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Mila Kunis walked into the Hot Ones studio ready to talk NFTs, Conan O’Brien and her husband’s spice-tolerance — then the wings started fighting back.

The Golden Globe–nominated actress sat down with Sean Evans for Season 16, Episode 6 of First We Feast’s “Hot Ones,” released October 28, 2021, and titled “Mila Kunis Hits the Ranch While Eating Spicy Wings.” Over roughly 22 minutes, Kunis works through the show’s ten-wing gauntlet — the “wings of death” — while covering everything from her crypto ventures to her decades of screen credits, including That ’70s Show, “Family Guy,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and “Black Swan.” By the back half of the lineup, the heat has her leaning hard on the ranch dressing.

• Kunis tackles all ten progressively spicier wings on the gauntlet, escalating to sauces hot enough that she resorts to dousing them in ranch dressing to finish the tier.
• She discusses her move into cryptocurrency and NFTs, spotlighting her animated project Stoner Cats, and shares stories about having Conan O’Brien as a next-door neighbor.
• A key segment has Kunis fact-checking her husband Ashton Kutcher’s own “Hot Ones” appearance, pushing back on how dramatically he reacted to the sauces.

The Gauntlet and the Ranch Bailout

Evans’ format hasn’t changed in 16 seasons: ten wings, each hotter than the last, paired with questions guests can’t dodge. Kunis holds her own through the early rounds, but as the Scoville numbers climb toward the final tier, she breaks form and starts using ranch dressing to cut the burn — a common survival move on the show, but one she leans on more heavily than most guests as the lineup peaks.

Between bites, she reflects on a career that spans network sitcoms and awards-season dramas — from her breakout on That ’70s Show to voicing Meg Griffin on “Family Guy,” through the raunchy comedy of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and the psychological intensity of “Black Swan.” It’s the kind of range interview that “Hot Ones” is built to surface — comfort breaking down as the questions get more personal and the wings get more dangerous.

Crypto Talk and the Conan Next Door

Kunis uses the mid-interview stretch to walk Evans through her interest in cryptocurrency and NFTs, centering the conversation on Stoner Cats, her animated project built around the space. She also gets into the more domestic side of celebrity life, cracking jokes about what it’s actually like having Conan O’Brien living next door — the kind of anecdote “Hot Ones” thrives on, mixing industry business with everyday absurdity.

Fact-Checking Ashton Kutcher

The episode’s sharpest moment comes when Kunis is asked about her husband Ashton Kutcher’s own trip through the gauntlet on a previous “Hot Ones” episode. She pushes back on the theatrics, downplaying how badly the sauces actually got to him and effectively correcting the record on his on-camera suffering.

She wasn’t having it — Kutcher’s reaction, in her retelling, was a lot less dramatic than the tape suggested.

It’s a bit that plays directly into the show’s running gag of guests calling out their famous friends and spouses, and it gives the episode its most quotable stretch outside the wing-by-wing suffering.

Kunis Maintains Competitive Leaderboard Position

Reaching for the ranch dressing before the tenth wing puts Kunis in the large group of “Hot Ones” guests who need an assist to finish the lineup — she doesn’t walk away unscathed, but she doesn’t tap out either. Evans keeps the interview moving through the pain, getting her to cover Stoner Cats, the Conan stories and the Kutcher fact-check without ever losing the thread.

The episode landed on First We Feast’s YouTube channel on October 28, 2021, slotting into a Season 16 run that’s kept the show’s format untouched while rotating in guests from every corner of Hollywood — with Kunis’ turn now sitting alongside her husband’s as one half of a rare Hot Ones couple’s set.