The Josh Innes Show - More Stupid Headlines

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

One of my favorite things to do is rip the absurd headlines that exist to make people click on inane stories. USA Today has a solid one here... Listener Cole sent me a story from CBSSports to make fun of..so let's do it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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of when Darryl Kyle died. And that was such a weird thing. So Darryl Kyle died, I think it was a Saturday and the Cardinals were playing the Cubs in Chicago. And there was supposed to be an afternoon game Cardinals Cubs and I believe it was going to be I think Saturday afternoon baseball on Fox. And Joe Girardi comes out and he tells the people at Wrigley Field the game has been canceled. And he didn't really tell you what happened, but more details would come out. Turns out, Daryl Kyle died in his hotel room. So it's a horrible thing. And as a Cardinals fan, like you remember that because it happened right after Jack Buck had died. So Jack Buck died, Daryl Kyle died, it was this real just horrible stretch of days for people in St. Louis. But one of these guys, these local guys goes by Augie Nash has a fun account. It's a

Cardinals fan account. This older guy has a Cardinals fan account. He posts a lot of old pictures and old videos and stuff. And he posted the video of when this happened. And you watch the news. And for whatever reason that was 2002. So that's 23 years ago. the news just felt more credible, like the guys on the television didn't feel like people who were empty heads, and maybe they still were. But like everything felt more professional, there was a

classier approach to the news, it felt like professionals were doing the news. It felt like it felt different news felt different in a bygone era, they may have still been biased, they probably were. But it felt different. felt different in a bygone era. They may have still been biased, they probably were. But it felt different. Now the news is very low rent, the talent isn't very good. And everything's about clicks. And I really hate it when people say, Oh, you just say things for clicks. But it is true in a lot of instances that a lot of people are just doing

shit to get clicks. That's the way shit works. That's why I think we riffed on this on this pod. But when I forgot one of the players who died, it was Octavio do tell died in that club when the roof collapsed on that club in the Dominican. And the headline read former Cardinals pitcher dies. Well, how about in the headline you say Octavio do tell former Cardinals pitcher dies because when you leave it vague you want people to click on your story and I don't think death and shit like

that should be considered clickbait material but that's the way the news is in this era the news is about clicks and the news is about being cheap and how cheap you can do things and make a profit it's dead like news is news is dead. But anyway, I'm going to play a couple commercials and then I'll read you this headline. This is from the USA Today and we will do that after these words. The Battle of Ontario is on and FanDuel is your home for live betting the series with features like live SGPs, build-a-parlay any game any period or stack multiple matchups onto one slip with same game Parlay Plus. What's better than playoff hockey? Overtime playoff hockey. Get more from the game with live overtime markets.

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This headline is a real award winner. Which NBA teams have won a championship? Full list here. So thank you USA Today for dropping real knowledge on us here. Did someone actually have to write this story? I hope the story has a writer. It does NBA champions list Oklahoma City Thunder win 2025 title from James H. Williams of USA Today. This poor bastard. I don't know why he got into journalism what his dream was if he wanted to break news if he wanted what his dream was, if he wanted to break news, if he wanted to do investigative reporting, if he wanted to

cover sports, whatever it is, this guy had big aspirations and big dreams. And today he's writing a story with the headline NBA champions list Oklahoma City Thunder win 2025 title. So if you don't know all the teams that have won titles, Thunderwind 2025 title. So if you don't know all the teams that have won titles, here's a list from James H. Williams of USA Today. Journalism is certainly dead. Newspapers are certainly dead. Somebody actually sent me another thing to make fun of. Let me see if I can find it here. Let me see this. It's from Cole. Says, This is the type of article you would hate. Rider breaks down every single angle of the Halliburton Achilles and what it means for the other

teams in the NBA. It's kind of long, so you'd probably want to skip around if you read it on your pod. But this dude is trying way too hard. It's on a tee for you to eviscerate. This is from CBS Sports. Thank you for sending this Cole. Let's see what the headline actually reads on this. So it's CBS Sports Tyrese Halliburton just suffered the most devastating injury in NBA history, and it impacts the whole league. First off, why is his the most devastating injury in the whole in the history of the league?

Like, yes, it happened in game seven of the NBA finals. Like if you just want to say that getting an Achilles injury is a big deal or suffering Achilles injury is a big deal, of course it is. It's a devastating injury. Why is his more devastating? Like guys listen, we've already, wait a minute, we just saw Jason Tatum blow out his Achilles in a previous series, but listen Tyrese Halliburton's is the most devastating ever like okay chief thanks let's go to CBS sports.com here how Halliburton's devastating injury affects the entire league oh I don't fucking know a team that's in the NBA finals just lost their catalyst of their offense he'll be out all of next

year that's how it impacts the rest of the league. This isn't difficult. Like the fact that they pay people to do this. And the fact that this poor bastard has blown out his Achilles may never be the same again. And it's gonna miss an entire year because you would assume that's going to be the case for a blown out Achilles. I mean, the next season starts in three months.

He ain't gonna be ready to go in three months. He's not Aaron Rodgers. So you got all this shit. And it's like, hey guys, I know that this poor bastard's hurt. But how does this impact the rest of the league? Tyrese Halliburton just suffered the most devastating injury in NBA history and it impacts the whole league. Again, why is this the most devastating injury in the history of the league? Because it happened in game seven. Again, Tatum blew out his Achilles. Dame blew out his Achilles. We watched, I mean, Kobe blew out. Dude, Kobe blowing out his Achilles and shooting two free throws for a shitty Lakers

team was arguably the most baller thing that dude ever did. And he went out and hunted 60 or 70 or whatever it was in the last game he ever played. I'd argue that in a meaningless Lakers season, which most of them were down the stretch for Kobe, to blow out his Achilles and then go shoot two free throws was like the most baller thing I've ever seen. But anywho, let's read some of this story from Sam Quinn. The Indiana Pacers woke up Sunday morning one victory away from their first NBA championship. They were much further away from their first championship by the end of Sunday night. They didn't just lose Game 7 to the Oklahoma City Thunder. They lost Tyrese Halliburton, the 25-year-old superstar

who makes the entire playing style possible to a lower leg injury that is widely believed to be a torn Achilles. The best case scenario on a torn Achilles is a lost season. Blah blah blah blah blah blah. For that matter any injuries blah blah blah. Let's see any injuries that are more this is an exceedingly young Indiana team that may not have peaked yet. It just lost to a Thunder team trying to launch a dynasty. OKC's trajectory may have been inexorably altered by Halliburton's injury. No shit. Like they pay people to write this shit. That's the part that bothers me. So real profound shit here, Sam Quinn. Hey

guys, we need Sam Quinn to write us a story about how the best player on a team in the finals blowing out his Achilles is bad for that team that was in the finals. Big news there, breaking news from Sam Quinn of CBSsports.com. Your best player blowing out his Achilles does not mean good things are in store for the future of your franchise. Where did the Pacers go from here? The Pacers made a trade that seems somewhat innocuous. Well, I don't give a... I'm not gonna sit there and read through a whole goddamn thing about trades that the Pacers have made in this thing. Let's see, I got a full on breakdown. Like, like, I understand that you have a job to do. And I understand that

you have to write a bunch of shit. But the best player on the team is hurt. And he's not going to play next year. They're obviously not going to be as good there. Like, like, I'm glad I don't have to write shit. I'm glad I don't have to write shit. I'm glad I don't have to be a writer because you obviously have to force shit in there. But like how does this impact the entire league? Well, I don't know the Eastern Conference probably just saw that the team that was in the finals is not going to be in the finals next year. So the door is kind of wide open. There you go. That's how it impacts the rest of the league. When a guy was the best player of a team in the

finals gets hurt. Everybody's impacted. No shit, Sherlock. Thank you. Back to the list of NBA champions. It was written by James H. Williams, who I look good on James H. Williams. He's got a job. I don't. I'll give him credit. He's got me beaten there. Somehow, James H. Williams has a job and I'm sitting around in my underwear doing a podcast. Let's got a job. I don't. I'll give him credit. He's got me beaten there. Somehow James H. Williams has a job and I'm sitting around in my underwear doing a podcast. Let's see the compelling writing from James H. Williams. 2024 2025 Oklahoma City Thunder 2023 2024 Boston Celtics 2022 2023 Denver Nuggets 2021 2022 Golden

State Warriors 2020 2021 Milwaukee Bucks 2019 2020 Los Angeles Lakers and so it goes. This literally lists every team that's won the NBA finals dating back to 1946. So this let's see what else this guy writes. I mean, I'm eviscerating him for this because the existence of this story is mind blowing that like USA Today is this level. Let's click on this guy's name and see what else he's written. James H Williams. What Rick Carlisle said to Tyrese Halliburton about what Rick Carlisle said of Tyrese Halliburton's injury in NBA finals. All right, good shit there. James H Williams has covered Southern California sports for over a decade and most recently served as UCLA football beat

rider from 2013 to 2024. Williams has experience as an editor and as a digital producer. Good shit, Jimmy. Watch Tyrese Halliburton greet teammates after Pacers game seven loss. Boy, let me tell you, my man has got some quality shit that he writes but nothing will ever top which NBA teams have won a championship full list. Look, I think when you get into this, you're like, I want to be like Woodward and Bernstein, I want to bring down the White House, I want to bring down the president, I want to I

want to unearth scandal, or like I cover sports, I want to like find a cheating scandal in sports, I want to find something big, or I want to write about guys that like Have secret lives or they murdered somebody or something like I want to write good shit But James H Williams here he writes the compelling shit like which NBA teams have won a championship full list Look you think it sucks to be a radio guy in this era Imagine being a poor pud that started writing about sports.

Homeboy's got no chance. Anyway, more to come.