The Josh Innes Show - Living In The Moment

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

Last night I watched the last few minutes of the Pacers/Knicks game and it was awesome. This is random, but somehow I get on a tangent about living in the moment and how I cannot seem to do so. Why is it when I was 10 years old, I could watch an entire random sporting event. But, as a 38 year old man, I cannot watch more than the last few minutes? Is it as simple as phones totally changing our lives? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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game and I don't know what that says about me as a person, you know, because young Josh, young boy Josh, a boy of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, could watch any sporting event in full. It didn't matter if I had rooting interest. It didn't matter if I had bet on it, which I obviously hadn't done when I was 9 years old. So I could watch anything. Like that's what I liked. I remember growing up in Montana, I say growing up there, I lived, it's hard to say where I grew up because by the time I was 11, I had lived in 10 places. So or it's something like that. I don't know if the math truly works out, but it was something like that. Like by the time I was 10, I think we had lived

in like seven or eight places. Either way, you're in Montana and you would get Utah jazz games on TV. So you'd hear Hot Rod Hunley calling a jazz game and that's what I would leave on the TV. So I just watched the jazz as a kid in Louisiana, the Astros were on TV. So I would just watch full on Astros games. And then as I got older, and I don't know if this is an age thing or if it's

an era thing, I'm just not as willing or as anxious to watch an entire sporting event, especially if I have no rooting interest, especially if I haven't bet on it, right? So that's kind of how I am, especially now with basketball. Now, Jilly could sit there and watch the entire basketball game. She could sit there and like watch from beginning to end first quarter to the end of the game, could watch game one of the Eastern Conference finals. I have to find like,

I mean, really if this were like, you know, your traditional roles, this is a role reversal situation. Because I'm trying to find ways to avoid watching the first three quarters of this game, while my wife wants to be the one that watches the entire thing. Let me play a couple of commercials and we will continue. What's better than a well marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue? A well marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue that A well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue that was carefully selected by an Instacart shopper

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Basketball is a game of runs. So one team will go up. Well, basketball is a game of runs, right? That's what you always hear. Basketball is a game of runs. So one team will go up 10, then it's tied, then the other team's up 7, then it's 2, and then, like, you know how it's going to go. I'm here for the climax of the game, right? So we take Ross for, well, we eat dinner, then we take Ross for a walk. By the time we get home, it's like midway through the third quarter, and it's seemingly a pretty close game. So at that point, I'm like, all right, I'm going to watch a couple minutes of this, and I'm going to then go take a shower. So we watch until there's about two minutes or so left in the third quarter. It's seemingly a

close game, a high-scoring game, so it should be interesting. I get in the shower. I can spend forever in the shower. My goal was to kill as much time as possible in there to have to come out with a close game with like five minutes to go. I get out of the shower. When I come back, it's like a 16 point game and the Knicks have gone on this huge run and it's you know, like I'm like, all right, this game sucks anyway. So then we flip it over to the

hockey game and the hockey game had gotten nuts because it was a three to one hockey game in favor of Edmonton and then in a blink it was tied 3-3 and then it was 4-3 Dallas and they went on to win like 6-3 last night. It was a pretty fun game. Flip back over to basketball again. I so far have avoided watching almost any of this game, which I don't hate sports. I love sports. I enjoy basketball, but if I don't have a rooting interest in the game and and Jillian knows this, that's why she tries to get me to bet more often because she knows if

I bet on the game, I'll watch it more. But I just I don't have any cash at the moment. I'm strapped. So I'm not going to go drive all the way over to Illinois to throw down some money on this game. Although I was going to take the over and the over hit pretty easily. But that's neither here nor there. So she'll know like she knows that like I'm only going to be locked in for the end of it. and it's got to be close and interesting. All right, two and a half minutes to go in the

game. It is 1 16 to 102 in favor of the Knicks. The game's over. There's two and a half minutes. I'm debating whether or not to find something else to watch. But for whatever reason, I leave it on like in the just in case it was a just in case scenario and you know like you'll see the the Pacers hit a three and you're like either down 11, but now they're down 12 again and now it was nine but and then you end up with this amazing back and forth in the last two and a half minutes.

Then you end up with Andrew Nebhardt just making all of these threes dude scored like 30 points seemingly in the fourth quarter, nailing threes constantly was bonkers. And then like they'd be down like eight and it seems like the game is over but then they hit a three and it's five and then they're down five. It seems like the game's over. My man hits a three then they go down and hit some free throws. And essentially what it comes down to is they're down three with about I don't know 10 seconds to go or

whatever. They foul homeboy and he makes I think there's 12 seconds to go. They foul him. They cut it to one or they because they hit two free throws. They have to foul again. Knicks go down hit one of two. Then you get this amazing any like by the way, it's a 14 point game with two and a half minutes to go. Pacers are going to lose this game. They're in New York. It's over. The New York dipshits are celebrating. I hate New York sports fans with a passion,

particularly Knicks fans because the Knicks are one of the great throwaway organizations in all of sports. Yet people talk about them like they are entitled to be great. They have not won a title since like 15 years before I was even fucking born. They've gotten close a couple times. That's it. Let's not talk about the Knicks like there's some sort of special organization. They just happen to play in New York and a bunch of celebrities

come out to see them play, but they're not a good organization. They've been a shit organization. Stop talking about them like there's some sort of gold standard organization. Anyway, I fucking hate them, right? So the last shot of the game is one of the truly great dramatic moments that was and then wasn't but then still sort of was because you get the Halliburton. He runs back, shoots the three, clanks off the back of the iron, goes straight

up in the air and straight back down through the basket on that. And it looks like a three pointer. He looks over at Reggie Miller, does the choke sign circa mid 90s. Fucking epic. It's awesome. But then wait, hold on foot on the fucking line. Turns out it's only a two. So we're going to overtime and all this shit, the choke sign, all of that would not have mattered if they don't end up winning, but they do end up winning and overtime. And it's a thing of beauty. And look, I'm never going to tell you that you should watch something right because I didn't watch and probably for game two. I won't watch the

entirety of that either like I don't know what it is. I struggle to watch non football sports in their entirety. I can watch a football game in its entirety and it doesn't matter who's playing. I can't watch a baseball game in its entirety and I can't watch a basketball game unless I have rooting interest. If I'm watching a Cardinals game or whatever, I can be locked in and that's fine. I cannot do it. And I don't know what's happened to me as an older guy. I don't know if you just have new interest, if sports don't intrigue you as much, if there's other things going on in your life. But I made it a point to

make sure my dog walked an hour and a half just so I didn't have to sit around and watch the first through third quarters of an NBA game, a playoff game at that. That's not a knock on the league, because I like the league. And I like basketball. And I've been watching a lot more of it. And I bet on it. And I enjoy it. But for whatever reason, I think phones have done that to people. How often do you hear about people who start a movie and then almost instantly get

on their phone? I'm one of the kind of people that when there's a movie on I want to start looking up everything about the movie while I'm watching the movie. So like say you're watching something that's got a historical part of it like Titanic or whatever. I'll be like, all right, well, let me start looking up shit about Titanic and before you know it I'm half watching the movie and I'm half buried in Wikipedia trying to find out you know about John Jacob Astor like that's just how I am and I think a

lot of people are like that phones have been for as great as cell phones are they have been part of our detriment much like social media social media has a perk social media has its its things. But for the most part, social media has been bad. Phones, while they're great to have around you all the time, have aided in taking us out of the moment because we know no matter what we're doing, we can find something more interesting to engage in on our phone. That's why these dipshits at the movie theater here in St. Louis are always on their phones because you can always find something else to do and something else to

be engaged in instead of you know being in the moment. I am the worst being in the moment person ever. I am never in the moment. I'm like fucking Patrick Bateman American Psycho. I'm just not there. Actually, I take that back. I am the second worst in the moment person with Scotty Ennis, my Farger being the absolute stone cold lead pipe lock for the least engaged human on the planet. Once he's picked up his phone and starts looking at other ****, you know it's over. With my dad, you get like a certain amount of time to talk

about something with him and then he picks up his phone and it is donezo. Over kaput. And I hate it because I find myself doing the same thing and I'm like, shit, I'm just like my damn dad and I hate it. And that's kind of the situation. So like, even if I haven't seen my dad in months and I go to visit, he'll be like, hey, come meet daddy for dinner. So we'll all get together. He's like, we'll drink some beers at the such and such seafood restaurant. And I'm like, all right, that sounds like a winner, dad, that'll be great. So we meet him there. And my dad will even get a beer. He

doesn't drink. But what will happen is he'll find like the fruitiest beer there is. I mean that like in the flavor, not in the sexuality. And like say he'll get like an apple ale or something like that or reds or something. And we will like he'll chug about three-fourths of it and he'll talk with you for a few minutes. But then once he's picked up his phone, there are two things that are going to happen if you go to dinner with my dad. He's either going to pick up his phone and start

looking at shit and never be interested in you again. Or if he starts like rubbing his neck, that means he's got some sort of anxiety going and he starts feeling for either his pulse or his lymph nodes or some shit in his neck and he will just sit there and he won't say anything to anybody. He'll just sit there and start rubbing his neck. I don't know if that's a comforting thing that lets him know that he's still alive. I don't know but that's how it is

with my dad. My dad cannot be in the moment He is not an in the moment person and I feel like I'm doing the same shit and I fucking hate it Like I wish I could just sit down watch something and enjoy it I can't and I think and I'm sure there's a study somewhere that shows that the majority of people Cannot watch a fucking movie at home like Jilly's like hey, we've never seen John Wick, which I know sounds ridiculous But like you haven't seen John Wick Why don't we watch all seen John Wick, which I know sounds ridiculous, but like you haven't seen John Wick. Why don't we watch all these John Wick movies? And I'm like, that sounds like fun, but I know goddamn good

and well 10 minutes into the first one, I'll be on my phone scrolling for shit and I am broken. And I think other people are like that. We are all broken in such a manner and it sucks. Eugh. Like I wish, like I want to know why. And I think it's just because we didn't have other options. Like in 1997 when I'm 11 years old, we don't have the other option of being on our phone instead of watching a sporting event.

We didn't have the option of 50 streaming services that offer us different TV shows to watch. We didn't have a cell phone. We didn't have any of this. So when you're 11 years old, you're like, well the Utah Jazz game is on and I don't give a shit about the Utah Jazz nor do I give a shit about the Phoenix Suns, but that's the game that's on and I'm just going to put that on because my other option is playing my Sega and as much as I like Sega, I've played a shit ton of Vectorman today and I feel like I'd like to do something else. Like those were your options. In 1997 as an 11 year old kid, you couldn't pick up your phone, you couldn't go to the

internet, I mean I'm telling you stuff you already know, but you couldn't do any of that. That wasn't an option. You did not have the option to sit there and get on the internet and start talking to randos on the internet or playing games on the internet, or you didn't have the option to go into your phone to go down a Wikipedia wormhole like, oh the jazz are playing the suns? Who is that guy that played for the suns? Oh yeah, Thunder Dan Marley. Let me look up Thunder Dan Marley's entire fucking life. You can do that now that's taking your attention away from what you're actually watching. I do that at sporting events. If you had a camera on

me, like you know how sometimes, I'm sure some of you have been involved in this before, where you go to a sporting event and then the team will tweet out that there was a live picture taken of this moment at the game and if you zoom in, you'll be able to see your face. You just got to know what section you were in or whatever and zoom in. I guarantee you if you were to zoom in on me at whatever sporting event, could be the fucking Super Bowl, could be the World Series. It doesn't matter. I will be on my

fucking phone. Like that's the embarrassing part. That's why I never want to look at those because well, you know, and I'm not the only one out of 80,000 people in a venue, I bet you a large percentage are also on their phones, whether they're looking at something or they're holding the phone to take a picture. That's the other thing. I love when people like you see videos of concerts and all the people that are standing are filming the concert. Like I've thought about this before because I've

done that too. And then I'm like, the. Like I've thought about this before because I've done that too and then I'm like, the fuck do I need this for? Who fucking cares? Like I still have a video in my phone from 2014, me and Jilly in the Meadowlands at the arena, the Eyes On Arena next to the Meadowlands Stadium in New York and New Jersey of a Cher concert from like 12 years ago. I'm like, why do I have this? Why did I film this? Why am I not just watching this concert remembering it? I cannot tell you

anything that's happened in any of these concerts except based on the pictures that I've taken. Why the fuck do you need a picture of a concert? Like I guarantee tomorrow you could go and find video of that concert from someone else on YouTube if you want to remember it. Why do you need 30 pictures to prove that you were at the concert? Take a picture of you and your lady or whomever at the show, then watch the fucking show. But I can't do that. Well, actually, I

don't film as much during concerts, but a lot of people do. A lot of people, like you just see them, like, and like you go to go to YouTube now and find whatever artist you like, say Morgan Wallen concert. All you're going to see is whoever's filming that Morgan Wallen concert, everyone in front of them will also have their phones in the air filming this. What is that going to accomplish for you? What are you going to do with that? Are you going to monetize it? Probably not. So what are you doing? Live

in the moment. And again, I'm a hypocrite because I never live in the moment. I'm in my head all the fucking time and I'd love to get the hell out of here because I bet the world is a nice place. All of this, of course, talking about the game last night, which turned out to be an all-time epic. Game two coming up.