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Hey, what's going on Hot Ones fans?
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Sean Evans coming at you from a boardroom, so you know we're serious. We need to talk.
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Whether it's Taco Gate or the internet fashion police coming at my neck for wearing a style forward cardigan on the set of Hot Ones, it's been feet to the fire for two straight years.
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But no grievance stuffs the complaint box quite like Sean doesn't know how to eat a chicken wing.
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Sean doesn't know how to eat a chicken wing.
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Well, as anyone who's watched one of those goofball YouTube tutorials on how to eat chicken wings knows, it's very easy. You find the small bone. You wiggle it away.
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You give it a little twist, like so. You pull it out. Okay.
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This is This is how to eat a chicken wing.
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This is This is how everyone's doing it. Okay.
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So, there are two sides to a chicken wing, a skinny side and a fat side.
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Find the side with the bigger protrusion.
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Next to the big bone, find the skinnier bone.
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Twist it until it slides out.
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Now you're just left with the big bone. Jostle that thing loose. Twist it.
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Slide that on out, and you're left with a nice clean chicken wing meat pocket.
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So, today I'll try out some of the techniques that have stood out to me over the first four seasons. Who knows?
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Maybe I'll adopt a new approach, and then we can all turn the page.
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First things first, let's start with Bert Kreischer.
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You guys go at it like savages. Just like No. A wing heat for that. Which one is it?
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You take it, you twist, you then take this bone, okay? Okay. You slide it out. This one? Yeah.
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Then you've got basically like a little meat All right.
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I like how Bert is very like, you guys eat it like savages.
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And then he basically ends up with a flat meat stick that he just shoves down his throat. Is that more dignified?
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Is that really the perfect way to eat a wing?
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Meanwhile, he ditches his plan after the second or third wing.
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When you're in a war, when you're in the middle of hot sauce battle, it's any port in a storm.
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You just get that bite off and you keep moving because you're in the foxhole and you're taking on fire.
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All right, here we have Eddie Huang famously going death sauce first. You are?
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Yeah, I'm going I'm deep diving in the deep end.
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I'm just going to get it done. Let's do work. I'm ready. Ooh, ooh, ooh. Yeah, this is no joke. Just a little nippy.
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I mean, to go mega death sauce right off the bat. open up. Crazy move.
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I think that that was really more of a move for survival.
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I don't think that's really how anyone would eat their wings.
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He just had death sauce all over his lips and all over his face.
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So, he was just trying to find the white meat like an oasis in the desert, which when you think about it is actually kind of a good idea.
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So, uh little uh tip of the cap to Eddie on that one.
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Maybe that's that right now that's the front runner.
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It's a good idea getting to that white meat. Duck that hot sauce.
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All right, here we got the old Gary V.
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Clean his bones, This one I don't think that it's just it's not it's not sustainable in the long term.
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You know, if Gary wants to come in here and put on a show for the people I'm with it. I understand it.
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I probably have a couple of these bullets in the chamber, but I cannot just week over week be going at these wings like a lion off of the kill.
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And then two, I think I'm going to freak out the guests.
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Like just watching Gary go at those things from across the table, I was like, "Yeah, chill."
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So, imagine Jordan Peele, I'm doing that in front of him.
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He could barely handle my little like thing.
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I don't like the way he did it.
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I don't like the way he did it all fast. He was scared.
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And more of your favorites, the Ricky Gervais. The Ethan Klein. The Action Bronson. The Cara Delevigne. The Guy Fieri. The Eric Andre. The Rachael Ray.
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All right, going forward, I'm loosely committed to a combination of the Guy Fieri pick and pop and the Eric Andre shoot first, ask questions later.
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Keep in mind that I am focused on the interview.
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My brain is fried on the zombie apocalypse.
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So, there will be some coloring outside the lines from time to time.
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Okay, now that we're all in the same room together, a quick state of the union on Hot Ones frequently asked questions.
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First, we know you want Gordon Ramsay.
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The guy is a little bit busy.
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We cannot just snap our fingers and all of a sudden put him in the Hot Ones seat, but we do read the comments.
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We do care about who you guys want on the show.
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So, if ever the opportunity presents itself, you know that we're on it.
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Number two, you guys are always like, "Why don't you sell a box with a sample-size bottles of all the hot sauces that you use?"
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Uh there are a thousand and one legal hurdles to that.
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We are trying not to get sued off the face of the internet, but we're always looking at some way in which we could possibly make that puzzle come together.
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It is just incredibly complicated, but in the meantime, I do want to say thank you to everyone who tracks down and supports these hot sauce makers on their own.
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Many of them are really good people.
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I know that you have a lot of fun doing it with your friends or whatever.
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So, thank you to the people who do that.
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We are trying to streamline it, make it easy, but it is not easy.
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It is it is very complicated.
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And then number three, how much sauce do you guys put on the wings?
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How do you guys put the sauces on the wings?
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I get this tweeted at me like 10 times a day.
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Basically, we put the sauces in a bowl, we put the wings in said bowls, we toss the wings, and then voila, you have a wing with full coverage.
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No butter, no watering it down.
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We just go straight out the bottle. It's mainline.
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All right, Hot Ones fans, I appreciate you giving me the time to defend myself on how I eat my chicken wings.
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I'm happy I could clear the air on some of the frequently asked questions that always come up. Keep them coming.
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Thank you very much for your support so far through season 4. Eye to eye, baby. Who sees you? Me. Who appreciates you? Me.