The Josh Innes Show - Job Search Rant!!

Episode Date: January 28, 2025

I got a nice email from a listener who enjoys the podcast. Once again, I lay out my goals and hopes for what I think this podcast can become. I think it has immense potential. This leads me down the path of talking about radio decision makers who ignore emails and why I think they are the worst. Send me your podcast feedback... [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, Jamokes! What's going on? It's Josh Tuesday. Glad you are listening. Appreciate everybody who's found the podcast over the last couple of months. I am aware it is quite rudimentary. I am aware that it is very bare bones. I am aware that it's just me, one microphone, and sometimes my wife, and the very rare occasion I play a piece of sound from my phone. I get it. I'm going to change that. We're going to improve it. Things are going to get better. Or as a matter of fact, you may not like, you may not like the idea of change. You might enjoy the fact that this is the most bare bones setting you're

going to find probably in any podcast, at least from someone who has a history of doing, uh, you know, professional radio shit. I mean, you're sitting around in your underwear every day, Josh, that's what you're thinking. You're listening to mean, you're sitting around in your underwear every day, Josh. That's what you're thinking. You're listening to this and you're like, Josh, you're in your bed. You just took your dog to training. You're laying around in your underwear. You have a heating pad wrapped around your foot because your foot still hurts, despite the fact you've been taking all of these steroids and everything for your gout, right?

So you're probably thinking, Josh, or you might be thinking, Josh, I actually enjoy how bare bones this podcast is. But some of you listening may be sitting around going, yeah, I don't know, I think it could be better. I think I'd like more interaction. I think I want more interaction with listeners. I think I want a live component. I think I want to hear from all the people that you always used to have on.

I think I want guests. I want video. I want jilly. I want it all. If that's the case, shoot me an email or a message. And I appreciate it. A lot of people have, and I'm going to read some of these throughout the week, but make sure you shoot me an email, joshinnisshow at gmail.com. You could also send me a DM on Instagram or Twitter. I would appreciate it. That would be great. Feel free. And we can do that. Like Steven here sent an email. Some of the things I find interesting about the podcast is when you talk about life in radio or history of radio. As a sports radio listener, we don't always get the behind the scenes stuff that goes on. It's interesting to hear about about some of my favorite pods of late were

philly radio beat down where do i want to live great sitcoms and the browns 40 qbs i know it sucks but you have a hilarious way of talking about your job hunt which i finally which i found really interesting and wish you were able to give more detail about the places you've reached out to but man when you get going about the gout and the meds, that shit is hilarious. I actually think it'd be funny if you got back on Facebook and did a bit a few times a week about your Facebook comments. I fucking despise Facebook and everything you say about it is true. However, you are fucking hilarious when you get going on it. One of my favorite episodes I've probably listened to a dozen times is the pod

on the Houston Chronicle article, all the Facebook comments. I can't think of anything I really don't like. I'm glad you don't get too political. Politicians are divisive assholes and you'll simply alienate a portion of your listeners. Everything is political these days and it's not nice to, and it's nice to be away from it. So again, that was from Steven. Thank you, Steven. If you guys want your messages read, you want to give me feedback, that's what I'm legitimately looking for here, right?

Like you want a little radio insight, you want a little life insight, I got a month of severance checks still coming. Now, I'm not broke by any means. I'll be fine for a little while. I'm still looking for a job. I've really been trying to hammer, trying to find out details about this morning show job in Houston. If you want to know

the truth here, Steven, here's a little insight for you. I have been digging and digging and digging, trying to find out more information about the Classic Rock morning opening in Houston, because as you know, I want to be back in Texas. I want to be back in Houston. That's where I want to live. There's a realistic possibility. I just move back to Texas and get a regular job and do the podcast to supplement my income because I do truly believe that there is a place for a monster, awesome, fun, interactive, live show, YouTube, all that shit type of podcast in Houston because it doesn't exist. exist now I was talking to somebody about this the other day about one of these companies that's launched a couple of

podcast channels and fast channels on like Roku and shit uh in a couple of cities uh in Philly it's like things just called like phly I think is how they spell it. But that's where John Marks, who did Afternoons on WIP, mind you, this guy left Afternoons on WIP, which is a job, unless you're me, you can have forever. But John Marks is like, I'm going to go do this. They're probably paying him a lot. And I don't know what kind of audience they're getting, but he left WIP to do this.

And this guy who runs this company or started this has some ones in Dallas. I think they just launched one in Dallas a couple months ago. There's one in Denver. And from everything I've been told, the one in Philly is not doing particularly well, which surprised me. I was talking to a person. I won't tell you who it is, but I was talking to this person, this Philadelphia person, and this person was telling me that this website is not doing what they thought it would do. And I was like, why do you think that is? He goes, well, because everybody in fucking Philadelphia has a podcast or a YouTube and

it's oversaturated. Despite the fact that Philadelphia is the most passionate, maniacal, crazy sports city in the country. Like in my mind, I'm thinking, start a podcast, Philadelphia, you're guaranteed to make a couple of bucks, right? That's not necessarily the case because everybody does that in Philly. Everybody does it in Boston. Everybody does it in Chicago. Whereas cities like Houston are kind of an untapped resource because if we're being fair,

Houston is not a sports city on the level of a Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, even a Dallas in that way. It just isn't. It's an AM, talk radio, 25th place, passive sports city. Doesn't mean there aren't passionate people. Doesn't mean there aren't people that don't care or do care. They do care, but it's not a city like that. So it's an untapped market. And that's why when I tell you that I want to get back to Houston, I want to get back to Texas, at least get back to Texas.

If somebody called today with a job in Dallas, I would take that job in Dallas. And then multiple weekends, I'd drive my fat ass over to Houston to do live shows. That's the plan I have. If San Antonio call and they're like, hey, you want a job in San Antonio? You bet your fucking ass I do. I'll be there tomorrow. And then on the weekends, I'll be taking this live road show to bars like a Friday night at a bar, whatever. That's part of the plan. That's what I want to do, right? So all that to tell you, again, you said you want insight on what's going on in my life. You want insight about all that. You want to know more about the job search. I'm on the job hunt every day. Like, people think I'm just sitting around and I make jokes about how I'm a bum or whatever.

Like, somebody was ripping me the other day on social media, and they're like, this fat ass is collecting unemployment talk and shit. I'm like, as a matter of fact, I'm not collecting unemployment. was ripping me the other day on on social media and they're like this fat ass is collecting unemployment talking shit i'm like as a matter of fact i'm not collecting unemployment i'm just collecting the money that i'm owed by my company i haven't collected unemployment yet that comes in march probably dingus thank you but i i have this vision and i think it's possible and i know if i'm down in houston i got people people like PK who's great with camera shit and video shit. Like I know it's possible.

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We're going to get drunk on Twitch and on YouTube and have a good time. And I'm going to get everything set up and it's going to look good. I don't want to just half-ass that shit when it comes to the video component. That's my biggest factor in this. My biggest issue is I don't want to half-ass it. That's what I don't want to do. By the way, speaking of making a couple of bucks, let me play a couple of commercials here. Now, some people have told me that when these commercials air, sometimes it's in a weird spot. That's the other thing is all I do is put in a marker in

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I truly do apologize. But as I've told you, like that is my plan. That is my goal is no matter where I end up, it's to really start hammering this because once like real talk, I thought this job I had here in St. Louis was going to be a job I was going to have for fucking ever until I wanted to die, right? Like this is it. Like, okay, they're hiring me here. This is it. I did not anticipate 15 months into it, 16 months into it being told pound sand. I didn't anticipate that. That wasn't the expectation. That's why I left my job in Nashville because I thought, well, this company I'm going to has more stability. There's more of

a chance for maybe there's some growth possibility, but at the end of it, it's a place I'd like to live. It's a place I have history with. My baseball team is here. It's a big time legendary station. I'm going to be here for as long as I want to be here. I didn't anticipate it being a 15 month deal, right? So when that kind of job goes and you've worked at a lot of the major radio companies and you've bounced around and you see people get fired on a consistent basis, well, let me tell you kiddos, you really have to start evaluating. And I wish, and not that I didn't see these things for years and years and years, and not that people like people like Matt my one of my best friends Matt and Baton Rouge is a guy that's told me to do this I get all that but I see it and I know that like the radio wagon

which has already been derailed the train has been derailed I think there's one more go at it for me I think there's one more run at it I don't I think there's one more run at it. I don't think I'm done yet. I don't think I'm totally damaged. This isn't like, you know, leaving Houston the first time when nobody thought I was worth a shit because how it went down. I didn't get fired in St. Louis because I was a piece of shit and was fighting with people. I didn't get fired in Nashville. I left Nashville to go to St. Louis. So like, I don't think that my name or my image or my brand or whatever you want to call it is completely wrecked and destroyed. I think there's still something there. There just aren't

jobs right now, but there will be jobs. And I believe I'm going to get one of those jobs. And every day I'm talking to people, some people I have nice conversations with that just don't have anything. Some people are dickheads that don't even respond. And the people who don't even respond to your emails are sons of bitches. And I hope nothing but bad happens. And that's okay. You're allowed not to go Trump on it, but that's okay. You're allowed to wish bad things upon people who don't even give you the courtesy, give

you the time of fucking day to even give you a response. I've gotten responses and stuff from some of the biggest program directors in the industry. I was, let me tell you a story. And I'm sure I've told this before, but I was, when I was in Philadelphia, 2015, one night, I'm just sitting around, and I probably had some sort of gout or some issue, maybe didn't even know it was gout at the time, but a doctor gave me, or it might have been a dental thing, but I had hydrocodone. And I took a couple of hydrocodone and I was feeling nice. I was feeling very, I was floating, right? I was feeling pretty good. I'm not some druggie. I don't pop pills for recreation, but I was in some form of pain.

I took a couple of them and look, I felt pretty fucking good. I was floating, baby. It was nice. So I'm sitting around, it's like 11 o'clock at night. I'm watching TV. I think Jilly is probably asleep. And I get a wild hair up my ass to send an email to one of the most successful program directors in the history of radio. One of the most successful performers and program directors in the history of radio. A gentleman by the name of Scott Shannon, who created the Z100 Morning Zoo back in 1983, I believe it was. There's a great documentary about it that you can find on Amazon, YouTube, whatever.

It's called Worst to First. Look it up. It's a good documentary. It's about creating Z100, which is still a legendary top 40 station. But Scott Shannon programmed that. He also programmed Pirate Radio. He programmed WPLJ.

And most recently, he was on CBS FM doing adult hits on CBS FM. But at this time, I believe he had to have been at CBS FM because it was owned by CBS. And I got a wild hair to send this guy an email and just be like, listen, man, my dad's been in radio for a long for a long time, man. I mean, remember I'm high off my ass on hydrocodone. Shouldn't be not proud of it. Again. I drink a lot. You've seen me super hammered. You've seen me shirtless. You've seen me do dumb shit. You've seen me drink a booze out of my wife's tits when we're hammered. We do dumb shit, but I'm not someone that likes to dabble in like, you know, pills and everything like that. Cause you get hooked on that shit. You're fucked and you're given hand jobs in the corner for a couple of bucks and I'm not there yet and I don't plan on getting there, I hope.

But, so, I send an email and I'm like, listen, my dad is this because I thought maybe if I name dropped my dad he might know him because my dad used to do a lot of stuff that people used to use back in the 80s and 90s back when like so the way radio was before there were you know like the internet where you could find everything is a lot of these places had show prep sites and these show prep sites or faxes right like people every morning you would have be part of like a fax club and you would be sent all of this information via fax early in the days before there were email became a lot easier with email and the internet but you would be sent all of this information via fax early in the days before there were email became a lot easier with email and the internet but you would fax them but people would also do bits like record parody songs and then just send them out to various people and they'd be on like cds and shit like that cassettes whatever and my dad was very good at doing shit like that

and that's how my dad ended up doing stuff on the rick d's weekly top 40 and some other countdowns some other stages so now that i've blown my dad speaking of my dad my god i gotta share a my dad posted we're back to my dad posting classic shit on facebook again but we'll get into that so um anywho so i send this to scott shannon i'm like man you're one of the all-time greats and i'm here in phil. I work on WIP, and I just want to say, man, you fucking rule. And, you know, Pirate Radio was great, and Z100, you're the greatest program director of all time, man. And I just wanted to send you an email since I'm in the register. I think it's cool that I work at the same company as you, and it's just I feel really fucking honored to even be in this same universe. And I just wanted to say, man, thanks for everything you did for radio.

And you're one of my idols, man, or whatever. You know who sent me an email back? The greatest fucking program director in the history of radio, arguably. One of the greatest program directors in the history of the medium of radio. One of the most successful program directors in the history of the medium of radio. You know who doesn't send you emails back? Dickheads in market 50 or wherever the fuck it is, 60. Some asshole who's had a job for a couple of years and is hanging on but doesn't send you an email back.

Doesn't give you the decency to send you an email back. To just say, hey, we're not hiring or whatever. The people that do send me emails back, even if they're telling me they don't have anything or they're telling me to just say, hey, we're not hiring or whatever. The people that do send me emails back, even if they're telling me they don't have anything or they're telling me to fuck off, I'm like, you know what? At least you responded. I work for one of the greatest programmers ever. Andy Bloom is an amazing program director that's had super success for his career. That man would respond to every person's email. You want to tell me that you're too good, Mr. Hey, I'm program director, barely hanging on to my job because I heart's firing everybody. You can't send me an email back and just say,

hey man, thanks. Sounds good. If we have anything, we'll let you know. I will say nothing bad about people who do that. If you just like, there was a guy I'll tell you, I emailed, there was a job opening that said on the website, uh, Odyssey sports radio in. Now, would I make sense on sports radio in Cleveland? Probably not. That seems like a town, especially in this era of sports media, where some dude that's from Baton Rouge is probably not the guy to go on the radio in Cleveland and talk about the Browns and the Guard Indians, right? That's not the way the world works anymore.

Fifteen years ago when I got to Houston, you could still hire people from outside and then go in and be successful. Now you're hard-pressed to find people. That's why I think when you look at some of the shit I've accomplished and I fucked up a lot of shit, but I've been able to go into two top 10 cities in this country that I had no ties to and be extremely successful in those two top 10 cities. That's a testament to ability, but whatever, I'm done blowing myself for the time being. But I reached out to this station in Cleveland. I'm like, Hey, I see you guys have an opening. Um, I don't know if this is still the case or not, but here's my stuff. Got a response. Guy says, Hey, we do have an opening,

but we're kind of in the final stages of it. And there's just like, we're already past the point of taking applicants, but Hey man, if we have anything, i'll reach out to you whatever that's all you got to do show a little fucking decency don't ghost people don't disappear don't or the worst is when you talk with someone then they disappear like the guy in philadelphia did that guy i thought was my friend said he'd reach out never reached out that's bullshit fuck you but when you talk about like people that are like who are you you're guys that are probably forced to run 15 radio stations because they're not paying people to run those right like who are you exactly to ignore someone and treat somebody like shit like even me like i try to respond like

let me give you an example so a guy that's been a fan for a long time, Gerardo. Just today, it was announced that he is the new midday guy at 93Q in Houston, which is the big country station in Houston, 93Q. It kicks the shit out of the bowl, which is the other country station in Houston, 93Q. Pretty legendary station, actually. So he gets the job doing middays, and I go, I know who that is. That guy's listening to me, and we've talked before. So I look him up on Instagram, and I see that he's followed me. And I don't know how long he's followed me, but I never followed him back. And then I clicked on message because I wanted to send him a message and go, hey, dude, fucking great.

Moving up from nights to middays. Fucking kill it, bro. Good for you. And there was a message from like two days after I got fired where the guy was like saying, man, chin up. You're one of my inspirations. I'm like, I didn't respond to this. Turns out it was buried in my, uh, my folder there. And I never saw it. It was in like the hidden messages and I never saw it. So I'm like, dude, I am so fucking sorry. I'm not some asshole that just ignores. Now I don't see every message. I try to respond to as many as I can. Like I'm not

inundated with messages, but I get a decent number, but I'm like, I don't want to, like, I don't want this guy to walk away thinking that I'm some asshole that doesn't, that doesn't respond to him in those situations. So like, again, I'm not some guy running radio stations, but when you see the number of people who just ignore you and you're like, who the fuck are you to ignore anybody? Your time is coming. Radio is not going to be around forever. And to sit there and just ignore people is really a shitty way of going about doing business in any walk of life, in any business, but particularly one that's kind of hanging on right now, where the people who have jobs are actually just kind of fortunate to have them at this point when you see the number of people who are getting fired.

So to not respond to someone is just shitty. Not just because it's me. Like, yes, when it's you it sucks even more but like you ask yourself why the fuck are you not even going to respond just say nope we're good like like the guy in Chicago did who told me we're good I thought it was kind of a snarky dickish response but at least it was a response like nope we're good but at least you told me that so I knew to fuck off like that means you've seen my email you've looked at it you're like okay I'm not gonna waste my fucking time with this jamoke

whatever anyway um so I did not intend to go on a rant about that stuff today because I got other stuff to get into so we're gonna do that let me get this posted and we will move on