ACHP 419 Holiday Travel, Black Friday
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Hi, I'm Mike Palmer, one of the
hosts of our show.
And over there, pushing the
buttons with the stacks of
gambling money is Blackjack
boots.
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This is episode 418 of the Cigar
Hustler Podcast.
Today we have a new Oh yeah,
this is right.
Today we have a new Trump
countries under Florida.
The chaos of Thanksgiving
travels upon us.
US retail spending sagged in the
third quarter, and Campbell's
soup executive is caught saying
soup is for poor people.
We also have a couple of cigar
news stories and then a mini
game of what's the score.
All this in episode 418 of the
Cigar Hustler Podcast.
Before we get started over there
on my left as always is Mikey.
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It was down.
I got a note last night from
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Well, it's all tied.
I got to fix around 11.
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I know that one's back up, but
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OK, we go.
OK, our first story petition
pushes for new Trump County in
Central Florida.
Here's where it where it be
proposal would be.
It was I, I don't know.
Who?
Abstract stroke.
Oh.
No, no, no.
No high, whole silver.
Here's where it be proposed.
Here's where.
Here's where.
Yeah, GPT needs to check their
jammer.
Wow.
Their their jammer.
Their grammar I.
Had a stroke?
Yeah.
Are you OK?
I don't know that who takes the
medicine?
Barely.
The cocaine is not worn up, no.
Proposal would impact coastals.
Would you skip that first line?
Altogether too much podcasting
for him, yeah.
Yeah, every day.
It just the batteries won't stay
charged.
J5 alive.
Alive.
Alive.
No disassemble proposal would
impact coastal center Florida
Palm Coast woman is petitioning
to add yet another county to the
Sunshine State, this one named
after the nations 47th
president.
The petition urges lawmakers and
Governor Ron DeSantis to
redesignate a portion of Flagler
County as Trump County.
According to the petitioner, who
identified herself as Jen
Harold, the county would extend
throughout the coastal barrier
islands off Flagler, St.
Johns and Volusia counties.
This range spans from A N from
the northern point of Anastasia
Island through the southern end
of Ponce Inlet, being separated
by the mainland by the Manzana
and Halifax rivers.
For the reason segmented us.
For the reason segment of the
petition, Harold wrote the
following.
President Trump is a once a
generation leader, a master deal
maker, real estate Titan, and
the greatest president of our
time.
As the first president to call
Florida home, it's time we honor
his extraordinary legacy by
establishing Florida's 68th
county, Trump County, a lasting
testament to the impact on our
state and nation.
The new county demands an
extraordinary canvas, so we're
proposing a stunning 60 mile
stretch of Northeast Florida's
pristine coastline.
This jewel boast breathtaking
state parks, a world class
coastal golf resort, charming
old Florida towns, and the
world's most famous beach with
vast potential for growth and
redevelopment.
It's the perfect stage for
future Trump inspired projects
that will shine as brightly as
his legacy.
He's the 60th president,
correct?
Or was the 60th serious?
Yeah, seriously.
Thank you so much.
No, no, she said. 68th County.
He's the 47th president.
OK, I was just trying to figure
out. 45 and 47.
Why?
Why they would do it in this
county and not like 1 down South
where he's at?
I would imagine because this
lady lives in this county.
He's the 60th president.
We're so advanced.
We're in the future.
He said 68th.
Well, 68th because.
He said 68th.
He said 68th.
Oh my God, I heard 60th.
No, I was just wondering
because, she said.
It was a 68th.
County.
She he thought it coincided with
the number of counties in
Florida.
We have as many counties as we
have president.
This is going to line up.
I'm just trying to figure out
why they would do that.
She lives in that area.
She wants her county to be Trump
County.
This is down in Trump County.
Why would you want to go down?
She can't.
I don't know if you could do a
petition for a county you don't
live in.
I guess you could, but.
Is there an Obama County?
Does she want a?
He doesn't have the legacy,
apparently, that Mister Trump
has.
Will there start Trump land and.
Is there a George Washington
County?
Maybe.
Here's where he's possible.
Here's where you lost me.
Yes, Trump County, she said.
Like there was golf course and
all this other stuff.
Nothing was mentioned about like
a designated monster truck area.
There's just solely monster
trucks going on.
I think that that would.
Be You think Trump likes monster
trucks?
I think that is a lot of his
followers do.
That's the that's that's the
catch, yeah.
Monster trucks.
We're going to.
Think she's trying to trade
trying to embody the Trump
personality, not his followers.
Because there was nothing you
mentioned about a guy with a
horned hat either.
There's going to be a horn hat
Blvd.
Yes, Horn Hat Blvd.
Horn Hat Blvd.
Anyway, the petition was
launched on November 17th,
January 6th.
Street.
Has a target of 500 signatures.
You only need 500 to get a new
county.
That's it.
We need Cigar Hustler Blvd.
I mean, we could do that
overnight.
Yeah, 500, that's.
Nothing.
I could whip that together.
Thoughts thought As of Tuesday
evening, she only had 70
signatures.
Well, you can have one in
Deltona.
Right, that's Cigar Hustler
County.
No, you can have Cigar Hustler
Blvd.
And change the one out front we
should.
Yeah, as an icon in this right
as a. 16 year icon in this
dilapidated city.
Major state staple in the city.
The petition has still you.
Are the best retailer.
That's right.
That's right, best small
business or?
Whatever.
That's right, it's confirmed.
Right.
The petition has until May 16th
to gather the the remaining
signatures.
Even if the petition reaches it
to go, however, there is no
information about what that
would entail, so nobody knows
what the next step is.
But it made the news.
It made the news how obnoxious.
It made the.
Because his, because his, His
name wasn't it.
This was submitted by our Rover
reporter Paul Carlson.
Oh, you, you read it in the
paper all.
Right next story The chaos of
Thanksgiving travel begins
today.
A record number of people will
be on the move for the holiday.
And the police are out.
I think I could tell his quotas.
You're traveling for
Thanksgiving.
The best advice we can offer you
today is that you should have
left yesterday.
That makes sense, A.
Record 81.8 million people are
expected to travel at least 50
miles within the US between
today and December 1st,
according to AAA, straining all
modes of transportation.
All mode strained.
What?
What?
What?
They get their staff from that.
Is that their stat place all
mode strand?
What?
What is he?
Talking about how does AAA get
their stats for this?
I don't know.
They take pictures of a Courage
movie now.
I don't have no idea.
It's probably based on broken
down vehicles.
Because like, like if say like
Mikey, you're travelling
somewhere tomorrow, like, do you
report that somewhere?
No.
Oh, I do.
I call in triple AI, don't know.
I'm going out to Sorrento.
It's about 45 minutes just
checking in.
I'll let you know when I'm
there.
What do they have an app that
tracks everybody or?
Well, they do have an app, and I
imagine it's some type of map
type app where you can get
directions or something.
So maybe they go from that
number of people that log into
their thing, or maybe they ask
ChatGPT.
Or maybe they just use the
statistics from where they get
their stats and then we moved on
from that.
Yes, you drive and blah blah
blah.
I love that.
I can tell you one thing again,
that on the way to work today,
yes, I saw three people pulled
over.
Did you really?
Yeah.
Yes, I saw no traffic on the way
here this.
Morning.
Were they taking bribes?
What?
What time did you get here?
3:00 AM.
No, I got here at 5 to 8.
Normally there's traffic but
obviously there's no school
traffic.
But the work traffic seem to be
lighter too, unless the way I go
is all work or school people.
No, I think a lot of people at
this point are not working.
Yeah, they're off.
Yeah, or half a day at best, you
know.
Yeah.
Not here though.
Or they went into work, work
early or work late today.
I heard a lot of people were
going in late today and then
also having an early day today,
which I don't know when that
became a thing.
Early day.
Yeah, like a early day.
Before day I'm having an early
day today.
You're already getting a four
day weekend.
I'm also having an early day.
We're different, right?
We own our own businesses and
stuff.
We're built.
Different.
But but I've never understood
the.
Bad for the industry?
Yes, we're bad for the industry.
You're already getting a four
day weekend, now you want 4 1/2
you.
Need 5 Paul's going up the back
stairs.
The FAA is bracing for the
busiest Thanksgiving week in 15
years, with more than 360,000
flights scheduled between
yesterday and next Tuesday.
The TSA anticipates screening
17.8 million people.
Thank God they open the
government just in time.
Right.
Many of whom will be dressed
comfortably despite
Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy's attempt at pajama
shaming Flyers last week.
That's not nice.
Do you travel?
You don't travel in your
pyjamas?
No, I don't like them when they
travel their pyjamas.
I don't care.
Yeah, it's their prerogative.
They paid for the ticket.
Yeah, I don't want to see your
dirty socked feet.
Well, they're not like putting
those in your face.
I mean, those are on the ground.
No, not always.
I recommend you make more money
and start flying private, you
know?
Michael, I need a raise.
OK, no problem.
Will you take a post dated third
party out of state?
Check.
Only if my private plane will
too.
I'll just sign the check over to
them.
You're going to have to talk to
them.
Other options may be equally
hectic, per AAA that we don't
know how to get their
information. 73.2 million people
will behind the wheel at 1.8%
increase over last year,
according to the transportation
analytics from Inrex.
So they get their information
from Inrex.
The worst time to hit the road
in major metro areas in the
afternoon today and tomorrow.
That makes sense.
My son and his new wife are
coming over in the afternoon.
Oh, so they're part of the
statistics?
Apparently, that's a bad time.
Apparently that doesn't.
And the number of bus training
cruise goers predicted to climb
8.5% compared to last year.
More bad news?
Most of us will likely get some
sort of troubling weather over
the next week.
Oh good.
Including severe storms across
the South and snow in the
northern Rockies that could
impact Rd. safety.
This Is Us telling you we're
implanting the clouds right now,
Yeah.
We're in the weather, bad
weather for everyone.
It's very interesting man, very
interesting stuff.
You're talking about travelling
transportation.
This sounds horrible, like
tomorrow's supposed to be a
great day, right?
Thanksgiving.
You spend time with people you
like.
I'm not going to say family,
because not everybody likes
spending time with family.
But people you like, you know,
you eat good food, you watch
football.
Yeah, I got to tell you, my
neighbors have this all figured
out.
They are brilliant with this.
Turn the lights off, close the
curtains or hide none of the.
No, on Sunday they leave and
they go to last.
Sunday, yes.
OK, they go to like a log cabin
for the week.
Sounds nice.
They're away from everybody.
They don't have to deal with a
single in law or outlaw or any
of that sort of thing.
They just go and and they've
done this for a couple years.
They've actually invited us and.
Oh, they're those people.
Yes.
And I'm like, man, I would love
to go there.
I would like to.
That sounds amazing.
Take me with.
You I got to tell you, the
pressure that goes on in your
house for Thanksgiving is
atrocious.
Like the amount of the?
Kids.
Yeah, the cooking that's going
on.
Oh yeah, the preparation for the
cooking, plus children.
Get out of the kitchen.
Exactly the exactly the kids are
running around like you know and
like to add insult to injury for
us like the the garbage disposal
started leaking last night.
It's already began.
That was miserable.
Are ACS broken?
And you got to cook with the AC
broken.
Boo, can you get the door?
He's going to the other door
like these things are crazy.
There you go.
You know, I know that I'm going
to get yelled at as soon as I
get home as I've already screwed
up a couple things.
I'm like, oh God.
Oh, I'm getting yelled at for
sure.
Well, on holidays, the husband
can never do anything right.
Is that how that works?
Yeah, it's just a thing.
It's a thing, just.
Expect it.
That's why I try to fall asleep
all time.
And that works.
You're not getting yelled at
going, you're sleeping.
I needed help.
What could I have done?
No.
What could I have really have
done wrong when my eyes were
closed?
You could have been watching the
children.
You could have helped wash the
dishes.
You can use paper plates bro.
First of all, you got to get on
that level.
Because on the paper plate.
Yeah, you got to do the yeah,
maybe the upscale paper plates
because it's the holiday, but
yeah, paper plates, paper.
Plates.
Foil pans, right?
Everything goes in the trash.
Maybe a new garbage can?
Yeah.
I got to tell ya, shout out to
the guy at Home Depot yesterday
because I was going and buying
the gasket and he's like, maybe
the pipe's broken money.
Buy the pipe too.
That guy was right.
He upseiled you.
The pipe was broken.
No, Yeah, the pipe was broken.
He didn't upseil me.
You were going.
In for the gasket.
It was actually the last pipe,
the last elbow pipe, and it
didn't have a scan thing.
He goes just take this.
Oh, I was like, OK.
What type of pipe?
What type of sound was it was
like?
What kind of noise is garbage
disposal making, Sir?
Here's the pipe.
You need this pipe right here.
There's no tag on it.
Just take it, yeah.
It's a special pipe.
We're like thanks, Steve at at
Home Depot for the free pipe.
Excellent.
Your brother's leaving OK, US
retail spending sag in
September.
The lackluster number wraps up
what was an otherwise solid
third quarter for US retailers.
The government finally dropped
his retail data after all the
shutdown delays and the big
reveal.
And retail sales in September
barely budged, up just 0.2%
after August's .6% pop.
Economists were hoping for at
least a .3%.
So everyone's a little
disappointed.
Yeah, of course you always want
more.
What's wild in the wrap up?
A pretty solid Q3 overall.
July was actually strong at
.65%.
But now it looks like shoppers
are pulling back on the fun
stuff, closed cars, anything
that feels like a splurge.
We.
Were talking about this.
We're talking about that
yesterday.
They are still buying personal
care items, furniture and of
course going out to eat and
drink because apparently we give
up new jeans before we'll give
up a night at the bar.
Or cigars.
On the corporate side, the value
kings are winning.
Walmart crushed expectations and
even raised its profit outlook
again.
TJ Maxx and Marshall, the land
of chaotic treasure hunting,
bumped their yearly numbers up,
too.
And Best Buy actually had its
biggest same store sale gain in
four years.
Well, have you seen what's going
on at Best Buy?
No.
What is going on at Best Buy?
They are, they're so it used to
be when you go to Best Buy, they
had like the cooler looking
stuff and it was super
expensive, right, Right.
And then they started doing
price matching, right?
That was a thing.
And then but when you did price
matching, it's like, no, it has
to be like for like.
And they never had like for
like, right?
The number was different by one
number or whatever.
So now what they've done is they
just said, fuck it.
We're just putting our prices
lower than Sam's really.
So if you go to Best Buy, like
let's say like right now, the
big thing is the 98 inch screen
TV.
Yeah, right.
Sam's has it for $2000.
They have it for 1800, but it
and it's it's a little different
brand, but nobody gives a fuck
about that.
Anymore, right.
Well, but I do want to talk
about Black Friday Deals and all
those other things.
But before we kind of get into
that, you know, you did mention
that dinners and people going
out to eat are still, I know you
said bar, but I don't think that
that's exactly what's going on.
I think that look, when you work
your ass off and you know, and
things aren't going right and
you're stressed out of your mind
and you still got to feed the
kids and all of this other shit
like dinner, going out to dinner
is more of a relief.
You get to kind of sit down.
You don't have to deal with the
cooking or any of that other
stuff you get served, and I
think that's why that's still
doing well.
Yeah, it's that time of year,
too.
You know, people are out
shopping for Christmas.
You only got so many more days.
Well, that's, that's ramping up.
As for the time of, but this is
Q3, they're talking about the
Q3.
Yeah, they just ended.
So I think that that's why that
works, because I mean, I feel
that way.
I'm like, OK, yeah, you know,
whatever.
Let's go, let's go sit down.
Yeah, let's not have to cook
tonight.
Let's.
Not.
We'll order in before we'll go
out.
Yeah, that's even less work.
I don't know.
I have a lot of frustration with
ordering and.
I think that people just still
want to feel some type of
service, you know?
Yeah, I want someone to refill
my Coke.
Yeah, I don't want to move.
I'll get my soda refilled.
More ice place.
Want to drive to the restaurant
and have to wait for a table
and?
Yeah, but then.
I don't go to those fancy, I
don't have to wait, there's
usually tables available.
Well, if they're waiting on you,
where do you?
What kind of place?
Where do you?
Go.
There's a Mexican place right by
our house we go to all the time.
Taco Bell Torchy Torchy's Tacos.
Torchy's Tacos.
Not Torchy's.
This show brought you by
Torchy's Tacos.
I was the hottest tacos in
Central Florida.
We could have had that.
We were so close.
Yeah, I was.
So close to Torchy's.
Tacos.
We could have been eating tacos
every every Monday.
We eat tacos every Monday.
OK, These are the best tacos in
the world.
All right, so I do want to talk
about Black Friday, though.
Yeah, it's Black Friday.
Because Black Friday is right
around the corner.
Day after tomorrow, it's
practically upon us.
Well.
Actually, when this comes out,
this will be.
This will be on black.
Friday.
This will be on Black Friday, so
watch this in the morning.
Where do you think the best
Black Friday is?
Like?
What is your strategy for buying
for Christmas boots?
Go ahead.
And I know you're talking
briefly about this buying.
I have no strategy for buying
for Christmas.
I'm not surprised.
Well, you have no strategy.
So when it comes to the kids,
yeah, like my job is to pry out
of the children what they want.
That's my job.
Tell.
Daddy, what you want?
Yeah, and then Tia figures out
where to go get it and she
acquires it.
The strategy to obtain these
things, yeah.
Does she look for Best Buy or
Best Black Friday Deals?
She does probably 99% on Amazon.
So I think yeah, she does like
the pre, like Amazon has Black
Friday the whole month, right?
It's not just.
It's not just.
Friday, Yeah.
So that's where she buys most of
her stuff.
But no, we don't have like a
certain spot outside of that.
I guess.
I mean, maybe like Kohl's,
Walmart, like it was closed
Kohl's.
What about online?
Like did you look for the Black
Friday Deals on Amazon or Yeah.
That's no, no, no.
She does that on Amazon.
Yeah, Sorry.
Yeah.
And what about you are there?
The IT seems like the days of
the huge Black Friday Deals are
passed.
It starts earlier now.
Oh I think, I mean I haven't
really seen anything other than
on Amazon.
Well, it starts like on Thursday
night, right?
I well, I don't think and
they're already, they've already
kind of popped up.
Well, I mean, I've gone to
Target and see the stuff already
stacked in the aisles and stuff
where they can station it, but
you don't see the big sales like
you used to anything.
I think the the like.
When I was growing up working at
Kmart, I remember one one year I
was sitting on a a mound of
microwaves riding them up as
fast as I could and people are
just taking them out from
underneath them.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, that, well, that was when
it first started.
Right, right.
That was the big microwave push.
I understand, but there's got to
be something out that the
equivalent of it now.
I think it's.
Just all-encompassing video game
that you stick your leg in or
something.
Well, what's kind of happened is
it's all online now.
So, you know, like we have a
tendency to do target and
targets you.
They got these deals that
they're kind of ongoing.
So we were looking at different
things that are.
Online, right?
Yeah, this one's 50% off.
You know, this one's 30% off,
right?
You know, even even like Nike,
we go the Nike store,
everything's an additional 25%
off to get those early purchases
in.
So you no longer have to wait in
line like you used to and then
run for those for the four.
TV's pile to pile.
Exactly.
You just kind of.
You just say, Oh, yeah, click.
Yeah, like Jax.
Jax is of the age where the
gifts for him, I want to make
sure that they're apparel that
he likes.
So he went on Nike last night
and he said, I would like this,
this, this, this because it's
all 25% off.
Boom, done, right.
So the headache of the run and
run run isn't as apparent.
Do you think the brick and
mortar shopping goes away
eventually?
No.
'Cause I think people.
Always No, I don't you know, I
want to touch something Yeah.
I don't think the brick and
mortar goes away in its
entirety.
I think that the the experience
is still important.
Now what what you will see
though is that customer service
should have a resurgence cause
customer service is what changes
all of.
That right, that's only going to
get people in.
Yeah, like, hey, that was a
great experience.
I will do that again, right?
If if you go in and nobody cares
that you're there and no one's
paying attention to you and you
need help.
And I mean, that happened to me
the other day.
You just I just walked out.
I was like, OK, well, we're not
getting anywhere here, you know,
so let's just leave, right?
So if somebody greeted me and
said, Hey, how are you?
You know, what are you looking
for today?
Oh, let me let me try and you
know, let me help put that
together for you.
You're like, oh, this is
awesome, right?
It's a service.
Yeah, which kind of takes me
back to why I think that
restaurants are still doing OK
'cause people need that, they
need that contact, they need
that, they need that, that
experience, you know?
Yeah.
So, OK, moving on.
I should have fast forwarded.
I thought something went wrong.
Despite all the things that are
too expensive, anxiety.
Wait, things are too expensive?
The anxiety of the holidays
might still be strong for
retailers.
MasterCard expects a 3.6% bump
in seasonal spending not because
people are buying more stuff,
but because everything costs
more.
It's the holiday season.
All right, Campbell soup.
Good.
Poor people if you're poor
people.
Campbell Soup VP is on leave
after secret recording appears
to show him mocking poor
customers and 3D printed chicken
A.
Secret 3D printed, secret
recording.
I mean, what is going on?
Secret recording Campbell Soup
just put one of their execs on
ice after a lawsuit claimed he
was privately thrashing the
company and its customers.
The guy is Martin Bailey, VP of
IT.
Allegedly went on a full blown
rant saying Campbell sells shit
for fucking poor people.
Maybe that was the end of the
sentence.
Nice.
And branded.
Oh, and bragged I don't buy
fucking Campbell's products
barely anymore.
It's unhealthy.
There's also an auto recording
Campbell's hasn't authenticated
yet where he supposedly calls
the soup bioengineered and says
I don't want to eat a fucking
piece of chicken that came from
a 3D printer.
Do you?
Oh, he's he's done.
He he lost it.
According to the lawsuit, he
also insulted the intelligence
of his Indian coworkers and
blamed and blamed Indians in an
expletive filled triad for a
tech issue not getting fixed.
Oh man.
Do you think he's I mean.
I don't think he's working at
Campbell Super.
This guy just trying, Do you
think he was just trying to get?
Fired, Campbell suspended him.
Immediately.
And said the comments were
unacceptable and patently
absurd, especially to 3D printed
chicken nonsense.
They reminded everyone that
their chicken comes from long
trusted USDA approved US
suppliers.
And maybe the best part, they
noted is the guy works in IT and
has nothing to do with how we
make our food.
Yeah, I was wondering because
you had said that his title?
Yes, he's an IT guy.
I was like, who is this guy
like?
I just don't what is this
Watergate?
What are we doing?
Here in the Campbell kitchen.
Except the guy yelling wasn't
even in the kitchen.
OK, now it does go on to say the
reason he was being recorded is
because he was making racial
slurs against Indian people and
a guy got fired when he brought
it to the attention of higher
ups apparently or something.
Nice SO.
Tampering with the witness.
He went and had a lunch with
this guy and recorded him going
on one of his triads and the
soup for poor people in the 3D
chicken wasn't what he was after
but he got.
Something he got that as well.
Hey, man, guess what?
Hey, I know we're here at lunch,
but I'd like to really do a
podcast about how much we hate
the Indians.
Let me tell you.
So listen.
How about them Indians out
there, Bob?
Yeah, I hate them.
You know what else I hate?
That 3D printed chicken.
Did the server come up and say,
would you like the soup of the
day and like soup of the day?
Soup of the day?
I look like I'm Campbell.
What am I poor?
I don't want no damn soup of the
day.
I like Progresso.
Progressive.
Oh, rich people Progressive.
Progressive.
It's progressive.
It's Progresso.
Progressive.
Progressive as interns.
Oh.
Yeah, that's progressive.
That's what I just said.
Oh.
Alright Mike, you got a video
for us today.
I do not have a video today.
That's fine because I don't want
to edit it in anyway.
All right, perfect.
In honor of our 68th President.
Donald Trump from the new Trump
County.
Trump County 68 OK, what are you
doing now?
Are we pausing again?
No.
Now on the cigar news.
That's it.
That was it on regular news.
That was it.
On regular news, that was four
stories.
What do you want?
Man, you didn't even pull the
one from Deltona.
That happened yesterday.
Please tell us.
Tell us.
Put the camera on Mikey and tell
us.
Bing, there was a guy sitting
outside his driveway lying shit
on fire with a long rifle.
Yeah, and the cops had to hit
him with SIM rounds and
everything.
Really.
Oh yeah, the helicopter was out.
I was.
I was hanging out with Carlos in
the evening time and we saw this
helicopter, like going around,
going around, going around.
I was like, oh, they're
definitely looking for somebody.
This guy circled like 20 times
at this point, and he's like,
let me look on the call list.
So he looked in.
He's like, there's something
going on in Deltona.
So it didn't like specifically
say, but then the news clipping
came out.
I have it, I can send it to you.
Yeah, it's on Facebook.
But yeah, the guy was just
sitting out there.
He's an ex veteran.
I think he was having some
issues, but he had a bulletproof
vest on.
He had M16 across his chest
loaded and ready to go, and he
was putting stuff in the
driveway, line it all on fire.
They had like 30 cops in front
of his house.
Yeah, yeah, he went Rambo first
blood in Deltona.
Yeah.
And then they took him out.
They're like, hey, man, I'm a
I'm a Pryor Marine.
Come over here and talk to me.
Come towards the light.
And he came, came like near him.
The guy lit him up with all the
SIM rounds.
Like the rubber bullets?
Oh yeah, and it shows like in
the video, them lining them up.
Really.
Oh yeah.
Oh, that sucks.
Well, I mean, thank God nobody
got hurt.
Yeah, I can't believe you didn't
pull a star.
No, you know what you should do?
We here's this crazy concept.
OK, you're not going to believe
this, but if only we had like a
group text of the three of us
and like you mentioned something
that hey, this would be good.
I thought for sure he would have
pulled.
That we could totally just put
it in.
It's wild, I know.
So maybe.
We should start that.
Yeah, we should get that done.
We should do that.
What are we doing?
Sorry.
We're going to start a group
text of the three of us, and
that way when there's something
that we want to bring up on the
show, we just put it in.
There.
Oh, just put it in there.
Wow, what a great idea.
That great, crazy concert.
You know, I'm glad I'm leveling
up here.
This is Yeah.
I never knew how I could pull
the stories as well, so I will
suggest some stories to you.
There you go.
Great, you could be a bunch of
stupid stories.
Oh, you don't have to cover
them, but at least he's, oh
great, at least he's putting an
input.
There you go.
It's true.
At least he's trying.
Oh, do you have a gambling pick
for the for for?
Wait, this will be Friday?
Yeah, it's only for so for the
weekend.
He only does it on Monday.
He only does it on Monday.
OK, that's fine.
All right.
Tatuahe is shipping sex tooth
and next week I'm.
Sorry, what's the name of the
cigar?
Sex Tooth.
Sex.
Sex as in sex?
Oh wow, tooth like in your
mouth?
Wow.
At the 20, go ahead.
So room one O 1 gets in trouble
for the rocket dog.
Dog Rocket.
Dog Rocket.
Who'd they get in trouble with?
Well, everybody's just kind of
common around it, remember?
Yeah, OK, when the concept came
out.
Now we have a sex tooth.
Yes, shaped like a tooth.
At the 2025 PCA convention, a
trade show Tedtoi Hey was
teasing a new project called Sex
Tooth, described as a possible
upcoming release, but one that
wasn't being talked about as a
confirmed new project.
Now the sex tooth project is
ready to head to stores as a new
regular production price
conscious addition to the
tetwahe family.
Sex Tooth is the name under
which Andre Stefan Steffi
Steffi.
Sure.
A Los Angeles based musician,
poet and actor performs.
He has also been a long time
friend of Pete Johnson who we
are now also friends of.
Owner of Tetwahe.
The blend features an Ecuadorian
Habana rapper with Nicaraguan
binders and fillers and is
offered in 4 sizes.
Yeah, the sex tooth fast and
slow.
Oh.
My Lord, is that the real name
of it?
That is the real name Sex tooth
Holiday Sex tooth William Blake
and Sex Tooth Vampire.
I think these are all songs by
the way.
Go ahead.
The cigars are made at my
father's cigars essay in SLE
Nicaragua each cigars in the
series inspired by and named
after one of his songs, Great
move, Michael.
Does it say the size of the?
Yes, but I didn't read those.
I'm not going back to that.
Yeah, I've been writing songs
and smoking cigars for a long
time, said Sex Tooth in a press
release.
Oh, that is his name.
What was the guy's name?
The project with Tatwa Hey feels
like the best gig I've gotten a
chance to play.
A representative said that the
first shipment is arriving this
week and will be shipping to
retailers next week.
Yeah, so I got to meet the guy.
He was at PCA.
Nice he was.
Cool, I like this guy.
I like this sex tooth.
He cut and print that you know.
That's a new shirt if you're.
I like the sex.
Listen, I have an abundance of
shirts coming out.
I just want to know, like some
of these things.
I can't.
I just, you know, I don't know
what to tell you.
It's crazy.
I can't make shit up.
It's just, you know.
Maybe start making croc pens?
Bad What are we?
What are we?
Bad.
Bad for the industry.
Bad.
For the industry, my God.
According to a media insider.
According you know that media,
You know that media Insider once
called U.S.
Media.
But now we're bad for the
industry.
Now the tides have turned, you
know.
What I'm glad that he said that
'cause there's.
Oh, we have embraced it.
We.
Talked about, right?
Yeah, We don't run from
anything.
I I enjoy I.
You know, I need to look, I need
to find and where he said that
to us that you guys are cigar
media.
It's on one of these.
It's on one of the shows, Yeah.
He's only been on twice.
Not be the first.
One was it on our show I.
Think it was on our show.
Really.
OK, I'll check our shows so
because that'll be good for us.
You guys are cigar media, but
we're bad for the.
You put that on the back.
Oh yeah, like mix that together.
Yeah, he's our cigar media on
the front and the back, but but
now you're bad for the.
Industry, but you're bad for the
industry and.
Then like when you did that one
video, he's like.
Probably not considered.
Media anymore.
So anyways, getting back the
story though.
But yeah, no sex tooth.
He's a good guy.
What kind of music does he play?
Rock, rock.
So I think so whenever.
Sex tooth What do you think?
He.
He.
Opera.
Smooth jazz.
He sings the Blues.
There's Kenny G, and then
there's sex.
Tooth.
Oh, that's it.
Yep, there was Songbird, the
shape of his flute.
Songbird and then fast and slow.
You know what I mean?
The.
Shape of his.
Flute wow.
But he was, he was really cool.
We, you know, I hit it off well
with him.
He, he was.
Well I got like sex tooth he
wouldn't hit it off with.
Him.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
So I've had several of these sex
tooths, these cigars.
Yes, yes.
Which one is the best?
I had the vampire, I think mine
was pointed.
I think the vampire was pretty
good.
I think there was.
There was another one that I
thought was even better though.
Fast and slow.
But they're they're good.
They're good cigars, especially
for the price point.
Well, it says budgeted.
I don't.
Yeah.
That's crazy that it says that
in there because his cigars are
already pretty cheap.
He's done a good job not raising
his prices, yeah.
Like you said in the interview,
he's out of Miami, so some.
Some of it.
Some of it.
So no tariffs.
Yeah, that's also like Miami's.
No tariffs in Miami Competitive.
At this point.
Do you think maybe more cigar
companies, I know this is off
kilter, but you think maybe more
more cigar companies do that or
they.
Start making stuff here.
I don't know, maybe maybe some
people start making stuff here.
And there's got to be a way to
do it that is still price
conscious because people are
doing it.
Right.
So I just think that you might
struggle to find the employees.
Well, everybody's looking to
leave the third World, so you
bring them over.
America, you want to come to?
Them through the proper channels
of.
Course, obviously through the
proper channels.
Through the proper channels with
large cigar boxes with holes in
them.
Oh.
Wow, OK.
All right, Cigars
International's open their
Newport, KY store.
Who knew they had another one
ready to go?
Fired up.
Cigars International, the
world's largest seller of
cigars, has announced that it
has opened its newest store.
This location is 1 Levy Way
P1O6IN Newport, KY located in
Newport on the Levy District,
obviously by the address.
Right.
The stores on the banks of the
Ohio River and it's minutes from
Cincinnati Cigars International
Newport is a 5000 700 square
feet and includes a full service
bar, a walk in humidor, indoor
lounge, 2 levels of outdoor
seating and a Partridge and a
pear tree.
There's a pear tree.
Yes, wow.
Unlike most of Cigars
International source, this is
not a stand alone new
construction build.
We are thrilled to bring the
Cigars International spirits to
Newport on the levy, but it must
be a fancy place or something,
said Scott Vasco, VP of retail
for Cigars International press
release.
This store is not just about
buying great cigars.
It's about community, it's about
relaxation, and it's about
creating memories.
Is is it maybe levee, not levy?
Potato, Potato.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I think it's levee.
Down by the levee, not down.
By the drove the Chevy to.
Levee is like a dam or something
so that makes sense.
It's on the river.
The levee was dry.
Levee was dry.
Went down to the levee, right?
Good old boys.
Yeah, you and I, our team has
created a space where you can
discover your next favorite
cigar, unwind with friends, and
enjoy the company of fellow
cigar enthusiasts.
While the store is already open,
a grand opening party is
scheduled before Saturday,
December 6th.
Boots, are you going?
To where?
This grand opening, aren't you
cutting the ribbon or something?
Sure, maybe doing DJ Booty
Booter or whatever.
DJ Boot.
Yep, I'll be there.
Meet me there.
Cigars International says the
1st 500 attendees will receive a
curated gift pack.
Oh curated Oh.
Cigars that we can't sell.
Very left left very vague.
Yes, that's very big.
Unbanded.
Unbanded the The launch event
starts at 9:00 AM.
The new location is less than a
mile from the Party Source, a
113,000 square foot liquor store
oh that also sells a large
volume of cigars dear.
God.
Wow, that's a big ass liquor
store.
Cigars International is the
world's largest retailer cigars
and is part of a massive Omni
channel retail operation owned
by Scandinavian Tobacco Group.
It is best known for its mail
order business, which includes a
website and catalog that has
long operated retail stores.
In the last decade, STG has
ramped up investment in its
physical stores.
In addition to Cigars
International, which is best
known for its online catalog
business, SCG also owns Thompson
Cigar, Cigar Bid, cigar.com,
Pipes and Cigars, and Club
Macanuto.
STG also sells dozens of
different brands in the US,
ranging from non Cuban versions
of Cohiba and Partigus to Alec
Bradley, Cao, Macanuto, Room 101
and others.
The company splits its portfolio
of brands between two separate
sales teams, General Cigar and
Ford's Cigar Company.
I was unaware that they owned
Cigars International.
STG Yeah, seriously.
Yeah, I was completely unaware.
He didn't know the 68th
president had made that
arrangement.
He had, yeah.
Yeah.
It was under the 68th president.
That's when they it was.
An executive order by the 68th.
President, he put it together.
Yeah.
That way they can't get a
monopoly.
Yeah, Why would they be
investing in these buildings?
As the industry is saying,
people are pulling back on brick
and mortar, right?
Do you think the industry is
saying that?
Well, I mean all the new stuff
that we're we're talking about,
it's kind of indicators are
leading towards that I.
Think in the online, in the
cigar world, the online reports
we've heard is that online sales
are down and we've actually
talked about that.
And I think that the reason why
that's happening is because your
cigar consumer isn't smoking,
isn't buying as much.
So they don't mind walking in
and buying a cigar at your local
brick and mortar.
I know, I know you're saying
that they're they're down, but
like, like, OK, you do both
businesses right?
Like which one's better for you?
Brick and mortar.
Really.
Yeah, brick and mortar is a a
Better Business for me.
It's more established, it's more
consistent, and the.
Guys that are upstairs now come
in almost every single day.
Yeah, there's not guys that buy
online every single.
Day online isn't isn't as big
for us as it is for a lot of
these other guys, you know?
Because we offer a service.
Yeah, we we provide customer
service even online so.
OK.
Yeah.
Didn't you have a guy buy one
cigar online the other day?
Yeah, yeah.
It just seems odd. 1.
That seems more expensive than
buy one.
More occurring then you see more
of that.
You know, I think in three to
five days I'd like to have a
cigar.
I'm going to buy one online.
Well, he probably thought about
Thanksgiving.
Was it something unusual?
Yeah, there's.
He was probably looking for
something specific and he saw
that we still had it.
I got you.
What?
Like you just ordered a Monte
Cristo or something?
No Gotcha.
No, more often than not you see
what works, what tracks is like
something that's sold out by
other people that are above you
in SE OS, right?
Or something that those guys
don't have, you know, so.
All right, all right, now we got
a quick, I'm sorry, we got a
quick what's the score mini
game.
Oh, OK, because we need some
time.
All right.
Was there any update on the Guy
Fieri thing?
Did any phone calls?
Or no, but I did see he has an
event on December 9th that he is
planning to go to big.
Shocker.
Is that here?
Several people commented that
oh, this isn't happening because
he's not going to be there, but
the Rep said no, he says he's
coming.
He's going to be there.
Is that the Asheville one in
North Carolina?
It's Gavin.
So I don't think Gavin does
North Carolina.
It's more, I think it's in
Alabama.
OK.
OK.
I messaged Gavin for a comment
and he refused so he didn't want
to say he didn't.
He didn't answer anything back.
We've been told that here at
Espinoza that we're now.
You know, Richie Riot is
probably one of the only
Espinoza guys that's not on the
Patreon.
Really.
Yeah.
Oh, they're all on the Patreon.
Espinoza is one of our biggest
supporters for Patreon.
Nice.
Actually, I'm sorry, Espinoza is
is our biggest supporter for
Patreon.
They're great.
I.
Mean at this point, they've
surpassed the computer that we
got five years ago or six years
ago from Skip.
Oh, oh, with money that they
contributed to the She had to.
Sorry Skip, I don't want to tell
you.
Yeah, no, they're they're great
guys, man.
I was watching an interview with
Richie at Lazonapalooza with
Dropped Ash, I think it was.
Yeah.
What's the guy's name?
It was a great, it was a good
interview.
He had a lot of, you know, great
things to say about their
customers and and clients and
stuff.
I thought you would say that a
lot of great things to say about
us.
It's not all about us, buddy.
I know it's not all about but I
was looking for another insult.
I like the insults.
We're bad for the industry.
Bad for the.
Industry.
That's the best insult of them
all right there.
I.
Know I actually smiled when I
heard he said it like oh that's
kind of cool.
I like that.
We got a cool nickname.
Podcast bad for the industry?
Bad for the industry?
On every weekday now by the.
Way this ad space brought to you
by oh wait, we don't have that.
It's just one show all the way
through.
Yeah.
All right, here's the main game.
This that's from November 25th.
It's a recent cigar.
It was reviewed by Charlie
Minato.
OK.
It is a Costa Rican cigar,
limited edition.
It is the ADA Bay Black
Delirious.
I think I've smoked one Adobe my
whole life. 92, I'll go first.
Adobe just right out the right
out the box.
Yeah, Adobe Black.
Delirious.
This is serious.
I'm going to have to jump around
Mike here because I know nothing
about Adobe other than I didn't
like the one I smoked so.
So go what you you think.
Yeah, let's go 90.
You said you didn't like it.
Yeah, I mean, I probably.
Had the regular This is the
black delirious one, this.
Will make you deliver, yes.
OK, it's from Costa Rica, the
rapper is from Ecuador.
The binder is undisclosed
fillers Dominican Republic and
Peru.
It's a five and three quarter by
55.
It is round, sells for $45 and
they smoked three of them.
He smoked three of these. 74 for
the review.
He smoked three.
Yeah, it's at standard. 74-O
'cause I'm going to jump around.
Here around me.
Bring it way down.
I mean that that price is a
little high for a cigar.
It's an Attabay cigar.
And the tobacco sounded.
It's from Peru for God's sakes.
It's Peruvian.
Cool, so a little sprinkled
inkle.
And made in Costa Rica, so it's
all over the place.
The roller's very tired,
gathering all the tobacco.
This is Charlie.
So I think of a brand like this,
He's going to be in the 80s, so
let's go 87.
OK.
First clue.
The aromas from the wrapper are
medium plus and have a barnyard
smell.
It's neither as foul nor as
fresh as some cigars.
Instead, it smells more like
that sensation would get used
for a Cologne. 88.
I don't know what the sensation
though the Cologne sensation is.
He must have been spraying
himself with Michael Jordan or.
Something maybe he was at the
mall early that day and he gets
right in the face.
Maybe he feels like it's
infused.
Would you like to try?
Maybe he feels like it's infused
booty, he said 80. 70 did he?
I'm sorry, I didn't hear him.
Next clue, The first two Atabay
Black Delirious.
It sounds like it's like a
comedy show.
Next Saturday at the Somewhere
the Atabay Black Delirious
Comedy Show starts as if they
are trying to mimic a Cuban
cigar.
There's a dense semi sweet wood
and tobacco flavor but no real
pepper.
And it's plugged.
Just a compact mixture of woods,
caramel and sugar, around medium
full.
The third cigar has a deeper
wood flavor, a lot less
sweetness, but more irritation
due to some of the rye whiskey
flavors which also bring out the
toastiness.
Can you please not interrupt
when I'm reading the?
Clue.
I apologize.
It's.
Distracting for boots he has
hard enough trouble counting.
35.
You know the description. 42.
Boots.
It sounds like a one.
OK.
Rye whiskey.
First of all, let me ask you how
many people in this room drink
rye whiskey?
Right.
Nobody in the world likes rye
fucking whiskey.
That is the worst whiskey of all
time.
Interesting.
Yeah, I'm sticking 87.
He said it had barnyard flavors.
I've never eaten a barnyard
either.
He's probably doing this review
in his barn.
Charlie's got a barn.
Now, yeah.
Nice.
You get that magnificent white
jumpsuit he wears dirty that
way.
Yeah.
You mean jumpsuit, Sweat suit,
Sweatsuit.
Yeah.
Sweatsuit.
Sorry.
He was fancy.
I was trying to make him sound.
Yeah.
Did you give a score?
Yeah.
He.
Said 30.
Whatever. 35 I'm having my own
show.
Yeah, what's going on over here?
If we got a lot of time to go.
It's OK, it is what it is.
Just let.
There's more sharpness.
Third clue.
There's more sharpness, but
there's more of everything else
too.
The nuttiness is the star of the
show, ranging from a generic
nuttiness on the third cigar, a
softer macadamia macadamia nut
on the 1st, and the second
third, a distinct crushed peanut
flavor like the peanuts that are
included in a McDonald's sundae.
Oh my.
God, wow.
For the 5 minutes is present,
the crushed peanut flavor is
remarkably lifelike, tasting as
if I actually just had those
peanuts as opposed to reminding
me of those peanuts.
It's 'cause you did, Charlie.
You're eating the ice cream from
McDonald's right now.
I.
Don't think he is.
Does anybody specifically
remember a flavor of anything
that they've ever eaten?
Yes.
Where you could pick it out
again like you're going, oh,
this is just like the pork chop
I had last week that was cooked
on like fire grill.
No, you.
Don't.
The only flavor I could ever
pick out is Reese's Peanut
Butter Cups.
We know how you feel.
About how you feel about those
with the Quidados and
everything.
Yeah, with the Quidados.
Yeah, we got a final thoughts
after this one.
Yes.
Of course.
No, I've eliminated that part of
the game.
It's the mini game.
Is this the last one or no?
That was the last clue.
There is a final thought.
OK.
But there's only one cigar we're
doing today.
That's the mini part 65.
I can't move from where I'm at
because I know Charlie is going
to say this is a great cigar
because it's an atabat.
OK.
And do they do?
How much advertisement is in
their stuff with Atabay?
I don't know.
That's David Garofalo
distributes for it though.
Oh.
OK.
So yeah, so 87.
OK, I already said 65.
I would just you were looking at
something I didn't know if you
had something else to say.
After multiple reviews played by
obvious construction issues, I
was perhaps happier with this
Cigar's construction than it was
with the flavor.
However, it's not the right way
to look at the ADA Bay Black
Delirious.
For a cigar that cost this much,
construction should be an
afterthought.
And it should, and it mostly
was.
The flavor was impressive in so
many ways.
Overall, it was very good to Oh,
it's very good to grate.
It's difficult to pick a
singular high mark, but the
flavor right before the
transition to the second third
was probably the absolute best.
But I'm probably more impressed
with how the flavors lope a
point.
The latter half of the second
third was my least favorite,
just too sharp in comparison to
the rest of the cigar, though
even that was enjoyable.
Even more impressive, the final
third represents A reversed the
sharpness and prevented A
smoother, yet still quite full
flavor.
Yeah, they must be like the
number one and #2 advertiser.
Advertisers does not affect the
voting there.
They're not.
I'm going to go 90.
Have you smoked this ago?
No, until I had a baby like
Delirious.
Have you smoked it?
Me, I can't afford those, $45.00
is a six hour. 87.
Michael wins at 91.
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
What do we have for him, Johnny?
I should have had a big black.
Delirious cigar previously
smoked by Charlie Minato.
Paul, Show him what he's won.
I think that honestly what we
should do for these shows is you
can go all the way back and
since the dawn of time with half
wheel and you can always do an
old one.
You'll never run out.
Yeah, no.
No.
You mean every single week or
every single episode?
Even if you did one every day,
yeah, if you go back, go all the
way back.
Yeah, 'cause they've been doing
it for how long?
And start reviewing all the.
2017.
Yeah, yeah.
There you go.
Oh 'cause they keep adding new
ones too.
So yeah, all.
Right, you're never going to
catch up.
Right.
Unless they just stop.
Can you imagine?
We're bad.
We're bad for the industry.
Can you imagine reaching the
point where it's like you've
done all of them You've.
Done all.
Hey Charlie, we need more info
here.
Like, work harder Charlie, work
harder all.
Right, I have a little bit of
Thanksgiving trivia game.
Oh, that's fine.
All right.
The first Thanksgiving lasted
how long?
Was that before or after we
killed the people we brought
there it?
Was the first Thanksgiving it
was the Pilgrims and the
Wampanoag Indians?
It was.
It lasted 3 days.
Boots.
That was, that was pretty good.
Yeah, I think it was.
I think it was only a day.
It was 3 days.
That's very good.
I'm smart.
I slept the necklace.
Turkey wasn't the star of the
1st.
Was wild bro.
Turkey what?
Yeah, they had a three day
through a week long food
festival.
Eminem was hosting, you know.
Turkey wasn't the first, wasn't
the star of the first feast What
was?
Turkey was not the star of the
first feast.
I'm going to say it had to be a
bird.
I'm going to say it was probably
like a hen or something.
Boots.
You think it was a chicken?
He said hen he specifically
meant the female version of the
chicken.
Or is it chicken?
Chicken's all female. 1.
It's just another word for
chicken.
Yeah, All right, Hen.
So you could say Rooster if
you'd like.
Duck.
Deer, fish and wild birds.
Yeah, that makes sense.
The TV dinner exists because of
Thanksgiving in 1953.
There's no way to make this a
question. 1953 Swanson
overestimated demand.
It was left with 260 tons of
leftover Turkey.
Their solution?
Freeze it in trays.
Boom.
TV dinners were born.
Those guys are magical.
And then the microwave.
And that was where you came into
play in Kmart?
Ben Franklin wanted what to be
our national bird.
The Turkey.
Yeah, I'm guessing that's the
topic of this so.
He said the bald eagle had bad
moral character and the Turkey
was more respectable.
Clearly nobody listened to.
Him.
Could you imagine if it was our
bird?
This fucking bird just walking,
running.
Around thing.
Shoot him 'cause it's a national
bird.
They're just every.
Yeah.
Really would have fucked up our
Thanksgiving.
Yeah, the majestic mogul.
Right, we'd be eating bald
eagle.
Yeah, this majestic eagle flying
through the air with these huge
talons was weaker.
I'm glad they went bald eagle,
not going to lie.
Bald eagles, you see that thing
in in.
It's impressive.
Yeah.
It's like, OK, yeah.
Well.
Not the Turkey.
No Americans eat how much Turkey
on Thanksgiving?
As a whole, as a country.
Yes, as a number of number of
birds.
Number of birds.
How many turkeys do we eat on
Thanksgiving?
Dun Dun, I would say.
Just in America, we don't have
any records from the food.
Foods, I want you to go first.
Food selector 3. 100 million.
300 million.
OK, Michael.
I'm going to say that's a good,
that was a good, good line.
I think I'm going to say 2, 150
million. 46,000,000 Turkeys.
That's it, that's it.
There must be a lot of ham
eaters for Thanksgiving.
A lot of people skip out on the
tour a lot.
Of people skip out, are they?
Counting the ones that get given
away or just the bought ones?
That says eat OK.
He's so upset with how people
get their information.
Where do they get this data?
From where do they get the
information from?
Yeah.
What is the biggest Thanksgiving
travel day?
The day before Wednesday.
Boots the day after.
It's actually Sunday.
Everyone goes home, usually
hungover and filled with a
regret and pie because not
everybody travels in on the same
day, but everybody goes home on
the same day, right?
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade originally used what?
I'm sorry, can you be more
specific?
Well, they've this one.
They originally used live
animals.
Oh, OK, for the balloons.
Yeah, they would.
Yeah, They would make them
balloons.
They would take the the live
animals and then they would put
strings on them and then they
would put them up in the air.
Perfect.
Yeah, No, dummy, they would walk
around with the live animals.
Oh, so was this John Smith in
Pocahontas?
Yes, they had lions, camels,
elephants straight from the
Central Park Zoo.
Balloons didn't show up until
1927.
Make.
Them balloons.
What famous Christmas song was
originally a Thanksgiving song
but then stolen by Christmas?
But baby, it's cold outside.
That one we're not allowed to
sing anymore.
I love that song.
Boots.
Sure, it's got to be 1 about
food, I don't know.
Jingle Bells.
Really.
Yes.
How did it originally go?
Thanksgiving church servers in
the 1818 fifties.
Christmas stole it.
Did it always say Jingle Bells?
Yes.
They have to pay reparations,
apparently.
Thanksgiving.
Black Friday is the busiest day
for what industry Retail.
Are you saying more specific
than retail or we can just be
vague?
You could be talking about
coffee.
No, you can go ahead.
I would guess gas.
I said retail.
Plumbers.
Jitter's full.
Too much food, too many people,
home destruction, the.
Shitter's full.
Nice, OK and a little bit of
trivia.
There's an official Turkey
hotline by Butterball that
fields thousands of calls every
year from people asking things
like can I microwave a 25 LB
Turkey?
That's amazing.
The answer is no, you can't.
K same buddies wondering I'm.
Gonna throw mine on the smoker,
are you?
Yeah.
I was going in the oven.
We're deep fryers.
I'm not surprised you have you.
Ever had one?
A deep fried yes.
It's phenomenal.
I'm sure it is OK.
All right, this has been episode
418 of the Cigar Hustler
Podcast.
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Show Notes
Today we have a new Trump County in Central Florida. The Chaos of Thanksgiving travel is upon us. US Retail Spending sagged in the third quarter and a Cambell soup executive is caught saying “Soup is for poor people”. We also have a couple of cigar news stories and then a mini game of what’s the score! All this on episode 418 of A Cigar Hustler Podcast Every week day!