Kristen Bell Ponders Morality While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

that's my review, that's good, that's hot, put it on the model, oh yeah, well that's good, that's hot, yeah, she talks really well, hey, what's going on everyone? First we feast. I'm Sean Evans and you're watching the hottest

ones

, it's the show with Burning Questions, it even had its

wings

and today we're joined by Kristen Bell, one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood in her career and in television and film, which includes everything from blockbusters to beloved cult classics, talking about the old Frozen even hits theaters this November and on the topic of the staircase, you can watch new episodes of Veronica Mars streaming on Hulu now Kristen Bell welcome to the show thanks for inviting me.

I'm hungry, so I'm happy to be here, well, you know? A few years ago, her husband Dax completed one of the most impressive races we've ever seen in the hots. How proud are you of that particular wing-

eating

display? Too much, she definitely has certain conversations with him, but you know, I think. I'm the reigning hot sauce champion, look, we eat a lot of hot sauce at home, we like

spicy

things, so I guess that's when you could say we're good at it, we're athletes, or we've killed. our taste buds are fine, just eat it mm-hmm, it's all yours, that's beautiful, so

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we're sitting here

eating

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in Hollywood, I think now is as perfect a time as any to unpack this great Kristen Bell quote .

I long for the Midwestern food and atmosphere there. It's no, oh yeah, well, there's you, you just mentioned that you're from Chicago, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm stuck in the middle because I'm also very susceptible to ordering anything on a menu that says like California Gurls. California girls food sandwich. I think that's exactly what I want. I like to eat healthy food here, but there's something about the Midwest atmosphere and we just went to Lake Michigan, we spent the 4th of July there, it felt like home and strange. For the uninitiated, can you explain the enduring appeal of sliding into a vinyl booth at a large restaurant in Michigan?

Wow, there's nothing like it, it's like applause, big voices like applause and sometimes it comes out of a time machine, but walking into that booth knowing you're about to get an unlimited salad bar and you don't really care how many days bring the lettuce in there because you're only there for the blue cheese everything is great and this is made with turmeric mm-hmm we're inflaming our taste buds with hot sauce and then the inflammation comes from the turmeric it's a full circle really It's what a delicious sauce, what a thoughtful sauce, so I want to continue with the theme of food because the good place is the discreet one. of the best food shows on television that consistently apply the "everything is not what it seems" theme to the culinary world.

Can you give me the BTS behind the clam chowder platter? mm-hmm, it's a writer named Megan Amram, she has one of the most interesting brains. currently on the planet she has a kind of tick for puns, so tomorrow all the similar lasagnas will come out, which is the name of the Italian restaurant in the good place, the scottie pippen, yes, exactly the pesto is coming , exactly those are all. Megan Amram and she has something about her writing three or four clam chowder jokes in that episode one. I think it's just hot milk with dead animal croutons, there were a lot of jokes about clam chowder and during the episode she suggested we fill the whole bowl with it and we said that's a good place, why not?

And then, of course, what I like about the show is that it seems to serve as a blank canvas for the writers to air their various culinary complaints. Have you ever had a food pet? Peeve worked on the show and if not, here's what you'd like to share with us. One of the most brilliant things I've ever read or been a part of was when you know the good place is centered around all these yogurt shops and it's because Ted cares. Ted's character says that yogurt frozen yogurt is so uniquely human that it's so human to take something as good as ice cream and ruin it a little bit so you can have a lot more and I like that it's getting hotter and hotter, I have to say.

Did you know? When we went to Rwanda, my husband and I took a trip to Africa and saw a lot of beautiful countries right before our kids were born. It was our last hurray as self-employed adults and we had dinner in Rwanda and they have a guy. of

spicy

sauce are called acha Bunga, do you know that? Doesn't this look familiar? Can I get you some school? You have to buy it. I think in a pharmacy you have to wear gloves

while

handling it and it comes as seen. what looks like a medicine bottle and it's like a neon yellow liquid and you can make a vat of soup and put like three drops in it and it's on fire, but I love that Kabongo sauce, so Veronica Mars has taken such an interesting shape. journey through the quicksand of the entertainment industry starting on cable and then watching this crowdsourced movie and then being born again now on a streaming service, have you ever thought about that journey and then the power of a trip or...?

The fan base and what that power can mean in 2019. The only reason we're making more Veronica Mars is because our fans ride or die and they're really loud and they're also smart, which is flattering that smart people watch the program you. You're not into bottomless mindless entertainment, but the fans have organized themselves. I mean, the first year when we were on UPN, they sent Mars bars to UPN saying, let's say, Veronica Mars, the second year they sent dollar bills, which was a part of the show saying Veronica Mars is smarter than me the Third year they hired a plane to fly over the CW with a banner that said save Veronica Mars, I mean they're organized, although I will say they made the movie because it was crowdfunded. took a lot of responsibility trying to make the movie what the fans wanted to put all the Easter eggs in.

Rob Thomas literally wrote a scene in which Veronica, who was ostracized in high school, wrote a scene in which she punched the most popular girl in high school and then reverse engineered the script because she was like, I'm going to give the fans exactly what they want, that's what we gave with the movie because they crowdfunded it with this new series on Hulu. It was an opportunity to make Veronica more complex, not necessarily. Give the fans what they want, but maybe give them what Veronica needs. Do you ever feel like a tug of war with that, like a tug of war with that, because sometimes I do it with the hot

ones

, the fanbase is like that, but then there's this tightrope walking? where you want to be grateful but not contemplate it, yeah, and I'm dealing with that right now because there are new things happening in this series and some of our die-hard fans were very upset that they weren't happy about.

I almost wish I could talk to each of them at length and tell them that Robb represented a really complex female character, she's not just the girl who's making big decisions in the world, it's happening to her, you know, part of the show is that she doesn't. wants to do it. Marry this guy who seems perfect for her and I think it's fine. I don't think it has to be everyone's happy ending, but that's something complex to present to people who want Verónica's happiness so much, how many whims do you think? I've eaten at your life, well if I'm just doing the math, you know we have like 170 episodes in this, so if you do that times 10, that already puts me at only 1700 wings that I've eaten on YouTube for people, yeah.

I know you shouldn't say anything. You know, a Super Bowl party with no tailgate, like I'm just saying, right on the clock so we all have wings. Yes, I love them if I'm not. You know, I would never order them off a menu if I'm being honest with you Chris, yeah, you know, at this point it would feel like it's like work mm-hmm on some level, you know, so go, yeah, I would never go to a restaurant. to do a monologue for anyone, right? It's like I'm not working after hours here. You know, this is the first time in the history of this show that we've never had the couple fully formed in hotties, so here we want to fact check Dax's interview. with you Chris, I would love nothing more than to fact check my husband, okay, he talked at length about his male crushes which included Jay-z, has he ever embarrassed you at a function or party, fanboy, not too loud, yeah , we went to the Met Gala a couple of years ago and we were sitting next to Jay-Z and Beyoncé and when we found out about this we forgot about it, we were so excited and I thought, "Oh, this is going to be great, it's finally going to be taken care of tonight when our phones We'll be best friends and then we maneuvered the table so that Dax could sit next to Jay-Z and Dax talked non-stop and I don't think Jay was that interested, but I was proud of him because he went all out for some courage talks. with the person you love I think at one point he also hit it with a lyric where I was like I think it was like real recognize real and I was like text acts, no, no, where are we with Costco The obsession?

Is he still out there looking for bargains? Oh, one hundred percent, one hundred percent, he actually told a story about Costco last night, but no, you know someone. I was in the checkout line at Costco and the woman who was checking me out says, Oh, I heard you died and he's really doing well and she's like yeah, I don't know, she told me you died and he's like, Wow, I mean, Well, I didn't, but how did I die? and she said oh, I earn it, ask and then he left feeling very depressed. Do you know how uninteresting you have to be for no one to ask you how you died?

Are you here? said last night it's like you heard that Sean Penn died first follow up what reason you just read the headline it's not like that he's dead okay? Then, finally, we gave him a math test at the end and he almost aced it, but I messed up on this one, so I'll bounce it back to you so you can watch me beat the record. I'm ordering three hot sauces online, sriracha, for five. Tabasco dollars for $5.99 and the pump for seven dollars even if shipping is 350 and there is no tax what is my total cost on the order $17.99 plus 350 is 2149 yes no yes you really send this type of mail again by the way I am impressed that I'm making the vegan wings like I'm really into that.

You know, if you can make them vegan two days a week or whatever, you know it's not good for the environment. For the environment, you have all this, yes, we have all this, right? all this like farms or whatever, you read so many terrible things, so I think you know not to have wings all the time, you know it's cute, you're kind, thanks guys. I appreciate that you customize each crane segment in our program. called, explain that grammar to dig deeper into I guess Instagram puts out interesting images that need more context, so I'll pull out the laptop, show you the image and then you tell me the bigger story, does that sound good? mm-hmm Alright, first things first, can you give us the BTS on the chocolate challenge?

Yeah, so the chocolate challenge benefited the prostate cancer foundation. My husband's prostate cancer foundation ambassador said they sent us some spicy chocolate. We are going to eat it. It's something like. the ice cube challenge, you know, inspire other people to eat it and then make a funny video. It was without a doubt the spiciest thing I've ever had in my life and you guys are hardcore, we were so arrogant to start with, that's right. nice for the prostate cancer foundation, we're going to eat this and it's going to be fun and I mean, I can't even describe what it was like.

I'll tell you if I had the option to do it again or go through childbirth again. I would choose childbirth. Wow, those were amazing sensations inside your body and you've eaten like a Carolina Reaper before and all. I ate when I had to do the Carolina Reaper challenge. I ate one and immediately felt codependent why not. I don't think it was that spicy and I acted like oh well it was so spicy and then I kept eating them and I ate like seven and it wasn't um it didn't bother me. I really enjoy spicy things. it was okay so here you are like Tom Selleck Halloween this doesn't need any more context I think you know that and then here you are like Elsa and you look a little bummed yeah well I was Halloween 2017 such an emotional roller coaster for well I had done it , I had hosted the Jimmy Kimmel Show when he was away and it was Halloween and I thought it would be a great costume to dress up as Tom Selleck, so I did it and then on the actual Halloween, my daughter asked me to go. like Elsa with her, not that she came as the character I played, but I actually dressed as Elsa with her and you can't look at a four year old and say no, I'm not going to make your Halloween as fun . like I could do it, but deep down but deep down it's a little offensive just because it's like anyone cares if he comes, he's just heart and soul that movie ooh, that's good, you like that one, so the good ones places received a lot of credit for theircleaning.

Packing the principles of classical moral philosophers like Aristotle into this entertaining television show, are there any philosophical principles you've learned from the show that you find particularly relevant to how you live your life? Yes, I have wavered throughout my life thinking I was a utilitarian. because I want a greater good, they believe you have to do something for a greater good, even if I have to push you off the cliff to save everyone in this room, the utilitarian would say I have to do it, content, I would say do the right thing. in the moment, which is even if everyone else has to die, I have to save you, I'm not going to push you off the cliff and I find both arguments really compelling and the moral particularism which is a modern philosophy introduced by Jonathan Dancy, who is Hugh Dancy Father , the actor, describes moral particularism as the ability to vacillate between either of those two theories and I think that's where I land, how would you classify the ethics of this show?

Because, on the one hand, we have a very entertaining concept, but you can't avoid the fact that it's sadistic, yes, sure, but I would also say that you have to have a hook, right, there is nothing funny or interesting about perfection, you want people to fight a little, this is your conflict on this talk show, this is your complexity, you have to throw a wrench in the gears in order to make it worth watching, let me ask you an ethical question because I'm curious to know how to solve it, okay, okay, so imagine you're working at a restaurant and you realize that when no one was looking, a deadly chili pepper infected five people. bowls of chili, yes, one gluttonous customer has ordered five orders of chili and then five other not-so-hungry customers have ordered one bowl each, the killer chili is headed towards the five not-so-hungry customers, but you can intervene and divert all the bowls to one. glutton, do you let the five bowls of death chili go to the customers who aren't as hungry or do you intervene by saving the five lives but killing the glutton so you can save the five who aren't as hungry or kill the glutton? with the tram problem here is the tram problem I have to go I'm going to go detour the chile yes he is out I don't have the chance to save everyone you know you have to go from each other is that tram I I'm going to be utilitarian this says fearless flavor I agree that's good that's hot too that's my review that's good that's hot put it on the model oh yeah well that's good that's hot oh she talks so well how does the pressure of wrapping a film work and then waiting for the box office numbers to come in, how does that compare to jumping into a late night seat and guest hosting on Jimmy Kimmel Live? ooh actually I never pay attention to the box office numbers which I never have for the safety of my brain and my ego mm-hmm I want people to go see it like I want people to love Veronica Mars from a good place I want there to be an audience but I don't necessarily care about the competition of it all and I think it's not healthy if I'm worried about that versus worried about making the best show possible and exposing it to a large number of people.

Are you worried about its critical reception? A little more. Yeah, because that can really make or break a movie, but. this is something that I talked to myself about in my head all the time because I like to eat if you were happy when you saw it and you felt confident that's the only thing that should matter is the only thing that should matter is It's not always because it's just a human being, but jumping into the night seat was fun, to be honest, because I can read a teleprompter like it's okay, because the words are there, that one is hot, yeah, hmm, now we are. getting into real territory here mm-hmm yeah so when you went to Dax's armchair experts podcast he pointed out that it's also impossible to watch TV shows or movies with me yeah I can take my shirt off too because you'll have to constantly imitate the lines where that impulse comes from I don't know it's a tic it's like I can't explain it when I hear something that sounds weird in my ear which unfortunately is usually other people's accent I have to say I have to say it in a way that makes it miserable to watch Game of Thrones or Peaky Blinders next to me because I'm like speaking it in my hand doing a voice in Assassin's Creed.

Did you gain a new respect for storytelling in video games? these days yes, but I mostly had fun with it because I don't know if at the time I did it, because that was like 15 years ago, I wasn't necessarily following the narrative as much as I should have. Like, oh cool, I'm in the video game Assassin's Creed, the other thing that stuck out is that almost every Disney movie I've ever seen I was able to do from start to finish with all the voices and I do the voices when I read them to myself. kids like books and they hate them, they say stop making scuttles voice, just make a normal voice, i say, but he's scuttle, the seagull and they don't like it, listen, are you ready to move on, i think Yeah.

I love it I swear yeah okay so this is the Pucker Bud Pepper Company Pucker Chocolate Plague but hmm hmm this has more flavor than the last one for sure because it was more of a burn mm-hmm and this has more flavor and I like that, okay, I get it, it has absolutely zero nutritional value, you guys literally, vitamin A, zero C, zero calcium, zero iron, zero total carbs, 0.3 grams, so we wouldn't be doing justice to this episode if we didn't dive into some of the ingredients. Kristen Bell obsessions and I know your idea of ​​a Golden Globes after-party is obviously the settlers of Catan are home in their pajamas and that can be kind of a divisive game.

Have you ever been forced to cry or feel violent anger? playing that board game 100% 100 Q yes we play together we almost always fight and we've had to create a code word to make sure we don't go to bed angry and it's anaconda and when we see a fight brewing we all have to they become anaconda, it's just a game, so we actually have to put a little bit of our physical body into it to get us out of our fighting heads. You are a self-described skeeball fan. Do you have any professional advice? I'm not a fan.

I'm just an excellent athlete, always go for the hundreds, don't waste your time on the 40s and whatever you use in this kid's game, you have to go for the hundreds on the 50s, it's the only way to play skee-ball , I know. that you're a Game of Thrones superfan you have a good version of the last season oh man look I don't want to throw anything out you're a beast you're doing that you're a beast are you trying to provoke me? to do it you love this it's a fun track it's a fun track well it's tradition around here to put a little more on that one on the last one my husband always did it you know what your husband did actually he didn't just do that he called to find another one way to do it again part of Game of Thrones will say I thought the John and Khaleesi thing could have been a lot more complicated.

This was an opinion I got from Josh Lawson, who was on House of Lies. I was explaining this to him because I was desperate to give the writers' room some respect. I thought, come on, they can't please everyone, right? and you are close to achieving it. Yes, it was great, they tried. It was wonderful, you know, this was his story, it's not my job to judge and then Josh Lawson said, yeah, but you didn't want to see more, you didn't want to see her back down, didn't you want to see him fight? Do you want to see her yell at him?

Didn't you want to see it? Don't just go for it and I was like, yeah, I did. I wanted it to be messy like Ned Stark. He is a thick boy. Wow, he's fine, let's go. Here we go, cheers, cheers, oh yeah, oh yeah, okay Kristen Bell, here we are at the top of spice mountain and yes, we covered a lot of ground today, but one glaring blind spot is your love for sloths and I would humbly say that you have a lot. What to do with this sloth revolution, you know, I think at one point the sloth was an afterthought, but now you see sloths as streetwear socks and papyrus greeting cards, so now that we've eaten ten wings of scorching hot chicken, I have to ask and in as much detail as possible why slot machines have such a special place in your heart, they speak to me because they really are just a junk drawer of an animal, they're like a pig meets a monkey , but with your grandmother's reflexes and how come some of those things are bad?

Those things are greater than the sum of their parts. I also think I'm a pretty fast-paced person. I speak fast. I do things quickly and they only remind me to slow down. why I love them, there you have it, Kristen Bell's love for sloths and look, you take in, you don't have to, no, no, that's how I worry, okay, lowering the vegan wings to the stick and now. before I drown there's nothing left to do but get off the red carpet for you Kristen Bell this camera this camera this camera let people know what you're going through in your life wait and if you have a new project oh oh um my First project is to remove my nose right now because of the hot sauce.

The good place will be from September 26. I think on NBC it's our last season. I'm very proud of it. The ending will be worth the wait. Veronica Mars is streaming on Hulu. Now it's a new season, it's an older, more complex Veronica and Frozen is coming out on November 20th. Something frozen this year. Good job, you killed that I knew you would have hot sauces at home that are called whatever you like, that's what I think it is. That sauce is funny, it's like Satan's blood, yeah, wait, what do we do? We just drink and say mm-hmm, hey, what's going on, horny fans?

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