The Josh Innes Show - Chicago Demo Show..eww

Episode Date: November 4, 2025

I was going through my email and I found some demo shows I put together for different markets when I was out of work. I'd see a job opening, then go into a studio and do a mock show to let them see how it sounded. This was for a Chicago opening. I hate the way these sounds. But, I really had no idea what to do lol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So my wife and I have friends, Nikki and Brad. Now, Nikki has been my wife's friend forever, and I became friends with Nikki and Brad through my wife. And they live over in Elk Grove, and Brad is die hard, bears, bulls, blackhawks, cubs, like die hard. He's the kind of guy that I'll punch the wall, throw something, F this, like his kids literally are like two and three years old. never seen kids use the F word more than I've seen Brad's kids use the F word because my man continually throws out the F bomb at Chicago sports teams. That's just how he is. That's Brad. On his door, above the door, when you're coming through the front door of their house, he's got the Sweet Home Chicago and the Bears logo over the door. He's diehard, right? Their dog

is named Bear. He is diehard. He texts me on Saturday. And this, And remind you, he is very negative, particularly about the bears, because most of the time we're all particularly negative about the bears. That's how we all are. He says, I think I'm in. He's watching Caleb Williams, and he goes, I think I'm in, man. I think I'm locked in. I'm in.

I'm diving in head first on this guy. And you know what? Normally I'd say, yeah, let's not. Let's wait, but it's hard not to, man, because of all the crap we've seen for so many years. I mean, think about what we're doing today. We're debating whether or not we think Caleb Williams is legitimately a superstar, whatever. We're debating whether or not what we saw is a sign of things to come or just a flute. We're not debating Justin Fields versus Tyson agent.

That's a good thing. That brings me joy that we're not debating those two guys anymore. That we've got a guy who we believe could be that guy. And then you watch that game and you start to think how close they actually are. are with the receivers and, you know, defense doing what it's doing. Again, it's preseason. But with all the dreadful crap we've had to watch, it's okay to be excited about what we saw on Saturday. And then, you know, talking about Caleb Williams, what was the talk about Caleb Williams all offseason? Well, you know, his painted nails and he's crying at USC, and is he

kind of a flake? And that was a word that was thrown around a lot. He just seems kind of like a flake and he's kind of weird and he wears nail polish and he's crying multiple times at USC and in big games where he's had a chance to lock up the heism and he'd falter he'd throw a bad pick he'd have a terrible game all fair but as we sit here today none of that matters what did we see last week on hard knocks man purse that was a big topic of people Caleb williams weirdo painted nails cries at USC and now he's got a man purse give me a man purse I'll wear two man purses. Strap one around each shoulder.

If that's the kind of football we're going to get, then give me the man purse, give me the painted nails. I don't care if this kid has got nails like Flojo, like national geographic nails that go and curl like ram horns and have different colors painted on them. I don't care because what we saw is true hope. Now, maybe next preseason game rolls around and what we see is. crap and we say well maybe not as we sit here today and i've got one of my best buddies sending me text messages one of the angriest most pessimistic bears slash chicago sports fans you're gonna find

when he's watching that game and instead of punching the wall instead of throwing something through a window instead of f bombing the tv he's like i'm kind of in i think i'm in i'm ready for this we've been waiting for this. We've been waiting for a QB like you. And I'm okay with that. I think it's okay to feel that way. And then you look at some of the things that happened in the game. And I watched it closely than I normally would, or closer than I normally would, because a little action on the game, you know, mostly due to the fact that they give you this option. I don't know if you guys have seen this on Fanduel, but they give you this option, not for individual player props during the preseason games, but you can take the overall.

receiver crew to have a certain number of receiving yards. And they ended up, I took the bears to have 200 receiving yards and they got it late in the game. Thank you, Austin Reed. But when I got a friend that's that excited about what he saw, and he's the angriest guy you're going to find, and then you watch some of the plays in the game and they give you reason to be excited. Guys, taking shots down the field.

And it looked like they were giving fields opportunities to kind of look. look at some different things. You know, they tried out different things, which is what you're supposed to do, the first time a guy takes the field in a preseason game. But it's not like, oh, it looks like he's afraid to be in the pocket, so he just got the hell out of the pocket. No, he was making plays.

And there's tons of reason to be excited for that. And I'm curious to see what happens on hard knocks tonight. Mostly because I like looking at Coach Fluse because the man's handsome, because we have a coach with a glow up. It's amazing how things can turn over the course of a season. We go from Justin Fields versus Tyson-Baget drama and a coach who looks like a guy that does your taxes at H&R Block to have maybe a number one guy

and a coach that looks like the kind of guy that the college girl lusts after in a lifetime movie. Guy looks good, a beard will do that. That's why I keep a beard. If I didn't have a beard, I'd look like a four-year-old cherub with a double chin. But with a beard, I'm still not appealing, but you don't see my double chin and that's good. But anyway, give me the man purses and the painted nails and give me everything.

If that's what we're going to see, we got a legit chance and you can legitimately be excited right now and there's nothing wrong with it. So get in on the phones, you can text, get in on all that. You're excited and you should be excited. There's no reason not to be. Hard knocks is going to be great. I don't want to see what everybody has to say about hard knocks tonight. This is awesome. We don't get this very often with the bears.

This is legit excitement, and the excitement is actually something that we can grab onto and say, yes, let's go. Take it from my degenerate friend Brad, who's usually putting a hole in the wall. When I'm getting text saying, I'm in love, I think we're going somewhere. It's 670 the score.