The Josh Innes Show - Podcast Update

Episode Date: November 5, 2024

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A couple of things to start. I've been trying to post more of these throughout the day, trying to post three or four of them, And for me, being honest with you, sometimes I just get different thoughts on things. So I post something. I don't really want to sit here for two and a half hours and post a two and a half hour podcast for you because honestly, I don't think anybody cares to listen to a two and a half hour podcast, especially when I have varying subjects and different people who listen in different places. I just choose to give you options on this.

If you want to listen to everything, listen to everything. If you only want to listen to something about the Texans, cool. If you only want to listen to something about Embiid and Kelsey being Neanderthals, do that too. I mean, that's your choice. But that's what I've been trying to do more of throughout the day is give you two, three, four of these a day because it gives you options. It gives you choices on what to listen to. You don't have to sit through an entire two and a half

hours. Really, I'm trying to give you in some days, hour, hour and a half of content, but I don't think anybody wants to sit there with an hour and a half solid and try to listen and stop and start and stop and start. So I've been trying to give you guys more like that. It also helps in terms of getting more downloads for these things. That's how you fudge the system. If we're being honest about the podcast system, it's not perfect. Just like radio. Now, it's better than radio.

Radio is a total sham. But in the podcast universe, all they care about is these downloads of these podcasts. So I could podcast and put up one two-hour podcast, or I could put four 20-minute podcasts or four 25-minute podcasts, and I could get more downloads for that. And then when they put the ads in them, I can make a couple extra bucks. Now, I did team up with a guy that I've teamed up with in the past who works with the sales part of the podcasting world. And basically they place these ads that you usually hear at the beginning and the end of the podcast. They place those. I have no idea what they are. They could be Kamala for president.

They could be whatever. I don't know what the hell airs before and after these. Like most of you do with podcasts when commercials start playing,'ll be real with you you hit that skip 30 seconds skip 30 seconds skip 30 seconds until you get back to the content that's what i do that's what most people do but a way to fudge the system and game the system is put up more podcasts for you to download and listen to and those count as downloads each time and then each time one of those commercials runs, it's counted as a play, and then I don't even know how much money I make off of that. Honestly, it's not a ton.

It's not enough to live off of. But as I found out yesterday, my damn diabetes medication is going to cost me $400 a month now as opposed to the $25 I was paying with my old insurance. So I've got to find a couple extra bucks because your boy if we're being full disclosure here I believe in being honest with people right because you should you should be um you should be uh honest with your audience when I moved to St. Louis uh I got a very big um I got a very large contract to come here. It was bigger than I was getting in Nashville.

Not like, oh my God, this is the most amazing amount of money I've ever made. But it was a nice one, considering that I had gone from the highs of highs to being unemployed during the Rona. And then I was working my way back up at Nashville I Heart, which after what happened there yesterday in I Heart, I probably would have gotten whacked there anyway, who knows? Uh, but I had a nice contract coming up that I guess was about to be two years. Uh, it would have been that I was, I was about a year and a half ago that I was about to sign that deal, but then I ended up coming to St. Louis and with all the situation I had in St. Louis, I was under the impression that not only was I going to have this high base salary, uh, but I was going to be making tons of extra cash and working on this big radio station. I was going to be doing 10

endorsements a day and just almost doubling my income by doing that. Well, as it turned out, that was not the case. So everything about the way I live currently is not totally out of my means because I can pay my bills and everything like that but the reality is I overshot a little bit now part of that is because I wanted to live in a nice neighborhood in St. Louis because there aren't that many nice neighborhoods I've told you guys this story I think when we moved to St.. Louis, we kind of just blindly picked a house because this thing came together pretty quick. I needed a place to live. I saw a place that looked decent, $1,600 a month, which was less than we were paying in Nashville. Nashville's an expensive place. We lived in a small place in Wilson County in Nashville, and that was out in Old Hickory, Tennessee. This little house that

you could tell was a junker, but it'd been kind of refurbished a little bit and it looked passable. But it's one of those places that you can tell under like the new plank wood floors, it's just rotten floor underneath it. Like it was not a glorified trailer, but like not much better than a glorified trailer, but it had a big backyard and a deck and it was passable and it was nice and i didn't mind it so it was fine but we paid like 1900 bucks a month for that house and we saw a place in st louis for like 1600 we're like shit yeah i'm making more money and a cheaper place life is looking good so we signed off on this house sight unseen then jilly as does, this is one of her

standard things she does. Jilly, after the fact, starts looking into things more. Like usually after we make decisions on something, that's when Jilly starts to wonder if we made the right decision, which sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it's the right move. But ultimately that's a Jilly move, which is, i'm excited let's do this and then right after you've sent three thousand dollars or whatever it was for the deposit and everything it's i'm gonna go to reddit and see what people say about this neighborhood so she starts looking up the neighborhood and she's like every story is like theirshots and there are stray dogs running around the neighborhood. And people are like, if you take one wrong turn, you're in the ghetto and people are robbing you and your cars are getting broken into and blah, blah, blah.

So as I started looking into it more, I'm like, shit, all right, we got to try to call and get out of this. So I call the place. It wasn't an individual. It was one of these companies, one of these real estate or whatever you call property management companies. And I called and I'm like, listen, we don't want to do this. We had a legit excuse that we gave them, which is our insurance on our car is going to go up because in St. Louis, Hyundai Sonatas are getting stolen and broken into at such a huge rate that if you have a hondas sonata your policy will go up so we're like we don't want to do that there's no garage uh but like we looked at the place and we're like yeah this is probably not right so basically they made us like they kept the deposit basically they're like well we're gonna keep the deposit i'm like fuck i guess if that gets us the fuck out of this just another

dumb decision that we make without thinking things through on that. It was a dumb decision. It happened. We lost that money. Fine. So then we had to find a place to live. And we're not ones to live in corporate housing or live in an apartment for a little bit and then move again and again. So we're really digging around trying to find a place.

If you don't know St. Louis, if you're in St. Louis City, for the most part, it's a dump and you don't want to live in St. Louis City. There's some cute little houses there, but for the most part, a lot of crime, a lot of break-ins. I would not want to live in St. Louis City unless you're in specific areas. And even the nicest areas, some of the crime is pretty high. So you go out to St. Louis County. Now, if you don't know anything about St. Louis City and St. Louis County, they are divided. They are two separate entities. And like when you read crime stats, for instance, on St. Louis, they're only giving you St. Louis City. So you would think that St. Louis is a giant shithole. Well, St. Louis County, which is still basically St. Louis, but it's its own thing. If you included

that, the crime rate would go way down, all that kind of shit fine it's semantics but it is what it is so st louis county has some nice suburbs and one of the nicest is kirkwood and we drove through here when we came to visit once and i'm like this is great big beautiful park in the middle of the town a cute little downtown one thing that missouri slash illinois in this area has very nice little downtowns little cute cute downtowns, little movie theaters, little restaurants, bars, pretty cool. So we're like, we got to find a place here. The only place I could find that looked decent and was somewhat reasonably priced was the place we're in now. I had not seen it, but I knew we had to move in a couple weeks. So I emailed the guy.

It was an individual. And I said, listen, man, I'm moving there in a couple weeks. I'm working for the radio station. I need to find a place. Can we get approved for this? And that guy says, goes through the whole process, says, you're approved. Boom, you got it. It's $2,400 a month and $100 a month for the dog.

And I'm like, fuck it. I'll do it. Whatever. So you move to St. Louis. You're paying now six. You thought you were paying $300 less in rent as opposed to paying $600 more in rent. But you're in a nice area and everything's fine. Like you get walkable. There's nice. You're not worried about your car getting broken into. level of security, but you're still paying $2,500, $600 more a month than you were before.

But you rationalize it by saying, I'm working at this big radio station. I'm about to be raking in extra money before. I'm going to be making a couple grand. I could pay the rent just on what I'm going to make because I'm on this radio station. I'm going to be speaking for this place, this place. I'm going to be doing remotes. I'm going to be doing this. But then there's other fees and other things about St. Louis that you don't know. That the utility bills here are high. You don't know when you go into it because you're a dipshit that doesn't look into this stuff. When you decide to up and move from Nashville to move to St. Louis.

That you're going back to a place with state income tax. So you're losing, I think per month, I was losing seven, $800 a month or something like that in state taxes. I've got exactly how much I was, but it was, it might've been less than that. I forgot how much it was. Maybe, maybe 150 each time or 200 bucks, 300. I've been 300 bucks each check, but that's 300 bucks that wasn't there so that's 600 bucks a month that you would have thought hey that's going to pay the rent that's going to pay the that's going to go to the rent that's going to go to the electric that's going to go to the water and sewer and all that shit and it's going to be fine but those are costs that you don't anticipate but you don't think about this because you're blinded by the idea if you're

getting this ultimate job and you're making more because you look at the the base pay and you're like well shit i'm going to be fine i'm going going to make this. But then as it turns out, you don't. And then you've got this $2,500 a month house that you can pay for. There's never been an issue with paying for it. I'm not like flat-ass broke. But if you must know the truth, when the Rona came around, like that's where I lost all my savings. That's what I lived off of. My job at 790 was the highest paying job I've ever had.

It was a good job. I mean, I was making way too much for the ever had was a good job I mean I was making way too much for the results I was providing for them and like I got fired there they didn't like me I knew I was making way too much money um I knew I was making so much in fact that's why I said hey like they gave me one big number and I said we'll give this to Jim give this to Jilly like I knew that I was making way too much but it was just in Texas and there's no state tax and I'm doing live endorsements and I'm getting huge, huge checks and it's fucking awesome. I'm not trying to brag about it or sound like I'm some badass motherfucker, but it was the shit.

And in the moment you're like, I'm making all this. It's not going to last forever. I was getting bonus checks that I honest to God did not deserve, but it was part of my contract. My contract said that if I have the top rated sports show in the morning, so basically deserve. But it was part of my contract. My contract said that if I have the top-rated sports show in the morning, so basically had to have the top out of three shows, and for a period of time, I'd get a bonus. A gigantic fucking bonus. I don't know how any of this fucking happened or how they ever agreed to this deal, but I had it.

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At one point, I had enough money saved up where my mom wanted to go on a cruise with her husband, Don. May Don rest in power. They wanted to go on a cruise. And they're like, well, we're probably going to go on a cruise. And I, Don. May Don rest in power. And they wanted to go on a cruise. And they're like, well, we're probably going to go on a cruise. And I said, don't worry, Mom, I got you. And I just sent her two grand. I'm like, this is fucking cool.

I can buy my mom a cruise. This is neat. And then one year at Christmas, I think it was New Year's. I guess it was New Year's. Me and Jilly went to Baton Rouge for New Year's Eve. And my dad's like, we're going to Ruffino's for dinner, which is a big Italian restaurant. It's been around forever. He's like, we're going to go for New Year's Eve. I'm like, sweet. So it's me, my dad, the Zeppelins, Jilly. I want to say, I don't know if my sister was there. I think maybe my stepbrother may have been there.

Maybe my brother was there. I forgot who all was there. The bill ends up being like $800. And I'm like, dad, don't worry. I got you. And I paid and I felt like I'm pretty fucking cool, man. Like I'm kind of the cat's pajamas. And you would think that when you're making this kind of money and you know you don't deserve this kind of money, you know you're doing a good show,

but you know the results are not what they should be for a show that's making this kind of money. Like you're doing a good show but you know the results are not what they should be for a show that's making this kind of money like you know this you know that like even though you're doing good content and you like what you do and jim is great and jilly is great and the show sounds hot and during the world series it was fantastic even though you know all that you still tell yourself well shit i don't deserve this because it's true. Like if you're a ratings driven individual, you go, I have a 1.5. Um, I'm, I'm up against six 10 that has a 1.7 and like, we're not doing anything like the numbers stink. I know this isn't going to last forever. And at seven 90, a lot of the salespeople, at least one particular salesperson did not like me. And the biggest sales guy there that wouldn't sell me because I made fun of Charlie one time so he refused to sell me and that was really something I was up against there

but and if I would have been generating big revenue it wouldn't have mattered but the revenue was nice but it wasn't as big as my salary or the headache that I was would indicate or would be warranted so whatever so um but I was able to pay like an $800 dinner tab and leave like a $200 tip. Like I felt like the shit. Like I felt like, like this must be what like sheiks feel like. This must be what like Trump feels like. This must be, this must be like you walk in, you're like, fuck it. I got this. Normally that would be my dad doing this. It was like a passing of the baton moment in my life. I'm buying my mom cruises. Oh, one year she wanted to go to the playoffs in Kansas city. She's a chiefs fan, bought her a flight, bought her and my aunt

and everybody tickets. And they went to the fucking game. Like I felt like the shit. So like that's the life I lived for a little bit. And I was able because of my buddy Martin, who does my money stuff, dude, I was putting away and I didn't even realize how much I was putting away. He was taking like a couple grand, like every paycheck and just putting it away for me. So at a time I had like, I'm 20 something years old. I don't even realize the importance of this at the time, but I've got, you know, 50, 60 grand in the bank, which isn't a ton, but like when you're 29 years old, 30 years old, it's kind of a big deal. I had all this retirement set because CBS gave us stock options that I didn't care anything about. My buddy's like, just let me do something with those stock options. Cause I could have cashed them out and

probably got like 1500 bucks from CBS radio. Or he said, let me reinvest those. And that became like something that in the stocks was over like a hundred thousand dollars. So like I was doing well, not knowing nothing about money. I'm like, like holy shit i guess i'm doing pretty good then i got fired but i was getting paid for six months after i got fired so from march of 2009 to the end of september 2009 i was still getting paid what i should have been doing at that time was putting more money into the savings but instead i'm fuck it. Me and jelly are going to ball games and trips and doing a bunch of shit. So I didn't put away as much money as I should have at that time. I'm thinking I'm going to get a job at some point anyway. Well, fast forward to the

end of that severance, I didn't get a job. So fast forward a couple more months after that, I still don't have a job. I'm living off of the hand, you know, I'm taking out two, three grand every month to pay the rent. Actually, our rent wasn't have a job. I'm living off of the hand, you know, I'm taking out two, three grand every month to pay the rent. Actually, our rent wasn't bad in Houston. It was under 2,000. For where we live, that was bonkers. Like, the fact that where I'm living now is the most expensive place I've ever fucking lived,

yet I lived in a townhouse in the heart of Houston that was a great townhouse, and I did so for less than two grand is mind-blowing, but that's neither here nor there either. It's fascinating. I make dumb decisions financially a lot of the time just reality um but anyway so there's another six months or so that goes by then the Rona happens I'm like I'm never getting a fucking job at this

point I like we've told the story before but the day that the Rona shut everything down the day that basketball stopped and everything I was on cbs sports radio doing a fill in not an audition i don't think there was going to be a job but it was like go do one josh we'll put you on so i filled in on cbs sports radio no one's listening who gives a fuck but i did it all i remember about that night is the rona's happening i asked my agent if she knows some sort of medical person that we can have come on and talk about the ronin she goes i got a guy so i have him on the shit he's saying makes no sense he's like basically giving you the whole spiel about like oh this is nothing it's probably just a cold whatever blah

blah blah and obviously became this big pandemic i come to find out it was like her her kid's pediatrician i'm like what the fuck are you doing giving me a pediatrician melzer made fun of me for for that. He's like, who the fuck was this guy you had on? I'm like, look, my agent said she knew someone. And like that night when I was on the air, they stopped the basketball games. Like I want to say like the Mavericks might've been playing and they're like, no basketball tonight. They shut it down. I think either earlier in the day or earlier in the week is when they had shut down the rodeo. So shit had got, or it might've been the next day they shut down the rodeo. Like everything got shut down. And then I was stuck without a job

and I'm living off of, you know, unemployment and shit like that. Now the perk of the Rona was like the unemployment in Texas was stupid. And I'm like, I'm not going to turn it down because that's how I lived, you know? Because I had to blow through on my fucking money. What does this all matter about today?

I started this 15 minutes ago talking about how podcasting works for me and how I have to podcast more episodes and put up more segments a day. I tell you that to tell you this, your boy don't make the cash he used to make. Full disclosure, when I came here, I thought this was going to be like the end of it. I was going to be able to start putting money away. I was going to finally start getting to pay off my debt. Because one of the things I did when I was, you know, after everything kind of fell through in Houston and I'd run out of money, is when we got to Nashville, I took out a loan with Wells Fargo to pay off some shit. What I also did was sat around and gambled on sports a lot so uh nashville for as much as i enjoyed my time there the ability to sit there on my phone and sports bet all fucking day was

actually to my detriment uh because i lost money doing that but like i had enough money i was fine but then eventually i took out a loan to try to pay off all my other shit and i'm still paying off that loan so like so basically just to kind of give you just the idea of what my typical month is like like I'm paying off a loan now I'll give Wells Fargo credit once I got fired I called these motherfuckers I'm like listen I can't pay I think I was paying like six hundred dollars a month on this loan I'm like listen I got fired I can't pay six hundred bucks they're like all right well we're gonna take out the uh the interest which of course is a scam.

They took out the interest, and I go from paying $600 a month to like $200. I'm like, well, thank you very much. I got old credit cards I'm still paying off. I am a fucking calamity. I take all that to tell you that I'm a fucking calamity. But I thought everything was going to be fine because I took this job, and I assumed I was going to be making double the salary and other outside stuff. And none of that actually came to fruition. So how does that bring us to today? As we sit here today, my severance is up in a couple months and I'm probably, I mean, I have to move out of this house at some point because it costs me 2,500 bucks a month.

How does that impact the podcast? Well, here's what needs to happen with the podcast. I need to make a couple bucks off of it just to pay some shit. How do you make bucks off of it? Well, we can do like we used to do, which at some point maybe we'll do again where we do the live shows and people throw in donos and shit.

At this point, I'm hoping to get a job soon, so I'm not going to go in and set up the whole camera and everything again. That's not my ambition. I don't want to do that, right? So I don't want that to be the, like if I go in and set up the whole camera and everything again that's not my ambition I don't want to do that right so I don't want that to be the like if I go in and set all that up it's a pain in the ass right now it's just audio one day we'll go back to being on YouTube and people will give donos it'll be great and I appreciate everybody who did that let let us not forget that during the Rona and then even into when we got to Nashville a large part of the income we were getting was

from people making donos while we're getting hammered on the fucking internet. And I appreciate you guys for that. People buying t-shirts. When we first launched the podcast, I forgot how many t-shirts we sold. We sold a couple hundred t-shirts. It was a pretty good number of people that bought the original Josh Ennis Show t-shirt. I've got loyal fucking people who listen to this and they are awesome. As of right now, I'm not asking you for your cash. I'm not asking you to buy t-shirts. I'm not asking you to be sponsors of the podcast. I'm not asking you to pay five bucks a month for a Patriot. None of that right now. Maybe down the road when I make this something better and bigger, like I hope to get my ambition is to move back to Texas at some point and be able to do a podcast there in Houston and bring out crowds. Like, I have ambition to do that.

That is my goal for that. Right now, there's no sense in making it something bigger than it is, which right now, it's a dude sitting in his underwear, in his bed, recording segments in the morning, and people download them. And a good number of people download them, and I appreciate that. So I'm not asking you to be a sponsor. There's no business. Like, the businesses that used to sponsor, I'm not asking you for your cash. I'm not asking you to donate anything. I'm not asking you to be a sponsor. There's no business like the businesses that used to sponsor.

I'm not asking you for your cash. I'm not asking you to donate anything. I'm not asking you to buy t-shirts right now. All I need from you is to listen. And when you listen, there's going to be a couple more ads that are going to air in the middle of each segment. That's it. Fast forward through the fuckers. If that's what you want to do, fast forward.

Bang, bang, bang. 30, 30, 30, 30, bang out. But if I put those in there, there's a chance I can make a couple of bucks. I'm just being completely honest with you. I'm telling you how the podcast system works for people like myself and the guy I'm operating with. I'm going to put some more ads in there. I have no idea what they are. They may be ads that you find loathsome. They might be terrible. They might be hysterical. You might actually listen to the commercials. Good news is they're not going to be political ads because that's over for right now. So what I would need from you is just accept for now that I have to dump some fucking ads in the podcast episodes. The good news is each episode is 22, 23, 25, 30 minutes at a time, sometimes longer,

sometimes a little shorter. So about 10 or 12 minutes into each one, you're going to get a handful of ads. Just fast forward through them. That is the only commitment I need you to make for the success of the podcast right now. Oh, and tell a friend that doesn't listen to listen. You do those two things for me. We'll grow this bad boy. That's what I'm looking for right now. I'm in the short term right now. This isn't going to be what I want it to be right now. It's I'm providing some content. I'm trying to keep my brain fresh doing sports shit and other shit. That's what I'm trying to do right now. All I need from you is accept the fact that there's a couple more ads that have to run during this shit and tell a friend or tell five friends or tell 10 friends.

And then when you do and they decide to give it a listen, tell them to screenshot that they're listening to it and send it to me. DM it to me on Instagram. Send it to me on Twitter. Email it to me. JoshInAShow at gmail.com. I don't care. I just want to see that you're getting people engaged and want to at least give it a shot.

They may think it sucks, but at least have them give it a listen. Tell one friend you know, at least one friend. We could double the audience of this if you find one person. You find one person, you go, just give my dude a listen. Let me know what you think. If they think I suck, screenshot that they think I suck and send it to me. I want the interaction with you guys. I want to hear from you. DM me on Instagram, Twitter, send me an email, joshinnishow at gmail.com. But right now, text a friend and screenshot the text you sent to them

and send it to me. Tell them, send it in the group chat. Everybody's got a group chat. Send it to the fucking group chat and tell them, give my dude a a listen you could be people in Houston you could say this is some pretty good honest Houston talk right here you might be in Philly and you might say listen to what this dude said about him beating Kelsey you might be someone who's a degenerate gambler in your fucking group chat is 10 dudes in a gambling group chat this dude does prop bets every fucking week and he's a degenerate like us he's thousands of dollars in debt because he spent his last five years gambling on sports because he's a dipshit. All that.

That's what I'm looking for. That's all I'm asking for out of you guys. And if we do that, this thing grows. I make a couple extra bucks. The lights stay on for a couple months while I'm here in St. Louis. I get my fucking Bidus medication, which now costs me $425 a month as opposed to

$25 a month. And I live longer. Thus the podcast goes longer. Thus it gives it more an opportunity to get larger. And then before you know it, it becomes something big. Like I want it to be like, I've talked to my buddy PK that you guys know about this. I want it to be something big. My goal is to move to somewhere in Texas that I can drive to Houston on the reg and do live podcasts for people and make money doing that and provide something fun and unique and different and an event for people. That's my ambition. But as of right now, my ambition is to keep pumping out episodes for you guys that you enjoy, that you listen to, that you laugh at, that you get gambling tips from, that you get angry at, whatever it is.

All I need from you is tolerate and bear with the fact that there's going to be a couple extra spots in the middle of it, and I need you to tell one friend, two friends, five friends. You might not have five friends. Tell the friends you do have. Tell your wife to listen. I've had people go, my wife now listens. All I need from you is that.

So do that. I want to see my inbox flooded with people with screenshots. Send me your screenshots. I want a screenshot of you telling someone who doesn't know about the show to listen to the show. That's all I ask of you. Everybody does that. We pick up one listener from everybody. We double it. We pick up two from everybody. We triple it. That's all I'm looking for here growth growth in the podcast I enjoy sitting my ass here in my underwear in my bedroom doing five or six of these a day for you some at night some during the day I enjoy doing it it keeps me kind of fresh and gives me something to do other than driving to Waterloo Illinois to bet on Ukrainian table tennis

so just do that for me or email if it it's easier, if you don't do Instagram, you don't do Twitter, whatever, email me joshinashowatgmail.com. Email me and show me that you've messaged your buddy. When your buddy messaged you back, says they're listening to it. I want their reaction too. If they think it sucks, I want to hear that it fucking sucks. That's all I want from you guys. I'm just looking for some interaction on this. So deal with the fact and bear with the fact that there are a couple extra spots in the middle of it. You're going to get interrupted in some of the content.

I didn't want to do that. The guy I'm working with is like, listen, if you want to make any money on this at all, you got to put some in the middle of the thing. Fine. I can do that. And then tell your friends about the fucking pod. Tell them that you enjoy it. Tell them that you think they'd enjoy it.

Get in the group chat. Send them text. Send them DMs. I don't care what you do. But find at least one person to at least give the show a listen. And if they listen to it and think it sucks, tell me that they think it sucks. I can live with that. I've dealt with far worse than people saying I suck.

If they think it's great, great. You know I'm not going to care anyway because when people tell me they like me, I don't pay attention to it anyway, but do that. And I think that that helps grow this thing. And I appreciate you guys. All right. I'm going to get into some other sports stuff here in just a bit. I'll get this one posted for you guys.