this is not okay I think you'll be good we've made it this far I don't know what this is what is it yeah what do you got going on [Music] hey what's going on everybody for first week Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by Jessica Alba
he's an actress whose career in Hollywood checks everything from box office Blockbusters to cult classics she's also a tremendously successful businesswoman as founder of The Honest Company and you can catch her starring in LA's finest Mondays at 8 7 Central on Fox Jessica Alba welcome to the show thanks for having me so I understand
that you take hot sauces to set how are you though going into this with spicy food I'm nervous but let's see because like I feel like I can I feel like I can handle some hate [Music] Classic Blue Label okay I like that you eat this with us I feel like it's important that I do that to meet you halfway because like if you're
dying on hot sauce and I'm just sitting here like some jerk barking questions at you would you just keep going on and on and on maybe not what the hell why did I take such a big bite [Music] so as we mentioned up top you star alongside Gabrielle Union in LA's finest a TV offshoot of the bad boys franchise and also a show that you guys are both
EPS on I'm curious when you're acting and producing at the same time does that affect the mental math in your head when you think about the balance between art and commerce what's great about Commerce is it gives you boundaries to work within and I feel like the best art is within some type of boundary um when you're sort of like confined to
you only have this much budget right and you have to hit these sort of notes it's like a song Every Act has to hit a pitch so that people want to tune back in and not click over to somewhere else I actually appreciate the balance and I feel like when you do have Commerce an art combined um it sort of gives you also a reason
because a lot of art it's just subjective and who knows if it's good [Music] good I feel like I'm into that now I know when my kids get in trouble instead of making them do push-ups I can say you guys may eat some hot sauce yeah that doesn't surprise me I've heard that from people like if you say a swear word they'll hit you with some hot sauce
or something stop fighting or else your mom's gonna make you eat some hot sauce so I want to take a wing to talk about honey the 2013 film has cult status for being like a time capsule for early 2000s hip-hop culture in that film you know you have to learn ballet you have to learn jazz you have to learn hip-hop and all in kind of like this short
three-month crash course having had that unique experience what is the style of dance that's hardest to master I would say ballet and Jazz because there's very specific beats and I could never get the spinning down I think I got whiplash too much when I was doing stunts on Dark Angel so every time I spin I was like where I would like get
vertigo like I was messed up and like the best dancers can do like a spin like a proper spin not me that's when I was like stun double help me with this one Hennessy was like a performance enhancer on set is that true um the drink everyone used to drink back in the day hypnotic hypnot see do you remember that I was not that arrogant or is that
before your was that before your time I just missed it I just missed it she hit it I just missed it but sometimes I didn't know how to get out of my head and and certainly even especially when I was doing something I wasn't good at like dancing and I was surrounded by like professional dancers and choreographers and real music artists and I just
um yeah maybe I maybe I took a shot or two for a few scenes Shaquanda West Indian curry shout out Shaquanda friend of the program [Music] into it you dig that one so someone who scaled the heights of the movie making business then also launched their own extremely successful consumer goods startup with the Honest Company I
think you're uniquely qualified to weigh in on this where do you find harsher Critics on movie review sites or on health and beauty blogs definitely movie reviews I feel like a lot of movie reviewers and maybe I'm speaking out of turn is especially now but even then they love a good headline it's all about the headline and it's all about like a
salacious headline and for some reason Scandal seems to Prevail over you complimenting someone I for whatever reason have been on the other side of the burn every time I don't actually think I've ever had a good review in my entire career but I'm cool with it I'm hearing hot ones [Music] it's like a Chipotle something weird
yeah it's got a it's got definitely like a richer deeper pepper Vibe on this one mm-hmm it's smoky are you nice with like a Mezcal like mixed Margarita type drink I love when guests give good pairings I love that you're you're kind of a foodie uh you know a little bit I think like amateur foodie like me maybe listen I like to go to restaurants I can order
off a menu in an amazing way you've never seen anyone order off a menu quite like me I'm telling you that when are we going to dinner whenever you want whenever you want Jessica Alba I jump at the opportunity but you when it comes to you know like you're a little more multi-faceted because you're in the kitchen quite a bit I spend no time in
the kitchen yeah but I can order this [ __ ] out of dinner are you respect respect yeah I like try all the things and I make sure that everything is covered my bases are covered that's exactly same thing I'm like all right let's take two of these appetizers let's take two of these sides let's try one out of this column let's try an entree
out of that column I make sure that I'm covering all the bases because I feel like most people are just simple in one track minded and they just want their like you know mac and cheese and burger but I appreciate someone who is willing to try it all hey right here with you on there thank you [Music] okay you're just like getting a big old
bite this is really good this is nice all right Jessica we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that gram where we do a deep dive on our guest Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context so I'll show you the picture you just tell us the bigger story here's a nice throwback what do you
remember about spending the day golfing with John Daly one of the best days of my life he is a [ __ ] Legend preach oh my God he is a fun and is his wife uh was there as well this is caddy [Music] um he's just solid man he like sneezes and the ball goes 350 yards straight down the line you're like what he was really nice with me but I but you know I
can see how he can you know be tough on people especially in his Heyday and he like talked about all the things and it was like an open book and and was just really cool and gave me pointers on how to better my swing and he's he's dope he's a good time have you been bombing him off the tee with like an extra 20 30 yards ever since that day
when I was around him I like I like got some of his like daily energy and I felt like I had definitely a more solid swing and maybe I didn't ship the ground prior to hitting the ball as much as I would have before but yeah it's uh he's he's really cool and then SpaceX is dope did you visit the uh headquarters in
Hawthorne what prompted this I did a friend of mine who was my agent is friends with Elon and he was like do you want to go to SpaceX and then also elon's chief of staff knew my uh business partner and I was like of course I do like who yes and I just wanted to see the whole operation just see like a supply chain and how it
works and it's the hub for a lot of their Innovation and I just thought it was so cool and I you know got to see a rocket and and the bolts and and learn why you know they can get up in the air so quickly and differently than others and it was just like really really cool and I also am like one of those nerds because I've had so many different offices over the
years with honest I always like to suss out like what's their food layout you know like how do they do offices is it an open floor plan like where did the executive sit you know compared to where everyone else and I just love to look at that stuff and nerd out so yeah I I loved it and then finally do you have a Snoop Dogg party
story that you can share with us so many known for the first time nope um there's one I will never tell publicly because I'm not sure of what we did was totally legal well this isn't public this is just like two people talking over the zoom but prior to we being legal Maybe Snoop offered me a blunt Maybe a few times we were in Miami or LA or New York
[Music] [Music] there's no there's not a lot of profiles it's just it's just spicy right that that diesel that diesel hit got you in the throat a little bit you know it's not easy on this end always you know what I'm saying Jessica to try to to try to keep keep the interview going do all that you know I think sometimes I think sometimes the audience
can kind of like take for granted that I'm just over your housing Wings you know what I mean like sometimes I don't even think they notice I noticed I noticed well thank you Jessica means a lot to me I I think about it every time I really do so your breakthrough role came from an early 2000 Sci-Fi series called Dark
Angel which was actually James Cameron's TV debut and then the thing about that show is it had this massive 12 million dollar budget for the pilot and then it had this dystopian sort of vibe that I think was very much ahead of its time I just have so much respect for someone like Jim that rallies hundreds of people every day on a set around his vision and
gets gets it done he really is one of my mentors still very much an inspiration for me you know he when there weren't cameras that could do the effects that he wanted he then went and built them and created them you're like what when cameras didn't go to depths of the ocean where he wanted to film he went and built a submarine
you're like what is happening like who does this him he does this and I just love his curiosity still and he really wants to make an impact I uh yeah can't say enough great things about the guy [Music] so it's like a bourbon I'm already sweating so you're doing very good though you're doing very good oh my God I'm with you I'm right with you
so in a 2005 Marie Claire profile you just don't drink you don't drink anything you know I typically kind of mirror the guest uh you don't have milk but I know this is honey milk honey milk with ice you guys made it or it's honey and milk I know I put honey this much honey and my oat milk with ice because I read that that helps the heat
but it's not really doing much over here that's what I always say you know people yell at me for having water over here on the desk all the time and I'm like listen psychologically it helps me out a little bit all right like leave me alone about this whole thing like once you eat These Wings it's not like oh I take a
sip of milk and I'm fine all of a sudden like you're there's no saving you you know now that's why I have these they're called antacids actually I'm gonna take one now so prepared I feel like I just feel like my gut is gonna wake me up at two in the morning on fire and I just then I get heart palpitations it's like it's a whole thing
well speaking of frightening experience I'm curious what's the most harrowing experience you had shooting face to face with actual live sharks and Into the Blue you know for some reason they caught a wild tiger shark um I don't know I had it in a cage or something in the back of a boat and they were like it's in this cage so
it's docile it's not and I'm like it's a [ __ ] tiger shark and it was like a seven foot tiger shark and they're like in the scene we just wanted to like go by you guys and they're like all right get in because you know in the scene the shark has to come really close to and I was like I mean you guys can do this with a a double or B second unit and I I was on
flipper we had [ __ ] rubber Dolphins we could do this with a goddamn rubber doll if you don't need a real Ash shark in the middle of the [ __ ] ocean with chummish um and maybe I lost my mind and maybe I yelled all of that and the director was like you know what come on just get in the water it'll be three seconds it's fine come on we don't have time we're
losing the light all the things and I said [ __ ] you [ __ ] your face and you get in the water and then I got on a boat and went back to shore so yeah not my best decisions were made on that movie well you know what you live to fight on another day and here we are living to fight on another sauce and I have to warn you going into this
one this is the bomb Beyond Insanity yeah this is the one where everyone goes like hard hard left turn right she's she's seen the show before yes I have yes I have and that looks doused like that looks heavy oh [ __ ] oh God yep what if I have allergic reaction this is not okay it'll be good we've made it this far I
don't know what this is what is it yeah what do you got going on oh God that's not good why did I do that what is this sour cream it's sour cream [Music] what the [ __ ] is that it's a it's a very disgusting hot sauce that's stupid Mike I'm with you 100 on that one I'll take this up how does it get any better how does it get any better the good news
is we're approaching the finish line here just a couple more hurdles to jump through is that more sour cream it's all right why did you do that this one's got a nice long windup this next question has a nice long wind up for you okay just survive it just survive it not okay so Jessica you're a celebrity judge on planet of the apps which was a shark
tank like competition series for Tech empresarios so what I want to do here is hit you with a handful of apps some of them are in the app store some of them we totally made up and I just want to see if you can tell the real from the fake and I'm curious whether or not you think it's a good idea or not hang on a minute yep
[Music] I just um just got the back of my throat you know yeah no I feel you I'm like drooling I understand how that can go it kind of it takes over your body at this point you know got that got that I got a little uh I'm flushed in the face a little bit I feel you I understand I understand we'll work through this one together all right
first yeah people get like a little bit hallucinating sometimes like on this show like I'll walk out of the studio like on a high a little bit but to come outside I know my teeth hurt first app all right all right all right a meditation app that plays a loop of Matthew McConaughey reciting Texas witticisms over soft guitar music
terrible idea but I wouldn't be surprised if it exists Spooner a social Meetup app where users living within walking distance of each other can link up for casual strictly platonic cuddling I think that might actually exist it does exist I think I need ice someone get her some ice what's wrong like nothing does nothing help uh
we're in it we're just kind of in it together what about that what's that peanut butter how's that working out I don't know just I I'd love for you to report back the findings afterwards you know you mean what happens to my [ __ ] Bells after this no no no that you can keep to yourself I'm curious I'm curious uh what finding what finding if any of
these antidotes actually work you know something that we can have on set ready to go in the in case of these situations this is feeling better okay good peanut butter we'll put that in the wind column all right I just want on my lips nacho Hunter a dating app that uses a personality algorithm to pair you with someone who likes the same nachos as you
do ah I wish that existed because I would subscribe to that one that's all I care about are nachos could be our next big idea could be our next big idea because it is fake all right last one drunk mode an app that locks certain contacts in your phone for a preset amount of time when you're partying in an effort to keep you from
drunk dialing or drunk texting uh yeah yeah I'm genius how many times have you drunk dialed they should do that for like drunk drunk posting on social media there you go protect us from ourselves kind of ironic given the uh circumstances right now where we are just eating some of the spiciest chicken wings ever I'm getting have you ever
seen one of these what is that a tongue depressor it's a ball that you put in the freezer and you roll your face to make it look not as puffy but it's gonna be on standby for this next one fascinating yeah let me put some more um lip gloss barrier expect for you you do yeah I mean do you ever do your blood pressure while you're doing this but
you're still young thank you thank you I don't know but this this might be taking some years off but I am always curious about that like if they just like hooked me up and you could like kind of see all the vitals and stuff while it's going on because there is a lot cooking yeah there is oh God damn [Music] can you just get in there
just be very careful this one it's made by a guy named smoking that Curry who we've worked with grows extremely hot peppers he made this one and it has that deep peppery make you sweat from your face smoke and add flavor profile that he's famous for foreign it's hard to breathe a little bit what's uh what's that that seems new honey oh some honey
fascinating [Music] your early guest star cameos they run the gamut but I am curious about two in particular which was a more positive onset experience for you playing Alex Max rivaled Jessica in The Secret Life of Alex Mack or playing a pregnant teenager in 90210 yeah I know I I didn't really I got bullied as a kid so it was sort of
wish fulfillment maybe to be able to play someone that was bullying me essentially um and uh on the set of 90210 I couldn't even make eye contact with any of the cast members which was really strange when you're like trying to do a scene with them yeah I was like you're not allowed to make eye contact with any one of the
cast members or you'll be thrown off throughout the set [Music] this is the thick ass sauce cheers Jessica what a ride it's been [Music] [Music] um we're flying we're flying it's all over it's all over almost all over because you know what Jessica Alba here we are at the conclusion of our spicy Wing flight we've talked about your career in
acting your many power moves as a business woman but I want to end on talking about your world view on Joseph gordon-levitt's podcast I heard you discussing wabi-sabi a concept from Japanese Aesthetics that Embraces imperfections what do you see as the artistic appeal of having a constant reminder that nothing is forever and nothing is perfect [Music]
what I love about wabi-sabi very the appeal a blobby-sabi and how I I think why I'm attracted to it so much and this Japanese philosophy around embracing imperfections at the end of the day if you can feel a connection to memories and stories and things that surround you there's nothing more beautiful and it reminds you to live your life to the
fullest and all of those Nick synchronic crannies and and all the imperfections and the Bro even the breaks and the vases or in the wall or in things with and You Mend it a little bit here and there just tells you that that life is good man and it was lived to the fullest this is what this is what helped let me take some notes
you need a good lip balm lip balm coating you need oat milk with a lot of [ __ ] honey a generous squeeze of honey okay milk yeah and like mix it up you know get it in there with ice definitely need vanilla yogurt vanilla yogurt God damn it it got all of those Halls in the back of my throat where are my tons IL definitely peanut butter
and these balls peanut butter and the balls thank you so much Jessica Alba for giving me that crash course now please let me return the favor by rolling out the red carpet for you this camera this camera or possibly a camera B or C or whatever you have set up at that a great setup over there let the people know what you have going on in your life
um I had the Honest Company we make a it really is a company that is built around social impact I wanted to make a difference in the world and if we can do it and make money and help people and help the planet let's do that we make everything from cleaning products to baby products to beauty products and then LA's finest lots of
action fun kick ass um and juicy stories and Gabrielle Union and I just like cracking jokes and having a good time in that bad boy universe check it out good job Jessica good job good job and we need to have dinner next time you're in L.A innovating who am I whoa mixin anything I'll do anything [Music] hey what's going on hot ones fans this
is Sean Evans checking in to say thank you so much for watching today's video and join me in welcoming the newest member of the hot Ones hot sauce family this is the last dab Apollo the only sauce made with the Apollo pepper the latest and greatest from the Twisted mind of smoking Ed Curry it is the hottest last dab we've ever made and the
people who will taste it first are the subscription box subscribers who will get this one in October's box for everyone else probably sometime later in October heatness.com heatness.com to learn more about the last dab Apollo moment of silence for the last dab triple X but it's okay all new beginnings must come from some other Beginnings end [Music]