The Josh Innes Show - Who Are The Actual Snowflakes?

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

The last week of inane commentary on male cheerleaders and Cracker Barrel have hammered home a belief I've held for a long time...snowflakes are everywhere. I get that snowflake is a term usually reserved for liberals. But, recently, these right wing MAGA types are really showing their true snowflake colors. Perhaps practice what you preach? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's wild to me that the fuck-your-feelings crowd and the people that wave the fuck-your-feelings flags and the people who call people snowflakes are evolving or devolving into people who are equally as annoying with the things they whine about. Let's get into that. Let's play a couple of commercials and I'll explain. Td Bank knows that running a small business is a journey, from startup to growing and managing your business. That's why they have a dedicated small business advice hub on their website to provide tips and insights on business banking to entrepreneurs. No matter the stage of business you're in, visit td.com slash small business advice to find out more

or to match with a TD small business banking account manager. I think it's pretty obvious who I'm talking about, though. I'm talking about your hardcore right-wing Trump or MAGA people on social media. Not everybody. I base everything on social media because I don't talk with everybody that's out there in the world, obviously. So like most things, I believe that most people are kind of down the middle, have their own lives going on. Don't give a shit what's going on at Cracker Barrel. and they don't give a shit about dude cheerleaders, and they don't give a shit about Sidney

they're just trying to live their lives, right? That's the majority of people. We get caught up and looking at social media, and we get caught up at reading Twitter and Facebook, and it's very easy because, look, I'll at least say for myself, it's extremely easy to get caught up and believe that that's the opinion of the masses and that everybody is feeling a certain way. But when I see this Cracker Barrel story, I don't know that I've ever. seen a greater case of like a right-wing hypocrisy as it relates to whining about things

than Cracker Barrel. This whole story is stupid. Like if your argument is that Cracker Barrel is not understanding its audience and its clientele and is making a mistake from that standpoint, I'd entertain that because I think that's true. I don't think there's anything Cracker Barrel can do to attract a younger or blacker or gayer clientele. Like, I just don't think Cracker Barrel, you know, based on the years and years of being

the Cracker Barrel that it was, I don't believe that that Cracker Barrel is ever going to be a place where a couple of blue-haired liberal chicks that are considering becoming dudes are like, hey, let's go to Cracker Barrel tonight. Like, I just don't think that's ever going to be that place. So sometimes you've got to double down on what you are, right? but what Cracker Barrel is doing outside of saying dumb shit, like the idea that this person that's the CEO of Cracker Barrel wants to, you know, make it more inclusive and shit like that,

which I never knew that black people couldn't go to Cracker Barrel. I never knew that gay people couldn't go to Cracker Barrel, but whatever. Saying the shit outwardly is stupid, but the idea of changing the look of Cracker Barrel is not because Cracker Barrel, look, I have no problem with going in, into an old log cabin to have my breakfast, right? Or going into an old general store where you can buy some blackjack gum and a chicken

suit for the Dolly Lover's Soul Book, which also, follow up. Have you ever actually seen somebody buy something in a Cracker Barrow? All the fucking junk that's in there. Like who goes to Cracker Barrel and I was like, yep, just had me a mess of them biscuits? and now I'm buying me a t-shirt at Cracker Barrel. Nobody. I've never seen a human actually walk out of Cracker Barrel with any sort of merchandise. But I digress.

Also, now that you can pay at the table, because Cracker Barrel was a place and still is for a lot of people, where you're not paying the waitress. You're walking up to the counter and paying, right? And it feels kind of strange to walk out without stopping at the counter now because you can just pay on your phone. And it just feels weird. It feels dirty. Like, I like Cracker Barrel.

Food's pretty tasty, right? The biscuits are phenomenal. There's a lot of good things about Cracker Barrel. But to see the people reacting the way they're reacting, you're Pussies. And I'm not ripping who you vote for. Don't get your fucking feelings hurt. You're Pussies. If you're someone who's focusing on something like Cracker Barrel, you're no better than the group of people that you shit on.

You are no better than the Sidney Sweeney has. good genes complaining people like and that's the thing I wish they understood I guess they obviously don't care because they don't view what they're doing is complaining they don't view what they're doing there's this different like there's a different kind of whining because we're trying to save america and we're trying to save good old american values right okay but the idea that like cracker barrel you know brightening the store up a little bit and taking some fucking coke signs off the wall like oh boy that's that's just no good the one thing that stood out was reading the chick talk about like upping the prices of certain shit. That's where you're going

to hurt yourself. And look, I've been part of situations where people are trying to change what they are and it doesn't work. See, Keishi 95 in St. Louis. They hired me to try to make the place sound younger and to try to, you know, reinvent the station a little bit because the station was slumping. And I could tell that the people who are their main clientele, their main clientele will never be 25 to 54 year old men. The main clientele for KC-95 is going to be the upper end of the actual demo. So dudes in their 40s and their 50s and dudes who are 60, 70, 80 who've been listening to the radio station for 100 years, right? This is where I will get on your side if you're one of these wacky cracker barrel people, right? Know your audience. And sometimes you're not going

to be mainstream. Sometimes you are not going to be everything to everyone. So, So St. Louis, at Casey, they tried that with me. And I could tell, I'm like, listen, this doesn't work. There are people that like me. Sure, there are people that think this is good. And for the first five or six months, we were on the air, the ratings went up. But I could tell that that's not what this radio station was. I could tell that this was a bad fit, and I could tell that it just wasn't going to work long term.

And they knew it. And I would tell them that every day. That's why I wasn't shocked when I got whacked. You know, I'm like, listen, this is not a good fit. This is not a good situation. These people do not come to this radio station in the afternoon to hear a guy talking about do-dos and P-Ps. They're tuned in to hear fucking fog hat. That's what they want to hear.

They want to hear a disc jockey that talks for 10 seconds. And they went out and hired a disjockey that talks for 10 seconds. It gets right back to the music and talks about how great fucking Head East is. And that's what they were looking for. And I knew that. And I think what they did is they changed their music up a little bit and made it a little bit more aggressive and made it a little bit more 90s-centric than it was. but at the end of the day, it's still basically a jukebox for fucking old people. Their morning show is a show for old people.

Like, it is not a radio station geared towards younger people. They want younger audience because that's where you get paid, but they will never be a radio station for a younger audience, and they've accepted that, and they whacked me. Like, they thought they could do that. They didn't end up doing it. They whacked my ass, and, like, they accepted what they are. Cracker barrel, I don't know how well they were doing or how poorly they were doing.

All I know is that Cracker Barrel, every time I went there, Cracker Barrel is always packed and it takes forever to get a table. You go there on like a Sunday morning, there's 15 buses out in the parking lot and a whole mess of octogenarians just sitting there waiting to guzzle on some fucking pancakes, okay? So, like, that's how that's what I see when I go to Cracker Barrel. So I don't know how well they were or weren't doing. But the idea that changing the logo a little bit, like that's a big one. You know that it's a ridiculous subject when my dad is posting about it. Jelly sent me a screenshot of my dad's Facebook post about Cracker Barrel. Like, what is it about the new Cracker Barrel logo that has you so upset?

It's the same colors, slightly different font, and there's not some old dude whittling wood next to a barrel body. That's it. Like, oh no, we've done away with the old white dude. Bartles of Bartles and James is no longer on the logo. for Cracker Barrel. Oh, the humanity. How will we ever survive? Our country is rotten to the core

because Cracker Barrel took some shit off the wall and took Bartles off the fucking side. Oh, no, we're going to die. The goddamn socialist have defeated us, these fuckers. But that's what bothers me is you want to believe that your group of people are the ones that are right. And I'm not right wing, left wing, whatever,

But if you listen to this enough, you'd say certain things, I would fall into that category on either side, right? Like, you'd listen to this and go, like, there are some days you could go away from this podcast if it's the only time you've ever listened, or if you're a nut bar who just gets angry or excited based on one episode of a podcast, in my opinion, on one certain subject, you can come away some days going, God, this guy is like MAGA, and some days you can go, wow, that guy is super duper liberal. He was a tree-hugging hippie, and he must have voted for her.

You know, just on a given day, I think it just depends on the topic, right? We talk about that all the time. The topic determines whether or not you think I'm right-wing or left-wing. And this topic, I'm sure there'd be a bunch of right-wing dudes that would reach out and tell me that I'm a piece of shit. They're never listening again because, of course, they would, because they're just as snowflaky as the other people. They're just snowflakey about different subjects. You're all the same fucking people. I hate cancel culture, unless, you know, I'm trying to cancel cracker barrel.

because some old dude isn't on the logo anymore, and the new CEO says, hey, we'd like some gays here. Like, that's what you do now. Like, that is the definition of being a snowflake. That is a definition of cancel culture. And don't act like right-wing people haven't had to try or haven't tried to get places canceled. See, light, comma, bud. Okay?

That's what you guys do. You are just like them. And when I thought you were cooler, I was more on your side because I thought, Yeah, these guys are the fuck your feelings people, and they are the anti-cancel culture people, but you're not. You're just wanting to cancel what you want canceled. You don't believe in cancel culture unless it is a cancel culture that cancels things that you dislike. And of course, you can spin it as, because I'm trying to hold together America, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, you're a pussy, just like the blue-haired liberal girl is that's trying to cancel Sidney Sweeney.

because Sidney Sweeney's hotter than she is. Like, do you not see that? And I say that as someone who's probably closer to you than I am of the blue-haired people. Right? Like, I'm closer to you, and I'd like to be closer to you, for being completely honest. Because I think the shit they complain about is far more ridiculous than the shit you complain about. And I just think they're fucking wackos. But the more you out yourselves complaining about shit like Cracker Barrel

and complaining about shit like, just the shit you complain about, I'm like, you know, I'm not like you. I don't want to be like you. Like, I don't want to sit around on a daily basis and go, oh, my God, did you see what they did to Cracker Barrel? And Clay Travis told me what they did to Cracker Barrel. And Jason Whitlock told me what they did to Cracker Barrel. Then there was a scary 30-second clip of someone talking about how Cracker Barrel change in its ways. It means that all the kids are going to be gay.

And now they're going to have drag queens and Gregor Barrel. and I can't handle it no more. I've got to go to Facebook and tell all my friends about it. I'm not like you. And I'm not your voice. I'm not your mouthpiece. I'm the mouthpiece and the voice of free thinking and independent thought, which, you know, if you don't stand for something, maybe you're nothing.

So maybe the idea that I'm more about independent thought not falling in line with a group of dipshits, maybe that's why I'll never be some huge deal. You kind of got to pick a lane. And honestly, the lane you kind of have to pick is the right wing lane. a radio person because let's be real no one listens to liberal bullshit radio that's why air america doesn't exist anymore right but like i'm not like you i'm not like the person that complains about sidney sweeney and i'm not like the person that complains about cracker barrel i think you people are assholes if you complain about either one of those things if you believe that

sydney's seen as sweetenie has great genes is offensive i probably fucking hate you and if you're someone who's upset because they took a couple of fucking saws off the wall at fucking Cracker Barrel, then I probably fucking hate you too. I'm just going to be honest with you. I hope you listen to the podcast, but I fucking hate you. And that's okay, but I just hate you. And oh, by the way, Cracker Barrel still has the peg game. That's a positive, right?

That's something that's good. I was looking at some of the pictures of the inside of the store. If they would have gotten rid of the peg game, then I think that would have been a major issue. would have shit had some then i would have been cancel culture guy had they gotten rid of the peg game but they kept the peg game and that's good but the way these right wing people talk you would think the peg game that they're going to add to cracker barrel is some guy getting fucked in the ass by his wife with a dildo any who that's just like people are just nuts you know that people are nuts but this would be my plea to right wing people and trumper people is if your whole angle is

fuck your feelings and your whole angle is everybody's a snowflake that doesn't follow what you follow then you really can't be a snowflake yourself and I know that you've been able to convince yourself and kind of look in the mirror that you're not a snowflake and that what you're doing is good and just you're a snowflake if crack or barrel changing its evil ways and become or really changing its great ways and starting to become an evil socialist corporation And if that truly bothers you, you're no better than the people on the other side. You're all a bunch of lunatics and you're all soft as baby shit.