Sean Evans Ate This Many Hot Ones In One Year

Deep data for First We Feast’s hit podcast.

Hot Ones Competition Table Top View. Includes 10 hot wings, 10 hot sauces, 10 questions. Water, milk, moist towelettes, napkins. Keep your hands away from your eyes!

“The show with hot questions and even hotter wings.” -Sean Evans

In 2015 Hip Hop superfan and iron tongue master Sean “Careful Around The Eyes” Evans began hosting what would become a breakthrough format in talk shows… Hot Ones. The combination of progressively hotter wings and personal questions designed to inform rather than exploit attracted better guests and more honest answers. The sales model is right up front. They want to sell hot sauce and we want to buy it. If a guest can make it through all ten wings they get 30 seconds to plug anything they want to First We Feast’s massive Youtube audience of 7.45 million subscribers.

Can you clean the wing?

5 years and 10 seasons in guests have ranged from Chili Klaus to DJ Khaled to Tenacious D. Laughs, insights, tests, and failures… yet also triumphs. It’s an emotional roller-coaster. Win or lose no-one leaves the table the same.

It’s very important that you chew it at least ten times in your mouth… before you swallow it or it will hurt in your stomach. Remember that. That’s very important.— Chili Klaus

Fun fact: Tinashe was the show’s first female guest appearing in S2E2 and marks the episode where audience views indicate the show is officially “taking off” after the spectacular Season 1 finale went viral.

The Yodalorian

Who was the most popular guest? How about those sauces? Did a guest really [clears throat] go no. 2 on the air? What’s a Scoville? How hot can a pepper get? Who had the all time iron-est tongue? Sean, obviously. Who tapped out early, faded in the mid game, floated through? Did you just say that out loud? I didn’t?!? You did! Secrets are spilled during such vulnerable moments… did you catch it when it slipped by? Let’s find out by exploring that first year, 2015–2016 where the formula for this timeless premise was perfected.

“This is like a cross between Charlie Rose and fuckin’ Jackass.” — Ricky Gervais

The show was created by First We Feast Founder Christopher Schonberger. — Wiki

Hot Ones 2015–2016, 56 Episodes over 2 of 10 Seasons(1st year), 56 Unique Guests. Produced by First We Feast.

The man with the iron tongue, Sean Evans, host of Hot Ones.

The Scoville Scale The Scoville scale is a measurement of the pungency of chili peppers and other spicy foods, as recorded in Scoville Heat Units based on the concentration of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is the predominant component.

Fun Fact: 70,000 Scovilles is 2.5 times as hot as a Jalapeño. The scale typically runs from 747 to 357,000+. Warning: This precise math related to SHUs make no sense and trying to make it may drive you Temporarily Insane [Obligatory Hot Sauce Joke]

Everyone has there own approach… but I’ve found the way athletes are competitive; comedians are neurotic. — Jim and Sam Show

With no further delay… the real stars of the show… the hot sauces!

The Sauces

Season 1

1 Texas Pete Original Hot Sauce 747 Scovilles

2 Cholula Original Hot Sauce 3,600 Scovilles

3 El Yucateco Caribbean Hot Sauce — Chile Habanero 5,790 Scovilles

4 Lottie’s Traditional Barbados Yellow Hot Pepper Sauce 12,000 Scovilles

5 Pain is Good Louisiana Style 13,000 Scovilles

6 Pain 100% 20,600 Scovilles

7 Blair’s Original Death Sauce with Chipotle 30,000 Scovilles

8 Dave’s Gourmet Temporary Insanity 57,000 Scovilles

9 Dave’s Gourmet Insanity Hot Sauce 180,000 Scovilles

10 Mad Dog 357 357,000 Scovilles

Season 2

1 Sriracha 2,200 Scovilles

2 Tapatío 3,000 Scovilles

3 El Yucateco Chile Habanero 5,790 Scovilles

4 Pain is Good Louisiana Style 13,000 Scovilles

5 Hot Ones Fiery Chipotle 15,600 Scovilles

6 High River — Rogue 34,000 Scovilles

7 Pain 100% 40,600 Scovilles

8 Da’ Bomb Beyond Insanity 135,600 Scovilles

9 Mad Dog 357 357,000 Scovilles

10 Blair’s Mega Death Sauce 550,000 Scovilles

Top 5 Earning Guests

1st S2E31 Kevin Hart: 23,160,116 views, Comedian $49,331.04

2st S2E42 Post Malone: 21,637,514 views, Rapper $46,087.90

3nd S2E8 Key and Peele: 17,613,212 views, Comedy Duo $37,516.14

4rd S2E20 Eric Andre: 12,981,980 views, Television Host $27,651.62

5th S2E44 James Franco , Bryan Cranston: 9,344,452 views, Actors $19903.68

Estimated $$$ Per Episode( Average Views/1000 x $2.13US ). Doesn’t include sponsorship or paid appearances by guests or merchandising.

). Doesn’t include sponsorship or paid appearances by guests or merchandising. $2122.50 per episode in year one would be the target return when it’s a Top Earner according to comparable top tier podcasts like JRE which puts Hot Ones into an explosively profitable strata relative to other popular Youtube shows in their infancy. Benefiting from First We Feast’s built in audience might explain it.

per episode in year one would be the target return when it’s a Top Earner according to comparable top tier podcasts like JRE which puts Hot Ones into an explosively profitable strata relative to other popular Youtube shows in their infancy. Benefiting from First We Feast’s built in audience might explain it. Sean made it through every round and tapped out 6 guests.

Audience size increased by 22.15 times in Season 2 over 1 reaching 216 million views by end of Season 2 which still counts as first year bringing a year one total to 226,508,010 or nearly a quarter billion views! Average per episode views increased 4.06 times for Season 2. Proof that a good premise and a great host can make an amazing show… and sell a lot of hot sauce.

Season 1: 9,782,795 views / 9 episodes = 1,086,977 avg. VPE (Views Per Episode) Sean ate 74 Wings and 1 Pepper for finale

Top Guest: Chili Klaus

Tap Outs: Tony Yayo, DJ Khaled

Tony Yayo: 724,735 4 Wings

Anthony Rizzo: 524,529 10 Wings

Machine Gun Kelly: 2,295,906 10 Wings

Gun Play: 925,737 10 Wings

Ja Rule: 947,371 10 Wings

B.o.B.: 711,131 10 Wings

Prince Amukamara: 527,347 10 Wings

DJ Khaled: 3,126,039 DJ got through 2 wings, held 1 and almost ate it. Sean continued through all 10.

Chili Klaus stands out in Episode 9 at 6,971,837 views. Check out this pepper finale! 1 Carolina Reaper, no wings.

Season 2: 216,725,215/49 = 4,422,964 avg. VPE

Top Guest: Kevin Hart

Tap Outs: Eddie Huang, Mike Epps, Jim Gaffigan, Rob Corddry

Curren$y: 857,926

Tinashe: 1,291,752

Tommy Chong: 2,321,764

T.J. Miller: 5,173,131

Coolio: 1,753,524

Joey Fatone: 1,272,055

Michael Rapaport: 1,977,334

Key and Peele: 17,613,212

Riff Raff: 4,799,928

Eddie Huang: 3,563,547

Chris D’Elia: 4,573,962

Mike Epps: 2,839,695

Jim Gaffigan: 2,540,793

Carly Aquilino: 2,007,020

Redman: 3,274,296

Rob Gronkowski: 3,454,109

Rob Corddry: 2,115,015

Jeff Ross: 1,966,662

David Cross: 2,341,883

Eric Andre: 12,981,980

Joe Budden: 3,267,450

Matty Matheson: 4,335,961

RZA and Paul Banks: 1,316,241

Bert Kreischer: 6,632,029

YG: 5,798,027

Jay Pharoah: 3,381,861

Chili Klaus: 2,163,196

Harley Morenstein: 4,084,236

Travis Kelce: 1,534,436

Hasan Minhaj: 3,520,218

Kevin Hart: 23,160,116

Emily Oberg and Nadeska Alexis: 4,018,777

Martin Garrix: 5,059,139

Bobby Lee: 6,703,423 — May need some toilet paper for this one…

Heatonist: 1,511,916

Tony Hawk: 1,573,928

Trivia with Super Fans: 496,755

Action Bronson: 6,331,960

T-Pain: 4,086,587

Rachael Ray: 4,145,059

Tom Colicchio: 1,862,010

Post Malone: 21,637,514

N.O.R.E.: 3,500,431

James Franco and Bryan Cranston: 9,344,452

The Hot Ones Holiday Special: 1,628,614

Sean Evans Answers Fan Questions: 679,343

Rhett & Link: 6,231,948

Bonus Material:

Extreme (DO NOT EAT THIS IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE) Scoville Pepper Scale (1,000,000+)

Resiniferatoxin 16,000,000,000 Scovilles

Tinyatoxin 5,300,000,000

Pure Capsaicin 16,000,000

Dihydrocapsaicin 15,000,000

Nonivamide 9,200,000

Nordihydrocapsaicin 9,100,000

Homodihydrocapsaicin 8,600,000

Police Grade Pepper Spray 5,300,000

Carolina Reaper 2,200,000

Common Pepper Spray 2,000,000

Trinidad Moruga Scorpion 2,009,231

7 Pot Douglah 1,853,396

Trinidad Scorpion Butch T 1,463,700

Naga Viper Pepper 1,382,118

7 Pot Barrackpore 1,300,000

7 Pot Jonah 1,200,000

7 Pot Primo 1,200,000

New Mexico Scorpion 1,191,595

Infinity Chili 1,176,182

Bedfordshire Super Naga Chili 1,120,000

Dorset Naga Pepper 1,100,000

Naga Jolokia 1,100,000

Naga Morich 1,100,000

Spanish Naga Chili 1,086,844

7 Pot Madballz 1,066,882

Bhut Jolokia Pepper 1,041,427

Chocolate Bhut Jolokia 1,001,304

7 Pot Brain Strain 1,000,000

Bhut Jolokia Indian Carbon 1,000,000

Trinidad Scorpion 1,000,000

Now stop reading and go eat some wings… hot, hot, hooooooooot wings!