The Josh Innes Show - My Life Is Half Over Part 2

Episode Date: March 23, 2026

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I rushed to get a house because that's kind of how we do things. And I had to move. And, you know, I saw the pictures of it. The lady did the tour. I didn't ask certain questions. So, like, we have no outdoor outlets. So I don't have a smoker. We don't have a dishwasher.

We don't have a fucking dishwasher. What kind of archaic setup does somebody have that you don't have a dishwasher? Like, Julie and I just started looking at other houses the other day just to see what's out there to rent. And like the fact that it's not just common, that it's not like almost a requirement to have a dishwasher. At Desjardin, our business is helping yours. We are here to support your business through every stage of growth. From your first pitch to your first acquisition. Whether it's improving cash flow or exploring investment banking solutions, with Desjardin business,

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When you start having to deal with like six, seven pots and pans and shit like that, it's a pain in the ass. It's a legitimate pain in the balls. It sucks. And these are just common things that you would think everybody has, like a dishwasher. What world do you not have a dishwasher? I wouldn't have thought to ask if they have a dishwasher because you should have a fucking dishwasher. But what you end up with here is you end up with all these old ass houses, janky little part of town, like the neighbors. like it's it's a chain link fences there's no privacy back yard all this shit and it's just like the little

things in life that you really want like the little things that you're desirous of the little things that you like that like I look back in some of the places that we had we had some relatively nice places we had some places that were fine you know but we always had a little privacy in the backyard that type of shit it was great like that's what I want to get to I don't want to move around anymore I'm fucking tired of moving around I don't want to go anywhere like I don't like My ambition in life is to not move from place to place to place. But ultimately, I guess I still haven't found what I'm looking for. And I get that I'm a malcontent.

That's well documented about me. I'm a malcontent. But shit, man. Like, I'm at that point now where like, what are we doing, Josh? Like, what the fuck are we doing? Then you read that the average lifespan of a male in America's 76 years of age. Then you see that the numbers and you've lived half your life. And what do you have that?

a show for it. You know? But when you're 27, 28, you don't think about it in those kind of ways. Like, you don't think about, like, when I moved to Houston the second time, I was 30. I just turned 30. It was like two months into being 30 when I moved there. And I was just making bread, bro. Just bread.

You know, for the first time of my life, I'd really made money. Now, all the money I had made in the past, for the most part, was good money because I wasn't a degenerate gambler that was setting my money on fire. but at the time I'm making the sick amount of money. To the point that I could take, I took a large chunk of that and paid Jim and Jilly to be on the show. And I think between them, they were probably making like 80 grand or something.

I was still making sick bank. I want to say the total for that show was like $300,000. It was sick. And it was in Houston. It was still in the mid-2000s. Life was good. To the point, I've told you this, I was putting away, and I didn't even realize how much I was putting away.

Like $3,000 a month just putting away. It was fucking awesome. Didn't even know it existed. It was incredible. You know? And all this shit I've done and I have nothing to show for it. That's the part that's frustrating. Like you look back and and I should though.

I should have something to show for it, but I don't. Because again, I've just fucked things up royally. And I've gone from having gigantic jobs to jobs that don't pay as much. And, you know, just it's kind of gradually gone down, down, down. Then you look back on it. And you're like, what have I done? Like, what the fuck am I doing? Again, I know it feels like I just give you guys life advice, you know, pretty frequently.

And look, a lot of the jobs I took, like, I had to make these moves, right? Like, I had to go from Baton Rouge to Houston. And I had to go from Houston to Philly. But once I was in Philly, I didn't have to blow that thing up. Like, did I want to live in Philly forever? Probably not. Part of my problem is, I always wonder what else is out there. I have a wandering eye, not in my life, just in my job.

job. I always wonder what else is out there. Because in my mind, I should get every job or I should be offered every job. I'm at a point now where I don't want to do that shit. Most of these radio companies suck anyway. And, you know, like the grass isn't always greener. Although every time I've moved for the most part, there's been something greener than what I had at the time. But still, man, like, shit. I look at some of that stuff in my life and I'm like, what do you have to show for it? I'm sitting there on the couch last night. And our couch is some jank-ass couch that we bought at bobs. And it's like that's sinking and shit. I'm sitting in this tiny house. Like it's like, you know, 800, 900 square feet.

Literally no closet space for anything. Like, and you think about what your life was like, say, in Texas. And you look back on that. Like, if you say, Josh, what would be your ambition in life? Like, what would make you happy in terms? of like your life. Like what would be the perfect scenario? And you know, I love Texas and Louisiana and I look back on those places and I love the

houses that are there and I love the big backyards that are there and I love smoking meat. Like all this shit. And I look back on that and I'm like, shit, why didn't I want to live that life when I was actually fucking there? Maybe I wouldn't have fuck shit up. And who knows? Maybe I would have gotten fired anyway. But still, all that to say, 76 and a half years.

is the average lifespan for a man in America. I'm already half dead. Like, I'm blown away by this. You don't really think about it. Like, it crosses your mind. But then you really see it. And it's in writing. And you're like, the fuck am I going to do?

What am I going to do with myself? What am I going to do to remedy this? How do I fix these ills? How do I change this whole life, this course I'm on? How do I make it better? How do I improve it? I honest God thought St. Louis was the plays. I really did.

That's why I left. That's why I left to take that job. It felt like the perfect situation. Dad wanted to work there as a kid. I love the Cardinals. I love St. Louis. I love all this shit. And then you're there for a little bit and you realize, yeah, this is probably

going to work. And like, it sucks when you get somewhere and you've already told yourself, like, yeah, this probably ain't going to work. And like that moment has come pretty much everywhere. Although, I don't know if I ever felt that way totally at 790, but like, and I didn't feel that way at Nashville. Like, there was never a time where I was like, I must get out of Nashville. Now, I had an agent, and I wanted that agent to like turn over every stone to see if there was, you know, a talk job. Like, that's always been kind of the thing I've been chasing again is the idea of doing talk radio again.

And so I was wondering if there was still sports. sports gigs out there or anything because I would say I would be interested in that. But I was I was never like miserable in Nashville. Like there was never a well, this is a broken beyond repair thing because I got to offer new deals to stay there. So but like St. Louis, like you knew. You're like, okay, it's only a matter of time because none of this makes any sense. And they're firing a bunch of people and I'm eventually going to be one of them and all that shit. But I don't know.

I just I have there's envy that I have for people that are seemingly. comfortable in their life, you know. And maybe I'm just never meant to be comfortable. But I see some of these people, and I've talked about it before on here, but I see these people and they live in Texas and they got these nice houses and, and you got a nice backyard and they got a smoker and they got all this shit. And I'm like, Josh, that could be you. But you fuck shit up because you're an imbecile a lot of the time, you know?

But, yeah, that's 76 years. So I'm 39. I'll be 40 and what's wild. You want to talk about how time just motors, man. My birthday was in August. So my birthday was six months ago. And I turned 39. I'm like, I'm going to figure some real shit out before I'm 40.

This is like the last go round here. Six months later, it's like, shit. I haven't figured shit out at all. But I don't even know how I got down this path. Like, this was supposed to be talking about the previews that I saw at the movie theater the other day. And somehow this is evolved or devolved, depending on how you look at it, into a conversation about, you know, my life and everything, which a lot of these do. I got a text from.

Who did I get a text from? Or was a DM. See who this DM came from that said they enjoy the life discussions. Who was this? Who were you person? John, who said, digging the life advice content. You need a smoker in your life badly. Make it happen.

Drunken smoker videos would be elite. I like my man here who's like, listen, I hope for your sake that you get something done, but really, we just need drunken smoker videos, and that would be sweet. And look, I don't disagree with that. I'd be down for that. Anyway, let's see here. We will have more coming here momentarily.