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Come here, Chris.
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Have a little of The Bomb. Yeah. Here, Chris. Let's go. I deserve this. Yes, you do.
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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, we're joined by Leslie Mann.
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She's an actress whose credits include some of the biggest comedy films of the last 25 years, from Knocked Up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Funny People, Blockers, and many more.
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Her latest project, though, is the meta-comedy, The Bubble, which is set to hit Netflix on April 1st.
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Leslie Mann, welcome to the show. Thank you.
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How are you around spicy food before we get started here?
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Um so, I've had um Tabasco sauce, like just a little tiny bit, which is very spicy for me, and Cholula sauce, which I like on scrambled eggs, um which I can handle.
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But that's like pretty lightweight stuff, right?
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But you never know, maybe I'll I'll be able to handle it all. That's what we see.
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Secret talent here all along.
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So, this first one's the classic, and we'll start at the handle over here. Okay. Okay. Mhm.
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That's what everyone says. Mhm. Mhm. That's good. It has a little tangy. Yeah. I like it. That's a good one. Where's the camera? Costa Costa's. Leslie.
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get some of this for the house. I'm very good. Okay.
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So, your latest comedy, The Bubble, is a rise story about a group of actors trying to complete a blockbuster film called Cliff Be 6 in the middle of a global pandemic.
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In what ways did the challenges of making Cliff Be 6 mirror the reality of making The Bubble?
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Like were there any jokes or observations that you found to be especially on the nose in terms of being self-referential?
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Well, at the time we were all in quarantine when Judd was writing the movie.
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And so we were talking to actors who were working on movies and TV shows and they were telling us stories about things that were going on like being miserable because they had to go into a tiny hotel room and quarantine for 2 weeks.
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So there were disguises and escapes and so we kind of like pulled from those stories. Are your eyes watering? No, not yet.
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It might just be the might have been too spicy for you. Whoa. Let's go. Let's go to number two. Dropping the hammer. Ready?
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This next one is the Dawson's Cedar Smoke Garlic. Okay.
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Hopefully I can handle it. Your eyes were watering. It has a bite. It's good though.
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So when we had Paul Rudd on the show he talked about how the movies that he finds funniest are often categorized as dramas and that some of the most dramatic moments in film often times happen in comedies. Uh-huh.
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What do you personally think of the phrase dramatic comedy which is often used to describe some of your most beloved films?
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I like to be able to feel something deeply and also be able to laugh about it.
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I've always thought of myself as like a dramatic actress.
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I don't think of myself as a comedy actress.
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And on the topic of Paul Rudd, fact or fiction, he improvised passing gas in that don't fart in the bed scene in This Is 40. Mhm.
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I don't know if he likes to talk about One time I talked about it and um during an interview and he he got mad at me.
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So, now he's going to get mad at me again. Sorry.
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But, uh but I think it's because the person interviewing us was like, "He's married to the most beautiful woman."
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But, it happened to be like this really beautiful woman and I think I embarrassed him.
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Talking about farts and stuff.
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But, yes, he did improvise that.
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Yes, and it was not cool. He hot pocketed me. That was not cool. Mhm.
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I like the garlic and the sun-dried tomato.
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But, I just sounded like Ina Garten to myself. Didn't I? Mhm.
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I love the cedar smoked garlic and the hot sauce and the chilies and the sun-dried tomato. Mhm. And then she eats it. She's so excited. Do you watch that show? No.
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Yeah, Ina Ina is a is a legend.
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This is a This is a food show and you can't have a food show in the space now and not pay respect to the legend. So, shout out to Ina. Absolute legend.
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episode where she talks about um making brownies for Jeffrey?
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No, tell me about making brownies for Jeffrey.
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So, she's like, "When Jeffrey and I met, I made him brownies and that was the key to his heart."
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And then um and then she's like, "It's our you know, whatever 40th anniversary and I made Jeffrey's his favorite chicken and some his favorite brownies."
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And then and then she like presents the food to Jeffrey and he's all excited and he says he has a a surprise for her and he like pitched a tent because that's what they did when they were first dating.
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And so, she goes into the tent and he follows and she peeps her head out and she says, "If the tent's a rocking, don't come a knocking."
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I can't get that out of my head.
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Well, that about it a lot.
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That is why she's a legend.
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Okay, this is good so far. You're crushing it. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 to go. Yep.
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Are you ready to move on to the fourth one? Yes. Whoa. Mhm. Got a cut job? Mhm. Oh. Okay. Mhm. It's on my lips. Oh. Okay.
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That one's Okay, yeah, that kicked it up a little bit. What does that one say?
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Oh, it has uh some cantaloupe melon in this one.
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Little sweetness with the heat, but the heat comes through. Mhm, yeah, it does.
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So, you have an amazing quote about rude casting directors saying in a 2009 Backstage interview, "When people are being [ __ ] you might as well not waste your time because chances are they're going to make a piece of [ __ ] anyway."
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What immediately comes to mind when you think of the unpleasant or dismissive auditioning experiences that inspired that quote?
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I wonder what who I was mad at.
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have been fresh off of something. Right?
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Oh my gosh, but it's true.
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Just like treating actors like dog [ __ ] like we don't have feelings and we're not human beings.
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I wonder what happened that day though. Me, too.
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Something must have happened.
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Um you know, just like rude people.
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When you're trying to put yourself out there and be open and and do your job, it it's nice to have supportive people around you and not rude people. Like it with anything.
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I think I'm going to be fine.
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I'm halfway through and I'm not It's okay. You're doing good. Mhm. You're doing good.
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We'll see how things go in the back half.
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There's I think that's way worse. That's the show. Okay.
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But before we get there, Mhm.
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Leslie, we have a recurring segment on our show called Explain That Gram, where we do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram, pull interesting pictures that need more context. Okay.
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So, we'll pull the picture up over here on the monitor.
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You just tell us the bigger story.
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Looking back, what's the TV or movie set that made you laugh the most when the cameras cut?
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Probably this one, The Other Woman, yeah.
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I had so much fun with Cameron.
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She's one of my best friends.
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Just honestly being with the girls, being with Kate Upton and Cameron Diaz, and we just had so much fun together.
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We would go out and and have wine after work, and and it was shot during the summer, and it was warm in New York City.
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It was just like a dream, like a dream job.
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Yeah, it is this where it gets crazy. Back half. You look scared.
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Well, I love how you just dive dive right in. Okay. I I like that.
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Shoot first, ask questions later.
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you're struggling more than me. Well, there we go.
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This one, Queen Majesty Coco Ghost. Mhm.
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What if I'm just fine with hot sauce? Did I speak too soon?
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Should I be the host of this show? You might be. Maybe we can trade off.
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Like I'll do some people and you can do some people.
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I feel like I could be good at this.
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I could do a movie or two, and you know, you can do a YouTube talk show. Yeah, yeah. I like that.
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Okay, this one got spicy. Mhm.
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What's this, Queen Majesty?
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Queen Majesty Coco Ghost.
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I don't taste anything, the coco part or the just the spice.
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Yeah, the ghost comes through.
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It's the ghost, all ghost. Okay.
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What makes the 1971 Hal Ashby-directed classic Harold and Maude a quintessential comedy for you? I love that movie.
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Um well, it seems like um maybe Yeah, I feel this one now. Oof. So, we had a VCR player.
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You probably don't know what that is either.
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No, I remember VCR players.
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I'm a child of the '90s over here.
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And we had that movie, Harold and Maude.
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My mom gave it to us uh for Christmas one year.
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And then we also had the workout video by the guy from the Richard Gere movie, Lou Gossett Jr.
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So, for some reason we had his workout video.
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And just Harold and Maude.
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And so, my mother and father um that was one of their first dates going to see Harold and Maude at a movie driving theater.
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Oh, almost as romantic as the tent and the brownies. Exactly.
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Um but yeah, so it has like history.
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And then also, it was all I had, but also I really loved watching it and I would cry and feel so be so moved, you know, by It's such a great story.
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And and the music is so beautiful and the acting is so beautiful and I just I like I really loved it.
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It kind of like shaped me in a weird way.
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Thank god she gave me a good movie.
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What if she gave me a different movie and that was the thing that shaped me?
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And then I was like just off for the rest of my life.
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Or didn't want to pursue acting at all. Didn't want to Yeah. Yeah, right.
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What's the big deal with this stuff, you know? want to do that?
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Well, shout out to Harold and Maude. Yeah.
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Are you ready to move on here to the next wing? Yeah.
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This is Jekyll and Hyde, 13 angry scorpions here in the seventh spot.
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Ooh, this is a scary-looking bottle. It says freakishly hot.
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This one's not that This one's pretty spicy. Yeah, it it it grows. It grows a little bit. Hold on.
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Did you have any harrowing encounters with wildlife on the set of George of the Jungle?
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Like what are the mechanics of shooting that lion rescue scene with Bongo and Caesar?
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It's With Bongo and Caesar?
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Wait, is that the the the lions there?
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Yeah, they're famous lions.
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So yes, they put me in with I don't know which one it was, Bongo or Caesar.
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So I was in a little tiny space.
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He's probably like where you are from me.
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Um and so This one's really spicy. Yeah.
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And it got so much spicier.
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And so I remember I think about this a lot because I think you know, when you hear about animals attacking, um I think I I don't know why he didn't attack me.
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And I I mean there's really nothing you can do when they're that close.
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If he just jumps at me, I'm dead. I just spit. That's all right. That is fine. Right?
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And and they didn't have anyone in between us.
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Just like a man like where that sign is.
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Oh wait, like what's he going to be able to do? Right.
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And so and I went along with it.
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So I always tell my daughters, do not listen to anyone telling you like if you feel instinctively feel like something isn't safe, trust your instincts, walk away, and like ask someone smart or you know, call me or But don't just listen to the movie people tell you it's safe.
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Don't just go along with it because you don't want to like cause a problem.
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Like I shouldn't have done that. Well, you know what?
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Speaking of staring the lion right in the eyes, this next one is the bomb beyond insanity. Oh, no. This one's great. Oh my god. Yeah. Oh my god.
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She's going to look at right over. What? I know. Oh. I know. Who eats that?
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I don't see a use for it, personally. Mhm. Mhm. I'm about to fall apart. Whoa. Cuz they got Oh. It grows a little bit.
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It grows a little bit, but we'll kind of gas pedal to the finish line here. Oh my god. What? Mhm. How long does it last? Oh, that's really bad. It'll just suck.
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What did I do at this show?
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You might be in the room. Oh my god. Not your idea, though. No, but you know what?
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I ended up as hot You know, like this guy, he's just got the idea.
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How much hot sauce does he have to eat? Nothing. You know what I mean? Come here.
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Yeah, Chris, show yourself. Get out here. Come here, Chris.
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Have a little of the bomb. Yeah. Here, Chris. Let's go. I deserve this. Yes, you do. This is for you, Leslie. Okay. Yeah. About damn time. FOR THE FANS. WAIT, STAY THERE. STAY THERE.
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I'M GOING TO TELL HER to go. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Just 1 second.
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Let's just watch you for Wait, you can pick it up yourself. For 1 second.
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We have to watch watch Watch it. Watch Chris melt. But he won't. He is stoic. He is stoic.
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There's one thing I know ABOUT THE GUY. HE'S DYING. FINE. IS IT AWFUL? IT'S BAD.
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This is what you do to people. I know.
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You're You're a great sport. You okay? Yeah. Here we go.
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Do you have any questions? Am I dismissed? Yes. Okay, you can go. For later. Thank you.
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Let's hear it for Chris, everybody.
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That made me feel so much better. Yeah, me too, actually.
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You know, like that was long overdue, you know?
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I'm happy that you did that, you know? Me, too.
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Ooh, it just caught my throat.
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Like it has It just like it lives in there. Yeah, it does that.
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living in the back of my throat. Yeah.
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And when I swallowed it, it came back up again. it again, yeah.
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How you doing back there?
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Yeah, Chris, how you doing? dying? Are you dying? Okay. That's good. Okay, okay. Heat index, smoking hot. I'd have to agree.
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But I think after the last one The bomb.
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Almost a walk in the park, right?
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This is pretty spicy, too. Yeah. Mhm. But we're almost there.
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There's a little the bomb left in there.
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Yeah, like kind of reactivates. Yeah.
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It's reactivating the bomb.
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What's the Leslie Mann movie line that gets yelled at you most in the wild? So many classics.
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I'm very curious what's at the top of the list.
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Um um Let's get some [ __ ] French toast. I think it's that one.
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After that movie came out, a lot of girls come up to me and say, "Oh my gosh, that's so me."
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And I'm like like what uh uh driving and being crazy or whatever. "That's so me. I do that all the time."
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I'm like, "Oh no, that's a bad idea. Don't do that." Oh god. Ugh.
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It just got a little the bomb. It's like in my throat. On the side first. There you go. Okay. Oop. Oop. Okay. Cheers, Leslie. What a ride. Okay, cheers. That's a spicy one. That's a spicy one.
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But the good news is, Leslie Mann, that we're at the end of the road.
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Conquered the Hot Ones gauntlet and just one more question before we roll credits.
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We're going to take it to your sweet spot, which is playfully ribbing your husband and long-time collaborator Judd Apatow.
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To close things out, how do you think he would fare against the wings of death?
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Can you paint the picture for us in as much detail as possible? Mhm.
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That one is like really burny. Ooh. Ugh.
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And that one's really really like that one I don't like. I don't like that one. These two are the worst. Let the record show.
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So, we went to a spice restaurant and um when we were traveling um ooh That one's really bad. I don't like that one.
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Um and he uh had the whatever spicy food and um and then was having a margarita with it.
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And he went out to the car and passed out. He can't handle spice. He would die.
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He would not be able to handle this.
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But you know who can handle it?
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Leslie Mann taking on the wings of death, living to tell the tale, and others having nothing left 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. Mm. What do I have going on? Well, you this. Yeah.
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Um I have The Bubble coming out April 1st, which is exciting.
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Um it's a really fun movie. It's on Netflix.
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And um uh uh uh uh That's kind of it. THANK YOU. GOOD JOB. OH MY GOD. So fun.
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I was really nervous about it. What?
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Maud Maud and I um watched God, it's still burning.
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Um uh uh uh Gordon Ramsay episode.
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She's like, "Mom, you have to do it. You have to do it."
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Um so that's why I'm here, but then I was really scared.
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And it's really It's still. How long does it take?
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It's a diminishing returns situation, so you'll be back. Okay. That was so fun though. You had a good time? Yes. So fun. Thank you. We're all out. Yeah. Thank you. So good.
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It's really nice to meet you. Tell Ma I said hi. Can you fight, Chris?
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