The Josh Innes Show - Murdered Over A Hot Dog

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

Right out of gate we get a story involving nudists, hot dogs and murder... This leads to a discussion of the woman who jumped off the Empire State Building...I don't know why..but you know this convo always goes awry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Let's see here. First of all, hello everybody. I'm glad that you are listening to the podcast today. You're beautiful people. You're wonderful people. I love you so damn much. And good things are happening. So, beautiful people. You're wonderful people. I love you so damn much and good things are happening. So and I thank you guys for that. Lost to do today. I know that I am a little late to the party, a little late to start today, a lot late. Maybe the latest I've started yet. What time is it? Almost 1.30 here in the Central Time Zone. I've been doing a lot of shit today and by doing a lot of

shit today, I mean I took Ross for a walk this morning, came home, was going to do the podcast, but Jilly is doing a radio endorsement for Impossible Foods. So like plant-based burgers and chicken and shit like that. So she needed me to grill a couple of burgers and sample them. And then she made some chicken nuggets, some like plant-based chicken nuggets in the air fryer and I will say this, the air fryer plant-based chicken nuggets were not horrible. They were not that like they were pretty deep they tasted like chicken nuggets you know. Now the burgers I made were frozen so So maybe if I get some fresh ones, maybe it'll be different. And by the way, they tasted like a hamburger. It really was

decent, you know, but the chicken nuggets were fascinating though. They were crunchy and it was just like you were eating chicken. Like look, I'm not going to sit here and tell you to go out and buy plant-based impossible stuff. Do whatever you want to do with your own life, but it wasn't horrible. That's all I'm going to say. So like they, you know, she's sampling some of this stuff because she's doing the endorsement for them and she legitimately likes it. She's over here like these burgers are great. I'm like, cool. Hey, rock on, man. But anyway, all right, hot dog dispute led to California Man allegedly killing couple.

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Alright, hot dog dispute led to California man allegedly killing couple. Let's get the deets. A California man who allegedly killed his neighbors at a nudist resort last year reportedly did so over a hot dog. Boy, the elements of this story, we are a sentence into it. We are the headline and the sentence into this bad boy. And here we stand with a great opening line for this story. California man who allegedly killed his neighbors at a nudist resort last year did so over a hot dog. Now, by the way, these people who were

murdered were 79 and 73. What is it with old people and being nudists? Like when I would watch Real Sex, which is the most disgusting show ever, other than like, you know, the ones about morbidly obese people. Those are gross too but real sex is a gross show and before I get into real sex, speaking of morbidly obese people, which I am according to the body mass index and my inability to see my penis but so our friend grew and Andrea, they're trying to get Jilly to

get me to watch a show called Thousand Pound Sisters and I can't do it like I cannot watch shows about morbidly and I'm not. I mean look I'm fat and by the body mass index, I'm morbidly obese. I can't watch shows about people who are like 600 pounds. I can't do it. It's disgusting like I'm disgusted by these people now again. I'm sorry that you're fat. It is what it is. Live your life. Whatever. I just can't watch it. I like it's just something I feel like in a way I feel bad for these people and

everything's just gross and seems uncomfortable and then they're like it feels exploitive and then we're now it's not really exploitive because these people I mean do they have to stay £1000 worth of people to keep the show? You know, I don't know, but I'm watching this and I'm like, I put it on for two seconds and I'm like, I can't do it. I cannot watch this show about these 600 pound people or like my 600 pound life and they're like, oh, this show's so funny and it's like, I don't care. I don't want to watch morbidly obese people. I don't want to watch the kind of people that would have like the complaints about the seat belts

being too small on airplanes or having to take up two seats. I don't want to watch a show about people like that. That's not what I want to do. Like the other day I was getting my hair cut and Trinity who cuts my hair goes, hey, I just finally finished This Is Us. I'm like, is that the show about the great big fat person? She's like, yeah. I'm like, well, I ain't gonna fucking watch it. I just don't want to like call me whatever you want to call me I don't care. It's just it's not for me. I'm like I don't like I'm not gonna judge you cuz you're fat

I'm not gonna say bad things about you. I just don't want to watch on television Like it's how I feel about Brian Windhorst when I see Brian Windhorst on television I'm like, why is Brian Windhorst on television? He is not an appealing person. You are not an attractive enough human to be on the television, which is for everyone. If you want to go to the internet and have your own channel, that's one thing. Brian Windhorst does not belong on television. But anyway, real sex. Real sex is where like all the old people and the weird freaky deaky hippies would walk around with like giant bushes and like that when I was a kid, that was the first time I Real Sex. Real Sex is where like all the old people and the weird freaky deaky hippies would walk around with like giant bushes.

And like that when I was a kid, that was the first time I saw Bush. I'm like, holy shit, what is this? It's fucking Real Sex, man. And it is a horrible show. Like I would imagine they still have some episodes of Real Sex on HBO Max or Max or whatever the hell they call it now.

I would assume that's on there. And I'll tell you, I would go back and rewatch, maybe that's a podcast episode. Maybe I will turn on Max in the next podcast episode and watch real sex and see what happens. But anywho, it's always the old people. When you see people at these nudist colonies, they're always old. My first question, having only read one sentence of the story so far, is why the fuck you got DONGs out of the nudist colony and hot dogs? Now is this like, did you pull like a prank? Did you like put like a wiener out and act like

you know the hot, like did you put your cock in a hot dog bun and try to get a guy to eat it? Did you pull like an old-school, I say an old-school stunt, who the fuck would have ever done that? But like it, what was that movie? Was it Diner with Mickey Rourke where like it's set in like the 50s and they're at the movie theater and he's got his dong up through a popcorn box and the gal grabs it I don't know Michael Royce Sparks 62 is alleged to have killed Daniel Menard 79 and Stephanie Menard, 73 back in August of 2024. KTLA and Patch reported citing prosecutors. Human remains were found under Sparks home inside the Olive Dell Ranch nudist resort where the Menards and Sparks were neighbors. Redlands police

detective Thomas Williams testified on Monday, June 16th that the neighbors did not get along and the final straw of their now deadly feud was a hot dog. Hey, it's like Patty Duke, a hot dog makes them lose control. After Sparks arrest, a fellow inmate told authorities they admitted to the killings and why he committed them. Well, give me the deets about this hot dog chief. I need to know. Mr. Sparks told him the incident started over a hot dog that Daniel Menard had purchased for him. He said Mr. Sparks felt that the hot dog was a jab at him, making him feel

like he was worth only a dollar hot dog and that's what set him off. So he bought you a hot dog. It was only a dollar hot dog, like a Costco hot dog or something. He said, fuck you. I'm offended by your naked ass. And then he just killed this guy. I feel like there was more to this I feel like he was more pent up there was some other issue. Sparks who allegedly told the inmate that he had killed the Menards by beating them with a rake and a hoe and a hammer. Boy what a way to go it's the better Holman Gardens way of getting plugged. Nudus gets taken out by garden hoe, rake and hammer.

According to the detective, Sparks also admitted to having drowned the couple's dog Cuddles and said, what a piece of sh- is it so bad that I hear about the naked Menards dying and I'm like, you didn't deserve to die but I don't really care. But then I hear that Cuddles was drowned in the sink and I'm like, you goddamn motherfucker. How dare you? How dare you drown Cuddles in the sink, you son of a bitch? Back in August 2024, the Menards' unlocked car was located down the road from their home where their cell phones and Stephanie's purse were also found. There's no way that Stephanie or Dan would have walked away from that car, the couple's friend Tammy Wilkerson. There's always a Tammy. I wonder if she was at the

nudist colony too. I feel like when your name is spelled T-A-M-M-I-E, you were at the nudist colony and you've got Bush. Also, you ever notice that Tammy is a name that's completely faded out of style? Like there's a certain age of woman who is named Tami and that you just don't have new Tami's. Like a kid born today is not gonna be named Tami. So I'm fascinated. Now I don't know if this is like short for Tamra. Like my mom's name is Tami.

There's no Tamra, it's just Tami. It's not short for anything like Tamara. It's just Tami. But like people of a certain age, like I guess I'm starting to feel old because it's one thing for like a name like Edna to be out of style because that makes sense because you know that's an old old name. Like my mom's name is Tammy. So you feel kind of like wow that makes me feel old that like that name is just not in use anymore. Like there's not going to be a child that like I'm sure this very second thousands of children are being born at this very moment. Not one of those children will be named Tammy. That's just fascinating to me. She has a cane. It was at home, her purse, their cell phones, things they would have never left at home. Days

later human remains were found under Sparks home the same day he was arrested on suspicion of murder. So you mean to tell me that you were very suspicious of this gentleman due to the fact that you found human remains under his home. That tracks. So that's the story. That's the story of these two nudists who were murdered by another nudist over a hot dog. Mr. Sparks felt that the hot dog was a jab at him, making him feel like he was only worth a dollar hot. Like I think you had a lot of deep-seated resentment issues, friend. Like I think you really had a bigger problem than just this.

This was like the tip of the iceberg. Like you've been stewing over these people at this nudist colony and then the hot dog made you lose control, Patty Duke style, and then you killed these people with a rake. Boy, death by rake has to be a shitty way to go. Oof. I would imagine that like some like flimsy rake either, like a really hard rake, you know. God, that'd be a shitty way to go. I know we talked about this really an inordinate amount of times on this podcast about ways you'd want to go,

like what would be the better way to go? I feel like getting taken out by a rake and a garden hoe is a real like top of the list way to not go. Like you know we ultimately just want to die like like like do you want to fall off a mountain like like do you want to fall from a great height to your death? Like in theory you're gonna have time to think about the fact like like you have time to brace yourself but you know you're gonna die like is that like like that lady that jumped off the Empire State Building and landed right on top of that car so peacefully and then when they try to pick her up, they said her body was

like liquefied but that woman like do you want to jump from something like a thousands of feet high and then just land and die like you have time to think about that, you know, you're going to die. There's no like, like, oh, I might survive this. No, you're going like a million miles an hour after jumping off of a building. Like you're dead. It's over. Would you want to go that way? Or, you know, I mean, obviously the answer is something quick and painless. But then again, like

you could be a story like that chick's a story forever. If you Google that image, I forgot what her name is. But the gal that jumped off the Empire State Building and landed so peacefully on this car, like obviously she took I mean, she flattened the hood of the car. But like she lands like her arms are folded. Like what are the odds of landing exactly on that car at that moment? And she did. And it was very interesting. But like that, like at least people know who you are like,

I don't know her name or anything, but I know her as the woman who jumped off the Empire State Building and landed so peacefully. It's fascinating and then they said they try to pick her up and like her bones and everything were basically mush like fucking fascinating, but like, you know that you're going to go down in a blaze of glory, but then you also know that people like you're thinking about it that you're gonna go down in a blaze of glory, but then you also know that people Like you're thinking about it as you're going down like you know, there's no survival once you've made that jump. It's like well fuck

Yolo It's a tough spot to be in I bet But I feel like that might be better than getting hoed to death Just some dickhead trying like to norman bait you with a shovel just con conk you over the back of the head and then take you out with a rake. I don't like it. I don't think I want to do it. This story did not go the way I thought it was going to go as it relates to why the hot dog upset him. I thought maybe he was offended because they're like, your dick's like a hot dog or something, you nudist fuck. But apparently that wasn't the case. Anyway, more to come.