And we continue with our American stories.

Smokin' 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.

She finally talked me to go into the church she was going to. 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. And she said, no, come on, you can.

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, back into the darkness. He couldn't have possibly

seen me from the stage. You know, when the lights are on you, you can't see you out?

And he walked straight up to me and he said, Ed, you're worthy of the body of Christ,

receive communion. And I was immediately, even though I had like, I don't know, six, seven,

eight years clean, whatever it was, I still carried all that guilt and shame from all that stuff I had done, stuff that was going to send me to hell.

All the guilt and shame, everything, just immediately left my body.

And even my very worst days have been nothing but full of gratitude ever since.

I tell people this stuff all the time when I'm interviewing, like especially when the camera's

rolling because the kids shut you up. And then they edited out. And that's the kind of story that people need to hear.

I got an approach to do a feature film, okay, from a big studio,

but they refused to give me any creative control

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