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That said, I think I’d respect someone more for understanding and holding to their own limit.Įntertainment should have limits, and I think we've hit one. People do “tap out” on the show, choosing to stop eating the progressively spicier wings – but that's no fun. Is she sick for doing it? Are we for watching? She has every comfort she could possibly want in life, but on purpose she records herself suffering for our pleasure. In the infamous “Hot Ones” interview, as host Sean Evans shook a bottle, Lawrence repeatedly asked “What do you mean?!” in a broken voice. This is the show that is responsible for a recent Jennifer Lawrence clip that has gone viral. It’s all about putting these peppers into sauces and making celebrities eat them. “ Hot Ones” is a showcase of these cross-breeding talents. Some peppers are in fact named after terms for insanity, death and other perilous words. Over time we thought, ‘What if we breed peppers to be even hotter?’ Today, we're cross-breeding peppers to create insanely spicy variants. The emu war was for a different reason.Īnyway, I guess we started eating spicy food fairly easily. Somewhere along the line humans thought, ‘Hey! Those could be our meals!’ And we went to war with the birds. Birds get a tasty meal – one that other, non-seed-scattering animals tend to avoid – and pepper plants get to spread their genes across the land. It's an evolutionary win-win situation for both birds and pepper plants. They lack the receptors to register capsaicin's effects, making them the unwitting ally of pepper seed distribution.Īs birds feast on spicy peppers, they happily gobble up the seeds and fly off to spread them far and wide – or on someone's car. While humans and other mammals experience the burning sensation, birds couldn’t care less about the spice.

Capsaicin, the compound responsible for a pepper’s fiery heat, has evolved as a clever defense mechanism. First, lets talk about peppers, the spicy plants themselves. I reckon Hot Ones has perfected the formula.We'll get back to the “Hot Ones” show. They’ve displaced the churned-out press junket interview in a world where, audiences are built on share-ability and you’ve got to be remarkable to stand out.

Hot ones questions series#

There are plenty of gimmicky celebrity interview series on YouTube right now.

Will the guest tear into the wings with reckless abandon, or nibble them timidly? Tough it out, or sweat and swear profusely? Persevere or make excuses and quit? That’s the joy of it. By the time you reach Da Bomb - the scorching hot and apparently not-even-that-tasty 8th sauce - it's hard not to let your personality show through. The guests would all be having a comfortable enough time if they weren’t having to endure increasing levels of physical pain.Īrmy training prepares you for this sort of thing, media training not so much.

The questions posed by the host, Sean Evans, are well researched softballs. How many interview shows can you say that about? The special magic ingredient - the spice in the sauce, if you will - is the way that each 20+ minute interview is guaranteed to become more compelling as it goes along.