ACHP 505 Hot Dogs, Chips, Bahama Divorce and Luciano Lowers Prices
Episode Summary
Episode 505 of A Cigar Hustler's Podcast opens with Mike Palmer, Phil and co-host Mike Szczepankiewicz ("king of the dum-dums") working through listener comments, swag promos and a running gag about microphone firmware updates and audio gremlins. The Florida Man/news block covers a 63-year-old Pompano Beach traveler stopped by TSA with 47 uncooked hot dogs duct-taped to his torso (plus a fork and travel-size mustard), PepsiCo rolling back prices on $7 bags of Doritos, Cheetos and Lay's after losing shelf space to store brands, and a missing American woman in the Bahamas — which the crew acts out as a skiff-and-life-jacket role play, complete with skepticism about the husband's story.
The cigar news is the meat of the episode. Luciano Morales and the Cantillo Group announced they are lowering prices across the core Luciano lines by roughly 5–15%, with details to be shared with retailers at the 2026 PCA Convention & Trade Show in New Orleans (April 18–20). Newer releases like the Machinist, Resilient and The Maker are excluded. The hosts dig into the retailer-side math: what happens to shops that already bought at the higher cost, how a 15% cut on a $10 cigar erases margin against competitors, and the broader oddity of cutting prices in a tariff environment. That leads into a tangent on grocery-store slotting fees, bread and chip distribution routes, and the industry's endless net-30/net-90 payment games.
Powstanie also has news: the Powstanie Sumatra, the brand's fifth regular-production line, ships this month. It uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper over Mexican and Pennsylvania binders with Dominican and Nicaraguan filler, rolled at Fábrica de Tabacos NicaSueño, and comes in four box-pressed vitolas unique to the line — Petit Robusto, Grand Robusto, Grand Toro and Churchill. It will be shown at PCA and ship immediately after. Also covered: the Juan Lopez Besame Mucho Edición Regional Mexico, a 6 1/2 x 54 double robusto launching April 24 at about 1,066 pesos, named for Consuelo Velázquez's classic bolero.
The show closes with What's the Score using Patrick Lagreid's halfwheel review of the RoMa Craft Tobac Intemperance BA XXI Treachery (6 x 54, $11, Brazilian wrapper, Indonesian Besuki binder) — the crew is shocked by the 86 rating. Then the guys announce a dunk-tank event with Bespoke, Bentley and Hooten Young cigars alongside John Carney on April 24, and a Sunday celebration of life for their late friend John "J-Dub" White, including an affectionate story about editing his photo with AI and being warned not to smoke a cigar on oxygen.
In This Episode
- 01Listener comments, swag and mic troublesPalmer, Phil and Mikey read YouTube comments, plug CHPod merch and the Patreon, and diagnose a microphone firmware issue blamed for the show's audio crackle.
- 02Florida Man: 47 hot dogs and a travel mustardA Pompano Beach traveler is stopped at the airport with dozens of uncooked hot dogs duct-taped to his body en route to a family party in Cincinnati.
- 03Doritos price rollback at WalmartPepsiCo lowers prices on Doritos, Cheetos and Lay's after $7 bags cost them shelf space to generic brands, and the guys break down what a bag actually costs to make.
- 04Missing woman in the BahamasA role-played retelling of an American woman lost from an 8-foot skiff, with the hosts openly skeptical of the husband's rogue-wave story.
- 05Luciano and Cantillo Group lower pricesLuciano Morales announces 5–15% price decreases across core Luciano lines ahead of PCA 2026, and the hosts debate what it means for retailers holding higher-cost inventory.
- 06Powstanie Sumatra ships this monthPowstanie's fifth regular-production line uses an Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed wrapper over Mexican, Pennsylvania, Dominican and Nicaraguan tobaccos in four new box-pressed vitolas made at NicaSueño.
- 07Juan Lopez Besame Mucho Edición Regional MexicoA 6 1/2 x 54 double robusto Cuban regional edition launching April 24 in Mexico, named after the 1930s bolero by Consuelo Velázquez.
- 08What's the Score: Intemperance BA XXI TreacheryThe crew guesses Patrick Lagreid's score for the RoMa Craft Intemperance BA XXI Treachery and is stunned when it lands at 86.
- 09Events and remembering John 'J-Dub' WhiteA dunk-tank event on April 24 with Bespoke, Bentley and Hooten Young, plus a Sunday celebration of life and stories about their late friend who smoked cigars on oxygen.
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Transcript
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I was gonna go bing-bong, but now I'm not. No, you're not. And my co-host, Mikey, king of the dum-dums, Stepan Kiewicz. I am king of dum-dums.
Hello. My dum-dums. When I get a text message on my phone, it shows up on the teleprompter. Does it?
Nice. It's very distracting. On today's show, Florida Man has all the wieners. Oh, God.
Here we go again. Walt is not that. Walmart has had enough of high prices. A woman in the Bahamas is missing.
And then our cigar guy, Luciano, makes a second news break for the week. Oh, boy. New acquisition. New acquisition.
Oh, no. It's better than that. Uh-oh. Powstanie has an announcement, and Juan Lopez, not that Juan Lopez, has a new cigar, and then a What's the Score family style, but before we get started, Michael, how do we get some of that CHPod swag, and I'm just going to leave it at that.
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Hit the calendar link below, set the media appointment. Getting into some... - Or Paul, I mean, they can even interview Paul if they want to. - Yeah, well, Paul, Paul would be great.
Getting into some of our comments, our top comments from our YouTube page. T-Money says, Phil keeps saying the mics are doing things yet sound fine. He also sounds like Jabba the Hutt when he laughs and tries to talk. Lo, lo, solo.
So I wonder if you can't hear it. No, you can hear it. You can slightly hear it. When he enhances the audio, it fixes a lot of it.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, Team Money, you know, this is production stuff, and I have to make sure it's good. A little over his head, is that what you're saying?
Well, I mean, if we don't make sure it's good, Palmer, we get beat, right? Yeah, that is true. 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 haven't, I mean, you know how many times I had to look for it? No, it's for a split second. You know... You want me to be truthful or not truthful?
You know, I... Right. Your name is on... It adds to the show!
You're aware of that, right? Yes, I'm aware of that. I don't think it adds to the show. It adds to the show.
Well, I think it adds to the show. Okay. Do people like it? Vote now!
The production department thinks it adds to the show. Oh, okay. No, no, no, don't involve me. Datacash 2004, I will be-- Write down the times.
Oh, no, no, no, so you're involving me. Right, well, you're gonna have to write down the times. Datacash 2004, I will be Phil's personal assistant as long as one of the perks are industry standard cigars. Industry standard, oh.
He wants you to buy him cigars as part of his pay. No, he wants the Nikasueño cigars, the industry standard that he made. Oh, oh, the specific industry standards. You may be able to arrange that.
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. No, I saw the comment, and I looked, I'm like, "What the hell? " I have three times the amount of hair he has.
" You better be nice to him, Mr. Weiss. You researched him. I researched him.
You know, I researched him. Well, you can see his photo on the comments. So I zoomed in, he's got like this little tuff on top of his head. You leave that little tuff alone.
It's a beautiful tuff. Hey, get me about my hair. I have hair. Yeah, listen, don't pick fun of certain people here, because it usually comes back a lot harder.
He wasn't even picking fun, he was just asking a question. It was just a simple, hey, well, what-- He's taking a shot. Hey, your hair looked different today. He's taking a shot.
I don't think he was saying it looked really good. What did you do different? He's like, hey, what happened? Well, I would like to do my little tuft the way you did.
How does it look different? Your hair looked a little off today. What's going on? Everything all right?
It 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 this toy. He's just a little chilly on the roof. 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. Nope, they can't buy this hat. Oh, can't buy that one.
Not that one. 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 what you're doing now.
He probably wants a beanie. Because you had a bad hair day, you're wearing your hat today. No, I just feel 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? " Nope. I couldn't get out of bed this morning. I didn't get here till almost nine.
All right, two more real quick. " Oh, nice. Which is the Espinosa. My wife would like to try that if you could, you know, give me a couple.
" That's it, it's the only reason. Palmer, also, Artemis II took a wider trajectory than the Apollo 13 by about 4,100 miles. " Yeah, how much hair does that other guy really have? Wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm gonna make you write an apology letter to Mr.
Weiss. I'm too busy looking for every time the microphone goes off in the video. He's going to get a free signature. Yeah, he's going to get a free autograph.
We should start charging for those. You should sign all the swag before it goes out. If you would like to hear your comment said on the show. And attacked.
And possibly attacked. And possibly attacked. Comment below this episode and we may read it off. Calendly Link, I feel like there's one other thing that I added that I keep forgetting now.
Uh, you have to subscribe and like, subscribe, check out our Patreon, it's a big deal, we got a good Patreon this week. It's a great Patreon. com, A Cigar Hustlers Podcast, where we review cigars, and-- Audio and video both. What's that?
Audio and video both on the Patreon. Audio and video both. It's fine, no problem. So.
Okay. I wanna 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 had more juice than the other for some reason.
Wasn't my fault. Well, the same thing was happening on the Preston show, so they were getting very upset. It could potentially have been a contributing factor. Yeah, because I looked up and it 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. " Well, I mean, 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. Don't talk with your hands. I can, but it's not autofocus. It is autofocus.
Oh, it's backing autofocus again. It's okay if it gets a little blurry. It's okay if it gets a little blurry. I'm okay with that.
I thought I was having a stroke. Do it again, do it again. Move your hands. Yeah, perfect.
- Oh God. - Ah, Jesus. - Stroke. - So, anyways, autofo-- no.
" - But you didn't check to see if they were updated, I guess. - I don't check that every day. They don't always plug in a 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 microphone, which we don't have to do anymore. - Okay, that didn't work. - That did not work. Okay.
You need like seven channel recording or something to do that. Right. All right, now the news. Oh.
This just in. Florida man stopped at airport. He had some things strapped to his body. Oh, really?
Yes. What were the things? Do we have to guess? Please be sausage.
Let's guess. Yeah, I have a lot of fun things in the show today. Let's start with this. Guess.
Okay. Sausages. You're a 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!
Weeee! We need that air horn from a basketball game. Why would he have sausages taped to him? Well, he was on his way to a family party in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he wanted to bring something for the party.
Oh, God. " They were uncooked hot dogs. Okay. " Okay.
He was also found with something in his pocket. Two items in his pocket, anybody want to guess? What were they? Ketchup, mustard.
A meth pipe. Mustard and a fork. Oh, I was close! Fire!
Only one sparkler, only one sparkler. 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, across 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 I mean when you go through you know the body scanner thing it shows these long They're skinny things all hooked to your body.
Just hot dogs. Well, it turned out to be hot dogs. But 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 then they let him go? No, no, they confiscated the hot dogs. After they called the people in Cincinnati and verified the family party. What?
Yes, 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've ruined it. This is wild. I don't understand why they take the hot dogs.
He said his check bag got completely out of control. He had no other place to put the hot dogs, so he strategically 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 three weeks to get everything just right, 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. Was he military? No. They didn't say.
We don't do things like that. CIA? Was it CIA? He's CIA.
He's like CIA. Oh, it was a travel-sized mustard, too. Oh, my God. Travel-sized?
Well, you know, the big liquids you can't take through security. I think this guy had a hot dog problem. There goes my hero. He wanted the tape back, but he gave up the hot dogs willingly.
What's that? He wanted the tape back, but he gave up the hot dogs willingly. Really? I'm gonna 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. Right.
That's a good duct tape. I can write that back up. Right. 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, de-hot-dogged him, un-wienered him, they let him go on to the plane. Do you think he was flying Frontier?
I don't know. There was another Frontier story. Absolutely. All of its Frontier.
And apparently, you didn't read this one, but Spirit Airline has the highest safety record of any airline. That's what Team Money said. Really? Yeah, he loves to fly Spirit.
He loves to fly Spirit. That's the one that Chet and I flew when we raced you two to Detroit, and we won, we even had time for lunch, I'm not doing it, it was fine, we had a lovely flight then, you guys did, yeah, yeah, but you can't talk to him, Tommy, 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, oh, gotcha, Delta baby, you the one with the cookies, Delta United American, yeah, so, Is that the order? Yes. Yeah, that sounds about right.
All right, now we're moving on. Okay. You're familiar with Walmart, I always assume. 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 I sell that at Walmart? No.
I would think so. Orange juice? Wait, wait, is this, hold on now, because Walmart's 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? They lost shelf space? 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 a bag. Wow. Why?
'Cause nacho cheese is gold. Because of the inflation and stuff. Inflation? Yes, Pepsi.
Yeah, right. So they've tried the less chips in the same size bag to lower the price. Yeah. Yeah, people didn't fall for that.
They've tried contests, people didn't fall for that. Nobody's buying Doritos now, they're buying off-brands. They're buying the knockoffs. The knockoffs.
So Pepsi has lowered the price on Doritos. To what? $6. The executive of the Pepsi company waited too long, oh, they took too long.
The slash of prices on $7 bag snacks, Doritos, Cheetos, and Lay's potato chips. There we go, that's the other one. That's a big 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. Right, yeah, serves you right. 98, man.
That's the little tiny bags. How much is the CEO of Pepsi? Are they the same as PepsiCo? Is it considered the same thing?
What's the CEO? Pepsi owns Doritos, so I don't think there's a CEO of Doritos. No. No?
No. Okay. Just type in-- The costs are up 50% since 2021. Costs?
50 or whatever it is. - Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was like, it was- - Since 2021. - Okay.
- I only know 'cause my kids love Doritos. - The CEO of PepsiCo, Ramon LaGuerta- - Oh, Ramon. 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 costs to make? No. They wouldn't tell you that? Mm-mm.
Probably not. Maybe there's a speculative number. Maybe it's doubled up. I could.
Maybe they just keep doubling up. It's food, right? In the third world country where it's made, it's a dollar. Yeah, it's food.
It's a consumable. So usually, they cost nothing to make food, right? No. No?
Probably. That's why we keep... Oh, boy. I got an answer here.
Oh, yes. We keep getting them recalled. Submitted by Pepsi, yeah, PepsiCo. Based on industry estimates, it costs roughly 20 to 30 cents 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 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. Yeah, because the chips don't get put out by Walmart employees.
Right, there's the chip guy. Yeah, there's the chip guy, which is another fourth party down that has to put another markup on it. But isn't that the company? That's PepsiCo company.
No, no, no, no, no, no. It's like... It's the chip guy? Yeah, like...
It is a Dorito truck type guy. Yeah, he has advertising, but he is a... It's like a beer distributor. Like a 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 and Delann, 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, uh, Wonder Bread. Okay, so you have to have a distributor?
Well, there's a distributor, which is Morita, which is in Deland, 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 gonna shelf it at. Right. Grocery store business is almost criminal.
Yeah, it really is. I mean, you pay to put your stuff on their shelf. Yep. So depending on your placement on the shelf, what level, it's higher or lower.
Apparently, you pay to put cigars on your shelf too. Not just buying the cigars. Oh? Yeah, that's a rumor going around.
Oh, really? That some stores are running slotting fees? No, 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. I'm gonna need a net 90. That'd be great. And then I'm gonna put it on a credit card.
And then I'm gonna put it on a card, and it's gonna come declined. Right. And another 90. We're gonna restart the process.
And we're gonna stop answering the phone for another 90 days. It's been six 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 cigars. I got a good deal on these other cigars.
Net 90. It was a five in one. I couldn't pass it up. They gave me a discount and terms.
In terms. Right. So you call them for your money. Yeah, you can call them.
That's not my problem. Alright, American woman is missing in the Bahamas. Uh oh. Okay, the way we're gonna do this story, I am the lady's husband.
Oh, role play. You are the Bahamian authorities. Oh, he gets to be the Bahamian. Yeah, so you have to do the accent.
I don't know a Bahamian accent. It's like Jamaican. Yeah, just do Jamaican. Amon?
Amon. Okay, 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 were in our little 8-foot skiff, we're on our way back 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 attachment on it that turns the motor off, so I couldn't turn around and get her. No, man! 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 until 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 took place. " Yeah, no kidding. Right. So nobody is saying that the husband should be looked at.
But I'm 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 of a sudden, Rogue Wave knocks her out of the little eight-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? I don't know. It may be 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, But careful, it's attached to the motor.
It could just be bad luck. Or good luck if it's on the other side you're on. Well, right now, it's bad luck for him. Right now, it's bad luck for him.
Man, those swells are huge. It was terrible. That one rogue wave came out of nowhere. I don't know why we were in the 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 Calendly link.
Did she have the money? Uh, there has been no discussion of who was in charge of the money. Uh, both, uh, the couple were in their mid to late fifties. Oh, he's ready for wife number two.
Yeah. Or three or four. Allegedly. Allegedly.
Yeah, wherever in the integer line you want to be. I don't know. Listen, they'll open all that up and take a look. I want to take some time to get some warrants and stuff.
Yeah, and they haven't, 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 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 have to 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 plan looks great. Right, yeah. It wasn't, you know, allegedly an accident or anything.
And he gets the boat. And he gets the boat. And the skiff still. He still has the little skiff.
Just doesn't have a cook anymore. So can he ever start the motor again? Just needs another piece to put in that they pull out? He needs to get a key.
And he just needs a little key that pulls up. He didn't think it all the way through. " Oh, as she falls, as she falls. He kicked her in the hole?
Yeah. You know? Oh. 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 is. Didn't see it coming. A rogue wave came up in the dark.
Well, it was dark. They couldn't see. No lights or nothing. I don't know.
I just, I'm not understanding it. how a husband says, yeah, I think it's a good idea to get on this scale. Well, I mean, they're in the Bahamas on vacation. They go in to shore to have dinner.
Come on, babe. 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. Whee! Yeah, you know, they hit a little bump.
Whee! Whee! oh she's gone oh man here take oh that was the one hooked to the engine now what am i gonna 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 Booth? No, it's somebody that's close enough to us, so it's gonna be somebody we know.
Well, it's not like, oh wait, 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. Oh! Oh, we know who it is.
We know who it is. They're getting us back. That's so messed up. It's so messed up.
Or it's a rival company trying to use up all our appointment times. Oh. No. That's not.
Somebody's trying to be funny. It's not funny. Stop it! It's not funny.
Yeah, well, they're not gonna hear this. Oh. I gotta cut this part out, too? No, they're not gonna hear it until the next day.
Well, tomorrow. I know they don't hear it now. Yeah. But maybe they go into tomorrow.
Oh, it's so funny yesterday. Let's do it again today. - Are you just deleting them? - I canceled them, yeah.
- Aw, 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 fucker. - Where did I put it under? - Oh, yeah, I saw this. - After the...
- I didn't get to hear it. - What? - 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... - No, no, no.
Two weeks. - No, two weeks. - Oh, well, what I've heard last night, there's been a ceasefire agreed to and we're all friends again. - For two weeks.
- Yeah. - Yeah, it's for two weeks. - We've agreed to terms. - Oh, it's just for two weeks.
- Yeah. - Yeah, it's for two weeks. - Oh, it's just for two weeks. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, it's for two weeks. For two weeks.
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 gonna 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 gonna, you know, take the two weeks and they're gonna go, eh, he's not serious. Build a nuclear bomb and then...
Right, we're giving them time to... We need two 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 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. There's 75 satellites just going around this country now. Hey, there's not another 49 guys, but there's one guy just walked back in the building. What should we do?
Fire the laser. Apparently, the Ayatollah has on blue socks today. Anyone know what that means? I don't understand it.
Hey, I need two weeks. I don't understand the two weeks thing either. Time's up, bro. Yeah.
Pay your bills, bro. That's it. We're here now. We've shipped everybody over.
We're ready. Rent's due, son. Right. Everybody's just sitting there now playing in the sand for two weeks?
Have they opened up the Strait of Hormuz in these two weeks? Well, that's the thing. They said that they will, but that hasn't happened. I don't believe it.
I heard Zelensky sort of went over there and went, "I'm tired of this," and he used his navy to open up the Hormuz. Zelensky? Yeah, from the Ukraine. Ukraine.
For real? Yeah. Like, he doesn't have enough problems? I guess the navy's the part he's winning against Russia.
He's trying to make more friends. So he went, "I'm not asking anybody. " Yeah. And then he's cleared the Straits of Hormuz.
Yeah, hey, I'm not acknowledged by NATO, so, uh... All right, fuck you guys. Sorry, language. Wow.
This is almost as bad as the rental will plays. 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.
" Look, 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? Oh, the real or fake?
The TikTok girl, yeah. Did she do one on the straight home of the hormones? Can we do one about Iran? Not Iran.
Iran. Oh, we have to say it the right way now? Iran. 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, the guy seems like he's, you know, talks a big game.
Once the bombs hit that place, it'll be the Gulf of America 2. I go in the circle with this guy, because sometimes I'm like, alright, you're full of it, you talk a big game, meanwhile, then they extract Maduro, I'm like, alright, that was impressive, that was good, that was good. I didn't know which guy you meant. And then it's like, alright, well we're gonna level it, it's gonna be just glass by the time, you know, like he says whatever he's gonna say.
He's like, well, two more weeks. Wait, what? Right, why is it two weeks? Where were 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. Okay, but that was at gunpoint. " No, no.
Go stand around the power plant. Right. Is that how that works? That's how it works.
Alright, so what's the right call there? Yeah, they put women and children so we can't blow it up. So what do you think the right call is there? 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 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. So you gave them an eviction notice. You pasted it on their door. Now get out.
The guy shows up with a hammer and a piece of paper. Right. 72 hours. What do you do?
Here comes the tow truck. 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. So send a special bomb through the window and hit the batteries, or whatever it is. Okay. Or send, uh, call up the reserve SEAL teams at Boots it's friends with.
- 12? - Yes, it's sealed on 12. Have them go in and unplug the power plant. - And chooom!
- Right, chooom! - That's it. - It's gotta be one cord somewhere. - It's gotta be one wire.
- One wire somewhere, cut the wire. - Cut that one wire. - 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 pay for it.
- Is it the same one? - You got your own? - Yeah, it's the same one. Yeah, that's why he does that, he gets, oh, uh, Mike, you'd like you house charge both of us.
I mean, that'd be great. That's awesome. Okay. 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 gonna lower our prices. Oh, really? On everything but the new cigars.
Okay. The entire cord line is being lowered. Because in a time when tariffs are up, people are raising prices, we should lower our prices. Okay.
How the hell does that work? " Well, is there, yeah, is there any of those cigars out there? Uh, I don't know, it could be that you overpriced them to begin with. Kind of like Doritos.
But now you think you're even them out? You're coming back down? I don't know, it could be... They're dropping them between 5 and 15 percent.
Okay. They will implement the decrease at 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 it's 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. Okay. The no-pay tariffs.
The 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'd they say? No, no, no, no.
No, no, I added this. Oh. Okay. Sometimes at night it seems funny, and sometimes during the day it seems like a lawsuit, so, you know.
Right. Oh, this is a little bit much. Got it. Yeah, a little bit much.
Okay. It's when you cross the line of, when you blur the line of funny to anger. I like how he... Well, it's not angry, it's just funnier when late at night when you're...
" You know, that one's not going to track. Oh, it'll be funny. Just certain people won't think it's funny. Right.
Okay. Let's see. He is making cigars now at the Empresa Mattaricini de Tobacco's, a tobacco company with, oh, 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 in efficiency, our partners and consumers should win with us, said Luciano Morales, founder of Luciano Cigars, president of Constella USA, owner of many factories, and emperor of cigars in a press release. Nice. Even in the face of tariffs and increased costs 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. Oh, okay. 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 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. Same as Cash. Hurry up and buy.
Yeah, what do you do with the guys that 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.
So it's 30% less. 70? Right, so $8. Oh, it's worse than that.
What am I doing? I just did 30 cents, not 30 percent. That's way worse, yeah. We're back to the eight dollars.
I have here allegedly he doesn't pay for the tobacco anyway, so, but I don't know if that's true. It'd be like seven bucks. Right, so now you're making three, you know, I'm making three dollars more than you made on the same cigar. Three.
Or you lower your price three dollars, and now nobody buys mine. You take the hit. Hmm. All right.
All right, and 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 when they posted it. Yeah, it was first thing this morning.
But Powstanie Sumatra is shipping this month. Yay! The fifth regular production line from Powstanie will use a Sumatra seed wrapper. Later this month the company will ship the Powstanie Sumatra, its newest core line.
It's newest cord line, Blendwise, uses an Ecuadoran 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 Tobacco's Nicasueña. It will be offered in four box press Vitolas, completely different from all the other cord lines. Yes.
The Postaña Sumatra Petit Robusto, the Postaña Sumatra Grand Robusto, so there's a little Robusto and a big Robusto. Right. The Sumatra Grand Toro, it's a bigger Toro. Uh-huh.
And the Bustaña Sumatra Churchill. Yes. Oh. Notably, these are not the same Vitolas that the company's other four core lines are offered in.
And then we have a quote. Would you like to read the quote personally? I mean, you said it. Would you like to just say it again?
No, 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 Szczepankevich, co-founder, The founder and king of the dum-dums in a press release. You 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. It was a play on words I was going through.
Someone else wanted me to use my co-host, Mike, I'm not afraid to look like an idiot, Stepankiewicz. That's T-Money. Oh, did he send it to you too? Yeah.
You know, if you're gonna 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. Yeah, it's supposed to be a surprise. It's supposed to be a surprise.
It's supposed to be a surprise. 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.
No, but no, it didn't. Oh, he sent me dozens of memes. But that was the true statement. I don't have a problem with myself looking.
It was from yesterday's show. Yeah, I don't have a problem with making myself look bad because I screw things up because I'm human. Right. I'm not perfect.
The combination of tobacco in this blend is something truly special. Every component was chosen to elevate the others. This is a cigar built to make a statement. Yep.
The company says it will show off the cigars to retailers in next week's 2026 PCA convention and 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.
Hmm. That's how I know we've made it. If somebody named Graham? Or 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. Okay.
Juan Lopez Besame Mucho Adicion Regional Mexico coming this month. Really? This month. Just before April wraps up, there will be a new Adicion Regional release in retail humidors in Mexico as the Juan Lopez Besame Mucho will make its debut at a launch event April 24th, And its full retail release set for the following day.
The cigar measures a 6 1/2 by 54, a double Robusto that has frequently been used for addition regional and other limited edition releases. The name Besame Mucho translate from Spanish as Kiss Me a Lot. But it was made famous by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Valesquez, who penned the Bolero song Besame Mucho in 1932, It 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 part out, I apologize -- the cigars are priced approximately at MXN. Is that Mexican dollars?
MXN? Mexican money. That would be pesos. Mexican money?
MXN? Quite the difference. Okay, we have Freedom Dollars and MXN. If you can get the MXN price, you get the He's looking at the price.
I'm not looking at the price. Okay. He's looking at the price. I'm not looking at the price.
Okay. I'm not looking at the price. Okay. Okay.
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I'm not looking at the price. I'm not looking at the price. I'm not looking at the price. I'm not looking at the price.
Okay. 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 besame. Okay. Do you want me to say American dollars first?
I don't care. $12. This is a humidor. Oh, it's a humidor.
Oh, no, sorry. It's a... " Yeah. Oh, it is.
Oh, okay. Never mind. Okay. $12?
You still $12? Apparently I need to be higher. $50. Mr.
Phil. 99. All right, I'm going to tell you who's right, but now you've got to do the Mexican dollars. You don't get to tell me who's right?
That's right. No, because then you just do the money in your head. Okay. So 2,500 pesos.
Mr. Phil? 2,200 pesos. You went the wrong way.
97. No fireworks. 1,066 pesos? Mexican pesos.
I won. So he went the right way. I won, I won, I won. He said a higher number than you.
No, I said 2,200. What did you say? I thought you said 2,100. I said 2,500.
Oh. But still no fireworks, you didn't get it right. Nope, nothing for you. Production numbers have not yet been confirmed, so, you know, we're going to wait and later figure out.
We'll make some cigars. Maybe we make some, maybe we don't, who knows. Right. Distributor of Cuban cigars in Mexico.
The launch event is set 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, yay. And 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. What?
In Mexico? Yes, we're very big in Mexico. Probably shouldn't go right now. Has there been any distorted sounds at all?
Um, well, yeah, yours is, I think when your voice is deeper, it crackles just a little bit. Could it be rubbing on his beard because the microphone is actually touching his neck? No, it's not. 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 in that part of your neck.
I don't have any feeling in my neck. That could be a possibility. You know, from the car accident. Yeah.
Why are you bringing that shit up? That was like from years ago. Because we brought it up yesterday. I know, but why would you bring it up even yesterday?
It doesn't make any sense. Because it's fresh in my mind and 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. - Okay. - All right, time for the industry's favorite game, What's the Score?
- Today's sparkler-enhanced cigar, April 7th, 2026, Patrick LaGreid cigars. They've done some good ones recently, it's why these are all new. It is Aromacraft Tobacco Intemperance, BA 21 Treachery. Okay.
You did a cigar that Mikey's gonna know. No, Phil, it was just released today, he hasn't seen it. The treachery? So, yeah.
Oh. The review was released today. Go '92. '90.
Cigar review, the Intemperance, BA Treachery, Country of Origin, Nicaragua Factory. We all know where it's made. Nicasueno. Rapper, Brazil, binder, Indonesian basuki.
Filler, Nicaraguan and undisclosed. Length, 6x54, round. It's $11. They smoked three.
$11, man. What a great price. That is a great price. It's a great price.
I just felt left out. I'm going to stick $92. $90. Clue number one.
On great balance once it settles in, the creaminess of 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 91, 92.
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.
This is a round or a box press? Round. Okay. Huh.
That makes a difference to you and your score? Well, to this guy. I mean, I don't know, I just feel like, whatever, maybe he got... Seemed like a very technical question for the way he plays the way.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Did you say Basuki Tobacco? Wow, bro.
All right, I'm gonna stick 90. That's my number. Well, you took mine. Not 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 BA-21, treachery, while 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. " 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 attention when I read anything?
I'm just making sure. I'm seeing what the facts are. Phil? He's perplexed.
Remember, it's round. You're a jerk. And Basuki. I wanted to be a 92, but I'm going to have to go 87.
He had to have Googled it. How did I go? You've seen where my hands are at all times. No, no, prior to.
He might have been perusing. He had to have Googled it. Me? I have never looked at these people's sites.
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I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. And I can tell, by just looking at Palmer, that it is 87. No, no, it's not 87, but that was a really big jump from 92 down to 87.
Oh, okay. 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 Roma Cigar before. On a light...
I'm gonna go... Before you give your score, let's say he did look. He's smart enough not to hit the exact number. I know I'm giving you a lot of credit there, Boots and Phil, but, I mean, you know, it's like if you cheat on a test, you don't turn in a 100.
What? If you cheat on a test, you don't turn in a perfect test. I mean, that's a tough number to go off of, off 87, because I just can't see it being an 86. I think it should be in the 90s.
I don't even see. And yet here you did, you just swung at an 87. Yeah, but 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 that 24. Right.
Fuck. I'm gonna 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, But 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 time. Turn it off, turn it back on, turn on the cleaner? No, no, you gotta shake it. Stuff gets stuck.
It's not, it's, there's no way. We don't have that kind of time. You want me to shake it? 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 gotta tell them like, hey, we wanna buy it for 50 bucks. This score was 86.
It was 86. I nailed it. It's a double firework. Oh, wait!
Now the other one's going! Oh, fire! Fire! Now the other one.
Hey! The other one's going off now. I can feel the particles hitting my face. But 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?
m. it starts. What's the date? The 24th of April.
All right. Come on out. Come on. Do you want to announce what we're doing this Sunday?
We can, sure. Sure. Sunday at 3 o'clock, we're doing a celebration of life for our dear friend, John White, who passed on Easter. Mr.
JW. It's gonna start at 3 o'clock, sit around, tell stories, and swap lies, and everything he loved to do. Yeah, and we're gonna be disgruntled and angry towards everybody. Right.
Everything he loved to do. Everything he loved to do. And we're all gonna drink bottles of water. Okay.
Yes. And we're gonna bring in our own cheeseburgers. And then spit into a napkin and leave it on the table. Oh, sounds like that one hit a nerve.
- You gotta love that guy. - He was, he was great, I miss him. - Yeah. - Greg's not taking it well.
- No, Greg is not taking it well. - It's hard, dude. - So you should break it up every time you see him? - No.
- Yes, we should. - He just breaks into tears. - Yeah, he had this idea about Sunday. - So how you doing about JW?
- How you feeling? " He goes, "You sure? " Yeah. Yeah.
People die. Well, I sent you a picture of J-Dub for the thing, like, okay, you could have led with that. It would have been fine. Yeah.
Last night, we had our club meeting here, and everybody, when they walked in, Greg shook their hand, and he's like, and when he was shaking their hand, he stopped, but he held their hand, and he's like, J-Dub passed. I'm like, oh, God, stop saying that. He's telling everybody to walk in. Was he in your club?
He stays for a little bit. 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 does 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. Phil's upset about it. Yeah. Yeah, he doesn't handle death well.
No. Well, especially not 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.
No, I do not want to go. Apparently, he talked about you often. Like a son to him, he said. Yeah, that's what he said.
Those are the terms. Robby came in last night, he was really torn up. Did he cry? Yeah, he was having some tears.
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. Really? " I'm trying to figure out why he took that picture.
That was his spot. Oh, there was probably something. " Right. I mean, that was his chair.
Yeah. Yeah, 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 his chair, because I said the same thing to him in the afternoon. Yeah. Oh, maybe, but then I moved the chairs, and then Chet was sitting in the chair.
Ah, but you were in the chair. And you got in trouble, so you made Chet sit in the chair. Yeah, Chet sit here. Chet sit here, please be my guest.
Well, I used to always sit in that chair, and then when J-Dub would come in, I'd move, and let 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 like to put my name on things.
You claim this chair? I claim this chair. The chair is mine. I hath outlived him.
I have won. Oh, wow. No, I am not won. 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 he used to shoo people out of it. Yeah. You're doing it.
Come on. Well, that's how I met him. You made me get out of the chair? Yeah.
And I really loved. Oh, man. Okay. I got to share this.
So you sent me this. And we're going to close out on this. Because this is a perfect story. And if you're still listening, man, you are in for a treat.
All right. Here we go. You're in for a treat. So you're looking at this image.
And it's not the best image. No. - There's not a decent photo of the man in the world. - Okay, 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, I say, hey, make this picture look better, remove this, add this, you know, get him 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 write back to Claude, I'm like, well, he's already dead. But 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 actual oxygen tank, and how many people were so unsettled? Oh, everybody. It 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 an oxygen tank out back. He did what with it? He wanted to try to blow it up. He said that it won't, like, blow up.
It can blow up. Yeah, but he said not, like, it would, uh, 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.
Okay. All right. 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.
Okay. All right, well. It's been episode 505. Like and subscribe wherever you're viewing or listening to this show.
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Show Notes
Hot Dogs, Chips, Bahama Divorce and Luciano Lowers Prices!
On today’s show Florida Man has all the Hot Dogs, Walmart has had enough of high prices! A woman in The bahamas is missing and then Cigars our guy Luciano makes a second news entry this week! Powstanie has an announcement and Juan Lopez has a new cigar then a what’s the score from the family.
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