Million Dollar Money Drop has Texaco, Old El Paso, Alamo Rent A Car

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Tonight Million Dollar Money Drop took to the tough questions and this included some seriously amazing American history. The couple looking to make good money, Steve and Jennifer took to the questions like professionals but as we watched tonight, the anxiety of putting the cash on the correct drop can be difficult. 

The fifth question of the night reminds us all why a little healthy pop culture is essential to keep the brain cells going. The question had everything to do with Texas and the products America uses. The question was 'Which of these brands was founded in the State of Texas? The three choices were quite misleading and the couple lost some cash in the process of elimination. The possible answers were Old El Paso, Alamo Rent a Car and Texaco.

The correct answer for the evening was Texaco. You might be asking yourself where was Texaco founded? According to the Internet, the Texas Fuel Company, founded in 1901 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, Walter Benona Sharp, and Arnold Schlaet upon discovery of oil at Spindletop. The company sold gas in all 50 states and was independent until it merged in 2001.

The 'Cheat Sheet' for the Million Dollar Money Drop question number 5 is:

Where was Texaco founded? Beaumont Texas in 1901.

Where was Old El Paso founded? New Mexico.

Where was Alamo Rent a Car founded? Florida. 

The couple playing tonight definitely lost money on this question, but at the end of the game walked away a winner with some serious cash! We enjoyed playing and will be watching again tomorrow night with more 'cheat sheets' to answer the questions.

Naga Viper World's Hottest Chili Pepper

Gerald Fowler's Naga Viper has turned his greenhouse into a chili lover's dream. He's grown a chili pepper with a world record-setting Scoville rating of 1,359,000 units.

Gerald Fowler's Naga Viper is part of his job. He runs the Chilli Pepper Company out of Cumbria, England. If you think an Englishman growing world record chili peppers is strange, you don't know England's taste for Indian cuisine.

To put the Naga Viper that's placed Gerald Fowler into the record books into perspective, that 1,359,000 Scoville unit rating is 270 times hotter than a jalapeno. It also tops the old record-holding chili pepper, the Ghost Pepper, according to the Daily Mail.

The Scoville rating on peppers like Gerald Fowler's Naga Viper rates the amount of capsaicin in the plant. Bell peppers have virtually none. Wikipedia says the can of pepper spray carried by a police officer has a Scoville rating of 5 million. So you can imagine the burn on Fowler's chili pepper.

Gerald Fowler developed the Naga Viper by cross-breeding three other very hot chili peppers. He used the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Joloika), Naga Morichi, and Trinidad Scorpion varieties to top the capsaicin charts.

Fowler had his Naga Viper peppers tested by nearby Warwick University experts. One hopes they wore gloves the entire time and washed the equipment really well afterward!

The Guinness Book of World Records approached Fowler to get his Naga Viper into their 2012 edition. And you can bet Gerald Fowler's eaten his own creation.

The Daily Mail also quoted Fowler as saying, "[The Naga Viper]'s hot enough to strip paint. It numbs your tongue, then burns all the way down... but it's a marvelous endorphin rush." Wonder if he's got that thrill-seeking gene?

Gerald Fowler grew to love peppers like the Naga Viper after his father brought home a pepper plant to grow. It became his full-time career five years ago. Now he has a world record to add to his achievements.

And would you eat Gerald Fowler's Naga Viper, either straight or in food? How do you think it'd taste?

Police State episode of hit Ventura show covering FEMA camps pulled from air

UPDATED FRI, DEC. 3 11:25 AM CST — This is an update on the now-confirmed bizarre cancellation of the “Police State” FEMA camp episode from TruTV’s schedule, which is we now know is due to background pressure.

Alex Jones, a consultant to the show who appears in “Police State”, noticed three weeks ago that the episode was scheduled to air before the then-newest episode on Fridays at 10 PM EST / 9 PM CST. Alex knew that encore episodes were consistently replayed over-and-over prior to brand new Friday premiere episodes, so red flags went up when it did not re-air like all the others. Now that more inconsistencies have been documented, Alex made some phone calls to get to the bottom of the matter.

This morning, Alex spoke with Gov. Jesse Ventura and discovered that he was fully aware of the fact that “Police State” had been pulled due to pressure from within the government. The former Minnesota governor and star of the show indicated that he’s not ready to make a full statement yet as he’s still investigating the details and talking with network execs. However, Ventura urged that people have a right as citizens to contact TruTV and let them know that they want to see it back on air.

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Call us: 800.268.7856

Whatever the full cause of the behind-the-scenes pressure, it is clear that the government does not want audiences discussing FEMA camps and Fusion Centers or looking up H.R. 645, the bill named and read in the episode that authorizes FEMA emergency centers. Alex has done all he can to make sure the TruTV series is packed with hard-hitting facts and full of real, substantial issues. Though the show employs the dramatic techniques used throughout TV land, this is not the typical fluff. People had better understand that these are truly groundbreaking shows that are discussing damning evidence that the establishment doesn’t want sinking into the minds of a mainstream audience. Who knows if tonight’s water episode investigating lithium, uranium and fluoride being added to drinking water as a means of population control will itself even air or be replayed after the fact.

Lovers of liberty and supporters of Conspiracy Theory had better cue their DVRs and other recorders and save the episode for good, because with the censorship we’ve already seen, it is difficult to know how long this program will remain on air, or which episodes will be allowed to repeat.