The Josh Innes Show - Life Rant Part 1

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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You were made to scream from the front row. We were made to quietly save you more. Expedia, made to travel. Savings vary and subject to availability. All right, everybody. Welcome in, all up, Ennis. Hello. Glad to have you guys along. Been kind of an up and down week in terms of getting pods in, my bad. It's just been, you know, just different shit like today. I meant to get this in early. I was going to do it earlier. I forgot there was a big staff meeting at the radio station. So I couldn't do that at that time. But I'm trying to get a couple of these in tonight, ready to go, locked and loaded. I tried the, um, YouTube a little bit.

I mean, I know that I would have to do a little bit more of that and promote it a little bit more and set times that people would know when I'm doing it. So I get that. But yeah, I look, I gave it a couple of days. It seemed like it got a decent reaction from people, which is cool. I appreciate that I got a decent reaction from people. So it may be something I start trying to do every day.

The problem is, and that's the issue I ran into. And actually first, let me play a couple commercials and then we will get into this. One of the issues that I've ran into with it, and maybe I'm wrong here and maybe, you know, I'm misguided as it were on how this works. But, you know, if I were doing that, I end up recording those at, you know, 10 o'clock in the morning. And I don't know how many people watch YouTube shit at 10 o'clock in the morning live. Obviously, they watch some shit live. It's not like, you know, Pat Mac if he's on at whatever time he's on.

There's a lot of things that are on at times. It's not really a matter of the time. It's just a matter of whether or not people are actually going to watch. But let me see this. Let me ask this question. What is the best time of day to go live on YouTube? Let's see. The best time to go live on YouTube generally falls on weekdays between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

and evening 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. You know, I'd be going on at 10 o'clock in the morning, which would be 9 o'clock in the morning, or thereabouts at 10 o'clock in the morning. 9 o'clock in the morning in Houston where a good bulk of our listeners are. So now let me ask the internet this question. Is 10 a.m. a bad time to go live on YouTube? 10 a.m. is inherently bad for YouTube live streams,

especially on weekends, or if your audience is in a different time zone, but it's often not the peak time, which is afternoon 2 to 4p or evening 7 to 9 usually see higher engagement so check your specific audiences when your viewers are on youtube data the other again the bigger issue is not what time i'm on the bigger issue is i haven't been on youtube in like three years four years however long it is then i decided to go live on youtube the other day and the first day you know i mean we probably the most we had at a time was probably 30 something people watching which is cool like look

i appreciate the people doing that i don't think that the time matters i mean pat maccuffy isn't on at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Pat McAfee's on at, you know, whatever time he's on and he gets a ton of a ton of views. He's a big star, obviously, and I'm not. So, you know, it is what it is. But like, if I went on on YouTube at night drinking beer and shooting shit with people, there'd probably be more people. And real talk, I think that's the way I'd build a unique show is doing shit at night, drinking beer. But I'll be real with you. My setup at home sucks ass. It's, it doesn't sound as good. It doesn't look as good. I'm in this dark little room. Our house is. fucking tiny kids. Like I

like it is, I want to say it's less than a thousand square feet. Now if you count like the basement area, which is not finished, but could technically be livable. And then this room upstairs, which is livable, but we just use it as storage space and everything else. It's got a bathroom up there, but we just

store a bunch of shit up there. But in the main living area, the kitchen, the living room and the two bedrooms and the bathroom downstairs, we don't have any fucking space. Like it's wild to me that a bed would have fit in this room that I'm in right now. Like if you put a bed in this room, which is technically a bedroom, if you would put a bed in here, like I feel pretty confident because in our main bedroom, you want to hear about tiny shit. Our main bedroom does not have

enough space on either side of the bed when we put it in there to have nightstands. Our nightstands are on like the, like imagine you got a bed, it's up against a wall. There's not enough, the back of the bed is up against a wall. There's not enough space for nightstands. So you look, forward to the next wall, and that is where the nightstands are. They're on the opposite end of the room with our chest of drawers, as it were, that has a TV on it. Like, this place is fucking tiny. And look, look, it's our fault. We always rent places, generally speaking, without seeing them. That's kind of how we operate, because we, you know, it's, it ain't easy to get from St. Louis to Detroit to look at places. You've got to find somewhere quick because they decide to give you the

job. Then they give you the job and you have a short amount of time to find a place. They tell you you could stay in like a, you know, a living, you know, like a short-term place until you find a place, but that fucking sucks. And it just requires more moving and it blows. So we never do that. We, the only place we ever moved in with having looked at the place. Well, technically two. No, actually, no, one. Nashville, we actually went to Nashville, looked at the place that we ended up renting and chose that place.

St. Louis, we drove by the house we wanted to rent and we kept contacting the guy until they gave it to us and the pictures looked a lot nicer than the actual house if we're being real, but that's usually how it goes. Then we get into the fucking place and it's all kind of dirty and we're kind of shocked by. We had to bring someone in to clean it. Same thing with here.

Look, it's my own fucking fault. Like, I just tried to get shit, you know, I did a walk through on a call with someone. I did like a Skype with somebody, the person that rented this house. And it's amazing how different houses look even on a phone. On the phone, don't be fooled by the phone. The phone will lead you to believe that the place you're going to rent is a far more impressive

place than it is in terms of size. Like, I remember looking at the place and looking at it through, you know, a FaceTime. And I told the lady, I'm like, wow, that living room's pretty fucking spacious. That's awesome. She's like, yeah, sure is. It ain't all that spacious. Like, look, I know you got your own problems in life, you got your own issues in life. And I respect that you got your own issues in life.

and everybody, like everybody has ups, everybody has down peaks, valleys, I get all that shit. I need the radio show in Detroit to be fucking successful so I can start making fucking money again and get myself a place with a little bit of space, get a smoker again. Like, look, I like to offer you guys insights into my life. That's what I always do here. That's what the podcast is. We talk sports. We talk about all the other dumb shit.

And then I offer you insights into my life. And you know what the insights on my life are. And I've told you them before. I used to make a shitload of money. I don't make a shitload of money anymore. There are two times that I legitimately, in my main adult era of life, that I started making legit money.

I made a shit ton of money in Houston the second time around, which was great because there was no real talk, no legalized sports betting, so I didn't just sit around and just pump all my fucking money into these gambling sites. So that was number one.

And number two was the time again in St. Louis when I went back to St. Louis and was making well into six figures and things were going pretty good financially. I also got myself into a house that was way too fucking expensive because I wanted to live in the neighborhood. And then I had to pay an agent and I had to pay everything. By the time I was getting paid, I was paying off everything. Even though I was making good money.

And I was also setting money on fire sports betting. So like I've done some dumb shit. I've done some smart shit, you know, but here's what has to happen. And part of it comes down to having the podcast needing to be successful, which again, I don't put enough effort into it. and I owe you guys more than that. Now, I put effort that I can into it, but I have a job and I have other shit. Like, ideally would I like to have video?

Yes, ideally what I like to try to pump out content and post videos every day and try to draw new people into the podcast? Absolutely. I fucking would. But, like, I'm a one-man band, and I ain't got a ton going for me right now in terms of money to pay people to do it.

I am a one-man band. And if I could do it from home, I guarantee you that the pod would actually sound better and the videos would be great because I'd sit here on my ass, drink wine some nights, bush beer some nights, and just hang out, drink beer with you and talk sports, and I guarantee it would be fucking awesome. The problem is my setup at home is trash. This little room I'm in, as I said earlier, this little room might as well be a padded fucking cell.

Like, like, jilly's got a stack or clothes everywhere. The closet space in our fucking house, they're like porta-potty side. Actually, that's not fair. There is a handicap-sized porta-potty that I take a leave. and when I take Ross on walks every day, that's how I choose the parks that I take him to is if there's a porta potty, which by the way,

and I'm not telling you anything you didn't already know, porta potty's this time of year fascinating because it's like eight degrees. They're pitch black because there's snow covering like the little sunroof on them, so it's pitch black, and it's just frozen shit. That's all it is in these toilets,

frozen poopies in the toilet. So I choose where I take Ross to make sure there's a plane because you're a real talk. I pissed myself a couple of, like two months ago. I was trying to get Ross back home. I couldn't find a fucking bathroom. And I pissed myself in the car.

We just, we talked about it. It was a horrible situation. I felt almost inhuman. Like there is no less, like you want to feel inhuman. You want to feel terrible about yourself. Piss yourself in the car and have urine running down your sweats into your sketchers. You want to really feel like an asshole. Piss your pants.

Have the pee run down your leg. in the car into your sketchers to the point you have to throw away your shape-ups because there's urine in them.