The Josh Innes Show - Tons Of Love From Philly Fans

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

As you know, I have applied for a job at 97.5 in Philly. You also know I'm not going to get that job. But, that hasn't stopped tons of Philly people from messaging me, Tweeting me and emailing me with words of encouragement. It's really cool to read these notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So we tried the Bush light apple yesterday and it was tasty. A lot of times you'll get these apple beers or like fruit beers. Like I told you I tried the peach Bush light last year, two years ago, and I thought it was gross. Like you had like the first couple drinks, you're like, oh, this isn't bad. Then you drink it and it gets really kind of sweet and it's just I don't think it was very good. The Bush light apple. I told you I picked up a couple cases yesterday and we had a couple last night watching the ball games and it was actually

pretty good. The apple wasn't overbearing. It wasn't overly sweet and had a couple of them last night. It was solid. So if you have an opportunity to pick up the Bush light apple, if you've never tried it, I would at least try it. Do I think it's the greatest thing I've ever had? No, like people talk about this thing like it's God's gift to beers and it's kind of got like an online cult following and the folks call it the Bapple, but it was fine. It was good. I drank it like I'm not regretting

purchasing 230 racks of it. Even if I did regret it, I have to drink them. So we're going to do that. But one bad, one bad. So I would advocate for all of you to at least give it a, I'm advocating for the Bushlight Apple. I would urge you to give it a shot. Just go pop over, find it if you have it. I don't even know if they have it in some of these places. Like I don't know where it's available, where it's not available. But if it is available where you are,

I would urge you to give it a taste test. Give it a little run. Give it a little try. They have 12 packs of it as well. You don't have to invest in the 30 pack, but give it a shot. See what it's about. See if you like it. See if it's tasty. See if it's scrumdiddlyumptious for you. Certainly a refreshing little beer.

Like, before I moved here, I had no interest in Busch Light. In fact, I think I had it once and I just thought it was vile and I don't know that my taste buds have changed or what but moving here, I like and it was by accident almost. It was by force like we were at a ball game and there's this one section of Busch Stadium that that has like $5 beers or something like that. And the options were like Budweiser and Bush Lite.

Those are the options. And I'm like, fine, fuck it. I'll get Bush Lite a try. It was the only place in the stadium you can get draft beer, which is weird to me that it seems harder and harder to find draft beer in a lot of these stadiums. Right? You get these big 25 ounce cans and shit, but you never really get like the good cold draft beer. So I got one and I drank it and

I looked at Jillian like this really isn't that fucking bad. It's actually kind of good and I grew to enjoy it and now that's our main drink. Like if you know, I told you I like my domestic beer. That's my go-to domestic beer Bush light, baby and get a 30 rack for about 21 bucks and have yourself a nice weekend So that's what we do, but I would urge you to try the bush light apple and let me know what you think about it I liked it tasty It'll make for a nice Sunday Yahtzee beer yacht rock Yahtzee and some bush light apples this weekend should be nice

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It is now Tuesday. I applied for that job on Friday, and to this point, I have not gotten a response. So I have no idea what's going to happen. I technically got a response because I got the email that said, hey, there's been 100 people that have applied for this, And that's all I got. Because then I'll tell you what I did. Once I got that, I did get that little email back that said, hey, I'm on vacation. We've had 100 people apply for this job. I didn't know even if

that was AI or what. Jillie's convinced it was just an AI response. So I took a video, a screenshot, a screen capture of all of the comments that I had from people about going back to Philadelphia, just me scrolling through them, and I emailed that to the program director, and I'm like, listen, I know you're not going to hire me. I feel pretty confident that's never going to happen. However, I'm going to send this to you to let you see that there are a

lot of people who have interest in this. Now, in my experience, if they were truly interested or if they were truly looking for someone, I feel like they would have at least been like, hey, hold up, I'm on vacation this week, but we've got to talk, don't do anything. I didn't get that reaction, so I feel pretty confident

that that has no chance of happening. They may already know who they want. They might have already had this thing planned out. Like, I feel like if they've known they were gonna whack this guy for a while, they've probably already done something, and this is probably not even a realistic job. You just have to post it. You have to post the job because that's just the way the world works. You have to post it even though you know the person you want. So I feel pretty confident that I have. I mean, I've told you, there's a 0% chance that I have. I mean I've told you there's a 0% chance that I get this job but I have been really moved in a way by the positivity from people on my social media. I don't know

if this is just an example of you know time heals all wounds or what this is an example of but the number of people who say super positive things about me coming back to Philly is very nice. Now it's on my social media and it hasn't been shared by like a rando social media that's going to be filled with people who don't like me. So I'm not of some mindset that like this is how all of Philadelphia feels like please bring this guy back. But even on my own social media, I usually get a lot of negative **** and this has not gotten a

lot of negative ****. So let not gotten a lot of negative shit. So Let me read you some of these these comments are awesome, and I truly appreciate this You were the last good thing on sports radio in this town. It's a disaster. Thanks the autumn wind 81 Paul here says we need you back Philly is in dire need of some riveting radio miss Miss you. I mean I like that. I like you too. Let's see. Let's see. I responded to something yesterday, some stupid poll that WIP was doing, and I added 97.5 and I said hey bring me back and let's compete against this. That station is and will always be a bastard stepchild of WIP. Both suck. Sports Talk radio in this city is terrible. Let's see. It's lit if you come back. Thanks,

HomHom2155. Let's see. This person does not like me. Just told me to shut the fuck up. That's totally fine. This is a nice comment from Adam. Let's see. I agree. Need a little give and take here. Either way, you were hilarious and I'd listen to you from start to finish. Hope you're back soon. Josh was on when my dad was sick and ultimately dying. I turned on the radio back then and it almost took me out of reality for a few hours. I'll always respect him for that. Wish nothing but the best for him." Well, thank you, Adam Smith. That's very nice of you to say. I don't know if you listen to the podcast or not, but that was very nice of you to say and I'm glad that I could help there. It's just amazing because kind of going back to the Katy Perry thing, if you only see negative,

then that's how you're going to see it. And that's all I saw when I was in Philadelphia. I know that this is a smaller scale like what Katy Perry gets or you know whomever gets Taylor Swift gets the kind of shit those people get is gigantic relative to what it is that I get and I totally understand that but when you're in the middle of getting shit on constantly it feels like it is a nonstop never-ending snowball, and it just keeps rolling and building and building. Particularly in that era, particularly in that city, it was just like a

never-ending hate fest, and it was impossible to see the positives, and I embrace the hate so much that I never saw the positives from people. Let's see. Philly Sports Radio for the most part is awful. All the hosts I liked have either been retired in recent years or have been fired. There's not many left that I like. Philly needs a Josh Ennis back on the airwaves. Josh was here during the dead period of Philly Sports Talk, that is true. I am fully convinced that if the Eagles Super Bowl run happened when he was here, he would still be here. He was what we needed during that time. I hope

he returns. I agree with that. I've had that discussion many times. If teams were better when I was there, it would have made it a lot easier to drop the Missanelli shit earlier. I think ultimately here was the killer, and we've talked about this many times. The killer for me in Philadelphia partially was that I didn't fully embrace it all and that's on me. But a bigger issue was that the teams were so bad. I mean baseball was tanking, basketball was tanking on purpose, hockey was middling and no one really gives a shit about talking about hockey anyway. So what were you stuck with?

You had the Eagles who my first year there when I had my first show on the air was like the Friday before they played the Saints in the playoffs the next year. They went 10 and six and missed the playoffs and collapse the next year after that. They did nothing so you know they eventually had to fire the coach. So what was there to really talk about? There wasn't. Like how do you go in every day and go, well, let's talk about the Phillies. Now some of these Phillies sports guys can do that. I can't. I tell you this

all the time. When I got there, when I knew I was getting the job, I started listening more to WIP on the phone when I was in Houston. This is 2013, end of 2013. I'm listening. And I hear Rob Ellis doing the night show on WIP. Before they fired Glenn moved into the afternoons with the Cuzz. I'm listening to this and I want to say that the the the the Sixers who were supposed to be tanking beat the

heat. And I don't know if they were 2-0 or 3-0 to start or I forgot what exactly happened but they had beaten the Miami Heat the the the Heedles you know the big the big three all that shit and Rob Ellis is on the radio asking people baiting for calls asking if he thinks that the Sixers should now get out of tanking and try to compete now. And it's just the low-hanging fruit, awful uninteresting bullshit, right, that you're used to there. And some people can do that because that's how they view what's good. Rob Ellis can get on the radio tomorrow and take 15 consecutive phone calls about a bad hockey team.

I can't do that. That's not interesting to me. So when I was trying to keep the audience into it, my instinct was just to keep going back to shitting on Missinelli, even though we were already beating the shit out of Missinelli. Like, he was dead, buried. We had him.

If I would have eased out of that. Now, mind you, I'm doing the show with Spike. We're still doing well by the end of the year and my old boss Andy gets fired. So then it's what's next? And then that's when it really started falling apart because the Eagles were really bad. They had fired the coach and then I got suspended. Then we had to replace members of the show and it just became a train wreck and that's when it really got bad.

But if it would have been a point where if the Eagles were even a semi competitive team, like a good enough team to make a playoff run, it would have been better. If the Phillies would have been a competitive team that you could talk about on a day-to-day basis, the only shit we had to talk about with the Phillies is people throwing shit at fucking at Ryan Howard or the fucking closer grabbing his dick towards the fans. Like that's all we had to

talk about because that was it. So I was trying to find ways to make boring shit more interesting. Whereas the people who have the jobs there just take boring shit and keep it boring. If the things would have been more fun and the teams would have been better, I think it would have made it easier to stop trying to go to the Missanelli well. And if we would have been more fun and the teams would have been better. I think it would have made it easier to stop trying to go to the Missanelli well and if we would have done that earlier and just got back into being a fun show that wasn't so centered around shitting on Missanelli, I think that would have been a saving grace for it, which I agree with this person who said that. Let's see, said that. Let's see. Who's your favorite right handed green eyed 5'9' Philly athlete between 1980 and 1999? This is why I don't participate in sports radio. But I did listen

to a lot of sports radio when Josh was on. Says Jonathan, thank you. I got people from St. Louis saying they enjoyed the show too. Hiring Josh Ennis would mean 97.5 would finally compete against 94.1 in ratings. Don't let Mike Miss ruin your chance at the station changing ratings. Do the right thing. I mean these are just all day I'm getting these messages. People sending messages to Scott Masteller, the program director. And again, I would not urge you to email the program director. However, I have gotten multiple emails from people who have emailed the program director to let me know what they're saying. Example, let's

see this one is bring Josh Ennis back to Philly from this is Matt Raismeman who sent a long email to Scott Masteller. So there's that one. There is Eric Martin who also blind CC'd me on a long email he sent to Scott Masteller advocating that he like again this I don't think this is gonna matter but I appreciate it. Like I appreciate that there's so many people that would have that much interest in having me come back there. Honestly, I do not believe I could go back there and beat WIP because I don't think anybody could beat WIP after the Super Bowls and everything

else. WIP is just a monster and you're not going to beat them, but I think you can compete with them and make your station more viable. And I truly believe this. There is not a person you can hire that them and make your station more viable. And I truly believe this. There is not a person you can hire that will even give you a shot at viability. The only person that can do that is me, but you're not going to hire me. And that's your sandbox. You can do whatever the fuck you want, but that would be the play. And I think that would at least generate some interest and the blogs would write about it

in the papers and the TV and at least it would have some ears on it and then it would be a matter of whether or not you could keep the people that would be there for that initial buzz of it. You want to see gigantic fucking numbers on a radio show? Tease that I'm gonna that I have a job it's all over the papers that first show whenever that is say you got a 2.5 most days that show will probably have a 10 that day now again you have to have that tomorrow and the next day the next day which you may not so it may not matter but it would be a huge story there would we be able to maintain it I don't know but I feel

pretty confident that that it's never to happen again 0.0% but I appreciate all the people who have been sending the messages. I would never advocate for you emailing Scott Masteller who is the program director while he's on vacation. I would never ever ever ever do that. I would never ever advocate for you ever do that. I would never ever advocate for you emailing scott.masteller m-a-s-t-e-l-l-e-r at bbgi.com. I would never advocate you doing that while this man is trying to enjoy his vacation. But look, you can do whatever you want. It's your world scott.masteller at bbgi.com. But look, I'm not advocating to it. The man's on vacation.

Anyway, more to come.