192 BDP‘s Birthday Extravaganza!

Episode Summary

Episode 192 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast is the annual BDP birthday extravaganza, and the Mikes kick it off with a run of bit-driven "call-in" birthday wishes from impersonated industry and public figures — a PCA rep named Scott Pierce (jokingly reframed as the "Pool Cleaners of America"), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and a Steve Saka character who claims to have invented birthdays, cigars, and everything else. They also make a real (unanswered) call to Justin Andrews of Diesel Cigars, and tease the Patreon secret show, which covers the Crowned Heads Le Careme Belicoso Fino 2021.

The middle of the show is classic Mike-and-Mike banter: a soaked, chafe-inducing trip through all ten houses at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights (with a spirited defense of the Express and Ultimate Express passes), the aftermath of a free babysitting job at the house, covering a Saturday shift at the shop, the Zoo Beer Bash, and podcast download stats showing roughly half of listens come through Apple.

Coming back from break on Facebook Live, they unveil the big news: "Bangerangs," Cigar Hustler's first collaboration with Espinosa Cigars, a 5,000-cigar run made with Erik Espinosa that will go out to retail partners first before any hit CigarHustler.com. They shout out Hector Alfonso, Jack Torano and Richie Otero along the way.

Industry news includes La Aurora launching a direct-to-consumer online store at full retail pricing (and what that means for brick-and-mortar retailers), the returning Tatuaje T110 Reserva, Caldwell's Long Live the King Mad MoFo — a $11 San Andrés-wrapped robusto sold only through Cigars for Warriors donation centers — and the delayed arrival of Ace Prime's Fiat Lux by Luciano, which the hosts praise (especially the Corona), minus the peanut butter note others have reported. The show closes with the retailer spotlight on Sun Cigars in Pennsylvania, Listener of the Week "Dak the Mayor," and the usual off-topic news: Thanksgiving food shortages, a Louisiana alligator attack, and lions and tigers testing positive for COVID at the National Zoo.

In This Episode

1. 01
   Birthday Prank Call Parade
   BDP's birthday show opens with impersonated call-ins from a PCA rep, Governor Ron DeSantis, and a self-aggrandizing Steve Saka character.
2. 02
   Patreon Preview: Crowned Heads Le Careme 2021
   The hosts tease the secret show smoking the Le Careme Belicoso Fino 2021 and compare it to the well-received 2020 release.
3. 03
   Halloween Horror Nights Chafe Report
   A rain-soaked ten-house run at Halloween Horror Nights, express pass economics, and the aftermath of very poor wardrobe planning.
4. 04
   Shop Life, Babysitting Chaos and Download Stats
   Covering a Saturday shift, the Zoo Beer Bash, a trashed house, and the revelation that ~50% of the show's downloads come through Apple.
5. 05
   Bangerangs: Cigar Hustler x Espinosa Collaboration
   The Mikes reveal their first collaboration with Erik Espinosa — a 5,000-cigar run called Bangerangs going to retail partners first.
6. 06
   La Aurora Goes Direct-to-Consumer
   La Aurora launches a revamped online store selling at full retail, and the hosts debate what that means for brick-and-mortar retailers.
7. 07
   New Releases: Tatuaje T110, Caldwell Mad MoFo, Ace Prime Fiat Lux
   News on the returning T110 Reserva, Caldwell's Cigars for Warriors–exclusive Long Live the King Mad MoFo, and the long-delayed Fiat Lux by Luciano.
8. 08
   Retailer Spotlight, Listener of the Week and Off-Topic News
   Sun Cigars in Pennsylvania, birthday wishes to Dak the Mayor, plus Thanksgiving shortages, a Louisiana gator attack, and COVID-positive zoo cats.

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Transcript

As ready as I will ever be. Oh, you're not talking. There it is. There it is.

Welcome to episode 191, Michael. Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? It's time to start the final countdown. The party starts in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Happy Birthday! All right, ladies and gentlemen, coming to the big stage, BDP! Oh, it's a birthday show, Michael! Put your dollars and hands together, and inside be the king.

The annual BDP birthday show today, Michael. Oh, my goodness. And I have a few people that would like to call in to wish me a happy birthday. You know, it was my birthday, and none of this happened.

This is my birthday show, not yours. Nothing went on. Stop trying to take over. You don't care about me, Michael.

Stop trying to take over my birthday, Michael. You don't love me. Don't love me. I love you, Michael.

All right. Let's call our first guest. Okay. All right.

No live reading, hey? No point. No, no, no. No point.

We have it solidified. We have it solidified. Still a point, but, you know. Let's see who our first guest is here.

They better answer the phone. They're not answering the phone. Well, maybe they'll call us. Well, John Yogerlite said he'll always answer.

Yes, I've already, he's pocket dialed me three times today. Has he? Yes. Wow, there's just a lot, I didn't have a thing, isn't it?

It's just sitting on my shoulder and I'm just going to leave. That was pretty cool. I've never done it. You know, because you can't test it.

It's not like you can redo it. I wanted to do it, so I only had the one, but you too can be part of our podcast family and blah, blah, blah, blah, so, wow, I'm really upset the phone call thing because it didn't work. Oh, man. Hold on, I gotta.

I'm sure they'll call back. Yeah, they'll call. Actually, they'll call back. I have to call Justin Andrews as well.

Oh, we'll do that. Before we go to break. So we're going to do the La Carim for? Yes, the La Carim Bellicoso Fino 2021.

Oh. From Crown Heads is what we're doing on the Patreon today. And you successfully weaseled these from Pedro, eh? Uh, it was a volunteer thing, I walked in, he handed me two, goes here, blip blip blip blip, and then he told me the little story.

You weren't gonna tell him no, huh? I don't, you don't turn down cigars? Like, absolutely. " Yes!

We all would like cigars. Wow, this is gonna be a mess for somebody to clean up right here. Well, the 2020 was fantastic, so I'm excited to smoke this. Oh, good for you.

Thanks. Good for me. Let's try the phone one more time. Yeah, let's try the phone one more time, because somebody's fucking up your jokes.

Somebody's fucking up my jokes, exactly. Well, if it is who I think it is, he doesn't realize it. Oh, no. Because he's meandering.

Oh, wait. Hello? Hey, is this Scott Pierce from the PCA? Yeah.

Oh, man, guys, listen. Did you call to donate some money or something? No, no, no, this is BDP, it's my birthday. BD, holy, BD, happy birthday to you.

Aw, he's so nice. I have a lot of time on my hands now that I hired a helper. I'm sorry, buddy, you called me, I did, I was sleeping. Aw, that's quite all right.

Yeah, so, uh, what do you want to donate today? Are you a Pondo? A 200? What do you, you want to throw a thou down?

Well, maybe I'll get some birthday money from my grandmother or something and I'll send you, I'll send you a check. Yeah, you know, listen, whatever you're doing, you know, I don't know what the hell the other guy's doing over there at PCA now, but man, last time you guys called, I was, whoo, it was a whirlwind. You're busy, you're very busy. I got so much time on my hands now, I'm just happy birthday to Palmer.

He's sending me $1,000. But listen, you know what, go ahead and send it to the guy I hired, because I ain't got time to help do all that process, and I've got a lot of time on my hands. I think you woke him up because he didn't answer the first phone call. He must have been sleeping.

A lot of time on my hands, boys. A lot of time on my hands. I twiddle my thumbs a lot. I do a lot of twiddling.

A lot of twiddling. Well, we appreciate you taking the call, Mr. Pierce. We have a couple other phone calls.

No, I appreciate you donating a file. It's going to go to a good cause. I promise you boys that I will make sure that we fight for you. Oh, thank you.

We will do everything we can. So just go ahead and fill that check out to Mr. Scott Pierce. I mean, PCA Association is what I mean.

Oh, certainly. Absolutely. I just can't thank you boys enough for your possible future donation. Yeah.

And I'm so glad you called me. I completely forgot it was your birthday, Mr. BDP. Oh, that's okay.

That's all right. You're a big guy now. I hear you got your own parking space and whatnot. I got a lot of time on my hands, so I live in all your fun.

Tell you what, we're going to have to cut you off. We have other phone calls with me. All right. Thank you, Scott.

We'll talk to you later. Hit the button. Hit the button. Well, everybody, that was Scott Pierce from the PCA.

Not as busy as he was last time we called, obviously. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yes.

Well, it's P-I-E-R-C-E. Oh, it's a totally different piece. Totally different. With the Pool Cleaners of America, PCA.

Oh, the Pool Cleaners of America. All right. Let's see if the next answer is. Pool Cleaners of America.

PCA, Pool Cleaners of America. Yeah, it's kind of a big deal. It is. Really, they need money, too.

Yeah. Who else is calling for your birthday? Who else are you driving back for your birthday? It's you!

Ah, boy! What's happening? Governor Ron DeSantis. Fix the tires and lights on fire, birthday boy.

Hey, hello, Governor. What can I do for you, boys? It's my birthday today. Does nobody know?

That's what it is. My birthday's Friday. Is he the governor of Texas? I mean, this is Governor Ron DeSantis, Michael.

Hey, give me one light, boy. Give me one light. We're celebrating. Wait, listen.

I'm in my backyard. We're just celebrating, I activated my no-vaccine passport. Oh, that's right, we didn't do a fact today. Hey, I don't need no stinking badges, okay?

You know what I'm saying? I don't need, say it with me, say it with me, boys. We don't need no stinking badges. We live in Florida, yes, we do.

Very nice. Very nice. That's a good day, boys. You're gonna have to cut off Mr.

Sanders as well. Happy birthday. All right, Governor, Governor, Governor, Governor. Happy Birthday!

All right, we're just going to have to hang up on the governor. What you got, boy? What do you do, boy? What do you do, boy?

All the fan favorites we're checking out here today from the past shows. I guess so. All right, we have one last call. Okay.

One last call to make. One last call. This particular man has never called the show before. Oh.

Steve Soka, how can I help you? Hello, Mr. Soka! Hey, Steve.

What's up, Mr. Soka? How are you? How are you boys?

Good. How are you doing today? I'm just inventing birthdays and cigars, the tobacco leaf. I just do everything on my own.

I've created this holiday we call a birthday. Oh, you invented birthdays? I'm glad you called me because I just wanted to tell you happy birthday. Oh, thank you.

And by the way, did I tell you that my new cigar is going to be coming out soon? Because I invest everything. I create everything. I'm the creator of the cigar.

I just invented birthdays. I decided to put my name when it says, who invented birthdays? I put my name. Oh, in Wikipedia.

My name is in it. If you look at Wikipedia, it says Steve Soka. Steve Soka? Steve Soka.

Mr. Soka. Yeah, Steve Soka. Steve Soka.

Steve Soka. Yeah, I'm just heading home. I was getting all my dress shirts pressed. Oh, so well.

Here we got a little birthday celebration coming up here soon for you. Yes, we will see you this Friday. And then a little booth in BDP, a soiree from what I heard, okay, well I'm glad I invented the holiday for you boys, and I appreciate that, thank you very much, and I'm glad that you can enjoy the cigars that I have invented, I am the inventor, I am the creator, I am the man who invented cigars, and the birthday, so you're welcome. Mr.

Soki, you kind of sound like Ron DeSantis and Scott Pierce merged the love child of those two individuals. Well, I invented both of those boys. Oh, okay. I mean, if you look under governor, I invented them.

Oh, okay. That sounds very nice. And I, you know, I have a very specific voice. So, you know, everybody listens to me, they follow me, they read about me, they visit me, they do everything they do for me.

So they want to be me, so they sound like me, so therefore I am dead. All right, Mr. Shulkin, we'll see you Friday. Happy Birthday.

There you go. Wow, a lot of people. You know, I don't understand, if these guys are so close to you, how do you even have a chance to talk? I mean...

Well, you don't talk much. Yeah, you know, they just talk at you, and you're just like... You just, you nod a lot, yeah, a lot of nodding, a lot of mm-hmm, yeah, yeah. Atta boy, yeah, and with this run, there's a lot of drinking, so, you know, I just put the bottle up, So, when there's a car where he talks.

I understand. I get it. Woo! Wow.

Busy, busy. Can you clean all this up? A lot going on for your birthday. This is a lot more romes than I thought it was going to be.

Well, you and I know that I won't be cleaning any of this up. It definitely falls into the production manager's category. Well, Keanu's wanting to be on the show. Hashtag FireKeanu.

Hashtag FireKeanu. A little bit of a show update. I did a little research on our show there. Tell me.

50% of our downloads are through Apple. Really? 5 or something like almost 50%, but they don't tell you other than that. They don't tell you.

I got that from somewhere else. Half your downloads are from us. Half your downloads are from us, but we're not going to tell you exactly how many that is. But it's half.

Yes. 83% of our listeners are from a non-disclosed world location. Oh, cryptic. That's kind of scary.

They could be right next to us. They could be anywhere, I guess. I don't know. It's insane.

I don't know. But I hadn't checked the stats in a long time, so I looked and... Check and see what's going on. Let's see what's going on.

Those were there. It's kind of weird. Very good. So you have a rash we discussed earlier you wanted to talk about on the show?

I mean, come on, we have to... We'll just get right into your rash. You can't just drop the rash. You got to go into the whole prep work.

I don't know how you got the rash. So we went to the Halloween Horror Nights. Oh, you get the rash for the Halloween Horror Nights. We went to Halloween Horror Nights.

My OCD is really going crazy. It's a chafe. It's a solid chafe. Oh, did you not choose to correct...

No, no, I had the red attire. Well, I had the red attire for what I thought was the red attire at least. Did it rain? Oh, yes.

That's the problem. So I went in, you know, I have the tank top and like the really thin shorts, like the nylon. Oh, so you were almost bathing. And I'm wearing sandals.

Oh. Yeah, I'm ready. I figured it may rain a little bit. No big deal.

Right. Well, apparently, we had a hurricane that came through. Oh, yeah. It rained a lot.

Champered, flooded. Yeah. It was, you know, but we were partying through it. Right.

It's like, hey, listen, it's probably going to rain. Probably going to rain. We're going to hit all these haunted houses. We're going to get this done.

I don't know which camera to look at. I'm very confused. Just the one in the middle. We're going to get this done.

We're going to handle, we're going to hit every house. Right. You know, so. Oh, did you hit all of them?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. We got the express pass. I ain't fucking around.

I ain't. I'm not sitting in the line for 75 minutes. I'm looking at all of them and saying, you guys should have bought the fucking express pass. And to make it worse, here's what they do.

So they limit the amount of people that can buy the express pass. Right. But then they have one above it called the ultimate express pass. And the ultimate means you can go through the houses more than once.

Oh, so express pass only one time. Apparently, yes. Oh, but you pay extra, and you can go through more than once. Yeah, so I went to the Express Pass, and I'm like, I'm really sorry, we're out of the Express Passes, but we do have the Ultimate.

And I'm like... I'm an Ultimate kind of guy. I'm like, how much is the Ultimate? You know what, just give me fucking, I don't care, I want them.

How much is the regular one? The regular one's 109. A person? For the Express Pass.

A person? A person. You go through once? Once.

How many houses are there? 10. Oh, a $10 house, okay. Yeah.

Yeah, it's true, I guess you'd break it down like that. But you can also go on all the other rides to Express. Right. There's really 10?

I thought they only used to do like four or something. No, there's 10. So there's 10. Wow, they're really cramming them in now.

No, I think that's the going number they've had for a while. Oh, is it? Yeah. I've only been there once and it was four.

A long time ago. I think that was back in 19 fucking... Yes. It was $16 to get in?

Yes. Yeah, it was not $16. Express Pass was $45. Yeah.

Oh, they probably didn't have Express Pass back then. No, they just called the line moves faster. Yeah. So, the ultimate experience, how much is that one?

49. Oh, it's only another 40 bucks? Yeah. Oh.

But you're not going to go down, listen, you're not going through haunted houses again and again. If you, I mean... No, but still. Oh, so there's no other advantage other than multiple times.

Yeah. Ah, okay. Now I get a completely separate line or something. Yeah, I ain't going through them.

You know what, they're going, I'm ultimate, ultimate. Oh, we're just hitting the... Now, so they had plexiglass on some of them and some of the people there jump out and some of the people didn't, so... Did you watch Scream?

Oh my God, did she scream. She screamed a lot. She's a jumper. she did the run in place a couple times that's when you know it's good that was amazing but okay so it's pouring rain and we're like hey and of course meteorologist Mike it's going to be light it's going to pass soon so we just we trudge through it and as I'm walking I'm like man this isn't good you eventually reach a point where you're, it's just like you're swimming.

Wait, does the shorts you have on, do they have like the bathing suit liner in them? No, no, no. I have my boxers on. Yeah, boxers.

Or whatever, the briefs or whatever. Oh, boxer briefs. Yes, yes. Those.

So I start like, man, so I start doing like the little sidewalk, you know, just give yourself a little space or whatever. Should be taking powder or something. Oh, yeah. Well, I don't even think the powder would help, to be honest.

That would have been wet too. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it rained on us at the zoo Saturday, but. Not to that level.

No, no, probably not. No, it was not monsoony rain. A lot less walking. The zoo's considerably smaller.

But it's funny though, you can tell like the true Floridians, we're like, we're just gonna walk through this. Floridians is going, yeah. I don't see lightning. Right, yeah, even at the zoo there were people hiding under things.

Oh, I would say that was 80% of the people that were there, and they're like, "What do we do? " Yeah, we're just covering our beers with water and getting the beer, that's what we were doing. We saw people, it was really funny, people wearing ponchos, but like there were rivers going through the lines, So they would step on the railings to try and pass the rivers like it was a flood zone or some shit. I'm like, your shoes are fucked anyways.

You're not gonna wash away. Yeah, you're not, and your white Nikes are ruined. There's nothing you can do about it. It's too late.

My hey dudes are still wet. Just take the loss and move on. Right. You know what I mean?

So... These are $700 sneakers. Yeah, well... You didn't see my unboxing video?

Yeah, you gotta walk that through though. You gotta play the long game. I played the long game and I still came out sore. A little chafey.

I mean, no, I got a chafe the size of a softball on my left leg. You took the mani, though. I did take the mani. He didn't have creams and lotions in his mani bag?

The mani was unprepared. Very unprepared. Jeans. Oh.

Oh, yeah. Jeans. Fucking jeans. T-shirt with an overshirt.

White. Nike shoes. They looked new. Was he the one walking on the rail?

No, he wasn't. He had accepted the loss. Ah, gotcha. But, you know, the houses were really good this year.

Were they? I thought they were really fun. Yeah, we had a good time. I just love the Express.

I don't, hey, listen, if you ever go, you can't look at the situation and say, I'm not going to spend this money. You just say, you know what, I'm going to have a good fucking time. Right, yeah. I'm just going to commit to the whole experience and pay the money.

I'm just doing it. I'm just doing it. It's totally worth it. Without question.

So, yeah, we did all of them. I'm paying for it now. A little tired. With the chafing.

I have never had this. You're actually walking like a gorilla now around the shop. Yes, I have never had this level of chafing before. This is intense chafing.

It's chafing. Yeah, it's very serious. Wow. So.

So you have to sleep now tonight with a fan blowing at your fellas. This is cool. But the fellas aren't hurt. It's like the left side of the leg.

Right. But I just use the fellas as a target. Yes. But you want to keep that dry.

Yeah, so it dries nicely. Right. Yeah. I suppose.

I'm sure I'll be fine tomorrow. That's how it clears up. It dries. I'm sure I'll be fine tomorrow.

Get your wife to put some lotion on. I will say this. This is what's really kind of funny. Yes.

So I call her my daughter, but she's obviously my sister-in-law, she was babysitting. Yes. Oh, the instructions, wait, wait, we got to back up a little bit, no, I was over at your house on Friday night, your wife was giving her instructions, and it was more like, what do you mean I have to actually watch them? Yeah, oh yeah.

Normally I just don't pay any attention to them, I think she actually said at one point, and they're fine, and your wife's going, no, you have to check on Teddy, she has a full-size bed now. Right, yeah, there's a whole process. Well, normally she's okay, I just leave her alone. Yeah, no, that, yeah, that wasn't the case this time around, you know, and you could see, you could see that the boys were in full effect.

Oh. So, you know, I didn't, we, we came in, and we're just like, all right, we're done, you know, we shower, went to bed or whatever. Right. I woke up, and I started to assess the situation.

Oh. And. Condition of the home. Yeah.

And my goodness. I mean, we were gone for six hours, you thought a fucking IAD fucking popped off in my house. It popped off in my house. It was insane.

So, like, there was a goldfish jar on the couch. So someone was eating goldfish, and they're like. Oh, I meant, like, the goldfish from, like, Cat in the Hat. No, I'll just leave this here.

There was, like, muffins, like, little bites, muffins, half-eaten, fucking thrown in places. The dog didn't clean all that up? No, he left it alone. Go figure.

So he just follows the baby. He knows that the baby is the key. Well, he is the key, right. But the baby went to bed.

Right. So you think you just, well, I'll just clean up here, there's goldfish, there's muffins. No, he didn't clean any of that shit up. So, the kids had drawn a marker on the counter, and it had bled through.

Oh, the paper. Yeah, so there was an attempt to clean that. And it failed, it didn't work, so they just took the fucking cleaning thing, just kind of left it there, and walked the fuck away. Oh, a marker.

Yeah, that didn't work, I'm just... We can find this later, boys, put the bottle on the thing so your mom can find it. Yeah, it was, you know, I... Did you dock the young lady's pay?

What did the ladies pay? No, wait, listen, you get what you paid for, she was free. Oh. So it is what it is.

It doesn't, you know, like, you have to laugh about these sort of things. Right. You know? Oh, which again is like me here.

Which is like you here, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I would say, I would say I probably equally lose my shit on you guys about the same. Oh, well.

The only difference is though that she could jeopardize the life of my family where you could just destroy this business. I could jeopardize the life of my family. Okay, I'm sorry, I don't want to shortchange you. I know where the house is.

Yeah, of course. So, uh... I didn't tell Boots where the bathroom was, right, I think. Right.

Oh, that's nice. So, I, you know, so got the house back up to 100%. It's fine. No one died.

No one died. Everybody, you know, looks like... Oh, so your wife spent today cleaning the house. No, I, uh...

Oh, you helped. I mean, yeah. So, like, I tried to... Yeah, I tried to...

I mean, first of all, I'll never be able to clean on her level. Without question. But... No, I did that problem with the cleaning lady.

Yeah. She's not... That's why we don't have a lawn service on it. It was never Adrian lawn service.

That's why I cut the grass. Either accept the way it looks, and you didn't really have to do much, or we just... Right, you're just, I think that, yeah, you know, you have to say, I didn't have to do this. Right, exactly.

And this is okay. Yeah. She didn't do a bad job at everything she did. It was just some things.

There were some things that weren't... Done. Adrian-esque. Yes.

Yes. Well, I'd rather just do those couple things and then fucking move on. Yeah, exactly. Hey, just bang that out.

Hey, dust these two things, and we're done now, right? Oh, you want me to dust that? There you go. Boop, boop, boop.

There you go. It's all set, ready to go. There you go. So...

Been dying of blows off of there. Mm-hmm. I don't want to light on fire. They're probably very...

I don't have an ashtray. Maybe, I might go up... I might go up the flames here. It's behind your giant water jug.

Ah. There you go. Oh, I am checking the time. We're at 21 minutes.

We're still okay. Good. So that was, and then I got to cover for Chet on Saturday. Yes!

We had a lovely time at the Zoo Beer Bash. Yeah, you guys went out, and thank you very much for the invite. We really appreciate that. You know how much I love to be invited, but you didn't invite me.

You wouldn't have come! I still appreciate the invite, so I can turn it down. There's always an open invitation for you, Michael. No, it doesn't work that way.

It was a ticketed event! " The Atwells bought the tickets for people. Oh, so he didn't invite me. He didn't, it was his event.

I'll have to, I gotta, he gets a pass 'cause he's helping with the football kids and all the other stuff. Oh, yes. Yeah, can't really give him a hard time. Oh, and then Boots is helping you move something tomorrow or something.

Yes, yes. Facebook Marketplace is still blowing up. Back on me. Oh, it falls back on me.

Yeah, it's just you. Just me. You're just the problem here. It's the problem.

I don't know what else to tell you. Yeah, I would call this to DeSantis, get a job at the government or something. But I, you know, I, when I was here, I didn't, you know, like I did, like the manly things or whatever. I don't know, manly?

Manly? Like, the things that... Empty the trash? Yeah.

Stepped on the bugs? Yeah. Pretty much. Pretty much.

The heavy stuff? Yeah. You know, like, Danielle had it all under control, you know, for the most part. She runs a place when you work with her.

She does. Yeah. That's all I do. I make sure she's got clean glasses, I empty the trash, and fill the beer.

I'm like, do you need anything? She's like, no, I'm going to take out the garbage. I'm like, no, you're not. I will take out the garbage.

Right, yeah. I'll take out the garbage. Yeah. No, I could...

No. Yeah. I have to do something. Yeah.

Like, listen, I'm up here. Right. Well, when we called, you were sitting outside. Yeah.

I was bullshitting with Mark Gordon and my boy Tater came up and, you know, that was cool. Yeah. I rang up a few people. You know, like there's a couple of times where it gets busy enough where you need two people, but it doesn't, doesn't really, it's not like a continual thing.

Right. Not like an event night or something. Right. So, yeah.

But it was cool. Glad I got to do it. Oh, well, would you like to work every Saturday? Absolutely not.

not it's 12 years of work so i don't have to work on saturdays you know that whole thing right believe me it's not the paycheck i can't hear you that much the paycheck was enough i'd be here on saturday oh sure no problem i'll be here every day yeah absolutely right i'll just fly in my lear jet fuck it flying on your jet but yeah there's no jet i'm not i don't have it's not david garofalo money you know oh did you see your boy uh john carney was hanging out at some big There was a big fancy party with Mr. I did not see that. There was a picture of John Carney, another gentleman, and then David Garofalo. Oh.

Very, I didn't realize he was that short, David Garofalo. Is he short? Well, he came up. John Carney's very big.

Is he really that tall? I don't remember being that tall. He's a tall guy. Over six foot, I guess?

Yeah, I think he's pushing six. Oh. Should we call him? No, go ahead and call Justin Andrews.

Let's get that out of the way. Let's link that up. Let's call Justin Andrews of Diesel Cigars. Since he doesn't like to answer the phone.

Since he doesn't like to answer the phone. Since he doesn't like to answer the phone. If he answers, what do we do? Do we let him on for a second?

No, we hang up on him. Alright. Roadcaster. Unsuccessful.

Roadcaster. Here we go. Let's see. Oh, you probably can't link up because I'm linked up.

Yeah, you gotta disconnect. You know it's a process here, Michael. I know, sorry. You know what needs to be done.

It has to be done. I'm going to disconnect. There we go. Let's see here.

There you go. Now you should be able to connect. Do I have to hit the button? Hit the button.

Let's see. Spooling. Spooling. Connected.

I can connect the earphone. All right. Justin Andrews of Diesel Cigars. Since we love to not answer when we call, we are going to continue to call during podcast time.

Ready? Yes. Alright, if you answer, we're hanging up. Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice.

Voicemail again. Wow. God damn it. Damn it, he's on to his nose.

He knows. He's a very busy man. I'm gonna call one more time just to annoy him. Your call has been forwarded to an automated voice.

Wow, wondering that time. Yes. I had Pete Sounds ready for him. Will you go ahead and play the Pete Sounds?

Yeah, let's play the Pete Sounds. Love a cigar. I'd love a cigar. Oh, that's not good.

I know you're going to walk me out of the car anyway. You know, I haven't had that. How was it? There we go.

The Pete drops for today. The fuck that guy you wanted is talked over. Is it? Yeah, it's not clean.

It's got to fuck that guy like a ninja star. I like the car though. I know you're going to walk me out of the car anyway. I know you're going to walk me out of the car anyway.

That's fantastic. No, I haven't had that. How was it? I figured that would be good when we're talking about cigars.

You know, I haven't had that. How was it? I haven't had that. How was it?

Yeah, how was that? That sounds amazing. That's amazing. I know that we have a fuck ton of cigars in front of us, but we're still not going to talk about them.

Not until we come back. Not until I have after. There's going to be a Facebook Live when we come back. Yeah, we're going to do Facebook Live.

But it will have already have happened once people hear this. We've already lived it. We've already lived it. Already have.

Already have happened. All right, let's go and take a break then and then we'll be right back. All right. Hey, it's Mike too.

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Are we on? Are we on? Welcome back to episode 192 of a Cigar Hustler Podcast. Yes.

And we are Facebook Live. I wonder if I can just go look on... Oh, yeah. There you are.

Here I am. And there you are. Oh, you gotta turn that down. Oh, slight delay.

Oh, slight delay. I don't see it. We have to wait a few minutes. Live interrupted.

The broadcast has been paused. No, it hasn't. No, mine keeps telling me that. But it is live.

Let's see. Oh, I'm connected to the thing still. Oh, well, get off of that. You get off of that.

I can turn it down where we can't hear you. I'll disconnect it. Don't worry. Just relax.

Four. Four people are watching. Oh, here we go. John Jugalette is watching.

We got the news, guys. John, you're the light. Sorry, I said his name wrong. Okay.

Turn the volume off. We can hear us. They can definitely hear us. Right.

So turn your volume down on your phone. Stop yelling at me. Six people. There we go.

A little bit of liking. This is behind the scenes. Chris Baldwin. Behind the scenes of the Cigar Hustlers podcast right now.

Oh, from England. Mr. Knight is on from England. So you're going to get it ahead of schedule.

We're going to get part two. I really wish they could hear the sound effects. Yeah, they can't hear. We'll work on that.

It's a building process. You know, it takes time. But it's nice to see people. Let me see news comments here.

Seven. I can see the comments. I can't see the comments. There it is.

Oh, I want to see all of them. Sorry for the ass-dialing, Palmer. Yes, I'm sorry, too. We already talked about that.

We talked about that on the beginning. You'll hear that on Tuesdays. So handsome. Look at this.

Yes. Yes. Michael Knight. Hello, Mr.

Knight from England. Yes. Nice to see you. Well, let's get on with the show.

Eight people. Wait, let more people get on. Why? Let's just do this.

Oh, the regular show. Yeah. Oh, I thought you meant this. Oh, you want to talk about that from the get?

No, no, we can talk about this. No, let's drop that real quick. We got cigars in front of us. From the four corners of the world.

They can't hear the news. All the cigars. We got this. You want to talk about this?

Yeah, all right, talk about those. Talk about those. What are those, Michael? Hey, what are those?

These, these cigars right here. These, these. Are called bangerings. Well, they're regular cigars.

No, they're not. They're bangerings. They're bangerings. They're bangerings.

And it's a first collaboration that we've done with Espinosa Cigars. Eric Espinosa, my friend. The Eric Espinosa. Oh, how exciting.

He's next level. He is. He's pretty amazing. He's an amazing guy.

I hear Jack Taranio worked for him. You did? Yes. I heard Hector does, too.

Oh, wow. Richie Otero. I just want to know who's in charge. Is Hector in charge of Jack, or is Jack Hector?

Like, how's that work? There's a delay. It's really confusing. Don't look at your screen.

I'm not sure either. And then who's in charge of Richie? I think everybody's in charge of Richie. Everybody's in charge of Richie?

I think Richie is a full-time job. You gotta love him, respect him, but you know. You know, did they hang out at Smoke on the Water too? Uh, no, they don't, Alfredo's, Alfredo, Alfredo.

But we made 5,000 of these. Well, Eric made 5,000. Eric made 5,000 of these. And they're fucking amazing.

How do I not see? So we're gonna release these to our retailer, retail partners. Yes. We're gonna, stop talking.

Sorry. We're gonna release these to our retail partners. We're gonna start sending them out this week. Um, we're gonna give some media presses and some other stuff.

Uh, press release. Yes, that's it. Yeah, we're gonna do a press release. Oh, we should do a video press release right after, with all the shit all over the table.

Yeah, that sounds like a great idea. We should totally do that, with shit all over the table. So, 5,000 sticks. 5,000.

They won't be on Cigar Hustler until we fulfill all of our retail partners. So, if we have any left, we'll make sure that we get some, but you gotta take care of your people first, and that's what we plan on doing. So, hey, everybody eats. Everybody eats, goddammit.

Everybody eats here at Cigar Hustler. we take care of our people. We eat last. We're excited to have this.

Thank you very much, the Espinosa family, Hector and Jack Tarano in that order. And obviously Eric first and foremost. Yes. Gotta love Eric.

Gotta love the cowboy jokes. You know. So you ready to get on to the I made those scores for you, bro. Those are really good.

You should put those out. You ready to get on to the news? Certainly. We're gonna still live to the news?

We'll live all the way through the podcast. Let's do this. Alright. La Aurora launches an online store, Michael.

Really? S. com. That's got to be frowned upon.

You would think, right? As a retailer, you'd be upset about that. You think that would be bad, yeah, now you've got to compete with them. Yeah, we make the cigars, we sell the cigars.

Well, it's kind of smart on their end because they are not discounting, they are selling full retail. Oh. So, the new e-commerce platform is operated by somebody I can't pronounce, a company with roots in the travel and duty-free sector. A press release from La Roar makes it clear that La Roar will not be placed, known for discounting, says La Roar will compete on, will not compete on price with retail.

Oh. Currently, its inventory is made of almost exclusive La Roar cigars. Oh, does that mean they might sell other people's cigars still? Maybe.

They're basically sending an online store. So they're pretty much just going retail. Which, that means now they make more money. They do.

Well, who knows? You're not playing the long game. Well, there's, they're matching retail, it said. Yeah, but you might, uh, you might upset some people, I don't know.

That's what you would think. So now you got to go against is worth it to sell just the one cigar, or do we want to sell a lot of cigars at one time? It's a lot to consider. Or maybe they're not selling a lot of cigars, so now they're back to the one.

Oh, who knows? Hmm. Okay. All right.

Tatuaje T110 Reserva. Tatuaje? Yes. When Pete Johnson Tatuaje announced the Tatuaje T110, one of the most sought after cigars in company's history, will return as a limited edition.

Aha! We don't carry those, so we're not talking about it. We don't get those, yeah, we don't get those here. Seven Capremiso Seleccione Grand Elefante heads to a private release.

Big elephant. Later this month, the guy up the street will get them, so we're not talking about those either. I'm not talking about that. All right.

It's my fast day here. We're covering the news at a rapid pace today on Cigar Hustlers podcast. Things we don't carry, things we don't talk about. Exactly.

Oh, this one though, we have this one. Long live the King, Mad Mofo, supporting Cigars for Warriors. Long live the King, Mad Mofo, new cigar from Caldwell Cigars has begun showing up at stores. Yes.

We have them here. Yeah, that was a cool thing that he did, you know, he's supporting Cigars for Warriors. Go ahead, you tell the story. I don't need to now, you just tell everybody.

No, it's all for you, it's all about you. It's a 5x50 Robusto that uses a Mexican San Andreas Maduro wrapper over a Dominican binder and fillers, which Caldwell is described as being both very rich and more sophisticated than the normal Mofo lines. Ah. The cigars have an MSRP of $11 and offered in a 10 count box with a thousand boxes being produced at Tabla Galera, William Ventura in the Dominican Republic.

I'm just kind of curious as to how you actually measure the level of sophistication. Of a cigar? Yeah. There's color in the band now with the Long Live the King mofo thing.

Yeah. There's color in it now. The other one is no color. Oh, okay.

Do you give it an IQ test or something like that? It's not intelligence. It's sophistication. You could be sophisticated and still be stupid.

Really? Give me one example of a sophisticated person who's stupid. Keanu. He's definitely not sophisticated.

But, that was a good try. That was a good try. Cigar is only being offered to stores that are designated as Cigar for Warriors Donation Centers. Call was also known that there will be a yearly limited edition.

Oh, that's cool. I mean, I like what he's doing. That's, you know, promoting Cigars for Warriors is a good thing, you know. I believe they hooked up a PC.

I saw some press release about them agreeing to this at his booth. Which, by booth, I mean he was standing behind the one next to him because he just had the folding table. Right. Yes.

Ace Primes. That he left and returned. Yes, exactly. Ace Primes Fiat Lux arrives at stores.

It did. A little later than anticipated, but Fiat Lux by Luciano from Ace Prime is beginning to arrive at retailers. We have those here. They came in this week.

The company originally announced that it would be shipping the cigars to stores right after the 2021 PCA Convention and Trade Show in July. But, you know, they had a couple of delays, pushing back into August, then again, more delays, pushing back into September. Yeah, welcome to the industry, plus pandemic. Yes.

Luciano told Half Wheel that the first shipments went out last week, which, that's about right, that's when we got ours. Fiat Lux was blended by Meriales, Mer-E-L-E-L-E-S, Mer-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E Once announced, the company said it is a blend that generates deliberations and provoke, what? Yes. It is a blend that generates deliberation and provokes an exploration of flavor.

Provoke, provoke flavor. Don't provoke, don't provoke flavor. I'm provoking, I'm provoking flavor. If you provoke flavor out of me, you'll get hurt.

I'm provoking flavor. Yes. Making this cigar was deeply personal, the guy's name said that we can't pronounce, and half will. Luciano?

No, Mariales. Mariales. Merles. Merles.

Merles. I don't know. When imagining enveloping a Fiatalox, the Prostra was intimate, reflecting... Ooh!

It was intimate. Sorry, it was very intimate there for a moment. Sophistication plus intimacy. Maybe the sophisticated cigar would like to meet the intimate cigar.

Yeah, it's gonna get down. Shit's going down. And porn music was starting. I like it.

Exploring how the flavors of a complex blend can reflect the singularity of the human experience. Oh, very nice. I'm expecting an awful lot out of this cigar. You really are.

Like it did for me, I hope this cigar gives everyone the opportunity to just let some light in. It's a great cigar. The Corona is fucking amazing. Is it?

No peanut butter, though. I didn't get any peanut butter. No, the young lady from the other show says peanut butter. I didn't get peanut butter.

I never got the peanut butter. No peanut butter. I'm very disappointed because I like peanut butter. It happens.

I recommend you eat peanut butter if you're looking for peanut butter. Peanut butter whiskey. Or peanut butter whiskey, yeah. Cigar gets its name from a Latin expression that means let there be light.

That's what I quoted earlier. It should have came with a flashlight or something. Oh. That would've been nice.

And while it has biblical roots, it's often known for its usage during the intellectual movement of the Enlightenment. Mmm. I like that. There's a lot going on.

It sounds a little complicated. Yeah. And the third Cigar Luciano line joining The Dreamer and The Traveler, both of which were limited editions, although The Dreamer has since become an ongoing production. Ongoing production.

Yes. I have no idea what kind of time we're at here. I have no idea. Moving on.

All right. So now, that's all the industry news. We have some other stories. Oh, I got a retailer for us.

Do you have a listener of the week? Yes, but I forgot who it was. Oh, no, no, yes. You have it?

Yes, yes, yes. Okay, you want to do that now or afterwards? We can do it now. Okay, the retailer is Sun Cigars.

Oh, Sun Cigars in New Jersey? Pennsylvania? Pennsylvania. Yeah.

With Vince. Vince is in there. Matul Shop. So make sure you go check out Sun Cigars.

They just opened up recently. Recently. Great opening special. You say you saw it on the Cigar Hustler podcast, and Vince gives you a big hug.

Yeah, they're doing a black label event soon, too. Very exciting for Vince. They don't like us. That's okay if they don't like us.

I don't care. I'm all right if they don't like us. They're not alone if they don't like us. Is Smogini going to be there?

Because she's black label. I have no idea. " And here's my sponsor. So go check out Sun Cigars.

Vince is very lonely, so he needs friends. He needs friends. He's a good hug, though. He's a great hugger.

Great hugger. Yeah. Sure he is. And our Listener of the Week.

Oh, Listener of the Week? Dak the Mayor. Today is Dak's birthday. We'd like to wish Dak a happy birthday down at, what's that shop called down there?

S&M. S&M Smoke Shop. The Fort, they call it. The Fort.

Down in Port St. Lucie. Yeah. Everybody wish Dak a happy birthday.

Happy birthday, Dak. Happy birthday, everybody. And you're getting it live, so it's official. Oh, I forgot we're live.

Yeah. We had nine whole people watching. Oh, ten! Somebody else just logged in.

That's right. Yep. Salton's coming up. Salton's going to be here.

He's going to be here tomorrow. Yeah. Oh, that's nice. That's nice.

Salton's a good guy. We'll open early. We'll be here. I like Salton.

Yes. Go ahead. Two people dropped off. Let's see.

Thanksgiving may seem far off, Mike. What's that? Are you already getting ready for Thanksgiving? Stop looking at the perver.

I'm not prepared. You know what's funny is, at my house, we're not even talking about Thanksgiving. You're going to focus on Halloween, and then you're going to fucking blast right into Christmas. That's the problem.

Nope, you gotta plan ahead now. No, I gotta plan ahead for Christmas. Hold on, wait a second. What?

You wanna know why I gotta plan ahead for Christmas? Why? Because you wanna make sure that there are gifts for the kids. Everything's fucking chaotic still.

The pandemic, and you can't get stuff. There's food shortages. Oh, well skip Thanksgiving. Food and product shortages.

Higher prices and shipping issues sought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The time is actually now. Start planning for Turkey Day. It might only be September, but for many of the holidays are already here, said NBC Senior Business Correspondent Stephanie Rahul.

Holiday food shopping this year will be more challenging than ever. Really? com told Today, this is from the Today newspaper, Today Show, but I don't know what it is. Food is an email, what?

Food is an email, the perfect storm of climate change, especially the wildfires in the West, has destroyed some crops, which has driven up the cost of soy and corn feed for animals, which translates to increased costs for the farmers and therefore the shopper. Aha. You're not even listening, you're doing the ahas. I'm looking at, I'm talking to Dana now.

Flimperts, Dana McCool? Yeah. Oh, hello, Governor. Yeah, the Governor's on.

Your friend, Governor DeSantis, called us earlier. Biggest increase in animal-based products, milk, is it going up? Yeah. Eggs?

Yeah. Beef? Right. Pork?

I get it. Chicken? It's called inflation. And yes, even, no, no, this is more than inflation.

Oh, it's more than inflation. You don't pay attention, there's no food to feed the animals. Ah. Less animals.

There's less animals. Feed them to each other. I mean, that could work. That was the survival of the fittest.

Exactly. Darwinism. Oh, maybe we should get a farm. Also, transportation cars have drastically risen, and the refrigerator transportation is up 10%, and there's not enough trucks.

Yeah. Oh, they're going to put the bodies on it. It's chaos, man. There are cats and dogs that are living together.

It's fucking insane. Due to the pandemic, many food pricing facilities are operating well below capacity, Mike. Add to that the fact that many supermarkets are reporting their suppliers can only fill 50 to 70% of their orders. So no turkeys for Turkey Day.

What this all means is that prices will continue to rise for the next 16 to 18 months, and we will see shortages on supermarket shows. Oh boy. Thanks for giving food, smaller and fresh frozen turkeys, 16th pounder, we're going to be in short supply. Oh, you get the big ones.

The big turkeys? The big turkeys. Yeah. It's kind of like the Express Pass.

Right. The regular ones. The ultimate experience turkey. You're going to need the ultimate experience turkey.

You need the Kamehameha. Kamehameha turkey. Wow. It comes with a chef.

We could kill alive. There's nobody watching. Why? Three people.

We're going to let it go. You need to be positive. There's only three people. Ride it out, Mike.

God damn it. Very disappointing. This is why we don't do live shows. That's not true.

We just don't do live shows because, I don't know. We just don't fucking do live shows. It's a great shot though. But we're here.

Yeah, I like the angle. It's nice. It's frozen like several times. But the confetti on the table adds to it.

It does. It's a big celebration. 504 pound alligator suspected of killing a Louisiana man from the Ida floodwaters is captured. Not in Florida.

Do you have a Florida one? No, there's no Florida news this week. Nothing, I don't want to talk about people killing people. Okay, all right, okay.

Nothing funny. Okay. But his alligator ate this man. Okay.

But you got to hear the story how he ate the man. Mm-hmm, interesting. They found human remains in the stomach. Okay.

All right, a 12-foot-long alligator believed to have attacked a Louisiana man in Hurricane Ida floodwaters two weeks ago was captured and killed Monday, and authorities found human remains in his stomach. Wow. All right, now here's where it gets good, Michael. Yeah?

He was attacked outside of his home, which is surrounded by floodwaters in the New Orleans suburb of a slid isle on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Okay. His wife heard a splash and walked outside of their home to see the alligator attacking her husband. Yes.

She managed to pull her severely injured husband to the steps of their home. Yeah. Then she used a small boat to reach higher ground to get help. When her and the deputies returned back to the house, the man was wrong.

Yeah. Yeah. Sheriff deputies were joined by the federal and state wildlife agents in the search for the alligator. Trap set by alligator hunters captured the animal Monday morning, says Sheriff Randy Smith.

So they pulled him out of the water. She did. She did. Okay.

Yeah. But he was still alive. He's still in the vicinity of death because the gator just went and got him later. Well, the gator, yeah, you know, and the lady beat him with the oar or something.

I don't know. And she pulls him up on the porch. Right. I go for help.

Yeah. You wait here. Wait here. It's safe.

I'm going in the canoe. I got you up out of the water, everything's fine, everything will be okay, everything will be okay, you'll be all right, tourniquet, a little band-aid, here and there. So she went to the bar, she waited a while, no, she went to the canoe and paddled to the high ground to get help, right, help, help, an alligator bit my husband, right, come with me everybody, let's go, so then they grab their pitchforks, and their torches, and their other little boats, and they all go back to the house, uh-huh, but now, now, now, it looks like he's gone, oh, he's, he's gone, he didn't make it, oh, the alligator came back and got him, exactly, Poor man. Sounds like she didn't want anything to do with that marriage.

Yeah, maybe she didn't really get it. Yeah, right? I feel like she hired the alligator. " Oh, yeah, boop!

Yeah. Allegedly. I don't want to get sued by the alligator. It's all alleged.

12-foot alligator. That's a big alligator. That's a big alligator. Yeah, how much you pay him?

The alligator? Yeah, at least 500 bucks. You just let him keep what he eats. Oh, that's nice.

Yeah. It's all yours. Yeah. This is a horrible tragedy, and my sincere condolences, and some of the ghosts of the Satterley family, said the sheriff.

I know today's findings does not bring their loved one back, but hopefully this can bring them some sort of closure. Was he an old guy? Was he a young guy? The age was not disclosed.

Mmm. You never know. But I feel older, I'm thinking, I'm guessing. Yeah.

Probably. If they couldn't get him up the stairs. Well, she got him up the stairs. Kind of.

She left him on the porch. Didn't take him in the house. You weren't here on the porch. And she went back and got the alligator, pushed the alligator upstairs.

Maybe it was a ramp or something. That's fantastic. All right, Michael. C.

have caught COVID from the gorillas. Oh, my God. It's a different zoo, but now the lions and the tigers have... It's spreading.

It's spreading through the animals. C. have tested positive for COVID-19, the zoo announced on Friday. Who...

Who checks all this? I'm glad you asked, Michael. Yes, tell me. The initial results through fecal samples led to the initial positive tests through final results are expected in a few days, as they said.

So what are the lions and tigers coughing, or are they just random testing? So they're checking the poop? They're checking the poop. Oh, okay.

It's in human poop, we had that story, and it's in the balls, and apparently it's everywhere. Can you imagine going through the drive-through, like the COVID line or whatever, and they're like, here, put this in your nose and say, oh no, and you hand them a jar of your own shit? Oh, it's a box. Well, there's those things now you can get your colon checked by mailing poop in.

Yeah, here, take my poop. I got a poop. I got a poop in a box. A poop in a box.

The zoo has conducted a thorough investigation of all staff that were in close proximity to the lions and tigers, the zoo said. I'm not going to change the page. In a statement, there is no evidence to pinpoint the source of the infection. Hmm.

I don't know. Somebody's what? Patient zero? Anti-symptomatic.

Was Boots at the zoo? Boots may have been at the zoo. Boots may have been at the zoo. Well, it's possible the infection was transmitted by an asymptomatic carrier.

Yes. This is a standard practice for all animal care staff and essential staff to mask indoors in all public and non-public areas. Mike was not six feet from the lions and tigers. Has Pfizer approved the lion vaccination yet or what?

Let's find out. The six African lions, a Sumatra tiger, and two Amur tigers were included in the results. So they're not even all in the same cage. It's not like, you know, they're having a cat meeting and then, you know.

No, that's ridiculous. Hmm. Let's see, they reported on Friday, last weekend, zookeepers noticed multiple animals were showing decreased appetites and were coughing and sneezing. That's the tiger and lion sneezing.

Oh my god. Oh, thank goodness, no other animals at the zoo have tested positive. Well, the bears are gonna be next. You gotta check that poop.

The bears. Yeah. Lions, tigers, and bears. Yeah, it goes in order.

It's a group thing. Yeah, it makes sense. Yep, the report said, and there is investigation into staffers who are in close contact with the animals, mm-hmm. I'm blaming the bears, I think it were the bears.

It was probably the bears. The bears. Facecomings are required in all indoor areas of the zoo, and certain parties are closed out. COVID-19 precaution, they said.

Nice. That's all you have. There's lions in another zoo, too, that have it, too, but I forget which one it was. Okay.

Well, hey, before we hang up and let our Facebook live-ers go. Let these five people. Four people. That's all else is left.

Make sure that you like and subscribe to us on YouTube and you follow our Cigar Hustlers podcast on any type of fucking platform. We're on all of them. We're on all of them. We're everywhere.

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All the important information. Right here. Now they know they need to buy their turkeys early. Yes.

Stay away from the lions and the tigers. Yeah. And make sure you marry the right one that won't leave you on the patio. Oh, yeah.

Super important. And if you're an unvaccinated gorilla, you join the AVGG. Yeah. The AVGG is a big deal.

If you don't know what we're talking about, you need to review last week's episode. So. Yes. Anti-vax gorilla.

Yes. Group. AVGG. KVGG.

The Anti-Vaccination Gorilla Group. Right. Very strong in Washington. Oh, Atlanta.

Very strong in Atlanta right now. Yeah. They're a powerful organization. They're all sick though.

So it's terrible. Terrible there in Atlanta. They're a powerful organization. They got a lot of lobbyists.

They got a lot of lobbyists. So. Well, a lot of bananas in Atlanta. Yeah.

There's bananas everywhere. A lot of bananas. Yeah. All right.

Oh, I should have had the preacher call in from Africa. Son of a bitch. Yeah. Well.

Daniel didn't come in today. I needed a woman's voice. If it was the other guy again, it's just. If you're Governor DeSantis, Scott Pierce, and Steve Soka.

That just never works. All right, well, hey, we're gonna cut it off. Nobody else is fast enough to keep up, so. Shout out to.

Shout out to who's watching right now? Yarg Steven is my dude. I won't say his real name, but Yarg. Yarg.

He's watching. Oh, he's logging in and out, logging in and out, logging in and out. Yeah, he's having problems, obviously. Obviously.

Hey, it's the Governor. Hearts back to you, Governor. You know we're not giving out bundles to live people, sorry. Sorry.

No, no, we're not, we can't give these things away. No, no lives, no live bundles. It's called Cigar Hustling. Not cigar charity.

Yeah, not cigar giving it all away. All right, everybody, thank you very much for episode 192. Thank you. All right, we'll see you later.

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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 Hojo Deeb. Ho-Jo! It's the Ho-Jo!

He didn't even let him fuck it up all the way. I couldn't get past Ho-Jo! I don't even have to try to end the record. He's not even going to try.

We're going to cover a lot of ground here, Mike. All right. Try to keep up. That's a sign of a good podcast.

You'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door. All right, end this.

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