The Josh Innes Show - Emotional Sunday Cry Fest

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

Hi friends! Apparently I was quite intoxicated last night. If you listened to the podcast, you already knew this. Well, it seems I stayed up for hours after Jilly went to sleep. What was I doing? I watching sad videos on Youtube and presumably sobbing. What is wrong with me? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Jamokes. What's happening? How are you? It's about 2.20 on Monday afternoon. If you listened to the two pods that were posted yesterday or after all the football, I am still alive. I can see where there'd be a thought that I'm not or I wouldn't survive given how beyond obliterated I was. But here I am, alive and living to tell about it. It's interesting, though, because last night I must have been at that certain level of intoxicated where you get emotional. And look, I did not set out to get just blackout wasted yesterday. I had bush lattes. I had some Shiner Light Blondes

that we had driven to Springfield, Illinois to procure. We drove like an hour and a half away from home just to go get this beer. We were ready for the game. And I sat there yesterday afternoon, started drinking about one o'clock sitting outside. And when it's a nice day and you sit outside, you guys know how this is nice day you're outside the beers just start going and going and going and it really wasn't bad early on but somewhere in the midst of the Texans game I guess I really just started pounding them hard like that's the problem with me especially when I drink which I most of the time drink just domestic light beer when it gets ice cold you can't even tell you're drinking beer it might

as well be water you know so you get there and you just start chug-a-lugging two gulps and it's gone and before you know it you've had like seven or eight in like an hour and you're like wow so somewhere along the way last night I got really really intoxicated and I sent a lot of random text messages to people. Then Jilly went to bed after we did that really obnoxious podcast. I listened to about two minutes of it. I'm like, holy shit, Josh, that was obnoxious. So after we did that, Jilly went to bed and I said, screw it, I'm staying up. I don't know why I was so compelled to stay up and start YouTubing things.

Well, from what Jilly tells me, I really wanted to watch the Kirk Herbstreet video where they had him on game day talking about his dog that died, and then they had his little letter that he wrote about his dog. I'm like, listen, I guess I'm at that drunk stage where I'll watch this. I didn't watch it when it happened live. I refused to watch it when it happened live because I'm not going to sit there on Saturday morning and emote at you know 10 o'clock in the morning before the football starts but I will emote when it's midnight on Sunday and Jilly's gone to bed and I'm still crushing bush lattes and shiner light blondes.

So I sat my ass on the couch and I watched that video tribute to Kirk Herbstreet's dog, Ben. And I guess that sent me just spiraling because I watched that. I'm guessing that I must have sobbed uncontrollably. That led me to my, a classic Sunday drunken josh move which is go to youtube and just start googling and searching the saddest songs and saddest shit you can find so it starts with the dog then i start looking up dogs you know greeting soldiers coming back from war. Then before you know it, I'm listening to every sad country song ever. I may have cried. I don't know what time I went to bed. I have no clue the last

time I sent anybody a text last night. I have no idea how late I was actually up. I have no concept of how late I was up. Like the last text I sent to someone last night was at like 9.30. So if that's the case, and 9.30 is the last time I sent someone a text, I know I was up well past that because we watched the end of the game. We did an hour-long pod, if you want to call it that, after the game. So I don't know what time I went to bed, how late I was up, how many more beers I consumed over that stretch of sitting on the couch and watching sad videos and videos of dogs greeting soldiers and sad country songs about fathers and sons. I don't know how long I was out there. I don't know how many beers I drank. I

don't know when I came to bed. All I know is I got really in my feels. I'm going to assume I was bawling for about, it might've been an hour. It might've been half an hour. It might've been four hours. I have no idea how long I was out on the couch, sobbing uncontrollably and like forcing myself to do it even more. Instead of just stopping to me like,

okay, we've had enough of this, Josh. I'm like, nope, we're not done until I'm completely dry. Till I got a witch's cunny in my eyes, basically. Like that dry, spider web dry.

Like I just, we're gonna go. We're gonna go until there are no tears left. That must be what happened. Because I had to have watched seemingly 400 sad music videos, listened to every song from the Luke Combs Fathers and Sons album, was looking up Tim McGraw songs. I'm just sobbing.

And I don't know how long I was out there. I have no clue how long I was out there. But I was out there, and I was really intoxicated. And I started posting. What time did I post this show? Maybe on X I can see it. But when I posted the picture of Luther on X that's how in my feels I was I was posting pictures of my dog so that was 13 hours ago at at 12 40 in the morning I posted a picture

of Luther on X so um and before that I posted another thing about watching the the game day thing at 11 57 so somewhere around 12 40 12 45 i posted multiple pictures one on x one on instagram and then i'm sure i went right back to crying uncontrollably the only time that i like i can recall just being inconsolable and it's happened i think twice at luke bryan concerts of all places so me jilly a friend taz and philly we've uh we've gone to a couple of luke bryan shows together and every time i've seen or at least at that point i've seen luke i guess four or five times now but the two times i saw luke bryan with Taz and Jilly we would take the ferry across the river and go to Camden to see the

show in Philadelphia we would go to Camden New Jersey and every time we would sing drink a beer I would just start crying and like apparently one of the times I did this it went for the rest of the show on the fucking boat back like I could not stop so I don't cry often not judging you if

you do there's nothing wrong with emoting there's nothing wrong with showing that you you have a soft side that's what the whole concept of monster ballads is every bad boy has a soft side don't know what you got till it's gone all that right, right? So every bad boy has a soft side. It is okay to emote. It is okay to get drunk and emote. It is okay to get drunk, emote, and watch sad videos on YouTube of dogs greeting soldiers when they come back from war or watching Tim McGraw videos or whatever you do. None of that is unhealthy. What might be unhealthy is doing it for about four consecutive hours. Again, no clue how long I was out there. I might've only been out there half an hour. I don't know. But however long I was out there, it was enough to search for,

I mean, I, apparently I watched a shit ton of music videos. I posted the video of it on my Instagram on the story. Like there had to to have been 30 damn music videos I watched. If they're all on average three minutes, whatever, we're talking about 90 minutes of music videos, two hours of music videos. I have no idea. And they have a wide range of topics too. Some of them are fathers and sons songs,

like everything from the Luke Combs album, which is about dads and their relationship with their kids i got songs about dead dogs i got songs about people getting in car accidents because they're texting that's highway don't care by tim mcgraw i got humble and kind by tim mcgraw like when i scroll through these i'm like this is a wild mix i got like cats in the cradle type shit i got john anderson i wish i could have been there for that i don't call him daddy by doug supernol like what the fuck it's like i sat there and i'm like listen we're gonna force these fucking tears out and we're gonna make sure they never stop you will like the song all cried out is that lisa lisa and cult jam like all cried out you got to sit there and just like you will not get up until your ass

has cried every last tear that is in your tear ducts like no it's that's how this is going to be it's like i made it it's like i was on a mission last night i was on a mission like i probably like no i'm knowing me i probably have probably have some pent up sadness and stuff because I try not to show my sadness too often, but I miss my dog. I don't walk around telling people every day. I don't sit around and cry about it every day, but I miss having my dog around. Who wouldn't miss having their dog around? So that kind of stuff builds up. Then some of it builds up that I'm pissed off that I don't have a job and that I get pissed off that I feel like this whole situation here was a fucking mess. And I wonder what the next move is going to be.

And so I have, I do have like sort of sadness slash like rage inside of me. I just don't let it all out that often. But when you consume like 30 bush lattes in an evening, I have no idea how many I had. It had to have been at least 20. And when you consume all that golden goodness and then you sit your ass on the couch and start watching the sad videos on YouTube, you've made a conscious decision to get all that shit out. And that must be what happened last night. Granted, I remember none of it. When I got up today and I looked at all the videos, there's a there's a scene in a show called californication which is one of my favorite shows ever with david ducovny and like they wake up that he and his buddy charlie

were out on a bender hank and charlie and they wake up the next day and their cars part they're in their car it's parked by the beach or whatever and um he he goes can you look at my back there's something on my back and he ends up getting a tramp stamp charlie when he was hammered charlie got a tramp stamp and he doesn't remember doing he's like shit why did you let me do this hank and he goes it's a fucking butterfly isn't it and like it's all starts kind of coming to him that was me sitting there this morning going through youtube i'm like like some of it comes back to me i'm like it's fucking dogs and soldiers video isn't it you stupid asshole and that was my night apparently after jilly went to sleep my ass sat out there on the couch and and continued to get lit and just sob uncontrollably. I'm going to

assume I sobbed uncontrollably. Again, I don't remember, but based on the wide range of sad topics in the songs and the music videos and the videos overall I was watching, I feel pretty comfortable saying that I was a mess last night. And the only time I ever do that, it's like a certain level of drunk I get to where I'm just sad. Because I think everybody's got their stages of drunk and their different versions of drunk, right? It kind of goes in stages. So there's that level of drunk you get where you're kind of like a fun dude and like you're loosening up a little bit and like all your social anxieties and everything kind of goes away and you're just having a good time right you're not like fall down drunk you're not sloppy you're not passed out at

the bar you're just kind of fun right and you're having a good time now some people don't have that stage some people just go straight to being a belligerent asshole when they're drunk i'm not a i'm not a drunk asshole that's never really been my thing. When I'm drunk, I become affectionate. That's me. I'm very nice when I'm drunk and I send people text messages. That's one of the other fears. One of my least favorite things on like a Sunday morning is when I wake up after drinking a shit load of beer and I wake up the next morning and I start to look at my phone and I'm like, shit, I know I sent some stupid text messages letting people know phone and I'm like, shit, I know I sent some stupid text messages letting people know how much I love them. See, I let my emotions out

in a positive manner, somewhat embarrassing, but a positive manner when I have consumed a lot of alcohol, right? That's me. Again, I'm not angry. I don't want to fight people when I'm drunk. I'm not abusive when I'm drunk. Although I understand where you might think that when you listen to the podcast I listen to the first five minutes and I'm Joe I mean look I'm jokingly yelling all that shit last night like I was sober enough at the point or at least not blitzed enough to know I'm fucking around and that I'm just putting on a fucking show and you know yelling jelly like oh stop you all the neighbors are gonna hear we're all laughing our asses off blah blah blah that's fine but like I'm not a belligerent, angry person when I'm drunk. I'm angrier when I'm not drunk drinking a couple of beers or in my case, a couple in like my beers years would be like eight. And by the time I

start feeling good like that, I'm actually a nicer human being. I'm a more emotional human being. I'm a more vulnerable human being. I am a more, what's the word I'm looking for? I am more, I don't know, I'm a nicer person. I'm more vulnerable, if you want to call it that. Whatever. That's how I am. Some people are belligerent drunks. Some people are happy drunks.

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and um i was like jim i think because because like Jim now I think like it engages in the reefer like that kind of chills him out like he didn't do that when I knew him he's kind of a different dude than what I used to know him like Jim all of a sudden sips whiskey and starts smoking pot I'm like I think he does gummies I don't think he actually smokes it but um I'm like totally different guy you start hanging out with Michael Berry and all of a sudden you drink whiskey for fun and smoke cigars and take gummies. Good for you. You're rich. You're having a good time. Good for you, Jim. But I was talking with him about that and I go, see, I don't really get into gummies. I don't really get me and it was one of those typical moments for a guy that never does this shit like you take a bite like half of one of these gummies and I want to say it was like 50 milligrams I forgot how many milligrams it was but it was a big time dosage and I ate like he's like eat like a third of this so I take it I eat a third I sit there for like

half an hour and I feel nothing and so I'm like this is stupid and I took another bite of it and felt nothing and then I'm I might have taken two of them overall I'm like this And so I'm like, this is stupid. And I took another bite of it and felt nothing. And then I might have taken two of them overall. I'm like, this is stupid. I don't feel anything, whatever. And then at one point it hit me and I could not feel my extremities. I couldn't feel my arms. I couldn't feel my legs.

And instead of being freaked out by it, I just thought it was the funniest shit ever. Like I couldn't feel anything all i could do was laugh and jilly's like why are you laughing i'm like i don't fucking know i don't know i can't feel my legs i have no legs and that was the time i did that and i was telling jim that me i don't do gummies and shit. I drink beers and not, you know, wine, whatever. I think we mentioned this on the pod that we've had 108 bottles of wine so far this year. And that's just when we started keeping count. So maybe we'll get to 200, maybe not, maybe so. But I tell him that

I like to drink alcohol cause that, you know, that kind of, you know, puts me in a better state, but I like to drink alcohol to a point where I like to, I think this is the way I worded it to him. And I might put this on a t-shirt. I might put this on a greeting card. I might put this on like a desk calendar for people. Like this is super motivation. You want to drink enough to forget your problems, but not too much to where you're angry about the problems. TM. I think I could word that a little bit better, but the point still stands. The point is, I drink so I forget that I don't have a job, but I don't want to drink to the point that I'm pissed off that I don't have a job, and then get angry about it.

You see what that makes sense? Or any problem. Insert any problem for you. It could be't have a job and then get angry about it. You see, that makes sense. Or any problem. Insert any problem for you. It could be not having a job at the moment. It could be a relationship problem. That's the key. Anytime you need advice on how to consume alcohol, here's the key. You got to drink enough to forget the problem, but not too much that you become angry about the problem. and there is a fine line there you don't want to exceed that because I mean look there's a happy medium and you got to find that happy medium man and that's the key and then last night we had a bunch of bets and shit that uh that didn't hit I uh you know so I was angry about that a little bit but at the end of the day you know I

like to drink my beer and apparently i went out and sat on the couch and just uh just sobbed for a couple hours and it was uh it was a lovely time it was a cathartic look like i think we all at some point like you can tell there's a bit that dane cook did and i know a lot of people hate dane cook but one of the best dane cook bits in the one stand-up that i think a lot of people would say was his best, which was Vicious Circle. He did a whole bit about how like you just like you could tell when you're about to cry, like it builds all day. And then somehow like something sets it off. And then like you start listening to sad music and shit like that just to kind of expedite the process.

And then like somehow you'll start repeating lines to yourself like his was like i did my best so like it like it doesn't even matter like like it's just i did my best i did my best and like you keep saying that to yourself as you sit there and cry and cry and cry and then like somebody from work will call and be like hey dane it's such and such i just wanted you to know that uh you did your best bro like like that whole bit which is a great fucking bit if you've never seen Vicious Circle Vicious Circle is an outstanding Dane Cook uh stand-up special it was uh filmed in Boston at the I guess the fleet center at the time whatever the fuck they call the the TD garden whatever it is and um and it's sold out and it's spectacular like i actually like dane cook shocker i know

nickelback dane cook uh rocky five i like all the shit that all the people hate well i like them because i'm a contrarian i guess but um it was really good and that's kind of how i felt that and when he did that it's you you know good comedy is when you go yep that's exactly how it goes in a similar one but to me the greatest stand-up special of all time is Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip. It's spectacular. I love it. It's one of the best ever. And at one point, he's talking about breaking up with somebody. And he's like, well, that shit hurts, man.

And everything starts reminding you of your old lady. Like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer starts reminding you your old lady like rudolph the red-nosed reindeer starts reminding you your lady's like oh my god my baby she got an ass just like rudolph like it's rooted in truth and the best comedy comes from things that are relatable and the people can understand them i guarantee you out of however many of you are listening that there are people out there that have cry time on the couch on a Sunday night and they drink a certain amount of alcohol where they become emotional. Everybody's lived that life. Now, I have no idea if I mentioned this on the pod last night because I truly have no idea.

I have no clue what I talked about, but I want to send a hello out to someone. I think I did read this last night, but I'm going to do it again and give it its proper due here. But I got a nice email from a guy named Brian. And this is something that means something to me because I appreciate not just when people listen to the podcast. I do. I appreciate everyone who listens, but I appreciate when the podcast is an important part of people's day or an important part of their life. Okay. So, um, says, uh, I forgot to mention I'm an over the road truck driver shows like yours always helped me pass the time when I'm working. Last time you took a break on your podcast for what seemed like a couple of years, suck balls. maybe you had died well thank you brian uh but

this person brian reeves has been listening maybe he's big country uh brian reeves uh has been listening since 610 since 790 uh one of my favorite things about your show is when you used to talk as luther cracks me up keep doing what you're doing uh and i think it will pay off in the long run i always mention you and your show to people when sports talk or just podcasts in general come up. I'm genuinely a huge fan of you and Jilly. I'll pray for y'all for good things to happen. God bless you, brother. That's Brian Reeves. That's very nice of him to say. What? Is there something going on, Jilly? Did I read that on the pod last night? Oh, I did. You know what? I read it again. You know what? My bad. I apologize. So Jilly has confirmed as she walked into the room,

Jilly has confirmed that I did read that last night. But you know what? I needed to give you a sober reaction to it because that's hella nice of that person to say. And I've gotten multiple messages from people who've been sending me screenshots and saying, hey, I texted my friend to listen. Do that, would you?

But it means a lot to me that there are people who, you know, I don't want to say rely on what we're doing because what we're doing is very frivolous and it means very little in the grand scheme of things. But it's nice when people kind of depend on you as part of their day and part of their routine. And that means a lot to me. And I'd love this thing to be bigger than it is.

And it continues to grow. And that's, I appreciate that. And people keep listening. I appreciate that. that but again all you got to do is be like Brian and some of the other people who've messaged me that send text to their buddies and are like hey give this a listen because if you give it a listen you might like it and then before you know it our audience grows by a person and if everybody that listens tells one person it doubles and if that person tells another it triples and then we start really building something awesome and again i'm going to get back into doing this more not

professionally if you want to call it that but you know in other ways but and make it a little bit more you know sophisticated but still uh also i did get another message from brian it says hey why don't y'all like me on Facebook? I don't use it much, but it's either that or tick tock because I have such a tiny attention span. Well, Brian, I can tell you why I don't follow you on Facebook. I don't follow anybody on Facebook because I don't have a Facebook. I may have to get a Facebook cause I might try to sell some shit on Facebook marketplace or whatever. The issue with that is we're in St. Louis, and there's a good possibility if someone comes over

claiming to want to buy a couch, they may shoot me in the temple. So I'm not sure about that, but I don't have a Facebook. I meant to say follow, not like, please follow me and I'll follow you back if you have Facebook. Also, my wife and I volunteer at an animal rescue in Sagin, Texas. If you do ever want to try another dog or cat, I can help you adopt. And it's only like $140 adoption fee to pay for shots and spay and neuter. Let me tell you, the other thing that we know about dogs and adopting, they all say you're adopting, you're adopting. Yeah. Why the hell would it cost $800?

Some of these dogs at some of these rescues, they're like, hey, the adoption fee is $800. I'm like, am I putting a down payment on a car? Like, I love the dogs. I don't know that I can spend $800 to adopt a dog. It's like, hey, who rescued who? Well, who the fuck's gonna rescue my bank account when I have to spend $800 on a dog? That's not adopting.

Now, there's some I've seen that are like a hundred dollars. I get that. You want to make sure they get their shots. And I get that that's how these organizations stay open, but come on 800 bucks. Like there, there was one, there were these two dogs. They were a bonded pair. They're like, these dogs cannot be separated. And I'm like, okay, cool. I'm looking at it. Each one is $800. Like, what the hell are we doing here? So there was another one. I got to find the post on the pet finder. There's one where it was two dogs who like the wife died or something.

And the guy doesn't want to take care of them anymore because they're high maintenance. And he lists all the things that these dogs have to have. And it not like medicines and shit it's like they're certain foods like they eat human food like it's fucking wild i gotta find this it was somewhere in north carolina and they were two like schnauzers and these two schnauzers are uh like high maintenance uh they're like listen they are used to this life and he can't afford it anymore. But we would ask that if you adopt these dogs, that you would continue to feed them this food because it's all they know. They're very high maintenance. They can't be separated.

I'm like, what the fuck is this? I'm like, no one's going to adopt those dogs. Like, look, at least lie in the post and just say, hey, they're just happy go lucky puppies. Not that they're assholes. I mean, no offense to these dogs. They sound sound like assholes i wouldn't want to spend eight hundred dollars on asshole dogs look my dog was an asshole but like hey he was kind of he was funny and charming he was only an asshole around us he'd get around other people he'd be like just typical dog these dogs seem like leona helmsley's dogs or some shit you you know? But yeah. So 140 bucks to adopt a dog. Isn't that bad?

What's bad to adopt a dog is $800 to adopt a dog. Like that's not even fair to the dog. That just sounds like you're being self like I, now you're being greedy. You're being greedy. And I know you got to run these shelters and I get that it costs money. $800 is a bit much to adopt a dog. But anyway. All right. I don't know how I got off on that tangent. But Brian Reeves, I appreciate you listening. You seem like a very nice person.

Guys, feel free to email me, DM me, whatever. Just let me know that you listen. Let me know you enjoy it. Tell your friends about it. Please. Honest to God, if I'm being honest with you, it does mean a lot to me when people do that. I appreciate getting the kind words from people. The shit that people remember from these shows is wild.

The shit people remember from my radio shows is wild. So please. Oh, wait. Jilly says she's friends with Brian Reeves on Facebook. I think it's like Seguin, Texas. Jilly says you're already friends, Brian Reeves, and you can't be friends with me because I don't have a Facebook, and I'm probably never going to have one again.

There you go. Jilly just liked a video, Brian Reeves. So there you go. That should make you very excited. So there you go, Brian Reeves. Thank you and appreciate you for driving the trucks. Roll on highway. Roll on along. Roll on along. Roll on daddy till you get back home.

All right. Anyway, I love you guys and we'll do something later.