The Josh Innes Show - Random Text Message

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

Last night I was sitting on the couch, watching TV and I got a text from a random number. What was strange is this text was specifically about me and my new job. But, I have no clue who the person was. When I responded, I got a bounce back that said the number was no longer in service. It was strange. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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where the radio station is, or really, again, if you follow my Instagram and you've looked at any of my stories lately, you'll see things and you'll go, oh, that tracks, I know where Josh is. So I just can't give you all the full on details on what the show is or what the radio station is or any of that. But I can tell you that it's a really cool situation and a really cool radio station. And I'm working for really cool people. And it's cool. Like it's just a really cool thing. I met salespeople today and it look I'm very excited about it and And I think it's going to be awesome

Now I i'm going to do this i'm going to play some commercials here and i'm going to read you a text message that I got Last night from somebody No clue who this person is. I don't have any clue who this person is And then I I got this text from somebody About the show whatever. It was kind of an ass, it was like a backhanded compliment kind of asshole text that I got from someone from an unknown number. I sent a response back and then it shows up as this phone number is no longer in service. So I'm going to read you this text message though and then we'll

get moving here. So play some commercials then I'll get you the text message after these words. Alright, so here's what we got. This text message, I'm sitting on the couch last night, I'm betting on summer league basketball and random soccer, watching some stories on TV and I get this text message at 10 47 PM. So that's 10 47 PM. I get this text message and it says good luck on the new job. Now this is important to note. I get a lot of text messages from numbers I don't recognize because I really suck at saving numbers. Like I just now saved my new boss's phone number like two days ago. Like I just don't save phone numbers. It's weird.

I don't know if I view it as sort of a challenge to remember who the person is, or maybe I only talked to the person once or twice and didn't think to save it. Or maybe it's someone who I just don't care. So I don't save it. Like there's a multitude of reasons, but I've just, I don't say phone numbers that often, whatever, but I get this text. So it's not uncommon for me to get a text message from somebody and it be from a number I don't recognize and then I'm like, shit, who is this person?

I don't know what this person does, who this person is. I'll hopefully see old texts from that person that will kind of give me a clue as to who the person is, but rarely does it work out that way because usually it's a number I've deleted a text from and then I'll get a random text. It'll be from a Philadelphia number and or it'll either come from a Philadelphia area code or a Pennsylvania area code or it'll come from an area code in Houston. This one I believe is a Houston area code because it's three four six and I think three four six is one that is out of Houston I think But it says good luck on the new job, but all those same sentiments you were said you were excited

We've let me reread this kind of poorly written good luck on the new job. That's a solid start Good luck on the new job. Well, thanks random person. I appreciate that But all those same sentiments where you said you were excited. We've heard that from you before You've said this every opportunity that you've gotten now the key here is if this doesn't work out Don't shit on the station because right now you're excited I don't know what that means and I think to be fair and there's more to this text but to be fair I don't think I've done a ton of shitting on the last couple of places I've worked. Like I've talked about St. Louis, I haven't shit on where I've worked in terms of the

radio station. I'm not a huge fan of the city per se as much as I thought I was going to be. It was a bad situation in that I didn't fit, I didn't make sense. I explained that to the salespeople at this meeting today because I can see if you're, you know, someone seeing a new guy come into a radio station and you're like, well, two years ago you took a job here. Two years before that you were in Nashville. Why, why is this happening? Why do you keep bouncing from place to place? What's the deal? You know, and I'd say that that's a fair question, right? And I wouldn't knock anybody for asking that and I explained to them that I thought st. Louis was going to be a dream job it was fine I didn't dislike a ton of the people I

don't think they were total assholes I don't I just don't think I think they got excited at the idea after sitting down having some booze with me and about what things could be I think they envisioned me as sort of a morning drive guy, but a morning drive thing never came to fruition. I kind of pressed the issue on it, said I'll do afternoons. That's on me. But that's just kind of how it went. It just wasn't an ideal scenario.

It wasn't a great scenario. And me doing afternoons on a music radio station, on a radio station, that it was a bunch of, that has a music radio station on a radio station that it was a bunch of that has a heritage a 60 year old station that has a bunch of old people listening that are used to it being one certain way. It didn't make sense right but I don't think I've said a ton of awful shit about the place I worked I've done taking some shots at St. Louis but as it turns out St. Louis was a shithole. It's not on the upswing. There's some great things about St. Louis. Solid Chinese food, solid park

situation, the greatest park I've ever been to, Forest Park. It's beautiful. It's gorgeous. Like there are some things about St. Louis that are fine. It just turned out that it wasn't what I remembered it being when I was a kid. I had this grand vision of St. Louis in my head and it's not good and it's not getting any better, right? So it just wasn't a very cool place to me But that said I don't think I've gone over the top and shitting on the people who employed me in st Louis because as we've discussed I am someone who can be fair about the decisions I make and

I can be fair about whether or not or basically I can give you a fair analysis of what I think was my fault what I Think was their fault versus what I think was their fault and where I think we're both at fault I think I'm fair about that kind of shit So when I read this text message that says don't shit on them if it doesn't work out and if it does Go fill out for a job. Okay, hold on now the key here is if this doesn't work out Don't shit on the station because right now you're excited. Okay, so I get what the person's saying. So if it doesn't work out, don't shit on the station because at this moment you're excited and saying all this great

shit. So basically you're saying I'm a hypocrite. You're saying that I go into these situations and I say I'm excited about these jobs, then they don't work out and then I shit on them. I don't think this person has a true concept of how the world fucking works. Like there are people that have been married eight times, seven times, six times. There's people that have been married multiple times. Each time those people get married, they think that it's a great situation and they're in love with the person that they are marrying and they think it's going to last for fucking ever. That's why they're getting married. They love that person. Then it turns out it didn't work out. Your opinion is going to change of these situations. That's the thing that I find funny

about comments like that because I think what this person is trying to insinuate is, oh, you're a hypocrite. Oh, you say you love these things. Every job you take, you say you love it. And then you end up going somewhere else. And then when you do, you shit on the situation. Well, first of all, that's not accurate because after 790 I did shit on that situation because I thought that was a shitty situation I went to 97 5 and in Houston for a year is kind of a part-time thing and I enjoyed it very much and I Haven't said anything bad about them. I go to Nashville I still have a very good relationship with everybody in Nashville and arguably like I was almost Uncomfortable with how much people liked me there in the building because I'm not used to that. I'm uncomfortable with that

So Nashville I had no negative things and I still text with the boss there. He's come on this podcast I text with battle who I worked with there I have no issues with anything in Nashville and st. Louis if we're being fair I haven't said a ton of shit about the radio station. I worked for there I didn't think it was a great scenario for me. Once I got there and it was going well for a while, then it wasn't going as well and I just didn't have that feeling that things were going well with it. But it just didn't make sense and it wasn't the right situation for me. But I don't think I've come out here and said a bunch of horrible shit

about them either. See, that's like, so I disagree with that. And then the idea that, oh, you're excited about this shit now, but you're excited about every job. Yes, every job I've taken, I've been excited about because every job could be the last one. And by that, I mean, it could be the job that you're at for 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, or in my case, it could be the job you're at for a year, three years, one year. But like, you don't know that going in.

Right now, you are accurate random person who texted me who I don't know and then I couldn't text you back because I don't know if you blocked me or if it's some thing you use to send texts from anonymous numbers. But like, you're not wrong when you say you go into every job thinking it's gonna be great. Yeah, I do.

I went into St. Louis thinking that St. Louis was gonna be the last job I it's going to be great. Yeah, I do I went into st. Louis thinking that st. Louis was going to be the last job I was ever going to have That was my thought set Our mindset and and that's how you have to go into virtually everything you do in life Don't you you have to go to everything you do in life thinking this will be the last job This will be the last relationship. This will be the last whatever So, of course, I went into it thinking that way you should go into shit Thinking that way because that's what you do The people that have been married five times I guarantee you the first second third fourth and fifth time they went into that thinking

You know what this is gonna be the last time I get married. I am in love and Then it doesn't work out, but it doesn't make them hypocrites. It doesn't make them wrong It doesn't make them hypocrites, it doesn't make them wrong, it doesn't make them bad people, shit changes. Anytime you take a job, all you're seeing about that job is what they're showing you on the outside and all they know about you is what you're showing them on the outside. They're not dealing with you on a day to day basis. You are in a bachelor situation where you're trying to show the absolute best about yourself to try to win or to try to get laid

or try to make somebody love you or to get a job. Like, of course that's what you're doing. So when you go into scenarios like that, you have the best mindset, but you're also kind of at your most full of shit. You're seeing the very best of someone. You're not seeing the warts, you're not seeing the behind the scenes,

you're not seeing them on a day-to-day basis. So like this idea that somehow I'm a dipshit or I am a hypocrite or I'm whatever because I go into situations loving them and then at times I've come out of them and said that they're bad situations. That's natural, that's shit that happens to everybody. So anyway, let's continue.

Let's see, if it doesn't work out, fill out a job application for UPS but hopefully it works out. Well thank you I appreciate that. And by the way you and your wife are almost 40. Start investing some shit and save your money. Better y'all live life like college children okay. Let's grow up and stop glorifying drinking all the fucking time. Best of luck." And then they claim that they've seen where I am because of Reddit. There is no...I've not seen one Reddit thread saying where I live because no one gives a shit to fill out a Reddit about where I live or to have some sort of Reddit thread about where I live.

Go follow my Instagram and you'll be able to see pictures and shit that will piece it together for you. I'm just trying to be respectful of the people who've employed me now and not go out there and just spill the beans on everything totally outwardly until they can. But first of all, yeah, you're right. I should have more money saved. But what happened friend is when the Rona happened and I had a bunch of money saved because I was making a shitload of money more money than I should have been making. Like I went back and looked at some of my pay stubs because they were in the workday app and I had to use the workday app for this current job. So it had some of my old pay stubs and this is base pay we're talking about here well into six figures at 790. You know, so

I made a lot of money and guess what? There were months that I was just putting away like $4,000, like that was kind of how my, I think it's how it was set up. Like every month, $2,000, I wouldn't even know. I made so much money doing that job that I didn't even know how much money I had or how much money I was making.

$2,000 would go out to this account, money would go to this account and I was never hurting for cash. You want something regrettable? It's regrettable to have a job where you're making that kind of money and then you're just kind of like, I don't really give a shit. I'll piss this job away. That was stupid. But then the Rona happened and I had to use a lot of that cash. Then I went to Nashville and I wasn't making nearly as much money as I was making there and had to use a lot of that cash now granted I am an irresponsible person financially and I get that I've had a couple of cars repossessed back in my youth, right? I

You know I get that so you're not wrong Whoever this random person is who's trying to dissect me like Sigmund Freud here But the idea that oh stop glorifying drinking First off, I don't glorify drinking, but I like to fucking drink beer. I'm an adult guy, I like to spend my weekends drinking some beers, usually domestic, delicious, frothy, bush lights. I like to drink my beer, I like to play Yahtzee,

I like to bet on some sports, and that's what I do. So like the idea that I'm glorifying drinking, yeah, I am in a way way because I like to fucking drink. Tough shit. Like that doesn't make me some sort of man child. I don't have fucking kids. Look, if I had kids and everything else and you're like, Josh, you're sitting around, you ain't got a fucking dime and you're getting hammered all the time. If I had kids and that were an issue, then I'd tell you, yeah, maybe I'm an irresponsible piece of shit. However, I'm an adult guy. I'm 38, almost 39 years old.

I don't have any kids. I have a dog. That's why I can move around from place to place. I don't have a lot of responsibility in that way. But the idea that somehow I'm like, like some turd of a human, some irresponsible turd of a human because I like to drink beer, go to ball games, like don't lecture me, whoever the fuck you are. I don't know who you are. You're clearly somebody who's listened to the podcast before, you're clearly somebody who knows something about the show, you're clearly somebody who's listened to me somewhere and followed me somewhere, but I don't need to be fucking lectured by some anonymous shitbag who sends me a random text from a random fucking number at 1047

pm and then when I respond it's, oh this number's no longer in in service which means it could have been a fake number probably a fake number maybe a Google number I don't know or or this person blocked me after they sent this text but whoever you are some of what you said was valid but I have gone back to everything you've said and I've given you a response to everything you've said so I don't need to be lectured by some shit head who randomly texts me in the middle of the night. So fuck off with that. Appreciate you listening. Don't need to be lectured by you.

I'll drink beer if I wanna fucking drink beer. I'm a grown ass man and we go around this merry go round one fucking time and then we're out. We go around this merry go round one time and then we're done. Might as well do shit you enjoy. I enjoy. Look, I don't have kids. I don't have that kind of responsibility. So I can drink beer. Last night I went to Kroger, bought a 15 pack of Molson. We sat on the couch, drank a couple of Molsons, which are delicious by the way, had a couple of

Molsons and watched Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That's what we did and that's what I can do and that's what I choose to do because I'm an adult and I can do whatever the fuck I want to do. So feel free to judge, feel free to shit on me. I don't care, I just felt that I wanted to respond to that text message because I found the idea that somebody like I get my numbers probably online or it's someone I could have text with before who knows but whoever this person is, it's like, bro, like, first of all, text better. Second of all, I appreciate you wishing me best of luck. I appreciate you, and you're not wrong in your sentiment

that hey, you go out and you love every job. Yes, no shit, Sherlock. Every job seems fucking great when you take it. Doesn't mean every job works out great. Anywho, more to come.