ACHP 505 Hot Dogs, Chips, Bahama Divorce and Luciano Lowers Prices
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Welcome to a Cigar House for
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I'm Mike Palmer, your host, and
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Florida Man has all the wieners.
Oh God, here we go.
Again, what is not that?
Walmart has had enough of high
prices.
A woman in the Bahamas is
missing.
And then our cigar guy Luciano
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T Money says Phil keeps saying
the mics are are doing things
yet sound fine.
He also sounds like Jabba the
Hutt when he laughs and tries to
talk solo.
So I wonder if you can't hear
it.
No, you can't hear it.
You can slightly hear it.
When he enhances the audio it it
fixes a lot of it.
OK, Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sorry, team money, you know this
is production stuff and I have
to make sure it's good all over.
His head.
Is that what you're saying?
That's right.
Yeah, well, I mean, if we don't
make sure it's good, Palmer, we
get beat, right?
Yeah, that is true, right, so.
So I'm assuming that you didn't
edit any of the stuff out when
the mics went bad, you just
kind.
Of no, I, I mean you how many
times I had to look for it.
No, it's for a split second.
You want me to be truthful or
not truthful, you know, right?
Your name is on.
You're to the show.
You're aware of that, right?
Yes, I'm aware of that.
Yeah, I don't think it adds to
the show it.
Adds to the show.
Well, I think it adds to the
show OK.
Do people like it?
Vote now.
The production department thinks
it adds to the show.
No, no, no, don't involve me.
Data cache 2004 I will write.
Down the times.
Oh, no, no, no.
See, you're involving me, right?
Well, you're going to have to
write down the times.
Data cache 2004.
I will be Phil's personal
assistant as long as one of the
perks are industry standard
cigars.
Industry standard.
Yeah, he wants you to buy him
cigars as part of his pay.
No, he wants the Nika Sueno
cigars that the industry
standard that he made, Yeah.
The specific industry.
Standard, you may be able to
arrange that he never.
King of the Dum Dums here I am,
King of the Dum Dums.
CW6383 What's up with Palmer's
hair this morning?
You know, at least I have hair.
I looked at him.
You researched this guy.
You.
Know I saw the comment and I
looked him like what the hell he
didn't even have much hair.
I have I have three times the
amount of hair he knows and he's
bitching about my hair and I
wouldn't look to the video.
My hair didn't look bad
yesterday.
You better be nice to Mr. Weiss.
Researched them.
I researched them, you know.
I researched him.
Well, you can see his photo on
the comments, so I zoomed in.
He's got like this little tough
on top of his head.
You leave that little tough
alone.
It's a beautiful tough.
Hey, give me about my hair.
I have hair.
Yeah, listen, don't pick, don't
pick.
Fun to serve people here because
Wow usually comes back in a
while.
He wasn't even picking fun.
He was just asking a question.
It was just a simple, hey, he's.
Taking a shot.
Hey, your hair looked different.
He's taking a shot.
I don't think he was saying it
looked really good.
What did you do differently?
No.
What happened?
Why?
I would like to do a little
tough the way you did.
How does it look today?
Your hair looked a little off
today.
What's what's going on?
Everything right?
Hair was fine.
It was fine.
He was worried about you.
No, I don't think that.
Was it?
Yeah, it was.
No, no, he needed something to
attack.
He's a good guy.
I'm sure he's a great.
Man, we love, we love.
He's just a little chilly on the
roof.
Wow, wow, wow.
You know what?
And I have a fine selection of
hats if I don't want to do
anything.
Oh they're nice, get yours now,
40% off.
No, they can't buy this hat.
Can't buy that one that that.
One is, well, first of all, Mr.
Weiss, I believe, is the guy
that's going to get the bear hat
right when we get the Black Hat
in.
No, I thought there was T money.
No T money already has it.
CCW blah blah blah.
Yeah.
Oh, maybe.
Yeah, so maybe he wants the hat
to cover his Dome.
Maybe like you're what you're
doing.
He.
Probably wants a beanie.
Because you had a bad hair day,
you're wearing you're wearing
your hat today.
No, I just felt like I got up
really late today and I didn't
feel like doing anything.
You're lucky I have clothes on
today.
Saw the YouTube comment and
you're like you know what, I'm
going to wear a.
Hat Nope, I couldn't get out of
bed this morning.
I didn't get here till almost 9.
All right, two more real quick.
David Hoffman 4727 says Entice
is going to be a new vanilla
infused regular production
replacing the Zucar.
Nice.
Which is the ex.
My wife would like to try that
if you could, you know, get me a
couple.
And then?
I'll come by Winky, Winky.
Epicurean Smoke says yes, the
lady on TikTok is the only
reason there's evidence of the
moon.
Mission.
That's it.
It's the only reason.
Palmer Also Artemis 2 took a
wider trajectory than the Apollo
13 by about 4100 miles.
Let me know if there's any other
simple stuff you need me to
Google for you.
Yeah, how much hair does that
other guy really have?
Wow.
Wow, wow.
I'm going to make you write an
apology letter to Mr. Weiss.
You know, you telling me I'm.
Too busy looking for every time
the microphone goes off in the
video.
He's going to get a free
signature.
Free.
Yeah, you get a free autograph.
We should start charging for
those.
You should sign all the all the
swag before it goes out.
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I feel like there's one other
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Audio and video both on the
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Audio and video both it's.
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OK I want to be clear real quick
before we start.
I have no watch on and my phone
is on the table.
Well, good job.
We also found out one of the
microphones had a firmware
update that had not been hit and
one of them was had more juice
than the other.
For some reason it.
Wasn't my fault.
Well, well, the same thing was
happening on the Preston Show,
so, you know, they were getting
very upset.
It's potentially, it could
potentially have been you could
have been a contributing factor.
Yeah, because I I looked up and
it said thing they said you
could get interference from
other electronic equipment.
Check for a firmware update.
Make sure they're both fully
charged.
So it's possible.
So all three of those things had
happened.
Well, we'll see how today goes.
I like how Palmer kind of
nonchalantly says 01 of the
firmwares were updated, the
other one wasn't.
Well, I mean like, well listen,
they're in the thing.
So when you hit update it does
them both.
It's not like you separate one
from.
The other with your hands.
I can, though it's not auto
focus.
It is auto.
Focus.
It's OK if it gets a little
blurry when you it's OK if it
gets a little blurry.
I'm OK with that.
I thought I was having this.
Stroke.
Do it again.
Do it again.
Move your hands.
Yeah, perfect.
Oh God.
Jason Stroke.
So anyways, now.
They both they both update in
the charging thing, so it's not
like you could say only do the
left one.
But you didn't check to see they
were updated I guess.
I don't check that every day.
They don't always plug in the
laptop.
You have to run a special
software for that, which is the
one that you use.
When we were pulling audio off
of the microphones, which we
don't have to do anymore, that
didn't work.
That did not work.
OK, you need like 7 channel
recording or something to do
that.
Right.
All right, now the news.
This just in Florida man stopped
at airport.
He had some things strapped to
his body.
Oh, really?
What were the things?
Do we have to guess?
Let's guess.
Yeah, I have a lot of fun things
in the show today.
Let's start with this guess, OK?
Sausages.
Your guess?
Animals.
Well, they were hot dogs, so
he's close enough.
Oh yes, I'm closer.
How would you know that?
Fire the sparklers.
We need that air horn.
Why would he have basketball
game?
Why would he have sausages taped
to him?
Well, he was on his way to a
family party in Cincinnati, OH,
and he wanted to bring something
for the party.
Oh God.
So he thought, I will bring the
hot dogs.
They were uncooked hot dogs, OK?
TSA asked why they were
uncooked.
He goes.
You don't cook another man's hot
dog, OK?
He was also found with something
in his pocket. 2 items in his
pocket.
Anybody want to guess?
What were they?
Ketchup.
Mustard.
A meth pipe.
Mustard and a fork.
Oh, I was gloved fires.
Only one smuggler.
Only one smuggler because you
know you might get hungry on the
flight.
Right. 63 year old Pompano Beach
Man Tuesday after a full body
scanner revealed what agents
initially described as an
anomalous layered situation
cross his torso, arms and upper
thighs.
He had 47 individually uncooked
hot dogs secured to his body
with duct tape. 47 That's it.
47.
How is this illegal?
I don't understand.
Well, it could represent
dynamite.
Yeah, well, I mean, when you go
through, you know, the body
scanner thing, it shows these
long skinny things all hooked to
your body just.
Hot dogs.
Well, it turned out to be hot
dogs.
You don't know that.
You don't know that until you
pat him down and see what they
are.
So he was stopped and they let
him go.
No, no, they confiscated the hot
dogs after they called the
people in Cincinnati and
verified the family party.
Yes, he's well.
I mean, that was the story the
man told.
They verified his story was that
we weren't aware he was bringing
the hot dogs.
It was a surprise.
Now you've ruined it.
Right now you're ruined.
This is.
Wild.
I don't understand what he.
Said his checks bag got
completely out of control.
He had no other place to put the
hot dogs, so he strapped them on
with duct tape.
Well, you can't let one guy get
through like that, because if
you do that then you're going to
start having other people.
Right, right.
He didn't do anything wrong.
He.
Worked on the placement of the
hot dogs for over 3 weeks to get
everything just right so we can
bend his arms and they don't
show.
And it looked just like
dynamite.
And we punished this guy.
He said he was the most
organized he had felt since he
retired.
Is it?
Was he military?
No, they didn't say.
We don't do things.
Like CIA, Was it CIA?
CIA.
He's like CIA.
Oh, it's a travel size mustard
too.
Well.
Oh my God.
It's a tiny.
Travel size.
Well, you know the big, big
liquid you can't take through
security.
I think this guy had a hot dog
problem.
They wanted the tape back, but
he gave up the hot dogs.
Willy Lincoln?
What's that?
He wanted the tape back, but he
gave up the hot dogs.
Really.
Give him my tape back.
Hey, can I have that tape?
Now just wait a second here, I
didn't break any rules with this
tape.
That's that's a good duck tape.
I can ride that back up.
Obviously TSA did not comply
with his request.
They took the tape.
Too.
They even took the tape.
No message of an arrest.
So I imagine after they, you
know, the hot dogged him, UN
wienered him, they let him go on
to the plane.
You think he was flying
Frontier?
I don't know.
There was another.
There was another Frontier
story.
Absolutely.
All of it's Frontier, and
apparently you didn't read this
one, but Spirit Airline has the
highest safety record.
Oh yeah, of any airline.
That's what T Money said.
Really.
Yeah, he loves to fly.
Spirit, he loves to fly.
Spirit, that's the one that you,
Chet and I flew when we raced
you to to Detroit.
And we won.
We even had time for lunch.
I'm not doing it.
It was fine.
We had a lovely flight though.
You guys did, Yeah.
But you can't talk to him time
he, you know, puts all his gear
on.
You get the cookie.
Are you the one with the cookie?
I want my cookie.
On spirit, is it a biscotti?
No, no delta.
I like this.
We went delta.
Gotcha.
Delta baby.
You the one with the cook
cookies.
Delta United.
American.
Yeah.
Is that the order?
Yes, Yeah, that sounds about
right, all.
Right, All right, now we're
moving on.
OK, you're familiar with
Walmart.
I was so.
I've heard of it.
All right.
So there's a product that has
gotten so high in price that
they've lost their shelf space
and been replaced by generic
products and or moved lower on
the shelf.
Guess what it is?
Is it?
No clues.
PVC pipe.
Did they sell that at Walmart?
No.
I would think so.
Orange juice.
Wait, wait is this wait hold on
now, because Walmart is a big.
Store No no, no.
Is this a consumable item?
I said no.
Clues.
So that's it.
PVC or orange juice?
Yeah, Doritos.
Doritos.
Doritos.
Yeah, Doritos have been losing
Doritos, Cheetos, and there's
one other type of chip, all made
by the Pepsi Cola Company.
Doritos are up to $7.00 a bag.
Wow, why?
Because Nacho cheese is gold.
Because of the inflation and
stuff.
But now Pepsi company, yes,
Pepsi.
Yeah, right.
So they've tried the less chips
in the same size bag to lower
the price.
Yeah.
People didn't fall for that.
They've tried contest.
People didn't fall for that.
Nobody's buying Doritos now.
They're buying off brands.
And by the knockoffs.
The knockoffs.
So Pepsi has lowered the price
on Doritos.
To what?
$6.
Executive Pepsi Company waited
too long or they took too long.
The slash of prices on $7.00
bags, snacks, Doritos, Cheetos
and Lay's potato chips.
There we go.
That's the other one costing the
company billions of dollars.
Yeah, good for them.
So now they're lowering it I
believe back down to the $5
price which is pre COVID they
were 5.
Dollars, right?
Yeah, Serves you right.
They were 398 man.
That's the little tiny bags.
How much the CEO of Pepsi?
Are they the same as Pepsico's?
They're considered the same
thing.
What's the CEO?
Pepsi.
Pepsi owns Doritos, so I don't
think there's a CEO of Doritos,
no.
No, no, OK.
Just type in.
The cost are up 50% since 2021.
Costs.
I'd like to know what the cost.
Of no they mean like the $7.00
used to be 350 or whatever it
is.
Oh yeah, yeah, it was like it
was. 2021 OK.
I only know because my kids love
Doritos.
The CEO of PepsiCo, Ramon
Laguerta.
Ramon.
Ramon received a total
compensation of approximately
23.9 million to 34 million in
recent years, with a base salary
of around 1.7 million and the
rest in stock.
Options and bonuses, man.
That's a great, that's a great
contract.
Bro.
Yeah, but it's not just Doritos.
I mean, the other stuff sells
good.
Yeah, he works hard.
Right.
Drinking soda, eating chips,
all.
Day Yeah, but you just botched
an icon.
There's like there's no reason
why that the sales of Doritos
should have been affected.
He should have modified.
I'd like to note, can you look
up how much a bag of Doritos
cost to make?
No.
They wouldn't tell you that.
Probably not.
Maybe there's a speculative
number?
Maybe it's I could double up.
Maybe they just keep doubling
up.
So it's in the third world
company where country where it's
made, it's a dollar.
Yeah, it's food.
Is it consumable?
So usually like they, they cost
nothing to make food, right?
No, no, probably that's why we
oh boy, I got an answer here.
We keep getting them recalled
just per to read them.
Submitted by Pepsi Yeah, Pepsi.
Based on industry estimates, it
costs roughly 20 to $0.30 in raw
materials and production to make
a single bag of Doritos.
Yeah, there you go.
Does that include the bag?
The bag's probably very
expensive.
Raw Materials While the actual
cooking and bagging part is
relatively inexpensive, this
figure only covers a fraction of
the total expense.
The vast majority of the retail
price, which has recently
climbed as high as $7.00 in some
areas, is driven by several
other major factors, logistics
and distribution, marketing and
R&D, well, we screwed that one
up.
Labor and supply chain and just
general retail markup.
Wow.
That's.
Yeah, because you know, you
know, the chips don't get put
out by Walmart employees.
Right, there's a chip guy.
Yeah, there's the chip guy,
which is another like 4th party
down that has to put another
markup on it.
So, yes, but isn't that the
company that's PepsiCo company?
No, no, no, no, no.
It's like.
It's a chip guy.
Yeah, like.
Like, OK, it is a Dorito truck
type, Yeah.
Yeah, he has advertisement but
but he is a A.
It's like a beer subcontractor.
Yeah, like a beer distributor.
I only know this because Kylie,
my assistant, her husband owns a
bread route and he does Publix
and Walmart and all them and he
is it's his own business.
He buys the route, he has to buy
the bread from Marita in the
land, which is the distributor,
I would guess you'd call them.
And then he has to go put it all
out.
And if he doesn't, then Walmart
won't carry it or Publix won't
carry that bread.
So like he has like.
You have the bread he has, so
you have to have a distributor.
Well, there's a distributor
which is Marita, which is the
land.
That's where he goes and gets
all the bread from and then he
has to go shelf it.
And he also has to make the
relationships with Publix,
Walmart, you know, all the
places he's going to shelf it
at.
Right grocery store business is
almost criminal.
Yeah, it really is.
I mean you you pay to put your
stuff on their shelf.
Yep right.
They have slotting fees.
So depending on your placement
on the shelf, what level it's
higher or lower?
Apparently you can pay.
You pay to put cigars on your
shelf too.
Not on.
Not just buying the cigars.
Yeah, that's a rumor going
around.
Oh really?
That some stores are running
slotting fees.
No, and and you can invest.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, is that how they get their
30 days?
Everybody can own a piece.
Man, how can we make it sound
like a good idea but I need 90
day terms here.
Right, you need net 90 that.
'D be great and then I'm going
to put it on a credit.
Card and then I'm going to put
on a card and it's going to come
declined.
Right.
And another 90 we're going to
restart the process.
And we're going to stop
answering the phone for another
90.
It's been 6 months, can we
please get our 500 bucks?
How about half?
No, I can't.
Get it to you, man.
I sold all your cigars, but I
reinvested it.
I.
Reinvested it in somebody else.
'S I got a good deal on these
other cigars.
It was a five in one.
I couldn't pass it up.
They gave me a discount and
terms.
So you call them for your.
Money.
Yeah.
Yeah, you can call them.
That's not my problem.
All right, American woman is
missing in the Bahamas.
Oh.
OK, the way we're going to do
this story, I am the lady's
husband.
You are the Bahamian
authorities.
Oh, he gets to be the Bohemian.
Yeah, so you have to do the
accent.
I don't know a bohemian.
Accent.
Just do.
Yeah, just do.
Jamaican.
Amon.
Amon OK, then you ask me
questions and I'll explain what
happened to my wife.
What happened?
That wasn't even close.
That was close.
Thank you.
We're in a little 8 foot skiff.
We're on our way back to the to
the yacht after dinner.
Big wave.
She got splashed out of the
boat.
You didn't try and save her.
Well the problem is when she got
splashed out she had the life
jacket on with the the
attachment on it that turns the
motor off so I couldn't turn
around and get her.
No, mom.
So how did you get back?
Well, I paddled, tried to catch
her, took me an hour and a half
to paddle back to shore, came
out where there was no phones,
and then I had to walk up the
beach.
So I found somebody with a phone
and make a phone call to call
you to come ask me these
questions.
Do you love your wife?
Sure.
Are you sure about that?
So that's the story though, that
that took place and even her
daughter now is going.
My mother wouldn't have just
fallen out of the.
Boat.
Yeah, no kidding.
Right, so nobody is saying that
the that the husband should be
looked at, but pretty sure the
husband should be looked at.
That's kind of what we're
leaning towards here, right I?
Mean perfectly still night all
sudden Rogue Wave knocks her out
of the little 8 foot skiff that
they were taken back.
I mean, it's kind of legit.
I don't know why would you
throw?
Why would she have the life
jacket on that turned the motor
off?
Maybe coincidental?
Don't you have to hook that on?
Yeah.
So then it's not a coincidence.
Well, here, honey, put this life
jacket on.
Be careful.
It's attached to the motor.
Couldn't just be bad luck?
Or good luck, you've been the
other side.
You're on well right now,
allegedly.
It's right now it's bad luck for
him.
Man, those swells were huge it.
Was terrible that one Rogue Wave
came out of nowhere.
I don't know why we were in this
skiff.
Well, they were coming back
after dinner, right?
Going back to the bigger boat.
So they apparently were people
of means, right?
Right.
Very nice, I just got a weird
Calum Lily link.
Did she have the money?
There has been no discussion of
who was in charge of the money.
Both the couple were in their
mid to late 50s.
Oh, he's ready for wife #2 yeah.
Or 3 or 4.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Yeah, wherever in the integer
line you want to be.
I don't know why.
Listen, they'll open all that up
and take a look.
I want to take some time to get
some warrants and stuff, but.
Yeah, and they haven't.
They have.
I mean, the boat drifted back up
to the shore.
The woman did not.
I don't know man, it's not like
he got some money.
He may be greasing some bohemian
palms.
Let's not jump to the
conclusions.
Let's give this guy a fair
shake.
No, we're just speculating.
We're speculating it's probably
at least a life insurance.
At minimal.
Well, you guys see what that
looks like?
I mean like, you know.
I mean if they got a skiff onto
a bigger boat I'm sure that
plant looks great.
Right, Yeah.
He just wasn't, you know,
allegedly an accident or
anything.
And he gets the boat and.
He gets the boat and the skiff.
Still, you still have the little
skiff.
Just doesn't have a cook
anymore.
So can you ever start the motor
again?
Just needs another piece to put
in that they pull out.
Needs to get the key.
And it just needs a little key
that.
Pulls up you didn't think it all
the way through maybe maybe he
tried like a this is Sparta
approach with her and she's.
Like.
She fall as.
He kicked her in the hole.
Yeah, and she, you know, maybe.
I mean, who knows?
Who knows what the waves were
like?
Maybe he's not lying.
There was one wave.
One big wave.
One big wave is what the report.
Didn't see the.
Boat wave came up in the dark.
Well it was dark, they couldn't
see No, no lights or nothing.
I.
Don't know.
I just, I'm not understanding, a
husband says, yeah, I think it's
a good idea to get on this
skill.
Well, I mean, they're in the
they're in the Bahamas on
vacation.
They go.
They go into to have dinner.
Come on baby, let's go.
We got a you know, this is our
little dinghy to our bigger
boat.
They probably do it all the
time.
She's sitting in the front.
Maybe she had a couple of wines.
Wee.
Yeah, and you know, they had a
little bump.
Wee, wee.
Oh, she's gone.
Oh man.
Here, take that was the one
hooked to the engine?
No, not.
What am I going to do?
Somebody's being an ass.
Somebody keeps making
appointments.
Yeah, and they think they're
funny.
Do they?
Are they stupid and give their
names?
No, they're making no.
It is somebody who trying to
what booth?
Now it's somebody that that
knows that's close enough to us,
so it's going to be somebody we
know.
Well, it's not like, oh, why are
they saying things?
They're making the jokes that
they're making are.
They poop jokes.
We know who you are.
Are they the kind of jokes we're
not allowed to do anymore?
One of them.
We know who it is.
They know who it is.
They're getting us back.
Or it's a.
Rival company trying to use up
all our appointment times.
Oh no, that's not somebody's.
Somebody's trying to be funny.
It's not funny.
Stop it.
It's.
Not funny.
Yeah, well, they're not going to
hear this.
Oh, I got to cut this part out
too.
No, they're not going to hear it
until the next day.
Well.
Tomorrow.
I know they don't hear it now.
Maybe they go into tomorrow.
It's so funny yesterday, let's
do it again today.
Are you just deleting them?
I canceled them, yeah.
I wanted to see what they.
Say, I'll show you what they say
after the show.
All right, all.
Right.
Do you have a video there's?
Been another fuck.
Oh yeah, I saw this.
After the there's been another
fuck.
Out.
I didn't get to hear it.
There's been another F up.
Oh.
So we extended, we gave them two
weeks or something.
I thought we gave them 24 hours
and for.
Two weeks?
No, they have two weeks.
Oh well, whatever I heard last
night, there's been a ceasefire
agreed to, and we're all friends
again.
Yeah, yeah, it's for two.
Weeks we've agreed to terms.
Oh, it's just for two weeks.
Yeah.
Oh, so in two weeks we start
fighting again.
There's a new lease.
That seems stupid.
Yeah, I was going to say the
same thing.
Why just take two weeks off?
Look, if we haven't learned from
the past three times that we've
been doing this, they're just
going to, you know, take the two
weeks and they're going to go.
He's not serious.
Build a nuclear bomb and then.
Right.
We're giving them time to to.
We need 2 weeks to build a bomb.
See what you can do right.
You think so?
Well, I can tell you this much.
There's.
Definitely American Intel just
sitting over this whole country
at this point.
I mean everywhere that they can
make anything or do anything.
You think there?
You think there hasn't been
Intel sitting over this country
this whole time?
Oh yeah, yeah, but the guy with
the binoculars is on overtime
now.
Yeah, yeah. 75 satellites just
going around this country now.
Hey, there's there's not another
49 guys, but there's one guy
just walked back in the
building.
What should we do?
Fire the laser.
And apparently the Ayatollah has
on blue socks today.
Anyone know what that means?
I don't.
I don't understand it.
I need 2 weeks.
I don't.
Understand the two weeks thing
either.
Time's up, bro.
Yeah.
Pay your bills bro.
Yeah, that's it.
We're here.
We're here now every we've
shipped everybody over.
We're.
Ready rent's due, son, right?
Yeah, everybody's just sitting
there now, playing in the sand
for two.
Weeks.
How they open up the Strait of
Hormuz in these two weeks.
Well, that's the that's the
thing, he said.
They said that they will, but
that hasn't happened.
I don't believe.
I heard Solinsky sort of went
over there and went, I'm tired
of this.
And he used his Navy to open up
the door the.
Solinsky, Yeah.
Yeah, from the Ukraine.
Ukraine.
For real?
Yeah, like he's got.
He don't have enough problems.
I guess the Navy's the party's
winning against Russia.
He's trying to make more
friends.
So he went.
I'm not asking anybody.
Send the boats.
Yeah.
And then he's cleared the
Straits of Hormuz.
Yeah, hey, I'm not acknowledged
by NATO, so right.
Fuck you guys.
Sorry language.
Wow.
This is almost as bad as the
rental will place.
Yeah, I'm not even hiding in a
room anymore.
I love that I don't get my news
from anywhere but you.
It's so awesome because
someone's going to look at a
short clip and be like, that's
not what happened.
I'm like, look, I don't, I don't
watch the news.
Where's that girl to tell us
what's going on in the Middle
East?
The one who tells us about the
moon launches.
Although they were really
afraid.
Take that girl.
Yeah.
Did she do one on the straight?
Hormuz can we?
Get one about Iran.
Not Iran.
Iran.
Oh, we have to say it the right
way now we're about to blow it
up into the Stone Age.
It can be whatever we want.
To do, we're not going to do
anything.
Well, not for two weeks.
I don't know, guys.
The guy seems like he's, you
know, talk to a big game.
Once, once the bombs hit that
place, it'll be the Gulf of
America too.
I go on this, I go on the circle
with this guy because sometimes
I'm like, all right, you're full
of it.
You talk about game.
Meanwhile, then they extract
Maduro.
I'm like, all right, that was
impressive.
That was good.
That was good.
I didn't know which guy you.
Met and then and it's like, all
right, well, we're going to
level it where it's going to be
just glass by the time you know,
like he says whatever he's going
to say he's like, well, two more
weeks.
Wait, what?
Right.
Why the two weeks where we at?
It was kind of a bad look what
was going on.
Like you saw all the people
joining arms around all the
power plants and stuff.
OK, but that was at gunpoint.
It's not like they're like, oh,
let's all stand around the power
plant.
They made them.
Go stand around the power plant.
Right.
Is that how that works?
That's how it all, right.
So what's the right call?
So what do you think the right
call is there if they're
standard, if they have people,
hostages or whatever standing
around the power plant?
I think this is the right call.
Tell me.
We're going to send over some
some transportation or whatever.
Maybe we'll help out with that.
You have 72 hours to get out of
this country.
They're.
Not going to let you leave are.
You telling all the people it?
Doesn't matter.
I'm giving you 72 hours to get
out of this country and then
we're bombing.
It so you.
Gave them an eviction notice,
you know, you paste it on their
door the.
Guy shows up with a hammer and a
piece of paper.
Right.
Yeah. 72.
Hours.
What do you do?
Here comes the tow.
Truck don't we have supposedly
we have a bomb like they can
make it come through that
window, blow you up and not hurt
us, right?
So let's put a bomb through the
window at the power plant, not
hurt anybody outside, and hit
the button that turns it on.
Hit the button.
Whatever it is, to make it so it
doesn't work, we don't have to
blow the whole thing up, it just
has to be non worky.
Non worky.
Non worky though, send a special
bomb to the window and hit the
batteries or whatever it is.
OK.
Or send call up the reserve seal
teams that boots his friends.
With SEAL Team 12.
Yeah, it's a Seal Team 12.
Have them go in and unplug the
power plant.
Right, That's it.
It's got to be 1 cord somewhere.
It's got to be one.
That's one wire.
One wire somewhere.
Cut the wire.
Cut that one, Cut the blue wire.
Cut the blue wire.
It's always the blue wire.
Only the blue wire.
Not the red one.
That's how they fool you.
I like that I got a cigar for
me.
I feel like I got a cigar for
boots as well.
Or Phil.
No, no, I paid.
For, is it the same 1 you got
your?
Yeah, it's the same one.
Yeah, that's why he does that.
He get oh Mikey Blakey house
charge both of.
Us.
I mean, that would be great.
That's awesome.
OK, so anyways all.
Right Cigar news.
Our friend Luciano is back in
the news.
Yes, Constella Group, the group
that he is president of, Yeah,
they have decided we're going to
lower our prices.
Oh, really?
And everything but the the new
cigars, OK, the entire core
lines being lowered because at a
time when tariffs are up, people
are raising prices.
We should lower our prices.
OK, how the hell does that work?
Could it be nobody's buying our
cigars?
We got to lower the prices.
Well, is there?
Yeah.
Is there any of those cigars?
Out there, I don't know, it
could be that you overpriced
them to begin with, kind of like
Doritos.
Now you think you're even
amount.
You coming back down?
I don't know.
Dropping them between 5 and 15%.
OK.
They will implement the decrease
of the 2026 PCA Convention and
Trade Show, which happens April
18th to the 20th in New Orleans.
It will be there that they will
tell the specifics about the
decrease that they're going to
share with the retailers and
others.
But the company has said its
most recent lines won't be seen
to change.
So there's nothing on the
machinist, the resilient or the
dreamer we talked about
yesterday or the maker.
Sorry, the dreamer.
Not the dreamer, the maker.
OK.
Did not pay tariffs.
Company says the ability to
lower prices resulted from the
cigars.
Well, I have something else
written in here, but we won't
talk about that.
What would they say?
No.
No.
No, no, I added this.
OK.
Sometimes at night it seems
funny.
Sometimes during the day it
seems like a lawsuit.
So you know.
Right, this is a little bit
much.
Got it right.
Yeah, a little bit much, OK.
It's when you cross the line of
when you blur the line of funny
to anger.
I like.
How?
Well, it's not angry, it's just
funnier when late at night when
you're show.
I like how you read ahead and
it's like.
Oh yeah?
Well, that's always.
Coming when you see it, you're
like, probably not a good.
One.
Yeah, that one's not going to
track.
Oh, it'll be funny, just certain
people won't think of lending.
Right, OK.
Let's see, he's making cigars
now at the Empresa Matarisini,
the tobaccos tobacco company,
with this is the one in the
Azores, the one where he owns
his own tobacco, right?
This is the one we believe that
when we win an efficiency, our
partners and consumers should
win with us, said Luciano
Morales, founder of Luciano
Cigars, president of Costello
USA, owner of many factories and
emperor of cigars, in a press
release.
Nice.
Even in the face of tariffs and
increased cost across the
industry, we made a conscious
decision not to raise prices but
to reduce them because it's the
right thing to do.
Got it.
Makes no sense at all.
Well, OK.
Here's our price.
We have tariffs, so the price
has to go up.
Well, what do you do?
We have prices, We have tariffs.
We lower prices.
Is there something that was said
that what do you do to the
retailers that have already
received product that paid that
higher price?
Screw you, you're on your own.
I don't think that's the the the
move that's.
Right here, that makes no sense
at all.
We give you the Maker with net
30.
On the card 90 days, same as
cash.
Area.
Goodbye.
Yeah.
What do you do when the guys
have already paid for it?
Right exactly.
Hey, I bought this at $10.
You're now selling it for 8.
Well, there's a 15% decrease.
Right.
That's 15% more margin than you
made over me 30.
Percent less so it's if it was
$10, it's 930, something like
that, 970.
Right to $8.
Oh, it's worse than that.
What am I doing?
I just did $0.30 that 30.
Cents way worse yeah, we're.
Pounding that Red Bull.
We're back to the $8 I have
here.
Allegedly he doesn't pay for the
tobacco anyway so but I don't
know if that's true.
And be like 7 bucks.
Right.
So now you're making three.
Now I'm making $3 more than you
made on the same cigar.
Or you lower your price $3 and
now nobody buys mine.
You.
Take the hit, all right?
All right.
Then there's this other press
release that how they got it
early, I have no idea, but it
was top of the page first thing
this morning.
They had it.
Well, it was sent first thing
this morning, so I don't know.
Yeah.
First thing this morning.
But Postania Sumatra shipping
this month.
The. 5th regular production line
from Postania will use a Sumatra
seed wrapper.
Later this month, the company
will ship the Postania Sumatra.
Its newest core line, Blend
Wise, uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra
seed wrapper over binders from
Mexico and Pennsylvania and
fillers from Dominican Republic
and Nicaragua.
Like the company's other lines,
it's made at the Fabrica de
Tobaccos Nicoswenya.
It will be offered in four box
press.
Vitola is completely different
from all the other core lines.
Yes, Bustania Sumatra Petite
Robusto, the Postania Sumatra
Grand Robusto.
So there's a little robusto and
a big robusto.
Right.
The Sumatra Grand Toro.
It's a bigger Toro and the
Bustania Sumatra Churchill
notably, these are not the same
vital as that the company's
other 4 core lines are offered
in and we have a quote.
Would you like to read the quote
personally?
I mean, you said it, would you
like to?
Just say you go ahead.
What did I say?
We've been working toward a
Sumatra expression for some time
and we couldn't be more excited
to share what we've created,
said Mike Stefan Kevitch, Co
founder and king of the Dum Dums
and a press release.
He didn't do it in his voice.
My Dum Dums, behold.
Well, it was kind of a double
meaning Dum Dums and the sucker
Dum Dums.
There was a play on words.
I was going someone else wanted
me to use my Co host Mike.
I'm not afraid to look like an
idiot.
Step on.
That's the money.
Oh, did he send it to you too?
Yeah.
You know, if you're going to do
these things and you want me to
do them on the air, only send
them to me.
It's not funny if he's already.
Seen it?
Surprise.
Supposed to be a surprise.
It technically it's I'm not
afraid to make myself look like
an idiot.
Well, I don't have it in front
of me.
That might have been what it
said.
On no, but no, it didn't.
He sent.
Me dozens of memes.
But that was the, that was the
true statement.
I don't have a problem with
myself.
From yesterday's show.
Yeah, I don't have a problem
myself making myself look bad
because I screwed things up,
because I'm human, right?
I'm not perfect.
The combination of tobacco is in
this blend is something truly
special.
Every component was chosen to
elevate the others.
This is cigar built to make a
statement.
Yep.
Company says it will show up as
a cigars to retailers in next
week's 2026 PCA convention, a
trade show in New Orleans, and
the cigars will ship immediately
following the event.
I've already gotten phone calls,
emails and a text message.
Really.
Yes.
Telegram.
No, no.
Nobody named Graham.
No.
No.
That's why I know we've made it.
If somebody named Graham or it
sends a telegram, yeah.
Oh, can you do that still
anymore?
Yeah, of course.
Can you really?
Yeah, I would like someone to
send me a telegram please.
OK.
Juan Lopez Baseme, Mucho
addicion Regional Mexico, coming
this month.
Really.
This month, just before April
wraps up, there will be a new
Addicion regional release in
retail humidor's in Mexico as
the Juan Lopez Basimme Mucho
will make his debut at a launch
event April 24th and its full
retail release set for the
following day.
The cigar measured a 6 1/2 by
54.
A double robusto that has
frequently been used for
addition regional and other
limited edition releases.
The name Basimme Mucho
translated from Spanish as
Kismilla, but it was made famous
by Mexican songwriter Consuelo
Velasquez, who penned the bolero
song Bassimme Mucho in 1932,
which was released in December
1943 and has since become one of
the most important songs in
Latin music and was crossed over
into pop.
I don't know why I didn't cut
this, but I apologize.
There's a garlic or price
approximately at MXN.
Is that Mexican dollars?
MXN.
Mexican money.
We pesos maximum money MXN.
Quite the difference.
OK, we have Freedom Dollars and
MXN.
If you can get the MXN price,
you get the sparklers.
I got the what?
There's a show.
There's a show going on, right?
Doing a show over this over
here.
It's a Mexican peso.
MXN OK, so we have two prices.
We have Freedom dollars and
Mexican pesos.
If you get the Mexican peso
number, you get the fireworks.
No way you're still reading
about Mexican pesos.
I am.
He's looking at the price.
I'm not looking at the price.
I told you, Brittany, we do the
podcast every day at noon.
Texting is as disturbing as a
phone call.
Yes, I love you too.
Tell the kids I said hi.
Mucho Basin, ME.
OK, do you want me to say
American dollars first?
I don't care. $12.00.
This is a humidor.
Oh, it's a humidor.
Oh, no, sorry.
It's just.
I thought you said per stick.
Yeah, Oh, it is.
Oh, OK, never mind.
OK. $12.00.
Still $12.00.
Apparently I need to be higher.
Don't build little build. $50.
Mr. Phil. 2999 all.
Right.
I'm going to tell you who's
right.
But now you got to do the
Mexican dollars.
You don't get to tell me who's
right.
No, because then you just do the
money in your head.
OK, so 2500 pesos.
Mr. Phil.
One 8200 pesos.
You went the wrong way. 1066
pesos or 5997 no fireworks.
1066.
Mexican pesos.
I won.
So he went the right way.
I won, I won.
Oh, I thought he said he said a
higher number than he.
No, I said 2200.
And what did you say?
I thought you said 2100.
Said 2500.
Oh, maybe, but still no
fireworks.
You didn't.
Get it right?
Still no nothing for you.
Production numbers have not yet
been confirmed, so you know
we're going to wait and later
and figure.
Out we make some cigars, maybe
we make some, maybe we don't.
Who knows?
Right distributor of Cuban
cigars in Mexico.
The launch event is said April
24th at the Grand Cigar.
We can't go.
No.
That's when you put me in the
dunk tank out front of the
store.
Oh.
Yeah, an.
Event dedicated to cigars and
food being held at some name I
can't pronounce, but it's 70
miles east of Mexico City and 15
miles northwest of Puebla.
Probably shouldn't go right now.
But.
In Mexico.
Yes, we're very big in Mexico.
Have you had?
Probably shouldn't go right now?
Has there been any distorted
sounds at all?
Well, yeah, your yours is, I
think when your when your voice
is deeper, yeah, it crackles
just a little bit.
Couldn't be rubbing on his beard
because the microphone's
actually touching his neck.
No thought it.
Looks like it when you move your
head.
It's not.
You can't see it.
I would feel it.
Maybe you have no feeling on
that part of your neck.
I don't have any feeling in my
neck.
That could you know from the car
accident.
Why are you bringing that shit
out?
That was like from years ago.
Because we brought it up
yesterday.
I know, but why would you bring
it up even yesterday?
Because.
It's fresh in my mind.
I'm concerned about your
well-being.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
No, you're not.
Yes, I am.
You're not.
I am.
No, you're not.
You look very tired.
I'm always tired.
I'm concerned.
You should be.
I was up late and then up early
and then I couldn't get up.
OK.
All right, time for the
industry's favorite game.
What's the score?
Today's Sparkler Enhanced Cigar
April 7th, 2026 Patrick Lagreed
Cigars They've done some good
ones recently.
It's why these are all new.
It is a Roma craft to back in
Temperance BA21 treachery.
OK.
You did a, you did a cigar.
That Mike, he's gonna know.
No, Phil, it was just released
today.
He hasn't seen it.
The Treasury.
So yeah.
Oh.
The review was released today.
We go to 92. 90.
Cigar Review The Intemperance BA
Treachery country of origin.
Nicaragua factory.
We all know where it's made.
Nicosia.
Rapper Brazil Binder Indonesian
Basuki filler Nicaraguan and
undisclosed length 6 by 54 round
It's $11.00.
They smoked 3. $11.00 Man what a
great price.
That is a great price.
It's a great price, nice felt
lift out.
I must think 92. 90.
Clue #1 Great balance once it
settles in the creaminess.
Wood and pepper create a really
engaging profile that hits
medium plus flavor without
overwhelming strength. 92. 90.
Strong construction overall with
an easy, light solid burn for
most of the smoke and plenty of
smoke output early on that makes
it enjoyable right from the
start. 91 it.
Goes down on that.
I don't know.
I'm feeling 9192.
I don't know.
I get kind of nervous. 92.
Wow.
Inconsistent construction and
density across samples led to
loose draws and combustion
issues, including relights in
the final third and a profile
that could feel mild or generic
at times.
Really.
No, I just made that up.
No, Yeah, this is a a round or
box press round.
OK.
Huh.
That makes a difference to you
on your score.
Well, to this guy, I mean, I
don't know, I just feel like
whatever maybe you got.
Seemed like a very technical
question for the way he plays.
Wait, wait a minute.
Did you say basuki tobacco?
Wow.
Well, all right, I'm gonna stick
90.
That's my number.
Well, you took one.
You got.
The same number 91.
Final thought, I've lived long
enjoyed the Intemperance line in
both of its original blends,
with a slight edge to the EC if
forced to choose between the
two.
In the case of the Intemperance
BA21 Treachery, well, I found
the experience enjoyable.
It struggled to really capture
my intrigue as the profile
seemed to put forward either a
singular flavor or a combustion
that stood above others.
I'm a bit perplexed by the
softness of the three cigars and
the variance in weight and what
effects that might have had on
all things.
All in all, the profile is still
perfectly enjoyable, but for me
it just ends up being more like
it than love it.
Whoa, this should definitely be
in the 90s but he had a bad
experience.
Thank you for summarizing.
And this is Patrick.
Yes.
Do you have any intention?
When I read anything, I'm.
Just making sure I'm seeing what
the facts are.
Phil.
He's perplexed.
Remember, it's round.
Yeah.
Your jerk.
And Basuki.
I wanted to be a 92 but I'm
gonna have to go 87.
He had to googled it.
How did I go?
My you've seen where my hands
are at all times.
No, no.
Prior to, he might have been
perusing.
He had to Google that.
Me.
Why would I have never lived at
these people's site?
Bullshit.
We would like to see the history
your search history.
Yeah, go ahead.
First of all, hold on a second
time out.
How do you know the number?
What's that?
How do I know the number?
I'll tell you how I know the
number because I looked right at
Palmer and I said he had to
Googled it.
And Palmer's like he had that
honest look in his eyes of,
yeah, there's no fucking way
that he just jumped 91 to 92 and
then 87.
And I can tell by just looking
at Palmer that it is 87.
No.
No, it's not 87, but there was a
really big jump from 92 down to
87.
Oh, OK.
Well, I did that because he's
counting off for probably the
way he lit it and everything.
I mean, do they weigh the
cigars, by the way?
I didn't know that they did
that.
Yes, I've never heard that
before because they don't say
the weight.
Sometimes no, they don't
actually say the weight, but
sometimes they'll say if it was
light or.
And they'll tell you.
Sometimes they'll tell you the
length and the gauge if they're
inconsistent.
Yeah, they'll say.
Even though it's called a Toro,
it was 5 by 47.
You know which isn't a Toro.
I don't think I've had a problem
with a Roman cigar before on a
light.
I'm going to go.
Before you give your score,
let's say he did.
Look, he's smart enough not to
hit the exact number.
That's.
I know I'm giving you a lot of
credit there, but I mean, you
know, it's like if you cheat on
a test, you don't turn in 100.
What?
If you cheat on a test, you
don't turn in a perfect.
I mean, that's a tough number to
go off of off 87 because I just
can't see it being an 86.
I I think it should be in the
90s.
I don't I.
Don't.
And then here he did.
He just swung at an 87.
Yeah, but and.
He keeps saying he keeps, you
know, it should be a 95 or 92.
But that's what I want it to be
because.
I think it should be the 24.
Right.
Fuck, I'm going to go 86.
Hit the fireworks, Michael.
Wow.
It's an 86 and again, we only
have one.
There's no way that you knew
that was the number.
Supposedly when this happens,
you have to turn it off, turn on
the cleaner, shake one of them,
and then do it again.
Like we don't have that kind of
dye.
Turn it off, turn it back on,
turn on the cleaner.
No, no, you got to, you got to
shake it.
Stuff get stuck.
It's not it's there's no way we
don't have that.
Kind of.
You don't.
Want to shake it there?
Was there was We're only buying
one.
Fill it up a little more.
It's full.
You can't.
They don't work as well, so you
got to tell us why, Hey, we want
to buy 50.
Six.
It was 86.
I nailed it.
It's a double firework.
Oh wait, now the other. 10 fire,
fire the other.
One, the other one's going off
now.
I can feel the particles hitting
my face.
But they're they're not hot.
Yeah, they're fine.
Yeah, I had to clean the chair
the other day.
A lot of smoke in the
background, a lot of smoke.
Victory.
That's what victory looks like.
I just still though regardless
it shouldn't have been that low.
They can do whatever they want.
It's their magazine.
OK, all right.
Anything else to add?
The 24th, we're doing a base of
Cigar Bentley, Cigar Hooten
Young Cigar, me and John Carney
in a dunk tank event here at the
shop.
At 6:00 PM, it starts.
What's the date?
The 24th of April.
Come on out, come on and.
Announce what we're doing this
Sunday.
We can, sure.
Sunday at 3:00 we're doing a
celebration of life for our dear
friend John White, who passed on
Easter.
Mr. JW going.
To start at 3:00 or sit around,
tell stories and swap lies and
everything he loved to do.
Yeah, and we're going to be
disgruntled and angry towards
everybody.
Right.
Everything he loved to do.
Everything he loved to do and.
We're all going to drink bottles
of water.
Yes, and.
We're going to bring in our own
cheeseburgers.
And then spit it to a napkin and
leave it on the table.
Sounds like that one hit a
nerve.
You got to love that guy.
Anyways, he was great.
I miss him, yeah.
Greg's not taking it well.
No, Greg is not taking it well.
It's hard.
To so you should break it up
every time you see him.
Yeah.
Yes, we should just.
Break some tears.
Hey, So yeah, I.
Had this idea about Sunday.
So how you doing about JW?
Yeah.
How you feeling?
He came in here yesterday.
He was like, so how you doing?
I'm like, I'm fine.
You sure?
You seem kind of melancholy and
I'm like, I'm tired but I'm
fine.
Yeah.
People die last well.
I sent you a picture of JW for
the thing.
I'm like OK so you can lead with
that.
It would have been fine.
Yeah, last night we had our our
club meeting here and everybody
when they walk, the Greg shook
their hand.
He's like and when he was
shaking their hand, he stopped,
but he held their hand.
He's like JW passed.
I'm like, oh God, stop saying
that he's.
Still dead brothers, They walk
in.
Was he in your club?
He he stays for a little bit,
yeah.
He hangs out.
Dude, it was a hell of a run.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like there's nothing.
He beat cancer, he beat that, he
beat that.
I mean, he should have been dead
years ago.
Yeah, I know guys that were a
lot younger than him that passed
like, wow, I didn't see that one
coming, right.
You know, of course he's missed.
Of course he was a great guy,
you know?
But like, damn, he.
He did all right.
Yep.
You know, Yeah.
Feels upset about it.
Yeah.
Yes.
He doesn't handle death well,
No.
Well, especially now with
friends of mine.
I mean, he was a friend.
We're.
All going to go over his house
later.
You want to.
Go No.
His wife wants us all to come.
She mentioned you specifically.
Yeah, I do not want to.
Apparently he talked about you
often like a son to him, he
says.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Those are the terms.
Robbie Robbie came in last
night.
He was, he was really torn.
Did he cry?
Yeah, he was done.
He was having some tearing.
Look, I just want to see
somebody cry.
He put up a picture on Facebook,
but it shot all the way down the
table and you only see this much
of J Dub in the photo.
Table won't be the same and
you're sort of squinting going
is that him at the other end?
Trying to figure out why you
took that picture.
That that was a spot.
Oh, there was probably
something.
You don't believe this, right?
I mean, that was a chair.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And, and I was sitting in the
chair last night and Robbie was
like, well, actually I wasn't
sitting in it, but he thought I
was.
He's like, wow, he's not even
gone a full day.
You're already in his chair.
I'm like, all right bro, really.
You definitely were sitting in
his chair.
You were.
Sitting in the chair because I
said the same thing to him in
the afternoon, yeah.
Oh, maybe, but but then why was
the chairs and then Chet Chet
was sitting in the chair.
But you were in the chair.
And you got in trouble, so you
made Chet sit in the chair.
Yeah, Chet said here.
Chet said.
Here, please be my guest.
Well, I used to always sit in
that chair and then when JW
would come in, I'd move and then
him regain his throne and when
he'd leave, I'd go back in the
chair.
So now it's your chair.
No, I don't put.
I don't like to put my name on.
There you claimed this Chair I.
Claimed this chair.
The chair is mine.
I hath outlived him.
I have one.
Oh wow, no.
I am the Highlander there.
Can be only one chair.
There's only one chair.
Excuse me.
Move from my chair.
Out of my chair.
I love how I used to shoot
people out of it.
Yeah.
You doing good?
Fucking come on.
Well, that's how that's How I
Met him.
And get out of the chair.
And I really loved oh man, OK, I
got to share this with so you
send me this.
We're going to end.
We're closed out on this because
this is a perfect story.
And if you're still listening,
man, you are in for a treat.
All right, there we go.
You're in for a treat.
So you've sent.
You're looking at this image and
it's not the best image.
No, there is not a decent photo
of the.
Man in the world.
OK, so you're trying to modify
it on AI just to try and make
him look human, right?
Alive.
Yeah.
And you're like, hey man, let me
try and mess.
Can you?
I'm trying and I'm struggling
with this.
Can you please adjust this?
So the current AI that I've been
using a lot is Claude, right?
So I punch it into Claude and
say, hey, make this picture look
better, remove this, add this,
you know, get them out of the
wheelchair, whatever, right?
And Claude says to me, I'm
sorry.
I don't edit images, however it
would appear that the man in the
picture is smoking a cigar while
on oxygen.
Please advise him that this is
extremely dangerous and that he
should not be doing this.
That's.
Hilarious.
And I was going to say I was
going to back to Claude.
I'm like, well, he's already
dead.
But I didn't.
I just started dying laughing.
I wonder if Claude would have
asked was it because of the
combo?
So I was right.
He blew.
Up dude.
For years that guy would come in
here, smoke a cigar with an with
an actual oxygen tank and how
many people were so unsettled
when he was?
Everybody was awesome.
I was hoping Greg was going to
do like we were going to do a
science experiment at one point.
We were going to take oxygen
tank Outback.
And do what with it?
He want he wanted to try blow it
up, he said.
It won't like blow up.
It can blow up.
Yeah, but he said not it like it
would.
I don't know, he was saying.
He said it was a myth but he
wanted to test it and we just
never did.
Gotcha.
OK.
All right.
That yeah.
I mean, it could, yeah.
I wouldn't.
So what?
You turn the oxygen on full
blast.
You put the end of the hose next
to the lit cigar and see what
happens.
Right, right.
Stupid, stupid.
OK, All right, Well, it's been
episode 505.
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