150 Thieves everywhere! Mikey is now part of Cheap Trick!

Episode Summary

Episode 150 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with Mike Palmer and Mike Szczepankewicz trading post-Thanksgiving stories — a dying laptop, split family holidays, leftover Halloween Jell-O shots, and gyms finally reopening with kid care. Mike also recaps his guest appearance on the Cigar Jukebox podcast's one-year anniversary panel alongside Dave, William Coop, Hector and newcomer Aaron Nielsen (son of Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen), who impressed the guys by naming a Melillo/"Mel Diaz" pick as a cigar of the year and generally knowing his stuff. The conversation drifts into what makes a podcast panel click, why some industry personalities "personify more than what they are," and plans to troll future Zoom appearances with green-screen backgrounds.

The news segment is the meat of the episode. Habanos S.A. has canceled the 23rd Festival del Habano scheduled for February 2021 — the first cancellation in the event's history — though Habanos hints at a surprise for Cohiba's 55th anniversary. Miami Cigar Company is cutting its sales force from 14 reps and brokers down to five effective January 1, with VP Jason Wood citing a new direction; the hosts speculate the move ties to flavored-cigar brand Tatiana carrying a disproportionate share of sales, and note Willy Herrera-era-style departures as Willie announces he's parting ways with the company. They also cover Miami Cigar's other lines (Nestor Miranda, Don Lino) and its U.S. distribution of La Aurora and Toscano.

Also covered: the Joya de Nicaragua × Cigar Dojo "Joya Ninjagragua," a Nicaraguan puro in a $8.95 toro sold in triangular six-packs, limited to 450 bundles (2,700 cigars), with quotes from Juan Ignacio Martínez; Davidoff of Geneva's Blend Exclusive Salomon with a five-year-old Ecuadorian 702 wrapper and San Vicente Mejorado binder; and the JRE Tobacco Co. warehouse burglary in Miami, where thieves cut through the roof and emptied the building — prompting a long riff on why anyone would steal cigars and whether brands should move warehouses out of Miami to Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa or Savannah. The show closes with Listener of the Week shout-outs to Stephen Wells and Howard Gross (with CPAP-cleaning advice) and a plug for the Patreon secret show reviews.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Thanksgiving, Broken Laptops and Family Logistics
   The hosts swap holiday stories about splintering family Thanksgivings, a dead MacBook headed to Apple, leftover Jell-O shots and finally getting back into the gym.
2. 02
   Cigar Jukebox Podcast Appearance
   Mike recaps guesting on Cigar Jukebox's one-year anniversary panel with Dave, William Coop, Hector and Aaron Nielsen — son of Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen — and what makes a podcast panel actually click.
3. 03
   Habanos Cancels the 2021 Festival del Habano
   Cuba scraps the 23rd Habanos Festival set for February 2021, the first cancellation in its history, with talk of last year's 2.4 million euro humidor auction and a teased Cohiba 55th anniversary surprise.
4. 04
   Miami Cigar Company Downsizes Its Sales Force
   Miami Cigar cuts from 14 sales reps and brokers to five effective January 1, and the guys dig into the Tatiana sales dominance theory and Willie's exit from the company.
5. 05
   Joya de Nicaragua x Cigar Dojo 'Joya Ninjagragua'
   A two-years-in-the-making Nicaraguan puro toro in triangular six-packs, limited to 450 bundles, blended with input from a panel of Dojo members.
6. 06
   Davidoff Blend Exclusive Salomon
   Davidoff of Geneva USA releases an 8.5 x 57 Salomon for the Blend bar using a five-year-old Ecuadorian 702 wrapper and Dominican San Vicente Mejorado binder.
7. 07
   JRE Tobacco Co. Warehouse Burglary
   Thieves cut through the roof of JRE's Miami warehouse and cleaned it out, sparking a debate about cigar theft economics and whether manufacturers should relocate out of South Florida.
8. 08
   Listener of the Week and Patreon Preview
   Shout-outs to Stephen Wells and Howard Gross, plus a tease of the Patreon secret show's brutally honest cigar reviews.

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Transcript

The End. Welcome to episode 150 of a Cigar Hustlers podcast. The Christmas show. No, no, it's too early.

Oh, the Christmas show. Did you change the brightness on my screen while you were using my computer? No, I did not, sir. Because it looks darker.

I have not changed the brightness on your screen. I believe you have. We're sharing a laptop now. That's how the struggle is real here at Cigar Hustlers.

Yes, my laptop has, It is not happy. It wasn't the battery. It wasn't the battery. It's the porn.

So, the problem now, they're talking about possibly having to wipe the whole thing clean. I set my appointment for Apple two weeks ago, they'll eventually get around for me to come in, so. So, if they wipe it clean, can you back it before they wipe? No, no, if they have to wipe it clean, I'm gonna say, "Give me that computer!

" So, without, so it does not even come on then? Yeah, they said they're going to order some parts and try and replace a couple things and see where we are. What are the parts? I don't know, like some...

Flux capacitor? Yeah, the flux, I think the flux is broken. And the Tesla coil? The Tesla coil is definitely shot.

Oh, it's terrible. Yeah. And the, whatchamacallit, near the thingamajig? The thingamajig is totally screwed.

So... We're going to work on that. So it's Thanksgiving, Michael. Thanks.

That would be something major that happened since the last show. Thanksgiving was fun. Thanksgiving was fun. We had a pretty good outing.

You know. But this year was the first year I understand that it was actually broke up. What? Like Greg did a separate thing at his house?

Greg, yeah, yeah. Because now he has his Puerto Rican family? He did. He does have his...

He is... Yeah, he's one with the Puerto Rico. Casa de Greg is at full capacity. Casa de Greg.

And I don't know, like, I think that hopefully, you know, next Thanksgiving, they just succumb to the whole thing. Well, it's usually all go over there. Right. There's a lot of prep work in Thanksgiving, you know, and I, it's like, just let, if the one person, you know, if Brittany's going to handle it.

Just let her handle it. Just, hey, we're going to show up. You know, I think that that's the first time his other family was together. Oh, yeah, I get it.

It's going to happen. Yeah, no, I get it. It's just a progression of time and growing up and growing older. Well, I think one of- Certainly your children won't even be coming for Thanksgiving.

I feel like one of two things are gonna happen. The first thing is, yes, you know, like the separation starts to happen and, you know, you have less people. " And we fly out of town and we take the kids and we just get the fuck out of Dodge. See, I'm trying to the point now where we don't even take the kids, just where you want to go.

Like, I wouldn't mind even, like, driving north and, you know, going into, like, a cabin or snow or something, yes, I mean not necessarily that far, you know, just have to go to Georgia, I just have to go far enough away so that people can't follow me, ah, well, don't tell them where you're going, no, I like, you know, there's still gonna be that random family person shows up at your house, hey, oh, wait, hello, there's no Thanksgiving, there's no Thanksgiving, yeah, what do I eat for the next three days, yeah, you know, it's the first year my wife, The wife did not have any of her children, or cook, and I think she had a little anxiety, I think. It's tough. It's tough to step away. It is.

It is. It's tough to let that go. She made a couple of dishes. I ran them out to mom and dad Thursday morning because they're on pandemic lockdown.

Was it just the two of you guys? Well, we went to Chet's house, but it was going to be just the two of us. And she was originally going to cook, and I go, honey, that's a lot of trouble for just us. Well, that's cool that you went to Chet's.

So we went, so Chet and Becky invited us. With Evan. Yes. Your friend.

Yes, Evan was there. Yeah. That's so nice. Chet's a nice guy.

He is. You know, he doesn't... He had some other people that came over later. Saint Chet.

Yes, yes. It was a lovely day. His mom all of a sudden decided she wanted to have a big dinner, so he... Were there Jell-O shots involved?

Still the Halloween Jell-O shots, yes. Oh. Yes, which I'm sure will be Christmas time. Christmas shots.

Christmas shots. And then, from what I understand, we might have Valentine's Day shots too, so. Oh, well, it sounds like you made a lot of shots. They made a lot of shots.

That's a hell of a commitment. We're down to the red ones, from what I understand, though, so that just works great with Christmas. Yeah, well, you might have to add some green. Well, there was red and green at Thanksgiving.

Ah. So. And now the green's gone. No.

So is the green the better flavor? Is that the problem? I don't know, it's different alcohols, apparently. Oh.

But the red ones are so smooth. I don't know. You don't even taste the alcohol. I don't know how you guys drink that shit and, like, not get hungover or fucking...

I don't, I don't do hangovers. It's just, it's a thing. " Oh, genetically speaking, you have some kind of... Some kind of...

I think it's my sugar problem. I think I process the alcohol very quickly and... No wonder why you drink so much. That's it.

There's no, uh, there's no repercussions. No repercussions? No. Okay.

A little bit, well, now, now I have the heartburn and the acid reflux. Oh, yes. I'm like Wolverine. My superpower is killing me slowly now at the end.

Ah, yes, yes, yes. Your agita. Slowly catching up. Slowly catching up.

I like it. It's called pull. It's called old. You're getting old.

Still drink like a fish, but yeah, the acid reflux. Yeah. That's nice. So eventually they'll bury me in the woods.

Nice. Make a cross that falls down into an X. Like Wolverine. That'd be amazing.

I'd come visit you. Oh, sweet. We'll come to my funeral, bring a date, and then there'll be more people. Well, first, I mean, the first thing I'm going to say at your funerals, well, at least you can no longer be an asshole, you know, first line out of the eulogy, really kind of break the ice, people will be crying, I mean, Aidy King Palmer is definitely going to outlive you, so she'll be a fucking complete wreck, she doesn't think so, but I keep telling her, yeah, no, she totally, yeah, she wins, she wins that battle, you know, my wife will probably win too, pretty solid about that, we can go to the singles bars together, we won, Let's go.

We're finally done with them. You think they're talking to each other in hell? Yeah. Probably.

Hello, Michael. I saved you a seat. I saved you a seat over here. Perfect.

Right by the fire. Hi, I'm Mike, and I'm Mike, too. And this is a Cigar Hustlers podcast from hell. Oh, it was also my wife's birthday over the weekend.

I know. I know. I wasn't invited out. We didn't really do anything.

Oh, yes, you did. What did we do? Saturday night. That was her friends.

I was not allowed to invite my friends. That was her work friends. Uh-huh. You weren't allowed to invite your friends.

No. I don't know. And then Sunday morning, Chet and Becky came over and we surprised her with a birthday breakfast. But you got the Teddy invitation, just saying.

Yeah, I need to up mine one. I need to add my reservation one. Tanner will be in town then. Ah.

Yeah, I love Tanner. Yeah, well, I figured you'd like him. He's your favorite. No problem.

He is my favorite. Well, he's coming along for you, too. Oh, yeah. He's in the top two.

Hey. Hey, that's a statement. Yeah. That is a serious statement.

I also did the podcast with the-- Oh, was it on? No, not yet. Oh, I thought you were going to say, no promotion. With Dave, Cigar Jukebox.

Yes. It was like the one year anniversary with William Coop. Oh. Yeah.

And then Hector was on there. Oh. Hector, you know, he's such a sweet man. Yes.

And then there was this other guy, this Aaron Nielsen guy. Don't know who that is. Yeah. He's a really cool guy.

Nielsen Ratings? Is he part of the Nielsen TV? No. Actually, this is kind of funny.

Johnny, do you know a name by Rick Nielsen? That's his dad. Who's Rick Nielsen? He's, like, in Cheap Trick or something.

Oh. Yeah. He's a Cheap Trick fan. Well, it's a jukebox show, so that makes complete sense.

Right. So that kind of fit. And, you know, like, I didn't know what to think. You know, I'm like, okay, some guy.

Right? Some dude. But, like, the fucking guy knows his cigars. Oh, really?

It was so cool. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Button.

Wow. Recording has been stopped. Hit the pause button. New friend Aaron Nielsen.

Oh yeah, Aaron, wow. Isn't he related to the guy at Cheap Trick? Yeah. So, you know, I love the fact that there's always a fucking fuck up somewhere with us.

It's just fantastic. Hey, but you know, you're learning. We're both learning as we're going. And, you know, by 2027, we're going to be a fine-tuned machine, you know?

But, yeah, so no, Aaron, like, he was a cool guy, you know, like... So it's just an audio show, though? No video? No, it was video.

It was like a Zoom. It was Zoom. So I've never watched the jukebox show. So we were talking about, it's evolved because now Coop is working with him.

Like the original jukebox was like the first podcast thing that I had ever done with somebody. Yeah, I heard that one. And he's, I mean, Dave is, you know. Nice guy.

Yeah, great guy. Listener of the week, you know, the guy, he really is, he's a solid dude. So I did this and then Coop asked, or Dave asked, I don't remember which one it was, but, you know, what cigar do you think was really, really good this year? " He took the, took it right away.

Took it away. Is that why you texted me and asked me the question? Well, yeah, to review about some of the cigars that, right, that I thought were kind of a disappointment. The list for the release is humongous, but there's cigar brands I've never heard of before.

Right. " You know? I had one of those over the weekend. It's very good.

It's a banger, man. It's a great cigar. So, the panel was great. Like, the five of us, we all kind of clicked.

Hector, I knew really well, right? And then Coop, we obviously knew really well. Is this where you're leaving the show? No, no, you got your acknowledgements.

Don't worry, though. No, I just figured this is where you're leaving the show. No, I'm not leaving. Retainer.

To go do a show with them. Gonna be a huge check. I did make the comment. I was like, I don't understand why somebody doesn't want me on every single fucking podcast.

Like, you know, I'm just, I'm the brutally honest person, you know, but I'm, you know, still diplomatic in some ways, I guess. No. No, okay. So-- But you would think, I mean, you would be the one to have on when you want you to say something that's controversial.

Right, right. Right. And I did. Yeah?

Yeah. Did you bring up the Gap Street? No. Oh.

No, no, no. I always say something like that. So when you find out it's gonna air, you'll have to let us know because we'll, you know, we'll promote your appearance. We'll definitely have to post it, yeah.

I mean, I'm always honest. Like, that's always gonna happen, you know? Right. That's the only way to be.

So, the one thing that, and I wanted to mention it during the Zoom thing, and you really have to go on and watch this video. Because, so, Aaron, he was wearing like a black jacket, and he had like a black background, I think he was outside. Right. So, he looked like a floating head.

Oh. I just kept, for whatever reason, it always, it brought me back to when I was a kid with Pee Wee Herman. Right. Do you remember the floating genie head in the box?

Yes. Yeah, so that's what I was thinking the whole time. " It was in my head the whole time. But it was pretty funny.

" Like, for a Zoom. Oh, make it floating. Like, have it all blacked out, and then just have like... Well, you can put a different background behind it.

Yeah, but it would be cool if, you know... You could have the video background behind you. You could have me and Chet just running around doing stuff like we're working and you're sitting in the... Oh, like a speed version and then can we loop it?

Yes. We should totally do that. Oh. Done.

We have a green screen. We have the technology. Yes. So...

Well, we don't even... Yeah, you have to be green screened at the time. But I think there's a button on Zoom that you don't even have to do that. You can just add background.

Okay. You can add solid backgrounds without any trouble at all. Anything that's on your laptop you can throw back there. So I think the video works the same way.

If we can figure that out, I am down. I will help you. I'll have to learn. We will do whatever it takes.

The tricks of the Zoom. Like the funny videos in the background would be amazing. With the Benny Hill music. No, we can't do the music.

That's right, it'll overlay. But the speed would be nice. We could bring back the lightsabers. Oh, no live action this time, actually.

Yeah, we could do boxing. We could fly with the green screen. Oh, God. That would be amazing.

Yes, I would love that. But have it really look stupid where, like, you see me or Chet with a fan in front of the other guy. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Throwing shit, throw water or something.

That would be amazing. It's raining. Hoses, whatever. That would be something that you have to do on either Coop Show or Aaron with Aaron.

Like, guys that get us. Right, yeah. Because if somebody's like, uh, yeah, you're not being, we're talking serious about Cigar's hair. I don't think it'd work on Dojo.

No, probably not. He doesn't like my sense of humor. He doesn't? He doesn't, Eric doesn't get you?

No. That's okay. I was trolling with, uh, with Abe. Oh.

Abe and I were trolling. My friend, Abe. Your best, your best friend? Yeah, well, so nice of him to FaceTime my wife on her birthday.

That was very sweet. Really thoughtful. Such a nice man. I'm sure that she invited him out.

Well, but they couldn't come, it's too far. They have all those children. Yeah, this doesn't make sense. No.

You can tell he's a good father. He's all about his kids. He is. He's the best.

Hey, he's the best. He's the best. I don't know how else to say it. He's the best.

I mean, I will tell you this, in our month club, though, we're not going to do five secret-- Oh, five secret Santas? We're fucking-- Oh, everybody's secret Santas. Everybody's getting something special. It's Christmas, baby.

He obviously has never watched our show, though. No. Why would he? Well, I don't know.

I think that it's-- first of all, you know, like, it's hard to-- To consume all that content from a retailer's standpoint, like, let's say you just decided to watch one, like you wanted to watch Coop, you know, it's tough, there's so much shit going on from a retailer's standpoint that it isn't easy, you know, especially a guy of that volume, that magnitude, right? No, we have worked out though, during the Great Smoke video thing, we're going to do a video call-in, premiere like you did with Jack and Hector. Right, unlike Lizana Paluzzo, which we weren't invited to. Well, you got to let that go, Michael.

You know, I'm not the guy that gets upset about these things. You got to let that stuff go, Michael. Well, we're doing a much bigger show now, so it's fine. But Hector was awesome, you know, I mean, it's like, you know, like, you can always tell when you do some of these things, like, the panel, everybody really kind of gets each other and there's, and you mash.

Well, you already knew each other. You knew everybody, but the new guy, he said he just snapped right in. " Like who? Give an example.

I'm not gonna say names. Throw a name out. Nah. Initials.

I just know. Like, I've done Zooms in the past with people and, you know, there have been more people on the panel, I'm like... Wes, is it Wes? These people just don't get my sense of humor.

Or, like, we're just not clicking. We're just not clicking. It's Wes, isn't it? It's Wes.

No, it's not Wes. From Crown Heads? Yeah. I fucking love Wes.

I like him too. He's nice. But yeah, so it went really well. No, it's Jack.

Jack? No, I don't think so. I don't think so. Not Jack either.

Eric. No, he's a good guy. I like Eric too. Yeah.

I'm trying to think of who you don't really. I think that it really, I think that it becomes, the problem will occur when it's somebody That has to personify more than what they are, right? Like, I think that, I think that happens a lot. So, Fred.

No! I think that happens a lot on, on these podcasts. I think that sometimes, you know, you catch, you catch specific people. Oh, just, just hit me.

You catch specific. The one name I can't say. And they, and they, you know, they talk up who they are, and you know, they're full of shit, and you're just like. You want to call them out.

It's like, yeah, like this isn't working for me, you know, because like I'm 100 percent honest in who I am. Right. You know, like I don't want to be. I don't want to personify something else, you know, right.

And there's a difference between a slight exaggeration and exactly something that's not true. This is complete inaccurate. Right. Like that's so not true, bro.

You know, and when you have that with people and that happens a lot in this industry and when you have that with people, you're just like, fuck, man. And now, okay, yeah, go you, yay, you know. Go you, yeah. So that doesn't, that doesn't, that's where the conflict happens on some of these panels.

I gotcha. But yeah, the panel was great. So, um, gyms opened backed up. Oh, they're gonna close it?

My gym is, no, no, they've officially opened. First year I heard things are happening after first year. Today was the day. I hear things are happening.

You don't hear anything. No, I do. I pay attention. Okay.

Well, I can tell you that it was great to be back to the gym. Oh, I'm sure it was. I got here earlier. Oh, yeah.

How did that happen? Because the kids get dropped off. Yeah. You can now drop off the baby at the kid care at the gym.

Oh. Oh, even that's open. Yeah, yeah. Do you wear a tiny little mask?

Uh, no. That'd be pretty funny, though. You know, I can get ready there, and boom, I'm on my way. Well, you have to take her back home, I'm guessing.

No. Brittany takes her home. So you and Brittany go there at the same time? Yeah.

Or do you go there and drop her off and Brittany comes later? It's the other way around. Brittany goes before me and then I come in with the baby. Gotcha.

So you get the boys ready and send them off? Well, she takes the boys now. Until the baby gets a little older and she can be at kid care a little bit longer. Right.

So it's an ongoing process to expand my time, increase my freedom to continue to do more stuff here. But it's like one step closer back to normal. It's like, okay. Right.

And that's the bigger deal. So I'm excited that it happened today. Good. Good for you.

Yeah. Good for me. Back into your regular gym. Back in my regular gym, baby.

Seeing people. You know what else? Were they busy? Yeah, they were.

Mask? Yeah, yeah. Because it was like, when we went outside, it was like 50-50. Yeah, I feel like it's, you know, they, they, I feel like they're saying, hey, you know, please wear a mask, but it doesn't look like it's strictly enforced.

I don't think it is. Even in Publix last night, there was one young couple that didn't have a mask and everybody else did. The scary part is that, you know, Thanksgiving just happened and people got together, so there could be a spike in hospitals. Sanford was packed, actually.

Right, so if there's a spike, the problem is if there's a spike and then the hospitals can no longer handle capacity. Right. That's what you don't want to get to. Exactly.

If you get to that point, then we have a fucking serious problem. Right. And then shit's going to have to get shut down again. Right, they said cases are up again.

Cases will go up as people go out. Right. Right, like that's a given. But it's how busy the hospitals get.

Right. You don't want the hospitals to get to a point where, okay, you're younger, You're gonna come with us, you're gonna go to the ventilator, you, you're older, you're gonna have to wait until something becomes available, right? It's like, okay, so you just picked this person to live and this person to die. Right, shouldn't it be the other way around?

The older person gets a ventilator and the younger person's gonna wait? Not necessarily. I guess it depends how bad you are, but you're right. Like, you don't want, you don't want somebody to have to make those choices.

So, hopefully we don't get there, but we're gonna, we'll see where we are in two weeks, you know? Yeah, so there's that, I will tell you, another thing that happened to me this week, and I don't understand, I just don't get people when this occurs, so the day before Thanksgiving, I went out to go get some ice, and we got whatever, yada yada, and I'm like, hey, you know, like, I like to bring my wife flowers, every once in a while, you know, just kind of a pleasant surprise, whatever the case may be, I, for whatever fucking reason, whenever you pick up flowers, everybody can't shut the fuck up about it, like, I go to the I go to ring up. Oh, these are nice. What are they for?

What did you do? Yeah. No, exactly. So I get rung up.

Right. " And I'm like, okay. Like, what the fuck? Like, what's my response to that?

Pull one out of your stack. Okay, well, hopefully you'll find someone nice. I don't know. I mean, you know.

How much do I owe you? Right? Right. So then as I'm walking out...

I've never gotten that before. I get these are very pretty. Well, so I got so that was nice husband. Dude, this is like a 20 foot from the register to the exit, right?

Oh, so that happened as I'm walking out, you know, somebody makes a comment of, oh, somebody's in the doghouse. Oh, was it a guy? Yeah, I'm like, no, I'm not in the fucking doghouse. He's just covering because he never does.

Right, like, no, I'm just trying to be a good person. Like, I like my, I love my wife. You know, like, I like my wife. She's a guy like her a lot.

It's more important that you like her, actually. I do like her a lot. " Right, exactly. I like and love my wife, right?

So, fuckin' A. " He's just trying to be funny. Yeah, but it's not, it's just like, it's the same- Well, he doesn't know 12 people already hit you with something. It's the same shit joke that you make when somebody's changing out a keg in the bar, right?

Oh, you could put that in my trunk. Like, it's like, okay, dude, you said that 10 years ago. Like, we get it. They're not a very funny person.

It's their pet joke. They use it all the time. Right, and that's my point. It's just like, holy shit, man.

It's their go-to line. What do you want them to do? Yeah. Dude, that one's full.

I'll take it. Take it in my car. Get in my car. " Oh, you're so mean.

Oh, of course, very aggressive. Just chuckle. Very aggressive. I had to kick somebody out of the front of the store today.

Oh. There was a person sitting down who obviously was not a customer. " Sit out at the table up front? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. " This is for customers. Yeah. " You got a blunt by any chance?

In my pocket? And I looked at the guy and I was like, "Hey man, you know, I'm trying to be nice here. " Like, he walks away. Almost killed you, sir, just so you know.

Like, you know, why you gotta put me to the test? I didn't, I'm just trying to be nice. I'm trying to be nice. I'm going to turn to your place.

Yeah. Right. Right. Well, the actual response is, I'm going to go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth.

That's usually what I say. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Oh, aggressive.

If we're going to turn it up, if we're going to get turned up, we're going to get turned up all the way. Apparently. I'm not going to hesitate. So, you know, I don't get it.

Why do people want to fight me? I'm a nice guy. Why do people want to push you for me? Yeah.

Don't they know? I'm like, dude, can't you see me? Mike, I'm bulging out of this shirt. You're going to have to ask him for a new one.

I'm struggling to fit in my XLs at this point. It's a little bit of muscle, it's a little bit of fat, it is what it is, it's bulking season, get over it, you know? It's always bulking season here, though. It's consistently bulking season, yeah.

But hey, whatever. Whatever. So yeah, that's my life. Well, we're at 25-ish minutes with everything that's been going on.

If you got anything else, we could take a break now and then come back and start the news. You ready to wrap it up and just get on into this? No, I didn't know if you had anything else. I'm just telling you what the times are.

Oh, well, some, uh, hmm. Oh, make a lick a hi. You said make a lick a hi. Covered that.

Talked about it. I almost killed somebody this morning. Covered that. Jim's back.

Love my wife. I feel good about all that. Do you? My wife wants to know what part I need about my car.

U-R-Q-U. What parts do you need? Your car's disposable. You just need, you need a piece of tinfoil.

That's what you need. No, I don't. I need a sensor. I need a sensor.

Yeah. You are a censor. It works now. I mean, it works fine.

" Yeah, I saw that. And I wrote Mike Palmer as my service animal. Haha, funny guy. I thought it was funny.

Well, your cousin thought it was funny. Oh, Mark Palmer? He thinks you're hilarious. I love that guy.

Good people. Very nice man. Good people. Him and the mayor.

Dak the mayor. Dak the mayor. Duh mayor. Duh mayor.

Okay, well, hey. All right, we'll take a break, we'll come back, and we'll do the news. The news. All right, we'll be right back.

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Okay, then we're back! Episode 150 of a Cigar Hustler Park. So Jeff Groover sent me a text on Thanksgiving. " I'm like, wow, that was really sweet of you, Jeff.

" I said something about him on Facebook, and he got a little... Ooh, Jeff or Alfredo? Alfredo. " Oh, I love you.

I'm just joking. I'm just kidding. This is awkward. I didn't even know you were looking.

Hey, man. Hey. I'm right here. Hey, was that your one item?

Did he answer back? Yeah, it was probably something like, fuck you or something. You're not getting the anniversary one, just so you know. Yeah, well, you know, it's 50-50.

My order's in anyways. Oh, there you go. Doot, doot, doot. This just in.

We have news. Here we are. Cuba cancels the Habano Festival. It's over.

It's over, Johnny. The Habano Festival, which would have taken place in a few months, has been canceled due to the global context we are living. Habano's SA has decided to cancel the 23rd Habano's Festival scheduled for February 2021. So people that are already, you have several ashtrays.

I know, and I'm not smoking today. Over all the angles. And I'm not. Oh, that's what you did?

You put this here? Put that one there. There's another one off the other side. And this is the one day I was like, you know, I'm not going to have a cigar right now.

Because this thing was covered in ash again. I know. It's a good option for me. It's like a change area.

So they're already cancelling stuff for next year now. Oh, here we go. Well, we'll have a vaccine soon. Are you going to get the shot?

I don't know. We'll see. " So they put the pandemic out of the area and go, you know what, I heard that it's a GPS tracking serum, the mind control, and they made the pandemic just so we don't have to get the shot. Yeah.

Ooh. Nobody's responded, so I'm thinking to take it seriously. Like, oh, take that. See that?

That's right. See? Told you. Mike Palmer, I heard he doesn't fact check, but we're gonna roll with this anyways.

Right, allegedly. So, yeah, I mean, will I take the vaccine? I don't know. I don't know.

You never get a flu shot. You know, oh, I get a flu shot. Oh, I don't get a flu shot. You know, it's kind of, let's see how this plays out.

I'm not going to be the first one in line, I can tell you that much, but I'm one of those people that go, I had the serum the other day. You gotta, you know, well, like I'm not, I don't think I'm really a potential candidate as far as someone that really needs it. Well, they want everybody to take it away. Well, but I would, I mean, you got to focus on people in nursing homes and like older people.

Well, there's probably a tier level. Yeah, so like you figure if they're going, they're going to address that first. Okay, weightlifting people that hang out in gyms. I'm sure there's, yeah, they're probably, they're probably down on that list.

I don't know, there's a lot of people in them gyms and dirty things. Yeah, I mean, that's true. But I'm just saying, if I catch it, knock on wood, I know. I think we already had it.

I'm pretty sure. It's possible. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure.

It's possible. I don't think that they've really figured this whole thing out. And I don't even think they're really close. Because all these states that are on lockdown, they're still having spikes.

It's like, wait a second. I don't think they're really locked down. Yeah, you think? I don't know.

I don't know. People have got to be together somewhere. That's how you get it. Yeah, I guess.

There's a lady, I think we might have mentioned it before in another show, but there's a lady in my neighborhood, when you drive by her house after she gets the mail, she opens the mailbox, she has gloves on and Lysol, she opens the mailbox, sprays down the inside of the mailbox, pulls out the mail, sprays it, drops it in a bag, does that to each item, and takes it in the house, and I see her leave it in the garage and go in the house. Wow. That's commitment. I don't think you can get it from mail.

Who knows? That's true. I don't think anybody really knows. Lysol might attract it by now, who knows?

Yeah, it might be Lysol's friend. They're in it together. It says coronavirus on Lysol, though. It's a different one, different coronavirus.

Right. I know. I understand. Alright, an official firm Habanos confirmed to Cigar Aficionado, which is where we got this story, that this was the first time in the event's history it has been canceled.

Ever. Ever. Yeah, because we're a communist country and we don't care about anybody. festival or festival de habanos if you'd like to for the spanish version is a yearly gathering in havana that attracts retailers distributors collectors and enthusiasts from around the world thousands make the trip from all over the globe to visit cigar factories tour tobacco fields shop at the many la casa de habano stores and get a preview of all the upcoming releases scheduled for the year the event concludes with a gala gala gala a gala a gala a gala dinner with more than a thousand in attendance and a high-priced auction of, I was going to say meal, high-priced meal, of humidors to raise money for the country's health care system.

4 million euros. For the health care system? 9 million at current exchange rate. Get the fuck out of here.

I feel that a lot of that money went to the government. Allegedly. Allegedly. We can't confirm.

We're sorry, Cuba. Please don't hurt us. While the Habano's Travel Retail Expo was held virtually early this year, Habano's has so far given no indication that it plans to hold a virtual alternative to the festival. However, however, Michael, however, Habano's added that this year is the 55th anniversary of Cohiba, Cuba's most famous brand.

It's only been around 55 years? Apparently. No shit. Yep.

That doesn't seem like it's that old. They are working to surprise the Havana aficionados in 2021. Mmm. While this probably means some sort of Cohiba release, some are those of Cohiba's 40th and 50th anniversary.

I'd like to see like the Cohiba logo with a mask on. That'd be cool. Oh, like over the O. No, like on the face.

Like, some of them have a face. Oh. Habano's offered no other deals. This is a developing story.

com to see what surprises Habano's has. Oh. But wait, there's more. No, that's the end of the story.

There's no more. You're going to have to check back. com, so I'm not checking. Okay.

If the listeners would like to check and tell me. Keep us updated. Keep us updated. Keep us updated.

We're really concerned. We're really concerned. Yes. Okay, Miami Cigars Company downsizing the sales force.

Uh-oh. Did you hear about this? Next year, Miami Cigars Company sales force will be much smaller. Will he?

Effective, well, don't jump ahead. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Effective January 1st, the company will reduce its sale force from 14 sales representatives and brokers to just… Two.

Five. In a letter to retailers by Jason Wood, Vice President of Miami Cigar Company, the company said it was moving in a different direction. Oh, boy. The direction that does not have employees.

He declined to provide much in the way of detail in the letter. Oh, so we're moving in a new direction, but we're not going to tell you what it is. Right. But it seems likely the move is related to the fact that one brand, the flavored cigar of Tatiana, It takes up a disproportionate of the company's sales, despite receiving little advertising and a few new products.

Yeah. Yeah. We sell a lot of them here. It does.

So, uh, why do we have sales reps if the main sale is a cigar we don't advertise? Ooh. Yeah. S.

distributor for La Arroyo and Toscana. Toscano. Toscano. It's unclear whether...

You say tomato, I say Toscano. That's the sauce that Hunt's selling it. Oh, no, that's Fratello. Fratelli.

Fratelli. Fratelli sauce. Fratelli cigars. Yeah.

It's unclear whether we continue to distribute La Aurora and Toscano going forward, but in a related announcement, Willie has announced he will be parting ways with my... Well, he had a... I saw that the day before I saw the second story. Let's see.

I thought, oh, Willie is leaving. January 1st, he is leaving. Yeah. Well, I'm sure that they told him.

Bye-bye. Well, it was a very nice thank you message and a lot of photos and everything, very nice message to consider, and he was fired. Yeah, or if he left, I mean, he realized that he had a 64% chance of being shitcanned anyways. Well, the story was actually dated before his post, but I saw his post first 'cause I looked for this stuff over the weekend.

Where's he going? " I've heard rumors of him possibly taking over a retail shop management. Oh, really? Yeah.

So, Greg's leaving? No, no, no. Oh, not here. These are just rumors, though, as of right now.

Alleged. Again, we don't fact check. Where? I can't say.

You can. You just choose not to. I don't want to put my boy on blast. We'll see if it happens.

And then you can follow up. You can do the announcing today that Willie is now the... We can probably get a quote. I'm working here.

It doesn't suck. Yeah, hey, they're very nice to me. Joya De Nicaragua and Cigar Dojo collaborate for a Joya Ninjagragua, I have no idea how you said it, Ninjagra, Ninjagragua, Ninjagragua, Ninjagragua, Ninjagragua. The portfolio of Cigar Dojo collaborates, continues to grow as Joya De Nicaragua has announced the Joya Ninjagragua.

Ninjagragua. 70. According to a press release, not a video, not a video, not a video, not a video, of the triangular shape represents the core of the Drew Estate Hoya De Nicaragua Cigar Dojo. Oh, the three corners of the triangle.

Oh, it's a triangle? If it's a triangle, they're in trouble. It's a pyramid. I just wanted to know.

Why are they in trouble? I mean, nobody likes triangles, I'm just saying. You know, the tinfoil hat, Q-non. Oh, yeah, that's right.

I don't know how I can embrace this. Uh-oh. Just saying. Drew Estate, which handles marketing for the Hoya de Nicaragua, has previously teamed up with Cigar Dojo to release exclusive sizes of cigars in its underground line.

Getting a chance to work with Hoya de Nicaragua was a bucket list item for the dojo team, and having a group of dojo members help with the blend of the factory in Nicaragua makes this a very special release. I don't know, how does that work? I mean, my brother and I couldn't see fucking eye to eye on one blend. Like, how do you get more than two?

So, they have a group, a panel. Yeah. I'm like, no, man. Maybe it was that, like.

We're not dropping. No, we're not putting the Condega in this one. Like, wait a second. Yes, we are.

Well, I would imagine there were several test blends that they all had to send before. And then maybe they just did a blind voting. Where's the fun in that? Well, saves on the knife fights.

I want to feel it! I need to taste the Jalapa. Throw it in. And the Candega, and the Corojo 99.

Let's try that Indonesia binder. Let's try the Cameroon binder. I've considered myself a dojo knight since early on, said Juan Inglesio Martinez. Oh.

I don't feel he's a big dojo guy. I feel like he's been a dojo knight. He says he has. He is.

Huge dojo knight. He's the executive president of Hoya de Nicaragua, SA, And a press release. Mm-hmm. It's not a video.

I love the community that Sensei and his crew have built, and I personally carry their badge often. Oh, he carries one of the little things. Now, to be able to share our heritage exclusively with the community makes me feel not only humbled and honored, but also excited to bring a new level of enjoyment of the Nicaragua cigars to the Dojaverse. This is a project of more than two years in the making.

Two years? A cigar for a higher rank, one that could only be achieved jointly with the Dojo. Why'd it take so long? It's the panel.

It was the panel. It was the panel. It was the panel. It's all making sense now.

The Hoya Ninja Rwagwa. Ninja Rwagwa. m. As your time production is limited to 450 bundles of six cigars, total run of 2,700 cigars.

That's a lot of work for 2,700 cigars. It'll go like that. Yeah, of course it is, 'cause it's not a big ask. Maybe we should do one with the Dojo, Dojo, Dojo, Dojo, Dojo, Dojo Nights, Dojo Bites.

No, 'cause, no, I'm not, no, I'm not jumping in on Abe's action, if I can try, I should do one with Abe, be my friend. We'll do a collab with Abe. Oh, yes, uh-huh, I like that, that's good. All right, here's another exclusive cigar that we're not part of.

Yeah, it's a Davidoff. Davidoff houses a blend exclusive Solomons. Oh. Davidoff of Geneva, USA has announced a new line of exclusive and big cigars for Blend.

Blend is a bar, apparently. Have you ever heard of it? No. I haven't either.

But apparently they do well with Davidoff. They aptly named Blend Exclusive. Blend. Where's Blend?

Never says. Features a five-year-old Ecuadorian 702 wrapper, which comes from a region proprietary to Davidoff. So they own part of the country now. Oh.

Under that is a Dominican Republic, San Vicente Maggiordo. Oh, Maggiordo. Bender and a five different fillers from the Dominican Republic. San Vincent Major do Cico.

San Vincent Vincico and Yamasavi. Each cigar measures eight and a half inches long. It has banana peel. It's got some peanut butter in there.

I smell at this point. Put in a Salomon. We got a lot of leftovers. We need to get into this one big Salomon.

It's going to be a big one. 57 ring gauge. Oh. And is presented in a glossy red lacquered boxes of 10 cigars.

It's got a crowbar in the middle of it. So we didn't get the light up humidor. Oh yeah, I screwed that up. I can get that still.

And the little barrels, we didn't get that either. What barrels? It must have been a general cigar because they do barrels. Is it a diesel or something?

Yeah, the new Christmas diesel that comes in the little barrels. Oh. We didn't get that either. I'm not doing too good here, huh?

It's been a stressful couple of weeks, I'm sorry. No laptop really fucks me up. So if people would call him please, he cannot answer emails. I can, but it's, you know.

You know that whole, just text him and phone call thing, that's all he's got to do, he says. If people want his stuff, just call him or text him. Yeah, and that works still. I still punch that in.

So you could call or text people that you want stuff. I could. But, no. Hmm.

No. Selection of cigars is a unique and distinctive as the award-winning blend experience. Hey, I got tart and feathered, no problem. Well, that's from Uncle Shoop.

That's from Uncle Skip. Somebody asked if we were getting more. I said, no, it's a limited cigar. I don't know, like, but-- He agreed, Skip agreed, like, no, no more.

I like that he said that it's a, you know, it's not an LE, but we're only producing 500 bucks. I'm like, that makes it kind of an LE. Not if he does it every year. It's still limited.

I guess you may. Maybe it's selected. It's not unlimited. It's an Essie.

It's not like a Verizon. It's a selective edition. Selective, selective edition. Are our clothes on the way, by chance, do you know?

I don't know, I don't think so. No. We mentioned it on like a Friday, that shit was, they didn't remember that come Monday. We just mentioned it now, too.

Both extra large, it's easy. Yeah, just, you know. I mean, I really want that blue craft one. I want the blue one, too.

With the star. Yeah. That's the one I want. That'd look good on here.

Something to break up all the black. To really compliment the black. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'd be great.

We'll wear it on the show. Just so you know. Yeah, okay, 'cause we don't promote them at all on the show. Um, I get enough of that stuff.

Yeah, okay, we get it, yeah. I'm planning a bit, oh, five years for this one, and at least same panel. Oh, another five years? Another five year panel.

All right, JRE suffers a warehouse. So, we're all just moving at a glacial pace in the cigar industry. Apparently. I had to age.

There's so much going on. JRE suffers a warehouse break. Oh, yeah. Husto Iroa heard stories, but never thought it would happen to him.

It's crazy. We like Husto, he's been on the show. We do like Husto. Husto's a good guy.

Never thought it would happen to him. Over the weekend, it happened to him. JRE Tobacco Company was the victim of a warehouse burglary last weekend. Iroa told Half Wheel that the thieves broke in through the roof.

Yep. This is like Mission Impossible stuff. Dun, dun, dun. Yeah.

" Oh, yeah. " He went through the roof and emptied the company's Miami warehouse and all of its products. Did they go back out through the roof, you think, with the... No, they probably opened the door and fucking...

Did the alarm go off when they opened the door? They cut all the power, they cut everything when they cut it in through the roof. Yeah. This has taken an emotional toll on us as 2020 continues to hurt all of us, said Iroa, president of JRE, in a statement who sent to his sales representatives.

JRE is stressing retailers to not buy cigars to any sources other than sales representatives for... representatives yeah i don't under really understand it at this point i for one i don't understand that if you're a fucking manufacturer or brand owner it's probably time to leave miami right first thing because it's gonna be a regular this is on this is annual so there's got to be probably a group right and you know i feel like i feel like pete hernandez is the henchman behind all of it you know is like ha ha ha ha I don't think so maybe not Fuente I mean Fuente they just took the fucking truck like alright here we go freight no problem and the second thing is like if I'm a fucking thief the last thing I'm stealing is fucking cigars I don't know maybe there's like a lot of people your percentage of consumers are so small maybe it's ease Maybe cigar people don't have good alarms. I don't know. I just don't get it.

If I'm a thief, I'm like, oh, let's open up this warehouse. I'm like, oh shit, it's all cigars. Let's find the next warehouse. Where are the TVs?

Yeah, there's gotta be some electronics around here somewhere. How much are they selling these things for? Well, if you consider the markup on them, I mean, granted, it's a big markup, but it's not big dollars. Well, it's, yeah, but it's not a big markup, but I mean, it's 50%.

Well, that's what I mean. But let's say that, you know... Maybe they just, maybe somebody with a smoking problem. And it's not 50% with all of them.

But let's say, I don't know, so, I mean, but if you're gonna go try and sell it to a retailer, right? Because that's what, I mean, who says, hey, don't, you know, if you see this. Well, I think that would be, there has to be a black market. Hey man, I got some cigars.

I don't think somebody's rolling into... Okay, well, let me look at the wholesale value of that. The wholesale value of that, yeah, I'm not paying that, you know, I'm gonna, I'll pay half of that, so you're not fuckin' makin' shit. Well, I mean, it's all profit for the thieves, but it's like 20 bucks, you know what I mean, like, the numbers are so low, it's a lot of, well, my point is, it's a lot of work.

Yeah, they're gonna have to steal a lot of stuff. It's a lot of work, like, it just doesn't make sense, you're not knocking over a, like, a fuckin' liquor store or something, you know what I mean, like. " Oh, these are Cuban. Look at that.

You can't even say that word. E-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O-H-O Or something on it there. That's gotta be Cuban. Sounds Spanish.

So, like, I don't get it. For one, I mean, if I'm in, like, at this point, I'm sitting down saying, okay, maybe we move. Maybe. Right.

Maybe we go Ocala. Yeah. Not much happens in Ocala. I mean, you know, or, but, like, if you want to be close to, like, an international hub for, like, delivery.

Jacksonville. I mean, you can do Orlando. You can do Jacksonville. Port Canaveral.

They're out there. It's still there. Port Canaveral is not a freight. Yeah, maybe not.

It's not. So you'd have to go, if you're not doing Miami, a little small one in Fort Lauderdale, but then there's Jacksonville, Savannah, then you just start working. Orlando. I mean, Georgia sounds perfect.

Savannah. You can do Savannah. Savannah's got a big port there. I've brought stuff into Savannah.

I wonder how that would work. With the Tampa. You can go to Tampa. Tampa, yeah.

I mean, but like Tampa still makes me a little squirmish too. Like, I don't know. A little squirrely there too, huh? Yeah.

I don't know if I'd want a warehouse. And Savannah. You know. Yeah.

I mean, like, Orlando makes sense, man. Yeah, but you got to truck stuff here. You got to bring in a boat somewhere. No, you don't.

How are you going to bring a boat to Orlando? No, dude. You fly it. Do they fly all the cigarettes?

Yeah. Oh, they're normally... I thought you wanted to... I mean, if you're Fuente, you're doing the fucking...

Containers. Yeah. So they can't fly. Yeah.

Unless they have one of those big helicopters that can carry one. That'd be nice. With the two propellers as well. two propellers.

Helicopter, helicopter, helicopter. Here comes the cigar. Bring in the fuentes. We're coming in with the cigars.

That's nice. And then somebody jumps in the helicopter and fucking takes it away. Well, less likely to have somebody that... I mean, more people can drive trucks and have a cigar we got.

Don't get it. I mean, like, go jump fucking, jump into the warehouse where all the Nike shoes are or something. I don't get the cigar theft. They just don't understand it, you know, like, if I saw someone breaking in, I'm like, dude, you really, you really, like, you're gonna fucking, you're gonna go to jail for this?

I mean, how much do you really think you're gonna make on this? Did they, have they caught any of them? What's your ROI? Who knows?

I haven't heard anything, no follow-ups. Yeah, I mean, like, who knows? So the Fuente get hit twice, and then somebody else got hit, and now? I mean, you gotta figure that a theft is not, like, you know, the police aren't really, like, I'm on the case, you know, like, that's not, it's like, okay, cool.

So no one was murdered? Okay. Check. Nobody overdosed?

No. Okay. There's no suicide? Yeah.

Yeah, we'll write this one down. We'll take your information, sir. We'll go ahead and check that out. In the meantime, take this report and give it to your insurance company.

Oh, maybe it's Inside John. Just for the insurance money. Yeah, I don't think so because Aladino was working, right? Oh, yeah.

I mean, there were certain brands that you'd be like, okay, I don't know what's up. We're almost out of time again, I got one more story. Let's make sure you don't get popped. And we got to do a Listener of the Week.

But I don't think it was Aladino. All right, okay, last week we talked about anacondas. You said there were not any anacondas in the Everglades. Although anacondas are not native to Florida, both green and yellow anacondas still found their way into the Everglades and are living there among the other species.

That's because people let them go like idiots. I said they were there, you said there weren't any. Yeah, I didn't think so. Well, apparently there is green and yellow.

The green ones are the big ones. That's the ones on the movie. Yeah. That's right.

My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun. Okay, we have listener of the week? We do. Damn it, I was going to say something.

I don't remember what it was now. We'll say the name of the listener of the week. Stephen Wells! Congratulations, Stephen Wells.

Yes. Your prize is absolutely nothing. I just took the message that you sent me and I screenshot it and I sent it to Mr. Palmer.

- Just so you know. - Yes. - And ha ha ha, this is why you can't be trusted with stuff. - You're not my listener.

- So you're my listener of the week, goddammit. It's like, I know how things go. So, can't leave limited stuff hanging around here at the shop. - Apparently, you know what, I still don't smoke those.

- If they're already sold for people, they get consumed sometimes. - I think that wasn't really sold. - Wasn't really sold. - But you did it.

- But you did it. - So I haven't touched, I haven't had another one since. I even have one at home, and I'm not gonna smoke that either. - Out of fear.

- Out of fear. Repricosities. So my listener of the week though is Mr. Howard Gross.

Howard is apparently is an avid listener. He wanted me to let you know that you can catch diseases from your CPAP machine. He's had one for years. You have to clean it.

- Yeah. - And then you can get CPAP smears. - What's that? - On your face.

- I'm guessing. - Yes. - I don't know. - Well, I clean it every week.

- Ah. - And then I just bought like the soap clean thing. - Oh. - So that it automatically cleans it every day.

- Oh yeah, man. - So wait. You know, the sad part is that I know enough people on CPAP machines where I'm ahead of the curve, you know? Oh.

So now, already when you travel, you bring a charging station for your phone, your watch, your backup phone, and something else. You bring a charging station. I do. So now you're gonna bring the CPAP charging station and the cleaner machine, too?

Or can you go a couple of nights without cleaning? I could probably leave the cleaning machine. I can't wait for this first trip. It's gonna be videos.

Normally you clean it like once, like once a week, I clean it with like some vinegar and like a dish soap and stuff. No, man, you clean it, you clean it, you run it through, run it through, then you, you know. I can't wait for the day when you're out of vinegar and use balsamic. And then like the mouthpiece, or like the nostril piece, you clean that every day.

Oh, like a little swab or something? Yeah, I want dish soap. Oh, nice. Yeah, I'm on top of it.

I can't wait till we take our first trip. I don't want to die. Can't wait till we take our first trip. I want to live, Mike.

I want to live! I want it to be a good run, you know? I'm like, I don't want to be tired every day. I'm just waiting now.

Just knocking on God's door. I'm ready. Hello, now? Not today, Mike.

No, no, no. You're fine. I'm moving on. I'm moving on.

Wake up, everybody. They're like, Mike still needs you. Get back down there. It wasn't today.

It wasn't today. It wasn't today. Maybe tomorrow, God. Maybe tomorrow.

Maybe tomorrow. All right. We have five minutes. Anything else you'd like to go over?

The Patreon's going to be pretty good. I'm going to do a review. It's always good. It's always good.

Yeah, you know what's... Do you have any violence you need to expel or any anger? No, but there's, you know, I love the Patreon because we get to really address some things. Yes.

We really get to break down. We get to smoke scars, be honest about them, you know, which is really kind of fun because then, like, we are honest about them and we break down why we like them or why we don't like them. And then we see everybody go nuts, like, oh, there's a great cigar. I'm like, pfft.

You're not even close. I don't know what happened there. We don't know what you're smoking. It's not even great.

It's not even good. That's not fucking terrible. Terrible. Terrible.

Terrible. Don't do that. Don't do that. And then, you know, we get to talk a little bit of shit to him.

We only had one. We felt bad. It was so bad, we felt bad. It was really bad.

It was bad. It was really bad. We felt bad. We didn't want it to be that bad.

Yeah. It was bad. We regretted reviewing it. But the show went on, dammit.

Maybe we just don't play this one night. No, we played it. We played it anyway. But we did it anyways, so...

All right, this has been episode 150. 150. Cigar Hustler Podcast. CHP.

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Hi, I'm doing-- I'm Husto-I-Raw. Yeah, we just don't have to do a single, uh, single podcast ever again. Perfect. I'm good, Mike and Mike.

How are you guys doing? The Hojo, the-- 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 it either. 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. It's going to be like four cigars when I walked in a door.

All right, end this.

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