The Josh Innes Show - Will Smith Doing Cringy Things

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

The internet has spent the last week or so dumping on Will Smith for releasing cringy new music. Allow me to interject by saying Will Smith has always made hokey music. Why is everyone shocked now? Remember when Will Smith ruled the world? What a time that was. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it. It'll help me out. You guys are wonderful. You know, I love you. So make sure you keep listening. And the good news is we are only like it's wild to think about this that it's almost July, right? And it's almost July, which means we're only like a month away from football shit getting going in earnest. Because there's a lot of days part of the reason why I've been posting more of the classic shit is because it feels like a good summertime thing to do. But also

because there's not a lot of shit going on that I find super interesting. And I'm not going to dive deep into political shit most of the time on here. I'm just looking for dumb shit to talk about. So when you know, it's June and the NBA finals are dull and there's a blowout basically last night and you know, there's a there's you know, I'm not going to break down baseball on a daily basis. Sorry. That's just not something that interests me.

If there's some interesting story, I will. But it's not like this is a podcast where you're gonna get day in, day out baseball breakdowns. If you'd like that, I can. You can send a message and say, Josh, I'm Steve. I would really like full-on baseball breakdowns every day. Then perhaps I can give you a full-on baseball breakdowns. That's kind of the perk of doing a podcast, right? Like I'm fairly certain people are tuning in because they just want to hear my take on whatever the fuck I find interesting, right? When you're on the radio, like let's say you're in Houston, you kind of have to talk about baseball every day. If you're in Philly, you have to talk about baseball every day because both of those baseball

teams are good. It's sports radio. That's the expectation. And I totally get that. The beauty of doing what I'm doing sitting in my underwear every day doing a podcast for you is I don't have to adhere or follow the rules of conventional talk radio. That's the beauty of it. I don't have to come in here and go, Hmm,

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It's gambling on football, betting football, parlay's, it's, you know, every game matters. We love the NFL. That's why I'm just like, when you sit back and really think about where we are right now, we're almost in that 60 day window, right? Which means in July, you're going to start getting like practices for the NFL, practices for college. And what are we like a little over a month away from the Hall of Fame game? Is the Hall of Fame game in like early August? Shit, that's exciting to think about, man. I never used to be this guy. I never used to be the guy that said, oh, we're only 50 something days away from football season but my god with betting and everything that goes into it and you know Jillian I like to bet on the football games and just the

When your weekend is nothing but football and there's gonna come a time where Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday are All going to be football games and it's amazing and And look, it's kind of like that new Will Smith jam, the I like pretty girls, right? And he just tells you they're in there ain't a girl, there ain't too many girls who don't think are pretty, which is a pretty dreadful song. But if you haven't heard it, it's new Will Smith. It's being mocked on the internet. Hold on, let me play a few commercials and we'll continue that. and get more with North America's number one sports book. Please play responsibly. 19 plus and physically located in Ontario. If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or the gambling of someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario when it's 66-531-2600

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GMC dealer for details. So that new Will Smith song is called I Like Pretty Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls, I Like Pretty Girls. I mean, no one's gonna play it on the radio or anything. But it's just funny watching the internet ridicule Will Smith for this saying it's lame. And I'm like, oh, I'm sorry that Parents Just Don't Understand was hardcore. And I'm sorry that Men in Black was so hardcore and Wild Wild West was so hardcore and that other song that was in the second Men in Black movie, what was that? The Nod Your Head, Black Suits Come In. I'm sorry that Miami was such a cool song. I'm sorry that just the two of us was such a banger. Like listen, I'm not going to sit there and retroactively shit on Will Smith's music because Will Smith when I was like 12 years old, I thought his shit was the coolest shit ever. I thought men in black in the video when he

starts doing the dance with the the alien. Let me see it just walk with me just walk with me take a walk with me. Come on. Let me see it just slide slide. Come on and make your neck work. side. Come on and make your neck work. Uh now freeze. Here come the men in black. Look, I'm into it. I'm totally with you on it but like let's not act like we're in a situation right now where like Will Smith has like it's not like this is ice cube going from no Vaseline to doing Are We There Yet? This is not some huge shift like this

motherfucker was hardcore gangsta. This isn't MC Hammer going from can't touch this and too legit to quit to pumps in a bump. This isn't the new kids on a block going from step by step to the funky head. No, the funky headhunter was the name of the the the album. I think that was the name of the album funky head hunter was that the name of the MC Hammer hardcore album. This isn't the new kids on the block going face the music was the name of theirs and they had a song called dirted down. That was their little thing right?

This isn't that this is Will Smith doing exactly what Will Smith does. It's just you think it's lame now and you're shitting on the guy. But in 1998, your ass was sitting there. Do do do do do. Let me see you take a walk with me. Take a walk with me. Come on, make your neck work. In 1999, 2000, you were sitting there singing Wild Wild West, which by the way, I think Wild Wild West is a certified banger. And it's always been a certified banger.

Come on make your neck work. Wild Wild West, when I roll into the Wild Wild West, when I stroll into the Wild Wild West, we're going straight to the Wild Wild West. Little Drew Hill in there. To the Wild Wild. It's just he's always been lame. No one's ever viewed Will Smith is like holy shit. This guy makes like some fucking powerful music. He made lame music forever. Nightmare on my street. Always been fucking

lame. So let's not pile on Will Smith now. I mean, yes, he got he slapped Chris Rock. Yes is why fucked around on him with like, basically a college kid. all that shit. Like it's why you think about people who had their whole image altered, right? Like, no one stays on top forever, right? So there was a time that Will Smith was like a god of everything. In real talk, I thought Will Smith first stretch was the coolest dude on the planet, right? Because he's a nice guy, likable guy. And all of his movies were fucking jams, even like shitty ones like Wild Wild West, but Men in Black was legit.

I love Hitch. Hitch is such a good movie with him and Kevin James and What's Her Name is also in that one too, the hot Hispanic chick, she's in that movie. Like I just, I love that movie. And Will Smith always just had a fun time. What about the pursuit of happiness? Like tell me you don't cry when you watch the pursuit of happiness, right? Like you watch that and you're like, goddamn, I'm going to cry. There's like four or five stretches in that movie where it's like, yep, time to cry. If it's Sunday and you've had too many bush lattes and the country

music ain't hitting, go to YouTube and look look up you know, last scene of the pursuit of happiness or such and such gets the job in pursuit of happiness spoiler alert, and then just cry over it. Fuck. Will Smith made certified legit rock star fucking movies and made a billion dollars at the box office. But like at some point, he kind of got lame. And now this dude's like 60 years old, and he's singing these lame ass songs and people are ripping him and I'm like, I'm not going to engage in your slander of Will Smith. Will

Smith is now basically your grandpa. And like he's lost that aura. Like I think aura is a really important thing, right? Like when you have an aura about you, I think that's a huge part of it. Like the 1990s or was that Will Smith was a very nice guy nice smile likable dude your mom could like him your grandma could like him he was harmless but he had a smooth quality about him right like he was the biggest star in the world he looked sharp his songs were

hokey but they were fine but you didn't know his personal life you didn't know that his wife was basically cucking him on the reg and you didn't know that he was gonna have weird-ass fucking kids Like you didn't know like now you look at Will Smith and he'd like you almost feel sorry for him You combine the fact that his wife's like bad one. What was the story that his wife was like banging his son's Friend or some shit and his son is weird And you don't really hear a lot from his daughter, but she's kind of weird. Like they're like the typical like, like broken weird kids of a weird Hollywood family. Like some Hollywood kids survive it and make it out and

they're okay. And like they're kind of normal. And like they might have little quirks. like the Smith children feel like kids that are born of like mega star parents weird upbringing and now they're just fucking bizarre right like that's how they come across and so you feel bad for him from that standpoint you feel bad that he's having to go up and make a fool of himself slapping Chris Rock on the stage because he's making jokes about his wife his wife who fucks around on him anyway like there is no aura about Will Smith so now what Will's doing is he's making jokes about his wife, his wife who fucks around on him anyway. Like there is no aura about Will Smith. So now what Will's doing is he's coming out and he's

like releasing all these videos of him freestyling quote unquote freestyling and he's out there putting out new songs that nobody asked for and you watch him and like I'm not going to sit here and criticize him and tell him it's terrible because that's easy to do what it is is lame as shit and then like you you pity him like now we're at that point with Will Smith where you watch him and I'm like, bro like I like just fade bro. Like I get it must be tough. It

must be tough when 20 years ago. You're the biggest star on the planet 20 years ago. You're in hitch making a billion dollars 25 years ago doing Men in Black and shit. Independence Day. You're like one of the biggest bad boys and bad boys too. And like you're a huge star. And by the way, when he puts out a bad boys movie, people go to see it. So it's not like he's complete box office poisoned by any means. People still go see his shit. But there was a time that Will Smith was like

the dude and that you would turn on that Wild Wild West video and even though the movie sucked you'd listen to that jam and Wild Wild West when I'm rolling to the Wild Wild West, James West, Tame of the West. Now remember the name like like all that shit and you're like this guy is cool. And then you watch him now and you're like, wow, this like he's he's older. And this is what happens like when you get older and you don't really move in a different direction. It's got to be a tough spot to be in.

I think he's in his mid 50s late 50s. So it's not like if you're Will Smith, you can go out and like just start doing gangster rap because people would look at you and go that's weird and then like doing the shit you've always done makes you look lame. So like you would almost want to say bro just fade away like keep making some movies like if you look at Will Smith's movies, I guarantee you that Will Smith movies still make cash. Let's see here Will Smith box office. Let's see

what his stuff makes. Let's see Will Smith. Can you show me? Let's see dudes movies have made like $7 billion all time. He's made 32 movies as the leading actor in movies and domestically they've made $3 billion and $7 billion worldwide as a leading man. So like point being in all of this is like like even recently dude was in Suicide squad like the dudes in movies that are hits. Let's see here. He was the G he was the genie in that remake of Aladdin oof but

like Suicide Squad was recent. Let's see. I am legend was a banger hitch was a banger Pursuit of Happiness bad boys to I mean the dude made fucking movies that made money and he still makes movies that make money. So like so it's not like he's a total obscure person. It's not like he's falling off a cliff. There's no need to make these shitty songs. Nobody asked for them and all you're doing is hurting yourself. Like that slap didn't

hurt you nearly as much and reputation is putting out your shitty new music that nobody asked for. And I say that as someone that likes the guy. I say that as someone who used to think he was the coolest dude on the planet. Like I'd be like, wow, I want to be like hitch. That's what I want to be smooth like this dude. Yeah, poor guy. I don't know how I got down that wormhole. By the way, it started with me talking about talking about certain things that we

talk about on the podcast, then football. And then I never thought I'd be the guy that says I can't wait until football starts. It does like a countdown. But here we are. I truly have no idea how I got to where I got to with talking about Will Smith. I had great intentions. I'm sure I had some great plan for what to talk about on this particular segment of the podcast. As it turns out, I don't think I did. Maybe I didn't, but somehow I ended up

talking about Will Smith and how people are ridiculing Will Smith despite the fact that he's doing exactly what he used to do. But now it's cringe. Anywho, alright then we will continue.