The Josh Innes Show - A New Job Opening I'd Be Great For

Episode Date: May 14, 2025

Well, my hometown has a sports radio opening. It's kind of sad because I don't think there would even be a chance I'd be considered for that job. I think I'd be totally content being back home. I mean, I think I would be. But, who knows? I thought I'd enjoy St. Louis.... Plus, another daily update on the Philly job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is currently day three of the the attempt to get the 97.5 in Philadelphia job as I've told you guys from the jump I do not believe there is any possibility that I get this gig and There's a part of me. That's not I mean a large part of me That's not even super passionate about the idea of getting this gig It doesn't really appeal to me like it does because I'd be back in Philly, I'd be on the radio. I mean a job appeals to me. We've talked about this. Being employed appeals to me. It sounds sexy to have a job, but at this very moment, like that job itself just doesn't sound like a good situation. That company doesn't sound like a good situation. It feels like one of those get there and within a year you're fired no matter what you do.

It's just a messy situation and I would imagine the people who are employed there right now are also kind of on edge not knowing what's going to happen there either. So but it is day three. I tell you all that to tell you this. It doesn't mean I haven't tried. It is day three. I told you about two weeks ago. I sent an email to the program director. I am waiting for a return phone call. He told me he would call. That is all I will tell you

because that's all there is. The only information is there is I put a word out to the program director and he said we'll talk next week when I'm back from vacation and I have not gotten a word back about anything and I have not gotten a return call and I do not anticipate getting a return call. But can you just I just want you to think about this. Can you imagine being the program director at 97.5 and you get a resume and that resume has WIP on it and number one for a year at WIP. Back before WIP was the dick swinger it is now. WIP was kind of laying in the lurch for a while and I come in there and we're

number one in the afternoon, men 2554, persons 2554 for a year and you're like you don't even call that guy back you don't deserve to fucking win like I'm tired of sitting around here acting like I'm the fucking dope here and that old was me fuck that if like I'm not telling you that you should hire me when I'm telling you is you call a motherfucker back when someone's had success in that fucking city and is truly the last person that's really gotten anybody's interest up when it comes to radio and not just bullshit ass fucking generic

Eagles generated fucking Super Bowl ratings at the stations riding on. I'm talking about somebody that people actually were like, holy shit. This guy is interesting and like this guy's got my attention. He's captivated me not fucking Joe Decamer riding the tails of the fucking Philadelphia Eagle Super Bowl, but if you insist on not calling me back, cool. It's your playground. Do whatever the fuck you want. Speaking of playgrounds and jobs, there is a job that is open now that I also think I'd be very good at and that I have an inside track on,

but I feel like there's a zero percent chance I'd get it. That's the story of my life. We'll talk about that. There are very few things that you can be certain of in life. We'll talk about that. You'll pay the same thing every month. With all of the mysteries that life has to offer, a few certainties can really go a long way. Subscribe today for the peace of minds you've been searching for. Public Mobile, different is calling. So I'm a really big fan of a guy named T-Bob A-Bear. And T-Bob is a guy that played football at LSU.

He was a center at LSU. His dad is Bobby Abear played for the Saints and the Falcons and the Michigan Panthers. And he's on the radio in New Orleans. T Bob is on the radio in Baton Rouge does a morning show on 104 5 ESPN. And he does a really good job. He's excellent on the greatest post game show for anything I've ever watched, which is called Whiskey and Wine, where he and one of my best friends, Matt Moscona, do a postgame show, where T-Bob is usually hammered saying ridiculous shit. And

Matt's kind of the straight guy and they sit at this bar and they just break down the LSU game, win, lose, whatever, and thousands of people watch it. It's fucking spectacular. And I think T-Bob is wonderful and I've told him this a billion times that he's a big star. I just think he's amazing and he's getting the opportunity now. He's leaving Baton Rouge and he's going to Barstool. What he's going to do at Barstool, I don't know and apparently he doesn't know either but he's going to Barstool in Chicago and that's where he's going to live and work now. He's going from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Chicago

and he also does a podcast with, I don't know if he's still going to do this or not. But he does a podcast with Oh, what's his face? They used to be the quarterback at Georgia. But they do a podcast together as well. And he does some stuff with Jim Rome. I know he does this Jim Rome post show thing or whatever on the Jim Rome fast channel. Like T Bob is a super interesting, super talented dude. and good for him. Like I like when people who I think are really good at shit do things because I think most people are fucking terrible

and most people say shit just for effect because they think they're supposed to say it and they're trolls and they're out there trying to just get attention for doing nothing. Most people I truly fucking despise, but I think T-Bob is authentic and that's what works about him and he's interesting and he's fun and I fucking love the guy and I wish him nothing but success. Now his spot on that radio station is open and I know virtually every human that works in that building almost because the people that work in that building, many of them have been working there since I was a kid. So I know the people I know the big boss, I

know the person under the big boss, I know Matt, who is the program director of the sports station. And the second this story came out that T Bob was leaving the station to go to barstool. I started getting texts from people like bro, you should come back to Baton Rouge, right? You should come back to Baton Rouge. This is open. And my first thought is sure. I mean, I look like I, I am not against anywhere at this point. But I really enjoy going back to Baton

Rouge, I think, you know, maybe when I get there, maybe my thoughts would change. But I start getting shit on by LSU people again. And it's like my life has come full circle. But like I have nothing against being in the place I grew up. I love Baton Rouge. I love the house. You know it's interesting. It's like I'll look in some of these towns where I've had conversations with people about jobs and I'll see these houses and I'm like like these houses are just ugh and they're gross and they're unappealing. Then you go down to Louisiana and Texas and all the houses look nice. They have a good clean look about them like you're not

encountering these 900 year old fucking houses, you know, and that's pretty cool. And yeah, I just I know Baton Rouge. I love LSU. I love the Saints like in theory, it would be a great situation, right? And oh by the way, one of my best friends in the world happens to run the radio station and he happens to be the most successful sports talk guy in the history of the state of Louisiana and he and I started together in sports talk radio at another radio station in Baton Rouge that no longer exists. But we did sports talk

radio together and then I went on to Houston and he went on to start this FM sports talk station in Baton Rouge, which to me has become the model of what small market sports talk radio should be. It is a better radio station than the majority of the major market sports radio stations I've heard. They excel greatly in the digital space. They do great on YouTube. They do great on social media. Their shows sound good. It's a good sounding radio station. Matt has done a spectacular job and I'm not telling that to you know saying

that to blow the guy because I want a job. I've told him that a billion times. He's one of my good friends and he's done a fucking spectacular job. All that said you would say Josh with all of that that sounds like a place that you'd be able to get a job. That sounds like they'd be a home run a guy that's worked in market six and Market like 9 and Market all these whatever markets I've worked in. I guess I've lived in markets radio wise Market 6, Market 9, Market 40 ish. I

don't know what Nashville is now. I think it's 40 and then Market 23 in St. Louis. You've been on the radio in Detroit, which is Market number 13. You've done all sorts of stuff in fill-ins like Dallas and Seattle. Your voice has been heard in a lot of fucking places, Josh, and you've excelled and you've done amazing things. Wouldn't it make sense that somebody in Baton Rouge would go, well, holy shit, we have an opportunity to get this fucking guy? Let's do it and let's go. Best friend, one of my

best friends doing that, like you'd think it'd be a home run. But for whatever reason, and I haven't talked to Matt But I don't think I'd have a chance in hell of getting a job there I don't know why it just it's a vibe that I get like as much as Matt and I are friends like he and I Were together at the Saints a NFC championship game with the no-call He and I have been we were at the national championship game together in LSU one in 2007. We've gone to other football games together. I know his wife. I know his son. I know his dad like I like I know the guy know his family. We are good buddies. Like I like I would consider us really

close friends. And we talk all the time during the Saints games will text now he's a busy dude. I'm not so like my life is different than his because he's doing a hundred different things and I'm a slapdick that's over here, you know doing a podcast in my underwear and that's the extent of my busy work for the day but Matt's doing a hundred other things and he may and he's just a great he just he makes big things happen and he's built something

that's fucking amazing and I'm and I've told him many times like dude. I am envious of what you have built. This is fucking cool. You should never aspire to leave Baton Rouge because everywhere else sucks and by that I mean like yeah, it sounds good to go to the big city to work in sports that just makes you a target and you'll get fired. You work for a local company.

It's a nice local company. You know your boss. You are your own boss to a degree in the sports world. fucking do it man kill it, crush it, own it right? But there is a zero points like I don't know why I feel this way. Maybe I'm just super negative because I you know I'm not getting any action from anybody in terms of jobs and

maybe I'm just being dour. I don't know. But I feel pretty confident. Like a 0.0% chance of me ever even being considered for that job. Now, maybe they just want to put on another former LSU dude and go about their day. That's very possible. And that could be. But I don't think they have any interest in someone like me, which in a way kind of makes me sad because like, if they don't want me in fucking Baton Rouge,

then what the fuck am I doing? You know, like maybe it's time for me to just be the guy that drives the truck with the gravel and have the sign that says stay back 200 feet because I'm not responsible for whatever the fuck happens here. Maybe that's my lot in life. Maybe that's what I need to do. But like, I don't even know if my, like I'll text him and be like hey Matt what do you think and he'll he may just totally ignore me I don't know who knows I know the guys's kind of getting to that point that it's tiring that you know you're qualified for these jobs and then like no one even gives you the fucking time of day. You know, admittedly it is a tiring thing.

It fucks with you mentally. It fucks with your overall attitude and your overall well-being. It is a fucking drag. You know, like some things I get. Like to me it's stupid to not call someone about a job in Philadelphia. But if you're hell bent on Mike Missanelli's three share being your big thing, then of course, you're

probably not going to hire me because that guy probably wouldn't want me there and you don't want to piss him off. So like I can get it. But when you start getting to this point that people just tell you to go fuck yourself and never call you and just you know, and, and it just kind of like fuck off. Like there does hit a point where it is just being honest with you guys. It's a fucking It is a depressing thing. Sometimes they got your own problems. You know, everybody's got their own problems in life. But it does hit a point where you're kind of like, fuck you, man. Like, fuck you. Like, what am I doing here? Why am I doing this? Like, why am I

sitting here getting my brains beaten in by people for jobs that I'm overqualified for? You know, and I'll talk to friends of mine, they'll be like, why can't you get these jobs? You've done all the shit. I'm like, I don't know what the fuck is boo is Boosie once said, I don't know what I did. You know, I mean, I get that I've done some dumb shit, and I bounce around and shit. But like, I don't know. I did, you know, I mean I get that I've done some dumb shit and I bounce around and shit but like I Don't know. I can't explain it to you. I can't explain why people don't want to fucking call my ass back I know I can't explain to you why the guy that is clearly hiring somebody in Philadelphia

Wouldn't even pick up the fucking phone a guy that I know and call me back and tell me to fuck off I can't tell you that I don't know Do I think I'm still pretty good? Sure. I think I'm pretty good at this shit. You put me in the right situation. I'm in a good headspace. Do great things, but I don't know what to tell you. But I feel like I could go to a place like Baton Rouge. Family lives there. I haven't lived around my family in 20 fucking years. Then again, there's also a part of me that thinks if I move back to Baton Rouge, I'll end up having to be my dad's errand boy like I was for all of my life until I moved. And I haven't had to live that life in 1516 years. It was kind of

rewarding. It was kind of like I made it. I felt like I finally made it when I wouldn't be out and about and get a call. Hey, Josh, I need you to go run to such and such and pick this up or hey, come meet dad to sit in the steam room. Like I do love LSU. I do love the Saints and I do love Louisiana. I really do. But I wonder how much of that is that I love it because I'm not there all the time. I thought I love St. Louis too then I got here and I hated everybody so maybe it's a me problem. I don't know but I would enjoy it. There's a big part of me now that just wants to be comfortable. I don't

need to be rich. I think my days have been like, oh, this guy could be a rich guy. And I don't even want to be super rich. I want to be comfortable. I don't have kids. So, like, if you don't have kids, it's very easy to be comfortable, right? Like, if you have two or three kids, like, it's a money pit. If you don't have kids, you get yourself a nice little place and you can still live a life where you're like, you know what?

I want to go to the Saints game today. I'm buying fucking tickets. And I guess the best part about living in Louisiana is you can always stumble upon free tickets to the shit you really want to go to, man. So I don't know. Like I would like it. I think I really would. Like I want to get my smoker out.

I want to be able to sit in a big backyard, nice big fence so my dog can run around, nice looking house, you know, and just live that life. I would do that in a fucking heartbeat. And I'd be happy doing it. I think I would. You know, I think. I'm pretty certain. Because then I can do that and do podcasts, and I can do shit that I enjoy. If I want to drive to Houston for something, I can because it's four and a half hours away, you know. If I want to go see some friends in Houston, I can.

It's four and a half hours away. If I want to do a live podcast in Houston, I can. It's four and a half hours away. If I want to do a live podcast in Houston, I can. It's four hours away. You know, but I don't know. I think I would enjoy it, though. I feel that. But anywho, all right, more to come.