The Josh Innes Show - Random Musings From The Car

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

I just got my first shot of Mounjaro in 5 months...this is a blessed day. I drove in Auburn Hills today and saw the site of the Palace. It's amazing because the arena was like 35 miles from downtown Detroit. I think in the coming years, more teams are going to be leaving the cities for the burbs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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like new drugs that aren't totally FDA approved yet but they're like in the stages of being FDA approved and they're like these things are going to be freaking awesome I'm like well shit I might want to get in on some of that action why not I mean hell I took the stupid vaccine that wasn't FDA approved or they rushed through approval so who am I to say no to certain things but here's what I've learned so I told you I had lost like 30 or 40 pounds taking manjaro when I was in St. Louis and I'd gotten down and to the 200s like 290 I think think, I might have been a little less than $2.90 at one point. I might have gotten into the two 80s, which is about as little, that's the least I've weighed at least since at some point

in Philadelphia. Actually, something I was very proud of in Philadelphia is I went on a diet in Philly and just ate well and I wasn't on any drugs or anything like that. And I, because when I got to Philly, I was a house. Like if you watch certain videos and see certain pictures of me when I got to Philly. I was a fucking house. I was hideous to look at. So then I just started going on a diet of like for lunch, I would eat very little. At dinner time, I didn't drink any sodas. Like I went months and months without drinking any sodas. I would have tea and grapefruit juice or a cranberry juice, I guess I had. And I would eat like string cheeses for snacks and peanut butter crackers and and like a treat would be like getting some sort of burrito bowl like I ate fairly clean still drank

my beer because you know I'm not a child and I remember my goal was to get into the 270s that was the ambition and I hadn't been that low in forever like I remember in Houston I got into the 250s doing the quick weight loss thing and I but at the time I started I was 286 so I was two I was about 286 pounds when I got to Houston. And then I lost about 30 pounds. I got down to like 256. And I look decent, you know, because I'm a tall guy, you know. And then before you know what, I think the heaviest I've been is in like the 340s maybe.

But in Philly, I remember getting down to 270, like 278. And I was like, well, I've accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. I got down into the 270s. And almost instantly I just started eating like shit again. And I'm like, well, I wanted to prove to myself I can do it. I did it. Screw all of you. I'm the fucking man.

But now I'm back on the Manjaro. Just took a shot for the first time since March. The last time I took a shot of my Manjaro was the day I left for the interview in Detroit. So that was like March 15th or 16th, something like that. The day that I left St. Louis on a, it was a Saturday morning, I took my Manjaro, got on a plane. I was still pretty thin at that point. I'd say pretty thin. I mean, that was four months or so ago.

Actually, close to five months ago. And in five months, I'm now up to like three. That was 321 on the scale today. And I've gotten down to like 290. So I've put on some weight. But back in the saddle, baby. Let's play some commercials and we'll continue. Oh, and also this, the location of this place is out in the suburbs of Detroit,

out in Auburn Hills. technically Lake Orion, but Auburn Hills. I gave to drive through Auburn Hills to get to Lake Orient, and that's where the location of this clinic was. And I passed where the Auburn Hills, the palace of Auburn Hills used to be, the malice in the palace right there. I passed it. It's just like a giant dirt patch now.

They tore this thing down, I don't know, five, six years ago. They stopped playing there in 2017 when they opened the new arena downtown. And, you know, like old arenas and old buildings and old departments. stores and old movie theaters like you know how i am so like it's it's wild to me though how far outside of detroit the pistons played like i just passed a uh a uh a um uh like a a sign and it says i'm 25 miles from detroit so i'm currently 25 miles from detroit and i was probably 10 or so 15 miles or so to the other place that I was. So the Palace of Auburn Hills was like 30 miles, 30, 35 miles away from downtown Detroit. I don't know the whole backstory about how it ended up there.

I'm going to imagine it ended up there due to some sort of like financial benefit that that community gave them to build the arena or whatever. But it's wild to me when you're in towns where the teams don't play like in the city proper. You know, kind of like how Atlanta now has the ballpark in Cobb County or like if Houston decided to build a football stadium out in I don't know the woodlands although the woodlands might be a little bit further out than this is but still 25 30 miles is a hell of trip man but and then of course I have not been to Pontiac which is the home of the silver dome the silver dome no longer exists of course either but that was you know WrestleMania 3 and the lions and like the the roof would collapse with snow and that's way

the hell out here too. Now, it's important to note, and I would imagine this played a big factor in it, that like, oh, hold on, Layton. She's telling me where to drive. I got to go to Big Beaver Road. I'm two miles away from, boy, do you think this was planned? It's Exit 69

Big Beaver Road. That is a sexual sounding street. Like, hey, please exit or enter. Exit 69, Big Beaver Road. But I'm going to guess that Part of the thing is, like, we always think of cities and, like, we all think that, like, sports teams should play, like, in downtown.

And in theory, it's cool. Now, a lot of downtown suck, like St. Louis downtown sucks. So at some point, they'll probably move their stadiums out into the burbs where their audience is. Like, part of the reason why they're probably not drawn shit for attendance. Number one, the Cardinals suck ass, but two, and they've sucked ass for multiple years. But two, people don't want to go downtown because downtown St. Louis is a shithole. Some downtowns are wonderful. Like, I've been at the stadium in San Diego.

which is in what I think it's called the gaslight district or the gas lamp district or something, that stadium is phenomenal. But downtown San Diego, at least when I went, now granted, that's 10, 12 years ago. But downtown San Diego was wonderful. You know, downtown's nice. It's not the most incredible downtown ever, but it's nice to have a ballpark down there. Or like if you go to Dallas and go to the arena down there, downtown's fine, you know. Take exit 69 for Big Beaver Road.

Yeah, Big Beaver Road, baby. Exit 69, Big Beaver Road. Get you a taste of them vittles, baby. But I'm surprised that more, and I think this is what's going to be the case, is this new current batch of the newer stadiums that start to age out. I mean, hell, look at it. Take exit 69, then use the left two lanes to turn slightly left onto the ramp to West Big Beaver Road. Big Beaver Road.

But, like, we saw it in Dallas where it's not like the ballpark in Arlington was archaic, but they wanted to build a new more modern one and they continue to build it out in Arlington which is outside of the city of Dallas. Like, I think you're going to start seeing more of that. Where am I turning? Ramp to West Big Beaver Road. Big Beaver.

Then you use a lane to turn slightly left onto West Big Beaver Road. Yeah, Big Beaver Road. Big Hairy Snatch. At the light, use any lane to turn slightly left onto West Big Beaver Road, baby. Anywho. So when you start to think about it, like, I'm going to, it would not shock me,

that if the new wave of stadiums that are being built and like the newer stadiums are already getting to the point that they're 20, 25 years old. I mean, Minutemade Park or Dakin Park or whatever the hell it is, Deakin Park. Like, that's 25 years old. You know, we started tearing down some of those concrete donuts after about 40 or 50 years. So in theory, you think you got 25 years left, but I don't think they view it that way anymore because they view stadiums as big financial windfalls, right? So it's kind of like, like, I think. they view these now as, hey, a stadium might have 25, 30 years, and if you don't help me build a new one, I'll go do it myself. The Texans are talking about that. I mean, it's not like

NRG is that old, but they're thinking about dropping that and maybe moving out to the burbs or something. I don't know. But the point is, I think a lot of these are going to do that because that's where the money is. I would imagine that in the 1980s, when they built the palace in Auburn Hills for the Pistons, they're thinking, well, nobody's in downtown Detroit, because at that time it was kind of cesspoolish in that era like you're I mean it wasn't great so they're like hey let's fish where the fish are and people are moving out into the burbs

and that's the safer areas so let's keep all you know let's build stadiums out in the burbs where people are so I think that's kind of what you're dealing with with a lot of these and I think you're going to start seeing more and more of that as these franchises start to you know like to build

new stadiums I think more of them are going to be built out in the suburbs I think a lot of communities are going to want to try to get these teams there and lure them there by giving them tax breaks and other incentives. Like, I think, you know, that's one of the big things they talked about with the new hockey team potentially in Atlanta. Like, they talked about that in Atlanta with the idea of getting them out way out into the burbs. I forgot where it was, like Gwinnett, Georgia, or somewhere. But they talked about moving them all the way out to these counties because they're going to build

whole complexes. And there's more money in it for a lot of these teams, right? Like, the Cardinals make money off of Ballpark Village, which is this really cool, I mean, I say really cool. They've done it well, but it's essentially like a live by Lowe's type of thing. But they built up a Hall of Fame in it and stuff, and it's got some charm about it. But at the end of the day, it's just like a big money grab for them. Now, imagine if you're the St. Louis Cardinals and you can move out to St. Louis County, like in St. Charles, Missouri, and basically build an entire town that you own and make money off of. And I would assume your attendance problems won't be as bad.

because like nobody wants to drive to a shitty downtown to see a bad team if the team's really good they'll brave it and go downtown nobody's going to go downtown to see shitty sports downtown st louis but a lot of downtowns suck so that's kind of the way this is going to go and i think you're going to see more of that it's going to be kind of a reversed trend in a way you know like a team like the pistons who played out in the middle of nowhere and how the um the the lions played out in the middle of nowhere i think teams are going to start cashing in more and more on that as they start building new stadiums and more of these communities are going to want them in their community so they will give them the tax breaks and they will give them every opportunity to build there so they can get rich and I think we're going to see more of that as time goes on like I have zero doubt in my mind that that's what we're going to start seeing but um you know like would you be shocked if the Houston Texans played in the woodlands where is the money in Houston I mean obviously you know river oaks and shit like that but the suburbs is where the money is and that's in every major city.

People are out in the burbs, and people don't want to travel. So you've got to fish where the fish are, and the fish in this case are the people with money. Where are the people with money? The people with money are out in the clean, family-friendly suburbs. That's why the bears. That's why the bears are leaving downtown Chicago and not playing in Soldier Field.

That's why the bears are off to Arlington Heights, because they can make a shitload of money off of it, and that's where the fish are. You know, they don't want to go to downtown. They don't want to play in that weird, shitty stadium of theirs. They want a brand new stadium. And I think more downtowns are going to start losing sports teams as they age out of these stadiums and teams are going to want their own shit.

They're realizing that you can get even richer off of the land and richer off of building these brand new complexes. I mean, look at Atlanta. Atlanta, the ballpark in Cobb County there, is its own fucking town. And the Braves run that whole damn thing. they are getting rich off of that. It is very cool. It's very costly for the average person. I mean, it's an expensive thing to go do. Like, you know, the prices are going to be high in these bars and restaurants on game days. But the Braves are like, fuck yes, pay me. Let's go. Let's keep

making cash. So, I don't know, that crossed my mind as I was out in Auburn Hills and I saw this big patch of land, big dirt and mountain now where that stadium used to be. And I think we're going to start getting more of that. I think that's going to become the new wave. downtown ballparks and stadiums are going to fade out, and you're going to start getting more suburban ballparks and suburban stadiums and arenas where teams are going to own everything, and they're going to get rich off of everything they can. Anyway, more to come.