‘Borat’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

Comedy month continues as Bill Simmons is joined by Kyle Brandt, who is no. 4 rewatcher in all of Kazakhstan, to revisit Sacha Baron Cohen in ‘Borat.' Producers: Craig Horlbeck, Chia Hao Tat, Eduardo Ocampo, and Matt Pevic Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at https://ziprecruiter.com/REWATCHABLES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 2:14Bill Simmons?

  The Rewatchables, brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where you can find Kyle Branton here and the Rewatchables. He doesn't have a Ringer Podcast, but he's like, you're in the whole ESPN vortex now. You're on the Schedule Release Show, you're doing all kinds of things. You got a nice setup, look at this in the background.

• 2:29Speaker 04

  It's great. I get to go on with ESPN talent. I sat down with Peter Strager last night and I said, "What's up with it, Vanilla Face?" And we just kept running. It was great.

• 2:38Bill Simmons?

  We go have sexy time?

• 2:41Bill Simmons?

  We were doing comedies all month here on the Rewatchables. A bunch of them are on Netflix. We've done There's Something About Mary and Tropic Thunder. And now, I think one of the best comedies of the 21st century, Borat, is next.

• 3:07Bill Simmons?

  Borat, you've wanted this for a while.

• 3:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 3:10Bill Simmons?

  We both love it. I'm gonna start here. Sacha Baron Cohen, one of the great comedy actor performances in a movie ever, for me.

• 3:18Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 3:19Bill Simmons?

  It's a 101. I almost feel like it's lost how good he is in it, because the Borat kind of took over. And he's done a lot of good stuff, you know, he had the LG Show, he's made a bunch of movies. But I'm just like in awe of him in this movie, how incredible he is. So I'm starting there.

• 3:35Speaker 04

  Fantastic. And I think you just were on to something. I think it's a little bit defiled in the wake of it, in that the annoying guy in your friend group for the next five years would go, "My wife, high five."

• 3:46Bill Simmons?

  And it kind of ruined this amazing character that he did, but not for me.

• 3:51Speaker 04

  My appetite was wet to do this movie with you, Bill, because I was listening to the Something About Mary pod, and you guys were talking a lot about your experience in the theater. Hardest I've ever laughed in the theater, people screaming in the theater. This was the same thing. I remember being in the theater for Borat. I was at, I think I was at the Chinese Theater, right there in Hollywood. And it's not just that people were just laughing ha ha. There was screams, there was people like pulling their jackets up over their head during the naked fight. There were people who were leaving. Like, it was the most chaotic two minutes I've ever had in a movie theater, was this movie.

• 4:23Bill Simmons?

  The naked fight on a big screen.

• 4:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 4:26Bill Simmons?

  It's almost like a what's aged the worst, because it's just never gonna be the same watching it at home on a 50 to 70 to 100 inch TV, whatever TV you have. To see that on a 50 foot screen.

• 4:39Bill Simmons?

  Was, are you having earpiece problems with your new setup?

• 4:41Speaker 04

  This is first world problems. I'm already gonna, I'm gonna have to email Bristol. This thing sucks, Bill. They gave me a crappy earpiece. The one from NFL Network worked fine, by the way, for years doing this podcast. And now we're 10 seconds in and Bill's trying to talk about how big Azamat's ball sack is on the site. And I can't get the earpiece in.

• 4:58Bill Simmons?

  That's right. We're keeping it in. People, we're professionals. Yeah, but on a 50 foot screen.

• 5:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 5:05Bill Simmons?

  Azamat's ass. It's probably my favorite part of the movie, just when he gets off him. It's like he got concussed by Ed Reed. And I don't think he's acting. I actually think he's like, it's almost smelling salt springing the trainers out. It's so disgusting.

• 5:22Speaker 04

  Well, they say that the most infamous hit ever in what I do is the, in this era is the Vontez Burfect on Antonio Brown. That people think changed Antonio Brown as a person.

• 5:30Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 5:30Speaker 04

  I think that one Sacha Baron Cohen went into Azamat's chode and that's a different person came out. Like, I don't think he was the same guy that went in.

• 5:37Bill Simmons?

  He's never funny, as funny ever again.

• 5:42Bill Simmons?

  Best, so, oh, on the great comedy actor performances thing. I was thinking about, there's different types. Like, early on in the 60s, 70s, and you would have like Peter Sellers playing all these different parts. Then we get to the 80s and you'd have like the force, force of nature comedy stuff, like Belushi in Animal House, just going in, clearing out the cafeteria and it's like hilarious. Or Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop. Even Chevy Chase in Fletch. You can go through. This is so different because I think the degree of difficulty was just a hundred out of a hundred. Like, it's not just the scenarios is in, but he also has to stay in character.

• 6:23Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 6:23Bill Simmons?

  He's gotta weather whatever the storm is. And he's also gotta be really funny. And there's, I didn't even know until we did the research. When he's reading his dictionary, it's actually all these jokes they wrote for the situations. Right? He's not like, I gotta look, what's that? But he's actually like trying to figure out their, so they're prepared ahead of time, but not totally. So it's this combination of like, it's like guerrilla improv, basically. And I don't know how he does it. I don't know anybody else who could have done this.

• 6:50Speaker 04

  I think one of the most underrated things about this movie is the writing because there's brilliant stuff that they came up with this, the bit where he goes into the hotel elevator and starts unpacking because he thinks it's his room. Like that is a written script and it's a really funny idea. But I like the guys that you brought up and all the people that we love, Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase, like they're, they're pretty much playing themselves, right? They're just funny, charismatic people. You have to find someone who's really, really doing deep character work, like the people that come to like, Mike Myers was doing characters. Steve Martin in The Jerk is a character. And what's really jarring is if you were a fan of the Ali G show back when Sacha Baron Cohen wouldn't do media, if you'd ever see an interview with him, it's so crazy how he is this really thoughtful, erudite,

• 7:34Speaker 04

  British man that doesn't sound anything like his characters. It reminds me of Daniel Day. That when you see him do interviews, you're like, fuck, that's not Bill the Butcher. Like what, that's the best actor I've ever seen in my life.

• 7:44Bill Simmons?

  Right.

• 7:44Speaker 04

  That's the difference with Sasha is like, he's nothing like any Bruno, Ali G, none of them. And that's makes it so compelling.

• 7:52Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, there's this awesome Conan O'Brien interview that he did, I think like 2016, 17 range. And he tells this whole story about a deleted scene from Borat, where Borat films, basically films a porn movie. But he's telling the story as Sacha Baron Cohen, but then he keeps lapsing into Borat as he's telling the story of, of how it is. And it's just like, it's so confusing. It's almost like watching primal fear, like watching Ed Norton go back and forth between the two people because he's like this smart British guy just telling this story, but then all of a sudden he's Borat and, and it, by the way, the story was amazing. They film, they go to an actual porn set. It's about how Borat needs more money after it breaks up with Azamat before he meets Pamela Anderson.

• 8:36Bill Simmons?

  So he actually appears in a real porn film and he's fucking with the director because he's supposed to be like the room service guy and he comes in and they're having actual sex and Borat's supposed to join in. And he keeps screwing up the scene and the director's getting madder and madder.

• 8:52Speaker 04

  This sounds great.

• 8:53Bill Simmons?

  And he's like, I don't know, her vagine doesn't have hair on it. I don't know if I could, you have to put hair on her vagine. And the director's like, we gotta get some hair for her vagine. And, and it's like this whole, I guess it went on for an hour. And he's telling the whole story to Conan and Conan's just dying. And that got cut out, which is another thing about this movie. They have, you know, I think, I think they had like, I don't know, 400 minutes of stuff.

• 9:17Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:17Bill Simmons?

  They narrowed it down to 89, but they had all this deleted stuff. A lot of it's on YouTube. Some of it's on the DVDs and some of it's great, but they, they were so big on what the flow of the movie is not losing the flow.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  Isn't that a statement though about the movie? Like you said all the time, deleted scenes usually suck and you know why they're deleted because they were bad. The deleted scenes in this are funny as hell. I was watching them on YouTube. Borat works at a fast food restaurant and just like keeps messing. It's crazy. Like you could have had a whole separate movie with the separate, the deleted scenes, which are actually funny. No, no deleted scenes are that great. These are really good.

• 9:50Bill Simmons?

  No, and they were big, like they, he explained with the porn scene, because they had the naked fight. They felt like two, two kind of naked set pieces would have stepped on the, the Ozamot fight, which they knew was like going to be the key to the movie. So they cut it and it's like a classic kill your babies, you know? Like I always talk about this with documentaries. That would always be, oh man, we can't lose that scene. It's like, we gotta lose the scene. We gotta get to 90 minutes. And so the good thing is all this stuff's on YouTube. Best mockumentaries ever.

• 10:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, I have this.

• 10:24Bill Simmons?

  So I think Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Borat, Waiting for Guffman, and I'm going to count Blair Witch. Those were the five that jumped out for movies. Is there anyone else you would put in there?

• 10:37Speaker 04

  That's the list that I have minus Blair Witch, which is good addition. And I, I feel like Spinal Tap gets so much respect because it feels like it was first, at least for that generation.

• 10:46Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 10:47Speaker 04

  I, I love Waiting for Guffman. I just, the small time theater for me is it's my favorite one, other than this, maybe. I mean, I had it when we get to Apex Mountain, is this the best mockumentary ever? It, it probably is. I like it better than Spinal Tap, but I know Spinal Tap came first.

• 11:00Bill Simmons?

  What's weird is all of those movies, except for Borat, are 20th century or like beginning of 21st century. None of those movies are from the last 20 years.

• 11:12Bill Simmons?

  I was trying to figure out what happened. And I think the answer is it moved to TV. Cause like the, the office comes in second half of the 2000s and then you have even stuff like Jury Duty. You have like Andy Samberg did that seven days in hell, which I thought was really good. But it just kind of moved away from movies for some reason. And I'm not, not totally sure I agree with it. I don't, or maybe it's like, we don't have the same kind of improv comedians or I, or maybe it's moving more toward Tik Tok and. But it's just weird to me. We haven't had a good one of these in 20 years since Borat. That's strange.

• 11:50Speaker 04

  I think you're onto something where I'm watching this a lot and some of the bits that he's doing. One of my favorite bits is when he just gets to New York City and he's just, I'm new in town. Nice to meet you. He's just introducing himself to people. There's, that's a thousand assholes on Tik Tok do that. They're just messing with people on the street. That was what Billy Eichner was doing. That's like. I follow some of these Instagram accounts that just that my kids like. One of the, one of the ones that I follow is called Humor Bagel. It's just this guy who walks around Central Park and just farts. And that's all it is. And people love it.

• 12:19Bill Simmons?

  That sounds amazing.

• 12:20Speaker 04

  It's so, follow Humor Bagel. He just farts and people laugh. My kid dies laughing. I, I, I watch this sometimes without my kid. But it's like, that's what Borat's doing. He's walking around Central Park messing with New Yorkers, but now it's, it's just on Instagram. Like it's everywhere. You can do it for free.

• 12:34Bill Simmons?

  Well, one of the writers made the, he's, Dan Mazer said.

• 12:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:38Bill Simmons?

  We were in Dallas for two and a half weeks. We were worried about a local, local newspaper getting a hold of the fact that we were around. And he said, and he said this 10 years ago, today there would be people with cell phones. It would be on Twitter, it would be on social media. And that was the problem when they made this sequel. People knew the sequel was happening as it was happening. And I think it was one of the, I mean, COVID kind of killed the sequel. The impact of it, I think it was just a weird time for it to come out.

• 13:04Speaker 04

  When you say sequel, you mean the subsequent movie film?

• 13:07Bill Simmons?

  The subsequent movie film, which I gotta say, I've only seen once. And I I'm sure it's better than I remember it, but it was just when it came out, it was so weird. We'd all been by ourselves for.

• 13:18Speaker 04

  I know.

• 13:19Bill Simmons?

  I don't know, seven, eight months. Um, we just had a pretty tumultuous summer and, you know, there was an election coming. It just felt like the timing was wrong for it, you know?

• 13:27Speaker 04

  I gave it a spin this morning and I hadn't seen it since it came out and I had forgotten it's, it's, it's very Trump driven.

• 13:33Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 13:33Speaker 04

  Like you're just like, ah, I don't know. I, I just, I don't feel like spending time with all that type of shit. And I, I don't think it has the magic. And also to your point, like Borat was a huge deal, huge deal at that point. He was everywhere. Now it still did some good things, like the Rudy Giuliani thing is absolutely insane. And they like, I'm sure that was a big touchdown for them, but it's not like this one.

• 13:52Bill Simmons?

  No, and that, that was another thing in the research you could feel, cause I always look for, are there anniversary pieces about the movie? All history stuff. And there was a bunch of pieces in 2016 about the 10 year anniversary of this movie that were like these big think pieces about. Borat was having fun with this stuff in 2006, but now this is what our nation is becoming. And these people are winning and you could feel the tenor of what they're trying to do in the movie actually shifting as. It just became more kind of omnipresent as, as dialogue and conversations that we were having.

• 14:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:26Bill Simmons?

  So it's, so I think the legacy of this movie is a little strange.

• 14:30Speaker 04

  It is.

• 14:30Bill Simmons?

  Because the stuff that he's doing in oh six, some of it's really rooted in, it's five years after nine 11, right? He has that, that joke in there about the, will the Jews attack, attack the World Trade Center?

• 14:43Speaker 04

  That's why they have to drive, because they don't want to fly.

• 14:47Bill Simmons?

  And some of that stuff was funny then and really feels rooted in oh six. And then some of the people who were making fun of, we all kind of made fun of those people, but now I feel like it would have been this politically polarizing thing to have a movie like that. So it just made me feel like more innocent times, weirdly.

• 15:04Speaker 04

  And the, the South Park guys have said the same thing. They're like, it's hard to do the show now because like just the, the reality is what our show used to be. It's too much of a spoof.

• 15:12Bill Simmons?

  Right.

• 15:12Speaker 04

  It's not as ripe for the pickings. But I mean, listen, when this show, when this movie came out, what was your relationship, Bill, with like, with the HBO show? Because I was a massive fan. It's one of my favorite HBO shows ever. It was a big deal for me that they were making a movie.

• 15:26Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, yeah. I watched, I watched the show. There were some characters I liked other more than others. I always thought Borat was the funniest one. So I was, I was really happy that, um, that they were gonna like expand that universe, but I, it was just such a creative show. And in general, it was a really fun time for comedy because we were having the movie boom. We had this whole generation of new comedians coming in and then there was like some real experimentation going on on some of the cable channels.

• 15:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, for HBO to do that.

• 15:57Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 15:58Speaker 04

  Like, I just remember watching, it was early 2000s, I would TiVo it, like it was 2002 and there'd be Borat, Bruno, and then Ali G. And it was almost exclusively the sit down interviews. I mean, it wasn't any of the road trip stuff, but he would sit down with like Buzz Aldrin and just be like, do you think man will ever walk on the sun? And then he'd be like, no, it's too hot. But then he'd be like, what about in the winter when it's cold? And it was, I was dying laughing. And that's again, the writing, they had that shit so funny and so perfect. And his sit down with Andy Rooney where he walks off set and then Ali G's like, he's chucking me out because the color of my skin. I was like, it's, that's not my HBO Rush more. Like I have it that high. I love it.

• 16:35Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, well, I was, I was in LA writing for Kimmel Show at that point.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:39Bill Simmons?

  And all of us were like, that, whatever that guy is doing, it's, it's almost over here. You know what I mean? You don't feel like you're in the same like, you know, stratosphere with that. What is, and the other thing is, it was hard to separate him, the human being from all of those characters. It's, I think he's, him and Mike Myers are the two where when they were trying to be normal, it always felt the most disorienting. Anytime you saw Mike Myers being Mike Myers, it's like, I don't, what's, I, I don't understand what's happening. Like you're a normal person from Canada. It just never felt right.

• 17:15Speaker 04

  Well, remember, imagine if Sasha had tried to do like his, so I married an ex murderer, where he's just a guy driving around like Boston or something. And he, and then it was, and then in real life, then he like, then he marries Isla Fisher, who's coming off Wedding Crashers, who's huge too. And then there are this power couple, but I think to your point, like post Borat, Sacha Baron is like, I don't know. It, it was never my favorite thing. He would always be, he would be in these, Sweeney Todd, and he would be in Ricky Bobby. And he was always funny. It was just, it was never as good as this.

• 17:44Bill Simmons?

  The Chicago seven movie? Yeah. When we started The Ringer, we were on the Sunset Gower Studios and he had a company there. And he had like an office space and everything. We're always like, are we gonna run into him? Like, what would it be like to run into him? And just kind of bracing for the disappointment that he probably be like, hey, how you doing? And not be funny at all.

• 18:03Speaker 04

  Have you ever met him though?

• 18:04Bill Simmons?

  I've never met him.

• 18:05Speaker 04

  Yeah, me neither. You never run into him at HBO, nothing like that?

• 18:07Bill Simmons?

  Nothing, no.

• 18:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's weird. Love to, but I'd be nervous.

• 18:11Bill Simmons?

  He's, I think he's tall. Like, I think physically, he's a little more imposing than maybe you'd realize. Most comedians are shorter. So you mentioned it was created for the Ali G show.

• 18:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 18:22Bill Simmons?

  Turned into the movie. Most of the scenes were unscripted. The film's participants, which I think people know, but for the most part, there's only four actors in this movie. And every, nobody else knows what's happening. They would have to sign releases and things like that. And then he had that dictionary that he was using. But the legend of the movie shoot, the police were called on him 92 times.

• 18:45Bill Simmons?

  The FBI at one point followed him because they kept getting reports about a Middle Eastern man driving an ice cream truck through America. Yeah. And this was like height of post nine 11.

• 18:56Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 18:57Bill Simmons?

  The director, Todd Phillips.

• 18:59Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 19:00Bill Simmons?

  Who's that, you know, made most famously The Joker and The Joker sequel, but also did The Hangover, all three Hangovers and Road Trip. And I think he's one of the best comedy directors of this century. Quit the movie after like 11 days, which I, I knew and forgot. But apparently after the rodeo scene, he's like, fuck this.

• 19:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 19:21Bill Simmons?

  I'm out of here. Like, people are trying to kill us. I'm done.

• 19:24Speaker 04

  So the rodeo scene, he goes in, you know, he's, he, he does like these crazy jingoistic comments about Premier Bush drinking the blood of all the terrorists, which is really funny.

• 19:35Speaker 04

  And he like revs up all the rednecks and they're, hell yeah, we love you. And then sings the Kazakh national anthem to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. And it's just like, all of the countries are run by little girls. It's fucking incredible. And then as they apparently, the people were like, I don't know. They're gonna lynch him or something. I don't know what was gonna happen. And they had to bail fast. And I think Todd Phillips is like, I gotta bail. I'm out of here.

• 20:01Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, they said, they said there were some creative differences with them too. And I, I, there's a shocking lack of matter of information for this, considering this is one of the most successful comedies of this century. Todd Phillips is famous. He quit the shoot. And it was really hard to figure out what happened, but one of the things from the research was that Azamat wasn't in the movie initially and it wasn't until after they, so they bring in Larry Charles, who's

• 20:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:29Bill Simmons?

  I think probably most famous for Curb Your Enthusiasm, like pretty famous comedy guy, but has also been something of a fixer, like he was pretty legendary for kind of saving Entourage early on when they didn't know what they were gonna be on the scenes. And then he comes in and saves this movie and becomes this triumphant thing. But yeah, Todd Phillips quits.

• 20:50Speaker 04

  And probably the right move. I mean, it was a huge hit that he walked away from, but he had a whole bunch of other movies too. And it's like, I don't know if the creative differences were like Sasha's gonna die on this movie and I'm not, because I mean, that might scare the crap out of you being in that rodeo place. It's terrifying. There's like 3,000 people. But I also, you mentioned, you mentioned this character. I just want, I love peeling back the curtain on our, on our text chain. I want people to know that all of the conversations we had about Borat leading up to this pod, Bill was all over Azamat. I can tell you're a huge Azamat fan, Bill. It's always Azamat.

• 21:22Bill Simmons?

  I'm number one for Azamat. Even when he goes away and he comes back and he's on Hollywood Boulevard as Chaplin and Borat thinks he's Hitler. He's this character actor, what was his name?

• 21:34Speaker 04

  Ken Davidian.

• 21:35Bill Simmons?

  Ken Davidian. I wrote down it's, it's, he's David Tyree.

• 21:42Speaker 04

  Hmm. Okay. Like the miracle moment. Yeah.

• 21:45Bill Simmons?

  He is like, I have 32 career catches in my life and I bounced around and my career was over almost immediately, but I had this one moment that is probably the greatest Super Bowl moment of all time, unless you want to go Malcolm Butler. He was like this, the research, he was like one step lower than a character actor.

• 22:06Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:07Bill Simmons?

  He's just like. I don't know, you're doing ER season five and he's in the ER room for with like one line.

• 22:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, here's your stethoscope. Here it is. And the headline about Azamat, he's American. He's from LA.

• 22:22Bill Simmons?

  Right.

• 22:22Speaker 04

  He's like, he's doing an accent. He's speaking actually Armenian, which is not the same language that Sasha is speaking. I think he's speaking Hebrew.

• 22:31Bill Simmons?

  He's speaking Hebrew.

• 22:32Speaker 04

  They're back and forth. They're not even talking the same language. And there's this great audition story where they bring in Ken Davidian and he like just does this whole rant in Armenian and screams and screams and screams and leaves. And they're like, wow, that guy was pretty good. And then like five minutes later, he came back and he walked in, he goes, oh, hey, guys, I forgot my hat. And they're like, holy shit.

• 22:52Bill Simmons?

  Right. You're American?

• 22:53Speaker 04

  Oh, my God, you're the part you're immediately. And that was like the legendary. That's him catching it over Rodney Harrison from Eli. Like, that's the moment.

• 23:01Bill Simmons?

  No question. And just one of the all time weirdest bodies you've ever seen in a movie. I don't, I don't, did they cover up his dick? Did they need to because his belly was hanging over it? Like, I have no idea how they.

• 23:15Speaker 04

  A lot of questions.

• 23:16Bill Simmons?

  I don't know how they did that scene scene.

• 23:18Speaker 04

  All right. So do you want to get to that scene later or do we do it now?

• 23:21Bill Simmons?

  Well, let's do it now.

• 23:23Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 23:26Speaker 04

  First of all, you, Azamat, you just said it perfectly. We've seen a lot of a heavy or obese people on screen. Fine. What is it about his that's so different? It's the strangest body that's ever been on camera. He has these crazy like Playboy looking breasts that look different from any other man's bare chest that I've ever seen. And then his, you never actually see his dick the whole time.

• 23:48Bill Simmons?

  Or pubic hair.

• 23:49Speaker 04

  Or nothing. You see nothing. It's like he has a full marsupial kendal kangaroo. And then meanwhile, it's so jarring because as they're fighting, Borat is blurred out. So you're like, why is Borat getting blurred? And then they're not blurring Azamat, but I still can't see it. It's so weird.

• 24:06Bill Simmons?

  But you do get to see his balls dangling over.

• 24:09Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 24:09Bill Simmons?

  Borat's face.

• 24:13Bill Simmons?

  Well, the other thing with him that I never knew this. So he's bouncing around as a character actor and he's also running this like garbage business.

• 24:24Bill Simmons?

  Basically in Malibu, he's like garbage collection, like sanitation. And it's gone and he owned a couple lunch places in LA too. So he's kind of like this hustler businessman.

• 24:34Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 24:34Bill Simmons?

  Gets this contract to do some sanitation stuff in Mexico City. Goes down there and it's unclear what happens, but he gets cleaned out and has to declare bankruptcy. Comes back, gives one more whirl at the acting thing and gets Borat. And then basically that if you look at his IMDB, he's dined on this for 20 years, basically. But this is, nobody knows his name. He's the ultimate that guy. You just see him like Azamat.

• 25:01Speaker 04

  Azamat.

• 25:04Bill Simmons?

  But yeah, so he secured a waste management contract in Mexico City. And then the research says, uh, his company was ill-prepared. Davidian maintains he was victimized by a corrupt system, but it ended multinational litigation, trade arbitration and bankruptcy.

• 25:21Speaker 04

  Oh my gosh.

• 25:22Bill Simmons?

  Azamat.

• 25:23Speaker 04

  Come on, buddy. And you know what? I watched the first five minutes of the sequel and you're like, oh, Azamat must've been so excited when they're making a sequel. Like, holy shit, I'm back. And they, Borat sits down in a leather chair. And he gets up and realizes that they skinned Azamat and left his penis right on the top of the chair. So he's dead. So he doesn't even come back, but you finally see his dick.

• 25:44Bill Simmons?

  We also had, this movie had six different lawsuits, which we'll get to later for people who were in it, which was pretty fun. I really loved the relationship of Azamat and Borat. I really enjoyed. I don't, it's like a true buddy cop. It's the only thing I can think of that's similar to it is coming to America with Eddie and Arsenio. Like, just like the lead guy with his like assistant dude, and they just have this whole shorthand and the little, the assistant's there to serve the other guy. But there's like a little tension too. It's just really good.

• 26:15Speaker 04

  And the assistant's trying to get laid on the side too. And they're trying to make a buck a little bit. It is great. And their chemistry is awesome in it. And even though you never hear them speak English to each other, we never see Ken Davidian again.

• 26:25Bill Simmons?

  Oscar nominated for best screenplay.

• 26:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 26:29Bill Simmons?

  Won a Golden Globe for best comedy. I have some Oscar stuff coming later. This movie is 84 minutes.

• 26:36Speaker 04

  Beautiful.

• 26:37Bill Simmons?

  Craig's not here today, but this is a minus 16 on the Horlbeck scale. I think this might be the record. I don't know if we've done a movie that's been 84 minutes. This might be the first one.

• 26:48Speaker 04

  We did like just one of the guys that is about 20 seconds long and it's still longer than this movie. And by the way, it's fine. I don't care. It could be even shorter. You just don't see 84 minute movies.

• 26:58Bill Simmons?

  18 million dollar budget.

• 26:59Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 27:00Bill Simmons?

  It made 262.5 million dollars and spawned a sequel.

• 27:05Bill Simmons?

  Roger Ebert could not find a review.

• 27:08Speaker 04

  No way.

• 27:08Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, I think Raj sat this one out. I think he probably would have liked it.

• 27:12Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 27:13Bill Simmons?

  Raj has a sense of humor. Somebody wrote a review, but it didn't seem like it was him. We don't know how it feels. Uh, we're gonna take a break, come back and go through a slew of rewatchable scenes. This episode is brought to you by ZipRecruiter. If you've ever seen me trying to push one of the documentaries that we've just finished, that I've spent a lot of time on, that I'm really proud of, because, you know, if you're involved in the right documentary,

• 27:38Bill Simmons?

  the process of it, getting it, cutting it down, getting it to the right place. And then it hits a point where you're like, oh yeah, this is good. I can't wait for people to see this. And you can see the, uh, the light in my eyes as I talk about it. You know, even you love what you're doing, I think it shows, which is why I want to tell you about ZipRecruiter. If you're hiring, you can find that kind of enthusiasm easily. That same one, like when I'm talking about like the Vince McMahon documentary that's coming up and you can just see I'm like, I can't wait for you guys to see this. You find that kind of enthusiasm easily with ZipRecruiter. Try it free at ziprecruiter.com/rewatchables. Plus ZipRecruiter just added a new feature that highlights qualified people who are interested in your role.

• 28:20Bill Simmons?

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• 28:41Bill Simmons?

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• 29:26Bill Simmons?

  Wild Horse 9 is being hailed by critics as a revitalizing shot of pure entertainment and easily one of the best films of the year. Don't miss Wild Horse 9, only in theaters November 6th. Get tickets now. All right, most rewatchable scene. I got the opening scene when he's introducing everyone to his town. So I watched this, I watched this twice. I've seen it a bunch of times. The first time I watched on the treadmill. I'm like, I'm gonna bang out, I'm gonna walk 4.0 in the treadmill and watch Borat. And I almost, I almost kinda wobbled and fell like three times as it was a mistake because I'm laughing. The first time, the running of the Jew just killed me.

• 30:09Bill Simmons?

  I just, I hadn't seen it in a while and I'm just, the egg.

• 30:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, the kid beat the shit out of the egg.

• 30:15Bill Simmons?

  And then it goes back to Irk and the town rapist. And he's saying goodbye to him. He's like, just only humans. And I'm just like trying to, and I could like barely do a straight line, but I like meeting the mechanic and the town abortionist. His sister's the number four prostitute. We're just off. We're like, hey, we're crossing every line, guys, get ready.

• 30:36Speaker 04

  We're just gonna be doing jokes for 84 minutes, buckle up.

• 30:40Bill Simmons?

  Borat in New York. You mentioned that the TikTok has basically ruined this. But, uh, but I think my favorite is when the two ladies are walking into the thing is like, very nice, how much?

• 30:56Speaker 04

  Very nice how much is a great one. My, my fucking hero is the most New York asshole guy all time.

• 31:03Bill Simmons?

  Oh, yeah.

• 31:03Speaker 04

  And when, when Borat gets in his face and he goes, if you, if you try to kiss me, I'll pop you in the fucking balls. And like that guy like comes down from Westchester, he's a banker. He does cold plunge.

• 31:15Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 31:15Speaker 04

  He plays squash.

• 31:16Bill Simmons?

  Right.

• 31:16Speaker 04

  He like drives like a really nice BMW and he's not about to get touched on the fucking street. I'll pop you in the balls. Guy makes me laugh every time.

• 31:23Bill Simmons?

  He's definitely had dinner with Schrager at Lugers.

• 31:26Speaker 04

  Where they don't take credit cards, cash only.

• 31:29Bill Simmons?

  I'll take you. It's great. That guy sued the movie because he was upset how he was portrayed. Disagree. I think he, I think he came off great. I would have been excited.

• 31:38Speaker 04

  Awesome.

• 31:38Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 31:38Speaker 04

  Awesome.

• 31:39Bill Simmons?

  Know what he's suing.

• 31:40Speaker 04

  I mean, I have him down as a possible Dion Waiters category with one line. I like him so much.

• 31:45Bill Simmons?

  I have, uh, Pat Haggerty, the humor coach.

• 31:48Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 31:49Bill Simmons?

  The suit is back. Nah, um, but the B-Lo story just absolutely kills me. And the first time I saw this movie, I, I think I saw it with Jacko and House.

• 31:59Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 32:00Bill Simmons?

  They were here for, um, I didn't see this movie in the theater, I don't think. I don't remember why.

• 32:05Speaker 04

  That was fun.

• 32:06Bill Simmons?

  Um, but we watched this and B-Lo fucking killed us and we made B-Lo jokes for like a year after that. You never get this. And then one day he gets it.

• 32:16Speaker 04

  He gets that.

• 32:17Bill Simmons?

  So I'm ashamed to say that, uh, this has been a running joke in my house for.

• 32:22Speaker 04

  Oh, I love this.

• 32:22Bill Simmons?

  With my kids.

• 32:23Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:24Bill Simmons?

  Just me talking to my son. He's like, are we gonna go, you will never get this. It's the only Borat joke I, I do. I don't know why it makes me laugh, but, um.

• 32:33Speaker 04

  So what is it when he asked for like, can I get a PS5 or something? Or can we have pizza for dinner? And you, that's when it comes up?

• 32:38Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 32:39Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:39Bill Simmons?

  Can we go, are you gonna take me to the Cooper game? I can't, I'm going with somebody. You will never get this.

• 32:45Speaker 04

  But they put him with Pat Haggerty, who appears to be the least funny person ever put on camera.

• 32:50Bill Simmons?

  So funny.

• 32:51Speaker 04

  To teach him comedy. And he tells a story about his special needs brother breaking out of the cage to rape his sister. And then gets a high five from Pat about the story.

• 33:00Bill Simmons?

  And then Pat, Pat's realizing in real time, oh God, they're filming this.

• 33:03Speaker 04

  Yes. And then he's like, you know, we need to teach this, this visitor to our country. Let's do 2006 not jokes.

• 33:09Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 33:10Speaker 04

  Which is 13 years, I think, after Wayne's World. No one was making not jokes. And then, and then Sacha Baron just butchers it by fucking it up over and over. It's so good.

• 33:20Bill Simmons?

  Did you see there's a wide shot of the chalkboard where he has all these things written down? There's this one side that has some of the darkest shit that I guess he was gonna go, go through with Borat. I don't know if Pat Haggerty did that or the directors did that.

• 33:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's all, it's like the darkest and molestation, sexual, all this shit. I gotta think that maybe the directors did that because Haggerty is like this stupid blazer with gold buttons. Like he's going to a piano recital, he's gonna teach comedy. It's a great scene.

• 33:47Bill Simmons?

  Borat watching TV, which is the second time I almost fell off the treadmill because it kills me when he's flicking channels and Married with Children comes up. And, and Al Bundy makes like some joke and Borat's like, ha, ha, ha, ha.

• 34:03Speaker 04

  Alright. We're so, we're so in lockstep. I have this for what says the best. Dude, good old fashioned hotel channel surfing. Posted up on your bed.

• 34:12Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 34:13Speaker 04

  You got room service coming, you ordered a chicken quesadilla. He flicks through cops, Married with Children, a quick jingle all the way with our guy Arnold and Jake Lloyd.

• 34:23Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 34:24Speaker 04

  And then Baywatch. And it's like, fuck, I wish I could go back and just channel surf because Baywatch will go to commercial. Then you go back to Married with Children and then you go back to a little bit of jingle all the way. He's so happy and so am I.

• 34:34Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, so like, be careful CJ.

• 34:39Bill Simmons?

  That's it. This, this movie has so many good, like 27 second moments.

• 34:44Speaker 04

  It does.

• 34:45Bill Simmons?

  And then at the feminist meeting, when he, when he, it fades away from the dialogue and he goes, I could not concentrate with the old man was saying. Lot of great jokes. Driving instructions funny. Borat crashing Channel 16.

• 35:01Speaker 04

  First of all, hold on. How about in the feminist meeting where he goes, "Hey, pussycat, give me a smile." "What's the matter, baby?" "Why?" These feminist women are dead serious about shit. These pussycat and baby and them killed me in the theater. And then everybody laughed and he said, "I had no idea what this old man was saying." Everybody laughed. It's mean, but they laughed. Uh, anyway, yes, go.

• 35:23Bill Simmons?

  Driving instruction, uh, Borat on channel 16. The weatherman kills me in this.

• 35:28Speaker 04

  Love it. Worst suit of all time.

• 35:30Bill Simmons?

  He's the only one who really fully understands how funny this is. He's just like, can barely do the weather.

• 35:37Bill Simmons?

  We mentioned the Kroger Valley, Valley Dale Imperial Rodeo, whatever it's called.

• 35:42Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 35:44Bill Simmons?

  Don't sleep on how great. I don't know if he's the head of the rodeo or the director of the rodeo, but

• 35:49Speaker 04

  I know where you're going.

• 35:50Bill Simmons?

  One of the one minute all time, uh, whatever he is, he checks. He's crossing lines.

• 35:56Speaker 04

  Oh, the guy about that's what we're trying to get done here. And he gives the high five and all at the end and he talks about the gays. I love that he's talking about the gays and he's wearing like a yellow

• 36:06Bill Simmons?

  Bandana thing.

• 36:07Speaker 04

  Bandana around his neck, like some sort of scarf with his cowboy hat and his spurs. What is he talking about?

• 36:13Bill Simmons?

  I also love the crowd shots as he's, as he's getting them riled up before the song. And it's like the third time it cuts to the crowd and he's like, "We'll drink the terrorist's blood." And there's one guy in the crowd is like, "Yeah." But he's like completely genuine.

• 36:27Speaker 04

  So that nothing will live on their soil, but the lizard, "Hell yeah." It's so funny just to watch the crowd.

• 36:35Bill Simmons?

  How do you think though? I was gonna do this in unanswered, but how do you think the horse fell over? It felt like that was a legitimate thing.

• 36:41Speaker 04

  I think that's a random coincidence where maybe it was

• 36:44Bill Simmons?

  It's like a miracle.

• 36:45Speaker 04

  A miracle. And then they cut right after it falls. Cause it's a, it's like, I just think it happened.

• 36:50Bill Simmons?

  Cause I remember the TV ads.

• 36:54Bill Simmons?

  The horse falling, the horse falling was like Borat coming, you know, Monday or whatever. But the horse falling, it was almost like, what is this movie?

• 37:02Speaker 04

  It was just a miracle. And I think Todd Phillips left right after the horse fell. I, I have to like, there's so much respect you have to give to their producers and all the people doing work. When they get the announcer to do that, please welcome Borat Sagdia from Kazakhstan. Like it's so staged and set up and they obviously had a conversation about how to, and then he walks out there in his dumb walk. It's all set up so well, even before he starts singing. It's so, it's just so well done.

• 37:28Bill Simmons?

  It's the only time he seems a little nervous.

• 37:30Speaker 04

  Hell yeah, he seems nervous.

• 37:32Bill Simmons?

  His voice is definitely like not a hundred percent.

• 37:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:36Bill Simmons?

  The, uh, the Jewish Airbnb or wherever, the better breakfast that he's at.

• 37:42Bill Simmons?

  I think this is my favorite scene. I think this is the most rewatchable for me. I don't know why. I think it's like a perfectly constructed comedy scene. And we should mention Sacha Baron Cohen is Jewish.

• 37:54Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 37:54Bill Simmons?

  And so a lot of the Jewish stuff he's doing in this, it's pretty funny that he's flipping around. But just him going in there and then the, when he's, she was like, what do you mean Jewish? Why did, and she's like, well, we're Jewish and all of a sudden like the Halloween music comes in and they're looking around. The, the shift in the shapes, them busting out of there like they're at the end of Django Unchained. Like every piece of that, I think is just like a perfect comedy scene.

• 38:21Speaker 04

  See, this is a referendum on the, on the viewer and me. That to me is almost the pee break scene and I'll tell you why.

• 38:27Bill Simmons?

  Oh, I wouldn't hear it.

• 38:29Speaker 04

  I, I feel so bad for those people. I, I'm getting old and I'm getting soft and like those two people are so nice. And they're like, here's your sandwich. Here's your bed. You want another pillow? A welcome. These are my paintings. And he's calling them a devil and throwing money at them. It's like, I know that's the joke and I know where he's coming from, but like, I, I get soft. Those people are so fucking nice.

• 38:51Bill Simmons?

  See, the only people, the only people I feel bad for in this movie are the feminists, the old man, when he makes the old man joke, just her watching that after. But the one who takes the biggest, the next scene is the Southern Manners diner, uh, dinner.

• 39:03Speaker 04

  Come on, let's go.

• 39:04Bill Simmons?

  When he says, there's three wives. He's like, you two in my country, huh? Not so much. It's, it's just absolute drive by shooting of that poor lady.

• 39:15Speaker 04

  And her husband sitting there.

• 39:16Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, I almost wondered if they should have cut that. It's the by far the meanest mo- moment in the movie, in a movie that's pretty mean.

• 39:22Speaker 04

  My co- they go crazy for the YouTube and then pause. You not so much. Holy shit, that's brutal.

• 39:29Bill Simmons?

  So that has a, it has the retired retarded where he's, keeps getting confused by the guy.

• 39:36Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 39:36Bill Simmons?

  Um, is it physical or mental?

• 39:38Speaker 04

  Mental.

• 39:38Bill Simmons?

  Um.

• 39:39Speaker 04

  And then he goes, it's very nice. You let someone at table with retardation. He said, no, no, no, no, it's not. That's, that's old Ollie G show stuff. Does it all the time.

• 39:48Bill Simmons?

  But the poop in the bag is one of the craziest moments, I think, in a comedy. It's unbelievable. I always forget how unbelievable it is. A lot of unanswerable questions about was that, was that actually his poop? Did he poop in a bag? Did they get poop from outside? What happened? Like, the lady's reaction is unbelievable where she's just like, oh, like she, it doesn't, I don't. Then you put yourself in the shoes of like, what would I do if this happened? Um.

• 40:19Speaker 04

  By the way, what do you do with the poop bag? You just take it and put it like in your street garbage cans? Cause you can't like empty it in the toilet and you can't flush the bag. I guess you just take it to the street, like it's dog poop, right?

• 40:30Bill Simmons?

  I wish, I wish Sasha was here. We could just ask him like, so the poop.

• 40:35Speaker 04

  Yeah. What ended up happening?

• 40:36Bill Simmons?

  Yeah. What, did you pour it in the toilet and then?

• 40:39Speaker 04

  And then throw the bag away? That, that moment was so big that in the, I think it was at the end of the Sopranos run. The Sopranos was best show and biggest show in the world. Remember like AJ gets really depressed and he ends up with a suicide attempt? Meadow comes in is like, oh my God, did you see Borat? When he brings the poop to the table, it's so funny. And then AJ is like, it wasn't fair to the people involved. They were trapped. And like, there was a whole conversation about that shit scene in The Sopranos about how funny it is. And Meadow's right.

• 41:08Bill Simmons?

  Sopranos, by the way, probably the other funniest thing going on in 2006. Cause that was when Paulie Walnuts was really going to.

• 41:15Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 41:15Bill Simmons?

  Another level. That was when we had um the veto veto blowing the guy. No, no.

• 41:21Speaker 04

  Johnny cakes.

• 41:22Bill Simmons?

  No, it was when the guy Meadows boyfriend's telling the story.

• 41:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 41:26Bill Simmons?

  No, Vito wasn't Vito was actually blowing the other guy and Paul's like, what?

• 41:31Speaker 04

  Son of a bitch. And Tony just walks away. What's the disgust? He's gotta go. They're gonna kill him because of that. I mean, that's that Johnny cake storyline is one of the best storylines ever.

• 41:42Bill Simmons?

  The naked fight we talked about.

• 41:45Bill Simmons?

  The giant blackout for Borat's cock was just such a great idea. It's like a foot and a half.

• 41:51Speaker 04

  So I had a question about that. Like if Sasha's all in, like, why did they blur it? Did they blur it to make a joke because Boris penis is big or did they just not want to show Sasha's penis?

• 42:01Bill Simmons?

  I think it's uh his dick is so big, we had to do this giant.

• 42:05Speaker 04

  His throat.

• 42:05Bill Simmons?

  But he's also like producing the movie. So maybe he's trying to. You know.

• 42:10Speaker 04

  Yeah. Is it better if Sasha is just fully visibly naked the whole time and you just see it?

• 42:18Bill Simmons?

  I think I'm better with this version.

• 42:21Speaker 04

  It's hard to. I mean, it's so good. I think you just leave it as it is. But I had that under picking knits. I'm like, why? That's a half measure. Let's see it. Let's. Why are we blurring things? But I think you might be right.

• 42:30Bill Simmons?

  It's an all time comedy scene. The only reason it's not most rewatchable in the movie for me is Azamat's. That there's like 10 seconds here that is among the most disgusting things that have ever been in a movie.

• 42:41Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 42:42Bill Simmons?

  Like Azamat's at one point, he's like spreading Azamat's cheeks. It's like actual butthole and balls.

• 42:49Speaker 04

  They fight, then they go to like a doggy style position.

• 42:53Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 42:53Speaker 04

  And then they get into 69 where his balls are on Borat's face and then Azamat sits down on his face like Yoko Zuna.

• 43:01Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 43:02Speaker 04

  And that is when it's the most disgusting by far.

• 43:05Bill Simmons?

  It's, it's really horrifying.

• 43:07Speaker 04

  This is when they won the Golden Globe and Sasha gets up there and he tells the story of that scene in his acceptance speech. And he says, my choice was either death or to breathe in the air that had been trapped in a small pocket beneath his buttocks for 30 years. If not for that rancid bubble, I would not be here today. And everyone goes crazy at the Golden Globes and it's, it's perfect.

• 43:26Bill Simmons?

  I did see this in the movie theater because I definitely saw that scene in the theater.

• 43:30Speaker 04

  That's the one you remember.

• 43:31Bill Simmons?

  I just remember the, when I watched it with Jacko, that's what it was. Jacko, one of them hadn't seen it or both of them hadn't seen it. And so I was reliving it through them, but I definitely saw that in the theater.

• 43:41Speaker 04

  Get to the elevator.

• 43:43Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 43:43Speaker 04

  And then the one guy standing in the elevator who won't look at the camera and won't leave, I laugh out loud hilarious. And then they go into the stupid Realtors conference and are fighting and getting tackled. It keeps going. It's people screaming. I was screaming.

• 43:56Bill Simmons?

  The elevator scene, couldn't tell if that was rigged or not.

• 44:01Speaker 04

  Which part?

• 44:02Bill Simmons?

  When they get in the elevator with all those people.

• 44:07Speaker 04

  The people underreacted a little bit.

• 44:09Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, it's like, I just feel like I would be way more horrified if two naked guys came in an elevator with me.

• 44:14Speaker 04

  And there's women in there.

• 44:15Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 44:15Speaker 04

  And there's like, there's a dude in there. The part with the, the elevator part, I can't speak to. There's, there's stuff out there about the Realtors conference where that was like the third time that they did that in a different conference room because in the first two times, like no one did anything. They just sat there and didn't really react. Sometimes people in those conferences are just so comatose and laconic. They just don't react. But finally they got up and tackled them and all that shit. And that's the one they, but they had to do that shit three times.

• 44:42Bill Simmons?

  Pamela Anderson scene.

• 44:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 44:45Bill Simmons?

  Apparently she knew she was in on it, but the bodyguards weren't. So they actually tackle him and do the whole thing.

• 44:52Bill Simmons?

  Her, her, him trying to bag her is hilarious.

• 44:55Speaker 04

  Absolutely awesome.

• 44:56Bill Simmons?

  I don't know how you come up with that.

• 44:59Bill Simmons?

  Oh, I I jumped ahead. The Pamela Anderson, there's two more before that that uh

• 45:04Speaker 04

  What do you got?

• 45:05Bill Simmons?

  I got my, the frat guys in the van.

• 45:08Speaker 04

  Uh infamous scene, infamous scene.

• 45:11Bill Simmons?

  We hit the slavery misogyny anti-Semitism trifecta. Somebody says at one point, our country, the minorities have more power. They put in the Pam tape and they're trying to explain to him, she's no virgin Borat. He's like, no, what do you mean? They keep calling him Boris. And then at the end, the one of the drunk guy says, do not let a woman ever, ever make you who you are.

• 45:35Bill Simmons?

  I can't decide if that was great advice or incoherent.

• 45:38Speaker 04

  That's the Coach Finstock award.

• 45:40Bill Simmons?

  Do not let a woman ever, ever make you who you are. What does that even mean?

• 45:47Speaker 04

  I think you do whatever she says and you follow her around as some sort of antiquated bullshit like that. Guy's drunk as hell. Jack and Daniels.

• 45:54Bill Simmons?

  Guys are hammered. That one guy, the guy in the middle is about as hammered as you can be on camera.

• 45:59Speaker 04

  The one who says, I call people and I have sex with them and I don't call them back.

• 46:03Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 46:03Speaker 04

  Borat's like, you don't call them because they don't have a phone, right? And he's like, no, no, no. It's because they don't have my respect. That, that was like a, that was a big talking point that see, I feel like that was like, would have been on The View and all that. And these kids, quote unquote, were they victimized? And I watched it now this, this time back, ready to be like, do I feel defensive of? Not at all. Those kids are fucking idiots. I was in a fraternity. I was a president of a fraternity. Those guys are adults. There's a big ass camera filming them. They know they're on camera. It was just like, I, I didn't feel any protectiveness at all, those idiots, at all.

• 46:35Bill Simmons?

  Couldn't agree more. Uh then Borat gets cleansed in the church.

• 46:41Bill Simmons?

  That was the last one.

• 46:42Speaker 04

  Let that tongue go.

• 46:43Bill Simmons?

  That was the last one.

• 46:44Speaker 04

  That was the best.

• 46:44Bill Simmons?

  Um, and then the Pamela thing. So what do you have for most rewatchable?

• 46:49Speaker 04

  It's between the dinner scene and the naked fight.

• 46:53Speaker 04

  The naked fight is the most memorable scene. I actually think the dinner scene is the most Sacha Baron Cohen scene that you could possibly do with the talk and the shitting and then not so much you. So also, I don't think I need to re-watch Asimath that much. Like, once a year, I'll see naked Asim. I think it's a dinner table scene for me.

• 47:11Bill Simmons?

  I have, uh, I like the Jewish Airbnb right in a southern manners dinner is my favorite stretch of the movie.

• 47:18Speaker 04

  It's excellent.

• 47:19Bill Simmons?

  What's the most 2006 thing about this movie? Pre-social media, mid 2000s Muslim resentment and said high gear and they're tapping into that. I think that's very specific.

• 47:30Speaker 04

  They are.

• 47:31Bill Simmons?

  The Pam Anderson tape, like, a little bit of a nostalgia. It's been 10 years since it happened. She's been kind of like six, seven years out of the limelight. Everything with her. Feel like 2006 is the perfect spot to do all that.

• 47:48Bill Simmons?

  Pam having an autograph line and not a selfie line feels very 2006.

• 47:52Speaker 04

  At a virgin mega store?

• 47:53Bill Simmons?

  Yeah. At a virgin mega store.

• 47:56Speaker 04

  And I gotta, listen, I gotta say, I had a very close relationship with the Pamela tape. Like, that got me through college. I'm telling you, it dropped right when I got into college and you would download like eight second clips of it from LimeWire or something like that and you just could not fucking believe what you're seeing. But we should do the Pam Anderson tape and the rewatchables. Why don't we do it on that? Let's get in here. You, me and Van, we'll just do it.

• 48:16Bill Simmons?

  It really was 2001 A Space Odyssey for sex tapes.

• 48:21Bill Simmons?

  It was the Big Bang Theory.

• 48:24Bill Simmons?

  The other one I have is the iPod mini where the neighbor that he hates in Kazakhstan, that, that, uh, Borat has an iPad and this guy has an iPod mini and he's pissed off about it like that. So 2006.

• 48:38Speaker 04

  Are you talking about Nusut Tantul Akbar?

• 48:40Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, I was talking about him.

• 48:42Speaker 04

  So they're sitting in the writers' room. All right, guys, we have a comedy classic. We gotta stick the landing. Our last joke of the movie. What's it gonna be? Let's make an iPod mini joke, not even an iPod joke, in the greater iPod Expanded Universe, a joke within a joke. Everybody know, they're for girls. And like, I think that's the most 2006 thing, the iPod mini closer, the walk-off.

• 49:05Bill Simmons?

  The Floyd Gondole butter on my ass and lollipops in my mouth award for something I just enjoy. What do you have? What do you have?

• 49:12Speaker 04

  I had channel surfing in a hotel room by yourself with room service, just jumping around and seeing dumb TV shows.

• 49:18Bill Simmons?

  I had a comedy that takes place in really low budget, local news TV.

• 49:27Bill Simmons?

  This has been a huge resurgence for that whole industry with Instagram. And Instagram reels and the amount of funny things that happen on these weird, these things that are being broadcast in Jacksonville, Mississippi, or like Akron, Ohio, these places where

• 49:43Speaker 04

  They're the best.

• 49:44Bill Simmons?

  You don't realize how much comedy comes out of this. All these weird people, they're either at the beginning of their careers or the end of their careers. There's never anyone in the middle and just weird shit happens. So I was glad that he tapped into that.

• 49:54Speaker 04

  Some of my favorite clips, local news bloopers. There's one of them where the lady says, coming up, he climbed Mount Everest, but he's gay. I mean, he's blind. Excuse me. She messes it up. And it's like, my wife and I watch that and laugh every single time. It's, it's for everyone. All ages can laugh at local news bloopers. And it's that, that news station they go to is Jackson, Mississippi, Media Market 99. And he just stands up in the middle of the interview and when we start, can I have a microphone? We are live. So good.

• 50:22Bill Simmons?

  The guy's doing weather for Kazoo City or wherever the fuck, wherever the fuck they are. What's age the best? What do you got?

• 50:30Speaker 04

  What's age the best? I have, um, just, we, we've kind of covered them. Pre-smartphone public fuckery, where nobody's tweeting that Borat's out. I remember when I was a sophomore in college, Tom Green came to campus. Tom Green was like, was starting to do a show on HBO or on MTV. And like, everyone was just talking about it. It spread like this rumor like, oh my God, Tom Green's here. Tom Green's here. And everyone ran to go and find him. But we weren't tweeting about it. There were no camera phones. It was nothing. And watching this guy at the rodeo in New York City, and all anybody has in their hands is a beer. It's awesome. And I miss it.

• 51:07Bill Simmons?

  I have, uh, you will never get this saying in real life. I have Kid Rock divorcing Pam Anderson after he saw this movie being mad at her.

• 51:16Speaker 04

  What is this? I heard about this.

• 51:17Bill Simmons?

  Um, he said, uh, he just reacted very unfavorably and there's, um, thought she was, said some bad words. Um, good for her though. Get away from Kid Rock.

• 51:29Speaker 04

  Did Kid Rock think that she was a virgin like Bora?

• 51:31Bill Simmons?

  I don't know.

• 51:32Speaker 04

  Kid Rock, have you ever seen Pam Anderson?

• 51:34Bill Simmons?

  Kazakhstan in 2020 changed their travel slogan to very nice. So congrats to them. The language section of the DVD, if you choose Hebrew, funny stuff happens. I would encourage that if you have it. And then, uh, you mentioned how they filmed it three times. The, uh, the naked running into the conference scene.

• 51:53Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 51:54Bill Simmons?

  The first time was an engineering lecture in Dallas and nobody really reacted. I almost could, that could almost be like a mini documentary to me. How do you not react to that?

• 52:05Speaker 04

  I don't know.

• 52:05Bill Simmons?

  You have two naked guys running into your conference and people are like, oh, that's weird. What the fuck? Um, my number one, what's aged the best though?

• 52:14Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:15Bill Simmons?

  I wrote down eight random lines that just make me laugh, just like throwaway lines, which I think is the key to this movie.

• 52:23Speaker 04

  All right, all right, go.

• 52:24Bill Simmons?

  I mentioned one already. Irkan, not too much raping, humans only. Um, one of the ones that almost made me find the, uh, fall off the treadmill when they're, he's buying the car.

• 52:35Speaker 04

  The car scene's great. We didn't even talk about that.

• 52:37Bill Simmons?

  And he's doing the price and he goes, how about 85? It spits on his hand for the handshake.

• 52:44Speaker 04

  You guys, so 117, why don't we call it 85? No, let's call it 117. It's a great point.

• 52:51Bill Simmons?

  When Azamat is cleaning him and he, and he turns around and he goes, how's my back pussy?

• 53:01Bill Simmons?

  Her, her vagine hang like sleeve of wizard.

• 53:04Speaker 04

  Wizard, unbelievable.

• 53:06Bill Simmons?

  Then he talks about when he was with the guys from the parade and he goes, even though my anus was broken, it just like throwaway start to a monologue of a new part.

• 53:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 53:17Bill Simmons?

  Azamat when they're in the silver war store after he breaks the stuff.

• 53:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 53:21Bill Simmons?

  And then they're trying to negotiate, Azamat goes, have you offered the pubic hair? Which he had already offered. Making romance explosion on her stomach, just that's thrown in there. But then when he's yelling at Azamat on Hollywood Boulevard and the Grim Reaper comes over.

• 53:36Speaker 04

  Oh, he had to fuck up the fight. Yes.

• 53:41Bill Simmons?

  Those were all like the random throwaways that killed me. Anyway, uh, great shot, order award, most cinematic shot, probably Borat after getting touched by Jesus when he, they have the wide shot of him and he, he kind of rises up, but it's not like this is a crazily directed movie.

• 53:57Speaker 04

  No, in fact, it's deliberately low five. The one that really makes me laugh, it could be the cover of the movie. Azamat is like freshening up with a swamp and like splashing water all over his neck. And then they pan right and Borat's just pissing into the same water.

• 54:12Speaker 04

  That could be an album cover. It's so good. I love it. Great sight gag.

• 54:16Bill Simmons?

  Chess Rockwell, Brock Landers Award for best character name, uh, uh, Azamat Baghdadoff?

• 54:24Speaker 04

  I, I got in the finals, I got Azamat Baghdadoff and Nusutan Tuli Akbar.

• 54:28Bill Simmons?

  As the finals, all right.

• 54:31Bill Simmons?

  We don't get to hand this category out very often. The Indiana Jones ransom body odor award.

• 54:38Bill Simmons?

  So writer Dan Mazer said Sacha Baron Cohen lived in that mustache hair for a year in his life. Wherever he went, he never changed because he thought Borat would smell. He was a method actor. He only had that suit and that underwear the whole time and he reeked.

• 54:53Speaker 04

  Disgusting.

• 54:54Bill Simmons?

  Like they're driving through like the south, like there's sweaty parts. I can't even imagine how bad he smelled.

• 55:01Speaker 04

  And think about all he does. Everything he does is so physical. He's always grabbing the people and touching them and wrestling and hugging them. And it's like, I don't, I think body odor is like way more disgusting than bad breath, farts, you name it. Body odor is fucking rancid. When I read that about his suit was never washed during the deep south, like I, my mouth dried up. It's so gross, but it's also so perfect for Borat.

• 55:26Bill Simmons?

  So where would you put it on a scale of zero to Indiana Jones? It might be like a nine point eight.

• 55:34Speaker 04

  Well, Indy's comes from his own like kind of skin and chest. Like he has, he's scantily clad. Borat with that dense, thick, fibred suit. I think it is, it's over a nine for sure. I'd rather smell Indy than smell Borat.

• 55:47Bill Simmons?

  I mean, Indy's in some really hot countries. He's like in the desert, wearing the same suit for like months.

• 55:52Speaker 04

  Fighting snakes.

• 55:54Bill Simmons?

  Kid Cudi Pursuit Happen is the word. We could either go Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild or MC Hammer Can't Touch This. Oh, you decide.

• 56:02Speaker 04

  It's, the music in this movie is like a deliberately corny foreigner's idea of American music. Don't sleep on the second they see Pamela, we hit the Take My Breath Away from Berlin.

• 56:12Bill Simmons?

  Right, right.

• 56:13Speaker 04

  It's like, I would say Born to Be Wild is probably the cheesiest road trip song you could ever come up with. So I would go with that.

• 56:20Bill Simmons?

  It's the generic, generic, generic version. All right. We're gonna take a break. Come back with your flex category.

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• 58:13Bill Simmons?

  All right, flex category. What do you got, Kyle Brandt?

• 58:15Speaker 04

  All right, so we're on the same page, Bill, because I went with maybe my favorite named category, which is the I used to fuck guys like you in prison award for the craziest line in the movie.

• 58:25Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 58:25Speaker 04

  I, you wrote down a few. I have three. These are the ones like, when he does the narration, it's so well-written because he starts talking normally and then just as you think he's just going to give us narration, he sucker punches you right at the end like, "My hobbies, ping pong, sunbath, disco dancing, and on weekends I trail to Capital City and watch ladies while they make a toilet." Like, fucking crazy.

• 58:48Bill Simmons?

  That's a really good board impersonation, by the way.

• 58:50Speaker 04

  All right, number two. "I arrive in America's airport with clothings, US dollars, and a jar of gypsy tears to protect me from AIDS." It's that one. And then there's the one you already said, which I'm saying again, it's my favorite line in the movie. "The only thing keeping me going was my dream of one day holding Pamela in my arms and then making Romance Explosion on her stomach." Romance Explosion is going to be my fantasy team this year. It's, it's going to be a punk rock band.

• 59:19Bill Simmons?

  I love it.

• 59:19Speaker 04

  Fucking awesome. I watched this movie this week and I was texting my friends about Romance Explosion and it was all, every, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's so good.

• 59:27Bill Simmons?

  Home run. The uh, got two awards for the naked fight, the he got game hooker scene for most awkward scene if someone randomly walks in the room. And honestly, not just because you're here, the Steven Seagal hard to kill, did this movie need a better intimacy coordinator?

• 59:42Speaker 04

  Intimacy coordinator.

• 59:43Bill Simmons?

  It might have. You don't really think about intimacy coordinators, you know, beyond just the normal sex scenes, but I think we might've needed somebody on set for this. Like, don't put Azamat, don't put your asshole in Sacha Baron Cohen's face. Like, he might actually get hepatitis.

• 59:59Speaker 04

  Question about that. I had an unanswerable. Do you think that Azamat washed thoroughly before that scene? Like, did he get down under there and like, clean all that? Like, out of professional courtesy?

• 1:00:08Bill Simmons?

  I sure hope so.

• 1:00:09Speaker 04

  Because Borat is not washing. We just asserted, he's gonna stink. So when Sasha's putting, how many times did they do that scene? He might've put his face in there 10 times. Is it like porn? Like, I think in, remember like Becky Barnett and she's like, he's like, I'm gonna go wash my vagina. You want it clean, don't you? Like, did Azamat say, I'm gonna go wash my grundle? Like, you want it clean, don't you? I would hope that there was a washing that happened before that scene.

• 1:00:32Bill Simmons?

  Do you think this is the only podcast where somebody can seamlessly tie Becky Barnett and Azamat together and everyone listening will know what that means? I say yes.

• 1:00:40Speaker 04

  You're goddamn right, it is.

• 1:00:40Bill Simmons?

  I think it is. So that's why we're closing on 500 episodes.

• 1:00:44Speaker 04

  That's right.

• 1:00:46Bill Simmons?

  The Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film. Honestly, the length, I wish this movie was 10 minutes longer. It's too short. It bothers me. I feel like there's two more scenes and I have an idea for a scene later, but I know it's a whole leave you wanting more, but I really feel like there's, you're on a road trip. You can literally go anywhere. You can give me any other two, three minute scene. I just feel like we're short.

• 1:01:13Speaker 04

  Well, we have it. The deleted scenes are funny. What?

• 1:01:15Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:15Speaker 04

  Put them in. You know what? Six minutes. How about a clean 90?

• 1:01:18Bill Simmons?

  Just get us to 90. Why 84? Who decided that? What do you have?

• 1:01:22Speaker 04

  The only time I remember the Butch's Girlfriend being in the movie is too short. I think we said the same thing for Robocop, which is also really short. It's a rare handout, though. I'm back to the same thing with mine. The the weak link of this movie is, is it really fucked up? Like, I know it's funny and I'm not being super serious about it. But in the power ranking of people that I feel the worst for.

• 1:01:43Bill Simmons?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:01:44Speaker 04

  That that etiquette lady who teaches them how to like be a gentleman at a dinner. She is this like apparently nice looking mother, grandmother, maybe so polite. And she's the one who he breaks out the Polaroids with the kid and his just big old dick hanging out.

• 1:02:00Bill Simmons?

  Right.

• 1:02:01Speaker 04

  So it's one thing that lady has to see those pictures. It's disturbing. Bill, this movie was in every AMC, every Cineplex around the country, around the most of the world. That woman in her life to this day is like, you looked at the cock pictures with that guy. Like, that's humiliating for that woman. And it's not like the the bigoted frat boys, fuck them and all the racist and anti Semites. This is a nice woman teaching him to have manners at the table. And if you really sit with it for a second, it's kind of fucked up. That's the weak link.

• 1:02:28Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, that the the lady at the manners dinner takes the shot. The feminist lady. Yeah, there's a couple, couple tough.

• 1:02:37Bill Simmons?

  What's age the worst? You mentioned this earlier, people doing Borat impressions after the movie.

• 1:02:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:02:42Bill Simmons?

  The Wayne's World effect? So Wayne's World in the 90s, that happened. Borat in the 2000s. I'm not sure what the 2010s version is of the movie that immediately people began imitating and then kind of ruined the movie a little bit.

• 1:02:56Speaker 04

  Well, everyone was definitely doing a lot of Anchorman in the 2000s. And then maybe The Hangover or something like that. But the Borat one was the worst. Like, and I I had this for for Apex Mountain. Did you think this is Apex Mountain for movies that set off like accent frenzies? You know, everyone like shout out to our movie Fargo. Everyone was going, oh, you betcha, yeah. And any Arnold movie, everyone would do that. But like, every person under the sun was saying, high five, my wife. And it was annoying.

• 1:03:24Bill Simmons?

  Yeah. Borat says the N word in this movie. That's also in the What's Aged the Worst. Uh, Ruffalo Hannah Rubenig Partridge over acting award. I don't know. It's a documentary. Yeah, I didn't have one either.

• 1:03:36Speaker 04

  I did have one. I did have one aged the worst, though. This is, you're gonna, alright. And I wish Craig was here because he would relate to this. Watching porn with your boys. Like they're on that motor home and they just throw on a DVD of porn and they're just like sitting around drinking and watching it.

• 1:03:54Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:54Speaker 04

  I don't think this generation does that or would get it.

• 1:03:57Bill Simmons?

  No.

• 1:03:57Speaker 04

  It was a thing back in the day. You would have a videotape and seven of your friends would just sit around watching porn together and laughing at it. And that's why, because the porn were so fucking funny back then.

• 1:04:08Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:08Speaker 04

  And the seventies and eighties stuff was, you'd watch it and just as like you're watching a movie.

• 1:04:12Bill Simmons?

  Good What's Aged the Best. So that might be a What's Aged the Best.

• 1:04:15Speaker 04

  That's true.

• 1:04:17Bill Simmons?

  The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford hottest take award. I, uh, I'd like to test drive Sacha Baron Cohen as in the best actor race in oh seven.

• 1:04:27Speaker 04

  Oh, what do you got? Let's go.

• 1:04:29Bill Simmons?

  Forest Whitaker wins for Last King of Scotland.

• 1:04:31Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Bill Simmons?

  Leo and Blood Diamond, Ryan Gosling, Hap Nelson, Peter O'Toole and Venus and Will Smith and The Pursuit of Happiness. I'm bumping Peter O'Toole. That was an old man award that he got nominated. We're putting Sacha Baron Cohen in there. Once again, we've talked about this all month. The Academy does not respect comedies. There's no way him and Borat was not one of the five best performances in 2006. So I think he should be in there.

• 1:04:58Speaker 04

  I, I don't love Leo there either. And the accent's ridiculous in Blood Diamond. We know that. It's, it's, you laugh at it when you watch it. He's done much better roles. Uh, he, Borat does romance in this.

• 1:05:08Bill Simmons?

  I don't know.

• 1:05:08Speaker 04

  I mean, that bang, bang, bling, bling. What is Leo doing there, dude? A lot better roles for Leo. Um, but I think I, it would have been worth him winning it just for the speech that he would have given at the Oscars.

• 1:05:22Bill Simmons?

  Oh, my God. That's another reason. Just it gets up to the Oscars. Best actor in a supporting role. I don't know if you want to test drive Ozymat here, but.

• 1:05:31Speaker 04

  Of course I do. Let's start it off.

• 1:05:32Bill Simmons?

  Alan Arkin wins for Little Miss Sunshine, Jackie Earl Haley, Little Children, Demond Hunsu for Blood Diamond, Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls, Mark Wahlberg for The Departed. I don't think there's room for Ozymat, unfortunately. I'm happy with those five.

• 1:05:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's Alan Arkin, fuck a lot of women and Little Miss Sunshine is good. I like that role.

• 1:05:52Bill Simmons?

  What do you have for hottest take?

• 1:05:54Speaker 04

  All right, I'm gonna, this is hot. My hottest take is, I think we as a culture should go back to doing the kiss left, kiss right greeting. I'm kinda into it, Bill. I think it's, it's quick, left, right, it's crisp, it's kinda classy and debonair. You gotta be secure with yourself. And honestly, like, in terms of, like, you know, germs and stuff, hands are a lot more disgusting than faces. We're touching everybody's hands all the time. I would just kiss, kiss, and I'm not even saying like, you know, like with your wife's friend that you know really, I'm talking about like with your boys, like you show up to a fantasy draft and just start knocking out left, right kisses. Isaiah and Magic would do it. Like, there's some kinda retro cool to it thing. That's my take. I think we should bring that back.

• 1:06:37Bill Simmons?

  You think, you don't think COVID ruined it?

• 1:06:39Speaker 04

  I think it's back now. We have our, our next pandemic is coming, but before it does, let's do a little kiss, kiss. And the best thing that Borat does, occasionally he'll push his luck, and he'll go kiss, kiss, and then down the middle on the lips. And only to men, never to women. It's so good.

• 1:06:56Bill Simmons?

  Casting what ifs, there weren't really any, except for Johnny Depp, George Clooney, and Steve Martin all wanted to be in the movie because they loved Sacha Baron Cohen, and he was like, no thanks. Best that guy word, Ken Devidian. He became, I didn't even know who he was, now he just became Azamat. Dionne Waiters, I could offer you, Linnell the prostitute. Borat's first wife, Oksana. Drunk, South Carolina frat guy. Bilo, we didn't, never saw Bilo, but I still feel like he's eligible.

• 1:07:28Speaker 04

  His presence looms.

• 1:07:29Bill Simmons?

  The Gypsy Estate sale lady. Pamela Anderson, and then the, the cute couple that own the Airbnb or whatever it's called.

• 1:07:39Speaker 04

  I think car salesman is, does his job in that he just lets Borat get every joke out. They start the scene with, what does a car for a woman who is shaved down there? And he goes, well, that'd be a Corvette. That guy's totally game. But I think the minimal amount of work with the maximum impact is Borat's son, Huey Lewis, who is holding him in the photographs with just his full dick out. And then as if that wasn't enough, you go to the next picture, and it's Borat's face right next to the penis, saying how proud he is of it. I think it's Huey Lewis, the son.

• 1:08:12Speaker 04

  That's the best.

• 1:08:12Bill Simmons?

  I love the funniest thing is how they spell it.

• 1:08:17Bill Simmons?

  They spell H O O E Y Lewis. It's all together too.

• 1:08:22Speaker 04

  Yes, yes. That's so good.

• 1:08:24Bill Simmons?

  What an homage to Huey Lewis.

• 1:08:27Bill Simmons?

  Okay. Recasting couch director.

• 1:08:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:08:32Bill Simmons?

  I have one here.

• 1:08:35Bill Simmons?

  It's a borderline nitpick too.

• 1:08:37Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:08:37Bill Simmons?

  And it ties into my theory that this movie should be longer. It's incredibly upsetting and I think a huge miss and the biggest flaw of this movie that we don't have a Vegas scene.

• 1:08:48Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:08:48Bill Simmons?

  It's just fucking sitting there. We're driving. We're driving east to west. We're coming up from Texas toward California. It's a no brainer. We could have some sort of Borat gambling scene.

• 1:09:00Speaker 04

  You're so right.

• 1:09:01Bill Simmons?

  We get to tie into like the weird casino world, him trying to figure out what's happening. Him doing something funny. Strip club could be in there, blackjack roulette. I just feel like it's the easiest six minutes they ever could have had. It really bumps me out.

• 1:09:14Speaker 04

  Dude, that's the, if, if you just sit him at a blackjack table and he just have him start touching the cards, like it, it would be chaos immediately.

• 1:09:21Bill Simmons?

  Like grabbing chips from other people.

• 1:09:23Speaker 04

  Yes. You know what he would do? He would take out his bag of pubic hair and like try to put that to double down. And then the pit boss would come over. That's dude, that's a great idea.

• 1:09:33Bill Simmons?

  How did they not, the roulette? Him betting on some crazy number because it reminds him of, and something truly offensive from his family. And I, I don't know, there's just so many ways to go in a casino.

• 1:09:44Speaker 04

  Buffets, the pool, you could do the mankini at the pool.

• 1:09:47Bill Simmons?

  Yeah. Put Azamat in like the topless, uh, pool at the wind.

• 1:09:52Speaker 04

  That, the whole movie could be Vegas.

• 1:09:54Bill Simmons?

  Honestly, that could have been the sequel, yeah. Boracost to Vegas. Really missed out. Uh, half fast center research. We've mentioned a bunch of this stuff. So you mentioned Huey Lewis.

• 1:10:03Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:10:04Bill Simmons?

  Played by an adult porn star named so, uh, Stoney.

• 1:10:08Speaker 04

  Ah, okay.

• 1:10:09Bill Simmons?

  Who was on the, uh, on the gay side of the porn.

• 1:10:12Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 1:10:13Bill Simmons?

  60 movies, nearly 50 box covers nominated for a 2001 gay V N award, best newcomer.

• 1:10:21Speaker 04

  Look at you doing the work. Not the AVN, there's a gay V N award? Is that, is that what I heard?

• 1:10:25Bill Simmons?

  The gay V N's, not televised. I don't know if, I don't know if ESPN plus has been looking at it. I know they love live content. Yeah, that's true. Tell them there's some live. Content available.

• 1:10:34Speaker 04

  I will, I will.

• 1:10:35Bill Simmons?

  After Borat, Stoney becomes a trans porn star named Brittany Cox. And it's spelled C O X, capital second X, lowercase third X.

• 1:10:45Speaker 04

  I like it.

• 1:10:46Bill Simmons?

  So that's all my research on Huey Lewis.

• 1:10:50Speaker 04

  No, I'm proud of you. You did the work. That's great.

• 1:10:52Bill Simmons?

  DVD includes several deleted scenes. We talked about some of them. One of them was getting a massage at a hotel.

• 1:10:59Speaker 04

  Great.

• 1:11:00Bill Simmons?

  Another was visiting the animal shelter to adopt a dog that could protect him from Jews. That sounded funny. Like when we go back to 10 minutes, there's a couple. And then we mentioned that porn scene one. And then people that sued the movie and lost. The two frat brothers, a guy in the subway, when the chicken got released on the subway. The Baltimore driving instructor wanted 100,000 in damages, didn't get it. The getaway, Schrager's buddy from Peter Luger Steakhouse.

• 1:11:29Speaker 04

  Pop you on the fucking balls.

• 1:11:30Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, he didn't get it. Everybody lost who tried to sue them. And the guy, Dan Mazur, said that they had somebody who used to be Public Enemy's lawyer, who was semi-retired, who was just crushing every suit.

• 1:11:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, that was their killer. Yeah. What, what happened with that driving instructor at the end of the scene? And Borat's like, are you my friend? He's like, yes, I'm your friend. Do you like me? Yes. I'm like, will you be my boyfriend? The guy goes, no, I'm not. Well, yeah, all right. I could be your boyfriend. And then the scene cuts. Like, what was that? Was he trying to take a run at Borat or something?

• 1:12:00Bill Simmons?

  That's maybe that's why he sued. He didn't like the edit.

• 1:12:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, cuz he was pretty cool the rest of the scene. And then immediately he's like, yeah, I'll be your boyfriend. Holy shit. What? Are they gonna get it on? That's so weird. Yeah.

• 1:12:10Bill Simmons?

  The news producer of the Jackson, Mississippi show claimed afterwards that Borat's appearance led to her losing her job.

• 1:12:19Speaker 04

  Well, I hope not. Hate to hear it.

• 1:12:21Bill Simmons?

  And then Todd Phillips leaves. This is just random. Todd Phillips, they shoot for 11 days. Todd Phillips leaves cuz it created differences. They're trying to figure out how to add some stuff. Sacha Baron Cohen's playing basketball at Gary Shandling's house, has some sort of thing and breaks his foot. And now is out for another eight to 10 weeks. So they filmed the movie and had to stop for like basically three months cuz the director. And then because somehow at Gary Shandling's house, which by all accounts was not the most heated basketball. Ball game every week.

• 1:12:53Speaker 04

  Yeah, I want to hear what's what's the run like there? I've never heard of the Gary Shandling game.

• 1:12:57Bill Simmons?

  I mean, I know some of the people that played in that game and I I I don't think it was exactly super competitive. So somehow he broke his foot anyway, and then they found Larry.

• 1:13:08Speaker 04

  All right. Yeah, we back in my day, I used to do some games. I I used to play some games with people you know, I used to go to a Mike Tolan game.

• 1:13:15Bill Simmons?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:13:15Speaker 04

  I would go to a Brian Robbins game.

• 1:13:17Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, like they had a good game, but I never did the Gary Shandling. Holy shit. That's cool.

• 1:13:21Bill Simmons?

  Lot of lot of comedians go and have.

• 1:13:24Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:13:26Bill Simmons?

  Apex Mountain, Sacha Baron Cohen is a yes. I think this is the biggest he's ever been after this movie.

• 1:13:32Speaker 04

  Huge. Did sign whatever he wanted to do after this.

• 1:13:34Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:13:35Speaker 04

  I said the movie gets shown up in The Sopranos. He's everywhere. He breaks character, wins a Golden Globe. Definitely.

• 1:13:41Bill Simmons?

  Pussy magnets?

• 1:13:45Bill Simmons?

  Apex Mountain?

• 1:13:46Speaker 04

  I think it has to be the guy. There's not an actual magnet. They just mean the car.

• 1:13:51Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, that's okay. I still want.

• 1:13:52Speaker 04

  Can you install pussy if I give you money? That's such a great bit.

• 1:13:56Bill Simmons?

  Sketch comedy movies?

• 1:14:00Speaker 04

  Is it better than Wayne's World? Like, I I love Wayne's World, but it's close.

• 1:14:07Bill Simmons?

  Have to think about that. Maybe it's it's it's the 2000s version of Wayne's World. Ken Devidian, definitely.

• 1:14:15Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 1:14:15Bill Simmons?

  Socks full of shit?

• 1:14:19Bill Simmons?

  I'm gonna say yes. Virgin virgin store book autograph assaults, I would say is The Hotel Wellington, yes. Lunel, who played the prostitute and then has bounced around on some other stuff, but this is probably the peak, I'm guessing.

• 1:14:37Speaker 04

  I have a nit to pick with Lunel. I they should have cast a real prostitute. I don't like that they cast an actor for that. I remember when I saw the movie, I recognized her because she had been in some things.

• 1:14:47Bill Simmons?

  Yep.

• 1:14:47Speaker 04

  That I'd know that I was like, what the hell? Just get a real prostitute. It takes me out of it. The more real actors they have, the worse it gets. I don't think they should have done that.

• 1:14:54Bill Simmons?

  Good note. Potassium exporters?

• 1:14:57Speaker 04

  The best in the world, Kazakhstan, yes.

• 1:15:00Bill Simmons?

  Shapeshifting cockroaches? I'm gonna say they apex that one. Pamela Anderson, no. And then naked bras, 100% yes.

• 1:15:08Speaker 04

  I have male nudity in movies, is that it? And I will give you, forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel, full frontal.

• 1:15:16Bill Simmons?

  They brought it back in that too. They can't, they, it's a re summon.

• 1:15:20Speaker 04

  Eastern Promises, Viggo Mortensen in The Bath House. Jackass had a lot of nudities, but that's not the same. And then the Boogie Nights male nudity was fake at the end. I think it, I think it's apex for male nudity in a, in a non porn movie.

• 1:15:33Bill Simmons?

  Interesting, I'm trying to.

• 1:15:34Speaker 04

  I can't think of a better one, unless it's, unless it's just Jason Segel just standing there with his big penis.

• 1:15:38Bill Simmons?

  Trying to think of what else? I didn't prep and thank God I didn't, because then my Google search would be.

• 1:15:43Speaker 04

  You were doing the capital X, lower X, whatever the hell that girl was.

• 1:15:47Bill Simmons?

  I'm already getting in trouble for stony by, by research on this 2001 Kevian.

• 1:15:53Bill Simmons?

  Cruise or Hanks?

• 1:15:58Bill Simmons?

  I think Hanks probably has a better chance of pulling out Borat, but I think Cruise's would be funnier.

• 1:16:02Speaker 04

  What Cruise, what if he was in the Les Grossman fat suit as, as Amat?

• 1:16:07Bill Simmons?

  He probably could have done that.

• 1:16:09Speaker 04

  I think to be Cruise, you would have to take some of that Frank TJ Mackie sexual energy. And you'd be like, respect the cock, high five.

• 1:16:18Speaker 04

  And then he does his dumb accent from far and away, like it, it would, it would take a lot of work to get Cruise there. And Hanks kinda has the hair and the mustache in the suit.

• 1:16:25Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, he's basically doing the kid from Big with an accent.

• 1:16:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:16:29Bill Simmons?

  Scorsese or Spielberg?

• 1:16:32Speaker 04

  What do you think bud?

• 1:16:33Bill Simmons?

  Tough one, I'm, I'm gonna probably say Scorsese for this one.

• 1:16:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's, and you would get, you would get to see Borat on cocaine, which is always, I'm always into.

• 1:16:44Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:44Speaker 04

  And they're missing, and they could have done it in Vegas.

• 1:16:46Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:48Bill Simmons?

  Picket Nits. Who was the cameraman the whole time?

• 1:16:51Speaker 04

  Mm hmm, mm hmm.

• 1:16:52Bill Simmons?

  At one point, the cameraman gets nailed in the naked fight.

• 1:16:57Speaker 04

  He takes Basamah and runs, runs the camera guy into him.

• 1:17:00Bill Simmons?

  So somebody's holding the camera. Who was it?

• 1:17:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, I don't know.

• 1:17:04Bill Simmons?

  The timeline of the road trip, we're in DC. We go to Mississippi for the Channel 16 thing, and then we go backwards to Virginia for the rodeo.

• 1:17:15Speaker 04

  Mm hmm.

• 1:17:15Bill Simmons?

  It's out of sequence. It should have gone DC, Virginia, Mississippi.

• 1:17:20Speaker 04

  Remember also when they leave Kazakhstan, they do the Indiana Jones map thing and they do like six loops throughout Europe?

• 1:17:26Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:26Speaker 04

  I'm not sure their navigation is pristine.

• 1:17:28Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, that's a good point. And then I think the bear is kind of ridiculous. That would be my one. It's not a weak link, but it just does. It's just weird.

• 1:17:35Speaker 04

  I don't care about the bear. They got a big laugh in the theater when he yelled, when the bear growls at the kids and they scream.

• 1:17:41Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:17:41Speaker 04

  But I'm just here for awkward moments with, with Bora. I don't care about the bear and the ice cream truck that much. They had to make a movie. I get it, but that's not my favorite part.

• 1:17:48Bill Simmons?

  Any other picket nets?

• 1:17:50Speaker 04

  I just said, don't these handlers have any kind of better awareness that they're being like absolutely hoodwinked when they agree to have Alan Keyes sit down for an interview?

• 1:18:00Bill Simmons?

  I know, Bob Bar.

• 1:18:01Speaker 04

  Any of those people, like, those are major politicians. You probably got to go through it. And I know that they're really slick with how they pitch it and they have fake production companies and stuff, but like, at one point, when you're sitting with Alan Keyes and you talk about like a rubber fist going up your anus from, like at one point, he was like, holy shit, stop this. How does that get to that?

• 1:18:19Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, I mean, that's probably what happens. We just.

• 1:18:21Speaker 04

  And are they so mad? Like, is Alan Keyes fucking firing somebody about that? Probably.

• 1:18:25Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, I'd be mad.

• 1:18:27Speaker 04

  So.

• 1:18:28Bill Simmons?

  Sequel, prequel, Prestige TV, All Black Casters Untouchable. They did a sequel.

• 1:18:34Bill Simmons?

  So we have our answer for that. Okay.

• 1:18:36Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:18:37Bill Simmons?

  Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Fergie the Flores, Zane Lowe, Robert Evans, or somebody else? What do you think, Kyle Brandt?

• 1:18:45Speaker 04

  You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to take the guy at the church, the let that tongue go guy who puts the hands in, I'd like him to just do a rundown on all the rewatchables hosts and just get the shit out of them and just say, Sean Fantasy, do you really need all that physical media bullshit? Let that tongue go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you really need K-19, The Widowmaker in 4K? Craig Horlbeck, do you not need a four hour version of The Dark Knight? Let that tongue go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Bill Simmons, you watch Lord of the Rings every Christmas, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, tongue go. That's what I want.

• 1:19:17Bill Simmons?

  We gotta add that guy to the list with Zayden and everybody.

• 1:19:20Speaker 04

  Let that tongue go guy. I don't know what his name is.

• 1:19:23Bill Simmons?

  From Borat.

• 1:19:24Speaker 04

  Ben Lathan, do you really not attracted to white women? Let that tongue go, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That guy steals the show. I want him to do all of you.

• 1:19:32Bill Simmons?

  That sounds great. I actually had one for this.

• 1:19:35Speaker 04

  What do you got?

• 1:19:37Bill Simmons?

  I mean, this is really gonna appeal to all of your bones.

• 1:19:41Speaker 04

  Oh, let's go.

• 1:19:43Bill Simmons?

  What if naked Borat and naked Azamat crashed the 1993 International Association of Cardiologists Conference in Chicago? As Dr. Charles Nichols was speaking. And Dr. Charles Nichols said, ladies and gentlemen, my friend Borat Sagidov doesn't feel well. We just kind of worked that in.

• 1:20:05Speaker 04

  And he goes, I'm sorry, Azamat, I'm in the middle of this speech. Oh, my gosh. Did you kill my wife too? Huh? Did you?

• 1:20:18Bill Simmons?

  You falsified the research. So you could give that provasek.

• 1:20:23Speaker 04

  You switched the samples. Very nice. Wah, wah, we wah. Oh, my God, that's awesome.

• 1:20:30Bill Simmons?

  Yeah, thank you.

• 1:20:31Speaker 04

  I remember when you guys, you, a couple of years ago, you guys did Fugitive in Chicago and you had invited me to attend it. I was so excited, but I couldn't. My whole thing is I'm like, Bill, I just want to walk in from the back of the audience at the end of the pod and just do a full Kimball and walk up on stage and just do the whole thing about, did you kill Shay Serrano too? Huh? Did you? And I just couldn't get there in time. Fuck, but that is a great inclusion of Dr. Charles Nichols. God, that's awesome.

• 1:20:58Bill Simmons?

  Just want to ask her who gets it. Screenplay?

• 1:21:02Bill Simmons?

  Or would you go Sacha Baron Cohen?

• 1:21:04Speaker 04

  Fucking Sacha Baron Cohen, best lead actor.

• 1:21:06Bill Simmons?

  Fuck it, let's do it. Unanswerable questions. We actually did the ones I had for this about whether it was Sacha Baron Cohen's poop in a bag. Did you have any other ones?

• 1:21:15Speaker 04

  I did, did Azamat wash his ball sack before the fight scene? I already asked it.

• 1:21:20Bill Simmons?

  Let's ask Ken Devity in right now. Ken?

• 1:21:22Speaker 04

  Ken.

• 1:21:24Bill Simmons?

  The secret handshake club memorabilia you'd want from this movie? What do you got?

• 1:21:29Speaker 04

  I was gonna say the Mankini, and I know that like I used to go to the beach in Santa Monica after this movie came out, and there'd be guys wearing that thing just for laughs. But now, since we've been through the pod, I want the Polaroid of his son Huey Lewis, and I want the one holding him up with his big old penis down there, and I just wanna keep it in my desk.

• 1:21:44Bill Simmons?

  Yeah. I think I would want the Baywatch book.

• 1:21:48Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:21:49Bill Simmons?

  The actual Baywatch book that he had, that it with like the little towel that he had over it to make it seem like it was the Quran.

• 1:21:55Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:21:56Bill Simmons?

  I would, I would want that whole package.

• 1:21:57Speaker 04

  With the red water panties. It's a great book. I like it.

• 1:22:01Bill Simmons?

  Coach Finstock, Mr. Miyagi Award for Best Worst Life Lesson. It's gotta be that frat kid, right? What does he say?

• 1:22:09Speaker 04

  Don't let a woman define you.

• 1:22:11Bill Simmons?

  Yeah. Don't, do not let a woman ever, ever make you who you are. Yeah, I'm gonna go with that.

• 1:22:18Speaker 04

  I have written down, "I like you. I like sex. It's nice." That's all I got.

• 1:22:25Bill Simmons?

  Best double feature choice? I have Best in Show and then Borat in that order. I go Christopher Guest first, then I go Borat. I think that's how it would have to go.

• 1:22:35Speaker 04

  I got Bruno. We haven't talked a lot about the Bruno movie.

• 1:22:38Bill Simmons?

  Yeah.

• 1:22:40Speaker 04

  Really liked it. Some amazing scenes. At one point Bruno visits like a psychic medium, and he makes his Bruno's ex-boyfriend who died appear, and then Bruno does a full fellatio sequence with finish. Like, it's really, really graphic, and you're screaming to get in the theater. I watched Bruno, which I thought was not as good as Borat, but was still funny.

• 1:22:58Bill Simmons?

  Who won the movie Sacha Baron Cohen?

• 1:23:00Speaker 04

  Sasha.

• 1:23:02Bill Simmons?

  Well, that was easy. Borat.

• 1:23:03Speaker 04

  So easy.

• 1:23:03Bill Simmons?

  By the way, we did this probably in almost exactly the amount of time of the movie.

• 1:23:09Speaker 04

  Yeah, and we have no Craig, right?

• 1:23:10Bill Simmons?

  No Craig. All right, Kyle Brandt, what do you got going on as we head into the summer here?

• 1:23:14Speaker 04

  Oh, well, I made my maiden voyage to Bristol, Connecticut last night. Bill, I'd never been there before, but I did the the schedule release. I went to Bristol and it's, by the way, it's bullshit. There's no mascots in the hallway. There's no, nobody saying, follow me to freedom. There's none of that shit. I thought that was going to be like, this is SportsCenter. It's not like that at all. There's no Peyton giving Eli wet willies. Charlie Steiner wasn't to be seen, but I'm now squarely in the ESPN NFL Network world. And it's really fun.

• 1:23:43Bill Simmons?

  They got some games, right? NFL Network got a couple.

• 1:23:45Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, they kept a couple and ESPN has a Super Bowl this year and like, I'm doing all kinds of crazy shit, man. I'm running into people I've watched my whole life, Joe Buck and everybody on the daytime schedule. It's been awesome. Every, and I really mean this, this sounds like I'm doing, everyone has been really nice, Bill. Everyone has been really nice. To which you say, what? Just wait?

• 1:24:05Bill Simmons?

  No, I wouldn't say that.

• 1:24:08Speaker 04

  Good, good. Everyone's been very nice.

• 1:24:11Bill Simmons?

  I'm glad.

• 1:24:12Speaker 04

  They have.

• 1:24:12Bill Simmons?

  The setup's great. Your earpiece only fell out 10 times, but now it's locked in.

• 1:24:17Speaker 04

  I showed that earpiece who's boss. I figured it out like 20 minutes in. The setup is good. We got Toni Kukoc. How do you beat that?

• 1:24:23Bill Simmons?

  He looks great. All right. Thanks to Craig, thanks to Gahad, thanks to Eduardo. Thanks, Kyle Brandt. Great to see you. I will see you next month because I know we're going to do something for, next month's from hell month.

• 1:24:34Speaker 04

  Let's go.

• 1:24:34Bill Simmons?

  So I know there's a couple, there's a couple of your favorites. All right. Good to see you, Kyle Brandt.

• 1:24:39Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 1:24:39Bill Simmons?

  Thank you.

• 1:24:51Bill Simmons?

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