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And we continue with our American stories.

Smoking Ed Curry is an American chili pepper breeder who's the founder and president

of the Puckerbutt Pepper Company. He is best known for breeding the hottest chili pepper in the world,

the Carolina Reaper, and now Pepper X, as recognized by Guinness World Records, a former addict

and is now a man with strong faith.

Here's Ed sharing a story involving him and his wife.

Linda was trying to get me to go to her church, and I kept on saying,

now I'm Catholic, I can't go there.

Even though I hadn't been to the Catholic Church except for Christmas and Easter

with my parents, my whole life, I mean from 13 on. And I support the Catholic Church. Don't get me

wrong. But she finally talked me into the church she was going to. And it was a really good service. Then they had a

communion service. And this was a non-denominational church. And she said, come on, have communion.

And I was like, I can't do that. I'm Catholic. You know, this isn't a real church, you know.

And she said, no, come on, you can.

I said, no, I'm not going to.

And she got up to get in line for communion as did all the other people who were with us.

And the pastor was up on the stage, you know, with his Bible, and he was singing whatever song the band was playing.

And he closed his Bible and put it down on the stool

he had next to him and he jumped off the stage and he grabbed a chalice and a plate and I'm watching

him and he came all the way up the aisle and then across back into the darkness he couldn't

have possibly seen me from the stage.

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