The Josh Innes Show - This Crappy Old House

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

Jilly made the mistake of pouring grease down our kitchen sink. The sink clogged and we had to call a plumber. That said, this old house is pretty creepy. First off, we have no dishwasher or garbage disposal..which sucks. Also, some of the shit in our basement is ancient. Let's discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right. Welcome in, everybody. It is all up in this. Hello, a little bit late today, getting at it. Had to come home early today and not do my work at the station because we had to have the plumber come over and the plumber had to come over because jilly poured grease down the sink. And let me start here with our sink, okay? I mean, look, anybody that has a sink and you pour grease in it, it's going to fail, right? It's going to get clogged up, all that shit, right? Fine. Well, house we don't have a dishwasher and we don't have a garbage disposal so like we might as well be little house on the prairie at this point like we might as well be like out on the plains and shit because i'm shocked we have a washer i am shocked we have a washer i like i'm surprised like we

don't go out with a washboard and clean the clothes that way and then hang them on a line because this place is quite archaic right and I was telling my boss about that today and he goes well you didn't even look at the house before you rented it and that is true we have only looked at one house that we've rented before I believe because usually you're moving and you're you know you get a gig you're in a hustle mode to get to the gig you don't really have time to go visit find a place and I never want to live in like you know like the long term housing type of thing where like you spend a month in a hotel or some shit, I don't want to do that. So we usually just search for a place online.

We find a place we like and a lot of times do sight unseen. This one we did kind of a video walkthrough, but, and I don't mind it. I mean, it doesn't have a lot of closet space. But these are things we didn't think about before we moved, right? Like we weren't like, oh my God, we got to make sure we have tons of closet space. And, you know, I think one of the things you think, and actually, first off, let me play a couple commercials, then we'll get into it. Expedia, you were made to follow your favorite band, and from the front row, we were made to quietly save you more.

Expedia, made to travel. Savings vary and subject to availability. I think that usually when you're thinking about a place, you just assume that the place has a dishwasher, because this is 2026 and everybody should have a dishwasher. So when we got here and discovered that we didn't have a dishwasher, that was like, okay, that fucking sucks. Then we realized we don't have a garbage disposal. So we don't have a garbage disposal, and we don't have a dishwasher. So I guess the other day, Jilly was straining some ground beef because we were making the hamburger helper, which, by the way, I feel like hamburger helper has gotten worse over time. I used to really dig hamburger helper.

Now it's very bland, not tasty at all, but that's what we had the other night. Like we try to make something like that on Sundays when football's happening. So after, you know, we're drinking some beers, we can just eat something simple like that, you know. So when she was straining the meat, she just strained it over the sink and all the grease went down the pipes. And then all of a sudden it starts backing up. And every time you run water, it holds the water in and it's terrible and it's clogged. and she buys some drain-o type of shit and that doesn't work

and we call the plumber and end up having to burn a couple hundred bucks on something that we probably could have done without having to burn the couple hundred bucks I just didn't feel like fucking with it because I felt like it's something I would mess up so we got that the pipes were all backed up

guy comes over today to remedy the problem you know unclogged the drain as it were he ends up finding multiple plastic forks and knives and shit. And I don't even think it's possible the way our thing is set up for a fork to even go down.

But somehow the guy found a fork and a plastic knife. Now, that could have been my plastic knife because I am notorious for making like peanut butter sandwiches with a plastic knife and just throwing the knife into the sink instead of throwing it away.

I am notorious for that. It is possible that that could have happened. It is also possible that the people who lived in the place before us who left the place. I'm not going to say trashed. Trashed is not a fair way to put it. But they had a lot of shit around here that was just gross. Like, and really, it's the fault of the people who rented the place, but it's also the

fault of the people who were the ones doing the renting of the place, right? So like, if you're someone who rents a house to people, a landlord, as it were, isn't it your fucking job to make sure this place is spick and fucking span before somebody moves in? When we moved in here, like you would open up drawers and there would just be like like dirt and like noodles and shit like the place was not overly clean when we got here and it's like i i always take pride in making sure the place is as clean as i possibly can before i move out and we usually have a lot of shit so it's tough to move all this stuff out but i usually i don't want it to look like shit i've spent money to have people cleaning up on their way out like you know i've done the move out cleans i've done all that shit it fascinates me that there are people to just leave a place dumpy and not just the tenants that leave it dumpy because that's to be expected not every place is perfectly clean when I leave I don't want to make it sound like that but I do the best I fucking can right but like let me give you an example so when we left St. Louis I did as well as I could to get the place pretty fucking clean I didn't pay to

have a move out clean because the last time we paid actually when we moved into that fucking house it was dirty and it needed a good once over and we hired a cleaning place to come in and it cost me a couple hundred bucks and I'm like I'm not going to do this shit again so when we moved out I just tried to clean it up as well as I could we were in a hurry to get out all that shit guy ends up taking a couple of bucks out of my deposit to get the place cleaned fine it is what it is I can live with that that's fine that does not feel like what happened at this fucking place because when we got here there was a lot of dirt and grime and I'm like what the fuck are we doing pay someone to clean the shit take some pride in your place and I don't know if I've told you

guys about the shit that's in the basement of this place. Dude, so I was on the phone with my dad the other day. I was FaceTiming with him, I guess for Christmas. He's like, hey, show me your house. I'm like, all right, it's not much. It's a tiny little place. We don't have any closet space. It's antiquated. But it was, you know, we moved in, you know, fast. I mean, that's, I mean, look, I can't bitch. I mean, I made the decision to do it. So whatever. So I go down to the basement. And I'm like, dad, I want to show you some shit that's really fucking wild, right? And this is not a finished basement. It's got concrete and shit. It's got concrete and shit. down there. No carpet. There's one singular creepy prison toilet down there and no door. So it's

just this creepy prison toilet. Like it feels like a jail cell kind of down there. Like it is, there's a washer and a dryer. There's a bed down there for some reason. So there's a bed, a washer and a dryer all like the heating shit is down there. And there's one singular commode, one toilet that's down there. No door, no shower, just a commode. It feels like a slightly larger than normal prison cell, right? So I'm down there the other day, showing my dad all the shit that's down there. There is a crock pot that looks like it's probably from the 1970s. It's like an OG crock pot, a crock pot brand crock pot. This thing has that kind of like greenish color that looks like it's straight out of the 1970s. That's number one. Number two, there's a very

dated fucking fridge down there. Whatever, it's good. It's a beer fridge. It's good to have it down there. I'm not going to complain about how old the fucking fridge is. There's a whole little work area with like saws and like screws and nails and hammers. All of it old, all of it rusted. It looks like the fucking place that fucking Freddie was fucking chiseling up his fucking glove and all that shit. Like that, that's the place Homeboy was hanging out when they set his fucking house on fire. When the people of Springwood set Freddy's fucking house on fire, it had to have been like a room like that. It was like a boiler fucking room down there. He's like working on shit and stuff.

and then there's a a sewing machine. I think it's a sewing machine, but it's the kind that's built into a table. This thing has to be like 50, 60, 70 years old. It's like fucking Rumpelstilskine was weaving fucking straw into gold down in this basement. Okay, so Freddy's over in one corner. He's fucking hammering out his goddamn knife glove.

And then on the other corner, Rumble Stiltskin's like, oh, I'll spend straw to gold over there. Also, there is a shelf that is by the washer and dryer. And it's lined with newspapers as if to like keep the shelves clean or whatever, right? So on the shelves are newspapers.

So I'm showing my dad this goes, can you look at the date on those newspapers? And I was trying to find it. Like the papers are very faded. They're yellow. They're faded. I recall seeing one headline about how Elton John is about to really break big in America or some shit.

I'm like, Elton John is about to break big. big in America, really? I find the date 1973. So since 1973, this newspaper has lined that shelf in the basement.

That means whoever has lived here since 1973, it's not like someone just had old 1973 newspapers they lined this shelf with yesterday. So since 1973 there have been these newspapers lining this shelf and I started looking at some of the the stories and some there were

advertisements for like radios and 19 inch TVs and colored televisions and there was a box of brillo pads on this shelf and I chat GPT this box of brillo pads these brillo and I think it was brillo brand right like this was brillo pads I think they were brillo pads was it was whatever it was, I think, I think it was Borrelopet. They were from the 1970s as well. So I have no idea what has happened in this house in the last

52 years since 1973. But there's been shit in that basement for 50 fucking years. And I'm going to assume that because the landlord of this place is some younger gal. So I don't know that she bought this from someone.

That's very possible. She might have had some money, bought this old dilapidated house that's been around for 100 years in this okay neighborhood that's kind of an up and coming neighborhood it's actually not like it's supposed to be up and coming but that's what they call neighborhoods that are just kind of stuck they're like well it's it's a cheaper alternative than the really fun trending neighborhoods but nothing's actually happening in the neighborhood it's just fine it means i don't feel unsafe for anything in the neighborhood it's white trashy it is a white trashy neighborhood it's mostly white people mostly white trashy you'll see some young urban and prosper types that are in fact

living here because it's the cheaper alternative than the nice little hipster area that's you know half a mile away so they live over here i've told you before there's a black man that sits on his porch he's got his wife with him his wife is missing half a leg i've got a house across the way that's got a mailbox that just has the word fuck written on it i see signs in the neighborhood that vary from you know trump 2026 fuck your feelings or whatever to in this house we believe signs i mean it is a mixture of people but the look of it is trashy like it's not a charm mean little neighborhood. It's got a trashy quality to it. You can tell that if they gentrified it or whatever, it could look cute. But as of right now, it's not very cute. It's just a trashy little

fucking neighborhood, right? So my guess is, actually, you know what? I think that this girl handles all the shit for the owner, because I've heard her reference the owner of the house. She'll go like, well, let me check with the owner. So she's the landlord in some way. And there's someone else that owns this house and she just takes care of it, I guess. But whoever owns this has had the same shit in the basement for 50-something fucking years. All that to tell you that I don't have a dishwasher. And I know you have your own problems. And I know I can be easily judged for this because I made the decision to move into a place

before I even looked at it. And I have a history of that and my boss judged me for that and all this shit. And he's like, well, why don't you go get a new place? Can you get out of the lease? I'm like, well, I possibly could. But I don't know if you motherfuckers are going to fire me. I don't know what my situation is. I ain't got no goddamn listeners.

Do you think I'm going to sit here and move? out of one place and break a lease and maybe have to pay something to break a lease should go move into another place in a town where I might get run out of here tomorrow. I have no listeners. So, no, I'm just going to ride this out until I see if this thing becomes a thing

or if I'm, you know, living in Paducah, Kentucky or back in Baton Rouge. But all that again to tell you that Jilly poured some grease down the stove, or down the drain and it was clogged. She's like, well, what am I supposed to do with the grease? Like put it in an old coffee can or something? And it got me

thinking about my grandma. And at her house, there would just always be a cast iron skillet filled with grease. So I'm like, yeah, do it that way. So I'm not fucking doing that. I'm like, then don't. But my grandma, there would just be grease and it would just sit on the on the stove and it would harden, right? It would become like that paste almost. Anyway, I know you have your own problems, but I appreciate you for listening to mine. More to come.