The Josh Innes Show - Winter Storm Blair Day 3 (FML)

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

It is now the third day of Winter Storm Blair. As of this recording, we are still pretty much stuck in the house. Businesses are closed. The streets are covered in snow. This officially sucks. I have some thoughts on Howard Eskin being whacked at WIP in Philly. I don't know what Howard did or didn't do. But, I know the media in Philadelphia lies and has no remorse for doing so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, here we are. It is day three of winter storm Blair. It's about 10 in the morning on Monday, January 6th. It snowed last night. It snowed a good bit last night. And now we're all covered in snow. I've been watching the news. Seemingly nobody can drive out there right now. So we're trapped. We're trapped in the house. I don't understand how it is possible to not have these roads plowed and ready to go. I refuse to be held captive in my home for another day. I was stuck here yesterday. And because I was stuck here yesterday due to this stupid winter storm. I missed out on a lot of bets yesterday. Didn't hit a goddamn thing in the Detroit game last night. So it was a rough day. And now I'm stuck here in the house again. There's more snow outside currently than there was yesterday. I've been told that I need to go shovel the sidewalk. I don't even know if I have a shovel. So this is kind of what my situation is right now. This is my life. This is what I deal with. I tell you, and I know you have

your own lives, and many of you listening are probably somewhere that it snows. You might be someone that listens in Philly. The most snow I've ever seen in my life was in Philadelphia when we had like 20 inches of snow that one time. So you're well aware of what the snow is like, but I must get somewhere warmer. I don't want to deal with snow anymore. I don't want to live the snow life. I don't want to have to shovel snow. I don't want to have to be held captive in the house for days at a time because of snow, because the city can't handle the snow. I need to get somewhere warmer. This is the third day of this now. And now I'm actually going to have to go out and put work in. I think I might have some sort of snowblower that

I purchased when we were in Nashville, but I've never taken it out of the box, which to me already might be an indicator that it's a shitty snowblower because it's in a fucking box. I don't know how snowblowers work. And I also think it's an electric snowblower, so I think it might have to be plugged into something. So it might be an absolute disaster. I was talking to Jilly and she said, well, I think you have to shovel the sidewalk so we're going to get in trouble.

I'm like, well, it ain't my responsibility. I don't own the place. Then she starts reading me this list of things from the city of Kirkwood, Missouri that says, well, you know, if somebody injures themselves on your sidewalk that you haven't cleared, you're responsible. So now she's going to force my ass to go out there and shovel the damn sidewalk. My dog does not want to go for a walk at all. Like it's, I have to force him outside to go to the bathroom. I've been eating

sandwiches. Again, I know you have your own lives, and you have your own concerns in those lives. But as we sit here today at 10.02 on January 6th, big anniversary, January 6th, this is a miserable, miserable day. It is day three of winter storm Blair. I just want to get somewhere warmer. I want to go somewhere warmer. I got like

two months of severance coming my way still. Get me somewhere warmer. I don't have an agent anymore. We discussed this. Me and my agent parted ways last week because I felt like, hey, I'll just go out and do it on my own. Sisters are doing it for themselves. So I'm out there now. I'm single and I want to mingle. But most importantly, what I want to have happen is I need to get away from fucking snow. I do not want to be in a situation where I'm being held captive by the weather. Now, yes, you can live in some place. Like, again, we lived in Houston. There's flooding and there's hurricanes.

I get all that. I would rather the flooding and the hurricanes than the snow. I will take that any day of the week. I forgot to take down one of our umbrellas during the snow. Like I usually have this umbrella that's over the smoker for like when it rains and stuff. I walked out there this morning and it had tumbled over. The umbrella is now, it's dead. The umbrella has died due to the ice and the snow.

That's my fault. I take ownership for that. I accept the responsibility of that umbrella falling down, the death of the umbrella. The blood of the umbrella is on my hands, and I accept that. But my backyard is probably, when I opened the sliding glass door this morning, the snow was up to about, I don don't know above the ball of my ankle if you call it the ball of your ankle so we're probably in the backyard they're looking at three inches hold on let me get my dick out for comparison's sake yeah about three inches that's what we're looking at i'd say probably maybe a little bit more uh not my dick the snow so now i gotta go

shovel this it's gonna be a miserable day we can't go anywhere i just want to drive somewhere i don't care i just want to go somewhere i don't know how you guys are but like i don't understand how people can be trapped in their houses for days at a time like i i am going like i'm just like the shining this is just like the shining all work and no play makes jack a dull boy like i am red rom red rum like i am stuck in this house and it is terrible ross seems to be going stir crazy he's stark bananas he's lost it like he's like i just want to go do something like ross we can't go do anything you don't like the snow there's nowhere to walk we can't drive anywhere the cars are stuck I don't know what to tell you, Ross. And it actually might be more than three inches. By the

door, there was three inches, but I had also swept some of that away last night. I had knocked some of that away from the door. So it was probably like five inches. Who knows? Five, six inches. I don't know how many inches of snow there is outside. All I know is this is miserable. It is miserable, and I don't know how anybody could stand to live in areas where there is snow on a consistent basis. But if there's snow on a consistent basis, that might mean the city knows how to handle the snow. That might mean the city has an understanding of how to get the roads cleared so people can go about living their day. Like if you live in Montana, which I did when I was a kid, my guess is the people in Montana know how to handle the snow a lot better than the

people in St. Louis, Missouri. So they're just like, oh, snow's coming. Well, by the morning time, it'll be ready for you to drive to work. Here, everything's shut down. Schools are shut down. More businesses are shut down. The grocery stores are shut down. Everything's fucking shut down. And here I am, stuck in my house. Now, it wouldn't be that big of a deal had I not been stuck in my house for the last five months being unemployed. Like if this were a day off of work, I'd be like, hell yeah, this sounds like a plan. But it's not a day off of work. Because as Seth Rogen said in Knocked Up, no work today. So by that, I never have any freaking work. It's been five months since I've had work. There was a time it snowed last year.

When was that? February of last year, March, March or February of last year. It snowed. I guess it was February. Snowed last year. My buddy was in town. Snow falls down the day he gets in. We had just gotten Jilly's new car and I was going to take the day off work. I'm like, I can't get in. The snow is terrible. Like I can't get to work. And my boss is, because for some ungodly reason, in music radio, I guess you can't, like, just play the music and not need a disc jockey. You have to have the asshole come to the radio station

in the snow. So he's like, no, I need you guys to try to get here. Well, the guy on my show, Scott, got in a wreck in his car. Jilly got rear-ended in her new car and i sure as fuck wasn't going to try to drive the sonata to the radio station and i just love that that that that disappointment you get from management when like their asses ain't going to try to get in but management's like oh we really need you to try to get to the radio station that'd be really helpful like why we're playing fuck tons of led zeppelin and deaf leopard what

the fuck do you need me to risk my life for to go up there and tell people about the latest heart tour? What do you need me to do? But now I'm just lashing out. But anyway, let's play some commercials here. It is Monday. It is day three of the great winter storm blare now it appears that the actual snow fall is over so now hopefully these jamokes can get out there

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I commented on a story that Howard you want to call it that. I commented on a story that Howard Eskin or a post that Howard Eskin from Philadelphia, the king, had posted on his store on his Twitter. And it was about like the reason why he had gotten fired at WIP. Now, to be fair, Howard wasn't like a full time employee at at WIP. I hadn't been a full-time talk show host there since like 2011, but he was the Eagle sideline reporter. And it was kind of mysterious that Howard, just in the middle of a football season, gets fired and is no longer the sideline reporter. So when that story came down, you felt like there was something kind of off about it. Like a guy who's been in a market for that long, a guy who is loved and hated by many people, but a guy who's been there, his son works at the radio station, his son used to be the boss of the radio station,

just out of the blue in the middle of the season, like, oh, by the way, Howard no longer works for WIP and Howard is no longer the sideline reporter. And it's like, well, that's certainly an odd turn. And I thought that when it happened and I started asking people about it and they're like, well, I just guess they couldn't come to a contract agreement or something. And I'm like, that still doesn't make sense. That doesn't compute. That doesn't register that you would have a guy that's the sideline reporter for the Eagles for as long as he's been, you've got two or three games left in the year. You're about to go to the playoffs and you're going to fire the sideline reporter, or you're going to just say,

well, we couldn't come to terms on a contract like something was weird about that now keep in mind Howard a couple of months ago had already found himself in some controversy because he tried to give some sugars to an employee at uh at Citizens Bank Park or I think it was Citizens Bank Park and that was controversial and and he made an unwanted advance, whatever an unwanted advance towards somebody is. He apparently did that. So that made some news, but he still remained employed. And then this thing happened and he just up and quit or they reached an agreement that he wouldn't be there anymore. His time at WIP is over, whatever. But I knew there was something weird about that. That doesn't just happen. And even if he decided, hey, we're not

going to come back, you'd finish out the year. You're not just going to dump the sideline reporter from a big time broadcast like that, like the Eagles broadcast. You're not going to do that. That's not how the world works. So I knew something was up. And then last week, a story comes out that says that Howard was essentially fired because he yelled at some female employee at a remote and then forcibly grabbed this employee at the remote. It was a live broadcast.

They're doing the Brandon Graham show. The story apparently is that Howard was doing a broadcast with Brandon Graham. That's the one where Brandon Graham was saying basically that the quarterback and the wide receiver don't get along. The story goes that Howard got a text from Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Eagles, and he's like, you gotta shut this shit down. So then I'm guessing that Howard is talking to, off the air, he's talking to Brandon Graham about this.

Brandon Graham is like, okay, whatever. Someone comes over to tell Howard something. Howard then yells at the employee, apparently. Now, Howard's story is he didn't grab anybody, he didn't do anything, or he didn't attack anybody. He yelled at this person because it was a very serious conversation he was having with Brandon Graham, which, if it's true, and the owner of the Eagles is sending you a text message saying, hey, we got to get this guy off the air, well, what do you think Howard's going to be like, holy shit, what do we do? So apparently, and this is according to Howard, his tweet, Howard then followed this female employee, which none of us know who this is at this point. We don't know if it's a promotions person. We don't know if it's someone in management at WIP.

We don't know, but it's a remote. And if you guys don't, many of you listening are probably in Houston, have no idea. They do a player show on Mondays after games, and's at Chickies and Pete's which is this really big sports bar there's multiple locations but there's a really big sports bar in South Philadelphia pretty close to where the stadiums are we used to do our show there I think on Fridays is when we would do that show there and then they would do a player show on Mondays and Howard hosted the player show with Brandon Graham a lot of people come come out. It's a big money thing. Fine. So the story goes, according to Howard, he then followed this person to say, hey, I'm sorry. He said he apologized to this person multiple times, but this person didn't accept his apology for

yelling or whatever. And then the story makes it into the news that he forcibly grabbed somebody or attacked somebody or whatever. So I make a comment on Howard's post about this. And the comment is that the blogs and newspapers of Philadelphia are always dishonest in the way they cover radio people and other media people. That is what I said because I lived it. Now, of course, I'm getting inundated with tweets from McDougals telling me that I'm fat and I'm a loser and I failed in Philadelphia and that's fine. But that wasn't the point of this. The point of this was not to defend Howard because I don't know what he did or didn't do. It is not my place to defend someone when I don't have any fucking clue what actually happened. I have his word. I have the

word of this mysterious person who apparently fed it to the media. And then I have the newspaper stories, which I think I just don't believe. But that's my point. My point is I don't trust media, particularly media in Philadelphia that sells this kind of deceptive, biased journalism, if you want to call it that. That's what they're known for. And I can say this because as someone who lived it like it's easy to be some asshole whose avatar is Joel Embiid and you're like at Troel Embiid Stan 42 and it's like you can just go on there and rip whoever the hell you want to rip because there's no consequence and you're an inconsequential person and no one's ever going to attack you in the media and lie about you and defame your character and just get away with it because no one can stop them right like you don't know what that's like you don't know what it's

like to be a person who has to read about themselves every day and read lie after lie after lie you're a person who has a preconceived notion of people and when you have a preconceived notion of people you or you have a an already held belief someone, you want to believe the negative about them because you hate them anyway. There are so many people that want to believe the negative story about Howard because they don't like Howard. So they don't care if the story's true or not.

They choose to believe it because of their already preconceived, their pre-held notion of Howard that he's an asshole and they hate him. That's my problem with people. People don't care about the truth. And the same shit happened to me in Philadelphia. These people that wrote for these blogs already disliked me. So they were going to go with any story that someone fed them that was negative about me, whether it was true or not. And I would reach out to them and I'd go, I can tell you the truth. And they'd basically be like, no,

we don't really give a shit because you're probably lying. So me, the person that's being lied about is probably lying, but you're just going to believe some asshole at a radio station. You're going to believe some second or third hand information from someone who doesn't like me. And no one would question that. No one in Philly would question this shit. They just accepted it because people didn't like me. So they wanted it to be true. Do you realize how fucked up you people are? You are so hell bent on having your beliefs verified and validated that you don't care about the truth and you are willing to have people lie. You accept lies because it's the truth to you. You fucking suck. I have no idea what Howard did. Howard's always been a nice guy to me. I never had any

negative interaction with Howard. When Howard says he's never put his hands on anybody in the 40 years he's been doing media in Philadelphia, I believe it. He's a small, docile little guy. There's no way that motherfucker's ever taken a swing at anybody. He's four and a half feet tall. I don't believe this guy has ever done anything forcibly in terms of like an altercation with anybody. I do know that Mike Missanelli, who's also another small little weasel, punched a guy, yet people idolize him there. Obviously, the case here is people dislike Howard. So they're willing to accept every negative story about Howard because they dislike him. So when I come out and say, I don't know what Howard did or

didn't do, but I don't trust Crossing Broad because I know they told lies about me. I don't trust the Philadelphia Inquirer because they told lies about me. But the story just becomes, well, they were right about you being a douche, so it's okay that they lied about you. So because you think I'm a douchebag that's bad at radio, you think it's okay that media outlets go and flat out lie about people. That's a fucking problem. You're fucking imbeciles and you're losers and you're never will be's. That's the thing about never will be's. Never will be's will sit around and they are fine with people being slandered and lied

about as long as they agree with it. If they don't agree with it, then the media is lying. Oh my God, the media is full of lies. If the media comes out and said Joel Embiid is an asshole and they love Joel Embiid,, the media is full of lies. If the media comes out and said, Joel and B's an asshole and they love Joel and B, then the media is full of liars. But like in Houston, if the media comes out and says the Astros are cheaters, well, the media is a liar. But if someone in the media says the Astros aren't cheaters and fuck everybody else, the media is telling the truth. People are all full of shit and all they want is for their opinion to be validated. And they don't care about what's real. They don't care that you're being lied about. They don't care that you're being slandered.

They don't care. Like I would read these stories about me in Philadelphia all the time, man. And I would tell people this is not true and they would not give a shit, but because they disliked me so much, would just believe it and like people just accept lies like i would read these stories that like that like me and my program director would sit around in his office all day and devise these howard stern schemes where we'd go back and listen to howard stern tapes and steal all these ideas and i'm like that never fucking happened sure we'd sit around talk about radio all the fucking time i'd sit in his office all the fucking time. He's my goddamn boss. He was like my therapist, but we never sat there and we're like, watch this. But of course, like anybody

with a brain, when you hear negative stories about people, anybody with a brain has to know they're coming from a side of someone who dislikes that person. So like who knows how true it is or not. I guarantee you most of the negative shit that was coming out about me was just from people who didn't like me, whether it be at the radio station or wherever. They never talk to people who like you or on your side. They never talk to the countless friends you have in the building.

They never say, hey, can we get an alter, can we get another opinion on this guy? No, they just want the fucking negative because they want it to feed their opinion and they want their opinion to be right. They don't want to put out a story that says, well, from an unnamed source at WIP, Josh Ennis is an asshole, but here's 10 friends of his that think he's the fucking tits because that wouldn't do anything. They're fucking deceptive. They're liars. They're cocksuckers. So I don't know what Howard did. I guarantee you that Howard didn't do anything that over the top to this person. I don't know if this was a management person. I don't know if this was a salesperson. I don't know if it was a promotions person that goes and sets up

the tables and the tents at remotes. I don't know. But I do know that we're in an era now where if you yell at anybody, somehow you're a giant asshole. I don't know. But I do know that we're in an era now where if you yell at anybody, somehow you're a giant asshole. I got yelled at so many times coming up in this industry, man. I got called names. I had bosses telling me all sorts of bad shit about me. We all did it. But what I'm guessing happened, and I don't know. I wasn't there. But I have no reason to believe that Howard's lying about this. Howard's already been fired. What does it matter what happens to Howard at this point? What is he trying to protect at this point?

I'm going to guess that what Howard said is more true than what we're reading in the paper. That he got a message. They needed Brandon Graham to shut the hell up. He's talking to Brandon Graham. This person interrupts him. And he's like, listen, I'm fucking busy. And by the way, this is while you're on the air. So you're probably in a break.

You probably have a few-minute commercial. You're trying to get all this settled before you go back on the air, would be my guess. Maybe it was someone saying, hey, you need to get back on the air. Very well could have been that. I don't know. And then he yells at this person. This person leaves. He tries to get this person's attention to say, I'm sorry.

This person doesn't forgive him because, oh, God forbid you forgive someone for fucking yelling at you. And then it becomes this huge story. And because people dislike Howard. And to a degree, I don't believe that Howard deserves to be lied about and have his name dragged through the mud. But I understand why people feel the way they do feel about Howard because he has spent 40 years being the guy that drags everybody else's name through the mud. So while I don't think he deserves it in this case, in this instance, I understand why people feel the way they feel about that. But that still doesn't make it right. It doesn't make it right to accept lies about someone just because you dislike them and you want your opinion of them to be validated that's my biggest issue I have with this and again I lived it there were so many things that I would

read about myself that just weren't fucking true and everybody believed it and I knew who the people that were giving them the information were because it was so ridiculous I I remember reading Crossing Broad one time and it literally said Josh peed his pants when he was confronted by Anthony Gargano. Not true. It's something that a meathead dipshit would tell people. Oh, he peed his pants when I encountered him. Like, it's such a dipshit Philadelphia thing to say. Yet they ran with that.

And I'm like, the fact that anybody would believe this is so fucking comical. I'm six foot three. And at the time I weighed like 340 pounds. I was a gelatinous fucking marshmallow man of a human. I was not going to pee my pants because some asshole at the radio station encountered me. And by the way, there was a person that I was already talking to in the room for that, that saw the whole thing go down and knows exactly how it went down. When he read it was like this is absolute bullshit this is not how this went down i'm like of course it wasn't they're just fucking liars so my point is not that you know that i believe that like howard is like that howard did or didn't do anything because i don't know what howard did i think

it's something that's probably being very overblown and it's added on top of what happened with the ledge thing that happened at the ballpark, which made it easier to dump him. I do believe that he's being lied about. I believe that they've exaggerated this thing. And I believe him. I believe him. Like when I read his story, I believe the story he told. Now, it doesn't mean it's true. I'm just telling you my opinion.

When I read the way he broke his story down I'm like I think that tracks that seems like something could happen and in 2025 people aren't going to accept your apology people are going to think you're an evil human like that's just the way this shit works so it's all bullshit so my whole fight in this was not that I'm trying to defend Howard. It's that I'm railing against the media that is since, especially like in Philadelphia, it's all sensationalism. They're just trying to get you to click. They don't care about the truth. By the way, that's the same with the sports radio there. They don't care about truth. They care about lies and distortion and they care about you clicking on the story and they don't care because they have no credibility these people are crossing broad don't have any fucking credibility they're not journalists quote-unquote they're bloggers they're not trying to get the truth they have

their belief they run with their belief when they would report this shit like well the ratings are out and uh mike missanelli is winning because his stream numbers are higher. Nobody gave a fuck about stream numbers 12 years ago. I didn't get bonused on fucking stream numbers. My contract didn't say, well, if your stream numbers combined with this, you get a huge bonus. None of that mattered. But that's the story they ran with because they're full of shit and they wanted it to be true. And they chose a side and their side was Missanelli. And that's fine. But they're liars and they've lied about me. They have told lies about me and did not get my side of the story on these lies.

So why would I believe anything they write about anyone when I know from firsthand accounts, from firsthand information, from me, from my own experience, why would I believe anything they fucking say? So fuck them. Thank you. And of course, the Philly people go get lost man you were a crumb here again none of that matters whether you like me or not doesn't matter you should be upset when people are telling lies about someone and you just openly suck it all in and suck it

all down because you want it to be true you're part of the problem you fucking neanderthals all right i'm about to shovel some snow