The Josh Innes Show - JIS Classic: Josh and Jim Celebrate the Ratings

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

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Ugh. Josh Innis. Give me fuel, give me fire, give me that which I desire. Hey, that's me. Three o'clock straight up. Howdy, Josh Innis Show. Wrapping up the week today as we're off tomorrow because it's Thanksgiving,

Friday because of football, then we're back Monday, bright and early at three. Ready to rock and roll? Boy, we're gonna do basically a Friday show on Wednesday, so Blind Gus will join us at 5.30 for his weekend picks. We will have Mayor McMush, also known as Razor Sharp. Ricky Rush, she'll have your picks at 4.45.

We'll also do free speech Friday at five. Then we are O-U-T because of basketball tonight. Are we doing free speech Wednesday? It is, it is free speech Wednesday, you're correct. So there's a lot to get into today, but holiday days are fun. So we can talk about really whatever the hell we want. Yay. And I know you like days like that. I love it. See, Jim, just like me, Jim is a sports fan, but Jim is also a fan of just wacky conversation about whatever the hell

we want to talk about. And I think that's kind of what sets us apart from people. We're not as regimented as other people. I think you would say we are, you know, we are more kind of, what's the word I'm looking for? What's the thing? Like fly by the seat of our pants? Stream of consciousness maybe? Some people like that, some people don't.

Like when you go to a bar with your buddies, you don't create a rundown of what you're going to talk about. Exactly. Can you imagine that if you walked into the bar, you walk in with your buddies, you got a little black binder like I've got here with my live reads in it. Everybody sits down. Hey, what do you want? All right, just give me a Miller light. All right, you sit down, you open it up. All right. So let me tell you guys that really something that irked me last night,

what let you get into a hole. You just do a monologue at the bar. Uh, but how many weeks have we been on now? yeah, this is seven. This is our seventh week. Yep And for those of you who don't know and I know I've talked about ratings on the show and they hired me to generate Ratings and more so generate revenue. It's not easy to generate ratings on a 5,000 watt AM station You understand this and I don't want to bore you with my new show of details of radio and ratings But I like to tell my audience about these things because I want you guys to be part of what we're trying to do. And what we're trying to do is build something that people love, people want to listen to, people feel like they're part of it. I've told Lance this,

I love what they were able to do at 1560 when he and John and Nuno and I think Sean was there when they first started. John Harris. And John Harris. And they built a really cool thing, albeit for a short period of time, but what was really cool about what they were able to build was they built this thing where the fans loved it. They ate it up. They had to have it.

And for a brief moment in time, that thing took over the city. And I really want to have something like that, but something that sustains. And I believe that's how you're successful in radio. And for those of you who don't know how it works, ratings stuff kind of, you know, it all trickles in about three weeks late. So we get our first monthly rating in for the show. And it only, what dates does it encompass? Jim, if you counted it, I think it goes from the sixth of October before we were even on right to the second,

I think of November. Yes. So it doesn't include most of this month that we've done so far. So I don't even know what those ratings are going to look like. All you need to know about ratings or this and we live and die by them. I get that. They sell based on ratings. I understand that. That's a huge deal. It's a very flawed system. I think it's a broken system. I think it's a lousy system. I said that whenever I had great ratings in Philadelphia. It's very flawed. One week you can be having 13 shares of the audience. The next week you're having three. Like how exactly does that happen? It's very flawed.

What is the better system? BCS or ratings? Oh, the BCS was clearly better. Okay. See the BCS at least, I think most years the BCS got things right. When number one would play number two. Like in 2005 or 06 technically, whenever it was Texas versus USC, nobody's going to tell you that those weren't the two best teams in college football. So I think for the most part, the BCS got things right. I can't explain to you how the flawed system works. I can't do that. I also can't really complain about the flawed system because we all operate under it. I know that

it's going to take a while for this show to pick up steam. It's going to take a while for people to find it. We are on a 5,000 watt AM station. We don't have the Texans to help people tune into the radio station. I understand all that. We're not the heritage quote unquote sports talker that was the first to do it when John and Lance were doing it, etc. I understand all that. That said, I can tell you that in the paper today, I saw something on the website that David Barron wrote and he's a media critic slash although he never really criticizes anything. That's the odd thing about David Barron is I thought he was the media critic, but really all he does is post ratings, which

is fine. And the headline reads early returns have Josh Ennis ratings down from Charlie Palillo. This is misleading. And I'll tell you why it's misleading. Why? Because what they don't tell you is that there was about four or five day baseball games involved in the last month that Charlie was on the air and day baseball games generate a better rating than Charlie does on his own. So it elevates the number a little bit. Clearly I didn't have day baseball games with playoff implications and I had early season basketball a couple of times and let's be, I'll be honest with you. I'm looking at the data here and there were a couple of early season basketball a couple of times. And let's be, I'll be honest with you. I'm looking at the data here.

And there were a couple of early season basketball games that took us off at 415 and 515 early this month. They probably killed. We took a blood bath, a bludgeoning when that was on the air. So if you want reality, that's reality. But I'm not gonna complain because something good came of this.

See, you read the headline and you just think, oh, Josh Ennis sucks, Josh Ennis is dead, that loudmouth bastard came to town and he ran Charlie out, and now look at him, I hope you're happy, 790. Well, there's two things. You sound like Dusty. One, here's one thing we did.

One, we knew we were gonna lose some of the older audience. Charlie survived based on people that were basically in their 50s is kind of what he banked on. And we lost a portion of that audience, which we knew we would. We're younger guys. I'm 30, you're 45, 46. So we knew just based on the style of show we do, it was going to be different than the blue haired baseball stat breakdown, caller driven radio that those guys like. And that's fine. They have something they like that's good. So that's where it went down.

But I've got good news, Jim. You do? I've got great news for you. Give it to me. Listen, I'm not trying to brag here. I need it. Listen, Jim, Jim, you know me. I'm not one to brag.

You're not. I'm not a bragger. You're very humble. I'm not braggadocious. Nope. I am just a very level-headed, very straightforward guy. This I know. I'm actually, I could argue I have low self-esteem. I do not braggadocious. Nope. I am just a very level-headed, very straightforward guy. This I know. I'm actually, I could argue I have low self-esteem.

I do not brag about anything. You have confidence issues. But let me tell you something, Jim. Yeah? Here's what happened, Jim. What? Men 18 to 34, very young audience, right? Oh yeah.

And they brought me in, they said, Josh, we need to start building up a younger audience of people who are listening to Sports Talk 790 for years and years and years to come. Right. It's a very coveted demo. Jim. Yeah. This radio show in men, 1834 went from a 0.0 0.0 to a 0.2. Yeah. Let me say something, Jim. See, you can read the phony baloney headlines from the drive by media or you can listen to reality, which is we went up to 10 of one point in man 1834. We did that. I'm feeling crank up that, I want to hear cool in the game.

Give us a call. 713-212-5790. Let's celebrate baby. I got to thank all of you, man. I have to thank all of you guys, all of you 18 to 34 year olds who didn't listen to Charlie, who now have us at a 0.2. 0.2. We're on the fast track. You guys are the OG listeners of the Josh En a show. When we're, when we're dominating every demo, you're going to be like, Hey, I was there on the ground floor, man. I was there from the very beginning, men, 18 to 34, 0.2, 0.2 from a zero started

from the bottom. Now we are started from the bottom. Now we're here. Jim, I don't know. I got chills. Oh yeah. I have got chills today. What a Thanksgiving weekend this is. I know. I mean a 0.2.

My God. We are celebrating what is going to go down as a red letter day. What is today? The 23rd? Yes. November 23rd, 2016. We celebrate that we took the show in men, 1834. Now we dropped the rating everywhere else. Don't don't get me wrong. We're gonna

fix that though. Go back to the other one men, 18 to 34, a 0.2 from a zero. Oh that, you know, it never gets old. I'm excited. You know what I'm gonna do? What I'm gonna call my dad and celebrate. You should. I think he should be proud that I'm his son. All right. Leave cool in the game going. Let's call dad. Okay. Do I use the very bottom one? Yeah. Use the bottom. All right. Here we go. Do I dial one chip? I keep forgetting. God, here we go. I am so excited today. We what does that mean? Did we like bring up the rating by like 200%? Yes.

I mean, I'm telling you, man, we're going places. Let's call Dad. Maybe he'll finally be proud of me. Now granted, I was number one overall in Philadelphia. Hello. Hey, Dad. Hi. Hey, listen, I got to tell you something. We're on the air, but today's a celebratory day and I just want to see how proud you are of me. So, um, we got ratings in today. In men, 1834, we went from a 0.0 to a 0.2.

And I just want to, I just want to tell you that I am proud to be your son. And I hope you're proud to be my dad. We went up to basically we went up like 200% in the ratings in men, 1834, from a zero to a 0.2. Wow. Man, I am so proud of you. I can tell, Dad. I know you're so proud of me.

You went from a 0 point, or from a 0.0 to pretty much a 0.0. Nowhere to go but up. Dad, don't ruin this for me. This is the only thing we went up in is Min 1834 from a 0 to a 0.2. to go but up. Dad, don't ruin this for me. This is the only thing we went up in, is men 1834 from a zero to a 0.2. Let me have this. I'd hate to ask what your women numbers look like. I bet they're better than our men numbers at this point.

They're very good. Women love us. For some reason women love me. I don't know why. Wow. So what, where were you before, when you got there, where were you? Well, let me tell you something. In 18 to 34, the show that was on before me that preceded me dad had a

0.0 in men 1834 we have taken that up to a 0.2. We're in 29th place dad in in men 1834 This is a really big day. Well, is that sure is that sure demo that you're trying to get no No, but we had to find a positive. And we found the pod. They brought me in here to generate a younger audience. I lost some of the older guys, like the your age guys, but I've been able to generate a younger audience.

0.2 from a zero. You know, it's going to be a good Thanksgiving. I'm going to come home this week and I'm going to brag to everybody about it. They're going to be at the table. Dad's going to be like, yeah, I've got like 30 shares in Baton Rouge. And I'll say, yeah, that's cute. But that's chicken bleep radio, dad.

I got a 0.2 in mid 1834 in Houston, Texas, baby. I'm telling you, this is a big, big, big day. We're on a 5,000 watt AM station, dad. I could roll down the window and get on a megaphone and probably reach more people. So this is a milestone. What you need to do is run a contest and see who can come up with the best phrase for your show. And you know, a hook line.

You know, like, John's gonna show. It sucks so bad, but what are you gonna do? No, we don't need that. See, what I'm telling you is our audience is into the show. We got young kids, they're into the show. They're my point two percenters They're my original people you always hear about the the one percent in this country the rich people, right? you know, I mean, yeah, everybody in our family thinks you're one for trying to say is playing in the Building the fake radio station in your bedroom all those years finally paid off

I know what I'm trying to tell you is I had more listeners on that fake radio station than I do your spiny paid off. No, what I'm trying to tell you is I had more listeners on that fake radio station than I do here. But I'm going to build this thing up. And the fact that we went from a 0.0 to a 0.2 is a huge monumental accomplishment. Hey, Kobe, Josh went from a 0.0 to a 0.2. He's bragging already.

He's bragging. Yeah, already. I mean, Kobe wants to know if me and him, or is that the two? It might be. It might be. You leave me alone, already. I mean, Kobe wants to know if me and him are, is that the two? It might be. It might be. Yeah, leave me alone, Dad. We'll talk when we get, when I get home tomorrow, we'll talk about this big accomplishment, okay? So really, so the rest of the day I can go around and I can go, man, my son Josh, his show sucks and I'm so proud of it. No, I'm hanging up now. I don't need your negativity today, you old bastard.

You're lucky I haven't come into town to see you. I have a 0.2 share among men 1834 from a zero. The paper wants to focus on the negative, which is Josh, it is down from Charlie Blue, bleakity blue, that's fine. But what the paper doesn't tell you is that I went from a 0.0 to a 0.2. Here's what I need from people.

There's a new name I'm giving all of these young people that have generated and you can count as an old person too if you're an older guy that's fine too. Uh-huh. This is my crew. You are the 0.2 percenters. The 0.2 percenters. The 0.2 percenters. I want t-shirts. I want logos for this. Bumper stickers, hats, panties. If you're a 0.2 percenter, 713-212-5790, 713-212-5790. If you're, if you're a 0.2 percenter, I need to know it. 0.2 percent. We're up. We're up 200% is what that is. That's impressive. 200%. 200. That's how you got to sell

it to the media see our guys should have gotten to the paper first we should have done it's gone to David Baron and said hey David we got some numbers for you Josh is up 200 percent among men 1834 that's to Benjamin just see 200 percent yep so listen are you a point here's what I need to know. I need to know if you're a 0.2 percenter. 713-212-5790. 713-212-5790. Are you a 0.2 percenter? With you, we will go far. Nielsen sucks. Ratings suck, but it's what we live by. I know damn good and well that we've got a ton of listeners. We found this out over the last month and a half. We see great numbers on our streaming as well. We get tons of blog hits. I know people are listening. But are you a.2 percenter is what I need to know. Benny, how you doing buddy?

How you doing? Hey. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a.2 percenter. A.2 percenter? Yeah, but I'm 52 years old and I love the show. I'm ashamed of six-tenths of you guys. Well, why is that? Why do you like the show?

Because it's crazy. It ain't boring. I like what's going on. I like that. Thank you very much. That should be another slogan for the show. It's crazy. It ain't boring. Yes. I like it. I'm writing it down. Write that down, Jim. I'm excited. The paper can feed you all the garbage at once. We see the data. We see the ratings online. We see all this other stuff, right? We see all the other metrics. Yes, it sucks that our... We knew this would happen. Let's be real. But none of that matters right now. It doesn't. Because we knew it. Yeah, here's the thing. We knew what was going to go down, what was going to go up. We could

have never foresaw a situation where our men 18 to 34 numbers are up 200%. I'm doing exactly what they brought me here to do, which is bring in a younger audience to the radio station. Yes, and faster than they thought. They said, Josh, this is going to take three months. They said, Josh, this is going to take forever. You're never going to build that audience up 200%. Nope. They said it couldn't be done. They said, Josh, you have no chance. You're a loser. I don't know why they would call me a loser if they hired me But they said you're a loser and you're they're like Adrian, you know, they love me, but they call me a loser I'm when they said you can't win Josh and I said I can win

And what's happened is did we're up 200% men 1834. Mm-hmm. All right, let's see here Chris. You're on 790. Go ahead Yeah, I just wanted to call and say I'm one of the guys that switched over from the other radio station to y'all's radio stations, because y'all are a lot more entertaining and talk about more than just the same mundane topics that everybody else talks about. So would you consider yourself a 0.2 percenter? Yes. Yes, we got a note. All right. We need a sound you consider yourself a.2 percenter? Yes. Yes, we got it. All right.

We need a sounder for the.2 percenter. We do. I don't know what it's gonna be. I don't know what we can do. I don't know what sound that we've already used. Maybe you can help us out here by tweeting at Josh Ennis Radio. We need a sounder for the.2 percenters.

The loyal group of people that listened to the Josh Ennis show from the very beginning that took us from a 0.0 to a 0.2 percenters the loyal group of people that listened to the Josh in his show from the very beginning that took us from a 0.0 to a 0.2 in men 1834 that have taken us up 200 percent in the ratings. That's what we're looking for today a sounder go through some of our sounders Jim Just what if you have in your button bar over there play them for me and let's find the perfect sounder when someone says You know what? I'm a point two percenter. All right. Find me something Jim dammit. No nothing. I'm finding. Okay I'll talk to people then. Okay. Right now I'm buzzing man. Whoa whoa

just kill you kill you'll kill cool in the game. I think we've we've worn that out. People get that we're celebrating today. So let's see here Jordan you're on 790 go ahead. Hey what's going on guys. Hey hey. Hey I just want to let you know that I switched over from 610. I'm 25 years old. I'm glad you brought Jim Mudd with you. You're way better than Nick Wright was. I appreciate it man. Alright you consider yourself a 0.2 percenter? Yes sir. Yeah baby spread the word 0.2 percenters. Dave's not here man. Yeah baby! There we go I forgot all about Dave's not here man. Yeah Dave's here. Dave's a 0.2 percenters. Yeah, baby. There we go. I forgot all about Dave's not here. Yeah, Dave's here. Dave's a point 2% Dave. Are you a 0.2 percenter? Is that right? Dave? He's not here, man. Exactly. 7 1 3 2 1 2 5 7 90. I am giddy. People can talk about the negative. They can harp on the negative and they can say, Oh, this isn't Charlie Palilla. Guess what? Up 200% among men 18 to 34. Up 200%.

It's amazing. Like if you looked at your portfolio and you saw that your stocks were up 200%, you would be so happy. Excited. Ecstatic. I guarantee you that this Brian Erickson's excited. I guarantee you that this Eddie Martini is excited. It's hard to tell if Chris Gordy's excited. He's always kind of on the same level. I've never, actually, honest to God, I've never seen anyone here excited about anything to tell you the truth. Gordy might be a sociopath. So I don't know. But I can tell you this, that we're up 200%. Man, 1834. Alan says he has a slogan. What's up, Alan?

Here it is. All right. Josh Innis. You never know what he's gonna say. What the hell? What the hell? What the hell? Yeah, baby. Are you a.2%er, Al? I'm a.2%er, and I'm 67 years old, big'un. All right, I like it. Woo! I like it, I'm excited today.

Me too. It's the day before a holiday. We get the ratings in, we find out we're up 200%. 200%. 100%. Unbelievable. So you can read all the garbage there is in the paper and all this. They brought me in here to generate a young audience. And let me tell you something kids zero to 0.2. You delivered 200%. I want to raise your rainmaker. I want a raise. You

get that Brian Erickson on the phone. You tell him what I said, Balboa. You tell him. You tell him what I said. I want to raise. 200% and we got all these.2 percenters that are on the phone. Justin, are you a.2 percenter? Yes sir, yes sir. I'm a.2 percenter sir. I'm going to tell you what, I believe they took you over the top, man. We had pretty women coming in there throwing them objects around me. I think that's what I think that's what did it man That's what did it Jim. Hey, by the way, he's a point two percenter Dave. I just Know the I think what the grandma could be there too. Oh, yeah But do we go is our official sounder for the point two percenter or is it is it Dave's not here? Is it maybe grandma saying I'm doing a hundred. I mean, which one do you think it should be? I mean Dave's not

Dave's not here is kind of the official unofficial slogan of the show. It really is. So should we just ride with that? I think so. So when you tell your friends and they're out on the street and they say what radio station do you listen to you say you know what I don't need to tell you what station I'm listening to I just have to tell you that I'm a point two percenter and Dave's not here man. That's what you got to tell them. Yep. Let's see here Kyle you're on 790. Go ahead buddy. Josh, congratulations dude. I'm on 0.2%. 0.2% Dave! He's not here man. Yeah baby. I've been here since the

start. I listened to you over at 610. Man, you're one of my favorites. I love Jim. I loved Jim with Nick right, but I mean you two are a gruesome tooth and let me tell you something. I'm excited man. Jim, I loved Jim with Nick, right? But I mean, you two are a gruesome tooth and let me tell you something. I'm excited, man. Jim, you know what? I'm so excited. Yeah? What a time to go into Thanksgiving.

People say, hey, what are you thankful for? You know what I'm thankful for? The.2 percenters. Who's not here, man? That's what I'm excited for. Me too. What a Thanksgiving. Because one day when this flawed rating system

recognizes our brilliance and takes us to the top, we're gonna look back off this and you know what we're gonna say? We're gonna say, you know what? The 0.2 percenters got us where we are. And Dave is still not here, man. He's not here, man. You know what? Now's the time to strike. We've never had so much leverage.

Oh, totally. I think we can work a bunch of stuff out of this. I mean like drugs. If we went into Brian right now and said, listen, if you want to keep us, we need mountains of blow. Just mountains upon mountains of this. I mean like drugs. If we went into Brian right now and said, listen, if you want to keep us, we need mountains of blow. Mountains upon mountains of blow. Yep, we snap our fingers. We got those young AEs running in here. Everybody. Listen, you said you needed blow. I got blow for you. You need blow. Here's blow. Here's more blow. It'd be perfect. I'm telling you, this is the show

to be on. We are a show trending upward. If you spend money on radio stations, spend money on this show. We will take care of you. I need to talk to more.2 percenters. 713-212-5790. And I want you to understand something. That yes, the 18 to 34 year olds are kind of in that category of the, you know, what we would say is the.2 percenters. Because we went up 200 percent in that category. But everybody's a.2%er. If you're a 55-year-old man who lives out in Tomball, you know what you are, Jim?.2%er. If you are a Hispanic man that lives in Pearland and you are 63 years old, you know what you are, Jim?.2%er. If you are a

black man and you live in Missouri City and you are 38 years old! You know what you are, Jim? A point two presenter. Actually, no, you're a retired football player. It's not here, man. Stay there. Now more. Josh Innes. You guys are going off on the candrum.

On Sports Talk 790. 1334 rating and take it from a zero anywhere. You just can't win. Nobody's ever done it. I don't know if that's true, but right now it is. We can make people believe whatever we want. Yep. We've got the power. 0.2. We'll get there and I want you to know that I'm not alienating anybody or at least I'm not saying that you can't be part of the 0.2%. See the 0.2% is more of a state of mind than anything. Yep. You see the point two percenters are people who love the show, like what we do, like being part of it, know that they're part of it, like calling the

show, like tweeting the show at Josh and his radio at Jim mud. Guys that like to represent the show guys that would wear a t shirt if we gave it to them. Yeah. They're also guys that are tired of being told, you can't say that. Exactly. That said, we also dump a lot of people on this show. So you're kind of the, you're the home monitor of that. Well, I'm not one of them social justice warriors. You're certainly, and that's true.

That's another thing about this show is we hate social justice warriors. You know, I know that, I mean, I'm on Twitter a lot and I engage with a lot of people on Twitter. I hate that Twitter has become this place for pussies to just rejoin, like just kind of congregate together in their own little echo chamber of mediocre opinions and softball stuff. But you know what? That's not this show.

No, it ain't. This show isn't about that. This show is about giving good opinions. This show is about having fun. The show is about giving good opinions. This show is about having fun The show is about laughing Not breaking down Brock Osweiler's. I don't know his what do football players have war is that a thing? Is there a wins above replacement for the people who are QBR? Yeah, we talk sports. I want you to be sure of that Yeah, we try to have fun man. And that's why I think we're building this loyal followers. It's a month

See, that's the thing people need to understand you read headlines in the paper and they tell you like oh Josh Ennis is below. Well, there's a lot of factors that go into a lot of stuff The overall ratings will be up trust me, but 200% were up among men 1834. That's what matters Let me ask you when you're building a house. What do you build first? Foundation. Yep, the point two percent exactly If you're a point two percent or seven one three two one two five seven ninety Adam Clanton checks in on Twitter I guess he took a break from looking in the mirror And said he's a point two percenter well good so Dave's not here man to you too. That's like our greeting

We're like Smurfs. Everything is Dave's not here, man, to you too. That's like our greeting. We're like Smurfs. Everything is Dave's not here, man. So a Dave's not here, man. A Dave's not here the morning to you, everybody. 713-212-5790. Remember, a.2 percenter is not an age. It is a state of mind, kiddos. Let's see here. Bill, you're on 790. Go ahead. Hey, Josh. How's it going? Good, dude. Am I a.2 percenter? Hell, hell no. I miss Charlie. Oh, man, that sucks. Aw. Yeah, see, you know what?

I don't need you anyway. You know what? Charlie probably doesn't miss you anyway. Nope. I would have missed you if you were gone, but Charlie doesn't. Nope. Because he's just sitting at home Googling stuff right now. Not even thinking about you.

He's got to keep his Googling fingers warm. For some reason, in my mind, Charlie is like the aviator. Howard Hughes, he's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and having a good time. He's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and having a good time. He's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and having a good time. He's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and having a good time.

He's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and having a good time. He's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and having a good time. He's just sitting in a googling fingers warm. For some reason, in my mind, Charlie is like the aviator, Howard Hughes. He's just sitting in a room somewhere, like growing his fingernails and hair out, peeing into milk bottles. Like repeating the war of Pedro Guerrero. Pedro Guerrero's war was 3.7. It was 3.7, 3.7. And listen, no offense to him, but I couldn't care less.

I mean, listen, you like the show, you like the show. If not, you don't. But the one thing I learned about this guy, he was listening. He was certainly listening and he knows the.2 percenters. We have got the.2 percenters on lock. Taylor, what's up? Hey, Josh. Hey.

Welcome back. Thanks. You're the void of mediocrity has since been filled with your return. I've been a.2 percenter from the Gego, from Jump Street Man with you, like way back. of mediocrity has since been filled with your return. I'm in a.2 percenter from the get go from Jump Street Man with you, like way back. And my proposal is that maybe a Scott Dennis what the hell might be a little more appropriate

as like our call sign, our mantra, our slogan, whatever it is, a 45 year old male by the way. And here's why, because when I'm listening to the other station and the voice talking about you know, just patty caking these abysmal losses in the land of PC over on 610, that's exactly what I say as I switch it over to find you one day was what the hell. And heard your voice. All right, well I appreciate that man.

Thank you, Taylor. So what do you think? I still think Dave's Not Here Man is the slogan of the show. That was kind of the first mantra. That's the OG mantra of the show. Now some people may prefer the Scott Ennis what the hell. It's a very popular thing on the show. It really is. Or even't know I still think Dave's not here is just

kind of the the overall like big picture when people think of point two percenters and the Josh Ennis show that is it's the and God we trust on our money if we had that's exactly right if we had our own currency, if we were mass producing currency in the back somewhere and we were laundering money as it were, on that money, on that currency, it would say Dave's not here man. Dave's not here man. So that's a fun, we're just having fun today. We're talking to guys that like the show, listen to the show. It's a holiday. I'm not going to try to bog you down with a bunch of stuff and a bunch of hot takes today. Hot takes are Monday and Friday on the show. I want to talk to people today. You're probably on

vacation or getting off early today and you're heading home or driving somewhere for Thanksgiving. Let's just talk. We can talk about really whatever the hell you want to talk about. I saw a story today where a guy got fired. I believe it was Drake University. A guy that had worked there for 31 years that was in like the equipment department or something like that, that peed in a bathtub there and got fired. Why? He peed in it, then he cleaned it up. He said he had some sort of prostate, would that be a prostate problem?

You have to pee a lot? Maybe. Would that sound right? And he had to pee a lot and he said he couldn't make it to a bathroom. Well, what do you want him to do? So he peed and then he, for some reason, inexplicably Told his superior like the the Dean of Students or whatever. Yeah, that he peed in this random bathtub Well, he probably thought he was doing the right thing Probably I'll get all the details on that story in a little bit in Texas

Who knows if Tom Herman's still gonna go there or if he was ever gonna go there? I mean we got football. I got the mushest picks coming up in a little over an hour I got blind Gus with the blind man versus the blowhard We have to see how he and Gay Johnny did last week in their picks. We're going to do a little free speech Friday on a Wednesday for you. We're off early today. And we're talking to .2 percenters. And if you don't know what makes you a.2 percenter, what makes you a .2 percenter is that you're a fan of the Josh Ennis show and you love me and you love Jim Mudd and we love you back because we're up 200% in the ratings among men 18 to 34. We are up 200%. All right let's see here. Matt you're on 790 go ahead buddy.

Yeah I'm not sure y'all still talking about.2 percenters right? Yeah absolutely that's all day. I heard radio. I heard radio from behind I feel like I'm like Dennis Quaid calling up Jim Caviezel, you know, from Frequency or whatever. Frequency, yeah. Yeah, that's a good movie. You guys seen that movie? Yes, yes, I've seen Frequency. Yeah, I love that movie. Anyways, all I was saying was, you know, I just love the show. So, you know, now I Heart Radio is my second most used app behind Twitter, PassedUpTinder, so you guys are good. Well, I'm glad that you're using us about it.

PassedUpTinder. I guess the well has run dry. I think he stopped with Tinder when he accidentally swiped, is it right or left when you wanna actually hook up with someone? I think it's right. He swiped right on Meltzer. And I think he wasn't on grinder Meltzer's Twitter not Twitter but the picture he uses on his grinder or whatever the hell

it is uh-huh one of the pictures is just him in this big bulky snow jacket standing in the most melted way possible just him doing this like he's ice cube just it's it's fantastic the picture of Meltzer. I guess Meltzer's hooked up from that. I don't know. I'd love to call Meltzer. I miss talking to Meltzer on the, I can't do it anymore because we're on this station and I'm sure that it's not copacetic as it were to talk to people from other radio stations on the radio. But I hang out with Meltzer, you know, a pretty good deal and I text him all the time. When he showed me the picture though, it was so good. Just him standing there in this big... He looked like the Russian Michelin man. And I can just imagine, like,

what's a comp... We've talked about this before. What is sex with Meltzer like? Oh, it's got to be just nothing and then fair. Yes. Yes. Yes. I bet he keeps stats on all of his women he probably does like what their war is uh-huh like well well you see I I had say I had relations with her but this one was slightly better so her war is about two-tenths of a point up on her war fair that was a whole bit when I used to have the the voice changing thing we would do the bit where Meltzer was the robot having sex. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And then he shorts out like and that's how we know he's finished he shorts out. Yes. Ha. He powers down. You unplug him from the wall. He's like an old school vibrator. You have

to plug him into the wall. He's small wonder. He's bicentennial man. Yes. Yes. And I could see like telling, he's like bicentennial man telling lame jokes. But as a robot like, hey, how do you make a hanky dance you put a boogie in it let's have intercourse yes I'm a mess yes yes fair let's see here Cody you're on 790 go ahead buddy hi Cody hello Hey what's up? Hey man, appreciate you taking my call. I just want to say I'm an original 2%er and I had a request if I need to talk to like producers or something, I want a bumper sticker to say I'm an original 2%er because I've been listening since day

two. Can't say day one but second day you're on the air, I started listening. Been listening ever since man. Here's what we need to do, and I thank you Cody, and Cody says he's 21 years old, by the way. So again, we're building that young audience up and we want to keep the older part of the... We want to have a big audience on this show. Yeah, but it's too bad though because we got the bumper stickers away to the guys that listened on the first day. Yeah, I'm sorry. We're all out of bumper stickers. What we need is like t-shirts. I talked to the guys over at Running Game Clothing to come up with a logo.

Yeah, they're working on it? They're working on a logo. I think people would love t-shirts. I talked to the guys over at Running Game Clothing to come up with a logo. Yeah? They're working on it? They're working on a logo. I think people would love t-shirts. We need to get out in the public, give these people t-shirts. Mm-hmm. Listen, the t-shirt can literally be a blank white t-shirt and people would want it. We need a t-shirt gun. A cannon. Here's what I've learned about people in radio giveaways. What'd you learn?

You could literally give away a brown paper bag of dog poo and they'd be like, I want it! I want to win it! Oh, absolutely. Like if I get on the air and I give out a number and say 713- And they'd be like, I want to win it. Like, I fight it on the air. And I give out a number and say, 713-212-5790. Who wants to win a bag of dog poo? 713-212-5790. Tell me what Pedro Guerrero's war was in 1988. If you could do that, a bag of dog poo.

Stay there. And people would go ahead, really like the dog poo? Hey, is that dog poo Luther's? Because I'd really like his poo. Well, he's a big-timer. He's a big celebrity. Everybody loves celebrity dog poo. What a game that would be.

Talk about a game show. Yeah? Celebrity dog poo. You have to guess it. Based on what's in it, you have to dissect it. You're like, there's hummus in this. Well, who could that be? You have to figure out what theirs would be.

All right, 713-212-5790. 713-212-5790. Full board of people that want to be.2 percenters. We're going to talk some sports also in here today and other wild stories and wacky things. Hey, it's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, man. So why not have some fun, right? It's a holiday. So we're talking to people who dig the show

We're talking to point two percenters. That's the new name for our crew our posse, but only if you're black otherwise, you're not in a posse or Well, I forgot which way LeBron went with it, but either way you're in our posse because we don't get offended by things We don't we don't posse applies to everyone. We take everybody. And Posse is not racist. So LeBron, take your horrible hair plugs and get the hell out of here is what I'm going to say to you. He could be a part of our posse, though.

And his hair plugs are dreadful. They are. I feel bad for him. It's like, dude, just go bald. He's got enough money. Those are bad. Joel McHale has really good hair plugs. Yeah?

You look at Joel McHale, and you go, hey, listen. I mean, you look at old pictures, and he looked rough. Then the hair plugs. Yeah. Like you look at Joel McHale and you go, hey listen, I mean you look at old pictures and he looked rough, then the hair plugs look great. LeBron's hair plugs have never looked good. They always, I mean he's got the hairline of, you know, black cop in the black white buddy cop movie. You know, he's like Myrtaugh. He's got like Myrtaugh level hair. Like he'd be that guy or you know,

the dad on Family Matters. You know who else has good hair plugs? Is the guy that plays Michael Scott on The Office. Oh really? Yeah. I didn't know he had hair plugs. Oh yeah, if you watch the first few episodes he's got a receding hairline and then all of a sudden it's a full head of hair. How about that. 713-212-5790 if you want to get in. We're going to talk to people. We're going to have the mushest picks in an hour. Blind Gus, Blind Man vs. The Blow Hard, holiday edition at 5.30. And before that, a little free speech Friday on Wednesday.

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