Shia LaBeouf Sheds a Tear While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

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All right.

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All right, this is a real show.

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I thought you guys were just putting tomato sauce in these jars and tricking people.

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It's real, ladies and gentlemen.

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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 Shia LaBeouf.

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He's an actor and performance artist with a pair of brand new films, the much-buzzed-about Peanut Butter Falcon, which hit theaters in August, and of course the semi-autobiographical story Honey Boy, coming to Amazon on November 8th.

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Shia LaBeouf, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Are you a hot sauce guy? Do you crank it? I mean, yeah.

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I'm So, I'm half Cajun, so yeah.

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I'm a hot sauce guy, but I'm also half Jewish, so I'm a little frightened.

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Do I put sauce on it, or is it already there? It's already there. Let's get it, though. Right.

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So, we're going to put sauce on it, right? go. Yeah, all right. Let's go. Okay. And you, sir? Boom. Cheers. Cheers. Dabbing them all today.

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We'll see how long we can keep it up. The whole way? Mhm.

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So, as we talked about in your intro, you have a pair of movies this fall, Honey Boy and Peanut Butter Falcon, both of which have considerably strong reviews, with some critics calling your performances career-defining.

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Do you see it that way, or are these just like the next projects to you?

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You're so good at this, dog.

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You're really good at this, bro. Thank you, Shia. Yeah.

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Um I forgot what the question was. I was enamored with you.

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What did you just ask me?

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Do you see these as career-defining films, or are these like the next projects to you? this in a mirror we go?

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Does it look like I'm acting?

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No, it just seems so prepared.

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Um, uh, defining, um Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

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I I I um Maybe, yeah, sure. Yes.

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And then in a 2008 Details profile, you said that you'll read every comment surrounding the movies, even the mean places.

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10 years later, do you still have that same appetite for reading your own press?

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I slowed down on that a little bit.

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I was told to, but uh yeah, I care.

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And especially on Peanut Butter Falcon, something like that, where you know Zach's reading them, you know?

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So, I'm I'm trying to like keep up with him.

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And he sends them to me, so yeah, with Peanut Butter, I read a lot of them.

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I don't think I'm going to do the same thing on Honey Boy. It's just too close. It's too Right. Too personal.

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I imagine my papa reading them, though.

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You always got like contrarians, too, you know?

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You always got somebody who just wants to be slick, so and that one will hurt me.

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I'm a very sensitive dude.

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You'll remember that one out of the hundred that are positive. Yeah, exactly. So, I I stay away. With no top Okay. There you go.

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We'll probably get uh more precise with our pours as we go on. You think so? Out of necessity. For real? Okay. I'm excited.

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So, I know that you grew up next to Dodger Stadium.

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You bleed blue, and there are few people more beloved by Dodger diehards than Vin Scully, the late play-by-play announcer who's known for his poetic broadcast.

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So, if you'll humor me, I want to hit you with a few classic Scully-isms, and I'm just curious I'm just curious how you process them and whether or not they ring true to you, okay? Okay. All right.

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It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star game and the Old-Timers game. Yeah, what a good dude. I love Vin.

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And I see his face when you talk. He's such a lovable guy. He's such a teddy bear. You got another one? Sure.

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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner. What?

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I think [ __ ] is he talking about?

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I think, because I was confused on this one, too.

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We were talking about it in the car.

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So, maybe it's like if you're bold and you play fast, you're more likely to trip than if you're like aloof and dumb and uninterested. Sure.

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And also, stealing is a touch thing.

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It's definitely not just a fast thing. Right. Yeah. It's a touch thing. It's a feel thing. Right. It's like Instincts. Yeah.

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You got to psychoanalyze a pitcher from over the shoulder and know and like get to know him.

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Losing feels worse than winning feels good. Definitely. Facts. Pretty good.

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What a wing-eating technique.

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This is not your first cute with it. No, I I I eat.

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But, I get cuter as we go along. Okay. Yeah.

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Yeah, that was kind of tame, huh?

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It's just a little sweetie pie sauce.

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Well, don't get too ahead of yourself.

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cuz I heard you say about the Trojan horse, the pineapple and then it sneaks in there.

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Well, that's what you can do with sweet and heat.

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I like Oh, look at you, Shai.

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Bro, I studied you, too, bro. I'm in here.

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In 2015, you released a series of short monologues that were performed on green screen, which have since birthed thousands of parodies and remixes on YouTube of this just do it line. Yeah.

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As someone who often talks about creativity in all forms, do you have any thoughts about the second life that your art can have on the internet?

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Yeah, it was made for that reason.

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I mean, that whole all those monologues were made at a an MFA show at Central Saint Martins.

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And the whole goal of that thing was to do a their MFA show online as a way to create memes.

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That was the intention behind that.

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So, what we did was we asked all the artists to give us all the work.

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We watched all the work, got really like intimate with the work, and then had them write two or three sentences and decide whether I was standing, pacing, moving, or sitting.

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And then we shot like an hour worth of these monologues, and it was like the intro to their whole MFA show.

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Do you have a favorite child above meme? Huh.

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Um out of all the clapping it seems really pleasant and like joyful.

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And people always throw it in when it's like a pleasant joyful thing. So, maybe the clapping. Are memes art? Definitely.

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Yeah, anything that moves you is art. Yeah. All right, Shia.

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Ready to pop the bottle on the next one?

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Yeah, this one's yours guys's thing, huh? Yep, Los Calientes. Okay. Okay.

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How do you be pretty with the two bones?

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It's easier to be pretty with the one bone.

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The two bones it gets tricky to be pretty cuz you got to get the meat in the middle. Got to split them. Open them up. Look at that. You It's not cute.

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You know what I So, in 2016 you did a Five Fingers of Death Freestyle on Sway in the Morning and were dubbed by Sway himself the number one MC in Hollywood.

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Yeah, I mean you know a lot of actors rap.

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It's the same brain that does that ad-lib.

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So, I imagine like a bunch of these UCB actors probably great at freestyling. Or battling. Or battling.

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Yeah, a bunch of like your favorite comics are probably really good at freestyling.

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I bet you like Will Ferrell is a great freestyler.

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Right, because it's like the catchphrase or the punchline or the mic drop.

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And the rhythm is like something you can almost you can kind of learn that.

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The other part is the tricky part like the speed at which you're you can you know.

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I think anybody who can ad-lib can probably freestyle.

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Tom Hardy freestyles all the time, you know.

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Yeah, he'd be rapping all the time.

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Burnt All Raps all the time.

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Yeah, those guys rap all the time. Very tasty. That's a very tasty one.

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You guys personally curated that one? We did. Congratulations, guys. That's very pretty. That's a good one. Good job.

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Watch how pretty the one bone goes down.

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Just take little cutie bites.

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You know what I'm saying?

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That was a an adorable It was kind of cute, wasn't it? Yogi Bear.

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So, you've been dubbed the fit god by Jonah Hill, and just last year The New Yorker described your personal style as "Still sexually viable Silver Lake dad crossed with a Chinatown-dwelling, trust-funded art school kid who's never not up for doing psychedelics." All right. Whoa.

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Um Yeah, I mean, I wear stuff that's comfortable and um that I'm big into shape.

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I don't really care about colors and stuff like that.

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I like shapes, like Yeah, like a certain silhouette. I think about shapes.

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Like, and to the robust collection of T-shirts that you have, which can be anything from Here we have a sports reference or a vintage TV show.

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I've seen you wear commemorative merch from a motorcycle rally in South Dakota before. Yeah.

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Is that just you pulling something off the rack cuz it looks cool? Is that the shape thing?

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Or are you drawn to it because it represents something that you're into? Both, yeah, it matters.

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So, I start with the shape, and then if I see something on there that I don't [ __ ] with, then I have to give it up, even if the shape's great.

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So, what I want to do is show you some of our favorite Shia LaBeouf fit pics from over the years.

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And I'm sure that in some of them you'll just be like, "You know, I was going to get coffee, and I just threw something on."

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But I imagine some of them are a little bit more important to you.

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So, let me just show you the pictures, and you can tell me what stands out about them now, this time later. Here you go.

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I think this is at Sundance. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, that was hanging out with my mom and it was cold outside and I I remember my publicist Melissa was like, "You got to get a jacket.

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Bring a jacket, you know?"

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She was talking about like a one of these fancier jackets.

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So, I found the fanciest jacket I could find right there. And then the shoes. Oh, yeah.

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See, that's embarrassing. This is what I mean.

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This is See, this is these Golden Goose sneakers. Yeah.

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Okay, so I was teaching this class teach this class down in Boston and they were like, "Hey, you know, your shoes are like $500."

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And and that was the end of those shoes, you know?

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Stuff like that where you where you got to be careful.

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You know, you can't be you can't do [ __ ] like that cuz then you're making a political decision. Next. Oh, yeah. There she is.

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Melissa, we were just talking about her right there.

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Yeah, so the story behind this is um Ellen DeGeneres was like, "Hey, you wear these pants, I'll put $500 in the in the uh breast cancer charity."

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So, you called her bluff on that? Yeah.

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And shout out Melissa who's in the picture.

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Yeah, looking slick, too, I may say.

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Speaking of looking slick. Oh, yeah.

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Oh, this is when I got fired from a play in New York, I think.

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Yeah, and I was just walking around in the snow like Edgar Allan Poe right there. Is that uh orphans? Yeah.

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Just sad guy right there.

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Just sad case like just walking around in the snow. as well have Oh, man.

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You might as well have your box, you know, like you cleared out your office. Oh, man.

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And then one more for you. Oh, yeah. This guy right here. [ __ ] this guy. Who is he? That's you. Oh, man. [ __ ] him. Oh, yeah.

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This is Kids' Choice Awards.

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I'm trying to figure out.

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I think I was trying to like probably grill that.

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I was like, "Ooh, I want to look cute for her."

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So, let me wear this stupid beige purple [ __ ] stupid [ __ ] Oh, man.

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Yeah, I didn't really have much say over that. All right. Yeah.

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Well, thus concludes the little walk down memory lane.

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Are you ready to move on? Yeah, let's go.

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So, this is the Adobo Loco fire fire. Oh, Hawaii. Whoa. Okay.

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Hawaii, this will have a sweet touch to it then, huh?

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It's actually the first episode that we're shooting in season 10.

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So, Shia, I'm doing these for the first time right along with you. Hey, wow, that's cool.

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That's also an honor that you that you'd let me do that cuz I know the Jonas Brothers opened up your last thing and And now, Shia, you're Jonas Brothers, you know what I'm saying? Cheers. Thanks for that.

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Wish I had some brothers. All right, that's a win.

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So, when you talk to a craft brewer about Budweiser, right?

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They might say, "It's not for me."

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But, they'll have the utmost respect for the consistency and technical prowess that goes into making it.

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Does anything about that little beer story resonate with you when you think about the Hollywood blockbuster movie-making industry? Yeah.

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These people work hard, man.

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Not even just at the top line, like all the people below the line work hard.

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That's a That's a hard movies to make. They hustle.

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For months and months and years straight.

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I mean, like the best gripping departments are on those shows.

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Best electricians are on those shows. Good people.

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I once heard you call yourself the fakest method actor.

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Can you unpackage that cuz I do think it's a term that's maybe thrown around a little bit too much?

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Yeah, cuz I'm not really a method actor.

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I'm more like a subjectionist.

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I'm more like an escapist. I like to run away.

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Yeah, I like to fall into something else.

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I like to That's how I survive really, like escapism. I'm way into escapism.

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It's also why I was, you know, have my troubles, you know?

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So, it's not really method.

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It's not like Stanislavski type method.

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It's like I'm reading Stanislavski and going to work and applying it.

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You know, Stanislavski was a [ __ ] actor.

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So, he he wrote like dense paragraphs about something he wasn't really didn't really know what the [ __ ] he was talking about, you know?

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But, I find books like a and False by David Mamet more helpful.

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Because he was already a confident writer before he ever wrote that book, he never had to like define himself with this work or define himself with the book, so he didn't have to make it like super wordy.

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Whereas Stanislavski was a failed actor from a rich family who was like embarrassed about all that and he was defining himself on this book about method, so it just winds up super wordy and I can't really I'm not smart enough to be able to apply it.

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So, I guess fake method actor is really cuz I immersed myself in it and that's traditionally a method thing, but I'm not coming from a Stanislavski place. Right. And on it goes. Yeah.

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The Aji Amarillo ghost pepper from Bravado.

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I like the tone you took on that with that heavy breathing it was very breathy.

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You sounded like some kind of psychic or something just now.

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Often times we fact check the larger than life mythologies surrounding our guests and nobody You don't even touch your liquids this whole time.

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Well, you're just hitting the water.

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I think I have this weird habit of mirroring the guest.

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Okay, but you haven't mirrored me at all cuz I'm almost done with my water, so what are you talking about?

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That was a fake fact right there.

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Nobody has been larger than life mythicized more than Shia LaBeouf.

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On this wing, what we'll do is try to set the record straight on some popular Hollywood folktales surrounding Shia LaBeouf. Okay.

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Is it true that at 11 years old you found your first agent by combing the yellow pages, phoning her up and pretending to be a British manager of a hot young actor named Shia LaBeouf? Yeah, that was true.

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She's still my she's still my girl.

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She still hangs out with my mom.

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She's still part of the the tribe.

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Every time I have like a movie come out, she's always showing up.

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She's still trying to hit on co-stars.

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She's still She's in the midst of it, man.

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During the filming of Fury, is it true that you shaved one of your teeth down below the gum line and stopped showering to remain in character?

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Uh not to remain in character, but sort of rally the troops. Yeah.

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Just to sort of like get everybody psyched. Yeah.

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With the rising tide lifts all ships, so I would do some things and Bernthal would do some things and Peña would do some things and Top would do some things and we would all just kind of try to keep everybody involved.

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Did they have to relocate you to another bed and breakfast because of the whole no showering thing?

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There was another reason they had to relocate me to another bed and breakfast.

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So there was like a They were having a some kind of some fancy meeting at one of our hotels and they had all this chicken.

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Me and Bernthal were sitting on this couch one day and we were hungry and Bernthal was like, "Oh, don't worry.

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We'll eat when we get there."

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And I just figured, "Nah, [ __ ] it.

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We're just going to get this chicken."

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So I beelined it for the chicken.

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He saw the security coming and he just like ducked out. On the mission. Yeah. Left you hanging. Yeah, and he really did.

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Yeah, so I I grabbed a couple chickens and then I walked out.

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And as I'm walking out, security's like, "What do you think you're doing?"

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And I turned around and I was like, "Well, I'm part of this meeting.

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I'm just getting my chicken.

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Everybody's getting chicken. Relax."

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And he's like, "You know this is like the Bilderberg meeting."

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You know what the Bilderberg meeting is?

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That's like the billionaire, sort of like the the Illuminati making the world turn. Right.

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So like in the same meeting in the same meeting I'm stealing chicken from the Bilderberg meeting.

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I just thought it was like people talking about whatever.

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They're really talking about running the whole world.

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And like the Koch brothers are in there, George Soros.

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It's like a wild group of people.

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And like I'm just walking around with chicken in my hand, you know?

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So it's [ __ ] ridiculous.

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But yeah, they Somebody in the meeting was like, "Shh shh shh."

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And then they kicked me out.

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When Kanye West raided your closet, did he take your Indiana Jones hat? I gave him the hat.

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You gave him the Indiana Jones hat.

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He was like, "Wow, what's this?"

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It was in a glass box and he's like, "Ooh, what is this?" I was like, "Try it on."

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And it didn't fit at all.

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And he had it on like a yarmulke and I was like, "That's kind of G, bro.

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Like, wearing a hat like a yarmulke is kind of G."

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He's like, "You think so?"

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I was like, "Yeah, take it."

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He never really wore it, but he has it, yeah.

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Are the rumors of you knocking out Tom Hardy on the set of Lawless overstated?

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Yes, it's a bunch of [ __ ] We used to wrestle all the time.

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And he was just He's a big [ __ ] person, especially then.

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He was getting ready for Bane.

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One time Yeah, so I my girlfriend at the time was over at my house. We were on his balcony.

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We saw him and his trainer come back from the gym.

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And we used to [ __ ] with each other all the time, but it just so happened that this one week my girlfriend was in town.

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And he runs into the room like the girl I was with at the time was terrified. And she's like, "Ah!"

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And she covered up and she ran in the kitchen.

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He picked me up and I didn't have nothing on. So, now I'm naked.

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On his shoulder, we're in the hallway. We're wrestling around.

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I'm like, "Peanut Peanut's filming it all."

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I'm like, "Peanut, you can't be filming this shit."

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And we're like wrestling and then I got upset about it cuz he got the better of me, but I'm in some weird twisty naked position.

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Like, my shit's over here and the shit's over here. I'm like, "Uh, don't."

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We wound up like inching over the stairs where the stairs were and he fell down the stairs.

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He wound up hurting his back.

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So, for the rest of the shoot he told everybody I knocked him out, but that wasn't the case.

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We were having some weird like cutie wrestling match. Okay. Bang. All right. Okay. This is a little crazy.

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I see you were very conservative with your little boy.

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You got It's got some kind of sweet Oh, is it Trojan?

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Well, that's a Trojan one.

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You can see why I was a little conservative, little surgical with my pour. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.

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Yeah, that's hot as [ __ ] right there. Yeah, all right.

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All right, this is a real show.

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I thought you guys were just putting tomato sauce in these jars and tricking people.

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It's real, ladies and gentlemen. It's real.

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So, as I understand it, you began performing in that stand-up comedy clubs when you were 10 years old describing your style as a 50-year-old mouth on a 10-year-old boy.

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How did crowds at the Ice House and the Big Potato, how did they react to a young kid up there?

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Like, do you think they gave you more leeway cuz they were like, "Look at this cute kid chasing his comedy dreams."

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or did they still heckle you the same way?

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Well, my dad was in the Mongols, so every time I'd go up, there'd be a bunch of bikers in the bar.

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And they laughed the loudest.

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And then if a bunch of bikers are laughing, then everyone's laughing.

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You know, like if you got like 16 bikers back here laughing cuz he's like the family kid, then everybody else starts laughing.

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I never got turned on on stage.

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I was That was squatted on. too deep.

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Yeah, I was squatted even when I was very young.

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I used to get up there with a bowl cut and overalls.

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See, look, now you're going, yeah, there you are. Woah, buddy.

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That was an extreme thing that we did.

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It's [ __ ] hotter than a the Oh my goodness.

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That's Big Room hot right there.

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Buddy, I'm going to switch to the milk cuz I can't even I almost can't see you anymore. Same.

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You look underwater right now.

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It felt like we're in a submarine playing playing around.

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So, my dad would always be like, "All right, that's enough."

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and he would do his He'd do his loud laugh and his clap.

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I forgot what the [ __ ] I'm even talking about.

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Are you still on this pop the top? Okay. Yeah.

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Come on, we can't do it this on the vacation side. Let me get over here. You're right. Yeah.

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I'm about to have tears streaming down my face, for real. do. Can you see that? Maybe zoom in.

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I'm about to start crying.

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I feel like I feel like I'm going to touch by an angel right now. Look. Oh, there it goes. I feel like Della Reese. I look so sad right now. Don't I? I look so sad.

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Don't I look sad right now? I'm buying it. I'm buying it. God damn.

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Dom, do you have another You ever had somebody just break into tears on your show? It's happened before. Oh, boy. But not quite with that. With that kind of depth? Yeah.

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Yeah, I look like I really just went through something.

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I was really moved by that. Mhm.

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All right, so this is burn after eating. All right. Load up.

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Okay, maybe this is a trick I should learn about this.

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This is This is way easier than like spending all night in a room. Just eat some hot sauce. Action. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, Shay.

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Your hand's shaking a little bit.

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Well, we're going through some things over here, you know. All right, let's get it.

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You've been a great chauffeur. Thank you.

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So, one way of doing it cute is you could bite in the middle and push the middle chicken in.

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You know what I'm saying?

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You can take a middle bite and do the middle push.

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It's a little bit cuter than doing the whole [ __ ] around.

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We'll call it the Shay push. Yeah, I like that. Look.

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So, at the time I look so sad right now. Look, dude.

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I look like you just beat me up.

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So, at the time of this interview, it's been almost a year to the day since you guys opened the Slauson Rec Theater Company experimental theater in downtown LA. Yeah.

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After 1 year, what are you most proud of?

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What's been the biggest challenge?

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Well, four of my kids got on some Netflix shows, which is awesome.

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I got another tear Look at how cra- how Look.

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From the other eye, you know, not all actors can do that. No, man. It's serious.

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Yeah, so four of my kids got on some um some Netflix shows and we got performances tonight, actually.

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Uh just the fact that we've been able to get more shows, you know?

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Not just like home turf stuff, but the fact that Careful around your eyes. Okay.

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The fact that other people have been able to like invite us into their thing, too, has been nice.

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Like other artists are are like co-signing us. That's really nice.

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And we built like a little family.

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So, everybody loves each other.

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We like hang out on the weekends.

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You got a little bit of hot sauce in your beer right there.

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I'm I'm scared to touch anything.

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Oh, you probably [ __ ] yourself doing this, huh? Wipe your stash.

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you know, in different ways.

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Even like, you know, it'll burn on your skin. The eye is the worst. So, Yes.

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sometimes I just I just take it on. All right.

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Like you you got some like milk going on. Yeah. And then uh Where?

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In the stash a little bit. Got it. Okay. Lower stash. Southern Southern stash. slick. All right, good. Okay. All right, Shia.

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Is this the main one right here, is it?

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We're on to the last stop. Okay. Top is popped. XXX, is it?

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So, this is the Last Dab XXX. Okay.

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But, we've been Last Dab in this whole show. All the way through.

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This will go down in history. Okay.

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How you feeling after this? Feel pretty good.

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I mean, I look sad as [ __ ] but inside I'm feeling really good. Comes out thick. It's a thick boy. Looks like doo-doo.

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All right, we make this one, too. All right.

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Shia, here we are on the last stop of our spicy wing journey.

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Dabbing every wing along the way, but one thing we've missed is your love of hot dogs.

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You had this great quote in a 2007 Vanity Fair profile where you said, "I can't tell you how many hot dogs I've eaten in my life.

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We had these inventive ways of making them.

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It looked like Wolfgang Puck, but it was just two hot dogs." Yeah. Can you expound on that? It's a great quote.

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Like, do you remember some of the more creative ways that you've eaten hot dogs in your life?

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This is going to sound like the saddest hot dog story. Cuz look, I'm sure. But, yeah.

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Oh, man, I swallowed that one into the weird Oh, no.

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So, uh yeah, what I used to do is I used to take hot dogs raw and then I I cut them like small slices like that, but only halfway down.

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Then, I fry them and they make little circles. Little hot dog circles.

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Or sometimes I would take a hot dog and go like this, little corkscrew.

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Little corkscrew hot dog, and then put it on the fryer and it would braid.

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You can make like a little hot dog braid.

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Is that tear from hot sauce or you just remembering Now now I'm reflecting.

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Now I'm reflecting on those special dogs I used to make.

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All right, well you heard it from Shia LaBeouf which means that it's the truth and look at you Shia, a changed man baptized by hot sauce all the way down 10 wings. I had a blast.

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Shia, I hope our guest does not suggest that we do that again.

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Now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you Shia LaBeouf.

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This camera this camera this camera.

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Let the people know what you have going on in your life.

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I'm just trying to just trying to get through this right now.

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I uh I probably look so sad right now.

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I uh yeah, what do I got going on in my life?

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I'm happy to be on the show.

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It's nice to meet all of you.

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And uh it was a pleasure.

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Yeah, that's what's going on in my life right now actively. I just met you. I'm a big fan.

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Thanks for letting me be here. Well, thank you Shia. I'm a big fan as well.

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Can't wait to watch the movies. Cool, man. Thank you. CHEERS. CHEERS. OOH.

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YOU GUYS ARE LISTENING TO THIS NEXT TO THE CAMERA.

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Oh yeah, it's the movie in it. Reaction. Hot.

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You made it through though. Careful there.

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Just got to get the spice off, bro.

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But is I hope it didn't get in, you know? This guy.

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What the [ __ ] What is up spice lords? Camera guy Bill here.

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I know we've retired the laptop this season and you all miss me, but I want you to know that I'm still hard at work behind the camera.

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If you liked today's episode, it would mean a lot to me and the rest of the Hot Ones crew to give us a little like or a little subscribe.

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It would really mean a lot.

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This camera guy Bill here saying, it's good to be camera guy Bill.