A Cigar Hustlers Podcast - Episode 375: A Journey Through Surprises and Smokes!
Episode Summary
Episode 375 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with hosts Mike Steponkiewicz and Mike Palmer (with Boots on the board) laying out a packed event calendar around the debut of Powstanie San Andres. Palmer heads to Leaf & Bean by Island Gym in St. Augustine, Florida on February 20, both hosts hit Brass Pipe Cigars in Fort Pierce on February 22 for the world release of the Powstanie San Andres (with phone orders taken during the event), Palmer appears at Holy Shmokes in The Villages on February 24, and the Cigar Hustler store throws an in-store-only release party on February 28 — deliberately holding the cigar off the website to protect brick-and-mortar retail partners.
The non-cigar news block covers the Delta/Bombardier CRJ regional jet that flipped on landing at Toronto Pearson with all 80 aboard surviving, the launch of Elon Musk's Grok 3 AI and DOGE's findings on untracked Treasury payments, plus a detour into Halle Berry's menopause and wellness platform. Boots' recall segment tackles Pam's tempura-coated chicken nuggets pulled in New Zealand over possible blue rubber contamination.
Cigar news runs deep: Black Label Trading Company brings back Super Deluxe for 2025 (Mexican San Andrés wrapper, Ecuadorian Habano binder, Nicaraguan fillers) in Petite Corona, Robusto and Toro at $12–$13, limited to 750 boxes per size, with James Brown describing the spice, dark fruit and star anise profile. RoMa Craft Tobac debuts the CroMag PA Gran Perfecto (5 7/8 x 60, Pennsylvania broadleaf over Ecuadorian Sumatra hybrid with Dominican and Nicaraguan filler) at $16.75 in boxes of 10, shipping fewer than 50 boxes, and the hosts note Toro sizes are coming to the Intemperance lines (Whiskey Rebellion, Volstead, EC). Retired NBA star Carmelo Anthony enters cigars with Versa by Carmelo Anthony through Kingmaker Cigars — a 6 1/2 x 54 Gran Toro, Habano 2000 wrapper, Sumatra binder, Nicaraguan and Pennsylvania filler at $22.50, made at an undisclosed Nicaraguan factory. Avowed Cigar Company launches out of the Maximar Ultimate Cigars / Small Batch Cigars team with blends rolled at Klaas Kelner's Dominican factory, including The Vow and the $30 limited Awakening (Kappa Maroon hybrid wrapper, 2,000 boxes) — which the hosts will review on their Patreon show.
Rounding it out: Ferio Tego adds Canadian distribution, Micallef Cigars switches German distributors, Maríñez Nextselection lands UK distribution, and Viaje celebrates 17 1/2 years with three full-bodied all-Nicaraguan 6x55 Toros at $16.32 differentiated by silver, gold and red foot ribbons. The closing ChatGPT editorial debates whether celebrity-owned cigars help or hurt the industry, which leads into Palmer's real-world story of being told smoking is "a disgusting habit" in a gym parking lot — and his argument that the right celebrity advocates (he points to Guy Fieri as someone genuinely committed) could help make cigars socially acceptable across demographics.
In This Episode
- 01Powstanie San Andres Release EventsEvent dates for Leaf & Bean in St. Augustine, Brass Pipe in Fort Pierce, Holy Shmokes in The Villages, and the in-store-only Cigar Hustler release party.
- 02Toronto Delta Crash & Grok 3The hosts break down the Bombardier CRJ that flipped at Pearson with all 80 survivors, plus Musk's Grok 3 AI launch and DOGE's Treasury tracking findings.
- 03Blue Rubber Chicken Nugget RecallBoots' recall segment on Pam's tempura-coated chicken nuggets pulled in New Zealand over possible blue rubber pieces.
- 04Black Label Trading Company Super Deluxe ReturnsThe 2020 blend comes back for 2025 in Petite Corona, Robusto and Toro at $12–$13, limited to 750 boxes each.
- 05RoMa Craft CroMag PA Gran PerfectoA 5 7/8 x 60 Pennsylvania broadleaf perfecto at $16.75, under 50 boxes shipped, with Intemperance Toro sizes on the way.
- 06Carmelo Anthony's Versa via Kingmaker CigarsThe NBA star's $22.50 Gran Toro debut and the hosts' skepticism about an undisclosed Nicaraguan factory.
- 07Avowed Cigar Company LaunchSmall Batch Cigars' team launches three blends made by Klaas Kelner in the Dominican Republic, including the $30 limited Awakening.
- 08Distribution Deals & Viaje 17 1/2 AnniversaryFerio Tego to Canada, Micallef's new German distributor, Nextselection in the UK, and Viaje's three new $16.32 Nicaraguan Toros.
- 09Editorial: Do Celebrity Cigars Help or Hurt?A ChatGPT-prompted debate on celebrity brands, gateway smokers and quality vs. marketing, capped by a parking-lot encounter with an anti-cigar stranger.
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Transcript
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Cheers to you. com and search the Cigar Hustler Podcast. We're ready. Welcome to the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, episode 375, where cigars, industry talk, and unfiltered opinions collide.
Sit back with your co-hosts, Mike Steponkiewicz 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. Grab a cigar, sit on back, and let's get on into it. Get on.
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. 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 Postana Cigars and ourself at Cigar Hustler. February 20th, Thursday night, February 20th, the man himself, National Sales Manager Mike Palmer, will be at Leaf & Bean by Island Gym in St. Augustine, Florida. m.
So if you're going to say an Augustine... Come say howdy. Go see your boy. Oh.
Nice. Oh. February 22nd is the big one. Saturday, February 22nd, myself and you will be at the Brass Pipe in Fort Pierce from 12 to 4, releasing Postana San Andreas for the very first time.
Please don't hit any more buttons. You're going to drive me nuts. Oh, that was a perfect time to hit it. No, I don't want to hear.
I don't want to hear the 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 over the phone if you want to be one of the first to experience the Postana San Andreas. And then February 24th, 11 to 4, you have a cut in light. Yes. At Holy Shmokes.
I'm Vice President there. In the Villages. You are the Vice President there. Vice President of Postana 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 puffies 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 Postana 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 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. A lot going on in the next week. Yeah, yeah.
We're very, very busy. We're starting a 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. He's not allowed to hit the button.
Oh, bam. You can hit the button. That one's not on here no more. Oh, no, we took it off.
But fuck that guy's on there. Oh, you want that one? Oh, fuck that guy. Oh, we're touching footsies.
It's very close quarters in here. All right, in trending news. Come closer. We had the Delta airline to crash in Canada.
Yes. Everybody survived. They survived? Everybody survived.
Nobody died. We can't talk about it yet. Come on. I'm just hitting the highlight here.
Mike is one step closer to Skynet with the release of the new AI GROC, is that how you say it, GROC? Yeah, it's GROC 3. I keep wanting to say Gronk. No, it's GROC.
GROC 3. Haley Berry has a new workout program for her vagina. Whoa. Lots of Kegels.
Lots of, she's not a problem, we'll discuss that in a few minutes. And then in cigar news, we've got black label trading companies releasing a super deluxe cigar they made five years ago. Super deluxe. A.
Chromag. Delicious. A. Chromag.
Another celebrity is making his own cigar. Oh, interesting. Avowed Cigars, this is why I heard of it, Avowed Cigars put out a big press release this week. They're making a huge entry into the cigar industry.
Okay. And we have a lot of foreign distribution going on. Everybody's going across the pond. Across the pond.
Yes. Viaje is celebrating its 210th month anniversary with three new cigars. " 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 Pearsons 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 and 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 that one movie where he has to turn the plane so nobody dies. If only it hit and skidded and then... Man, you guys missed the punchline on that one.
Flipped over. It's because I was inverted. It's because I was inverted. Your Top Gun.
Top Gun. That's right. 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 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. Tarmac.
Firefighters quickly came to the rescue. We are upside down, hanging like bats, passenger Peter Kukovs told CNN. A 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 the Hospital for Sick Children. Yeah, don't go to the Well Children Hospital. There's nobody there. You come here with the sick ones.
S. partner CBS News, there were 76 passengers and four crew on board the 16-year-old CRJ 9000 aircraft, made by Canada's Bombardier, The 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 improvements, that laminated car that saved everybody's life. That's just saying everybody that travels just quit their job. Airport authorities said the runway was dry at the time of the crash.
It was covered in snow. 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 B and up, though. That's right.
What was there? It's all covered in snow. We can't really tell. Was there a fucking ramp on one side or something?
They think it might have hit one of the lights when it landed. Those lights just stick up to mark the runway? It's Canada, eh? The pilot had the one jump.
The plane practically flies itself at this point. Everybody survived. Okay. He's gonna be like the guy that landed in the Potomac.
Potomac, the Potomac. I don't know about that one. Scully, Sully, Sully. It's not even close.
This isn't even close. And I gotta tell you something. And that was Tom Hanks, so not even close. Yeah.
And I gotta 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 Monday night. Yeah, so they can't land planes.
The guy gets... Go ahead. Trudeau, shut the fuck up with you. upset about the fact that, you know, the terror threat or whatever, and then he's working on, and then he's like, oh, we're going to work on help building the border, spending more money.
And then, you know, USA comes out on NHL hockey, and they boo the national anthem. So what did USA do? They whooped the shit out of Canada. They kicked their ass for two hours.
Yeah, and then they beat them in the game. Even the coach was yelling, fight, fight. They beat them in their own game. You know, Canada.
They invented hockey. They are hockey. Right. Not this year.
Three 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, it's got to be remarkable. Yeah, they had to go to the hospital for sick adults. It's been a tough week.
Sick adult hospital. It's been a tough week for Canada. Yeah, they had to go to the hospital for sick adults. It's so good they label things in Canada.
Yeah, it's for the sick adults. The sick adults. It's for the losing hockey team. Yeah, when they went to the losing hockey team hospital, yeah, it's a tough month for Canada, man, and what the hell's going on with these planes, all I hear now is all this bullshit, but planes, we're driving, anywhere we go anymore, we're driving, I don't care what it is, one falls out of the sky, they all start having them, right, it's just crazy, all right, did you, speaking of airplanes, did you see Trump's flyby 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 looking. This giant 747 banking as it comes around the corner. The guy knows how to sell, man. You know?
You see, you know, he's in the bag, he picks up the phone. Bobby, Bobby, buzz the track for me. Yeah, I want to buzz the track. Sorry, what sir?
Buzz the track. Okay. Permission to buzz the tow. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
Permission to buzz. Permission to buzz the track. Negative, Ghost Rider. Pattern is full.
There he goes. I have permission. Do you know who I am? I am the president.
Oh, and then, speaking of planes, another thing, he threatened Iran, Trump did, because they had, or hostages or something, they still had people. It's Iran? Well, Iran does too. I think he's going through the list.
He's in the eyes now. Okay. Well, he was back, 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... Oh, no, he bought that.
He's building a hotel. Okay. I thought that 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. He threatened Iran, Iran said, "You better be careful with what you're doing," or something like that. So they woke up to the stealth bomber flying over Iran.
They're calling it the Freedom Dorito. Because it's triangle shape. Oh, the Freedom Dorito. " No, there it is.
It's a Dorito flying over us. Dragging a flag with a picture of Trump on it. Hey, release the hostages. No, we will not.
Oh. Get those people now. Get them out of here. 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 our plane.
We're like the Colombian president. You know what? We're going to accommodate. Do they have their own planes in Iran?
I'm sure they do. Do they have an Air Force? No, what they do is they have the planes that we left behind and now they're their planes. No, they crashed all their planes.
Of course they don't have no airplanes. That's the Japanese. It's totally different. No, he's talking about terrorists.
Oh. From all the practice flights. From all the practice flights. Okay, 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. Alright, Elon Musk, AI-released artificial intelligence model, Grok 3, claims better performance than rivals in early testing. Yeah, I just experienced the Grok 3 a second ago.
Did you use it? I use Grock all the time. I only use Grock now, too, because there's no limit. Yeah.
" You have exceeded the time limit. You've exceeded your free rounds today. Well, Grock, you got to get it through a subscription. The new one you do.
Yeah. The regular Grock, you don't have to. Well, I already have, I'm a subscriber. Yes, you are a subscriber.
Yes, I'm just funding Elon at this point. His AI on Tuesday unveiled its latest artificial intelligence model, Grock 3, claiming he can be out... It can outperform offerings from OpenAI and China's DeepSeq based on early testing, which included standardized tests on math, science, and coding. Interesting.
So we're going to use that for all our children now when they go to take a test, standardized test. So we linked it to DeepSeq? No, it's better than DeepSeq. Oh, it's better than DeepSeq.
Better than. Wow. These are ones that it's better than. There's some other one people are talking about that's dangerous, not a chat GBT, but it's like an APS or an ASM or something new one.
I don't even know what it stands for, and people are afraid of it. It's a different type of artificial intelligence. 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 got our knowledge from the same place. Oh, did we?
Yes, because 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 told you, I listened to the one episode on the way back. Wow. Well, I have to have something to talk about. You're amazing.
So, yeah. We're very excited to present Grock 3, which we think, in order of magnitude, more capable of Grock 2, very short period of time, must set at a demonstration of Grock 3 that was streamed on his social media platform X. Did you see it? Is it on there?
What? Grock 3? Well, he showed it in a streaming on X. No, I don't have time 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? Which would act as a next generation search engine.
GROC3 will be rolled out premium ex-subscribers, which be you, starting Tuesday. Oh, today's my moment. Right, right on, right on the thing. I'm enjoying it.
Stateside will also be accessible through a separate subscription for the model's web and app versions, the AI team said. Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai last week, Mus said, dubbed the model Scary Smart, with powerful reasoning capabilities, claiming it outperformed all other existing models in the AI internal test. 7 trillion in treasury payments lacking a critical tracking code. Wow.
So you can't find where it went. Where the money went? Yeah. Oh.
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. 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. Okay, so DOGE in the government stands for Department of Government Efficiency. So what does DOGE coin stand for?
DOGE coin is like a coin that's after that dog. Right, right, right. It doesn't stand for anything though. So 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 it?
Is that government? Or was his government group already there? I think that, no, no, he built it with that. Okay.
With the intention of Doge. So he's in charge of a new government organization. Now, if you get your tinfoil hat out and you go all sides of conspiracy theory, you can go deeper down this rabbit hole. Sure.
And then you'll see that Doge in French ancient terms or some shit. Stands for Hitler? No, it stands for like natural leader or something like that. Oh.
Yeah. Is he a US citizen? No. I didn't think he was.
So he can't run for president. Well, no, it doesn't. S. 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. Ah, gotcha. So, as the way things are written at this current juncture. Yeah, he cannot be.
Right. He can always be changed. But I will, I mean, yeah, the reality is, I don't think that, look, I think if you're here 20 or 30 years, mm-hmm. You know, I feel like...
I don't know, they made that rule at the beginning for a reason. They're qualified. Does it work the same in other countries? I think it depends.
I don't know. It depends on the country. I've never heard of anybody else who has that, but I mean, it's not like where you're up on their constitutions or whatever they have. 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 a certain amount of time, I'd say, okay, 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, I mean, people liked you and they thought that you had 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. He's past his prime.
Well, yeah. But there was a time. Well, President Biden was just president. Oh, that's 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. Okay. All right, Haley, Holly, we're not sure what you said.
You're going to have to watch a different podcast. Holly. Holly? Holly Berry.
Is that Haley Berry? It's Haley Berry. I thought it was Holly Berry, too. Ha.
Holly Berry. Say it with me. It's Ha. Ha.
Lay. Lay. Holly. It's not Holly, it'd be H-O-L-L-Y.
This is Haley. Holly. All those California movie star people like you to say their name is different. Holly.
Schwarzenegger smelled S-M-I-T-H. S-M-I-T-H. Smith? I don't know the way it's spelled, but he'd like you to say it's Schwarzenegger.
Oh, interesting. Anyway, she's 58, she shares a no sweat workout to ease menopause symptoms. Hearst Magazine and Yahoo may earn commissions for revenues on some items like these links. 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 P-E-R-I menopause, peri, peri? It's not peri. Peri? Peri menopause?
Perimenopause? Peri? P-E-R-I, 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 we don't know what it is. Okay, well, she was misdiagnosed with perimenopause with herpes. Oh, what a big misdiagnosis. a.
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, their vagina is just...
Dead vagina inside. Dead vagina. In October, she sat down with former Women's Health Editor-in-Chief Liz... Zombie vagina.
Zombie vagina. Liz Polzer at the HLTH Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, to chat about her relaunch of her wellness platform, Respon Health, And in health, in which she now focuses on menopause. Kegels and douching. I don't think it's going to throw it back.
I think 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.
Okay. 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.
We're going to tighten the vagina. Yeah, they tighten it, they trim, you know, the folds and stuff like that. Yeah, they 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. I'm moving forward with zombie vagina. I can't wait to see the clip from this one. Zombie vagina.
Alright, switching to Cigar News. Cigar? Already? That was fast.
That was quick. Oh, no, here's where we paused to do boots. Boots, yeah. 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 gotta scroll. It's on your phone!
It's three 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. Foodstuff's own brands has issues...
Stop 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.
I'm thinking of the rubber mulch. Look, man, mistakes were made, buddy. You know what I mean? How did the blue rubber get into the chicken?
I can tell you. You ever hear a "take your kid to work day"? Yes, thank you. So somebody took their kid, and they had a very big blue kickball.
And they thought that the warehouse was appropriate, and went into the machine, and then... " Nobody's gonna know. Nobody's gonna know. The chicken nuggets are rubber anyways.
Yeah, it's not real chicken. Yeah. All right, please continue. Foodstuff's 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 one 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, "retard" Turn 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. Boots care of ACHP in Delta, Florida. My advanced digestive system can handle rubber.
I gave him stage direction. He did a pretty good job. My advanced digestive system can handle rubber. Sound angry.
He did a good job. I was so hoping he read the stage director stuff would have been funnier. The affected product is sold at Foursquare, Gilmore's, New World, Pack and 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 Foodstuff-owned brands to understand how this issue arose and to prevent it happening again, said Arbuckle. That's it. There you go.
There you go. Oh, somebody. Send it to me. Oh, send it to me.
My advanced. My advanced digestive system can handle rubber. Oh my goodness. Absolutely.
Amazing. Now you gotta make an AI photo of him eating blue rubber. No problem. Wow.
Consider it done. Did he see his last one with the chocolate? Did you see the last one with the chocolate? Did you see the Kit Kat?
No. He doesn't watch the show. He doesn't pay attention. We live it.
Yeah, but you gotta watch the clips. Do you know how much time and effort I put in those goddamn clips? You could run through the minute. You want me to watch them?
There's seven of them. Sit up there while he makes them. You hear it like 75 times that he's playing and cutting, playing and cutting. Yeah, there's seven of them a week.
You can spend seven minutes of your life. I can't bring myself to listen to the show after I've sat with him while he's making the clips. I don't know. Well, you know, it's so funny, though, is like I always look around.
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? Like, damn, I gotta go back and make it funny. All right, Cigar News, Black Label Trading Company, Super Deluxe returns for 2025 and 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 just turned out to be a regular cigar, it was 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 Andres wrapper over in Ecuador and Habano binder and fillers from Nicaragua. It will once again be offered in three Vitolas, though only one Vitola, the Super Deluxe Petite Corona, will be part of the 2020 release.
That was the only one that was super good. So they made 880 boxes in 2020. Yes. " Got it.
So these cigars weren't made, they weren't made five years ago. This is a new run. It's a new run of a cigar they made five years ago. 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 Vitolas, which, with shorter names, hopefully they'll go forward.
With, hopefully, shorter names? Well, I sort of skipped reading the names, it's Super Deluxe, it's the most requested, oh, we went the wrong way. It's the most requested black label cigar. Uh, yeah, I don't know, we're just gonna go to the next story.
What's the retail? You know what it retails for? 54 is, uh, $12. Super Deluxe Toro, 6x50 is $13.
And the original release in a Petit Corona, we don't have the prices for them from 2020. Okay, that's some good prices, that's fair. It's market value-ish, 12, 13 bucks. For 2025, each of the Vitolas were limited to 750 boxes, not the 800 from before.
Got it. Super Deluxe is the most request... 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 Petit Corona. The Petit, whatever we said it was. Petit Corona.
Yes. Super Deluxe is the most requested cigar in BLT history, said James Brown, founder of Black Label Trading Company, in a press release. The combination of Nicaraguan fillers and the Mexican San Andreas wrapper creates a bold, dark, and rich profile. The subtle spice blends with the dark fruit and star anise, A-N-I-S-E?
Is that star fruit? I don't know. Star fruit has no flavor. Star anise?
Yeah, that would be a star fruit and it has no flavor. Creating a long, complex finish, this cigar represents what our consumers have come to love from Black Label. Fruit with no flavor? Maybe you just don't have a sophisticated palate, and you can't taste the starfruit.
I had a lot of starfruit 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 for an aesthetic. They put it on the side of the plate. Oh, thank you. Here's your star.
Chromag PA Gran Perfecto debuts. Yes. Last year, Roma Craft Tobac released a new version of its Cro-Mag line, updated with an all-new blend and slightly different packaging, when the new Cro-Mag PA was announced, Roma Craft Tobac indicated it would not only be offered in the same regular production Vitolas as the original Cro-Mag line, oh, sorry, there's a comment, there's no comment there, but also the various limited production Vitolas, they're coming out of many different sizes, the Cro-Mag PA Grand Perfecto is a 5 7/8 by 60 Perfecto, the same size as the original Cro-Mag Grand Perfecto that debuted in 2020. A 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, a Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper over Ecuador and Sumatra hybrid binder and filler tobaccos grown in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Celebrate their 10th anniversary. That's what it says.
Of Cro-Magnum? Maybe of Cro-Magnum. No, that doesn't make any sense. I don't write these stories.
I just read them. Well, Cro-Magnum, wasn't that his first? That was the first blend he made. Yeah.
Maybe this size? Hmm. The Grand Perfecto? Could be.
Maybe. Hmm. One way to tell the two versions apart is the color of the text on the band. The original uses black on black text, where the Cro-Mag PA uses white on black text.
Right. Each cigar is an MSRP of 1675 and comes in boxes of 10 cigars. Mike Rosales, co-founder of Roma Craft Tobac, told... It's Michael.
We've had this discussion with him before. He does not care which one it is. If 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. No, he's not.
He's the co-founder of Roma Craft Tobac told, uh, let's say he told Cigar Hustler Podcast. There you go. That the last week's shipment was less than 50 boxes. With a few exceptions, most Aroma Craft limited cigars are limited production items and not outright limited editions.
That means Aroma Craft Tobac will make it from time to time and offer it as part of special shipments like these at events. When Skip sort of feels like he wants to make one. Okay. Yes.
50 as it originally stated. You know, because one of the cigars above $16 just sort of seems silly. This is ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
It's so silly. It's so silly. You know what? 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. All the intemperances. The intemperances you see. Oh, we've covered that before.
The Whiskey Rebellion. The Toro things. We did? Yeah.
So about a month ago when they announced it. There is currently no Toro sizes? Yeah, no. And they're officially, well, there's Toro sizes in your Chromag lines, in your Aqua tanks.
Is this one of the Monstranzas a box press Toro? Uh, yeah, that's true, but I'm talking about the old school intemperance lines, the EC, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Volstead, not the BA, because I don't think that they had rapper for that at this time. Ah, I see. But they're coming soon.
Nice. It's exciting stuff. Very exciting. Yeah.
Michael will tell us about it. He already did. Then why are you talking about it? Because I just did.
Just wanted to add to the story? Yeah. Good job. You want to know why?
Because that's an important thing to highlight. The Toro sizes is going to be a size that's more demand. Oh, certainly, yes. Toro and Augusto.
Two most popular sizes. Right. And even though it was announced that they were making it, you should probably tell consumers that, hey, it's about to hit. Oh.
Here it comes. Well, I'm sure when it ships, there'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 come out at all. If you come out at all, well, then it's not covered. It's still no response, huh?
No, dead air, dead air, dead air. Well, he's in the 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 just months away from PCA. What is your editorial program now? Right.
What are your standards? What is it? Does this count? Oh, that should be a t-shirt.
I so hope he doesn't have white pants again this year. Oh. Isn't that the white party? With the khakis?
Yeah. Yeah, I hope so. We'll use that photo. Carmelo Anthony enters cigar business via Kingmakers.
Oh. So I assume you guys are familiar with who Carmelo Anthony is. Yes. Okay, I have no idea.
The retired NBA star is getting his own cigar line and surpassing, it's not, oh, and surprising, sorry, my own typo, and surprising, it's not with Luciano Morales. Oh. Kingmaker Cigars, a company that has also partnered with WNBA star Kelsey Plume and the band Midland. Anybody familiar with the band Midland?
No. No, I don't either. I don't either. They act like it's a big deal.
You talking about the Midland, like the country band? I don't know. Band Midland, M-I-D-L-A-N-D. I think that's Midland.
They did not look country in the photo. Maybe they're not. Country has a look, a specific look? Yes.
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, yeah, I don't know who that is. That's a totally different Midland.
Yes, I don't think that was it. Okay. The Midland of Zombieland. Has announced Versa by Camelo Anthony.
5x54 Gran Toro Vitola using a Habano 2000 wrapper over a Sumatra binder and fillers from Nicaragua and Pennsylvania. Gran Toro. Okay. I thought you would say something.
It's interesting. I'm just trying to think of the blend. Amano 2000. Okay.
You don't usually hear much about fillers from Pennsylvania. Well, you said binder. Sumatra binder and fillers from Nicaragua and Pennsylvania. Okay.
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 that appealing unless maybe green was the color of the team you played on or something.
I don't know. No? I have no idea then why then. Kingmaker says that it's cigars are made in Nicaragua, but they declined to say which factory they use?
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? Don't look at the screen.
It's going to be at least 18 bucks. What did you say, Boots? 22. 50.
Ding, 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. Versa is more than just a cigar. It's expensive. 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 he 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 Luciano, maybe it's the way they don't want to say. Oh, could be. He doesn't own a factory. No, he doesn't.
That's why they can't tell you the GPS location. That's why they can't tell you what it is, man. He says it was his, we can't find it anywhere. It's north of the southwest east area of Las Segovia.
It's a ghost factory. Right. Awesome. It's right next to Wakanda.
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 ask, but you had a question about that. Do you think that that's good, celebrity getting involved?
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. I got it. Okay. It's like he's never done the show before.
I'm not engaging. I'll let you do play this. Interesting. A violent cigar company launches with three blends.
Yeah. We're gonna talk about two of them. com, has become the latest cigar retailer to create its own brand. I did not realize that was small brands.
Right. Anyway, let's give it a story. Yeah. No, there's nothing bad, no.
A Vowed Cigar Company is launching with three blends made by Klass Kellner. What? I'm not familiar with Mr. Kellner.
Kellner. Kellner. K-E-L-N-E-R. He's got a factory in Dominican Republic.
They started with a blend that is known as the Vow, which was developed after visiting Kellner Cigars SAS shortly after the factory opened in the spring of 2023. Blend-wise, The Vow uses an Ecuadorian Habana wrapper and bind-over fillers that include Corojo 99, Cree Lolo 98, Piloto Cubano, and St. Vincent Tobacco's. What is St.
Vincent Tobacco's? St. Vincent. I have no idea.
Hmm. 29 gets an additional filler from COTU? Dominican Republic. COTU.
C-O-T-U-I. COTU-I? HACTU-I? HACTU-I?
Oh, not HACTU-I. COTU-I. She's missing, by the way. A.?
A. Oh, no. That sounds like a... There is also a limited edition cigar, the Awakening.
It centers 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 Ecuadorian Habano binder with Criollo 98, Pennsylvania, Peloto Cubano, and, again, that San Vincent fillers. 5x52 Robusto Extra Vitola. Each cigar is an MSRP of $30 from production and limited to 2,000 boxes of 10 cigars.
The company says that this wrapper hasn't been grown in more than a decade and there were only four bales of wrappers 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 Consenzi. Konstantin? No, but okay. How do you say his last name?
Not like that. David West, our leading the project, Konstantin told the Half Wheel he owns the majority of the company. It's been a pleasure laboring with Kloss Kettlner to fulfill both of our dreams and created a shared legacy, said Andrew. In 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.
The filament and distribution will be done out of California with Amar Taba, Ryan Taba, Ben Christofferson, and Kent Weedle handling that side of the business. The company says it has a necessary license to sell to 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'll be reviewing The Awakening, so make sure you join us so you can get first-hand reviews. Yeah, Andrew was very generous, he sent us a bunch of cigars to try.
A whole lot of cigars, right. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you, Andrew. Fierro Tego adds Canadian distribution.
Hope it's not by plane. I hope it's not by plane. Yeah. Fierro Tego is firmly...
Oh. Fierro Tego joins hockey... Herklites, 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. Mike Selva gets a new German distributor, Mike Selva Cigars has become the latest company to switch its German distribution to Cop Tobacco's, from Cop Tobacco's, to MK and Schoen. Together with Mike Selva, we have built a nearly 30 year business and personal relationship with Daniel and Adam Klaas.
Okay. We are excited to continue shaping the journey together with her. Excellent. Excellent.
Merrifels, the next selection, gets new UK distribution. Oh. The selection part of the Merrifels 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 Seegars, 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 with Vince Vaughn? With Vince Vaughn, help me out. Um... Global Volleyball.
Global Volleyball. Global Volleyball. Yeah. I can't think.
All right, we'll just move on. Prestige Worldwide? No, that was... No, he's gonna look it up.
Viaje celebrating 17 and a half... Dodgeball. It wasn't dodgeball. Oh, not volleyball.
Completely different sport. It wasn't the purple ones. No, it was the other side. The white and red guys.
Go ahead. Keep going. Viaje celebrating 17 and a half-year anniversary with... With three new cigars, VI has been known to celebrate what may be considered unconventional anniversaries, and 2025 will be no different, as the company has announced that it will be releasing a trio of cigars next week, celebrating its 17 and a half years in the business.
Ooh. They are also celebrating the addition of vegan Kit Kats in the company's vending service. It's not Dodgeball, I'm messing that up. It's not volleyball, it's not Dodgeball.
No, Average Joes was their name, and the Purple Cobras. That's Dodgeball, wasn't it Dodgeball? Oh, Globo Gym, that was it. That was it Globo Gym was where the purple guys were from Where they trained Globo Gym The company has released just a few details About the cigar Telling a cigar aficionado That there will be three cigars Who made this?
32, $16, little man. 32. Put that. The foot ribbon is how you tell the blends apart, silver and gold use Criojo wrappers, while the red uses a Criojo wrapper.
Criojo? Criojo, I'm just making sure I pronounce these correct. Criojo. Are those two different ones?
Yeah, there's two different ones, right, it's Criolo. Right. Or Criojo. Criojo.
Right. Not Corojo? No, I like the way I said it, it's funnier. Unless you're colorblind, then the gray one is the Corojo and the dark gray one is the other blend.
Got it. Yes. All right, this week's Jet GPTN Toro is brought to you by Brass Pipe Cigars in Port Pierce, Florida, where this Saturday we will be having the world release of the new Powstanie San Andreas Cigar from 12 to 4, where myself and the king will be slinging cigars and answering the phone to take call and orders. Excellent.
Can't wait. February 28th. Wait, no. February 22nd.
Second. Second. Very 20 seconds. Bam.
Got to go to work. You can go again on the 28th if you want to. No, 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?
Yeah, second trip. Oh, the second trip. All right. Now the editorial.
Okay. 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 remains...
Is your hand hurt over there from all the button pushing? Usually 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 industry?
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, These are 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 to their unique brands. Is this Schwarzenegger made as a cigar? I don't even know that. It might not be true.
Yeah. It's not Croc. It's not Croc 3. No.
No. It's the standard Chachi B2. Right. This can bring a fresh perspective to the industry as celebrity cigars have often featured unique blends or marketing strategies.
Mm-hmm. 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 the tobacco itself, which may lead to a lack of genuine appreciation for the art of cigar making.
Furthermore, celebrities-endorsed cigars can sometimes oversaturate the market, diluting the allure of more artisanal, craft-focused 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 risks undermining the tradition and craftsmanship that define quality cigars.
Gotcha. No opinions? I do have opinions. Okay.
I have opinions. I can tell you a quick story about what happened to me today, which is very interesting. 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, cigars being socially acceptable across the board.
Okay. 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 a great example. The guy is 100% committed to this. Sure. And he's all in.
Right. A lot of other celebrities feel like it's kind of a get-rich-quick kind of a scheme, right? Sure, or they just want to be involved in it for some reason. Yeah, and they usually lose their ass if it's a get-rich-quick or something like that.
Sure. 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, eh, one more cigar, if the person, one more, you know what I mean, but, well, okay, let me just stop you right there just a minute, okay, let's say I'm a big fan of Snoop Dogg, which I'm not sure, did he make a cigar? The Dogg, no, I don't know, he makes one rap, right, I'm a big fan of Snoop, and Snoop makes a cigar, and I go, oh, I want to try Snoop's cigar, right, and then I try 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 involvement with another person, and I buy it, and you go, oh, I got Snoop Cigar, and I smoke it, and I'm like, oh, this tastes like shit, this is terrible, I don't know, so I never buy another cigar. Okay. But if it was good, and then I go, oh, maybe I should try Arnold's work in that cigar. Yeah, which doesn't exist either.
Right. Well, you know, it's Chad GBT, 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 life. Just what I have told it. Yes.
So, you know, so I'm going to the gym today. Right. I'm smoking my cigar on the way in. Okay.
As I always do. I just love that. I don't know, there's something about it for me. You just feel badass walking in and smoking a cigar.
Yeah, I just feel awesome. And I put my cigar, so I go and I pull in my spot, like I back in, and there was a spot next to me that was open. And this older lady starts to kind of pull in, and she pulls in, like any old lady would, you know, one mile an hour, getting really close to my car, the whole shebang, right, and I'm thinking, yeah, and I was just like, oh, whatever, no big deal, I'm just gonna sit tight. And I go to get out of my car, and she's still in her car, and I'm like, oh, okay, 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, okay, so then I get out of her 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 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 put it in the windshield wiper. " Like that.
Oh, wow. " Just like that. Mm-hmm. So, I think that someone like Betty White or something that could have endorsed cigars, That's in her age bracket, right?
Would help her understand that she's really missing out. I mean, for one, her BMI is far worse than mine. She's definitely not taking care of herself. Right.
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 in dead vagina and she's probably working on her dead vagina and her instinctively instinctively her zombie vagina.
Right. And instinctively, she's, you know, kind of attacking me. I'm thinking, how do 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.
So she married an asshole. Well, she could have, you're right. But he didn't smoke cigars because most cigar smokers are not assholes. That's not true.
Most. I said most. I didn't put all of them in it. It's a wide spectrum of cigar smokers.
Cigar Smokers cover every avenue. 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 because they know the employee has to clean it up. Oh. I've seen it.
I've seen that, too. Yeah. I have, too. Yeah.
It's messed up. " Oh, you're talking about me? No, we're not talking about you. I would never ever do that to an employee.
I'm not 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 do that. No, you do not look at them while they're cleaning it up. " 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. Normally, it's him, with the mess. Me? Yeah, but he must have like emptied his ashtray yesterday.
I cleaned up my area. Yesterday, 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 edit that. I can't catch that. Come on. 51 minutes.
You gotta pull the clip, 51 minutes. He can pull the clip, let him know. Just take it out on the other part. You're not gonna catch it?
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. Oh, sorry. So I think that it would be awesome if there were celebrities in that would cover different demographics that were actually interested in this and really kind of pursued it. Honestly, I think that the world would be a better place.
Do 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 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 cigars.
Oh yeah, 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. Right. And I put mine on the thing when I go into the Publix or something. Right.
So I mean, I've never had anybody look at me like, ugh. Yeah, I get that all the time. This lady was very upset with her life. Do the booger, the booger, the booger blow.
You got to up. Interesting. All right, listener of the week. You have a listener of the week.
Listener of the week, Mark Palmer. Oh. At Brass Pipe Cigars. Very nice.
I was talking. You were okay. Oh, but you were about to say something. You gave me a look.
Well, I was waiting on you to say something. Shop of the week. We've never mentioned this shop of the week before. Okay.
Leaf and Bean by Island Gems in Augustine, Florida. m. What's the date? 20:00.
I had to think for a minute. Thursday. Thursday what? This Thursday.
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. " No, they 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.
Okay. They will be carrying them. I'm here for the event. Oh, perfect.
Come on right over here. Okay. And anything else? That's all I got.
Ain't got no more. Okay. Well, hey, thank you to our listeners. We appreciate you.
There was something we were going to talk about. I don't remember what it was. 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 going to...
I don't remember. Make sure you like, share, subscribe. Do all those good things. We need your help.
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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!