Hey, what's up guys welcome back to Binging with Babish as you can probably tell by my shirt alone
I'm not cooking today. I'm here to talk to you about a man, a friend of mine named
Garmt van Soest
He's a gentleman from the Netherlands. He was one of my earliest supporters and fans
and he reached out to me when I had a few thousand subscribers just to tell me you know
That he loved the show and that he had ideas. He gave me the idea for the Pulp Fiction burger
and we started a correspondence and
kept in touch over the past year and a half, and he would offer me words of encouragement and ideas
Just a general message of positivity which was all the more impressive because Garmt was
suffering from ALS, the later stages of ALS
and
He is a very inspirational figure. He has
Delivered talks, he has done fundraising videos
He has written a blog where he continues to spread a message of positivity and strength
Despite overwhelming adversity and
Garmt died this past Monday. He messaged me to say goodbye when I was in the airport
and I just wept, in the airport TGI Fridays, like a psycho.
Even at the end he cracked a joke with me
He said you know I just wanted to say goodbye and that I'm pissed that I wasn't in the credits for your book.
I wanted to help play my part in
Sharing Garmt's message of strength and positivity and love, and I think that a cool way to do that
I saw him take the ice bucket challenge back in 2014
and that was a huge movement that everybody participated in to help raise funds and awareness for ALS.
So I thought why not take that in a different direction. The hot thing right now, so to speak is
Eating super spicy peppers on camera, so why don't we put some
Purpose behind all this pain that we're putting ourselves through and create the Hot Pepper Challenge
Which is the
same concept as the ice bucket challenge: nominate three people that you'd like to see
eat a really hot pepper and suffer on camera.
The hotter the pepper the less money you need to donate to
the ALS Association through the GoFundMe page as you can see in the description for this video.
Also, please do this at your own risk! Eating spicy peppers is kind of a dumb thing and only do it if you have the
Bodily Constitution, and you know it's not going to hurt you. Don't do it if you have ulcers
Don't do it if you're under 18, make sure you're over 18.
and help me spread Garmt's message of warmth and strength and positivity.
So guys kick this off I'm going to invite my dear friend and roommate up here, his name is Rashid.
You've probably seen his arms in a couple other episodes of my show. He's been one of my faithful taste testers.
You've probably seen his arms and a couple other episodes of my show. He's been one of my faithful taste testers and
He is going to be the brave companion with whom I eat these
habanero peppers to kick off the Hot Pepper Challenge for ALS.
Rashid come on over, I'll try and make room for you. It's a smaller kitchen than it looks
Here we go, you ready?
Ready!
here goes nothing. We got our milk at the ready.
I'm not stalling right now. That's not what I'm doing
no, not at all
no
Okay, I'm good.
Me too
Yeah. That wasn't bad.
Hey this wasn't that bad
all right Cheers
That's kind of a cop-out. I feel like that wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was gonna be
I'mma me eat this ghost pepper...this is a ghost pepper. I'mma eat it...
ok
you wanna jump in on this?
*Rashid off screen* I die with you brother. I'll take bite
that's my man okay. All right. Thank you
This was previously the hottest pepper in the world until the Carolina Reaper came along if I remember correctly
So here we go ghost pepper
For a good cause, it's for good cause.
Cheers. Cheers.
*pepper cruching*
Okay
What the hell? I don't I don't feel anything
I feel heat but no more than that habanero. You don't feel the heat.
I fee the heat...
Are we really good at spicy foods, maybe we're really good at this
Well yeah
That's hot, I'm sorry, but that is hot
Rashid: It's hot!
exhaling is...
Rashid: It's not pleasant... there it is!
All right, no, there it is. yeah, well. I was wrong that is something.
Rashid: there it is!
I shudder to think of what's gonna come tomorrow
Ahh, the exhaling is the problem. when you inhale it's like so nice and then...
Rashid: you could just hold your breath forever
*struggling* that's what I'm gonna do right now
Goodbye
You're better at this than I am
This is really bad
Trying to be stoic here
This is what the people want to see!
This is what the people want to see
*indistinct yelling off camera*
Oh God! It deceived me!
Okay all right so well
Well the pepper is in full effect. I'm gonna go ahead and nominate
a couple other people to take this challenge
The obvious choice is Shaun Evans over at Hot One's on First We Feast?
Rhett and Link who, you know both of you guys, all you guys, have already eaten some very hot peppers
So this should be child's play for you
Philip DeFranco
Chef Jon, Healthy Junk Food and Brothers Green Eats. I challenge you all to join me in the Hot Pepper Challenge
It's for a good... good cause. this is good. This is good
There's gotta be a good reason that I'm doing this right now. It's a good reason. I swear to God
You guys and anybody else who wants to help raise awareness and funds for the ALS Association
Take the Hot Pepper Challenge now. You don't have to eat as spicy pepper is the ghost pepper
But hey, you know
you want those views right! you gotta get those views
Challenge three people, at least three people that you know and love that you want to see hurt like this
And wear rubber gloves
Otherwise where you go the bathroom later is gonna be a problem. All right. Good luck guys. Thank you
ahh!