the hots

“Pepper” follows the overlapping pursuits of a handful of pepper enthusiasts, whose interests lie in the hottest of the hots, peppers that induce sweating, crying and retching within minutes.

And the hots will keep getting hotter as the burning of fossil fuels continues to heat the planet.

“The impacts of climate change have never been more clear — the hots continue to get hotter in our state and across the West, putting millions of Californians at risk,” Newsom said in a statement.

Doing so is critical, he said, in a time of climate change when “the hots are getting a lot hotter, dries are getting drier, and the wets are getting a lot wetter.”

In the words of Behar, the husband "had the hots" for this woman, who was indeed an actual person and not just a random fantasy.