The Josh Innes Show - Life Rant Part 2

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

As I continue to my rantings, I veer off on some tangents. I truly don't know how this rant began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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which was me and Jelly, trying to do a radio show back in 2019 for a pod. And that was good. We had a good audience for that. And if I would have known how to monetize it a little bit better in terms of the streams like I do now, I think that would have made some serious bang. Obviously, over the last seven years that we've been doing this,

which is wild to even think that off and on I've been doing the podcast for seven years. It's fucking bonkers to think that. Almost seven years, really like six and a half years. But it's fucking wild to think about that. I would love to do that. Like somebody brought that up to me in the YouTube chat was, you know, why doesn't Jilly do anything? I'd fucking love Jilly to do it. I'd love to do all the shit that we used to do. Sit around here, shoot the shit, get people on. It's just, it gets tougher. Real talk. It gets tougher when you have the job. It gets tougher when you're set up at home is fucking terrible. My ambition is to get a better setup at home. My ambition, like Jilly said this the other day, she goes, you know, when I'm doing my job here, people ask me to send them videos of me in the

quote unquote studio on these stations. I'm on. And I can't because there's my underwear behind me. There's like a stack of pillows. Like it looks like shit. I'm like, I'm well aware it looks like shit. I know it looks terrible. I'm sorry it looks terrible. I want it to look better. I do. But like this. And oh, and oh, by the way, the way, the way. The woman that rinse us the house will not let us hang anything on the walls. We cannot put holes in the wall. So even though I look around and there's holes that other people have put in the wall, she's like you can't hang anything up unless you do it with like, you know, sticky shit. Like, I'm not going to do that. Because my hope is that I'm out of this fucking place. Maybe I start

making some cash at some point and I can get a sizable place. The other part you run into in this part of the country and Philly to an extent in some of these northern areas that I've lived is you for like you cannot find modern type homes with size unless you're way out in the suburbs like you know the best part about houston among many other things and that's why i love houston but you can go out to the burbs there that are still drivable and live in modern fucking sizable places with nice backyards and outdoor patios kitchens and everything else that's the life i want to live i want to get back i went to my boss uh the other day and i'll be real with you while we're just shooting the shit there are days i get down

about this fucking job because I'm like, you know, we're in the city. There's five sport, five rock radio stations. Nobody knows we fucking exist. You know, I've had people reach out to me that aren't in this company that are like, hey, would you like to come do talk radio? And I mean, there's a big part of me that's like, I think I'd probably be better off doing that. You know, I, you know, in big cities. Like, I'll be real with you. People reach out to me. I can't do anything about it. I have a job. I have a contract. And it's not like I dislike the people here. But like, I'll get offers. Like I've had someone that's legitimately, to the point that if I didn't have a job right now,

that's a job I could take today and they'd offer me that job today, a talk radio job in a legitimate major American city, and I'd probably thrive doing it. But again, I have a job now and I can't do that. So when you get that kind of stuff and then you think about struggling with, you know, the show today, even though the show sounds phenomenal. I want all of you. If you listen to this podcast, do me a solid and start downloading the, you. Josh Ennis show radio show.

It is a fucking funny show. It is good and we laugh. The hard part is we don't have the engagement from the audience. I've told you guys this. We don't have the phone calls from the audience. It is an old audience. Rock radio right now, especially classic-ish rock radio, is an audience of people that, you know,

like they don't have that type of, like they just don't have the desire to call or podcast or like it's tough. So we're trying to take a radio station that no one's paying attention to and like build an entire new audience of people to get them to pay attention to it in an era where you're not really allowed

to take a bunch of risks and do a lot of shit. So it's tough. So there are a lot of days I'm down about it. I'm like what the fuck do I do? I don't want to be down about it. I like the people I work for, but I get down. Real talk.

I get down about it. So I was talking to my boss, I guess yesterday. And I'm like, you know, like I get calls from people about doing talk radio and I wonder if I'd be better off. And then I tell, then I'm like,

I don't know that I want to do talk radio because if you move into that, you become right wing talk radio guy, which I'm not. I'm not a right wing guy. I'm just a dude. And I'm like, you know, if I get into that,

you don't get out of it. Once you're in that, you ain't getting another rock job, you ain't doing sports. You're just the fucking right wing wacko guy. And I don't know that I want to commit to that in my life. But then I'll talk with people and they'll be like, no,

kind of down the middle and you just tell it like it is. Like people use that term, tell it like it is. We think if you were a guy that just told it like it is. Some days you're shitting on the right wing people. Some days you're shitting on the left wing people. You just fucking tell it like it is. And I'm like, well, that sounds appealing.

You know, but I mean, there are days that I seriously just have a struggle with this. Because I'm like, what do I have to do to get people to pay attention? because in my life, it's never been an issue for me. I show up at a place and I either piss people off or they love me, but there's a reaction. St. Louis, phone lines blow up. 90% of them fucking hated me from the jump, but the phone lines blow up nonstop. I throw out the phone number. By the way, I was the only person taking phone calls in St. Louis outside of the morning guy,

and he was asking just dipshit questions. We were like, we were having legit talk shows. People were calling. We're playing rock music. It's funny. We're fucking laughing. It's good. Nashville.

instant reaction, we're number one. Houston both times, instant reaction. People love you, they hate you. Philly, total instant reaction. This is a new phenomenon for me. I tell you guys this all the time. It is a new phenomenon. It is a weird world for me.

Then you throw in the fact, and I told my boss this. I'm like, bro, this fucking weather is like, it drives you to the point of insanity. It drives you to the point where you're like, shit. You know, like, are you looking at, out the window, and I know people rip me for talking about the weather a lot on here, I get that. You look out the window and it's just snow. And then it warms up to like 25 degrees and you feel like you're in the fucking Bahamas.

Then this weekend it's going to be like negative 5 degrees and it's just like it's, it is depressing. It is a depressing place weather wise. So I know I tell you guys this all the time and I kind of go into these diatribes about it. But like there are days I get down about the situation. And then you come in, you do the pot. and I want the pod to look good and I want it to sound good. I want to do more shit for you guys. And then I'm like, what can I do?

And then you come home and like, I'm in this tiny little fucking house. And yesterday the computer stopped working. So I had to take it to some nice Indian guy's house. I think he was Indian. But I had to take it to his house. And like, Jilly's like, I found a guy that'll work on the computer for us. So we take it to some motherfucker's house. I'm banging on his fucking door.

I have to call him, carry this computer. And he fixes it. Forgot to do something. I had to bring the fucker back. you know you're trudging through snow my foot like again you got your own fucking problems i'm aware you got your own problems my fucking foot like like i think i have some sort of uh i know i have gout but that doesn't really flare up as much anymore but i've also apparently got tendinitis in my foot so when i wear snow boots it that five causes that i am a calamity

what i am trying to convey to you guys who i love very much is your boy is just a fucking calamity right now. And all I want to do is be able to sit outside, drink my bushlights, get a smoker, throw a pork butt on there and live my fucking life and listen to Yacht Rock and bet on my games. That's all I want to do. So again, I know you got your own issues. I am well aware of this. And I know I do this at least once a week, but you are kind of my sounding board here. You are my people. And I tell you guys this because I love you and we love each other and you guys are right. dies with me and hopefully it grows. I know this fucking thing would grow if I truly put the effort into it and pumped out videos and did little clips and I made the house look. Look, maybe if I score

myself a better look in place, I'll make a nice little studio at home. I can't even hang shit on the wall in here. By the way, I love when people tell you that you can't hang shit on the wall because they value their old shitty house. But then you go downstairs and there's old crusty-ass newspapers from 1974 lining the shelves and a fucking, like a sowing machine that looks like rumple stillskin used it to spin strong to fucking gold and a crock pot from the 60s. And there's probably dead fucking bodies in the basement of this goddamn place. And they're like, but no, please don't put any nails in the fucking wall and make a house feel like a goddamn home.

And considering the fear I have for this fucking radio show and other things, I've only unpacked certain things. I've got boxes and boxes of shit that I refuse to unpack because there's no point. I'm either going to fail here and move somewhere else or we're going to succeed here and get a new fucking place and there's no sense in taking it all out of the box, can't hang it up anyway. So what would be the fucking point?

There would be absolutely no point in doing that. But fuck it. Like I feel this is the most vagabond I've ever felt, like just like a transient place to place. And I know I've moved around a lot. Like I was talking to a buddy of mine, a radio friend. And I was like, hey, you know, if, you know, who knows, maybe our paths will cross again. And he goes, do you plan on working in every fucking city in the country?

And I go, well, only the major ones. You know, at this point, I haven't been, you know, relegated to go into the small towns yet. But I'm probably running out of tokens at this point. So it may be Paducah, Kentucky next for your boy. I don't fucking know. But I tell you that to tell you this. House is fucking tiny. There's no shelf space.

or cabinet space or counter space in the kitchen. There's no dishwasher. The sink was clogged up the other day and had to have somebody come fix the fucker. It snows nonstop. You got upstairs, downstairs in the basement. There's probably dead bodies. And I got to figure out a way to get people

to listen to this radio show where I'm bagging fucking groceries. No offense to those who bagged groceries. It's a job and a job is a job. So there's no guilt to be had there. And that's where I am right now. And so, you know, I don't know how this whole rant started. I think it all started by talking about YouTube.

I think that's where this whole thing began. Me talking about being on YouTube and the videos and how I want them to look good because it looks good at the radio station and one button and we're on and it looks great. But I'd rather sit my ass here at home and get plastered with you guys. I think the podcast might actually be better. Drunk asshole talks about sports. That's a fucking show. Drunk asshole in his underwear talking sports.

That would be a party. But as is, you know, that's not what I'm doing right now. I think I do quality stuff for you guys. I think you guys appreciate the stuff that we do. And I appreciate that you appreciate the stuff that we do. Anyway, I love you guys. More to come.