The Josh Innes Show - Kids With Famous Parents

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

Tiger Woods son didn't make the cut at the US Open. It has to be a double edged sword having a famous parent. Not just a famous parent, but a parent who is the greatest of all time. I share a few stories of being around the children of famous people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do fintechs like Float choose Visa? As a more trusted, more secure payments network, Visa provides scale, expertise, and innovative payment solutions. Learn more at visa.ca slash fintech. Just saw this headline that Tiger Woods' son Charlie failed to qualify for the US Open. I don't know if there could be any worse position to be in. I mean they're obvious other all-time greats who've had kids that have followed in their footsteps and all that, but I can't think of a worse situation

for a young dude than to be the son of a legend. Like it's got to suck. Like on the one hand you get their you know you get their genetics so there's a chance that you too might end up being great at something so that's kind of cool right like wow I get to be just like my dad like who knows I might also be an all-time great and I don't think that Tiger Woods son experiences the same kind of pressure that other people do because it's golf and no one gives a shit about golf so it's not like the whole world is their eyes locked on this dude and it's not like he's been forced upon you like

LeBron's kid. Like LeBron's kid has a ton of pressure because obviously he's fucking LeBron's kid. So that's not easy because LeBron, for all of his faults, is an all-time great, debatably the greatest basketball player that's ever walked the face of the earth. And now you have to be his kid and the kid is being forced upon everybody. Therefore, we're like, okay, we're sick of this dude already. None of us even know what's going on with Tiger Woods kid because no one talks about golf anymore.

And why don't people talk about golf anymore? Because Tiger Woods doesn't golf anymore. Therefore, no one for the most part gives a shit about golf, except a lot of dudes that do sports radio and think that the world gives a shit about what's happening in golf when most people don't. So imagine the stress. Now it's even tougher if you're like in a sport that people give a shit about and then you try to play that sport. Like I can imagine Michael Jordan's kids playing high school and you know and basketball and college and shit. Like they

never had a chance. There was no fucking hope. Like that's almost unfair. It's a weird thing. It's a double-edged sword to be the son of someone so famous and so great at something, right? Because on one hand, you're like, hey, life's good. I live in a mansion. I got all the money.

I'll never have to worry about anything. I had everything growing up. My dad's fucking Michael Jordan. On the other hand, if you ever want to try to achieve anything, people are always either going to compare you to your dad or they just want to meet your dad because they know who your dad is. So it is certainly a double-edged sword. That said, plenty of people have been the children of extremely famous

folks and have gone on to do things. Like, okay, here's what, I'm trying to think if. I've ever really encountered someone famous as kid like someone super famous as kid and kind of knew them and you know, whatever. One time when I played high school golf, I was at a golf course called the Island in Plaquemine, Louisiana. Mind you, I was not good at high school golf. I was like the alternate and and I would just cheat all the **** time and if you played with the right people, they

would kind of at least understand that you were cheating like we played double par is the way golf worked in high school for us, which means you couldn't get worse than double what par was. So if it was a par four, once you got eight, it was like, alright, you take an eight. So like let's say the front nine is par thirty-six, it was like, all right, you take an eight. So like, let's say the front nine is par 36, right? Basically the worst you could do in that scenario, then I guess is shoot like a 72. Would that make sense?

If you doubled par on every hole, you could shoot like a 72. It was a big deal for one of us, like me and my buddy to even get into the fifties ever, which would have been super fucking duper rare, like very rarely happened. But like I could get into the high 50s and that would be a big deal. So if I could make myself look good, I would sometimes cheat because who gives a fuck? My score didn't matter anyway. I was an alternate. I was playing with other alternates. The problem is some of these private schools, their alternates were really fucking good because they had like 10 dudes that wanted to golf. We had

like five dudes on the entire golf team. I was the worst. I was probably the second to worst. My buddy Martin was the worst of the golfers on the golf team. I was probably second worst, but I played nonstop. Like I'd get off from school and I would just grab my bag, go to the shitty golf course in Brule, the one that had the sewage ditch and trailer park that line the 17th airway, and I would go out there and walk 1836 holes after school and try to get better and I fucking sucked. So I would cheat sometimes just so

I could go in and not have double par on every hole. So like every now and then I'd write down like a six or a seven on a par four and then then you'd get the dickheads that would count your strokes. The private school kids love to count your fucking strokes. Like I vividly remember like dudes from like Catholic High School and dudes from like Bishop Sullivan High School like dudes that were at the private schools, dudes who probably thought they were going to college to play golf, dudes that would count my fucking strokes and I'd be like fuck

dude let me have this. I'm terrible at this. I'm mediocre at basketball. Can you just let me have something here you sack of shit? So like I'd go okay I got a seven and then they would give you that condescending look. There'd be a look about them. Like I'd go because like they had to keep, they had to write down your score and you had to write down the other person's score, you know, I guess to keep it honest. So like let's say I had a score card out and I had to keep, you know, Colton's score from Bishop Sullivan High School, then I would have to be like, you know, what'd you get

on that one? He's like, well, I had like a six, I had a par and I'd write that shit down. So then I would tell him like, it's par four and say I had a seven. And there were times that these sacks of shit would point out all of my fucking shots. Well, off the tee, you went left, then you duffed your second shot. Your third shot was just short of the sand trap. Your fourth shot was in the sand trap. Your fifth shot was also in that same sand trap.

Then you finally got up on the green in seven and then you four putted. So I've got you down as about a 12. Like, oh, fuck you. Just let me have this you sack of shit. Now what this story has to do with rich people and powerful people's kids, I will tell you after these words. All right, it's the playoffs playoffs basketball playoffs right now and there is no better way to try to make a couple of bucks by putting your knowledge of

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I was in high school and I was playing golf with Nick Saban's son. Now, I don't know if Saban had already left or not. I don't think he had left LSU yet, but Saban's son was playing golf and I forgot which school it was. high school. But I want to say that he got kicked out of a school for something. I don't remember what it was. That was the story. I have no clue if this is true or if it isn't true or what. But I know that one of Nick Saban's kids played golf. And I played golf with one of Nick Saban's kids played golf. And I played golf with one of Nick Saban's kids. And let me see if I can find details on this kid. I think his name was Nick. Like I think his kid's

name was Nick Saban. Let's see. Nicholas Saban, son of fucking Nick Saban. Let me see if I can find this. All I know is that the story was that like, and and again I have no clue if this was true or if this wasn't true but this is kind of like like this is what we heard that he had gotten kicked out of a school because he had like had drugs or some **** and he had to go to a different school and ended up at this school and I was playing golf with Nick Saban's son. I don't remember

if he was any good. I know that I wasn't. I don't know what we talked about for the nine holes that we played that afternoon at the Island Club in fucking Plaquem in Louisiana. All I know is that I played golf with Nick Saban's son. And that's all I remember. So the story is not that fascinating. But that's kind of like the only time I've ever been around someone who's like the son of someone who is this legendary Hall of Fame dish jockey that used to work at Z 100 in New York back in the fucking glory days. And she's like, Yeah, my dad's in town. So he's in one of the production

rooms doing his thing. He also has a countdown called like Hollywood Hamilton's like top 40 or some shit. And I'm like, Holy shit, I need to go meet this chick's dad. And like when I met this chick's dad, I was like Chris Farley talking to the Beatles. I'm like, Hey, remember when you were on Z100? He's like, Yeah, like, it's awesome, huh? That's cool, huh? And like, eventually, he humored me for a little bit. And then like I said something stupid because like he was nominated for the Hall of Fame that year.

And I'm like, Oh, well, who cares? It's a bullshit Hall of Fame anyway. And he's like, I well who cares? It's a bullshit Hall of Fame anyway and he's like, I don't think so. I might end up being in it. I'm like, that's exactly right. You got it dude. And it was just kinda cool to talk to that guy, you know. Oh, you know what? Actually, I met Eddie Money's daughter once too. The Eddie Money's daughter story is actually a better one because Eddie Money's daughter was, well let's rewind.

So this was probably back in 2017 or 2018 and there was a concert at, what the hell is the name of the horse track in Houston? Where like they have concerts and horse racing and shit, whatever the hell the name of that venue was. But there was a concert and the concert was, I believe it was Eddie Money and it was, oh who am I thinking of, Flirting with Dis- Molly Hatchet and the headliner was Hank Williams Jr. And I ended up getting tickets, me and Jilly, to hang out in this tent area with free booze and all this shit. So I'm over there drinking. The opening act was Molly Hatchet and they did like flirting with disaster for like four hours or whatever.

Then they were done. Then Eddie Money goes up. And Eddie's doing all the Eddie shoes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you want to talk with the Money Man or what? You know, he's doing his whole deal. Like, hey, you want to do some shaking with the Money Man or what? Whatever. All of his kids are in the band right so like his son plays guitar his other son plays the drums his daughter like plays the tambourine and sings back up and shit and they were like a family band so we're over in this tent and we're like you know drinking beers or whatever and his daughter comes off the stage jesse money jessica mahoney she runs off the stage and i don't know how we broach the subject, but it becomes, hey, do you want to do shots? Like this is during like a solo, like the

show is still going on. She runs off the stage, does a shot, goes back up on stage, then comes back later in the show and does another shot with us. And then I was like, hey, can we meet your dad? And she's like, No, I'm like, Okay. And then somehow, like, I don't know that I wouldn't call us friends or anything like that. I don't think she remember us. But I have like, like mentioned her in something before and she recalled, you know, doing shots. So that did happen. Yeah, I'm

trying to I can't think of you would think I've been in these situations before because well, you know what? There was the time I went to Master P's kids birthday party at his mansion in the Country Club of Louisiana. Now granted we didn't meet Master P because he wasn't there, but his daughter had a birthday and I don't know how my dad got invited to do cartoon voices fish out of fucking water, bro My dad and me at Master P's house. I'm out on the basketball court I'm wearing like Timbaland's out on the basketball court with these dudes on this no-limit soldier basketball court

That's got the big no-limit logo in the middle of it My dad's in this fucking mansion doing cartoon voices and shit like I'd like my life has been fascinating in that way and that I have these interesting moments that I've had that aren't really overly interesting, but they're at least somewhat interesting. At least they're unique. Like, oh, you rode in a limo to New Orleans with Al from Home Improvement and hung out on Bourbon Street with him when you were 15? Yeah, I did that. You had this, you had, you've you know, like you had this you had Billy Dean Country Singer play in your graduation party in

your backyard. Yeah, I did that. Like none of these are huge things. None of these are things where you'd go like, holy shit. Did you know that Van Halen played his backyard like that would be epic. It's always like some C&D list person that my dad knows, but I end up kind of in the middle of it, you know. And that was like, that's my life. And I guess all this kind of starts with the idea that Tiger Woods' son didn't make the cut. See, I can always

make it about sports. That's the unique quality I possess. Now I've made it about sports again. But like Michael Jordan's son like just got busted for like coke or some shit or a DUI. But the thing is, I feel like Michael Jordan was an absentee father. That was just a different era. I just feel like he probably wasn't that great of a dad. And you happen to have the most famous athlete in the history of athletes as a dad, and that can't be easy. It's like it couldn't be easy. If Taylor Swift were your mom, it

would probably be a difficult life to lead, right? And who knows if this Charlie Woods will ever be good. He sounds like he's pretty good already. He didn't make the cut for the US Open. But that's got to suck though. I mean, again, it's a double-edged sword. It sucks and it's awesome. It sucks that your dad is Tiger Woods.

It's fucking awesome that your dad is Tiger Woods. It's also golf. Who gives a shit, right? All right, anyway, more to come.