The Josh Innes Show - Social Media Fan Boys

Episode Date: March 11, 2025

Today is one of those days I feel like rantings about dipshits on the internet. What's funny is I don't really care about what people say about me. It is what it is. I just really, really hate sports team fan groups on Twitter. Today, a random Kentucky Basketball Twitter account has drawn my ire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I would like to share with you a tweet that, at least for today, is the reason why I think social media, Twitter, everything else, the whole internet really, is a complete cesspool. Now, this is just the example today. There are plenty of examples every day, but today this is the one I saw that really just kind of set in motion my angst today. Now, I've been told by people who listen to the podcast that message me, they say, listen, maybe you need to stop reading the internet because the internet is terrible. And you're not wrong, it is. But I find myself addicted to it and this is fucking Elon Musk's fault

because his damn Twitter shows me all this shit that I don't care about and then I start to care about it in an angry way. I just want the four of you at one, just one time, just be something awesome. Like here's Tate McRae's ass. Like here is nothing but Tate McRae's ass and people breaking down how wonderful Tate McRae's ass is. You do that. And I'm like, I'm in, this is a nice conversation. I can say something positive but everything that pops up is something that it knows I will say something negative about

example last night scrolling through and I follow one of these like rock history accounts or whatever don't know if you knew this but I was a rock and roll DJ in a past life. And it says it's a video from 2020, I believe, of David Lee Roth. And I think David Lee Roth is the fucking worst. Like, I think he's a clown. I think he looks like a doofus. He says a bunch of doofus shit. And he can't sing anymore. He's just a fucking clown, right?

I dig Van Halen. I'm partial to Van Hagar I'm fine with Van Halen I like the whole catalog but like I think David Lee Roth is a stooge right so video pops up it says David Lee Roth in 2020 and I'm reading the comments and it's all these people talking about you know Roth and of course I'm going to chime in on this because anytime there's a David Lee Roth argument, there's a Sammy Hagar argument. And all I posted was,

Sammy Hagar is 80 and he looks and sounds considerably better than David Lee Roth, something like that. Then I start getting into arguments with people over whether or not Sammy Hagar has had plastic surgery. Like, what am I doing with my life? What is happening here? Like, the for you is the bane of my existence, yet I can't stop.

I cannot quit it. And it puts up, I know we have a talk about this at least once a week, but the shit that it puts up, like lately it's a bunch of like lebron fans who are going after stephen a smith for saying that you know i'm pleading for you as a father you know like that thing and now the whole lebron fan thing is shitting on michael jordan for being a bad dad but the media doesn't talk about michael jordan's kid being addicted you know being a cokehead or whatever and i'm like well one of them is playing in the nba and has has a spot in the NBA on the team his dad plays for because his dad got him the spot. And the other never became anything. And yeah, he's a burnout of a human, but like it ain't apples to apples.

I think that's my biggest problem with the Internet, the social media world, the dipshits on the Internet is they don't know how to make apples to apples arguments. They are fucking imbeciles. They just can't. They find anything they can that makes the argument that they think wins, even if it doesn't really apply to anything. And it's just annoying. And these are the same people who will tell you that, oh, I don't watch ESPN because Stephen A. Smith ruined it with all the debate shit.

Then they'll run to the internet and just yell and debate with people all fucking day. But there was one today that stood out to me. Now I got to find the damn thing. Let me see here. Here we go. Well, hold on. First of all, let me play a couple commercials. All right, if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs,

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with the uh with the scene from uh Wolf of Wall Street like you know you know, I'm not done. I'm coming back. Well, that shit. This person posts like one highlight of Travis Kelsey making a touchdown catch against the Texans in the playoffs. And this person says, oh, yeah, Travis Kelsey is, quote, washed. Now, of course, this guy's profile picture is of him wearing a Travis Kelsey jersey. And I commented because I can't help myself. I said, you know, dude, you have no credibility. Your name is like Chiefs fanboy Kelsey 88, 87, whatever. And you're wearing a picture, a shirt,

of Travis Kelsey in your profile picture. You don't have credibility. It's fine, you can be a fan. But being a diehard fan means you do not have credibility on an argument and of course I start getting inundated with tweets from fans why doesn't he have credibility I don't know dipshit because he's wearing the guy's fucking jersey in the fucking picture do you not know how credibility works like you are a biased observer that's fine but just because

you post one highlight of Travis Kelsey and you're wearing a t-shirt you think oh he's not watching like what the fuck and nobody has a concept because now everybody thinks they're the media right like we've given too much power to dipshits that's facts it used to be you could be a dipshit but you had to like go through a whole process and training and go to school for it and then be an intern somewhere and then climb the ladder and work in a small market and move up up up up and learn and talk to people and talk to wise old sages the teacher the ins and outs of the industry now you pick up your phone and you gain a following by saying dumb homer shit and i'm not gonna lie to you it fucking drives me fucking crazy i don't look I'm not against people like

I don't believe like I didn't take the traditional route to becoming what I became I didn't go to school for it my dad was in it I wanted to do it I taught myself how to do it I asked a lot of questions I moved up I moved down I did a bunch of shit I said yes to every shitty job like yes I think I've earned my stripes and what I've done in my life. And I'm not against the idea that people can just flip on their phone and become a celebrity. Cool, it's 2025, that's how it works.

What bothers me is the people that can just flip on their phone and become celebrity can live a life of saying dumb shit and get wealthy or become popular or famous in whatever small circle they have by saying dumb shit that no one checks them on and they don't operate by the same rules that used to exist. If you were to go on, if some guy were to sit in a radio station, if I were to sit in Houston when I was in Houston and I were wearing an Albert Pujols jersey or something like that and I'm

sitting on the air and I'm telling you just how great such and such is and whatever, again, I might be right, but the credibility takes a hit for anyone who is a known fan of anything. That's why when we talk about the media and we talk about how dumb the media is, well, a lot of them have biases and people with biases write stories therefore it's tinged in their bias it is what it is i don't know why it makes me irrationally angry i don't know why these people annoy me so much it just bothers me that people and maybe it's because i'm not a person that can operate in these weird kind of homerific absolutes like i can see arguments from both sides of things. There are

very few things that I will just, just be like, ah, about anymore. 10 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, maybe I'm 38 fucking years old. This shit doesn't mean that much to me anymore. Yelling about sports doesn't mean that much to me anymore. It's not something that I'm totally passionate about. I like sports. I have teams that I'm into, but like, I find myself like when you're arguing with people on social media about sports shit, that's so fucking stupid. Like all I want to do is call out stupid people. I don't know what that makes me. I don't know if that makes me the devil's advocate. I don't know what that makes me. All I want to do is offer the counterpoint to stupid people. That's all I want to do. Because these people speak in such absolutes.

Like yesterday, my buddy Meltzer responded to some media guy who posted a bunch of videos of how Laramie Tunsil sucks. And I watched a bunch of these videos. And look, I don't know a fucking thing about offensive line play. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say the guy that posted those probably doesn't either because he didn't fucking play offensive line in the NFL so what the fuck do you know but he's commenting on all this about offensive line play and about how oh his technique is bad here and he kind of let this guy get around this way and I'm watching these videos and I'm like looks to me like the quarterback had a lot

of fucking time and the sack might be on him but the guy's whole purpose of these videos was to show you that Laramie Tunsil sucks on like five plays last year to let you know I'm not saying Laramie Tunsil's good that's not what the argument is he's fine uh but like Meltzer kind of responds with in a very Meltzer way like I don't really see any problem with most of these like Meltzer and I think are kind of similar in this way because I don't want to speak for Meltzer. I know he listens to the podcast, but I think that Meltzer and I are kind of in the same world where like we like sports and we know about sports and we follow it, but we're not nearly as passionate about it as we were five, 10, 15 years ago. Like, I don't know, but my point in all this is this, like, like the only thing that brings me a sick form of pleasure as it relates to this shit is playing the devil's advocate. It's just my natural inclination. Even when it's shit that I like, it's just my, my desire. Like I want to knock people off their fucking pedestal because people swing their dicks around like their opinion matters and like, oh my God. And then like, there's call them out that's where this started today this is what set me off today so uh I actually randomly

the other day on YouTube was watching this Danny Hurley this Dan Hurley interview on 60 Minutes I think Dan Hurley's the fucking pits I hate the guy his weird outbursts and shit they're not really charming it's not really funny like hey Bob Knight did it 40 years ago like you don't amuse me you just look like a dickhead it's 2025 be a fucking adult you putz but he has won back-to-back national championships so especially in this era in the NIL era where these dudes are leaving like in that interview he said 50% of my guys are going to leave or thinking about entering the transfer portal. And some of them already have NIL deals done elsewhere, which, by the way, is against the spirit and the actual rules of the NIL.

But that's the way it works. So to win back-to-back national championships in an era where everyone can openly cheat now and not just the guys at the big schools with the big checks, like, that's an accomplishment. I respect the shit out of that. I just think the guy's a total fucking stooge and his act doesn't amuse me. Well, in this interview, he's sitting there with his wife and his wife basically is there to keep him in check. And she's like, listen, I tell him every day, like, honey, it's a stupid game. Whether you win or lose doesn't really fucking matter. Blah, blah, blah blah like she's doing some wife shit there are various ways to do wife shit there's you know like the doting wife that believes that every win and loss matters because she doesn't want her husband to be miserable the next day like there

are people who truly care and then there are other wives who are like hey it's a means to getting rich whatever it doesn't matter but this woman kind of just mocked the whole idea of it, and she makes fun of him for being a doofus and all of his outbursts and shit. Well, the Rare Rookies Twitter account, which is a Kentucky Wildcats fan account, Kentucky Wildcats memes, edits, news, stats, videos, recruiting, and more, go big blue. Also, fun fact, Kentucky basketball is the most overrated program in all of college sports over the last 30 or so years. How many national championships has Kentucky won in this whole, like, oh, we're Kentucky. We're the biggest brand in college basketball. Tell me about how many titles you've won in the time that I've been alive.

Like two? I'm 38 years old. Tubby won one. Calipari won one in the last 30 years, okay? So up your nose with a fucking rubber hose. But anyway, these Kentucky people are amused by this video. This just makes me realize how spoiled we were with Ellen Calipari and now Leanne Pope. So you mean to tell me that Dan Hurley has won multiple championships back to back. He has won as many championships in the last two years

as you as a program have won since I've been fucking alive. But you view your world as successful because you like John Calipari's wife? You're happy about what Kentucky basketball is doing right now because you like the fucking coach's wife? Give me a fucking break you're full of shit you're fucking morons and you know you're morons and it's that kind of shit that when i read it i'm like you mean to tell me that if dan hurley would have decided

to come to your program and win back-to-back titles you'd be saying that you hate his fucking wife you wouldn't you're full of fucking shit. You're morons. And you know it. Just makes me realize how spoiled we were. You were spoiled because the coach's wife didn't, like, that's how you were spoiled. No, you actually were the opposite of spoiled because you won a bunch of fucking regular season games with all these dudes that went to the pros

and didn't win dick in the tournament. You're the most overrated program since I've been alive. Calipari, arguably the most overrated program since I've been alive. Calipari, arguably the most overrated coach since I've been alive. But you were spoiled. We were spoiled because we had a good coach's wife that didn't sit around and make fun of her husband. I think, look, you would take a coach's wife who cucks the fucking husband if you could win back-to-back titles. If you could just go to the fucking Final Four, you'd have a cuck chair set up in the corner there. You would want, like, if the coach's wife sat there and was a dominatrix and shoved candlesticks up the coach's ass.

If they won back-to-back championships, you'd be like, I'm fucking in. Oh, but we were spoiled. We were spoiled because we had such good coach's wives. You won one fucking title at Kentucky in 15 years of John Calipari, having every advantage ever. The dude literally left Memphis, which was a solid program, to go to Kentucky because Kentucky literally has every advantage

on the planet to win titles. You know who goes to the same number of title games as fucking Kentucky? Butler. You know who goes to the final fours like Kentucky does? Florida Gulf Coast. Oh, but we were lucky. We were lucky.

We were spoiled. We were spoiled. You keep telling yourself that, you fucking putzes. I guarantee if the coach's wife were fucking Tubby Smith in front of him right now, no, if Rick Pitino were fucking that coach's wife were fucking tubby smith in front of him right now no if rick patino were fucking that coach's wife in the booth of an italian restaurant and the coach is just sitting there watching it you'd be like we're so we're so spoiled we're so spoiled if you could win multiple titles

you're a shitty school you're a dopey basketball program the, now that they can pay all their players up front, everybody's on the same level as you. Fuck you. How many Final Fours did John Calipari go to? Now I'm going to shit on John Calipari some, just because of these people. Now he's catching strays. Let's look up John Calipari here. How many Final Fours did John Calipari go to while coaching at the biggest basketball program on the planet? Here we go. Let's take a look. John Calipari. Let's see. Final Four in, let's see, he went in 11, 12, 14. So he went to four Final Fours at Kentucky.

Congratulations on your four semifinal appearances there, pal. You did it. College basketball is interesting because nobody sucks your dick over, you know, going to the AFC championship game. But somehow going to the semifinals is like the big accomplishment in college basketball. But whatever. I didn't mean to shit on John Calipari. He seems fine. It's overrated, but he's fine. Sorry, John.

This is about the Kentucky dipshits. And it has nothing to do with your wife. and i hope you don't get cucked but you go to four final fours of course the first two final fours you went to were vacated at your other schools but you went to four final fours hell john brady went to one final four at lsu and that's an lsu dale brown went to two Final Fours at LSU. How many Final Fours? How many? Let's look up Brad Stevens.

See little Brad Stevens. How many Final Fours he went to? He had to have gone to at least two, right? Let's see. He went in 2010 and 2011. So congrats. The coach at Butler went to nearly as many Final Fours as you did at Kentucky, but hey, you guys were spoiled. You guys were spoiled because you liked the coach's wife.

No, you're just mad because Dan Hurley ain't your fucking coach. He's winning back-to-back titles at UConn. By the way, Kevin Olley won a championship at UConn recently, too. What have you done, Kentucky? Dickheads. Anyway, more to come.