The Josh Innes Show - Mother and Father Are Engaged

Episode Date: August 27, 2025

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Hello. Glad you guys are there. The big news of the day, obviously, is that Cracker Barrel is returning to its old logo. Well, that's the big news if you watch Fox News. If you're anyone else in the world, the big news is that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey are engaged. And I know this because every outlet in the universe, every league, every sport seems very interested in this. The NFL posted about it. The Kansas City Chiefs posted about it. The president talked about it. We live in a fascinating world. A, that Taylor Swift is the biggest star on the planet. Like, no offense to

Taylor Swift. Her older music was wonderful. Her more current music is not wonderful. Apparently, she's going back to making good pop music, radio-friendly pop music. So hopefully that's the case, and she starts to make good tunes again. But she's the biggest star on the planet. And then this dufous football player who started hanging out with her is now like, basically America's Prince. Like, this is the new royal family. This is who we are as a country. Our royal

family is this string bean girl and her dufous boyfriend who are now getting married. And I don't know what that says about us as a people. I don't know. Let me play a couple commercials and we'll continue.

The thing is, I don't have any problem with Taylor Swift. Like, I don't understand why she's as big as She is. I don't understand what it is about her. I don't know how she became what she became, but hey, congrats to her. She's the biggest star on the planet. No one else is going to fill up football stadiums three, four, five, six nights in a row. If she wanted to play a football stadium, 10 nights in a row, there'd be 65, 70,000 people in NRG 10 nights in a row. No one else could do that. It's freakish and whatever. Her fans are wackos. It is what it is. But she's the biggest star in the world. And the Kelsey's have glommed on to this. Like, that's the thing I don't think people totally get, right?

I do hate the Kelsey's, all of them. They annoy me. They have glommed onto this thing. They have gained tons of success from this and wealth from this. Good for them, right? Like, they have found a way to latch on their succupus, and they have done a good job of latching onto this. Travis, if Travis legitimately loves the chick, he's engaged to her, whatever.

In my opinion, I think he's still sort of stuck. You can't break up with this chick because you're ruined at that point. Like, you guys are stuck in whatever this is in this weird high school romance that you guys are in, even though you're both in your mid-30s, you're in this weird kind of high school romance. And if you break up with her, it's the end of you. It's probably the end of your podcast. It's probably the end of your media moguldom. It's the end of your sister-in-law's podcast.

It's the end of your brother. Like, it's the end of your mom. So, like, what are you going to do, right? I'm not disputing that the guy's really into her. He probably is really into her. But the whole crew annoys me. Taylor doesn't annoy me. I have nothing against her.

I don't understand how she became the biggest star in the world making very basic white girl music and basic white girl. dancing, no real hot body of which to speak. Like, there's nothing about her that stands out that is overly special. I think she's a likable person. I think she's a cute person. And up until five or six years ago, she made really fucking good, catchy music. Then by her own admission, she started making music for, you know, her diehard people,

thus started making crappy music. She started making music that the masses don't like. She made music for the people to go to her concert and cry. and the people that go to social media and hurl racial epithets at people who like Beyonce more than Taylor. Like, that's the people she started making music for, and now she's going to start making music for everybody else again, and we'll see if it's any good. Here's a headline for you, and this is from USA Today, which guarantees that it will be stupid. Skeptics of the Taylor Swift-Travice Kelsey romance were dead wrong. This headline is in the sports section of USA Today, and it is written by sports writer Mike Freeman.

This is where we are. Like, I think this is the thing. Like, I do think there are some people that are just assholes that want to yell about stuff, and are like, I'm sick of saying Taylor Swift on the TV, and I just want to watch my football and whatever, right? And they're probably the same guys that wouldn't have a problem if they were showing, like, Kate Upton at a Verlander game a million times, right? It's just an anti-Taylor thing, and I get it, right? But I think at times where we are now is I think the teams and the league and everybody else

just throw double birds to their consumer. And I think that's what they do with some of this Taylor Swift shit. It's like they hear the people that are the most vocal about hating Taylor Swift and tired of seeing Taylor Swift on TV, and they double down and show her more. the NFL puts out tweets celebrating the fact that she's engaged to Taylor Swift. I think they deliberately do this just to throw double birds at their own audience. Like, it's an arrogance thing. Like, you know what you're doing.

And it's like you want people to get angry over it so you can see, see, these people are angry. Like, it's an annoying situation. Like, am I totally bothered by it? No. Like, I'm not one of these people that's like, oh, my God, stop showing Taylor Swift on TV, you know? But people are just Like the whole situation is ridiculous Moral of the Taylor Swift

Travis Kelsey's story It was always actually true love What if they get divorced? Which is inevitable Do you think that two celebrities are going to stay together That are in their mid-30s? One of them is the biggest star in the world And one of them is a dipshit

Do you think that like These two people are going to stay together forever? Will you be writing the story? That's why I hate bullshit stories like this like oh it's true love well maybe it is but what happens if they get divorced if it's true true love aren't they going to stay together forever tell me about the good old days grandpa when lovers really fall in love to stay please tell me what happens if they get divorced I don't know you just get beaten over the head with this shit and it's like like as I've said about Taylor

I don't even dislike her but I think her fans are lunatics and I think some of them are very bad people masked as like very good people and those are the worst kind of people the kind of of people that think they're, they're so good, but really are just vile and evil and terrible. The kind of people that sing about why you got to be Salman, but they're just mean bitches on Twitter and terrible. So I hate them. Like the die-hard Swifty people are the worst. They are horrible on social media.

They will attack you if you say anything about mother. And now father, I guess. Do we call him father? Right? I thought he was Uncle Travi. Is he now just father? If she's mother, is he father? These are the questions.

Once someone wrote that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey's relationship was fake, not real, a made-up thing, some kind of publicity stunt. Some of what was written was tongue and cheek, but it also seemed like the right approach. You know why? These types of highly public romances seem artificially inflated. You mean to tell me this doesn't seem artificially inflated? You mean to tell me that this chick coming on the guy's podcast and breaking podcast records to help his podcast and his whole family suckling off her teeth doesn't feel artificial? inflated? The headline to the story read, the Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey Romance is fake. You know it is. So what? Let's enjoy it. Well, it wasn't fake, was it? Like, see, you mean to tell me that them getting married also now confirms that this isn't some sort of publicity thing, right? I don't know. The whole fucking thing is stupid. And I know that I've been told, I've been going back and forth with some people in my DMs about how I'm too negative. And I'm always willing to listen to people. They're like, why don't you stop focus? focusing on things that are negative and focus on things that you enjoy.

I'm like, well, first off, nobody gives a fuck to listen to a guy talking about things he enjoys. People like negativity. That's what people feed off of. It's more entertaining when you dislike something versus when you like something. You know the kind of shit I like? I like Night Ranger. Do you think someone's going to, like, get on here and listen to a 15-minute podcast about me telling you how much I enjoy Night Ranger? Or how much I enjoy going to get a hydration berry smoothie at Smoothie King?

15 minutes on that. Like, that's the thing, right? Like, everybody wants you to be positive and, like, talk about something you really enjoy. And then when you talk about that thing, you really enjoy, it's like, boy, that was fucking boring. Give me some teeth. So, like, this person I was messaging with, and by the way, I'm not ripping this person at all because I asked for their opinion because I posted that comment the other day from that person who was like, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So another person jumped in and was like, well, some of that is true. And I was like, all right, I'm curious because you've been following me for a while.

What is it? What is it about this? And, well, you know, you don't always have to talk about the stories of the day. You can just talk about things that, you know, you enjoy. You don't have to talk about the things everybody talks about. I'm like, well, if I'm not talking about the things everybody talks about, then are people actually going to listen to that? Like, be more positive. I'm like, well, look, I'm a negative person sometimes.

I don't know what to tell you, right? Here's a positive. I think Taylor Swift seems like she's probably lovely. Here's a negative. Travis Kelsey seems like a total douchebag. His brother's an even bigger douchebag. The mom is famous for shitting out two douchebag kids. And the sister-in-law, or Jason Kelsey's wife, has this giant podcast because of Taylor Swift.

There you go. There was some positive in that, right? Person was like, well, maybe you should stop reading all the USA Today's stories. it gives me my best material. I need someone to riff with. I don't have a co-host on this thing. It's 4.30 in the morning. No one else is getting up at 4.30 in the morning to shoot the shit with me on a podcast.

You know who my co-host is, sadly? Fucking USA Today. It's all I got. All I have is USA Today in this whole thing. Of course, Mike Freeman is ripping himself in the story because he's the one that wrote that it was fake. Now he has to tell you that he was wrong about the fact that it was fake. It is still possible that it is manufactured. It is not just a guarantee that, oh, since they're getting married, they love each other.

You think that Princess Diana loved Charles? Fuck, no. Just wanted to be the princess. They're stuck. If you are Travis today, what are you supposed to do? If you break up with her, it's over. And also, speaking to this, I also like that Travis Kelsey. Here's an angle that I think is important.

It's from a betting angle. that's a good way to look at it here from the betting side of things remember how Travis Kelsey said he was too distracted in that weird interview in whatever magazine that was in like Esquire or whatever GQ whatever magazine he was in where he's like wearing like fur coats in the ocean and shit and he's like I think I was a little too distracted focusing on my and I believe he said this exactly like working on my acting career like oh fuck you you're not an act you someone who appears for two seconds in Adam Sandler movies doesn't have an

acting career. You're not an actor. You're just a football player who's fucking the most famous person in the world. Now you're engaged to the most famous person in the world and so you get the residual effects of being that. You are not a fucking actor. You're a mediocre football player currently. But looking at this from that standpoint, he was like, I got to focus back in on football. Do you really believe that the attention you're going to get for being engaged to Taylor Swift a week before the football season starts? Do you really think? Do you really believe that that's going to make Travis Kelsey a better football player with fewer distractions. You think when they open the season in Brazil that the people in Brazil are not going to

be asking Taylor Swift questions all week? Fuck no. So somehow you wanted to focus more on football so you get engaged to the biggest star in the universe a week before you start playing football. Okay. I believe you. Like I'm taking that a chief's win total under all day. I was on a fan duel looking at their, they were doing their big futures day where it's like, hey, futures prop bets, futures over under wind totals.

I believe the Chief's actual number is somewhere in the neighborhood of over like 11 and a half or over 10 and a half. I'm taking the under. I feel like this is the year that the Chief's dynasty finally fucking ends. And I understand they didn't win the Super Bowl last year. But this is the year that the real slide starts. And it starts with Travis and all the boys. this is the year. I'm not saying they're going to miss the playoffs.

I don't think they're going to fall that far. But I am taking their over under. I'm taking the under and the wins for the Chiefs. Because you want to tell me that, hey, I don't need to be distracted. Oh, I don't need all this shit happening. And then you, oh, I'm getting engaged at the biggest star on the planet. You want to tell me that's not going to be a distraction? You want to tell me that your teammates are going to be asked about this a million fucking times?

You want me to believe that you're not going to be doing it in reality shows and other shit. You sucked last year, mostly because you're not a very good football player anymore. I don't believe that year over year you became a better football player and somehow will become less distracted after getting engaged to Taylor Swift. Under Chiefs win total. I think 10 and a half is a solid place to go. Take under 10 and a half. That's what I'm looking at there. Anyway, more to come.