ACHP 462 Cigars, Iguanas, Bahama Breeze and Samatha Guthrie
Transcript
And we're on.
Welcome to Cigar Star podcast
episode 462.
I'm Mike Palmer, your host.
And with me today, as always,
it's Phil.
Not sure I like this mask any
better.
Mcguffey, did you cut to your
camera?
I like it.
And engineering and my Co host
Mikey.
I did a new episode of Preston
with Preston today and I'm in
such a good mood now step on
Kelly.
A great mood, super good.
I want you to know that you made
the episode yesterday or today
or whatever that came out.
Yeah, it says 261.
Oh, it doesn't, yeah.
On which?
On which format?
Because I noticed it on one and
I fixed it YouTube.
Well, who's counting?
We don't know what number it is.
Anyway, we do five of these a
week.
You're lucky it gets any
numbers.
I'm going to just start going
12345 on today's show.
Bahama Breeze is going away.
We have a Guthrie update.
Actually we have two Guthrie
updates cause things are
happening every moment with that
poor lady.
Oh boy, Fishback is back in the
news.
Florida iguanas hate the cold
for an even bigger reason.
Now an update to the Florida no
English no drive story.
I found some things out last
night.
OK then in cigars Utah may be
able to buy online cigars Bocock
is Bo back in the news.
Padilla cigars A and we have a
portal entry from the most
portal guy we know.
Then we wrap the show up with a.
What's the score?
There's a lot of stuff today.
There's a lot going on in the
world, Phil Mcguffey.
But Mikey, before we get into
any of that, how do we get into
that chapter pod swag?
And before you start, somebody
wants to just buy their own damn
patch and make their own beanie.
OK, first of all, the person who
asked for that patch.
Yes, that's Paul.
Oh, is it?
Yeah.
Oh, he wants to make his own
hat, not his own beanie.
Yeah, that's Paul I.
Didn't even look at the name, I
just saw the comment.
Paul's a part of the team.
Yes, Paul can have a patch.
Oh yeah, look at that, Paul.
He's also got a broke lighter.
He's got a broken lighter.
He texted me last night, he's
got a broke.
His postonia lighter is not
working.
He's going.
To have to come in for that.
That's what he said.
He said you have reached a
non-emergency number of the
Postonia company.
Please call Greg you're.
Going to have to stop in for
that one for repair.
And yeah.
So what you want to do though,
is like and subscribe wherever
you're viewing or watching the
show and then check out Chapter
pod.com for all of our swag
where you buy 1, you get the 2nd
140% off and you spend $100 or
more, you get free shipping.
Still a free shipping?
I'm very close to having this
beanie thing squared away.
How many more have you melted?
I I keep going back to like a
test 1 to screw up like I
already have a screwed up beanie
so I keep using that to try and
lock in and figure it out.
So I think I think I may have it
solved.
I'll let you know tonight.
Is it the heat application
that's the?
Problem it's it's a little bit
of everything it's it's heat and
the pressure 'cause you don't
want to add too much pressure to
it, 'cause you don't want to
stretch it and break the fabric
so.
Has the fabric melted on on the
test 1?
No.
Well, I mean, I gave mine to
Phil, right?
Right.
And he's like, what's wrong with
it?
It's fine.
I know that the fabric is
screwed up a little bit, not
that anybody else could tell,
but I know and I won't release
something like.
That is it a problem because
maybe it's it's a porous
material where like the hat is a
flat solid surface and the.
It's it can be stretched.
Right.
It's got some weave to it this
morning, so when you stretch it,
the holes get bigger.
Yeah.
So just a question of fine
tuning the pressure.
I think I might be able to use
the actual hat press that we
bought.
So, oh, I'm going to give it a
run tonight.
All right.
Good deal.
When I get home from basketball
practice.
We will cross our fingers.
Yes, that this is it.
Is it?
Yeah, well, I mean they'll.
Be 80° in Florida next week.
Good timing.
Well, if they jump, first of
all, it's not for you.
If they jump on the site after
they're watching this YouTube,
maybe they'll be on there.
Oh.
Who knows?
Check out chapter pod.com.
That teaser there, people.
Yeah.
You buy three of them, you get
free shipping.
Also, we opened up a new Postana
account.
Yes.
Yeah, you know the name.
The one yesterday or the one
last week?
Yeah, 1 yesterday.
The one yesterday is crap.
This is funny something
tobacconist.
I can't remember off the top of
my head.
Well, we did Northport Cigars
last week.
We didn't mention that one.
We didn't.
Nope.
Prime.
Prime tobacconist.
Yeah, that is it.
Arturo Diaz opened up yesterday.
His stuff will ship.
Oh, UPS guys already come.
They ship today.
Prime tobacconist in in
Connecticut In Connecticut.
Oh, you know, the, the city.
Milford.
Yeah, there you go.
Prime Tobacco's Milford, CT
Thank you so much for joining us
and being a part of the Postania
family.
And we didn't mention North
Cigars.
Northside Cigars.
Northport Cigars.
Northport I thought I did.
I apologize.
I don't think we did.
OK.
So yeah, thanks.
I would have been there at the
end of the month.
And it looks like boss cigars.
Placed another order.
Is yeah, now back on track with
us?
Yes.
Carrollton, GA Yep.
Shout out to Corinto.
So if you have a retailer that
wants to become partners with us
for carrying Postonia cigars,
reach out to
mikep@postcigars.com or just
comment below on the on the
YouTube, say, hey, I got a guy
and we'll we'll figure that out.
Did you?
You mentioned Iowa the week
before, right?
Iowa went last week, too.
Iowa, yeah.
Yeah.
OK, yeah, I believe I mentioned.
That we're real close to
Neptune.
So close, so close.
Maybe one day, one raccoon.
OK, and now with the news
tropical chain Bahama Breeze no
longer priority shut down begins
April 5th.
So they are shutting down 14
locations in the state of
Florida right away.
Just closing.
No good.
They're just done now.
Just done.
Now there's only 28 of them
countrywide, but fourteen of
them in Florida are going well,
gone.
The other fourteen they are
turning into other Darden
Restaurants.
Oh, they're just morphing them.
Right.
They're gonna remodel and turn
it into something that makes
more money.
Apparently these don't make a
lot of money.
Really.
Bahama Breeze, Bahama.
Breeze.
It always looks packed.
We've talked about these before.
The drinks are great, the food
is terrible.
We've covered this, yeah, but
there's.
We've covered how bad they are.
We didn't cover their their
closing.
There's something that you like
though, That type of hum.
Was it the popcorn shrimp?
No, it was coconut.
Coconut, Coconut shrimp.
Yeah, but you can get coconut
shrimp anywhere.
It's always about the same.
My wife likes going because at
one over in Sanford, you can sit
outside.
They have a very nice, beautiful
outdoor.
We used to sit in that gazebo
thing.
The drinks are really good,
tropical, fruity drinky things.
And but the food.
But I always, I always struggle
with the food.
What am I going to get?
What do we order?
Right Coconut shrimp.
Are the drinks expensive there?
You know, not that bad.
Moderate.
Moderate.
There's like a, like a Margarita
flight where you can get, you
know, 5 little margaritas of
different flavors or five of
something else.
You know, they have, they have,
I like to get the flights and
then.
Oh, do you?
Yeah, they take, you know, I
take little pictures and you
know, it's a nice little
Instagram post and stuff.
So you do it for the gram?
Yeah, do it for the.
It doesn't sound that appealing
to me.
I don't want five different
options of of a Margarita.
I would just want the one.
Oh, no, they're, they're good.
They're usually kind of usual
and they have flowers in them.
It's very pretty and they come
on this pre printed bamboo piece
of wood that says what each one
is with little holes.
You like the you like the
flowers.
I like the flowers.
Yeah, they're pretty.
Makes you happy.
Well, for the gram.
And you know, the more color the
better.
Right.
What about you, Phil?
Are you going to miss Bahama
Breeze?
No, it's not really your style.
No, what I do miss, and I think
they are a Darden restaurant if
I'm not mistaken, is Red
Lobsters.
Yeah, I'm surprised that's still
open.
Are they still around?
There's some.
The one in Sanford's still
there, isn't it?
No, no, no.
Did that one close?
Yeah, that one closed.
Oh thank God it was.
It was getting kind of tired on
the inside.
Didn't they like bankrupt
themselves with endless
something or other Endless.
Endless shrimp or lobster or
something yeah, yeah, yeah They
hired a new CEO and he did some
promote I think it was endless
lobster and then yeah, I just
wiped them out.
I.
Wasn't there for that either.
I missed that.
You missed that boat.
Yeah.
What a bummer.
Yeah, you would have expedited
their bankruptcy.
They were.
I mean, their food was decent,
yeah.
Biscuits.
It's, you know, if it's not near
the water, Red Lobster's a place
to go.
That used to be the place when
you were, well, when I was a
kid.
You know, Mom and dad go, we're
going to Red Lobster.
You're like, oh, we're going to
fancy eating tonight.
Oh, right, right.
Yeah.
Cheddar biscuits and lobster.
Biscuit popcorn shrimp, but I
always get the popcorn shrimp.
Restaurant business is tough,
man.
Oh yeah, so much spoilage.
It says that their higher profit
concepts like Olive Garden and
LongHorn Steakhouse are still
doing well.
Yeah, that's like when you, you
know, you spend 20 bucks on
pasta, of course.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
And they get heartburn the rest
of the night.
Right.
And the and and they have what
they got bread too.
They got some dough.
They got the breadsticks at
Olive.
Yeah, and Longhorn has has the.
They have the pumpernickel.
Pumpernickel.
That's it, right?
Pumpernickel loafs.
There you go, exciting times.
Yeah, so that mean that the one
in Sanford has to close because
there's already an Olive Garden
and a Longhorn over there.
So that one's done.
Yeah, that one's gotta be done.
Well, hmm, well, they got the
new Yeah, and two next door.
The Hooters is turning into a
F&D fish house.
Oh they finally shutting down
that Hooters.
Yeah, what's F and DF?
And D like F&D Cantina, F&D
Italian F&D steakhouse.
Spanish place, isn't it?
No, it's a whole chain.
It's like.
Cantina, but do you think that
would be?
No, they have like 4 stores, 4
restaurants.
All right, let's get out of this
conversation.
Let's.
Move on, Hooters is dying like
crazy anyway that's it's seen
better days too.
Well, yeah, you got Twin Peaks.
Much better food.
And yeah.
Yeah.
Much better food.
Well, they're not.
They're not as chest driven I
think as Hooters is you.
Don't think they're chest
driven.
Not as much.
Have you been in one?
Yeah, we go, my wife and I, we
go to the one in Altamont.
She likes that one.
It's.
And I like the beer.
I like their homemade beer.
Not homemade beer, but they're
brewed in house beer there.
They're like in a mix of Hooters
and Wing House.
Oh, 'cause like Wing House was
all about the bottom half
Hooters, all about the top half.
Twin Peaks.
They come in, they're just
lumberjack chicks.
Like they're top and bottom.
Lumberjack.
Chicks.
They just like lumberjacks,
yeah.
OK, I.
Don't know where they get that
many fuzzy boots though.
But other than that.
But the name is Twin Peaks.
Right, I understand the the.
Name I got it moving on from.
Also another comment from VW
Racing.
Comment is in the middle.
I have a place for that now.
OK.
Yeah.
So hold on.
So hold on to your comments.
Let's go to the next man Let's
go.
To the next topic.
All right, Nancy Guthrie's
kidnapping update.
Oh, another scary twist in the
disappearance.
Today, host Savannah Guthrie's
kidnap mom TMZ, has received an
alleged ransom.
Note Yeah, I saw that.
But the police, TMZ, yeah, I
mean, where are you going to
send the ransom note if you
kidnap somebody?
TMZ, yeah, I don't think that it
was given to TMZ for.
For what?
Sorry.
I think that maybe it would like
somebody leaked it like, hey,
here's a ransom note and they
gave.
It well, the way it reads is TMZ
has received an alleged ransom
note demanding payment for the
release of Nancy Gother.
Do you think somebody leaked it
to him because the police are
denying that it happened?
Well whoever leaked it probably
got 50K.
You you get money for TMZ.
Imagine so.
Do you?
Yeah, they talk about at the end
of the show, really, if you have
any.
Oh yeah, you yeah, you can give
them information they.
Give you money.
They give you money.
They give you money.
If it pans out.
I don't think they just, you
know, send me a check and I'll
send you a picture of, you know,
Wilford Brimley eating oatmeal.
Who's that?
I don't know.
That's the diabetes guy.
Oh, that's the oatmeal.
Commercials.
I just know him as Diabetes
Wilford.
Brimley is his real name.
Is he still alive?
No, I believe he died of
diabetes.
Did he die of diabetes?
Probably why I did the
commercials.
Right.
Anyway, they got this on Tuesday
morning and it demands a
specific substantial amount of
Bitcoin in the millions, and the
note demands that the
cryptocurrency be sent to a
specific Bitcoin address.
Right.
Is it Chen Z's address or?
Chen Z.
Chen Z Care of Chinese
government.
I need help.
So do you think that this is a
legit ransom request or do you
think it's a scam?
I was thinking about that
because the police are denying
that it happened, so I think
it's a scam, right?
I think somebody's going.
Oh yeah, I have her.
I got her.
Apparently they gave details
like hey, this is the actual
outfit that she was wearing.
This is exactly what happened
inside the house.
I have heard that too.
The outfit they're saying what
she did not have on right, but
they are saying certain
conditions that were left in the
house is correct like to.
Prove.
That they that they did.
It that they have her.
So they have been looking at,
from what I read, they have been
looking at sexual predators in
the area.
Really.
And now her son, her son-in-law,
I believe it is some family
member is the person they're
looking at the hardest right
now, some son-in-law or her or
nephew or something.
Yeah, so obviously not Guthrie's
husband, but maybe there's a
sister like.
This is this another Casey
Anthony story?
No, this is an old lady.
No, I know, but I'm saying this
is going to be like another
Casey Anthony thing where
they're like, it's Casey
Anthony's parents.
We get covered all up.
We.
Always need a good story to keep
us going right but here's.
If you're a son-in-law, right,
and you know that in your
family, one of the most famous
news anchors on television is
currently.
On on television or on?
Yeah.
Like, you know, maybe you
reconsider doing something like
like I, you know, that could
that's going to go sideways
fast.
I mean, he really?
Needs.
I mean, I'm not justifying it by
any means, but maybe he like
owes gambling debts or something
and they're going to kill him if
he doesn't pay and he thinks
this is an easy way to get money
or something.
That's what I said yesterday.
It's a stupid person's mother to
grab.
Right.
Now her pacemaker has stopped
talking to her Apple Watch.
Uh oh.
That's the new news.
Now that could just mean it's
out of the area, but that means
then she was close enough at one
point.
Does she have her Apple Watch on
her?
No, they have the Apple Watch.
This is none of her personal
belongings were taken.
So then I would imagine she got
in the house after they dropped
her off.
It's not like she was grabbed
outside right because of her.
You know her keys, her wallet,
her watch, all that stuff's in
the house.
Detective Palmer is on the case.
Well, I I follow in this story
because we're doing updates
every week.
And he's older.
And this stuff comes out like
every 10 minutes or something
else.
Right.
OK.
So do you think it's a scam?
Do you think that the Bitcoin is
a scam or is it a legit ransom
thing?
I mean, it could be legit 'cause
there's a lot of idiots out
there nowadays.
They wanted a mask, right?
Wow, he just said it right.
Whatever.
Did you see where Palmer said
let's?
Move on to the next door.
Did you see where, Palmer?
No, there's more stuff here.
Did you see where Palmer said
you know, you gotta.
I can't even screw it up.
The helmet.
No, he said something about
think.
Before you talk.
That's what you're supposed to
say.
How did I say?
Talk before you think I don't
know.
I don't know what Skip was upset
about last night.
You guys just went on a thing
and I was getting ready to go to
bed.
So Skip's always.
Upset.
Was this something we said in
the show?
Yeah, it was epic.
I'm gonna, I had to pull it
'cause I gotta make a short clip
out of it.
You pulled me out of my
retirement for doing my own
editing here.
But you said, hold on, let me
look at it right here.
Pulled me out of my retirement I
didn't have.
That same thing without talking.
They think without talking.
They are.
They're thinking without
talking.
And they a lot of times they
think without talking.
Well, again, Palmer, we grab him
from the home every morning.
Yeah.
He's gonna run into that table
about 10 minutes ago.
Yeah, he boots thought he was
about to die, 'cause that's
usually how it happens.
It happens.
Right slam my thigh into the
edge of that table.
He's gonna break a bone going
for surgery, then he's gonna get
not ammonia.
Ammonia.
I'm gonna get ammonia.
It's gonna get.
Pneumonia.
Yeah, pneumonia.
I'm going to get ammonia, I'm
going to clean something and
pass out.
What's awesome is, you know, the
guy who really always discovers
these is David Morris, The guy
he is.
Yeah, I mean, I'm nice to him
next time he comes, he's so.
Analytical.
He's on top of.
It so anyway so the sheriff is
is denying that any of this has
has happened.
He did a press conference
yesterday and he is not showing
a lot of confidence and and
nobody's got a lot of confidence
in him.
The way he acted in the press
conference, very small town
sheriff and they were like what
about this?
And he goes, well, I don't know.
I haven't even seen that yet.
Right.
Well, at least he's being
honest, I don't think.
He's going to crack the case.
Well, he goes.
You're right.
I don't know why they don't have
that information back to me.
Well, hell.
Well, hell.
That's a great question.
That's a great question to get
back.
Anybody know what the hell
they're talking about?
Yeah, Bobby, come up here.
Bobby, Bobby.
Bobby.
Bobby, Bobby.
Bobby.
Bobby.
And he was there by himself.
He had, you know, normally
there's a press conference like
if Grady, Judd or Chit would,
there's like people, right?
You know, he just stood up there
by himself.
Like I ain't going up there with
you.
I ain't going.
I don't know why this image just
went through my head of when he
was talking about the sheriff
and these guys.
Ammonia, No.
Remember all the movies with
Ernest and he had the really
skinny guy and the fat guy?
Yeah, those three guys all
standing up there like Ernest is
like in a weird outfit or
something.
Yeah, he'd.
Be better off.
I'm not surprised that that went
across your brain.
Well, he's a small town sheriff
and what's these guys?
Pima County Sheriff.
You're a big Ernest guy.
Ernest, First of all, do not
disrespect Ernest P World.
That is a great, great guy.
He saved Christmas.
Yeah, exactly.
And Halloween.
So you save Halloween too?
Is there like a series of
holiday saving movies?
Yeah, he did all the holiday.
Movies I just like I like the.
Ernest saves Groundhog Day I.
Like when I save Christmas.
I think there is a Groundhog Day
one.
Of course there is, you know,
they eat, they used to eat the
Groundhog after he after they
pulled him out and he did or did
not see really.
Yeah, that's amazing.
I saw a thing the other day I
thought was hilarious where it
said, you know, what they should
do is they should announce a
Groundhog Day 2 movie.
Yeah.
And then just re release the
original.
Oh.
It would be funny, yeah.
OK.
All right, so as more
information comes available,
we'll keep following this for
the for the rest of the week
until something happens until.
Those are the 2 updates.
There's what?
Yeah, there's a fake ransom and
then her, her, her ticker is.
Not a pacemaker is not talking
to her watch anymore.
Yeah, that's not good.
Well, I mean, it could just mean
she's out of range.
Yeah.
Either way, it's not good,
right?
Yeah, either way, it's she's
been moved or.
Well, if she had passed the the
pacemaker would still run.
It doesn't work off your body.
It's it's electric.
OK, but if it stopped working,
that could mean that that caused
her to die, I guess.
Yeah.
I don't know.
We're probably going to find
more stuff out like her.
Her insulin pump does now is
stop working too.
I mean, I don't know if she has
an insulin.
Did you say there's blood in the
insulin?
There was blood in the house
that they found after everybody
had been going through the house
for their couple of hours
looking.
For her, I mean, who knows what
that means?
And you know, as an older
person, you could, you could get
cut.
They bleed very easily.
Yeah, their skin starts getting
thinner.
I.
Mean Palmer bleeds on the
regular, right?
Got blood everywhere.
Yeah.
When he hit that, when he hit
that table, man, it was gushing,
Yeah.
Yeah, it's all over the floor
over there.
Yeah.
So I'm like a piano doesn't
clean till tomorrow.
That's why I thought he's gonna
get ammonia.
Going to get pneumonia.
But it's a crime.
Pneumonia.
All right, Mr. Fishback, who
wanted an only fan stacks and he
also wanted mandatory school
uniforms for all schools in the
state of Florida, is back in the
news again.
He's fired.
Governmentorial candidate James
Fishback is taking campaign to
social media extremes.
He has joined Tinder to directly
reach young female voters and
promote policies around
marriage, home ownership and
family life.
So if you can't beat them, join
them.
OK, so he's on there.
Swipey.
Swipey.
Yeah.
This guy's crazy.
He sounds a little creepy.
He does now, doesn't he?
Yeah, he's kind of weird, like a
dude.
Look, OK, I got news for you.
Yes.
What kind of attention is the
dude getting on Tinder?
He's not.
Oh, he's getting his attention.
Hey, would you like to vote for
my stuff?
If you would, please meet me at
the Longhorn.
The stunt immediately went viral
when Fishback jokingly he ran
out of likes within 30 minutes
and claims he has over 1000
matches in a day.
Well, I mean, it's a, it's a
novelty now.
They're like, you know, oh, let
me find Fishback, you know,
match with him.
I feel like the dating apps have
have really kind of tanked, like
people have moved on from them.
They're just a.
Joke.
So I don't, I don't even know at
this point.
You don't.
You don't see the commercials
like you used to.
Yeah, and you never.
And you don't hear about people
getting together on the dating
apps anymore.
Like, where'd you guys meet?
Oh, we met on the what?
What was the was it Tinder?
The one where the the guy who
invented I I think it's tender,
The guy who invented tender.
His wife matched with somebody
on Tinder and then she left him
for the guy she missed with.
That's terrible.
I.
Didn't hear about that.
That's funny, yeah.
That's horrible.
That's funny, the best
commercials was the one where at
the end the logo would light on
fire or something.
They said they were the they
were the app that's made to be
deleted off your phone, which
they were implying that they
match you up and then you don't
need them anymore, right?
That was the best one.
Gotcha.
OK, this guy's just doing it for
attention.
Whatever you can think of.
It's all marketing stuff.
It's working.
Oh, it's working.
We're talking about him for the
second time, right?
And apparently the news talking
about him for the third time.
I didn't hear the part about he
wanted every school to have.
Uniforms, it's not as extreme.
No, no, not as.
That's not as extreme as let's
tax the only fans, the only fans
people, and then hey, I'm going
to jump on Tinder and so I can
save people.
He's got another one where he
wants to tax certain people that
move to Florida.
Depends on the state they come
from.
Oh, really?
Some kind of when they buy a
house, tax something added on to
the purchase.
Price, preferably California.
How about no tax?
We don't have state income.
Tax.
I'm just, I hate the tax.
It's ridiculous.
They hate taxes in general.
You just want them to print
money.
They just print the money.
I don't understand why I just.
I still haven't had anybody
explain that.
What they do with the tax money
pays for those schools.
Yeah, but like instead, why
don't they just fund it instead
of just pulling it?
Or are.
They going to fund them.
If they keep making money, the
value of the money goes down.
Right.
News flash values.
Down so they can't keep printing
money.
So that offsets it is what
you're saying.
That's how they offset it by
taking it back from us.
They take it from you and then
they pay for the schools.
They pay for the trash they pay
for sometimes.
Sometimes they pay for the
trash.
Well, sometimes they pay for
schools, sometimes it goes to
teachers, but sometimes they
give it to the schools and it
doesn't go to the teachers.
Like that's what DeSantis did
recently.
He actually made a bill that
required that they gave teachers
more money, that this money is
specifically for this period.
It's not for the school, it's
for the.
Teachers.
He did a mandatory raise for the
teachers right?
Not like he gave them extra
money for the raises.
He did.
He gave them more money.
Yeah.
OK, then that's not the money.
Wasn't going there before that.
Said he gave them extra, right?
Well, that money got to come
from somewhere.
It comes from your taxes.
Why don't they just print it?
Because then the value of the
money goes down.
If they make more of it, then
it's worth less.
And they print more of it all
the time.
And why do we need?
But then they take money out of
the system too.
They print it and then they give
it to BlackRock.
Why can't they print it and give
the teachers who's BlackRock,
the military, yada yada Yeah.
Oh, is it called BlackRock?
I think it's called Blackstone.
No, that's the real estate
group.
Totally differently.
Blackstone is or BlackRock?
Blackstone is a real estate
group.
Black Rock is.
Closely affiliated.
Closely affiliated, yes.
Yeah, he was in the Navy that
never got on a boat.
So better question is, is why do
we care what the value of the
dollar is?
You do care what the value.
Of the dollar, you do care.
That we can't print the money.
You can't print the money.
No, no, I disagree.
They already do print the money,
it just goes to the wrong
people.
But anyways, then your $200
camera might cost $500.
Which one was 200?
I'm just using this around
figure.
I don't want everybody to know
what we paid for our equipment.
OK, I add another 0. 50 Dollara.
I just used it as an easy
number.
OK.
All right.
All right.
Well, moving on, Michael's a
socialist.
Socialist.
I'm not a socialist.
Don't get all upset.
Preston was just here.
I'm.
An American.
I worked my ass off and I don't
like paying taxes, but I do
because we appreciate you.
Thanks.
The military appreciate you
helping to pay their salary too.
I appreciate the military.
I appreciate that.
Except Boots, Phil.
Yeah, except for The Who was in.
The Air Force but never got out.
Except for the master of arms, I
think that that was.
That's a ridiculous job.
We keep the order.
Police, the army, the military.
Police the Navy, didn't he?
He policed the Navy, Yeah, but a
master of arms is a person that
policies the military.
Oh yeah, ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
Let.
Them do whatever the hell they
want to do.
All right, moving on.
Florida iguanas are an invasive
species.
Yes.
So the the cold weather we've
been having has been causing
them.
They don't like it.
They lovely cold weather.
They don't move.
They move like in slow motion.
They're.
Cold blooded, they're cold
blooded so they can't get hot,
right?
So people are going around and
picking them up by the armfuls,
by the sack full in some cases
hundreds of pounds at a time.
And if you take them to the
specific Fish and Wildlife drop
off points they gently.
Euthanize them.
They they they pet them as they
kill.
Them I don't know what that
means either, I'm assuming, but
I mean I've seen pictures like I
had a back of a pickup truck
full of them like gently it's OK
little shot.
I mean, are they just shooting
them?
I think, I think they don't.
Don't a lot of people eat them
down there?
Some places but they they have
they have made a an exemption
currently to where you can catch
them.
Normally you can't, right?
Because I guess there's one
color that's a natural species
in Florida, but really you can't
tell which one it is.
So they're just taking them all.
Just kill them all.
Kill them all.
Kill them all.
Let somebody else sort them out.
It's that, well, what's the
military?
Kill them all, let God sort them
out.
Yeah, What's that branch?
Is that Marines?
That's the Marines.
Well, that kills them all.
Kill them all.
Let God sort them.
Out.
Yeah, that's yeah, Marines.
Yeah, not not master of arms.
What makes the grass grow?
Blood.
Blood.
Blood.
Oh.
Nice.
Yeah.
So iguana blood makes
aggression.
So you think this is a good
thing or a bad thing?
I think it's a good thing, but
yeah, let's get rid of these
suckers, yeah.
Gently I'm not for gently kill
them.
Just shoot them.
What's the big deal?
Just.
Give somebody machete and just.
Can't bring them in pieces.
We don't care.
Yeah.
Yeah, because they eat the
mangroves and stuff, right?
They eat something they're not
supposed to.
They're invasive.
They're painful.
Somewhere, somebody had one and
let it go, and now they're
everywhere.
Not just one like every like
well.
OK, it had to be two I guess.
Had to at least eat 2 and.
Then they had to meet.
Right, Right.
Hey, how you doing, Mr. Iguana?
Nice to see you.
Are you a missus, Iguana?
You're a boy.
I'm a girl.
You know what there's?
Let's make iguanas.
Yeah, let's spread our seed.
Spread our seed.
Take over the state.
You're not a doctor, are you?
Sorry.
All right.
So even the lady who are you
with us?
That was the last.
That was the last news clip that
we had of the doctors swearing
his C.
'S oh.
I went too far.
I went too far I.
Guess hey it went too far.
It's like 2 weeks.
I looked for an update, nothing
happened.
It was.
Like 2 days ago, yeah, that's a
that thing is going to slowly
develop.
It's going to be like 6 months
later.
Right.
Yeah, be somebody.
And now they're looking for
their daughter.
Eventually he winds up in cuffs,
Right?
That's the theory.
Send me I.
Mean it's not even her egg.
So I mean he he's just randomly
shooting and then putting an egg
in people.
He's just winging it.
Bring me another one.
It's not hers, doesn't matter.
Send me a million Bitcoin or you
never see your eggs again.
They're going to love them
regardless.
Yeah, well, they did say they
love, you know, we love our
daughter.
Of course, but it's not really
your daughter.
Doesn't matter.
You would think, I mean, as soon
as it comes out, you're going.
To know, I mean, I'd be pissed
if I spent all that money and I
didn't get.
And you're bamboozled.
Well, you got a baby.
I never guaranteed which one you
would get.
Didn't get the baby?
I just said a I'm sorry, read
the paperwork I.
Just said a you're going to get
a baby.
You get a baby.
Maybe yours, maybe someone else?
Someone else.
It's like, you've got one now
relax, raise it.
Have.
Fun.
Be a family.
Be a family.
Oh, so the guy's foreign?
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Now you can read your comments.
Ah, let me get to my comments.
Do they make belts and stuff out
of the iguanas?
They can they make boots out of.
Them there was a James Bond
movie where the bad guy had a
tail on a stick like a whip and
he would beat people with it.
OK.
Was that the real James Bond
movie or was that the porno
version 'cause that?
Sounds weird.
Porno versions.
I don't.
I don't remember that villain
all.
Right, so BW Racing said was
going to give you shit about the
Beanie King Master Chief put all
put, but he he meant to say, but
I'll keep patiently waiting.
So there's that.
Thanks very much, BW.
And then on the day before his
comment, which I loved, Mitch
said that he's going to try yes,
the cigar chat next time he's on
chat with Duolingo.
He's going to argue with
Duolingo.
And the other one was David
Morris Palmer with another red
light special.
I think a lot of the time they
think without talking.
Yeah.
They think without.
Talking the red light special.
Till you made it, figure out the
red light special part.
That's amazing.
Don't think without talking.
Yeah, you're better off, man.
That feels like a shirt, guys.
I don't know.
That feels like AT shirt.
We'll just kind of trade on the
beanies and the hats.
Things without talking.
Don't get right.
That's fine with me.
Put Palmer under it.
Oh, it's going to have your head
on it, Yeah.
With like a red light bulb.
Thinks without talking.
Big red light bulb shining on
the think without talking.
Yeah, yeah, that'd be nice.
All right, now I have an update
and some information that I have
found on the English or no
driving.
OK, so there's only four states
that do that require that only
use English.
All the rest of them have
multiple.
Oh, let's guess.
So 46 of the 50 have
multilingual driver's license,
correct?
Would you like to guess?
OK, one of them is US obviously.
So there's three others, OK.
Sex.
This is the other one.
Nope.
Really, Georgia?
OK, this is going to take
forever.
No, it's not.
No, you're.
Going to name 46 different
states.
Alaska.
Nope.
Now let us guess.
It has to be Alabama.
It's got to be the South.
Alabama.
Georgia.
Nope, it's not the South.
Oh, that was one of the best
state.
It's the then it's got to be
like North Dakota, South Dakota.
South Dakota.
Yeah, it's got to be like the
place where they don't inhabit
it.
Where?
They don't have people that
don't speak English.
Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota.
Exactly.
Yeah, they'll never make it all
the way up.
Here, by the way, Ben Rowland
said, sure, none of the border
states offer things in in both
languages like Cali or Arizona,
but Arkansas was the obvious
state for comparison.
Arkansas has many.
Yeah, we used to have.
Hold on, where's it at?
123456 different languages that
the test came in. 6.
Six.
That's counting English and
Spanish, so there's four others.
Look, here's why I think this is
ridiculous.
You I need to see data and proof
as to why this is justifiable.
I just don't see the the logical
reasoning 'cause now you have
data from. 46 other states that
do it.
Right.
Is there is there absolute chaos
in the streets of these states
because of multilingual driver's
license registration?
I think Texas had like double
digit offering of languages.
You see what I'm saying?
Like what are we doing?
It would.
It just seems like a waste of
time.
So we used to offer the test in
Haitian OK Creole, specifically
Asian Creole.
That makes that makes sense.
Arabic, Andrin, Chinese and
Russian.
OK.
There's a lot of Russians in
Central Florida.
What do you want me to do are?
There a lot of Arabics.
I would guess after 911 I don't
think.
That would be Middle Eastern,
so.
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I know a
handful of dudes that are Middle
Eastern, you know, but there's
different languages.
Arabic is one of them.
This is just non commercial.
For commercial it's always been
just English, which makes a
little more sense.
I'm fine with that, I guess like
there's but there's no reason to
change the law if unless it
doesn't like you like.
Something's happening, like
there's there's overwhelming
number of accidents and people
go, I cannot read these signs.
I don't speak English like what
do you mean?
You know, like.
Didn't you see the stop sign?
I I know speak.
Right.
See what it means?
It just seems silly to me, right
it?
Is.
I didn't know we offered all
these different ones before.
I thought like we just had
English or Spanish, right?
No.
That was the two options, right?
So.
Look, we got Russian.
Yeah, that seems odd.
Right.
OK.
In Haitian Creole, is there
other language in Haitian?
I mean, that seems oddly
specific, Yes, Yeah.
And Mandarin Chinese, OK,
because that's the one more most
of them speak is the Mandarin,
right?
Where the oranges come from?
Yes, exactly that's.
Exactly where we're right where
the oranges come from.
Where oranges come from?
OK I didn't pull the story, but
do you guys remember when orange
juice used to come and
concentrate?
Do you know what concentrate is?
I don't know about this either
ZH.
You have to add water to it.
Yeah, it just comes in that
little goo in the jar in the
goo.
Minimade is not making it any
longer.
Why not?
It's not selling.
Nobody buys it anymore.
They stop making lemonade,
orange juice, limeade and pink
lemonade.
They want the.
Everybody wants it already pre
made well.
What are you going to do now,
Palmer?
Well, I'd buy it pre made now,
but I mean when I was growing up
that's what that's what you
would do.
Spam.
Do you eat spam?
I do still eat spam.
I like spam.
Have you ever had spam Mikey?
I've not.
You've never had spam?
You gotta it's no, I know a lot
of people joke about it, but
it's good like if you.
Fries.
Good.
It comes in different flavors
now, yeah.
Do you fry yours?
Yeah, you fry your spam.
They used to be a thing for like
breakfast.
Different you, different spam
and eggs.
What, like pineapple spam?
No, there's like bacon spam,
Turkey spam, pork spam, Yeah,
salted unsalted.
In United Kingdom they eat spam
all the time.
Yeah, in Hawaii it's like steak
that's I mean it's the a big
protein source in Hawaii.
Big deal, right?
It is there, yeah, it's good.
Seems like an old person thing.
No, it's not.
Well, when I grew up, we didn't
have a lot of money then.
So I mean, you know, that was
relatively inexpensive at the
time.
What's changed?
What's changed?
I still don't have any money.
That's why I still eat it.
OK, got it.
Got it.
I said they still eat it.
Got it.
My wife won't, but I'll do I.
Will yeah, Like, you know, when
I was a kid, I always thought
like corned beef hash was like
an old person thing.
And then as I got older, when I
first had corned beef hash, I
was like, Oh my God, this is
amazing.
Oh, it's good.
Yeah.
You ever had scrapple?
No, but I've heard of that.
I feel like you didn't have
shoes growing up.
Me.
No, I had shoes.
Yeah, you're just like this
country bumpkin.
No.
He had them, he just didn't wear
them.
Yeah, he ran around like Jethro
from Beverly Hillbilly.
I did run around barefoot a lot
outside.
There you go.
That's what he said, Yeah.
He had the shoes for church.
Right Church.
Right, he had my church shoes
we.
Had the fancy eating table mall.
Are we going to Red Lobster?
Wow.
Kind of get the best kids.
I like the.
Best.
I really like the best.
I put my shoes on everything.
I mean, when I was a kid, I, I
was like your kids.
Yeah, well, you're the oldest.
Like, I liked all the basketball
shoes.
Yeah, like I had the Kevin
Garnett's I had.
I had all of it.
So my Jax is in this weird
period where I just want him to
have regular shoes.
Like just you just look dude, we
need a pair of shoes for you to
wear.
Not to school 'cause you have
school shoes and you have
basketball shoes, but like I
need a pair of shoes for you to
wear out everyday.
Like nothing crazy.
Air Force Ones, whatever, right?
I can't get this kid to decide
and pull the trigger on
anything.
Dude I was the same way like.
It's worse, though.
You want to know what he he's
like, what's my price range?
I'm like, I don't know.
Wow.
Like, I don't know, I'll tell
you what, you throw a shoe at
me, you mentioned X and I'll
look at the price and I'll tell
you yes or no.
You know what?
He lobs at me.
Travis Scott.
'S Nope.
I said, are you out of your damn
mind?
An everyday shoe.
Like I'm looking for you to
wear.
Those are really I'm on, I'm on.
For it's all aftermarket,
they're super expensive, they're
hard to get come across and
they're like the the the lowest
priced ones are like 3-4 hundred
bucks.
Wow, right.
I'm like what like I want you to
have a pair of shoes that you
can run around in Yeah like I
don't know, you're not banging
out of these.
What are we doing?
Just buy.
Just buy them like some of those
the cloud shoes or isn't that
the new thing?
I.
Look for everybody but even
those are a couple 100 bucks
like this.
Are they?
I don't.
I would buy spend a couple
hundred 5200 bucks on a pair of
decent shoes for him no problem.
But I'm just like, just pull the
trigger man.
Pick something.
This has been ongoing since
before Christmas.
Like, hey, I want to get you a
pair of shoes for Christmas,
right?
OK, show me what you want.
And then he starts going, well,
these are not.
Oh, wait.
Oh.
But you know, what I'm thinking
is if I got this pair of shoes
and this pair of shoes, then I
could make different pairs,
different colors.
Yeah.
And I'm like, I just want you to
pick a regular pair of shoes.
This is why is this so goddamn
hard.
Just buy.
Just buy them shoes and say
these are your father issued
shoes.
Yeah, here.
You go, no, what I'm doing is
going to take them and cut a
potato.
Just won't wear them.
I'm going to cut a potato sack
and put some string on top of
it, and that's what we're going
to rock with.
Oh.
Yeah.
Go to Sports Internet Sport
Academy.
They have pretty good pricing.
That's where I just got shoes.
We went to Hibbett.
I don't know what Hibbett.
Is it's the same?
It's a shoe place.
Yeah, same thing, same concept.
Couldn't pull the trigger.
I'm like dude just pick a pair
of shoes and say these are good.
Purposes.
It is hard.
There's a lot of shoes out
there.
Yeah, but he's in the sport, so
he's in the names.
Oh, that's how it works.
I was.
Just going for comfort, I was
trying all sorts.
Of but that, but that's the
crowd.
I don't care.
No, I know, I know you don't.
I'm just saying like.
But look, he doesn't have to
wear Kobe's, but like, he can
get a pair of Giannises, he can
get a pair of Jaws, he can get
the things that are regularly
accessible and that could be his
everyday shoe.
But I can't get him to commit.
Yeah, but like, like I didn't
want the Spree welds because
they had the spinners, but that
was the thing.
But I didn't like those.
Like, I wanted the Jordan, the
Air Jordans.
I found these jaws.
The first year that you guys
have mentioned that I knew what
it was, was he Air Jordans?
Yeah, Jordans.
The the yabos and the what's
were yabos and I wrote it with.
Yanis's.
Yanis Yanis don't even know.
What or who that is, is a
basketball.
Player I got a pair of I got a
pair of ASICS and a pair of
Skechers.
Yes, those are not people.
Those.
Are old mansions.
Well, you know, I sold the car.
I had a little bit of extra
money and I needed a decent pair
of shoes and I saw two I like.
They're both hundred, 100 bucks.
So I'm at the door for 1:25.
Right, you're in good shape.
Yeah, and they're good for your
back.
Well, I have.
My feet have been hurting a lot,
especially on Fridays after that
long shift on Fridays.
Well, yeah, you've been walking
the earth for how many years?
Right.
Yeah, the dinosaurs and things,
yeah.
You got to get some good souls.
It was easy and you know that
you're barefooted and you just
ran from the dinosaur.
Like like Phil growing.
Like Phil when he was growing
up, right?
Exactly, except I wore fur, not
overalls.
Right, makes sense.
OK.
All right, Cigar News, there's a
bill proposing proposes allowing
Internet slash mail order sales
for Utah.
Utah, barely.
In Utah, you can't buy things
online.
I don't know if they're not
aware that there is online
shopping or they just don't like
it.
Yeah, like you like you just
can't hit the buy now button.
It's the same thing.
We're not so.
Dude this is so wild.
You pull this from half wheel.
Yes, yeah, Utah is currently one
of the toughest states for cigar
buyers with an uncapped 86%
cigar tax, highest in the USA,
and a full ban on mail order
cigar shipments, a double hit to
consumers and retailers.
So does that mean we never ship
anybody in Utah?
We, we we don't ship.
Yeah, We don't.
No, We don't ship, no.
Utah.
Is that a state?
Yes, the new legislation would
finally allow Internet and mail
order cigar sales into Utah as
long as out of state retailers
get licensed.
There is the rub.
There it is.
Verify age, keep records, post a
bond and collect Utah's cigar
excise and sales.
Post a Post a bond.
Does it say that is?
Yes, it says that.
Oh my.
So we're allowing it.
But here's what you have to.
Do.
Here's the regulation.
You got a jump rope?
Climb the ladder.
You got a jump rope?
Send us a picture of your wife
and then pay the taxes at the
end the day.
Right.
The bill was introduced by a guy
named Jeff Burton, signaling
growing political momentum to
modernize cigar access while
still enforcing tax and aid
safeguards.
I don't know, it just sounds
like they a bigger way to get
more money.
Well, that's what the all the
taxation is just a frigging
money grab.
Yeah, right.
Yep.
That's why he wants to print the
money.
That's why he wants to print the
money.
Utah and Hawaii are currently
the only two states with full
bands on out of state cigar
shipments.
But Hawaii has just introduced a
similar reversal bill last
month.
The national trend is clearly
shifting toward allowing regular
regulated remote cigar sales.
More people can smoke, Michael.
You'll be happy.
Oh, that's good, right?
Yeah.
Is that how that's going to
work, do you think so?
Well, that's regulation will
permit us, no?
They're backing up regulation.
They're backing it up.
So that you can now do stuff
there.
Oh, that's good.
You know as.
Long as you, you know, climb the
ladder, jump the ropes, I'm
going to picture your wife and
pay the taxes.
Maybe a few more years they're
going to realize, OK, no one's
doing that.
We're just going to let this go.
Yeah, they're just sending it
anyway.
What are we doing here?
Yeah, this is ridiculous.
It's so wild to me.
It is.
Maybe.
I mean, how can I regulate any
of that?
You can't.
That's just it.
They can't.
Look, if you're going to send
cigars here, you have to pay us
the money, OK?
Send the cigars anyway.
Yeah, not that we do that.
Like if you, you know, if you
send somebody in to place an
order and it gets shipped to
them, then that's where people
will get popped, right.
But.
Oh, could they do it?
They could do that online.
Send they'll.
Say hey, just so you know, got
you.
Oh, I didn't think about that.
Oh, sneaky bastards.
But like, you got to hire that
employee, right?
You need to have a whole.
All you do is set up a fake
address somewhere.
Send it to a state
representative.
Right, exactly you.
Know what I mean?
What is this guy's name?
State Representative.
Yeah, it seems like.
Jeff Burton seems legit.
Seems legit.
That Jeff Burton guy seems nice.
Send it to Jeff.
He's the one who was making the
bill so we could do this.
We should just.
Send else.
Yeah, we'll give him.
Let's send him some.
What do you mean I'm not
documented?
I filled out the UTL stuff, it's
fine.
I got my Deadwood on there.
All right, Bocock brothers, our
favorite pair of brothers.
They are our favorite pair of
brothers.
Favorite brothers?
Bocock Brothers.
I don't think they're not.
They're not my favorite pair of
brothers.
That's your favorite pair of
brothers?
No.
Who's your favorite pair of?
Brothers.
The Hernandez brothers, Yeah,
yes, especially after the.
Name's not as fun to say,
though.
It's true.
Hernandez, Bocock.
It's just funny.
They're fun.
But Pete's like, you know this
one guy, and then Steve is
trying to.
Completely different guy.
Trying to control the one guy
you know.
Well, they're celebrating
Indiana's undefeated football
season.
Not the Hernandez, the Bocock
brothers, The Bococks with a new
cigar.
Yeah.
The Indiana Hoosiers football
team just kept an undefeated
national championship season.
And now our commemorative cigars
coming to celebrate the historic
run.
Oh. 00 I have a great name for
this.
I think they already have a
name, but go ahead.
Did they call it the Who's Your
Daddy?
That wouldn't be fun.
Wow, I thought.
That was good.
Yeah, it was great.
It just says the name of the
school on the packaging.
Sorry.
It's made in a Honduras at an
undisclosed factory.
So it's another college cigar.
Yes, but this says undefeated on
it, and it's in a big box, and
each little cigar has its own
little coffin.
I really miss an opportunity
here.
Who's your daddy, you know?
The release comes in a 6 by 52
Toro price debt Gentlemen
Freedom Dollars because
obviously this is American
College.
Bill.
It's a Bocock Cigar 650.
Two Toro.
Let's go to 25.
That's pretty good.
I'm going to go 18. 2758 got it.
Box of 10 Quickly, quickly,
quickly.
Box OF10275275.
They're 2750.
Well, yeah, he was close.
That's pretty good.
I didn't realize he was quick
guess.
Positioning it because you never
listened.
Position it as a premium
collectible smoke for fans and
cigar enthusiasts.
So does that mean don't smoke?
It is no good.
I don't know.
I've never smoked a cigar.
But it's no, they're they're
positioned it as a premium
collectible smoke.
Yeah, but realistically, a lot
of those guys, they're going to
buy that cigar and they're going
to keep the box.
It's going to be a collector's
edition, right?
So.
It doesn't matter what the cigar
tastes like.
Yeah, they can taste like a
complete ass.
They're never going to smoke
them.
But if you'd like to get some
Bocock cigars, the pre sale is
launching soon online and
through retailers, with the
official release scheduled for
the first week of March.
There you go.
Continuing the Bocock Brothers
trend of producing cigars for
major colleges.
I like what they're doing.
I think that's cool.
I.
Do too.
It's a niche market.
I think that they have found and
seem to be doing well.
With they're over here crushing.
Right.
Good job, Bocock.
Brothers.
Brothers.
There's two of them, both of you
2 cocks, the Bococks, the.
Two cocks, double cock.
Double cock.
Wow, I really think who's your
daddy would have been awesome.
That would be a good idea.
Who's your daddy?
But I think they're trying to
make it look more like the
college.
Well, it would have, said
Hoosier with the because they're
the Indiana Hoosiers.
Not who is your, but who's your
daddy?
Yeah, but they did.
Just looks just like the college
logo though.
Down, down, down, down, down,
down.
Padilla announces Canadian
distribution through Lindel
Cigar Importers.
Lindel.
In Canada.
We heard of Lindel before.
Is that the chocolate guy?
No, there's Lindor.
Completely different.
Completely different Lind there,
yeah.
Phil, he's a woo food.
Padilla Cigar is officially
entering the Canadian market for
the first time, making a major
international expansion for the
brand.
Oh, it's first time they've gone
international.
Distribution will be handled by
the Lindell Cigar Importers Inc,
with cigars expected to hit
Canadian shop sometime this
spring, including plans for a
Canada exclusive release.
Yeah.
What do you think is a good
idea, Michael?
What's that?
Do you think it's a good idea to
to go into Canada with cigars?
To expand into a different.
Market the Canada.
Canada specifically, I mean out
of the entire world you could go
to, they picked Canada.
I mean, it's convenient, it's
closed, certainly it's a lot
closer as far as importation.
They have to do any type of
event.
It's right there.
You could go.
Right, right.
It's an easy border to cross
back and forth.
You can.
Pick up some Maple syrup.
True.
I don't think it's a big market.
No, no, I don't think it's a big
market.
But hey, you know, what are you
looking to do as a brand?
Are you looking to just expand
it and sell a little extra more,
you know, a little more?
I don't see the harm in it.
How's anybody going to know what
their brand is in Canada when
they have no bands?
Stick in a box.
Listen, that's a regulatory
problem.
You know, that's a whole other
issue.
Apparently he picked Canada
because it helped his father's
freedom from political
imprisonment.
Imprisonment in Cuba with the
help from Ted Kennedy and the
Canadian government.
I like Ernie Ernie's got gets
mixed reviews all over the cigar
industry.
Some people like him, some
people hate.
Yeah, I've heard that about him
too.
I've heard people that used to
like him that don't like him no
more too.
Oh really?
Well, I can tell you that, you
know, 100 years ago when we were
releasing SBC and we did a
Caribbean cigars, he showed up.
Oh nice.
And he bought a box.
Oh, think he smoked them all or
still has some.
I have no idea.
I asked for your opinion.
He.
Probably threw them away, who
knows.
Oh, Rich, Rich.
No, but you know, like that was
cool.
It's rich, Rich.
Rich, if you're buying cigars,
you're throwing them away is out
of the.
Garbage.
He throws cigar away.
Rich I have so many cigars I
just bite them and throw them
away.
You know, but that's kind of the
crazy part to me is, you know,
like you'd be surprised that the
people who support it and who
don't sure, more often than not,
right in in any facet, whether
it's this podcast, whether it's
the Patreon, whether it's the
product, whether it's the store,
you know, even close friends,
right?
I mean I have some close friends
that aren't cigar guys, but they
bought swag off the chapter pod
right?
Oh, it's nice of.
Them whenever I see him, like
one guy, whenever I see him,
he's got the damn hat on all the
time, all the time like that.
That's a friend.
Sure, right?
And then, you know, you got
other guys that you would think
would support, right?
But they don't, and they won't.
And then, you know, when you
finally make it like, yeah, I
knew you'd be like, yeah, but
you didn't.
You didn't help.
You weren't.
You weren't there in the early
years.
Yeah.
You weren't bought in.
You weren't like, hey.
For the lean time, yeah.
For coffee.
Like if you start a business
like what are you saying?
For coffee.
What does that mean?
What?
What?
Do you well?
Boca, I didn't want, no, I
didn't want to say the real word
when those people aren't around,
you know, like they're not
there.
Yeah.
Right.
For for coffee, I was, I was
doing that.
So that way it wasn't the real
work.
I don't.
Know what's going on?
I don't either anyways.
OK, you know, but like, he
won't, you know, like Steve
started a lawn business.
Hey, congratulations.
You cut all the grass
everywhere.
I need grass.
Cut you.
You.
Do right.
You're the guy now, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, Ernie hardly knew me,
but he saw that we were getting
going.
This is probably 10 years ago.
And he was like, I'll buy a box,
I'll support you.
That's pretty cool.
I would help you out, you seem
nice.
It wasn't.
Even that I was like, hey, you
know, like he knew Nika Sueno.
I was like, they got good
tobacco, good cigars.
Like yeah man, I'll buy a box.
I hope I'm there next time he
buys a box so I can grab the
cigars as he throws them away.
He.
Probably smoked.
I was just kidding.
We can get him outside.
Yeah, if anybody throws away
cigars in front of me, that's
like a sin.
Like no, no, no, Oh my God,
don't.
Throw that away.
What are you doing?
What would you do?
You only smoked 1/4 of that.
Would you pick somebody else's
up Cigar?
Up there was only one cigar.
I think we've talked about this.
Did he really?
I would.
Oh, no.
Oh.
Well, when I tell you about it,
you're going to be like, maybe.
Not if somebody else has
already.
Been Oh yeah there was a guy
that came in here one time and
he had a 50th and he smoked like
2 puffs out of it, put it down
the ashtray and walked out and
left.
And you smoked.
It Oh I clipped the end of it
and smoked the fuck out.
Did you even know who the guy
was?
No.
What if he had AIDS or
something?
Bro what if he had first?
Or something.
You don't know this guy.
Dude, you're out of your mind.
You're so old, there's no aids.
Haven't you seen Magic Johnson?
Say it happened yesterday.
Put your mash back on.
I'm you know what?
I'm getting the nose back out.
Dude, I won't even smoke.
I won't share a cigar that I'm
testing in the factory.
Like I was like.
Dude me and Chet sat there for a
second and we looked at it and.
Then you flied over it.
Man, that's a 50th.
Nope, I still wouldn't touch it.
I.
Clipped it.
I was like, I'm doing it.
Yeah.
I hate relighting my wife's
cigar because she's such a wet
smoker.
Oh God, she'll go, oh, this went
out.
Can you light it for me?
And I'm like, OK, fine.
Then I have to take it in my
shirt and I have to dry.
For your wife.
Yeah, your wife is just spit,
like dripping off of it
sometimes.
It's gross.
Yeah, you wouldn't realize.
Think.
About think about how she feels
bro.
Yeah, I know.
That's why I can only complain
so much.
I'll tell you what I mean.
If, if, if, if the scenario was
was flipped, I would do.
I would do it for my wife.
Yeah.
I might not like it.
Might be a little, yeah.
You know, you make a face and
you're like, you try not to let
her watch you wipe the end off
with your shirt.
At the end of the day, I'm I'm
doing it, you know what I mean?
I'll ask no questions.
Right.
Hunt did that one time within
his cigar.
She's like, oh, you got to try
this so good, right?
And he goes and he wipes it off
and goes and I'm like, you're
crazy.
I put that in my mouth wrong
with you.
Come on man.
Which I'm.
Like no.
You haven't.
You've smoked other people's
cigars before.
Me, yeah.
No, I haven't.
No, he hasn't.
He won't.
Not intentionally.
I've you.
Well, you accidentally did.
I remember.
He he drank out of my cup in
here one time and I didn't say
anything till after he drank it.
I think, oh wow, I think we were
at PCA and I think he actually
only smoked Greg's cigar.
Yeah, I believe that.
Well, yeah, that might have.
Happened.
Oh God, that's the worst.
You don't know where he's been.
That's happened more than once.
I'm like, fuck, I try.
I try my best to protect my
cigar at all times, no?
And we came up here Sunday.
Keanu hugged my wife.
I'm like, you don't know where
he's been, honey, you don't hug
him.
Yeah, look at him.
He doesn't bathe.
Yeah.
He goes, stop it and I'm like,
no, So I went back to go to the
bathroom and his jacket was back
there.
So I took his jacket off the
chair and I threw it in the
floor.
Then he texted me later when we
were down here, he goes, did you
put my jacket in the floor?
And I go.
I don't know, did the jacket hug
my wife?
Wow, dude, dude, you're you're
something else.
You're something else.
Poor Keanu.
And I said don't hug her on the
way out.
The jacket might not be so
lucky.
You just, you just jump to the
top of his list.
Yeah.
So you're probably like, well.
Palmer's always.
So much for him, it just.
You're like four or five.
You're number one with an
asterisk.
Palmer's always good on top.
Of it in the face.
I need him I want like closed
casket.
That's not that's yeah.
He didn't hug her on the way out
and then so she walks out the
door and I look at him.
I pour my finger at him.
He goes.
I didn't hug her.
Oh dude.
You're a terrible person.
Oh, I love the kid.
He's fun.
All right, now we're in the
portal.
We're in the portal.
We need a portal noise.
Boom.
There you go.
One more time.
One more time.
Perfect.
OK.
Thank you so much.
I forgot to add his name.
It's.
Tony Gomez, our friend Tony
Gomez.
Oh, no.
Formerly of Espinoza Cigar.
Formerly of.
Wyatt.
Wyatt Cigars.
That was the only conversation.
Wyatt.
Formerly of Luciano Cigars,
formerly of Tony Gomez Cigar
Brokerage, OK, He's announced he
has accepted a position as
territory manager for the
Artista Cigar Company covering
Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana,
OK.
For who?
Artista that was one of his
brokerage companies that he that
he Rep.
That's the El Pupo guys, right?
I think it is El Pupo.
Yeah, yeah, that's OK.
I mean they get they get AJ
stuff that work out of the AJ
factory.
So they got decent to buy.
It's a decent cigar, Yes, I'd
agree with that.
But here's the question.
So he walks into your shop,
let's say he was your Rep, and
he comes in and he's selling
Espinoza, and then he comes in,
he's selling Luciano.
Then he comes in, he's doing
Warfighter 15-O2 Black Star
Line.
Now he comes in doing artista.
Do you buy artista or?
I think there's one factor here
that you're not really
considering.
You said he walked into a store.
Yeah.
If he was walking into stores
consistently and selling
product, probably would be still
with one of those companies.
Well, we know he quit Espinoza
to take a national sales
manager, Luciano.
I think that was the trip and
then after that it's been
looking for a place.
Trip.
Oh, I thought you meant trick.
No like he that.
Grass is always greener, man.
That's the struggle, right?
I don't know how you leave
Espinosa.
Yeah, for and especially, well
Luciano, this other company.
Luciano looked at many eyes.
Yeah, he's like, yes.
You're a sales manager.
I'm in.
I get profit sharing, percentage
of ownership.
Yeah, certainly.
And then we rub each.
Other fuck you, I'm going over
here.
Baby oil.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I don't
know.
I think Espinoza takes care of
their guys.
Yeah, you know, I bet they like
Eric.
Seems pretty straightforward.
Unless you're Alfredo, because
then you just you're.
Not well, he wasn't technically
one of.
Their he wasn't he's not really
a he.
Wasn't, you know, actual family.
Terrible.
Like a cousin.
Alfredo doesn't work for them.
Terrible person.
No, they replacing with Richie.
Yeah, dude, a year ago.
Yeah, a long time ago.
But he does bring me M&M's, so
all right, You're OK, Alfredo.
He's still Foundation.
We shipped the.
COD.
All right, now it's time for
What's the score?
Excellent, gentlemen.
Excellent.
Yeah.
All right.
This cigar is from March 6th,
2019.
Brooks Whittington reviewed the
cigar.
It is a Nicaraguan Pier 28.
It's a Pier 28 Oscuro Perfecto.
Are you guys familiar with Pier
28?
No, no.
There are hundreds of different
sales representatives for many
different cigar companies.
Few of those representatives can
boast of having their own brand.
One such person is Tim Wong.
Ah, from Espinoza Cigars.
Interesting.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Oh, I believe that's Tim.
I believe that's Tim Wong.
Are you sure?
I meant to look it up but I'm
just going with I.
Don't think that's him you.
Don't think so.
No, let's look real quick.
Can we just say it is?
Because that's what I'm going
with today.
Oh, dude.
All right, Team Money's got
another comment if you want to
go and read.
It's not Tim Wong.
The the ridicule that you're
going to receive.
Oh, from Jack always.
Tim Wong is my friend.
Yeah.
All right, it's not him.
It's.
Definitely not him.
It's different him.
Different, different guy.
Totally different guy.
He he is my friend though.
That's, Oh my God, really a
different guy.
Oh great.
That's hilarious.
He's in California, appeared 28
cigars.
That guy strikes you as a Tim
Wong.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yeah, I thought that was his.
No, but apparently it's not.
Let me see what my boy team
Money wrote.
Yeah, what did team money?
Something about the driver's
license?
Something about the driver's
license?
That's what he said.
It's not funny.
Read it anyway I.
Don't want to read it, can't
make me.
I like I don't have access to
it.
Yeah, so I think the driver's
license test being in English is
the correct way.
If you are a naturalized citizen
or legally admitted permanent
resident green card holder, you
need to be able to read and
write basic English.
A Mexican driver's license test
in strict in strictly in
Spanish.
It's strictly.
Oh yeah, a Mexican driver's
license is strictly in Spanish.
Hell yes, brother.
I like to think we're above
Mexico a little bit, you know
what I'm saying?
All right, guys, give me a
score.
Pier 28. 86. 87.
All right, he's a pier 28 of
squirrel Perfectos from
Nicaragua, from Lazona.
The rapper is Brazil.
Scurro Binary is Nicaraguan.
Filler is Nicaraguan.
Length 5 1/2 by 56 Perfecto.
They smoked 3.
This is not a redux.
Lazona Factory or Lazona AJ
Lazona?
Factory. 84 People don't
understand how hard it is to get
tobacco and then for men.
Right.
They think it's just over there
everywhere.
Yeah. 85.
Stick with me.
He should have went first, so
the.
Clue, make him go first next
time.
OK, clue #1 The cigar delivers a
complex and enjoyable flavor
profile early on, led by cloves
and dark chocolate, with
sporting supporting notes of
leather, cedar, cinnamon, nuts
and a subtle Maple sweetness,
keeping the first half engaging
and balanced.
Phil.
No, the next cigar.
There you go.
No, there is not another cigar.
There's a mini game.
This is not Monday. 91. 84.
Construction and see.
How different that was?
See how different that was?
Well, it doesn't matter 'cause
there's more guesses.
Should've said 90 screw with
them.
Construction is strong overall,
especially after the nipple cap
opens up nipple, the draw
becomes excellent.
Smoke production is thick and
plentiful, and performance stays
consistent through most of the
cigar Phil. 85. 92.
Clue #3 The final third falls
apart flavor wise as strength
ramps up too aggressively,
overwhelms nuance, and shifts
into more generic hay and bitter
notes, losing the complexity
that made the 1st 2/3 shine.
Phil.
This is the third clue.
Yes, yes.
Now all we have left is the
final thought. 86. 84.
Final thought for the 1st 2/3,
The Pier 28 features a fairly
enjoyable, albeit fairly linear
profile, nominated by a nice
combination of cloves and dark
chocolate.
Unfortunately, the final third
ran into issues, namely
significantly less sweetness as
well as strength level that
increase dramatically, which in
turn throws off the balance That
was one of the best features of
the 1st 2/3.
Having said that, other than the
ash issue, the overall
construction was quite good and
while people who enjoy mild to
medium spoke should probably
proceed with caution, I would be
interested to see how this
particular vitola changes with a
bit of age.
Where are you, Phil?
I'm going to stick at 86. 8583.
Boom.
Wow.
I was so close 84.
I was hanging 84 the whole time,
90.
One, you said 92 one time what
you said 91 or something.
Or not.
Yeah, just to be a smart ass.
Right.
Hey, anybody got anything else?
Where are you going to be?
Well, I've been saying it every
day.
I was going to skip a day, but
Friday I will be at Leaf and
Bean in Saint Augustine from
5:00 to 8:00 PM for a Postana
event at Island gyms Leaf and
Bean OK.
And at the end of the month I
will be at North Port Cigars in
North Port, FL.
Boom.
All right, thank you everybody
for listening and watching.
Patreon is going to drop here
tomorrow.
It's already set up.
Patreon dropped today.
By Bing.
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We got to go bite.
Show Notes
On Todays Show Bahama Breeze is going away, Guthrie Update, Fishback is Back In the news! I=Florida Iguanas hate the cold for an even bigger reason now! and update to the florida no English no drive story. Then in cigars. Utah maybe be able to buy online, Bocock is boback, Padilla Cigars Aay, we have a portal entry from the most portal guy we know. Then we wrap the show with a what’s the score