The Hottest & Baldest Episode Ever w/ Sean Evans | 2 Bears, 1 Cave
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Who is the special guest on this episode of 2 Bears, 1 Cave?
Welcome to another episode of Two Bears, One Cave. Sad, sad news about my regular co-host. He had an arm amputated. And so while he's recovering, we have the king of ring sting sitting in for him. It's the great Sean Evans, everybody. Hey, thanks so much for having me. Thank you. I hope Bert gets a cool prosthetic.
I do. I'd like to see something. Something titanium.
Yeah. It's going to add a whole new dynamic to his live show. Thanks for being here. You're in town because South by Southwest. Are you going to speak?
Yeah, it's a totally full schedule. It's been a really busy year, but yeah, just an itinerary that's packed for the next couple days. God, that sounds awful. They'll shove me into a room, take a bunch of pictures, do this interview, sit on this panel, do a bunch of stuff. You know, I'm leaning into this year, so... You know, I was at the Oscars last weekend. We did Sundance the weekend before that. The whole calendar has filled up, and I'm just kind of leaning into it right now.
Every time I arrive somewhere and they go, this is your calendar, my objective is I go, how can we reduce this? That's what I lead with. How can we do less instead of what you've proposed?
I think that's something that comes with growth. But right now, this is my first time kind of going through all of this.
Oh, okay. This is the fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm plinko-balling through it, and then I'll review it afterwards and figure out what we need to do.
And you'll go, never do this to me again. That'll be the subject line. Never again. Yeah.
Right. Yeah. I'm learning all those things.
How did Hot Ones become a cultural phenomenon?
Well, you've been, I mean, everybody who knows from watching anything on YouTube, everybody knows Hot Ones. And the trajectory of this thing is incredible. You're like the, that's the prototype. That's the dream for people is they go, I have an idea. I'd like to do this, you know, this bit kind of online and maybe it'll turn into something. And then the A++ example is Hot Ones. That's got to feel pretty amazing.
Yeah, it does. I never take for granted this unique magic carpet ride that I've been on. And I'll also say that a lot of it came by accident. We had this idea, but I don't think we realized the degree to which hot sauce is a disruptive element. All the hours spent really committing to the interview, the way that it would kind of make this what's it like to have a beer with this person show that people have been trying to invent for a really long time.
Everybody's doing knockoffs of it.
Right. Yeah, I think. Yeah, people. And sometimes I kind of miss even just this, like this is fine. You know, you don't have to add some sort of high concept to it. I remember watching maybe it was before a Monday night football game and it was Sims doing an interview with someone with Patrick Mahomes and they're doing this interview and then they mixed into it like playing catch with each other. And I remember that being just a distracting element, but it comes from a place of people sitting around in a boardroom being like, well, we can't just do an interview. We have to introduce some sort of high concept to it, which maybe it's gone a little too far.
I didn't realize, too, the genius... of hot ones until after doing it, which is that, like, on its surface, it can appear that, like, oh, this is some gimmick, like eat hot wings, right? But the thing that happens is that when you... have something like hot sauce it disrupts your your natural guard yeah so as these questions progress and you're uncomfortable you're speaking in a way that you would not normally speak and that's really the the magic you're like because like you could do with alcohol but then you have like you know it's different right you have your inhibitions are kind of like it's also it's like it's making you
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