The Josh Innes Show - The Podcast Was Quoted in The Philly Inquirer

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

A buddy of mine let me know that I was quoted in a Philly media story about Tyrone Johnson getting a new job. First off, and this is no knock on Tyrone, a dude doing a fill in shift on a radio station isn't a new job nor is it headline worthy. But, I get it...clicks. Second, I stand by my belief that the 97.5 job is a non starter. The fact they haven't reached out confirms this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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he apparently has a new gig or like they say he's got a new gig from what I'm reading in this story. It doesn't sound like it's an actual gig, but he's going to be a says the former 97.5 the fanatic sports talker who was abruptly let go by the station last month has a new part-time gig lined up though. You won't hear him chopping up the NFL schedule or complaining about Arenola. He will appear as a guest host on NJ 101.5 where you can expect

a heavy dose of news and talk his first appearance will be Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Where he will fill in for the regular midday host Judy Franco. Now this story is from Rob Torneau of the Philadelphia Enquirer. Rob was kind of more fair to us whenever we were in the radio wars thing than the people at the crossing broad were. But and I know I had talked to Rob before. So and that's how this fucking game works. Everybody's got their sources on shit, right? So like

whoever the source was at night that was telling all the shit about us, all the bad shit about us was doing so to crossing broad. And we had people in the building that were telling nice things about us to Rob Torno. If I had to guess. I do this was 10 years ago so I don't know I'm sure I probably reached out to him and said something about how shit that's out there is false but I mean what else are you going to do if there's something that's a lie or inaccurate about you you're going to go find somebody else. That's how media works right there's like one guy that your guy and the other guys hate you and and that's just kind of how the game works. But let me play a couple

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if they do or not. I don't know how far that goes. I also love these non-competes. They fire your ass. They don't think you're good enough to do a job, yet they're like, we don't want anyone else to have you either. Like I had a non-compete here in St. Louis and it was just I couldn't work on St. Louis radio stations but I could go anywhere else and still get paid for six months, which I tried to do because I could have double dipped had I got another job and had this one. But anyway, Johnson was let go by the station last month, an abrupt move that prevented

him from saying goodbye to his listeners on the air. Instead, he filmed a brief farewell on YouTube where he thanked his listeners and explained how he was simply told the station was moving in a different direction. It wasn't dramatic, Johnson said. There was nothing phony on their end. There was nothing phony on my end, and for that I really appreciate them for the way they did it. Since Johnson's departure, the Fanatics afternoon show has been appropriately rebranded the afternoon show with Connor Thomas and NBC Sports Philadelphia's Ricky Battalico.

The station has advertised it's hiring a new host despite recent cutbacks at parent company Beasley Media Group, which last week included WMMR veteran and former Preston and Steve co-host Kathy Romano. Let's see, I think this is where they get to quoting me here because again, I'll tell you this, I haven't worked there in nine years, but for whatever reason my name still pops there, which again would make sense to at least fucking call and be like, hey, what's going on, but they won't because people are stupid. While it's unclear if the fanatic intends to replace Johnson, at least one former Philly sports talker with afternoon experience applied for the job, former 91 94.1 WIP host Josh Ennis, who was fired by the station's

current afternoon host Spike Eskin back in 2016. Since leaving Philly, Ennis has bounced around stations in Houston, Nashville, and most recently St. Louis where budget cuts last year cost him his job at Hubbard Rocker KG95. That is true, although they also hated me. Though he's currently unemployed and said the idea of landing a job is appealing, even Innis didn't sound psyched about the idea of working for the fanatic. So let's see here. The job itself just doesn't

sound like a situation. Did I say that doesn't sound like? Let's see. So these are quotes from my podcast. Okay. That job itself doesn't sound like a situation. I don't know if I said that. That's weird sounding. But that company doesn't sound like a good situation. It feels like one of those get there and within a year you're fired no matter what you do. Let's see. It would be tough to imagine Ennis returning to Philly for many reasons, not least of which was a beef with current fanatic midday host Mike Missanelli that led to a confrontation during Eagles training camp in 2015. Look at that. I got some run today in the Philadelphia

Enquirer. So thank you Rob Torneau. I feel like this was poorly worded though and the punctuations and whatnot were not great, but the job itself doesn't sound like a situation in a set on his podcast recently. That company doesn't sound like a good situation. It feels like one of those get there and within a year you're fired no matter what you do. It might be. Again, I'm not going to get called by these people. I know I'm not going to get called by these people, which is truly astounding. Like I'll give a Joe Bell credit. Joe Bell was the guy that was running that company before the current people. They whacked him, I guess last year or whatever. So Joe Bell at least reached out to me in 2019 and was like, hey, would you be interested

in coming back? Like that was at least, hey, he at least did it. I met him in person. I talked with him on the phone. They were going to do it. But then his little pee pee shriveled up whenever Mike Missanelli was like, nope, that's not going to happen. So they basically fucking they basically they bailed out on it.

But believe me, believe me when I tell you that something was going to happen. Was it going to be full time? That I don don't know it could have probably led to that yes but they were going to at least put me on in the weekend and just see what kind of reaction it got that was going to fucking happen they can tell you otherwise they had me on the phone with the engineer we were trying to figure out which way I could blast it back there via Houston it was going to happen but then they got scared but at least the dude talked with me. These guys, this is a, I never even met Joe Bell

before he reached out or talked with him before he reached out to me. I've talked with the current program director and I know the current program director at 97.5. I like the guy, but he's not going to reach out to me. And I know he's not gonna reach out to me because he had an opportunity to reach out to me nine months ago when I got fired in St. Louis. I reached out to me. And I know he's not going to reach out to me. Because he had an opportunity to reach out to me nine months ago when I got

fired in St. Louis. I reached out to him and said, hey, I'm available. Didn't hear back. I've reached out to him now and said, hey, I applied for the job. And he said, I'm on vacation. And I got 100 applicants. And that's that. So the odds of me ever hearing back from these people are basically zilch. Zero. And I've accepted that. That's fine, but I'm glad that still like these guys know how to use me to try to... Now I can't say they did it to get clicks because I'm not in the headline. I don't think on this story. What's the headline? Tyrone Johnson lands a new gig following abrupt departure from 97.5 the fanatic. Also, extremely misleading. Very. That

is like, Rob, I know that you don't write the headlines. That is super clickbaity. A dude doing a one-off fill-in at New Jersey 101.5 is not a new fucking gig. So you know that when someone reads that headline, they're thinking, holy shit, this guy's back on full-time sports radio. Did WIP hire him? What happened? And no it's a fucking fill-in job and I'm not trying to judge that Tyrone don't know the guy. Good for you you're doing a fill-in job somewhere. But like, LAND's a new gig is such a bullshit clickbaity headline for someone who's filling in for someone on a radio station one fucking day. New job guys, got a new gig here. I'm filling in on a Friday.

Not to say that that won't lead to something else. Not to say that he won't be a regular fill-in or a regular contributor or regular mic. Maybe he'll be the new midday host. I don't fucking know. But the headline is just fantastic. Tyrone Johnson lands a new gig following abrupt departure from 97.5 the Fanatic. What's the new gig? Always having a one-off fill-in. But if it gets you the clicks, it gets you the clicks. I just appreciate you quoting me in this story and linking back to my podcast. That's

awful nice of you. Hopefully people read that and listen to the podcast. Now if you're the people at Beasley and you read this, which I'm guessing they won't, but if they did you'd go, wow, this guy really thinks this is a shitty situation. Yeah, he does because it is, but he doesn't have a job and you should at least talk with him and convince him that it's not a shitty situation. See, that's what you should be doing. That's the way this game should work because obviously it's a shitty situation. Obviously you're getting your dicks knocked off by WIP. Obviously the company's not doing well because you're firing people from the biggest fucking show you have maybe in the

whole company. Not just Philadelphia, maybe all of Beasley Broadcasting. That's probably the most powerful money-making show you have. They have some shows that are syndicated in various markets. I bet those shows aren't as important to Beasley's bottom line as Preston and Steve because no city is more important to people's bottom line than Philly because it's like the only city that people still give a **** about radio. So, it's a big **** deal, right? So, like the fact that like I can see that this is **** situation and you're not

trying to un **** this situation by calling me like if I were them, I want to be like well **** let me read all these applicants. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Oh, Josh Ennis. Let's at least call a guy I've talked to before and let me let's just see pick his brain. See what's going on. See what's on his mind. Of course, no one's going to do that and that's their business. That's their life. That's their decisions. But it is funny, it is fairly amusing

that there's no one on there that you could be interviewing right now that has had remotely close to the impact I have had doing radio in Philadelphia in the short time I did it. Unless it's Angelo or Glenn Mack now, or somebody like that that's had a long time career, Jody Mack, I don't know, somebody like that that's had a long time career, Jodie Mack, I don't know, somebody like that

that's been there for 100 years. But there's no one else you could bring on there that would have the impact and get you the attention. And I'm not even lobbying for the job at this point. You guys know me, I'm not even lobbying for it. This isn't a lobbying for the job. This is just a what the fuck are you doing? The fact that you have got this opening, you're getting your brains

beaten in, your company's in the fucking shitter. Like the fact that you're not picking up the phone and going, Josh, what's shaking, bud? You got any interest? The fact that you're not even doing that shows me that you're not even like real talk. You don't even want to fucking play the game. You're not in the game. It's a different sport to to like what is it to quote Jules in to paraphrase Jules in Pulp Fiction. It ain't the same ballpark. It ain't the same league. It ain't the same

**** sport. That's where you are right now. You are obsolete. And the fact that you don't pick up the phone and at least go, hey, Josh, what's up? I'm not telling you that hiring me would be the best move. I'm not telling you that I'm a God's gift anything. Be clear on that. What I'm telling you is the fact that you haven't even said, hey, before you do anything else, at least let's have a talk. Let me email you back and let's set up a time to talk. The fact that you haven't done that confirms to me that this is fucking child's play and

it's a joke. That's what it confirms to me. You want confirmation, confirmation that this is a joke. You're getting dick slapped by these people. And the one person who if you say we sign this guy today and he's going to join the station would get you instant notification, instant talk on social media, instant talk on all the blogs, positive, negative, good, bad, it wouldn't matter, it would all happen. The fact that you're not doing that confirms that you don't give a shit. And that's fine, don't

give a shit. But the fact that you're not doing this confirms that you don't give a fuck. It is a throwaway, lousy job and whoever gets it will be fired in two years and you'll, we're going in a different direction but here we are, here's Ricky Metallico and a new guy and you'll just keep doing this shit until you decide to sell the station or play regional Mexican. Anywho, appreciate you guys, more to come.