The Josh Innes Show - Love On The Spectrum

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Do you watch "Love on the Spectrum"? It's such a sweet show. Abbey, who is the breakout star, has a song out that is such a banger. I think what I enjoy most is that this show doesn't feel exploitative. It's damn near educational. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don't know what it says about me that I get my wine recommendations from Love on the Spectrum. I don't know what that says. I don't know what it means about me. But as you know, Jilly and I are big fans of Love on the Spectrum. And if you don't watch Love on the Spectrum, you should. Very rarely do I tell people you should do this. Like I don't care what you watch what you're into. Love on the Spectrum is such a beautiful, wonderful show and you should watch it. If you don't watch it, it's on Netflix. There's the American version and there is the Australian version. The Australian version for anybody

who listened to the radio in Houston, there is a guy on there that I feel is just like Mike Meltzer. One of the guys that's on the spectrum is just like Mike Meltzer. So if you watch the Australian version of it on Netflix, you'll know the guy I'm referring to. We'll see if we can all think of the same person, but I'm fairly certain if you watch it, you'd go, oh yeah, that's definitely kind of like Mike Melzer. So I would watch that show. I got the Boyfriend Forever song with Abby and David. Abby and David

is truly the greatest love story of all time. And Abby, when I tell you that Abby wrote this song for David called Boyfriend Forever, and it is on par with anything that Taylor Swift has ever put out, and I mean that. I am not saying this for effect, I'm not saying this to shit on Taylor Swift. I don't mind Taylor Swift.

I like a lot of her older shit. I think her new shit's pretty fucking terrible, but like I sat second row at the concert so I consider myself to be a bit of a someone that knows Taylor Swift. For instance, yesterday I'm watching Jeopardy! there was a Taylor Swift clue on there about a song called Back to December which is my favorite fucking Taylor Swift song ever. I know music, which is my favorite fucking Taylor Swift song ever. I know music, okay? I have worked on music radio stations for four years. So I know music. And when I tell you that Abby's song, Boyfriend Forever,

is just as good and just as well written as any song Taylor Swift has ever put out, I mean that. And it really kind of just shows you how like bizarre music is and what becomes successful. Because if you really hear lyrics of a song and how things come together, you're like, it's weird that this is considered important or this is considered powerful

or that this is super popular or whatever. Like there is no rhyme or reason for why things become popular. Like some dickhead could have written one of these Taylor Swift songs and performed it somewhere and nobody would have ever heard it and Taylor Swift does it. It's a huge hit. It's just interesting. But Abby Romero and the song Boyfriend Forever and now there's like a oh what is the there's a version of it that I saw on the Kelly Clarkson show. She did a performance of it and had like a backing band. Like on the show she performs it for David like out at a park or whatever and she just sings it

acoustic and it's beautiful but you add like some background singers and some harmony and some instruments, it's a fucking banger. Boyfriend Forever. Let me see if I can play a little bit of it here. First of all let me play a couple commercials if I can play a little bit of it here. First of all, let me play a couple commercials, and I will play a little bit of Boyfriend Forever. Understanding, of course, that I don't have any way to play it into the podcast, so I have to play it through the microphone and it's going to sound like shit, but anyway, it doesn't matter. Let's play a couple commercials and we will continue. Alright, if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you got to check out Pick Six from Draft Kings. When it comes to basketball payouts, Draft Kings

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offer. See terms at pick6.draftkings.com slash promos. All right, so Boyfriend Forever. This is let's see what we got here We love gummy bears any day You see colors as numbers, now I know them all You learn how my mind works, we started to fall We have so much in common, but at the same time You can do your thing and I can do mine I'm on the drug line You're in the lazy river You cheer me up from below And then we share a pizza

You support me And I'll always be here for you Get it Abby You can name every animal at the zoo I feel safe when I'm spending time with you Even when we have nothing to say or nothing to do Get it Abby I was really nervous to meet someone new And then I got used to knowing you You understand me, remind me to breathe Being with you is easy, you're just who I need I know sometimes I'm in my head But when I'm with you, I'm in the world instead I mean, that's a fucking banger, isn't it?

Jeez. Just, I mean, she slays this shit. And it's such a good show. And I hate most things. You know this. Most of the time I just come on here and I'm like, you know what? I hate everything. I don't want to be that way. I'm just a very bitter person right now. I'm in a bitter part of my life. I feel like a fucking failure most days. Like, I'm just in a mood all the time. I walk around in a fucking mood. I'm not angry all

the time. I'm just blah all the time. I walk around in a fucking mood. I'm not angry all the time. I'm just blah all the time. I'm like a goddamn zombie, right? And like I just most things I don't give a shit about. Most things I don't bring me joy. But watching Love on the Spectrum is such a lovely show. It's just so good. And I think the American version has three or four seasons and the Australian version has I think four seasons and the Australian version has I think two seasons maybe but you should watch it. That's all I'm saying. I would advocate watching Love on the Spectrum because it's such a good show and it's so sweet and you get to see how these these people that deal with you know

being on the spectrum autism Asperger's whatever they the way they deal with this and like I know that you would think of this and you'd go, well, this probably sounds exploitive, right? Like I have a buddy of mine who's like, yeah, I don't watch this shit because it feels exploitive. And I can understand where you'd feel that way. But I don't view it that way because I'm not watching this and we're not making fun of them, you know? Like I feel like when I'm watching this show

called Balin, Balin Out Loud, which is this show about a chick that has Tourette's, right? And she's got like different tics and shit. And she says wacky shit, you know, all the time and says, F this and whatever. And like, it's funny, but at times I'm watching this and I'm like, I'm only interested in this show because I want to see the wacky shit the person with Tourette's says, right? Like, I feel like that's almost exploitive. Now they're doing it and they're making money off of it, so fine, and it brings awareness to Tourette's and all that. So like, okay cool, because like when you see Tourette's in

movies and shit, it's usually depicted as like, you know, what's that? What's the movie? Was it not another teen movie that had a character with Tourette's? It was like, stick a finger in my ass, like cock face. Was that that one? I think it was. But like you'd think, oh, that's just an exaggeration. And then you hear this chick in the show and the shit she says, she's like, I have an 11 inch penis. She'll just say these things and it's funny. And then you're laughing.

And then you're also wondering if she's doing this, like if she's exaggerating these things to make it more interesting for television. I'm not saying she is and I'm not saying she's terrible. But like when I watch exaggerating these things to make it more interesting for television. I'm not saying she is and I'm not saying she's terrible, but like when I watch that there's part of me that's like, okay, I kind of feel like an asshole because like I am just watching this because I want to see this chick say inappropriate things around people like there was a scene in the season of it where she she's like reading signs in the airport.

She's waiting in like the baggage line of security line rather and she's like I have a the airport. She's waiting in like the baggage line, the security line rather, and she's like, I have a gun and people are like what? And she's like, I have a gigantic gun and like you wonder, like when I watch that, I wonder how much of it is kind of being sold for television. Maybe none of it. Maybe I'm being an asshole. Maybe, but I can't help but think because it's not like this is a person who is of or is at a lessened mental state, if that makes sense, or deals with some sort of mental issue or deals with some sort of cognitive issue or whatever.

This is a person that, I mean, obviously Tourette's is a thing, but it's not like you can't think for yourself and it's not like you don't have reason for yourself. It's not like you couldn't sit back and go, okay, maybe this time since they need something funnier for the show, maybe I'll say cocksucker really loud at church or something, you know, like that's just an example. But like maybe I'll do that and it'll be funny and controversial because it'll be on a TV show and I'll go, what? I got Tourette's. Like that's probably not what's happening. But when I watch that show, that's the vibe I get that it could happen. When

I watch Love on the Spectrum, I don't like these people aren't putting on a fucking show. They're just being who they are because like they have some concept of like kind of working the crowd a little bit and kind of hamming things up a little bit, but they're all on the Spectrum and they've all got different, you know, issues that they deal with and when I watch it, I don't feel like they're being exploited. I feel like people are genuinely curious about

understanding what is going on with these people and what their day-to-day life is like, what it's like when they try to date. Like there was a scene where this one girl, she's one of the new girls in this most recent season, and she's out on a date with some guy whose autism seems like it's different. What's fascinating about autism is that like there are different levels of autism, right? Like there are different things.

It's the spectrum. There are different things. Like some people, I'll be real. Sometimes I'll be watching this shit and I'll go, I think you're fucking wringer in this shit. And I don't even know that you're really autistic. Like I'll say that sometimes like a dick. I'll be like, I question you.

I don't know. But then everybody's got a different form of autism. Actually, you know who I think when I watch this show, and if you watch the show, maybe you'll agree. There's the woman who wasn't in this season, I don't think. But she was like the teacher. Like they would bring her to the house and like she would talk to somebody and give them like like different

types of like like coaching on how to go on a date and how to ask questions and she's like well, I'm on the spectrum as well and I'm like you ain't on the same spectrum as these people like this lady's out here teaching people like hey, what do you ask somebody when you're out on a date and what do you say like I feel like you're milking it a little bit. I feel like you're milking it. I feel like these are people who are really on the spectrum and you're over here like, no, I swear I'm on the

spectrum. Let me teach people how to go out on dates. I'm like, I don't know. I don't know. But the spectrum is a fascinating thing. Like intern Zach, who we had at 610, and I don't know what he's up to now, but Zach had Asperger's. So it was funny on the air because he really had no concept of emotion or he couldn't read social cues or whatever, and he was wonderful on the air. You know, you just know people who are different forms of on the spectrum, you know, like my nephew Trip is on the spectrum. I'm not around him enough to know what he's like. So I don't know these things. But like, like, I don't know if he like is

a like a singer like Abby, I don't know what his like special power is, or his special skill is, I honestly don't know, because I'm never around my family but pretty soon when I don't find a job and I'm like living back in Baton Rouge like the failed football star in a couple months then you know then maybe I'll see him more often. But all that said when I watch Love on the Spectrum I don't feel like I'm watching people who are being exploited and I don't feel like I'm watching people who are putting on a show for the sake of a reality show, you know, I feel like I'm just seeing people in there like being who they are and it's sweet. It is a sweet thing to watch and I enjoy it and like sometimes

like I'll find myself on the verge of tears watching these people because it's so sweet and most reality shows are horrible and terrible and scripted and phony and people know what they're doing and people are putting on a show like I watch down for love down for love is also a good show man. It's the same concept, but I get where it sounds like it could be exploitive, but it's not like I watch it and I don't feel like these people are being exploited and I don't

feel like they're being disingenuous. So like, Abby is now like the hottest thing out there right now. She was on Kelly Clarkson. There was a good performance of Boyfriend Forever, which I have on my phone, which is a great fucking song. You know, that's on there. A lot of these guys, there was the Kelly Clarkson. Now Kelly Clarkson, she's kind of milking the fucking love

on the spectrum angle, because she also had one of the other kids Tanner who is from South Carolina and he's the one I'm maybe you guys have seen it where you got to meet Jack Black and he was super excited about it. Like it's just sweet man. It's so nice. It's just nice and it and it I think it helps when you get to see things that like like we're beaten over the head constantly with like racial issues and like expected to know

like what's acceptable to different racial groups. And we're expected to know everything about like sexes and everything about genders. And like we're expected to know that. So we're beaten to death with it so often that it gets tiresome and you're just sick of hearing about it. What you don't hear about a lot,

like you constantly hear about what you have to do if your friends are gay and what you have to do if your friends are transgender. And then you have to hear about the gay pride parade. And then you have to hear about pride month. Then you have to hear about the Mexican heritage night at the ball game. But my point is you're beaten over the head or you're religious group. Like it's Catholic night at the ballpark. And you're supposed to

know this and you're hit over the head with it so much that it gets to the point where you're sick of hearing about it and you're just against it. We don't hear a lot about the issues that people that are on the spectrum deal with. It's just it's not a group that gets a lot of attention right? So when you watch this it's like you're getting to learn about it like your your whole life, especially if you're a young kid now, you're taught like from the time you're shot out of a womb about pronouns now and about like why this group is oppressed and you're not and whatever. You don't hear a lot about what this group of people

goes through and you don't see the different variations of the spectrum. So when you see it on a show like this, it's educational in a way and it helps you understand. That's all. Like I think it's a good fucking show. I dig the show. So anyway, if you don't watch Love on the Spectrum, watch it. All of that 15 minutes in to tell you this, that Abby drinks Chardonnay and I had never had Chardonnay. And last night we had a Boda box of Chardonnay.

Like as you're sitting here listening you're like how the fuck did this this thing start with you talking about drinking alcohol and then 15 minutes later after a long diatribe about love on the spectrum and and Asperger's and Tourette's how did you how are you going to button this up? All that to say we had a shitload of Chardonnay last night because Abby drinks Chardonnay, David drinks milk, Abby drinks Chardonnay. Boy, she gets lit. Abby, like let me tell you these people on the spectrum have no qualms with getting lit and Abby lit. Okay, but anyway Chardonnay is tasty as far as white wines. I don't like white wines.

I prefer red red wine. It makes me feel so fine. Keep me rockin' all of the time. But it's a D. I like Chardonnay. Out of a box. Because I'm classy. More to come.