The Josh Innes Show - I'm Back In A Radio War!

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

I didn't mean to get myself into this war, but I'm in it. I feel alive! Here is the breakdown about how I have found myself battling with something call "Screamin'" Scott... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 1866-3-3-1-2-60 or visit comixonterio.ca. All right, everybody again, I'm sorry. I'm hoarse. I know I sound like shit. I don't know how I got sick. I mean, like once a week, it seems like I'm getting horse and it's terrible. But we welcome you guys in. It's all up in us. Hello. So one of these local disc jockeys here, like called me Josh Anus. So some guy at another station, it's hysterical really. And I can't find the post anymore. I don't know where it went. But this guy goes by, he goes by the name Screamin' Scott and well first of all let me lay this out after we play a few commercials let me try to keep this as even keel as I can because the more excited I get the worse my voice sounds and all this shit so let me do this and we will continue so I guess here's how all this started so I was talking about this guy that does a morning show on this classic rock station in town his name is big Jim all right so he does a morning show over there and this guy fills in

for him sometime and he's there afternoon disc jockey named screaming scott. I guess he's been around a while. He's, you know, hacky, wacky name, Screaming Scott and Big Jim and all these, you know, dumb names that these disc jockeys have and all that shit. I don't know why or who decided at some point that rock and roll disc jockeys needed to have like wacky names like, hey, I'm hammer, you know, or something like that. I'm cockroach in the morning. I don't know why people decided that was a thing, but they have, and that's just how people are. And that's the thing. So I was on the air today talking about this.

And I was like, because I saw this guy's post pop up. Actually, it all kind of started, not even kind of. It did start today by the fact that I saw a post from this morning show, which is a very vanilla lame morning show. And the post was a very like Ozzie and Harriet situation comedy, king of queens type of thing where it was like, hey, if your wife is not a very good cook, should you tell her that she's not a good. cook like something dumb like that so i made fun of that because i mean we were talking about songs about masturbation and shit you know whatever it's just the dichotomy of that versus them all right cool so i bring that up and then i bring up this scream and scott who apparently fills in on this show and i said listen i think it's weird that when this guy fills in he

refers to it as like screaming scott's house and not big jim's house like you're a fill in it is not your show it is not uh your place to refer to the show as your show You should not change the actual name of a show. That's just how I believe in that. And that was all I said, right? Well, then, not too long after that, the Screaming Scott posted about me on Facebook. I wasn't even trying to bait this guy in. Like, I was just, like, talking about it, you know?

And so he posts about me and said something about how it's going to be a failure at WLZ and the Josh Anus. And when you do the Josh Anus thing, I know I got you. I'd even try to get him. Like, I'd like to give myself credit and say, hey, I tried to get this guy to talk shit about me. And I, honest to God, did not. It was just a throwaway thing about how it's weird that this guy fills in and then calls it the Screaming Scott show when it's not. You're filling in for a guy. And that's, to me, I find that to be offensive, that you're on somebody else's show and you start calling it your show.

It's weird to me. Anyway, and that was all I said. So then this guy comes back and starts posting about how I'm Josh Janus. And I guess I'm doing well because this guy is talking about me. like the list of old guy responses to this shit, right? Like, you, this guy's talking shit. I must be doing something right on my show. And I'm like, well, this is my opportunity to go off now.

I'm going to go off on this putts. So I do. I just start unloading it. Like, I learned that this guy does a really shitty bit. Like, he's an afternoon disc jockey that plays the Beatles' birthday song and tells people like, hey, it's your birthday. Like, hey, happy birthday, Sarah and Detroit, happy birthday. And then you play the, you say it's your birthday from the Beatles, like really hacky, uninteresting, old people bullshit. And that's what I started going off on.

And so I start ripping him for that and I'm ripping him for like, I don't even know who you are, but like I've heard you. I didn't even know that was you. Like, you're a disc jockey. You don't do a show. You're a disc jockey. You're doing an air shift. This is all you do. Like, don't come into my domain here and talk shit about shit you're not capable of doing screaming.

Scott, go do your air shift. Go talk up Motley crew, you putts. You know, dumb shit like that. I just go off on it. And then, of course, he's one of these guys that's like, oh, I got him because he talks shit about me. I'm like, brother, there's no win in that for you. You're a guy that's been here 30 years. I'm some asshole that's on the radio, and you're talking shit about me. You might have put my name out there to a bunch of people that have no clue I exist. And you may talk about me on your shit today. Nobody knows I exist here right now. I didn't talk. shit about you, by the way, to make a name for myself. That wasn't my plan. I didn't know you'd respond. I even know that I was talking shit about you. I just said, hey, why does this guy call it

his show when he fills in for this guy? You don't do a show. You're a disc jockey. You talk up records, records that people have heard a thousand fucking times. You have no insight. You have nothing to add to anything. There's nothing you can say that people don't already know about these songs. You are a disc jockey. You might say, well, Josh, you talk up records too. That's true. But I'm playing like three of these and hour and I'm doing a talk show in between there and that's just kind of the way this has to be for the time being. I am not a dish jockey that rolls in and tells you the fucking weather and tells you whose birthday it is and then goes home. So anyway, I kind of felt alive again for a brief moment. There was like a moment there that I felt alive, that I felt like I've done it. I've got this guy pissed off. I'm like, because I've been kind of docile about this shit. Like I kind of come in. I know where we stand. I'm trying to do good radio. I think the show is pretty good. but like big picture I'm not sitting there like you know they're like I'm not that same like I didn't have that same fire that I used to have like in Philadelphia Houston where I just wanted to kill everybody like we have to win like there's a part of me that's kind of more realistic about where we stand you know and I'm like I look I like I'm so I just don't get us worked up and angry about this shit but for that brief moment for about six minutes on the air or however long it was that I just unloaded on this guy I'm like boy I felt like myself again for a brief moment. Now, granted, I was extremely hoarse when I did it, so it's probably,

you know, probably didn't sound particularly good, but I went off on the sky. And for that one moment in time, for that brief second, I was like, Josh's back. He's angry. He wants to win. He wants to kick everybody's ass. Because there are those moments when you, you know, you're 39 years old and you look at the business you're in and you wonder, like, I'm one of those people that kind of feeds off of the other stuff around me, too. Like, I guess you can call me self-motivated, but there are times that I need to see that other people who are around me care as much as I do. And, like, sometimes you'll be in a radio station and you're like, yeah, we're on this station. It's not a big deal.

And there are bigger shows in the building and on other stations. And maybe people don't even give a shit about what we're doing. Like, there are times that that level of passion kind of goes away because I kind of feed off of what other people do. Like when I worked in Philadelphia, winning was such a huge thing that I fed off of that. And in Houston, I fed off of that. And there are other times that I don't, you know, like, I didn't feed off of that as much in Nashville or in St. Louis, you know. And even here, I get here and I'm like, I want to win and I'm putting forth the effort, but like, you know, do other people here? Does it matter as much?

Like, if we win or lose, does it really matter, you know? And but when that happened, it just kind of reignited this spark inside of me that, like, I hate everybody and I want to kill everybody and I want to kill the station. I want to bring them down. Like, I want to win and I must win. And there was that moment in time right there that for this brief moment that I was like, I'm back. Like, this is what I do. This is the fire I have inside of me. I want to destroy these people.

I must destroy these people. We must win. Doc Brown, we must succeed. And it felt good for a second to just be back into being me. And then I looked at the text line and the phones and not one person texted and not one person called. And I'm like, shit, this is going to be a tough, tough put. This is going to be a real rough go of it here trying to get this figured out because it's tough. You know, you try to put up numbers.

Like, if you would have done this in St. Louis or on any of these other stations, any other radio station I've been on, text line would have blown up, phones would have blown up, and it would have been a huge deal. Here it wasn't. And that's just kind of a statement about where we are as a radio station, what we need to be as a radio station, where we need to go as a radio station. You know, it's a rough one. Like, we are up against it. We know we're up against it. We know we're fighting uphill, and I'm okay with that. I'm okay with the fact that we have to fight a pill.

I like the challenge of it. But there are days when you look at that and you go, you'll do a topic, and you're like, I know that this topic would get a thousand calls. And calls aren't the only reason you do shit, but you want interaction. You want people to interact with what you're doing. It makes the show better when you work in a couple people on the phones, makes it sound like people are into the show. Like, it's a big deal to get some people on the air.

And it just doesn't happen here. And like there's topics you could do in other cities that, you know, like, even in St. Louis, where the people claim to hate me, if I did, you know, songs about masturbation, I'd get 30 phone calls bang right out of the shoot. I would get, you know, 30 texts right out of the shoot from people. Hell, when we got the text line for the first time in St. Louis and told people we have a text line, it blew up. Like, people were into it, and it was here. Here, it's not as big a deal. And it's not to say the people in Detroit aren't into that kind of stuff, but the audience that we have on this station is not right now, and we have

to figure that shit out. You know, what this audience likes Facebook. They like to bitch on Facebook. That's all we got. But I felt powerful for a second. I felt like I was back. I felt like that charge that I get where like some days you come in and you want to do well and you want it to succeed, but you don't have the answer to make it succeed. You don't know what to do. You don't know what the answer is. And then in that moment where I'm like, I'm going to shit on this fucking guy, Josh. Come on, Josh Anas, as if I haven't heard that shit a thousand times before you putts, is if I haven't dealt with people calling me Josh Anus, as if that's the most clever thing anyone's ever told me it's an old man reaction to shit and that brief moment i was like i'm back

i have this moment i got to carry that over i guess but uh it was certainly if you want to hear that it is on the podcast if you want to find the josh in a show podcast and go listen to that i'd appreciate that as well and if you don't already follow that podcast you should and we got more to come