The Josh Innes Show - Radio Update

Episode Date: May 19, 2025

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You know, three and a half hours sleep is more than enough. Starbucks, it's never just coffee. Hey, the good news is I made an incredible pulled pork yesterday, really one of the best ones I've had. So I stole the recipe from the Meat Church, which I'm a big fan of if you follow things, if you're into meat, if you're into looking at meat and then making meat that you've seen on the internet, great pulled pork recipe using the hickory rub from Meat Church

outstanding. So if I were you, I would do this. I love this kind of stuff. I honestly would take a job in the meat business. Like I would enjoy the opportunity to be an apprentice or something like that of like a pit master or something like I find it awesome. Like there's a big part of me that as far as work goes, wants to do something fucking new, but something I enjoy. Like by new I don't mean working at a fucking desk job trying to just pay the bills, but doing something new that I

would find fun. Like our buddy PK has got a new job that's non-radio and it's something he's passionate about and it looks fucking cool. And I'm like that would be neat. And then you're like, well, Josh, what kind of things interest you? What are you passionate about? Smoking meat and drinking beer. I'd go work at a craft brewery. I'd go work as some pit master's apprentice and learn it. I love learning shit. That's the thing. You know why I think I get kind

of bored? As I'm someone that needs to learn. Like I love learning new things, new trades, new tricks, new things to do. I love that. I'm passionate about learning things. I love consuming knowledge. I'm big on, I like knowing shit. So I want to learn new things. And I would love the opportunity to work in a barbecue place or to work in a craft brewery world. I think that'd be cool as shit and I think I would enjoy it, but I just have to find those opportunities and I'm still holding out for a fucking radio job.

And maybe I'm an idiot, maybe I'm a dipshit, maybe I'm handling this all wrong, maybe it's a giant mistake on my part to sit there and think that I still have a shot to go do something big, but I cannot have my story in radio end getting fired in St. Louis after 15 months. That's what drives me. What drives me to keep looking for these jobs and find one big opportunity is so I can say, fuck you, I went out doing what I wanted to do and I did it well. That's

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Visit pcfinancial.ca for details. I want to go out big. I want to go out with a radio job and I want to have this podcast grow. There's shit I want to do. In real talk, I am extremely lazy as it relates to the podcast and really trying to build it. And because I've had jobs or I've made a lot of cash and I'm like, it's easy to kind of write off the podcast thing is just kind of a fun thing to do. I want to build it into something so the next time I get a job and get fired this is something that can pay the fucking bills. That's the ambition, that's the drive I have and it's going to take more effort than when I've put into it in the past. I understand all that but when I see certain things man and like I've heard

from somebody that they're hiring somebody for this eagle job in Houston and that they've already picked somebody out. A buddy of mine told me that. Now, I haven't heard this person, I haven't heard who this person is, but I can tell you that it ain't me. If they hire somebody and they didn't bother to call or email me about this shit, I think people hear me say that and they're like, well, Josh, what a cocky bastard. No, I'm not saying you have to hire me. Maybe there's somebody better for the job than me. But what pisses me off is when, like,

if you don't have the sense and you don't have the radio acumen to see that I've accomplished shit, especially in Houston, and you don't pick up the phone and call. And by the way, I'm not asking you to cold call me. I called you and I emailed you and I got nothing in return. You clearly have no fucking clue what you're doing. And I'm not going to sit here and beg fucking people who clearly have no clue what they're doing to hire me for a radio station that Real Talk, I didn't even want to fucking work for anyway. I'm applying for a bunch of jobs and I'd like to be back in Houston and that's all well and good. But I listened to this station a couple times to see how it sounds it sounds like a

fucking station for old people even more so than Casey did Casey at least tried to have a pulse for five minutes this station has no interest in having a pulse like this fucking station is on at the old folks home so fuck it if you don't think I'm worth the shit if you don't think I'm worthy of a call back or an or a return email all you have to do is email me back and tell me to go fuck myself and I would respect you. Call me back when I call you and say, hey listen, just you don't fit what we're going to do. I'd respect that. I have no respect for your radioactive acumen if you don't even recognize that hey, this is someone that could be worth talking to. That's bullshit. So I'm going to find something

and I don't know what city it's going to be in, but I'm going to find something and I don't know what city it's going to be in but I'm going to find something and I'm going to get fucking back to the top to the point that they're all writing stories about me again and people look at me as some sort of example of what's great. They're all going to forget that they all talk shit about me and dismiss me and then I'm going to tell them all to go fuck themselves. That's my dream. My goal is to be able to tell all of these people who've

dismissed me and written me off, these industry people, these people who won't call me back, these program directors who don't think I'm worth the shit, I'm going to get back to the top and when they come to me, I'm going to tell them to eat shit and that is my goal. I am driven by that. I'm driven by the fact that I've got a friend that runs 97.5 in the Fanatic in Philadelphia that does not call me back or email me back and he doesn't see the value in having me there. I want to go to the top and I want to tell him to eat shit. One of my best friends is a programmer in Baton Rouge. I love him very much. I wasn't even considered for a morning show job at his place. I want to tell him to eat shit and I love him very much but I want to tell him that. I want to get to that point again and that's like, that's what drives me.

I'm driven by being able to tell people that they were fucking wrong. I'm driven by a passion for radio. I'm driven by the passion that I've had since I was 10 years old to do this shit. The same passion I had when I was 15 doing baseball play-by-play. The same passion I had when I was 17 doing a talk show. The same passion I had when I was 23 filling in for Jim Rhoam. The same passion I had when I was 27, 28 and had the number one sports radio show, overall radio show in Philadelphia. And the same passion I had when I took this job in St. Louis. I have it but I'm driven even more by the fact that I'm being dismissed and shut out and people are fucking ignoring me. You're bad at your jobs and you're barely hanging on. So the fact that you don't put like it is complete bullshit to not respond to someone's email. Bullshit in that way. When someone is

emailing you about a job and you have posted the job, it is bullshit chicken shit. It is wrong. It is bad form. It is bad business and I've worked for really good program directors and the really good program directors I've worked for have told me you respond to those emails. Because guess what? You're all going to be there at some point. In the radio world, someone's going to be out of a job. All these program directors that ignore you and scoff at you don't respond to your emails. They will be out of a job at some point, and they're going to wish that somebody would have responded to their shit, and they want them to respond to their shit. Do unto

others as you will have done to you motherfucker. But of course I'm the one being ignored at this point and yeah I've fucked up and yeah I've done some dumb shit and yeah I've made some mistakes but I've also had to eat shit for the last six years of my life. I've had to eat shit after things ended in Philadelphia and things ended in Houston. I had to sit there from March of 2019 to March of 2021, two fucking years without a radio job, a full-time radio job, and I had to sit around and eat shit and tell program directors how terrible of a human I am. I had to do all of that shit. And now I'm having to spend another nine, ten months eating shit again. I'm not telling you that I'm perfect nor am I telling you that I haven't made mistakes. Look, I am flawed and I've done dumb shit

but I don't deserve, like my stuff I've done does not warrant having somebody ignore me it'd be one thing if I apply for a job and then you just whatever way I Reached out and I've had multiple people reach out say this guy would be great for this job by the way And I got dick in return dick So I apologize for going off But I had this pent up in me like last night when my buddy texted me and was like yeah, I hear that they've hired someone for that job. It just drove me to

**** being like it drove me to insanity yesterday over this. Just raged just rage over it. So it's **** and someone's going to hire me and someone's going gonna fucking workhorse out here that will not sleep until we're making money until we are winning. And then this podcast will benefit from it. The radio will benefit from it and they're all gonna start sucking farts out of my asshole again and telling me how great I am and then I'm gonna tell them all to fuck off. That is my dream. We all

wanna do it like don't we want to do that? Don't like I was thinking about this the other day like sort of kid rock on something the other day talking about how like you know no one wants to impregnate like like no one wants to fuck angry liberal women anyway and it's not like Fox or something and I'm like how empowering is it to know that you can't be canceled because you're your own fucking boss. Dave Ramsey, I was listening to

Dave Ramsey one day. These people were trying to cancel him because he had Trump on or some shit, you know. He's probably half playing this out but he's like, you know, people are trying to cancel me and I said, you can't cancel me. I own the fucking show. That's power. That's dick swinging, man. That's cool. Like how cool is it to just be able to know that like you are your own boss, you are Kid Rock. You're not beholden to some fucking record company. You're not beholden to some publicist and shit. You are Kid Rock and you

do whatever you want to do. You've got fuck you money and everything you do, you do it because you like it and your audience likes it and that's fucking cool. I'll get there at some point. There will come a time where I will just say, I don't give a fuck. But it's all about building up that power. That power is gonna come from when I build a big radio show again, and when we get back to, getting this on video and everything, man.

I appreciate you guys who've been loyal and listening. But like, I'm not pitting myself, I'm not sitting here saying, oh, woe is me. I'm saying everyone who dismisses me and everyone who ignores me, you're on the fucking list and I will remember you people. I will remember you who dismiss me. While you're sitting there barely hanging on to on my phone. I will go back to that list and I will add more fucking people to that list. And by the way, when I was fired, I did come back and I did get to number one in Nashville within a year and if I still be there, I'd still be number one. Of course, I made

the move to Saint Louis and hate myself for it but I did it. Chase the money. But there will come a time, there will come a day, and it's not gonna be in Philadelphia, and it's not gonna be in Houston, because those people ain't fucking answering the phone and fuck them. But there will be a time that I will be back, and it's gonna be sooner rather than later,

and this podcast is gonna benefit it from it, my life is gonna benefit from it, the listeners are gonna benefit from it, and I'm going to be driven, driven for success because the last thing they're going to write about me isn't that, oh, then he moved to St. Louis and failed. That's not what my story is going to have. That's not how it's going to end. It will end in glowing fashion. Bet on it. I love you guys. Have a great day.