01x13 - A Lil Bit of Everything

[bunniefuu]

[theme music playing]

Welcome to Dinner Time Live.
I'm your host, David Chang.

That's my good friend, Chris Ying,
voice of the Internet.

-We are joined with two fabulous guests.
-[Lil Jon] Mm-hmm.

Producer, hip-hop mogul extraordinaire,
Lil Jon.

-Thank you.
-Jay Pharoah.

And we've already damn started.

-[Dave] That's right.
-It's a wasteland,

ladies and gentlemen, of bones here.

You did not go put a whole bunch of wings
in front of two Black people.

-[Lil Jon] Man, for real!
-[laughter]

I don't know what you thought
was happening here.

-And speaking of wings...
-Let's go.

The question is, the age-old question
everybody wants to know...

Especially y'all at home.

Flats?

Or drums?

Most important question
that's ever been asked on this show.

-[Lil Jon] You answered correctly.
-I did.

You get to go to the cookout.

[Chris] Explain to those who don't know
what flats-versus-drums means.

If you have to ask,
you're out of the club.

I mean, you only eat drums if you have to.

-[Jay] Hey! That's right, man.
-Facts.

I only like drums if it's a real leg,
you know what I'm saying?

You only eat the drums
if it ain't nothing left.

-That's right. That's right.
-Are you trying to not eat them all?

Eat all the flats
so that you can leave some for somebody.

The drums are peasantry.

-So...
-Peasant food.

Yeah.

I'm just gonna make
this proclamation right now.

I think you guys are gonna be
the best guests we've ever had.

[Jay as Lil Jon] Yeah!

[laughter]

That was good. Very good. That was good.

-Quick.
-I was just saying that.

-I say that at least ten times a day.
-[Chris] Two "flats" men.

-I do.
-[Dave] Three "flats" men.

-I'm also a flats men.
-[Lil Jon] Anybody ever ate the full...?

No. Listen, I always put out
a little tray of food before.

These are some baked chicken wings.

-'Cause Jay wants to not, you know...
-[Jay] Marvel, DC, what up?

I'm trying to get on Men's Health.

-Marvel, DC, I'm trying to Men's Health.
-Me too. I mean, I got those...

-Y'all laughing, I'm... For real.
-[Chris] No. I know.

The editor in chief
of Men's Health watches

this show all the time.
He's watching right now.

-Looking for you.
-[Lil Jon] Wait.

If I take my shirt off,
you're gonna be amazed.

Under the hood, Jon is good.

-That's... Exactly.
-Yeah, exactly.

So we're gonna be the first
to finish the main...? The first course?

-[Jay] Hey, man.
-Yeah.

Can we do something right now?
Lil Jon? Can we please do something?

We're gonna have
to rock, paper, scissors for this.

For who's gonna get the flat.

Who will get the, uh, drum.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

While you guys argue,
let me explain what's happening today.

-Okay.
-One, two, three.

[Jay] Rock, paper, scissors. sh**t.

Rock, paper, scissors. sh**t.
Rock, paper, scissors. sh**t!

You guys...

-God bless.
-Hey, man.

What's funny, man?

-The title of this episode is called A...
-[Chris] "Little Bit of Everything."

"A Little Bit of Everything."

And, uh, so this is,
in some ways, this is like a...

Like how I think about food today
after, what, 25-plus years of cooking.

Um...

And when I... Sometimes I have an idea,
especially when I was younger

and I wanted to cook it
or I wanted to put it on the menu,

but I was always so self-conscious
that it wasn't cool enough. Right?

And one of those dishes is this thing
right here, literally, you guys called it.

You thought this was
like a Romanian chicken.

[Jay] Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

It looked like you got some potato salad
with raisins over there somewhere

-to go with that.
-[Dave] Right?

-[stammers] This...
-Did you use any seasoning?

Yes, there is a little bit,

-but this is as the...
-A little bit?

[Jay as Katt Williams] The seasoning is
called the water. That's what they do.

[as Katt Williams] No, I'm telling you,
ain't no seasoning on that chicken.

You ain't the only m*therf*cker
that can do it.

I didn't even know you had, Lil Jon...

I didn't even know you had
a Katt Williams impersonation.

-I can do anything I put my mind to.
-You can put your mind to it.

And you can visualize and conceptualize.
No seasoning on that chicken.

That's what we talking about.

[Chris] Dave, don't you have
a good Katt Williams impression?

Oh, no, no, no.

No, no, no. I don't even karaoke.

[laughter]

But, like, the fact is,
this is not a cool dish.

Younger Dave would have wanted
to fry this, rotisserie...

-Whatever.
-[Jay] We glad you didn't do that.

We kind of...

-No fried chicken.
-[Dave] No fried chicken today.

-[Jay] You didn't think...
-If you're Korean, it's okay.

That is actually really true,
because we do share that, culture-wise.

You're talking about Asian folks
and Black people with chicken...

-Yeah.
-...that's our sh*t.

But the story is the Korean fried chicken
came from the soldiers, right?

They learned the recipe from...
Part of the recipe came from soldiers.

I don't know, I thought it was,
you know, thousand millennium...

Millennia of years of frying chicken,
I don't know.

-Maybe I'm wrong.
-Chris Ying.

-[Jay] Oh, there we go.
-Anyway, um...

So I'm gonna turn this
into something delicious,

and I have a few other things.
I'll make some bread.

We're gonna go all over the country,
all over the globe.

And I'm gonna try to make sense
of some of these dishes.

A little bit of everything.

-And each dish...
-You got trail mix. What's that?

It looks like trail mix, but it's not.

Trail mix with a pepper in it!

-Pepper trail mix!
-What I want to do is like, make it...

I want you to taste something
where it looks familiar,

but it doesn't taste familiar,
or something that looks familiar

and tastes something delicious.

They only sell that flavor
of trail mix on Instagram.

-You know how you got...?
-TikTok shop.

You know all the exclusive snacks
they be having, like crawfish Doritos?

That's something like that.
That's what that is over there.

Um, what I want to ask you guys is,
it's taken me some, you know...

Turning 47 this year and I'm finally like,
"I don't care what other people think.

-I want to do what I'm comfortable doing."
-[Jay] Yeah.

When you guys were younger,

did you guys ever hold anything back
'cause it wasn't that cool?

Or you sometimes feel like you're stuck?

I feel like sometimes people think
that I just cook pork all the time

and it's only Asian food all the time,

but, you know, it's not the case anymore.

You know, there's growth,
but you don't want to shout to the world.

You guys,
have you guys held anything back?

You guys...?

[Chris] What was your Romanian chicken,
you've always wanted to serve people?

[Lil Jon] Uh...

I got to have some flavor, bro.
I'm from Atlanta, Georgia.

If you cooking something with no flavor,
no seasonings, they don't want it.

-So we always have.
-[Dave] What about...

-I got you.
-...musically?

You ever want to come out with something,

but it wasn't cool enough till later?

-No.
-[Dave] No?

[laughter]

He said, "Mothersucker, I'm dope."

-He's like...
-I always push the envelope.

I, you know, I didn't never have to...

I always felt like I didn't have to be
in the mold of everybody else.

My whole career,
I've been the outcast, so to speak,

and did it differently than everybody else
and made my own way.

-Yeah.
-So...

But, yeah, I think I would love
to cook a beef Stroganoff one day.

[Lil Jon laughs]

[Dave] That is literally Romanian.

[Chris] What you got, Jay?

[Lil Jon] I don't eat beef Stroganoff,
but I would like to cook it.

[Jay] I tell you one thing I always...
I never tapped into,

but I was really good at it,
playing soccer.

-I was good at soccer.
-Mmm.

And now watching my nephew do it,
now I'm trying to give him tips and stuff

'cause I'm like, "Man, it's easy.

It's in your genes.
You got Samoan legs, bruh.

You can kick that ball crazy."
But I never did it.

And I used to make beats.

-What?
-I rap, but I used to make beats, bro.

I used, yo, and that was...
I made some crazy joints and I stopped.

I think the last one I made was
when I was 20 and I was at VCU.

And, uh, then the rest is SNL history,
you know what I'm saying?

So, yeah, it was, yeah, that, man.

But that was a hidden passion I had
and I always do feel like...

And I think I know
where you're going here.

-I feel like...
-[Dave] I have no idea where I'm going.

[laughter]

I feel like just as far as, um, what...

You know, me,
what I'm known for in the industry,

a lot of people can get it...
They get it misconstrued,

or they'll get it messed up,
like, that's all he does.

Like, he just does impressions.

-But there's so many other layers.
-[Lil Jon] Yeah.

-Your opera singing career.
-[Jay] Absolutely.

-People don't even know about it.
-[sings note]

Yeah. See, I was going there.
You know what?

We need to do our own show
'cause you were psychic.

-That's a...
-[laughter]

[Chris] Uh, Dave, what are you...?

[Lil Jon] No, but on that note.

On that note, I always saw people
doing water-skiing and thought,

-I would like to do that one day.
-Word.

-So...
-[Dave] That's the only thing

you've ever held back?
Is that you've never gone...?

-And jumping out of a plane.
-No. That's okay.

-I'm never doing that. That's too crazy.
-Yeah, see, I...

I know people that have done it.
I have one... My homeboy.

Here's why I didn't do it.

One of my good friends
is a Red Bull skydiver.

He texts me one day and says,
"Hey, I'm in the hospital."

I said, "Hey, what happened?"

He says, "Hey, I just hit a mountain."

And you want me to jump out of a plane
with your a*s?

-No, sir.
-Nah.

Dave, what is this giant, doughy joint
you've rolled over here?

Well, yes.
Besides the boiling chicken, I'm... Ahem.

Trying to find an economical way
to explain how the hell I got here.

-But we're gonna go to...
-[Jay] You making a Cinnabon or something?

[Dave] Not too crazy.

We're gonna go to, uh, basically,
New York City, Jewish appetizing.

It's one of my favorite things,
but we're gonna go via China.

Via, like, Istanbul.

-Here.
-[Chris] Back to New York.

You said New York, Chinese, Jewish,

-Turkish piece of bread.
-[Dave] Yeah, yeah. Right.

[Chris] The Chinese part...

So the Chinese part, Dave,
is you've made some version

of this bread before, this bing.

This is bing. But I never... In France.

We got some France in here too,
'cause lamination is a fancy way

of just saying, you know,
you saw me slather butter in between.

[Lil Jon] Yes.

That's gonna create
those biscuit-like layers.

I'm gonna use that technique.

I'm just peeping you violating
that dough like...

[Chris laughs]

-[Dave] This is a sex-ed class.
-[laughter]

[Jay] Let's play Pardi's new song.

So, you know, and it's gonna,
hopefully, wind up a little bit

like one of my favorite flavors,
which is a everything bagel.

[Jay] Okay.

[Dave] And this is a bing.

So I shaped it how you might get,
like, a scallion pancake.

-[Jay] Yeah.
-[Lil Jon] Mm-hmm.

One of my favorite...
Again, I talk about this a lot.

Uh, the world seems to be divided
in two ways of baking bread.

You have, like, an oven where,
you know, that's mostly Europe,

and the rest of the world, which is like...

-[Jay] A air fryer.
-It's griddled.

Or it's like in a tandoor,
or it's just like a flatbread.

-Yeah.
-And that's like, more and more,

I'm more comfortable loving that,
you know.

-So you're gonna put it in a skillet?
-That's right.

[Lil Jon] Okay. He make it with cast iron.

He making it in a pot.
You making a pot pie?

Is that what you're gonna do?

-Let's, uh...
-[Lil Jon] Okay.

[Jay] I like that. Again, what you...

The way you're touching the dough is...

-[Dave] Sexual.
-[laughter]

Massaging that thing.

-He just really likes that dough.
-He's just loosening up the BBA.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I was hoping
this wasn't gonna be a live show.

Oh, you got to hit the massage first.

That's how you get the moods.
That's how you set the mood right there.

-[Chris] Got to make the dough feel good.
-Yeah, you know.

[Lil Jon] You got to make
the dough feel good. I like that.

That needs to go on a T-shirt.

You got to make the dough feel good, baby.

He got an OnlyFans.

-That's what he got. OnlyFans.
-[Chris] What are you looking at?

The chicken's got an OnlyFans,
that's for sure.

[Chris] When you peek at that chicken,
what are we seeing in there?

[Dave] I'm praying to God
that it's gonna be cooked through.

[Lil Jon] How long
have you been boiling that?

So before, uh, I started at...
What time is it right now?

-[Chris] You started at 3:40, I think.
-3:40, I started it.

So it's on a full boil.

I'm trying to boil it
for about 40 to 45 minutes.

[Jay] And it's still that white.
That chicken is so white,

when it opened up,
when he opened up the pot,

-it asked for Taylor Swift.
-[laughter]

That's how white...
That's how white that is.

If I do my job right, you're gonna
taste something that looks very white,

but don't taste like that.

That chicken look like
it's been marinated in mayonnaise.

Dave, is this a little bit of why
you were nervous earlier in your career

to serve boiled chicken?
It's just a white bird.

They're just tooling on me
about a dish that is meaningful to me.

Literally, the cool kids making fun
of your white-a*s chicken.

You could have made
a real "fire" chicken soup with that,

-but you just got...
-[Dave stammers]

-You might eat your words right there.
-[Jay] Uh-oh.

-Eat my... Pun!
-Anytime you say...

Anytime you like fire,
you say fire, I like that.

-I'm all about that fire.
-[Lil Jon] Yeah.

[Jay] I'm all about that fire, baby.

Let me not do that impression.
That's the wrong one. Take that out.

-Don't put that in there.
-[Dave] So... [stammers] So this is, uh...

[Lil Jon] Why don't you eat all those
peppers, Jay? See what happens.

[Dave] You don't have to.
You can nibble on it.

It's also just perfumed with some spice,
so it's not crazy spicy.

-Unless you chew on it.
-This would be fire on a salad.

-Oh, my God.
-[Jay] Mmm.

I'm taking this home.

[Chris] Jay went straight for the chili.

-sh*t.
-[Lil Jon] Really?

-You see the thing...
-I thought you could take spicy food.

-I can, but you know...
-Ladies and gentlemen, off camera,

Jay was telling us
how much he can eat spicy food.

He said, I used to drink hot sauce.

You took one bite of the pepper and...

Not only that, on the show notes
he can eat spicy food all day.

But look at my face.

Look at me now.
I just had to take a bite of it, brother.

-I had one that got caught in my windpipe.
-Oh, okay.

-That's all that was.
-It didn't hurt you.

-Nah, I'm good.
-Went down the wrong pipe.

-Down the wrong pipe.
-[Jay] No Diddy.

-The wrong pipe. No Diddy.
-No pipe.

-No pipe.
-[laughter]

[Dave] Um...

So what this is, is in some ways,
if you wanted to know, like, like, uh,

what kind of or how I think about food,

this is probably the best way
to get inside my head, right?

This is, um...

I call it salsa seca,
'cause in Mexican food,

that's like a dry salsa,
but it's really not.

But seca really comes... The origins from
what I know comes from the Middle East.

But it's also a little bit
like Korean food, where, you know,

when I would grow up eating,
you would have peanuts

and, like, dried fish.

And then if you go to Szechuan food,
it reminds me of the Chongqing...

What's that spice called?

There's a dish in Szechuan called Laziji.

It's like lots of fried chilies
with a little bit of chicken.

We can show a video
of his whole process of making this,

if you want to see this...

That might be easier
than me rambling on, incoherent.

[Chris] Yeah. 'Cause you...
I mean, let's show this video.

But you call this salsa seca, Dave.

But it's really like seven
or eight or nine different dishes

from around the world that all have...

That show everyone likes crunchy,
spicy, savory stuff.

So you have, like, puffed rice in India,
he did with red onions

and garlic and ginger
and some fresh herbs,

some potatoes and, uh, tomatoes.

This is like a super common thing
in Indian chaat.

You used Rice Krispies here
as food-hack number-one.

-[Dave] Yep, that's a hack.
-[Chris] Instead of puffed Indian rice.

And then you took it, like you said,
to China and Hong Kong,

where you have
sort of a typhoon-shelter crab,

or it's called golden sand
with lots of fried garlic

and jalapeños and fried shallots.

That's the second component of this thing.

And then more seeds and nuts
that you would see in a Mexican salsa seca

or a salsa macha here.

Uh, that's the third or fourth component.

And then back to China with, you know,
I think of this as the kung pao

or Szechuan Laziji-type dish.

And then finally over to Japan and Korea,
where you've got dried fish

for Korean anju,
which is like a drinking snack

that Dave was just talking about.

And then furikake,
which is a rice topping with seaweed, so...

-[Dave] It's a lot.
-All these different components.

And then you made this mix,

which is what's the trail mix
in front of you.

You know, I got to say,
if Lil Jon, you weren't here,

I don't know if I would ever
have thought about it this way,

but what...

In some ways, it's like this is a sample
of, like, nine different cultures.

And my job is to find a way

so it sounds good, it tastes good
in a harmonious way

-where it makes sense and...
-[Lil Jon] Mm-hmm.

This is a lot of different places.

But I think that this could be
like a savory granola.

But it's also a nice bed for, like,

what I'm about to offer you guys
in a second.

[Lil Jon] Okay.

Did anything I said just make sense?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Yeah.

[Chris] Dave, what are you working on?

Oh, I'm making...
I don't even know how I got here.

Uh...

With everything we just said,
we're winding up in Beverly Hills

at Matsuhisa 'cause we're gonna
do rock-shrimp tempura.

[Chris] We went all over the world
and ended up back here.

-Right?
-[Jay] I love it.

[Dave] It's so damn good.

And this is that sauce
that goes on it, huh?

That's hack number two.

Sometimes I feel like, you know,
a lot of younger, ambitious cooks.

"I got to do everything from scratch.
I got to do this. I got to do that."

And I'm like,
sometimes you just got to be okay

with buying certain things.

And that sauce is just mayonnaise
and sriracha.

-And that's...
-I knew you were gonna have some!

-No, just kidding.
-[laughter]

Mayonnaise and sriracha.

That's like the sauce
that's on the rock-shrimp tempura.

That's it.
And you can get the ponzu sauce as well.

-But we don't offer that today.
-[Lil Jon] Not on the menu today.

-Not on the menu today.
-No problem.

Hey, man, if this was, uh,
from a distance, I mean,

it kind of looked like hakuna matata
from a distance.

But once you get up close to it

and you see how delicious
this whole array is...

-[Lil Jon] Yeah.
-[Dave] But part of this is,

you know, uh, at least in,
like, Korean culture,

it's like you're eating nuts
and you're drinking

and you're talking to friends.

-It's just, you know...
-[Lil Jon] It's good.

But I've always found
it's like a really good bed for like...

could have been chicken wings,
could have been fried shrimp.

So it's like, what I like about it
is you can put something delicious on that

-and it picks up a little bit of it.
-[Lil Jon] Mm-hmm.

-[Dave] You know?
-[Lil Jon] How hot was that pepper?

[Jay] Oh, it's very hot.

[Lil Jon] I was gonna try it,
then I was like...

Ask you...

You really don't have
to eat those peppers.

No, we're just gonna... I was daring him.

I think you met your match
for a spicy guy here.

I know I was giving you sh*t
about not being able to eat spicy food.

-You don't have to do that anymore.
-Was that three?

Actually, that's my seventh one I've had.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

-Jay.
-You can run back the cameras.

Yeah, you should stop.
Seriously, I'm concerned now.

[Lil Jon] I was just gonna take
a little piece. It's that hot?

It's hot, brother. You should try...
No, no, no. You know what?

-You should try it. Your Scoville level...
-[laughter]

...might be a little different than mine.

You actually drank
some water after, right?

He ate the pepper,
drank some water, and said you try it.

[in English accent] No, sir. No, thanks.

I don't think I would enjoy eating
a pepper this evening.

-[in English accent] Try one, sir.
-No, no, no.

All you have to do is pick up the...
Pick up the pepper.

-How dare you question my...
-I'm not questioning your masculinity.

I'm saying that maybe
you should just try one, sir.

I don't want to try it right now.

[speaks indistinctly]

No, you leave me alone at this instant.

Fine. I'll go back over here to my crunch.

-[Chris] Oh, my God.
-[laughter]

-We can do this all day.
-[Dave] I don't know what's going on.

Can you believe this is only
our second time meeting?

-Hanging out?
-This is just our second time.

That's what it is, baby.
When it's real, you recognize it?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[Chris] Uh, Jay, what else...?

Dave was saying a boiled chicken
is pretty unexpected for him

to serve earlier in his career.

Not something you would expect from him.
You're known for impressions.

Yeah, yeah.

What are the ones that are unexpected...?

What do you got in the tank
that nobody ever asked you for?

[Jay] You know what?

Nobody ever asked me for John Witherspoon.

Nobody ever asked me for Joaquin Phoenix,
the John Mulaneys, the, um...

-[Dave] Let's hear Mulaney.
-Can you do Taylor Swift?

-Uh, I...
-[laughter]

Now you impress me, m*therf*cker!

[as Eddie Murphy]
If you give me some Don Julio, yes.

[Lil Jon] Eddie.

I think we talking about
something totally different

than we talking about doing Taylor Swift.

We talked about
doing Taylor Swift right now.

We talking about doing a Taylor Swift.

I'm talking about doing her.

[Lil Jon as Eddie Murphy] Yes. Show us.

Oh, I got that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-There you go. All right.
-Hercules, Hercules!

Wait. So I was actually...
That was pretty damn good.

-Thank you.
-That was pretty good.

How many people know
the movie that you just referenced?

-How many people right now?
-Um...

-It's a ubiquitous... Everybody knows.
-[Dave] I don't think so.

I don't know, these younger generations...

They don't watch movies
over and over again like we used to.

And that was Nutty Professor,
ladies and gentlemen.

Nutty Professor,
one of the greatest of all time.

The Eddie Murphy version
of Nutty Professor.

You know one that I never do,
that never...?

I don't even think
I've ever done this anywhere before,

except for a little bit on-stage.

[as Jerrod Carmichael]
I do a little Jerrod Carmichael.

You know, and it's actually
just Anthony Jeselnik,

if you think about it, like, broke down.

Like, it's totally different,
but it's the same.

It's like...
It's like Black Anthony Jeselnik.

That's what Jerrod Carmichael is.
And, no, no, he doesn't...

He's not on the other side of the rainbow.

He's only... He's on that side.
You understand?

Dave, when he talks about
how he draws these impressions,

it sounds a lot like the way
you talk about food.

-Like, this dish really has...
-He must smoke a lot of pot too.

But, you know, like, the way...

I feel like with those...
With that dish, especially, Dave,

it's like, this dish reminds me
a lot of this one.

It's just this with, like,
tweaking a little bit this, right?

[Jay] Wait a minute.

[as Sebastian Maniscalco] I didn't even do
the one I wanted to freaking do.

-[Dave] Is that Maniscalco?
-[laughter]

[Chris] Oh, my God, Maniscalco's back.

It's like rock-tempura shrimp
in front of us.

Actually, no, we go to the gym.
We're on a freaking diet.

We can't eat all of this.

-[Dave] That's a...
-Are you freaking kidding me?

I will tell you guys. Sebastian...

definitely consumed more food
in his hour than anybody.

He's Italian, what do you think?

-Love to eat, bro.
-Italians like to eat food.

-[Dave] What do you think, Lil Jon?
-Quite tasty. Light.

I don't taste the mayonnaise.

[in English accent] Wait one second here.

-[Lil Jon] Got a nice kick too.
-I have not...

So, you know, we thought
this is just like a nice little beer snack

or, you know, whatever.

But this is how I like to serve this.

Something else...
Protein on a plate of the seca.

Yeah, you never can go wrong
with a rock-shrimp tempura, ever.

Wait one second till I try it.

[Chris]
Jay, the Internet is not letting go

of this Mulaney impression
you say you have.

-They really want a piece of this.
-[Jay] All right.

Okay.

-Let my mouth cool down for a second.
-[Chris] Sorry, sorry, sorry!

[Dave] Speaking of Mulaney
and Netflix live, he's doing what?

[as John Mulaney] The whole festival
I'm doing. Just ridiculous.

It's insane. I can't believe it.

Have you seen my baby mother?
She's a hot dog.

[laughter]

[Lil Jon] Wow.

-That's good. That's good.
-Oh, my God.

[Jay] Sir!

Hey, man, I just do what I do, you know?

-That's, uh, very impressive.
-Hey, man. It got quiet in here. sh*t.

I thought, damn. You know what's crazy?

When I have to prove to people
that I'm not doing an impression,

I'm just talking like myself.
They be like, "Man, who is that?"

I'm like, it's me, man.
Like, I'm not doing anybody.

It's me, man!

-How fast can you lock down?
-[Jay] It just depends on who it is.

I don't have a time period.

Some people take a day,
some people take three years.

It's just like all vocal morphing.
For real.

[Lil Jon] What was your most complex
impression to learn how to...?

[Jay] Denzel, without a doubt.

It was Denzel, because my voice
wasn't as deep as it is now.

When I first started doing it,
it was a little lighter.

[as Denzel Washington]
Now that impression is spot-on, Lil Jon.

-You understand what I'm saying?
-[Chris] Oh, my God.

That's what it is, right?
I've worked years on this man.

I've worked years. I've had to battle
and solidify my position multiple times.

-The hand movement.
-Hand-finger movement.

I don't want to knock over the trail mix,
but, you know, I just...

You understand, David.
You see what it is. You know why?

Because you be cooking too.

You got to go against the hottest
and the toughest of the tough.

-You understand? That's what it is.
-[Chris] Oh, my God.

-You see this, you're cooking, right?
-[Dave] This is freaking me out.

-This is freaking you out.
-[Lil Jon] You got to talk about Denzel

talking about how bland
that chicken is gonna be.

[Jay] Okay, all right,
that chicken is so white.

That chicken is so white,

it got me out of trouble
with the police officers.

That's how white it is. Huh? Okay. Ha-ha.

That's right.

It's so white, it marched...
It did, it marched on the Capitol.

That's that chicken marched
on the Capitol.

[Chris] Holy sh*t.

-[Jay] That's right.
-[Chris] Dave, the dough is back.

-[Dave] The dough is back.
-What's going on with that dough?

So this is hack number two.
When I made that bing...

Oh, by the way, I should... f*ck.

-[Lil Jon] Check on the bread.
-Check on the bread. [giggles]

-[Lil Jon] Ding!
-Ding-dong.

I'm not even gonna lie, y'all.

My stomach is starting
to kick me right now 'cause...

-You ate a lot of those.
-Those peppers.

Anybody got some...?
You got some...? What's the joints...?

Some Tums?

-[Chris] We got some Tums.
-♪ Tum-Tum-Tum-Tum ♪

We gotta pay for that, man.

Oh, do we have to pay for that?
No, we don't. We good.

-It's Netflix. They got money.
-[Lil Jon] Yeah, and we live.

It's Netflix. Yeah. Come on.

-[Chris] Netflix brought to you by Tums.
-[Jay laughs]

[Lil Jon] Good?

So this same bread dough
that I made, right?

And all dough is pretty much the same.
This is just sugar, flour...

That looks good.

-[Lil Jon] Okay.
-Yeast.

And bread flour.

And I'm gonna pop this back in the oven.

[Jay] That is the biggest pancake
I have ever seen in my life.

And while that's cooking...

um, I'm taking the same dough,

and one of my favorite things
to eat growing up

was, uh, this Korean soup
called chicken and dumplings...

Not true. Sujebi. It was very similar
to chicken and dumplings.

'Cause you cook the pasta sheets
in with the flour, in the soup,

so it gets velvety, almost like a gravy.

-[Lil Jon] It's velvety?
-Yeah.

-But...
-That gave me a kick. Sorry.

But, um, this is something, too,
where, you know, like, if I...

If I had... I have never made this
before live, um...

If I didn't have to do the show live,
I never would have tried this

because I don't have time to make
two different doughs or pasta dough.

So I was like, let me just see
if I can put the bread in the soup,

because guess what.

You put bread in soup anyway,
after it's been cooked.

I found that this turns
into almost like a gnocchi,

almost like a dumpling,
like a chicken and dumpling.

Does it matter
what kind of bread you use though?

Is it gonna taste differently
if you use different kind of dough?

Well, you got to... You got to...
You got to just make,

I don't know, bread dough.

[laughter]

If you did a seven-grain dough,
it probably wouldn't work.

-It's got to be white bread.
-Mmm.

[Jay] Is there a special sauce
that goes with this

-that you're gonna make afterwards?
-Yes, yes.

Because this chicken is
gonna be cooked two ways.

I'm gonna serve it to you
as a Hainanese chicken,

which is like chicken rice.

-And then I'm gonna make a... Yeah.
-Hainanese. Hainanese.

I've definitely been that many times.

-I've been Hainanese a lot.
-[Chris] Butcher that, Jay. Full service.

Thank you, thank you.
Oh, look at this. You know what?

She keeps coming from the side like that
white face of Mortal Kombat, the toasty!

[laughter]

Wow.

Mandy.

[Chris] You just saw Mandy.
That's our Mandy.

Thank you, Mandy. She's smiling now.

That's right.

That's how we do it.
You know what I'm saying?

-That's how we do it.
-So we started off with wings.

-Started off with wings.
-And we made it to this...

U... UN...

[Dave] Yeah, it is like the UN.

[Lil Jon] UN trail mix.

-[laughter]
-United Nations trail mix. Now we got...

What is this? Tempura shrimp.

-[Dave] Yeah. Shout-out, Nobu.
-Yeah.

And now you're going to what next?

-The bread is next?
-No, no, no.

We got to finish cooking this.
I forgot to turn it over.

So now, um, you need
to buy me some time. [laughs]

Jon, uh, tell me about your childhood.
No, um, no, no.

Earlier, Dave was asking you,

he said, was there anything unexpected
that you wanted to do

or earlier in your career
that you didn't do and you said no,

but your most recent work
has been pretty unexpected.

Yeah, so, uh...

I just got into being into...

Well, I got into doing guided meditations,

and I have a new album coming out
on the 10th,

and, um, it's my second album.

The first album was
called Total Meditation.

It was just guided meditations,
and this new album is, um,

Manifest Abundance,

um, affirmations for personal growth.

So it's affirmations
that people can say every day.

And the thing about affirmations
is if you, like, are not happy

with where you are in life,
you have to start to change your mindset.

So when you say affirmation,
it starts to, one, change your mindset.

And then when you start
to change your mindset,

you start to think more positively.

And when you start to think positively

and you like the direction you're going,

you can start to manifest,
because you can only manifest

if you believe what the words
you're saying are going to come true.

So I'm in my whole spiritual, uh...

Uh, I'm also getting
in shape like Jay too.

We both are, like, really in the gym.
And so it's mental health.

It's physical health.

And, you know, it's something new for me
that people know me from now.

But I've been doing this for a while,
kind of, you know,

I meditate before I go on-stage.

Jay might do that too, like, you just have
a moment to myself and go in.

And, um, I just really got into it,
like, what is it?

-What year is it, 2024? Like '22.
-2024.

Two years ago,
I really got into meditation,

'cause there was
a lot of stuff going on in my life.

And then I just recorded
all of these different meditations

and that's what I'm doing now.

So it's a great space to be in.

And, uh, it's really fun
because I have people hitting me, saying:

"Yo, I've never meditated before,
and I listened to your album

and I got into meditation now."

So to be able to help people
with their mental health

and their mental well-being is amazing.

-I got a question for... Oh, go ahead.
-No, I got a question.

-You go first.
-We might be on the same...

We might be on the same wavelength.
I don't know, frequency.

I was about to ask you, how do you clear
your mind when you are meditating?

'Cause I know it,
it's so hard to just focus.

-[Lil Jon] Breathing.
-Just breathing?

It starts with your breathing.
You basically close your eyes.

Everybody,
let's have a little short meditation.

I think I think we can do this
and help Dave in one second.

But I have to ask my pressing question,
which is,

did you just pour a bunch of ice
onto that chicken?

This is hack number,
whatever, four or five.

So boil the chicken, I reduced it down.

The only thing that needed
to be replaced was water.

I need to get this...

cut up as soon as possible.
It's ripping hot.

So just take ice,
bring the temperature down.

-It'll cool the chicken like...
-[Jay] ♪ Ice, ice chicken ♪

So it sounds crazy, but I know
what the water levels are,

and it's an extremely fast way
of getting food done quickly.

-[Chris] Now, Jon...
-So he put the chill on the chicken.

So we put the chill on the mind
by when you close your eyes

and then you breathe in through your nose

and out through your mouth.

And when you do that,
you concentrate on the breathing.

So in through your nose.

And out through your mouth.

And you just concentrate
on your breathing.

You do that a couple times
and that helps to center yourself.

-All right?! Yeah!
-[laughter]

Good job, everybody! [yells]

-I didn't mean to scare you.
-[Chris] I was in a pretty calm place.

I wasn't.

[Lil Jon] I can turn you up
and turn you back down.

Yo, does that happen on...?
Does that happen on the recordings?

-No, no.
-Like, it's real quiet.

And then when you least expect it...

Yeah, how's it going?!

Nah, it's totally chill.

It's all chill, all meditation,
all just relaxing,

and helping you to, like, decompress.

-You know, it's important.
-[Jay] That's beautiful.

[Chris] Does that moment help you, Chang?

You are about to enter the most...

He's about to get into the weeds,
which is the crazy...

-[Dave] The funny thing is...
-[Lil Jon] You're looking stressed, buddy.

I'm much less stressed
'cause I just breathed.

-I followed your lead.
-Okay.

[Chris] You feel legit...?
Does it help you to get centered?

Listen, like, the funny thing is,
is I've tried to meditate in the past,

especially with a stressful life.

It's clearly proven that it's beneficial.

Problem with me is, if you're supposed
to meditate two times a day,

the reason I have chosen
to stop meditating

is it stresses me out about meditating.

Well, here's what you do.

When I was going through
my transformation,

what I would do is I would,
if I'm lying in the bed,

I say my affirmations to myself, right?

Close my eyes, say my affirmations.

If whatever you're doing
and you got a moment, you can meditate.

It's not like... It's not structured.
You don't have to take an hour.

You can take two minutes
to say some affirmations or to center

or just to be one with yourself,
to quiet your mind,

so you don't have to stress out about it.

I think that's why a lot of people feel
like it's so hard to get into meditation,

because they feel like
it's so structured, but it's not.

You do it at your own pace.

-How's the bread, Jay?
-Bread is really good.

-I'm sorry, I go from one to the other.
-[Chris] You're a roller coaster, man.

He was... Went right to the bread.
I'm like, what is that?

-It was really... It's really good.
-So I told you I'd wind up

somewhere on the Upper West Side
of Manhattan.

And this is some Zabar's appetizing.

Uh, this is one of my favorite things.

Another hack is...

If they make it better than you,
again, just buy it.

And one of my favorite things is not
the smoked salmon but this kippered...

It's like a salt-baked salmon.

-One of my favorite things to eat.
-I'm not touching that.

-This is how we do.
-You don't like salmon?

-I'm not gonna mess with that.
-This is a little hack that we do.

Okay, a little brulé. It's a little brulé.

You scrape that b*tch off,
that's what you're supposed to do.

You know what I'm saying?
Until you get down.

To the white meat.

That's right.
You gotta get to the white meat.

'Cause we couldn't throw that bread away.

-You burnt that toast?
-No, 'cause that's good bread.

-Yeah, yeah.
-Just scrape that little part off.

That was a hand-picked piece of salmon
for the show today.

Hand-picked. And no one's gonna eat it.

[Lil Jon] I'm not touching that.

What? Wait a second now.

This is basically like bagels
and cream cheese.

These are all the accouterment
that you might get.

[Lil Jon] This butter right here?

-[Dave] Yes, sir.
-[Lil Jon] I'll just mess with that.

I'll just take a little bit
of that butter.

-You ate the salmon?
-[Jay] Yeah.

-You're a bad man.
-Yeah.

It just looks scary to me.

You know, it looks a little gelatinous,
but you know it's all...

It looks like it's been at the buffet.

-Yeah.
-[Chris] What's your...?

[Dave] Does it look as weird as this?

-[Lil Jon] Yeah.
-I'm telling you, it's gonna come out...

You wait. You wait.

If you had a g*n to your head and
somebody said you had to eat the salmon

or this chicken?

-I think you're gonna go with the salmon.
-[Dave] That's right.

This, I smell the smoke coming off of it.

Now, let me guess.
You did not smoke that salmon.

No, I did not. Simply because I've tried,

and you can, but this is one
of my favorite things to eat.

This, that salmon right there.

Come on, Jay, right?

What do you think?

-So I have a question.
-Here's the thing.

Once Jay answers.

Here's the thing. Um...

It's not supposed
to taste like that, okay?

It's not supposed to be that good.

The salmon and the bread
just made love to my tongue.

-Really?
-It just made...

I'm telling you, it's something.
The bread, the butter... Ooh.

[Chris] This is a good man.

He's gonna try it,
even though he was nervous.

Another Black man said it was okay,
so I'm gonna try it.

[laughter]

That's always worked.

It's not bad with the bread.
It's good, right?

Yeah, it tastes like sardines in a can.

[Dave] You like sardines?
You don't like sardines?

Nah, nah.
I used to eat it when I was younger.

But, yeah, that's not my swag at all.

-I like it.
-I'm glad you tried it though.

How many times on this show have you,
uh, made the food a little extra crispy?

-Just curious.
-Burned stuff?

[Jay laughs] Yeah.

It's happened a fair bit,
because when we started doing this,

I thought it was just two things.
One was, I'm cooking and I'm talking.

I did not realize there's a third thing.
It's keeping time.

And I'm not able to do
all three successfully all the time.

And do you think those are...

attributes of a good chef, able to...?

'Cause if you're cooking, you might be
cooking four dishes at the same time.

So you'll be able
to mentally keep track...

-[Dave] The difference is...
-...of what you're doing.

Every week this is a new restaurant.

-[Lil Jon] Right.
-More or less. We never make this food.

And then,
although I may boil chicken quite a bit...

But I've never talked to you guys.
I've never done it in this regard.

And when we have restaurants
or we've had open kitchens,

when you go to an open kitchen restaurant,
even if they're specials

and you have a team,
you're making the same thing.

It's a routine.

It's a set list, right? That you are...
Everyone is familiar with.

So even if you're improvising,
it's easy to improvise.

This is, you know...

Yeah, but even at home, they're not
for the person at the restaurant

'cause there's some people that cook
and they can't keep track

of when to take something out of the oven.

And they might be cooking two things.

[Dave] That's not me.

[Lil Jon] So we just distracted you today.

But that's part of the challenge, right?
That's why we're doing this live, right?

[Lil Jon] That's why you get paid
to be on Netflix, dude!

Dude...

Listen, I can tell you for sure,
if this wasn't a live

and there was commercial breaks,
you know what they are not doing?

Picking chicken...
Boiled chicken on live television.

[Chris] You iced it,
but that's still pretty ripping hot.

-Right?
-[Lil Jon] Yeah.

So that's why you ice it
so you could pull it yourself.

[Dave] Correct.

But it's, like, burning my hands.

[Chris] Does what Dave's talking about
resonate with you?

I mean, as musicians or as comedians,

like the difference
between doing it in studio,

or doing a set and doing it live
in front of people...

Like, it's a whole different ball game,
right?

Yeah, 'cause your routine, you do it.
It's like autopilot, you know.

You got guys heckling you,
sitting in the front row,

telling you you burnt the bread.

Yeah. How do you have...?

How is it when you have to deal
with a heckler? Actually, how was...?

Who was your...? How was it dealing
with your hardest heckler?

'Cause everybody has to deal with this
as a comedian.

-Correct?
-My hardest heckler, yes.

How was it dealing
with my hardest heckler?

Damn. Who was my hardest heckler?

-[Lil Jon] Was it early or...?
-It was early on.

It was a step show.
I'll never do a step show again.

-Like a college step show?
-Yeah, like a college step show.

So when you got kids
with short attention spans,

you got to keep it.

If you ain't jumping on-stage,
doing backflips,

cartwheels and stuff, doing
the little dances and all of that,

they ain't trying to hear that mess.

-They ain't trying to hear that sh*t.
-[Chris] Right.

So I'm on the stage,
I'm doing my thing or whatever.

And they told me I got to stretch.

I was like, "You told me,
I ain't had nothing but 15 minutes.

You want me to host an hour-
and-a-half show and only got 15 minutes.

So, uh, I started improving,
and guess what. Didn't work.

Didn't work at all. Uh...

Me and the girl got into it.
She said, "Boo."

I said, "What'd you say?"
I said, "Looking like a..."

I said, "Looking like
a big-a*s car air-freshener.

[yelling]

And I stood on-stage and I battled.
I'm talking about, it was like battle rap.

I was like in a URL, like I stood
on that stage until they stopped.

I said, "I ain't going nowhere,
I ain't, I'm gonna stay right here."

I said, "Are we...? Is...?"
I turned into Birdman.

[with a lisp] "Is we finished,
or is we done?"

And then I just, I stayed on the stage,
and as soon as I got off, Lil Jon,

I ran to my car. I said, "Give me
my check. I'm getting out of here."

'Cause I knew I offended some kids
who probably got, uh,

some straps on them,
you know what I'm saying?

Mm-mm, I said, I won't mess with it.
It was in North Carolina.

-Oh...
-It was terrible. It was terrible.

-But you learned a lot.
-I learned, man. Yeah.

-'Cause...
-'Cause every other time,

I just say disrespectful statements.

You don't want to heckle me.

I ain't got jokes.
I got disrespectful statements.

I'll say anything
and everything about you.

I talk about people not there.

I talk about who you gonna create,
who they gonna create.

I'll tell you, your whole generation
ain't gonna be sh*t

'cause they could have got shot out
that g*dd*mn stick right there.

That's the problem,
you know what I'm saying?

So, anyway, I don't normally have
to do that 'cause I have a very...

I got a good energy for the folks
that come and see me.

-'Cause people know now.
-They know. They know.

"He got disrespectful statements."

[Dave] How about you, Lil Jon?

-Nobody's heckling you.
-[Jay] Nobody.

Um...

You have people that hold up
their phones now, they're like, play this.

-They want to be the DJ.
-Oh, wow.

And it's like, "Bro, don't nobody want
to hear that song from the first album

-that you just like," you know?
-[Jay] Yeah.

So you just ignore them or...

Yeah, sometimes as a DJ though,
you're DJ-ing and the crowd,

just you and the crowd just don't mix,
and you just gotta... Like Jay did.

-You just gotta kind of push through it.
-Yep.

And get to the end
and then move on to the next day.

It happens to all of us.

We have a bad day with the audience.

Has anybody ever thrown anything at you?

[Lil Jon] Oh, yeah! Yeah, yeah.

They thrown ice, cups...

The craziest show I ever did
was the Juggalos.

[Dave] The what?

[Chris] You did Gathering of the Juggalos?

I did Gathering of the Juggalos.

They were throwing,
like, weed on-stage for us.

They liked us.

But somebody else performed that day.

They were putting doo-doo in plastic bags.

[Dave] No way.

Piss-filled beer cans and water bottles.

Rocks. They were throwing
everything at this person.

-[Chris] Oh, my God.
-Person was being persecuted.

-What was...?
-Feces, bro.

They are...

That's a place,

if they don't like you,

don't even try to go if you don't...

If that ain't your audience 'cause...

You said D.C.?

No, it's the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Oh, I got you, I got you.

And that was the craziest show
I ever done.

They was throwing stuff up there,

but it wasn't because they didn't like us.

I know nothing about this.

-Where does this take place?
-Um...

It's the Insane Clown Posse.
It's their festival.

I don't remember where it was at,
but they would do it every year.

But other than that, people have thrown,
like, you know, beer cans

or cups and ice, but they don't really
get too crazy with all of that stuff.

But that's the wildest I've ever seen it
and been in...

Environment I've been in.

-[Chris] Good Lord.
-[Lil Jon] I got you.

[Jay] I'm glad y'all didn't peep
what I just did, but it's fine.

[laughter]

[Chris] Are the chickens no longer white?

-[Dave] No.
-Yeah, you added some flavor to it.

Um...

I wanted to say that...

[Chris laughs]

[Lil Jon] Still look bland!

[Chris] Oh, my God.

So one of the notes when I read is that
you're a fan of North African cuisine.

You like some of the foods from Yemen.

So I wanted to make
a hot sauce from Yemen.

-This is a zhug.
-[Lil Jon] Okay.

[Dave] I also think it was both of you,

but you're fans
of some of the Caribbean flavors.

So I wanted to make, um,

something that was like a habanero,
Scotch-bonnet hot sauce.

-Ooh.
-So you got that.

And I cooked that down
with some bell peppers and some allspice.

So what looks like a Hainanese chicken,

which is a Southeast Asian dish, um,

is a little bit actually taking a plating
inspiration from our good friend,

Chef Gabriela Cámara,
from Contramar in Mexico City.

And this is now a global dish.

Another UN dish for you.

-Okay.
-Yeah.

You see, I've learned
from getting older now.

Go ahead, try that first
and see how you like it.

[Dave] This is a little spicy.
That's a lot spicy.

[Lil Jon] I'm gonna stay
on this left side over here.

The green side.

-[Jay] The green? Okay.
-The green side mean go slow.

[Jay] The green side.

You know, it's a lot of, um,

uh, early Nickelodeon happening
right here with the slime.

Different slime...

You know, you don't want to be there now,

-but, you know...
-Oh! Oh! Oh!

I heard that.

-I got it out there. Uh...
-I might have added too much ice, Ying.

[Jay] You said what?

It's taking too long
to get back up the temperature.

The Internet is wondering
if that broth is just going in the drain

or if something's happening
with the broth.

-[Dave] I'm turning it into a soup.
-There you go, Internet.

I'm now taking this
as a personal affront and challenge

to convince Lil John
that this milky, pasty-white chicken

from Romania has got flavor.

-So speaking of the broth...
-Yeah.

...can you tell us
how to make our own chicken stock?

Simple, I think there's two misconceptions
about chicken stock.

Stock is normally about bones.

-Right? That's a French concept...
-[Lil Jon] Broth.

Broth.

Everyone says stock versus broth.
Broth is what you want to make at home.

Stock is what you use
to make sauces in a French style.

And if you're going to make a broth,

you're gonna make it
the way I just did it.

Boil the hell out of a chicken.

And then you just use all of that...?
Strain it?

That's right. I mean, the reason
why I like a boiled chicken is...

I love a fried chicken.
I love a roast chicken.

But, honestly,
if you go through most of the world,

they're gonna boil the chicken
before they roast it,

because you can extract all the flavor
and get a soup,

and you do something
with the meat, like this,

and turn it into two,
three different kinds of dishes.

And there's something about a chicken soup

that you have to cook
with meat on the bone.

-You have to. That's the key.
-You have to.

It's why I think
Italian soups are always so delicious

'cause they're always cooking
their soups, not with just bones,

but meat on the bone as well.

That, to me, is the key.
And you got to boil it hard.

It's something about, too,
like I was saying earlier off camera,

that I make a chicken soup
in the wintertime.

I make a soup like my mother used to make.

Whenever someone was sick,
they would make a chicken soup.

And you'd take that soup
and it'll knock the cold out of you.

And it's something about
the fat and the bone.

When it's broken down in that soup,
with all of the ginger and the potatoes

and the carrots
and all the herbs that combined.

And it just helps
to boost your immune system.

And, honestly, this is, like,
not from anywhere, right?

I could have added flavors and this could
have been like a pollo al caldo

from like Mexico City, I could...

What I love about
this kind of cooking is...

I can take this anywhere.

I can take this to Asia,
which is like the base of this.

I could take this to Italy.

I could take this
to the American South, you name it.

Everyone makes chicken soup.

-[Lil Jon] Yes.
-It's good everywhere.

And your chicken doesn't taste
like mayonnaise.

[laughter and applause]

-That's it.
-[Lil Jon] How's the red side?

-Red side is great.
-Yeah, it's got a Caribbean...

[Dave] Not too spicy. Right?

-Middle Eastern, Caribbean...
-One's Middle Eastern, one's...

[Jay] And, listen, even if it does
turn up, I got them on me.

[Dave] Hey, hey. Hey, Jay.

You want to look at the camera
and give us an impromptu Tums commercial?

'Cause maybe the people at Tums...

-[Lil Jon] What character?
-Yeah, yeah.

Wait, I like it when you go...

You say this character leads you

that sounds like this character
that leads you to this character...

[Chris] What about our...?

Can you do our recent friend...?
"Our recent friend."

Our recent guest, Aziz Ansari, doing
a Tums commercial? You got that in there?

[as Aziz Ansari] Oh, Aziz Ansari doing
a Tums commercial. Wow.

These freaking... These cleared up
all of my problems in my system.

-Hey, hey.
-[imitates fanfare]

[imitates fanfare] Hey, I was stupid.

I had a whole bunch of peppers
like a dumb-a*s.

-And now I got to take...
-[laughter]

And now I got Tums.

♪ Tum-Tum-Tum-Tum ♪

m*therf*cker!

-♪ Tum-Tum-Tum-Tum ♪
-[laughter]

-Never done that, ever.
-Incredible.

You can tell when a comedian is cheating

when they say the person's name
that they're imitating.

Y'all didn't catch that, did you?

Most of y'all didn't catch that.
But that's how he... You could tell.

Like he say, he never done that,
but he was letting you know

he was mentally putting it in your head
the character that he was doing.

So you got it, even if you didn't.

Oh, you are violating the magician's code.

-Just giving away the truth.
-[Lil Jon] No!

Look, it's not... Listen, man, go ahead,
give away the sauce, man. Free.

All right, let's run through
ten impressions in one minute.

[Jay] Holy sh*t.

All right, vocally.

Let's go. All right.

[as Caine] Okay. We'll do Michael Caine.

That's the first one we'll do.

[as Downey Jr.]
Then we'll do, uh, Robert Downey Jr.

Just switch it up, have a good time.

This chicken was totally rocking Moroccan.

[as Ross] And then we'll switch
to Rick Ross in "The Boss."

I love chicken, but it will be better
at the Wingstop. [grunts]

[as The Rock] And you know,
Jabroni, The Rock loves this chicken.

This chicken is amazing.
That's what The Rock loves.

The Rock loves Pollo Loco.

Put it together and The Rock has a meal
just for two seconds.

[Chris] Oh, my God.

[as Lil Jon] Hey. Yeah, man,
you know who this is, man.

[laughter]

[in deep voice] Hey, man. Man, look, man,
I'm over here with Lil Jon, man.

I can't even front, man.
This is like awesomest...

[as Joaquin Phoenix] You know,
Murray, it's just ridiculous.

Me and Lady Gaga
are making movies together.

And that's the finale.

-[Chris] Oh, my God.
-[Dave] That was awesome.

How many was that? Was that ten?

How many was that? About seven, eight?

-[Chris] I think he got there.
-Ten?

[Lil Jon] The Internet will tell you.

Anyone done an impression
right to your face like that?

-[Lil Jon] Impression? Uh...
-Yeah.

-Just now.
-[Dave] Right?

I think that's a first.

-Hey, man.
-That many. I see...

I'm a fan of him, so I want to...

You know,
when you see someone on the Internet

and on television, and they do this
so well, as well as he does it,

you got to put him on the spot to do that.

-[Dave] That was awesome.
-[Jay as 50 Cent] I appreciate that.

-I appreciate that, you know.
-[Lil Jon] Okay, 50.

[Jay] It's always been like a thing.

Like when we met each other,
it was a mutual respect,

like, you know, and it was...

It was that thing where,
"Hey, you talented, I'm talented.

Hey, let's be... We're just two talented
brothers together, you know?"

Didn't I tell you? I told you like...

I've seen you, like,
a whole bunch of times.

And I said to you,
"Listen, I love your music."

You sound like 50 Cent mixed
with T.K. Kirkland.

Hey! Oh, yeah!

[as Kirkland]
That's the type of person I am.

T to the m*therf*cking K,
you know, that's what it is now.

Jon, you put Jay on the spot.
I got to put you on the spot too.

Part of this wellness journey you're on,
I hear that you are getting into herbalism

and making
your own sort of tinctures and elixirs.

What's that about?

For years, I've been getting
into, like, the herbs and stuff.

And I started over the last year,
actually, studying to be a herbalist.

So we're in a time I would make the soups

and I also would make tincture...
Will make my own tinctures.

I boil all of it.

I have the raw herbs,
and I put them in a pot and boil them down

and create a tonic.

And me and my family
would drink it every day,

and make sure we wouldn't get sick

when flu season
or cold season comes around.

[Jay] So y'all didn't catch COVID?

Nah, I didn't get anything. Never got it.

You and my grandmother.
'Cause y'all take your vitamins every day.

-Oh, yeah.
-You gotta take your garlic.

-That's what she says.
-Jon's hanging out with Aaron Rodgers.

[laughter]

[Chris] Speaking of restorative soups,
what we got here, Chang?

How'd the dumplings turn out?

I think it's pretty delicious, honestly.

If I was a cook watching this, I'd be
like, what the hell is this guy making?

He's throwing ice cubes in there
and throwing uncooked bread.

Ice cubes in there, I thought
you was making crack for one second.

Got some baking soda in there?

What's he doing? Okay.

Uh, it's a little...
I added a little bit too much salt.

I'm gonna always criticize myself
as hard as possible.

But I think this is a nice soup.

It has a texture that's like an American
chicken dumpling, which I love.

And it's a little bit like a matzo ball.

It's a little bit of a lot
of different soups.

-It's very flavorful.
-It smells good. I love a soup, bro.

And, Jon, our boy Dave here
is going in for some...

-Oh, yeah.
-...back surgery.

You have some back problems.

Tomorrow morning,
I'm getting neck surgery.

-[Lil Jon] This?
-Yeah.

-No Diddy.
-I was like, wait a minute.

What's his recovery regimen?

What you got for him when he comes back?
What should he be drinking and eating?

You need to go on, like,
a streaming service

and play 285 Hz-frequency music.

It helps to stimulate, uh,
cell repair and regeneration.

I play it after my workouts.

-[Dave] Two hundred eighty-five?
-285 Hz.

-[Dave] All right.
-I'm really into frequencies.

Ever since we started the show,

like three months ago,
I've been having some,

you know, issues and got it diagnosed.

There's nothing that can happen
other than surgery.

So what's the...? What kind of surgery?

What are they doing?

They're gonna take out my C6
and replace it with a prosthetic.

-What?
-Yeah.

What, you been lifting pianos?

[laughter]

-I'm just looking like...
-I know, crazy.

All you do is pick up pots and pans!

[Dave] In New York, two years ago,
I was in a car accident.

And then it just...
I don't know what happened.

So it's been debilitating 'cause I can't
work out. I can't do anything.

And we're gonna be dark
for a couple of weeks so I can recuperate.

You guys are the last people
I'm cooking for,

for two or three weeks.

-[Jay] Oh, word.
-Yeah.

-This "fye." This "fye."
-Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna translate.

-He really likes it.
-Yeah.

[laughter]

That's ATL slang.

-This is good.
-[Dave] Right?

It's crazy. Came from
mayonnaise-looking chicken.

Man, this is good.

Do you think some shots might happen?
Help Dave out.

These are shots.

But these are not the kind of shots
that we're used to.

These are herbal shots.
This is the blend that...

-Is this from him?
-This is his preferred blend.

-Is that yours?
-[Jay] Yes!

This is his preferred blend.

He just gave me a look like,
"What are you talking about?"

[Chris] This is our new,
more mature shots.

-Like some lemon in here or...?
-Echinacea. Ginger.

-We got you.
-Wait.

-Yeah, you need that for your recovery.
-Cheers.

-Cheers to friendship.
-To positivity and a great recovery.

-Speedy recovery.
-Thanks, guys.

Real pleasure having you guys.
You guys are awesome.

Y'all, too, everybody out there.

We love you!

-This is what happens...
-Come back next week!

We love y'all to death,

but this is what happens
when you get older.

You got to get surgery and stuff.

You suck when you're young,
as far as mentally goes.

When you're younger, you do stupid stuff,

like iron clothes
while they still on your body.

-That's some dumb sh*t.
-Yeah! What he said.

Yeah.

Ditto! Yeah!

When you're young, you do stupid stuff.

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