The Fun of Eating a Pepper Hotter Than the Sun

吃比太阳还热的辣椒的乐趣

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

2022-10-10

29 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • Pushkin.

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

  • This is author Lee Cowart.

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

  • Lee is holding an open bottle of Pucker Butt Farm's Carolina Reaper hot sauce,

  • thought to be the most extreme hot sauce ever created.

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

  • The heat levels of hot peppers are measured in scoville units.

  • An average jalapeno, which a spice whisk like me can barely tolerate,

  • will run you around 3,000 scoville units.

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

  • Reapers are measured in the millions of scovilles.

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

  • that wants to fight God and then feel like one.

  • This might be a fun event for you.

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

  • because Lee is going to gargle Reaper Hot Sauce right now.

  • Okay, do you want to count me down?

  • Three, two, one.

  • Wow, that is a large swig.