139 We play a prank of Skip...its now three guys cigars....maybe....and Mikey has no reservations..

Episode Summary

Episode 139 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with the two Mikes — Mike Szczepankiewicz and Mike "Palmer" — in full banter mode over Brittany's brioche French toast, a busted gym-equipment auction, piped-in crowd noise at empty NFL stadiums, and the studio's ongoing upgrade to new lights and a new camera. They also own up to a production blooper: a GarageBand crash merged Patreon episode 38 into episode 138, briefly putting paid secret-show content in front of roughly 55 public listeners before it was pulled.

The news block is the meat of the episode. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis vetoed Senate Bill 810, which would have raised the state's minimum tobacco purchase age to 21 and banned flavored vaping products — the hosts argue bundling age limits with a flavored-vape ban is government overreach, and note the legislature can't revisit it until the March–April 2021 session. Next, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judge Mehta) formally vacated the FDA's warning label requirements for cigars and pipe tobacco rather than remanding them, meaning FDA would have to restart the rulemaking process, including a new comment period, if it wants labels in the future.

On the product side, Foundation Cigar Company is adding a third blend to its Charter Oak line: Charter Oak Habano, an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler, shipping to retailers in late September in six vitolas including a torpedo unique to the Habano. Nicholas Melillo positions it as a medium-bodied, spicy value blend filling the gap between the Connecticut Shade and Connecticut Broadleaf versions. The hosts also debunk a Cigar Authority report that Famous Smoke Shop was being sold to a group including Oliva's parent company and the founder of Cigars International — Halfwheel reported two of the parties denied it, and the original headline was softened to "source speculates."

Lighter segments include the prank gas can (complete with Cigar Hustler sticker) mailed to Skip Martin of RoMa Craft after a porch pirate stole his antique oil can, riffing about Skip joining Two Guys Cigars to make it "Three Guys," a nod to Skip rating Steve Saka's Firecracker the second-best firecracker, plus tangents on Keeping Up with the Kardashians ending, Chadwick Boseman's death, and Chris Evans' accidental Instagram post.

In This Episode

1. 01
   French Toast Prank and Studio Upgrades
   The hosts surprise Mike with Brittany's brioche French toast and talk through new lighting, a new camera, and the podcast's bootstrapped production setup.
2. 02
   The Episode 138 Patreon Leak
   A GarageBand crash merged Patreon episode 38 into episode 138, briefly exposing paid secret-show content to about 55 public listeners.
3. 03
   DeSantis Vetoes Senate Bill 810
   Florida's governor rejects raising the tobacco purchase age to 21 and banning flavored vaping products, with the hosts arguing against bundled legislation and over-regulation.
4. 04
   Court Vacates FDA Cigar Warning Labels
   Judge Mehta formally vacates rather than remands the FDA's warning label rule for cigars and pipe tobacco, forcing the agency to start rulemaking from scratch.
5. 05
   Foundation's Charter Oak Habano
   Nicholas Melillo adds a third blend to Charter Oak — Ecuadorian Habano over Nicaraguan binder and filler, six vitolas, shipping late September as a medium-bodied value smoke.
6. 06
   Famous Smoke Shop Sale Rumor Debunked
   A Cigar Authority report that Famous Smoke Shop was being sold to a group including Oliva's parent company and the Cigars International founder is denied by two of the parties.
7. 07
   The Gas Can Prank on Skip Martin
   After a porch pirate steals Skip Martin's antique oil can, the hosts mail him a plastic gas can with a Cigar Hustler sticker to make it 'craft.'
8. 08
   Pop Culture Rundown
   Keeping Up with the Kardashians ends after 20 seasons, Chadwick Boseman's passing, and Chris Evans' accidental nude post round out the show.

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Transcript

Ooh, from the beginning, it's done, welcome to episode, oh wait, it goes down, episode 139 of the number one cigar related podcast on Podbean, it's the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, with me, your producer, Mike Tu, and then the star of the show, Super Mike Tu, the one and only, the king of all media, the king of all media, that's Howard Stern, Mike Szczepan, that's Howard Stern, buddy. Oh, no, it's you now. It's you, Michael. You're the king of all media.

I'm doing away with the title. You're doing away with the what? I'm not going to say the titles at the beginning. I'm going to do that little thing now.

Oh, okay. That's fine. Whatever you want. Whatever makes your life easier.

I'm here to make your life easier. Well, it's your show. It is. Thank you.

Thank you for acknowledging that. So how you been? I'm doing well. You have a nice weekend?

Yeah, yeah. You and Drew had French Toast together? We did, we had French Toast. Was it a sleepover French Toast?

No, it wasn't a sleepover French Toast. Was it just, Drew, I need you to finish the flooring in my house, so I'll be here early and I'll give you French Toast. Well, he has come over for several times on Sundays to do work and, you know. Is that how you get the invite?

You have to do work, too? Because then I'll just not have it, then I'll do any work. It's amazing French Toast. You're really missing out.

They look like small pieces. They're not small. Is it French bread, or like Wonder Bread, or some type of fancy? It's brioche.

I don't even know what that means. It's bougie bread. It is. And it's absolutely amazing.

It looked like you had a lot of extra syrup on that plate. You gotta always have extra syrup on the plate. Syrup? Syrup.

Syrup, not syrup. Syrup. Syrup. Syrup.

We're hearing the child say syrup, Michael. Yeah. Oh, shit. Come on in.

Keep it going. Yes, oh, there's something going on. We have a guest, a surprise for you. We have something going on for me.

Yes. Oh, what do we have? Oh, French toast! Look at that!

See, you didn't get to have the French toast. Oh. You've given me a hard time about the French toast. Oh, look at this.

This is delicious. So. Thank you. Oh, thank you.

Thank you, gesture number two. Gesture number two. It's very nice. My manservant Chet took care of that for you.

Oh, that's nice. Thank you, Chet. Oh, it's even warm. Yes, we heated it up.

It's ready to go. This has been ready to go. Wow. Look at that.

It's delicious. Can you see this on the camera? So that's what you're missing out on Sundays. Oh, can you see it?

Well, you go on with your show, I'm going to eat. It's every bit of amazing. It's delicious. So yeah, there you go.

So I don't want to hear it from you, but I like the fact that I got to heckle you periodically. Now we have to invite you to our little thing? No, I don't want to. I won't make it.

I won't make it. Yeah, I know you won't make it. But I just wanted to, you know, I just love the fact that it was fun to rib you, give you a hard time. I gave you a hard time.

Drew was doing the French toast and eating it and whatever. I mean, we work at a – I'm not listening to you at all. We don't work at a really high tempo when we get started because usually I'm still, like, doing stuff around the house. I'm like, oh, you want some French toast?

He's like, yeah. And then usually we call it quits early because then we start smoking cigars. Oh, I thought you said maybe there was lunch or dinner. Well, now the football's on at 1 o'clock.

Oh, so you've got to be done by 1. Yeah, it's like, hey, so – Since the Dolphins and the Patriots played, did he have to leave this week? Who? Drew.

I know you don't like to be bothered when your teams are playing. The Dolphins? I'm sorry, no Dolphins, I'll like the Buccaneers. No.

No, no, you're referencing- If this goes off suddenly, we're cutting, I hit a button. Oh, Jesus. So here's what you're mixing up with the Buccaneers and the Pats. If either one of them are in the soup- Oh, this is delicious.

Yeah, no shit. Was this made today? Was this fresh? No, it's yesterday's.

Oh, it's still very good. " We'll take it in. Mmm, yes, yes, take it in, take it in, enjoy it, enjoy the french toast. Go on with your show, Mike, we'll eat my french toast.

So I think what you're referencing is the fact that if either team were in the Super Bowl. Oh, just Super Bowl. Yeah, it's a Super Bowl, I wouldn't want to be around anybody. Because normally somebody comes out of the woodwork, they're a fan of the other team when they haven't said shit about them for years.

And then I gotta fucking deal with them. Does Brittany make this, or do you make it? I used to make it. Did you take it?

No, Brittany did. Now she's taking it over. Brittany, this is delicious. Yeah, she's got the technique.

Yep, yep. I can see you gaining weight right now. Probably. I don't care.

I mean, it's worth it. It's worth every bite. It really is. I'm just going to finish this one piece.

You go ahead. Talk more sports or something. Well, you can thank The Rock for that. I mean, because he did a couple of the posts with the brioche, for instance.

" And it wasn't hard to figure out, you know. Just got to find that bread, so. Does she make the bread from scratch, too? No, no.

I'm sure she does. No, she doesn't. She doesn't. Please, go on with your show.

I'm going to, I will continue with my show. What else did you do this weekend, Michael? I will continue with my show for you. What else did I do?

Is that what you want to talk about? You don't want to talk? No, whatever you did. I can tell you what I did.

I went to the gym auction for gym equipment. Oh, yeah. Did you get your squat rack? No.

Dumbbells? I didn't get any of it. Nothing. Nothing.

I almost bought five bicycles. Five. What would you do with five? I would sell them.

You were there buying them. Yeah, but they're like $2,000 bikes. And you can get them for like $500 if you bought five or whatever. But then I said, yeah, I'll take them.

Then I said, you know what? I don't want them. Because I wanted to have money for them. Is it an auction?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're holding up your little paddle and you go, oh, sorry. No, I said, I'll take them. And then he's like, okay.

And then I said, you know what? I won't take them. " Because I wanted, I didn't want to spend all the money and then get to the other stuff that I wanted and then not be able to get it, right? Oh, and you didn't get the other stuff either?

No. So then, like, the couple things that I really wanted went for ridiculous money. Way too much. Did Chet get any?

Did my partner get any? No. Well, there's a second piece for him. Oh, you want to save one for your homie?

Yes. That's nice. Well, you know, I have two, he has none, we both have one. If I have three, and you have one, we both have two, is the saying.

Yes, but I have two, he had none, so then we both have one. Okay. Mmm, that was delicious. Okay, we're going to have to take a break now, we're going to take a nap?

I'm going to call him again, and I'm going to call him in here so we can hand it to him. So I told him to come in. I told him to come in here again so he can pick up the other. Yeah, there you go.

There you go. I don't know if he's going to take it, though. It's kind of weird. I'm not going to lie.

Here, enjoy my seconds. It's not seconds. I didn't touch the other piece. Let's see.

He's coming in. So, yeah. So the auction was a complete bust. Come on in.

Man servant. Man servant, Chet, come on in. I hear you did not get any French toast yet? I got none.

Okay, well, you know how this works. I had two, you had none, so we both have one. There you go. I did not touch the second piece.

He thinks it's weird, but he obviously does not know how close we are. It's a little strange. Without hesitation, he's in it. No knife and fork.

He's already eating. Oh, isn't that good? This is savage. Thank God Monday is my cheat day.

Oh. Thank God Monday is his cheat day. Every day is a cheat day for us. There you go.

Oh, that was so good. So the gym auction was a bust, and I was pissed, I mean, I was upset. That's good. What's really kind of funny is, so what you, that one little slice that you ate?

Yeah. 7,000 calories. No, no, I eat, I think I eat like four of those slices. Oh.

Oh, yeah. I could maybe have eaten two if it was a regular meal. It's all about the coma. Oof.

And then you still have the donut? Uh, no, no donut. No. But you know, like, you have a strict diet six days a week, which I'm, you know, I'm not strict.

You see those videos and photos of you workout people on their cheat day who are like eating a pizza the size of a dining room table. You gotta consume a ton of calories. Like, it's hard. It's not easy to eat and eat and eat and eat and eat to a point where, you know, and it's gotta be… When I was your age, I was not as big as you, but I was bigger than I am now, and it's… Oh, you just call me big, thank you.

It's hard to get that many calories in, especially when you're not eating junk. Right, you gotta get like 5,000 calories in. " To force yourself to eat is the hard part. So, you know, I tried tweaking it.

Actually, I picked up some steak that I chopped up as well for like a mid-snack meal, whatever the hell you want to call it. Just a T-bone in the middle of the day. Just gonna, you know, eat that. Oh, this cigar is so good after the French toast.

It is. That's the best. I mean, if I could say anything about cigars, you know, After you eat like a fulling meal, really something that really kind of fills you up, you fucking bust out a cigar. You're like, yes.

It doesn't get any better than that, man. So, yeah. So, the gym auction was a bust. A complete bust.

And I was upset about it. But then I got over it. That's good. Now you can lick your mic on occasion.

Oh, that sounds so disgusting. And, yeah. So then Sunday came and watched some football, which was amazing. I really want to be the audio guy.

So there's nobody in the crowds, right? Right. And they're piping in sound. And like, this shit is spot on.

Oh, that's right, because there's nobody. Yeah. Hardly anybody watching. So if a call gets reversed and it doesn't go the way of the home team, you're like, boo.

And I'm like, god damn, man. Nothing. This guy, whoever. And there's one of them in every stadium.

So there's got to be. You want to be the color. The color commentary. I mean, that audio guy is amazing.

He's hit, just hitting, he's probably got like 20 buttons. Right. Boom, boom, boom. Oh, third down.

Oh, put the pressure on. You know what I mean? It's like, wow. So, I really got a huge kick out of that.

I just started laughing my ass off. Wow. You know, I would mix it up a little bit though. I wouldn't do necessarily things that made sense.

You know? Like an ooga? Ooga! Like, they get first down.

Beep, beep! " For the home team. Wrong sounds. It's kind of, yeah.

Not random sounds. Yeah, no. Things that are confusing. So.

And he kicked! So we, uh, we hit, we pulled the trigger. We pulled the trigger. We got a new camera on the way.

You have another baby? We have this new, we have this new light set up. We have a new light. I'll take a picture when we're done.

Of the way of our setup now. So it's finally moving along. Oh, it's quite elaborate. I like this.

And it's recording still, right? I won't know how it looks till I go to edit, but I like, I'm not blinded, I don't know. This one was over there before. Yeah.

Well, probably if that cover wasn't on that. That one would be atrociously. Plus, that's a dimmable. Right, but it's not dimmed right now.

That one looks like we're shooting porn in here. Well, we have all our clothes on, so I would assume it doesn't look like we're shooting porn. Well, from the waist up. Don't tell everybody your secrets.

What are you doing? What are you doing, Mike? You always hear the joke about the newscasters where they only wear the shirt and a tie. There's no pants.

No pants. Well, that's everybody on a Zoom conference meeting ever for the first quarter of the year. So, yeah. So we have this new light.

It's very bougie, very expensive. We got a good deal on it, though. We buy some used stuff and get creative. Yes.

We're operating on a tight budget. We don't buy anything brand new. Yeah, no. It's just new to us.

Yeah, it's new to us. But it's working. Hey, it works. Who cares?

Yeah. Now, you did buy the light and it came in a nice travel bag and everything set up, but there was no pole. There was no pole. So we had this...

But the pole was cheap. We had this movie quality. The pole was like 20 bucks. Yeah, the pole was nothing, but it was just added.

That's why we couldn't use it last week because we didn't have a pole. Yeah, this is our light. This is, you know, this is the struggle that we have. And we have an extra light that didn't work out that, hmm, we'll use for something.

We'll put another use for it. Yeah. So eventually we'll have to replace, we'll have to do this light over here. Right, we'll get two of them.

Oh, and why do we do a different one? And we'll have to do a... That's a fill light or something you said? Oh, that one's probably gonna...

We'll outgrow that one eventually. And then we'll have a backlight. I'm looking at the back. How does the backlight work now?

It'll be like on the floor and go up? Yeah, it kind of shines up, yeah. You think it would shine down? No.

Doesn't create shadows? Oh, you can make it shine down. You can put it up there and have it shine down, too. I don't know, but then we'd be shadowed on our face.

No, we won't because these are light up our face. Exactly. Isn't that amazing? There's so much to this.

There's such a tight, such an expensive production. One of the days we used to just sit at that folding card table and yell into the one microphone. It's just a matter of time. Wait until we really kick this to the next level.

Once we have, you know, enough pieces, you level up. Then the desk has to go. Then the desk, I would agree with that. Now, did Craig say there was going to be a unit open up downstairs?

The little one? That we used to use? Maybe, yeah. Us go downstairs?

Yeah. But he gets mad when we smoke. Why don't we take him and put him downstairs? Oh, that's a better idea.

That'd be funny. Then he can get all the work done he needs to do because he's away. Yeah. No distractions.

And if we need him, we can go bother him. Right. " Oh, we should make it like a gift. We are doing this for you, Greg.

This is for you. You worked so hard. We moved your stuff downstairs. And the way they have it set up now, it's nice and clean and everything down there.

New AC. Bathroom works, new AC. It's got a rabid air thing in there. Yeah, I mean, it does have filtration.

Oh yeah, he could sit down there. Nobody will bother you, Greg. You do all the work you need. You need something, you call upstairs, we'll bring it down.

Yeah, there you go. I mean, that feels like a fair trade-off. It does. It feels like a grant.

We'll move the file cabinets down and... Well, that's really a great idea. He won't have to pay himself rent. Yeah, I won't.

We'll see about that. It's just the business expense. You just raise the rent for the business. Hmm.

I'd be okay with that. There you go. I mean, the podcast can't afford to go down there. No, we can't afford rent.

Yeah, yeah. So, no. It was actually too big for us before. It was.

It was a little too big. I mean, we had to make a room out of blankets for the sound, because it echoed. Let's, well, let's move on now. Let's talk about the other, so, um, we have a camera coming now.

Yes. We have a new camera. We have a new camera coming. Which is exciting.

Comes with a little Asian man that runs it? No, it doesn't. Why did it cost so much? So why did it cost so much?

Because cameras are fucking expensive, but we got a good deal. It's the price of a new car. No, it's not. No, it's not.

So, but I'm excited about that, you know? Yes, you're very disappointed I did not respond in more of an elaborate manner. " I was driving on 75 in the rain, 'cause we went down to see Jake. I feel like the worst thing you could possibly fucking text somebody.

And I don't know if I've ever said this before on this podcast. Is okay? No, you haven't. Is okay.

Oh, well. Is okay. I wanted to respond. It could go so many different directions, you know?

And it's- Okay, it's all right, or okay, you're mad, or? I instantly think the negative. I, for whatever reason, I go, okay. Oh, uh, what the fuck are you trying to say to me right now, dude?

Okay? How about I come over there and kick your ass? No, no, it's fine. That's what I'm saying.

I'm okay with that. The response after that that was longer, Adrian took the phone from me because I don't text and drive well. She says, what do you want to say? Tell him it's okay, I'm driving.

She said driving. Oh. Okay, maybe because there was a longer one after that? I don't know, maybe.

Because I think I might have swerved at driving. Okay. I mean, okay can mean so many different things, so many different tones. We'd already discussed it, it was fun.

Yeah. Well, so, that's exciting. I'm excited about that, you know. Let's talk about your fuck up on the last episode.

Certainly, good. I consider it more of a marketing ploy than a fuck-up, but you know, you can call it what you want. We have picked up another Patreon, so... You call it a marketing ploy.

It's a marketing ploy. They got a small taste. It doesn't strike me as an intentional marketing ploy. Well, I'd say a happy coincidence.

A happy coincidence. So, we had a holiday Monday. Yes. Right?

And we didn't record on Monday, so we recorded on Tuesday. Correct. Which is normally the day it goes up. So you were a day behind, and then, so when you went to go and upload it, you went ahead and you uploaded an old Patreon.

No, no, no. You're mistelling the story, Michael. Episode 133. As I was editing the program on the software, on this very elaborate, excellent computer donated to us by Skip Martin and Romacraft Tobac, the program GarageBand had some type of hiccup where it went off and then you get the message.

For some reason GarageBand went off unexpectedly, would you like to send a report to Apple? Click yes, click no, whatever it's on. Okay. So that goes, so when I loaded it back up, unbeknownst to me, it grabbed 138 and 38 and put them together.

Like docking. Okay. They merged. They merged.

Yes. So when the, you know, I finished putting the bumpers on everything, and when I went to play, I just make sure it goes. I don't listen to the whole show after I edit it through, because I've already heard it twice at that point. " Not 138.

I didn't catch that. Mmm. So I uploaded. So after it's all saved, I tried to turn it into an mp3 and then upload it, you know, and then apparently we got a couple of messages from some of our diehard listeners.

Like, uh... Hey, first one came from Drew, and I was like... Sounds like a Patreon. And I was like, no, we just, I put a little something funny at the beginning.

Yeah, no, it's fine. It's fine, not a problem. So... So then we got another message, and then I played it.

I didn't even hear it the first time I listened to it. It still said 38. So the Patreon is pretty in-depth, and we go into reviews, and we get to... It's a little more opinionated, just to say.

Yeah, it's lovely. " Well, it could have ended really bad, right? Without disclosing how the review went. Right.

Well, don't even say what the cigar was. Right. We could have, it could have been bad. It could have been bad.

Honestly, though, on our reviews, there's only been maybe three that have gone bad. Like bad, terrible. Bad, yeah, bad, terrible, right, where... I don't know, I feel like there's more...

The people who, no, no, there's really only three, where the people who made the cigar might actually, might get a little offended. I mean, we do a... Well, I mean, if they get offended, they get offended, you know, we want to make something better, you know? Well, no, I'm not saying we, because, I mean, we don't take cigar money from anybody, so if it's no good, we're going to tell you it's no good.

Right. That's right. That's one of the reasons we are not cigar-sponsored. We are free to all.

I can still be bought, just, you know. No, you can't. Yes, I can. No, you can't.

It's my show, remember? Not the Patreon. No. Patreon's 50/50.

50/50. I won't say anything bad on this show, because this is your show. Mr. Coop did not say you do an excellent Patreon.

So to make matters worse, okay, you think all is well. We step outside and we're working on some kind of issue out front. I don't know what the hell was going on. Something online or something.

There was a problem. There was a problem. So I did not get to take it down immediately. So then my phone starts blowing up.

I'm like, did you take it down? And he's like, no. I'm like, oh my God! You said to come do this!

You gotta take it down! " It's not the way it works. Yeah, no, obviously. It's out in the internet, and then from Podbean it goes to Apple, and from Apple it goes to Spotify, and from Spotify it goes to Player FM, and from here it goes there.

So, I mean, it's not just... And you just left it. Oh, 15 minutes left it. I mean, not like it left it for days.

No, that's bad. That's bad. 55 people... Turn those machines back off.

Right. 55 people may have heard part of it. 55 people may have heard part of it. 55 people.

May have heard part of it. May have heard part of it. " That's right! Because there's a new one coming.

There's a new one coming, just wait five minutes. Refresh. Hit refresh. So, I went out for my anniversary this Saturday.

Yeah, you kept it all quiet. Nobody knew it was your anniversary. Yeah, you know, I'm not like a... We could have had a party.

I don't know. So, Miss Brittany, happy anniversary for the 10, are you at 10, I believe it's 10? No, if it was 10, I'd have to. Oh, is it nine?

You gotta chalk it up. Yeah. I thought you were one ahead of me. Nine, 10, 11.

2011. Oh. No, I thought you were one anniversary ahead of me. Well, you are, if you just did nine.

No, we're doing, oh, we'll do the nine next year, we just did eight, so you are one ahead. Okay. We've been, we've been married for eight together for nine. You've been married for nine together for 47 or something.

Yeah, 75 years. Yeah, 75 years together. So, yeah, so for me, I don't, you know, and this is to each their own, but like, I have a problem with the annual... Romance?

" I think you did it last year, though. Exactly, I did do it last year. Yeah. I don't like to do it every year.

Well, you don't want to spoil it. I just feel like it becomes, it loses something. It becomes a spoiler. Well, no, it just kind of loses its...

It's once a year you say something nice. No, that's not true, because you say other shit at nicer times throughout the year, like that happens. I don't think you do. I do.

Brittany, Brittany does he? I don't think he does. Not a lot. No.

Not a lot, because, you know. She does, she does a very nice one for your birthday, and for Father's Day. Yeah. And then Mother's Day, you cut her out of the photo every year.

Isn't that funny? Probably not to her. I think it's great. That's a Ryan Reynolds classic right there.

Probably not to her. So, we went to a restaurant. Yeah, where'd you go? Well, we tried to go to three restaurants, and it was fucking...

No reservations? Everything was packed. Yeah. She did not plan ahead.

No. Well, we tried to book a reservation earlier. I need to write this down somewhere. How much time do we have?

We have eight minutes, I just went. Okay. Seven and a half. So next year, I will help you, Mike.

Oh, okay. Well, so... I will arrange the flowers. So last year...

The reservation. Okay. Flowers, reservations. Will you handle my Facebook post?

Maybe Chet, oh, yes. Chet and I will handle your romantic evening. Perfect. Thanks.

Chet. Chet, why is that creepy? I don't know, it sounds weird. We have a reservation for you.

We'll make sure flowers are in there. Chet's got a company credit card, so we'll charge it to the shop. Perfect. Nothing expensive.

Nothing too a lot. Oh, it's 10. Hmm. Well, it might be a little something.

We'll make sure she gets 10 of something. So we tried to eat at Hillstone, because we ate there the year prior. I don't even know what that is. It's like, uh, it's an affiliate of Houston's.

Oh. It's a beautiful place. It's on a lake. It's very nice.

Oh, very nice. Is it on Lake Mary or Ultima? Winter Park. Oh.

So, where did you end up? Did she get to Super Size? So, that was an hour and a half wait. So, that went bust.

Across the street is a store called Booyah, which Mr. Matt Hunt took me to. Oh, I know where Houston's is. Yeah.

Okay. Well, Hillstones. Hillstones. Did it used to be called Houston?

Oh, it's a division of Houston. Correct. So, then we went to Booyah. That's the same fucking thing, an hour and a half wait.

Oof. What'd you say about Matt Hunt? He took us there before. I went there to Booyah.

Greg and I went there. Oh. You and Greg had a romantic evening. Yeah, with Matt Hunt.

Oh, well. You and Hunt had a romantic evening. Greg was the third wheel. Mm-hmm.

Obviously. Go. Keep going. Straight two.

Yeah, no shit. So there was a place called 60 Vines right next door, and they were book solid, but they had a space at the bar. You ate anniversary dinner at a bar. We did.

And it was great. We had a great time. Can we call your wife? See if she feels the same?

No, we don't have time. We don't have time. That's okay. You sure?

Yeah, yeah. The time you got on the phone, we would have to go to break. Yeah, we had a great time. She enjoyed it.

She loved it. She got some wine. She got to try different wines. She loves wine.

What do you need to take her to the place that has all the wine? What's that? The Hawk thing or whatever. Cooper Hawk?

Cooper Hawk. Because there isn't one closest in downtown Orlando. There's one out by UCF. Yeah, that's Orlando.

You jump on the 520 and you scoot around. Okay, we went to 60 Vines. It was amazing. We had a great time.

We had a great time. Sitting at the bar. She doesn't want to be far away from the kids either. You know, in case something happens or anything like that, 20, 30 minutes is one thing.

But, you know, start getting out there a little bit further. Who watched the children in this? Uncle Brian. Oh.

Oh, it's your Uncle Brian. Oh, Livin' Babysitter. That's nice. Livin' Babysitter.

Nice move. He's like Mr. French now from Family Affair. The Livin' Bubba.

That's probably way before you... Yeah, I have no idea what you're talking about. There was a sitcom where there was this heavyset English man who, who was this guy, like Brian Dennehy I believe, all of a sudden got stuck with twin nieces and nephews, with his niece and nephew because his brother got killed in a car accident, I don't know, and Mr. French was the English butler who ended up helping raise the children.

Oh, that's nice. You should have looked that up, and then you could call Brian Mr. French around the house. Mr.

French. Mr. French. Oh, yes.

What do you need? Yeah. He didn't have a French accent, he was British. So it was packed.

All the restaurants were packed. Oh, jeez. You don't get close to my room. Saturday night!

All the restaurants were packed. Saturday night! What do you expect? Okay, but like, I mean, to a point where there was no social distancing.

They had social distancing things up, like every other table and stuff like that, but you're like, there's no fucking way that everybody is spaced out right. It's just not possible. And at the bar, was there somebody on either side of you? No, so we were in our own little section, and we were actually probably the most socially distanced people in the entire fucking place.

So you were sitting at the service station part? No, so they, on the... To your left, was there a copper bar that ran? No, no, so the serving station was actually to the right of us, it was a little further away, but like, this, it looked like where we were sitting used to be outside, and they had windows, so we, so you got your own window.

So you sat inside, she sat outside? No, we sat in, it was outside, but now it's inside. Was she asked to hand drinks to the waitress? She was.

I don't know, that's so weird. How did you know that? No. Excuse me, can you hand Mabel there this margarita and this gin fizz, please, ma'am?

Uh, yeah. Hey, man, we don't get to go out often, so it was nice to go out. We don't give a fuck where we were. But we had a good time where we were at.

Yeah, but live in the babysitter, she'd be going out once a week. She'd have date night. We should definitely do it more often. I agree.

Date night. But all these restaurants are packed, is my point. You're missing my point. Adrian and Becky watch the kids, Chet and I drive you around and make sure that you take you to your reservations and things, and perfect.

Love it. Win-win. And the wine at your house will work out where the girls are watching the kids. Just keep them loaded.

And you have lots of cigars apparently now for Chet and I to smoke at your house, so it's all that full drawer. The whole point of that story was for me to tell you that it looks like nobody gives a shit about the coronavirus anymore. No, I get that feeling, too, yeah. We ate somewhere when we were out with Jake and down there, and there was no every other table or nothing.

That place was packed, too. Those people were hopping, they were running. They were busy. I mean, a lot of these restaurants have taken it kind of on the chin.

Right, so, I mean, they're not going to turn people away at this point. I mean, bars open back up today. For us, yeah. So, well, all of them.

Well, state of Florida. Yeah. Which is odd, because Miami went from like, what, level one to level seven here in like a week? Well, it depends though, because like a mayor couldn't shut that down.

So yeah, okay, DeSantis, the governor said it's okay, but... The mayor can still... Of course, of course. I know that Mayor Buddy Dyer wanted to keep it closed till January.

Tell Buddy to shut the fuck up. Yeah, he don't fucking know. Well, that's just Orlando. Yeah.

He can do what he wants down there. Oh, so it's okay as long as it's not happening to you? There's a corona down there. Oh, Jesus.

Alright, we're at 28 and a half minutes. Do you want to go ahead and take a break, and then we'll come back and start the show? You got something else? Oh yeah, let me squeeze one other thing.

Did you see a video back in, when this initially hit, like the Chinese guy that fell over in the, he was wearing a mask? Vaguely. He was like standing, remember that? " Yeah.

Like that was like the big kind of launch of the fear for this coronavirus thing, right? Right. I don't think that happened anywhere in the US. I don't think anybody kind of fell over, just fucking like...

Like dying. No, not here. You know, isn't that kind of weird? Doesn't make you wonder that maybe...

For drama purposes. Maybe there was some bullshit behind some of this. I mean, people still died and you should still wear a mask and you... Yes, but the medical helper or whatever it's called here in the States is way better than over there.

Right, but like the social media flurry that came out from some of those things, like the fucking utter panic. We'll have to pick this back up again after the camera's gonna go off. We can just let it go. Nope, we're done.

All right, we're taking a break. We'll be right back and we'll finish off this thought and get started with the news. Boom. Hold on.

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Alright, we're back. This is episode 139. Telling my wife that you ate the French toast. I tell her it was delicious.

She gave him laughy faces? It was very good. She said, she's laughing faces and then what did he think? It was very good.

That's what you're missing out of. Tell her I licked the plate. Every Sunday. All right, were you done?

Did you want to touch on the story? No, you know, it's just kind of crazy, you know, and I get tired of talking about this bullshit every single day, and I wear a mask everywhere I go, I do the right thing, wash my hands, yada, yada, yada, yada, right? And, you know, I know a couple people that died, and all of it sucks. Yeah.

Well, hopefully, though, it seems like we're on the tail end of it, so... Hopefully. But with that, all that being said, it seems like there were some certain shit that happened that came out of China that was purposely designed to strike fear into the world. Well, there's a story now that a woman who supposedly worked at the lab or whatever that's saying they made it.

It was created. It was created there. I mean, who knows? For what purpose?

I mean, I don't think, I'm not one of those conspiracy theory people. I don't think they purposely did it to crumble our economy. No, well, maybe. Well, I can tell you from my side, they were hurting when we weren't buying shit.

So, I mean, their economy is us buying stuff to sell here. Right, so why would they want to hurt us? Why would they want to hurt us? That just hurts them.

Right, that's true. You're very smart. You're very wise. You're wise men.

It just seems, I don't know, like, fuck the media. I'm just so over... Well... Fox, CNN, MSNBC, they could all go fuck themselves.

I mean, it's just so ridiculous. But the fake news thing, I mean, it just seems like, well, you know, let's run with this, so, you know, who knows. I'm only getting my news from Joe Rogan, and he has to be very high or on some kind of shroom or something. All right, well, we're going to start here, so here's the deal.

Oh, I mean, and you. Here's the deal. We'll get, I mean, you're not getting news from me. I get news from you.

I get all my news from Coop. Yeah, that's true. I wanted him to talk about that on the show, because he got mad at somebody who used part of his information It was the Bugatti stuff. So somebody used his information from his report to share throughout...

Yeah, but like a lot of people will, so what they do, and it's totally different from what we do, they'll take the article. Oh, we have permission. No, well, they take the article. Yes.

They copy it and paste it. Yes. They change a couple words. I don't change words.

No, I'm saying they change a couple words and then they call it their own. Right. Mike, we would never do that. No, we claim, I mean, we say, we used to, for several shows, we went fresh off a coupe, fresh off a half wheel, right out of Cigar Aficionado, right, I'm not claiming, I mean, I'm not claiming, we're just not those guys, we just don't need to, we decided a long time ago, it's a lot of work, yeah, we're not fucking doing that, this is ridiculous, just for us to kind of tear it apart, right, exactly, yeah, I mean, not the, not the article itself, but obviously the content related to the person, right, I would like, We have to see a press release to see how much people change it, or does everybody just cut and paste, I mean.

Yeah. I mean, oh man, more reverb, or whatever the hell's going on. I'm not touching nothing. Is it maybe hitting the cord with your feet?

No, my feet, they haven't really moved. Maybe our microphones are slowly dying. Oh no. Next purchase.

We just depleted the account for the camera. You know what? One of the patrons had a good idea. Maybe we could do a yearly subscription.

Like a car wash? No, no, no. Instead of their, you know, Their monthly payment of $15 or $25, we do a yearly contribution of whatever 25 times 12 is. So what, $300?

It's just tougher to regulate. It is, it is. I like the whole month. And I don't, well, that's the way Patreon does it, so we don't process the charges, so.

As crazy as it may sound, you know, and part of me wants to hit the button to not struggle, but I appreciate the struggle. Like, you look back, and you're like, remember that snow globe microphone where me, you, Emil, and Z yelled into it? From the legitimate ground up, we hit no button to help, to provide aid, this is just us, and then, you know what I mean? Like, that's what's amazing about this thing.

No sponsors. Right. Exactly. Except, I do have a lovely pair of manscaping underwear I still use, and a ball shaver.

Yes, we did get that. We did get that. That is nice. That's all that bang we got from the bang sponsors.

That was a lie. You lived a lie. And I hate you. John Brusso came in today.

Did he? Yeah, he was in here this morning for a little while. " You know, I explained it and he goes, "Oh, what episode? " So I had to go look up and see what it was.

I hate you. He wants to go back in here. I told him you're- I still love bang, though. You're still- I'd like some form of sponsorship.

Send me some free stuff, man. I'm good to go. Don't ask for much. You bought the stuff.

All I bought were the shirts. Other than that, it was all from the listeners. Even the listeners knew! Evil.

Evil people. Can I tell you the voting that you've never been? Let's just tee off on him. All right, Florida governor vetoes a bill increasing tobacco purchases.

Boom! On Tuesday, last Tuesday... DeSantis, baby! Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoed Senate Bill 810, which sought to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco and baby products to 21 to bring the state into alignment with federal law.

They would have also placed a ban on the sale of flavored vaping products, which DeSantis said had been helpful in helping Floridian stop using tobacco. The bill had been passed by the state legislature in March, passing by the House 99-17, voted on the Senate by a 34-4 vote. In his letter, DeSantis said that the ban would lead people back to tobacco products, to the black market to get flavored vaping products. Exactly.

He doesn't care about the age, but he doesn't want the people to do it. Over-regulation is a problem. But the bad news is, though, however, since the legislature is not currently in session... Yes.

This wouldn't happen until next regular session, which runs March to April of 2021. Whatever. So, they have to vote on his letter or his ability to veto. I'm gonna, you know what?

It seems like a pointless veto. Hey, I'm gonna trust the process and I'm, you know, I appreciate the fact that that's out there because, you know, that's one of those things that nobody would, everybody wants to not address it. Like nobody wants, it's like the elephant in the room is like, ooh, tobacco, ooh, let's not talk about that, you know? Right.

Some people think it's the devil or whatever the case may be, you know, those people are insane, but you know, I think that it's encouraging to see a governor say, "Hey, you know what? " I don't like when they put a lot of things together on these bills. I mean, like age and vaping, I mean, okay, it's both with tobacco, but they should have been separate. Oh, yeah.

So, I mean, he might be for the raise the age, but he's against outlawing vaping, so he has to vote it. He's vetoing it. Like, a couple of years ago, they did the offshore drilling thing, but it didn't pass because it was something with sea turtles or something in it, too. Well, I think the age and the vaping is both an overstep for the government.

They have no part, you know, so bundle it together and kick it the fuck out of here. Let's go. Good job, Ron. All right, court vacates FDA.

Voting for you next year, buddy. Or this year, whatever. I move on now, Michael. Oh, I know.

So listen, here's the deal. So look. Look, here's the deal. Here's the deal.

Court vacating FDA cigar warning label requirements. Chet, Chet, Chet made the shirt for me. S. District...

Chet, my friend, Chet. My friend, Chet. My manservant, Chet. He's just my friend.

Maybe your manservant, he's my friend. I know. S. District Court of the District of Columbia has vacated FDA's warning label requirements for cigars and pipe tobacco.

If that sounds familiar, it's because today's ruling was more legal minutiae than the real world change. Oh. In February, Judge Mahata... We talked about Judge Mahata before.

Who was... S. Corp of Appeals for the Dutch Corp of Columbia Circuit Court, that left the future for a new rule in legal limbo. Everybody limbo, limbo.

I believe that judge was elected by Obama, too, just for the record. Could have been. I just think that it's funny that everybody thinks that one side or the other is, you know, pro-tobacco and anti-tobacco. Right.

Let's see. "That means that the warning label parts of the rule will be vacated in full. S. Food and Drug Administration, had requests that Mahatta remanded the rule.

" Mahatta. In short, the FDA would have been able to submit its plan to the court and Mahatta Shkaka could have ruled as to No, that's totally different. I'm doing Ace Venture. Oh, sorry.

God. FDA had to correct it. Well, it's all, it's everywhere now because the man died. It is, it's very sad.

Everybody's doing what kind of it. I mean, you're fucking out of nowhere. What a bummer. The last three movies he did, apparently he had cancer, nobody knew.

Yeah, and you just fucking. What a guy. You just sucked it up. Let's just go.

Just fucking. God. Well, he didn't want him to stop production. Right.

But now they have to replace him for future Marvel movies? I guess. I don't know how you're gonna do that. I guess there will not be a Black Panther 2.

Well, they did it to the Falcon. Not the Falcon, they did it to, who's the other guy in the Iron Man suit? Oh, Don Cheadle, Don Cheadle got, he replaced the dude from Hustle or whatever. Yeah, because the other guy was, wanted more money.

Oh, was that what it was? That's what I remember. Oh, that guy was badass too. He didn't like Tony, the guy who played Tony.

Oh, he didn't like Robert Downey Jr.? He didn't like Robert Downey Jr. He's a cigar guy, so I don't like Robert Downey Jr. Because in the first movie, he was paid, or the movie that he was first in, the other guy, he got paid like smittance compared to Robert Downey Jr.

, he was smart. Well, sure he was. Off the rip, he's like, I'll take a percentage. Right.

I see more movies coming, maybe. Yeah, I could ride this out for 20-plus years. Right. Or however long it was.

Instead, the plaintiffs in this case asked Mahatai to formally vacate the rule which he agreed to do. Shakaka. This means the FDA wants to introduce new rules for warning labels in the future and will have to start the process over from scratch. This will require a formal comment period, responsive by FDA, and then the introduction of the new rules.

Yeah. Well, hey. That's good. I mean, that's just kind of old news that's been, you know, reiterated.

Yeah, that's what they said the story was. He's like, I haven't been in the news lately. Let me say this again when nobody's looking. Oh, by the way.

So, Chaka Khan. Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan. Judge, Chaka Khan, Chaka Khan. Really?

Hey, listen, I have the worst last name on the planet, so I'm going to say what I want about everybody else's last name. It just is what it is. You're all stuck. Okay, Foundation Cigars.

Foundation. Oy. A third blend is coming to Foundation Cigar. A third.

The Charter Oak line. Habano! Last week the company announced that Charter Oak Habano will be shipping to retailers in late September. Are we getting that?

I don't know, I gotta call my rep and he fucking sucks. Oh shit, that's... So, you know, I used to be able to supersede him. Now he's too big.

But now, but the guy who I used to supersede him with is gone. Who'd you supersede him? Man, I can't remember his name. I think it was like Dave or something.

He was a good guy. Dave. Dave. Dave.

Let's see, Charter Oak was introduced in 2016. Let me look up his name, now you got me perplexed. In both the Connecticut Shade and Connecticut Broadleaf Report, Charter Oak pays homage to founder Nicholas Melillo's home state of Connecticut, where the Charter Oak tree is a historical symbol. " No, not this Sunday.

It was Dave, David Sather. Oh. That was my guy. Charter Oak Cabana Oak, and so David Sather, if you were still available, if you could contact Michael because...

I think he got into the weed business or something. Well, that wouldn't be a hard change from... Foundation! Foundation.

Foundation. Toro can make a business of a Habano-Equidoro wrapper over Nicaraguan, Binder, and Phyllis. There are six Vitolas. Five of the Vitolas are common to the Charter Oak, Connecticut Shade and Connecticut Broadleaf Lines.

A six size, a Torpedo. It is unique to the Charter Oak Habano. Each size, Brazilian 20-ounce. Here's what I can tell you, Mike.

I can tell you that I will order the Robusto and the Toro from my dear friend Alfredo. However, I can't guarantee that the order will be submitted, and I can't guarantee that I will get the fucking product. " I can't do Nick's accent, he doesn't have one. "Filling the profile gap between the CT shade and the CT broadleaf," said Malello, in a press release, oh, he did a press release.

" So apparently, here's a little inside story, and it's cool, let's just make this public, fuck it. So there's this really cool guy out in Connecticut who was down for the Weasel Fest, named Santos. Fucking guy is hilarious. I mean, down to earth guy, and we had a blast just kind of hanging out and bullshit with him.

He said that he's tried to meet Nick Melillo like several times, and Nick has kind of like blown him off, been kind of shitty to him. Oh, wow. So, you know. Makes a hell of a nice guy.

Yeah, so it's just, there's obviously something, there's some kind of. Is Alfredo Cruz brokering the meeting? Maybe. Maybe that's the problem.

But, like, you know, I would love to, I'm going to work on that. When I, if I can get. Oh, you're going to try to set that up? Yeah, if they're at an IPCPR or TP or something, I'm going to be like, I'm going to fucking.

Does the gentleman you met own a shop or anything? I don't think so. So he's just a guy. He's just a good guy.

Just a guy. So he might not get to go to own a shop. I don't know. But he's awesome.

He's fucking hilarious. Maybe we can arrange a meeting here. He's like, Nick is so mean to me. And everybody's like, no man, Nick's a good dude.

How can Nick be mean to anybody? It's gotta be Nick's people. Somebody's in between. I think that if you don't know the person, if you're not...

Well, yeah, I'm sure somebody at Nick's level is getting stuff all done. Hey, I'd like to come meet you. I just think that... I'm having a barbecue, would you like to come over?

It can become socially awkward. You know, and he's not like the most charismatic person in the fucking industry. You know what I mean? Like, he's like, he's kind of like beautiful mind, like, you know, raw, intelligent talent, right?

Like, you know, Mike Squared, I mean, who thinks of that shit, you know? Right. Like, that's Nick, so I want to, I want to. You want to set that up.

I want to get them together. Okay, Nick, we know you're probably a big, big fan of the show, and you listen to Broadway all the time. Because we, we, I think every week we say, "Foundation". "Foundation".

So, uh, this gentleman friend of Michael's would like to meet you. Yeah. Maybe a photograph. Maybe, like a shirt or something.

Maybe a handshake. A hat. A hat. A shirt.

A little swag. Something. Make 'em feel special. Right.

Only you can do it. Maybe just friend him on Facebook to start, we'll start small. Yeah. And maybe, like, Facebook message him.

I haven't, I haven't heard from Nick, and... It's gotta be over a year. Uh, when I smoke one of his cigars and I, uh, tag the company or him, he likes it, so I mean, that's about the extent of my... That's about some miles.

Probably, probably not him. Foundation, someone likes my posts. Foundation. Oh, and Nick, he liked my posts today.

Look at this. Very nice. Oh, we're horrible people. I love you, Nick.

Yes, I love you, too, Nick. I miss you. We miss you. We miss you, Nick.

Uh, enter the back cancels, uh, It Shub event. What is It Shub? I've never heard of this before. I don't know.

Am I saying itchub? I-T-S-H-U-B? The Alternative Inner Tobacco Event has been canceled. The German parent company, which owns both the Inner Tobacco Trade Fair and the Messe Dortmund family, it takes a place in, has announced that it has canceled itchub.

Dude, I'm gonna get a message from Skip probably that I said this wrong. Fucking idiot. Well, as of right now, he's probably fucking pacing right now in the office with his gas can that you sent him in anger. It says he obviously is not going to post this.

I thought it would show up on social media. Right. Everybody knows Skip had that porch pirate take a box off his. Porch pirate?

Porch pirate, that's what they're called. Take his package off his porch last week and he had a video of it and everything. But apparently it was a very nice, rather large, antique gas can, oil can, something to that effect. How mad is that guy?

So he, the guy that got it? Oh yeah, he's super pissed. What the fuck am I going to do with this? What the fuck?

Maybe he's got, oh, I could sell this. No. What, for 50 bucks or something? Like, you know, he doesn't know the value of that fucking thing.

Right, he has no idea. Probably threw it away. God damn it. Probably took it to the scrap yard.

So anyway, I went and bought, Skip, a brand new, top-of-the-line gas can. Oh, yeah. And put Cigar Hustler sticker on it and... Nice plastic.

Yeah, it's plastic. But it came with a funnel. Skip will tell you, that's not craft. That's not craft.

Well, that's why I put the stickers on it. Now it's craft. Now it's craft. So I put it in a really large box and mailed it to him.

It was amazing. I put a nice little note in it and go, "We're so sorry that your old gas can was stolen. " Love, Mike and Mike Productions. " I'm like, "Let's just fucking do it.

You can't really have him mad at me. " It's just a joke. So he got it today, and apparently it's not overly... Hashtag too soon.

It's just a circus here at Cigar Hustler, I don't, you know. Who can we piss off today, sort of the, we start every morning with that slogan, the company meeting once a week, we make anybody mad this week, you've all been fired then. Yeah, I need, we need more. We need more controversy, please, more people in the industry not to like us.

So anyway, it was supposed to take place November 3rd and 4th in Dortmund. So there's no Idschub. No, no Idschub. The event was announced in July as an alternative to Winter Tobac, which was canceled, but now this has been canceled, too.

And no more Idschub. So no more Idschub. A lot of German words that I'm not even going to come--how do you say that word there? Look at--that's longer than your name.

Oh, Germans has a groupie. That's longer than your name. Oh, Germans has a groupie. All right.

We need delay on you. Looking forward to this story. Our friends at Two Guys Cigar Shop. Yes.

The Dos Hombres? What's that little show that's number two? Never heard of it. I don't know what it is.

Oh, Cigar Authority. Here it is. The Cigar Authority reported that Famous Smoke Shop would be sold to a group that was made up of the parent company of Oliva and the founder of Cigars International. Two of those parties have told Half Wheel that the report is just not true.

It's not true. You know, I mean, they've done that a couple times. That's why I thought we would discuss it. He reported that Famous Smoke Shop, one of the world's largest cigar retailers with mail-order operations and a physical store from Pennsylvania, was being sold to a group that was made up of some other people and founder and the owner of Cigars International, and that wasn't true either.

They also said something about Obama was gonna save Cubans and the cigar industry when Obama was in office, and that wasn't true either. The Cigar Authority has modified its story a bit. " I don't even know what that means. Wow.

So, here we are. So, here we are, and it's like 0-3. I just don't understand why even make this shit up. If they would learn to take stories like we do that other people have already vetted and saw that they were true or not.

It's so much better. It's so much better. We very rarely give out any false information. " Yeah, allegedly.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Like, I heard, allegedly, that two guys were selling the famous, allegedly. Oh, allegedly.

Yeah. Yeah, I heard that. Wow. I heard two guys was adding the third guy, I'm going to call it three guys.

Three guys. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yes.

Skip was going to be the third guy. Trace Hombres. But there was a, well, that's the South American version is. Three men.

But there was a problem with Skip making a firecracker, or Scripps, or Scripps. Scripps. Scripps said over the weekend that the Saka's firecracker was the best firecracker. No, he said the second best.

Oh, because his is the first. Come on, man. You got to pick up on the shade, brother. Okay.

This story is for... Not bad for runner-up or some shit like that. is for Miss Brittany, the best French toast maker. Well, I have to say second best.

My wife makes French toast. We'll go with the best brioche French toast maker in America. Okay. Keeping up with the Kardashians is ending after 20 seasons.

It's over. It's over, Johnny. After 20 seasons have been announced that Keeping up with the Kardashians is ending. Finding the e-network in a post on Instagram, Kim Kardashian shared the news, telling her followers, it is with heavy heart that we made the difficult decision as a family to say goodbye to keep it up with the Kardashians.

After what will be 14 years, it's hard to believe it's been on that long. We have too much money. 14 years and 20 seasons, hundreds of episodes, and numerous spinoff shows. We are beyond grateful to all of you who have watched us for all these years.

Kanye has lost his shit. The good times, the bad times, the happiness, the tears, and many relationships and children. There was more information in the story, but quite honestly, I really can't stand them, and I don't really care. Well, you can't stand them, why have hatred towards those type of people?

Who cares? I don't have hatred, I just don't like them. You can't stand them. They're famous just for the mere fact that they're famous.

That's it. I mean, they- That's amazing. I mean, come on, that should be encouraged. I'm happy for them.

Well, here we are becoming famous, talking about fucking nothing. You run this little operation here, not the show, the entire operation under the Mike Szczebaciewicz umbrella, who is the mother from that show? Ella, Ella, oh, I am the, what's her name? You are the mother Kardashian.

Uh, what is her name? The Megalodon Kardashian. Yes, who now has a very handsome black boyfriend too. Oh, shit, I don't know her again, I don't know her name.

I don't know her either, Catherine. All right, oh, we're at nine minutes, we have one more story. Banana. Oh, we have two more stories.

Oh, and then I had a filler that we're just not gonna get to. You had a filler? Okay, I found out over the weekend. Yes?

I was 53 years old when I found it out. Have you heard that thing now? How old were you when you found this out? Yeah.

Do you know stripper poles spin? No. Exactly! Wow.

Stripper poles were introduced to gentlemen's clubs as a popularity of pole dancing increased as stripper poles spin in place. So that's how they do it. They're just riding it. They don't, well, literally, but they don't.

They're just riding it. I mean, you know, you think when they're doing that spinning with their knees and everything that they're, no, the pole's moving. As a dancer, strippers their body weight when performing different pole tricks, Director Actions, Inclusion, The Pulse Spin. The Pulse Spins.

I mean, I'm not a frequenter of them, but I'm not going now anyway, period. You need to really stop touching the microphone. What am I doing? You know, the thing is, they don't hear this on the show.

That doesn't translate into the show. Oh, it doesn't? Nope. We only hear it in the headphones.

Oh, okay. Well, that's fine. So we'll just ignore it for now. Yeah, we'll just keep the party going.

Alright, one last story. Ah, there was something else I was going to tell you. It clicked in my head and then I lost it. About strip clubs?

No, no, it was before the strip club. Kardashians, you were saying something. I don't know. I really don't like them.

You're the mother Kardashian. I'm the mother Kardashian. That's where you lost me, when you call me the mother Kardashian. Oh.

I called Skip Scrip. Scrip. Which might just catch up. Scrip.

Hey, Scrip. Hey, Scrip Martin. What's up, Scrip? Sounds like he does a morning show on the radio.

I am Scrip Martin. Oh, God. What's going on? I don't know.

There's something. Lots of noise at the door. A lot of noise at the door. All right, quick.

We got seven minutes here. Seven. Chris Evans, popular for playing Captain America, in the Marvel Universe, became internet fodder recently as he accidentally shared a nude photo on social media. Heyo!

How do you accidentally drop that? The actor apparently shared a nude on Instagram. As per page 6, Chris, while playing the game Heads Up, shared a video without editing it, the clip revealed a gallery of videos and pictures, one of which had him clothesless. 8 million people on Instagram.

That's a lot of dick pic news. A lot of people's all the wiener. It's all Captain America's wiener. If you want to understand, he's represented America well.

Oh, excellent. Good for you, Chris. Thank you, Chris. We appreciate you being.

Appreciate your service. Now he's Captain America in parenthesis. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service.

That's kind of crazy. I don't understand as an actor, as someone that's famous, why? Why take the naked picture? Nowadays, with the cloud, which nobody's really sure how that works, and people breaking into your phones and everything, why would you even have a naked picture?

I can't. Well, maybe if we look like Chris Evans and had the Captain American penis. It would have been great if he did a Buffalo Bill or some shit. That would have been awesome.

With a tough... Yeah, that would have been amazing. Apparently, he's just standing. Who plays heads up naked?

Apparently, Chris Evans. whatever his name that's his name Chris Evans Chris Evans until I looked up the story I originally thought that was Thor and I thought it was going to be funnier no yeah that's not Chris Evans when I heard it on the radio what's his name Thor no it's another Chris isn't it I don't know yeah Chris McConnell no Hemsworth Chris Hemsworth boom oh it is another Chris though ah there you go so that's why I got confused yeah okay we do have five minutes I have a quick little I got a transcript of you and Rosales' conversation how'd you get that? by half my ways So, would you like to play you and I'll play Rosales? We have five minutes.

Did you go on my phone? No, is it a text message? I don't know. No, your conversation where you had out in Texas.

Oh, this is some bullshit. This is some bullshit. I like how you were worried though. Don't be looking at my shit.

Okay, you play you. Come on, we got five minutes. I'll be Mr. Rosales.

So, you start. Oh, yeah, this didn't happen. Yes, it did. This is word for word.

I got this from Jamie. She overheard the conversation and was taking notes. So, did you see my appearance on Coop's show? Yes, where was Palmer?

Did you see Coop and I at media? Yes, yes, but what about Palmer? He does most of the work anyway. Dead weight, I do all the heavy lifting on Mondays.

I like to work out alone. Wow, that's cold. Hey, can't stand the fire? Get out of the kitchen, I always say.

But it's Mike and Mike Productions. It's like saying my name twice. Wow. I'm doing legs now, four days a week.

Want some advice? I read a lot, mostly self-help books, so I'm good. Wow. Okay, then.

Cold plunge is bad. It's now hot boxes. You're such an idiot. You can't even act well when you're playing yourself, Michael.

In case you got me laughing. I mean, come on. You're out of control. I was gonna do one where you talked to Skip, where you said different things, but he had the same answers as everyone else.

You're so evil. Well, that is the last of the heckling, Michael, from the Coop Show. The last of the heckling. The last of the heckling.

Well, hopefully you won't fuck up this episode and it'll get on there in a timely fashion and I won't have a Patreon. You know, it was a marketing ploy because those 55 people got to hear a piece of the magic that is Patreon. You know, what we need to do is we actually need to get a solid state hard drive for you to back up all that old files and get it off there. Yes.

And oh, the other thing is that I saw that on some of the Spotify stuff, they have video playing with the audio. Of us? No, like Joe Rogan's show, some of his- Oh, you know what, somebody else told me that Spotify's going to video. That's pretty amazing.

Yeah, somebody else was mentioning that because of him, it's going, they're doing video now. Yeah, 'cause like, you know, I saw Mike Tyson talking to Joe Rogan, I was like, "Damn, that guy's in so in shape. " Well, because our Spotify gets fed from Podbean, which does not do video. Right.

So, I don't know. Maybe I need to see how that works. Well, we've got to figure out how to do the video and audio at the same time, anyway, so. We are doing the video and audio.

Yeah, but you're uploading it just in the audio format. Yes, because the different providers we use do different formats. Like, the video only goes to YouTube. Oh, it's a lot.

It's a lot. Well, you know, it's your show, so whatever it is you want to do. And you don't really do anything anyway, so I need you to figure that out. All right, we're down to a minute, so we're way past Pedro time.

All right, guys, thank you. Solid, solid performance. Do you know what we're doing on the Patreon next? No.

I don't either. Okay, so no Patreon teaser. But it will be amazing, whatever it is. It's always amazing.

It's always amazing. Apparently we just talked shit. We should review the Brulee Blue, but I don't know if... I don't think we have any more, so...

That might be a problem. Could be a problem. Anything else new? Is there anything else that came out?

I don't know. Here's a new Charter Oak from Foundation! Foundation! I just wanted to say Foundation.

Boi! Boi! Boi! Okay.

All right, 59. All right, guys. Thank you. Appreciate it.

This has been episode 139. Bow, bow, bow. All right, guys. Bye.

Bow, bow, bow. Say bye, Michael. This is the Cigar Hustlers podcast. Bye.

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The Hojo De... Hojo! It's the Hojo! You didn't even let him fuck it up all the way.

I couldn't get past Hojo! I don't even have to try to hit the record. He's not even going to try. We're going to cover a lot of ground here, Mike.

All right. Try to keep up. That's a sign of a good podcast. You'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door.

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