321: "Smokin'" Ed Currie—The Ring of Sting
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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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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