The Josh Innes Show - All Sports Should Be Streamed

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

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The picture is incredible. Sunday night football streaming is remarkable. That the YouTube game on Friday was spectacular to watch. I don't have an amazing TV. I have a high sense. It's a decent, like, mid-level TV, right? And if you get the right type of stream, it looks fantastic. I keep thinking it's the TV that's been a problem.

Like when I watch the NBA finals or I watch something on TV and it just looks like shit. And I'm like, how do other people have shit that looks great? And I don't. It must be the TV. It ain't. It's just TV in general. It's just over-the-air television. Let me play a couple commercials.

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I think it was that national championship. It was the year that North Carolina won. It was in St. Louis is where the game was played, I believe. It was arch madness, whatever. So I'm over at the home of Mr. Rupert Fitzgerald. His wife, Ms. Page Fitzgerald, was a teacher at our school. and they were very good friends with the principal who I was very, like we all, we were all buddies, right? I was in high school. I guess I would have been out of high school at that point or about to graduate high school. And I remember sitting in the house with them over to his house. And I see HD TV for the first time. And I was, I've never seen it like a revelation. It was like a shock went through my body. And I said, wow, I've seen the future. There's nothing better than this. This is remarkable. Like the first time I saw Nintendo 64, PlayStation 2, it's like nothing's going to get better. than this. This is remarkable. So I watched that and I go, wow, I've never seen anything

like this before, like HDTV. And it was like I was shot heroin. Like, I've never shot heroin, but from what I gather, it's really fucking great, particularly the first time you shoot heroin because like people chase it forever. That's what all the drugs,inks, episodes and the wire and all that shit's about. Like people just chasing that next high and they want to mimic that high and they cannot mimic that high. They don't know how to achieve that same amazing feeling that they had achieved the first time they shot heroin, right? I've never been able to recapture that. Like that first time feeling of seeing HD television.

So I went out searching for it. I bought like a, like I thought just because the TV was flat screen, that maybe that would do it. So I bought like a little flat screen TV, but it didn't have HD capabilities at the time. This was 20 years ago. So it still looked like shit. It was the same shitty picture. And like I chased that. And then dad bought one of these gigantic 60-something-inch floor TV.

I wasn't hung on the wall. It was like moving a house to move it. But dad moved it from his house into my apartment when I had an apartment in Baton Rouge. And when I plugged in the HD into that, I would watch golf. Like I'd get home from work at like 1130 at night. I'd go through the drive-thru at a Waterburger on Seagan Lane, which was right down the road from my apartment. I'd go into my apartment, and I would turn on the golf channel and eat Waterburger and watch the golf channel in HD. And I thought it was the most remarkable thing I'd ever seen.

Fast forward to now I'm watching 4K and I've seen things in 4K before but the Michigan State game was in 4K Michigan State Boston College Bad job by Bill O'Brien blew the game in double overtime

Okay whatever But I'm watching this And I see 4K football And then you compare it to just normal cable or normal over the air football And I don't know how we live that way I don't like

And I don't know if this happens where you are, it has to. And I think part of it is because, from what I've read, is it has something to do with, like, not the compression, but something they do to hammer down the picture. And it fucks with the picture quality. Like, if you ever try to watch the NBA on ABC, if you try to watch their NBA finals coverage, no matter what, it is always this kind of grainy, shitty picture.

Football's the same way. ESPN looks like shit. Like, their sports look like shit. But then you watch streaming games, These ones that are, you know, you watch the Sunday ticket on YouTube, and it's remarkable. Like, I couldn't get enough. I was watching the Friday football game, the Chiefs game, immaculate picture. I'm watching that 4K game with Michigan State Boston College, immaculate picture.

I'm watching all the games that were streaming yesterday, immaculate. But then you flip on cable, you flip on ESPN, it looks like shit. Like, how can you create a universe where you can miss? mimic the, and I know that there's some scientific, some official reason why all this happens. And I'm sure I was kind of on the right track and the way I was breaking it down with the different ways they kind of hammered down the picture, compression, whatever. But how is it that you pay all this money for cable and you buy a TV? Like this TV I bought it. It's like a $1,000 TV. I got it on sale like on Amazon Prime Day, but I think it's like an $8, $900 TV, $1,000 TV, maybe a little bit more.

I think it might have been like a $12 or $1,300 TV that I got on sale on Amazon Prime Day. Something like that. I forgot what it was. It was like 800 bucks. You go out and you buy this TV because you're like, well, my TV must suck. These games look like shit. Then you buy a TV and realize games still looks like shit until you see 4K and all these other things. I understand that there's a lot of money that goes into it.

How can these people justify not having everything in 4K? Because we've seen it. We've experienced it. I'm watching Michigan. I don't want to turn off Michigan State Boston College. I don't give a shit about Michigan State or Boston College. but I'm watching the game because holy shit, it looks so stunning

and I can't take my fucking eyes off of it. How is it that all of these sporting events are not available in this? And I know it's a cost thing. I'm sure there's a lot of factors. The cameras are more expensive. How can we get to a place where everything looks like that? I get that like some games aren't going to be worth it.

Like LSU Louisiana Tech is not going to be worth, you know, putting in this thing. But if it's just, if it's like Texas and Ohio State, if it's, what was a big game over the weekend, right? And if it was Michigan and Oklahoma, if that's what we get, why can't we get that shit in 4K? I want all of the marquee events in 4K. It looks phenomenal. Like I'm addicted to this shit now.

So, yeah, watching the games and actual television, they look like shit. I don't know if this, I'm sure this happens where you are. And maybe we're just so used to it that we accept it. But when you see 4K and you see how good life can be in 4K, You don't want to go back. You just want to watch more shit in 4K. I am an addict to this shit. And then yesterday I'm watching all these games.

And Jillie and I just keep remarking, like, you can read the names on the back of the jerseys. Like, you can see people's faces. Like, I have HD. I mean, look, everybody has HD. I have HD and I watch the... Well, here's where it was really night and day. Like, you go from, like, you know, the colorized world to, you know, Pleasantville, right? Is we're streaming all day because the two games that were on TV early, we didn't really watch a ton of,

because they just weren't games we were following all that close we were just watching everything on the stream on YouTube but the Lions game was on TV so to watch that we had to flip over to the Lions game on Fox or whatever it was on and when I flipped this on

we both look at each other and we're like holy shit I mean this looks like Stone Age shit compared to what we were seeing on the stream look this would be my advice to you just stream shit on YouTube TV just like for games

stream that shit because it looks phenomenal and 4K look I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know oh Josh breaking news that 4K is remarkable of course breaking news 4K is remarkable how can we not get more of this like that figure that shit out networks I want every marquee event to have 4K a lot of them do but I'm watching Michigan State and Boston College and it was the best picture I've ever seen for a sporting event just remarkable and we need more of this too much technology

for people to be stuck watching shitty TV. The TVs are so expensive. Oh, the cable's so expensive. Things are too modern, and technology is too fucking good for anybody to sit around and have to watch shitty TV and shitty picture quality. And that's what we get with a lot of these sporting events. Do better. I want all of it in 4K, God damn it.