absurd. But people don't find the absurdity in things anymore. They don't laugh at the absurdity of things. They're just offended by the words. They don't look at the meaning behind the words. And that's the one thing that would scare me about doing political talk. I mean, hell, I see it in sports shit with people in their tribes and their cults. I've never had to do a daily political talk show before. And real talk,

there is a part of me that I don't know if I want to deal with that universe. Now, I think I could do the type of show that I wouldn't have to totally deal with that type of universe because I'm not Clay Travis. I'm not that head first into it. And I do have viewpoints that are, you know, kind of more down the middle. I'd say, you know, depending on the day, you could view it as right center depending on who you're talking to, but there are days that I'll be on the air here and somebody will call and say I'm super liberal. So, you know, you don't know. But it's intriguing. It's certainly something I'd be interested in trying, and I do miss talking and not just talking, but talking with a purpose. You know, like when you do sports radio in a town, you're going to get

people to tune in because they want to hear about the team in that town, you know. When people tune into a show on a rock radio station, how much of it is they care what you're saying and how much of it is they want to hear more fog hat. You know, that's the dilemma. Anyway, more to come. I know it's all over the place there.