180 Fast and Furious Summer, PCA, More Accents
Episode Summary
Episode 180 of A Cigar Hustlers Podcast opens with the Mikes in full banter mode — a spoiler-heavy (and very silly) breakdown of Fast & Furious 9, a tangent on UFC heavyweight Francis Ngannou and his "nicest man alive" persona, movie-theater parenting stories, a Universal Studios day, and a recap of the shop's recent Drew Estate event. There's also a Zoom chat recap with Drew Estate's Willy Herrera, where the hosts finally get a ruling on how to pronounce "Titán de Bronce."
The news segment covers a heavy run of industry headlines ahead of PCA 2021. The TAA confirms in-person meetings for fall 2021 at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic and spring 2022 at Los Cabos, Mexico, with the hosts riffing on the TAA's Dream Machine buying event. Black Label Trading Company brings back the Hawaiian Black Works Studio Kato exclusive for R. Field Wine Company — a 5x48 robusto with an Ecuadorian maduro wrapper, candela accent, and Nicaraguan binder and filler at $10. Crux Cigars resumes shipping the Du Connoisseur line after a 20-month hiatus with new packaging and the same blend, per VP Casey Hogan.
Also covered: Drunk Chicken Cigars, founded by Desiree Silver, debuting the Eggstreme at PCA 2021 (a $10 Nicaraguan-wrapped robusto), which launches an extended bit about inventing better euphemisms than "undisclosed" wrapper ("ill-conceived wrapper, unfamiliar binder, irrevocable filler"). HVC Cigars opens its own headquarters and distribution center in Doral, Florida, moving fulfillment away from AGANORSA Leaf — prompting an extended impression of founder Reinier Lorenzo's dream office. Kretek International promotes Jason Carignan to president of Phillips & King and TMG, and Albert Jose to SVP of sales and marketing. Oliva announces a 25-cigar advent calendar ($200, limited to 10,000) drawing from Connecticut Reserve, Serie G, Serie O, Serie V and Serie V Melanio, with Tatuaje planning one as well. Quesada expands the 1974 line with a toro debuting at PCA.
The episode closes with the recurring Florida story — three visiting California kids lassoing an alligator at a Brevard County park — plus Listener of the Week Jason Wolpert. The Patreon smoke for the episode is the Pappy Van Winkle Toro.
In This Episode
- 01Fast & Furious 9 and Family Movie NightThe Mikes recap taking the kids to F9, the absurdity of the franchise's stunts, and the cast including John Cena, Tyrese, Ludacris and UFC champ Francis Ngannou.
- 02UFC Tangent: Francis Ngannou and Title PoliticsA riff on Ngannou's knockout power, his polite demeanor, the interim heavyweight title situation, and Jon Jones' non-return.
- 03Shop Life, Drew Estate Event and Willy Herrera ZoomRecapping a successful Drew Estate event at the shop and a Zoom conversation with Willy Herrera, including the correct pronunciation of Titán de Bronce.
- 04TAA Confirms In-Person MeetingsThe Tobacconists' Association of America sets a fall 2021 convention at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic and a March 2022 event in Los Cabos, Mexico.
- 05Black Works Studio Kato Returns to HawaiiBlack Label Trading Company's James Brown brings back the R. Field Wine Company exclusive Kato, a $10 5x48 robusto with candela accent.
- 06Crux Du Connoisseur Returns With New PackagingCrux Cigars resumes shipping the small-ring Du Connoisseur after a 20-month hiatus, same blend, new look, per Casey Hogan.
- 07Drunk Chicken Cigars' Eggstreme at PCA 2021Desiree Silver's Drunk Chicken debuts a $10 Nicaraguan robusto, sparking a running joke about 'ill-conceived wrapper, unfamiliar binder, irrevocable filler.'
- 08HVC, Kretek and Oliva's Cigar Advent CalendarHVC opens a Doral distribution HQ, Kretek promotes Jason Carignan and Albert Jose, and Oliva launches a 25-cigar, $200 advent calendar with Tatuaje following.
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Transcript
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It's a goose. It's a goose. So you went to the movies without me. Let's start there, because you went to the movies without me.
I did. I did go to the movies without me. Did you take your children? I did?
Of course I took my children. They're like Papa Mike. I could've went. What's really cool...
This is... This is perfect. What are we doing? Don't touch that.
Your mic cover was coming up. Been bothering me for two weeks. So, what's cool about... My kids are two totally different.
I know I've talked about that before. Yes, yes. But, so, Jax, obviously, he's super chill. He's watching the movies.
He's into it. We went into Fast and the Furious 9. Of course, we did. Because that's the type of family we are.
God damn it. Did Teddy get to go? No. No, no, no, no.
Justice is still suspect, you know, so we went, Jack's cool, you know, we got a big ball, big thing of popcorn, and you know, I had to pass between the two kids and stuff. Justice- Each did not get their own? No, we just did one big one. You know, you could do the big one and ask for two.
I only spend a hundred. No, no, I know, but you could ask for like the bags, they'll give you a bag, you can divide it up. It's not the same, it's not the same. I just did the one big one.
Because the passing back and forth problem. Yeah, it's fun. Oh. Justice, on the other hand, he continues to act like an octopus that just can't find his keys.
I mean, he just doesn't stop throughout the entire show. And then he figured out it was a cool little reclining chair, I guess that's standard now in all the movie theaters now. So he couldn't, so we figured out that, well, oh yeah, I had to constantly adjust. Hey, bring my seat up, bring my seat down, bring my seat down, bring my seat down, bring my seat down.
Just one foot up, just left height, now the right side. Can you make it vibrate? I like it vibrate. And then he figured out that-- Is there a heated T-down, like a heated T-down maybe?
So then he figured out that the armrest goes up. So then the armrest goes up, so now he's leaning on me. Well, that's all, I mean, that's super cute. And I dig all that.
If you would have just stayed still, that's fine. Right. But, you know, when you're halfway through the movie, you've had a lot, you've had a lot to drink, you know, your bladder is full, and now you have this head that's just pushing on your bladder and just keeps moving. I'm like, oh.
They didn't have to get a bingo potty at all? They did. They did. We got up twice.
Say you should go now with adults, so you could see it in its entirety without having to get up. You know what? I didn't mind. I don't know.
I'm sure it was a great day and it was a bonding experience and that stuff, but still, you might have missed something. You don't miss anything. Listen, I have no idea what happened. There's some weapon of mass destruction.
Wait, I haven't seen it yet. It's the same movie. It's the same movie. There's a weapon.
Diesel almost dies at the end and then drives his car through something. Yes, there's a weapon that, I don't know what it does, but apparently it's serious. Is it a magnet? There's a lot of magnets in the previous.
There's a lot of magnets. Magnets are fun. I posted on Facebook, I said three things about magnets are fun. Oh, do not watch the behind the scenes.
Going to space. Not really magnets. A lot of wires and things. A lot of pulling.
A lot of pulling and wiring and stuff. Going to space, you can get there in a Fiero, apparently, it's very easy. Oh, the rocket car! " Yeah, that's it.
That's it. Nobody dies in the movie ever. Everybody comes back to life. It's amazing.
Now, how did they, I mean, I'll see it eventually, but how did they acknowledge the fact that Paul Walker's wife is in it, but not Paul Walker? Oh, Paul Walker is still alive. Right, right, but his wife is in the movie? Yes.
Yeah, so is he babysitting? He is. Oh, is that what it is? He's babysitting.
He's babysitting, and at the end, at the end, they have a car pull up, like he's showing up. Oh, is it the twin brother again? He's got a twin... No, there's nobody, you'll never see a person.
Oh, you'll never see a person. But it's his little, whatever his thing is. It's his little Subaru WRX. It's his little Subaru rice burner thing, whatever, yeah.
Which is funny, but here's what's really funny, is you know that this was probably filmed back in 2019, right? Yeah, before the pandemic. Before the pandemic, so they had Francis Nagano in it. I don't know, you don't know who that is.
He's the heavyweight champion of the world, UFC. No, I might recognize his face, but... And the guy's just a beast. They said that the guy...
Is he a bad guy? Yeah. I mean, this dude's a bad guy. There's two things that are really kind of questionable in this movie.
Only two? I mean, they went to space in a Fiero. They went to space in a Fiero. Above your standard fast and furious, right?
Oh, okay. So, number one. So, this is 2019. He becomes a champion recently, I think in March or something, right?
Han is alive and he blows him up. Right. Okay. So, Han's UFC champion of the world, just like that, boom, it's over.
Did they explain how Han was alive? So, yes. I don't want to get into it. Spoiler alerts.
I don't want to let you into all this. I don't mind the spoilers. Yeah, but I don't want to spoiler alert the entire world. So, what's the entire world?
I don't want to let the entire cigar industry, the millions and millions of cigar listeners. All over the country, if you listen to the cigar. So, here's what's really kind of funny, is you know that Francis Nagano is yoked. is yoked he's a gigantic black dude just huge huge he is he's i mean he can apparently he can punch his is he black superman i mean he could qualify he was that's that's the hobson shaw oh that's the other guy yeah that's uh what's his name ildris alba yeah yeah yeah so no but like so no but friends in the ganyu he's legit nigerian he's got the accent and everything so he speaks a different language in the movie oh yeah so but what's funny is there's him and And there's this white dude that I've seen on Instagram, I don't know his name, he's also a monster, just completely jacked.
He's got a tattoo that goes all the way up his face, he's another bad guy. And then John Cena's also pretty jacked too. None of those guys are wearing anything tight. You couldn't tell that they're completely yoked just because Vin Diesel's the big guy.
But Vin Diesel's not the big guy to all three of these people. No, and the behind the seeds actually, he looked a little old. He's getting there. He's getting old, yeah.
He's in his 50s. Yeah. I mean, his face. You could tell.
There was some, like, the behind the scenes where they're not really shooting with the camera. It's somebody shooting with something else with their cell phones or something. Right. You're looking a little rough there, Mr.
Diesel. Yeah. I mean, movie magic. Oh, yeah.
Right. But this whole saga's been going on for like 20 years at this point. Is it that long now? I think so.
I think so. So, you know, let's see. Fast and Furious 1 was a long time ago. Yeah.
I just watched two the other day. Two and three are, oof, rough. Two, two, except I like the, what's the black guy's name, Ty or something? Tyrese?
Tyrese, I like Tyrese, so he's in two. And I'll tell you what, he had a pretty dominating role in this one, and you know, he has frustrated me in the past, he was funny as hell in this one. Was he? Yeah.
Him and Ludacris were like, they were kind of like bad boys too, it was pretty funny, they just beat the hell out of each other, you know, they just tee off back and forth, so that was pretty good. But I had a good time, you know, it was awesome. You know, it was awesome. Some of those fun movies.
Yeah, like, I don't, you know. I mean, you know the storyline is stupid, and they can't do the things they're doing. It's just entertainment. It's entertaining, right.
You know, I dug all of it, you know, and John Cena, I think he did a good job, too. Did he? Yeah. He's not known for his acting abilities.
Oh, really? Yeah. But he is the number one make-a-wish guy in the world. He grants more wishes than anybody else.
No shit. Yep. I believe it. Can I have that letter?
Because my letter is out of fuel. cena i'm calling he's on his way i'm on my way and i'll do the my hand thing right and he's there hat on sideways sweatband up his arm and whatever else he wears you know you got to give it to anybody that does that that puts in the time and effort to take care of right sick kids that have made that you know celebrity fame or whatever right kudos all the kid wants to do is to meet John Cena. And now he's, uh, now he's Donald Toretto's baby brother. So he's a good guy by the end?
Of course he's a good guy by the end. Right. And Cypher's in it. I saw that in the behind the scenes.
I love the fact that, I love the fact that people are like, don't ruin it for me. Like, it's not hard to figure out. It's not hard to figure out. I mean, you know.
This is, nothing is like, oh, oh my God. Right. They all get together to fight him. At the end he turns and then Dom almost, everybody thinks Dom's dead and he drives his car off the moon or something, whatever it was.
Something like that. I mean, he's driven through a submarine, a volcano, out of a shark, I mean... They actually addressed that in the movie. Did they?
Yeah. Which is awesome! They're making fun of their own movie? Yeah, I dig all of the, you know, 'cause Tyree's like, none of us has a scratch on us.
None of us. Like, what's going on here, you know? Right. Are we invincible?
I mean, that's pretty funny. It's such a good... Well, they showed them behind the scenes, they showed, let's see, what was the scene? It was, what's the girl, Michelle?
Michelle Rodriguez, Michelle Rodriguez, who is smoking hot, by the way, anyway, her and Vin Diesel are in the car, and it's got like a vine on it or something, they're swinging between mountains, oh yeah, that's the bridge scene, okay, yeah, and then it crashes, it rolls like 17 times, yes, yes, and then it lands right up, yeah, she goes, well, that was different, yeah, so I didn't hear her say that, because once they had crashed and landed, and did the whole thing, Justice says, they're gonna need a new one, I died laughing, yeah, they are, yeah, you're right, son, they're gonna need a new car, we're not fixing, Maybe daddy's charger in the garage. We're just gonna leave that one there and get a new one later. It's just, that's toast. That's definitely toast.
Yeah, I mean, they do the camera inside, so you see them rolling, and their hair, they're fine. There's not a marker. Everything's fine. Nobody's bleeding.
They're just the hands like this. That's all you gotta do when you crash. Put your hands like this in the car, and then roll up. He's like God.
Right, exactly. It's crazy. Amazing. Did he beat up John Cena?
Because he's already beat up The Rock. John Cena! Yeah, I think he did. I think he kicked his ass.
He's Dominic Toyota. He must have in his script, I kick everybody's ass. Yeah, I mean, obviously, look, you know, like I said, these other guys were yoked, and there was no, there was no moment. I'm surprised The Rock, you know what, he didn't really beat up The Rock.
I bet you that's how this all played out, because-- It was like a draw. Because The Rock has, The Rock is yoked. Right. And you know that The Rock is yoked in these movies.
Oh, he's got a spray on t-shirt. Right, these other guys, layers, they got layers on. Maybe Vin Diesel was watching, you know what, he's too big. Francis Nagano, they said the equivalent of his punch is like getting hit by a Ford Escort or something like that, 25 miles an hour or something, some crazy shit.
That sounds hard. Yeah, yeah, but apparently he just lost his belt because he's not ready to fight in August. Well, he got blown up, so. Yeah, I was gonna say, of course he lost his title.
Now the Tokyo Drift guys. No, Han's gonna step in. Han's Tokyo Drift, who likes to eat the potato chips all the time. But now, like, so, so, I mean, if you want me to pivot into UFC, which is kind of bullshit.
So Nagano can't... Oh, are they still having it on? Do you still watch that at night? Yeah, every Saturday.
So Nagano can't fight, right? Right. I don't know why. He says it's not a time for training camp or whatever.
He would make it a movie. It doesn't, like, he fought for 15, like, it was like a two-minute, whatever, when he fought and took the title from Stojcik, or I don't know his name. Oh, damn it, Stojcik. He KO'd him.
Take a little Stoichek on the side with my schnitzel. I don't remember, okay, I don't know, isn't stoic, I don't know. I think it's a potato. Listen, if he can pronounce my name right, then I apologize, until that time, so, and he might, he might, he might be qualified.
Step on cabbage sauce on the schnitzel. So, he does this fight, he does this fight, he kicks this guy's ass, I mean, like, to a point where you just feel like Naganyu should be in his own weight class, just dominating all of the world. But apparently, they can't come to terms for him to fight in August for, you know, for the title, like to defend his title. So Dana White says, "All right, fuck it.
" But I don't understand why he can't fight. Just fuck it, like... Maybe he's not qualified. There's some qualification you have to meet.
Look, I can tell you, so... Maybe he's too big. So Israel Adesanya, he's another champion. That motherfucker fights like every night he is.
Is there no Joneses or Smiths in this thing? Well, Jones is another problem. He can't fight. Oh, there is a Jones, though.
Yeah, John Bowen Jones, he always threatens to fight, but he never comes out of retirement and fights. Oh, he wouldn't come out of retirement, either. Why not? He was amazing.
Because he retired. They tried to make him fight Nagano, and they couldn't get it to go. Oh, he's like, "I'm retired. " Yeah, that guy would kick his ass.
Right, exactly. "Oh, yeah, let me come back out of retirement. " And Francis Nagano, he's just like super polite, like the way that he speaks. And, like, he would whip his ass and be like… Oh, because he has that African accent, so they always sound polite.
Yeah, but he's, like, I don't know how to explain it. The guy is the size of a house. I would beat him, but, yeah, you just did the accent. And he's like, yeah, I am good, and thank you, and I kill him, I hope he's okay.
It's like, yeah, I got, yeah, I hope he's okay, too. I hope he's okay, I hope that'd be nice. Boy, that camera is really close, isn't it? He's not breathing, it doesn't look like he is breathing.
We should maybe call a doctor. I mean, just, you know… Is there a doctor here, maybe a doctor? Someone look at him. Maybe someone look at him.
But there's no, I'm the, you know, there's nothing. There's just calm. He's not nose to nose with him for the way. And then all of a sudden he goes, headbutts him.
No, it's like, you're going to die and have a nice day. Like, holy shit, I believe him. Right. He just told me I'm going to die.
Did he just say he's going to die? He said it all confident and everything, too. He said it. Maybe you're going to retire right now.
What do you think, guys? Let's all retire. We good on the retirement? You don't want to run into Nagano.
Without question. No. I don't even know what his name is. I saw his nickname.
The Predator. They call him the Predator. Oh. The Predator.
The nicest Predator on the planet. Does he have the hair? Does he have corn rolls? No.
I thought maybe he looked like the Predator. It is nice to meet you, and you're going to die. Okay. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Have a good day. Oh. Goodbye.
Don't mess on the gun, you. Tell your wife I'm very sorry. Yeah. So, yeah.
I will help raise your children. And I will send money to your kids. Don't worry, they all go to college, it will be fine. They will be okay.
They can call me daddy. I like your wife, she's very pretty. Your wife is beautiful. She will join my wife.
I will collect wives. All men I kill, I take their wives. I collect their wives. It's a thing I do, it's very nice, I take care of them.
It's a price for me, don't worry, your children will be fine. No, you keep your belt, we bury you with the belt. You can take the belt, I will change your kid's name to Nagano. Is that from France?
If you listen to this guy's story, it's unbelievable. He went like, you know, he was like an immigrant, he got arrested, he was sent back a bajillion times. I mean, the guy would just refuse to go away. And now he's the champion of the world.
Well, not anymore because now he's the interim champion of the world. Because he got blown up by Han. But what's, you know, it's cool is because you know that movie, that movie happened well before he was a champ. Like if you, you know.
Oh, now you think, now that he's a champion, I cannot be beat by little... This man will not... Hong Kong man will not beat me. No, this Chinese man...
He eats chips all the time, but it's just crazy. He put bomb on me, I eat bomb. I eat bomb. I will eat the bomb.
I just hold it in my hand. Sorry, no problem. No problem. It's no problem.
It's amazing. So, what else? I went to Universal yesterday, my friends were in town. You went to the water thingy.
The water thingy? The water thingy. You said you were going to the water thing for Father's Day. Oh, I did do the Father's Day thing.
Oh. That was cool. Yeah. A lot of fun.
I haven't talked about that yet. I thought you were going yesterday. No, that was last Monday or last Tuesday or something. Oh.
Last week. Oh. Mm-hmm. Maybe you're right.
I don't know. Did that. That was cool. Yeah.
You know, family time. I'm a big fan of family time. Right. And then my buddy John Hackman is in town, so.
Oh, John Hackman. That was nice. He was amazing. He played Dan.
Yeah, yeah, that's him. That's him. Wow. He's getting up there in years.
Yeah, he's looking pretty good. Yeah? Yeah. He's in good shape.
Want some LBs? Slimmed down? Yeah. Eating right?
Yeah, he went backwards. He's about 36 now. Oh, wow. Good for him.
So, we did Universal yesterday with them, did the whole tour and stuff, and like, we were there. I saw some pictures on social media, but the place was packed. It wasn't that busy yesterday. It's been busy every weekend.
Right, yeah. But it wasn't that busy yesterday, it was busy, but it wasn't like, "Oh my God, busy". You know, so it was kind of nice, and we, you know, just hung out. That was the longest I've been there though.
We were there for like 12 hours. So you didn't take the kids. We did. Oh, you did take the kids though.
Oh, and they stuck it out for 12 hours. Yeah, they were bummed that we were leaving. Oh, wow. They died when we got home.
You know, just showered in the car. This is it. No, Brittany would not let them go to sleep in the car. Oh.
Wake up. Wake up, little Tuesday, wake up, they're singing songs. Poor Teddy's looking at her, like, giving her the double look, like, fuck you. I'm gonna kill you.
There's no way. You know what, four o'clock in the morning, I'm shitting myself. You know what, I'm gonna close my eyes right now, and you're not gonna do a fucking thing about it. You can just see that look on Teddy's face, you know.
Yeah, have a nice day, Mom. " But then she popped right back up. Ah, just a little quick. Yeah, just a two second recharge.
I'm ready. And then they all crashed. So everybody look at me again. Hey, I'm here.
Look at me. We spent Sunday with the Atwells. We had a pool day. I saw that.
Yes, I was not invited. Everybody from here was invited. No, no, no, no, no. Let's discuss this.
He always makes sure. Okay. I know he accidentally texted you. Yes.
Oh wait, Canoe did show up. He did. But he accidentally texted you when he texted Canoe. So he thought he was texting Keanu, which is an insult in itself.
First and foremost. Maybe that's sort of the theme for the afternoon, we kept texting you that you were a canoe. " He's like, "Oh, never mind, I'm having a party and you're not invited," is exactly what he said. He did not!
Yeah, I got the text. He did not. I did. Because he put it on the company Slack.
No, no way. Nobody ever comes. Uh-uh. Nobody.
Nobody but me. He put it on the company Slack after the cat was out of the bag. He was going to anyway. We always invite everybody.
I don't believe you. Not for a second. He always invites everybody over. Would have thought about coming if I hadn't had a proper notice.
No. Yeah. Proper notice. What is that?
Seven to ten business days? Minimum. Minimum. You're very busy men.
We understand we have to invite you, but you're going to turn us down. Yes. Yes. It's true.
Well, if we know you're going to cancel or not come, we're going to eventually stop asking. It's going to have a bad ripple effect on your behalf. I'm just saying. Oh, I don't think so.
We had a pretty big event on Friday. It was crazy. Yes, we did. I got to tell you, man, you know, so it was a Drew Estate event.
It went really, really well. Man, the team here, it's just, they're fucking killers. And you, you always, always you. Thank you.
You just come in and you just, you know, you keep it all together. Like, this is the first event. This is legit the first event that I kind of sat down and got to bullshit with people and not have to like... Yeah, you went out on the patio and then we never saw you.
I just kind of hung out. Yeah, I didn't have to like, you know, plug a hole here. There was none of that. No, that was, that was the hole plugger.
You were the hole plugger. I was the hole plugger. Yeah, it was amazing. I loved it.
Thank you for that. Oh, you are. That's a big deal. You're welcome.
Everybody thinks I'm the owner anyway. Yeah, you're the owner. Who the fuck am I? I like it when people look at me.
One of my boys is outside if you need something, but I gotta go back in. I like it when people look at me. I'm like, excuse me, do you mind if I, are you guys using these chairs? " But thank you for letting me take them on.
Who was the guy you were talking to out front? Because I've seen him in here. Dave? Yeah, was that his name?
Yeah. He comes in to buy cigars. I've never met his wife before. She seemed quite, was that his wife?
Teresa, yeah. She seemed quite nice, but he never has hung out before. Yeah, no, they usually hang out, they haven't. Oh, maybe they're a weekend night thing.
Yeah, but they haven't hung out in a while, you know, so he's just kind of been popping in in rotation and stuff. Right. Yeah, man. I mean, I've known him for, man, I don't know, over 10 years.
Oh, really? Wow. Yeah, close to it, you know. It's kind of remarkable about the cigar industry.
You get to know a lot of people. The sad part is that a lot of the people are usually, you know, when you meet them, they're in their mid to late 60s. Right. And then they die if you're here long enough with them, and then that sucks.
But, you know, if you're fortunate enough to listen to those people in that time, I mean there's an entire lifetime of information there so it can be pretty remarkable it's like it's a blessing and a curse right really is like look at you you're 110 at least at least feels like it most days old Bob was in today he was like you know I got this pain right oh yeah me too I sold my I'm gonna sign he goes I'm gonna have to sell my motorcycle I sold mine a week ago oh yeah before go with the hands I can't do the hand he goes yep I meet this up even where you go to shoulders and shoulders I can't do my shoulders are fine. That guy's been through some shit, prostate cancer, the whole gamut. And apparently, once they take your prostate out, your winter shrinks, he said. Oh, I think that's just an excuse.
I feel like he's always had a small dick. And I was like, oh, you know, because of his operation. Oh, well, it could be, who knows? Yeah.
I didn't ask for any verification. I was like, oh, okay. Did you ask him a shoe size? No.
I said, what size shoe are you? No. Yeah, you've had a small dick from the gut. Wow.
That's the type of relationship. Apparently it's not one of the older people that you listen to. Look man, that's the type of relationship you have with some of these guys. You know, some of these dudes are like super aggressive.
Right. He's nice to me, he's always been nice. Oh yeah, he's very nice to me too. Fuck you.
That's a term of endearment in this industry. Okay, fuck me. Now you have a small dick. Nothing I can do about it.
So you did finally buy our tickets for the... I did. I did. I got my verification email for my ID today.
Did you? Yes. Okay. So, Gregory, the Maestro, Maestro and that.
I got that as well? Yes. Hotel reservations yet? Do we have hotels?
I haven't done that yet. Should I do that? Yeah, probably before we get there. I got a refi on my house just for fucking airline tickets.
I mean, holy moly. So expensive. I thought it was a little cheaper. It was a little cheaper, but it's still very expensive.
Oh, right. So. It was a little less than what I thought it was. There's a hotel discount thing on the ID email, if that helps you.
What are we going to say? Are we going to stay there? Stay there? It's just easier.
I agree. It's just the one bed, right? Right. Yeah.
Just full. Not even a queen. Something small. Do you have one twin?
We need a twin. Do you have a twin? Oh, maybe bunks. Bunks would be nice.
You guys have bunk beds? We need the most space possible in the room. Right. Like really freak the person out.
I mean, I'm sure that they have, you know, the people- And a lot of lotion and a lot of soap, please. In Vegas, I'm sure that they've had a lot of conversations with a lot of people. They're like, sir, I just want you to know, I've heard that 10 times today. I'm not even shocked.
You're not even rattling me. Do you have a pig? Of course, we have them upstairs, just in case. So, is the petting zoo included, or where are we at?
Well, there is an extra fee for that, sir. If you look on the menu next to the bed. It depends upon the weight class of the animal. If you just want ducks, they're not in the bed.
It's an extra 75. Oh, you know who's in Vegas right now? Who's that? John, he used to work here.
Oh, Bruzo. Yeah. What's he doing? I don't know, him and his husband?
there's a run around taking pictures it looks like a little vacation maybe a little vacation or something hey that's good yeah I feel like whenever he goes on vacation he goes as far west as possible he does like to go west does he anything of that he needs to get the fuck like he's just gone he went to Area 51 one year yeah Arizona maybe he likes the west maybe a cowboy strange he wants to be a cowboy well if you go too far west you're not a cowboy no no you're surfing but he's this side of us like a rhinestone cowboy He's this side of the surfing. Yeah. Let's see. Well, we need to take a break and then...
We're already at break time? We're 26 minutes. It's getting close. Get into the news.
A lot of PCA news. PCA news. Some crazy stuff going on in the cigar industry. Florida story?
No, it's not, other than PCA stuff. Crazy. It's crazy. You gotta tune in.
You gotta listen. The Florida, a very nice Florida story. Yeah? Yeah.
That said fish. Fish and wildlife. Fish and wildlife. There's always fish and wildlife.
Always fish and wildlife involved in Florida stories. Again. Again. This is a good story.
A chicken ate an alligator. No, but it does have an alligator in the story. I'm not surprised. And now we're harvesting these chicken alligator fucking eaters.
It's right. And we're trying to even out the alligator crops. So they're just releasing the chickens into the swabs now to kill the alligators. I love the alligators.
It's just going nuts. I love it. And then we have a chicken problem, so, you know. Then that's where you up the mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes kill them? Yeah, you make these gigantic mosquitoes. They do use chickens to find out where mosquitoes are. Yeah, so then you take this mosquito and you make them, you know, 70 pounds.
I don't want bigger mosquitoes. Oh, yeah, big. Really? There it comes!
Oh! There's a horror movie with a giant mosquito, I think. Yeah. Like, sticks in and sucks all your blood out.
I'm sure. You just instantly die. It drains all the blood. Yeah.
Right. Starship Troopers. No, no, those aren't mosquitoes. Same thing.
Those aren't mosquitoes. They're big bugs. They're not that big. They're like size of birds in the movie, I believe.
Very bad special effects. Alright, what cigar are we doing on the Patreon here before we take a break? Oh, ooh, we're gonna do that. You got that one right there.
I'm very excited about this one. Ooh, it's gonna be a goodie. We're gonna do the Pappy Van Winkle. Oh, look at that.
The Pappy Van Winkle Toro. The Toro. Oh, those are great. Those should really be enjoyable.
I will tell the last story we smoked, though, is on the Patreon. Yeah, that's not, yeah. Not for this. Uh-huh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, you know who I did get to talk to on Zoom? Well, talk quickly. I got time.
I got plenty of time. You have a minute. So, I got to talk to Willie Herrera on the Zoom meeting. Oh, yeah, I did see you.
That was very cool. I enjoyed that. Because, I mean, I've never really had a conversation with a guy. Oh.
So, that was a good guy. He was talking to you, not to somebody else on the screen? I think he was talking to me. I'm not 100% sure.
I don't tell you. Or at least I was just talking to you. I popped on once and KD told me I wasn't allowed on this video. So I said, oh, thank God.
And then I just walked away. And then we saw Keanu there. That didn't work out. And then I got to do the whole.
Well, Keanu was there and I came in to say hello. And that's when KD went. He said, get out of here. Yeah.
You're not allowed on this one, Palmer. And I was like, oh, thank God. And then I walked away. And we left.
And went to plugging the holes. Plug the holes. Doug the halls. All right.
All right. Let's go. All right. We'll take a break.
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The TAA confirms fall 2021, spring 2022 in-person meetings. The Tobacco Association of America… Fall 2021. Yeah, I haven't read the story yet, but it sounds like they're having two. It's interesting.
Let's see. They have announced it's next two. They have two meetings, both of which will be held in-person from October 24th to 28th. The TAA will host a fall version of its meeting convention at Casa de Campo and La Roma, Dominican Republic.
This will mark the first time the group has met in person since spring of 2019. The coronavirus COVID-19 canceled the in-person version of both its 2020 and 2021 meetings. The TAA already announced plans for this event in February. Historically, the TAA meeting convention is a once-a-year event.
Their event is held each spring in the 2022 meeting and convention, take place March 20th and 24th at Hacienda Del Mar in Los Cabos, Mexico. Why are they always in a foreign country? I have no idea. So because people want to get away, it's probably affordable to do, you know, in a good experience.
The TA is a fairly small group of some of the country's top tobacconists, about 80 retailers as well as 40 or so manufacturers. Can we still not get into this? We're still not in. Can we join?
We should join. We would like to join, please. I know we have probably made fun of the majority of you, but we would be a lot of fun. You could get back at us and make pinatas out of our heads or something.
Association gathers annually to discuss issues facing the industry and retailers. We would do good now. Oh, you want to talk about that? Networking and to sell a lot of cigars.
We're a good fit. This is typically done in the spring, usually at either Casa de Campo or Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Maybe they have a deal there or something. Probably.
We like Mexican food, too, if that's any indication of something. I eat a lot of rice and beans. Let's see. Usually consists of two selling events.
We like to buy things. We'll get Greg's credit card. First, there's a special event called the Dream Machine, where the TA retailers collectively agree to purchase products through a tiered incentive structure. Oh, that sounds like something we could do.
Yeah. Why don't we do our own? Call it the HAA, the Hustlers. What's the TA stand for again?
Association of America. Oh, we'll be the Hustlers Association of America, the HAA. The H-A-A. Yeah, we'll call it HA.
HA. I just came up with that rough. HA HA. Manifactors agree to participate in the, wait, the Manifactors will offer more aggressive discounts depending on the collective sales.
So the more you buy, the cheaper they get. Correct. We like that too. That's nice.
There's also a more traditional trade show where the manufacturer will offer discounts on an individual basis to each retailer. You think there's girls involved in this? I have no idea. You know, like, uh, let's see, what was the movie?
Um, Taken, you know, in Taken where there's the girl and then everybody sitting in the little glass rooms. Oh, like you get to bid on them and stuff? Yeah, do you, maybe a bid on, maybe a girl's holding like a Pappy Van Winkle? I mean, it's possible.
I don't know, cause I'm not part of the team. I'm not part of that membership, so, I mean. It could be. Allegedly.
Allegedly. Allegedly. Hmm. Uh, both the virtual march event and then the in-person, some wire just fell in the leg.
Oh, that's never good. That cannot be good at all. When the wire drops. Don't know what that was.
We appear to still be working. Is that plugged into the microphone? Was that it down there? Who knows?
I don't know. So your backup might not be backing up? No, no. Is there a backup to the backup?
We need three backups. That is the backup. Let's see. Blackworks Hawaii Cato returns to our field wine company.
Wait. So are we still on TAA? No, no. That one was over.
We moved on. Black Works? Black Works. Black Label?
Black Label. We should see them when we're there. James? Yeah.
His lovely wife. We should say hi. Should we take them a cigar? No, we shouldn't take them a cigar.
That's not nice. We'll walk up smoking them. Can't you just be nice? I'm surprised you haven't gotten me into a physical altercation at this point.
The Hawaiian version of Black Label Trading Company's Black Works Kato's return for 2021. Return. R-Field Wine Company, a series of Hawaiian-based stores, has begun selling to Blackworks Studio, Hawaiian, Kato, it's the same 5x48 Rebuso that was offered to R-Field in 2019, a stronger version of the company's of meant-only Kato Cigar, it uses Ecuador Maduro wrapper with a Candela accent over Nicaraguan Habano binder and Nicaraguan fillers, the MSRP is once again set at $10, which seems to be the golden price here for all these PCA cigars. Is it like the OJ Kato, or is it like the Kato?
K-A-T-O. So, yes, that's like the OJC. They should make a size and call it the roommate. I'm not hitting my microphone.
I'm just moving this forward. Oh, is that the noise? Exclusive for audio revealing. I'm very excited.
It's coming out again, said James Brown, founder of Black Label Trading Company, a press release. It's a tweaked version of our Kato cigar with a larger, vitola, and stronger version of the original blend. The Kato. Black Work Studio is part of the Black Label Trading Company.
Yes. Yes, it is. Moving on. Crux Du Connoisseur returns with a new look.
Where the fuck has Casey been? He's giving a new look to the cigar. After more than 20-month hiatus. Oh, that's about right.
Crux Cigars will resume shipping its Du Connoisseur line on Monday. The Crux Du Connoisseur is returning with all new packaging, though the blend remains the same. And a banner wrapper from... The letter is very frustrating.
You know, I don't like that letter at all. There's another one down there. I'm fine. Crux stopped selling the Du Connoisseur in late 2000, I can't really give it a short name, after the company began rolling out its new packaging options for various lines, so they decided to re-release everything and give it a new box.
Which was cool, but then I haven't seen Casey. Well, you know, it was a pandemic, there was a lot of golf going on for Casey. Such an important release for Crux to continue our commitment to the small ring market, says Casey Hogan, VP of Crux Cigars in a press release. The reintroduction of the Duke Connoisseur has been met with great enthusiasm with our retail partners.
We didn't get to be enthusiastic, we don't have it here. Yeah. Well, that's fucked up, isn't it? Man, you really fucked that up.
I mean, you guys fucked that up. Yeah, Casey, we'd be very enthusiastic if we saw that here. Oh, Casey, wonderful. 99.
- I didn't see any comments on the last YouTube. - There were just a couple. My skit did not go over well. - It was terrible.
- It was too far from the other thing. - Yeah, it was so bad. - Like I said, it was a last-minute throw-in because the Queen would have been bad. - Rough.
- And we couldn't do... I had a good one for today, but the person is not available. - Your skit person is not here? - Yes, he's not available.
He's in Universal with his lovely daughter having a Daddy-Daughter Day. - Oh, it's just the Daddy-Daughter Day? - Just Daddy-Daughter Day, yes. I'll tell you what man, that Velocico series, something else.
Last thing that I know he rode, because he texted me afterward, was the Harry Potter. I don't know, maybe he means the motorcycle thing. She's not tall enough to ride the Velocico coaster. Hagrid's.
I don't know, he said Harry Potter. I don't know which one it was. It could mean so many things. I know, it could be so many.
No one knows. He could be confused, it could be King Kong. I mean, who knows? It could be King Kong, yeah.
I mean, he is a little delirious sometimes. Drunk Chicken Cigars adding EggStream at the PCA 2021. Who? Drunk Chicken.
Drunk Chicken. Drunk Chicken. That's a company. That's a company.
We should go and see that. How are we not friends with them? We're going to be. Hey, we want to come see Drunk Chicken.
We want to see the Drunk Chicken. Which one of you is the Drunk Chicken? He's over there. He's passed out right now.
Because he's the Drunk Hustler, you pointed at me. Hey, this is clearly the Drunk Hustler. Hey. It's, you know.
And next month's 2021 PCA convention and trade show, Drunk Chicken Cigars. You know what's bad when people are like, man, I don't know how I can't keep up a bomber. I don't know what the hell does he do? How does he do it?
I don't know how he does it. Years of practice. Yeah. Drunk Chicken Cigars will be showing off a regular production version of a new line called Egg Treme.
Egg Treme. E-G-Treme. It's Egg Treme. Oh, probably right.
Egg Treme. Egg Treme. I like Egg Treme. Like Extreme.
Exactly. Maybe Egg Treme sounds much nicer. It's very elegant. It's got gold on it.
We should go there. We would like to see the egg trimet. I'm looking for your egg trimet. You know, it was funny.
We've heard good things. You know, it was funny. So, we did that interview with Eric from Black Star Line. Yes.
" I was like, "Yo, fucking Willie. Is it Titan de Bronze, or is it Titan de... " Oh, is Willie Herro? Oh, now you call him Willie.
Oh, look at you. Yo, Dub. I call him W. Yo, Dub, what's up?
Hey, we're tight. We're besties now. Oh. Is it Titan de Bronze?
Is it Titan Day Brown? What is it? What did he say? He said, it doesn't matter.
He said it's Titan. Oh, that's so disappointing. He said it's Titan. See, it's a 5x50 Robusto that uses a Nicaraguan event.
Egg Treme. Egg Treme. Binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic in Nicaragua. Where we review the Egg Treme.
The company describes this cigar as medium. It says that it has notes of spice, wood, and complex leather aromas. Ooh, undisclosed wrapper? Tell me undisclosed.
Let's go undisclosed. No, no, no. This is all disclosed stuff? We need to figure out a name for an undisclosed by not calling it undisclosed.
Ill-conceived? Ill-conceived rapper. The rapper is ill-conceived. Just confuse the hell out of them.
Yeah. Well, we should use that when you put out the press release for the 20... SPC 20? Yeah, yeah.
Ill-conceived rapper. It's ill-conceived. The rapper is ill-conceived. Ill-conceived.
And the binder is unfamiliar. Is unfamiliar. It's unfamiliar binder. It's a binder.
It's... Ill-conceived Raptor. Ill-conceived Raptor. Raptor.
Raptor. What else? Raptor. What else is there?
Binder, filler? Filler? You gotta talk about filler, right? What's in the filler?
The filler is... What's a good word for filler? Irrevocable. Oh, there you go.
Irrevocable. It's Irrevocable Filler. Irrevocable Filler. Ill-conceived Rapper.
Ill-conceived Rapper. And what was the one? Unfamiliar. Unfamiliar?
The Actra Bay is MSRP. This unfamiliar binder, I can really taste it, it's just so amazing. Where's it from? Undisclosed.
Now do you get the irrevocable, no you don't say undisclosed, that's because everybody else uses undisclosed, you got to say everything else. This irrevocable filler, how do you feel about that? What kind of flavor profiles do you get from the irrevocable filler? I'm a little underwhelmed.
Oh, you're underwhelmed from the irrevocable? Because the irrevocable is the top of the leaf. It's the top of the plant. Oh, the top, very top, very tip top.
It's actually grown, it's like the leaf is, the whole tobacco plant is destroyed. And then all the ashes, it's shattered into a million pieces. Oh, the stock, it made it from the stock. Yeah, they take the stock, they chop it all up, right, and then they cook it, and then they take that and they throw it back into the ground, and then what they do is they add the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ooze, they drip the ooze over it, and then the plant re-emerges, and that makes it irrevocable.
Oh. Yeah. It's obvious. I don't know how you didn't know that.
The egg trame is going to be $10. The egg trame is a $10 plant? Yes. It's a $10.
Let's see. A pre-release version of the egg trame was sold earlier this year at an event at the Underground Cigar Shop in Fort Worth, Texas. Don. Don.
Oh, it's a young lady, is the founder. Desiree Silver, founder of the Drunk Chicken of 2019. The company sells a variety of blends with various chicken-inspired names like Mother Clucker and Fat Hen. You Mother Clucker.
Why did we not carry the Mother Cluckers and the Fat Hen? Oh, you mother clucker. Oh, you fat hen. You fat hen.
That's gotta be a 60. The fat hen or the mother clucker? The mother clucker, you know, mother clucker tends to be skinny in my opinion. Oh, you think so?
Yeah. Who knows? Alright, HVC announces new headquarters and a distribution center. Will there be a slide?
Maybe. They mentioned the slide? HVC Cigars will open up its own headquarters distribution facility in Doral, Florida, just outside of Miami. That means effective August 1st, the company will handle the fulfillment of its cigars.
Previously, the role has been handled by Agronorce Leaf, which also produces some of the HVC lines. It will not change the blends or the company's sales force, which is separate from Agronorce Leaf. "I am forever grateful to my family and Agronorce Leaf family, who have been supported and assisted in the distribution process," said Rainier Lorenzo, founder of HVC and Impressor. at least.
Crytek International promotes Jason... That's it? Story over? Yeah, it's a very short story.
We have a new office. You really gotta elaborate on that. We have a new office. It is very nice.
Wait, is it Robert Holt? No, he's French. It's totally different. Sounded in French.
No, not French. You gotta sound like Scarface. No, Bello. He says Bello all the time.
What the fuck that means? Friend. Friend, maybe? I don't know.
We put up Velcro wall, and trampoline, and we have laser tagging office. Bounce house? There is a bounce house. Oh, very nice.
We have a kids zone area. Oh, food trucks? There will be food trucks on Friday. Oh, just right.
We have a big event on Friday. Oh, every Friday, big event. Yeah. Oh, is there the pig box?
The... China box? China box. Cajacina.
Cajacina? Yeah. Oh, very nice. We have a Cajacina come out on Tuesday.
Oh, just Tuesday? A pig is very big, you know, you gotta feed everybody. Oh, yeah, a lot of people. A lot of people have to eat.
This is the Tuesday. Any eggs? Just the egg trame. We love the egg trame.
We have it all the time. Very limited. Very limited, yes. The egg trame.
Yeah. Just for breakfast. Yes. But if you want to come over and play laser tag, come on by.
Oh, nice. It's great. We do it. Even teams.
Oh, even teams. Oh, well, very detailed. Oh, yeah. Keep it easy.
Do you pick teams? No, I don't get to pick them. Oh, do you fight the Terrence Reilly's group at Agronorsa? I assume they're very close.
Yes, Terrence comes over and Jeff Gruva can be on either team, it's fine. Oh, either way. Yeah, he's very, he's quick, he's limber. Oh, yeah, very limber, man.
Very, very bendy. Very stretchy. Stretchy. We're not carrying those anymore, are we?
No, how not? I love Lorenzo. Yeah, Lorenzo. But, you know, he's got to have a good office.
I mean, I feel like, you know, these guys... I think he's very elaborate. Really short-changing themselves on the office, you know? Let's go all out.
Food trucks and the slides. Like the office should be up top, and when somebody comes in, you know, he slides down. He slides down. I'll be right there.
Whoosh. Well, that's not the way you would say it. I'll be right there. Whoosh.
Whoosh. Bello. Bello. Bello.
Hola. Welcome. Welcome to my lair. Welcome to fantasy.
I mean... Take out my HVC. HVC. This is my boxes.
All right. Crytek International promotes Jason Carnigan. David Carnigan, Albert Jose, he's now the- What? What is he?
What? Did they- Jason is now the new president of Phillips and King's International, one of America's largest tobacco industry. It sounds like you said two names. Jason Carnigan, and they also promoted Albert Jose.
It sounds like they morphed into one person. No, no, we'll find out what Albert does here. And now it's Jason Jose. I'm sure we'll find out what Jason does here.
All right, let's find out. Let's see. Promoted Carnigan, previously Chief Marketing Officer of Crytek, to the president of both Phillips and King. Oh, and TMG.
So, I guess, oh, Philips & King, one company. Yeah, okay, I see the ampersand here. The latter of which is parent of the Tobacco Plus Expo Trade Show. That's also a filler.
What's in the filler? It's an ampersand? It's an ampersand? Sergio Montefoglio, EVP and General Manager of Philips & King, report directly to Carnigan.
I have tremendous confidence in Jason Carnigan, who has been championed many of the company's key successes over the years, says Sean Cesar, President of Crytek. He wants to be a champion, we let him be champion. With Jason at the helm of Phillips the King, we're ready to rapidly advance our business modernization efforts in order to capitalize on the many growth opportunities ahead and to achieve our corporate objectives. He's got a ghostwriter.
That's like a five-line sentence. He's got a temp agent. " A lot of big words. Put a lot of big words in.
See, Albert Jose, here we go. I want it all to be one sentence. I don't want two, I don't want three, I want one big, long sentence. Albert Jose has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Crytek International.
He previously served as Director of Marketing for Crytek, so he's also now in charge of sales. Sell, sell, sell. You know what, I would like to be in charge of sales and marketing, the both of them. That way I can sell it and I can talk about it.
That's right. You need to buy this and then I get their information. You're taking all the credit for everything this way. Yeah, it's perfect.
Crack Ticker National owns its own cigar company, Ventura Cigars, but is also one of the largest customers for many premium cigar brands due to its massive distribution footprint. S. territories, and military bases. While premium cigars are part of its business, Philippine King sells specialty tobacco products, including mass-market cigars, e-cigarettes, vaping products, and a variety of other products.
Yeah, a lot of stuff. All right, Oliva creates an advent. Stop reading ahead. The letters are really big, and I'm very close today.
Well, it prints off the thing out there. It's very large. This won't print out there, but the phone does. It's very weird.
Very strange. Very strange. Oliva Cigar Company is a new way to celebrate the Christmas season, that advent calendar full of cigars. I feel like this is a thing, though.
Well, yes, because there's another company that's doing it, too. It's very pricey, though. It's very expensive. So it's like the beer companies were doing it.
Oh, I haven't seen a beer company do it. Craft beers have been doing it forever. See, I've always wanted one for my birthday month. My wife won't make one.
No. No, she won't. The whole month? Well, because, you know, I celebrate the entire month for my birthday.
Like of cigars? Anything, little prizes in there, I don't care. Little prizes. Little prizes, every day I open up and get a little prize.
A little prize, it's a birthday. Even on the 24th, my actual birthday, I get a bigger prize. And a big one. Right.
Two cigars. Could be a piece of candy, could be a cigar. Oh, M&M's. Could be a sticker.
I don't care, just something every day. I just pop it open and get an M&M. I mean, ooh, I can have it. Oh, yeah.
The peanut butter ones. Yeah, peanut butter. Peanut butter. Another good one, yeah.
Let's see, the Oliva. Yeah, so they're making an event. Okay, we get it. Next.
It's 25 cigars. He's designed to open one cigar per day in the days leading up to Christmas. See, I don't smoke every day. I figured this might get a little monotonous.
You don't smoke every day? Seriously? 95. There's no fucking way you don't smoke.
95. No, I didn't have one. Yeah, exactly. Need I say more?
No, sometimes on Sundays I don't. That's so much bullshit. No, it's not. I think that you get so blackout drunk you don't remember them.
No, no, no. That's only at night time. And then I find all the wrappers the next morning and go, ooh, I smoked a lot of cigars last night. Yeah.
Oliva says that the cigars inside will come from a company's Connecticut Reserva Series G, Series O, Series V, Series V, Milano lines. Irrevocable. Along with some limited edition cigars with irrevocable binders and non-conforming fillers. Non-conforming.
That's new. I like that. Non-conforming. This is Oliva.
We have a non-conforming wrapper. MSRP of $200 will be limited to 10,000 samplers. Doesn't seem much of a limit. 10,000.
We're going to limit it to 150,000. Right. That's it. See, plan to have the cigars in store.
Well, it'll be the sampler. Well, you got to get it in November because they're going to be in store. October 1st. They're going to be in store.
October 1st. Okay. Tatuaje has also announced plans to do one, too. Oh.
On the first day of Christmas. You're going to give to me a Series G cigar. And a part of it. No, no part of it.
Then a series of cigars. And a series of milanios. Wow. You're the voice of an angel.
Thank you very much. Incredible. Quesada. Quesada.
I like Quesada. Quesada. 1974 Toro. You say Quesada.
Debuting at PCA 2021. You know, Terrence used to work for them. Yeah. We're running out of time.
It's a very long show. Okay. There's a lot of Quesadas here. There's a lot of detail.
A lot of Quesadas. Cover a lot of ground. A lot of Quesadas. Oh, then we get into the Florida story.
So, uh, okay. Yeah, well, okay. Well, I guess we're all right, then. So, what's, so, Quesada's got some new cigars.
Is that what you're telling me? Uh, expand this Quesada on his borderline with a new size later to arrive this fall. The Toro's in their cigars in two. They're gonna do a 97-war Robusto, a short Robusto, Corona, Lancero, and a Toro.
Meow. We'll begin shipping to stores in September. Get to the Florida story right meow. Thank you.
Ahem. Some California kids visiting Florida tried to tame an alligator. Always, you always fuck it up for us. Come to our state and you make a mess.
Right. California kids tried to tame an alligator. Yeah. Three California kids vacationed in Florida tied a rope around an alligator and dragged it to shore from the waters at Fade Lake Wilderness Park in Bavard County.
Roll over. Let's see, Fox 11, Los Angeles, and Florida Today reported: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Bavard County Sheriff's Office responded Thursday evening according to a Florida Today story. The incident involved California youths who are 16, 8, and 6. I feel the 16 year old was a ringleader.
Or maybe it's like Baby Boss and the six-year-old is the regulator. You live in California. They're here on vacation. Why would you vacation to Florida?
Maybe they're in Northern California. Just go to Southern California. Florida's much better. We have Disney World.
They have Disneyland. You gotta drive, but you just drive south. I'm sure they... They're not at Disney.
They're in fucking Alligator Land. That's why they came here. The alligators? Let me...
We are gonna go and we're gonna... Hey, check this out. They probably got really high. Okay, check, you know what we're going to do?
Fox 11 reported that while the wildlife is accepted. We're going to tame an alligator. And he's like, this is a great idea, let's go, let's get on a plane. Can I get on my story?
Does that bother you? No. Am I interrupting you? No, it's a good story, it's three pages long.
Okay. Let's see, made a lasso from a nylon rope and looped it around the head of the alligator. Like a loop of an alligator. Fish and Wildlife spokesman Chad Weber told Florida Today the teen was issued a citation for feeding and tossing or molesting alligators and educating on alligators safety.
Yes, it's called molesting because they pulled them out of the water. Oh. LaVarie County Fire Chief, Mark Schlubler, spoke to Fox 11 about the inset. I asked what their intentions was, and their intention was to put a noose around the alligator and ensnare it.
You know, we're just going to have a good time? According to Fox 11. My next question was, how are you going to get the... This is the fire chief.
Yeah. " And he said, "Bro, I'm an expert. I'm gonna take him to the shore. I know what I'm doing.
Scholle Murray said he called deputies and FWC officers who arrived with a trapper. Trapper. Those little guys. Those guys know what they're doing.
I know what they're doing. They are professionals. Professionals, yes. Guys got a couple of missing fingers.
The gator slipped back into the water with the noose hanging around his neck. A lot easier to catch that way if they're already pre-noosed. Oh, yeah. Oh, I got him.
There you go. Boop, there he is. I got a bullet. Florida Today reported, Weber told Florida Today he was unsure if the gator, which was later caught, was relocated or euthanized.
Or was he sent to a therapist? Which Slomer told Fox that the gator was put down. Bro, you guys killed my gator man? If they're over three or four feet, they can put them down.
If it's under that, they relook. They let them go? Yeah. I feel like it would, you know, I'm okay with just killing any of them.
It's part of nature, part of living in Florida, Scholar said, every lake has an alligator in it. Yeah, it does. It became a nuisance alligator once they started messing with it, plus the size, so, you know, they euthanized it. No fault of the animal, just some kids that made a bad decision.
It's some good eating though, get some gator. It's just a tail, all the meat's in the tail. It's a little chewy. Yeah, a little chewy.
There's some rib meat, but it's not as good. What you do is you make a nice pair of boots. I'm getting you some boots. In a belt.
Bro, I really just wanted to get a belt. I just wanted a belt, man. I just wanted a belt for my board shorts, man. There you go.
Yeah. We got a listen to the week, Michael? Do we? I don't know, do we?
I don't know. I don't have one. Do you? Nope.
You don't. I don't have one. Why not? That's your job.
Is it? Yes. No, it's not. Yes, it is.
Uh-uh. Yes. No. It is in the undisclosed information.
The undisclosed information? Yes. I'm going to give it to Jason Wolpert. Jason Wolpert.
Listener of the week. Again. Hold it, please. There it is.
Purple. Listener of the week, Jason Wolpert. Yes. Congratulations, sir.
You have our undying love and support. And just like that, again, you were listening to another week. I was listening to another week. That's all it took.
All right, so, uh, this has been an episode, oh, are they gonna go play next door? They'll be fine. Yeah. You can't rent out next to a cigar store.
It does not smell cigars. I smell smoke. I smell smoke. You live next to, you rent it next door to a cigar store.
There's a cigar store. What were you thinking? There's a cigar store. That's right, there's gonna be some next door.
I don't know what to tell you. Uh, did you see this? This was undisclosed in the lease, sir. It says cigar store next door.
It says cigar house. You're going to miss it. All right, we're going to sign off because he's just doing voices. There's people on time.
Episode one. Oh, you know, Chet was smoking a Southern draw on Sunday. Southern draw. He did a French accent the entire time.
Oh, did he have one of those little hats? No, no, no. He didn't. He did have a hat on, but no.
Oh, ho, ho. And I was like, what are you smoking? He goes, ho, ho, ho. I'm smoking a Jacob Lander.
I'm having a Southern draw cigar. Southern draw is a Jacob Lander. The Jacob Leather. It is very nice.
It is blue. Enjoy the Jacob Leather. Oh, this is Danielle. Oh, Beer of the Week pictures.
Beer of the Week. All right. This has been episode 180 of Cigar Hustler Podcast. Don't molest the alligators.
Leave the alligators alone. Leave them alone. It's not... But it's...
Florida people really don't have that problem. No. We know to leave them alone. Yeah, we don't mess with the alligators.
You gotta fly all the way across the country. Come here and fuck with the alligator. To come fuck with an alligator. Where were the parents?
Who's letting the 16-year-old watch the 6 and 8-year-old while they're trying to catch alligators? They let them all take the Learjet out for the day. Oh, is that what it was? Yeah, like, let's go to Florida and catch a game.
They're just Spielberg's kids, probably. Yeah, undisclosed names. All that Spielberg. T.
money? , thank you. T. There's a couple.
T. plane. Jurassic Park, they need Jurassic Park? Oh, I saw a thing, it could be a fake story, that they're wanting to combine Jurassic Park and Fast and Furious.
Oh, yeah, that's totally a joke. Oh yeah, that's totally a joke. Where they have to get the DNA off a dinosaur by using fast cars. Yes.
You know, I did hear that Vin Diesel wants to do a Broadway musical about Fast and the Furious. Oh my lord. It'd be so amazing. He's going to sing?
They're going to drive on Broadway. He thinks he can sing. He probably can. He probably thinks he can.
But how are they going to drive the car fast? He can't sing. There's no cars in Broadway. It's a small stage.
Yeah, you can like, you know, just like headlights. People run down the side holding cardboard. Please don't kill me. Turn on the magnet.
Family is important. Mi familia. Money comes and goes. What's important are the people in this room.
Oh, really? Here's to mi familia. Oh, really? Pablo Escobar.
That's very nice. Yeah, it's Pablo. Pablo Escobar. F10.
How's that cigar there? You enjoying that? Don't say a word! It's nice to know about it on the Patreon.
All right, we're going to go before he talks about that. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate you listening.
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m. for all new episodes. Hi, I'm doing, I'm Husto-E-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 Ho-Jo, the...
Ho-Jo! It's the Ho-Jo! You didn't even let him fuck it up all the way. I could get past Ho-Jo!
I don't even have to try it. He's not even gonna try it. 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'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door. All right, end this.
Show Notes
Mikey reviews the new FF9, We get into some PCA exclusives.....and make fun of anyone that we can come up with.....