206 2021 Best Shop of the year! Christmas Shenanigans and Industry news
Episode Summary
The Mikes close out 2021 with their New Year's Eve episode, opening on a long, unfiltered Christmas debrief — assembling Power Wheels and skee-ball sets on Christmas Eve, midnight fireworks, robot vacuums vs. puppy accidents, new drones, and a rundown of Marvel's Hawkeye and other streaming shows. The Patreon smoke of the episode is the RoMa Craft Neanderthal Gran Perfecto, which Mike names his cigar of the year runner-up behind the Powstanie Wojna Broad Leaf box press, the cigar he calls the best of 2021.
The news segment covers a wave of Q1 2022 price increases from Black Star Line, Rocky Patel, German Engineered Cigars and Tatuaje (with Pete Johnson explaining his reasoning), plus LH Cigars adding the 7x70 "Big Nick" to its Nick line at around $13.50 in bundles of 25. They also cover Aganorsa Leaf's new Supreme Leaf Robusto Extra (and its very slight ring gauge bump, which becomes a running joke), Noel Rojas's upcoming Unfinished Business line in sub-50 ring gauges from his Estelí factory renovation, and CAA import numbers showing roughly 40.15 million premium cigars imported in August 2021, a 17% year-over-year increase.
Bigger industry items include the sale of Dissident Cigars to Sin and Joshua Coburn (previously owned by Benjamin Holt, produced at Fábrica Oveja Negra in Nicaragua), with Rant, Rave and Triad moving from small batch to core line, and a report that a fertilizer shortage plus Hurricane Ida damage will shrink Cuba's Pinar del Río tobacco crop to its smallest planting in a decade. A Florida-man story from Clearwater closes the news block.
The show wraps with year-end awards: Owl Ear Smoke Shop and Lenny Schmiegel are named 2021 Shop of the Year, RoMa Craft (Skip Martin and Michael Rosales) takes Brand of the Year, and Mike Palmer is crowned Cigar Personality of the Year. Listeners of the Week go to John Greenberg and Ben Roland.
In This Episode
- 01Patreon Smoke: Neanderthal Gran PerfectoThe hosts light up RoMa Craft's Neanderthal Gran Perfecto and rank it their cigar of the year behind the Powstanie Wojna Broad Leaf box press.
- 02Christmas ShenanigansToy assembly marathons, midnight fireworks, robot vacuum disasters, new drones and holiday exhaustion with small kids.
- 03TV Talk: Hawkeye and MarvelA rundown of Hawkeye, Loki, WandaVision and what the hosts want (and don't want) from superhero shows.
- 04Price Increase RoundupBlack Star Line, Rocky Patel, German Engineered Cigars and Tatuaje all announce Q1 2022 price increases.
- 05New Releases: Big Nick, Supreme Leaf Robusto Extra, Unfinished BusinessLH Cigars' 7x70 Big Nick, Aganorsa Leaf's Supreme Leaf Robusto Extra, and Noel Rojas's small-ring Unfinished Business.
- 06Dissident Cigars SoldSin and Joshua Coburn acquire Dissident from Benjamin Holt and move Rant, Rave and Triad into the core line.
- 07Cuba's Shrinking Tobacco CropA fertilizer shortage and Hurricane Ida damage cut Pinar del Río plantings to their smallest in a decade.
- 082021 Year-End AwardsOwl Ear Smoke Shop named Shop of the Year, RoMa Craft takes Brand of the Year and Mike Palmer is Cigar Personality of the Year.
Brands & Cigars Discussed
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Transcript
Welcome to episode 206, Cigar Hustler Podcast. The New Year's Eve show. It's the holiday season, man. It's very tiring.
It is very tiring. I'm glad it's over. Almost. Yeah.
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Yes. Indeed. What do we got for the Patreon? Today we are doing the thing, the Roma Crab Neanderthal Gran Perfecto.
Indeed. From Uncle Skip and my friend Mike from Dallas. So here's, I actually picked the cigar today, and the reason why I did, you know, unbiasedly, not including Powstanie War Bear Box Press, because I think that's the fucking best cigar. Yes, easily voted by all the people.
By all the kingdom. All the kingdom. All the kingdom, yeah. If I eliminated Powstanie from what I thought the best cigar of the year was, this would be it.
them. This would be it. By far. The Neanderthal Grand Perfecto.
Perfecto. Okay, that's perfect. I smoke a fuck ton of these cigars. Do you really?
I do. Didn't we just get them? Yeah. Oh.
Well, we've had them in the craft boxes and stuff like that. You've been taking them out of the craft boxes? No, and when we have had them. All the craft boxes on sale, there's only four cigars.
No, we actually got them in before they were released. You smoked a fuck ton then. And then I was patiently waiting for more. Oh.
And now I steal them. This table guy needs to move with Dorjulo. There we go. He will disappear at the The end of, uh, this week.
Thank God. Uh, if anybody, what is this play tomorrow, tomorrow will be too late, my wife is somewhere between here and Lorraine, in Texas, I'm not allowed to segue, and Texas at this point. 4 grams. No, no, I'm sure the car is heavier than that.
I was giving a shout out to my wife, who's, uh, very lovingly taking the dog that bit me, he's been deployed. Several times. Several times, just the once. Got hit with a chair.
He got, oh yeah, because he did it around her. Let's see where she's at real quick. Quick, just a quick thing. She's in Louisiana.
Should be by now. Last check, she was in Tallahassee. That was a while ago, a long time ago. She's in Louisiana.
Let's see where she is. Could have done like a thing. Where's Adrian? Her and her son, Alex, and two dogs.
They took Alex's dog, too. Oh, because what the hell? Why not? What's one more dog?
Well, his dog is half poodle, half Yorkie. So it's a very high-strung... Yes, oh my lord. And if it gets out of his sight, if it can't see him, it's really worse.
It has separation. So he, yeah, he wanted to leave it, and Adrian goes, I can't do that to him. He got bit. He fucked that up.
Right. She, oh, she's crossing the Bay of Mobile on the, she's over the water, look. How old's his dog? His dog?
His dog's maybe, maybe a year and a half, two years, something like that. No, he fucked that up. He had to, he had to crate train her. Him.
Whatever. Yeah, he doesn't, he doesn't. You gotta crate train that dog, and you gotta put crate, put the crate far away from you at night. And then just let him howl for the first couple of nights until he gets over it.
Right. No. Nope. And now you have this dog.
" He treats a dog like it's a five year old. So like it did something yesterday and he went, "We discussed this already! " How many times do I have to tell you? " It's a dog.
His girlfriend says the same thing. old friend says the same thing. She goes, uh, Alex, it's a dog. Alex.
I don't think she's extremely fond of the dog either. Cause she drove her own car. So Alex wouldn't have to go back to Tampa and then back here. Right.
But there was no offering of, Oh, I'll take the dog. So I don't think she'd fond of the little yappy dog either. Because again, out of his sight, he's going to yap with her too. Right.
Yeah. No, no, no, no. I think it'd be different if here in Florida we had basements. Yeah.
Oh, take the dog in the cage and fucking We'll put him in the basement. Right. Yeah, the dog's crane. Yeah, we put the prison dog in the...
The prison dog! Yeah, that's why I call him, because he got yard time, and then he's back in his cage. Yes. He was in the garage.
Our half-finished garage with a fan. With the AC. It wasn't hot. Yeah, it's not a hot weekend.
So yeah, he spent the last five days in his crate in the garage. Separated from Arthur, because our two went in the garage for the weekend, because Alex was here with the yappy dog. Yes. When you attack the officer on duty, it's instant isolation.
Right. I would walk him, she sort of made sure that I never had to touch a dog again, but there was a couple of mornings where I, you know, had to touch a dog, yeah, well, I was like, I will walk him, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, you had to put him in the hole, right, had to put him in the hole, right, but I'd walk him and go, look, you're going in the hole, I'd go to let him out and go, look, you fucked up, we could have been friends, listen, now you're on the leash and go shit in the yard and back in your crate, that's it, enjoy, this was your fault, this is not mine, this is your life now. That's right. Hello?
Okay. We're having the technical problem we had last time. Oh, good. So, we're going to stop right here and reset the computer.
Son of a bitch. But the music, but the... Somebody, you know, somebody reached out to me and they said, uh, hey, there was something wrong with the... Oh, never mind.
I got that from my friend Mitch. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I got that too. Hey, the first part of the show, like, 10 minutes and 10 seconds, it clicks over.
Don't worry. He goes, oh, yeah, you're right. Alright, we'll be right back. Okay, and we're back.
Oh, see, it's working again. It's working again. Working, working. Worky, worky.
So what'd you do this weekend, Michael? Celebrate a Christmas. That's right, it's weird unless it was Christmas. Did you have a good Christmas?
Yeah, I had a great Christmas. I'm going to tell you though, it's fucking hard. It's tiring. With children, yeah.
With little children, it's very tiring. And now you've increased your children. We're at maximum capacity with three. No fourth one, huh?
Not two girls and two boys? Yeah. I mean, we technically have another girl. She's older.
Oh, but she's still going to get a present. 5 children so yeah man i gotta tell you i feel for i feel for anybody that really loves their children and when you have gifts does mika get your gifts she did get us gifts that's nice she did get us gifts nice good gifts are just like yeah yeah yeah they're good they're good good she got us uh she works at the tanning salon she got us tanning um oh is that why you're so tan no i'm definitely not tanning i haven't utilized them yet oh i forgot she worked So, you know, apparently in like Hispanic tradition, I guess Christmas Eve is a big deal at midnight. Yeah. Okay.
So there's fireworks and shit into Christmas Day. That would explain the fireworks I heard on Christmas Eve. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, didn't I know?
Yeah, so it's apparently like it's tradition for somebody. So you do that now? No, no. So here's the deal.
Kids go to bed. Right. Fucking mortars are dropping at midnight. Oh, because they have to go to bed.
Oh, because it happens at midnight. Yeah. Wow. And it rolls into fucking 1am.
Yeah. It's not like just one. Right. Yeah.
So these, you know, our boys are up. They're like, I hear gunshots. It's fireworks. Go to bed.
It's Santa. They're shooting at him. They're trying to take down the sleigh. Trying to take down the sleigh.
Get back in your bed or he comes. So, you know. That'd be funny. Trying to shoot down Santa.
So, you know, Santa, Santa requires some assistance with the assembly. Yes. I remember those days. Yes.
So it was a long night. It was a long night. What'd you have to put together besides the car? The car was the pain in the ass.
Was it? Yeah. It's not just wheels and a battery anymore? No, man.
No, no, no, no. Everything come broken down now. Oh my God. And, you know, and Brittany had, Brittany did the skee-ball set, and she did something else.
The skee-ball wasn't too bad. A lot of setting up too. It snagged a couple, in a couple spots, but she, she had it together. And, um.
Oh, she put everything together. No, she put together the skee-ball, I put together the car. She put together the car, she put together something else. First of all, she's way better at putting anything together than I am.
Directions, follow directions. Men don't follow directions. And then she, after she put her two things together, she joined me on the car, and she's like, no, no, no, no. She finished the car too.
We were at Walmart Christmas Eve to pick something up, and the number one, because there's boxes all over the parking lot. Yeah. Because they don't fit in the cars. Right.
Yeah, the number one thing was those ride 'em toys. Yeah. Boxes everywhere. I fucking believe it.
Right. So Justice wanted a power wheel, but we have power wheels. Right, you have several. So like, well, fuck it, we'll upgrade him, Santa will upgrade him to a hoverboard, you know, and we'll get like a little set for the hoverboard and stuff like that.
Well, when he saw the... That the two-wheeled thing? Yeah. Okay.
And when there's a little thing you can sit down on it and push and stuff, so it's cool. Yeah, yeah, it's very, very fancy. So, Santa kinda fucked that up, and Santa and Mrs. " Isn't it pink or something?
No, it's black. Oh. I'm like, no, no, it's smaller, that's a smaller one, so needless to say, you know, thanks Santa for fucking that up, this guy. But we had to return the hoverboard and we got him a new power wheel.
Oh, yeah, it had nothing to do with the hoverboard. Nothing to do with it. I saw the G-Wagon. Nothing to do with it.
And Teddy does not like the G-Wagon. Oh, you should just... I don't like it, is what she says. She should have let him ride it.
She's just turned two as of last week. Right. " I don't like it. Wow.
Yeah. Hurtful. Shit a little scared, a little scared. Yeah, it's all right.
But Santa really wanted you to have this. She'll like it eventually, I think. It'll grow on her. Right?
Like a rash. Does she like it when she sees... She's pretty fucking cute, man, I gotta tell you. Oh, she's adorable.
You see the pictures, she smiles through the camera all the time. It's a trip. She didn't even want to ride in when she saw the boys in a power wheel? Nope.
Wow. Not having it. Very determined young lady. Yeah.
So, you know... I don't like the engagement ring, I need bigger. It's cute. She's cute.
I don't like it. So is this my engagement ring? Wait a second. No, no, no.
You take that back. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it.
That'll be her first tattoo when she's 18. I don't like it. I don't like it. Right on her ankle, just go around her ankle.
I don't like it. I don't like it. Tattoo. She's 18.
No. Aunt Mika takes her. Nope. I see Aunt Mika taking her tattoos.
Oh, we won't find the body. Poor Aunt Mika. 30-year-old Aunt Mika. Still living in your house.
Still living in your house, working at the tennis lot. It's getting like leather at this point Smoking cigarettes Smoking Virginia Slims at that point Come on We'll take you for your tattoo Drinking fucking Manhattans With the cherries With no vermouth She's just having straight Jack Daniels chilled In a martini glass Give me a Manhattan Come on Come on Teddy I'm gonna take you to get a tattoo You were so cute when you were little and it said I don't like it You always said I don't like it So, make us drink, you'll like that. So, for the past four or five days, obviously, there's chaos. You don't really get to run the Roomba the way that you want to run the Roomba, right?
Because the Roomba was the new gift. Well, you had it for a while, though. Yeah, you have the vacuum. Well, it was supposed to be a Christmas present.
Right, right, right. But we dropped it early. Yeah. And we got the pair.
Right. The vacuum, and we got the mom. Cecil and his wife, or whatever their names were. Yeah.
Alfred and Alice. Alice, yes. Alfred and Alice. Yes.
From Batman and Brady Bunch. Brady Bunch, yes. yes so that's all credit to brittany um so what was that didn't sound good so um you okay yeah it was to you oh okay perfect text message to you oh thanks it was a group chat but it was to you okay so should i check it no he moved his car oh he moved the truck okay good he says he loves you So he left, he didn't move the car, he left, he said I moved the truck, I love you, so we haven't used the Roomba for like, I don't know, four or five days, right, because we've been banging out with the Dyson, it's just faster, there's shit everywhere, there's five presents, there's tables up, there's chairs up, you know, because you have people for over and all this other stuff, so it's probably been like three or four days, they've been relaxing, since, yeah, they've been, you gave them the holidays off, yeah, you guys, you guys take this off, it's just, I, You know I don't have that kind of time so you know Alfred and Alice you take the holiday off yeah then like then once the Christmas is over I vacuum again and I mopped you know like though I didn't even bust out I don't need you right now I need I need a healthy right douching of the house right a good cleaning yeah so did all that and then I was like you know what even though I vacuumed a mop today I'm gonna run the vacuum today not the mop though just the way yeah I'm just gonna vacuum that tonight tonight just while we're sleeping whatever just banging up right because everything's kind of up like Brittany doesn't like to wait everything's we start tucking runners and I we're Oh, because it's stuck or you can't find it the next morning in there. That's the fun part, it's the adventure.
Oh yeah, the hunt for Alfred. Oh, where'd it go? Did it make it back? Died under the Christmas tree.
Right, yeah, tangled up in the lights and the trees laying sideways now. So I go to turn this thing on, right? Everybody's in bed. All right, and I'm just kind of buttoning things up.
I go to turn this fucking thing on. I'm tired of shit. I'm like, I'm just gonna hit this button and it's fucking... Oh yeah, you don't have yours connected to your Alexa.
I do. Well, I have it connected to my phone. I can't connect it to my Alexa, but it's a button. " That's nice.
Okay. Well, I hit the button. Okay. All right.
I'm putting some other dishes away in the dishwasher, whatever else, and then this thing's going... Oh, what did they find? Rattle? And he's rolling through.
He's rolling through. " Four wheel. Four wheel drive. Let me pick this fucker up.
So I pick him up. Now the dog, the new dog. You're ready to poop? The new dog.
Oh. When Bubbles, the German Shepherd. Yes. When he poops in the house, he hides it.
Right. Yeah, you said that. It has to be hidden somewhere. Alfred found it.
Yes. So apparently, Alfred found the shit. Oh, I remember I had that happen two months ago. Four days ago.
Oh. When he vacuumed, and then Alice covered up the tracks. So there was no identification of this shit. It dried up in it.
It has dried with Nerf bullets inside of the… So Bubbles ain't Nerf? No, no. I mean, well, obviously, Alfred kept vacuuming and he picked up some Nerf guns, Nerf bullets along the way. How big is your thing?
I mean, Nerf bullets are… They're like this. They're like a couple inches? There's a couple of them in there. They're merged into the shit.
Wow. How did he get those? And I was like, you know… Is he this far off the ground or something? How does he get them?
I'm telling you, it's a good one. You thought he would, you know, hit the spinner and just shoot it. It's the Megalodon. Wow.
I thought it would have purged it, but no, the shit was in there, healthy and dry. Oh, because he's a, does he have a dump station? He does. Is that just for the mop or for him too?
No, it's for him. Oh, so he didn't unload. He didn't poop. He didn't say, he didn't, apparently like it didn't, well, it didn't register because it was wedged in the whole crevice.
Oh, yeah, that's, that's, hmm, yeah. Ooh, dry might have been a little easier to clean though. You know, it wasn't terrible to clean because you're right, it was dry. When it's wet, it's a lot harder to clean when it's wet.
I'm sure, I'm sure it wasn't. I had to get the wheels clean. Yeah, you had to take everything apart, get the bar out. Yeah, it was a process, don't get me wrong, and it was frustrating because I was fucking tired.
All the parts you're laying out on the table. You son of a bitch. You fucking dog. You had the Dyson pooper too.
I wanted to share that I had the poop experience as you did as well. Yes. That is not a fun day. " They're not looking, are they?
They're not looking because I'm going to go right over here under the tree. Yeah. Yeah. I was, I was taking out the garbage last night.
I was taking out the fucking garbage and you know, apparently, you know, for Christmas, whatever, for whatever reason, we have 75 bags of garbage. All the wrapping paper, it's just everything. Yeah, it's just everything. So, you know, and, but I look at our neighbor's houses and they either A, don't love their kids or B, they're just way better than us when it comes to garbage.
They packed it all in. I'm like, God damn, everybody else around us is way more efficient, for sure, for sure. We have all these bags out by the curb. 75 bags.
" This is the house. This is the house. Look at all this new stuff. So within, you know, the five or ten minutes of me unloading all the garbage cans, I come in and, you know, a little fucker shat under the fucking new skee-ball machine.
" I was gone for ten minutes! I mean, you are walking all the time. Just went out! She let them come out with you for the trash.
What are you doing, Bubbles? When they're little, they stick with you more than when they get older. That's true. Yeah.
That's true. I was just trying to get as fast as done. You know what I mean? They slow you down.
Yeah, yeah. You gotta turn around and go see where they're at all the time. Yeah. Right.
So that was our fun and adventure. Teddy's birthday happened too, and we got to use the cannons again. The cannons are a thing now. Oh.
Didn't scare her? She was good to go. " I don't like the cannon. Excuse me.
Yeah, no, she was good to go. I don't like it. No, she didn't say. I don't like the cannon.
I don't like it. I don't like the cannon. It's funny when she washes her hands, too, and you go to help her dry her hands, she goes, "I got it. I got it.
" Oh, wow. Very angry. Daddy's girl. Very angry.
It's good stuff. So, yeah, glad it's over. It went well. Everybody was very happy.
Everybody got all sorts of good gifts. It's just so much, man. Yeah, when the kids are little, it's so exhausting. And then you have to, and then, you know, then we had to return one and then assemble a new one.
Oh. So did you get it out and assemble? It's broken? You got to take it back?
What? No, we took the other-- Oh, you took the hoverboard back, and then I had to put a car together. And you got a new power wheel, yeah, which I was doing, and I was getting frustrated, so my supervisor took over. Oh, so she does everything.
She sure does. Did she make you a snack to eat while she was putting it together? So you could relax? No, I got my own snack.
I got the 10-piece chicken nuggets that I left from earlier. Oh, I thought maybe you ate the brussel sprouts. No, I didn't eat the brussel sprouts. No, I didn't eat the brussel sprouts, Mike.
Thanks so much. You didn't bring that up. Did you ever replace the brussel sprouts? I didn't replace the brussel sprouts.
I told you where to get them! No, she found a place that she really likes the brussel sprouts. That delivered door dashes? I don't know if they're door dashes.
I doubt it. The what? Beg your pardon? I don't know if they're door dashes.
I doubt it. Oh, so you have to go get them or you go there? We'd have to go get them. Oh.
Gotcha. Mm-hmm. Everybody got a ticket, a gift certificate to this place. Oh.
She gave it to everybody. Like her family. Everybody tanning? No, no.
It's this restaurant that she likes, the Brussels sprouts. Oh, that Brittany likes? Yeah. You gotta go.
Give them a plug. What's the restaurant? It's called Luke's. Where's that at?
In Winter Park. Oh, Winter Park, no. Do you know there's a ski place in Winter Park where you can take ski lessons? Yes.
I didn't know that. Yeah, it's close to Jackson football field. Oh, is it? Yeah.
My bougie neighbors are going to Colorado, and they were all over there last night, apparently. We're practicing our skiing. Yes, but they don't talk like that. I bet they do, they're bougie.
No, maybe one of them talks like that, the other one. I bet you they all have an English accent. Hello, Michael. No, it's Kenny Bonnet and his family.
Oh, it's definitely, Kenny's definitely English. No, he's not. Yeah, he is. No, he's not.
Michael, we're gonna go skiing. No, he does call me Michael, though, I believe. Hello, Michael. Michael.
Mm-hmm. I didn't know there was a place you could take ski lessons in Florida. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's indoors. Yeah, yeah, it's indoors.
It's right by Jackson Football Field. Yeah, that's what you said. Did I tell you it's right by Jackson Football Field? No, oh, I got a drone.
Did you? We have drone fans now. Oh. It's not, it's not the fancy, fancy drone that you have.
Yes. The remote does not have a thing on it. It does have a camera, but I'm not sure how the camera part works. I already got it stuck in a tree.
But I got it out, I flew it out. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's good. It sort of hit the tree and went sideways.
Yeah. So I gave it the gas and... And pulled itself out. Yeah, I was like, oh, fuck, it's in the neighbor's yard.
I'd stay in there, I guess. Honey, I love the drone. It's gone. Jack's got one from Costco for like 50 bucks.
Oh, mine's somewhere between that one and yours. Yeah. Because it's got a camera, but you can't see it until you pull the SD card out when you get nothing. Gotcha.
I can't get this thing to fucking launch. Oh, do you have to sync it? I had to sync mine. It's a pain, I got it to launch once I crashed into the fucking door.
Oh, they're hard to fly, did you, have you flown your big one? Oh yeah, the big one's a piece of cake, it's not big, it's the Mini, the DJI Mini? Yeah, it's, oh, it's a smaller one. It's fucking, yeah.
Because mine apparently, left and right with the throttle stick thing, is forward and back. Right. And forward and back is left and right or something? Oh yeah, that sounds very complicated.
Oh yeah, 'cause you're going, meh, oh, alright. I'ma tell you. Not that way either. Okay, right, now it's going straight.
Oh shit, there it goes. I'ma tell you right now, I've flown mine twice. maybe three times I think that if I gave it another solid week I could probably shoot a fucking hole into the Death Star to make it to destroy the thing because I'm like okay I got this under control like oh we need to lower it down down down you know I need a better area you probably need a better drone no no the drone is fine for what I'm going to use it for I'm just fucking around but it's all sorts of trees and houses yeah it's fun yeah I enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to because I did not ask for one and I opened it up you know because I opened up the box Did you act, did you act, did you, were like, oh, yes. Well, I gotta tell you, when I opened it, I saw the controller on the side, I thought I was getting an Xbox.
Oh, were you excited about that? Yeah, I was like, oh, and they're like, oh yeah, this is great. You wanted an Xbox? Well, I don't want one, but I don't have one.
I thought that's what it was, because the controller looks like an Xbox controller. Oh. I thought I was getting that. Why would you want an Xbox?
I don't know, I would, who knows. I don't know, I don't have noobs. I want to pwn some noobs, right. You can play Fortnite with Jacks.
Well, I want to play Call of Duty with everybody. Nobody plays Call of Duty anymore, man. Yeah, it's gone. Oh, really?
We've moved on. That Oculus looks cool. Oculus does look cool. I gotta tell you though, with the fucking drone, like I zipped it around, I put it right by my neighbor, he's outside, I was like, shoom, staring at him, and he's like, at first he's laughing, and then he's my cool neighbor.
And then after- So if you look at your house, is that the one on the left? He's the one on the right. Oh yeah, okay, where the tree was. Yeah.
So I brought it down and stared at him, and he laughed at first, and then I flew away, and then I came back and looked at him, and then he just ignored me. They ignored me. I'm like, oh, I've crossed the line. I've officially crossed the line.
Okay, I've bothered the neighbor now. I have harassed the neighbor, the one neighbor that I like. Does your remote have the little screen on it? It does.
So you could see his face. Yeah, that would be funny. Yeah, I wanted it for Jack's football game. Right.
I got to put the last of the games together. I haven't done that yet, so. Put down the Christmas sky. Only do somebody who could edit video.
You want to do that? I offered before! I'll airdrop you all the files. Oh, thank you very much.
Right now. No, not right now. Not right now. So, yeah, Christmas is good, man.
Survived. Survived. I just, you know, I'm honestly, for me, when the time comes and my mother. Oh, that's right.
Your mother was here. When she officially passes, whenever that may be, if it's in 20 years, 30 years, whoever the fuck knows. She's sick? No, no.
Oh. I'm just saying. I thought something happened. But when the time comes, I am fucking out of here.
Christmas, I want to experience Christmas somewhere else. Log cabin. I keep trying to get Adrian to do that. Bora Bora.
I think maybe next year I got an opportunity because the kids weren't too happy about having to come over. Yeah, it's like, Hey, the kids are older, they're, you know, they're, but our kids are younger. I still, you know, I just want to go and have cool experiences and adventures. She was a little down because it was just us on Christmas Eve.
You know, we went and spent that. Well, we spent the day with mom and dad. I know you invited us over. Yeah.
God damn it. We spent the day with mom and dad and that was a little exhausting. Dad, dad was doing his thing now when mom was yelling at him. He'd act like he was dead.
Oh, yeah? Oh, he's been hanging out with Steve. She'd be, oh, that's what it looked like. She'd be yelling at him, and he goes, Dad died, I think mom's yelling at him.
" Like, what, now you speak Spanish? And he would chatter something else in Spanish that made no sense, but he just like, I'm just checking out. Oh, that's, that's fantastic. Yeah.
" Like, it's funny, what do you want, he doesn't know where he is, but he's hilarious, this is funny. But he wants us to do. There's not much we can do. No obli inglés.
Since Adrian's not vaccinated, mom kept putting a mask on. She kept telling dad to put his mask on. " It doesn't seem like the Omicron yada yada is as deadly. No, no, it doesn't.
And Adrian had a mask on almost the entire time. She was being very respectful for that. Yeah, that's nice. But yeah, but no, it doesn't.
You should've came to the house. The time we got home, because we had to make a couple of stops on the way back, We came back and it was like, ugh, we're just emotionally just exhausted and we just stayed home. Ah, you could have revamped and rallied with some alcohol and some cigars. Well, we had alcohol and cigars at home.
Yeah, but you didn't have the camaraderie. No, she was a little depressed. That's what I'm saying, we could have fucking made her feel better. And then the kids didn't come over until two o'clock.
Yeah, give a fuck. Well, with her, Alex spent the night at his girlfriend's house with her family and they got all up and had presents and breakfast. I can't wait till that happens. I'm going to be like, oh, you guys don't want to come?
All right, later. Doesn't bother me at all. Fucking peace. They're going to be like.
They get no presents. They're going to be like, wait a second, where are you going? I'm like, don't you worry about it, man. You can't be here.
She's like, what did you send Jake for Christmas? They go, gift cards? Yeah, what will happen is we'll have one kid. One of the three will be like, I'm going with you guys.
And he'll be down. Or maybe she, he or she, maybe. I don't like it. I don't like it.
I'm going to. Oh, where are we going? I got it. I got it!
I don't like it! Oh, we're gonna celebrate Christmas in New York? Okay. I don't like it.
I don't like it. Oh, I did watch all the Hawkeyes. Did you? How are they?
They're pretty good, actually. The fucking kids started to watch it without me. Oh, but... They never watch shows.
He's a little long in the tooth. Jeremy Renner? Yeah. Yeah, he is.
He's a little old. Yeah, he's always kinda looked old, though. He's always been very wrinkly. Well, they do some flashbacks...
Yeah, he is. But they do some flashbacks to, like, the original Avengers movie. And, I mean, you can definitely tell the difference. Well, that was, what, 15 years ago, maybe 20 years ago?
Well, that's just it, and they still have him, like, falling through skylights and buildings and landing on his back on the ground. Like, nah, he'd be in... He's Hawkeye. Yeah, but he has no superpowers.
So what? Not a thing. Actually, that's a big part of the show that he doesn't have any. That's why the girl likes him so much.
That's not his daughter? No. Nope. Oh.
That's a little girl, well, I don't want to ruin her for you. Oh, well. We're here now. Spoiler alert.
Spoiler alert, the whole show starts when the girl is young, and she lives in a penthouse, and the aliens attack the very first Avenger movie. Ah. So the side of her building gets ripped off the top of it, which kills her father, and she looks out the window, sees Hawkeye up on the thing, you know, shooting the aliens, shooting the aliens, then jumps off the building, and he can't fly, he has no superpowers, and then shoots, and you know, then he swings into the window. Ah, I gotcha.
So, and then she decides she needs to become like him, so as she's little- Hawk-ass. Well, she's trying to think of a name at the end, because she ends up teaming up, and she's like, "I could be Ladyhawk. " And he's like, "No, no, no, no. " But the sister's in it, Natasha's sister.
Yeah, she's been, she's starting to be worked into, uh, like, um, with the Doctor Strange multiverse shit, too. Oh, is she? Yep. They could easily do her own show where she's, uh, cause you know, she's trying to find all the black widows and turn them, or turn them, or the widows, whatever they call them.
Save the widows. Yeah, she could be hunting each one and they have a little fight and then she saves them at the end. That'll get redundant after a while. Yeah, but that's like every TV show, there's not like that, you know?
Yeah. I mean, if you watch any show, it's the same story, just a different... Don't say that. You don't know that.
Like, I've been watching Scorpion. Four seasons of these super smart people who saved the world at the end. Same thing every time. The one head guy is going to do something where he could have died, and then they all figure it out in their heads, and then it's over.
Sounds like an old people's show that you're watching, Scorpions. Scorpions? It's not on anymore. It was on before.
Yeah. But they're all high IQ people. I like the show. But even the doctor show, The Doctor with the Limp.
The Doctor with the Limp. He had a screwed up leg, and he limped it, and he was on drugs because of the pain. Oh, House? House, yeah.
Same show. Every week. Oh, why has this person got this disease? How do we solve this problem?
How do we solve this problem? How do we solve this disease? It's a very rare. I figure it out right at the end.
It's a very rare. Yeah, jungle disease. Every week is a jungle disease. Oh.
Don't go to the jungle anymore, people. Yeah, don't go there. It hurts when I do this. Well, don't do that.
Exactly. Right. Exactly. I think next I'm going to do the soldier and the falcon guy or whatever it is.
The falcon and the winter soldier? Yeah. Is that good? Yeah.
I don't think I'm going to do WandaVision. Doesn't look good. I told you I couldn't get into it. I don't think.
good. I don't think I'm gonna watch Loki. Loki was good. You know, I liked Loki.
I like the character. I just don't, you know, this is gonna be a controversial statement. Uh-oh. I just don't want, look, I'm just not a big fan of you know, having heroes or superheroes.
I don't need to know what their sexual preferences. Oh, is there sexual preferences in a Loki show? If it comes up in a conversation, they talk about it and I'm like look, I don't want to fucking, I don't need to break any of this down. I don't need to know Loki likes I just don't need to break this down to my five year old at this given, at this given moment, you know what I mean?
Why is Loki kissing a guy and a, why is he kissing a mommy and a daddy daddy? Can't I just enjoy the movie? Can't I just enjoy the show with my kid instead of having to explain fucking everything to them? I just don't want to break it down right now.
I just want to sit the fuck down, watch the show, and my kids say, that was awesome. Like Spider-Man. They were fucking Spider-Man for three goddamn days. That was awesome.
Oh, right. You know? There was no fucking... none of that.
Well, I mean, I guess there was... I've seen that Friday. Don't ruin any of that Friday. I mean, I guess there was some kissing scenes where they're like, ew, Mikey, okay, but that's fine.
But they're kissing girls, though, right? Spider-Man's kissing girls. It doesn't matter. Spider-Man's not kissing you.
I don't even need that either. I don't need that either. The two Spider-Mans didn't kiss each other. Leave all of it out.
No. Just leave all of it out. That's not Spider-Web you're shooting at me. Just save the fucking world, and we can move on.
How do you shoot the web out of there? I just want them to save the world. I just want them to save the world. I just want them to save the world.
That's it. I don't need to know who they're dating. I just don't care. Oh.
That's just all I'm saying. I don't want to fucking explain to my five-year-old, six-year-old, no. Whatever. Oh, the bad guy in Hawkeye's Kingpin?
Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's from Daredevil. He is. Like, let's not mix up the stories here, people.
What are you talking about? That's all Marvel Universe. I know, but Daredevil fights Kingpin, not Hawkeye. Yes, he does.
No, they both do. Well, they don't think anybody can. They just fight the one guy. Yeah, everybody's got their enemy.
No, they have their nemesis. Spider-Man has a lot of them. So does Batman. No, Spider-Man has one arch nemesis.
He has a lot of bad guys. The Sandman, the Lizard Dude, Electro. Yes, they're all bad guys. Freezy Beezy.
But he has one arch nemesis. The Goblin? Yes. The Green Goblin.
I saw a quick interview with, a quick story here, with Stan Lee. Yeah. He was bad-mouthing Superman. Yeah.
He's like, how can Superman fly? It's not a giant leap. He doesn't run and jump. He doesn't have anything that makes him fly.
He just sorta, and then he did the pose, he goes, he goes, the next thing you know, he's shooting through the air. How is he propelled through the air? So when he made Thor, he wanted Thor to fly, but he made it, he made it so there was a reason why he could fly. Yeah, with the Majora.
The helicopter thing. It's the hammer. I understand that, but I like playing the helicopter thing. But that's why all his characters have a reason they can do whatever they can do.
He thought it was stupid to just have a guy who goes. I don't know. I like Superman. I like Batman.
I like Batman, too. So, anything else? No, that's it. All right.
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Aha. Love it. It's nice. All right.
Ready to move on? Yes. Let's get to the news. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need.
The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report. Michael. Yep. Black Star Line cigars to increase prices.
Oh. Michael. Yep. It's the prices on its Nicaraguan line and humidors.
Michael. Yes. Rocky Patel announces price increase from February 2022. It's January.
It's Q1, everybody. Michael. Yes. German Engineered Cigars announces a price increase.
Have they sold any? I'm not sure. We couldn't even find them at the show. We tried to find them at the show.
We couldn't find them. Michael. Tell me. Tatuaje Cigars, Pete.
Johnson. Thank you. I was gonna say Townsend. I don't know why.
Pete Townsend? Pete Johnson. Totally different Pete. Totally different cigar.
He would like to explain why he has a price increase. Yeah? I didn't pull the story. This is why.
He announced last week he was doing it, this week he's explaining. Ah. Right. LH Cigars adds the Big Nick.
Nick, I said Nick. The Big Nick? No, Nick. Big Nick.
Not Dick, Nick. Big Nick. Big Nick. LH Cigars' Nick line of cigars, named after the company's founder, Nicholas Siris, is now available in a 7x70 Gordova Tola known as the...
Big Nick. Thank you very much. The rest of the Nick line, it uses Ecuadorian, what? An Ecuadorian, Volata, Abajo?
How was this the story that you covered? You're talking about all this price increase and you jump right into Big Nick. Because I like saying Big Nick. Oh, okay.
So, you know. What is an Ecuadorian Volete Abajo wrapper? What is LH Cigars? It's owned by Nicholas Siris.
Who's that? That's Nick. That's Big Nick. That's Big Nick.
Oh, okay. Maybe we'll meet Big Nick at TPE. They have a Nick line. Yeah.
I hear that. I heard about that. It uses an Ecuadorian Vuelta, V-U-E-L-T-A? Vuelta?
Sure. Abajo? A-B-A-J-O? It's a Abajo.
It's a Abajo wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and three fillers, Brazilian Matafina, Nicaraguan and Peru. The MSRP for the Big Nick is, guess how much you're going to pay for a Big Nick? 95. All very close, $13 for the Big Nick.
Come on, baby! The company began shipping out the first batch of Big Nick's. I had to include inflation. This week, 100 bundles of 25 cigars, big cigars.
Mm-hmm. And Cirrus told Halfwheel, Nick told Halfwheel that those are all gone. All gone, no more in Alcaza. No...
No... No Bueno. El Nicolargo. El Bueno, no Nicolargo.
But that means the stores hope to bring the new size will have to wait until late January for Nick. To ship more. When there's a price increase. 50.
He has not been announced a price increase. He has not. But the Nick ship will ship more. For now, it will continue to be offered in bundles of 25 cigars.
The Nick told Half Wheel that he would create boxes for shops that wanted the big Nick to be in a box. But right now, they're just bundles of Nicks. Oh. Nick bundles.
Nick bundles. Agorosa Leafs adding the Supreme Leaf. Robusto now. In February.
The fifth size. Oh, jeez. Oh, do you ask, oh jeez, because there's another size? No, I have to remember.
I feel they're riding this Supreme Leaf as much as the fifth size of the Supreme Leaf will be remarkably similar to the first size. It's basically the same thing, but we're going to re-release it again. Uh-huh. And you're not even listening now.
No, go ahead. In February, Agarosa Leaf will begin shipping the new Supreme Leaf Robusto Extra. Oh. First size was Robusto.
This is Robusto Extra. Uh-huh. So basically they went, oh, these are a little long. Yes.
Put them in a different box. Say it's extra. Extra. Which measures five bucks?
Who made these cigars? These are a little too big. These are a little too big. These are a little.
That's what Terrence said. Un poco grande. And they go, oh, poco grande Terrence Riley. Or poco grande Algonosa Supreme Leaf.
Demand for Supreme Leaf continues to grow. Oh, they made a bigger cigar. Gross. Nice, Charlie.
Said, oh, no, said Terrence Riley. Oh, I did Terrence. VP of sales and marketing for Agrenor's Leaf and a Pressure Leaf. We selected a Robusto Vitola just as we did for the original release.
However, we changed the ring gauge. Oh. 54. 52.
That's stupid. I just made it a little bit bigger. It always interesting to see how subtle changes create different nuances in flavor and aroma. Terrence is like, what are the 52s?
No, no. Oh, no, he made some 54s. Es mejor, señor, es mejor. We're excited to see how consumers react to the incredible expressions of the blend.
Somebody on the factory fucking shushes him, like puts his finger on him, shh, 54, sir. The Supreme Leaf blend is a Nicaraguan. 54. No, there will be 52s.
Shhh, 54. The robust exercise will have MSRP of the blend. No, you're welcome. You're welcome.
You're welcome. I made it bigger. You're welcome. You charge more dinero.
He's more money. It's okay. Terrence is gonna fucking call us. We're gonna fuck up.
That was a story. Hey, so listen to your podcast. Oh wait, it gets better. They only made 2,750 bucks.
That was a story. was when they told them to stop. Wait, wait, wait. They're too big.
What the fuck? All right, I'll spin this. Don't worry. I'll spin this.
Our demand continues to grow on the Supreme Leaf, and we decided to make a new size. It's very similar to the old size, but somebody fucked up. The company does not intend to make more. Shut it down.
Shut it down. How many times do I have to tell you? Previously, Supreme Leaf releases have been limited production, but not outright limited edition. Ease me a heart.
Oh, Noel Rojas of Rojas Cigars has a new cigar in the works that he's calling Unfinished Business. Uh-oh. It uses an Ecuador and Sumatra wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, and fillers from Nicaragua and Mexico. In keeping with this theme of focusing on smaller ring gauges, Rojas will be releasing it in four sizes, none with more than a 50 ring gauge.
You don't engage, unless some of Terrence's people. Unless, senor, pardon senor, you say 50, no, no, 54. I only make 54. We have made 2,700 boxes.
It's a medium body cigar with lots of flavor, that character has to come back, by the way, so just for a minute, shh, the mistaken roller. The mistaken roller, no, the roller, I don't give a fuck roller. The only, the only 54 ringgade roller. No, no.
54. Oh, you want the 60? Uh-uh. No, no.
Shh, I make this for you. Shh, 54. This is special. It's a medium body cigar with lots of flavors, Rojas told Half Wheel.
Oh, told Cigar Hustler Podcast. Yeah, to their production on the Cigar Hustler Podcast. I mean, I mean, shit. Cigar Hustler Podcast.
Damn it. That was a shit show. This could be Palmer's last show He may be dying He added the production on the cigars He's scheduled to start January 1st He plans to begin shipping them I see that Stores on April 1st Rojas will be producing the cigars Oh, maybe it's April Fool's joke Yeah, and there will be a price increase Rojas will be producing the cigars at his factory in Esteli Which is also the process of remodeling Oh, new chairs And that is why it's going to cost more He said that the process is taking a bit longer Because we're remodeling Anticipated due to some unexpected issues Related to the building's age Oh. By remodel, they mean rebuilt.
I think they're like new permits and stuff. Oh, permits. Somebody came in and said, whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, hey.
Hey. I haven't been paid yet. Where are the fire extinguishers? That's right.
But they anticipated being able to have the works finished in March. This electricity, this electrical work, when was this made? We should go. They're going to have a grand opening in May.
Oh. Yeah, let's go. What the hell? What the hell?
We'll go. It's not cost effective. Medium or premium cigar imports continue to climb in August. In August.
S. compared to the same period in 2020. Ebitda. Ebitda.
Ebitda. Get the Ebitda going. According to a new report from the CAA of America, the Cigar Association of America, the trade group has published its import report for August. September, October, November.
And it shows, you know, they're a little behind. It takes a long time. That's a hundred million. A lot of time to count those cigars, Michael.
One. That's right. One. Two.
Alto at 54. 54? 54 this month. 54 million.
S. 33 million premium cigars. 33 cigars? I don't know.
Oh, it's a 54 ringage. Oh, exactly. Cigars, the CAA... I'll tell you a funny story.
Estimates were imported in August, let me finish the story. Let me finish the story. This guy's got to be our Listener of the Week, too. Okay, go ahead, because there's a longer story.
It's really dull. Let me look it up real quick. 35 million percent of dollars. It's important when you get to tell me.
I'll just stop. Okay, stop. So John Greenberg, Listener of the Week, John Greenberg. Listener of the Week.
John Greenberg of Greenberg Dental. He, um, he reached out to me because, so I, uh, I forgot to, I forgot to release the Año Viejos at midnight, like 11:15 last time, I'm like, oh shit, I gotta release these cigars. Oh, the, uh, the new, uh, LCA? Yeah.
So I didn't do like the, I didn't do like the swivel thing of the N over the Año, so it says "Ano Viejo". Oh, those are the new Anos. The new Anos. I don't know how to do the swivel thing, I'm gonna have to figure that out now.
It's an over button somewhere. button. So apparently I don't know exactly. The translation for Ano Viejo is Old Hole.
Oh, the Old Hole cigars. We have the Old Hole cigars. And, you know, he's just concerned that it might be upsetting some people with the Old Hole. Probably nobody noticed.
John noticed. Now that we've drawn attention to it, Mr. Greenberg. The Ano Viejo.
So did he not want any of the Old Hole cigars? So are you interested in the Old Hole or do you need the new ones? Yeah, do you want the new Hole cigars? Yeah, I'm not sure.
You know what? They're 54 ringgages? And you're getting quite the backup of the towel thing still. Towels?
Towels? What? What towel thing? Reusing the towel.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Everybody tells you. Evidently, you're the only one in America that does not reuse the towel. I'm the only one in America.
With the water bill of like a sultan from the Sahara or something. Somebody said something recently. Damn it. My wisdom is about using, you questioned my wisdom in my post about being an old man, and they said, wisdom like explaining to you that you need to reuse your towels.
Yes, yes, I found it, hold on. Ben Roland. Ben, hello Ben. Also Listener of the Week.
Also Listener of the Week, Ben Roland. Correcting me. Of the Roland Dental Group. Yeah, I met him in Nicaragua.
Oh, in Nicaragua. No, I mean, not Nicaragua, fuck, Texas. I met him at the Roma Craft place. " Oh, a little something, something.
Yeah, it's not really out of the way, they were nearly as thrilled as I was when I found out it was on the way. What are you going to do with the little dog? Leave him in the fucking car, I don't care. Oh, you can't do that.
It's Texas. You can't do that. Tie him up to the car. Oh, okay, that's fine.
Put him in Skip's office. He's not there. His office is a desk, like, up front. Oh, get John Deedle walking.
That would be cute. That would be cute. No. Bumpy Grumpy, whatever they call him.
Tyler. Thank you. Baby Grande. Baby Grande.
Baby Grande. Take care of this dog. I like Bumpy Grumpy. Bumpy Grumpy.
Bumpy Grumpy. Okay. Continue with your show. Dissident Cigar sold to Sin and Joshua Coburn.
Yeah. They look like nice people. I see her all the time on Instagram. I didn't know who she was.
Oh. The Dissident Cigar brand is new owners today. As the company announced it has been sold to Sin and Joshua Coburn. A husband and wife couple described as cigar industry marketing veterans, authors, motivational speakers, and serial entrepreneurs.
I don't know what happened with that guy. Somebody told me that he, like, fell off the face of the earth. He looked familiar, but just vaguely, but she, oh, dissonance. Yeah, the original owner.
What was the original owner? Oh, hold on, it's the second paragraph, please. The Coburn said that they will toss tradition aside. What was his name?
The original guy? Yeah. I don't know, it's in the second paragraph. Oh, okay, all right, keep going, keep going, just keep going.
Benjamin Holt. That's it. Yes. What happened to him?
Changed his name to Robert and started Southern Drawl. The Coburns said they will toss her inside to bring grit, attitude, and a dash of rebellion to the cigar world. Adding that it was a very easy decision to acquire the brand as its branding and name align perfectly with their core values and beliefs. "We're all dissidents in some way, and we'd love to bring that to our forefront of our lives," said Sen Coburn.
"It's nothing to be ashamed of. " Celebrate. One thing, the Coburns won't be tozen-sized, this and its current portfolio of cigars, noting that the core line will remain unchanged while the Rant, Rave, and Triad, Triad, Triad, Triad, Triad, will immediately move from small batch to core line, joining the soapbox and the little B, big L, little O, big C, block? I don't know why that's the typo up and down.
This and cigar has previously been owned by Benjamin Holt, who acquired it in January 2019 from Neil Edwards and Jason Webster, who also owned the Humidor Cigars and Lounge in Wichita. This cigar is part of the Ovija Negra brands and is produced at Fabrique Ovija Negra, Nestle, Nicaragua. Uh-huh. Fertilizer shortage means Cuban's tobacco crop will be smaller, Michael.
Oh. There's a shortage of shit in Cuba. Oh, we're down on some poop. Down on the poop.
How did that affect, I mean, how? How? Oh. People stop shitting?
Let's read on, Michael. Oh, let's figure this out. Cuba's famed, Pino del Rio, the country's most famous tobacco-grown region, will have a smaller-than-descibated tobacco-rub. Hello, I am Hiroshi Romano.
Due to a fertilizer shortage. And from Cuba? I don't have no shit. We're out of poop.
Grandama, Cuba's state-run newspaper says that there could be tobacco planted as many as 13,921 hectares. Hectares. Not sure how big a hectare is. 6, maybe that's the man who plants it.
21 gigawatt hectares. 6% drop from the 16,773. We're out of poop. The country house would be planted only in Pinar del Rio.
And that's where his, that's where his, that's where his, I live in Palo de Rio, according to the newspaper, the reduction in largely due to fertilizer shortage. Shit shortage. Wait, they stopped shitting because the Cuban's officials told grandmother, despite the smaller plantier, the newspaper say it will be the smallest in at least a decade. Small, small, very small.
That the yields of recent crops have been better, which could mean the harvest may not be as small. Aha. What? I don't know.
Planting less, growing more? That's what it sounds like. Well, and when I say we don't have the fertilizer, The fertilizer means we're growing all of it all. Unfortunately, the fertilizer issue is hardly the only problem.
Cuba's tobacco crop faces. Yeah, because it can't roll shit. It's fucking one out of three is plugged. Hurricane Ida.
Oh, that too. Which sent strong winds to Pino del Rio in late August, damaged some 3,000 ha. Uh-huh. Damaged some 3,000 ha's.
Aha. Of seed beds, which will now be replanted next month. You know what they should do? What?
The only thing that they did at the barn burner two years ago, they should have a big party and have the event of put in the plants yourself. Uh-oh. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
And then all the people at the party put in the plants. Yeah, smart. That's what they did there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I refused to work for that man there that owns that thing, so I was like, no. No. Tried to organize the people to not do it, held up a big sign that said union. Yeah, unionized them.
Nope. Nothing. No, I was asked to leave. Huh, that means roughly 20% of Pinot Del Rio's crop will be planted outside of the preferred groin window, which should mean lower yields for that tobacco.
All comes as retailers and distributors are experiencing unique short- Am I boring you? I'm sorry, you don't like the story? I get it, Cuba's fucked. Okay.
Alright, now we have a Florida story, then we're gonna wrap this up. There we go, this is what I've been waiting for. Florida man with drugs around his penis denies they were his. Yes, I sent you this story.
Yes, you did. Charlie Minato sent me this story. Oh, Charlie wants to watch the show. Oh, Charlie, you sneaky little bastard, you little son of a bitch.
Son of a bitch. So did he deny, I haven't read the story, did he deny the penis was his or the drugs? Yes. Or both?
This is not my penis. This is not my penis? These are not my drugs. Right.
I don't know how any of this got here. This is from Clearwater. You don't know how I identify? That's right, maybe I'm a she.
Florida authorities said they found cocaine and methamphetamines wrapped around a man's penis during a traffic stop. Oh, so what even at the airport? No, no. How do you get searched for that?
Can't just go, I got a big dick. I am BDP. I am BDP. Yes, uh, traffic stop, but the man denied the drugs were his.
I don't know how they got there. Right. Who put that there? Woke up in a hotel room with a message written on the thing, this is not your penis.
And whose method is this? And whose method is this? But Dallas County Sheriff's deputy said they stopped a vehicle driving without its lights on. Oh, that's how we got hit.
Idiot. Not even speeding. m. last Saturday.
WFLA-TV reports a driver was arrested on charges of DUI and marijuana possession. Nothing for the methamphetamines? Authorities said they found a gun under the passenger seat while searching the car and discovered the drugs while searching the passenger. That gun's not mine either.
Not my gun. This is not my gun. The man said the drugs were not his, but he didn't say who the drugs belonged to. Whose are they?
Uh, I can't say. I can't say. I can't tell you that. I can't say.
But run prints on the gun. But run prints on the gun. According to the rest report, he has run the prints on the gun and he put them on my penis. And tell me he's going to shoot me with the gun.
Yeah. The sir is not here. I don't know how he's going to do it. I didn't ask questions.
Shh. Shh. Shh. 54 ring gauge penis.
He's a video. He's a video. Shh. He's a video.
You're doing good now. He's different. Do we have a shop of the week, Michael, for the year? Shop of the week.
Oh, let's make it bigger. Bigger. Do we have a shop of the year, Michael? Oh, a shop of the year.
Shop of the Year! A lot of pressure. Holy moly. This is a big, hold on, hold on, we have music for this, I'm almost positive we have music for this.
Hold on, hold on, maybe we do this. I'm gonna give you some. Who's number one? Oh!
Hustler, the podcast. No, that's not it, that's not it, that's not it. Oh, man. Oh, here we go, here we go, okay.
Let me know when you have the Shop of the Year. Well, I would like to do- Don't say the name yet! Just tell me when you're ready. This isn't gonna be the one of the year, this isn't- No, we're doing Shop of the Year.
Why? Can I just do- Can't we just start with the Shop of the Week? No, we're doing Shop of the Year. This is a big event, Michael.
You really turned it up on me. This is all about on the something, podcasting. On the fly. On the fly.
Shop of the Week, Michael, this is a big responsibility. Shop of the Year. Shop of the Year, yeah, Shop of the Year. What'd I say?
Who will be Shop of the Year? Who will be Shop of the Year? Can I get some time on this? No.
We're on time, we have five minutes. The Cigar Hustler Podcast would like to bring recognition to this wonderful Cigar Shop of the Year 2021. Michael, the envelope, please. Wow, the camera's over there.
This is not the Patreon, you don't get to stare at me. Oh, look at you with the side eye, I can't even look at the camera because I hate the Wi-Fi up here. All right, Michael, the Shop of the Year is... Hold on, hold on.
Why is this always lock up? Oh, it's because music's still playing. I discovered this last week. Ah.
Crickets, rim show. Okay, we're ready. Okay, Michael, Shop of the Year, Michael. Hold on, I'm going to bring this down a little bit so I can hear you when I say it.
Okay, okay, we're ready, we're ready. Okay, Michael, Shop of the Year. Oh, man, this is a tough call. Well, it's up all to you.
This has been just your grading, just you. This is all on you. Because there's a, you know, there's a couple things that I would consider. Would you like to do a runner-up?
First runner-up for Shop of the Year is? The first runner-up. First runner-up. Okay, you know, this is after runner-up, it goes Shop of the Year.
There's not like 17 of these. So you're gonna mention two. This is a runner-up. It was a close, uh, the scoring came in.
This was very close, very close. We were surprised it was so close here. Man, you know, it's hard to do this because you're gonna piss so many people off. It's not my problem.
It's you. Yeah. It's all on you. I'm not gonna do it.
Camera's over there. I'm not going to do a runner-up. Oh, wow, look at you. Okay, Shop of the Year, then.
The Shop of the Year. Yes? I'm going to make it Owl Ear Smoke Shop. Congratulations, Owl Ear Smoke Shop.
You are the 2021 Cigar Awesome Podcast Shop of the Year. Mr. Lenny Schmiegel. Lenny Schmiegel.
Oh, sorry. I really got to give it to that guy. Okay. Now, the worst Shop of the Year, Michael.
Ooh. There's so many. There's so many. The Worst Shop of the Year, the Cigar Hustle Podcast.
Whoa, do you need the music? I'm not gonna, I am not gonna open that door, I am not, I am not gonna walk into that. Not gonna say anything? No, I'm not gonna do it.
Cigar Branding, you wanna do the 2021 Cigar Hustle Podcast Cigar Brand of the Year. Who have we talked about the most, Michael? Roma Craft? That's funny, that's funny, very funny man.
We talk about rum the most. Uncle Skip and Michael Rosales, congratulations, sir. You are the 2021 Cigars or Podcast Shop of the Year. Brand of the Year.
Oh, Brand of the Year. It could be a shop, too. I don't know. Any other words you'd like to give out, Michael?
Cigar Personality of the Year? No, but how... All right, Michael, the Cigar Personality of the Year, the Cigars or Podcast 2021 Cigar Personality of the Year is... Mike Palmer.
Oh-ho-ho, that's the night. People, you're just going crazy. You're just going crazy. Okay.
Yes, hello. All right, you're going off the rails on me now. Okay, the Cigar Podcast of the Year, Michael. I think David Garofalo could tell you.
Those are crickets. Oh, sorry, run button. I don't know. Okay.
Who's number one? Cigar Hustler, The Podcast. Oh, that's very nice, Mr. Garofalo.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. But you know what? It's David Garofalo, so, you know.
" Michael Joseph fucking dare burn you with my smoke. Burn you with me smokes. Yep. Does she like having a Britney button?
She mentioned it? Yep. I try that at every show, Britney, 'cause you're the one that puts all the toys together at the house. Hashtag free Britney.
Hashtag free Britney from the toy assembly. From the toy assembly. Poor thing. All right.
All right. Oh, look at that. It's been an hour. I think this concludes it.
So, we appreciate everybody watching and listening for 2021. Yes. Have a happy new year. We will be back in 2022, unfortunately, for all of you.
Please be safe. Please be safe. And shh, shh. Is me whore.
Is me whore. 54 is me whore. 54 is better. All right, everybody.
Thank you very much. Have a nice new year. Be safe. No drinking and driving.
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Yeah, we just don't have to do a single podcast ever again. Perfect. I'm good, Mike and Mike. How are you guys doing?
The Hojo Deeb. Hojo! It's the Hojo! He didn't even let him fuck it up all the way.
I can get past Hojo! I don't even have to try it. He's not even going to try it. We're going to cover a lot of ground here, Mike.
All right. Try to keep up. That's a sign of a good podcast. It'd be like four cigars when I walked in a door.
All right, end this.
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