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I feel like this is me fighting against evil.
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You're not going to lose to a wing.
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You're not going to let a chicken wing Yeah.
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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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From First We Feast, 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 at long last, I'm joined by Hannibal Buress.
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He's one of the best stand-ups in the game.
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You know him from his many films and TV shows like Broad City and The Eric Andre Show.
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You can also catch him on his podcast, The Handsome Rambler.
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Hannibal, welcome to the show. Thanks, man. Appreciate it.
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How are you with hot food?
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I like uh some spice, but I don't think food should make you uncomfortable. Right. Right. Yeah. On purpose.
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It's accidentally at best.
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This is our 100th episode.
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I can't believe I'm still standing.
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Hannibal, we've been trying to get you in this seat forever, ever since I bum-rushed you on the street in New Orleans last year. yeah. You remember that?
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All-Star Weekend, New Orleans. We had a good time. That was a good time. It was a good party. Yeah.
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All right, you're ready to get it going? All right, let's do it. Yeah, it's chill. Yeah, this is normal. Mhm.
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This is all This is a good flavor. It's flavoring.
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This [ __ ] So, last year you moved from New York back home to Chicago, explaining to Stephen Colbert it's less famous people for competition.
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So, if you'll humor me, I want to get a Hannibal Buress city guide from you.
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Do you [ __ ] with Garrett's caramel and cheddar popcorn or no?
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I only have that as a gift.
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Well, I think Conan has it backstage at his, so that's when I'll have Garrett's.
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It's great, but I don't really go get popcorn out of I don't go out of my way for it like that.
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What do you think's the better nickname, the Windy City or the Second City?
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Windy City or just the shy itself.
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Yeah, but I don't like the Second City as a as a name.
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It's a great comedy theater, but not a name.
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How do you describe juke music to people who don't know what it is?
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That's a funny way to call it.
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Who was I hanging out with?
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I was hanging out with a friend that wasn't from Chicago.
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I played some juke stuff and he was vibing to it and as the song went on, he said, "Oh, they just going to keep saying the same [ __ ] over and over?" Yeah, that's what it is.
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It's just, you know, uh a fast-paced beat with somebody saying some phrase like, "Moe that dookie booty."
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"Oh, [ __ ] Look at that bitch."
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"That [ __ ] got on K's switch." "Oh, shit."
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It's just the same It's so it was so funny to hear an outsider's perspective where he's just like, "They still They just going to say that?"
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I It made me laugh so hard.
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But yeah, that's how you explain it.
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All right, so this next one is Louisiana. A classic.
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All right, yeah, I know that's familiar.
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Yeah, I for regular life. Yeah.
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I watch the show on CDs and but that's the only one I was just like, you know, it makes me feel comfortable.
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So when it comes to your TV career, you have a pretty insane track record when it comes to showing up on some of the funniest shows on television.
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Which set was the most fun to be on?
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The Eric Andre set is pretty fun cuz you don't really know what's going to happen and [ __ ] like the the most fun I think I had was the rapper warrior ninja. With Danny Brown. Danny Brown. Rocky.
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A$AP Rocky, Eagle, Gold Dreamer.
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We were just dying laughing cuz you know, the course was set up.
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Nobody really ran through it and I was watching like, "Yo, they might get hurt for real." This is crazy. It was a bit flimsy.
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Danny took a nasty fall in there and then he got that shot of him looking real crazy when he whipped his hair back.
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And then too, I actually talked to Danny about his appearance there and he said that he was being kind of an [ __ ] about it before you guys started filming. That's fair. Yeah.
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That was absolutely fair.
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That [ __ ] looked crazy.
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I would have been I would question that [ __ ] too.
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You know, y'all said get here at 12:00 and I got here early. I like that by the way.
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I got here like 11:18, which is too early.
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That's like the weird early, 45 minute, you know what I mean? That's yeah. You got to beat me here.
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So I would uh I walked around a little bit.
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It's not a good walking area, but I walked to the main block block away. Good cryotherapy place.
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Found a cryotherapy and killed some time. You did before the show? Yeah.
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Now I figured it'd be weird to do cryotherapy right before eating a bunch of hot sauce. It helped.
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I think I would just poured a weird amount of hot sauce on it.
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It was a little bit of a clumsy pour Hannibal, but pour. All right. Yeah, I got some kick. I like that.
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Do you think that Versace breakfast is your most underrated verse? Scramble my eggs. Scramble. Versace breakfast. Night sprouted lunch. Yeah. I don't eat brunch. No. [ __ ] mimosas. No limit soldiers. Duck hunt.
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[ __ ] [ __ ] Luck punch. What?
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I don't think a lot of people know about Versace breakfast.
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Not enough people know about Versace breakfast.
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You want to know the story behind that? Yeah, I do.
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I made the song, the gibberish rap song and got really excited about it and put it out.
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A couple blogs picked it up.
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And then I was I was hyped and I just told people I said, "Hey, send me a beat. I'll do some features.
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And I was like, I'm going to do a bunch of features, yo.
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I think it was Freddy Scott.
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He set up the studio and then I just went and did a few verses.
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And then nothing else after that. Just stopped.
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And then throughout your career, you've consciously mixed comedy and rap in interesting ways, but I'm wondering when you look at a rapper, who's the rapper that makes you laugh? Danny Brown's funny. T-Pain is hilarious.
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T-Pain is a character, man.
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I've hung out with him in Atlanta a few times and it's gone it's gone poorly.
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Did he take you to the strip club?
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He took me to the strip club.
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Always goes to strip club and then it just when you can pour your own drinks, that's when the trouble happens.
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When you're pouring your own drinks, that's when it That's the That's the beginning of disaster.
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This is a solid, straightforward sauce.
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That's what we were going for, Hannibal.
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That's the highest of compliments. I appreciate that. Yeah.
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So, whenever I hear a comedian talk about getting their start, it sometimes will have sort of a dark quality to it, you know, playing laundry mats in front of 12 people or living in their cars or maybe sleeping on the subway or outside of a Starbucks.
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And I wonder when you look back on the road, when did you feel furthest from success?
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During those times, the thing with it it didn't feel that dark then, you know what I mean?
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Cuz it was I was Just trying to keep your head above water.
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Yeah, and I was 23, we still had youthful ambition and energy and [ __ ] where if I was going through the same [ __ ] at 35, I'd be like, "Yo, am I [ __ ] sleeping in Starbucks? I'm 35."
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But 23, you not out in the Star- That's in that time where it was just cuz I knew what I was trying to trying to do.
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Do you remember the first time you got really heckled?
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Sometimes you bombing at a place.
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They'll just cut the music on on you.
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That's like a real bombing if you And then like they won't even With no warning.
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But sometimes they'll fade in.
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I've had a cat kind of slow fade.
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And I'm going to say like, "Hey, what's that? What is that? SHUT THAT [ __ ] OFF."
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SO, GETTING THE music just uh played on you in the mid in the middle of what you think is a great idea.
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Somebody like, "Nah, let's just uh do some music on that and use this moment to transition to the rest of the show."
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Have you ever invited a girl to a show that you're into and bombed in front of her? Early on, yeah. What's that like?
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I don't know I don't even know if I was bringing her just to impress her or if I was just bringing her to hang out, but yeah, we didn't see each other after that.
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I don't know if maybe we both got busy or maybe it was that.
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Who knows, but yeah, it didn't help. Ghost pepper.
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Oh, that's that I I again, I don't I want to see No, you know what? I feel it now.
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This was a slow Some of them creep on you.
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It's a slow burn right here. Mhm.
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All right, Hannibal, we have a 'Crain' segment on our show called 'Explain That Gram' where we do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram, pull interesting pictures that need more context. Okay.
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So, I'll bust out the laptop, I'll show you the picture, and then you just tell me the bigger story. Does that sound good? All right. Explain that Gram.
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I don't post too much crazy stuff on the Gram. You know you don't. You don't.
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Uh so, I'm wondering what you going to have.
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But, it doesn't have to be crazy.
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No, it just has to be interesting. Okay.
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Like here where you're hating ON DAVE CHAPPELLE.
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THAT WAS UH HE HAD JUST SET A record for selling tickets or something.
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I just thought it'd be a funny photo and [ __ ] I forget the name of the venue, but it was wherever the shows were in Montreal.
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Yeah, and I had done a show in Montreal and I didn't appreciate that he sold more tickets than me.
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All right, Hannibal, up next, football throwback.
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High school football throwback.
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Yeah, that was Steinmetz. Steinmetz Streaks. Steinmetz Streaks.
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I didn't get that much playing time.
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A lot of people said that in the comments.
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They were like, "You look like you didn't get any playing time."
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I was like, "Damn it, they're right. GOD DAMN IT."
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OH, [ __ ] YEAH, I WAS UH THEY HAD ME playing tight end.
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I didn't get many reps at all.
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At least once or twice when they finally put me in, I had false start. We were already losing.
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I get right in the game, 5-yard penalty.
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Then next play, get blown over by the defensive end.
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He sacks the quarterback.
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I'm just yeah, it was uh you know, it's a learning phase.
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Had to go on the Getty's for this one, but can you explain that jumpsuit?
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I think you busted this out on multiple occasions.
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Like you've hit a red carpet with this thing.
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Do you have just the one?
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Do you have a bunch in your closet? No, I just got that one.
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I busted it Yeah, I see that's the thing with my outfit.
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I'm not one of those where if I've been seen in it, I ain't wearing it again.
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No, I think I rocked it on Seth show, Seth Meyers show.
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Rocked it at the Secret Life of Pets premiere.
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I would chicken out and wear it to the Daddy's Home premiere. I had it on in the SUV.
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I was running a little late to the carpet.
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And I was like, "Yeah, I'm going to rock the I'm going to rock the jumpsuit."
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And then I ain't know if the carpet was going to be done, so I didn't want to just hit the carpet in the jumpsuit and then everybody already went inside, so I was like, "Oh, this probably is if I'm running late, they're probably done and shit."
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And so I had just in case I had some separate [ __ ] in the car.
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So I switched it to just jeans and some regular [ __ ] and left the jumpsuit behind.
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So yeah, man, it's a lot that GOES INTO IT.
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YEAH, THAT ONE'S THAT ONE'S SOMETHING. MHM. MHM. WHAT? What is it? Jaloka Jalokia Scorpion. Yeah.
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5% of profits go to charity.
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I did this random thing where I was high and I was taking Adderall and I was just on the internet and I came across some tweet about this girl.
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She wanted to go to wrestling school.
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And then I was just in a good mood and it was a couple grand and I was like, "Sure.
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I'll send this stranger to wrestling school."
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And I told the story on Rogan's show.
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And then I'm just telling it just as a as a story, you know, little podcast anecdote. Yeah.
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But then I get a bunch of messages like, "Hey, I heard you sent that person to wrestling.
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I'm trying to go to med school.
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Oh, I'm trying to start this type of business.
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Can you help my merch company?"
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It was the weirdest [ __ ] And I just added to it. You just said yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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I just [ __ ] up cuz now people going to do it and then people going to do it and just also as a joke. as a joke.
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Well, speaking of podcast, I want to take it back to the Handsome Rambler podcast on this one cuz as I understand it, you met your co-host DJ Tony Trim at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, right? College, yeah.
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And then that's where the comedy bug bit you, right? Yes.
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I went with my friend Cheaty and he was doing stand-up. I went and watched him. Cheaty was really funny.
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It was some other people.
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But it's open mic, so open mics, that's what they're for.
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So it kind of demystified it for me.
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Well, it didn't, you know, I was used to seeing polished stand-up on television.
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And just I was like, I can try that out. It's available to me.
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Um you know, I like performing and [ __ ] so let me try this out. I tried it.
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It was some stuff that I was weirdly aggravated about and I just wrote them down. I had no outlet for.
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Just simple [ __ ] Why is the Spelling Bee on ESPN? That's not a sport.
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Just simple old man grumpy [ __ ] When you got it just got a little rope on it.
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Yeah, how much do you think the bottle in effects how well it sells?
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You know, I think that hot sauce, it's like wine, where people I think buy with their eyes more than anything else, you know? Yeah.
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They just find a label that they like or whatever, or they feel like threatened or dared by it, you know?
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Look at this [ __ ] This [ __ ] got a god damn bullet.
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You get a key chain with it.
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They're really pushing it.
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How much is this in the store?
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I think that's like 19 bucks or something like that. Sorry, we skipped ahead. My bad.
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No, that's okay, Hannibal. We're bouncing on this.
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Get on Get on the auto-tune.
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So, on your YouTube channel, you used to review restaurants on your pit stops along the way.
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Notably, you called Cracker Barrel the Tim Duncan of restaurants, a superstar but slightly boring.
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Do you still stand by your review of Lamb's Creek in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, which you called a real piece of [ __ ] It was uh I haven't been back.
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You know, I I might have written that review or done that that review in a you know, in a heated state. Mhm. Mhm.
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And uh it was a little bit bad, though.
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Yeah, it was one full celery stalk.
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I hadn't seen anything like that.
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You know, some stuff is just uh really visually jarring. Mhm.
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It was just one of those things where I was like that's got to get that out of here. This is terrible. This tastes like poison. Yeah, this tastes wrong. Mhm.
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It was like, "Hey, you want to make something terrible?" Make something terrible.
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Put a little of this on there. Make something terrible.
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You can ruin your whole meal. I don't believe in this.
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I was going to say, don't feel like you have to be a superhero, but I'd be on a superhero. You're in it. Just committed.
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I feel like this is me fighting against evil.
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You're not going to lose to a wing.
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Not going to let a chicken wing Yeah, man.
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So, I know that you're a huge UFC fan.
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I see you ringside with Zac Efron, and I know that you were even sponsoring fighters for a while there.
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Yeah, I was I tried to sponsor a fighter.
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Do you have a favorite fighter?
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Yair Rodriguez is pretty entertaining.
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But, he got beat up recently, but he was a very exciting fighter.
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Dom, you're standing by with the with the refills. Come on in. Come on in. Thank you.
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If you could pair any two comedians for a UFC pay-per-view event, which two would you match up and why?
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Well, you got to get Rogan in there cuz he can actually fight.
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Rogan got to do uh one of those matches where he go against three people.
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John Mulaney, Mike Epps, and Shucky Ducky against Joe Rogan live at the MGM Grand Arena. Get your tickets. Yeah. That'd be great. All right.
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So, this next one is Mad Dog 357 with number nine plutonium.
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What the [ __ ] You ain't going to follow up?
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You're just going to say So, with this [ __ ] plutonium is casually and then just move along and I just eat.
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As someone who's done this show a hundred times, I've come to the point where I kind of don't want to know.
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Like I don't really want to know how the sausage is made.
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If I give this product as a gift, I will make the recipient fully aware of the potential danger if used or handled improperly.
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I hereby disclaim, release, and relinquish any and all claims, actions, and lawsuits that I or any of my dependents, heirs, family members, or legal representatives may have it. This is [ __ ] up. Mhm. Mhm. All right.
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I'm trying to eat in a different way to where that [ __ ] don't touch my tongue. Being strategic? Trying to be strategic.
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I'm like, we on a So, as someone whose work spans Blockbuster cameos in Broad City Watch to Gonzo live shows with Eric Andre, can you break down the field guide to the Hannibal Buress fan?
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I guess uh for a girl in her early twenties, Broad City, like college-age person, kind of you know, probably Eric Andre person, like uh some dude like 45-50 with kids, daddy's home.
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Some people just yell out they'll call me Lincoln from Broad City, and it took me a while to be like, "Hey, that's that's not my name."
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Don, do we have any more milk?
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I'm telling you right now.
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Oh, yeah, I didn't even You got that picture right there. I didn't even notice. Here the whole time. Here the whole time. Like an oasis. All right, Hannibal. Oh, man.
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So, this is the last dab.
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We call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing. Oh.
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You don't have to if you don't want to.
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You don't have to if you don't want to. Isn't that so? It's clear already. It qualifies. It qualifies. That's good. Yeah. It's good. Oh.
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You know, it's a real roller coaster.
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On the third one, you're like, "Oh, I could use some more. I could use some more."
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And then you get to the 10th and it's like, here we are.
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Yeah, it feel Put away a lot of milk, Hannibal.
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Yeah, that's more milk than I I don't drink milk like that. Yeah. So, situation going in. All right. Cheers, my man. Cheers. All right. That's That was gross. Oh. Yeah.
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I went to Ross's right before.
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I don't want to I didn't expect to buy this from Ross's, but you never know what to expect. Some activated charcoal.
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Mm, alleviate uncomfortable gas during digestion.
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And natural vegetable cleanse.
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I didn't know they sell vitamins.
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I went in to buy a $8 shirt and some sunglasses.
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So this is an impulse buy.
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Impulse bought with vitamins.
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You impulse buy [ __ ] sometimes? Some all the time.
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I'm a sucker for that [ __ ] Anything they put by the register, I'm just stacking that up.
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I'm going to grab a couple. Ow. All right, Hannibal.
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Here we are at the finish line.
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As we've discussed today, there are many sides to Hannibal.
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Comedian, actor, standout for the Stein Mathes streaks.
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But as anyone who listens to your podcast knows, your secret talent is really in the art of the freestyle.
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And as we often times do on Wing 10, we ask way too much of our guest.
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Here we are overreaching.
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Can you hit us with a couple of bars about how you're feeling right now, your experience with the sauces or the wings? Face feeling numb. This sauce sucks. Tastes like poison.
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What the [ __ ] I might pass out, but I took some Pepto-Bismol preemptively. Get with me.
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This [ __ ] got me wanting to sing in a symphony.
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I wish later somebody else can take a [ __ ] for me. HANNIBAL BURESS.
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HOT SAUCE TOLERANCE ABOUT TO HEAR FROM ME. HANNIBAL BURESS. CLEARING WINGS.
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Hitting us with the freestyle.
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Taking out at least three, four full glasses of milk.
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So impressive from this side of the table.
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And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you, Hannibal Buress.
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This camera, this camera, or this camera.
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Let people know what you have going on in your life.
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Oh, I don't I don't I don't have much going on. Check me out on tour.
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Go get my tour dates hannibalburess. com/tour.
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Check out the podcast Handsome Rambler co-hosted by Tony Trimm.
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Uh the movie Tag coming out uh June 15th in theaters. Yeah, thanks. Hundred episodes.
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Dude, you do feel different though.
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It just It does shift your mood.
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The last couple questions I could just hear myself you know, I was like, I don't talk like this.
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I'm talking totally different right now.
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