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Local Teens Snort Dog Bones
Episode Transcript
What if I had pronounce it?
Speaker 2Yeah?
Speaker 1What if.
Speaker 3Campsite media.
Speaker 1So I've got a good question for you here to start the day.
Speaker 2M h.
Speaker 1I think you're gonna have I hope you're gonna have a great answer for this one.
Speaker 2So okay, a lot of pressure here we go.
Speaker 1What's the weirdest or the worst thing you've ever snorted?
Speaker 2Oh?
Well, if you were trying to get me to drugs, I'll never give you that, Josh, I'll never give you that I've snorted drugs.
In fact, this makes me think the whole podcast up until now has been a trap.
Damn it, you're a nar all right, drop the show.
He knows he figured it out.
I would probably the craziest thing I've ever snorted was an eraser off of a pencil, and luckily was able to blow it right back out, because I can't imagine the road that would have been.
Speaker 1Like I am, I once tried snuff and it was just terrible.
And I don't smoke and I never chewed to me, but I don't know why I did it, and it was god awful.
Speaker 2And you tried to snort it.
Speaker 1Well, that is a thing that people do, I think, or was I using it wrong.
Speaker 2I want to say, you were using it wrong, dam I think, isn't it like dip or like chew?
Speaker 1If it was, then it definitely went in the wrong orifice.
Well say as dumb as these criminals, Josh, I mean, they didn't choose me to host for snuff is nothing compared to what we're going to talk about this week on Crime List, when we tackle the very important and often uncomfortable matter of fake drugs, Starting with a story about some burglars who thought they'd stumbled into a giant stash of cocaine, only to find out later it definitely wasn't cocaine.
What was it?
That's after the break.
Welcome back to Crime lest, the podcast that celebrates the amazing creativity of the world's dumbest criminals.
Speaker 2I'm Josh Dean and I am Rory Scoville, and I would just like to let everyone know during the break we looked it up.
Josh was right, you can snort snuff ha vindicata.
There there you go.
Speaker 1I mean, it didn't make me any cooler or less.
Speaker 2Yes it did.
Our listeners, now hold you way above me.
They know that I'm a nerd who doesn't how to do drugs, and they know that you've done.
Speaker 1Drugs tobacco anyway, So I'm not exactly up on my statutes of limitation.
See what I did there, Like attorneys general.
So I'm not going to ask you invasive questions about your own drug use except when completely necessary.
Speaker 2Perfect.
Speaker 1I mean, you live in Colorado, so we can all safely assume you spoke weed.
Speaker 2There you go, edibles, joint, I smoke snuff, I swallow snuff, I ingest snuff.
No, I think Colorado it's fully legal all things I think.
I don't really know.
I think mushrooms may be psychedelics, psilo cybin at least I know is legal, just based on the fact that you can now get it in fancy corporate packaging, which is always a sign that it's legal.
Speaker 1Road trip too, We're gonna tape in Colorado and we're all gonna eat shrooms before, Yeah.
Speaker 2And do an episode, a live episode, the first live crime less.
Speaker 1Well, that's actually a great idea.
Speaker 2It's a horrible idea, actually, Josh, I mean eye the Beholder.
Speaker 1Anyway, We're not here to talk about real drug this week.
We're talking fake drugs.
Yeah, which for me is a subject that goes all the way back to high school, when I'm pretty sure I smoked a regano or some like mixed herbs at a party because I was told it was weed and thought it was cool.
Yeah, but what got me thinking about this was a story from twenty eleven.
That's the year of the Japanese tsunami, Kate's marriage to Prince William and Osama bin Laden's death.
But after today, you're gonna remember the year twenty eleven best for the story of five young dudes in Silver Springs Shores, Florida who got arrested for burglarizing a home.
Speaker 2Florida classic, here we go.
Speaker 1Do you know where Silver Springs Shores is?
Speaker 2By chance?
No one does, No one ever will well until after this episode.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's it's kind of important because Silver Springs Shores is a misnomer.
It's definitely not on the shore or anywhere near the shore.
It's smack in the middle of Florida, near.
Speaker 2Okalla, Florida.
You are too consistent.
Speaker 1It's so on branch.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1How many people bought houses in Silver Springs Shores?
Speaker 2Things unseen?
Assumed it was waterfront property.
Speaker 1One thing.
But I think this is kind of important because there's coastal Florida where you get tourists and Canadians and New York retirees who've mixed in with the Florida guy.
Speaker 2Ye.
Speaker 1And then there's inland Florida, which is basically West Virginia or Alabama.
But it's like all Florida, man, I think, or mostly Florida, man.
Speaker 2I think you're right.
Speaker 1So anyway, I mentioned that as a way to give you a sense of the kind of teen criminals we might be dealing with here.
So there were five of them, three adults aged nineteen, nineteen, and eighteen, So adults is in quotation marks there.
Speaker 2The youngest of adults, yes.
Speaker 1And then two juveniles who I'm going to guess were like seventeen.
Probably they're all friends.
Their names aren't important.
I'm not going to add any additional shame to that that they've already brought upon themselves.
And our story begins with a woman coming home and realizing she's been robbed.
She's missing some electronics, she's missing some jewelry, set of vases or vases?
Are you vas or vase?
Guy?
Speaker 2I say vase?
Speaker 1Oh, vase?
Speaker 2I also say aunt instead of aunt.
Speaker 1Hmm.
Speaker 2I don't know why I offered that up.
Speaker 1But Tomato, so vase.
Speaker 2I think I say vace, You say oz.
Speaker 1I think I say I think I say it both ways trying.
Speaker 2You know what I say vase, And internally I think o oz is right, But yet o oz sounds so snooty.
I can't bring myself to do it.
It's true, we're talking, even though I think it's correct, And in Florida, I'm gonna guess vace is probably vase.
Yep, good call, good assumption.
Speaker 1Okay, So these two vases contained the cremated ashes of her father and her two deceased great Danes, Samson and Epic.
And I know what you're thinking.
Why the hell would some kids steal eurns filled with ashes because of course they thought it was cocaine.
Speaker 2Oh god, geez, okay man, oh yeah, right to the jugular, right the gate.
Speaker 1Oh yes, So this is what I'm talking about.
These kids snorted the dog ashes or the old man's ashes.
We can't be sure.
Speaker 2What I appreciate is that you said vase or vase, and then we just found out it was an urn, and so you rope me into that for no reason.
Hey, Roy, do you say it right or do you see it wrong?
I'm dumb, Josh Well.
Trick question because it's an urn.
Speaker 1Do you say urn or orn?
Speaker 2I go with the Norwegian orn?
I go orn with an umlot.
Speaker 1Also my favorite couch an aikiya love the urn?
Speaker 2Oh yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1So the burglars realized it wasn't actually cocaine, well probably when they snorted the pattern.
It tasted gross and nothing happened, and they later threw the ashes into la because they were worried they left fingerprints on the containers.
Yeah, and this is all according to Marion County detectives, by the way, who talked to a local CBS affiliate.
So imagine this scene.
I'm guessing one of them finds these urns and convinces everyone else that it's coke, and they cut these giant lines and then ugh, and then they.
Speaker 2Feel like it tastes like a life that's already been lived, I.
Speaker 1Mean, or a chunk of bone got stuck in someone's I mean, just horrible, horrible realization.
When that happens, right, the dude who actually had the idea has now lost all credibility with its friends.
Speaker 2Do you think this is the only time in human history this has ever happened.
I wonder how common of an error this is.
Speaker 1I have a surprise for you.
Just hang in there, because I didn't even tee that question up.
Speaker 2Oh good god, I'm already onto it.
Speaker 1So these three adults are charged with multiple counts of robbery.
Not sure what happened to the juveniles other than I'm sure a lot of ridicule at school.
That's gonna be a hard one to live down.
Oh yeah, And I also wish I could tell you this was an isolated incident.
Rory.
Speaker 2Oh god.
Speaker 1But in March twenty fifteen in Missouri, three teens, again teens, the oldest in this case seventeen, robbed a house.
And this is sounding like a copycat crime, but honestly probably describes every home burglary.
They stole electronics, they stole jewelry, some prescription drugs, and human ashes that they thought were cocaine.
Speaker 2Oh my god, Oh I just all right.
Speaker 1I mean, have you seen an earned full of ashes before?
Speaker 2I've seen an urn.
I've never opened it just because of the haunting that would then occur and the portal that would open, so I've always left it closed.
But I've got to assume there are some obvious textural and color differences between human ashes and cocaine.
And I'm not an expert here, folks.
My assumption is there would be some red flags.
Speaker 1Yeah, like I don't know that they're pure white, and maybe there's some chunks in there, like yes.
Also, and here's the other thing.
It's kind of a large quantity and it's way heavier than you think, which means that like there's teens running around out there thinking that random people have giant piles of cocaine and vases lying around.
Speaker 2Like, was anybody like who lives here?
Escabar?
This is way too much cocaine two dogs worth in the first place.
Speaker 1I mean I think, yeah, marked in some math earlier and figured out like several hundred thousand dollars worth of cocaine probably.
Okay, it's teen, So they're gonna be a little bit optimistic.
They're kids, you know, they're like, holy shit, man, we scored.
Yeah, And naturally people would keep it in a vase and orn on the mantle.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's where I keep my drugs on the mantle, so that easy access.
Right away.
Speaker 1Somebody comes by.
Speaker 2Somebody comes by, Hey, sit down.
Just sit down.
I don't have to go get it's right here.
Speaker 1According to a local cop quote, one of the suspects tasted the ashes and determined it was not cocaine as they originally suspected.
The ashes were then thrown from a car window and never found.
Speaker 2Yep.
Speaker 1I mean, I guess that's the natural.
So the first set of guys threw it in a la second set of guys threw it out the window.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, I just I got to say, I think the second guys are a little more realistic.
I think the lake was maybe a little more respectful, despite the fact that environmentally you're not supposed to be doing that.
Speaker 1But I feel like, yeah, a lot of people want their ashes spread on the water, so that's what I mean.
Speaker 2So in a way, they were like, hey, we made a mistake, but you know, these dogs and this guy, they're ready to swim.
And what those guys don't know is that all three of them drowned, and so it was actually kind of a weird place to spread the ashes.
Dark.
Speaker 1The victim this, a woman named Devor Peters, told a local NBC affiliate that the ashes belonged to her father and that wasn't the only upsetting thing for Deborah.
She knew the burglars, and I quote, there were people that I knew that I never thought would do something like this to me.
Speaker 2She knew them.
Speaker 1Yes, So, according to cops, they were family acquaintances who hatched the plan to rob the house after seeing a Facebook post that the residents would be away, which I think is worth pausing on for a crime lest public service announcement.
Yes, listeners, please don't announce your vacations on Facebook, right.
Speaker 2Yes, go or you know, post about it after the fact, exactly.
You just don't want to go.
Hey, And also, here's the code to the garage, Like, leave all that out of the post.
Speaker 1So how do you think they got caught?
Tough one?
Speaker 2Uh?
Did they leave something behind?
Speaker 1No, this is a This is some fancy detective work here in Missouri.
Speaker 2Oh you're talking Colombo.
Colombo coming up here.
Speaker 1So they stole an Xbox and the cops used the gaming systems IP address to chase them down.
Speaker 2Oh man.
Speaker 1So the sum total of this is that the storting of ashes, intentional or otherwise, is at least enough of a thing to have given birth to a name, Creamine Lining, which is in the Urban Dictionary, defined as quote when you snort your dead friend's ashes.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, creamine lining.
Speaker 1I mean, I did not know this before the other day, and I'm slightly horrified.
But also I feel like a few years from now this will be a trend.
It'll be a TikTok trend.
Speaker 2This is like the tide pods, uh thing.
Yeah, that's uh.
That's so I'm led to believe that this is probably fairly common across the across the country.
We just don't know about it as much.
Well, not just across the country.
Speaker 1I got another one from.
Speaker 2Josh if I I am teeing you up on these transitions.
Speaker 1Wow, we didn't even play.
Speaker 2We didn't even play, folks.
This is all in real time, just happening.
It's just happening.
Speaker 1Ultimately, the trend of creamine lining, so several of these things happening in succession.
Began a story on Psychology Today from twenty seventeen which looked at the so called phenomenon, and the story subsequently revealed it to be mostly about mistakes and hype.
So you don't actually need to worry that your kids are doing this.
In most cases, I don't think they're snorting dead relatives, right.
However, Psychology Today cited a story from nineteen ninety three is the possible origin for all this.
Yet again, it's a robbery where thieves took ashes thinking it was coke.
Yep.
In this case, the ashes of the victim's mom, Gertrude, were wrapped in cellophane and stored in a fishing tackle box, which at least seems like a thing you could mistake for someone's coke stash.
Speaker 2Yeah, I gotta say that seems like it would look cocish.
Speaker 1Also a weird place to like wrap the ashes up in selfhane and put them in a tackle box.
Speaker 2Yeah.
In fact, I now do believe it was coke and this is how they.
Speaker 1Got it dismissed.
This is brilliant.
Speaker 2Yes, these are actually smart criminals.
Speaker 1So seven years later the British tabloids lit up about another robbery, another case where electronics and jewelry and ashes were snatched, in another situation where the goofballs who committed the robbery seem to have been mistaken, at least temporarily.
Here's a section quoted in the story from Psychology Today, and this one is pulled from the tabloid The Sun in England and it's a good one, Okay.
A policeman called to investigate the break in at Chadwell Heath fell about laughing when he saw the burglars had arranged the ashes in cocaine style lines.
Speaker 2Quote.
Speaker 1I'd love to see their faces when these thieves realize, said Vvith.
It was horrible knowing that they were in my house, but the idea of them trying to get high on a dead dog certainly made me feel a bit better.
Speaker 2I mean, I got it.
I've never done cocaine, but I gotta assume you know immediately that this is not you know, can you smoke fake pot?
You can smell it, but you kind of know it.
Maybe it takes a second to realize you're probably not going to get hot.
I think cocaine, don't you know, like instantly, Like aren't you immediately?
Speaker 1And I think it's fair to say, yeah, especially in what I imagine the quantities to be here, because like I think cocaine lines are typically quite small, and if these guys are pouring out piles of ashes, then yeah, we're talking scarface.
Speaker 2Can you imagine we are talking paccino style coke?
Bingjing.
Could you imagine how excited, like before you even do the fake coke, your heart is racing thinking we just made one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1I mean yeah.
They came to steal an xbox and ended up with like a pound of what they believed, for a fleeting moment was cocaine.
Speaker 2This is gonna be the new Oregano.
I literally just anyone with ashes.
But like you know, you could turn a dollar if you just get that rid of that urn vase and you go uh and you just go put it in a bagg.
Speaker 1You just got to wrap it in selfon and put it in a tackle box and leave it out and start going around town just like flashing it to people.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Yeah.
Speaker 1So like still, I've read now four stories about this.
I'm sure there were more.
It all seemed deranged to me still, and so I stumbled on one more story that at least gives it all some context, that it's not just boneheaded robbers who snort ashes.
Celebrities do it too.
Speaker 2Oh god.
Speaker 1So this came out twenty years ago in an interview with a British magazine and Emmy and this is a quote.
The strangest thing I've tried to snort my father.
I snorted my father.
The man said he was cremated, and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.
My dad wouldn't have cared.
He didn't give a shit.
Who said it?
Speaker 2Rory, I mean, I just saw.
My instinct is always Keith Richards.
Yes, ding ding ding ding, or any sort of drug thing.
I'm like, well, has anyone gone further than Keith Richards.
Speaker 1I mean, I think it's safe to say now the answer is no.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's some That's some championship type shit right there.
Speaker 1He's I mean almost in destructed, maybe totally instructive.
I like that.
Speaker 2Keith Richards thought all of our reactions would be but won't your dad care?
I like it.
He was like, he wouldn't care yet, No shit, Keith, we're not talking about if your dad's gonna care.
Speaker 1He also said it went down pretty well, and I'm still alive.
Speaker 2At least he mixed some coke in there.
Speaker 1He did.
Yeah, and I'm sure Keith Richards has a good blow.
Speaker 2And his dad's last words were, I wish you would have gotten off drugs at some point, and Keith was like, I'll show you.
I mean, I can't even imagine once you've been you know, incinerated like that.
I got to assume there's some carcinogens at play here.
This is not This might be actually more unhealthy than doing coke.
Speaker 1Which brings me to a question I wanted to ask you.
Is it even safe to or human remains?
Speaker 2Yeah, I gotta I mean maybe if the person died from a coco overdose, that's the only chance you might actually get some some percentage of cocaine in there.
I don't know.
I gotta assume no, I mean the carcinogen thing.
And look, our audience knows this.
I am not educated.
So if I say there's carcinogens in it, don't come at me and Josh or attack Josh.
Don't attack me.
Don't come at us with this.
There's no carcinogens in there.
I actually think that's a really smart guess.
So I'm gonna say it's not healthy carcinogens, all.
Speaker 1Right, Not to give anything away, but I think you're probably onto something here.
Yes, And I don't know what people did in a situation like this before the Internet, but today a big question like this, I'll have to do with Google search, and I was both delighted and a little horrified to find a robust Reddit thread on this very.
Speaker 2Subtle roun Oh yeah, oh shit.
Speaker 1I'm not enough of a Reddit guy to figure out who started the thread, but I assure you it exists and it contains quite a spicy discussion.
So you've already given me your answer not safe.
Let's find out what Reddit tells us.
Naturally, the most up voted answer is some know it all lane, you want to do the honors here to we can hear this in a different voice.
Pretend that you're hearing a Reddit thread writer here.
Speaker 3I can think of no good reason to snort quote unquote ashes, which aren't really ashes but solid particles with absolutely no psychoactive effect.
If a person wants to snort cremated remains of the dead, I would suggest a series of visits to a therapist or a psychologist to work out issues with the dead person would be more appropriate.
Speaker 1So that's the top ants.
That's the most top voted answer from a know it all, And I think you know that's wise advice.
Speaker 2I think I like that it's the most top I like that.
A lot of people were like, yeah, all right, I'll get behind this.
Speaker 1You should go to a therapist if you're snorting.
So I'm sure some of these people are just sick ohs.
But others actually seem to think snorting ashes might be a way to connect with a dead loved one, to make them part of you.
No, Like, here's another one from Arizona Lane.
You want to read this one too.
Speaker 2Sure.
Speaker 3I don't know if a bunch of chemicals are used in the cremation process, or if for some reason they use any kind of a balming fluid in the body previous to burning.
These pretty much are the only reasons I never snorted George.
I certainly thought of it.
Speaker 1George her husband, I think.
Speaker 2So.
Speaker 1This was from a woman who was like, clearly contemplated snorting her husband's ashes, but was worried about Rory Carcinogen's.
Speaker 2I gotta say, I love the brain that isn't that is even contemplating maybe doing this, but is actually smart enough to consider the logical reasons as to why they shouldn't.
Speaker 1And naturally went to Reddit to work that out.
Speaker 2What a cease all life that is.
But yes, I mean more than likely those cremated remains there is embalming fluid.
I'm sure there was potentially a visitation where they've now like embalmed the body so that they can put it out for you know, put it on display in a visitation sort of way, last visitation, and then it gets incinerated and all of those chemicals.
Speaker 1And aren't we full of plastics?
Isn't that what I keep reading?
Speaker 2Oh, then it's probably fine.
Yeah, now we're all made out of microplastics.
Speaker 1I mean, I think I know the answer to this, but I got to finish this particular segment with a question Rora, which is, on the tragic occasion that your wife predeceases you, would you snort her ashes?
Speaker 2I like that term predeceases?
Would I snort her ashes?
I think it's safe to say I will not do that.
All I do is make all these jokes this whole episode, and at the end, I'm like, I mean, I try it.
Hell, come on, it'll be fun.
Speaker 1Come on, sweetie.
Speaker 2I would have to be in the darkest place I've ever been to also ask someone who hasn't done coke but decided to try that.
Speaker 1I think that's the right answer.
When she listens to this, she'll be happy.
Speaker 2She'll be so happy, or she'll be insulted like, oh, I'm not good enough.
Oh I'm not good as good.
Speaker 1As coke, as good as Keith Richards's dad.
Speaker 2Yeah, at least Keith Richards had respect for his father.
Speaker 1So more fake drugs coming up.
Let's all snort some caffeinated crystal light and meet back here after the break.
This is Carlos, Okay, So teen criminals snorting dog bones by accident is one thing I think we can agree.
It's sort of hilarious except to the dog owner.
But there's a larger theme here too, And I wanted to spend what's left of our show talking about people who purposely sell fake drugs.
Oh oh, and maybe this isn't a surprise to you, but the world of fake drug sales is robust.
There are a lot of people out there selling fake, counterfeit pills and powders, like some seriously fucked up shit on a massive corporate scale, like a the EJ indictment in Texas from February when an Indian guy was charged with allegedly selling fake cancer drugs.
Oh yeah, awful to a case by the US Attorney in New York City prosecuted last fall, in which eighteen guys were charged, was selling counterfeit fentanyl and other opiates from fake online pharmacies, which resulted in nine deaths.
So don't want to bum you out here.
We're gonna move on.
I just wanted to say that this is rampant, and there are lots of stories like this.
The Internet and cheap shipping have led to a golden age of online drug scams.
Extremely not funny stuff, but this is crimeless, and I'm going to stop bumming you out.
Speaker 2Thank you, Josh.
I mean Jesus, you've got to start putting a warning before it gets real.
Speaker 1I can give you a break.
If you want to hit your bong, lighten things up, take some of those shrooms.
Speaker 2If you want to hit your bong and take a deep snuff hit real quick, put some tobacco in your bong.
Don't you love that?
That was like headshops back before they were like legal, and you'd go in there and there'd be a bong and everyone had to pretend that was for tobacco.
Oh h, could you imagine a tobacco hit at that degree.
That's a year's worth of cigarettes right there.
Speaker 1Just a guy walking down the street hitting tobacco bong hits.
Speaker 2Like oh this, Oh no, this is tobacco.
This is how much I have to smoke.
This is technically eighteen packs a day.
Speaker 1All right, so let's resume our journey.
Do you think it's illegal to sell fake drugs in the small time sense?
I mean, like a reganos marijuana or an aspirin as an oxy.
Speaker 2Do you think that's against all m I mean I guess no, Like something like a regano.
You could just be like, no, I thought he wanted to buy some.
Speaker 1It is legal?
Speaker 2Good?
Oh sorry, I'm in illegal.
You didn't let me finish.
I think it's illegal.
Speaker 1Even if they even if you know they're fake, there are state and federal laws against it.
In Florida, it's illegal to sell or offer someone a controlled substance and then actually sell that person a different substance.
Speaker 2God, just think it's illegal to sell illegal drugs, and it's illegal to sell not illegal drugs.
Speaker 1How is anybody supposed to know what to do?
California has the California Imitation Controlled Substance Act, which criminalizes both selling, imitation and counterfeit drugs, and other states have crime specific to selling imitation drugs Louisiana, Maine, New York, Texas, Washington.
That's not an exhaustive list.
Check your local statutes, Rory.
If you're on tour and you're selling oregano, just check the statutes.
Speaker 2This is good to know because my merch table is growing after these stand up shows and I'm selling all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1Great day and ashes, great Dane.
Speaker 2Ashes, herbs, ORNs, herbs with ORNs, and vases.
Speaker 1You can also be charged with fraud in some cases, and I'm guessing often you just get your ass kicked.
Speaker 2That's just street justice.
Yeah, street justice.
Speaker 1Which brings me to an amazing story I stumbled on during my research.
All credit here to Wece, which I think we could all acknowledge, should sort of own, the fake drug beat back.
When Vice first came to New York City in the early odds, they had this magazine cover that I will never forget.
It was fully mirrored with an embossed line of cocaine on it.
This was the cover of the magazine.
Yeah, very cool, very edgy.
Actually, I'm sorry I'm giving a little bit too much credit device because Vice actually took this story from someone else, a website called muck rock.
I read about it on the Vice website, but it was an incredible piece of history that was turned up from the declassified CIA archives.
Back in the early seventies, at the height of reefer madness, the extremely square Central Intelligence Agency made a booth for display at events.
It was one of those booths like you see at trade shows, only in this case, it was created by the offices quote Office of Medical Services to warn parents of officers about the dangers of drug abuse and how to spot trouble in your kids.
Part of this booth was a bag of actual weed, so parents could pick it up, hold it, smell it, get used to what it looks like.
But when the agency wanted to take the booth to an AMA medical conference, somewhat blanket in the legal department pointed out a problem.
They'd be crossing state lines with a controlled substance.
Speaker 2Uh all right, I like that.
Speaker 1Not okay even for the CIA.
Speaker 2Yep, I like that.
You call them square.
So how do you think they solved this problem in getting it over the state lines?
Speaker 1Yeah?
Like, well, they just decide we can't do we can't take weed across state lines, but we do want to teach the parents of our officers around America how to spot weed.
Speaker 2So what do you so?
They had to go in undercover, go to a high school.
This is actually how twenty one Jump Street got.
This is the origin story.
This is the origin story of twenty one Jump Street.
They were like, all right, leave the weed here, let's cross state lines.
We'll buy more weed there from a high school kid.
I don't know.
That is my best guess.
Speaker 1I mean, that's actually I think that's better than what they did was they created fake weed.
Oh okay, they called it pseudo marijuana.
But this Erzat's Mary Jane cooked up by the agency scientists was so realistic even when burned, that it fooled people.
The booth won first prize at the conference, which is now maybe my favorite fact about the CIA.
Speaker 2The fact that it's a competition, that it's like a science fair.
Yeah, you did not see that coming.
I definitely did not know.
You were about to say they won first prize at the convention.
Speaker 1Tax dollars hard at work.
Incredible, The CIA weed booth won first prize at the American Medical Association conference.
Like that must have been so proud.
Speaker 2Yeah, they completely forgot what they were trying to teach.
All they could focus on was how to win again next year and build a dynasty.
Speaker 1One doctor's wife, who worked as a high school bus monitor near San Francisco, had this to say to the Saint Louis Post Dispatch.
Upon observing the booth light up the fake weed.
She said, quote, that smells just like the back of my bus when she goes back there when she drops the kids off.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, she drops them off, she goes to the back of the bus.
Cool mom opens the window a little bit.
What's on a little Arrowsmith?
I think we all know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1Isn't that called hot boxing?
Is that what the kids say?
Speaker 2Uh?
Hot box?
It was a hot boxing got a school bus.
Speaker 1So I guess in closing, what's important to remember here is that the best maker of fake drugs in America is the CIA.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 1That's according to Rory Scobel.
Please direct well all inquiries and investigations to him.
Speaker 2That's according to the judges, who I can't believe that wasn't some sort of an undercover.
As soon as the judges were like, this is just like real weed.
How are they not?
Like, how do you know that we got you?
And the judges were all arrested.
Speaker 1Everything is an elaborate sting that.
Speaker 2Put them in a tough position.
They're like, we should technically arrest these judges, but also we do want first place.
We got to just take the hit.
Speaker 1We need the ribbon.
Yeah, incredible little slice of history there, thanks to mock rock advice.
I love that so much.
There's even by the way, and I'll send it to you.
There's like an illustration of like they did a diagram of the booth.
Some guy in like the science partment at the Central Intelligence Agency sketched out the weed booth.
Yeah, and it was to classified a few years ago, so that means it was classified for several decades.
Nice, don't let us get out, guys.
So special twist this week, Rory, I created our final game.
And I'm gonna tell you are most experienced drug user on this staff.
You, Rory Scobel, frequent user of snuff and mushrooms.
Speaker 2Do I present as a drug user?
Speaker 1You just live in Colorado so my association.
Speaker 2Look, I have done mushrooms and pot, but that's really extent of it, and then pills, but are really counting at THEE.
Speaker 1So I'm gonna ask you, and Lane is also gonna play.
So you are competings Lane in this and so Lane also a massive consumer of narcotics.
I've just made that up.
Speaker 3I have no idea to say that.
My mom will listen.
Speaker 2I believe whatever the media tells me.
I was kidding Blane's mom.
I'm completely joking.
Speaker 1Rory's mom also wife, family members of both of you.
Speaker 2I swear I'm clean.
Speaker 1It's ewan we should be worried about.
Okay, So our game today is street slang for drugs.
I'm gonna read you, guys, six slang terms for popular drugs, and you have to tell me which one is fake.
Speaker 2I hope I get all these right.
Speaker 1So number one adderall, Okay, I'll read all six, and then you tell me which one is fake.
Beans, co pilots, truck drivers, zings, peppers, study.
Speaker 2Buddies, beans, I'm gonna go beans.
Speaker 1Are you going beans?
Speaker 2That's it.
We're supposed to pick the fake one.
Speaker 1Yeah, the fake one.
Speaker 2Right, I'm gonna saying you're both wrong.
Speaker 1It's peppers.
Speaker 2Okay, you don't have to yell at us.
Speaker 1This is surprisingly hard because the name nicknames for drugs are ridiculous.
Speaker 2Josh, you might have just turned it into slang for addro.
Someone heard this, They're like, I'm calling them peppers from now on.
Speaker 1It's gonna be my my proudest moment.
I'll be walking down the street someday I'll hear.
Speaker 2Peppers.
Speaker 1Okay.
Number two, Cocaine, dust flake, Avalanche, toot, snow white, Bernice.
Speaker 3Did you make up the fake ones?
Speaker 1I did make up the fake ones.
Speaker 2I mean, Bernice, I'm gonna say toot.
I'm gonna go.
It's I think it's my second guess is Avalanche.
I'm gonna go Bernice.
Speaker 1Lane, You're going to I'm going to Avalanche.
Rory go with your second.
Speaker 2Half a point half a point, all.
Speaker 1Right, we'll give you half a point to that you were half right.
Okay.
Number three, meth Chrissy, Christy go shards, Tina twin.
Speaker 3Defensive.
I'm gonna go Christy.
Speaker 2I'm gonna go twink.
Rory another points one point five to zero.
Speaker 3I'm too pure, it's.
Speaker 1Too let's just proof that Lane does not use any drugs her.
Your mom is gonna be so happy vindicated by Okay, number three, this is Rory is gonna have an unfair advantage here.
Bath salts, yep yep okay, bath salts, wicked x Ivory missed, drone Bloom Sorry, Vanilla.
Speaker 2Sky, I mean, I mean just sounds.
I'm gonna go.
I think that's real.
Speaker 3That's that seems like a basalt varietal.
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1Vanilla's guy the correct answers, I remissed.
Speaker 2Oh I thought I've remissed for sure was real?
Speaker 1Is real?
Speaker 3Oh my god?
Speaker 2Me is real?
That's insane.
Just here to get some mew.
Speaker 1Okay, And lastly, ketamine, cat valium, honey oil, k fuzz kit cat purple, super acid.
Speaker 2I'm gonna go.
Is it my turn to guest?
First?
Sure cat valium blame uh purple, damn it.
Speaker 1I thought I thought when I saw it super I mean super acid is I mean both awesome and ridiculous.
Speaker 2I mean, super acid is so fun because it's meant to be undercut for But it's just naming another drug.
Yeah right, Like, Hey, you got any cocaine?
Like, what do you mean ketamine?
I mean ketamine, but I call it I call it different cocaine.
Speaker 1Call it super cocaine.
Speaker 2Do you have any super coke?
Lane?
Speaker 1I think you did your mom proud by going oh for five coy one and a half, your mom, I.
Speaker 2Mean, I'm honestly one point five.
I'm pretty I'm pretty proud of that.
You did a great job.
Well, congrats to Rory.
Take that, Lane.
Speaker 1I feel like, if there's a QUIZZI you want to not be good at it, that's one, yeah, bad.
Speaker 2One, unless you're an undercover cop, which.
Speaker 3I'm not, or like an undercover drug dealers.
Speaker 2Which I'm not.
Yeah, I exist on both sides.
Speaker 1Of the fence, all right.
That's our show.
Crimeless is a production of SmartLess Media, Campsite Media and Big Money Players in partnership with iHeart Podcasts.
It's hosted by Rory Scovel and me Josh Dean.
Our senior producer is Lane Rose.
Emma Simonov is our associate producer.
We're sound designed and engineered by Blake Brook with support from Ewan Letram Ewen.
Mark McAdam composed our theme song.
The executive producers at Campside Media are Vanessa Gregoriatis, Matt Cher, and me Josh Dean.
The executive producers for iHeart Podcasts and Big Money Players are Jack O'Brien, Lindsay Hoffmans, and Matt Appadaka for Smartlow's Media.
The executive producers are Will Arnette, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Richard Corson.
Bernie Kaminski is head of Production.
The Associate producer is Mattie McCann.
A special thanks to our operations team, Ashley Warren and Sabina Mara.
Do you have a question, comment, or confession for the Crimeless team?
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