Nick Offerman Gets the Job Done While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

[Music] can we get my mom on the phone 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 we're joined by Nick Offerman he's an actor you probably know best from his role as the revered Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation he's also a New York Times bestselling author and you can catch him live on the all rise tour visit Offerman woodshop comm for more information Nick Offerman welcome to the show so thank you what's your head space right now how are you a spicy food I'm okay generally I can handle most food but I don't seek out the the crazy flaming foods I'm looking forward to getting an education [Music] okay oh that's way too hot it's delightfully spicy I call that piquant so obviously we have to take a wing to discuss Ron Swanson a character whose legend has seemingly only grown since the days of Parks and Recreation how familiar are you with Ron Swanson's place in internet culture and you get a kick out of seeing the second life the character has had and meme form well it's pretty inexplicable I mean I get a great deal of fan art and the memes and the now the deep fake videos they're quite entertaining I'm always grateful knowing how the Internet operates that no one makes a huge ass out of me that people are generally kind to me or like use me to get a laugh I was just glad to have a good acting job so the fact that it has life beyond that I think is good free advertising so I know that the topic of where Ron Swanson ends and where Nick Offerman begins its well-worn territory at this point but if you'll humor me I want to hit you with a few of the Internet's favorite Ron Swanson isms I'm just curious the degree to which they resonate with Nick Offerman dear frozen-yogurt you are the celery of desserts be ice cream or be nothing zero stars in reality I guess I'm more open-minded to all things than Ron Swanson is pretty strict with his rules I not only like frozen yogurt but I like celery alright never half asked two things always hold ass one thing now this that could have been spoken by my dad he always said if you're gonna do a job do it right and so I've always tried to stick with that edict again I did not come up with that line but I do live by that standard and one more for you give a man a fish and you feed him for a day don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself he's a grown man and fishing isn't that hard sure that I think that makes a lot of sense we're two mollycoddling in this modern age of consumerism where you are never left on your own to learn to survive so I think I think we should send our kids out into the woods naked with maybe a ball of string and and a fish hook if you want a pamper Chicago sweet home unimpressed so far that's only delicious well enjoy these moments soak it in you know this is nothing so I know that you grew up in Minooka Illinois a town that I think I used to drive through my way to the University of Illinois down I 55 just south of Joliet there you would've passed Channahon are our twin village Manuka was next to Shannon Manuka had an exit on route 80 was unofficial st. Patrick's Day a thing when you're at the University of Illinois or did that happen afterwards must've been after me that doesn't ring a bell and then did you have a favorite on campus landmark did you ever like go to those marl plots where they had the experimental cornfields the there was an incredible landmark that is still there called the Japan house which is just a little bit east of the Moro plots down on South Florida where it's this super authentic Japanese tea house where you can learn Japanese tea ceremony and ikebana flower arrangement all these Japanese arts in a park-like setting it's incredibly beautiful and so I still go back and visit it to this day [Music] pineapple habanero bring it I taste the pineapple I taste the habanero I believe that this is from Thunder Bay Ontario that's where it's from Thunder Bay shout out Thunder Bay have you ever been not to my knowledge but I have a feeling my wife might be calling the bathroom Thunder Bay for a couple nights after this so you once told bone Appetit if properly dried and trimmed New York style pizza can be used to make a box for Chicago style pizza a quote that establishes you as both a handyman in a biased Illinois native my first of all that was an awesome burn I'm very proud of it buddy you know that's me being funny deep-dish pizza is amazing and the main difference is one slice of deep-dish pizza is two meals as opposed to you need kind of a whole pie of New York Pizza to equal one slice and I'm a Midwestern ER so we like our portions you know thicker is better that said I'm perfectly fine with a New York slice as well it's also kick-ass pizza and then I know that you're a seasoned cook and a great supporter of the bratwurst do you have a go-to bratwurst recipe no I I'm very simple so I like to I boil my bratwurst in beer yes okay yes I do have a recipe I boil them in beer and then throw them on the grill and I like to get them as caramelized as possible and then I just have it with raw chopped onion and stone-ground mustard that's the way to do it now don't screw it up [Music] that's that last one is sneaking up on me I'm still with you I can still form sentences well that's a good thing because as nick offerman fans know you can speak eloquently on almost anything but I think that you are your most poignant when you're railing against consumerism and the sort of technological breakthroughs that are designed to make our lives easier why does the phrase Pizza Delivery by drone make you bristle mom I'm a human being with the rest of us so all of these luxuries I get it I mean the thing that whatever you're watching us on right now is supercool you know if you'd told me when I was in high school that I'd be eating hot wings and people were watching it on a weird little technological rectangle in a parking lot somewhere right probably crying I would be amazed but having pizza delivered by a flying robot yeah that's awesome in a lot of ways but then we forget to ask questions like who's making this pizza where is it coming from is it good for me you know if we indulge in industrial consumerism we run out of natural resources climate change happens and suddenly we're like well it's apocalyptic outside but at least we can get pizza delivered by a drone what's your take on self-driving cars thumbs down I mean again to me I want to be responsible for my own safety I don't want to hand that off to a corporation and when I'm on the road I want to worry about other human beings paying attention not that like somebody software update is gonna keep their car from hitting me as a furniture maker yourself what are your thoughts on these ready-to-assemble big-box retailers like IKEA any piece of furniture that you can make even if it looks more crappy than an IKEA piece or or a big box you know I hate to crap on just IKEA because I think they're a good company in a lot of ways but those things are made to be disposable and they add to the landfill it all adds to the problem but if you can take the time to use tools learn to use materials that are locally sourced you can make things that will last a lot longer and maybe it's an ugly coffee table but by the time it gets to your grandkids it has a lot of charm and character oh yeah that's that ugly coffee table that my grandma or grandpa made me and then as the Chicago Cubs diehard give any thoughts on the recent five hundred fifty million dollar stadium renovation like is that sort of thing inevitable at some point or is it a little sad to see a head-to-toe makeover of the friendly confines well I was there a lot this year and the nice thing is it still really feels like Riblet Wrigley Field there there are accessories sort of out and about the park that feel fresh and modern and feel pretty great actually I mean it was the ballpark of my youth and it's kind of crappy and so the makeover to me just feels like they've upgraded the bathroom towards like oh it doesn't smell like urine inherence that's nice but the ivy is still on the walls and the hotdogs are just as mediocres ever [Music] torchbearer sauces ghostpepper it says on the label that's frightening but it is gluten-free thankfully because I was getting loaded up on glutens alright I have a turning point a little bit on this one yeah I feel like it's ghosting my taste book you really that ghost is really coming through right here my well-being is ghosting me later bro an agree every crank segment on our show called explain that Graham where we do a deep dive on our guests Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context we'll just pop them up on the monitor here you just tell us the bigger story and this first one it looks like you're meeting mr. t backstage at Conan that's right do you remember this very well yeah it was my first visit to Conan's show when he was in New York I was with my wife who was appearing on the show as a guest so I was just mr. Mullaly and mr. T was there and I grew up I mean I in the Chicago area where he's from he became a famous bouncer first and there was some TV show there was a bouncer competition if you can find it there's a make that an American Idol for bouncers absolutely and they and so like one of the the events I remember as they had a little stunt man with like a harness and the bouncer had to pick him up and see who could throw him the farthest so remember mr. t from that show and then he became this public figure impossibly and ended up on the a-team so I was a huge mr. t fan and he also had his home message of like treat your mother right and use good manners so I've always really loved you know a big tough guy who also was sensitive and promoted that so when I met him I just was absolutely blown away he did a really funny series with Conan for a while where they would go out and pick apples together in the fall I'm the greatest thing about this picture when I got it back was to see that my skull was the same size as mr. T's validating made me feel like a full-grown man firefire scorpion for pepper sauce blender yeah it's not cold so you've been upheld as a paragon of manhood in this day and age when the very tenants of masculinity are probably more hotly debated than ever when people can survive perfectly well without knowing how to build a fire fix a leaky faucet what do you think is lost when people stop being here well nobody told me we're gonna go deep on this trip I'm grateful a great question I first thing I get accused a lot of being manly or masculine and what I suppose some of that must be true but I come by and honest it's nothing that's what it's what I was born with I look and sound like this but I'm actually a very talented ballet dancer you'd be surprised to learn I feel like everybody across the spectrum of sexuality should know how to use a screwdriver or should be able to change it I'm open go for broke repeat thank you fire fire you know things break and those of us who know how to fix things when they break just end up being better responsible members of our community I'm gonna have a little milk I believe I've heard that helps how about this with a flaming tongue do you want to stop before I go go for it I just have one more follow-up for you as a student of language do you think that it makes more sense to refer to people who are maybe in a moment of weakness as nutsacks rather than [ __ ] since the testicles are much more vulnerable well I I'm a writer and I'm also a writer of comedy I perform the I tour as a comedian and so I often have to deal with this issue where if I in the past would have called somebody a [ __ ] or something or a [ __ ] or something I now stop myself and say okay I don't want to do that because that I think fortifies the gender is a ssin I'm trying to work against but that's where it gets hard where it's like well traditionally that's the word that works best that's what I learned in the locker room as a kid you know sometimes the words are not going to be as chewy they're not gonna work as well but I think slowly we're just gonna have to keep evolving but hopefully you're in this in this studio today will be neither [ __ ] or my sex [Music] can we get my mom on the phone I shouldn't be reading these labels to not help sexy out a little bit cuz you see like ghost Carolina Reaper whoo mm-hmm I'll give this one five fires so I take a wing to discuss woodworking a hobby of yours that's permeated everything from the characters you play to the books that you write to your overall worldview why is white oak the most heroic of all woods [Music] why is white oak the most heroic of all woods well most of the ships in history that were built of wood hoped that they were built of American white oak when England came to America and discovered our forests there were massive huge white pine trees that were perfect for the masts of ships so perfect that the the Brits went around and marked this slashed this arrow mark on trees all over New England that meant don't touch this tree it's for the king we're gonna make it into a ship mast they called it the King's arrow I believe and the oak trees they said holy cow these massive oak trees are perfect so a great example is in the Civil War era there was a American naval ship called Old Ironsides and it was a ship made of white oak and the hull the outside of the ship was 18 inches thick of white oak and so you know it's such a badass wood that like it's the choice to repel cannonballs there you have it all right Nick how you doing [Music] great I forgot we even started this next one is de bomb double scary red one mm-hmm beyond insanity it says seems like a good idea [Music] so yeah I generally like delicious food but I understand that people enjoy sort of challenging themselves with spicy sauces and flavors but I'll just take the delicious part right generally but I'm glad to I'm glad to go on this journey with you it's it's us together it's us together Nick I'm glad I'm sitting down you do I feel like I might blast off here in a second let me know if I start lactating I'm on it Dom you on it mmm check the monitors mm-hmm what do you find funny about middling authority figures I've heard you make that case then people who take their positions of authority way too serious their comedic gold yeah I feel drunk Caliente sauce well the specific thing about them and the two examples I remember from my youth are they're both high school principals one is played by Paul Gleason he's the principal in The Breakfast Club and the other is Jeffrey Jones who plays the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off they've worked hard and made it to be the principal of a school but yet nobody is respecting them and so they take themselves very seriously with like people come on in sit down I'm gonna I've got 17 rules about the faculty parking lot Judy thank you and as I developed into a person perfectly suited to play that the level of mediocrity as I go I think that could be my wheelhouse right there did you learn anything about that from being a bouncer cuz that's a job where you really have to pokerface you can't see what's wrong where are you find me find me right to keep talking okay just follow my voice just follow my voice you were saying did you learn anything about that from being a bouncer cuz that's a job where you really have to pokerface your authority more than most others um yeah I somehow intimidating people has everything to do with your presence and I learned that on stage also as a young man in theater school that if you if you maintain an intense presence people will read into you if you're the bouncer if they're like oh that guy's quiet I better not mess with him but if you're like he's over company it makes my show don't mess with me then they're like yeah it seems like maybe a joke all right Nick I think that's it we did them all whoo I didn't think we'd make it but here we are at the end mmm seems like we just ate a death chemical well this next one is called burn after eating okay I'm guessing we're tapering back down now - yeah returning home will landing the chop did you guys get the two dough's yes you did it's a hand squeeze - potato water right there for your Ryder [Music] I'll be surprised if I can't sense anything of this sauce after the last Fox so I've scorched earth in the mouth after that one look I'm getting something woo so over the course of your career I know that there's some dream gigs that got away which did you pursue harder Baywatch or Lord of the Rings you have a fine research department I [Music] definitely let the yoga exist in my sinuses I definitely pursued Lord of the Rings much more fulsomely because that was something I desperately wanted to do baywatch was a joke I really wanted to do it when I was moving here from Chicago 20 years ago I had a Baywatch air freshener hanging from my rearview mirror as I told all my friends I'm drunk I'm gonna drive west until I get to this goddamn thing it's like putting a motivational quote on the mirrors it really was and I mean you know I was auditioning for something and the casting director also cast Baywatch somehow the storyline ended up on the Gulf Coast and there were some like scary hillbillies or something she was like oh we actually you know normally I wouldn't think twice looking at you for Baywatch but we do have some scary rednecks coming up and so I did get some for it to no avail Lord of the Rings I was was much more much more forceful I sent letters to Peter Jackson and I wrote all these letters cuz I really wanted to play Samwise Gamgee that's me that's the best part in those books Peter I did not respond to my letters to this day he's not written me back and don't think I'm not bearing a grudge but I did eventually through the normal channels I made it to where they called me in in you know the huge group to put me on tape reading for the role of Gimli the dwarf spoiler alert didn't go my way alright next so this is the last dab we call it the last a because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing you'd always have to if you don't want to well if you're gonna do a job do it right I believe I heard on a a pithy YouTube show oh yeah love the form you call it the last dev I call it the money shot you I changed the name now mmm right across the thigh [Music] this one there's three X's on it but I don't I mean I don't really care about living anymore Wow yep but the good news is Nick that we've made it here we're halfway now bring out the hot ones we've gone through and we've explored the many Renaissance like talents from word working to acting to writing books and we've been regaled by your silver tongue and now with the hot sauce setting your brain ablaze I think it's time to put that to the test we've pulled some SATs style vocabulary words I'll just show them to you and if you can try to define and put in a sentence okay piquant these chicken wings have grown progressively more and more [ __ ] piquant dexterous when I walked in here my tongue was much more dexterous than it is now after becoming numb from hot sauce thespian many people think that I'm a professional jackass but I correct them and tell them I'm a classically trained thespian unctuous I like to think that my jokes are quite enjoyable but often at family gatherings they find me rather unctuous well you know what I don't think there's anything unctuous about you and Nick Offerman and look at you taking on the wings of death ten chicken wings up ten chicken wings down and now I think it is time for a toast Lagavulin yeah this is coming out in a couple weeks this was my character scotch on Parks and Rec and that led to us shooting in Scotland at their distillery and we hit it off can you smell that already I do it's like a campfire and it smells like victory and now Nick Offerman there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life okay well I'm touring a comedy show called all rise I sing and I talk about funny things you can find out about tickets for that at Offerman woodshop calm but perhaps most importantly we're gonna toast with a Lagavulin eleven-year Offerman special edition single malt scotch Cheers two hot ones [Music] it's the spot just right so just just short of insurance went just like I thought it would accept your questions were or good we're better than I thought they would be for a chicken wing YouTube show yeah you never know hey really never know what's up spice Lords og camera guy bill here back in the studio you thought it was a one hit one to think again son I'm bringing the heat it's the last death xxx xxxx turning you into Phi breathe and tear xxx worse than Godzilla stopping on Tokyo send your taste was packin go go go - a glass of milk - chill me down first we feast breathe the heat we included around toughen winter xxx call me Xander cage Mouse throwing fireballs chaotic evil main role in the 20s crit hit the next era T tearing up so much you can no longer see it Sochi camera got bill you think you know me but so hot you'll [ __ ] your pants Bobby Lee oh did something just happen sausage Superman leaves you rekt supervillain heat call in the legs shooting laser beam straight from the tongue take another damn ko now you done son what it is oh gee camera got bill 2019 I bring the heat triple letter selects [Music]

Channel: First We Feast

Views: 7,581,144

Rating: 4.9463477 out of 5

Keywords: First we feast, fwf, firstwefeast, food, food porn, cook, cooking, chef, kitchen, recipe, cocktail, bartender, craft beer, complex, complex media, Cook (Profession)sean evans, hot ones, hot ones nick offerman, nick offerman spicy wings, nick offerman hot sauce, sean evans, nick offerman sean evans, hot ones hot sauce, the last dab, hot wing challenge, food challenge, spicy wings, ron swanson

Id: YbZmhgtZkdg

Length: 29min 3sec (1743 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 31 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Roseking]

Has he been losing weight? He looks really good in this video.

[u/Sand_Coffin]

The idea that Nick had a chance at being Gimli is kinda funny. Great interview, and I know it's a dead horse at this point, but man, the number of big stars that are just falling into this show is nuts.

[u/Dr_Iridium]

The giggle-laugh is just delightful

[u/moesizzlac]

Seeing how he handles his spice, part of me thinks there's a lot of Ron Swanson in Nick.

[u/redpenquin]

There's a sharp irony to the episode being sponsored by the Pixel 4 when Offerman talks about his disdain for modern consumerism.

[u/filofil]

This season going amazing so far!! Mad props to the Hot Ones.

[u/ComradeSomo]

Turns out it was just an elaborate Lagavulin ad. I'm not even mad.

[u/amirtaghan]

I think in a couple seasons time when Sean says the 'Explain That Gram' spiel it'll be so fast we won't actually hear the words.

[u/LarryTheLobstar]

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