🕶️ “Smuggle, Inc.” — Mexican Drug Cartels’ biz. Crocs’ microdrama. AI’s Sci-Fi essay. +Self-Blowing Snowblower

This is Nick. This is Jack. It's Wednesday, so we check. Wednesday, February 25. If anything, it's part. It's the best one yet. This is a t vlog. The top three pop business news stories you need to know today. You hear that sound? Is that the bats? Is that the black cod white mole taco I had last night that was now my love language? It's somebody cracking into a shiner box. Yeah. It's McConaughey, I think. Because we just landed in Austin, baby. We got our live t boy show later tonight. The next three episodes boisterous than usual. Yeah. They will. They will. First, because I'm in the room with Nick right now, which is great. It's a beautiful thing. Tonight, Wednesday night, we're recording the show live. Thursday morning, that live show is coming to this podcast, and Friday morning, we have a guest dinner. And all of it's slathered with barbecue sauce and Stetson hats, baby Jack. Three fantastic stories for today's tea boy for Beyond the Box. For our first story, Mexican drug cartels have been all over the news this week. So why are drug lords so hard to stop? Well, it's because they run their businesses like a fortune 500 company. For our second story, the newest product from Crocs isn't a shoe, it's a show. True. A Crocs micro drama. Because there are toxic relationships and then there's toxic competition. And our third and final story is the Substack sell off, a viral doomsday essay about AI destroying the economy. Besties, this wasn't fear mongering. This is action mongering, and that is actually a good thing. But, Yadees, before we hit that wonderful mix of stories I mean, what a mix of of stories. Love the mix. It is bigger in Texas. Another humongous blizzard hit the Northeast, the second one of the year. Jack Providence just got 30 inches of potter. Broadway and New York had to cancel their shows for a second night in a row. Okay. Even the news stopped, literally. The Boston Globe didn't print for the first time in their one hundred fifty three year history. Honestly, Ben Aflac, that's pathetic. Now the only one still working the last two days in the Northeast was New York City food delivery bikers. Jack, heroes, they don't wear capes. They wear gloves built into the handlebars. But Yeti's the biggest winner of the twenty twenty six February blizzard. The only winner. A self driving snow blower. True story. It's a robo snow blower. It's a plowbot. It's a cyber cab for clearing snow robo snow waymo. This new hardware is made by a company called Yarbow. It costs $5,000, and it's 230 pounds. I mean, this puppy can handle 12 inches of snow at a time, and then, here's the key, it recharges itself. So you turn it on, it blows the snow out of your driveway, and when the battery's low, it returns to its charging station …