[VIDEO] Watch This Guy Eat 135 Carolina Reaper Chilis in Under 7 Minutes

For those of you who don't know, the Carolina Reaper chili is one of the hottest in the world, ranking in at 1.5 million Scoville heat units. Just to put that in perspective, a more common chili like a jalapeño ranges from 2,000 to 8,000 SHUs, so the Carolina Reaper has to feel like literal fire inside your body when consumed.

All of this makes watching this man, who managed to eat 135 of these peppers in under seven minutes, absolutely mind-boggling.

Watch the video: 
 

New record: Fastest time to eat 50 carolina reaper chilli peppers - 6 minutes and 49.20 seconds by Mike Jack 🇨🇦

He eventually went on to eat 135 peppers in this one sitting 🤯 pic.twitter.com/b5OxTBtbjd

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From UPI: 

A Canadian man ate 50 of the world's hottest chili peppers in a record-breaking 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds -- and then went on to eat 85 more.

Vegan speed-eater Mike Jack took on the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to eat 50 Carolina reapers, which average 1.64 million Scoville Heat Units -- hundreds of times hotter than jalapeno peppers.

Jack finished his 50th pepper with a time of 6 minutes and 49.2 seconds, but once his record attempt was over, he continued to eat peppers until he reached a total of 135.

The number earned him the No. 2 spot on the League of Fire Reaper Challenge leader board, which tracks attempts to eat the most of the peppers in a single sitting.

Jack said he has built a tolerance to spicy food over the past 20 years, but he still feels discomfort.

"The initial shock of spiciness is intense. The second one doesn't seem as bad, but each one after that gets hotter and hotter as the peppers touch new places in your mouth," Jack told Guinness World Records.

He said the mouth pain is nothing compared to the stomach discomfort.

"I get bad cramps. It feels like someone is squeezing and twisting my guts," he said. "Your mind is telling you to stop, but you have to convince yourself to keep pushing through."
 

Good lord, I can only imagine what this must feel like coming out the other end. Just brutal...

You really have to wonder why someone puts themselves through all this, besides the notoriety  and, of course, providing the general public with "entertainment."