The Josh Innes Show - Michigan Wants To Make Porn Illegal

Episode Date: September 17, 2025

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So there are Republican politicians here in the state of Michigan that are on the quest to ban porn in the state. And that would mean that anybody who's like distributing porn or watching porn could face jail time. And it's like some Republican dude in his early 30s, by the way, some early 30s Republican dude. I think his name is Josh Shriver. He's out of Oxford, which is a small little town around here. But the other Republicans that are on board with it here locally are all people from, you know, small little towns, you know. The shit that people concern themselves with, you know, like this is our main concern, you know, you just had one of your heroes get his head blown off. And we're like, all right, first things first, we got to get rid of porn.

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visit square.ca to get started like imagine seeing all the shit that goes down in the world and you're like, guys, we need to get rid of porn. Now, there is a fair debate to have on whether or not porn is good for people or if it aids in like a toxic mindset. Like, I will say this. If you watch porn as a young guy, you have a true misunderstanding of what having sex is actually like. Because you watch porn and you're like, wow, like this chick talks all the time and this is awesome, right? Like you've built up in your mind that what's hot is some chick like basically

saying, yeah, you're going to fuck me? Yeah. Yeah, like, no one does that. That just does not happen very often when you actually have sex. It's more of an awkward situation more than anything. It is not, you know, an orchestrated, calculated, oh, she just gave herself a fucking enema because they're about to do anal type of thing. Like, that doesn't happen in real life. That's not how the world works. So maybe porn gives you like a distorted view of reality as it relates to sex and could potentially cause you to have an unhealthy. view of women based on porn? Maybe. But to me, you have to be someone who's already kind of predisposed to having those thoughts than otherwise. Because like me, right? Like I grew up probably

more sexualized than the average bear when I was a young kid, right? Like, because I just had time to myself and I'd watch whatever was on TV and oh, there's Skinnamax and there's Red Shoe Diaries and there's Hot Springs Hotel and there's Playmate of the Apes and there's Emmanuel well in space and then like you'd find the sex scenes and just normal rated R movies like oh there's Phoebe Cates tits and fast times and there's disclosure Michael Douglas is getting sexually assaulted by Demi Moore like you'd watch this shit and like you become kind of desensitized to it when you see it at an early age but I don't believe that any of that has caused me to have some sort of warped sense of what actual whoopee is like like some do but you can make that argument for

anything. Some people can drink beer and never be impacted by it and their life goes on. Some people get hooked on it and become an alcoholic. Some people can bet on sports and have fun. Some people get hooked on it. These are things like this. What bothers me is when you've got things like porn, right, which, fine, it is what it is. But you can go to the gas station and buy booze. You can go to the gas station and buy cigarettes. You can go to the gas station and you can buy lottery. You can go to the gas station and buy processed foods. Literally the gas station is like a den of addiction. When you really think about it, the gas station is a place that you go where everything is trying to catch your eye and like set off your addictions. If you're a gambling

addict, shit, there's scratchers right there at the corner. If you're trying to quit smoking cigarettes, look, there's cartons of the motherfuggers. Oh, you're trying to get on the wagon. Hey, look, you can get two 24 ounces, two tallboys for $4.00. Bush, lights, let's go. Oh, you're trying to lose weight. Here's some frosted donuts. Like, literally everything about the gas station is bad. There is not a positive about walking into a gas station. Yet, every human can walk into a gas station, and if you're of age, you can make a purchase of any of those things, no questions asked. Yet, we're sitting here targeting porn? Like, here's the problem with these Republican people.

They focus on the wrong fucking shit. Like, I understand the argument about not having, you know, like a cross-dresser or a drag queen reading books to your kids at school. Like, just, it's weird. I understand that. I get that. Do I believe that your kids are going to become transvestites because they see RuPaul? No, I think, whatever. But I do think it's weird to have, like, drag queens go to school.

Like, whose thought was that? Like, boy, this would be a fun time. Let's bring a drag queen out to read Thomas the Tank Engine. Like, I don't get it. But, like, I don't think it's the, you know, I don't think it's the end of the world, but I get where you'd be a little put off by that. I think the problem with these Republican people is they sit here and they constantly focus on dumb shit like this. Like, well, this is happening over here. This is what's going on over here. Like, I guarantee you that most of your people don't give a shit that porn exists.

And I guarantee that many of your people probably beat off to the shit every night. And probably, like, if you're somebody that's a politician and you're, like, a main target is porn, I feel like they're shit. about you that we don't know. If you're that focused on porn and want to end porn, I think you've got skeletons, sexual skeletons that we don't know about. Like a lot of times when people do, it's like whenever you hear about like the super duper church people and then it turns out they're either having affairs or they're gay, like like the loudest critics of gay end up being gay, that type of thing. Like someone who wants to ban porn is probably like at house watching like freaky hentai shit with like octopuses like fucking animas and shit like that's

probably what this guy is doing but like the loudest people if you are on the the loudest voices over these type of things you're probably doing fucked up shit if i had to guess i don't know this for a fact but like it's just it happens that way it's like the guys that are the televangelists that are you know fucking skanks at a roadside dingy motel right like oh what i'm Send me your money and be saved. And then, oops, undercover sting finds out that you're fucking whores at a roadside motel. Like, so if you're trying to end porn and try to get porn out of your state, dude in his early 30s, I bet this dude has just cranked it like nonstop to every category.

Fucking hentai, fucking octopus, fucking anime, fucking, you know, step sister, step brother, stepmom. Half-mom, half-step-sister, interracial, cheerleader, babysitter, P-O-V, J-O-I. He's jerked off to all the categories. Like, I want his browser history. I want the browser history of the little pud that's trying to bring porn to an end in Michigan. Again, you can go to the gas station. I've never thought, like, it just occurred to me in this moment that, like, the gas station is designed to make, you fall apart as a human.

Everything in the gas station. There is not a, oh, wow, well, you walked in the gas station. There was a nice grilled chicken Caesar wrap. Sure, that's in there. No one's buying the grilled chicken Caesar wrap from the gas station. It's a fucking front. It's a diversion. It's to make people think like, see, look, we're trying.

No, you're not. You operate a universe that is nothing but addiction bait. I've never actually thought about that. It occurred to me in this moment that everything in the gas station. is shit that you can get addicted to. And it's totally fine. No one's trying to end the gas station. No one's trying to say, hey, you can't go buy little frosted donuts in the gas station.

They're not saying you can't buy lottery in the gas station. They're not saying you can't buy smokes in the gas station. They're not saying you can't buy two for three, 50, 24 ounce cans of bush light in the gas station. Or hot dogs, shitty gas station hot dogs. Or energy drinks, the kind of shit that will make your heart explode. Everything in the gas station is horrible. But that's fine. But some dude wants to beat off at his house because he's really into the idea of like the teacher banging the student and he's turned on by that.

Maybe he's someone that likes a lot of dialogue. Now some people watch their porn and they don't like dialogue. Some people just like them to get right down to action. Some people I need dialogue. I need to be invested in the story. Oh, look, the guy's driving the babysitter home and she's. She's, you know, and she's into him, and they bang in the car. That's nice.

You tell me, that guy can't watch that? That thing, you know, you make a dude's even more crazy. Let them know they're going to get arrested for watching porn. It's already tough enough to be a dude in this era. Being a young dude in this era has to be the toughest of all eras. Because, A, there's a target on you because you're a male and your masculinity is considered toxic. So just being a man makes you bad already. Because we're trying to turn everybody into women at this point in this country.

That's like the quest of these liberal people is we want to turn everybody into like women, all right? There's one. Two, like so you're already bad. If you're a white guy, you're super bad. But you're, your dudes, you're toxic already. You talk to a chick at a bar. The only way you're going to get late is to talk to someone. Yet when you talk to someone, you have a chance of getting maced or fucking, you know, punched in the solar plexes because, you know, the chicks think you're a predator, right?

because we've created that world where, like, you know, like, how are you supposed to get late? Well, you have to ask, but asking makes you a creep now. So, like, why would you even go out and want to get into the dating world? Why would you even want to go out and try to fight that? So what's the alternative? You order a fleshlight. You order like a rubber vagina. You give it a name.

You pound it out there at home. And then you play your video games. Now they're trying to take shit away from you. They're trying to take away the porn from you. You're just going to make men fucking nuts. it has to be difficult to be a dude trying to go out on the dating world in this era. It has to be. You can't do anything.

And now you're one outlet. You can go home after your day of work. You can go out and try to, you know, hit the grind and try to find some chick and meet a girl. Or you can just bet on sports, play video games, and jerk off to porn. And now in Michigan, they don't want you to have that option. They don't want you to be able to experience porn. I want to know what skeletons are on the. the closets of the people, these Republican people, that are so against erotica.

I need to know. I need the details. And they're all from little podunk little towns like population 2000. You know, Republican, such and such, from tiny little town that probably doesn't even have high-speed internet. I'm interested. I am. We've got to stop this, though. People, look, porn is lovely.

And you can watch it on your, you know, your computers and everything. You don't have to have VHS tape anymore. Back in my day, you had to have a VHS tape of it. You had to go dig through your dad's closet until you found a porno tape. That was living. When you'd actually find it and you'd discover that your dad had a porno tape and you're like, fuck, yes. And then, like, dad would be gone and you'd go, well, it looks like I'm getting the porno. And the quality of these pornoes was so bad back in the day.

Like, now, like, you know, you get decent lights and, like, you get, like, 4K, you know. Back then they weren't all that great. Lots of bush. But, you know what? You watched it because that's what you. did you know you learned these kids it really it's it's educational but nope can't do that can't do it because these republican people here in michigan are like nope no porn for you focus on some other shit get your shit together but don't take away the porn from people geez