The Josh Innes Show - Here's The Latest

Episode Date: July 16, 2025

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Tickets on sale now. August 1st. Alright everybody, what's going on? Welcome in. I know it's been like, what, nine days, seven days, eight days, something like that. The days all kind of run together for me So I guess the last time I did any sort of potting was a couple of Mondays ago Then Tuesday

We moved so I didn't do anything I planned on doing some stuff in the hotel room because we stayed in a hotel on our way to our current destination But then I just I got tired. It was late, I didn't do it. Then Wednesday we moved into our house that we're in now. So it's been a week that we've lived in this house. It's been about eight days since I've done any podcasts. And here we are in our new home. I can't give you any details on where that new home is.

I can't tell you where the new home is. I can't tell you the job I have. If you follow my Instagram at all, you've probably seen things that might make you go, oh, there's a solid hint, but I've not told you and I cannot tell you anything just yet. And I think that's going to change pretty soon because I think this whole thing is going to be public pretty soon. But let me play a couple commercials and we will continue So yeah, I can't I can't give you all the details and there's still some things that are being worked out and some other factors about who's going to join me doing what and some of the other details, but

Update I do have a job. I have a a job I'm employed to do a job I think Monday was my official start day at this job so I have a gig that's good it is a gig that is a radio gig that is good it is a gig that I think is going to be better than my previous gig. It will not be a gig that is better than my previous gig, base pay wise, and it's not on a radio station that's as prestigious as the radio station I was on, but that doesn't really matter. I'm kind of glad it's um this is going to be something very cool and it's something that like let me put it this way so I've been in the building at this radio station now for let's see Monday and Tuesday and today so three days. I didn't go up any last week

first day I went up to the radio station was this week. We lived in this current city for a week I went up to the radio station Monday and I was greeted by The the big boss at this radio station was super excited to see me. This is a person I had met before This is something that's been kind of in the works, sort of in the works, something that has been, you know, a thing that has been potential, potentially a thing for months, right? So let me kind of go back. I went on a flight to this place. I flew to this location

a couple of months ago, back in, this location a couple of months ago, back in Mars, a couple of months ago, it was March. And it's weird how it all kind of came together and I can start giving you the names and the details of stuff at some point, but basically here's what happened. So this was March. I reached out to somebody I knew in February. It was like the last week that I was getting my severance from Casey. So it was the last week I was getting, you know, these big checks. I was getting very sizable checks to not work.

I was also doing a door dash and podcasts and all that stuff. But I was getting these checks that made life a lot easier because it was a stupid amount of money to do nothing and I got paid that for six months but it even went further because my agent had screwed something up early in the process of the severance and we didn't get my signed agreement in until too late for the severance so the severance didn't end up starting until like two weeks after it was supposed to so it was supposed to end I think in early February it didn't end until the last week of February. So I had severance pay going until the end

of February. I knew that things were getting kind of close and I knew things were getting kind of dicey because I needed a job. So I reached out to someone this is and I've reached out to a lot of people over the course of looking for a job. Now I mean I've reached out to people I of people over the course of looking for a job. Now, I mean, I've reached out to people I've talked to a bunch, people I haven't talked to in years. I told you there was a job in Dallas that I reached out about because I knew the program director. He got back to me right away.

We had a phone conversation. Two days later, I find out they're just going to run some syndicated programming. That was for a talk radio station in Dallas. I hate when radio stations post jobs that they know they're not gonna fill. Like there's a lot of shit that radio stations do that I don't like, but they're things they have to do. Like if you know you're gonna hire someone, like I've been on the receiving end of the,

oh, we know we're going to hire somebody, but we still have to post the job anyway charade. Like I have been on the receiving end of that three or four times in this hiring process. A radio station posted a job, 97.5 in Philadelphia, posted a job, right? And I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna reach out to my buddy that I know,

I'm gonna just, cause I know the program director, Scott Masteller, and I said, I'm gonna reach out and just see, I'm going to inquire, I'm gonna see if there's anything. Oh yeah, man, that's great, we're gonna reach out to you, I'll call you next week." Of course he never called me, ever.

And this is the same guy that years ago when I was looking for a gig, I guess about a year ago I should say, when I got fired at K-She said he'll call me next week and didn't call me next week. I'm beginning to think that maybe we're not as good of friends as I thought. Never thought we were best friends, but I thought we were pretty cool buddies, we had some conversations together. I would have never assumed that we were just completely like, I never would have guessed that our relationship was that of two guys who when one guy reaches out about a job that

another guy has open at his place, that he would lie to him and say he'd call him and reach out about it and then never do it. And that happened to me twice so he can go fuck himself. Like I'm fine with him, I wouldn't wanna work at the shitty radio station anyway, but I needed a job and I'm like, hey, I could go to Philadelphia, I could do some cool shit there, at least reach out.

I never heard back, never heard back the two different times. About a year ago when I got fired and I reached out, never heard back. And a few months ago never heard back so that's that but there were other examples the Dallas thing and some other jobs that were open some people did reach out after you know I told you this there was a guy running a talk radio station in Kansas City the only person that really gave me the time of day and it's funny these kind of things kind of show up out of nowhere.

So there was a talk radio opening in Kansas City and it was the kind of talk radio opening that I wouldn't want to do and I just know I wouldn't be very good at it. It was one of those gigs that's kind of a smile talky, happy talk. We don't really talk about politics, nothing we do really has any teeth. I'm not trying to knock the people that are on this station, but that's the kind of talk it would be. It didn't really have a true point of view, right? Like it wasn't like, like, hey, don't really have an opinion on blank, blank and blank. Don't lean any way politically, just kind of down the middle, but not down the middle in a fun kind of talk way. Kind of like, I think I'm down the middle on a lot of stuff here. Some people might disagree. I know a lot of you do disagree and say, oh, you're not down the middle. You lean this way that way. Well, on each topic, I guess I lean certain ways on certain topics. But big picture in all of this is that that

radio station, the guy called me and it was a missed call from a Houston phone number and I just let it go to voicemail. It goes to voicemail. Guy says, hey, this is such and such. I'm a radio program director in Kansas City. I guess he had lived and worked in Houston at one point, so that was pretty cool. And so we had that to talk about. He knew who my dad was because he worked at Clear Channel

back in the late 90s when my dad did, so he knew my dad. So we actually had a long conversation. I didn't think it was going to go anywhere, but we had a long conversation. Then I get a call back from him. Weeks later, I'm like, oh shit, he called me back, cool. And I don't know why he's calling me back. And he says, hey man, just want to let you know,

we're going to fill this job internally, but you were one of the finalists. And I was like, well, that's cool. What, like top two or threes? Yeah, about, you know, probably you're in our top two or three. I'm like, well shit. Like I don't think I would have been great at that job. I think that job probably would have sucked

only because it's not what I enjoy doing. And I know I wouldn't have fit, but I needed a job. So if they would offer it to me, I would have said, hell yeah, why not? So there was that one, but it's late February at this point. And I'm getting kind of you know weirded out by the fact that there's nothing I don't have an agent anymore my agent and I broke up my agent and I almost kind of semi got back together in January I

think so in January at one point I said hey listen I just I don't think I don't really need you anymore and if I do get a job it's not gonna be high paying enough to really make it worth your while and I thought, hey listen, I don't think, I don't really need you anymore, and if I do get a job, it's not gonna be high paying enough to really make it worth your while. And I thought maybe she was gonna be a little bit like, like, you know, a little irked by it. And I was kinda hoping she'd be a little irked by it, but like almost instantly I got a response. I don't get responses this quick from my agent.

She responds to me and goes, that is great, that is a wonderful idea, it's been nice knowing you, we're friends for life, we'll send you the paperwork to sever ties, and I'm like, okay, I was kinda hoping you'd be a little sad, but she wasn't. So anyway, that was in early January. I think in February maybe when I saw that the job

in Houston was open, the Eagle job was open. I reached out to her again I say do you know this guy that's the program director now? I don't even remember the guy's name, but I asked if she knew this guy's name and she knew who he was She's oh, yeah I know him he's one of the big country guys and Urban One which for being honest Urban One is a very urban Broadcasting company. It's a company that is mostly urban radio stations, couple of classic rocks, couple of talk stations, mostly hip hop, R&B, gospel, that type of stuff.

So she knows the guy and she says, I'll reach out to him, hon, don't worry. If he wants to hire you, we'll work something out. And I'm like, okay, cool, it works for me, whatever. And I had a bunch of people approaching this guy at one of the big country radio conventions in Nashville. I forgot what CSR is, no, CRS, country radio seminar, whatever it's called.

So they reach out, like a bunch of people on my behalf start talking to this guy, buddies of mine, like a guy, Rowdy Yates in Houston, radio guy there, big country guy, a bunch of people that I knew when they talked to this guy. Allegedly my former, one of my bigger bosses in Nashville did it at this as well. And I just was trying to take every angle I could to find that job or to get that job because I thought I made sense for it. Deep down I knew that it wasn't a very good radio station and it certainly wasn't a radio station that fit my personality but hey it's back in Houston whatever it's cool.

So I had a bunch of people reaching out and on a whim this is late February I reach out to a friend of mine now one day I'll be able to tell you the names of these people and the place I'm working and all that and the radio station but I had a friend of mine and after doing a bunch of searching through the back channels and all the searching through the LinkedIn's, I discovered that this person that I knew also worked for or worked with one of the people who was one of the main bosses at Urban One in Houston, and they own Eagle in Houston. So I was like, well, why don't I reach out to my buddy here and see if he knows this person and can maybe just send an email on my behalf and say, hey, you should hire this guy because this guy knows me and we're buddies. So I reach out to him and I go, hey, this is random, but I'm trying to get this job in Houston and I think you worked with blank. Could you reach out to this person and just say, hey,

I'm a good person and if they're looking for a rock guy, I could do it. And he's like, sure, whatever. And then I don't know why I decided to do this, but I sent a follow-up email and I asked, hey, do you guys have any rock openings at your company? And I didn't assume they would, you know, but I asked because it's February, it's March, no longer getting severance, so things are dicey. I'm literally, I'm driving are dicey. I'm dry.

I'm literally, I'm driving door dash when I send this. It's like a Wednesday afternoon, like six o'clock I'm driving door dash. It's late February. I send the email and it just says, Hey, do you guys happen to have any openings in your company in rock? And I get a response almost immediately. Yeah, we do. How much do you need to make? Like well, let's be honest here pal

Beggars can't be choosers. So I was like here's how much I made when I went to Nashville. Here's I mean look I just need to get a job and he says okay, well, let me reach out to you. We're going to talk. And sure as shit, a couple days later, I got a call and I missed the call. Then I get another call from someone who works with him. And he says, hey, we want to bring you to town and meet you and have a conversation. I'm like, shit. Alright, I'm down. Like I'm psyched. This is February, March. I'm like, fuck, man. I'm down like I'm psyched. This is February March I'm like fuck man. I'll give you guys more details and names and events on this at some point

But I can't do that yet, but I want to kind of let you know how this thing kind of came together so they fly me in and That starts this long courtship that like sometimes I thought it was going to happen. Sometimes I didn't think it was going to happen. Sometimes I was like, Hey, I guess I need to consider finding a new line of work. And it was a bunch. It was just a bunch of shit, but it happened and it worked out. So as I sit here today, I can't tell you where I am.

I can't tell you where I work. I can't tell you what it is, but I can tell you that it's a really cool situation and a really cool place that I think has potential to be really freaking good and awesome. And it was so weird, I walked in there on Monday and it's just so weird to walk into a group of people and a group of people are interested in you and they seem happy that you're there.

And that never really felt that way in St. Louis. St. Louis, I can't fully explain it, but there was something about working at that particular radio station where it never felt like they were super glad that I was there. It was almost kind of like I was an inconvenience in a way and they knew it was never gonna work.

And they almost wanted it to fail so they could fire me. Now, Jillie is of the belief that they wanted to fire me so they could look like heroes to their audience. Maybe she's right. Maybe she's not. It seems like kind of a long play there and an expensive play for them to do that, but maybe it was. Um, but I never felt that. I walk in here and the big boss is happy to see me and it's, it doesn't feel like bullshit and they've got good comradery in the building

and people are nice in there. Like people are walking up and introducing themselves saying they wanna help and it just, like I don't know, it's been a very cool experience. I can't give you all the details. I can't fill you in on who I work for, what I work for, where I work for, who I work for. I will, that should come down pretty soon.

It's gonna be public pretty soon. But I think it's a really cool situation. And it's coming up on damn near a year since I got whacked. I got whacked August 1st, today is July 16th. So what are we like 50 or so weeks into being fired? And here we are with a cool opportunity that I think is pretty, I love this opportunity. And I was hungry for it the second I heard

that it had a possibility of happening. So, and that's been a long time in the making. I'll give you more details on it. I'll fill you in more when I can. But that's kind of the latest. The latest is I have a job. We've rented a place. I haven't even told you about the place we rented.

So we'll do that here. I got to get Jilly and here Jilly's gonna start doing more shit with me too. But it's a cool situation. I'm really excited about it. I think it's great. It's almost so good of a situation that I'm worried. I'm like this situation makes too much fucking sense. Like I'm always someone waiting for the bottom to drop out of things. That's just how I am. But anyway let's we'll get to some more stuff and we'll do that here in a sec.