The Josh Innes Show - Where Is Zach Galifianakis?

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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all right let's see what's cooking here ooh today is Mark McGuire's birthday boy so Mark McGuire will always be like Mount Rushmore guy for me Right. When I think of like the apex of my baseball fandom, it was probably in 1998, like most people. I don't know if anybody's interest in baseball ever went up higher than it did during the home run chase, which just saved baseball. I mean, you've heard it a thousand times. So like, you know, whatever. But my God, Mark McGuire doing what Mark McGuire was doing. And so, so don't care that they were roided out of their minds. God, what a show it was. What a show. Like, I still find myself watching baseball in 2025, and I'm like, yeah, I'm never going to feel that way again.

Now, part of it's because of, you know, when you're a kid, I'm 12 years old. I'm 12 years old. No, by the way, it happens to be on my favorite team. You know, if that were the Reds that had a guy hitting those home runs, I may not have cared as much, but it was my team and it was this huge thing and it was cool that we had something because our team sucked, but we had Mark McGuire and he hit 70 home runs. It was fucking great. God, that was living, man. Back in 1998 was peak living. I saw a meme on a reel, and it was a picture of some girl in her bedroom in like 1998,

and there was, like, it just had everything. It had the five-disc changer stereo and just everything. And it's like, this was like peak 90s. And I'm like, the only thing missing was a 19-inch TV VCR combo. Like, that was it, man. Like, when you look back on the bedroom you had when you were like 12, 13, 14 years old, there is nothing better than that bedroom let me play a couple commercials and we'll continue I always had good bedrooms because I'd always get a ton of posters you know like dad would

come home sometimes with random movie posters and I'd put them on the wall like I had a bedroom once that like my dad came home with these movie posters that I don't know how he got them somebody at the movie theaters like hey here's a bunch of posters and they were all for movies that I would never watch they were all like these rated art terrible movies like the one I remember vividly as some Jeff Daniels one. Was it called Fearless? Was there a Jeff, a Jeff, not Jeff Daniels, Jeff Bridges. Was there a Jeff Bridges movie called Fearless? Yep, I had that poster on my wall. The poster for a movie called Fearless, a thriller starring Jeff Bridges, had that poster on my wall. Why? Because Dad brought it home. To this day, I have never seen

the movie called Fearless, starring Jeff Bridges. But I had the poster on my wall. There was a time when we lived in Montana. We lived in Montana for a couple years when my parents were still married. Dad worked on the radio in Billings. So we lived in Billings, Montana is where we lived. And we lived in this duplex, but basically the whole bottom floor of this duplex was like a basement, kind of. So that's where the laundry room was. And there were two other bedrooms and a bathroom and basically a living room with a fireplace.

Like it was a whole separate house downstairs. And there were two other bedrooms upstairs where my sister slept and my parents slept, and I slept downstairs. Like, my bedroom was downstairs. I was actually too scared to stay down there by myself when it came to sleep. So I'd actually go upstairs and sleep on the couch. But most of the day, I spent downstairs in this giant fucking room that was basically like another house downstairs. The only time anybody came downstairs was to do the laundry. And otherwise, I own this.

And the wall was covered in these random movie posters. that my dad had, that somebody gave him. So I had all these random movie posters. But I also had like, you know, Cardinals, penance and all sorts of fun shit. I had a basketball goal downstairs. It was like big. I almost lived the life of big. The only thing missing was a trampoline.

But I had like video games and shit. Boy, it was living. But when you think about your bedroom of like when you're 13 or 14. And my room changed a couple times because, like, at one point I had, I was really into wrestling. And so I had all the W.W. I had a whole Kogan on the wall. like airbrushed on the wall, because Claude, our friend, could do it. So there was airbrushed Holcogan.

Then it became airbrushed psycho mural, which was one of the greatest fucking bedroom walls a kid has ever fucking had. And airbrushed for the cover of psycho, airbrushed on the fucking wall of my bedroom with a light up Bates Motel sign. Austin Powers posters fucking everywhere. Because I was really into Austin Powers, some Cardinals' pennants. Fuck, that was a bedroom. That was at our first house in Louisiana.

then we moved to the house that I lived in until I moved and until I left for Houston. And that one had a Cardinals mural on the wall that had Mark McGuire and my hero Jack Buck and the Gateway Arch and everything. Like, fuck, man. And I had a 19-inch TV VCR combo. I had a giant mixing console to make fake radio shows on my fake radio station in my bedroom. I had a bathroom so I didn't have to go to anybody else's bathroom. Fuck, man. I had this antenna that I would stick out the window to try to get my radio station down the street so people could hear it, even though nobody could fucking hear it.

God, man, I missed that. Fuck, and it all kind of ties in with Mark McGuire. Because Mark McGuire was kind of like the apex of like sports fandom for me. Like when I look back on my childhood, I'm like, God damn that Mark McGuire, what a guy he was. And I don't care that he was doing the steroids. Did not bother me at all, man. The Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, 1998, everybody was locked in. God damn, it was beautiful.

And I only saw the guy play a couple times. I didn't go in 1998. I saw him play in 1999. And I saw him hit his 499th career home run at Bush Stadium in St. Louis. And I tried to go the next night and we couldn't get tickets. But I went with my grandpa. We went to St. Louis. And I saw 499.

That was the home run I got to see. And I got to see, they were playing the Padres, and I got to see Tony Gwyn get his like 4,995th hit or something like that. So, or no, not 4,000, be a lot of hits. His 2,994th or 5th hit. So it was cool. You know, like that was awesome. Those were the days, man. Those were the glory days, the salad days, as it were.

Just fucking badass shit, man. It's also Zach Gallafiancas's birthday. What the fuck happened to Zach Galaficanacus? Is he in anything anymore? You never see the guy. And maybe that's by design. Maybe he just doesn't want to be in shit anymore. Or maybe he just realized he played the same character and everything and none of his movies really popped.

Like outside of the hangover, how many hits did Zach Gallifanakis have? By the way, not to besmirch him because he had an amazing movie that I love with Will Farrell. What the hell is the name of that movie? The one about the candidate? Or what the hell was the name of the movie with Will Ferrell and Zach Gallifanacus? Oh, what the hell was the name of the movie? The campaign. The campaign was a great movie.

Anytime it's on, I'll watch it. It doesn't really have a lot of stain power. It's not one of those movies that gets rerun a bunch of times. It's not like old school. You can flip on the TV and see old school at any time. This is an underrated gem of a film, which I'm sure many of you have seen. But if you haven't, you should watch it. It's called The Campaign.

It's a mock-up. It's a parody of campaigns and, you know, campaigns and politics. But fuck, it's such a good movie. I would urge you to watch it. I would urge you to watch it tonight. There's no football on. So what else are you going to watch? Baseball playoffs, although the baseball playoffs yesterday were pretty good. You had some dominant pitching performance. Scoobel was amazing. I mean, the dude from Cleveland was still pretty good in the laws. And then you had just crochet being just a fucking monster. So it's not like the baseball playoffs were terrible yesterday. But if I had the option of watching the baseball playoffs and

watching Will Ferrell and Zach Gallifanakis in the campaign again, it'd be pretty tough. It'd be a tough one. I think I'd have to probably ride with the campaign. But Zach Gallifanacus, you don't see him in anything anymore. And again, maybe it's by design. Randy Quaid. So that's Cousinetti. My dad said at one of these comic cons.

My dad goes to comic cons like every weekend, right? This guy's probably logged a million miles this year. And he's got this gal that drives him everywhere. and she kind of runs his business for him, and they travel from town to town to different comic cons. And some weekends, he makes a fuck ton of money. Some weekends, it's not worth the drive. But, like, that's the fun of it.

And dad will go and people want to meet him. Like, I don't know where they are this weekend, but like last weekend they were in Mobile, Alabama. So it's like, you know, a three-hour, four-hour drive from the house. Dad goes and does that. The farthest he's driven this year, though, is he did a trip up to Niagara Falls. and he did a comic con for a couple days in Niagara Falls and he's got this gal Nicole who drives him

and she like they got the big truck they haul his trailer with his face on it that's got all of his goods in it and they just travel from town to town like there'll be stretches where he'll be gone from home for like two weeks just going from town to town going to comic cons it's fucking wild it's wild to me that somebody would want my dad's autograph like that they would wait in line and view my dad as some sort of hero that they want to meet, you know.

Not that my dad hasn't done significant things, and I understand that people like Scooby-Doo, and I get all that. But it's just like, it's crazy to me. And that's how it's been my whole life. Like, it's like I've grown up around that because when I was 12, 13 years old, is when dad got that job doing the Scooby stuff. So, like, that's kind of what I've known for most of my childhood. And then all of my adult life is I've known him as this radio guy,

but I've also known him as a dude that did the Scooby shit. and it's like knowing that he'll leave like he's going to North Carolina this weekend and he'll leave it like I think he was like tonight I'll leave it like you know and nine o'clock at night and we'll drive all night and they'll drive like 15 hours over the course of the night and get to a place set up do a couple of them and drive all the way back it's fucking bonkers dude the way and sometimes he'll do this and make no money and I'm like fuck it was a waste of our time and then sometimes he'll be like, Josh, you won't believe how much money I made doing this. It's fucking crazy the way this happens with my dad.

Like, I don't even know how I got on this of talking about my dad going to comic cons. But it is nuts, the amount of loot my dad could bring home from doing comic cons. And, like, there are some ways, like, Josh, like, it is unbelievable. Like, he makes a decent amount of money. Like, radio barely pays the guy anything. He makes his money to do another shit. My dad's a hustler. If you ever want, like, advice on how to hustle, just listen to my dad.

My dad's, like, the hustling king. I never worry about him because he's always going to figure it out. He will always solve it because that's just how his personality is. Oh, because it's Randy Quaid's birthday. So Randy Quaid, dad calls me. He's like, yeah, I was out there just talking with Cousin Eddie. Like what? He goes, yeah, we were just kind of out in the lobby at one of these comic cons.

I just started having a conversation with Cousin Eddie. And we just started talking about vacation and shit. And he's going to come to my Comic Con. So my dad is also putting on a Comic Con in Louisiana. So this year, his big get is the reuniting the cast of Willie Wonka. So the reunited cast of Willie Wonka will be there and a fuck ton of wrestlers, which actually is where the money's at. There's a lot of money in bringing wrestlers to these events because people love to meet wrestlers and get their autographs and shit. So again, my dad's always finding a way.

It's wild. Anyway, I know that was totally random, but more to come.