The Josh Innes Show - Big Storm

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

We had a massive storm roll through the region on Friday. It was pretty gnarly and I was actually somewhat worried. Our internet went out so I was forced to find DVD's to watch. I don't have many DVD's. I got a random call from a Philly listener. I have no clue how this guy had my number..but it was totally random. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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minutes just in case it was one of those situations right so we didn't get any tornadoes through here but all right dig on this so we have a tornado siren that goes off here in our area so when you hear a tornado siren your first thought is oh shit we better get to skedaddling because we may die. Annie M., it's a twister. We need to get the fuck out of Dodge, go somewhere safe, right? Here's the problem with the tornado siren in this area. This tornado siren will go off as long as there is a tornado warning or something, a spotted tornado or a warning, I guess it would be. As long as there's one in all these other areas that are miles and miles and miles away from us.

So, like, to me, that's bullshit. I don't need a tornado siren going off if there's one 15 miles away. Now, let me know when my ass is about to get blown the fuck over. That's what I'm looking for. That's what I want. And they don't do that. So every time you hear this damn siren, you're like, oh my God, are we going to die? Probably not.

But then what happens is you start to not believe it anymore. And it's the siren that cried wolf. And then boom, tornado blows you over. We didn't actually, we fared well. Our power didn't go out. Our cable did go out. Our cable, we don't have cable, but our't go out. Our cable did go out. We don't have cable, but our internet went out. We don't have cable TV.

We have the internet. So our internet went out. So I had to dig around trying to find a DVD player. Fortunately, I bought one as a goof a while back. So I find a DVD player. It's a janky-ass little DVD player. We were planning on watching The Osbournes, which I had purchased on DVD years ago. Turns out Andy Samberg movie that I have seven copies of on DVD. Because one night when we were hammered, I said, I'm going to buy as many copies of this movie as possible.

And I'm just going to give them to our friends so our friends will watch this movie and realize how fucking amazing this movie is. It's a mockumentary. It's kind of like making fun of pop music in the mid-2000s. So it's kind of a send-up, if you will, of the Justin Bieber documentary. And it's fantastic. It's one of the funniest things I've ever watched. Like the same way old heads talk about Spinal Tap is the way I talk about Popstar, Never Stop, Never Stopping. It's so good. Yet, everyone I give this DVD to, they're like, I don't really get it. I'm like, then we're not fucking friends anymore. We are done to they're like I don't really get it I'm like then we're not

fucking friends anymore we are done being friends if you don't get this movie like there are certain things like everybody's got kind of rules about like I don't know if I can be your friend if if you don't get the brilliance of pop star never stop never stopping then I don't think we'd be friends because it's just fantastic so we watched that in its entirety for like the 400th time. And then Jilly was like, you know what we could do? We could also, I was digging through, you know, under the TV, just trying to find anything to watch because like we watched a little bit of WKRP and I'm like, I don't really want to watch WKRP.

I found the documentary about the first 17 years of KC-95, the golden years of the radio station that I worked at, where it was just stoners and hippies and 14-minute album cuts and playing whole albums and shit. And Jilly's like, you know, since you know these people now, maybe we can just watch it and make fun of it. And I'm like, okay, okay i get down with that so of course we put the dvd in we're drinking wine and we just sit around and make fun of like all the shit that like this radio station used to do and then afterwards she's like you know you wanted to work at this radio station why on earth like why the fuck did you think this was gonna work and i'm like jilly i don't know. I'm stupid. And I made a mistake. And that's my bad. Cause it's funny. You know, you, you look at radio stations

and many of these rock stations that are legendary, that many of them don't even exist anymore. Many of them went away, um, you know, in the late nineties, mid nineties, early two thousands became different formats. A lot of them became sports stations with CBS and stuff. So you compare that to WMMR in Philadelphia that's been around 100 years. WMMR was still somewhat personality driven. It wasn't all music, music, music. They had a huge morning show with John DiBella for years and years and years. KC95 never did that. KC 95 was truly just about shitty music. That's not, I'm being an asshole saying shitty music. There's a lot of good music, right? But KC 95 was about just music. The personalities didn't matter. The disc jockeys were there to talk as little as possible. And they were

the guys that were playing all this music that you hadn't heard before. And they were playing like full sides of albums and shit. Here's what I knew about KC95 when I took the job. I knew that there was a stretch in the 80s into the early 90s where it was a fun radio station. They were playing more mainstream rock music. They were having huge events. I was talking to dudes that were there at the time,

and they're like, young chicks were coming out, and all the hot, tight chicks were flashing their tits at remotes and we're having big parties and we got a big morning show and we're doing personality and shit and that's what my dad used to tell me about that's why my dad wanted to work there he's like this station's the coolest fucking station and they play this awesome music but it's also big morning show and that's my dream to work there that was my point of reference when I took the job there. I did not know or care about the fact that in 1967, they played the entire Jefferson Airplane album and people used to come to the window and get tickets. And I didn't know any of that shit and I didn't

care. All I know is that in the 80s when radio fucking ruled and it was a party, that was what I knew of the station. So in my it was like fucking a right let's go then I got there and just learned that the people that listen are still a hundred years old they've aged with the station and all they care about is the fucking music and I'm like well you're not going to survive that way but fine right and so we watched this documentary and she's like we made a gigantic mistake coming here. And I'm like, well, obviously we did. I got fired after 15 months. We knew it was a mistake almost instantly. But looking back on it, what are you going to do?

I thought I wanted to do it. It made sense. But in my mind, KC was like these radio stations like KLOL in Houston. And Mike McGuff, who's like a media reporter guy in Houston, he produced a documentary called Runaway Radio, the story of KLOL. KLOL, a rock station that came about at about the same time as KC-95, I think about 70, 71, so a couple years after. But KLOL was driven by personality. Giant morning show, Steve is in Pruitt.

Big time afternoon guys like Moby and like these guys that were big personalities. The personalities were stars. It wasn't just the ZZ Top that was the star. It was the people on the radio station were the stars. That's an example of a station like that. Those are the kind of things that are badass. The Loop in Chicago, I was reading a book about The Loop this weekend. I was on a flight and I was reading a book about The Loop. All personality driven for the most part. KC never became that. Like for whatever reason, it's amazing that this station still exists. And I'm not trying to shit on them. It's just truly amazing that if you think of a lot of the

stations I've mentioned, like The Loop in Chicago does not exist anymore. It's been sold like Christian broadcasters plays God music. Uh, KLOL plays Mexican music now, right? Like, like you don't get the WYSP in Philadelphia is a sports station. Now, um, uh, WBCN in Boston is a sports station. Now, like many of these, uh, KDF, which was a big rock station in Nashville, Tennessee is now a country station. Like many of these stations went away. So in a way you look at the fact that KC 95 still exists after 60 years and it's doing largely the same shit it's been doing. The format is pretty much unaltered, although it's more classic rock. They don't play current shit, but it's pretty remarkable. Like I give them credit for that. Like the fact that that radio station still exists, there aren't

many like that, you know? And like, there's a station called WMMS in Cleveland, the buzzard and WMMS for years and years and years, the big rock station in Cleveland. That's the station that if you remember when Howard Stern used to do the funerals, that's the station that cut his line at the Cleveland funeral when he was working at WNCX. Yeah, WNCX when his show was on there in Cleveland. That station is still around, but they barely play any music. It's like three talk shows. You know what I'm saying?

So the fact that this radio station still exists after 60 years doing largely the same shit is pretty remarkable. But it's also remarkable that they haven't evolved into doing anything fucking interesting. And they're still largely doing the same bullshit, but just more commercials. So, yes, I made a mistake coming here. It is what it is. I took a chance. When I took the job, everybody in the world said, great job, Josh. Solid move.

There's no negative to this. This is huge. And then, of course, it ended up being a failure so but i've been going back a lot looking for listening for demo audio and shit and honestly i mean show sounded pretty fucking good a lot of the time but what are you gonna do all right let's play some commercials and we will continue all right if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you got to check out Pick 6 from DraftKings. When it comes to basketball payouts, DraftKings Pick 6 posterizes the competition,

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Do good, feel good. A portion of food and beverage sales will support RMHC chapters and local children's charities across Canada. Speaking of that storm, going back to what started all this, we got quarter-sized hail here. It's the loudest, most aggressive hail I've ever heard in a storm that I've been in. So we're sitting in the house watching, you know, whatever we can to pass the time, you know, and the storm finally rolls in and hail just starts

pelting the house. Like, bang! That's why we went into the innermost room of the house, which, let's be real, everybody says to do that. If the tornado blows through there, it don't matter if you're in the fucking closet or whatever. Your ass is getting knocked around. So we go into the bathroom for a second, and this hail is just pelting. I go outside after it's all done, and I pick it up, and it's quarter-sized hail. It knocked out a bunch of my light bulbs on my string light, so there was glass everywhere. And yeah, it was pretty aggressive.

Like I've never really been like I've been in big storms before and I've been around hurricanes before, but I've never really been at a point in a storm where I'm like worried. And I wasn't really worried in this one. But when you start getting just pelted by hail, like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, hitting you like that, it's like, oof. But we survived. And all that to tell you that I didn't do a podcast on Friday, which you know, but many of you were like, oh, there's a podcast. And I appreciate that, that you care about the podcast so much, but I didn't do any on Friday. And then yesterday I was going to, and then my dog took me on like a two and a half, three hour walk in the morning. And then before you know it, it was the to and then my dog took me on like a two and a half, three hour walk in the morning.

And then before you know it, it was the afternoon and I had other shit to do. So I just didn't do it. But like what I enjoy is I get people that send me these tweets and they're like, so what, you just don't do a podcast anymore? Bastard. I'm like, it's been two days. It's been two days that I haven't done a podcast for you. I apologize. You know, it's the middle of

fucking nothing time. It's really easy to come in here and do a podcast for you when it's football season. I'm actually interested and engaged. It's another thing when there's fucking NBA and baseball happening. So I'm sorry. I apologize that I didn't do a podcast yesterday, but here I am now, you sons of bitches. Another thing that happened Friday is I got a random call from a number in Redding, Pennsylvania that I didn't answer because I assumed it was just spam. But it wasn't just spam at all. It was this random phone call that I got from someone. Let's see if I can play this. Hey, Josh.

It's a random asshole Eagles fan that you gave your number. We were just talking about you. I was wondering if you could have changed this last Super Bowl and changed one Eagles player into a Garuda, which would you have picked and why? You don't have to call me back about it. You can text me. I'll take that too.

Go Birds. Love you, dude. Bye. I love philly people philly people are the best dudes bringing up a bit from like over a decade ago i would think that was probably from when i first got there so you're talking about a bit that's like 11 12 years old and this dude's like hey i want to i'm just gonna make a reference to this random bit you did i don't give a shit what anybody's, and first of all,

I have no clue who that is and how they got my number, and I guess I gave them my number somehow. I don't know why I did that, but I did. And maybe when I'm drunk this weekend, I'll finally call him back. So I'll just randomly call him. There's no need to call a guy back right after he calls you. Wait until he thinks you're never going to call him back, and then just randomly call him at like 1 in the morning on you know a Saturday night like hey bud it's

Josh here's my answer to your Garuda question and that was a bit we did when we were making fun of Philly radio I believe it was like a Garuda if I recall the bit correctly was like a half eagle half man and the question I think was if you could have Brian Dawkins or a Garuda what would you take now mind you a Garuda has wings and can fly Brian Dawkins is just a man but a Garuda can fly because he's half man half eagle he's like a giant eagle man the fact that people remember some of that shit is remarkable. Like, I'm amazed when I talk to people who remember bits, and I'll see references to shit that I don't remember doing.

Perhaps that's just because I'm getting old and probably have dementia early onset. But people will talk about shit, and I'm like, I don't remember that ever happening, but I'll take your word for it. Or, like, I'll have a buddy that'll say, like, man, that time that we did such and such on the air and you had me in the studio was awesome. And I'll go, I don't remember doing that, but maybe I've done a million radio shows in my day. And like, I don't have a fuck. Like, I just do not remember most shit that I did, but that I recall doing. And the fact that somebody still remembers that the fact that one person remembers that and gives a shit to me is pretty remarkable right because I'm in a place for two and a half

years I didn't even make it three years there it was a little over two and a half years like uh two and two uh two and two-thirds years I was there I guess right because I got there and technically in December but I started in January of. I got fired in mid-August of 16. So I almost made it three years there. Closer to three years than not, I guess. But the fact that that happened, I probably did that bid in 2014 or 20. I'm guessing it would be 2014 because that sounds like something I would have done at night and not done in the middle of the afternoon. So if that was at night, it was in 2014. And if that's the case, that means that was damn near 12 years ago. I'm 38 years old right now. So when I was a 26 year old doofus, 27 year old doofus, I was doing that bit on the radio, just trying to kill time. That's why I kind of like doing the night shit.

Like I had the opportunity, I didn't really have the opportunity, but there was a job opening in Dallas for a talk show host on a conservative leaning talk station, right? And I called the guy when I found out who it was because it's a guy who wanted to hire me two previous times in Portland where I knew I wasn't going to work. Like I knew there was no way in hell Josh Ennis in Portland was ever going to fucking make it. Like I'd be fired there in 10 minutes. Right. So I never really entertained it because I didn't want to move to Portland.

And one of the times the Portland thing came up after I got fired in Philly and I ended up going to Houston anyway, so I wasn't going to go anywhere else, but they had a lot of money. They wanted to pay me to go to Portland. And they're like, we'll put you on a bunch of radio stations throughout like Oregon and Washington or some shit. I'm like, that's neat. And I appreciate it. But like me in Portland would be a disaster, but this guy always liked what I did. And I saw that he's the guy running that radio station. So I called him. I'm like, Bruce, it's me. It's Josh, you know, from all the shit. He's like, yeah, Josh, man, I didn't even know you wanted to do this kind of radio. Send me some shit and we'll talk. And I'm like, cool, you know,

and he listened to shit and thought it was good. But as it turns out, they just went with syndicated programming anyway, because that's the way of the world. But I was thinking about that. It was at night. It was eight to midnight. That was the time frame for this show's eight P to 12 P on this talk station in Dallas. And I'm like, what kind of fucking mischief could I get into on here? Like, I don't know that I'd enjoy doing conservative talk radio at like, you know, six in the morning or noon or three in the afternoon, but doing it at night where you can kind of get weird and dumb and kooky and just try different shit. I think I'd actually enjoy that. Like there's this idea that like, you got to be in the major day parts, right,

to be successful. And to a degree that's true because that's where the money is. I get all that. And I had to make those moves when I did them. But being on at night is kind of fun. Like there was a buddy of mine who does radio and knows people at Infinity. Or it's not Infinity. It's Odyssey.

But it's the Infinity Sports Network. And the gal that was doing overnights on there for all these years her name's amy lawrence um she was quitting or whatever and my buddy was like do you want me to reach out and see if they would let you do the overnights on here and i'm like first i'm like i don't know that seems kind of terrible but then i'm like holy shit you can do the dumbest shit in the world at night it's at two in the morning who gives a fuck just try a bunch of kooky weird. And it was kind of turning me on a little bit because a buddy of mine, Ben Maller, who does overnights on Fox Sports Radio, to me has like the best national sports radio show because it's really just doing weird, acerbic, overnight

buffoonery, essentially mock, almost making fun of the format. And that's why I think it's so good. I used to listen to it on my way into work when I was at seven 90. And I think it's great. I just like his personality and how he doesn't take it so serious. And it's just a big joke and I like it. So I was like, I could do that. Then of course they decided to do something else there too, but I don't even know what it is. They may be just replaying their morning show or their night show or some shit, but to save money. But I talked to the PD of that too, now that I think about it.

But either way, none of that matters. But like the idea of doing night radio is fun. And that's where we did, you know, some really dumb shit when I was on in Philly. And that's why a lot of people like me. All that to tell you this, to that guy calling my phone at, you know, midnight or whatever it was on a Saturday,

leaving me a voicemail. That was at 7 o'clock, so 8-something. So my man was tanked at 8-something on a Friday in Redding, Pennsylvania. And he's bringing up shit that's a random one-off bit that I did. It's pretty remarkable. So he left an impact in Philadelphia, and I'm happy about that. Anyway, all right, more to come.