The Josh Innes Show - Kimmel Lives!

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

The Jimmy Kimmel suspension is over. Someone on Twitter asked me if I thought Kimmel should have been fired. My answer is no. My issue has always been these dweebs making him out to be some sort of martyr. Also, I've upset the radio station social media. Part of the issue is they can't seem to put me in a box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So, uh, Jimmy Kimmel's going to be back on TV tonight, so he didn't get fired. I've had some people message being, oh, you thought he had no numbers and then he had no value, huh? I still do. Like, I don't know what to tell you. Like, the late night TV is a, is a dead and dying, overly expensive universe. So, like, it doesn't change my opinion of Jimmy Kimmel or late night TV at all, right? But he'll be back and, but do you talk a weird topic that gets people really. super pissed very strange let me play a couple commercials and we'll get into that so i bring that up because

like on the station facebook page the wheels facebook page which is fucking wild right like you can post about random shit no one'll care but you post about jimmy kimmel and these people lose their fucking minds and it is a full-on political war between these people right so to give you a little backstory last Friday I was talking about what people like about the show and I was talking about the Jimmy Kimmel stuff and I was getting messages from people telling me that I'm an alt-right lunatic that I'm a maga lunatic was what I was called because I was like listen if his boss wants to fire him his boss can fire him like that's I've lived it like that's the thing about people that have never lived it and don't understand how the world works that want to just scream about

freedom of speech freedom of speech of course you have freedom of speech you can say whatever the fuck you want but you also work for someone you work for an entity and if those people view what you did to be abhorrent and they want to fire you? They can. Like, I've lived it. Some dickhead that's got like, you know, free Palestine as his fucking header on his Facebook page hasn't fucking lived it. Some guy that's got the fucking in this house we believe sign in his fucking hipster neighborhood hasn't fucking lived it. You don't know what it's like. Not to say that I'm Jimmy Kimmel. I'm not on that level. I'm not an ABC. But I've worked for entities and I've been fired from entities and as I've been told many times you can say whatever the fuck you want but

there are consequences to what you say and that's been my main point about jimmy kimmel like i've got guys on twitter that are like oh i bet josh is sad that jimmy kimmel wasn't fired not at all i don't think about jimmy kimmel or care enough about jimmy kimmel to care if jimmy kimmel like i wasn't rooting like it go back and listens to the podcast i don't like jimmy kimmel i don't think he's funny i don't think he's interesting i think he used to be i'm not someone that's all worked up that he used to wear blackface in the car malone bit the fucking car malone bit was funny i don't care oh my go look what he did at the man show i everybody liked that shit it was good i think he's a pud because he dismisses all that and acts like he's

he's just like fucking howard stern i don't like that they're full of shit and they dismiss all the stuff they did because they want to be in with these fucking media elite people and then they shit on everybody that ever liked their shit before that's all but just like howard I don't root for Howard Stern to get fired because I don't think about Howard Stern. I don't listen to Howard Stern. Like somebody said, well, you don't have to watch. I don't. I do not watch Jimmy Kimmel.

I have, but I do not actively seek it out. I just, I don't like him. I don't like, I used to a lot. If you would ask me, Josh, who do you like more out of the late night people of this newer generation? It would have been 100% Kimmel. Kimmel's an old school radio guy. Like, there's a lot of things about Kimmel that I enjoy. I don't like him anymore.

And it's not because I'm mad. It's because I don't like people who are full of shit and pander to groups of people. I don't enjoy that. And I don't enjoy him, okay? But I wasn't rooting for him to get fired. There's a difference between actively rooting for someone to be fired and not giving a shit if they do get fired. I was in the position of I don't give a shit if he gets fired. But like I wasn't stumping for him to be fired.

Like at the end of the day, do I think what Jimmy Kimmel said on his show is the most abhorrent thing I've ever heard somebody say? No. There have been worse things. You know, but obviously it ticked off the wrong people. There were people that were higher-ups at some of these broadcasting companies than were pissed. And that's the other thing that I operate with when I talk about the Kimmel story is, like, I'm not operating in the world where Trump is trying to get these people off TV.

That's where we're different. So people want to argue like the basic crux of this, which is they're never going to agree with what I have to say because. they are of the belief that this is some great crusade to get these shitty late night TV guys off the air. And I get that Trump tweets about that shit all the time. Trump's been doing that for 10 fucking years. You know, when people talk about Trump trying to censor the media, like if Trump had that

much power over the media, then A, Jimmy Kimmel obviously would have been fired. And B, none of these media people would have jobs. But of course, now what you've got is you've got these left-wing people who are jerking themselves off because they created a problem that wasn't real. The problem that wasn't real was the idea that Donald Trump is trying to force Jimmy Kimmel and late night people and people who disagree with them off a TV and he's using force in a censoring free speech. That is a fake problem that they created.

Now that they've seemingly solved it because Jimmy Kimmel is on the air, all these left-wing people are like, we did it, we boycott it and we protested. You didn't really. You want to see like a real effective protest that something. You have to be able to prove that what you believe was happening was happening, and you can't. Look at the Cracker Barrel thing, the big right-wing people boycott of Cracker Barrel, right? Well, we know for a fact that Cracker Barrel changed their logo and changed the store. So the boycott of Cracker Barrel was effective and the backlash was effective because we actually, with our own eyes, saw them changing something that people liked.

We saw the change. you created a problem that no one can actually prove because it's not rooted in reality. Oh, Donald Trump is trying to censor his enemies and he's a dictator. You cannot prove that. So you've solved a problem that is not provable. That's my issue with your bullshit. You didn't change anything. And the problem is what happens is this becomes, oh, Josh is pro-Trump.

It is not that. It is not that at all. Like I was reading comments because it's beautiful. I love when I can post things. And on Friday, these people all thought I was some right-wing fucking MAGA person. Now you get a bunch of dipshits on our station Facebook page that think I'm left-wing. Because I posted, Jimmy Kimmel is back on TV. I guess Trump doesn't control the media after all.

The point of that post was to kind of throw a jab at these people that were convinced that Kimmel was fired because Donald Trump wanted him to be fired. They read it as me like saying Trump's not powerful. enough to cancel people. Like, fuck the man. This station is full of liberal dipshits and I'm never listening again. Like, fuck you, dude. Like, go fuck yourself. Then don't.

Then don't listen. Like, it's hysterical. I think my favorite part about being able to do that, and I don't do it on purpose. Like, I'm not deliberately misleading people with my opinion. Sometimes I post things that I think people just read because I didn't do a good job of explaining them. And that might be one of them, but you only have so many words to post to keep people captivated anyway on a story like that. But what's funny about the right-wing people in this is they spent the whole time, like, they can't help themselves because they fall into like, like, on one hand, they're like, Donald Trump's not a dictator, and Donald Trump isn't trying to control the media. Then if you come back with him and you're like, yeah, he wasn't powerful enough to silence Jimmy Kimmel, fuck you, he can do whatever he wants.

It's like in one breath, they're like he's not a dictator. And then in the other breath, they're pissed that you're saying he's not a dictator. And they're like, yeah, he is. Like, it's fucking hysterical. But to the point of something I was talking about on social media, I do not care or root for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired. I just don't care. Like, if he would have gotten fired, I can understand it. I've lived it.

Oh, Josh, don't compare your stupid radio shit to this. Yeah, I don't have the fucking president trying to fuck with me. I don't have the president, you know, on Twitter telling me that I'm a piece of shit. Sure, you're right. But no matter which level you look at, people deal with certain things. And I have a pretty good understanding of how the media works. I've worked for radio stations that carry, in a very similar way, they carry teams. And if you say the wrong thing about teams and you've got thin-skinned teams, you can end up in trouble because they'll value the team more than they value you.

Their rights fees and the rights holders and the teams they carry are more important in some instances than you. You are expendable. Jimmy Kimmel is expendable. Also, we were arguing something that we didn't even know was true. The last week, we've acted as if the guy was already fired. Maybe they were never going to fire him. It was just a suspension, just to let things, maybe they're telling the truth. It was a cool off period.

Tensions were very high, and you've got this guy on there stoking the fucking flames. But we all operated in the world world where he's fired. All of us did. We all did that. But no, like, I don't root for people to get fired. I just don't care if they do. And that comes from years and years of nobody giving a shit if I got fired. And you can say, well, Josh, that's a shitty way to look at things.

Maybe it is, but it's how I look at things. When you've been fired multiple times, and part of those times you've been fired is because you've said something controversial, and none of these new freedom of speech warriors went to your fucking defense, and I can guarantee you they fucking didn't. Then fuck them. I don't root for it. I don't seek out people and go, why isn't this person fired but I was? But in my mind, I'm thinking it. And I don't give a shit.

When I see certain stories, I'm like Philly fans when like some guy like fights at a football game and I'm like, well, if that was Philly, it would be that. Sometimes I do that with shit about me in my own mind. I'll see some guy do something. I'm like, that's far worse than anything I've ever done. Yet somehow no one came to my defense on anything. So that's my main reason. My main reason I have issues with certain things is because the same people that are now crying about freedom of speech were not crying about freedom of speech when I'm on the fucking chopping block. I guarantee you they weren't like, well, I mean, I don't like that he said it, but I'll defend his right to say it.

I guarantee you they weren't. So is there a bitterness that comes with that? Sure. Of course it does. But it's also pointing out that these people are hypocrites and they're big fans of freedom of speech. as long as it's not, you know, Joe Rogan saying he's taking ivermectin. And then you got people like Jimmy Kimmel going on TV like, oh, he's taking horse goo. And Jimmy Kimmel going on TV saying he doesn't care if people who don't take the vaccine die or they shouldn't get hospital shit.

He sucks. So don't sit there and fight for this guy's right to say shit like he's some sort of class fucking act. And don't act like freedom of speech and your mind goes both ways. And that goes for both sides. There's a lot of people on the right wing side of shit that want to silence people who disagree with them too. the same people that were celebrating Jimmy Kimmel getting taken off the air, not realizing that celebrating that guy getting taken off the air and wanting him to be fired is celebrating the same shit these people were doing to you during COVID.

Like those people celebrating that they were keeping you out of the grocery stores and keeping you out of your job and telling you that if you weren't getting the vaccine, you were a piece of shit that was putting Grammy and pop pop in jeopardy. Those same people, you were doing the same shit they were doing. But that's the problem is everybody looks for an eye for an eye. Nobody cares about what the actual thing is. It's just an eye for an eye Oh, the liberals did it So we're gonna do it

Oh, the right wing people did it That's the same shit The left wing people say Whenever they're celebrating Some guy getting his head blown off Oh, but what about the right wing people Celebrating such and such Getting hit in the head with a hammer

I mean you have to go to their fucking level But you want to go to that level Because deep down you're all shitty So you all want to go down to each other's level You all want to get in the mud with each other Because deep down like we're just fucking animals So that's my issue my issue is this eye for an eye culture that we live in.

My issue is that, like, people that will argue and be mad about shit, not because they're really mad about it, but just because it represents their side of things and they have to be mad about it because it's an obligation. I hate that I can't have a differing opinion on two different things, one that might fall left wing, one that might fall right wing, because every time someone sees the left wing opinion, I'm a liberal piece of shit. And every time they see the right wing thing, it's like, oh, this guy's a mag of fuck. because people have pea brains and can't think for themselves and have to think in line with their cult so if someone's not in either cult and they just kind of hang out and kind of dip their toe in both sides like hey you know what I don't give a shit about abortion

but on the other hand like you know what guns don't worry me if you say hey guns don't kill people people do ah your right wings out of it you say hey lady's choice she wants to have an abortion having abortion ah you liberal scum you want to kill babies It can't just be Oh, hey, I'm Josh And not every opinion I have

Falls into a box That puts me in your fucking cult You can't do that Because we're in tribes now We're in cults and tribes Now I'm all worked up Now I'm all hot But the point of this is this

That no Because I saw there's this guy And I don't know who he is But he's been arguing On Twitter about shit He's like, I bet Josh doesn't even, I bet Josh wanted Jimmy Kimmel to get fired. Like, I don't care.

Like, it didn't impact my life. Just like, I don't care if Cracker Barrel changes their fucking logo or not. If I wanted to go to Cracker Barrel, I'd go get a mess of biscuits and play the peg game at Cracker Barrel. But, like, the idea that people think I was, like, rooting. Like, there are some people I want to see Just Get Fire because I don't like them. Like, you know, mostly radio people. And I would be like, good, you annoy me. It'd just be because they annoy me.

It's not because of politics or anything. I would just enjoy it because I hate radio people with a passion because especially younger radio people who are delusional and think they're really important. I'm like, ma'am or sir, whoever you are, like, this ain't all that important. You know, shut the fuck up. Play Ariana Grande. Nobody cares about what you have to say about anything. They are there to hear Tate McCray for the 900th time.

They're not here to hear about what you think about Gaza. Just shut the fuck up. You're not changing the world. You're a disc jockey. You're not even talk show host. You're a disc jockey. Anyway, speaking of, I've got to get to a disc jockey. I've got to do my work now. But anyway, I love you. Bye.