189 Sex Workers, No Epoxy on the Weiner, Nas Cigar
Episode Summary
Episode 189 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with Mike and Mike celebrating their jump to the #2 spot on Feedspot's list of cigar podcasts to watch, then rolling into a loose, off-the-cuff first half: Mike's trip to a Joe Rogan stand-up show (and the Yonder phone-lock pouches that made it phone-free), fantasy football draft drama with the family league and its new championship belt, an update on the OnlyFans sex-worker policy reversal, and a running bit about whether Mike Two — a lifelong non-smoker of anything but cigars — should try an edible on air. They're smoking a Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Sobremesa for the Patreon segment.
In This Episode
- 01Feedspot RankingsThe show lands at #2 on Feedspot's 2021 list of cigar podcasts to watch, behind Cigar Todd and ahead of Retrohale, Cigar Coop Prime Time and Stogie Geeks.
- 02Joe Rogan Live & Yonder Phone PouchesMike recounts attending a Joe Rogan stand-up show where phones and watches were locked in magnetic Yonder pouches to protect the comedian's content.
- 03Fantasy Football & The Championship BeltDraft night stories, a new fantasy football championship belt, and the industry friends in the family league including Chris Baldwin and former Drew Estate rep Jason Louie.
- 04PCA Fundraising UpdateThe PCA's campaign sits around $28,475 of its $60,000 goal, with Neptune Cigars chipping in a $2,000 donation.
- 05Limitless Cigars & Todd VanceA new company launching in January 2022 with a CBG/CBD-infused cigar, with industry veteran Todd Vance joining after stints at Stallone, Padilla, Cornelius & Anthony, AJ Fernandez and Esteban Carreras.
- 06Espinosa Cancels In-Person La Zona PaloozaErik Espinosa moves La Zona Palooza virtual for a second year over COVID concerns, sparking a long back-and-forth between the hosts about vaccines, risk and canceling events.
- 07Drew Estate Acid Continental for Smoker FriendlyA 5 1/2 x 52 robusto with Indonesian wrapper and binder over Nicaraguan filler and a sweetened tip, debuting at the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival as a Smoker Friendly exclusive at $7.51 a stick.
- 08Nas Becomes Co-Owner of Escobar CigarsNasir 'Nas' Jones takes an equity stake in Escobar Cigars and its parent Puros Privados, with a rebrand of the Escobar Natural and Maduro lines and a teased Escobar Ultra Black tied to his King's Disease album.
- 09Crowned Heads Las Calaveras 2021 & Perdomo FirecrackerThe eighth Las Calaveras Edición Limitada ships in four vitolas from My Father Cigars, and the Perdomo Firecracker returns for a second release.
- 10Florida Story & Listener of the WeekA Key West man arrested after admitting he was expecting an ounce of cocaine in the mail, plus birthday shout-out and listener of the week Aaron Loomis.
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Transcript
I came to bring the ruckus, bring the ruckus, my little dog, my little dog ruckus, bring the mother ruckus, welcome to episode 189 of a Cigar Hustler Podcast, mic two, mic two, mic two. Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Square. You too can come of our podcast family and invest in our show.
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Mike and Mike Productions 178422. Okay, I know how to solve this. Well, I'm not making another one. We're going with that.
For right now. For right now. Unless we get our own website, then it's there. There you go.
I think we already have that URL, I think. We might. I think we did. Mike, Mike, Mike.
Okay, so, what do you got here? What are we smoking for the old... That's later in the... Well, the Patreon?
Later in the show. You can talk about it now, I guess. You don't say what... Well, yeah, we usually do it right before the break, but that's okay.
I want to smoke it right now. Well, you can smoke it right now. I'm here to smoke it. We're doing the Sunday gravy.
Sunday gravy. We still don't know if it's red or white, because it's in a big pot, but we're going with red. They gave you this display case of like a fucking pot. Big pot, so we're going with the red.
We'll talk about this little, it's a big taro, I thought it was smaller, I guess because that box is cut on the top. Very misleading. Looked like a Robusto. Robusto.
Hey, if you remember last year there was a thing called Feedspot where we showed up like number three or five or something on the list of cigar shows to watch in 2020? Did we? Do you remember that? No, but yes.
Oh. Well, Feedspot has a team of over 25 experts whose goal is to discover and rank popular blogs, podcasts, and YouTube channels in several niche categories. Cigars being one of those. Yeah.
Blogs on the web, finding influential bloggers and podcasters in the niche industry is a hard problem to address, so their experience leads them to believe that a thoughtful combination of both logarithm and human editing offers the best means of curation. So it just happens they've updated the list for 2021 on the 28th. Okay. Which was just a couple of days ago.
A Cigar Hustler podcast is now number two of Cigar Hustler Podcasts. Damn, that's scary. Cigar Podcast to watch. We're about to rank number one up in this bitchin' something else.
So, number one is Cigar Todd. Yeah, well, you know. They've been around a lot longer. Number three is The Retro Hail.
The Retro Hail. Number four is Cigar Coop Primetime. Because he has so many shows now, so it's just that one. Number five is DE4 Live.
Number six is Stogie Geeks. Number seven is Cigar Snob The Podcast. The Ash Holes, Cigar Talks, and the number 10, rounding out the top 10, was Cigar Hacks. Now after that, there was a couple of them I hadn't really heard of, so I only went for 10.
But we are number two this year. That's right, baby. We're just up. We're just a little bit better than we were last year.
We're coming for you, Garofalo. We're coming. Just a little bit better. We're coming.
Let's work a little bit harder. We're coming. And you know what? You can't stop us.
Your wife is in me DM. Your wife is in me DMs, David Garofalo. And if you need to talk to me, I'll be at the win later this week with the afterpark. Oh man, dude, I gotta tell you, I had a kind of a crazy week, did some fun stuff.
I did nothing fun. You did nothing? Oh, that's cool then. We had the pick, well I have other stuff, I have some stories to update that we talked about last week.
Okay. The only fans that we mentioned last week, they're gonna suspend all the sex workers. Of course. They changed their mind.
" Listen, that's fucking brilliant marketing. That's brilliant marketing. I don't care. They never planned on fucking turning off.
No, nobody talks about them. Nobody talks about them. You know what? Let's say we're not doing sex anymore.
So they announced, no more sex on OnlyFans. It's just... We're turning off the sex. What do you mean you're turning off the sex?
I don't know. It sounds like national coverage, though. We really need everybody to pick up on them. We talked about that last Monday, and then on Wednesday, they went...
Not so much. Not so much. Not so much. Sorry about that.
Right. Porn away. We have secured assurances necessary to support... So I don't get to say any of my stories?
You start talking about the news? No, this isn't news. I'm just updating stories. I like to update stories.
I feel like it connects the episodes together and brings the listeners and viewers more into us. You know what it is? It's excellent editing and a great algorithm is what that boils down to. Yes.
Yeah. So good work. I'll just shut up. Thank you.
No, no. I mean, there's a long thing with a bunch of quotes and stuff, but it's really kind of dope. The fact is, you can still get sex in all advance. Keanu is very happy.
I think he upped some of his subscriptions, so. There's some kind of lifetime membership that he's purchased? Right, I think at this point he has, yes. I did have him show me, there's like some of them that send like daily messages, but it's a general, but it sounds like it's specific for you.
" Wow. And I'm like, you know, that's not just for you. And he pays for that. Son of a bitch.
No, I think that one was free. Oh, it was a complimentary. You just had to subscribe to the young lady. He says she's new, he doesn't quite sure she understands how this thing works.
And as long as the free ones keep coming, you know, Mike, you'll pretend or he will continue being a subscriber. So what did you do that was fun, Michael? I just did yard work. That was it.
We did go to lunch, but she had a lot of teacher back in business, Friday nights, football games with cheerleaders, and then, you know, so practice on Tuesdays, practice on Thursdays, I have podcasts on Wednesdays. Okay, so I see her for a little bit tonight, and then I don't see her again until next Monday. And that's not yet. Right.
Well, I'm glad that she's back at work because we missed you for a little bit there. There was a bit of a lull there for a little while. Yes, yeah, yeah. Summers are a little slow for me.
Yeah, it's harder. It's like, hmm, there's no making. You know, if she gets a job being an administrator, that's a 10 months, I think? Or no, that's a 12 month commitment, I believe.
I'm working on the summers that way too. Oh, a lot of time. I'll be here to be regular. A lot more.
I'm going to need a raise, just so you don't need a raise. I need a raise. I'm going to double that number for you. Oh, again.
Wow. Greg doubled it last year. I don't know. Tax brackets and stuff.
I'm going to have problems. Yeah. More zeros for you. More zeros.
We can put a number in front of those zeros eventually. Yeah, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Oh, yeah. Well, 10 years.
Why move? Why get ahead? Yeah. So it's so crazy.
Isn't it like it's because the cigar industry is just so lucrative. Right. So much money involved there. So actually, this is the podcast industry.
That's also very lucrative, I found out. Well, I mean, you're actually, but we are officially getting a pay. Yes, yes, yes. Let's not talk about that.
You don't want to talk about a little, like a bonus that we made? No, a little bonus we made? A little attaboy after three years? No.
No, okay, okay. We won't talk about that. No. That didn't happen.
No. Well, it hasn't yet. It hasn't yet. But, so, I went to Joe Rogan.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I see your lovely wife checked in there. Yes, so.
We saw the message. Yeah, if you want to know where I am on Facebook and social media and stuff, you just have to follow Britney. Follow Britney, right. But I never fucking, I hardly ever.
You don't check in anywhere. Yeah, I'm like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. But when you sent the message that you were unavailable for two hours, there was a lot of jokes amongst the staff going on what you were actually doing for the two hours. Oh, what's he doing, who's he doing?
Like, oh, two hours, very impressive. 15, 20 minutes is the best I can get. I wonder who he's killing. No, there was no killing.
It was all dirty stuff. So, the reason why I couldn't talk to anybody at Joe Rogan is because there's this company called Yonder. Yeah. And they make you fucking put your phone and your watch in this fucking pouch.
And it's magnetized, it's like a button, and like it's, it's like old school, you know, the security tags that they have on shirts and shit, it's kind of that concept where it works with a magnet, so the magnet will open it up, and then you can check and see what the fuck's going on, and then you can put it back, and then you have to close it, so you can only open your phone in like these little designated areas, and you look like, you know, this, it's like this is the fucking idiot corner, like, you know, where, of course, I had this several fucking times. Is that more for, so you don't record the show, or so that your phone doesn't go off during the show and interrupt Mr. Rogan? Yeah, no, he doesn't want anybody, he's controlling the content, because I mean, first of all, his content is super controversial, right?
Like he's fucking all over, you know, and the two people before him were, you know, I mean, all types of shit. It's stand-up stuff though, right? It's not like doing a live podcast. " You wanna turn everybody off?
What the fuck are we gonna do? I'm just gonna fucking... Right. So you carry the bag the whole time?
Oh yeah, you gotta carry the fucking bag. So how big is this bag? Hold on, first of all, it's about a little bit bigger than your phone. Okay.
Alright, and let me tell you something. You wanna fucking fuck with 30,000 people and give them all anxiety at the same goddamn time? Right. Fucking button up their phones.
Oh yeah, sure. I mean, we have kids at home. I'm like, what the fuck? What if something, you know.
What happens to some kids? We're two hours. We're unreachable. So then you got to deal with this mystery shit of the vibration.
It's like. Oh, see. Fuck. What the fuck is that?
My ringer's off. No vibration. I don't. If it's ringer's off, I don't want to know.
Yeah. Well, the problem is that my ringer's always off because I'm always dealing with shit. Right, right, right. And I just want to.
I don't want to hear the bing, bing, bing. Right. Like, I don't want to hear all that. And the watch.
Can you record from your watch? I have no idea. I mean, I don't have an Apple watch. I don't, I mean, the watch would have been great if I just kept that on at least because then it would have said- You could have seen what it was.
Bullshit text, bullshit message, you know, whatever the case may be, but no, you got to shove your fucking watch. Now, there were some people that were sneaky and they had their phones. Oh, I'm sure. You know, there was a couple.
You bring a dummy phone. You put the dummy phone in there. We have an old phone over here somewhere. I always have an extra phone.
Oh, you always have two anyway. I should have shoved that. Here you go. There you go.
Got my phone. And then you're that guy at the beginning of the movies wearing the hoodie with the sunglasses on who's holding it, recording the movie. I mean, I'm not, you know, I would respect somebody's content, you know what I mean? Like I would never.
Right. But there are those people though. Oh, there's a ton of them. And then it's up on, I don't even know what those things, up on Livewire now and you can see the Joe Rogan show.
Well, it's not even, I don't think it's so much of that that he's worried about. I think it's more of a concern of it going out, someone fucking tweeting it and blasting it. And that's the impression that I got. Because Mr.
Rogan likes to get paid. yeah and you know like the and like he talked about some of the things that you know people wait wait no no he explained how like someone would take a snippet of something that he said right but are you allowed to talk because there's some of the i've seen or i've heard actually men where you signed like a non-disclosure thing that you're not even allowed to talk about it no but i'm being vague anyways i'm just simply stating that like you know there was like you know it's It's very easy. I think he tells a racist joke. Yeah.
Exactly. Or a homophobic joke. Yes. Right.
And then all of a sudden he's this racist. He's the racist. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Right. Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, we're just so fucked up.
Was it a good show? Oh, my God. It was hilarious. Did you talk to him afterwards about the podcast?
Nah. Yeah, I couldn't get to him. I've listened to it. It's really no different than the show, just more important people.
Well, and they're really high. Oh. Yeah, they usually smoke weed and stuff. On the show?
I am willing to smoke weed on the show, if that will help us get to the next level. That's good to know. I drink on the other one, what's the difference? I drink on the other one, what's the difference?
There's a big difference between alcohol and marijuana. Maybe not soon, it could be legal. No, I'm just saying the overall. Oh, I don't know, I've never done any drugs.
You've never done marijuana? Nope. Not a single time? Not a single time.
You're so full of shit. I can see that you're full of shit. No, I swear. I swear on whatever you want me to swear on.
I've never done it. When I did that CBD cigarette here to test it for Greg, it put me to sleep. Yeah, that's what it is, it's relaxing stuff. That's the closest thing I've ever done.
Huh. Never have, never touched it, never had any reason to. I've been there when it's been done, but never, never had the urge. I feel like that this is a show thing, that we should have you smoke weed on the show now.
On the show? Yeah. It's illegal, don't understand. No, that's medical.
Dude, you can get some of this shit now at some of these. I have to get a medical card. No, you can actually get some of the stuff at some of these stores that have high levels of THC, or have THC. No, no gummies.
We were actually in Colorado and Adrian ate a couple of gummies for anxiety, but still even there. No, nothing. I mean, it was legal there. Yeah.
No, we should hit you with some edibles. That'd be amazing. Well, yeah, because even the CBD I did here, I could only inhale one time. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, no, no. We'll get you edibles. Edible. Well, I'm sure that, I'm sure there's a connect.
Well, I have, I have access. Yeah. It's not a problem. So, yeah.
I mean, it doesn't seem, I don't think that any of that's hard to obtain. No, not anymore. It's not, no. I mean, all you gotta do is know somebody with a medical card.
We should get you fuckin' high as fuck and put you on the show and see how that plays out. I think that would be amazing. Who's gonna run the board? No, you have to hit the record button and then you eat it.
It just never goes off. Oh yeah, if it crashes or whatever. Yeah, it doesn't matter. No, I think what'll happen is you'll be like, uh.
You'll be more paranoid. Are they listening? I think they're listening. Am I making a fool on myself?
If Mr. Graffalo on the phone, I think Mr. Graffalo's gonna call him. Someone's very weird right now.
Very weird. I think that would be fantastic. But, uh, yeah, the Rogan show was amazing. amazing and we had a good time i mean but one thing that sucked is you gotta vibrate you're like fuck is that my kids uh you know like who was babysitting the kids mika yeah so it's a 50-50 you know what i mean like could go either way yeah yeah like she might not call she might just say they can't answer the phone yeah they'll be fine whatever so i called chris baldwin he said it was vines uh so i got a few texts and whatever and so my son speaking of chris baldwin because He's in our fantasy football league.
My son has joined our fantasy football. Oh, yeah, it was a big deal. He wants that belt. He does.
He does want that. So we upgraded from, so the Manny destroyed the last trophy. You know, I started it because he commented that he was going to get the belt soon. I started to say, oh, wait a minute, is he going to break that through?
I actually sent to him, okay, so hold on, you're getting ahead of yourself. So he broke the last one. It was, you know, it was unintentional, but it's fun to rib him because of it. Right.
So he broke it. So I'm like, fuck, what am I going to do? into you know i never gave chris a trophy and it's beginning of next year i'm like well i could always fix this one i'm like fuck this right let's just let's figure out what the best fucking trophy is so we got this fantasy football belt yeah championship belt that's fucking heavy very nice belt yeah it's really really nice so got it you know i handed it to chris right so chris did a picture brian the man he said oh i can't wait you know i'm just gonna get that bag yeah so i said So when I gave it to him, I sent him a message and said, if you win, I will just take a picture of it for you. Right.
And that'll be as close as you're getting. Buy him a belt at like Marshall's and then just give him that. That'll be as close as you're getting to this belt. Here's a brown leather Sears and Roebuck belt for you.
And write winner on it. You won, congrats. You won, congratulations. I'll touch you on that.
So like, I don't want to interfere with Jack. So like I, so I did a draft the day before. I tried to explain to him, you know, overall picks and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But he still didn't grasp that concept, so he drafted Justin Tucker, the kicker for Baltimore in the second round.
Okay. Which, like, you don't get a kicker in the second round. Oh, yeah. I mean, Justin Tucker's the best kicker.
Right. He's like, "What? " I get the best kicker. He's like, "What?
" Right, not a lot of kicking going on here in the fantasy football. So, um, so then I sit him next to me to, just to try and help him, you know? I'm like, "Hey, just sit down and like, you know, let's review a couple things before you make a decision," you know? He's like, okay.
And I still let him kind of go on his own. And then I'm like, well, you need – look, dude, you don't have any backup quarterbacks. Okay, so I have a game plan for me, right? And my game plan is I'm going to go like two decent QBs.
I was going to pick Matt Stafford, which I got fucked on. Jameis Winston is my backup because I think that he could be pretty good. I mean, he'll throw as many interceptions as he does touchdowns. And then I'm like, but my sleeper pick is I'm going to pick up Mac Jones.
I know you don't know who this is. I don't know who Mac Jones. But he was an Alabama quarterback, he's in New England, and it's very possible that he's gonna take on the role in New England fast. Maybe within the three or four weeks of the season.
All right. And he could be a fucking stud. Okay. So I'm like, all right, I'll pick him up and I'll bank him.
Well, the only other person who thinks that I, about the excitement of Mac Jones in the entire league is gonna be my son because he listens to me. Right, right. So he says, "Oh yeah, you know what, Dad? You're right.
I need another quarterback. " And I looked at him and I was like, mother fuck, go sit, go sit somewhere else. So does your group all get together to do the draft? No, it's all online.
So, but you know, there's three people. I mean, my wife, myself, and now with Jack's are all in the same family. So we're in, you know, we're in the same, we're doing at the same time. Right, you're all doing at the same time, right.
Yeah. So, um, yeah, so I was like, God damn, I should just let him fucking bury himself and I would have gotten Mac Jones. But do you all do it online at the same time? Correct.
Okay. Correct. So you're all on the same website or whatever. Correct.
Ah, gotcha. Have never have done this, I'm just trying to familiarize how it works. So, Michael Rosales was in our league. Was or is?
Oh no, he was. Oh. Yeah. Isn't there a Romancraft league too?
There is, there is. Yeah, I didn't partake. I didn't partake in that. I don't know if they did that this year or not.
So he's not... Danny was running that, I don't know if it happened this year. Oh man, probably not. It may have fallen off.
Yeah. So, I should ask them. I should ask them about that. Because I saw nothing about it online.
Normally there's some shit talk going on online. Well, I would play with them this year if there's an availability. I mean, Danny's not there. Maybe there's a spot.
Right. But, um, Jack in theirs, too? Yeah, Jack was in there. So, so yeah, so they, so we're all set up.
We're all set. Oh, I came up with an idea. It had nothing to do with this, but just when you said Jack, I thought of something that I meant to discuss earlier. So, you know, we, uh, we, uh, we set it up.
We got it going. But Michael Rosales, he was in our league. Right. Like probably three or four years ago.
Maybe even further than that. And then I went to re-up the next year. I was like, hey, we're going to re-sign everybody. We're going to do it again.
He goes, I just don't have time for it. Oh, okay. I didn't have time. Okay, cool.
But he had time for his other leagues. Well, that's why. Because you've got to cut somewhere. I take that shit very personally.
Family and friends. It's a family and friends league. No money. Oh, no money.
Well, maybe that's why he didn't have time. He's got to do a concentrate on the ones where he's making money. So I have yet to let him just just bragging rights is all you get out of here. I don't let it we get negative to fucking championship belts.
All right, it's Chris and Christie in the league separately. No, just Chris. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean, I guess drew drew still in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we had a couple of people fall off marital marriages, divorce and shit, you know, right. And then I actually booted one out. Oh, I had to but I had to kick out my buddy Jason because Lexi was going to play the man. And he's white.
Ah, yes. Yeah. Oh, you can only have so many? Yeah, you gotta cap it.
It's capped to 12. Oh. Yeah. That's the ideal number.
Gotcha. So, I'm very excited about that. Is that the Jason who had the motorcycle accident? No, no.
Oh. Jason Louie, former- Oh, Jason Louie. Former rep of Drew Estate. Right, right.
Still my good friend to this day. Oh, he's a very nice man. Yeah. How did he take being booted?
Did he accept it? So there's no room for Rosales anyway? No, there isn't. He was replaced.
I would never fucking No no no There are plenty of people That want to be in this league Is usually what I say to them Don't worry Don't worry There's no holes He's like I want to be back I know I'll come back You know what We'll put you on the list I'm like I'm sorry Michael If somebody drops out We can't have you now At this point Too many I'm sorry You had your shot You missed it I'm sorry The Manny The handyman The teacher Very full The doctor Very full With my staff With the teams My staff of people That run my empire Very nice So what else? We got nine minutes Oh we have a PCA update I did a PCA update I got another email so I figured I'm getting a lot of the drive back in You can make a difference Right yeah right right They're up to 28,475 But they're trying to do how much? 60 In how long? 60 days Last week was 20 days 27 or 30 somewhere in that range Oh, so?
I think it was 26 last week. So we're about halfway, and they're about halfway. Yeah, yeah. And Neptune Cigars just donated $2,000.
Oh, that's a big one. That was the big one. That's a big one, Neptune Cigars. Yes.
Yes, one gentleman was sort of egging people on, like, "These people protect us. We're all in the same industry. " He gave $100. Maybe $150.
I don't remember. I don't want to say his name. Well, you know. Every little bit helps.
That's all you can do. All right. You know? So, wish him the best.
Hey, this is just a funny story. Oh, and I have two people, two couples I'm discussing doing their wedding. Ah. It's two.
Pastor Michael. Father. Father BDP. Yes, Father BDP.
Father BDP. They're interested in securing myself and Chet. You know, my wife, she listens every week. I mean, this is our 10 year anniversary.
Oh, would you like to do a renewal? Maybe. Well, see, I don't even need to have to be official for that because you're already married. But oh, please.
Maybe you should renew our vows for us. Oh, that would be great. Yeah. Oh, what do you think of that?
That's a great idea. I'm in. I think that would be fantastic. Oh, yes.
That'd be very nice. It would be very, just like me and you and, you know. Oh, we need a bigger event. Maybe we do it on the show.
Oh. Oh. Bring her in here. We'll have her sit there next to you and we'll do a little ceremony.
That'll be the entire show. We'll just do a ceremony. I mean, it's always great. We'll set up the camera and do it out there in the bars.
I mean, it's always great when she calls or she stops in because, you know, I instantly... Oh, she likes to update me every week on things you say that are untrue. Yeah, she likes to emasculate me, yes, all the time. It's fantastic.
It's called marriage. It's the best part of my week, I gotta tell you, just so you know. " Oh, no. She's gotta be drunk.
No, she's very nice to me lately. There was a lot of, uh, uh, uh, nurse care going on. Yeah, you have definitely established some credit there. I've got some credit I've built up.
Yeah, you've banked that up. Oh, yeah. But that doesn't last long. Let's be honest.
Well, we're still recuperating. So, the, still just adding in. Oh, just fetching ice. Socking it away, eh?
Fetching ice. Trimming things that are poked out in places. Oh, yeah. As the, uh, you know, the stitches start coming undone, they start poking.
So, there's gotta be some trimming going on, and ice packs, and... Oh, very nice. Silicone sprayed so the scars go away. Very thorough.
A lot going on. A lot going on. A lot of reaching to get things because one arm doesn't go up all the way. That's nice.
A lot going on. You might want to propose anal at this point. No. No?
Just not. You don't think you have enough credits for it? Not our thing. I mean, I don't know what you do at your house, but we don't do that.
I'm just saying I haven't had to take care of my wife for months on end. Oh, well, I'd probably have to go to your house, too, at that point, so... Someone's going to, no, come on, come on, not the wiping stuff, but the ice packs and the spray. But wait a second, I'm a pretty good husband, come on, you think I'd like...
I'm fully trained now, I've gone through it, but this is not the first time either. This one, because of COVID, I've had to be more involved in the recuperation than normally. This is not the first surgery I've been involved with her, but yeah, I mean, I was all the aftercare, I mean... Right.
It's, you know, you're all sewed up, your husband's out, gotcha, you're good, you're out. Okay, what, what? But you gotta give me some, you think that I would leave mine high and dry? Come on now, come on now, come on, you know she's listening on high and dry, but Mika's at your house.
What does Mika do? And, I don't know, she'd do something. Well, I mean, she'd open her front door and be like, is everybody okay? From what your wife said, your weekend on the show of taking care of the children all by yourself and all the stuff you did, apparently you had an entire staff of people there, so.
I'm a perfect, listen, 10 years of this industry, wait, so hold on, 12 years in this industry, I have learned how to be a good leader, I've learned how to delegate, yes, but that's not how you made it come across on the show though, you said I did it all, I was all alone in the house with the children, and there was diapers and poops and feedings, and there was three of them, one of me, it was a dark day, it's all, you know, it's all on video and audio, and I believe I never said any of that, apparently it was not as involved as you said, come on, man. I'm a pro. So if you, well, if you were to come out and said, you know, I've got a team of people helping me take care of the children, it went very smooth, everyone pulled the, everyone stepped up and pulled their weight, instead of, I took care of everyone. I'll tell you what, right now, you're right, I'm going to redact all my statements and I'm going to say flat out that I am very grateful for the friends and family members that I have around me that always help me out.
See, that's why Brittany calls him out, because now he's got a backpedal, backpedal, backpedal. There's no backpedal. Hey, you could be like this man that died after having sex. Oh yeah?
That's the way to go. What's the way to go? Well, he tried to use epoxy adhesive instead of a condom. Oh, I don't, that's not the way to go.
Apparently, he covered his unit with epoxy because they had no condom handy and waited on it to dry and then they had sex and... Then he died. It didn't come back off, apparently. Huh.
There was some backups, apparently, and it killed him. A local police investigation reported... Is this Florida? No, this was in India.
Apparently, there's a condom shortage in India. Oh, it's in India. India, yes. In India.
He was unconscious a day after entering a hotel with his- Let me, hold on, I got some epoxy here. He was hospitalized but died. Police officers told the Times of India that the pair had taken some drugs and then decided to have sex. Yikes.
Oh, and drugs. Since they did not have any protection, they decided to apply the adhesive on his private partner to ensure that she does not get pregnant, the paper reported. Police said that Mizera died due to multiple organ failure. That's gotta make the ejaculation hard.
Yeah, I don't know. Can it be done? I mean, I don't know. If it doesn't come out, what happens to it?
Yeah. Does your body just reabsorb it? Does it explode? I mean...
That's probably what happened to them. Explode it again? Went the other way. Went the other way.
Ooh. Could be. Could be. Could be.
Could be. India. Geez, Louise. Right.
I thought I had a really good Florida story for the end of the show about a UFO that was sighted, and then there was, as most news stories, there's a click to hit to see a video, and usually, it's It's a news reporter going over it, and it was a car on the turnpike shaped like a thing, so delete, delete, delete, delete, but I have a good one though, have a good one, alright, we need to take a break, and then we'll get out with the news and Michael saying more of how he does things alone with everybody else. I am amazing. You are amazing, that is correct. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to episode 189 of the Cigar Hustler Podcast. Blogspot, we're the number two cigar show to watch in 2022. Boom. Boom.
Number two, number one, we're just dominating. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need, the Cigar Hustler Podcast report with Mike Toon. Limitless Cigars announced its upcoming launch. Limitless Cigars Company has announced its plans to launch in January of 2022 with its first offering a cigar that includes two marijuana derivatives.
You talked about that last time. We talked about our friend going to work for them. Ty Vance. Yes, this is a story about the company.
Limitless. CBG and CBD. The company was co-founded by Dan Nero, managing partner of D&T Associates, LLC, who said that the company's mission is to forge a cultural partnership between cigar sophistication And CBGCB, Dan Ed Wellness. Ristey's been doing that shit for an hour.
And then actually, the rest of the story is about Todd Vance. Yeah, but yeah, of course. Ooh, Vance brings a wealth of cigar industry to the position. He most recently worked with Stallone Cigars Company's North American Vice President.
Stallone. His career includes stints with Padilla, White Hat, Cornelius and Anthony, AJ Fernandez, Esteban Carrera. He's basically worked with everyone. He's worked with all of them.
With all of them, yes. He's got a lovely suit. Lovely suit, he's got a nice set of silverware from each place, parting gifts they give you. Please, take the silverware.
You know, I wish I had more silver in my house. Really? How many you got? You know...
There's four of you. Well, so here's what happens, I have the one kid, and I don't think that, I don't think he's a suspect anymore, but the five-year-old Justice, whenever he eats his food, he would just take his paper plate and just throw it out with whatever utensils are on. Oh, you think utensils are going too. And so, he was going, he was burning through them now.
All of a sudden, there's no spoons. Now, my oldest daughter, Mika. Ah, yes. Yes.
Tupperware and forks and knives and shit just kind of disappear for a long period of time. Have you looked in the kitchen here at the shop? They couldn't be here. No, no, no.
Oh, okay. No, it's not that Tupperware. Oh. You have your own Tupperware?
No, there's bigger Tupperwares. Oh, oh. Yes. Yes.
So what does she wear? Does she take them on dates and dates? I think she takes them to like work and shit. She's taking like large amounts of food to work?
Yeah, and this has never come back. Hey, it's Mika Wednesday. Today, everybody get some food! So the forks, we're running low on some spoons and some forks and shit.
So, you know, I should start jumping companies like Todd Vance, maybe I can get a... You can get the parting gifts that way. Yeah. Yes, lovely things.
Really gotta re-up that. Oh, wow. All right, Espinosa Premium Cigars cancels in personal Zona Palooza. Going virtual again!
Okay, so wait... This was a year we were gonna go. So let's talk about this shit. We were gonna go.
Okay, but let's talk about, let's have this conversation. You don't want me to read the story first? Yeah, no, go ahead. All right, for the second straight year, Espinosa Premium Cigars has decided to cancel the in-person version of the Lazonapalooza event and will once again move it to an online format.
The decision comes as the cases in the COVID-19 pandemic surge in Florida. We truly agonize over, oh, okay, I'll tell you that's worse. We truly, oh, hold on, okay. We truly agonize over this decision.
We know it is disappointing, bro, but we are fully committed to the safety of our staff, bro, attendees, and local community, said Eric Espinosa. We truly believe that if only one single person was affected by attending La Zona Palooza, it would be one person too many. We cannot in good conscience hold this event. Much like it did in 2020, the company will be shifting to a virtual event with details expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
If you guys need stuff to fill, we would love to be part of La Zona Palooza. We'll do a live finger-bubber-doodle thing. Yeah, of course. Let's see, they launched it several years ago, the company's fans and friends held its Espinosa offices in High Lake, Florida.
I said, you know, we're all vaccinated here. If you'd like us to come, we'll come on the outside. Okay, yeah, yeah. This is kind of, you're kind of leaning into what I'm saying.
Okay, please. All right, go ahead. Okay, so at this point. Okay, that's something.
So, at this point in the game. Yes. You had your opportunity to get vaccinated, right? You know, I'm going to try and be as sensitive as I can about this subject, but, you know, you had your opportunity to get vaccinated.
You shouldn't get vaccinated. Yes. And if you were vaccinated, then you're free to move about the country, right? You should be fine.
Well, the problem is you can still get it. Okay. Right. You can still get it.
And Erik is not the healthiest of men, as he said when he was here on the show. Right. Okay. So I understand if Erik couldn't attend his own Lollapalooza or whatever the fuck it is.
Well, if it's virtual, he can attend. He's a draw. But my point is that, you know, we're still stopping life from continuing on. Yes.
And people should have the choice of, hey, they're going to go, or B, they're not going to go. So then, what, are you going to check cards at the door? No, it doesn't matter. You choose to go or not go, if you want to fucking...
Right, but if he's... I'm still connecting. If you want to put that, you know, if you want to take that gamble, then take that fucking gamble. But like, why the hell...
Look, a lot of, for the most part, a lot of people are getting sick, or they'll be down for a week or two, or something like that. Right. Unless you're, you know, and it's not an absolute equation, but unless you're, you know, overweight or you have underlying health issues. Right.
There's actually a gentleman in my club whose father's also in the club and he was, he got it. Right. And then he was doing better and now he has somehow relapsed and not doing well at all. His father or him?
His father. Right. And was the father vaccinated? I don't know.
Right. He put up a phone as more than asking for prayers and explaining. But the reality is that, you know, I don't know, man. I just feel like it's still the outlook on it and the way that it's kind of taken at this point is just insane.
Okay, it sucks to get sick. I get it. Right. I believe Eric has had the vaccination.
I believe that was stated somewhere. But with his preexisting conditions, it could still be hard on him. It could be. Right.
It could be. So, I mean, if I was him, I would have canceled just for that fact. I mean, you don't know who's going to be coming. Somebody could come who full-blown has it.
It's just like a, yeah, but it's like a cold. I mean, it's, you know. Well, but to him, it could be worse than a cold. So then, okay, so then he doesn't have to attend.
Or say that, hey, look, I'm canceling because of the fact that I'm a high risk. Oh, you never say that. Why not? Because you say, for the safety of all people, God bless America, and whatever it takes.
I'm calling bullshit. Dude, we've been around fucking tons of people. We've been around tons of people. I know we have.
You know, there's fucking, and I, and I'm not, believe me, I'm not shitting on Eric Espinosa. I'm just, I'm, I'm totally just making a comment about the entire, about the entire way and approach that our society is fucking addressing this thing. You know, yes, people get sick. Yes.
Some people even unfortunately die. Yes. Another officer over in St. Pete died over the weekend.
Yeah. And he may or may not have been vaccinated. Yeah. I don't know if he was or not, but he was in the photo, a larger gentleman.
Right. Right. Pre-existing. So, it's like, holy shit, you know, I mean, the way that they're going about with all this stuff is just insane.
It's just fucking insane. It's very, very hard, Michael. You're not really helping me on this. Yeah, because I don't believe everything should just go.
I still think there are some precautions. You wouldn't, you didn't get the vaccine up until... I was waiting on the good one. I got the good one.
Until now. I got the good one. You've been living your life this whole fucking time. I got the good one, though.
And now you're like, there should be precautions. Well, I'm living my life. I haven't been anywhere. I mean...
What are the precautions? We went to Vegas. We went to Vegas. Yeah.
How'd you? I didn't see you wear a mask that entire fucking time. On the plane. When you had to.
When they made you wear it. When they make me, I wear it. And I wore it when you were sleeping, 'cause I didn't trust you. But that's my point.
'Cause you only got Pfizer. But that's my point. Oh, okay, now wait. Now last, now the other show last week, we did a section on the myth associated with the COVID vaccination.
Yeah. I accidentally, 'cause we have two channels, I accidentally put it in our channel and then deleted it and moved it together. We got a violation for the COVID information we gave, and it said user deleted show, deleted content on their own. But we got a warning for, uh, don't do that shit again.
Because we don't, but I know, but, but we didn't even say it was good or bad. We just said, these are the common myths associated with the thing. And we, you know, said why, I guess we said why the myths were no good, but maybe that's what they got it for. I don't know, but we violated community standards.
The other problem, too, is all the bullshit that's out, I mean, like- It was up for like five minutes and we got the violation this morning! Somebody snitched! Somebody, oh, they ain't fucking around. I guess.
They're like, you can, uh, there was a thing, you can, um, uh, what's it called when you want to say they did the wrong thing? Anyway, you can say your version of why it is not incorrect, but I mean, I already took it down, what am I gonna do? Right. But yeah, we have a warning.
You know, I guess, but simply, kind of simply put is like, look, I'm, you know, I'm not the guy that's watching some YouTube video with a fucking guy in a lab coat who would be like, Oh, you know, I actually consider the real data and the real facts. I've fucking gotten my vaccine. Right. Not the good one, but the okay one Pfizer one, uh, we don't know if it's good or bad.
We're not saying either one is because then it becomes a strike, you know? Yeah. You don't want to get a strike. No, you know, I strike, you can't post anything for a week, but I have continued to live my life throughout the entire time.
right like i'm like okay you know if i get sick i have the vaccine so there's a even if i do get get it and i get sick there's still a great chance of me surviving right yes so like i'm going to continue forward i can't not cancel your young healthy man michael that works out all the time we're not we're not always look at you some of us are older i know we're all you're all not as fortunate but they're older and have and that's why you have the choice either a not leave your fucking house and just kind of hoard it out i don't like i only come here but where's the end That's a game for you. If you... I die. You just...
I die. I just die. You stay in your house the whole time? I die.
It's just over. I just can't do it anymore. It's just over. I start smoking pot, apparently, and then I never go anywhere because I'm so paranoid.
I think that'd be amazing for you. I hope I smoke it and nothing happens. Smoke the pot? Yeah.
And nothing happens at all. Just like getting drunk. No, you're gonna... And I gotta drink a lot to get drunk, let me tell you so.
We're gonna hit you with fucking, we're gonna hit you with like a 200 milligram edible. Oh, wow! You're trying to kill me. You're gonna go fucking OD.
We're gonna put you deep. You're gonna find me under the table. We're gonna put you deep in the game. Under the table, peeking through the little crack in the velvet there in the front.
You're gonna be, there's somebody out there. The bowl over there in the thing, looking at the big red eyes. My chest, my chest, I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die. I'm not looking forward to the booster thing in the 14th, I gotta tell you.
But hey, you know what? You're doing the right thing, I mean. Well, I waited in the Moderna, it's a good one. Yeah, you're such a pro.
I'll miss you. Acid Continental debuting this weekend is smoker-friendly, exclusive, uh-oh, no more exclusive, no exclusives for us. The Acid Family of Cigars is getting a new member this weekend at Drew Estate will be releasing the Acid Continental at the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival. Oh, it's already passed.
Yeah, they had the big Rocky Mountain Festival. I still had that. Did they do the 24 hours of coverage from Eric, and the Dojo, Mojo, Big Party thing? I didn't see anything about it, so I'm guessing no.
I don't know. I don't know. Cigar is a 5 1/2 by 52 Robusto that uses an Indonesian wrapper and binder surrounded Nicaraguan filler tobacco offering a sweetened tip, the company described, that seems kind of lazy for them just to put a sweet tip on it. A sweet tip it.
Let's just sweet tip it. The company describes the profiles as medium body with the flavor, a cool and smooth, yet exotic and complex smoking experience. Smoker Friendly is an outstanding family-run business and their name describes everything about them, said Jonathan Drew. Oh, damn it.
Oh, for many, many years, I personally watched the experience and commitment to serving the premium cigar smoking community in Colorado and way beyond. We are generally excited the way it adds it got lentil to Smoker Friendly's amazing list of exclusive products. Smoker Friendly's Fully Serviced Premium Tobacco Retailer, worth 800 independently, ooh, that's why we don't have an exclusive, we don't have 800, we have just the one, we'll take the one, independently owned and operated tobacco shops nationwide, has hosted the annual Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival since 2009, a single day event that brings together approximately 2,500 cigar smokers in Boulder, Colorado, Smoker Friendly's relationship with Drew Estate began when Jonathan Drew founded, oh, this is somebody, this is Jeremy Wiener, who's Jeremy, oh, Wiener, his name is Wiener, oh, I'm sure he's a I'm sorry, he's fucking heard that his whole life. Yeah, Smoker Friendly Cigars.
It's Weiner. I would say all the time, it's Weiner. It's Weiner. It's not Weiner, it's Weiner.
It's not Weiner, it's Weiner. And my name is Richard, not Dick. Yeah. Hello, Mr.
Dick Weiner. His name's Jeremy. I'm sure he's a very nice man. Smoker Friendly Cigars, premium products, category direct via press release, we are very appreciative of the support that Drew Estate has shown on our retail locations in the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival over the years.
When Drew Estate showed up? That's a great question. I mean, we will discuss that on the Patreon following the show. Drew's Days has become the largest sponsor of the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival since its inception, which was a good movie, by the way, Inception, with the hats, that was a good movie.
This year, the 12th Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival, we are fired up to launch the Acid Continental Exclusive Cigar for Smoker Friendly Corporate Location. Acid Continental should appeal to all cigar consumers, especially the Drew's State Acid fans. 51, what an odd price. 51.
49 for a pack of five. 51, very odd. 49? 60.
51. 51. 51. 51 on this one.
Right, you made it at the meeting. Okay, what's the prices? 50. Somebody goes, 760, 751, I think 751.
Yeah, that's where we should be. We should be at 751. Because then the 750 people are confused, and the 760 people think they're getting a deal, so we're really, really, really. Yeah, there's probably some data.
All right, Michael, I'm sure this will mean a lot to you, but I'm not exactly sure who this gentleman is, but Escobar Cigars adds NOS as a co-owner. NOS? NOS. Escobar Cigars, I mean, how do you not fucking have NOS as a co-owner?
Why, why, why, why, why, I don't get the, I know Nas is a rapper. Oh, does he? Yeah. Oh, perfect blend then.
I guess it makes a lot of sense. A lot of celebrities have cigars with their names on them, but Grammy award-winning and multi-platinum recording artist Nazir Nas Jones is getting into the cigar industry as a co-owner and equity partner in Escobar Cigars. Wow. The brand and its parent company, Puros Privados, launched approximately three years ago and currently offers two lines, the Escobar Natural and the Escobar Maduro.
Ah. Both of which are made at the Escobar factory. Oh, they have their own factory. Nestle Nicaragua, according to the brand co-founder David Gomez.
Gomez? G-O-M-E-S. Gomez. Gomez.
The brand name is also a tie-in to another name that Nas has frequently referred to himself as, including the 1997 track called Escobar 97. Boom. We have to play a little bit of it here. No, we can't because then we get into it.
They're going to yell at us. The Escobar Nicaragua, we only have the one warning. They already yelled at us. All right.
50. See, now they didn't get for the extra penny, that's a thing now, you can take the penny. Right. I think that could have been Nas's part.
51. And then Nas gets an extra penny. We're gonna give you an extra penny for everyone we saw. See, Escobar Cigars currently operates on a direct-to-consumer model.
Oh. S. and internationally. Should we make a phone call?
Who would I call? Nas. We would like to carry your cigars, young man. Yeah, I'd like to do an event.
How many do I have to buy for Nas to show? We're going to get Nas to show. And I would like to add the penny at the end, please. Short end.
When the team at Esco Bar Cigars family initially approached. Oh, how does he talk? How does he talk? Nas?
Yeah. Oh, man. I feel a little racist if I do it, so I'm going to leave it alone. Yeah, just let it go.
Okay. He was immediately drawn to the brand by the exceptional quality of the product, Says Jones via press release. This partnership with Escobar has been almost two years in the making and I'm honored to be an equity partner with them. How much do you think they gave them?
- That's a big check. - Equity, so 49, 48? - Probably. - 25?
- Nah. - More than that. You think Nas needed more than that, huh? - Yeah.
- If they're direct to consumer, there can't be a lot of the pie to go around. - What do you mean? - They're direct to consumer, they don't sell retail. - So they're making the most money.
- Well, right, but they're not selling the big volume, you would think. Yes, correct. So, high margins, low quantity. So, how big a piece of the product?
We should make a cigar called Hate Me Now. That's one of his songs. Hey, we're going to give you an equity share. Hey, we're going to equity share in Hate Me Now.
Yeah, but we're going to need you to come in. We're going to need you to come in. We're going to need you to do the release of that. You're going to have to check in.
How many shops do you have? Well, it doesn't matter how many we have. You don't need to know that. Come to the headquarters.
Who needs the main headquarters? At the headquarters. Oh, we can put his feet in the... There you go, Nas.
Put him in the V, yeah. He's looking forward to growing his brand and giving back to the local communities in Nicaragua, where tobacco, oh, are you saying our? Where our tobacco was grown in age and hand-rolled in premium cigar. Both the lines in the company also underwent a rebranding as part of the announcement updating the brands on the cigars and the logo of the company in suggestion of Jones.
So he's into the branding now, too. How'd you get them on the phone? There also appear to be plans for a line of age cigars that will involve Nas more closely. He goes, you know, those are good, but I need to do my own.
Ah. Ah. Closely as the company has began-- Well, what's his face did? The Commodore or whatever.
The Commodore? Oh, I like that group. From the '70s? No, Jay-Z.
He did the Cohiba Commodore. Oh. Hmm. That song shared his name with the 2020 song by Nas off his album, King's Disease.
Are they calling it the Disease? What? What? He's begun teasing the Escobar Ultra Black.
Oh, they're teasing the Escobar Ultra Black is the one he's doing. Ultra Black. Oh, cool. With King's Disease, which won a Grammy in '21 for Best Rap Album.
You know, I did some research, Michael. You did? Yes. There is a semi-famous Polish rapper.
Really? We could give him equity in the, you know, equity stake in the Powstanie, and we'll bring him up. Yeah, equity. He's got his own group, sort of like East Coast, West Coast thing.
He's got a group of Polish rappers he runs with. Oh, what do they call it, like the Polish Hammers? He's 42 years old. Oh.
Perfect. Between me and you. We'll both be able to relate. Yeah, it's perfect, yeah.
Very large, man. So you might like dark hair with a little beard. Oh, yeah? How large?
Should he be traveling? How large? Oh, no, no, no, no, like mussy, muscly, muscly guy. I think he calls himself P, oh, wow, makes a lot more sense now.
It's not spelled Polak, but I think it's, I think he calls himself Polak. He's the Polak. Right. It was like P-O-L-E-K.
When I was reading, it didn't make any sense, but now that I've said it out loud, he calls himself the Polak. They call me Polak. Right. Exactly.
And he raps. He's for my country. He's for my country. I would like to have this cigar.
The Postana Cigar, I only want to say it correctly. I would, I will tell you, I would, yeah, he's the only person. The only person in the world that says it right the first time. Well, not the only person in the world, the only person that's, you know.
Oh, in the cigar industry. Yeah. Right. Says it correctly.
He can say your name right too, probably. Oh yeah, like it's, like it's fucking nothing. Oh, you're nice. I like you.
Very common last name. It's like Smith here. Very nice, yes. Very Smithy.
Uh, Las Calaveras Edition Limit Dada 2021. Heads to Stars. We have it here. We do.
Have we released it? Oh, we did. Oh, we did. It's out.
Not only do we do that, we fucking went balls deep and fucking dropped it in the month club. Oh. So all you people want to know what was in the month club? Oh, that Las Calaveras is coming.
Las Calaveras Edition Limitada 2021 is now shipping nationwide and from here to the month club. Because sometimes you got to just big dick all the other retailers and say, boom. We're all about the big dick in here. Yeah, there's a lot of big dick in.
It's the BDCOM here. BDCOM. Dick Cigar at a month club. Dick Cigar at a month club deal.
In the eighth consecutive year, the Crown Heads is made at Las Califeras release. And like every version since 2016, there are four Batolas. Four. Four, Michael.
Four. Each uses the same blend, though. So, you know. But it's different.
Every experience is different, yes. An Ecuadorian Sumatra Oscuro wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Nicaragua. The Las Califeras 2021 is made at the Garcia's family. My father's cigars, I'd say.
Three of the sizes sold in boxes of 24, while the fourth size. Yes. The Petit Lancero is only offered in the sampler pack, which includes one of each of the four sizes: the Edicion Limitada 2021 LC48, Edicion Limitada 2021 LC50, the Edicion Limitada 2021 LC50, I like saying Edicion Limitada. Yeah, I hear that.
Well, I can tell you that we had a couple of samblers, Dave Burke, cigar jukebox, picked them up and he sent one to Coop. to Mr. Cooper. So he probably has his by now.
It was last Thursday. Hope you're enjoying that, sir. Dave, I'm sure it's taking a little longer with all the problems in Australia right now. Now the truckers are going on strike in Australia.
Oh, man. Nothing's going anywhere over there. Oof. It's tough.
It's tough out there. It's tough. Good day, mate. Yeah, good day, mate.
We all need the shorts. Nope, we don't want them. We're not going anywhere. How's that sound?
Let's see. Perdomo Firecracker returns for 2021, Michael. How are these firecrackers? If you think they're a little late, it's after July now.
Yeah, now they're just rolling with them. Everybody's just doing it now. Firecracker. On Monday, which is today, the Perdomo Firecracker will once again be offered for sale.
It's for sale today. For sale. This is the second release for the Perdomo Firecracker, debuted last June, and most of the details are the same as the first release, so no need to talk about it any further. Thank you for adding Falkor photos to the end of the YouTube video, by the way, of the last episode.
We do that every time a show pet dies, it's a thing now, so. It's a thing. Alright, I have a Listener Week, I have a Florida Story, we have eight minutes, we have plenty of time to get all this done. Alright.
Alright, a Key West man accused of receiving cocaine through the mail. You know, it's hard out here in Florida, you gotta dodge the meth heads and the alligators. S. Postal Inspection Service.
They have that? They actually have that? Apparently. There's an inspection service.
Like the dog that sits there by the packages? Do you have any packages? Oh, it could be. And I grabbed that one.
According to the MCSO, Adam Lindhart, the package contained an ounce of cocaine. So it's not even a lot, right? It's not even a lot, yeah. An ounce is like the single purchase amount, right?
I would assume so. I would assume. It doesn't seem like a lot. So it's not like he was distributing.
Not like he's got... What kind of asshole friend said, "You know what? I'll just mail it to you. " You know what?
I'll mail it to you. I'll send it to you. We'll send a priority. That way nobody touches it.
No return address. That would be nice if the drug dealer put a return address. No one will know. No one will know.
S. It was just training too. They weren't even really looking. They're just messing around.
They're just messing around. They're like throwing boxes. There you go. Use that one.
There you go. You look at this one. It's a new thing. It's a new thing.
Let's see. S. Postal Inspectors earlier this month in In Fort Lauderdale, when they came across a package address to Hooley, that's the man's name, I guess. Hooley.
Hooley. Hooley. Hooley Linhart wrote in an email to Local 10 News, Sheriff's Office K9 Corral alerted to the presence of drugs in the packages. So it is the dogs going.
I told you. Almost hyperventilating. Yeah. S.
S. Homeland Security investigation team went to his house with the package. Hello. We have a delivery for Mr.
Hurley, please. Oh, that's mine. Thank you. My cocaine's here.
You know, if Bezos is You can work it out with the United States government where he can just fucking ship the drugs, you can get the cocaine in less than two days, prime shipping. Oh, there you go. Did you want the eight ball, sir, if you order now? I saw there's a new thing that the Tesla guy, what's the Tesla guy?
Elon Musk. Elon Musk is putting a satellite up in space that shows commercials and they have it. No way. Yeah.
It shows commercials on one side of it. You have to pay ungodly amounts of money to get your commercial on the satellite that it shoots out into space. Yeah. But there is a webcam on it so that people can watch it here.
That is brilliant. Isn't that brilliant? This fucking guy, man. Come on, that's some next level of stuff.
I mean, they sent Pizza Hut up to the space station or whatever it was. He did. I mean, right now, that Tesla that they launched years ago into outer space probably fucking crashed and destroyed an entire planet. Oh, sure.
Now some Martians has got a craving for the new Diet Coke. Oh, we need to do Diet Coke, please! It's very good. Low calories.
Low calories. He said Hooli confessed that he was expecting an ounce of cocaine to be delivered to him in the mail and agreed to open the package in front of one. He, wait a second, he said, yeah, I'm expecting coke, what's the problem? They show up, probably dressed like postal service people, or something, or UPS driver, I don't know, whatever it is, and they go, Mr.
Hooley, we have your package for you, he goes, oh good, I'm expecting that cocaine, let's open it and see what's in it. Knife! I need you to open that in front of me, sir. Oh, look, it's my little, oh shit.
It's my cocaine. Open the package in front of law enforcement officials, Leinhardt said, Hooley also admitted that he had received similar packages in the mail in the past. Oh, this used to work. I don't know what happened.
They finally snagged you. They finally snagged you. It's like TSA. Right.
You know, you can only get away so many times with that knife in your backpack or some shit. That's right. All right. Okay.
Now, our new thing where we get shop of the week, whatever, we didn't get one. We don't have one. Not a one. Nobody emailed.
Not a one. Ooh. So, nobody wants to hear their name, have their shop yell out, and we call you and talk to you on the air? We're going to have to reach out to some guys.
" Oh, okay. Well, anyway, but we still have a listener of the week, though. Okay. All right.
Listener of the week and birthday boy. Oh. Mr. Aaron Loomis.
Hey. Today is Mr. Loomis' birthday. It is.
And he does listen on occasion, but he doesn't talk much. But we would like to wish him a happy birthday. And congratulations, you are the listener. Everybody loves a podcast guy that just kind of sits in the back and chills.
You know, like he'll drop. I so love that job. He just drops a fucking. If you need to fill in, Aaron, I'm good at just sitting.
He's kind of rocking his chair. Sitting with a camera? It's kind of chilling out. Smoking?
I like that. You got anything to add, Aaron? Nope. Yeah, no, I'm good over here.
I'm good. I could do that all night long. Yeah. What a good egg.
Do all the work. It's very similar to what he does here. Yeah, I just kind of show up. It's amazing.
I do nothing. Like I said before, I'm grateful I have a great team. It's a great team. I'm the only team.
Except when they monkey fuck it. It's never good. Oh, we have a word of the week this week. Damn it, I forgot to do it earlier.
But I have to tell you what the sentence is. Okay. I do have a word of the week. I have to keep that up.
I gotta keep it going. Yeah, you gotta keep another word of the week. All right. This has been episode, oh, you have anything else?
I'm sorry, you have anything else, Dan? No. Do we need like, like something we say at the end? You know, when radio shows go off, they always have the same thing they say at the end?
Do we need to come up with like a tagline? Maybe. Or a saying? Yeah.
What would yours be? That's the bottom line. Because Stone Cold said, I mean, some shit like that. Yeah, something like that.
Can you smell what the mic is cooking? Yeah, stay smoky. People are like, oh, they're smoking. How about the cigar does one?
Who does? How about that cigar? I don't know, what do they do with them? I don't remember what it is, but they do one.
Do they? Yeah. Oh, that's right, they do. Is it something about Minnesota Twins?
Because I like Minnesota Twins. No. Yeah. At least they're true fans.
Yes. All right. Well, until we figure it out, episode 189 of the Cigar Hustler Podcast. We'll probably never figure it out.
We'll never figure it out. We don't know what you're really doing here anyways. Yeah, we're just monkey-fucking our way. Monkey-fucking our way to number two, Cigar Hustler Podcast.
New Cigar Show to watch for 2022. Because we can't forest gumping anything because that got messed up. Apparently that's a... Gumping surround upon.
That's an urban dictionary thing, but now we can't say that. Yeah. Just taking away all our shit. All our shit.
Everybody's just trying to knock us down, Michael. All of them. All of them. It's okay.
You know, you're judged by the amount of haters that you have, so... Oh, well, there we go. We have those. We have those.
All right, we're gonna go. We gotta get the Patreon so that I can smoke my... Because you're almost done with yours. Yeah.
All right. We'll see you guys later. Thanks for listening. Bye.
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I'm good, Mike and Mike. How are you guys doing? The Hojo, the... Hojo!
It's the Hojo! He didn't even let him fuck it up all the way. I gotta get past Hojo! I don't even have to try it.
He's not even gonna try. We're gonna, we're gonna cover a lot of ground here, Mike. All right. Try to keep up.
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.
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