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Woman: I've never seen anything like it.
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Okay, check them out. New chompers.
Just in time for the French market.
We've got everything -- fresh fruits, fresh-cut flowers,
samples, gifts.
I sell it all.
You look like you could use a watermelon julep.
-A what? -A watermelon julep.
That looks good.
You ever had super concentrated watermelon?
-Never. -Oh, it's real good.
Best way to have it.
Alright. -Let's see how this goes.
Yes. Okay, good.
Now, ordinarily I would do this, you know,
before people came over.
I usually have them all laid out on the table.
So, this is gonna be a little bit different here.
-Want me to give you a sec? -No, that's okay.
The process is kind of fascinating -- how it works.
Uses a hair dryer and a watermelon.
[ Hair dryer blowing ]
Kind of heat it here inside the bag.
Good.
It's kind of like a raisin --
how a raisin dehydrates down.
Come on.
Okay.
[ Hair dryer stops ] Good.
Takes 80% of the water out of the watermelon
and leaves it really, really good.
You got to be careful now though because it'll -- it conversed.
Isn't that insane? Yeah! [ Laughs ]
You playin' with me, right?
Yeah, no.
No, this is a concentrated watermelon julep.
That's crazy. You never saw this?
Never in my life.
Oh, this is the Deep South way to do it, man.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
You use the watermelon -- Blowing my mind.
It is mind-boggling.
It is. It is, but to me, you know, just watermelon.
I didn't know you could do that with a watermelon.
Yeah. We'll put a little mint in there for you.
That is crazy. A little more ice.
What is that?
You didn't see what he just did?
No.
Yeah, he just turned that whole,
big watermelon into that little ball.
How?
He put it in a bag,
and he blow-dried it, and it just shrunk.
I don't know how.
It extracts 80% of the juice,
and it condenses the watermelon down,
so it really concentrates the flavors.
I wish had took a video of that.
-Right? -Crazy.
-I know... -And then this is the best part
'cause it's so tight -- the skin.
If you can get through the rind...
There you go. Ooh.
It'll pop back.
-Oh, that is crazy. -Yeah.
And here, you want to taste that?
Yeah, I'll give it a try.
[ Speaking native language ]
Yeah.
What does it taste like?
-This is amazing. -That's so cool.
-This tastes amazing. -Yeah.
I'm gonna get some more watermelons.
I only have one left out here.
Are you gonna do this again?
Yeah, I'm gonna try and grab some more watermelons.
[ Indistinct conversation ]
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Hey, you want to taste some tea?
-Sure. -Delicious black tea.
Infused with honey. You good with honey?
Yeah.
Okay, all organic.
That's good.
That's good?
Yeah. I just want to try a little.
Okay.
Thanks.
Here you go, a little taste.
I'm gonna get you a paraphenated swizzle stick.
Mmm.
It's kind of like what you have on a candle.
Yeah. And they dip right in there
'cause the tea is paraphenated.
Let me show you.
So, you'd drink a sip of it,
and you dip a little bit onto the bottom of that metal
and heat it up just a little bit.
You can use a candle, or, if you're doing this at home,
you can use a stove.
But guests like to do it with a candle.
And let it sink to the bottom and it will paraphenate the wax.
No way.
It excites it, yeah.
See, it kind of -- Holy mackerel!
Yeah, it freezes it. Get that -- there we go.
And then it's a candle.
Here, hold out your hand.
I can clip that on for you.
That is so weird and wild.
You've never seen that?
Never in my life.
But do you feel that on your throat?
Like, the taste of it, it paraphenates your throat.
Yeah.
So, your throat is actually lozenged with wax.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's actually where the term "tea lights"
come from, you know.
No way.
You light it in there.
Yeah, here. We'll light it up.
That is the coolest thing ever.
Isn't that great?
Yeah.
This way you can all have a sip.
And we're selling it in gift packs, as well.
Yeah.
Wow.
Let me grab you a gift box.
Stay right there. I got one over here.
That is amazing.
Wow.
I'm out of gift boxes, but...
Wow, that's so wild.
Yeah.
But really...
And then if you re-boil it, you can drink it again.
No. Yeah.
Blow it out. Make a wish.
Did you wish -- by chance --
to be on a hidden-camera magic TV show?
[ Laughing ] No.
Because you are on one. Yes!
That's amazing.
Seriously, I'm a magician.
That is the coolest thing I ever saw in my life.
[ Laughs ]
I was like, "Am I gonna be okay?"
[ Laughing ]
Do you have any other succulents,
or are these the two that you have?
I have that one, and then the only other one...
were these little, little bowls here.
Oh, that's new.
You want to purchase these, too?
-Just one of them. -Just one?
Michael: Okay, great.
So, that is $20 even.
And then how -- okay, so, where should they keep?
Like, sunlight?
They're actually very good anywhere
because we infuse them with broccolini, as well.
You know how much water broccolini can absorb.
Do they absorb a lot?
That's how they really keep your plant life...
-Okay, I didn't know that. -Just a little.
-Seriously? -The stalk of the broccolini.
How much do you typically put in?
Well, we'll cut it, and we'll let it soak in the water.
Yeah.
Just a little piece of it.
Right?
-Oh. -It kind of sticks to that.
Yeah.
And then you fill it with water.
So, one little piece of that
is more absorbent that a sea sponge.
Oh, wow.
So, we put this much water in there first.
Let it absorb it.
Yeah, let it kind of absorb that.
-Cool. -And then we use this.
This is broccolini eternale.
That's what extracts the regenerative
effects of broccolini.
'Cause plants can regenerate. -Yeah.
You know, we can' regenerate our bodies when we lose pieces,
but plants can, and some reptiles can, as well.
So, yeah, we cloud it up. -It's so interesting.
-It's really wild. -Yeah, I've never heard of it.
The botany behind it.
-Yeah, right? -The science.
So, she shouldn't change the water?
No, I wouldn't change the water in that
because that already has this whole thing in it.
Yeah. So, once the water goes down...?
See? Yeah, see?
The little... And that will put all the moisture.
You kind of warm it with your hands.
Oh. That's crazy.
Keep it in the glass.
If you keep it warm, just for a few seconds in the morning...
-Yeah. -...that's what you have to do.
And then look, it will smoke.
Pulls the moisture.
Stop it.
So, it regenerates an entire broccolini...
We're just so confused.
...from the one chip.
So, this can be planted again, and we can get more of it.
Wait. That's so crazy.
Yeah.
It's a very Zen vegetable for a lot of people.
Yes, I just had, like, a -- That was crazy.
You had, like, a dream?
-Yeah, both. -Yes.
Broccolini will do that.
I mean, it is the broccolini eternale,
which means "eternal broccolini".
You can never destroy broccoli
because it will always regenerate.
Right. Wow.
That was one of the craziest things I've ever seen.
Yeah, that's why it's so good for you.
Well, let me see if I have a gift box for that.
One second here.
-So, I don't know. -I'm confused.
Broccoli eternale.
♪♪
-I don't understand... -That is...
at all.
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These fake tattoos are making sort of, like,
lizardy skin on me, which is, like,
only more appropriate for the Chicago Reptile House.
Michael: What you feeding?
Uh, fresh Gecko.
-Uh-huh. -He's about ready to go.
-Yeah. -He's old.
Oh, is he?
Sorry to hear that, man. Alright.
You can wear those if you want, if you're gonna be near here.
I'm just gonna, yeah. What are you doing?
I got to do the the -- the whities.
What do you get to do with them?
We got a lot of people coming in for feeders,
so, we're splicing feeders now.
-Spicing? -Splicing feeders.
What the hell is splicing?
With this thing. I don't know. It's like a...
Yeah, well, they're just feeders.
They're for people to feed,
like you're feeding your lizard.
Yeah.
What are you gonna do with him?
Oh, it's, like, a process. It's a little gene splicer.
Really?
Yeah.
So, he goes inside here. See this bottom?
Oh, yeah. That's wax almost like.
Uh-huh.
You know when you have a frog?
Like a taxidermy?
Uh-huh.
Or when you're gonna try dissecting a frog?
Yeah.
It's the same waxy bottom as that.
Okay, here we go.
[ Energy buzzing ]
[ Buzzing stops ] Okay.
So, because they're single-celled, they'll split.
[ Gasps ]
So, we use these as feeders instead.
[ Mice squeaking ]
It's just a more humane way of doing it.
Alright.
♪♪
Come here, little guy.
Yeah. You haven't seen us do this before?
We do the same thing with the crickets, too.
Anything that is a single-cell.
Yeah.
Single-cell mammal or insect.
Yeah.
He doesn't want to go anywhere.
No, he doesn't want to go.
There's always one that's like the alpha,
so we'll keep him to grow.
Really?
Yeah.
Then he can be split again.
These guys you want to just sell.
But the alpha we always keep.
Here we go.
Feisty, little guy, right?
Got to be locked in there.
Okay.
Yeah, you're standing back, right?
[ Laughing ] Don't be nervous.
No. I got to see this.
[ Laughs ]
Okay. Alright.
[ Energy buzzing ]
[ Buzzing stops ]
Alright.
These ones will be just a little bit small.
[ Mice squeaking ]
No freaking way.
Yeah.
Look at all those little guys.
Okay, hang on one second.
I'll get these guys in here.
Alright.
Yeah, we've been doing this for like the last three weeks.
Have you not been in here to see this?
For feeders, it's more humane to splice them.
Splice them.
You can do it with any simple-celled organism
up to 18 times,
and then they'll start to get a little...
you know, wonky.
We call them "floppers".
But those will work for feeders, too.
But...
Hang on. Let me grab your crickets, okay?
We got to get this guy some crickets.
That is freaking amazing.
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I'll grab those. Sorry about that.
How does it do that?
Huh?
How does that do that?
It interrupts the cellular mitosis,
so this laser forces that action.
So, it just interrupts that, and the cells split.
That is freaking amazing. That was cool.
It's cool, right? It's like the Carbonaro Effect.
Do you know what that is?
No.
The Carbonaro Effect?
"The Carbonaro Effect" -- it's the name
of a hidden-camera
magic TV show that you're on.
Ohh, [bleep]. My God!
Yes! [ Laughs ] Get out of here!
Yes. Come here, come here.
[ Laughs ]
You son of a gun.
I was like, "No way."
Dude.
That was cool.
I'm going like, "There's no way you can do that".
[ Bell rings ]
Hi.
Hey, how's it going?
Good. I am picking up turtle bedding.
Oh, sure, yeah, totally.
Andy, the turtle bedding.
Yeah. Can I ask you a question?
Yeah.
Is this totally weird?
I was gonna give this to my girlfriend.
She's really afraid of snakes.
Does that -- is that close enough to, like, snakes?
Oh, that's what it's supposed to look like, snakes?
Well, like, they're kind of like snakes,
but they're not snakes.
I would say no.
Not so good?
No.
Okay.
I was going to say it's a nice...
She gets grossed out by snakes,
so I thought this would be just, like...
Yeah. These little guys.
Okay. [ Blows ]
I see what you're going for.
Yeah, 'cause they're a little bit less snake-like,
and they're more caterpillar-y.
Oh, God.
You know? So, I thought, you know, like...
Wait.
Would you be afraid of that
if you were afraid of snakes?
I'm, like, a little bit afraid of that --
what did you just do?
Yeah, when they stand up on their end like this,
they stay stiff, and you can light they're little horns.
Oh [Bleep].
They can only burn for about ten seconds.
[ Blows ]
They're called candelas -- living candelas.
It's, like, a thing they do for birthday
celebrations in Bolivia.
You did not just light those on fire.
Yeah, you can light the little tip.
Yeah, we get a whole case of them in here.
So, once they go into hibernation,
we were gonna, like, sell them as the candles, and then...
They only work when they're stiff like that.
Really?
Yeah.
I'm gonna get these guys back in.
Once they start moving again,
they won't do that again until the season hits.
When they get scared, they'll stay perfectly stiff.
The same thing we do when we perk up.
And then that -- that's a receptor that if you touch it...
It has no nerve endings in it. That's why you can light it.
And then once they feel the heat,
you put them down on something else.
That's bonkers.
Yeah.
But I just don't want her to freak out
when I was showing it to you.
So, yay or nay on these? I shouldn't do it.
She might freak out.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Alright, let me go grab your bedding.
Okay.
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Hello. Hey, how are you?
Good. I'm here to pick up a plastic tank.
Okay. Hey, Jack? [ Whistles ]
That plastic tank, is it on the truck?
-Yeah. -Alright, just get it out.
The lady's here for the...
How you doing? Good, how are you?
Doing okay.
Don't be afraid of our little snakes over here.
Oh, my favorite. You love snakes?
No, I don't. [ Laughs ]
Oh. They're harmless when they're little.
We had a guy in here doing a seminar...
Really?
... teaching, like, you know, snake charming.
Really? Yeah.
So, like, he had a whole thing.
We had like 15 people in here,
and we learned, like, how to make him, like --
It doesn't really work when they're out in the light, but...
Uh-huh. You have to cover them up,
and then learn how they respond.
[ Plays flute ]
Yeah, didn't work. [ Laughs ]
Usually -- it has to be at night 'cause the mother
will move the snake, the baby snakes,
by night with high-pitched frequencies, so they kind of...
Oh, that's cool. ...will wiggle. Yeah.
So, what type of snake is that?
It's a baby corn snake. Ohh.
Yeah, the guy, he set us up with, like, these little kits.
Uh-huh. It has a special kind of ink
that's made of charcoal and mud indigenous to where they live.
Uh-huh.
All natural, and it's just used
as kind of like a henna tattooing in some countries.
Oh, okay.
Alright, let's see if I can get him to do it.
Alright. Come here, you little guy.
[ Gasps ]
Don't be scared.
[ Chuckles ]
Okay, here. We'll dip his little tail in that.
Okay.
I think that will work. Okay, let's try it.
Okay, buddy. We'll do it on a blank pad here.
And he gets put underneath it.
Okay, ready?
That should do it.
And then he makes art? Yeah.
You try and let him, like, wiggle and make art.
Let me see if he'll do it in the dark.
So, what's your name?
Kari. Kari?
Yeah. How you spell it?
K-a-r-i.
Alright, little boy.
Let's see.
[ Plays flute ]
♪♪
Oh, my God! Wow.
That is great.
Oh, my God!
Yeah, my boss is really, really good at it.
Oh...my...God.
Pretty good, right? I got to take a picture of that.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's kind of like a combination of how you play
and the talent of the snake.
Yeah, get the name, and I'll get your picture, too.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh. That is amazing.
Yeah, snake charmers were regarded
as the highest artists of the village
because they would do art and they would be able to,
you know, charm the animal life.
That is amazing. Yeah.
Hey, buddy, god job. Nice job, little guy.
Hang on one sec. I'll get your order.
Okay. In the back.
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Okay, today we're at Cook's Wholesale Warehouse.
I've got unsuspecting people being set up over there
in the toilet paper section, waiting for me on walkie.
Michael: Hey, is this Davonte?
Yes, sir. Oh, it's Michael.
You over by toilet paper?
Yes.
Oh, hey. What's up?
So, you're helping me. I'm Michael.
Okay, cool, cool.
What is your name?
Davonte.
Yes, sir.
Okay, we are gonna be -- Here, come around here.
Oh, okay.
We're gonna be setting up right here --
like, a little toilet paper display right here.
Okay.
It's got, like, the two signs are gonna be right here,
and the sign -- well, I'm gonna hang a sign
in between those two.
Gotcha.
Okay?
So, yeah, come on over here.
And here, you want to push this side?
We'll kind of pull this out of the way.
And slide it back. I'm gonna actually use the crate.
Here, hold on. You know what?
Alright, that's good. That's good, that's good.
So, that's what's gonna -- Oh!
Nice.
Those shouldn't be stacked up there individually like that.
Yeah, see how these are all shrunk-wrapped?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they're all usually shrunk-wrapped into these cubes.
-Ah, okay. -I'll probably fix that.
Well, we'll do the banner first.
-Yeah, that's fine. -Then we can fix that. Alright.
We can maybe use these for the pyramid.
Gotcha.
And we can use what's in here, too.
Yeah, we'll use the ones in here and the ones over there.
So, you know what's gonna be good for you to do, is, like,
just help me, like, make sure it's straight.
Like, I could probably use your eye.
-Okay. -So...
Let me stand back here.
Alright, good. Sign here.
Dropped a pillow there.
I dropped a pillow back there. Will you grab that?
Yeah, I gotcha.
I'll just toss it over...
We'll put it up later here.
So, let me unfurl this.
And here, will you make sure it doesn't hit the ground?
-Yeah. -Nice.
Okay, I think that will straight it out.
Okay, good. It won't hit the floor, right?
-No, no, no. -Okay, that's perfect.
Yeah, stand back and tell me when it pulls up
perfectly straight.
Looks like -- -Horizontally or vertically?
Well, I want it to kind of be between these two.
Okay.
Oh, yeah. Here, let me hoist it to here.
This side's got to be a lot -- Hold on a minute. Nope.
This side's still a little too low, right?
[ Toiler paper thuds ]
Ooh. You okay?
[ Walkie-talkie crackles ]
Hello?
-Davonte? -Yeah, I'm here.
Could -- Could you help?
Yeah, where you at? I'm trying to look for you.
Somehow I think I slipped inside this.
You -- How did you get in the crate?
How did you even get in the crate?
Through the top somehow.
Okay, alright. Hold on, hold on.
I didn't -- I was wondering...
Where's the crowbar?
Over here, I gotcha. I gotcha.
Okay, I can hear, like,
plastic all around me.
How the hell did this happen?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
What is -- what the heck is going on?
♪♪
Whoa.
How the [bleep] did you actually get in there?
Dude, how did you get in there?
I have no idea.
Like, I'm tripping right now a little bit.
How did you --
Wait, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
But how did you end up in the box?
Dude, it was like -- [ Laughs ]
Something hit me in the head.
I saw the top of the box,
and then it was dark, and I was like --
There was plastic, and I'm inside...
Dude, there's no freaking way.
Somebody left these crates outside,
so I think perhaps the wood --
But we would've seen where you went in.
When wood gets damp -- Yes, I know, it bends.
No, it can swell and expand between the cracks.
So, I must've slipped.
Dude, there's no -- I-I-I'm not sure.
I'm not trying to be that guy, but there's no way.
Well, no, but they were outside, and they were damp,
so maybe it was moist overnight.
But you were standing on top.
Yes.
And I am telling you -- this is what's trippy.
It's not going anywhere. [Knocks on wood]
-No. -You know what I'm saying?
So how did you end up inside?
'Cause I was surrounded by these.
Wow, that's trippy as [bleep].
Dude. Yeah, alright. [ Chuckles ]
Oh, my God.
-You're good though? -I'm good.
I mean, that's like one of those weird things
where, like, you know, dry paper,
wet wood...
Carbonaro Effect.
No way.
Yeah.
No way. Do you know what that is?
The Carbonaro Effect? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've seen the TV show.
Oh, you have.
Yeah.
But that's still trippy as hell.
Wait, that's a TV show?
Yeah.
I thought that was, like, a science thing.
No, it's actually -- Well, there's a TV show called
"The Carbonaro Effect", and they play tricks on people.
Not tricks, but, like, optical illusions,
that type of deal, so... Right, right, right.
Who does it?
I don't know.
Some guy.
Some dude?
Yeah. I'm still just trying --
I thought two plus two equals four, but it doesn't here.
No.
It does not here.
It's definitely MC squared. [ Laughs ]
I'm M.C.
Yeah.
Those are my initials. This is a square here.
MC squared.
No, seriously. I'm Michael Carbonaro.
Oh, okay, Heck yeah. That's what's up, bro.
Alright, sheesh.
Davonte.
What if I told you that you were on
"The Carbonaro Effect" right now?
No way, dude.
Yeah.
You're -- No way.
My name is Michael Carbonaro.
You're joking. I'm a magician.
You are on that TV show. You are joking.
The one that you were just talking about.
You are literally joking. I'm not joking with you.
You are joking.
Nope.
I'm a magician, and this is
"The Carbonaro Effect" right now.
Yo. Yo.
[ Laughs ]
Yo, you are not. You are not.
Dude, you're on the show. Are you serious?
I'm serious!
Are you serious right now? You're not lying to me, right?
I'm serious. I'm not lying to you.
Dude, because how the hell did you end up in the box?
Exactly. I'm Michael Carbonaro. Dude, I'm a magician.
Are you serious? Dude, you know what's crazy?
You kind of looked like him. That's what tripped me out.
But I wasn't gonna say anything.