The Josh Innes Show - New "Meet The Parents" Movie Coming in 2026

Episode Date: June 3, 2025

First off, a quick follow up to the story about Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" hitting 1 Billion streams. I've got some remarkable streaming stats about huge bands. There will be a new "Meet The Parents" movie in 2026. I loved the original and the first sequel. The third movie was a massive pile of shit. It's so weird that social media made liking celebrities so weird. We know that they hate us, so why should we see their movies? I miss 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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because of Rick Astley and Rick Astley now has one billion streams or over one billion streams now with never going to give you up. So the Rick Roll song has eclipsed a billion streams. So I started just looking up bands and how many songs of theirs like I was talking with Jilly and Jilly's doing some radio shows and I'm like, well tell me an artist that you're about to play and I'll tell you how many streams they have and then you can do some sort of wacky thing

where you're like, wow, Rick Astley has a billion streams and this song only has blank. For example, right, Steve Miller, one of the iconic classic rock artists of all time, okay? Steve Miller's most streamed song, I'm going to give you a second to think about it because I want you to play along here. If you had to guess Steve Miller's most stream song, what would it be? I'll give you like five seconds here. 54321. The correct answer is The Joker at 570,834,739. Followed by Take the Money and Run, which is 212 million, Abra Kadabra, 193 million, Rockin' Me, 191 million. Point being that even the most streamed Steve Miller song,

a person who is 100% a more gifted musician and artist than Rick Astley. This isn't even a bang or a knock on Rick Astley. I have nothing against Rick Astley. I'm all here for never going to give you up. Let's fucking go. Rick Astley has like 320 or fuck, I guess in this case it'd be 420 million more streams on his biggest song than Steve Miller has on his biggest song. Think about that. That is fucking bonkers. But if you really want to hear something bonkers as it relates to streaming numbers and songs, I'll tell you something that's going to blow your mind here in just

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Just eclipsed a billion streams. So he has a song that has over a billion streams. The Beatles, John Paul, George and Ringo, the greatest, arguably the greatest band to ever exist. Would you like to know how many 1 billion stream songs the Beatles have? The correct answer is 1. Now it's 1.6 billion, but the Beatles have as many 1 billion stream songs as Rick Astley. Think about the absurdity of that. Now, I'll give you five seconds to try to guess which one.

Five, four, three, two, one. The correct answer is Here Comes the Sun with 1.6 million. There has to be some really like usually some big thing happens that leads to some of these songs getting to where they get. I wouldn't have guessed Here Comes the Sun. I would have guessed like yesterday or Hey Jude or you know, let it be one of those types but think about the absurdity of that. This isn't

me banging on Rick Astley never going to give you up together forever all that I dig those jams. But you're talking about a billion streams. Rick Astley has as many 1 billion streamed songs as the Beatles. Gnaw on that for a second. How many other, let me, like, how does that compare to the other Rick Astley songs? Let's look up Rick Astley. I know that I'm going down a wormhole here. Rick Astley most streamed songs. Like what do his other songs do? I want to guess that his other ones may not even be in the like might be in the millions. Like I bet that Together Forever is going to be in that like might be in the millions like I bet that together forever is gonna be in the million I'll be in the millions

Will it even be in the I guarantee you this man does not have another song that comes close to a hundred million streams But never gonna give you up. Is that over a billion now? So, let's see Together forever has a hundred seventy one million Then once you get to the bottom part of his stuff, like it drops off dramatically. So you're over a billion streams on Never Gonna Give You Up. Together Forever has 171 million streams. Cry For Help has 34 million. Take Me To Your Heart has 22 million. Hold Me In Your Arms has 19. It would take a strong, strong man is seven. So the point is, if you look at his top five, the number five song has 20 million downloads

and the top song has over 100 million. Like it is fucking wild. Wild, I say. What's even more wild is he has about 1.4 billion streams all time. And I know I go back to Steve Miller, but that's the band that Jilly was talking out of, so I looked it up. Steve Miller has like 1.8 billion. It's not that far off. It's fucking crazy, man. But anyway, I know you've got more important things to think about, more important things to do. I get it. But shit's bonkers. Other things entertainment wise, there's going to be a new Meet the Parents, something that nobody asked for, but here's Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. I guess Ben Stiller's in a world where if he has to be miserable that the Knicks lost, the rest of the world has to be

miserable by watching another Meet the Parents. The Fokker family is back. Everything we know so far about Meet the Parents 4. Well, I guess here's something that this has going for it. It cannot be worse than Little Fockers, which is one of the worst movies I've ever watched. And that comes after the first Meet the Parents, which is one of my favorites, and Meet the Fockers, which isn't as good as Meet the Parents. Like as far as sequels go, it's fine. It's not like one of the all-time goat sequels, but I love Meet the Fockers and I like the Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand

characters and you ever know me to turn down a chimmy? Like it's a funny movie. I like it. It's not as good as the first. The first is fantastic, but let's see what we know. Let's see. Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro will reprise their roles and meet the parents while Ariana Grande joins the cast. The fourth installment in the beloved comedy franchise comes over two decades after the original movie. It will premiere in theaters November 2026. So you've got a long ass way to go. Like, what do we have like 16 months or so until this comes out, so there'll be time. Let's see, on May 30th, people confirmed that the Wicked actress was joining Robert

De Niro, Ben Stiller, in the fourth installment of Universal's hit comedy franchise. The untitled movie, set to premiere in 2026, comes over two decades after the original Meet the Parents, which grossed more than $330 million at the global box office following its 2000 release. The sequels in 2004 and 2010 culminated in a total of $1.13 billion for the series. I love, love, love the first Meet the Parents movie. It's so weird when you go back and look at those movies because back in 2000 you have no idea what any of these people think politically. Like the world was such a better place in like 2000, 1999, 2000. You didn't think about politics for everything. There was no social media. That's the most important thing. Going

to the movies mattered in 1999. Like it was a big fucking deal to go to the movies and there'd always be a big crowd of people at the movies and you'd see a movie and laugh your dick off and the movie was made funnier because there was a giant crowd of people but now with social media and everybody wanting to be some sort of warrior and defender of everyone like everything fucking sucks and now you hate like I don't want to hate Robert De Niro like I'm being real I don't because to hate Robert De Niro. Like I'm being real, I don't. Cause I love Meet the Parents. He is so fucking good in Meet the Parents. Fokker, I'm wanting to go, you know, the cat and like he reads the poem that he wrote about his dead mom

and then the cat's ashes fall off the map. It's so fucking good. And Ben Stiller is so good in that. Ben Stiller is so good in heavyweights and Ben Stiller is so good in dodgeball. It's like you don't want to hate these people but that like the problem is we've learned that they hate us. They hate us as the audience. They hate people. That's the worst thing that's come out of social media and like this new era is not that celebrities tell you what they think politically because that's

fine. It's that they feel emboldened to tell you basically that they think you're stupid like they're in this world now where they're like we don't care if you see our movie or not fuck you. We're going to tell you that you're stupid. It used to be people would just kind of shut the fuck up and hope the movie made a lot of money. Now most people don't care. They just step up and they tell you that you're morons and they tell you that you're stupid and they hate you and they want you to die and I hate this universe. I despise it. I just want to go back to a world

where I enjoyed seeing Robert De Niro in a movie. Now every time I see Robert De Niro in a movie, all I can think is that it's fucking weird that he's got like a 10 year old kid and that he'd fucking hate me and like I can't get past that. I don't know if other people can but like I was watching this De Niro movie. It wasn't bad. It was a movie with him and Zach Braff and I like Zach Braff a lot and it's some movie where it's set in the 70s and they're movie producers and they're kind of tied in with the mob and the only way to pay off the mob is to like take that basically kill one of the stars of their movie. Like the premise was great. I just don't think the movie was all that good. And I'm watching De Niro and I'm like, fuck did I love

you in so many things? But I know you'd hate me and I hate you. And like I like I hate that that's what I hate when I turn on a movie. Now there's some guys that aren't like that. Like I didn't see Mission Impossible because I haven't watched like five of the eight of them. But like I see a guy like Tom Cruise and while he's wacky and he's you know, you can look at his religious shit and say, okay, that's kind of weird. At least I look at Tom Cruise and I'm like, I don't

know for a fact Tom Cruise would hate me because Tom Cruise is one of the last real movie stars that's not out there on the circuit telling the fucking world how stupid they are. There was such an incredible arrogance about like younger stars of today that just want to go out and tell people how stupid they are and no one's stopping them. Like the gal from the Snow White movie. Like Disney lost a shit ton of money on that movie because basically you can't shut your fucking

hole enough to promote the movie and that's the point of movies is to make money. The point of making Snow White is not to send a message or do something powerful. It's fucking Snow White. It's a Disney movie. Just go out, shut your fucking hole, don't insult people and hope the money good. The movie makes money. But instead like there's this weird arrogance about these celebrities now where they don't view it that way. Like they want, they enjoy telling you that you're stupid. And to their defense, social

media has now allowed them to see all the people that think they're stupid, so they probably build up this resentment towards people before they even know if they love or hate them. And like it's just a whore, it's unhealthy. The world we are in is unhealthy. Like I don't think I would have gone to Philadelphia and hated so many people if I didn't constantly read how much they hated me that again, I feel like at least once a day one of the key themes of this here podcast is how terrible social

media is and how social media is one of the great ruiners of society, but it is I loved Ben Stiller and I loved Robert De Niro and meet the parents and Meet the Fockers. I loved Barbra Streisand and Meet the Fockers. Those are three people who would not piss on me if I were on fire because I didn't vote for who they like and I think a lot of the shit they say is stupid so they would probably they'd think the world would be better off without me basically and I hate that we all know that about each other.

The world was better when people didn't know all know that about each other. The world was better when people didn't know all this shit about each other. Just go about your own fucking business. But social media has driven us to this point. This is where we've hit in life. This is what we deal with in life now is that like I know that this is easy to say but when I was in Houston initially I didn't know how many fucking people hated me because I didn't even get Twitter until 2010. I got to Houston in late 2009. So when I'm doing these shows, the only thing I see is that we have a text line of people are texting that they hate me fine.

I don't know the large number of people who think I'm a shithead. And you're better at your job when you're not thinking about that and I can tell you that that impacts actors and impacts radio people it impacts athletes you want to tell me you're not impacted when you open up your social media and 90% of what you see is that you're a piece of shit and you can tell yourself that you look past that you just look at the positive bullshit. We are all fucked in this world when it comes to that you want to tell it like my confidence takes massive hits a lot of the time, not even because people don't like me. But like

sometimes I'll just be like, Am I doing everything wrong? Like what am I fucking doing? It impacts people in a horrible way. And it goes back to movies. I didn't know that Robert De Niro would think I'm an asshole or the Ben Stiller would think I'm an asshole or any of this. Like, dude, if you would have told me 10 years ago, there'd be another meet the parents movie, I'd go fuck right, let's go. Now there's another meet the parents movie. And the first thing I think of

the absolute first thing and I hate this is those wacky liberals that are gonna think I'm a fucking asshole. I want to don't want to give them my money. And I hate that. I hate that. That's what I think when movies come out. But I do. Or when someone puts out music, I'm like, I don't go see that asshole. He fucking hate me and it sucks. And there's very few people who you like you think like Sammy Hagar doesn't do a ton of political shit. So I dig Sammy Hagar and I go see Sammy Hagar and I like the guy,

you know, but like, like if Sammy Hagar ever came out and start talking shit about whatever and I disagreed with him I'd kind of be like well he probably wouldn't like me so I don't want to give him my money it's just the way the world works now fucking sucks alright more to come