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It's creeping like back up, you know.
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Um, and now it's sitting on my tongue and we're living together.
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[Music] Hey, what's going on everybody for First We Feast.
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I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Adam Brody.
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He's an Emmy award nominated actor, you know, from projects like The Kid Detective, Ready or Not, The OC, and many more.
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Earlier this year, he won a critic's choice award for his role as Noah in the Netflix romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This, which returns for its much anticipated second season on October 23rd.
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Adam Brody, welcome to the show.
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>> Thank you so much for having me.
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>> What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the Hot Ones gauntlet?
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Do you feel prepared for the moment? >> Can I be honest?
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You ask such uh uh insightful and original questions that I'm equally as offkilter about that, you know, um as I am about coming at you from all sides over here. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, we'll see. Lot to take in. [Music] To my right. No soy sauce. Coffee day. All right.
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And this is the lowest level. >> This is all right.
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[Music] It's already hot.
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I mean, like, you know, for the viewer at home, if you go and you order a spicy wing somewhere, this is about what you're going to get, >> right?
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So, I assume everything after it is abnormal. All right.
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I'm not going to touch water, just milk when I do it.
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So your connection with Kristen Bell is really at the heart of Nobody Wants This and this is now the third time that you've played her love interest.
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You know, you have some girls where she described you as an emotional terrorist and then House of Lies.
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How do you think your dynamic has evolved on screen over the years?
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Like does that kind of familiarity and practice give you more freedom as an actor?
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Yeah, this might be irrelevant, but she wasn't pregnant and then she I worked with her very much pregnant uh on House of Lies and I so I've seen her, I guess, you know, go um um through all these stages >> through motherhood and stages.
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And I think um I think there's a history of not just each other, but of us being in the business and in similar circles for as long as we have.
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But I will say so much of it is also the writing because as good as our chemistry was in those earlier projects, you know, nobody was freaking out over it.
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You know, it's very much these characters on on Nobody Wants Us are very much set up to to um be rooted for.
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So, [Music] >> Grandma Matcha, that's the one. >> Okay. Anything I should know?
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>> The less you know, the better, I think. >> Okay. Okay.
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bite first, ask questions later on this show.
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>> I understand that after leaving San Diego and moving to LA, you gave yourself a year to make it as an actor.
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Is there a failed pilot or a TV movie that when it was offered to you, reflecting back in that time, felt like the star vehicle or your big break?
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Yes, a million% my big break was I had a string of um part-time jobs in in Los Angeles for that year when I was 19.
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And then I celebrated my 20th birthday on this on the Paramount lot um as the lead of this TV movie about the making of Brady Bunch.
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And yeah, I mean it'll never get bigger than that for me to this day.
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You know, all of a sudden I got to quit my valet job and um driving through the classic Paramount gates every day.
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So surreal and classic and I uh yeah, that that to me is still and always will be my big break.
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Not that it changed anything or got me anything except the ability to quit that job, but still as an affirmation of I think I'm on to something and also just an experience.
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It, you know, nothing would be comparable that I could even do today.
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I am avoiding the milk thus far.
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I don't know if that's it's not to be tough.
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It's more cuz I think it'll be more effective later, but I don't know if that's true.
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All right, it's all right.
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We can just experiment here today. This is your Sriracha. >> Mhm.
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And I think maybe a little less intense than number one and number two. >> I think so, too.
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Um, at least it's not as front-loaded.
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>> What stands out as like the most what in the hell moment you've ever felt thumbming through the pages of a script for the OC?
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Like, was there ever like a sudden tonal change or a melodramatic twist that was like tasered your brain?
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It all makes sense in hindsight because we filmed so many.
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So the first season we filmed like 28 or something.
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So, you know, that'd be three seasons or, you know, at least a solid two on a on a streamer.
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So, it makes sense that we burned through that much story.
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But I remember >> the middle of season two, we got trapped in a mall overnight and I was like, I think I saw this on um Save by the Bell.
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I think they also got trapped in a mall and I don't like it.
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and I don't like it. Um I remember um Marissa Misha Barton's mom is dating my grandfather where is engaged to him and I'm like that's a great actual plot but it was like episode 15 maybe 18 in the mid- teens of the first season you know
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she had already Tay Donovan and her had already split and she's already and I just thought that's quick that's a lot of story fast but but I do like that storyline a lot it was funny but I just thought man that's early >> trying to decide what how do I want to attack this? >> You know what? There's full coverage on >> You know what?
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There's full coverage on that wing. It's tossed. >> I know. I know.
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So you >> How do you How do you toss it exactly?
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Do you dump it in something? >> Yeah. Yeah. So it'll be in a bowl.
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So Dom, what she'll do is she'll have a couple bowls.
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So it's the sauce in the bowls and then she's tossing in the sauce. It is >> full coverage. Full coverage.
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>> It gets kind of serious over here. >> Yeah.
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[ __ ] >> Forgive me if you don't know the show.
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>> I trust me, I know the show. >> You know the show. All right. All right.
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>> I think it captured the zeitgeist in a unique way.
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And then two, it is like a compelling soap opera, but at the same time did kind of set a standard for teen dramas that I think is has lasted even long after the show stopped airing.
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Like I still feel like I can see the OC DNA in like newer shows now, you know? I don't know.
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know. I think I think two things well maybe three things are involved in that and one of them I think is the most nostalgia based which is music you know I think for a teen show it was the most musiccentric better after yeah and I think that is you know music is such a lock into a memory or unlocks a memory so much and
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that's what I was struck by when I watched it again I was like oh the music's doing so much work here in a great way and is such a part of the tapestry of it I I guess the other two things I was going to say was I think in terms of like it being somewhat mold breaking was the comedic, you know, infusion and also certainly the meta infusion. You know, that more than
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You know, that more than anything hadn't really >> self-awareness.
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Self awareness had not been done on in that kind of show before.
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>> I think we unpackaged it. >> Great. >> Together. [Music] >> Okay. [Music] Where are you? >> Mhm.
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>> I think habanero sneaks in behind like they're kind of habanero's walking behind the door.
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The chim chur this one >> clears the way.
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>> I'm feeling a little more now.
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>> But regardless, the one before was more.
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So by comparison now I even though I'm >> the other one hit me right away.
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So, is it true that you gave yourself whiplash, headbanging as your drummer character, Icabad in the movie Yoga Hosers?
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>> Yeah, you must have dug really deep. I don't know. Um or somebody did. Um Um Yeah. Yeah.
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I mean, if you don't headbang regularly and you do it, especially over a certain age, you will be [ __ ] sore the next day. Um Yeah. Yeah.
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Is it true that you also dislocated your shoulder rehearsing a fight sequence for the movie River Wild?
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And if so, is that the most bizarre, memorable injury you've ever had making a TV show or film?
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>> It was a 20-year-old injury that I needed surgery on.
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Anyway, I had a torn labroom for 20 years. I did it literally.
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I'm so I'm so bad at um I'm more educated now, but I never used to work out like in terms of weights.
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And when I was 19, I was literally bench pressing the bar.
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And um and I just was like I think I'll just rest like while it's up there and just like kind of lock my arms and just chill.
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and it like anyway popped out and um it came out like once a year for 20 years and then it came out bad enough that I needed surgery and it was a I want to say it's a blessing in disguise but you know it was I needed to get it done and so yeah >> heat level 6 out of 10 it says >> I took a big bite accidentally >> it happens on the show it started off on kind of an aggressive trajectory.
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>> I would say that announc you're in a hot sauce flow state right now. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm okay. I'm okay.
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>> Is it at all satisfying for you to see a movie like Jennifer's Body, which was critically panned, almost universally when it came out, have this sort of everlasting Second Life as a cult classic?
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Like, do you think that that was a movie that was ahead of its time? >> Yes, I I do.
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And um I think it was ahead of its time.
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I think it was it might have not mattered, but I think it was positioned wrong at the time.
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You know, I think um it was marketed like 180° the wrong way.
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But regardless, that might not have made much difference.
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This thing that came back from the dead that people enjoyed, it's almost more satisfying than if it just comes out of the gate, you know? >> Yeah.
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Cuz you could be like, I knew all along. You know what I mean?
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Like all these other people are jumping on the bandwagon right now, but all along I knew I had something there.
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>> I'm really happy with that.
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I mean, the truth of the matter is I'm not in it all that much, so like it it doesn't concern me as much as um other people, but but I think it's great and I I was a big fan then and you know, I'm happy other people are now.
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Can you pull back the curtain on your approach to portraying a death by slain like you did in Scream 4?
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Like, are you practicing pain faces and last gasp death gurgles in the mirror, or is it more instinctual than that?
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I think it's instinctual. I've died a few times.
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Scream is not my finest hour. My finest hour dying.
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I think if you I don't specifically remember, but it looks to me like when I saw it that I'm laughing.
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Um I'm like um and it is cool that like Ghost Face is going to snab you.
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On one hand, I think it's instinctual in two ways.
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And it's instinctual in terms of you're going to know, you know, you're just going to this is how I would die or lose consciousness.
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And then also I think you know if you do it long enough you know where the camera is and you've you can kind of visualize how this body language might you know project and um let me think about it a little uh like that too. All right. Well, you know what? You've survived so far. Okay.
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>> This is a Hawaiian hot tea over here.
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I like the title and I like the picture.
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It's a ghost blow on fire.
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[Music] >> Wine hot tea is Pogg. >> Now it's okay. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah.
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>> My eyes start to water at this point. Yeah. >> Yeah. No, no, no, no.
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Now it's it's creeping like back up, >> you know.
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Um and now it's sitting on my tongue and we're living together. >> Um >> Yeah. Forever. But I don't hated it.
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I it's still brings you alive. I still enjoy it.
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>> I'm not, you know, I don't have to like >> I don't have to um go somewhere else mentally.
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I can still >> You're present. >> I can sit with it. >> We're connected.
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>> And I can sit with it. >> It is [ __ ] hot. >> Yeah, it is. It is [ __ ] hot.
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>> So, I know that you grew up a San Diego beach bomb and had dreams of opening a surf shop before you were bitten by the acting bug.
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Is there a book or film that you think best distills the experience of being a surfer?
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I did see a copy of Susan Casey's The Wave on a bookshelf behind you. Oh, wow.
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>> When you were doing an appearance on Pod Crush.
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>> Yeah, I never read that.
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>> I was I meant to, but uh I never um I never I never made it.
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Um I shouldn't should >> Be careful.
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In fact, Wow, that's pretty saucy almost. >> Yeah.
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Yeah, you're living dangerously over here. >> Freshy. >> Um >> point break. >> Yep. Classic.
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You know, there's a kid in it that says surfing is the source, you know, and we're about that age.
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Me and my friends are about that age and just even just oneliners in it that uh uh made you jealous and want to be him and be there.
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And um side note, but the Bones Brigade movie, Search for the Animal Chin. Uh uh really cool.
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Uh Northshore, I don't know if you're familiar familiar with >> everyone.
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I mean, it's it was from 1987.
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It's probably I'm sure the pitch was it's Karate Kid on the Northshore with surfing.
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You know, I'm sure that was how they pitched it.
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Lar Hamilton is the Billy Zabka part.
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I've seen this movie more than any movie in my life.
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>> Do you have a biggest surfing pet peeve?
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You know, between localism and lineup etiquette, >> you know, it does seem like it's kind of a minefield for beginners.
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>> Yeah, I think yellers.
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You know, I think people I think localism.
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I think I mean there's a certain pride in like knowing people in a lineup and in a parking lot and and sort of earning a spot in that that's nice.
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But I just think like when I see and I see it a lot people yelling at somebody who's in their way or didn't know the best surfers never do that.
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It's the mediocre ones that think they're good and you know are out to teach a lesson and it's not as peaceful a culture.
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There is that too but it's it's not actually >> it's not as chill.
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It's not as chill as you would think.
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Got to be a little more chill.
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>> But um you know, some people are and it makes you appreciate them more. >> Now, is this a trick?
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>> You watch some episodes. Yeah. Yeah. >> Uh Okay.
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>> We can't pull a fast one on you.
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>> Did I take a big enough bite? >> Yeah, that satisfies.
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[Music] >> It tastes gross right away.
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It really does taste gross. And I appreciate that.
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Like I'm not mad at that.
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The others have all been nice.
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This is >> gross and then painful on top of that, you know?
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>> There's nothing really helping you out here.
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>> No, but what does it taste like going down? Like not going down. Now it's just hot.
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But what did that first bite taste like? Was like >> poison. >> Yeah.
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It It was just It wasn't very food based. >> Yeah.
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like an unlike anything you've ever eaten before. >> Yeah. And it is super hot. My tongue is blistering. My throat is blistering. >> I'm right.
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So, in a 2023 feature at the New York Times, you said that you could eat donuts every day, going on to say, "I do enjoy this gourmet artisal doughnut revolution that's been going on over the last decade.
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Can a fancy donut ever go too far, or is everything fair game in the doughnut revolution?"
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It's not a flavor thing that would go too far for me.
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It's more like when there's so much um design and accuchants on it that um I think it's going to taste like [ __ ] because of it because it's like, you know, has a um big fourleaf clover and horseshoe on it or something, you know, and it's all that like fondant or whatever they use and uh is a cake.
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They're delicious and I don't get sick of them and I appreciate a the ones at the car dealer as much as Yeah. your newer artisal ones.
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>> As long as it's there for a flavor reason and not a decorative reason, I'm game. How do you spell donut?
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>> I guess why not go simpler in d and u t, right?
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>> That's how I do it, right?
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Why [ __ ] why add things?
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Why make it more complicated?
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I mean those O's and U's and G that's fun to write I guess and H's like there are the more of the more fun letters to write typing I don't know but uh but uh yeah let's keep it simple >> d o n u t >> yeah it's official >> set it in stone great >> I've actually calmed down I'm back down the mountain a little bit when I asked if you were it was a trick and the debomb was the worst and you said it was was that a trick And it's not the worst.
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>> I guess you'll never know until you've all karma sauce.
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[ __ ] I'll eat a whole bite. I'm going to chew fast.
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>> From working in the shirts and underwear department at Robinson May to valeting cars outside of the Beverly Hills Hotel, which prefamed job do you remember more fondly reflecting back on those early and glorious days in LA?
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The parking cars was fun actually because um you got to run a little bit.
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I was at the Beverly Hills Hotel which was you know a story and iconic and pretty.
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I parked uh Charlton H's car which you know was neat.
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Um >> I felt like I was getting closer to Hollywood >> Hollywood you know in general and there were a lot of actors you know working at the job and so um I liked that.
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In fact, when I had that um that Brady Bunch movie, I just didn't go back.
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I I I didn't have the job yet, but I was confident enough, even though I didn't get the job, that I just I didn't show up, you know, and then I luckily I got the job up.
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>> So, you never had to go back to valet? >> No. >> Look at you now. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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[Music] >> This is an 11 out of 10.
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[Music] Come here, you [ __ ] Put a lot. What are you doing? Oh, you put more. Okay. >> You know what? I messed that up. >> You did.
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>> That's the danger of going straight to the wing.
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>> I mean, I want to shake some off, but I'm not going to cuz we've come this far. >> Let's go.
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>> There's something about this sequencing that kind of is catching me right now, but I'm going to keep my feet. All right. I'm proud of myself. >> You should be. >> I'm proud of myself. >> You should be.
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>> I don't know what would happen, but look at me.
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>> Champion to the mountain peak and close things out. >> Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, I love talking to actors whose movie journey kind of began working at Blockbuster.
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And this year alone, that company includes not only you, but also Owen Wilson. Oh, great.
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What was so fun about that was is I had just moved out and had roommates and you could take, you know, 10 movies home a day.
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Swingers at the time was on the new release wall. I liked it. Okay.
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It didn't resonate with me.
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And then I discovered it like 2 years later when I was living in Hollywood and not working and thinking like this is the pits and um it just made my life seem so glamorous and it also like inspired me with the whole style of acting and um and then you know like Doug Lyman went on to direct the pilot of the OC so I got to work with him and um >> it all came full circle but it all started on the floor of a blockbuster.
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>> I mean it's still such a happy place. this.
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I know you want to tap it. I know. Just tap it.
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>> Bringing it full circle. Look at you, Adam Brody.
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Making it all the way to the end.
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And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera.
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Let the people know what you have going on in your life.
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>> I'm Adam Brody and uh the second season of Nobody Wants This comes out in October soon. October 23rd. I'm Adam Brody.
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The second season and Nobody Wants This comes out October 23rd. What a pro.
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[Applause] [Music] Lovely.
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>> Thank you for your question. >> Yeah, of course, man.
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Like, but no, it really like when you're like, "Oh, do you know the OC?"
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Like, dude, that was like, you know, as like a child of the '9s and I'm like from the Midwest, so I think there was like some sort of like SoCal romanticism or whatever that was happening at that time. >> The Midwest. Absolutely.
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>> That kind of like cultural penetration that your character had like that doesn't even happen.
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Well, it's either it's two things.
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It's either the the the the California of it or the like, wait, are nerds cool?
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Like, you know, Hot Ones fans, here it is, your season 28 lineup, including the final of our three hot sauces that we dropped to celebrate the 10-year anniversary, The Last Dab, Thermagrdon.
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To get your hands on Thermageddon and the rest of the characters that make up our season 28 cast, visit hotwinds. com. That's hotes. com. hotwunes. com.
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We'll deliver it straight to your door.
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And this box, very convenient, very spicy.
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