The Josh Innes Show - Radio Rant...

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Oh I'm super worked up about something I read today. One of these radio industry websites was ripping radio companies for firing people around Christmas. Who the hell cares if people are fired at Christmas time? So if you're fired in June are you just a piece of shit? Also, I enjoy how these sites pick and choose which fired shows they'll say good things about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's easy to say that fast when you're freezing gold. All righty, Jamokes, can I tell you something that annoys me? First of all, it annoys me when people start a conversation on the radio with, can I tell you something? It also annoys me when people who are doing a podcast call it the radio. My God, am I 80? Pretty soon I'm going to be fighting to make sure AM radios remain in cars. But this is firing season for radio people, right? Like a lot of folks losing their jobs, getting laid off and all that. And I was reading some story today where one of these guys, this dude, Jason Barrett, who runs this Barrett sports media site site which is

pretty much only read by media people but credit to him he's figured out a way to to make something out of it and make it a place where people go to see if they're being talked about and everything else and he's got his little end of the year lists that he makes for like the top 20 sports radio shows in the media markets and shit and i don't know why these kind of lists bother me or excite me because i know they're all bullshit but they do i don't know why i'm a dipshit but anyway and other radio people are dipshits we get caught up and wanting to see our names featured and it's all stupid to be angry about it but you know it is what it is but anyway so he said something about how you know firing people or laying people

off this time of year shows poor leadership from people because he's had to fire people before but firing people around the end of the year shows uh poor leadership qualities of course you know when you get fired in july no one gives a fuck right like hey you know you've been working somewhere and you uprooted your fucking life and you moved to a place where you got a three-year fucking deal and then you sign the three-year fucking deal and you get fired 15 months into it but it happened in july or august therefore it's not sad like these fucking people like fuck you like it is fascinating that like, like if you get fired around Christmas time or the end of the year, God, that's super sad, man. What kind of piece

is a shit fire somebody at Christmas? Guess what? There is no good time to be fired. There's no good or right time to be fired. Being fired fucking sucks. It's part of it, okay? That's the way the world works. Whether it happens on December 31st, March 31st, on St. Patrick's Day, on Thanksgiving, on Columbus or Indigenous Persons Day, whatever it is, it sucks. So this idea that like you're a poor leader if you're firing people or you're a poor manager if you're firing people around Christmas who gives a fuck if it's at Christmas big fucking deal whether like look I've been fired on strangely enough the I've only been fired what twice if I've been fired twice three times three times I've been fired okay the dates the three times I've been fired

I was fired on March something or another it was in March I know that I forgot the exact date I got fired in March or was it April shit I don't remember when I was fired the internet will tell me but I don't remember when I was fired at I heart in Houston but I did get fired at I heart in Houston so there's that then I got fired in Philadelphia before that so when I got fired in Philadelphia before that. So when I got fired in Philadelphia, that was August something or another. I don't remember the exact date, August 20 something, I think, you know? So there's that. So I got fired in August. I got fired in March. I got fired in St. Louis after 15 months. I got fired in St. Louis on August 1st. You never hear the sad,

woe is this poor bastard or this poor bastard got fired. You never hear those kind of stories when you get fired in August. But boy, if you get fired in December, they love to pile on to these radio companies and shit on them for firing people around Christmas. I got laid off once initially in Baton Rouge when they did a mass round of layoffs. It was in April of Christmas. I got laid off once initially in Baton Rouge when they did a mass round of layoffs. It was in April of 2009. I vividly remember sitting there at my desk preparing for a show. My email address would not work. My account wouldn't open. I asked my boss, why is my email not working? He says, I don't know, man. That's weird. Five minutes later, boom, Josh, come to Dick Lewis's office. I go to Dick Lewis's office. Got to lay you off as part of a massive layoff.

No one feels sorry for you when you get fired in April. No one feels sorry for you when you get fired in May or June or on July 4th. How do you know that it wasn't my birthday? If I were some chick, I'd say, I got fired in my birthday month. They fired me in my birthday month. Those dicks. I got fired three weeks after my dog died no one's like oh boy poor guy but some schlub on a shitty show gets whacked in december and it's the saddest thing you ever fucking heard let me play some fucking commercials

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time offer, see terms at pick6.draftkings.com slash promos. All right, so look, I don't want to shit on anybody that I've never heard on the radio, right? Like I don't know some of these people. I don't give a shit about them, but like I see the way that these industry trades handle certain people getting fired versus how they handle others. Every time I've gotten fired or laid off, which I did get laid off in this case here in St. Louis. But let's be real. Those people didn't fucking like me anyway. But it was a layoff.

So I get laid off here in St. Louis. I remember reading stories about this. I got laid off. They told me, you're not fired with cause. We're laying you off. The company laid a bunch of people off. But every story I read, unless I gave them a direct quote, said, well, nobody confirmed that it was a layoff. Oh, fuck you. But when the second you find some slap dick from Des Moines gets fired, it's the saddest thing you've ever heard. And every story has to be emotional. And you have to use certain words to make it sound like they didn't get fired,

that they didn't suck at their fucking job. Every time I've gotten fired, I sucked at my job was the story. Every story was racist, misogynistic, homophobic. This guy fucking sucks. And here's what I've learned about people who get fired and it's a soft landing story. Those people fucking suck. Because anybody with any sort of fucking ability that moves the needle and gets a reaction from people, they don't get the soft landing story

that a bunch of these dipshits from country morning shows and adult contemporary disc jockeys. They get the soft landing because no one gives a fuck they exist. But me, I don't know why I'm so worked up about this today, but me, when I get fired from things, it's, oh, evil. Evil Josh Ennis has been fired again. What does Josh Ennis do that's so terrible? Oh, you know, he talks some shit about some people.

He did this. I'm reading these websites today today and they're blowing Shannon Sharp for talking shit and wanting to start fights with Kirk to Herbstreet and they're like this is so great oh but when Josh Ennis talks a little shit about the competition he's a piece of shit that's my problem with the hypocrisy and the bullshit you get from people and I understand that most of you listening probably don't care, and I don't blame you for not caring, but I'm here to vent about this today because it fucking pisses me off. Like, let me give you an example.

So multiple morning shows got fired in Houston over this last week, okay? One of them was the Dean and Rod show on The Eagle, the classic rock station in Houston, a radio station that they should have called me before they fired those people and said, come save our ship over here because you're a good radio guy. You've worked in classic rock. Of course, that didn't happen.

Whatever. You would think I have an agent for that, but nope, never hear from anybody. Anyway, I'm pissed today. Just so you know, I'm spitting fucking fire about this shit today. So the Dean and Raj show got canceled. They got fired, whatever, blah, blah, blah. They've been around 20 something years, blah, blah, blah. They got fired. Shit happens. They've been in radio. They've been fired before. They are adults who've been fired. Like that's the other thing. When you get old school guys that have been fired three or four times,

it's part of the business. When you get one of these new young 22-year-old girls who has no real ability that gets fired, she runs to Facebook in her little groups and talks to all of her little friends about how tough it is to be fired from the job. Listen, lady, I'm sorry you got fucking fired. My dad got fired 10 fucking times before I was 10 years old. Shit fucking happens. Build a bridge and get the fuck over it. But you guys don't work in real world. You're like weird children that live in fucking Candyland. Obviously, I've been

holding this in, but I digress. So this morning show on the bull in Houston got fired. Okay, that is the bull. That is the country station that continually loses to 93Q and has for as long as I can remember. They were in our building. They were they're currently owned by Odyssey. They were owned by CBS when I was there. That was the company that owned them. Some really cool people work there when I was there. Fine. So their morning show, the morning bullpen, that's what it's called. The morning bullpen, creative shit. The morning bullpen that's what it's called the morning bullpen creative shit the morning bullpen uh was fired right now of course because it's the morning bullpen and they got happy smiley

pictures on their uh their instagrams and uh the morning bullpen with george moe and eric at odyssey 100.3 the bull kilt houston, ended a decade-long run on Friday. They actually let them do a show after they were told they were fired, but whatever. So I'm looking at this. Hold on. There's people trying to call me. I don't even know who you are. I'm not answering.

I'm ranting, you sons of bitches. Let me have my moment. And let's be real. It's just a scammer anyway. It's going to be someone saying hey you've been pre-approved for a forty thousand dollar loan you broke-ass motherfucker do you want it no i don't pound sand cock bags but anyway the morning bullpen with george is it i also don't know if it's george moe and eric as if there's like a George, a Moe and an Eric, or if the person's name is George Moe, because there's no fucking comma in here.

So I would think if it were multiple people, if it were George Moe and Eric, perhaps there'd be a fucking comma somewhere between George and Moe. So I'm just going to assume that these three people go by George Moe and Eric. Okay. So the morning bullpen with George Moe and Eric, and you know, it's a country morning show. Cause one doofus with a goatee is wearing plaid and the other girl with the Felicity haircut is wearing a goddamn bandana around her neck. So, you know, it's a country show and you know, it's a country show cause they don't know how to use fucking commas.

But anyway, so this show got whacked. And of course, considering that they're nice people and they, you know, look like they're straight out of the state fair, you can't tell the truth. And the truth is they didn't have the ratings and they got fired. Most people, you don't get, even when I've gotten laid off, you don't get laid off if you're doing your fucking job well. Let's be real, right?

There's always a reason. Either they hate you, which has happened in my case sometimes, or you're just not getting the job done, which has happened in my case at some times. But I enjoy that the headline on this country insider says, the morning bullpen retired at Kilt Houston. No friend. Retired would indicate that the bull was put out to stud. It had great success, and then they decided bull was put out to stud it had great success and then they

decided to put it out to stud to use its bull cum to make other fucking prize bulls they were taken out back and shot they were put down but oh no the headlines got to make it a soft landing for these fucking people and it's all these poor morning bull people they got fired and can you believe they got fired around christmas yes i can believe it because everybody gets fired around fucking christmas get over it except me i get fired in august and once in march or april fuck man it's just it's absurd it's absurd but can you believe how terrible it is that these people fire people around christmas what if they don't even celebrate christmas fun fact about christmas it's just a fucking creation of the toy companies anyway who gives like literally christmas which

is supposed to be i guess about the birth of christ right no it's about commercialism and consumerism people the movie theaters open on christmas Movies are released on Christmas Day. Can we stop talking about the emotional aspect of Christmas and how terrible it is that people have gotten fired on Christmas? Grow up. It's 2024. This isn't a Norman Rockwell picture. This isn't George Bailey and It's a Wonderful Life. It's a different world. By 10 o'clock in the morning on Christmas, the kids have opened their presents and they've already moved on to looking at their phones and pulling their puds and doing other shit.

Cut the shit about, oh dear, it's Christmas. It's Christmas. Oh, that's right. Oh, oh. Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. I don't know why Wally gator just repeated that line from it's a wonderful life so cut the show they got fired at christmas can you believe it oh that's so terrible these companies are awful it reminds me of the um the line from archie Bunker in an episode of All in the Family, where Gloria says,

did you know that such and such number of people die every year from handguns? And Archie says, would you prefer a little girly if they was being pushed out of windows? That's what it reminds me of. There is no good time to be fired, and it doesn't make you a worse boss. And that's what's the premise of this, the story I was reading, where you're a worse boss, and you lack leadership if you fire people around Christmastime. Get over yourself. Congrats, you didn't have to fire people at Christmastime. You are a god of everything, sir.

I got fired three weeks after my damn dog died I was crying I got fired just days after sobbing on the radio after my after my dog died looking like a total fucking putz on the radio crying for 10 fucking minutes on the radio in between a Led Zeppelin song and a fucking Def Leppard song and I'm sitting over here sobbing over my dog. A couple weeks later, hey, go fuck yourself, Josh. You're fired. So cut the Christmas shit. Thank you. All right, anyway, I love you guys. We'll talk again soon.