- (Billie) No, I can't. I really can't.
- This is not okay. (chuckles) I'm sweating right now.
just watching this. - I'm trying really hard
to pay attention to what you're saying,
but I can't focus!
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (Sean) Hey, what's going on, everybody?
From First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans,
and you're watching... - Ohh, Hot Ones!
- (Sean) You're watching Hot Ones. It's the show with hot questions
and even hotter wings. - I love this one, by the way.
Gordon Ramsay is awesome. - (Sean) You're watching Hot Ones.
It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
- Are they just trying hot wings?
- This is actually my favorite episode.
- (Ramsey) Here we go. - I wonder if he could take it.
- (Ramsey) Oh, that's quite nice. I like that.
- This is one of my favorite series on YouTube.
- (Ramsey) Yeah, I didn't realize coming to Hot Ones, I'd leave [bleep].
- (laughs) It's an amazing concept
to mix just this physical challenge
and mental challenge, because you gotta eat
something stupid hot and then actually
have a conversation. - (Ramsey) The wings are getting
[bleep] smaller and smaller. Now they look like
my [bleep] granddad's [bleep], his [bleep] big toe.
- Oh my god! - (Ramsey) How do you get
a chicken wing that looks like my granddad's big toe?
- (Sean) Wait till you bite into it. - (laughs)
- (Sean) It tastes like your grandfather's big toe.
- (chuckles)
- (Ramsey) Oh yeah. - "Oh yeah."
That's the one people always struggle with.
It's like the third to the top. I've done the hot wings challenge.
Not a fan. - (Sean) And you're never one
to mince words. - Everyone feels pain, right?
Nobody wants a frickin' hot-- (gasps)
(exclaims) We're gonna do it!
No, we're gonna do the wings! We're gonna eat the wings!
- (Sean) Do you have any thoughts on this?
...which is sushi croissant. - Ooh. I want one of those.
- (Sean) ...sushi doughnuts. - I'd try that.
- (laughs) - (Ramsey) So, I love Japanese food.
- (amused) He's crying. - (Ramsey) And to have a [bleep]
sushi doughnut, what the [bleep] are these guys smoking?
Did that come out of Portland? - (laughs) I love Gordon.
- (Sean) Does that work? - (laughs)
- That stuff burn your ass so bad.
- I can appreciate this concept, 'cause it's such a normal
chill concept, but it works so well with every guest he has.
- (Sean) This is the last dab. - The last dab. I am so scared
of the last dab. - (Sean) ...tradition around here
to put a little extra... - [Bleep].
- (Sean)...on the last wing. You don't have to
if you don't want to. - Everybody does, though,
so you gotta do it. - Oh, no.
Is this other guy eating it too? And he's just fine?
- You know, he's a chef. He should be used to this. Weak!
Weak!
- (Ramsey) [Bleep]. - Ooh!
- Now I want chicken wings. (laughs)
- (Ramsey) Is there a toilet nearby quickly? Do you mind?
- (chuckles) - (Ramsey) Is it nearby?
- (Sean) It is. Right into the green room.
- He 'bout to turn that thing up! - Oh, he's gonna throw--
- (chuckles) Holy [bleep]. - It just gets celebrities
out of their element. It's not the same questions
over and over again. We put them to a really extreme
sense of themselves. So, they're either gonna tell the truth
or they're just gonna say whatever just to get the [bleep] out of there.
- (Malone) I ain't never tried Sriracha.
- (Sean) Do you like it? - (Malone) Yeah.
- Oh, Post Malone! I love him.
- (Sean) So, you credit Guitar Hero for inspiring you to learn guitar.
- I didn't know that. - (Sean) ...paving the way
for your music career. - He's so cute.
He's so adorable. I just wanna pinch his cheeks.
- (Malone) There's a lot of people that are, like,
you know, "Why play Guitar Hero when you could play real guitar?"
- (chuckles) I've said that. - (Malone) As long as you develop
a love for music any way that you develop it
and you take it to the real world, I feel like it's...
- Tea. - (Malone) ...I feel like
it's the same. - I agree.
- (Malone) It's Moruga Blood Orange Scorpion Pepper Sauce.
That's quite a title. - I just started salivating.
- (Malone snaps) - I love when they
add sound effects too. It just is so perfect.
- (Sean) Now you get it.
Now you understand it. - He seems like a fun guy.
You see their true personality when they're in pain.
- (Sean) Once again, I'm gonna bust out the laptop,
'cause we got more pictures to look at, because whenever
you take pictures with animals, the internet goes crazy.
- Oh my god. So cute. - It's a totally different format
and just fun, not a stuffy interview
like I'm sure they have every day, all day long.
- (Malone) Yeah, that's my little guy. - Awww! I want a French bulldog.
- This last wing used Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage.
- "Liquid Rage." (chuckles) Nice.
- (Sean) Well, together, we'll see how this...
- I just can't get over this host just eating it
and he's fine. He's not even affected by it.
- (Sean) We dabbed the last wing. It's sort of a tradition around here.
- Where's he going? Oh, okay.
I thought he just, like, boop.
- The fact that it's dark, it looks like blood. (chuckles)
- (chuckle) That's pretty rad that people are down for trying it out.
- (laughs)
- (Malone) Oh, Jesus Christ. - (Sean and Malone laugh)
- Ahhh! I'm sweating right now just watching this.
I had to eat a freaking ghost pepper on this show three years ago,
and it still haunts me. And I'm having, like, PTSD right now.
- (past Madison) Oh, it's so hot! It's sizzling. It's burning.
Oh my god! It hurts so bad. - Sean Evans is a great dude.
He analyzes everything down to the Instagram posts
that they go over in the show. He's really, really good at his job.
And he's funny, and he kind of just gives the his guests platforms
to be funny too. - (Sean) You were very much raised
by the internet. - I STAN!!!
BILLIE! YES!! - (Sean) When you were
on Teens React... - Ohh! (snaps)
Yup! That's crazy. She came into the office.
- (Sean) Do you remember when you discovered YouTube
and the things that you were drawn to early on?
- (Billie) It was the classics... - Awww.
- (Billie) ...used to be things were viral?
Now, it's not-- nothing's viral. It's like everything is.
- That's true. I noticed that.
Everyone's doing something on the Internet.
There's always something for any audience.
♪ (ominous music) ♪ - I think they gave her
vegan chicken nuggets for this one too, which is cool.
- Trooper. Trooper.
- The music is not helping. - (Sean) Put it in rotation.
- She's processing what she's tasting. (chuckles)
- (Sean) Do you remember what you were eating
when you tweeted, "Food is such a powerful little ho"?
- (Miracle and Billie laugh) - What?!
- Christ. Jesus. - (Sean) She could take control
of anyone. - (Billie giggles)
- That's true, dude. Everyone's a slut for food.
It doesn't matter who you are. - I have to agree.
Food is a powerful ho.
- (Billie) I think I was eating Taco Bell.
- (laughs) Dude. Drunk Taco Bell... hits on another level.
- (Billie) I can't do this. This is really crazy.
- (Sean) It's crazy. - That would totally mess up
your thinking too, just someone asking you questions
while that thing is burning your mouth.
- (Billie) I can't. I can't. No, I can't. I really can't.
- (chuckles) This is not okay. I'm sweating right now
just watching this. - I never knew she had an episode.
Now I feel compelled to go back and watch her,
'cause I like some of her music. - Sean Evans is--
it's weird to think that he's a host.
It's not as strict and stiff as new interviewers,
but it's not like YouTubers, where it's zany and wild and stuff.
He's kind of got a weird middle ground. So, I think that kind of--
I feel like that's why this show works
is because he kind of ties it together.
- (FBE) So, that was the massively popular show Hot Ones
from the YouTube channel First We Feast.
- Right. - Okay.
- (FBE) Had you seen it before today? - Yes.
- No. - Loser. I saw the one with Shaq,
and it was great. - No, never even heard of it.
- Yes! I have. I actually watch a lot of the recent ones.
- I saw it on the trending page of YouTube. And then,
after I watched one episode, I just kept going.
- (FBE) Like you just saw, the premise is simple.
Celebs are interviewed by the host Sean Evans
over a dish of increasingly spicy wings.
-Yeah. - (FBE) So, we thought it would only
be fitting for us to do the same for this interview.
We will bring out a tray of wings featuring Hot Ones'
very own sauces. - Oh, [bleep].
- (FBE) Before each question, we will have you eat a wing.
And as we go through the interview, the heat will intensify.
- (laughs) Oh. All right. - Oh, no! I was not prepared
for this at all today. - Don't even put water
on this table! - Don't need no water,
no milk. - We don't need it!
- Don't need no water, no milk. - We got it.
- Come on now, gang member. - That's what you want.
- Come on, gang member. - That's what you want.
- Yeah. - We got it.
- Oh, baby! I hate it! I hate it already!
They all look evil.
- (FBE) So, the first sauce is the classic sauce
if you wanna take a bite. - You can literally see
the chili flakes on it.
- Mm, very tangy. Ooh, I felt it already.
- She's good. - (FBE) So, since this is
the first wing, we wanna start with a simple question.
Do you get why this show would be so popular to begin with?
- I think they're more fun. They're doing something.
They're active. And Sean Evans is really good.
He goes in depth. You can tell he really cares
about the show. - It's a fun way that we've
never seen celebrities be interviewed. - It's nice to see
celebrities in pain. It makes makes them more human.
- It does bring a sense of authenticity to the interviews,
because you're in a vulnerable spot. You're suffering, like me.
It allows for people to kind of say things
that maybe they wouldn't say in an interview,
'cause now they're not worried about that.
They're worried about their tongue blowing off.
- (FBE) So, new question, new wing. Here's another way
from the classic hot sauce. - Okay.
- (FBE) So, you can dig in whenever you're ready.
- Okay.
The smell is like... If you guys can smell this,
it's so strong. (laughs) - I'm taking-- ah!
I'm taking big bites here. I came hungry,
so I'm enjoying myself right now.
- (FBE) So, the show has become massively popular
and has featured all kinds of celebrities, including some
of the biggest stars in the world, like basketball star Shaquille O'Neal.
- Oh, really? (chuckles) - (FBE) Scarlett Johansson.
- Wow. - (FBE) The Jonas Brothers
have been on, Lilly Singh, and many, many more.
The Hot Ones team self-describes the show as the most uncomfortable
comfortable interview show. - Right. Yeah, I see that.
I'm in it right now. - (FBE) It seems like celebs
wanna get on the show not just to promote their latest projects
but simply to experience the spicy... - Try it!
- (FBE) Yeah, the spicy interview. What do you think it says
about the evolution of celebrity interviews
and talk shows that an online show like Hot Ones can draw
the same guests that one would find in late night talk shows
or any other talk show really on TV?
- Yeah, I think this show is definitely helping merge
TV with online. - Digital, traditional,
I mean, everything has to evolve at some give point in time.
So, people are coming up with new ideas and new concepts,
which is dope. - Hollywood is really capitalizing
on viral videos. You kind of see them copy it and make it their own
on Hollywood and vice versa, because so many people watch YouTube
and so many people are being able to access the internet.
- I hear more people are on the internet more so
than watching reality TV and stuff. But I think the reason why
these celebrities wanna go on there,
'cause it's kind of like a game show and a challenge.
- We are in such a clickbait-y type society.
People just want the clips, right? And then Hot Ones is something fun.
It's something new. It's an easy, breezy show.
- (FBE) We will step it up in spice with Los Calientes.
That's the next one there. Whenever you're ready,
you can dig in. - Los Calientes!!
- Okay, pause. This looks like habanero.
- Mmm. - Fingers crossed.
Little boy, you hurtin', boy! - I like this one!
I feel like it's a little smoky.
It's almost fruity, dare I say. It's got some type of citrusy thingy.
- (FBE) Host Sean Evans has been praised for his thorough research
of guests and for maintaining his composure while eating
the hot wings alongside his guests. - Yeah! What is that about?
Does he not have a palate? - (FBE) How important is a host
like Sean Evans to this show? - Man, it's huge,
'cause, I mean, this is-- that was actually a question
I was gonna ask. Like, how the hell
does this guy do this? - The host brings out
the interviewers' personalities. It makes them feel comfortable.
And if they feel uncomfortable, you're not gonna have
a good interview. (sniffs)
(congested) I'm telling you, I'm snottin' everywhere, dude.
(laughs) - He asks the right questions too,
because sometimes the questions
that they ask on normal-- excuse me-- on normal talk shows,
they don't go in a certain direction just because they want it to be PG
or, you know, like, normal. - He's able to one,
remain professional, I think, and two, still have fun with it
and not be freaking out like the guests.
So, he kind of lets that guest have the spotlight while
they're freaking out over how hot the spices--
and that just hit me. Yup, that hurts a little bit.
- (FBE) Before the next question, let's have you take another bite
from the Los Calientes sauce.
- Where's the [bleep] question, JC? (laughs) We're moving on!
- (FBE) Hot Ones is one of the first, if not the best example,
of what some feel is the future of content creation.
The success of a show format like Hot Ones, you know,
can evolve into a larger business. For example, the hot sauce
that you're eating today is officially from their channel.
- Sure, sure. - (FBE) Did you know that they sold
their own sauces? - I did. I really wanna get them.
- (FBE) Between the Hot Ones sauces and others that they rotate
in and out of sales, CEO of Complex Networks,
the parent company of the show, stated that the company was on track
to do more than seven million in hot sauce sales...
- Wow. - (FBE) ...in 2018 alone.
- That's crazy. - (FBE) The show also brings in
revenue from TV, where a version of the show airs on Fuse
and MSG cable networks. - I didn't even know that.
Wow. Congratulations, guys. - (FBE) What do you think
this revenue model, when it works, can do for online creators
if they don't have to rely as much on big view counts to be successful?
- (breathless) Shows-- ahh. Oh, [bleep].
It shows the diversity...
of Hollywood...
and of entertainment.
It's not just very A and B. It's A, B, C, [bleep].
- I think that opens the door for other people.
I think it definitely opens the door-- - Can I get the water?
Can I get the water? Please. (chuckles)
- (sing-song) Loser, loser! - (FBE) We have milk too.
- Can I get milk? It's 2%. Always tastes so good.
- I think it definitely opens door for new content creators to be like,
"Hey, if they can do it, I can do it." So, I think that's super smart.
- That's really cool. I think it's such a unique idea
and to use their own hot sauce, it's just, like, wow. That's genius.
But I feel like for future creators to do something like that,
you have to really find your own route.
- These internet companies, they're constantly cranking out content,
because the algorithm will drop them if they're not constantly
making content, so this is another way
where we don't have to rely on brand deals.
If you guys wanna try this hot sauce, which obviously works--
you guys bought it-- it gives the brand
some breathing room. - (FBE) This is the last question,
so we'll be taking on the last dab. - There's this psychological thing
where if you stand like a superhero
at an important time, it works. And it boosts your self-confidence.
So, that's what I'm doing now. - Can't believe I'm doing this!
You can say I took a big bite. (clears throat) Delicious.
- Let's get it!
Oh, that was straight up sauce, dude. I'm literally drink--
Am I tripping? It's not that bad.
- (laughs) Oh my god.
That is so hot. Oh my gosh. Can I have some milk?
- Oh, god. Okay. Yup, that's hot.
- (FBE) So finally, are you curious to keep watching Hot Ones
and see where it goes both as a show and as a brand?
- I think I'll watch it if I like the celebrity,
but I don't think I would watch it just for fun.
- I think it'll be-- (chuckles) it's building.
I think it'll grow to be... bigger. Brain's shutting down.
- Yes! Yeah. I do, 'cause it's-- (deep inhaling and exhaling)
Ohhh! Oh my god! (laughs) WAIT!
...different. I can't focus! I'm trying really hard
to pay attention to what you're saying,
but I can't focus! I'm actually hot!
- I think this show's limitless. Put people through some torture,
make everybody watch it. - I'm so excited for this show.
I can't wait actually till he's a mainstream thing,
and it becomes a show that we can watch on the weekdays
and stuff like that. It's really good.
It's a really great concept. Shoutout to Sean Evans...
(deep inhale) everybody on that team
that makes it happen.
I'm dying, bro!
- Thanks for watching this spicy episode of Adults React.
- Subscribe and hit the bell, so you don't (coughs) miss an episode.
Shoutout to J Carlos. - Thanks for watching. Bye.
- Hi, guys. I'm JC, producer here at FBE.
Can't get enough of the spicy heat?
Then make sure to check out Hot Ones over on the First We Feast channel.
All the links are gonna be down below, or you can check 'em out by clicking
right over there. Bye, guys!