The Josh Innes Show - People Were Happier In The 70's. Why?

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

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All right, let's see here, friends. Here's a headline for you. I guess this would be kind of a BuzzFeed thing probably, you know, from your tango, whatever the hell your tango is. Things people did in the 70s that made her happier than today's society. All right. So the 1970s were a simpler time thanks to the lack of technology because there were no cell phone. People couldn't be tracked down 24-7. Arguably, people were happier back then.

And there are habits that made them that way. Here are a few. Well, I'm curious now. So let's read into some of these things. So things people did in the 70s. I mean, imagine we'll read this and we'll go, duh, that makes a lot of sense. But now I'm genuinely curious. What were the things that people did in the 70s that made them happier than we are today?

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and a 2026 holiday caravan stop. Learn more at canadaswunderland.com. All right, here we go. Number one, they left work at the office. So, I mean, that's impossible to do now. Good luck with that. Your work is on your phone. Your phone has everything.

Your email. Everything is on your phone. So, like, let's just call that what that is, right? Like, this is, like, no one can just leave their work at the office. A, because a lot of people are working from home now. So home is the office. So there's one. They kept the plans they made.

Did they? Also, what other options did they have? You know, like, it's not like there were a thousand things to do back in the 1970s. Like now, just sitting at home and masturbating or sitting at home and playing video games is considered a plan. None of those things while masturbating existed. But it's not like in the 70s you had a ton of options. Like, there just wasn't a lot to do. There wasn't a lot to watch.

I don't know. They valued self-expression. Did they? Like, this list is stupid. People in the 1970s valued self-expression. Well, I think a lot of people value self-expression. Well, I think a lot of people value self-expression now. It doesn't mean what they're saying is worth of shit or what they're saying matters,

but it does, I mean, they value self-expression and there is self-expression. Let's see, they spent more time outdoors. Now, that is a fair point, that people spent more time outdoors. And, you know, I think people are shut-ins now. I think you're dealing with that a lot with people as people are shut-ins. People are, you know, they're just, they're hermits. And there's a lot of factors for that, right? Like, we've talked about that a lot before, but if you're a dude and you have the option to sit at home, jerk off and play video games and not have to deal with having a woman in your life or anything else, get all the gratification you're looking for without having to go out, try to hit on someone, be called a creep because you tried to hit on someone and deal with that kind of drama and that kind of anxiety riddled bullshit, what would you do?

like if I could rewind time and just go back early in my life like back when you're in high school and everything you think that sitting around playing video games and jerking off makes you a nerd or makes you whatever shit bro in today's in today's world you're a king I guarantee there's a lot of married dudes out there that have a wife and kids and everything and if you told them listen you can go back in time and change something if you could just go back in time and sit around and play call of duty all day jerk off and go about your day what would you do I think I'd take that option. I think a lot of people would take that option, right?

But that's the way, like, that's the world we've created. And again, technology is the biggest part of this. You can sit there and talk about how, well, you know, people need to go outside and people used to go outside and people used to keep the plans they made. The biggest thing that has changed about society and the biggest thing that has changed people is social media and the Internet and technology. And movements, the Me Too movement. cancel culture there is so much that has changed there was no cancel culture

in the 70s now you could argue that may have been a bad thing because I mean there was obviously probably I would assume a more toxic culture among workplaces and everything else in the 60s 70s but like you think about that like people didn't have to worry about that kind of shit you know what you did in the 70s

if you hit on somebody somebody might call you a creep or whatever or mock you or laugh at you or whatever now if you're a guy you're a young dude and you go to a bar and try hit on someone, just hitting on someone or asking for their phone number, in some circles is now just creeper-ass behavior and they want to take your ass out and cancel you and everything else. So one of the biggest issues we're dealing with is I think a lot of people have developed anxiety and they have developed a social and other type of anxiety based on the shit that you

deal with in the internet world and because of technology. And I think that for all the good that technology brings, it also brings a lot of bad. Notably, social media, notably people have access to every bit of information they could ever want, yet people are dumber than they've ever been. It's amazing how stupid people are. Let's see. They took time to really listen to music. That's fair. Although, I think I mentioned this to shine down. It was a very brief conversation because it was one of those things where they kind of move you through. It was a line of people that paid for an experience to take a picture with Shinedown and Meet Shindown.

One thing that's fascinating is actually watching people interact with celebrities that they want to meet. You can accidentally meet. I accidentally met Vince Vaughn in New Orleans and it was cool, but it was a brief thing. These people paid like 50 bucks for the opportunity to meet Shindown, I think is what it was. I forgot how much they paid, but it was like a small number of meet and greet opportunity. for Shindown. And Shindown, they are the nicest guys, and they do meet and greets, and they like radio. They're good dudes, right? And just watching the way these guys interacted with some of these

people who, like, this is the high point of their life is meeting Shindown. And to the point of, like, really listening to Music, Shine Down is one of those bands where the people feel like the music speaks to them. And very rarely do I feel that way about songs, right? Like, there are songs I love, but very rarely do I say that song really that's that song like I get that song you know like I like the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald I don't fucking relate to it I've never been on a boat the boat has never sank like I can't relate to it I just like the song but then there are a couple songs that I'll listen to and go I and I feel like I relate to that song and one of them is symptom of being human by shine down that came out a couple of years ago and that song resonated with me so much that I had to tell them that like a fucking dork so like that's the only thing i could do is i go through and i see brent and all the different guys in shine down and i go i just want to tell you guys man symptom of being human is like it's an incredible song and it meant like very rarely does a song mean something to me like hey i like when you close your eyes by night ranger it doesn't mean

anything to me it's just a good song i enjoy it it's a good song very few songs are like that you know, but I felt that that song was a, I hate to use the word powerful because it's trite and awful, but I felt that that song was powerful. There was a power behind that song and it meant something to me and I felt like I needed to tell them that that song meant something to me, you know, to the point back, you know, saying that people in the 70s used to actually listen to music, well, what I would say is back in the 1970s, you still had a lot of singer-songwriter people that were writing songs about things that maybe, if they didn't matter, they at least had meaning. Like, do you really need to listen

to the lyrics of Wop? Like, are you really listening to wet-ass pussy? Like, a lot of music doesn't have any meaning anymore. It's very, I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but it's just, it's sterile. Let's see, they picked face-to-face conversations over phone calls. Here's the thing. Nobody now likes to be on the phone either. So it's texting.

That's the difference. Like, yes, people in the 70s had face-to-face conversations, but nobody likes a phone call. You know what happens when the phone rings? when someone calls you, you assume someone in the family is dead. They became involved in social movements. Do you think people now don't get involved in social movements? The hell is this list? People were happier in the 70s because of these habits.

Do you think people don't get involved in social movements now? That's all everybody does. And if they're not actually in social movements, they're certainly watching or getting online and acting like they're part of social movements for the clout. They ate dinner as a family. I don't know that I've ever eaten dinner at home as a family ever. Now, I have had dinner at like a grandpa's house or something like that. Like my grandpa used to do that.

I don't believe that there was ever a point that at any point in my life, with my mom and dad, my dad and stepmom. Actually, you know what? I think when I was living in Arkansas for about a year, my mom was married to a man named David. We live like in the middle of nowhere. It was like a town of a hundred people. It was basically just a block. It was just like in the middle of nothing, there was this little town. Look it up called Nimman's, Arkansas.

And it was like 10 minutes away from Piggott, Arkansas, which was the big town of like 7,000 people. Nimans, Arkansas is what it was called. And it had a church, and that's it. There was like a ball field in the middle of this little town. It is 100. So, sorry, the population is 69 people down from 100 in the year 2000. So, and I live there, and we may have sat at the table together and eaten. I'd say that's possible.

I can vaguely remember that. Outside of that, I never remember sitting around having dinner as a family. Hell, I very rarely remember any time where people cooked, you know, just it's never been what we do. They let themselves slow down. I wish I could do that. And they limited screen time. Well, of course, people in the 1970s limited screen time, what screens would they have? They had one screen, literally one screen.

It was a tube television, and it had three channels. So, of course, they limited screen time. So, I mean, duh, is where I would go with that. So there you go. That is things people did in the 70s that made them happier, which, by the way, That list was fucking stupid. Sometimes I see these stories on these show prep websites and I read them and I'm like, that seems like something I could use.

And then I actually do it because I try to avoid reading them before I do them live because I want the honest reaction. And I feel like if I see a headline that pops that I won't need to read the story, after spending 10 minutes engaged with things people did in the 70s that made their lives happier than today's society, that was a complete waste of time. I apologize. That was a waste of time and it was stupid. Moving on.