The Josh Innes Show - Radio Job Hunt Update

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

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All right kiddos, so I haven't given you an update on radio stuff in a while, so I will give that to you now because why the hell not? So, um, let's start with Philadelphia. Now it's been what, over a month? Five weeks? However long it's been since I applied. Has it been five weeks? Since I applied for the 97.5 job in Philadelphia. I think that the job is still posted. I don't believe that they have filled that job yet But let me make sure but I don't think they have I know I applied for the job and I know that I know the person who is the boss there

But let me see here. Let's go to careers. Let's see if the Philadelphia job is still there Let's go to careers. Let's see if the Philadelphia job is still there. Let's see. Philadelphia on air host 97.5. The fanatic was posted a month ago full time job I applied for it. I told you that I emailed the program director there and I don't even know how much power he even really has like this thing is a sinking ship Beasley broadcasting is a sinking ship from everything I've heard it's like it back in the day. It was considered the worst company like I remember when

it was announced that Beasley was going to take over for greater media stations and they those greater media stations in Philadelphia were WMMR WMGK the fanatic and all those I recall because I think this has been the case now for like a decade or close to it. I recall saying that they were going to be in a whole lot of trouble. All the people employed over at 97.5 were going to be in a whole shitload of trouble because Beasley is just terrible. And as you've seen now, Beasley came in and stripped one of the

players from the big morning show, the Preston and Steve morning show. They obviously do not give a shit like they are just cutting things left and right. So and we've seen it across the board in some of these other markets where their stations are struggling. So look, it is a bad situation and not necessarily a situation that I would like to go into, but I applied for it because I don't have a job and I just wanted to see if I'd get a response as of right now. I have not gotten a response.

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Service fees, exclusions and terms apply. Instacart, groceries that over-deliver. So I told you I got an email from the program director who was on vacation, said I will call you and we will talk about it. I don't recall if he said I'll call you next week. Let me see when that email was sent. Let me go back to that. How long ago was that? That was obviously back in, that was back in early May or in April. Trying to remember when exactly

that was. But I know I applied for the job and let's see, there's April 30th. Was it an early May? Yes. So I sent on May 1st, I sent an email about the opening. That's when I applied for it. And the guy who's the program director knows me. He says, let's see, please know that I'm on vacation all next week started taking applications today. That was on May 1st says hey, Josh will talk when I get back from vacation. Where are you right now to which I responded and never heard anything. So I feel

pretty confident that that's not going to happen and I look I've been very upfront with you guys about that. Like, I don't want to make it sound like I've been lying to you guys thinking that I have a shot to get that job. I've told you for the most part that there is a 0% chance that I would get that job. I just wanted to apply for it because I wanted to see what the reaction would want to be. I wanted to see if I can get an actual conversation. I wanted to find out how much the job pays. And that's why I did it.

I'm not fucking with people. I'm not doing this as a goof. I legitimately applied and I've been very upfront with you about what I think. I think it's a joke that they haven't called me back. I think it's a joke that for the most part I haven't gotten an email response. I think it's a joke that they wouldn't even entertain the idea if they truly want to compete which I think it's pretty clear they don't. They just want to exist. They work for a shit company. They know they work

for a shit company. Morale has to be super low if I had to guess right now at 97.5 because if they're taking key parts, I know we talked about this when it happened. If they are taking key parts of the biggest show in town and slicing them for budget reasons, I can assure you that they'll have no qualms with slicing more people from other stations there and that is not good for morale. My guess would be that there's a lot of people there and I feel bad for these

people but they work in radio and radio is a hot, a very volatile place and there's not a ton of cash in it anymore. There's a lot of people who are just hanging on and they're going to write it till they get bucked. And I get that. That's why I'm still hanging around trying to get a job. Like I see people talk about how these radio jobs don't pay a ton anymore, blah, blah, blah. It's what I know how to do. So I'll write it out because if you can tell me I can make X amount of dollars doing radio or similar money digging

ditches, real talk, I'll just go do the radio and ride it out, right? So I understand it. But there are people that I would imagine are in that building that are just riding it out until corporate people at Beasley Media Group decide, yeah, you know what we're going to do? We're going to fire you too and we're going to put in the robots and that's that. Now, that's part of the negative of working in this industry, like especially if you're a disc jockey. If you're a talk show host, there might be more a morning show host, there might be more opportunity for you to survive. But if you're a disc jockey, like what do you truly

offer to people like you're someone that talks for five seconds at a time? What exactly do you offer anybody that would warrant your salary? Like I see some of these younger radio people and there's an arrogance about them like can you believe they only offered such and such for this job? Well ma'am a robot could do it. So either take the forty fifty thousand dollars and work on the radio or do something else but you at some point have to acknowledge that this is not 1980, 1970. There are robots that can do your job and they can save a fuck ton of money by having these robots do your job.

They don't need you, they don't need us. And so if you wanna survive in that industry, that's kinda how you have to look at shit. Like, do you wanna keep getting a paycheck? Do you wanna, you'll have the easiest job in the world being a dish jockey? Or do you wanna go out and do a real job? And if you wanna go do a real job, more fucking power to you. Go for it. Have

had it. But don't sit around and bitch about how you need to make more money because you're a disc jockey. We're nobody. Nobody comes to us for nothing. They don't come to disc jockeys. Talk show host, morning show host. I think it's a different world. But like if you're a disc jockey in a small town like honestly, and this sounds terrible be grateful for what you have you know that's what killed me in st louis I was making a shit ton of money and I knew that I was making too much money and as my dad tells me Josh you're a fucking moron because

you kept telling them constantly that you were getting paid too much and I'm like I know I was fucking stupid I shouldn't have done that but I felt horrible because I'm like I know the bottom's gonna fall out of this I shouldn't be making this money for what I'm doing. So, you know, so that's the Philadelphia situation right now. I think it's a shitty job. I knew it was a shitty job going in and I knew they probably wouldn't call me. But I felt that I needed to apply anyway and reach out to my guy because I can I know the guy, it would be dumb of me, especially sitting in my current state of unemployment. It would be dumb of me to not apply and reach out to someone I know on a personal level and it's someone who I told you would ignore me and they have. So again, everything I've been up front about and that's what's happening there. I did apply for a job in Portland which I guarantee I won't even get a

call back about but what's funny about that station is back in the day when I got fired in Philly and like everybody wanted to hire me. Like I'm getting calls from 10 different cities, people like hey come work for us. One of them was this station in Oregon and it was run by a different guy at the time who I think just retired. So I think it was this guy. It was either this one or another station. I forgot which exactly it was. It might have been reversed but either way. So there was a guy that wanted to hire me in Portland and he had been a guy I talked to a bunch when I had jobs. I didn't have a job and he's like why don't you come up to Portland? And I wasn't really interested because I knew that my style wouldn't fit there but they offered like at least they mentioned. I won't say that they offered. I don't remember the exact thing. I don't remember the dollar figure on what it was to move up to Oregon. I don't know that there was a formal offer, but they talked with my agent at the time about it. They're like, come up. We want you here. We'll put you all I remember is they said we'll put you like on the Oregon network or something. So it'd be in multiple markets. And I'm like this like my style is not going to fit in

Portland you'd hire me there and then they would see the reason I got fired in Philadelphia and it would become a whole deal I'll get there and you'll fire me in 10 minutes no fucking way am I going to Portland Oregon and I had the Houston gig already lined up anyway so there was that more than likely that's where I was going to go but But I did apply for this job. It's a different guy. I think the long time dude that was there retired or got whacked or whatever happened a couple months ago and they got this new person in. I applied for the job and I feel very, very confident, very, that I will never hear from them. I told you that I did hear from a station though. It was one, like sometimes I'll just apply for jobs because that's kind of like what you do.

I'll just throw out an application here, application there, see what happens, you know. And one of them was a station in Kansas City. It was just a talk station, kind of a happy smile talky type radio station, not super political, not a conservative talk radio station, just talking about local issues type of radio station. And I applied for it because why not I apply for a

lot of jobs. And I get a random call from a guy who's got a Houston area code, but he's used to live in Houston. Now he runs this station in Kansas City. And he and I had like an hour long conversation about radio, he knew who my dad was because they'd kind of known each other from way back. And we had a nice conversation. I assumed I'd never hear from him again. A couple weeks later, I get a call from this guy. I'm like, huh, interesting. He's calling me again. So I answer the phone and

he goes, Listen, I want to let you know something. Like, we're not going to hire you to do this job, but you were one of our finalists. And I'm like, that's totally random. Because like, I didn't think I'd fit on this station, it wouldn't make sense. But I appreciated that I was a finalist for some job. So I was a finalist for that job. Apparently, I don't know if that means I was in the top 10 top 30 top two. But I was a finalist for that job in Kansas City. So I almost got that and there is one thing that's kind of

floating around that could happen. It'd be a nice situation, and if that doesn't work out, I'd say that the odds right now are trending towards going back to Houston and finding something. Might have some sort of opportunity there that is a non-radio opportunity, but that would be that because I don't think I'm going to go back to Baton Rouge because I just don't think there's anything for me there. As we've discussed, if I go back to Baton Rouge then I'll be thrown into my dad's circle

of errand boys so I'll have to just go run errands for my dad or watch his dogs and shit and I don't want to do that. So I'll probably just end up moving back to Houston if this other thing doesn't work out and I'll know about this other thing hopefully soon. If it does work out, it'll be a pretty cool thing. If it doesn't work out, I'll have to find something else and probably move back to Houston and try really trying to blow up the podcast there, which I know a lot of folks would enjoy. I think it would have a chance to be very successful. So we would see.

But latest is I still haven't heard from Philly and I won't hear from Philly. I feel pretty confident there. Applied for a job in Portland, which I have not heard about and will not hear about. Have another job that could be a possibility that I feel like is the best possibility for anything, but I'll find out about that here hopefully soon. And if none of those come out to play, then probably gonna try to find something in Houston. So if you know of any non-radio jobs or anything in Houston, hey I'm not opposed to those either and we can blow up the podcast there. But there you go, there's the latest.