The Josh Innes Show - Right Wingers Outraged By Dude Cheerleaders

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

I find myself right smackdab in the middle as the two groups of political zealots embarrass themselves. My timeline is loaded with angry right wingers who are outraged by the idea of dude cheerleaders in the NFL. Look, I'd much rather watch hot chicks shaking that ass. But, my life isn't changed by a few dudes being out there. My issue comes when leagues and franchises don't seem to know who their audience is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of the things I keep seeing on social media, on Twitter mostly, and actually it's kind of found its way on to Instagram as well, is that I don't know if this is something new for right-wing people. I think this is a new discovery for them, but they've discovered that some of the NFL teams have male cheerleaders, and this is like some new thing that keeps showing up in my feed, that they've, like, holy cow, you mean to tell me that NFL teams have decided to add dudes. cheerleaders. And that is something that has set these people off. I'm talking like politicians and their pundits, right-wing people. They have found something new to glom on to, something new to bitch about. And the new thing they have to bitch about is dude cheerleaders. Let's play a couple commercials and let's get into some of this because these people are, they're hysterical really, but let's get into it. First off, the one I've been seeing a lot of is the Minnesota Vikings having a male cheerleader.

And this is big to some of the people, I guess, in Minnesota. I think they're in Minnesota. Like, I saw the, who's the dude? Kevin Sorbo. What character did Kevin Sorbo play on TV? Was he like, he went Highlander. Who the hell was Kevin Sor? Was he like, not George of the night.

He wasn't George of the jungle. Who the fuck was Kevin Sorbo? Whoever Kevin Sorbo was on TV, Kevin Sorbo is not happy with the Minnesota Vikings having a dude. cheerleader? And he's like, no, sir, I am no longer going to support the Vikings. I need a new team because they have a dude cheerleader. It's like, like, do I give a shit about seeing dude cheerleaders? No. But like, if you're someone who is willing to go to the internet and say that you will no longer support a football team because one or two of the cheerleaders

is a dude, you are essentially willing to go to the internet and tell people you're a fuck face. Like, it's one thing. Like, when all the people were like, I'm never watching the NFL again because of taking a knee. Like, I can almost believe that. And I do believe that some people maybe turned it off, not the people that are addicted to football, but the people who are kind of like, you watch it because it's football, it's Sunday, whatever. I do believe some people may have tuned out of football for a period of time because of the taking a knee and all that shit, right? I believe that. Because that's a serious issue that these guys were protesting and the NFL and the politicians were putting targets on cops and

and the politics really kind of made its way into the games and like the Rams came out with their hands up out of the tunnel like there were a lot of things and I can I can legitimately believe that some not many because the ratings would never play it out some may have stayed away from the NFL because they were that appalled by that. I do not believe that somebody would stop watching football because a team has dude cheerleaders, right? But apparently Minnesota is the one that now everybody's talking about. And Kevin Sorbo's like, I've been a Vikings fan my whole life. And I am no longer a fan.

I need a new team. Hey, Kevin, do you think that other fucking teams don't have dude cheerleaders as well? Do you think these teams are like, hey, wait a minute, that team's got dude cheerleaders? That's gay. We would never do that. Do you assume that's what's happening in 2025? You think other teams are like, whoa, we cannot do that because that is super homo and gay. That is homo erotic.

Whoa. What are we trying to get the gays in our games? What? We would never do that. No, like half the league has dude cheerleaders, okay? So, like, the fuck. But it just makes me laugh. But what I didn't know, and I know the Eagles, like I was worried about the poor Eagles guy.

Really, any male cheerleaders. You know who's got bigger balls than most of us? Dude cheerleaders in the NFL. You want to talk about a gutsy thing to do? Go out there at a football game where you've got drunken dipshits at a football game who, for whatever reason, still ogled cheerleaders, even though like every possible thing you could want sexually is on the internet.

Like, it's not like, oh my God, cheerleaders are our only form of, like, sexual pleasure or the only thing we can look at to be turned. on you can open your phone right now and watch the most hardcore weird shit if you want to go to your phone right now and go to the hub just look up dallas cowboy cheerleader and somebody's role playing as a dallas cowboy cheerleader at this very moment you can find videos on the hub i won't because i'm at the radio station but you can go to your phone go to the hub search Cowboys Cheerleader and some chick has a porn video where she's wearing a Cowboys cheerleader outfit.

All of your fantasies can come true. But apparently, because some dude is on these cheer squads, there's a big group of people that view this is some sort of sign that the world is fucking ruined and that we've gone woke and once you go woke, you go broke and all this shit. And it's like, I guess my first thought, thinking of all of this is like maybe 20 years ago before you had like all the access to the most hardcore vile porn you could ever imagine the kind of shit like if anybody ever saw your search history like if you died and somebody got your phone and saw your search history you'd be like fuck my reputation is ruined forever i watch a bunch of weird kinky shit and if anybody ever saw it like it's so weird that they'd be like holy shit this guy should be locked up you watch some fucked up repugnant shit right so you don't want people to see your search history but like you can do that because you can do that because because all of that is there. 20 years ago, it wasn't. 20 years ago, you had a, you know, a Motorola razor, and you weren't watching videos on your phone. So I can see where,

holy shit, I've got a Cowboys cheerleader calendar or a Minnesota Vikings cheerleader calendar would be so hot and you would invest so much of your thought in a, like in a football game, because you're probably pent up that you see chicks at a football game, the cheerleaders, and think, holy shit, this is a gigantic part of the experience and they must be hot and they must be chicks. It's 2025. And in 2025, again, you can watch two horses fucking each other on the internet, if that's what gets you your jollies.

You can watch anything you want instantaneously. Like, in what universe are we in where it's like, this is unacceptable? Like, I think you have to be a special level of creep to be overly concerned with what cheerleaders are doing. You know, like, I'm with you. It's weird to have dude cheerleaders. And if I had my choice because I am straight, I would much rather just watch a bunch of chicks shaking their ass, right?

That'd be great. But when I'm at a football game, I barely ever look at the cheerleaders because you're so far away from the cheerleaders that they don't really make an impact on you, right? Unless you're sitting in the front row. If you're sitting in the front row, which means, yes, you can see the cheerleaders. You also can't see the game because all the people on the sideline block the game. and maybe two or three times a game.

They'll do a dance and you'll see it on the Jumbotron. But outside of that, you don't even see these chicks at the sporting event. You don't see the cheerleaders because you're so far away, it doesn't matter. So that's my first thought when people are like, I can't believe we've got male cheerlears. It's just weird to me that somebody would go to the board with that. It's just weird to me that somebody who's like a political pundit or a politician is like, this is the hill I'm going to die on. I'm super pissed that they're dude cheerleaders.

Like, look, again, I'd rather have just a bunch of hot chicks shaking their ass, knockers bouncing asses wiggling too. I'd rather have all that. But if there's some dude that's out there doing his little fucking dance, it's not going to ruin my life. Guess what? It's not like this guy is out there taking it up the pooper from his boyfriend. It's not like this is boogie nights. It's not like we're watching Dirkler jerk off in front of some vagrant for $10 in his car. That's not what we're doing here.

It's some people fucking dancing. Who cares? Like we've gotten to a point where so many of these people have this loud voice. And I guess what happens when you become the side that seemingly has gained some power. And obviously with Trump being the president, again, I think we're seeing the right-wing side of people be a little bit more emboldened to do things and say things, right? And, like, again, what did we talk about earlier? We talked about Midland Lee.

We talked about we're no longer Midland Legacy, we're Midland Lee. Two years ago, and Biden's president, no one's changing the name of a school to a Civil War general, right? But now they are because it's like, oh, what the fuck? It's the Trump era. We can do whatever the fuck we want, and all this doesn't matter. It's just, like, you start seeing this shit. And I find myself not gravitating towards the other side because I think they're fucking lunatics about the majority of things. but there are certain things and maybe it's because my feed is just overrun now with these people who have the most asinine stupid things to say like these right wing people yelling about male cheerleaders at sporting events or whatever like this is 1999 brother it's 2025 just shut the fuck up who cares how like i guess if i'm going to bitch about something like serious i have to ask myself josh how does that really impact your life and how does that impact your viewing experience of the game it's like the people that constantly

about Taylor Swift being shown on TV. Like, that 10 seconds of Taylor Swift, what did it really do to your day and your viewing experience of the game? How did it really? Like, I see, like, this Eddie Trunk who I find insufferable. If you don't know who Eddie Trunk is, Eddie Trunk is this guy that's been around like hard rock and metal music forever. And I want to say he hosted that metal show, maybe.

And he's a radio guy, Sirius XM dude, and he hosts a talk show that is mostly just about rock music, which is weird to me to host a show about, like, music, like, Steve and New Jersey, you're on, well, yeah, so I went to see Steve and Piercy and Rat yesterday. Like, it's just a weird thing to have discussions about, like, to do full-on breakdowns, like, so I was wondering, do you think Firehouse, like, who's going to be the new lead singer of Firehouse? Like, it's just a strange thing. And the only people that ever call him are people from New Jersey and Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, the only place that would call XM to talk about. hair bans. No other city in the country would do it but Philadelphia. I tip my cap to you. But as I see these people kind of flood my timeline, like I just find myself saying, why is this what you're concerned about? And maybe I'm in the wrong. And maybe it's like, oh, these are all parts of a bigger epidemic. But as I sit here, I read these and that's what my algorithm shows me as these angry right-wing people over, you know, male cheerleaders and shit. And I'm like, why do you care? And why is this what you're focused on?

It's the same thing I criticize Trump for all the time. Like, who gives a shit about UFC on the lawn of the White House? How's that impacting anything? Congratulations. Some dudes in a fucking trailer in Kentucky are going to beat off. Who cares? How is the world becoming a better place? Because on July 4th, we're going to have a great and incredible UFC match right in the front of the White House.

it's going to be beautiful. That big, beautiful lawn is going to have a big beautiful octagon. It's the octagon. Like, how is that impacting anything? Like, if you want to do it, do it. But the idea that it's somehow some important thing for the future, the country is preposterous, right? Like, all the shit that Trump focuses on fascinates me. And then everybody jumps on board with them.

And they're like, yeah, because you have to, because Trump's your leader. So you all have to act like you really give a shit that the guardians are the guardians and not the Indians or the Redskins are the commanders. and who gives a shit. Oh, but Josh is walking, blah, blah, blah, but now. They're just, I find it to be like, like, the group of people. Like, what I love about these groups of people, whether it's right or left, they're all hypocrites either way.

Like, they all talk themselves into circles, the loudest of them. Not the people that are, like, kind of hanging out in the back. But the loudest of them tend to be the biggest hypocrites one way or the other. And the same group of people who are like, hey, don't be a pussy, grow up, stop being a snowflake. Like, I come to my NFL games to see, I come to, you know, beat off under my fucking coat to these cheerleaders and I'm not here for some gay guy dancing. Like I think the Saints have like 10 dancers that are dudes. I think that's a bit extreme. If we are being fair, I have no problem with a dude being a cheerleader.

But at the end of the day, the cheerleaders should still be majority women. Now you're just taking jobs from women. That's the other angle I do like as well. these are shitty jobs that don't pay anything. Like the Cowboys cheerleaders fought to make, I want to say, like $75 an hour or something, like these are not great gigs. Now, it's $75 an hour and you're working, you know, 10 hours a day, five days a week. That's solid.

$75 an hour to work, you know, X number of, you know, two-hour appearances is fine. It's not a career, right? But I love when these dudes jump in on this and they're like, and then these gay guys are taking the jobs from women. And how do we accept this? Okay, one, like, one dude has taken the job of one chick for a job that doesn't even pay you anything. Like, how much money do you think New Orleans Saints cheerleaders make? Also, what is being a Saints cheerleader doing to change anybody's life?

It's not a real job. Most of these chicks have to work in a fucking Hooters or a nail salon to make ends meet. They just dance because they like to dance. See, the Saints, NFL fans have voiced their outrage after discovering that the New Orleans Saints have hired more male cheerleaders. The franchise confirmed that there will be a total of 13 men on the 2025 cheer crew roster. That is a bit much. They have 13 dude cheerleaders and zero quarterbacks.

Way to go, Saints. You've ruined it all, you sons of bitches. 13's a lot. I have no issue with the idea of dude cheerleaders, but at the end of the day, it's really a matter of who your clientele is, too. Like, you have to pay attention and think about who the clientele is. And now I'm going to kind of go to their side a little bit here. But who is still the premier audience of the NFL? It's still dudes and it's still straight dudes.

And it's dudes who like to see dudes beating the shit out of other dudes. It's dudes who like to drink beer, eat wings, objectify chicks, do things that are pretty gay, but they don't think they're gay because it's done in the name of like, you know, bro shit. It's dudes that like to cry over athletes. that's who your prime audience is for the NFL. So, like, that's what I get annoyed by the decisions these companies make in the name of, you know, woke or DEI or whatever is. Like, cool, you look like you're very progressive, but you still have to give your audience what your audience wants. I think your audience, for the most part, it'll be like, cool, there's a dude cheerleader, whatever. Once you start turning the entire cheerleading squad, like half of it, into dudes, then you're just, like, the part that annoys me is not,

that it's dudes. It's that you're doing a bad job of appealing to your audience. Like, if you ran a black radio station, do you think your morning host should be me? You know, like, hey, we got hip-hop and R&B. Our morning show is Josh Ennis. Here he is to talk about how woke is stupid. Like, is that the guy you want leading your morning show? Probably not.

And I understand that. That would be counter to what you're trying to accomplish. That's the same in the NFL. Like, there's nothing wrong with the NFL getting more gay dudes watching, more young girls watching, women watching, like flag football, rather, is taking over, and a lot of these girls are playing flag football across the country. It's a varsity-level sport in a lot of places, in a lot of states. Like I was listening to the Bears owner talk about how in Illinois, it's a varsity-level sport for girls to play flag football. So there's nothing wrong with expanding your clientele.

But there will never come a time that the prime core audience of football isn't dudes. straight dudes who like tits, ass, football, wings, Rambo, John Wick, masturbating in the shower. That's the shit they're into. So you still got to feed those guys. To ignore those guys in the name of trying to just look progressive, that's where I do get annoyed. But just the existence of male cheerleaders doesn't bother me. On college campuses everywhere, what is the difference? There are male cheerleaders at every college campus.

The dude that's holding the chick up and probably has his thumb up or gooch. Like, that's fine. So because there's some dude dancing, you're put off by it? This isn't like they're forcing you to watch Brokeback Mountain. It's almost like these guys believe that. Like, if I watch one gay dancer, I guess I'm going to turn gay. And then before you know it, I'm getting pegged by my lady. Anywho, you guys are wonderful.

I love you. We'll continue.