The Josh Innes Show - Drunken Ramblings About Luther and Our Car

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

Well, the wine has been flowing so we continue to talk. We've never fully told the story about when our buddy Luther died. So here's our story. Also, Jilly wants to get rid of our crappy car that is fully paid off. I'm against this. If you like drunken ramblings, this is for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I filled up our wine. It's, you know, damn near midnight on Monday night into Tuesday, and I'm like, fuck it. I don't have a job. Very irresponsible of me. Well, it is what it is. But here we are. We had a nice little steak for dinner tonight.

We got the chuck eye steaks. If you get the eye of a chuck roast, it's like a poor man's filet, basically. Poor man's ribeye. And it's solid. It's solid. I love it. Very, basically. Poor man's ribeye. And it's solid. It's solid. I love it. Very, very good. Dude, let me tell you.

It was for $9. We got two big, thick chuck eyes. And it's tender. It's tasty. Smoked it. Then finished it off on the grill. Wonderful. And we're drinking wine.

I mean, good Lord willing, I'll find a job here in the next couple of months, but as of right now, I'm just sitting around doing nothing. Maybe in the next couple of weeks, I'll work at the movie theater. I don't know. Maybe I'll put in my resume. You have a very busy day tomorrow.

That's true. I got to take multiple cars to multiple places to get work done. Can we discuss, by the way, how you just want to hang on to the Sonata forever? Well, I do because it's irresponsible and fucking stupid to buy another car it is but the sonata is up to like 223 000 miles it's over it's actually over 230 000 miles i underestimated how much you drive because

basically i've gifted you this car well thank you i appreciate that that's awful nice of you both of the cars are technically in my name so i'm'm just worried, like, I know now we're just talking, now we're just shooting the shit, right? So, like, is it worth it to, like, move two cars to a new state if we get a job somewhere and then have to re-register both cars? Yes! Because, I mean, depending on such, then I'll still... But how much money are you putting into the Sonata every month? Oh, look, if I have to keep putting money into it, eventually, once we move, I'll get rid of it. Because you're already paying. I mean, we're probably,

how much do you spend per month on this thing? It had brake pads the other month we talked about. Now it's got a check engine light on. Yes, but I don't think the check engine light's anything serious. I'm taking that in tomorrow. I don't believe it to be anything serious. You drive it like 3,000 miles a month.

Well, look, I gotta stop that. I agree. I'm irresponsible but that said it's even more responsible when you know again i to buy another i'm not gonna buy another car if anything i'm gonna try to save some money and maybe buy a used car but i'm not gonna go buy a new car and have to pay 500 a month on that fucker you're paying 500 a month for the sonata well if i look i can be more responsible with the Sonata. I can be more responsible. Look, there's no reason to go out and take on more debt when you still have something that's

paid for. I agree with you, but the car has 230,000 miles on it. But we don't know how many miles this engine actually has on it. The engine was replaced at 80,000. Okay, so it's good. It's got like 150,000 miles on it it's still it's kicking it's a refurbished engine it was covered by warranty thank you very much um but it's not gonna last forever i'm not saying it is but as of right now when a motherfucker ain't got a job or nothing i'm and i and i got you know debts i'm paying off i'm not gonna take on another one yes but the question is do we take it when you get a job and if we move? Because registering a car is a pain in the ass.

It's expensive to do. You know what else is expensive to do? Is it going to pass an inspection? Probably not. Well, and if it's a... The headlight doesn't work. The headlight works. It just points upward,

and that's one of them. That's the driver's side headlight. A clip went missing, so it points upward, but it's there, and it looks like it's on the back taillight works 28 of the time it depends on how you jigger it so you see what i'm saying i get it we're gonna see what happens we'll see what happens but i'm i certainly don't

want to get car by the way outlive luther understand. Yeah. It's that's credit to the car. The car's had a hell of a run, but again, like, I don't know that like I got, you know, I'm still paying off credit card debts and all sorts of other shit and loan debts.

I'm not going to go in and be like, Hey, I'd like to buy a car. Like, I mean, if anything, like, well,

and we're not going to like, we're not going to pile on the miles of the car we just bought. It's already got way more miles than it should. Cause we've, we've done some road trips this year. Well, again we're not going to pile on the miles of the car we just bought. It's already got way more miles than it should because we've done some road trips this year. Again, people drive fucking cars. So if you're going to go places, you're going to drive a fucking car. Yes, but not everyone makes road trips. The average is like $12,000 to $15,000 a year. We put probably $50,000 on that Sonata.

Oh, yeah, the Sonata, yes. The other car, no. The other car will be, it'll end up. No, the other car's going to end up about maybe 14,000, which isn't bad considering all the road trips. But we don't want to just pile on the miles because I've got a seven-year lease on that bad boy. I need to refinance.

Yeah, so either way, I haven't had to buy a car in a long time. And when I did, I got myself into some bad moves and it cost me a lot of fucking money. I had a car volunteer I got one car repossessed one voluntarily it's very different now than those times like at some point you're going to have to buy a car I will but as of right now I got thousands of fucking dollars I'm paying off on other shit and I gotta find a job and if we're being honest I got myself in way the fucking over my head on the rent on this place. Because I thought when I came to fucking St. Louis, I'd be getting like live endorsement money and shit.

And it would make up for it. Newsflash fucking wasn't. So I'm paying way too much fucking money on the rent on this. But it's also you don't want to move to most neighborhoods in this fucking town because most of them are fucking slums. And I mean, to be fair, I'm not saying to buy a new car in Missouri because Missouri fucks you. I think we've talked about this before that they make you pay all the taxes up front. So my $4,000 in savings bonds I had for my entire life.

And I thought this would be a great down payment. Literally like 1,500 of that went to the down payment. And the other part went to pay the taxes just to get the fucker registered yeah so like in most places they include the tax title and license your payment yeah no here to get the car you have to go to the fucking dmv or whatever give them like literally 2700 it's fucking bullshit don't move to missouri it's a shithole they charge you property tax on any car you own correct miss. Missouri fucking sucks. So I'm not saying to buy a car here right now.

But if you get a job and we're moving out of state, I would consider saying we probably need to, we discussed, donate the Sonata to charity rather than move it with us because it's not going to pass an inspection. You keep funneling money into it. We were funneling money into that thing before i bought the the equinox i get that but again like i i don't want to live in a life here where i'm constantly fucking just my whole check goes to paying all this shit off and then i got nothing you know you need a car i understand that you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna go find a fucking beater i'd love to have have my old truck that I had. It's funny with the benefit of hindsight.

Because looking back on it, when I got my first truck, I was 16. That was in 2002 for Christmas. Dad bought me a truck. It was a 1997 GMC Sierra. So the truck itself was only about five years old. Had mag wheels on it. It was a cool bench seat single cab green had a cd player in it nice truck and i looked at that then i'm like this is really kind of neat and then i

graduated two years later my dad got me a different truck but i look back on that now and i think that my buddy still has his truck from high school like he still uses that for a lot of his driving like he just never got rid of it and i'm like fuck what i wouldn't give to just have the truck that i was driving when i was a fucking kid but when you're 16 you don't know this shit i'll tell you what set my life into a downward spiral financially is when i was 21 and my dad said josh i think you need to buy a car and start making payments on that was terrible advice dad, who I already had multiple trucks that he had paid for, like he bought them for me as gifts in high school. Does he want to buy you another one? Well, I'll ask. Christmas is coming up. Dad, if you're listening, look,

I'll take a beater, okay? But so my dad was like, you should go get a new truck and make payments on it. So the first thing I had, I was paying like 300 bucks a month on a Dodge Ram back when they were called Dodge Rams, not just Rams, a Dodge Ram 1500 and cool. And it was a great truck, red striking. So the problem is I was only making like after taxes and everything, like, I don't know, $600 a month. And my dad was like, you should go get an apartment and all this shit. And I did all this shit. And I never had fucking money. Then I went to Houston and got a job. I was making $35,000 a year to live in Houston when I moved there. And at that point, your dad said, just leave the apartment.

Don't worry about breaking the lease. Well, I mean, I had no other choice. I wasn't going to not go to Houston. No, but you know if you would have told them, hey, I need to break my lease, they work with you. That's how I've gotten out of many of a lease having to move for radio. Your dad literally told you just leave and stop paying and that got you into a lot of fucking debt to the point they wouldn't even let us rent that apartment yeah if you recall well but listen i have fought through many things so i will i will overcome much better shape now you say you

have debt now which you do but i do if you were get a car, it's not going to be like in 2000, what was that, 2013 when you bought that truck and your credit was like 300? I was paying like $700 a month to drive a truck. It was stupid. And then I traded it in for an endorsement and got another truck that cost me even more. I was just moved back. Dude, and then I surrendered that truck. It wouldn't be like that now, but yes, I understand. But I'm saying if we

move, which hopefully we do. Look, if we don't move, I'm drinking fucking Drano. That means I didn't get a goddamn job. You're on your own after that. I'm gonna go walk out into the fucking street and have one of these old people that don't stop at the stop signs out here. I'm gonna let them run my ass fucking over if we don't get a goddamn job. If you don't

get a job by the time the lease is up in this place in March, we're going to have to move to literally like the slums. Yes. Or my dad's house. Those are our options. Then we're not bringing the Sonata. All right. Well, that's a deal. If we have to move to dad's house, if I don't know.

When we move anywhere, I really think you need to consider like the Sonata is not going. The cars don't make it. Then fuck the Sonata. Get rid of the Sonata. I don't give a shit at this point. If it bothers you so much, fuck the Sonata. No going, the cars don't make it. Then fuck the Sonata. Get rid of the Sonata. I don't give a shit at this point. If it bothers you so much, fuck the Sonata. No, it doesn't bother me. I like that you have it to do things during the day,

but I'm wondering if it's worth it to, again, you, Mr. Spoiled Princess over here, you don't have to go through the process of changing a state and changing registration and getting a title. It's not fun. i get all that and if but the sonata is not going to pass an inspection if we move somewhere that requires an inspection then fuck it we'll get rid of it but i'm gonna need to take that other car to work no you're gonna have to get a car all right good and by the time we move somewhere and i probably i'll be broke but I'll be driving some fucking car.

Well, other people have debt, and other people have cars. I understand that. But not other people. We're former radio celebrity types, got to drive free cars forever, and then have to get a car. That's not going to happen. You've been so spoiled. Like, the last time you, well, yeah, we talked about the last time you made a car payment was when, you know, it was $700 a month. Yeah, and I voluntarily surrendered that $700 a month. Yeah.

And I voluntarily surrendered that car. It was like 2013. Correct. You've been in a car payment since 2013. Correct. I paid $2,500 to live in this shithole. That was the last year and a half. I understand that.

But the point still remains. You make it sound like I have nothing that I've ever paid for. I pay for a bunch of shit. But at some point, you have to buy a car. You need a car. I'll take the fucking bus. I'm going to take mass transit. Wherever we move, I'm going to take the bus.

Wait, that worked really well in Philadelphia. Oh, I don't need a car. I'll take the train every night. Three days in. Hey, can you pick me up at midnight? Okay, here's the problem with the train there. I had to walk up a giant fucking hill to get home. If I didn't have to walk up that stupid fucking hill in Maniunk, I would have taken the train. The problem is, like, I had no issue walking from the radio station to Market East, get it on the train to Market East, and go to Maniunk. The problem is it's like climbing fucking McDougal Everest to get

fucking home. Okay. It was bullshit. So of course I didn't want to walk. It's fucking midnight and I'm walking up, I mean, a mile of a fucking hill to get there. Fuck that. So no, I w I was wrong on that, but I had no issue taking a train. if the train took me right to home or relatively close to home I'd take the fucking train I'm not I'm not going to ascend a fucking mountain to get fucking home especially like in the snow which I had to do all the time fuck that so

no I understand like it's gonna be expensive to move that sucks all this shit right but like in the first few months of relocating you're going to have to get a car. Okay. That's fine. I'll figure that out.

But maybe once I get the podcast, maybe I'll be flush with cash at some point. Maybe I'll find a golden job that I stay at for 10 years. Maybe. Or you'll just keep making first quarter parlays until you make enough for a car payment each month. Look, solid strategy. There are people, I'm going to become a professional sports gambler. Look, I know this is the famous last words. If I were disciplined,

I'd be a god of this shit. I'd be Jimmy the fucking Greek. Your one bet won like a thousand bucks tonight. Take some of that out. Yeah, but that doesn't include the shit I lost. Oh, Lord. So, yes. The whole point of this conversation is I don't know if it's worth it to move with a

car that has 230,000 miles on it. That's fine. And a light that points upward and doesn't illuminate the road when you drive. And the taillights that sometimes work and sometimes don't. And the weird noise it makes. And that it's now burning oil. Okay. That was big.

No, it used to be able to go at least like 5 000 would be pushing it you could at least get probably 4 000 on that it was about 37 here's the here's what killed the oil this time i just sit around in the car all day and bet on shit and and and well yeah that does okay so that was more of the problem like that's not an issue look engine light is on okay and i think the guy said that's an evaporations emissions issue you know it won't pass like that won't pass well that's why i'm going to see the motherfuckers tomorrow and i got a new gas cap hold on these motherfuckers down the street they're great by the way they're fantastic for auto it's that's the best part about

living where we live is the sonato has the sonata the son is the Sonata has to be in the shop so much that we have a place right down the street that we can walk to. Before we bought the Equinox, I would just walk Luther down the street and we would sit in the waiting room of this fucking place. They like knew Luther. The Sonata is there so much. Here's what I think the issue is. So I was smelling gas at one point. But here's what I think the issue is so I was smelling gas at one point but here's what I think the issue was I think it's a gas cap issue so I bought a new gas cap because the gas cap doesn't click I bought a new gas cap today hasn't clicked in two years well now it clicks and um and I'm

gonna take it in there and I'm gonna say hey take a look at this they're gonna say hey we don't really see anything wrong with it I bet they will find something they won't I'm going to take it in there and I'm going to say, hey, take a look at this. They're going to say, hey, we don't really see anything wrong with it. Oh, I bet they will find something wrong with it. They won't. I'm telling you what's going to happen. And it won't be because they're like trying to steal money because I actually think these guys are really good about telling you what's actually wrong because it's a little local place. But they'll find something. Nope.

They're going to say what we think here is like it maybe set off a false thing because of like the gas cap and you've replaced the gas cap. So we're just going to turn the check engine light off. I think that's my bet on what happens. But yet nobody can fix the headlight. Well, no. Well, I've gone to see multiple people and there's apparently this important clip that's missing and the fucking light will not stay in place.

I've gone to dealerships. I've gone everywhere. They're like, listen, I can't fix this. And then everybody thinks the bulb in the back is out. It's not. It's some electrical issue that's causing that. But every now and then, if you situate it just right, it'll work. Electrical work on cars. At that point, I would say

you're right, and goodbye Sonata. But until that point, I'm going to ride this bitch into the ground. As long as I don't drive the Sonata at night, we're fine. But it's about to start getting dark at 5 o'clock. Then I will be home at 4.59 with the Sonata at night, we're fine. But it's about to start getting dark at 5 o'clock. Then I will be home at 4.59 with the Sonata. Also, do you know how many miles it would save if you didn't

drive to Illinois every day? Yes, but what the fuck else would I do during the day? That's my job! Walk around the neighborhood park? Great! I'll walk around the neighborhood park. You know what'll happen there? I can't bet on Ukrainian table tennis there and win money.

Oh, the Sonata. I guess we're coming up on the, let's see, I bought that in August of 2012. So we're coming up on the, well, we just passed the 12-year anniversary. How about that shit? Again, it outlived Luther. What I need to do is find a truck somewhere that like an old man owned and didn't drive much that's like 20 years old like a fucking like a

Z71 from like 1993 or something someone who died and just has their truck left behind correct and like they've had this truck forever never really drove it a lot and then died not like and not even I'm not talking about a truck from the last 20 years I'm talking about some shit from like 1995

insurance would be cheaper on it too like i'm talking like a silverado from 1995 i'm talking about a gmc sierra i'm talking about a ram from 1995 that's what i'm looking at here i bet it's out there again if we move and i say if i hopefully hopefully we move oh god again and i mean this and i mean this wholeheartedly i will jump into traffic if we're not moved by the next couple of months because it means I failed at life, and here I am out of work again, Gary U.S. Bond style. My salary can't pay the rent, to be honest. It cannot.

Maybe the combination of that and unemployment. Basically, I've got until the end of fucking February to find where we where we're gonna go i saw there was a job opening in houston at iheart it said um let me it doesn't say what station it is you should i'm already in the company you should right now it's houston iheart and uh it says uh well, first of all, there is also a job in Omaha that's open for a farm director for Omaha, Nebraska. So I don't know if that means you're like Les Nesman and you do hog reports or what. That would be actually fantastic. But this one says, morning show co-host in Houston, but it doesn't say what station. Now, the iHeart stations are the Beat, and the Beat airs the Breakfast Club.

So they're not looking for a morning co-host. I would imagine KTRH is not looking for— They're looking for a morning show local. I doubt that. To read the traffic and whatnot. That could be. KTRH I don't think is looking for anybody. I don't think Sean's looking for anybody at 790.

So then you've got Sonny, which is just Dana, and it used to be Dana and Jay, so maybe they're looking for Dana and Josh. There was the other guy. There was not another guy. Anthony. Who's Anthony? He was the producer who basically became the coach. Oh, I didn't know that. So I don't think they need anybody. And then there's Rod Ryan, and I don't know if anybody's leaving the Rod Ryan show that they need a

producer. As you know, we're best friends from our time and seeing Rod when we were in Houston last. Maybe I'll shoot him an email and be like, hey, you guys looking for someone? You need some guy to read the news on your show? Here I am. Welcome. So yeah, I don't fucking know. But there is

an I Heart Morning Show co-host opening in Houston. I'm not really a co-host type, but can you imagine me being the dude that just reads the sports scores on a Rod Ryan show? I'd probably— I like how you started with Vandy and Lopez. You come back, the third guy.

Well, here's the problem. Fourth guy. Fifth guy. I don't know how many people are on Rod's show now. And then, boy, talk about coming full circle. My dad's like, what would happen if you tried to get a job back in Baton Rouge? I go, Dad, I would hang myself in your closet is what would happen like if you tried to get a job back in Baton Rouge I go dad I would hang myself in your closet is what would happen like I wouldn't mind like I have nothing against Baton Rouge whatever but if my life turned to this where it's like boy you were in Houston and

Philadelphia and Nashville and you were on in Detroit and all these cities and all this you came to St. Louis if my life turned and they're like here's Josh talking up records in Baton Rouge I'd be like you know what I failed and you know what else and this is gonna sound terrible yeah but this is something that you and i both have not had to deal with because we've moved so much the pressure of living in the same city as your family like it sounds great like oh we're close to family this is awesome you know holidays we can visit whenever we want have dinner whenever we want but then you're also like tasked with hey do this or hey do that or hey we need you to come here yeah that's a lot i don't want that pressure i don't like it's one thing to be five hours away and you're like hey i'm gonna come to

town this particular weekend to see you it's another thing and it's like hey are you guys around do you guys mind watching our dogs i don't want to watch your dogs i don't want to live that life i like be you know a movie that we didn't mention is uh the christmases the four christmases where they try to avoid their families we are four christmases i try like and i love your family and my i love my family but yeah it's kind of like i'm just like i just want to be like out of the way you know that's kind of how i operate but shit man we would be the assholes flying to like well i'd say cancun but we don't we not fiji because we don't have passports not cancun where are you guys flying denver lehigh valley to see grew yep that's it we flew to allentown

to this for christmas to go see our friends so you didn't come home for Christmas, but you flew to the, to Allentown. Yeah. Yeah. But there's some, there's decent breweries, micro breweries. There's that we wanted to see while our friend grew. And we'd be on the news.

You guys are flying to Allentown? Yeah, that would be it. So fuck, I don't know, man. It would be four Christmases. So hopefully some sort of job pops up.

Um, we'll report back cause you're going to get the diagnostics on the Sonata tomorrow morning. Yeah, I think, here's my prediction. This will be very exciting. I've got a bold prediction on the Sonata and it's that they're going to say, eh, we don't see much wrong here.

Okay, I'm going to... Let me tell you, I went so long in not getting the oil change and that because I wasn't really thinking. When I pulled up, the guy goes, you need an oil change, don't you? I said, yeah. He goes, I can hear it. Well, yeah, because it used to get 5,000

miles until you just sat in it for two hours. But no, but the problem is, so I knew something was funny. I don't know a lot about cars. I'm a basic, but it was making this noise and I'm like, that's not right. And I should probably go get an oil change, but I'll try to ride this out as long as possible. I pull up and the guy goes, you realize there's no oil in this. I'm like, yeah, I figured. You're trying to stretch the life of the Sonata and there's no oil in it. That's my fault. You're destroying my car.

I blessed you with this car. Don't be bitchy, Jilly. I will be bitchy. I blessed you with this lovely home. You take care of that fucking Sonata. I will sell it. Or donate it. Yeah, you ain't going to care of that fucking Sonata. I will sell it. Yeah, you ain't gonna get shit for the Sonata. We're gonna take it to 1-877-CARS

for kids and they're gonna be like hey, here's a $500 tax deduction. Actually, Ronald McDonald House does the paperwork for you. Alright, well we're gonna go there. 1-877-RONALD-MACDONALD-HOUSE Also, not to be morbid, but to your point about, oh oh we're gonna take it tomorrow and

they're gonna say everything's fine you said that about luther oh not to be morbid bitch we've never talked about this look okay there was nothing that could be done for luther i thought he'd be fine look that's i'm gonna just tell you here's the reality of me i'm going to tell you every time that everything's going to be fine i don't feel like dealing with like well i'm gonna say that's what men do that's let me tell you about the reality of being a man in a relationship you say that everything is going to be fine until it's not fine that's how men operate that's what we do and that started with our fathers and their fathers before them and their fathers before them to fucking gang us goddamn con and jesus that's how shit works.

You would say everything's going to be fine. That's what you do as a man. There are certain things that men do. And one of them is, I think everything's going to be fine. Now, in my defense, I assumed it would be. I did not know that when we took our dog in to get a fucking thing, they'd be like, your dog's going to die in like a day. No, in like four hours.

They're like, listen, if if this goes he doesn't have much so like that sucked you're right we have not talked about that on the podcast i get that but like holy shit i didn't expect that i didn't anticipate here's when i started thinking that shit was probably no good like when we would get luther into the car and like he was like struggling to breathe i'm like this is probably not good i don't think he's got just some basic issue i think that was the day that we took him to the radiologist yeah and then the vet to uh to say goodbye we said see you later but up until that we were in the emergency room the night before and you were still like that's fine well because the bitch in the emergency room didn't lead me to believe that there was anything that was gonna fucking kill him

like tell me the goddamn truth but she was like i mean no one no one said hey i think he's gonna die they're like hey we want to keep him overnight we're like no we probably just want to bring him home then the next day like he's struggling so we're like well we made the appointment to go to the the the mri or whatever the fuck the thing was the ultrasound and they're like uh by the way like he's probably not gonna make it i'm like well shit this is no good like you need to consider talking to your kids about euthanasia we're like yeah we don't have kids we don't have kids it's just us sobbing in this room yeah it's so embarrassing when you sit there and you're crying because like your dog's gonna die and like there's

people sitting in the other room and you're like god i don't want to cry in front of these people but there i was crying in front of these fucking people like that that's when it that's when i figured okay this is reality but as a man it is not your job to tell people like you know what i don't think it's gonna make it you just lie and you say everything's gonna be okay now in my defense i assumed everything would be okay i am an optimist it is wild and i'm not blaming anybody for this because like you had to have the board certified uh radiologists see it and I guess there's only like a handful of board certified veterinary radiologists in the country but I mean we went Saturday that Saturday he died on a Monday and we went Saturday to our vet and we were supposed to go to Def Leppard and Journey that

night and I was like I don't know that we should go because we were spending the night he was gonna board I'm like I don't know he's still throwing up he's not eating and then the doctor was like you don't see anything that's of any immediate concern so boredom he's got like a uti he'll be fine for the night yeah then the next day we took him to the emergency vet and then the next day he died and the emergency vet they they said i mean i knew something was wrong but they couldn't they can't tell you that because they're not board certified. So again, I'm not blaming anybody. The emergency vet was great. Our vet was great.

But we were a day away from my worst nightmare happening. Yes, where he just dies in daycare. Yes. Well, here's why I'm glad it happened this way, though, too, is I would have hated to have been in a situation where he's dying in front of us and we can't help him. This way at least like he came home i made him a steak and i'm a bit of a steak master yeah you smoked it and everything i did well so basically how it worked is we woke up i worked like a normal day you went to go bet like a normal day he sat on the couch like a normal day

well wait a second this was different though because i still had a job at the time yes it was a monday yes um but we had the appointment originally scheduled for thursday and then we This was different, though, because I still had a job at the time. Yes. It was a Monday. Yes. But we had the appointment originally scheduled for Thursday, and then we went to the emergency room on Sunday. They were like, you need to move that up tomorrow, do the abdomen and the chest X-ray, or the ultrasound. So we had them scheduled for, I think, 1030 on Monday. I hurried up and finished my shit.

We went over there at 1030. That's when he was not breathing well in the car at all yeah the ultrasound people like oh does he need oxygen i'm like oh shit like should we be here at the emergency vet like what are we doing yeah then i called my boss my former boss and i was like i don't think i'm gonna make it in bro because i don't think my dog's gonna make it yeah because they told us you need to consider euthanasia so that was at probably oh i don't know't know, 1115, maybe 1130. And then we called our vet while we were sitting in that room at the radiologist and said, yeah, I think we need to. Because we talked to them earlier in the morning and she knew exactly what it was.

And by four o'clock was our appointment. So we had about four hours. Yeah. So I made a mistake. He laid here. He was fine. He seemingly fine when he wasn't doing anything. But at the end there, like he couldn't really get up and do much.

He couldn't walk. Yeah. So I was happy that we took him in because he was very peaceful, just laid on the floor at the vet. And the vet was very nice. And it was nice. Like I'm glad. That was honestly the, it sounds horrible to say that was the best part of that whole three day

experience. That was the most calming part. That was like the most, like she was so great. Our vet was amazing. Um, we brought his little toy and his bed, but that was like the,

I'm glad we did it how we did it yeah i agree it was very nice it was a nice thing and he was very peaceful and um and there and that then that's how it went and that was he's asked me like what because i've gotten tweets before like well you didn't know he was sick like no i'm like we thought it was just like a pancreatitis we had blood work done six days before that. And they're like, yeah, his pancreas might be a little inflamed. Let's just like cool it on the trees like normally. It's something we've dealt with before.

By the way, there was no way that there was anything that was going to stop this. This was something, it's like trying to stop AIDS essentially. Like I'm using that as a comparison, but like there are certain things are ALS. Like there's no stopping ALS. I don't remember the name of the actual, it's the main, not valve, it's the main something that like. Basically, they said that eventually he was going to have so much fluid in his chest that he was going to drown. Yes, it was like a giant tumor that went from his adrenal gland

to his stomach to his lungs. And the vet even told us, no, these things happen in a matter of days. It's not really an issue and then boom it is so i was like you know what that's the right move he was very peaceful at the end there and they it was very nice and there you go and now we're seeing if we can find another dog hopefully we move when we find another dog it's weird though because like part of me almost feels guilty about another dog because i'm like he hated dogs he did and i'm like like and i almost feel bad because i'm like I'm not gonna like

that dog as much as I like Luther. Luther's my bud but maybe I will maybe you're probably gonna be like your dad and call him Luther 17 times he's gonna be like raising Cain here's like here's Luther 11 you know or here's Mike the Tiger 6 like that's gonna be me with

a dog I don't know. You should look for the sign like Luther will tell us when it's the right dog because you've you've been on pet finder more than me like i'm always like stop stop stop we can't do one right now yeah but um i think we'll know like oh that's the one yeah probably but we'll see you know um it really was unexpected like i mean you joked that you were like oh everything will be fine yeah fine. Yeah. Day, like, four, I was kind of like, eh. No, I get it. But, you know, I'm an optimist. So I'm, you know, I shoot for the best.

Well, anyway, that's what's going to happen with the Sonata. So, long story short, one day, tomorrow I'm going to go in and they're going to say, listen, you need to put the Sonata down. Yes, exactly. Exactly what's going to happen. We'll see. And what sucks is you have to drive past that radiology office every time you go to the Total Wine. So every time we want to get our bow

to box, we have to see the place where we found that our dog was going to die. And technically you have to drive by the vet where he was put down. Okay, but the vet doesn't bother me because it was such a good experience and the vet was wonderful and I could get the card and we can read it if you want because it made me so happy but the place where we found out that was it and we had like three hours to go that one i'm like oh fuck and that's the one that's really on the way to the total one you

don't have to drive by the vet to go to total wine speaking of like so i i talked about luther dying on the show i used to have a radio show on a rock station uh by the way is not what you want to talk about originally no but here we are so i go in and i i spent nine minutes i'm not supposed to talk for nine fucking minutes on this oh now i'm gonna make you read the card too and and by the way these they probably knew they were gonna fire me by the time my dog died they probably knew that they were a month from firing me anyway. But I'm like sobbing on the radio. My boss, who never gives me compliments on shit, is like, hey, dude, that was pretty good.

It was nice. And then like two weeks later, I got fucking whacked. What a bad stretch. You were talking about a bad stretch. Dog dies on like July 9th. I get fired August 1st. LSU loses to USC four weeks later. What a bad time.

What is this? This is the card from our vet. Card from our vet. Okay. Kirkwood Animal Hospital. I am truly sorry about our loss of sweet Luther. He was so very loved. Thank you for loving him so much.

Thank you for letting him go with dignity. His little body was tired. He is at peace, truly knowing love. We will miss him too. Sincerely, Sarah Hormuth, DMV. Well, that's very nice. And everybody sent us flowers. We got flowers.

I don't know that I ever talked about this. So when Luther died, the vet sent us flowers, I believe. No. Oh, his daycare sent us flowers. And Chewy.com sent flowers. Chewy, the website sent us flowers. So we got flowers. We got cards.

We got people sent us random shit. Like, people don't realize how important fucking dogs are and i'm and i get it people will say i'll fuck you you know people that care about their dogs more than humans yeah i fucking do go fuck yourself a random a random listener sent a lantern my old boss andy sent a book about dogs going to heaven and what dog heaven is like crystal and travis sent us this uh this Tumblr with Luther's picture. Let me tell you something, man. People talk about dogs like, oh, it's just fucking dogs. It ain't, bro. It ain't. And look, I know I'm hammered on the wine right now and that's all well and good,

but let me tell you something. People act like you're an asshole if you think a dog is more important than a human. And I'll be real to you. Look at this election and look at the people on social media and the dumb shit people say. Dogs't say dumb shit on fucking twitter dogs aren't fucking evil dogs don't hate you because of who you vote for dogs don't root for alabama like assholes dogs are just good fucking people also one more thing about the vet experience the uh the the euthanasia yeah our vet super sweet we brought his toy his badger which is still down here on the floor with his bed by his little shrine over here. And she's like, well, do you want him to take the badger with him? And everybody's like, yes.

And you're like, no, no, no. I want the badger. And then she's like, OK, don't worry. I'm going to cut a little piece of the fur, put it with him. And then he was cremated with a piece of his toy. I'm like, ma'am, my heart. I know. Like, are you kidding me?

And she's like sobbing, too. I'm like, god, my heart. I know. Like, are you kidding me? And she's like sobbing too. I'm like, God damn it. I know. And we got like his paw print and some of his fur and all that shit. And that's like, it's not awkward, but it's like, it's such an experience. Yeah. Because you walk out of the vet, you've got the leash and the harness. And people are looking.

They know what happened. Yeah. The whole reception reception all the nurses everybody and you're like you're like well have a good night everybody it's such a surreal thing but let me tell you i would rather that than waking up one day and the dog is dead in his bed or like 100 so like i'm glad that he got it she said go out with dignity that was like let me tell you something dogs are better than people. People are evil.

Of all the questioning I do about every fucking thing. Everything. I never questioned that decision. Yeah, it was the right decision. And I didn't want him to be in pain. It would have been selfish to keep him in pain. Like a couple days, like even be like, oh, we just want to do this, this and this. No, he wouldn't have enjoyed any of it.

Like we that's the one thing about this entire, I regret boarding him, I regret this, I question that. I do not question calling the moment we found out and saying, can we come in today? Yes. And that worked out well. And you had like 12 years with the dog. I know that some people get 15

and there's some of these assholes on Twitter or on Instagram who are like, Sadie is 27. I'm like, well, fuck you. But, like, 12 years is a pretty good run. Or I guess he was 12. 12 and a half. And we had him since the end of 2012. So he was about one or so, about 10 months.

So, look, he's a wonderful puppy and everybody loved him. So, like, it is what it is. It sucks, but that's the circle of life, man. So the way I looked at it is like my mom's husband died and she functions every day and has to figure out how to function. So for me, I'm like, if my mom can figure out how to function without her husband, I have to suck it up and figure out how to function without my dog. But early in the process, the hard part was trying to find meaning in doing anything like waking up in the morning like when i'd wake up in the morning it was hey take the dog out then

go for a walk and then we'll go to a park that was the hardest part i had and then you got fired which make it even worse oh god yeah like when i wasn't last time you were fired we were fired you had luther and like we took him everywhere we did all this shit and then like this time i was like oh lord and that was literally i I guess what Luther died July 8th. And then you got fired August 1st. Yeah, I got fired like three weeks later. And like, I don't know if they've like, I'm sure they knew they were going to fire me for probably a month or two. They probably let it slide for two weeks.

They're like, shit, this poor bastard's dog died. We'll fire him in August. Put our real people that we love back on the air and say, go fuck yourself, Josh. We think you suck. I still don't think they think you suck. Well, they may not. Fuck it.

Who cares? And I know I don't. I'm fucking awesome. But the point in all this is it punches you right in the face. When it rains, it pours type of situation. And that was my biggest concern is I don't know what the fuck to do with myself. Even when I had a job, I'm like, what responsibility do I have now? What is my, like, what do I do?

And that was the part that was the worst for me. But, you know, I'm glad that Luther's not suffering because he was probably in pain for a while. But anyway, you know, it is what it is. And you go on living life, you know life. It's all you can do. So whatever. One of the last me too was better. Like, well, isn't that awful that you found out you had four hours?

I'm like, I don't know. I think I would have been a fucking wreck if it was like, hey, he's probably got two, three weeks. Yeah, that would have just been a painful thing. I didn't know that I could have done that. And I couldn't have done like the because in that two or three weeks, it's also very possible that you wake up one day and he's like on the verge of death too. So like, I didn't want him to be in pain.

And like when they give him this, this shot that gradually, you know, kills him, it's like, he seems peaceful. He's laying on his toy. Like that,

that was nice, you know, but the, I also will give a shout out to the radiologist who was very nice. And I, I assume he has to do this. What a shitty fucking job to be the guy that walks in and you're like by the way your dog's gonna die you might want to put him down has cancer like i feel like very rarely would you get good news from a radiologist correct but he was great and i even asked him like well okay we

have to put him down that's sucks okay but like what is like if we want to do it at home? And he's like, listen, we have at-home services that do that, but just know that every time you see a spot, you're going to be like, wow, that's where he died. Well, like a friend of ours had his dog, like they did that at home, and he said he was happy he did it.

I don't think I would have liked that. At the time, we thought we'd be living here longer. That's correct. As it turns out, he could have died here because my career died here too it's as it turns out luther died at the vet my career died right here at uh in on woodbine avenue and kirkway we'll have great memories of st louis yeah what i mean i'm be glad to get the fuck out of here i thought this was going to be like the fucking home run of all home runs we've talked about like we want another dog obviously but now like i mean the original plan was when luthi died we had ally's wedding we had a trip to houston planned and then we're like okay well september

we'll start looking seriously then you got fired august 1st and i'm like fuck financially and if we're gonna move in a few months does it make sense to get a dog right now? Probably not. And maybe that's why I want to wait. Like, okay, this is Luthi's place. Then we move, we start fresh. I think that's a fair way to look at things. And none of the dogs we've seen have been like, oh, it just makes total sense.

Some are like thousands of miles away. Some are whatever, you know. And I kind of want a dog that's got a story. Like there are some dogs that you'd see on the internet. They're so fucking cute. And you're like, someone's going to adopt them in five minutes and they're going to pay $800 for this dog. Like, you know how I feel about the adoption shit. Like you ain't adopting a dog. You're buying the fucking dog. Like it's $500 and some places are cheaper. Some are more expensive. Like there are some of these dogs I've seen where they're like, adoption fee, $800.

That ain't a fucking adoption. That's a purchase. But I don't want to be in a situation where some dog that could get adopted in five seconds. I don't want to be in the situation where there's a dog that has 75 applications and we're in a competition to get the dog. No, I want a dog that's been in there for like 100 days and like somebody they've been ignored.

Now, granted, I also have the idea of a kind of dog I want, but I don't want, like this sounds horrible, but I don't want a dog that sheds and shit. I don't like that. But also, I want to be in a situation where we see a dog and the dog's like, you can tell he needs you right whereas like other dogs like this dog could have a hundred people that would adopt him tomorrow yeah you don't want it to be a race like oh my god we have to go without this dog now because someone else is going to

no i want a dog that's had to deal with some shit and lived a little life they found him on the streets he was matted may had parvo you know that type of shit that sounds terrible doesn't have a lot of interest correct like that that dog that rocky adopted and rocky balboa where he's like i need a dog that's kind of like me that's just you know who's been in here the longest you know that i believe like um so we adopted luther when he was 10 months and i think his paperwork intake from the shelter because they include all of that when you adopted um i think he was taken in the shelter when he was six months. So he was, he went about four months.

Yeah. So like, I'm looking for a dog like that. That's got like a story or like, I don't, I think we probably want to, didn't really have a story. No,

but like, like we probably want a boy dog. I don't know why, but that's kind of what we like. But like, what about like a mom dog that was discovered on the street? She just gave birth to like 10 puppies. Miss peaches. Oh, is that Miss peaches? A story? Yeah. Miss peaches is like in a hoarding situation. But what about a mom dog that was discovered on the street and she just gave birth to 10 puppies?

So Miss Peaches. Oh, is that Miss Peaches' story? Yeah, Miss Peaches is in a hoarding situation and had puppies and all that stuff. You know what must suck? I wonder if dog moms or mom dogs are sad that their dogs all get adopted out and they never see them again. Or is that just kind of understood? Do you think they always feel a sadness? Do you think a dog that gives by the way it's impressive how many fucking dogs a fucking dog lady uterus can fucking hold i mean i watched too cute the moms don't seem too sad

that's what i'm saying like but like what's amazing is i i follow all these dog adoption places like in nashville and shit and they'll post a video of all the dogs that were just like came from the body of this mom dog they're all suckling off the teat and shit and they'll post a video of all the dogs that were just like it came from the body of this mom dog and they're all suckling off the teat and shit and there's like 10 of them and you're like how did those 10 fucking dogs exist in that little dog belly it's fucking wild and then um but then like i don't know if they're like i mean i guess dogs view things differently like you give birth you feed these dogs and eventually they go away like maybe you just you're not programmed to think i'm gonna have my babies forever but i don't know but then you know who gets fucked in most of

this is the mom dog that's got the big nipples hanging down nobody wants that dog and then like that's a nice story you know fuck dave deserves credit for that like i know a lot of people fucking hate dave and they're like oh he's just doing this for the clout and whatever fuck that man he adopted that dog he takes care of that fucking dog, so fuck you. And if you just watch any of the Miss Peaches videos, like, you can't teach the dog to fake the emotion. Like, the connection they have is so cute. Like, you can't be like, all right, Miss Peaches,

we're doing this for Barstool. Let's, like, really ham it up. Like, no, that dog loves him. Yeah. Yeah.