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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 Post Malone.
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He's an artist we sat down with some five and a half years ago and in the time since he's just gone on to smash Billboard and streaming records, one of the highest selling most decorated musicians of the last decade.
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He also has a brand new long-awaited album on the way, 12 Carat Toothache, which is coming soon and I for one can't wait.
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Post Malone, welcome back to the show.
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Sir, thanks for having me.
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Before we get started, I'm curious.
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Have you been experimenting with hot sauce at all since we saw you last?
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Do fans ever bring up your OG Hot Ones interview in the wild?
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It's like one of the top five biggest episodes we've ever done.
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Did you guys send me a habanero one? We probably did. We probably did. I think you signed it.
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But I wanted to taste it so bad, so I cracked it.
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I was just like, "Yeah, I got to eat this thing."
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And then I drank it straight, but it looks like the lineup has changed a little bit here on season 18. It is.
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It's actually a brand new lineup and here's kind of a fun fact, that this is the very first time that I'm taking on this lineup and it's right along with you, Post Malone.
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I wouldn't have it any other way. Sir, let's get it on. Yes, sir. Classic Garlic Fresno. Mhm.
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I see we've gone tendi this time. For you, Posty. For you. I love you. I love you guys. All right. Diving in. This is delicious. The spice? I'm impervious. No problem.
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Yeah, there's no problem.
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It's got a little afterburn, but other than that, you know, it's nice.
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As we mentioned up top, you have your fourth studio album on the way.
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And I think it's worth mentioning that your first three are something like a combined 18 times platinum with Beerbongs & Bentleys and Hollywood's Bleeding each being number one records respectively.
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You had a recent interview with Billboard where you said, "I don't need a number one.
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That doesn't matter to me no more, and at a point it did." I didn't know that. You said 18 times.
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That's pretty [ __ ] awesome. That's so cool. Thank you, Sean.
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You're Sean is the coolest guy in the [ __ ] world.
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Um but there was a moment to where I lost my passion to make music.
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You know, it's like it becomes a job.
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I was just a kid, you know, and making music, and I had all these songs and everything, but it became a job, you know, with labels and touring and everything, and it gets so hard to actually focus on why you're there. You know what I mean?
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It used to be like, "Okay, we get in the studio and be like, let's make hits.
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Let's bring a bunch of producers in.
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Let's bring a bunch of different artists in."
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But um on this record there's only a couple couple producers, couple artists, and um I just want to make I just want to make [ __ ] Finally, now that I'm back it feels like I I was a uh in a cocoon and now I'm a beautiful butterfly.
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We're seeing the metamorphosis happen right before our eyes. And now I'm here. You know what I mean?
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But yeah, I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
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It's my favorite piece of work that we've ever done, so. Is mezcal like tequila? Mhm.
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Does this have booze in it? Yeah. we're getting messed up. We're getting messed up. Sean, that's good.
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Hitting two for two so far. That's good. There we go.
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Do I Do I get to take some of these home?
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You get to actually take all of them home. Whoa! Yeah. That's good, Sean. Oh my god. And you know what?
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If you want me to sign another one for you, I'll sign them all. There we go. I got you. I got you. Yes, sir.
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So, between Stone Cold riding ATVs around Broken Skull and John Mayer ditching West Hollywood for Montana, I'm fascinated by guests who've taken on a more secluded lifestyle. Sure.
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Have you had any close encounters with wildlife since moving to this 7-acre compound in the backcountry mountains of Utah? Oh, man.
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Um there is a big mama cougar that runs around.
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And so, we have dogs and stuff and and a cat.
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Um we built like it's like a big gate fence.
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It's supposed to keep all the wildlife out, but somehow this big cougar keeps getting in. She's crafty. Very crafty.
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Also, there was an alien there. What?
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Not like a physical alien, but like a ball. I think it was an alien. Or ghost. What?
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We caught it on the infrared camera.
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Does alien count as wildlife? Very wildlife. Yeah, I guess so.
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Extreme wildlife, I think. I don't know.
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Demons count as wildlife? Or aliens?
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But, you know, I don't know. It was so cool. We saw it.
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So, we got cameras all around the whole place.
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And um just this big orb.
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I'd say like like if you take Sauron's eye, so it starts forming the shape of like Sauron's eye and goes under this door.
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And uh I don't know what that was, either.
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I don't know if that counts.
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Yeah, well, between that and the cougar, it sounds like you got your hands Well, yeah, I don't know.
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I'm scared It's like It's like [ __ ] Dark Souls whenever I go outside.
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It's like Elden Ring whenever I go outside.
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I don't know what the hell I'm going to find out there.
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You guys know nothing phases me.
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This one is the Adobo Loco. Okay. Island Wing Sauce. It does get hotter.
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Yeah, that's how the show is formatted.
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That's how the That's how it goes. That is how it goes. Yeah. Coming through. Yeah. I'll tell you what.
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My shits are going to be crazy.
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Can you give me a beat that the first time you heard it, you knew that it would be a Post Malone stadium anthem?
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And then can you give me another one that maybe you didn't fully understand or vibe with at first that turned out to be a massive hit for you?
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I feel like I knew I knew Congratulations was going to be big, but that's just cuz the genius Quavo was in the room.
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I was like, "Yo, Quavo, what do you think about this?"
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He's like, "This [ __ ] is crazy." And Metro, too. Um I don't know. Maybe Psycho.
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I didn't think it was going to be as big as it was.
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Or Candy Paint even, cuz I mean that, too.
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I didn't I was like, "Okay, I like this song."
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Cuz I've always been a fan of major chords and like happy music, but like, you know, talking your [ __ ] at the same time.
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I think that's a perfect balance and it's very tongue-in-cheek and it's very, you know, I love that.
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I think it's probably Psycho.
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I I didn't know that people would like it that much.
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I was like, "Okay, yeah, [ __ ] yeah. Thank you so much." It's not that bad. There we go.
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Yeah, I think it actually is not quite as spicy as three.
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I felt like three played some psychological games with us and coming nice and hot right now.
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This is delicious, but it's not as hot. Exactly.
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So, I'm always fascinated by what goes into making an athlete's signature shoe.
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In the world of a musician, what are the conversations like when you're tricking out a custom guitar, deciding which instruments you're going to bring with you on tour?
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I went to There's a place called Carter's in Nashville.
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They had this 1938 Martin, and it was owned by a guy Think his name was like Hobo Bill or something. Like something crazy.
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It had his songs in the guitar case and a rattlesnake tail inside of it.
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I got two guitars that are my favorite guitars.
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Sunburst Les Paul that I played on the Nirvana thing.
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I'm the shittiest guitar player and it makes me feel like I'm the best in the world.
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And Willie Nelson's guitar. It's so cool.
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It's got a big hole in it.
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It looks like he punched it. I don't know. I'm more of a road worn. I like the road worn. the backstory.
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It's definitely been through some [ __ ] And this guitar's been through some [ __ ] This dude killed a rattlesnake and threw this tail in there.
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I was like, this is crazy. I love that.
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Are you ready to move on here to the halfway point? Okay.
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This is the Sauce Leopard Seventh Reaper.
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And there is some Carolina Reaper in this one.
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Some tomato, some garlic, some Reaper. That smells like death. Okay.
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It tastes delicious, but it's hot.
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It's definitely building.
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It's definitely I'm feeling it inside. It's stoking the flame. Yeah.
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Hey, that's pretty good so far. Are we five for five?
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Yeah, Yeah, five for five.
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That's what I'm talking about. Yep. Yep.
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All right, posties, you may recall we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that gram where we do a deep dive on our guest and today I'll pull interesting pictures that need more context.
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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. Okay. That guy is cool.
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Seems like it could use some further explanation. Sure.
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And then I'm also curious, you know, as as somebody who's been a video game junkie your whole life turn musician, how important is music to the gaming experience for you?
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Did Have you played Elden Ring?
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No, no, but I got to get on that game.
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Yeah, you should play that.
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And there has been times in that game I I turn the music all the way off because it is insane.
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It's like literally like choirs like not not of angels of demons and they're like we're going to [ __ ] you up. There's no way you live.
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And after a fight, I have to like I'm like shaking like this so I have to walk outside and smoke and I'm like I need to decompress and like do all this [ __ ] but music is very important however to video games.
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Whenever Skyrim came out, the theme song gave me chills as a kid.
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And there's so much some of the best music comes from video games.
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There's like such epic songs like Zelda has a crazy soundtrack.
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Elder Scrolls has a crazy soundtrack. All this like Mario.
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There's There's Yeah, there's no one in the world that doesn't know the Mario song. It's so cool.
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It's like the Star War It's like Star Wars songs and the Lord of the Rings songs.
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It's just they're timeless pieces that super nostalgic on, you know, watching it, you know, it's super cool.
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This I needed to get my kill death ratio up.
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So, I said what's going to get What's going to get me the edge?
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I said put some damn night vision goggles on and see what's going on.
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Um no, yeah, if I turn those on right there in that picture, I would probably go blind.
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You ever seen Step Brothers where they're like Yeah, like That's what we're doing. got it on 140.
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But, that was a fun night.
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And I took It was just for the picture. I played one game. Just one. Okay. Yeah.
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The ghost pepper really shines through in that one. Oh my god. Hot and saucy. Hot and saucy. Like you, Shawn. Oh. I'll take it. I'll take it.
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I'll take what I can get at this Now, you say it back to me. Nate, hot and saucy. Thank you, Shawn. Hot and saucy. All that. All that. Thank you, sir.
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Totally original compliment, and you I didn't tell you to say it. Special for you.
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I didn't tell you to say it. You made for you. Every word. And I meant it. I meant every word.
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Honestly, it's an assault on your tongue. Mhm. It's gone now. Yeah, we're back. We're back. It's gone now. We're over it.
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It came It came and went.
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We've turned the page on it. We've turned the page. It's delicious.
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It's absolutely delicious. Six for six?
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Six for six, Shawn Evans. There we go.
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Shawn, pretty talk about resisting pressure to say jam-pack an album with 20 or 25 tracks. Very much so.
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In what ways do you think the economics of the music industry influences the way that music is put out these days?
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I I guess right now, I suppose it the algorithm is set up for What the hell was that noise?
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That sounded like Predator from AVP or something.
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The The format right now, I guess it's the more songs you have, the more you're going to stream.
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It's kind of like It's almost like an accuracy by volume. Yeah.
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Cuz you could throw 20 songs or you could throw 20 blobs of goop at the wall, one of them's going to stick.
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Maybe more than one is going to stick.
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But, I think what's interesting about this album is it's 42 minutes, Mhm. 14 songs.
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It's a story and I think more so than anything I've made before.
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It's a living, breathing entity almost. I'm so excited. I'm so pumped. I love that.
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All right, Posty, you ready to move on?
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Seventh sauce, you're doing great so far. Okay. This one is the Halogi. Tyrfing's curse. It's a sleeper. Yeah. I don't feel it. There we go. I don't feel it. Yeah, let's go. It's not that bad. It is delicious.
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Seven for seven then I'd have to say. Seven for seven. There we go.
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First test drive on the new lineup could not be going better. I'm passing it to you. I'm passing it back.
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We look like mages dueling.
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Can you Photoshop Not Photoshop.
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Can you edit something Do it. Colin eat him. Colin will go in. Colin will go in. Go nuts.
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Also make me 8 ft tall, please.
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All right, we'll take a swing at that. Here we go. Tall Post.
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So, when we had Dave Grohl on the show, he talked about how he pulled a muscle in his hand playing Message in a Bottle by The Police.
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And you're a distinguished cover man yourself.
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What do you learn from performing the music of other greats like Bob Dylan, or Darius Rucker, or Nirvana.
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Everything that I want to do musically Jesus. Yeah. It's there. It's still reminding me. It's reminding me.
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I think it hurt you talking. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. That's the whole thing.
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You talk [ __ ] It's like That's not hot.
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But he'll be like I am hot.
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These are people that I've looked up to for so long.
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And being able to hear that you didn't [ __ ] it up.
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It's It feels really good. Sting is nuts. Yeah. He's a nut.
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Like the [ __ ] he does is like insane. He He's epic. And I watched the show.
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I don't remember what it The Only Murders in the Building with Sting in there.
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And I thought that was great, too. That's so random. What's wrong with me?
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This sauce is hacking my brain, man. It's in the mainframe. It's the bomb. It's the bomb. Ah. RIP to us. Oh my god. Instant. WOW! WOW! NOT EASY FOR ME, EITHER. That's such a joke. Yeah. What's the tingle? Like Oh my god. It's not hot. Yeah, I know. It's not hot. It's easy. It's easy. What's up, dude? No problem. No problem. No problem.
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Are you having a problem? I'm having no problem. I know. I know. Not hot. I just want to dance.
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Not Can you talk me through the process of securing a PSA 10 Magic the Gathering card valued at close to a million dollars?
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Like what is the hunt like?
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How challenging, how difficult is the hunt for a Black Lotus?
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And why does that card why does it have holy grail status to you? What? 9.
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5 Alpha Black Lotus printed 1993 signed by Chris Rush.
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It's just a holy grail of Magic the Gathering.
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Which is the best game ever created.
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That's what you get, Sean. It's hard to find.
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What would you say is the biggest misconception about Magic the Gathering and the people who play it?
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You know, it might be conceived as like nerdy.
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Um and I'm a [ __ ] nerd and I'm so damn happy to be a nerd.
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Um I don't spend I used to, but I don't do bottle service anymore.
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I don't go to strip club.
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I I just sit in my room and play with cards all day. But um it's not bad. It's pretty normal.
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It's a sauce type of sauce. Cheers, Sean. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers at home.
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If you own this hot sauce take some with us. That's a big bite. Oh, mistake. Mistake. Alert. You know what?
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It can't be It can't be worse than the last one though.
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It can't be worse than the last one. Mhm.
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This one like a really spicy curry or something is what I taste in this one. Yeah. Tastes like a bratwurst. Yeah. Oof.
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So I know that you long have been obsessed with the metaphysical.
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And then you even appeared on that Ghost Adventures show where you explored a meat packing We explored a meat packing plant in Arizona.
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Haunted meat packing plant in Arizona.
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Can you give me like a ghost hunting starter pack?
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Like if I were to go hit the streets, like what is some what is some equipment that I need? Am I in frame? We'll find you. Oh. Sean. I'm tired. I'm tired.
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Is it worse than you remember? tough gig. Yeah.
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It's very worse than I remember.
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Guys, do I have any boogies? You're all good. You're clean. You're clean.
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There's You need a EMF detector.
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It measures like And all of this stuff is Sean Evans is just a legend. Yeah, right. Take the notes.
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It's just I can't I'M NOT A SCIENTIST. I'M NOT A SCIENTIST.
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I LIKE BIGFOOT [ __ ] LIKE I like you know what? It's fun. Like whatever. Who knows?
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But sometimes it's just fun to go on that ride, you know?
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There's something going on. Yeah.
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There's definitely something going on that we don't know about.
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Um but EMF detector, a voice recorder, preferably analog, Okay. I'll put that analog.
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Um a camera with infrared or night shot.
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And then you're good to go, Sean Evans.
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We can go wherever the hell you want. [ __ ] yeah. All right.
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We can go wherever you want. Next time. Next time.
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We'll go to your buddy's house. Let's go. Okay, we'll go to Texas.
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We'll do this in Texas, and there will definitely be demons there. In the toilet. All right, Posty. AFTER THE EPISODE. OKAY.
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YOU'RE THE BOSS, SEAN EVANS.
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I'll do whatever you tell me.
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When is the last time you've heard someone say FML? [ __ ] my life.
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Probably 2015 or something. Do you remember that?
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But now it's just absent.
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And there's no one says FML anymore.
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to bring it back and now is kind of a good time. FML.
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You hit the dab at the same time you say FML. That's perfect. How much did you put on?
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I had to give it a nice little smattering over here. you smatter it. it. Sean Evans, please, no. It's actually not hot. Let's go. It's actually not hot. All right.
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Post Malone, you've now conquered the wings of death for a second time.
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And to close things out, we really want to put the two of us to the test with a little quick last dab beer pong.
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We're going to put one cup on your side, one cup on my side over here.
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I am going to I don't know if you remember these.
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THESE YOU REMEMBER THESE?
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YEAH, YEAH, I REMEMBER THESE.
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Just a quick little sudden death beer pong game. Okay.
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You go ahead and go first. No, you go first. All right, all right.
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Those glasses are mad cool, too. You remember these? Yes, sir.
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Those aren't the same ones.
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Not the same, not the same. It's not bad. Oh! Now you got TO DANCE. [ __ ] MY LIFE. [ __ ] my life. life. [ __ ] my life. life. [ __ ] MY LIFE.
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I'M ENDING IT RIGHT HERE. THAT'S COOL. THAT'S COOL, RIGHT? Last dab stand-off.
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FML, FML, everybody all around.
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Post Malone, Sean Evans, taking on the wings of death, conquering, winning in beer pong. Did you drink it all? You're such a legend. Let's go. now. Post Malone.
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There's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, or this camera, let the people know what you have going on in your life.
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I have an album coming out soon.
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It's called 12 Carat Toothache.
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It's got 14 very amazing songs on it.
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I'm the happiest I've ever been.
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Thank you for waiting for me.
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Just be as good as you can and don't be a [ __ ] I love you very much.
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This is Sean Evans of Hot Ones fame.
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The best ever [ __ ] do it right here.
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Um Um Finding these cameras.
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Yeah, they're everywhere. BUT LET'S PARTY. I'M SO HAPPY, DUDE. I'M SO HAPPY TO be back. I'm so happy to be here.
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Like this is the best show ever.
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You You are the best host.
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You are genuinely the best host because you are such a beautiful person, man.
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Like it's it's it's mind-blowing how great you are. Give me a hug, buddy. I love you. I love you, too.
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Honestly, dude, YOU'RE THE BEST. WOW!
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HEY, WHAT'S GOING ON, HOT ONES FANS?
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THANK YOU so much for watching today's video.
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