the chosen aesthetics of the various redstoners fascinate me. tango and impulse are tinkerers of various mechanical marvels. doc is the industrial revolution personified. mumbo continually casts himself as a silicon valley startup guy. its just. Interesting
Joe: um, NopeQueen says, "everyone dying in the Hot Ones and then Joe and Pearl just snacking was amazing." Yeah, I--that's one thing--yeah, Cleo, I was talking to, uh, the late night crew about that last night. They were like, 'Joe, what happened with the chicken?' And I was just like, okay, well here's the thing: Nashville is famous for having really spicy chicken. Like, that's just what we eat here. Everybody else, for some reason, eats chicken from Kentucky. But...we don't. So--I was expecting, though, cause people were really talked up this Hot Ones thing like crazy.
Cleo: Yeah.
Joe: I was like, I'm gonna-I'm gonna get over--walk over there, and get absolutely like, thrashed by this.
Cleo: Gonna get wrecked--
Joe: And it's gonna--
Cleo: --Cause you started at like, level nine, didn't you?
Joe: I started at level seven. But yeah, I was like, uh--cause I was gonna get tagged in by somebody else when they tagged out. And they lasted longer than they expected to. So I'm like, okay, I'm coming in at level seven, Impulse says level seven in a lot of ways is the worst one. And so I'm just gonna--gonna walk over there and get wrecked. And it's gonna be hilarious. And--I just started eating it, and I'm like, this is just chicken, like, I mean, it had s--the sauce on it, but like I'm like, this is just how we eat chicken, where I'm from. (Cleo giggles) Well, maybe the next level will be hotter? And I'm like...this is still just hot chicken.
Joe: Same thing, like, level ten--and, um, apparently too I've been eating chicken wrong, according to the audience. Cause, um, everybody's just like, y'know, cause I mentioned like, yeah, I could--
Cleo: You just chowed down from that.
Joe: Yeah. And I said though, I could tell that it's spicy, that's why I had to drink two cans of Coke, and they're like, Joe, you're not supposed to drink Coke with chicken that's spicy. And I'm like, I know, but it was a kid's charity event so I couldn't have beer. And they're like, no, you're not supposed to have carbonation with spicy chicken. And I'm like, what? I-I didn't know this! I've been eating spicy chicken with carbonation for years! Apparently I'm doing it wrong, I must be bad at chicken. Uh--
Cleo: Joe Hills, bad at chicken.
Joe: Yeah, yeah. So, I was-I was actually just kinda, like--I was really expecting to--I was like, this is one of those things where I'm overconfident, and I'm gonna get wrecked.
Cleo: Yeah. By rights you should be--
Joe: And it's gonna be hilarious--
Cleo: You should've been.
Joe: It's gonna--it's gonna be hilarious, but it's for charity, y'know, let's go. And I was just like--
Cleo: You were just like, nah, I'm hungry.
Joe: That was the other thing, I was--I legitimately hadn't eaten, I was starving, uh, and so I was just like, 'oh this is--'
Cleo: This is just nice chicken.
Joe: It was--yeah, it was great. Uhm--
while i'm on my computer instead of the tv and we're waiting to hit the 2 PM auction finale: several people have asked for a clip of joe's reaction to spice, so here is joe hills tapping in for jimmy, eating a "da bomb" wing (135,600 scovilles), and having a fun delicious time while everyone else dies around him!