The Josh Innes Show - Moving

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

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Service fees, exclusions and terms apply. Instacart, groceries that over deliver. Alright everybody, what's going on? I know I'm a little bit late today. I've been doing a lot of shit. Moving is a very difficult process. Especially when you've got a lot of shit. And the thing is, I don't really have a lot of shit. Moving is a very difficult process, especially when you got a lot of shit. And the thing is, I don't really have a lot of shit. Like this move, like when I described all I have to give, you know, to move, the people were like, you know, so like a one bedroom apartment. And I'm like, yeah, I guess sorta. But I also have a lot of junk. So today I had to call the junk people like these people that come over and and look at all the garbage you have

and are like, all right, that'll cost X number of dollars X amount of dollars for us to come take your shit and whatever right now do it that day, which is good. But it was costly. And I'm in an area where I like I was gonna go do it myself. But I just too much shit and not a big enough rig to do it. Figured after I rented a truck from over at Lowe's or something and then paid by the way, you have to pay to dump garbage in some of these areas. Like I kept searching for a place that will just take just non just just endless amounts of my shit right. But those don't exist around here

without paying for them like in Nashville or particularly Old Hickory when we moved about little about two and a half years ago when we moved there was a whole area of Old Hickory where you could just drive your truck up and just take a bunch of shit out of the back and throw it away for free well the only place that's like that here charge is seventy five dollars you can pay seventy $75 for up to 1,300 pounds, which I'm sure I didn't have 1,300 pounds of shit. I just had no way to get it there, so after renting a truck and whatever, it probably

would have cost me about what I paid to have these dudes come do this. So I actually went through a bunch of garbage away and paid $75 to throw all the shit in the fridge and all that shit away. But then these guys come over and they start kind of, you know, surveying some of the shit that I have, like, there's an old water machine, there's your old Christmas tree, there's all this other shit. And they come out and they kind of, you know, look it over and assess the damage. They're like, all right, that'll cost $300 for us to move

all this. And I'm like, you you know what it probably would have cost me something similar had I gone to Lowe's rented a truck driven all this shit out there and paid for it to be dumped and it would have just been a pain in the ass anyway so as it is I had to pay about 300 bucks to have a lot of garbage hauled away today just a bunch of old shit. You know, can I tell you another thing? First of all, let me play a couple commercials and then we'll continue. It won't take long to tell you Neutral's ingredients. Vodka, soda, natural flavors.

So, what should we talk about? No sugar added? Neutral. Refreshingly simple. So I'm a little put off by something. So my landlord's a cool guy. I have nothing against the landlord. I actually made a trade with him. You might say, Josh, that's kind of a weak trade on your part, but I think it was a pretty solid trade. So we're moving to a

house that's going to have a washer and dryer, therefore I don't need a washer and dryer, and it would cost extra. I mean, like the washer and dryer is like the heaviest thing or one of the heaviest things you can have moved and that's going To boost the amount of money you're spending on your move So Jillian I are like, let's just leave the washer and dryer here So what we did is we're like listen, we're gonna be here for eight days to start the month Don't charge us any rent or don't prorate our rent, which would be what like, you know, a thousand dollar not found Like seven eight hundred bucks. How about you don't pro

rate the rent and you just keep the washer and dryer. We bought it brand new. So basically, what happened was when we moved here, we didn't have a washer and dryer in this place didn't have a washer and dryer. So we went to one of these stores that sell scratched and dent washer and dryers and appliances. And we bought brand new Samsung washer and dryer that the ones that sing right I don't know if you've seen the memes and the gifts where they're like nobody else's washer and dryer then my Samsung washer and dryer and it's like singing

you know Sarah smile like this thing just like performs it's a it's a performing washer and dryer and it's a nice washer and dryer outside of the dens but who gives about the the dens it's a performing washer and dryer, and it's a nice washer and dryer outside of the dens, but who gives about the dens? It's a washer and dryer who's coming over to your house and like, hey, I'd really like to see your washer and dryer. So we're like, listen, we'll just give you the washer and dryer and call it a day if you won't charge us for the first eight days because your boy needs some cash and I certainly don't want to be sitting there like, hey, I need to find you know, eight 900 bucks to pay. Well, actually initially now

you want to talk about some BS. Initially, the landlord was telling us that any month we're going to move out. He needed us to pay the entire month upfront and then he'd reimburse us and I'm like the **** we are. I'm not going to give you another 2500 bucks. I don't have it, you know? Like your boy hadn't worked and hadn't had a radio gig paying three months. I haven't had a paying gig in three or four months.

So I'm not going to do that. Plus, on our new place we've rented, I've had to pay the deposit. I've had to pay the first month's rent. And by the way, so this locality that we're moving to, almost every rental property charges you a month and a half as the security deposit. So instead of like, all right, the rents 1900 bucks, the

deposits 1900 bucks, boom, it's like 3800 bucks, you're gonna need to pay up front. It is 1900 plus about another 900 or 950. So it ends up being close to like 3000 just for the deposit, which I've never heard of before, which is preposterous. But that's what we're dealing with on that regard. But we are landlords a good dude. I don't dislike the landlord. I think he's been a solid landlord anytime something needs to be fixed, it gets fixed. So I don't have any problems. And he's very cool about like, first

of all, our rent, the rent situation for us was like basically as long as you pay the rent between the first to the sixth of the month, it's fine. But the way my pay was at Kashi was like sometimes I'd get paid like on the 30th, sometimes it might be the fourth, sometimes it might be a little, you know, it's kind of weird. So I'd be like, listen, occasionally I'm going to have to pay you maybe on the seventh. And he's like, I don't give a shit, that's fine. Just let me you know it's kind of weird so I'd be like listen occasionally I'm gonna have to pay you maybe on the seventh and he's like I don't give a shit that's fine just let me know and it's fine so he's been very cool but one of the things that has been um sort of annoying here is when we got into this house it was not clean when we moved in we were freaked out when we moved

into this place because it was dirty and there was like little ant traps all over the place. The windowsills were gross, the baseboards were gross, the bathrooms weren't great. Like it was just a house that looked like it'd been sitting there for a while. Like maybe someone had cleaned it and then it sat there for months waiting to be rented and it just got dirty and nasty and all that shit. So when we moved in, we paid $400 to have someone come in and clean this bad boy because I'm like, listen, Julie, this is pretty gross in here. It's not like it wasn't the worst I've ever seen, but it's not the way a house should look if you're renting it to someone and it's $2,400 a month. Like when we, well, here's been part of our problem when we move into places is we're

moving into these places blind like we might see a camera phone video but for the most part we move in blind. The only place recently when we've moved that we actually saw in person at least inside the house when we moved into the house was our Nashville house. We saw it that day. We decided to rent it. It was fine. We moved to Philadelphia, saw pictures of the house.

When I got into that house and realized how small and old it was, this fucking place was so old that when I'd walk on the original hardwood floors, rocks would fall from the bottom of it down into the basement. One time the basement flooded because it was one of those situations where the washer ran the little tube into the sink or whatever and the little sock that was at the end of the tube fell off and it clogged the drain. One day we get home and you hear that like that sound of water. I'm like, what the fuck is that sound? And

I go downstairs and I'm ankle deep in water and I'm like, shit, what the hell do I do? So that happened there. We saw pictures of the house in Houston. We may have had a video tour of Houston. We moved to Nashville. That was fine. We saw that house. When we moved here, we saw the outside of this house, but we never saw the inside. When we saw the inside, we realized the place is like it's fine, but it's not like the most well-kept, well-put-together house ever. So anyway, I tell you all that to tell you this. When we moved in, the house was dirty and it was dirty to the point that we felt it necessary to get a cleaning company to come out and we paid them $400 to clean. All right? Just keep that in the back of your mind.

So I'm talking to the landlord the other day, he comes over. Again, I don't have any huge issue with the guy. He's been very kind, very courteous with us, so I don't hate the guy by any means. But he goes, well, you know, about your deposit, we're going to, you know, see about this. I'm going to be out of town for a couple weeks. I'm not going to get it back to you right away. I would urge you though to clean the place. Make sure you get it good and clean for everybody

and so we don't have to take out any of the deposit to get it cleaned and I'm thinking I paid $400 to have this place clean because whoever the hell was here before me didn't do shit. So I've been out here like cleaning baseboards and sweeping and vacuuming and like I was just cleaning out the refrigerator. You don't realize how much useless pointless shit you have in your refrigerator until you just start cleaning it out because you're moving like the amount of shit that you have the amount of useless, pointless, never going to use it, it takes up space, shit

that's in a house. You don't truly realize it until you move out. And I'm sure everybody's done that. But like I'm in the fridge and I'm like seeing just sauces and all this shit. Shit I never use. That's been sitting in there for a year that I never screw with. Our cabinets are filled. Like I filled up a giant box of stuff of like boxed foods and canned goods and shit that I'm going to bring over to like Salvation Army or something or

you know, a food pantry that we never even opened. I'm like, why do I spend so much money on this shit? And we never eat it. Currently, and again, I might sound stupid on this because there are certain things I just don't know. But like, I'm just letting the grill run outside right now because I'm trying to burn off the what's left of the propane that I have have because I don't want it like when you take the propane off of the grill what do I do? Do I take it off there and just close it up and set it outside somewhere?

No! I gotta let the propane go and it just so happened that my most recent tank of propane was like brand new that I got for the 4th of July and didn't end up grilling a ton on the 4th of July. Speaking of grills, I had to say goodbye to my first smoker today, the old Pro 22, the old Traeger Pro 22, the first smoker I ever got. I got it over two years ago when we first moved here. Jilly was like, let's go get a Traeger. Then she ended up pissed when she realized this Traeger doesn't really get hot enough to grill shit because she likes grilled food more than smoked food. And I'm

like, Julie, there's no flame. There's no open flame. So this grill is never going to get up to like 500 degrees necessary. There's no open flame. There are some smokers that give you the option to have an open flame, but there's no open flame on this. And she was super pissed because she bought the thing. She's like, I bought this and we can't even use it to grill shit now we got to get a grill and but the smokers got enough some mileage like last night I did a final smoke on the smoker and I made a chuck roast with like some fajita seasoning and stuff made some tacos and it was lovely and today I'm like you know what I'm just gonna wheel this bad boy out to the

curb and see if anybody wants it now mind you This smoker is taking some shit like early on when I got it it caught on fire like legit fire To the point that like there's giant black smoke billowing out of it A lot of people will say like the smoking types where you watch the videos on YouTube or like Well, you know if you got to see that good kind of light blue smoke, that means you got a good clean smoke coming out of your smoker. This was solid black, like there was like a new fucking Pope, like it was just solid black smoke coming out of it, it was on fire. And I mean,

if it wrecked the inside of it pretty good, but it survived. wrecked the inside of it pretty good, but it survived and Like it needs to be cleaned and everything but It's let's see I bought it for about 500 bucks the value a new one now is like 389 and I first thought about putting it on like Facebook Marketplace, and I'm like no I'm not gonna charge somebody for this. I just want to get rid of it So I put it out on the curb I came back an hour later and that bad boy was gone. And that was the end of my smoking days. When we move into this new place, I got to see what the situation

is in terms of like, you know, the setup for grilling. It looks like it's got an area for it, which is pretty good based on the video tour I had. And that's good. Probably got to get a new smoker at some point, maybe for the football season, because it's what your boy enjoys doing, as you know. But so we're just kind of throwing the last couple of things with that point in moving where you go from caring if boxes have like a theme or like a certain area of the house. You're at that point now where it's get a giant box and throw every fucking thing you can into the

giant box. And let's just go. So movers are going to be here tomorrow, like eight or nine o'clock and hopefully we get out of here quick and then we hit the road. So that's kind of where we are. I'm kind of I mean I am as I told you guys before I'm sad kind of about leaving St. Louis. I'm just sad about the way this whole thing went down. I'm sad that I got fired and they hired some motherfucker that goes out here and talks for two minutes over the course of four hours So listen into one of this look. He's not a bad disc jockey, but I just don't believe that you should be paying big bucks for disc Jockeys, but I'm listening to this guy the other day and it's the end of wind of change

you know where they're whistling at the end of wind of change and And this was the entire segment this guy did coming out of of wind of change Whistlin's he goes, Scorps on KG95. I could whistle but it wouldn't sound as good as that. Here's poison. How did you pay this for, you moved this person from his job in Chicago to come to St. Louis to say that Louis to say that

to say that. Like what purpose does that serve? What need does that fill? Why did you need to hire somebody to go from Chicago to St. Louis to talk for 10 seconds in between a song to talk for a minute an hour if that why did it like I'm not trying to like get a guy fired or anything but why what is the point so I'm I get bitter over that like that makes me bitter not because I don't have that job anymore because I think those people kind of sucked anyway but like it pisses me off

when I hear that like what the fuck are you doing anywho more to come