The Josh Innes Show - More Tales From The Dash

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

After one full week of Door Dashing, I feel comfortable saying that this is a far better alternative to working a crappy part time job. I have a buddy who is on the fence about trying to Door Dash. Put the pride aside and go make a few bucks! I share a few tales from the road. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Glad you're listening to the podcast. Glad you're telling your friends about the podcast. Thank you. You're beautiful. I love you. It's about 930 here on this Monday and I am about an hour or so away from hitting the streets for my second full week of door dashing. I made like 550 bucks last week door dashing. It's funny. I have a buddy of mine. Well, first of all, let me start here. And I know you're like, oh, you talk a lot about door dashing, but I find the whole concept of it to be fascinating, right? So I've gotten some messages from people that I need to respond to that I hadn't seen until like yesterday because they were buried in my Instagram, like a hidden messages. But I've gotten messages from people who are just listeners of the show, people who are radio people who listen to the podcast as well. Many people have reached out

about how they also drove for DoorDash whenever they were between jobs. I've got people who are non-radio people that just listen reaching out saying, now I want to try DoorDashing because of how you've talked about it. People are showing me their phones popping up with sponsored ads from DoorDash because I talk about it so much. But I enjoy it. I mean, I'd probably be out driving around anyway, so I might as well make a couple of bucks. And what I have learned, and I haven't done like deep into the night delivering. I try to be home, you know, to hang out.

So I deliver during lunch like 11 to 1, and then I deliver like 5 to 7, 530 to 7 on weeknights. And Fridays are really good good by the way. Friday, Friday night. And maybe it's because Friday night is one of these nights where, uh, you know, people, they just got done with a week of work. They don't want to go out, but they don't want to cook. So like I had a stretch, here's one for you. So there was like two little shady apartment complexes on the same drag that are, you know, right across from each other. I did like three or four deliveries just between those two apartments and Chinese restaurants and the 7-Eleven down the street.

This one apartment ordered two gallon jugs of water, two cans of Pringles, and Rice Krispie treats from the 7-Eleven. Now, I'm no expert, but it feels like someone is getting stoned to the bejesus and they're going to need some delicious treats while getting stoned to the bejesus. So I've done that. I mean, look, again, I'm not going to sit here and tell you I'm not working for a DoorDash in the sense that I promote them. I'm nothing like that. All I will tell you is if your options are go work a menial nine to five part-time job or try this first, I don't know why you would work a nine to five part-time job because most

of them, depending on where you are, you might make $14, you might make $15, whatever. You can control your own hours on this. If you break it down, like if you want to work three hours in the afternoon or at lunch and three or four hours at night, you can make that money. Now you've got to pay for the gas. You've got to try to be smart or as smart as you can about it. You have to assume you're going to spend more on gas during the week than you would if you were just driving over to Home Depot. And I'm not telling you not to go work at the Home Depot. I'm not telling you to not work at Lowe's. I'm not telling you to not work at Walmart, whatever, go do whatever you want to do. But if it's just, hey, I'm looking for a part-time gig and my options are work for a boss,

do something I truly don't want to do. Like I don't want to spend eight hours at McDonald's, nothing against people who do that, but I don't want to spend eight hours at McDonald's, nothing against people who do that, but I don't want to spend eight hours at the fryer at McDonald's. I just don't want to do that. That does not appeal to me. Having to be somewhere at a specific time does not appeal to me. Not being able to leave whenever I want doesn't appeal to me. None of that is appealing to me. But what is appealing is making a couple bucks, getting by, and controlling when I do what I want to do and that's why I would advise you even if you have a job but you're not making the amount of money you want give this shit a try dude like it's pretty cool I um got a buddy of mine a radio buddy of mine and I think he's got some sort of pride issues about the DoorDash.

He's just like, I don't know that I want to do it. And I think it's like a radio pride thing to a degree. Like, you know, you've had great success in radio and all that. And, like, it seems like a real step down to go from being big-time radio celebrity guy to driving DoorDash. And I felt the same way. But whenever the severance checks aren't coming in anymore. And you need to find something. And your options are go pull putt at the Ace Hardware.

Or try this and see if you get by doing it. To me, this was the option that made sense. And I've tried. Look, I told him. I'm like, bud, at least give it a shot. Like I thought I'd hate it. And I thought I'd feel like a total putz doing it. But when you look at the account and all of a sudden you're like, all right, I made 15 bucks here, 20 bucks here, 25 here, blah, blah, blah. And before you know it, you have a day's worth of work in which

you've made a hundred dollars for work in four or five hours, that that's not bad. That ain't bad, right? Like, again, you're not going to live off of it depending on what kind of lifestyle you lead. Although I've heard from people that make close to a thousand dollars a week. I mean, you got to dedicate it and make it more like a full-time job to do that, but it's not impossible. Like, that's the interesting part about shit is like, when you look at where we are, shit like this gives you the opportunity to go out and make money. Let me play a few commercials and we'll continue.

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like someone drove an Amazon truck and dropped off your Amazon Prime orders every day, we don't look at them as some sort of bum. We don't look at them as some sort of dope. We don't look at them as some sort of guy that failed. Like, hey them as some sort of dope. We don't look at them as some sort of guy that failed. Like, hey, we're like, hey, it's Amazon. It's probably decent money. He's probably got health care or whatever.

If someone drives for UPS or FedEx, we don't look at them as losers. We don't look at them as bums. We don't look at them as people that didn't make it in life. They're doing a job. Is it the job they wanted? Is it what they thought they'd do in life? Maybe not. Maybe so.

But it's a job and you get paid. Yet somehow driving DoorDash, you have this stigma. There's this stigma about it where you feel like you failed or you're a loser because of it. And that's what I dealt with when I started it last week. I mean, I'm talking about it like I've been doing it for months. I've literally done it for, I guess, nine days now. And just to break this down for you really quick let me give you the the tab on this again there's no stigma on any other delivery people yet if you drive for door dash you deliver uber eats there's some sort of stigma so let me look at this let me see how much i've made doing this i'm not doing this to. I'm just doing it to show you that like, you can get by, you can do it. Like my buddy would tell me forever all the time. He would say, uh, why don't you go drive door dash or something just to go out and make a couple extra bucks.

And I'd be like, Nope, I'm not going to do that. That's embarrassing. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why the hell let me log in here. Um, uh, let's see. Uh, let try. For whatever reason, my DoorDash, for the first time ever, not logged in. So talk amongst yourselves. Let me see here. Just to kind of give you, though, an idea of how this works. I was the same way. I was skeptical of it. I felt kind of embarrassed to be doing it. But my buddy, who's my financial guy, would keep telling me, you know, you can get out of all this credit card debt and everything really quick if you would just stop screwing around and like go try to drive Uber, try to drive DoorDash or whatever. And I was like, I don't know about that, man.

That sounds kind of I don't know. I'll find something, but I ain't going to do that shit. And then boom, you do it and you nail it you know like it's you know to me I think it's a solid play for people and if you want to do it and make a couple extra bucks and see if it's for you it's a good way to just steal a couple extra dollars to try to get by it's another way to try to steal a couple extra dollars in other ways so all that said I will tell you that I feel no shame in doing it and I can't log into my door dash for some reason right now it logged out and I don't know why but doing the math I've made like in nine days I've've made like 700, 650, $700.

And I mean, look, if you're just trying to get by for a while, like me, I'm stuck in a spot here, a bullshit spot here where I'm in this overly expensive house that I really couldn't even afford when I had a huge salary. Now I don't have a huge salary. So I'm trying to get the fuck out of here. I'm trying to find a job. I'm trying to find anything out there. So again was telling my buddy there's no shame and that's the other thing it's like in your mind you're some dopey radio guy in your mind you're like god people are going to

see that there's Josh Ennis of KG95 driving DoorDash just like when Elvin from the Cosby show was working over at uh the Whole Foods or whatever and in your mind, you're convinced that the whole world's gonna know who you are and it's gonna just bring shame to you, right? Like you're like, shit, like this is just, this is gonna be terrible. Then you realize no one knows or gives a fuck about who you are. No one cares.

You're a radio jamoke that worked in a town for 15 months and they didn't give a shit about you when you were here. A couple of old people. Like when I delivered to the old folks home they might recognize me other than that no one's gonna go holy shit that's Josh Ennis from KC 95 they don't know who the fuck I am and they do not care they just want their culvers that's all they want there was one chance I thought I'd be recognized I had to uh bring a woman her her sonic order in a nursing home boy nursing homes are depressing not an old folks home not like a community where they all have like their own little apartments not like one of those type of things where it's

like okay they're old but this is like an assisted living community this is a nursing home these people are probably going to die it wasn't quite hospice but it's just a little bit south or a little bit north of hospice right it ain't much difference so I go in there and I the lady at the front desk is wearing a mask and I'm like this says I'm supposed to deliver this to you know Jan in room 400 and the woman was looking at me like I'm a dumbass she's like well I guess I could bring it to her and I like, well, I guess I could bring it to her. And I'm like, what do you mean? I could bring it to her. She's like, you can, if you want. And I'm like, well, I might as well be polite. So I'll go deliver it myself. So I'm making the walk down this long hall in this nursing home, just place to place, like room to room, to room,

to room. Right. And as I'm looking in each room, like some of them have like old ladies just sitting in wheelchairs, just staring at you like they're sitting in the doorway and it's depressing and you realize you don't want to get old. Like there's a certain level of old you'd like to get, like the kind of crotchety, like old man, get off my lawn, judge everything, but you still have your whereabouts, you know, and you still know where you are, and you still like, you know, you're just a grumpy old dude that sits back and talks about how great shit used to be. You don't want to become the old person that's hooked up to an oxygen tank in the nursing home. It's just depressing and sad, and I feel terrible for these people. Just fucking terrible. Walgreens, why are you calling me? I told the way

you calling me Walgreens, go to voicemail Walgreens, Walgreens. I'm not picking it. Look, I had to cancel my insurance, right? Because I'm like, I'm not paying $800 for the scam shit every month. I ain't got the cash anymore. So I canceled the insurance, whatever. So I had a couple of prescriptions that I canceled at Walgreens. One of them was my Manjaro, which would have cost me a thousand dollars a month, even with insurance. Like what the fuck are we doing? And I had another gout medication that was $50 for like 10 pills. And I'm like, I'm not paying that shit. But anyway, back to old people. So you're at the nursing home and you're seeing these people get not an not an assisted living, not a, hey, Janice.

And like they all go to like the community area and watch their stories and shit. And maybe there's like pickleball. And maybe they like, you know, ride around on golf carts and shit. And like their kids come to visit them. No, this is a nursing home. These fucking people are probably knock, knock, knocking on heaven's door. Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. That's what they're doing.

So I'm like, I'll bring it. So as I walk, I keep walking down the thing and all these old people are in their doors. The ones who aren't in their doors are like struggling to breathe and you can see them on their beds. You know, it was kind of like when Clarice made that walk and to down to Hannibal Lecter's cell and like there were no old people who like, you know, slung their spunk at me or anything like that. But like, it felt weird.

So I knock on the door and I'm like, is there a Jan in here? And she's like, yeah. And like, there's one old lady sharing the room with her. So she's laying in a bed with an oxygen tank. This large woman is sitting in a chair with her oxygen tank, not like Gilbert Grape's mom level large,

but like she was a bigger lady and she was clearly not doing well. And I delivered her Sonic. So I had to go pick up Sonic, bring it to her in her room. And look, as I said, I think I'm a great DoorDash guy. I think I'm friendly.

I think I'm nice. I've got a five-star rating on there. And as I told you, one person even said that I was friendly. I would agree. I'm a great DoorDash guy. I think I'm friendly. I think I'm nice. I've got a five-star rating on there. And as I told you, one person even said that I was friendly. I would agree. I'm friendly. I'm a nice guy. My mom used to be a waitress at Shoney. She used to kill it with tips.

She was a nice person. You got to be nice in this service industry. But I bring it in there. And you know the smell of old folks home, like despair and fecal matter and like medications and like you know the smell like I can't full-on describe the smell to you but you know the smell of nursing home or you know it right so she's sitting there watching tv or whatever and I bring her her sonic and I'm like hello and I just sat it down for and then I made the mistake of putting my phone on the table next to her because you have to get your phone out to do all your stuff.

And I'm like, I'm going to catch something. So then I left and I lathered up my hands in some disinfectant. But yeah, like Friday nights are nights that I think a lot of stoners also order shit. Because again, I told you the guys that ordered two large jugs of water, two cans of Pringles, and Rice Krispie treats from the 7-Eleven, they were probably already fucked up. Got people ordering giant Chinese food orders, you know. But again, there's no shame in doing this. And I tried to explain it to my friend. I get why you'd feel that way, and I get why it feels demeaning.

But at the end of the day, no one knows who the fuck we are. No one cares who the fuck we are. Just go make a couple bucks. And since I started at that last Friday, so nine days or however long ago it was, I made like $700 doing this, right? And you get paid every Monday and there's no shame in it, man. Like go out and make a couple of bucks until you get what you want. Like, somehow it's less shameful to be flipping burgers at Burger King than it is to be driving DoorDash. I make my own hours doing this. I make a couple of bucks if I feel I've made enough on that given day I'm out. I ordered a little pizza bag that I can carry pizzas in for people. So, like, in some cases you go and you go to, like, Target for people.

Like, what's wrong with it? There's no shame. Like, yeah, you'd rather have a glorious I had a glorious high paying job and I hated that too so you know maybe I'm just meant to hate shit but this I'm listening to podcasts I'm listening to the Neil Diamond greatest hits and I'm driving around and I'm just delivering people food and if the day is right and I'm really staying in a tight area. I'm not wandering off, you know, 20 miles down the road. It's pretty fucking solid. I'm seeing shit I normally don't see. I'm meeting people.

Like, there's nothing wrong with it. So, again, I'm not telling you that it's your career path or whatever, but I have a buddy that's so ashamed of the idea of doing it. And it's like, what's more shameful, sitting around pulling your pud, making no money and not trying, or going out and, like, it feels good when you look at your phone after a day of doing this and you're like, shit, I made like 90 bucks today.

You know, when you wouldn't have made 90 bucks, sitting around doing nothing. So there's got to be some level of pride in that. And maybe it's not for everybody. Maybe you're bored with it. I like to drive and I have no issue delivering people's Sonic to the old folks home. And I have no issue bringing Chick-fil-A to someone's house.

Like it doesn't bother me. And look, I'm telling you, if I get another job, I feel like if I did this for five months, I'd probably have all my debts paid off and life would be good. So anyway, all right, more to come.