The Josh Innes Show - "Cool Runnings" Is Getting A Lady Reboot

Episode Date: August 26, 2025

Nobody asked for this...but it appears we are going to get it. "Cool Runnings" is going to get a reboot and the plot will center around an all lady bobsled team. I'm not against the concept of progressive storylines in movies. I just think the networks and studios are producing content no one asked for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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that's how movies get remade now right like like there's going to be a remake or a reboot of airbud like i'm of the belief that they should go with a black dog right like i saw that there was going to be a new airbud and they were casting the new airbud why does air mud airbutt have to be a golden retriever why don't we modernize it for 2025 and let a black dog do it or like a three-legged dog be airbud why don't we get super progressive with airbud my dog could play airbut. I'm going to go on like a quest to get Ross in as the new airbut. Have you seen videos of this dog jumping? He's got sick leaping ability. Like the dude's going to eventually take out my legs at some point in the backyard. Like I'm going to end up crippled because of this dog.

I'm going to be walking around on crutches because this dog is insane when you get him running. Like he has no like no idea of when to slow down, when to stop. He will take my ass out. But I'm on a quest to get airbud in as a black. guy. If Snow White can be like a Hispanic chick and, you know, you just go down the list of all the Disney changes that are made and go down the list of all the all-female casts, I feel like that my dog, my black dog Ross, could play the new airbud. I think that would be progressive. I think it'd be hip. I think people would dig it. But this is not about me trying to pimp for my dog to get into an airbud. This is about a movie that is going to have an all-female cast reboot. And I think

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I was explaining this to somebody the other day, and I forgot who it was, who I was talking with about it. I don't think it, you know what it was? It was at a remote. I did a bunch of meat truck remotes, which is basically standing around for two hours doing nothing because our radio station is buried ratings-wise. And I'm new. So it's not like people want to come out to the meat truck and meet me. People are out at the meat truck because they want to buy meat out of a box. You know, like that's just what these people want to do.

So you stand there for two hours pulling your pudd. You've got nothing going on. So I'm talking to the promo person who's a young girl. She's like in her, I think she's 20. And it's so weird to talk to people who are 20, especially 20-year-old females. Because I'm 39 and you don't know, like, are they thinking that I'm super lame the entire time? Like, I think I'm like, fine. I'm not like hitting on this person or anything.

I'm not a total creep, you know. It's weird for me to think that someone who is in the workforce is, I'm twice the of someone who's in the workforce. That's a weird feeling for me. Like, I'm 39. Like, at some point, like, you're no longer young. And when you try to talk young or reference young things, people just look at you like, okay, boomer.

And I'm like, I'm not a fucking boomer. But this girl's 20. Very nice girl. And I asked her, like, so we're shooting the shit. We got two hours to kill. We're just shooting the shit. We got to, you know, converse. And I asked her a favorite movie, and she's like, Twisters.

I'm like nobody's fucking favorite movie is Twisters. But anyway, so we're having this conversation. She brings up Disney movies that she likes. And she's like, I like the cartoon Disney movies. And it dawned on me that I never got into Disney cartoon stuff. You know, like I like Toy Story, like some of the early Pixar stuff. But like couldn't give two shits about Cinderella, couldn't give. Like the Lion King just never interested me.

Like one of my best friends in Houston, Ben, Wolf Boy, Ben, Ben loves the Lion King. And I know all the songs from the Lion King. I've seen the Lion King. But I didn't grow up as an eight, seven, eight year old kid watching the Lion King all the time. I didn't watch a lot of cartoons. I watched like softcore pornography when I was eight. So I never got into watching Disney movies.

But I got into live action Disney movies. So like Angels in the Outfield I loved. You know, a lot of the Disney live action ones I enjoyed, the Mighty Ducks, the Mighty Ducks 2, even the Mighty Ducks 3. Like, I enjoyed watching those types, live action, real live shit. I did not like cartoons. Never got into them. So I'd seen them. I know the songs from them like Under the Sea and the fucking Lion King and Beauty

and the Beast. You know, when there was what they called the Disney Renaissance of the late 80s into the mid-90s or the late 90s. Really from like 1987 to about 1999, 2000 is what is referred to as the Disney Renaissance. Right. So Disney was huge in the 30s, 40s, 50s, whatever. Then the Disney animated part of it just went to shit for a long time. And then boom, it resurfaced again. And you started getting hit movies like The Little Mermaid, like the Lion King, like Beauty and the Beast. Mulan movies like that. It was the Disney Renaissance is what they call that. And I just never got into that shit. A live action Disney movie that I enjoyed, but I wouldn't say as one of my all-time favorites, is cool. runnings with John Candy about the Jamaican bobsled team, and that is what's getting an all-female reboot or remake reportedly. Now, I am not a believer that if you just throw a bunch of chicks into a movie that previously was a bunch of dudes, that that movie is going to be successful. In fact, the blueprint and history shows that it will not be. And the obvious answer is not

because, like, dudes are sexist. That's kind of the idea they want to sell you on, right? Like, Every time one of these movies comes out and does poorly, the story becomes, oh, it's because men can't handle empowered women or men, it's men's fault that people aren't seeing this. Not true. The reason why these movies don't make it is because the women don't see it and the women don't give a shit. Like, if you're selling me on it's an all-female cast, then what you're trying to tell me is you're trying to sell this to women.

You're thinking that women can't handle Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters. Oh, no. They need to see people who look like them, right? And that's bullshit. What you learn is that women don't even want all-female cast of these movies. In a lot of cases, women don't even want the remakes of these movies. They just want the movie the way it was.

I like to see data that shows me the number of remakes or reboots that are successful, particularly when the main selling point is something that's as progressive as all-female cast or now Snow White has one leg and is able, is handy capable, it's handy capable bell in Beauty and the Beast. Like, people aren't going to see this shit because that's not what people go to the movies for. They don't get beaten over the head with, oh, we need an all female cast, or oh, now we need a reimagining of this with a black cast. Like, nobody asks for that. People just ask for a movie that is good. And when you're selling point, here's what does turn people off.

And if you want to view this as, oh, white dudes can't handle it. or dudes can't handle it or white people can handle it, whatever. What turns people off is when your main selling point for a movie is the color of the skin of the people in it or the sexual preference of the people in it or the age.

Anything like that is going to turn people off instantly. And part of it is they know that and they want to have a built-in excuse. The Lady Ghostbusters movie had a built-in excuse from the jump because, oh, people are being critical and they just can't handle the fact that men aren't the Ghostbusters and then what they do is they go to YouTube

and they look for the worst comments from the worst people. Some of them are just people fucking around. Some of them are probably plans. If you don't believe that these movie studios plant this shit on YouTube to kind of create buzz and controversy and give them an out because I just don't believe... No, look, they're

assholes everywhere. And I'm not saying that there aren't people that just go to these things to shit on stuff. But I feel like these networks, I feel pretty confident that these networks, and I shouldn't say networks, I should say like movie studios, plant people on YouTube to say disparaging things about this shit to generate buzz and to create the idea that people aren't seeing certain movies because these certain movies have an all-female cast or an all-black cast or Snow White

is in a wheelchair or whatever the fuck it is. But it kind of goes back to the Cracker Barrel thing, right? And look, I'm making fun of all the people that are super pissed off about Cracker Barrel. But sometimes don't fuck with shit and know your audience. Cracker Barrel is never going to be a restaurant where a bunch of fucking like 20-year-old gender-neutral people are going to go into Cracker Barrel. It's just not going to happen. Their audience will always be middle-aged and old people, not necessarily just white people, but they're going to be middle-aged and older people. Like the Cracker Barrel audience is always going to be bus loads of octogenarians.

That's who their audience is. Their audience is people like my dad who went off on Cracker Barrel on. Facebook shocking I know but like I called my dad yesterday just to check in and he starts going in on Cracker Barrel I'm like dad I don't give a shit like I really don't care but like that's who your audience is where you hurt yourself is where you try to get a new audience that doesn't want your product and I think like people are shitting on Cracker Barrel for different reasons like the people the right wing people who are pissed off about it are just pissed off because like oh they're that's turning woke and whatever

Just because it's a sexy thing to yell about, and I just don't care about that. But one thing that is a fair criticism of what Cracker Barrel is doing is Cracker Barrel, in the name of being progressive or whatever the move is, they are alienating a large portion of their fan base by essentially telling them that you don't want them anymore, right? That's kind of what you're telling them. Like, we're glad that we're doing well with all the old people and middle-aged white folks and churchgoers and shit that come to Cracker Barrel. And by the way, find me a Cracker Barrel that isn't fucking asses to fuck. fucking asses to balls. Yeah, that makes sense. Asses to cheat.

There's a saying for it. But like nuts to butts. Find me a cracker barrel that isn't nuts to butts on a Sunday or a Saturday or really any day of the week. They're packed. So I'd like to know what the data was. I don't want to get into a cracker barrel thing here, but it kind of fits with this cool running thing.

Like I'd like to know what data was showing you that you weren't doing well at Cracker Barrel and that you needed a full-on rebrand. That would be my question. If you can show me data that says our sales were down blank, blank and blank, and if you want to tell me, hey, we feel like our clientele is dying off because they're old, well, guess what? That same clientele, you know, was going to be next to the line? People who are like 50 now, they're going to be fucking old soon, and they'll be your clientele. So, like, show me the data. Show me the data that said that people wanted an all-lady ghostbusters.

show me the data that says people want a person of color snow white like find me the the persons of color who were like please give me a persons of color snow white you know what I'm saying like show me the data don't just do shit because you're doing it in the name of being progressive find me the actual data that backs up what you're trying to do first of all I don't know who wants a remake or a sequel to Cool Runnings because I don't think Cool Runnings was that popular of a movie Cool Runnings was fine, and it grew more legs on VHS, and that's where I think a lot of kids saw it, kids of my age. But, like, I don't think there were a bunch of people that were like, boy, I really need a sequel to Cool Runnings, notably because, you know, John Candy's been dead for 30 years, and John Candy would be the reason you watch the movie anyway. But certainly it wasn't a situation where you're like, you know what I need, a bunch of all, I need girls in there. Just like, I like Boy Meets World. Don't force feed me fucking Girl Meets World. I don't want like it's not that creative like creativity is not hey let's throw a girl in it and do the same fucking show and as we've learned women don't give a shit like I think people are of the

belief that hey women just want to see more women in these rules women don't give a shit anyway more to come