Some like it hot. Some like it burning. Smokin' Ed Currie is one of the latter sort, and hot sauce lovers around the world are eternally grateful.

Ed is our special guest for Episode 5 of Hardest Bestest Fastest Strongest, and the esteemed grower of Pepper X—the world's hottest chilli pepper. Being the generous South Carolinian he is, Ed sent 3 of his hottest Pepper X sauces for Sam and Josh to try live on air. What could go wrong! (Spoiler alert: one of us is a bona fide "chilli head", the other is not).

Before that rather abrupt and clammy ending, Ed reveals all about the science, high security and scoville units behind Pepper X, his REAL reaction to eating a whole Pepper X, and one or two pranks and mishaps you wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of.

As per usual, Josh and Sam also discuss what records they've been reading about, from epic crowdsurfing to old-fashioned Hollywood taboos.

If you love hot sauce, this one's for you!

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This week's guest is not only full of beans, he is often quite literally covered in them. In 1986, Captain Beany clinched the world record for the longest time ever spent immersed in a bath of baked beans – 100 hours, in the name of charity, and a record which, perhaps rather unsurprisingly, still stands today.

In this episode, we meet the man "beaneath" the beans, hearing all about this legendary record attempt, and how it birthed the cape-wearing, baked bean-obsessed, deed poll-official superhero known as Captain Beany. We recommend that you Google him immediately, and prepare yourself for an unrelenting bombardment of baked bean puns.

Josh and Sam also dust off a few other retro records from the 1980s in Record Breakers of The Week.

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Our guest this week is multiple world record holder Mariam “Amazi" Olayiwola. A former scientist who, after a tragic accident 5 years ago, quit the laboratory to become a full-time hula hooping performance artist. A move that is clearly working out because Amazi has just broken her THIRD hula hooping world record!

WARNING: Listening to this episode may result in you immediately quitting your job and chasing your dreams.

Also, we discuss a speed eating legend, a long haul flight from hell, and a shoe salesman from Bradford, before once again attempting to get into the record books ourselves.

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