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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

321: The Ring of Sting with Smoking' Ed Currie

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

⏱️ 92 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 Head Curry.

0:12.4

Ed Curry indeed. Yes.

0:14.6

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fans of dirty jobs might have seen Ed Curry. He was featured last year

0:20.2

on the show. He's just a remarkable dude. And anybody who's a fan of super spicy foods

0:27.4

will probably know him since I think he's the king of the chilies. He has a farm in

0:34.0

Fort Mills, South Carolina called Pucker Butt Farm. He's in the Guinness Book of World

0:39.4

Records for creating the hottest pepper on the planet in the solar system, in the galaxy

0:47.3

in the universe for all I know. Well, that we're aware of. It's currently the Carolina

0:52.4

Reaper. These things just keep getting hotter and hotter and hotter. Look, when I met

0:57.2

Ed, I mean, we talk about this kind of right out of the gate, but it bears repeating

1:01.7

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

1:06.0

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

1:11.4

another project that didn't really have a name. We just wound up using the footage because

1:17.0

it was so great for dirty jobs later on. But a lot of interesting things happened to

1:22.8

me on that day at Pucker Butt Farm, the least of which certainly wasn't the fact that I got

1:29.3

to know this guy and wanted to know him more because Chuck, you got to admit it's tough to

1:35.4

put Ed Curry in a box. Yes, nobody puts Ed Curry in a corner or a box. What I loved is,

1:44.0

you know, when he was talking about doing this show that he did on Netflix and they kept

1:48.8

directing him and he said, and I hate that. I hate people telling me what to do. And it made

1:52.4

me think of someone else, Mike. It made me think of someone else that I'm fond of. Who

1:56.6

shall we main nameless? There's a lot that Ed and I have in common. And there's a lot that we don't.

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