The Josh Innes Show - Does My Dog Like Me? Update

Episode Date: April 23, 2025

I got a nice email from a listener helping me understand if my dog actually likes me. Also, I saw a lady wearing one of those old school headset radios and I started thinking about innovation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, so anytime you want to message the show, you can. Just send me an email, joshnsshow at gmail.com. It would be appreciated. I'd like you a lot for doing it. It lets me know you're there, you know, and it means I don't have to go look at Twitter or Instagram to see if you're listening. I just get a nice, fresh electronic mail in the electronic mail inbox, and I appreciate that.

So anytime you want to send an email and say hello, you can just send it to joshannesshow at gmail.com like this person did and uh this is an email that is in reference to one of the topics from yesterday is whether or not my dog likes me and if you are uninitiated sorry I had some delicious pizza for lunch I will tell you like the st louis pizza is truly like i used to think st louis pizza was great but like somewhere along the way my taste changed and i really don't like it like it's proville cheese it's this weird like weird made up cheese that's like like just it's not it it doesn't do what pizza cheese is supposed to do.

And if you catch it when it's fresh and hot, you can kind of get by. But by and large, I think it's vile. And everywhere we've gone in St. Louis to get St. Louis-style pizza, it's really not good. But the places I've gone that have Chicago-style thin crust tend to be pretty good. And today I had this amazing pizza. I posted a picture on my Instagram. Oh, I mean, it tasted just like it was right out of Chicago. Cup and char pepperonis and hot honey drizzle.

Fuck, it was amazing. I'm in a good mood just because of that. A lot of bad shit happening in the world. Can't find a job, all this shit. God damn it, the cup and char pizza at JJ Twigs in Valley Park. Thank you very much for being fantastic. It's very good. So I'm in a good mood after that. I got my Diet Coke from McDonald's. I think I drink way too many Diet Cokes now. I'm like fucking Donald Trump over here. I just drink like a thot.

And I get them all at McDonald's for like 70 cents or whatever. The McDonald's Diet Coke is so good. Just like when people say the Coke at McDonald's is good, it is. It's better than anywhere else you're going to get Coke. The Diet Coke, same thing, is better at McDonald's than it is anywhere else, period. What a day. Also, random thought. I was out walking Ross this morning before I took him to the old doggy daycare because he had to get his poops out. If you guys are interested, Ross has been having some poop issues over the last couple of weeks, very gross poops,

and we've tried different foods and stuff. Seems that we finally found something for him that's getting good, decent brown poops, not to turn you guys off and make you go, oh, my God, you go from talking about delicious cup and char pepperoni thin crust pizza to your dog's feces. Well, again, it was not doing well it was just gross and now it's doing decent but anyway i'm walking him today and more than i've seen this anywhere else st louis i've seen more people that still walk around wearing those old yellow and gray

headsets that have the radio built into the earphone you know like you know i don't know if sony made it i'm trying to think of who made this thing but you know what i'm talking about it's gray it's yellow the radio dial is like on the right ear and there's an antenna that sticks up it was kind of the newer version of the original one of those that came out where the earphones were fucking gigantic it's like you had two subwoofers on your ears but one of them had the ability to pick up radio well like I'm looking at this and I'm thinking as I'm walking by and I've got an iPhone and I've got Bluetooth headphones that I'm listening to this on I got everything in the world on my phone email text television movies porn anything you could ever want is on my phone in that moment.

And I'm watching this person walk by, and generally speaking, as you would guess, they're older people that do this, probably listening to KC95, if I had to guess. And I'm looking at this person thinking like, holy shit, 30 years ago, 35 years ago, that was like the height of innovation like imagine you're sitting around one day and you're like i'd really i want to keep listening to the radio but like i don't i don't want to put it on my bicycle or anything the radio is too big i can't stick it on my bike what do i do and then someone's like guess what motherfucker you can listen to the radio in the headphones or like when the Walkman came out.

What was the reaction when the Walkman came out? And they're like, wait a minute. You mean I've got a cassette deck that I could put on my belt and I can listen to the headphones like that? That's what I can do? And it's like, yeah, pretty cool, huh? I don't know. Innovations are interesting to me. And I think sometimes we get caught up in this world where things are so modern and so current and so lifelike.

And some instances like movies and video games and shit that you're like, we're not really amazed by shit anymore. What's going to amaze you? If there's ever a time when you can get into your car and you can go to work via flight in your car, that would be amazing. Outside of that, what amazes you? And I know I've told you this before, but the first time I saw HDTV, it was the national championship game North Carolina versus Illinois in 2005. First time I saw HDTV, I was floored. Like that's one of the last times I truly remember going, holy shit.

Like this is changing my life. But like, we don't get that very often anymore. Like movies, I think we're so numb to it that when you go to the movies and it's like, oh wow, you know, just Godzilla just ate the empire state building. Like, cool. Like, that's neat. Like imagine what it was like being someone sitting in the theater when the original King Kong came out, whatever year that was 1929 1919 1920 something whenever the og king kong came out and you're seeing this fucking big gorilla on the empire state building the people had to have been blown away by it like last night i'm on hbo max or just max and i'm looking for something to watch and I see a thing called The Rink is what it was called. The Rink. And I'm like, what is this? And I click on it. It was an old Charlie Chaplin movie, like a little 30 minute movie with the tramp and all that shit. It's a silent movie. So it's one of those movies where, you know, like the graphic pops up to tell you what people are saying. It's really poorly edited and shit. Like, it's a silent film.

Like, imagine how blown away people were whenever people started talking in movies. Something you take for granted now. Like, I mean, as long as all of us have been alive, people have been talking in movies. But imagine what it was like when someone's like, you know, we're going to the picture show tonight. And they're like, yeah, what are we going to go see?

Well, there's a new film. They're going to the picture show tonight and they're like yeah what are we gonna go see well there's a new film they're speaking in the film what like it had to have blown people away man we don't really get that anymore i think that's part of the reason why we're numb to so much shit is all the shit that's gonna happen has probably happened do you ever live with that fear that like all the shit that's going to happen has probably happened? You know, like there will be innovations, obviously. But like what could happen? Like if they one day came out and said all cancers will be cured with this, you'd go, holy shit, that's something. Or, oh, no more AIDS. Like that would be something.

But like I don't know that there's anything in the world of music or there's anything in the world of cinema or in vehicles anymore unless you can fly. What could be added? What could change that would make you go, oh, wow, that's neat because there isn't much. We're kind of spoiled in the sense that – and I say we're spoiled. I think we're the opposite of spoiled. I would have loved to have been around as more innovations innovations that we take for granted now we're coming to the forefront like color television like everybody like every tv's color imagine what it was like just sitting there and then one day oh it's all color television or oh now they talk in the movies or like i remember feeling that way when i was a

kid and the world felt that way when you'd watch certain movies still because the effects were like wow like Forrest Gump is talking to John F. Kennedy or Lieutenant Dan ain't got no legs you're like holy shit how did they do this like I don't like that we're at a point where we don't ask how people do shit anymore because shit just seems so easy now like that's why I kind of appreciate people like Tarantino who I believe and if Demir is listening to this he'll be able to tell me I think guys like Tarantino are still very big on practical effects you know like a lot of people now just go to digital and all that shit computer shit and it's easy peasy like a lot of guys still like to do practical effects and you can still truly see when it's practical versus where it's digital. Like the other day I was watching a

thing about TV shows that still use like painted backgrounds. Like when you're watching Friends and you're like, oh wow, in the background out of the window is New York. Well, no, it's not New York Friends, just a painted thing. It's amazing how like all that shit goes down. I don't know. I'm just amazed by shit. And I want to be amazed again. Like I want to see, you know know like i watch old videos of guys doing radio and these guys are doing 10 different things at once and they're hitting this button this button literally you do not have to be anywhere to do radio now you don't have to be in the studio and it's frustrating like what anyway i know you got your own problems um but anyway i'll play a couple commercials here and let me read this email because a nice person has responded to an email to Ross and whether or not my dog actually likes me.

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I have Instagram, but I suck at social media and don't know how to DM and all this. I abhor all social media, frankly, so I was glad when you tossed out the email address for the pod show. Well, thank you, Wild Bill. I too abhor social media. Really enjoy a lot of your stuff. I would text you at KC and we'd go at it a bit. I think that's why I like you. You keep it real generally, even if I don't agree with your take. A few times on air, you commented this listener has texted me and I cannot tell if they're a fan of the show or not. I got a kick out of that.

For the record, I was a huge fan of you and Scotty and told everyone I could to tune in 2-6p daily. You and I were eye to eye that the playlist needed to change there. Remember Sophie Lloyd? I do. That was you who sent that. Still stunned at what Kashi did with your show no vision which ultimately means no future for their dumb asses thank you and i'm even more stunned you didn't connect with anything yet i wouldn't have figured that you can be a real fuckhead bastard to be sure but so can we all i know i can our views are our views and the world's an imperfect place well thank you wild bill listening to you this morning I guess my first takeaway would be, and not trying to be a dick here,

but why did you guys choose Ross again? No, I like Ross a lot. I saw a picture of him on one of these sites, and he looked very sweet, and he was in Carbondale. So I reached out to the people, and it was very easy to getale. So I reached out to the people and it was very easy to get him. Look, he is a wonderful dog. I have nothing to say about him. I just don't know that he likes me very much. I have the same old dog, new dog dynamic with my little man, Louie, right now. He was a rescue dog also. We don't actually know, but we do believe he was left for dead without food or water. I'd like to ring the motherfuckers next who do that shit. I agree. Can only hope there's the motherfuckers next who do that shit.

I agree. Can only hope there's a special place in hell for these assholes. Totally agree. So after the most amazing soft coat Wheaton Terrier who ever walked this earth named Sully left me, I was in a bit of a hole, a funk. I had had a dog my entire life, and after Sully I was kind of experiencing some new freedoms.

As you're aware, pets come with certain constraints being added to our lives. So my lady goes out and, without my knowing, hands a big wad of cash to these people and shows up at the house with Louie. He was being called Sherlock at the time. Like you, we were told he's about two years old, and other than that, we weren't told shit. It's been a bit of a transition period, but it's getting there. He's super sweet to all of us, but it's so very different than my Sully. Very, very stingy with kisses. So is Ross.

Does not answer to the command come or here. Boy, Ross doesn't do that sometimes either. He charges at people walking by the house with their dogs. And I ended up apologizing and this it pisses me off sully never did stupid shit like this yes i know the life you're living give it some time bro ross is still sorting things out he probably loves his new setup and you and jilly but maybe he just doesn't know how to show guys show you guys yet remember that our pets well most of our pets want to please their master. They just need to be shown what that is. So he may not quite know how to show it, particularly in the traditional ways like Luther did. My belief is that in time, I admittedly,

I could totally be fucking wrong here. This will change. It's just taking a little longer to establish the relationship to where everyone really trusts one another right now it seems you don't know if he'll fucking take off and run away which isn't cool ross is probably unable to fully trust that this is his forever home because he's never had that he'll come around and the bond will grow i'd bet money on it because i know you guys are good fur baby parents you You get this dog owner shit and you don't have any real kids to totally fuck shit up all the time to contend with. I agree.

Also, I think it's worth noting that your boy Ross has some pretty fucking big paws to fill. Undeniably and appropriately, Luther will hold a special place in you and your wife's hearts forever and I'll go as far as to say that I doubt you've your wife's hearts forever. And I'll go as far as to say that I doubt you'll ever be both fully. I doubt you've both fully mourned Luther.

That could be true, but we may have. We had our time. Let's see. Finally, I really hate to see you and Jilly leave St. Louis, but I know you say you guys have to leave. I can fully appreciate you not feeling the vibe here any longer with all that's transpired. It bugs me that you sort of trashed the town now,

but in a way I understand that too. I just feel that if you were here still in the gig, you'd feel better about St. Louis. St. Louis was such an amazing place in her heyday, but it's hard not to notice some of the troubling changes. I have nothing against St. Louis, and look, I planned on being here for a long time, but they whacked me and there's no job for me here. So I'm not going to sit around in a town that I'm not fully, you know, in love with living in

and do that. And, and, you know, I got to find a job somewhere. Sorry for the long email. Hope you're well, best wishes to you and Jilly and all the best in the next chapter of your adventure. Listening to the pod on Shannon Sharp, and I'm typing this out. Oh boy, 100% agree on your take. And then same, I agree with the incels. I say just hire a professional. You aren't paying her for sex. You're paying her to leave. Have a good one.

Well, thank you very much, Wild Bill. That was very nice of you. I appreciate you reaching out to the pod. See, again, I wish you guys would do more of that. I would gladly respond to your emails and have a conversation with you and talk about you on the pod. So, yes, good. So Wild Bill says the dog does love us. That's good.

I truly do appreciate the dog, other than the fact that he sheds, which is something I've never had to deal with before. So I have to get up every morning and get all this hair. And the little bastard has gotten to the point where he wakes up at like six in the morning. Now I have nowhere to be. Why are you getting up at six o'clock? It's a pain in the ass. So when I get up at six, I'll take him out to pee and he'll come back in and lay down for maybe 30 minutes. But I can't even get myself to go back to sleep because I know he's going to get up. And then he'll get up and just start wandering around the house and I'm like, what the fuck is this dog doing?

So now I just get up at 6 o'clock in the morning every day. Who does that? That's people with real jobs, not unemployed jagoffs. Anyway, more to come.