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Stay with me.

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[laughter] >> Just stay with me. Talk to me. Keep talking to me.

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>> 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 [music] and even hotter wings.

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And today we're joined by Colin Jo.

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He's an Emmy awardwinning writer and the longest tenur anchor in the history of Saturday Night Live's weekend [music] update.

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And starting May 11th, he's hosting new episodes of Pop Culture Jeopardy, which you can watch every weekday on Netflix through June 5th.

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[music] Colin Jo, welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you.

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It's great to hear all that information about what I'm doing because I didn't really know the dates.

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So, thank you for knowing.

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>> We got you covered over [laughter] here.

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>> And I should mention that you probably have more overlap with former Hot Ones guest than anyone we've ever had on the show.

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Did you receive any advice or watch any tape in preparation for today?

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>> No one wanted to help me.

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Uh Scarlet just said maybe take an an acid, but then it's probably good advice.

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I didn't, but I I probably could still do it, but I'm I I just wanted to have a pure experience.

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>> And you really mean it because you requested no milk on the table.

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Instead, you want a glass of hot sauce.

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[music] Is this >> I wanted I wanted to I think the phrase is fight fire with fire.

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>> Now, I have a lot of family members who are firefighters.

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They've never said that phrase, [laughter] but I think I was like, you know what?

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I I'm not going to just go with milk.

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[music] I'm going to have a brimming [laughter] glass of actual hot sauce even though it looks like tomato soup. And you know what?

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I'm joining you at the party. Thank you. Cheers. >> Cheers. We uh Oh.

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>> Oh, everyone here audibly [laughter] is so grossed out. What a way that is.

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That's That's hot wing sauce.

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[laughter] [music] I'm I'm probably going to regret that [laughter] in like 2 minutes.

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I really, by the way, wanted to do I was going to pitch that you should do an after show called Talking Toilets.

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>> Well, we could uh maybe do a pilot with you after this. >> Maybe we do that.

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I have access to a couple bathrooms nearby.

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[laughter] It's like a little hot pepper that's winking at you and he's wearing a a robe. It's weird.

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No one's like, "Oo, I had a bunch of hot sauce. Maybe sex."

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Well, there is even too like a little bit of an innuendo in the title, you know, like they're very on theme over here. >> Mhm.

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As someone who grew up on Jeopardy, what did you see as the magic of TBEC as a host?

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He seemed omnisient and I think, you know, when you start when you mess something up, like if you misread something, you feel like you're shaming Alex Tbeck, but then the production team was like he would he would occasionally mess up clues and then he would just he wouldn't even re-record them.

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He'd be like, "Nah, it's fine.

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Just keep [laughter] it."

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So I think you just have the confident he has the confidence of having done it and it is the Alex Tbeck stage for a reason like he really he earned it.

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So at first it's kind of like starting at SNL like when I was starting especially weekend update your first instinct is oh my god I don't want to destroy this institution [music] and then you get a little past the existential angst of it and you try to figure out how you can make it your own a little bit.

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Do you have in your mind like have you been assembling kind of like your top five to 10 [music] sauces of all time and do you have those in like a row at your house that you're always like putting new ones in that you particular?

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>> I think about that every once in a while.

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Like over the years there have been definitely sauces that hit in kind of like a forever and a Mount Rushmore of hot one sauces and maybe someday we'll do like an allstar hot sauce lineup on this show.

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[music] The wheels are turning through every wing over here with you Colin. I mean, come on, guy.

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[laughter] Gary giving you talking toilets >> for a small large fee. >> Yeah.

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[snorts] >> So, I've interviewed Pete Davidson twice on this show, despite his severe stomach issues, and my view of Staten Island has largely been colored by what he's told me about it.

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>> Are there any foundational differences between your Staten Island and Pete's? >> Um, yes.

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[laughter] Um, I mean, he he is more like Southshore and I'm more Northshore, which is like kind of a little bit of a historic difference.

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[music] In a way, I feel like no one believes that I'm from Staten Island or they don't see it in me.

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Like, they [music] believe Pete is from Staten [laughter] Island.

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Story checks out >> and they love Pete on Staten Island and I feel like I'm I'm always kind of like I'm from there too, I swear.

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[laughter] Do you have a proudest journalistic achievement [music] from your time working at the regional newspaper, the Staten Island Advance?

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Um, I have a lot of great memories and I got to say the people who work there, like even compared to journalists at their most prestigious newspapers now, I feel like they were really good journalists.

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And the editors there, the news editors really trained me to be really on top of facts, doublech checkck everything.

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And they were really they were and they also challenged you.

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I remember putting a thing in like a an article where I said, you know, there was a welcome mat on the door.

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I was trying to do get someone to interview for like basically we were talking about an interview for something.

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There had been a shooting and they weren't responding.

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And I was like, there was a welcome mat on the door, but [music] I didn't feel very welcome at the house.

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And my editor was like, "What the hell is [laughter] this?"

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My editor was like, "You know what else has a welcome mat? Every other door."

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He's like, "This is not interesting information [laughter] to us."

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I thought I had come up with a great line.

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Um, so they like challenge you in good ways.

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But my favorite article that that I got to do when I was a reporter at the Advance was I was there over I worked the late shift, so I worked 11:00 p. m. to 8:00 a. m.

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And I was there overnight and there was a car crash [music] that I was sent to report on in Staten Island.

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And I got there and everyone was okay in the crash luckily, but the one of the cars had hit a raccoon and so the paramedics were already there.

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So they performed [music] CPR on the raccoon and saved the raccoon's life.

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>> Um, which was pretty exciting.

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So I'm writing this article and then the the EMTs that rescued him called me at the newspaper and were like, "You can't believe how messed up it is. Animal control."

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We gave him over to animal control and they euthanized [laughter] him.

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So they had just saved this raccoon's life and then he was put down.

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So then it became it ultimately [music] became front page news.

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[laughter] So you can tell it's a developing breaking news story. >> It was Yeah.

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So and I had like a by line on the front page for my raccoon story and then it got into like what are the rules?

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Can you you know should you be reporting these raccoons or are they going to be all euthanized?

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And I really broke open the whole euthanizing community. Of >> course. Yeah.

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[laughter] and a Hot Ones brand.

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So, [music] respect, you [laughter] know, >> and Delicious, too.

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>> And and Delicious as well.

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Which camera do I look into?

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>> So, you've been punched in at least [music] four SNL skits to date.

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What stands out as your most memorable physical battery on live television? >> Ooh.

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My favorite getting punched in on camera was when Leslie uh Jones was punching me and then Lauren [music] in in the t in the pretape says, "Get out of my way. I'll finish him off."

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And then Lauren starts punching me.

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Like I don't know if Lauren's ever punched [music] another cast member on TV.

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I I can't imagine he has.

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And he's like going for it [music] and and and everyone's laughing.

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Everyone's having a great time.

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And it obviously plays as a joke.

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And I'm like, it's pretty nuts that my boss is [laughter] punching me and everyone's just cheering him on.

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And I guess that's just where I'm at in my life.

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[laughter] That's my place on the show.

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What's a 10 to one sketch?

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And can you give me an example of one that typifies that Jack handy slot?

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>> I feel like the quintessential kind of 10 to one.

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And I remember there was a Jack Handy one.

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I don't I forget if it aired or not where someone is in a wheelchair and there's wires hooked up to the wheelchair and they're in the sketch and they're like, "Man, if only someday I could fly."

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And they keep saying it throughout the sketch, but then they never do.

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[laughter] And the audience can see the wires and you're kind of waiting for something to happen the whole time and it just never does.

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But I think it was a Jack Handy.

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And to me, that's like the perfect thing at the end because it's not so early that the audience is going to be furious.

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[laughter] Like Lauren often preserves that spot.

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Sometimes it can be all or nothing.

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You sometimes lose one of the funniest sketches, >> grabbing, just prepping.

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[laughter] Accidentally took like a big sip right there. >> Mhm.

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>> Because I had kind of a milk muscle memory. >> Mhm.

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and really just gulp that Franks right there.

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>> That's where experience hurts you.

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[laughter] >> 10,000 hours backfired right [laughter] there.

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>> Do you think then there's like another 10,000 hours where you're really good at it and then [music] like then there's a 10,000 hours where you've fallen off. >> You know what I mean?

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Is it like after the second 10,000 where you start losing it?

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Well, you know, you've been doing >> Someone answer me.

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[laughter] >> You've been doing Saturday Night Live for 20 years.

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You know, I've had this thing going for 11.

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Like, we're probably approaching that third act of like 20,000 30,000 hours.

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So, >> yeah, I could get really bad really fast.

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[laughter] >> Well, keep an eye out. >> Thanks. And everyone, write in.

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If you see I'm getting bad, [laughter] >> please smash that subscribe button.

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>> What's the most harrowing experience you had covering the Olympics?

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Uh well definitely bob sledding.

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Um I thought the surfing was har surfing.

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By the way, I was so I got I got like my foot scraped up on coral reef in Tahiti and I just didn't really [music] do what you would call treating the wound.

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Um and instead I was still continuing to report barefoot in sand and dirt.

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>> Raw [music] dog in it.

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>> Raw dog in it, which is technically not a great medical thing.

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Um uh and so I was in the I was in [music] the tent more than any other Olympic athlete with like the medical tent.

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And while I was in the medical tent, a uh woman who was surfing uh from France, Joan Dur I think is her name, she she hit her head on the reef, got [music] caught open her head, got taken in on a jet ski, sewn up, taken back out on a jet ski, and won the heat while I was there like >> my toes.

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[laughter] Like, how awesome is that?

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And then she won the bronze medal.

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Like, she won the bronze medal, overcome it.

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And and [music] I was just like, and I barely over I I had to go home.

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[laughter] I see five peppers on here.

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>> I feel like I also, as I get older, I kind of like getting into the joints a little bit more, >> getting into the gristle. >> I feel like Yeah.

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detail captures a little more of the sauce and it and I like that it's a little it [music] crisps the sauce a little bit. >> Mhm.

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>> Connecting to the food a little bit more.

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It's more of an immersive dining experience. Yeah.

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>> It sounds like kind of the sign of a serial killer.

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You know, >> I like to get >> I like to get into the joints.

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>> Which was more fun, co-hosting the 70th Prime Time Emmy Awards with Michael Chay or tag teaming Wrestlemania together?

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Like, do you have a more profound memory of one versus the other?

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>> Wrestlemania was one of the best experiences of my life. That was so fun.

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Like the fact that we got to [music] do it together.

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It's hitting me a little bit now.

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Um I didn't need to get into that joint as much. >> To the joints. That's what happens.

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>> Got a little joint meat in my teeth.

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Uh the Giants had just traded Odell Beckham Jr.

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>> You were in the Browns jersey. >> Yeah. To the Browns.

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And [music] so I came out with a fresh Odell Beckham Browns jersey and everyone all the Giants fans were like literally throwing things at me. It was awesome.

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Um, [music] and there were there were WWE villains backstage waiting to go on after me and they saw me in that shirt and they were like, "Are you really going out in that?"

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[laughter] Which is kind of cool.

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And then uh it was I came in second place, you know what I mean?

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I not everyone like looks back on all the results, but in the full 26-man contest, >> silver medal, >> I came in silver medal, which they don't give out, but I [laughter] Braun Strowman was the only one who could defeat me in battle.

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It was also the most like after that where I was walking down the street and just like any hot dog vendor was like, "Hey, Colin."

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Like they find they was the first time they'd [laughter] ever seen me do anything.

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>> So now we're going to the bad ones.

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Do you still remember your actual hottest one?

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The hottest that ever hit you? >> Yeah. And you know what?

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But it actually has [laughter] remained on the show. >> So lucky. Here we go.

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>> It's remained on the show since >> Oh, I didn't know if you had just changed out new ones. >> We always do.

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So, we do that like three times a year except for this one sauce that always stays here to bomb.

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That is I've never had a sauce like that in my life and I'm practiced.

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>> It's I mean Scarlet brought it home after she you know after she did hot with you and just smelling it like clear kind of heave a little bit. Yeah. I don't know what it is.

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Like the vinegar or something in it.

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Also, it's just like >> Which TV or film idea from before you worked at Saturday Night Live do you think had the most potential if someone gave it a shot?

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Like do you think Admissions Impossible has legs?

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>> I I think that that I think that could be good.

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Yeah, that good good uh research.

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Uh Simon Rich and I when we were in college, we had the idea of admissions impossible where we pretended to be from a university like Harvard or whatever and met with aspiring students to do their interviews.

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Kind of messing with them knowing they would probably say anything to get to try to get into the school.

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It's a really rough time to exploit a kid, [laughter] but I bet you'd get some really good I mean, it would destroy their life.

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[laughter] You'd have them say some horrible thing and then you'd be like, "Oh, no."

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But at the time, we were almost that age, so we were like, "Oh, we don't care. We'll destroy everyone."

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Oh, look, a dragon with breathing fire.

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When you have when you're doing a mix of wings, it's always nice to have to have one that has a little bit of that candied texture to it just for variety texture.

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>> We think about everything over here, you know.

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>> Whenever you're eating 10 wings of different kinds.

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[laughter] >> How would you describe the Harvard Lampoon for someone who's never heard of it? >> Crying a little. Oh, yeah. Touch my eyes. Be careful. Yeah. Yeah. No, no. I know. I'm a pro. [laughter] >> I'm a pro.

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Still getting an audible groan from the [laughter] from everyone watching this. >> That didn't help. >> Not a firework. >> I don't know.

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Fighting fire with fireworks.

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>> Maybe never, >> to be honest.

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[laughter] >> I don't know. Yeah.

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How did that become popular?

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[snorts] >> I don't know. We got to look that up.

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>> The funniest, nerdiest person in your school, right? Like writer.

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if you got all of those together when they all went to college.

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So, they also gained confidence from that and they also en enjoyed partying together as nerds. You know what I mean?

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Like where you you feel like a a nerd liberation.

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I would say nerd liberation. >> Nerd liberation.

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>> Do you have a favorite architectural feature of the castle?

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>> Trying to sweat it out of me.

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[laughter] What I love about the general building is that it was designed by this incredible architect Edmund March Wright who was in the lampoon and he was became like the city architect for all of Boston.

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He was a very accomplished architect and this was the last building he designed before he was committed to a mental hospital down the road.

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So it was like his it really was his last sort of threw everything out there before they wheeled him away.

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>> It kind of looks like that.

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>> It It does kind of look like that. >> It looks Yeah.

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an architect descending into madness a little bit. Yeah, I think so. I don't know.

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Kind of an iconic thing about it that it's still cool is the steam pipes that heat the building.

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They [music] release steam on the sides of sort of the face of the building, so it looks like it's blowing steam out of its ears, which is just, you know, it's that's kind of a cool feature to to put in there.

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Um, and I think he also designed it where it basically like steals steam from the university, which is just an added little nice >> crazy like a fox.

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You know, >> you know what?

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[laughter] and also just regular crazy.

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You didn't need to add Beyond Insanity.

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This is a little bit like a a showdown.

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Not intentional, but it's a showdown cuz you're you're both checking in on each other like, "How you doing?"

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>> Yeah, I agree with you.

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It looks like we're staring each other like like take that. >> How you like that?

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But in action, we're just like, are you okay? Are you okay? >> That's exactly Yeah.

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It's an empathetic energy that I'm trying to give off right now. >> It It hits. >> Yeah.

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And uh this is the real first time in the show.

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I went to go reach for the milk and realized there is no oasis. Oh my god.

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>> Now, do you think Oh god.

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I was going to say, do you think at this point this is helpful?

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But >> no, turns out it's not.

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>> That's where I thought maybe late in the game.

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>> Late in the game >> that we could fight fire with fire >> that's now mellow. >> No, not at all.

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>> Again, it's like fighting a larger fire with a smaller fire >> and just creating a bigger fire.

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>> If you were locked in a Margaritavville restaurant for a full day, what would you order for breakfast?

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What would you order for lunch and what would you order for dinner?

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Like can you give us a veteran's guide to conquering the vill?

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>> Yeah, there's like um like sort of omelette ones that I would do.

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I feel like there's a eggs over Margaritavville vibe, you know, where it's like it truly is like an omelette but they'll also pour like a little margarita onto it [laughter] or they'll give you it'll come with like a little coronito like a little one of those beers.

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>> Little kind of entree chaser. Yeah. >> Yeah.

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They'll be like, "It's breakfast, but you got this little beer, so it's Margaritavville." Um, >> how bad?

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How How much does it look like it hurts? >> You know what? You're a stoic man. >> Okay. >> All right.

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And I think that that's being stress tested right now, but not broken.

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Like the seams are not busting.

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>> You still have that statue.

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>> I mean, I feel like it's eyes first for us.

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We can close [clears throat] our eyes.

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>> There's an intensity in the stair. >> Mhm.

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And that's I [music] think where the heat the spice of this gauntlet is living right now, but we're keeping it right there.

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>> It's sort of it's like same the same stare that like an EMT has with someone on a gurnie where they're like, "Stay with me.

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[laughter] >> Just stay with talk to me. Keep talking.

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>> I don't see anything else in this room but you come." >> No. No. And I barely see you. It's all blurry.

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>> What makes spicy seafood linguini the proper litmus test for an Italian restaurant?

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Like why is that a barometer for overall quality? >> Great question.

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I feel like there was a question before this that I didn't totally answer, but that's okay.

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Uh I it's my favorite dish if it's done well is a a fraudiablo like seafood like a linguini especially like a shrimp.

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But every ideally every you'll I think you get I want to see how they do spice, you know?

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I want to see how they do like you get a sense of how they they'll cook their pasta. Is it a good alente?

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You'll get a plethora of a harvest of seafood.

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Um, and you just, you know, I feel like you get a vibe of everything.

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And I think the the presentation tells you how how invested in this dish they are and you can get, you know, very disappointing versions of it.

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When you get a good version, you're like, I [music] I will come back here.

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Is it Do you you never have to blow your nose at all. Huh. It's not a competition. >> I know.

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[laughter] I think that is that is that is my spice reaction.

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Even like a milder spice, I do have you But not really for you, huh?

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>> No, I guess I I haven't really noticed that. But no, you're right.

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I don't think I get that I don't think I get that loose.

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I don't think I get that loose in the sinuses.

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>> You got a tight sinus, huh? [laughter] >> Wow.

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That's what Shishito said.

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>> It's got to come out somewhere. Your feet. I don't know.

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Your shoes are soaking wet right now.

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Now, not fun this one, but I find that after the bomb, it kind of like scorches the earth in a way that makes >> This also's got some like chunky flakes on it.

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>> We should also keep in mind that we've eaten now nine wings and done uh quite a few hot sauce chasers behind it, you know? >> Yeah.

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So, just on a volume level, [laughter] we've definitely competed over here. Yes. Absolutely. [snorts] >> Yeah.

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>> What's the uh >> My body's definitely not like, "Oh, I'm glad this is the first thing you eat.

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[laughter] What's the sickest trophy that you ever won at a speech and debate competition while at Regis High School?

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Like, do you have a most satisfying Lincoln Douglas style whooping in your career?

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>> Thank you for asking because my speech and debate trophies uh have never been inquired about before and I have never gotten the respect [laughter] they deserve.

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It's so sad when you're when you go home and you have all these trophies when you like when I brought >> Are they still on like a shelf at your parents house? No.

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[laughter] When I brought like a girlfriend home from college to my room and seeing her eyes kind of light up when she saw trophies and then opposite of light up when she saw what they were for when she was like, "Oh, these must be baseball, but why is it just an angel holding a little book?"

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little book?" One year I just tried to qualify for like nationals in extemporaneous speaking and I qualified out of New York which was really hard to do and my friends who did it regularly were like so angry at me and which was

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fun because they would sometimes come over and they would be like I'll just try like doing a dramatic or a humorous performance and so it was fun to go the other way and be like oh look at that you sons of [ __ ] [laughter] That was satisfying. >> Let it go. Nothing there, huh? I can >> Let it go. Nothing there, huh?

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I can give it a try if you'd like me to, >> you know. [snorts] Um, no. Nothing there. >> Nothing there. >> Dry as a bone. >> Okay. What do I do? Dip this.

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>> Everyone here is like, "The show ended 40 minutes ago.

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[laughter] Eat the [ __ ] thing." Okay.

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Oh, I hate you feel that dead heat. >> Mhm.

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>> That you know what I mean?

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Like >> feeling all too well.

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>> It's like seeing a person that you know is later coming to assassinate you. >> Exactly.

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Because you know what it's going to grow into. >> Mhm.

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>> And it started that process right now.

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But the good news is, Colin Jo, the wings of death are behind us.

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And to close things out, >> on a recent episode of Amy Polar's podcast, Good Hang, she talked about a game that SNL cast members would play called Do It or Die, where someone calls out a celebrity impression.

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You have 10 seconds to do it, otherwise you [music] die.

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Since we're on the brink of death ourselves, I think now is as good a time as any.

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Can you do a Lauren Michaels? Oh, I don't know. I probably can.

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[laughter] Can you do a Michael Jay?

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[laughter] >> Can you do Mikey Day doing an impression of me? Is he cake?

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[laughter] And with that, Colin Jose, look at you taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale.

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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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[laughter] >> Um Colin Jo, late teens, early 30s.

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Um [laughter] >> I've [clears throat] got I've got um Pop Culture Jeopardy that's coming out May 11.

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>> And I've got The Bread Winner with Nate Betty, which I'm very excited about. >> Cheers.

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>> Man, this is really uh it's been a good one.

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And on that note, >> I'm so sorry. [applause] I'm so sorry.

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[music] My body is starting to a little bit like stop trying to stop me.

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[laughter] I feel like inflammation like in different parts of my body. >> Yeah.

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Walking through a heavy air.

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>> My bones are shutting down right now.

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>> [laughter] >> But >> great job, my friend. >> Absolute pleasure.

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Glad to shake your hand right after that.

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>> I truly lost way too much sleep over this.

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[laughter] She says choking.

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>> Hey, what's going on everybody?

26:08

For First Week Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

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It's the show with hot questions and [music] even hotter wings.

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And today we're joined by Emily Blunt.

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She's a Golden Globe award-winning actor and true to form on quite the run this year with the recent release of The Devil Wears Prada 2.

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And now you can catch her in Steven Spielberg's latest sci-fi film, Disclosure Day, which is set to release in theaters on June 12th.

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Emily Blunt, welcome to the show. >> Thank you so much. Very sleepless night.

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>> So this my heart's like pounding.

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>> How would you describe your relationship with spicy food?

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Well, I mean, in England, you grow up eating a lot of curries or a kaza as we say on the streets, but um I don't know.

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I feel like I don't want to foam the runway that I'm going to be good at this.

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Like, what if I tank >> [music] >> Are yours all like mine or are yours >> exactly the same?

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If you wanted to switch paddles, I'd be down.

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>> Okay, that was too big. >> Okay, nice.

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That's what Shashidito said. [music] Oh, that's good.

27:38

>> There's a scene in the movie where your character, a meteorologist on live television, has this almost jarring kind of vocal transformation and speaking in clicks and tongues.

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How do you even approach a scene like that as an actress?

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That seems like such a singular sequence. >> It was.

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And even kind of leading up to that moment where she starts speaking in this um non-human language, [music] um it it's a 4-minute wer that we shot that leads up to that moment where she's gradually sort of disintegrating and um did you hear that throat? [laughter] >> I did. I think the catch.

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>> What actual f was that?

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>> Is that like panic or is it >> It almost was like >> That's what Shashidito said. This is what said, guys.

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[laughter] That's exactly what she said.

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Um, I I actually could have used this on the set of Disclosure Day.

28:30

That would that was a perfect alien language.

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Um, you know, there's various ways you could do it.

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You could go the AI route, which I'm a bit [music] terrified of.

28:38

I thought I could make some real really strange sounds as you've all just seen.

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Um, so I said maybe I could come in and we'll just do a range of weird sounds.

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[music] And it's what we did.

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And I did sort of the clicking sounds.

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I did sort of humming sounds, consonant sounds, breathing strange sounds.

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And [music] and what we did was we put a mic one microphone here and one here.

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And so [music] it kind of captures it in a really weird way.

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And then the sound designer went away and created that weird sound. It's like eggplant. Okay.

29:22

What if my throat gurgles get increasingly worse and [clears throat] people think I am actually an alien?

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>> Well, you talk about the imprints of a film, you know, like that's you leaving an imprint on the episode, you know?

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[laughter] >> It'll last forever.

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Be remembered for all time. >> Yeah.

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So >> maybe I'll have just a swig cuz I'm I've [music] heard if you do water it kind of spreads it around. >> Right. Right.

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Well, thanks for bringing the chocolate shakes in today. >> Wow, that's thick.

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It's like a McDonald's one. >> Mhm. M.

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That's a good shake, though. >> That's amazing.

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[laughter] >> That's maybe like the best chocolate shake I've ever had in my life.

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>> Where'd you guys get that? >> It's fantastic. >> Okay, I'm good. That helps. >> It does. >> Doesn't that help?

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>> Just keep it at the ready. Okay.

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>> So, we had Kate Blanchett on the show.

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She talked about feeling regret on the final day of >> Corners of my mouth are hitting. Yeah. >> Let me know. Let me know.

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She talked about feeling regret on the final day of a film [music] shoot cuz it's then when she feels like she finally understands the character.

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>> Does that at all ring true to you?

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And if so, is there a role from your career that you sometimes wish you could revisit with fresh eyes?

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I have been known to like two months after I wrap a movie, if I'm like driving the kids somewhere, I'll suddenly go, "That's how [music] you should have played it."

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Like I'll just have this memory of a line that I didn't feel was right.

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And it's hard because, you know, when you're doing a film, I mean, some people like to watch playback.

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I don't really watch anything while I'm filming.

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So, [music] you're seeing it from the inside out.

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And then when you first see it back at yourself, I tend to [music] kind of pick myself apart a little bit.

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So maybe that's when I'm filled with a bit of regret.

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[music] But I think that's okay.

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Like that's sort of how you selfcorrect and how you learn.

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I'm trying to think of parts I've played where I'm like, you really [ __ ] the bed on that one. Look at me.

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I'm being like, all my performances have been [laughter] great.

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No, I'm sure there's stuff I wouldn't say as a whole, but there's moments and scenes that [music] I'm just like, someone should have put a choke chain on me or something, you know?

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I could have pulled that in a bit.

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>> Now, I [music] like Sriracha, but this one >> Mhm. >> skeptical going in.

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Weirdly, that one's better than the hot bine. [laughter] >> Okay.

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And maybe because I'm kind of used to Sriracha.

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[music] >> Every pepper is going to affect you differently and affect, you know, the next person down the line differently.

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You know, you might have [snorts] >> Which one affects you? Sure.

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[laughter] >> All of them.

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Like I' i've kind of, you know, become familiar with these tastes just like you with Sriracha.

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Like I'm familiar with the uncomfortable, therefore more comfortable in the uncomfortable.

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>> Don't tell girls that.

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He will make you do some terrible things.

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>> I feel it all the same though. I feel it all the same.

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>> So quotes like I'm just one stomach flew away from my goal weight have become all time [laughter] >> all time movie quotes.

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Do you think it's harder to make a quotable movie script these days?

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You know, it's like lines from Zoolander or Anchorman or The Devil Wears Prada.

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They used to be baked right into the lexicon. >> Yes.

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Um but I also think those [music] quotes sort of amplify with time.

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I think when the devil was proud of first came out, I think people thought it was really funny.

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I think it was over time that [music] it built this sort of meteoric following.

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I think alien brush McKenna writes incredibly memeable.

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Is it gifable or gifable? I never know.

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>> I would say gifable, but I think it is actually technically gifable. >> Perfect.

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We've covered all grounds.

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[laughter] Not to encourage this kind of behavior, but do you have an all-time favorite line of yours to get quoted back at you by fans in the wild? >> Definitely.

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And [music] the one I'm happy people quote to me is because it was it was a line that I improvd is where I went, "Yeah, I'm hearing this and I want to hear this."

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>> And that [music] is done to me quite a lot. And um and I like that. Blackeyed [music] Susan.

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I wonder who um who she is. >> Legend.

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[laughter] It's got kind of a fur on it, >> which I'm not loving.

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>> Yeah, that's got a little um little sting on it afterwards, but that's [music] fine. >> Nothing. >> It tastes nice.

33:58

>> What's the most Tom Cruz thing you saw Tom Cruz do on the set of Edge of Tomorrow?

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We were doing this scene where we were in a drop ship [music] um and we're in those massive armored suits.

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And when you're surrounded by Tom Cruz's enthusiasm, it kind of bleeds into you and you feel [music] like you can't let him down by complaining about anything.

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It's a very powerful force coming off him.

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But we were in this drop ship and I'd kind of had it.

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It was very hot in there.

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[music] My suit weighed 80 lb and I'm in a harness being lifted up.

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So, the entire weight of my [music] body and 85 lbs is on my nether regions and I'm not feeling great about it, wondering if I'll be able to [music] have children one day.

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And we're swinging there and I just and I could see Tom, the enthusiasm was starting to unravel a little bit.

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So, I knew I had an in, you know, >> and he [music] was getting a bit frustrated with how long things were taking to shoot and yelling, "Please roll."

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And I just looked at him and I went, [snorts] "This [ __ ] sucks."

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And he looked at me and he went, [snorts] "It's a challenge."

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[laughter] I'm just looking at the ominous debomb. [music] >> Mhm.

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>> You know what's strange about it? >> Tell me.

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>> It says like it's got all these peppers on it, but it doesn't really specify whether it is mild or hot. >> Yeah, you're right.

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It's kind of it's a mystery box right in the mean of what we have planned for you today. Does it feel like it?

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You know, I feel like you've >> Yeah, that one just got me a little hot under the collar.

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>> And that's what we look for in a number five. [laughter] >> Great.

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>> It's exactly what we look for. >> Perfect.

35:58

>> From having a bus driving at you at full speed for a quiet place, too, to the walls closing in and caving in on you in Sakario, what's the most genuinely frightened you've ever been while shooting an action sequence?

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I mean, the bus was extraordinary, but I knew that stunt had been rehearsed for 2 weeks, and I knew that [music] there were many get outs.

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Like, if the bus was going to be too close, it could carine off.

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I knew the allowances there.

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The most scared I was was doing that arrival in Mary Poppins from up in [music] the clouds. I was terrified.

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I did three takes before my tolerance snapped and I was done.

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And Rob Marshall, the director, is so [music] he kind of lures you into this false sense of security and he plays music really really loud and it's very sweeping and and extraordinary coming out of the speakers and he goes, "Okay, so you're going to be way up there and then you're going to come down.

36:49

You're going to walk straight into your closeup and it just he sells it sells you one."

36:53

You're like, "Oh my god, that sounds amazing."

36:54

And then you get up there and you go 25 ft, 30 ft, 40 [music] ft, 60 ft. And I was like, "Nope."

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And the only thing you have, you just hope the wires [music] are holding you.

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[laughter] >> A lot of trust. Yeah. A lot of trust.

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>> There's just a lot of trust that you need.

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[music] And and I felt like everything looked tiny.

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And if I [music] looked out, I was higher than the trees.

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If I looked down, Lin Manuel Miranda was that big.

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[laughter] And so I just ended up hanging there waiting for them to call action like that.

37:25

Like looking up at the sky where I had no point of reference.

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But that was the most scared I've been. Tropical amaro. Mhm.

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Oh, it's got scotch bonnet in it. I just saw that. >> Too late. >> Too late. Oh, it's sweet. Mhm. Okay.

37:51

>> Directors have cemented their place in the imagination of movie fans, but I feel like cinematography is more of like an insiders craft.

37:56

What kind of role or how would you quantify the importance of a DP like Roger Deakons [music] and the way that they transform a film?

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>> I'm just trying not to burp as you as I talk about the great Roger Deakons cuz [laughter] that [music] wouldn't be great.

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I'm just going to do one of these. >> Okay.

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>> I think when [music] Deakons was working on Sakario, it was such a pleasure watching him work.

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I mean, when he lights, it's like you're at church. Like, don't make a peep.

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just shooting something playing gunk gunk.

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I just don't know if it's um terribly interesting for an audience.

38:31

They won't know why they're not interested [music] if you're not don't know enough about how a movie is shot, but they'll just feel something else watching a Steven Spielber movie or watching a Sakaria and how Roger used the camera as like this kind of prowling um claustrophobic sort of observer.

38:51

And then you feel my character's panic and you feel her claustrophobia and you feel her entrapment [music] in this situation she's in.

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So I think it's hugely important.

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Feel like my upper lip is sweating a little bit. Oh sweet >> at first. Mhm. Yep.

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>> Kind of tastes like a duck pancake.

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Like a poison duck pancake.

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>> And then it comes for a little kick >> and has a build on it.

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>> But you're built for it. You like it? >> I like that one.

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>> Did you imagine seven wings in?

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>> I I truly lost way too much sleep over this.

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[laughter] She says choking.

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I saw Halib Berry just plowed her way through. >> Oh my gosh. Has she been the best?

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>> You know, I think once a season there's someone who comes in here and is completely unaffected and kind of walks me like a dog on my own show.

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I think that happens about once a season, but you've really you've been in rhythm. >> I'm flowing.

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>> I feel like you're flowing. >> Okay.

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>> Now, I don't want to get too far out ahead of it because this next wing, >> you knew about it before.

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You know, you called out to bomb, >> which means someone's given you some context.

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>> So, too many people have given me context.

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>> You did you did you you reached out for advice?

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>> Yeah, I asked Matt Damon and he said the first seven you'll be fine and then it's over [laughter] >> and then he was sick. He puked. So, that doesn't help.

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Should I coat my mouth with a try?

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>> By the way, this does not come out fast enough.

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[music] That this this is so thick. >> Mhm. Mhm. Okay, I'm very scared.

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[laughter] I've seen people just faint with this.

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That was a really wussy bite, but Oh, wow. Oh, man. >> Oh, [ __ ] me. Yeah, right. >> That's real. >> Jacket coming off.

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Yeah, >> that's too big [laughter] of a jump.

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It >> doesn't seem right.

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>> Yeah, like >> wing whiplash. >> That's wing whiplash.

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[sighs] >> But you're just pretending. You're fine. >> I'm not. >> I know you are.

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You're trying to be really [laughter] sympathetic. >> I'm really not.

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Every time, you know, this one always hits. Good lord. >> I know. I know.

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Actually, I will hit the smoked shake one time.

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>> That feels like it's all shades of wrong. That one.

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It doesn't even t It's It just tastes of chemicals. >> I know. >> I'm sweating.

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[laughter] >> No, you're good. You're good.

41:54

We call it a wing eight glow on this show. >> Yeah. >> But you look great. >> Is that what it is?

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[laughter] >> And you're doing great. You're doing great. >> Oh my lord.

42:04

As a self-described freak for cooking shows, which food show do you think you've spent the most hours of your life actually watching?

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Like, is Great British Bakeoff number one, or their Food Network Classic has a special place in your heart?

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>> Look how you're asking me this question.

42:19

You're literally in pain.

42:20

>> I know, but it's the least I can do because then I'm just passing the ball over to you to answer it in the same exact situation.

42:26

>> How'd you cool your tongue down?

42:27

>> I tried a little milkshake.

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>> Nominal effect, but slight improvement. Okay. Mhm.

42:40

The Great British Bake Off [laughter] is my favorite cooking show, bar none.

42:47

It makes me feel very nostalgic about England.

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[snorts] I feel very happy when I watch it.

42:52

[laughter] I like the irreverence.

42:56

I like the sense of humor. [snorts] Love cake. Um, wow. This doesn't quit.

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Also, >> I know it actually, if anything, kind of builds, you know, like it's probably worse than when you first took the bite of this.

43:10

>> Going to be worse than that.

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>> So, this is me being honest cuz I'm a chicken wing talk show host, but one of great integrity. >> I'm all right. Be on. I'm good. I'm good. >> After this one. >> Yeah. >> Nothing is as bad. Okay.

43:19

Going forward, you know, like, and I actually think that it makes the next two a little bit easier cuz it sort of scorches the earth. >> Yeah.

43:27

>> And burns its own path.

43:27

And then you have less friction from here. All right.

43:31

Shaquille O'Neal's reaction to that is one of [laughter] my favorite things I've ever watched in my life.

43:36

>> He apologized to Kansas like >> Yeah, he apologized. Kansas, I apologize. It was so good.

43:39

I I watched it five times in a row.

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[laughter] It was so wonderful.

43:45

>> Or that face the >> Oh, it was great.

43:48

So, yes, I do love that show.

43:51

I also love Garten Barefoot Contessa. >> Yeah.

43:55

and you've been on that show and you even like got you crashed her website with your family's roasted potato recipe, >> which is really I really have to clear up [music] this um rumor that I invented these roast potatoes.

44:06

They have been named Emily's roast potatoes [snorts] as I burp.

44:12

Um they really aren't mine.

44:15

This is like a classic English thing [music] that everyone cooks every single Sunday.

44:19

But I don't know if America has quite um got on board with this tradition.

44:26

So I think [laughter] >> that was like a novel thing that you invented.

44:30

>> All of my British friends are like, "You didn't invent those potatoes."

44:31

I was like, "I know, but if Ana Garden wants to call them Emily's roast potatoes, I'm absolutely delighted.

44:44

Why did you not finish with Domb?

44:47

>> Well, you know, you're in film, right? >> Mhm. We like to have an arc. Yeah. >> You know what I mean?

44:52

Like if you were just ratcheting tension, ratcheting tension, and then rolled credits. >> Yeah.

44:56

It's too much of a crescendo. It's boring. >> Exactly.

44:59

>> We like to do nonlinear storytelling. >> Right. Exactly.

45:01

Same with us on Halloween.

45:03

>> You're like the Chris Noland of food.

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[laughter] >> It's coming from you.

45:06

They can't take that away from you.

45:08

>> You're like chicken Chris Nolan. >> I'll take that. I'll take that. [laughter] >> All right. Here we go. I'm almost there. >> You're almost there.

45:17

This next one is called Triple XX Salsa Vibes. Mhm.

45:31

That one got right in my teeth. >> Mhm. Okay. >> Not fun.

45:36

But remember the last one. >> Mhm.

45:39

>> I think a little bit easier.

45:41

>> Oh, I do not like how that tastes.

45:43

[laughter] >> That does not have a good vibe.

45:47

You've named Jaws, Lawrence of Arabia, Gone with the Wind, and Romancing the Stone amongst your favorites.

45:51

Which film do you think you've recommended most in your life?

45:55

And why is it important for you to share the gospel?

45:59

>> I can't believe I let off Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman.

46:01

[snorts] I think I was trying to sound really cinematically learned when I gave that list.

46:05

Jaws is still my favorite movie.

46:08

I have recommended that a lot.

46:09

[music] I think a lot of people watched it.

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A lot of people I know watched it when they were kids.

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I think if you watch it as an adult, it takes on a whole different form of storytelling and the humanity of fear and these three men confined in a boat and what their fear really means and how they relate to each other, I think.

46:28

And it's about outsiders.

46:28

It's about people not belonging.

46:32

And there's so many beautiful themes that there are in all of Steven's movies that it's [music] high stakes action and it's, you know, and it's it's it's it's big scale storytelling, but I think he has this emotional grounding running through all of it and this humanity.

46:46

So Jaws [music] would be it for me.

46:50

>> You know how I struggled to get that question out, you know, >> and then I hand the ball over to you.

46:55

Look how eloquent you are just talking [laughter] about Jaws.

46:57

Nine wings in And it's Wait, what do you do with this one? You add more. Why are you shaking it? [laughter] Oh lord. Okay. [ __ ] me. All right. Here we go. >> Like how much? Like that [music] much? >> Textbook. Textbook. >> Mhm. I took a nice big bite.

47:31

That'll come back to haunt me. Okay.

47:38

I don't like how that one tastes either.

47:39

[music] It's like the hotter they get, the more chemically they taste. >> Yeah. >> What is that? It tastes like minerals.

47:45

[laughter] >> But >> it tastes like a rock. >> Very spicy rock. Yeah. Yeah. >> A lava rock.

47:53

>> Like damn [music] was the peppery one. >> Mhm. Right. >> Okay.

47:58

It's afterwards, isn't it? Right.

48:00

Remember, they build they build a little bit, >> but the good news is the wings of death are behind us.

48:05

You've conquered the Hot Ones gauntlet.

48:07

Impressive in its own right, >> but even more impressive is that you're consistently you've consistently [music] chosen films that become timeless classics across genres.

48:16

So, I'm curious on this particular day with a million Scoville coursing through you, do you have like an Emily Blunt [music] Mount Rushmore of projects?

48:26

Like if your career is held up by four loadbearing pillars.

48:32

>> Oh, I got to pick my favorite kids.

48:35

>> This [music] could change tomorrow.

48:35

You have to, you know, you're hypnotized by >> Yeah, cuz I already changed my list to Dirty Dancing and Pretty Woman, so I can change this. >> Exly. It's fluid. It's fluid. >> That's fluid.

48:44

[laughter] >> I'm going to be fluid. >> Wow. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Sakario. Oh god. Oppenheimer. A quiet place.

49:03

Part one, two, and almost three. >> I don't like that. >> I know. I know.

49:11

But >> and um probably the devil was brought over.

49:17

>> There we [laughter] stone.

49:20

>> And look at you, Emily Blunt, taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale.

49:24

And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

49:27

[music] This camera, this camera, this camera.

49:29

Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

49:31

>> Do you want me to do it to the camera?

49:33

>> Whatever you feel good. >> Oh, okay.

49:34

[laughter] I mean, I've got Steven Spielberg's movie coming out soon. June 12th. >> You You nailed it. Nailed it.

49:45

>> Um, and then I'm shooting Quiet Place part [music] three with my husband.

49:52

[laughter] >> [applause] >> Thank you guys.

49:57

[cheering] Oh Lord, I love your [music] questions.

50:06

>> So where are you going?

50:06

Are you going away for 2 weeks? >> All right.

50:09

>> They said you were off somewhere.

50:10

>> I'm going So I'm I'm going back to my college.

50:12

I'm doing the graduation speech.

50:14

>> Are you really scared?

50:17

>> A little bit actually.

50:17

I've never done anything like I've never done like a commencement before, but >> and it's like a big big 10 schools.

50:22

It'll be like 60,000 people, you know.

50:25

[laughter] >> It g me up. Gas me up. Yeah. Yeah.

50:29

That's what I'm talking about.

50:29

That's what I'm talking about.

50:30

>> I should tongue cruise you. It's a challenge.

50:32

>> Yeah, [laughter] that's right. >> You got this. [snorts] >> Oh my god. [laughter] Again.

50:45

>> [screaming] [music] >> Hey, what's going on everybody for First We Feast.

50:51

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

50:52

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

50:54

And today we're joined by Becky G.

50:56

She's a global force in pop music racking up nine Latin American music awards and a spot in the Time 100 since breaking into the industry as a teenager.

51:03

Her documentary Rebecca is on Netflix now.

51:07

Essenas, the latest album, and check out her new single Marathon. But you know what?

51:11

She can't outrun the wings of death today.

51:13

Becky G, welcome to the show. >> Thank you so much. Wow, what an intro.

51:18

>> What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the Hot Ones gauntlet?

51:21

I understand you are somewhat of a spice fiend.

51:23

>> I I definitely am a fan of spicy foods.

51:27

Um, but spicy enough where you can still enjoy it and I feel like after wing one is when the >> misery, you know, starts. Yeah. [music] The party stops. Exactly.

51:47

>> [music] [music] >> Do you like smell it first?

52:02

>> Yeah, sometimes like wine. >> Oh, that's good. I'm loving this.

52:17

>> I might go back to that one.

52:17

Are we allowed to do that? >> Of course. You make the rules. There are no rules.

52:23

We have a format, but there are no rules over [laughter] here.

52:27

>> So, it actually is kind of rare for us to have a bonafide spice connoisseur on the show.

52:31

What stands out in your memory as the spiciest food experience you've ever had?

52:35

Like, have you ever tested the outer limits of your tolerance? >> [sighs] >> Okay.

52:38

So, I remember being I want to say I was about like 7 years old and I was like triple dog dared by a family member to bite a chile and rub it around my lips for 30 seconds.

52:52

So, ask [music] me what kind of chile it was. I don't know.

52:57

But a fresh like raw chile straight from the garden of my grandma's got to be something really spicy.

53:02

And at 7 years old, I was like, "Yeah, for $10, I'll do that." And so, I did it.

53:07

And [music] my lips got so big.

53:12

And I feel like I definitely had a reaction of sorts, but I got my $10.

53:18

>> And that's what matters.

53:18

You know, I would say ate a Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the entire world. And you know what?

53:23

I don't think Chris gave me a dime for it.

53:25

You know, that was just for the love of the game.

53:28

[laughter] >> I love that.

53:28

I think it's a little bit more hot than my Scandinavian cousins.

53:37

>> Eggplant is something >> little skeptical. >> A little bit.

53:42

I'm not really like a big eggplant fan. >> Oh, just a skin.

53:54

This one's also kind of good.

53:54

I'm going to take a good bite of this one. Now I'll join you. >> That was good. Okay.

54:04

Eggplant >> can never judge a sauce by the label as they say. >> No, I guess not. >> That's good.

54:12

>> So, as a bilingual singer, I'm curious, does that duality ever bleed over into songwriting?

54:16

Like, are there ideas or emotions that are easier to express in Spanish than English or vice versa?

54:24

>> I started with Wow, that was so good.

54:24

My mouth is like salivating. Hold on.

54:26

I was really hungry, I guess.

54:28

Um, I started with pursuing like English music as a rapper and I got discovered off of like a cover video when I was 14.

54:34

And um, it was cute cuz like my grandparents would always be super supportive, very encouraging, but like they didn't understand anything I was rapping about.

54:45

My grandma would always be like, "Why you sound so angry?"

54:48

[music] And I'd be like, "Cuz grandma got [ __ ] to say." Cuz I really did.

54:52

And so, um, as my like the evolution of my career continued, it was always like the both were always a source of inspiration.

55:01

Um, but when I transitioned into professionally [music] singing Spanish music, I felt like a a soulful shift as an artist.

55:10

The whole concept of 50/50 never really cut it for me.

55:13

So, I was like, I'm 100% proud to be from Englewood and I'm also 100% proud to be Mexicana.

55:19

And so, Spanglish has literally always been the way for me.

55:22

And I think I finally have arrived to a place in my music where it's like a [music] a happy medium of the two. Feeling really good.

55:32

Feeling [music] like Bey Bum Bum.

55:33

Okay, she's a little bit more saucy, but this is number three, so that's my lucky number.

55:37

I think this one's going to be good to me. >> Oh, hell yeah.

55:45

>> As someone who's been performing since childhood, do you remember how old you were when you first gained confidence in your voice?

55:51

It's like is there a moment that you can pinpoint recognizing something different in you?

55:57

>> So there is this very embarrassing video that my mom has of me at about [music] 5 years old being at like a family Super Bowl car and watching [music] the main artist of the night like singing the national anthem and it being this really grand like vocal moment and [music] me thinking like yeah like I can sing the national anthem.

56:16

I don't know who I thought I was.

56:19

was it was like a combination between Shakira, Britney Spears, and if Christina Gallera and all them just kind of like came together and had a baby and um but at five so like my version of that, you know, and um my mom is recording and [music] behind the camera you can hear her laughing.

56:34

I'm trying to hold it back and the camera's shaking like this and I'm like, "It's not funny."

56:40

And I would start all over again from the top of the song.

56:42

[music] My mom could not stop laughing and so I never got through the national anthem.

56:47

But I was very young with a a lot of confidence.

56:49

Um, [music] and very much a lack of skill, but a strong desire to to be a pop star for sure.

57:02

This one might be my favorite one. Okay.

57:05

Black Eye Susan >> working for you. >> Mhm.

57:10

>> What is PoundforPound the greatest Selena banger in your opinion?

57:13

>> Ooh, I mean all of them.

57:13

I love love love her mariachi songs.

57:16

Um, but because of course our [music] traditions run deep and I think that there's a sense of pride for us although that we we are pochas.

57:25

I would say [music] pocha power.

57:27

Do you know what uh like a a pocho is? >> Put me on game. >> Okay.

57:31

So they refer to like cho kids or like Mexican-American kids um as poos when we don't speak like perfect [music] Spanish.

57:38

So, I would say like that pocha power was like her secret sauce cuz she would just slay in Spanish any genre she'd do. It was amazing.

57:49

>> Have you [music] ever done this with tacos? >> No.

57:52

But >> did I just give a spin-off, [laughter] >> guys?

57:58

I mean, hey, we'll talk after. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll trade notes. >> Yeah.

58:06

Wait, actually, [music] scorpion.

58:08

I'm not from that part of Mexico.

58:09

[laughter] >> Wait, can you like purchase these afterwards?

58:16

[music] >> You know what?

58:19

We're going to pack them all up for you. All right.

58:20

You don't leave hot ones empty-handed. >> This is fire.

58:23

[music] >> And this, I think, a step up. >> Mhm.

58:26

>> You know, I think it's starting to get serious for us, but still in your comfort zone.

58:31

>> It's still really good, though.

58:33

What's your most vocally challenging song to perform live and what makes it that way?

58:39

>> There's one that's just vocally I think shows off a different side of my voice.

58:44

It's my mariachi song called Pel Contraio.

58:45

There's just an emotion and a tonality that it demands of your voice.

58:51

And so I would say that one.

58:53

But a step above that would be my song Kelloo because it's emotional [music] for me and it's a song that I wrote about my grandfather who I gained as an angel in heaven.

59:05

I grew up with all four of my grandparents being super present in my life and he was the first one to kind of you know start watching over us from above and I just yeah I remember that's kind of what catapulted me into wanting to do those albums.

59:21

Uh, it felt like a calling and it felt like something really important and uh, yeah, I did that song [music] called Kawo and every time even talking about it right now I'm getting a little emotional.

59:37

Oh, this is a hot one special.

59:41

When you say tropical, does it is it cuz it's got like a sweetness to it? >> M. Exactly.

59:44

Little sweet heat action. >> Like a pineapple.

59:51

You guys should just hire me.

59:51

[laughter] >> Oh my god, this is amazing.

59:58

>> You're not just saying that.

1:00:00

>> I'm still eating this one. This one's good.

1:00:02

>> Here we [clears throat] go.

1:00:02

So, I've heard you sing that you might get down with a little red lipstick, but you bleed Dodger blue.

1:00:08

What are your earliest memories of going to Dodger Stadium?

1:00:12

Was there something about the experience that made you fall in love with baseball?

1:00:15

Well, in full transparency, it's been a long time since I've been to Dodger Stadium.

1:00:18

Um, if you're an LA native, you know what's up.

1:00:22

Um, obviously being Chana, like it was one of the two.

1:00:25

You either grew up playing in like the the baseball little league team or the AYSO, you know, soccer club. And I loved both.

1:00:32

Um, and I played up until I decided that I wanted to be a singer.

1:00:38

So, sports are very much still like a really big part of my life.

1:00:42

And I always say my favorite team in all of LA is actually Angel [music] City.

1:00:47

>> You in you're an investor. >> Yes, I am.

1:00:49

You're kind of early on that wave.

1:00:51

You know, >> I really You want You want to know the real tea? I'll >> Yeah. Yeah.

1:00:53

Hit me with the real tea. >> All right.

1:00:55

The real tea [music] um is that there when there was whispers about the team coming to LA, I called every single person on my team.

1:01:05

Literally, I was like, I can be uh an equipment manager.

1:01:07

I could host postgame, you know, interview.

1:01:14

like whatever we got to do, you know, just like how can I get in on this and um I spoke to all the ones that I needed to speak to uh at the right time and I I'm really really really happy and proud that I I made that first round and I I'm I'm right there alongside so many other badass women that invested into this club and believed in the future and also the right now of women in soccer. Yeah.

1:01:42

Or what I like to call the real football.

1:01:49

Gonna come humbly on this one.

1:01:49

Asian spices are usually where I get a little scary.

1:01:54

>> M little satron action can be a problem. >> A little bit. >> Mhm. The pepper.

1:01:59

>> We all made a little bit of that, you know, wasabi mistake, but I'm like, "Oh, it's avocado." No, it's not.

1:02:13

Now, this one you're skeptical cuz it has like a sugary kind of molassesy thing up front, >> then the action on the other side. Yeah.

1:02:22

>> I don't know, but I still like it.

1:02:24

[laughter] >> Oh my goodness. Guys, I got to say, wow.

1:02:34

Do you curate the hot sauces yourself?

1:02:36

Not me personally, by myself.

1:02:36

It's a collaborative experience.

1:02:38

But we do take it bizarrely seriously, though.

1:02:42

>> I mean, I'd imagine >> it comes through, right?

1:02:45

You can see the experience as a guest over here. >> It's worth the hours.

1:02:49

Yeah, >> it definitely is. It's so good, though.

1:02:53

>> So, you're not just an LA native.

1:02:53

You were literally given the keys to the city of Englewood in 2023.

1:03:00

If you're picking up a snack haul at Placed Ala in downtown LA, what are the first Mexican candies inside the bag for you?

1:03:07

>> So, there's these things uh called Saladitos, and they're like dried pits of I don't know what fruit, but they're so salty.

1:03:17

And actually, my theos when they would be drinking their beers and throwing them back, I would sneak and grab them from the bag because they would have that with their beers.

1:03:26

And [music] then sabones. Those are really good. I love those, too.

1:03:32

>> Is Kelso Ranch Market still the best place for a pla de Sandia after a long day of hitting the books at Oak Street Elementary [laughter] School?

1:03:41

>> Yeah, the amount of research that you do for these is crazy. Um, absolutely.

1:03:43

Kel Marque I still hit up all the time.

1:03:49

[music] Um, in full transparency, like I remember shooting the Becky from the Block music video there and thinking I >> Great video by the way. like JLo in that video. >> Yo, >> that's crazy. >> Hello.

1:04:00

Like [laughter] from Inglewood to Hollywood and Hollywood to Inglewood.

1:04:04

Like it's the coolest coolest thing I think I've ever done still till this day.

1:04:07

And also because like my whole family is in that music video.

1:04:08

Kelso Marque as a kid growing up was like >> the spot. >> Yeah, it's the best.

1:04:16

>> For the uninitiated, what's the perfect order at Bravo's Charburger?

1:04:21

>> You're hitting all the spots.

1:04:21

[laughter] So they got a they got everything you need to be honest.

1:04:25

Um, you can get to there.

1:04:28

You can get a great char burger.

1:04:30

[music] Um, extra charred is what I like when I'm getting uh like a regular like cheeseburger there.

1:04:35

Um, or a cheese char burger technically. Um, their French fries. Chef's kiss. Love them.

1:04:40

And also their ice cream cones.

1:04:45

>> Does Maurice Gosian and Hawthorne do they still serve the best spicy what is awa chili? >> Aua Chile. Yeah. >> In LA County.

1:04:53

I just you should just come over to my grandparents [laughter] house.

1:04:56

I feel like you need to try all these places firsthand.

1:04:58

Like we need to take this on the road. >> Yeah.

1:05:01

We have a spin-off >> and then we also have a travel series.

1:05:06

We're like building out like a whole programming flight right now. >> I love this. [laughter] >> Yes.

1:05:12

>> Well, you love it now.

1:05:12

You might not love it with the next wing.

1:05:14

This is the bomb beyond insanity. >> You're nodding along.

1:05:19

>> This one always stays right.

1:05:19

This the bomb is like >> screwed into the table here. Is it a good smell? >> No. >> Oh god. So, don't smell it.

1:05:26

All right, I'm just going to go for it. [ __ ] >> Just jump in.

1:05:31

>> Oh, I never I didn't ask if we can say bad words.

1:05:33

>> Yeah, you can let it fly. >> Oh, wow. Okay. [ __ ] >> After.

1:05:43

It's not like a bad after >> according to you.

1:05:47

[laughter] It's It's definitely there. Yeah. >> Well, you're alive.

1:05:54

>> I can feel it traveling. >> Yeah.

1:05:56

>> You can trace every step >> GPS through the whole >> digestive tract here.

1:06:00

So, I've heard you talk about how the sounds in regional Mexican folk music, how they all carry an add a different emotional weight, right?

1:06:09

Like Bond might be different than Nortano, which hits different than mariachi.

1:06:13

So, what I want to do is give you a handful of coming of age moments, life situations, and then I want you to assign a sound to them. Okay?

1:06:21

Like, for example, a breakup. Is that bonda?

1:06:23

Is that Nortano or is that mariachi music?

1:06:29

>> I would go mariachi >> for sure.

1:06:32

The violins, the horns are just And ba to be honest.

1:06:35

Ba's also heartbreak too, which is crazy cuz you can be at like your highest moment and then also like by the end of the night be like, "Oh my god [laughter] again."

1:06:49

>> How about when you finally get the job? >> Ooh, okay.

1:06:53

Uh, I would say like I really love like Mexican kumbia >> for that situation.

1:06:58

>> Yeah, that's like that's giving like, "Ooh, we're going to start on Monday our new job.

1:07:02

So, Sunday is like my clean day. Get everything ready."

1:07:04

So, the kumbia are playing.

1:07:07

>> How about you step into the party and you look incredible?

1:07:12

>> Ooh, I'm not going to lie.

1:07:12

I really love like tambaraso.

1:07:16

It's like a lot of like it just exactly what it sounds like.

1:07:21

Tamboraso like like a lot of drums kind of chaotic, but like when everybody walks in like everybody's just like with this energy and it's just very contagious.

1:07:31

>> What about uh revenge? any of them. Okay, let's do this.

1:07:40

Am I allowed to see the ingredients? >> Yeah.

1:07:44

>> Oh, god damn, that one's spicy. My eyes are watering. >> It's all normal. Long leash on this show.

1:07:56

>> Okay, we got some Reaper [music] in there. >> Yeah.

1:08:00

>> Got some Aanto in there. Mhm. Smoked paprika. Oh, lime juice.

1:08:10

>> You know, usually when we pack these up for people, they're like, "These ones you guys can just keep." But not you.

1:08:14

You'll be like, "Give them all. Hand them all over." >> Oh, no.

1:08:16

I'm going to share them with my grandma. She's going to love it.

1:08:20

>> What makes the Fresh Prince of Bera theme song such an elite example of technical songwriting in your opinion?

1:08:24

H I just love that you go on a journey with them.

1:08:30

Like I That was my inspo for Becky from the Block.

1:08:33

You literally go from where he starts the journey and then where he ends up. Oh, it's building up. Whoa. Creeper.

1:08:44

>> The cumulative effect, too, you know. >> Yeah.

1:08:47

It shouldn't be Carolina Reaper. It's a creeper. [laughter] >> Mhm.

1:08:57

My nose is running, so you know something's happening.

1:09:06

I wasn't kidding when I said this is my Super Bowl.

1:09:08

I was so excited for today.

1:09:10

>> This is like monumental moment in my career. >> All in the end zone. Yeah. >> Yeah. I'm scared.

1:09:18

Can I like lick it first? >> If you want. >> I should bite it. Huh? >> I would bite it. I bit all of them. I should bite it. God damn it.

1:09:32

>> And with that, the wings of death are behind us. >> No.

1:09:39

See, you can't even enjoy that. I'm so sorry. That is Wow. Mhm. >> And it'll grow on us.

1:09:49

But the good news is the Hot Ones Gauntlet. You've conquered it. You're to the end.

1:09:54

You've taken on every hot sauce. Live to tell the tale.

1:09:56

And to close things out, I know that your family is from Halisco, the birthplace of mariachi, and you'll sometimes even wink at that history with the traditional Mexican greo during your performances.

1:10:11

I know that this is a lot to ask under the circumstances.

1:10:13

Throw it on fire, lips ablaze.

1:10:15

I put my people to shame right now. >> How to do a Greo?

1:10:20

Like is there a right and wrong way to do it or is it really just more about committing?

1:10:25

>> I like I want to do it, but >> Okay. So, a part of it Yes. is like the One second. >> Yeah. Take your time.

1:10:40

[clears throat] >> A part of it is like I wish I wish the last dab was actually a shot [music] of tequila.

1:10:47

>> [clears throat] >> cuz that also really helps.

1:10:48

I don't know if it would help with the spice actually, [music] but it would help with the gurito.

1:10:52

So, um it's the commitment and it's also like like from the belly and from the heart.

1:11:01

>> So, you got to start like kind of low.

1:11:04

>> I'm going to try it and then you can try after. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, it'll [music] go.

1:11:11

[screaming] >> That sounded like Coco. >> I'll take it.

1:11:15

And look at you, Becky G.

1:11:19

Taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale, and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

1:11:24

[music] This camera, this camera, this camera.

1:11:25

Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

1:11:30

>> Well, guys, I feel like I just conquered hot ones.

1:11:31

[applause] That's all that really matters right now to me.

1:11:34

Um, I you know, man, I'm just I'm just happy to be here.

1:11:39

I'm happy to be here with you.

1:11:41

This has been something that I've wanted to do for a really long time, but had to build up [music] the courage to do.

1:11:46

And it's just like divine alignment because this is the most fun that I've had in my musical career and this phase of my life having done it for so long.

1:11:54

And this was so [ __ ] fun.

1:11:54

So like if this was fun, I'm like, "Wait till you guys hear the music."

1:11:59

Um, it's giving it's giving spice and all things nice and um yeah, that's that's how I would describe it after having so much hot sauce. Yay!

1:12:11

[cheering] Okay, everybody in gto ready. One, two, three. [screaming] >> Wow.

1:12:25

>> That's that spike Super Bowl moment right there. >> Yeah, man. Wow. >> I'm a little dizzy.

1:12:32

[laughter] Bobby on their feet. Thank you. You did great. >> Thank you. You're doing amazing. >> Where's the ice? >> You're doing great.

1:12:45

>> I just need one piece of ice.

1:12:51

>> Hey, what's going on everybody for First We Feast.

1:12:52

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

1:12:54

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

1:12:55

And today we're joined by Pink Panthers.

1:12:59

She's a Grammy Award nominated singer, songwriter, and producer, including for 2025 sophomore mixtape, Fancy That.

1:13:05

We're thrilled we could catch her between dates for her an evening with Pink Panther Tour, but today she takes the stage against a gauntlet of scorching hot wings.

1:13:11

[music] Pink Panther, welcome to the show. >> Thank you.

1:13:15

>> How would you describe your relationship with spicy food before we get started?

1:13:19

>> Well, I'm half Kenyon, so I'm not unfamiliar with spice, but I can't sit here and say that at Nando I'm getting anything past peramer.

1:13:29

Does that make sense to you?

1:13:38

>> [music] [music] [laughter] >> I've never eaten on camera.

1:13:56

So, [music] >> first time. >> Yeah.

1:14:04

That's very scrumptious, actually. >> Pretty nice. I put that on my food.

1:14:12

[laughter] >> So, we're catching you in the throws of your tour, and I'm wondering [music] what makes a great opening song for a concert.

1:14:20

Like, can you pull back the curtain on the kinds of discussions that go into deciding which musical note the audience hears first?

1:14:26

>> Oh, that's that's a good question.

1:14:26

For me, it's kind of like what will people recognize instantly [music] that will incite a specific reaction.

1:14:38

You know, when you release a project, you kind of can tell what the fan favorite is.

1:14:41

And so, in my [music] case, it was a song called Stateside.

1:14:44

So, I have that as my opener and [music] once they hear the first few notes, they already know what's going on. They're like, "Ah."

1:14:53

>> And then you've been pretty open about your struggles with stage fright.

1:14:55

Do you have any foundational tips for how to get over an anxiety like that?

1:14:58

Does it get easier when you're doing it night after night? >> I think so.

1:15:02

Like when I used to perform on stage, I would [music] I would uh act as if the audience were in charge.

1:15:09

So I would let them dictate how I performed.

1:15:10

So if they weren't enjoying it, I would be like, they're not enjoying it. I'm not going to bother.

1:15:14

But then as time went on, I think somebody [music] once basically drilled it into my head that like I have to be the person that dictates them, not the other way around.

1:15:22

And so even when you are on stage and you're like everybody jump like they all they jump.

1:15:28

So it's like you literally can [music] just like you just need to own it.

1:15:30

And that's basically what I've been trying to do for like 4 years now is just try and like own it.

1:15:35

But I've only just got like [music] good.

1:15:39

I would say even a year ago I wasn't good at performing.

1:15:43

>> But now >> year and a half.

1:15:44

But now I'm pretty decent. Yeah. Go on. [laughter] Go on then. >> [music] >> Okay.

1:15:54

So, do you prefer the flats or the drum?

1:15:57

>> As a kid, I like the drum cuz it's cutesy, but as a sophisticated man, I've come to enjoy the flat. >> Okay.

1:16:05

And you look sophisticated. >> M.

1:16:07

Thank you very [clears throat] much. >> Of course.

1:16:10

>> What role did growing up in Canterbury play in shaping your sound?

1:16:12

You're an artist who really taps into this specific kind of British melancholy.

1:16:16

I wonder to what extent Canterbury lives in the music.

1:16:20

>> I have to say something. >> Yeah.

1:16:22

>> The reason that you're a really good interviewer is because you remember questions really well [laughter] >> because insight actually >> uh Canterbury.

1:16:30

So when you come to America things can feel quite glitz and glamour.

1:16:35

[music] Everyone feels like they can work their way towards being a star.

1:16:39

star. in the UK it just it doesn't like I remember when my teacher like was asking the class what we all wanted to be and I was like I want to be a basist in a band and literally she was like this she was like okay so try and keep it realistic you guys like she I was

1:16:53

like [ __ ] but we're just not it's [music] not necessarily in our psyche that oh this is possible this is possible and that can be a result of the melancholy but I also think it's a lot of pathetic fallacy the weather is always gray >> you know what I mean >> yeah it's It keeps you like a duck. I I don't know.

1:17:11

I honestly think that I I think the thing that evokes most feeling in me is music in general.

1:17:17

>> So, I think that I just like to kind of try and inspire that in other people.

1:17:20

[music] Which one is your favorite?

1:17:27

>> So, I like this one a lot actually.

1:17:29

[music] >> This is delicious. M.

1:17:31

Wait, you said this was what? Garlic. Oh, yeah. Pickled >> garlic. Some Sriracha.

1:17:37

>> I really like garlic in general. Yeah, I do.

1:17:41

>> Which pref job do you remember most fondly, working at Marks and Spencer, Claire's, or that time that you spent?

1:17:47

>> I I I'm shocked at you >> at a cricket ground in Kent.

1:17:51

>> So, yeah, I'd say for me, you know, as most Brits know, Marks and Spencers is pretty Have you been to the UK? >> I have. I have.

1:18:00

>> Do you remember Marks and Spencers? >> M&S? >> Yes, indeed.

1:18:03

>> If I hit the food court with a 20 lb note, what's the best pickup there?

1:18:05

I would honestly say, since we're on the topic of wings, uh they do really good Asian style salt cup wings, which I used to buy out like I would buy at the store. I don't care.

1:18:15

I'd buy like five packs at a time and I would deep fat fry them in my deep fat fryer at home.

1:18:19

Um so yeah, that would be what I would get.

1:18:23

I wouldn't even spend it on [music] anything else.

1:18:25

I just spend £20 on that.

1:18:27

But um Marks and Spencer is definitely pretty iconic.

1:18:30

The food is really good though. Let's do the damn thing. So, what?

1:18:35

This is Black Eyed Susan.

1:18:43

Okay, that is my favorite. That's really good. Oh, yeah. That's coming home. That's really good, huh?

1:18:51

>> And a little bit of a kick, but nothing you can't handle.

1:18:54

>> I just really like the chickpea of [music] it all. >> M. >> Mhm.

1:18:57

That's my favorite so far.

1:19:00

If you were to put together the [music] perfect singer songwriter Mr.

1:19:01

Potato Head style, whose melodies are you taking? >> Okay. >> Whose storytelling?

1:19:07

Whose ability to break the rules?

1:19:10

And whose ear for a beat? >> That's h okay.

1:19:17

Well, if for me, I must say I'm going to say Lily Allen cuz I love Lily Allen and I think she really did enforce a lot of my melodical choices in some ways.

1:19:27

[music] I think it's Lily Allen first and second.

1:19:29

And I think that when it comes to beat choices, sorry, or like instrumentation, I really am a big Fufu fan.

1:19:37

So, I'm just going to say frufu as a unit.

1:19:39

So, and then last question was >> willingness to break the rules. >> Oh, I'm on the spot.

1:19:43

Oh, [laughter] >> the walls closing in.

1:19:47

>> Rule breaking with the spice.

1:19:48

>> Just trying to think who really pushed the uh you know, I was I'm going to say Chief Keith and that's all I'm going to say to that.

1:19:56

I was talking about him the other day and how much he was doing this from day one.

1:20:06

>> Who's your favorite musical artist?

1:20:08

>> O like just in mileage in the headphones. >> Oh, I like that. >> Yeah, sure. Like who? Yeah.

1:20:15

>> I'm kind of like a '90s rap kid, right?

1:20:18

So if I was going to like [music] Mount Rushmore just mileage in the headphones, it would probably be Notorious B. I.

1:20:23

Eminem, >> Kanye, and Diax. >> You are surprising. Like, you actually are.

1:20:30

No, I must say, >> don't judge a book.

1:20:33

Hey, >> that's what they say.

1:20:34

And don't judge a sauce by the label.

1:20:38

>> I >> up next is a hot and saucy. >> Okay.

1:20:45

I like where do most people do people ever stop?

1:20:50

>> It's actually kind of rare.

1:20:50

I think like once you're on the show, you feel like a hostage to the show or like tethered to the wings, you know?

1:20:56

I think like psychologically.

1:20:59

>> I really like how you talk.

1:20:59

I think that you have a I really do.

1:21:00

I think I like how you form sentences and how your mind forms sentences.

1:21:06

And I'm just going to make you aware of that.

1:21:09

>> Well, you know what I appreciate as an interviewer?

1:21:11

I appreciate your candidness, your thoughtfulness, and your opinions about pop music.

1:21:14

So, if you'll humor me, I have some hot take pop music debatable issues that I just want to bounce off of you and then I'm just hoping that you can shoot from the hip on them. Okay. >> I'm just amazing.

1:21:28

[laughter] Seriously, great segue. Tell me, please.

1:21:34

>> Do you think it's necessary for a songwriter to have experienced emotionally the things that they write about? >> I don't know. I I don't.

1:21:40

But that being said, I don't think you should appropriate any stories that, you know, I don't think we need to sing about everything.

1:21:49

But it's like scissor song, Kill Bill.

1:21:51

Like obviously, you know, she didn't kill her.

1:21:52

I just think I love storytelling in such an abstract way.

1:21:53

I have a [clears throat] song about drowning in a bathtub.

1:21:57

>> And you never drown in a bathtub.

1:21:59

>> Well, you don't know that. [laughter] >> But yeah. So, yeah.

1:22:03

>> Is there such a thing as selling out or is that a phony madeup concept designed to police the success of others? goodness.

1:22:09

I can tell when someone's doing it from I think there's two angles.

1:22:12

You can have a real sellout which like someone that goes against their moral compass and their moral code and then you have a sellout in terms of like you know like oh I want to gatekeep this artist.

1:22:22

I don't want everyone to know about them. >> And it's a fine line.

1:22:24

Not a it's actually quite a it's quite a thick line actually.

1:22:30

>> But the way people will kind of like >> use it as kind of >> use it. Yeah.

1:22:33

I feel like so you know I think I think it exists but I think it's quite harsh.

1:22:39

>> Does an artist owe any level of personal access to fans or does the music alone complete the transaction?

1:22:46

>> I think some people like the idea of having more parasocial fans because I think you know I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

1:22:51

I think some people like having that really close connection with their fans and they're very like their relationship is very like like this and I think that that's it reaps a really really really like cultivated fan base that really loyal to you >> but I think at the expense of it you kind of both ways.

1:23:07

>> Yeah, I think at the expense of it you do lose some privacy in your own life and you might have people following you for example.

1:23:12

I'm very happy with my balance cuz I think that I was lucky enough when I was young I thought of it.

1:23:17

I was like, I don't want to have to explain [music] every aspect of my life to everybody.

1:23:21

So, I was like, I'm just going to keep that level of separation.

1:23:24

Do you ever get uh followed around? >> Uh, a little bit.

1:23:27

You know, like uh I once um I once got paparazzi walking out of um Takaya, like the Mexican joint, you know, like on Sunset Boulevard over there. >> Oh, yeah.

1:23:38

And I was walking out and this guy just started taking the pictures and I just said to him, I go, "Etica, you know."

1:23:44

And he goes, "Uh, yeah, celebrities come here." Like that.

1:23:48

That's what he said to me.

1:23:48

Well, he's just snapping.

1:23:49

I'm just in gym clothes holding a carry out bag.

1:23:56

>> Do you go to concerts?

1:23:56

Who was the last show you went to?

1:23:59

>> I went to Foo Fighters this weekend and they were playing Yeah, >> I actually love I love Foo Fighters.

1:24:03

and they were playing like a fun like warehouse in the middle of nowhere in New Jersey and it was like a show cuz they're like gearing up for a tour.

1:24:09

He was in here in the studio and he was like, "I got a show this weekend."

1:24:13

And I was like, "Let's do it, D."

1:24:15

>> That's so You should I got a show >> tomorrow night? >> Yeah.

1:24:18

Are you coming to my [laughter] >> I'd like to you >> put me on the list. >> Okay. Yeah, I'm ready. >> All right. This is Tropical Amaro. >> Okay.

1:24:35

Do you ever eat the whole wing >> like like down to the bone?

1:24:40

>> I match the guest energy, you know.

1:24:42

>> So if I was So if I was eating every piece of chicken down to the bone, you would have done >> I would be Yes.

1:24:46

by the uh sacred oath that I have to this chair, I'd be obliged to follow you.

1:24:52

>> Oh, that's interesting.

1:24:54

>> How do you think about the narrative from one project to the next?

1:24:56

Like do you think of your music career as this ever growing body of work with like a broader arc above it or is it more like a one idea at a time kind of thing?

1:25:07

>> I think it's very easy to want to like do one thing at a time and just forget about the whole cuz when I first started I remember like being told like this your career isn't going to be a one or two year career.

1:25:18

It should be a 10 year career.

1:25:20

And I was like oh really I didn't expect to make it even 5 years by the way.

1:25:24

I didn't I didn't but we're still here.

1:25:26

And um and I'm on hot ones.

1:25:29

Um [laughter] the older I get and the more I make projects, the more I'm like, "Oh, this has to be part of a whole overarching journey."

1:25:36

But then when you're making it though, I still think that you need to treat it as like a like a current situ. You know what I mean?

1:25:43

Like I, for example, my next project, >> Careful, careful, careful. You've been eating.

1:25:49

I'm always just I worry about people's eyes. >> You know what?

1:25:54

I'd already thought about this.

1:25:55

I'm only eating it with this.

1:25:56

Actually, you'll I did use my Thank you. >> I know. I'm watching. I'm watching. >> It's really kind.

1:26:06

So, this is eight dragons.

1:26:06

And you know what I'm going to do?

1:26:09

I'm wearing nails today, so I'm actually going to do it with a tissue. >> There you go. Breaking new ground.

1:26:19

>> So, I've heard you say that you're obsessed with the Saw franchise, even Spiral, starring Chris Rock. >> Yes.

1:26:24

Is there a jigsaw trap or an effed up death from the series that you admire most for its creativity?

1:26:29

I >> I will say I anywhere people have to like take off chunks.

1:26:34

There's one where you have to take it was like there's a way like you had they had to cut off chunks of their own flesh to like weigh something down. Sorry. >> Yeah. No.

1:26:45

[laughter] >> And so they had to cut off >> I asked the question. >> You did.

1:26:47

They had to cut off their own chunks of flesh.

1:26:49

And obviously you're doing it to yourself. I just Yeah.

1:26:51

I I don't I think I would rather he just kind of like put the trap on me and let it do its thing than like I have to get involved in the trap.

1:26:59

But that's the whole point of Sor is that you are the person >> he's got to dig out of your own grave.

1:27:05

>> But you have to do it because then cuz he's not actually a murderer.

1:27:06

He's the person that gives you the choice of death or figure or figuring it out but being very hurt.

1:27:14

>> Can you give us one highlight and one lowlight of ghost hunting in Allington Castle? [laughter] Okay.

1:27:26

Wait, I haven't seen you look down once to check the I [laughter] just don't understand.

1:27:30

So, I'd say that the highlight for that was being with my friends. I love haunted stuff.

1:27:34

I'm a bit of a skeptic to be honest.

1:27:37

I don't want to ruffle with anyone's troubles, but I am a bit of a skeptic.

1:27:40

When we were doing the ghost hunting, I thought it was kind of satire, so I thought we were all in on the joke, but there was a real ghost hunter.

1:27:49

She would be like, "Make four knocks if there's anyone in the room."

1:27:54

And I was doing this under the table.

1:27:56

[laughter] >> Did you hear that? >> Yeah.

1:27:59

And I And I thought that it was a joke, but it wasn't.

1:28:04

And she just kept I feel really bad now because like I really I feel like she definitely thought like she probably thought she was on something but it was [music] me and I never actually told her it was me.

1:28:13

But [clears throat] >> you don't have to feel bad.

1:28:14

You should feel good for like coming clean now, you know? >> Right.

1:28:18

I just hope she doesn't see this.

1:28:19

And I think her name was Hazel.

1:28:19

But I really hope she doesn't see this. And I love you Hazel.

1:28:23

But yeah, it wasn't giving.

1:28:32

Okay, it does creep [snorts] up on you.

1:28:36

You really are waiting for me.

1:28:43

Okay, that that that took it up just a just a bit. >> Is that nice to you?

1:28:52

>> No, you know, this is we you were asking about the sauces earlier.

1:28:56

>> This was the the novelty of it all. >> Yeah.

1:28:58

So, have you ever tried the hottest chip? >> I have.

1:29:02

I've also eaten a Carolina Reaper, just the pod straight up.

1:29:04

And that's the hottest pepper in the world for many years.

1:29:08

[music] >> The hottest chili pepper. >> Yeah. >> Squoville. >> Yeah. Look at you. >> Yeah.

1:29:15

Well, I do my research, too. [laughter] >> Mhm.

1:29:22

>> So, I have to say that you really crushed it when you're on the weakest link, finishing in the top three.

1:29:25

So, if you'll humor me, I actually have a Hot Ones pub trivia quiz for you, which of course >> is tough to think coherently when you're battling Domb.

1:29:36

But if you're game, I do have some questions. [laughter] >> Mhm.

1:29:42

>> You know the Beatles, but you also know beetles.

1:29:44

Which of the following is not a real beetle?

1:29:47

The Hercules beetle, the scarab beetle, or the white spotted Sawyer? >> Mhm. >> You're right.

1:29:55

The white whites spotted Sawyer. You're right.

1:29:57

[snorts] Which British rapper became the youngest artist ever to win a Mercury Prize for an album recorded largely while he was still a school boy in East London?

1:30:09

>> So Dizzy Rosal, is it? >> It is Dizzy Rascal. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Look at you. How about this one?

1:30:12

Ibigen Heap's 2005 song Hideand Seek was used in a shocking season finale of which American TV drama? The ugly batty.

1:30:23

I've I really Oh, I don't Oh, I um Pretty Little Eyes. >> It was the OC. It was the OC. But you're doing good. >> I don't know that.

1:30:38

>> I have one more for you. >> Yeah.

1:30:40

>> Which K-pop group's name includes the longitude coordinates of soul? >> NCT. What do you know? >> Incredible. [laughter] I'm just not. My mouth hurts. >> I know.

1:30:54

Such is the plight of this show.

1:30:56

>> Yeah, >> but you're doing amazing. >> Where's the ice? >> You're doing great. >> It's all yours.

1:31:01

We have a whole picture for you over there. [snorts] >> Okay.

1:31:15

>> It just won't leave my mouth. >> I know.

1:31:17

Do you want some ice cream?

1:31:17

I can make it happen with a snap. >> Yeah, please. >> Oh, told you.

1:31:24

[laughter] >> Okay, now I find that this is when ice cream tastes best >> after this. >> After the bomb. >> The bomb. [laughter] The bomb.

1:31:51

Do you listen to British music?

1:31:52

>> Like do you know do you know dig school? >> Fix up. Look sharp. [laughter] >> Oh yeah.

1:32:02

[snorts] >> Well, you must have had a bunch of British artists on here.

1:32:04

Like >> we've shot episodes in London.

1:32:06

We shot with Ricky Jerves in London.

1:32:08

We shot with Charlie Sloth in London.

1:32:12

>> Are you being serious? Charlie's law.

1:32:14

[laughter] >> Those are back in the day.

1:32:15

We shot with Amelia Demoldenberg in London. Oh yeah.

1:32:18

>> We shot with Louis Theu in London. >> Oh my god.

1:32:20

I just I really just It hurts. It's not like >> I know.

1:32:25

>> But this doesn't hurt. >> Not as bad. >> Okay, cool. Well, then that's fine.

1:32:29

>> It's called Triple X salsa vibes.

1:32:36

>> I kind of wish they just called it Triple Triple X salsa.

1:32:37

I don't know why we had said the vibe. >> Vibe.

1:32:40

[laughter] >> Like, does everything have to be a vibe?

1:32:45

>> I've heard you say you can find good Kenyon food in New York.

1:32:47

If I'm new to the cuisine and I want to play the hits, >> what should I order?

1:32:53

[sighs] >> I'm really just like I don't know. Just give me one sec. >> Yeah. Yeah. Take your time.

1:33:01

>> Grilled meat, chapati.

1:33:01

Um, we have really good sides.

1:33:05

Like we have a lot of spinach. There's a spinach dish. You take the Oh, uggali. That one's good.

1:33:15

>> Have you eaten African food in general? >> I have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Which which one? >> Nigerian food. >> Oh, yeah.

1:33:20

Um, did you have like a fufu? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:33:24

And eating with the bread. >> Okay.

1:33:26

So, it's similar >> similar >> consistency. It's like white.

1:33:28

You just, you know, you take the stew with it and then you eat it. Mhm.

1:33:35

>> [snorts] >> I would say Ugali for sure.

1:33:39

>> Well, I've taken the notes. All right. Pink Panther.

1:33:48

>> I'll have one bite of this. I [music] think.

1:33:54

>> And with that, Pink Panthers, the wings of death are behind us. [music] >> Yeah.

1:34:00

And to close things out, you know, you have such a unique journey to pop stardom.

1:34:04

You know, this starts in a university hall at night.

1:34:06

You're by yourself and just garage band, which makes me wonder for someone who's sitting in a room right now wondering if the thing that [music] they're making in private is worth anything. >> Yeah.

1:34:19

>> What is it that you want them to know?

1:34:22

>> Like, you know, with you, you always wanted to be a journalist. >> I did.

1:34:25

I went to school for broadcast journalism. Yeah.

1:34:28

>> That's really incredible.

1:34:28

So you, this is what I would have done if I was in your position.

1:34:33

I wanted to become a host of a chicken-based interview show.

1:34:37

[laughter] >> I would have said to myself, okay, I'm going to in a year's time, I'm going to have my own uh YouTube show that I'm just running by myself with two of my friends who none of us really make that much money, but you know, they have camcorders.

1:34:52

I'm going to borrow my dad's equipment.

1:34:54

That's what I'm going to do in a year's time.

1:34:55

Then in 2 years time, oh I want to have 50k subscribers.

1:35:02

Third year, oh now I want to have uh more professional equipment and I want to [music] start making money from this. Year five.

1:35:09

Oh, I want to get a whole studio and and shoot in a studio. Year six.

1:35:15

Oh, I want to get uh Charlie Sloth on here.

1:35:18

Like I wanted my first song to have like 100 listeners.

1:35:20

It [music] has to be this.

1:35:22

This doesn't even have to be yearly. It could be monthly.

1:35:24

You could be like, "Well, this month I'm going to do this.

1:35:26

This month this is going to happen."

1:35:28

>> But it's so much easier to do that than to be like, "Oh, because you overwhelm yourself."

1:35:31

And that's where people start going, "No, I I'm too overwhelmed. I can't do this." And they procrastinate.

1:35:36

>> Just get to the top of the hill.

1:35:36

That gives you a view of the next peak to climb.

1:35:40

Get on top of that mountain gives you a clearer view of the next peak to climb.

1:35:44

Just [music] like the show, one wing after another, and look at you, Pink Panthers, conquering the wings of death, living to tell the tale.

1:35:52

And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

1:35:55

This camera, this camera, this camera.

1:35:57

Let the people know what you have going on in your life. >> Yeah.

1:36:01

Well, I have a show tomorrow.

1:36:03

You're going to be there.

1:36:03

He's going to be he's in the front row [laughter] actually throwing wings at me.

1:36:06

Don't The optics of that would be crazy. But uh Yeah.

1:36:11

So, we're going to have [laughter] we're going to have a we're going to have a good time tomorrow. We are.

1:36:13

And then we have the after thing.

1:36:16

We can get lit cuz you said you like to drink now. >> Yeah. Yeah.

1:36:21

It's fun every once in a while.

1:36:22

Only only once in a while though.

1:36:24

>> And maybe you can write a song about it.

1:36:27

[applause] >> Thank you so much. >> You're a lot of fun. Thank you.

1:36:35

>> Really nice to meet you. Fun interview. Yeah.

1:36:38

>> Lovely to meet you, too.

1:36:39

>> And yeah, you must >> I'll see you tomorrow. [laughter] >> We'll see.

1:36:49

>> [music] >> Look at the first the first bite I took from the the weakest one. Nothing. Look at this now. That's called stupidity.

1:37:00

[laughter] [music] >> Hey, what's going on everybody for First We Feast.

1:37:06

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

1:37:08

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

1:37:09

And today we're joined by Jesse Eisenberg. >> Hey.

1:37:13

>> He's an Academy Award nominated actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright.

1:37:16

you know, from acclaimed performances in films like The Social Network, Zombiel Land, the Now You See Me franchise, and many more.

1:37:21

Later this year, he's releasing his third feature as a director for an untitled musical comedy from A24.

1:37:26

And this summer, you can also catch him as Dort in the upcoming animated film, Minions and Monsters, which is set to release in theaters on July 1st.

1:37:33

Jesse Eisenberg, welcome to the show. >> Thank you so much.

1:37:36

Thanks, you know, for having me.

1:37:38

>> I've heard you mention a milk phobia when you were a kid.

1:37:41

What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the Hot Ones gauntlet?

1:37:44

I'd imagine there are a lot of thoughts swirling.

1:37:48

First of all, [music] thank you for bringing that up.

1:37:49

I finally overcame it and um have successfully forgotten it.

1:37:54

Thanks for bringing that up right before something even scarier.

1:37:55

Yeah, for some reason, okay, when I was like 12 years old, I for some reason just had this block of like I can't drink [music] milk. It's so gross. It's so gross. I can't drink milk.

1:38:03

And I'm convinced that's why I'm not 510.

1:38:05

You know >> what could have been. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I actually do.

1:38:09

I think if I was 510 I was like I do think about it.

1:38:13

I think maybe I'd be the president.

1:38:15

>> [laughter] >> You know, I honestly think that's what it is.

1:38:17

I think maybe I I think I'm an artist because I'm not. You know what I mean? >> Right.

1:38:22

Like you need those limitations, those obstacles to overcome.

1:38:24

That's what pushed the potential right out of it. >> Yes. Exactly.

1:38:28

To kind of understand, you know, great suffering.

1:38:34

[music] [music] I'm not ready to get started. Let's go. H. It's good and I like it. Like I enjoy [music] it.

1:39:10

the thing that you were saying like [music] like I'll enjoy some of it like I can see nuance like I can I feel like I can see the nuance there [music] you know >> you know we do take a lot of time and care and putting together the hot sauce lineup curating it and I think the front

1:39:23

half is nice and tasty you know you can go for a ride a little bit >> okay cool yeah >> so Minions and Monsters is set during Hollywood's transition from silent to sound films >> how [music] deep did you dig into the history you know like from Katon to Chap And if so, did it shape [music] your performance at all? >> Yeah, I mean, it's this adorable kind of

1:39:41

>> Yeah, I mean, it's this adorable kind of like mashup of this very modern thing, these Minions [music] characters who we all love and is a very like kind of, you know, now creation and then um setting them in the past and kind of like it's a really cute and clever way to kind of like reference old movies and old Hollywood.

1:39:57

[music] And the characters are adorable and two of them want to be filmmakers and they are like a but they're stuck as minions.

1:40:04

You know, I watched it with my kid.

1:40:05

My kid is like laughing and finding it adorable.

1:40:07

I'm looking at all these old Hollywood references.

1:40:10

[music] You brought up Buster Katon.

1:40:11

There's like this amazing very clever just passing moment that's a reference to a Buster Katon movie and um yeah, it's like it's an adorable love letter to movies. [music] >> M. You like that one? >> No, not now.

1:40:30

I liked it for the first second.

1:40:32

The first second was like really sweet.

1:40:33

I was like, this bine is good.

1:40:35

And then as soon as you ask me that, [music] >> it has little >> Yeah.

1:40:38

Is it true I should be feeling the spice in like different parts of my body or mouth or something?

1:40:42

[music] >> To me, this one's kind of lighting my tongue on fire, you know? >> Lovely.

1:40:47

>> And then same with the throat a little bit, but other ones maybe they'll make you sweat. >> Yeah. No, I was wondering.

1:40:52

[music] I'm like cuz I like traveling around the world and I'm so curious like why like [music] why this hot sauce exists in certain places that I've been.

1:41:00

You know, my family comes from like northern, [music] you know, Eastern Europe and we don't have anything spicy, you know, >> and we would pickle things, but we to preserve, but spices were doing a similar thing in, you know, hotter regions.

1:41:13

Well, that's actually a rather poetic segue. All right.

1:41:15

Because I just visited my alma mater, so maybe I'm just in like a higher education frame of mind, but I do [clears throat] wonder like how did studying anthropology shape your approach to acting and playwriting? >> Oh, wow.

1:41:27

Um, anthropology is like the study of like the other and what you learn like in the first class is like whatever you think like your culture is is just as valid and equal to somebody else's culture.

1:41:39

And you know, we tend to think of ourselves um like as the right way to live.

1:41:43

I'm living in the logical way. I do this this and this.

1:41:45

And that's how everybody on earth thinks of [music] their lives.

1:41:49

And so that's like exactly what you know actors and writers of fiction and characters should be thinking of that this character's perspective on the world is just as valid as my perspective even though it's different.

1:42:00

And um yeah, so that's what anthropology is and that's why I guess I really love studying. >> Well said. Oh, thanks.

1:42:11

I'm really just trying to avoid uh the Hot Ones original pickled garlic Sriracha.

1:42:15

[music] Well, it doesn't matter, you know, because you can try to avoid it.

1:42:18

You can swerve the pothole, but >> we're tethered to [music] a format over here.

1:42:24

>> Okay, >> if you're ready, >> I'm ready. >> Cheers. >> Cheers.

1:42:32

>> I [music] I like that. I like that.

1:42:35

>> And I think even maybe a little less intense than wing number two.

1:42:39

>> I'm seeing you're telling me a story here. >> Exactly. >> Yeah.

1:42:42

>> Nonlinear storytelling.

1:42:44

>> You know what I had this week? >> What did you have?

1:42:45

for the very first time in my life. Sriracha.

1:42:46

[music] Oh, because this week I used as a kind of homework week, as a gearing up week, you know, [laughter] preparing. Yeah.

1:42:53

But Chachim Te [music] told me prepare and then the day before you shoot the show, don't do anything.

1:43:01

It said you take that as your day. And I was like, whoa.

1:43:04

[laughter] I was like, oh my god.

1:43:06

Like it's too personal, you know?

1:43:08

But it did tell me like the week before cuz I I I asked it on um on like Saturday.

1:43:12

I was like, I'm doing this on Thursday, you know, and it's like, Sunday is a tow dip and then, you know, Monday we're going to take it a little more seriously and then Tuesday you can go wild, but take Wednesday for you.

1:43:25

[laughter] I was like, nothing's scarier than an AI like over being more human than my wife who's like, I don't give a [ __ ] what you do.

1:43:31

Just do the thing and go on the thing.

1:43:33

You're supposed to talk about [laughter] the movie.

1:43:42

>> That's really [music] good.

1:43:45

Am I doing a great job on this show? >> You're crushing. >> Okay.

1:43:48

[laughter] >> You're crushing.

1:43:50

>> No, I guess what I'm asking is like, should I be crying yet or no?

1:43:51

This is all normal to kind of enjoying [music] this. >> Yeah.

1:43:54

You know, it's step by step.

1:43:54

We're boiling the frog one degree at a time.

1:43:59

>> And if you had like, >> do you think I'm doing a [music] good job?

1:44:02

>> I think you're doing a great job.

1:44:02

And I'll say this, you came prepared.

1:44:04

You know, you got notes from Woody. You got the lime here.

1:44:07

You brought in a milkshake, which I always love when somebody does that.

1:44:12

>> Oh, cuz you get to have it, too. Mhm.

1:44:15

Sometimes I'll talk to actors, [music] right, who are in love with the project, but they'll dread a particular scene that they read in the script. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

1:44:24

>> What comes to mind when you think about a scene that you dreaded on the call sheet from the moment a film went into production?

1:44:29

>> In the movie, The Social Network, there's one scene.

1:44:31

It's not even [music] an important scene in the movie.

1:44:32

It's like a It's like a It's like a passing scene in the movie.

1:44:36

I had tons of computer language.

1:44:38

And despite my appearance, posture, and tone of voice, I don't know anything about computers.

1:44:43

And so I had to like memorize this technical paragraph.

1:44:45

And so just every day in the shower, I'm like going over this paragraph.

1:44:49

This paragraph, it ruined a month of showers for me.

1:44:50

You know, normally I like the heat and the steam and you could open your pores and all that.

1:44:55

But this one, I'm just standing there shampooing my head. That's what this is.

1:44:58

I'm shampooing my head going, you know, I can't even I can't even say the thing now.

1:45:02

That's how little I know about computers.

1:45:03

[music] Isn't it a shame to look like me and not know about computers?

1:45:06

[laughter] It's like the equivalent of being like 72 and not being good at basketball.

1:45:10

>> I think it makes you interesting actually.

1:45:12

You know, you're bucking any sort of trend or preconception that one could have about you. >> That's true.

1:45:18

>> And there's been a lot of lore written about that film and particular, you know, the 99 takes required for the opening breakup scene.

1:45:24

And I'm just wondering internally for an actor, [music] what does that feel like on say take 65?

1:45:31

Like at that point, are you kind of breaking?

1:45:33

[music] Is there like a hopelessness feeling or are you so committed to the process that it kind of just feels normal?

1:45:39

>> So with movies, movies are the tough thing where you have like two or three takes normally to do it.

1:45:41

That's like an unnatural thing.

1:45:43

You know, you go to drama school, you're working on your scenes all week before you then present it to the class.

1:45:47

The really difficult thing is going onto a movie set, suddenly they're like lights, you pictured the room a different way, this actor is different than [music] who you thought it was going to be.

1:45:55

And you have two takes to get this thing that's now like a permanent, you know, expression of whatever the character is.

1:46:00

And so, no, to do like a movie where they have a budget to do like [music] a lot of takes, if you have like an interesting character that you could play in like different ways and find nuances, oh my god, it's like the most fun [music] thing in the world. M really like that.

1:46:22

>> And I think it's a lot like the second one, you know, where it has a nice taste. Yep.

1:46:28

Sweetness and then behind it some of that smoke. >> Yes. Now I feel it.

1:46:33

>> Do you have any Is this really happening moments?

1:46:35

Reflecting back on your years of doing live theater. Oh my god. Yeah.

1:46:40

And the moments are so weird.

1:46:40

They're not like I don't know my line.

1:46:42

It's not like a typical actor thing.

1:46:43

I don't know my line or what if I slip or something.

1:46:47

No, it's it's just this out of body sensation where I know I could like turn to the audience and say hello.

1:46:51

You know, just stop the show [music] and just say like hi, we're all here.

1:46:54

You know, this weird feeling of like >> intrusive thoughts. >> Mhm. The worst. Do you have this ever?

1:46:58

I mean, you're interviewing people all the time. You're doing this.

1:47:01

Don't you ever have a feeling of like this is surreal or does the pain of this thing bring you back into your body in a helpful way?

1:47:08

>> Oo, that's a good question.

1:47:08

I I think that there's always this anxiety because and you understand this as somebody who does interviews because it's a strange thing that we're doing, right?

1:47:18

We're meeting for the very first time.

1:47:19

We have to create this rhythm, this energy, this rapport, this sense of trust.

1:47:23

You know, it's like a performative version of a conversation, right?

1:47:26

Then it's in this ridiculous context of it being a TV show >> and then even more ridiculous context of the fact that we're eating increasingly spicy wings through the whole thing.

1:47:36

So I always let the worst case scenario play in my head and like dominate my thoughts before I ever sit down with someone, which is strange because nine times out of 10 it's a very positive shoot experience despite the format.

1:47:49

So, but I do have a problem with like always thinking the worst case scenario is how it's going to play out.

1:47:56

And all these years in, I can never shake that. >> Yeah.

1:47:59

But I think that's a survival mechanism.

1:48:01

[music] You know, if you think about it, you're what you're essentially doing is like running through dry runs of problems, you know? Right.

1:48:07

>> And so that sounds like a survival mechanism.

1:48:08

I always thought, you know, the paranoid people are the ones who survive.

1:48:11

At least that's [music] my family's history.

1:48:12

[laughter] And you're doing great. >> Thanks, Sean.

1:48:26

>> This feels like one that you would like cuz I feel like you're someone who likes the sweetness up front. >> Yeah, I do. I do. You're right.

1:48:33

>> You're [laughter] right. I do.

1:48:33

I mean, I I didn't know that about myself, but I learned. >> Yeah. Yeah.

1:48:37

Story checks out the first six.

1:48:38

[laughter] What's funny about community theater, you know, because here you are, you're writing this movie and it's like a shy woman that gets lost in her role, right?

1:48:50

And I feel like that has to come from somewhere.

1:48:51

And that's how you started like >> Exactly. Yeah.

1:48:53

>> Exactly. Yeah. It's that funny juxtaposition that I think audiences are aware of, you know, [music] but um don't think about on the community theater level, you know, where normally I mean you more than anybody else delve into the actor's process and you probably

1:49:05

meet a lot of pretentious [music] actors and they tell you about their process and they go like this with their forehead and you know, but we think it's okay because they're also in, you know, Academy Award-winning movie and so you're like, "Oh, I guess that's what you have to do." But imagine that same

1:49:18

But imagine that same kind of process and the pretentious forehead rub and the I don't know.

1:49:21

forehead rub and the I don't know. when the jackets on and um imagine [music] that for they're in Susicle in you know [laughter] Madawan New Jerseyy's high school you know and so that's funny that's inherently funny >> inherently funny

1:49:34

>> but you should also take them seriously like why should they not also think about [music] third as long as they're not annoying to their other cast members or whatever you know then we should also take that seriously as [music] well right >> I'm shocked I feel great >> this is eight dragon >> Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.

1:49:56

So, you're a New Yorker who grew up an Indiana Pacers fan, you know, which is this strange psychological loop since so much of Reggie Miller's legacy is built on absolutely destroying the Knicks.

1:50:08

>> Was there something contrarian about you even as a kid where rooting for the villain felt more honest than the hometown team?

1:50:14

>> Well, they were not the villain to me.

1:50:14

I mean, the Villains were this mega city that has 75 other sports teams.

1:50:17

[music] That's the richest city on the planet.

1:50:22

Indiana, Indianapolis, you know, you have the Colts, but otherwise, like, you know, there's not that much going on in Indiana. Forgive me, my wife.

1:50:29

Um, I love Indiana more than anything.

1:50:31

And so, the way I think about it is like they need it way more than we do.

1:50:37

>> Do you have a lasting memory from the time that you played one-on-one basketball against Tyra Bus, a fourtime all Big 10 guard for the University of Indiana?

1:50:46

>> Wow, you do very good research. Yeah. Right.

1:50:48

So, I wanted to write a story about my favorite player of that era, which was [music] which is 10 years ago, not like an old era.

1:50:54

Um, Tyra Bus, this phenom [music] at on the IU women's team, you know, brilliant player. I could have won. I'm not joking. I could have won.

1:51:03

In fact, I only lost by like two points. I don't know, something. I was really close.

1:51:06

The massive difference with us was [music] that she just was not out of breath and I was on the bathroom floor like puking up nothing. I was just gagging. [music] I was so spent. And it was a short game. >> All right.

1:51:19

This next one's the bomb beyond insanity. >> Okay. >> If you're ready. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cheers. >> Cheers.

1:51:28

>> Notice how confident I am.

1:51:28

Look at the first the first bite I took from the the weakest one. Nothing. Look at this now. That's called stupidity. [laughter] A mistake. That was a mistake. I'm stupid.

1:51:45

Holy [ __ ] That was stupid.

1:51:47

And I have to say something. >> Mhm.

1:51:48

>> I didn't enjoy that at all.

1:51:48

There was no like redeeming culinary quality. >> Nothing. Zero. >> You owe me both.

1:51:57

>> Are there people who do like that? Like I don't like it. >> No one does.

1:52:00

It's never been complimented on the show. Not one time. >> Holy [ __ ] >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

1:52:08

>> But we're built for it. We're battle tested.

1:52:11

>> Can I confess something? >> Yeah. Go ahead.

1:52:12

I spent Tuesday at Mount Si because I suddenly had this ringing in my ear like I couldn't believe.

1:52:20

I was like, "What the hell is this?"

1:52:21

And so they're like, "Can we just give you a um a hearing test, you know?"

1:52:27

So I go in for a hearing test.

1:52:27

I have severe hearing loss in my left ear.

1:52:30

Unrelated to the tinitis.

1:52:30

They're like, "You must have had this for years.

1:52:31

I don't know why, right?"

1:52:32

And so I tell them, "Listen, I'm doing Hot Ones on Friday.

1:52:37

[laughter] Is there anything you could do for me?"

1:52:40

And so I have now two doctors.

1:52:42

Everybody's worried about me, you know. Mhm.

1:52:43

>> Because I'm in movies.

1:52:44

>> Did you have to explain Hot Ones or did they understand?

1:52:47

>> Everybody knew Hot Ones.

1:52:47

[laughter] >> That's >> Were you fishing? Were you fishing? >> No. No. >> Oh, they knew. That's so weird.

1:52:51

Oh my god, it's so embarrassing. That's cool.

1:52:55

What was their like favorite app?

1:52:56

[laughter] >> So, I have all these people in there.

1:53:02

There's two doctors, but a a gaggle of nursing people and as well.

1:53:04

And they're like, "Listen, okay, it's on Friday. What time?" I said, "It's at 1:00."

1:53:08

You know, they say, "Okay, listen.

1:53:09

we can give you a shot in your eardrum of a steroid, but I think it might hurt your stomach.

1:53:14

And I'm like, okay, we can't do that. I can't get the steroid. >> Yeah.

1:53:17

>> And they're like, okay, well, listen, maybe you do the hot ones immediately.

1:53:21

Come back to the hospital and then we'll give you that steroid so you can get through hot ones. You know what I mean?

1:53:25

So, I just want to let you know I'm injured, okay?

1:53:27

I'm suffering and I'm not following the advice of surgeons to be here right now.

1:53:35

Well, it means the world to us here and to the audience that's watching this video right now.

1:53:40

So, >> they know I sacrifice you.

1:53:42

>> It will not be in vain. I promise you.

1:53:44

>> So, over a decade ago, you would publish these restaurant reviews from the perspective of a 9-year-old precocious child called Breen Gives Me Hiccups.

1:53:51

You published them in Mc Sweenies. >> That's right.

1:53:56

>> If you had that nine-year-old narrator at Hot Ones, what do you think their review of the bomb would be?

1:54:00

>> I'll tell you exactly what it would be.

1:54:02

This kid was like a very thoughtful kid who noticed like who would see that I am trying to prove something because I'm lacking in some kind of masculine thing from my childhood by eating the bomb, you know?

1:54:18

>> And so this kid was more of like he was eating stuff that was really more social science.

1:54:21

like he was kind of reading into people's needs and he would see that I'm this incredibly weak, flawed person uh that is constantly trying to achieve in an attempt to live forever and prove that I'm not, you know, weak [music] and to make my dad like me, you know, kind of thing.

1:54:39

And that's what he would see with the bomb [laughter] right through it. >> Yeah.

1:54:42

He would see me see through through see through me.

1:54:49

>> I'm not doing as big a bite. Okay.

1:54:49

And just so you don't think I'm weak, this is my debomb.

1:54:56

>> No one thinks you are.

1:54:57

>> Not with this performance.

1:54:59

>> Great milkshake, by the way.

1:55:00

>> Do you think I cheated by not having as much of the the XXX salsa?

1:55:02

I mean, look at that difference.

1:55:04

This was to >> If you want to go back, we can go back. There you go. >> All right.

1:55:10

>> That's what I'm talking about.

1:55:16

>> How come [clears throat] there's like three hot ones here? like branded.

1:55:21

[music] You know what I mean? >> Oh, cuz we make them. >> No, I know that.

1:55:23

But like, how come you don't like Why don't you do >> Why don't we do more? >> Yeah, kind of.

1:55:28

>> Well, we we want to be pure. >> Mhm.

1:55:31

>> You know what I'm saying?

1:55:31

Like >> like I think it's a good thing to get all these different craft sauce makers from all over the country and all over the world.

1:55:39

>> So, people must pitch you every day. Can you have my thing? >> Oh my gosh. Yeah.

1:55:42

>> To get like your hot bine on here. That's a big thing. >> It is a big deal.

1:55:47

>> I really did like that.

1:55:48

>> Is that your favorite one? I really did like it. Yeah. Oh, it's eggplant.

1:55:50

Why does it say plant-based eggplant part?

1:55:55

Like would these ever not be plant-based? >> It's a good question. Yeah.

1:56:02

>> Like when where would they have peppers grow out of the >> Yeah.

1:56:06

>> grow out of the ground >> like plants.

1:56:08

>> I think you know you just you got to have an angle, you know. I see in the messaging.

1:56:12

>> You know what plant-based signals to vegans, vegetarians, this is good for you. >> Exactly. Exactly. >> You're right. Should I be shaking it?

1:56:23

>> Go ahead and give it a shake.

1:56:23

[laughter] >> This is just theatrical. >> This is the last dab.

1:56:29

We call it the last dab cuz it's tradition to put a little extra on the last one.

1:56:32

You don't have to if you don't want to. >> I'll do it.

1:56:36

>> And then I put it on the board a little bit.

1:56:37

So then I can just dip it rather than risking it avalanching on you.

1:56:42

Have you ever had somebody on here who like thought they were bad at spice and then it turns out, oh, actually I'm not bothered at all.

1:56:48

>> I actually think that that is most commonly how it plays out.

1:56:53

>> People much more anticipation nervous.

1:56:55

>> The more humility >> people walk into the studio with >> Yeah.

1:57:00

>> I think that the I think the better they do in the actual execution of eating the food.

1:57:05

>> That sounds like a life advice.

1:57:07

>> It there's Yeah, there's a metaphor in there.

1:57:09

All right, I'm going to dip. I'm going to dip, too. Cheers. Cheers. Look how brave I am. This was the first one. And now look at this. Look how brave I am.

1:57:25

[laughter] >> Are you fishing? >> No.

1:57:27

Fishing would be like, am I brave?

1:57:29

Like, [laughter] >> and with that, the wings of death are behind you. >> Yeah.

1:57:36

You're someone who's been very open about your anxieties, your fixations, yet here you are taking on the world's spiciest wings and doing it without breaking a sweat. >> Mhm.

1:57:48

>> Now that you're on the other side of the experience, I think it's a good time to ask, what are you most worried about currently? >> I loved it. I loved my meal. I loved my day.

1:57:58

[laughter] >> Not a care in the world.

1:58:01

And look at you, Jesse Eisenberg, taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale.

1:58:08

And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

1:58:09

This camera, this camera, or this camera?

1:58:11

Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

1:58:15

>> You mean like where this is where I say the name of the movie and the date, that kind of thing. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

1:58:19

[laughter] You got to be more specific cuz I have other stuff happening, too. You know what I mean?

1:58:25

>> Like I'm going on vacation. Um Oh, hi. I'm Jesse.

1:58:29

I did this really wonderful job [music] here today and you could look forward to another wonderful job that I did in the Minions movie.

1:58:39

[laughter] >> Okay, [applause] thanks. Great job.

1:58:46

You crushed that [ __ ] [music] >> You know what I brought just in case? I I I it's so stupid.

1:58:52

But I mean, it's like I brought one extra contact lens because [laughter] I thought if I'm crying or something and one of my contacts falls out, but I'm too stupid to bring both.

1:59:02

I was just like, I can't have two in my pocket.

1:59:05

It's going to be too big.

1:59:06

So, >> you know, if you just do a clean one eye swipe. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:59:09

I guess I was thinking I could at least get home somehow if I have one [laughter] to contact him in. >> Of course. >> Mhm.

1:59:16

[clears throat] >> It's good. And I like it. >> It's hot.

1:59:20

Yeah, it's caught in my mouth.

1:59:23

>> Well, [laughter] >> hey, what's going on everybody for First We Feast.

1:59:30

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

1:59:31

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter [music] wings.

1:59:34

And today we're joined by David Dovny.

1:59:35

He's a two-time Golden Globe Award winner who spent nine seasons chasing aliens as Fox Moulder in the [music] X-Files and another seven playing a self-destructing novelist on California Cation.

1:59:43

He also has a shelf of published novels, a collection of poetry, as well as his fourth studio album as a musician on the way.

1:59:49

It's called Prince of Pieces, set to release on August 13th.

1:59:52

David [music] DVny, welcome to the show. >> Thank you. Thanks for having me.

1:59:57

>> What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the Hot Ones gauntlet?

1:59:59

Are you someone who enjoys a spicy meal? >> I No, I'm not at all.

2:00:01

I'm I'm completely unprepared and illprepared to be doing this.

2:00:06

I'm the the last person on earth who should be doing this. I don't I I don't know.

2:00:10

[music] Uh we'll see how my my my body holds up. >> We will see.

2:00:14

Are you ready to get started? >> I'm ready.

2:00:16

[music] >> [music] [music] >> What is this called?

2:00:39

>> That's what Shashidito said. >> That's funny. I'm laughing already.

2:00:40

Any anywhere [music] I bite it. >> Anywhere. >> Okay.

2:00:54

Can I ask you a question? >> Of course.

2:00:55

[music] How did you come up with this idea?

2:00:56

Cuz I I was doing a uh a podcast for a couple years and it is you get you get stuck [music] in these kind of grooves of like call and response and you do want to like smack smack somebody and get something new.

2:01:08

And I I found that um like [music] I would always want to ask really smart questions and that that smart questions are the worst questions to ask cuz they have an answer. You know what I mean? [laughter] >> Yeah. Right.

2:01:21

>> Dumb questions are the best.

2:01:22

>> Those are the Well, I've got plenty of dumb questions for you today. You're ready.

2:01:27

>> So, the title of your new album, Prince of Pieces, is one letter away from Prince of Peace, which is a pretty loaded pun even for an English major.

2:01:36

What's the backstory behind the word play and title there?

2:01:37

Well, I've I'm a fan of uh word play on Jesus.

2:01:39

Uh there is a uh [music] there's a pizzeria called Prince of Pizza. >> Shout out nothing. Nothing.

2:01:52

>> Prince of Pieces just came to me as in a dream, maybe driving something.

2:01:55

And I was like, "Yeah, because we compartmentalize like I'm a compartmentalized 21st century man.

2:01:59

I've got I've got walled off places in my soul.

2:02:03

I've got walled off places in my being.

2:02:06

[music] So, we're all kind of prince and princesses of pieces here in our our modern day life.

2:02:10

I was like, okay, let's start with that and uh let's write a rock song about it.

2:02:20

Feeling rather confident, I think it's false [music] confidence.

2:02:24

>> Many such cases after the first wing on this show.

2:02:26

>> [ __ ] [laughter] >> This next one is called Hot Bine. >> What? >> Hot Bine.

2:02:32

>> That's They got to go back to school on that one.

2:02:34

[laughter] So, while at Princeton, your senior thesis was on Samuel Beckett's early novels, and then decades later, you have a podcast called Fail Better. Yeah.

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What was it about Beckett that followed [music] you from a 21-year-old's thesis to a 60somes podcast?

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>> People think [music] of Beckett or his 20th century philosophy or existentialism being pessimistic, but in in actuality, it's it's kind of optimistic through the lens of failure.

2:03:04

I've never learned anything from winning.

2:03:05

I've only learned from failing.

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I've only learned from difficult [music] situations.

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>> Can you in plain English and succinctly possible? >> That wasn't English. >> That's true. It wasn't English.

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>> In English and succinctly as possible, how would you distill the argument that you were making in your thesis, which was titled The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason and Beckett's Early Novels? >> Yeah, that was dumb.

2:03:28

Um, so I was young, right?

2:03:30

I was basically looking at it like to distill it, it's like [music] the only sane response to an insane world is insanity.

2:03:39

That would be the cliche.

2:03:41

[music] So I was looking at these French crazy French philosophers who were rebelling against Freudianism, Freudian like neurosis and saying [music] somebody like Shraber or somebody like these people that we think of as crazy are actually a conduit to the truth of what's really happening because all our neurosis is just like one shade of gray.

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[music] They may be in pain but they're living the entire Technicolor universe, you know?

2:04:10

So it's a little cavalier with respect to mental illness, [music] you know, because I that is painful for people. Very painful.

2:04:17

But it was like trying to open a window into more color.

2:04:24

>> Well, you know, >> I don't know.

2:04:26

>> It wasn't a very good thesis.

2:04:26

[laughter] >> Well, you know, it's a thesis that I think we carry here where the answer to insanity is simply more insanity.

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And if you're ready, we can continue that train with wing number three. >> That was good. That was good. [laughter] Yeah. What's this one called?

2:04:40

>> It's called pickled garlic Sriracha.

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Not as funny as that's what Chashidito said.

2:04:46

>> At least it's honest >> already.

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I'm thinking something's happening.

2:04:58

>> Oh, I feel that one a little more.

2:05:00

>> You grew up in the Ukrainian village on Manhattan's east side.

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[music] For the uninitiated, what's the ultimate order at Vulca on Second Avenue?

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[laughter] I think it's cheese perogi.

2:05:10

I'd have to go with cheese perogi.

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[music] Potato perogi also good, but cheese perogi for me.

2:05:18

>> I understand that you and your friends would play baseball [music] at the St.

2:05:21

Mark's Church in the Bowery Cemetery and then you would use the gravestones as bases just reaching here, but do you remember who was buried at home [music] plate?

2:05:29

>> I think it might have been um BVort.

2:05:32

There were all these Dutch names, right?

2:05:34

Everybody is Dutch who's buried [music] there.

2:05:35

It's Peter Stson is actually buried there.

2:05:37

Stson might have been second base, but all all Dutch names were the names of bases.

2:05:43

>> What was the best concert or show that you got to see or at least hear through the walls when you were working as a bartender at Radio City Music Hall?

2:05:50

>> That's a great question.

2:05:50

I used to I watched a hall cuz we would we would set up [music] and uh we would just have to serve drinks at intermission.

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So after we broke the the the stations down, we could go watch.

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The the memory that sticks with me, I watch Prince do a sound check.

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He's got like a big overcoat on and he's walking through uh [music] the the seats at Radio City and he goes to a spot and he goes he flips [music] his coat back and he goes he flips his coat back up and he walks to another spot and he goes he does this like 10 I'm just watching Prince move from space to space in radio sign do a little shimmy pop it back on that's all I that's that's I I didn't talk to him.

2:06:36

I didn't ask him like is that like it's cool here.

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It's good and good sound, you know.

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Uh so that's that was my prince story. All right.

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I feel like you're going to sucker me, but >> never.

2:06:54

>> One of these looks particularly sweaty. [laughter] >> Uh-oh. Bad omen. >> Yeah.

2:07:01

>> So many of the monsters in the X Files were played by real people using practical effects. >> Yeah.

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Which one looked like the gnarliest or freakiest when you finally saw them in full prosthetics on set?

2:07:11

>> Well, I'll tell you a story.

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Um, the opposite of that, which was uh we were doing some episode in like a perfect community and the whole idea was that the all the repressed [ __ ] literally of this community was going into the sewers and it was creating this return of the repressed.

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that was creating this monster that was made out of everybody's repressed desires and everything.

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So, it was a cool idea, but I had to see and fight off this poop monster basically.

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That's what he looked like. He was poopish.

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I just always made me laugh.

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That was who I that was he was my mortal enemy for that day. Oh, fancy.

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I feel like this is the turn.

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I feel like this is when it starts [music] to get weird. >> Mhm.

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And then with this one in particular, it's got kind of a sweetness up front and then >> you get the violence behind it. >> Violence. >> Oh yeah.

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>> The [laughter] story checks out.

2:08:21

>> You know what you're talking about.

2:08:23

>> Can you tell me about the time that Shaq checked out of a Laker game early to sit next to you courtside?

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Yeah, it was a highlight. I have the picture. I have it framed.

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I look like a child next to Shaq.

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I look like a little baby next to >> We all do.

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>> So, [music] so it start the game starts and you know one of the things [music] about being in the at least for me about being in the front row there was like trying to catch the eye of players that I like and just like you know give them like what's up you know like like see the you know we know each other.

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So before the game, Shaq gives me the and I'm like Shaq.

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So I'm like, so the uh ball boy comes to me and he says, "Sha wants you to know that he doesn't watch the X Files when you're not on it."

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I'm like, "Uh, you tell him I don't watch the Lakers when he's injured."

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So they go back and Shaq's like, "Ah."

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So it's like, "Oh, me and Shaq."

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So they kill Portland and Shaq gets taken out in the middle of the fourth quarter cuz it's it's over.

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But instead of going to the bench, Shaq sat next to me.

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[music] And I'm like, me and Shaq are gonna be friends now. Look at this.

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I [snorts] said, uh, you really, you know, [music] I didn't say this because not as lame.

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I, but I basically said, you kicked Sabonis' ass tonight.

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And he was like, Sabonis don't want no part of me.

2:09:42

I was like, well, yeah, that's kind of what I was saying.

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[laughter] But that was like the the end, you know, and I thought me and Shaq were really going to have something.

2:09:50

So Shaq, if you're watching, I'm still here.

2:10:00

This is [music] a situation.

2:10:05

>> Oh, this is going to be trouble. >> Mhm. >> I can tell.

2:10:11

>> So, when you were a TA at Yale, I heard you say that you were too much of a performer as a teacher [music] and too much of a teacher as an actor.

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>> Can you unpackage that?

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>> You know, acting is about reaction and about instinct.

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It's not about intellectual. It's not about thinking. It's about feeling. So I was coming into it.

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In fact, that's why I became an actor was I think I wanted to educate that part of myself that was the feeling part of myself.

2:10:34

Aside from whatever would happen, making a living, having a career, whatever.

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I think just [music] naturally I I gravitated towards this space because I wanted to educate my emotions the way my head had been educated.

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So there I was, [music] but I was just using my head.

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I was cuz that's all I had been taught to use.

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You know, acting is just reaction. Just like gut it out.

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Just try and educate your gut.

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Try and listen to your gut.

2:10:56

Try and work with your [music] gut, which is probably what I'm doing here.

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[laughter] >> Certainly, I have an educated gut over >> later on.

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Later on, my gut level over here. >> Eight dragons. This is the sweaty one.

2:11:23

Oh yeah, I bet this is a >> a lot like five where it has a very sweet >> and then because of the texture, it's almost candied.

2:11:32

You know, it's kind of like a spicy candy in a way. >> Yeah.

2:11:36

>> But then, >> oh, there it is. >> It's happening. >> There it is. All right.

2:11:42

>> A feeling I know all too well.

2:11:44

>> Sneaky [ __ ] [laughter] As a novelist yourself, was there an aspect of playing a novelist in Californication that hit closest to home?

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Like, in what way do you most relate to Hank as a writer?

2:11:53

What I always responded to with with [music] Hank was we had this Hank had this uh thing he would do after every uh when he finished, he would [music] have whiskey, weed, and Warren Zevon.

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And so I just that idea of like having gone through this gauntlet of trying to write something trying >> a reward. >> Yeah.

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And just like to sit back and go, well, >> we did that.

2:12:19

You know, now we can we can treat ourselves. >> All right.

2:12:22

Well, you know, we're only three wings away from a little Weed and Warren Zeal ourselves.

2:12:28

>> If you're ready to move on, this next one is called The Bomb Beyond Insanity.

2:12:32

>> I've been warned about this one, I think, >> for good reason.

2:12:46

Yeah, there's something there. >> Oh jeez. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.

2:12:55

You see, I I was getting cocky. >> It humbles us all. >> Yeah. [music] >> This sauce. >> Yeah. Okay.

2:13:04

Do I look like you right now?

2:13:07

>> I hope I look like you, by the way. I hope I look like you. >> You look so sad.

2:13:14

[laughter] >> It's a lot of years doing this, you know.

2:13:16

>> But you still >> And this sauce in particular, >> you're still so good at it, though.

2:13:20

You're you're you're there. You're present. >> I'm present. I'm connected.

2:13:24

>> I've done so many interviews with people. >> Yeah.

2:13:26

>> People that get lauded for being interviewers and they're nowhere to be found. They're not present. You are present. So, thank you for that. It's hot. >> It's hot in my mouth.

2:13:35

>> Well, [laughter] you and me both.

2:13:36

There's a presence and an awareness [music] and a shared experience there. >> Okay.

2:13:42

>> But >> do you mind if I have a little >> No, please. >> Cheers.

2:13:50

>> Do you have [music] >> I just spread it to my lips. >> There's no escape.

2:13:52

[laughter] >> Do you have a fondest memory from playing in those MTV rock games?

2:13:56

You know, it is kind of crazy how you're on a softball team with like Frank Thomas and King Griffy Jr.

2:14:05

>> and then you're playing basketball alongside Clifford Robinson and Queen Latifah.

2:14:08

Like what do you remember about those experiences?

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>> So much because Oh jeez.

2:14:11

Because uh because uh I was big I wanted to be a an athlete.

2:14:19

That would have been my dream.

2:14:21

So the whole MTV rocking jock thing was a fantasy for me.

2:14:24

But the basketball one, Cliff Robinson was on my team and boys to men was on the other team.

2:14:30

One of the boys to men, do you know the term low bridge? >> No. Put me on game.

2:14:36

>> Low bridge is like Can I stand up? >> Yeah, go ahead.

2:14:40

>> Like if somebody goes up to dunk or for a layup and you kind of like you take their legs out, you know, you kind of you kind of get low. It's a dirty play.

2:14:49

[snorts] So, uh, boys to men, low bridge, Cliff Robinson.

2:14:53

[laughter] Not all three of them. One of them. I don't know who it was. >> The bad boy.

2:14:59

>> W [laughter] that I know. One of their names.

2:15:01

Cliff Robinson comes back >> and he's like, I'm going to [ __ ] up Boys to Men.

2:15:06

It's like [laughter] all of a sudden Cliff Robinson is going to to beat up Boys to Men.

2:15:10

And we're like, Cliff, no.

2:15:12

He's like could have ended his career. It was a shitty move.

2:15:14

It was it was it was a bad move cuz Cliff went down on his hip.

2:15:18

And uh I really thought he was going to go after Boys to Men, but he cutthroat. He controlled himself.

2:15:25

>> Those Rock and Jack games are cutthroat. >> Yeah. Right.

2:15:27

It could have been so great if Cliff Robinson went after Boys to Men.

2:15:32

>> And also Reggie Miller's on the other team. And I'm a Nick fan.

2:15:34

And I >> You wanted vengeance. You wanted revenge.

2:15:38

>> I was going to [ __ ] up Reggie Miller.

2:15:38

So I get the ball and I'm like [music] I do something and I I pull up for a jumper and I hit it.

2:15:43

I'm like, "Oh, thank God.

2:15:46

[ __ ] you, Reggie Miller."

2:15:47

And uh buzzer sounds like a minute later and I'm like, "Yeah, [ __ ] you, Reggie Miller."

2:15:53

Reggie Miller comes up and he's like, "Hey man, me and my sister are such big fans.

2:15:57

Could we have a picture?"

2:15:58

I'm like, "Ah, Reggie Miller, [laughter] my man Reggie Miller." "Yeah, sure."

2:16:01

So me and Reggie are fine.

2:16:10

Little burpy, but here we go.

2:16:16

I'm nervous about this one.

2:16:20

>> Do you ever feel it on the tip of your nose?

2:16:23

>> So itchy >> at this point [music] like my lips are numb and then my throat broke.

2:16:31

[laughter] >> You're a magician. >> Yeah.

2:16:34

>> What happened to my throat? Doesn't say that. [laughter] >> Yeah.

2:16:38

>> So I've heard you say that the Larry Sanders show is the only show that you've ever [music] binged. Is that still the case?

2:16:43

And what was it about Larry that had that kind of magnetism for you?

2:16:46

>> So I was up I was up in Vancouver working on the X Files and I just said please [music] just send me those those tapes and that s remember the theme song like that would just make me happy.

2:16:58

So I got to do Sanders and I got to meet Gary and we do a scene.

2:17:02

He does this which is a Gary thing.

2:17:05

Like the director calls cut and Gary goes, "How old are you?"

2:17:13

And I [music] said, "Uh, 32."

2:17:16

And he goes, "What took you so long?"

2:17:21

And just saying that makes me want to tear up because like you know like to be it was like being anointed by the king of comedy.

2:17:30

[music] You know like he's saying like you're doing something [music] you know the greatest compliment I've ever gotten from somebody who I respected in that way and and the way it came was just the greatest [music] way and he was just a prince that way.

2:17:46

Larry Sanders show back then would have avoided hot ones, but you didn't today. Yeah, >> you can't.

2:17:53

[laughter] >> But thankfully there's only one more wing to go. >> Who is this? >> Yeah, sure. >> All right. So, okay. Dab it. >> Dab it. Textbook. Perfect.

2:18:16

I'm sure I'm going to regret that.

2:18:18

>> And with that, the wings of death are behind us.

2:18:21

As we've learned today, you've lived a very rich artistic and creative intellectual life from Bohemian New York City to the corridors of academia to the heights of Hollywood.

2:18:35

I'm curious, at this stage in your career, what are the notes from your younger self that play in your head?

2:18:41

like do you have any foundational advice for someone in their 20s whether it's as simple as wear SPF >> or as heady as read more Beckett?

2:18:52

>> That's such a that's a good question.

2:18:52

Um [snorts] I think just embrace the shadow however that [music] happens.

2:19:06

Just embrace the opposite. Embrace the darkness. It's not dark. It's the richness.

2:19:16

And don't [snorts] be afraid cuz it's all going to end at one point. >> And you know what?

2:19:19

We certainly embraced the darkness today.

2:19:22

But look at you, David Dubny, taking on the wings of death and living to tell the tale.

2:19:26

Now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

2:19:29

This camera, this camera, or this camera.

2:19:31

Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

2:19:35

I've got I've got this album, Prince of Pieces, coming out.

2:19:38

Um, and uh I just [music] finished up a movie that I wrote called um [snorts] I don't remember um Soapbox and I was able to act with my daughter, which was just a dream come true for me, not for her. That's all I can think.

2:19:57

A book of poetry is out right now. Blah blah blah.

2:20:00

You know, like if if you like my stuff, you like my stuff. You'll go find it. [applause] >> Thank you.

2:20:12

I enjoyed I mean, regardless of that stuff, I enjoyed the the the interview.

2:20:18

>> Oh, thank you very much.

2:20:18

And enjoying the ice cream. >> Yeah. Okay.

2:20:24

[cough] >> Oh, [ __ ] The [snorts] gift that keeps on giving up.

2:20:28

[clears throat] Get Willie. It hurts. >> It [laughter] hurts.

2:20:39

[music] >> Hey, what's going on everybody for First We Feast.

2:20:43

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

2:20:45

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

2:20:48

[music] And today we're joined by Penelopey Cruz.

2:20:49

She's an Academy Award-winning actress, you know, from unforgettable turns in films like Vicky Christina, Barcelona, Volva, Vanilla Sky, Ferrari, and many more.

2:20:56

Her latest film though is the A24 comedy The Invite directed by Olivia Wild in select theaters June 26th and expanding nationwide July 10th.

2:21:04

Penelopey Cruz, welcome to the show. >> Thank you. Very nice to see you. Very scared.

2:21:11

>> Yeah, I was going to ask, what's going through your head as you prepare to take on the Hot Ones gauntlet? Are you nervous? Are you excited? Maybe even confident? >> No, no, no. I'm very nervous.

2:21:18

I'm doing this because well, I love your show, but I love like laughing at other people when they do it.

2:21:25

But my [music] kids, I asked them, I said, "Should I do this?" "For sure, ma'am. You should do it. It's the best show."

2:21:31

And they're actually here.

2:21:33

And my my son told me, "Mom, you are cooked.

2:21:36

[laughter] [music] [music] Oh my god, this is nothing.

2:22:15

>> I don't know why I was nervous.

2:22:15

So, [music] The Invite is a fourperson single location chamber piece and really visually dynamic despite being mostly in one room.

2:22:24

As an actor, was there a particular joy in playing a character that's sane, that's stable, that's under control when everyone else in the room is kind of unraveling and losing their minds?

2:22:36

>> She's a great therapist, [music] but she might be the craziest one.

2:22:38

And she doesn't have to play crazy.

2:22:40

It's just like she's [music] complex and so many layers in that woman.

2:22:45

She knows all the theory and she knows how to press your buttons and how to ask you the right questions so that you can figure it out.

2:22:54

[music] But at the same time, she's very complicated woman um that is, you know, coming to the neighbor's house to propose an orgy.

2:23:01

[laughter] >> So, >> you kind of got judging her, but it is >> it is what it is. is specific, peculiar. But there are so many. I apologize.

2:23:15

This will be my first apology of the show. [laughter] >> Uh-oh.

2:23:31

>> Little eyebrow pop, but nothing you can't handle.

2:23:33

[clears throat] Because if this is only number two, >> I worry.

2:23:39

>> But but I can still talk.

2:23:39

[laughter] >> So 4 years ago, we had your friend Salma Hayek on the show.

2:23:45

I'm kind of just fishing here, but do you have any recent adventures with Salma that you can share with us? >> We're really close.

2:23:53

It's like another sister for me. But it was Halloween.

2:23:57

We were wearing um clowns [music] wigs and outfits. And I don't like clowns.

2:24:03

They are scary no matter what.

2:24:05

But imagine being on a plane full of people and 10 of us were dressed like clowns.

2:24:10

And then the pilot said oxygen mask.

2:24:13

We're having a depressurization of cabin.

2:24:15

The stewards were like running like the whole oxygen tank.

2:24:18

They got it for themselves and they run like hide in a bathroom. We were very lucky. We landed safely.

2:24:25

But that was such a crazy bonding experience.

2:24:28

We landed and they had to put us on another plane because we were supposed supposed to be shooting a few hours later.

2:24:35

[music] And of course we were late on set but alive and it [laughter] was really crazy.

2:24:52

I think people lie when they come here. It's not spicy.

2:24:56

>> I'll remember you said this. >> Not spicy.

2:24:58

Let's lock it in the time capsule.

2:25:01

>> And I don't [music] eat spicy food.

2:25:01

Is there like um um if I do better than anybody in the past, [music] do I get like a top award of >> Absolutely. Like if if Yes.

2:25:13

If you make it through, I will make sure that you get a trophy.

2:25:17

We don't have one here, but I'll make sure that I make you a trophy. I will create one. Okay. I promise you that.

2:25:24

>> [snorts] >> What makes taking your kids to a Bad Bunny concert a parenting hack of the highest order?

2:25:29

[laughter] >> Well, you know what?

2:25:31

At the beginning when I became a fan, um we we were like [music] in the car, the kids introduced me to his music.

2:25:41

So, I was like, "These lyrics are not for you."

2:25:43

[music] You know, we were trying to fight that for a while, but then I was like non-stop listening by myself.

2:25:48

We went to Puerto Rico to the first show. um for this tour.

2:25:56

[music] I've already been five times, but the first one in Puerto Rico is when [music] Benito came to me and asked me to go with him to say the traa and finally my kids came to me and said, "Mom, finally you we can say you are cool.

2:26:18

[laughter] We can say you are a cool mother."

2:26:21

I was like, "Thank you, Benito. Thank you."

2:26:24

Oh, it took me all these [laughter] years.

2:26:32

>> I [music] mean, I feel a little bit after, but just a little bit.

2:26:41

>> So, you're in the rare club of having played Sophia in the Spanish original Open Your Eyes, as well as the American remake, Vanilla Sky.

2:26:47

What would you say is the single biggest difference, if there is one, between a Spanish and American moviegoing audience and what they're looking for out of the very same story?

2:26:57

That was very interesting because it was the same story and the same character, but it really didn't feel like making the same movie twice.

2:27:03

Both very different world.

2:27:06

Cameron Crow, Alejandra Minavar, working in different languages, different countries, different cultures.

2:27:15

That has been my life almost since I began working as an actress.

2:27:17

The movie needs what it needs is and when there is a big budget needed is for a reason.

2:27:25

[music] Uh but that really doesn't change our process and our work and and my work system.

2:27:30

It doesn't really change.

2:27:40

Smells like it's going to be a problem.

2:27:43

Now, like the last one, I think a sweetness up front and then the heat kind of behind it. Yeah. >> Yeah. This one tricks you.

2:27:51

This one at the beginning, nothing happens.

2:27:54

And now, now I'm starting to feel things.

2:27:58

[laughter] >> And it's about time. It's about time. >> It's about time. >> Yeah.

2:28:05

This one is going to stay with me for a while. >> Yeah. Yeah.

2:28:09

And then we're going to stack on top of it.

2:28:10

But let's not work ahead.

2:28:12

All right, let's celebrate the accomplishment, which is that we've made it halfway through. >> Yes.

2:28:18

>> And we're still strong.

2:28:20

Do you have a favorite painting or room at Museo Raina Sophia?

2:28:24

>> Yeah, but my favorite painting is the most disturbing painting at Elra.

2:28:30

>> Is that a Goya Vasquez? No.

2:28:38

A million things are happening in that painting.

2:28:40

like you could spend [music] days and days and days looking at it and you still haven't seen the whole thing.

2:28:46

And I know a lot of people have that relationship with that painting with um Garden of Delights.

2:28:50

It's like time [music] stops.

2:28:53

>> Is there a film that you think best captures the essence of Madrid?

2:28:55

Like what film captures Madrid the best?

2:29:00

I mean, I would say any film with Almodovar, all the ones that happened in the city, starting from how he captures the city during the Movida in the 80s, films like women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the [music] way he photographs the city, how the people take care of their colorful plants in their films and like [music] even if you have a tiny terrorist. No.

2:29:22

And it's like always like one more character in in his films. The same with the food.

2:29:29

>> The food >> the food always appears like there is a day during during the shoot where you know a flan is going to appear or a pa or a tortilla de patata and that's because Pedro wants to eat one and the sisters are the ones that make it and they make the best the best kind.

2:29:46

[snorts] And then he writes it he adds it into the scene you know to feel less guilty.

2:29:51

[laughter] >> But today your theory is that he really just wants to eat. No, no.

2:29:54

I I've seen it happen like in four different films.

2:29:59

Five, like there are there are things that come keep coming back to their films and it's because he wants to eat it.

2:30:07

So then for the day after he will rewrite the scene, your character in this scene is eating a tortilla deata.

2:30:13

[laughter] >> So then that day you're going to do one take. >> No more.

2:30:19

Maybe because he's got to eat it first.

2:30:21

>> He's going to eat the whole the rest of the thing. Yes, >> I understand. I get it.

2:30:29

>> [laughter] >> Luke, I go for more. Go ahead. Number six. >> Yep.

2:30:37

>> Is it still a dream of yours to get your driver's license? And if so, >> oh my god.

2:30:42

>> Where are we at on the journey here?

2:30:43

Like, have you taken any driver's test recently? [snorts] >> Okay.

2:30:47

Everything I'm going to tell you about this is true.

2:30:51

So I have a very deep fear of driving and I think there is a name for that.

2:30:56

They they came up with a name recently because there are a lot of people like me.

2:31:00

I'm going to say something that I was not planning to say but my friend Bono gave me a car for my last birthday. >> What a son.

2:31:08

>> How crazy that sounds but he gave me a car and I think that is like the ultimate push to do it.

2:31:12

Like if >> that's a good >> after you get a car from Bono you don't get your license. How crazy is that?

2:31:18

So now I'm thinking about it again, but it's such a deep fear.

2:31:22

Every time I get on a car, I feel like, okay, here we go.

2:31:28

Are we going to make it or not?

2:31:28

And maybe it's going to be a 10-minute ride.

2:31:33

Not me driving, like getting on [music] the car with a professional driver with my feeling is am I going to make it today being in this car for 15 minutes.

2:31:42

[laughter] That's the way I live my life.

2:31:48

But I know I know there are people watching this show that are going to feel heard and seen. >> Pay dragons.

2:32:01

[music] >> Eight of them. >> Okay.

2:32:04

[clears throat] >> Now, this one kind of candied like very sweet up front.

2:32:14

H >> [laughter] >> I know. I know. >> He's really strong. >> Mhm.

2:32:20

>> But I I can handle it >> on top of it. I knew you would be. I knew you would be. I know. >> Wow.

2:32:28

My [laughter] >> Oh, yeah. I'll join you. >> On the I know. [laughter] I know. I know.

2:32:46

So, >> I've heard you say that you dream in [music] film complete with cranes and extras.

2:32:51

Do you think of that as a blessing or a curse? >> Yes. Yes. Yes.

2:32:54

I dream in colors [snorts] and I can rewind my dreams.

2:33:00

[music] Like I can see a scene, a situation, and then I can go back and re revisit [clears throat] re experience the same [music] situation.

2:33:08

Go back and again, back and again.

2:33:10

Well, these things that I'm saying about myself are not making me look really good. >> I think so.

2:33:16

And too, look how strong you are in the face of this hot sauce.

2:33:21

>> It's all stock going up.

2:33:22

>> No, but this one I'm I'm I'm feeling a lot [music] a lot. It's really strong. >> You and me both.

2:33:28

>> Everywhere from here to here. >> Okay. He's tiny. you to protect us.

2:33:51

>> Now, this is one that you probably won't have to wait around for. >> Uh-oh. >> No. No. No. What is this now? It's going down. >> I know.

2:34:09

I know that total takeover. >> No, no, no, no, no. Stop it. Like >> I know. I know.

2:34:17

>> Okay, let me >> Yeah, I'm going to join you. >> This work. >> I know. But we got it. We got [music] it. >> Oh, get Willie. It hurts. >> It [laughter] hurts.

2:34:31

>> And that just be careful. Yeah. Just be careful. >> More to go. Two more to go.

2:34:37

>> But we've been waiting for this moment.

2:34:38

remember early on you're like, "When's it coming?"

2:34:40

And then here it is all at once.

2:34:46

If you were [laughter] tomorrow, I'm going to hide like some of this in all their food.

2:34:57

>> You'll get back at them. You'll get revenge. I know you won't.

2:35:00

[clears throat] If you were to put together the ultimate [music] food day itinerary, breakfast in Spain, lunch in Italy, dinner in France, what are you eating or where are you going? >> Okay. Not healthy, right? Just good.

2:35:15

>> Yeah, just go for Yeah, just good. Just good.

2:35:17

>> So, in Spain, you could have theor Rotos, [music] which is like French fries with French, you know, French fries with fried eggs, and then you break the eggs on top of the fries.

2:35:26

You put Spanish hammon verico and break the whole thing and I can make it really wet.

2:35:33

You don't put any spicy thing on it. >> No dam on there.

2:35:38

>> And then Italian lunch you can have um pen bong >> and a lot of different [music] pastas that ko pepe.

2:35:49

They always laugh at the way I say that.

2:35:51

But dinner in France there is a restaurant that I love there so much called Amui.

2:35:56

If you're ready, this next one is called Triple XX Salsa Vibes. We're almost there.

2:36:07

>> How much [clears throat] are you going to bite? >> Just a lot.

2:36:14

>> I didn't mean to, to be honest.

2:36:16

[laughter] >> That's too little. >> That's mine. That's mine.

2:36:34

>> [clears throat] >> Yeah.

2:36:37

>> So, I know that you love the game Wolves and Villagers and then you even have a network where you'll play in Los Angeles and in Madrid.

2:36:43

What is it about that game that's good practice for actors?

2:36:49

It's that game where you realize all your family and your friends, [music] there are big chances that they are lying to you in real life because everyone is so good at that game and he's basically lying and manipulating each other.

2:37:03

>> What's the point of like you're maybe a werewolf and you're trying to block >> you get the card of a werewolf and you have to convince everybody that you are >> I'm just an innocent villager. >> Innocent villager.

2:37:13

Or maybe you have a special power to help the villagers.

2:37:15

But you cannot say that because otherwise the wolves would need [music] you sooner.

2:37:22

[sighs and gasps] >> And we can't have that.

2:37:29

[cough] >> I'll do what you do. Taparoo.

2:37:42

What is the name of this? >> Thermageddon.

2:37:47

>> I know this is the third time I apologize for this show.

2:37:50

[music] [laughter] All right. [snorts] Okay. Okay.

2:38:10

I heard my son saying, "Take a bigger bite, mom."

2:38:13

[laughter] Oh, whatever they say.

2:38:19

>> But with that, the wings of death are behind us.

2:38:30

[laughter] >> No, no, no, no.

2:38:32

I don't know what's going to happen from now on.

2:38:34

I don't I'm not responsible for what I will do.

2:38:39

>> [laughter] >> Well, thankfully you have a driver. You know, we know that. >> It's all right.

2:38:44

Whatever you need to go through. >> Swallow it yet. >> I know. I know. But it's over.

2:38:52

>> You've taken on the Hot Ones gauntlet and you've defeated it.

2:38:54

And now just one more question. >> I know. I know.

2:38:59

Before we roll credits, be careful around the eyes. Careful around the eyes. Careful around the eyes.

2:39:06

I've heard you say, >> "Okay, this is horrible."

2:39:09

[laughter] >> I know, but it's over.

2:39:11

Let's look at the bright side.

2:39:13

I'm a milk I'm a glass half full of milk kind of guy.

2:39:19

>> I'm feeling very weird.

2:39:22

>> I've heard you say that [snorts] at the start of every single project that you feel completely lost, like a fish out of water, and that you hope you never lose that feeling.

2:39:31

Most people spend their lives running away from that kind of fear, but you you embrace it.

2:39:36

What is it that you know or appreciate about that kind of stress that most people don't?

2:39:55

>> This you you cannot explain this feeling. >> I know.

2:40:00

>> Do you have ice cream?

2:40:00

Would you like some ice cream?

2:40:05

>> We can get you some ice cream.

2:40:08

>> Here comes some ice cream.

2:40:12

[panting] [sighs] >> The laughter.

2:40:27

[gasps] >> [sighs] [laughter] [laughter] [laughter] [gasps] [laughter] >> The feeling of being out of water in what situation?

2:40:51

>> Like at the beginning of a project.

2:40:52

[laughter] At the beginning of every project. >> Oh yes.

2:40:55

Every time I feel like I'm going to be fired and I I really look for clues like, "Oh, are they talking about me back there saying that they are firing me?"

2:41:08

Like I have that horrible fear almost in every movie.

2:41:13

You even feel nausea with this one with the last one.

2:41:18

>> It's [snorts] not easy.

2:41:18

It's not easy to do, but there's a feeling of great pride that I feel.

2:41:25

>> It keeps it keeps growing.

2:41:27

>> Once I run the gauntlet and you have gone through the Hot Ones gauntlet, you came in nervous.

2:41:32

Not much of a foundational spice experience.

2:41:36

[music] But here you are conquering Hot Ones, taking on the wings of death, and living to tell the tale.

2:41:43

And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.

2:41:46

This camera, this camera, or this camera.

2:41:48

Let the people know what you have going on in your life. >> Okay.

2:41:51

So, I have to keep talking.

2:41:53

>> Just one more question.

2:41:54

>> This is getting like I was pretending that he was better, but this is he's is getting worse.

2:42:03

>> What do I have going on in my life?

2:42:03

So, right now I'm making a film with Nancy Mayor's called Paris Paramount.

2:42:10

And I [music] love it so much. And I play an actress.

2:42:14

So, and I play the character that she plays.

2:42:17

So, it's two characters in one and I love it and I've always been such a huge fan of her work and I've always wanted to work with her and I'm very proud of The Invite comes out really soon and I still haven't seen it with an audience.

2:42:31

I cannot wait for that experience. I love I love the movie.

2:42:34

I think she's made an amazing film.

2:42:39

[snorts] [applause] Really? Will it really?

2:42:43

My kids are gonna pay for this.

2:42:46

[laughter] >> No, no, no, no. I I don't regret it.

2:42:49

I love the show and I'm here. I'm alive.

2:42:55

[laughter] People do it more than once >> sometimes. Why? You might come back. [laughter] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

2:43:03

If we do it again, I want to put double of each. >> All right, fine. Well, that's binding. I'll hold you to that. [laughter] >> Thank you.

2:43:13

>> I'm feeling very weird.

2:43:18

>> I'm just trying to gather myself, Sean. >> Yeah. No, I get it. I get it, >> Sean. It's gotten worse. >> I know.

2:43:23

[laughter] >> Hey, what's going on everybody?

2:43:29

For First We Be Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.

2:43:32

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

2:43:35

And today we welcome Millie Bobby Brown back to the hot seat.

2:43:36

She's an actress, producer, and the founder of Florence by Mills, who first braved this table back in 2022 and has since closed the book on a decade as 11 with the final season of Stranger Things.

2:43:45

And now she's [music] back as Victorian London Sharpest Sleuth in Anola Holmes 3, which lands on Netflix July 1st.

2:43:51

[music] Millie Bobby Brown, welcome back to the show. >> Thank you. Thank you for having me.

2:43:55

I'm so excited to be back here.

2:43:58

I know I'm [music] like a bit dreading the wings, but I love you, Sean.

2:44:02

[laughter] >> That's what I was going to ask.

2:44:04

You know, it's great to see you again, but feel free to be honest.

2:44:08

Did you have any reservations about returning? >> No, not at all.

2:44:12

Like, I love this and I can get [music] through anything.

2:44:21

[music] Imagine [music] I start at 10.

2:44:37

My god, has that ever happened?

2:44:41

>> Tom Holland [music] actually grabbed number 10 right out of the gate. >> Insane. It's the Barretts in us. Okay, [laughter] lovely.

2:44:56

Feels like it's not meant to be on a wing though.

2:45:01

But it's actually punchier cuz like the first one on the last the last time was not this. >> Yeah.

2:45:07

>> And [music] it was not spicy at all.

2:45:07

But that's got a punch to it. >> Little kick. >> Yeah.

2:45:12

>> So, one of Anola's signature weapons is disguise.

2:45:14

How do you approach a scene when the character you're playing is acting herself and then sometimes acting poorly? >> I love it.

2:45:22

I love it because I feel [music] like I'm also doing that, you know, just like as an actor, my whole job is to be a chameleon and to adapt.

2:45:30

[music] So, I really like it.

2:45:30

I try to do something vastly different.

2:45:32

I always love to change an accent, do something random.

2:45:37

I mean, one time I I [music] was doing this film and my co-star and I were doing a scene and I just started doing a French accent.

2:45:43

[music] He was so jarred by my French accent that he just burst out laughing.

2:45:47

And uh so yeah, I do like to do stuff like that a lot.

2:45:50

And I think sometimes it it works and then sometimes they're like, "Milly, [music] what are you doing?"

2:46:01

This has got an interesting [music] taste to it. It's good.

2:46:06

I'm trying [clears throat] to pace myself, but it's really quite good.

2:46:08

That's someone who's practiced.

2:46:08

You've been >> kind of meat that you get >> because these are also very good wings >> that, you know, we take it all seriously.

2:46:15

You know, we're trying to we're trying to extend for you.

2:46:17

I take cooking very seriously and this feels [laughter] this feels air fried to me.

2:46:23

But I am going to take a sip of my milkshake.

2:46:25

Not because the plant-based got to me. >> Mhm.

2:46:28

>> But because I'm just in the mood. >> Yeah, me too. I'm going to join you. >> Cheers.

2:46:33

>> So, after Godzilla, 11's telekinesis, and now three Anola films, do you consider yourself an action star?

2:46:37

Is that a characterization that would feel strange to you? >> No.

2:46:42

I mean, I wouldn't consider myself an action star.

2:46:44

I'm very drawn to action, but like similar to like I'm not in any way comparing myself to Tom [music] Cruz because he is amazing.

2:46:54

But he is such a fantastic actor, but he's so brilliant in action.

2:46:57

And I think like yeah, when I read a script, I'm definitely like, "Oh, that sounds fun. I'll do that."

2:47:03

Um, but I also do love the very long, lengthy monologue scenes.

2:47:09

[music] So, a few of my next films are less action.

2:47:11

That's more, you know, it's exciting to get out of that world and not be on wires.

2:47:15

You know, I've been feel like I've been on wires for like 10 years. This is Sriracha. I'm wiping my nose.

2:47:26

Not because >> the plant-based got to you. Let the record show. >> All right. Here we go.

2:47:34

>> Oh, this is one of your own. >> It is.

2:47:36

This is a homegrown sauce.

2:47:37

>> Yeah, but if you don't like it, let us know.

2:47:39

I know you will, actually. >> [snorts] >> Okay. >> Oh, okay. This is a very good one.

2:47:51

>> You're not just saying that?

2:47:52

>> No, I like [music] Sriracha.

2:47:55

This is meant to be on a wing.

2:47:57

[laughter] >> Two out of three at least.

2:48:00

>> So, you live on a farm in Georgia surrounded by a managerie of rescue animals.

2:48:04

Everything from dogs to cats, goats, [music] cows, donkeys, and more.

2:48:09

Have you observed any unlikely friendships?

2:48:11

Like maybe a couple of cross species that shouldn't work together but somehow are best buds.

2:48:17

>> So many um you know I raised I raised my farm animals and I had a baby lamb who lived in my house [music] and he you know I'd throw the tennis ball all the dogs and he would run after the tennis ball.

2:48:29

He couldn't pick it up because he doesn't know [music] how.

2:48:31

He'd just kind of stare and then and I'd be like I understand.

2:48:34

And then he would run to the microwave cuz he knew that's where I would warm his bottles up. He was a genius.

2:48:39

His name is Norman and now he's 500 lb.

2:48:41

And he still thinks I'm his mom.

2:48:44

And he he bears at my front door thinking, "Let me back into my home.

2:48:48

This is where I was raised."

2:48:48

And I'm like, "Brother, get away from me. >> You're 500. >> Huge."

2:48:53

>> Um and [music] so now he lives on the farm and he lives a great life.

2:48:55

But um but yeah, I think there's many friendships where I'm like, "Okay, they're friends.

2:49:00

Just leave them be and let them get on with it. Blackeyed Susan.

2:49:07

Who comes up with these names?

2:49:15

>> Oh my gosh, I love this. >> There we go.

2:49:19

Yeah, that was a good eyebrow pop.

2:49:21

>> Yeah, I like that kind of like [music] taste, but it's got a punch for gosh, what is that for? [laughter] >> Yikes.

2:49:28

>> I want to take advantage of the fact that you have a beauty and lifestyle brand.

2:49:31

Is there a skin care product that you'd recommend for, let's say, a talk show host who just turned 40 but wants to look like Rob Low at 60? >> Oh, okay.

2:49:38

And this is just asking for a friend.

2:49:41

>> Yeah, just asking for a friend.

2:49:43

>> I would say SPF is the most important thing. Do you wear SPF?

2:49:48

>> Do they make me, you know? Oh, good.

2:49:49

>> I'm surrounded by people that look out for me more than I do myself. >> Um, I'm a big one.

2:49:52

Like for guys, I think eye cream like you every guy like everyone should enjoy a good eye cream, but like eye cream is great for guys.

2:50:00

I have like I've worked with many actors, many male actors [music] that are like, "I got to put my eye cream on."

2:50:08

And I'm like, "Okay, queen."

2:50:10

Like [laughter] they take it very seriously.

2:50:12

So I cream must have a have a thing for guys.

2:50:21

[music] >> Pickless and scorpion. Yeah, I'm feeling that.

2:50:24

It's It's again, it's not the worst thing I've ever had.

2:50:29

Like, as in this is something that I I feel like I would have had this at a restaurant. It is spicy, though. I'm not going to lie. >> Yeah.

2:50:35

And kind of with like some late action, too.

2:50:36

Like sweetness up front and then >> Mhm. >> behind it. Some violence. >> Pure violence.

2:50:45

>> Your food takes are some of the best out there.

2:50:47

So, if you'll humor me, I'm hoping that you can put me on game for some British classics. >> Mhm. What is spag bowl?

2:50:51

And then why is HP sauce the right condiment for that dish?

2:50:57

>> M spag [clears throat] bowl is spaghetti bolognese and you just put brown sauce on it because I don't know why you put brown sauce on everything when you're English.

2:51:04

Um I mean I know people put a lot of stuff on spag bowl.

2:51:08

Spag bowl is pretty much the only thing my mom can cook.

2:51:12

[music] Like it will be like Tuesday my mom's like I'm making a spag bowl. And then I'm like okay. It was like Friday.

2:51:17

Mom's like I'm making another spag bowl.

2:51:18

And I'm like, "Mom, we've had it like three times this week.

2:51:22

[music] Like, we can't have any more spag bowls."

2:51:23

And we and and it's just all we eat.

2:51:25

And it's And she's like, "Ah, meal.

2:51:26

I made the baby a spag bowl." I'm like, "Okay, great."

2:51:29

[laughter] So, it's a part of I guess it's just a part of my my mom's only recipe.

2:51:34

I mean, that's for 50 years, I'm just going to have a recipe book of just v varieties of bags.

2:51:42

>> Um, however, it's one of my favorites.

2:51:45

And when I'm in England, I would I don't really order it when I'm at a restaurant.

2:51:48

It's really just got to be my mom's.

2:51:51

>> What are the foundational qualities of a great jacket potato in your opinion?

2:51:55

>> A fluffy potato inside.

2:51:55

My favorite would be beans and cheese. Also HP sauce on that.

2:52:03

That would be my favorite.

2:52:03

And I love And also when I was on Stranger Things, I used to get food shamed a lot by when I would go on like they would be all American and they'd be like, "Mate, what the [ __ ] are you eating?"

2:52:12

Because they were like, "It's like you live in the 1800s and you found some like specialty."

2:52:17

I would like it's wrapped in tin foil and I'd be like but then I would like hide in a corner because they'd be like what is that and I was just like it's a jack of potato with beans and cheese. It's nothing.

2:52:27

Um so they didn't get it.

2:52:30