The Josh Innes Show - Side Hustle

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

I apologize for the lack of episodes on Friday. I started a new side hustle and wasn't able to get the pods recorded. What is that new side hustle? Door Dash. That's right, 6 months ago I was on KSHE 95 and now I'm delivering Taco Bell to college girls. Life comes at you fast. You know, it's not really that bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is Monday about 10 o'clock, and I apologize that there was no podcast on Friday. I had intentions of doing podcasts on Friday. I had intentions of doing podcasts on Friday. I actually had this real kind of, I don't know if you'd say it's a unique idea. I don't know that I would define it or decide, oh, this is unique, but I had a plan, right? I had a plan to do the podcasts while in the car. Why was I in the car? Well, I was in the car because on Friday, I was on my way over to Illinois to the office as it were. And I've just had a shitty stretch on my foreign hockey. My foreign hockey had been doing very well. And then it's just fallen off a cliff and it started to piss me off. So I'm over in Illinois and I'm like, I got to find something to do because last Wednesday, uh, was my last severance check from Casey. So I'm just kind of like, what do I do? I've applied

for this job in Houston. Uh, we've kind of given ourselves about two months. We're going to see if anything comes of this job. I've got to start here. I've got every person you can imagine trying to reach out to these people in Houston to let them know that I'm the right person for this job. I'm finding anybody who has any ties to the program director, anybody that has any ties to the GM. They all want to reach out on my behalf because they like me for whatever reason. And, um, which is pretty crazy because everything you hear about me is that everybody in the world thinks I'm a scumbag and that, you know, Oh, this guy was horrible and he was horrible here and horrible here. Yet. I've got so many people that I worked

with that are so willing to, to reach out to people they know and be like, you need to hire this guy. This is the perfect scenario. This is the perfect job. And it really is like at this point, there's not a ton of jobs that are open out there in radio right now. Anyway, some I've applied for some I haven't applied for. Um, the one I applied for in Orlando, I've never heard anything back. And I reached out multiple times like, Hey, there's a morning show opening in Orlando. Do I really want to move to Orlando? Not particularly, but what I moved to Orlando at this point, because it's a job and it's not snowing? Sure.

Why not? You know? So, I mean, some jobs like that you apply for and you know that you're overqualified. Jilly is of the belief that I'm over, or people will view my resume and think that I'm overqualified or too expensive for some of these jobs. And then, like, we'll never reach out. Who knows? I have yet to talk with anybody from this radio station in Houston. But from what I've been told by people who've talked to people there is it's going to be kind of a long process. They're not in any hurry, which is hard when you're someone who is in a hurry because the well just ran dry and you're looking for your next thing.

So essentially, we have given ourselves about two months because I got another month on the lease in this place. And then I'll probably do one more month after that. And the goal is to be somewhere, whether it's in radio, out of radio, or whatever, is be somewhere by May. Just make a decision at the end of April, like we're going here. I've talked to people in Houston about jobs that aren't radio jobs, you know, and then just continue podcasting. I got people that want to invest in podcast stuff there, which is really cool, which, you know, obviously that can't be my full-time gig at this point in life. But I've been also talking to people there about full-time

jobs that aren't radio jobs, jobs that have benefits, jobs that have, you know, two weeks, every two weeks you're getting paid and you're not, you know, living your life concerned about whether or not someone's going to buy ads on the podcast or if the donos are coming in on a podcast, you know. It's nice to have those as kind of, you know, an extra type of thing, but I do want to find a job. So this Houston job is perfect. Anybody who knows me knows the Houston job is perfect. Anybody who's ever known anything about me and about my history in Houston knows it's perfect. Anybody who knows me knows the Houston job is perfect. Anybody who's ever known anything about me and about my history in Houston knows it's perfect. I got dudes that work at the radio station in that company that are big fans. There was a, um, there's a kid there that now

does mid days on 93 Q and he does a hell of a job. He's very good. Dude wanted to get into radio because he listened to me, Jim and Jilly on 790. You know, dude, I'm sending messages to anybody I've ever had contact with to throw in a good word for me, like legendary people in Houston media. Like, Hey, like, you know, this person speak highly of me because I know I'm perfect for the job. Like, that's the hard part. Like I was talking with a buddy of mine the other day, a radio guy. And I'm like, listen, if this is a job that I know I could do, but I'm not perfect for, I'm not as passionate.

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So I planned on doing multiple podcasts from the car on Friday because on Friday I got a wild hair up my ass, a wild bug up my ass, whatever couple extra bucks door dashing. And for whatever reason, I'm like, no, I'm not going to do that. Like, I'm the dude that's on the radio. People are going to know who I am. I'm going to be like Elvin when Elvin ended up working at Whole Foods. And it's like, you know, people are going to mock me and be like, boy, what a fucking loser. You were, you know, WIP and KC 95 and all this. And now you're an asshole that's out there driving door dash. Right.

And so I was never going to do it but then on Friday I'm over in Illinois and I'm like fuck so I signed up for it and I got approved like really fast to be a door dasher there's not a ton you have to go through like yes you have to tell them like everything about your life and your your social security number and a picture of your license so if they're just out here trying to steal identities, it's a hell of a job on their part. But, um, I said, fuck it. I'm just going to sign up. And I wasn't actually going to do anything. I was still going to go to the mall and try to put in some bets. And I've just been blowing tons of my gambling winnings, losing, like sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're not. And I was just really pissed off about it.

So at one point I'm over in Illinois and I open up the DoorDash app and I don't really know how to do anything so there's a button that says dash now I'm like all right whatever so I hit dash now and almost instantly a little ding comes in ding ding uh order for Donnell at um order for Donnell or Donnell at uh at uh chick-fil-a and i was literally driving by the chick-fil-a and it's like do you want to accept this order and i'm like ah fuck it why not boom i hit the button i've never door dashed i don't know how the process works but i'm like it can't be that difficult this can't be like brain surgery here it can't be that hard so I pull into the um Chick-fil-a like I don't know what to do I walk in I walk up to the counter I'm like hey I'm DoorDash and they're like what's the name I'm like I look at Donnell is the name and they're like

okay here it is like show us uh we need proof show us uh the name on the phone. So I showed them that it was for Don L. And boom, I've got this person's food and it's in my car. And I'm like, shit. So then you hit another button, which will give you the direction. It's really a solid system. It makes it easy for the person that drives it. You just hit the button and then it gives you the directions. It gives you the directions to the place to pick up the food, instantly give you the directions to go to the other place. And I'm like 10 miles away. I'm like, Jesus, why would you order Chick-fil-A 10 miles away? By the time this shit gets to you, it's going to be like cold. And you know, since the bag is all kind of like folded up and closed, it's just going to be steamy and like the foods,

but whatever, if that's what you want to do, Don L let's go. So I follow the directions all the way to this place. And, uh, I pull up major upset, by the way, the way to this place, and I pull up. Major upset, by the way. I was anticipating this person to be Donnell, and I was assuming, hey, this is probably some black guy named Donnell that wants his Chick-fil-A. Upset. It was a middle-aged white woman, woman that looks like she probably listened to me on KC95. And I pull up to her place of business. It wasn't a residence. It

was a business. I don't even know what the place was. It looks like it was in an old Walgreens that they converted to something else. And I pull up, I get out of the car, I bring it up. She's there. And she goes, well, you know, babe, next time you can just pull right up to the door. I'm like, okay, thank you. And I'm guessing her name was Donnell. I don't think it was Donnell. Like Donnell kind of has like an ethnic sound. Like, oh, that's Donnell. Like he and I play basketball at the park. You know, Donnell, I guess can kind of be some lady that works at like, you know, as

a secretary at a logistics place. I don't know. But like, that's kind of what it was, you know? And I delivered my first door dash and and made $8.50, right? Now, she actually left a tip. That's all tip included, right? So I'm like, okay, this is fairly easy. So then I had to try to learn how it works.

And there's like little areas on the maps and shit where like there's little flames. And if you go to the area where the flame is, that's like a hot area and as long as you've got your gps on on the app they can send you you know the option to accept a door dash so i go over and i'm like all right i'll go to where this flame is so i like pull up to like a fucking a dilapidated closed down joe's crab shack in illinois and ding ding ding another thing goes off. And it's like, hey, do you want to pick up this person's sushi order at this hibachi place? I'm like, sure, why not? So I go do that and drop it off at their house. This was a person that just wanted you

to leave it on the door. So you leave it at their door and you take a picture of it and shit. Did that, made like another eight bucks. So I just kept doing it. And on the first day I did this, as a door dashing person, I made like a hundred dollars. Now, I don't know how much gas I use.

And next time I would do it, I'm not going to go over to Illinois, which is, you know, a 40 mile drive to and from. I'll just stick around my neighborhood, which has a lot of opportunities for shit. But that was Friday. And I ended up doing like 10 door dashes and made like a hundred dollars. Now, some of these motherfuckers, let me tell you, like this kind of gives you perspective on things, right? Cause like, I didn't realize you could click on it and see like what the tip was.

I just thought like, okay, I just made $9, whatever. Some of these little motherfuckers don't tip. And like, I'm, I'm a generous tipper. I've been accused of being too nice of a tipper. Like generally speaking, it doesn't matter what the bill is. We're more, we'reipper. I've been accused of being too nice of a tipper. Like generally speaking, it doesn't matter what the bill is, we're somewhere, I just give $10. Like I'm a nice guy.

You give a little love, maybe it all comes back to you, right? So that's kind of like the way I view things. So I'm like, all right, if our lunch was $17 and whatever, and people are late. Now, I'm not leaving a $10 tip if it's something we went to pick up,

but like if it's a restaurant and we have a waiter and the waiter's doing whatever, I leave $10. Generally speaking, because those people are working their asses off. They're trying to make ends meet. As some jabroni who now sits around in his underwear and does a podcast and has to deal with the unemployment office and has to try to drive DoorDash to try to survive for the next couple of months until hopefully this other job pops, I have a respect for what these people have to do and what they have to go through trying to make ends meet in the service industry because at the moment i am in the service industry i'm like look in basically you know what i am right now i'm like that i'm like the reba song i'm like fucking i'm a survivor that's me right now i'm like i'm a single mom who works two jobs and loves her kids and never

stops with a gentle hand in the heart of a fighter i'm a survivor and that's what I am right now they should write books about me I'm like someone they should teach about in classes this is a guy that was on top of the fucking world now he's out driving uber okay not uber I'm not driving uber I ain't picking up strangers in my car but I will pick up strangers food and deliver it to their doorstep but anyway so um no some of these people like i drove the longest drive i had to make first of all i had to go to multiple trailer parks and these trailer parks are occupied by a lot of people who smell like weed to give you a z dog quote uh they smell like weed so like it's like two in the afternoon and like

some guy's cat is out on his porch of his trailer and he like rolls out he's like hey man you got the culvers like sure that was a long ass drive and that drive included like a like a concrete so uh that was one now some of them work out really well where you're in one area and you're hitting like like in 10 minutes it feels like you're doing two or three of them and that's where you make the money i had to make a long ass drive to edwardsville illinois where southern illinois university edwardsville is located and i had to drop off food at a dorm all right bring it to the scouts order papa people love to order fried chicken on this door dash i'd say over half of the ones i made two were Popeye's one was KFC one was crispy crunchy chicken in this this jank ass gas station called like Wally's fucking shack or some shit and there was a crispy crunchy chicken um so I got

that what was interesting though is the place seemed like really suspect but the people working at it were all like Indian people but anyway so I go in there and I you know click there's one of those kinds of places where there's fried chicken, but there's also like drug paraphernalia that they can't call drug paraphernalia. So it's like you walk in and you're like, I'll get to some crispy, crunchy chicken. Let me get an eight piece and four biscuits. I'll also get that bong. That's not a bong. And can I get a couple of packs of those trucker speed pills? And you go in there and you do that i think the guy's name was leroy it went wally was leroy place was called leroy's market so then i go in there and get that i drive uh and then so i went to like three different fried chicken joints for door dash i

did chick-fil-a i did an asian restaurant i've been to this seafood place the car still smells like fucking crab boil but i drive all the the way out to Southern Illinois university and bring this girl, her Popeye's. This was like my longest drive of the day. It was like, you know, 10, 12 miles. Get out there. I, when I figure out how to look at the app and see what the money sitch is, this bitch didn't leave a tip. So I'm happy for you that you're in college and you're going to get your little degree. And trust me when I'm sitting there, I was holding the door for this group of people that I guess were prospective students you know they were all like on a tour of SIU Edwardsville and I'm holding the door and I'm like god damn it this is embarrassing I'm sitting here holding somebody's fucking Popeyes holding the door for all of these future leaders of industry that are

walking through here but then it occurred to me that their degree is going to be mostly useless and after they've paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans, they're also going to be out here delivering DoorDash to another generation of SIUE students. So up your nose with a rubber hose. So just know, gal who I delivered that Popeyes to, if you're listening, that just because you have a degree doesn't mean you're not better than me. And you're probably going to be delivering DoorDash as well. But ultimately, I made like $100 that first night doing it, and then I just randomly was doing it on Saturday because I had a couple hours to kill.

I made like another $50 just driving around. Now, I haven't calculated anything or done a mileage thing. Today, I'm going to try that, but the problem is, from the category of when it rains it pours our tire ended up flat so i took it over to one of these tire plates they said oh we patched it up i said cool i like the second i pick up the car the fucking tire light was on so i go back in i'm like dude the tire light's still on and he's like oh it'll turn off uh what do you have a sonata yeah they'll turn off a What do you have, a Sonata? Yeah, they'll turn off in a second.

No, I'm like, no, motherfucker. I fill up these tires all the time. The light goes off when the PSI is over 32. So they go out and the guy goes, well, I must have forgot to fill that tire. So he fills it up and I'm like, all right, cool. Drive and I go about, I'm door dashing a little bit. Tire goes flat on me again, and the light comes on.

So I take it to another place the next day on Sunday, and they're like, no, I think they just fucked up the patch, bro, but you need a new tire. We can't repair someone else's fuck up. So now I had to order a new tire, and I'm waiting on that so I can hit the streets and do door dashing. Met a nice lady. She was wearing her blues gear.

I dropped her Taco Bell off, and she's like go blues i'm like yep go blues indeed ma'am oh i delivered to an old folks home that was something um do this some old broad really wanted like crabs and shit which i mean she may have already had them but i'm bump but i went to this like crab place and like my car smells like crabs now. Actually, it's a pleasant smell. It drives Ross nuts. But yeah, so my plan is to keep DoorDash. And back to the reason why I didn't have a podcast on Friday. So on Friday, I brought the laptop and the microphone with plans of recording, you know, like a chronicle of my first day doing DoorDash.

And I got through about seven minutes, and then the computer just shut down on me and fucked up. And I'm like, I'm not going to do this. Plus, it was difficult driving while in one hand holding the phone that had the directions where I needed to go, and in the other hand holding the microphone. That did not leave a hand for the steering wheel. Now, I may post the seven minutes, because at least you can get a real-time kind of perspective on what it was like making the first delivery with DoorDash. Now, it's only seven minutes. I'll post it for you as kind of a companion to this podcast. But all that to tell you this, there's no shame in DoorDash. There's no shame in doing a lot of stuff. You're out there. People

need food. You're delivering the food. There there's no shame but there is an element of shame involved when you went from being a six-figure radio guy to driving doordash there is a little element of shame if we're being honest whenever your former producer works for michael berry and he sends you a a link to a house he just bought and it's a fucking mcmansion and it's got like an outdoor kitchen it's literally your dream house. And your producer, your former producer, is now living that life. And you're like, what? Now, it's a true role reversal.

It's like my former producer, Jim, who I love dearly. I'm not shitting on him or anything. But like Jim used to deliver pizzas and do a lot of other things to make ends meet. Now Jim lives in a fucking McMansion out in Porter. He's going to be moving into this fucking McMansion. Giant fucking house. Outdoor kitchen. It's got a stove outside. It's got a covered patio. It's got a big backyard. porter or he's going to be moving into this fucking McMansion giant fucking house outdoor

kitchen it's got a stove outside it's got a covered patio it's got a big backyard for he and his wife because he's making fucking bank working for Michael Berry who by the way used to listen to our show and text every morning about how good the show was on 790 and now here I am in a weird cats in the cradle my boy was just like me. I'm the one now driving fucking delivery, trying to make ends meet until someone fucking wisens up and goes, Oh, by the way, there's this guy that was great on Houston radio and wants this job and we need to talk to him. So anyway, funny how life works. Life comes at you in that way. All right, I'll post this. I'll post that companion, uh, little seven minute segment as well and do some other stuff.