198 Only Fans and one party gets canceled
Episode Summary
Episode 198 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with a chaotic Facebook Live experiment (complete with spotty Wi-Fi, GoPro troubles and a David Garofalo "who's number one" soundboard drop) before Mike and Michael officially announce the release of the Room 101 Who Shotcha — a bullet-shaped cigar from Matt Booth's Room 101, produced in a run of 5,000 sticks / 250 bundles. The hosts joke their way through the blend details ("unprovoked wrapper, undisclosed filler, no binder, country of origin: Latveria") and explain that the release is going out to supporting retailers first rather than being held back for their own shop, just as they do with Fable, Guaimaro and their other lines.
The middle of the show is classic hangout content: Halloween recaps and 1980s family costumes, thoughts on trick-or-treat age limits, why people keep losing their Facebook accounts and getting sent to Facebook jail, the Meta/metaverse rebrand, the new TikTok rival Clapper, cigar influencer culture and social media burnout, and news that the show is relocating again into a purpose-built production studio that will also help local people launch their own podcasts. Episode 200 is teased with a surprise guest — a cigar personality with part ownership of a brand.
The news segment (the Cigar Hustler Podcast Report) covers four stories: Espinosa Premium Cigars canceling its virtual La Zona Palooza and scheduling an in-person, invitation-only event March 3–5, 2022 at its Hialeah Gardens headquarters — with the hosts openly lobbying Jack and Hector for an invite and a green room; Stinky Cigar suing former customer Prestige Import Group (and its First Class Humidors retail operation) over alleged trademark infringement on its Stinky ashtray design, sold under the "Stink-A" name; HVC's Black Friday 2021, a 4 3/8 x 54 parejo with a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over Nicaraguan Corojo 2012 and Criollo 98, priced at $9.50 and limited to 600 boxes, with Reinier Lorenzo doing launch events at Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire — plus a year-by-year price history of the line; and Luxury Cigar Club's Choshi, a 5 x 54 Robusto blended by Billy and Gus Fakih of Artesano del Tabaco and made at AJ Fernandez's factory in Estelí, at $12.50.
The show closes with a Florida story: a Central Florida mother banned from volunteering at Sand Lake Elementary in Orange County because of her OnlyFans account, despite passing a background check. The hosts argue she broke no laws, that far too many parents don't volunteer at all, and that the district is on the wrong side of a moral judgment — and hope her threatened $1 million suit succeeds. Boss Cigars gets Shop of the Week.
In This Episode
- 01Facebook Live chaos and the Garofalo soundboardThe hosts fight Wi-Fi, GoPro and screen-share issues to go live on Facebook while replaying David Garofalo calling Cigar Hustler the number one podcast.
- 02Room 101 Who Shotcha announcedMike and Michael reveal the bullet-shaped Room 101 Who Shotcha from Matt Booth, a 5,000-stick / 250-bundle run going to supporting retailers first.
- 03Halloween, costumes and trick-or-treat etiquetteFamily '80s costumes, ninjas, turning off the porch lights, and a debate over the age cutoff for knocking on doors.
- 04Facebook jail, the metaverse and ClapperWhy people keep losing their Facebook pages, the Meta rebrand, and the new lower-standards TikTok clone called Clapper.
- 05Cigar influencers, Twitter and a new production studioSocial media burnout in the cigar space plus news that the podcast is relocating into a production studio to help others start shows.
- 06Espinosa cancels virtual La Zona PaloozaEspinosa Premium Cigars scraps the virtual event and plans an in-person, invitation-only La Zona Palooza for March 3–5, 2022 in Hialeah Gardens.
- 07Stinky Cigar sues Prestige Import GroupA trademark infringement lawsuit over allegedly knockoff 'Stink-A' ashtrays sold through First Class Humidors, Amazon and eBay.
- 08HVC Black Friday 2021 and Luxury Cigar Club ChoshiBlend and pricing details on HVC's $9.50 Black Friday plus Luxury Cigar Club's $12.50 Choshi, blended by the Fakih brothers and made by AJ Fernandez.
- 09Florida story: OnlyFans mom banned from school volunteeringAn Orange County mother is barred from volunteering at Sand Lake Elementary over her OnlyFans account and plans to sue for $1 million.
Brands & Cigars Discussed
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Transcript
That's recording and here we go. Oh, shit, I do have a good... Welcome to episode 198 of the Cigar Hustler Podcast. Yay, woo-hoo, woo-hoo, still the number one cigar show on Podbean, yay.
We were mentioned three times, well Cigar House and the Shop was mentioned three times in last week's Cigar Authority. Yep, that's right. Because they were reading the Twitter, the Twits, Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. Cigar Hustler, Cigar Hustler.
You know, it's his favorite show. I know. He said so. Square, square, square, square.
He's gonna say so in a minute. Oh. Why isn't this working? Uh-oh.
Oh, no. Carry the one. There we go. Ah.
Who's number one? Cigar Hustler, The Podcast. See? Hey, we're the number one show according to Mr.
David Garofalo. Oh, we lost connection! Oh, no. Stupid Wi-Fi in his place.
Stupid Wi-Fi. Turn it back on. Turn those machines back on. Oh, it's still recording.
It did it last time. I don't think it stops recording. Just it loses the connection. It just loses the Wi-Fi.
So yeah, so if you didn't hear that, Mr. Garofalo said... Who's number one? Cigar Hustler, The Podcast.
The podcast. The podcast is number one. That's right, Mr. Garofalo.
Thank you, sir. Very, very much. Are you going to do the live read or what? Mr.
Garofalo wanted to say we were number one. I just want to let you know. Yes. You too can become part of our podcast family and invest in our show.
Put your products in front of thousands of listeners and viewers on every episode. We're heard on, actually, it's 13 now. We picked up another one. 13 different podcast providers weekly all around the world.
com. com. Now, we have all these cigars, Michael, everywhere. We do.
They're everywhere. They're everywhere. They're everywhere. Oh!
Thank you very much. Everywhere. Everywhere. You're on fire today.
Yes. What do we have here, Michael? What are all of these cigars? Well, before we announce it, should we go live on Facebook?
Oh, we're not live yet? I haven't turned it on yet. Oh, yeah. Turn on the button.
I don't know what I'm doing here. It's too late, we were already live yesterday. Start, screen, share. Screen, share.
We'd like to record this on a computer screen. We'd like to grant access this application, okay. Attempting to reconnect, this is terrible Wi-Fi here, but it's still recording, so we're good. Share.
Yes. Yes, share. Share. Share with all of them.
Privacy, lose all privacy. I don't know what's going on here, just hit share. Is this maybe because your laptop's in here too, where this isn't working? I don't know.
It's not working, though. Want to share. This is working. Okay, we're back on the camera thing.
Want to share content on my screen. I don't want to share content on my screen. Okay, did you just hit the live button? Where's the live?
Oh, go live. There it is. You can reach more people. You know the title.
Three, two, one. Two, one. And we're live. We're live.
Hello, Facebooker. Oh, this hand doesn't show up. Live video starting. Hello.
It still says it's starting. Oh, it's not on yet. We're not on yet. Oh, this is.
Close unused applications. It's very upset. Too many, too many things open. Oh my goodness.
You are now live. Now we're live, Michael. Now we're live. They can't.
Oh, where'd they go? We're gone now. Oh my Lord. Asmise your dashboard.
Got it. Oh, what are you doing? I don't know. Trying to quit stuff.
Gotta quit applications. I'm just gonna drink. We're live right now. It's live.
You think? You're not even sure. GoPro player? Why is that on?
Oh, GoPro. Oh, we got the GoPro running. Got it. Customize your dashboard.
This is why we... It says we're live. I can't see anything, though. Isn't there a button that shows you the camera or something?
I don't know. What is all that? Action needed. Close on use applications.
Just hit dismiss. Okay. Where's the thing? I've closed on use applications.
Can you... Closing, closing. Close faster. Close faster, it says.
What's all the numbers and buttons? It's very analytical there. 32 frames per second. Oh, that's good.
We can't even see us. There's got to be a oh wait i can't hold on is this thing on is this thing on oh is this thing on is it on am i on hello jack jack are we on jack jack uh okay do you see it it's very oh 32 frames per second it's still on there's a delay we have four people watching this is amazing oh there we are we're late beau is why hello beau and adam acre oh adam's my new tiktok friend we're friends on tiktok yeah oh i should probably turn you turn the volume down i have my volume all the way down Okay. All right. We're in business.
Okay. Still coming through somebody's microphone. Live interrupted. That's much better.
There's too much running here in the office at one time. Bo sees us. Bo. I see you.
I see you too, Bo. So we got the podcast going. We're Facebook Live. We're announcing.
It's official. From the, what? Where are we? Oh, we're doing that one?
Oh, I thought we were announcing something else. Go ahead. What are we announcing? No, no, please.
Go ahead. It's your show. No, it's your show. It's your show.
My show. It's not my show. It's your show. I'm just here for you.
It's your cigar. It's your cigar. Go ahead. No, no, please.
Please. The numbers are dropping quickly. The new cigar that's coming out is the Room 101 Who Shotcha. There's a delay.
I can't see what you're doing. We are releasing this. I can't see if I'm holding it in the camera or not. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Wow, it's like a big delay. Brittany, Brittany's watching. Hello.
Can you see that? Can you see that right there? No, there's a delay. You're still lighting on my screen.
It's so funny because it is what it is. I got a new dance for you, Palmer. Oh, is that me and Adam are TikTok friends? He's pretty good at the TikTok.
He is. He is. He is. He's very talented.
We should always, you should run lessons for, uh... " You know. So yeah, we're, uh, we're officially... " We're officially in business here.
Who Shots is gonna come out this week. Uh, I like to always announce it on the podcast. Talk to the camera. I think it's fun to announce it on the podcast.
Yes. Well, why don't we use this thing? Since we're number one. Since we're number one, since we're number one podcast.
We're number one because... Oh, they won't hear it if I hit the David button. The David Button? The David Button.
We're number one. You're going to have to listen to them. You're going to have to listen to the show to hear Mr. Garofalo say that we're the number one podcast.
Yeah, I can't even see it on my computer. They're number one. Oh, there it is! There it is, it's up here.
Oh. That's much better. I can see us. That was live.
Oh, there are comments over here. Yeah, come in. You can't go to, Steven, you can't go to Cigar Hustler right now to get it. Hey Mitch, how you doing brother?
Hey Mitch, how you doing? Hey David. How you doing Mitch? Yeah.
Live Cigar Hustler is the best cigar hustler, hands down. We should do this once a month. You know what? Maybe the first show of every month we do Facebook Live.
Maybe. I think that's a terrible idea, but what the hell? Who cares? We do whatever we want.
We do whatever we want. But this is a nice angle. I mean, we can see you. You look amazing.
But you look busy back there with all your stuff. I'm very busy. I like that. Very busy, very typey.
Typey, typey, video screens going. So yeah, so who shot you? It takes one of these, one of these, two of these. There's a lot going on.
Oh, so much going on here. We made 5,000 sticks of these as well, 250 bundles. And we're going to work on releasing them to our retailers. Yes.
Oh, that's right. The last one, we didn't even have any to sell here. We didn't even get them, no. We didn't even get them.
We didn't even get them here. We got to take care of our people. Take care of pimples. Pimples.
So get in line at the other shops. I'll tell you, this is delicious. Live is interrupted. The broadcast has been paused.
Oh, back on. Yeah, it's gone. BDP. BDP.
BDP. BDP. BDP. Oh, yeah.
Okay, so let's get into this podcast. So wait, tell them a little bit about it, Michael. Yeah? It's shaped like a bullet.
It's shaped like a bullet. It's made by? It's made by Room 101. And who owns Room 101, Michael?
Matt Booth. Matt Booth. Matt Booth. Yeah, yeah.
Matt Booth. So it's obviously not part of the Postanya line. No. Just kind of exploring and having fun with things.
One of the specials. It's a spin-off. It's like a spin-off comedy. We don't know, Bo.
So it depends on what everybody buys. You gonna keep any for your shop? No idea. We don't, we don't know.
I like to offer them to the retailers first, the people who have our backs and support Postana and all of our other loving lines, Guai Moreau, Fable, you know, FQ, yada yada, that stuff. Yada yada, those are my favorite, the yada yadas are amazing. Yada yadas are amazing. If you can find them, they're hard to find.
This, as far as the wrapper goes, what's the wrapper on this, Michael? I believe the wrapper was unprovoked. The wrapper's unprovoked? This is an unprovoked wrapper?
Unprovoked rapper. Unprovoked rapper. The filler? Undisclosed.
The filler's undisclosed? Undisclosed. I feel like we've used undisclosed before. Oh, have we?
Yeah. Pretentious, yet... Do we use that already? Pretentious, we use pretentious.
Unpretentious. Unpretentious? Sophisticated. Sophisticated, yet simple.
It's simple. Okay, okay. Sophisticated, yet unprecedented. And what's the binder on this?
No binders. There is no binder? No, it's magic. Binder.
You know, we forgot to write this shit down. We came up with it before. kind of just wing this thing. We just wing it as always.
I think that country of origin, we're going to make it like Latveria. You know what Latveria is? Oh, yes, yes. Latveria.
Yes. It's a very nice place in the summertime. It's wonderful. Just in the summer.
Wintertime, miserable place. Yeah, I mean, it's ruled by an evil man. I think it's a king. Well, he's a doctor.
Oh, Dr. King. Yeah, he's a doctor. Oh, Dr.
Martin Luther King? No, not Dr. Martin Luther King. Did he have a dream?
No, no, no, but he's a mean man. Oh, very mean. He's a mean man, yeah. Very mean, very mean man.
So that's a country of origin. It's on top of a mountain. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. Rules with an iron thumb.
It's definitely iron. No, the man rules the country with an iron thumb. Yeah, and an iron face. Not the fist, he just says the thumb.
No, he's got the fist. The fist? Yeah, I've seen it. Oh.
It's amazing. It's amazing. It went off. It says it's off on my phone.
It says it's live. Oh. We're doing well here. I can't believe there's only seven people.
You always say that, but you know, people are working right now. Other people will see it later. Oh, now there's eight, I'm happy. We gotta be positive, be positive, be positive, Mike.
David Morris, I got the good, good rapper, that extra firm binder, and that voluptuous filler. There you go. You know, David, that's exactly right. It's got that good, good rapper.
I like that. That good, good rapper, that extra firm binder. The voluptuous. Hey, Tanner Cassidy!
Hey, how you doing, Tanner? The voluptuous. Steve Shindu as well. That's fantastic.
Alright, so, hey, so, alright, well, let's get into the podcast a little bit. We're 13 now. Let's get up to the podcast a little bit. What's going on?
What are we doing? Well, we're not doing the news yet. Okay, but how was your week? Hey, how was your week?
Why didn't you dress up for Halloween? I did dress up for Halloween. Oh, you got jokes. Oh, that was you.
I just thought it was your normal outfit. I was the holster. It looked like you just put a paper mustache. Other than that, it looked like your normal clothes.
So we went for like 80s. Do you not have boots? Wait, with the flip-flops. I mean, the tights would have been a commitment, man.
I just didn't want, you know. Allison Turner wants to know how you're doing. I'm doing great, Allison. Oh, look, Jack Taranio.
What's up, handsome? What a handsome team. Hey, are we on, Jack? Am I on, Jack?
How does this work? Hector. Hector. Am I on Hector?
Hector? Is it on? Hey, Dak. So, anyways, yeah.
I mean, what was I supposed to do? I didn't want to, like... You don't have yellow boots? I didn't want to commit to the tights and everything like that.
Maybe socks. I put on red shorts. I figured that matched. I was, you know...
I had the boa. I wore the boa the whole time. I saw the boa, yeah. You know?
The mustache was only there for photo purposes. That thing was super annoying. Was it paper? It was, like, one of the sticky things.
Yeah, it was kind of paper. Oh. But it was fun. You know, it's funny.
A couple of weeks ago, we talked about this, and you were going to rule an Iron Fist to make the boys join in on your thing. Yeah, I came back. I said, no, no, one wouldn't be an army man back then, and I forget, one wouldn't, the other, oh, they both wouldn't be army men back then. Like a sack of potatoes, man, I just, I let them, they did whatever they wanted.
So, was there a, no, a ninja wasn't an extra neighbor. Yeah, no, he was a ninja? He was a ninja, yeah. Ninja's very popular this year, because my extra neighbors are ninja too.
I. Joe Baguette is, you know. Oh, and what was the older? He was like his LED thing, I don't know.
Oh, one of those where you walk around and it lights up? Yeah. Oh, you couldn't tell him the photo was daytime. Yeah.
It was one of those. So, but Teddy was in '80s gear. Yeah, sorry. So I'm reading.
So you're catching up. I'm getting discouraged, yeah. So Teddy was in... She was like a little workout.
What's up, Greg? A little workout girl. Yeah. So we went all like '80s.
So Brittany did '80s and then the Manny was Pablo Escobar and the Manny's wife was Escobar's wife. Thank goodness they posted separately because nobody said what he was on yours. Yeah. So I didn't know.
Yeah. Oh, sorry. And then Kristen was also in '80s gear. Oh, yeah, yeah.
I saw her in one of the group photos. Yeah. So it was cool. Oh, Michael Knight from England.
Hello, Mr. Knight. Yes. Cheers.
Sport of tea. So, yeah, so that was... Hey, tell the queen I said I hope she feels better. Mm.
Everyone you talk to her. Mm. What happens if she dies? Is it a good series?
I mean, is there an upheaval? The country shuts down. I think it's a seven-day thing. It's an entire year of mourning.
I think it's seven days. I think it's seven days. Seven. That's all she gets is the seven?
Seven. I think. And then they have to elect a new president or something? A new president?
There's a new president. Then the colonies break off and they start a new country somewhere else. All right. Sounds good.
Bucs look like my fins yesterday. Oh, this is not a sports show, Jack. Not a sports show. Listen, your fins have won one game.
Your fins have won one game. The Bucs, you know, the New Orleans Saints always play them rough. I don't know what to tell you. It is what it is.
Well, Jack's watching. We're going to talk about this show later, but- Hey, Tom. We'll get into this later when we do the news. Yeah.
No, Jack will watch it later. Yeah. Jack, you have to watch it later. Yeah, we're going to talk to you later.
Yeah, we have news. We have news. News. You know, but since we're on Facebook, I kind of had this weird question.
Yes. It seems to happen more often than not. Docs or briefs? No, no, no.
Oh, I thought that was that question. I just don't understand how people lose their Facebook page. Like, what exactly, like- How do you misplace that? Like, what do they do, what do they say that is permanently gone?
Like, it's the I mean, yeah, so, you know, 'cause, like, I have multiple friends over and over, I'm like, I'm pretty sure I'm friends with this guy, and then I see the post, like, hey, new page, lost my old one. Oh, I think they forget their passwords. Did they click on porn or something? I think they forget their passwords.
I don't think they forget, you can get that fixed, you can just send that in immediately. It's hard to do. Really? Yes.
How do you forget your password? I don't know. Somebody hacked-- I thought it was always secret one. Somebody hacked your page and then changes it?
So they click a link, they probably-- Oh, yeah, they probably get stuck on porn is what happens. Which kind of rose, you know, describes your personality, and then boop, then you're gone. Yeah, Brittany's upset that we went live, we couldn't go live before I got the kids. You guys couldn't go live before I got the kids.
I'm sorry, we had a meeting. I'm sorry, we had a meeting. It went really long. Jack's talking about wrist day.
Wrist day happened today. He, yeah, I just got that, but you know, he wasn't the topic of discussion, but there and again, you know, it's just like, what happens? I don't... Can he just call you after the show?
You guys can talk sport? No, this is fun. No, wrist day, wrist day is... Oh, oh, the cigar guy.
I'm talking about Facebook. Oh, he's the one who lost his page? Well, he's one of them, but it wasn't even the reason why the topic of discussion came up. I was thinking of another person.
I'm like, what happens? Rich Stey probably posted something he shouldn't have posted. Yeah, you think he clicked on some porn? I don't think he clicked on porn.
I think he might have posted some porn. Posted some porn? Might have been. And it probably had a meme?
Cigars are pretty close to porn at this point. Or presidential slur or something. Oh, man, that's crazy. Sweepy keeps getting sent to Facebook jail for telling people she's going to kick their ass.
You can't say that. You can't say it. I don't know. She told, the first time she got kicked off, she told somebody, I could tell you the secret, but then I would have to kill you.
Yeah. And then, whoop, she's gone for a month. Yeah. You're off.
There's no sense of humor. It's crazy. It's hard times out there is Facebook on the book of the face. And there is no, what, free press or whatever it's called.
Because it's Facebook. It's Facebook. Yeah, people don't understand it. You don't have the right to free speech.
It's Facebook. It's insane. You sign up, you click OK on that long list of things that nobody reads. Right.
That it says, we can throw you out if you say you're gonna kill somebody. It's just kind of crazy to me. It is. It's insane.
There's a new TikTok, apparently. A new TikTok. I saw it this morning. Is it TikTok?
I've been up since two. No, it's called Clapper. Ooh. It's like TikTok with lower standards.
Well, that's like when the lights, you can turn the lights on and off with that. No, it's not that kind of Clapper. It's not that kind of Clapper? No, no, no, no.
No, it's like on TikTok. I feel like you have that. I saw it this morning, I'm like, okay, this is as close to porn as you can get without being porn. Oh, that's on Clapper?
That's Clapper, yeah, that's at lower standards, or lower rules. Somebody's knocking at the door. No, no, they're working downstairs. Oh.
They're working on the lounge. Oh. The private lounge. The Rudy Tootie Fresh and Fruity private lounge.
So, here's the thought for all you guys that are losing your Facebook accounts. Just join Clapper and, you know. Oh, and eat some porn. Yeah, keep the porn to yourselves and keep it off the Facebook.
It's a trick if you click the link. I'm not sure, maybe Pornhub is still giving away the free pass to that, look into something, I mean, just stop, just don't hit the links, that was over a year ago, I just want you to know, no more links, no more, what kind of, yeah, like, if you get a friend request, and there are no mutual friends, Facebook, I don't care what he calls it, it doesn't make any difference to me, somebody asked what we thought about the new name on Facebook, oh, yeah, Javier Morales, oh, hey, Javier, how you doing, bud, it's the metaverse, it's pretty intense, I don't care what they call it, I think he's just a big Marvel fan, so, yeah, you think so, What's his name? He loves the Marvel? Marvel or...
Mark Zuckerberg? Yeah, there you go, him, that guy. It's possible. Maybe he just likes it.
He just wants to jump on the bandwagon. Maybe next month Thor will be the new little icon on the thing. That would be fantastic. I think that he'd be paying some serious royalties to Disney, though.
Oh. And if you know anything about Mark, you don't like to pay. Maybe he's merged. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe he bought them. Maybe. Maybe he fucked with their pots and pans. So, do you know there's this...
So, have you seen this Amazon commercial about this guy? guy i talk about this all the time my wife thinks it's crazy so if you watch football it's on all the time there's this guy jack wants to do only fans you should do only fans jack you'd make a lot of money yeah i think that'd be amazing gotta be a niche large man oh yeah gotta be one more okay i'm sorry you know what an amazon commercial so have you ever seen this amazon commercial where there's a blonde lady gets out of the truck no no that's not really a commercial no no that's a totally different thing totally different story that's probably on clapper yeah that's probably The camera inside the truck. So anyway, it's, it happens a lot during football. So I don't know if you see it or not, but it talks about this guy and he's a, he worked for Amazon.
He took care of his mother and his brother and they both got sick. Yeah. So he took care of both of them. Then he decided after they both died that he decided to become a nurse.
Okay. I'm sorry. That's red, but this is black over here. It doesn't matter.
We're rolling. No, no, you keep talking. I'm just making sure we're recording here. So have you seen this commercial?
Uh, I believe I have. Yes. Yes. They do a lot of those types of commercials.
All right. So they've helped their employees. Okay. So, but at the end, he's, You can see that this guy gets a little emotional.
He kind of closes his eyes and he says something. He's like, Hamalaka Manga Manga Ding Dong? Something like that. Have you seen that?
Not that particular one, no. So I just want you to know that when you see it now, when you go look for it, I actually went ahead and looked up what the fuck he says. Yes. And he says, I will never forget you.
Oh, in whatever language he's from? It's called Tagalog. Oh. So it's like Filipino.
It's in that realm. Yeah. I just want to know that I covered that for you. How do you not know that?
I probably have not seen it. I hope you see this commercial and it makes you cry a little bit, because the guy took care of his family before they all died. And the fact that you keep hitting your iPad is driving me nuts. I'm trying to get the camera.
Just let it go. It's going. It's recording. There's nothing you can do about it.
Yeah, but I can't get to it. It's over. It's over. You can't touch it.
It's over. You can't touch it. Never can turn it off. Well, at least we have the Facebook live.
Yeah, we do have the Facebook live right now. So what else you got going on? We don't give out candy and work at my house for Halloween. No?
Now we stopped two years ago. My oldest son is 26, so for 22-ish years, I've passed out candy. I feel it's been passed on to the younger generation. So now you're the grumpy old man in the neighborhood.
I don't grumpy. I just turn the lights off. Do you turn off the lights? I turn off the lights.
Yeah, we don't answer the door. Actually, the first kids came early, early in the afternoon. When they didn't need lights. Yeah, well, they can't tell if the lights are off or not.
So we're in the bedroom watching TV. We have all the dogs on the bed. Ding, ding. oh this kid's at the door he goes well go tell him we're not giving out candy i'm like i'm not gonna go tell him we're not giving out no kids no okay do you give him apples no i pulled up we had nothing to give what are we gonna give him scotch yes here everybody gets a shot of tequila kids tell everybody i'm the tequila house pulled it up on the ring like look there's seven of them they're kind of old to be out already yeah i guess they're probably at a party you go to they're trying to get the free candy for the party you know when we were taking teddy was awesome by the way she walked the entire time i saw the video she was she had a blast she was determined yes but when i when i knocked on a few houses there were some older kids that were with you in the crowd like they came along and i'm like listen man you know i don't know what the fuck's going on here but like at this point what do you think the age should be at this point you don't need to be out here looking for candy right you know there's go buy something 14 15 if you can get if you're old enough to work you shouldn't be out i feel like 14 is kind of the breach you think that's the line yeah If you could drive, you shouldn't be knocking on doors asking for candy.
Well, you can't drive at 14. At 15, you can. If your parent is with you. Okay, but that's what I'm saying.
So, dad's in the car. So, 15's the line. Dad's in the car drinking. Come on, son.
Come on, go to the next house. I'll be in the car. Let's go hit it up. Ask him if they got any cold beer.
Excuse me. Excuse me, sir. My dad's in the car. Do you have a beer?
Andrew just wants us to know that we are influential in his cigar smoking choices. And we appreciate you, Andrew. It's very nice to you. Which Andrew?
Oh, mine's not coming up anymore. Oh, there it is! No, you don't need it. You don't deserve it.
Why not? Because I'll just tell you. This is my section. Oh, you're MC Hammer now, Spikey.
I am? Who said that? Dara Watson. Can't touch this.
No, we're smoking the Hoos. Well, I'm smoking the Hoos Shot You. You're not even smoking it yet. I don't have one.
Well, why not? This is the one for the Patreon. The Patreon here is the Payback Sumatra. The Papa Chulo.
El Papi Gran Chulo. I got too much going on. I can't smoke during the show. I stopped doing that two years ago.
You gave that up? I got too much. There's too much going on. It just gets lit and sits there.
I just noticed that now. We've talked about this before. " But I don't really listen to you when you talk about it. Because the Patreon, I don't have to run the cameras.
I have less to do. Okay. That's fine. I have four screens here in front of me going, Michael.
Four? Three. Sorry, three at the moment. And one of them is driving me crazy because it's not on!
Because it's not working. As long as that little red light's on. That's why I like this camera. Because the other camera, we would not know.
It's true. We would not know. Well, we'll take our appropriate break at a commercial, and we can do it today. We don't need to.
It's recording. I mean, as long as I get it at the end. What happens if it's not? It is.
It's got the red light. If it wasn't recording, it would be green or flashing white. Ah, okay. All right.
With the new cameras. That's why we keep buying new stuff, because it makes the show to the next level. And obviously, it's been acknowledged through other podcasters. Yes, yes.
But they won't be able to, they can't hear this on the Facebook page. Who's number one? Who's number one, David says? Cigar Hustler?
Cigar Hustler, their podcast, he says. That's who's number one. That's right. He said that.
You have to listen to this episode in order to hear that. More than one time. Two weeks ago. Yeah.
In different places. In different places. And then you put it all together. So what else you got going on?
You're an IG influencer. So you didn't answer the door for the kids. Yeah, we didn't do that. I worked here Saturday and I was here all day, Friday.
You've just been here. I was over the weekend. I've been committed. Super busy.
Super busy. Super busy. Yeah. I'm going to get my car washed later.
I'll be all busy. A little inside joke. Oh, man. A little inside joke.
Oh, my goodness. So, should we announce what we did today? What did we do today? We are relocating the show again.
Oh, yes, we are. We're going to relocate the show. We are relocating the show. It's looking like it.
Yes. And if you're interested in doing your own podcast and you're local... We're building a production company. We're building a...
We already have a production company. We're building a production studio to where we can help other people do this wonderful thing of podcasting. Yeah. Matt says, "What's up, my dudes?
" Obviously, Matt would say that. Oh, Mr. Matt Tai. Yeah.
" We already are. Did you hear what he said? Who's number one? Who's number one?
They can't hear anything. Live people can't. I mean, everybody else can hear anything. I love that you pieced that together.
I didn't piece it together. I took it right out of the show. That's fantastic. Right out of the show.
Compliments of Cigar Authority. The second best cigar partner. Number two. Number two.
You know what? You know, I am a little jealous of them, though. Yeah. They are raking in the money.
Every three minutes, there's a damn commercial on the show. Yeah. Holy smoke. Yeah, that's why he doesn't miss an episode.
Because he flies in on his helicopter. Oh, he flew in from Dominican Republic. You weren't even supposed to be on the show on the one I listened to. His helicopter.
His helicopter. His helicopter. Yeah. Talking about the pizza.
He had to pay. He had the delicious pizza down in, And Dominican Republic. I had a piezer. I had delicious food, I had a piezer.
You had a piezer. You had a piezer. You got a new cigar coming out. Is it?
I don't know. Tres hombres? That might be what it's called. I don't know.
It's something Spanish. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, very nice.
They did show about cigar influencers. Yeah, they did. They covered a lot. And they did mention...
They mentioned the shop. They did mention it. And apparently the podcast. So, yeah.
Yeah, they did mention the cigars. I did mention how someone is right behind you that's relatively close by, but they're, they're not, they don't outrank. And I really haven't committed to anything on Twitter or, or, you know, even social media in general. You know, that's one of the things they were saying that Twitter, which I agree with, Twitter is not, at least for our purposes, everybody just sort of dumps, you know, you put your Instagram up and there's a button there where you click and it feeds it to Twitter.
Yeah, but you know what, like. I think a lot of people use Twitter, at least, but educationally, like my wife, they're on Twitter all the time. Right. They watch their Twitter numbers and everything.
I mean, personally, for me, I've been kind of struggling on social media. Like, it's just, uh... You know what? I have, except with stuff associated with a show or something stupid, it's sort of, you know, like, okay, here I am, holding another cigar.
Yeah, you get kind of tired of it. There you go, you know. Yeah. It does.
It gets a little old every once in a while. I like to post, like, something new every once in a while. Some people get tired of it, so... Yeah, so I'm just trying to post more meaningful stuff.
I'm trying to do more video stuff. That's why I've been watching the ticker-tocker, so stuff that would be Twitter is political dumpster fire. Yes, yes it is, Mr. Ty.
For that reason. But, I mean, like, Facebook Live, I like that we're doing this more. I mean, we've done it twice now. Yeah, we're moving along.
And this is the best angle we've done to date, I must say. Look at you. Oh, you look amazing. Oh, you like that because I'm hidden back here behind the equipment.
You look busy and I look like I'm very relaxed. You're so relaxed. And that's kind of how the podcast goes. That's kind of how the podcast goes.
A hundred percent. A hundred percent. So, yeah, that covered a lot. Let's see, Friday.
Oh, Friday. Friday, yes. Friday was the final game. Smashing Pumpkins.
Well, no, for football, for Justice. Oh, yes. We had our final game. There was a World Series thing over the weekend, too.
I guess it was on here. There was one gentleman who was very excited. Yeah. Well, I can tell you that as far as the Chargers go, that's Justice's team.
Chargers, your car? No, that's the football team that we are. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right.
Lovely shirt, by the way. I like the shirt. We are official champions. Ah, yes, I saw your wife's bows.
Yeah. We are the champions. We finished six and one on the season. We got, uh, they got little necklace pendants that say champions.
Oh, necklace pendants. Which is very nice. And, um, we made, uh, did I say, did I say this already? No.
We made turnover chains for everybody. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, you mentioned that last week. Yeah.
I didn't know where you were going. So, man, I'll tell you what. You want to talk about something? I just say, no, you haven't talked about it.
I got to tell you, those kids, they were very excited. They loved the turnovers, the apple turnovers. They, yeah, they love the apple turnovers. They're delicious, I like them.
Yeah. Could have brought me one. So, um, a lot of those guys, a lot of those kids are going to be back next season. Oh, to get more turnovers.
Yep, so I'm looking forward to that. Maybe they have fun next year, or is it still about the fundamentals? It's, listen, number one is the fundamentals. Number two is the fun.
Number one should be fun. No, no, nope, nope. Because they all got participation turnovers. They all got to try their best.
They all tried, they all worked. Oh, sure, they should always try their best, but you should still be able to have fun. Nope. We're done with this conversation.
We've already talked about this. So that went down. A lot of red over there on your screen. A lot of notifications and things going on over there.
Yeah, whatever. Saturday, we went to Universal for a little bit. Oh, did you see Keanu? He was there.
I did not see Keanu. Oh. But he went to Halloween Horror Nights? Yeah.
I went to the other one. What's the other one? Islands of Adventure. Oh, it's not in both both parks?
No, I did like kid stuff. One year they do it in both? They did like a hundred years ago. Oh.
Yeah. I think that was the last time I went. That was a long time ago. It's a long time ago.
My hands are hurting today. Oh, yes. Sorry. You're getting old.
I am very old. That's why I had to sell my motorcycle. My hands hurt. I did ride my electric bike yesterday, though.
Did you? Yes. Was Adi Kwama jogging? No, no.
She was in the house with the dogs. Oh, okay. That's very nice. It was a lovely day.
I wanted to get out and get a little fresh air. No exercise. I didn't want to get exercise. I'm not going to lie.
This is a fucking amazing cigar. Is it? I'm very happy with it. Oh, that's nice.
I'd like to try one one day. Yeah, I'll let you know about it. And then, uh, people will be able to tell you who shot you. Do you want me, do you want me to blow the smoke over your face?
No, no, no, no. I can do that for you. No, no. No, I don't, I don't need you to blow stuff in my face.
You can give that a try. Oh, yeah, oh. How's that? Oh, it's delicious.
It smells wonderful, isn't it? Yeah, it's like honeysuckles and, uh, eggplant. Yeah. Oh, we went grocery shopping, too.
Speaking of eggplant. Oh, that's fantastic. All right, well, hey, let's get this, let's close this up. Oh, this is it?
We're not gonna do it for the whole show? We're gonna let them go. No, no, we're not going to do the whole show. We want them to watch the news on the actual podcast.
Oh, the news. I just want to, you know. A lot of news. Hey, make sure you like and subscribe to us on YouTube.
A lot of news. And listen to us daily. There's a lawsuit going on. We get into it when it comes to the cigar industry.
It's very intense. We have a nice Florida story at the end. We're always a good Florida story. And who shot you?
We're going to work on that this week. So that'll be coming out. Yes, be looking for that in all your local shops. All the good ones.
Not here. We won't have any. Probably not. Is there a limit to how many we sell each one?
Yeah, I don't really, you know, I don't go nuts with people if somebody, you know, it's generally five, five bundles. Uh, Don says, Hey. Hey, Don. Oh.
You know what I've been talking to me, he said something. Underground cigars. Oh, very nice. Yeah.
Don will probably be receiving the shot shots. You know, I was, uh, uh, you see all the pictures of all the different shops, they dressed up, had Halloween costumes and stuff? Yeah. We never do that here.
You know, we've tried that in the past, but, you know, how many people actually get dressed? A lot of them are old, curmudgeon-y fucks, and they don't wanna... I don't mean the customers. It meant the employees.
Oh, the employees? I mean, Danielle had a Halloween-ish outfit on for the evening, and Keanu wore the vest that was too small. We've done the pumpkin. We've done the pumpkin thing every once in a while.
Keanu, go up a size. Oh, yeah, we did do two years ago, somebody dressed as the pumpkin. Listen, this has been kind of a fucked up month with Chet being dead. Yes.
So, Chet blew out his back, and it's... He's been gone for... Hey, Isaac, what's up, brother? Six weeks?
Is it six now? I think so. Are we on week six? We might be on week six.
Now, he says he's coming back for the shit show this week. It didn't show this week. Allegedly. Allegedly.
They didn't show up to the meeting. They didn't show up to the meeting. So we don't know. We don't know.
What is today's date? Today's the first. Oh, maybe a doctor's appointment I think is on the third, which is Wednesday. I don't know.
So yeah, it's all right. So hey, if you want to catch the tail end of this, we're going to post the news and everything else. It'll be up tomorrow. Tomorrow morning.
So thanks for watching. The audio will be up by tomorrow morning. The video depends on the Wi-Fi here. Here, it's a little...
It's a little hokey. A little sketchy. But that problem will also be fixed in the new production studio. New production.
All right. Say bye, Michael. All right. Bye, Michael.
See you later. Bye. Thanks for tuning in, all 12 of you. It was at 18 at one time.
All right. You ready? Where's the news button? No time.
We gotta go back one. There we go. That's it. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need.
The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report. Dun, dun, dun. Espinosa cancels a virtual Lazonapalooza, plans an in-person event. Let's try that one.
Take number two. We're going in person. Yo! Oh, sorry, wrong one.
Espinosa cancels virtual Lazonapalooza. It's not on, it's an X screen. Now I have to do it for the third time. Espinosa cancels virtual Lazonapalooza plans in-person event for early March.
What are you doing? Trying to hit the gorilla. That's this one. Oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh. I gotta hit the square. The color square, yes. Blue.
Blue is for Gorilla. Let me clean this up. I'm just leaving, as you always do. Espinosa's going live.
Citing logistical constraints in putting together a virtual event to its liking, Espinosa Premium Cigars has announced that it has canceled plans for its virtual La Zona Palooza in November. Yay. While fans of the brand will certainly be disappointed, there is some good news as the company announced that it is moving forward with plans for an in-person event in early March. So, Jack, this is what I want to talk to you about, Jack.
We would like to be invited this year. Yeah, we need a cordial invite. We would like to do a podcast from your show. Ooh, a podcast.
We will need a green room, and we need some... Yeah, we have some requests. I'm gonna need all blue M&Ms. We have a writer, and I would like all yellow.
And he would like all yellow M&Ms. So, if you want... So have somebody divide the M&Ms. Yes, please.
But not Richie. Richie cannot divide the M&Ms. He's not permitted. Ooh, you know, it'd be good to do it, 'cause he's free.
He has a lot of time he can do it to smoke in the water. Alfredo! Oh yeah, see if Alfredo's available, maybe we can get him to divvy up our M&Ms. And maybe you can pick us up at the airport.
Yeah, if he could pick us up, that'd be great. But we'll be driving in, so we can just hang out there for the day. Yeah. We were very disappointed in having to cancel, oh, I'm sorry.
Bro, we were very disappointed in having to cancel our events, said Eric Espinosa in the press release. We thought about doing another virtual event, but could not pull together an event the way I wanted it. Very hard to do. On many costs.
Instead, we're getting back to basics, what Lozona Palooza is all about. And that's the personal interaction with our fan base that not only built our brand, but has kept us relative and a fan favorite in humorous throughout the country. I agree. Okay, Erik, if you could please make your public announcements a little shorter, please.
It's really hella low voice. It's tough on the voice. It hurts the throat. Talk for a minute, Mike.
Yeah. I'm going to talk for a minute, and I don't know what I'm going to say, but I'm going to suck up the time. That in-person event is scheduled for March 3rd through the 5th, 2022. We are free that whole weekend.
Yeah, we're available. Can we stay at Jack's house? Of course, we can stay at Jack's house. I want to stay at Hector's house.
All right, you stay at Jack's house. We'll split up. All right, that's fine. All right.
Maybe over, we get three nights or two nights, so we could switch. Oh, three nights. The third to the fifth. It's a commitment.
So it's two nights. The night of the third, night of the fourth, we'll leave on the fifth. Oh, my. So I'll stay the third at Hector's, you stay at Jack's.
Oh, we'll rotate. And then the next night we'll switch. Okay. It'll be so much fun.
That way they can cook nice dinners for me both nights, and then they can just order in for you. Whose patio did they do the show from? I think it's always Jack's. Oh, I'm going to stay at Jack's house.
Yeah. In, let's see, company's headquarters in Hialeah Gardens, Florida, it will remain an invitation-only event. Oh, we have to get invited. We have to get invited.
We need the invitation. That brings together some of the brand's biggest fans and supporters for a week of cigars. I'm smoking an Espinosa right here. There you go.
Big supporter of the brand. Big supporter. The company has also. We're media, so we're fine.
Oh, used it as a way. Oh, then that really was one year. Yeah. But I do love the cremas, so those are nice.
Media coverage. as way of soft launch of its new releases, including the re-release 601 Black and the 601 La Bamba the Wick. The company had planned for an in-person event in November, but announced the move to an online event in late August, citing a surge in COVID-19 related. You know, Florida has the lowest number of COVID symptoms.
I know. Here we are. So we're here kicking ass. Because the Santa said we don't count them no more.
You know what? It really makes a difference if you don't count them. Yeah, if you don't count them, you can't have them. How many is that?
It would have been the second straight year the event went online And due to the pandemic, the company said additional details about the event will be announced that the event approaches. Boom. If we could get those snippets early, that would be a big help if we could, you know, do that. All right, we have a nice lawsuit, Michael, and I want you to love a lawsuit, Michael.
I love a lawsuit. Stinky Ashtray sues Prestige Import Group. Oh, here we go. Okay, now I have a drawing, which I don't think will work well for the thing, but I can show you when we get that far.
Anyway, Stinky Cigar, the company behind Stinky Ashtrays, just sued one of its former customers over train bark infringement. Uh-oh. They called the cigar, "It Don't Smell Good" ashtray. Wow.
No, that's not. It don't smell good. That would be funny. That would be funny.
And a lawsuit filed earlier this week in US. It's called the Stink A. Right, Stink A. S-T-I-N-K hyphen A.
Yeah, the Stink A, not the Stinky. Not the Stinky. Yeah. Where is that?
Stinky Ledges. They got the Big Mac, and we got the Big Mick, baby. Let's roll. The Prestige Import Group, Though It's Retail Operations, First Class Humidors, and other third-party platforms like Amazon, knowing sold products and infringe upon Stinky's Marks.
Mmm. Is that like in your shorts? Stinky Marks? Stinky Marks.
Stinky Marks. Oh, that's the new rapper. Stinky. Stinky Marks.
Stinky Marks. Stinky Marks. Now yours kind of hurt me. I'm sorry.
Stinky claims that Prestige Import Group is customer 2005 to... What'd I say? Prestige. Prestige.
Tomato, tomato, Michael. Uh-huh. Caribbean, Caribbean, Michael. Lacebo, Placebo.
See, they've been a customer for 15 years, but after its most recent shipment in June, they began selling ashtrays that alleges are knockoffs of Stinky's design. com and other retailers like Amazon and eBay. How do they know it's on eBay? Because it says Prestige on it.
Oh, I guess I would do it. It's a bowl. Oh, Amazon's storefront did not show any ashtrays listed on sale with stirrups. They mean stirrups like on a horse, or the stirrups in like the OB's office?
That's correct, it's the horse stirrups. It's not OBGYN stirrups. Now these are the ones, oh, this is just, let me see, is that the picture? January 21 Stinky Cigar filed for two design trademarks to show two of his ashtrays.
Oh no, these are just the two they have trademarked. It's just, you know, with the things on the side. The standard stinky ashtray. Yeah, your standard stinky ashtray.
I have three of those at home. Yeah. Now I'm concerned they could be Prestige. They could be Prestige.
I don't know. And now we have a problem. Hmm. Not weird.
Huh. Alright. It's getting real. So, where'd you get that from, Half Wheel?
Half Wheel. Will they be following up with the lawsuit? I don't know. Will they settle out of court?
I don't know. We'll find out. We'll have more information as the story develops. Michael, now back to you.
Am I like the weatherman? Yes. It might rain today. Thank you.
Thank you very much. HVC Black Friday 2021, shipping next week. Yes. But, it's not shipping everywhere, I don't believe.
It's not shipping everywhere? There are cigars made for just about every American holiday, including one for shopping holiday. HVC's Black Friday has been released every year since 2015, and this year's version will begin shipping next week. HVC Black Friday 2021 is a 4 3/8 by 54 Parejo Vitola that uses a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper over a mixture of Nicaraguan tobaccos from the binder and fillers.
50 per cigar is limited to 600 boxes of 50 cigars. It was called Black Friday. It used to be like, you know, ridiculous. It was crazy.
He big time now, right? HVC Carro is what it's called. He's got to pay for that building. Yeah, no shit.
He's not piggybacking on somebody else anymore. Moe... Moe... Moe Garo.
Moe El Jefe, right there. Moe El Jefe. He's gonna be on the Two Guys Smoke Shop thing next week. Oh, is he?
Yeah. Do you think they're gonna start with the entry? Who's number one? Cigar Hustler?
Their podcast. Ask him right now. Why do you run it over? I mean, like, let it, let it out.
Oh, I like saying it to him. No, but you can say it afterwards. Oh, okay. It's nice to hear, it's nice to hear from David Garofalo.
They're hearing in his words, exactly. Yeah, who's number one? Who's number one? Cigar Hustler?
Their podcast. Very funny man that David, I love him, he's very funny. You chopped, you chopped my words. I didn't chop, not fed, that's what he said.
Allegedly. Well, a little, a little, a little, a little, HSC Black Friday, 2015, out of 100 boxes of 50 cigars. You always got to throw allegedly in there, Mike. Five, allegedly he said it?
Yeah, allegedly. Oh, allegedly it's David Garufalo. Garufalo? Yes, David Garufalo.
Totally different guy. Totally different man. Yeah. He does an impersonation of the other guy, allegedly.
Yeah, he's also from New Hampshire. 90. Yeah. 60.
So we went ahead and went fucking nuts on this one. 40, okay, they go up. 60. 40.
And then in 2019, he realized. He's like, man, fuck that. He realized that's too much. 50 the following years.
50. Yes, yes. And then he had the Black Friday Firecracker. Three and a half by $50.
50. He went back up. So it's like. The tobacco market just up and down.
It's all over the place. Let's see. 50. 50.
50. HBC inflation series. At this rate, in the next five years, it's going to be $2,000. It's got a $45 cigar.
$45 cigar. Rene Lorenzo, founder of HVC, will be doing launch events at Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire next week, to coincide with the release of the Black Friday 2021. Black Friday is an American shopping holiday that takes place on Friday after Thanksgiving. Traditionally, retailers often large discounts to go from the holiday shopping season, but not on Black Friday cigars.
Mmm. All right. You got a feel for the employees that have to work on it. Yes, the sidekick on the show, apparently he works six days a week there, so that's what he said.
The sidekick on the show? There's two guys. There's Stein, Benny Stein, Bernie Stein, Benny, Benny Stein. By the way, he knows you.
" Barry. Barry, there you go, Barry Stein. Yeah. The guy in the middle?
You know, I obviously know what David Garofalo looks like. I've seen him a hundred times. Yeah. The other two guys, the voices don't fit the bodies, I don't think.
You don't think so? No, I wasn't familiar with them. Do you think your voice fits your body? Probably not.
One guy wears a hat, never see his mouth move. Never see him move. But he's kind of nasally, I like his voice better, he's a little nasally, and it's a good voice. That's nice.
Yes. All right, Luxury Cigar Club releases, C-H-O-S-H-I, Cho-She. C-H-O. Cho.
S-H-I. Cho-She. Cho-She. Cho-She.
Cho-She. Luxury Cigar has begun shipping Cho-She. It's second widespread release to members of its preferred retailer program. Cho-She.
Are we not in the preferred retailer program? We are. Did you pass on that? With Provada?
It was Provada. Luxury Cigar Club. Oh, we're not part of that one. Oh, so Provada's different.
That's a totally different kind of flying altogether. Same people? It's an entirely different kind. Different plane.
Yep. Oh. Oh, it's a different thing. Choshee.
So we're not part of the preferred retailer program. We're not part of the Choshee. We're not part of any preferred programs with anybody. We are with the Provada.
What do you want from that? I don't know. We just got fat onion on a Sally burger or something. Yeah, but that'll be coming out Friday.
That comes out Friday. Look at these. We have these beautiful houchouchouches that we won't sell here. I was going to say, we won't have them.
We can't even do a store exclusive for our own store, for God's sake. What do you want from me? Oh, my Lord. You know, here's the deal.
That's what we were talking about with the banger. " Listen, we sold seven of them. Look, I'm a big, you over-promised, you over-deliver. You come through and you look ridiculous.
It is what it is. Yeah, whatever. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for being so goddamn good at what I do.
The cigar is a 5x54 Robusto blended by Billy and Gus Faki? F-A-K-I-H F-A-K-I-H F-A-K-I-H F-A-K-I-H The F-A-K-I-H brothers Oh my god I feel like we're gonna go to PCA And some people are gonna have bats Just to beat the shit out of us They're gonna be like oh yeah I know who you are You're the F-A-K-I guys aren't you I'll show you F-A-K-I Have you met my brother me and F-A-K-I? You met my brother Gus? " Fuck out of here.
" Guess who's behind us? Eladio. Eladio. Eladio.
Eladio's right behind us. Eladio's there. " And guess what? I'm allowed to bring guns on the plane.
He's just fucking... Uh, see, they're at the Artesio del Tobacco. So, is that the Art of the Tobacco? I would assume so.
Ah, they're at the Art of the Tobacco, which produces the Viva La Viva, Vida, Viva La Vida plant. I like that cigar, it's a one with the gestion. Wasn't that made by AJ originally? I don't know, it's made by the Faki brothers.
Now the Faki's are new. Now the Faki's are new. Oh my god. The blend uses Nicaraguan habando wrapper, Nicaraguan.
I don't care, nobody can pronounce my name properly right anyways. That's right, they can't fuck with our pods and fans. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Oh wait, here it is, oh, let's see, Republic Nicaragua with production handled by AJ Fernandez.
Okay, the Faki brothers blended it. J. Yeah, blended by Billy and Gus Fucky. So the Fucky's did it.
J. makes it. J. makes it.
J. Fernandez, Factory Nestlé, Nick Ryan. It's okay, Mr. Fucky's.
I'm gonna go ahead and make this. He meets him, hello? A nice of you, yes, hello, who are these people? These are the Fucky brothers, sir.
Oh, oh, the Fucky's, I like you, you're the Fucky's. You've got the thing with the clown guy on the thing. Very good cigar. La Vida, La Vida, La Vida Loca.
No, no, no, no. La vida, la vida, yada, yada. Oh, sorry. Very much.
Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan Kenobi. The company calls it a profile that starts full-bodied before turning mild and smooth in the second third with the final third, a marriage of the two. Wait, what?
The company calls it a profile that starts a full-bodied, and then it gets mild. Yep. And then it's full-bodied and mild? Correct.
Okay. Fuck you, me. No, not for you. According to a press release from Luxury Cigar Club, Cigar gets its name from a Japanese word for first born, oh, Choshi.
Choshi. Apple News, how to quit your job. Oh, I'm out of here, Michael. I've got a message.
I'll be reading that later. Save that in my inbox. Click, there we go. Save that for later.
COVID-19, but all the COVID, the fuckies got their Choshi delayed because of the pandemic. Goddamn. So, the Hungry Cigar, Hangry, hangry, hangry, what? 50.
That's a lot more than Black Friday. Fuck you. Wow. Wow.
That Black Friday, that's a deal. That's right. It's a deal. It's a deal.
The Choshi's a lot more. Three more years, the Would the Black Friday be more than the fucky Shoshis? All right, now we have a wonderful Florida story, Michael. We have 13 minutes left, so I'm gonna drag this out.
Tell me. Central Florida mother banned from volunteering at a school in Orange County. Oh, I saw this. Because?
Go ahead, I got, you know. She has an OnlyFans account. Oh, yeah. Victoria Trisecki, Trisecki, Trisecki, very cute girl.
Did you see the photo? I saw the... Very attractive young lady. It was on the news, I saw it on the news.
Oh, I read it. The last five, she spent the last five years volunteering at Sand Lake Elementary School near Orlando with her children ages 10 and 5. Right. Gus and Billy.
Uh-huh. The Fucky brothers. The mother of the two children who attended a school near Orlando was told she could no longer donate her time on campus after complaints about her work in the adult entertainment industry. Yes.
So what about the guy who found her? Well, keep going, keep going. NBC affiliate WESH-TV, local TV here, reports Victoria has spent the last five years volunteering at Sand Lake Elementary School with her children ages 10 and 5. Two weeks ago, she was told she could no longer volunteer, and that her occupation, including a subscription site on OnlyFans, was the reason why.
"Nobody has the right to judge what other people do for a living. I feel judged and so isolated," she said. Victoria, who passed a background check and other requirements and does not have a criminal record, said she was notified of the move after someone sent images from the accountant to her school administrators. I was humiliated and I should not, and I should not, and no one else should be concerned about what another parent does.
I just love spending time with my kids and I have a great relationship with other parents and adults and students. Sorry, students, she said. Her attorneys notify the Orange County Schools District that she tends to sue for $1 million. Yeah, that's not enough.
That's not enough. Not enough. The station reports the application to volunteer does not have space to place a person's occupation. Right.
What authoritarian mentally allows somebody to point the discriminating finger at somebody and say, we do not approve of you, and you can't be around children. That becomes frightening attorney, Mark, somebody said. District officials later said she could chaperone field trips, but only supervise her own children. This is totally fucked.
Oh yeah, they're going to lose. This is a complete horse. First of all, I don't know, have you had experiences with Is there other parents at fucking public schools and shit? Oh yeah.
Half of them, I would say more than half of them, don't give a shit about their kids. They want to drop them off. They don't want them... Even sick.
Yeah, they just don't want to be bothered. You deal with it. Right. I'm done.
I don't have time to volunteer. I have to go home. This woman's going in. She's spending time.
She's devoting hours... Hours. to take care of kids. Not only her own, but yeah, the other kids.
And... She's probably class mom or whatever they call it, and all that stuff. We're assuming. Yeah, she probably, you know...
Brings the sliced oranges. All that stuff. And you're going to shit on this woman? Because she likes you.
We did naked pictures? Because she probably makes a shitload of money. She's making a living with that. So she has more time to spend with her kids.
Now, I have no idea what type of OnlyFans thinks. I don't know if she just does photos. I don't know if she's doing videos. Nor do we care.
No, we do. I don't care. I don't care. I mean, she could be on Pornhub.
I wouldn't care. Except then I could find it and not have to pay for it. But other than that, I don't care. Because I can't find it without paying for it now.
I'm just curious. I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's floating around in Sand Lake, huh? I might have to go down there, maybe.
Yeah, it's very close. I don't have any kids here, but I'm willing to volunteer. You'd like to volunteer, please? I would like to just see the two, just the two kids that need extra help.
They're very lovely kids, Trisha, very lovely kids. My journalistic integrity, that's why I need to find it. That was the word. Journalistic integrity.
That's it. We could do a follow-up story and my cameras will work. Wow. Maybe she needs a photographer.
We're opening a production studio! Oh my lord! Trisha, if you need help with your OnlyFans stuff, come down here. We work on an hourly basis.
Just give us a call. com. Put in the subject line OF and I'll know who it is. OnlyFans.
Yeah, I got it. Oh, okay. Thanks. If you want help.
I'll give you a rate. No, but listen. What? I'm not done.
Okay. No, go ahead. It's all for the business, Mike. I'm trying to get the business.
Well, the truth behind it is it really is nobody's business what she does. She's not breaking any laws. Where's the line? She's not a drug dealer.
Yeah, are drug dealers okay? Because I'm sure they've got those there too, and they don't even know it. I mean, drug dealers are probably not okay. No, but that's it, they don't know.
That's illegal. What she's not doing, she's not doing anything illegal. No, she passed a background check. Yeah.
It's not illegal. Now it's a moral thing. She takes care of the kids. Right.
Especially when a lot of other parents don't even want to be fucking bothered with their kids. And honestly, she's not talking about this with the kids. She's not like going, hey. He's not sending them a link.
Here's a coupon, give it to your daddy, tell him he can log in for half price this month. Give me a break. None of that. If some pervert hadn't been a while, well, he's not pervert, he might just be some general who likes to partake in the OnlyFans stuff.
Oh, Keanu, Keanu, Keanu, Keanu, Keanu, I need to talk to you about your OnlyFans account, brother. Oh my God. And I'll work for you again next Saturday. Adam, we need some more ice cream.
No milkshake. No, no, no, no, no, no. So he covered for his shift on Saturday and he got him ice cream. I made him get me a milkshake.
His parents own an ice cream shop nearby and they have the best peanut butter milkshakes. It's out of the way from me. I don't like going there. Oh my goodness.
So he was going to pay me cash. Anyway, back to Tricia. So now there's a moral thing. Yeah, it's complete horseshit.
Right. It's complete horseshit. I hope she gets the million. I hope she gets more than that.
She needs more than that. Let's say this is not it. Let's say maybe her religion is something that they don't agree with. Right.
Maybe she likes the prey to trees. Maybe she's a Wiccan. Maybe she likes Wiccans. I wasn't going to go with the devil.
The devil, it just seemed too funny. Yeah, the trees. Yeah, trees. Maybe she's a witch.
The witch is a religion. No, there's a witch thing. Maybe she is. Maybe she identifies as a werewolf.
She probably dresses up as a witch. What business is that of ours? Yeah, I don't care. It's not.
As long as when she's at the thing, she takes care of the kids. Yeah, are you good to the kids? All right, cool. That's it.
Probably not a witch. The witches don't like kids. I saw a movie yesterday. Oh yeah, witches don't like kids?
Not in that movie. Hocus Pocus? No, no, no. The one with the girl from...
Is it old? Is it old? It's got to be old. Old-ish.
Not old, though. Not old, though. Yeah. Craft?
No. They didn't need kids. Yeah, we only watched Half of it because it was stupid. Oh.
But the... I can't think of her name. Who was the lady that just did the Dalmatian movie? I have no idea.
I think it was... Domination? No, Dalmatian. The dogs.
Not Domination. Cruella? Yeah, Cruella. The girl...
No, no, that's a different girl. Different Cruella. Okay. All right.
I'll show you after the show. I'll look it up. You're not going to drive me crazy. Did you see the one kid, did you see the shooting in Deltona?
Uh, yes, that's actually a kid from Deltona High. Yes, that's what I was gonna ask him, I might as well just talk about it right now. I don't like talking, I don't usually pull those stories, those are sad stories, I don't usually pull those stories, there's no funny in that at all. No, but did Aidy know him?
Uh, one of the teachers called her or told her about it before it hit the news, uh, from what I understand, he was not the intended target. Right. They shot the wrong one. Yeah, it sounds like kids with guns.
Right, so now they feel, well I probably shouldn't be talking about stuff I know. It's probably not appropriate. Okay. You can let it go.
We can talk after. But she didn't know the kid. You know, I don't know exactly. She didn't know the name, but now they've released a photo.
I don't know if she's seen the photo where she might have. So, I mean... Crazy. Crazy.
It was a good kid, apparently, the one that got shot. He didn't look like a bad kid. No, he wasn't one of the kids that you would think would have been involved in something where he had to... Wrong place, wrong time?
Yeah, it was some type of party. There was a couple of Halloween shootings out in Texas. There was a mass shooting or something. In Texas?
How come you guys don't talk about Texas? You always talk about Florida. Always give us a hard time. Don't they open carry in Texas?
Mm-hmm. Oh, you drink a little juicy-juicy there. That's nice. Yeah, my Mio.
You know, I bought these lovely cups for us to use during the show, and I'm the only one to use this one. Well, I'm proud of you. I usually have my own... Do we have a Shop of the Week, Michael?
We'll just skip right past you with your excuses. Oh, what's the Shop of the Week? I don't have one. You usually come up with Shop of the Week.
You have a Shop of the Week? No, you come up with Shop of the Week. I don't have Shop of the Week. Boss Cigars, Shop of the Week, congratulations, what's his name when I came, I never found his name, he's my friend and I feel terrible, you gotta look up his name, you're about to look up his name, Corinto, I was, I couldn't get past Cruella and I knew that wasn't his name, so, Corinto, we had Don Wiggins, oh sorry, wrong show, go ahead, wrong show, sorry, boss cigars, they used to be Shop of the Week all the time when we couldn't come up with Shop of the Week.
Yeah? Yeah. And Corinto! What about Listener of the Week?
What? Corinto! Corinto, Listener of the Week? Yes.
Yeah, I guess I fucked that up. I didn't really do that this week. Oh, wow. You have one job.
Just the one? Just the one thing. It feels like more than one. I thought you had notes.
You were going to discuss something in your book. I did. I covered that already. What was the notes for?
I talked about it. See, that's how slick I am. You don't even realize it. I don't see anything you had to have a note for.
There was notes. Oh. Things were mentioned. There was a lot of stuff mentioned, but why'd you need notes for me?
I covered some of that with my notes. Yeah. Because I'm amazing. Okay.
So, you have anything else? Because then I figured I'd figure out how to turn the camera off. No, that's, I feel like that's it. All right, next week is episode 199.
Yeah. And then after that, episode 200. And you said you have a guest. I have a special guest lined up for episode 200.
Oh, this looks like there's an evil smile already. Oh, guys, it's not going to be good. This is such a good guest. This is not going to be good.
That's a good guess. This is not someone we've had on the show before. Okay. I think you'll be very pleased.
In the cigar industry? Yes. I think you'll be very pleased. I don't know if I like this.
I thought about trying to get David Garofalo on the phone. I thought I could probably do this. He seems like he's got a good sense of humor. Yeah.
But I already had the guests lined up. Huh. Are you going to tell me? No.
It's going to be a surprise for you and for everyone out there in the camera. In the camera? In the camera. They're in that camera right there?
In the camera land. Okay. In the camera land? Camera land.
I guess they will sit right here because this is the guest microphone set up. Who is it? I'm not telling. Stop asking.
It's a surprise. You gotta wait two weeks. It's like everybody else. Are they a rep or a broker?
I'm not telling you anything else, Mike. Can you tell if they're a rep or broker? Nope. Okay.
It's not a rep or broker. So it's actually somebody in the cigar industry? Cigar personality, yes. yes cigar personality cigar personality cigar owner whatever you want to call it do they own their own brand uh they have part ownership of the brand yes hmm i said fred rui's been on fred rui's been on several times he would not be a hard one to get i feel fred has a lot of free time at the moment he's pretty funny too sometimes yes he is funny because whatever he was doing uh it hasn't come out yet yeah what is he doing he hasn't really he said at the pca he solidified a He did.
How long ago was that? That was February? A long time ago, Fred. What was that deal?
Tell us, Fred. What was the deal? Maybe you can tell us when he's on the show here soon. Okay.
Oh, the thing, Uncle Skip, I think he's going to the thing. He's going to the thing. So he'll be in the United States. Yeah.
So, Uncle Skip, if you could just, you know, swing by. Yeah, just fly on over. Vegas to Florida is not far. No.
Yeah. When is it? Is that this weekend? I have no idea.
We might need a little notice to make sure we're here. Michael's not here right now Somebody came in Looking for you this weekend Come here where it was Oh this is funny Saturday night More than one person Asked me if I was the owner And they would not believe I was not the owner Yeah And I was emptying the trash Like That's what a good owner does But I'd be emptying the trash If I was the owner I empty the trash still Here? Yeah When? Sometimes I do Empty the garbage Clean the bathrooms You know All that good stuff Clean that bathroom Hey we moved I can't clean the bathroom no more.
Oh, yeah? I'll be in the production studio. So who's cleaning the bathroom? I guess Greg.
Oh, up here? Yeah. Oh, yeah, I have to clean the downstairs. Oh, you're getting off the rotation up here.
Well, I'll be downstairs. Interesting. Except for the meeting. If I catch you using this bathroom, you're going to be part by the rotation.
I have my own bathroom. I have my own bathroom downstairs. Oh, so you're going to go downstairs and use that bathroom? I have a production studio with my own bathroom.
Okay. With the softest of toilet paper. Maybe one of those cushioned seats. Maybe one of those cushioned seats.
Sorry. Oh, wow. That's throwback. Yeah.
Maybe a bidet. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh.
Nice and clean. Come up here smiling for the meetings every Monday. What happened? It's very, very nice.
All right. We're going to wrap this up because I don't even know what we're talking about now. That's it. So this has been episode 198 of A Cigar Hustler Podcast, David Garofalo's favorite show.
Who's number one? Allegedly. A cigar hustler, the podcast. Exactly.
He's such a nice man. That's it. All right, everybody. Bye bye.
I gotta get past Hojo! I don't even have to try to enter. He's not even going to try. We're going to cover a lot of ground here, Mike.
All right. Try to keep up. That's a sign of a good podcast. It'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door.
All right, end this.
Show Notes
This week David G makes a surprise statement...we find out what's up with Only Fans and the School System....and its a party at Jack Torano House!