Conan O’Brien opted for the extra-spicy option during his Hot Ones appearance. On the season finale of Hot Ones, the comedian railed against streaming platform Max’s rebranding and brought his own personal doctor to monitor his temperature, making for a truly delicious episode.

Early on, O’Brien admitted to Hot Ones host Sean Evans that, due to his background, eating spicy wings was going to be something of a challenge for him. “I grew up in an Irish house,” O’Brien said. “An Irish Catholic home in Boston. I never saw a spice till I was about 52 years old.” Given that, O’Brien brought to the taping an alleged “personal physician” named Dr. Arroyo—who, in a running bit, would periodically assist the comic and monitor his temperature during the episode. “Ninety-seven point eight? I run a little cool,” said O’Brien at the top of the episode. That certainly wouldn’t last for long.

Between bites of hot wings, O’Brien got increasingly spicy and took shots at the streaming platform Max, formerly known as HBO Max, which will debut his new travel series, Conan O’Brien Must Go, on April 18. “Is it HBO Max or just Max? I can’t get used to it,” said O’Brien. “It’s not a better name.” (He’s right.) By the end of the episode, a drooling, delirious O’Brien was shouting at the clouds about the foolishness of Max’s rebrand, brought on by the Warner Bros.–Discovery merger. “I have a show—it’s on Max,” he yelled. “They used to call it HBO, but people found that too popular. So now it’s Max, ’cause that really rolls off the tongue. And it’s a funny show.”

Perhaps inspired by the spiciness of the wings, the veteran late-night host also revealed the worst thing that talk show guests routinely do: tell the audience the interview isn’t going well. “I would look out at the audience, maybe 200 people sitting there, and I’d see 200 souls leave 200 bodies and float up through the ceiling,” O’Brien said. “Because they were just told they were not getting a good show. No, that’s not show business. Show business is, ‘You’re getting the greatest show in the world.’”

He also shared that he might have predicted the timing of a stalwart actor’s demise. O’Brien explained that he’d sometimes say outlandish things during interviews just to keep his guests on their toes. “I’d try and say something provocative, like, ‘I bet you live four more years tops,’ and you can see them get a little rattled,” said O’Brien. With one Golden Girl, he happened to be on the money. “I remember I said that to Bea Arthur, and I was right,” O’Brien admitted. “I said, ‘Four years tops.’ And it was three years, 11 months.” By the end of the episode, it looked like O’Brien might not make it another three years and 11 months himself, thanks to the spiciness of the wings. Consider that Dorothy’s revenge.