A Cigar Hustlers Podcast Episode 291 A Dog Called Bubbles

Episode Summary

Episode 291 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast finds Mike "The King" Szczepankiewicz, Mike "Reverend BDP" Palmer and Phil joined by a live studio guest — longtime friend of the show John Yogerlite, who recently relocated to Ocala, Florida. The show opens with the details of the Cigar Hustler RoMa Craft PCA sampler giveaway (a Frenchie, a Quincuncial Gennaro and three Intemperance Volstead cigars), including how the entry tiers work, the no-purchase-necessary email entry, and the August 31, 2023 deadline.

The guys recap Mike's appearance on Cigar Coop's Developing Palates PCA roundtable alongside Steve Saka, Pete Johnson, Abe Dababneh, Jay Davis of Blue Smoke Dallas, Aaron Fishtick, John McTavish and Cigar Coop himself — complete with green-screen antics, a Brady Bunch-style Zoom grid and the observation that the best conversation always happens after the cameras stop. From there it turns into the episode's signature story: John Carney's wife Allie's Haunted Mansion–themed birthday party, the AMC-banded Reservoir Special cigars, the grilled steaks, and the now-legendary "don't eat the potatoes" advice card that gave the episode its unofficial title. Other industry folks in attendance included Andy from McAuliffe's, Dan from Cigars on the Ave and Ryan the Oliva rep. Bubbles the guard dog also makes an appearance, hence the episode name.

News-wise, the crew covers Barry Stein's departure from The Cigar Authority and tease his future with "the number one cigar show," plus the Rick Rodriguez (West Tampa Tobacco) and Luciano Meirelles (Luciano Cigars) collaboration born at a visit to the Luciano/PDR-adjacent Nicaragua operation, a project tied to My Old Kentucky Herf and the Fatash family. Phil's Fun Facts covers early-20th-century doctors prescribing cigars for erectile dysfunction, and Florida news covers meth-tainted soy sauce at a Pace, Florida sushi restaurant and Discovery Shark Week's "Cocaine Sharks."

Housekeeping includes Secreto Cigars as shop of the month ahead of the August 19 Postana Connecticut release event, Mike Krikorian as listener of the week, and a tease of the Patreon segment where the crew smokes the Viso Horny 452.

In This Episode

1. 01
   RoMa Craft PCA Sampler Giveaway
   How to enter the Cigar Hustler giveaway for a PCA sampler including a Frenchie, Quincuncial Gennaro and three Intemperance Volsteads, with entry tiers and the August 31, 2023 deadline.
2. 02
   John Yogerlite in the Studio
   The guys welcome John Yogerlite for his first in-person visit after his move to Ocala, Florida.
3. 03
   Cigar Coop's Developing Palates PCA Roundtable Recap
   Mike recaps the multi-hour PCA panel with Steve Saka, Pete Johnson, Abe Dababneh, Jay Davis and others, plus his green-screen fuckery.
4. 04
   Don't Eat the Potatoes: John Carney's Haunted Mansion Party
   A full retelling of Allie Carney's birthday party, the AMC-banded Reservoir Special cigars, the grilling, and the advice card that became the episode's catchphrase.
5. 05
   Phil's Fun Facts
   Early 20th-century doctors once recommended cigars as a remedy for erectile dysfunction and blood-flow problems.
6. 06
   Industry News: Barry Stein Leaves The Cigar Authority
   Barry Stein exits the show he joined in July 2014, with hints he's headed to the Hustlers' orbit.
7. 07
   Rick Rodriguez & Luciano Meirelles Collaboration
   West Tampa Tobacco's Rick Rodriguez and Luciano Cigars' Luciano Meirelles announce a curated-tobacco collaboration tied to My Old Kentucky Herf.
8. 08
   Florida News, Shop of the Month & Listener of the Week
   Meth in the soy sauce in Pace, Florida, Discovery's Cocaine Sharks, Secreto Cigars' August 19 Postana Connecticut event, and listener Mike Krikorian.

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Transcript

Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, episode 291, where we bring you the latest news and insights from the world of premium cigars. In this episode, we dive into big stories of the week. The King, Mike Stepankiewicz, and Reverend BDP, Mike Palmer are two dynamic individuals who co-host a captivating Cigar Hustlers Podcast. And me, I'm Phil.

So grab your favorite smoke, sit back, and join us for another exciting episode of Cigar Hustlers Podcast. Might have to upgrade these lights back here, they're turning orange. The red is sort of burned out. Oh, it's faded.

It's faded. I appreciate you, Palmer. What'd I do? There was no funny thing.

No, we stopped doing that. You ran its course. Camera one. Camera one.

Cigar Hustlers having an amazing contest, Michael. We are? com, click on the newsletter at the bottom of the page and then put in your email address, you get You get five entries if you purchase $50 in Roma Craft products in a single order. You can't spread that out over five different orders.

$50, one order. You get 15 entries if you purchase $100 in Roma Craft products in a single order. Oh my God. Again, very important.

All in the same order. That is important. And then you get 50, 50, five O entries. Almost guarantees you a win.

Almost. Almost. Purchase. Almost, but not quite.

Not quite. Not a guarantee. Almost a guarantee. But it helps.

It helps. Oh, it definitely helps. You get 50 entries if you purchase $2,000. No, it's $200 in Roma Craft products in a single order.

Don't buy Roma Craft. That's completely different. Yeah, that's Tomb Raider. That's Tomb Raider.

Yeah, Laura Craft. Yeah, Laura Craft. Deadline to enter will be August 31st, 2023. Can you enter as many times as you want?

I was about to say that. Oh, I was just curious. You can enter as many times as you like. No purchase is necessary since you can do the email thing, but you can only apply for the, you can only enter the email thing once, all right?

- Right. - Right, you can't like unsubscribe and re-subscribe, unsubscribe, re-subscribe. - That's guaranteed. - It doesn't work that way, yeah.

- No, right. - Just make everything clear. - No purchase necessary to enter. - No purchase necessary to enter.

- See our website for further details. - See our website for further details and more information. - Yes. - Sorry, that wasn't on your email.

- I didn't even put on. - Like micro-machines. - Yes, micro-machines. - Two, two?

Thank you. - So we have a celebrity in the house. - We have a live studio audience today. - Yeah.

- Yes, we do. - Mr. Yogerlite. - Yes.

- John Yogerlite has officially-- - He's now living in Florida. - He's living in Florida, somewhere in the fuckin' fields of Ocala or some shit. - He rode a horse here. - He drove, he had to take a plane and drive an additional three hours to get here, but he made it.

He made it. - The man, the myth, the legend. - It is weird. Thank you, thank you so much for coming.

- First time he's ever been here before. - Yeah, I know. He finally made it. - He said he thought it was bigger when he walked in.

- Yeah. - It's movie magic. - It's movie magic. - It's movie magic.

- That's what they say, that's what everybody says about this. Are you talking about the studio, or upstairs? - Both. - Yeah, both, both, both.

Everything seems bigger. - It's all disappointing. - It's because we're such big personalities, everything seems bigger. " - Oh yeah, you have met him.

I have not till today. - Yeah, no, we've hung out and stuff. - Yes, yes, in New York. - Yeah, or Jersey, depending upon where we were.

- I don't know if you admitted you went to Jersey, I know he does. - JR? And in Jersey. Yeah, at JR's, uh, fuck.

Uh oh. JR's fuck? Was that like a party, a special party you went to? Whoa, what a place.

Yeah, it was weird. We had to wear masks and stuff. Oh, wow. What's that?

Tom Cruise? Yes. The Casa place. That was in Jersey, right?

Yo. Tom Cruise is there. I'm there. I'm coming.

We're going to the fucking place. Is that the one guy you'll be gay with? No, no. I'm not giving you any fucking ammo here.

Yes, I'll be gay with Tom Cruise. Click. Yeah. You're there, yeah.

We've hung out. We've jived. We're Facebook friends. Well, I'm Facebook friends.

We FaceTime. I'm FaceTime. I'm FaceTime. When he's stuck in traffic.

What's up, man? I'm bored. No driving in Ocala, just so you know. Yeah.

There's only three cars. You get right on the road, yeah. I think there's one red light in Ocala. It's always red.

Did you get a banjo or what? Go away from those, by the way. Yeah, don't go see what those are. Don't go near the banjos.

Don't go find out. I wonder who that is. Hello? Oh, hello, Brittany.

Oh, here we go. Podcasting. Man, how crazy is this? Every day at three.

Such a true. Basketball shorts and a long-sleeved shirt thing that I'm wearing. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Thank you. She called to go, what are you wearing? Oh.

No. So, what are you wearing? A long-sleeved shirt and a basketball shirt. But listen, we're going to get into some stories then, so… Oh yeah, before we get into this, that's right.

So we… I'm just jumping right into it. We got a little… So the boys started doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Oh! Yeah.

Hiya! So there's been a little bit… There's been a schedule for them to train today. It was just kind of off the cuff, so I'm just trying to schedule whether they… They don't have gis yet or anything like that, so… She's asking what they're… Because you like to dress like them when they work out? Yeah, 'cause you don't do it.

Yeah, 'cause I don't do it. No, no, you don't. I don't do it at all. Right.

Oh, no, yeah, yeah. You want it to look like that. It's for Halloween. Yeah, for Halloween, yeah.

Yeah, right. So, anyways. So, anyways. Be a hot dimah.

Wait, honey. Beep. Six minutes. Slick.

Beep. This is why we re-record. We pre-record. You should leave it and just beep it.

So, I do. That's all you have to say. Okay, so, now a couple other things happened. You know, what was weird is, even though our show was released on Tuesday, I actually went on a show on Monday with Coop.

Oh my God, I'm not wearing my Coop shirt! Oh, you're in trouble. Can you put my camera on? One thing.

Hit pause. Oh, look at that. I have a pause. Pause.

He already knows you don't have it. Pause. Okay, 6:32. 6:33.

Oh, lovely shirt you were, Mike. Thank you. Oh, what a nice. That was a quick change, Superman.

Is that from The Cigar Coop? Yeah, I got it from The Cigar Coop. Wow. I was on his show on Monday.

Last Monday. Who? Billy? Cigar Coop.

Unbelievable. You never heard of him? No, you're on Develop, was it his show? Oh, no, it was Developing Palettes.

Send one shirt to Phil. The longest show in the world. So, yeah, so we got these lovely shirts. This has become a thing.

Two, please. So you see my shirt, too. Oh, you want it, too? Oh.

Yeah, thank you. It's become a thing. Yeah, send us a shirt, we wear it on the show. Yeah, Phil too.

Just two shirts. Just send two. Just send two. And they're both XL, that's it.

Both XL, it's easy to remember. If you guys send two, there's going to be problems. One has to be black. And there has to be problems.

So you have to send two. No. If you guys send two, so Phil can bitch. Yeah, an XL and a double XL, send two.

Two standard X-Ls. Well, then Michael would just have a blousey double XL. A blousey double XL. Oh.

So I went on the show. Yes. And Sokka was on there. P.

Johnson was on there. Abe Debedebede was on there smoking. Jay Davis from Blue Smoke Dallas. And also he was representing the PCA.

Yes, the PCA compliant box. Yes. Complaint box. Complaint box.

And then you had Aaron, John McTavish, and Coop. Right? Aaron Fishtick. So did you guys listen?

Yes. I think you listened this time. I watched three quarters of it. And then you gave up?

Well, no, I got busy and I haven't gone back, because now it's too late. Now it's too late. If I'd known we were going to talk about it this week, I would have finished watching it if I figured it was done. No, I mean, it was a good conversation, but I fucked with everybody with my blue screen.

Yes. Green screen. Green screen. Yes.

Green screen, yeah. Yeah, I did some funny things. I didn't ever see anybody make a comment about it. I did.

Oh, yeah. Boots did. Jesus. Boots did.

Boots did. Well, Phil could have watched it. Yeah, you know, what was funny is I know that with some people on that panel, there's just no way I can get a fucking word in. You know?

There were a lot of people. I just didn't want to step on anybody's dick or anything, so. It went better than I had expected it to go. Yeah.

Well, you know, everybody on that panel, they're all good people. Right. And they're very respectable. Except Pete.

Except Pete. Pete's fine. Except Pete. Pete's fine.

I don't know him. I've met him a few times, but I don't really know him. Somebody tells him Palmer said you're an asshole, he's not going to know who he is. Okay.

Yeah, but no, I think that, you know, it went pretty well. And everybody there was really nice. Well, it was nice they directed a question at a specific person. Yeah.

So it wasn't like somebody said, you know, so what was your favorite part of the PCA? And then everybody just started talking. He was good at regulating around the Brady Bunch panel board. It did look like the Brady Bunch.

And then I changed my background as I was going. I already had some plans to make some funny shit, so. Why does it always move? It gets a little confusing.

So like, you're not always the center square. where sometimes you're over here sometimes you're over here yeah it did move around yeah it moves around a lot i mean it's got to be a zoom thing i would imagine something they can't control probably but maybe whoever's talking the most i don't it didn't seem no because i don't remember i don't think socca ever moved he was always as you're looking at the screen bottom left he paid for that spot probably probably i have to be bottom left socca screen probably it would expand as as he continues to talk because you know right he's just engulfing because he the conversation would Like his box gets smaller and then we all get, or we all get smaller and his gets larger. Yeah, he gets bigger, right? But, you know, Abe...

Abe got a little liquored in. Is that what you think what it was? " What was that question? " He's a good guy, man.

He has a good time. I like it. So anyways, go back and listen to that show, or watch it. You should watch it, because...

Yeah, it's better to watch that stuff. Because I'm funny, and I don't get to say much. What was your favorite part? You talked about as much as everybody else.

You think so? Yeah. No, I guess I felt like I was doing this a lot. Damn.

Well, you had to wait till they address you. True. What was your question? What was your favorite part of the show?

My green screens. Other than the obvious of the fuckery. I'll tell you the best part of the show. And it's usually for any part of that show is when we turn off the cameras and we bullshit afterwards.

Nice. How long did that last? I mean, the show was, what, three and a half hours? Probably another half hour to 45 minutes.

But that's when you really get some fucking, you know, you get some intel, you know, and you get some information. Who talks shit? I can't tell you. On the Patreon, on the Patreon.

Do you know how to keep a secret? Yeah, I know you don't tell. So do I. No, whatever.

Whatever. Whatever, Mike. That's what I enjoy the most, you ask me. Okay.

I'm not going to put somebody on blast if they say something in confidence. So glad Greg parked right outside our door. It's better than parking out front. Right.

He's got to warm it up right now. That's loud up front. Now he's got to load it up. And we hear the belt squeal here in a minute as he pulls away.

Yeah. So, alright. Mm-hmm. So you went to a birthday party too, though, Saturday night?

I did. Thank you very much. I would have forgotten about that. How could you forget about that?

I don't know, I'm drawing a blank here. I feel like I'm retarded today. I don't know. Is that okay?

I only know you went because I got to babysit the children. Yes, you did. You did. Actually, Adrian even said this morning, she goes, that was a lot of fun.

I enjoyed that. She did? Yeah. She was well rested.

Yeah. Well, once Teddy went out, she went out. " The girls are going out, I'm out too. I'm going to take a nappy poo.

Well, yeah, I mean, the big ones can run themselves. But you had fun playing with them. Yeah, yeah, we played some games and stuff and made up rules as they went along, I feel, I don't know. Yeah.

Palmer loves that, though. That's a great game. It's very confusing. Taco versus burrito is a fantastic game.

Okay. It really is. I don't think I had any cards in my burrito by the time it was over. I mean, you lost.

Well, yes, I lost. I know. You need to step your game up, so. Yeah.

It's taco burrito. You don't even know what it is. Come on, man. I don't know, but when you learn, you better step your game up, so.

" Well, first of all, you're playing with children. You lose, yeah. You lose. How do you have 75 cards?

" Health Department, No Bueno. Yeah, No Bueno, that's it. No Bueno. Oh, no, si bueno.

No Bueno, we went back five times. Yeah, exactly. Going back and forth. Exactly.

So it's fucking hilarious. Once you kind of understand how the game goes. Right. So I read the instructions.

I need to reread them to play again. They're a little confusing. Yeah. It's a lot of fun.

So we played Uno and it took almost 45 minutes. I heard. I heard. Holy crap.

I heard. Justice just likes to stockpile cards and change the color. Like you have a yellow, I want red now. Okay, whatever you want.

He likes to have them all. Yeah, he likes to have all the cards. Like, the idea is to lose the cards. No.

Okay, man. So, John Carney's wife had a birthday. Yes, Mrs. Carney.

Mrs. Carney. Yes. And I was invited.

Wow. You said there were four industry people there. You only mentioned one other name. You totally put me on the spot here.

Was Fred Rui there? No. I thought they were barbecue buddies. No, Ryan, the Oliva rep, was there.

Who was there? Oh, Dan from Cigars on the Ave was there. Oh, okay. Is that the older gentleman from Cigars on the Ave?

Yeah. And Andy from McAuliffe was there. Yeah, you said Andy. I think there was other people from the cigar industry.

You said four. I mean, I know. So that... I just don't...

You just mentioned four. Yeah, no, I said three. Oh. Well, you, you're number four.

There's a couple of people, but I don't... Ryan. I don't know who they are. I said Ryan.

Who else? John was there. Well, honestly. There's four.

So, no, it's cool. For one, it's awesome to have that relationship with John. Right. Because, you know, outside of this place, we're buddies.

Outside of the cigar industry. Sometimes. Yeah. Sometimes maybe.

Sometimes maybe not. Okay, I'm going to keep working on it, though, because I want to be buddies. Right. I know you definitely want to.

Because I like John. Yeah. He's a nice guy. He's a guy that I gravitate towards.

So. Did you get one of those special cigars from his wife's party? Of course. I smoked it.

Just curious. Yeah, I smoked it. I saw it in a photo. The AMC?

Yeah. Yeah. - I did, I smoked it right then and there. - Is that the same one for the birth of his baby, just with a different band?

- No, it's totally different, yeah. It's just a Reservoir Special out with the AMC band on it, ah, yeah. - So, so the theater, so like the theme was Haunted Mansion. - Yes.

- And they had floating candles in the house. - Yeah, Brittany told me about those, those sounded cool. - They fucking had fog machines, and the house was totally fogged. There was, like they decked, they went fucking nuts.

- Did he dress up? - He was in like the ghost host shirt or whatever, you know, From like Disney or whatever, and it was hilarious, so there was a scavenger hunt, that apparently two, three people had won, I didn't see how that ended up, because he was giving away a bottle of something, which was really nice. Kind of like the taco burrito game. Right, not sure of the instructions, and sort of let it go.

So when he, so he was running around a lot, and he was getting all these things ready and stuff, and what happened was, he kind of started cooking late, you know, so in order to kind of, he kind of, Just grill the steak with a little bit of smoke, you know, because you don't have that much time. Right. And a lot of steaks. And the steak turned out perfect.

Now, his wife is vegan, so there was also a vegetarian. I'm sorry. Something like that. They're different.

Doesn't eat meat. Yeah, right. So they had. Might eat eggs and cheese.

We don't know. So he had like, he had a hell of a, you know, a food array, right? He had the steaks. What kind of grill does he have?

He's got more than one. That's why he's so around. He don't fuck around. We knew that.

Yeah, you don't fuck her out. So I wanted to hear because he does, he's a meat guy, he's a grill guy. Yeah, he's got this badass grill, it's propane, but it looks like a barrel almost. Yeah.

It's pretty dope. I don't see how a guy like him, who is so meat, gets a vegetarian, or vegan, whichever one, and he marries her. Opposites attract, baby. It is.

" See, John said the same thing. He said he did the same thing. His wife is a vegetarian. He was a vegetarian.

Oh. So there you go. Was she always? Yeah.

There you go. Oh, well see, that's a dramatic, it's a dramatic thing. Maybe it's just a John thing. Maybe it was a John thing.

Oh, maybe it was a John thing. It could be. Maybe. So, so he cooks all this shit, man, and he did a great job doing it.

Right. Especially in the amount of time that he had. So, you know, I picked up, uh, I picked up a little bit of everything. Got a plate for me and Brady, like one plate we kind of shared or whatever.

Oh, only one steak per cup? No, it was all chopped up. Oh, it was in pieces. That is the only way to go somewhere and eat a steak.

They chop it up for you. It makes it easier. The steak was on point, especially for the time that he had. He did a meat podcast for the pandemic.

So John comes out. And then Fred Roy, that's why I thought Fred might have been there. So a couple things were hard with the plastic forks. So he had like this pasta that was amazing, and he had this, he had some, let's see, I want to say asparagus, but it's not asparagus, the little round, Brussels sprouts.

Brussels sprouts. Yeah. So he had Brussels sprouts, but if you, but yeah, I know. Cooked in bacon?

I told you, I'm off today. Are they cooked in bacon? So, no, I don't think they were cooked in bacon, but he had-- He said his wife, couldn't you? Right, exactly.

So he had Brussels sprouts, and he had potatoes. Now in order to kind of grab these little, they had these little potatoes, in order to grab the potatoes and stuff. Make the little yellow, gold? Yeah, with the plastic fork, you had to kind of get in on the fork and just push it down.

Otherwise, it'd shoot right off the... Wait, wait, you use utensils? Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen you use utensils.

I use utensils. Not here, not here. No, I ain't got time for utensils here. Fuck that.

So... Right. So the Brussels sprouts are good. So, and I'm about to go eat a potato, and then all of a sudden John comes out from the kitchen or whatever.

He goes, "Listen everybody, because we're all eating out back, we got tables. I just want everybody to know, the potatoes are cooked just fine. " Uh oh. Some special vegan cooking of the potatoes?

" 'Cause if they're hard, they're traditionally not done all the way. That's how you know when they're done, they're so good. So I grab a potato, and I eat it, and it was a little tough to eat. With your, like, crunchy.

Yeah, yeah, it's like, oh! But I ate all my potatoes. Good. They were obviously done if you ate them.

Nah, he's just being polite. And once you get invited back, he's still on the cusp. I love your potatoes, John. I don't know who said anything, John, these are delicious.

Yeah, fuck that guy. So, as like, as we-- I'm like, Brittany, can I eat your potatoes? So, we didn't want to be too late, because, you know, for Papa Palmer being a babysitter. We were fine.

I know, but look, you know, we could have stayed till 12:31 o'clock easily. You know, Adrian was asleep, it would have been fine. I know, but I would have lit that second cigar. I think we were good at where we were at.

So 11 o'clock, I'm like, I don't think I have time for another one. Okay, so John was, why? He could have just left it halfway, who cares? I don't do that.

And I can't smoke in Adrian's car on the way home. It would have been fine if you said, all right, that's not. I wouldn't have done that. So as we're getting kind of closer, he goes, hey, what time are you leaving?

I said, I'm probably gonna get out of here at like 11:00. " So he had this setup where everybody would write down a piece of advice to Allie, and originally you were supposed to read it off to you, to her, and then throw it in the fire, right? - Oh, okay. - Oh, nice.

" - Oh, it would be funner. More fun? Funner? - More enjoyable?

- More enjoyable. - More enjoyable. That's better because then you don't have to be put on the spot. Right, right.

Like if I said something stupid, I don't want to read my stupid words. Oh, you know what? When I wrote that down, it sounded a lot better. It sounded better in my head, John.

I'm very sorry. I know. I'm not being invited back. It wasn't me anyways.

It was Mikey. Well, I had no problem writing mine down saying it. What did you say? I wound up not going up there.

No, but-- Oh, what did I say? What did you write down? One of my favorite quotes. " Oh.

Oh, I thought it was-- What, Brittany right now? Don't be sorry, be better. She was part of mine. You shared one?

Yeah, she's like, this is from us. I don't blame her at all, but still. I'm like, what do I write? I go, I can give you a bunch of quotes.

I don't get invited back now, you know why? You get 100% of shots, you miss 100% of shots you don't take. I mean, I could have, you know, we could have done all that stuff. She's like, no, I'm just part of yours.

I said, okay. Put my name on it. Give me more wine. Alright, so people are coming up and announcing the things.

They're saying the advices. And they're, you know, some of them are like, you know, don't sweat the small stuff, you know, stuff like that, some of them are a little more in details, you know, like history-wise between the two of them or whatever. Oh, a little more personal. Yeah, right.

Like an inside joke. But then like, I feel like there's a lead up for this. But then people kind of get, start to get tired of coming up and saying things. There's probably like eight or nine people that are really close with Allie that would say those things.

Like, I mean, you know, I know Allie, but I'm not, I know who she is. You know, I mean, if she was at my house, and I didn't know, we would all be, I would have cooked steaks for everybody, you know, that's, so I'm not that far along the friendship, yeah. Yeah, she would have never came back. " Do you have anything not made out of an animal?

I'm like, "We got to door dash something. " So, John takes over on reading stuff off, right, and he's going, and he says one, and it's like, da-da-da, you know, um, you know, shouldn't have married John. " But hey, you know, like there's these positive things that are going on, and like all of these quotes are fantastic. You know, they make you think.

They're like, "Wow, that's a really good quote. Wow, that's a really good quote. " Poor guy. I mean, you know, if you're giving advice.

Don't eat the potatoes. Oh my God, dude, I fucking died laughing. He has a complex now. And it's great because John read it off as advice to his wife.

Right. Oh boy. Absolutely amazing. It was the most captivating moment of the night, for sure.

If you buy potatoes on Amazon, you need to send him a bag of potatoes. Send some potatoes or some cooking instructions for potatoes. Cooking instructions for potatoes. Cooking instructions for potatoes.

I'm glad this is on the show because now everybody's going to be telling them. Hey, don't eat the potatoes. Oh, dude, are you kidding me? The people that were in the cigar industry that were there, I mean, you know, Andy from McAuliffe, and they're going to fucking ride him forever.

Show. Absolutely fantastic. I had a great time. Thank you so much for covering, for watching the kiddos.

We had to put bubbles away. We do it again. Yeah, you got to put bubbles away. The night stalker.

Yeah. Yeah. You know how, I can't think of his name all of a sudden, Chapo, he runs around everything, so I'm sitting at the island with my, I'm sitting in my hands down and Chapo come up put his nose in your hand, so you know, normally for you it's in your butt, well I was sitting down, that's his COVID check, so I, you know, so somebody puts their nose in my hand and I sort of, you know, pet them and I look down and it's bubbles, I'm like, oh shit, I'm sorry, Houston, we have a problem, one, two, three, four, okay, they're all still there. Nice puppy.

Nice dog, nice dog. Nice dog. Adrian got up to cross the room. Like, you gotta lock that thing up.

Palmer's throwing his steak back in the kennel. Go! Yeah, lock that thing up for you. He's the best fucking dog I've ever had.

Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. He's perfect for a family, for protection and things. I go to bed, he lays- Not very friendly when people come over.

He lays around the bed, and he alerts me when anybody comes, with the exception of Teddy. Teddy can do whatever she wants when he comes to that dog. Oh yeah, the dog, yeah. Including letting it out of the cage from Palmer's End.

Yeah. No, no, we didn't let her go in the bedroom. Yeah. We didn't let her go in the bedroom.

I don't play the dog. If Teddy was having, if Teddy all of a sudden had some bitter resentment towards her parents and she wanted to stab us to death in the middle of the night, Bubbles would let that happen. Oh, wow. But yeah, here she comes, she's got the kitchen knife, and, uh, yeah, nope, they're dead.

There's a new regime. Yeah. Bubbles, I'm in charge now. Right.

Okay. Got every food? Yes. I still get fed?

Okay, good. Yeah, you get lots of stuff now. How about the boys? They're still on the list.

Just keep an eye on them. So we're gonna do the V So Horny on the Patreon? Yes, today we are smoking the V So Horny by Mr. V So Horny himself.

I'm very excited about this. The 452. You know, we didn't get a handwritten note in our package, like everybody else got. No shit.

Well, he did do a video, though. You gotta be fucking kidding. He did a video. Yeah, he did a video for you guys.

No, no, the ones that came today. Yeah, he did a video for Cigar Hustler and for Mikey for ordering, you know, the amount and everything. Oh, I didn't see that. And then he also did the post, you know, make sure if you didn't get any, go to Cigar Hustler.

I didn't see that either. Where do you put that? On his main page. On his Facebook page?

Yeah, on his Facebook page. You know what's crazy? We say thank you in every single order. Right.

Every single fucking order. You want to know how many times I've seen a post on the internet? None. Out of 17,000 orders that we've done.

Maybe 10. Maybe like 10 times. Yeah, maybe 10. " We're throwing lighters in now.

Yeah, I mean, fuck. I saw some posts over the weekend from some guys with the Volstads and stuff, "Thank you to Cigar Hustler" and all that. Yeah, yeah, no, no. Don't get me wrong.

Don't show the notes. That's different. Of course, there's always gratitude for that. I mean, you have your core group of guys that are like, that are fucking diehard, which I love, but it was just so weird to me that everybody was posting this, "Hey, thank you so much," you know, and whatever.

Oh, okay, yeah. I'm like, wait a second. John got a nice knife in his box, apparently. You got a knife?

Oh my goodness. He pulls up a picture of the letter and everything. And there's a knife, cruise tickets. A Spyderco.

Oh, no kidding. He got a Wanderlust package for retirement. I did see that. Yes, I saw that.

He did. We gotta go to his house. Yeah. It's as far away.

dry bag what oh did they oh i saw that yeah palmer we should retire right now i'm retired today from the show congratulations that's why john's here that's what john's here you're gonna fill in now replacement all right i'm excited about the piece of horny i think i'm gonna you're gonna put down that post on your connecticut i don't know maybe not i mean it's the the best connecticut ever made bar none it is the best connecticut made bar none if you like that thing now you'll be done with it Yeah, you're probably right. Let me tell you what it weighs in at, though, in case they get-- I mean, Phil's over there smoking his. He's already done. No, no.

2 grams. No, that one's for boots. Oh, it looks good. What is it?

It's broadleaf? It looks like a broadleaf. That was all Viso. It doesn't matter.

That's just the-- No, I think it all is. I think on the front of the package it says broadleaf. Oh, does it? Okay, so just so you know, there's three major parts of the plant.

Yeah, I understand. I know how that works. Yes. But I thought the thing was, this was everything, the wrapper, the binder, everything.

It's all Viso, as far as... Oh, oh, where it is on the plant, but it's a broadly Viso. Ah, okay, I'm following you. You're on the package, I think it says broadly.

I'm glad that you got there. Yeah, yeah. All by myself. I wouldn't say all by yourself.

I know how to cook potatoes, I'll tell you that. Oh! Don't eat the potatoes. Don't eat the potatoes.

That should be the name of the episode. Don't eat the potatoes. John Potato Carney. All right, we're ready to, uh, what is, oh yeah, oh wait, we made, we, Phil's Fun Facts!

Uh-oh. What you got? Hold on, hold on, I gotta find the button. Cue the music.

Welcome to Cigar Hustlers Podcast Feature, Phil's Fun Facts. Hello, peoples. All right, fellas. In the early 20th century, some doctors recommended smoking cigars as a remedy for erectile dysfunction and other blood flow problems.

Oh, perfect. Something with the nicotine or something. Cigars cure ED? I'm going to really start reading these.

Pre-read. No. They're all true. Well, there you have it.

There you go. If you got a problem, smoke cigars. Smoke a cigar, apparently. Honey, I'll be right back.

ED. Yeah. No problems around here. No problems around here.

Because we're all smoking. That's it. That's it. All right, ready for the news?

Uh-oh. From the four corners of the world, all the cigar industry news you could possibly need. The Cigar Hustler Podcast Report with Mike Toon. In a shocking turn of events, the Cigar Authority, the renowned, second most popular cigar podcast, is mourning the departure of yet another stalwart from its ranks.

The show must go on as they bid farewell to Barry Stein, a member of the Cigar Authority team. Barry Stein first graced the TCA as a guest interviewer during the early days of the show. It was on July 5th, 2014, that he officially joined the TCA team, and in a camaraderie, ball-busting and opinions took off from there. Barry's journey with the show was nothing short of unusual, with memorable highlights sprinkled throughout the show.

We would like to wish Barry the best and would like to announce his addition to the number one cigar show coming very soon. Oh. This is what we beeped out several weeks ago when Mikey threw it out that he was leaving. Yes.

I had developed a friendship with Barry through the back and forth and he told me that. Through the chatter of who's number one? And confidence that even the guys on the show didn't know yet. Oh.

So apparently you don't know how to keep a secret. Because he just let it out. Well, farewell to the number two. Well, the show's still there, but Barry's no longer.

No, but he was the number two guy on the show. It's going to be a, you know, it's going to be a huge fall off. Yeah, they're just going to lose more listeners. Number three.

And they might jump in. Oh, Koop will move up the number two. Koop will move up. Maybe we should have Barry call in every once in a while to kind of fill that void.

No, there is talk. There's been conversation on that? Yeah, there's been conversation on that. Yeah, why wouldn't he want to come on the number one?

Fucking hilarious. We can work that out. You already know Palmer's working in the background. Oh, sure.

There's not much news. Everybody's still doing PCA stuff. Everybody's trying to survive. Everybody's throwing out PCA stuff.

And it's all the same information on everybody's thing. The same, so, so, so. So you just had the one thing. Yeah, everybody.

No, no, I have a lot of Florida news. There is one news story, but it was only picked up by one person. Oh, yeah. So it's kind of strange.

Confidential. Tell me. The collaboration between Rick Rodriguez and co-founder of West Tampa Tobacco and Luciano Mariales of Luciano Cigars came to fruition during a spontaneous visit to SLE Nicaragua. Rodriguez was mesmerized by the rare and hard-to-find tobacco.

I believe the proper terminology is duped, but go ahead, continue. I was thinking blackmail, maybe. Blackmail? Oh wow.

Luciano's tobacco collection featuring tobaccos from Brazil, Connecticut, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Oz, Mataragua, Oz, Nauru, Oz, Nauru, and Nauru, and Oz, oh my goodness, oh I've seen that, where's the other, which one, the one from Latveria, he's got the Latverian tobacco, well he says he does, anything from Krypton, super rare, oh yeah it does say Krypton right here, it's green, it's green, it's green, it's green, so it's Candela, it's Kryptonian, Kryptonian Candela, like being in a tobacco, Disneyland for me, coming at Rodriguez, in a press release, I'm going to be a There were slides? There were slides! Oh, please, Palmer, come up with slides. There was charcuterie.

There was drugs. And there was slides. Drugs, little pills. Put one up right between you guys.

And because I was with Luciano, I got right to the front of the line. That's right. Oh, Lord. And our last encounter, we had already discussed creating something special for my old Kentucky hearf as a tribute to Dwight Shannon and the entire Fatash family.

However, Ricky's visit to our pre-industry earlier this year, the idea was reignited. We decided to craft a A cigar where Ricky would curate the tobacco and I would blend the first prototype in a factory I consumed by other means, as stated, Luciano Morales, co-owner of Lucio Cigars, ATL, Wypanda, all sorts of things. So this was only picked up by Coop, nothing on Half Wheel, so it's kind of odd. It doesn't pay.

You know, I mean, it's from the 18th, so it's a week old. You know, I don't know, I can't speak for the other media, maybe they just don't want to be involved in the fuckery. Maybe they feel like... Well, there's other things that Luciano has happened as part of the show.

Everybody interviewed him. Yeah, well, not everybody, but as things have progressed... Well, the other shows did. Yeah.

No, no, we don't interview people. We do interview people, what are you talking about? Well, when they come in here, but we don't do the PCA like everybody else does. The stuff we talk about at the PCA is stuff you would like to know but you wouldn't be part of it if you weren't there.

Yeah, we let the guys do the thing. Now, I mean, I am considering strapping you on with a fucking camera and a mic and sending you out and about on the PCA floor. Oh, that doesn't sound like any fun at all. Well, we can make it fun is what I'm saying.

Yeah, we will make it, we can do these things, you know, we're not the same, oh, so tell me about, like, that's, look, that's done. It's done, everybody does. Everybody else is doing it. Everybody does.

But we could fucking, you know, they're, like, even if you remember, like, on the Tonight Show and shit, there were guys that would go out and they would do things on the street. Oh, yeah, right, right. Oh, you want me to go out front? I don't even get to come in.

No, so maybe you can ask some people, yeah, maybe go out front. Go out front, stand out there? On the street, yeah, yeah. You ask the hard questions.

Maybe you can ask, you know, some funny shit, you know. Oh, yeah. Like, Omar, how'd you get a suit so tall? I mean, or, no, no, like, even just worldly questions that you think that people would know, but they should, but maybe they don't.

Have you ever tried potatoes at John Carney's? Have you had, yeah, have you had the potatoes? Have you had the potatoes at John Carney's? We're here with John Potato Carney.

Like, ask the hard questions, you know. Like, who is a knight of Ethiopia, currently, that's in the cigar industry? Oh. There is one.

There is one, yes. And if you want that cigar, you have to, apparently, give up a right leg or something. Oh, do you really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There was a mound of legs at PCA. Oh, I heard he had a foot problem. Yeah, he was looking for a new one. What is it with cigar guys and feet?

How was Eric Bay's feet? Were they okay now? Mr. Bunyan?

Yeah, but he was a firefighter. I know he had firefighter foot, but I thought, well, maybe, you know, maybe Nick caught it. He said he was getting a little better. He said he was pretty good.

Maybe he's contagious. He's walking around. Maybe Nick's working on a cigar with him, and their feet touched, and then he got a firefighter foot. What's cool is, like, Eric came around a few times and, you know, bullshitted with us.

Limp? I mean, could it have just been a limp, like a pimp with a limp? Oh, you know, he's got the hat on, he's like bangin' off. Did he have a cane?

No, no cane, no. No, he was walking fine. He could pull the cane off. Yeah, he could.

With those hats, yeah. With the hat, yeah. He's got that swag, man. Yeah.

Yeah, he reminds me of Godfather in WWF. Do you remember Godfather in WWF? Yeah. Back in the day?

Yep. Pimping ain't easy, bam, he comes out. We gotta just put him in a vest, and then no shirt under it, you know what I mean? Oh.

Yeah, that'd be nice. We need bigger, um... We would see more Black Star Line cells, I feel like. Bigger muscles.

Oh, that's not nice. He's probably very lean. Well, the guy from WWE was bigger. Yeah.

Oh, the guy who's also a little fatter, too. Oh, yeah, yeah. Godfather? Yeah.

All right, moving on to Florida news. Dogfather. Who's the dogfather? Dogfather?

I don't know, it was Godfather. Godfather? Godfather. What would it be, dogfather?

I don't know what's going on with my brain today. He had the whole train and all that. On June 10th, seven people required treatment at the Santa Rosa Medical Center after dining at the Kiko, Japanese Steak & Sushi Bar in Pace, Florida. Oh my goodness.

Upon an investigation by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office determined that each of them consumed soy sauce from the restaurant that contained increments of methamphetamine. Oh, shit. This is in Florida? This is Pace, Florida.

Of course. Although law enforcement found remnants of meth in soy sauce bottles and unopened packages. Wow. No arrests were made.

In unopened packages. Yes. They obviously didn't get the memo for the... So apparently somebody is smuggling meth in soy sauce, via soy sauce, maybe it was a misdeliver or perhaps a side business.

We lost the package. What exactly does that mean, Fred? Well, we stopped for Japanese food, and then it wasn't there. The Amazon guy's like, "Nobody has an address on their house.

" They're Japanese, they'll take it, it doesn't matter. An eco-Japanese steak and sushi bar stated that a specific co-worker of theirs had been behaving erratically, They suspected that he may have inadvertently polluted the soy sauce. Shortly after the investigation, representatives for the restaurant took to social media to announce the permanent closing of their establishment while also placing some of the blame on the public. They were closed?

They closed. They got arrested. Don't you have meth in the soy sauce. It's hard to come back from that, apparently.

It's difficult to read. I'm surprised you didn't get more customers. A whole different class of customers, though. I don't even care about the chicken or any of that shit.

Just give me the soy sauce. I'll pay the buffet price and bring the soy sauce. man extra soy please man this one table went through 10 fucking bottles of soy sauce they didn't eat a thing golly i feel bad for that business after more than 10 years of serving the pace community we've decided to close nico japanese steakhouse on june 10th we heard that like many of you did people being injured after eating at a restaurant oh they just heard they heard nobody contacted man what an out huh it was determined by the santa rosa county sheriff's We saw us that there was nothing linking the restaurant to the accusations, and after a clear survey of the health department, we reopened our doors. We are so thankful to our regulars who came back.

Hold on, I think it's so close. Since then, we have been brutally harassed daily by various media outlets who have slandered and defamed every aspect of our business. Today, a family-owned and operated business is closed. 20 employees are out of work, all because of the power of social media.

Wow. You know, you could have spun that into a positive. Yeah, he didn't get arrested. There's no such thing as bad news.

I mean, you know, what is the...? I don't know. I didn't see any of the social media. So what is that?

Bad Yelp reviews. Bad Google reviews. Bad Google reviews. Whatever.

They find meth in this guy's soy sauce and he goes, "It's not mine"? Yeah. I don't know. Wouldn't that be great if that was like an open container law?

It's not mine. I don't know how to get here. Sir, have you been drinking? I see a beer in the back.

It's not mine, man. No, it's fine. Not mine. I redo the entire menu.

I do like a no-meth sushi sampler. Right. You know what I mean? Right.

Just reopen it and change the name. I incorporate the soy sauce with meth for an additional price. You know what I mean? The Nico Japanese Steak and Meth Bar.

This sounds like witness protection ran all over it now. Oh, there you go up to pace. You gotta be careful with who you hire. Right.

" Yeah, that's a real question. Do you have all your teeth? Yes. Or have they rotted out?

Do you have lesions all over your face? Maybe you shouldn't be in the back. How does it get in the packages? The unopened packages?

Man, this is a real drug smuggle. Yeah, it's a drug smuggle. They said it wasn't ours and somehow it was believable. I'm telling you.

" Yeah, you're right. They shut it down because they didn't want the linkage to the... Right. Right.

Like, "Oh, we gotta close. " It's a lot of meth. You guys are gonna be on our side now. We won't arrest you, but you have to close your shop.

Yeah, close your shop. We're gonna move you to Miami. Yeah, they're like, hey, listen. Set up the new Nico Miami Japanese steakhouse.

Close your doors or we're going to kill your whole family. Right, right. Allegedly. Allegedly.

Allegedly. Okay, scientists suspect cocaine sharks feast on dumped drugs near Florida. Cocaine sharks? Cocaine sharks.

Fantastic. Sharks could easily be ingesting various pharmaceuticals found in the ocean, including iodine. Yes. Amphetamines, antidepressants, and birth control.

I'll say they're not having babies. No baby sharks, yeah. No baby sharks. Oh, God.

Straight down. Cocaine has been washing up on Florida beaches and floating coastal waters for decades as drug smugglers relentlessly attempt to infiltrate the products into the United States. In a documentary called "Cocaine Sharks," which is part of Discovery's "Shark Week" that starts this week, marine biologist Tom Hurd visited the Florida Keys to investigate the sharks' behavior. The deeper story here is the way the chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and illicit drugs are entering our waterways, entering our oceans, And what effect they could go on to have these delicate ocean ecosystems, marine biologist Tom Irv told Cigar Hustler Podcast.

Oh, nice. I heard you talking to him. Yeah, it was a phone interview. In the documentary, which airs Wednesday, Heard and University of Florida environmental scientist Tracy Fanera created an experiment with fake cocaine in packages similar to those the drug smugglers use and observe how a congregation of sharks exhibited intriguing behavior in response to the floating bales of fake cocaine.

They're fake. So they're fake. Well, they get delivered from the Nico people up in there. Right.

Isn't Jason Momoa the host? Yeah, for Shark Week this year. And they just do a cocaine segment? Cocaine Shark Week.

One shark even swam away with a bale. Oh. Oh. Trained.

Trained shark. Yeah, he knows what's up. And then delivered it at the port. Right.

It's just some Dr. Evil work right here. It's a submarine shark. Fire the laser.

Requested his payment in fish. The duo also explored highly concentrated fish powder, and notice how it induced a dopamine response in sharks, akin to what cocaine might trigger in addicted individuals, which led the sharks to acting extremely hyper. I think we've got a potential scenario of what it looks like if you give sharks cocaine. We gave them what I think is the next best thing, set their brains aflame, it was crazy.

Wow. They start buying everybody. However, Heard told LiveScience that he still don't know what cocaine could do to a shark, and that the experiment doesn't really show if sharks are actually consuming cocaine, but rather that they could consume multiple and other pharmaceuticals that land in the ocean, such as iodine, amphetamines, antidepressants, and even birth control. Aha.

So this is all just speculation. So there's no scientists out there right now. Giving cocaine to sharks? Just giving cocaine to sharks.

No, it's very expensive. You know what? It's a damn shame that's not going on. You know, I want to see the reaction.

That's going to be what actually happens. They have to have one in captivity that's a bad shark. I mean, realistically, if, you know, look, if there's cocaine kind of floating around, I think the sharks should just consume them. I'd like to see it off of, out of the ocean.

Like the bear. Yeah. You know, the cocaine bear. That was a terrible movie.

I can't believe you watched it. That was a terrible movie. I can't believe you watched it. I had a bear and I had to watch it.

I don't know what, I don't know what happened. You know, did you lose a bet? I think that we've been kind of grasping for, is that writer's strike going on? Yes.

It's been on for three months. Yeah, it's quite apparent, because I can't find anything to watch. No, well, this is the rerun season anyway. I started watching Warrior on HBO Max.

That's pretty good. Oh, is it? I haven't watched that. And then I watched- I started watching Black Mirror.

And then, did you watch The Last Kingdom? With Uhtred? Son of Uhtred? Yeah.

So they came out with a movie called Seven Kings Must Die or something? Yeah, yeah. And it's really good. I enjoyed it.

But what they did was, they took the eight-part series, this is what it felt like, and they compressed it into a two-hour movie. Oh. So it's the same story. Well, it's the, no, it's a new edition, but they made it two hours instead of, you know, eight episodes, so I'm like, fuck, man, I would have enjoyed this thoroughly for a week instead of one sitting, and learn more about the characters and all this other stuff.

Jamie Foxx is back, so maybe better movies will be made. But there's no writers. There's no one writing. No one's writing.

Well, that's the Canadian one. Canadian what? That's the Canadian Writers Association. It's the SAG.

It's all of them. I don't think you know what you're talking about. Oh, it's all of them now? It's all of them.

I thought it was just a Canadian one. No, no, no. Plus, they shoot a lot of the movies in Canada anyway. That's what I'm saying.

That's why a lot of them stopped, because of the Canadian. No, I think the ones here are too. Because like the movie premieres now, like the Disney movies, they're putting Disney characters in them. Oh.

So, when you walk the red carpet, you've got Pinocchio and The Witch instead of Jason Momoa and whoever else. Yeah, but he's doing Shark Week. Right, but those type of things, documentaries and what's the real stuff called? Biographies?

No, no, no. Documentaries and like the real world and that kind of stuff. Yeah. That stuff.

Reality shows. Reality shows, thank you, because there's no writing. Oh, okay. So the camera guys aren't out, you know, and the actors aren't out, except the ones that are going because the writers are.

Are you checking out The Housewives of New York? Has your wife turned you on to that? The new one? No.

It's terrible. Oh, The Housewives of New York? We don't watch that one. So bad.

We started watching the, uh, the new, um, Sex and the City, which isn't really that bad. Oh, yeah? Oh, maybe give that a shot. Yeah, we watched both the movies, and then they started a new series called, I can't remember what it's called, but it's, and this is how I wound up, or some shit like that, or, and this is how I wound up, or, yeah, something like that, and this is how it is, or something like that, yeah.

The only one that's not in it is, uh, the older one. I can't remember what her name. Samantha. I think so.

I never watched any of it. But she texts, uh, Carrie every once in a while. And nobody knows. Side text.

Well, I think she's probably old and probably doesn't look good and can't really, I mean, the other ones are getting close. Right. Alright, so cocaine sharks, moving forward. Cocaine sharks.

S. geographical survey revealed that fish nationwide were exposed to 17 key components of oral birth control pills. This exposure resulted from the chemicals entering waterways through human waste and the disposal of unused pills down a drain. Oh, that's bad.

He also said that while the sharks did show similar behaviors to those of an addict, many other factors could explain the behavior of more experiments, research, and blood tests are needed to fully confirm that these are intended cocaine-consuming sharks. Interesting. Wow. So, basically, a lot of humans are getting pregnant, but now the fish aren't.

You know what? Whatever. They're the garbage disposal of the sea. They're supposed to eat the stuff.

Okay, so there's some cocaine floating around. I get it. Well, man, PETA's going to march right in here. All I'm saying is: Shut us down!

That's fine. Peter can go right ahead. Oh, poor. Cocaine jerks!

Poor Nemo, you don't even care about him. Nemo. Unbelievable. He's not real.

He is real. Nemo? No, he's not real. He dances around at Universal all the time.

I heard that he's part of the Canadian SAG movement. Probably. Probably. And that's why everything shut down.

Alright, that's all I got. That's all you got? You got a Shop of the Week, Michael? Uh oh.

I do have a Shop of the Week. They're going to be a specialty shop of the week for the remainder of the month until we go and see them for the release of the Post-Line of Connecticut. Every week they're going to be? Yes, yes.

You should say who's all going to be there too. Secreto Cigars. Oh, Secreto Cigars, shop of the quarter? Shop of the month?

Shop of the month. Shop of the month. We're gonna release the Postana Connecticut with these guys, very excited about that. Ronnie is a good friend, and he's a little crazy.

So I gravitate right towards that. Let's see, you know, I love lunatics, what can I tell you? Is there a date for that? August 19th.

And I believe the entire Rat Pack, the Hustler Mafia, the squad is coming through for that. Everybody's going. Rolling deep, baby. We're gonna have Chet Boots and Palmer rolling.

Mr. Michigan himself, Chet. Don't wanna miss that. Don't want to miss that.

You know, I lived in Michigan too. Did you? For a long time. And I have a Listener of the Week as well.

Oh, who's the Listener of the Week? Well, he's prepared today. He is. There's something wrong.

He's approving orders as he sits there. No, it's Mike Krikorian. Mike Krikorian. Yes, he recently made a purchase on Cigar Hustler and he wrote.

I would like to be Listener of the Week. Love watching the number one podcast. Oh, very nice. Bam.

So thank you very much for the support, Mike. We appreciate you. Yes, thank you, Mike. He knows.

Mike knows. Mike knows. Mike knows. Of course he does.

What's crazy is how many Mike's always know you. I don't know what to tell you. I know a lot of people. I know a lot of people.

Mike, now Mike is the listener of the week. " It's like, what do we do? Oh, what's the total number? Just kidding.

I think the list is like 40, 45. Wow! Well, good, because the limit is 49. And you gotta feel- Yeah, Greg will lock that down.

Like, we'll probably put a canopy outside or whatever, one of those little things and stuff. Like, I wanna help. You know, my wife likes to do all this stuff herself, but I'm like, hey, let me include myself in helping. Well, I asked her if you knew about it before I mentioned it to you.

" So yes, he's quite aware. Yeah, but it's so hard. 49 is such an odd number. Oh, no, you said 40, sorry, he said 49.

Yeah, it's, you know, but what if everybody brings their spouse, you're at 80? Oh, so it's 40 single, not 40 counting spouses. Correct, correct. Yeah.

Wow. I'll be over here. " I'm like, okay, 'cause me, dummy, me, I'm like, hey, we'll get Lupio, it'll be fine. Yeah, I'm like, no, I'm just like, I'm like, hey, you should come, let's go, you know, as I'm kind of moving about things, so.

Oh, they didn't get the official e-vite, you just verbally? There's some people that I copy and pasted the e-vite to later. That may be like, you know, the Garbage Man Bulls, I'll be like, hey, thanks for bringing up the snakes, wanna come to my birthday party? No, it's not like that.

So, happening soon. Yeah. All right. I think that's it.

Are you going to have potatoes? I'm totally going to have potatoes. Yeah, I'm going to have potatoes. Cooked correctly.

I mean, have them cooked all the way. See how soft these are? Yeah, how soft these are, melt in your mouth. Well, you've heard everything here today, right here.

Piece of advice. Don't eat the potatoes. Don't eat the potatoes. John, thank you so much for sitting in on this podcast.

Yes. This is excellent. I love this. We'll see you every Monday, moving forward.

Yeah, now he's disappointed in the room so small. Well, you guys really could have done better. He's barely outside the camera angle. When you add another person, it's terrible to go back the other way we used to do it.

We added a person on the other show, what, two weeks ago? It took us 45 minutes to get it set up with the lights and everything, right? It's terrible. It's hard work.

It is. People don't understand how to be the number one, man. Being number one requires a lot of work. That light had to point in the bathroom.

It was just too much. All right, guys, we got to go. We got to go to the Secret Show. Yes, sir.

Smoking the V so horny. You don't want to miss it. All right. It'll be a short show.

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Show Notes

Episode 291 of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast brings you exciting tales from Florida, featuring two intriguing stories from the Sunshine State. Join the hosts as they dive into the first Florida story, uncovering the captivating events that unfolded.

In the next segment, the spotlight shines on Michael's Big Weekend with none other than John Carney. Tune in to hear about their adventures, anecdotes, and the camaraderie they shared during this memorable time.

And that's not all! The episode takes a wild turn as the hosts explore the further escapades of Luciano. Brace yourself for some entertaining and perhaps unpredictable moments as Luciano's journey continues.

Get ready for an action-packed, humorous, and engaging episode as the Cigar Hustlers Podcast takes you on a journey through these Florida stories, Michael's Big Weekend with John Carney, and the thrilling exploits of Luciano. Don't miss out on the fun!