The Josh Innes Show - Spotify Wrapped

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

I don't really use Spotify so I don't get to have one of these graphics showing the world what I consume. I'm actually experiencing a bit of FOMO. Anywho, I do have the Josh Innes Show creator wrapped for 2024. We give this a full breakdown. In a shocking development, the most popular episode of this show involved lots of booze. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Well, hello, Jamokes. What's going on? Glad you're listening. Glad you've been listening to the podcast. I got the information on the WRAPPED. You know, you're WRAPPED. W-R-A-P-P-E-D. You're WRAPPED for Spotify. And I got to see the people who listen on Spotify and where they listen from and everything, and that's very cool. I appreciate you guys. I also appreciate the fact that our number one episode on Spotify is the original Drunken Sunday Football Party episode, and it has 420% more listeners than the average episode of the pod. So thank you, Spotify. Although I think that more of our listeners, actually, I know that more of our listeners actually I know that more of our listeners come from like Apple and other places I don't even use Spotify so I see

people posting their wrapped and like hey here's the songs I've been listening to on Spotify and how many hours I've been listening to this song and all this and I'm like cool but like I don't get to know what that's like because I never use Spotify for anything. I'm a straight up Apple. I hit the podcasts on Apple. I listen to music on the Apple. So I don't use Spotify for anything. I don't understand that life. So I don't have that. And I'm feeling a bit of a FOMO today watching people post their rap. Like I've had people send me messages showing me where this podcast ranks and their rap. Let me give a shout out to one of my guys here. Let's see. Messages, messages. There we go. Trevor Harris. He's a Philly dude. He sent me his top podcasts and I am number five on his

top podcasts behind the Zabe cast, which is Steve Zabin, Spittin' Chicklets, which is the Barstool Hockey podcast, Spits and Suds. Now dig this. Spits and Suds is a hockey podcast that originates from 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. It is co-hosted by Gavin Spittle, he being the Spits of Spits and Suds. That is my former boss and the first major market boss I ever had and one of the best fucking dudes on the planet. So he's actually above me in Trevor Harris' top podcasts. Then after Spits and Suds, it's the Upper Bowl podcast. Motherfucker listens to his own podcast more than he listens to my

podcast. It's like voting for yourself for prom king. By the way, Trevor, I'll give your podcast a shout out. Admittedly, I've never listened. Nothing against you. I just don't really listen to a lot of stuff. Maybe I'll give it a listen. The Upper Bowl Podcast. It's got two hockey sticks. So I'm going to guess it's a hockey podcast. I also like the name of it. It's got like a double meaning, like the upper bowl. You're like up in the upper deck.

Then there's the upper bowl. It could be the upper bowl of the toilet. So that's number four. And then the Josh Ennis Show. That is this here podcast that you kids are listening to, that is number five on Trevor Harris' top podcast. So I am ranking behind Steve Zabin, the Barstool Hockey Podcast, my former boss Gavin Spittel's Hockey Podcast,

the Upper Bowl Podcast hosted by the guy who sent me his top five podcasts, and then I'm in there at number five. But I also thank all of you for being degenerates much like myself. Because since you are degenerates and you enjoy things like gambling and alcohol and football and frivolity and hijinks, because of that, you have led my podcast of me and Jilly being drunk reacting to bets and football games to being our top ranked podcast. And I appreciate that. That is very cool. That is very nice. 420% up over every podcast on Spotify. So if you guys do listen on Spotify, feel free to screenshot me,

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See app for details. All righty. The 2024 wrapped. And by the way, my ambition in life is to not have to play all these fucking commercials on all these episodes of this podcast in the future. And I appreciate you guys for bearing with the fact that I play them. I have no idea what any of them are. I don't listen to them. I don't listen back to the podcast.

I have no clue what spots run. So like I used to get complaints from people because there'd be like political ads and shit. And I'm like, I don't know. All I know is I try to make a few bucks off of this while I'm unemployed, still getting my severance and stuff. So like, I'm just trying to make a few bucks off of this and make it worth the time. I have grand ambitions for improving this podcast greatly and getting back to closer to what we were doing back in like 2020 and 2021 and make it even better than that. That's my ambition. But you know me, sometimes I have grand ambitions and then I become a lazy sack of shit and don't follow through. But I'm going to tell you, I've got to give you some

details on some stuff here about why I'm super... There's some days I'm not motivated, but then some days something pisses me off and I get super fucking motivated and I want to destroy the world. So we'll talk about that. But I'm looking at the wrapped here. Wrapped season is here. Fans were really loving your show in 2024. Again, this is all on Spotify. If you're not listening on Spotify, then hey, this means nothing to you. And I don't use Spotify. So now, especially that I get the Joe Rogan podcast virtually everywhere, I don't really care about Spotify and I don't look for music on Spotify. Let's see. You gained 84% listeners in 2024. Thank you there.

And again, that's all just here in these last couple of months because I've only been doing this again since September. Your streams are up 705%, but that's probably up 705% from 2023 where I didn't do any podcast. So is that really an achievement? No, but you can make numbers. See, here's the key in life. You can make numbers say anything you want. Like if you're a radio guy and you don't have the numbers and the key demo that you want to have, go find a demo where the numbers are great and pimp that.

That's what they were doing on 97.5 The Fanatic forever. Like I'd see their dudes over there and they're like, well, you know, our men are 2554 numbers. You know, the demo where you get bonus and the demo where, you know, you make your money and where they sell. That's not doing well, but you should see what we're doing in our 18 to 34 numbers or our 18 to 24 year old men with lazy eyes numbers like you can make any number say anything you want that's the beauty of numbers so while i know that i didn't even do a podcast in 2023 so being up 705 percent in my streams means absolutely nothing if i just screenshot that and post it, they'll be like, oh, well, that's certainly something. Wow. This guy's really hot right now. But yes, plus 705% there. Let's see

here. Followers, you gain 19%, which is actually, I would imagine, pretty good because I probably didn't lose any. So I just, you know, 19% more people started following on there. So that's good. But again, numbers can lie. You can make numbers say anything you want, especially in these kind of numbers. Give it up for your new fans. 46% of your listeners discovered you this year,

which again makes sense because I didn't really do much. I haven't been doing much in the podcast world since what? 2001, 2002, late 2002, maybe your fans have a clear favorite. Your top episode was Sunday drunk party. It was streamed 420% more than your average episode. Let's fucking go. You drunk degenerate sexist shit. You, I love you. Like sometimes I feel like I'm alone in this world being a degenerate and I sit outside or like it'll be a Sunday night and I'm drinking beer

and I pass out on the couch, wake up at five in the morning and stumble into bed and all that. And I'm like, are there other people living this life? Or am I truly just a clear cut on an island degenerate? And then I see that this episode is streamed 420% more than the average episode. And I say, ha, we're in this love together, baby. So thank you. Let's see more from Spotify. Ever wondered who your audience is? Sure do. Let's break it down. Listeners by age, 18 to 24 year olds is 1%.

So there's probably three people who are between the ages of 18 and 24 who listen to this. 25 to 29 is 7%. 30 to 34 is 18%. 35 to 44 is 47%. 45 to 54 is 19%. 55 plus is 47%. 45 to 54 is 19%. 55 plus is 8%. So radio people that are looking to hire someone and you say, hey, how do we get our numbers up with young people? Well, I don't know. You get the heart of the demo, 35 to 44. 47% of my audience is 35 to 44. That's like the number you want. If you're a radio station

and you're like, how do we make money and how do we get ratings in 25, 54? Well, here's how. Take a guy who 47 percent of his audience is 35 to 44, right in the heart of the demo. 30 to 34 is 18 percent. So if you just look at the heart of the uh the the heart of the demo here you've got seven percent at 25 to 29 let's do some math seven percent plus 18 is 25 percent uh plus 40 is 65 72 percent of my audience is smack dab right in the heart of that demo that you want and you need you want me in that demo you need me in that demo. You need me in that demo. So all you radio people, none of whom probably listen if I had to guess because you're too busy trying to figure out how to keep your jobs. But if you are, look at what we're doing in this number here on Spotify.

Probably a small number that we're, you know, a small sample size. Totally fine with me. All right, moving on. Listeners ages 30 to 34 grew the most by 107%. Hello, 30 to 34-year-old Geron. Again, continuing in this rap tier. Where in the world have you been? In 2024, your show traveled the globe.

You were streamed in seven countries. Can you tell me these countries? United States was your top country. And you know why? Because I'm a US American. I bleed red, white, and blue, brother. These colors don't run. So thanks, America. More from Rapt here. Your fans have great taste, obviously. Other than your show, they also loved the Joe Rogan experience, the Rizzuto Show. The Rizzuto Show is the morning show on the Rock Station in St. Louis. They are nice people, so I have nothing bad to say about them. And I never will have anything bad to say about them. I do not mind them at all. They were

very nice to me. But maybe one day when I'm no longer collecting severance, I might have other thoughts on other things. But right now, I'm just a happy-go-lucky boy. Let's see. Pardon my take as number three. Number four, John and Lance. John Granato and Lance Zerline on ESPN Houston. And Bill Simmons. So those are the five podcasts that other people loved.

Who listened to this one? Rogue and I get. Like Rizzuto's probably. So that means we probably have some st louis folks who've discovered things and maybe i don't even hear from you guys but st louis folks because i doubt that there are people in you know houston listening to the risotto show that's no offense to them but um i would imagine that uh do we have new st louis people so hello st louis people pardon my makes sense. John and Lance makes sense because that's Houston.

Bill Simmons. We're not quite like Bill Simmons, but I guess sort of, maybe, kind of. So I get it. Music. So these are the number one genres of people who listen to this. You want an upset, rap is number one, followed by pop at number two, and country at number three. Audiobook genres. Well, this one makes, this actually makes a lot of sense. So here are the top three genres of audiobooks that people who listen to this podcast consume. Number one is history. And if you know anything

about me, I'm a big history guy. I enjoy history. I like learning about the past. So I'm a big history guy. Self-help is number two. Maybe I should start investing or start following the lead rather of the people who listen to this podcast. And maybe I should start reading or listening to self-help books on tape. That might help me. Instead of listening to self-help books on tape, I actually just listened to Matthew McConaughey interviews. And then I'm motivated for 10 minutes because Matthew McConaughey is the coolest fucking person on the planet. He and Sammy Hagar. Now I want to go back and reread McConaughey's book because I read it like four years ago when it came out. Maybe I'll buy it on tape and just listen to the whole damn thing when I'm driving around placing my bets all day like a degenerate.

Oh, oops, I lost the rap. Let me go back to the rap. But I am a – look, I appreciate people. Again, Spotify is not the largest part of my audience. A lot of people consume on Apple Podcasts. A lot of people consume elsewhere. We're not even on YouTube at this point. Not to say that we won't be on YouTube at some point. That is the plan.

That is the hope. That is what we want to do. So we shall see. But so there was listener tastes. All right. So there was the Rogan show. Then there was the music. All right, we're back. They didn't just listen. Seventy seven percent of your audience watched video on Spotify this year. Well, good for you guys. Let's see. Shout out to your biggest fans for keeping you at the top of your game. Well, good for you guys. Let's see. Shout out to your biggest fans for keeping you at the top of your game. Well, who are you? You're a top 10, Josh, in a show. Let's see. I'm a top 10 show for 219 people. Thank you, 219 people on Spotify who have us in the top 10. You are a top five show for 161 people. You know what? And it seems low,

but again, most of my numbers come from Apple, but still like for a guy who sits in his underwear every morning and records a couple podcast episodes, the fact that people still follow me and anybody listens, I truly appreciate it. So we're a top five show for 161 and we are the number one show for 44 fans. Let me know if you're one of the 44 fans on Spotify who have me as their number one show. Maybe I'll send you a nice cool $1 bill. Your top fan listens to you 1.6 times more than your other listeners. Thank you, top fans. What kind of creator are you? Well, I don't even know what this means, but it's doing some sort of algorithm or some sort of thing here where it's going to tell me what kind of

creator I am. Let's see. I am a trendsetter. Can you let me know what that means? What do you mean by I am a trendsetter? Is the trend that people sit around in their underwear and bitch about Christmas movies and drunkenly gamble on sports? If so, I'm setting a trend. It doesn't really tell me what being a trendsetter means or how that compares to other things, but apparently I'm a trendsetter and there's some weird crystal spinning on my screen. Looks like some Superman shit. All right, is that the end of the road for me here your fans have entered the conversation and then it has some of the comments uh your podcast rating was 4.7 well that's nice um people also apparently like the ruining movies

from our childhood uh discussion that jillian and i I had so that had the most comments of any episode we don't get a ton of comments on Spotify but you can always leave comments on there and let's see the Josh in a show is there anything new on this

thank you for giving people something to talk about but it's not over keep the conversation going and share with your fans I did post on my Instagram letting people know that this episode of me being drunk and watching football with my wife was our most popular episode by a thousand miles. So I do appreciate you guys for that. So I appreciate it.

I am a I read something today, a radio thing from a radio type person that really fucking pissed me off and motivated me today. And I know that I'm doing something that I'm vehemently against here, which is talking shit and then not being able to fully talk shit. And if you want to call me a coward, you can. But I'm trying to avoid talking too much shit about too much radio shit until I'm either employed or until I'm no longer collecting a check from anybody and I'm just kind of out in the world on my own. But I saw something today that I am enraged over and it's a radio related thing. And I'm just like, I want you guys to know something. I am just fucking motivated to destroy these people. I am. Some days I'm not. Some days I'm like, this thing's fucking over. This thing, like the whole world sucks and whatever. But then

some days I read certain things and it just fucking gets my, it gets my dander up as it were. And then I'm ready to just fuck shit up. And I'm hoping, and I, and I believe that something's going to turn here at some point and that there's going to be a gig that's going to pop up. And I'm hoping and I believe that something's going to turn here at some point and that there's going to be a gig that's going to pop up. And I'm not trying to sound like a sad sack here. If a gig doesn't fucking pop up, I'll go find something new to do in life and do the podcast and see what happens. But I think something's going to pop. And when it does and I'm back in a better place and I got the setup that I need to do the podcast better and all that shit. When all that comes around, things are going to fucking hop and it's going to be good. Because I think some days I sit here and I don't think this is a bad sounding product, but I had an email from one of our listeners

and he was talking about things he thinks I can do to improve the podcast. And I agreed with everything he was saying, but I had good reasons for why certain things weren't happening. Like, oh, where are more guests? Well, I don't have any guests. You know, he's like, talk to Bobbo, talk to Allie, talk to Z-Dog, talk to your dad, talk to whomever. And I don't disagree with that, but my setup is not the setup of someone who can do that. Jilly's got the other studio and she's got like eight radio stations she does every day and actually makes money. So she does that.

I'm sitting here on a laptop, this laptop that I hadn't even opened since the last time we were doing a podcast and the laptop was crapping out on me. You guys remember those episodes where the laptop was freezing up like that, that caused us to get the new computer. I hadn't even opened this computer since then. Um, so I had to go through and like get all the AIDS and viruses and shit off of it. So I'm sitting here every day. When I tell you that when I get up in the morning, I brush my teeth, I sit in my underwear and I record one, two, three, four episodes of this. Some nights, uh, you know, I'll go out in the living room with Jilly and we'll share

the microphone and we'll do it. I literally have a laptop and I have a microphone. That's how I'm doing this right now. It is the most rudimentary way to do it. Some days I do it into my phone. Like I'll be out and about and something will a microphone. That's how I'm doing this right now. It is the most rudimentary way to do it. Some days I do it into my phone. I'll be out and about and something will hit me. I'll record it into my phone and upload it that way. So I know that this is a very rudimentary approach. I know that this doesn't sound like the most slickly produced intros, outros, phone calls, interviews. I get all that. And you are not wrong to the person who sent that. And if you think that, you're not wrong. I'm aware that this does not sound like it

used to sound. So I'm with you. And that was Walker is his name. I appreciate Walker for that. But it will. It's just a matter of time. I need to get somewhere, get into a new place. And And I know it sounds like excuses. And if you listen to me for any period of time, you're probably like, okay, Josh, we know how you operate. And you have every right to feel that way. Because again, some days will keep in mind, we did that podcast that consistent basis until well into 2021. I think we all like for almost three years, we were pretty consistent doing it. And then it kind of tail tailed off because I was doing the radio job in Nashville, but even then we were still doing shit. So, um, but that's the ambition is to get back to closer to something like that. And, and, you know, maybe start recording this live at night when I'm drinking wine or whatever and we can get stupid and people will love it. That'd be fine. I'm all for that. But I appreciate all the people who listened on Spotify. If you listen on Spotify, you can

message me. If you listen on Apple, wherever, send me a message. I've been responding to emails. People send me emails. I enjoy responding to people who have thoughts on things. So email joshannashow at gmail.com. You can send a message on the gram, joshannashow, Twitter, doesn't matter. So send me a message, say hello. I do appreciate all you guys. You're awesome. And I'm telling you, the thing that I read today, it just has me so pissed, but also so motivated to just destroy the fucking world. And one of these days, I know that you might listen now and go like,

Josh, you're not the same kind of scorched earth, fire and brimstone, ready to take people down like you used to be. It's still there. But as we discussed the last time I got fired and I had to sit around for six months and that six months I did absolutely nothing. I didn't do a podcast or anything.

I probably should have started it then but I waited until my severance was over for that. At least this time I've jumped back into it and I'm doing some stuff for you guys. Just know that it's there. It exists. And the me that is fire and brimstone and scorched earth and wants to take down everybody

is still there. It exists. It's just sitting in there. And there's a time when it's going to be able to come out. And you'll go, holy shit, that's my dude. That's the guy I know. But until then, I appreciate you guys listening to this. And we'll get some more shit here soon.