The Josh Innes Show - Michael Keaton With Hot Political Takes

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

I really hate politics. I think everyone is full of shit. That said, I find it funny when people like Michael Keaton want you to know that one specific politician doesn't care about you. Friend, they don't care about anyone. None of them..... I've been listening to some pods lately and I'm kind of having voting FOMO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I will say this while we're talking like things that are slightly political, you know, like Taylor, who's whatever. I saw that that Michael Keaton wanted you to know that Trump doesn't care about you. Which would lead you to believe that I guess Kamala does care about you or any politician cares about you. Look, I'm not saying Trump does care about you. Probably fucking doesn't. None of these people. None none that's what i'm saying none of them do but it's like somehow like these weird cultish celebrities all of whom are rich all of whom live in mansions all of whom tell you everything that's wrong with the world yet like they're the worst even worse than the shitty politicians are the celebrities who live in like like they don't

know what the real world is because they don't live in it like George Clooney who likes to tell you about how bad like all this shit is while he's giving millions of dollars to the to the left-wing politicians like here's what I want if you want the world if you're so sick of seeing people being poor and living in shitty houses and you're so sick of seeing people being poor and living in shitty houses, and you want everything to be perfect, and here's what you do, George Clooney. How about you downsize a little bit? Get yourself into a 1,000 square foot two bedroom home. You've probably got way too much space as it is. I want to see George Clooney, and I want to see Michael Keaton, and I want to see Seth Rogen, and Howard Stern, and all these people who want to tell you about how bad billionaires and everybody are, because they're backing a candidate who's one of her main things is, oh, the billionaires have to pay their fair share, which they already fucking do.

Most rich people already do pay. They're paying a fuck ton in taxes as it is. But like I want those people who are supporting the candidate that wants you to know that rich people are bad. I want those people to take the 20 million they're getting for a picture and divvy that up to all these shitty poor communities around here. Go buy them some more fucking computers. Put them in some houses and not low income like weird housing. Buy them a nice little house. How many nice little houses in small towns could George Clooney buy if he instead of

taking because it's terrible to take 20 million dollars for a picture to make a movie then how about you defer your salary and you say I want my money to go to build however many houses I can build with my 20 million dollar salary and whatever I make on the back end of this movie I want to make sure we build more houses for people and I want them to get reparations and all that shit how about that but they don't do that because they're all full of fucking shit now again i'm not voting but i see again i want to be very clear everybody's full of shit but if you ask me josh who do you like more or less i dislike the weird celebrity people probably the most because i think they're all full of shit they all live in mansions they're all rich they have no concept of the real world.

Yet here they are backing these politicians that, for whatever reason, continue to keep everyone poor. For years and years and years, the same people who are poor stay poor. Why do they stay poor? Because these politicians need them to be poor. Well, Josh, why do they need them to be poor? They say they want them to be fine. They don't want them to be fine.

They need them to be poor. Why do they need them to be poor? They say they want them to be fine. They don't want them to be fine. They need them to be poor. Why do they need them to be poor? Because they need them to believe that they can be their savior. So they'll vote for them. And then four years later, after they've won and they're running again, somehow they're still poor and then they're going to be poor. We've created a world where somehow looking at the American dream or making money or being physically fine and having success and being someone who's well-to-do, that's almost viewed as toxic and bad. Money equal bad. Unless it's one of your celebrity friends, then it's totally fine. But money and success is bad. And I have an issue with that. And that's why we're super fucked. I mean, there's a lot of reasons.

But that's one of the reasons why we're super fucked as people. And there's part of me that kind of wishes I would have registered to vote and vote. Like, I've been listening to podcasts lately. And to me, my most important thing is this, right? I care about, like, taxes and shit. And not like, oh boy, I want, boom.

I just want to go to the grocery store where it doesn't cost like hundreds of dollars for two days of groceries. And I think that's how most people are. The issue I come into when I hear these left wing people is like their main rallying cries are, we're going to make billionaires pay more because they're evil and they got to pay their fair share trust me rich fucking people pay a shit ton in taxes what we should be doing is saying taxation is theft and say fuck the taxes that's what we should be doing but instead we're sitting here and we're like you know like we're villainizing everyone who's got money unless of course it's people who have money that are like our supporters so like there's people like uh mark cuban he's not evil he's fine he's rich we don't want hopefully mark cuban never has

to pay his fair share because we like mark cuban but like elon musk we fucking hate so we must he must be stopped and we must silence him and must take he must be taxed like it's so stupid um again and i think there's people on both sides of shit that are really fucking stupid. But it's really stupid. And this all jump starts with the Michael Keaton thing, where Michael Keaton's telling you that, well, the Trump does not care about you. Cool. He doesn't.

I agree. Nobody cares about anybody in politics. Everyone's full of shit. That's fine. I can get down with that. My problem is when your main things are basically, oh, doof, doof, rich people bad. Like, why should we not aspire to be wealthy? Why should we not aspire to have success?

What like, why is that like the key components of your shit? Your shit is telling people that they're never going to make it unless they vote for you. Then they vote for you and they're still fucking poor. Fuck you. I liked our idea earlier because, of course, Mick Foley is another one who came out today and did like a whole

four-minute video about why Trump is bad and you should vote for Kamala. And, of course, the other day, Trump was on The Undertaker podcast. Which was a nice little interview.

I enjoyed it. I think Trump is really good on podcasts. Dude, Trump is fantastic on podcasts. It's a juxtaposition to what Trump is when he's bloviating up on stage and pandering to his people.

When Trump is on a podcast, he's actually inquisitive, kind of charming. He seems human. He asks a lot of questions of people. Now, the argument that people have made on my social media is, well, he's stupid. He doesn't know anything. That's why he asked so many questions. Well, that's what kind of Mick Foley's thing was was like so you want to vote for somebody who actually asked the undertaker if wrestling hurts well i mean i mean sorry well here's the thing undertaker or sorry

mcfoley not everybody's a neanderthal like mcfoley was who like went out and like would bash his fucking skull in and fall on tack like like that's your that was really his argument like the guy asked questions like here's the thing and i'm not here to defend trump or anything here however like he's a like his main ambition or job in life is not to know what it's like to be a fucking wrestler you know what i'm saying like that so of course he asked some fucking questions and by the way mick foley things probably hurt you a lot more than they hurt other people because you deliberately did extreme dumb shit so there that being said we did come up with the idea that i think we should just have mick foley versus the undertaker winner takes the

presidency for their candidate that's what they should do now that obviously that match has already happened and it was on the cage. Let's do it again. My dad's close personal friend, Mick Foley, they have differing ideologies now. I know. I don't know how that's going to go. Yeah, I don't know if maybe dad has to break up with him. I'm not sure. Maybe he's got to text

his buddy, Mick, and say I think he saved him in his phone as mankind. I do just love that like this election has turned into like cutting wrestling promos well yeah because look at the number of wrestlers that have done it well i was listening and i don't know how true this was but trump was like well you know when i got shot i i talked to the rock the rock wanted to reach out and i'm like cool that now uh trump is going to be on joe rogan and of course people view view Joe Rogan for whatever reason as this wacky right-wing guy,

because basically if you're not on their side, you're like a wacky right-wing extremist. Yeah, I kept seeing all the Trump people pissed about it, being like, oh, now he only wants to talk to Trump because RFK endorsed him. Maybe so. People are never happy. And they never will be. But yeah, I just, and I go back to what... So is the Kamala thing happening on Joe Rogan too now? I don't know

I don't know she'd have no fucking chance With that guy though I don't know how true it is I don't believe anything on the internet anymore But like I want to say like Dave Portnoy was talking about How he turned down Kamala for an interview Like she's a waste of time To interview She's not interesting

At least Trump's interesting again I'm not voting for him I'm not voting for anybody but at least when you listen it's somewhat interesting she's not an interesting person she's just a an empty head but um and of course people will be pissed if they listen to this and i don't at some point i just don't give a shit there was one guy that messaged me and he's like if you if you come out and say that you like trump good luck getting a job i'm like go fuck yourself you people are fucking lunatics you're broken um and that's the thing though like i was thinking this today though like if trump does win and like and all these left-wing people who essentially control most things are miserable for the next four years what does that mean for a guy like me trying to

get a job who just wants to go on the radio and make people fucking laugh like people are going to be sad and miserable and the world is ending maybe they'll all actually move to canada like they always threaten to do there you go maybe that'll open up some jobs it could but like the main thing that matters to me and things and i think these this is the main thing like i think what happens with the liberal people is they focus on shit that real everyday people don't really give a fuck about. Like people care about, as you said, how much their groceries cost, how much like what they're going to, they're going to be taxed. I couldn't give two fucks what Trump is taxed, what fucking George Clooney is taxed.

I don't care how I'm never going to be a billionaire. If the billionaires get breaks that I don't get, I really don't give a shit. A lot of these people who are billionaires, many of them are people who are very wealthy. They own businesses, run businesses. If they get tax breaks because it helps their businesses run and it keeps people employed, you know what? Cool. Whatever. How does it impact my life? And that's what I think most people care about. I think the problem you run into with left-wing people is they they adopt all these causes that the average person doesn't care about the average person doesn't really give a shit what happens with transgender people because it impacts a very small percentage of people what they don't want is they

don't want to have a situation where like your daughter is in a locker room with some guy wearing a fucking wig like he's norman bates right? That's the main thing they care about. They don't want their kids playing softball against, you know, a six foot tall dude when their kids are high school girls. Cool. But by and large, they adopt these causes that the average person doesn't give a fuck about. That's the biggest thing I deal with with these people. They adopt causes that impact a very small minority of people and you have to celebrate that cause with them or you're a piece of shit and then they villainize you. It's like the average person doesn't give a fuck. If someone says, I want to be transgender, go be transgender. Most people don't give a fuck. Do whatever the

fuck you want to do. How does it impact the how does it impact you know interest rates on cars how does it impact groceries how does it impact gas that out of the 300 400 million people in this country 97 of them care about that more than they care about any of that other shit but it's all about being popular on social media so you got gotta adopt all these fucking causes that most people don't give a shit about. This is my favorite thing I saw today. This is in the Mount Juliet, Tennessee Facebook group that I'm in.

Somebody, because it's early voting now, you know? So outside of the early voting polling place, you know, you can put signs up across the street with a certain distance away. The person just put this sign up here. It says cold beer and common sense in 2024. I like it.

Next to all the political signs. Next to this Trump sign that has clearly been vandalized, by the way. That's a huge story in Wilson County, is people are going around vandalizing all the Trump signs. I think now they're offering a $2,000 reward to find out who's doing it these dipshits are so fucking broken and what they you know what i wouldn't doubt that could be trump people doing that just to bring attention to it like it very well it'd be actually a very smart thing um but these people are such idiots like like i see all these signs and i'm like you put all these signs up in your

yard and it's one thing if you put a sign that just says, this is who I'm voting for. Trump, Trump, whatever, and walls and all these stupid people. Right. So you see all these signs. Right. And Vance, Trump and Vance. And then you see the walls and Kamala or the worst are the Madam President. Eat a dick.

But anyway. I want to know, like, if on Halloween, like, you know, kids, for the most part, don't know what's going on. I'm talking four or five-year-old kids. Maybe they do now. I don't know. Well, now they have to because you go to school and instead of reading the Berenstain Bears, they're like, well, step right up, kids. Let me tell you why you're probably gay.

But imagine it's Halloween and a kid sees a house that's really cool, really decorated well, probably has awesome candy. But the sign says Trump in the front yard. And mom's like, fuck no. You can't go to that house, little Jimmy. But the guy's sitting outside and he's out there with his wife and they seem like nice people. Full size candy bars. Oh, giant candy bars. And he's like, listen, I'm also just going to give you each $10.

There you go. $10 in candy bars. Nope, got like, listen, I'm also just going to give you each $10. There you go. $10 and candy bars. Nope, got to skip the house because of the sign. And when I see all these signs, though, my first thought is, again, if you just want to show who you're supporting, like this house, Trump and Vance, whatever. But I like the ones that have the signs that tell you what to vote for, like vote prop three to save babies or whatever and I'm like has anybody ever not known who they're voting for and then they see your political sign in the yard and they're like you know I wasn't gonna vote for this guy or this amendment or this proposition or whatever but um now I am because I saw this sign in your yard and uh and now i think it's time i think i'm gonna do this now me i just like

i listened to a really good interview that i enjoyed today and it was and i don't but these are not shows that i fought like basically the only shows i actually follow or like get sent to my phone every day are um i get 83 weeks when it comes out, once a week, the Eric Bischoff podcast, just because it's nice to have on in the background. I've heard all the stories, but if I'm driving around or I'm walking and I just need something to listen to and I don't want to listen to music, I'll listen to that podcast because usually each episode's like three hours. So over the course of a day, I'll listen to 40 minutes of it or whatever. And it'll last me a week that gets sent to my phone. Uh, I listened to AJ show in San Antonio and then I'll listen to some things

live. Right. But I've been seeking out these Trump podcasts. I find them interesting. Um, and this isn't even a Trump thing I heard, but, um, like I don't really listen to a lot of Tucker Carlson shit. Uh, but he had Dave Ramsey on and I do listen to a lot of tucker carlson shit uh but he had dave ramsey on and i do listen to dave ramsey i find him interesting and um i'm listening to this and it was a really fascinating interview just about money and taxes and shit i was fascinated by you know and like that's what i listened to today and that's what got me into this kind of like raw raw you know kind of mindset about this but um and then I was like, listen, I'm like, shit, I wish I would have registered to vote because I would have. But obviously I'm not.

The registration period is over in Missouri. I didn't know this, but like it varies from state to state. I was asking Andy about this because this is something he would know, you know. And and he was just telling me like the different dates like some states like i think in louisiana you can register up to election day like on the day of the election you could register and it's like there you go but here it's october 9th so i didn't i wasn't able to register but um but if i did i would you know i think i would have voted i think i've i've had a moment of clarity not that i think it's gonna make or break anything because I truly don't. I think everybody's an asshole. Right wing, left wing are all pretty much assholes.

I think some of my ideologies probably line up a little bit more with the right side of things versus the left side of things. But then there's a lot of left side of things that would line up with them. That's the beauty of the world. But the reason why a guy like me can't exist in the social media space or anything that's kind of like centrist on shit is it's like you have to pick a side and if you don't like this is the most important election ever and then you know what happens in four years the most important election ever and then four years after that oh my god democracy is at stake and blah blah blah it got judged by a guy once because of stuff like this. And it was just like, here's what I care about.

You know why I dislike that side more? Because somehow they went from the group of people that were all about free speech and no censorship to becoming the people who don't want free speech and they love censorship. And that's part of what turned me on because my business is being in free speech. And that's the business I'm in, having opinions. And that's why of what turned because my business is being in free speech. And that's the business I'm in having opinions. And like, that's why they turn me off, you know, but whatever. I also think a lot of them are very broken. And by the way, not to say that like the Trump cult people aren't either.

But like these people are super duper broken. And I think it bothers me more because they're supposed to be the smarter, more affluent, younger type people, but they're really just broken and stupid and they focus on shit that no one really cares about unless they're told to care about it by social media. And if you don't care about it, you're a racist, you're a homophobe, you're transphobic, you're a bigot. And I think that's why I'm so tickled by them. They're just, there's just a lot of fucking idiots out there but anyway good news is if you dislike anything I said I can't vote anyway because I didn't register and if you do like what I've said and you're like well I probably

kind of align with you well I guess we're fucked unless we win but there you go but end of the day I hate everybody so it is what it is all right but I love you guys you're great and I'll talk to you