Sgt. Donny Donowitz
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Oct 15, 2026
CraigHOST
By what?
Blind MikeHOST
Quentin Tarantino wanted you to play the Bear Jew.
CraigHOST
Yes.
Blind MikeHOST
And Eli Roth ended up doing it.
Quentin TarantinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That was why I made the character Boston, 'cause he does such a great Boston accent.
CraigHOST
Yeah.
Blind MikeHOST
You wanted Adam Sandler to play the Bear Jew.
Quentin TarantinoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, that's why I wrote, I wrote it for him.
EvanHOST
And then he just comes out and okie dokie, and just one big hit, and I was like, "Holy shit." That was, that was something.
IanHOST
You heard of the Bear Jew?
EvanHOST
Yeah.
EvanHOST
[laughs]
IanHOST
Yes, I've heard of the Bear Jew.
IanHOST
You know what he does? He kills men with a club.
EvanHOST
And that's who we got.
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EvanHOST
Well, a high school.
Kevin MinerHOST
Yeah, when he's Danny in Inglourious Basterds.
Kevin MinerHOST
The Bear Jew? The Bear Jew, yeah.
Kevin MinerHOST
Yeah.
Kevin MinerHOST
Probably.
Remington RamseyHOST
[laughs]
Brett WigginsHOST
Dude, he's the original Bear Jew.
Remington RamseyHOST
He's the original Bear Jew.
Brett WigginsHOST
I can't believe ...
Brett WigginsHOST
There's no way I'm the first to say that ever.
Remington RamseyHOST
I'm getting shirts made.
Marcus MangusHOST
Oh.
Remington RamseyHOST
The Original Bear Jew.
Isaac RosenGUEST
I would say my whole thesis, if you will, stemmed from the conclusion, the ending scene of Inglourious Bastards, if you remember.
Isaac RosenGUEST
That they break into the booth, Eli Roth and the other guy, Donnie Donowitz and the other guy, break into the booth where Hitler and Goebbels sit and blast the crap out of.
Isaac RosenGUEST
Okay, so Hitler did not kill himself, allegedly, in a bunker on April 30th, 1945.
Isaac RosenGUEST
He was gunned down by a vengeful Jew.
Isaac RosenGUEST
And there was a huge discourse in Israeli academia in that regard, because there is a great deal of nostalgia also utilized in a film like Inglourious Bastards, the manner in which they Just the scene of Eli Roth as Donnie Donowitz bashes the head out of that Nazi officer and then screams as if he's in a baseball game and recites the radio announcer ecstatically describing Donnie Donowitz as a ball player, as some Babe Ruth, some Sandy Koufax.
Isaac RosenGUEST
only that can indicate just how saturated with nostalgic sentiments Inglourious Basterds is and I found myself pretty much submitting to that notion that nostalgia in film if not handled properly and if not because it's a very I think it's a very effective emotional Nostalgia.
Isaac RosenGUEST
Just like propaganda, it sets itself on your feelings.
Henry WilkinsonHOST
Eli Roth.
Henry WilkinsonHOST
He's good as the bear Jew.
Andrew MoslerHOST
Yeah.
Andrew MoslerHOST
Who's he in Pulp Fiction?
Henry WilkinsonHOST
He's like, you're going to give me my information.
speaker_2UNKNOWN
Otherwise, like.
Henry WilkinsonHOST
you heard of the bear Jew? And
speaker_2UNKNOWN
they're like,