The Josh Innes Show - Random Jack Black Movie Talk

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

I started this episode with intentions of talking about something else... Somehow, I ended up discussing the films of Jack Black. I'm gonna be real...this Celsius is something What films are on Jack Black's Mt. Rushmore? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The following was recorded from inside an ice plunge. Okay. All right. When a Coors Light is cold enough, the mountains on the can turn blue. So the next time you want a cold lager, cold filter, cold package, Coors Light, just wait until those glorious mountains on the can turn blue. It's easy to say that fast when you're freezing cold. All right, so I got some more thoughts on things here i think the celsius is kind of kicking in i feel like i have some sort of energy or i'm about to have a stroke all of a sudden i'm coach o although coach o would

like inject like red bull into his veins intravenously like he'd grab a needle like hey somebody talk coach o off and like he'd just like tie off he'd have like a no the rubber tie off in his mouth like sticking a giant horse tranquilizer needle in his arm full of fucking red bulls so maybe i'm not like kojo this kind of reminds me a little bit tiny bit just a little bit not a not a lot by the way speaking of that do you notice that now everybody's impression of trump is just basically doing shane gillis's impression of trump it's sort of like no one ever really did a harry carey impression then will ferrell did a harry carey impression and now everybody does

will ferrell's impression of harry carey that's what we're getting here. Because I think that Shane Gillis' Trump is the most well-recognized Trump impression. And it's the best. Although, although, the guy who does it on SNL is spectacular. I'd argue his overall with the material and everything and the look and the makeup and the hair, his is spectacular. I don't watch much on Saturday Night Live every now and then I'll go to YouTube and see you know if there was anything funny there's rarely anything funny I watched the Jack Black episode you know it's what I really adore Jack Black and there was this long stretch and maybe we're still in this long stretch where

people just hated Jack Black and I don't know why. He's one of those guys that I've never disliked. I've always found him to be likable, kind of obnoxious in certain things. I get that, but that's the character. I really enjoy Jack Black. If I had a Mount Rushmore, Jack Black movies right now, go. Actually, I can't have a go because none of you are actually there, but we'd go School of Rock would be Mount Rushmore. Nacho Libre would be Mount Rushmore. Let's see. Dude, so the other day, I was skimming through waiting for a basketball game to come on, and Shallow Howl was on. I need to watch that in its entirety unedited and see. I haven't watched that in a thousand years,

but I was watching some of it, and I'm like, holy shit, this is a lot funnier than I remember. Oh, High Fidelity. High Fidelity, Mount Rushmore. He's not the star of that, so it's a little bit different. Like, I don't give a shit about,

was he in Jumanji? Like, those kind of movies I don't care about. This Minecraft I don't give a shit about. I he in Jumanji? Like, those kind of movies I don't care about. This Minecraft I don't give a shit about. I like Tropic Thunder, he's good in that. Do you remember when Jack Black, this is a random poll here, totally random Jack Black poll here, and if you are someone who knows these two Jack Black appearances in movies, you are a real one, you're an OG, and I like you.

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O.G. Jack Black appearances. Two movies. And if you're listening to this now and you're like a 90s kid like me, you're going to be like, I know exactly what he's talking about. You'll know one of them certainly. Because every 90s kid knows this movie. Even though it's a movie that nobody in the world fucking watched outside of like 90s kids. Like I've referenced this to Jilly. Jilly had no fucking clue what this movie was.

Like my buddy Scott, who did the show with me on, um, on Casey. Even Scott's like, I've never heard of this. And Scott knows every fucking weird, obscure eighties and nineties movie and quotes all of them. That's all our damn show is. You want to know why I missed that show so much? I missed that show because it was just me and Scott goofing off. And I wish I would have appreciated that better. I wish Scott would have paid more attention sometime. So I wouldn't have gotten so pissed off all the time. And maybe I'm just bound to get pissed off anyway because I just get pissed off. That's just how I am when I do the radio show. But I miss having someone that literally understood.

I would marry that motherfucker. Because it's something about talking with somebody who understands every movie quote, by understands, knows it and can fucking finish it. I think deep down Scott and I are movie soulmates, right? Like you've got love soulmates, you've got music soulmates. I think in terms of movies, Scott and I are cinema soulmates. That's what I would call us, cinema soulmates. Like when he's like quoting.

And he's like when you got a dude. Like when you got a dude that's quoting Teen Wolf. But not like obvious Teen Wolf shit. I don't know if there is obvious Teen Wolf shit. But like not obvious Teen Wolf shit. Like you know Coach Bobby Finstock. You know never play cards with a guy who's got the same first name as a city. And don't do whatever with a girl who's got a tattoo of a dagger anywhere in her body that's the obvious shit when he's pulling up uh no wolf no wolf no part like when you've got someone who's giving you those kind of references

to movies the deep cuts and understands the deep cut quotes that's a keeper and if i could go back like here's what god now i'm all'm all, I think the Celsius, like I am not used to drinking energy drinks. And now all of a sudden I'm drinking energy drinks and I can't shut the fuck up. Some days you're probably listening to this and you're like, Josh, wake the fuck up. Now I'm all over the place. I'm bouncing off the walls again. Oh, whatever.

I'm just not an energy drink guy. Whatever. My heart feels like it's going to pound out of my chest. Anywho. drink guy uh whatever my heart feels like it's gonna pound out of my chest anywho so scott like the problem i had like like our show was miscast our show should have been a morning show and when i initially talked to them at hubbard they were like hey we're trying to find a new morning show whatever that was kind of the deal they were talking to me for a multitude of reasons one was they were afraid that they may there was an outside shot they'd lose their morning their morning show on their big, their big important morning show. The guy would leave or

whatever. I don't know. So like, Hey, maybe you'd be a good replacement if he left or whatever that, like, I don't know if that was ever serious consideration, but it was something that they were like, just in case it's nice to have someone on staff. Okay, fine. There's number one. And number two is like our fucking morning show sucks. And we think you could do mornings. And that's why they initially weren't going to hire me because they were like, listen, we need a morning show, not an afternoon show. But look, in two years, we'll reach back out. I was about to sign a two year deal in Nashville, but I was like, no, I will do afternoons. And they were like, OK, we'll do it.

And then they did it. And I don't know what went the thought went into that. But, you know, it obviously didn't work. But, Scott, if we were doing a morning show, the shit we were doing in the afternoon there would have been a very successful morning show. And I know it would have. But the thing that I miss about doing that is having someone that literally knows every 80s, 90s movie quote in fucking history. We spoke in Mike Damone. That's just how we spoke to each other. Like, when we were first on in St. Louis,

all we would do is just play drops from fucking Fast Times at Ridgemont High, mostly from Mike Damone. That was the whole show. And it was great and people laughed and we loved it and people remembered it. But whatever, I guess that's not good enough to be on the radio in St. Louis. You got to do the 30 second song challenge and shit. But anyway, where was i jack black mount rushmore jack black films so two jack black films that are smaller parts for jack black one of them

you're gonna know if you're 80s 90s kid you're gonna go jack black i get it how the fuck did i get on jack black i gotta unpack a lot of shit to figure out how I got to talking about Jack Black to begin with. I honest to God don't know. But anyway, so the first one, the one that's obvious, the one that you will all know is a movie called Airborne. It is a movie about a kid and this kid, Mitchell Goosen was his name in the movie mitchell's from california and for whatever reason his parents have to like go off to like i don't know hawaii or some shit for some work shit and he gets shipped off to stay with his aunt and uncle and cousin in cincinnati and this is like kind of mid-90s surfer kid he's like hey bro and he's got like the the

kind of swoopy surfer bro bangs and puka shells and talks kind of like this bro and then he has to go stay with his aunt and uncle in uh in Cincinnati and his cousin the wily man who is played by Seth Green but in the movie uh you've got uh the I think that it was the aunt played by Seth Green. But in the movie, you've got, I think, was the aunt played by Edie McClurg? The one that was, when I think of Edie McClurg, there are two roles, I think, for Edie McClurg. There's the role in which she was Grace, the secretary for Edward R. Rooney, Dean of Students,

in a film called Ferris Bueller's Day Off. And then I think of her working the counter in planes, trains, and automobiles at the St. Louis rental car place at the airport. Gobble, gobble, gobble. That one, you're fucked. That one, that's what I think of. Was that Edie McClurg? Now I have to look it up. Was Edie McClurg in the movie Airborne? But there was Edie McClurg and then Seth Green before Seth Green was really known for anything. Uh, he was the cousin and then let's see. Airborne was, yep. It was Edie McClurg. She was the aunt. Okay. And then I think the guy that played the, the uncle was one of the guys who I think you'd most know from seeing him in,

oh, what the hell? Like he was always like a teacher in episodes of Saved by the Bell. What's this guy's name? Patrick O'Brien. Louis, let's see. Is this the guy? Yep, that's the one. Mr. Dewey. He was Mr. Dewey in Saved by the Bell.

So anyway, Mitchell has to move from like cool bro vibes man in California to go live with his uh his aunt and uncle because I don't know what the fuck his parents were off to do probably have to join some hippie dippy sex cult somewhere and he has to go stay with his much older looking aunt and uncle and his cousin the wily man and he moves to Cincinnati where it's cold and dreary and drab and he's getting bullied by all the badasses at the school. But then he meets like this hot chick and I forgot her name. And then like he shows off for her because like she takes him to like an arboretum or some shit. He starts like rollerblading because like rollerblading is a way to make up for not being able to surf.

And rollerblading was the cool shit in like 1993, which it was. My fat ass even rollerbladed fuck i miss going to the skating rink anyway so um all this to tell you this jack black was one of like the bully dudes like that was you know like bullies that were fucking with this dude like he was like like if he like he was taking a poopy at the school they all poured water on him while he was pooping and got all the toilet paper wet because apparently so in the mid 90s in high schools I guess they hung toilet paper from like chains in the ceiling whatever but like that's kind of what it was and Jack Black who

knows that might have been his first fucking movie but was Jack Black in an episode of the Cosby show I don't remember but anyway so Jack Black Jack Black, Jack Black was in that, Airborne. All of you listening that are 90s kids, you know Airborne. You know you know Airborne. Not Air Bud, you know that too. And not Air Bud Golden Receiver, you know that. Or Air Bud Angels in the End Zone or whatever the fuck it was. But there's another one.

And if you remember this one, you're a real one. There was a movie starring Paul Reiser and Matthew Modine and Randy Quaid. Those were the three dudes. And a younger, like, teenage Deliza douche coup. The movie is about three dads who are, like, best buddies who are all going through a divorce. And it's like, it's a comedy, you know. And it's called Bye Bye Love. Not a great movie, but one that I enjoy.

And because I used to watch it a lot as a kid. But it was Randy Quaid, Paul Reiser, and Matthew Modine. And like each Friday or whatever, they meet up with their ex-wives, pick up the kids at McDonald's, and spend the weekend with them. And they have the trials and tribulations of being single dads and they try to date and then blah blah blah it's actually not a bad movie uh also starring in the movie is the kid and I don't remember his name but do you remember speaking of mid-90s icons the dude that played um was his name AJ was that the character's name in Empire Records? So Empire Records, there was like the dude that was like, spoiler alert, ends up like hooking up with Liv Tyler after she like throws herself at Rex Manning. It's Rex Manning day and he's in love with her.

I think his name was AJ in the movie. Empire Records, fine film. And so they end up like, you know, they date at the end of the movie. Who knows if they stayed together? I believe in love, so I'll say yes. But so that happens. He's in this movie, Bye Bye Love. And so is this old man in the movie. And I forgot his name,

but he was like one of the main doctors in a television show called Saint Elsewhere. Fun fact, maybe not so fun fact, he eventually killed himself not too long after making this film. I do not know why, but he did. Now you know the rest of the story. How does this involve Jack Black? Well, there is a scene where these two high school girls, I think Eliza Dushku is one of them, they go to a party, like a college party, and somehow the little brother is with him and shit, and there's a DJ, and he's spinning records, and the kid goes, do you have any Rivey? Reefer? Reefer? That's Jack

Black. So look, that was a long way to tell you that neither one of those are on the Mount Rushmore of Jack Black movies. If you gave me a million dollars and you said, Josh, how the fuck did you end up talking about Jack Black on this podcast? I don't know. Celsius, bro. But Mount Rushmore, Jack Black, School of Rock, one of my favorites. I fucking love it. I find him charming. I don't know why I find Jack black so charming but i do and i know that a lot of people disliked him and i get

all that but i always found the guy you know what he's great in the holiday where it's like a romantic comedy a christmas romantic comedy with kate winslet and jude law and um cameron diaz uh before a face became like a catcher's mitt. But you always knew. You looked at Cameron Diaz's face and you're like, if she gets older, that face is not going to age gracefully. But okay, Mount Rushmore.

How the fuck did I get here? Boy, Celsius. Anywho, so Jack Black. Mount Rushmore of Jack Black movies. School of Rock and Nacho Libre. They're both on there. We were watching Nacho Libre the other day, and fuck, it's so good. Chancho, bring me some sweets.

Great fucking movie. So those two are on there. High Fidel. Actually, I think I've got my Mount Rushmore already. Dun, dun. So those two are on there. High Fidel. Actually, I think I've got my Mount Rushmore already. Dun, dun. He was actually really good in this movie about the Polka. The Polka King is what it's called on Netflix,

where he plays Yan Le Wan, like this guy that was just Ponzi scheming these people in Pennsylvania, some Polka singer. But I wouldn't put that among the best. The best of the Jack Black films. I kick it old school with old JB. We're going to go with School of Rock, Nacho Libre, High Fidelity, which is one of my favorite fucking movies ever. God, if you haven't seen High Fidelity, what are you doing?

Me and Sludge spoke spoke in high fidelity a lot high fidelity and saving silverman i saw the other day that there's some new movie like uh a new neil diamond movie coming out that's based on the music of neil diamond or some shit or basically it's about a neil diamond tribute band that i'm like already saw that movie that tribute band was called diamonds in the rough and it movie. That tribute band was called Diamonds in the Rough and it was in a film that was called Saving Silverman, which is goat level status. You're the guys who've been sending me all those naked pictures. God, we're coming to America. Look, I believe in happy endings. And if Neil Diamond, I've always sung about the healing power of love.

Anywho, as God is my witness, I have no fucking clue how I started talking about Jack Black. I'm gonna have to go back and listen to find out how. Did you guys see the video of Jack Black with the kid from Love on the Spectrum? God, that was good. Love on the Spectrum, quality program.

David and Abby, love them. Actually, I think I now know how I got there. Jesus Christ, this was a roundabout way. Maybe this is why you listen to this shit. I don't know. Maybe it's why you hate it, and you're like, I'm done listening to this shit, because it all started with Trump impressions.

Thus, I was talking about Shane Gillis. Shane Gillis doing his impression, which is good, but now everybody just does Shane Gillis' impression of Trump, but then the guy on SNL does a great Trump, but I only watched the episode with Jack Black because I really like Jack Black. And thus, 20 minutes later, we've gotten to this point. You're welcome.