Cox n' Crendor Show - Episode 277 - The Cacti Caper

Episode Date: February 22, 2021

The boys are back for another look at the past week in their lives along with an in depth and totally important look at the international cacti smuggling syndicate. No really, this is a thing! We were shocked too! Also Crendor makes a steak, Jesse zones out, and Dan Brown makes a surprise appearance. All this and more on an all new Cox n' Crendor! Go to http://calm.com/cox to get 40% off a Calm Premium subscription! Go to http://ritual.com/COX to get 10% off during your first 3 months!

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In 4-hour recording studios. Recorded. Hello everybody, it's time for an exciting episode of Gax and Gretna in the morning. That one had a little oomph to it. Yeah, well I got a little oomph today. I got like a little oomph to it. Yeah, well, I got a little oomph today. I got like a little oomph. Right? I'm feeling good. I got out. I did some stuff.

I got some exercise in. Like, I'm having like a, you know, I got a day. I got like a whole day. Because yesterday, let me tell you. I don't know. I woke up at noon-ish. And I. You did the me?

I did the you. But I don't think I did the full you because I woke up at noon. I went and I was on Dodger stream for a few hours. And then I like, I don't know, dicked around with some video games. And then it might have been 8 p.m. And I was like, boy, I feel like I've done nothing today. I don't. I was restless.

You're still doing the me. Yeah. I nothing today. I don't. I was restless. I was like, what should I do? You're still doing the me. Yeah, I was like, I don't know. I've got to be doing something. But I can't really work because nothing's working right now. And I've unpacked everything, so my apartment's fine. I guess I could. It's probably too late to take these pictures over to the office.

So I don't know. So I went and I turned on TV and sat through maybe 20 minutes of TV and was like, no, this ain't going to do it for me. So then I just walked around my apartment restlessly looking for something to do. And I was like, if I work out, I'm going to be up way later than I want to be. Like, I'll do that tomorrow. I don't know. And so I don't know. I don't know what happened. The next time I looked at my watch or clock, it was 11 something. I was like, that seems like a good time to go to bed. I just, I, my whole day felt like a waste of

a day. And I have no idea why I just internalized the whole thing. It was just like, I did nothing today. So today I woke up and was just like, workout, get in some breakfast, get some work done, go do a bunch of like errands, go drop those, those paintings and pictures off of the office. Like do everything, come back, meet you. I am like in go getter mode today. I am blasting at 110 because i felt so bad about doing nothing yesterday that today i'm like let's go so yeah i'm in it i'm feeling it hey yesterday i kept seeing you tweet stuff like this guy's tweeting a lot yeah i was uh i was in a a tweet mode like again you can tell when i am either like waiting for something to happen or really bored. Cause I'll start tweeting. If I don't tweet, if I have like one tweet that day, it's cause

I'm really busy with something. Like I said, I don't use Twitter except as like a crutch to keep me from going insane some days. Yeah. I'm just like, I'm stuck waiting for something and I'm so bored. That's the only time I use it. And you can tell if you go look through my Twitter profile, you can see like, oh, this day Jesse tweeted only once. He was probably really busy. This day, 85 tweets. So you got to get on the Crenn schedule. I'm a very routine-based person.

So I usually will wake up. I eat my breakfast. Now, my problem today, I goofed it. Normally, I've been waking up at like noon or like 1230. All right. But I go to bed around 430. So it's like seven and a half, eight hours. You have like a wild schedule.

Yeah. But I'm consistent with it. That's true. Always 430. Wake up around 1230. But today, I woke up at noon and I was like, I feel pretty with it. That's true. Always 4.30, wake up around 12.30. But today I woke up at noon and I was like, I feel pretty good. I should get up. But then I made the mistake of kind of being like, eh, and I laid back down a bit.

Bam, woke up at 1. I was like, ugh. I had that like REM. I was like a half REM. Yeah, yeah. Not good. Not good. Now I've had like one of those like almost headaches where like I'll be fine.

And then I kind of like look around. It's like, eh, headache coming in. So I had had one of those almost headaches where I'll be fine, and then I kind of look around, and it's like, with a headache coming in, so I had to take a Tylenol. Now I'm like, ah, gee, I can't let that fester. You got to get that out of there. But normally, on weekdays, I'll do that, and then I start going to the gym early. Honestly, I like going earlier, because I used to go back in the day at night. I'd go at 9 or 10. By the time you're out of there, but when you go early, you get pumped for the day.

That's what I'm saying. I had a day pump going on today. Day pump does not sound good. The day pump. The day pump. It's just like a bunch of old people at the gym too that are like, here we go. They're just walking and stuff. I'm just like uh it's just like a bunch of old people at the gym too they're like here we go they're just like walking and stuff and i'm just like yeah because nobody's on the

weights because it's just all old people walking so i get like all of it to myself it's great and then uh i usually work out like 40 minutes and then i'll uh maybe go to like grocery store you know pick up what i gotta get the grocery store. And then I've started doing a short day stream. Because I used to just sit at the computer and do nothing for like an hour. And I'd be like, I can stream now. So now I started streaming for an hour. So that's been good. And then normally, that messed me up too.

Because normally on Wednesdays we got D&D. But we didn't have D&D. So I was like, what do I do now? And then normally on Tuesdays I had my football podcast. Now football's over, so my whole week was like, I'm supposed to do things and I got no things. So it was blowing my mind. Well, look, if you got free time,

I'm sure there's some sort of multiplayer game out there you and I can crush. Oh, yeah, there probably is. And I got a few more weeks of that, because then free agency's going to hit. Now we got to do podcasts, and then D&D starts again, and then boom.

So I got like two, three weeks where I can play some multiplayers. What's the big multiplayer thing that we should be playing? What are we missing out on? Right now, I don't really know. There's been people playing Valorant, but like, eh.

Yeah, I'm fine. I don't need to play that. Unless they want to pay me, then I'll be like, yeah, best game ever made. Oh, I've actually been reading. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What have you been reading? So I've been reading Brandon Sanderson. Okay, all right. So there's Warbreaker. What have you been reading? So I've been reading Brandon Sanderson. Okay.

All right. So there's Warbreaker. I've been reading that because they said it's a good book to get into Brandon Sanderson stuff. And it's been pretty good. And then I also started reading his big series, which is The Something Kings. Brandon Sanderson. The Something Kings. It's The Way of Kings. Brandon Sanderson. The Something Kings. It's The Way of Kings.

They're very good. I like it. It's one of those things where once you read, and you read something you actually want to read and like reading, I'm like, I look forward to reading my book. And I'm like, I wonder what's going to happen next. And you read and you're like, whoa. And then you want to keep going, but then you got to go to sleep.

Damn. Yeah, I get that I haven't Read anything recently Which is really sad I yeah I get so caught up in work But I will say I do know exactly what you're talking about

When you find a book And it just clicks with you Man that's a good vibe It isn't like you're talking about. When you find a book and it just clicks with you, man, that's a good vibe because it isn't like you're reading a book for school where you're forced to read it and you're like, uh. It's one of those things where it feels

like a movie that you're living through. Does that make sense? You're in it. It's like your imagination is doing the move. It's why it's so good to read. It helps you focus in a way because you're in it. Yeah, it's like your imagination is doing the move. It's like, that's why it's so good to read. It's like, and it helps you kind of focus in a way because you're just sitting there and you're just, you know, reading words.

You're not like distracted by like commercials and TV and stuff. You're just, you know, you're just reading words on paper. I know I'm going to get roasted by a bunch of people, but I will say the person that really does that for me really well, even though they are great books, But I will say The person that really does that for me Really well Even though they are great books Every Dan Brown novel

I feel like I'm reading a movie Every time And I know they're like Trash But I don't care I remember reading the Da Vinci Code And being like holy shit I was in I was in.

I was in. I don't know. There's something about it that for some reason that is all I think about when I think of a book that really makes you feel like you're in a movie. Because even though I read and really enjoyed the A Song of Ice and Fire books,

those books, very much like if you read Lord of the Rings rings are just like 85 pages of describing a dinner table right like it's very well thought out and you're like in the world but it isn't fast paced it doesn't feel like it's moving you're just like and the lord of the chamberlain knelt down before the table on, a pheasant glazed for fourteen hours. You're like, oh my God. Yeah, I

feel that. I was reading through The Hobbit and it's kind of got that, but I think Lord of the Rings gets even a little more into that. It'd be like, and so he was wondering what was in the corner, and the corner it was in the corner. But things are not what they seem, thought Bilbo as he walked over. But what it was, he did not know, but you will soon learn.

Yeah, that sounds like it. I'm like, all right. Yeah, that's why I like Brandon Sanderson. He's almost methodical in the way he writes, but it's good because he's actually good. actually good so it's like wow this is a good book but he like writes a lot of books too i also interviewed him which was cool on my fishing with crendor so if you search crendor brandon sanderson you'll see that then i saw you tweet about sparkling water i'm a huge fan i'm getting into it i, Toaster Woman drinks all the sparkling water. She's got, she likes the LaCroix, uh, the lime LaCroix, I think.

It's the, yeah, lime. That's the one. I'm pretty basic. I don't, I, I try to find the blue, totally unflavored LaCroix and I never can. I never can find it. It's all, no one, no one sells it because I think no one likes it but me. But I find it. No one sells it because I think no one likes it but me. But I love it. The thing I've noticed is that a lot of sparkling waters have an aftertaste, which is weird.

Like I never quite understood why. And I'm slowly discovering some don't. And the blue packaging LaCroix no flavor, just like normal sparkling water. Has no aftertaste. It just tastes like water that tickles your tongue, which is great. Which is great. It's exactly what I'm looking for. It doesn't taste like anything after it's in my stomach. I don't have a weird taste in my mouth.

It just is like water. And that's the kind of thing I'm looking for. And so I found a few different ones that are like that, that I'm really passionate about. The rest of them, trash. I don't even want to be near them. But even some of the Croys, I'm like, gross. But yeah, I'm really into it now. That's like my vibe.

Huh. Let's see. I'm just going through your tweets. Why? uh let's see i'm just going through your tweets uh and i saw why because you had like five different you know trains of thought from these tweets i did have a bunch of trains of thought then you had ben brode be like dude i got you you gotta check out this pizza it's literally the blue monotony for i i did because really funny uh yeah i was tweeting about so i i really wanted this was i think last night where

i was just like i got nothing going on i guess i'll make a pizza right that was part of so i tweeted like hey what's a good uh store-bought pizza because i don't not a big store-bought pizza guy it's just not there's so many great places around la to just get a pizza but i also didn't want to spend like 20 bucks on a pizza or wait for it. I figured I'd just go to the store, buy it, bring it home, stick it in the oven and just do a thing. I was like, what's the big vibe?

What's the big pizza? And of course, you know, it was DiGiorno's and Jack's and Red Baron. That's what everyone said. But Ben Brode comes out the woodwork and he's like, ah, he tweets hey uh check this pizza out it's the best and it was just lumonatis which is hilarious and i was like all right this gets a like because that's very funny yeah it was just he's like this is the best one and then some guy was like how are you going to

get that delivered he's like they deliver they deliver everywhere, which is true. Lou Malnati's will deliver everywhere. I'm not sure how good a pizza from Chicago to your home in LA is, but I feel like they've got it down. I feel like they have like a, you know, packaging. That's also

the one like that you got on the podcast or TB got it, or maybe you both got it. He might have got it he might have got the cake i got the cake yeah tb i think got the pizzas i got the cake the cake here's the thing it was good was it worth 60 bucks i don't think so i don't think any cakes were 60 bucks yeah no i don't think i get the cake and it's like they'll probably make it fresh right out the thing i'd still be like yeah i was like it's you, it's a flavorful cake, but is it a $60 cake? No.

Yeah, no. Yeah, but that was funny. I mean, I've eaten so many Lou Malnati's, it's probably where my gallbladder left. I mean, that sounds about right. Yeah. So that was a fun time. That was another one of my tweets. Yeah, all right.

Anything else catch your eye? You also said, too many pizza choices got a turkey saying which at the deli. Now. That is true. That is true. I saw the pizza choices, realized that DiGiorno has like 8,000 pizza choices. Everything from rising crust to flatbread to like croissant crust. And I was like, nah, what?

And then there was no jack's pizza red baron had an equal number of choices and i was like i don't i don't know what's good here and so i just went to the deli because they have like a deli open till like 9 p.m and i went there and i got a turkey sandwich and some chips and then that was that was that you have like a home run-in like the frozen home run-ins or is that chicago no it seems like a chicago thing yeah no that's pretty good it's like a solid mediocre good pizza that's frozen i'm trying to think of what what i saw we have uh red baron which i think everyone has digiorno's freshetta um uh california pizza kitchen which i think is very funny because the grocery store is right next to an actual california Fraschetta California Pizza Kitchen

Which I think is very funny Because the grocery store is right next to an actual California Pizza Kitchen Which is just Crazy And then Like a Paul Newman's pizza And then Amy's pizza And then like a large selection

Of overpriced Gluten free pizzas Like a lot of them So very LA And then like a large selection of overpriced gluten-free pizzas. Like a lot of them. So very LA. And I was like, nah, I'm good. I don't want to eat that. Yeah. So I just got to – they bake their bread fresh.

Oh, I mean like it's fresh from the bakery at the grocery store. The bread – I mean it sure was made that day Because it was like 8.50pm When I went there Turkey that they Got from the actual The meat cube Whatever the hell that damn thing is

When you go to the deli Cheese they got directly from the cheese cube Lettuce And onion And I got a little Uh, cheese, they got directly from the cheese cube. Um, lettuce and onion. And, uh, I got a little like a honey mustard on there, like a spicy honey mustard. And then, um, yeah, I mean, that was it. And then I got some, uh, salt and vinegar chips. I was like living my best life.

They had other veggies, but they didn't look as, I guess like the best words, crunchy. Like I'm a huge crunchy veggie person on my sandwiches. I don't want veggies that are like limp. Does that make any sense? Like I don't want veggies

that when I bite into them, they're like, like I don't, I gotta, you know, if you're going to put peppers or cucumber or anything on my sandwich,

I want that to just be like crunch. Yeah, I want the veggie crunch. So I passed. I've been making turkey burgers. They're pretty good. It's pretty good. You get your turkey, your ground turkey. You form it.

You put it in the pan i usually grill up an onion or two and then are you are you like a are you like a fat burger or a thin burger kind of dude uh i'm probably more of a thin i don't want it to be like you know like super thin but like probably like uh so not like a smash a... So not like a smash burger. No, not like a smash burger. But I don't want it to be like a chonker either. I like a nice meaty. Yeah, yeah. Okay, I get it.

I'm starting to get in on that smash thing. I like a nice thin burger, and I might double it up. It's like two thin burgers on one, you know. So it's like kind of a normal burger, but it's like the meat. I don't know. I'm starting to feel that I mean that's like what they do at Five Guys Right they do like the tooth thin burger

Man I haven't been to Five Guys in like two years Holy crap Now I'm thinking about it like oh my god I literally was there with my Tooth because it was soggy enough To eat it And I was like this is actually pretty good And then my stomach was like are you sure And I was like, this is actually pretty good. Then my stomach was like, are you sure?

I was like, uh-oh. It was not. Are you sure? Then I started cutting up some radishes. I like radishes. Because radishes got that crunch. I get it. Yeah, you get that crunch.

I bought some pickles. It was like old Jimmy's pickles. And I was like, this is pretty good too. And you eat that with your turkey burger. That's pretty good. Oh, man. I am huge on pickles on my burger. So I always get like Dave's spicy pickles or whatever the hell that thing's called.

Oh, my God. They're good. Oh, they're good. Those are the good pickles I like it on the side Well here's the thing because again I'm not like a big I think everyone listening knows I'm a crazy person

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mess up the cheese oh yeah i I'm real particular about my burgers. It's a problem I have. I'm like, all right. You can put onion and pickles on it as long as they ain't wet. That's me. That's who I am. I'm going to appreciate that. I don't know.

You don't want the bun to be soggy. That's true. I'll even toast the bun. I'll put the bun in a toaster oven Oh yeah I toast the bun too Yeah I mean if I'm going to make a burger at home I'm going to make it the way I want it If I go out I got to deal with Whatever's going on in that burger place

Which is fine But if I'm making it at home I'm making it the way I want I'm not even settling just zero settling no no doubt around that one no doubt no doubt i just i refuse i will go to the grocery store and find the right meat i won't even be like yeah yeah 80 20 is fine i'll be like all right what kind of blend of fat to meat do i want today well I feel like I don't want a lot of grease in the pan. Let's do like a 95-5. Right? Like crazy stuff. And then I'll be like, yeah, that works.

Yeah. Oh yeah, I'll spend a ton of time. Or I'll go up to the butcher counter and be like, what kind of ground meat you got today? Oh, I'm a huge fan of that. I will purposefully give them a hard time. I've been doing that with the steak. Like last week we had our Valentine's steak, which was great. How did that go? You got to tell us.

It was very good. I got it to a nice medium. It's like right between the medium, medium, rare. It's like the sweet spot where I don't want it to medium rare but I don't want it like just just hitting the medium you know that's where I like the steak once you go like a little over that then it's gonna get to like chewy once you go to under that I feel like it's still dead and you're like just eating raw meat but like once you get that medium almost medium that's like mmm that's a mama mia.

You got to let it sit. I learned that. You let it sit once you cook it five minutes, and it lets the juices all seep back in. Do you tinfoil sit it? Do you let it sit in tinfoil and you wrap it up? No, I don't tinfoil sit it. Oh, I love that.

When it's on that grill, it's spicy still. I guess you're right. I will put some rosemary on it, too. Ooh. You got to hit the rosemary. You're a professional. Usually put some rosemary on it too. You've got to hit the rosemary. You're a professional. Oh, my goodness. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I'm a simple salt and pepper man. That's it. That's all I'll do. I'll rub that thing down and be like, let's roll. Throw it on the old frying pan. Let it do its thing. And then afterwards wrap it up in tin foil and let it sit there for five minutes in its own heat and juices oh yeah no that's still and baked potato you gotta have a big you gotta have that

like baked potato oh my god we do like the red potatoes then you like cut them up a bit put them in the thing and then let uh put in some like garlic butter and then a little rosemary on top of that so you like some rosemary potatoes then we do like the garlic asparagus you get some garlic asparagus going in there olive oil i don't i i don't you know anyone listening right now i pity you it's probably like i'm so hungry look i'm hungry too well i didn't know i've literally the last time i ate was 8 a.m and I'm like I'm ready for lunch and it is far beyond lunchtime so

I feel that pain I feel that uh yeah I don't know it's oh my god I forgot the it's completely off topic I forgot to mention the uh the Ocean FM Ireland station we covered yeah we got it we got it right up we got it right up for mispronouncing a thing if, we got it. We got a write up.

We got a write up for mispronouncing a thing. If only we got one every time we mispronounce something, we'd be famous. We would. Los Angeles based podcast show had a bit of bother getting to grips with the concept of Sligo Gardai after they're discussing an Ocean FM news story. Well, apparently it's Sligo Gardi. Sligo Gardai after they were discussing an Ocean FM news story. Well, apparently it's Sligo Gardi. Sligo Gardi. It's even better. Yeah.

I mean, agreed. Here's the thing. We tried to pronounce it like we thought you would pronounce it. It's not our fault that it's even simpler than what we thought it was. Yeah. Someone was just like, how do you get that so wrong? And someone's like, have you heard Crandor pronounced scarce acetaminophen incident? I can't even speak English, let alone other languages.

Yeah, that was a good reply to them. Oh, my God. Then that movie came out, the Nick Cage Willy Wonderland or whatever. We need to – how do we watch that? We need to have a watch party for that movie. Yeah, can we watch that on a thing? I heard that it is not too scary and not too violent. So I feel like we can watch part of this.

Yeah. It's got to be a way. What is it on? It's got to be a way on Twitch. I don't know. And if we watch party it, we need to go. I have my bottle sitting up there. You need to go get.

Or I will send you some. Okay. Snoop Dogg wine. Oh, yeah. That's right. I'm going to check today. today i'm gonna go today because it's saturday we're doing this i'm gonna check and see if it's uh see if it's there and i'll drink it if we do watch the the watch party that'll be good so it's i love that this movie

was made for five million dollars amazing i bet most of that went to nick cage which is great uh it was originally called Wally's Wonderland. Now it's Willy's Wonderland. I'm not sure why that changed. I don't know. It's on Vudu. Vudu. But it says I can log in through Walmart.

What the shit is this? Oh, it's on Amazon Prime for $19.99. Oh, my God. It's on Apple TV. It's on Amazon Prime for $19.99 Oh my god It's on Apple TV It's on Vudu Let me see Has a 5.7 out of 10 Perfect

Perfect You can rent it for $19 I may do that The problem is how do we do a watch party With people Hmm I guess you just do it I mean it is allowed

But we'd have to say It would be like you and I Chatting and then we'd have to say Now press play right now Yeah I mean that's what we did with like the Superbowl But the Superbow Bowl is always going. We don't have to like sync it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like it could be like three, two, one, go. Yeah. No, that could be good. I will say, I will say. We could have a timer so people know like what time we're at. So we'd be able to three, two, one, go and start our timers at the same time. That works. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm blown away by the fact that this is. So, basically, there is a review. There are reviews online saying how bad it is. Yet, on Amazon, 482 reviews, four and a half stars. Amazon loves this movie It's not surprising honestly 10 out of 10 Watch with friends

Absolute blast Daddy Nick's ultimate masterpiece Five Nights at Cage's Worth the watch Pop the popcorn Just watch it Loved every minute I trust these reviews

I trust everyone. What does the one-star review say? The main character was too powerful. Shut up, nerd. He's too powerful. Nick Cage is too strong. That's the whole point. You suck.

Yeah, that's the whole point. That's what Nick Cage is here for. Yeah, he's too powerful. Yes, we need to do this we need to do a watch party for sure i'm saving this page all right good yeah i'm down for oh yeah and then i'm gonna get oh my god i make i like may make a steak and drink some snoop dog wine drink it with the snoop dog wine yeah that's what i'm saying it's gonna be great and i'll sit here and be like and now nick cage oh i'm so ready yes all right we need to do like a whole thing for this all right yes we'll have to see we'll

have to see when most people can watch yeah and how to pull this off wait what the hell x-ray it says on here willy's wonderland one hour 28 minutes 18 plus x-ray x-ray what does that mean i don't i don't know what is x-ray what does x-ray mean that's so wow that's so weird willy's wonderland Amazon Let's see Uh Wait where's it at X-Ray It says in a little box Next to the run time and the year it was released

Oh yeah X-Ray That's what I'm saying What does it mean Amazon X-Ray Oh hold on This is amazing What?

So watch party unavailable Buy or rent the movie To start a watch party Everyone who joins must buy or rent Here's the thing if you buy or rent it We can start a watch party in the thing And then Everyone can join the chat for that it, we can start a watch party in the thing and then everyone can join the chat for that and then we can

do a thing. Yeah, that's good. Like maybe we can do a Discord or something where people can hear us. Yeah, that could work. Yeah, then everyone can chat in the watch party. Oh, look at this.

Amazon got it figured out. There we go. Yeah. I don't think Twitch would allow us to do a watch party with a thing that is paid. Yeah, I don't think so. But yeah, this is good. Yeah, we can work around it. Yeah.

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Or no, wait. It is foolproof. That's the thing. I used to say foolproof. I was like, this is foolproof. Right? Oh, you meant like F-U-L-L? Yeah, like this is fully proofed.

It was a foolproof plane. I always thought it was that. I like your version. This is fully proofed. This is foolproof. Yeah, okay. Damn, this is fully proofproof. Yeah. Okay. Damn, this is foolproof. Foolproof. All right.

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Traffic Is out here Today It looks like premium subscription. Alright, Crendo, let's go to chapter 7 of the Scouts. Crendo, how's that traffic over? Traffic is out here today. It looks like things are warming up a little bit. Not a whole lot, but just enough to start thawing out those roads. And, you know, get people going around back out there. And, you know, moving, hustling, bustling, rustling uh fussling uh muscling uh robot tussling uh i'm running out of rhymes back to you robot tussling like robot tussling you know i got that tussling yeah no i get it yeah i getussin. Yeah, Robitussin. It sounds like what happens if you drink a lot of Robitussin to get drunk and then you get in fights. Robitussin.

Yeah. That's the definition. Robitussin all day. Those boys is Robitussin again. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. All right.

Let's go to the weather. Weather. So we got some weather, and it's going to be happening everywhere. Everywhere has weather. Did you know that? I was unaware. Thanks for informing me. No problem.

Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather.

Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather. Weather-oh-sa. Uh, ay-oh-sa. Ay-oh-sa. Uh-huh. Ay-oh-yo-yo. If this is where we're going. Ay-oh-yo-yo. Uh, hold on. What if I do type in

ay-oh? Ay-oh? Ayago? Ayago? Ayano? type in I yo I yo I Yago I know the parent from I was about to say the parent from Jasmine that's not right the parent from Aladdin from Jasmine that's how I

saw that movie I went through the entire film Aladdin was just like I love you Jasmine I don't even know I didn't even know there was a guy named Aladdin that that film. Honestly, it's probably a thing a lot of people did.

I like Jasmine. That's all I care about. I do. I like Jasmine. Let's go to Ayago. Ayago, Apak, Uganda. 69 degrees nice fair 1% chance of rain through

4 a.m. morning yeah it's 78 degrees alright where is this hold on where is this place Ayago Apak Uganda Uganda Uganda

92 degrees It's going to be 92 Nice and hot 38% humidity Extreme UV index How do I spell Iago? How do you think you spell it? I-A-G-O

But clearly that's wrong So how do I spell it? Or it's A-Y-A-G-O Alright, alright Wow Or it's A-Y-A-G-O. All right. All right. Wow. The first thing that comes up is the hydroelectric power station. Oh.

All right. I mean, I guess. Wow. That is all that comes up. Everything about this place is hydropower. Is there. All right. I mean, I just want to know about the people there but okay

maybe they love their hydropower i guess uh hydropowered hydropowered wait i typed in iago i said yahoo i don't want to go to yahoo i uh i uh go i want to see the hydropower Oh yeah wow that is a lot of hydropower Everything that's there is hydropower Oh but this also appears to be like Straight up in the jungle It says there are 44,000 people No 39,000 people

Alright Somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 people Live there And the people alright somewhere between 40 and 50 thousand people live there and the main agriculture so basically everything that's there is agriculture

and livestock but I guess the reason why hydropower is everywhere is because it's the big thing there now, and that's what's funding the local government, I think. Oh, I see. This could be one of those things that, like, you know, China owns the hydropower and is like, we will not fund you at all.

I don't know. I don't want to read too much into that, but. All we know is it's, you know, they like hydropower that is all i know yeah that is all i know uh and i like to imagine it's like the jungle animals are like you know just like zootopia it's like zootopia but they're running the hydropower like they're building the hydropower we have to stop them from destroying our jungle and then they like gather up and then there's like a cool movie that comes out of it so yeah it's 92 degrees 88 89 92 91 90 91 93 93 94 95 96 all partly cloudy except for a couple mostly sunnies and a cloudy it's pretty standard hot, cloudy weather. There you go.

And that's Iago. Iago. All right, Crandor, let's talk sports. Sports. Sports. Oh, God, where am I? Rockets are expected to part ways with the Marcus Cousins. Boogie Cousins going somewhere else.

NBA standings. Looks like the Clippers beat the Jazz today, which is actually pretty impressive. Jazz have been the best team in the NBA. Also checking it out. Looks like 76ers up the top. Nets, Bucks, Celtics, Pacers in the top five. In the West, you got Jazz, Lakers, Clippers, Trailblazers, and the Suns. Over in the NHL,

you've got your... Oh, God, what do you got? You got your swag. You got your maple leaves. You got your Florida Panthers. You got your... You got your swag and your maple leaves. You got your...

Yeah, your maple leaves, your Pan your panthers your bruins and your blues all at the top and uh looks like you got edmonton winnipeg up there you got carolina chicago up there you got philadelphia and new york islanders and the washington up there and you got uh vegas and uh up there that's about that's really bad. A couple other ones. Who's at the bottom? Buffalo. Nashville. Yep.

Ottawa. Oh, my God. Ottawa is really bad. Wow, they are really bad. So in terms of like, so there's a category called point differential, which is like the amount of goals you've given up versus the amount of goals you scored. which is like the amount of goals you've given up versus the amount of goals you scored. So say you've played like 10 games and you've outscored the opponent by a couple goals, right?

You would be like plus three or something. So in terms of one game, say you lost five to three, your point differential would be minus two because you've given up more goals than you've scored. So Toronto in first place is plus 19. Calgary is a mediocre team, minus one. Nashville is minus 19. Detroit is in minus 25.

And the Ottawa Senators are minus 34. They've given up 34 more goals than they've scored again. Like, that's really bad. That is pretty bad. They've scored 44 goals and given up almost 80. Wow. Well, sorry, Ottawa. Wow.

And by... Wow. Any other sports things happening? I guess baseball is actually going to be starting spring training pretty soon. That's a thing. And the Giants have agreed to a deal with Yamaguchi. I don't know who that is. I don't actually know either, but...

It sounded impressive, yeah. Shun Yamaguchi. Let's see, let's see. He was with the Blue Jays. Okay, I don't know much about the American League. I watch the Cubs, so I know about the National League, especially the Central. Wait, they have Vladimir Guerrero Jr.?

I remember Vladimir Guerrero. Now his son's playing. You're old now, man. You're old now, man. That's like Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. You're just like, oh, no. Yeah. I mean, that's sports.

All right, Crandor. What is our big news story of the day? Before we hit that big news story, I want to read off a couple more random fun facts. Is this the same article? Yeah. They've got a lot of facts. I thought there was just a new article,

and I was like, wait, what? Okay. Let's see. Cotton candy was invented by a dentist I you know what that makes sense in a weird way right uh he would know how best to make your teeth hurt that's true right like that yeah yeah pigeons can tell the difference between a painting by Monet and Picasso. Wait, how do they know? Wait, hold on.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. How do they know that? Why would they know that? There it is. In 1995, a study published in the Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, researchers reported of being able to train pigeons to discriminate between paintings by Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso when shown slides of their works that they had previously never seen before.

When the Picasso images were inverted, the little art connoisseurs could still tell it was a Picasso. Huh. Interesting. But, like, why? Why did they do that? I don't know. Yeah.

But why? I just have so many questions. Okay. Here's a relevant one. Space smells like seared steak. What? Yeah. It says, when you see footage of astronauts floating in space, do you ever wonder what space smells like?

According to some former astronauts, space does in fact have a distinct odor. They've described it as hot metal or searing steak. Hot? Wait, how would they smell space if they're in their suit? Isn't that just their own body? I don't know, man. Maybe you're like out in space and you come back in and you smell it on the suit. I, maybe?

Yeah, I guess maybe you're right. Yeah. But then isn't that still part of the space station smell? Well, I feel like you gotta know the space station smell if you're in it all the time. So it's gotta be different. Maybe. Maybe you're right. I'm fine with the fact that

space smells like steak. It makes me want to go there more. Yeah. That's interesting. I'm very down. The final random fun fact. Okay. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. Why do you think that is?

I don't know. While Scotland proudly boasts the Loch Ness Monster, animal of Scotland. Why do you think that is? I don't know. Hold on. While Scotland proudly boasts the Loch Ness Monster, one of the world's most famous fabled creatures, the country opted to make another mythical beast its national animal. Yeah, why don't they do the Loch Ness Monster? The unicorn. Although this might seem like an odd choice,

Visit Scotland explains that the unicorn played an integral role in the country's history. Back in the 12th century, William I used the proud beast in the Scottish royal coat of arms. Huh. I mean, okay. Like, alright. I mean, yeah, if you think back, it's like a horse with a

like, icicle on his head and stabbed through people. I'm sorry, what? How would you, I'm sorry, how would you describe a unicorn, a horse with an icicle on, not a horn, an icicle. Well, it's like a describe a unicorn a horse with an icicle on not a horn an icicle? Well, it's like a horn, but it's like an icicle same thing, but yeah, it's also an icicle. Yeah, all right It's like a frost unicorn that'd be cool, huh? Sure, I mean look at icicles look at the unicorn horns. They like look at it

Practically the same practically I've seen some big-ass icicles, dude. Right. Right. That's your random fun facts. All right. What is our news story? Our news story. What the shit?

New Zealand sentences cactus smuggler caught with 947 plants strapped to her body? All right. there it is. Well, we found our story of the day. New Zealand authorities have sentenced a woman who tried in 2019 to smuggle nearly a thousand cacti and succulents into the country strapped to her

body. The woman, Wen-Kwing Lee, 38, pleaded guilty to violating biosecurity laws after she was caught twice with plants and seeds at Auckland International Airport when returning home to the city from China, New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries said in a statement. What the hell? How did she fit that on her body? A thousand? I don't know. She was sentenced to intensive supervision for 12 months and 100 hours of community work. On March 24, 2019, Lee strapped stockings containing 947 succulents and cacti valued over $10,000 to her body and attempted to bring them into the country.

How is that possible? Do we have photos of what this looked like? Here's an evidence thing. Here's some wonky looking cacti. Look at these. What the hell? Yeah. Oh, I do see.

Okay, so she put them in stockings, then wrapped the stockings around her body, maybe. Yeah, I think that's got gotta be it. So you can see they're all like little baby cacti Yeah they're like little baby cacti. And succulents and she put them in this. That still is crazy. Okay It is still crazy. Uh

let's see. The cacti included eight endangered and threatened species. She tried to dispose of the items in the airport toilets after attracting the attention of a detector dog. Dog's just like, this lady's got cactus. She's like, ah, shit. Not the cactus. In a separate incident, on July 23rd,

Lee was found in possession of 142 seeds hidden in packaged iPad covers in her luggage. Dude, this lady's like a cactus like a fishionata. She is, yeah. She is like the cactus thief queen. She was also carrying plants, plant pots, and ornaments which were found to contain

a snail and pieces of tree fern. They were trapped wait, they were wrapped in moldy wet paper, also a potential source of disease. What? The island nation was some of the world's strictest biosecurity laws to protect its agriculture and biodiversity. This sentencing serves as a good reminder that anyone who smuggles plants or other endangered species into New Zealand can expect to be prosecuted.

Biosecurity New Zealand takes its role in protecting New Zealand. Free of many invasive pests and diseases found in other countries. Uh, according to the authorities, the woman was a seller and trader of succulents on a classified website similar to Craigslist. Dang, that's like a weird cactus drug market i yeah i mean i've i figure yeah of course this has to exist but i never thought that it did does that make any sense like of course of course this exists but i never thought like oh yeah i know it definitely does here's the thing like she's trying to smuggle them so she can sell them right but like who wants to buy them there there must be a market right there must be or else

why do they want it like are they trying to make crazy drugs out of them are they trying to like grow their own cactus plant farm and then sell them or like i don't know i i well i feel like because australia has such a big like you can't even take pets there like that kind of thing yeah like they have such a bio i don't know what you would Like that kind of thing Like they have such a bio I don't know what you would call that Bio blockade And so I wonder if People who

Are from other parts of the world They miss their Insert whatever so badly That they're willing to pay top dollar to get them And so she's like ah You want cactus? Of course you do. I don't know.

I have no idea. Although, maybe these cacti are just, like, real good for drugs. Who knows? I have no idea. Couldn't tell you. Here we go. I just Googled why the black market for cacti and succulents is booming. What the shit? Okay.

This is a long article. What's the dress? This is happening across the board. Individuals. Blames two things. One is money that can be made. The other is our electronic world, which he said has made it easy for collectors to engage in dark underworld purchasing but why do they want to buy crazy plants i don't understand we thought we had an answer and instead it was just like people have money and they want things well that doesn't

explain why they want cactus though like why i don't know that's not helpful that's not helpful at all that doesn't help anyone. Yeah. Is it just like it has a big market because people just want them? Has it just supplied the man? But like some guys like I need every... It's like coin collecting but for like crazy rich people or something? I don't know. I don't understand.

All I know is it's weird. And I would never get some cactuses. Cacti, if you will. What the hell? A legal trade contributes to placing cacti among the world's threatened species. This is from 2015 in Switzerland. Huh. Okay.

Okay. Huh. Okay. There are threatened species, but people want them. Cacti are key components of the world's arid ecosystems, critical survival of many species. Cactus flowers provide nectar for hummingbirds and bats. Cactus species are widely used by people for food or medicine. Their fruit and highly nutritious stems are important food resources for rural communities.

Trade in cactus species occurs at national and international levels and is often illegal. With 86% of threatened cacti used in this horticulture taken from wild populations. European and Asian collectors are the biggest contributors to illegal cactus specimens. They're sought for their rarity. So I guess basically the world is running low on cacti and people are trying to snatch them up before they die out. Okay, and they're just like, look at my rare cacti I have I guess I guess that's what it is That's so weird

It is very strange But that is As you would say it's very scarce This is a scarcity issue The less of something there is The more people want of it Yeah And that goes for everything.

So, I mean, I get it. I understand it, but to think that cacti is what... It's so weird. Yeah, I don't... I don't know. Huh, today I learned. Yeah, wow, okay.

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