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And man, that is just awful.
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That's a terrible thing to do to me.
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Like this is the fifth time you've done it.
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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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From First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Jimmy Fallon. Oh my gosh.
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Earlier this year, he celebrated his 10-year anniversary behind the desk as host of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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Before that, an Emmy Award-winning run on Saturday Night Live.
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Now, he's releasing a comedy album for the season.
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It's called Holiday Seasoning, which is set to release on November 1st.
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Jimmy Fallon, welcome to the show. This show.
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Thank you so much for having me and I just want to thank you.
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You've been a great guest on our show and you've been a fantastic guest and a gentleman.
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Uh but I'm honored to be here in the studio with you in this black void and uh there's no escape.
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It's like an escape You're trapped on the show.
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I'm trapped You're a hostage on Hot Ones, Jimmy. I I I don't know.
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Obviously, this is your show. I'm talking too much. Uh let's get into it. Okay. We try to get you.
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Now, do you do breading on purpose?
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Yeah, cuz it kind of soaks in. Oh, thank you. bit. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah, okay.
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Can I just say before you even get through this, I love your delivery.
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And that's why I'm a fan of yours.
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This is years ago when we had you first on the show.
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You're very dry, you're very smart, uh you're very funny and you get the joke that before anyone gets it.
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You're already getting the joke.
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You already know You already know the punchlines of what things are about to happen and that's what makes you kind of crazy.
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You're kind of a lunatic.
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You've kind of tapped into the essence. Exactly.
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Like I'm just going to ignore the absurdity of this whole Yes. Yes. Right?
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And just play through with Yes.
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You should be institutionalized. That's right. Yeah.
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So, Holiday Seasoning is a collection of original holiday music.
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And you have these monster collabs with the likes of Meghan Trainor, Dolly Parton, Ariana Grande, and Meg the Stallion. Yeah.
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What to you are the hallmarks of a timeless holiday song?
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Like what makes the great ones great?
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I think the great ones great are the ones you don't really have to think about much.
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It's just like kind of a earworm and you go, "Oh, yeah."
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Uh Mariah Carey obviously knows how to do it.
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But uh growing up I used to listen to you know Darlene Love and all that stuff.
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And all this kind of So, we have a bunch of good earworms and just like kind of happiness and there's a lot of uh ding-dongs on our album.
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There's a lot of bells ringing and a ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong.
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It's like kind of not Whoville, but it's those types of vibes that make you happy and feel good.
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And that's what the record's all about. The ghost pepper pear.
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Now, they put the word pear in there as a joke because is peop- Are people really tasting the pear flavoring?
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Well, there's only one way to find out. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know.
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I would taste a little pear.
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Yeah, you catch that pear up front. Up front. Oh, yeah.
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Little ghost pepper after, but nothing you can't handle. I can see. bad.
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This is actually really good.
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This is from New York City? Mhm. Little Dicks? Mhm. All right. Perfect.
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Pound for pound, who would you say is your most accurate impression?
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Like who do you hit closest to the bull's-eye in your mind?
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Oh, pound You're so funny.
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Um This is why you go Pound for pound is hilarious.
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Um Impressions is how I got started.
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Someone would give me a troll doll when I was in high school.
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And so, I didn't know what to do with that. But I go, "Thank you."
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And I entered this competition.
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My mom was like, "There's an impression funniest person in the Hudson Valley contest at Bananas Comedy Club."
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She was like, "I hear the voices that you do in your room.
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You should do these voices you know on on stage."
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And I go, "What else do you hear in my room?"
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And so I I I did this thing it was like 2 minutes of impressions and I did you know Jerry Seinfeld.
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I did different celebrities auditioning for the Troll Doll to be a spokesman.
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So I'd be like, "Who does his hair?
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What kind of dolls are these things?
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Who plays with Troll Dolls? What are these?"
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You know with John Travolta like, "Who does his hair?
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Like his hair is so frizzy.
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Like what's going on with this like crazy Troll Doll, right?"
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So like I did that and I ended up winning the competition and that was my first big taste.
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I got a thousand dollars. Damn. And 2 minutes.
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And I was like, "If this is easy, let's do this for the rest of my life."
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Turns out it's not that easy, but for that moment it was.
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One of my favorite impressions I ever did was kind of got me the job for Saturday Night Live is I I did Adam Sandler.
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He He's a good impression to do cuz he kind of has three stages to his voice.
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Like his first he kind of you know I kind of nervous and I kind of I mumble and I he can talk about it, you know, I went to my mother's house, you know, and I she I you know and then the second level he gets crazy and he's like, "Hey who is that by the who? Hey hey what is that? How are you?"
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And then the third level he's just YELLING HE'S LIKE, "SHUT UP!"
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YOU KNOW AND SO THAT IS three levels of the same voice of the same person.
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And so I did that and I made Lorne laugh which everyone says he won't laugh and he started laughing.
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He put his head in his hand and I go, "Even if I don't get this job, I made Lorne Michaels laugh in in Studio 8H in NBC and that's what I'll tell my kids."
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All right, smoked onion sauce. Okay, here we go. Oh. That is smoked onion. Mhm.
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It's like a uh It's like a Funyun.
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Yeah, that's a good way of putting it, actually. Right? Tastes like a Funyun.
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You know, we have chefs on here sometimes that'll just be breaking down the flavor profiles, but Go to a bodega we just needed you the whole time, yeah. Thank you.
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Go to a bodega, get a Funyun.
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That's what this tastes like. This is great.
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So, congrats, by the way, on hitting the 10-year milestone as host of The Tonight Show.
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Yep, thank you very much.
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Reflecting back, do you have like a most profound, like, wow, I wish that I knew this sooner revelation as a talk show host? Use fake things. Use fake hot sauce.
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Um To be really honest, we did a sketch once where they were um they were dumping um coolers of stuff on me if I lost a trivia question about football or something. Mhm.
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And they dumped actual Frank's hot sauce. Oh, that's bad. On me. Oh, it's real bad.
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It actually burned my Half my face was purple. Like, it burned me. It went down my suit.
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I was taking a shower in milk. I've been there. Yeah, right? It doesn't really help.
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This wing broke in two, so I think it counts.
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I might have eaten an extra wing. This might be history.
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Yeah, that is But it First time I'm on Put it in the Hot Ones history books.
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Jimmy found an extra wing. the bone.
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I ate right Right through the bone.
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These are the best veneers, by the way. I have a great dentist.
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I have the best fake teeth in the business.
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Okay, so we're speaking different languages now.
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Delicious little vinegar kick to it. Mhm.
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Um And you're rocking it so far, Jimmy. I am? Mhm.
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You seen people fall at this point? Lesser men. Okay. Okay.
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That one feels great to me. That is fantastic. I'm having a great time.
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And if we ended this whole interview now, I'd be on a high note, yeah. Yes.
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I'd be I go Sean Thank you so much.
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Thanks for having me as a guest. You're the best, man.
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We'll right back more best of Hot Ones. Yeah.
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So, as a Yankees fan, I'm sure you're locked into the World Series.
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Do you have a most cherished memory from that night in 2001 when Derek Jeter hosted Saturday Night Live? I do remember that.
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I became kind of friends with Derek Jeter that week and it was as he was becoming, you know, next level Derek Jeter.
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So, at this point, he was still just fun kind of rookie good-looking stud Derek Jeter and he was about to be a legend, you know?
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And I remember he goes, "Uh dude, do you want to come to my apartment?"
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And I go, "Uh yeah, let's go."
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He goes, "I just got this brand new apartment like I have no furniture in it yet or anything." I go, "Let's go, dude."
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So, we went to Derek Jeter's apartment and it was on the like 398th floor and was past the clouds.
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It was like a Mario Brothers level where you go past the clouds and now you're just in, you know, you're just looking over the city. Giant apartment.
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It looked like an empty gap.
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It was just like giant and big windows.
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And we ended up hanging out the whole night and he's the nicest dude to me and uh I remember going into his shower and seeing uh a stack of Lever 2000 soap.
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That's the soap Derek Jeter uses.
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Dawson's Creek was awesome.
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I remember the show on CW. I'm so proud of myself. You should be.
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I'm proud of you from this side of the Yeah.
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I'm sweating a little bit, but not that bad. Mhm.
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And really from the waist down really.
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So, that's so you can't really see it. Uh it's not bad.
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How did Timberlake do on this? Oh, he's great.
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I love working with Justin. You do?
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He told me, you know what was a nice compliment that he told me?
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He said that Hot Ones is a big hit at like the pickup.
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Like when he's picking up kids from uh school, like all the dads would talk about Hot Ones the next day and me and Chris I remember thinking like that's a good show compliment, you know? It's fantastic.
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Yeah, we're big at pick up.
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He's the most If you're good at kids pick up, if you're popular there, you know you made you you blew it.
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He's one of the most talented human beings on earth. Definitely.
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He's a perfectionist and he's amazing.
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I remember we were doing Saturday Night and we were dressed as Barry Gibb.
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We were doing the Barry Gibb talk show.
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And the whole idea of the sketch is that I talk the way Barry Gibb sings.
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So I would talk like this.
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Have a great show today and everybody's having hot hot hot ones and we're having hot sauce.
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And he does that, you know.
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So we're starting the sketch and we're dressed in 70s tuxedos and it's all fun.
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And we're about to go and we start the we start the episode with my back to the audience which I always thought was dumb and funny.
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Why would you start your show with your back facing the audience?
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And then turn around and go like, "Here we are in a room full of you."
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And so we're about to go like, "All right, we're on. Uh 20 seconds to air. To 15, 10."
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And he goes, "Uh hey Jimmy, remember hit that harmony."
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And I go, "Yeah, I will, man."
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And he squeezes my hand and he goes, "I'm serious, dude.
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Remember to hit that harmony."
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And I go, "Calm down, dude.
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I mean, we're dressed like the Bee Gees, dude."
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It's like dude, I he I felt for that second I felt like what it was like to be Lance Bass.
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I mean, do I get anything if I finish this?
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Do we have any more t-shirts? A t-shirt?
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I want like a watch or something.
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I want like something like a plaque. Right? Or or a belt.
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We'll see We'll see what we can do.
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We'll stress test the production over here. what about the hallway? Yeah.
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You get to keep the sauces. No, thanks. I don't want them.
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This past summer I got to see George Wendt, Jason Sudeikis, and Robert Smigel revamp the super fan skit? Yes.
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As a Saturday Night Live historian yourself, what immediately comes to mind when you think of like the perfect SNL sketch?
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I did a sketch with Will Ferrell called Cowbell and it just crushed. I mean, next level. Everyone was next level.
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Everyone was so funny in that sketch.
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Chris Kattan, Chris Parnell was great.
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Christopher Walken wasn't even talking like a human being.
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He was doing like an impression of himself and what is we need more cow.
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He wasn't even speaking English.
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I don't know what he was doing and it was crushing and the room got hot and it shook.
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And I remember I had one line. Of course, I'm an idiot.
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And I have one line right up as I'm about to give my line, Kattan and Will improvised and they were pushing each other.
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Kattan knocked Will's sunglasses off and I could see the eyes of a lunatic and I started laughing and I go and I started laughing and then that's what got my reputation of the guy who laughs during all of the sketches. But that was great.
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Debbie Downer, I was a part of that sketch.
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I kept my I was really solid on that until the way way way end.
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And so we all broke in the scene and Fred Armisen's in the scene.
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The next day in the New York Post, they put a picture of us and uh Fred was the only one laughing in the photo.
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And I remember going up to him and going, "How unprofessional." Keep it together, buddy. Yeah. Ninja Napalm? Oh my gosh.
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Okay, and this is right before the bomb. Yeah. Okay. Oof. Okay, don't freak out.
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I'm going to make it to the bomb and then I'll freak out.
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All right, but this one, yeah.
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Okay, this one's starting to hit. Yeah. Pepper Ninja. Ninja Napalm, okay. Oh my god. All right.
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So, as a music obsessive, do you have a pinch-me musical moment from hosting the show and working alongside legends of yours like Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Keith Richards? Oh. Pound for pound.
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Um Pound for pound, um these artists are Well, um yeah, this is where you get distracted.
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This is exactly what you I'm doing.
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Falling right into the trap right here.
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Cuz you're asking a question.
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I don't even remember the question.
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And but You know, I remember doing a thing with Bruce Springsteen where I was dressed as him in the '80s and he was dressed as him in the '70s.
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So, we uh we're about to do it.
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Everyone leaves the room. It's just me and Bruce.
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I go Let me put the wig on.
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He goes All right, let's try the wig.
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So, I put a wig on Bruce Springsteen.
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And he puts a floppy hat over the wig and it looks exactly like Bruce Springsteen from the Born to Run tour. Exactly.
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And so, we leave He goes, "I'm going to keep the wig."
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And he comes out and his manager Jon Landau is in the dressing room across the hall from the makeup room.
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And they looked at each other like and they both started kind of tearing up.
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Well, Jon definitely did.
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Like Bruce was wearing the sunglasses.
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And he's like, "Jimmy, I can't explain this.
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This is like seeing your client looking like how he looked 30 years ago.
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I never thought I'd get that feeling again."
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Went, rehearsed, went great.
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And then I went back to my dressing room and I started doing push-ups because he's he's jacked. And I'm not.
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And I'm like, "If I'm going to do Bruce Springsteen, I got to, you know, Get a pump.
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Yeah, I got to get a pump in, man.
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And then he walked by my dressing room and goes, "You're cheating, MAN. YOU'RE CHEATING."
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And came over and started doing push-ups next to me.
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So, that was a pinch-me moment.
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I did push-ups next to Bruce Springsteen dressed as Bruce Springsteen. Here we go. This is the bomb.
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And uh I'm doing this for uh all all my Who would do it for? All the kids. This one's for the kids. Oh, no. Yeah. I remember this. Yeah.
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This is the one I killed.
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This is when I killed Selena Gomez. Yeah.
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You know we almost killed Selena Gomez. I remember vividly.
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And you know, my favorite thing about doing Hot Ones on THE TONIGHT SHOW IS THAT YOU'LL POSITION it in the MIDDLE OF THE OH MY GOD.
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YOU'LL POSITION it in the middle of the program, so you'll still have to fill like two blocks with your mouth on fire. Oh gosh.
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But eating more doesn't help. So why would I do that? Oh my gosh. Mhm.
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Why would I do it over here? Woo.
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You're making sound effects.
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And you're acting like it's hot, but I don't think it is hot. No, it is. Oh, Yeah.
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Well, I I think you're crying a little bit. I'm human. Okay.
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As a host, do you ever feel guilty doing Hot Ones on The Tonight Show? Yeah.
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You know, like I feel like I'm stealing someone else's bit. I don't know.
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Like I'm stealing your show and the popularity of your show on my show.
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I guess where I was going with that is like I'm sure Selena Gomez is much more dubious of your segment suggestions now than she used to be. Dubious. It's the word like that. It's power for power. It's dubious. Oh my gosh. I'm just I'm not crying.
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I'm just thinking about me grandmother the way we used to laugh, you know, in back in Ireland.
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You almost killed at American Treasure Selena Gomez.
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Almost Dude, she laughed and ran out.
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I went and knocked on her dressing room door.
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That's my favorite dirty rock memory ever.
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She was throwing up in her sink.
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In her dressing room, I go, "Selena."
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And she goes, "Get the f out." With a devil voice.
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I've never seen her like that.
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Uh spit was dripping out of her mouth.
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And I go, "I'm so sorry."
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And uh uh I didn't really talk to We didn't talk to each other for another 3 years.
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And then when she when she said that to you and you closed the door, you looked at me and you go, "She's doing great."
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Yeah, I did I exactly did that. Yeah.
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Things are coming out of my I can't hear out of this side.
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So I can kind of guess what you're saying.
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And I can kind of hear it.
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Do you want some ice cream? No.
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Do you want to give me ice cream?
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We have some waiting in the wings.
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You think I can't handle this?
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Do I look like a guy that can You need some ice cream right now. No. I got this, man. I got it in control. I'm not driving. Uh And this is wow. Am I bleeding?
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Is my Is my nose bleeding?
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Happy Halloween, by the way. Yeah. Happy Halloween.
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Do you dress up for Halloween?
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Every once in a while, but you know what?
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I've I've not picked out a costume this year. No.
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It's getting a little late in the game.
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Do you have people dress up as you? Yeah. Every once in a while.
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Like it's a it's a good It's a good Halloween party thing cuz you can go What is a What is a vest for you?
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Is it Is it a costume for you?
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Is it a vest and a and a watch? No Halloween? Well, you know what?
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It's a bald cap first and foremost. Yeah. All right.
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And then it's like a string holding a tray of wings.
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Well, that's pretty good. Underneath.
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Are you happy you're a good-looking bald man?
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Yeah, but I'd like to have that nice head of hair all the way through. You can. It's a wig. This is 100% yak hair.
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I got this off of Amazon. That is just awful.
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That is absolutely awful.
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An awful thing to give to a friend.
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I thought you liked me more than respected me.
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We've been friends for a long time. Yeah.
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And uh uh that's just cruel.
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And it's just a terrible thing to do.
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And man, that is just awful.
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That's a terrible thing to do to me.
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And this is the fifth time you've done it. Oh, wait. What is this? The last dab? Yeah. It's the last dab. Do I shake it? Let's shake it up, baby. Uh last dab.
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Now, you couldn't even open this for me? I trust you. I don't know why. All right.
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Is there a certain camera? Look at this. You have one camera. You can move around. Finding this coverage. Well, that's good. That's good. That's good. That's good.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. God damn it. What a run, Jimmy.
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I mean, seriously, dude, I always dreaded this.
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And I got to say, I'm proud.
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And I'm happy I did this.
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And this last dab, this last dab. Sorry.
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I'd say this is all the kids out there.
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And this one's for the kids. Love you, dude. Love you back. I'm good. Right. I'm good. Lemonade.
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Yeah, and does have a little bit of a build on it.
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But, Jimmy, the wings of death are behind us.
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You have conquered Hot Ones now for the fifth time. We're spooky on the set.
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And you know, two nightmares, the haunted house, Uh I know. I'm good. Two blocks away.
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it brings to life No cares at all.
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the things that scare you, including scarecrows and werewolves and rogue AI robots. Nothing. This means nothing.
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But in keeping with the deep dive on you as an entertainer, I'm curious.
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Yeah, what are you curious about?
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What is your showbiz nightmare? All right?
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Like what are the motivating fears?
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Can you just unfocus the camera just so that you don't get the high definition snot coming out?
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Don't you need 4K 8K in this joint?
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You see like the nasal hairs flow out. What What's my fear? Your showbiz nightmares.
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Like the motivating fears in your career.
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Whether they're useful or not.
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As a comedian silence like there is right now.
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The deafening silence is my biggest fear.
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Crying on camera which is happening now is my biggest fear.
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But probably my biggest fear is giving up in front of the American public. And I'm not doing that. Here we go. Love you guys. Facing love you back. Respect.
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Facing the fears, taking on the wings of death, and living to tell the tale.
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Now Jimmy Fallon, there's nothing to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera, let the people know what you have going on in your life. I love my wife and kids.
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Uh I love my family so much.
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I have a Christmas holiday By the way, this is why my album's coming out November 1st because after November 1st the real albums come out.
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Like Michael Bublé and Kelly Clarkson and Mariah Carey. Beat them to the party. Real, yeah.
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So if I come out with this album in September, which would have been smart. God, that little snot. That was for you, buddy.
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Um uh then I have a fighting chance at actually making the charts and all that.
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I think it would be like kind of funny to be on the holiday charts and have my album, a comedy album, make it on the holiday charts.
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So I think my closest to come to being on the holiday charts would be if people bought it before, way before Christmas, before Thanksgiving even. Well, hey.
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If you're watching this episode and appreciate the sacrifice, again, it's for the kids. Get that album.
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Do you sign anything for people? Yeah, yes. You'll sign this for me? Yes, of course.
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When you come on the show next, and then again, you'll hear from my lawyers before that. sure I will.
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Uh, you come on, I'll show you I'll have this I'll have this jar.
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And remember the Roots want to come on. Yep, and do a song.
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Uh, I want to thank you for always being supportive of us and our show and letting us honestly kind of rip off your show by doing Hot Ones on our show.
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No, but Uh, but we did it just because we love you and love your show and a big fan of what you guys do and congrats on all your success and this is great and just on to bigger and better things, but you're you're a gentleman. Thank you, Jimmy. I appreciate buddy.
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Thank you EVERYBODY SO MUCH. OH MY GOD.
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