The Josh Innes Show - Would You Spend $700 For This Experience?

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

The Oklahoma Sooners are giving fans the opportunity to buy their way into press conferences. Why would anyone spend $700 to watch a presser? Maybe I'm off base...But, this is dumb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's a story I enjoy from the Oklahoma City, or really the Oklahoma Sooners, the Boomer Sooners, the University of Oklahoma, who of course now plays in the SEC. That's a new thing over the last couple years. But Oklahoma is selling a fan experience that is, like, I don't know why anybody would want it. It's one of these things where you're like, why would you spend money on this opportunity? And some fan experiences are great. Like, hey, you get to go down on the field and, you know, be down there for the National Anthem. Like, I think it'd be cool to be on the field during, like, a flyover in the National Anthem. Or it'd be cool to go down there and actually be on the field for a warmup.

Not behind a yellow rope or something during warmups, but, like, legitimately be on the field during warmups or have a catch with Joe Burrow during warmups. Like, shit like that would be cool, right? Like, be on the field. But there's an experience that the Oklahoma Sooners are selling, and I have no idea why anyone would give a shit. and would spend any amount of money on this. But we'll tell you about that after these messages. So the experience that Oklahoma is selling is they are selling fan access to post-game press conferences. So for $692, for example, when Oklahoma takes on Michigan, big game, if you spend $692,

You and a friend will have the opportunity to attend a post-game press conference. As someone who has attended many post-game press conferences, there is nothing cool about it. Other than, like, hey, there's Nick Saban. Other than, hey, there's Marvin Lewis. Like, you get to see these coaches and be up close to them. There is nothing. There's nothing that the media people get that everybody else doesn't get now, other than the opportunity to ask a question.

Now, if you pay that $700. and you're allowed to ask a question in the press conference, then I think it might be worth it. Right? Like I think, oh, cool, if you're a fan and you get to sit down in a press conference and your favorite team just got bludgeoned. So you're Oklahoma in this case. Let's say Michigan beats the shit out of you.

And like, hey, look, if you want to ask a question, you can. So you raise your hand and you're like, hi, I'm Steve. Most of the time in these situations, people will raise their hand and, like, tell you, like, what outlet they're from. Like, hey, I'm the, hi, I'm Steve Smitherson. and I am from the Oklahoma Daily Tribute, you know, that type of thing. Or, hey, I'm from I suck sooner dick.com and like that type of shit. But in this case, like, it'd be great if some guy just like, he raised his hand, like,

hello, I'm Bill. I paid $700 to be here. This is my son, Jonathan. Coach, quick question, what the fuck were you thinking on that fourth down play call? Like, what the fuck, dude? Why am I spending my money? It'd be like that time Bobby A Bear started asking Les Miles, all those questions in the press conference. I want to say it was after the National Championship when they lost to Bama.

I think that was the time that he did it, when they lost like 20 to nothing to Alabama in the National Championship. And he's just asking all these like this rapid fire, all these questions of Les Miles. Like it was like an attack. Like that would be fun. Like you give a fan a legit opportunity to ask a question. But really you're just giving the person the opportunity. it's like saying you get like all the benefits of being in porn but then you don't fuck like it's essentially what you're buying like hey do you want to spend $700 and live the

life of a porn star for a day yeah what do you get to do well you get to go out and you get to make sure your assholes completely void of excrement and duties because you're doing anal today so we're going to go out and we're going to really we're going to put that in a man there we're going to make sure there is nothing stuck up there but then you don't get fucked in the ass. Well, then what would be the point? I have to go through all the shit of being in it. Then, no, let me get fucked to the ass. And that's kind of what you're dealing with here. Kind of. Kind of what you're dealing with here without getting fucked in the ass or enemas. But still, like you're, like basically, it's like you get to be John McLean if John McLean didn't ask any questions.

If John McLean just went and ate all the free food, but then didn't ask any questions of the press conference. And I'd like to know what asshole would spend $700 to sit in a press conference. You can watch press conferences live and you can watch them. And I get the argument. Well, it would be the experience, Josh. You know, you get the experience of sitting in a press conference and a lot of fans never get to experience that. Oh, congrats. You don't get to be like the guy who writes for Sooners 247.com.

You don't get the opportunity to do what he does every day. Trust me, I've been in postgame press conferences many times. They're not very exciting. The most exciting they got for me is when I was hammered with Marvin Lewis. That's about as exciting as it gets. Like, I don't know, so it's $692 for Oklahoma, Michigan, and it's $576 for Auburn. Now, again, if they let you go full-on media member and ask questions, then I think that's a real experience. But walking into a post-game press conference and just sitting there on your hands and like watching the dude answer questions, is that really worth that?

Is that really worth $700? What experience would be worth $700, you know, realistically, you know what I'm saying? Like, what would they let you do? Like, I think it'd be cool if they let you wear a coach's headset for a day. Like, you're sitting there, maybe you're sitting up. Maybe you're not on the field. That'd be really cool. Like, that would be an experience.

You're on the field. You get to wear a headset. Not even a headset because you don't get to talk. Like, the last thing they want is, like, some dickhead, like, down there, like, flipping on the switch and being like, you know, coach, I think we should run, like, the double-ax whammy, slot dive 12 on 2. I don't think you would want to do that. That would be kind of a bad situation.

But in the same way that like the backup quarterback or like in a preseason game when the starting quarterback doesn't play and he's in sweats and he has access clearly to all the play calls because he's got the little earpiece in and he's listening, like that would be a cool thing, right? I think that'd be pretty badass. Like would you spend X number of dollars to get to stand on the field, wear a headset, and just listen to what goes on and what coaches tell each other? They'd never allow that to happen, but that would be pretty fucking cool.

Like, wouldn't it? Like, I'd spend a decent amount of money to stand on the field during a football game and just see how it all works and listen to how it all works. When I was in high school, again, much lower, you know, obviously. But the old school headsets that they would wear, like, portophone, I think they were called, those old headsets. Like, one game, the Bruley Panthers were getting blown out, and some of the coaches had taken off their headsets.

So I took it upon myself to just kind of walk over. and put one on and listen. And I don't know what made me feel compelled to talk. Again, I have no idea. Not like I was hammered. I was 16. Like, why would I do this? I put on the headset, and I'm listening to the coaches talk with each other.

And the other team had just scored a touchdown to go up by like 30. And I don't know why I felt compelled to do this. But I flipped on the switch on the little thing and go, who does this guy think he is? Steve Spurrier? And I hear like, who the hell is that? And I'm like, got to go. I don't know like I don't know but that would be fun tell me that wouldn't be a fun situation if you're a coach or a fan and you just like hey it's coach for a day you don't actually get to coach things or anything like that maybe they let you send in the first play like hey we're running like spider wide banana right you got that Tim ready break like that'd be fine but spending $700 to be John McLean and then not even getting to ask a question like that wouldn't be fun to me like $700 someone's spending $700 for the opportunity to do that.

Now, they got to ask the question, though. They could be like me and ask drunken questions. See, that would be a good time. That should be the thing. You guys get to get hammered for free. Then you get to go. They call it the Josh Ennis experience. You get to get hammered for free.

And then you get to go to the press conference and ask a question. And as I talked about with the Marvin Lewis thing in the past, the Marvin Lewis thing is interesting because I never asked questions in those settings. I never felt like I needed to, right? Like, I just sat there, and I would listen to other guys asked the questions, and at the time, it was easier to record audio instead of waiting for the Internet to have it. So I would record the press conference audio after the Texans games, usually, you know, pretty intoxicated. With a time I did it that I was super hammered after the playoff game, for whatever reason, I was like, you know what, I'm asking a question today. I was that perfect level of drunk to ask a question.

That's a good level of drunk to be, you know, not too, like, you know, where you're your. falling asleep but just drunk enough to be like oh this coach just lost a playoff game let me ask him a question and apparently i did the same thing for um uh j green had like a whole conversation with a j green after the playoff game dude's like naked sitting there at his locker and i'm like hey j green oh fuck are you guys ever going to win a playoff game what's the deal what's the deal with the bagels like yeah they went playoff games but that's a dumb experience and i don't know why anybody would want it. All right, anyway, more to come.