The Josh Innes Show - Today Is A Very Significant Day

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

Today is an important day in American and World history...it was this day 19 years ago that "Tim McGraw" the first single from Taylor Swift, hit the radio. It is not lost on me that today is also Juneteenth. I was walking Ross the other day and say Juneteenth decorations on someones house. I wasn't aware Juneteenth was a decorations holiday. I have a great idea involving Taylor Swift fans... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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called Tim McGraw. light on a lake when you think happiness I hope you think that little black dress think of my head on your chest and my old faded blue jeans when you think Tim McGraw I hope you think of me let me tell you that song was a banger and that whole album that it was on which was called Taylor Swift was a certified smash banger after banger after banger after banger good shit there's a great scene a great clip where she's performing at like the CMA Awards or something and she sings Tim McGraw and comes off the stage and walks up to Tim McGraw and says, Hey, I'm Taylor and shakes his hand and like, Oh, boys, why Faith Hills like get the fuck away, bitch, get the hell

away from me. And then who would have thought like 18 years later, here we are and Taylor Swift's the biggest star on the planet and Tim and Faith are well behind her now. There's also a great Tim McGraw song that has Taylor Swift on it called Highway Don't Care, which is awesome. That was 19 years ago. 19 years ago was the first album. Let me play a few commercials. Now I only know this because Jelly sent me screenshots of people tweeting about this and don't think that it's not lost on me how hysterical it is because social media is a fucked place as it

is. But today is Juneteenth, like the day that slavery ended, right? Juneteenth, the special day. It's also odd when you walk around the neighborhood and you see Juneteenth decorations. Like I was walking down the road with Ross the other day and I just saw like a Juneteenth sign and somewhat like on their door and I'm like, is this like decorations holiday? Like I'm asking for a friend, I'm asking this white guy who doesn't fully get it, right? Like I'm just like, I'm a white dude, I clearly know nothing. However, is Juneteenth really like sign holiday?

Like is it a holiday that if you wanted to go to Party City or like a party store anywhere and you're like, hey I want to get decorations for like 4th of July or Christmas or Thanksgiving or whatever. Like can you go to the party store and be like, hey where is your Juneteenth section? And like how early or how, like how much before, how many days, weeks, months before Juneteenth can you put up your Juneteenth decorations? These are the questions I have as it relates to Juneteenth being that Juneteenth is a relatively new federally recognized holiday. I would like to know like how early is too early?

Like, hey, when did you put the Christmas tree up this year? Like that type of thing? Like, well, we put it up the day after Thanksgiving or man, when Halloween was over, I put the Christmas tree up this year? Like that type of thing? Like well we put it up the day after Thanksgiving or man when Halloween was over I put the tree up but it's not coming down till February. Like what exactly is the moment when it's like time to put up your Juneteenth decorations? Like do you go to the story like hey I would like to get a couple of streamers maybe like one of those little signs that's individual letters that says Happy Juneteenth. Like, when do I put that up? Like, yeah, well, I guess, I guess maybe

June 1st, right? But then you've got your Pride Month stuff up. Then it clashes. Like, what happens if you're trying to celebrate Pride Month in your house and you got all your Pride flags and everything up and you're ready to go? It's Pride Month. Everyone's pride month. Everyone's excited. You got your signage up there. You got your like, hate doesn't live in this house, signs up and in this house we believe that like love is love and science is not fake and all that shit. And you got your sign up in the yard. You

got your rainbow flag going, but then you have to make room for the Juneteenth decorations and which one gets like, do we judge you based on which one gets more space in your yard or on your house or on the walls in your home? Like it's a whole month. Juneteenth is a month or is a day. And obviously there's Black History Month too, but it's not the same month. But then you've got Pride Month. So like, do we judge you like if you walk by someone's house and there's a pride flag but only

a sign that says Juneteenth?, like do we judge you for that? These are the questions. But it's funny to me that on this day that a bunch of little white girls are going to be celebrating 19 years of Taylor Swift, the rest of the world is celebrating the fact that slavery ended on this day 160 years ago. Like just think of the dichotomy there, right? It's just a fun, just I want, there's no need to even dig deep into it. It's just funny when you sit there and you think about it for a second, the just how crazy social media is that on one hand we are celebrating that 19 years ago someone

responsible for some of the most benign homogenized white girl sad music ever is being celebrated as this was the day that she debuted on radio and then on the other side, it's oh by the way also on this day, the slaves were free. Now if you want to make a connection to this, if you ask Taylor's fan, this would be a fun thing. Oh God, this would be a great man on the street bit. You go talk to all these girls about Taylor Swift on Juneteenth and you say, do you think that maybe we should, since June 19th is the day that Taylor's first

single ever was on the radio, do you think it would be acceptable if Juneteenth became a collab holiday with Taylor because she was enslaved by the mean white men that ran the music industry for years and years. The music industry enslaved her and now she is broken free and we celebrate Juneteenth and the release of Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift's first single ever. We celebrate them both on the same day. And then what you do is you ask these little dopey white girls that question

and they're all going to be like, like, yeah, totally. Because like, that's why we have Taylor's versions now, because like evil people enslaved her. She was she was enslaved and, um, yeah, she was enslaved. Yeah enslaved yeah like like she wasn't like in literal shackles but she was like in like like she was shackled by the actions of white men and and look that's essentially the same thing as like before the Emancipation Proclamation So I think that it wouldn't be bad if maybe like Juneteenth is also like we call it Juneteenth Taylor's version. Oh, that would be so great. Anywho, that album was spectacular though. The first really I make fun of Taylor

Swift up until like four albums or so ago where she started making really shitty music like she kind of like I give her credit. I'm going to give Taylor Swift up until like four albums or so ago where she started making really shitty music like she got like I give her credit. I'm going to give Taylor Swift credit and that she doesn't have to flop her beef around everywhere to get attention like bless her heart this this what's her name that the Sabrina Carpenter had a nothing career and then she's like you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to start singing slutty songs and flop in my beef everywhere and then I I'm gonna have hits, and that's what she did.

And now, like, she just, basically, she thrives on kind of like semi-controversy, like this recent thing where, like, the picture of her being treated like a dog by a dude or whatever, and then ladies groups are like, well, that's not good, and blah, blah, blah. But basically, all she does is sings whorish music and flashes her beef everywhere.

So, you know, people will be like, oh my God, this is great. Taylor Swift, mostly because I don't know who wants to see Taylor Swift's beef. But like Taylor Swift has been able to have a successful now 20 year music career. And she hasn't had to whore it up. I don't know what that says about her, or what it says about her fans. But homegirl still fills up football stadiums and can do it three nights in a row in cities and she sings pretty bad

like most of her music for the last seven eight years has been bad if not longer than that probably longer than that really has been about 10 years since Taylor put out good music in my opinion. Yet she can fill up football stadiums and she's done it without having to be a whore. She's not no offense to Tate McCray, but Tate McCray makes boring terrible music, but all the videos of her on the internet are of her ass jiggling everywhere and you're like, all right, you have my attention. Sabrina Carpenter makes, you know, generic white girl pop music, but every video of her on the internet is her bending over wearing shorts that are up her ass. So you're like, all right, you got my attention. But Taylor fills up three football stadiums every time she plays in a city and she's done it without having to skank it up.

So I think she deserves credit for that. That first album, which was specifically just country, was so good. This, let me tell you. You had Tim McGraw, tear drops on my guitar. Drew looks at me. I fake a smile so he won't see. That's a jam, right? You had our song. Our song is a slamming screen door sneaking out late tapping on your window when you're on the phone and you talk real slow cuz it's late and your mama don't know. First time I thought Taylor Swift was hot was or I was like oh she's kind of attractive and I can say this because we're about the same age right I'm like what 38 and she's what now like 35 or something like that

so it's not totally weird but when I remember watching thinking she was just kind of this gangly doofus and then she had a different look about her in the our song video and I was like, ah, I like you Then there was picture to burn state the obvious. I didn't get my perfect fantasy I realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me. That's a song where she's like You can tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy. That's fine I'll tell mine that you're gay not allowed to say that anymore even though it's like not said as an insult It's just saying that you're not gonna get laid because all these girls think you're gay. Not allowed to say that anymore. Even though it's like not said as an insult. It's just saying that you're not going to get laid because all these girls

think you're gay. I don't really find it as insulting, but they kind of edit that out now. And should have said no. Should have said no. Should have gone home. Should have thought twice for you then it all gone. Great fucking album. And then so she toured in 2006. She was the opening act for Ronnie Millsap. Ronnie Millsap doesn't know if she's hot. And then you had George Strait was the opener. The head, or sorry, the headliner of that show was George Strait. So Taylor Swift,

who had one song at the time, opened up for Ronnie Millsap, who was like 30, 40 number one country hits, Who Is a Fucking G, Stranger in My House, smoky mountain rain, good love, pure love baby, it's pure love, milk and honey and Captain Crunch and you in the morning, fucking Ronnie Millsap, man. So there was Ronnie Millsap and then the King, George Strait, was the headliner. I went to see that show in the Cajun Dome in Lafayette, Louisiana and like who would have thunk when you're sitting there like there I don't know that I have anybody else I can say that about where I'm like yeah I saw them and then boom they became the biggest star

ever you know what I'm saying like people have those kind of stories where they're like yeah you know the Madonna was kind of a nobody like there's a story that Scott Shannon who's a great radio programmer, morning guy for years and years and years in New York, when he was running Z 100, Madonna would like sit outside or call the hotline and like just demand that her music get playing that like we don't know who the fuck you are. And then like they eventually played it, then Madonna became this huge star.

Jilly would tell me that she would get calls on the phone in Chicago from Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga was anything. They were like on a first name basis and then boom Lady Gaga becomes Lady Gaga, you know, that's kind of how it was with me and the little fella Hunter Hayes who used to play the little accordion. He was like the Rosie O'Donnell show and shit from Louisiana little fellow to play the accordion right and I knew him because my

dad knew his family. So I would like to karaoke and shit from Louisiana, a little fellow would play the accordion, right? And I knew him because my dad knew his family, so I would like do karaoke and shit with this kid. And then one day, like this was in the 90s, when I moved to Houston, like 2010, 2009, whenever it was, I'm at the rodeo cook-off and I get a tap on my shoulder and someone goes, Josh? I go, holy shit, it's Hunter Hayes. And then Hunter Hayes became like a relatively large country star in his young adult years. And I'm like, wow, you remember me from doing karaoke with you at Mr. Gaddy's?

He's like, fuck yeah, man. What's going on? I'm like, holy shit. But like very few people can say they saw someone. Like when you see those videos that are on like, I don't know, we see a reel. And it's like, here's a video of Morgan Wallen playing in front of 13 people at CMA Fest 10 years ago or whatever like most people aren't in that crowd. I got to see Taylor Swift before Taylor Swift became huge and I then saw her. It's like you fast forward. It's

amazing how fast these things or how quickly it can happen. This was in 2006 and the show itself may have been in 07. Fast forward to 2013. So you're talking five or six years. I'm sitting second row at Taylor Swift at Toyota Center with Ed Sheer and I'm like, holy shit. But that first album certified banger after banger after banger back when it was just straight up like Taylor Swift like country Taylor Swift. Then you had

fearless start working its way in there and you had love story and White Horse and you belong with me and 15 like this chick just made amazing fun music and then at some point it stopped and speak now happened and speak now had my favorite Taylor Swift song back to December, Mine and Mean and The Story of Us and Sparks Fly and ours. God damn this chick made good tunes and then one day and I guess this comes with getting older then one day she just made shitty music and maybe my taste changed but I don't think so. Like if it's good music, it's good music and the music just fucking sucks now. But all that

said, I do I regret not being able to do the bit where you're doing the man on the street, asking little white girls if they think that maybe Juneteenth should be a collaboration between the ending of slavery and the ending of Taylor being enslaved by the music industry and put those videos up and watch the world burn. That would be fun. Anyway, more to come.