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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

321: “Smokin’” Ed Currie—The Ring of Sting

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The Dirty Jobber, Guinness World Record-holding pepper breeder, and CEO of the PuckerButt Pepper Company, explains how he replaced drinks and drugs with dopamine-inducing capsaicin. Spoiler Alert: It involves a literal angel.

 

 

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0:00.0

It's the way I heard it episode number 321. This one is called The Ring of Sting with

0:10.6

Smoking Ed Curry. Ed Curry indeed. Yes.

0:14.3

Ay, aye, aye. Fans of Dirty Jobs might have seen Ed Curry. He was featured last year on the show.

0:20.7

He's just a remarkable dude. And anybody who might have seen Ed Curry. He was featured last year on the show.

0:23.3

He's just a remarkable dude.

0:30.2

And anybody who's a fan of super spicy foods will probably know him, since I think he's the king of the Chili's.

0:31.8

He has a farm in Fort Mill, South Carolina, called Pucker Butt Farm.

0:37.8

He's in the Guinness Book of World Records

0:39.9

for creating the hottest pepper on the planet

0:44.6

in the solar system, in the galaxy, in the universe, for all I know.

0:49.4

Well, that we're aware of.

0:51.1

It's currently the Carolina Reaper.

0:53.1

These things just keep getting hotter and hotter and

0:55.4

hotter. Look, when I met Ed, I mean, we talk about this kind of right out of the gate, but it bears

1:01.1

repeating here. It was such a weird day for me. So many things were going on. I had a terrible,

1:05.9

terrible toothache. We weren't even filming dirty jobs. We were there to film Ed for another project that didn't

1:13.0

really have a name. We just wound up using the footage because it was so great for dirty jobs

1:18.7

later on. But a lot of interesting things happened to me on that day at Puckerbutt Farm, the least of which

1:27.4

certainly wasn't the fact that I got to know

1:29.7

this guy and wanted to know him more. Because Chuck, you got to admit, it's tough to put Ed Curry

1:36.8

in a box. Yes, nobody puts Ed Curry in a corner or a box. What I loved is, you know, when he was talking about doing this show that he did on Netflix,

1:47.5

and they kept directing him.

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