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On this episode of Our American Stories, “Smokin†Ed Currie is an American chili pepper breeder who is 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, Ed is now a man with a strong faith. Here’s Ed sharing a story involving him and his wife.
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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 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 going to 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 we this isn't a real church you know and she said no come on you can't 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 you know when the lights are on you you can't see 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 and I did some pretty horrible stuff I mean stuff I thought I'd never be forgiven for stuff that was going to send me to hell okay all the guilt and shame everything just immediately left my body okay immediately left my body and it has been nothing nothing even my very worst days have been nothing but full of gratitude ever since man sorry uh and it's just amazing what you know when I tell 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 edit it out you know and that's the kind of story that people need to hear all right it's funny because I got approached to do a feature film okay from a big studio but they refused to give me any creative control and actually told me I had to stop the god talk and I I dropped the film I said no I'm not going to do this even though they were offering a whole lot of money not a month later I got approached by a rock band who's got a production company now who said they're they're going to give me total creative control actually executive producer position so I can literally I can say this stays in this goes out they don't care about what I say what I do they think it's all part of the story and if I want to talk about Jesus that's just fine and that's the way they put it if you want to talk about Jesus it's just fine if you want to talk about Jesus it's just fine if you want to talk about Jesus it's just fine you know and so you know when one door closes another one opens I got a call in the middle of the night all right from a woman and she goes hey Ed how you doing I'm like hey Laura how are you doing you know why are you calling me you know that guy and I had done service work in NA with her and she goes do you remember my daughter and I was like well I've met her five years ago and she said well you know she's an atheist and I said yeah you test told me you know and she goes you know I'm agnostic and I said yeah you tell me that all the time and she goes well my daughter's been having dreams that the baby she's carrying from an 18 year old gang banger God is telling her that that's your baby and I was like what and she goes yeah and I've been having dreams that you have a daughter named Catherine Anne and I had a sister named Catherine Anne who died and I never told anybody Linda didn't even know about her at this point okay and I was like wow and she goes yeah and we want you to adopt the baby and she knew that Linda had a bunch of miscarriages and we had stopped trying to have a baby and I was like well I got to talk to Lynn about that thank you but my answer is yes you know because to me that was a God thing that was a miracle happening okay and it was after this other miracle I'd have so I go into bed and I tell Linda's like who's on the phone you know and I told her what happened and she started cursing out God all right cursing and I'm like you can't curse God and she goes I can do whatever I want to do you know and you know she because she has a really good relation and really what it was was the Sarah neighbor him thing she was about to turn 50 we tried for so long how come God's providing this right now and we were literally we're praying on it and she was like no we're too old blah blah blah blah and I said let's go talk to Pastor Chadwick about this David Chadwick is his name and we get to the we go to the church service and we get in line to talk to him and we see that a woman who's dying of cancer is with them so we went over to thank the visiting pastor and spoke during that meeting for for being there he's like oh you want to talk to Pastor Chadwick and she's like yeah we're we got an offer for adoption but I'm 50 years old and the pastor stopped her right there and he said you see that little kid right there God put that child in my life when I was 52 you see this other one right here God put that child in my life when I was 56 and before he could even stop Pastor Chadwick stopped talking to the lady he was talking to walked over to us and said lay hands on Ed and Linda we have to pray and literally out of his mouth came everything that Linda had said in our marriage bed we hadn't shared it with anybody all of her fears all of her worries even saying God forgives you for talking to him like that okay all of it just came out of his mouth and then he said adopt the baby and that was it and we called her from right there in the church and said we'll adopt the baby we had no money okay I you know literally we had no money it was all going into the business I had paid for a legal benefit at the bank that she had been trying to get me to get rid of guess what it covered adoption a hundred percent adopting that baby cost us a total of eighteen hundred and fifty dollars for the social worker that the state required comes and visits your house and make sure you're okay for adoption that's all it cost us to adopt the first baby and when the miracle happened the same thing call from out in the middle of the night someone Linda knows saying my daughter is pregnant and she wants you guys to adopt the baby and same thing that one I had already paid I had filled out the paperwork with the social worker for five babies so she didn't have to come back and it just cost us the legal you know the legal documents from the court which was like 250 dollars and my wife literally cut the cord for both children that doesn't happen to 50 year olds doesn't happen to 50 year olds you can't even get on the list to adopt newborns and I'd adopt more but she says no you know but just amazing amazing stuff and I can keep on going on over and over and miracles everywhere watching them happen to others and not think it's good luck or something like that you can see that it is an absolute miracle wow thank you for letting me share that and thank you for sharing it ed and miracles well they happen all around us believe it or not miracles happen every day and my goodness what a miracle for ed and his bride in her 50s angry at god and my goodness why not me lord why not me why that other girl why is she pregnant why aren't I why have you denied me and then well this is why we go to church too so many Americans go to church to synagogue to mosque why well anyone who goes knows why and if you don't go well we love you too here on this show we love people of every faith and every faith walk including none at all the story the story of ed curry's miracle baby and miracle babies here on our american stories roku has what you need to make your college home away from home feel more like your own make your dorm the place to be with roku tv or bring a roku streaming stick to easily access all your favorite free and premium content like i heart radio stream your favorite playlist with the roku vibe setting smart light strips to sync your music to millions of colors and make your dorm feel more 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