The Josh Innes Show - JIS: What is a French Fry? 713 Day!

Episode Date: July 13, 2022

Josh Innes and Jilly open the show discussing the best fast food French Fries. It is "National French Fry Day" after all. The conversation deteriorates into a discussion about what is the definition of a French Fry.Do curly fries count? What about crinkle cut? Josh and Jilly watched the Bill Burr stand up. This is reignited Josh's desire to do stand up. Jilly is quick to remind Josh that he will never actually do it. Jilly had to get a Rona test last week and was forced to wait outside of the clinic. 97.5 in Philly has a new afternoon show and it has a really dumb name. It's 713 Day and Josh expresses his love for his adopted home town. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You'll love her too. It is toegrips.com. This is the Josh Innes Show. Howdy, everybody, and welcome in to the Josh Ennis Show. It is Josh and Jilly. It is a big day. It is National French Fry Day. Jilly, who's got the best french fries? Go. Mmm.

Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. I'm going to tell you this. Popeyes? Popeyes? Popeyes has the best fries? I like spice on my fries. What?

Popeyes? Popeye's? Popeye's are fine. Or Checkers. I just like some spice on my fries. I respect that. But, well, then why not, if you like spice on your fries, what about the Five Guys Cajun Fries? Oh, I do love those, too. And the best part about getting fries at Five Guys is that you get the, you get, like, basically you order a small, and they fill up the bag to the damn top. I've wanted Five Guys for, like, a week now.

We haven't gone yet. What are we doing? Well, we've tried to eat at home. H-Town Dude brings up the Popeye's Dirty Rice. They did bring that back. It's not National Dirty Rice Day. It's delicious. I don't care h town dude

1958 it is that is that is irrelevant the relevant information is that today is national french fry day and the best fries without question when they are done right will always be mcdonald's did you see the the tiktok hack where the guy says you should order the fries from McDonald's but get them in a cup? No. That way you just put them right in your cup holder and you can just eat them right in the cup? I didn't know you could even do that. Yep.

I did not know that. Yep. Oh, boy. But I love McDonald's fries, but I feel like they do them wrong all the time now. There's either not enough salt or they're too soggy. But, I mean, if they're done right, the best French fry out there is the McDonald's fry

dipped in some Heinz ketchup, and it's fantastic. No, I'll agree. Like, just regular fries, not seasoned. I will go McDonald's. Now, Ranch Wilder brings up the Curleys. The Curleys are not underrated. I think they're very highly rated by most people there, Ranch Wilder. The Curleys are legit.

I also like Fun Fries, Fun Ruckers. See, here's the thing, though. Do you consider those wedges? Those are not French fries. And honestly, you could argue. Now, how do we define a French fry? This is a very good conversation. All right.

We might find ourselves in a situation here where curlies do not count as french fries because I need to know exactly what defines a french fry. I mean, it's called a curly fry. It is, but like home fries are not french fries, but they are considered fries, right? They call them home fries, but basically they're hash browns. So how do you define a french fry? Does a french fry have to be like in a straight shape? Is it about the way it's fried? What about waffle fries? Great question from Ranch Wilder. Is a waffle fry a French fry? This is really the deepest conversation we may ever have because I am obese and I am interested in this conversation. And

sadly, I feel like we've had this conversation at least seven times. But we're having it again because it's National French Fry Day and I am fat. So do we consider the Arby's curly fry to be a French fry? Somebody look up the definition. Jelly, look up what is like the definition of a French fry. Look up French fry definition. Is it about the, obviously the way it's prepared has to be in there, right? Because it's fried. It's fried like the French, I guess.

But, like, can a curly fry, or Google this. Is a curly fry a French fry? That's a stupid question. No, I bet you it's on Google. I bet you that question's there, and I bet someone has asked that. I guarantee you that question's been asked on the Google. Is a curly fry a french fry? Because, like, hey, Al says I don't consider wedge fries french fries.

I agree. So I don't consider the— Well, technically, then, by definition, french fries are just sliced straight. See? See? Oh, and I'm the dumb one. Oh, I was so dumb for asking questions. I was a conspiracy theorist.

I'm QAnon over here. I'm fries QAnon. Okay, so then to be fair, according to this, curly fries. And the wedges. Yeah. Waffle fries. They're not french fries. Crinkle cut fries, all not french fries. Correct. They have to be cut straight. So see, everybody called me crazy. Everybody says, come on, Josh, you dope. Well, guess what? The inquisitive person, the person with the balls to ask the questions, got down to the bottom of it.

Because I got balls, man. I'm not afraid. I go out there and I ask the tough questions of Big Fry. And you know what I found out? I found out, thanks to my sources, Jilly and Google, that French fries have to be cut straight. What about steak fries? Great question, AG producer. Lovely question. I would consider that to be a French fry because it is straight.

It's thicker, but it is a straight fry, right? It's not a thin straight fry. That's true. It's a particular cut of a fry. A French fry is a style. See, now Tiger JT brings up the point as an identifying fat boy, these are all fries. Yes, but it is not National Fry Day. It is National French Fry Day. So waffle fries are not french fries. Now I would argue then that the Popeye's fries are french fries, right? They're cut thin and they're straight.

Right. They end up kind of, you know, like, sloppy because they go soft or whatever, but they are. BSmoose790 brings up the point, steak fries have more girth. They do, so maybe they don't count as a French fry. They don't because the cut is different. So now that we know the true definition of a French fry, now it's important to get down to the bottom of what the best fry is.

We still agree it's McDonald's, but here's what I think. I think Wendy's destroyed itself what the best fries. We still agree it's McDonald's. But here's what I think. I think Wendy's destroyed itself with their new fries. I think they killed themselves with the new fries. The fries, like back in the era when we were like in Philadelphia, the fries were great. They're not good anymore. See, I never thought Wendy's had really good fries. I thought they were better than like Burger King,

who's never once had good fries. Right? So Burger King's always been lousy. McDonald's has always been the goat. When done right. Very good. And the goat. You'd have to throw in Five Guys.

I saw that Five Guys was trending. I imagine it's because of this very conversation. But I almost feel like Five Guys is like a level above McDonald's. Like that's a different category to me. So if that's the case, then we only have, like, three places to choose from. I know. But to me, I think it's all French fries. There's no drive-thru at Five Guys.

There isn't, but it's, I mean, you go in, you order, and you take it home, and you get it relatively fast. But that seems like not an actual fast food restaurant. I know it is, but, like, you know what I mean? Like, drive-thru fast food versus fast food is a little different to me. So then the only fries, if we're just going straight up fast food French fries that would be ranked in this, it would be Wendy's, not in any order, just what would be available to rank.

Yep. McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King. Popeye's. Popeye's. Now, okay. So the crinkle cut. Checkers. What about the crinkle cut fry?

That's not a French fry. Okay. But here's why I think the crinkle cut's an exception. Well, the internet said it's not. Okay, so the internet legitimately said no crinkles. The same article I was just reading. Okay. It's the style and the cut of the fry that makes it a french fry. Okay, so the crinkles are not a french fry.

No. Because generally speaking, I do not like crinkle cut fries. However, I love the Raising Cane's crinkle cut fries. And they're salted wonderfully. Not a french fry. That's not a french fry, so we don't count that.

Whataburger. I guess then we would have to count Steak and Shake. Yep. Those are like little thin ones, like shoestring, but they count. Whataburger counts. That's a drive-thru. Oh, you know what? If they're salted right and you get them right away. They're great.

They're great. Now the problem is we're far enough away from the Whataburger when i bring it home that the fries aren't good we're actually closer to the whataburger here than we were in houston though well whataburger made it it was made better in houston there i said it makes sense there i said it so whataburger would go in there popeyes would go in there this is just specifically fast food so not even like next level fast food which i can like five guys to be next level. And Fuddruckers next level. But Fuddruckers doesn't count. Those are wedges.

And what about Culver's? Do they have, what are their fries? Yeah, Culver's are good. Okay, I was trying to remember that. No, they have, I thought they had crinkle fries. Do they have, they may have, yeah, I think they do. I think Culver's has the crinklies. Yep.

So Culver's doesn't count. Okay, so here's what we look at then. So we can't count Curly's, we can't count Wedge's, we can't count Waffle's, and we can't count steak fries. So it's just straight up thin sliced french fries. Okay, it's good. It's a good conversation. So let's now think about, I might even write this down so we can have a definitive ranking, although we know number one is going to be McDonald's.

But McDonald's, and I'm writing this down because this is a very important fatty conversation. Chick-fil-A and Pete's in Philly. No, Drew, that's a crinkle cut fry. You can't count that. By the internet, you cannot count that. So we go McDonald's is on the list. I'm not ranking any yet, but we go McDonald's, Wendy's. Okay, so Wendy's would be in there.

Burger King would be in there. Burger King would be in there. Whataburger would be there. Checkers. Checkers would be there. Okay, Checkers. Rally's or whichever one is your... See, Jack in the Box, AG producer brings up, and those are awful. But they are straight.

They are. They do have Curly's there too. But you go with the straight. KFC has Wedges, so that's not they have fries now they did well then they must not be that good you've had them yeah they're not good but i guess last time you said you liked him but okay i don't know i don't know i'm very inconsistent jelly you know this about and taco bell has nacho fries that doesn't count but they're cut like french fries that's great but they're not french fries they're nacho fries but they're not made are they made of potatoes yes okay fuck i'll put it on there jesus okay by the way we had taco bell

for our second dinner last night and it was lovely boy that diablo sauce next yeah if you guys haven't tried the diablo sauce at taco bell just one step up from fire it's a must uh let's see ranch wilder says in and out problem is in and out tastes like potato chips like in and out has the worst fries i've ever eaten they're worse than burger king in and out is dog shit there all right but i'll put that i mean i'm not no i'm not putting that on the list that does not go on the list so that if you rank mcdonald's wendy's bk whataburger checkers jack in the box kfc and taco bell okay we're going mcdonald's number one right when mcdonald's is done right it's the king KFC and Taco Bell. Okay. We're going McDonald's number one, right? When McDonald's is done right, it's the king.

Yes. Now, here's the question. Does Whataburger go number two? Yeah. I mean, I was going to say it's regional, but really they're popping up everywhere now. They're in a lot of places. So, Whataburger number two. I guess like Popeye's number three. I like Popeye's.

I might put Popeye's number two for me. Really? I told you I think Popeye's is my favorite, but if we're looking at a classic, then McDonald's. Okay. Oh, and let's remember there's no curlies and no crinklies and no wedges. French fries are also amplified when there's cheese sauce involved. Hard to find cheese sauce though at these places. And a lot of times what I've learned about cheese sauce is they tend to come with big, thick, crinkle-cut fries a lot of the time. Yeah, they're really good at Culver's. Or thin crinkle cuts like the ones at Chick-E's and Pete's, the aforementioned Chick-E's and Pete's. So you're talking about frauds. Chick-E's and Pete's was up on the Angelo show today. I saw it on Facebook that they were up there celebrating French Fry Day, and you're not French fries.

You're frauds. You're fugazi. Anyway, I celebrating French fry day and you're not French fries. You're fraud. You're fugazi. I've gone way too deep into this conversation about fries. There are other things to get into today. More important pressing issues like today is 713 day. Adam Clanton, who's in the chat. Cane's fries are delicious, but crinkle fries don't count as French fries. It's not a French fry.

It's a fry. They are crinkles. They fall into a different category. I don't know why I have to repeat this. Who needs to hear this? Crinkles, curlies, wedges, waffles. They're different types of fries. And this is National French Fry Day, and it's time to stop disrespecting these things. Other things going on. So I saw Bill Burr was trending earlier today. Did that stand up just get released yesterday? Yep. Okay. So late last night, we turn on the Netflix to watch our crazy ex-girlfriend program, which has gotten like really kind of too deep. It's, it's, it's quite deep and it's about depression and suicide and stuff now, but it was very good

and funny for a while. Then it was not for a while. Then it was funny as hell again. Now it's kind of deep, but whatever you should watch, it's a good show. So, uh, I watched, you know, I flip on the Bill Burr thing cause we like, we like Bill Burr. We really loved F is for family. F is if you guys haven't watched F is for family, watch F is for family. It's fucking great. And Bill Burr is great and he's funny and he's spectacular. So latest stand-up uh was filmed at was it red rocks is that in colorado arizona new mexico somewhere and um we're watching this last night we watch about the first um like 15 20 minutes of it and it's a lot of stuff lampooning the pandemic and the liberals and the conservatives and it's great and i'm laughing my ass off and jilly's laughing her ass

off but then jilly like we're watching this and Jilly just out of the blue kind of goes, you know, this just all sounds like shit you've done. I mean, they're all the same bitch you've done,

but you don't have the balls to do stand up. Nope. Or, or here's what I think could have happened. And I don't want to accuse anybody of anything.

I think Bill Burr ripped me off. Much like, if you'll remember, LeBron ripped off my barbershop concept obviously and and and and the folks at iheart bless their hearts not only are they trying to kill me in this building here in nashville i'm gonna end up with asbestos like i'm gonna end up with like basically once they fire me which is inevitable at some point i'll get fired once they fire me and i need to

make a quick buck you're gonna see me on those lawyer commercials that air sometime between Steve Wilkos and Springer. And I'm going to be like, Hey guys, you know, did you, did your employer expose you to asbestos? I'll be like, yes. Uh, because there's no doubt I'm going to die, uh, in this building we're in right now with all the construction. That's seriously going to happen. I know. And you know what? I'll sue from beyond the grave. But anyway, so, but iHeart would not let me sue LeBron. But I was going to because LeBron, and I wouldn't have done it. Except for the fact that LeBron, if you'll remember, LeBron was going to sue Nick Saban for stealing his barbershop idea. Yes, he was. And well before any of those slapdicks were doing radio shows and television shows in barbershops. I was there

doing a show in a barbershop and I had the audio to back it up that I was there. And then of course they were like, well, we'll get someone to help. So we'll sue them. And I'll go, yeah, we're going to sue LeBron. It's going to be a great bit. And then much like everything that happened at seven 90, they came in and said, Nope, you can't sueon i'm like you fucking assholes but i almost did that right that's number one so i've already been ripped off by lebron proven now i think i've been ripped off by bill burr you listen to the podcast i know honestly i think he probably just listened at the apex of my my humor which may have been when we were at 790 because one of the bits was about um was about john wayne and canceling people like who've been dead for 40 years and one of them was uh was talking about how uh people wanted to cancel john wayne because he had been he had said something

about gay people and playboy like in 1970 and me and j Jim and you did a bit like the next day about that where we said, oh, you're all concerned about what a dude back in the 70s said about something. Let's play a game. I've got some anti-Semitic and homo, uh, an anti or homophobic quotes. You tell me if it was said by John Wayne in the 70s or if it was said by a rapper in the last five years. And we did the bit. You know, but maybe he ripped me off. Maybe he did. Probably not. Fine. But you're right.

I lack the balls to actually go up there and do stand-up. Because, like, I respect the game. I respect people who are good at it. And to a degree, I even respect people who are bad at it. There's no harm in doing, like, an open mic night, doing, like, a five, ten-minute set. Like, that's not disrespecting at it. There's no harm in doing like an open mic night, doing like a five, ten minute set. Like that's not disrespecting comedians. That's true. But here's where my psyche was fucked with a little bit when it comes to comedy, right?

And there's like Billy Dee Washington, who's a nice guy. I don't know that he likes me anymore. But Billy Dee used to all the time say, why don't you come do five minutes for me, like open for me and do like five minutes. Because I'd always talk about it. Like I would text and tweet about it, say I want want to do standup and say, come out and do it. Understand that Billy D Washington thought I was funny when I did like the Michael Berry parody song. He's like, Oh, that's funny. He doesn't think I'm funny anymore because he disagrees with me politically. Therefore he doesn't like me anymore. Right. He just doesn't think I'm good anymore. So there's

that. But like where my psyche got fucked with is that there's a lot of like numb nuts comedians in Houston and they're not funny and they're basically nobodies that are going nowhere and they've just been grinding and stand up for like 100 years and they're not funny and they all tend to hate me I don't know what I did to them I did nothing to them big picture but they just like just fucking hate me and it kind of messed with me a little bit you know what I did to them. I did nothing to them big picture, but they just like, just fucking hate me. And it kind of messed with me a little bit. You know what I'm saying? Like it messed with me. Like do, do all comedians think I'm an asshole? Cause I'm just the ones who are threatened because I'm like a shitty radio guy. But then I look at like, like Craig gas. Now he might just be laughing

his ass off at me. We might be having a good time because I let him come on 17 times in a row to promote his shows. Craig gas more successful than random local Houston comedians. That's true. Your other buddy Frank Caliendo also thinks you're hysterical. I don't know if he thinks I'm hysterical but I mean he thinks I'm funny. He's told you to do stand-up. That's true. Like people like comedians who have actually been successful have told you to do stand-up. That's true. But of course typical Josh you focus on the negative nobodies who don't matter. That's true. Maybe it's time to suck it up.

But see, now I see this Bill Byrne. I'm like, I do all these bits. Now I can't do those bits. Those bits are now scratched off. Like, I'm sure I've done the whole WNBA, you know, bit about like, you know, why aren't more women? Of course you have. You've also done, I mean, he even does the same kind of impressions you do for like the

liberals and the conservatives. They're very similar impressions. Now I got to come up with a whole new act. He beat me to it. You know, I sat back and I waited too damn long and now my whole act has been just thieved and I don't know what to do. Yeah. Now I'm fucked.

But maybe one of these days I will. Like it's weird. I mean, there's a bunch of places around here too. And pick your audience. Do you think you would do better? I know like you're down the middle but for your first attempt would you do better at like a place out by us or would you do better at a place like in East Nashville with the hipsters? Well it depends. Because both areas have like the place right down

the road the little German pub here does an open mic night for comedy. Yeah. The thing is like and this is going to sound like I'm big shit, but I think I could probably, if I find the right guy, I could find an actual comedian doing a set that would let me do five minutes. Next time Craig Gass is in town. He'd probably let me do five. Of course he would. And I say this, that, like, it's not easy to write, you know,

an hour's worth of material for a stand-up, but you usually have a year to come up with it if you do a special or whatever. It is very difficult to get on the radio and do off-the-cuff shit. And I've seen comedians, right? Because we used to have comedians come up to 610 on the Friday before they would have all their shows over at the improv. And some guys were fucking outstanding if you got them just off the cuff. Like Christopher Titus. Christopher Titus was great. You got him on the air.

He's riffing. He's having a good time. And it's good. There are some guys who are just dreadful when you get them out of their comfort zone of doing a set, right? Like we had a, who's the Craig Robinson, Craig Robinson, who was on the office. Like his standup is pretty funny. He does some shit with a keyboard and all that. We had him in studio. Didn't say one fucking funny thing. Some guys are great. Some guys can only rely on their stuff. And if you get them off of the stuff, they're not that good.

Some are great. But it is not an easy thing to go in and do 12, 13, 14-minute segments, what equates to what, 12 times a day if you do a four-hour radio show? And by the way, when we were doing that, when I was doing 610 or 790 or any of the sports stations, that's doing what equates to about 44, 45 minutes of live off-the-cuff shit every hour. You always bitch that you don't get any instant reaction now. You don't get instant feedback. You'll get instant reaction doing stand-up. That's true. They'll either tell me I suck or they'll...

Well, the thing with you, though, that I think you could pull off is, like, if you told a joke and it bombed, I mean, you're the first one who's going to be, like, self-deprecation over here. So, like, that would be funny. Yeah, well... I think you should do off is like if you told a joke and it bombed, I mean you're the first one who's going to be like self-deprecation over here. So like that would be funny. I think you should do it. I really do. Maybe one day I'll give it a shot. Maybe one day. I don't believe you. I don't believe myself either. Because it's weird, like I just don't have the

I'm like George McFly. I just, I can't, I don't think I can handle that kind of rejection. Like I'm afraid now, here's the thing. If I got up there, I would just go, and maybe it would be spectacular. Yeah, I think I saw someone tweet you, like, have a couple yellow bellies, get up there and go. Yeah, but what if you say the wrong thing, and then there's video of you out there, and you lose your actual job? Well, that may happen, too.

See, that's the concern. You would also do that on the radio. That's true, but actually, real talk, I am a giant pussy on the radio now. Like, I don't say anything interesting. Now? Yes. But, like, back when I was interesting, it'd be one thing. Now I am, like, the least interesting dope in the world.

It's like, ha-ha, that's funny. Here's some lame joke, and now it's J. Giles, you know. Not a fanboy says you would riff like Mrs. mazel she's my hero yeah mrs mazel is that show coming back is there another season or is that it oh i think there's gotta be yeah like how did how did it end like she she i forgot how the last season ended but i would imagine i mean the show's been nominated for uh an emmy like every year and she's great pam and tommy's been nominated for 10 how about that and i And I mean, I'm guessing makeup. Is there a makeup Emmy?

Probably. That guy looked like Tommy. His cock talked. That was pretty impressive. I want to say both of them got nominated for actor and actress. Her fake tit plate that she was wearing was outstanding. So I'm all for that one now. That's a good one.

Here's what I thought about The Pam and Tommy Show. The Pam and Tommy Show probably could have been like four fewer episodes. I feel like the last two or three episodes were just like them being distraught over all this shit and nothing really happened. It could have been a little bit shorter. But anyway. It's a contender for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series,

and both Sebastian Stan and Lily James are nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor and Actress for their respective role. Lily James is so hot. Seth Rogen is also nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He's a doof, but that's okay. At least he's not LeBron-level doof. Like, I think LeBron is probably the dumbest human on the planet. No, I take that back. The Bidens are the dumbest.

I take that back. They're actually just brain dead. There's a difference between being stupid and being brain dead. I was talking with somebody about that. I was texting with someone. I go, do you think the Bidens are dumb? He's like, no, dumb's not the right word. They're just, you know, one of them is a complete vegetable, as you know.

And a battle was on the air the other day. And he goes, oh, poor Joe Biden. I said, no, there is no poor Joe Biden. You can't say, oh, poor guy, when you're the goddamn leader of the free world doesn't work that way what was the video yesterday where he walked up and like hailed the chief was playing he's trying to make a joke about like oh I still you know every time I hear that song I look around I say where's the chief like he's he's brain dead he's a vegetable right and um you know it's interesting we were repeat quote repeat the line end of quote repeat the line um what's interesting we We were a quote. Yeah. Repeat the line. End of quote. Repeat the line. Um,

what's interesting. We were like, sometimes I'll put on shows I've already watched before when we eat dinner, just, you know, to pass the time. And I was watching this Trump documentary that's on Netflix. It's a four parter. And they were talking about the moment in time that it was like, yep, this is when Trump decided, you know what? Fuck these assholes. I'm going to run flirted with the idea of, right. It was at the correspondence dinner and they're just shitting on him like obama's just shitting on him and they're like at that moment he decided he's gonna bury these fucking people in the audience and he's just got this smirk on his face like okay okay talking and then boom he and he did it but here's the thing i believe the line was like you're not gonna be

laughing when i'm president is what he like allegedly told somebody. Yeah. And then boom, scoreboard. And they certainly were not laughing. But there was another thing that stood out in watching that, just how different the world is now, right? So Obama gets elected, no way. And if you watch some of his speech after he wins, he's in Chicago. And the message is hope. And in America, you can still accomplish anything and look at this

black white whatever race you can do anything you want in america and this is proof fast forward to 2022 in his same party they're running on shit like you don't have a fucking chance it's hopeless we're all fucked this is the worst place in the fucking world and that gets you votes now what a weird world a matter of 14 years it goes from hope and we can do anything and we can get it we're all fucked it's terrible this country's race is too terrible the world's changed a lot in 14 by the way mrs mazel is coming back for a season five that will be the final oh i'm gonna be sad i find her so hot as that character i've seen her in other things and I don't think she's hot. But as Mrs. Maisel, I give her a 9.5.

I still got wood. Let's see. Not a fanboy. Gotta love LeBron questioning if Brittany Griner should come back to the U.S. after her Russian release. Yeah, like I would think after staying for seven months in Russia, like your first thought is please get me the fuck back to America, not, oh, fuck America.

They didn't help me. Now I'm off to China. Now, the interesting thing about that is like, I get that that quote came from just like a teaser for his episode of The Shop. Yep. So like, you know, you don't get the full context. I get it. But then he kind of made it worse by apologizing for it.

Like, OK, so there must not be any other context because he tweeted last night my comments on the shop regarding britney griner weren't knocking our beautiful country since we're just lebrons and you're saying our beautiful country like you're lee greenwood or something i was simply saying how she's probably feeling emotionally along with so many other emotions thoughts etc inside that cage she's been in for over a hundred plus days long story short hashtag bring her home like my guess is how she's feeling emotionally is she can't wait to get back on American soil and eat some pussy. That would be my guess is how she's feeling and smoke some pot. She's probably like, I want to smoke pot, I want to scissor some bitch, and I want to

get back to my life. My guess is she's not sitting there like, fuck America, fuck, I'm never going back. Because she sees what it's like to not be in America. That like that's actually the wrong way to view it they're like lee breezy and clearly that's what he said because again i was saying you know maybe we don't get the full context and like the little teaser but obviously if he's already saying like let me clarify there's not more to it that's the quote yeah so he's a dope though he's that is not a ball sack sports quote no no it's not. It sounds like it could be. God I love that

the ESPN guys apologized for that. Like the dudes in a suit. Yeah. He's like sorry for reporting this and they didn't say ball sack sports. They should have had to have said ball sack sports. Like if I were ball sack sports I would have said listen asshole. I want credit for this shit. You will say ball sack sports ESPN

you sacks of shit. I want credit. You will say ball sack sports, ESPN. You sacks of shit. I liked the, did you see the tweet from Jacoby, of Jalen and Jacoby? Yeah, that's the guy I'm talking about. I didn't see the actual quote, but I saw him wearing a fucking suit. Normally he's doing a show with Jalen Rose, and they're both trying to look like they're in fucking Run DMC or something. But in this video, he's in like a suit, and he's like, well, I reported the wrong shit, and I'm sorry.

He's like, I'm the face of of this i want to do some things here so i'm wearing a suit he's wearing like a red suit he looks like he's a member of the fucking temptations and you know what's funny he's like obviously you know we don't know jaw personally but seeing jaw's personality and like his instagram lives and everything yes he probably thinks this is hysterical. Yes. He's probably laughing his ass off. He's got to fucking laugh. What was the actual quote from this dude? I don't know if I thought you had the Jacoby dudes quote over there. Oh, his tweet?

His tweet about like, you know, being all like, hey, my bad, y'all. I mean, like this red suit, like he looks like a member of the Oneeders. He should be singing that thing you do. His tweet was, as the face of this, I want to do three things. One, apologize in general. Two, apologize to Taylor Rooks and John Morant. And three, give a big shout out to, quote, Maddie Ice for watching from what looks to be a liquor store. Now, that is funny because the guy that originally put the video up that went viral was clearly watching Jalen and Jacoby in a liquor store.

Okay, and that's funny. But here's my issue. ESPN doesn't make some of their people apologize for the vile shit they say and do like people are like let me tell you why white people suck and why men suck and why america sucks and why trump's all this shit they never make them apologize yet somehow they have to do a heartfelt apology because they were duped by ball sack sports that's great like that that's great like hey let me tell you something hi i'm such and such from sports and uh no i want to or what's his name who's that mark uh mark jones the play-by-play guy who's like basically shit on cops mark jones has to issue zero apology to cops

yet this dude jacoby has to do a long statement about how they got duped by something called ball sack sports like come on dude the espn is such a fucked up universe it is but all sports tv is pretty fucked up by the way dr fauci says that the new ba5 variant shouldn't disrupt our lives but now does recommend wearing masks indoors oh do you think you had the ba5 yeah totally but i'm not gonna wear a mask indoors no i mean you've you've served your time with the ba5 i still can't believe you didn't get it. I don't think I did. I don't think I did. I tested and I didn't have it. So rock on. Yeah, that's something. So, I mean, look, like the last thing they should be concerned about, like if I'm at work and they're like, hey, do you have the Rona? I took a leak next to some

random jamoke today at the radio station who was doing construction. The bathroom is the size of a closet and I'm standing next to some random jamoke. They have no issue with the building being filled with randos. So I guarantee you have not tested or anything. So don't come at me with, oh, do you think you have the new COVID? Like, no, I don't fucking know. I took a test. It says I'm negative. You're clearly not concerned about the health of anybody at the radio station when I'm breathing

these toxic fucking fumes in the building and you're not doing anything to expedite the process of building a new stadium. So don't come at me with any COVID talk. Not that anybody did because nobody is even at this building other than the construction workers and me in battle. The people who are, like you told our boss, you told Battle, you told everyone you were around. Jilly's got their own.

Obviously, I work on the station, so they knew as well. And no one was like, oh boy home josh we have to contact trace like that shit's over yeah and i took the test it was negative and i said rock on let's go i mean really it is a cold and i was thinking this the other day too last week when i went to get the test because i took the at home and it was positive but of course i don't trust myself so i was like well let me go to the urgent care. It's free. Let's just make sure. Right.

Yep. And I walk in there and she's like, oh, what are you here for? I'm like, well, my throat hurts. I just kind of want to make sure that I don't have COVID. Or if I do, you know, I guess I should know. And then she's like, oh, you have to wait outside. Like, come on, you're a doctor. If I had strep throat, which is also contagious. And not good.

I could sit inside. If you had the flu, you could sit inside. If you had the flu, you could sit inside. And I had a mask on. I mean, I don't think the mask does anything, but. But they wouldn't let you come inside. Like you're still a pariah to these folks. And then they let you come in

when it's your turn to go see the doctor. Yeah. And she's like, all right, well take your mask down. Let me see your throat. I'm like. So explain to me why I couldn't sit in here wearing a mask,

but you can pull the mask down. Yeah, why did I have to sit in the car when it was 108 degrees outside? And I'm sweating.'m like I'm gonna go in there you guys are gonna wonder why I have a fucking fever because I'm hot from sitting in my car with my shitty air conditioning because you won't let me sit in the waiting room and that's the thing like so I went to the ear nose and throat doctor a couple months ago for like allergies and stuff and they still make you wear a mask in there yep and i'm like but you're about to do stuff with ear nose you're like about to stick something down my throat

like a camera and you're right in my face so why does this matter like i walked in and i didn't have a mask and ladies like sure you gotta put on a mask i'm like but why this is an ear nose and throat you're inevitably going to be exposed to me without a mask so what's the fucking point unless the doctor's wearing like an n95 or something it's still but like they dude the doctor took his mask down when we were talking the doctor walked in wasn't even wearing a mask but that's what makes it stupid jank ass cloth mask that i've had for two years this this covid especially now like it's cold. Basically. At least for me this last time it was. I didn't have a

fever. It was just, you know, congestion, cough, everything. Any other sickness that's contagious and you go to the urgent care, they let you sit inside. Yes. But you were still pariah out in your car and our air conditioning in the car is terrible. Well, and also, I mean, I feel like any car, when you sit in the sun and you're parked

and you're not moving, the air's not blowing as cold as it normally would be. No, but ours does suck. Like, it's a special kind of shitty. So, they have you sitting out there and you're texting me like, Jesus Christ, I feel worse now than when I got here because I've been stuck out in the damn car. I walk back in and I'm like, can I just, like,

my air condition doesn't work. Like, what do I do? Can I just come back or something? And like, I don't give a shit if people want to wear a mask. It's your prerogative. Do whatever the hell you want. Chinese people have been wearing masks in airports and shit forever. Who cares? But to make me go into the doctor, when the doctor's going to pull down his mask and he's

going to be putting shit in my mouth, it doesn't matter. The lady that was working the counter, receptionist at the hospital, there's a piece of glass between us. She goes, sir, I'm going to need you to put on a mask. Like, I don't have a mask. I've gotten rid of them. Well, sir, I'm going to give you a cloth mask. Like, or I'm going to give you a, you know, a doctor's mask. Okay, fine. Whatever. It is what it is. And I'm not sitting here trying to get into some yelling match about masks or anything, but like you can't help but point out the absurdity. I mean, Bill Burr did that in the stand-up we were watching last night. He's like, all these people telling you to wear a mask,

then they pull down their mask to tell you to put on your mask. It's all out of control. And it's still ridiculous. Would you like to, I don't know if this will just piss you off or if you just want to hear it because it's kind of funny. What's that? The official press release from 97.5, the fanatic in Philadelphia announcing their new afternoon show.

Okay, I'll listen, and you can tell me what they have to say, but I will preface all of this by saying, these people fucked me in the ass. Okay, on with the countdown. So, as expected, it will be NBC Sports Philadelphia commentator and former Phillies reliever Ricky Battalico, alongside Missanelli's former co-host Tyrone Johnson and weekender Hunter Brody with Jen Scorto continuing as update anchor and adding

producer duty how the hell does this radio station have four people on a show I can't I have the number one male radio show in Nashville and they're like yeah we don't know that we can pay you anymore bud sorry you get you in battle and that's it. These assholes have four people on a shitty radio show. Now, the best part I think is- And I'm going to try not to get mad. I'm just going to keep my cool. The best part I think is the name of this show.

Oh, this is a fun game. Can I try to guess? Yeah. Okay. All right. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try to take a guess. So it's got to be- Now, I'm going to do hints here. Give me- Okay. All right, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to try to take a guess. So it's got to be, now I'm going to do hints here.

Give me, okay, so I'm going to ask questions, like when you play 20 questions with that ball. All right, so I'm going to ask you, is it something Philadelphia related? No. Is it something that has to do with three? No. Okay.

Is it something like sportsy, like the bullpen? No. The bench? No. The 97.5 The Fanatic afternoon show. No. Okay. That was very possible.

It says, what show is this, people are asking. This is 97.5 The Fanatic in Philadelphia run by people who led me on for two years about a job and then ghosted me like the cocksuckers they are. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. So it's, so it's, um, so it's not Philly related. It's called Rocky three. No, not Philly related. It's called Creed. No. Okay. So not Philly related and not sports related. Nope. Okay. Is it like a play on words? Like a pun of some sort? No. No?

So it has nothing to do with the number of people on the show? Nope. Is it like something to do with the fact that it's a mixed race show? Nope. No? Okay. Does it have something to do with the fact that it's some producers and a dude from YouTube? Nope.

No? Give me a hint. It's a question. It's a, how you's doing? No. Wiz wit? No. No. Uh, because I'm Philly related. Um, the jet bags. Nope. No. Use a jet bag. No. No. Okay. Um, boy. Okay. So it's a question. Why does this show exist? No. That's not it. How long will this show last? Is that the name of the show? That'd be a great name for the show.

How long will this shit show last? It is going to continue to be broadcast on TV as well. Christ. I swear. Okay, I'm just going to tell you. Let me guess a couple more times. So it's a question, and it's not Philadelphia related, and it's not sports related. It's not a couple more times. So it's a question. Yeah. And it's not Philadelphia related. And it's not sports related.

It's not like you just want a hoagie. Nope. No. You just want to hit this. You just want to have a cum. No. What is the question pertaining to? I don't know.

It's a really stupid name. You just got balls? No. Just tell me the damn name. The Best Show Ever? Get AIDS. All of you. That's the actual name of the show.

The Best Show Ever? With a question mark. PD Chuck D'Amico says, many years of experience on the air, on the field, and in the stands all come together to create this unique sounding ensemble show. This show has no chance. I talked to this Chuck D'amico on the phone when he first got the job because the guy that runs the the company there was like hey we think you should uh talk with chuck d'amico our pd and let him see guy had no clue anything about me at all and i'm like listen i'm not some g or anything but i feel like if you're programming a sports

station in philadelphia like i had a pretty eventful three years when I was there. If nothing else, you should at least know who the fuck I am. The press release continues. The new ensemble show features Tyrone Johnson, a 20-year broadcasting professional, Ricky Batalico, a former 11-year Major League Baseball relief pitcher, Hunter Brody, a new-age digital sports media influencer, and Jennifer Scordo, a seasoned major market radio pro and air talent. This eclectic and diverse group of passionate, knowledgeable,

and fun Philadelphia sports experts brings you a show that truly offers something for every fan. The best show ever? I look at this in multiple ways. On one hand, this is where my mind goes. On one hand, it's like, Josh. Y'all thought the wheelhouse was a bad name. It's a much better name than this.

I usually hate hacky names. This is not to rip John and Lance, but I don't like names like the bench or the wheelhouse or the bullpen or the payoff pitch or instant replay or like I just I really dislike shitty names like that I like people putting their names on their show that's what I think sounds the best uh so I hate hacky names but this is a just a terrible name like it feels like they put this show together for the sake of it failing, which you probably

should because you have no chance of success after the big show that left. But I look at this in multiple ways. I think in the trenches, at least it works because there's one guy that's a defensive lineman and one guy that's an offensive lineman. So it works in that regard. I hate names like that. I despise them. Like I love Matt Moscona. I don't like names like after further review, as somebody brings it, I don't like it. It were, at least it has an acronym that sounds good. Like AFR and it works. I don't like that. I like the Josh Ennis show. I like, you know, innocent Bruno. I hated J and R at least it was our names, but I hated that. It's just not really what, you know, I'm into. But like on one hand, I'm like, Hey, do I suck so fucking bad that these guys all got this

job? And then these guys ghosted my ass. Like, is that how bad I am? No, I think it's a matter of fact too. And we've talked about this before. Like, you know, they're probably combined making what they would have had to pay you. Possibly, yeah. I mean, you pull a guy from YouTube, you don't exactly have to pay him a ton. And a guy that used to be a producer, you don't have to pay him a ton. It's not even about how much they would have paid me. Like, they're probably paying Missanelli like...

Yeah, I mean, collectively, the four of them probably aren't making what Mike was making. Oh, God, no. Not even close. Then there'd be no point. Yeah. Like, so what you would do is you... I'd say if Mike was making five, six, between all of them they're making $250,000. And remember, that business, that cluster,

the big money in that goes to the dudes on the rock station. Like Preston and Steve, I believe, are making probably around a million dollars a year. I mean, probably maybe in around a million dollars a year. I mean, probably maybe in the sevens or eights. I don't want to speak out of school on that because I honestly don't know. But they make a lot, and they get giant numbers. And remember this about 97.5 there, and I truly believe this.

They're not building a radio station to win. They are building a radio station that exists solely to take enough of the sports audience away from WIP to keep their rock stations on top. And now important to note, CJ Gauldy says, holy shit, radio guys make that much? Like five of them do. Not many. Not anymore. Like in Philly, they didn't. I didn't make that kind of money. When you're an Angelo or a Preston Steve and you're kind of grandfathered into this stuff or like an Elvis Duran, probably. Well, those guys, I wouldn't even put Elvis in those. Like Elvis and Bobby and those guys, they're like on a thousand stations. They're different.

But a lot of, I mean, radio does not pay well. Well, no. It pays fine for the effort you have to put into it. But like Angelo, when he leaves at the end of this year, what's going to happen with Angelo, who I believe makes a million base, then his ads, and so he makes a ton of cash. Whoever they're going to pick to replace him is going to make, the whole show combined will make less than half of what Angelo made, total. So they're going to save a ton of money. They also won't generate as much money because Angelo is their cash cow.

So take that for what it is. But yeah, so rock on. Have fun with that, guys. Do what you do. Like I didn't even think of it until you brought it up. I didn't really think about it. Well, I thought the show name was so good that it had to be discussed. It's so bad. Normally I'm anti-bringing up Philadelphia radio in the past on this show, but that shit was funny. Yeah, it's not good. How much do you think the power 99 morning show makes? I don't know what the power 99 morning show is. Uh, so probably not a ton, but I don't know what it is. So I couldn't tell you. Uh, but, um, yeah. So those guys, they more power to you. Uh, I'm going to say something that I never

thought I would say. Cause I see that BS Moose says Gargano is terrible. He's on Saturdays in Houston. And I don't think he's good, but I will say this. I was scrolling through Twitter the other day and I saw a video of one of his things. And two thoughts came to my mind. One, this assholes outlasted all of us there somehow, which I mean, it's death. Like if there a nuclear holocaust it's like cockroaches share and gargano like there's always there but i was listening and i'm like i can see why these meatheads would enjoy this like it's energy i mean he's got energy he says nothing of con like with any content or at least it's got energy at least he sounds different yeah he's got energy i could see why people would like he's a phony but at least like the average joe doesn't know he's got energy. I could see why people would like, he's a phony, but at least like the average Joe doesn't know he's a phony. The average Joe just listens to him and they go, Hey, this is

great. Like he's a, he's one of the guys. And I go, you know what? I'm okay with that. I can live like Missanelli was completely unrelatable and not interesting and an asshole. At least the phony cuz character seems like someone you'd want to hang out with. It's like this. The cuz character is kind of like Pee Wee Herman, right? The real Paul Rubens was just some creep beaten off in a fucking porn theater. Pee Wee is like, hey guys, right? The real cuz is just some slug of a human meatball gross person. But the cuz character on the radio is kind of a likable, kind of like over the top, your best buddy, Cuz' type of guy. So I get why people would gravitate towards that.

So I'll give him that, at least. I'll give him that. Now, before we get out of here, maybe that's the name we need. We need a name like The Greatest Show Ever? Yeah. Question mark? Question mark. But before we get out of here today, actually, let me tell them

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reach out 281-488-6238 or aqueductplumbingcompany.com. They're at your disposal. Okay. Before we get out of here today is, um, seven one three day. So it's the big day that we celebrate the greatness of the city of Houston. And I want to tell you this, and I've lived in a bunch of places. And I think sometimes people have a hard time understanding this. Like Matt will mock me sometimes. Like the other day I was, I was saying some good things about the Astros on Twitter and Matt goes, Oh, I thought you you were Cardinals fan. Listen, I've had a weird existence growing up. Okay. I mean, I've lived in a bunch of different places. Some people have never moved like people like Matt. I mean, I'm envious of this. Matt has spent most of his life in the same place. So he's never had to go and fake being a fan of other teams or be nice to other people's teams because he hasn't gone to other cities to

do that. He has gotten the opportunity to talk about the Saints and LSU, the teams he loves, for his entire time on the radio, and that's awesome. Some people get to do that. The people in Philly, most of them get to do that. The Cuz gets to do that. You know, Missanelli got to do that. Guys got to talk about the teams they loved, and that's awesome. I moved around a lot.

Also moving around as a kid, that means I watched a lot of different teams and went to a lot of different cities. And I had different love affairs with different cities. You know, I lived in Memphis when I was three years old. But I used to go to Memphis all the time as a young kid. And I have an affinity for Memphis. I love the city. That's why I think they should have put me and you on the radio there. And they didn't.

But that's fine. One of us is on the radio in Memphis. That's true. You're on on the weekends. But my show should be on there every day. But it's not. And that's okay. They don't like Trump. That's okay. But whatever. So I have a love for that place and I root for the Memphis Grizzlies. So I love them. I've gone to a lot of different places. I lived in Louisiana. I lived, so I root for the saints. I root for LSU. I, you know, I lived in Philly, so I have an affinity for not necessarily the teams, but I love that I live

there and love the people. It's a different world for me, right? Home for me is Baton Rouge. That's what I consider home, but I love St. Louis. I love all these different places, Montana, Memphis. Love all these places, but I will tell you this. What I consider to be home B, or if Baton Rouge is 1A, Houston is 1B. I love Houston. I've told you this a million times. It's amazing all the people we know that moved there from other places

and stay there. You know what I'm saying? They stayed, they didn't leave, and if they did leave, they came back. Bootsy got fired, left, came back. PK and DK. PK got they did leave they came back yeah Bootsy got fired left came back PK and DK PK got fired left came back yep Meltzer has stayed there a dude from Connecticut has stayed there for over a decade now it's the best and I tell you that because you know it's I like it's a weird world because I'm on the radio in Nashville in Detroit I've been on the radio

in Philadelphia Baton Rouge New Orleans I've been in all these places. And it's a weird thing because like on your social media and shit, you know, you want to, you want to stay neutral because you like try to create the illusion that you're actually in some of these places when you're not. But like I was tweeting about it today and Facebooking about it today that Houston is my fucking favorite place I've ever lived. Because for both of us, I mean, that's where we've spent a majority of our adult lives. Correct. Like, you can tell, you know, like, oh, I grew up here and I lived here as a kid. Like, I don't know, that doesn't matter as much to me, I don't think.

I think it's where you live your adult life. No, I agree. And that's been a majority of where we've been. Yeah. Like, I'm from Chicago. Would I rather live in Chicago or Houston? Houston. Yeah.

I consider Houston to be home. Like, when we moved back to Houston after Philly, I was so excited. We both were. And we thought that's where we were staying. Like, we were done. Like, great, let's buy a house. This is it. We're back in Houston.

Holy shit, it worked out. Yeah. It didn't. It did not at all. Not at all. But we love Houston. And the people in Houston, the majority of the listeners of this podcast are in Houston. And not to say that I hate any of the other people, but the majority of the people that

listen are in Houston. I met Jilly in Houston. Luther was adopted in Houston. If we were to go back to Houston today for an event, there'd be 100 people that would show up for the event in Houston. I love the place. It is an absolutely amazing place. Is it hot as balls? Yes. Does the traffic suck at times? Yes. Does it have some of the same issues that all the major cities do? Yes. But I fucking love that place. And there's

something to be said when there's a city when people like Bootsy, who probably never even set foot in Texas growing up, decided to go back and live there. Before he had a job, he went back there. And Meltzer and me and you and PK and Denise. And I guarantee there's some of our friends that lived there at one point and had to move that would come back if they could. Houston is the fucking place, man. I love everybody there, and it's awesome. So I appreciate you guys on 713 Day.

Give you guys a little bit of love. And I have a lot of passion for you, and I thank you. So I appreciate you guys on 713 day, give you guys a little bit of love, and I have a lot of passion for you. And I thank you. All right, my voice is starting to go because the room's drying up on me a little bit. So anyway, we're getting out of here. Love you guys. We'll see you later.