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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There is nothing hotter than Puckerbutt Farm’s Carolina Reaper Hot Sauce... and author Leigh Cowart gargles it for FUN!!! Why do we sometimes get a happiness high from painful and scary things? And what if we want to experience the fun of discomfort and danger... but without the risk of coming to real harm?

With the help of Leigh, psychology professor Paul Bloom and the Yale philosopher Tamar Gendler, Dr Laurie Santos finds out how we can fool ourselves into reaping all the benefits of danger without actually being in peril.

For further reading:

Leigh Cowart - Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose.

Paul Bloom - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

I guess you can tell I already have like the nervous giggles.

0:18.0

This is author Lee Coward.

0:19.4

There's definitely like a danger smell to it that I come to recognize.

0:25.3

Lee is holding an open bottle of Puckabut Farms Carolina Reaper hot sauce.

0:30.0

Thought to be the most extreme hot sauce ever created.

0:33.3

The sauce is made of 90% pure Carolina Reaper pepper, the hottest hot pepper in the world.

0:39.9

The heat levels of hot peppers are measured in scoval units.

0:43.0

An average jalapeno, which a spice whist like me can barely tolerate, will run you around

0:47.9

3,000 scoval units.

0:50.0

But a Carolina Reaper can be up to 800 times hotter.

0:54.0

The heat levels of hot peppers are measured in the millions of scovals.

0:56.0

When people ask me if a Reaper pepper might be for them, I say you are the kind of person

1:02.3

that wants to fight God and then feel like one.

1:06.4

This might be a fun event for you.

1:09.8

And apparently fighting a deity seems like a fun time to Lee.

1:13.4

Because Lee is going to gargle Reaper hot sauce right now.

1:17.0

Okay.

1:18.0

Do you want to count these out?

1:19.9

Three, two, one.

1:22.0

Wow, that is a large swig.

1:24.6

Oh my God.

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