The Josh Innes Show - Philly Media Discussion Part 2

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

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end of the day, they're talking to themselves. This guy, if you look at his videos, some of the videos have 20,000 views, some have 1100 views. Every one of these videos, the thumbnail is him being extremely angry. Like, the guy has found, I guess what works, right? Is it for me? Not really. It ain't my bag. Like, fake anger and fake outrage isn't for me. But Stephen Smith ain't for me and the guy makes $10, $12, $15 million a year, right? So what the fuck do I know? Like, I think people always thought about me that I was fake outrage guy and I've never been fake outrage guy. Like, they wanted me to be fake outrage guy in Philadelphia. They'd always talk with me like bosses would be like, we need you to be more angry and hate the cowboys and we need you

to be more angry. And I'm like, I don't want to do that. I'm not fake outrage guy. I'm kind of sarcastic dude. Like, I'll get angry about shit. But I'm not like. I'm not fake anger guy. I'm not every thumbnail is me making the same weird, like one eye close, yelling about the team, that type of shit. Like, I'm not, that's not the dude I am. So I guess this guy was a co-host on the best show ever, question mark, I think, or he may have been a guest or something on the best show ever because that's one of the subchannels on his channel. Look, more power to the guy. I'm not shitting on the guy.

The content's not for me, and it's obnoxious, but people think I'm obnoxious. But my point is, I credit to the guy for being a nobody, and I mean that with all due respect, for being a nobody, and then emerging and ending up on fucking WIP. This is a guy that is a nobody with no actual training from what I gather, not the training matters, but a guy who has no background in it, started a YouTube channel, and goes from doing that to being on fucking WIP, one of the biggest sports stations in the country. That's fucking commendable. Some people that are like me that have been doing this my whole life would look at that and go, fuck this guy. Like this guy's done this. Look, I've been on WIP. I've been on big stations.

I've fucked situations up. I've done great in some situations. But I'm not going to hate somebody because they went from nothing to something and they've built an all. I guarantee this guy makes decent cash from his YouTube. I guarantee he makes decent cash from his podcast. And he makes probably part-time bucks over at WIP. Dude, from doing nothing to getting to WIP. Look, there are a lot of shitty people on the radio in Philadelphia that are not people I would listen to, but at least, hey, credit that you made it to WIP.

It's a big radio station and good for you. All right, let's play a couple commercials and I'll play the audio of this guy. It's fucking obnoxious. Real talk. It is obnoxious and I wouldn't fucking listen to it. I can't imagine that hearing this every day would be an enjoyable experience. But look, people think I'm, dude, I still get messages from Philly people that tell me I'm the fucking worst. So I know that I'm not for everybody either, but I can't fathom listening to this every day.

Credit to the guy I've been building. I cannot imagine listening to this fake outrage every day. Let's play some commercials and we'll continue. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside. So being a fan for life turns into the trip of a lifetime. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Pre-sale tickets for future events subject to availability and varied by race. Turns and conditions apply.

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biscuit or English muffin sandwiches, small hot coffee, and more. Limited time only at participating Wendy's Taxes Extra. All right, so this is Broads, and he is angry. This is two days ago's Philly. game, so not yesterday, so Tuesday's Phillies game. And my man is outraged, so outraged in fact that this segment starts

with him playing some sort of like a rap horn to like signal that, hey, I'm really pissed off. They can't even get it out in the night inning. There's two and a half minutes of this.

Trey Turner with a base runner in scoring position. Bryce, again, 9th inning against D.S. 7th inning may have been the worst inning in the history of baseball. It wasn't. Him and Kyle. They each see a pitch. That would be one fucking pitch. One fucking pitch each.

Great job, fellas. It's a shame didn't have on your rivalry pack, which is the biggest clown show in the history of baseball! Now, apparently this is just like every episode of this. I can't do that. The second I saw this video, I wasn't ripping the guy. I have nothing negative to say about the accomplishment. Good, dude, honest to God, dude, good for you because we're in the era of new media and I'm not some elitist asshole that sits around and like, you know, the guys like Dan Lebitard who like suckle off the podcast teat yet sit around and just talk about how media does everything poorly now and this guy's not doing this, this guy's not doing that.

Like, look, I'll tell you if I think a guy sucks. Like, would I listen to that shit? Absolutely not. I'd listen to, I sent that to a buddy of mine that's in radio. and I said, hey, what do you think of this? And he says, I turn the shit off in 15 seconds. I wouldn't, like, I can't fathom listening to that. Like, but I bring this up, and look, there's still another minute.

There's another minute of this, just this anger. I give him credit for keeping his voice. I get hoarse just talking. This guy, like, it's like how T. Bob Abear keeps his voice despite the fact he's got. But, like, to me, there's a difference. I think, like, T. Bob, who is on barstool now, and I think T. Bob's great, like, fantastic. I've told him that a million times. Not that my opinion matters. Like, I'm some sort of gatekeeper or something. But I was like, dude, I think you're fantastic.

I think you're funny. I love you on these drunken LSU post game shows, which are not going to be the same now that he's gone and at Barstool. But, like, when Teabob gets loud and into it, it's a funny thing, but it's not all the time. This is over the top and overbearing, and I would never listen to this. That's not a knock on this guy's game. I just couldn't fucking listen to it. It's not for me. Dude's yelling about a fucking baseball game. If it's a one-off, like if you're going to be enraged once a month over something, but if you're going to be enraged

once every five minutes over something, I think that's a little much. This team may be the biggest bunch of fraud in baseball. Philly people love to call things frauds. That's their thing. Like, you're a fraud. I don't, I honest to God, don't know that Philly people know what a fraud actually is. Because just any anything they disagree with is a fraud.

Lazzardo. Lazzardo. Can't keep his cool. That microphone has to have so much spittle on it. Sanchez could it yesterday. This pitching staff has hit, what, 32 different guys?

In two games, there's still a game to go tomorrow? Oh, boy, I can only imagine what he did because they lost that game tomorrow. That game was last night, and they got blanked by the next. How about this one? How about it? The O2 count, nine hole hitter. Get hitting the foot.

Oh, good fucking job. Put him on base. Oh, then I got to watch Bader. Throw the ball. What? 6,000 feet over J.T's head. This is just great baseball, ladies and gentlemen. This is a fucking championship caliber team.

Like, is this real or is this like, is this shit? Like, are we doing a bit? Like, there's no way. And this is kind of why I tweeted about this. yesterday jokingly, semi-jokingly, like part of the reason why I didn't want to work in Philadelphia and I just, like, it's funny, people would listen to me and they thought that I was fake outrage guy or they thought that I was over the top saying shit for a reaction guy. And usually here's how things work. The people who are convinced the guy is full of shit and just saying things for effect are people who disagree with that guy, right? So that guy tends to be the real guy because that guy is just telling you what he honestly feels. The guy who's saying the thing that you think you feel is usually the guy that's full of shit, but you're not calling them full of shit. You're saying that's the guy you like. And that's how things work out usually. I could not fathom on a daily basis having to show up at a radio station being upset over the outcome of a baseball game.

Now, if it's game seven of the World Series, that's different. And I get that the Phillies are playing bad baseball right now. I cannot fathom a 162 game baseball season showing up, every day yelling like that over a baseball game. Not judging you. That's what you do. You've built an audience. Honest to God, dude, I admire the audience you've built. If I put forth the effort into it and I went out and I made the videos and I put up the

thumbnails like you do with like the angry, wacky, what I closed face, I would probably have a bigger audience than I have. I'm kind of lazy and just kind of content with what I have right now because I'm focused on my actual job and I got a bunch of other shit. Like, I wish that I put forth the effort into promoting and doing the challenge. I wish I had 20-something thousand YouTube followers. I wish I was doing YouTube videos. Like, all that.

Dude, I am not ripping you. I commend you. But I think the content is just not good. And it's something I would not want to do. I would not want to get on here every day. Like, it loses its effect when you do it every day, right? Like, you have to be silly. It's like this.

You can say pussy on the radio. You are allowed to do that as long as you're saying, hey, this guy is a pussy. It's weird what's allowed and what's not allowed But you can get on the radio and say like that dude's a pussy And a lot of people don't know that So when they hear you say pussy on the radio They're like wow, how did they not bleep that right?

Now I can't say like fucker in the pussy You can't say that right But you can say like that You can say oh fucking Missinelli's a pussy You can say that But a lot of people listening to the radio Don't know that that's allowed right So if you say that on the radio

It'll get people's attention and go What? Can't believe he said that whoa Are they going to get fined? But if you say pussy every five minutes, it doesn't have impact. And it's the same thing. Like, once people get immune to it, it's kind of like big fucking deal. And it's the same thing with stuff like this. If you just get on and yell and yell in every video, even though I'm sure his whole podcast isn't that yelling, every video we're seeing is this guy losing his fucking mind.

And I'm sure it appeals to like the lowest hanging fruit knuckle draggers that are just constantly angry about shit. Like, but that's why I hated Philadelphia. like the city I love and a lot of the people I love but like what you have to do in the media to be successful in Philadelphia I did not love and apparently like this is what you have to do you gotta be out of your mind this team is a joke

it's a joke like basically you just have to say all the shit that Howard used to say that people are frauds and a joke and I also love that people shit on Howard all the time I'm talking about Eskin now the king yet all of them just do his fucking act everything's a joke everything's a fraud

they're not ready for the moment they crack what do you know also friend they fucking do this for five six years since Bryce Harper got there this isn't a new development and oh by the way your best starting pitchers out for the year and maybe out for the rest of his

career you're not going to get any better this is who they've been this is what they are this is how it goes fraudulent that's the key to fill Philadelphia media. You just have to take something that's an obvious statement and say it really fucking loud and then use words like fraud and joke. And if you do that, you've done Philadelphia

media. So there's a giant part of me. Like this couldn't have been what I do. And maybe what I do would have continued to work. Like I know that it fell off for a couple of months. And a lot of that has to do with just my own doing and losing co-host and stuff like that. But I don't, like, I actually really enjoy the city of Philadelphia, and I love that people are super passionate about the sports, and I love that people know who you are. Like, I couldn't get arrested in Detroit, just like I couldn't have gotten arrested in St. Louis. The last two places I've been, nobody knows who the fuck I am. Not a fucking clue. In Philadelphia, like, you walk outside and people know you and your front page news. Now, granted, that's also because it was a big radio war thing, and this

is 2015, and it's a different world. Maybe if I was there today, nobody would know who I am and they wouldn't give a shit. But, like, I love that about it. I admire that about that. Like, it's cool to be able to go somewhere and people know who you are for being on the radio, right? But I have no desire to do the kind of shit you need to do to be long-term successful there.

And that's not to say that I didn't talk about sports when I was there. Like, someone was tweeting me yesterday, well, you were a side show and, you know, we were there for the sports. I'm like, really? You were there to talk about a team that lost 95? baseball games. You were there to talk about a hockey team that sucked. You were there to talk about a basketball team that was tanking. You were there to talk about a bad football team. That's what you were there for? Really? You know, people act like I was there when shit was good.

And I was still like, I do get defensive when people are like, well, you know, now you're just not capable of doing sports talk. It ain't fucking hard. I did it pretty fucking well. I was on major market sports radio stations for 12 years. I was decent at it. Sorry that I wasn't, you know, losing my fucking mind like this gentleman over here but again not knocking i say this with peace and love i respect the shit out of the fact that you build something that's admirable that's commendable dude like i'm not talking shit about you i don't like it i wouldn't listen like real talk i would not seek that out that would be the kind of thing that if you did it once and it went viral people would be like how that's funny if like i'm going to guess that most of the videos he

posts are probably like this like six hours ago this series has this series warned me down and I have nothing left in my gas tank. I left it all out there. My man left it on the field. So let me turn this up and let's just see if he's angry in this video. They really did it. They really went into Queens

and did the worst fucking possible thing in the world. They did that. They did that. So the first two games, I would say rage I'm spent, okay? Look. I emptied the tank.

I don't know like I just I don't care enough about this shit to get that anger that's not that I don't get angry about sports I'm sure on Saturday I will be bat shit crazy when LSU loses to Clemson although I've gotten used to it now so it doesn't bother me as much because I've gotten accustomed to LSU losing the opener but I can't fathom being that level of angry over a baseball game and I think part of the issue with Philly people is a lot of times they can't accept. accept reality of things. Like, the Phillies ain't winning the fucking World Series. They don't have the starting pitching. Good luck. You lost your best start. You're going to go out and win the World Series. You didn't win the World Series when you guys fucking had them.

You guys got to go out there and like, hey, hey, we're going to win this thing. You're not. Now, granted, I don't know who the hell is going to win the World Series. It's really, it's truly a toss-up. Like, who's the hottest team over the last couple months, the Brewers? Do you think they're going to win the World Series? The Tigers just got swept by the A's and have no starting pitching after Terrick Scoob. Do you think they're going to win it?

the Astros just got Yordan back. Do you trust the Astros? Like, it is truly a crapshire. I mean, the Dodgers are the favorite, but anyway, anywho, again, peace and love. I ain't trying to shit on the guy. I admire what he's built. I just couldn't listen to that. Like, that's why I didn't work.

That's why I'm glad things didn't work out in Philly, because if that's what you have to be, it's like, I'm not, like, just, I'm being fake angry and outraged over shit doesn't do it for me. But tip of the cap to you, because you got a much bigger podcast follow. than I do and I admire that and good for you, brother.