The Josh Innes Show - "Monkey Noises" Update

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

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In all that discussion of Ryan Clark and RG3 beefing over RG3 not understanding black women because he's not married to a black woman, with all that, we didn't even get into the fact that they are still investigating whether or not somebody made monkey noises towards Angel Reese at the basketball game. Now, you would think this was Saturday, Saturday afternoon. So you had the rest of the day on Saturday. But let's just say all day Sunday, all day Monday. You've had like 50 some odd hours, at least, to find some bit of racism that occurred at the game, and we have heard nothing. All we've gotten is online conjecture with a bunch

of people saying, well, they're in Indiana, they must be racist and all they made monkey noises. Yet there is zero evidence of this. None. The league has said nothing, but they're taking it serious and we're going to go investigate these monkey noises. Now, there is one video that is out there that is circulating that people claim is someone making monkey noises at the game. I understand how absurd this is. Like I understand that the WNBA

continues to be a clown show. I understand that our country continues to be a clown show. I understand that this is where we are in life, that we are investigating monkey noises at a women's basketball game. We're trying to find people are pruder filming free throw attempts at a women's basketball game. We're trying to find, people are subpruder filming free throw attempts at a women's basketball game to try to find monkey noises back into the left, back into the left. That's what we're doing right now. Subpruder filming WNBA free throw footage listening for monkey noises. That's where we're at now. This is what we're doing. This is where we are. We are a sad place. So here's what we're going to do. We're going

to play a couple commercials and I have this audio. This is the audio that is on the internet. The only thing I can find that has anything that's a noise that could be directed at Angel Reese, the thing that's on the internet right now. Again, WNBA hasn't released anything. My guess is they're going to have to go out and find someone to ban just to make people happy. Because again, we're absurd. But anyway, let me play a couple commercials

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to you, please contact Connects Ontario 1866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. All right, so here we are. Now, I want you to think of monkey noises for a second. I want you, whether you're sitting in your car, you're at home, you're at work. I'm going to give you a few seconds here, but if I just on the spot said, make a monkey noise, I want you to do the first thing that comes to your mind when you say, when I say monkey noise, or like do a whole monkey, a monkey act, what would that be? So I'll give you, I'll give you a countdown here. Everybody get ready, get in your monkey headspace here.

But if you're going to be a monkey, like you're at the zoo or something and you see a monkey, or like you're like when people say like if there was a gun to your head, and there was somebody that was like holding you hostage and they said, listen, I will set you free, but I need a balls out monkey impression. And if you don't do a good enough on them, I'm going to blow your brains out. What would you do? So now that you're in that headspace, you're being held hostage, someone's got a gun to your

head, gotta do a monkey noise and it better be good and if not I'm blowing your brains out, what would you do? Three, two, one. What monkey noise did you do? To me, when I think of a monkey noise, my first thought is like you do like the hands under the armpit move and go like, like something like that's a not a very good monkey impression. I'm aware I'm going to get my head blown off in this scenario. But that's what I think of. Like you put your hands under your armpits. That's a monkey thing. More like an ape thing I guess. I don't even know what noise actual monkeys make. Are they more screeching? I don't know what a monkey does but that would be my first

instinct. My first instinct is like this kind of stereotypical like monkey noise. That's what you think of when you think of doing a goddamn monkey impression. People don't go into fucking stadiums to do spot-on impressions of animals. But anyway, now that you've done your own impression and you've heard my monkey impression, this is allegedly the sound that was a monkey impression. Let me see if I can get it here. Hold on. I had it there. Here we go. And then Chicago will maintain the basketball. Did you hear that noise? Would you like to hear it again?

Chicago will maintain the again? That noise was allegedly a monkey noise. Now, I know absolutely nothing about like all the noises that monkeys make. There are many different kinds of monkeys. There are like gorillas and orangutans. Those aren't even actual monkeys. Those are what are they different? I don't really know. I don't pay attention at the zoo. But like primates, right? So like apes and gorillas and chimpanzees and capuchins and the monkeys that are on the fucking little box that the guy, you know,

that twirls the handle and shit and he dances on it and plays the cymbals. Like there's a bunch of different fucking kinds of monkeys out there. But you have to really be trying to make shit racist to take that sound and go, yep, that's clearly a monkey. You're really doing a very impressive stretch to say, well, there's a black chick at the line and this noise just happened while this black chick was at the line and we're in Indiana. Indiana is obviously racist and the people clearly hate Angel Reese because Angel Reese is black and they're all fucking racist clan members anyway.

I mean Spike Lee said it in that 30 for 30 that they're all racist. So I mean obviously what we're dealing with here is good old fashioned, genuine racism. You have to really be doing some moves to pull that one off. But of course, you have to entertain all of this because someone said something happened. Someone mentioned that there was some sort of racist sound and then it became monkey noises. And that's what we're dealing with now. Like, like, if someone came to me and said, Josh, what does a bear sound like? I'd go like, grrr, I'm a

bear. And if someone was like, well, tell me about a jungle cat, I'd be like, like the one that they always play at the Penn State game. You know, like, I don't know. Like, to me, my first instinct, if someone said, Josh, what does a monkey sound like? That wouldn't have been the move but apparently if that is what this is now this could be someone really just stretching this thing out and trying to do whatever maybe that's what this is I don't know but if someone's out there trying to convince you that that is someone doing a monkey that just sounds

like an obnoxious chick at a ballgame. Was there a Rockets game this year? Was it a Rockets playoff game or a different playoff game where someone just kept making this awful screeching noise during the game? I think it was a Rockets game. People do obnoxious shit. You're looking to be offended and you're looking for something to be racist. If you take that and turn that into, oh, they're making monkey sounds at me. This kind of goes into that category of like, you know, you think it's bad here, let's

see how it is elsewhere, right? Like all these fucking places that liberal people say they're going to move to because Trump is president, you should see what happens at sporting events in those fucking countries. Like clear-cut racist shit. Like Pete, like that, by the way, if that is what we're going with, like before I go into the clear-cut racist shit in other countries that all the liberals want to move to, think about this. If this were a court of law and this is the only piece of evidence you have, that's all you have. Your evidence is ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhh uh you're in there trying to build a case as a jury and you're out there have. Your evidence is whatever that noise was, right? That's all you have. You're in there trying to build a case as a jury and you're out there and

you're like, hi guys, so here's my case. Somebody said something racist. There was an offensive thing that happened. We don't have any other pieces of evidence but we do have this and it's that sound I just played for you. If you are a juror and you are listening to that and you are a sound mind and you are not swayed by like some Johnny Cochran race voodoo and if you're just sitting there listening to that you're like, this is stupid why are we here? This is truly all you have, there's no evidence. But then the lawyer comes in and is like but we're in Indiana and people in Indiana are racist and Caitlin Clark is white

and they don't make that noise for it. Like they'll make all these fucking arguments. In no way could that go into a court of law unless you Johnny Cochran racist voodoo OJ this shit. There's no way you could listen to that and go, yep, that's clearly something racist. That's it. But who knows how the world is. Now, people talk, now the argument would be, well, we're

in Indianapolis, that's racist, whatever. All these countries that all the liberals want to move to, not even the liberal side, the leftists, the extreme ones that say, I'm leaving the country. You should go to sporting events in those countries. We're talking like people like this is open. I would say that this is I'll give this a generous thing and say this is open for interpretation. It is not. That is not a monkey noise. But let's just say it is open for interpretation. There are some things that are not like the number of times you hear that like a black hockey player or soccer player has a banana thrown at him in a foreign country right? Like there is no interpretation

less than that dude has a potassium deficiency and the people in the crowd know it that's racist. You're throwing it at him because he's black, you're calling him a monkey, you're throwing a banana. That's clear cut, right? That is slam dunk, home run, knock it out of the park, not up for debate, you just threw him a banana at a black guy. Like we're watching Remember the Titans and he throws the banana at the other coach when they're in the handshake line. That's what we're dealing with there. There are other countries, like trust me, there are some fucked up things that happen,

racist things, homophobic things, a lot of bad shit. You are having to really, really stretch for this to be something. Again, we've got no updates on it. We have not heard, unless something's happened here recently that I haven't heard, but that's kind of where we are right now. I haven't seen anything new on this. Nobody's given any sort of new information. The league is in day two of investigating monkey noises

at a basketball game. We've never been in a situation where noises have been made during free throws at a basketball game. I guess we can give them the benefit of the doubt a little bit because again they're not used to playing in front of people so this is sort of new for these WNBA players. They're not used to like people making noises at them whenever they shoot free throws because they're not used to people being there so maybe we should give them a little bit of leeway there and say okay I kind of understand it this is a new world to you. Anyway more to come.