Henry Rollins Channels His Anger at Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

this is the most here comes the wave ah there it is yeah this is Hertz hey what's going on everybody from first we feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today I'm joined by Henry Rollins he's a punk rock icon radio host columnist and all-around Renaissance man but can t handle the wings of death we'll find out today Henry welcome to the show thank you how are you with hot food I don't need it you don't you're not a spicy food I can't handle it okay so not a hot food person well with that said are you ready to get it going no no not at all [Music] [Applause] [Music] it was good you like that one sure we're making you into a wind guy Henry no I'll be your wingman so it seems like when people are looking for travel inspiration maybe they'll Google best beaches but with you it seems like you look at the front page of the newspaper figure out which country is most [ __ ] up at the time and then you head there yeah in your travels when were you most scared for your life in America yeah in California specifically California is the place where I've nearly died a couple of times like that you know really unfun stories of like real real near-death the rest of the time besides I was at um I was in Baghdad two mortars landed near a building I was in which was fortified I was in no danger the concussion was such that it literally felt like a fist a ghost punch going into your solar plexus was the concussion is it incredibly powerful on the streets of Cairo if you leave the hotel neighborhood and kind of go into the the neighborhoods you'll get some intense stares and I've been there a few times and every single time I've gotten that that I'm not faring very well and I mean why I'm kind of like wanted to go home which country made you most hopeful for the future of civilization wow that's a great question hmm walking the streets of Tehran and having people stop me with perfect English like why are you here where are you from I'm from America Wow you're here alone yeah why so I've always wanted to come to Iran thank you for coming here please don't kill us where you see that they want the future I go what about your government that I get what about your come on yeah I know where all the sudden you have things in common and so I have found in a lot of my travels a lot of hopefulness where you find a lot of people are um they want what you want you know clean water a day without conflict basically a fistful of 50s in a day without fear as they say so you're like a wings veteran you sit across from some sweating guests I mean some white belt hot food person right but you're like Bruce Lee and Enter the Dragon you're like this up and you're like slappy these bottles the only fight I can win is with wings all right so you're obviously in phenomenal shape and I know the credit strength training is helping build your sense of self-worth as a teenager but I know that no one can spend as much time in the weight room as you've spent in the weight room without picking up some Jim pet peeves along the way what are the gym shenanigans that bother you the most people who sit on a piece of equipment that you want to use but they're not moving your eyes they're texting or on their cell phone people who talk to someone else near you like someone's on a treadmill may their elbow on something that's not moving and they're like yeah so and then I said I'm really I'm trying to focus here so I'm gonna be on this damn thing for an hour and my body wants to go home right now when I still have 55 minutes to go so March you shut up and so basically not being able to get a sense of concentration or rhythm going because people are using this as like the hangout hour as if they're going to get in shape by looking at the equipment you actually have to apply yourself [Music] good so the internet seems especially fascinated with Henry Rollins quotes and I think it's the intensity of your worldview that people find appealing so what I want to do is give you some other quotes from other no [ __ ] given icons and I just wonder how they hit your ear I just want to hear your reaction does that sound good yeah friends come and go but banners hang forever that's from Kobe Bryant boy what a deep and pithy thing for someone to say my god I'm gonna get a chisel and whack that into my forearm so whether that's the parking garage do you think it's all a little sociopathic or what do you think I think Kobe Bryant was a tremendous athlete and I think to play sports on that level it just must be like this a beyond anything I can comprehend obsession to be a champion in such an amazing sport and to be a champion in that sport I think you get to say anything you want a man who have used the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life that's from Muhammad Ali I love that I don't think about things the same way as I do in all 20 I'd like to think that um I have pulled my head out of that dark place a little bit and I'm perhaps more patient and less judgmental as a man who's pushing 60 I'll be closer to 60 walking out of this with this champ my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live that's from Kanye West [Music] [Music] all right so here at first we feast were obsessed with our guests food obsession so I have to ask you about yours what can you tell me about old Dutch white cheddar popcorn because I hear you described it it sounds like crack in a bag when I have my tour bus my Bon Jovi mobile when we are in the American Midwest every single day we go to local grocery stores and Walmart's and we get every bag we can and we come back to California with literally massive t-shirt boxes full of popcorn we're talking like 40 some bags which I can get through before the Christmas break is over don't call him he's eaten and so that's how Christmas break is for me cheese popcorn all right Henry so every current segment on our show called explain that Graham we do a deep dive and I guess Instagram and pull interesting pictures but with you Henry we've done a little bit of a twist we've pulled some great Henry Rollins throwbacks so what I'll do is I'll show you the picture and then you can tell me if there's a story reminds you of what was going on in your life or career at the time does that sound good yes this is like where you'd lead the dog back to where it's soiled the carpet and you go was that you yes that's what's happening we were digging it all up first things first best dressed guy at the 37th annual home that's 22 years ago here's my explanation I was up for two Grammys at that particular Grammy and so I ran over with my performers laminate and my clothes I could just get sweated out and they said and the Grammy for Best spoken book on tape or whatever it is goes to Henry Rollins I'm like here I go so I go running at the stage it's security they don't no one knows who I am so I go running up to the stage and it was like do we let them up here and these guys kind of well Dwight do i armbar him I think what go up go on and so I ran up there and they have one that's blank see just holding up and everyone's like look who is this guy right the few who recognize me when I thought he'd be taller and so I'm holding up the Grammy I said it must be really strange for people who look like you to be looking at a guy who looks like me holding something like this you know what kind of it yeah and I said thanks and I put it down and and they led me away and I did the entire press and you do looking like that I love this picture yeah Santa Monica Civic 1983 I think I learned a powerful lesson at that show don't go too close to the audience there's like 3,500 people it's different than them there's like 300 people or I know yeah they look you in the eye with that many people that people just get nutty and like my face was grabbed my hair was grabbed I was like being held because of my hair and he was ripping it out like they don't even know what they're doing and so I kind of learned a lesson about the crowd mentalities and hell when there's a lot of people one person will do something stupid and then all of a sudden everyone's doing something that stupid thing you and Ozzy Beck's each January 1996 yeah yeah yeah yeah I told my bandmates when we're on stage opening for Ozzy if you see a red dot on your shirt that's a sniper because they only want to see us they don't want to see any opening band I want you to finish the show so run in an evasive zig-zag pattern avoid the dot but keep playing if these one tooth Ozzie fans come over the barricade with axes brickbats or mobile meth labs run run run but keep playing as long as you can until the cord gets disengaged from your gear actually Ozzy's audience was very very nice to us for 45 minutes between songs all here's Dan when I Queen it Wembley and then Aussie goes on two hours later so I'm here [Applause] is the sound of 19,000 people all going like that how many more minutes with Rollins in this song and that's and that was the start of my friendship with Ozzy Osbourne who's one of my favorite human beings in the world he's one of the nicest most honest people I've ever met he's such not a letdown so I've been a fan of his since I was like 12 or 13 and he's just uh he's just one of my favorite people I flew on the private jet that night I drank a Diet Pepsi with OCD told me the story of how they wrote paranoid in the studio it's great aggressive branding very aggressive brand name out of Vermont really cuz that's the last place you think in Ben and Jerry and Bernie and dirty dicks I'll let you say [Music] you're very prolific in your own right but outside of that you're also an insatiable reader listener a consumer so here's that one and know if you had to recommend one album one film and one book for the National Curriculum what would they be wow that's a great question one book I would recommend the fiery trial by Eric Foner fo NER it's a book about Lincoln's conflicts and his evolution of his thinking about slavery and emancipation and politics during the Civil War Eric Foner is an amazing historian I think the Civil War is his wheelhouse it's just the best book I've ever read on Lincoln and it's just an amazing read I think a record that should be given to everyone upon birth you come kneel falling out of the canal whap as I did on some unnamed Street in Washington in 61 I would give America raw power by the Stooges my second-favorite Stooges album the first would be my first my favorite album in the whole world is funhouse the Stooges second amma but the third album i think is america's greatest contribution to the hard rock if we have a hat to throw in the hard rock ring up against the stones in Zeppelin and deep purple etc etc it would be raw power by the Stooges that's where America says we got game it's raw power and then one film Apocalypse Now because it's quotable and it's so much about war that it's not about war it's about insanity and the insanity of war and the politics that we're by the time you get deep in it's not about war anymore and everyone's like really this is just nuts we should all go home and I think we should reach those decisions sooner like before we went into Iraq we should have gone into the future what this won't end well screw it let's get some wins you ever done a zombie thing will you run around black vomit coming out of your mouth come back can't say I have any of you what a day in the life what you think I was rehearsing vintage toured t-shirts have become one of the more prevailing fashion trends and recent or expensive and I'm not sure if irony is the right word but bands like Nirvana and The Ramones and Black Flag really see the celebrity red carpet go twos and I wonder what you think when you see Barney's for example releasing a Black Flag shirt made of Japanese cashmere cotton with a $265 price point is that validating do you roll your eyes how do you unpackage that sort of thing is that a mindfuck to me it's what society does eventually in black flag is basic accor pert Loco Pepsi IBM the Black Flag logo which was we tried to do and we would send the promoters here's the logo here's the lettering use this the logo the logo the logo and so we were just trying to make that where you could see it in the dark and if you do that long enough it's not yours anymore it becomes a folktale it becomes it belongs to the the the Macy's of the world and eventually someone will put it on the back of a $5,000 motorcycle jacket even black flag and Nirvana and all of these things become not exactly corporatized but they become part of the speak they become part of the lexicon of what's in the the kind of our social in and almost anything that stands around long enough gets absorbed it's it's stinging yeah I feel okay yes what's what is that what's a bomb mmm-hmm it's a real bomb without my specs on yeah speaking of logos yeah yeah good you enjoy that one well it's so hot that you can't really taste any flavor mm-hmm your your taste buds just feel like ah what was that you know yeah I've been assaulted really late yeah yeah look at your get a little you okay I mean listen I'm no superhero Henry I've done this a lot but like you know whatever I'm human these hot sauces they affect me I'm glad you know that you and I can hit that human note it's a shared struggle yeah together yeah you know full of people off-camera exactly you don't eat like on a weekend but I fry a couple of eggs with canola oil and my microwave half a bag of brown rice I the two eggs cut them up into strips throw them into the Pyrex mug that I throw all this stuff into a little soy sauce over it so it's half a bag of rice two eggs so we'll canola oil and some soy sauce and that's like dinner is also lightweight some people say oh he's frugal I'm just cheap cheap cheap don't want to spend money cuz in my line of work they finally figured out he's got no talent get him out of here and so one day it's gonna be over and so I want to have save some money you have to think about your longevity rice and soy sauce and cups of water okay now this is I can taste the oil cuz like the first second of it you taste nothing which means it's like it's coming through these have been it gets more subtle and more but this is the most here comes the way ah there it is yeah this this hurts the phrase Punk has become part of the modern lexicon but I think that it's straight away from the scene that you are a part of everything from entrepreneurs to sports teams will get described as punk rock so what I want to do is bounce some things off of you and I want to see if they fit the punk mission statement as you see it or if the two things don't even belong the same also realize that that mission statement as you say you ask a hundred people who have some kind of idea of it you'll get probably a hundred different answers so I'm asking you so it'll be the mission statement as you see it Henry does that sound good yeah Bernie Sanders is Bernie Sanders punk rock yes in the idea sneaky of bringing truth to power of cutting through the red tape and the otherwise yield Beltway crap in the political scheme you see how kind of on his own he is and in a way that is very punk rock what about air B&B can disruptive tech companies be punk rock sometimes they're described that way when I think of tech companies I just think ultimately there's so much money somewhere one of those guys is getting paid a whole lot of money and other people are working for peanuts so for me it's more corporate and could never be punk rock anarchy yes Lady gaga I think she's amazing and in our own way very punk rock she writes her own material her interviews are really interesting she did this monologue and she just talks out how much he hates reality and I'm like thank you because that's the job of an artist to me to take reality like reality's reality like his cubicles buses taxes and death let's do something else like here's something that can't happen so let's write a song about it and look you can internalize it and your mind gets bigger so I think she's the real thing big baller brand uh it doesn't strike me much as punk rock two savvy savvy marketing I think starting your own brand is very DIY and so maybe in a way it's punk rock I just think it's a way for him to maybe do something that surpasses whatever he's gonna do in sports all right Henry didn't this is the last dab it's a tough one and the reason we call it the last tab is because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last ah you don't have to if you don't want to Henry well how about this that one you eat and you do swap the old switcheroo I'll take your take your dab and then you also I'll take the recommended host damn I love it I love it a little dab my own yeah a little dab will do you so what a run it's been Henry yes sir it's been good food you enjoyed the wings yeah yeah I did a lot yeah I like chicken after we could get you lunch yeah this this is intentional it kind of come you came running up mhm that's what it does it runs up on you have you ever had a guest who just couldn't handle it like a few wings in I've stared at the other side of the table at some scary things Henry but I will save this about you very composed already put together my lips hurt mm-hmm yeah no don't be putting your fingers in your eyes all right Henry have one more question for you you know and senior talks and watching your interviews I think what I find most relatable about you is that you're driven by this fear of inertia and I actually feel a lot in common with that you know sometimes I feel that I'm at my best on I'm in the foxhole by myself back up against the wall with a chip on my shoulder is there hope for people like us or we just doomed to forever be on that hamster wheel running in circles I'm almost 60 in 56 so a few more years something it's not old or young it's not anything but it's not 20 and so after many laps from the track in show business where you meet some people who are less than honest and it's easy very easy to get humiliated you get told no quite a lot and you have big failures in public where everyone's like you know they get a photo of it whatever it is unless you keep some amount of intensity and anger with it whatever that is or you're like I'm getting up today I'm going what do you what are you angry at bring it on whatever is in front of me I gotta be mad at it to get through it I have never been able to lose that what I have done to displace some of that ambient rage is work on my skills the sharper the scalpel is I don't need to hack the forest pal I can just take those two trees down I don't want to relax because I know myself I'll just go foul so I'd rather have the intensity than nerves and the stress that comes with it and perhaps a shortened lifespan from always being inside Henry you came in you cleared the board you dominated the wings I know you doubted yourself but not anymore watch that ball sail now there's nothing left to do but give you some plug time this camera this camera or this camera let the people know you have going on in your life I'm struggling to get work and trying to get by inside the guts of the Hollywood machine I go fraud ish ins and I do the thing big action big moments and I get nothing I get dang and then like I have to pay double cuz I have to buy black tablecloths I'm gonna beat my ass of this and I get home I'm keeping this [Music] bad bad damn that feels better than my father would bad bad come on give me one hello hot ones fans it's Sean Evans new outro same message if you like what just saw throw us a bone maybe please it is dog-eat-dog here on the YouTube streets hit that subscribe button knowing that you subscribed it is seriously the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning thank you very much hot ones 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Length: 23min 29sec (1409 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 07 2017