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Hey, what's going on, everybody?
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For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans, and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today, I'm joined by Bryan Cranston and James Franco.
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Together, they star in Why Him?
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, which is going to be in theaters December 23rd.
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Guys, welcome to the show. Thank you. Good to be here.
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And Bryan, I think you might have a bit of a competitive advantage because the New Mexico roots, it's not just about Breaking Bad, is it?
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It's about the hot chilies, right?
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You like the hot chilies.
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down there, the green chilies.
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Chiles, as they would say.
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James, how are you with hot food?
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Uh I'm terrible with hot food. That's the fun part.
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thing is what's the prize?
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Whoever lasts Oh, a 30-second plug.
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We really extend for you on this show. Great.
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You ready to get it started? Sure. All right.
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So, this first one is Sriracha.
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Sriracha, not a big deal. Why Him?
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It tells a holiday tale as old as time.
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You have a father, and you have a boyfriend, and they're in conflict over somebody that they love for very different reasons.
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And there's some people who are great at appealing to dads, and there are some people like me who make horrible first impressions.
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Do you guys have any advice for how to win over the scary dad? Yeah. Don't try.
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It's just not going to work.
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I mean, I've been there before, and I never understood why the dads didn't like me. The mothers would. Right.
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You bring them some flowers or something.
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You There's nothing you can bring the dad that would make him go, "Okay, come here."
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He's not going to like you.
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There's nothing you can do, so don't try.
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If you back off a little bit, he understands that you allow that space between you as opposed to you trying to reach in when that's the worst thing you can do.
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It's good advice from the man over here.
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Uh If you're a movie star, you probably don't even have to win over dads, though.
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They might feel like they have to win over you.
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to think like I'm just grab them by the balls. That's all. HE'S A MOVIE STAR.
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JUST GO UP AND GRAB THEM BY THE That's what he can do. We all know that now. Easy.
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This one is the Hot Ones sauce.
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You're on the Hot Ones show. Okay.
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This is This is your own shows. This is it.
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That's It's all This is it. It's the hot one.
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There are a lot of theories why men grow facial hair.
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And over the courses of your guys' career, you've run the gamut from sexy stubble to full-blown pirate beard.
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So, what I want to do is show you some iconic facial hair moments in your guys' career.
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Maybe you guys can trade grooming secrets, beard pet peeves, the mustaches that you miss, the beards that you couldn't stand.
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I just want to get snap reaction. You ready?
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We've had our fair share of facial hair, I know.
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What was it like to have the most famous goatee in the world?
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Uh well, it's badass is what it is. It really is.
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And there's you know, there's a certain as far as facial hair, when I first started Walter White, I wanted it what I called an impudent mustache, which was thin and nothing past the corners of the of the mouth. Okay.
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Anytime facial hair drops past the corners of the mouth, you start getting badass, the Heisenberg form.
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Bryan always has great facial expressions when he's sporting his beard.
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This is like the 127 Hours era.
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And then we have like a 2016 sort of era. Yeah.
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Which do you remember more fondly?
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I'm not I just mustaches I don't know.
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I I mean they're they're both for uh roles.
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Uh the first one was actually for my thesis film.
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Um I played a poet named Hart Crane who had a stash.
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and then this is for my 70s look. I don't know.
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I I am I'll sport it but if I don't have to.
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So like this this is the elegantly disheveled look. Yeah.
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As you can see Brian grows a much better beard than I can.
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That's about the extent of my beard growth.
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So what happens in the crazy?
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What's not It's not growing in the middle.
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in It doesn't go in the middle. It just I don't know.
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So you've got the beatnik kind of chin beard.
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I don't know if it's like my my grandmother has a beard.
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has Swedish No, she's Swedish.
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I don't know if that So her beard is blonde.
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The game changes quite a bit as we go to pain 100% not in its construct just in its violence.
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And the violence the violence factor is called pain. Okay. So you know James. Not too bad so far.
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I'm waiting for it to kick in. Did it kick in?
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I think it will but maybe you just missed it James.
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Maybe you just missed it. No problem.
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We like to talk food on First We Feast and James I know you used to work the night shift at a McDonald's drive-thru and the social media age has really pulled back the I'm on what that's like.
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But what are your fondest memories of that time when you were working the McDonald's drive-thru the night shift?
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It was an adventure you know um I I was a young actor.
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I do different accents and practice different accents on people. I got a Oh, it's hot. I got a couple dates. Uh You got dates? Oh, yeah.
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That's not an easy pull from the drive-thru.
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I know and that and for whatever reason at the time we had to wear like purple McDonald's hats.
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It was it's it was hard to get a date with that thing on, but I I I managed to do it.
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I remember I took a a young lady to Titanic that I met yeah.
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And we went back to McDonald's parking lot and made out in the car.
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And then Brian, you have some bizarre kitchen experience as well.
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Your job at a Daytona Beach restaurant actually got you wrapped up in a murder investigation.
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A little troublesome, yeah.
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There was I worked at a Polynesian restaurant while I was traveling around the country and got a job as a waiter and there was a guy at this the chef at this restaurant named Peter Wong. You're not going away.
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Peter Wong was a miserable human being.
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Just an awful, despicable, hated everyone kind of guy. And everyone hated him.
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So the waiters would sit around and talk about how we'd how would you kill Peter Wong?
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So I said, "I think I'd slice him up in a wok and stir fry him and make moo goo gai pan."
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So the end of the season comes, my brother and I hop on our motorcycles and we take off.
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We're going to be gone for three, four, five months.
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About the time we left, something happened to Peter. He disappeared.
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The cops came into the restaurant and said, "Is there anybody here who ever talked about hurting Peter Wong?"
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And they're like, "Yeah, kind of all of us, but anybody here who's not here anymore?" The Cranston boys. Where are they?
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They've took they've taken off on their motorcycle. When did they leave? Uh a week ago.
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That's just around the time he disappeared.
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They put out an APB on us to look for us on our motorcycles.
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We were probably in the Carolinas by then or further north.
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And because Peter Wong who always carried a huge stash of of of cash just to compensate for his you know, he a horrible person.
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Um anyway, a hooker picked him up at a at a dog track in in Daytona and brought it allured him home.
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Some other guy clubbed him on the head.
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They shoved him in the trunk of a car and that's where he's dead. Uh he was dead.
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And they were looking for us because we were talking about how we the hottest lead.
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How we were going to Yeah, it's like well, it's I was 20 21.
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And uh yeah, and they never did catch me.
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And this one is Mad Dog 357.
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How are you doing, James?
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Brian is obviously just cool as a cucumber. Mad Dog 357.
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Is the key like what Not get it on your lips.
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There's no real work around in this game.
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You just got to kind of swallow it fast, maybe? All right.
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This is a part that we do in every show where we do explain that, Graham.
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We do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram and we pull up interesting pictures. That is hot.
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And because James uploads at a rate that's like 100 times you, Brian, what we've done is we've pulled up just a couple of James's pictures.
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And what I want to do is show you, Brian, and you try to fill in the blanks.
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You tell me what's going on in these pictures and then James, you can tell Brian to what extent he has the story right. Does that sound good? Mhm. I don't know.
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Sounds like it's going to be embarrassing. I don't think so.
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Right off the bat, That's awesome.
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You know, that's funny because I recognize that from the movie.
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That's actually not Photoshop. That's his actual body. Really?
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He's got a got a trunk like that, huh, James? Yeah.
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What part of that is That's by the or what is this? I I I didn't make that.
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I didn't uh Photoshop that.
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I didn't put those two images together. I just found it.
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That's a salt and pepper shaker, is that what it is? Boom. What's going on there? What's going on here? Is that you? Yeah. Wow.
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You just got shot or something, right? What? No, I'm playing you. Oh, that's you. Yep. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Yeah. Oh, now I get it. Wow. When did you do that?
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That is um my Emmy-nominated uh web series uh Making a Scene, and we mash up um different TV shows.
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We don't And we don't choose what gets mashed up. My god, you're sweating. That was hot. That .
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357 is So, uh we we have like a wheel with the fans pick what shows we're going to recreate, and then we have a wheel, and um the wheel decides what shows are going to be mashed up.
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So, Breaking Bad got mashed up with Sex and the City. Oh, is that right? I got to see it. I got one more for you.
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You know what's going on here?
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You know, I don't want to know what's going on there. That's Seth. Is that Seth?
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Yeah, I couldn't even tell.
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But there's love there, man. Yeah.
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Well, obviously you haven't seen our recreation of the um Kanye and Kim video um Bound 2.
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So, we recreated it shot for shot, and he played Kim, and I played Kanye.
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And are you guys did you guys find each other? Are you a couple now? After that, yeah. Yeah.
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We're never never going back. Yeah, we have one more. I need more milk. We have one more.
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James is taking out an entire glass of milk already.
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Brian, how are you doing? I'm okay.
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There was a period of time when that mad dog just kind of went That's what it does.
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grabbed me and pulled me forward and it was like, "Woo."
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But now you've recovered? Now I'm okay. All right.
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So, this one is Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage.
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You're probably wondering, why is he grabbing the bottle?
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Why is he shaking it up like that?
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And the reason is because it's sort of a tradition around here to put a little extra dab on the last wing.
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You don't have to if you don't want to.
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I put it like a little dab. That's aggressive.
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You don't have to if you don't want to.
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I'll just put it in the middle of the table.
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You don't have to if you don't want to. Well, okay. I will. Why not?
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I'll put a little bit extra on there. for it. A dab. It well, it's slow. It's not coming out. Like that? That's good. That's good. That's good. That's it. That's good.
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Just a little Just a little dab and a scrape. That's no big deal. Oh, man. There we go.
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That's such a typical boy. Always watching. Okay.
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Yeah, there we There we go. All right. Boys. God. Last question.
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And you're doing it right with us, right?
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You're like Right along with you. All right.
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And so, are you immune to this now?
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So, I've now done it like 42 times.
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So, it's just I know it's Groundhog Day.
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I'm just as blasted out, just in as much pain as you guys are.
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It's just this is my existence. This is my life. I just sold these butts.
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Maybe that and I'm working on it. All right.
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Bite the part that's not working. It's You know what? You All right. Ready? All right. Go.
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So, let's go down where we're focusing on James on this one cuz I know you're dying. I got it down fast.
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I think my stomach's going to like rebel, but I got it down fast.
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I think we do a C+ job here on Hot Ones, but that doesn't matter because Dave Skylark gives the hottest interviews in the entire game.
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Well, Dave Skylark from the the interview.
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That was sad because we were going to use that guy.
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We we could have had a whole run with, you know, interviewing people.
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but yeah, the whole thing. Too bad.
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I guess it's just we can't bring it back. We can't bring it back.
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Nobody wants us to bring that back. We used the character.
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I interviewed Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea. VMAs.
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Yeah, it was I mean, it was great.
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I think you could actually bring that character back.
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There's no reason you can't. Yeah. It's ballsy.
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It's ballsy and it's good.
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And we need interviewers.
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If this is all we got, we need better. It was fun. dearth of interviewers. Yes.
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Look at you guys clearing the board. Heroic, brave. How do you feel? Alive.
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I feel even closer to Brian after going through that. The floor is now yours.
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This camera, that camera, or that camera. 30 seconds.
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Let the people know what you have going on in your life. Oh, this is what we win. Oh, I see. Brian has a new book. I can't wait to read it.
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He didn't give me a copy yet.
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Oh god, I keep hearing about this. Yeah, I have a book.
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I have a book out called A Life in Parts.
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And it's about all the parts that we play in our real lives, father, a son, husband, and a brother, and all the parts that that I've played on on film and television. It's coming out.
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I got some movies coming out next year.
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I did a movie called The Masterpiece with my brother, which is the about the making of a really good bad movie called The Room. Have you seen The Room?
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It's supposed to be the worst movie ever made.
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And Brian actually plays himself in the in the movie.
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James has a habit of roping friends in. All right. Let's get OUT OF HERE. ALL RIGHT.
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KIND OF LIKE WHEN YOU hit me in the balls. What?