The Josh Innes Show - Sarcasm Is Lost On Some

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

I've been posting AI images that people have been sending me related to my coming back to Philly. I also posted a picture of me holding WaWa pretzels as if to say I'm all about Philly. Clearly I'm just having a good time. I enjoy that 99% of the people get it and are laughing with me. I really love that the 1% of people view it as me being desperate for the Philly job. I know I'm not getting the job. But, it's fun to get people involved in the cause. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I appreciate all of the Philly people who are sending me like AI, I've even got Houston people making AI Philly graphics and stuff and I've been posting those and it's funny and I try to tell people this when I talk about the 97.5 job Like I appreciate all of the people who think I should have that you'd be right like it is Idiotic of them to not even consider me for the job, but I truly do not believe they are considering me. I don't know how much they care to win, how much they want to compete, how much they want to just exist. I don't know what their thing is and if I had the chance to talk with them, I'd ask these questions. I legitimately would, but

I don't think I'm ever going to have a chance to talk with them. And I want you to know that I'm not like using you as a joke or a punchline. If you are somebody that wants to hear me on the radio, I truly appreciate that when you're sending the compliments and you're sending the letters to the program director. I appreciate that. I don't believe it's going to have any major impact. I don't know that they'll ever call me back. As I've told you, the program director is someone that I know and I've had phone conversations with.

I just, I don't believe they're ever going to call me back. Dude's on vacation. dude's on vacation. I told you I got an email. I said, I'm on vacation. We've got a lot of applications. Fine. I'm not going to get a call. They may already know who they want to hire. I don't know, but I don't believe I have a chance at that job. But I bring this up because I think most of you who have a brain understand that,, okay, it's a goof, we're kind of having fun with this, whatever. My favorite person is the person that doesn't understand that the stuff I'm doing is just kind of a goof. Like I'm getting messages from people, oh, you look pathetic begging, bro.

What are you begging for, bro? I'm literally not begging. I'm telling people, I think you're making a mistake by not talking to me. That's not begging. That's telling people who are employing that I think you should at least talk to me. I don't believe you should hire me. If you think I'm good, you should, but I think I'm the only one that can get any sort of reaction from people, the kind of reaction you are looking for.

I don't even know if that's the thing. I don't know that that's what they're looking for. They may not be. They may want no reaction or for. I don't even know if that's the things, I don't know that that's what they're looking for. They may not be, they may want no reaction or anything. I don't know, they may already have someone they may be hiring from within, I don't know. But I just like the people, like there are two types of folks when I'm doing this. First off, let me play a couple commercials

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telling you that I legitimately did that. I'm not telling you that as a joke. This isn't like a bit in that regard. I'm also not serious. I'm not seriously believing I can get the job. I truly don't believe I have any chance of getting hired for that job, right? So, I'm legit applying for it. I'm legit putting my name out there. I'm legit doing all of this, but I also legitimately do not believe I have a chance to get it, but I've been honest with you guys about that

upfront. Everything that I'm doing in this quest here, I'm being very upfront with you about. So, when I tell you that I got a in this quest here, I'm being very upfront with you about. So when I tell you that I got a response email that says I'm on vacation, I've got 100 applications, that's the response email I got about that job, and that is it. I'm being God's honest with you about that. When I tell you that I'm applying for the job, I did.

I applied for the job. When I tell you that I took a screenshot of all the positive comments that people sent me and I sent it to the PD, I did. I applied for the job. When I tell you that I took a screenshot of all the positive comments that people sent me and I sent it to the PD, I did that. But I'm not begging. If you want to go to a point where it was far more pathetic, like I don't view what I'm doing now, like I would tell you if I thought this was pathetic. This is me just having fun on the podcast, trying to get a couple of McDougals

maybe to come over and listen to the podcast. It's also been nice to get a shitload of positive comments from people to be totally honest with you. It's pretty fucking cool to know that there were a lot of people in Philadelphia who didn't think I was dog shit or now miss me on the radio there and that was nine fucking years ago and I am getting messages from people that are referencing bits that I don't remember doing but they had some sort of impact on them that I don't

even remember doing them and people thought they were great. So I appreciate that. So that's kind of why I'm doing that. It's just nice. It's nice every now and then to be told, hey, you don't suck at something when you've been out of a job for nine fucking months and you've been turned down for jobs or you don't get calls back for jobs. It's nice when you have people that you thought you were scum don't necessarily think you're scum. And I like that. And I appreciate that. And that's very nice of them. Therefore, I am retweeting these people and stuff. Then you'll get people who don't follow me at all. And they just see my name pop up and they respond to something

about how I suck and ha ha. But the people that I enjoy the most are the ones who don't realize, like when I'm posting like this AI image that somebody sent of me wearing a Make Philly Radio Grating In shirt, I'm not doing that in seriousness. I'm just doing that because I think it's funny. I think it's funny when someone AI, AI generates a picture of me in a fucking mummers costume, holding a hoagie like a cigar in front of the Rocky statue. That's funny to me. I'm not doing that. Let's put it this way. I don't believe that if a program director sees that, they're going to go, listen, I wasn't going to consider Josh for this job, but now that there's an AI generated image of him with a hoagie as a cigar,

we've got to call him. Like I'm not doing that because I believe that's going to help anything. I'm just doing it because it's fun. But last night I posted a picture, this is an old picture, this is probably from 2018, a picture of me in a hotel room holding two wah-wah pretzels wearing an eagle shirt. I went through my phone trying to find like me in like stereotypical Philly shit and that's what I found. So I posted that and I say like hey 97.5 what's more Philly than this? Fully aware that it's just stereotypical shit. It's the kind of shit that like idiots fall for if they want to fall for it right? If they want to like you. If somebody listening to you on the radio wants to like you and you say, I love the Wawa pretzels, they're like,

yeah, this guy gets us. I'm fully aware that holding two fucking pretzels from a convenience store in no way makes you super filly or anything like that. I just found it to be amusing and I'm just kind of trolling essentially. I'm trolling the 975 account which more than likely has me blocked anyway. I'd be shocked if they don't. So I'm just doing that. Just honestly, I'm just doing that to get engagement from people and shoot the shit and retweet some people. That's all I'm doing.

But the people that take it seriously like, bro you fucking suck and nobody in Philly even likes Wawa pretzels. They taste like shit. Like cool. Like I'm not doing this to me. It's just funny to watch like legit McDougals get angry. Most people get it and I'm not doing this to make fun of the people who are fans or anything. Like I appreciate that you want to have me back and I would come back there if they wanted to hire me. I would if the job was right and everything like that. I also know that it's not going to happen. I'm 100% certain that it's not going to happen. I saw that Crossing Broad posted today because now

they're starting to post more radio stories and apparently Mike Missanelli on his show spent like 20 minutes talking about why he doesn't talk about hockey. And by the way hockey is a difficult sport to talk about on the radio and it's not a great hot. It's not a great talking sport like here in Saint Louis. They do it, but it's not a great sport for radio conversation. But anyway, when someone spends time on a show discussing why they're not going to discuss something. That means they are ill prepared and all they're hoping for is that,

and hockey is kind of like soccer fan in this way too, and that they'll get very passionate about their product. And if you say you don't watch it, you say that it's terrible, they'll get very angry, very worked up, and they will reach out and they'll call. And that is the lifeblood of these dipshits on the radio in Philadelphia is calls, because they're not interesting enough to carry on a

conversation or keep people engaged. Not to say that you shouldn't have phone calls, but you shouldn't do a show with the desire to do nothing but take phone calls. Phone calls should be there to help move the program along and should help you have someone to riff off of. They should not be something you are dependent upon. The good news for most people on the radio in Philly is someone is always on the phone waiting to talk because they're lunatics and like the second you turn on the mic there's 10 phone calls ready to fucking

go. But when someone goes on the air, this is a radio trick, when someone goes on the air and someone explains to you why they're not going to discuss a topic and you go, wow you've spent 20 minutes talking about why you're not going to talk about this topic. They're doing that because they have nothing else to talk about and they are dependent upon you, like the diehard hockey fan who feels offended and slighted because their team has never talked about on the radio, they want you to then call up and bitch about it so you carry the show. It's pretty simple, right? So that's the stage we're at right now.

This is your big gun. This is the key cog in your radio wheel at 97.5 is a guy who you were so desperate to bring back after they whacked him the first time. You're so desperate to bring him back that his A game here is, here's what're going to do. We're going to explain to the hockey dweebs why we don't talk about hockey because I know they'll call and they'll do my job for me for four hours. That

is what you're paying for. So like to me, someone actually sent me a message and they said you're beneath what they do there. And look, I'm an unemployed dipshit sitting in my underwear doing a podcast right now, right? So am I above or beneath a lot of shit? Probably not at this point. But I think that my radio ability is far greater than sitting there explaining to people why

I'm not going to talk about something just for the purpose of having them call and not like in an entertaining way. Like, and I'm not trying to say this to like skirt this and you know, and absolve myself. But like when I would do bits like that, like, well, one day we did a bit where it was like, Mike Trout or Jesus was a game that we were playing. I was really into Billy on the street at that time. So it's like a rapid fire game. And like, you would have to tell us if Mike Trout did this or Jesus did this. Cause everybody in Philly was obsessed with Mike fucking Trout.

And so we did that and it got people calling. And yes, like, but at least it's entertaining. And there's a group of people who are in on it that are like, this is fucking good shit. There's nobody in on a joke. Cause there is no joke. And you just saying, we don't talk about hockey cause hockey is blank, blank and blank. And then hockey dipshits calling yell at you and

try to explain to you why you should watch hockey. That's not amusing, that's not comedy, that's not humor. That's just a lazy old dude sitting around collecting a check. How big that check is I don't know but he's sitting around collecting that check. Also, another interesting thing, and again, if I were serious about getting this job, do you think I'd be breaking this down right now? Not really. I know they're not going to give me the job. But I found this interesting. So on Missinelli's Twitter, which I am blocked by the way, but he's got a link to a website, which apparently his website is MikeMiss.com. And apparently, so the dude's got a true crime podcast, apparently too. I didn't know this.

But let's see. Mike Miss is the website. When you go to his website, this is interesting. On the front page, notice of website termination. This website, MikeMiss.com, is no longer active and will be permanently terminated soon. The owners of this website will be pursuing legal action against Mike Missinelli for unpaid balances related to the breach of a website services agreement, as well as for his actions concerning a third party service provider. So whoever this is, is suing Mike Missanelli and I would like to know what he did towards a third party service provider. The fact that this guy continues to exist baffles me. And the fact that I had to try to

grovel to this fucking guy also baffles me. I have said a lot of dumb shit on the radio and I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of. Or not even not proud of, just things I look back on and go that was fucking stupid, you doofus. But having to email Mike Missanelli and be like, hey bro, I'd like to come work at the station and you know, and sitting there, oh God, I hate myself.

It is the worst thing I've ever done. And ugh, but apparently this guy's being sued for... Oh wow, this is great. On this website, the mic behind the mic, a timeline of notable moments, a look back at Mike's most infamous moments in sports radio and beyond. I wonder what these are. Like, I wonder if the person posted this on this site. I wonder if this is legit or if the people are posting all of this. I don't know, okay, they have to be doing this. So here's

what I think is, oh, this is fantastic. So what's happening on this website then is the person that owns the website is now just using this website to post videos of Mike Missanelli getting like in his horrible stories like bad stories about Mike Missanelli. Oh interesting so that has to be what they're doing then so that's fun so this whole thing is just drama. A look back at some of Mike's most obnoxious, outrageous, and controversial moments. Like they're... that's fun. So was this originally a Mike Missanelli website that he didn't pay? And then... so he didn't pay this guy or something and now they just use this

site to bag on him I guess. So there you go. And that guy runs that radio station and might be the reason why I wouldn't be able to work there which again 100% I will not be working there I feel pretty confident about that. But again I'll let you know if I ever have a conversation with him.