The Josh Innes Show - I Miss My Mounjaro

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

I no longer have insurance so I no longer get my Mounjaro. I've gone about a month without it and I'm jonesing for it. This leads to a rant about the absurdity of insurance. Also, this leads to many other random thoughts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I know you have your own problems, and we all have them, we all have issues that we deal with on the daily, but I guess it was last month or maybe a month and a half or so ago, I forgot when I did this, but we stopped paying for insurance because I'm not going to do that. It was costing us like $900 a month for insurance, and I'm like, I'm not going to fucking do this. It is a tragedy. Insurance is a tragedy. It's a scam. Everything's a scam. I'm not trying to sound like Howard Eskin here,

but it's a scam and insurance is bullshit. So I'm not going to pay $800. I'm just going to, you know, wrap myself in bubble wrap and hope that I either don't get hurt or whatever injury I sustain is enough to kill me without having to go to the hospital. Those are the two hopes, I guess. But I don't have insurance. And once I get a job, I'll have insurance. Well, hopefully that job will have insurance. But who the fuck knows, right? I don't know.

But we got rid of insurance. And because of that, I no longer get medications, right? Like I had Manjaro that I was taking and Manjaro did wonders for me and I lost a lot of weight, but it wasn't even the weight loss. Like I just felt better and I wasn't hungry, so I didn't eat a lot. And now I guess the last time I took Manjaro was about a month or so ago. I think a month was the last time, three weeks or a month. I don't remember.

Three weeks or a month ago was the last time I took Manjaro. And gradually, I've just started to feel kind of worse. Because I do legitimately have type 2 diabetes. You know, I have the good betas. But this kind of helped me balance that. And I wasn't really hungry. And at one point, I lost a good amount of weight. But now I don't take it.

Because I can't afford it. Because it's expensive, you see. Even with insurance, it was expensive. But well, actually, the insurance I had, I'll say this, one of the positives that came out of my job in St. Louis is somehow my Manjaro was only $25 a month. And that was lovely. But once that was gone and I had to use like a marketplace plan and I had like a little coupon, I would get one of them for $25, right? One month would be 25 bucks. Then the next, it went up to 400. And then by the next one, it was a thousand dollars. And I'm like, well, I'm not going to pay that. That's

bullshit. So I'm not, I just, I'm not going to have a Manjaro. So I haven't taken that in the last couple of weeks. And gradually I've started to feel kind of worse and my fat ass is always hungry everybody who's taken manjaro or ozempic or one of we govi or whatever it is they all tell you the second you stop taking it you just get fat again now the people on the other hand would tell you then why don't you just go exercise and eat better yes that sounds like a fabulous plan but I enjoyed the plan I was already on which was was take Manjaro, not be hungry, walk my dog 25,000 steps a day and call it a day. Like, so I understand your point,

go to the gym, all that shit, and you're not wrong. But now I don't even feel like doing anything. It was gonna feel like a slug. I have no energy and I'm super bloated all the time. Like everything makes me feel like shit. So that's kind of where I am. And I'm just, I miss my Manjaro. And I get it.

You might be listening to this saying, hey, fat fuck, go exercise. Like I just got done with a 10,000 step walk with my dog. Now I'm not at the gym. I'm not lifting weights. But I fucking hate the gym. The gym is the worst place. When I was delivering DoorDash, I had to bring it to one of these big chain gyms. And you know the smell of the chain gym.

Like you just know it the second you walk in. There's kind of a muggy feel in the building. And there's that same smell that every one of these big brand gyms has. And I forgot which one this was. You know, whatever. Something Fitness. Planet Fitness. It wasn't Planet Fitness, but Something Fitness.

And it's in a big fucking building. And there's dudes on all these workout machines. And then, you know, there's a sawn over here. Now I wouldn't go to the steam room. I've told you before me and my dad used to crush the steam room. Like we had a gym membership just to sit in the steam room and we looked gay, super gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but our asses would walk right into the gym. Me and my dad, he'd leave work and he'd go, Josh, can you leave the station for a little bit? You want to go sit in the steam room with daddy? I'd be like, shit, fine. So we'd walk in to the Spectrum Fitness on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge. And we'd walk in and go, we need four towels, please. And they'd give us four towels. We'd go into the locker room. We'd sit in the steam room.'d sit in the steamer we get Nate was sitting our underwear I guess we'd sit in our underwear in the steam room sweat our balls off then go take a shower dad would go home and I'd go back

to work at like 5 30 that's kind of how it went and we were only in there for like 25 minutes so there's no like people had to have been looking at these two big burly bearded sons of bitches walking into this steam room sitting in the locker room for 20 minutes. At best, we were just there to look at dicks. At worst, we were fucking in the steam room. That had to be what people were thinking. But that's what we did, right? But you know the smell of the gym.

You know when you walk in there. It engulfed me because I hadn't been in one of these places in forever. I used to go when I was in college. Hold on one second. Let me play a couple commercials here. All right, if you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you've got to check out Pick 6 from DraftKings. When it comes to basketball payouts,

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were stretches when i was in college that i would try to lose weight because like oh we're going to the beach so i'd start going to the gym and you know you'd work out a little bit you'd go hit the the lat pull downs and the incline press and the decline press and all that shit or the elliptical i'd be on the elliptical all the fucking time like 25 30 minutes at a time bam elliptical you know this is before you could really watch episodes of tv shows on your phone so like i'd still be bringing in like walkmans and shit and running on the elliptical because it puts less stress on your legs and shit and i just really hate the treadmill. If you're going to run, just go fucking run. Just running in place is stupid, and I hate it.

Now, I guess your argument for the elliptical could be, well, if you're going to do that, then go fucking walk up some stairs or whatever. But either way, I like the elliptical. So I'd go in there, and I'd bring in a disc man and listen to music and do the elliptical. But you know the smell I'm talking about. You know the feeling of the air. You know it.

Every gym smells this kind of musty, muggy odor. And you know it and you experience it. Oh, and I just fucking hate it. Oh, I hate it so much. I can't be a gym guy. I can maybe go play basketball if my legs worked, but I'm fairly certain my knees will explode if I try to jump. Like yesterday, we were walking Ross at one of the parks here and there was a softball league, which I love dudes that play softball. I think they're my favorite people

because there's one game going on and there's another group of bros lining up to play softball. This is like beer league softball. They've all got a couple of cases of bush lights hanging out. People are enjoying themselves. I have nothing against you if you play softball or flag football. When I was in my early 20s, I was on a softball team. I never played flag football, but I would go play basketball at the rec and shit. I was fairly athletic or at least active, far more than I am and when I'm 38 years old but so we're watching these guys they're at this park and they're playing slow pitch softball which also creeps the shit out of me like at least they put a net like a screen up in front of the pitcher now

like who the fuck wants to be the pitcher in slow pitch softball you get no action and there's a chance you get your fucking head taken off and And then like third base, who really the best position to play in slow pitch softball is the outfield. Like who knows if you're going to make the catch, but you're not going to get your head taken off and you're not going to get your ball smashed by a line drive. So the safest bet to play, the safest place to play is the outfield. But I'm kind of watching that and I hear these other bros roll up in the background. They got their cooler and shit. And I don't know why this resonated with me and made me laugh so much. But one bro is talking to the other bro and he goes, yeah, bro, just take it easy tonight. Don't overdo it, man. You don't have to overdo it, bro. Like just kind of take it, just kind of scale back. Dude, I need you, dude, if we can get

you at 60%, man, we're doing good, bro. I'm like softball, slow pitch softball, right? It reminded me of the scene in, um, in, uh, super bad when, uh, the Michael Cera character, uh, is playing, uh, soccer and PE and, uh, what's his name? Who's the dude I'm thinking of? Um, what's his name's brother is like bitching at him for fucking, uh, not trying. He goes, come on, get your head in the game, man. And, and, uh, Jonah Hill's on the field talking with him about how, like, like she wants to fuck. She wants my dick in and around her mouth. Right. And all that shit. And, um. And they're talking on the field. And he goes, come on, Evan, get in the game.

And Michael Stare just goes, you know, it's soccer, man. It's just, it's soccer. And why don't you tell people how you peed your pants? People don't forget. That's kind of what that reminded me of. I'm like, just hearing dudes take shit like that serious, you know? Hearing a dude at a park at 9 o'clock at night on a Tuesday who's like, you know, hey, bro, we need you out there.

You know, like Ja Morant rolled his ankle in like a playoff game last night. Like, that's a big deal. That's an NBA playoff game. There's millions of dollars. It's a big deal. And the guy's out there like, is is jaw gonna get back on the court these dudes are out here playing slow pitch soft ball drinking bush lights you know and I love the dudes that like wear jerseys like not even a team jersey like their jersey doesn't their team doesn't have jerseys but they're wearing like professional

baseball jerseys I'm like bro come on man like what are we doing here bro i just need 60 of you tonight bro i'd go easy don't don't trade dude if you got a double take the double don't try to stretch it to a triple bro you got this man so but all that to tell you that i don't have manjaro anymore and i feel fat and terrible but since i've gotten ross i walk a ton. Like every morning, like basically every day, we're getting somewhere in the neighborhood of 25,000 steps, which again, that sounds like the most old man fucking brag ever. Like, well, we went to the mall and took 10 laps in a windsuit. Like, I understand that that's not that great of a brag, but like we walk a lot. That's kind of what we do. And, uh, and I get a lot of that. So at least I'm not like just sitting on my fat ass all day doing absolutely nothing. At least I'm kind of active and kind of getting around. I never know what to put whenever you have to like fill out a questionnaire at a doctor's office or whatever about like your level of activity. Like, I don't know what to put because like I'm active sort of right? Like I'm not like, like I'm not just stagnant.

I move around a lot. I just don't move around like, you know, running and jumping and shit, but I move around a lot, but I never know what to put. I never know like what exactly like, like what I should be like, like I guess I'm moderately active. Like, well, what kind of activity do you do? I walk a fuck ton with my dog all throughout town um but yeah i miss the manjaro and now i feel like you

know they say when you lose 30 pounds like there's this optical illusion that your dick gets bigger by an inch for every 30 pounds you gain an inch that's like the story now the reality is it's like an optical illusion your dick's not actually getting bigger. Your dick is your dick unless you take like those fancy pills that you see on Pornhub where apparently you grow like six inches if you take one of these pills. I've never tried one, but I'm not opposed. But it'd just be weird to order those. That's the strange thing about ordering sexual things is you feel weird doing it. Like, I'm not opposed to a fleshlight.

Like, I don't think you're a total wacko if you have a fleshlight. It's the whole ordering it thing that's awkward but anyway so like I miss my manjaro because I feel like my my dick's getting smaller and I know it's not I know it's an optical illusion but it was an optical illusion that it was getting any bigger and it obviously wasn't getting any bigger before but I could just almost see it. And it was like, wow, this is real nice. This is a real nice surprise, guys. I'm happy about this. Now I just feel fat and have heartburn all the time. And I drink too many Diet Cokes. I'm like fucking John Daly or Trump. I just have a button for Diet Cokes. I just leave the house, go to McDonald's and get Diet Cokes. But for

whatever reason, the Diet Coke at McDonald's is just spectacular. Everybody knows this. The Soty Pops at McDonald's are spectacular. I'll go get a Diet Coke over at Chick-fil-A and it's like, eh, this isn't good. But there's something about what they do at McDonald's that when you take the first drink of a Diet Coke from the Soty Fountain over at McDonald's, it must be what it feels like when a junkie hits the vein, man. Like you take one sip and you just like, it just calms you. All of a sudden I'm calm. It just feels nice and it tastes good. And I don't know why, like I don't drink Coke really. I just go there and drink diet Coke and it's spectacular and tasty and I love it. It's like my crack.

And like when I was on the jar though, all I did was drink water all day and that was probably far better for me. I wasn't drinking anything. Now all I want is Diet Coke. That's all I want. It's like I'm pregnant. I've got like pregnancy things about me. But I need to find a job if for no other reason so I can get my damn Manjaro back. That's really all I want. I want the joy of the Jaro. I miss it. And like you say, Josh, go be more active. I feel like I had more energy to be more active when I was on the Jaro and I miss it so much. And it was so tough to get it. That's the worst part. Because I went to see this one doctor who was a schmuck who wouldn't give me Manjaro. Even though he knew that my blood sugar at the time was like through the roof.

He's like, no, just go exercise more. And I'm like, no, you putz. Give me the fucking Manjaro. And instead he gives me all like these anxiety pills and blood pressure pills. They all want to play with these pills. These goddamn doctors. Back to the scams. These doctors. these goddamn doctors back to the scams these doctors explain to me how a doctor gets like

kickbacks and benefits from prescribing you certain drugs and pills yet that's kosher like i was talking to someone i know who's in the medical field he's like well you know when we prescribe such and such we get a little bit for that well then how do i trust that you're giving me what i need and how do i trust that you're just not trying to line your own fucking pocket you bad person so like i don't trust any of it dude's trying to put me what I need and how do I trust that you're just not trying to lie in your own fucking pocket, you bad person. So like, I don't trust any of it. Dude's trying to put me on anxiety pills and shit and I'm reading the description. It's like, may lead you to kill yourself.

I'm like, well, that's probably not what I want to do at this point. So like, I didn't take those. I was like, just give me Manjaro, please. So he finally prescribed me the 2.5 Manjaro. And then after a while, I tried to have him go up because my boss at the radio station was on like 15 and the dude had lost like 100 pounds so he wouldn't give it to me so i went to another doctor because my dude was like hey go see my doctor over here he'll just he's giving this shit out like candy i know what you're saying josh you didn't trust the other doctor because you think that these people just try to give you pills because they're making

kickbacks do you not believe that this guy was also just making some sort of kickback off of Manjaro? Maybe he was, but my ass wanted the Manjaro. So I got that fucking Manjaro and I worked my way all the way up to 15. I earned that. I worked my way all the way up to 15 and now I've lost it. I had a whole year's worth. My prescription right before this doctor, by the way, disappeared. I have no idea where he is. He didn't work there anymore. No fucking clue. This dude was like a fucking fucking like i was going to see a guy it like the doctor's office like it had a fish tank but the fish tank was empty like it was a real shady place right secretary had no fucking clue what was going on it's a weird seedy little place but i'm like listen if i get the jar he's not the one steering the jar-o, so I'll just go just give me the prescription. They had

re-upped me for a whole goddamn year of manjar-o and now I'm wasting this goddamn beautiful 15 manjar-o because I can't get it. And now what's going to happen is when we move, I'm going to have to go see a new doctor. I'm going to have to explain to the doctor that while maybe right now my blood sugar's not high,

it's because I've been taking medication for it and I need my medication. Daddy needs needs his treat daddy needs his delicious treats that's all i want and i'd also like some gout medication started following account on instagram where this dude makes gout videos and i feel like a total dipshit because i'm like that's exactly what it's like like he'll be like there's a video where it's like when you're at the party and you're looking at all the food and you wonder if that's gonna cause your gout to flare up and I'm like I don't go to parties but yes that's exactly what it's like when I'm walking around and like he's like when I when people think I'm you know I've broken a foot but really it's justout. Or like when the guy's in a fucking mobile scooter at Walmart, which I don't do that.

I would like to, but I haven't. But like, oh, God, I'm like, this guy gets me. I wanted to DM and be like, hey, can you send pics of your gout feet? Hey, hey, stud, you want to share gout pics? Ah, shit. I need to get my life in order is what needs to happen i need to find a job here soon i don't know i mean i'm either i mean as i told you yesterday i'm either going back to baton rouge or if some miracle job pops up i'm going to that place i'm

not in a position to say no so if a job comes up that's where i'm going i'm heading on out but the odds are it won't be a radio job because these sacks of shit do not call. They don't call me back. So fuck them. But who knows what kind of job I'll end up finding, but maybe it'll be a lovely job. Maybe it'll be a very nice job. Maybe it won't be a nice job. Who knows? But that's the latest there. I miss my Manjaro. Gout sucks. I don't have gout right now, but you know, it's going to come. Uh, anyway, more to come.