The Josh Innes Show - New Year Life Update Part 3

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

Somehow we are now discussing my habit of getting naked when drunk... And some more failures lol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

now part of it is that I kind of like rebuilding things right we've had this discussion before I enjoy rebuilding things like I'm not good at sustaining things I like to get to somewhere build it up and then go and I think I got that from my dad and I think I've told you this story about my dad before my dad loves to build shit like literally like in our old house in Baton Rouge the house we live debt that I went to high school and everything in. 3869 Shattelaine Drive. We had this just this, you know, nice house, you know, but dad wanted to add a game room to the house.

So right off the kitchen, going into the back driveway, they built a new room onto the house. Had a little glass door. You open the glass door. You're in this game room. Giant old school, you know, floor mounted, big screen TV, 2001.

gigantic fucking TV, red leather couches, pool table, the whole nine. Checkered floors, movie posters on the wall. Striking. Very lovely. And dad built this thing because I was wanting to have a game room in my house, Josh. I always wanted it. I may have seen my dad in that fucking game room once. He likes to build shit and then not pay attention to it and do something again.

Like, once it's built, he's bored. It's the climb, I think, for him that's more interesting. Hell, the best example is every house my dad has ever had. He builds these incredible backyards. At that same house, 3869, Chattelaine Drive, built a brand new deck outside a huge, very nice deck. Overhang, shaded, got all sorts of pictures all over. Very cool. behind that deck

swimming pool and a hot tub and a pond with like fish and shit in it like it was very cool like it was like for me being in high school my house was like a place that people wanted to fucking hang because it was badass

pool everything I cannot tell you a time that I saw my dad sit in that pool not once not one fucking time built the pool spent the money to build it my ass would be fucking naked in that pool. I would be hammered by like two in the afternoon on Sundays, 21, 22 years old,

passed out fucking naked. Because for whatever fucking reason, I would get naked all the time. Like there was a stretch in my life where I was just the drunk naked guy. I would just get drunk and get naked. I don't know. There was a time on my birthday. I think I had just broken up with a girlfriend. Well, she had broken up with me and I was pretty despondent over it because back in the day, you know, I would just sob over these things like a total bitch, you know. As you've come to find out, she got the fake tits, was banging some other. I don't know that I ever confirmed she was. Like, I never got the deets on it, but she was. She was clearly banging some other guy, whatever. It's like, I'm 21 years old. That's not even a real relationship, you know?

But, um, anywho. So I just used to get naked all the fucking time. And like me and my dad, my buddies went out for my birthday. I guess I would have turned 21. maybe 23 because that was right before I went to Houston I think and I had this apartment and everything we went out to eat Texas Roadhouse favorite birthday spot

little tea roadhouse got drunk on the big ass 30 ounce beers whatever went home to my apartment we're going to watch a movie I forgot what movie we put on within like 10 minutes I got fucking naked

and just rolled around on the floor and passed out like that was me like I don't do that anymore but there was a stretch in my life where I would just get hammered and get naked and get naked and get naked in my dad's pool people would come over like Jesus Christ Josh what the fuck are you doing?

I'm just passed out on a float naked like a Hawaiian shirt and like my balls hanging out because there's nothing. I'm like a fucking drunk poo bear I got like a shirt on but my balls just hanging out and I'm just drunk poo bear floating around in the pool you know

but my dad is to go back to my dad how this devolved into a conversation about how I get naked in the pool. But, so what happened, my dad loves to build shit and he loves the come up of things. He loves like the, like, I'm a good climber. Like, I'm always like a good underdog. I'm a great underdog because I love to fight. When I play a video game, back when you used to be able to build programs on like college

football games, like, you know what I want to do? I want to try to turn Troy into a team that wins the championship. I want to try to build South Alabama and do a champion. You know, that's what I like. You know, I like the challenge of it. I like the build. I'm not very good at being on top. I'm not very good at staying on top because then that gets boring to me.

And then I need to go somewhere and try something new, you know. And that's just kind of how I've always been. And like, I don't know why that is. And I don't know why I am the way I am. But I don't even know how I got to this in this conversation. I've been at this for half an hour. I've been at this just talking to you guys for half a hour. an hour about this. But, like, I think my biggest thing is you kind of want to know what the

end game is. And by that, I mean, where else can I go from here? You know, like, where do you go? Like, what else is there for me? And I think that's the part that kind of creeps me out, too, is you wonder, like, and I'm sure a lot of you think this way. Like, I can't be alone in this, right? Like, none of us are on an island in this thing. Right? It's not just radio shit, but whatever your job is, do you go to your job every day and wonder, is this it? Like, is there any growth possibility for me? Do I have any more money to make? Is there any, like, where do I go from here? Where is there, is there another step? Because I think that's when people get very frustrated and very tired of what they're doing. When they get into a situation where you don't know if there's anything else. Like, is this it? And are you content? with this being that like whatever your job is i don't know what you guys do uh i know some of you but like like do you do you go to work every day and are you inspired thinking hey there could be the next thing coming for me like i'm going to keep busting my ass to do this because i could move up to

partner or i could move up to like i could be the next big dude in this company or i could get a raise or a promotion like what inspires you like do you go to work in inspired. And there are a lot of days that I wonder, like, is this it for me? Like, have I, have I used up all the, my tokens, basically, right? Like, eventually, you just run out of coins. You run out of spins. And, like, is this the end for me? Like, and I think that's not just here. That's everywhere I go. Everywhere I've ever worked, my thought is, like, is this, like, am I out of spins? Like, are all my tokens? used up. And that creeps me out to the point that I almost feel like I have to go do something

else or fuck something up. I don't know. But that's kind of how it is for me. You know, like, you wonder, like, I really want to know from you guys. Again, you can feel free to email and all that shit. But like, I want to know if when you're in these situations, are you just like, like, is this it? Am I out of spins? Like, you only get, the number of spins are finite. And when the final spin comes, is this what's left? And am I content with what's left? It's just, it's a, it's a, it's a, I don't know, it's fascinating to me to, to think that way. And maybe other people do. I think some of you have to. Some of you have to think that way. Like, I can't be on an island on this thing. And I think that's where I get frustrated and,

And not even necessarily frustrated, but just concerned. Like my concern is like, what if this is it? What if this is what I'm destined to do now? And then it's impossible to not go back and think of all the things you fucked up and go, you know, like, I've been told this by people who are far more successful than I am. And they've had better success. And they'll tell me, you know, Josh, you are probably among the most. most gifted radio people ever. And I've been told this by people who are millionaires doing this shit that are like,

you're better at this than I am. But you're never going to have these things I have because you're just going to fuck shit up. Like you have gifts that I don't have. Even people who hate me have told me this. People who do not like me have said this guy is among the best. And maybe that's what gets me frustrated the most with myself is I'm like, Josh, you should, could, would be goat status. You should be living the life that Jim Mudd's living.

Like, you know, you should be living in a nice mansion in the suburbs of Houston with a fucking Trager in the backyard and a pool and a big, fucking comfortable leather couch and a 70-inch TV watching your stories. Like, that should, could, would be you. You should be comfortable. You shouldn't have any concerns. You've done things that people would only fucking dream of doing. yet you find yourself lost mentally at this point and just wondering like what the fuck did I do like where did I go what and how do I remedy it and that's the oh you want oh boy now the other thing that that I think is where I get myself in trouble is I start to wonder like I am very good at going back and like getting angry with myself about

about the past and being like, well, you shouldn't have fucked this up, you shouldn't to fuck this up, you shouldn't have fucked this up. But where I get myself really worked up is wondering if like, what if, like, I want shit to happen fast because now I'm 40. So it's not like you can sit around and wait, like you're 22, 23 years old. And I've told you guys this story many times, I think. I'm sure I have. It's not like I have unlimited stories.

So I've probably told you this story before. But Barry Warner, who I haven't talked to in a long time, and I don't think he's doing particularly well, physically, health-wise, I'm not sure. But when I was in Houston, and keep this in mind, when I was in Houston, I was doing something that I'd say the majority of people who would have been 22, 23 years old at the time and wanted to do sports radio would have looked at me and said, holy shit, I'm jealous, because it was pretty fucking cool what I was doing. There weren't a lot of people that went from Baton Rouge, by the way, being unemployed in Baton Rouge than being rehired in Baton Rouge for two months and then going from

Baton Rouge to Houston and then going from Houston third guy on the morning show to Houston co-lead of the afternoon show within eight months, nine months, whatever it was. And that is something to be envious of in this field. It was a fucking climb. Oh, and by the way, doing the Jim Rome show. Oh, by the way, doing all this shit. Like, cool shit. And all I could think about when I was in middle of that is what's next, right? And Barry, who, if I can think of one or two relationships and bridges that I burn with people that I regret, Barry would be one of those people because Barry actually had really good advice because Barry, much like myself as a guy who many times over fuck shit up. And I would talk with him because I would, dude, when I was at 610, people would

reach out to me about jobs. I'd cut them demos. I'd go into a production room at our station and be They're like, all right, here's a fake Miami show. Hey, it's Josh Hennis on WQAM, you know. And I would do all that shit. And I would send them off and people would like, I really, real talk and I don't know that this was ever true or not. I thought I was going to get a job at 105.3, the fan in Dallas. When I was still in Houston, and I want to say I may have been doing morning stuff. And I don't know how true this was, but it seemed pretty likely.

Like I remember getting like an email from someone in Dallas who worked for the boss. there and like, you know, they were like, we want you to fill out something for employment and potentially work in Dallas. And I'm like, holy shit, you know, that's pretty cool. But then like a couple of weeks later, it's like, oh, by the way, you got more money to stay in Houston. You're not going. And like, no one ever really said anything about it.

But I feel like I probably was on the verge of leaving to go to Dallas. And then eventually my boss got that job.