The Josh Innes Show - What Celebs Aren't Political Zealots?

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

I was watching this Molly Ringwald video and I started thinking about which celebs would actually be decent to hang out with. If you don't know, Molly Ringwald will not longer be silent as it relates to what's happening in America. Is there a left wing person who seems like a decent hang? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello, everybody. How are you? It is all up in us. Greetings. Hello. We are at that point in the Minnesota stuff and the Minneapolis stuff where we are getting the celebrities involved and everybody that's a celebrity has thoughts and they have code words and they have it feels like they read from a script. I don't know if they get a newsletter. I don't know if they meet up like some secret society like the skulls. I don't know exactly what it is they do. But they all basically get the same bullshit. Like that's they all say the same shit and they keep going with the same shit. They repeat it all. They have code words they use. And by the way, like you listen to this and go, Josh hates the liberal people, the liberal celebrities.

I hate celebrities. And I think we all should hate celebrities. There's a handful of celebrities that we should all appreciate. Well, Sammy Hagar. Sammy Hagar is a celebrity we should appreciate. Billy Bob Thornton is a celebrity we should appreciate. Like there's two that just come to my mind off the top of my head. Those are two people that I never really hear saying anything ridiculous.

They seem like likable, affable people, people you'd want to hang out with. Outside of that, I'm kind of limited. Like, I don't know. Like, certainly I would never, in a billion years, want to hang out with any liberal celebrities, right? I can make do with some of the wacky right-wing ones because some of them seem like they'd be a good time. Like, Kid Rock seems like he'd be a good time. I don't agree with shit that Kid Rock says. But like if Kid Rock were like, hey, let's go shoot fucking machine guns and blow up

Bud Light bottles at my house and shit and sit in my hot tub that's filled with weird hillbilly sperm, I'd be like, you know what, that's fine. That sounds like a great fucking time. And I would love to hang out with you, Kid Rock. Like, that would be a fun time for me. Like, the problem I run into is that I think people, when they hear you say the celebrities, don't like. They just assume you're on the other side or they assume if you say, hey, you know, who'd be cool to hang out with like Joe Rogan, that you must be some mago wacko, because again,

these people are broken and they have no middle ground in anything they do. They are broken, psychotic people. We talk about this all the time, right? Like, I'm trying to think of any super hardcore liberal people. First of all, let's play a couple commercials and we'll continue. All right, let's think about this. I want you to close your eyes for a moment. Indulge me, if you will. close your eyes for a minute and I want you to think about a celebrity well let's start this way because let's break them down by what they believe politically right

actually no well let's do it this way close your eyes make a wish count to three think about a celebrity or just a group of celebrities liberal celebrities and those who are either not liberal or are maybe super right wing or you don't fucking know now think about which of those people people you'd like to hang out with. Are your eyes closed? Like, start thinking about people. If I name

people just based on what you know about them with their public perception and the way they handle themselves and who they pander to and everything else. Who actually seems like a better time? Like, close your eyes and go, hey, would I like to hang out with Stephen Colbert? No, I don't feel like there's anything I would want to converse with Stephen Colbert about. Would I want to hang out with Ben Stiller? No, that sounds like a... bad time. Would I want to hang out with Jimmy Kimmel? No, that sounds like a pretty terrible time. Would I want to hang out with John Favro? No, that sounds pretty shitty. Would I want to hang out with John Leguizamo? No, it just seems like a kind of shitty time. Why would you want to hang out with

those guys? Because you're MAGA? No, because I'm just a normal human being and these people do not seem like they can function in the world with normal human beings because normal human being has left them long ago. There's nothing relatable about them. They're not related. They're not relatable people. I am just a common average jamoke, right? That's what I am. Like, I like that. I laugh at farts. I'm a pretty simple fucking guy. I don't need to go to a fancy steakhouse to get a good piece of meat. I'll go to Texas Roadhouse. I mean, like, I'd like to drive a truck, but I'm broke. I'm a pretty common guy. Now, do I think that there's elements of what I do and what I say and who I am as a person that is, that's a, that's, you know, kind of hoity-toity and like I'm kind of a judgmental, sure. Everybody has all those pieces. That's what

We are as humans. Not everybody is just one simpleton or not everybody is just a fucking lunatic that hates, whatever. Like we all have our own balance and a middle ground to who we are, things we like, things we don't like on either side. My issue with the left wing people, the hardcore, scary, cancel culture, want your life to be over, cancel Paul Allen type people, the lunatics. the if you are a Trump person, you are a fascist, they cannot see your point of view on anything. They fucking hate you. The problem with those kind of people is, when you think about them, do you ever think that any of them could be a good time in someone that would be fun to hang around? Like when you see Howard Stern, do you look at Howard Stern and go, this guy seems like a fun time?

No, there's nothing relatable about him. There's nothing interesting really about him anymore. He's just an old crotchety old yenta that sits around and does. doesn't leave his house and does a shitty radio show and makes a shitload of money. But then you close your eyes and you think of just like these right-wing dudes. Don't even think about their politics. Don't even think if you agree with them. Because I guarantee you like I wouldn't be probably friends with Kid Rock, right?

Especially the way a lot of these guys, you know, look at things politically. But like if Kid Rock called you and was like, do you want to have a hang? Like I feel like something fun may happen in that. Ted Nugent, right-hardcore right-wing guy. If Ted Nugent called and was like, hey, let's go shoot some fucking elephants or something. I'm like, well, I don't really want to shoot elephants, but you seem like a good fucking time. Teach me how to shoot a bow and teach me how to shoot a gun and teach me how to fucking shoot a giraffe, Ted. I'd be like, you know what?

I can at least see that being a decent time, a decent hang. And he probably has some good stories, play a little lick on the guitar and you'll have a good fucking time. Do you ever get that vibe from any of these left-wing people that are now? we're at that stage of all of the stuff where they're online crying. Like this is the stage of the protester gets shot by ice, which by the way, motherfucker didn't have to die, right? Like I keep seeing that. Like I see right wing people that are like, see, he kicked the tail light out on this car.

He's a wacko. Maybe so. But the guy shouldn't have died. But my argument for that would be that's just how I would combat that. I would say, here's a really good way to not die. don't go out there and try to start shit and do it in the name of your saving the fucking world. I'm still alive today. You know why I'm alive?

I ain't going out to any fucking protest for anything, whether it's something I believe in or don't believe in. My ass ain't going to go fuck with people and get myself in the middle of a bunch of shit that could end poorly. And a lot of it's done just for show anyway. So I ain't fucking with that. But like you see these stories about that dude, you know, the dude that just got shot. And it's did that, you know, was this guy in his skin. So the right-wing people have decided that he was a terrible. and an instigator, and he deserved what he got.

On the left wing, it's, well, the Nazis now shot him, and this is fascist, and now they're killing you for speaking your mind and our freedom of speech is under attack. That's my favorite thing about left wing people is like somehow freedom of speech is under attack. If there's a group of people that has zero right to ever talk about freedom of speech being under attack, it is left wing people, because these fucking people will do anything possible to shut you the fuck up if they don't agree with you. They're the biggest group of foolish shit fucking people. I'll see these Nick Wright videos and all these people talking about how the First

Amendment's under attack and we're all under attack and our freedom of speech. These are the same people that are all ambushing this Paul Allen trying to get him taken off the air because he made a stupid innocuous line that wasn't even fucking insulting. Like what is the bar for what can get you kicked off of the radio now? Like it used to be like, oh dear, he said something super racist. He said the N-word, whatever. Sorry, we can't save this. This is not salvageable.

Now it's, hey, I wonder if the paid protesters get hazard pay. Didn't say all protesters were paid protesters, none of that. But somehow, now that is worthy of somebody losing their fucking job. So please, lose me. Now, don't think the right-wing people are safe with all this shit either. Again, it's all an eye-for-and-eye thing. That's the problem I have with the current state of the way things are politically. The way things are politically right now is it's all just one-upmanship and eye for

I and, well, you did this, so how can I not do this? Like I see it with the left wing people who are now all the sudden about carrying guns. Wild like two, three weeks ago, guns kill people. Guns bad. It's not people with guns or bad people with guns that kill people. It was guns kill people and guns are terrible and awful. Now the right wing people are telling you that this guy shouldn't have been carrying a gun and fucking with cops or whatever.

Now the left wing people all of a sudden love guns. It's fucking bonkers what we're dealing with because it's all one-upsmanship. It's just all like, oh, you did this, so why can't I do that? It's all, well, my sister got away with this, then why can't I do it? These people have no accountability. I don't believe they have souls. I believe these people, people who are political zealots, I truly believe, are soulless. Because these same left-wing people that tell the right-wing people that they're in a cult, that's my favorite.

Oh, that's my fucking favorite, is the left-wing people that are, like all these maggot cult members. All right, they're maggot cult members, you say, huh? Well, what are you? Because I agree. If you're somebody, and it's not just maggot, if you are somebody who is so beholden to a political party, like I tweeted this the other day. And nobody fucking saw it because apparently I just have to luck out and get a tweet to go viral.

I can't get any fucking likes on anything. Whatever. I don't know the way Twitter even works anymore because I'll tweet out some pretty solid shit and no one will see it. I tweet out a picture of the fat guy in the Lilly commercial. It gets 7,000 likes. Like, it's just all about luck of the draw, I guess. But anyway, I have no idea how it all works.

But I tweet out that, and I forgot, fuck, now I lost track of what I tweeted out. I tweet out a lot of shit. I shouldn't tweet out as much as I do. I mostly just retweet shit and quote tweet shit and ridicule people. But what you end up with is like, oh, it's about the cult thing. So I see all these left-wing people, and they're like, like, oh, all these mega cult members. I'm like, friend, like, no offense, but like, oh, that here's exactly what I tweeted. It was that if you're somebody who puts your political party

in your Facebook profile or your Twitter bio or whatever, we probably wouldn't be friends. If your main identifier in your life is who you voted for, then there's no way we'd be friends because you're probably fucking psychotic. We could not be friends because I don't think we'd have anything in common. I try to distance myself from anything politically in terms of political parties or anything. Someone who's like, you know, I'm anti-magic, well, if that's in your profile and that's how you identify yourself, you're probably a broken individual and you're just as much a part of the problem as the other side of shit. But as I try to tell people, like I get accused, like my boss will sometimes say, I think the audience thinks you're some right-wing

zealot. And I've told you guys this before. There were people that are important people in these companies, the radio companies that have told me that I'm a right-wing, they told people who were trying to hire me that I was a right-wing zealot. A right-wing lunatic was, I believe, the exact terminology that was used to describe me. If you ever listen to anything I say, I don't understand how that could be the case. The only thing I can see, and this is the argument people make it me on Twitter, which fuck them, but it's, why do I only see you responding and making fun of things that are liberal things and you're clearly maga? Well, no, these are the things that show up in my fucking algorithm.

And real talk, I don't have to be maga to see a lot of the shit you do that I think is psychotic. Like, do I think that on an intellectual basis, if that's the right word I'm looking for, do I think, or just a human basis, do I think I probably have more in common with some people in the way they view the world on the right wing side of things? Probably. Because anything I ever see of you on the left wing is the most psychotic, over-the-top bullshit. Thank you.