The Josh Innes Show - Whiney Travis Kelce

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

Media Night at the Super Bowl is mostly a waste. We did have one glorious media night. Media Night 2017 is when Jim wore the Assweiler can and made national news. Travis Kelce is not happy that the media buys into the idea that the refs favor the Chiefs. The Chiefs, their fans and their media are complete losers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I appreciate you telling all your friends about it. Do me a favor. I want you to tell your friends about me. Uh, and, uh, please do that and continue to do that. And that's awesome. So hanging out with Ross today because Ross is no longer going to training because Ross is a graduate of the sled and breakfast training school. He went for three weeks and let me tell you, they did a great job. My man's not as nuts as he used to be. He's kind of chill on walks now, still has some fun, but he's a little bit more laid back than he was when we first got him. He was a nut on walks. He was almost impossible to walk, but we took him to the training, and he liked the girl he was training with.

And now Ross is just a fine gentleman. He is a wonderful little gentleman puppy who goes on his walks. If he sees a dog across the street, he'll still get a little excited. That's what dogs do. You've got to let them be dogs. But since we got him, he he'll still get a little excited. That's what dogs do. You got to let them be dogs, you know. But since we got him, he's really chilled out a good bit. But let me tell you, man, I don't know why I became Frank Caliendo doing John Gruden all of a sudden. Let me tell you, man, I don't know why.

But you go outside with this dog, and when he gets running, he is truly a tank. And I worry that he's going to destroy every ACL, MCL, PCL, MCL, whatever in my leg if he makes a connection. If there is a connection, Ross is going to eviscerate, absolutely destroy one or both of my legs, and then it's over. And then I'm crippled again. But I do believe we can make money off of him. I know I talk about this all the time.

When I watch the way this dog flies when he jumps, I really think that this dog could be one of those dock divers that goes out and I don't know how much they make. I have no clue how much a dock diver actually makes, like a dog that goes out and dives off of docks and stuff and like humans up there and he throws the toy in the water and the dog jumps off the dock and flies through the air. I have no clue how much these dogs make. Not a clue. But it has to be something. These people wouldn't just do it for free. Then again, there are a lot of people who do stuff that don't make a ton of money to do it. Like these people to go to barbecue competitions. Like you'll see, like I used to watch these shows,

like I forgot what they were called, but like, you know, these barbecue grill masters or whatever these shows were. And these guys would go to these big, uh, you know, barbecue contests, you know, in Memphis or wherever. And like, they'd come in first place in ribs and get a check for like $500. And you're like, well, I guarantee you it costs a shit ton more than $500 to drive your ass to Memphis, buy all this meat and everything. And I talked to some of these guys about it, and they're like, well, some of us, we have sponsors, and that's how we kind of make money. But really, you do it just because you love it. That's an expensive thing to do because you love it. And then I remember that I've lost thousands of dollars gambling on sports.

And why do I do it? Because I love it. Why did my grandma play bingo and lottery every day despite the fact that she had no money? It's fun, son. That's what she'd tell me all the time. It's fun, son. Shit, son. It's fun. So I guess I kind of get it. But I don't know if there's any money in dock diving. Like if I were to put Ross out there and say, fly, Ross, fly. But I think there's got to be some money. Now I kind of want to look it up. Like how much money do people who do dock diving make?

Because I could use some extra cash. And I don't want to lug boxes. You know what I'm saying? Like everybody says, go drive UPS, Josh. Well, if I could drive UPS or I could be a pet parent of a dock diver that soars through the air and ends up on ESPN once a year, I think, you know, I would take that option. That would be the key. But as it is, I don't know. All right. Let's play a couple of commercials here and let's talk about the media day. Last night was media night at the Super Bowl where nothing really interesting happens because no one really does anything different or wacky anymore.

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One per new customer. Bonus award. It is non-withdrawable pick six credits that expire in 14 days. Limited time offer. See terms at picksix.draftkings.com slash promos. So yeah, last night was media night. I saw Spike Eskin tweet that it was an extremely boring thing. And I'm like, yeah, have you ever been there before?

We tried to make it interesting. The media night is where Jim wore the Assweiler can, which was a nice time. That was a big moment for us when Jim rocked the asswiler can and we did that but outside of that there's not a lot that goes on now early days when I would go you'd see a lot of wacky shit like there'd be like all the hot chicks from like Telemundo and shit flashing their tits everywhere and like it was a little bit crazier now I think people take sports far too fucking seriously and the things just aren't that much fun anymore. But the one in Houston where Jim wore the asswiler can, and we ended up on like the BBC and ESPN. I think we, I want to say we may have been in the sports center top 10 too. Like I think we were in the sports center top 10 for Jim wearing the asswiler costume, which was fun. Of course, at 790, it was no good to get

attention because if you got attention, that would just put a target on you because everybody would get jealous of the attention you would get, which is fascinating. Like, hey, we're the show. We're trying to get attention. We're trying to have fun. And anything you did that got attention or got you fun would piss everybody else off. And then management would get angry. And they'd be like, well, people are upset that you're getting all this attention i'm like well that's why you paid me a fuck ton of money because we're sure as fuck not going to get high ratings on a fucking am sports station that's 25th in the market by breaking down the ball games we got to do wacky shit but they would get angry about the wacky shit and that's why 790 was a horrible place for us but

it was what it was but like so we did the asswe our costume, like we saw JB smooth in that thing. We were on BBC ESPN. I think the associated press wrote about Jim and the ass while our costume was being interviewed by these people. And that got us a lot of attention and it was cool outside of that. I can't think of any fun shit I ever did though at a media night type of deal. Cause really for those of you who've never been, all it is is like the marquee players and coaches are up on podiums and a bunch of media people hang around them and ask them questions. And then like the lesser players will kind of walk around and you can just walk up to like the third string deep snapper and talk with him. Cause no one wants to. And that's kind of where you can get the decent content just talking to the randos as opposed to talking to like the big marquee stars

you know nothing really cool comes of it though there was something funny last night and last night jamis and you know how i feel about jamis jamis is just a peach he's funny like like he has this like natural stupidity about him and and naivete about him that's great. And they sent Jameis. I think Fox did. Fox sent Jameis out as a reporter. And Jameis would ask random questions to the big stars at the podium. In one case, he's asking, hey, you think I'm going to find a job?

I was laughing. It was funny. And after he'd be done talking, he'd say, hey, I want you to eat a W. And he had W-shaped cookies. And he would throw him a cookie that's funny like that's at least something different the people that take this shit serious they're just a waste of time but I can't think of anything interesting that ever came about for us at a media day other than that I don't remember I don't even know that we went to the media night stuff the next year in Minneapolis. I don't stages and me and Lopez and Vandermeer we were just in love with these chicks that were up on stage like that was fun the media parties were always the coolest right

the next year when we went to Dallas where the media party I think was just in like a convention center maybe and it was fine next year in Indianapolis it was at the motor speedway which was really fucking cool. That was something different. They let you go out on the track and shit. That was cool. The key in these things is you have to do something that's unique to the city that's an experience, and that kind of made that cool. The New Orleans Media Party, when I went, I think was also at a convention center or somewhere. I don't remember. Media Party when we were in Minneapolis. Well, actually, the one when we were back in Houston was at one of the museums, and that was

one of the lesser times. Like, cool, we get to hang out and look at fucking art. What am I, like Andy Warhol? Like, I give a shit about looking at goddamn art. Let's go somewhere fun and get blitzed. Then the next year, it was at the Mall of America is where the media party was. And that was kind of the precursor to the big breakdown with Seth the next day is I saw him and Meltzer walking through the media party and I didn't really say anything to him. Like I basically kind of talked to him like I hadn't been talking shit to him. Actually, like I think we just didn't talk to each other. And I think Seth viewed that as me kind of avoiding him. And that kind of had him going too, because I talked all this shit on the radio. And then we didn't really talk when we were at the media party. And I was talking to a bunch of people, like Philly people. I remember Howard being there and Meryl Reese being

there at the one in Minneapolis. So then the media party, I think, was on a Tuesday. The Seth thing happened on a Wednesday so the next Wednesday is when that happened so Tuesday was the party I guess like Seth found it to be like I was a pussy for not talking with them then the next day we sent Jim around with a microphone like we always do which has always been our bit at Radio Row and then that's when Seth got set off and told Jim to come back and then started calling Jim fat and then called me over and said I'm a bitch. And then it led to like him breaking down. And what really is what ended up happening is it sent Seth into like a world of zen.

Because we had him on the podcast a couple years ago. And that pod is still up if you guys have never listened to it. Just scroll down through some of the older pods. And it's down there. Like the dude found zen. Because he and Meltzer were both like highly wired people on the radio like at one point they had a meltdown with each other and just fought and like mike's like you're fucking unbearable unbearable and he says it like 20 times and seth is like seth was high fucking strung when i first met him like he was like

like and i get it because like if you're new to media stuff and you're used to being a player and then you move to media and you see all the shit people talk about you on social media like those were two guys that would read the text line and like that was early days of the text line and they would lose their fucking minds over the text line like they would just be caught up in the dumb shit people would say on there now I give Seth credit because Seth has been able to find a level of Zen where he just does not give a shit about what these people say anymore. He's very leveled out. I would argue it's hurt him a little bit. He's very good. I think Seth is the best guy they have over there on 610. I think he's very knowledgeable. He's funny. He's obviously well-educated. He knows football.

Where did he go? Did he go to Brown? I forgot which school Seth went to. He's an Ivy League guy, but very smart guy. And so when you watch him, now he's very leveled out. Nothing seems to bother him. He's very kind of snarky and sarcastic and kind of acerbic. And he doesn't really get into arguing with people anymore. But to me, part of what made Seth really awesome is that there was always the possibility that he may snap. Like you don't want to be the guy that snaps all the time. You don't want to be the guy that loses his mind all the time because it loses its effect, right? If you're just angry all the time and yell at people all the time, like it's kind of like, okay, I've heard this.

But you have to know that there's a possibility that a guy could snap at some point. And one thing that you don't really get on 610 anymore, and really sports radio in general, is there's not really that moment where you think someone's going to lose their fucking mind. And Seth and Mike were both extremely high strung, like especially when they worked together. And you knew there'd be a chance that they could just lose their fucking minds. And that's kind of what made them fun. That's why I like Mike. Mike's personality is not a big personality. Mike is not a guy who you're like, holy shit, Mike is this out there dude that's like the star of a show.

Mike is the kind of guy that leads a show. And when he loses it, it's fucking funny because you know he's legitimately pissed about something. The problem is you don't get that from Mike very much anymore because Mike does radio stuff still in some other place. I think he still does XM, but you don't get angry Mike. He doesn't lose his mind, but when Mike would lose his fucking mind, it was fucking great. When Seth would lose his mind, it was fucking great. And now I think people try too hard to not lose their minds because they don't want to get made fun of on social media. I'm not saying that's the case with these guys. I think it's people in general. I think people don't want to

deal with the people mocking them on social media and people thinking they're nuts. So they purposely kind of level out out I wish that every now and then Seth would lose his fucking mind like trust me I was on the receiving end of him losing his mind at least twice that I can think of once at radio row once with the fucking prank call thing and he was pissed and I get it but um yeah so that's kind of how I view them now but media day at the Super Bowl is just not a very exciting time you know and um and like last night I was watching some of the different videos of shit people were doing and I'm like yeah like what are we doing like there was one question in there where where someone asked um asked Travis Kelsey what he would ask to the media and he goes why are you

guys buying into all this ref shit? Which, again, these Chiefs people cannot handle the ref shit. They are just feeble-minded dweebs that cannot handle it. The media people can't handle it. The fans can't handle it. And now the players can't handle it. They cannot handle that the whole world knows that they are getting benefits of calls. Now, is it rigged? No.

But you can't watch the calls that Patrick Mahomes gets and when they come in games and the big moments they come in the games and go, oh, there's no way that they're... No, they're getting preferential treatment. They're getting the calls. That's why I bet $1,000 a week and a half ago on the Chiefs to beat the Bills. There was no way the Bills were going to win.

Why were the Bills not going to win? Because the league was not going to allow it to happen. And you look at some of the shitty calls made in that game. Go back to another one. I don't know if we've talked about this, but when Kelsey taunted the dude in the end zone, didn't get flagged for it, by the way, then you fast forward a couple of days later, Kelsey gets a fine for the taunt, but no one threw a flag on the taunt in the game. It's just shit like that. So you can sit there and you can build up your little numbers, Chiefs fans, and tell me that, well, Patrick Mahomes doesn't get this certain number of calls. Look, the Bills had more touchdown drives aided by penalties than the Chiefs.

None of that shit matters. When do those penalties come? When do they get those calls? What is the situation in the game? The call against the Chiefs, the Chiefs got the call against the Texans early in the game on the bullshit roughing the passer penalty. That was going to be a punt situation. Instead, they get a first down, they throw a long pass to Travis Kelsey, and then they put points on the board. The shitty call against Mahomes on the roughing on the slide, that led to points

in a big situation in the game. So you can sit there and tell yourselves that, well, look, we don't get that many calls. It's not the number of calls, you feeble-minded simpleton Midwest rubes. That's not what this is. What it is, is when the calls occur and how they alter the game, or in the of the Travis Kelsey not getting a taunting call, but they're getting fined for the taunt. What didn't get called? Kelsey taunts all the fucking time and doesn't get that and they cannot handle we knew the fans couldn't handle it we knew their local media schlubs couldn't handle it and now we know that guys like Travis Kelsey can't handle the fact that people look and dismiss them and dismiss their championships I don't even say they dismiss them like people acknowledge the Chiefs are really fucking good right but we also look at the Chiefs and we say huh you guys certainly do get the benefit of these calls and then it bothers them because they feel like their championships are being illegitimate. And it's like, sorry, that's how people feel about your shit, bro.

You live in 2025. Social media exists. Clickbait exists. That's the world. If you would have won all your championships in 1978, 79, 80, 81, 82, that media wouldn't exist. There wouldn't be social media. You'd have no idea that people think that your championships are ill-begotten. But it's 2025. You all benefit from the same social media that tries to run you down. Let us not forget that you're in the podcast world and just made $100 million because you're

fucking Taylor Swift and your crappy podcast with your brother made you $100 million because of that. And you benefit from all the social media. You're famous because of social media. You're famous because of the Instagrams. You're famous because of TikTok. You're famous because of podcasts. You're famous over all this, yet you're angry about what those same people are doing to you. Don't be a hypocrite. Social media and this new current age of media made you. You are making $100 million for a shitty podcast because of the current age of media and social media. That's why this is happening.

So you want to be angry about how people are clickbaity and looking for shit? You think you guys don't post? Like whenever you post a clip from your little podcast and you start talking about and you make sure to include something about Taylor Swift and Swifties in the post, do you think the people that post that shit for you don't know the kind of shit that's going to get reaction? It's the same shit. You are part of the same world. So when all your little media buddies that are holier than thou like Nick Wright want to bitch about the way the NFL is covered, Nick Wright is famous because he changed the way they cover the NFL by focusing on social justice shit and he's got a

podcast, and he's all over social media. Same with all your local shitty chiefs media, same with all your players, and all your national media, and everybody else. You are famous because you are living in this world, this 2025 world of social media fame, and now you don't like that the monster that you've helped create and has helped create you has turned on you. Deal with it, PUD. That's what you have to accept. The people think that your spoils are ill-begotten and you have to deal with it. And look, I take joy knowing because you can tell by the way they react. They don't stop reacting. These Chiefs people cannot stop. Every time they have a chance to post something about, oh, I guess the refs helped that too, it shows that it bothers them. I never see the Rams people posting about the fact that they went to a Super Bowl based on

the worst call in the history of football. Why? Because they don't give a fuck. Mostly because Rams people don't give a fuck about football anyway, but they don't give a fuck. The Chiefs are going to post about this fucking ref shit forever. It's never going to stop. It's just going to continue and it eats at them and it's beautiful. The Patriots were the most scrutinized dynasty, dynasty adjacent, whatever you want to call it thing ever. Deflated football, Spygate, the owner getting jerked off by some Asian broads at a rub and tug, super scrutinized. Tom Brady scrutinized. Tuck rule scrutinized. Do you think they give a fuck? There's a whole documentary made about the tuck rule. And the tuck rule is essentially what created Tom Brady. You think Tom Brady gives a shit that

Raiders people think that his whole dynasty was built on bullshit? No, because he's Tom fucking Brady. And he's good looking and he fucks Gisele Bundchen and he's rich and he doesn't give a fuck. The problem with the Chiefs is they can't handle that. The fans, the media, they cannot handle that they are not just beloved. It's nice to be not beloved. That means you're doing something right. You know who the people are rooting for? The Bills. Why are they rooting for the Bills? Because the Bills are the dipshits that can't win. They lost four straight Super Bowls and now they can't beat Pat Mahomes. They're a bunch of dweebs up in Buffalo that jump through tables. People love them.

Why do they love them? Because they don't win. People love losers because they're the underdog. Then they love the winners when they start winning. Then they win too much and people hate them. It is the circle of life, friend. it it's life but they can't and it brings me so much fucking joy I love it so much because they're miserable and they can't just sit back and enjoy the fact that they're watching one of the greatest runs ever because they got whiny media cunts like Nick Wright and they got whiny players like Travis Kelsey. Now, in his defense, he was asked a question, but still, that's the first thing that came to mind. Why do you guys buy into this media bullshit? Your brother is in the media.

Your brother does Monday Night Football. Your brother does the bullshit talk show. You are all part of this world. You are part of this world that you hate because now this world is turning on you. Outside of that, nothing really interesting happened at media day. But anyway, more to come.