ACHP 418 Cousin Walk, WNBA II, Home Depot
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Welcome to Cigars for podcast
episode 418.
I'm Mike Palmer, one of your
hosts.
And over there behind the board,
we have boots from the Money
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Yeah, on today's show, walking
in the park or firing up weed
sales, Home Depot isn't doing so
hot and new women's basketball
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Michael, tell us what's going
on.
Well, Richie Riot and Eric
Espinoza are going to be here.
We're going to do what are they
doing?
We're going to do a podcast with
them.
We're going to both of them.
Well, should we do one with
Richie?
Nah.
We don't have that many
microphones.
OK, so I have to bring one from
home just like it is now.
Just Eric, we're going to do an
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Bing bong.
OK, yes, he said Bing Bong in
like 2 episodes.
No, he said it yesterday.
Oh, did he?
Yeah.
You OK over there, Papa?
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He looked stressed.
He had a stroke earlier.
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Didn't take his vitamins.
Now today's first story pre
Thanksgiving strolls are firing
up weed sales.
The once stigmatized cousin
walks have helped create green
Wednesday.
You guys familiar with Cousin
Walks I.
Don't know.
I don't even know what it is.
You never heard that term
before?
No, I'm going to go for a walk
with my cousin.
So like because you, you guys
weed, you go out.
OK, the tradition of sneaking
off the blaze up with cousins
before Thanksgiving dinner is
losing its stigma and
translating it into big money
for the marijuana industry.
With With recreational weed now
legal in 24 States and medical
use allowed in 40, there's less
reason to hide that edible
before the Turkey comes out of
the oven.
Many appear to be partaking The
day before you sit down with
family and have uncomfortable
conversations about politics and
relationships has been dubbed
Green Wednesday.
Oh, very fancy.
It's the second biggest day for
legal weed weed sales behind
April 20th AKA 420, per cannabis
market tracker BDSA.
There's a cannabis tracker.
BDSA.
Wow.
Fairly.
The firm says that overall, the
cannabis industry was worth more
than 30 billion in US last year.
That's legal.
Legal tender.
More weed, less booze.
Per Bloomberg, the total value
of the world's leading beer,
wine and spirit makers has
dropped 830 million over the
past four years.
Plus, his attitudes change
around weed and the adverse
health effects of alcohol.
Walking the line.
Snack companies are also
becoming more comfortable
marketing to stoners.
Last year, Jiff posted an ad to
Instagram invoking the Cousin
Walk, while a Taco Bell Hidden
Valley collaboration also
referenced a similar stroll
before Christmas dinner.
Well, yeah, they actually have a
pizza, new pizza places that
just opened up in Deltona called
Stoner's Joint.
I saw that the mayor was here
cutting the ribbon.
Yeah, really.
Yeah.
I thought there was a weed leaf
on their logo.
It's a tomato and then the green
thing on top of the tomato is
weed leaf shaped.
Wow.
It's Basil.
Yeah, it's just a big Bailey.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, the New York
dispensary has an ad out now for
pre rolled joints for a secret
society that meets once a year.
Oh, secret weed society.
Yes, they meet once a year on
Green Wednesday.
And they get high.
Yes.
Once a year.
Wouldn't you do it Thursday, the
actual day of Thanksgiving?
Wouldn't you want to do a day of
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, if you they're
talking about doing it so that
you can deal with the awkward
conversations, I'd want to do it
the day of like right before
dinner.
Isn't it wild to think that this
is socially acceptable at this
point?
But we are bastardized for
smoking.
Cigars and we are terrible
people.
Isn't that crazy?
Like, like I'm, I'm going to go
sit on the patio on Thanksgiving
and I'm going to smoke a cigar
and I'm going to hang out with
whoever else wants to smoke a
cigar with me.
And I'm looking forward to that.
Tobacco Thursday.
Tobacco.
It's Tobacco Thursday, right?
And I'm going to be not impaired
by any means, but I'm going to
be relaxed.
I'm going to enjoy the
conversation and that's going to
be fantastic.
I mean, are you going to go for
a cousin walk on Wednesday?
No, I don't plan on it.
You don't smoke a lot of weed.
I don't smoke any weed, no.
I've had an edible or two in my
life but I've never smoked one.
I can't inhale.
Yeah, it's like paranoia for you
or what?
No, it it burns.
I mean it burns.
No, I'm so just cigars.
I don't, you know, we don't
inhale so.
It burns your lungs.
It burns my lungs my my fresh
virgin lungs.
What about you, booty cousin
walk?
I don't like my cousins.
Big pothead.
Booty's a big pothead.
Big Booty's a big pothead.
It's.
Part of the syndicate.
I mean, hey, listen, teach their
own, whatever you do, whatever
you want to do, whatever makes.
Sure, whatever makes you happy.
I don't judge here, I just.
Don't want to be bastardized for
the industry that.
Right.
Like how is one OK and 1 is like
completely?
And you have to inhale.
So I mean, does it?
Is it bad for your lungs like
regular cigarettes?
I'm sure it is.
You would think.
It would be.
You would think.
Right.
Yeah.
Smoking lung Probably not good,
No.
OK.
I have no idea.
So when was the last time you
smoked weed boots?
Never worry.
You've never smoked weed?
No.
Not a shingle time in your life,
no.
No edibles, no nothing.
No.
Just heroin, are you?
No, no heroin either.
Are you lying right now?
Are you is like?
Do you have like a?
Is there like a reason we do we
need to edit this out?
Yeah.
No.
Why so why you've never smoked
weed?
I've seen the people your.
Probation officer get mad if he
finds out.
I've seen the people you hang
out with.
I do not smoke.
A lot of them partake.
No, I have one block on my phone
of his friends because that he
always wants someone to go with
him and that's why he would call
you.
Oh, for the cousin walk.
Yes, Who?
The cousin walk.
I don't.
I remember his face, not his
name.
Oh, OK.
He's always looking for you to
smoke.
That's what Chet said.
Chet goes if he calls you, this
is what he wants.
So I went, Oh well, he's got my
number, I'll block him.
He wants to smoke weed with you,
right?
Yeah, there's, I mean, I grew
up, you know, with a lot of
people that did that, but I
never did.
You never smoked weed?
No.
Wow, I've smelled it like
because I used to.
Do you sent logics for the dogs
right in the Navy butt?
Well, I mean, you can walk down
the street and smell it.
You can sit in your backyard and
smell it from OH.
Dude, if you drive around in
Orlando, downtown Orlando, yeah,
with the windows down, you can
smell it.
Oh.
Yeah, definitely during an
Orlando City game.
Friday night on I-4 you can
smell it on.
Or a magic game or whatever.
Magic inside.
Well, now they're going to have
NFL.
As you're pulling up, oh, now
they're going to have smoking
weed in the NFL.
Well, the NFL games are going to
be down there.
Oh, because of the Jaguars?
Yeah.
Oh, did that happen?
Are they moving to Orlando?
Just it's a temporary, it's for
one year or something, but the
27/20/27.
You know, the cool thing is, is
that they're redoing Camping
World to do it, so maybe this
could be a trial run for an
expansion.
Yeah, but they're not doing much
to Camping World.
No, they're just making it look.
Fancy fresh coat of paint.
Yeah, pretty much.
New urinal cakes in bathrooms.
Yes, new urinal cakes.
OK, well hey, enjoy your what's,
what's your cousin?
What's green Wednesday?
Green Wednesday.
Enjoy your Green Wednesday for
all of you that partake 'cause I
will not judge you for doing
these things, yeah.
So stop judging us.
And I hope that you start to
understand what is so cool about
this.
Yeah, California.
California.
Oh no, we're not smoking
flavored stuff, right?
Home Depot isn't doing so hot.
The company missed earning
expectation for the third
quarter in a row due to a
persisting renovation rut.
The roof is leaking and the
walls are starting to smell like
mold at the Disney World for
dads.
Home Depot released Q3 earnings
yesterday that showed sales
stagnant, which attributed to
high interest rates, shaky
consumer confidence and fewer
than usual fall storms that
thwarted an anticipated rebound
in renovations.
The lackluster report marked the
third consecutive quarter of
missed earnings expectations.
The retailer's stock closed down
6% last week.
Other details of trouble
investors include Home Depot
sales at US stores open for at
least a year increased point 0.2
last quarter from the same
period in 2024, less than 1.4
analysts expected.
Yeah, I have noted.
I mean, I frequent Home Depot
all the time.
I have noticed that there is a
less.
Less people.
So yeah, low amount of people in
there now.
But you know, The thing is is
that you can buy, you know, say
somebody wants to go build a a
fireplace or, you know, whatever
where they get 2 by fours to
build these things.
You can buy that shit on Amazon
now pre done or Timu or you know
whatever you know and it's
cheaper than what your.
Than if you built it yourself,
yeah.
Can you order a deck on Timu?
Yeah, you can order everything.
Really.
You dude, you can order a car.
On on Tebow, I have seen the
cars, but the the unboxing is a
little a little concerning.
Yeah, 'cause it's not really.
Or like, you know, even home,
you may not know this, but even
Home Depot, they sell homes.
Yeah, kids, don't they?
They sell like a kid.
Yep, Amazon sells them, Timu
sells them.
Yeah, there's, I mean they sell
everything so but the difference
is, is Amazon and Timu have it
30% less because you know, big
box stores like Home Depot mark
it up 30%.
They got overhead.
So do you think that the buyer
still exists or the people are
are spending less?
I think the buyer still exists.
I think they're just going
elsewhere because I don't think
Home Depot's evolving and moving
their prices where the market's
AT.
OK.
And do you think the buyer still
exists or do you think?
Consumers are spending the
industry anymore.
I don't know.
Just I know, but I just want to
hear your opinion.
I'm not.
I know you're not.
I have.
Noticed when my few trips to
Home Depot for odds and ends
that there are less people.
Well, we've, we've already
established that, but the
question was do you think that
the buyer still exists or are
they, are they?
Sales up or down at the moment.
I have no idea.
You would think they would
renovate instead of buying a new
home because it would be
cheaper, right?
But then if, like he said,
they're getting the parts and
pieces in other places.
So there's got to be a market
for it if if T MU and Amazon is
selling the stuff.
I mean, Palmer, you go to Home
Depot like you just said, right?
What do you go for?
Like your?
I got an Ant killer last time I
went.
Yeah.
I mean, that's something you
would probably go for there for.
But like if you want to get a
power cord for your house or
something, where do you buy it?
The the tool place up on Harbor
Freight.
Harbor Freight, yeah.
I go to Home Depot, do you?
I don't for everything, for odds
and ends, like if I need one
piece of lumber or something, I
don't.
I'm not a.
Yeah, I go to Home Depot for a
lot of stuff, Yeah.
We put a big shade cloth in the
backyard.
We bought the shade cloth on
Amazon but not the poles.
Yeah, I mean, but I could tell
you that I honestly think that
people are pulling back, man.
I think that, you know, the
economy isn't great.
And you know, what's really kind
of funny is I think the cigar
industry is a leading indicator
for that because this is an item
that people don't necessarily
need to consume.
And they.
Yeah.
And they usually have more of
it.
And we've been experienced
erratic buying, like things have
been all over the place this
entire year.
I mean, the work and effort that
we put in to sustain numbers or
to try and grow has been 10X now
like that.
That's been kind of natural for
us just because of our overall
drive and our aspect of things.
And but when you look back,
you're, you think, OK, if I did
all of, if I had figured these
things out and added these
things five years ago, what
would the numbers have been like
then?
They would have been, you know,
I would assume at least two or
three times what they were.
And now they're implementing all
those things.
It just makes it OK, you know
what I mean?
So I think that a lot of people,
I think the people are feeling
it, man.
I think the people aren't
spending as much as they were in
the past.
I just think that it's just not
out there right now.
There's a guy on my street
that's been putting a deck on
the side of his house ever since
I moved in in April and he's
still not done.
There's a cost or because he's.
Lazy.
I don't know him personally so I
don't know, but I it's just
random occurrences.
You'll hear Hammers going that
he's doing something right.
Maybe that's when he's smoking a
cigar.
Could be, I mean it, it feels
like from the, you know, the
randomness of the thing, like he
goes and buys a handful of stuff
and then does another section
and you know, so it could be a
cost issue.
Right, when he has extra cash,
right.
Yeah.
I think honestly, I think that's
what's kind of going on, man.
Granted, you know, I will give
you Timu and Amazon, all these
things.
They're definitely taking a
piece of the pie.
I don't know how big that pie is
though, because I don't consider
me like I don't think oh, I need
to buy my wood from Amazon or
what, you know, like I just want
to go up the street get I got to
make my 3 trips for Home Depot
for that day for whatever I'm
working.
On right, every project is I I
say 2 1/2 trips, but yeah.
You got to go.
You got to buy the first set,
and then you got to realize that
you screwed up and you got the
wrong number.
You got to go back and get the
second set right, and then you
got to go do it again.
Then you realize that you forgot
specific materials to finish the
job.
The half trip is when I go and
return something I bought on the
second trip because I bought too
much.
I don't need this anymore.
I bought too many.
Which you would probably have to
compare with this story though
is you probably have to compare
Lowe's numbers because sometimes
each year what happens is in in
different quarters is your
numbers go up and down based
upon those two big, big box
stores.
Right.
Well, they're targeted to
different customers.
Lowe's is more female friendly.
That's that's sorry, stores are
cleaner, they're nicer.
They're set up different where
Home Depot's more the contractor
is it guy story.
I'm a Home Depot guy.
I don't.
I have a Home Depot too, it's
just it's an easier set up and
I'm just more familiar with it.
Right, OK, but I know I couldn't
buy stuff at Teamu in Amazon
'cause if you're doing a
project, you don't want to wait
another three days.
Yeah, I want to go get it.
Yeah, yeah.
If I'm halfway through a deck,
just for example, 'cause we
talked about it, you know.
Oh, I'm short 17 boards.
Let me, let me order it on
Amazon.
He'll be here in a week.
Right.
I'm not doing that, no.
Team, but we'll be here in six
weeks.
Man, going to pick up the
boards, I'm going to scratch my
car, bang things up in the
process.
But it's getting done that day,
right?
Yeah.
Exactly.
OK, yeah 'cause I I shopped Ant
Killer on Amazon.
Did you but.
It was like it's Saturday
morning, I won't get it till
Monday by then, then I'm into a
new week.
But it was cheaper.
It was cheaper, Yeah, it was a
couple of dollars cheaper.
There's some of these people
that are just like shopaholics
though, with those type of
things, right?
Like Amazon, like they just have
to buy 10 items today.
You know, they're, they know the
Amazon guy that comes all the
time.
They have milk and cookies with
him or whatever.
You know, it's just the thing.
OK.
But what's weird is that, like
what's going on as far as the
economy is being reported is
that people aren't hiring.
No.
You can't find a job right now,
so that tells you that
something's up because if you
need the help, you'd hire the
person.
You don't say, well, I'm going
to wait and see how this works
out, how all this shakes out.
So I'm telling you, I, you know,
hopefully this is the tail end
of it because I think that this
is something that we've
experienced throughout the
entire year and now you're kind
of seeing it ripple into some of
these other industries.
But yeah, something something
there's some fuckery about.
Something is afoot.
Hopefully we'll all get our
checks in and.
Oh yeah, it's great.
Yeah, it's flushed.
That solves all every problem.
You just get your money early.
It's all it is, isn't it?
I mean, when they get that stuff
out, it's just what you would
get back in your taxes.
Is that what they're doing?
Yeah, because it shows up on
your taxes.
Well, you have to pay taxes on
it I.
Don't even know what's going on?
Well, no.
But like, if you're going to get
$500 back on your return and
they've already given you $500,
you get nothing.
Suppose OK, so they'll bring you
up to speed.
Supposedly there's supposed to
be a $2000 check that is to be
returned to all Americans who
are not making a lot every year.
There was not a specific amount
on that based off of the
tariffs.
Oh, did you see that on Facebook
or something?
No.
No, that was on.
That was on the news.
Yeah, that stuff usually ends up
being faked.
All the stories lately.
Yeah.
I don't buy that for a second.
I don't.
Need it.
It was on the news.
And I got news for you, 2K
doesn't solve a single one of my
problems.
Yeah right.
Not a second 1/2.
KO2000.
Yeah, it doesn't.
Yeah, No, it doesn't.
It's not enough.
Not buying a jet ski with it.
No, no, you don't buy a jet ski,
right?
Not even the trailer.
All right, now moving to sports.
A proposed new international
Women's Basketball League,
currently called Project B,
promises players multi
$1,000,000 salaries in league
equity and more betting for the
money makers.
It's said to tip off next fall.
If all goes according to plan,
it could up in the sports and
the B and the B and the B Yeah,
it most likely stands for
basketball.
Founded by tech mogul Jeff
Prentice, Co founder of Skype,
and Gray Burnett, former
Facebook executive, the five on
five Pro League will play 7 two
week tournaments across Europe,
Asia and the Americas.
The founders believe Project B
is capable of delivering tech
like returns.
Earlier this year, Project B set
out to raise $5 billion,
according to Bloomberg.
The league is reportedly
offering some players at least
$2,000,000, far exceeding the
proposed 1.1 maximum salary cap
under negotiations with the
WNBA.
Oh, much better pay over there.
Are the Saudis getting involved
in the Saudi money 'cause they
they usually buy everything?
Yeah.
I mean that would be smart for.
Them running up against.
Is it like the list of the?
Female basketball players
Project B signed its first four
players this this month, former
WNBA MVP Nanika Olga.
Oh yes please.
Go Mike.
Your last name is Mike.
My last name is Mike.
It's MIKEOGWUMIKE 1 Mike Olga,
One Mike.
OK, Phoenix Mercury Ford Elisa
Thomas, New York Liberty Power
forward John Quail Jones and Las
Vegas Aces guard Jewel Lloyd on
Friday part Project B announced
its first international
acquisition.
Camila Cardoso of Brazil,
Janelle Salomon of France and
Lee Ming of China all got equity
laden deals, according to Sports
Business Journal.
Some observers have raised
concerns about the league
partnering with Sela, an
entertainment company that's a
subsidiary subsidiary of the
Saudi royal family sovereign
wealth fund.
There you go, my.
There it is.
I knew it.
The public, Burnett told Front
Office Sports.
SELA is one event partner that
we pay money to.
We do not have any dollars
coming from them.
It's a wholly owned subsidiary
based in London that has done
tons of events globally.
Women's basketball is exploding.
The only option for elite
athletes in the sport used to be
playing in the WNBA during the
summer and then heading to the
Euro League in the offseason.
But now opportunities are
raising the stakes.
Athletes Unlimited, a four week
playoff intensity competition
held in Nashville each winter,
debuted in 2022 and unrivaled a
three on three professional
league founded by NBA stars.
That's all these names.
Yeah, go ahead now.
Prisa Collier and Brianna
Stewart ran its inaugural season
from January to March this year,
but don't count the old guard
out.
The WNBA inked a record 2.2
billion media rights deal in
2024.
OK, so Boots, do you think that
this is this league is going to
work?
I mean, yeah, yeah.
I think if they pump enough
money into women's basketball, I
think you can do things with it.
I think I think the biggest
issue with women's basketball is
there's just no money.
You know, nobody wants to
invest.
You know Tom Brady was trying,
right?
By using his stardom right?
And also partnering with the
gentleman from the Raiders,
Mark, whatever his last name is.
Davis.
Yeah, Mark Davis, which they
won, right.
They won the they won the
championship by pumping money in
and and getting certain players
to come based off of them.
OK, the Saudis have way more
money yes than these guys.
They.
Just say they're not really
involved.
Yeah, bullshit.
Yeah, yeah.
Why would they pay them money?
Bullshit.
The Saudis are going to be
involved, OK, Just like, I mean,
why wouldn't they?
They've been buying everything.
OK.
So I I think if you pump enough
money into it, yeah.
They will come.
Do you think this is going to be
a big?
Sports guy, but it seems
reasonable It does.
Sure, why not?
Why WNBA is very popular right
now?
Why not?
Why not spin off another one?
It is more popular than it's
ever been, right?
OK, OK.
I don't think that's saying much
though.
Well, I mean, yeah, you, yeah,
if you put it on a scale, it's
gone up two points.
What's I'm gonna look up.
What's more, popular doesn't
really mean a whole lot.
WNBA Ratings.
I mean, I will say, you know,
what's the girl's name?
The Caitlin Clark.
Caitlin Clark's jersey sales
were up top with some of the top
NBA guys, right?
That was a big thing.
Other than that.
Are they pretty colors like
pinks and purples and stuff?
No, funny.
They're not Barbie colors.
They're not Barbie colors and
all.
The Barbie AI tells you to do
bad things.
All of her.
So she was on the Indiana Fever.
All their games were sold out,
even though she was hurt and
wasn't playing.
Now, will it happen again this
year coming up?
Probably not because she did get
injured.
And that's not good for for
sales, right?
Everybody bought all these
tickets in advance and then all
of a sudden now she's not
playing.
That's the only reason why
you're buying the tickets.
OK, I.
Like the blonde that fights.
See OH.
Wow, sidekick or?
Whatever, that's a that's a
trailer Barbie.
I forget her name though.
Trailer park.
Yeah, trailer.
No, she really she, she grew up
in a in a trailer park, Yeah.
She's a, she's a, she's a
brawler.
Yeah.
Oh, you're not Galen Clark down
cake in the head.
Yeah.
OK, so.
What'd you find, Michael?
The NBA average viewers on a
national level from in 2024 was
1.56 million, The WNBA was
794,000, the NBA The NBA for
20/25 was 1.53 million, down
from the year prior and the WNBA
is up 969,000.
Oh so closely.
So, you know, is there potential
for something like that?
I guess, but I don't know.
I don't think that it's there
yet.
I don't think that it's even
close.
I think the WNBA has to continue
to do things to continue to grow
ratings and, you know, before
it's even be sustainable.
I hope it becomes sustainable,
but I don't think it's there
yet.
Has there ever been a second
Football League that has ever
sustained itself?
And I mean, you hear about all
of them that happened, but they
usually end up.
No, like they've merged the XFL
merged with the FFL or whatever
and now they're coming back to
Orlando.
You know, look, I think they
just need to lower the hoop.
I think if you lower the hoop a
foot.
Yeah, for the girls.
Yeah, so they can dunk.
Yeah, you need that.
You you need dunking, You need
some type of energy.
Some kind of fancy, You know,
what's it called when you toss
the ball up and.
They alley oop.
Alley oop, yeah.
You need some if they're wore
nicer clothes.
No, I don't want, I don't want
you to go that direction.
They have they have a league
like that, first of all.
Do they?
Oh yeah.
That's called the LFL.
Oh, the Football League, The
ladies in the Roger.
Yeah.
Is that still alive?
That's.
Still alive.
How do you know that?
Because it's all over there.
You watch it.
Money makers, Michael.
They bet on them, Yeah.
We bet on those.
Yeah, you bet on no.
I don't even know one one of
those girls names.
I don't think anybody knows one
of those girls names.
Well, there's big boob in the
brown shirt.
There's tight ass in the green.
It took her for 200 yards
rushing.
Did they play in a whole field?
I always know it was a.
Smaller.
I love a stadium.
It's like a Arena Football
League, Yeah.
I got you a lot of turf burns in
that league.
No, I mean, I don't know.
I don't know.
This sounds like a lot a.
Lot of money in this thing.
I don't think that I think that
you there's more potential for
you to buy a WNB A-Team and kind
of invest in that and help that
grow and develop than trying to
build something else at this
point.
I don't think it's there yet.
I don't think that they're ready
for that.
Ice Cube was trying to do a
thing with 3V. 33 yeah, 3V3
league.
Yeah.
Three on three.
Yeah, well, it's big with like
the guys, but he no, no, no,
it's it's, I mean, their rules
are a little bit changed, but
not much.
Do they play inside or outside?
Inside, but it's, you know, it's
ex players, right, Ex NBA
players and stuff like that.
I saw the story, we covered the
story.
I think about him trying to get
a team.
Yeah.
I feel like that's sustaining.
Yeah, they got a guy in that
Catino Mobley.
He's been out of the league for
20 years.
Yeah, yeah, and he's still
playing with them, but he's got
to be in his 50s.
On the over.
For 20 months, they don't let
you out on the.
On a 3V3.
On Hard Rock on 3V3.
All right, we got a video,
Michael.
I do, so Is there music?
I don't think so.
So anybody watch the game last
night other than myself?
Was there a game analyzing?
Absolutely not, that fucking
game started out so trashy.
With three interceptions.
Yeah. 3 San Francisco 49ers The
Brock party threw 3 picks.
They still won the game.
Yeah.
They still won the game, but
there was a a situation.
Situation.
With your boy who you like to
call Juan Jennings.
Oh, Juan.
Juan was involved, Yes.
However, it's Juan, but it's
Juan, Juan Jennings.
Watch this video.
Oh, was that him that punched?
No, he got punched.
He got punched.
He got punched in the nuts.
Punched in the nuts there.
In the no no square.
Oh yeah.
Did you hear about that?
No, but that's funny.
Dude that's so crazy.
I mean, it's obvious.
It's not like he, you know,
didn't claim to do it.
That was extremely blatant,
right?
Can't believe your name's not
Juan.
I'm punting you.
How did they get it on?
Yeah, and then they got it on
camera.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Isn't that insane?
It's my favorite new video.
It's your favorite new video.
Boom, So so.
Well, at least he was upper.
He didn't go for the.
Dude, that was a whole nut.
That was no, that was no good.
Oh, you think he he punched him
in the FUPA?
Yeah, he punched him in the
FUPA.
Don't think we're FUPA.
No, no, I don't think it's not a
thing anymore.
I don't think it's required.
Well, if I was him, I would now.
It you know, it would still
hurt.
Well, yeah, but not as bad.
Yeah.
So then, you know, they get off
the fields because that that was
like the last play of the game,
I think.
And then everybody's going
around congratulating, and then
Joan Jennings decks this guy in
the face when he's got.
Oh, did he really?
He's got a lid on, yeah.
Nice.
I I don't you think that that's
justifiable?
Yeah, but I don't think it's how
the rules work though.
This guy blatantly hit him in
the nuts.
I mean, yeah, it's definitely
not in the NFL rules where
you're like, hey, if you get
socked in the Dick, bro, you can
go punch him outdoors.
Was there a penalty call?
The game was over and nobody saw
that at the first time, but the
NFL is definitely going to find
this guy.
Yeah.
Oh, so that was at the end of
the game where you punched him
in the winter?
Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
So did you take Juan Jennings
getting punched in the nuts
through the money makers?
No.
That wasn't.
I don't know what those kind of
bets are called.
What was your bet last night?
Duncan Robinson 10 1/2.
Did he did he did he did you
make you didn't make money?
9 So it was it was AL.
So let me tell you about that.
I'm glad that you brought it up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He went 2 for eight for field
goals, and he went one for seven
from three-point do.
You think he did it on purpose?
He is normally a 40% shooter.
Do you think he did it on
purpose?
I don't know man, but you know,
maybe.
He took a dive type thing, yeah.
Oh.
Maybe he was the most bet on
Prop.
Prop bet, that's what I'm
thinking about.
So there wasn't a prop bet that.
Makes you wonder.
It does.
Punched into Wiener.
No prop bet for that.
No, no, I already asked that.
And you couldn't bet less than
9, so if you bet 9, it cancelled
out.
Like you, you still didn't win
any money.
But you could have took the
under at 10 1/2.
You could have took the under in
one, Yeah, which you would be
crazy to do that.
That's how that works.
Yeah.
That's why I worry about your
money maker gambling cause the
bets have to not make sense in
order for you to make money.
Sometimes, yeah, I like the bet.
Normally I bet on nobodies,
right, 'cause they're not
getting a phone call, right?
They're not looked at, but yeah.
Jawan Jennings punched in the
nuts, and so did Boots.
Cigar Rooster Podcast does not
endorse betting by any means.
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please call.
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OK.
All right, let's light up some
cigar news.
Guy Fieri was rushed to
emergency surgery after missing
a set of steps and tearing his
quad muscle in half.
This is after the video in the
plane.
Yes, this happened yesterday.
Oh my.
God.
During an interview with Fox
News Digital, the Food Network
star explained that he is
currently in a wheelchair and
using crutches.
But still smoking cigars.
Yes, slipped down a set of
slipped down a set of steps and
1 foot went forward and the
other foot got caught on the
threshold.
So, you know, it extended me
out.
I looked like I was probably
doing the splits.
But when my right leg compressed
into itself, the giveaway point
and the doctor said it's never
been, you know, in 20 years he
hasn't seen a tear this big.
It's the biggest tear.
It's the biggest tear.
It's the big.
Tear.
It's the thickest part of your
quad in half.
Yeah, it sucked, Fieri said.
It's like Fieri.
Fieri, I don't.
Want to get a phone call?
He explained that he was rushed
to surgery after the fall to
ensure his muscles didn't
recede.
I got a phone call this morning.
From Guy Fieri.
No.
I'm Jack Toronto.
What did he, what did we do in
the wrong?
Oh, we were talking about the
Mike thing.
The what thing?
Him being Mike not being.
Oh yeah, yeah.
What was he?
This is a story we covered
yesterday.
What was the reason he wasn't
Mike?
He was upset about the fact that
we addressed it.
Everybody loved the video when
we're negative.
Well, we like to.
Go for the industry.
We just.
Want I just want things to be
better.
Just trying to make everybody
better.
Make everybody better, Jack.
Yeah, we didn't say it was a bad
video.
Yeah.
No, we just critiqued the video.
It was a critique.
Beautiful videos a great videos.
Three guys who do videos daily.
Yeah, we love the clanking in
the background.
We thought that was.
Yeah, that was nice.
The.
We do not have clanking in the
background.
Yeah.
No, we do not have minimal
clanking.
Yeah, minimal.
The occasional phone call.
Sometimes, yeah.
You normally tear that muscle at
your tendon or the tendon tears
off the bone, but this was right
in the center of the whole quad
muscle and it exploded.
The chef explained that he was
in the middle of filming his new
show, Flavortown Food Fight,
when the fall and surgery, The
fall and surgery happened.
The surgery.
At the same time, apparently he
fell and they were working on
him right away on the ground.
Right away.
So right in the middle of
filming, then we've got
everybody in town and all the
chefs there and 125 people on
set and everybody's ready to go.
And I'm in surgery.
So we figured out how to pivot
through it and to have some
creative filming techniques.
But it's been a run.
And now I'm up here at the ranch
where it's always about hiking
and outdoors and, you know,
beautiful.
I don't think he's hiking.
He's not moving.
He's not moving.
Is he hiking with Mickey Pegg?
The guy's got to be Yeah, right,
the guy's.
He he made a comment on Skip's
Facebook the other day.
Yeah.
Oh, he's alive?
He asked.
If anybody wanted to go hiking,
it's actually what he did.
Did he really?
He has a hiking cigar group now.
Right.
He wanted to go on a smoke a
smoking, hiking herf thing how
we're.
Not covering this on the cigar
games.
It was just one.
One random comment explained
that his injury has been a
damper.
Yeah, no kidding.
Fieri is in for a long recovery
after 8 weeks of no weight on
his leg.
He will have to go into a cast
and then rehab his quad.
This is perfect for us.
He cannot come do an interview.
You can.
Well, he can't.
We can't get here.
We'd have to zoom going.
The guy, the guy still has to do
Triple D and all these other
things.
So you think you're going to
tell me he's going to do this in
a wheelchair with a cast with
his leg straight out?
No, that's why he can come do
our interview.
He can't put any weight on it,
so I think he's bedridden for 8
weeks.
There's no way.
And then you get the cast.
There's no way that Guy Fieri
does not go out.
Well, they'll have.
Always have his look alike.
They'll have a yeah, they'll
have a look alike in the.
Doppelganger.
Yeah.
Team MU guy.
Team team MU guy for team MU.
Maybe they have Jack to it.
Oh, Guy Fieri.
I'm Guy Fieri.
Man, he would if he would spike
his hair.
He's just a little taller, Yeah.
He can make it work.
Sure he can do it.
I'd be convinced.
I would.
I'd love to see that.
OK.
So I think that realistically
he's not going to be down for
long.
Like he figures it out, he's.
Got to be off his feet for 8
weeks.
There's no way.
There's no way.
You don't think there's a clause
in his contract, but if he gets
injured there's got to be
something.
No way that guy still shows up
to work.
I don't think there's a clause.
Do you know who the guy is?
I know who he is.
The guy works his ass off.
Yes, he works his ass off, but
he wants to be able to walk.
Again.
Yeah, he'll figure it out, I'm
willing to bet.
Maybe Jack carries him.
Yeah, see, now you're talking,
Yeah.
Be like Master Blaster.
You know it just it gets on
Jack's back, right?
Master Blaster runs Flavortown.
Right, who run Flavortown?
Who run Flavortown?
Master Blaster runs Flavortown.
If you run Flavortown, maybe he
does a show from inside his
home.
Oh yeah, cooking with guy.
Cooking with guy in the
wheelchair.
Definitely.
We're getting a phone call just
so yeah, we're.
Getting a phone.
Call.
OK, all right.
So moving on next article.
Roma Crafts and Temperance BA21
returns to shell.
Yes.
For the first time in three
years, Roma Craft to back is
shipping its Intemperance BA21,
introduced in 2012 as one of the
first two Intemperance blends.
The BA21.
Is it 21 or XXI?
How do they want it said?
I think it's 2121.
Right.
It's not you can say XXI.
I think that's funny.
It's not supposed to be a
limited production line,
however, Roman craft to back his
issues finding enough Brazilian
Arab Ataparaka.
Ataparaka.
Ataparaka that meets a standard,
so the line has been out of
production for a few years.
Blend wise, underneath that
Ataparaka wrapper is a
Nicaraguan binder and fillers
from Nicaragua and at least one
other undisclosed country,
Boots.
What's the undisclosed country?
Yeah, you were there.
You were just there.
Probably, I don't know.
Hey, how'd that go, by the way?
The what?
The trip.
Yeah, you never talked about it.
Oh, we'll, we'll talk about it.
Let's.
Talk about it.
Well, he's asking do.
You want to talk about it now?
Yeah.
Oh, it was great.
Yeah, it was a great trip.
So you recently went to, you
recently went to Esther Lee.
Yes, you went to the Roma
factory.
I did.
And you hung out with Skip?
Yes.
And.
And Carlos was there as well.
Yes, I love Carlos.
And what else happened?
We went through a tobacco school
that was like a 2/2 and 1/2 day
ordeal.
He showed us absolutely
everything with the tobacco from
when they receive it.
Alex is trying to, because we
didn't get to go to like a farm
or anything like that
personally, but he was trying to
tell us how he would buy the
tobacco and what he was looking
for and stuff.
And then we got to see it in the
Polones.
We got to see them flip all the
polones.
We got to see the sorting
processes, which is amazing,
right, How they sort it.
We got to see the difference of
when it's in the polone on how
the leaves should look with all
the blending of the veins.
And everything.
Did you work on a blend?
Yeah.
You did?
Yep.
OK, what'd you make?
I made a medium to full.
A medium, OK, Was it you made a
medium to full?
Yeah.
What was a wrapper?
The wrapper is.
You're catching me off guard
right now.
I know, I mean it's pretty.
This is a pretty simple
question.
It was a Habano wrapper.
It was a Habano wrapper, Yeah.
OK, What was the size?
It was 5 1/2 by 52.
OK.
So like a robusto like.
A Robusto.
OK.
All right.
Are you?
Are you?
How many did you make?
Well, right now I just made the
20.
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah, to see.
Because we didn't.
We only got to smoke a couple of
them while we were sitting there
the next day.
How?
Many more you going to make.
Not sure yet.
No, no, no idea.
Me and Skip had talked about
some different things but no but
nothing yet.
No.
OK.
All right.
This this was your opportunity.
I was trying to I was helping
you bring it out.
You didn't want to bring it out.
Yeah, no, I, it's something that
I, I would like to do.
It was, it was super
interesting, you know, smoking
all the different tobaccos and
stuff and the stuff that really
goes into making a cigar.
It is kind of crazy the price of
a cigar.
But you know, I mean, Carlos is
making one as well.
Skip loved them.
They were good.
So we'll, we'll see, He said.
Something about like a craft
Marquette at some point.
Yeah, we'll see.
OK, very nice.
Moving on.
Yeah, so the Brazilian auto
Portaca is finally out again.
Shipments from its Nicosuna
factory, its Austin
headquarters, include six
different vitolas, one of which
is new.
Who is it?
Have you smoked this plumber?
Do you remember smoking?
I don't, I don't remember, I
don't know.
I think one time I've smoked
everything they've made so.
Yeah.
I mean, fortunate for us that
they found good Brazilian
araparaka to produce these
cigars because they haven't been
in production for a long time.
Do you use any of that leaf?
The BA.
No.
No, I remember it was here a
long time ago.
Yeah, but you got to remember
all some you know, I'm something
is very scarce.
I'm not leaning towards that.
I'm not going to say hey.
Longevity.
Yeah.
Well, not only that, but I also
want to help with what's good
for the factory, Right, right.
Unless I have a particular leaf
that I think, hey, this would be
really good, like, and we should
go out and kind of like, can we
find this like with the
Pennsylvania broadleaf, I loved
it and I wanted to do a binder
for it.
And that wasn't something that
they had readily available at
that time.
So, yeah, no, you know, if, if,
if there's something that's
scare, then who am I?
You know, I'm not helping the
factory at all at that point.
If anything, I'm putting a
hindrance on things because now
not only are you focusing on
your own fact and your own
operations, I'm going to swoop
in there and then make things
even more complicated as far as
finding other stuff, right?
Especially something that's that
scarce right now.
If I wanted a San Andreas and
they didn't have it, OK, maybe
If I need a Habano, obviously
Sumatra, you know, but like
those are all common things that
they have available in that
factory, so.
Right, OK.
OK, All right.
HVC hotcake fresh out of the
oven.
Broad leaf Figuerato box press.
Shipping next week.
Oh, yeah, me and Carlos, we got
to smoke this.
Did you?
Yeah.
We saw Rainier, right?
Yeah, we saw them at the Oliva
where they get all the tobacco
in.
I forgot it was called.
Free industry.
Yeah, it's called like Piro
song.
OK, Nikapiro.
So.
Yeah, it's, it's yes.
Nikapiro Nikaprosa.
Nikaprosa.
Oh, that's a funny story.
It's actually not called that by
the way anymore, but.
Oh good.
So funny stories like so the
bathroom thing that's over
there, right?
Like they don't have toilet
paper in the bathrooms, right?
Well, at Skip's place, it's it's
there, right?
So it's a normal bathroom.
So I went there and I was
talking to Rainier and I was
like, man, I don't really got to
go bathroom.
Hold on, I'll be right back.
I go to the bathroom and we're
in Carlos is centered at Tom and
and I go inside and there's a
lady, right?
So I thought I was in the wrong
bathroom because there's a lady
in there, right?
And she's like speaking Spanish
to me and she's like throwing
things at me.
Like take the you know, like,
oh, I'm like, you know what, I'm
just going to hold it.
I'm just going to, you know,
leave.
I'm good you.
Didn't know what she was saying
you got.
No, yeah, I was like, I'm good.
I was like, is this a women's
bathroom?
Quitado.
So I left.
Quitado.
The one Spanish word he knows
with the bathroom.
Yeah.
Well, that was, yeah.
So you freaked out and you left.
Yeah.
Oh God.
Carlos is like, hey, you didn't
go to the bathroom.
I was like, Nah, I'm good, bro.
I'm just going to hold it up and
there's like, you should go.
I'm like, no, I'm good.
There's.
Some lady in there freak me out.
I'll wait till I go get back to
Skiffs.
Like a Seinfeld episode.
What all was she thrown at you
like mint?
And was it like the bathroom
attendant?
They have like toilet pit, like
they give you like a square and.
A square.
A square.
A square, yeah.
Yeah, they look here and say
Moss.
Yeah, Mas Papelle.
OK, I didn't want no part.
Mucho mucho square.
Mucho Esquaro.
Mucho Squirrel.
Yeah.
Zabato.
Shoes.
She just ran it out.
Words.
All right, you know what?
I don't need the toilet paper.
Do you have a shoe?
I want to shit in the shoe.
Really would like to.
Can I borrow your shoe?
Right.
She's like Zapato, OK?
She's.
Saying no bueno's about those.
She starts taking off her shoe
and you taking it to the
bathroom.
Yeah, you give her two $1.00
bills, American money, she'd
probably give you the shoe.
Oh, it might give you more than
that.
Oh God.
That's not nice.
I don't know, I wasn't there.
Wow.
Next week's HHVCS Hotcake Fresh
out of the oven broad leaf will
align will be getting its third
new vitola for 2025.
The company has announced that
it's ready to release the
hotcake fresh out of the oven
broad leaf Figuerato box.
Press a box.
Press 6 1/2 by 52 vitola that.
The rest of the line uses a
Connecticut broad leaf wrapper
over a Nicaraguan binder and
fillers from Essely and Halapa
regions of Nicaragua.
The line is made at the
company's Fabrica de Tobacco's
HVCSA de Rainier Lorenzo's
factory in Nicaragua.
Each cigar is an MSRPF figurato.
The price has been a little bit
higher lately.
I'm going to say 16.
Yeah, I was about right there,
15. 1440 Wow, that's not bad.
Out of the oven broadleaf
debuted last year and two
vitolas. 2 more were added in
February fresh out of the oven
broadleaf as part of the
company's Penn Caliente family
of lines.
I like Penn Caliente.
Below, it's fresh out of the
oven.
OK, so you've had the cigar.
What did you think of?
It I thought it was good.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was yeah.
I thought it was very smooth.
It had a little bit of power.
Not his stuff that's not super
strong like skip stuff, but it
was good.
You like it?
Yeah.
I like it.
OK.
Are you interested, are you
excited about fresh out of the
oven?
Do you want to try that?
I'll try anything.
I like the pan caliente so maybe
it's from that line.
Sure, I think that was the first
one Palmer ever turned me on to
on.
The Pan Caliente, yeah, that's
my favorite from his line.
Yeah, like the the Black Friday
ones.
I've never liked any of those.
Yeah, it's been a weird run.
Those were.
They were popular 1st and then
they were kind of tapered off.
Right, all right, Duran Cigars
releases a Duran.
Cigar.
Oh, Jack Duran is old stomping
ground Duran's cigars.
They're back, Jack.
Maybe they want to hire you.
Oh.
Duran Cigars, which recently
announced its return to the US
market after a several year
hiatus to focus on its growth in
other countries as well as its
farming operations, has
announced the launch of a new
cigar blended by the father and
son combination of Robert Peleo
Duran and Robert Peleo Duran
Junior OH.
Duran Duran.
Duran.
Yeah, the Duran.
Duran Duran.
The new line is called the
Robert Duran Reserva, with the
company saying it represents an
elevated evolution of the
brand's blending philosophy.
The new cigar is called Come
Undone.
By Duran Duran Duran Duran Come
on by uniting Roberts seniors
decades of global tobacco
expertise with Robert Junior's
modern palate and fresh
perspective.
Modern.
So the best of both worlds.
Oh yeah, so old, old school, new
school.
Yeah, I get it.
Oh, it's right.
What's happening.
The younger Duran serves as a
company's marketing and sales
manager.
The blend features in Ecuador
and Habano Carrojo over the 2024
harvest of Finca's Azan.
Finca's Azan.
Underneath that is an Indonesian
bisouki binder and filler that
contains 3 year age viso and
seco grown in Nicaragua, OH in
the Nicaragua's Halapa region,
along with tobacco from the
country's Estele region.
The company calls the blend a
medium plus flavor Ford
experience with progressive
development throughout the smoke
from the junior.
It's the marketing.
Guy, He's the marketing guy.
Adding that the cigar is notes
of cedar, sweetness, cocoa and
coffee is produced at the
company's Nika Tobacco essay
factory in Nicaraguan, offered
in three sizes, which are all
regular production offerings.
There's a big robusto, a Toro, a
double Corona.
These tobaccos represent some of
the finest we've produced in
recent years, said Robert Pelayo
Duran, founder and CEO of Duran
Cigars.
This is the finest tobacco we
have ever come across in our
lives.
Working on this blend with my
son has been one of the most
meaningful moments of my career.
The Reservist shows who we are,
our past, our present, our
future of the Rent cigars.
I mean, that's got to be pretty
cool to build you had.
To work with your son.
Yeah.
Yeah, it'd be nice.
You know, would you want to work
with your son Boots?
Yeah, yeah, if he'd call me.
How old is he now?
Wow. 18 He'll be 19 here real
soon.
Yeah, he's got it all under.
Control.
I had a falling out with my son
when he was at age 2.
The older one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think they know everything.
The golden child.
Jake.
Yeah.
He's not really the golden
child.
No, no.
The other one is.
Connor, yeah.
Connor's good.
Connor, do anything you ask, I
could.
See that now?
I could see that now.
Connor calls you every day.
Oh yeah, he calls every day, all
the time.
At least once.
Yeah.
Is he still working at UPS?
No, no, he's working at a pool
company.
He doesn't clean anymore.
Now he puts in the pumps and
stuff.
Oh.
Nice.
OK.
Well, as far as Duran, there's
not really much to say about
that.
I mean, welcome back to the
industry.
I like their music.
So yeah.
I got news for you, we're over
saturated so that's just then.
Good luck with that.
We hope it works out for you.
Wish you the best.
And it sounds like you have a
finger on the pulse with the
marketing department.
So.
But all joking aside, it is cool
to see a father and son working
together.
Right, nice, You and Jack's
going to make a cigar together
when he gets old.
I don't think Jax is the one
that's compelled to really work.
Doesn't want to pick up the helm
of the company.
I think that if there's going to
be anybody that's going to work
with me, it'll be justice.
Justice will want to work with
me.
But who knows man?
I mean.
Maybe tell you?
It could we we're still a few
years away from screw you, dad.
We're waiting you know, like
that's got to that's got to turn
the corner eventually.
You know you've no, you didn't.
It's like I showed up to every
game.
I.
Coached.
What did you get to complain you
didn't do?
I coached.
Oh, believe me, dude.
I tell you what it's it's
remarkable.
You can't tell me that you can
do a million things for your
kid, and your kid will still
remember the one thing that you
screwed up can't.
Believe you didn't give me.
The I there was something that
happened where Justice said,
hey, remember when I got that
interception, that Pick 6 and I
was like, Oh yeah, no, I guess.
Yeah, OK.
He's like, yeah.
And mommy didn't see it.
I'm like, she's at every game.
Yeah, no shit.
Like, are you kidding me?
She like she missed that one
play and we're this is what
we're doing.
But she just looked the other
way.
I don't know it's.
Happened in an instant.
Yeah, exactly like I, I And you
know, what's funny is there are
some parents that want to sit
and socialize on the sidelines.
Sure.
That's not Britney.
She is in it.
She is watching the game.
She's cheering you on.
She's cheering on your the the
friends and the and the team.
Like the whole thing.
She could have sneezed or
swallowed a bug or.
Something exactly.
And shoe.
I I didn't even see good or she
had to Maybe she wasn't there
that one time for something, you
know, she.
Had to go to the bathroom.
She misses.
She misses or she makes 98% of
the games, you know what I mean?
And if she misses one, she's
distraught about it.
So.
And he remembers that.
But those kids remember, kids
remember that shit, you know,
it's wild, whatever.
So I would, I would guess if
you, if you were to ask me who
would want to work with me and
and do something, I think it
would be him.
I think Teddy's more of
Britney's kind of like Bestie.
They're they're tight.
They're tight as of late.
So OK.
All right, but that's it.
So we got.
That's all you have for today.
So we got you.
Have a listener of the week.
No, we can't do that daily.
You have a listener of the day.
Just for the Monday show.
You have.
A Otherwise, we're just going to
start.
Just pick a name.
OK, well, I can end with one
other thing, all right.
Yeah, let's hear.
It and I'll send you the clip so
you can throw it in there, but I
watched How about that cigar
last night?
Oh, who was on last night?
Matt Booth was on that booth.
I saw the thing, but I didn't
watch it.
Yeah.
And at the end of the show, they
always do notable smokeables,
right?
And my guy Matt Booth said, you
know what?
I was down in Florida and I did
the cigar Hustler's podcast and
I smoked the Postonia
Connecticut justice.
Oh, nice.
And that cigar was amazing.
So I'll get the clip so you can
add it.
So that was, that was
incredible, man.
That was a a great feeling,
right?
Like it's awesome when when your
peers are, you know, people
above you give you a nod on
something.
So I was like, hell yeah, that
was incredible.
I don't know what anybody else
was smoking.
It was garbage in comparison.
So of course it was, yeah,
obviously I love matters.
But you know, that that was a
that was a great experience.
That was really cool.
So I'm glad I got to watch and
and listen to that show.
And then they have Cigar Media
coming up next week.
Oh, do they?
Yeah.
Yeah, they got Eric Gooder's
Jim, Jim, Jim.
And you're our Lord and Savior
Will Will Coop.
Oh yes, Lord and Savior I, I
think, I think Mctavish is going
to be on there as well.
I'll watch him but as soon as
Coop comes.
On.
We're not, but we're not on.
No, we're not.
They already had a son.
We're not on.
We got our own show.
We had our own.
Episode we did but I would love
to slide infrastructure media
just to listen to Coop tell us
of how much of A how much of a
dredge on the industry we're
yeah we're we're bad for the
industry we're bad for the
that's it yes we're bad for.
The is that his words?
Yeah, we're bad for the industry
with all the ad space that we
take and all the all the self.
Oh, because we take ad space.
All the no we don't, that's the
joke and all the self promoting
that we do and all those other
things, you know.
Self promoting on our own show,
yeah.
Well, we don't, right?
Right.
That's what I'm saying.
I OK.
Well, no, we do.
I put a little commercial at the
end of each episode for the War
Bear or the War Bear T-shirt.
OK.
And then at the beginning, we
always say what event is coming
up for the shop.
OK.
Do you, OK.
But the broad market online
access, do we talk about any of
that?
No.
Well, here's the you Coop.
From the bad influencers.
Yeah, and the bad for the.
Bad for the industries.
Sounds like a great band.
Tavish texted me last night and
he was doing research on the
BCAI.
Guess maybe for that episode
he's going to go on.
Yeah.
He's like, you helped start the
BCA.
I was like, yes, I did.
I'm very important.
Do you know who I am?
Right.
Well, or at least you read the
half wheel article.
No, he found it somewhere else.
No kidding.
Yeah.
You should have rolled with it.
Of course I did.
What can I do for it?
Yeah, of course I did.
What's your problem?
All right, well, this concludes
the daily podcast.
We got to get back to shipping
out some war bears.
Yep.
So alright guys, thank you very
much.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Appreciate you.
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Show Notes
On today’s show walking in the park are firing up weed sales, Home Depot isn’t doing so hot and a new women’s basketball league is shooting hoops. In cigars Guy Fieri has blown it now,, Roma has been crafting again, Duran Cigars is making a Duran cigar and HVC is hot out of the over all this and more on todays A Cigar Hustlers Podcast Every week day!