The Josh Innes Show - NFL Media Fight

Episode Date: February 28, 2025

First off, I have another Door Dash update. Second, there was a media fight at the NFL Combine. This NFL Media fight was nothing compared to Seth v. Innes. A day I could have died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, everybody. What's happening? Good Friday. Greetings. Hello. Glad you guys have been listening to the podcast, downloading the podcast, telling your friends about the podcast. Appreciate that. We went out and did some door dashing. I bought a pizza bag. Bought a pizza bag because apparently you can get more money delivering pizzas through door dash. So last night I bought this bag on Amazon, you know, it's kind of annoying because it's got a zipper on it. You know, like when you used to get pizza delivered and like dominoes would show up and the dude would roll up and he'd have, you know, that Velcro bag that would just easily open in the front, take your shit out and go, well,

this damn thing has a zipper. So I get a DoorDash buzz and it says, hey, do you want to do this $25 pizza order? I'm like, fuck right. I want to do a $25 order. That's the most I've ever seen. Wow, I must be rich. So I click on and it's like, well, you can pick up two orders because the orders are really close together. So you can just drop them off. I'm like, sure. That sounds like a plan. I can do that. And when I show up, one order has like seven different boxes and one has three and they all weren't fitting in this little pizza bag. And to be able to deliver pizza, you have to have a pizza bag. They're like, you have to prove that you have a bag that can carry pizza, like a heating bag, you know? So I'm like, shit. Well, I'm just gonna have to make do.

It was a relatively closed drive. So I threw as much of the shit into the bag as I can, hoping I didn't mix the two things up. Threw it in there. I start to zip the bag up, and the fucking zipper breaks. This piece of shit, $10 Amazon pizza heating apparatus already fucked me.

So I'm like, listen, I can't stop the delivery now. Like, I'm just gonna throw this shit in there and hope for the best. So I throw half the shit in there. The other shit has to sit in the seat because there's no room in the fucking bag. So, you know, like, I'm just, I'm worried. So I put this one order down on the ground. It's got, you know, like a pizza and some wings. I look up. I hear, I'm driving around. I look down. Fucking wings had fallen over. I'm like, oh shit. Fortunately, the box didn't open't open oh and let me tell you another thing that happened yesterday uh while dashing so somehow I ended up in the hood again which by the way the hood at lunchtime is a solid place to go because like maybe nobody actually wants to venture out into the hood so you're like a real

courageous person that's going around like looking for food for people. But it was actually a pretty lucrative trip for lunch. I didn't mean to go there. Like here's how it started. I was in this kind of upscale part of town, this little ritzy part of town. And there was like a $15 order. So I'm like, sure, I'll take that. And it was at some place where they make like bowls of like, you know, yogurts and fruits and oats and shit, one of those kind of places. And I walk in, pick up the order. I realize the order's 15 minutes away. I'm like, shit.

So I drive, and it takes me into the city of St. Louis where I drop this off. This order that I dropped off did not match the house that it was dropped off at. I drop off this bag of whatever the hell this is, a side bowl or whatever the hell it is. I dropped this off. I then, you know, I look at the house. I'm like, holy shit. Like this house is dilapidated, run down and terrible. Like many of the St. Louis houses are. And I'm like, well, this doesn't really match, but okay.

But then I end up down in this kind of jank, shady part of town. Now, for those of you who don't know, in St. Louis, there's a delicacy here, and it's called chop suey. They call it like Chinese chop suey or whatever. And it's like this kind of rice they make here in St. Louis. It's like one of their big things. It looks really tasty. I haven't had any. But they call it chop suey. Like, oh, you're going to the chop suey restaurant. It's like a, like it looks really tasty. I haven't had any. But they call it chop suey.

Like, oh, you're going to the chop suey restaurant. So I get a buzz. I'm like at this dilapidated, you know, house. There's a dilapidated school. And by dilapidated, I mean the school ain't even open anymore. It's shuttered. Like I'm in a shitty part of town. And one thing that people will say about chop suey restaurants in St. Louis

is the chop suey restaurants, the best best tend to be in shitty parts of town. So I get a buzz and it's like, I forgot the name of the place, but something chop suey, like Oriental Chop Suey might have been the name of it. And I get a buzz. I'm like, well, fuck, I'm going to go because this was like $15 as well. So I roll over to the place and i get the order it's for someone named myron but spelled it m-y-r-n like myrn or myron or whatever so i'm like well i'll get this man's chop suey and uh so i put that in the car it's in a plastic bag i look down and the bag had tilted a little bit so whatever like his fucking kung pao chicken or whatever the fuck he

had in this box the juices were leaking into the plastic bag so i look under the plastic bag it's nothing but like this brown gravy covering the bottom of the fucking bag and i'm like oh my god this guy's gonna fucking kill me like i'm gonna get a bad review i'm gonna get a bad rating this is terrible so i'm like well but you gotta do it you know you gotta go deliver this you gotta do the job you know find the guy's house knock on on his door. Hello, Myron. And like, listen, I'm like, I'm not just going to hand it to him and go have a good day. I'm going to be, you know, if I made a mistake, I'll let him know. I'm like, Hey bro, like the bag, I guess, tilted a little bit. And some of the juices out on the bottom of the bag. I'm sorry, man. Like, I just want to let

you know, I think I care way too much about customer service, or maybe other people just don't care about customer service. I believe in being a good soldier as it relates to this, and I want to have people have a good experience. As I told you, there was one person on a review that said I'm friendly. No one has ever said I'm friendly, but apparently I am when I'm in the service industry. Let's see. And then last night, somebody wanted ice cream that I had to deliver 10 fucking miles. It was right by my house. I'm like, I'll do one more of these and I'll go home. And I'm like, oh, cool. I'll pick this up. And I'm sure the person who wants this, I mean, it's ice cream. It should be right around the corner. Nope, 10 miles away. Some lady who wanted me to leave the ice cream on a chair at her. But like last night, I made like 75 bucks. So for the week, I have made now $350 so far for the

week. I got people sending me messages saying they want to try DoorDash. I'm like, have at it, guys. I mean, look, I'm not saying it's a career or anything, but let's see. Your ratings got you gold status. With high ratings come more rewards and benefits, increased priority for high paying offers and early access to scheduling. I'm gold status now. Now I only accept 79% of the orders because you got to accept the good ones. You don't want to accept some $2 one. Let's see here. On time or early 96%. I've delivered 59 deliveries. Holy shit. I'm a soldier. So let's see. Can you guys show me like what people think of me? I need to know their assessments of me. Gold status.

Do I get like a star rating or anything like that? 5.0. Let's see. And I've got six five-star reviews. So I've only six people have reviewed me and I've got six five stars and zero other stars. I am a five-star door dasher and God damn it, it's something to be proud of, baby. Let's play some commercials and we'll continue. So apparently at the scouting combine, there was some sort of reporter fight at a Starbucks which somehow sounds even lamer than when Seth and I almost you know came to blows and by almost came to blows I mean if he would have punched me he would have killed me but like at least ours like was at Radio Row and like he calls me over and wants to fight there's something that sounds really

white bread shitty reporter like first world, like people having a fight at a Starbucks, like people are having their mocha soy latte, the double calf, half calf, double foam, venti, whatever. And like there's two dipshit NFL reporters that are about to come to blows. Let's read some of this story. All right. If you're ready to win some real cash during the basketball playoffs, you've got to check out Pick 6 from DraftKings. When it comes to basketball payouts, DraftKings Pick 6 posterizes the competition,

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must be 18 plus age and eligibility restrictions vary by jurisdiction pick six not available everywhere including new york and ontario void where prohibited one per new customer bonus award it is non-withdrawable pick six credits that expire in 14 days. Limited time offer. See terms at pick6.draftkings.com slash promos. One reporter confronting another at a Starbucks. Okay, on Wednesday, Fox and Bleacher Report NFL insider Jordan Schultz, who has worked for ESPN and The Score, confronted NFL Network's Ian Rapoport at Starbucks located above the JW Marriott lobby the situation escalated to the point that Rapoport alerted NFL security since he's an

employee of the league he can do that well good for you uh let's see Schultz did not respond to a request give me the breakdown of you know what happened let's see here the spirited interaction started going viral thanks to a post on social media from barstool personality pft commenter it didn't become physical but the two are face to face by the end of the discussion schultz briefly relayed his side of the story wednesday to pro football talk it really isn't anything too much it isn't anything too much. It isn't anything too much, Schultz told Pro Football Talk via text message. Ian Rapoport and I had a verbal confrontation. It lasted a little over a minute. Multiple agents and reporters were nearby. Rapoport was the one who called security shortly after,

but it never escalated further. Rapoport on Thursday had a chance to set the record straight during an appearance on the Pat McAfee show. Last night, when it all broke, everyone in the world texted me wanting to know details, Rapoport said. All it was out there, and it was all out there. Basically wrote the whole thing, said Pro Football Talk, so there's not much to add. And then I woke up this morning, everybody in the world had texted me. So this doesn't sound nearly as interesting as when Seth wanted to kick my ass. Our thing certainly lasted more than a minute and he was a fucking football player. I don't know what Jordan Schultz looks like and I know what Rapoport looks like, but I couldn't pick Jordan Schultz out of a lineup. Maybe he's some sort of big beefcake. Maybe he's not. I don't know. But I feel pretty confident

in saying that that face-to-face matchup was nothing like the beef that was involved in the Josh Seth face-to-face that went down at Radio Row at the Super Bowl and I guess that would have been 2018. Look, those are two beefy motherfuckers that went at it. We got a former NFL lineman. We got a dude that once went three for three from downtown in a high school basketball game, face-to-face, tits-to-tits, nose-to-nose, ready to fucking go and i could have died like i don't think jordan schultz or ian rapaport would have killed the other because they're two dopey nfl reporters so i don't believe now again i have no idea what jordan schultz looks like maybe i guess i could look it up for the sake of this i know that rapaport looks like a putz

let's see what uh jordan schultz looks like oh yeah oh yeah okay oh god damn oh Jesus fucking Christ what are we doing here like this is like doofest 09 like okay you guys about to get into a fight like at the rec league or something come on man you guys you guys gonna you guys gonna go fight over at your your at your accounting jobs come on you both look like dipshits come on like at least you know when me and seth almost came to blows like i'm a big fat lard and at that time i was a really fat lard and i'm six foot three and he's like six foot three and he's beefy and he was larger at the time so like like there could have been death involved in ours ours could have been a situation

where motherfuckers were dying uh the cops i mean we're talking all sorts of shit that could have went down of course it didn't but it could have these two guys could have a slap fight here who the hell cares get the hell out of here with ian rapaport versus jordan schultz that's like some first world white bread at a starbucks at a starbucks of all places come on man do better than that and i've had myself some altercations before. I mean, I've told the story about how one of our employees had to have the cops called on him at the hotel during that same day as well. Boy, that was a day. I mean, that whole day, that whole week was a nightmare. But that day was fucking something. Like the highs, the lows, the like, holy shit, this altercation went down. Fine.

It was probably good radio. Two, if you guys get up from your table again, we're going to have to kick you out. Two, oh, everybody is getting kicked out because you guys don't actually have your own table. You were just squatting at somebody else's table. Two, we get back to the hotel and I'm getting calls from Mattress Max saying, hey, no press is bad press. Then I got another guy from the radio station that goes in and he's threatening to fight a woman at the front desk of the hotel and is threatening to fight my wife and the cops are called on him. I mean, this was a fucking day. Then I got my boss on the phone. Like I probably got to fire you. I'm like, why? Like, I mean, like it was a whole fucking deal. I mean, it was, and then all that led to our biggest ratings for a couple months that we ever had but nobody

cashed in on it no i've told that story a million times but it is wild when those kind of things happen like it's weird to be like in the middle of like a viral story like that and not like you know hey i got fired and everybody's talking about me like when what happened in philadelphia when i got fired before or you know it dude when the thing happened with Jason Kelsey, I was like the lead story on the local news. I'm like, out of all the shit in Philadelphia, that's happening. Like I'm sure some hobo got plugged at the SEPTA station. You've got like meth and crack and heroin everywhere in the city. There's all sorts of issues. But the number one story in Philadelphia is that some dipshit made a joke on the radio about a football player.

And it was the lead story. It's the front page of the inquire.com. It's the lead story. And the best part about it is like CBS, the local CBS, who I guess we were partners with because we were CBS. Like they're just burying my ass. And I'm like, is this really? Like is that what we are as a people? Like this is the news we

care about like real news we don't give a shit about you know like the actual issues of the world we don't want to focus on those because what the fuck are we supposed to do we got nothing so fuck the issues of the day that's a waste of time oh but some slapdick radio guy quoted the Malcolm X movie and now this is the biggest fucking story on the planet and people are sad oh my god this guy's terrible like the fuck are we doing so i've been in the middle of those things before and i i told you this but my favorite thing that happened uh was we were doing the show like what i remember about the day that that went down i believe is the night before i think james harden had like a 50 point triple double at Madison Square Garden

if I remember correctly because I remember like we get to the mall I think when we were on our way to the mall that day is when like it was snowing and like our uber driver got on the wrong side of the highway and we get to the mall and I just remember it being kind of dark and nothing really going on and we're talking about James Harden getting a 50 point triple double I think is what happened I might be wrong but it was something like that and then all hell breaks loose and then at the time we were buddies with um Ross Tucker because he was on the show every week and he sat down with us you guys hear there's a fight at radio row between two guys and I go yeah it was one of them yeah but. But what are you going to do? But all that said, very first world white guy media doof problems, like fighting over whatever scoops and shit, you know, you've got, you don't have, but whatever.

But it is weird being in the middle of that because it like for a day, it was the biggest story on the planet. Like it was like a twins day like nothing was happening like it is weird whenever you're the biggest story on the planet and you're trending and Howard Stern is talking about you and it's like whoa this was pretty fucking bizarre and I was getting calls from everybody wanting me to do interviews and then my boss said I wasn't allowed to do interviews and I'm like why the fuck not let's cash on this. Like radio people I know from all over texting me, Hey bro, you want to come on? I'm like, I would, but then they didn't let me. So it was what it was. But, uh, that's where we are right now. People fighting at, uh, at the, uh, at the scouting combine. The number of people who attend

the scouting combine and do radio shows is fascinating to me like i see these radio stations that are there broadcasting live i guess i'll give the host credit it's a way to finagle a free trip out of the radio station it's kind of like when they send you to these boxing matches so basically here's what happens like if you if you have a local radio station that is attending one of these big boxing matches, it was paid for probably by Showtime or whoever's putting on the event, and they're paying to fly you to this event. There is no cost in it for your radio station.

If there was, your radio station would not be sending you to Alvarez versus whoever fight. They wouldn't send you to those fights because it costs too much money, and the listening audience does not give a fuck. It's almost like a reward, right? So since the radio station doesn't have to pay for it, it's kind of like some programmers in my mind look at it like, let's give our guys a free trip to Vegas.

They can spend two days there. They get to stay at the MGM Grand, which I think I've done that twice. One time I got to stay at the MGM Grand, and the other time I got to stay at the Excalibur across the way. I think it was the Excalibur. Is that the one that's across the way, Excalibur? Yeah, it's Excalibur. The one that looks like a castle because they didn't have any more room at the MGM Grand. But you got to use the MGM Grand pool.

And the MGM Grand pool is fucking immaculate. And there's like a lazy river. And then there's other shit. That's awesome. I love the dude. I miss Vegas so much. I love Vegas. But like, that's how it works. So if you ever hear, remember this, here's another lesson that you could learn from your old pal radio. Josh here is if your radio station in your local town is at any boxing or MMA fight live in Vegas, it's because they were given it for free, which again, no, look, it's from the promoters. They want to get as much talk about it on the radio as they can. So they fly in, they put you up and know that the program director fucking hates it. The program direct hell, most program directors hate the radio row shit for the Superbowl.

They all fucking hate when you're on the radio and you're talking to, you know, the fight Dr. Ferdy Pacheco on a Friday because you're talking to you know the fight dr ferdy pacheco on a friday because you're leading up to some boxing match that most people don't give a shit about especially from a talking standpoint on the radio so just know just a little nugget when you hear your local radio show in vegas for a boxing or mma match just know the program director wasn't the one that wanted them there and they talked him into it because he the programmers like why does my audience care about if the program director's worth a shit like gavin was always like what do i get out of this like why why what does the audience

get and eventually i was like gavin we just want to go to vegas can we have this it was me rich jim can we just go to vegas it's two fucking days. It's the middle of the summer. Who gives a fuck? Let us go. And the other time I went was with Indy Kalou. And that was when, that was like 2010, I think, or 11. I was a young buck at that time, getting fucking nuts in Vegas with NFL players, living the fucking life, man. 25 years old, not a fucking care in the world, baby. It's good times. I forgot what fight that was for. I want to say that that was for a, um, what's his name? The little fellow that's, that's, uh, that's homophobic. Who's the little guy, the little fighter that, um, whatever that could be many of them. But point being in all of this is it's a good time to do it. And it's a

free trip and it doesn't cost the radio station a dime and they have the whole setup for you so you don't have to bring radio equipment or anything they have them all set up for you at these events it's the easiest shit ever and usually you're there for thursday and friday it's where me and tony actually know what i've gone three times now that i think about it i've done the vegas thing for a fight three times because i went with tony once in philadelphia and that's where we saw ai i think me it was me, Sludge, and Tony. I remember we were having to lather Tony up by the pool and that was fun. But that was me, Sludge, and Tony. And then me and Rich and Jim. I don't even remember what me, Rich, and Jim, what fight that was for. But it had to have been in 2013. So whatever big fight was in 2013. And then I went with Indy Kalou, which would have been, I don't even know if we broadcast from that.

I think we did. I imagine we had to have. But he and I went to Vegas together as well. What a time it was. Anyway, all right, more to come.