151 And The Nanny Makes his Podcast Debut!
Episode Summary
Episode 151 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast welcomes "the Manny" — Mike's brother-in-law Brian, a civilian field service representative who works on full-size unmanned helicopter drones for the Navy out of Mayport — for his first appearance on the show. Between renovation hammering next door and plenty of family ribbing, the hosts rag on Brian's disposable Pineapple Ice vape ("he sucks on a battery") before working through which of the week's three new arrivals to review on the Patreon secret show: the Room 101 Death Bucket 2, the Cigar Culture Blend No. 3, or the Crowned Heads Mil Días Maravilla Edición Limitada. Death Bucket 2 wins the vote for Secret Show 68.
The guys also share the story of a custom Room 101 ring Matt Booth made as a favor — and the running plan to wear it as a pendant rather than hand it over. Other conversation covers gym mishaps, the Kiss My Ass Radio interview with Danny, and why Skip Martin comes across the same in person as he does on Facebook.
The news segment digs into the Room 101 Death Bucket 2: a Robusto priced at $12, now produced at Hoyo de Nicaragua rather than Tabacalera William Ventura in the Dominican Republic, with a Nicaraguan Habano wrapper, Indonesian binder and fillers from Condega, Estelí and Jalapa. They also cover Crowned Heads shipping the Mil Días Maravilla Edición Limitada — a 5 7/8 x 42 with Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, Nicaraguan binder and Costa Rican, Nicaraguan and Peruvian filler, $468.50 for a box of 30, made by Luis Pichardo — plus the return of Viaje's Holiday Blend and Candy Cane for 2020 (which the shop missed ordering), the upcoming Cigar Aficionado Top 25 of 2020 announcement, and the tiger attack on a volunteer at Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue.
The episode wraps with a plug for the Manny's wife's custom cookie business, Goblet of Goodies, and a debate over the Mike Tyson–Roy Jones Jr. exhibition draw and whether a rematch is coming.
In This Episode
- 01Meet "The Manny"Brian, Mike's brother-in-law, makes his podcast debut and gets roasted for vaping a disposable Pineapple Ice nic-salt device instead of smoking cigars.
- 02Picking the Secret Show CigarThe hosts weigh the Room 101 Death Bucket 2, Cigar Culture Blend No. 3 and Crowned Heads Mil Días Maravilla before choosing Death Bucket 2 for Secret Show 68.
- 03Matt Booth's Custom Room 101 RingA story about asking Matt Booth for a custom ring on a family member's behalf — and the plan to wear it as a necklace instead of delivering it.
- 04Gym Stories and Industry ChatterLocker room mishaps, the Kiss My Ass Radio interview with Danny, and why Skip Martin is the same guy on Facebook as he is in person.
- 05News: Room 101 Death Bucket 2The follow-up is a $12 Robusto now made at Hoyo de Nicaragua with a Nicaraguan Habano wrapper, Indonesian binder and Condega, Estelí and Jalapa fillers.
- 06News: Crowned Heads Mil Días Maravilla Edición LimitadaA 5 7/8 x 42 line extension shipping in 30-count boxes at $468.50, with Ecuadorian Habano wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and Costa Rican, Nicaraguan and Peruvian filler.
- 07News: Viaje Holiday Blend & Candy Cane, and the CA Top 25Viaje's December holiday cigars return as a barber-pole 6x54, and Cigar Aficionado's Top 25 of 2020 rollout gets a mock reading planned for episode 157.
- 08Tiger King Fallout and Tyson vs. Roy JonesA Big Cat Rescue volunteer is mauled by a tiger named Kimba, plus talk of the Mike Tyson–Roy Jones Jr. exhibition draw and a possible rematch.
- 09Goblet of GoodiesThe Manny plugs his wife's custom decorated cookie business, found on Facebook and Instagram.
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Transcript
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This is a production of the system. Hey. Alright, so now when you speak, you have to be right on the mic. Right up on the microphone.
It has to tickle your bottom lip. Yeah, he loves saying that. He hates when I say that. And shot in the beat.
So, we have a special guest today. Yes, we have the nanny here today. Yes, the infamous nanny. It's the manny.
It's the manny. We always refer to him as the nanny. Yes, I know, but I feel like that isn't appropriate. It's your...
Oh, by the way. We're going to have to take things away from him. First time on the podcast, so, you know, no tapping. No tapping.
I think it doesn't work here. Yeah, thank you. What are you going to do about the guys downstairs? Which guys?
The guys next door. Oh, yeah. First, we'd like to mention the incensive knocking and hammering and everything. They're doing renovations next door.
It's a high-class show. What do you want from us? I guess we should have added more sound-proving. We've spared no expense.
So, Brian is my brother-in-law, and he was in town. " We're going to make him a star. He's going to be subjected to some cruel and unusual punishment. No squirt gun?
No squirt gun. Shave the eyebrow? I mean, that's up to him. I mean, he is the guy that has the Postanya tattoo.
That is true. Before you, before Chet, before the Hustler Mafia. Yes. Before it was the cool thing.
He's actually family, though. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, but I mean, if I divorced my wife, then we wouldn't be family, and he still has that. So is that Pete? I don't know about that.
Because my wife just got on a plane to go to a funeral for her ex-husband's father. Oh. Well, that's interesting. So are the strippers coming over tonight or tomorrow?
Tomorrow. Tomorrow? Tomorrow. You want to come back to Friday.
Cushion, just in case something happens. Yeah, you don't want the flight to get canceled. Right. And then they come back and then, oh, so hard to hide strippers.
Yeah. Where do you put them all? Where do you put them? That's right.
Only so many closets you can put them in. So before we get into the whole podcast. Yes. I mean, I have three awesome cigars that I'm really intrigued to smoke on the Patreon.
Three? Yeah, there's three here. If you have three, we have none, do we all have one? No, it's if I have three, and you have one, we both have two.
No, no, no, but I don't have one. Yeah. So if you have three, and Brian and I, or the nanny, the manny, whatever we're calling him, we do not have one, then do we all have one or do you still have three? Well, no, no, you can have all three.
But the manny doesn't smoke, the manny sucks on a battery. Yes. Yes. I told him that was coming.
I was like, I just want to know, we're going to talk about... Yeah, that's why I put it on display, just so that people can have a reference. Yeah, people understand that he's a... Can you do the vaping tricks with the little...
He's a vapor. No, no, no, no, no, no. He's a vapor. You have the bubble lung?
That was my hip. He's a vapor. Yeah. I'm trying to get him into cigars.
He's fighting. The only reason why I do this is because... How embarrassing for you, Michael. I know, it really is pretty much.
The only reason why I do this is because my wife would kill me if I smoked cigarettes. Yeah. You're married? I am.
He is. He's a married manny. Yeah. My wife is currently seeking job opportunity via your wife.
Oh, that's your wife. Oh, I didn't even know the two of us. I'm so out of the loop on this. You didn't even know what's going on?
I just thought it was a sister-in-law. I just assumed it was some other... Yes, sister-in-law. Yeah, I guess so.
Brother-in-law marries sister-in-law. I understand how it works. Sister-in-law. But no, I didn't.
Does she live at your house, too? No, not at the moment. When she comes down, he will be, they will have their own lovely home. Oh.
See, that's what we're waiting on here. Gotcha. It's all about time. There's a house coming up for rent in my neighborhood.
Oh. Oh, that'd be nice. It's a little far away though. Not if she works in this side of the county.
Yeah, fuck that. We want her to drive. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. She just applied at Pride. I don't know. I don't know anything about that.
Yeah. She just said it was an elementary school in Deltona, so. Oh, well, there you go. Yeah.
So there it is. We got a nice thorough beat. So anyways, hey, listen. I remember the idea you were married.
So we can only review one cigar on the Patreon, right? We could do a different week. Yeah, I know. Okay, sorry.
But I'm really excited about all three of these cigars. Okay. Okay, so we have the Room 101 Death Bucket 2, which I know you're really excited about because it has your friend's face on there. Matt Booth, yeah.
Mr. Matt Booth, yeah. I understand it's like Death Bucket 1 was more boofy, though. It's a little more boof?
A little more boof. Okay. it legitimately is I see that see what you did there the cigar culture blend number 3 oh which is number 3 I hear that's the good one the first and second one apparently sucked so that's why they rolled out with number 3 and then now the new Mildias I don't know how to fucking say this Mariva limited edition it's smaller it's an entirely different type of flying in a different box it's a fancier box It's not fancy. It's a less fancy box.
Yeah, there's 30 of them in there, too. 30? Yeah. That's what it says.
How small are they? I don't know. It can't be 30. It can't be 30.
There's no way. I don't know. Maybe you buy 2 bucks? 15 and each?
Well, I mean, the email blast goes out in like an hour, so I better double check that. Oh, better double check that. Somebody goes to buy that. Hey, I only got 15.
So, which one do you want to review on the Patreon? Well, we did the Death Bucket 1, and we've done the Mildias, I believe, so let's do the Cigar Culture. What should we review? Ask the professional.
Of the three here, we have the Death Bucket 2, we have the Cigar Culture, and we have the Mildias. Well, the Death Bucket sounds the coolest. It does. It does sound the coolest.
And it has chicken on it, too. It does have chicken. It's small. Was it a Robusto this time?
It is. Last time, I think it was a Corona. You know what's funny is I saw some ads on Instagram or whatever, and people have taken photos of them. I'm like, that's not the size.
No, I look bigger. That looks like a toro. Yeah, you saw that too. Yeah.
I'm not alone. Nope. That's why I pulled one this morning. I was like, what?
Wait a second. Where's the rest of it? What the fuck are you doing? Yeah.
Did he maybe short us? I don't know. Maybe we got the short end of the stick. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Good jokes. Solid jokes. Solid jokes.
Solid jokes. It's a very professional show. So what do you think? I thought we already agreed on the Culture Club.
No, we didn't, you made a statement. Oh, well then, what the hell, I guess it's up to you, because you're gonna pick whichever one you want anyway. Alright, I think we should do the Death Bucket 2. Oh, okay.
Alright, so we're gonna review the Death Bucket 2, that means I'm gonna smoke the Mel Diaz right now. So, um, so, so Mr. Matt Booth has gone out of his way and done a very kind gesture. Yes.
Should we talk about this that way, because you know. He's a very nice man. Because Greg doesn't watch the podcast or listen. No, but I think Alex does.
Oh, really? Yes. Okay, well, I'm going to fuck with my brother. So, a few months ago, my brother asked Matt, or actually asked me to ask Matt, because that's pretty much how he runs his life, is I handle all the things for him, to acquire a Room 101 ring for him.
Yeah, he was quite taken with one of Mr. Booth's rings. Yes, the J-A. The what?
The J-A. J-A or J-A-W-S? J-Y-A. J-Y-A?
J-A. I would say it's pronounced differently, knowing Mr. Booth. Maybe it's the Julia.
Yeah, it's probably a lot closer to that. Right. And the Ja. It's the Chicago.
So Matt Booth was very kind and actually got it done. Did he make one or did he just have it sitting around? I don't think he – no, I don't know. It looks like it's very hard to size.
I feel like – yeah, I feel like – so he probably has the mold for it and he probably makes them to spec. Oh, so did you have to tell him what size your baby was? I did. How did you find that out?
I asked him. How else am I gonna find out? What am I gonna do? Fucking...
That's what I was wondering. Am I gonna hit him with some chloroform? Yeah, when he's sleeping, you just touch his finger. Alex, check his finger.
Yeah, I don't think that that would go over that smoothly, you know? So, I mean, this thing's got... I've got scotches in him, I mean... This thing's got some weight to it, too, man.
This is... Let me see. This thing is no joke. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Wow. That's no joke. It's even big for my index, man.
You have very small fingers. I have very small fingers, yes. Small hands. Small hands.
Carny. Circus folk. How do you close your hand with that on? I don't...
Well, he's got that one ring that looks like a little suit of armor. Oh, you can't really. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, it's stuck now.
Okay, Matt, we need another one. Send one more. So, Greg had a ring. So, Matt's like, you know, hey, you should take pictures of it, like, in bathroom stalls and stuff like that.
Yeah, in bathroom stuff. Then he'll never touch it again. Yeah, you guys are with germs. But what I'm thinking is like, I just get like a necklace, like a whatever, you know, a cheap fucking...
And wear it until he notices? No, well, I'm not, even when he notices, I'm not going to give it to him. Oh! I'm going to be like, yeah, this is my pendant.
Oh. My friend, Mambu, sent this for me. Yeah, Matt sent me this, you know, it's perfect ring size for my necklace. Well, he's going to, he's got to know something's up then.
My brother? He has asked. He's not a jewelry guy. Matt has asked, he's like, "Oh, so, whatever happened with my ring?
" And then I said, "I don't know, man. " You know, 'cause I know he never will. "Hey, uh, so I want a dry bag for this ring. O.
Now he weaseled jewelry, apparently. I mean, this is, this is, this is no joke. This is a very expensive ring. Oh, yes.
And a very, very nice gesture of Matt. Love and affection from Mr. Matt Booth. Yeah.
I mean, we can't even get fucking shirts from Robocraft. Ooh, throwing that out. Shots fired. Where's my blue craft?
You know, I went through three boxes today of stuff looking for this. I thought for sure to go, "Oh, it's in one of these. " Just ship, no questions asked. Yep.
Credit card goes through. No problem. Boom. We send warbears.
We shower them with love. That's right. And it's met with nothing but... Womp womp.
Disappointment. Womp womp. Right? Okay.
So, what's going on, Mike? What's going on, Manny? What's going on? Before we get into the details of this, let's find out what's going on with the mani.
I don't know, let's see how he handles himself in this podcast. I'm intrigued. You are? This looks like a battery.
It's battery. That's why I say he sucks on a battery. Yeah, you literally hit it until it dies. And then you throw it away?
And then you throw it away. It's disposable. Oh, disposable. Yeah.
But when you turn it, it's got words on it. Yeah, it says do not smoke. Apple pie? Is that what it says?
Is that apple pie flavored? No. It says fume. Oh.
I said apple pie. Doesn't say apple? No apple on anywhere? What flavor is it?
Pineapple ice. Oh, so there's an apple in it. Pineapple ice. Yes, there was an apple.
Yeah, but there's a pine before the apple. So take it, let's see what happens. Why? Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's it. Yeah, very fancy. It just shows you that it's not dead. Yeah.
It'll blink when it's dead, and then you throw it away, and I could spend another 20 bucks on it. There you go. Wow. $20.
How long does it last? I guess it depends on how many times you hit it. Do they have like a hit to price ratio? I mean, do you-- No.
It's honestly a waste of money. Oh. I can tell you, a lady came in the other day who's been buying those. She says they're costing her arm and a leg, so she bought our little $20 set up in the liquids.
Yeah. Yeah, it's like 15 bucks a pop. It's crazy how quickly that market changes in like demand. Like somebody comes up with something new.
You know, I mean, at least every year with the iPhone, I gotta wait until like then they do the software update and then my iPhone shits. And then that year, at the end of the year, I have to upgrade, right? Right, that's... With, you know, with Pineapple Express over here, it fucking changes quarterly.
" And a new name was born, now we're going Pineapple Express. It's just more convenient, you know? Yeah. Because you don't have to charge it.
I didn't see the smoke come back out, did you ever blow it back out? It's not a huge cloud, so it's a Nick salt, they call it. So it's got a higher percentage of nicotine, and it's not like the super cloudy vapes where they just do it for fun. " So yeah, so yeah, Pineapple Express.
And the reason why he didn't see the smoke is because he has strategically figured out how to push it out through his ears, and his ears are covered. Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah. Oh, excellent.
Yeah, so you're gonna need a new headset. Yeah. That's good. Nobody uses any guest one.
Yeah, that's the guest one. That's the guest one. " So weird. So weird.
So, yeah, so the Manny's at the house, hanging out. Getting some work done. Oh, I saw a little baby teddy took a knee to the head or something. Oh, yes.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great, the social media blitz there. A little MMA style. I mean, that's not...
I mean, I didn't do the posts. No, no. You wiped in. Was that a FaceTime to the doctor?
Uh, no. No, no. Oh. No, no.
It was a, you know, I handled that myself, actually. Wow. So... See, it's a third child.
That's what happens. No, but that's the most important one. Well, I understand that. But I'm seasoned enough.
That's what I mean. Oh, jeez. Stop touching the mic. I didn't even touch the mic.
It's your arm on the cord. I'm seasoned enough where I can identify that the child… You FaceTimed Mike enough to now where… Chris? Chris. Yeah, you FaceTimed, excuse me, Chris enough.
The doctor. The doctor. So now where you can just handle the situation. Where I can identify if she has a concussion or not.
Ah. Yeah. So she was okay. So Jax was doing this running thing where he would jump over her at full speed.
And he has been instructed not to do this sort of thing. Right. And Brittany was like, hey, I'm going to leave. I wanted to wait until the baby laid down.
I'm like, they're fine. I got it. I mean, the fucking second she walked out the door. Oh, you were in charge.
Yeah. I mean, she legitimately got in her car, and then she walked back in to get something, And it was utter chaos. It was utter chaos. So she saw it.
What do you call Drew? What's Drew's name? He's the handyman. So the handyman and I were working on the floor.
Not paying attention to the children. Well, I mean, they're fine. They were fine in a little second. Well, apparently they weren't fine.
So we checked the videos because we have surveillance. Go back to the video. Let's see the slow-mo. And it was bad.
It's like watching Fight Night in 4K. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, man.
Yeah, she just... Legs up. I mean, oof. She took a flying knee.
Yeah. Blocked it with her face. It was no blocking. It was connected.
Yeah. Well, you know, it's just a matter of time before they do that to her, and she picks up a bat and whacks the shit up. Oh, yeah. She will be...
It's a matter of time. I feel sorry for her husband. He's so fucked. " Not even just two older brothers, but Jax and Justin.
Right, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, yeah, frickin' crack. They named after superheroes, just so you know. Little thunder, little lightning, very crazy. Mm-hmm, so I made a, I can tell you that I've made a couple mistakes at the gym already.
What? Shit's bad. At RDB, like the... Well, yeah, but what kind of mistake?
You had to wipe down a machine? Well, so, no, no, I know, I'm pretty good about... You pulled something? Pretty good about all that stuff.
Something came out of your pants when they shouldn't have... No, so like, you know. You did the shot and the peepee in front of everybody. Nope.
Couldn't have helped yourself, huh? This is the second time I've said that. This is my life. It's worse on Facebook.
He just berates me. So now I've countered back with like, you know, he's my service animal and stuff like that. Not nearly as well. I don't know.
I get a lot of L's. I don't know. People are telling you not to be mean to me. I'm like Tyler.
P-fug that guy. It's you. No, I'm just kidding. I love you, Tyler.
So, no, so, you know, we're trying to get into the routine, right, so, Brittany goes earlier, I bring the baby, but like, we have to switch cars, because her car is, you know, baby-proofed, mine is not, so like, I'm bringing all this gear, like, I have my laptop and all of my backpack and my gym bag, and then I gotta go switch it out, and I'm like, man, I don't wanna bring my, carry my gym bag all the way back to my car, I'll just put it down, and like, the gym's dead, right? You put it down in the gym? Yeah. It's just my clothes and stuff.
In their lockers? Yeah. But I didn't think that at the time. I mean, stop being reasonable.
I was totally-- Like in the middle of the gym, you just drop your bag? No, I was going to tuck it in the corner. Really suspicious. Somebody stole your bag.
Somebody stole your bag. No, no, no. So here I am in my all black ninja garb, my black sweatshirt and my black mask. And one of the trainers sees the suspicious man dropping a bag and walking away.
Oh my lord. And she's like, sir, you can't do that, and I'm like, oh, but I, this is where I really, I don't know what I was thinking, like, I don't know what the thought process was. You bowed up on the young lady? No, this blurted out in my mouth, I'm like, oh, but I know everybody here.
I'm like, like, the instant that I said that, I was like, what in the fuck kind of reaction was that? Did you put it in a lock? Yeah, yeah. So she's like, well, you know, you can put it somewhere.
Like, I don't have a lock. That was like my reasoning. And I'm like, wait a second. Okay, yeah, no problem.
What number is it making me have a lock? So I went and jammed it in a locker. And shut it, just remember what number you're at. Barely closed the door, ran up and dropped off my backpack and came back.
And I was like, I talked to her later, I'm sorry, I feel really stupid about my comments and my actions at the time. But hey, you know. Hey, I know everybody here. There's nobody here.
And they're like, yeah, I don't know. There's Phil. There's Bill of the day. There's Tom.
Hey, Nancy. Nice to see you. Hey, Nancy. Glutes are looking good, Nancy.
Nice job. No, I would never do that. Nope, nope, nope, nope. And then, so like, there's this blind guy that's been there forever, too.
Like, he's a regular. He's always worked out there and stuff. Right. And...
I don't know. That just strikes me as funny. Poor lame man walking around. Yeah.
So I... How does he know how much he's lifted? he does more like he has a trainer somebody follows him and helps him and stuff but he's in the locker room too heavy I don't know I don't know if I'm lifting more or less you're going straight to hell so we're like he's coming into the locker and I'm heading into the showers and like he ran into you and you yelled at him what are you blind get out of the way he's coming this way And I'm going this way, and there's a wall right here, so like I have nowhere to go, right? But I don't want to stop.
So you're going to hell, Michael. So I'm like, oh man, I can warn him, but I don't know how that will play out. Excuse me, sir. So, and I have my headphones on still, so I just haul ass like Indiana Jones right past him.
Let's go fast. He feels the wind. Yeah, he had to be freaked out a little bit. Like, that's how close we were.
You know, he had his cane out, and I kind of leapt over it a little bit, and I'm just like, yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it's bad. It would have been funny if he caught your leg and knocked you down. Oh my god. Oh, I'm sorry, who'd I knock down?
I don't know what's going on in my life, but it's been an awkward, it was an awkward week. So you jumped over dressed as a ninja? Yeah, totally, yeah, dressed as like, wah! Pretty eventful day, you know?
It's been, well, that was kind of like an eventful week. The bomb squad called on you, you beat up a blind guy. Yeah. It's just a day in the life for me, you know.
Is this all the stuff you were gonna try to remember to tell me the other day? " Yeah, I can't. We can't talk about this. Now I know why you like RDP so much.
Yeah, it's amazing for me. Oh, yeah. It's amazing. It's a fun-filled afternoon for you.
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I'm embarrassed myself, but at least you know that I just own it and move the hell on. Did you catch Kiss My Ass Radio this week?
Um, I have listened to bits and pieces of almost the whole thing. Yeah? We've got nine minutes. Okay.
Uh, I listened to it some in the car just on the way back from the airport. Yeah. I thought it was a good interview. Uh, yeah, from what I, I heard of it.
What, you gathered? I mean, I haven't seen all of it yet. Yeah, no, I think it went, I think it went really well. I mean, it was, uh, same information basically that he did on the other interview, so I mean.
Yeah, but Abe tried to, what's the worst thing about working with Skip Martin? Yeah, yeah, he did try that. And, you know, I think that Danny handled himself pretty well. Right.
Yeah, he didn't really say anything bad. It was very political, you know. Did he get the bonus? I would say that the, I could tell you what the worst thing is working with Skip Martin.
Easy. Okay. Fucking, the fact that he always is right. Like, that's fucking frustrating.
That he always has to be right? No. Or that he is actually always right? Yeah.
Oh. Yeah, and you know, the other thing that they said that was kind of weird is that Abe said, you know, The Facebook Skip and the Skip in person are two totally different people. I completely disagree. Oh, really?
Yeah. I just think that people don't understand him. You don't get the dialogue correct when you're reading it just via text. Oh, okay.
You know what I mean? He's the same person. He feels the same way. And he has, you know, correct fucking...
Oh, he's by no means putting on a show for Facebook. No. Yeah. " Yeah, I get that now.
Like, that's the difference. Well, I've told him a little more than once, I just assume everything he says is correct. I mean, I didn't fact check him or anything. I don't, uh, I don't assume that he's correct, but there are times when I get there, I'm like, God damn it.
That, ah, fuck. Okay. Just the same scenario with my son. I'm like, wait a second.
What if I'm wrong here? Yeah, what was that word? What? The word?
Uh, homophone. Homophone. Yeah. Oh, he probably knows.
He knows. He's around the house. I think he knew. Yeah, I asked him, and he knew.
It's the younger people. I don't know why you didn't know. I mean, I understand why I didn't know. I slept the entire career of school, I was asleep.
Oh. The entire time. Oh, there you go. I still made it on the roll.
That goes to show you how much of a joke that school is. So, anyways. So, what about you, Mike? How was your week?
You have like six minutes. Get it out. Nothing. Nothing exciting happened.
There was that death, and that sort of put a damper on all week. weekend really i got drunk last night you did get drunk you were aggressive to me with the screwball you're like oh i'm shaving your eyebrow that's not happening i asked if i could i didn't explain why but i noticed you did see it so then you got mad that i didn't answer yes i didn't see it right away i gave you plenty of time i know i didn't i was drinking a screwball i was drinking scatterbrain It was something new. Is it like Screwball, only scattering? Not as good.
Not as good. The Manny has been dabbling into the Sincora a little bit. Oh, I have. I'm a big fan.
You're sharing? Big fan. Yeah, of course I'm sharing. You know, if I have three and you have one, we will have two, Mike.
That's how it works. But I have four over here, and none of them are for you. There's three now. If you notice, I conveniently brought two Deathbucket twos and one of the others, one of each.
Oh, yeah. I couldn't see over the screen. So, I kind of knew the direction it was going. Then why didn't you just say which one we were doing?
Because where's the fun in that, Mike? I don't know. There's no filler time for that. So, somebody died, now you have the house to yourself, you're not going to wear pants the rest of the weekend.
Monday through Friday. I mean, it's all work days. There's nobody can go out, nobody can go do anything. It's all days people have jobs and things.
Hmm. So, you know. Oh, I see what you're saying. It was a legion.
They only have the one plane. So, they fly on Monday and then they fly again on Friday. Oh, okay. So, that's exciting.
Well, Jimanny, anything fun and exciting? Anything fun and exciting, man? It worked. With your new wife that apparently you just got?
For the first day since, you know, I can't remember the last time I was up in Jacksonville, but... Yeah, that's fun. I know I gotta go back next week. And what are you doing exactly?
Can you tell us or is it a secret? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I am a field service representative, they call it. Oh, that sounds fancy.
Yeah, it does. It's the fancy word for a guy who sits at home in teleworks. But I am a-- Good job, everybody. I'm a civilian contractor for the Navy.
Oh. We are kind of in a deal with them where we allow them to use our helicopters. In return, they let us use their ships to put our helicopters. Uh-oh.
If they weren't using helicopters, would you need the ships? No. Yes. I don't know.
Because our helicopters are a UA-- it's a UAV. Yeah. It's only got like a flying time of like an hour and a half before it has to start turning back to the ship because it's, it's smaller. There's not, you know, the fuel tanks are small.
It's like a drone. Is that electrical? That's what UAV means, Mike. Yeah, it's a drone.
Is that what UAV means? It's a drone? Yes. It's an unmanned air vehicle.
See? You didn't know that. I did too. I didn't know what it stood for, but I knew it meant a drone.
So, in a perspective that might help you out. Yes. Call of Duty. Call of Duty.
Can you put it in Call of Duty terms? For personal recon UAVs, that's exactly what I work on. With the two kills, or the three kills. You have to kill three people in order for it to work.
Right, and that's the same scenario. Every single day for me. Three people die, and then it goes up in the air. Three people die, and then we're allowed to fly it.
Yeah, it's successful. Sometimes you forget you have it. Do you have to go out on the ships? Yeah, so I was up in the ships, in the shipyard today up in Mayport.
I mean, but when the ships leave, do you have to go for a ride? So, whenever the ships leave, a crew will deploy with it, like a Navy detachment, and then an FSR will go with for four to six months, they haven't successfully done a six month deployment yet, because the ships are trash, and they break a lot, but we just had two ships come back today, and then two more are deploying in January and February, I'm not on that deployment. Is this secret stuff we shouldn't be talking about? No, I can't, I'm not gonna tell you where they go.
Oh, yeah. Either the routes. The ocean. I've been on that naval base.
Oh, yeah? And I've been out on a, it's where I went out on a Coast Guard cutter. Oh. With Sean?
Uh, yes, actually, it was Family Day. Oh. There you go. Yeah.
How romantic. It's a big base. It's a big base. It is, it is, it's big.
It's very nice. Very big base. So, yeah. Yeah.
And between that and, you know, in his off time and the nights, he's twitching away with his- He's playing Call of Duty and needs to be soundproof his room. Yeah, you know, it's the easiest job I've ever had in my life, to be honest. Yeah. Really, Call of Duty's the same thing.
He hasn't deployed yet, though. Wait until he deploys, and then let's review. Right. No, no, no.
When I deploy, it's gonna suck. But just like every deployment I've ever been on, that's when I make the most money. Right, yeah. So it'll be worth it.
So do you get your own room? If you're an FSR? It depends. If it's a full ship, then I'll be bunking with the Navy.
But if not, then I'll get my own stateroom. Well, you wear pants. Sounds nice. No.
No, yeah. It's the Navy. There's no pants. Those little shorts.
In the Navy. The little shorts and the hats. But it is going to be a new experience, being that I did six years in the Air Force. Right.
We get pampered in the Air Force. So now I'll be on like a real... Five course meals and everything. Yeah.
Hey, wait. Where's the pamper? So you're saying I gotta sleep on the same sheets? That's ridiculous.
There's nobody that cleans my room? Yeah, what the heck? Where's the maid? Definitely had one of those.
Well, it's a ship, so it's a steward. Oh, excuse me, versus steward. Oh, we got to go. All right, we're gonna take a break.
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Thanks for the support. All right, we're back. This is episode 151 of Cigar Hustler Podcast. We're here with the Manny.
The Manny. The Manny. Apparently he's a married brother-in-law that I didn't know. Yeah, yeah.
And I told him that I was going to subject him to battery-sucking comments and stuff like that, but there's a trade-off. I told him that we would give him a plug, so. Oh, what are we plugging? Do a little self-promotion.
Yeah, yeah, there you go. Except for it's not for myself, it's for my wife. Well, I mean, it's still kind of for you. It is for me.
What do we want to promote his wife into it? Right, right. She makes these fucking amazing cookies. Oh, she's a cookie lady, too.
Oh, I've seen pictures of the cookie plug. Yeah, I've been pushing for some. Do we have cookies? We don't have any right now.
We don't, we don't. Is there little microphones or something? We don't. We could totally do that.
It could totally be arranged. Yeah. But, I mean, I really feel like the microphones, you're really kind of selling it short. I pushed for Biden cookies, just because I thought it'd be funny to give to, you know, like die-hard Trump supporters.
They just eat his head. I mean, that's actually something for them. Oh, maybe. They can crush him.
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know where I was going. She'd be able to pull it off, though.
She could. She could. She made these really bad-ass Halloween cookies. She sent the whole batch.
I've seen the photos. Yeah, they're very nice. Very detailed. Yeah.
Yeah. And she only started in like March. Wow. Yeah.
And she's not. She just had this art ability? No. It's crazy.
She just found that her medium is cookies. It's unreal. Like she can draw and she's artsy, but she's just got such like a creative mind that it kind of just one day she picked it up and she did it for randomly. You know what?
I think my cookies look like people. Yeah. She did it randomly one day. She took a couple Quaaludes.
Yeah. " Cookies sound good, right? You know what? It would be so great.
Well, they put something else in that thing, and then they hit it, and they go, oh, cookies would be great, right? Oh, we could go for some cookies. So it started, 'cause she started baking a lot when I lived up there. She would make, like, these things called slutty brownies.
Oh, hey. And what it is is it's a three-tiered brownie, and on top it's brownie, and then in the middle it's Oreo, like a layer of Oreo. Right, and the bottom's a whore? Yes.
Perfect. And then it's chocolate chip on the bottom. She started making those a lot, I started bringing them into work, and then she would make cookies for me to bring them to work, and that's when the cookie thing started, and now she's got her own business. Yeah, go ahead.
It's Goblet of Goodies. Okay, where can you find it? You can find it on Instagram and Facebook. Uh-huh, okay.
You know, she's got-- Goblet of Goodies. Yeah. Goblet of Goodies. Yeah, you're probably not getting anything-- All one word.
But nothing for Christmas right now, 'cause she's booked. Christmas is a little, you know, she's got 20 orders to do for Christmas. Right, and she's only one person, we're growing. Right, right, right.
Right, right, right. But you know, it's good. I just found out that her mother will be helping her. Oh, nice.
Oh, so now they can take work. Oh, they were expanding. And she also just paid off her nine-year-old sister to be on dish duty. She gave her 20 bucks.
Oh, so they tripled the workforce now. She's expanding. Yeah, aggressive expansion. Yeah, we aggressive expand here, but we don't pay anybody.
No, no, they're trying to pay me less now. Hey, I said it at the meeting today. Yeah, hey, by the way. We need to cut the hours we pay, Palmer, back.
Yeah, no. What? We need him here, we just don't want him on the clock. Right, right.
He works better that way. More efficient. I don't think so. I think so.
I think so. Well, for you, certainly. It's fantastic. It wins for you.
Yeah. Who's he? I don't know. Of course, I do like it because then I can just leave.
Yeah, you get to come and go as you please, you know, a little bit of freedom. And then when people come in, they treat you like you're the owner. Well, it's if I'm on the clock or not. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Mike's in charge. So there you go. I have courage to say I'm the owner. So a goblet of goodies.
Goblet of Goodies. com or anything or just Facebook? Just go to Facebook. Just on Facebook.
It's a little group on Facebook that she's got. She's also got her Instagram page. Very nice. Yeah, she's blooming.
She's doing well. She's blooming. Doing really well. I'm blooming on you.
So far, so good. You know, we're trying to grow. Once we get into this house, we're going to set up a little shop for her, distro shop. It's going to be nice.
Nice. Yeah. She does any occasion, you know, holiday, birthday, anything. Yeah, teacher of the year award stuff.
Who knows? Teacher of the year. Yeah. Seventy-five dollars a cookie for you though.
Seventy-five dollars a cookie? We've got to offset the pay. Just throwing that out there. You're going to start paying me in cookies?
Yeah, yeah. Here's the- Cigars and cookies. There you go, Palmer. Here's your paycheck.
That's seventy-five dollars. That's one cookie and half a cigar. And thank you for your time. You can have anything in the ashtray.
Yeah. All right. So, hey. What's going on?
On with the news. On with the news. Brian, with the Manny, thank you for coming on too. Of course, of course.
Just throwing that out there before the end. Yeah. Yeah. Solid.
All right. As we mentioned, Room 101-- Whoa! What? I said the news.
What? You gotta be kidding. What happened to the sound effects? Oh, you went the do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do that just said.
Yeah, thank you so much. I feel so much better now. Now I know that we're on the news. No, we're on the news.
Oh. Room 101 Death Bucket 2 goes on sale. Oh, my God. Really?
There'll be another Death Bucket. Multiple retailers have begun selling the Room 101 Death Bucket 2, a follow-up to the Room 101 Death Pucket. The first appeared in 2018. Was it 2018?
There must have been an offering before. I guess there was one before. Oh, okay. Well, it's being branded a death bucket.
The most recent version is a completely different cigar. Ooh. It's an entirely different type of fly. It's offered in a Robusto size.
Yes, it is. There we go. See, not a Toro. Instead of a Toro size, it must have.
Fucking liars with your fucking Instagrams. It's also being made at a different factory. The new version comes from Hoya de Nicaragua. That we found out the other day what we called it.
We did. We did. Oh, and when we FaceTimed him, Keanu was just so excited. Oh, he said his name two and a half times.
So Smith. Two and a half times. Jeff, my name is my name. I hope he listens to this podcast.
Keanu's like, "Damn it! " Well, the original cigar was made at Tabula Calera William Ventura in the Dominican Republic. As far as the Blandet uses a Nicaraguan... Ah, that makes sense.
What? Ventura. Okay. The original was made by Ventura.
Yeah. Now we've moved on to Hoyo. Yes. As far as the Blandet uses a Nicaraguan habano wrapper over an Indonesian binder and fillers, And fillers comes from three regions in Nicaragua: Andega, Esteli, and Jalapa.
Price is set at $12 per cigar, while this might be Death Bucket 2. This is actually the third release of Death Bucket. The original cigar was first released in 2018, that we said earlier. Yes.
Save this for the next second show. Love the beating in the background. Yes, and lovely. Yeah.
Maybe it's Keanu. He's trying to send Morse code. Yeah. He's trapped in the back.
They hired me and they shoved me in this corner. Crownheads ships Mildias Marvella Edition Limitada. You're pinging on everything. That's what I'm smoking right now.
The Mildias Marvella Edition Limitada XX is off to stores. Yesterday, Crownheads began shipping the Mildias. Wow, he shipped yesterday. Came in today?
No. I saw that Nickel City had it like on Friday. Well, he gets stuff early. We really just got it today.
You would think of the tundra that he's located in all the way up in that. He's practically in Canada. Is he? Where?
No, he's in New York. I'm about to tell you. This is a pretty quick extension of the Mel Diaz line, which arrived on shelves in September. It uses an Ecuadorian Habano wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillage from Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Peru.
What a hit. The other trifecta. This cigar is what a hit, man. I mean, this is crazy.
It is. We got another influx of them, and pfff, they're gone. Gone. The line debut.
You can't keep them in stock. Can they go on? It's absolutely amazing. Oh, my mother just called.
50. I wonder if the Mil Dias will hit, like, you know, the top 10 half-wheel yada yada. Is it too late in the season? That's what I'm wondering.
Maybe too late in the season. That's what I'm wondering. It's a reference that the project took roughly a thousand days between the time Pichardo presented Crown Heads with the original samples to when it was released. It's like a glacial pace.
That's what they should have called it. Glacial pace. Glacial pace? Yeah.
What is Spanish for glacial pace? I don't know. Frio fucking... Frio fucking?
Frio... how do you say what? Peso. Camido?
I don't know. Peso. Caliente. I don't know.
Caliente! Caliente! That's hot. You're really into this.
Yeah. Kamesa? Kamesa? No, Kamesa, it's head, isn't it?
That's Kamesa. Kamesa, yeah. I don't know what Kamesa is. Mm-hmm.
We're just, you know, two white guys pulling scumping our way through this garnishing, not a new sandwich. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Oh, there's a device that we carried with us everywhere. There's a way that we could figure this out. What kind of fun would that be, though, if we just looked it up? True, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's just say what it is. Yeah. Glacial Pace. Okay.
I want a Mildia's exclusive for the shop. The hammering is driving me nuts. You're gonna be okay. I feel like you're just on edge because your wife left you permanently for her ex.
Wow. In Kansas? Wow. Not in Kansas, it's Springfield.
What? Illinois-za? No, Springfield, Missouri. Missouri-za?
Oh, and I paid for the ticket. What a sucker am I? Last little- One born every minute. There you go.
Viaje Holiday Blend Candy Cane returns for 2020. Hey! I blew this one. Viaje's Winter Holiday- You didn't- we're not getting this?
Nah, I missed it. We missed all the turkey stuff. I missed that one too. All people have to do is call you.
" Would everybody like to start emailing me those information? " He just emailed me back, like, "Is there another email we can get in touch with you with? " Give them the podcast one. It gets very little email.
Yeah? Okay. I'll email, I'll have them email you. " No, Viaje.
Who's Viaje? It's Viaje. It randomly changes. He's gone through like 20 people.
Oh, who is it now? It's probably like four. It's probably gone to four. Who is it now?
I don't know. It's the same email though. Oh, just different people. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just the signature at the bottom is different. Oh. Viaje's winter holiday themed cigars are set to return later this month. Yeah.
We would have gotten a box of candy cane and a box of holiday blends, but we didn't get either. The company posted pictures of an upcoming release of both holiday blend and candy cane, two cigars that typically ship in December to coincide with the Christmas holidays. The company's statement, "Ho, ho, ho, it's that special time of year again. " Was this in the email you got?
Yeah, yeah, I just saw it today. I saw it today. " And it was like, email, it was sent to me, the follow-up email was sent to me on the 4th, like the final notice. " This is the 7th, I'm not getting it.
" Nope. Well, if anybody else gets them, the bundle of candy chains, which is usually a barber pole version of the Holiday Blint. Oh, that sounds lovely. Indicates that it will be a 6x54 release.
Is it a barber pole? Yeah, but we'll never see it. Yeah. It's fine.
Company declined to provide any further details to Michael, so that's the way it worked. But he did indicate on Instagram that the release would ship on December 14th. It's still seven days. Yeah, but they already sold them.
You don't know anybody at the high? You know. Who do you know? I mean, I know Andre, but like what?
I feel this is below Andre. You really want me to fucking, like, I don't want to, first of all, it's on me, I fucked it up, for one, and for two, like, I don't want to press for what, for two boxes? Hey man, we won't read any more of this story because we're not getting them, so we'll just. Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, moving on. We're not getting them, so we're not just. Oh. Oh, wow.
There's a lot of information, apparently, about that cigar. Oh man, I'm very excited about the VIs. The top 25 cigars of 2020, they've released the sketch. I am very excited about this.
The top 25 cigars of 2020 are almost here. Every year, Cigar Aficionado conducts a tasting of the highest scoring cigars from the past 365 days to determine which are good enough to make the top 25 and which one cigar will rise above all the rest and be named Cigar of the Year who paid us the most money. Nope, that's a legend. I'm not gonna lie, the list I could give two shits about, his son comes on every year and he fucking mutilates the names of every cigar and it is just so amazing.
It is the best podcast. That's fantastic. So the final day of the list is January 15th, Cigars 11 through 25 will be announced on the 15th. He happens to be coming to visit after the holidays on the 16th and 17th of January.
Oh, okay. So it worked out perfect, Saturday, Sunday, right after this. " Right, yes, we need to work on the list. Hojo.
So the January 19th show, the Hojo. The Hojo. That's amazing. The Hojo.
So amazing. The January 19th show will be episode 157. And in Cigar Hustler podcast edition, Jake Palmer will be reading the top 25. He was quite thrilled to find out that it coincided exactly with this.
That works out well. So we need to line up a celebrity to correct him. So who can we get? If you would like to be in the area on the 16th of January, you'd like to come in, and you can say the names correctly.
I mean, it was Danny last time, and maybe we have Danny come back. I don't know. Why? Because, you know, we're mending fences, we're moving on.
I don't know, I don't know, I don't feel if it's necessary. Okay, okay. I don't think he likes you because of the shirt. I told you, that was it.
It was because you did the shirt with his name crossed off. He's a name crossed off. No, we're friends now. I thought he came to town and didn't call you.
He didn't. That was hurtful. But we've moved on. Are you talking now?
Yeah. Oh, really? Oh, well, then forget anything I said. He's a very lovely man.
I miss him terribly. Yeah. So. No, no, no, we're good.
You know, I reached out to him after the KMA. " Oh. Yeah. Except where was he?
I don't know. I couldn't figure that out either. I'm like, where the fuck is this? He's in a white tile room.
Is it a bathroom? clips on the wall to hang things? Somebody asked in the texting thing. Torture change room.
Well, they asked if he was in a holding cell. But yeah, I mean, at first I thought a bathroom, but maybe a dark room because of the clips? I mean, nobody came in and interrupted him, and he's got 75 kids. Right, exactly.
So it had to be off-site. A really bad echo? Yeah. I don't know where he was.
Where the fuck were you? We should ask him that. Hey, where the hell were you? Well, okay, we'll have to make note of that sometime, I'll ask you that question.
Yeah, it was a, it's an S&M chamber. Oh, a sex room like Greg's house. Yeah, a sex room. That's why it's all tile, it's very easy to clean.
Just wipe it all down. There you go. And the clips for hanging directions. Yeah, exactly.
No, that's where you put the chains up. Oh, it didn't look strong. It looked like, like clips like you'd hang paper. You can't see.
Huh? How would you know? I zoomed in. You couldn't read fucking pineapple ice.
She said apple pie. I saw apple. Right in front of you. I saw apple.
I went with apple. It's yellow. Jeez. And it's yellow, which just looks like apple pie.
Just like an apple. Just like apple pie. Just like an apple. Just like an apple.
Just like an apple. Well, hey, there are golden apples, right? That's right. Golden delicious.
Yeah, there you go. See? Thank you very much. All right.
A volunteer was attacked by a tiger at Carole Baskins Big Cat Rescue in Tampa. Oh, my goodness. A longtime volunteer at Big Cat Rescue, the Florida Animal Sanctuary profile of Netflix's Tiger King, Tiger King was attacked by a tiger during a morning feeding and sanctuary confirmed to CNN. A story from CNN.
Yeah. We're moving up. The volunteer who worked at the Carole Baskin-founded sanctuary for five years had gone to feed the tiger, Kimba, on Thursday, when she noticed the tiger was locked out of the section of its cage where it usually fed. Uh oh.
What do you go in there? Oh, it's locked down. Oh, it's not in here. Let me go check that out.
The volunteer opened the gate to let it through without asking a coordinator. Big Cat Rescue said in a statement to CNN. She reached her arm through the cage to unclip the second door, breaking protocol. Not allowed.
You never break protocol. According to the sanctuary, they want to make sure they, we all know that that's not normal practice. Right. And Kimba grabbed the volunteer's arm and tore it off at the shoulder.
Well, hey, now you're same level with Mr. Joe Exotica, you know. That's true. I mean, both lost.
Now, the real question here is, I mean, I don't know if anybody's seen the documentary, but when that person lost their arm. Right. And wherever the fuck it was, Oklahoma or whatever, you know, they were all about it. They're like, "Take the arm.
" Now, I want to know how this person's response is. Like, "Ah, you know what? " Well, let's move on with the story. Another volunteer heard the attack and ran over the tiger, released its grip on the arm.
Coworkers attempted to stop the bleeding and save the injured volunteer's arm before an ambulance arrived about 20 minutes later. Oh, a long time. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll get that. If they had a call from a tiger place, it would be a little faster.
Yeah, the tiger has ripped off the arm. Oh, okay, well, we're- There's nothing we can do about it. There's nothing we can do for her. There is the actual arm at.
Yeah, so we're in the middle of lunch right now. Yeah. We're on another call. Tell the guy to hang tight.
Yeah. Well, it was a woman. Is there any ice? It was an older woman.
Is there ice anywhere? Can you put it on ice? Kimba was placed in quarantine for the next 30 days, Big Cat Rescue said. That'll teach 'em.
But was just acting normally due to the presence of food and opportunity. And arm. And arm. And human contact.
Sanctuary said the volunteer, still conscious of the attack, insisted she didn't want Kimba to be punished for biting her. Oh. One of those. Tiger rips off my arm.
Shoot it. Shoot it. My dog bites my kid. I fucking axe him out back instantly.
We're not even going. There's no discussion. We're not calling anybody. We're not calling anybody.
45. No test. Fucking old yeller style. No!
CNN has reached out to the Hillsborough County Fire Rescue for more information on the attack and is waiting to hear back. The department told CNN affiliate WFTF it responded to the scene and that no one person was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. What? Somebody was really high when they answered that.
It must not have ripped it off. They're like, yeah, no, it's fine. It just bit her. Maybe it didn't tear it off.
Maybe she had information on Carole Baskin's husband. Yeah, you know what? Can we just reach in there and unhook that latch? It's fine.
The cat won't even bother you. Yeah, it's totally cool. It's against protocol, Mr. Baskin.
The cat's not that big. No, no, it's fine. The cat's over there. Yeah, yeah.
What'd you say about my husband, my ex? I don't know. You said you know what? You're in a family with money?
I'm sorry, blackmail? What? No. Oh, yeah, no.
Kimba's hungry. Kimba's hungry. Oh, not in her cage? Oh, so weird.
Go in there and check that out. Yeah, here's some body lotion made of sardine oil. I'm wearing that new perfume you gave me, so it's just like meat. Drape this around your neck.
Just hold the steak out in front of him. Yeah. It's fine. It'll be perfectly fine.
Perfectly fine. Allegedly. Allegedly, yes. Allegedly, yes.
Allegedly, yes. Allegedly, yes. So that's all I got. That was your news?
That was the top story. Slow news week. Well, we threw away seven pages about that holiday cigar we're not getting, so. Yeah.
Well, hey, I'm sorry, Mike. Do you have a listen of the week? Nope, nope, no Listener of the Week this week. You really kind of half-assed it.
Me? Yeah. Yeah, you always say that you're the guy that's going to handle this. We're at 50 minutes.
I've handled it. Where's your Listener of the Week? It's a whole show. There's got to be a Listener of the Week, always.
No, it doesn't. Yeah. We had two last week. We did have two.
And yours is very moody, by the way. I like mine. Very moody on Facebook. Yeah, well, he's like, no, I mean, he was 100% correct.
He said, excuse me, he was not your Listener of the Week. No, he was not, because I picked a blind man that you beat up at the gym, apparently. Oh, he's not a listener. How's he gonna listen on this podcast?
I mean, his hearing is probably a lot better. Yeah, his hearing works fine. But how do you get to it on the phone? Somebody doesn't know.
Braille. You could just say "Hey" and say the name. There's Braille apps. There's Braille apps.
The screen swells up with little buttons. Ridiculous. Little nubs and stuff. So you don't have a listener?
There's gotta be a listener. Some, some, give me somebody. Oh, it was Mr. Coop's birthday this week.
It was Mr. Coop's birthday. He could be listening to the week again. He likes to be listening to the week.
Who we got? I don't know. Hurry up early, it's gonna go off. I'm trying to look.
Have we done Andrew McCreary lately? Yeah, we did Andrew McCreary. Yes. I'm glad his package arrived.
I was tracking it all weekend. Yeah, man. Dude, USPS. It's really fucking...
It never said it was ever scanned in at the post office. Oh, yeah, man. I just had that, I had that again with another customer. " It never says, "scan the deposit," it just says, "ticket was made," or whatever it is.
It's like when Christmas comes around, the USPS, they just completely lose their fucking minds. Right. And then you throw COVID on top of that, and they're, you know. Well, it was a heavier box, they bought a box of cigars, and a sampler, and so...
So it's harder for them to move in? They probably went to a different bucket or cart, whatever they put those things in. I think it really happens for like a hub to hub scenario. Probably.
So there are specific hubs, and I'm willing to bet that if you have an outbreak at one of these hubs, you know, then they work on a skeleton crew, and they're already inundated with packages from COVID, now, you know. Years ago, I bought some sunglasses, and they went back and forth from this post office to Altamont, back and forth, because they couldn't read it, so it kept going back and forth. And I had to get the Postmaster General over here involved and he had to watch for it to come back to grab it. Take the package, don't you worry.
So about three weeks later he called me and goes, I have your sunglasses. I'm like, you know, at this point I don't even want them. You know what, send them back. Send them back, I don't want them.
I went to the mall, I picked some up. Right. Oh, I ordered that battery. Still hasn't come.
That's nice. Supposed to come Wednesday. I've been to Target three times since then and I go, well, I can't buy it now because, like I said, ordered from Amazon. Just hit the button, I'll be here the next day, you said.
I'll be here the next day, you said. Right. Nope. Still on its way.
But other stuff I've ordered has coming. Oh, okay. Well, I'm excited to review the Death Bucket 2. It's a totally different...
Totally different blend from a totally different factory. It's a completely different experience. It'd be great if we had the man who tried it. You should wear the ring while you smoke it.
Oh. It's gonna be a necklace piece for me for a while. Yeah. What's that?
I can't wait to see it. What is that? What are you wearing? Oh, it's my necklace.
My necklace. What's a 10? Yeah. Don't touch it.
It's none of your damn business. You should wear it tucked in your shirt so it doesn't... Sounds kind of bulging. Kind of bulging.
Cool, isn't it? What do you think of this? Yeah, it's the devil. It's cool.
I bought it at the flea market this week. You know, it's totally my style. Yeah. I'm all about really large pieces of jewelry.
Oh, God. No, I'm not gaudy. Real big, large chrome pieces. Yeah.
I like those. Chrome. Oh, it came with rims. You see the ankle bracelet I wear?
It looks like a suit of armor. Yeah, I gotta, speaking of which, is there a wall charger anywhere? So, yeah. Okay.
Well, hey, no listener of the week. I expect better from you. Hey, you know what? You get what you pay for.
What? You get what you pay for. It's about three cookies worth. Yeah.
Oh, cookies. I so want a cookie, though. Yeah, well. And that whore brownie thing.
Oh, I just want to know, with your current actions, you're entitled to like 25% of one cookie. I'm going to bring it in, so wait, cut it off, and then eat the other portion of it. Give me the ear, the ear from Biden. Oh, the Biden ear.
The Biden ear. Yeah. Take the top off of the head. It's the best part, did you hear?
The best part's the ear. Yeah, the best part's the ear. It's Mike Tyson. You didn't talk about, what's his name, boxing?
What? I didn't watch. That is a good time. That was last week, wasn't it?
What's the guy's name, Logan, yada yada? Logan Paul. Logan Paul is going to now box. What the fuck am I, Floyd Mayweather?
Floyd Mayweather. Oh. Yeah. Nobody wants to box the other guy?
No, Floyd – what, Nate Robinson? No, the guy – That guy's still unconscious. That guy's still dead. Yeah, Nate Robinson is – Yeah, he's dead.
Rumor has it he's still face down in the ring. In all the pictures, he's still face down in the ring. He's still there, guys. He's still there.
He hasn't woke him up yet. They have not woke him up. You're talking about Tyson and Roy Jones? There we go.
Nobody wants to fight Tyson again? I'm sure somebody will fight. I think that fight's going to happen again. Tyson and Roy Jones?
I think it's going to be a rematch. There's no way those two guys are ending on a draw like that. I feel like that's what they wanted, like that outcome was it wasn't sanctioned anyway so it had to be a draw first of all Tyson won that fucking yeah all day they couldn't call a winner but you know they they know going in there that they're only expected to land body shots anyway right but did you see Roy Jones like round round through round sitting in the corner he's like what the fuck did I do to him how much am I getting paid like round three dude this yeah I know it's like round one I'm like the fucking the dumbest why would I do this you know well how much did he make it was all for charity yeah they got They donated. No.
They gave it to charity. They didn't get paid. I mean, they asked Tyson- Is Tyson making a remake? Tyson did it to get in shape.
Yeah. Tyson asked at the end, somebody asked, well, would you get into the real WBA or whatever the fuck it's called? Yeah, I will get in the ring. No.
He's like, no. I'm doing better things for better people. I'm helping people. It's like...
Yeah. Okay. Like, there are certain times when Tyson makes a statement and you're just like, yeah, I'm just gonna shut up now. Yeah.
You're not gonna piss him off. " No, no, I'm very sorry. I'm not being funny. Oh, okay.
And it's kind of like Tyson never says that then. Yeah. You know, it's time to get in line. Would you like a cookie?
Here, you've earned this. Get a whole cookie. All right. All right, episode 151.
Those are correct over there. No. Oh, very nice. And we're doing Secret Show 68 today.
Very excited. Very excited about the Death Bucket 2. Dun, dun, dun. All right, I'm going to turn this off now.
Go ahead. All right. You like to- Manny, Manny, thank you. The cookie company one more time.
Yeah, Goblet of Goodies. Yeah. Check it out. Goblet of Goodies.
Goblet of Goodies. Check it out. And Manny, thank you very much for coming on to the show. Do you call him Manny around the house?
No, I don't. No, I don't. I really don't call him much. I hardly see him, to be honest.
You know, we're on opposite schedules. Yeah, that's what it is. Very busy, man. He's very busy, very busy.
Super busy. Yeah, super busy man. Yeah, super busy man. Flying drones.
Yeah, flying drones. Do you have your own drone at home? No, no. So that's funny that you ask though, because whenever I tell anybody that I work on drones, they think it's a little handheld one.
Until you see it in person, and it's an actual full-size helicopter. Yeah, but that's the size of your phone, and you just... Yeah, no, I wish, that would be way easier. That would be easier.
Oh, that one broke. Send in another one. Oh, no. Another one.
If this helicopter crashes, someone's gonna lose a job. It's like, okay. You're gonna do 25 to life. Full-size drone helicopters.
There it is. All right, we gotta go. Bye. This has been a Cigar Hustlers podcast, a Mike and Mike production.
m. for all new episodes. Hi, I'm doing, I'm Who's Thoey 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 can't get past Hojo!
I don't even have to try it. He's not even gonna try it. We're gonna, we're gonna cover a lot of ground here, Mike. All right.
Try to keep up. That's a sign of a good podcast. It's kind of a good podcast, right? It should be like four cigars when I walked in a door.
Alright, end this.
Show Notes
The Nanny from the Kingdom stops in on his way back from flying remote government helicopters off of a battleship(I know right? how cool!!) and fills us in who makes the best cookies!!
Thats right you never know what's gonna happen on the Cigar Hustlers Podcast!