About Hot Doc
The label of Hot Doc’s Hot Sauce states “The Hot is real. The Doc is real.” Once you try the sauce, you’ll understand about the Hot. The Doc is also real. The president of Hot Doc Ventures, LLC is Dr. John Wallace (a president overseeing absolutely no one!—Hot Doc is barely qualified). John earned his Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1994. Currently, Hot Doc is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. In addition to being a father of a wonderful teenage daughter, in his extra time (?!), he is the Past Governor of the Anderson Moose Family Center. The Moose tends to the needs of the Mooseheart Child City, Moosehaven Senior Home, and to local community needs.
Hot Doc’s infatuation with peppers has earned him a reputation among family, friends, and students. With the combination of his doctorate and love of peppers, "Dr Pepper" references abound. In a holiday pinch, friends and family can always go to the official Dr Pepper website to order Dr Pepper gifts. If you haven't seen that website, Hot Doc recommends it.
Hot Doc started not in hot sauce, but in homemade spicy barbeque sauce. While living in Dallas, Texas for the sum of about a year, Hot Doc was fortunate enough to work in a psychiatric hospital with barbeque sauce specialists ("the story" is that the barbeque specialists were coworkers, but Hot Doc has been known to take liberties with truthfulness in his stories). Eager to learn, Hot Doc quickly took to learning the sauce, becoming the sauce. A great deal of gratitude goes to Tom and Ken for taking a “damned Yankee” and turning him into a “Misplaced Texan”. Better friends are hard to find.
One of these days is here, Hot Doc offers Hot Doc’s BBQ Sauce--a sweet kind and a spicy kind.
In case you are curious, Hot Doc's research focus at the university is in the area of Texas Hold'em. The next research project may have to determine the effects of Hot Doc's Hot Sauce on a person's ability to think well during a Texas Hold'em tournament.
