The Josh Innes Show - Life Update

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

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All righty, friends, how are we today? Hello. What is today? Today is the 15th of April. Tax day, I think. Is today tax day? I've already done mine. I've already gotten a refund and had to use it to pay the fucking rent on this place.

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uh no matter what we're gonna have to move by the end of may i thought that we would have something by now i don't really have anything percolating. So I'm thinking, this is just real talk here. I don't know if I'm ever going to be back on the radio again. I think that that might just be the end of the road for me. And that sucks. But I mean, like, I'm kind of okay with it. Like, some days it sucks more than others. Like, I don't sit around depressed about it all day or anything like that.

But like I'll listen to a radio show and I'll hear someone on there that's just not good. And I'm like, how does this person still have a job and I can't get a fucking call back? Or I'll listen to my radio station here in St. Louis. And they hired some guy to be a dish jockey in the afternoon after they whacked me. And this guy talks for maybe a minute and a half over the course of four hours. And when he does talk it's just promoting some other thing that's coming up like coming up at four we've got uh we're gonna play a vinyl cut or coming up at five it's the daily dose of Led Zeppelin and

that's all this guy says and then he does like traffic or weather or one of them and and look this is nothing against that guy maybe Maybe at some point he was great. I don't know. I have no fucking clue what they're doing. And it just kind of like, it just bothers me because I listen to some of this shit. And I don't hate everybody that does these things. Like, I can understand why certain things work in certain places. Like, I'll go to YouTube and I'll just kind of scan through some of these sports radio stations that are on YouTube doing live shows. And I'll look at WIP. And I'm baffled by the content that works in Philadelphia.

But I worked there long enough to know that this is what works and it gets ratings. Like last week, the Phillies had just taken the series from the Dodgers. And it was like, hey, we could win the World Series. Then they lose two out of three to the Cardinals. And are you panicked? It's the same shit. It's rinse and repeat, but there are 700 people, which doesn't sound like a lot, but there are 700 plus people at any given time when I flipped on WIP in the morning watching their morning show on fucking YouTube. Philly people are lunatics when it comes to consuming sports content. It's fascinating.

So 700 people, you might say, well, Josh, that doesn't sound like a lot. Well, go to Detroit. I looked at the big sports station in Detroit. Their morning show had like 150 people watching. Go to the morning show in Houston on the Odyssey station there on 610, my old station. They have about 100 people watching. Go to Chicago. They might have like 200 people watching. It's fucking bonkers. Bonkers how many people are watching, which, and no offense to the guys on these shows on WIP, they are boring fucking shows that are rinse and repeat. You could take a show from this time last year and plop it on right now,

and it would probably, people wouldn't know. Like for April Fool's one day, that truly should be what they do is just put on all the shows from the previous April 1st or March 30th or whatever from the year before and air it and see if the conversation is any different than they're having now because I guarantee you the Phillies probably had a good a good set of games they all thought they were going to win the world series than a bad set of games. They all thought they were going to win the World Series. Then a bad set of games where they all think they suck. That's when I get annoyed is I listen to some of this shit and I'm just like, this shit's boring and it's like nothing special. It's paint by number shit that anybody can do. It is not a skill to do what many of these people are doing.

I'm not trying to shit on those people, which I know sounds ridiculous because I'm shitting on them. But it's not a skill that anybody could pick up a microphone and do what those people are doing. There's nothing that stands out. There's nothing that is special. There's nothing that makes you go, oh shit, I got to tune this in. People just tune in because it's the radio station you listen to if you like sports in Philadelphia and every fucking person in Philadelphia is addicted to sports and they're sure as fuck not going to waste their time turning on 97.5 which is truly a god-awful radio station with nothing that makes people want to listen so that's what you end up with that's when i get annoyed is when i hear that or i or i i hear again what they do here in st louis which is take the the time slot i was in and put on you know

some guy that like here's what fascinates me. This guy was in Chicago. He takes this job in St. Louis and he comes here and he doesn't talk. And I'm like, why are we putting people, like why are we paying people to be on the radio to not talk? That I don't understand. I don't understand how you're like, let's employ someone. Just fucking play music.

Let the computer play the music. You don't need a person to do this shit. Like that one's going to always baffle me. And maybe one day if I ever talk to these people here again, if they ever reach out to me, which they probably won't, which is another fascinating thing about getting fired from a place is you didn't really do anything wrong. You weren't a bad guy. They loved you and said you were great.

Then they fire you one day and you never fucking hear from them again. But like, if I ever talk to these people again, maybe if I get another job and I've got some confidence about me, I'll text and be like, what the fuck is the plan here? Like, why are you paying someone? You didn't have the money to pay me, which by the way, I made a lot of money and I'm guessing I made more than this guy, but you fired me to put on this guy to talk for like 90 seconds over the course of four hours and you might say well josh he's there to play the music the fucking computer plays the music it's automated it's you could you don't that's why the midday person isn't even actually there it's just the morning chick on the other station that records the midday shit and the afternoon person on one of their other stations in a different city that's the way this whole

thing fucking works that's when i start to get frustrated. What's weird is there are a lot of days that I'm totally zen with not even doing it anymore. It almost scares me how little I'm concerned about the fact that I'm not a radio guy anymore, even though it's all I've ever really wanted to do and it's all I've done for the last 20 something years, like I'm kind of zen about it. But I think, I don't know if it's zen or if I'm just apathetic. Like if I got a call today and someone was like, we want you to come to Memphis to work or something, maybe I'd be really excited. Or someone said, come to Denver. I'd be super excited and I'd be super charged again. But you hit a point where you reach out to enough people and some tell you that they're just not hiring. Some people never even get back in touch with you. And you're just kind of like,

fuck it. You know, like at some point you just stop feeling like you don't want to feel like a fucking asshole that keeps getting turned down for shit. And you just go, fuck it. You know? So then what do you do next? Well, if we move here in the next couple of weeks, which is hopefully the plan, because we got to be out of here, I'm going to probably pay for one more month of rent here. And then I think we might just end up moving to Baton Rouge and finding a place there. And I'll go lug boxes at Bargain City and that will be my life. Just live a normal life.

Go have a job that I hate. Come home and get hammered every night and get up the next day and do it again. Like a good American would. Cause I think that the job that I'm truly passionate about it and passionate about me anymore, which is what it is. Right. But like, maybe that's just what my life will be, you know, and you kind of accept that. And then like, Oh, then it starts to bother me a little bit when I think about what I was, and I was never like a huge star or anything, but, but I used to get paid a lot of money just to talk about dumb shit on the radio. And now I'm probably just going to go work some sort of real job, which there's no shame in. But that's probably what my life is going to be.

And that's something new to me. My life up to this point has always been, well, here I am. I'm working three hours on this radio show, and then the rest of my day is to dick around. Well, that's probably not going to be my life anymore. We thought about moving to Houston. I've talked about that on here before. I don't think I want to, though. I mean, maybe I'd have a chance, a better chance of finding a real job. And I love Houston, and I love the people in Houston, but I never really felt like the last time we went the last couple of times. I just haven't felt the same about Houston as I felt when we lived there previously.

It just feels like a different place. The vibe feels a lot different. It's cluttered. Not that there wasn't always traffic, but like, I mean, on a Saturday afternoon, you can't get anywhere. Even the traffic's so bad. It's just kind of like, I don't think I want to fuck with this. Like I'm going to go work in every day, nine to five, or I'm just going to go somewhere that is a little less, um, hectic. So my guess is if we move, which I don't know where we're going to move, but I'm going to guess it's probably not going to be Houston. Um, um, what

else is there about this? You know, Baton Rouge just is the easiest. I got family there, obviously, and I can just kind of disappear. If that makes any sense, I can just kind of blend in and go do whatever job, and that'll be my life at this point, unless something kind of pops or something changes or something kind of, if there's a turn in the radio thing, if my phone rings today and someone is like, hey, come on down and work for us. Odds are I'm not going to be doing that anymore, you know? And I guess like, again, that's just the part that's kind of weird is I've always been Josh, radio guy, radio guy. That's always what I've done and what I've wanted to do. And now it's just kind of like doors closed. Like they slammed it shut on my ass. They told me to fuck off off so and at some point you're not going to sit around and just waste your time waiting for

someone you're going to go move on to do something different like the real the real kind of dick punch wasn't that I didn't get this job in Houston which I don't know if anybody's going to get it but it's the fact that that job's been open for like three, four months and I didn't even get a response email. It'd be one thing if I had just applied and they would have said, you know, hey, we get a return and it's like, hey, thanks for applying. We'll see. I emailed this guy twice, the guy that makes this decision. And as I tell you all the time, I'm not some sort of special guy that deserves like special attention or anything like that. I'm not, you know, some guy that's done legendary shit. I've done some cool shit.

I've had some moments. I've done some neat things. But I'm not like Howard Stern or somebody like that that's got a long list of amazing accomplishments. And I understand that. But I am someone who's had big jobs before and I've done cool shit and I've done dumb shit. If you're looking for someone to go out and do your job that you list as we need energetic and someone that can really do blank, blank, and blank. And multiple people have reached out on my behalf to this person and said, you should at least talk to this guy. People that are credible radio people

have reached out to this guy. The fact that this guy didn't even respond to my fucking email, just tell me, Hey, go fuck yourself. Or Hey man, thanks. We're going to, we'll let you know when we start to narrowing down the people. The fact that I didn't even get a return email, I'm like this fucking, this is bullshit. I'm not something special. I'm not God's gift. I'm very self-aware of what I am. But if you're going to sit there and you have a job opening for a format that I've done before in a city that I've had success, arguably the most success and longest term success I've ever had was there. And you don't even call me back or at least say, Hey man, we at least give me a, give me a, Hey, thanks for reaching out. We're going to let you know when we start narrowing shit down. That's it. You would think if you were doing your

due fucking diligence and you would think that you're at least like, Hey, let's see what this guy's about. You would at least pick up the fucking phone and call and have a conversation and see if there was anything there like a real fucking program director would fucking do but these people that are doing this now are just hanging on for dear fucking life and that's what we're running into people are just hanging on for dear life so it's not like you know when you used to talk to an Andy Bloom who he always used to tell me he would always call people back even if he wasn't hiring or anything, he'd call people back. Gavin would call people back. They'd have a conversation with you and see if anything is there.

A lot of these guys today don't do this. And in some of their defense, again, they're hanging on for dear life and, you know, whatever. But when I didn't get the call back at all from them to even tell me to go fuck myself, like at least Chicago essentially told me to go fuck myself, you would think that like in this situation, I would at least get kind of a hey man thanks thanks for reaching out at least that after multiple people high-end radio people reached out to this guy on my behalf and said you really should give this guy some thought and today I'm gonna call back it's like nothing to call I understand you don't even get a call back. Nobody likes to call people.

Couldn't even get a fucking email that said, Hey, fuck off or thanks. Nothing. And I sent two emails to this fucking guy over the course of like three months. I think they were like maybe two or three months apart, did not get a response. And at that point I'm like, not only does it suck that I'm not in this world, but there's a part of me that doesn't even want to be in this world because this world fucking sucks. But then like my battery gets recharged when I'll hear a radio show or something that fucking sucks that I know I could do better than that. Like it's a weird cycle that I go through in this shit. And I'm sure if somebody called me today and they were like, hey, come work for us. We want to hire you. I'd be all gung ho about it again. But at this very moment on the 15th of April, I'm just kind of like, like, I'll just go do a normal job and figure life out from there. I mean, that's what the

vast majority of the world does. And the vast majority of the world seems to be fine for the most part. So that's kind of where I am right now. I do want to get the podcast going again. And I know that Jilly wants to do it and Jilly, know we want to do some video components for it but I'm just not going to do any of that until we're relocated and I don't know where that's going to be so but that's but it's got to be somewhere here in the next month and a half or so

so we're going to have to figure it out anyway we will continue