The Josh Innes Show - Can Adults Make Friends In The Wild?

Episode Date: November 7, 2025

I know this is random, but I started thinking about how difficult it is to make friends outside of work. I'm 39. Will I ever make any friends in the wild? Also, I was talking to one of the younger girls in the building who told me she falls asleep every night with her boyfriend on a facetime....this is odd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I have not experienced the winter here yet. The summers were quite fine, but the winter seems like it's going to be a real, real humdinger. Now, look, I've experienced snow before. I'm not an amateur when it comes to this, but this seems like it has potential to be just miserably cold. And it's amazing how quick it turns. Like the other day, it's nice. It's like 60 degrees. Life is good.

And then you blink an eye. And now you're dealing with, hey, bone chilling temperatures when you come to work on Monday morning. Ew. This really sounds terrible. But anyway, this is the life you've chosen this life. This is the path I have chosen. I cannot complain because I complain when I'm. I was out of work. I complain when I didn't have a job. I complained when I was door dashing,

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Mayor of Kingstown, new season now streaming on Paramount Plus. One of my favorite snows was I went to a flyers game on a Saturday afternoon. I think it was like a noon flyers game. Me and Jilly went, we got super hammered up in one of these suites for the flyers game with some of the radio people. Life was good. We were kicking ass. That's kind of one of the things I miss about being a somewhat important radio person is people wanted to like get hammered with you and like you got access to sweets and shit like that.

Like I'm not important enough in Detroit to get that kind of treatment. I'm just the guy that happens to be the disc jockey on the rock station here, on like the fourth rock station. So I don't get the same treatment I got when I was at WIP. But when I was at WIP, like everybody wants you to hang out with them. Everybody wants you to do shots with them. Everybody wants to party with you. And we went to a Flyers game one Saturday. One of those kind of games that ends at like, you know, it starts at like one or something,

ends at, you know, 3, 30, 4 o'clock, whatever it was. Took the train there. When we got there and started drinking over at Xfinity Live, if we were having a great time, whatever, got into the sweet, drank even more, got super blitz. I want to say it was a game that went to a shootout. I forgot who they played, the Capitals maybe, something like that. Got hammered. We walk out of Wells Fargo Center.

Mind you, it was not snowing when we went in. When we got out like two and a half hours later, it was a blizzard. So we had to take the train. We get back to Mani Yunk and have to climb the goddamn hill. We have to climb this giant hill in the snow. and I believe that's the first night we ever went to the ugly moose. And it was one of the greatest things I ever did. One of the greatest life decisions I ever made was going to the ugly moose because I have lifelong friends from that.

Like, I don't know that I'll ever make friends that are like that again. I think we talk about that a lot on here, but I think there comes a point in life where you just stop making those kind of friends, like really good buddies friends that you're friends with forever. Like, there'll be people you meet from work. that happens naturally like I do this show with James now the fact that James and I have done this show together for a month he and I will always be buddies and I'll always be able to text him something we'll have references and I can do that for a lot of people here but you very rarely meet people once you become an adult you very rarely just meet people outside of your work

environment or places you have to be that become legit friends and I'd say the last time that happened for me other than like people that listen to the podcast that I'm buddies with Like, there are people like M.W. Soulgrove or Ace or a lot of these, or Joe and Philly. And if I, you know, spank it, slap it or, you know, sending nudes. Now I'm just naming all the people's names on their, on the chat. But like, I became friends with these people because of the podcast, which is kind of indirectly becoming friends with somebody because of work. The last time I can remember just meeting somebody random. Now, granted, they knew me from the radio, and that's why they started talking with me.

But I became legit friends with these people at the ugly moose. That's how I became friends with pet band Bobby, and that's how I became friends with JP, and that's how I became friends with Mac. That crew of people at the ugly moose was, I think, the last time in life that I just met random people that I had no ties to other than the fact they knew me on radio. They knew me from the radio, and we became buddies. And thus we started going to that bar every week, and if I could go back in time and go back to like one stretch. It may be on my Mount Rushmore of times as an adult I could go back to.

It would be Saturday nights at the moose. Me, Jilly, Taz, JP, who ran the joint, making that amazing steak sandwich or making the salmon, which was phenomenal. Mac is tending bar. And like we're waiting on sludge to show up because we don't know if sludge is going to show up. He claims he is, but do we think he will? Then he does show up. We drink beers. We sing karaoke. It was truly like the apex of my young adult life happened. I was like 29, 28, 29 years old. And that is the last time I think I will ever make friends like that. Like friends that just become friends that are not from work.

And I think we all hit that point. Like there's a point in life where we just stop making friends unless they are people from work. Because I don't even know how many people that I'm buddies with that I would consider myself friends with that are friends that are not from a work for a job. And I just think that's normal, right? But, like, high school, middle school, whatever, I'm friends with people from that. But I can't think of, I don't know if there's a handful of people that I'm still lifelong friends with that weren't friends from some form of doing my job other than the guys at the moose. Like, I don't know that they are. Like, I have to go through my phone and go like, okay, I texted this person and, like, I know that.

But even the closest people I know are all people that I know from working on the radio at various radio stations. and I can trace it all the way back to Baddridge. Matt Mascone is one of my best friends, one of my best buddies. I mean, like, I don't know if he'd consider me his best friend, and I don't consider him mine. But we are really good buddies, and we talk, you know, somewhat frequently. And, like, we met through the radio. And I've known him now for almost 20 years. Like, it's just, that's how this works.

It's fascinating that, like, you realize that no one really goes out and just makes new friends at random places. And that's kind of what made it so cool to make friends. Now, granted, you can argue, Josh, you became friends. with the guy that owns a bar and the bartender at a bar? Is that really random? I guess technically not. Like, I didn't just go and strike up a conversation with somebody at a bar. And then, hey, you want to hang out one day and we become best friends.

That's weird. But it's the closest I've come. I think that's the closest I've come to making friends on that level outside of radio. Because other than that, I could not tell you another person. I really can't. Like, I might know some people through my dad. But those aren't people that I'm like, best friends with. Those are not people that I bond with or text with all the time.

So it is fascinating how we operate as people. And I think it becomes more and more the case because people are just very introverted now. People are text people. They're not a call society. They're not a call world anymore. So like I was talking with somebody today about how you know what it was. I was talking with this young girl that's on the top 40 morning show on the mojo show here. Her name's Bianca. And I think she's in her early 20s, 22, 23. drinking age. I don't know how old she is. But she was telling me that she's been talking to this boy. Like I saw her in the hall here this morning. I said, what's going on? She goes, I'm tired. I said, well, why are you tired? Well, I was up really late last night. I was like,

what the hell were you doing up really late? Well, I was talking with a boy. It's like, so you're talking with a boy. Tell me about the boy. She's like, well, you know, his dad works for fan dual sports, whatever. I'm like, so the kid's rich. That's good. You might want to hang on to this guy because you want to find a rich guy. That doesn't suck. But we're having a conversation about this guy and she says, and this is something that I'll never be able to understand or wrap my brain around, but this is not the first time I've heard this, is that she and this boy that she's FaceTiming with or she's talking to, as they say, right? We always used to say that too. Like, we're just talking. They are on FaceTime with each other at night and they fall asleep on

FaceTime and then wake up on FaceTime together. Now, think about the absurdity. of that. That means that person in theory, like, you fall asleep and you think that person's like not looking at you. And then, I don't know if they stare at each other on the FaceTime or if like they turn the cameras around and do they hear each other snore? Do they hear each other fart in their sleep? Does the guy get up to take a leak at three in the morning and blast a giant fart while he's unloading in the bathroom? Like, what is the benefit of that? Now, that's not to say that I didn't used to be on the phone with girls, you know, till late at night or whatever. And you might even doze off on the phone with someone or text somebody to all hours in the night.

That's how this works. But it is completely strange to me to be FaceTiming someone, basically sleeping with someone that you're FaceTiming with. Because what if the dude's just a creep and wants to watch you sleep? Like he acts like he's asleep and you doze off. Then he's like, I'm going to watch you sleep. And what if you fart? What if you snore?

What if you have acid reflux? What if you like choke on your gird in the middle of your sleepy time? Then what? That's a weird thing to me. That's a new technology thing that I could not do. If some girl was like, hey, can we watch each other's sleep? I'd be like, no, you fucking weirdo? That's not going to happen.

Hey, I want to watch you sleep. Can we stay on FaceTime together and watch each other's sleep? The fuck we will. There's a 0% chance that's going to happen. We will text like normal people. And by the way, I'm also not going to talk with you on the phone because talking on the phone is for serial killers. So we're not going to talk on the phone, and I'm not going to FaceTime you while we sleep.

We are going to text, and then I'm going to randomly ghost you when I fall asleep. That's how our relationship's going to work. I'm not even going to tell you goodnight, because I refuse to tell people goodbye or good night during a text, because in my mind, a text thread is never ending. So why would you ever say goodbye via text? You never do that. You just fall asleep or stop responding. That's how text works. Text chains are infinite.

But I can't imagine. FaceTiming somebody while sleeping. Like, hey, let's sleep together. Let's FaceTime. I want to watch you sleep. I love you. Fucking weirdos. Kids.

A bunch of people named fucking Colton and shit. I had a list yesterday. I didn't get to it on the things I forgot to get to on the show. There was a list of like current baby names. And I'm like, like, Olivia. I'm like, shut up. Name your kid Bill. You know what if you name your kid William,

that kid's going to do. something with his hands in life. You know what a Colton does? A Colton face-times with his girlfriend while they sleep. Anyway, more to come.