The Josh Innes Show - The Internet Continues To Be The Worst

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

"God Bless The USA" came on when I was walking Ross. I was enjoying it because it is in fact a banger. It's hokey, but it's a banger. Anywho, I started thinking about the number of people who live in America and seemingly hate it. Do other countries do this? Do other countries self hate has much as America? This is a legit question I have. This leads us to social media. I made a mistake. I commented on an Instagram post. I was then told I was stupid for the entire weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a random thought, but I was walking Ross this morning and I usually listen to the iHeartRadio app. And lately I've actually just been listening to classic Rick D's countdowns, which they basically just recycle the same four countdowns over and over. So I've almost memorized them. So it's actually kind of stupid that I do that. But the iHeartRadio app is actually kind of cool now because it really is like a radio. Like there's presets and you just go wherever. And it can be radio stations. It can be podcasts.

It can be live channels and all that shit. So I listened to it. I was listening to the 80s country channel. So like, hey, here's Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, Islands in the Stream. And here's Alabama and all the 80s acts. Ronnie Millsap was Smokey Mountain Rain. And God Bless the USA comes on by Lee Greenwood, a song that is now and will now forever be associated with Trump. It's amazing.

Lee Greenwood, what a guy. He allowed Trump to use that. He's probably made so he's gonna be so rich so rich but he's probably you know made a lot of money off of that if not in the past which i'm sure he did now it's probably gigantic and it's a fine song it's a hokey song right but there's nothing wrong with liking hokey songs there's a bunch of fucking hokey songs every song from the rocky soundtrack is hokey. You want to tell Rocky four, you want to tell me there's no easy way out. Isn't a hokey song or you're the best from karate kid. Isn't a hokey song or the glory of love from the karate kid too. Like there's a lot of songs that

are great, wonderful songs that we enjoy that are hokey. That is a hokey song, right? And it's used by Trump for all of his shit and it's fine. But I'm listening to that today and I'm walking Ross, you know, and I'm like, you know, if tomorrow all the things were gone, I worked for all my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife. I thank my lucky stars to be living here today because the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. And I'm proud of it. And I i did this is the first thing i thought of when listening to that is i'm kind of fist pumping while i'm walking ross you i got the earbuds in i'm proud to be in america from the lakes of minnesota to the hills of tennessee across the plains of texas from sea

to shine and sea from detroit down to houston new y to LA. There's pride in every American heart. It's time we stand to say, and I'm like, I'm into it. And I'm like, you know, it's a shame that I do other countries hate themselves as much as like, we're supposed to hate ourselves in America. That's a legit question. I have like, do you think the Chinese in China, just like outwardly hate China as much as people in the U.S. hate America? Like, it's just so weird. Just a thought. I'm not trying to get hyperpolitical on you here today.

I'm not trying to, you know, be whatever. but like we are the only country where the people in the country dislike or a large part of the people in the country dislike people who are patriotic and love the country right like i wonder if you're over like in finland do people in finland like is there a group of people in finland who's like we fucking suck we're terrible we're finnish and we're terrible then there's like the other half of people that have their finn Greenwood who sings proud to be Finnish that they're all like yeah Finland like does that exist or is it unique to us right like I'm sure like in Germany there's probably like some people who still live like kind of like how there's a bunch of people here who still talk about all like the warts of the U.S. like what about Thanksgiving

and what about slavery right like so I'm sure over in Germany there's like some people that are just oh we're German and life is good and then there's like there's another group of like younger progressive Germans who are like we killed all those Jews you know and you're like huh okay well then there's like I'm sure like Germanyany has its issues with that like i would imagine and i would imagine that there's some people in like korea that don't like kim jong-il or un or whomever and then some who do like i'm not saying that there aren't like differing opinions in these places but like i wonder if there are how many other places how many other countries exist where if you are outwardly patriotic you are almost

demonized you know what i'm saying like you are oh you are outwardly supportive of your country you are outwardly loving your country because i feel like what we do in america is we look at people and this is fucked up but we look at people who are seemingly patriotic and we associate like American flag and patriotism with conservatives somehow thus we associate it with Trump therefore we associate it with bad right like does that happen in other places now obviously they're like wars in other countries like I'm not telling you that those places are perfect but like just from a standpoint of like when you watch the Olympicslympics there are people in america that will root against america just because they're self-hating americans or they're

guilt-ridden americans but like when there's a match or there's a speed skating match and someone from greenland is on the tv do you think the greenish people are like, fuck us, we're a horrible country and we don't deserve to win? I don't know if that exists everywhere else or anywhere else, but I know it exists here. Like if I were to play, like if I were just sitting out in my yard drinking a beer, a domestic beer, and I was listening to Lee Green, like I had my country mix on yesterday. So I had all of it in there, little Toby Keith, courtesy of the red, white, blue, all that shit. Like there are people who will just look at me, just fat Josh sitting here listening to Lee Greenwood and just playing that song will trigger them. And then they will get into some argument. Like, does that happen in other places? Does it? I read a story this weekend about some guy like at Washington State, a professor at Washington

State. Guy's got like a PhD, was so triggered by some Indian dude wearing a MAGA hat or something that he threw the hat off his head and then they got into a fight. And you listen to, dude, it's fascinating. You listen to this guy, he gets arrested, whatever. And he's explaining this and he's basically like what was i supposed to do like i like i had to do it someone had to do i'm like what the fuck are we doing again maybe you can help me out you can message me i don't know but like are there other countries

i get again i get that there are war-torn countries and i get that there are some countries that are split east and west and they hate each like I get that but I'm talking about just a place where it's almost outwardly a sin to be supportive of your country so you know what I love America well we're fucking terrible you know how we got this land like yeah the same way that most people got their fucking land read a goddamn book listen to a podcast you hippie like it's not hard like yes you know what most people got their shit ill begotten it happens i i didn't do it and you didn't do it so shut the fuck up you self-hating schmuck like i don't know if they're more self-hating people than in this fucking country. So much self-hate. It is wild, man.

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That was the number one pick in the WNBA draft. And Caitlin Clark, who is like the white savior to like, you know, Clay Travis and shit. And I see their pictures side by side. And one of the things was like, like the tickets for this game this year going for like a thousand dollars. Now, of course,

that's going to be on the aftermarket. Like no one's selling a fucking ticket to a WNBA game for a thousand dollars face value. So on the aftermarket, it's currently like a thousand dollars. And I'm like, I'm going to go to these comments because I know I can look at a comment and I can tell you what the person making this comment looks like. So I scroll down, I'll see a comment like, no one gives a shit about the WNBA. Well, that person will look like me, a white guy. Scroll down. Yeah, because Caitlin Clark keeps this thing afloat. Well, that person will also look like me, a white guy.

Then you'll read, well, why don't we have some more respect? It's nice that they're doing this, but why don't we have some more respect for the ladies that came before? That will be a black person who is saying, please respect the black people that were playing basketball. I don't want to look at these white bitches. Like, it's predictable. Like, the comments that you see on certain stories are predictable and you know which route they're going to go and you know what the people making those comments will look like i saw a video again

scrolling through instagram my algorithm showed me one of these videos where like all the members of a sorority are dancing right basically all white chicks and i don't know where this was kai caposada in alabama wherever i go to university alabama and whatever and these girls are dancing to some hip-hop song and haha we're hot white girls and i'm like i'm gonna look at these comments and these comments are all going to be about how there's either no black people in this or about how they're assimilating their culture. And I'm like, all right, Josh, you know, okay, I'm going to go. Sure enough, there was one, they like our rhythm, but they hate our blues. I'm like, what the fuck? Like, Jesus Christ, a bunch of white bitches

dancing. Like who gives a fuck? Not everything has to be a thing, but you know it is because that's social media. You know, it's just, it's the way it goes. Like, if you see a post that's about, like, Pride Month or some shit, there will be some folks that go into that and they're like, we're straight month. Like, that's just the way this shit goes. I believe you should have to pass a very, very rigorous test to be allowed to post on the internet. I mean a rigorous test and, like, background checks. And maybe you should have to be able to complete the presidential physical fitness test and, like, count to 100 and spell some difficult, like you have to be like, there should be a test that involves physical, mental, all your attributes. You should have to go through a whole thing to be allowed to post on the internet. You want the world to get better?

Make people pass a rigorous test. Now, here's the problem you'd run into, though. It'd be kind of unfairly balanced because then you would just get a bunch of smart liberal people who would just tell you how great, you know, you know, Biden is or whatever. It'd be unfair because in fairness, not all right wing people are stupid. Not all left wing people are brilliant. But what you're going to get is you're going to get a bunch of people ain't going to pass that test and then they can't get on there and say mega. And they're're going to get a bunch of people that ain't going to pass that test. And then they can't get on there and say mega. And then you're just going to get a bunch of hipster liberal types.

Like I saw a banner hanging off of someone's house yesterday. And it was over in the Tower Grove neighborhood of St. Louis. There's a nice little park there and stuff. It's one of those weird neighborhoods, though, where if you make the the wrong turn like there's a homeless guy living in a tent outside someone's house but you turn right and it's like oh that's a mansion and there was a sign on a sheet you know like when you go to like it's game day and you'll see sheets hanging off of sorority and frat houses at a school like you know fuck tim tebow or whatever and there's a sheet and the sheet says out of fear for our democracy i dissent i'm like cool good for you i mean like neato rock on but it's a weird world the world's a strange

place like i made a mistake this week this weekend and i didn't think it would be a mistake right because i don't believe that commenting on every post, like some posts you comment on, you're like, that's a mistake, right? So I try to limit the things I comment on. Like I try to avoid political shit at all. Like I don't retweet political shit. I don't retweet like defiant L's or any of that shit for the most part. Every now and then I might make a joke, but the shit I'm like, Josh, just focus on the sports shit keep yourself out of trouble keep your nose clean so that's what i do there was a post on something called boot crew media i guess it's like a louisiana sports thing that i follow on instagram and they have a post and it says

this was a real post from fan duel or some some shit. And back in 2023 when Colorado started out like 3-0 before they played Oregon and got their asses kicked, they posted what would the spread be if 2023 Colorado played 2019 LSU. Now, the first thing that's important to note is that LSU football team, probably one of the greatest college football teams of all time, super talented, didn't lose national champion. Cool. It's important to note that most people don't read. So they don't see that that was from 2023

when Colorado was three and oh, they just see it as right now, what would the spread be knowing what you know about those teams? Now, I looked way too deep into this because I'm a dipshit. So I hate myself for this. But I'm like, listen, if we're going to do a what if here, I guess we got to keep them in the same planet, right? So let's assume that 2013 team, we see what they did, and then we see what the LSU team did in 2019, and we compare where they were in the season how they were playing in their respective seasons and let's do that it's not the fact i'm breaking this down makes me hate myself and i'm sorry that i'm doing this but i hate myself for this but it's a what if it's fun it's a goof right i like what if so what if what would the line be again what would the line be? Again, what would the line be? Not how much LSU would win by, what would the spread be? So I actually went back and looked at the spreads

for those games that LSU played in 2019. LSU, one of the greatest college football teams ever, was favored by more than 38 points twice. One of those was against the northwestern state demons of knackeredish louisiana and the other was against arkansas okay keep in mind that color the fact i'm breaking this down again i apologize i hate myself for it but i need to tell somebody about it so i'm telling you folks keep in mind that colorado team was getting a fuck ton of hype. They were three and oh, to start the year. I believe that was the year that they rallied to beat Colorado state. And then they eventually played, uh, Oregon and just got dick slapped. But remember for the first three weeks of that year, there was a fuck ton of hype about Colorado and Chidora for Heisman and

blah, blah, blah. So it was hype and they'd beaten while there may not have been like legit teams, they were, you know, name brand teams. And keep in mind, so I try to keep like their first three weeks and their September in line with what LSU did in September 2019. Again, why I did this, I don't know. But remember that LSU team, they were, nobody was expecting them to do anything that year. Then they beat Texas and it kind of changed everything. It put Joe Burrow on the path to the Heisman. It's LSU championships. It's all that shit, right? So I said, this was my breakdown

of it. Very simple. In September, LSU would be favored by 22 and a half. Now, mind you, after you got past September, I think Colorado won one more game that year. I said, by the time you get to November, LSU would be favored by 38.5 points. Now, mind you, the spread is just like these people are morons who have no concept of the point of the spread. The spread is not to tell you how much you think LSU would win by. The point of a spread is to get action on both sides of it. What will get people saying, Oh, that could happen on either side. So I said 38 and a half. And you want to see some

angry dip shit, Louisiana sports fans. I like I had to unfollow this account because they would not stop messaging me about how fucking stupid I am. Now, mind you, this isn't even a real thing. It's not an opinion on politics or an opinion on something that could happen. Like, hey, you know what I think is going to happen? I think LSU is going to go 8-4 this year. That could happen. This is something that will never happen. It is a hypothetical, dumb thing.

This guy's a fucking idiot that doesn't know ball, bro. Look at this fucking moron look at this fucking guy bro hey and then they go hey listen fam lsu would win that by 60 or lsu would win by however much they want yeah they probably would fuck face that's not the point of a fucking spread the question was what would the spread be the question is not what would LSU have won by? In this hypothetical, where a team in 2019 plays a team in 2023. And oh, by the way, that hypothetical was broached for the first time when Colorado was 3-0 to start 2023. It wasn't broached yesterday.

Well, that Colorado team was terrible, and LSU had all these NFL players, and blah, blah, blah. That's not the fucking point Boudreaux so I had to unfollow that account which it was fine I mean look I don't mind like seeing shit that's going on Louisiana those are my people I had to unfollow and what you learn in doing this again like even when you're trying to do something innocuous an inane response to something that means absolutely nothing, these fucking people are relentless

and they don't stop and they're stupid and they don't know how to read. And when they do read, they don't know how to comprehend. We are in deep fucking shit because people are fucking stupid. And it ain't just right wing and it ain't just left wing

and it ain't just in the middle. it ain't just left wing, and it ain't just in the middle. We're all fucked because people are stupid. They don't care to read. They don't care to comprehend. They just fucking yap and post and respond. And when you say something they don't like, they attack. We are fucked. They weaponize words. They don't have any way to argue. They don't like they attack we are fucked they have no they weaponize words they don't have any way to argue they don't know how to use their words they're fucking stupid and then hey i'm proud of myself i think i responded to one person to try to explain my reasoning and then i got a bunch of people that called me stupid after that and i said i am done trying to explain myself. To a bunch of hillbilly. Redneck dipshits from Louisiana.

No offense to Louisiana. Those are my people. Per capita. You might lead the nation in dipshits. Outside of Mississippi. At least you have some metropolitan areas. Unlike Mississippi. All that said. I had to unfollow that account.

Didn't want to. They didn't do anything to me. But what happens is, and I think other people are like this, fans, even of your own team, can make you hate the team because nobody is rational. And you could argue maybe fans aren't supposed to be rational. Maybe so. But people put me in such a shitty mood like again over an innoc like an inane thing it wasn't a real debate about anything meaningful and i stood back because i was about to start going back and forth

and then i'm like josh remember a couple weeks ago when you talked about uh dan bernstein in chicago and dan b Bernstein's probably making three. I would guess that his base pay, because he had been there forever, was probably $250,000, $300,000, if not more. It very well could have been more, because that guy had been there for 30 years. Guy had a career, not a job, a career, had a legacy. Could have been there as long as he wanted to be. And that guy threw it away because he was threatening and getting into fights with dudes on Twitter over a fish. And I'm like, Josh, just fuck off. Don't worry about it.

Just unfollow these people. Because you're not going to change them. They're stupid. And they will always be stupid. And you'll say, well, Josh, there's tons of info out there now for people. People have all sorts of info to consume. You can ask any question in the world, and you can get the answer. Today I was listening to the Rick D's Weekly Top 40 from some random week in 1991,

and I heard a song I had never heard before. So I looked up what the song was. I found out it was by a band called The Storm or some shit, which was a band that was made up of members of Journey and Santana, and they had one moderate hit. I know this now because I heard it on there, and then I went to the interwebs and looked it up, and now I know all I need to know about the band called The Storm. But what I've learned is people don't look at things that way. People don't go, hey, I could learn about this. Let me look up and get more

info. No, they just look at what's on Twitter or Facebook, and then that's the truth, and then they just go with it. And that's why we're fucked. Why we are super duper fucked. And now you know. It's not going to get any better, kiddos.