The Josh Innes Show - Stories I Didn't Get To On Radio

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

I print out a shit load of stuff every morning. Most days I used very little of it. Let's run through some of the stories I didn't use. This leads to a Philly discussion because there is an Instagram character I love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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One person calls with one thing. And then boom, you're talking about something different. It takes the show in a totally different direction. And that's why I love the radio show because you never know which direction it's going to go. And I've got a bunch of stories that I know. never got to. So let's kind of rip through some of these and just and give some quick thoughts. I mean, this is a big stack. You hear that stack? That's a big stack of stories there. So let's play a couple commercials and let's get into it.

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for dear life i'm suffocating this job while the trend is on the rise 94% of workers recognize it has potential downsides like missing out on higher pay and burnout from lack of change. But I feel like if somebody reached out to you and was like, hey, I'd like to offer you a job that's higher pay, you would just take the job with higher pay if the job were open. Like, look, there is nothing wrong with comfort, security, and stability. It is something that I have not known much of. But I'll tell you what was fucking awesome when I had a lot of money.

As I sit here now and don't have a lot of money when people mock the idea of being comfortable and all that kind of shit, hey, most jobs are just jobs where comfort is the number one priority. There are very few innovator jobs or entertainment jobs, athletic jobs, that there's growth. A lot of jobs are just like nine to fivers, and it's not like it's something that's going to really let your creative juices flow, and you know that. Like, that's the majority of jobs. So, you know, whatever. But let's see here. Comfort, security, or stability.

There's nothing wrong with any of those things, man. It's nice to have insurance, although insurance is a scam and it's way too expensive. It's nice to have it, right? So there's nothing wrong with that. Like, I sit here today, like, every day I'm working, and I'm glad I don't have kids or anything, and I'm not poor by any means. But it's like I sit here every day, like, man, I sure do miss when I had the comfort of making, you know, $300,000 a year. Like, that was pretty good comfort. You should have, like, that's the job.

I should have hug that 790 job. Like, I should have put that fucking job in a sleeper hole when you think about the money. Hell, I should have put the Philly job in a sleeper hold like that. I was talking to somebody the other day about Philly. And they were like, man, I really thought that, like, you know, in an alternate universe, in a different world, you would have been the biggest thing here and stayed here forever. And I was like, yeah, me too, geez. The hell, I look back on it. And that wasn't even the highest paying gig I ever had.

But it probably would be decent now. But I look back on that. And I'm like, shit, man. You know, you could have been like, you know, and we talk about this all the time, but I could have should have been. And I would have been the biggest star there in a city that really gives a shit. Like, I'm watching some parody video. this, I forgot what she calls the character, Pam and Port Richmond. Is that a place in Philly? Port Richmond. Does that sound right? You should look up Pam in Port Richmond on

Instagram. Pam in Port Richmond, I believe, is the character. Yeah, that's the character. Pat, or Pam. Pam from Port Richmond. Like, she was on one of these TV shows the other day, but she's a character that this woman plays a character on Instagram. And the character's name is pat from port richmond and pat from port richmond is spectacular i love this character and it's just so philly and so great and i'm watching this and i'm like shit i kind of miss these people because i feel like i have a connection with them like this one is let me see if there's audio on this this is pam in port richmond uh go school shopping with her kid let me see let me turn this up turn that up for you guys let's see here we go and put it in cue i'm reading the list and that's

we're getting in that's it so i don't want to hear it all right it's a simple answer it's either green or a green with the camo i know you're stuck in between but just pick one so we can get out of here all right and i love this character because the character always has a cigarette dangling from her mouth the best one of these if you're going to look up pat in port richmond pam from port richmond you need to look at the one where they're like it's game day and she's like preparing the house and she's like vacuuming and and hey hon like oh it's so i miss i don't know why i miss these people so much like looking back on it now i truly like 10 years i got fired nine years ago nine i think nine years ago is when i got fired i actually kind of miss these

people there's a charm about them that i miss and i was actually telling jilly this like i haven't really felt a connection anywhere since then like the first two big jobs i had Houston and Philly, I feel a connection to. But then, like, Nashville. Like, I know people from Nashville, and I enjoyed it, but, like, there's nothing about Nashville that I look back on and go, oh, boy, Nashville. Like, I just, maybe because the show wasn't as big of a deal as it was in Houston the first time and in Philly, and I didn't feel a bond.

Same thing with St. Louis. I certainly didn't feel any kind of bond from there. But, like, boy, I really randomly miss these people for whatever reason. And by the way, I probably wouldn't after five minutes of being back there, but I do miss them. If your teacher's giving me a list of things that she needs for school and not for you, she's getting your old friend. I don't want to hear it. What? What is that? No, you're not getting up. Put it down. We don't need it. It's not on the list. Put it down. Put it down. You know what? Oh my God. Look how cute this is. Grow your own way. Do you like it? No. You don't like nothing. So to God. All right. Do you want Spider-Man or Mario Court? What is this? Mario and the Ouija. What do you want? Oh my God.

You ain't getting neither. I'm telling you right now, I don't know what they expect us to do. This shit's too expensive. It's so good. It reminds me of the Philly Guy Christmas that we used to play. The Philly Guy was my favorite. Hey, man, for Christmas, we're going to go to the birthplace of Michael Jack Schmidt. And I don't think those videos are on YouTube anymore.

Arguably the greatest heartbreak ever is that the Philly Guy Christmas video is no longer on YouTube. Also, there's a guy who's now in like the Shane Gillis universe. and I forgot his name, Tommy something. And he's one of the guys that did the Real House Husbands of Philly videos like 15 years ago that were awesome. And like I saw him in like a Bud Light. He's the guy next to Shane Gillis in a Bud Light commercial. I'm like, he and this guy are best friends. He's a Philly guy.

It makes sense. But still, like, holy shit. Like, I used to watch that guy in the Philly in the Real House Husbands of Philadelphia videos. Now I got to see if those still exist. My God, the real house or those do exist. But the Philly Guy Christmas. Philly Guy Christmas. Let's see if that video still exists.

I don't think it does. It's a heartbreak. Those were the best videos ever. There was like Philly Guy goes to the water park was one of them. I think that still exists. No, yeah, it does. So Philly Guy at the water park still exists. That's a great video.

Get all the water, bud. Get out of the water, bud. There you are. Mike. It's time to get out of the water, bud. You've been in the water all day, man, let's go. Get out of the water. I know, I know, but you've got to get out of the water.

I mean, it's time. I'm starving. You got to eat something. You know? Let's go back to the house. Let's get a hoagie in you, all right? Sound good? Give you a nice cheese steak if you get out of the water.

Get out of the water. Get out of the water. I need you to get out of the water. Come on, I'm not kidding around here. I know you're having a good time, but I'm starving here, Mike. I'm begging you. Just get out of the water. Now.

Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now. Now.

Now. Killing me, bud. You're killing me, bud. What do I have to do to get you out of the water? Get out of the water. Sorry. You won't get out of the water. Get out of water.

Please get out of water. Now I'm begging you. Now I'm begging you. You gotta get out of the water. Did you hear me yelling for you? Told you to get out of the water. It's water. Not water.

I hope you know you look like an idiot when you say it like that. You embarrass me. What's going on? home. That's what I said. I said, get out of the water. It's a great shit. And there was a Philly Guy Christmas that was like a staple for Jillie and I during the holiday season.

And now it's nowhere to be found. And I'm depressed over this that I can't find it. I don't know how I ended up down this wormhole again. Like I'm sitting here talking about, you know, these show prep things. So job hugging. All right. So people are hugging and holding on the jobs because they want comfort. Okay, there's one.

All right. Number two from the stories here that I haven't gotten to where I didn't get to on the show today. Let's see. States with the most ghost sightings. Let's see which state has the most ghost sightings. New York State, 81 per 10,000 people followed by Texas and Louisiana makes a ton of sense. Right? Like Louisiana, you've got New Orleans and voodoo and all that shit.

So states with the most ghost sightings. That's another one that I didn't get to. That's not overly interesting. That's probably why I didn't get to it. Let's see. Boob buckets are back at McDonald's. Okay, so there's a big one. Jilly brought that up yesterday.

We were in the drive-thru. Because as you know, we've discussed, we're trying to win a Winnebago from the Monopoly game. So I just go every day and get a couple of sodies. And I'll also just get the fries because it comes with the – if you have the app, most of the time you can get any size drink and any size fries. fries. Basically, you buy a drink, you get free fries at any size. So I'll get the large fries because it comes with the monopoly piece. And so we get usually like three monopoly pieces a day because I'm on a quest to win a Winnebago. I don't even want a Winnebago, but I want to win a

Winnebago. So the boo buckets are back and Jilly's excited about that. So I'm now going to have to go get her a boo bucket. It's a big deal for people of a certain generation. I'm looking at the boo buckets now and they're adorable. So boo buckets. Also, I have to give out, I think this year will be finally a year where we have to give out Halloween candy because I think our neighborhood dude this town loves Halloween like every house has like the 15 foot tall wearwolves and all that shit people go all out but this lady came to our door the other day and we're like what the hell does this person want and she's like well are you guys going to be at your house on Saturday the 25th or I think the 25th 26 whenever I'm like yeah we'll be here why trying to case the joint

she goes well I have my daughter that weekend but not for Halloween and I was wondering if we can just, you know, get a list of people together that'll have some candy for her to go trick-or-treating on that day. And I'm like, sure, absolutely I will. Why not? I appreciate, like, I appreciate a mom that's willing to go the extra mile. You think my dad would have done that shit when I was a kid? If I would have told my dad, hey, listen, I'm not going to be with you that weekend, so you can, you take me out trick-or-treating a week early, and make sure you tell everybody in the neighborhood that I will be there a week early, so they have treats ready to go and what time I'm going to be at the house. It's like, we'd be there around 725. I'm like, sure. Like, I know it's kind of weird.

And maybe I'll talk about that on the show tomorrow. That would actually be a good one. But like, my dad, if I would have told him that shit when I was a kid, if I would have said, hey, dad. So are you, are you cool with taking me out trick-or-treating a week early? He'd be like, I don't even want to take you out trick-or-treating on that day. That's the other thing. You wouldn't even told your parents to take your trick-or-treating when you were a kid. Because your parents didn't take you trick-or-treating. They put you in a fucking costume and said, I'll see you later. Try not to get raped or stabbed. Whose birthday is it today? Anybody good? Switchfoot. Some guy from Switchfoot.

Shaggy? How about that? He's only 57. I would have thought Shaggy was older than that. Annette Funicello. Remember the line in Greece? Nobody's jugs are bigger than Annette's. Net Funicello. Curly from the Three Stooges. How about that? I saw a picture of the Baytown badass Clint Sterner yesterday. He's got a Mo Howard here cut now that I noticed. Carlos Mencilla's birthday. If you're interested in that, there's that. But there, I mean, I always print all this shit out. Very rarely do I use any of it. Okay, there's no, but Ryan Reynolds. It's Ryan Reynolds's 49th birthday. So there's that. Let's see. Poop camera tracks gut health. We did that story yesterday.

Let's see. A woman is sick of tired of smelling marijuana smoke wafting from her downstairs. neighbor, so she took him to court to get him to stop. Oh, hold on. James is a podhead, so that's a good one to hold on for the radio show. If you guys don't listen to the radio show, you really should. The podcast is available to search for the Josh and a show, which is not the show you're listening to right now. This is all up in us. Get your shit together. Girl shares her hangover free drink order. Well, let's see what she drinks that doesn't give her a hangover. She says bringing a bottle of Mio flavor enhancer into the bar is her secret. Savannah will order of vodka and water and then add some of the flavoring. that brings a better taste to the drink with no extra calories or sugars. So it's not only healthier as far as alcoholic beverages go, but she claims she's never had a hangover since learning about the drinking hack. Is that really a hack? That's like saying, hey, my drinking hack is in between drinks. I drink Gatorade.

It's the same shit. I drink pediolite in between shots. So I didn't get to that on the show. That wasn't overly interesting, though. Boy, I think I print out the same shit multiple times. I waste a lot of paper. But anyway, so there's examples of stuff that I didn't talk about on the radio show today, but I'd urge you to listen to the radio show.

It would be greatly appreciated. So there you go. More to come.