The Rewatchables - ‘Borat’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

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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. It's great. I get to go on with ESPN talent. I sat down with Peter Stregor last night

and I said, what's up with it, vanilla face? And we just kept running. It was great. We got up to a very set. We were doing comedies all month here on the rewatchables. A bunch of them are on Netflix.

We've done, there's something about Marion Tropic Thunder. And now I think one of the best comedies in the 21st century, Borat is next. Borat, you've wanted this for a while. Yeah. We both love it.

I'm going to start here. Sasha Baron Cohen, And one of the great comedy actor performances in a movie ever for me. It's a 101. I almost feel like it's lost how good he is in it because DeBorak 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. Fantastic. And I think you just, we're 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. And it kind of ruined this amazing character that he did, but not for me. My appetite was wet to do this movie with you, Bill, because I was listening to something about Marypod. 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 Bora. 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. It was, it was the most chaotic two minutes I've ever had in a movie theater was this movie. The naked fight on a big screen.

Yeah. It's almost like a what's age the worst because it's just never going to 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 was, are you having an earpiece problem? With your new set up? This is first world problems. I'm already going to, I'm going to have to email Bristol. This thing sucks, Bill.

If 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 Osamat's ball sack is on the site. And I can't get the earpiece in. That's right. We're keeping it in. People are, we're professionals.

Yeah, but on a 50-foot screen. Yeah. Osamot's ass. It's probably my favorite part of the movie, just when it, he gets off him and Sasha Barricote, 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 salts, bringing the trainers out. It's so disgusting. Well, they say the most infamous hit ever in what I do is the, in this era, as the Vontes Burfect on Antonio Brown

that people think changed Antonio Brown as a person. Yeah. I think that one Sasha Baron Cohen went into Azamats Chode and that's a different person came out. Like, I don't think he was the same guy that went in.

He was never funny, as funny ever again. 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 of Nature comedy stuff,

like Belushi and Animal House just going in, clearing out the cafeteria, and it's like hilarious. Or Eddie Murphy and Beverly Hills cop, even Chevy Chase and 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 in, but he also has to stay in character. He's got to weather whatever the storm is.

And he's also got to 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 got to look what's it. But he's actually like trying to figure out that. So they're prepared to have. 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. I think one of the most underrated things about this movie is the writing, because there's brilliant stuff that they came up with. 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 like the guys that you brought up and all the people that we love,

Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase, like 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 and the Jerk is a character. And what's really jarring is if you were a fan of the Ali G show back when Sasha Baron-Cohn wouldn't do media, if you'd ever see an interview with him, it's so crazy how he is this really thoughtful, erudite British man that doesn't sound anything like his characters.

It reminds me of Daniel Day, that when you're going to be. you see him do interviews, you're like, fuck, that's not Bill the Butcher. Like, that's the best actor I've ever seen in my life. Right. That's the different with Sasha's. Like, he's nothing like any Bruno, Aliji, none of them. And that makes it so compelling.

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 Sasha Baron Cohn. But then he keeps lapsing into Borat. he's telling the story of how it is. And it's just like, it's so confused.

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 by the way, the story was amazing. They go to an actual porn set.

It's about how Borat needs more money after breaks up with Osamop, before he means Pamela Anderson. 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 directors getting madder and matter. This sounds great. And he's like, I don't know her virgin doesn't have hair on it. I don't know if I could, you have to put hair on her virgin. And the director's like, we got to get some hair for her virgin.

And it's like this whole, I guess it went up 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 they had like, I don't know, 400 minutes of stuff.

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 were so big on what the flow of the movie is not losing the flow. Isn't that a statement, though, about the movie?

Like, you've 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 on YouTube. Borat works at a fast food restaurant and just like keeps messing. It's great.

Like you could have had a whole separate movie with the separated scenes, which are actually funny. No deleted scenes are that great. These are really good. 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 Osamot 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 got to lose the scene. We got to get to 90 minutes. So the good thing is all this stuff's on YouTube. Best mockumentaries ever. Yeah, I have this.

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

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 probably is. I like it better than Spinal Tap, but I know Spinal Tap came first. What's weird is all of those movies, except for Borat, are 20th century or like beginning of 21st century.

century. None of those movies are from the last 20 years. I was trying to figure out what happened. And I think the answer is it moved to TV. Because the office comes in second half of the 2000s. And then you have even stuff like jury duty. You have like Andy St.berg 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 admit, or maybe it's like we don't have the same kind of improv comedians or I, or maybe it's moving more toward TikTok 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. 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. That's a thousand assholes on TikTok 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 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. That sounds amazing. It's so, follow Humor Bagel. He just farts and people laugh.

My kid dies laughing. I watch this sometimes without my kid. But it's like, that's what Borod's doing. He's walking around Central Park messing with New Yorkers. But now it's just on Instagram. Like, it's everywhere. You can do it for free. Well, one of the writers,

made the, he, Dan Mazer said, yeah, 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 of cell phones, would be on Twitter, it would be on social media. And that was a 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. When you said sequel, you mean the subsequent movie film? The subsequent movie film, which I got to say, I've only seen once. Yeah. And 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, I know, I don't know, seven, eight months.

We just had a pretty tumultuous summer and, you know, there's an election coming. It just felt like the timing was wrong for it, you know? I gave it a spin this morning, and I hadn't seen it since it came out. And I had forgotten it's very Trump-driven. Yeah. You're just like, I don't know. I don't feel like spending time with all that type of shit. And I don't think it has the magic.

And also, to your point, like, bore, it 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 I'm sure that was a big touchdown for them. But it's not like this one. No, and that was another thing in the research.

You could feel, because I always look for, are there anniversary pieces about the movie or all history stuff? And there was a bunch of pieces in 2016 about the 10-year anniversary of this. 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 dialogue and conversations that we were having. So I think the legacy of this movie is a little strange. It is. Because the stuff that he's doing in 06,

Some of it's really rooted in, it's five years after 9-11, right? He has that joke in there about, will the Jews attack the World Trade Center? That's why they have to drive because they don't want to fly. And some of that stuff was funny then and really feels rooted in 06. And then some of the people who are 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. And the South Park guys have said the same thing.

They're like, it's hard to do the show now because like just the reality is what our show used to be. It's too much of a spoof. It's not as right 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. Yeah, yeah. I watched the show. There were some characters that liked other, more than others. I always thought Borat was the funniest one. So I was I was really happy that that they were going to like expand that universe. But it was just such a creative show. And in general 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. Yeah. For HBO to do that. Yeah. Like I just remember watching it was early 2000. I would Ti-vo it. Like it was 2002, and there'd be Borat, Bruno, and then Ali G. And he 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 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 me skin.

I was like, that's not my HBO Rushmore. Like, I have it that high. I love it. Yeah, well, I was,

I was in L.A. writing for Kimmel's show at that point. Yeah. And all of us were like, that, whatever that guy is doing, it's, it's almost over here.

You don't know what I mean? You even 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 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 don't understand what's happening. Like, you're a normal person from Canada, it just never felt right. Well, remember, imagine if Sasha had tried to do like his, so I married an ex murder where he's just a guy driving around like Boston or something. It's like a robcom.

And then it was, and then in real life, then he, like, then he marries Isla Fisher, who's coming off wedding crash. who's huge too. And then there are this power couple. But I'd think to your point, like post-Borot Sasha Barron is like,

I don't know. It was never my favorite thing. He would always be in these, Sweeney Todd, and he would be in Ricky Bobby. And he was always funny. The Chicago 7 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 going to 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 are you doing? And not be funny at all. Have you ever met him though? I've never met him. You never run into him, HBO, nothing like that. Yeah, it's weird. You love to, but I'd be nervous. 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 Al-I-G show. Yeah. Turn in 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 nobody else knows what's happening. They would have to sign releases and things like that. And then he had that dictionary that he's using it. But the legend of the movie shoot, the police were called on him 92 times. 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-9-11. Sure. The director, Todd Phillips, who's made most famously the Joker and the Joker sequel, but also did The Hangover, all three hangovers and road trip.

And I think it's one of the best comedy directors of this century, quit the movie after like 11 days, which I knew and forgot. But apparently after the rodeo scene, he's like, fuck this. I'm out of here. Like, people are trying to kill us. I'm done. So the rodeo scene, he goes in, you know, he does like these crazy jingoistic comments about Premier Bush drinking the blood of all the terrorists, which is really funny. And he like revs up all the rednecks in there.

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 going to lynch him or something. I don't know what was going to happen. And they had to bail fast.

And I think Todd Phillips is like, I got to bail. I'm out of here. Yeah, they said there were some creative differences with them too. And I, there's a shocking lack of amount 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 Osamat wasn't in, the movie initially, and it wasn't until after they, so they bring in Larry Charles, who's, I think probably most famous for Kubri 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 going to be on the scenes. And then he comes in and saves this movie and becomes this triumphant thing. But yeah, Todd Phillips quits. 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 going to 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 this character. I just want, I love peeling back the curtain 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 Azamai. I can tell you're a huge Osamot fan, Bill. Come on. As always Osamat. I'm number one for Osama. 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? Ken Devidian. Ken Devinean. I wrote down it's he's David Tyree. Hmm. Okay. Like the miracle moment. 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. He's just like, I don't know, you're doing ER season five, and he's in the ER room for with one line. Yeah. Here's your stethoscope. Here it is. And the headline about Asimat, he's American. He's from L.A. Right. He's doing an accent.

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. He's speaking Hebrew. So in all 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 Devidian

and he like just does this whole rant in Armenian 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. You speak English? 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. No question. And just one of the all-time weirdest spot is 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 that. That is in all-time. I don't know how they did that scene scene. All right. So do you want to get to that scene later? or do we do it now? Let's do it now.

Okay. First of all, Osama, you just said it perfectly. We've seen a lot of 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 bear chest that I've ever seen.

And then his, you never actually see his dick the whole time. Or pubic care. Nothing. You see nothing. It's like a full marsupial kendall kangaroo. And then meanwhile, it's so jarring because as they're fighting, Borod is blurred out. So you're like, why is Borat getting blurred?

And then they're not blurring asthma, but I still can't see it. It's so weird. But you do get to see his balls dangling over Borat's face. 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 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. Sure. 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 role at the acting thing and gets borat. And then basically, 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, Osamat!

Azamat! Azamah! da-da-da-da-da-da! But, yeah, so he secured a waste management contract in Mexico City. And then the research says his company was ill-prepared. DeVidion maintains he was victimized by a corrupt system, but it ended in multinational litigation, trade arbitration, bankruptcy. Oh my gosh.

Azamat. Come on, buddy. And you know what? I watched the first five minutes of the sequel and you're like, oh, Azamot must have 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. We also had, this movie had six different lawsuits, which we'll get to later for people who were in it,

which is pretty fun. I really loved the relationship of Azaba and Borat. I really enjoy. 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 assistants there to serve the other guy. But there's like a little tension too. It's just really good.

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 to speak English to each other, and we never see Ken DeVittian again. Oscar, nominated for best screenplay. Yeah.

Won a Golden Globe for Best Comedy. I have some Oscar stuff coming later. This movie is 84 minutes. Beautiful. Craig's not here today, but this is a minus 16 on the Horlebeck 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. 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. 18 million dollar budget. Yep.

It made 262.5 million dollars and spawned a sequel. Roger Ebert could not find a review. No way. I think Raj set this one out. I think he probably would have liked it. Yeah. I mean, it's hilarious. Somebody wrote a review, but it didn't seem like it was him.

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Inside Out. Visitactivia.ca for more details. 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 a bunch of times. The first time I watched on the treadmill, I'm like, I'm going to bang out. I'm going to walk 4.0 in the treadmill and watch Borat. And I almost, I almost kind of wobbled and fell like three times. It was a mistake.

I love it. Because I'm laughing. Yes. The first time, the running of the Jew just killed me. I just, I hadn't seen it in a while, and I'm just, the egg. Yeah, the kids beat the shit out of the egg. And then it goes back to irk in 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. We're just going to be doing jokes for 84 minutes.

Buckle up. Borat in New York. You mentioned that the TikTok is basically ruined this. But I think my favorite is when the two ladies are walking into the thing. It's like, very nice. How much? Very nice. How much is a great one.

My fucking hero is the most New York asshole guy all the time. When Borak gets in his face and he goes, if you try to kiss me, I'll pop you on the fucking balls. And like that guy, like, comes down from Westchester. He's a banker. He does cold plunge.

He plays squash. He, like, drives it like a really nice BMW. And he's not about to get touched on the fucking street. I'll pop you in the balls. He's definitely at dinner with Schreger at Lugers. Where they don't take credit cards.

Cash only. I'll take you. It's great. That guy sued the movie because he was upset. how he was portrayed. Disagree. I think he came off great.

I would have been excited. Yeah. Awesome. You know what he's suing. I mean, I have him down at for a possible Dion Waiters category with one line.

I like him so much. I have Pat Haggerty, the humor coach. Yeah. The suit is black. Nah. But the Beelow story just absolutely kills me.

And the first time I saw this movie, I think I saw it with Jacko and House. Okay. They were here for, I didn't see this movie. in the theater, I don't think. I don't remember why. That was fun. But we watched this and Beelow fucking killed us.

And we made Beelow jokes for like a year after that. You never get this. And then one day, he gets this. He gets that. So I'm ashamed to say that this has been a running joke in my house for, with my kids. Yeah. Just me taunting my son. He's like, are we going to go?

You will never get this. It's the only bore out joke I do. I don't know why it makes me laugh. But so what is it when he asked for like, can I get a PS5 or something? Or can we have pizza for dinner? And that's when it comes up. Yeah. Yeah.

Can we go, are you going to take me to the Cooper game? I can't. I'm going with somebody. You will never get this. They put him with Pat Hagerty, who appears to be the least funny person ever put on camera 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.

And then Pat, Pat's realizing real time. Oh, God, they're filming this. Yes. And then he's like, you know what we need to teach this visitor to our country? Let's do 2006 not jokes. Yeah. Which is 13 years, I think, after Wayne's world, no one was making not jokes. And then Sasha Barron just butchers it by fucking it up over and over.

It's so good. Did you see there's a wide shot of the chalkboard where he has all of these things written down? I love that. There's this one side that has some of the darkest shit that I guess he was going to go through with Borat. I don't know if Pat Haggerty did that or the directors did that. Yeah, it's like the darkest, molestation, sexual, all this shit. I got to think that maybe the directors did that because Haggery is like this stupid blazer with gold buttons. Like he's going to a piano recital.

He's going to teach comedy. That's a great scene. 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 on. And Al Bundy makes like some joke and Borat's like, Ha ha ha ha ha. All right. We're so in lockstep. I have this for what she's the best.

Dude, good old fashion hotel channel surfing. Post it up on your bed. You got room service coming. You ordered a chicken cassidia. He flicks through cops, married with children, a quick jingle all the way

with our guy Arnold and Jake Lloyd. Yeah. 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 to a little bit of jingle all the way. He's so happy and so am I. Yeah. So like, be careful, CJ! That's eight. This movie has so many good, like 27 second moments.

It does. And then at the feminist meeting, when he, it fades away from the dialogue. And he goes, I could not concentrate what the old man was saying. A lot of great church. Driving instructions funny.

Borat crashing Channel 16. First of all, hold on. How about in the feminist meeting where he goes, hey, pussy cat, give me a smile. What's the matter, baby? These feminist women are dead serious about shit and these pussycat and baby in them. Killed me in the theater.

And then everybody laughed when he said, I had no idea what this old man was saying. Everybody laughed. It's mean, but they laughed. Anyway, yes, go. Drive instruction, Borat on Channel 16. The weatherman kills me in this.

Love it. Worst suit of all time. He's the only one who really fully understands how funny this is. He's just like, can barely do the weather. We mentioned the Kroger Valley Dale Imperial Rodeo, whatever it's called. 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 I know where you're going. One of the one minute all-time, whatever he is, he checks.

He's crossing lines. Oh, the guy about that's what we're trying to get done here. and he gives the high five on all the end, and he talks about the gays. I love that he's talking about the gays, and he's wearing, like, a yellow bandana thing. Bandana around his neck, like some sort of scarf with his cowboy hat and his spurs.

What is he talking about? I also love the crowd shots 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 blood. And there's one guy in the crowd who's like, yeah! But he's like completely genuine.

So that's the third time. Nothing will live on their soil but the lizard. Hell yeah! It's so funny just to watch the crowd. How do you think, though, I was going to do this in an answer rolls, but how do you think the horse fell over? It felt like that was a legitimate thing. I think that's a random coincidence where maybe it was getting spooked by the booze.

And then they cut right after it falls because it's like, I just think it happened. Because I remember the TV ads, 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? It was just a miracle. And I think Todd Phillips left right after the horse fell. 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 Sejdea 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 just so well done. It's the only time he seems a little nervous. Hell yeah, he seems nervous. His voice is definitely like not 100%. Yeah.

The Jewish Airbnb or wherever, the better breakfast that he's at, 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 Sasha Barricone is Jewish. 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 she was like, what do you mean Jewish? Why do? 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 shifting the shapes, them busting out of there, like they're at the end of Django and Chained. Like every piece of that, I think is just like a perfect comedy scene. See, this is a referendum on the viewer on me.

That to me is almost the P-Break scene. And I'll tell you why. Oh, I wouldn't hear it. I feel so bad for those people. 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,

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 get soft. Those people are so fucking nice. See, the only people I feel bad for 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 Manors diner. Oh, come on. Let's go. When he says, there's three wives,

he's like, you two in my country, not so much. Not so much. It's just an absolute drive-by shooting of that poor lady. And her husband sitting there. Yeah, I almost wondered if they should have cut that.

It's by far the meanest moment in the movie, in a movie that's pretty mean. My country, they go crazy for the you two. And then pause. You, not so much. Holy shit, that's brutal. So that has

it has the retired, retarded where he keeps getting confused by the guy. Yep. Is it physical or mental? And then he goes, it's very nice, you let someone at table with retardation. He's like, no, no, no, no. It's not what, that's, that's old Ali G show stuff

does it all the time. 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, oh. Like she doesn't, I don't, then you put yourself in the shoes of like, what would I do if this happened? By the way, what do you do with the poop bag? Do you just take it and put it like in your street garbage cans? Because you can't like empty it in the toilet and you can't. can't flush the bag. I guess you just take it to the street, like a dog poop, right? I wish, I wish Sasha was here. We could just ask him, like, so the poop. Yeah, what ended up happening?

Yeah, what? Did you pour it in the toilet and then? And then throw the bag away. 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 ends up with the suicide attempt? Meadow comes in as like, oh my God, did you see Borat when he brings the poop to the table? it's so funny. And then AJ's like, it wasn't fair to the people involved. They were trapped.

And like there was a whole conversation. Oh my God. That shit scene in the Sopranos about how funny it is. And Meadows right. Sopranos, by the way, probably the other funniest thing going on in 2006. Because that was when Polly Walnuts was really going to another level.

That was when we had the veto, Vito blowing the guy. No, no. Johnny cakes. No, is it when the guy, Meadows' boyfriends tell him the story.

no Vito wasn't Vito was actually blowing the other guy and Paul was like what? Son of a bitch! And Tony just walks away. What's the disgust? He's got to go! They're going to kill him because of that. I mean, that Johnny Cake storylines is one of the best storylines ever.

The naked fight we talked about. The giant blackout for Borat's cock was just such a great idea. It's like a foot and a half. So I had a question about that. Like, if Sasha's all, in. Why did they blur it? Did they blur it to make a joke because Boris penis is big or do they just not want to show

Sasha's penis? I think it's his dick is so big we had to do this giant. But he's also like producing the movie. So maybe he's trying to you know. Yeah. Is it better if Sasha is just fully visibly naked the whole time and you just see it?

I think I'm better with this version. It's hard to, I mean, it's so good. I think he'd just leave it as it is. But I had that under picking Nits. I'm like, why? that's a half measure. Let's see it. Why are we blurring things? But I think you might be right. It's an all-time comedy scene. The only reason

it's not most rewatchable in the movie for me is Azamats, there's like 10 seconds here that it's among the most disgusting things that have ever been in a movie. Yep. Yep. Like, Osamots, at one point he's like spreading Osmots cheese. It's like actual butthole and balls.

They fight. Then they go to like a doggy style position. Yeah. And then they get into 69 where his ball are on Borat's face. And then Osamat sits down on his face like Yoko Zuna. And that is when it's the most disgusting by far. It's really horrifying. 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 perfect. I do. did see this in the movie theater because I definitely saw that scene in the theater. That's the one you remember. I just remember when I watched it with Jacko and 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. And then the one guy standing in the elevator who won't look at the camera and won't

leave, laugh out loud, hilarious. And then they go into the stupid realtors conference that are fighting and getting tackled. It keeps going. It's people screaming. I was screaming. The elevator scene, I couldn't tell if that was rigged or not. Which part?

When they get in the elevator with all those people. The people underreacted a little bit. Yeah, I just feel like I would be way more horrified if two naked guys came in an elevator with me. And there's women in there. Yeah, I don't know. There's a dude in there. The part with the elevator part I can't speak to, 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 tackle them and all that shit, and that's the one. But they had to do that shit three times. Pamela Anderson scene. Yeah. Apparently, she knew she was in on it, but the bodyguards weren't.

So they actually tackle him and do the whole thing. Him trying to bag her is hilarious. absolutely awesome. I don't know how you come up with that. Oh, I jumped ahead. Pam La Anderson. There's two more before that.

What do you got? I got my, the frat guys in the van. Infamous scene. Infamous scene. We hit the slavery, misogyny, and his 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 them. She's no virgin Borat. No, what do you mean? They keep calling him Boris.

And then at the end, one of the drunk guys says, do not let a woman ever, ever make you who you are. I can't decide if that was great advice or incoherent. That's the Coach Finstock Award. Do not let a woman ever, ever make you who you are. What does that even mean? I think you do whatever she says and you follow her around and some sort of antiquated bullshit like that.

Guys drunk as hell. Jack and Daniels. Guys are hammered. one guy, the guy in the middle is about as hammered as you can be on camera. The one who says I call people and I have sex with them and I don't call them back. Yeah. Or it's like, you don't call them because they don't have phone, right? And he's like, no, no, no.

It's because they don't have my respect. That was like a, that was a big talking point. That's, 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 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 didn't feel any protectiveness at all of those idiots at all. Couldn't agree more. Then Borac gets cleansed in the church. That was the last one.

That was the last one. That was the best. And then the Pamela thing. So what do you have for most rewatchable? It's between the dinner scene and the naked fight. The naked fight is the most. memorable scene. I actually think the dinner scene is the most Sasha Baron Cohen's scene that you could possibly do with the talk and the

shitting and then not so much you. So I also don't think I need to rewatch Azamette that much. Like once a year I'll see naked as I think it's a dinner table scene for me. I have a I like the Jewish Airbnb right in a southern manners dinner is my favorite stretch of the movie. It's excellent. What's the most 2006 thing about this movie? Pre-social media. mid-2000s Muslim resentment and is in high gear and they're tapping into that.

I think that's very specific. They are. The Pam Anderson tape, like a little bit of a nostalgia, spent 10 years since it happened. She's been kind of like six, seven years out of the limelight. Everything with her,

I feel like 2006 is the perfect spot to do all that. Pam having an autograph line and not a selfie line feels very 2006. At a Virgin Megastore? Yeah. At a Virgin Mega store.

And I got to, listen, I got to 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 saying. But we should do the Pam Anderson tape and the rewatchables. What are we doing that? Let's get in here.

You and me and Van. We'll just do it. It really was 2001 a Space Odyssey for sex tapes. It was the Big Bang Theory. The other one I have is the iPod mini where the neighbor that he hates in Kazakhstan that that Borat has an iPad and this guy has an iPad

mini and he's pissed off about it like that. So 2006. Are you talking about New Sutton-Tuliak by? Yeah, I'm talking about him. So they're sitting in the writer's room. All right, guys, we have a comedy classic. We got to stick the landing. Our last joke of the movie,

what's it going to 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. I think that's the most 2006 thing. The iPod Mini closer, the walkoff.

The Floyd Gondoli, butter on my ass and lollipops in my mouth, the word for something I just enjoy. What do you have? What do you have? I had channel surfing in a hotel room by yourself with room service and just jumping around and seeing dumb TV shows. I had a comedy that takes place in really, low budget, local news TV.

This has been a huge resurgence for that whole industry with Instagram and Instagram 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 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 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 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 microphone. We are live. So good. The guy's doing weather for Kazoo City or whatever the fuck. What's age the best? What do you got? What's age the best?

I have just, we've kind of covered him. Pre-smart phone 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, Like everyone was just talking about it. It's 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 was 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. I have, you will never get this saying in real life. I have Kid Rock divorcing Pam Anderson after he saw this movie being madder. What is this? I heard about this.

He said, he just reacted very unfavorably and thought she was said some bad words. Good for her though. Get away from Kid Rock. Did Kid Rock think that she was a virgin like Borough? Kid Rock.

Have you ever seen Pam Anderson? 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 you mentioned how they filmed it three times the naked running into the conference scene. The first time was an engineering lecture in Dallas and nobody really reacted. That could almost be like a mini documentary to me. How do you not react to that? I don't know. You have two naked guys running in your conference and people are like, oh, that's weird.

What the fuck? My number one, what's age the best though? Yeah. I wrote down eight random lines that just make me laugh, just like throwaway lines, which I think is the key to this movie. All right, I mentioned one already.

Erkin, not too much raping, humans only. One of the ones that almost made me fall off the treadmill when he's buying the car. The car scene's great. We didn't even talk about that. And he's doing the price.

And he goes, how about 85? It spits on his hand for the handshake. You guys, so 117, why don't we call it 85? No, let's call it 117. It's a great point. When Azamad is cleaning him and he turns around and he goes, how's my back pussy?

Her virgin hang like sleeve of wizard. Unbelievable. 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 throw away start to a monologue of a new part. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Azamat, when they're in the Civil War store after he breaks the stuff. Yeah.

And they're trying to negotiate Asimod goes, have you offered the pubicare? 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, he goes, hey, fuck off death. Yes. Those were all like the random throwaways they killed me. Anyway, great shot order award, most cinematic shot.

Probably we're at after getting touched by Jesus when they have the wide shot of him and he kind of rises up. But it's not like this is a crazily directed movie. No, in fact, it's deliberately low-fi. 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. That could be an album cover.

It's so good. I love it. Great sight gag. Chess Rockwell, Brocklanders were for Best Character Name. Osamat Bagadoff? I got in the finals. I got Asimat Bagadoff and Nusutant Tuli Akba. It has the finals.

All right. We don't get to hand this category out very often. What are you got? The Indiana Jones Ransom Body Order Award. So writer Dan Mazer said, Sasha 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. Disgusting. And they're driving through the south, like there's sweaty parts. I can't even imagine how bad he smelled.

And think about all he does. Everything he does is so physical. He's always grabbing the people and touching them and resting. 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, my mouth dried up. It's so gross, but it's also so perfect for Borough. So where would you put it on a scale of zero to Indiana Jones? It might be like a 9.8. Well, Indies comes from his own, like, kind of skin and, chest. Like he's scantily clad. Borat with that dense, thick, fibred suit, I think it's

over a nine for sure. I'd rather smell Indy than smell Borat. I mean, Indy's in some really hot countries. He's like in the desert. We're in the same suit for like months. Fighting snakes. Kid Cuddy Pursuit Happenus Award. We could either go Steppenwolf's Born to Be Wild or MC Hammer can't touch this. A way you decide.

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. 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. It's the generic, generic, generic version. All right, we're taking a break. Come back with your flex category. Spotify, it's Jay Shetty. Are you one of those media strategy people? scrolling through spreadsheets, searching for an audience that pays twice as much attention to your ads

than they do on social, let me introduce you to fans. And they're here with me on Spotify. Trust me, I know fans. They don't skip. They stay for hours. They don't move on. They manifest.

They're not a demographic group. They're fans. Spotify advertising. You're among fans. All right, flex category. What do you got, Kyle Bram? 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. Yeah. 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 Capitol City and watch ladies while they make a toilet. Like, fucking crazy. That's a really good board impersonation, by the way. All right. Number two.

I arrive on America's airport with clothing, US dollars, and a jar of gypsy tears to protect me from AIDS. It's that one. And then as the one you already said, which I'm saying again, because 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 going to be a punk rock band. I love it. 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, ha. It's so good. Home run.

Got two awards for the naked fight that 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 Seagall, hard to kill. Did this movie need a better intimacy coordinator? It might have. You don't really think about intimacy coordinators, you know, beyond just the normal sex scenes. but I think we might have needed somebody on set for this. Like, don't put Asimat, don't put your asshole in Sasha Baron Cohen's face.

Like, he might actually get hepatitis. Question about that. I had done unanswerable. Do you think that Asimat washed thoroughly before that scene? Like, did he get down under there and, like, clean all that? Like, I have a professional courtesy. Yeah, I hope so. Because Borat is not washing.

We just certain. He's going to stink. So when Sasha is putting, how many times do that scene? He might have 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 going to go wash my vagina. You want it clean, don't you?

Yeah. Did Azamat say, I'm going to go wash my grundle? Like, you want it clean, don't? I would hope that there was a washing that happened before that scene. Do you think this is the only podcast where somebody can seamlessly tie Becky Barnett and Osamot together and everyone listening will know what that means? I say, yes. God damn right.

I think it is. That's why we're closing it on 500 episodes. That's right. The Butch's Girlfriend Award for Week 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 the whole leave you wanting more, but I really feel like you're on a road trip. You can literally go anywhere. You can give me any other two, three minutes scene. I just feel like we're short. We have it.

The deleted scenes are funny. Yeah. Put them in. You know what? Six minutes. How about a clean 90? And you give us two more set pieces. Why 84?

Who decided that? What do you have? The only time I remember that the butcher's girlfriend being the movie's 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 weakling 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,

oh, yeah. That etiquette, lady, who teaches them how to, 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. Right. 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 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 bigoted frat boys, fuck them and all the racist and anti-semites. This is a nice woman, teaching them 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 weakling. Yeah, that, the lady at the manor's dinner takes the shot, the feminist lady. Yeah, there's a couple tough.

What's aged the worst? You mentioned this earlier, people doing Borat impressions after the movie. The Wainsworld effect? So Wayne's World in the 90s that happened, Borat in the 2000. I'm not sure what the 2010's version is of the movie that immediately people began imitating and then kind of ruined the movie a little bit. Well, everyone was definitely doing a lot of Anchorman in the 2000s and then maybe the hangover or something like that.

But the boreout one was the worst. And I had this 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.

Yeah. Or it says the N-word in this movie. That's also in the worst. He does. Ruffalo, Hanna, Rubinick, Partridge, overacting award. I don't know. It's a documentary. Yeah, I didn't have one either.

I did have one age the worst, though. This is, you're going to, right. And I wish Craig was here because he would relate to this. Watching porn with your boys. Like, they're on that motorhome, and they just throw on a DVD of porn, and they're just, like, sitting around drinking and watching it. Yeah. I don't think this generation does that or would get it. 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 was so fucking funny back then. Yeah. And the 70s and 80s stuff was, you'd watch it just as like, you're watching a movie. Good, what stage is the best? That's true. The CR thinks Luke Wilson could have been Harrison Ford Hottest Take Award. I'd like to test drive Sasha Baron Cohen is in the best actor race in 07.

Oh, what do you got? Let's go. Forrest Whitaker wins for Last King of Scotland. Leo and Blood Diamond. Ryan Gosling, half Nelson, Peter O'Toole and Venus and Will Smith in the pursuit of happiness. I'm bumping Peter O'Toole. That was an old man award that he got nominated. We're putting Sasha Baron Cohen in there.

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. I don't love Leo there either. And the accent's ridiculous in Blood Diamond. We know that. You laugh at it when you watch it.

He's done much better roles. I don't say that's a little hurtful. I mean, bang, bang, bling. What is Leo doing there, dude? A lot better roles for Leo. But I think it would have been worth him winning it just for the speech that he would have given at the Oscars. Oh my God. That's another reason.

It gets up to the Oscars. Best actor in a supporting role. I don't know if you want to test drive Osamott here. Of course I do. Let's start it off. Alan Arkin wins for Little Miss Sunshine. Jackie Earl Haley, Little Children. DeMond Honsu for Blood Diamond.

Eddie Murphy Dreamgirls. Mark Wahlberg for The Departed. I don't think there's room for Osamot, unfortunately. I'm happy with those five. Yeah. It's Alan Arkin, fuck a lot of women. And the Little Missou Sunshine is good. I like that rule.

What do you have for hottest take? All right, I'm going to, this is hot. My hottest take is, I think we as a culture should go back to doing the kiss left, kiss right breeding. I'm kind of into it, Bill. I think it's quick, left, right, it's crisp. It's kind of classy and debonair. You've got to 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, 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 kind of retro cool to it thing. That's my take. I think we should bring that back. You don't think COVID ruined it? I think it's back now. We have our next pandemic is coming. But before it does, let's do a little kiss-kiss.

And the best thing that Borod does, occasionally he'll push his luck. It'll go kiss, kiss, and then down the middle on the lips. And only to men, never the women. It's so good. 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

Sasha 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 Osamont. Dian Waders, I could offer you Linnell the prostitute Borat's first wife, Oksana, drunk

South Carolina frat guy. Bilo, we never saw Bilo, but I still feel like he's eligible. His presence looms. The Gypsy Estate sale lady, Pamela Anderson, and then the cute couple that own the Airbnb or whatever it's called.

I think car salesman does his job and 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. Yeah.

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. that's the best I love the funniest thing is how they spell it they spell H-O-O-E-Y-L-L-L-S it's all together too what an homage to Huey Lewis okay

recasting couch directors I have one here it's a borderline nitpick too and it ties into my theory that this movie should be Lugger. It's incredibly upsetting, and I think a huge miss in the biggest flaw of this movie, that we don't have a Vegas scene.

Okay. 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. You're so right.

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. Dude, if you just sit him at a blackjack table and just have him start touching the cards, like it would be chaos immediately. Like grabbing chips from other people.

Yeah. It's just. 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. How do they have the roulette, him betting on some crazy number because it reminds him of and something truly offensive from his family.

And I don't know. There's just so many ways to go in a casino. The buffets, the pool. You could do the mancini at the pool. Yeah. Put Osamon in like the topless pool at the wind. The whole movie could be Vegas. Honestly, that could have been the sequel.

Yeah. Borod goes to Vegas. Really missed out. Half Fass Center research. We mentioned a bunch of this stuff. So you mentioned Hui Lewis. Yeah. Played by an adult porn star named Stoney.

who was on the gay side of the porn. 60 movies, nearly 50 box covers, nominated for a 2001 Gay VN Award, best newcomer. What are you doing the work? Not the AVN, there's a Gay VN award? Is that what I heard? The gay VNs, not televised.

I don't know if ESPN Plus has been looking at it. I know they love live content. Tell them there's some live content available. I will, I will. After Borat, Stoney, comes a trans porn star named Brittany Cox, and it's spelled C-O-X, capital, second-x, lowercase, third X. I like it.

So that's all my research on Hui Lewis. No, I'm proud of you. You did the work. That's great. DVD includes several deleted scenes. We talked about some of them. One of them was getting a massage at a hotel. Great.

Another was visiting an animal shelter to adopt a dog that can protect him from Jews. That sounded funny. 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 of damages, didn't get it. The getaway, Schrager's buddy from Peter Lugar Steakhouse.

Poppy on the fucking balls. Yeah, he didn't get it. Everybody lost who tried to sue them. And the guy, Dan Mazer, said that they had somebody who used to be public enemies lawyer who was semi-retired, who was just crushing every suit. Yeah, yeah, that was there. That was the way to do. Yeah. Hey, what happened with that driving instructor at the end of the scene in Borat's like, are you my friend?

He's like, yes, I'm your friend. Do you like me? Yes, I said like, will you be my boyfriend? He goes, no, I'm not going. 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 Boron or something? Maybe that's why he sued. I think it might have been. Yeah. Because 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 going to get it on? That's so weird. Yeah. The news producer of the Jackson, Mississippi show claimed afterwards that Borat's appearance

led to her losing her job. Well, I hope not. I hate to hear it. And then Todd Phillips leaves, this is just random. Todd Phillips, they shoot for 11 days. Todd Phillips leaves because it created differences. They're trying to figure out how to add some stuff. Sasha Baron-Combe. playing basketball, Gary Shandling's house, has some sort of thing and breaks his foot. And now is out for another eight to ten weeks. So they filmed the movie and had to stop for like basically three months because the director. And then because somehow at Gary Shandling's house,

which by all accounts was not the most heated basketball game every week. Yeah, I want to hear. What's the run like there? I've never heard of the Gary Shandling game. I mean, I know some of the people that played in that game. And I don't think it was exactly. super competitive. So somehow he broke his foot anyway

and then they found Larry Charles. Back in my day, I used to do some games. I used to play some games with people who know. I used to go to a Mike Toland game. Oh, yeah, my Tolandah. I would go to a Brian Robbins game. Yeah, yeah, they had a good game. But I never did the Gary Shandling.

Holy shit. That's cool. A lot of comedians going half speed. Yeah, yeah. Apex Mountain. Sachi Baron Cohen is a yes. I think this is the biggest he's ever been after this movie. Huge.

that signed whatever he wanted to do after this. I said the movie gets shown up in the Sopranos. He's everywhere. He breaks character for the wins the Golden Globe. Definitely. Pussy magnets? Apex Mountain? I think it has to be.

There's not an actual magnet. They just mean the car. Yeah, that's okay. Can you install a pussy if I give you money? That's such a great bit. Sketch comedy movies? Is it better than Wayne's World? I love Wayne's World.

But it's close. I have to think about that. Maybe it's, it's, it's, the 2000s version of Wainsworld. Mm-hmm. Ken Divideon, definitely. Yep. Sox full of shit?

I'm gonna say yes. Virgin, virgin store book, uh, autograph assaults. I'll say yes. The Hotel Wellington, yes. Lonell,

um, who played the prostitute. And then has bounced around on some other stuff, but this is probably the peak, I'm guessing. I have a knit to pick with Lonella. 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

that I'd know that. And I was like, what the hell? Just got 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. It's a good note. Potassium exporters?

Best in the world, Kazakhstan. Yes. Shapifting cockroaches? I'm going to say they apex that one. Pamela Anderson, no. And then naked brawes, 100% yes. I have male nudity in movies. Is that it?

And I will give you, forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Siegel, full frontal. They brought it back in that, too. Yeah. It's a resummon. Eastern Promises, Vigo Mortensen in the bathhouse. Jackass had a lot of nudities, but that's not the same. And then the Boogie Knights male nudity was fake at the end.

I think it's apex for male nudity in a non-porn movie. I can't think of a better one unless it's unless it's just Jason Siegel just standing there with this big penis trying to think what else I didn't prep and thank God I didn't because my Google search should be dips and movies yeah lower X whatever the hell that girl was I'm already getting in trouble for stony my research on his 2001 gave he in uh Cruz or hanks I think hanks probably has a better chance of pulling up borat but I think cruises would be funnier what Cruz what if he was in the less grossman fat suit as Asimot. Oh, he probably could have done that.

I think to be cruised, you would have to take some of that Frank T.J. Mackey's sexual or energy. And you'd be like, respect the cock. High five. And then he does this dumb accent from far and away. Like,

it would take a lot of work to get cruised there. And Hank's kind of has the hair and the mustache and the suit. Yeah. Yeah. He's basically doing the kid from Big with an accent. Yeah. Scorsese or Spielberg. What do you think, bud?

Tough one. I'm going to probably say Scorsese for this one. Yeah, and you would get to see Borat on cocaine, which is always, I'm always into it. And they could have done it in Vegas. Yeah. Pickett Nitz. Who was the cameraman the whole time?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. At one point, the camera gets nailed in the naked fight. Osamot. Osama. He runs the camera guy into him. So somebody's called in the camera. Who was it?

Yeah. I don't know. the timeline of the road trip, we're in D.C. We go to Mississippi for the Channel 16 thing. And then we go backwards to Virginia for the rodeo. It's out of sequence. It should have gone to D.C., Virginia, Mississippi. Remember also when they leave at Kazakhstan,

they do the Indiana Jones map thing, and they do like six loops throughout Europe. I'm not sure their navigation is pristine. 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 weakest link, but it's just weird. I don't care about the bear.

They got a big laugh in the theater when the bear growls at the kids and they scream. Yeah. I'm just here for awkward moments 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. Any other pickin'nets? I just say, 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? I know. Bob Barr. Any of those people? 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 was like, holy shit, stop this. How does it get to that? Yeah. I mean, that's probably what happens. And are they so mad? Like, is Alan Keyes fucking firing somebody about that? Probably.

Yeah, I'd be mad. So, sequel, prequel, prestige, TV, all blackcasts are untouchable. They did a sequel. So we have our answer for that. Okay. Yes. Is this movie better with Wayne Jenkins, Fergie the Flores,

Zainlo, Robert Evans, or somebody else. What do you think, how about it? You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to take the guy at the church, to let that tongue go guy who puts the hands on. And 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. Do you really need K-19, the Widowmaker in 4K? Craig Horbeck, do you not need a four-hour version of the Dark Night?

Let that Tong do. Bill Simmons, you watch Lord of the Rings every Christmas. Tungo! We got to add that guy to the list with Zayden and everybody. What was that guy saying? Let that Tungo guy. I don't know what his name is. From Borat.

Ben Lathen, do you really not attracted to white women? Let that tongue go. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. That guy steals the show. I want him to do all of you. That sounds great. I actually had one for this. What do you got?

I mean, this is really going to appeal to all of your bones. Oh, let's go. What if Naked Borat and Naked Azamak crashed the 1993 International Association of Cardiologist Conference in Chicago? As Dr. Charles Nichols was speaking. And Dr. Charles Nichols said, Ladies and gentlemen, my friend Borat Sagadoff doesn't feel well. We just kind of work that in.

And he goes, I'm sorry, Azambath. I'm in the middle of this speech. Oh my gosh. Did you kill my wife too? Huh? Did you? You falsified the research. So you could give them proboscis.

You switch to the samples. Very nice. Wow. We were. Oh my God, that's awesome. Yeah. I remember when you guys, 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 Chase 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.

just one Oscar who gets it screenplay? Or would you go Sasha Baron Cohen? No, fucking Sasha Baron Cohen, best lead actor. Fuck it. Let's do it. Unanswerable questions. We actually did the ones I had for this

about whether it was Sasha Baron Cohen's poop in a bag. Did you have any other ones? I did Azamot Wash's ball sack before the fight scene. I already asked it. Let's ask Ken Davidian right now. Ken? Ken. The Secret Handshake Club memorabilia you'd want from this movie

what do you got? I was going to say the Mancini, and I know that I used to go to the beach in Santa Monica after this movie come 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 was going to keep it in my desk. Yeah. I think I would want the Baywatch book. Oh, yeah. The actual Baywatch book that he had, with the little towel that he had over

to make it seem like it was the Quran. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would want that whole package. with a red water panties. That's a great book. I like it. Coach Finstock, Mr. Miyagi Award for Best, worst life lesson.

It's got to be that frat kid, right? What does he say? Don't let a woman define you. Yeah. Do not let a woman ever, ever make who you are. Yeah, I'm going to go with that. I have written down, I like you.

I like sex. It's nice. That's all I got. Best double feature choice. I have best in show and then Borat in that order. I go Christopher Guess first, then I go Borat. I think that's how it it would have to go. I got Bruno.

We haven't talked a lot about the Bruno movie. Yeah. Really liked it. Some amazing scenes. At one point, Bruno visits like a psychic medium and he makes Bruno's ex-boyfriend who died appear. And then Bruno does a full fallatio sequence with finish. Like, it's really, really graphic.

And you're screaming again in the theater. I watched Bruno, which I thought it was not as good as Borat, but it was still funny. Who won the movie, Sasha Baron Cohen? Sasha. Well, that was easy. For it. So easy.

By the way, we did this probably in almost exactly the amount of the time of the movie. Yeah, and we have no Craig, right? No Craig. All right, Kyle Brent, what do you got going on as we hit into the summer here? Oh, well, I made my main voyage to Bristol, Connecticut last night. Bill, I'd never been there before, but I did these schedule release. I went to Bristol. And by the way, it's bullshit.

There's no mascots in the hallway. There's no, nobody's saying, follow me to freedom. There's none of that shit. I thought that was going to be like, this is Sports Center. It's not like that at all. There's no Peyton given 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. They got some games, right? NFL Network got a couple. 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. 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. No. I wouldn't say that. Good. Good. Everyone's been very nice. I'm glad. They have. The setup's great. Your earpiece only fell out 10 times, but now it's locked in. I would show that earpiece who's boss. I figured it out like 20 minutes then. The setup is good. We got Tony Kukoch. How do you beat that? He looks great. All right. Thanks.

to Craig. Thanks to Kyle. Thanks to Kyle Brand. 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. Let's go. So I know there's a couple of your favorites. All right. Good to see you, Kyle Brand. Thank you. Thank you.