A Cigar Hustlers Podcast - Episode 375: A Journey Through Surprises and Smokes!
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Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers
Podcast episode 375, where
cigars industry talk and
unfiltered opinions collide.
Sit back with your Co host Mike
Stefan Kevich and Mike Palmer as
they bring you this week's
trending stories of cigar news.
And me, I'm boots the engineer
making sure these two don't burn
the place down.
I grab a cigar, sit on back and
let's get on into it.
Can you switch to Michael?
He goes first now.
Well, not when he's doing that.
Oh, that's true.
All right.
Put the cocaine down, Michael,
and.
You're on.
All right, very briefly here,
just going to tell you guys
what's going on in the upcoming
couple of weeks for post on his
cigars and ourselves at Cigar
Hustler, February 20th, Thursday
night, February 20th.
The man himself, National Sales
Manager Mike Palmer, will be at
Leaf and Bean by Island Gym in
St.
Augustine, FL from 5:00 to 9:00
PM.
So if you're in Saint Augustine.
Come and say howdy.
Go see your boy.
Oh.
Nice, Oh.
February 22nd is the big one.
Saturday, February 22nd, we
myself and you will be at the
Brass Pipe in Fort Pierce from
12:00 to 4:00 releasing post
Tanya San Andreas for the very
first time.
Please don't hit any more
buttons, you're going to drive
me nuts.
I don't want to hear.
I don't.
Want to hear that plus so it's
very exciting.
We're going to be there.
Call brass pipe in Fort Pierce.
They're going to be taking
orders on over the phone.
If you want to be one of the
first to experience a post Sonia
San Andreas and then February
24th, 11:00 to 4:00 you have a
cut in light.
Yes, at Holy Schmokes.
And Vice President there.
In the villages, you are the
vice president there.
Vice president of Postania on
that day.
So if you're in The Villages
February 24th, go check out Mike
Palmer Bring.
Your golf cart and come say
howdy.
Bring your golf cart.
Come say howdy.
Explain the little puppies on
the top to me.
And then our big event for the
Cigar Hustler store, February
28th, we are going to have the
release party for Postania San
Andreas.
It's an in store only event.
We won't be selling it online
yet.
We love to protect our partners
and our and our other retailers.
So we won't have it online yet,
but it will be available in
store.
We're working on doing our best
to take care of the people that
come into the store every day
and not getting ahead of the
opportunity for retailers and
our partners.
So very excited about that.
That should be a lot of fun.
Lot going on in the next week.
Yeah, yeah, we're.
Still very, very busy.
We're starting to heavy hit, you
know, and I think that this is
the best way to kind of let
everybody know what's going on.
Sure.
Done.
There you go.
All right.
Well, what are we doing?
Boom, got to go to work.
Boom, God, what have been He's
not allowed to hit the button.
Dude, oh bam, you can hit the
button.
Well, that bam, that one's not
on here no more.
Oh no, we took it off, Yeah, but
fuck that guy's on there.
Oh, you want that?
One fuck that guy.
Oh, we're touching footsies.
It's.
Very close quarters in here,
closer in trending news.
Come closer.
We had the Delta airline that
crashed in Canada.
Yes, everybody survived.
They survived.
Everybody fight.
Nobody died.
We can't talk about it yet.
Come on, I'm.
Just hitting the highlight
there.
Elon Musk is one step closer to
Skynet with the release of the
new AI Grok.
Is that how you say it?
Grok.
Yeah, it's Grok 3I.
Keep Want to say Gronk?
Now it's grok.
Grok 3 Hailey Berry has a new
workout program for her vagina.
Kegels.
Lots of kegels.
Lots of she's not a problem.
We'll discuss that in a few
minutes.
And then the cigar news that
we've got black label trading
companies releasing a super
deluxe cigar they made five
years ago.
Super Deluxe.
Our friends at Roma are
releasing a big PA Chromag.
A big PA chromag.
Another celebrity is making his
own cigar.
Oh, interesting.
A Vowed cigars, this is the way
I heard of it.
A vowed cigars put out a big
press release this week.
They're making a huge entry into
the cigar industry, OK.
And we have a lot of foreign
distribution going on.
Everybody, everybody's going
across the across the pond.
Yes.
Viaje celebrating its 210th
month anniversary with three new
cigars.
Mm hmm.
Oh.
And then this week's ChatGPT
editorial is Do celebrities
making their own cigars help or
hurt the cigar industry?
Can't.
Wait to hear that.
Excellent topics today.
Thank you.
Very fired up.
Let's go.
All right, Delta plane crash in
Toronto.
Investigators are looking into
what made a Delta plane crash
land and flip over at Toronto's
Pearson's Airport in Monday, an
incident all 80 people aboard
survived.
Officials have yet to say what
caused the crash, although
experts believe the wintry
weather and strong winds may
have played a part.
Might have been it.
It might have been the slippery
runway in the the wind.
Maybe.
Go ahead.
What?
How do you land upside down?
Well, it landed, then flipped.
It landed and then flipped.
So it wasn't like the that one
movie where he has to turn the
plane so nobody dies.
It probably hit and skidded and
then.
Man, you guys missed the punch
line on that.
One flipped over, it's.
'Cause I was inverted.
It's 'cause I was inverted.
Your Top Gun Top Gun, Your Top
Gun stories.
Delta Airlines flight from
Minneapolis skidded along the
runway with flames visible
before it came to a halt upside
down. 18 people were injured,
but only a small number are
thought to be seriously hurt, a
fact described as miraculous.
Miraculous.
Miraculous.
By analysts Passengers on board
said they were hanging upside
down in their seats and had to
release themselves, falling to
the ceiling before clambering
out onto the snow covered
tarmac.
Firefighters quickly came to the
rescue.
We are upside down hanging like
bats.
Passenger Peter Kukovs told CNNA
child was among the injured but
was in good condition as of
Tuesday morning.
The Hospital for sick children
in Toronto.
That's a good name for a.
Hospital.
I guess it's a hospital for sick
children.
Yeah, don't go to the Well
Children Hospital.
There's nobody there.
Come here with the sick ones.
Told BB CS US partner CBS News
there were 76 passengers and
four crew on board the 16 year
old CRJ 9000 aircraft made by
Canada's Bombardier Company.
Experts told BBC it was
miraculous that everyone
survived the crash, adding that
the swift response of flight
attendants and emergency crews
helped save people, as well as
plane safety improvements.
Plane safety improvement.
That laminated card saved
everybody's life.
That's just then everybody just
that travels just quit their
job.
Airport authority said the
runway was dry at the time of
the crash It was covered in.
Snow.
It was.
It was dry.
It was perfectly dry.
Perfectly fine, there was
nothing wrong.
Despite the wintering conditions
in the city, they said snow had
stopped and frigid temperatures
and high winds were moving in.
Analysts say it's possible the
plane may have struck something
on the runway.
You think maybe?
They can't tell it's pretty
being up though.
What?
What was it?
Covered in snow, we can't
really.
Tell is there a fucking ramp on
one side or something?
They think it might have hit one
of the lights when it landed.
Those light to stick up to, like
the runway.
It's Canada, hey.
The pilot had the one jump.
Yeah, the plane practically
flies itself at this point.
Everybody survived.
OK, so he's.
Going to be like the guy that
landed in the Potomac.
No, the Potomac.
I don't know the Potomac.
Scully, Sully.
Sully.
It's not even close.
This isn't even close and I got
to tell you something.
And that was Tom Hanks, so not
even close.
Yeah, and I got to tell you
something.
It sounds to me like he.
Lives in a movie world over
there.
It sounds like Canada's just
been getting their ass kicked
lately by us.
Yeah, Oh yeah, they did.
They did Monday night.
Yeah, so they can't land planes
the guy get Trudeau shut the
fuck up, both of you.
Trudeau gets upset about the
fact that, you know, the terror
threat or whatever.
And then he's, and then he's
working on and then he's like,
oh, we're going to work on how
building the border more,
spending more money and then,
you know, USA comes out on NHL
hockey.
Yeah.
Papa.
And they Boo the national anthem
So.
So what did USA do?
They whooped the shit.
Out of Canada their ass for two
hours.
Yeah, and then they beat them in
the game and the.
Coach was yelling fight, fight.
They beat them in their own game
like, you know, Canada.
They invented hockey.
They are hockey, right?
Not this year. 3 to one, three
to one.
Oh my God.
And we were missing players for
half the game because they kept
getting put in the penalty box.
Plus the concussions, I mean,
right, It's got to be
remarkable.
Yeah, they had to go to the
hospital for sick adults.
It's been a tough week.
It's been a tough week for
Canada.
Yeah, they hospital for sick
adults.
So good they label things to
Canada for.
Yeah, it's for the sick adults.
The sick adults.
It's for the losing hockey team,
Yeah.
They went to the losing hockey
team.
Hospital, Yeah.
It's it's a tough month for
Canada.
Man, and what the hell is going
on these planes?
All I hear now is all this
bullshit but.
Planes we're driving.
Where we go anymore we're
driving.
I don't get.
One falls out of the sky, they
all start happening.
It's just crazy, all right?
Did you?
Speaking of airplanes, did you
see Trump's fly by at Daytona
500?
No, I heard that he did a he was
in the pace car.
He did like a pace car thing.
Oh, not only that, he buzzed the
track in Air Force One.
Oh, did he?
Oh yeah, it was pretty cool.
Look dude, this giant 747
banking as it comes around the
corner.
The guy knows how to sell, man.
He you know.
Right, You see, even though he's
in the bag and picks up the
phone.
Bobby, Bobby, Buzz the track for
me.
Yeah, I want to.
Sorry, what, Sir?
Buzz the track, OK?
Permission to buzz the tower.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking
of.
Permission to buzz.
Permission to buzz the track
negative goes rider pattern as
well.
Here he goes.
I have permission.
Do you know who I am?
I am the president.
Oh, and then it was Speaking of
planes, another thing.
He threatened Iran.
Trump did because they have
hostages or something.
They still have people.
It's Iran.
Yeah, well, Iran does too.
I think he's going through the
list.
He's in the eyes now.
OK.
Well, he was packing it was, I
thought.
He's got 11 of them back so far.
I thought he was aiming at Gaza.
I don't know where that ended.
I haven't.
Watched.
Oh no, he bought that.
He's building a hotel.
OK, I thought that he he gave
somebody until Saturday until
all hell would break loose.
I mean, it's Tuesday.
I don't know where we're at.
Maybe.
He's threatening somebody else
now.
But anyway, he threatened Iran,
Iran said.
You better be careful with what
you're doing.
Or something like that, Right?
So they woke up to the stealth
bomber flying over Iran.
They're calling it the Freedom
Dorito.
That's it's triangle.
The Freedom Dorito.
So I imagine on radar they're
like, it's not there, we can't
see it.
And the guy goes outside.
He goes holy shit.
No, there it is.
It's a Dorito flying over us.
Yeah, dragging a flag with
picture.
Trump on it.
Hey, release the hostages.
No, we will not.
Oh, get those people now.
Get them out.
We what we meant to say.
We are very sorry.
We didn't want your plane.
We're like the other guy.
We'll just send them over in
airplane.
We're like the Colombian
president.
You know what we're gonna
accommodate?
There's their own planes in
Iran.
I'm sure they do.
They have an Air Force.
No, what they do is they have
the planes that we left behind
and now they're they're
airplanes.
We didn't leave.
They crashed all their planes.
Of course, they don't have no
airplanes.
That's the Japanese.
It's totally different.
No, no, he's talking about
terrorists.
No, from all the from all the
practice flights from.
All the practice.
Flights OK ready.
We go to practice.
Oh, those guys are gone now.
What are we doing now?
You.
Did a great job.
You did a great job.
You get all the virgins.
Enjoy the virgins.
All right, Elon Musk AI released
artificial intelligence model
Grok 3 claims better performance
than rivals in early testing Oh.
Yeah, I just I just experienced
the grok 3 a second.
Did you use it?
I use grok all the.
Time.
I only use groknot too 'cause
there's no limit.
Yeah.
Everything else is like, well
you had your 3 today.
You have exceeded the time
limit.
You've exceeded your free rounds
today.
Well, Grok, you got to get it
with through a subscription.
The new one you do.
Yeah.
The regular grok?
You don't have to.
Well, I already have that.
I'm a subscriber.
Yes you are subscribe.
Yes, I'm just funding Elon at
this point.
His AI on Tuesday unveiled its
latest artificial intelligence
model, Grok 3, claiming it can
be out.
I mean, it can.
Oh, it can outperform.
Sorry, it can outperform.
Offerings from open AI in
China's deep seek based on early
testing, which included
standardized test on math,
science and coding.
Interesting.
So we're gonna use that for all
our children now when they go to
take a test, standardized test.
So we linked it to deep seek.
No, it's better than.
Deep seek.
Oh, it's better than deep.
Seek better than.
These are ones that.
It's better than there's some
other one people are talking
about that's dangerous.
Not a Chad GBT but it's like a
APS or ASM or something.
There's some new one.
I don't even know what it stands
for when people are afraid.
Of it, it's a different type of
artificial intelligence, Yes,
yes.
Super advanced and going to kill
us all.
Well, I mean, but the reality is
in order for those things to
kind of, I only know this much
about it, right?
But, you know, in order for
those things to kind of be fully
effective, they require so much
energy.
Oh we, we, we got our knowledge
from the same place.
Oh, did we?
Yes, 'cause I that's all I know
too.
Interesting.
The solar towers and the nuclear
plants they need and everything
right next door to the.
Are you listening to podcasts?
I I told you I listened to the
one episode on the way back.
Wow.
Look, I think you have something
to talk about.
You're amazing.
So yeah.
We're very excited to present
Grok 3, which we think an order
of magnitude more capable of
Grok 2 very short period of time
must set at a demonstration of
Grok 3 that was streamed on his
social media platform X.
Did you see it?
Is it on there?
What Grok 3?
Well, probably he showed it in a
streaming on on X.
No, I don't have time to to
watch that stream.
The team also said it was
launching a new product called
Skynet, which would act as the
deep search.
We need you dialed in here,
Boots.
What are you?
Doing act as a next generation
search engine Grac 3 will be
rolled out Premium X subscribers
what should be you Yes starting
Tuesday oh.
Today's my moment.
Right, right on, right on.
I think I'm enjoying stateside.
It will also be accessible
through a separate subscription
for the models web and AT
versions, the AI team said.
Speaking at the World Government
Summit in Dubai last week, MUST
Said dubbed the model Scary
Smart, Scary Smart Powerful
Reasoning capabilities, claiming
it outperformed all other
existing models in the AI
internal test.
Well, I can tell you this.
I mean, I I looked up a couple
things and it it told me
instantly that DOGE uncovered
$4.7 trillion in treasury
payments.
Lacking a a a critical tracking
code, you can't find where
where.
The money went.
Yeah, yeah.
The Treasury account symbol TAS.
This code links payments to
specific budget line items, a
standard practice for financial
accountability.
According to Doge's statement on
X, this TAS field was optional
for these payments and often
left blank, rendering
traceability almost impossible.
They've since made it mandatory
as of Saturday, February 15th,
2025 to improve oversight, think
thanking the Treasury for
cooperation.
That's pretty interesting and
that's why you're starting to
see this whole, that's why that
whole crypto thing is such a big
deal.
What does doge stand for?
The only doge I know is the doge
coin.
OK, so Doge in the government
stands for Department of
Government Efficiency.
So what does Dogecoin stand for?
Uh, Dogecoin is like a like a
coin that's after that dog.
Right, but it.
Doesn't stand for anything
though.
So did they?
Did they make up the Doge thing?
Because he likes the name,
because it's his coin, and now
he wants to be that in charge of
that government.
Or was his government group
already there?
I think that no, he built it
with that.
With the intention so he's in
charge of a new government
organization.
Now if you get your tinfoil hat
out and you go all types of
conspiracy theory, you can go
deeper down this rabbit hole and
then you'll see that doge in
French ancient terms or some
shit.
Hitler.
No.
Stands for like natural leader
or something like that, Yeah.
Is he AUS citizen?
No, I didn't think he was.
So he can't run for president.
Well, no it doesn't.
You know he might even if he is
AUS citizen.
He wasn't born here.
Well.
That's what I meant.
That's.
What you're asking was he born
here?
No, he was not born here.
I got you.
So as the way things are written
at this.
Point.
He cannot, cannot be.
Right, it can always be strange.
But I will.
I mean, yeah, the reality is I
don't think that, look, if I
think if you're here 20 or 30
years, you know, I feel.
Like no.
They made that rule at the
beginning for a reason.
Qualified.
Does it work the same in other
countries?
I think it depends.
I don't know.
I think it depends on the
country.
I've never heard of anybody else
who has that.
But I mean, it's not like we're
you're up on their
constitutions.
Or whatever.
I mean, personally, I want the
best of the best running this
thing, right.
So if I think that the best of
the best is here now, I mean
with a decent track record with
the a certain amount of time,
I'd say, OK, I think that
they're qualified.
I wouldn't.
And I'm not talking about Elon.
I'm just saying in general, if
you spent 30 years here and, you
know, you've had successful
businesses or, you know, you got
into politics or whatever the
case may be, and people liked
you and they thought that, that
you had a, a good vision for the
future, why couldn't you?
You know you should be able to
run for president.
I don't know.
I think I'm still I'm old
school.
I want you to be a natural
American.
President Schwarzenegger, baby,
let's go.
I don't know, I.
He's past his prime.
Well, yeah, but there was a
time.
Well, I President Biden was just
president.
What he did, he had no idea he
was.
President.
No, they say.
That was Obama's third term.
Yeah, that's the joke.
Yeah, same podcast.
Yeah, exactly.
OK.
All right, Haley, Holly, we're
not sure what you said you're.
Going to have to watch a
different podcast, Holly.
Holly.
Halle Berry.
Is that Halle Berry?
Halle Berry?
Yeah, I thought it was Halle
Berry too, ha.
Oliver.
It's, it's the same with me.
It's ha ha.
Lay, Lay, Holly.
It's not Holly.
It'll be HOLY.
This is Haley Holly.
All those California movie star
people like you to say their
names different.
Holly.
Schwarzenegger smelled Smith.
S Smith.
That's the way it's spelled, but
he likes you to say it's
Schwarzenegger.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, anyway, she's 58.
She shares a no Sweat workout to
ease menopause symptoms.
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I won't tell the story again.
Some of you may have heard it,
actress Holly Haley Berry, 58,
says with a smile.
She's referring to her start on
PERI menopause peri peri.
It's not peri peri peri
menopause PE.
Peri.
PERI menopause.
Peri.
Peri, it's like a pariah.
That would make sense.
I think it's like peri.
Well, none of us have had it so.
Peri menopause.
OK, well she was misdiagnosed
with peri menopause with herpes.
Oh, what a big misdiagnosis.
In actuality, she had vaginal
atrophy AKA dying of the vagina.
Vaginal atrophy.
Yes, dying of the vagina.
The vagina is dying.
Your vagina is dead.
This is tragic.
Right.
And a story she's spoken about
in length, including to Women's
Health magazines, in part
because it sparked her desire to
rethink everything she thought
she knew about menopause.
Well, her vagina is just.
Dead vagina inside dead vagina.
In October, she sat down with
former Women's Health editor in
chief.
Zombie vagina.
Zombie Vagina Liz Polzer at the
HHLTH conference in Las Vegas,
NV to chat about her relaunch of
her Wellness platform Respin
Health, in which she now focuses
on menopause.
Kegels and douching.
I don't think it's going to
break back.
Then once it starts dying, what
are you going to do?
You got to rejuvenate vagina
rejuvenation.
That is a thing, but that's more
of a decorative type thing.
OK.
That's a plastic surgeon where
he sort of.
You can just.
Fluff it up a little bit.
I was going to say fluff, but it
seemed inaccurate.
It's inappropriate.
We're going to tighten the
vagina.
Yeah, they tighten it, they
trim, you know, the folds and
stuff like that.
Trim the folds, right?
Make it look younger.
This is a lovely vagina.
Right.
Too bad it's dead on the inside.
It's dead inside zombie vagina.
Zombie vagina.
That's not what it's called
though.
That's what I'm calling it,
vaginal atrophy.
No, I'm moving forward with.
Zombies can't wait to see the
clip from this one.
Zombie vagina.
Yeah.
Boop, boop, boop, boop.
All right, switching to cigar
news.
Cigar already.
That was fast.
Oh no.
Here's where we paused to do
boots.
Yeah, yes, you can hit your
button.
Oh, he's got to pull it up.
He didn't have it handy.
He has one job over there just
to pull up his own thing.
Hello peoples, this is going to
be a long one.
It's not that long.
Seems long I got to scroll.
It's on.
It's on your phone, it's 3 words
across.
Here we go.
I like Word.
Pam's branded chicken Nuggets
recalled after possible presence
of blue rubber.
Oh my God.
It's a recall of chicken
Nuggets.
A popular brand of chicken
Nuggets is being urgently
recalled after fears they may
contain small pieces of blue
rubber.
Foodstuffs Own Brands has not.
For just a second, how in the
world does that happen?
It's a chicken nugget factory,
and it's got.
Rubber.
Somebody's playing wall.
Ball maybe some.
I'm thinking of the rubber
mulch.
Like man, mistakes were made
buddy, you know what I mean?
How did the blue rubber get into
the chicken?
I can tell you.
OK.
You ever hear a Take your kid to
work day?
Yes.
Yeah.
So somebody took their kid and
they had a blue, they had a very
Big Blue kickball and they
thought that the warehouse was
appropriate and went into the
machine and then and they said
just let it go.
Oh.
And then no, we don't know.
Yeah.
No one's going to know nobody.
'S going to.
Know the chicken Nuggets are
rubber anyways, not real.
Chicken.
Yeah.
All right.
Please continue.
Foodstuffs Own Brands has issued
a recall of Pam's brand Tempura
Coated Chicken Nuggets with New
Zealand Food Safety Deputy
Director General Vincent
Arbuckle warning not to eat
them.
If you have a 1 kilogram bag of
Pam's Tempura Coated Chicken
Nuggets with the Best before day
of 16th October 2025, don't eat
them.
You're probably eating rubber.
He said return the Nuggets to
the place of purchase for a
refund, or if that's not
possible, throw them out.
Oh, for God's sakes, do not
throw them out.
Send them to me.
Whose care of ACHP Florida?
My advanced digestive system can
handle rubber, he gave.
Him stage direction, he did a
very good.
Job Advanced digestive system
can handle rubber I'm.
In there sound angry.
He did a good job.
I was so hoping he read the
stage directions though.
But funnier.
The affected product is sold at
Foursquare, Gilmore's New World
Pack N Save and social
supermarket stores across the
country.
NZ Food Safety said in a
statement that affected products
have been removed from stores.
The issue was raised following a
customer complaint.
As is our usual practice, we
will work with Food Stuff owned
brands to understand how this
issue arose and to prevent it
happening again, said Arbuckle.
That's it.
There you go.
Somebody sent it to me.
Sent it to me.
By advance by.
Advance digestive system.
I'm gonna handle rubber.
Oh my goodness.
Absolutely amazing now.
You got to make an AI photo of
him eating blue.
Rubber, no problem.
Wow.
Consider it done.
It's Did he see his last one
with the chocolate?
Did you see the last one?
You.
See the Kit Kat No.
He doesn't watch the show.
He doesn't.
Pay.
We live it.
Yeah, but you got to watch the
clip.
Do you know how much time and
effort I put in those goddamn
clips?
You should.
You could.
You could run through the
minute.
You want me to watch it?
There's.
Seven of them.
There's sit up there while he
makes them.
You hear it like 75 times that
he's playing and cutting and
playing and cutting.
There's.
Seven of them a week you can
spend 7 minutes of your life.
I can't bring myself to listen
to the show after I've sat with
him while you're making the
clips.
I don't know.
Well, you know what's so funny
though, is like, I always look
around my, I always like to
share it around people to see
what their response is.
Because if they're not laughing,
I'm like, why isn't that funny
to you?
Damn, I got to go back and make
it fun.
I can do it.
All right, cigar news Black
Label Trading Company Super
Deluxe returns for 2025 In 2020,
Black Label Trading Company
introduced a new line called
Super Deluxe.
After shipping 880 boxes in
2020, the company hasn't
released any additional Super
Deluxe cigars.
Maybe in 2020 it was just turned
out to be a regular cigar, but
not Super Deluxe.
Standard Deluxe.
Standard Deluxe That will change
next week when the second
edition of Super Deluxe heads to
stores.
The blend remains the same as
2020, a Mexican San Andreas
wrapper over in Ecuador and
Habano binder and fillers from
Nicaragua.
It will once it will once again
be offered in three vitola's The
only one vitola, the Super
Deluxe Petite Corona will be
part of the 20 was part of the
2020 release.
That was the only one that was.
So they made 880 boxes in 2020.
Yes.
And then five years later.
All right, they must have found
some deluxe petite Coronas and
go.
We'll make two more.
Got it.
So these cigars haven't been
made.
They weren't made five years
ago.
This is a new run.
It's a new run of a cigar.
They made 5.
Years.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Black Label Trading Company,
Super Deluxe, Petite Corona,
they're doing a box press, and
the Super Deluxe Robusto, Super
Deluxe Toro.
Oh, they're doing a lot of them.
The Robusto, the Toro and the
Petite Corona.
Correct, Yes, the original
release was offered in a Petite
Corona Robusto and Lancero
Vitola's which with with shorter
names.
Hopefully they'll go forward.
With, hopefully with shorter
names.
Well, I sort of skipped reading
of the names.
It's super deluxe is the most
requested.
Oh wait, I went the wrong way.
It's the most requested Black
Label cigar.
Ever.
I don't know.
We're just going to go to the
next.
Door, What's the retail?
You know what it retails for.
Superdelux Robusto is Dock
Express 554 is $12.00,
Superdelux Toro 6 by 50 is $13
and the original release in a
Padika.
We don't have the prices for
them from 2020.
OK.
That's some good prices.
That's fair.
It's market valueish 12/13.
Bucks 2025.
Each of the vitolas were limited
to 750 boxes, not the 800 from
before.
Got it.
Super Deluxe is the most.
Frequent but well, you only had
one size back then of 880 bucks.
No, no, they had three sizes.
Oh, they did.
The only one they are repeating
is the petite.
God petite whatever we said,
Petite Corona, yes.
Super Deluxe is the most
requested cigar in BLT history.
Oh, said James Brown, found
founder of Black Label Trading
Company, in a press release.
The combination of Nicaraguan
fillers and the Mexican San
Andreas rabbit creates a bold,
dark and rich profile.
The subtle spice blends with the
dark fruit and star anise ANISE.
Is that star fruit?
I don't know.
Star fruit has no flavor.
It's the same star anise.
Yeah, that's that would be a
star.
Fruit new has no flavor.
OK, Create a long complex
finish.
The cigar represents what our
consumers have come to love from
Black Label fruit with no
flavor.
Maybe you just don't have a
sophisticated palette and you
can't taste the star fruit.
I had a lot of star fruit in
China.
It's more of a garnish.
Oh really?
Something to top it off.
Well, it looks pretty.
It's yellow and they cut it.
You know, it looks like a star.
It's turn a step on the side of
the plate thing.
And here's your star.
Chromag, Pennsylvania.
Grand Perfecto debuts.
Yes.
Last year, Roma Crafted Back
released a new version of its
Chromag line updated with an all
new blend in slightly different
packaging.
When the new Chromag
Pennsylvania was announced,
Roman Craftabac indicated it
would not only be offered in the
same regular production Vitolis
as the original Chromag line.
Oh, sorry, that's there's a
comment.
No comment there.
But also the various limited
production Vitolas they're
coming out with many different
sizes.
OK The Chromag PA Grand Perfecto
is a 5 7/8 by 60 Perfecto the
same size the original Chromag
Grand Perfecto that debuted in
2020.
Lot of people repeating 2020
cigars it seems.
We're bringing 2020 back to.
Celebrate the company's 10th
anniversary.
It uses the updated CRO Mag PA
blend, the Pennsylvania
broadleaf wrapper over at
Ecuadorian Sumatra hybrid binder
and filler.
Tobacco is grown in Dominican
Republic and Nicaragua.
Celebrate their 10th
anniversary.
What it says I didn't of.
CRO Magnum, or.
Maybe of CRO Magnum?
No, that doesn't make any sense.
I don't write these stories, I
just read them, OK?
Well, CRO Magnum was.
Wasn't that his first?
That was the first blend he
made.
First one, yeah.
Maybe this size?
Well, the Grand Perfecto.
Could be maybe one way to tell
the two verses apart is the
color of the text on the band.
The original uses black on black
text where the Chromag
Pennsylvania uses white on black
text right?
Eat cigars in MSRP of 1675 and
comes in boxes of 10 cigars,
Mike Rosales, Co founder of
Roman Crafted Back, told.
Michael.
We've had this discussion with
him before.
He does not care which one it
is.
I personally call him Michael.
This story he was referred to as
Mike.
It's Michael, Charlie.
He.
Doesn't care.
He should.
We've had this conversation.
With him, he should care.
Why should he care?
He can be called what he wants
to.
Be called.
He wants to be called Michael.
Yes, he does.
He's just very passive.
No he's not.
Yes he is.
He's the Co founder of Aroma
Craft Tobacht old let's say he
told Cigar Hustler podcast.
There you go.
At the last week's shipment was
less than 50 boxes.
With a few exceptions, most Roma
Craft limited cigars are limited
production items and not outside
outright limited editions.
That means Roma Craft to Back
will make it from time to time
and offer as part of the special
shipments like these at events
when Skip sort of feels like he
wants like one.
OK yes updated I guess from the
original story.
Roma Craft to Back has clarified
that the MSRP is 1675 per cigar,
not 1750 as it originally
stated.
You know, because one of the
cigars above $16.00 is certainly
silly.
This is ridiculous.
It's ridiculous.
Why would they want to make one?
It's so silly.
It's so silly.
You know what you're not, you
didn't really cover on that
article is the fact that the
Toros are coming out.
That was not part of the
article, I know, so maybe it's
not been announced yet.
Which is interesting.
Yeah.
The all the intemperances, the
intemperacy C Oh, we've covered
that in before the Whiskey
Rebellion, the Toro things we
did, yeah.
About a month ago when this.
When they announced.
Currently no Toro sizes.
But yeah, no, and they're
officially well, there's Toro
sizes in your Chromag lines in.
Your Aqua tank, one of the
monstrans is a box.
Press Toro.
Yeah, that's true.
But I'm talking about the Old
School and Temperance lines, the
EC, the Whiskey Rebellion and
the Bolstead, not the BA,
because I don't think that they
had rapper for that at this
time.
I see.
But they're coming soon.
Nice.
It's exciting stuff.
Very exciting.
Yeah, Michael will sure tell us
about it.
He already did.
Then what are you talking about?
Because I just.
Did.
Just wanted to add to the story.
Yeah, that's nice of you.
Good.
Job you want to know why,
because that's an important
thing to highlight the Toro
sizes is going to be in is about
size it's more demand.
Oh, certainly.
Yeah, storeroom and busto.
And you know, the most popular
even, right?
And even though it was announced
that they were making it, you
should probably tell consumers
that, hey, it's about to hit.
Well, here it comes.
Well, I'm sure when it ships
it'll be a follow up story.
Usually that's the way it works.
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe if it's covered by coop it
won't be come out at all.
Well then it's not covered.
Still no response.
Huh.
Right.
No deader.
Deader.
Well, he's in Dominican
Republic.
He can't run for us forever.
You.
Know what I mean?
You'll see him sooner or.
Later we should go wait at the
airport in Miami with signs.
We're we're just months away
from PCA.
What is your editorial program
now?
Right what?
What are your standards?
What?
What is it does this?
Guy should be a T-shirt.
So hope he doesn't have white
pants again this year.
Isn't that the white part?
Yeah, I hope so.
We'll use that photo.
Carmelo Anthony and her cigar
business via Kingmakers.
Oh, so I assume you guys are
familiar with who Carmelo
Anthony is.
Yeah.
OK.
I have no idea.
The retired NBA star is getting
his own cigar line and
surpassing.
It's not.
And surprising.
Sorry, my own typo.
And surprising.
It's not with Luciano Morales.
Kingmaker Cigar is a company
that has also partnered with
WNBA star Kelsey Plume and the
band Midland.
Anybody familiar with the band
Midland No.
No, no.
I don't either.
They act like it's a big.
Deal You talking about the the
Midland like the country band?
I don't know.
Band Midland.
Midland.
I think that, yeah, I think it's
Midland.
They did not look country in the
photo.
Oh, maybe they're not.
Country has a look, a specific
look like the hat and boots.
Well, maybe not torn T-shirts
and black pants with blood
coming out of their mouths.
Oh, that's a different we.
I don't know who that is.
That's not.
That's a totally different
Midland.
Yes, I don't think that was it,
OK.
The Midland and Zombieland.
Has announced versa by Camelo
Anthony.
It will debut in a single 6 1/2
by 54 grand Toro Vitola using a
Habano 2000 rapper over a
Sumatra binder and fillers from
Nicaragua and Pennsylvania.
Grand Toro.
OK.
I thought you would say
something.
It's interesting.
Just trying to think of the
blend Bano 2000 like OK.
I don't realize you hear much
about fillers from Pennsylvania.
Well, you said binder guys.
Sumatra binder and fillers from
Nicaragua and Pennsylvania.
OK, that is interesting.
It's kind of a it's a white box
with a green band on the cigar.
It looks kind of like a neon
green.
It's not not that appealing,
unless maybe green was the color
of the team he played on or
something.
I don't know.
I don't know.
If that's.
The Case No, I have no idea.
And then why then Kingmaker says
that it's cigars are made in
Nicaragua, but they declined to
say which factory that you.
It's in Nicaragua.
Like the drunk chicken, their
GPS does not work either.
Each Versa by Camelo Anthony has
an MSRP of anybody guess?
Oh, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
It's.
It's don't look at the strings.
It's gonna be at least 18 bucks.
What did you say, Boots?
22. 2250 Ding Ding boots win.
Good job boots.
On the Kingmaker website, the
company says that it will sell
the Versa directly and offer it
to select stores.
It is expected to ship in late
March.
Versus more than just a cigar.
It's expensive.
It's a it's a reminder to stay
focused and committed no matter
the challenges, said Anthony in
a press release.
I wanted a cigar that reflects
my journey and my passion for
storytelling.
Oh, is she a good storyteller in
basketball?
I don't know.
Did he interview well or
something?
I don't know.
Partnering with Kingmakers has
been an exciting opportunity to
bring this vision to life with
the craftsmanship and quality
that reflects my story.
But we don't know what the name
of the factory.
Is or the story?
Maybe it's Luciana, maybe it's
the way they don't want.
To say it could be.
He doesn't own a factory.
No, he doesn't.
That's why they can't tell you
the GPS location.
I can't tell you what it is, he
says.
It was his we can't find.
It's north of the southwest east
area of Las Segovias.
It's a ghost factory.
Right, so.
It's right next to Wakanda.
Oh, right next to Wakanda.
On the border, on the other side
of the border from.
Wakanda.
It's right next to the
vibranium, right?
Yeah.
A violent cigar company launches
with three.
Well, you didn't want to, but
you had a question about that.
Do you think that that like, do
you think that that's good
celebrity getting involved like
that?
Well, that's the editorial thing
I'll read at the end.
Oh, about celebrities?
That's your ChatGPT.
Yes, this is what sparked the
idea.
Got it.
OK, here's the build up.
It's like he's never done the
show before.
I'm not engaging.
I'll let you do.
I'll let you do Play this.
Interesting about cigar company
launches with three blends.
Yeah, we're gonna talk about two
of them, the team at Maximar
Ultimate Cigars of Orange, CA,
perhaps better known, it's
online store Small
batchcigars.com has become the
latest cigar retailer to create
its own brand.
I did not realize that was Small
Brands.
Right, I think.
You want to skip it, Sorry.
Yeah.
No, no, there's nothing bad no
about cigar companies launching
with three blends made by Klass
Krellner.
I'm not familiar with Mr.
Krellner factory.
Kelner KELNER.
He's got a factory in Dominican
Republic.
They started with a blend that
is known as the Vow, which was
developed after visiting Kelner
Cigars SAS shortly after the
factory opened in the spring of
2023.
Blend wise, the Vow uses an
Ecuadorian Habana wrapper and
binder refillers that include
Corojo 99, Crelolo 98, Piloto,
Cubano, and Saint Vincent
tobaccos.
What is Saint Vincent?
San Vincent?
I have no idea.
One of the two of the tallest is
6.29 gets an additional filler
from Cotu, Dominican Republic.
Cotu.
COTUI cotui haktui.
Oh, not haktua cotui.
She's missing, by the way.
She's Mia.
She's Mia.
Oh no, that sounds like a.
There is also a limited edition
cigar.
The Awakening is centered around
an Ecuadorian hybrid wrapper
that is referred to as the Kappa
Maroon and uses more Lajero in
the filler blend.
Underneath the wrapper is again
an Ecuadoran Habana binder with
Creoho 98 Pennsylvania Peloto
Cubano and again that Sand
Vincent fillers.
Wakening is offered in five in a
5 1/2 by 52 Robusto extra Vitola
each cigars MSRP of $30.00 in
production.
Limited 2000 boxes of 10 cigars.
Company says that this wrapper
hasn't been grown in more than a
decade and there were only four
bales of wrapper purchased.
Interesting, very interesting
stuff.
While the project involves many
of the same people from Maximar
Ultimate Cigars, it's not owned
by the store.
Andrew Constantine.
No, but OK.
How do you say his last name?
Not like that.
David West are leading the
project.
Constantine told The Half Wheel
he owns the majority of the
company.
It's been a pleasure laboring
with Klaus Kellner to fulfill
both of our dreams and created a
shared legacy, said Andrew and a
press release.
A legacy of opportunity that
provides for untold amounts of
individuals.
Hope that every time you enjoy
one of our creations, you are
transported to a realm of
possibilities, reflection and
inspiration, just like I am.
Andrew's a good guy.
I'm sure he is.
He really is.
Fulfillment and distribution
will be done out of California,
with Amar Taba, Ryan Taba, Ben
Kristofferson and Kent Wheatle
handling that side of the
business.
The company says it has a
necessary license to sell the
stores in California and its
first shipment is heading to 10
stores, though not all of them
are in California.
Next week on our Patreon show we
will be reviewing The Awakening,
so make sure you join us so you
can get first hand review.
Yeah, Andrew was very generous.
He sent us a bunch of cigars to
try a.
Whole lot of cigars, right?
Yeah.
Thank you, Andrew.
Thank you, Andrew Piero, TEGO
ADS Canadian Distribution.
I hope it's not by plane.
I hope it's not by plane.
Vera Ortego is former.
Oh, Harry Ortego joins.
Herclites, do not take your
private jet to Canada.
Joins hockey team.
Yes, or let the hockey team help
you.
Firmly announced a new
distribution deal with Crytek
International Canada.
My Selva gets new German
distributor.
My Selva sells Selva Cigars are
become the latest company to
switch its German distribution
to cop tobaccos from cop
tobaccos to MK and shown.
Together with Maya Sullivan, we
have built a nearly 30 year
business and personal
relationship with Daniel and
Adam Klaus OK.
We are excited to continue
shaping the journey together
with her.
Excellent.
Merfell's next election gets new
UK distribution The selection,
part of the Merrifield's family
tobacco business, has announced
that it has signed a new
distribution deal with the UK
beginning this month.
Its brands will be imported by C
Gars.
C period gars.
Very clever.
Very slick.
And distributed by global leaf
company, Global Leaf, Global
Leaf.
It's like, what was that
volleyball team on with Vince
Vaughn?
Help me out.
Global Volleyball.
Global Volleyball.
Yeah, I don't.
I can't think all.
Right, we'll just move on.
Prestige worldwide?
No, that was now.
He's going to look it up.
VI Hey celebrating his 17 and A.
Dodgeball.
Dodgeball was in dodgeball.
Movie.
Oh, not a completely different
sport.
Wasn't the purple ones?
No, it was the other side, the
white and red guys.
Go ahead, keep going.
VI Hey celebrating his 17 1/2
year anniversary with three new
cigars.
VI has been known to celebrate
what may be considered
unconventional Anniversaries in
2025 will be no different, as
the company has announced that
it will be releasing a trio of
cigars next week, celebrating
its 17 1/2 years in the
business.
They are also celebrating the
addition of It's Not Talking Kit
Kats in the company's vending
services.
It's not dodgeball.
I'm messing that up.
It's not.
It's not volleyball, it's not
dodgeball.
Average Joe's is their name in
the purple cobras.
It's dodge ball, wasn't it?
Dodge Oh Globo gym, that was it.
Globo Gym was where the yeah the
purple guys were.
From where they trained, yeah.
Globo Gym The Gumby has released
just a few details about the
cigar, telling Cigar Aficionado
that there will be 3 cigars.
Who made this?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're coming out with three
you didn't hear When We go Back
7.
And a half years. 17 1/2 years
they're making kick.
They have vegan kick heads in
the service.
They celebrate.
They didn't laugh.
Yeah.
You giggled slightly.
Right, they really full bodied
all Nicaraguan blends.
They come in a 6 by 50 futuro
MSRP of $16.32. $16.00 little
man. 32 cents, don't forget
that, it's very important $0.32.
Put that.
The foot ribbon is how you tell
the blends apart.
Silver and gold use Creoho
wrappers, while the red uses a
Creoho wrapper.
Creoho.
Creoho.
I'm just making sure I pronounce
these correctly.
There's two different.
Ones, yeah, there's two
different, it's right, it's
creoho, right?
Or Creoho.
Creoho, right?
Not Coroho.
No, I like the other way I said
it.
It's funnier.
Unless you're colorblind, then
the Gray one is the coroho and
the dark Gray one is the other
blend.
Got it.
Yes.
All right, this week's Jet GPT
editorial is brought to you by
Brass Brass Pipe Cigars in Fort
Pierce, FL, where this Saturday
we will be having the world
release of the new Postania San
Andreas cigar from 12:00 to
4:00, where myself and the King
will be slinging cigars and
answering the phone to take call
in orders.
Excellent, Can't wait.
February 28th.
Wait.
No.
February 22nd, 2nd, 20.
Seconds bailed.
Gotta go to work.
You can go again on the 28th if
you want to, but.
That's that Friday.
Right.
I mean, if you want to go there
two weeks in a row, that's fine.
I'm sure they'd love to have
you.
I'd have to get an oil change
between then and now.
For the second trip or the first
trip?
The second trip?
Oh, the second trip.
All right, Now the the
editorial.
OK.
Do celebrities making their own
cigars help or hurt the cigar
industry?
In recent years, celebrities
have increasingly ventured into
the world of cigars, creating
their own brands and
collaborating with cigar makers.
While this trend has gained
attention, the question is your
hand hurt over there from all
the button pushing you Sorry my.
Arm falls asleep and then my
hand starts falling asleep.
He distracted me over there,
shaking.
While the trend has gained
attention, the question remains,
does it help or hurt?
The cigar does.
It help.
Does it hurt?
Celebrities bring instant
recognition to the cigar brands,
driving curiosity in sales.
Their endorsement can introduce
a broader audience to cigars,
especially younger or less
experienced smokers.
Some celebrities, like Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Snoop Dogg
have partnered with seasoned
cigar manufacturers, which
allows them to leverage the
expertise of established names
while adding their unique
brands, Says Schwarzenegger made
his.
Own.
I don't even know that.
It might not be true.
Yeah, it's not Croc.
It's not croc 3 no no no
standard chat you between.
This can bring a fresh
perspective in the industry, as
celebrity cigars have often
featured unique blends or
marketing strategies.
However, the rise of celebrity
cigars also comes with potential
drawbacks.
Some critics argue that these
brands prioritize marketing over
quality, with many cigars being
produced in large quantities
without the craftsmanship seen
in traditional cigar making.
In some cases, a celebrity's
name is the main selling point
rather than tobacco itself,
which may lead to a lack of
genuine appreciation for the
arts of cigar making for the
more celebrities endorse cigars
and sometimes over saturate the
market, diluting the allure of
more artisanal craft focus
brands.
Overall, whether celebrities
help or hurt the cigar industry
depends on the approach they
take.
If they collaborate with experts
and focus on quality, their
presence can benefit the
industry by reaching new
consumers.
However, if the emphasis is
solely on fame and branding, it
risk undermining the tradition
and craftsmanship that define
quality cigars.
Gotcha, no opinions.
I have, I have, I do have
opinions.
I have opinions.
I can tell you a quick story
about what happened to me today,
which is very interesting and I
can kind of link it together.
Was it a celebrity involvement
with a cigar?
No, no.
But here's the reality.
The reality is that you would
like to see, I would like to see
in my lifetime cigar as being
socially acceptable across the
board.
OK, right.
And I think that it's doable and
I think that celebrities to some
extent will help with that if
they choose to.
Guy Fieri's great example, The
guy is 100% committed to this
and he's all in a lot of other
celebrities feel like it's kind
of a get rich quick kind of a
scheme, right?
Sure, And they usually.
Or they just want to be involved
in it for some reason.
Yeah, or they and they usually
lose their ass if they're if
it's a get rich quick or
something like that.
You know, somebody just take the
money, they make a cigar, right.
And you know, as far as
marketing is concerned, I think
that I mean the cigar industry
already markets stuff that's
garbage anyways in so many
different realms, right.
So one more cigar if they one.
More bad cigar.
Doesn't make it one more, you
know what I mean, but.
Well, OK, let let me just stop
it right there for a minute.
OK, let's say I'm a big fan of
Snoop Dogg, which I'm not sure.
Did he make a cigar?
Dog, I don't know, he makes
blunt wraps.
Snoop a loop.
I'm a big fan of Snoop and Snoop
makes a cigar.
I go, I want to try Snoop cigar,
right?
And then I tried the cigar and
it's bad and I go, well, I don't
like cigars now.
Well then it's up to the
retailer to try and educate them
on something better.
It's called a gateway.
Well, let's say I bought it
online, so there was no no
involvement with another person.
And I buy it and you go, oh, I
got Snoop cigar and I smoke and
I'm like, oh, this tastes like
shit.
This is terrible.
I don't know.
So I never buy another cigar.
OK, but if it was good and then
I go, oh, maybe I should try
Arnold Swerkin.
That your cigar.
Yeah, this doesn't exist either,
but right.
You know, it's ChatGPT, not, not
the, you know, National
Archives.
Yeah, so, you know, it's safe to
say that AI knows nothing about
the cigar industry.
Just what I have told it.
This is my personal.
What I have told it so, you
know, So I'm going to the gym
today, right?
I'm smoking my cigar on the way
in, OK, as I always do.
I just love that.
I don't know, there's something
about it.
For me you just feel bad ass
walking and smoking.
Yeah, I just feel awesome and I
put my cigar.
So I go and I pull in my spot.
I kind of like I back in and
there was a spot next to me that
was open.
This older lady starts to kind
of pull in and she pulls in like
any old lady would chant, you
know, one got to pour it in here
one mile an hour getting really
close to my car, the holster
bang, right.
And I'm thinking kind of close.
Yeah.
And I was just like, oh,
whatever, no big deal.
I'm just going to sit tight.
And I go to get out of my car
and I and she's still in her car
and I'm like, oh, OK, well, I'll
just wait for her to get out of
her car.
She doesn't get out of her car.
She's on the phone or something.
I'm like, OK, so then I get out.
There's really hot guy parking
next.
To me, no, no, it wasn't to get
out of the car.
So I go to get out of my car and
you know, I go, I, I always put
my cigar in my windshield so
it's pointed straight up.
There's, there's actually a
method for that.
The reason why that is because I
don't generally like to relight
a cigar.
However, if you make it
elevated, so it's going straight
up, the smoke will go out of it
and it won't sit in it.
So when you relight, the relight
isn't as bitter.
So I put it in in the windshield
and then I go to the back.
Wiper.
Yeah, windshield wiper.
And I go to the back of the
trunk to get my stuff, you know,
my bags to go into the gym, and
she makes the exit of her car
and this bitch, she's walking
away.
She says that's a disgusting
habit like that.
Yeah.
And I said, well, you have a
great morning, too, just like
that.
So I think that someone like
Betty White or something that
could have endorsed cigars
that's in her age bracket would
help her understand.
And she's really missing out.
I mean, for one, her BMI is far
worse than mine.
She's definitely not taking care
of herself.
I don't know what she's doing at
the gym.
Maybe she's doing yoga or
something, but there are other
things that she needs to focus
on.
She's doing kegels.
And she's.
Dead vagina.
And she, she's probably working
on her dead vagina and her
instinctively, instinctively her
zombie vagina and instinctively
she's, you know, kind of
attacking me.
I'm thinking, how do we get to
her for her to understand that
this isn't as bad as she thinks
it is, right?
You know what I mean?
Well, you don't know too.
Maybe her husband was a cigar
smoker and he left the butts
laying all over the house.
He smoked in the house, ashed
everywhere or something.
Well, it's the so she married an
asshole.
Well, she could have, you're
right.
But I mean she.
But he didn't smoke cigars
because most cigar smokers
aren't not assholes.
That's not true.
At most.
At most and put all of them.
In there, it's a wide, you know,
it's a wide spectrum of cigar
smokers.
They we cover cigar smokers
cover every Ave.
Oh, certainly, yes, every type
of person.
Yeah, right.
I mean, I've seen guys that are
such assholes that they will
purposely go out of their way to
ash on the floor of the store
and look at the employee in the
eyes when they're doing it
'cause they know the employee
has to clean it up.
Oh, I've seen it.
I've.
Seen that too.
Yeah, I.
Have to.
Yeah, it's messed up.
Then they say something like
it's all mine anyway.
Oh, you're talking about me.
Oh no, I we're not.
I would.
Never ever do that to an I'm.
Talking about you at all, no.
First of all, I would never do
that to.
Him.
Then how did you know what he
says?
It wasn't me.
I would never do.
That No, he's talking about
upstairs.
That's not even, that's not even
cool that you would actually
insinuate that.
Wow.
I would never no.
You do not look at them while
they're cleaning up, but I but
if you ash on floor, I always go
come on now somebody's got to
clean that up and you go.
It's all mine anyway.
I clean it up unless I do it
down here for you, then you can
clean it up.
I did have to sweep the place
today.
It was good.
That side was getting kind of
bad.
Gotcha.
Normally it's him with the mess
but yeah.
But he must have like emptied
his ashtray.
I.
Cleaned my area.
Yesterday he must have cleaned
every.
He must have cleaned everything
up yesterday when he left.
Edit that part.
Out because that was all clean
over there.
There's no way you're gonna
you're gonna edit that.
I can't.
I can't catch that.
Come on. 51 minutes.
You gotta you gotta pull the
clip 51 minutes.
He can pull the clip.
I haven't done that.
Just take it out on the other
part.
No, I'm not gonna catch.
I need you to clip it.
All right, come on, let's wrap
this up so we'll be right there.
It's.
For it's for the greater good.
So I think that it would be
awesome if there were
celebrities in that would cover
different demographs that were
actually interested in this and
really kind of pursued it
honestly.
I think that that the world
would be a better place.
You think that would help?
Yeah, I do, because I don't want
to.
I don't, you know, I don't mind
being shit on because of my
habit.
I don't mind somebody looking at
me.
I just know that that that
person is extremely ignorant to
what it is.
Sure, I have not had that happen
to me yet.
Somebody give me a sideways look
when they're smoking cigarettes.
Oh yes, it happens to me all the
time.
Oh, but I am a little more
cognizant of where I smoke and
what areas.
I mean, I would have been
smoking in the car too.
I smoke in the car all the time
and I put mine on the thing when
I go into the Publix or
something.
So I mean, I've never had
anybody look at me like.
Yeah, I get that all the time.
This lady was very upset with
her life.
Do the booger, the booger, the
booger blow.
Up.
You got a up.
Interesting.
All right, Listener of the Week.
You have a listener of the week.
Listener of the Week Mark Palmer
at Brass Pipe Cigars.
Very nice.
I was talking and you were OK.
Oh, but you were about to say so
give.
Me a look.
Well, I didn't know I was
waiting for you to say
something.
Shop of the Week.
We've never mentioned this shop
of the week before.
OK Leaf and Bean by Island Gems
in Augustine, Florida, where I
will be Thursday night for a
cutting light from 5:00 to 9:00
PM.
What's the date?
20?
I had to think for a minute.
Thursday.
Thursday what?
It's Thursday, the February
20th.
February 20th.
You know these things are up for
all of time, so you might want
to say the date.
Well, they can't go after this
has been up.
I won't be there.
Right, that's what I'm saying.
You think somebody's going to
watch Episode 3 side before you
go?
Oh, Palmer's going to be there
every Thursday, No.
I think he's going to be there
this Thursday, and this Thursday
they don't realize that they're
watching an old episode.
Well, they can still go and buy
a post on your cigar.
OK, they will be.
Carrying that, I'm here for the
event.
Oh, perfect.
Come on.
Right over here.
OK.
And anything else.
That's all I got.
Ain't got no more.
OK.
Well, hey, thank you to our
listeners.
We appreciate you.
There's something we were going
to talk about, Mary.
What?
What?
Oh, we were going to touch on
the coop thing or something.
Maybe not, I don't know.
All right, it's been episode
375.
It was something we were gonna,
I don't remember.
Make sure you like, share,
subscribe, do all those good
things.
We need your help.
There you go.
Thank you.
Bye all.
Right, bye.
Show Notes
A Cigar Hustlers Podcast - Episode 375: A Journey Through Surprises and Smokes!
In this episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, we dive into some trending news that's sure to spark conversation. First, we’re thankful that everyone survived the Delta Airlines crash in Canada, but we’ll discuss what led to the dramatic event. Then, brace yourself for Elon Musk's latest step towards Skynet—Grok 3, his new AI creation, is here and it's a game-changer. Halley Berry has also introduced a workout program... for her vagina? You read that right, folks!
Switching gears to the world of cigars, we’ve got some exciting updates. Black Label Trading Company is dropping a super deluxe cigar they’ve been working on for five years—don’t miss this one! Our good friends at Roma are releasing the much-anticipated Big PA Cromag, and another celebrity is making their mark in the cigar world with their own blend.
We also take a deep dive into Avowed Cigars, who are making a massive splash in the industry, along with plenty of international cigar distribution news you won’t want to miss. Plus, Viaje is celebrating its 210th anniversary with three new releases that will have you reaching for your humidors.
Finally, for this week’s ChatGPT Editorial, we tackle the question: Do celebrities making their own cigars help or hurt the cigar industry? Tune in to find out what we think!
Get ready for a packed episode full of juicy news, exclusive cigar updates, and some humor along the way. Don’t miss Episode 375—grab your cigar and enjoy the ride!