The Josh Innes Show - Houston Snow Day

Episode Date: January 21, 2025

I've been getting messages from listeners and friends in Houston who are enjoying the snow. You guys think I'm this super miserable person who hates snow. I don't. I get why you're enjoying it. You'd feel different if you dealt with the negative side of it. That's all. I follow this with a diatribe about radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and my beard froze. So you'll understand that, you know, it's kind of a pain in the ass. Now, some of you listening, whether you're in Houston or somewhere in the South and getting snow, you're like, well, screw you, bro. We got snow today. And actually, I've gotten multiple texts from friends and people who listen to the podcast, and they're showing me their snow pictures and their kids, and they're like, oh, Mr. Grump, how can you be upset? Look at these kids having a good time. My buddy's out in the snow with his dog. I'm seeing every friend I have in Houston posting snow pictures,

and people are like, oh, where are you at, Grump? Where are you at on this one? You're going to sit there and bitch? All you've been doing is bitching about snow snow snow on the podcast well friends again it's one thing to get snow once in a millennium like you're getting in uh new orleans or you're getting in houston i'm happy for you as a kid who grew up in baton rouge and as a dude who lived in as an adult in houston for 10 years good for you like i'm not i don't hate you for it. That is an awesome thing. You're going to have snow. You got multiple inches of snow. It's snow

that's sticking. It's snow that's going to be there for a while. Might end up being ice down the road. Like that's cool because it's something that you never get. It's something that you never experience. So because of that, I am actually legitimately happy for you. Good for you. That's a neat thing. Like your kids may never have never seen snow potentially. And now your kids are seeing snow that kicks ass. There's nothing wrong with that. See all the snow you can handle. Go make snowmen with your children. You're getting to probably skip work today. I'm seeing people I know in Baton Rouge out in their bathing suits taking pictures by their pools in feet of snow, or at least inches of snow. So look, I don't hate you for it. Good for you. But I guarantee you

if you were stuck with that for three weeks and it impacted your work and it impacted you taking your dog for a walk and your sidewalks were ice covered for three weeks, I think you'd think differently. That's all. I don't hate you for it. I don't live in envy of you. Like I am happy for you. I am glad that you're getting to have fun in this because as a kid, dude, growing up in Baton Rouge, any chance that there might've been snow was the coolest shit. And I think the most I ever saw was, I want to say, I don't know what month it was, but I remember taking snow pictures. I was an adult. I was about to move, actually.

I was probably in my early 20s, so I was probably 22, 23 years old when I saw it in Baton Rouge. The heaviest snow I saw, the most snow I saw in Baton Rouge. Now, that's not like on New Year's, I think it was New Year's Eve one year, there was a lot of sleet and frozen rain. And like, that was kind of gross, but I'm talking flat out most snow that I had ever seen in Baton Rouge, I think was either late 2020 or 2008 or early 2009. Cause left in November of 2009 so it had to have been before then I was an adult I had a job I think that's the most snow I had seen you can go out in the morning and build snowmen like you wake up in the morning there's snow it was pretty cool it's

pretty neat I never seen anything like this like where you're getting like a foot of snow in New Orleans. Like that's ridiculous. So, uh, Hey, more power to you. That's cool. I'm all for it. Rock on. But, um, it's all fun and games until you're stuck with it for three weeks and it impacts your ability to go anywhere. It impacts your ability to take your dog for a walk. When that's the kind of stuff that's going on, then it's not as much fun. But if you're out there with your kids today and you're getting to skip work and you're out there sledding, like I've seen videos of people sledding at Herman Park and Herman Park is Luther's favorite park of all time. So I see people sledding out there. I see people just in the streets of New Orleans having a good time in the snow. That's fun. Good for you.

But if you're like me and you're in St. Louis and it's been now three, almost three weeks that you've been dealing with this and your yard is an ice luge that your dog cannot walk on. And it was seven degrees at one point today the the temperature in the car like when i got in the car this morning it looked like the six cents whenever like the kid would be around uh bruce willis and like you'd start seeing people's breath and shit that's what it was like getting in the car it was a tomb in there. So again, more power to you. Enjoy it. Have a great time.

I am not saying that sarcastically. I think it's cool as hell that it's snowing there. And if I lived there, I'd be all about it. If I didn't have to go anywhere, if I didn't have to work, if I didn't have to do anything, and it was just go out in the streets of Houston and play in the snow, you're goddamn right I would. And it would be fun, and I would love it and it would crush. But as it stands now, I am still in St. Louis. My beard froze while I was walking the dog. The last time my beard froze, I was in Minneapolis for the Super Bowl back, I guess

that would have been in 2020 or 2018. So the last time I recall my beard freezing like little flecks of ice in my beard was waiting in line to go see Kelly Clarkson before the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. Today, my beard froze again while walking the dog and I can only walk him so much. I'm afraid that he's going to get frostbitten. So go build the snowmen or snow persons, whatever it is you do, go have a fucking blast, go have a good time and enjoy it. But I guarantee you, if that were still looking that way in two and a half, three weeks, you would think about it differently. That's all. That's all. It's easy to be a visitor. It's easier to be me in Dallas when it snowed before the Super Bowl than it is to be someone who lives in it nonstop.

And again, in my situation, if it were just snow, I'd be fine. But it's all just frozen. It's like an ice rink, and it's brutal out there. Now, the streets are all pretty much fine. Like, driving's not an issue. That's fine. People can get to work. But my dog wants to go on walks that aren't at Lowe's.

That's our day. Today we went to Lowe's, and we went to a place called Rural King, which is like some local, like, you know, small town, uh, you know, store where you can get hardware stuff, but also get like food. It's like a, it's like a combination. Like it's a, it's like Walmart. If Walmart like had gigantic fucking man balls, cause that's what Rural King is and I enjoyed it we went there we went to Lowe's we got a little walk outside it's fine now all the pictures I'm seeing today and all the people saying this is the greatest ever Luther would have loved that shit because Luther liked the snow and I can only imagine Luther at Herman Park in the

snow would have been nuts but I don't know what all you guys are going to be doing today probably staying inside like I bet it's cool as shit when you never get to see snow and then like in a place where you don't anticipate ever getting snow and then you wake up and and you know you're dealing with five inches of snow or whatever Houston's dealing with I imagine that's pretty cool because that's like a once in a lifetime phenomenon for you in that town. That's cool as shit. So more power to you. But you know what else you don't have to deal with? My guess is that most of you aren't going to have to deal with shoveling, if I had to guess. Like you're getting all the good shit that comes with snow. The don't have to go to work, not expected to drive, stuck at home, kids aren't going to school, let's go build a snowman let's go sledding hey let's

see what it's like to piss in the snow and write our names like you guys are living all the cool shit we're making snow angels you're living the cool shit you're kicking ass right now there's no negative it's like it's like you're getting to go out and bang raw dog style, and there's a 0% chance you're knocking anybody up. You're banging a rando, raw dog style, and you've been guaranteed get out of jail free. There is no chance this person gets pregnant, and there's no chance you're getting STDs. There is zero risk. It's just we're going out, and we're going to pound town tonight, and I have zero risk.

You're living the dream. See, people like me, when I have to get snow You're living the dream. See people like me, when I have to get snow in a place like St. Louis, where it's going to be seven degrees is like, I'm getting the sex, but then I have to deal with all the shit after. See, you're living the life. You're living on pill Hill right now. Things are great. You have no, there is no anticipation of responsibility in Houston because you're in Houston. No one's used to anything like that. So it's not anticipated that the second the snow stops, you have to get your ass out there with a shovel to make sure the sidewalk is walkable.

You don't have to worry about that. You don't have to worry about throwing down salt. You don't have to worry about making sure your area is cleaned up so you can get the car out. Because no one's going to expect you to get the car out tomorrow. Because you're all going to be expected to stay at home tomorrow until this shit melts. You've got it made. You're basically on vacation. You're at ski patrol.

You're basically in the Poconos right now. If you're in Houston or you're in Baton Rouge, you're in the Poconos. You might as well get some hot chocolate, throw the little marshmallows in it, start a fire, and live it up. But you wouldn't think it was that cute again this is making it sound negative i'm not negative i'm very positive about the fact that you're getting snow i'm happy about your snow despite the fact uh ross that i'm getting all these messages from people from houston talking shit oh how's your ice blah blah blah go fuck yourself but i'm happy for you i legitimately am happy that you're getting to experience this because I'm not someone

that just hates snow. If it's there for a day and you get to enjoy it for a day and then you go about your normal life, snow is great. But I'm in day 18 of my balls being shriveled up to the size of nerds. I'm in day 18 of my beard freezing. I'm in day 18 of the car feeling like a witch is cunning it so cold. Like, that's what I'm dealing with right now. You're getting all the good. There is no negative. There is no downside for you. Now, again, it sounds like I'm being bitter.

I'm not bitter. I'm happy for you. Like, I would have loved to experience that living there. If I was a kid in Baton Rouge and this shit was happening, shit. When we got that snow, there was enough where you could roll up a little snow, make a snowman. It blanketed the ground. Like, it was legit snow. Wasn't like this.

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to share those stories with you. I was going through some responses to something that I had tweeted the other day. And one of these these people and I have a lot of people muted but I'll click them and see what they say and um this one person said uh you know I don't know what happened in Nashville or why you left Nashville but uh you know you're really good blah blah blah and I responded to it by saying I left Nashville because I'm a fucking moron not that I love Nashville not that it's my favorite town ever. In fact, I didn't really go out a lot in Nashville, but I had a solid job and I'd probably be on six radio stations right now.

They're probably making solid cash, but I chased a dream coming to St. Louis. But then when I really think about it and I really dissect it and I go all like, you know, like tell me about your mother, Sigmund Freud type shit. I wasn't chasing my own dream. I was chasing my dad's dream that my dad told me not to bother chasing. Think about

how fucking stupid you have to be to be like, you know, my dad's dream was when he was a younger kid was to work on the station. I remember reading a an article of my dad's I think it was in their school newspaper at Poplar Bluff High School. See that that or the yearbook. I remember reading an article of my dad's, I think it was in their school newspaper at Poplar Bluff High School. It's either that or the yearbook. I remember reading this. And my dad, I think they did a story about him because he was a young high school kid on the radio in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. And that's a cool thing. And he said, you know what? I'm not going to stop until I smell like the success of being on the radio at KC 95 in St. Louis. And I'm like, you know what? I remember this forever. So when that opportunity came up, I fucking forced that opportunity

because I said, you know what? This is my dad's dream. And my dad's going to look at this and go, Josh, good for you. Way to go. And I remember because this all came together really fast. And I was just hours away from having to sign a deal to stay in Nashville when this all came together really fast. And I was just hours away from having to sign a deal to stay in Nashville when this all came together. I remember calling my dad. I said, Dad, I have an opportunity to go somewhere else. He goes, Where is that, Josh? What do you got here?

Remember, you're living in Nashville. It's a happening town. But where's this offer? I said, Dad, I have a chance to go to KC-95 in St. Louis. And I shit you not, I don't even think his response was anything exciting. It was like when Lou Brown got offered the Indians job in Major League. How would you like to manage the Indians? And he says, Charlie, listen, I'm going to have to call you back.

I got a guy on the other line looking for a set of white walls. I'll talk to you later. Like, that's how my dad reacted. And I remember him telling me, he said, Josh, remember this. You got a good job there. You're working with iHeart. If you leave iHeart, you're never going back to iHeart. They're probably never going to hire you again.

They've already hired you back once after firing you. iHeart kind of controls everything. If you leave this, you're probably never getting back there again. So this, and one thing my dad taught me, and I never used it the way my dad has, not that he's ever had to actually enact it, but he's always told me this. I'd say, dad, why don't you go take a job at another radio station in Baton Rouge? This is when my dad was like the king of the mountain doing country radio in Baton Rouge. I said, dad, why don't you take those other offers? He says, Josh, if I take those other offers, those offers are now no longer there. And my

old job is no longer there. There's no fallback once I take that job. And it's actually a very smart way of looking at things, but I didn't think of it that way. For whatever reason, my mindset was, here's what we're going to do, Josh. We're going to go to St. Louis. You're going to get to do what your dad didn't do. It's going to be fucking awesome. You're going to be on a legendary station and this is where you're going to fucking be. Fast forward 15 months, you're sitting on your fucking couch, pulling your pud, your dog's dead. You're trying to figure out your next move. You know, but that's like, and I bring this up today because somebody had messaged me that and they were like, why didn't you stay in Nashville?

Like, I didn't love Nashville. Like I love Houston. I love Baton Rouge. Nashville, I don't love. Nashville, Nashville was more of a what Nashville is versus how much I cared about it, right? So Nashville, fast growing city, probably way too fast. Like the population is boomed. The housing's ridiculous. The traffic's terrible. But Nashville's a happening spot. Nashville is where everything's going on. Nashville is where it's the epicenter of a lot of shit. I'll tell you where isn't, St. Louis. But me, again, I'm like, I want people to be proud of me. I want my dad to be like, holy shit, Josh, you made it to the mountaintop. When in reality, I could work at any of these jobs and my dad would feel the exact same way. When I worked at 610 in Houston, he felt the exact same way as he felt when I worked at WIP

in Philadelphia, as when I worked in Houston again, as when I worked in Nashville. He didn't give a shit. I mean, he was fine with it, but it's not like one was greater than the other. So it's not like this was the mountaintop. It's not like, oh my God, you finally have gotten there. He literally told me to not do it. Like, think about that. And you hate to sit there, and I think we all deal with this at some point in life, where you're like, holy shit, my dad, who we like to make fun of and bust his balls, my dad turns out to be right about a lot of shit.

And as it turns out, he was right as hell about that. Now, some of the issues with things that fail are partially on my own end, because I fuck shit up and I get that. Like, I was just listening to an interview with Nick Saban. He was on with Ryan Clark on Ryan Clark's podcast. For what it's worth, I don't like Ryan Clark. I find him to be sanctimonious and annoying, but whatever. Schtick works for him. I find him to be boring. But I saw this video pop up in a reel on Instagram And Nick Saban was talking about his biggest regret. And he said that his biggest regret was leaving LSU. Not because it was LSU, but because, and not because he hated the Dolphins job or did a bad job with the Dolphins.

He did a decent job relative to a lot of other professional guys who come from college. He did a pretty good job. But the part that Nick Saban says he screwed up was like he was this is a very interesting story like again I don't listen to the Ryan Clark podcast because again I just don't find him interesting I don't find a lot of these guys interesting by the way like I've discovered in listening to some of the biggest podcasts I'll get into this in another thing but remind me I guess how you gonna remind me I'm recording this. But when I listened to that and I hear him say he was standing outside of Skip Burtman, who was the athletic director at

LSU, baseball coach. He was standing outside his office with his agent, Jimmy Sexton. And Jimmy Sexton asked him, do you want to be Bear Bryant or do you want to be Vince Lombardi? He said, I want to be Bear Bryant. He says, well, why the fuck are you taking the Miami job? Just stay here. But for whatever reason, he took that job. Not that he hates Alabama. He obviously had great success in Alabama. But he looks back on that and says, that was my regret. I regret doing that.

And trust me, I got some fucking regrets on my resume, man. I've done some dumb things. I've made decisions. I've done certain things that I look back on. I've blown more opportunities than most people in the industry are ever going to fucking have. And to a degree, that's kind of shameful because, you know, you've had every opportunity. Now you sit here on your ass while you're, you know, sitting around with your dog. And you're like, what's the next move?

What am I going to do? And you're like, Josh, there's no reason this should be the case for you right now. You should be the cock of the walk. That's a fun term. The cock of the walk in one of these cities. You should be the biggest star in one of these cities. But a lot of times you just fuck shit up because you get bored and you get in your own way. So then you sit around like, you know, like Jan Brady waiting for a call from George Glass here. Calls that are probably never going to fucking come. So, you know, but early on you don't think that things are going to ever be that way.

Whenever you're getting five, six calls seemingly every week from people that want to hire you, you don't think that things are going to eventually suck, you know, but they do. Sometimes fucking happens. So going back to the Nick Saban thing, you look back on shit, you regret mistakes, you made things you shouldn't have done. You know, you know, I look at the people who are successful in Philadelphia right now. and I do not believe that there is a singular person on the radio in Philadelphia, particularly sports, that is better at doing this than I am. Nobody. But they all have the jobs, and they all work at the biggest sports radio station arguably in the country. They did something right that I didn't do.

They got the job and were happy with the job. They got the job and they were content with the job. They got the job and they viewed it as, holy shit, I've made it. My problem is I've never looked at jobs that way, except this one here. That was for a moment. I was like, holy shit, I've kind of made it. Jim Mudd, who grew up listening to the station, was like, holy shit. I felt like I had sort of made it but like even getting to WIP, I was kind of like, cool. I had just been doing afternoons and market six. I'm actually going to a smaller market. I, one of my biggest downfalls and why I'm talking about this today, I don't know, maybe because there's just not a lot of sports shit that I find all that interesting right now.

Maybe we can get into the national championship at some point. But as I sit here today, I tell myself, Josh, you never looked at any of these jobs as like, holy shit, you made it. And that's a problem. Like, like, is that a problem? Like, part of my issue is I constantly find myself asking, like, why I feel this way. Like, why can't I feel this way? Why don't I feel better about certain things? why can't I feel this way? Why don't I feel better about certain things? Why don't I enjoy things more? Why don't I look at them and go, Josh, you finally fucking made it.

And why don't I give myself credit for anything? You know, why? I was talking with Jim about this the other day. I do think I have an element of imposter syndrome sometimes. Let me give you an example. And this, I think, is why I can't allow things to go well. I have to destroy things. I have to ruin things. I have to kind of blow them up, if you will. And I think it's partially because I possess a little bit of an imposter syndrome. Why? I don't know. I mean, I've worked my ass off to get here. I've done this my whole life. Like I clearly have a gift and an ability to do it, but why do I feel this way? Why? And I, and I go back to this and this is such a fucked up thing, but I, there, I used to golf with my buddy, Matt, who works on the radio in Baton Rouge, anybody, him or any of my other buddies that I'd play golf with. If I were playing well, I somehow, like if I were like hitting a couple of good balls, like people didn't expect me to play well. So they'd all kind of rip me and go, wow, look, you're going to eventually collapse anyway. And in my mind, I'm like,

you're right. I'm not good at this. So like, then like mentally something would happen to me. And after hitting five, six, seven great balls in a row, and I par this hole, I'm playing well. It's almost like, I don't feel like I deserve to be good at something, so I blow it up. I don't know what that means. I don't know why that's the case. It just is. And I don't know why.

I don't know why that happens to me. I don't know why I act that way. I've been told by thousands of people to go see a shrink. I don't want to go see a shrink. I don't want to tell my stories to these people. I don't trust them. So I don't know. Maybe that's a problem too. But all this started with talking about the snow. That's what happens when I'm just not loaded with interesting sports shit to talk about. But that's the beauty of this podcast. It can be about

whatever the fuck I want it to be about. But yeah, I don't know, man. It all started with that message I got today from someone that was just like, you know, I don't know man it all started with that message I got today from someone that was just like you know I don't know what happened in Nashville like why you left Nashville I left Nashville for what wasn't a lateral move like it wasn't a financial lateral move and in terms of clout it wasn't a lateral move but at the end of it like when I look at what I had versus what I had after I'm kind, eh, it's kind of a lateral move because financially, I'd probably be making about as much money as I ended up making here. It was a mistake. And then, by the way, if I wouldn't have taken that job, those people would still be interested in hiring

me and who knows what would happen. But what are you going to do, kids? I try to teach you lessons. I try to, you know, kind of help you understand and maybe you can make better decisions in life. I don't know that I'm ever going to make the good decisions. I don't know. Because right now I'd love to have a job. I guarantee the second I get one of these jobs, I'll probably just be like, kind of bored with this job. I don't know what it is. If you'd like to send me an email and let me know, please. I would greatly appreciate it. But the other thing is, it is a soul-sucking endeavor to email these people too. You know, like I try to be a decent person when listeners email me I try to email them back and and like I'm not somebody special

I'm not somebody super busy so if somebody takes the time out of their day to send me a message and like I appreciate that I think that's pretty fucking cool that someone wants to email me I don't always respond to like instant messages and shit sometimes I don't see them but emails I usually get them and I try to respond how hard is is it if somebody emails you like, hey, I saw this job opening, how hard is it to respond to them and say, no, we're not interested? The fact that people clearly get these emails, clearly read them, and then don't even take the time to say, hey, man, I appreciate you, but sorry, we don't have anything open. Couldn't do do that you just ignore it and never message back or the best is and i told you i dealt with this with pds they'll talk with you for a little bit

and they're like hey i'll get back to you and then they never get back to you like it's it's fucked up about once a week i go through one of these things where i'm just pissed off about all this but anyway all right more to come