The Josh Innes Show - Do Boomers Have The Right Idea?

Episode Date: December 9, 2025

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All right, let's see here. one more to go kiddos as far as now i got to go to a concert tonight it's the jingle ball so i got to go see nellie and shine down first time i've ever seen shine down i'm let down though because they're only going to do a couple songs because it's one of those type of deals where you know each artist comes out does three or four songs on to the next one you know but i am supposed to go backstage and meet shine down so not to brag but i might hang out with them i'll tell them how much i like the symptom of being human which i think is a very lovely song that i enjoy very much but anyway, let's do one more thing here before I got to get out of here. I got to have a meeting

coming up and then I got to go home and take the dog out despite the fact it's snowing. Like, I know I tell you guys this all the time. And it just so happens that where I ended up is a place that it snows a lot. And when I sat there in St. Louis early last year in the miserable cold and kept telling myself that I needed to find a gig somewhere that it was warm and that didn't happen. I'm aware that didn't happen. But it doesn't change the fact that Like, snow is so miserable and it's cold and it's terrible and I hate it. And I'm watching it snow right now. And then I got to go out and I got to dust off the car with the snow brush to drive home.

And then I got to get my dog out in this shit. I hate snow. I hate it. Like there's some folks that are here from the radio station in Tampa because they're also on one of our radio stations here. So they're in from Tampa. They get to go home to Tampa after this. They get to experience the warmth. Like this is just a diversion for them.

This is just a distraction. This is just a, okay, cool, you know, like I get to see snow for a couple days. And then I get to go back to the land of 70 degrees in December. This is my life. This will be my life every day until like July will be just mountains of snow everywhere. This is it. This is what I'm here for. Anyway, let me play a couple commercials and we will continue.

All right. Let's see here. Here's a story. The boomer habits that younger generation started doing because they realized they are genius. So boomer habits. I think I'm developing some boomer habits. I'll go to the store. I'll go to like J.C. Penny, which I guess you could already argue as a boomer habit. But I'll go and I'll look at the big and tall. And I try to find clothes that fit at least somewhat form fitting so they look decent. But at the end. end of it like I'd much rather just be wearing like a gigantic sweatshirt like at some point when it's miserably cold like it is here and snowy like I just want to be comfortable like there's no worse feeling than when you have a hoodie and the sleeves aren't long enough for you to sit in it without the sleeves riding up it is annoying it's almost like I have an OCD over that I despise like hoodies where the sleeves ride up and I don't think I'm alone there right but like that part of it sucks. So, like, at that point where I just want to buy gigantic clothes, but I know I can't, because

I know I'll look slovenly and terrible, but I just want to wear gigantic hoodies to work. I just want to go about in, like, an eight extra large hoodie and just live my life. Like, can we go back to the golden era of wearing baggy clothes? Can we go back to Fubu? Can we go back to, like, six Excel suits for dudes at the NBA draft? Can we go to, like, when basketball shorts went down to, like, the tops of your feet? you look like spanky from our gang like can we go back to that like this era of super tight clothes they're just not comfortable i feel bad for the ladies i do like there was an era that you

didn't have to wear tight shit you just got to wear like jinkgo jeans and doc martins and be comfortable like what the fuck but anyway boomer habits that younger generations started doing because they realized their genius number one is lap blankas these are all comments from like it like a BuzzFeed, a BuzzFeed story about this. Lap blankets. I got a heated blanket last year for Christmas, and it's amazing. I don't have to switch out the blankets by which one is warmer. I can just set the blanket to whatever heat level is right, and I'll be toasty.

I don't really get into blankets a lot, so that's probably not for me, but I can see where you'd be into it. Taking my shoes off at the door and stepping straight into my slippers. A couple of years ago, I just started wearing slippers around the house, and now it's changed my life. Like, because I don't, like, I have, you know, Ross who sheds a lot, so there's hair everywhere. Despite trying to get all the hair up, you're always going to find hair. And I'm really weirded and grossed out by the idea of having, um, of having, like, like, dog hair on my clothes and shit and on my socks. So I prefer to walk around in slippers. Slippers have really changed the game for your boy.

Like, I've got like some nice little, like, I bought him for like 20 bucks over at Nordstrom rack and I just slide into those bad boys and walk around the house all damn day in my slippies. that's living, friend, so I'm with you on that one. Is that really a boomer thing, though? Like, don't just normal young people wear slippers, too? Like, what do you wear around the house? Like, there's nothing more vile than wearing a pair of socks, particularly a white pair of socks that get dirty from the floor in your house. Like, so shouldn't you just always wear slippers?

Ignoring the clock, eating when I'm hungry, and sleeping when I'm tired. I mean, I would agree. I do that as well. I don't know if that's an old. Is that an old people thing? Like, is that a boomer thing sleeping when you're tired? Like, I don't know if that's actually a thing or not, but if that's a boomer thing, but whatever. I enjoy spending time in a peaceful, quiet home instead of partying.

I've never really been into partying, so I'm down with you there. Moderate breakfast, moderate lunch, and light dinner for better sleep. I don't do that shit. Now, I don't really eat a ton at lunch or for, I never eat breakfast. Although I started drinking coffee. And now I'm wired all the time. but like I can't wake myself up in the morning. If there's one thing I miss about St. Louis is being able to roll out of bed at 9.30, 10 o'clock,

stay up till 2, 3 in the morning, take my dog for a nice long walk before work. Like, I miss that shit. That's the thing I hate about waking up at 445, 5 in the morning. And it alters everything you do the rest of the day. It's like a torture because all you can think about is shit what happens when I only get five hours of sleep. If that's a boomer thing, that's a boomer thing too. But like that's all I can think about is, well, do I really want to? go do this. And now I find myself falling to sleep on the couch all the time. Like, that is a

boomer, old man thing that I do. Like, last night, I fell asleep watching the Eagles game on the couch, holding my phone, trying to place a bed. I fell asleep with my phone in my hand. And I only woke up because I dropped the phone. I almost did that with wine the other night. I told myself, if I hold the wine glass, then it'll be fine. I won't fall asleep. No, as it turns out, I just fall asleep holding the fucking wine glass at like 10 o'clock on a Friday. I enjoy spending time in a peaceful home. Comfy pants and comfy shoes. Life is too short for uncomfortable pants and shoes.

That I agree with. Boy, I love putting on just sweats. Especially in the cold and the place like this. Just always wear sweats. I've been eating dinner earlier. Got to give food a chance to properly digest before bed. All weekend errands are done by noon to beat the crowds. If I can't get there before then, I'll wait.

Now, that's a life I live too. Let me tell you, I hate going. to stores, especially on the weekend. Like, we take Ross out to his daycare in this really busy suburb area and, like, the traffic sucks. And here in Michigan, they have these Michigan left turns, and these Michigan left turns are basically you have to drive down and make a U-turn. Like, there are no left turns at stoplights.

It's ridiculous. It's a pain in the ass. So traffic sucks. Then you battle to shopping. I hate stores with a passion. Going to eat at a nice restaurant at the reasonable, non-busy hour of 430. I'll do that shit all the time. You want to get my ass into the Texas Roadhouse a little early?

Let's fucking go. I'm down. I turn the close captioning on anything I watch on TV. Well, that I do not do. I don't want to read. If I wanted to read, I'd get a fucking book. So I certainly don't want to read while I'm watching TV. And hell, I can't pay attention to TV anyway.

Like, that's the problem. I have to be on my phone or I'll fall asleep watching TV. How fucked up is that? And then Jilly gets super pissed at me when I fall asleep. sleep during shows. She views it as like an affront towards her and I'm like, I'm not trying to insult you. I get up at 4.45, 5 o'clock every morning. I was getting up at, think about the insanity of the fact that I was getting up at 3.45 in the morning at one point here. Talk about insanity. Now, I mean, it helped the podcast. I was getting more listeners when I was getting up that

early because people were kind of taking the podcast in earlier in the day and it was good for me. But 3.45 in the morning is a nightmare. Getting to the radio station at 4.30 every day. Like, holy shit. Now I get up at five. Like I had to accept defeat. I'm like, listen, I can't do this. I like, I want to still have somewhat of a life. I cannot be the dude who wakes up at 3.45 and goes to sleep at midnight. I can't do it. I'm also, I'm not dude who goes to bed at 10 o'clock guy. Like I am torn. It is torture for me. Getting up this early. Because I would prefer to just live my life until I want to go to sleep and then get up when I want to get up. And that was the perk of doing afternoons. The detriment of doing mornings is what I'm

dealing with now. But as far as that list goes, I like to put on big fluffy slipies. I like to put on big sweats, big thick socks. And I even went to this like shitty Ross type store and just found like, um, it's called Gables or Gables or Gables. And I just bought like a gigantic five extra large sweatshirt to sit around in. I'm like, if I'm going to sit around the house and by, I can wear a two XLT, I can wear three XLT, this thing is like five XLT. And I'm like, I'm not going to sit around and be uncomfortable in a world where my fucking sleeves ride up when I'm sitting on. I don't want any sleeve riding up to happen. I'm also starting to have morning bowel movements, which I never used to have.

I know you got your own issues. I pee in the middle of the night. Fucking old ass, man. My stream is still solid, though, so at least we got that. Anyway, more to come.